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'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

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Monday.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

By Ernie

I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT'S 50 FUNNY!

April 22, 1940.

Bushmiller

SPANISH DANCE TEAM WANTED,

GUNNER IN PANTS 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 i

only his underclothes--he was

at his Lewis gun exchanging

shots with a Nazi bomber.

It was bitterly cold, but Golden forget his influenza and stuck to his sun till the raider went off.

Twelve bombs were dropped, runne very close. No damage was, dine lo the ship but nearly every breakable article broke.

The captain, who fired at the plane with a rifle, and the second inale. were slightly wounded in the legs by ricochetting bullets.

Noar The Coast'

The story was

told when

the

Rosedene (100 tons), of Sunderland,

reached an East Coust port.

The vessel was attacked on the of the previous night, two miles

by [] const--apparently

Heinkel

bomber.

would sink

Captain J.

the

grow

When the bombs dropped the small ship was almost lifted out of the thought she water, and

Armstrong, of Par. Cornwall, sald, that the plane power- dived and dropped the first bomb within eight yards of the vessel.

in the wheelhouse," he *I wnJ sald, "and grabbed my rifle and be- gan taking shots at the plane as it turned to dive again.

Spattered Deck

"The plane circled over the port side and returned, her machine-guns sending streams of bullets which spattered the deck.

"I felt a stinging pain in my right -leg-45-8-ricochetting-bullet_passed..

side of my trousers and

one side

other. out of the

Then the second inate, Thomas H.

was similarly hi. Wilson,

When the plane dived second time it was met with a steady burst of fire from our Lewis gun and 1 Was amazed to see the 19-year-old gunner standing calmly behind his gun, wearing only his underclothes.

"It was bitterly cold and bullets were striking all parts of the ship, but he did not seem to heed them.

"He was a very plucky boy.

Wanted His Bed

"I could, see the tracers hitting the Nazt and expected to retire from tire fight sooner than it did.

A FEW minutes after she had divorced Herbert, Marshall, Mina Edna Best, the film and stage slar, teas married again at Las Vegas, Nevada. Her third hus- band is Not Wolf, her Hollywood agent.

The same judoc_granted_the_ divorce and perforined the wed ding ceremony.

They

Miss Best accused Mr. Mar- shall of desertion in 1934. were married in 1920.

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 was along in the machine several thou- and feet up, and that the other members of the crew had inken.to their parachutes,

Funner Wan

Ilui minutes later. by a million- In-cue chance, the safely on the ground. The "Bring 'em Back Alive" plane had landed *ilsell!

This amazing freak of luck hap- pened in France a few days ago. Already It has gone legend of the air.

Watching for Ice

down 19

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The plane hnd set out on a 10- connaissance flight over enemy ter- ritory.

In the cabin the pilot and his col- leagues watched anxiously for signs of ice formation-dreaded enemy of the airman; in the rear turret the gunner sat at his gun, his telephone] clamped to his cars.

If the ice formed and the plane |become unmanageable the order to "bale out" would come to him through the phone.

The tee came.

For desperate minutes the pilot fought to keep the plane on an even keel and maintain altitude. It was į

losing battle.

'Jump' Order not Hoard

Eventually he shouted into his mouthpiece: "Jump." One by one, the mendonted down:

-ERNIZ

-BUSHMHA EPA,

WON D.S.M. FOR FACING DEATH WITH SPANNER

Chief Petty Officer Baldwin receiving his medal from the King at Portsmouth on December 19,

MINE HERO DIES

AT HIS POST

CHIEF PETTY OFFICER CHARLES E. BALDWIN, who was decorated by the King for his part in one of the most dangerous exploits of the war, hus 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.

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 safe.

Of Baldwin's colleagues, Lieut.- Commander J. G. D. Ouvry sad Lieut.-Commander Roger Lewis re- Jolin the D.5.0.. Lieut. celved Gienny the D.S.C., and Able-Seaman- A. Vearncombe the DSM.

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, police are holding_a_snarling, who All but the rear gunner. He had high-tempered gun-girl, not heard the instruction. Ice bad confessed that, after forcing a They had volunteered for the task. salesman to strip in a lonely and there is not the slightest doubt

frozen his phone, Still at his post, he smiled happily

as he saw that the plane was mak-field, she shot him dead, and that they have saved hundreds of ing a good course and nearing home. later slugging her male

ac- Ilves

and

HERMIT HAS Gradually the plane nosed down complice because he was "too shippler.

AN ACCENT

LIVING away from the world

for earth in a long: sweeping glide-yellow" to rob a bank. the ice was dragging It down.

Finally the machine "pancaked." Found Cabin Empty

The gunner was badly shaken, but

thousands of tons of

Joseph Calloway, tyre salesinan "When Things

picked up the couple as he drove 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-im to stop. dressed only in a piece of sack-leagues in the cabin, jumped from ing, is a contented hermit-who the turret and ran to their "rescue" speaks with an Oxford accent.

"It was a grand Oght and I'm certatu our gunner hit the plane. If we did not bring him down we've done enough damage to give him are five ents. headache."

to And the cabin empty.

Only then did the lucklest young man in the world realise how mir- aculously he had escaped from the Jaws of death.

The "Daily Mirror" told the story to a well-known airman that night.

Then, leading him into the woods, she forced him to reLove his clofbes. Naked. on his knees, le begged for mercy, but she alot him therurl the

taking head.

hls. clothes, which netted her only £4. and a cheap watch

Next she took his car and tried to

Are Serious” Leaflet Raid

BERLIN:

A PAMPHLET entitled "What Do You Do When Things Be- como Serious?" prepared in High Command, has been dis- tributed to all the people of Berlin.

