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April 4, 1940.

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ANDY HARDY GETS &

SPRING FEVER

ADAPTED FROM THE Metro Goldwyn Mayer sture

by BEATRICE FABER

SYNOPRINT it te Springtime in Carvel, but Judge Hardy's pleasant reueries, are in- terrupted by a visit of two men, Willis and Hansen, who tell him that he is about to make a fortune. Cestals acreage, owned by the Judge has been found to contain eight par

aluminum. Though excited cent.

sample news. he cautiously reads of

In the meantime, the soil for analysis, though, Spring has dealt Andy Hardy a houvy. blow. His girl, Polly, fa entertaining a dashi- ing Naval Ensign and when Andy calls on her the greets him with indifference.

THE following Sunday Judge Hardy had started to make good on his promise to his young daughter. If Marian was really that keen on gel. ting a job Gome practice in shorthand might not be amiss.

The door opened and Andy stepped into the room.

His step was slow, his heart heavy. What a night he had spent.

Last evening, hiding behind a hedge of bridal wreath had seen Polly leaving the house with the Ensign. She had been wearing a fluffy pink dress and cape and he had been. in full dress uniform.

Andy could still see her. looking more beautiful than any girl in the world-and be-

to longing

another. He sighed with misery and hand- ed his father a letter. "For you Dad. Special Delivery."

The Judge'n eyes widened as he ripped open the envelope. It was from the Physics Department of the University of Watoria,

"Dear Jin," it read. "Received the sample you sent me and here is the analysis you wanted. The sail contains eight percent aluminium ." The Judge let out bauxite, Arhar "Hooray!".

"My goodness Dad," Marian said disapprovingly. Really, old people oughin't to let themselves go like 'that.

"He'l be doin' the Rhumbn next," Andy said languidly.

the

The Judie etapped him on shoulder. "No, but you'll be doing some arithmetic for me. Step into my den and exercise that mind of yours for "

When Andy

at his father's

desk In the next room the Judge started. "It a product sells for twenty cents a nound in the open market and it is contained in soll weighing approximately ton to a cubic yarddy

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"Got It," Andy sald tersely. "And there is eight percent in the soll and 160 acres of soil--" He was pacing the floor. "Let's see the earth's crust is approximately a bundred miles. But suppose only da ten. Well, Andly, how much would that come to? | Well? Well? Figure it in dollara."

We

Feverishly, Andy calculated. Then, if we just dig down a foot-- or five feet it would still mean millions. Why, it's incredible."

Andy nodded without hearing or caring what it was all about. "Polly, Polly, Polly," he was scrawling on the

"Sure Dnd, paper. that's 'vell, I queis,'

The Judge suddenly eyed him, "Say, maybe your mother was right. You need some sulphur and

Rolasses"

"Pop" Andy sald miserably, "sometimes I think familles, lay awakce nights tryin' to think 11) waya lo make a guy miserable."

NEXT morning, he walked dispiritedly into the Speaking Dramatics class.

Gee, this was going to be pinin torture. He'd have to look at Polly's face for a whole foriy- five minutes-and know all the time that he was running around with that old Ensign Charlle.

Then he saw a note on his desit and opened it. "Dear Mr. Andrew Hardy." he read, "After our Inst conversation. kindly do not bother me erain, Miss Polly Benedict."

The door opened and the prin- elpal addressed them. "May I have the clans attention, plense?"

Andr. didn't even bother to look up. There was bitterness in his heart. So Miss Polly Benedict was the grudge-holding kind, huh? She didn't like it that he had called her a chlid in front of Ensign Cooper, Well, it that was the way she felt

the

of

about it, he guessed he could tell' something in a letter teo.

"Dear Miss Benedict," he wrote. "Who wants to bother you again? If you mean me, I got better things to do." Furlously, he scribbled on.

