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1940, Walt Diary Productions

3,000 MILE VOYAGE FOR HIS WEDDING

NORAH WEST was married t ta Mackenzie Robinson, who lives just round the corner from her home,

But a journey of 3,000 miles was involved.

and

For Capt. Mackenzie Robin- son came to England toith the Arst Canadian army coniin- gent

Its nancée had to follow him.

Eighteen hours after arrival in London, they were married at St. Columba's Church, Pont-strect, W.

ker

Mrs. Robinson will stay in England-"so that I can see Mac when he comes over on leave," she said.

Picture shows Capinin Robin- son's comrades of the Toronto Scottish greeting the bride and bridegroom as they left the church,

MINSTREL:

TO WAR HAS GONE

GREY

HAIRED Corporal the Hoy, of Cromer-he's in Royal Norfolk Regiment has joined up again with his tin whistle.

For Her Called Lover In Court-

No Answer

EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Joan Jones left Cum- berland for London six months ago, became a nurse at the Middlesex Fever Hospital, and fell in love with a young student.

Soon afterwards they became | **** engaged.

Joun stood in the dock at Brentford, Middlesex, accused of altering a ebeque which another nurse had asked her to cash.

She thought her sweetheart was in court and called him forwurd

to speak for her.

But there was no answer.

Nazis Sea Losses

Ifere-is-a-list-of-confirmed rinkings and details of Ger- many's reported Ionses

Jast weck:

MONDAY

DE JANEIRO, 5,000-ton troopship. KRETA, 2.400-ten merchantman. POSEIDON. 5,000-ion troopship. TUESDAY

It was stated that Joan altered the cheque from £3 39. to £3 13s. She pocketed the difference,

her The hospital gave

RIO a good character.

She Promised The Chairman, Mr. H. Nhy, read a letter from her father, who offered to keep her if she returned north. But he did not approve of her engage-

the Bench would

"I would go anywhere with and nowhere without it," he says. On Armistice Day, 1918, Corporal | ment. Hoy clambered out of the trenches and, parading in No Man's Land, bind Joan over if she promised to go

played merry air on his whistic

.

while both sides cheered.

Corporel Hoy is Mons curvivor, He was badly wounded in 1915 ani was sent to hospital,

Mr. Nias said

back to her father.

Joan promised.

But in the care of the court's wo- mun probation officer, Joan pleaded for a few hours berly to see her sweetheart, but the probation officer was adamant, and made arrange- his dischargements for her journey home at once. papers, and re-enleted in the Royal Army Service Corps.

BAIL FOR DEAD SON

Wh so Saved Them He played to himself as here covered. scrapped

They sent him to Salonika. Us troopship was torpedoed on the way

over.

11. was for two duys on an up- He had lost all his turned it: boat,

equipment, but not his fin whistle. His companions said afterwards that Corporul Hoy's tin whistle saved their lives.

"After all, you couldn't let your kell sip with the corporal playing 'Britania Rules the Waves,'" onc of them explained.

Save Sayomka, the whistling cor-

Mother May Have

To Pay

porat proceeded to charm the local MRS. AGNES DRIVER, of} snakes with frish reels. One of his Lamb's Conduit-street,

victions is iz

day.

London muscum te-

j2s-of-All Trades

KARLSRUHE, 0,000-ton cruiser. BLUECHER, 10,000-ton cruiser. 1 U-boat Bunk by destroyer

Zulu. SCHARNHORST damaged.

2 troopships lost in Narvik land-

ing (unconfirmed).

I munitions ship lost in Narvik landing tusconfirmed),

AMASIS, 7,200-ton merchantman. Cruiser bombed.

Cruiser damaged (possibly sunk).

WEDNESDAY

Cruiser sunk at Bergen. EMDEN (cruiser) sunk by Nor-

weglans, (unconfirmed),

Destroyer sunk (unconfirmed) in

Skagerrak.

2 warships sunk

near Hppen

Island (unconfirmed).

Cruiser on fire in Skagerrak (un-

confirmed).

Destroyer (1,800 lens) tornedoed,

belleved Bunk, at Narvik.

Cruiser hit by R.A.F. at Bergen.

2 destroyers damaged.

3 destroyers In flames at Nar-

vik.

Hol- born, may have to forfeit £50 because her film-actor Bon took

8 other

黯

He caurrard the snake while his his life rather than face .comrades crap! up to net it. Then charge of theft.

in

they preserved it in methylated The son, Herbert Pigott Driver, spirit.

wis aged 25,

found gassed Auer the war, Corporal 110y run an A.F.S. station in Charles-street, garage. Then he became a bus Mayfair, while on ball in his mother's drivers nstructor, a ship's steward, surely of £60. a dance band lender, a diver's lines Before this. Mrs. Driver had been man, & painter, n inxi-driver, a pho-called upon to forfeit that amount or togruplar and salesman.

go to prison when the son did not

All the time, of course, he was a appear at Marylebone. Court.

tin whistler.

s Ambition "Whistle while you work" is the corporal's motio,

Now he is going to do his bit agala with his whistle,

Corporal Itay's amblilen

is to

Drossed in Black

The matter was raised again at Marylebone by Mrs. Driver, who pl tended dressed in black.

