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| SAN NICHOLAS, Aruba,

them, in a circling United States army bombér plane, we saw t was an example of the fortitude and daring entirely typical of the men defying the German U-boats to

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iorpedoed oil tanker, in the engines and

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the Carib ean—they hag

' not understand why he hadn't. The rize was a 9002 gross ton Amerith a capacity of early 5,000,000 | gallons and a reent value of $2,500,000.

Wolf Pack Cheated

| And unquestionably, just that would have happened if Lieut. T. R. ,Ford of Shelby, Mich. the com- ¢ manding officer of the Aruban detachment of the United States army bombing unit in the Netherlands West Indies, hal not dived out of an overcast sky, the sun at his back, d given them the protection of bombs, depth charges and maur timely arrival f pack of another

Hour after hour, we covered the nker’s wounded crawl to her loadg port here. [For more than 100 iles we circled, round and round, ing our eyes for a submarine. Now

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Writer in tombat Pho Reveals How Daring Fliers, | Including Hoosier, Cheat Wolf Packs Stalking | Oil Tankers Off Aruba.

This is the second of a series of articles by the first war corre-

seeking out the German wolf pack in the Caribbean,

By NAT A. BARROWS Copyright, 1542, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Dally News, Inc.

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with United States army bombers

N. W. 1, March 4.—Up above

engine room, lining the rails, on the lookout. Lieut. Ford gurined his plane back and forth, hunting suspicious streaks on the water. His bombardjer, Lieut. James L. O'Connor, of Vermillion, S. D., and his rear machinegunner, Pvt. Darwin Riley, of Somerville, Ind., kept their trigger fingers steady, itching for a kill, Back aft, in the rear fighting turret. I peered at the white-capped Caribbean until my eyes grew bloodshot from the stiain. Once, we all thought we had it. At about the same moment, we spotted a dark patch of water, five miles or so from the tanker. Some-| thing was breaking through the surface. It could have been a periscope. Lieut. Ford dropped the nose of his plane, gunneil her to 300 miles an hour and swooped in. Lieut. O'Connor fixed his bombsight cross at the target, and Pvt. Riley swung his machine gun into range. I stretched flat beside Pvt. Riley, ready to feed hin additional boxes of bullets. At 200 feet Lieut. Ford leveled her off. Then, with the ocean under us a blurred streak, we saw that the target was only a piece of bridge wreckage from the tanker.

Saved by a Zag

It was mid-forenoon when a torpedo crashed into the portside of the tanker. Only a few seconds before, Capt. Cornelius van Gemert of Chester, Pa., the skipper, had ordered the course changed from zig to zag. That margin saved his ship and his men. An 18-foot torpedo hit at an angle and the full force of the concussion and explosion was thus thrown at the portside of | the bridge and not at the interior ‘of the ship’s forward tanks. The tanker wag in ballast on the way from the states to San Nicholas

been loaded she would have been blown up or been in flames in a few minutes. Here, with the bombing patrol in combat, I have seen the terrifying aftermath of such explosions and ‘it Is not a pretty

When our time was up another bomber came out from Aruba and took up the air convoy. Drunkenly, the tanker staggered along, all hands ready to take to boats if the ship was unable to withstand her wounds. The next day Capt. van Gemert, with his 480-foot tanker safely inside the tiny re-effringed harbor here, filled in the gaps I could not know from the air.

Great Geyser of Water

“The first thing I knew the ship staggered and a great gyser ballast of water doused the bridge,” he related. “My eyes were filled with oil but I could see the wake behind the torpedo, perhaps a quarter-mile

Lieut, Gen. Lesley J. McNair. Somervell, too, soon may be raised to lieutenant general.

Legion Candidate

Fred C. Hasselbring

The Bruce P. Robinson post of the American+legion has indorsed Fred C. Hasselbring, a past commander of the post, as a candidate for the commandership of the 12th district in the coming election. Mr. Hasselbring is a district adjutant, serves as secretary of the legion convention corp. and has worked on various state committees, including the Hoosier Boys’ State. A petty officer on the old U.S. 8S. Indiana during the first world war, Mr. Hasselbring has been connected with the American National Bank for more than 20 years,

ARMY SUPPLIES UP TO ENGINEER

Blunt-Talking Somervell Must Keep Them Rolling On Far-Flung Fronts.

