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NANCY

IMAGINE MI FIGHTING

OXIE--- I WON'T HAVE A CHANCE!

BE CALM I JUST SAW OXIE --- AND HE LOOKS MORE WORRIED THAN YOU!

WONDER

IF DATS

TRUE

Wednesday,

WHAT'S

I CAN'T HELP

WRONG? IT THAT FIGHT

YOU LOOK SCARED!

HAS ME AWFUL WORRIED!

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

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August 20, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

THIS IS

WHAT HE'S WORRYING ABOUT

YOU'LL GET 20 YEARS FOR THIS!

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Cyanide Found In Bodies

Leads To Murder Charge

INVESTIGATION of a double murder charge at Ealing revealed the discovery of traces of cyanide in the bodies of a mother and baby which were buried in a garden in Goringway, Greenford.

This was stated when Lionel Rupert Watson, 31. bakelite worker, accused of killing 28- year-old Phyllis Elizabeth Crne-

Novel Hobby

ker and her 18-month-old baby Of American

Eileen.

Mr B. A. K. Morgan, 'prosecuting, ↑ explained that Walton was morried, with four children, and Was not.

living with his wife. He met Miss

form of marriage.

Bottle Club

Contrary to the impression

Crocker at his worle, and went to often created by its name, the live with her at a fat in Goring-way International Bottle Club, of On Jan. 18 he told Miss Crocker Los Angeles, is a group of geo- that he had divorced his wife. He graphically minded men and and Miss Crocker went through women of many nationalities, scattered around the shores of They appeared to be happy, said the Pacific Ocean, whose hobby counsel, but at work Watson is an exchange of correspon- showed algns of wishing to scrape dence carried in bottles by an acquaintance with' a girl nged 17, Joan Philby. She gave bimwinds, waves, and ocean no encouragement.

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On May 21 Watson, Jooking pale! Started in 1928 by Col Edward P. and agilated, told a neighbour. Mrs Balivy, a native of Australia, Dound, who lived above, "Phyllis has former officer in the Canadian Army gone to her aunt in Scolland."

and now a resident of San Morino. Five days Inter Mrs Bound sow Calif., the International Bottle Club Watson lift two flagstones In the back now has a membership scattered garden and begin digging what seem-from Chile to Alaska, from Siberta ed to be a pit.

to Australia, and on various islands She called out, "Are you digging throughout the Pactile. for victory?" and he replied that he The club ea developed after was going to bury rubbish.

Colonel Bailey prepared messages in Mry Bound next noticed an offen-half a dozen languages, placed them sive smell on June 20. On then hundreds of bottles, and senttered tollowing day she and a neighbour them a few each day from the deck got into the flot, thinking some food of a ship en route from Vancouver bark gone bad.

to Sydney, Months, and cometimes years later, these. nessuges were heard from widely scattered points around the Pacific,

Valuable Information Now the Boltle was mixed with white powder. That collect thousands of old bottles, place Club members powder, said rounsel, was garden their messages in them, and send lime. The police were told,

Neighbour's Find

Prising up a flagstone, Mrs' Bound noticed that the earth underneath

them to son with crew members of

Mir Morgan read a statement in ships or passengers who can be in- which Watson was alleged to have duced to drop them into the ocean, said that Mise Crocker had taken as for, as possible from lands to drugs in the belief that she was going

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Roosevelt has said that the U.S. Government intends. This la an American-made tank that already has ship carrying it dodged the Nazi menace in the

Atlantic.

Jilted Nurse Brings Action Against R. A.F.

Breach Officer

WITH her head bowed, a young, attractive nurse heard the breach of promise action she brought in the King's Bench Division described by Mr Justice Hilbery as "a piece of almost inconceivable folly and waste of the Court's time."

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Russia's Merchant

Merchant Fleet

Is Eleventh Largest

In view of the current interest in the question, of United States giving ald to Russia in the present war, the following data on the mercantile marine and the railway transportation of the U.S.S.I. has been made available by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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"As of July 1, 1938, the last full pre-war year, Russia ranked 11th among the world's merchant marines in point of tonnage, having a total of 678 vessels with an approximate gross tonnage of 1.370,000 tons. This slightly exceeded the tonnage of Den- mark at the time, and was surpassed by the merchant marines of Great Britain, the United States, Japan, Norway, Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Greece and Sweden, in that order. "The Soviet merchant marine Eastern economic area served entire- included at this date eighty by the trans-Siberian increased barges, two sailing vessels, 13 from 5,400,000 tons in 1832 to 16,000,- combined sailing, vessels and almost 300 per cent.