Mr. Davis was speaking to the class. "I'm sorry to say that your dramatics teacher is ill and won't be with us for the rest of the term So Miss Rose Meredith will take charge of the dramatles class start- ing to-morrow. In the meantime, I would like to introduce her. Miss Meredith comes to us from the State University where she majored in dramaties. I hope you students will give her a good im- pression of our school."

"Thank you Mr. Davis," n beau- tiful, velvety voice said.

* ☆

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ANDY'S pencil stopped abruptly. He looked up and his head began to spin. "Why, there stood the most ravish- ing creature he had ever seen.

"Good luck," Mr. Davis said pleasantly and closed the duer behind him.

Rose Meredith spoke to the all to "I want you students, know," she said in rich, contralto tones. "that I'm glad to be here with you that I want us to be happy together and recomplish fine things."

Andy stared at her, stirred to the depths of his being by the strange beauty of her lovely sensi tive mouth, her dark and tragic dyes set deeply into a pale, oval

face.

She continued to talk and her voice was music in his cars. Once she smiled in his direction, a faint, passing saile and a tremor went over him.

"Inslead of presenting a pub- lished play this season," she was saying, "I think I would be a fas- cinating experiment to have the whole project carried out by the

themselves. In students

other words, we'll write the play. paint the scenery, make the costumes, so that when It's presented to an audience, it will be a real necom-

ps for a brief second,

She

conscious of Andy's worshipful conser eyes. Startled, she look away.

"The first thing is to write the play," she said. "For that, l'a suggest taking a well-known drama and using

it as a model. Take a similar theme; follow the pattern of the scenes, the unfolding of the story. Try to build the characters in the same way."

She made a graceful little ges- "I'll explain more ture of

finality, fully to-morrow but please bring some play suggestions with you. You might looks up the comedies of Shakespeare and Sheridan. Thank you. Class dismissed."

There was the thunder of the class rising to ite feet and a babe! of voices. Sitting to the left of Andy was Beezy MacMahon. He winked. "Boy! A swell dish, ain't she, huh?"

"She

Andy stiffened with anger, looks like a lady to me."

Stickin' Planter's volce plped up... "Say, do you really s'pose they'll let moin on this play? I'm just crazy about everything about the

theatre. n'actor,"

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SHORT

STORIES

Gee, I'd Jike

to

be

"I can't Imagine anything worse," Beezy said calmly. "Slong, Andy." "Okay boy." "Andy was staring at Miss Meredith and his fingers

slowly tearing to bits

were

a

piece of paper. It was Polly's let- ter. Then he took a deep breath and walked to the doorway where Mish Meredith was speaking to a student.

"Well," she was saying, "I think Camille's a little-uh-advanced for our class, Tommy, read Cyrano de Bergerne to-night. Maybe that will give you an iden."

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THE last pupil left and without seeing Andy she walk- ed to the window and stared -out.

The place was silent now. It was pleasant but just a little frightening, for solitude, she, had found, gave one time to think, to be unhappy, Then the Ewung around as Andy addressed her. "Oh, did you want anything?"

He nodded vigorously, "Yeah. I wanted to ask you this "theme" business you talked about. What did you incan?"

"Well," She looked past him and her voice was muted as she said,

Romeo and Juliet' it's the theme of love that comes to a tragic end. A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their re

"Gee you've got a nice voice." Her lips quirked. "Thank you. I've studied very hard. By the way, what's your name?"

"Andrew Hardy." lle added, with

a sidewise look. "But all my friends call me Andy,"

"I see."

see." He was 11 nice boy though a bit intense about him- self, perhaps. Might be a good worker in the class, though. "Well. Andy,

hope you write a good We'll need one." play.

"a swell play." "I'm gonna write a She nodded encouragingly. word of advice. Be sure you have strong motivation for the plot." Through the open window. Andy could sen Polly sauntering across the grass. Huh. She and her En- sign. Well, maybe she'd be finding out that Ensigns weren't the best 6sh in the ocean after all.

