Thursday,
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May 2, 1940.
NANCY
I THINK
YOU'RE MAKING
A BIG MISTAKE!
MY MIND'S MADE UP!--- I'M
GOIN' IN AN' TELL MR.
JOLLYBEAN DAT I
DECIDED NOT TO
MOVE IN WID HIM!
I'D LIKE TO SEE MR. JOLLYBEAN!
By Ernie Bushmiller
OH, NANCY--- I'VE CHANGED
MY MIND...
I'M GONNA MOVE, IN TOMORROW, JUST
SO I CAN FIRE DIS GUY!
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BOMBED BY NAZI RAIDERS
MOLDE, the Norwegian city south of Stavanger, which was heavily bombed by Nazi raiders this week.
I WAS WRONG ABOUT HITLER
-UNITY MITFORD'S FATHER|
LORD REDESDALE, FATHER OF UNITY MIT- FORD, HAS CHANGED HIS MIND ABOUT HITLER. HE SAID THAT THE WAR HAS TAUGHT HIM THAT HE WAS WRONG..
In a statement issued from his home at High Wycombe (Bucks), he said:
"My only crime, if it be a crime, so far as I know, is that 1 was one of many thousands in this country who thought that our best interests would be served by a friendly understanding with Germany. In this, though now proved to be wrong, I was, at any rate, in good company.
"But all that was before the days when lightalips and fishing smacks
AWAY, YOU RUFFIAN!
Arms King Victim of Iron Guard Vengeance
GAOLED BECAUSE HE MARRIED IN SECRET
The General And The Cigarettes
By T. E. A. HEALY
THIS story
General cigarettes.
concerns a Erench and
packet of
Fik
I had shared a night in on advance post with some of France's most gallant troops, It was the kind of night about which the communiques say "Nothing of Importance.".
Yet these troops had stood guard. all night eyes and caro and tringer fingers alert. For weeks) they had repulsed every attempt) of the Germans ta penetrate the French lines, Now they were due for a rest.
the morning.
Mmẹ, LIVIA AUSSCHNITT
ROMANCE
CAUSED
RIOTS
Wedding kept
secret to
save bloodshed
RUMANIAN STEEL king Max Ausschnitt, greatest armaments power in the Balkans, whose sentence of six
I marched down the mountain years' imprisonment før fraud and infringement of slopes with them in We saw n German run for cover as currency regulations was revealed recently, is victim of we descended. Anil though the Woops raced after him, the under the vengeance of the pro-Nazi Iron Guard--because he growth was so thick that the man married the most beautiful woman in Bucharest. could have hidden there for weeks! without discovery.
So on we went, with the escort deploying fanwise in front and at the rear, Just to make sure there would be no funny business from an enemy patrol.
were being bombed, and merchant THESE WOMEN General Shook Hands
seamen were being machine-guaned
while swimming or clinging to rafts.
or in open boats: and there is many
has
a man in this country who changed his mind on this matter since: the days when the Prime Minister flew to Munich."
"Suspicion"
In his statement, he also discussed: the refusal of-the-Government to al low him to take his daughter, Miss Unity Milford, to his Scottish home at Inch Kenneth, Argyllshire, which is in a protected area.
"1192
decision arrived it," he said, "by those responsible for the safely of our country after due con- sideration, and it would be highly Improper for me to question it.
What
I do resent, however, is the undoubted undercurrent of suspicion and resent- ment created by publicity to which, however inaccurate its statement may be, there is no right of reply.
Not A Fascist
have
ARE "PERM KNITTERS"
LATEST product of the war is the Perm Knilter.
A Perm kaliter, in case you have not inet one, is a woman who knits while her hair is, being wayed.
Women hairdressers saloons at Lowestoft are full of them.
or
"I could not pretend that I ever rendered this country any signal service. But I am satisfied In my own conslence that my milliary re- Instead of idly gossiping away the cord is not one of which I have any hours while their hair "cooks," the renson to be ashamed, and certainly customers help to knit socks to-day my only desire is to see the scarves. earliest possible victory for the Allies, "One other matter which I and very wounding is that I am constantly described as a "Fascist." I am not, never have been, and am not likely to become a Fascist."
War Record
Lord Redesdale served in the South African War, when he was dangers ously wounded, and was mentioned In despatches in the last war.
The wool is provided for them ot the saloons and they carry on with garments where previous customers } have left off.
Already a substantial number of Lowestoft men comforts has been provided for serving in mine- sweepers or drifter patrols.
"Customers have adopted the idea readily," one hairdresser said.
Miss Unity Mitford underwent an operation at Oxford after her return
"In fact, in all the town, I have from Germany early in January, and was to have gone to recuperale at heard of only three women who the home Lord Redesdale recently refused to add a few stitches to a bought nt Inch Kenneth,
garment when invited to do so."
TROOPS AT FRONT MAY HAVE GIRL On The
THE BBC. has decided to
Radió
There are to be announcing changes make the troops feel more at Jon the home front, too. home when they listen-in.
for
When we got down from the mountains, who did we see but a famous French General.
He had come a long way just to say "Hello" and to congratulate the tired troops-there were not, more than twenty of them-who had kept French territory sacred from the Nazi boots...
It was grand to see the case and friendliness between the
The story begins six years ago when Ausschnitt, then forty-. six, saw beautiful Livia Pordean and her father, vice-president of the Rumanian Senate, on the Paris-Bucharest express. Livia, twenty-two years old, was on her way home from a French
(finishing school.
Ausschnitt introduced himself, and by the time the train reached Bucha- He was rest had fallen in love. already engaged to be married (ac- cording to report it was to maharajah's daughter) but he wired breaking that romance.
