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King's Nephew Determined
To Wed British Commoner
LEEDS, England — King’s consent or no, 17-year
old June Morris and 18-year-old Gerald Lascelles are
pledged to be married as soon as it’s legally possible.
That was the latest word on the Cinderella romance
of the young brunette canteen worker and the nephew
of King Geor; e. The Royal Family is said to have frown
ed on the romance, reportedly because June is a com
moner and Gerald is 10th in succession to the British
throne.
■'I'm not worrying,” June said. ‘‘I intend to carry on
until we get married either here or abroad.”
June’s mother. Mrs. Francis William Morris, said
Gerald was of the same mind.
“Pm quite prepared to go through with this and leave
the country if necessary.” she quoted Gerald as saying.
Gerald cannot marry in Britain withut a special li
cense until he is 21. unless he gets his parents’ permis
sion.
‘Much in Love'
Mrs. Norris said Gerald was “very definite” about his
intentions and “much in love.”
“If there was any way,” she quoted him as saying,
“we would get married tomorrow.”
June went to the movies alone tonight since Gerald is
with his family in mourning for the Duke of Kent, his
uncle. Gerald may not see June again before he goes
into the Army next week but the couple talk teach
night by telephone.
“June and Gerald really did meet on top of a bus,”
Mrs. Morris said. “It was a case of love at first sight
because June didn't know who Gerald was until she
was introduced to him at a dance at Harewood House
(residence of Gerald’s father, the Earl of Harewood.)
Phone Call Awaited
Mrs. Morris was asked why the couple did not get a
special license to marry immediately and said that she
was told this would not be legal.
June is 5 feet, 4 inches tall and slender. Tonight she
planned to be home by 9:30 for certain in order to be
sure of getting Gerald’s telephone call.
The couple has been engaged only a week. The en
gagement came on Gerald’s 18th birthday. He gave
her a single stone diamond ring.
“June naturally has had a few boy friend before,”
Mrs. Morris said. “But this is her real love.”
The couple has known each other about five months.
They’ve gone to movies, dances, theatres and dinners
together—always by bus. Gerald has called at June’s
home about three times a week.
Five weeks ago June had tea with the Princess Roy
al, Gerald’s mother. Gerald told June’s mother that
the Princess Royal thought June was most charming.
The Brighter Side
There has been so much talk about what is wrong
with the war effort of the United States that it is re-'
freshing to read accounts of some of the things that
are right.
Rescue Drummond, writing in the Christian Science
Monitor, recently took occasion to point out that a
truer perspective is needed and that we should have
a realization of the things that have been “signally
well.’’ He lists, among them:
The “greatest political conception of the war,’’ the
lend-lease act which cut through the jungle path of
neutrality stumps and prevented Germany from pick
ing off her victims one by one;
The peace-time conscription act, the fairest, most
democratic statute, “with which a free nation ever
called its citizens to arms”;
The start, in 1940, to build up the army into a force
that is now 4,000,000 strong, trained and already on
the war fronts;
The war production program, with merchant ship
ping moveing ahead because production has come so
fust;
The Office of Price Adminisration which “is ding ten
times as much to control inflation as was done in World
War 1;
The solid, effective, unbreakable national unity that
m< ans vicory for a nation at war.
Mr. Drummond emphasizes that the mistakes of dem
i) i y are continuously in the open and look twice as
bad as hey are, while those of a dictatorship are con
tinually concealed. He concludes that “American dem
ur .cv has little to apologize for in its conduct of the
wai a. id that the mistakes made in the open are cor
rected in the open.
Fran; Tjn I). Doosevelt: “It is no solution to a eon
t ‘ uestion to argue it out in public.”
Hoover Says
\\ ateh Out
For Fakers
Many Persons Imperson
ating Officers Have
Been Nabbed
Beware of fake Federal agents
and officers, Director J. Edgar
Hoover of the Fedeal Bureau of
Investigation, has again caution
ed. As a result of numerous im
personation violations through
out the nation. Mr. Hoover urges
members of the public not to
furnish information to any per
son purporting to represent a
Federal agency unless he dis
plays credentials posit.vely ident
ifying both himself and tire or
ganization.
Numerous cases have recently
arisen where unauthorized per
- ms, posing as FBI agents, have
secured information and privil
eges which they would not nor
mally have received.
