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B.B.C. and caught Mr Filbey just as he was putting on his cont to leave the building. They found they had met be. fore, they arranged to dine

It May Pick You Out One Day together that night and in a

By JANE ALLISON

Every Saturday after-

noon

in London eight people meet together at a tea party. None of them have met before, probably none of them will meet again. They are the people who make up a programme known to mil- lions of listeners through- out the world-"In Town To-night."

Perhaps one day you will be one of those eight people.. You may come to London with a story you would like to tell the world about your job and your experiences. If you ring up or write to Mr Meehan or Miss Clark of the B.B.C., and if they. think the world would like to hear your story, they will be delighted to arrange for you to come to the microphone and tell it,

"In Town To-night" was started about seven years ago and immediately caught on as one of the most popular radio, fea- tures,-both_at_home_and. overseas. It was like a shaft of limelight ranging over a vast crowd of men - and women of all types, ages, and professions, picking out a face here and there and illuminat- ing it in the eyes of the whole world.

They Find Themselves How does the British Broad- casting Corporation set out to find these people? More than half of them find themselves. They write in or ring up say- ing they would like to talk or be interviewed, and each case is carefully considered on one thing only-its interests to the listening world.

A peer may be politely turned down, a charwoman, with personali- ty and a good story, warmly welcomed. People of every type apply, from opera sing- ers to match-sellers, and a glance at the Alles would re- veal one of the 'strangest col. lections of occupations imagin- able. You may find, in a typical programme, a woman who minds barrows in Covent Garden, a Spanish dancer,

missionary, a

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boxer, a mayoress,' and a postmistress from the Falkland Islands.

You will also perhaps dis. cover some professions that may surprise you; for example a London blacksmith. You may ask, what is a blacksmith doing in London? The angyer Ja, he is farrier to the hun- dreds of horses employed by one of the great railway com- panies.

Did you know that there was such a thing as a profes- sional safe-breaker? He has had many offers to join other

professional

safe breakers

who prefer to remain anony- mous, but this one finds that one can make a good living out of legitimate safe-break- Ing. Sometimes a combina- tion gets lost, sometimes it is desirable to have it changed. and then the expert has to be called in. Since the war, he has been extra busy, brenk- ing safes in bombed build- ings, and often with an un- exploded bomb in the neigh- bourhood. Once four of his men were necidentally shut in a safe but they were not worried as they knew that he would get them out in the end, and anyway they were being paid by time and not piecework.

or even

few months were married, The wasp and the B.B.C. Both shared the honours of having brought them together. Later on Mr and Mrs Filbey both appeared in "In Town To- night" and did a joint talk about their adventures gether.

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Scouts Go Out

Apart from people who write in and suggest them. selves, two scouts are always busy all over England and hunting up likely prospects. Before the war they used often to take a recording van out into the streets, and hid- ing themselves, watch for likely people to come und broadcast impromptu. They would hide and wait for their victims with the patient in- genuity

of bird - watchers. Had they openly displayed the microphone, they would have attracted a crowd and been moved on by the police.

Grass As Food

Sometimes it is not a pro- fession that gives the speaker a special interest, but a hobby Since the war it is of course a peculiar way of impossible to let people come life. The biggest fan-mail straight to a microphone in comes to a man who has dis- the street. Censorship can- covered that grass suits him not allow people to say just very well as a food and who

what comes into their heads lives principally upon the

in case they unknowingly give clippings from golf courses' away information that might and tennis courts. He was so be useful to the enemy. So popular that he has appeared now the scouts, having made several times by request in contact with likely people. "In Town To-night.”

must arrange for a script to Very often--programme--be-written and vetted before

restores old ties and brings people together from all parts

of the world who may have

lost touch with each other for years. Once it was the cause of a very charming romance. In the summer of 1930, a cer- 'tain Mr Filbey, who had been working on road construction in African deserts, came to London and told, his adven- turous story at the micro- phone.

