1939-11-22 — Page 3

Hollywood Economy

ALARMED by probable heavy losses in markets outside the United States, Hollywood is likely to cut down its flin production budget at ance by 25 per cent. At least 20 pictures due to start this month have been postponed indeßinliely. Among them is Charlie Chaplin's "The Dictator." In which Chaplin was to have satirised Miler.

The British Empire provides 20 per ceni. of Hollywood's, revenue. -about £10,000,000 a year, Bome 500 feature films now planned are Jkely to be reduced to 400 at the most,

Courageous Orphans

Start New Life

You Must Be Proud Of Your Father

PLYMOUTH. Four chil dren of one of the men who, died in the aircraft carrier Courageous have had to go into a Dr. Barnardo's home because their mother can no longer afford to keep them.

of

The children-two sets blond boy twins aged three and six-were admitted to the Ply- mouth branch of the home after their mother explained that their father, Chief Stoker Petty Officer

William Joseph Jones, had been

were

tok

that

How The Navy Fights

The U-Boats

ERE pictures that bring Heiridh to the eye the Navy's

"killed by a German submarine." crasiess watch which is bringing

The boys

they, the U-boat menice to an end. should be proud of their father and Their mother kissed

not forget him,

They were taken aboard a

them and then signed pupers sur-destroyer on escurt duty, rendering them;

She has been told that her pension

You see the officer of the watch

Wednesday,

will be £2 4. a week. She has scanning the sea for any sign of eight children. The two eldest boys, a submarine's periscope, making aged fourteen and Afteen, have just sure at the same time that his ship Hot Jobs ns errand boys and hetkeeps its positirm. daughter, nged twenty, was married

a fortnight ago. There is a baby aged eleven months.

Bills Paid. Representatives of the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust called on Mrs. Jones, and she told them that on her reduced money she could no longer alford, keep the twins. She was told that the trust would pay her out- the standing bills of £2 10s, for doctor and the electric light account. Then the children were taken away.

Alan and The two elder boys, Peter, were asleep but in another ward the smaller twins. Robert and David, were awake. They cannot yet grasp. ut their father has been killed in the war

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Mrs. Jones said: "It was a wrench to let them go. but I had to. My on husband said good-bye to them

ibe Friday before, we, heard he was

dead. I had a telegram, then

letter from the Admiralty."

this

dated

The letter was printed, with flanks filled in, in ink. It WDS September 27, and said "Madam. In I regret to have to Inform you that consequence of the death of your husband, William J. Jones, the Navy Allotment and Marriage Allowance in course of payment to you ceases with the Instalment due on Septem- ber 14.

An allowance, equal to the rate of issue, the marriage allowance in together with, an allotment at the stipulated qualifying rate for mar- riage allowance, which in your case is 21s a week, will be paid for. a weeks after of thirteen period

notification of death.

The total allowance of 505. a week payable in. this respect will cease, therefore, with the payment due on December 14. Any over-payment fccurring on the 21st or 28th, Septem- ber will be adjusted by reducing the payments made subsequently.

"I have accordingly to request that you will return to this department

You see the navigation officer taking a bearing.

And you see also, in the picture below, how the crew relax in off- duty moments-with a smile and

a song.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI

November 22, 1939.

||O.D. Gallagher, London's Star War Reporter, Says-

WEST

THE WAR (MAGINOF) PROVES DIFFICULT TO FIND

By O. D. GALLAGHER:

With the RA.F., Somewhere in France,

Doth you remember my telling you yesterday

that the RA.F. out here were short of smokes? Well, they're short of films, too.

...

The No. 1 padró went to work, and got to- gether a small travelling projector and screens,. and arranged halls, everything. He wrote to dis-. tributors in London, asked the ront of films. ...

Price was high, but money was produced. Thon the distributors worked things out, found that the Army Post Office would need about five or six days to send films out here, and the same time to send them back.

And the film distributors said: "Nix. Not worth it. Sorry."

So the R.A.F. can't go to the pictures,

They could, of course, go to the war, but anywhere west of the Maginot Line this war is the most difficult thing in the world to find. I have been through country that still wears the scars of the last one, and what is there to be

MAGINOT GUNS CAN HIT TANK AT 3 MILES

Hardly anything you. wouldn't have found in peace time, except for the numbers of men in the uniforms of the armies and air forecs of Britain and France.

