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By Ernie Bushmill

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GARDEN HINTS

Boy Helped To Save Trapped Men In Factory, Gets George Medal

A London boy of 16 has had an act of rare courage rewarded with the George Medal The boy, John Cain, a 'Hackney costermonger, joined four constables, who also receive George Medals, at a fire at a bombed paint factory. He knew that several people were trapped in a shelter directly under the fire, and after being re- pelled several times by smoke and heat, he managed to join the officers in the base- ment.

All five had to pass through burning wreckage, paint, water, and "live" electric wires dropping round them from the ceiling. Paint was Inches deep on the floor, and soon the rescuers were saturated.

Although part of the base-

LOVE IS CURE FOR

ment had collapsed. trapping HAPPIEST WOUNDED

several men, and the flames were- rapidly approaching, the officers and the boy freed six men and carried them on doors and planks to waiting ambulances. A few minutes after the last victim had been removed the whole interior of the building collapsed;

Dropped His Darts

DAYS AS PIONEER

When the Nazis marched into Vienna, Leopold Steiner, Labour Icader, was thrown into prison.

He was set free through the

I found "Buster" Cain, as he is efforts of the National Union of locally known, in the Ridley-street| market at Dalston, where he helps Boot and Shoe Operations and his mother to run her vegetable stall work was found for him in Lei- when he is not going round with aj cester barrow on his own account, writes n "Daily Telegraph" reporter.

He was very. difdent about his part in the incident" which won for him the coveted George Medal,

"I was in a club near the paint; shop having a game of darts at the time, see," he began. "When the bomb fell I ran out and saw the place

told a policeman on fire.

■

DOCTORS in a big-military. hospital in England find Cupid the best cure in some of their

cases.

The mental act of falling in love causes' reactions much the same 45 the artificial gland treatment which became famous Just before the war.

The patient may not know it, but when he falls for his nurse he not only feels better: ho 15 better. "Falling in love" one of the doc- tors explained to the "Daily Mirror," "causes certain chemical reactions In His sweetheart escaped from the body which are

gland particularly is stimulated

this liberates whip up the entire system. energy-creating hormones which

"In short, the whole process is a form of natural gland treatment."

Cases of chock react particularly

Father Flanagan of Films

Aids Novel Social Experiment

Father Flanagan, head of Boys Town, with Billy Hunter and Emmet Jones.

Boys Town, the famous Nebraska community for homeless boys, dramatized in the films, "Boys Town" and the current "Men of Boys Town," is about to tackle a social experiment that not only the film industry but the whole world will watch. with interest.

Vienna too and they were married cial. The thyrolitely bene- either Eily Hunter or Emmett Jones the control of the boys themselves

in Leicester.

When war cume Sleiner was put in an Internment camp-but only

for

few weeks,

"I am enjoying some of the happiest days of my life," he told a reporter during a week- end visit to Leicester.

that the body which are defaltely bene- there were probably some people in Of his Internment, he said: "That the shelter under the factory, and I was a sad day for me. but I did not. went in with several policemen to blame your Government.

com-

try to find them. There were 34 "I was treated like a human be men in the shelter, and we managed Ing-a heavenly experience to get them all out,

Some Dead

"Then I said to the police, There must have been some men werking In the factory. So we went back again. We found them in the far corner in a heap. Some of them were dead, but there were some-still allve, and there we also managed to gel out. That's all there was to it.”

"And what did you do after- words?" I asked.

pared with what. I went through at ile hands of the Nazis."

Rugby Star

Gives Life

For Sailor

stred

when the system. is thus tened up.

Father Flanagan, head of Boys to be released co-starring Spencer Town, went to New Jersey recently Tracy and Mickey Rooney, is a uni- to consider the question of taking que Institution. Honour codes under back to his school.

have proved of immense value in training for

citizenship. good Billy and Emmett are the two While Boys Town is in no serse fourteen year-old youngsters whose of the word a escapade in exchanging gunfire with

"reform sch

school," but police from a New Jersey woodland designed and operated solely

as a unique Juvenile nideaway attracted national attention, homeless, it was felt by those interest

The

in

US. Fivers' For Blitz Chil Iren

Pictures of children sleeping in London's shelters were pub ished in United States papers some months ago. Now. comes nows or the way in which the pletures stirred the Hearts of American parents whose own children sleep safely in their beds.

