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Show A . 5. Admiral's Gift to, Br ila in ' ' .. --. '" " ' i- -j- - Responding to the desperate need for binoculars by British roof spotters spot-ters on whose vigilance the safety of thousands of civilians engaged in vital defense activities depends, Americans in all parts of the United States are sending their field glasses to the American Committee for Defense De-fense of British Homes, 10 Warren Street, New York, for shipment to England. In Boston Mrs. Anne H. Sims, above, acting in behalf of her son, Ethan A. H. Sims of New York, presents the binoculars used by her late husband, Admiral William S. Sims, while World War commander of the U. S. Naval Forces operating in European waters, to Arthur B. Harlow, chairman of the Massachu-ietta Massachu-ietta branch o the American Com mittee for Defense of British Homes. In making a gift of the binoculars to the Committee, Mr. Sims, who inherited in-herited them from his father, said: "I am giving the British these binoculars because I feel that my father would have wished to have them used by his former Allies." Meanwhile, at its national headquarters head-quarters in New York, the Committee Commit-tee received a pair of field glasses and a .32 calibre revolver from Miss Louisa P. Sims of Haverford, Pa., a sister of the late Admiral. Besides binoculars and firearms, the American Committee for Defense De-fense of British Homes, of which C. Suydam Cutting Is chairman, is collecting steel helmets, now unprocurable unpro-curable in England, and stopwatches for the use of the spotters in timing the speed of enemy aircraft. |