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April 11, 1940.

H-HOW IS HE ?

OH, HE'S ALL RIGHT*** JUST SHAKEN UP A BIT --- YOU CAN SEE

HIM TOMORROW!

By Ernie Bushmiller

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"THE

Royal Air Force

carried out another reconnaissance raid over Germany last night. A number of leaflets were dropped.

You shrug, perhaps, at the familiar words, drop the newB- paper or turn

off the radio. "Another leaf- let raid... Just a

"

com-

monplace item

of the war

news.

Just a job of routine work,

men

a. practice flip for our boys before they get down to the real work of the war in the tir. There are many and women at home, realing the news by the comfort of their firesides, who dismiss it like that.

Well, here's the great story I am now able to tell of one leaflet rnid that will bring a real thrill of pride instend of a shrug.

It was mode by a fight of five bombers, mugned by crews who knew that they were facing wea- ther which meant death,

I was carried out without a shot being fired, yet high officers in the RAF, consider that this Wight is the grimmest and most courageous eple of the war In

the air.

It ended with erews uncon- Helous from lack of oxygen, wings leed up, engines on fire, parachute jumps into the darkness... and complete siccess,

"Nickels" Express

To Germany

WHE

WHEN fi ve

Armstrong-

Whitworth "Whitley" bombers of a squadron in France were detailed to drop leaflets over five towns in Ger- many, the pilots and crews were faced with possibility of Arctic weather conditions.

They know that they would be fying high lo escape detection by German searchlights

..they knew that their worst enerny would

Rose broke the anguished silence. "Yes Andy," she said, "u man can. feel great hurt too."

He gave her a swift look to see whether she was laughing at him. But her eyos were honest with sympathy. Painfully, he rose. guess," he said siidly, "that a man, would stand on his feet and take

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She looked at him with beaming admiration. "Yes, a real mon does. Suddenly, his expression changed and all at once, he was strangely, indefinably, more adult. Sit down Rose,"

She sat down and he smiled In a way that was infinitely more poignant than any words of his bad been. "I guess I'm being kind of a muisance, aln'L—aren't I?”

She lifted one eyebrow quizzi- cally, "You'll always be a nuisance charming delightful nuisance." He matched her words with an air of mockery. "You think so Rose?"

"Yes" he said, watching him

NIGHT FLIGHT

LEAFLETS

The R.A.F.'s

Grandest

Story

BY WILLIAM COURTENAY

be, not Messerschmitts, but the elements.

But the Squadron had alrendy' been in Fratice for a month wait- Ing, as most of the IA.F. at home are waiting for the thrill of action, Pent-up feelings found expres- sion in unrelieved joy when signal was received that this. the

the

biggest of all the leaflet and recon- nuissance raids was to be under- taken by this Squadron.

The loads of "nickels"-29 the leaflets are termed In Ser- vice circles-were taken aboard in France, several tons of them.

In the darkness of this wintry night, "nickels" were loaded up. fuel filled the petrol tanks for the long, night ride, crews donned the teddy bear" suits, fleece- lined boots and parachutes. Here was the great adventure at last.

The flight took off at midnight. The five bombers parted, cách set

Concluding

6 a compass couran for the town on which the leaflets were to be dropped.

Climbing to 17,000 feet the martines Prossed the frontier and in the inky incliness of the night penetrated deep into the heart of Germany.

Each bomber reached ils objec-

the dive, scattered

propoganda leaflets, and turned for home.

IT was then that they faced

the battle . a grimmer fight than that against men and guns, a fight against cold, and ice, and fire.

lle derided to lend.

up

Gliding down through the inky darkness, he strained his eyes as they swooped to carth. Nearer nearer...

Suddenly'n hillside loomed

a crash, before him. There was and the great machine piled up on the frozen grass, The crow serin~ hled, half-stunned to the ground, All five were saved.

The remainder

the Flight was droning on throwgh the clouds, while the cold grip of ice closed on them: Men gasped and cried as they strugged breathe,

Suffering agonies the

crews

crouched in

their swaying planes fighting ice and fire.

bite. And then, in one plane tho oxygen supply, necessary for high- altitude flying, failed.

Men slumped to the floor. Sick and giddy they rolled about in the swaying plane. Gunners in the turrets were humehed. conselous, across their guns which were so jammed by ice that they could not have fired...

un-

Then a streak of flame shot through the blackness of the night. A new terror had attacked the air- men,

FIRE!

Engines ablaze, the plane sway- ing dangerously, the captain of the aircraft ordered his men to jump. One by one the machines ran But ice had wrecked the inter- into snow and icc-forming cloud. communication telephones to his The temperature- was-thirty--de-crew. Two men could not receive.

grees below freezing point. Ice formed on the wings and weighed The aircraft down. Ice froze the instruments and made the planes unmanageable.

