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GUY KIBBEE. JANE DARWELL TED NORTH. ROSCOE ATES

JOHN CARRADINE

BEN CARTER

Directed by HENRY KING

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NAZIS GO TO CHURCH-Bombs know no croad when they fall from skies to bring destruction and death. This is what happanad to St. George's Roman Catholic church, Southwark, London, after recent Nazi raid.

Gravitation Principle Declared To Be False

Discoveries in the fields of physics and astrophysics which will shake the scientific world to its foundations are claimed by Fernand Rousel, French-born engineer who has been studying the movements and composition of the celestial bodies for the past seven years.

An engineer with the French Navy during the first Great War, Rousel went to Vancouver in 1921. His home in a 30-foot cabin cruiser Utopia.

His major discovery, Rousel

claims, is the "unifying prin- Cheetah On

ciple of physical phenomena," law governing the motion of all matter in the universe.

"Einstein has been looking for t for 25 years, but has falled," says Housci, who is anxious to make his claims a matter of public record, lest the credit for his "discoveries" go to others.

No Gravitation

Pony Runs

Into Pram

Imagine a cheetah leaping A book entitled "The Physical from an English hedge, unseat- Principle of the Universe," embodying a boy rider from a pony, and ing his researches is at the charging 500 yards along the University of Washington awaiting road on the pony's back:

publication, he says.

NOW

claimed

Mr Archie White, a racehorse trainer, described the scene.

Another discovery

That is what is said to have that gravitation does not exisi, happened at Cox Green, Maiden- The truth of the matter, Rousel head recently. "explains," is that "pressure of magnetle fields implunging on one another causes an increase in the solar energy of the

system, which in turn raises the thermal content of the earth's

's atmosphere." As prout of the accuracy of his conclusions, Rousel says that an

October 24, 1940, he forecast that. the motion of the planets would be found to be faster in their orbits; that on November 12, Dr Edwin Carpenter, of Steward Observatory, Arizona, actually found that the planet Mer- cury was 1,000 miles ahead of ita scheduled time on its passage across "the sun's disk

acr Another accurate prediction, he claims, was one sent on November 6 to Prime Minister Churchill warn-

Ing him of a severe winter ahead

"Three of us-a woman, another man, and myself-were riding On horseback with young Alistair Allen, who was on a pony," he said.

"Suddenly a cheetah leaped from a hedge and landed on the pony's back..

Terrified Pony

"The boy was thrown, and the terrified pony galloped down the road with the cheetal clinging to It. After they had gone about 500 yards they charged into a pram. A baby was thrown ten feet Into the and the pram was smashed to nir

child was taken into the Duchess of Manchester's house."

Continuing the chose, the cheetali and the pony charged into Low

a forecast borne out by the storms Brook Farm, where the big-cat rider

Experienced in England early this

year.

was frightened off his mount by Mr Cyril Smith,

"After leaping off the pony's back,"

Evacuate At Once, said Mr Smith, "the cheetah stood

Says De Valera

looking foxedly at a colt.

"I expected it to spring at the colt, but the owner arrived

Mr De Valero, in a broadcast re-took the cheetah awon his car and

cently, said: "We must completo j "It is a miracle my child escaped without delay schemes for the alive," anid Mr Weller, mother of the evacuation of women and children!Injured baby. The handles of the from our cities and large centres of pram were left in my hunds.” population."

To-day in the warring world, the LONDON POLICE · freedom of nations is everywhere } imperilled, he said.

WEAR MASKS

He warned Hsteners of Increasing Scotland Yard has ordered all off- donger and of n neutrality that cers to wear their masks for at least would cost much hardship and pri- 15 minutes a day. This is to further vation.

the new drive for making people "If we have to take up arms we carry their gasmasks with them shall know we are fighting for all wherever they go. The police have, that is dear to us and we shall know of course, carried their gasmasks our causé is just," he said.

compulsorily for some time past.

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Factories Will Win This War

"NO one cise can win the war but the people in the work- shops," said Sir George Gibson, chairman of the T.U.C. in Loh- don recently.

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The Trade Union Movement braced nearly 6,000,000 people, on whose exertions depended the win- 111211 of the war.

They would win it because it was

a war of the workshops.

He wished that some people who taised and wrote about the workera netting a lot of money would re- member that.

Some people in Britain got a lot of money who, hnd never taken off their gloves except to wash or eat.

Outstaying Slaves

No man in the workshops got a lot of money unless he worked over- time producing the goods which we nerded to win this war.

We shall win this war," Gibson

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Buld, "because it is a workers' war and we shall outstay the staves in Germany."

If at the end of this war we owed £12,000 millions, we should owe it to ourselves, and we inust, therefore, be worth £12,000 millions.

Plan Wanted

Within the confines of the British Commonwealth were all the гам materials necessary to rebuild pro- sperity.

The war would leave us with one advantage--the new technical pro- esses which would make the pro- duction of wealth much almpter and easier than I was before war begOK. We should have to face up to the job of building Briain that was worth while. He did not believe money stood in the way.

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STAFF THE COUNTRY COUSIN”

TWENTY employees.of an oli firm heard in London recently that "the Governor" had left them his business,

The bequest was made by Mr Charles Harold Relch, of Hove, and formerly of Fenchurch-street, E.C.

About 43 years ago he founded the Ocean Oil Company, Limited, to sell liquid fuel to shipping companies.

Many of the employees who have Inherited the business joined him when he started, and were still work ing for him when he died last Nov- ember at the age of 68.

Big Estate

Out of his estate of £158,000 he rave £3,000 outright to his wife, and a life interest in the residue.

He directed that after her death this residue of £155,000 shall be divided among the em~ ployces as the directors think fit, but that the directors themselves shall be excluded,

Mr Ernest E. Mees, for many years of the company, general manager who had worked for Mr Relch for 30 years, sald that he and the other 10 membera of the staff were very surprised when they heard that the business was to become theirs.

LATE NEWS

27 Planes Raid Chungking

CHUNGKING, June 15 (Reuter). The offices of Colonel.” William Mayer, Military Attache to tho American Embassy, were bombed and several bombs landed about 75 yards from the American gunbont Tutulla, off the American Embassy, a rald on the city carly this

The gunboat was not damaged.

Dy 27 bombers Bombs were rained on the Yangtse River front, many falling in the river and on the south bank close to the American Embassy.

The International Club received a direct hit and half the building was demolished.

One bomb hit a block of residences for the poor built recently with American Red Cross funds at a cost of $200,000,

Several foreign residences on the south, bank of the Yangtse were bombed. Large fires were started on the main road along the river front,

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STOCK MARKET REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange Omeial] Summary issued on: Saturday:--

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Hotels $2.00

Chinese Estates $08

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German Officer'

In West End.

United Press reports this as the latest story being fold in London:

the An actor, bewildered by variety of foreign uniforms now to be seen in London, made a bet with a friend that he could appear In the West End dressed as a German off- cer without being questioned or arrested.

A theatrical costumer ntfed him out smartly, including an Iron Cross. The actor then strode down Bond Street and Piccadilly, nervous but triumphant.

"I would have stayed out longer,” he told his friends, but all the saluting tired me."

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