Watch out for the alleged in
vestigator who '‘flashes” moment
arily his badge or credentials,
w >rned the FBI Director. Insist
n scrutinizing them closely
and if there is any doubt as to
his authenticity, report the in
cident to the nearest office of the
FBI.
Fake Exposed
Only a short time ago a swash
buckling adventurer posing as an
FBI agent secured several sums
of money and an expensive ring
from a young woman. From an
other gullible victim he obtained
$11200 while she basked in the
thoughts of his important Feder
al connections. To substantiate
his false assertion that he was
an FBI agent this man "flashed”
a gold badge, which he took
pains not to allow' his victim to
see closely. The FBI ended this
impersonator’s transcontinental
philanderings, however, and he
was given a four-year sentence
in prison.
The “investigator” who has
only a badge may bo an imposter
ask to see his credentials. The
official credential card of the j
FBI t ntains the signature and j
photograph of the Special Agent
as w'ell as the signatures of the
Attorney General and the Direct
or of the FBI.
The warime efforts of our na
tion could be endangered by un
scrupulous persons who nrght
take advantage of their false po-1
sitions to commit sabotage or se
cure confidential information.
There has been a marked in
, crease in impersonations of
Army and Naval officers in re- j
cent months. In Washington, D. I
C., a pomp us “General” boldly f
requisitioned an official Army
car w th chauffeur - -to go job
hunting around Washington. He
had no Army connections at all
and .v is arrested by the FBI on
mp‘ sonation charges.
“Army Officers
Then there was the case of the
Maryland carpenter who built
houses during the day and play
ed Army officer at night. He ad
mitted in court that he did it
to impress people. One furniture
was so deeply impressed with the
quack colonel’s story he allowed
; the latter to delay payment of an
account because he was busy in
vestigating Pearl Harbor. The
j “Colonel” was sentenced to four
years in Federal prison.
In New Jersey, a bogus Major
1 was such an able faker that he
began ordering a good portion of
the citizenry about. He had be
gun and supervised the construc
j tion of an Army Canteen which
i did business for five weeks, pur
j chased a new automobile with a
$1600 bad check, and forced the
'concessionaire to hire his fiancee
j to keep records “required by the
j government.” When the “Major”
j was unmasked, he promptly as
| sorted that he was an FBI agent
j posing as a Major in order to
i ferret out subversive activtieg
j among the Army construction
| workers. He was a fraud and was
bombtly dealth with by the FBI.
Watch Credentials
It is good business for persons
to know with whom they are
dealing. Particularly at this time
jit is imperative that information
] not be given to unauthorized per
j sons. Everyone, when asked for
information or privileges by any
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EDEN SAYS WAR
MAY BE LONG
Coventry, England —Brit
ish Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden told 2000 civil i
defense wardens at Coven
try that “this time, we
have to finish the job."
“We will not tolerate
this business every twenty
years. When the job is fin
ished, wo must see that j
these people, the Germans,
cannot start it again. That*
is the will of this nation j
and of the United Nations.
i annot be Predicted
Eden said no one was in >
a position yet to predict
whether this war would be
of long or short duration.
He cautioned also that it
would be unwise to under
estimate and under rate
the strength of the German
military machine. And
Eden warned further ag-j
ainst expecting an early in :
ernal collapse of the Ger
man people. Said he:
' “It would be unwise to
underrate the discipline
and obedience of the Ger
man people or attempt to
under-estimate the influ
ence of the Gestapo upon
them.”
Large Amount Material
Anthony Eden said that
the Allied convoy which re
cently succeeded in run
ning the attempted Ger
man blockade carried the
largest amount of war mat!
erials ever delivered to So j
viet Russia by her Allies.
The great majority of;
the ships of the convoy ar j
rived ‘safely at the north-1
j ern Russian port, in spite
of almost constant plane j
j and submarine attack.
person who claims to be a Fed- j
, eral agent or officer, should in- j
j sist upon seeing his proper ere- j
I dentials.
Impersonating a Federal officer
i is a Federal offense and all sus- i
| peetod infractions of this tatute i
should be reported immediately !
to the nearest office of the FBI. j
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BATAAN’ SYMPHONIST — Harl McDonald, Phila
delphia symphony orchestra manager, who composed a tone poem
named “Bataan,” works at his desk beside portrait of Gen. Doug
las Mac Arthur to whom the “Bataan” score was deuicktc J.