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PARIS.

WOMEN will need a lot of leisure to dress and undress, with the new Paris fashions finally signed, sealed and delivered by the remaining Big Four of the Paris dress world,

Science Puts

A Head On

I thought a chemist was a guy Concerned

with blowing

sky-high.

I thought he

trained wits

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1150c his well-

To lear the universe to bits.

I got them wrong, these gifted

bays,

For two of 'em, in 1linois. Havo handed out a Big Idea For pulling sturdier froth

beer.

220

Now, thanks to ultra-violet rays.

The head on every half-pint stays

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extra half-an-hour intact

Very interesting fact.

I don't suppose you'd wall to blow it, But still, I thought you'd like to

know it.

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H. R.

Buttons are not only ornamental but slowly unfasten from throat to. knee. Long, evening Jackets unhook slowly throughout their length.

A new pencli pilhouette launched by Paris Houses at the last minute 2 challenge to the otherwise universal full-skirted effect.

Sheath-like evening suits, with late Victorian drape where the bustle used to be, seareely allow room to walk,

Severe tilor frocks, just below the knee, are straight and narrow, with a pleated apron to give a false effect of fullness

Ice Cream Cones

Evening headdresses inelude "Ite creat" cones on the back of the head, some of them trimmed with a wreath of flowers, some with sequins, others with halo brims or nets. Or they have cobweb cells sweeping behind for several feet.

Out of the week's fashion forcensis Fone thing is certain, that if you do not wear suits you will wear dresses with In blouse effect.

Bows make their bow and sashes are almost as popular as bells.

Optimistic Note

The keynote of fashion will be sirn- You plicity, optimism, and charm.

may permit yourself a few out-of- the-way details, however.

Coarse wool embroidery in fruit land flower designs is used on collara

and cuffs.

helf who comes after

Those

our

cannot afford lavish furs

may use the rabbit for almost any occasion, without the difference being really noted.

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Secret of New R.A.F. Equipment Is Out

By AN AIR CORRESPONDENT

GERMANY'S airmen have discovered to their cost. -it can now be revealed-that since the outbreak of war practically the whole of Britain's bomber force has been re-equipped with more formidable armament.

The Wellington, for example, now generally recog nised as the finest bomber in the world, is surprisingly better than it was before the war.

Recent photographs reveal that the Wellington now have twin guns in their turrets. Flying in close formations of threa

Soldier In The Kitchen

DURING A FRENCH HYDROPLANE being tuned up in preparation for a reconnaissance flight over the Mediterranean.-Franch Official Photo,

'I will not leave my Country' says Sibelius

FINLAND'S GREAT COMPOSER WILL STAY WITH PEOPLE

HELSINGFORS.

JEAN SIBELIUS, the man of seventy-four who has put the spirit of Finland -into-music,-has-received-invitation after invitation_to_leave_his_war-locked_country-

and has refused them all.

an

argument in

they can bring among them 12 machine-guns to bear on any attacking fighter.

So far they are the only British acroplanes which have stood a pitch- ed battle over the North Sea and then flown on with their bombs to the German harbour which was their objective.

But the harbour was devold of shipping, so they returned to their base without unloading their bombs. Airports Photographed Photographs taken over German cafe at Hampton Wick, Middle-aerodromes by British planes flying sex. Mias May Purvey grew at only 2,000 or 3,000ft. may be re- scared of a customer's rising leased for publication soon.

One

actually shows in photograph temper.

one comer the wing of a German neroplane landing while British bom- bers are machfar-gunning it.

She had necused Ernest Palham, In 60-year-old night walchman, of

stenting her wrist-watch.

Palham denied the accusation.

Her Sccrot

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Two German planes were machine- gunned, for as they flew home they were apparently unaware that the heavy bombers circling round their -Miss Purvey, who is 22. could landing ground were British.

Aerodrome after aerodrome, have called for a mon's assistance beenuse her soldier friend was in well as the whole Siegfried Line, has the kitchen washing crockery for now been photographed until it is almost possible to build up a com- plete air-map of secrét Germany as She explained why she did not do far Inland of Berlin. so, when Palham was charged with

Ordeal By Night

her.

the theft ut Feltham Police Court.

