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March 7, 1940.

Did Rowland Hill Invent Penny Stamp?

WOMAN'S LIFE TO UPSET HISTORY

By STUART FLETCHER

A DINNER was held in London recently to celebrate the centenary of the penny stamp.

Six of the guests were descendants of Sir. Rowland Hill who you probably think invented the penny stamp.

A seventh guest was a precisely-spoken, determined, deaf old woman of 73 who is perfectly certain that he didn't.

Her name is Miss Leah Chaliners, and ever since she was a little girl she has devoted herself to the job of proving that the penny stamp was invented by her grandfather, James Chalmers, a Dundee bookseller.

She has written one book about it. She is writing another. Her father wrote a dozen pamphlets, had ques- tions naked In Parliament, demanded public inquiries.

The controversy has raged quite bitterly for a century.

"Sir Rowland Hill,' admits Mis Chalmers, "did a wonderful piece of work in reforming the postal services of this country, but it was my grond- father's Invention of the penny stamp which caught the public imagination and inade Sir Rowland Hills world a success."

Leah Chalmers life-work started, in a manner of speaking, in a ward- robe.

Sixty years ago or so, when Leah

Chalmers was a little girl, her mother

said to her, "Leah, empty that ward- robe of all those letters and papers that are cluttering it up and ourn Them!"

Leah, being an inquisitive little girl, burnt all the envelopes but kept the letters and papers,

was on the brink of vindicating his

father's claim, to fame when he died

suddenly.

tend

So all the correspondence, the Press cuttings the pamphlets; were stuffed into an old wardrobe until Lesh found them and carried on the battle.

FIGHT

Face That Began A Riot

M. TYTIS. French filmm director, went into a Paris shop with a large portrait,

He wanted a frame to it. An assistant showed him several, but "Not good enough," sald M.. Tytis.

"Not rood enough!” shouted an angry floor walker, "You are Insulting us,"

A crowd gathered. M. Tytls was hustled out of the stores, fils clothing was lorn, and police had to rescue bim.

Then the film director explain- ed that ho was not an admirer of the subject of the portrait. He merely wanted the plcture to use In his documentary film of the Life of Adolf Hier.

EYE-WITNESS TELLS

OF RED AIR RAIDS

DAILY

By RALPH HEWINS,

MAIL WAR CORRESPONDENT IN FINLAND.

OULU, FINLAND. CROUCHED in the opening of an air raid shelter to-day, I watched wave after wave of Russian bombers try to wipe out this key town on the Finnish coast.

Bombs weighing 500lb, crashed among the little wooden homes in which most of the pupulation live. Where they fell in the streets they left craters 20 ft. deep and 30 ft. across.

Hundreds of incendiary bombs| The terror lasted all day. The So it was the discovered that followed. They fell in a shower third raid is stili in progress, Grandfather James printed on ad among the wrecked buildings hesive penny stamp in u back room Soon there were a dozen fires. of his Dundee office in 1834, three

years before Rowland Hill issued his | People who had taken refuge famous pamphlet on "Posi Omee Re- in the danger zones were forced

to run to new shelter.

form."

and evacuation, casualties total only 13 wounded among elvilians.

Fires have been got under control, but large areas of the town are only blackened ruins,

So far, thanks to air-raid shelters

Ideal weather has favoured the At once the Russian raiders Roop- massed fights of Russian bombers.

low. The streets were sprayed It is cold and clear, with machine gun bullets.

Systematic

When the pamphlet was issued Chalmers forwarded his ideas to Row- land Hill, who acknowledged them privately, but, when he himself introduced the penny slamp three Girl Escapes years later, not publicly.

In the first raid they came over in Chalmers was mortified. His son, A girl of 18 threw herself down three. I counted 10. For an hour Patrick, was indignant, and had tre-in the snow

one machine flew they crossed and recrossed the town.

First, mendous disputes with Rowland Hill's over the main street at only 580ft. The work was systematie. son, Pearson, who refused to divulge She escaped.

the great high-explosive bombs. Then his father's correspondence.

Several bombs fell on buildings the rain Incendiary bombs. Finally, Suddenly a blind and paralysed where foreign volunteers are tem-the machine-guns. Explosions were daughter at James Chalmers died. porarily billeted.

heard 30 miles away, Among her papers were found copies Two were machine-gunned as they At last the drone of the raiders' of all the disputed correspondence. ran to gain alternative refuge. A engines faded, Oulu's “akeleton popu-

Patrick completed his case, had third lost his leg. He was hit by a lation" emerged. questions naked in Parliament, and bomb splinter.

1914-1939: Girls Stone Heavier

A

GIRLS at school to-day are nearly a stone heavier than schoolgirls of the same age af;

It is believed that the standard of

the beginning of the last war. physique has been improved by They are 2.4 inches taller.

These are among the remark- able facts brought to light in investigations by a number of education authorities.

evacuation.

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unless parents continue to take ad- vantage of the milk for schools scheme there may be a relapse.

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They had only begun to fight the fres even women and children help- ed the volunteer Bremen-when the Russians appeared again. This time there were thirteen.

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Oulu is on the Gulf of Bothnia, and through it runs the railway linking Finland with Sweden.

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