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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 17, 1940,

'PHONE PLEAS FOR BRITAIN

Remarkable Drive in America

In's remarkable drive to mobilise support for the campaign to help Britain, volunteer workers for the William Allen White Committee to defend America by niding the Allies will ring up every private telephone number in New York City.

Business numbers will be omitted, but in New York's five boroughs there are 785,488 residential telephone numbers, which, it is pointed out, is more than all the business and home tele- phonca in Norway, Finland, Bire, Greece, Portugal, Bulgaria, Jugoslavia and Lithuania combined.

In each case the caller will speak to the woman of the house -If there is one--and try to an- list her sympathies for the com- mittee's work. A chart will be compiled showing. whether the people called are in favour of the committee's objectives, against them, or merely neutral.

PANAMA

HIGHWAY

READY

Thote who are' sympathelle wil

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 be called upon whenever the need arises to write letters to the Presl (UP). Definite announcement dent, Senators, Representatives and by the Panama Government that members of the Administration, the transisthmian highway, urging support for the measures connecting Panama City, on the recommended by the committee, which is now trying to arouse public Pacific, with Colon, ΟΙ the opinien in favour of sending Britain Atlantic, would be completed in 25 American "Dying fortresses." the immediate future has been Calls will be made by a team of received with much publle en- If one person made these calls and thusiasm, according to a report took two minutes for each, it would of the Commerce Department Lake him nearly 30 years to complete from Panama, the task, assuming that he worked

1,410 women. It is estimated that

eight hours a day on every day of

the week.

Secret U.S. Planes

The ofce of the American Com-

mercial Attache at Fanama City said it is understood that work on about 25 mites of the highway yet un- finished will be rushed by working three shifts, a development which will further improve the already en- couraging employment situation.

Loral commercial interests were reported la foresee many advantages to the Repubile as the result of the completion of this highway, includ-- NEW types of American air-ing neceleration of freight movement craft will soon be flying with the from the Atlantic alde docks to RA.F.

Panaina City, expansion by the The names of three of them trucking business, and development are still a secret, but they in- the now isolated areas of the clude fighters made by the Curtis Company.

interior.

Even machines have been put into service, they will not be men- tioned by name in official bul- letins until it is believed that the enemy knows about them, and. their capabilities.

after these three Cotton Raid

But two American machines that will soon be officially mentioned are The Buffalo is one of the latest United States single-seater: fighters. Snub-Nosed Fighter Designed for the United States Navy, it is a snub-nosed vicious looking machine, easy to handle, but detalls of its performance have not The Boston in a bomber. It will be the first aircraft with a tricycle undercarriage to go into service with

the Buffalo and the Boston.

yet been disclosed.

the R.A.F.

Instead of a wheel at the tall it)

Plan Hopes

DISPOSSESSED BY HITLER Homéloss folk are becoming generally seen on London streets as Hiller's airmon continue raids on Britain's capital city. These above were dispossessed by bombs, but they are attempting to salvage belongings from their homes.

Young Girl May Send DAMAGES Mother To Her Death AWARDED

A GIRL of 22 may doom her mother to the electric chair in New York. This is the latest development in the fantastic story of "Murder Incorporated"-The Brooklyn "cash and bury" syndicate which is now believed to have been responsible for 54 murders.

Two leaders of the gang, “Buggsy" Goldstein and "Pitts- burgh Phil" Strauss, were sentenced to death recently for the murder of a man known as "Puggy" Freinstein.

The girl is Mrs. Sylvia Weiner who married Benjamin ("Chippy") Weiner when she was 16. Her husband is now in Sing Sing Prison, serving a term for rabbery.

Her mother.

Mrs. Rose Pantiel,

a stolld widow of 40, known as "the Red Rose of Williamsburg," is under arrest, charged as an accomplice to the murder of a gangster known as Rubin ("The Mock") Shapiro, Mr.

TO GIRL

-Police Sued

A 15-year-old domestic ser- vant who successfully claimed damages for false imprisonment from four police officers, had her claim increased from £50 to £80 by Judge Capron at Dudley

ANTI-NAZI County Court recently.

RIOTS IN NORWAY

He described the methods adopted by the police officers in investigating the disappearance of a handbag as "highly impro- per and dangerous to the course rof justice. & garda kat

The fact that the girl was an in- fant gave him power to increase her medeat claim.

