NANCY
AWFUL MAKES
THINK I'LL MAKE SLUGGO DO ALL THE HOUSE
CLEANING
{TODAY!
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
I'M SORRY I PROMISED TO GO OVER AN HELP NANCY WITH HER HOUSE CLEANIN’---
I'M TOO TIRED ?,
May 12, 1941
By Ernie Bushmiller
DISTEL GIVE ME A
GOOD EXCUSE!
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SCIENCE "MAKES" LEMONS
When a bottle which had been sealed for two years was recently opened at Bristol Uni- versity Research Station it was known that the answer, had been found to the shortage of oranges and lemons.
And these scientific citrous fruit juices contain very much more health-giving vitamin C than the natural fruits.
This was explained by Mr V. L. S. Charley, who is chiefly responsible for the new syrup,
"Doctors wrole and asked if we could produce a natural juice which could be bottled and giver na con centration doses of vitamin C, sald Mr Charley.
"Actually we were already think- ing along the same lines, and had bottled some juice two years ago and again 12 months later.
Little Sugar
"We have just opened these bot- tica.
"We found that by our process the Juice 12 months old contains 100 per cent. more vilamin C than fresh oranzes or lemons, and that after two years the vitamin C content more than 50 per cent. the content of fresh citrous fruits.
CREW DID IT-Smoke risos from the burning German ship Eisenach, set on fire by its crow in the harbour of Puntarenas to prevent the Government of Costa Rica from seizing it. The Italian liner Folla was similarly fired. Polico arrested 120 mon from both ships and chai ed them with arton.
Majority Of Americans Believe Naval And Air Aid Will Be Sent
A majority of the American people believe the chances that the U.S. eventually will send a naval and air force to Europe are 50-50 or better, the latest Fortune sur- "Besides being a valuable product vey of public opinion revealed.
"This juice has the added advan tage of requiring little sugar.
for the preservation of health in wartime the julee is a most palatable drink."
Lost Arm- And Chance Of Husband
About 60 per cent. of the American people hold this view the survey showed. Using the same sampling methods that enabled Fortune magazine to forecast the popular majorities of President Roosevelt in 1936 and 1940, the magazine also found that:
Only about one-third of the people are in favour of sending any armed forces to Europe.
More than 60 per cent favour sending a half or more of our arms to aid Britain.
Americans thoroughly believe that Hitler wants to dominate the U.S.
In its April issue, Fortune stated the west-north-central states
Lights Traced
BILLETED
ON HIS WIFE Army life is just home from
home for Lance Cpl Charles
a fow
GESTAPO
· CAN'T STOP THIS
In spite of the Gestapo, a clandestine newspaper appears regularly in Belgium and in widely circulated.
It is "La Libre Belgique" (Free Belgium), which was published throughout the Ger- man occupation in the last war.
Some distributors have been ar rested, but there are dozens willing to replace each arrested man.
Even it. Himmler's alouths should find the secret printing plant, there are several emergency plonta ready to carry on.
A Flemish paper, “Vrij Belgie," is also being secretly circulated.
Sabotage
Continued sabotage is forcing the Nazi authorities to increase the num- ber of their secret polles and to take further drastic measures.
Antwerp's curfew
has been ad- vorced to 9.30 p.m.
The German authorities have an- nounced that they will reintern all released prisoners of war in Antwerp and nearby towns if there is further sabotage.
"
Country Pillaged Travellers reaching Spain from occupied Belglunt say the economie situation in that country is calus
trophic.
The country, pillaged and robbed, presents picture comparable with
Spain at the height of the Civil War.
The Soviets Found Three
Million Jobs
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AIR WORK GIRLS
MOB PILOTS
Fifteen hundred men and women making giant bombers sat spellbound in their factory canteen recently as pilots told them their adventures with the machines the workers had bullt.
