NANCY
WELL-I GUESS WE'LL HAVE TO CLOSE OUR DANCING SCHOOL.** WE CAN'T SEEM TO GET ANY PUPILS!
YEAH... BUT IT'S A SHAME DAT WE CAN'T USE OUR
TALENT SOMEHOW!
209
April 22, 1940.
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
By Ernie Bushmiller
SPANISH DANCE TEAM WANTED
-BANIA
I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT'S SO FUNNY!
APAR-D
GUNNER
IN
PANTS
FACING WON D.S.M. FOR
DEATH WITH SPANNER
FIGHTS NAZI BOMBER
Left His Sick Bed MILLION
To
Defend Ship
NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD CHARLES GOLDEN,
of Rotherhithe, leapt from his sickbed in the motor-
ship Rosedene when he heard firing.
A few seconds later-wearing |--
only his underclothes-be was
nt his Lewis gun exchanging
shots with a Nazi bomber.
It was bitterly cald, but Golden forgot his influenza and stuck to his xun till the raider went off,
Twelve bombs were drupped, sonte very efore. No damage was done to the ship but neatly every breakable article broke.
The captain, who fired at the plime with a ride, and the second mate, were slightly wounded in the legs by ricochetting bullets.
Near The Coast.
The story was told when the Rosedene (400 tons), of Sunderkoul. reached on East Coast port,
The vessel, was attacked on the previous night, two miles off the
by
Heinkel coust-apparently
bomber.
When the bombs dropped the sinalt ship was almost lifted out of the water, and the crew thought she would sink
Captain J. Armstrong, of Par, Cornwall, said, that the plane power- clved and dropped the rat bomb within eight yards of the vessel,
"I was In the wheelhouse." he sald, "and grabbed my rife and be- an taking shots at the plane as it turned to dive again:
Spattered Deck
"The plane circled over the port side nad returned, her machine-guns sending streams of bullets which -pattered the
deck.
felt a stinging pain in my right gasa ricochetting bullet passed through one side of my trousers and out of the other.
"Then the second inate, Thoms H. Wilson, was similarly hit.
"When the plane dived the second time it was niet with steady burst of fire from our Lewis gun and I was munzed to see the 10-year-old genner standing calmly behind his g, wearing only his underclothes.
"It was bitterly cold and bullets were striking alt parts of the ship. but he did not seem to heed them.
"He was a very plucky hoy.
Wanted His Bed
"I could ree the tracers hitting the Nuz und expected it to retire from the fight sucher than it did.
"It was a grand fight and I'm certain our ginger hit the plane. If we did not bring hun down we've done enough damage to give him a headache."
Golden-who was making his first top in the Rosedene--said: "I wor feeling pretty groggy but when heard the skipper's rifle I knew was needed on deck,
"gave the Nazi all 1 could but what I wanted most was to scure him of so that I could get back to bed."
WIFE NAGGED
A FEW minutes after, she had divorced Herbert Marshall, Mias Edna Best, the film and stage star, was married again at Las Vegas, Nevada. Her third hus- band is Nat Wold, her Hollywond spent.
The same judge granted the divorce and performed-the-wed-- ding ceremÓNY.
Miss Best accused Mr. Mor- shall of desertion in 1934. They were married in 1928.
TO 1 AIR ESCAPE
SITTING comfortably in the rear turret of an R.A.F. recon- naissance plane, a young air gunner did not know that his life hung by a thread.
Neither did he know. that he wan alone in the machine several thou- sand feet up, and that the other members of the crew had taken to their parachutes.
But minutes later, bsa milan- in-one chance. the gunner was safely on the ground. The "Bring 'er Hack Alive" plane had landed Itself:
This amazing freak of tuck hap- pened in France a few days ago.
Already has gone down as a legend of the air.
Watching for Ice
The plane had set out on a re-
Chief Petty Officer Baldwin receiving his medal from the King at Portsmouth on December 19.