That same afternoon, a young woman in a country town was lying in bed feeling very sorry for herself, Every- one in the house had gone out for a picnic, but she had been so badly stung by a wasp that she had decided to stay at home Idly turning on the wireless, she heard the last words of Mr Filbey's talk, and recognised the voice of a man whom she had met five years before in China. On an impulse she rang up--the

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Food Position in Malaya Said to Be Satisfactory

In the event of Malaya being directly involved in actual warfare, it would become desirable to begin ra tioning rice and other foods merely as a precaution to ensure that the heavy stocks already, held in reserve will last longer.

This was one of the state-

A not based on his aversion to managed to make both of his low losing a trick here and there. A lost trumps by ruming diamonds, but still trolles, Malaya, Mr Norman R. NOBEL WINNER finesse, he realizes; may be a more ended up with only seven tricks.

Jarrett, in an interview with

URGES YOUTHS serious matter than one trick-It may

West's penally the "Straits Times" recently i double to warn him that the spade prior to his handing over to Mr

be contral of the entire handt Note to-day's deal.

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clarer should have pounced on East's L. A. Allen on being appointed trump lead with the ace. The two British Resident, Selangor. low hearts in his own hand

could be

Both sides vulnerabß; East-West salvaged only in one way, namely, Mr. Jarrett pointed out that the 60 part-score.

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South's bidding was of the sort that asks for trouble. His takeout double of one diamond was well advised, particularly with the opponents on score, but when North could not dig up a bid over such a mild shutout ns Wesl's two diamonds, South should have surrendered. Either two spades er two hearts might be slaughtered. As a matter of fact, however, the particular dummy that South picked up, and the opposing distributions, should have made the risky bid turn out beautifully.

through ruling in the dummy and, obviously, one cannot ruft losers with trumps that have ceased to exist.

It should have taken no great per- spicacity on South's part to realize that if the spade queen lost to West

reserves which could last several months were considerable and based on normal consumption rather

than on rationed consumption.

TO BE CURIOUS.

SCHENECTADY, N. Y. (UP),-- A summer' job is the best way for a. boy to find his life work, in the opinion of a Nobel prize winner, Dr Irving, Langmuir, whose discoveries 'made possible the gas-filled, incan 'descent lamp, the high-vačúum elec- Malayan food supply, he said, was tronic tube and atomic hydrogen "not bothered at all" by the Indo-welding: - a trump return would reduce dummy China situation. No rice had been

Indo-China to one ruffer. The correct play of purchased from the spade ace would have resulted in year, and the only food the imports declarer's fullling his contract with of which might be affected by the an extra trick. The nee and king Japanese occupation was dried fiah. follow, then declarer would ruff a re-exported to the Netherlands just so far ahead of those who, after of hearts and a heart ruff would Most of the imports, however, were low diamond with his deuce of trump. dies. The fourth heart would be ruffed

Air-Conditioned Godowns

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Experiments in food preservation while East would be forced impotent-in Malaya lind progressed consider ly to discard, and another diamond ably since the outbreak of war, Mr

six of Jorrett-disclosed. would bring home declarer's six trump. A lead to the club ace and the ruffing of dummy's last diamond with the queen of trump would leave west in the embarrassing position of having three high trumps with which to ruil his own partner's club tricks,

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West opened the fourth highest of liis partner's sult, the deuce of din monds. East won, and made the correct shift to trump Declarer, a dyed-in-the-wool finesser, could not resist putting in his queen and as a result the hund "went to pieces."

How should South play his three West won and continued trumps and, notrump contract? Opening lead after that, declarer could ruft only spade fack.

