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Evening star., 1940-11-04
District Police
Hunt Writer OF
'Kidnap' Note
Banker Receives
Threats Against
Mrs. McLuchIen

When Archibald M. McLachlen,
president of the District Bankers
Association, returned to his office
after lunch last Thursday there was
a letter lying on his desk.
1t was a carefully worded, type
written letter stating that his wife,
Josephine, had been kidnapped.
"You must remain outwardly calm
as you read this as you are being
watched constantly" the letter
cautioned him. 1t warned him not
to communicate with any one, lest
things should be made unpleasant"
for his wife, who, with the aid of
chloroform, is sleeping Soundly, but
unharmed."
Then followed detailed instruc-
tons for delivery of $500 in cur
rency as ransom money within Is
minutes" 1t was then lao pm.
Since it was Halloween Day, Mr..
McLachlen considered the posi-
bility of a prank, but the tone Of
the communication was genuine.
And the letter admonished that
'If you think this is joke, you
will soon be disillusioned."
Arranged to Pay Ransom.
He telephoned his home, SSH
Chevy Chase Parkway NV, but his
wife was gone He called several
friends and they did not know her
whereabouts. Naturally, by this
time he was very much upset. The
hands of the clock in his Office (at
the McLachlen Banking Corp,
Tenth and G streets NV, where Mr..
Lachlen is vice president and treas
urer of the firm seemed to race
around. He called police. After
hurried telephone consultation with
detectives, Mr.. McLachlen began to
comply with the instructions given
in the letter for paying the ransom
money.
The letter demanded a package of
"old bills, in denominations of S.,
$40, $40 and 500. Some bills were
included-along with plain paper.
Then, as directed, Mr.. McLachlen
walked out of the bank by rear
entrance and went to a nearby drug
store. He entered a telephone booth
in the rear, dropped the package
under the seat, picked up the tele-
phone receiver until he counted Is,
placed it back on the hook and
closed the door of the booth.
Then he walked to the street cor
her, "diagonally across" from his
Office, and waited. He had been
warned not to communicate with
any one, so he scarcely spoke to
friends who passed and greeted him.
The instructions said to wait Is
minutes when, if he had carried out
all of the instructions, he would
receive word of his wifes where
abouts.
Wife Finally Telephones.
Meanwhile, detectives kept Sc
cret but careful watch on the tele-
phone booth in the drugstore. A
Evening star., 1940-11-04
District Democrats
LIST Three Speakers
For Final Rally
Both Parties Plan to Hear
Election Returns at
Headquarters Here

Three speakers are scheduled to
address a final rally meeting of the
Roosevelt for 1910 Club at $3.50
o'clock tonight at the local Demo-
cratic headquarters in the Burling-
ton Hotel.
Those scheduled to speak are
Seton Darr, attorney; Representa-
tive Boykin of Alabama and O'Con-
nor Woodward, chairman of pub
licity for the local Democratic Cen
tral Committee. Hugh V. Keiser,
president Of the local National
Democratic League. will have charge
of the meeting. Arthur Clarendon
Smith is the president of the club.
Meanwhile, Republican and Dem
ocratic organizations were going for
ward today with plans for receiving
election returns at their headquar-t
ters tomorrow night. Local absentee
voters bureaus and offices continued
busy today and were anticipating
final rush tomorrow, with three
States requiring their absentee
voters to cast their ballots on elec-
ton day itself and two other States
permitting it. Colorado, Kansas and
Rhode Island require that the ballot
be cast Election Day and North
Carolina and Nebraska permit abb
sentee voters to cast their ballots
either before or on Election Day.
Republican groups which will hold
open house for the election returns
tomorrow evening include the Will
ie-McNary Campaign Club, head
quarters in the Woodward Building,
Fifteenth and H streets NV; the
Willkie Washington Committee, 727
Fifteenth street NV, and the Re-
publican Women's Club, 1901 Sew
enteenth street NV.
Two groups will be in Democratic
headquarters in the Burlington Ho-
tel tomorrow night, one to be at a
Democratic victory celebration" J"
under auspices of the National
Democratic League of the District,
and the other, occupying another
room, under auspices of the local
Democratic Central Committee.
Evening star., 1940-11-04
Traffic Crashes
Fatal 10 Two
In D. {. Area
Others in Hospital
After Auto Accidents;
Policeman Injured
Traffic Record