More War In King's Lynn

In fact, there are fewer signs of war life in places I've seen here than in, say, King's Lynn.

If you could suddenly dump some for these French villagers in London cr Manchester they would be startled

by the war preparations whieh aro purt of your everyday life

Almost the only precaution you Ishare with these near-front-line

villagers is the black-out,

And

earlier closing. Such is the influence of the RAF.. in one village, that astonished cafe proprietors have to open and close as if they were under D.O.R.A

Here's one reason why it's hard to and this war. Everybody is out to beat enemy agents. They are help- ing to blow up a fog as thick an pea-souper..

Invisible R.A.F.

I was taken along to-day with soma colleagues to see one of the many R.A.F. stations that are scattered all over France. The place we saw covers several hundred acres of

hidden. Yet it is one

completely the biggest, most remarkable job of camoudaging I've ever seen. Why, you could take a photograph of: this bomber slation and send it to Nazi al boss Goering and he would see no more than a stretch of French countryside with the marka jof autumn on it,

Close up I saw some of our best bombers so well hidden that when one, was started up and the pro-

IN THE MAGINOT LINE. HAD sucking pig for lunch. to-day, ninety-peller flew round, some one sald; nine feet underground in a fortress on the "Look at that tree warming up!"

There are roads of steel grating Maginot Line. Yesterday at nightfall I watched right across the airfield. They are poilua eating bread spread with garlic sausage as runways that can never get bogged rain and soft red mud sprinkled me in one of the when winter rains come. first outposts of Gamelinland the German-ter-seen-bombers will be able to take. off in any weather. But even these ritory these men have captured for France.

fair.

radio The airfield's

The un-

station

is

It was warm in the concrete corridor and the steel rouds are invisible from the rooms of the Maginot Line. There was a com- fortable smell of pine disinfectant, and steam invisible, too. It's inside one of a from the food, and coffee bubbling in the soldiers' score of haystacks that dot the landscape, and it's the only one that electric kitchen,

is not a genuine stack.

The belligerent troops, who call themselves shellfish, wore neat, clean uniforms, something like our battle dress: But war still means mud to front-line soldiers.

So big is this Invisible bomber station that the planes can take off in pitch darkness. The pilots know they will have got their planes off the ground long before they reach the end of the field in any direction.

Gathered Turnips

TOPS,

I CALL

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New Symphony Orch. Light Opera Company. ....Peter Dawson.

We walked out of France yesterday up what last spring was a lovers' lane. Two officers sat at a little folding table, drinking red wine from billy cans. Their men were crunching crusty At this station to-day- a French sandwiches.

farmer was gathering his turnips Two men in a narrow trench watched beside that were growing over a part of the

HIS MASTER'S VOICE RECORDS machine guns pointing out over no-man's land. alreld. Bombers were being warm- It had been dug through tree roots, and we looked ed up out of sight all around him.

All around are anti-aircraft posts into Germany through branches to repulse low-flying attacks. They c1000-Nafla. Waltz (Dellbies) from which the leaves were fall-are manned day and night.

C2090-Medley of Lealle Stuart Songs C2007-A Lover in Damascus .... ing. A black cow scratched it-

You may wonder how the gunners C2220White Horse Inn. Vocal Gems self against the French barbed distinguish between friendly and C2287-Negro Spiritual Medley wire.

enemy aircraft, as both are daubed C2323-Flower of Hawail...Marck Weber & Orch, with Comedy Harmonista. Eight Planos. Loading Strings

with splotches of drab paint to 2016-Rhapsody in Bide

Terence Casey. Organ. Chlef Stoker Petty Officer. Jones,

cárnouflage them. The reason the C2703-Fifty Years of Song

Leslie Henson & Fred Emney. was due to retire from the Navy in

One of the two pollus crawled gunners don't open up on our planes C2888The Riddle Sceno

Light Opera Company, February, "We were hoping things

into a dug-out, lay down to sleep. is because of, a complicated signal-C2051-The King Steps Out. Vocal Gems

Boston Promenade Orch. would be easier, then," saki

"Englishman," he yawned, youling arrangement which they aru

Cicely Courineidge, & Jack Hulbert. Jones He would have had his pen-

MR. JOHN DARBY, of Hillmorton, near Rugby, is seo the generat tell him I need some expected, to go through if they come C2888Our Greatest Successes

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Fayl janywhere near an airfield. Navy again. He had five medals, three of which he got in the Novy in £1,000 short after his deal in horses with the War Office.sk vinmas."

