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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 Wieck's fate.

His victor was Flight-Licut, John Charles Dundas, D.F.C. and bar, of 609 (West Riding) Squadron. But Dundas never knew that his was the distine- tion of bringing down Wieck when his guns blazed on Nov. 28 last, sending one of three Mes- serschmitts spinning down over the Isle of Wight.

"Whoopce, I've got

2 109!" he

Clutched Charm-

And Lived

JIMMY FRANKS, 25-years-

signalled to his squadron commander. old survivor of a torpedoed Bri- "Good show, John," 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. -he had in turn been shot down by the other two Messerschmitts and killed.

Thirteenth Victim

the

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

the

The charm, 11 St Christopher medallion, was given him by girl who is now his wife.

Franks

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

"Twice more I sank-and, accord- ing to tendition, thai should have

In contrast to quict, modest Dundas, the German was the biggest braggart umong the Luftwaffe's many been the last time. But suddenly 1 braggarts. A personal protege of found something small and hard in Goering, his specialty was telling my hand. It was the medallion," he neytral newspapermen how good he said.

мля,

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

Born ut Doncaster, Dundas was commissioned in the Auxillary, Air Furco in 1938 and won the D.F.C. in September, 1049, after destroying six enemy planes, dve of them in two weeks.

At Oxford

At Oxford he wrote political notes for the undergraduate paper, the "Isla".

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

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

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

Tck to the surface.

"I saw а piece 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 Arst thing I did when I got back to Britain was to marry the girl!"

Vednesday,

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Awards

Honour

Pulitzer

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

Mr Sherwood's heroic play, "There Shall Be No Night," as had his earlier won the annual Pulitzer drama prize even

and "Tovarich." "Idiot's Delight," "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," 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- Man Who Would Not Admit refcat,

posure and conviction of George Scalise,

To Leonard Bacon, $1,000 for a torpedoed without warning at night

While no individual foreign or} Captain Church had to order his Washington correspondent was "distinguished volume of verse,

Awarded for a "Sunderland Cap-|

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

to the "New York Times" for she

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

His ship, homeward bound, was

and burst into flames.

but to the common-

by his father and named Gralayo Ing. the Heath In memory of his brother, hos been awarded the D.F.C.

ship

With a

lis

aircraft. When

had sunk.

Seaplane Signal Saved 310

Travelling Scholarship Three travelling scholarships hay- from another its foreign news reports ex-ng a value of $3,500 each, were awarded to Pat Mayo Halt of Gales-

later. byville, Texas; Richard K. Pryne of La

the emplified by its

scope,

Tho

A BRITISHI scaplane fount survivors of the torpedoed Rafpu- tana after they had been drifting tho North hours in for fire. Atlantic.

warships and a number of volunteers from "the public educational value of

gulded his crow

and str

six men

which picked them up two hours Married on the day war broke out, ship sunit by Nozi pirates, he slood

until young wife is now a commandant by the Franche-Comte

nen were landed on an islund In the A.T.S. He is 24, son of a flames were put out by heavy sens, excellence of writing and pre- Crescenta, Calif., and Alvadee Eu-

and supplementary genia Hutton of New Cumberland, where they had to stay for two days director of a motor firm now making They went aboard the hulk, and sentation

home. within one and a half hours the en-background information, illus-Pa., students of the Columbia Grad-before a ship was sent to take them Air Heath presented the gineers had steam on the boilers and tration and interpretation," ne./unte School of Journalis

Alternates were Vernon De Long Only forty of the armed cruiser's

Paj Helene 350 men were lost

Scamion Torpedoman Markel of New York.

An annual scholarship of $1,500 Edward Manning was one of those Fiction Award Omitted No award was made in the field for "the most talented and deserv-whose work helped to keep the of Actions for the first time in 20 ing" student of musle went to Ed-death-roll low. years, nor

any explanation mund Haines of the Eastman School forthcoming for the. omission. Lit-of Music, Rochester, N.Y., erary critics had found 1940 a pro- similar scholarship in the field of art went to Arlane Belgneux of Roxbury, Be year in novels.

