Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1942 — Page 2
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of the favored candidates for the
‘ment. He intends to run it himself,
:: Morrissey because of its practice of
‘be the major themes in the mind of
ment on-Dec. 19, 1922, serving as a : patrolman on districts; prohibition] ployed there as a machinist and tool |.
‘until July 7, 1927. when he was reduced and trans- - maining there until July 7, 1940, when he was reduced again to the
“radio cars, as a teletype operator,
: switchboard operator and gamewell
: 7 had the rank ‘of colonel until he retired in 1940, when he reached the yetirement age. Entering the military service prior to the Mexican border expedition, | Dr. Boaz served in world war I and invented the process of physical examination for army recruits which still is in use. The system calls for the examination of recruits by several specialists instead of one: doctor. Born in Baltimore, Md., Dr. Boaz was graduated from the College of Physcians and Surgeons there and the Indiana university medical school. He is .a member of local and state medical groups and the]
rolman Is CH Is Chosen by iL Gen. Tyndall; Tooley Tops Inspectors. (Continued from Page One)
board and the mayor a detailed sur(of the department with recomReds: jou for reorganization, the eral said. These ‘will be acted E pra a in. order that the gime may put its policies into ect at once. - "Calls Law Illogical
‘When asked how a patrolman nid be elevated to chief of police under the merit law, which limits the choice. of a chief to men the de with a present rank of lieutenant or higher, Gen. Tyndall said that means would be found to overcome this “illogical and unwise” provision. ~ “It cannot be wise! or | just,” he said, “to limit the executive to a choice from a hierarchy established by his predecessor, from whose policies he may very well disagree. 1 informed that this law presents no insoluble difficulties.”
McMurtry Status in Doubt
at will happen to Inspector hu McMurtry, who had been one
the United States. A physician on the staff of the Methodist’ and St. Francis hospitals; he served as police surgeon here several years ago. He is a member of the Episcopal church and the Masonic order. He is married and lives at 2135 Broadway. He has offices in the K. of P. building.
4 ARE VICTIMS OF HOME FIRE
Child and Father Burned at Delaware St. Rooming House; 2 Hurt.
A 15-months-old child and his father were burned and the mother was overcome by smoke early today in a fire in a rooming house at 323 N. Delaware st. | Charles Edward Flinn was burned on the head and shoulders and his ] : .- |father John; 58, recgived arm and : atever happens to McMurtry, |back burns when flames swept the Morrissey and others, it is known [Flinn room on the ground floor. that Gen. Tyndall will keep an| Mrs. Flinn, 41, was treated at City iron hand on the police depart-| hospital for smoke suffocation. Another resident, Carl Shields, 27, if the necessity arises. Twas severely cut on the right i] He believes that in Beeker and when he tried to escape Hones pr Tooley he has selected the two best upper-story window. The fire men for the job. : confined to the first floor. Up to last night, Gen. Tyndall] Fire caused by burning coals was still undecided as to who to|which had been placed in a basket name. It was a toss-up in his mind in the basement, resulted in heavy between Beeker and Tooley. damage early today to the home of Beeker, as. secretary of the Fra-{Roe Roebuck, 4000 Rookwood ave.
Ho ona od min” Oo EDWARD E. BOELDT SERVICES MONDAY |
Funeral services for Edward E.