He is the Rev. Henry Shaw, Ox- ford graduate, who lives on 16s, n week relief money in a shack made of driftwood. His only companions

White-bearded, long-liaired, and Golden-who was making his first within four mentiw of his sixtieth trip in the Rosedene-said: “I was birthday, he is still in fine physical feeling pretty groggy but when condition, as hard as nails. In all heard the skipper's rife 1 know weathers he has daily bathe in well-known airman. was needed on deck.

the surf.

"The ice might have made it slip "gave the Nazi all I could but

To-day, comparing his situation or spin. To have landed it must what I wanted most was to scure him with that of his fellow men, he says have come in on a fat glide und; Dit so that I could get back to bed."

he has no regrets over his break would have needed miles of perfectly with civiliaution.

fat land to ensure a safe landing. "I have Httle money, litle ex- "That young gunner can thank his pense and no worry whatever," he lucky stars." explains. "I seldom think of the

"I was a million-to-one against persunde her accomplice to help her collaboration with the Army

that plane landing safely," said afrob a bank, but he demurred.

WIFE NAGGED

AT TRIFLE BECAUSE his wife nagged him and complained that his skocs had not been properly cleaned, a seventy-six-year-old retired Civil Servant was alleged nt Bristol to have killed her.

No doubt, somewhere in France, o

past and never of the future. I young gunner is doing so. live for the day."

After leaving Oxford, Shaw dis- tinguished himself in investigating Church irregularities in Wales,

"Some pretty high persons went to prison," he says, "but the scandal made things unpleasant and

knew I'd better clear out.

"I went to Canada, didn't like the John Frederick Cotly, of Ashley-way things were there, and came on

here."

hill. Bristol, while-Juired, feeble Ha shack is some miles north of

and so deaf that

She told the police: "Ile

was yellow, so I socked him over the head with my gun and left him in the car. I haven't seen him since. He was a yellow rat, but I'll hang before I'll tell you mugs his name.

1

The pamphlet gives advice on making a will, on getting their per- sonal affairs in order, how to deul with enemy troops landed by para- The girl's name is Tonic Henry.chute, espionage, sabotage, treason Her husband, Claude Henry, is in and on how to act in air raids and prison for manslaughter.

WOMEN'S 2 HOURS'

LYNCH MOB TERROR

Eas attacks.

Copies of this pamphlet were handed to foreign newspaper cor-

...

they can't come, thank goodness!

Your favourite chair will not be usurped by your neighbour's wife. Your party 'smile will not con- tart your well- washed face. You will put on your slippers and you will gnaw your chicken band. After dinner you will settle down in your Parker-Knoll and think of all the letters you should be writing, and all

the nonsense you might have been talking if your neighbour's wife had not caught cold... That chair has ruined your social career-so what?

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This in all part of the campaign which Hitler's propagandists, now running at full blast to create the impression that a big attack on

TWO negresses-mother and daughter-were rescued from the Western Front is hominent. was allowed Port Bragg,

an enraged lynch mob of 500 men by a posse of 25 police near The "high ght" of this propa- to sit at the solicitors' table was

campaign He learned the undertaking busi- Stockton, Maryland, U.S.A., after an ordeal of terror which lasted ganda commited for trial charged withness and for year operated à mor- tha murder of his wife, aged

tuary, serving a huge area of the two hours, seventy-eight.

sparsely selfied timber country. He was alleged to have told n police officer that he had killed his

she nagged him and he DISASTER IN RAPIDS

"saw

"Difficult To Pleaso" Mr. G. R. Paling, prosecuting, rald the old couple lived with relatives, Mrs. Colty was in the habit of com-

The mob had raided the county. gnol nt Snowbill late the previous

night in search of an arrested negro who is accused of murdering a local farmer and assaulting his wife. But

grabbed them and dragged them through a window.

They were shown a rope and told: "How would you like to have this around your necks?"

The mob then drove off with the

Eighty Passengers Drown the authorities, fearing a lynching, screaming wamen. heading for the had removed the negro to a secret nearby town of Stockton in search When Ship Sinks

hiding place.

of the man. Chungking, Apr. 21,

The leaders forced the The mob then seized the two plaining about trifles, and war un-i Over 80 passengers were drowned

Blake, aged to tell the name of the nerro whom doubtedly almcult to

to please.

when the steamer Ming Yung, of the cresses-Marthn

police. to protect him from

women

The relatives heard a noise, and in Min Seng Company, sank in the thirty-one, and her daughter Lilian, the the Coltys' bedroom found the wo-rapids of the Chinling River, north aged fourteen-who were being held, lynching, had removed to an undis

un material witnesses in the same closed place. man dead in a chair by the fre-of Chungking, yesterday. place with a strap round her neck. Of about 150 passengers only 60 so She had apparenűly been cleaning for are reported to have been rescu- shoes shortly before her death.

ed.—Reuter,

case.

so far has been Goering's speech to the German he ank the war youth, in which must be decided in the West.

Brauchitsch Returning

It is reported that General von Brauchlisch, the German Comman- der-in-Chief, was. returning from

of another Inspection tour the West Fron, particularly the Rhine kretne, where he has been since Sunday.

Prices on the officially-regulated Berlin Stock Exchange have taken a The mob was dismersed and the shorp dive. The chief explanation women reached by State police after advanced in German financial circles The women covered in their cells a rush in which two of the mob was that rumours were abroad of as the mob tore down the iron door, and one policeman were injured. now taxes to finance the war.

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