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DONALD DUCK

UNCA DONALD,

SHUT UP!

DON'T

THINK

CAN'T Y! SEE

I'M BUSY

BUILDIN' A WALL

WE KNOW IT) BUT---!

THEN

QUIT

BOTHERIN'

ME!

G-0

AROUND OUR PROPERTY?

TRIAL OF 1d. FARE STARTS

LONDON'S penny bus and The tram fares are on trial. court room was at Bush House, W.C., where the consultative committee of the Railway Rates Tribunal sat to receive evidence on how a ten per cent. increase in London fares should operate) to meet increased costs.

The most important proposal is the abolition of the penny fare.

Mr. A. T. Miller, K.C., prosecuted

the

on behalf of the Railway Executive Committee. Chief Counsel for penny fare's defence was Mr. Moel- wyn Hughes, K.C., who appeared for the London County Council..

20 Witnesses Only

Mr. Hughes sold that

the only

field in which he could object was the method of placing the increase, not to the fact that it was to imposed.

be

As it was a pubik Inquiry, wit- nesses could have been the 8,000,000 inhabitants of Greater London. In fact, only twenty members of the public sat la hall seating 111.

Mr. Miller

that the full Buid scheme of increased fares, including reases to obviate anomalies

would would cover the

rail increases to

In fore

prices,

£3,034,500. This estinated drop in receipts.

produce

He quoted figures which showed that in a year 59.0 per cent. of the total number passengers used penny furen. The percentage of the tutul receipts from penny fares was 35.9.

Getting Free Rides

cerinin antore

Chlef witness for the prosecution of the penny fare was Mr. Franki Pick, former London Transport chief. He suki the shortening of stages would have the effect of Inerensing the fares 100 per cent, an

was therefore singes, and

the penny severe than increasing fare to three-halfpence.

It was estimated that it look conductor from four and a half to six minutes or a stage and a holl- to collect fares if the bus was reason- ably loaded. If it had been decided to make the first stage a penny one, the conductor would not have time to get his fares.

BOYS WORK

ON A FARM

Saturday,

HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH

OKAY!

BUT WE JUST WANTED

TO TELL Y

THAT--!

---OUR PROPERTY ENDS BACK THERE!

Law Lords Use Circular Saw-

Boys of Loretto School, Scotland, where many famous men wore educated, are helping to relieve the labour shortage of the land by giving up cricket afternoons to work on a nursery farm,

PET PONY, 1 RABBIT,

40 CHICKENS

Daily Express Staff Reporter

CASUALTIES in yesterday morning's Nazi bomb raid on a Sussex village: Forty month-old chicks, an eight-year-old pet pony Whiff, and one wild rabbit.

The Nazi raider unloaded a cargo of high explosive bombs. They fell 150 yards from the main road of the village and parallel with it.

Craters were made in the thick

felds clay soll, saplings lopped off and

ups of clay hurled two away.

Rush To The Altar

London, July 10. The Registrar General's provisional births, marriages and

One bomb fell at the edge of a "Probably members of the tribunal copse, a quarter of a mile from the returns of have und free rides themselves, saldage Others exploded Mr. Pick.

IN COURT

London.

full-

In VISCOUNT SIMON, bottomed wiɛ and a gleaming back alik robe, sat in the gilded cham-

ber of the House of Lords to hear

his first case as Lord Chancellor-

and watched two Law Lords work

circular saw.

July 20, 1940.

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NO PLACE LIKE HOME-

RAID-PROOF

IF IT'S Advice for 3d.-or 10/6

DON'T LET - PICTURES of bombed houses get

you down, wrote a London paper recently. Your own house is a protection from bombs. A very good pro-

The saw had been brought down tection if you do something overnight from Birkenhead, Che-

shire. It Was set up on the top about it. ridges of the historic red morocco

silting on the floor during ralds. Six Icet, please, otherwise.

