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CUSTER!?
TO CUSTER'S MASSACRE"?
AND EVERYBODY KNOWS. CUSTER'S MASSACRE IS AN EPOCH IN AMERICAN
HISTORY!
OH, DON'T WORRY!: WITH ME AS YOUR GUIDE YOU'LL BE JUST 'AS SAFE AS YOU WOULD'
BE ON BROADWAY! BUT I MUST HAVE MY: MONEY IN ADVANCE!
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SURE, I TRUST YOU! BUT I'M NOT TAKING ANY MORE CHANCES!-
By BUD FISHER
THE LAST GUY. I
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MONEY!!
NUFFIELD
R.A.F. BOMBERS ENDOWMENT OVER BERLIN AND
FOR R.A.F
Lord Nuffield yes- terday handed a che- que for £250,000 to Lord Wakefield, chairman of the Coun- cil of the R.A.F. Bene- volent Fund, with which to found the "Nuffield Endowment Fund."
The interest from the fund will be ap- plied to the relief of all forms of distress
among the depen- dents of R.A.F. per- sonnel, killed or in- capacitated by wounds or injuries received in action. Reuter.
BLACK FOREST
ROYAL AIR FORCE bombers on Tuesday night attacked military objectives concealed in forests in the Hartz Mountains and Crunewald Forests, north of Berlin, starting many fires which later caused explosions, it was officially announced in London.
Other aircraft carried out reconnaissance over an area of the Black Forest, east of Baden-baden, where fires have been started by our bombers on Monday night many of which were still blazing.
Other R.A.F. bomber forces at-mand, attacked barge concentra- tacked the electric power stations, tions in Beveland Canal and at lighting installations and an arm-Terneuzen. in the mouth of ament actory in Berlin,
Scheldt. Forces of the Coastal Command attacked docks.
All out aircraft returned.- Reuter.
All our aircraft returned safely.
Other objectives attacked, ac-j cording to the communique,{" Heavy Attacks On were oil storage tanks in Magde-
Nazi Advanced Bases burg, goods-yards in Hamm and Schwerte, а blast-furnace in} From soon after nine o'clock Merzig and several Dutch and last night until one o'clock this German aerodromes.
morning, states an Air Ministry Aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm, Bulletin, R.A.F. bombers made a operating with the Coastal Còm-series of counter-attacks on the [advanced striking bases of the German air force in the Pas de Calais area.
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·Latér ̈aircraft ~~~maintained ~ the attack and the pilot of one saw six separate fires on the acro- drome.
Another squadron bombed St.1 Omer aerodrome and scored hits! on the landing ground which were followed by explosions,
Marck aerodrome at Calais was one attacked at 12:15 and at o'clock another raider bombed the airfield at Guines, south-east of Cullis.
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