She naked whether she would new have to pay. The magistrate (Mr. L. R. Dunne) give a second victory recital next asked if the committal order had yet Armistice Day-and it needn't be bern monde out, and was told that it on his wislile,

hed not.

HT can also play the cornet, piano, Turning to Mrs. Driver, he told her violin, organ and anything else you that he could not revoke the order like," he says, "yet I can't read a role, and it would be left to the discretion

of the Home Omcc. of musle."

sunk

fn

ANTARES, troopshin, sunk in

Skagerrak (unconfirmed).

transports Skagerrak (unconfirmed). Transpori (10,000 tons) reported

interned by Sweden. RAVENSFELD, supply ship,

6 merchantmen sunk at Narvik. TUDOR AY

Destroyer bli by plane torpedo. BRITIU LASSES

HUNTER (1,340-ton destroyer)

mink at Narvik.

HARDY

$1.882 destroyer) wrecked at Narvik. GLOW.TOWY (1,748-ton

dc-

stroyer) sunk. GURKHA, bombed, sunk. HOTSPUR (1,840-ton destroyer) 'severely damaged at Narvik, HOSTLE (1.340-ton destroyer) allahsia damnanið at Binevlle. RODNEY (33,000 tons), seven

wounded by bomb. RENOWN · (32,000 tons), slight

damage.

cruisers alightly damaged by

bomba,

April 24, 1940.

By Walt Disney.

RADIO Oxygen Bombs Have One Big

ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) ana

31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Drawback Haydn Surprise Symphony They Must Be Made And

No. 6 in G Major Railio Programme Broadcast by 2. B. W: on a Frequency of 845 k.c's. und on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. | and 8-11 p.m. on 0.52 m.c's. per second.

Used Within 24 Hours

WASHINGTON:

MANILA

MUSK MELONS

(1-3 LBS. EACH)

50°

PER LB.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

A Look Through The "Telegraph",

·50 YEARS AGO

Tol. 28151

BAN RED BIDDY IN THE ARMY'

April 24, 1800. THE Home Secretary, is to be

Salling vessels For New York the 3/3 LL. 1. British Ship "Patagonia", basked in the Commons to make hert, Master, will tort here for the above it an offence to sell Red Biddy to bent and will have quick despatch, For

the troops.

freight apply to Bussell and Co.

For San Francisco the 3/3 1 1. 1. Ameri-

IF the Nazis want to use liquid oxygen bombs-like Can Ship William H. Macy", Ambabury, and will have quick desprich. For 12.15 p.m. Shurt Service of Inter- those reputed to have been Mater, will load here for the above port. introduce legislation at once. tried out in the raids on freight, apply in Russell and Co. 12.30 Robert Ashley (Tenor) and Barcelona-their scientists

cession,

the London Plana-Accordion Band.

1.00 Local Time Signal und Wea- will have to overcome one ther Report.

very great difficulty.

1.03 A Song by Elisabeth Schu- mann (Soprano).

On Wings of Song (Mendelssohn). 1.06 aydn-Symphony No, G in G Major (The "Surprise" Gym-' phony).

Rugby Press, 1.30 Reuter and

Annoшice- Weather Forecast and ments.

1.45 Variety with Greta Keller,

Liquid Oxygen evapor- ates so rapidly that the bombs would apparently have to be used within a day after they are made, and the sooner the better. This has been explained by ex-

For New York. The 3/3 L. 1. 1. British Master, expected, will load bern desputen. For freight, apply to Reuter. Drockelmann & Co.

ship Joseph 11. Scammell". Thomsen,

above pork end wui ho quick

25 YEARS AGO.

He wants Sir John Anderson to

In many of the military dis- tricts this drink is being sold in large quantities by people who have no ordinary liquor licence.

A big trufic going on in the Aldershot district, and the renson given there is thint the Canadian troops find our English beer much too weak, and that they demand "something with a kick in it."

Д

April 24, 1014. According to Neuter's carrenpondent at

Red Biddy, which contains Amsterdam, a Berin communique states: Recently the German high aess fleet has been repeatedly cruising in the North Sea high percentage of methylated spirit and has advanced into English waters is harmful to health, and has been without meeting the British ect.

ntioned at many London inquests.

Max Miller, Rale da Costa and R. perts of the United States Bureau of ounces are: Ontleers: 452, of which 32 from internment and from the special

Merherson.

2.15 Close Down.

B.09 An Hour of Dance Music, 7.00 Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

7.02

Albert Sandler (Violin) and His Orchestra.