Tilck stacks of books form good protection against flying bomb splin- ters. If propped against the window on a table, they should be 2 feet 6 inches thick-at least.

cross benches, which face the King The Government will help by and Queen's thrones the House of Bolling you a pamphlet called, Lords

"Your Home as an Air-Raid It figured in a poor person's ap- peal by Leonard Lewis, of Paterson-Shelter." It costs threepence. street, Birkenhead, who is nineteen. It is up to date. It includes advice Leonard Lewis was employed at a based on a study of the disaster model yacht works in Marine-street, cuused when a German plane crash-fect thick will give complete protes- Birkenhead. His job was to cut ed at Clacton-on-Sea. small wooden blocks with a circulor saw. The firm provided a "push- stlek" to detach the cut-off blocks from the length of wood.

The Government hopes that when you have read this document you will not need to rush out to the ucarest air-raid shelter. which, after K.C. Works Frea Lewis caught his left hand in the was built for people caught in

the streets. suw and suffered severe Injuries to his fingers. That was three years ngo.

Assizes. Mr.

Justice Tucker

elded against him.

Then the case went to the Court of Appeal in London, and three

Loone gravel or shingle packed two tion against splinters and as good shelter as a solid brick wall of 13% inclics.

Crazy paving slabs make good material, for building shelter walls or ling up barricades,

The tops of barricades should be covered with building paper or slates cement mortar to keep them from becoming soaked by rain.

What about the window glass? A good covering in some material will glass By in 機 small,

Your duty now is to study the simple means of protection for an He brought a claim al Liverpool ordinary home, If you have any de-doubts, the Government has arranged

n new service.

For a fee of 103. Gd. you can con- prevent Lords Justices decided that Mr. Just an expert-architect, engineer, dangerous pieces and may hold a will report on, badly cracked and bulged pane in or surveyor-who The youth's solicitor, Mr. B. Berk-your house, tell you the most suitable place for a Uitzic. son, of Birkenhead, then got leave room for shelter, and the best way to bring the case before the House of protecting yourself and your wrapping paper or cardboard. Suck

tice Tucker was right

of Lords.

The Recorder of Liverpool, Mr. E.

G. Hemmerde, K.C.. took a brief for the youth under the Poor Persona' Department, which means that ho accepts no fee for his services,

fumity.

Chancos Small

You tan use sheets of strong

them on with gum, four paste, or Paperhanger's paste, stiffened with

Local councils can tell eilzens who lille glycerine or treacle. these consultants are.

Use Plywood

member of the Bar to appear in being the unlucky one are very small, form spaces not more than six inches

A womas barrister, Miss E. A MacDonald, appeared with him yesterday, It is rare for a woman

the House of Lords. Viscount Simon entered the Peers' Chamber smiling, with an attendant carrying the Great Seal of the Realm

In front of him.

The pamphlet says:

If you use textile materials in strips "Houses do not collapse unless the the strips should be not less than one bomb falls on them or very close to and a half inches wide and should them. The chances of your house "Houses afford a great deal of pro- tection against blast and splinters- as well as against aerial machine- gun fire and A.A. shell splinters."

Three forms of shelter are available for the ordinary citizen

1. A ready-made shelter in the "garden;

2. A sheilet of brick or concrete

3. A refuge room.

ench away.

Special transparent wrapping Dims | can be used, but mind that you don't pick on cellulose nitrate film. That celluloid. It is highly inflammable.

Wire neiting of mesh not bigger than half an inch will stop flying glass. The best idea br to fix it to i-detachable-wooden-frame-made

to fit the window opening.

Saw Tried Out Four Law Lords entered, too, in In the deaths for 1939 show a new high dark lounge suits, without wigs or grounds of a local air raid warden record for marriages in England and gowns. whose chicken farm is one of the Wales. The total during the year God's guidance on the labours of the The Bishop of Sallbury prayed for largest in Sussex.

you can use a light-weight Nine chicken houses were de- was 437,400-an increase of 75,830 Law Lords. Then they began the attached to the house or built into it. stroyed, but no window his on the provious year. Of these mar- hearing.

screen of plywood or bullding board. the Others in the clages, 288,013. "took place in

screen will stop.fiying glass, house was broken.

