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By War Diary

Surrounded By Dead In Explosion

THESE

THREE MEN

POSTS

STUCK TO

THREE men, surrounded by, more than 3,000 lbs, of nitro-gly- cerine, which threatened fo blow up at any moment, stuck to their posts and saved the lives of fellow-workers in the Royal gun. powder Factory explosion at Waltham Abbey, Essex.

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Their heroisin was revealed' when was announced that they have been awarded the 0.3.2 (CIVIL Division) Empire Gallantry Mégal. They are:

MR. LEO FRANCIS O'TAGEN, aged twenty-Ave of Lontbard avenue, Enfield, Middlesex;,

STANLEY WILLIAM SEWELL, aged thirty-tve, of Groft-road, Brimsdown, Middlesex. MR. WILLIAM GEORGE SLY- VESTER, aged twenty-five, of Hallside-rond, Forly Hill, Enfield All are married.

nitro

Sylvester was purifying glycerine when a deafening explo slon blew away the walls and half the roof off the washing house where he worked.

He could not run for, safetywith- out leaving more than a ton of nitro- glycerine in a dangerous state..The explosion had cut off his hot water and air services, essential to safely completing the process. That meant the nitro-glycerine might freeze and blow up.

Despite the danger, Sylvester worked on hour after hour never knowing the moment he might be blows sky high. He carried-pn-unƒ!!" the vital services were restored and the nitro-glycerine brought to safe condition.

O'Hagen and Sewell weat through a similar terrifying experience. "They were working in a buliding 150 yards the centre of the explosion, from engaged on the nitration of glycerine, critical stage In the manufacture. Hot water and air services were

off. More than 1,000lbs.

cut

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nitro-glycerine were in a dangerous

state. If they loft it might blợiv, up,

If they stayed there was always a

chance they could prevent it.

They chose to stay.

Before they left for work that day the three men told their wives there was "something doing."They, nag been told the night before to wear their best clothes. They didn't know why.

When they arrived they were told "pleasant surprise"

there

was a

waiting for them.

A saloon car drove to the factory, and the three men were told to get inside. They were driven to White; hall, where they mel Ms Burging Minister of Supply, who told them about the awards.

BANKS

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.

THE KING AND QUEEN talking to one of the British sailors rescued

from the Nazi Jall ship Altmark during visit to a Scottish port.

GANGSTERS RUN

FILM RACKET

IN HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.

ARRESTS IN HOLLYWOOD in connection with the murder ring under investigation in New York have convinced the police that the film city is

Incorporated by Royal Chiller '1853 Paid-up Capital.......

£3,000,000. Reserva Liability of Proprietes £3,000,000 Reserve Fund ...***********£3,000,000 fugitive public enemies.

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Amritour Bangkok Batavia Bombay Calcutta

Agencies!

Clive Sirest Fairle Place,

Canton Cawnpore Cebu Colorbo Delhi

Haiphong Hamburg Iaco

Karachi

Klong

Kobi

.Kuala

Semarang

Seremban Shangha

Singapore:

Billawan

Bourably.

Talping

Taupur Kuching. ..Tientsin

Madras Manija

Tangkal

(Phuket)

"Talngtao

Yokohama

was

Irving Cohen, dins Jack Gor- don, arrested recently, actually playing in a film, and extras have come forward with allegations that they are under gangster domination.

Racketeers, they declare, control their employment, and roam the

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CRASHED NAZI BOMBER

R.A.F.

mechanles gathered

round the Nazi bomber shot down on a Berwickshire farm in Thursday's raid. The plane Was riddled with machine-gun bullets.

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Breathed Through Tube For Ten Years SURGEONS GAVE HIM SPEECH AGAIN

raider

Leaflet

made prisoner on wedding

eve

AFTER his plane had been shot down over a German coast town, a British airman pulled out a packet of cigarettes and a box of matches, and told his German captors, "They're from Mary; we were to be married on Monday."

The airman's name was AlbertĮ 448999694 Burkes, says the German news agenes

which issued:a_delalled accaunt tell- ing how the plane, a Vickers-Welling 'on bomber, was shot down anti-aircraft guns

by

The bomber carried a crew of five came down in flames about a hundred yards from a farm.

One airman died in the blazing machine. Another, Eustace Fawson, jumped out with parachute from a height of 400

feet.

When German farmer, his son and it neighbour rushed to the plane, they, found Flying Omeer Temple- man from St. Johns, Newfoundland, lying badly injured on the ground.

Belt On Fire

The other two British airmen managed to climb out of the plane, one with his belt ablaze.