Afterwards some of the womeh ran and kissed one of the
pilots--a 191/2-year-old D.F.C. hero who had made 32 raids on
Germany, and Italy.
Men workers produced their
driving licences for the pilots to autograph, on the part mark. ed "endorsements." Girls had their works identity cards signed..
"Bale Out",
"While making a night raid and flying at 6,500 feet wo ran Into a bad storm. The aircraft was badly feed up. We were y- ing blind.
Decision By September
The entire peak of the strength of this mighty effort probably would not be touched before the middle of next year.
Bronzed and fit afler, his 12,000- One 26-year-old pilot was too shy mile tour of the United States, ifty- to tell his story of a seven-mile, two public speechies and scures of Curtis, of the Royal Engineers.
When he returned to England the national economy of the was read by
Workers and employees in swim in the sea for 4 hours. It visits to America's vital war factories, By Compass
A squadron-leader. Sir Waller Citrine, arriving home, said that the United States effort to from France last summer He U.S.S.R. now total 30,400,000, Here it is:- Special observer sections to detect was sent to a University town. compared with 27,000,000. In
help Britain should reach decisive He remained there until
proportions by September next. premises from which light shows during the black-out have been weeks uge, when he learnt he was to 1937. formed by a number of provincial be transferred to Alton, Hampshire
his home town.
tho police forces in England,
Members, who are posted in huts! And when he reached Alton he points about the towns, found the authorities had billeted
on his wife, What's more, his home is in the
ten doors away. "It's just grand while
it lasts," Curtis said. "But Lance-Corporat you never know in the Army when the next shift comes."
A young woman barrister was praised by the Appeal Court judges in London recent- ly for her eloquent appeal, on thirds of their inhabitants opposing are
are most opposed to war, with two-at vananed with powerful night him behalf of another young woman the use of ships and planes, and glasses, maps and compasses. who-had-her-loft-arm-torn-off three-quarters against using an army.. When a light is seen a compass anime street as the messa_matter in a machine in a Liverpool rope
Hitler Question Tested bearing is taken and police heud- works,
Miss Margaret Hughes, the injured woman, asked the Court to increase the £1,500 damages awarded to her by Mr Justice
Stable against her employers, Garnock Bibby and Company,
Ltd.
.
Mr & G. Hemmerde, K.C., for Misa Hughes, submitted that it was quite inadequate,
Terrible Handicap
Miss Eileen Agnes MacDonnid, who was with Mr Hemmerde, also ad- dressed the court.
"By the loss of her arm the whole world comes tumbling down for this girl," she said. "Every moment of hier working life she must feel the terrible, handicap.
"Where there are people with two arms available who would employ girl with only one?
Appeal Fails
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More than two out of every three quarters are notified by telephone of Americans belleve that
Hitler the location of the premises wants to dominate the U. S., the cerned. survey showed, and this proportion
Severul offenders have already held true regardless of the form in
been convicted as
# result of the which the question was submitted, group an impartial question, a second
To test it, the magazine asked one activities of the observers. group a question loaded with inter- ventionist blas, and third group n question phrased from the isolationist viewpoint. In each instance. the` re- sult was the same.
Nearly three-quarters of those in- terviewed thought the effect on the future well being of the U.S. would be "very serlous" in the event of a Hitler victory.
Armament Demands
Woman Detective Marries
Full Freedom For U.S. Press
Replying to Congressional fears that the United States Ad- Hunted L. R. A. Men ministration contemplates intro- Miss Katharine Senderson, a young duction of censorship, Mr Lowell woman delective, whom members of the Special Branch at Scotland Yard Mellett, head of the Government a Senate described as brillant, was married Reports, Office, told at the Scottish National Church, Committee that he does not be- Covent Garden, recently to PClieve in censorship. Alexander Mackay, of Strathpeffer.