job, remains conjecture. ‘Either he will remain as an inspector, under Tooley or will be tr rred to some specialized job. ‘Neither did Gen. Tyndall mention the present chief, Michael F. MorTissey. It is believed, however, that Morey will be demoted to a captain or lieutengnt. If this is ordered by Mayor-Eléct Tyndall, then Morrissey will stay in the department and De eligible for appointment, as head of the International Police Chiefs’ association, in their convention next year. tg =| Tyndall to Be Boss
viting the public to become porary members, is one ‘of the most popular men in the department. x
J Sidesses Defense .The general: intends that the police department, under “Beeker and Tooley, will be respected by|at 2 p. m. Monday %t the
the public. Development of adequate| Herrmann funeral home. The Rev. ivilian and industrial defense Will poi on 5 Benting of St. Mark's
Gen. Tyndall. Lutheran church will officiate, and
‘Patrolman Beeker is 41, born on burial will be in Crown Hill. ug. 23, 1901, in Battleground. He| MT. Boeldt was born in Indian-
‘was ap inted to the police depart- apolis and lived here until he went po pe pas to Detroit 20 years ago. He was em-
maker. He was 56. He was a member of the North Park Masonic lodge here and St. Mark’s Lutheran church. Survivors are the wife, Mrs. Alma Boeldt; one son, Harold Becker ‘of Detroit; and two brothers, Otto and Emil Boeldt, of Indianapolis.
SELL $45,000 OF CHRISTMAS SEALS
The 1942 tuberculosis Christmas seal sale has reached $45,000, with
squads and the motorcycle squad
At that time he was promoted to ‘detective sergeant, and he served im that capacity until Jan. 3, 1935,
ferred to the traffic division. On Feb. 28, 1935, he was reassigned to the detective division, re-
orm division. He served on
radio’ operator and dispatcher, FBX
pperator. ou was assigned as bailiff In Judgé Niblack’s court on Dec. \8; 1. ! will be attained, it ‘was announced
today. The “sale is sponsored by the Marion “County Tuberculosis association and opened on Dec. 1 and is to close next Thursday. Officers and enlisted men at Ft. Harrison have purchased approximately $1000 of the tiny ‘“messengers of mercy”. and hope to increase the amount. A committee of offfters has been in charge of the sale which has broken all records for the fort. The seal sale sponsoring committee for the Marion County Tuberculosis association is headed by Eli Lilly as chairman. Committee members are anxious that the $60,000 goal be reached in order that the association’s health-building and life-saving program may’ continue without interruption in 1943.
KERCHEVAL NAMED TO LIQUOR BOARD
° Thomas W. Kercheval, Indianap-|. olis- real estate ‘man, was appointed to the Marion County Liquor Control board by the county council yesterday. - He will succeed George Kincaid, whose term on the board will expire Jan. 15. Other members of the Liquor Control ‘board, whose terms will not expire until next summer, are Charles Meischke, a northside grocer; William Sidlinger, who is an appointee of the mayor, and Lawrence Miller, repre-
Heads Credit Union °
r. Beeker was elected secretarysurer of the police department’s retirement club in 1936, and he is serving in that capacity. He is in his third consecutive term as ent of the credit union of it Indianapolis Police department, 8, ving been elected to the board of ectors in 1936. For the fifth year he is financial secretary-treasurer of Indianapolis lodge 86, Fraternal Order of Police. 3 is a member of Prospect lodge,
Officer Beeker is married and lives at 745 W..32d st. A 17-year-d daughter is a student at Shortridge high school. "His sister-in-a lives with the Beeker family and 2 attends Shortridge. member of the police depart-| t for 28 years, Capt. Tooley has n- in the detective division for 18 ars. He has aided in the solutions many of the spectacular crimes. e is married and lives at 358 y! Holmes. He has one daughter id four .grandchildren. He is a aber of the Westview = Baptist urch, the Logan Masonic lodge, ern” Woodmen of America, and ternal Order of Police.
: Hoover Business Graduate
Hoover is a native of Indianolis and was graduated from the South Side high-school and the apolis Business university. He served as secretary to the gen-
Siperinmens of the I. D. W. now a part of the Balti-
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go INIURED AS: "ENGINE HITS AUTO
#3 Herbert Stewart, 33, of 909 S. East st. was injured today when oI his automobile was struck. by a "| switch-engine at a dh, {OF Blake st, near Mark
Association of Military Surgeons of
Boeldt, who died ®hursday at higf = home in Detroit, Mieh., will he neld g
leaders hopeful that the $60,000 goal |’
senting the state alcoholic Beverage : commission.
