The Archive · 1940

Welcomed in London

London, Oct. 5.

The appointment of Mr. Herbert Morrison as Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security finds favour in his "home town". London, as the world knows, is the present air-raid problem, and Mr. Morrison is Cockney born and bred.

His great organizing abilities were revealed when he was Labour leader of the London County Council. People of London know and trust him, and think of him as one of themselves:

In this crisis of their history he is the man to understand their needs.

Hardly less important in a long view are the implications of the appointment in another aspect—y against fifth column activities:

Morrison's appointment is a guarantee that no security measures Redwood City, Calif, Oct. 5.

A fortnight after s crime, Wilhelm Jacob Muhlenbroich, German alien, was sentenced to life imprison ment here yes-

Ex-Education Chief Found Lokawei Cemetery yesterday after-of "Desertion"

Vichy, Oct. er Minister of Educa noon of the late Mrs. Bertha Matilda Hill who passed away at the General Hospital on Thursday morning. Deceased who was 65 years of age, resided for many years in Shanghai in terday for the three-year-old kidnapping of M. Jean y, was found guilty of Mare de Tris- desertion' the mi ilita cour t at tan, son of a wealthy French family living in California.

Clermont-Ferrand yes and given the n imum penalty of de Muhlenbroich earlier pleaded portation, mil degradation, ment for costs of the trial. guilty to charges of kidnapping.—United Press.

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