"Nelther," he added, "does the Miss Sanderson was attached to the President. We contemplate only a Special Branch when the IRA. out- milltary censorship in time of war, rages began. She trailed two of the when we shall also censor mails and leaders and was one of the women cables going abroad.. detectives referred to as "Miss A" "But there will be no restriction Seventeen international experts declared in a third article, that the and "Miss B during the trial at the or. newspapers and radios or on the U.S. must begin now, to take a big
Old Bailey.
expression of opinion." When the war began she carried share of the responsibility for post- war reconstruction. They advocated out many important secret inquiries]
In another articic, Fortune stated that cor steel capacity will almost certainly have to be expanded sill further meet the demands of the armament programme unless con- sumption in civilian industrien drastically curtailed,
"And what are her chances of marriage? Very slender, I sub- hlt. I no use blinking the 'fact that the loss of an arm is
terrible disfigurement for a girl.". Lord Justice Scott
sold Miss MacDonald had made an eloquent appeal, but it was not the practice dictate the termination of the present
of the court to interfere with the
decision of a judge, sitting without
a jury, except where the
damages
were so large or so small as to make
It plain that justice had not been dono.
that Amerien and Britain form a de- for the Yard. She resigned her post Queensland Schools
mocratic bloc with enough power to tion, In view of her marriage,
war and the character of the next) pence,
DISASTER SQUAD
RESTRICT TRAVEL TO GIBRALTAR Authorities at Gibraltar have A motor-cycle "disaster squad" to limited to a specided route all traffic Lords Justices Mackinnon
act in emergencies where speed is at over Uie isthmus that links Gibraltar a premium has been formed by 15 with the Spanish mainland. Fines Goddard concurred, and the appeal young men at Marion, Ohio. Each of were ordered for any personer
the members has completed a first ald proaching forbidden
defence works are, in progress.
was dismissed.
FAMINE IN
and
ALARM CLOCKS
The "very serious shortage"
of alarm clocks was
discussed
at question-time in the House
of Commons recently,
courso,
areas
AIR FORCE PADRE
AWARDED G.M.
A Royal Air Force chaplain, who, defled a hall of machine
awarded the George Medal.
"Repairs are increasingly difficult," said Copt Sir Ian FrOICE, MAP, and gun bullets to rescue the crew of a crashed plane, has been
alarm clocka workers,
AFO
A necessity to
1
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o! Trade make an exception in this case and permit increased supplies he added.
Mr Lyttelton fagrotted that for exchange reasons it had been neces- sary to limit the imports of alarm "clocks.
A good many clocks which have already bean Hearsed should arrive within the next few months, and the position will be reviewed before
He is the Rov. Stanley Wil-He then took over supervision of liam Harrison, who is 30 years the rescue work and fed the are
picket, old.
1
* One night lust November, an air-¦ ¦ He pulled out a second member craft crashed and burst into flames of the crew and helped remove a
third. three miles from an aerodrome,
Though it was not his job to do || 1 Bays the official account of his 80, Mr Harrison humped on an ame bulance, and went to the scene.
Flames were leaping Akywards and machine-gun bulletsjersjodire, res the padre plunged into the wreckage
and dragged
bravery: "He displayed the ut rust courage and an entire dine regard for his own safely bloo JHtNwife | lives in Clare, Suffolk, Ho, served with Striking ord
Educate Evacuees
Educational assistance for evacuee children from Great Britain, Hong- kong and Singapore, is to be under-
schools by secondary
In taken Queensland, Australia,
The Brisbane Grammar School in
Mrs Roosevelt Says and chairman of the State Comwent on until we thought we saw Let Hats Be Wild
in
These figures were given to Communist eighteenth
"The port engine packed up. The Party Conference by M. Voz rear gunner then reported that the nesenaky, vice-chairman of the port engine was on fire. This didn't Council of People's Commissars seem to worry us much (there were
six, airmen in the plane)
and we mission.
some searchlights, which meant the The 1941 plan provided for an coast. increase of the number of workora "At this moment the other engine and employees up to 31,600,000. conked out. The captain then order-
Elementary and secondary schooled the crew to bale out. pupils would reach. 30,200,000 "My parachute opened all right, 1941-2, an increase of 3.4 per cent. and I realised I was dropping into compared with 1940-1. Students in; institutions at higher learning would
Swam Till Dawn be 657,000, a growth of 13 per cent.
