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GUNNER WHO
TO
FIRE, REWARDED WITH D.F.C.
"FRANKIE" PHILLIPS,
of the R.A.F., has been awarded a D.F.C.
Ho and his tail gunner. Cor--| porul William Gray Lillle, routed six Junker which attacked their Sunderland flying-boat while on convoy escort patrol Corporal Lillie gets the D. F. M.
By his skilful, handling of the air- Phillips craft, Flight-Lieutenant avolded the first attack by two enemy aircraft and manoeuvred the flying- bont so that his gunner. could deal with the oncoming Nazis.
Corporal' Lille held his fire until the attacking planes were within a hundred yards. Then he let loose. One Nazl plane crashed into the cea in flames. The others "retired at speed,"
In a farm kitchen in the remote Cornish village of Perranuthnoe, Mrs. Thomas Phillips heard of the award made to her son.
"That is a nice birthday present," she said. Flight-Lieutenant. Phillips was twenty-five just recently.
Sydney Smith, Daily Express air reporter, flew with Flip-Lieutenant Phillips on an Atlantic ent-submarine winter, patrol one day during the Sydney Smith writes:-
At Breakfast
"The wing-commander Introduced me to a slim, black-haired reddy- than complexioned chap, not more Ave feet six inches tall. He looked about nineteen.
READY TO GO UP AND BRING DOWN JERRY
This is Frankie Phillips, the Just before taking the air for important reconnaissance flights, these French pilots group
captain of the flying-boat you will
go in, said tho wing-commander, The captain was calling bacon and CRES
From the moment, he stepped aboard the youthful captain seemed to take on a weight of years. He talked in a quiet, crisp way to his
crew.
"As we roared over the water some
of the Indicatore on the dash-board froze. Should we try to stop or take off? 'Frunkle' Phillips lifted giant flying-boat of the water with a barely noticeable movement of the control column.
around their squadron leader for a final review of instructions.
Donald Duck "Sees Red" When
He Sees Khaki
Pairlotto Miss Joan Stovell, Mrs. daughter of Captain and the
A. IL Stovell, of Cove House, Bowleaze Cove, Weymouth, owns duck which is the living counterpart of Donald Duck, the famous screen star, after whom she has named him.
"From then until we landed again, hours later, there was not a moment that he did not seem supremely in command.
"Although I spent all day with him I hardly remember anything Frankie' Phillips said. He talks so little. He did say. It's pretty monotonous, we olten wish something would really
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But although she is delighted with his tricks, Donald II is a conscientious objector.
Donald was bought for Dd. at Dorchester Market eleven months ngo.
He has acquired a taste for breakfast, luncheon And after- noon tea, a comfortable chair la the drawing-room, and his онл
about that."
Two other RAF, men were de- corated
well. Their names- Pilot Sergeant A. L. T. Cargli and+++++++÷÷÷÷|H Pilot Sergeant J. L. Hawken.
D.F.M. For Two
They were each presented with the Distinguished Flying Medal by Air Vice-Marshal C. D. Breese at a in Scot- Coastal Command station land.
Behind
the Baluting base stood -Pilol-Sergeant Cargill's wife.Away. down south at Gillingham, Kent, an- other woman shared Mrs. Cargli's pride-Pilot Sergeant Hawken's mother.
Air Vice-Marshal Breese said that Hawken was chosen to navigate the leading aircraft of a flight of twelve Bienhelms which carried out a suc-
cessful raid on Borkum.
special corner in the bedroom of the master and mistress of the house.
Ai nine o'clock each night ho Halens to tho B.B.C. news bulletin and then walks sedately upstairs to bed.
He belongs to the Khaki Camp- bell breed, but he's no warrior.
Mrs. Stovell sald one day: "The sight of an army uniform drives hiza mad. We made the discovery when my brother, who Is serving in the forces, came home on leave.
"Donald kept out of sight until the visit was over, and he hides whenever a uniform comes in night. We cannot sure him of
ENTICING HOLDS UP CONTRACTS
Double Pay Offers To Skilled Men
Further evidence Was givers recently of the dislocation caused in enany works engaged on Government contracts by the increasing number of cases in which skilled men are being attracted from one job to an- other by the offer of higher wages For bonuses.
What makes the situation particu- tarly serious is the poaching of key men in the engineering and aeroplane- |÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷making works. Fitters, jig and pat- tern makers and borers, who are among the highest-skilled technicians, are most in demand.
Ku Klux Klan Ride Again:
Trade Union Victims
By ROBERT WAITHMAN
NEW-YORK.
A SERIES of trials now beginning in Georgia and South Carolina reveal that the Ku Klux Klan secret society, which has anticipated many of the Nazis' methods, is flaring up again in the deep south of the United States.
So many complaints of this growing practice have been received by the Machine Tool Trades Association from its members that an urgent appeal nas been made to the Minister of Labour.. to make an order banning such trans- fers on the ground that they are hold- ing up completion of contracts,
From one source 1 heard of cares
where men had been lured from one firm to another by the offer of dou
bled wages.
