1941-05-16 — Page 15

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May 16, 1941.

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MOUNTAINOUS COUNTRY—This scone in northern Slovania, near the Yugoslavia-Ger- ' man frontier, shows the mountainous country where the Yugoslavs gavo stubborn resistance against Nazi' invaders.

Poorest Boy Has Chance Now To Enter Dartmouth Naval College

Scholarships to enable the pick of Britain's youth-from all classes of the community-to be trained at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, were recently an- nounced in Parliament. Mr A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, said that in addition to the present system of entry, which would continue unaltered, thirty scholarships a year would be offered to candidates from grant-aided secondary schools..

In addition, further scholarships Naval M.P.s will to a number of not more than ten Lord to The poorest parents, he said, on each occasion, will be given to secondary and would be relieved of all the boys not coming from grant-aided boy's training expenses, includ-secondary schools and one to the son subsistence allowance while at sea of a raling or ex-rating outside the open scholarships.

ing cost of uniform. clothing and travelling expenses and, if necessary, provision for the boy's maintenance during the holidays.

Ten scholarships will be granted it each entry, the first being in Sep-

lember,

What It Costa

The fees for Dartinouth are £50

a term.

Its estimated that the parent-hus- to pay a total of £040 up to the time the cadet becomes when he is expected to be self-sup- a midshipman,

porting.

urge the First grant midshipmen from private schools a

of at least £50 a year.

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Marx Brothers To Retire From Films

THE Marx'brothers have announced in Hollywood that they are retiring after they finish making their present film. The brothers are Harpo, Groucho, and Chico.

After he retires, Harpo, "dumb” member of the Marx Bro- thers troupe for 20 years, expects to do much talking in a play for British war relief fund. He recently gave evidence at the trial of Joseph Schenck, film executive, on a tax evasion charge.

Asked by counsel, "Can you talk?" Harpo - replied: "Oh,

yes. I

won £2,446 from Coca-Cola

Schenck. I held plenty aces.”

Chico Marx intends to form 1 band. Groucho wants to be a writer, į

Groucho Marx told Los Angeles reporters that he and his brothers thought the public had almost reách- ed the point of being tired of their films,

Versus

Pepsi-Cola

The two leading heavyweights

"Our stuff is state-and 90 are of the U.S. soft drink industry,

Groucho sak.

we."

Good Musicians

Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola, will fight it out in court soon when

All the Marx brothers are splendida three-year-old monopoly ac- musicians. Their mother trained tion brought by Pepsi comes to them from childhood for stage trial, reports "P.M.”

The suit is based on Pepsi's

careers.

The brothers first appeared in insistence that there is such a vaudeville acts with their mother. thing as a cola industry and

They had immediate success with that Coca seeks to monopolise their first film, "Coconuts," followed it, by "Horsefeathers," "Duck Soup,"

Pepsi-Cola, runner up to Coca-

"A Night at the Opera," "A Day at Cola, has applied to the court for the Races," and other hits.

jam injunction against its com- [petitor. It charges:

to

Academy Paintings Censored

That the Coca-Cola Co. buys out competitors.

That It threatens law suits against retallers who try to sell other cola drinks when a coke is called for,

That it threatens lawsults against anyone who uses Cola (with a capital C) to advertise any cola drink other than Coca-Cola.

That the Coca-Cola Co, tried and I falled to buy out Pepsi-Cola and then

for

Some of this year's Royal tried to drive Pepsi out of business by instituting lawsults in various Academy pictures have gone to states against retailers and charging the Censor.

them with substituting Pepsi "A number of artists who have Coca. been painting from war subjects have| That the Coca-Cola Co, falsely as- Mr Alexander said that the Ad-voluntarily submitted their paintings serted that the Pepsi trademark In- miralty thought they could manage

censorship," an offcial said, fringed on the Coca-Cola trademark. on their pay (5s, a day) if they were examination of the Royal Academy "Although there will be no official

Counter-Claim In the Coca-Cola answer and careful.

exhibition, any artist whose painting counter-claim it is sald that the Naval men say this is not enough-be-linble-to-prosecution."

commills a breach of regulations will Coca-Cola Co. and its predecessors began-business-in-1886-and-that-they to allow a boy to pay his share to-

Published reproductions of works have spent $60,000,000 in advertising cover shore leave expenses and the ed for censerable matter. wards mess and sports funds, and to hang in the Academy will be watch- to make the public conscious of the Coca-Cola Rare. And of course cast of holiday clothes,

Coca-Cola doesn't like the familiar sound of the uni Pepsi-Cola.

Tinme Coca-Cola points out, too, that the advertising colour scheme of Pepsi (red and white) is similar to Coca- Coln and charges that Pepsi has en- couraged its dealers to sell its pro- duct as a substitute for "the pause- that refreshes."

on

June 17,

1940,

the

Bomber Fund was commenced

the first week produced over

$1,000,000. will you help

to double that figure before

June 17, 1941?.

$100,000 is

all that is required.

Donations to Date: $1,900,114.37

Remitted to London: £116,889.19.6d

This year's Academy, which open- ed on May 3, is smaller than usual because one-third of the galleries has been bombed.

Canada's 40,000 Airmen

Canada, which had fewer than 5,000 airmen at the outset of the war, now has more than 40,000. Sir Her bert Ames asserted recently,

"Wrens" Serving In Malaya

A contingent of the Women's Royal

The veteran Member of the Cana- Naval Service-popularly known as dlan Parliament, in a prepared | the. "Wrens"............ has arrived in Singa- address for Boston University's pore.

spe-

Graduate School Alumni Association, The "Wrens" will be engaged on listed the three tasks assigned to the wireless duties and all have Royal Canadian Air Force as its con- clalised technical knowledge. tribution in the war.

The women looked very smart in "First," he said, "It is to be used their white duck uniform with its for home defence, second for over-distinguishing blue and gold wireless seas fighting, and finally for supply-crest on the collar, says the "Stralis ing instructors

incoming Times." The uniform is completed

by a white panama hat. cadets."

to

train

Skins

English Goose

Make Powder Puffs

POWDER PUFFS made from English goose-skins instead of Polish and French; lodine from seaweed, which is also being used to replace potash fortilisers that used to come from Germany and Alsace-Lorraine-there are two examples showing how the war is causing Britain to make greater use of her own are rediscovering their craft now that Old rural Industries, indeed, fron can no longer be spared. are coming into their own again j Clothes-peg makers are replacing now that they are freed from German pegs. foreign competition..

resources.

Throughout the winier, woodlinds With the shortage of wood the all over Britain which for years have Cornwall net makers have been busy hardly known the foot of man, have making nets for the county's broccoli rounded to the woodman's axe and crop this year-In place of wooden the best of the tractors as they draw containera.

logs away to sawmills.

Woods Alive Again

Baskets For Shells

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Charcoal kilns of a modern Wypo have revived charcoal burning. The product is used in munlilan making. For now we must turn to our own timber resources, so long neglected. The woods are alive again, and chest. Long neglected willow. and "oster nut trees are being converted into beds have once more known the bill-cleft chestnut paling. hook this winter, for,wicker bankots

· The ¡demand for walking" #ticks, are no longer coming in from Hol-

corning" fargely from, military, hör- land, Wicker is being used for papital has revived, in ing medical stores, for the Army and Ker shell-containerschoemake VERY (Hoopeshavers, whoß used, to, makce./

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