Fetched From Bed

Scenes of great disorder, fol- O'Dwyer, New York's District At-lowed demonstrations by stu- torney, believes that she knows the dents against the Germans in secrets of ten other gang murders. Norway recently, and as a result the authorities have dissolved the Norwegian Students' As-Liwer Goraal, sued Inspector Felton, sociation says Beromunstershire) Police Section; P.G. Williams, (Switzerland) radio,

Visit To Husband

Vera Turner, of Robert "Street,

in charge, of the Sedgley (Stafford-

and

Meird War Reserve Constable

Mr. Churchill's promise to re- examine the question of air-raid

The daughter was detained as a insurance for property has been material witnes, but after a visit to especially well received in Lan-fused to talk. To convince her that

her husband in 'Sing Sing she r to tell what she knows may be the cashire.....

only way to save her mother's life, Mr.

to her and O'Dwyer pointed said:

"There's a girl who for love of a man in Sing Sing is going to

The Germons have confiscated all send her mother to the electric chair." the money belonging to the associationed.

The murders which the District tion. Attorney hopes to solve as a result

Some mils in the Royton district recently formed a small pool to which each contributed and from which each could draw if they suffer ed damage,

tien refused to consider these contri- Hut the Inland Revenue authorf- butions as part of the expenses of the business, and demanded that they should be included in profits for tax

purposes,

Disorders were greatest In Oslo. The association was dissolved, says the radio station, because the students deded the ban on processions and public meetings.

They have threatened that if there

of Mrs. Pantiel's arrest were ccm-are any further demonstrations they

She complained that after a woman had missed a bag containing £27 she was etched out of bed at her em-. loyer's house at midnight, taken to the police station and severely ques- P.C.' "Inexperience"

mitted in a gang war which follower will close Oslo University and ather taken to the station against her will.

led by colleges and schools. group

un altempt by

tt

"Knockout Harry Halpermi

This attitude stopped further con- has one at the nose, apart from the tributions, with the result that the "muncle two main Landing wheels in the pool is too small to be effective. The naceller of the motors.

run

In on territory group, known as the "Lar-

Indhistry-now-hopes-that-Me.ney Boys Rubin Shapiro, Servant Leaves

At rest it is permanently in the Churchill's re-examination will cover shark, was marked for murder be

that it needs this point.

take-off position, so

only a short run to become airborne, Both the Buffalo and the Boston Are belleved to be beller than any- thing of similar type belonging to the Nozik.

Cripps' Son Is C.O.

Island "King" Sued In U. S.

suspected

cause the Larney gang that he was financing Halperm's mot and supplying them with gùns and

cars.

Nazis Send Propaganda To Cabinet

NAZI propaganda is still being distributed in England by Union of Fascists members of the former British

A suit for divorce has been filed in New York against Mr Harold Fortington, former "King of Jethon," the island paradiso A Conscientious Objectors' in the Channel Isles, and since Tribunal, at Oxford, recently re- the war Director-General of gistered John Stafford Cripps, Progress and Statistics at the the son of Sir Stafford Crippa, War Office. British Ambassador in Moscow, Fortington, a daughter of Sir Ernest His wife, Mrs Edna Winifred to do work of national im-Jardine, the Nottingham lace ma portance.

chine magnate, is asking for 600 He will be required to do agri-dolls (100) weekly alimony and cultural or horticultural work or 10,000 dollars (£2,000) Jawyers market gardening for two days a fees. week.

Cripps submitted that war living in comparative poverty in

She says in her petition that she is men. was irreconcilable with the New York with her daughter. Christian belief in the Father- The Sunday Dispatch New York hood of God and the Brother-correspondent says Mr Fartington hood of man.

He was at one time prospective Jethou from Mr Compton Mackenzie, Mr Forlingian bought the Isle of Labour candidate for Exeter. the novelist.

Contested

has contested the sult.

GERMANS TRY TO WIN

T

OVER GUERNSEY ISLANDERS GERMANS in occupation of Guernsey are trying to win over the islanders to their cause by kid glove methods but over all is the shadow of the Gestapo, says a “Dally Herald" corres- pondent.

These people, who have man- aged to clude the police net, have been sending anonymous notes to Cabinet Ministers, writers' of newspaper articles and public

In nearly every case the senders have used a rubber. stamp, with movable type and an inking pad.

£1,000

Sewing Machine Legacy Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Champlon, of |24, Donald-road, Willesden, N.W., and formerly of Fifth-avenue, Queen's Park, W.10, described in her will (July 14, 1918) as, a' "domestic," who died. on April 20 last, left £1,108 13. 1d. (net personalty £1,083 105, 2d.).

The judge held that the girl was

Normal police investigation, would have shown there was no ground for the conclusion that the bag had been | lost.

He believed that the sole desire of the officers was to carry out their duty. That they did so improperly was due in the ease of the constables to inexperience and over hasty con- elusions, and in the case of the in- spector to an undue acceptance and reliance upon conclusions and theories of his subordinates.

