EIGHTH VICTIM

Evening Star, Issue 24287, 31 August 1942, Page 4

EIGHTH VICTIM

NEW ZEALAND PILOT'S EXPLOITS (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. noon.) RUGBY, August 30. Known throughout the Western Desert as “ the man with cat’s eyes,” Warrant-officer E. L. Joyce, D.F.M., destroyed a Junkers 88 on the night of August 29. Joyce, who is a New Zealander from Hamilton, thus brings his total to eight enemy aircraft destroyed—four at night. MR FRASER IN AMERICA NATION-WIDE BROADCAST , WASHINGTON, August 29. Mr Fraser is to make a nation-wide broadcast to-morrow night. He conferred throughout this morning with very high Air Force and Navy officials and later resumed his consultations with Mr Nash at the New Zealand Legation. The Prime Minister devoted several hours in the afternoon to relaxation r and sight-seeing. He visited President e Washington’s home and tomb at Mount « Vernon and also the Arlington national t cemetery, where the Unknown Soldier i is buried. g f ""RATION SYSTEM VIOLATED a PROMINENT BRITONS FINED LONDON, August 28. The Paymaster-general and Minister c of Reconstruction, Sir William Jowitt, t Lord Burghley, who is controller of q American supplies in the Ministry of t Aircraft Production, Sir George Court- tl hope, and Admiral Sir Aubrey Smith, p who is a former aide-de-camp to the b King, whore among the 15 defendants s , charged before a special court in Can- w terlmry with obtaining rationed food- tl stuffs for animals in excess of the n authorised quantity. n The Prosecutor said he had come to ]) the conclusion that the defendants ai neither knew nor realised, that they (] were receiving grain in excess of the c< coupon value. Sir William Jowitt’s n farm, for instance, was being conducted m by a manager. Similar circumstances tl applied to the other defendants. ol Sir William Jowitt was .fined £ls, tl Lord Burghley £l, Sir George Court- (! hope £2, and Admiral Smith 10s. sf