Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1942 — Page 2

F, RICHARD MILLS LL ADDRESS CLUB

Prof. Richard Mills of the UniBrsity of New Mexico psychology iment will be guest speaker toW “night. at the Indianapolis r Transportation club’s annual r in the gold room of Hotel A on at 6:30 o'clock. ew officers to be installed are ence Berry, president; Harold ardy, vice president; J. A. Garrett, retary-treasurer, and Robert nen, Louis Alexander and F. M,

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yor-elect Tyndall and federal state government officials idend with regulation and control of time motor transportation will t at the speakers’ table.

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By GEORGE WELLER Copyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Dally News, Inc. SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Dec. 1—“Vll stay up here in case the Japs\come at us again.” Those are the words which saved six men’s lives but cost the life of the one who spoke them. They were the last words uttered by Sergt. Glenn Campbell and his valedictory to his fellow crew members in a big American B-26 marauder bomber falling into the sea, stricken in a raid over Dilli, in Portuguese Timor. ‘Campbell's last words buzzed in the interphone of his pilot, Capt. Charlie Hitchcock of Winchester, Ind. The plane was burning. It

had been burning since they left

Dilli, when it was attacked by four Zeros. Campbell, who came from Franklin, Pa., was the top, or turret, gunner. When the four zeros came on from straight ahead, mak-|. ing a simultaneous attack to ‘scatter the bombers’ fire, Campbell had sent a raking fire from his machine gun which dissolved two zeros into balls of flame.. But before his fire was opened upon the zeros, antiaircraft had .put four hits ‘in his right engine.

The engine turned into a streamer},

of smoke. The flames crept along a wing. The engine was flooded with fire extinguisher liquid, but still the flames ate their way around the nose of the bomber.

In the cockpit, Navigator Lieut.

Albert J. Lilkington of Mobile, Ala., fought the fire with a hand extinguisher. Still pursued by the zeros, the plane was now out over Arafura’ sea, limping along, its hort, high-speed wings barely held t by a single engine. Hitchcock, unable to see the instrument panel in thé thick black

smoke, twice opened the window}

and the flames suddenly licked up again. The ‘controls were almost too hot to touch. The zeros were still behind, watching for their chance. The other members of the crew, Sergt. Pershing A. Arbogast of Dunmore, W. Va.; Sergt. Joseph- G. Schank of Throop, Pa. and Sergt. Samuel Miller of Prout Run, Pa., got out

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the rubber rafts and prepared for trouble. The bomber sank lower and lower. The single remaining engine was whacking, groaning and coughHitchcock gave orders for all to prepare to escape. From where he stood, Turret Gunner * Campbell could see two big zero holes in the left wing and knew that landing would be hard. Sixty seconds is eternity for such a plane to stay afloat after landing. But the zeros were still behind. Their fire continued. Rear-gunner Shank had the cord of his interphone cut by bullets right under his throat. Then came Campbell’s words which no mem-

ber of his squadron will ever forget

again: “I'll stay up here in case the Japs come at us again.” When the terrible moment came, when the plane hit the concretehard surface of the water and cracked open, the others got out but not Glenn Campbell. All were dazed and some were bleeding. Yet before the plane sank, Hitchcock in what was an equal risk of being drowned with the plane, managed to dive underneath the fast-sinking fuselage, fight his way up through the doors into the turret and pull Campbell's unconscious body back down through this diving bell filled with water. When they got him on a raft,

they turned him over and saw that he was dead.

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BLAMED FOR WAR

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2 (U. P.). —Harold Beresford Butler, minister and director general of the British informatien service, believes that the German general staff and not Hitler was responsible for the present war. He spoke at the 193d annual. dinner of St. Andrew’s society in the Union League Monday night. “As far back as 1934,” he said, “it was clearly evident that the general staff was the bulwark of Hitler's support, because it saw in Hitler the chance for the re-establishment of Prussian militarism. “Hitler did not start this war any more than the kaiser did the last one,” he said.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec. 2 (U.,P.).=The gxis has lost out, as far as the new telephone directory is concerred. There was an “Axis” exchange but it has been dropped in favor of “Cypress.” The Southwestern Bell Telephon? Co. said clients requested the change.

REBEKAHS TO MEET

Past Noble (Grands auxiliary of Progress Rebekah lodge, will hold a monthly meeting tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Hazel Gillis, 1301 N. Pershing ave. There will be a Christmas gift

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