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DONALD DUCK

JIGGERS-

--IT'S UNCA DONALD!

Cope, 1943, Will Duny

World Tiger ved

With The Warwickshire Regiment

THEY'RE LEARNING

PATROL DUTY

IN

IN the present state of stele- | work. These pictures showe mate on the Western Front, members of the Warwickshire most of the action is taken by ¦ Regiment learning patrol duty, patrols.

In the face of possible enenty fire these men go out into No Man's Land to investigate the fie of the land and obtain in formation of the enemy's positions.

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On the right: a Company Commander and section leaders. are seen studying a plan of the uren ahead of them, chile their men remain on the alert,

Below: {{ Company Com-

Decorations have already mander gives the signal for the been awarded to British soldiers patrol to come into close for conspicuous bravery in this | formation.

Tuesday,

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HUSBAND SAYS MAYFAIR WIFE HAD BAD TEMPER

TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Second Lieutenant EXETER BELL Porter, only son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Renfrew Porter, of Grosvenor-square, W., went into the witness-box in Mr. AS HIS FONT Justice Atkinson's court in the King's Bench Division and said that his wife had a violent temper, could never keep I cabin, where three months ago lay his mother-in-law. TN the Exeter captain's shell-battered a maid, was not a good cook, and that he had never liked

the ship's wounded heroes, a baby

grow up to be proud,

was given a name of which he will His wife, 26-year-old Mrs. Valerie G. R. Porter, of The two-year-old son of Warrant Porchester-terrace, W., is claiming damages from his Engineer John Tayler was christened, parents and alleges that they enticed her husband from and the name given to him was that her. The marriage took place in February, 1937.

by the chaplain, the Rev. G. Grove

Cartoons Teach R.A.F. To Avoid £300 Mistakes

EVERY time an R.A.F. pilot in training forgets to let down his under-carriage |

as he is about to land it costs the country up to £300 in repairs.

.So the Training Command

have devised two methods which should improve his memory.

One is to commission Fougasse to draw a series of comte illustrations of the faults of learner pilots.

One drawing shows a pilot forget- ting to lower his undercarriage, An- other shows a flier putting himself in a dangerous position by lying under the tail of another alreralt.

These drawings are to be hung in Die crew rooms at the training cen- res both here and in Canada writes a London correspondent,

42 Instruments

Love Sergeant

Sergeant Major, Judge Tells Private

"ORDERS are orders," Mr. Justice Croom-Johnson told a young soldier at Durham Assizes, after he had commented that i "according to the new iden you ought to love the sergeant- major." Seventeen-year-old John Connor, native of Leeds, a pri- vate in the Durham Light Infantry, pleaded not guilty to at- tempting to murder his. sergeant-major by shooting at him. His plea of guilty of attempting to wound was accepted, by the pro- secution.

The second method introduces a "mock-up,

"or dummy, cockpit. All the dials and levers face the learner, Asking the Judge not to pay too who is expected to be constantly much attention to the lad's obstinacy seating himself within the cockpit to and blood curdling threats, Mr. F. T. memorise the appearance and position Willey, for the defence, said: of the dials and to practise the sequence of operating the levers.

Eventually he guy have to learn to fly a machine which has 42 Instruments.

on the

I understand that, based number of flying hours, the number of accidents during the "high-pres- sure" flying training of war-ume is about the same as during the more

leisurely days of peace.

"You've heard about the fellow named Sam who wouldn't pick up his musket Well, in this case bej wouldn't put it down." "Sonic Sort Of Grudgo"

The Judge: That is a 'case of which I cannot take cognisance.

Mr. Willey: Then I will not racn tion Sam again.

Mother Of 4 Deported

SEATTLE.—A

of

mother

Inur. denied cKlzenship because sho wouldn't bear arms for the United Status in case of war, must return to Canada.

"They asked me if I would take couldn't up nems, and I told them do that, but would do anything else the Government asked me if we Mr. C. B. Fenwick, prosecuting, sald were in war-nursing or anything Aune Pilots are being trained in bad the charge arose out of an incident at like that," Mrs., Alice Signe weather conditions as well as in good. a training camp. The youth had been explained.

The difference between teaching a dining-room orderly and had refused "But I guess that isn't enough."

