1941-07-02 — Page 23

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HAVE I EVER TOLD A SINGLE

July 2, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

WELL,

BECAUSE

WHY

GOILS

CAN'T

CAN'T

I

KEEP

JOIN ?

SECRETS!

OH-- IS THAT

SOUL THAT YOU GAVE ME THAT PENNY ENGAGEMENT

RING?

SO?

DFC SHOT DOWN NAZIS' PRIDE

A. 25-YEARS-OLD British pilot shot down Major Helmuth Wieck, Goering's No. 1 fighter ace, off the Isle of Wight. This was revealed by the Air Ministry in a statement clearing up the five-months-old mystery of Wicck's fate,

His victor was. Filght-Lieut. John Charlés Dundas. D.F.C. and bar, of 609 (West Riding) Squadron. But Dundas never knew that his was the distinc- tion of bringing down Wieck when his gung blazed on Nov. 28 Inst, sending one of three Mes- serschmitts spinning down over the Isle of Wight.

"Whoopee, I've got a 109!" le

Clutched Charm-

And Lived

JIMMY FRANKS, 25-years-

signalled to his squadron commander old survivor of a torpedoed Bri- Good show, Jolin," came the reply.tish merchant ship, believes a "Re-form, as quickly as possible."

There was no reply from Dundas lucky charm saved his life.

St Christopher the other two Messerschmitts and medallion, was given him by the

girl who is now his wife.

he had in ture been shot down by

- killed.

Thirteenth Victim

of

the

Wieck. commander notorious Richthofen Squadron, was Dundas's thirteenth known victim.

The charm,

Mr Franks told the "Sunday Chronicle" at his Hampstead home that when his ship was hit in the Atlantic she sark quickly, and he was sucked down.

In contrast

quiet,

"Twice more I sanx-and, accord- modest Dundas, the German was the biggest Ing to tradition, that should have braggart among the Luftwaffe's many been the last time. But suddenly I braggaris. A personal protege of found something small and hard in Goering, his specialty was telling my hand, neutral newspapermen how good he said.

WAB.

He recently said, "British pilots aro laughable. They merely try to stay out of reach."

Born ut Doncaster, Dundas was commissioned in the Auxiliary Air Forca in 1938 and won the D.F.C. in September, 1040, after destroying six enemy planes, five of Dem in two weeks.

At Oxford

At Oxturd he wrote political notes for the undergraduate paper, the "Isls.

Hls review of an undergraduate debate at the Union was as witty as "Punch."

He is third of the six under- graduates who were then editing the Ists" to give his life in the defence of Britain as a pilot in the R.A.F.

Won D.F.C. In His Father's Spitfire

Married on the day war broke out,

It was the medallion." he

Thought Of Girl

"I thought of my girl and how much I would like to see her again. It gave me the strength to struggle back to the surface.

"I saw

a plece of driftwood. grabbed it, and then climbed on to a ship's raft where I lay exhausted.. That medallion kept me going.

"Some time later a boat picked me up, and-well, the first thing I did when I got back to Britain was to marry the girlf”

MAY-1

NIB. BUSHMILLERI

NEWS FROM UNDERGROUND-Chungking, war capital of China, has bean bombod many timos.. One of city's newspapers publishes as usual in bomb-proof dugout.

Pulitzer

Awards

Honour

Artistry and Reforms

Robert E. Sherwood became a three-time winner, Westbrook Pegler received recognition for his hard-hitting columns against labour racketeering, and the "New York Times" won a special citation in the annual list of Pulitzer awards made

Captain Saved public at Columbia University last month.

