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May 7, 1941,

By Ernie Bushmiller

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Ford Wants Youth In Government, Approves U.S. Defence Training

Henry Ford would like to see more young men running the United States Gov- ernment and believes the defence programme will be "educational to that end.”

The Detroit automobile maker suggests that government should function along industrial pattern and predicted that objectors to war "will make themselves heard" in America. ·

"If our young men are to do; our fighting, why can't they run the country?" the industrialist asked in an interview recently.

"The defence programme will serve to bulid our youth physically, train them in tendership, and at the same time introduce many of them to new vocations.

"With this training behind them, more young men will enter public office and the nation will be better off, for the old heads have made a botch of things In many quarters.

"Government ought to be modelled more after industry, with advance- ment in office based entirely on ability and record of service."

Skilled Men Needed

On the subject of defence education, he said:

and

CLERK LIBELLED

ON BOOKMARK

Libelled on a bookmark, George Frederick Congdon, Town Clerk of Harwich, was awarded £100 damages at Essex Assizes at Chelmsford recently.

He sued John Elliott, proprietor of a circulating library at Dovercourt, and a former member of Harwich Town Council.

Mr Harold Brown, for Mr Congdon, said the libel was

printed on bookmarks which Works Shut

Elliott inserted in each book he passed over to his customers.

Found Unfit

"The defence programine has The statement complained of al- brought out vividly that this coun-leged thai Mr Congdon was unût for try needs more men skilled in the office of Town Clerk, that he wna trades. By skilled I mean just corrupt and that he had evaded ser- that, not a mere smattering of avice in the Navy by making false subject.

statements.

"So many of our school graduates lack specialised training and have no particular destination when they set out upon the sea of commerce. I am glad to note that vocational schools and courses are springing up rapidly throughout the nation.

the Navy,

years in the accountants' branch of Mr Congdon was formerly for 20

When, as a pensioner, he was call- up for medical examination on the outbreak of war he was le- charged as totally unfit.

"Ill-Tempered"

.

"The danger In this programme of vocational schooling is that we may Elliott became a member of Har- get too far away from the funda-¦ wich Town Council in 1924, and Mr mentals of education. We must re- Brown described him as ill-tempered

tain the baste education too."

BLITZ MIRACLE For ten years William Albert Bow- den, aged 54, of Wincham, near Northwich, was bedridden. Now he

is looking for a job. He had the

To Help Arms Drive

Great

Many factories in Britain will cease production In work-people released to make the next few months, and their

munitions or service in Forces.

the

Industries mainly affected will be those 'where war conditions have led to reduced production.

But even here where production in an industry has not been reduced, efficient concentration of manuine- "He presumed a knowledge above that of everybody else, including ture may make some undertakings the Borough officials, and," Mr unnecessary, Brown said, "created the most dreadful and undignified scenes in the Council chamber."

Shoe Trade

The union and employers in the Elliott, who conducted his own boot and shoes Industry have already case, said his object in publishing inado a preliminary survey, which the statements was to draw attention shows that this industry could, with-

blitz to thank for the miracle. After to a matter about which the public out hurt, release

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long spell of illness, Bill Bowden ought to know.

became paralysed. Then came the

percentage of its men,

substantial

Mr Justice Atkinson, granting an Similar surveys are proceeding in

blitz. As he lay. In bed a bomb injunction to restrain further pub-other

Industries, at the invitation of rocked the house. Suddenly, he lication, sald a less honourable and the Minister of Labour. felt what he describes as "a top" more contemptible procedure

This is part of the plan fore- -down--his-spine-and-was-bathed-in Elliott's part it would be difficult to shadowed by Mr Bevin when he

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Four Men

school.

and A Girl

Flew A Glider

Adventures of four men and a girl who flew a glider without authority were described recently at Eastleigh (Hants).

Accused under the Defence Regulations, Ronald Edward Clear, London Road, Purbrook, was fined £5. ̧

Frank Sidney Walker Jolliff, Dover Road, Portsmouth;-Albert-

conferred recently with representa- Frank Parslow, Connor Road, Blood Donors

Hudson and Audrey Mary Barry Morning After

more frequent, and after ten days he It was obvious he was actuated by tives of both sides of Industry on his Portsmouth; Edward Jeremiah

man-power proposals.

found he could walk.

malice.

on

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the first week produced over

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June 17, 1941?. $123,000 is

all that is required ●

Donations to Date: $1,877,657,96

both of Woodman Inn, Purbrook, were all bound over.

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caused a

Exhilarating Feeling

A Sydney doctor recently said Superintendent E. Pragnell sald that among the people who that a gilder was seen in the sky by volunteer for blood transfusions hundreds of people and certain amount of concern.

some become almost addicts. Clear said that he was a pilot and hoped to become a test pilot. A firm made Inquiries about the glider for overseas sale, and he decided to obviate a previous fault.

He went to test the glider to- gether with his friends, whọ had no idea that what he proposed was Ulegal He rat the machine almost to the bottom of a hill ånd Intended to do a short ground hop to test the stability.

Air Current

Rising air currents from the hill

caused the gilder' to rise. He could have landed immediately, but the speed would have risen beyond the safe limit,

The only alternative was to fly away from the lift, which he did, and landed as soon as possible.

FOREIGNER BUYS

CHINA BONDS

They like the exhilaration one ex. periences the morning after having given a transfusion.

"We do not recommend people to give more than one transfusion In three moniks.

"An American, who 300 transfusions, is belloved to hold the world's record."

Five men, who had each given from 10 to 20 blood transfusions, are al- ready enrolled as emergency donors In case of air raids on Sydney.

One, aged 25, has n transfusion very three months, for the past five

years,

BABY SAVED

BY DOG

Scratching among debris after an air raid on a Southeast town, PegKY, a little rough-haired terrier, scraped away bricks and rubble from an overturned perambulator in which 12 month-old Gwen Warren was im- Ал annorymous foreigner in prisoned. His devotion gave the Chungking bought $1,270,000 Chinese | baby enough air until a policeman war bonds recently, according to the was able to tunnel through and get Wartime Band Sales Promotion Com- the child out. The policeman also mittee.

rescued the child's mother,

U.S. Navy Compares Strength With Axis

WASHINGTON, May 2 (UP)-The Navy has submitted tables to Congress showing the comparative strengths of the United States Fleet and those of the Axis powers. The follow- ing table gives the comparative strength in types of warships.

JAN, 1, 1911 · · JAN, 1, 1942, JAN. 1, 1943 U.S.AXIA 1.8.. AXIS US AXIS

17 2218 28

Battleships Aircraft Carriers Cruisers

15

Destroyers

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101

271 171 292

Habmarines

219

325

105

Total

133 500

Remitted to London; £116,889,19.6d.

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