MINE HERO DIES
AT HIS
POST
connaissance light over enemy ter- CHIEF PETTY OFFICER CHARLES E. BALDWIN,
ritory.
i
In the cabin the pilot and his col- leagues watched anxiously for signs! of ice formation-dreuded enemy of the airman; in the rear turret the gunner sat at his gun, his telephone, clamped to his cars.
It the ice formed and the plane became unmanageable the orders to "hole out" would come to hin through the phone,
The ice came.
Fur desperate minutes the pilot fought to keep the plane on an even keel and maintain altitude. It was
losing battle.
Jump' Order not Heard
Eventually he shouted into his mouthpiece: "Jump." One by one,
who was decorated by the King for his part in one of the most dangerous exploits of the war, has been killed by an accident on service.
He was one of the five members of the Vernon Mine Establish-
GUN-GIRL STRIPPED VICTIM
New York. LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, police are holding a snarling, All but the rear gunner. He had high-tempered gun-girl, who not heard the instruction, Ice had confessed that, after forcing a frozen his phone.
thenienflated_down.
ment, Portsmouth, whose job it
was to dismantle German mines washed up on the coast.
They faced tremendous risks-and the only weapon with which they fought was a spanner.
All five were awarded medals, "in recognition of great courage and daring." for venturing out off the Coast in darkness to render a mine sale.
Or Baldwin's colleagues. Lieut.- Commander J. O. D. Ouvry and Lieut.-Commander Roger Lewis re- D.S.O.. Lieut. John ceived. the
lenny the D.S.C.. and Able-Scarnan A. Vearncombe the D.S.M.
They had volunteered for the task, and there is not the slightest doubt. that they have saved hundreds of Ing a good course and nearing home, later slugging her male ac- lves and thousands of
Still at bis post, he smiled happity
salesman to strip in a lonely
as he saw that the plane was mak-field, she shot him dead, and
HERMIT HAS Gradually the plane nosed down complice because he was "too shipping.
AN ACCENT
for earth in a long sweeping glide-yellow" to rob a bank. the fee was dragging it down.
Finally the machine "pancaked."
LIVING away from the world Found Cabin Empty
The gunner was badly shaken, but
Joseph Calloway, tyre salesman, as he drove picked up the couple along a lonely road. Later the girl stuck a gun in his ribs and forced
on the rocky California coast, unhurt." He thought of his col-him to stop. dressed only in a piece of sack-leagues in the cabin, jumped from ing, is a conlented hermit-who ibe turret and ran to their rescue"
-to find the cabin empty. speaks with an Oxford accent.
He is the Rev. Henry Shaw, Ox-' ford graduate, who lives on 16s. a week relief money in a shack made i of driftwood. Ills only companions are ave cats.
Only then did the luckiest young man in the world realise how mir- aculously he had escaped from the jaws of death.
Then, leading him inte the woods, she forced him to remove his clothes, Naked. on his knees, he begged for inercy, but she shot him.
1:58 thurugb the head. laking clothes, which netted her only £4, and a cheap watch
The "Daily Mirror" told the story
Next she took his car and tried to to a well-known airman that night.
14 was a million-to-one against persundle her accomplice to help her that plane landing safely," said arob a bank. but he demurred.
White-bearded, long-haired, and within four months of his sixtieth birthday, he is still in fine physical condition, as hard as nails. In ull weathers he has a daily bathe in well-known' airman. the surf.
"The lee might have made it slip To-day, comparing his situation or spin, To have landed it must with that of his fellow men, he says live come in on a flat glide and, he has
his break would have needed miles of perfectly no regrets over with civilisation.
But land to ensure a safe landing.
"Tal
Young Runner can thank his lucky stars."
No doubt, somewhere in France, a young gunner is doing so.
"I have tittle money, tle ex- pense and no worry whatever," he explains. "I sellorn think of the past and never of the future. I ilve
the day." After leaving Oxford, Shaw dis- BECAUSE his wife nagged tinguished himself in Investigating
AT TRIFLE
for
him and complained that his Church-irregularities in Wales.
shoes had not been properly
cleaned, a seventy-six-year-old
retired Civil Servant was alleged
at Bristol to have killed her.