WOMEN SPIES SET FREE
ture
AUSTRALIA has made a gcs- to Germany, hoping to General obtain the release of Australian and the humblest private. After women who are interned in Ger- all, each one of them WAS
an many. equal, for
cach one Was D Frenchman.
He shook hands with every one of them, and you could see they loved him despite all the silver stars that į were on his sleeve.
The wedding of Max Ausschnitt und Livia Pordean was, fixed for Boxing Day 1934; hundreds of wed-1 ding Invitations were sent out.
But-Ausschnitt-wan-of-Jewish origin. The Iron Guard, Jew haters, seized the opportunity of attacking him.
that
Porunca Vremiti, the extreme na- Seven German women-including tionalist newspaper, started the active Nazi agents have been freed campaign with an editorial from custody in Australia and told gald that they can go home to Germany. This was revealed officially re- cently in Melbourne, says Reuter, by
As I rode back to headquarters Sir Henry Gullett, Minister for Ex- with the General I told him that heternal Affairs. had scemed just like a father among: his family.
Three Farthings
Closely Watched
Mr. J. S. Duncan, a Commonwealth ofielai in London, declined to make
He smiled: "I am never happier any offelal comment, but said that} than when I can be close to my there were about an equivalent num-) boys," he said. "Every day I get ber of Australian women in Ger- up early so that I can be among many.
them when they start their tasks. He thought there was no fear that "After all, that is not strange, the German women who had been They are my family. I have four freed would be able to take back
France-three sons serving
are anything of Importance to Germany, officers and one is a non-commis- ns no doubt they had been sloned officer. They're all as you closely watched. say, 'Somewhere in France, Just like these boys,"
offered the General a cigarette. They were American cigarettes and expensive, but the General declined. "No," he såld. "Have one of mine. I always smoke these. I like them best."
And he offered me a crumpled cigarette packet. They were the cigarettes the, privates smoke.
very
Kindly Voice In Black-Out
DARLINGTON (Durham) girls, tempted to misbehave in the streets They cost three farthings a packet,during the black-out, find a restrain-
T
BATTLE FLEET FOR D.E.I.
AMSTERDAM, Thursday.
BY 1040 Holland's Indian empire will be defended by a battle fleet totalling some 150,000 tons of modern warships.
backt
"It would be a dligrace to the Rumanian nation If this marriage were allowed to take place. Do not let this red-haired, freekied bandit, this robber-haron, this highwayman be allowed to buy a Rumanian maiden with his 11- Kolton gains."
Street Row
The result was publie demonstro- tions in the street in front of M. Pordean's house in Cluj whenever Max Ausschnitt visited his fiancee.
Livia Pordean disappeared from home. So did Max Ausschnitt.
ron Guard men were on the look- out for them, suspecting that the wedding
be held quietly. Buti MRX and his flancec gove] them the slip.
One afternoon in January 1935, A C3F stopped in. front of the residence of Roman Cathalle bishop Dr. Pacha, In Timisoara.、
From it stepped Livia and her flance. who had adopted the Roman Catholle falih some weeks before.
Their Wedding
ing hand placed on their shoulder and hear a word or two of friendly robber baron" and his bride were In the bishop's private chapel "the
married.
ndvice.
head. Behave,
go home. [41 walk with you if you like," says a motherly votes.
ot
"Don't be silly. Don't lose your By the time the Iron Guard found out about the wedding, the newly married couple were on their way the United States on a long honeymoon.
And usually the girls accept the advice.
to Paris, London and
At that time the Iron Guard, « The restraining hand and voice banned organisation, could not belong to one of a squad of twenty openly do harm to the Ausschnitta, Darlington women, mostly wives They had to wait six years for and mothers, who nightly
patrel
their vengeance. They have now the less-frequented streets and back lanes of the town trying to made their peace with Carol, and keep underliness. The pollco co- Max Ausschnitt has gone to Impri-
sonment and disgrace..
In addition to a team of speakers for the Forces, there will be a team Announcers presenting the of news renders and another Forces programmes there will teneral programme announcements. be a special team of them-re This will meon introducing ten. to be much more informal.
more volees.
operato. team will include And the B.B.C. chiefs are consider- The London ing appointing a woman to chat to Lionel Gamlin. the soldiers,
tho
There will be four regular news renders in London, selected from Frank Phillips, Alan Howland, Joseph MacLeod, Alvar Lidell and Patric Curwen, the actor.
This pointed statement designed to
mode the declaration
by the Dutch Minister in Tokyo that Holland does not intend that anyone else shall protect her East Indian possessions was issued by official To Protect Girls etrcles in The Hague.
We do not interfere with anyone so But they have not made up their
Wearing white armlets, on which long as they are not misbehaving. Holland' will have a In addition
the initials D.M.W. (Durham minds yet.
number of other warships usually are
When so many strange men ard At present Miss Elizabeth Cowell,
employed in home or West Indian Moral Welfare), they patrol in pairs about there is a danger of young girls brunette talker of television days, is
losing their heads. The patrolsTM are waters, which in an emergency would from about 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. woman announcer on the
Miss M. E. Spooner, superintendent chiefly older and married women, only
of St. Agnes Ifome, Darlington, who Some have daughters of their own." lender of the patrols, says: "The The patrola are enthusiasis in the object is to try to help and protect work and have done remarkably well.
ny girls who may be in dimculties.] Sent by M. J. D. Darlington.
staff."
Last month it was stated that when her contract lapses it will most pro- bably be renewed.
Stuart Hibberd is going to Bristol, where, for the time being, he will be heard once more announcing a wide variety of programmes, ranging from symphony concerts to light variety.
be available in the Eaat. ·
The Dutch Press adds that the naval base at Sourabaya will be im- proved so that it will in effect become
second Singapore.
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