7.00 London Relay-The News, 8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03 Variety with Sophie Tucker, Stan Holloway, Charlle Kunz and Bing Crosby.

Standards.

German Experiments

*

The Rt. Hon. Mr. H. 11. Asquith an-

It was decided to grant exemption the totul Naval cruaillea to March 31 were killed. Men: 0,141, of which 4,081 restrictions applicable to German and were killed.

Austrian subjects. Replying to a question in the House at The explosive potentialities of Commons, Sir Edward Grey said the Japa- liquid oxygen, the experts state, were nese Government had been informed of to Britishers, and would, no doubt, respect first developed by German physicists, erailway concessions aiready granted during the Great War for use in the rights already acquired. We had not Imining in order to save the glycerine received representations from British con

cessionaires. The action already taken badly needed for munitions."

to Japan.

审

[Prince Frederick of Prussia is 20, fourth son of ez-Crown Prince; had been working in London bank; since war has been "on parole, Reported shot in Germany few but months ago,

was safe in

PUT THIS NEW COLOUR-THRILL ON

Britain.] was with a view to avoiding injury to the Dr. F. G. Brickwedde, of the existing concessions by new ones granted Bureau's low-temperature laboratory. explained that oxygen quifies at Italy has decided to stop the navigation 183dcg. below zero centigrade. Once of trans-Atlantic steamers: they are now 8.42 New Mayfair Orchestra.

In a liquid form it is available for being requisitioned by the Secretary for

Naval Altura. "Casanova"-Selection (J. Strauss, direct mixture with carbon; such a aer. Benakzsky), "Twenty Million combination is a pure, unadulterated Sweethearts" Selection (Dubin and explosive whose destructiveness is Warren), "Evergreen" Selection only limited by its size. (Rodgers and Others).

10 YEARS AGO

April 24, 1038. Showing at the Queen's Theatre as from ta-day "The Trial of Mary Dugan", an all But as it evaporates very rapidly talking nim with Narma Shearer. Lewis 9.00 Some Welsh Songs. 9.10 London Relay News Sum-when exposed to any temperature Stone, H. B. Warner, Raymond Hackett,

Showing at the Star to-day. Vitma above its freezing point an explosive Banky in The Awakening of Lavo" with in which it is used would have to

Laula Wolhelm and Waller Byron. 0.30 "The Voice of the Nazi"-3be made on the spot and discharged Talk recorded by Professor W. A. Sinclair.

MARY,

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Immediately; or Bome means must be found to keep the oxygen at the liquefying temperature in a vacuum flask..

In Vacuum Flasks

5 YEARS AGO ·

April 24, 1935. On May 1 and 7 from 8 pm onwards, 9.15 Compositions of Scriabin.

Statue Square. the waterfront from the Etude, Op. 2, No. 1; Prelude, Op.

Ilongkong Club. to the Post Office, tho 11, No. 2, Anatole Kitain (Piano);

waterfront at Kowloon from the long- kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Study in Thirds, Op. B, No. 10, Joseph

Company's preraises to Helt's Godowns Sziget (Violin) with Nikita

At the Bureau of Standards, D. and several public buildings, will be Muguloit at the Plano.

Brickwedde says, liquid oxygen is illuminated by the Silver Jublice Com- 9.51 The Don Cossacks Choir. kept in specially constructed fusks, mittee.

The Silver Jublies Committee hope that How Greatly Our Lord Is Glorified of this kind. But even when the every householder, shop holder, botel (Borthjausity); Dance Song: Song ot, best possible quart flask is filled with hong etc. will illuminate their houses and the Cossacks; Darynja; On the River the liquid only a small amount will premises on the evenings in question and (arr. Dubrowen), cond. by Serge be left at the bottom at the end of that in any event everyone will display at least one lantern. This appeal la lasued Jaruff. Unaccompanied,

24 hours. In the ordinary flank it by the silver Jubilee Committee of Hong-

kong. a 10.01 Compositions of Rimsky- would be evaporated completely in Korsakov.

few hours, 11.00 Close Down.

Born in Dugout

An oxygen bamb probably would

consist of some modified form of Hitler's Little Joke

vacuum bolile filled with a mixture

of liquid oxygen and some Anely. divided dust. Coal cust or sawdust would do

Hitler has issued a decree delegat- even ing to Herr Frank, the Nezi Governor-General of Poland,

the

Chungking, Apr. 23. In such a combination, Dr. Brick-right to grant pardons and -quash A baby girl was born in a Foreign wedde said the liquid oxygen pro-court judgments in occupied Polish Oifiee dugout at 10 p.m. yesterday bably would resist evaporation aterritory. during an air-raid. A doctor hop-ttle longer than in its nure state. pened to be in the dugout. The since the dust itself would act as a

other is doing well-United Press. hood insulator

Hitler reserves the right to inter- vene personally in Individual cases.

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