They are "adopting"" -hun- dreds of our children, in Blitzed areas.

Through the "Save the Chil-"| 'dren Fund" kind-hearted Ameri- cans are giving £5 each to be spent on a child who has suffor- ed hardship through war condl tions.

Halp. For 600

To begin with, 800 children will bo helped.

Later, it is thought, thousands will

benefit.

RAYON CONCERN

SOLD

United States, the British-con- Biggest rayon concern in the

trolled American Viscose Cor- poration, has been sold to an America finance group.

It was an American sub- sidiary of Courtaulds.

The deal was announced in New York, recently by Bir Edward Pen- rock, British Treasury official.

Miss Mary Butherland, Chief Woman Officer of the Labour Party, has been asked to spend the first £2.500 on children to be chosen from victims of Hit- ler's killers on Clydeside and Merseyside and, in the Midlands and London areas,

It transfers what is probably Bri- Local Labour Party women win tain's most valuable single holding help her choose the most needyn the United States as part of the to raise dollar exchange. programma The money will be spent doing not be settled until the resale later

The total

не ойн price to be paid will good turns for children who could by the purchasing syndicate.. not be given the same help througn Assistance Boards or local authon-quires £10,000,000 on account to

But the purchase contract re- tics," Miss Sutherland said.

the

cases.

Bigger Scheme

British Government.

In normal times Anancial quarters have regarded the Viscose Corpora

American families have in mind a tion as worth £25,000,000 in the much bigger scheme of help..

Special photographs bearing! names, ages and family history of

American market.

young children in London have been Gaol For Three

sent to the United States.

It may be that thousands of war- orphaned and war-improverished children will be entirely adoptea there by men and women who would be willing to pay for their up- bringing.

Jose Schenck Resigns

Eire Girls

Three young girls, members of the Eire Civil Service, were ench sentenced to two years' im prisonment at a special criminal court in Dublin recently.

They were Maureen Twomey, Maureen Cullinone, and Mary Spll- lane, all of Clontora Park, Drum- Joseph M. Schenck's resignation as criminating documents and being conda, Dublin, accused of having in- a director and board chairman has members of on unlawful organisa- been accepted by the directors of tion. Twentieth Century-Fox Films.

Schenck and Joseph H. Moskowitz, local government, Cullinane in the Twomey was In the department of

victed recently of income tax evasion was in the Post Omee. his castern representative, were con- defence department and Spillane

Blind

Five Hundred Men Dig For Victory

Five Hundred blind men are digging for victory in England

I talked in his house at Patcham with Mr Gerald Hewitt, Hugh Redwood in the "News-Chronicle." When he had told me eer. founder and chairman of the Garden Club for the Blind writes

well to falling in love. Even thee two boys had run away from ed in the case that in this one ins-to-day because one of their'naimber saw a vision ten years ago healing of wounds is accelerated their homes in Faterson NJ, Afier tance. Father Flanagan migh

make- arraignment they were ordered com- an exception to the general restric-

ic in Greenwich, mitted to the State Home for Boys tions of the home, and undertake to

work out a prited

out a plan of living that would citizens

of New head off potential criminal carent Jersey

and leading educators came His often

often expressed feelings are '%༠༠e'ard with the suggestion that

any fourteen year-old youngster is Father Flanagan be given a a chance melently malleable, under to try his unusually

idea! successful en

environmental conditions, to develop ethods of invenile correction in the an entirely new outlook on the world case. The Flanagan school, drama- rd his place in it. There is no in the motion picture, "Bays such thing as a bad boy," is Father Town," the new M-G-M picture goon mark, Town." and again in "Men of Boys Flanagan's most frequent quoted re-

News From

Filmdom

Jean Arthur will make more money this year than any other actress in Hollywood. "The Devil and Miss Jones," in which Jean plays a peor. salesgiri, is expected to net more than $1,000,000, This means at least $250,000 to Miss Arthur, in addition to her salary, of

around $100,000. Miss Arthur, in Commander Charles F. Hal-her director husband, Frank Ross, with conjunction "I went back and had a drink, laran, R.N., the former Irish and writer Norman Krasna, was he said..