John Frederick Cotty, of Ashley hill, Irisiol, white-haired, feeblo
"Some pretty high persons went "but the to prison," he says, scandal made things unpleasant and I knew I'd better clear out.
"I went to Canada, didn't like the way things were there, and came on here,"
His shack is some miles north of
and so deaf that he was allowed Port Bragg.
to sit at the sellellors' table was He learned the undertaking busi- committed for Irial charged withness and for yours operated a mor the murder of his wife, aged usry, serving a huge area of the soventy-eight.
sparsely settled timber country.
to have told o
He was alleged palice officer that he had killed his
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She told the police: "He was yellow, so I socked him over the head with my gun and left him in
The pamphlet gives advice the car. I haven't acen him siner. He was a yellow rat, but I'll hang making a will, on getting their per- before I'll tell you mugs his name." sonul affairs in order, how to deal with enemy troops landed by para- The girl's name is Tonic Henry chute, espionage, sabotage, trenson Her hiband, Claude Henry, is in and on how to act in air raids an prison for manslaughter,
Ros attacks.
WOMEN'S 2 HOURS' LYNCH MOB TERROR
TWO negresses-mother and daughter-were rescued from an enraged lynch mob of 500 men by a posse of 25 police near Stockton, Maryland, U.S.A., after an ordeal of terror which lasted two hours.
The mob had raided the county. gool ut Snowhill late the previous
wife because she nogged him and he | DISASTER IN RAPIDSight in search of an arrested negro
"Anw black.".
"Difficult To Please"
When Ship Sinks
‚ they can't come, thank goodness!
Your favourite chair will not be usurped by your neighbour's wife. Your party smile will not con. tort your well- washed 'face. You will put on your slippers and you will gnaw your chicken bone. After dinner you will settle down in your
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letters you should be writing, and all
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This is a part of the cumpaign which Hitler's propagandists, are now running at full blast to create the impression that a bly attack on the Western Front is imminent.
The "highlight" of this propa- so far is been ganda campaign. Goering's speech to the German he said the war. youth, in which must be decided in the West.
Brauchitsch, Returning
It is reported that General von Brauchitsch, the German Comman- der-in-Chief, was returning frăm another inspection tour of the West Front, parilentarly the Rhine sretne, where he has been since Sunday.
grabbed them and dragged them through a window,›
They were shown a rope and told: "How would you like to linvo who is accused of murdering a local
this around your necks?".. farmer and assaulting his wife. But The mob then drove off with the Eighty Passengers Drown the authorities, fearing a lynching, screaming women, heading for, the had removed the negro to a secret nearby town of Stockton in search hiding place.
of the man.
The leaders forced the women Chungking. Apr. 21,
two The mob then seized the Over 80 passengers were drowned
Blake. aged to tell the name of the negro when negresses-Martha- when the steamer Ming Yung, of the thirty-one, and her daughter Lilian, the police, to protect him from undis- The relatives heard a noise, and in Min Seng Company, sank
Prices on the officially-regulated closed place.
Berlin Stock Exchange have taken a the Cottys' bedroom found the wo-rapids of the Chialing. River, north aged fourteen-who were being held ynching, had removed to an
chair man dend in
by the fire of Chungking, yesterday.
The mob was dispersed and the sharp dive. The chief expinanlion place with a strap round her neck. Of about 150 passengern only 60 so
women reached by State police afterativanced in German financial circles rumoita - were -abrond af She had apparently been cleaning for are reported to have been rescu-
clash in which two of the mob was that shoes shortly before her death.
, now taxes to finance the war. jed-Neuler.
and one policeman were injured.
Mr. G. R. Paling, prosecuting, sald the old couple, lived with relatives, Mrs. Colty was in the habit of com- plaining about trifles, and was un- doubtedly difficult to please.
in the
af material witnesses in the some CABC.
The women cowered in their cells as the mob tore down the iron door,
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