"Listen Miss Meredith," he said fercely. "my motivation a per- fect."

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Andy is determined to pet the world on fire and thus gel his revenge on the fickle Pollu. Will his neto-found intereat ins life, Rose Meredith, really in- spire him to be a playwright? Be sure to read the next ex- citing epizode.

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dramatic and impossible adventures

THE Great War with the German Empire ex- tended to the farthermost ends of the earth.

In the heart of Africa lics Lake Tanganyika. For many years German ships had salled. on this inland sea unmolested. The Germans used it for transporting supplies to their forces in German East Africa, and the German naval ensign flew on the ships of, the Ger- man Navy there, which con- sisted of the gunboat Kingani and three or four armed vessels.

The British Navy was non- existent there, and as there were no facilities in British hands for shipbuilding, it looked as if the German Navy must remain supreme in that locality.

But nolling is impossible to those with imagination und deter- thought of mination. Someone sending ships there overland, but the idea seemed too. impractical to be carried out.

But imagination won the day And it was decided to send the British Navy there-overland!

Behind closed doors at the Ad-

a few officers gathered

micked out every detail.

.and

Luckily, too, there were those ready to undertake the impossible -the old spirit of adventure was still alive.

L

IE UT

COMMANDER

A. SPICER-SIMSON was selected to command the ex- pedition, which consisted of two motor-launches and a force of 28 white-men-

His ships were cach of four and a half tons forty feet in length and with seven feet beam. Their full speed was designed for 15 knots, and their armament nne 3- pounder gun and the usual supply of small arms,

They

were specially built in Britain and named Mimi and Tou- 1815 they left 13 tou. Early

their 20,000-mile Tilbury Journey.

On arrival at Cape Town the uncere- Mimi and Toutou were

of the out hoisted monlously sleamer and placed on railway

Trucks.

the

on Fit

The fleet left Cape Town

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railhead July Elizabeuville--a journey of some

2,300 miles.

Elizabethville, the dance Huard was met, and the whole entrained for the railhead at party

camp was Fungurume. Here a made and the serious part of this great adventure started.

dimeulties The

alead were enough to have deterred an ordi- but going on, Hary man from Simson was not a man to be over- come by difficulties, and he had with him picked men, each with some special knowledge.

The greatest requirement of all was the spirit of adventure and the will to win through or die in the attempt. Simson was lucky in were the men this respect, and lucky in Simson.

One can imagine the discus- slons that went on, the endless suggestions and "brain waves" made, the talk of the chances of getting through, and on top of li all, the views of the people with local knowledge who mild it was "Impossible."

What exactly had to be done? The Navy had to be taken to Sankista, 150 miles illstant through the thickest known-or one might almost

*y unknown-bush and over a mountain range 6,000 feet above sea-level.

There were certain small forest tracks to guide the party and a route had been mapped out by the advance-guard.

CIMSON decided to make the journey in three 50-mile stages with a depot between each.

The Mimi and Toutou were mounted in specialty constructed cendies and enrringes with big wheels: two fraction engines were used to tow them.

THE

NAVY

In the mean- time

WENT OVER the ships

THE LAND

By

the middle of August the dicet "set sail" on this unique over- land voyage; they were escorted by armed Askerls as they "steamed" Into the bush.

No sooner had the order to sail been given when things started to Ko, wrong.

The engines gave trouble, the not the proper two ropes were length, and the track itself was not wide enough or the ground in places level enough,

I was

well this should happen at the very start, so us to accustom_everyone to what was to in- follow. One difculty after other had to be faced and over- come, breakdowns of all sorts occurred.

Snakes and scorpions had to be guarded against, especially at night as the latter are apt to get into one's boots If they get a chance, and their sting is as painful as a snake's,

This part of the jungle is also well k, own for its wild animals, though there was not much dan- fer from these owing to the nolse the convoy made on its passage.

