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April 13, 1940.

If There Is An Air Raid-

Sailor's

BIRTH Oh for PRESERVE

A.R.P. CAN HANDLE

OR REPLACE A BRIDGE Cradles Ready At First-Aid Posts

Bob is Searching

For Film 'Bride'

a Pint'

-IN NAZI PRISON

PETTY-OFFICER AL- BERT WEBSTER, prisoner. of the Nazla, is well but longs for "an English pint.” He said so in a postcard to

keeper.

BIGGEST HEADACHE for British film studios just his brother. n Norwich hotel- now is "Find the Lady." There is a dearth of British leading ladies in Britain.

By STUART EMENY · FOR two days I have been

Bob arrived more than three weeks ago to play Lord Peler Wimsey touring Britain's A.R.P. and

in Dorothy L, Sayers' "Busman's Hon ymoon," but the casting department Civil Defence front-the is stii wracking its brains to and a lady to go with him on the honey- vast organisation of 1,250,- moon. An official of the aludios said: "The trouble is gelling a

Brillsh 000 men and women.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios are now hunting for a leading lady for Robert Montgomery,

I have followed the workings of this unarined army from your

actress capable of playing the part who isn't in. Hollywood.”

is plenty of equipment,

local wardens' post to the secret vided for workers in factories. Theref War Room from which Sir John Anderson as Minister of Home Security will operate if, and when, bombs start falling.

Training and theory have reached

the stage when A.R.P. is prepared to meet

any eventuality in a raid, from the birth of a baby to the destruction of London Bridge. In elther cate there are people at the "stand by" The measure of efficiency is the who know exactly what to do and question:

how to do it.

The Big Question

If Hitler looses his air armada over Britain to-day, will our AR.P. and Civil Defence services

save life and protect the Home Front from collapse?

When I made a survey of A.R.P. 18 months ago I asked that question repeatedly. And the answer was a

"NO!" emphalle

During an A.R.P. rehearsal in the heart of London alx weeks before the war, the public were asked to stand

The Cradle Awaits

The cradle for the baby is waiting. complete with blue organdle frills, and a woolly layette beside it in the emergency ward at many a first-aid post. There is a special box to cover the baby in ease of gas attack.

INCHCAPE BUTLER GRIEVED IN SECRET

WILLEY

FREDERICK HUBERT was the perfect bailer-Impassive to every private grief.

He was butler to Lady Inchcape of Chinthurst Hill, Woners, Surrey, after the death last year of Lord in- cheape, to whom he had been valet.

If London Bridge falls down the materials for a temporary bridge are Only recently was the

with

mask

It was the first message from him submarine Starfish, in since the which he served," was lost, off the German coast.

I asked his brother to see that their mother wanta for nothing " I've fluished my holiday" and added;

"We got bumped off in the Heligo- Iand Bight, but the crew were saved. "I'm well and very st, but oh for án English pint and a salt beef din- ner,

Good luck and good health

to all,"

When Reno Papers Are Worthless

MR. JUSTICE CROOM-JOHNSON, 1 commenting on a Reno divorce decree referred to in the Divorce Court at Newcastle Assizes said:

"It is just as well that English people domiclled in this country should know that these documents are not worth the paper they are written on.

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at hand and it will not be long before dropped. Then, at an inquest, it was In Imaginary air-ruid shelters in-emergency bridge ends havo been revealed that Frederick Willey, nged dicated by white lines on the pave, bulit in readiness.

fly, had grieved so deeply for the "It is, however, a competent court ment, because there were no real

Such are but two examples of the death of his master that he took his of jurisdiction in the U.S.A." sheiters.

detalled thoroughness typical of the own life.

Dieregarded Summons To-day there are

public shelters, whole organisation.

Even in death he remained im- The case was one in which Vera proof against anything but a 500lb.

The whole organisation to-day is

A chauffeur found him in Adelaide Lowther, of North Row,i, bomb falling within 30ft., for 65 per being developed on a "mutual assist-poss

Northumberland,, was a big saving in the brush room, standing as if he Shiremoor, in the strecis in a rald,

personnel and The deficiency is scheduled to be sal the system works.

spoke, got no answer-and then saw made good by the end of March.

that he had hanged himself.

Verdict: "Suicide while the balance ...Shelters for 12,500,000

of his mind was disturbed." A.R.P. and Auxiliary Fire Services Anderson shelters have been pro-

Afterwards Lady Inchcape sald: vided for more than 12,500,000 people are alone costing the Exchequer "Mr. Willey was a wonderful ser- in danger areas. Ninety per cent. of £78,000,000 this year and the wage, vant. I never knew that he grieved shelter, accommodation has been pro-blil works out at £3,250,000 a month. after my husband's death."

cent. of the people Ilkely to be caught once" baster costs. And in tehear were brushing clothes. The chauffeur granted a decree nisi on the grounds i

Now the whole of A.R.P. and Civil Defence are being put through a course of big-scale exercises.

of the desertion of her husband.

Her

case was that her husband went to Canada, and in 1932 she re- ceived a summons to appear at Reno Court. She disregarded Divorce those proceedings, and was subse- (quently cerved with a decreo purport-

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