1941-06-23 — Page 24

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ter of

MARVELS OF NEW

June 23, 1941.

Canadian

Girls And QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

SPITFIRE Norwegians

Thomas Reter Durdan, 37, a Over a mist-bound nerodrome . Canadian girls were recently private in the Royal Army Service in England recently a famous urged by Major Ole Reistad, Corps, who was found guilty last test pilot did a daring "victory commander of the Royal Ner- Thursday on a charge of manslaugh-ll" in a newly built Spitfire, wegian Air Force training · In

67-year-old woman named Ilo Sze, was sentenced to six montis skimming upside down scarcely | Canada, to think the mutter hard labour by the Chief Justice, Sir 20ft from the ground. The en over well before they contem- Atholl MacGregor, at the Criminal Sessions this morning.

gine's note rose to a mighty plate marriage with a Norwe Accused claimed that he had been | crescendo; next moment the glan,” suffering from dizzy spells at times, machine was out of sight and due to an accident some time ago, hearing. and he was remanded until to-day for a medical report to be produced. Mr E. H, Willons. Crown Counsel, who prosecuted, said that he had ob- tained the following Information from Captain Coombes, of the Royal Army Medical Corps. On March 8, Accused was

Captain by Coombes and made a complaint that he had fallen down stairs and hud lost consciousness. Ile was detain ed in hospital for three days and wos X-rayed to see if there were signs of a fracture, but there was none. and he was discharged.

scen

Medical Evidence

In addition to that complaint, Ac- cused had from Jantsary, 1040, been suffering from a duodenal ulcer, and had been in hospital three times for that complaint. He was last in hos- pital on April 20 and remained there 17 days,

ed and been or. May 12. Accus-

diel. on a strict Addressing Accused, his Lordship Bald

Yout

found guilty evidence slaughter of this woman Bo Sze and the evidence shows not only that you killed the woman in Salkung Road, but that your driving during the มา greater part of that day was nothing so much like the driving of a Jug- gernaut car. It is lucky t that

you did not cause a greater amount and and degree of damage than In fact you caused.

on yion of man-

Moderate Drinking

The 28-year-old pilot was celebrating no ordinary victory, but the triumph of the British aircraft industry, its workers and organisers, not omitting those who pay for the 'planes.

It was the final scene in a lour of the world's biggest aircraft factory. now turning out improved Spitfires at a rate that would have been thought impossible a few years ago, A squadron of brand-new Spitfires was drawn on the factory

Airfield, up on awaiting the arrival of ferry pilots to take them to their destinations. Some planes bure the names of the towns that

had bought them.

A pressmont was allowed to sit in the cockpit of a a machine named by the donor's whilm The Blue Pencil, and tested Its senattive con

controls. Only In the pliot's sent can one fully up- preciate the immerse complexity of modern fighter. The pressman counted 14 instrument gauges; alto- gether there are 90,000 paris in the 1041 Spitfire.

WOMEN RAIL

CLERKS

A DARING WILDCAT OF A WOMAN IN A WORLD OF MEN! the Crown Counsel hug told me con Do Men's Work

She whips ten times. her weight in frontier raiders, in this magnificent and mighty fast moving drama of love and adventure of the great Southwest

WITH WHIP AND OUN SHE TAMED

A THOUSAND MEN...EXCEPT ONE!

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Nice Gil?

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"THE VILLAIN STILL PURSUED HER" An RKO Radio Comady-Hit !

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I can't help thinking that wil

tains the real cause of the tragedy af that tay in that you came out of hospital only six days before that, and had been on a strict diet.

Your Indulgences of May 18 were not ex cessive. They were very moderate, but it may have affected you and 60 caused the lapse of the careful driving · you HIRVE shown in the n

past I am glad to know that the sen- tence I shall

will not affect your pass career in the Army. It is necessary for me as crial Judge, to pass a

sentence

rent to those who may feel inclined to take similar chances and risks when in charge of such a dungerous thing as a motor car.

The least sentence that I can pass on you is that you go to prison with hard labour for six months on this count.

Shakespeare At Stratford

The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, not to be outdone by the rest of the country in the matter of staying put and going to it, hus commenced a new season.

"Much Ado" the opening play, with Margaretta Scott as Beatrice, George Hayes as Benedick, Godfrey Kenton ng Don Pedro, and Jay Lourier as Dogberry.

The_birthday_play was...“Richard II" with Mr Hayes in the name-part. The other plays in the repertory are "Twelfth Night"

"Romeo

and Juliet," "The Taming of the Shrew, "The Tempest," "Julius Caesar" and Sheridan's "The Rivals."

Smashing Victory For R. A.F.

FROM PAGE ONE

and in the bright light I could see it shooting along below the surface." An official communique Issued late last night, said that no enemy acti- vity over Britain was reported up to 8 p.m. but confirmed that enemy. alreraft were destroyed by fighters

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Three training schools for women doing clerical work have

been opened by the

A total of Southern railway. 3,200 women have already taken over jobs on this lino which were previously done by men.

They are working as painters, porters, storekeepers, booking cicrks, and carriage cleaners. Women goods porters have just been issued with navy blue uniforms of trousers and cuat, while the platform porters wear conts and skirts of heavy woollen material. The women pabiters have dungarees and berets,

Ho said in a statement that the hospitality shown Norwe- gians training in Canada aroused. an understanding which in some cases "is so great that it results in marriage.