You can protect the windows of Such village

500 yards away were second half of the year. The marriage wooden base, was brought in to help the refugee room if there is no near and also stop the weather if your smashed.

rate expressed in the number of the Law Lords understand how it protecting wall-by putting up a window is broken. Said the ulr mild warden: "Well, persons married per thousand of worked. arrived in the Isle of Man recently he dropped them at the right population was 21.1. This is the Lord Atkin and Lord Romer left brick or earth wall outside.

Women Go Into Internment

Nearly 1,300 women enemy aliens!

for open internment at Port Erin, which has been taken over by the British Government.

The

in

address. We know how to deal with highest on record and compares with them here. I've not 3.000 to 4,000 17.6 in 1838, 17.5 in 1937, and 15.8 chickens, no a 1 per cent. casualty in 1920. list isn't very

serious,"

party included several nuns and the nursing staff of the German A ^ sixteen-year-old boy evacuee Hospital in London. With the women billeted with a retired farmer had were many young children.

the narrowest escape. He had been

The total deaths In 1839 were with 170,820 in 109,192, compared 1938 and 509,574 in 1937.

Live births totalled 020,257, com- A group of voluntary nurses treated told to go to the air raid shelter in minor cases of illness. One woman feld. He had just reached it when pared with 621,204 in 1038 and 810,- came ashore on a streicher and went bombs dropped behind and beyond 577 tn. 1937,-British Wireless, to Port Erin in un ambulance.

hlm.

FUNNY SIDE. UP

By Abner Dean

SPECIAL

98

ABNER DEAN

"But, darling, they don't have any Clark Gable dolls!"

The circular saw, clamped to a

their seats to work the saw, and manipulated the "push-stick."

At half-past three the Lord Chun- cellor, preceded by the Great Seal, walked from the chamber.

The circular saw was taken away, as the House of Lords was to meet

hour later, IL all an

will bo brought bnek this morning, when Mr. Hemunerde resuines his speech.

SUSSEX BOMB RAID CASUALTIES :

Phone girl says

"We

are in the front line

:

MISS KATHLEEN DOYLE, twenty-two-year-old telephonic operator, said at the conference of the Union of Post Office Workers at Blackpool: "We demand better protection. After all, we are in the front line of home defence.

Big Ben may call

"We have to all in these exchanges

whole Empire to

united prayers duty.”

Or

The lighter these screens the less Height of 3 feet 0 inches in itely are they to break under an sufficient, provided you dont mind! explosion.

IMPOUNDED-Cable picture from London shows Captain Archibald H. M. Ramsay, Mambor of Parliament, arrest- ed in "fifth column" round-up in England. He studied at Eton and Sandhurst.

Purge B.B.C. Says Peer

A COMHOUT of the B.B.C. for possible "Fifth Columnisis” was urged in the House of Lords by Viscount Ellbank.

"I know at least one individual In the B.B.C. In London

who certainly should not occupy the position he does," he added. "Ho is marrica to a. terman lady whose brother"ls fighting against

Ile also expressed concern at the number of enemy allens, par- ilcularly domesite servants, stij at large. The Chlef Constable of Oxford had told him that there were 477 enemy allens in Oxford and that his representallona to the Home Secretary had gono un- heeded.

Lord Marchwood urged that every allen of whom there was the latest doubt should be Interned, but the Duke of Devon- shire, for the Government, said that to intern every allen would be impracticable.