While they were being escorted to the

they were joined Zarm,

Fawson.

by

In the farmhouse Burkes, alter

lighting his cigarette and telling of

his wedding plans, took out a letter addressed to German women.

"The leaflet Was such utter mense add the German news agency) that the Germans did not even bother to read it to the end." The pinne had no bombs on board.

The crew's orders had been to drop

the leaflets over Germany, but they

did not know where they were.

Youngest M.P. Is Baron

-But Is Not Resigning

MR.

DENNIS PRO- JOHN FUMO, youngest member of the House of Commons-he is 25- became a Baron recently.

His father, Baron Profumo, K.C. died at his Warwickshire home, aged 61.

As the title is an Italian enc. the new Haron, who was elected MP. for Kettering only three weeks ago, will not have to re- -sign-hila-seat..

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TWELVE-YEAR-OLD Peter Cripps turned merry, blue eyes excitedly towards his special nurse, Sister Louise, at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, W.C.

He was able to speak again for the first time în ten years. At the age of two his windpipe was affected by a disease of the larynx and he had to breathe through a rubber tube in his neck.

Thanks to two of the hospital's surgeons, Peter now has n real windpipe of his own. A piece of skin taken from his arm

was grafted in his throat and Peter soon began to find his speaking voice."

COMING to the

Hallo," he said cheerly KING'S

wonderful to be able to talk, breathe"

and drink like other boys. The words are coming easier as the days go by,

"When I first spoke to sister my I couldn't own voice frightened me. belleve vas actually talking.

I wish I could marvellous. to mum.

She lives in Vincent Road Dartford, Kent. I have no father.

It was go

home

"What will I want to do when I get could never home? Learn to swim. I

do that with this hole in my throat. When it heals up I can try swimming, doctor says. And I shall also be able to shout and whistlo."

Since he was a baby Peter, an only child, has been under the care of the Hospital for Sick Children, Surgeons there had operated on him four times, rubber When they gave him a wind-pipe his speech was confined as clucking what are described sounds.Only his mother could under- stand him.

to

He had two operations. First, the surgeons took a piece of skin 2in. long and half an frich wide from his

ȧrm.

They wrapped if round a rubber tube and grafted it into his throat. Five days ago the tube was removed and the skin left in place.

Sister Louise sald: "It was a won- derful operation in plastic surgery. No surgeon here has ever done such a thing before.

"Peter was tremendously thrilled when he found he could speak. I had to watch-him-day-and-night-to-see ****** i that he did not choke.

Australian Wives

Want Tattoo Marks

For Married Men!

Compulsory tattooing on the wrists of married men Burkes also had a rough sketch to prevent them posing as single is suggested by "Thought-

of the Elbe and a few towns.

The RAF, men said that when they tried to discover their position by penetrating the clouds, they were haven for immediately shot down.

Murderer Will Be

Free After 10 Years

After serving ten years of a life sentence for the murder sets in make-up terrorising them of his wife, Archibald McTaggart, now aged thirty-two, wrote into paying tribute for their hire.

to his mother in Gateshead saying: · "I am to be released in In Costume

June."

Another man, arrested some time no on suspicion of the murder of Hyinie Miller, one of the operators of the extra racket, was in costume when the police come for him.

He wants to join the Arzny-the Royal Engineers as soon as he leaves Jafi.

Bui

his mother said:

are

Swiss Paint Out

Two

In France with Caricature On 'Plan

He was absolved of the murder of my sons

leave the B.E.F. I have another with the charge, but was ordered to

Territorinis and a fourth waiting to Hollywood.

be called up.

Medan New York Pelping

(Peking) Ponan EXCHANGE and General FOREIGN

The employment racket is now in Banking Business transkied.

full blast. Extras who refuse to pay CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and TIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year for their jobs are beaten up when or shorter periods in Local er, Other Cur rencie at rates which will be quoted a pleture calls for a screen Bght or

a crowd scene. application m

Films in which gangsters

I'm going to try.to keep Archie out of the Army. He's been away from home long enough."* Wife Confessed

BASLE

Winston

A

Mr. caricature of Churchill was pointed on the side of the Dornier bomber which landed at Basle yesterday and whose crew four were interned.

ful Mother," in a letter to "The Sun," Sydney.

cffective."

A distinguishing tattoo-mark, tattooed on the finger would such as a heart, would be more

Spiritual Symbols permanent than a wedding ring.

"For years," she writes, "mothers have been worried how to discover whether their daughters are going about with married men.

asics.

be

The president of the Feminist Club (Mrs. P. A. Cameron) thought the suggestion preposterous. No outward symbol, whether tattooed heart or

would act 19 wedding ring,

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FIGHTING'S FIERCEST

WHERE THE

THRILLS ARE THICKEST

WHERE THE

LAUGHS ARE

LOUDEST..