She is a native of the United pilet in this war and the last is tre- to clear up scraps of food when told

States but lost her, citizenship by When 1940 pilots come out to do so by his sergeant-major:

mendous. of their elementary training school Later Connor went to the store marrying a Norwegian, O. P. Aune, they have reached the stage where, room and got a rifle. He already had They lived in Winnipeg, Canada, 25. In the lost war, pilots were sent to four rounds of ammunition. He years. France,

Last summer the family moved to pointed the rifle towards the sergeant- of the ship which will forever hold a Licut. Porter sold that his mother to turn her out when she had been Before a qualified pilot is allowed major and the bullet landed in the Seattle, Mr. Aune and four children pince of honour in the history of the did not criticise his wife's way of brought to this state of frenzy, shut to take up a machine of new type he wall behind him.

entered as immigrants. Mrs. Aune entered on #parole requiring an British Navy.

running the establishment; she merely, the door and break up this marriage! must study a specially printed book-" Afterwards he gave vent to rents application for citizenship

within Barry John Exeter Tayler cried offered suggestions which his wife "She was kicking and bling, and let of "ying notes"--rimilar, in which possibly he did not seriously

months. She was ordered to throughout. fle, ceremony. The welcomed.

we didn't want a scene," Mr. Porter effect, to the notes motor manufac mean. ship's chaplain christened him with]

return to Canada. He knew from the first that the answered.

turers present to motorists with their water from the Exeter's bell, which marriage was not going the way it

"I regret the whole evening and new cars.

Iter case paralleled that of Mrs. Kathryn Erickson of Enumclaw, itself bore scars of the epic battle.

should.

things happening as they did," he

Air-gunners, too, are being trained added. Thanksgiving

in a far more technical manner than The hearing was adjourned.

those of 1018.

Captain Bell and his wife and Com-

Spanked Truo And Hard

Before he went into the box his

mander E. Simms were the baby's father, speaking of a scene in his fiat

godparents.

Bald that his son drew his wifo over

"Engineer Tayler has seen his | bis knee and spanked her. baby only ouco since birth, Ilo

"Were they serious blows?" thic

was born whllo his father was serv-| Judgo asked.

ing in the Excter in South America

He spanked her true and hard,"

and is the first child of a member) Mr. Porter replied.

Bleriot's Niece Is Granted Divorce

Mrs. Marie Antoinette Graves, now ving in Paris, a niece of M. Bleriot, the aviator, was granted a decree nisi,

She charged, her husband, Major

of the crew to be christened on Heferring to the incident when he with costs, by Mr. Justien Hodson in board.

put his daughter-in-law out of his the Divorce Court. Before tho christening a thanksgiv-| fint, he said:" "She was fighting Eko. ing service, attended by the officers a demon, determined to do any, Arnold Graves, an inventor, with de- { and their wives, was held in the cap- damage she could."

Kartion and the petition was wicon- tain's cabin.

The Judge: Did you think it right tested.

"Bad Soldier"

theee

An offeer sold the youth was n bad] Wash., Norwegian, who, also was re- soldier and not amenable to disei- fused citizenship after she refused to bear arms because "I couldn't shoot

A hangar at one gunnery schoolpline. contains seven or eight gun-turrets placed in a row.

The learning air-gunters all fn- side them and point machine-guns

contain whose barrels

powerful torches,

The hangar is put in darkness, and a round patch of light is made to move slowly across and of the walls,

It is the gunners job to "shoot" the patch of light. At first the learners "wander all over the place.”

When Mr. Willey said there was people." Her plight started a move some sort of a grudge between the to change the Naturalisation Law. youth and the sergeant-major, the Judge observed: "I thought accord- ing to the new idea you ought to love, the sergeant-major.”

BIG NAVAL BATTLE?

Gothenburg, Apr. 22. Gunfire WOS again audible.

at

Sending Connor to Borstal for three Gothenburg archipelago this mom years, the Judge said when he came Ing.

especially at Roeroe. Heavy out possibly he would still go into the fog prevented people from observing

錶 was an whether Army

nir er navnl "Make it a career--and a fine one, engagement, but it is believed that

it is, too-but remember that orders may indicate the beginning of a

mafor naval battle-United Press.

aro orders."

WEST FIELDS

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