Evening star., 1941-08-18
Two Nations Listen
As Flying Cadet
Greets His Bride
II R. A. F. Truinees Tolk
For ; Minutes Each With
Relatives in Britain
By MIRIAM GUTENBERG.


listening in, the flying cadet was
given three minutes to talk to the
girl he had married just 10 days
before Great Britain sent him to
America to learn how to fly.
He told her he liked the picture
she had sent him, the one taken
Just after the wedding. He thanked
her for her letters. He said he
liked America and flying. He called
her dearest"
And R. A. F. Cadet F. H. Brad
ford's young wife, speaking from
R. A. F. Station Benson, Oxford
shire, where she is member of
the Women's Auxiliary Air Force,
replied:
I'm the happiest I've been for a
long time"
In a moment, he was saying
"goodby, sweetness" and the place
of w. A. A. F. 891576 Bradford was
taken by a father from Newry
County. Ireland.
IL Cadets Broadcast.
Cadet Bradford was one of the
II r. A. F. flying cadets brought to
Washington from Southeastern fly
ing schools for two-way broadcast
over the National Broadcasting Co.
yesterday. ,@ '''
To his mother in Scotland, Cadet
G. w. Fraser, training at Arcadia,
Fla, said:
This is great country over
here. We even pick oranges off
the trees"
From Middlesex, England, came
the voice of F. r. c. Pusey's father,
wanting to know if his boy was
fighting fit" Cadet Pusey told his
father he had met up with some
college girls" and across the ocean
came, Same old game, eh?" With
5000 miles between them, father
and son laughed together.
Head of Household.
Two women from Lancashire
waited to talk to Cadet F. W..
Harrison, his mother and his best
girl. Very much the head of the
household, young Harrison told
them, Look after yourselves, won't
you? Don't do anything silly"
AS one Irishman to another, Cadet
G. F. Alderdice confided to his
father, "You sound very Irish," and
listened to the elder Alderdice ex-
plain that the wireless went on
fire and I put 1t out with a bucket
of water"
Cadet Peter S. Kyd's wife told
him she was wearing the pink and
black frock he remembered and he
nodded his head : His young son,
she said, was real sort OF
bruiser."
One exchange was nearly lost to
the radio audience. That was the
conversation Cadet D. H. Thomas
carried on with his mother in Welsh.
When NJ B. c. Announcer Don
Gardiner protested and young
Thomas replied, I'm afraid I don't
understand English" but he asked
his mother in English If the har-
vesting was over.
Decides Not to Tell All.
When Cadet S. w. r. Stone
started to tell his wife in Glouces-
| tershire about "a very enjoyable
week end" and AIDED hastily,
That's all I'd better say about 1t"
the announcer on the other side
of the Atlantic commented that Mrs.
Stone was having very enjoyable
week end, too.
Mrs. Stone, pretending to fear
her husband would misunderstood,
protested, That's not true"
The exchange between the other
husbands and wives also sounded
as though there was no 5000 miles
separating them. When w. K.
Watkins started sending greetings
to his other friends, his wife in
Glamorgan protested, Say you're
talking to me, you know" And
when John w. Payne's wife in Lon
don urged him to Say something
quick" he retorted, "You usually
do all the talking"
1t was that way with all the
husbands and wives, that is, except
the young Bradfords. But then,
they had only been married 10 days
| before they were separated. 1t was
little difficult getting better ac-
quainted with two nations listen
ing in.
|