The traffic record as revealed
at police headquarters for the
24-hour period ending at 8 am.
yesterday:
Fatalities, l (motorist).
Accidents, SO.
Motorists injured. 7.
Motorists arrested. 406.
Pedestrians injured. 9.
Pedestrians arrested for viola
ton of pedestrian control reg
ulations. 7.
The traffic record for the
24-hour period ending at s am.
today:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 46.
Motorists injured, II.
Motorists arrested, 209.
Pedestrians injured, /.
Pedestrians arrested for viola
ton of pedestrian control reg
ulations, none.
Killed in 1910 traffic, SO; by
November 4, in 1889, 72.
Evening star., 1940-11-04

woman who entered and apparently
looked around was seized, but she
soon convinced police she was a
reputable citizen who had merely
attempted to make social call over
the telephone There were no other
suspicious visitors.
After standing on the street corner
for an agonizing half hour, Mr.. Nc
Lachlen returned to his Office. Some
one had been dispatched to his resi-
dence to tell his wife to call at once
should she come in. Other per-
sons were searching for Mrs. Nc
Lachlen elsewhere. Mr.. McLachlen
was nearing the desperation point
when his wife telephoned him about
o'clock.
Fearful that she was then in the
kidnaper's hands, Mr.. McLachlen
resolved to find out all he could by
asking questions that could be. an
swered with "yes" or no"
"Is any one pointing a gun at
you?" he asked nervously.
"Why, no, dear"
"Are you at homer"
"Yes."
Had Gone to Hairdresser's.
"well, get out of the house at
once. Go next door and call me
right away. I'll explain later"
A trace call to the residence con-
firmed that Mrs. McLachlen had
telephoned from there and that she
was on the way to a neighbor's
house. Not until she called again..
though, did Mr. McLachlen relax.
For he had been afraid that kid
nap attempt might be made at the
house when she returned.
Where had Mrs. McLachlen been?
To the hairdressers.
A police detail, headed by 1t.
Clement P. Cox, today is working
on several clues, including de-
scripiton of the person who left the
letter with a Western Union clerk
at Union Station.
Mrs. McLachlen is the former
Josephine Baughman. They have
one son, Archibald, age 18. Mr.
McLachlen is an official of the
Washington Investment Co. and a
leader in civic affairs.
Evening star., 1940-11-04
Both Parties End Campaign
With Rallies in Nearby Areas
Confusing System of Voting in
Foirfox County Is Explained

"for," and to vote for q change the
line must run through the word
against"
1t is expected many voters will
be confused by the ballot, and a
large number of sample ballots have
been distributed throughout the
county.
George B. Robey, chairman of
the Fairfax County Taxpayers
League Opposed to Change in the
Form of County Government, said
that organization plans to have
workers at every polling place in the
county with sample ballots to as
sist voters.
Because the act providing for the
executive form of county government
specified the form of the ballot, the
County Electoral Board could not
have it conform to the present
method of voting.
Transportation Arranged.
The Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Arlington County an
nounced list of telephone numbers
which voters wanting transportation
to and from the polls may call to-
morrow. The transportation will be
free. The numbers listed are:
Arlington precinct, Chestnut 1914;
Ballston, oxford 1881; Carne, Chest
hut 0811; Cherrydale, oxford 1274-J;
Clarendon No. l, Chestnut 9809;
Clarendon No. 2, Oxford 0025; Glen
Carlyn, oxford 2310-J; Lyon Park,
oxford 2270; East Falls Church,
Falls Church 1900; Rosslyn, oxford
0038, and Virginia Highlands, Ivy
1860.
1t was also announced that any
voting information or transporta-
tion may be arranged by calling
county Democratic headquarters at
oxford 1884.
Evening star., 1940-11-04
Message Sent WiIIkie

