Daily Mirror dated Wednesday March 2nd 1938
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On the 28th of February 1938 two soldiers, Andrew
Vanderberg and Reginald Eddie Kaye, deserted from Tidworth barracks and headed
for Andover where they hijacked a police car at gunpoint. Unfortunately for
them cars were pretty unreliable in those days and it broke down after a mile
or so. When an RAF officer stopped to help them he was forced to drive them to
London. On March 1st the soldiers carried out a couple of armed
thefts and then hijacked another car, but didn’t realise that their driver was
an off-duty policeman. He deliberately crashed the car into a lamppost outside
Barking police station.
As detailed in the cuttings, they were caught after a one
sided gun battle with the un-armed police. Actually only 2 policemen were shot
– the other was injured when he was pushed through a glass window.
At their trial, Vanderberg, who was 37, got 10 years inside,
while Kaye, at only 16, was sent to Borstal for 3 years.
Vanderberg’s defence included blaming his actions on
marijuana addiction!
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Wilmer and another man had been convicted of beating and
robbing a 67 year-old jeweller in a diamond robbery the previous December. The
flogging was in addition to a 7year prison sentence and caused uproar in the
more Liberal minded sections of the public. George Bernard Shaw and the Deans
of St Paul’s and Canterbury led the protests. Flogging in British prisons was
abolished as late as 1962.
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Google throws up a surprising number of 12 toed and 12
fingered people, none of whom appear to have become World-class pianists,
harpists, guitarists or mathematicians.
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King Vidor did direct ‘The Citadel’ with Robert Donat and
Rosalind Russell.
Donat
also starred in ‘Good-Bye Mr Chips’ and it was, according to the IMDb, directed
by Sam Wood with an uncredited Sydney Franklin. ‘National Velvet’ wasn’t made
until 1944 but with Mickey Rooney as Mi Taylor rather than Spencer Tracy. It
doesn’t look like Wallace Beery made it to Britain.
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Why wasn’t this on the front page? King Misses Breakfast!
Forced to drive to Monte Carlo! Thoroughly Pissed Off!
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As, I imagine was intended, I immediately
thought this referred to the British Royal Family until I noticed the two ‘By
Appointment’ notices.
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Next time you mutter “Health and safety gone mad” when you
see people wearing goggles to open a tomato sauce bottle, remember this is what
might happen. I once saw an experiment blow up in our chemistry teacher’s face.
Luckily he wasn’t injured but just covered in black residue. Oh, how we little
buggers laughed.
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We all know advertisers tell fibs, but they should check
their copy before publishing - ‘and butter free’ it says - ‘and a lacing of the
finest butter’ it says. Which is it? The public has a right to know!
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Only 19 months later, in September 1939, Goering had his chance.
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I want eyebrows like Joan Crawford! Check out the coupon at the bottom. I think I’m a sallow,
oily skinned, black eyed (under, not pupils), over 35, brownette gone grey.
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‘Carroll Levis’ Discoveries’ was ‘Britains Got Talent’ 1938
style. When was the last time you saw a whistling professional boxer, a
dramatic monologist and the Peckam Piccaninny on the same bill? Simon Cowell
eat your heart out!
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“Wow, man, toothpaste, cool.” She doesn’t look like a hippie
but she’s ending her sentence “Man” so I hope he’s not surprised if they have
hash cookies for the Wedding Breakfast and a honeymoon in Marakesh.
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There doesn’t appear to be anything online about this death
threat to Brentford FC. Has it been hushed up? The public has a right to know!
Again!
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