We

"Our boys are at war and wit! have to go overseas at any time," the statement said. "We do not Government will be in a position to know how long the Norwegian

pay wages and pension. When return to Norway we go to a country on the verge of ruin where the Ger-

laken everything mans live. where everything must be rebuilt,

Rigorous Life

and

"The standard of living will be so reduced that one must be a Nor- wegian to stund the strain. We shall be able to because we shall be home once again and are accustomed to a rigorous mode of life.

The

Canadian women who are used to an abundance here may feel themselves in strange surroundings, may repent their decision bitterly. | On the other hand such great love may exist of course."

A New "Use"

For Canaries

Canaries may soon be used es "gus, detectors" tu theatres, cincinas, shelters, and so on.

The suggestion has been discussed by the Yorkshire Union of Cage Bird Societies, and it is understood that the Government are making labora- tory experiments with canaries.

Much

more sensitive to pas than. human beings, canarics have many tinies proved to be life-invers by detecting gas in submarines and cout mines and at all storage plants,

The Food Minister's announcement that he is not prepared to import canary soed has come as a shock to fanciers. Experts are working out ferders diets.

Mr Horatio Hill, secretary of the Yorkshire

Union of Cage Birl Societies, states that the canaries used in the coal pits are to have full rations of seed.

At one which I visited yesterday 30 women were learning how to charge con- signments of goods, how to check in- voices, and, in a model booking of- fice, how to become booking clerks, says "Daily Telegropir" reporter."

of the training schools LATE NEWS

Passed Testa

All these women had passed a preliminary education test Involvingt dictations, arithmetic, and general from four to six weeks. All receive quesions. They will be training for

full pay, according to their age, during the period of training.

The maximum wage reached at St Is £3 a a week with a war bonus of 58 3d and an extra four shillings if working in the London area.

Soviet-Nazi-War And The Pacific

...Mrs_G. Lewis wha. _to_start.05.2 booking clerk at Hounslow on the 4.45 am. turn, for example, does hor shopping in the dinner hour and

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" cools for her family of four at night, "I find the work very interesting,"

SHANGHAI, June 23 (UP),-Au- she

told me. "I've not done a fob thoritative sources expressed the since before I was married, 22. years opinion to-day that the Soviet-Ger- ago when I travelled for

millinery

ery man hostilities, if lengthily extended, shall have to walk two miles would tend to stabilise the situation to work in the binck-out but I am in the Pacific, unless Japan, under

tripartite pact,

aids Germany,

Armk.

not seared of raids,"

the

which at

present considered un-

I am told that these women are likely owing to Japan's non-aggres being sued with steel helmets,

sion agreement with Russia.

It was also declared that Japan would probably hold the NEI. pro-

FRENCH WRITERblem in abeyance, pending future in-

DEPRIVED OF NATIONALITY

NEW YORK.---Deprivation

off the southeast count during day-of his French citizenship by light on Thursday.

Congratulations

ternational developments.

State Of Siege In Turkey

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGNAPH" NEW YORK, June 22 (Domel)

of slege

The N.B.C also reported that it heard Radio Moscow declaring that heavy units of the Russian Army and anti-aircraft batteries are being sent to the front through Moscow.

the Vichy Government found The National Broadcasting Corpora- LONDON, June 22 (Reuter). Henry Bernstein, expatriated that Turkey has proclaimed a state tion quoting Radio Rome reported Air Minister, Sir Archibald Sinclair, play-wright, unperturbed here. has sent a special message of con- He said he had received "with gratulation to Air Marshal W. Sholto Douglas, Commander-in-Chief of the pride" his first American citi Fighter Command, on the "ateiking zenship, papers on April 29. sucoess" of R.A.F. nighter squadrons Likewise, Eve. Curie, daughter of in the recent fighting over France. the discoverer of radium and writer

Sir Archibald adds: "It shows not and lecturer against Adolf Hitler: unly that they retain their ascendancy and Nazilem, who is another of the over the German air force but that 29 men and wonen affected by the they can overcome all disadvantages Vichy ban, said the decree seemed of fighting over enemy fortified terri- to her "quite logical. Both are in tory and air bases and still Infilet on America "to defend the real France him severe defents."

The Air Minister hopes that good it."

against the men who have betrayed fortune will attend the squadrons in making the most of this fresh nd- my regard is without significance," "Morally, the action of Vichy in vantage" which their ski and hard Mr Bernstein said. "Materially, it Aghting has wors.

is otherwise, but I knew the risk and long since willingly accepted the necessary sacrifices.”

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Critic. Of Petain

Λ leading critic of the Petain Government in articles, talks, and radiocasts since his arrival, in the United States last summer, Mr Bern stein la writing a series of articles on the French Chief of State.

He would continue to wear the Legion of Honour decoration given to him personally by Georges Cle- menceau during the World War. for servico

as an aviator in Macedonia, Mr Bernstein said, adding that "Clemenceau is the man who, in March, 1918, waged war and wor victory against the advice of a great military mun who even then envi- 'saged' pence and defent.".

It is notified that the number of emigrants who left Hongkong for the Biralle Settlements during May, was 2,077

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