The Executive Committee of the
willkie War Veterans of the Dis
trict of Columbia, Frank L. Peck
ham, chairman, yesterday sent q
message to Wendell Willkie, the G..
o. P. presidential candidate, express.
ing confidence he will be successful
in tomorrows election.
Evening star., 1940-11-04
Bio Cord for President
Is Marked Hold

President Roosevelt tomorrow will
receive an oversize post card ad-
dressed to the President-elect and
marked Hold if Necessary" The
card will read, "This is our vote
against the United States going to
war In Europe or Asia"
Sent by the Citizens Committee
Against War, the card is intended
to represent to the next Chief
Executive "the overwhelming no.
foreign-war sentiment of the Amer
lean people," according to Seymour
EtlEin, acting secretary.
Evening star., 1940-11-04
Two Major Parties Spend
Less Than They Take In
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Reports filed with Congress showed
today that the Democratic National
Committee had received $1,917,213
and had spent s1,848,727 from
January / to october 30 this year.
Republican contributions we're list
ed at $2993 ,991 and expenditures at
$2,313 400 during the same period.
Evening star., 1940-11-04
A. F. l. Reports 500
Gain in Membership
m th.A..oc;atad press

By the Associated Press.
George Meany, secretary treasurer,
reported yesterday that the present
membership Of the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor was 4,247,443, an
increase Of almost so per cent over
the 2,S6o. 900 total Of three years
ego.
Evening star., 1940-11-04
Contractors Meet Tomorrow

A business meeting will be COM
oined with election returns by the
Electrical Contractors Association
at s pm. tomorrow in the Potomas
Electric Power Co. Building. fourth
floor.
Evening star., 1940-11-04
Bund Concert

BY the United States Army Band
in the band auditorium of the Army
War College tomorrow at 2:30 pm.
Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl
Hubner, assistant leader.
PROGRAM.
/. March, "The Invincible
Eagle" Sousa
2. Transcription, Romance"
Svendsen
8. Caricatone, The Prima
Donna" -.----- Gould
4. Caprice, "Fleurette" Herbert
5. Duet, 1.-TWO Little Bulflnches,"
Killing
Messrs. Robert Cray and Henry
Weichler, fieutists.
9. Gavotte, la Pompadorr," Caraso
z. March, Squads Right Long
Evening star., 1940-11-04

In order to vote to retain the pres
ent form Of county government, .
linz has to b run through tbs word
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NOW PLAYING At
LOCAL THEATERS