"When I plunged into the sea, 1 War of Motors
must have gone down to a pretty **If we want no accidents'
to good depth, I came up with a terrific catch our people unawares, we must rush. keep our powder dry and spare, no places, tanks, armaments, means for the production of aero- warships and munitions," said M. Voznesensky This war, he said, was a wor of motors.
Soviet means of production in 1940, compared with those of 1935,
had increased by 13.8 per cent., and by $2 per cent, compared with 1037.
Young Nazi Called Blockheads
Eight years of Nazi rule have succeeded in making young Ger- mans more stupid.
"Striking examples," says the offering five evacuee scholarships, "Hamburger Tageblatt," "gcem exempting ment of fees, and all Church of Eng- this generation is less intelli- the winners from pay to confirm the assertion. that lond secondary schools are offering reduced teen to all overseas British gent children now living In Queensland.
Other schools in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne are reported to be preparing similar scholarships or re- duction of fees for 1941.
"boy" coming out
"Professional schools complain that they cannot do their proper work because they have first to tench their pupils elementary subjects."
The Tageblatt,"
that admitting the majority of
of the schools now cannot even read er write properly, tries to excuse
"Though elementary education ro- Broadcasting recently on behalf of sulta admittedly invite criticisms, it the Royal National Lifeboat Institu-
3,300 SAVED
AT SEA
нау "our
youth is healthier
on, the chairman, Sir Godfrey War-ologically and more politically
ing, said that in 18 months of war lifebontmen had saved more than
3,300 lives. They had saved a life every four hours since the war bo-
gan.
CRUSADER CHAPEL
GRANDISCOVERED
Workmen digging foundations for new buildings near Parliament House have turned up the remains of a Crusader chapel, with fresco pictures in ag French-styler. The discovery Ware made on Borut's level of the
minded."
Zoo Chimp Saved By
M. And B. 693
M. and B.803, the new drug which has proved so successful in curing. pneumonia" and other illnesses, has saved the life of George, a. London Zoo chimpanzee.
George Was dying of proum The Zoo's doétöre had given a
Then one of them thought, new.drugives me
ippe
the sea.
Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt recently took issue with a report from Miss Frances Perkins' Department of Labour recommending less frivolity in women's hats for the sake of in- dustrial stabilisation.
"It might be much less trouble;" declared the President's wifé at a press conference, "but awfully dull." "I'm all for freedom," she added. Hots, Mrs Roosevelt went on to say, cannot be prevented from going wild as long as women's tastes are
"I thought I was going out to sea, so Jettisoned the parachute and capricious... boots and began to swim...
"I kept on swimming until dawn. When at last it grow light I saw I was about three- quarters of a mile from the
Const.
Chinese Classic Play Revived
The China Institute, in Britain,
"I took off my trousers and made! a kind of last effort. Some soldiers exists to promote Anglo-Chinese cul- rushed out and helped me in. Itural relations. With the object of heard one of them say, 'Is he a getting its work more widely known, Jerry
it recently staged a performance of two acts of "Lady Precious. Stream,” under the direction of S. T. Halung, the, author.
U.S. GIRLS DANCE
FOR KING FAROUK
In the name port was Joyce Red- man, who played it during much of Four American giris in a song and the long West End run. Her gar- dance team who have been enter-dener husband was William Hutchl- taining officers of the British Mediter-son. Ho playest this part in the Now. ranean Fleet, in Alexandria night York production in 1937, returning clubs recently gave command per- to the stage after an interlude as
M.P. for Romford. formance before King, Farouk.-
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