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Monday,

NANCY

YEP, NANCY---IT'S~ ALL BEEN A JOKE-- DAT NEW GOIL OF MINE IS JUST A STORE DUMMY-- MEET ME AN I'LL SHOW YA!

NANCY. OUGHTA

BE HERE

SOON!

WELL- I SEE I HAVE AN ADMIRER!

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 17, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

DC UT BE ALARMEI

SO!:

I POSED FOR

THAT MODEL !

ONLY

SHE'S

DUMMY, EH

THIS 15 THE END

THEA

BUT : NANCY.... I CAN EXPLAIN!

DUO-BRIDGE

(British Made)

The Board for Two Players

MAY-

Killers Had Debtor Says

Moorland

Hide-Out

HAWKSWORTH (Yorks). VINCENT OSTLER (24) and William Appleby (27), sentenc-

Sentence

Got 3 Years' Gaol

He

But Did

Now

Go

A DEBTOR told London Bankruptcy Court recently that he had been sentenced in Belgium to three years' imprisonment in connection with dealings in options. He added: “I did not attend the trial and I have not served the sentence."

The man, Mr. Harry Gunther Tripp, à stock broker, lately carrying on business as Herbert G. Johnson ed to death at Leeds Assizes for and Company, at Walbrook, E.C., has lia bilities of £3,740 and assets estimated at £844.

the murder of P. C. William Ralph Shiell at Coxhoe, Durham,

were compared by Mr. Justice He Is 90 But

Hilbery to Brown and Kennedy, notorious murderers of P. C. Gutteridge.

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They were found guilty of mur- dering P.C. Shiell while trying to Co- escape after breaking Inte operative store on a night in Feb- runry. Appleby was recommended; to mercy.

The judge, in hla summing-up, said It was not the law that if Appleby did not know that Ostler had a gun with him, he could not be guilty.

No Policeman There

"I am not the first judge of crime,"į he said, "to say that in such cir cumstances,

anyone has curiosity to look, he can see it in al- the most similar circumstances by

case late Mr. Justice Avory in a

the which created great notoriety, ease in which Brown and Kennedy were charged with the murder P.C. Gutteridge,"

the

ot

Ostler and Appleby will go down in criminal history as the "Windy- of them Gangsters." Both ridge made their homes here in Hawks-

of worth, which is the scene

Riley's novel "Windyridge."

No better hide-out for a pair

W.

of

criminals could be imagined than this

He Applies

For Rise

Williton (Somerect) Rural Council recently re- ceived an application for an increase of salary from Mr. John Reed, 90-year- old rate collector Wootton Courtney.

for

that

He pointed out there had been a consider- able increase in the rate-. able value of the parish in recent years, that he had been rate collector for 62 years and that at the age of 90 he could not expect to carry on much longer.

The application was re- ferred to the Finance Committee.

FULL STORY

Replying to Mr. M. Clarke, As- Bistant Ofetal Receiver, Mr. Tripp

said that in 1931 he started business

as a commission agent in Parls, but In 1934 he discontinued teadlag as he was unable to obtain a renewal of his permit to remain in France.

No Shelter, Then No School, Says Mother

BECAUSE

Down to £3 a Week From June, 1937, to, December, 1938, he acted as manager of a com-

no air-raid shelters are provided Mrs. Mary pany, deing business in stocks and Thornton, of Ashingdon, Essex, refuses to send her daughter to shares, at a salary of £1,500 a year the village school. plus commission. The company went into liquidation in December, 1938.

Two Bridge players can use the DUO-BRIDGE Board anywhere and at any time; there is no need to go out to the Club on those black nights.

You will enjoy it in any situation, because it is the very best Bridge game for two people yet invented.

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Let us admit at once that there are certain technical difficulties which cannot be overcome. We are well aware of them-but they do not affect the character of the game in any way. Neither player sees more than his own hand while bidding and only his own hand and Dummy during play..

It is obvious that peculiar bidding, psychics and wild jump-overbids are no use in such a game, indeed the hands have been very carefully selected

ORIGINAL & SMART

SPORTS & GAMES EQUIPMENT DEPT.

She told Southend County magistrates this recently and said LANE, CRAWFORD

As from July last, Mr. Tripp sald, le carried on business as a sick and share dealer. His business was suc- cessful, but in August, 1939, owing to the international situation, he was called upon to provide further cover.quences of my action," she added,

that if she wanted to construct a factory in the district the law would compel har to provide shelter for employees,

but he was unable to do so and even- tually judgment was obtained against him.

