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ALAN DINEHART Directed by Sidney Lanflold Associate Producer Dane Markey Born Play by Harry Tugend - Bosad one story by Desige Bradshaw

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Fish and

By JOHN PUDNEY

Mines Atlantic Gives

YOU want to hear about magnetic mines, about tor- pedoes, about fish, about strange fish, about dangerous fish?

Us Magnesium

Enter the Atlantic Ocean as producer of magnesium, that wanderful light metal which is a vital part of the modern alloys used for British aircraft engines. Experimental extraction of the va- west coast of Britain has been suc- cessful.

On England's eastern front, where the winds howlable metal from the new off the and the home fires glimmer in the front line, that huge margin of the unknown which is the unlighted sea and the darkened mainland, men talk casually of these things.

"We live by fish in Grimsby. It's the world's first fishing port, y'know.... Yes, many's having a change now. They're inking the trawlers for minesweeping: another big batch just go- ing. Bad for business, yes, bad for employment. There's been a rush of fellows, though, to sign on them minesweepera, Job's get to be done."

So they understate, in their] soft unboastful voices, the tale of courage, of hard times, of de. termination.

ducker

these

Then I encountered the porcupine who is carrying on.

Yes, a porcupine, there, in a Zov, ruled on pilles on the seashore, kept by William Pinchbeck, optimist and

It may be the Mayor, Alderman | animal-lover! John Sutton, before the Are in his He was feeding the porcupine. red plush parlour; It may be the Jeanie the mankey, the baboons, the

of work (CALLE

"I'm paying £65 a six coloured birds. weeks), David Troup in the pubs they year for the pince: I've got to feed Kingeys," much frequented by the animals twice a day all the win- call dockers, ish-Jumpers (those who carry ter, and then what about the sun-

and deal mec?" fah from ship to share?

eriors; it may be the little woman The porcupine ate a cauliflower in new black whose hand they take with a touch of the Palkeet spirit, silently when she turns up as usual and we shrugged and listened to the (ud carry on") at the Saturday wind nicht show at the Excelsior Club, where skippers, lumpers,

he the Ori meet; it may

nes i muy cut meation. The Things They Said

About Magnetic Mines

all

"I was a plumber by trade," said Borts Mr. Pinchbeck, but it was breeding whose cavies (guinea pigs) put me on my

feet and bought me this place. sticking to my animals."

Nor i he stinting them.

Constantly I met these nameless They Sing So Loud

sailors

homeless ships of

whose! In The Rats' Nest

I'm

Plant is.being assembled paplá ty, and full-scale production will beglu in January,

Magnesium is the lightest commer- the world. Hitherto clal metal in British production has been only a

quarter that of Germany's.

For Bombs, Too

In conjunction with aluminium, it is used for light, rigid castings for engines of high performance. It is on essential part of incendiary bombs and shells.

Magnesium alloys may be machined with great accuracy,

Jiefore its use in engine manufac- ture, magnesium was employed chießy. by photographers to produce flash- Units.

Scientists and engineers have spent more than 20 years seeking a com mercial method of extracting mag- nesium from the sea.

WAR BECOMING A LITTLE LESS GENTLEMANLY (Continued from Page 13

Mulotoff

in une

names nne Aould delight to honojar, I shall not forget the staunch He People Grimsby don't under- of Crinsby, the pubs and clubs: the climate danger overstate farti-Oberon where the saippers sit ("that ude. I wish I could print the things fellow there without the the usually few broadcasts, when the announcer

forget himself. Bey sand abrant magnetle mines in the knocks up two to three thousand a cofet.

Tight prin

< 1 morning: year): the Rats Nest, where they bro ideast was referred to Monsieur I can mily em that they have sing so loud one for hick, mate. Molotoff, but in the same sentence off in the morning"); the enfestupper wirekad neboy's pirit.

The Mayor's voice moke when he rooms, where you hear little English. Que Danish Ashermen were spoke of the 1,207 Gilmay fishermen where Jest 1 dust won "We shall lose quarelling "funny, they can't take It whisky": the Engineers Club, me lats and see hips again. will be awkwari: but we're prepared where the be. Billy Newton, does 0 art in a funny hit (the Duke of alf 471 the Portland started

inth our

are."

first firms and comforts are offered to shipwrecked, stage").

pation, at the

Lumen

cutely We'

all

Mary Hustel

in Stils Share.

I have seen the England to which the

brought prosperity,

WHAT

talen 349 Shipwrecked i money to burn. It is got to feel the awn in one munth." said Captain gold breath of the se, but sad that Yelland, the superintendent, when the sea's daily danger tits no proge looking after victims of perity, only nusitis, even want, to has been Sune disaster or other every week- these bem fres. end smee te war. There are nut i he-es even on the bhiard tables.

Billy Nolton, tri the Trawler!

Stalla was mentioned without prefik. Badlo and music comedians show the greatest disrespect for the head of the German slate, now that the ban on making nasty cracks at foreign statesmen lips been raised.