-At-night-lime, too, our-bombers are "I had kept it a secret that my continuing reconnaissance Bights friend helps me wash up," she told which constituto some of the most

heroic efforts of the war, Inciden- "He would not like it spread about tally, pilots say that the German for fear of being laughed at." black-out has recently got much

blacker.

In fact, nothing irritates him more than people who suggest he is in danger. the magistrates. He has infinite faith in the men who are defending his homeland.

"They're Finns, aren't they?" while bombs drop around him is Aaltonen, celebrated was his comment to a friend of Vaino the family I met.

He still works in his villa in

6.25 Hawailan Selections.~~~All My

She had just spent a day with Old Waikiki, Lic. Sundown In George Elliott's Howalian Novelty the composer and his wife nt Quartet with Vocal Chorus: Kohala their semi-rustic wooden sum- Short Service of Inter- March, Honolulu March, Frank mer-house a few miles out of

Fereru and John

Paalahti Helsingfors, where he is work-

K.

12.30 Compositions of Cesar Franck. (Hawaiian Gultars); Hawailan Hap-ing. 1.00 Local Time Signal and Wea-piness-Medley. Len Fillis and His ther Report.

1.03 Leg Allen (Vocal) and Carroll Gibbons and His Boy Friends.

.1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- ments,

Orchestra with Vocal Chorus.

She said he was in fine form. and very proud about the pro- 8:45 B.B.C. Recordlag"The Fol-gress of the war. De-Rak"ritten and produced by Wolseley Charles,

mary.

A few months before the war Sibel'us decided to break his rule 9.15 London Relay-News Sum-of always living a secluded life in the country, and open a town 930 London Relay--"Cards on the flat.

He went into the flat a few 5.45 Schumann-Trio In D Minor, weeks before war broke out, and Excerpts from Gilbert and Op. 63-Cortet, Thibaud and Casols. stayed there for the first fort

10.17 Piano Solos by Alfred Cortot. night of the fighting, in spite of 6.28 Closing Local Stock Quota-Papilions, Op, 2, Etude En Forme heavy bombardments.

De Valse, Etude in F Minor,

1.45 Primo-Scala's Accordeon Band) and Florence Desmond (Comedienne). Table,"

Close Down,

2.15 6.00

Sullivan's "Patience.".

tions.

0.30 An Hour of Dance Music. 7.30 London Relay-The News

0.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

10.30 Haydn-Symphony No. 8G In D Major.-London Symphony Or chestra conducted by Bruno Walter.

11.00 Close Down.

FIVE ARMED MEN ROB FILM STAR

NEW YORK.

•

sculptor.

POSER FOR JUDGE

the suburbs, except when ASSESSING ·

raiding planes conte over.

Then he goes out on the roof WORTH OF

with a thirty-two calibre gun and pops at them.

A. WIFE

a

Pistol Practice In Studio Not so monastic as Sibelius,

A WARDING a husband £500 Aaltonen received me in his

damages, with costs, in studio and proudly slung his gun divorce netion at Newcastle As- over his shoulder.

sizes, Mr. Justice Croom-John- "Sometimes they fly low.son commented: Once they were only 100 yards above may head, I'll get one yet, he said.

In his studio was a pock- I asked marked blackboard. what it was for.

"I find the greatest dimculty in trying to find out the worth of a good wife who ultimately has proved to be worthless, I must not specu- late on what a jury might do. Some would give muhh larger amounts,"

The husband,

Willlam MacManus

Dismissed

Night flight R.A.F. men have a "Why didn't you at least tell him?” hard

task.

They take off just after she was asked. "A man was wanted, dark and fly across the North Sea for yet you neglected to use the help ni more than 300 miles without seeing hand. Surely the soldier wasn't frightened of tackling him?"

"No," she replied.

a thing. All too often the first In- dication of their arrival over Ger- many is a tremendous burst of "fre-

Palham said he was justly Indig-works." nurt ut being accused, as he had Every type of projectile is hurled been a customer at the cafe for two at them-and it all helps to confirm for them that their, návigation has years.

been good.

The charge was dismissed.

TRIAL OF YOUNG

Journalist Charged In Tokyo Court

Tokyo, Mar. 11. The trial of Mr. James R. Young,

News Service, w

"I do pistol practice every of Felton (Northumberland), sought "It was the noise that drove morning. If a Russian comes divorce on the grounds of his wife's Far Eastern representative of the

within range I'll shoot him." he answered.

him out," his friend told me "He has little fear, but he says the noise was just loo.unmugi- cal."