000 tons in 1937, an increase of diesel-motored ships, one com- "Running thno for deluxe passen- bined sailing and steam ship, ger trains over the all-Russian route 503 steamers of which one were from Vladivostock to Moscow is ro- side-wheelers and 141 vessels trains, averaging 30 cars, would re- ported at about nine days. Freight propelled by diesel engines.

quire a longer time, but in wartime "During the four years prior to may have precedence over passenger 1938, a total of 52 ships were put in traffic,"

operation. Of the total number of ships, only 216 were built in Russia,

143 were constructed in Englund, 120 In Germany, 43 in Hollund and 33 in the United States. Ninety-five ships, or 36 percent of the total number were over 20 years old in 1930, and only 16 ships were reported to have a speed exceeding 12 knots.

place first in a car about a fortnight after their first, meeting.

Mr Siade: In April, when you Invited him to your hotel, you slept with him twice-Yes-Did you

After a voyage of some 4,500 tell him then that you had slept miles across the Pacific requiring 16 with other men? Certainly not. to 10 days for ships at moderate

Have you threatened to commit speed,

eed, United States shipments to

have.

to travel via the 5-ft. Bailway-to ne suicide if he did not marry you? Vindivostock have another 5,780 miles double ---Mr-Slade read-a-letter-which-Miss-tracked-trans-Siberian

Mathias had written to Pand become Russian railways would preclude use reach Moscow. Wide gauz of the 1910, after she knew she had pregnant. An extract ran:-

can be

If married,

We

to

bodies, and evidence would be given Alaskan messages have turned up in ing the medal ribbon of the en June 27. On Paddingt love you, but I am more fond of you press

that Watson was seen to take some-Australia,

thing from a drum of eyanide at the factory where he worked.

Walson took Miss Philby to places.

of entertainment, and gove

her

clothes and

and shoe belonging to the

Mystery Murder Of

Woman Censor

Bermuda authorities have called in

dead woman and slated counsel, U.S. G-men to help solve the murder

"On June

June 15,"

"Watson asked this girl into the flat, enticed her into the bedroom, showed her far coals and fox furs,

The victim was Margaret Staple- which he said belonged to ton, 43-year-old English-woman. divorced wife, and asked her if she Only clue to the slaying, „which would have them. She refused." occurred recently is a sawn-off base- On the day before his arrest Wat-ball bat,

of a woman member of the censor's staff at Hamilton (Bermuda).

son wrote to Miss Philby, "I took to Misa Stapleton was killed as she you as soon as I saw you because was cycling along a moonlit roud on you are a lot different... and I her way to a rallway station. was beginning to love you."

Doctors declared that she had He was alleged to have minde abeen assaulted and beaten to death. statcinent that he had not beeu The body was found with most of familiar with Joan Philby. "That the clothing torn off. was true," said Mr Morgan. "The The killing Is Bermuda's girl was perfectly pure."

mystery murder."

D.F.C.

of in open court.

on

another letter Miss Mathias wrote:

Marriage at present is the last thing I want. It interferes with all

Judge: You hated the whole iden

of existing United States rolling stock to increase transportation facilities over the land route. Capacity of the trans-Siberian railway is not revealed.

Germany's Supplies "However, it is significant that}

reports from apparently authentic sources in the Far East stote that as recently as June 1941, Japan was supplying Germany, with a total of 1,500 tons of raw materials daily over the trans-Siberian route,

course represents only that

of

about 8,000 freight cars

The nurse's engagement to an R. A. F. pilot lasted only a week, and was broken off by him after the wedd. ing invitations had been sent out. A few days later, which they

according to her counsel, the nurse had a miscarriage eventually return. to have another chilid, and he came In the course of a few inore years through the shock of the broken engagement. home from a cinema to and both the International Bottle Club

may woman and baby dead.

Refusing to allow any general condition, he was very upset, and be capable of furnishing valuable in- The alleged statement continued: formation concerning world wind damages for the breach of pre-save her certain advice, white #1 I sat up all night and went to work drifts and ocean currents. The travel mise, the judge awarded the followed-but-without-result,

On May 16, Miss Mathias wrote the next morning...

