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NANCY

SAY, YOUNG MAN--

·YOU LOOK AS IF YOU NEED SOME

ADVICE !

I SURE DO --- I THREW A STONE THROUGH A LADY'S.

WINDOW!

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WELL, AS LONG AS YOU AREN'T KNOWN IN THIS NEIGHBOR HOOD, AND YOU DIDN'T DO IT ON PURPOSE, I'D JUST FORGET

ALL ABOUT- IT:

June 29, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

WELL, THAT WAS AN EASY PENNY.

EARNED!

WE GIVE ADVICE

Jel. 28151.

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E GIVE *DVICE

Column of News About Things to Eat and People Who Produce Them

Farmers Say

Once Famed 'Cellist

Dies In Obscurity

We'll

Give Us Land Girls, and

Grow More Food?

ROYAL SCOTS

He Always (In France),

FARMERS in Lincolnshire, anxious to Grow More Food, are held up because they cannot get enough land girls. So keen was Farmer Henry Dickinson, that he added another thousand

Had Sweets ADOPT TWINScres to his 6,000-acre farm in the Lindsey district.

For The Children

THE bent, grey-bearded figure of Senor Augustin Rubio was a familiar sight in the poorer parts of Chel-

sea.

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•

But few who saw him knew him to be a friend of kings and a famous Spanish 'cellist of a by-gone day.

In his day he played before kings and queens. But 20 years ago paralysis robbed him of his music. Now he has died in his humble Chelsea lodgings.

Senor Angel Grande, well-known

or and violinist, a friend of "His fr

said:

income was a pension grant-| ed to him by friends and on this money he lived. He was the most lovable character in London. If he had money he would give it away either to his nieces in Spain or lo poor people who lived near him, in Chelsea.

Gavo Coat to Beggar

"I have known him on a winter day to take his overcoat off and give

it away to a beggar.

When these men of the loyal Beots went to their farm-house bullet in the forward area of the B. E, F. they

found two other

recent arrivals-twins. The whole ballation promptly adopted the -twins Here is a Royal Scot learning to handle the regimental mascots.

Cheap Cigarettes For The

Troops?

No, Sir!

MRS. SORENSEN (Soc., Leyton W.) asked the War Minister

He already employs twenty girls, but unless he gets another twenty quieldly those 1,000 acres are going to be wasted.

Ile pays his girls 20s, a week and billets them in a farm building con- verted into a hostel. He has a full- thine housekeeper to look after them.

In Order To Meet

Miss Sheridan He-

Used Handcuffs, Swallowed

The Key

Fifty land girls are needed imme- HOLLYWOOD, (UP-By Air -diately in Mr. Dickinson's area, but Express).Dick Brunnenkamp the Women's Land Army at Lincoln-who handcuffed himself to cannot supply them.

Ann Sheridan and swallowed the

Last autumn there were more land key-reported himself to be suf- girls than the farmers would employ. fering from a slight stomach They were doubiful whether Ahoy ache.

could do the work.

So girls who had gone through month's farm training went back to office and shop jobs. They are ask ing: we were not wanted then why do the farmers want us now?"

The secretary of the Lindsey War Agricultural Executive Committee gave me the answer, writes a corres pondent.

Those farmers who took on land that girls last autumn realise now they are extremely useful.

During the last few months farm work has been fairly idle, but now hundreds of workers are wanted at

once.

Miss 1. Rowley, secretary of the

He said he didn't know whether it was caused by the hardware, or a midnight supper the "oomph" girl bought him after a locksmith severed their bonds.

Brunnenkamp, 19-year-old "junior the University of California at Los Angeles, spotted the red-haired Ann as she entered the preview of her first-

picture, starring

slipped his, popped the key in his mouth, and handcuffs around her wrist and

gulped. The key slid down nearly as easily as a collegiate goldfish.

Pop-Eyed Fans

Funs stood pop-eyed in the lobby of the Hollywood theatre while

vielim Richard looked at his

and breathed, like a swain of the silver sheet: "At Last.”

"He always had a bag of sweets in the Commons recently to make an increased allowance to the Women's Land Army at Lincoln, hos in his pocket for the children in the lower ranks in the Army in view of the raised taxation of beer started a fresh campaign to gel girls the startled Miss Sheridan.

poor street in which he lived. It anyone was in need Rublo would help,

and tobacco and the additional cost of postage and travelling.