The

ich were frozen. Crews suffered agonies as they crouched in their places in the grip of frost-

ils order.

talo

While the flames roared through the roar of the engines, the cop- grim was faced with the alternatives of boiling out savc three, and leaving the other two to their fate, or of attempting to land and risk tilling all dive.

ANDY HARDY GETS

SPRING FEVER

· like a dream,” he said. fighting back the tears. "How could a guy like me ever deserve anybody like you yel? Gee, I gotin lot to do before I rate a woman like you."

steadily, and through everything. SILE knew then, which wound

was hurting him most.

He was

every storm of life that twists you, every time fale smashes you right feeling the raw pain of humiliation, in the face, nobody'll ever break And it was up to her that it didn't

that fine honest courage of yours, Andy."

He stared at her. "Gee, It's funny-"

"What's funny Andy?"

He groped for what he meant. "I know, just as well as I'm stand- ing here, I know you're telling me these things only to as to make me be these things!

Sho could see him examining himself mentally, could almost hear the wheels go round.

"And yet somehow," he went on.

leave a scar.

"Why Andy," she sald with a deprecating smile, "in a couple of years I'll be that funny little country school teacher who once gave you a few weeks of high school dramatics, There'll be a cozen other girls who will have come into your life."

He cocked his head incredulously. "You mean twelve different girls in two years?"

She poured it on. "It's inevitable when a man is attractive."

You think I'm gonna be

"It's working. I feel I can take It," MEN?"

He grasped her hands, "I feel I can take it Rose. Gee, I feel like. a mun. Honest I do."

I

---

She twinkled at him. "Now you're thinking like one Andy."

"Look, 1 —"" He stopped, then went on. • "I'm all right now, Ross. I caught my second wind." You're sure?" she asked, know- Ing it wasn't true at all. He'd fooled her for a second and part of what he'd said might have been just a little bit to the wood. · · To have realized what she was doing, and to have wanted her, to bellevo It had worked was oven a step. further than he was awaro, of,

The whole thing's been kinda

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Then

"No girl will ever Torget you." "Of course," he said virtuously, "I wouldn't deliberately set out to break any woman's heart" suddenly, there was a genuine note of excitement in his volce, "But Bay, I've got a lot of other things to think of besides love, I've gotta aludy law and get to practice and be a judge like my father. I'm going to try to get to the Supremo Court of the Valled States."

Rose didn't seem in the least sur- prized, “I think you'll make it Andy," aho Bald

comfortably. "There's stool in your backbone, And there'll be plenty of women in your life too."

Azarizó farm Tad Metro Goldwyn Mayer picture

by BEATRICE FABER

"Sure." Andy thought of his Inst trip to the Capitol. "There's a lot of beautiful women in Washington. Foreigners, you know, Sples and lobbyists."

Sac sat back, breathing freely The boy actually sounded now. normani. "You'll be able to cope with them and with all the mysterious and wonderful things that are going to linppen to you.

Andy reflected. Then he turned to her and said judiciously, “I can't Eay I thoroughly approve of your Franklin guy but there aren't any bard feelings on your part?

She shook her head happly. "No Andy. I always knew wo could never be anything but a milestone in each other's life."

1

Ila apoke magnanimously.. remember you always, at least until. I get started to going to college. You see," he added frankly, “a man'd be a tool to promise any- thing in the face of two thousand co-cds."

over the

with

universe looked majcstle pride, jammed his thumbs into his belt and struck on attitude. "Co'mon Hardy," he said to the high heavens, "we got a mile-stone In our pocket. now."

He strode on down the street and when he saw the blaze of Polly's garden parly, Chinese lamps, and kids all over the place with re freshments, he turned up the path. Everyone practically leaped on

him.

"I simply adored the moon," said the soulful fourteen-year-old Maxine.

Andy nodded with superior adult calm. "I agree, Young Higgin botham is a promising youngster." Stickin' Plaster had been hiding In the shadows. Now, hardly dar ing to breathe or believe his own cars he came forth. His eyes were all swollen from weeping.

lad's

Andy spoke to him. "Nothing's worth crying about my boy" "Fair enough," Rose nasured him.

said in his father's tone. "You've "And now, I think I'll go inside.

got to take things like that moon This has been an exciting evening

to-night with steel in your back- a little tired. und I'm

the Ho patted bone." blandly. "Sure," he agreed

shoulder. "Listen son, anything "You're bound to get tired easier when you're approaching middle- bothers you from now on you come to me and I'll straighten you out, ago." He held out his band. "Good

man to man." It's been a pleasure to Here, night meet you."