«WASHINGTON, March 4 (U. P). ~The big task of keeping the army equipped and rolling in far-flung fields of World War II rests on the

talking engineer, ‘whose ability to snip red tape has rocketed him from lieutenant colonel to major general in slightly more than a year. He is Maj. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, army “trouble-shooter” and friend of President Roosevelt, He will head the new services of supply command in the war department, one of the three super-divi-sions created by the President to streamline the war effort. Must Gather Loose Ends The other super-commands. are the air forces headed by Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold and the combined ground forces of the army led by Mr.

It will be Gen. Somervell’s task to

tie together all the loose ends “of more than a dozen war department services under a single head, and co-ordinate the supply effort for our entire force with the strategy and operations to be devised by the new air-ground general staff to carry the war to the enemy. His job will cover such huge matters as

construction, transportation, pur-

chase of arms and equipment, storage, administrative planning, budgets and procurement.

Served in France Gen. Somervell, one of the army's

youngest major generals, had. a lot of first-hand experience in France with the sort of problems he faces now. He served with the supply division of the third army until 1919, and later became assistant

long. None of us ever saw the torpedo or the sub, either. “I held the crew aboard ship! about 20 minuteg. They showed what Americans do under fire. They manned their collision stations and they were calm. I'm proud of them, We were leaking badly in the forward hull but the torpedo seemed to have penetrated and floodéd only three of our 12 carrying tanks.” “Any minute we expected to see that ugly coward hreak the surface nearby and shell us,” the skipper continued. “So, after the engine roong gang pulled the fires, we took to boats and dropped well astern.

Waited for Shellfire

“There we hung, drifting along with our vessel ancl waiting for the shellfire to begin. 'It was my plan to follow the ship as she drifted with the trade wind. If she stayed afloat until the danger of the sub’s return seemed over. I planned to go back and try to head for port. “When the plane showed up it was a happy moment, I tell you. We cheered and shouted. We knew you would find us, Right then I ordered both lifeboats to return. And my men cheered some more. They were willing and ready to take grave risks trying to get the ship safely to port. “And here we are. It was the closest shave I've ever had in my 33 years going to sea. What I think about those German rats you couldn’t print. Anyway, we were determined that they were not going to get this phip, and they didn’t.” The blasted plates of the tanker will be patched here, the explosion damage to her bridge will be repaired and she will be sent back to the United States for overhaul, And her crew? “Sure we're sticking by her,” said an able seaman. “We got to have oil tankers to win this war and we feel we are doing or fighting part when we keep ‘em running. Thated danger, sure, but there's a war going on.”

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|of the army of occupation in Germany for two years. His meteoric rise in recent years dates back to Aug. 1, 1936, when! he became works progress administrator for New York City at a time when the WPA was the target of criticism for inefficiency and corruption.

New York WPA, Gen. Somervell was recalled by the war depart-

'ment in 1940 to take charge of the

construction program of the quartermaster corps, which already had become involved in congressional

lay, waste and other abuses that cost millions of dollars. Within a few months, Gen. Som-

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Members of County Board To Delay Certificates Until Friday. .

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: | giving plenty of consideration to

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it grants any certificates. Only six to eight persons have applied directly to the rationing board for certificates but automobile dealers are receiving applications and it is not known how many new car seekers have applied. The dealers are holding all applications at the request of the local board until Friday when the board will receive them for consideration and disposal. ” s

Duller Tags in 1943

Indiana's license plates next year (1943) will be of much duller color than the bright yellow of 1042 plates. - The reason? You guessed it—rationing and priorities. The protective coatings industry advisory committee of WPB has announced that plates will be limited to black and white and domestic earth colors such as red oxides, ocher, umber, sienna and a small amount of iron blue. Purdue university is now experimenting with these colors to determine which combination will be the most durable. To conserve metal, James Tucker, state treasurer, has already announced that the plates for 1943 will be constructed so that a small metal “year number” can be changed each succeeding year. He has also announced there will be only one plate to a car.

shoulders of a 49-year-old, blunt-# Yellow traffic markings on streets

and highways are also on the way out. Emergency specifications which contain no chrome yellow pigment are being discussed and white paint with a high reflection value will be substituted. ” o ”

Survey Sugar Needs

The sugar rationing program is now in the state of survey. Elementary schools of Marion county and Indiana are now compiling information upon which an estimate of the population in each school area will be based. This figure will then be used to determine how many sugar stamp books are needed.

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bus fleet operators who make long trips. This would enable truckers to purchase tires when they blow out far from their local rationing board. The emergency certificates will be issued to operators of fleets of 20 or more trucks or busses, James D. Strickland, state rationing administrator said. He added that before final details are completed considerable information will be required from truck and bus operators.

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