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FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1041 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

CANCER FIGHT Pals Stand Helpless as They Permit Crew of British Bomber to Crash in TAKEN TO FARM Jrder to Save Wight Shrouded Airdome From Attack by Nazi Planes!

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SHIP REFUSED CLEARANCE BAHIA, Brazil, March 14 (U.P). Xne British Consul has refused learance to the Swiss steamer Margaret b Joptisen, proceeding from

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Scientist Make Experiments With Oil and Rats in Quest for Cure.

MALVERN, Pa., March 14 (UP) Miles from the Philadelphia industrial center, on a tinv. peaceful farm, three scientists are conductme experiments which some day May produce a cure for cancer vr. Leonard G. Rowntree, merly professor of medicine at the University tor of clinical investigation at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, directing the experiments on cancer,

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the Royal Air Force and the German air arm not to admit plane and personnel losses on home airdromes. Therefore, the following story is presented as fiction.

By PAUL MANNING NEA Service Staff Correspondent SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND. March 14—We are sitting in a village pub. We are still dazed, just a little sick — though two hours have passed since it happened. You see, Ann had come up to the airdrome that afternoon to collect the belongings of Bruce Hancock. her Sergeant Pilot fiance who, the dav before had crashed his unarmed Miles trainer into a8 German fighting plane My friend Charlie had just finished testing a new bomber that was to carry him and his crev of second pilot, bomb man. observer, and rear gunner to the RAF target in Germany the next night, 1 had been watching him gun the engines.

turned away and walked slowly back to the mess hall, leaving the cleanup to the fire truck crew,

Inside there was no more eating |

and very little talking. There was a silent toast with Madeira sherry and then the wandered off.

Ann began to cry. top of losing Bruce was too much. So here we were, two after it had happened, in a village pub near the aerodrome. Still dazed, just a little

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saying, “You how tough this night flying These bovs go up night after night, either to practice ment flying or to bomb some objective in German territory. they come back they occasionally run into something like this though.” Then Ann,

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| saying much, go. We asked her how now. She said all right. Outside we helped her inte her | car, then stood watching until the red tail light disappeared in the | blackout down the road.

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Returning to the officers’ mess, Ly we met Ann with her arms loaded. x Charlie invited her to dinner— and that was when it happened.

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MIDWAY through the ham, there was the roar heavy bomber overhead It just skimmed the mess hall roof, then suddenly it pulled up and droned away But it was back in a minute or two trying to find that flying field which now was obscured by darkness, fog and the rain that had been threatening all day. Nobody in the mess was talking now. The officers just looked blankly at one another They were concentrating on trying to pick up the sound which would indicate a safe landing The men waiting on table had strained look. Thev had seen this happen before Then Charlie said, outside.” In the darkness there were other shadowy figures watching and we walked over to the small wireless hut Two officers

they went back to the old method of distilling the] product. They rented the Malvern farm and continued the work where! no outside persons would be endangered by p explosions, Whether the group has been sue1 again in > pH oducing the disthe rodents has not been reveale Dr. Rowntree ounced a hat at the pre no report would be made publie

n was coming dowt n fast, too fast. py

“You heard the roar of the bomber . . . then you saw it.

ning across the airdrome. Then it happened. The bomber struck the ground at a 30 degree anplowed along for a few then burst into flames

operator were in the room. The Suddenly the operator swung operator was hunched over his in- | around. He said the pilot was struments, but he wasn't sending | bringing his ship down anyway. anything. He just kept listening “ # 3 gle, to the pilot of that blind ship fiy- yards i 'ERYONE rushe int ing around overhead. EVERYONE rushed out into the

; | open, but vou couldn't see a thing. As the pilot pleaded for a | you heard the roar of the bomber. recognition signal, the operator | though. Then vou saw the ship, grew white. He knew he could | because the sparks from its exnot send a thing. The officer | hayst traced a crazy pattern in pacing the room said it would | the darkness. jeopardize the whole airdrome. 1t was coming down fast, too | A German raid was in progress | fast. ' over Mus area at the Jnoment. sh

As it skimmed overhead, just

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The ambulance and the auxil= iary truck they call a fire engine was racing across the field ahead of everyone, but even they were late though they made an attempt to play chemical foam on the burning aircraft. Nobody could do a thing could only stand helplessly | away from the blazing pyre | = ” ”

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