tihsI tuONtNo
MUSIC BoN-J ames stewart
and Margaret SULLIVAN In
The SHOP Around he
Corner" II so. 4 .05, 7.25. 10 SO.
also Lloyd Nolan and Jean
Rogers in The Man VINO
wouldn't Talk" IL 80. 2'4e,
900, e.2o.
RIALTo-Ronald Colman, Ida
Iupino and walter Huston in
"The-IAght That Failed" II 80.
a.5o. 6 so, 1905; also Edith
Fellows in Five Little Pep
pers At Home" ii;45, 2:45, 5:t5,
BOO.
RIvIERA-George O'Brien and
virginia Vale In Marshall OF
Mesa CITY" l2.45, $40. 5;35,
s:o5. 1890. also Preston Foster
and Ann Dvorak in Cafe Host
ess." 1870. 1855, 4'25, 500,
e:l5.
ROXY-Iionel barrymore and
Lew Ayres IN The Secret OF
Dx. Kildare. 100. 400, z :05.
1905: Frank Morgan and Viz
ginia Weidler in Henry Goes
Arizona" 1i.35, 2:35. $40,
g 40: also The March OF Time
Il 40, 3:46. Gas. 9.45.
RETURN snUwING
RryFRIy-"Gulliver's TRAY
els" also Fay BANTER and Ed
mund Lowe in Our Neighbors.
the Carriers"
BLUE NoUsE-Myrna 10y and
William Powell in Another
Thin Man" also stuart Erwin
and Marjorie weaver In Inc
Honeymoon's over.
COMMUNITY Cagney,
Priscilla Lane. Humphrey Bo-
CART and Jeffrey Lynn In The
Roaring 2o's."
KAY sTREET--James Mccall
lion in Pride OF the Blue
Grass" also Walter Connolly In
Those High Gray Walls
IAKEwooD-Tyrone power
and Linda Darnell In Day
time Wife" also Bob Hope and
Paulette Goddard in The Cat
and the Canary"
PARK-Claudette Colbert, Hem
~ Fonda and Edna May Oliver
in Drums Along the Mo-
hawk" also The March OF
Time"
PROCTOR-Ire Dare and
Roscoe Harms in "Everything's
on Ice" also Pred Stone and
Rochelle Hudson in "Conga. the
Wild Stallion.
REALART-Marie Wilson and
Bert Wheeler in THE Cowboy
Quarterback. also Dorot ny
Lamour and AKIN Tamiroff in
Disputed Passage
REN-C harles Laughton and
Maureen O'Hara in Jamaica
Inn" also William Henry and
Judith Barrett IN "Television
Spy"
sHEII.-Russell Hayden an d
Donald Woods in Heritage OF
the Desert. /" also the Marx
Bru<. and Kenny Baker in AT
the Circus"
suNsET-Wallace Beery and
Chester Morris in Thunder
Afloat," also Code OF the
Secret Service"
TFMPLE-G gorge Raft and
Henry Fonda in Spawn OF
the North" also Penny Single
ton and Arthur Lake In
Blonde Takes a Vacation.
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begins to look like he will get both He and Virginia
are engaged expected marry within the next few
months. As for the ranch WELL that should be an
easy guy who make the first five in but two
short years in the land of make-beeve.
Imagine!
When RKO offers "Too Many Girls" the Broadway
stage hit to the fans of America, it will mark the
first time film production has reached the screen
without Hollywood in the entire lot. Even the
director, George Abbot, is New Yorker.
'TWas Euer Thus!
Twentieth Century Fox making picture titled Public
Deb No. II
When one of the studio executives asked Brenda
Nah she's not the type!'
Got Trimming!
Robert Young was prepared for a full weeks
cation in the mountains between his roles in "Florian
and THE Mortal Storm
BY the time the studio through juggling shoot
ing schedules, the weeks interval cut to just 20
hair cut
Double Feature for darcy!
Perhaps the first actual loss of film due directly to the
European with the sinking of the steamship Songa
Prints of several pictures the ship when 1t
went down and that's a break for Davey Jones'
Duck Adolf!
Oscar Schisgal's novel, II Married Nazi" has been
purchased by goth CenturyFox and will be made into
picture.
We have Daryl Zanucks word for it that punches will
be pulled in the filming.
And that will be all for except this the guy
who agrees with everything you either afraid OF
you he isn't listening
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Another Food Store, Market
Opened by Franklin on K St.
New Unit to Feoturs Some High Quolity
Goods: Herbert Jordon to Be Monoqsr

Residents In the X 81. business
area welcomed another store into
the district Friday-~a new food
store and market opened at So,
18th and X SITS, In the northeast
corner. by George @. Franklin.
owner Of Franklin Food stores.
Because OF tho many requests
for a Franklin Food store In the
district. II was decided to open one
that would meet with the full APP
prevail OF foodbuyers In the area"
Franklin said. Even before tho
opening OF the store. people have
said that Il is one OF the best
looking and best-arranged stores
In the city"
Hot chocolate and bread and
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Passes Taylor!