A Weakly Sizeup ny the
Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
( Washington
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must. be. weighted ino parity, to some. extent. It ¢ wil mean + bigher
food prices.
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Watch for announcement about standardized bread loaf, simplt-
fied bakery practices, in effort to o 2 2
' OPA regional administrators feel tate necks tenderly, walt for
‘the ax.
Keep gives down, a
Expect OPA patronage to go to senators if ex-Senator Prentiss ,
Brown succeeds Henderson. Henderson refusal’ to take . senate pio= teges was the real reason for bitterness against him in congress. Administration figures the only way to get appropriations for necessary
field staffs is to let congress in on the gravy. y ¥
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What Next for Hitler?
East.
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IF HITLER CAN hold onto “Tunisia, Neen an eye on the Middle He needs oil. But if united nations
%hrow him out eof Africa
and open up Mediterranean shipping lanes he may hesitate to invade Syria, Iraq, Iran, without Turkey’s support. In that case. . . . Watch Spain. Action there might be his last chance to forestall
allied invasion of southern Europe.
He'd not need to take Gibraltar.
Axis planes operating from
Spain’s south coast, where average width of Mediterranean is- only about 80 miles—and her Atlantic coast from the rock to Portuguese ‘border—would make allied shipping throughout that: area extremely
hazardous. Not counting axis submarines.
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1s ECONOMIC STABILIZER BYRNES taking on too many odd jobs, paying too little attention to halting inflation? : Some officials worry about this, express “disappointment that’ Brynes has not tightened up fiscal policies, done more to. siption oft buying power—and thus to help keep price ceilings. Byrnes works with Hopkins; consults few other advisers,
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Leak Started Gas Run in East
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INSIDE STORY is that holders of B and C cards, wouldn’t have been denied gasoline in East this week-end if word hadn't - leaked ‘while OPA and office of petroieum administration argued about how much public would be told about the reason for cutting off A cards.
A-card panic buying Friday morning sent the fat.into the fire.
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Emperor Hirohito’s visit to the sacred shrines of Ise indicates
something's brewing, insiders think.
The Japanese people believe the “Kami” or gods who watch over-
them live at these shrines. their view but his gesture tends to Japan is now invincible.
Emperor i§ too well educated to share
make his fanatical subjects believe
Meanwhile, lull in Pacific probably means
Nippon’s war industries are trying to catch up with her losses and pile
up ‘some reserves.
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Senator Taft actively assists 1944 presidential campaign of Ohio’s Governor Bricker. He has made available the organization he used in. his fight for the 1940 nomination—and this includes the Southern Re-
publican machines, with a few excepi.ions.
with him on strategy.
Bricker emissaries confer
General consolidation of Republican anti-Willkie elements behind Bricker—with Dewey out of it, Vandenberg out of it-—becomes more
evident daily.
It will lead to a Willkie-Bricker duel if Willkie can
smoke the governor out, get him talking. . Some Ohio advisers say Bricker may have stepped into line of fire
-too soon.’ So.far his defense is sphinx-lkersilence.
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Roosevelt strategy with hostile new congress begins to appear.
Signs indicate he’ll submit no
controversial matters, ask legisla-
tion only when he has strong public support, only when legislators will hesitate to thwart him. He has already dropped plans for social se-
curity expansion. 2 ”
Isolationists- in Saddle?
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ittee in new congress
Yereaped’ strength—and the two will be on committees which Gerald P. Nye, North
‘ISOLATIONISTS MAY control: ar deadlock. ne” tor
eign refs
licans askitwa mofe seats Bi the committed because ‘of inpicked by Republican ‘committee~
kota isolationist; leads.
His group favors Taft and Davis for the places. “The Austin-Gurney-Ball-Bridges group of Republicans—friendly to administration foreign policy—will fight to put two of their niumber on. If isolationists win they can count on three ‘Democratic votes.