"Pernicious System"
"The real trouble is the cost-plus- percentage basis on which many Government contracts are made," said
Forty cases in which Klans men-with and without white one authority. "It is a most perni- hoods and other theatrical trappings are accused of flogging clous system, and on uneconomical It puts some firms in a position. helpless victims have been uncovered in and around Atlanta, one.
to Georgia, which is regarded as We have had numerous instances pay more money for skilled labour, the headquarters of the revived given to us of big-wages paid to halt- skilled and even unskilled men owing
Although subjected to very heavy anti-aircraft fire, Sergeant Hawken navigated the whole formation un- damaged safely back to their base. Pilot Sergeant Cargill was describ- ed by the alr vice-marshal as "one of the most experienced reconnaiss- ance pilots of the Coastal Command.'
Since the war began he had been flying over he North Sea on patrol work hunting U-boots, checking up on shipping and guarding convoys.
He had fought. 1 duel with a Dornier flying-boat off the Nor- wegian coast and damaged it severe- The billeting rate for meals ly.
Although his own aircraft had a plied to soldiers is Increased from tank shot through and wing 25. 3d. to 2s. 7d, n day. damaged, he brought his crew home sately.
More Pay for order.
Girl Of Six Used Axe To Steal
A ten-year-old Hackney girl who
Soldiers' Meals
compe-
In one case a man left bruised and to this dangerous form of bleeding after a flogging in a lonely tition." valley died before being found.
This means not only that men who Seven men charged with abduction have been exempted from military and beating a mechanic will come up servico because of their technical skili for trial shortly in nearby Anderson, can be transferred to a branch of their sup-South Carolina,
trade which is not reserved, but that Technique of the Klan, which pre-men can be taken from an unreserved sumes to sit in judgment on "moral
Into
"a reserved occupation. lapses," and which displays vicious Firm official aetion is demanxled to This was unnounced by the War racial, religious and anti-labour bias, prevent a situation already serious
is to seize a victim, often from his from becoming really dangerous own home, and take him out into the our national industrial effort. Breakfasts: id. euch, Increase of 1d. country in a car for a mlånight slog- "It should be within the power of
of 3d.
ging.
the Minister of Labour to take steps to Fiery Cross
ensure that Arms on Government Sometimes the Klan leaves a "fery work can get the skilled labour they cross" made of wood soaked in require by orderly rather than by paraffin, burning on the hilltop, "to haphazard methods." warn evil-doers."
Offee recently.
The rates are now:
Dinners: 1s 2d.. ricrease
Teas: 3d, unchanged. Suppers: 5d., unchanged.
was put on probation for a year at Fined Tommy 10s., But
Paid It Himself
East London Juvenile Court for re- ceiving a stolen rug, told the Bench that she had got it from another girl;
Before fining a young soller 108. who had Junocked a hole in the door
court for riding n of a flat with an axe to steal things at Tottenham from it.
molar-cycle without a policy of in- "Why is this girl not before the surnace, the magistrate, Mr. W. W. Court" asked the magistrate, Mr. Whitworth, asked if the man's pay Basil Henriques.
was 2. a day. When told that it was A policeman replied that she was the mid: "I expect you will need all only six years old,
that: will pay the fine myself,"
HER TRAGEDY OF LIFE
NEW YORK. Her first husband, John Jacob: Wealthy Mrs. Madeleine Fier-Astor, died in the Titanic disaster or from a European; monte, who scandalised society their way home
son,
In several places it is reported that pollee ofcials are members of the Klan and permit night riders to per- form unmolested.
man
MARRIAGE AT
CUT RATES
to
Floggings now being Investigated in Georxia and South Carolina were mostly for "mcral lopses"
been LONDON -(UP).—Soldiers, who died near Atlanta had
and sailors and airmen on short "punished" for getting drunk beating his wife but there is at least leave may soon be able to marry one case in which a man was ab at cut rates. ducted and benten because he tried
to organise a trade union in the locally.
The present cost of a quick mor- riage is around £2 but suggestions [K.K.K. originally self-help organisaare afoot that in the case of those Hion against newly emancipated with only a few days to sparo, this charge should be reduced to: "as Negrocs after Cluil War.]
much as the prospective bridegroom can afford which gives 11 wide Bcopo,
Promise To Civil
Servants
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Since the outbreak of war the by marrying a handsome boxer honeymoon in 1912. The rescued
marriage age has dropped with broken-hearted to
extraordinary rapidity. Qulte cixteen years her junior, died widow returned
Careful consideration of the claim number of sixteens have fläured on recently at Palm Beach, Florida, America, where she gave birth to c
for an immediate increase of pay, the marriage list, with a very good broken-hearted.
In 1018
married socialite made for civil servants earning up to sprinkling of seventeen to twenties.
of the bridegrooms In theso' Millionaire John Jacob Astor, her
£5 a week, was promised by mem- Most son by her first marriage, was at her in Dich vu vom abbers of the official side of the Civil minor marriages have been in uni-
Service National Whitley Council form. bedside in the luxurious mansion to tained a Rono divorce in 1933,
Curiously enough, .consent of which a retired from the gossiping When she married penniless boxer when they met representatives of the
parents and guardians, necessary world
Enzo Flermonte in 1933, society vir-staff side at the Treasury recently.
A similar undertaking was given in --Mrs---Fiermozite, who was forty tually oxlind her. She became the
these "minor marriages, has Lyca and twice red-was-endowed despised object weeknd for the setting up forthwith of joint been given freely willy with wealth and beauty, yet never ridicule, Suing for divorce in 1988 machinery to collide the position of where in peace the It was usually £ a the stumbling block of youthful knew tasting romance,
sho alleged she had been subjected civil servants earning, over
week and the position of pensioners, marriages. Saved from Titanic
to beating and humiliations.
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