You'll Find JAMES

CAGNEY

PAT

O'BRIEN

Orandar than ever)

THE

Itchin' for action!

CEORGE

BRENT

Tough and terrific!

FIGHTING

69TH

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Journal

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a 50-50 basis," he said. The Fisheries

"I have thought a lot about it, and deterrent, have decided that good would be done "Nor would it be of value in hold-

married men wère forced to wearing a marriage together," she suki.. a tattoo, say of a heart just above "A wedding ring does not do that with a woman. Spiritual symbols are the where they wear a wristwatch,

only valuable ones in marriage and not?"

the mother "Way

they alone result in people living up "Marled women wear a wedding to their ideals,

“I cannot imagine any woman wish- ring, although, on second thoughts, that from their many easily slip anger when they want to. Perhaps in a man to be tattooed to show

his wedded state," she added. married women, too, should be made

The Rov, G. Cowie thought the to wear a tattoed heart."

Ideá ridiculous. A tendency to for- She says that if the husband or wife sake marriage vows would never be died, a line could be drawn across the curtalled by identification discs, as it

of the heart, on the wrist of the remaining were.. Nor would young women,

cancelling (partner,

it. On re attracted by n married man, bo marriage, a new heart could be placed deterred by symbols. above the original one.

"You have to review the question Fow Favour Idea

married man is not entirely to blame. The idea was referred to social sex appeal cannot be overlooked. workers, clergyshen, feminists, and The attraction of a particular man for

Few, favoured it. young women.

girl is frequently so strong that it HAVINGS ACCOUNTS so opened in

Airport offcials gave, no reason for

Most agreed that while it might does not matter to her if he is married the Dornier's call. Their only com- Local Currency and Sterling wit interest, alleged to have arranged for attacks allowed at roles oblainable out application on extras who refuse their demands McTaggart was only twenty-two ment was "Switzerland is neutral serve in a few instances, the scheme or single. The same might apply

war Impracticable and would novera married man attracted by a girl," The Pink Head Office in London undertakixxocutor de Trustee business are "The Sea Hawk." "The Hunch-when he married Miss Hilda Batter-But they painted out the caricature.

Mr. Towle did not believe that girls be tolerated. At dawn to-day Swiss airmen But the Moderator of the Presby-now were associating with married and claline recovery of Bullish Income back of Notre Dame," "Dodge City" shell, of Romford. "TAX overpaid on terme which fo be and "Gunge Din."

Six weeks after the wedding he stepped aboard the Dornier and flew terion Assembly (Rey, G. Cameron men to any greater extent than years ascertained at any of its Agencies, and

killed her, and at the trial said she it to the interior of Switzerland. Wood) thought the scheme Brands or tattoo marks will never

Dr. G. A: C. Herklots Branches,-

had admitted she had been un- The Domler was equipped

with work.

It was

van a strange idea; but it Stravinsky Married f

incendiary bombs and machine-guns. would serve a purpose if it prevented solve that old problem," he concluded. Now on Sale NEW YORK. The jury recommended him to Igor Stravinsky, the Russian com- merey because of his youth. A fort-bomber crossed the Upper Rhine some of the pathetic cases which "A good religious home life for both

girls with married men.

The general secretary of the Young at ERAPION NGE

poser, has, it was revealed to-day, night after the trial he was reprieved. Huninngue on the French frontier resulted from the friendship of single parties is the remedy.

"Bigomy cases are often heartrend-Women's Christian Association (Miss HERAPION NO. 2 Theen secretly married for a fort-And three years ago a petition with mile from Basio. Anti-aircraft open-

night. His bride was formerly Vera 35,000 signatures from Gateshead was ed fire but the German airplane coning and innocent young girls are Lira Taylor) thought the suggestion Morning Post Building.

duped," he said.

absurd. Her association would never ERAPION NË:

de Bossett Sudeikine, also a Russian. sent to the Home Secretary asking tinued on its fight.

There have been discussions on the approve of such an idea, she said.

Price $3:00. The couple met 20 years ago when for the release of Meraggart

The official-reply was that the time they

Sergu

A condition of McTaggart's release adfisability of men wearing weddingThe aim of our movement is to were introduced by Diaghileft. Stravinsky is now lecture had not arrived when further clemen-is that "his Industry, and conduct rings. But, as this mother points out, educate girls so that they do not need |stall continue to be satisfactory," they can be removed. Perhaps a ring those kinds of associationk," she said. ing on poetry at Harvard University.cy could be recommended.

LA CAMIDAN,

*Manager.

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