The same records of some of the messages re-

nurse. Margery Mary Mathias, Pain and asked him to marry her. night I dug a hole near the shed, put covered sound like the tales of my wife and baby in the hole, led Marco Polo, Magellan, and sir 26, of Grenville-place, Soutli│In this letter she wrote:-

I want to bring the child safely in again with dirt, and then put the Francis Drake. A message launched Kensington, £28 special damages

you wish, flagstones back."

by a Japanese member near Kam- for expenses incurred. She Into the world and do my. best re

in name only. You need never live Dr Roche Lyneli, the Home Office chatka was reported three years later sued Flight-Licut Derek S. Pain, garding it. Derek, will you marry with me or see me, and if at any so that it will not have to suffer ilme you wish to marry anyone I will annlyst, Mr Morgan continued, had from Chile, Chilean messages have 23, who appeared in court wear- found traces of cyanide in both been found in Alaskan

wolers.

the sins of its parents?

willingly give you your freedom, Sir Charles stated, and vice versa. 1 cannot say that "met again Announcing his decision, the judge on Station that day, when she was than of anyone I know.

TEL said he would grant Miss Mathias, resing him off, Pain asked Miss who had two counsel acting for her, Mathias to marry him.

"On his return to camp, Paln put only such costs as would have been incurred had the case been heard the promise into writing in a letter before a Master in Chambers Instead in which he said: 'May I ask you, my plans and entails large sacrifices. The total travel. It was

very humbly, to marry me? I fear you may think me wholly unworthy of marriage, yet you are now asking reported th "I feel," his lordship observed, but if you necep! I will do my beat for damages because the defendant of 20 metric tons capacity each were "this is a case where I can exercise to make you

did not marry you?-1 was very

in the trade between Ger- engaged my discretion, and say that the defen-

Sir Charles added, fond of him. Miss Mathiasy."

inany and the Far East. dant has been put to unnecessary made the arrangements for the wedd No Vindictive Feelings

"A study of the

Trans-Siberian expense through the action. It is {ing, engaging a church and organist, utterly deplorable case, which should and sending out invitations.

Answering Mr Slade, Miss Mathias rallway by the Department of Com- never have been brought here into bought her

She declared that she had no vindictive merce issued in January, 1040, noted wedding dress and feelings, and was merely asking that freight shipped from the Far the limelight of pubilcity."

trousseau, obtained a special licence,

damages Sir Charles Doughty, K.C., for Miss and also a wedding cake, which was

to cover what the affair had Mathias, said that both the promise given to her landlady when the wedd- cost her.

NEW REVOLUTION But to marry and the breach were admitting was called off.

Judge:

the gross cost to you was less than £50. Have we had to ed by Flight-Lieut. Pain. The only Mother Opposes Affair listen to this sordid story, involving

IN FRANCE HELD question was the amount of damages.

"When Pain's mother heard of the innocent people dragged into the Both parties were in a good posl- tion in

Miss Mothian was the forthcoming wedding she went to light of pub fu

for such a paltry TO BE IMMINENT daughter of a large landowner in see her son and vehemently opposed, sum? How Pembrokeshire, where her family was the affair, even demanding a medical

did not call Flight-Lieut. Mr Slade did well known. She was a fully quall-certificate regarding Miss Mathing's Pain to give evidence, but, address- fled nurse and midwife, and was condition, Sir Charles stated.

ing the judge on the question of shortly leaving the country for n

damages, said: "Three times this "Furthermore, she managed to man was pestered by her to marry, "Within a few months there will place abroad. where she would be

persuade her son to break it off, and, at last, almost driven distraught be blood in the streets of Paris," de- doing war service.

which he did on July 4 in a letter by threats of suicide, he agreed.clared Henry Kahn, aged 80 years. to Miss Mathias, pointing out that Not until after the breach of promise "I sow in 1871 during the Com- This unhappy story begins in his pay was small, that he had no dfd the word 'love' ever appear in her mune after the Franco-Prussian February, 1940, when Atlas Mathias private means, and that life would letter."

war," he added, "what the French was staying with friends at a country be hard for her as his wife," -

After the Judge's finding; Flight-can do when they get mad, and they rectory, Sir Charles continued. The letter went on:

Lleut, Pain fold a reporter: "Thanks are getting mad now." "Her friends would occasionally aske All this would not matter a damn goodness that's over! it has been n Josephine Winter, a member of the omcers from a nearby aerodrome to two really cared for each other trying business, but I feel happier American Ambulance Corps, who ding with them, and one of the sufflelctly, but we do not... You now than I have done for a long time.

was detained in a Barcelona prison! officers who went was Flight-Lieut. will understand what a cad I feel, but Now I can go back and get on with for 11 days as an alleged spy, de- Pain.

after all it is our ultimate happiness my Job "He met Miss Mathias, was un- that counts. Do not think too badly "He had been granted a day's leave