Spitfire he asked if his son might fly the ship was proceeding on her pas-cording to the announcement of Groff of Sellersville. It, and Lord Beaverbrook assured sage. him this would be arranged. By De- The vessel had taken a good deal the trustees. sember Darrie Heath, then a fight-of water, and was difficult to manage, fleutenant, had shot down three Ger- but she was safely brought to port.

inans.

His brother Grahame, after whom the machine is named, was a fighter uitat of the RN.AS. in the last war. He died after shooting down a. Ger- man are near Sylt

Arctic Hero Air Chief

Quicker Graduation CAPTAIN RIISER-LARSEN, who

flew

the North Pole with over

wegian Air Force.

Was

The list of awards, as announced Conn. on behalf of the Trustees of Co- lumbia Univeralty, included, besides the above:

In journalism: A gold medul·cost- Post-

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

Dispatch" for the "most disinterest-

nounced.

To The Army He Was Deserter

21

been given

Leading

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 torpadlo struck and the ship began to siric.

Manning got two injured men into a lebont, lowered it into the sea, then had to jump and swim. He was found by a boat which picked up sixty men

and after transferring some to another Ille-boat, went back for more.

Canada's Domestic Exports Doubled

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OTTAWA, May 21-A recommen- He has just returned to Londoned and meritorious public service dalion that Canada's medical schools from Canada, where he organised a rendered by an American newspaper speed up graduation of medical stu-training school for young Norwegian during the year," awarded for the

newspaper's

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z eivle funeral In recognition of The former receul conferences in Ottawa between

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In Cartoons And Letters bravery, Auxillary Fireman James deans of medical faculties at Cana- Navy air arms are now to operate:

To Reuben Moury if the "New York Dunkerley Spalding, aged 31, of and the director-as a single unit under him. dian universities general of the Canadian (Active) Capt. Riiser-Larsen became world- Dally News," $500 for his "distin- Oldham, was sought as an "Army Army's Medical Service, it was an- famous when he took part in the gulched editorial writing during the deserter."

Spalding was one of five Oldham

OTTAWA, May 21-Canada's do- air expedition to the North Pole year." Mr Maury has written most Already, the announcement added, with Amundsen in 1925,

of the "News" editorials since the A.FS. men killed when fighting fires mesile exports, with the exception of One of the gold, increased to $118,933,000 during some 10 per cent. of Canada's medical, Their machine came down on the spring of 1920 and has contributed in Manchester raids.

editorials "Colliers Wreaths sent to the funeral In De April from $85,305,000 in the same

to practitioners have been absorbed by ice, and it took three weeks to clear frequent

cember was from the Mayor and month last year, the Dominion bureau Weekly." the armed services.

a runway for it to take off again,

Chief Constable of Oldham; it had of statisties reported to-day. The

months of 103 four

1941 To Jacob Burck, of the "Chicago the

"In Inscription:" honoured total for the first Times." $500 for his "distinguished

advanced to $405,309,000 from $327- service as a carioonist" as exempli-on February 19, my husband's 403.000 in the same period kingdom i

of 1949. Exports to fied by the cartoon entitled "I calling-up papers were delivered to

the Unit Should Die Before 1 Wake" pub- the house, his widow, Mrs Nellie during April totalled. $53,017,000 llshed on June 2, 1940, and plcturing

little girl saying her prayers in a Spalding said. "I told the employment compared with $37,400,000 in April, exchange officials of the mistake, but 1940, bringing the total value of ex- airplanes bombed-out house with

during parts to the United Kingdom the dark

another notice came on March 27. overhead flying through

"This week, a detective came into the first four months of the year to In the field of lotters: To Marcus

husband the street inquiring for my

$102,029,000. During the same period OTTAWA, May 19.-An army of 750,000 for Canada's

(posthumous), $1,000

last year the value of exports to the on the as a deserter. Leo stinguished book "Front-line war effort" is a possibility within the next three for a

"When neighbours told him the United Kingdom was $147,155,000. of tho United States,*

April exports to the United States. years, Hon. J. G. Gardiner, minister of national war services, history

for "The Atlantic Migra- facts, he went away without calling

wore valued at $42,401,000 compared

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