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WEDDING DAY

"COBBER" KAIN, the first R.A.F. ace of this war, was to have been married on the day he was killed in a flying accident in France, it has been revealed.

When he parted from a friend one evening be- fore the tragedy, he said: "Don't tell anyone, but That is, if I'm I'm getting married next week. alive.'

"

The whole dramatic story is told by Noel Monks in his book, "Squadrons Up!" (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.).

1940 On it

Friday, June 7,

dusty emergency aerodrome, neari PALM TREE

Blois, in France,

a two-seater

Magister communications plane is being loaded with kit by an or-

derly

A t helmet and a gas complete the loading, and

to a group orderly reports young AF pilots chatting few yards away.

mask

th

uf

"Gear aboard. Good luck, sir.' A fall, broad-shouldered, black- harred Flying Officer.

BED FOR DUCHESS

A large consignment of specially-made furniture

CORSETS

WILL BE FEWER

"Corsets are luxuries,"

say the Board of Trade- and they have decreed that the supply shall be cut by half.

Makers have appealed to the Board to reconsider this decision. but in vain.

the view

Apart from holding that these are luxury goods, the Board point out that at the normal rate of production 3,000 tons of steel are used every year in the making of corsets

Mr. F. R. Burley, chairman of the export group of the trade, told

"The Board of Trad

a reporter: the ribbon of the Distinguished Flying ordered by the Duke and seem to be thinking of the old-

Duchess of Windsor is due mothers and

with

below leaves The group walks to the waiting plane

Cross newly sewn

WINES,

hus

Shot Down 25 'Planes

fashioned stays which our grand-

Those weighe wore to reach Nassau, Baha-about 2b, but the modern corset

weighs less than 4oz. mas, from New York.

Travelling with the furniture is American interior decorator Mrs. Isabel P. Bradley who will assist in beautifying their home, Government House

Bejan He calls "Cheerio, chaps' good," to his comrades, and climbs hanselt, into the cockpit, settles gives a mechanic the thumbs-up The engine ruars.

The Duchess's new large double Arinbed will be covered with white. blue and silver quilted chintz in the pattern of a palm tree. Above will hang lovely Chippendale

Suddenly al mischievous

face uf spreads over the young giant in the Magister.

Hurrica has caught sight of a fighter.

the He

It is his old ship. Yesterday, Rheims hc 20,000 feet over

teat" that

had "squeezed the

down and

twenty-fifth "Nazi."

it

mirrors.

Doctors' Advice

}

be 8243 complai: "There cati about silk being used, for very little is now being put into corset:: "Apparently the Board do n realise that corsets are as nece¬- sary to most women as are shoes: Without them they would feel

Dot loss of poise and self-confidence

"There is another point. tors have advised women to wear The furniture includes a sur.

at nigh price for the Duchess, secretly their corsets when they go into

their air-raid shelters ordered by the Duke. This is a

garments help to chest of drawers for her bed. because the

against powder blue glazed brace wood, with the initials W. W. In wood of a deeper blue to re- semble rope.

Above the chest of the will be hung a frame

"'rope" tied in a lover's same knot at the top.

room

UF

controlled its

guns,

eight machine. went his

So he uncurls

his

long legs

from the cockpit of the Magis- ter and, going across to the Hur- ricane, wedges himself into cockpit.

the

At the entrance hall of the home will be sofas, and chairs

beige I covered in rose and

und

"One more beat up, lads." he chartreuse brocades.

the calls, and he is off across aerodrome in a cloud of hot dust.

WAR DISCHARGE

over of

BADGE

shock.”

them

nervous

in home- trade The normal produced corsets sold in Britain totals about .£5,000,000 a year.

CURFEW FOR CHILDREN

a

A curfew at dusk for school- children in large cities throughout With a roar like a thunderclap

the country was suggested at the Hurricane comes back

meeting of Edinburgh Corporation. the 'drome, above the heads

was put back for the little group of officers-only

A badge for officers and men But the idea just above their heads, because it

invalided from the armed Forces further consideration. feet off the

The city's Education Committee is barely twenty

and on account of disability attribut- ground, is upside down,

able to war service is being con-was told to consider what action travelling at 350 miles an hour.

sidered, states the Secretary for could be taken to encourage par- The boys call this a "beat up."

War, in a parliamentary written ents to keep their children indoers

after dark.

Still upside down, the Hurri.reply.

feet, cane shoots up to 1,500 turns right side up, then starts a series of rolls earthward..

the young That is just how man in the Hurricane is feeling,

air. rolling about in thin

with its little Magister below,

The

Eng-

engine "ticking over nicely, is go- ing to take him home to land for special duties.

Too Close To Mother Earth

Two rolls are completed. The group of R.A.F. officers suddenly stop laughing and chattering. One says anxiously, "What the hell?" as the Hurricane goes into a third His experienced eye see this will bring it mighty close

roll.

to mother earth.

can

Then three or four of them yell "Cobber, Cobber." They start. running.

There is a crash. The Hur- ricane does not quite complete the third roll.

Its port wing touches ground.

The young officers

GIRL CHAINED AND

PADLOCKED TO FLOOR

A 24-YEAR-OLD mentally defective woman was "chained like an animal in a cage," the Gates- head magistrates were told.

The girl's father, Harry Ephraim Bloch (54). said to be the owner of a considerable amount of property in Gateshead, and her brother-in-law, Chaim Samuel Lopian, a Jewish 'rabbi, both of Bewick Road, Gateshead, were each fined £20, with four guineas costs, for assaulting her by keeping her imprisoned in chains for six days.

Mr. D. G. Dodds, prosecuting. not realise how callous and cruel said the girl had been of unsound the treatment was, and that they mind for some years and on oc- were actuated more by fear thecasions suffered from spasms of what she would do if she

free rather than by cruelty." considerable violence,

lift their Defendants, perhaps from com- wreck-plete ignorance, had prevented her dead comrade from the age. A mechanic climbs into the from receiving proper hospital cockpit of the Magister. He swit-treatment and had preferred

keep her at home. ches off the engine.

Mediaeval Echo

of was

She Escaped

to

Mr. Dodds added thint. on November 2 the chains were re- moved and the girl-escaped from. her locked bedroom and was seen karly. next,, morning in the street by a policeman.

...

"Cobber" was the first Ace in the war against Nazidom, and he was the last pilot of that squa-

"It is an echo from the middle.

Supt. Collins spid Bloch had dron's personnel that flew off so

ages, when people with mental expressed fears of publicity of gaily to France that autumn to disorders were kept chained up." the case as this might interfere be still on his feet in France on said Mr. Dodds.

with his daughter's matrimonial that June day..

much "The idea of buying, the chains prospects. "Cobber". Kain" was as

from Mr. R. W. Stokoe, defending, toasted in the messes of other seemed to have emanated squadrong as he was in his own. Lopian, who bought them. Staples said it was; not a case of deliber- That is a way they have in the were placed in the bedroom, floor ate cruelty, but one of misguided RAF. The good a man docs is and the girl was padlocked to alideas. In her father's view, the girl could not be restrained when for the good of the Service, and chain about a yard long,

"I am sure the defendants did she lost her mental stability. not for himaolt alone.