Rugby international, has died percentage partner in the

production that the on active service in attempting two more pictures this season for released by RKO-Radio, Jenn makes boy was the youngest of a family of to rescue a sailor who had Columbia on her regular salary basis. 13 of whem only four boys survived. fallen into the sea,

Her Inancial gain for the entire year "He was a twin with u girl who In a heavy stn the Commander should amount to mere than $500,000. died," she said, "He was only 24lb was caught between the boat and a

Oberon House Bombed when he was born, and for six ship. His head was crushed, -Merle Oberon is showing a picture months we had to keep him wri

Commandor Hallaren played of her London house. It's been Rugby 15-times for Ireland between bombed twice, but some of it is sill The boy was 16 in January, twa 1021 and 1820, and figured pro-standing." she says. him his medal, but with his thick-set, sides.

"Buster'e" mother sald

in olive oil and eciton wear "pped;

Grim

Manhunt Wrote

Finis

To Native Killer's Career

what is now British Columbia took place. It was for an Italian It is just a century since one of the greatest manhunts in who killed Chief Factor Samuel Black in Fort Kamloops in 1840.

The young warrior had no personal grievance against the Mr Black had been responsible, through the agency of witch- Hudson's Bay official in charge of the fort, but he fancied that

craft, for the death of a relative. Incidentally, At Fort Vancouver, the Hud-

inonths after the deed which won minently in Royal Navy and Services most of husband Korda's money is in sturdy build and height of over 5fi; He retired from the Navy some the

the duration of the war, there for he could pass for being in its early years ago but rejoined on the out- Robert Montgomery owns a "piece"

20's.

French

break of wor..

Ex-Leaders

Are Harshly Treated Aftermath in France

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the story of its, inception and development, he took me to Rot- tingdean and introduced me to one of the club's most successful members, Mr Eyre, who gardens at "The Wilderness" and has made it blossom as the rose.

came to

epitomise the whole romance of boy purchase, when he

These two men between them of land in Barbados: to his school- the movement, for they are men Magazine" with an article on Port England, of a copy of the "Cornhill whom-blindness overtook in suc- Bunlight as "A Garden City for cess and might easily have over- Workers" to his sojourn, when his whelmed, the one a financier and sight had gone, in a house at Green- international man of affairs, the wich which had behind, it a derelict other an ecclesiastical architect: garden...

Darkness has brought no disaster

Friendly Policeman to either, for each has found, a new

It was the noise of children at play

life and delights in it; found in that gardens which made him in-

secrets.

son's Bay Company's western MOVIE SLAP SENDS headquarters, preparations were MARLENE ROLLING the binck, gardener who save who are now engaged in producing

Watch Mr Eyre forking over bis quire what the place was like; it was soil, his right hand wielding the fork & friendly policeman who took the long, slender fingers of his le.l feel was there, that the vision came to with extraordinary definess, and the blind man inside to explore it; it Ing the lifted earth and learning is him of a "garden club"-for blind.

people. Hear him talk of the joys and the sense of productive Litadness because of all that has,

pence he en-

And to-day, 1, think, he blesses his partnership with nature,

How It Began

sprung from it, particularly, because of those 500 members many of Then get Mr Hewitt to trace his them prize-winning flower growers

made to apprehend the mur

to foodstuffs and marketing them him, at the age ce five, his first plot paying quantities.

the service, was selected to hend DOWNSTAIRS

the party,

HOLLYWOOD, April 24-Film arrived at the deserted posi. "Found sprained her left ankle when George On August 3, Tod and three others actress Marlene Dietrich severely the fort, at least the store and dwell-Ratt slapped her harder than he fr ing house, locked up, but guarded by tended and knocked her down

of the stage success, "The Corn Is derer. John Tod, veteran of Green." He would like to play the Welsh miner role in the movie.

Claudette Colbert, according to the script of "Skylari, had to rhumba with Walter Abel. The latter toolt course in the thumba and turned up en the set enger to go into his dance It was then discovered that Claudette could not rhumba.. The sectie was cut.

