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Eton Boy's Only

Academy Pictures

EDWIN BRAMALL a 16-year-old Eton boy of Symons Street, S.W., has had two pictures accepted by the Royal Academy,

Surprised but proud he went to Burlington House to varnish them.

on

Friday:

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH¦¦ June 14, 1940.

By Walt Disney

One Man Left (1,000-Acre)

the

By an Agricultural Correspondent ́

Down Sacked A.F.S. Man Refused Farm

FARMERS are becoming alarmed at the shortage of labour to cope with the grow-more-food drive. It is now their most pressing problem.

The National Farmers' Union have received reports from many parts of the country showing how serious the situation is.

In Gloucestershire three farms

are mentioned where there is one man on 1,000 acres; a farm of

"I really sent them in for fun," 450 acres and no man; a farm of he said,

"Last Christmas I painted The Ballet as a holiday task. I made it up out of my head. It is a picture of a ballet as seen from a theatre box.

400 acres with one girl and no man.

one

Cheshire reports farms of 350 to only

or two 200 acres with workers; Dorset reports an increasing shortage.

"My other picture. 'Sloane Square,'| Regular farm workers are becom-

is a view painted from my parenting fewer, not only because some of house. My mother suggested I should send them to the Academy.

"study art at Elon under Mr. Wilfred unt, but I don't think shall become a professional artist."

Nurse's Success

the 20-year-olds are called up, but Pecause many are attracted by the

higher wages for building camps.

£4-A-Week At 17

Mr, S. T. Cowcher secretary of the Miss Molly Halth, who has had a Gloucester N.F.U., quoted the case of „picture accepted is 4-V.A.D. nurse at the RAF hospital at Torquay. She boy meriving the standard farm wage of £1 per week who left to

Is a native of Buckinghamshire and until the war was a professional artist work on a neighbouring aerodrome in London.

at 55; of another boy of 17 receiving

This was he only picture 1 sub-30s, who was Hiven work by a Gov- milled and it was the first time that I had affered one to the Academyment contructor at £4 per week.

the still-life group." she said.

Preparing For Victory. Dance

LONDON, (UP),--One village in England is ready to hold its Victory dunce at an hour's no- tice.

The village ball is booked, the 20 attend at short

hud warned notice, the tickets are printed, and the enterly committee has its orders to zo.abend immediately news of peter reaches Constable Frank tee-at-the police station.

Farmers realise that, skilled new! agricultural workers cannot be drop-i ped into their laps. they are even prepared to see agriculture, in com- mon with all other industries, make sume contribution to the fighting forces.

But they are about this steady

deeply disturbed] drain of skilled Barre hands who are tempted away no! by wages agriculture could possibly fer at present price levels.

VATICAN PAPER STOPS Rome, June 13, The Popolo di Roma reports

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KOVNO RESIGNATIONS

This is Harvard University's now coronagraph, resembling ́anti-aircraft-gun,_to_be_set_up in Coloradǝ Rocky Mountains to-study-solar.corona in effort to predict magnetic storms:--- Professor Menxel adjusts it. For Byfield village, Northampton- the Osservatore Romano, the Vatican

SOVIET STILL SILENT shire, has twice been let down. At paper, has suspended publication for

Moscow, June 13. the Jubilee celebration of George V. the period of the war and that the rud ni the archives of the French Embassy and

The Soviet attitude towards Italy and Queen Mary,

The resignations of the Minister of Coronation of the present King and Bellish Legation in the Holy See have

Police, M. Queen, every hall and band had been been brought to Vatican City. It is is still oficially unknown as the Press

expected that the rish Minister, is silent, though publishing all the Interior, General Kazys Skuisan, and Mr. F. Charles-Roux, will reside in belligerent communiques. Censorship the Chief of the State

Uniled Press. the Vatican for the duration of the continues to forbid comment.-United Augustinius Povilaitis, are announced, war-United Press,

booked up and Byfield was left high and dry with no celebrations.

It does not intend a repeat of this

when peace celebrations start up.

Press.

Kovno, June 13.

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While recognizing that nothing war, the planning authorities are

By HOMER JENKS United Press Staff Correspondent, PARLIAMENT is to hear LONDON, (UP)—A 'post-war about Mr. John Gibson, 44-year-"United States of England" has concrete can be done until after the old auxiliary fireman, of Middles-been proposed by competent urging that their plan at least be act the ever-increasing concen-ly so that as many preliminaries as

posalble may be disposed of.

vut that a law brough, who was dismissed for planning authorities to counter-considered by Parliament Immediate

It was puinted Mr. Kingsley Grimth, Liberal M.P.tration of the country's popula

would have to be passed prohibiting for Middlebrough West, has promised tion in and near London. to question the Parliamentary Secre-

unless the Under the suggested programme, the industries from locating in London they could prove the necessity tary of the Honie Office.

country would be divided into ten re-for doing so.

Advocates of the plan warned that Mr. Gibson, who served nearly four glonal areas, similar to the states of years in the Royal Field Artillery the United States of America. Each the present tendency to concentrate the last war, wns a volunteer in

The

Middlesbrough A.F.S. until the out-region would have a capital, such an industry around London is dangerous

Bucial and health standpoints, break of the war, and he was then London, Birmingham, Bristol, Liver from the military as well as the Concentration of population, let taken on the full-time paid strength, pool, Manchester, Newcastle, Edin-

alone industry, leaves an obvious

for enemy bombers. He says that when he refused to burgh and Glasgow.

In support of this proposal, plan- target obey the instruction to salute officers he was told to think it over, and that ning authorities say that it is a recoge transport problem and the necessity another man who would not saluteinized fact that there always is a drift for work under crowded conditions would be cared under the had had to leave.

of population to a big centre-In this also

regional proposed plon it is enimel. case London-but if ten Mr. Gibson replied that he was not capitals were set up and each pr Industrialists would benelli, in that leaving, and that he was not going perly developed, then this drift would they would not be forced to pay to salute. When he persisted in his be spread over the whole country. euch high rentals as are demanded attitude an offer said at another The problem first was raised by the in the London area.

have suggested interview, "Then I will have to sack Royal Commission on the Distribu Some observers

ministry of reconstriction tion of the Industrial Population, that a Mr. Gibson holds that the A.FS. Is which reported that if the present siculd be established immediately a civil organisation and that there is endency continued, 24,000,000 per- ticlute this and other post-war no King's commission to salute.

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