Beside the blackboard was a beautiful peasant Madonna and Child.

angry."

with James' Fleming International mlsconduct Moffat, gentleman farmer, landowner opened in the District Court at 10.35 and quarry owner, of Felton village. this

of the trial the public was excluded. He was granted a decree nisl, and was exel given the custody of the three Judge Kanne Hoita and Procurator children.

Kurihara presided while the Court Wan Professor Hideo interpreter Ogata of the Law College in Yoko-

ile also claimed £1,000 damages, the ring, Seven minutes after

Higher Walk Of Life MacManun's case was that he and hamo. his wife were happy for 15 years Three attorneys appeared for the 1937, when he found her and defence: Messrs. Fumio Takashima, Moffat embracing. Moffat took her Yoshio Fukuba and Yoshlo Suzuki,

According to the Japanese Press: away in a car.

She returned, but went off again "sufficient proof has been collected by Procurator Noboriltht of the Inter.

The Judge suld he could only as-Thought Section of the Procura-

the

Tokyo District sume that Mrs. MacManus was in- tor's Office of duced to do what she did by the Court to substantiate the charges of courtship of Mollat, who was in a fabrication and circulation of rumours superior walk of life to MacManus, Inid against Mr. Young irrespective Ho is a man who, if he had had of whether Mr. Young will, recognise any decent feelings about him, might it or not." Mr. Young was arrested have left this much humbler man to on January 21 at the Imperial Hotel,! those much dearer to him," the Judge-Reuter.

Adjourned To Friday

Tokyo, Mar. 11. The next session will be on Friday. Three Americans werd 'allowed to

His Windows Dropped, Out

Aaltonen's work that is best But even in the country he known in England is the sculp- sometimes hears the echo of ture on Helsingfors modernistic, bombe dropping on a town close railway station. He is most by.

proud of that, especially of a The windows of his own house figure of a young poet. pollee-car siren, and made off in have dropped out through vibra-

The Russians have fre tion. and one day the house. FILM stars Constance Bennett and their own car.

quently bombed the station. Antia Louise were being driven along

Miss Bennelt said at the police rocked.

Ho sald: "If they destroy Chicago's Loop-the city's main cen-

thing to But he says Finland is his

my work there I'll be very tral rond-early to-day, when nve station: This is a ne armed masked bandits forced their happen. First we go to a charity home and inspiration, and re-

performance, and then we get rob- fuses to quit. chauffeur to stop.

Bed."

Sibelius is a typical Finn in Miss Bennett and Mins Louiso were

Richard Ainley, who lost nothing looks rugged, peasant figure,

He is carving a female statue attending after going home

"The robbers told me git They were sold:

with head and square chin of Freedom' to replace the figure charity performance. escarted by Richard Ainley, son of quiet, and I did."

very Miss Bennett lost a diamond brace-shaped

like Winston of the Russian Czar Alexander udded. actor Henry Ainley,

In Helsingfors University. He The bandits jumped to the let worth more than £5,000 and a Churchill's.. running board of their car, rough-cheno imitation ring.

He is now working on a new is also working on an enormous tor says: "The war has inspired me. I realise now more than Miss Louise lost a diamond bracelt, handled them and stole jewellery

acliamond ring and sapphire ring. composition that is nearing com- portal for a frontier bridge. worth more than £0,000.

That, too, has an apt theme. ever that I must put the spirit of The bandita missed diamond car-pletion. It will be first played Bracelets and rings were torn from

The figures are of soldiers and this battle into stone," the actresses, and the bandita, were ring, some jewels hidden by Miss in Finland, he says.

He has his chisel, and he also struggling to take off Miss Bennett's Bennett's gardenia corsage, and 0 Another world-famous Finn peasants fighting aggression. expensive mink coat when they be-which Richard Ainley had in his artist who goes on working This forty-five-year-old sculphas his gun, enma frightened by the sound of a wallet.

on

a

The Spirit Of Battlo

1.

he present to-day, Mrs. Young, a lator and an Embassy observer.

·Y.M.C.A. official acting as her trans-

Young appeared to be in good health and spirits-United Press,

January, 1940

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