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NANCY

WHY. LOOIE --- YOU LOOK

UNHAPPY---

WHAT'S

WRONG

AW--I'M TIRED OF ALWAYS

WEARIN' THESE

HAND-ME-DOWN

CLOTHES!

Freak Platinum Blonde' Fox Starts Craze

Dally Express Staff Reporter

Thursday,

IT'S AWFUL WEARIN' STUFF A MILE TOO BIG FOR

YA!

TH. Bac. U. 3. Pys, otmal rigve FOMOTION

FON a single fox fur, to be slipped over a woman's shoulder, the price of £2,750 has just been paid the highest in memory for a single skin. The fur is a new, rare platinum blonde strain, called the platina fox.

This new costly delight for women springs from Plato and Pluto, a pair of freak fox cubs born in Norway a few years ago.

The strain was developed with the greatest care, and a rigid standard was cot. Norway would not let a single living platina fox leave the country, so that the industry could be thoroughly controlled.

Not until last year were the first skins sold. Then eleven were aue- tioned in Oslo, for an average of £200 each.

There, experts consider had not the perfection of the £2,750 spect- men; but two of them are now being worn by royally.

maritel. Three hundred of these will be offered in London to-day, and fur king of the world will send repre- sentatives to the sale.

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DON'T BE SILLY --- YOU LOOK ELEGANT IN THEM --- YOU SHOULDN'T

LET IT BOTHER

You?

April 4, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

LOOK!--- HE DOESN'T SEEM

TO MIND IT

A BIT!

Meet

Captain Told "Sparks" Not To Be A Fool-

STAYED SOS WAS

"RICHEST GIRL”

It will be held in the Hudson's MAY RE-MARRY

Bay Company's hall in Great Trinity- inne, off Queen Victoria-street, E.C.

Dealers in countries all over the world have competed for the com- paratively few skins that have su far become available.

An expert said yesterday: "I have never seen anything so

lovely as these pintina foxes.

"They have all the beautiful sility took of the finest silver foxes, but

The record-priced fur was in a butch rent to New York, and nuc floned this week. It was bought by they stand out because of their glor!- Mr. I. J. Fox, a leading U.S. furous tone and shade." retailer.

Chinchilla is usually regarded as One almost exactly like it will be the most costly fur. These animals. put up for sale in London to-day. ten inches long, which originally It has a white neck and a white cume from the Andes in South nose, and a white streak runs be-America, are worth tween the eyes.

£360 palr alive. A chinchilla coat may cost

So far only a few more than 700 £10,000 or more; there are only a platinn furs have

into the few in the world,

come

An early wedding in the United States for Countess Reventlow (Barbara linlton) and Mr. Roberi Sweeny, the golfer, is predicted by reports from Palm Beach published in several New York newspapers.

Countess Haugwitz- Reventlow, Jormerly Princess Mdivant, was originally Barbara Hution, heiress to the Woolworth mill- ions. She married Prince Alexis Adivaut in 1933.)

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TILL HIS THROUGH

IF YOU MEET any of the 72 survivors of the Blue star ship Sultan Star, torpedoed in the Atlantic by a U-boat, they will tell you nothing of their experiences.

But they will say a lot about the courage of one man-their

wireless operator, E. G. Winsor BELIEVES

of Greenford, Middlesex.

Winsor, spent the 20 minutes from the time the ship was struck until she disappeared beneath the sen tapping out S O S messages, waiting for the answer, that came only at the Inst moment

When Winsor left the ship all the others were in the boats. Round the thin they rowed gently, shouting to him. "Don't be a fool; come off."

He would not quli. The men in the hoats refused to leave him, and stay ed as near as possible so that they

ould pick him up.

All the time they were in danger of

being sucked down with the ship.

Told To Co

Captain W. H. Bevan, of Cardiff, was on the bridge when the ship was hit.

"There was a terrific bump," he seid. "I had read about torpedoes, and imagined that these days they must be much more deudly than those used in the last war.

"At first I did not think we had been torpedoed. I thought we had hit something.

" ordered Sparks to send out an SOS. The ship was on' an cven

DEADLY

WAR NEAR

Says German Planes Can Destroy British Fleet !

the

PHILADELPHIA, (UP). und London, Paris, Berlin and the other great cities of warring European nations are doomed to destruction "as Boon nations finally are aligned diplo matically," belleves Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, America's fore- most ace in the World War.

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Rickenbacker predicted the anni- hilation of the British fleet by the Nazi air force if the Germans decide to pursue such a course.

"Three or four planes attacking n battleship тилу be shot down," Rickenbacker said, "but when the planes start coming over in waves, it's just maiter of percentages."

Flier To Be Wiped Out "Eventually, we will see London,

Real then, and going down by the Paris and Berlin destroyed by gas stern.

and fire caused by planes, but 90 days

"When she started to stand up, with after aerial warfare really starts the her bows almost prependicular, 1 trained pilots of both sides will be thought it time to get into the boats, dead because of improved anti- so I told Sparks not to wait for the aircraft fire. Then both sides will go All-clear the indication that other back to trench and dugout, with only

occasional serial bombing." ships had picked up his SOS.

"He reported that he would not go until he knew that help was coming. I told him not to be a fool and risk his life. He still said 'No.'-·

"When we were in the boats we saw that the water had reached her funnel. It was the most amazing sight to see it pouring in.

The World War ace, who brought down 28 German planes in 1910, es- timated the average expectancy of war pilots at 30 days, once aerial warfare storis in earnest.

Pilot's Life 30 Days "But it will be worth it," he said, "Sparka was still on the bridge. "not to the pilot but to his milliary "She slipped down like a lady and forces, because in those 30 days his almost kissed us goodbye, but we power of destruction will be

were afraid she would take the boats

with her.

enormous."

"Sparks at last came to the port Rickenbacker anticipated an al- vide and slid down a rope. We had llance of Germany, Italy, England been waiting for him on the starboard and France to fight Soviet Russia alde.

eventually, and urged that the United "When the ship had gone I saw States stay out of the combat at all him hanging to a hatch cover with a costs. lifebelt round his neck, yelling to

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the

show us where he was. When we "If the United States goes in," he

cked him up he was about all-in."said, "we will have to maintain One man lost his life in the Sultan standing army over there for Star-George Taylor, of Liverpool, next 100 years after this war ends to an engine, room storekeeper.

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