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the Navy Order. Book(s) in your possession in the enclosed envelope in order that the necessary alteration| may be made.. I am, Madam, Your Obedient Servant, Director of Navy Accounts,"

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and he was expecting a little extra Makina, M.P., is to ask a ques-horse,"

So, for the first time, we should tion about it in the House of

pension.on.account.of them.

Brigadier-General Sir Ernest lost an average of

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The lieutenant led us away. They If a machine. doesn't go through had fled string, from tree to tree so these secret motions-well, it's just that every man could get without as you would imagine. They shoot lights to his fighting post.

it down.

There has not yet been a report French guns suddenly opened fire of absent-mindedness by any Allied bebind us. We had seen them plots. earlier, stubby-looking things,

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13 horses, which cost him 1,705, FOR DIGESTIVE cleverly camouflaged that they aro requisitioned by on Impressment

officer for £780

DISTURBANCES

Invisible at five yards,

Around one of the batteries a little pine wood" had been made by sticking Christmas trees in the ground,

EARLY FILM COMIC DIES

"In view of the fact that these

Th big problem with sufferers horses represent the capital of Mr. Darby's business and that requisition- ing is ruin to his prospects, why has from gastritis or other digestive on disturbances is how to avold pressure been brought, to bear him by the Department to.. induce pain and discomfort when eating. him not to bring the matter before The Inflamed stomach walls are the county court?! the question conso sensitive that solld foods can not be retained. Even quid Heavy Losses

foods are often vomited. Mr. Darby, who deals in hunters, Yet the patient must get quick said: "Fortunately, when the buyer came, some of my best show. Horses new strength into his body. commander, When an order comes For the Love of Mike," "Gentlemen

Doctors and nurses have found

tinues:

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"I told him the prices I had paid that Horlicks is retained in the for those he selected, but he told mostomuch when other foods are

ho was not allowed to pay more than rejected. The reason is that £80 each, but I could appeal to the Horlicks la so busy to digest, eously court if I was not satisfied.

At the same time it rebuilds the "My case was down for hearing exhausted body, and restores last Thursday, but the court author strength and stamina. ties asked me to, accept an adjourn- tment forth month; because they had so many cases of a similar nature to deal with

A friend of mine who bas,bad.28 horses commandeered tells me he has.

Keep Horlicks ready at hand. Tifs, delicious, to taste. Your store salla Horlicks..

FORD STERLING, one of the early comedians" of the screen, died recently in Hollywood. He was 55. Before entering films Sterling, was a circus clown and later a cartoonist On a Chicago newspaper Charlie

He was 'nusociated - with Chaplin and the 'Inte Mábel Normand in several productions.

His most recent successes included Prefer Blondes" and "Sally"

The little commander of the for tresi fook us through: steel doors down a concrete corridor. There are "Don't spit" notices on the wails It is manned by: 850 shellfish."

We had to climb 172 aleps to the observation post where an officer shuffed in a circle, his eyes against the periscope, just like a submarine through the underground tele! phone exchanges, guna rise from the earth and huri shells over Germany. I saw one turret going "into ac- tion." From the fire-control rooms, filled with graduated maps, photo

The amber sald: "This turret con graphix and mathematical. tables,

Our fire fe so recurate that I could numbers flashed to the lurret on a fire, eighty, shells; in thred minutes. The great turret, balanced guarantee to hit a tank at three ngainst a 300-ton steel counter, millest weight, was raised by electricity. Two hundred feet underground n The funners went through the man who once cooked in the kitchens movements at loading and bring of the Savoy Hotel, London, stirred a without seeing their objective, cauldron of mashed potatoes,

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protected by seventeen feet of

steel and concrete.

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