Mr. Tripp agreed that his abilities Included £2,334 in respect of differ- ences due to clients.

He said he was now employed an A.R.P. duties at £3 a week. He had no other means of livelihood.

The examination was adjourned.

Four Boys With Big Ambition

In her opinion schoolchildren were entitled to as much con- sidoration as the law gave to the staffs of industrialiats.

"The safety of my daughter is more to me than the consc

An order for her to send the girl to school was made. Ashingdon is in one of the Esox safety zones,

BRITONS IN CAR WERE BOMBED

Then Mistaken For Parachutists

OF EVACUATION They Wanted cently returned from Belgium

(Continued from Pagd 6.) ·

ilny hamlet on the edge of the moors and yet within a few miles of the densely-populuted industrial areas of jof them was slightly on fire and all the West Hiding which were their of them were listing over heavily with the number of men on board. hunting ground.

Getting them safely away and out No policeman is stationed at to sen in such conditions involved Hawksworth; It has no public-house; nine display of seamanship, particu- and the constant procession of motor-larly as the tide had fallen and there cars through the village was a screen was a danger of grounding. There for their movements by night

To Be Real U.S. Gangsters

FOUR Impwich boys had an am- bition to get enough money to take them to Amerles to be

was very little water under them--real-gangsters.--

now It was

Although Appleby admitted in the

The Last Man witness-box that he had been

Ostler with

shop- associated

evening, and there breaking crimes since January this were still many troops ashore, and year, the police belleve that they are more still coming over, the bridges Still more were the men responsible for a series of under heavy fire,

under the doubtful cover of the burglaries

station buildings. The firing and the bombing continued.

THE PLOT DESTROY THE CANAL! TRAP THE FLEET!

Can Chan strike fast enough? He musti

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CHAN

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TOLER

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MARY NASH ·: SEN YUNG KANE RICHMOND CHRIS-PIN MARTIN LIONEL ROYCE HELIN BRICEON

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A Bok Cistry-Jet Pizzera

TO-MORROW COUMAROM AT THE

KING'S

The troops seemed never to end,j land the enemy was still advancing

They called themselves the Dead End Kids, and set out on an expedition of plunder,

First they stole bicycles and left Ipswich on them. These they later abandoned and replaced with stolen cars. Their es- capade landed them at Bury St. Edmunds in two days.

A Look Through The Telegraph"

50 YEARS AGO

•

June 17, 1890.

on

At the Hipp works at Emen there are: 1.103 furnaces of various constructions. 200 boilers. Da steam hammers of from AN Englishman who has re- 200 to 100.000 pounds, 370 steam engines

with a total of 27,000 horse power.

chief, reason revealed how he escaped back one, and perhaps the

of the difference in the shape of an to England after a nightmare Eng

htt and

American walst journey.

women pi atrailer general physique, says the New Yoric "Sun" is in the shape of "Four of us flew to Brussels on the corset worn. The American woman May 9 to inspect certain works in-wars a corset which extends high under the arms, covering and, especially in the bust up stallations," he said.

behy womers, crowding higher than is natural. Over this sho "Two visits were completed on generally wears a tight fitting waist of that day. But the following morn-muslin or cambric, Bid 10 result is ing the Nazis crossed the frontles, gradual but smooth and continuous slope Lowards the bottom of the waist, which English -and-wo were awakened at 5.a. by i...liko...n.cone, inverted. heavy gundre from a machine-gun woman wears a bit of a corset, not much in the next street and several longer trom the waist up than the pointed girdles which were Bylish a few years quickfiring pieces of light calibre. ago, and very much shorter than our Hing corset. The result is that their "We got a car to drive to the air-bodices, with short darts, sive a very low port. Five miles out of Liege a Nazi effect to the bust, a rounded fulness of outline and a sudden Ughtening in at the airplane dropped two bombs on each waist, which one often mistakes as being side of the car, but we did not stop. produced by tight lacing. No ghil

Waves of Bombors

ed.

Most of the naval demolition party had gone in the destroyers, leaving And it landed them at West sig over, and a dense cloud of are moulded by skilful tailors and of

the officer in charge, a sub-lleutenant,

a petty officer and one rating. They blew up the bridge when the last soldier had passed over it.