Talk of a revolution is common doubtedly attracted by her,

and Mathias, in cross-examina and returned to his flying station

from duty in order to attend court, throughout France, but the people. they saw each other several times. Miss

are not yet able to do anything about afterwards. Shortly after

tion by Mr G. O. Slade, for Pain, immediately the cane was over. Enster

It." Madame Lupescu's flashing | An Invitation from royally-even Miss Mathias was staying at an hotel said she had been very fond of Pain smile won EL warm reception from a king who has lost his throne in the neighbourhood of the station but did not love him. She agreed be coveted and bears to which Pain was attached, and she that she had twice written Pain ask- from the hundreds who witness-stili to

wrote inviting him to dine with her, ing him ed her arrival, but she may find one of the force of a command.

Carol's trim, red-haired friend of

condiilon. He did so, and that night vislied her corrento marry her when she dis- Havana social circles less easy many years shared his first social room, and intimacy took place. Mr Stade: Had you been trying to to capture, says a correspon-engagement here luncheon in They stayed together the follow-get an abortion ever since the child

their hotel dining room with dent.

ing night in an hotel, registering as was conceived?-No. Captain Jose Arce, son of the Cuban Charre "Flight-Licut, and Mrs Pain, and

But you did succeed in getting Even in

exilo it is questionable d'Affaires at Lisbon, and Mrs Arco again there was Intimacy."

of the child in

in July, 19407-Yes, whether she will read a welcome But a day or so later when Carol At this

point

judge Intervened if

you care to put it that way, sigh on all doors to swing open for went out to be the luncheon guest and asked, "Is your client anxious And you started this action for her royal companion, former King of the British Minister,, Sir George that Carol of Rumania,

Ogilvie-Forbes, Malume Lippescu re- Social leaders who would give her mained behind.

cold shoulder might find them- The exilet reached Havana at n selves in an awkward position, how-time when social activity almost was over, if Carol decides to entertain at a standstill. Not until the usual extensively once he and Madame Lu- round of parties and dinners is. In -pozcu are settled' in a suitable real-| fuil awing next winter will Madunio

Lupescu's rent position be clear,

first

Lupescu's Turban May Leave Mark On Fashion

If Madame Lupescu exerts any influence on American wo men's fashions, it probably will be to popularise turbans.

"

Her favourite headpiece-an inexpensive white wrap-around turban-takes on a striking appearance, set off as it is by huge earrings and careful hairdress. She prefers light sports clothes well-fitted to the tropical climate of Havann, where she is living.

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Flung From Plane,

Clings To Tail

Eventual revoluiton In France Is

have just arrived in New York from France.

predicted by two Americans who

clared:

King Rations His Cigarettes

Because of the lobacco shortage in Britain, the King has had to cut down his cigarette smoking.

Flung out of a training plane, a U.S. Army cadet lodged on its tall and tung on until his instructor land- The Queen mentioned this. when ed the plane safely at St. Louis she visited a girls' hostel in Hoxton, (nota),

one of the poorer districts of London.

"1 don't The cadet, Victor Woodrick, 23,

down his on the On

ground, Then I realized what had happened.

was adjusting the balt around dived and somer-

Sir Charles replied: "I know that you were not going to wasn't frightened until we King amoke, but I know the world should be advertised to the breach of promise to marry after you

has bearing on what happened sub-have the child?--Yes. vana at nsequently. Miss Mathias found she Kissed On First Occasion

was premant, and that induced Pat's

Miss Mathias admitted that Paln me when the promise to marry: her,”

kissed her on the first occasion they saulted me out.

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met, and on the second occasion there""I clutched the plane's tailpiece in Sir Charles went on to say thist was love-making. Answering the a grip you couldn't live broken with whon Miss Mathlas told Pain of her judge, she ainted that intimacy took a crow-bar."

cut

bo-

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the Mayor of

cause cause of the cigarette shortage,

The Qua

Queen asked the Shoreditch (Alderman T.J, Shilltoe); whether he found it difficuit cigarettes.

"Unfortunately, yos, Mada

the Mayor.

got

TO-MORROW

AT THE

KING

HESTER...of the

smoldering eyes....... the crushing ups... the clinging arms!

Youth at the

mercy of the wrong kind of woment

EMILIE...of the hinunt ing loveliness...the gallant loyalty. the understanding bears!

A love battle...with_no roles...to win five-ment

INGRID

WARNER

BERGMAN BAXTER

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HATWARD DENNING · SHAW

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