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i-'S S'-y" rsV4- r- i-rv: r4' V-Vt4-V-' 1 rMTjU i Mluwjawn EVENING PAGE 3 Actress Weds Actor Farmers 9 Boys (Front Towns) Would Sleep in Huts COMMUNAZIS: HEDGESIDE MEALS MPs TO CALL FOR ACTION Evening Standard Reporter jpARMERS welcome the announcement that boys from the towns are to be trained to help them on the land this summer Detailed plans are expected to be ready In a few days I am told They will include farm lessons in the schools before the boys are sent out and in the case of the more skilled types of work probably a short spell of training at agricultural colleges The boys will be selected from public secondary and elementary schools Their ages will probably be from 14 to 17 A farmer who had experience of similar schemes in the last war said to-day: "The boys would be welcome for haymaking and harvesting They could be given such employment as potato lifting flax pulling beetroot singling (thinning out) hoeing poultry feeding hedge clipping in fact almost everything that is not 2500 Miles To Marry NEWFOUNDLAND BRIDE OF FLYING OFFICER liflSS MARGARET CONROY 23 of St Newfoundland travelled more than 2500 miles for her wedding at Dulwich to-day to Flying Officer Edward Henley RAF aged 23 whose parents also live at St The couple first met when they were students at college in St Two years ago Flying Officer Henley came to England to join the RAF Miss Conroy said to-day left home early in March Notice of our wedding was given the day after arrived in England and to-day is the first day that the licence allows us to be married The best man was Mr Herbert THtraSDAT' APRIL lV 19 rr Rope Oyer Grave to Stop Ghost fHE of the in Swaziland was described to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to-day A Swaziland subordinate chief Fakisandhla Nkambule appealed against a judgment in that country convicting him of having through a witch doctor or medicine-man procured the death of one of his wives his brother and his wife Grounds of appeal were that the court in Swaziland was affected by letters which were not properly proved and contained mistranslations and that the evidence of a medicine-man who was also charged and pleaded fhwy was wrony used against the Romans Did It Mr Horace Douglas KC for the appellant said that when he heard that a way of dealing with ghosts was to stretch a rope across the grave to stop them coming out he supposed there could not be such a custom in Swaziland But he had been looking into the classics and he found that both the Homans and the Greeks placed ropes about their houses to keep off evil spirits and in Bulgaria to this day they painted their street doors with the same precautionary object The suggestion was that during a ceremony accompanying the placing of the ghost rope medicine was passed Tound to twenty persons seated before a cauldron which was over a fire commercial arsenic was introduced into the brew and three of the company were killed In the company were seven of the wives of the subordinate chief Up Banns to Marry Girl of George Henry Lucas 24 was remanded at Tottenham to-day charged with abducting a girl aged 15 at South-gate and with being a deserter from the Royal Engineers Lucas said Det-inspector Greenhill stated that he had put up the banns for marriage with the girl I Garland a school friend of the bridegroom who is attached to the Newfoundland Trade Office In London Miss Phyllis Baird another Newfoundlander who travelled on the same! boat as the bride was bridesmaid Mice Food Firm is Fined £10 Sanders Bros Stores Ltd of Thomas-road Poplar were fined £10 at Ealing to-day for having food unfit for human consumption in their shop in King-street Southall Mr Webb for Southall Council said 1831b of food was contaminated bymice For the defence it was said the company had 266 shops had been in existence for 50 years and there had not been a prosecution of this kind before In these days of change it is most reassuring to learn from regular smokers of Craven Plain how experience proves they can rely firmly upon the consistent character of these non-tipped cigarettes During the past 150 years Carreras have built and consolidated that high reputation for quality to-day enjoyed by every brand bearing the name Craven Could We Stop Parachute Men? By Our Political Correspondent gIR JOHN ANDERSON may be asked to receive a deputation of RLPj who are concerned about possible Fifth Column operations In this country The part played by enemy agents in Norway has inspired the demand for a more thorough investigation of organisations and individuals who may be suspected of subversive activities Stricter control is demanded Sir Waldron Smithers (Con Chisle-hurst) has called a meeting of MFs at the House of Commons for to-night to discuss "enemies in our midst" Mr Spens KC (Con Ashford) is to take the chair Colonel Burton (Con Sudbury) is to ask the Prime Minister on Tuesday whether as the Germans in Norway were received by friendly members of the' Nazi organisation satisfactory arrangements exist to prevent such an occurrence in this country Colonel Burton also wants to know whether the War Secretary Is convinced that we could counteract any attempt to land in this country as the Germans did In Norway by parachute for the purpose of sabotage WALL SLOGANS Mr Robert Morrison (Soc Tottenham N) is to suggest 'to the Home Secretary that in view of Fascist activities in Norway he should take effective steps to deal with treasonable activities of Fascists in this country who are stamping slogans on public buildings and churches in London Mr Morrison will also ask Sir John Anderson to stop the abuse of the rights of free speech by Fascists who are holding open-air meetings in London and making speeches approving of the policy of Germany and deriding the action of the Allies Scotland Yard gives names of 2000 aliens PAGE SIX Army Clothing Conspiracy Charge Six men were further remanded on bail at the Guildhall to-day accused of stealing and receiving Army clothing the property of Lotery and Co Gravel-lane City They were also accused of conspiring to defraud the firm The accused were: Davis 42 tailor Birchdale-road Romford Israel Morris 46 tailor Crown-walk Clapton Morris Sugarbroad 37 traveller Osborne-s treet Commercial-road Samuel Webb 50 military tailor Old Montague-street Samuel Rosenberg 51 tailor Prince of Wales-drive Battersea and Jack Davis 45 departmental manager Mr Elias Lotery a director said that when at premises at Commercial-street he saw police officers examining a hole in the ceiling and take 1800 reels from it EP Trade Chief Urges Export Drive The need for a bold export trade policy and the immediate exploration of world markets to make good our losses in Scandinavia and Poland was emphasised by Sir Charles Granville Gibson Conservative MP for Pudsey and Otley to-day He told the annual meeting In London of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce of which he is president: The trade groups working under the Export Council should send a representative to take part in a delegation to visit markets with great potentialities such as that of South To overcome the "grave financial risks attending trade with some countries he recommended an increase in insurance cover by the Exports Credits Department and an extension of the barter system Tlieir Address is The War Office to-day announced that correspondence and parcels for members of the British forces in Norway should be addressed BEF Norway Miss June Melville actress daughter of the late Frederick Melville of Lyceum Theatre fame leaving All Saints Church Highgate to-day after marrying Mr John Mesurier Ualliley an actor on Frocks EAVE to distrain for rent on a quantity of frocks in the shop of Ainscow Ltd South Molton- street was granted with costs st Westminster County Court to-day Judge Sir Mordaunt Snagge said that he was not satisfied that the position of the tenant Mrs Annie Elizabeth Ainscow Thole or the company was properly attributable to the war The tenant would not herself be affected by the order except in so far as she was a creditor It was stated she held all the shares except one The case was an appeal against the refusal by the Registrar in Chambers to give leave Mrs Thole told the court 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