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Boy "Hero" Has Fear Complex

A DIMINUTIVE boy

who

"showed up wonderfully during a fire," was said at Felt- ham Juvenile Court, Middlesex, to be beyond his parents' con- | trol and to have "n fear com- plex."

A woman probation officer told j the story of the fire which occurred. at a remand home where the boy had been sent.

"During the fire," she said, "his small Ind showed such resourceful- ness in getting boys from the house task calling for qualities

to safety, that the other boys!

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nicknamed him grandfather.

showed up wonderfully,"

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It was stated that the boy, wha Tooked only about eight years old, though his age la 14, had developed a "fear complex" because of being bullied by bigger boys.

woman probation officer said! the boy was wayinld by others un his way to school.

The boy was put under her care for two yours and sent to a re-

mand home for a fortnight, where- he will be examined by a psycholo Bint.

Tree Becomes Memorial

For Pioneer Surveyor COEUR D'ALENE, Ida. (UPY. A large white pine tree which stands east of Coeur d'Alene has a historical aura to tourists who visit Mullan state park in northern Idaho, The tree marks the pot where Cant. John Mullan and his hand of soldiers celebrated the Fourth July, 1861, while building the Mullan military road from Fort Benton. Mont.. to Walla Walin, Wath.

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Capt. Muilan was among the first white men to survey the area. Orig. inal explorations there were made In 1853 by Isane Stevens, the first! territorial governor of what is now the state of Washington.

"Double" Moons Explained

VALLEJO, Cal,

Professor T. J. J. Sre, noted astronomer who lives here, relieved the minds of residents who saw two moons one night recently. He ex- plained that the double moon effect is caused by atmospherle conditions, probably the result of eastern storma. The effect is ascribed to polarized Right.

Saturday,

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VILLAGERS SWIM AS POURS INTO HOMES

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Boy of Nine Drowned, Buildings Swamped. in Cloudbursts

BRITAIN had the worst storms this summer and recently-cloudbursts, lightning thunder from Witham in Essex to Penarth, in Walos; from Salisbury in the South to Glasgow in the North.

Traffic was at a standstill for hours on end; women were carried through the flooded streets; house, cinemas, hotels, chimney stacks fired by light- ning.

At South Cheriton, Somerset, two streams which flow through the village rose to 14ft., burst their banks and poured through the windows of cottages.

He was

People living there had to drawn him into a drain. swim to safety or run to their carried under the field, then below a railway Hne into another feld. bedrooms, from which they where the drain reappeared on the were rescued by ladders. The surface village inn was flooded to a depth of 5ft.

HOUSES STRUCK

Witham: Lightning struck a house Mr. George Searle, 70-years-eld occupied by 44-years-old Mrs. Red-

writing in his head, who sustained shock. The, retired former, was collage. He told 21 reporter,

lightning shattered a chimney and suddenly felt my feet celting cold. partly wrecked the roof. and the next minute the water was up to my waist. The food had burst through the window.

Ascot: A carpenter and painter's shop, built af timber, in the grounds

"I had to swim out of the house of Sunningdale Park, the home of and up the

the garden, on to the road-Sir Hugo and Lady Cunlife-Owen, way, before I was safe."

was struck by lightning and set on! At Yenvil the 15th-erntury Mer-fire. mui Hotel was struck by lightning. Platelas fell about the proprietor, Mr. A. J. Croft,

Similar reports of tropical rain and thunder come from other parts of Britain-many towns had the must severe storm for many years. Coventry: The pavements

Lewes, Sussex.-A barrage balloon broke away during the storm and travelled at a height of 3,000ft, in a north-westerly direction.

Weren

street, and New-road were flooded to

water away.

August 26, 1939.

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VICAR

DEFENDS GIRLS

WHO SLIM "Indicates

Firm Will"

Deny Miracles

THE Archbishops of Canter-

bury and York, in answer to

In petition by 8,000 clergy, have stated that in their judgment a clergyman must uphold the Virgin Birth and the Resurrec- tion in his public teaching.

The Archbishops' statement is published by Dr. B. O, F. Heywood, ishop of Ely, In his dineesan gazette. Dr. Heywood, and the Bishops of Chelmsford and St. Albans, were the leaders of a deputation which petitioned the Upper Houses of the Convocations of Canterbury and York to give an assurance that Historical clauses of the Crred mean what they say and nothing else,

The Convocations did not give this assurance, and the 8,000 clergy, up- pealed to the Archbishops,

The Archbishops' reply is contain- ed in a letter written by Dr. Lang to Father W. B. O'Brien, Superior- General of the Society of St. John the Evangelist. In he says:

"The Archbishop of York and I informed your deputation that; speaking for ourselves, we considered that such deniu) [of clauses in the Creed could not be legitimately made by any priest of the Church in his public teaching.

"We felt bound, again speaking

pubile or official teaching to express

be inconsistent with his respon-

HE Rev. George Need-for ourselves, to tell your deputation Clapham and Battersea, S.W.— THE Houses in Stewards-road, Tweed- ham, vicar of St. Philip's, that in our judgment if such an depth of 4. Chairs and carpets Sheffield, who recently cham- ordained minister felt obliged in his deserted, the roadways flooded like floated about the rooms. Four are pioned the right of unem-his definite denial of the historical rivers. No trams were running brigade tenders went from house fa lightning struck the fuse boxes, house with high-pressure pumps, ployed to marry, recently facts stated in the Creeds, this would of Futtons of defended girls who slim. sibility as an authorised teacher in paralysed the town's service. Water pouring thousands flowed into houses and cinemas.

He told his congregation that the Church." Chertsey: Fire-alarm system was Glasgow: At Barfliun-road, nine- years-old Duncan Fraser, of Carsaig-affected by Hglitning, causing firemen there was religious warrant for drive, took off his shoes and stock-to turn out for a false alarm in adenying oneself of food from

put out of order, and ings to paddle in the water on a piece torrential downpour. Traffic lights time to time. Two other boys suddenly saw him failure of the electric current stea disappear, ran for help. Mrs. Fraser ped machinery and lighting.

But Margate, Dover, and Falmouth and police searched.

districts did see the Duncan was found dead 200 yards-these thres away. The suction of water hadlsun for 12 or 13 hours each.

of waste ground that was flooded, were also

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