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lumber jacks City girls are noto working as England's backwoods. They belong to the new. Forestry Section of the Women's Land Army. Here are Evelyn Andrews, who worked in a Liverpool store, and Betty Stephenson, who exchanged the scissors and overall of a hairdresser at St. Anne's, Lancashire, for the khaki and are of the "forestcress."
Nazis hunt
Priests for Work
BRATISLAVA (Slovakia). HITLER, who has so far re- | frained from declaring open war | on Roman Catholics in Germany, has now done so in Poland. Distribution of the Pope's En- cyclical denouncing Nazi and Communist
has dictatorship been made a capital offence by the Nazi authorities in German- occupied Pokind.
The bishop's palace at Lodz hasi been ralded several times by Gesta- po officials on the pretext that they were looking for copies of the En- cyclical.
The bishop, M. Tomczak, was nr- rested last month, it was learned. After spending some weeks in pri- son he has now been released, but is still under house arrest.
All
Altes Fletcher, 17-year-old typist, and Olive Cheney, aped 18, hairdresser from Leeds, are two of the youngest in the camp. They love the life, and Olive likus best of all the sing-song round the hut fre at night after the day's work is done. They are paid 283, a week by the Timber Control Board, and out of this, pay 14s. a week for their keep.
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PAINTERS SAID
GENEVA. CURTAINS were drawn over the windows of the Ger man railways' travel bureau in Geneva to-day.
The bureau was transferred from Paris at the outbreak of war, and a few days ago local workers were engaged to paint signs on the windows. Instead they painted just what they thought of Hitler. Hence the drawn curtains.
MESSERCHMITTS— NAZI MAINSTAY
Is quito a
"I joined on the spur of the mo- ment," said Sadie Bazter, who was a dressmaker in Blackpool, "I certainly don't regret it after working in a study room making lovely gowns for other people to wear."
"Women Are Born Liars," He Says
CORONER WAS
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MR. INGLEBY ODDIE, famous London coroner for twenty-seven years, does not want to retire. To- morrow he sits for the last time. It is his seventieth birthday. Yesterday he discussed with me the notable cases he has investigated, and the effect they have had on him.
German Pastor For Brighton
A German pastor who be- came the victim of Nazi persecution because his father was a Jow is to be- come curate at Preston Church Brighton, ·
He is Pastor W. Oclsner, who was, pastor of a Lutheran church in Berlin.
Trouble arose with the Nazis because of his parent- age, although the pastor himself is married to a German countess. She could have remained in Germany, but preferred to leave with her husband, and they came to England with 10 marks each,
Pastor Oclsner will be ordained by the Bishop of Chichester, Dr. G. K. A Bell, at Preston Old Church.
"I am very sorry indeed that I have to go," he said. "I have reached the age limit and so I must. But my three predecessors retired at the ages of eighty, seventy- nine and seventy-five. I had hoped, now that I am well again, to be allowed to carry on at least until the end i ***..............................................
COMEDIAN'S of the war. BOYHOOD HOME SOLD
"I shall miss my work exceed. ingly. What am I going to do? Well, I shall read about the war, I presume, and hope for the best.
just can't be helped.
If it
SITTING in the library of his
"I do not intend to write my luxurious home in Hollywood, memoirs until the war is over. Charlie Chaplin, millionaire lasts a long time and I'm dead, weil | laughter-maker of the films, often conjures up in his mind's eye the picture of a London' attic where once he lived with his mother,
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There is a possibility, writes Reynolds correspondent, that he may now becoine the owner of that attic, and not merely of the attic, but the; whole row of which the house forms
art.
"Has my job made me a eynio about marriage?. No, it has not. My work often abows mankind, up In a bad light, but also, it often shows much ansuspected goodness, much sympathy and kindliness. And often it gives me a chance to do some public good, which is very heartening.
"It has never affected my sense of The house which contains Charlie's humour, and certainly has not made
me depressed.
dun's busiest arteries.
R.A.F. MATERNITY
CASE JOLTED THEM
A TELEPHONE message threw the staff of a French hospital into a state of consternation and astonishment.