Time and again the job secmed hopeless, sometimes no progress was made at all, and at others the progress in a whole day was barely a mile,

Some of the gradients were so steep that the traction engines could rint tow. Storms and dust also fre- quently retarded their progress.

All the time great heat had to be endured, and furthermore the little party were always working against time, as the rainy season was not for off, and had this ur- rived the situation would indeed have been hopeless.

The errw

themselves, during their long tramp, were frequently short of water, but they fortu nately escaped the ravages of the tselus y, which carries with It the germ of sleeping sickness.

Eventually by the end of Sep- tember the fleet had reached the highest part of the plateau, but their troubles were not at an end, as the clescent was almost us dim- cult as the uscent.

Heavy weights going down hills and paths which are winding and tortuous need a lot of looking after to ensure they do not outrun their boiler power, and it would never have done for His Majesty's ships to be wrecked on the side of a fill.

EVENTUALLY

the long

trek was completed and the flect arrived at Sankisia, an- other railhead.

Here the two ships were once more put on railway trucks and another "luxury" proceeded in Afteen miles to Bukama, where they found themselves more In their own element, as they were soon afloat on the Lunina.

Steaming and towing they traversed a further four hundred mles till they reached another railhead at Kabalo towards the end of October;

Once more the fleet was put on a train for the last lap of their Journey to Tanganyika, about five miles from the lako,

Simson constructed a short line over the last few miles and also a Ittle harbour called Kalemle, con- sisting of a small breakwater built of rocks and boulders and tome un- derwater rails, to enable his ships to be launched rapidly.

Simson received the assistance of the Belgian Commandant who commanded, the small battery at Alberville near by on the shores of the Inke-In fact, Kalemie became an almost Arst-class fortlßed har- bour!

ZBW, 355 metros (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Hal Lorenzo & Toby Gray From the Studio

Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency of 145 ke'a. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. and 8-11 p.m. on 1.62 m.c's per second.

5.45 Studio-Children's Tour. 0.45 Closing local Stock Quotnilons, 6.47 A Spanish Programme.

7.17 Ravel-Sonatine For Piano. Alfred Cortot (Piano).

7.30 London Kelay The News, 3.0 Local Time Signal, Weather, Report and Announcement.

8.03

Hal

Studio-Concert by Lorenzo (Jazz Piano) and Toby Gray (Accordeon Plano)-1. Two inno Medley-F. 17. R. Jones, Hal Lorenzo and Toby Gray: 2. Plano Solo (a) Don't worry about me, (b) were kept hid-Our Love, (e) And the Angels Sing Hal Lorenzo; 3. Accordeon Mixilire den amonst the

No. 5, Toby Gray, 4 Piano Salo- trees and busa

Blue Orchids, (Concluding with Two on the shores of

Panos playing Over the Rainbow), the Inkes it

Hal Lorenzo with Toby Gray: 5. was thought that

Accordeon and Piano (a) Ain't sho the Grannns might have heard of

Sweet, (b) Chloc, (e) I'm sorry for their approach.

myself, Toby Gray and Hal Lorenzo; 6. Flono Swing Medley, (a) Lime house Blues, (b) Wabash Blues, (c) Farewell Bluca, Hal Lorenzo; 7. Two Planos Secret Rng (arr. Lorenzo and Gray), Hal Lorenzo and Toby Gray.

ON Christmas Eve, after

their five months' voyage by ruil, road, and sca, the fleet was launched, cleaned up, and the guns and ammunition got ready for action.

Christmas Day was a well-earned holiday, but on Boxing Day at 9-40 am, the German Navy, in the shape of His Imperial Majesty's ⚫ships Kingani, a monster of 53 tons, was sighted steaming on a course that would take her straight past the harbour.

Simson walled till she was well past and then ordered bis feet to sea and made the signal to "Chase the Kuciny."