Betty Grable

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the Indian Lolo alone" he wrote in flight of stairs in a movie scene at his journal..

Warner Brothers Studio,

Lolo was a great figure in the early history of the locality.

He was

Tearful and red-faced from two whites, und Mount St. Paul is named alded to her dressingroom, where a called Jean Baptiste St. Paul by the resounding blows, Miss Dietrich was after him.

physician treated her swollen and discoloured ankle,

Hanted Man Trapped

George Raft's bodyguard-buddy, Mack Gray, says it im't true that George has deserted Betty Grable for The more mature companionship of Marlene Dietrich, who by a strange continued. Then, on October, 1, Tod blow I've ever received," said the All during September' the search "Bellove me that is the hardest coincidence is working with George confided to his journal, the services actress. "But I like it. People go

in

VICHY, France, April 26-The physician attending former "French leaders now held at Bourassol Chateau, noar Riom, says he has been called to "intervene energetically" against, what he called "inhuman treatment" of the fallen statesmen.

The charge was made by Dr Roulet soners spend most of their time distancing Garson Kanin, who reports ed to trap the hunted man. They what they want that's what we'll in the Parla newspaper "Le Matin," in reading and writing. They are not for army service next month:

were tragically successful.

give them." telling of the living conditions of permitted to have radios. There is Paulette Goddard calls attention to

The story ends with this later former premlers Edouard Daladier no set time for getting up and going her new gold mesh rect-lace and

Raft was even more upset than ond Leon Blan, General Gamelin, to bed, but their doors are locked bracelet set with rubies to match and party returned, but without the "It was terrible," he exclaimed:

Late in the afternoon Mr Cameron

ron Miss Dietrich. former Allied, commander-in-chief, ench night and a guard sleeps in front "Dia Charlie give you them?" the is and Guy La Chambre, former air of each door..

naked, "No," says Paulette. Then mu

murderer; tho

That's the however is wretch, minister.

The former statesmen hardly ever who Pauletto merely smiles. amidst relations in

dead, being captured in the night struck-and the last one. Authorised circles here said that see one another. They are allowed Paulette's Jewelry collection is the amidst hist

him made me sick.""" up to now, the Paris newspapers had an hour's exercise in the court of the talic of the town. been picturing the prisoners as lying chateau each day, but must take It

have him hung, he made his excape

ne Hepburn has been long-of a chief named Gule were employ- to movies to see action and if that's

In ease, and apparently had been separately, ordered to change their tone for soma 10850ns

Heatless Quarters

Food Sent In

Their food is sent over, from the Hotel Des Voyageurs In Iom and is exactly the same as that served to

The first to call me in for consul-hotel clients except, that the pro Entior was. Cen, Gamelin, Dr Roulet prietor occasionally goes fishing wrote,Like the others, he hadn't provides

the lichtest heat. I treated him and Liko

fishing and elso in

Malaya's Captain Says Ship Holed

made a report, na h-result of which they furance Synths?

20

up.food

are required to long pes coal were placed at the tickets in exchange for what they eat. NEW YORK Apell 25. (AP)

2) Thèy uro, not restricted i

disposal of the prisoners arid: 100% number of vlalta pendhato the

British Consul General Godfred tony="racelve Hoggard introduced Capt." AFTE

commander of the Brita

Huards"

Michelroles uxplained the absenca | from: their families Eloisastihendidi

of fuel resulted from a snowstorm which is hea

that tied up trame.

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Camelp2 Malajat: here-for-repaira

hole in the,

with him to St. George Society dinner by sdaughter saying the naval officer told him the

done by moths.

the battleship's huller

had come from the (but he did

note:

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In crossing the river by upsetting the cando and noorly drowning the two men who were embarked with him. On reaching the opposite side he was again driven wounded into the river.

first woman

over

It almost

Cockatoo Mourns Its Mistress

A 70-year-old actress named Fan-

and being finally caught in un eddy nie Law was stricken recently with

on the side which Mr Cameron and

his men stood; by them he was kept

a heart attack in a New York tene-

In the water until he sank to Higa no ment. When an ambulanco, surgeon more.

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Mrs Fathers

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