Mr. Oliver Stanley replied: "The taxation and other increases, which

Although he was unable to con- tinue his old brilliant playing on the

cello he gave musical advice to affect all classes, do not, in my

number of artists who ure now opinion,-afford grounds-for-an-in-.

famous throughout the world.

"He had been unable to sleep increase in the emoluments of the

4 bed for at least ten years. He

suffered from asthma and always alep a chair.

Army."

Postman jailed For Hiding 18 Letters

back to the Land.

At the Sussex headquarters of the Women's Land Army I was told: for practically all the 6,000 women

"I ought to slap you down," retorted Flashing boombed, her escort, Jeffrey Lynn, looked aghast, and re- porters said to themselves: "A press agent stunt."

"We have found regular employment who volunteered for full-time works. stunt or no, there was the Luscious

If it was no official of ¿Warner Brothers Studio would admit it. And

"Ann"bound" "to" Brunnenkamp with "We are now training girls at the chains of east hardened steel. What Sentence of six months' imprison- | rate of 300 to 400 a month, and are to Doi ment was passed at Stratford, E. re-just starting a new recruling com-

Frederick McIntyre, a paign. Mr. Shinwell (Soc., Seaham Har-cently on "For many years at five o'clock

forty-year-old postman, of Cotes- every morning right until his death bour) asked if he could arrange for a more-gardens. Barking, for secreting

"Our full-time girls are only avall he would walk to the Church of the ration of duty-free cigarettes through clehteen packets while they were in able for jobs which last all through Servite Fathers at the corner of

the post. He was also sentenced to the year. Most of them have given six weeks' imprisonment for stealing up regular jobs, so it is not fair to money from the gas meter at his ask them to take temporary employ-

ment."

He

Fulham Road and Redcliffe Gardens, the Navy, Army and Air, Force would walt until the church Institutes, which were making huge

would return home and in the profils."

afternoon go to Brompton Oratory: Mr: Stanley said that a free issue In the evening he would again go to of cigarettes was made to those on the Servite Fathers. That was his netive service.

and from there he visited a convent.j

regular routine."

Old Masters?

Mr. Shinwell commented: "Naan

Senor Rublo died leaving only made £100,000 prost last year, most

home.

GROW YOUR EGGS'

· TRAVEL south from Lincolnshire, where the cry is Give Us

£136., but he died in the belief that of it returned to the regiments. Land Girls, to London's dockland, where they have a new slogan he was the owner of old masters Could not some of it be returned in-Grow Your Own Eggs. worth many thousands of pounds. this way?" Senor Grande, his executor, Intends.

to have them all examined and

valued by experts.

It.

All day recently there was a stream of caliers at Mrs. Mr. Stanley sald he would look into Reeder's shop in Rathbone-street, Canning Town, E. Callers from

East Ham, Silvertown and Poplar.

SOVIET MIGHT Russian soldiers, carrying rifles at "ready."" parade past Lanin's tomb, Squero, Moscow, and receive saluto by Joseph Stalin, arrow, and other Soviet officials. Occasion was Soviet May Day. Shorter than usual, parade was only two hours long,

Red

"Break it up," ordered police, while. Burly Blaney Matthews, chief of the Warner Brothers private police, yanked Brunnenkamp into the inner lobby. He also yanked Miss S. Swallowed Koy

"Cut it out," she cried. "You're tearing off my hand." I'll say cut it out, interjected a bystander who Identified himself as Edward Stanton, lawyer whom Brunnenkamp brought along to protect his rights," if any. "You have no reason to manhandle this boy. He's only doing what 10,- 000 other men would like to do,"

"Where's that key? demanded Matthews.

"I awallowed it, honest," Brunnen-, kamp replied.

Matthews, refusing to believe him, A ordered police captain George Young to remove Brunnenkamp's shoes. Young stooped down, pulled and found no key, disgusted he gave Richard's Oxford off, shook them,

the Arst handcuff swain in 25 years his shoes.

"Have they come yet?" they would ask.

"Not yet, but I'll take your order," Mrs. Reeder would reply.. "They were fourteen, hundred day-old chicks, on their way from York.