BRAWL

Girl Challenged IN CAFE

soldier to shoot

JOE BECKETT

(and wife)

ARRESTED

as

a joke

A TWENTY - YEAR OLD

soldier, who admitted acciden

Japanese Send Note To'Americans

Shanghai, July 19, The Japanese Consul-General, Mr. Miura, to-day sent a note to the American Consul-General, Mir, nirick, requesting the Identification and punishment of the American marines involved In the Oriental Cafe ineident on" Monday. Y

مر

tally shooting a girl, told the

Reserving the right to claim dam- Liverpool coroner that during ages, Mr. Miura did not demand an his Army service he fired only apology, but declared that it appear- twenty-five rounds of ammunicd that cases of vigorous conduct by tion; he had been in the Army marines against Japanese were of

curring one after another. He re- since March.

quested that effective disciplinary JOE BECKETT, former It was stated that he had just measures be taken so that incidents of this nature would be prevented because they were harmful to the und the very last minute to main-British heavy-weight boxing revealed to an officer that he was

good understanding between Japan an essential ARP. services. While champion, and his wife were bind in the right eye. the civilian population might scurry among numerous people arrest-

A friend of Mary Hook, 'sixteen- and America.

The Japanese version of the inci- Hike rabbits to their holes, we have

year-old victim of the accident, gald to stop up there and maintain com- ed under the Defence Regula Mary jokingly challenged the soldier dent is that a drunken brawl de- to shoot her. The soldier, sayingveloped between the marines and civilians, One of Life munication, and we want adequate tlons.

the "Til do anything to oblige a lady."Japanese shelter when we have done our

marines left and returned with re- Bell had been associated with the raised his rifle, and it went off,

the meantime inforcements but in Fascist movement since before theĮ

Mary shot through the head the original Japanese had left. Tho collapsed and died an hour later, Americans thereupon attacked two The soldier was Gunner Reginald Innocent employees of the Nagal

fortnight, although the nature of the injuries not described. he was a butcher, living in the Old medical treatment probably for a Kent-road, London, SE

Gunner Hayward was

Non-Japanese authorities greatly

express distressed when he gave evidence. surprise that the Japanese have re-

earlier He sild he must have pressed the vived the fncident, which tridger accidentally; he had no inten- they had described as not serious. Some regard it as an effort to keep Japan-American friction alive,

On the

morning following the in- eldent Col, de Witt Peck, Comman

Marines, ordered all dant of the marines to parade and invited the to attend in an Japanese victims effort to identify the marines in- volved. No Japanese however ap 'peared.-United Press.

A SUGGESTION that the chimes; Men delegates supported the girls' war, and Beckett recently enrolled us of Big Ben should be used as a signat claims. One man said he would ja Parashot. for united prayer throughout the think twice about volunteering for

Detectives called at their home in

British Empire is under considera- switchroom duties, and another manWinchester-road, Southamption and Stanley Hayward. In civilian Cotton Company, who would require

tion.

The chimes ring out the message:

"All through this hour

Lord be our guide,

And by Thy power

God shall abide."

Big Ben is already heard by radio could listeners all over the world.

Wos

delegate sald

Illogical to expect girls to volunteer for switch when they were taken to police room duty while men in other headquarters by car Mrs. Beckett bom three departments were rushing the carried her baby son

weeks ago. They have four other basement shelters.

children. He thought that where exchanges

In Fair-Booth not bo put underground," shelters should be provided with

Beckett began as a fair-booth ton of shooting. equipment so that services could be boxer, served in the Air Force in the The corner (Mr. G. Mort) record- last war, won the championship, ined a verdict of "Accidental Death," 1910, and retired in 1023 a fairly and aald of Gunner Hayward: "He He won twice beaten is a very inexperienced young man being re-wealthy man. (National Conservative)

by Georges Carpentier, the French- and the jury may think he was The by-election for Central Not- turned unopposed-Reuter

election tingham, caused by the death of the

the general,

Sir man, being knocked out each time Tool to be acting about with a loaded Solicitor-General, Sir Terence O'Con- Terence with 18,700, won over Mr. in the first round. He is now forty- rifle, but I don't suppose it entered

his mind that it would go off.". nor, resulted in Sir Frederick Sykes J. W. Alliit (Labour), 10,913,

NOTTINGHAM 'ELECTION

London, July 19.

carried on in an air raid.

At

3

six.

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