ready has passed Robert Tay-
lor, who. like Greene, didn't
waste any time getting near
the top.
However, according to the
Hollywood formula, Greene is
too young and too good look
ing to be the ideal lover type
and he's a foreigner
(Scotch and Irish by way of
England, which didn't help
any at the start.
Greene never got a big role
until quite recently when he
was given co-star billing with
Brenda Joyce in Here | Am
a Stranger"
Prior to that time he was
called upon for secondary love
interest in non-romantic pic
lures such as Stanley and
Livingstone" "The Lit I'll e
Princess" and Hound of the
Baskervilles."
The studio accepted Greene
as a capable youngster who
never squawked about the
parts assigned to him.
Then came the deluge I.
of fan mail tons of it, and
there was little doubt but that
the feminine fans, II to 20,
had gone overheard for the
21-year-old lad who just es-
capped the nickname Dim
pies" saved only by his
heavy beard and husky build.
Greene seems to have two
top-flight desires at this time
Virginia Field and a COW
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butter sandwiches viii he served
In each % the Franklin ssorea
Saturday. II was announced.
The new store viii feature the
same high-auaIity and welI.known
foods that arc sold In the other
Franklin stores.
Herbert Jordan will be manager
Of tho new unit. with Tommy
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02
Big Night at
The Century

Things are going to sirRle ~ tho
Century ballroom tomorrow night
when the three-feature program
gets under way.
First In line L. the announce
ment by the management that II
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02

Ht~ffi Duna has b~~n cash A. I
ballet dancer IN ''Natsslco llfidxs.r
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02
Power Man Quits;
Hollis New Era"
PORTLAND-Orin B. Coldy

PORTLAND-Orin B. Coldwell,
vice-president Of Portland Cen
eral Electric company for "a
years and a member Of the firm
for nearly half-a-eentury, resigned
Thursday.
He accompanied his resignation
with a statement which said, in
part, there is undoubtedly being
ushered in a new era In the field
of electric public service. This is
partly because OF the expansion of
public ownership philosophy Of
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the waltz championship TO Taco
ma and immediately. issued ehal-
lenge In the Fox Trot division
Those couples who are expert at
this type of dancing are invited
to participate in the first Of the
elimination contests at the Cen
fury ballroom this Saturday.
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business and the opportunity in
this field for the politically active.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02

aowsll and Eari Jenss ~ sselat.
ants All three have worked many
yeNfs IN fsAnklin food storea. and
are wsii.trHined in thsir dutieH oas
AZ the most important II whirh h
that II giving prompt. ccurseeua
service.
Eafl o'uenry VIII ~ IN charge
~ the meat market. assuring
hiKh-quailsy meat and excellent
service. he IL we,l known IN the
X II. district.
Customers win find parking
spare en So 18th u. to I u. and
on J n. In the bleeks shpvv and
below 18th n.
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band. Additions have been given
a number OF girls and then. by
elimination the number has been
cut to four. These four girls,
Mickie AcDougal. Shirley Craft,
Alta Williams and Andrea celler.
win sing 1t out tomorrow night
and the one who proves the most
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p opular with
the patrons viii
be given the job
with Dsle's mu-
steal group.
And last but
not least, a Fox
Trot contest will
get under way
with the first
of the contest
ants taking the
floor tomorrow
night.
Seattle dance
-
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win be candid
camera mig ut
and u Is expect
ed that m ore
than a thousand
individual pho
iographs viii be
snapped during
the course OF
the evening.
For SO m q
weeks now Dale
r Itxsimnons
has been look
Ing for q girl
snlnixf far hIs
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02
Judge Fines Four
On Liquor Counts

Four violators OF the city's
liquor ordinance drew police court
penalties at the hands Of Judge
Joseph Mallery Thursday after
noon. The charges were filed by
state liquor control agents.
Tom Jones, arrested at the Lido
cafe, 1919 Broadway. Feb. %. Earl
Butler, arrested at the Roma cafe,
1920 Broadway, the same night,
and Melvin Harris. arrested at the
Avenue cafe, 1916 Pacific on
Feb. s. were fined 800 and costs
each for Illegal possession. Joe
Mario pleaded guilty to a charge
Of sale Of liquor by the drink and
was fined $3.50 and costs, for his
arrest at the Cafe de Paris, 1920
Pacific, Feb. 8.
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STAR RETURNS

