Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1957 — Page 29

MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1957

Adm. Price Death Recalls Memories Wake Island Bomb* Mission Recalled By DOC QVIGfi United Preu Staff Correspondent NEW YORK <UP>—“Adm. John Dale Price is dead at 65,” the headline says, and a spate of

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! memories spills across the years. “John Dale,” as he was known familiarly in the Navy, was a flying admiral and fighting admiral. He got the Distinguished Flying Cross in World War II for valor and achievement in attacking Wake Island. I had a rather personal interest in the successful completion nd safe return of the Wake Island' bombing. I went along. My duty was to write about it for the combined Allied press. Just about this week, 14 years ago, we were on the island of

Midway sweating out preparat tions. It was to be the longest overwater night air strike made in the war up to that time. MindI ful of* the casualty rate in air attacks t that time, a Navy public reltions man had dvised me to desist from going long, on the simple theory that it is easier to write about a thing if you stay 1 alive. \ The admiral was aghast when this suggestion was relayed to him. "Why, we’re leaving a bomb oft one of the planes just to get you on,” he said. "I'm going along myself. I want this thing done right” , . Argued For Bombers Admiral Price at that time was commander of Fleet Air Wing Two—or, In the Navy’s quaint shrunken nomenclature, ComFair-

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WingTwo. He had argued the high command into letting him use huge four-engine flying - boat planes as bombers, and on this, their first, strike he wanted to be sure of success. He was a forceful personality. During a briefing session on Midway, one of the fliers mentioned something about radio communication between planes. The admiral himself happened to be eavesdropping at the edge of the crowd. “Ain’t gonna be no radio!" he roared, causing several lieutenants to jump like scared rabbits. “Nobody's gonna know we’re in the air till we get there.” In those days, they wore heavy steel armor, padded so that it resembled a baseball catcher’s protector, front and rear. This was to fend off anti-aircraft shrapnel.

By the time you got it on over your pra chute, which in turn was on over your Mae West, the weight made you stagger. A Charming Tag U.S. industry was dovetailed in queer ways into the war. On the flight toward Wake, I examined my armor and found a charming tag on the inside, labeled “Fashion Frocks, Inc." And, on the way, there was a security lesson I never forgot. The plane commander's voice came through the earphones to the crew. ‘Men, I have an announcement. Mr. Quigg, the U.P. war correspondent aboard, tells me we are making the first flight to neutralize Wake air strips for the Allied invasion of the Marshall Islands in a day or two.” He then detailed the whole plan of What outfits were going to invade what islands. If we had been shot down alive, the enemy would have had a whole crew to torture information from. I kept my big mouth shut for the rest of the war. ‘ Since that was the Christmas season, and so is .this, let’s doff a hat in thanks again to those boys who spent wartime Christmases in the Pacific wastes. There's a song you hear at this season inquiring how’d you like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island. No thanks. I've been there. Christmas Island is a pile of sand with maybe two palms and no romance. President Os Cuba Impresses Singer Gives Performance For Pres. Batista By VERNON SCOTT United Press Hollywood Writer HOLLYWOOD (UP> — Everybody likes a weln-roldued blonde] —even presidents. Curvesome Connie Towers, sometimes known as the Eyeful Towers, found this to be true 1 when she visited Cuba earlier ■ this month and was invited to per-( form privately for President Fulgencio Batista. Connie, . a singer of popular | songs, caught Batista’s eye while ( warbling on a TV show in Haj vana. . The President dispatched his family physician and lawyer to (Connie’s hotel to invite her to the ’ palace. The invitation had all the I aspects of an old-fashioned melo-| drama. | But womanlike. Connie's only thoughts, were about, ...what she would wear. Chose Black Dress "I settled for a long - sleeved black dress , with a modest neckline.” she said demurely. "I was thrilled to death, but I was apprehensive. too. A girl hears all sorts of things about dictators. “A chauffeured limousine brought me to the palace which wasn't very impressive from the outside. I was met by a guard at the entrance. They re careful down there about strangers because of the revolution." Still not knowing what to expect, Connie (a native of Whitefish, Flathead County, Montana) 1 was conducted "to an 'elevator arid deposited on the second floor of I the Cuban white house. Instead of candlelight and wine, the blonde charmer was greeted by cabinet members who chatted | with her about the weather and Other mundane subjects. | "Then a man in uniform told us we would be received by the President," she continued. “We 1 entered an intimate library which is the study. As we came i nhe made his entrance from another door. It was electrifyjng, An Exciting Man “There's an urgency and ex-; citement about the man. The 1 same excitement you feel at the start of A horse race. He was very impressive in his uniform . and he spoke English beautifully” Connie's eyes sparkled as she related Batista’s story of how the palace elevator saved his life ] last winter when a mob of rebels ■ -invaded the -building. - —• "The elevator stuck on the fifth floor,” Connie explained. ‘And when the rebels trooped up the staircase. Mr. Batista’s guards picked them oft one at a time j as they tried to reach his quarters.’ - - - When the small talk was over ■Connie sang "Quiefe me mucho* without accompaniment. SANTA’S EVERYWHERE . . . Santa visits other countries, too. Here he is shown at a holiday party for Japanese orphans in a downtown Tokyo department j store. (

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