This is the RAF.” sald
Big-hearted Arthur, they call him voice at the other end of the line.and for good reason. "We are sending you a castially In an R.A.F. ambulance. It's a ma- ternity case,"
He has dozens of cases of measles and mumps, and cheerfully treats
they bring everything
him. An
Not until the position had been agitated mother came to him to Buy fully explained to the mystified Rte that her daughter was expecting a any moment. The ngod sldent Medical Omeer did the hospi- baby at int nuthorities agree to take the case.medico was unable, to come. Would
"Arthur" help her in her distress? We have not,
So .03 the peasants' honorary here. The "casualty" was a Franch medical practitioner, "Arthur" had plained, women dying officers out. woman who lives in a village rear taken on the case. one of the RAF, nerodromes behind
as the doctor ex-
altic is "down Lambeth way"-at No.
Ho Know 3 Pownall Terrace, Kennington Road, It is one of n row of eight, built in
"Quite frankly, I love my job. Ithe Maginot Line.
The old village doctor is too in- 1800, and fronting one of South Lon-do not look forward to the farewell
party to-morrow. I shall hate say-firm to go out at night; it is to the R.A.F. doctor attached to a British Until recently the terrace contained ring goodbye... about twice as many houses. It was
"The two most interesting cases bombing squadron in the district cut in half to make room for the
moments of crisis. building of a new cinema. Now the in my life were those of Vern Pago that the 300 villagers turn in such und of Nora Upchurch. Both were rest of the terrace is in the market.
murder cases.
Factory Banned
It was a realisation of the memories
"I have come to the conclusion that most women are pimply born Hars and can't help themselves. I stand up in have seen, women front of me and give the most de- and precise information, talled every word of which has been a
By MAJOR F. A. de V. Robertson
LONDON. the Heligoland Bight the ME.110|
"In the Vera Page murder. the The most familiar of the first made its mark. It the Jesuit priests of Lodz German fighter aircraft are the different type from the ME.109, as Recently there was a proposal to murderer was never discovered. In Benz engines, build a factory on the site, but the the case of Nora Upchurch I was have been arrested, and are being Musserschmitts the ME.109 it has two Daimler
flore pressed into Polish labour squads, and
crew of two or three. London County Council stepped in always perfectly certain who the the
formidable and carries
Its armament is fairly heavy, and in and stopped any idea of this, insist-murderer was. After a year, or two which are being formed, some for! ME.110.
believed to consist usually of fouring that the site be kept for residen-he murdered another womon. Had work in Germany, others in the
The been convicted at the Upchurch The ME.109 is a single-seater, machine-guns in the wings and two tial purposes. Polish Corridor, where they are
Charlie's house is little changed trial that second woman would never expected "to tidy up things for single-engined fighter, armed usually small shell-firing guns.
with four machine-guns. With u the Battle German settlers.
Its speed is perhaps 20 miles an since the days when he eagerly have lost her life. earlier (an Benz engine Daimler
a Junkers engine) it is hour greater than that of the ME.109. climbed its stairs to take home to his A Polish pastor named Falzman is type has
member of a concert party credited
with a top speed of 323 (t is not, however, purely a fighter, mother the first shillings he earned faced with the death sentence, al- cred though the only charge against him m.p.h. or a little more. In fact, with and would probably be easily out. O so for, as his flock can learn is the latest type of D.B. engine it may manoeuvred by our fighters, expecl-troupe. "loyalty to Poland." The Nazi be a little faster than the Hurricane, aly if it were carrying a heavy lond
of the war the of petrol. For that reason it would No. 3 must hold for Charlie that authorities, argue that since Poland, In the first weeks is occupied by the German Army out ME.100 was the most popular Ger- probably not be very successful as prompted Mr. R. G. Rutty, of Messra. Dougies Young, the film of estate Polish patriots are guilty of high man Oghter, but it soon proved a an escort for German bombers. It is
for attacking our bombers. useful
agents handling the property, to give
"It has not taken me in. disappointment.
The merits of the shell-gun in air- the famous film star a chance of
always detect a llar, but I've often trenson against Germany.
There were rumours that its wings craft have still to be proved.
owning IL.