His Ship

CAPTAIN CHURCH, Master of the British steamer Franche-Comte, Is the

His ship homeward bound,

Was

Man Who Would Not Admit Defeat. torpedoed without warning-at-night

and burst into flames,

the

Mr Sherwood's heroic play, "There Shall Be No Night," as had his earlier won the annual Pulitzer drama prize even "Idiot's Delight," "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," and "Tovarich." Mr Pegler, vigorous, sometimes bitter, Scripps-Howard colum nist, received the $1,000 reporter's award for his series on scandals in the ranks of organized labour which led to the ex- posure and conviction of George Scalise,

valume of verse,"

were

Seaplane Signal Saved 310

A BRITISHI seaplane foundl

. survivors of the torpedoed Rajpu- lana after they had been drifting for five hours In the North Atlantic, and guided warships which picked them up two hours Taler.

While no individual foreign orį To Leonard Bacon, $1,000-for-a Captain Church had to order his Washington correspondent was "distinguished

awarded for "Sunderland Cap- ACTING SQUADRON LEADER men to

to the boats, BARRIE HEATH, who has been der of the scoring destroyer he said honoured as was usual, a prece-ture," Published by Harper and fighting Germans in a Spitfire bought that he had, no intention of abandon-dent-breaking award was made Brothers.

Travelling Scholarship to the "New York Times" for by his father and named Grabnine ing the ship until she had sunk.

Three travelling scholarships hav- Heath in memory of his brother, has With a number of volunteers from "the public educational value, of been awarded the D.F.C,

his crew, and six men from another

reports ex-ing a value of $1,000 each,

awarded to Pat Mayo Holt of Gates- ship sunk by Nazi pirates, he stood its foreign news its emplified by

scope, byville, Texus; Richard K. Pryne of La 1115 young wife la now a commandant by the Franche-Comte until

The men were landed on an island director of a motor arm now making They went aboard the hulk, and sentation tute A... He is 24, son of a flames were put out by heavy seas excellence of writing and pré- Crescenta, Calif, and Alvadee Eu-

and supplementary genia Ilutton of New Cumberland, where they had to stay for two days

· aircraft.

within one and halt hours the ert background information, illus-Pa., students of the Columbia Grad- before a ship was sent to take them

home. uate School of Journalism. When Mr Heath presented the gineers had steam on the boilers and tration and interpretation," ac- Alternates were Vernon De Long Only forty of the armed cruiser's

he asked if his son might fly the ship was proceeding' on her pas cording to the announcement of Groff of Sellersville,

Pu; Helene 350 men were lost and Lord. Beaverbrook assured

soge.

Leading Seaman Torpedoman hin this would be arranged. By De-

Markel of New York. The vessel had taken a good deal the trustees. cember Barrie Heath, then a flight of water, and was difficult to manage, Fiction Award Omitted An annual scholarship of $1,500 Edward Manning was one of those Heutenant, had shot down three Ger- but she was safely brought to port. No award was made in the field for "the most talented and desery- whose work helped to keep the

of fiction for the Arst time in 20 ing" student of music went to Ed-death-roll low, years, nor was any explanation mund Haines of the Eastman School and n forthcoming for the omission. Lit- of Music, Rochester, NY, erary critics had found 1940 a pro-siallar scholarship in the field of art went to Ariane Béigneux of Roxbury, life year, in novels.

The list of awards, as announced Conn. on behalf of the Trustees of Co- lumbia University, Included, besides

Spitfire

mans,

His brother Grahame, after whom.

the machine is named, was a fighter pilot of the RNA.S. in the last war.} He died after shooting down a Ger- man ace near Sylt

Arctic Hero® Air Chief

Quicker Graduation CAPTAIN RUSER-LARSEN, who

over

the above:

Of Medical Students Amundsen, is to command the Nor-ing $500 to the "St Louis Post-

dian

to

To The Army He Was Deserter

Two Torpedoes Manning had just taken the wheel when the first of two torpedoes struck the 10,044-ton ship.

The Rajputana had opened fire in the darkness when the second torpedo struck and the ship began to sink.

Manning got two Injured men into n lifeboat, lowered It Into the sea, ther had to jump and swim. He was found by a boat which picked up sixty men and after transferring some to another life-boat, went back for more.

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