In Town To-night

Picturesque personalities gathered for the famous B.B.C, pro. gramme "In. Town To-night" attend a Saturday afternoon tea party In an underground studio in London prior to broadcasting. Left to right: Ray Rich, interviewer. Kathleen Heppell, accompanies alt "In Town To-night" singers at the plano; S. Josef Shellard, the policemani singer: Piper Malcolm McGrimmon, piper of Western Canadian Battalion; C, F. Mechan, producer of programmes; Miss Joan Clark, assistant to producer; Fred Gurr, Post Office Salvage official, awarded the Empire Medal for bravers: S. C. Roy, took a party of Indian technicians for training in England: Miss M. McCall, recretary to C. F. Mechan; Miss Osborne; Alan Keith, script writer.

the speaker actually broad- casts.

'Itler's Wrong

You who listen to "In Town To-night" may not always know in what dramatic cir- cumstances the broadcast is being made. Often the people you hear have come to the. studio during a blitz, braving bombs and shrapnel rather than let down the show,.

Not long ago an old lady from the East End who works in Covent Garden market came up to do her bit-in-

"In Town To-night." When the broadcast was over, a bad raid was in progress and Mr Mechan begged her to stay the night in Bufety on the B.B.C. premises. But the old Indy would have none, of it. She insisted on having a taxi; the first taxi she'd ever rid. den in, and driving several milles home to the East End' In a raging blitz.

Her farewell words, as she firmly tied on her best bonnet

wore "If. that itler thinks Ho's going to stop me from sleeping, in my own bed, 'c's blooming well-wrong.

War, Too, Has Its Commandments

Moscow daily broadcasts to the Red Army, and the troops in the field are always reminded to follow the 10 commandments for guerilla warfare established by Lenin. Based on the successful cam- paign against the Germans in the Ukraine back in 1913. they command:

1. In combat, watch for your comrade. He will watch for you.

2. Do not bother about the wounded during action. Watch the enemy.

3. The sooner you des- troy the enemy, the less dan- ger there will be of him des- troying you.

4. If you attack the enemy once and he does not suc- cumb, try again and keep on trying. The enemy is a hu man being-he will eventual- ly give in.

5. If you cannot destroy the

enemy by ordinary means, think of other ways. You are bound to succeed eventually.

6. Retire, if necessary, let the enemy advance, but stay in his rear and harass him. until you have destroyed him. 7. If the enemy, is superi- or, retire, but destroy every- thing in your retreat.

has

8. If your enemy superior forces as well as ar. mament, use your own in- genuity to make up for this shortcoming. Make the enemy pay for every inch of ground.

9. Do not, under any cir- cumstances, surrender to the enemy. If you seem to be fighting Alone for a while, do not forget that your comrades. are fighting for you some whero, else. AM

10. Remember, you must destroy the enemy at all costs If you wish to remain free

For instance, sugar can now be kept for four months in a properly equipped godown.

Air-conditioning. godowns were alding in the preservation of four, and Mr Jarrett stated that more alr conditioned stores are to be built in Kuala Lumpur and Penang.

Mr Jarrett has been Food Control- ler, Malaya, since the outbreak of

war.

"It takes many young men quite some time to become 'oriented and

started on their carcere," he explain. ed. "The boys who devbto their summer vacations to discovering their own interests and abilities are

they are graduated, flounder' from job to job until they find the work for which they are best suited."""

Here is Dr Langmul's formula for success:

Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and beck it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train your hands and your mind, Become curious."

An amateur filer, the scientist be- leves that opportunities in aviation development will be "boundless" for youth. Ho predicts that aviation will progress tremendously after the I war.

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HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN. THE SOCIETY ASKS FOR

$32,000

In 1941 to meet the Incrensing needs of sick and destituto children in Hongkong, spainst which the Income to date is $10,000 only.

In order to continue Its work, The Boclety ap peals for the balance oft

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$13,000 before the close of the financial year, on Bist October.

The number of children assisted last year was 0,200.

Hon. Treasurers (from whom a copy of the anaual feport for 1940 may be obtained);

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Mr. A. McKELLAIL CA,

c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.

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Mr. XWOK CHAN,

c/o The Banque de Lindo-Chine HONG KONG ted July, 1831.-

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