"Goodnight dear-and_goodbye," Andy looked out after her as she disappeared in the shadows and In that moment he actually seemed to grow six inches in height. Then he

Suddenly Polly, appeared. She was quite dignified but still the hurt hostess. "I'm glad you came "Your father Andy," she said:

·Tadershaned, «Do you want to use the library phone?"

of

One

Captain and navigator in machine beat their heads against the metal fittings of the pilot's cock- pit as a relief against the agony of lack of oxygen.

*

AGAIN a spurt of flame,

frantic

orders shouted

+

an-

into the telephones ather engine was On fire. Captain of the aircraft gave the order to jump.

First man to bail out with his parachute was caught on the fall- ing plane by his Telephone head- phones.

HE HUNG THERE, SWAY- ING IN MID-AIR, WHILE THE PLANE SPUN DIZZIŁY: DOWN- WARD, FLAMES SHOOTING

FROM THE BURNING ENGINE.

They backed him tree, and he dropped. The captain watched his men go, while he struggled to re- - cover control of the machine.

But ice hud jammed the controls. She dived downwards, utterly un- manugeable, dropping from 15,000 feet to 2,000 feet. It took the com- bined strength of pilot and navi- gator to pull it out on to an even keel. The captain trimmed the bomber to glide to land by Itsell with no one at the controls.

Then, less than 300 feet from the ground, he jumped overboard. By a miracle, in, that short space between burning plane and earth his parachute opened, checked. and saved his life.

Was

A Jaronie announcement made. "Another successful flight by the R.A.F. over Germany..

That's all.

"Perhaps I'd better." He looked about him. "Charming little affair. Polly. You'll pardon me, please?"

THE Judge almost falnted with relief as he heard his son's voice. He began to lie elaborately. "Oh I only entled up, Andy to—to con- gratulate you on the play."

"Dad" Andy said, "I appreciate your thoughtfulness but I don't think you should've stayed up so Jate."

"What! Mo? Why Andrew, I WBS

I'll be out late Dad," Andy cut in, "so you go to bed and try to get some sleep because you been lookin' pretty rocky these past few days.

"Whooo," he sighed and wenit with thankfulness, Rose Meredith had certainly done her job well.

went

But in the Benedict library, Polly was facing Andy with dangerous calm. "Well," she said, “Adrift

bo

in Tahiti is now a thing of the past. And I must say I'm not sorry." "I'm

sure

wouldn't You Polly."

"what do you mean I wouldn't?" Andy regarded her with friendly tolerance.

older, "When you're you'll understand. When you've experienced the storms of life, when you've passed a milestone or

·two--"

him with, a She advanced on menacing eye.

"Listen Andrew Hardy, you're not talking to poor ittle Tahula now. You're talking

to Polly Benedict. And Polly Bene- dici doesn't jump in volcanoes." Suddenly she flung her

arns

around him and gave him a violent Ician.

Then she pulled away and sold wickedly, well, Rear Admiral, ΠΟΥ

with you through are women!"

Andy stared at her. Thon his faco widened Into a grin. "Woo- woo," he cried. Then he reached out for her. "Little Polly sure heap pretty native malden."

Sho darted away, and the chase was on. Milestone or no milestone, Andy Hardy was going to get an other king from fils bext girl ỚT know the reason why.

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DENMARK QUIET

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LONDON, Apr. 10 (Reuter).—The Stock Exchange Was distinctly brighter at the close after a full

opening,

The best feature was an Eastern LONDON, Apr. 10 (Reuter). demand for Indian irons and steel of -Denmark is more or less quiet the Bengal and Burma. Corporation to-day with the population issues, all of which advanced. Wall Street was irregular. accepting the occupation with resignation.

Danish newspapers have been threatened with suspension and their owners and sinfis with imprisonment if they do not obey German orders.

There was light resistance at first, It is now confirmed that some Danish frontler guards were killed.

The Germans say that the resint- ance was based on erroneous-orders | received by the Danish guards,

Flee Into Swedan STOCKHOLM, Apr. 10 (Reuler).- Many Danes have fled into Sweden [near Malmo. Some of them made the journey across the 30-mile neck of the sea in open boats, many women and chlidren being among them.

All oficial communication is still suspended. Travel out of Denmark is. restricted.

Farowall Audionco

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHI BERLIN, Apr. 11 (UP),-DNB re- ported last night that King Christian | of Denmark received the English andþ French Ambassadors in a "farewell audienes".

DND claims that

"National"

Government has been formed in

Copenhagen. It includes members of the Venstre (Nozl) Party.

Local Infantry Activity

PARIS, Apr. 10 (Reuter).-To- day's communique says that there was local infantry activity at various; points at the front.

Naziz Now Mova DRUSSELS, Apr. 10 (Router),Ac- cording to the Luxemburg paper, the Germons Bro Luxemburg," building embarkation plers along the constitutes a largo Monelle, which part of The German-Luxemburg: frontier.

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