Darkness came, and at ten o'clock the railway station was still crammed with men, with the Germans very close, and advancing. But word lad gone forth to the Navy that the evacuation was not complete, and at about eleven o'clock another destroyer nosed into the darkened harbour ind alongside, being bombed and fired upon na she came.

"A Miracle"

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A

hted waist is worn beneath the dress and the general effect possesses all the charm of a corsetless figure with comparatively "Brussels' had been heavily bomb-none of its disadvantages and the beauty of their aquisitely fited totlor dronscn Waves of enemy aircraft kept results largely from the fact that they With live woman's figure and not over a stiff, smoke rose from the airport.

an airplane, unyielding armour of bones and steel Suffolk Quarter Sessions no prospect of geiting

25 YEARS AGO where they were sent to Bor-back to England, we turned to the

June 17, 1915. for Duinbergen, coast and made stal for three years.

ILRH. the Prince of Wales, who is at about twenty miles from Ostend,

the Front, desires that all congratulations on his coming of age shall be postponed of the war. illa Royal il the conclusion Three of them are 16 years old where we had friends.

and the other 18. One was

"We arrived there in the late after-ghness will be 11 years of age on the said to have broken his noon to find that it, too, had been žird. Inst.

heavily bombed. mother's heart by his be-

Many Continental, American and Home "The following morning I weni haviour. The mother of an-with another member of our party upon which

pipers are occupied in deciding the terms the combatants In the war other blamed “the pictures.”

will consent to lay down their arms. The to interview the Consul at Ostend German press views may well be left out and we took all four passports of the question: so, for that matter, might While there, we heard that Dutuber- those of many British and United States Intents every Britisher papers. To ali gen had to be evacuated at once a new, within a few weeks or months of Intensive bombing was expected, and the outbreak of war, what the peaco my friend went back to bring the terms would be. The Prime Minister Inid others, leaving me with the four them down for the good and all in his passports.

30 Guineas Fee For Witness

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She also was in danger of ground- Ing; but moved stern-first out to sen After the medical superintendent "We arranged to meet at the Con-ightly draws, until Belgium receives in with her quota and a list of Aftem of a mental hospital in the provinces sulate. But in the meantime degrees."

had given evidence in an undefended three friends had been mistaken Then two more destroyers arrived suit in the Divorce Court recently. parachutists and arrested. and evacuated the troops that re- brought on the ground of a woman's mained, with their many wounded. incurable Insurilty, the husband's

counsel asked "Is your fee for at tending here 30 guineas?"

It was a

miracle that all of these destroyers were not sunk.

WIS

"If the withdrawal

a mis-

fortune," said the eye-witness, "the story of it is one of truly magnificent

"Yes," was the reply. It is a fee have been paid in a pievious case discipline, and of courage, determina in this court."

The President (Sir Boyd Merri-

tion and devotion to duty on the part

memorable atteranco "We shall never sheathe the sword, which we have not full measure all, and more than all, she Yerifieed; unti France is adequately for cured against the menace of agresaton; until the rights of umaller nationalities of Europe are placed upon an vnosalla- "At last I became weary of wall-blo foundation and until the military Asquith's plate- finally destroyed.". Mr. Ing. chartered a car and drove back domination of Frus is wholly and to Duinbergen. For four hours I top inent resolves itself into a promise to the was under arrest, and then we were impleation on what terms it tells us what we are battling all released and told to get out at the Allies will come fighting. ance.

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June 17, 1935,

The ban was lifted in Canton, this and maeltine-guns.

cruisera al Chi and Ital Sen, two of the deserted from three warships which "Next day," he continued, "We Nanking and joined Canton in the sum were suddenly ordered to leave all mer of 1933.

to e statement sued by According our luggage and get an far away as

General Chan Chal-tong, Commander-in- possible from the ship. We got a car thief in Canton, the warships altempted

to drive down to La Panne, in the iq capo huz ran aground in the vicinity hope of getting across the French of Lienhuatung border and so to the Channel ports.

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to Canton, martial law was, declared, Whampoa and Bocca Tigris forts prepared "We had to ̈ quepe · for " long for action. All shipping was repended. An seroplario wii despatched to check periods for petrol. Every froniler post had miles of cars waiting and on the run-away ships. These were

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