"I'd been trying for months to meet Miss Sheridan," explained Richard, The chicks cost" "3d. each-33. a

now getting scared. "I had no luck dozen. Among Mrs. Reeder's eus and then I happened to read about tomers yesterday were children who how Harry Lehr handcuffed himself had saved their pennies week by to a girl in Newport a quarter of a weak.

century ago as a last resort in his at- Grace Martin, aged ten, came from tempt to meet her. East Ham with her friend. Grace “I figured if it worked for him it Hills. They were going to get five would work for me. And anyway chicks' between them.

the boys at the Phi Gamma Delta Pat O'Keefe brought ninepence House bet me a dollar I couldn't get from Victoria-road, Plaistow. He away with it.” and the girls were in and out of the shop all day.

Mrs. Thorne, who lives at Green- gotes, E. already has three chickens producing two eggs nearly every day, She, too, was there yesterday, wanting more.

For the first month the chicks are reared on special food in boxes kept

Only A Dollar!

Miss Sheridan ·gasped,

"Only a dollar" she demanded. That's an insult."

By then the curvaceous Annie and her suitor were in the theatre hospi tal room. Photographers still were

started to weep;

INFANTS?

EMBROIDERED FROCKS

IN

NET, ORGANDIE, & VOILE

TRIMMED WITH LACE INSERTIONS & EDGING

Sizes 16 and 18

from $6.75

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The House of Quality & Service

TO-MORROW

AT THE

KING'S

A POTENT DRUG MADE HIM

INVISIBLE But INSANE!

And loosed him on a horrified city

with no known means of stopping him!

A NEW FANTASTIC SENSATION

"Suggested by Tha,kvisible. Mán“ by

H. G. WELLS

THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS

with SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE

VINCENT PRICE NAN GREY John SUTTON - Cecil KELLAWAY

Story by Kurt Siodmok and Jos May • Screenplay by LESTER COLLE and KURT SIODMAK Directed by 30E MAY Associate, Producer; KEN GOLDSMITH A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE

COMING AND GOING

U.S. & FOREIGN SHIPPING

WASHINGTON, Jone 28 (Reuter).

in warm places, such as the kitchen isnapping pictures and Miss Sheridan Jeffery, Mrs. H. Bec, Miss H. Bee, Mr.President Roosevelt stated that his

After that it's the backyard and a diet of scraps.

many

Arrivals by Japanese Hner from Yokohama and Shanghul yesterday were Mr. H. Dawson Grove, Mr. Li H. W, Hicks, Miss May Hicks, Mr. authorisation to the Secretary of the "Please, oh, please, get, me loose, Barton, Mrs. D. Barton, Miss M. E. vessel, foreign or American, if neces- O. G. Ackerman, Rev. Eric T.. B. Treasury to take possession of any Mrs. Reeder had

I want to see this picture."

The non-plussed theatre manager J. Nilsen, Mr. V. Rylon. customers yesterday that she stopped produced a hack saw, but only man

Barton, Mr. Stuart Elphinstone, Mr.) Wee given merely to permit the

Administration"in - taking orders after she'd sold more aged to nick the creamy

| charge "of the clearington to take than 300, "I must keep some for

Hollywood's most widely publicized my own children," she said.

actress. Matthews said he had sent tended Harvard-forgave him. She

ving to a question at out for a lock-smith.

even invited him to supper, after the show.

think it over no

arm Of

By the time the man arrived with | SPAIN'S CABINET CHANGE the e keys, the picture, it all came true, was half over. And Miss

·Madrid, June 28.. Sheridan sat, on a bed with her eyes General Juan Yague has abandon-averted from lichard. Unlocked ed the office of Minister for Air and last, abe refused to prefer charges has been replaced by General Vigon. against him and on further thought

nited Press.

and assurance that he never had at

"I guess when you girl over got a compliment like that," she said. "Why he even swallowed a key to meet me. He might have got appendicitis. Maybe he will

Richard stuck out his chest for photographer, who was Inte.

a

Vessels..

He was replying

of foreign

a Press conference whether it would. permit the United States to detain such vessels as the Normandie,

In the event of questions being raised about certain vessels, the Pres sident explained, the authorisation would enable local harbour officials to shift the responsibility of clear- ance to Washington.