"know he has a big affection for marvelled at it. There are excep→ would. Butter, that. It was able to outrange the machine-gun,
prove fatul
Mr. Rutly told ine. That is tions, of course. Just as in the pogrom of Roman stall on a fast turn, and that its high ringle hit may Catholics in Vienna last winter the landing speed. made landings.at night opponent. Hits, however, are always shown by the fact that whenever he young Nazi extremists are being n hazardous business.. Certainly it more difcuit to achieve at longer
The calls is always to that old home of given full liberty of action in Poland. was out-manoeuvred by the Curtiss unge, and much less ammunition can comes to this country one of his first
In Kennington Road. These bave taken over some of the and Morane of the French and by be carried for a shell-gun.
I have
therefore, writton to him textile factories of Lodz as prisons the British Hurricane. Its four guns varying merits of more machine-guns
were no match for the eight of the H
and more ammunition versus, fewer -mainly for religious prisoners.
Hurricane, and It BIRO suffered
guns with fewer rounds bust greater telling him the house, with the others in the terrace, is now in the market, and suggesting he might like the op- 'portunity of buying the place for sen timental reasona,"
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What happens inside these fac-severely when, on rare occasions, tories, which once contributed to attempted to attack our Wellington destructive power may be decided the industrial wealth of Poland, Is bombers, with their formidable gun before this war ią over.
not known. But no prisoners who turrets. The probability is that we have been driven into their cob-shall not hahr much more of the bled courtyards in Gestapo lorries ME.100,
have so far come out alive.
In the first great air battle between
At Biela, near Lodz, the local vlear our bombers and German fighters in
and the rest of his parishioners, all peasants, were driven at the point of the bayonet into the vicarage. The building was then locked and sur- rounded by about twenty Nazis, who throw hand grenades through the windows until all inside were dead.
PEER CITES CHAUFFEUR
VISCOUNT CHARLEMONT “DIED' TWICE AND WAS was granted a divorce decree in
REVIVED
LONDON-A patient at Whing ton Hospital, Manchester, collapsed during an operation and his breathing stopped.
A doctor gave direct massage to the heart, and later breathing again stopped, and he was again revived. But the third time his breathing stopped it could not be restored.
The man wan Charles Meredith Herbert, of Whalley Range, Man- chester, 87-year old man.
the Belfast High Court because of his wife's misconduct with Frederick Ryan, a chauffeur formerly employed by him.
It was alleged that Lady Charle- mont and Ryan stayed at an hotel at Mero, Wiltshire.
When application was made for Lady Charlemont's costs her hus- band's counsel protested that she had not assisted the court and had sub.. atantial means of her own...
No order as to costs was mado. The marriage was In' 1014. Lord Charlemont was formerly Minister of Goveniment.
A Verdict of "Misadventure" was Education in the Northern Ireland.
recorded at his inqitost.
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"There is one thing I would like to say. 1 have had about 3,000 street fatalities to deal with, and before the war they were being reduced by more than half (1. speak about Cen- trat London, of course), thanks to pedestrian crossings and traffic lights. I have always been rather hard on the pedestrian, blaming him for most of the street fatalities.
Still lving at No. 3 Is old Mrs.
"So I think I'd better be careful Phelps, who was there when, Mrs. Chaplin and young Charlie moved crossing the streets of London on trom
a house on the other side of my way to court on Monday.,, It would be just my luck to be, a street Kennington
Road. She also remembers his return up accident on my thone stairs to the attic as a world-coroner." famous and rich man. "Bless him," aliq sold, "when he came to see us on
his last visit he went up to see the has looked on so much norrow, tenant who took it when he and his sternly mother lett. He gave her £."
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rebuked the guilty sympathised with the bereaved--went back to finish his game of bridge, writes a London correspondent.
To-day the genial M.O. received A telegram from the hospital: "Marte has i fine boy. Is going to call him Arthur. Wants you to be godfather."
"Arthur" wired back, his congratu→ lations and agreed.
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Among the notable Concert organised by St. John's Hall Oddle has investigated were the Music Club on February, 20, under assassination of Sir Henry Wilson by the distinguished patronage of His Sinn Felners; the inquest of Fahmy Bey, the millionaire Egyptian prince Excellency the Governor, amounted 10 $724.40, which has between the Brillah. War Organtas-shot dead in a famous West End tion Fund and the British Fund for hotel: the Inquiry into the death of for octress Regine Flory, who shot her- the Relief of Distress In China. A seit in Drury Lane. copy of the statement of accounts is posted on the notice board of St John's Hall, University of Hongkong The Club wishes to thank all who J'so kindis supported the concert.
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