Popular Songs

The most popular comedian of the day, Arthur Askey. known as "glicarted! Arthur," has changed the wards of the popular SONG "Han. Rabbit, Run" which is the Kun" rate now, to "Run, Adolf, and the rest of the words corres

Owners Association, dass von LATE NEWSes and

fat

For job

the

Shipwrecked

Mariners Society, puts the men in with their Consuls. arranges

for new outts, mys them tickets

home.

But this rescue work must be a great strain. on the town.

A Monument In

Local Football

You talk fish. if you know how to, with everybody:" whatever-titeir-in- lerests.

in

ing Lincoln.

DIED IN SLEEP- AT CLUB

pondingly. Every time he signs he gets thunderois applause. In lower circles, such as public along the sidewalks, doing a vendors are anillators roaring trade with sheets of paper on which there are drawings of severa! pigs. When the sheet is folded, it makes up the face of Hitler.

But there is one person who has nol forgotten the old school tie and the tradition that made the playing fields of Elon the site on which the Battle ut Waterloo was won.

That Is the mysterious person known as the Loid-Chamberlain, He has re- who censors the theatre. fused permission to a changing of ons of the principal characters in Bernard Shaw's play "Geneva" which deals three dictators "Battler,"

Д

The great figure of George Pearce, wholesale fish merchant, with whern I talked haddock, is a monument in local football, for he is a chairman

Mr. J. P. Ulderup, principal of the with of Grimsby Town FC.. who returned |

triumph recently

after beat-frm of Uiderup & Co., of 10, Jee "Bombardone" and "General Flanco.

House Street, passed away x his de Fortinbras."

Club lapt Shaw thought now that it was n George told me he has received as steep at the Hongkong

tree for all, he could substitute a mon many as 40 radio messages from Ice-night.

brown shirt and Charlie land after a Town success. afloat never forget the Town.

With Jovial shipbroker, ex-Mayor, Alderman Ernest Horrison, we dis- cussed madrigals, light opera and the delights of the amateur stage, in which the fish industry excels.

The fish-men are restarting mad- most of which were spent in Hong rigal sing-songs-with x hey-nonny- knoe. No swing.

of the Teildy

Clarell, manager Tivoli Music Hall, keeps his end up by sticking to his hut of an evening and hanging the tin one in the offlec. The seafaring house cheered the high klekers while I was there on Satur day night and queued up with gal- Innt orderliness in the long bar for drinks in the Interval.

Those Mr, Ulderup retired fairly early to with

hh room in the Club, where he has Chaplin moustache for the Lohengrini

shining armour named been residing for the past five years, figure in

He was discovered dead this morn-"Battler." But the Lord Chamber- lain said "No" and when asked for his Ing by the room boy.

reason, said "We never give our rea- sons for such."

"Not Hitler's lag. I won't, I said. ' tattoo the proper German Ong." "And what did the Gerinans says to that?"

They just looked silly-seeing they were here in England."

So Professor Manicy, tattoo artist, explained his las contact with the enemy before the war in his studio for saloon, or consulting room?) with its offer of a thousand chulce tattoo designs, near the docks.

"And since the war I've had sea- inen come to ine to have the swasilka Temoved. 1 tattooed a nice ship in- stead."

"Any war-time designs?"

now.

"Not the lads like names Their mother, their girl or their wife. Sometimes their own name and ad- dress in case something happens."

not being good-with the Times ships a'sweeping and the fish fratel an early war muddle-met masy unemployed.

Trade Union Organiser P. G. Tripp was pleased with the dockers' rise of 1. per day, but since the rise there has been precious little work. There is no alternative to the fish industry in Grimsby. Only signing on a mine- sweeper.

So David Troop, who has tried to sign on twice and been unlucky, Anda hurd with six children and times

compulsory attendance to report twke In day at the docka knowing there is

no work.

Jonnia, The Seaside

Zoo's Parcupine

To see the seaside in a war I mo- lored out to Cleethorpes in the grey carly sunset, and found the haunts of fun desolate but for a few strog- glers who said, "When will it ever come back?"

The late Mr. Ulderup has resided In the Far East for over thirty years

Somebody must have caught the Lerd Chamberlain slipping though," because Herbert Farjeon's "Little He- vu" has a song in it called "Even Hitler had a Mother."

Few people remember that when the show was first put on; months be

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fore the "war broke out, the song The World Famous Play Now A

was entitled "Even Mussolini had a Mother and the Lord Chamberlain at that time said "Simply not done, old boy."

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SEVEN DIE IN PLANE CRASH

CASABLANCA, Dec, 20 (Reuter). -Seven bodies were recovered from the Itailan plane which ecrashed in French Morocco and burst into Anmas. The dead comprked four members of the crew and three journalists.

CONTACT UNITS

ACTIVE

PARIS, Dec. 23 (Reuter).-To- day's communique states that there was activity of contact units.

New Appointment

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (Reuler). -Mr. Joseph Davies, U.S. Ambas sador to Belgium, has been appointed | Special Assistant Secretary of State to deal with war emergency problems and international irade negotiations.

SWISS WARNING

BERLIN, Dec. 20 (Reuter).-At- cording to a General Staff notice, forelan planes flying over Swiss to be fred on territory are able without special warning..

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