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NANCY

BOY...

LET'S

GO OVER

THIS SPRING

FEVER

TO D'

HAS

PARK

GOT

ME!

AND REST!

LOOK -- OUR FAVORITE BENCH

IS TAKEN!

Wednesday,

HEY--AIN'T THERE A LAW AGAINST TRAMPS SLEEPIN ON PARK

BENCHES ?

These are rare Emperor penguins, only members of the species in the United States. They were brought to New York by the Byrd expedition, which recently return. ed from the Antarctie. The penguins are so big that at a distance they are often mistaken for human beings.

THEY FOUND HIM TOO LATE

They found him. his arms flung protectively round two children. The children were not his own, for Thomas Arthur Bénn married only a few months ago. He always loved children, and hoped that soon he would have at least one of his own.

He wns a Liverpool` police

constable, and when a boy

shouted to him, "There's a house Coloured Mice

on fire!" he hurried to the place.

Five people were trapped Inside..

He sent for the fire brigade then pushed his way into the smoko-filled - Joll

From Britain

Fancy mice in a wonderful

found eighteen-year-old variety of colours are being Maria Campbell already overcome by smoke, so he picked her up, bred in England for export carried her to the window and overseas. Black, white, choen- dropped her into the arms of the late, blue, or in broken colours, The staircase was already blazing, they can be trained-to-do-all But Benn took a chance and ran up sorts of interesting things.

The father James Campbell, had

people below.

also collapsed. The constable, cough- Strange as it may seem, ladies ing and choking dropped him also toj safety.

Too Late!

He searched blindly for the others) and found them at last-the mother

all over the world have especi- ally taken to this hobby. They with particular cxperiment

and two children-Patrick, aged shades and combinations of fifteen, and Annie, aged ninc. colours that take their fancy,

Then great gust of aerk smoke billowed up the stairs and into the and even in wartime they can

stling room

Faintly

tly down the street sounded the clang of a fireball.

obtain their busic breeding stocks, together with valuable

Constable Benn put his arms advice on colour heredity, from how the firemen found them Ave the English livestock organisa-

round the children

minutes later.

and that is]

Just four minutes too late,

tions.

Canadian Pacific Lion Head Goldfinches which were

Man's New Post

Breeding experiments have also been carried out with birds, and the

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HUN 72

OH SURE!

June 18, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

Addis Ababa

HEY, YOU

GET OFF THAT BENCH!

Simmering

Down To A Moody Calm

The King Talks To Dockers

"YOU are still going strong. That's what we want, men like you lo train young men at the

present time," said the Queen./ IS SICKNESS CAUSING DELAY?

that's up to you!

She was speaking to Alex- ander Williams, who has been employed by, a Glasgow firm for

49 years,...

The King and Queen were on tour of Clydeside, talking with merchant' skippers, doc. kers' lenders, men and women in the docks and factories!

"We're Trying

Talking with Mr. Patrick Ward, president of the Scottish Transport Workers (the Dockers' Union), and Mr J. C. Maclean, the secretary, the King asked:

"Are you clearing the ships and turning them round quickly??

Yes, sir, all our efforts are direct- to unloading as quickly as posși- ble," said Mr Maclean,

ed to

Captains of the Merchant Fleet, who brought their stips to port despite U-boats and bombers were congratulated, by the King and Queen.

"A very great achievement," was the King's comment on the exploit

ADDIS ABABA is simmering down to a moody calm. The white women and children are now perfectly safe, under British military control, and mary of them sit about the lounges of this hotel-furtively listening to Rome radio-or besiege the British security officers with pleas, protests or complaints, thus wrote a "Daily Ex-Essex, who brought to port a torpe- press" reporter soon after the recapture.

They are talkative and self-assured as they rub shoulders. with British soldiers in the streets and cafes. General Cun- ningham, in printed postera plastered round the town, has pro- mised safety to those who behave well. So more and more Italians are swarming into the capital,

I saw Abyssiniaus kneci with tear-stained faces to kiss the Ethiopian flag at a ceremony here.

Axis "art"

In their sucred national buildings, in the centre of the town, I found that Fascists had decorated the walls with flamboyant "New Axis" art- bounding women warriors and young athletes hurling nirwards.

corner-facts to the wall,

"

From Cultural Institutions'!

Council Bars B.B. C. Jokes

of Captain Nice, of Upminster,

do, fired by a U-boat, which Innded onie deck of his ship.

Windsors Rebuff Florida Society

The Duke and Duchess of Wind- The Public Morality Council sor cuised a sensation in Florida. of Britain is collecting evidence solely by curtly refusing to attend La series of banquets and cocktail with which it can challenge the parties arranged in their honour.

country is at war, you know," said the Duke as, gazing af

programine

of the parties, he struck his pencil through all but iwo of them.