Senator ‘Wallace White, Maine Republican who isn’t tagged by either
group, may hold balance of power. ® 8 8
Republican strategy: Lay low
~ G. O. P. will not take lead on anti-labor legislation,
ee n=
for. awhile; denounce bureaucracy. will form neo
open .alliance with anti-labor Democrats. Both parties want labor’s vote two years from now and want it bad. Don’t count on even the conservative new congress doing much about.existing. labor law.
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Railroad Pay Increase Likely
ODDS ARE against ICC approval of OPA petition for suspension! of rail freight and passenger rate increases granted last fall. Odds are for some increase for rail labor; probably 10 per cent instead of the 20 per cent and 30 per cent the two groups. are asking. Big labor organizations will line up with the federal government
in forthcoming
dispute over whether it or the states shall control un-
employment insurance and U. S. employment service—but chances that
the federal government the states, are slim.
will be allowed to take over A frém #2
Rick Wants fo Read: Fourth: Obituary: I¥'s Happy Yuletide
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officer's . club. The officers drank his health in 32 beer and the natives presented him with a beautiful flower lei and a shell necklace which Rickenbacker said he would give to his wife as a Christmas present.
-At the airport, after a breakfast of cakes and sausage, Rickenbacker said his goodbys, clapped Price on
the back, waved his sun Belmet at,
the others and climbed abroad plane unassisted. Clad in marine fogs and black shoes, Rickenbacker was the only persoh” aboard the Plane wearing a necktie. It was a perfect day for flying. As Rickenbacker took a seat up front ‘and looked about him, one of the pilots remarked to me that “he has an aviator’s eye.” He watched the takeoff operations) closely and n settled back in his seat as the plane swooped into the air. Once «overflow from a gasoline tank filled the cabin with fumes. Smoking was _prohibited until the air was ‘cleared. Rickenbacker didn’t mind. His 22 days in the life raft had affected his attitude toward tobacco.
x Silver: Dollar Charm
4 wy can take it or leave it alone,”
he laughed. = “As the plane. droned over the: ‘Pa-
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cific, Rickenbacker spotted an atoll
below. “When you're looking for them,”
he “said ' wryly, “they're few, and]
al far between.”
-crossing| st. The
Rickenbacker showed me a pillfold which he had carried throughout his. experience. Some of the bills were half eaten away by the corrosive effect of sea water. He also showed me a silver dollar which, he said, the daughter of a friend had given him as a good luck charm when he - started his mission. He accepted the charm on the condition that he give it back to her when the mission was completed. “I'm looking forward to returning it,” he said.
The Huppiest Christmas Today's flight was uneventful— at least for a man with Ricken-
backer’s memories. There were more greetings and camera flashes when
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it was over. Rickenbacker was not}. in the least fatigued. /
{Once during the trip Rickenbacker indicated he was looking forward eagerly not only to the suc‘cessful completion of his mission, but to reunion with his wife and friends at home. : “This,” he told me, “is going to be the happiest Christmas of my ife.” »
- love for his mother.
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lin the middle-western states as. a
whole. rather. purely: loeal),
“Therefore Indiana consumers who save can actually feel that
‘| their sacrifice is immediately bene- -'{ ship or an island. “You know, out there, you z° t turned, and the young man we later island eyes — you see land fron, lost swallowed ‘salt water, which many different angles but’ they’ ¢ didn’t contribute to his thirst,” just cloud shadows. And when yeu Rickenbacker continued... really want to see land, they mul.
fitting the Indiana war-effort.” Continuing, Mr. Strickland said: “Consideration has been given to the situation regarding inability of some. oil companies and- dealers to “collect coupon promisory notes. There have been a .great number of transitory workers in the state who gave promisory notes in Octoper and November and who have since left for parts unknown. “Relief will be given all oil companies unable to collect such promisory notes, but at the same time the oil companies, filling stations and grocery’ stores; should refuse to sell any more oil to people who have refused to surrender coupons in payment for the prosusesy notes. port Hal :
in order to increase their supply.