May McAvoy. star of silent days,
returns to the screen after n re-
tirement Of ten years. for role
in Two Girls On Broadway
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Mrs. Vann Elected
u. D. c.. President
For Another Term

Mrs. Livingston Vann, jr., will
head the District Of Columbia d.
vision, United Daughters of the
Confederacy, for another season as
result Of elections which con-
cluded the 37th annual convention
Of the division Monday night.
Mrs. Eugenia Zea Rollins was re-
elected first vice president. Others
continued in ONCE were Mrs. Seba
L. Christie, recording secretary;
Miss Katherine A. Moncure, regis
trar; Miss Liza E. Carpenter, his
torian; Miss Mary Embrey, recorder
of crosses; Mrs. Albion w. Tuck,
parliamentarian; Mrs. Clement Z.
Garner, auditor, and Miss BERTHE L.
Packet, custodian.
Miss Carolyn Rogers was elected
second vice president; Mrs. Francis
M. Hofiheins, third vice president
and director of the Children of the
Confederacy; Mrs. Lois Brown Rob-
bins, corresponding secretary; Miss
Maude B. Snead, treasurer, and Miss
Martha F. Stewart, chaplain.
Davis Coulter, IL. president of the
Maj. Charles M. Stedman Chapter,
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Gooding and 5-year-old Beverly are
also with their mother and father,
but Billy Wilson crossed the seas
alone, to join a married sister living
in Montgomery County. Billy's home
is near an airdrome, he said, and
he had been through several raids.
mo, I didn't get very scared" he
said. 1--WE stayed in the house. No
use going into air raid shelters, the
house is just as safe"
After the refreshments, the chill
dren gathered about their gifts, in
Guiding games and books.
They were reluctant to speak OF
relatives across seas and displayed a
gay determination to show their ap-
probation Of the hospitality Of the
American club women.
The children's party followed .
luncheon attended by club men,
bers at which gifts were exchanged.
Mrs. Farley presided, and Mrs. Ed
ward M. Willis was general chair
man Of the Christmas program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-11
Overseas
Feted
Bethesda Woman's
Club Gives
Yule arty
By GRETCHEN SMITH.

The flush of excitement was ap-
parent on the faces of a group Of
young guests at a Christmas party
given yesterday in Bethesda, but
there was quiet restraint and I'M
usual composure about them as they
chatted and played at games.
The party was given by the
Women's Club of Bethesda and the
five boys and three girls who were
special guests had recently crossed
the ocean to escape the rain of
bombs over their homes In Europe.
All of the children, except the lad
from Scotland, had come to the
United States with at least one
parent, and are making their homes
for the duration" in Montgomery
County.
I'VE believe that clubwomen
should think of Christmas as time
for children" explained Mrs. John
Nader, who had been appointed
by the club president, Mrs. Frank
Preston Farley, to secure names
OF children from overseas from COM
munity schools. I'VE knew there
were children from foreign lands
in our community and hoped the party
would bring them some happiness
We think it would be fine if women s
clubs in other parts of the country
would help bring Christmas cheer
to these little children away from
their own lands for the first time"
Children Sing Carols.
The children ranged in ages
from to IA and included Beverly
Snyder of London, Mary and John
Shepherd of Kent, Margaret Good
ing of London, Wouter, Han and
Rudolf Scheltema of Leydon, Hol-
land, and Billy Wilson, Ayrshire,
Scotland.
The children stood in a group
on a stage festive with Christmas
decorations and sang Christmas
carols.
Fourteen-year-o Rudolf Schel-
tema appeared in a costume worn
by the Dutch St, Nicholas.
1--WE celebrate December s." the
birthday of St, Nicholas, he said
"and the children find toys in their
wooden shoes on December g." The
Dutch children are here with both
mother and father.
Home Suffered From Bombs.
The Shepherd children arrived a
few weeks ago with their mother
from Kent. Their home. which is
about 40 miles from Dover had suf-
fered severely from air raids. Their
father, they explained, still re-
manned in England. Margaret