These two stories illustrate the B.B.C. on its "standards of "gratitude" of Germans towards the humour.” RAF. men who man speed boats to rescue airmen shot down at sea:-

"Complaint has been made to the Council concerning broadcasts of 1Three Nazl airmen were re-alleged humour," states the annual cently saved after an ordeal in a report of the Council. "Objection was taken not on grounds of mere rough sea off the East Const,

of vulgarity or taste but by reason of an apparent acceptance of a lower standard."

annual report adds that the Council's, anti-nudity campaign, was

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Civil Aviation In Japan

Civil aviation In Japan is to be On the arrival of the Duke and developed by a new organisation, the Duchess at Miami from the Bahamas, Japanese Aviation Associaton (Dol the leaders of Florida's opulent Nippon Hiko Kyokal) which has ob- society issued a long list of festiviiles sorbed a number of independent or- which they said the couple would at- ganisations.

new Association will establish The end during their four-day stay.

The list indicated that the Duke air training schools at universities

In the throne room of the King

As they stepped ashore one of Kings blue shields of three-ply them asked if he were in England. wood had been hang. Each com-

Told that he was, he spat several memorated a Fascist victory in the times on the quayside and then into conquest of Ethiopia. Some one the officer's face. And stacked them neatly in # 2-A rescued German airman had brought to a successful conclusion, a whirl of non-stop eating, drinking schools are to be opened at the rate The last printed copies of "Corriere been in a rubber boat for many and it had been amply demonstrated and whoopee among millionaires and of two a year. hours. It was bitterly cold, and a that the publie desired that its social climbers.

Boys' organisations are to be del Impero," printed at the end of

should But the Duko Iimited their en-established in every prefecture for March, speak of more English towns member of the RAF rescue party entertainment on the singe

be "free from the unwholesomeness gagements to ono luncheon and the encouragement of guiding. being "Coventrated" by the Nazi poured him out a tot of rum. Air

one cocktail party on the strict Parachute imining is to be given understanding that these will be to students of middle schools and The editorial "pep" tall Enys:

quiet and unostentations. "Consider as light the burdens you are enduring, and the bigger once you are going to endure to-morrow."

Well-lighted, Addis Ababa itself! has been remodelled, expanded and largely rebuilt. But it still straggles crazily

the.. through

famous eucalyptus groves. First-rate ronds wind between mud huts and lofty stone bulldings.

Force.

Aosta's House

3

The Duke of Aosta lived in

#

• sort of monster pagoda that looks like national art gallery. A fine bronze bead of Dante is about the only Alian thing left. Aosta cleaned out everything down to his notepaper. Mussolini's

Crent new railway terminal stands forlornly on the edge

of

cow paddock. Twenty locomo- tives were shoved into the yards outside by the fleeing Italions.

Soldiers trying them out found most of

of them capable of getting up enough steam to chug down the line to Awash.

Absurd Incidents keep happen- ing in the general confusion.

An Italian sentry came flying Into Fascist headquarters at one captured town with news that the British were coming up the road. He found himself staring into the face of a British colonel who had been in residence there for some days.

Bewildered

Even in the triumphal British march into the Ethiopian capital an Italian despatch rider from distant post got suddenly entangled in the column. He kept weaving in and out of the British lorries, too bewildered to stop.

Recrossing a hundred miles of this. last stage of the advance I saw

# telling could have been made. ambush

was made.

thousand

and pinces where

None

As in every advance I have seen in this war, it was the engineers who took the final honours.

The South Africans flung their girders across thirty-foot chasm3 in remarkably short time.

Near Diredawa they perched on 1,000-foot drops to back new roads out of elist faces.

Along

ong the newly made roads now flow an endless stream of lorries that make this the best transported army in the Middle East.

War's Latest-

Undies Cut"

First stockinge, now undies, are war's victims. Production of lingerie is to be severely cut under Britain's concentration of Industry plan. So women's un-. dies will have to last longer- and 'darn it!

"When the plan comes into full operation," a leading hosiery manu- facturer said, "production will be restricted to two-thirds of the total manufactured In the six months which ended on November 30 Inst

The advance of machinery and the initiative of hosiery manufac- turers has brought beautiful lingerie within the reach of even small Durses.

Government's plan deals much more stringently with the pro duction "of outer wear and fancy hostery, which is to be cut by do per

--P. O. BOX 673.

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Taking the rum, the German show-associated with 'strip tease' and the ed his thanks by flinging it into his like, now happily a thing of the rescuer's face.

past."

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