Bird Of Paradise Grows Long "Tail

She left Ave War Savings Cerlin- SYDNEY, Australia, Nov, 24.(UP), cates to "my devoted parent" Henry bird of paradise in New Guinea, A. Barton, and her sewing machine has outdone the dog that grew a tail to be used in memory of me," to so long that the dog was wagged by her friend Minnie Pepper, "house the latter. The bird, nine inches in mother, residing at White Oak School, length, has grown a tall three feet Swanley, Kent,"

long.

The whole of her goods and effects It has been named the "McNicoll' she left to May Barton, of Graves-ribbon-tailed bird of paradise," after the shelter she has given my inte son of New Guinea, who has sent a speci end, "as some little recompense for Sir William McNicoll, administrator and me,"

men to the Museum hero,

--

ONE NURSE SAVES 181 BOMBED EXPECTANT MOTHERS

!.

EIGHTEEN expectant London mothers owe their lives to are two favourite phrases.

**Hell Hiller", and "You dirty Jews" the amazing heroism of 30-year-old Staff Nurse Tegwen Davies. Others Single-handed, sho dragged theni. from the remains of a bombed

pre-natal home in East Anglia.

ure of a highly obscene nature..

Scotland-yard is! G.P.O. detec- tives are trying to, trace, the senders.

Some of the notes have been posted Southend-on-Sea and others in South-East London,

In

Known To: Police

The bomb wrecked one side of the home one night recently," burying a number of the mothers under plles of bricks and fallen timbers.

"It was only a fluke that Iries to take. them all to hospital.ți

"I got five of them away in a car. "As a political organisation the happened to be near the spot," British Union of Fascists ceased to said Nurse Davies, "There was and asked the driver to call the hos exlat after the arrest of a leader," no nursing staff at the homepital ambulances.

The most difcult thing to deal Falda Scotland-yard, official. The only a housekeeper. I was out with was the mothers' labout. I had organisation has been "brokan tip, ?

side.

tö attend "several "Active members of the body have| "I saw the bomb fall in the moon to hospital of them on the been dealt with and others are known light and dung myself fat on the

way "As a matter of fact, five babies, to the police.

including twins, were born shortly "Slace the

arrest of si

Oswald round...

I. members have kept particularly

loose. There was a terrifle flash, Wed 2: There were a number of casual" "There is a penalty of 15 years' potatoes, and something like chaff, they do not dare to come out in the ear number of women screaming

quiet. There are still some who are merit

bits of brick were flung all around ties, some of them fatah" trying to keep Fasciam alive, but imprisonment for anyone who speaks and produces chronic indigestion.

When picked myself up I could 'slightingly ot German soldiers, and

Lots of tinned food has been open. They are content to send these for help: N ZAAM ameandamikian.

One of a party of eight men who got away from the Island in a 20-foot boat told of life in Nazi Guernsey, even The Invaders are so extra courteous," he said, "that they even step off the pavement to allow women to pass.

wages, ard

the singing at God Save the King taken to France." is forbidden

Publie house stocks of beer an Everyday is made to work. Flat rapidly diminishing, and spirits are rates of pay are 30s a week far banned. single pen and 38s. for married men, Gucenicy newspapers aro bi-linguni

few extra shillings for each now and they contain lessons WIL childe

Germany paid by the Guernsey, State,

The islander, said that between, 800 Rationing Severe en and 1,000 German troops were in Guernsey and many brought their Rationing was getting severe wives and sweethearts, when I left. We were each Kilawed *Discipline 413% atelet," be, added. two "ounder? of butter and sixpenny» "A"; soldier who intertared; with a

Kun woman schoolfekcher was shot? poor, as It a la thade or court-malware ZAN

Mosley many of the rank and file when all hell seemed to break after I got the women there.

anonymous communications.””

CHINESE

BESTVICE

“I ́ ́clambered over, the debris and started to feel around in the dark. MORE NEW ZEALAND. I was simply dreadful

Upsale

BUTTER AND CHEESE Blast Blackened,

or eally increased supplies of greatest dimculty infusding those

the women were blackened... New Zealand hopes to "end" to by the bomb blast and I had the butter and cheese in the coming year, who were unconscious said Mr. Wordan High Commissix of them foggered out with stoner for the cominions asking skla: litus help, but had to drey 12 the National Trade Union: Club, out by the armpits

The produces For Brew-Zealand To make matters worse, the shock wool butter chedaelland tment was sent most of the mothers into labours beingold's to the Britud Govern. I placed them down on the pave

ment and tried to stop cars and lora

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