He quickly overtook the Kingani and soon after 11-30 in the fore- noon the action commenced. The Germans must have had the shock of their lives when they sighted the British fleet,

A Tange Guns were used at which was quickly reduced to less than 2,000 yards, and as the range decreased the riffes and quick- Aring guns were brought into use as well.

The Mimi, using lyddite shell, soun started hitting and in a short time the Kingani which at first had not been able to use her gun, as it would not fire astern, was badly hit.

The captain was killed, the gua put out of nelion, and some of the crew jumped overboard. The ac- tion was short and to the point.

Fires soon broke out on board and in less than a quarter of an hour the Kingant stopped and the engineer who was now in com- mand surrendered the ship, which was brought as near the harbour as possible and beached in a sink- ing condition.

Misfortune now overlook one of Simson's ships, as the Toutou sank in a heavy storm-though as he had the Fin, this was not so serious as It might have been.

Later she wha repaired and added to the British Flect an HM.S. FIR-a great asset as she had a 12- pounder gun mounted in her,

Eventually the Mimi closed to 4,000 yards and with the Fina little farther off, the two put shot after shot into the German, hit- ting her in the engine-room and setting the ship on fire.

The Germans fought gallantly on ti thefr zhip Bank by the bows, with her colour still flying. Twenty of the crow were taken prisoners,

There now remained only two German ships on this Inland sen.

One was a small fast motorbant, which was sighted one day by Simon's feet, and the commander at once ran her aground and set fire to her: the other was the Graf von Gotzen, a large ship of 850 tons.

Although she carried more gung than either of the other ships which, hind fought, her captain decided not to face an action and to mini her,

Simson's work was done, the Impossible had been achieved, the Jake was clear of the enemy, and and another page of adventuro endurance, combined with two successful naval actions, had been added to our history.

8.30 Regimental Band of ILM Coldstream Guards.-Martinl Moments, Wee Macgregor Patrol, Polleeman's Holiday-One-Step.

8.45 B.B.C. Recording "The Old Contemptibles" Part 2-The Record of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons to Ypres, between August 1914, by Beatrix and November,

by Felix Felton Brice, Produced and Vol Girlguð.

9.15 London Relay-News 8am-

0.30

Relay Vivo La France."-The sixth of a series on the Life of the French Army and People.

London

0.45 French Songs by Albert Pre- Jean and Charles Trenet,

the

10.0 London Relay "Froz Front Bench."--Talk by Lord Zet- land on India.

10.15 Dance Afasie,

11.0 Close down.

Big Tanker Aground

Accident Off Ostend:

Ship In No Danger

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BRUSSELS, April 3 (UP).—The largest Belgian oll tanker, the Isso Belgium (10,620 tons), belonging to is the American Petrol Company, atround on a sandbank off Middle- kerk, tive miles west of Ostend,

to Was The vessel

en route she grounded. Amsterdam when Efforts to relloat the ship have so. for been unsuccessful and will pro- bably be postponed until the mor- ning when it is hoped that the tide will help her being refloated.

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The vessel is at present in danger. The crew are still aboard and could easily reach the nearby shure if necessary.

NAZIS DEMOLISH CZECH STATUES

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" PRAGUE, Apr. 3 (UP)-A monu- ment to the famous Czech historian and champion of Czech Independence, M. Danis as well as a large bronzo tablet commemorating Czech Inde- pendence Day were removed to-day und donated to Field Marshal Goer- ing's

collection of metal as a birthday present to Hitler.

Recently bronze statues of Moses and a famous Rabbl in Prague were to tilo removed and handed over collection.

For Hitler's Birthday AMSTERDAM, Apr. 3 (Reuier)- A drive to collect scrap metal for Hitler's birthday is being pursued with fanatical energy in Germany.

Every day the newspapers nuggest- new sources of supply and the people ancient are being asked to give up coins and medals.

Sportsmen who ancrificed their trophies are being hold up as model citizens.

A start in removing public monu- ments for the benefit of the metal collection has already been made, it Is reported, in Prague and other places in the Protectorate,

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