until they make the proper exchange. “Consideration was also given to the overworked conditions of ration boards in the matter of getting in
‘reports. It is pointed out that re-
ports from the oil companies as to actual supply and demand conditions are vitally needed in order to inform the petroleum co-ordinator as to the spot over-all situation. This is necesgary in order to determine the gallonage which may be obtained by a consumer in abnormal conditions in sachangs for a coupon of that perio
LIKE LITTLE WANDA, MANY NEED CLOTHES
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| ‘Ametican flag on an otherwise J vare: “wall,
Ten children, two of them dead.’
| The :22-year-old is in the army.
“The mother broke down, because she got his picture this morning. He's a good looking chap, better fed -than those at home. Being poor doesn’t rob a son of “With love, to mother, » was written on the lower left hand corner of the pic-~ ture. Why was she crying? Because he’s in Hawaii, so far, far away from home, and mother wants him home, even if it’s at — —— st. There's another boy who's away, too. The 15-year-old is at the boy's school. The mother released a well of tears, now. Miss So-and-so over at school-turned him ins He played hookey. It was because he didn’t have clothes. Yes, he picked up things, too. What do you expect?
years old are going to school. She'll start the: 6-year-old in January. Couldn't before. No clothes. “That was Wanda. : Wanda, incidentally, came to . Clothe - A Child headquarters clad only in a snow suit. There. was nothing underneath it. You know—if there wasn’t the snow suit, there was nothing. There are the rest of the children, aged 4, 20 and 18, but we didn’t take about them. How often have you moved in the past few years? The 12-year-old has gone to four different schools since he started. The 9-year-old has gone ‘to three schools. Swell chance to get roots in—get continuity in schooling. ' The family has moved once .or twice a year jn the 21 years in Indianapolis.
for these people. No rent, too high rent, being moved ouf. - Life isn’t just too smooth for some of us. Oh, yes, the boy in Hawaii sends home $10 a month. That helps keep the * other kids in Hn 8 ‘It buys clothes. It all seems to go back to clothing, with an onal doll thrown in ‘like “Wanda got. :
high here? They pay $10 a week.
“Not a month, a week. That's mere :
then $40 a: ‘month. : / That's about all the'notes. There are a lot of ‘Wandas in Indianapolis whom The Times would like to clothe for Christmas. There's still time. ’
Some oil companies have already reported that certain consumers | have refused to make good their "| promisory notes and have used the coupons with other .0il companies
“This selfish practice on the part of a very few individuals must im-|, mediately “be stopped by the oil .| companies - themselves: to deliver oil to consumers who have given promissory notes and have received: their coupons -and now refuse to surrender these coupons to the oil companies must not be given any further supply of oil
The refusal
The boys who are. 9 and 12
Why? Life hap moves that way | .
That ‘boy is the best boy that | ever lived, his mother said. Rents
Everything is dor by forecast and the forecast is 10 always as perfect as it might be. “The forecast showed we had 10-mile tail-wind.”
Later, Rickenbacker said, he m
la pilot who ‘had. gone ‘out the san
night and that this flier told hin that he had discovered a 30-milc tail-wind.
| \ “This my ‘belief tht
continued.
try the old box method of compu:-
ply ‘tenfold. “Time was fleeting and our g::
knew. “We shut off the two outside er
along on the inside two. “Hour’s Gas Left”
“The last message we got oil was that we had an hour's g» left. Then our radio operat: started pounding out the SOS .fio an hour until we hit.” »
of the plane everything .that wloose—baggage and other equip ment. “If you think material thin:
ever in that position, you wou
Rickenbacker added. Water rations were removed the radio compartment and ma tresses placed about to cushion ti shock of the landing: . “We went into a trough al landed into a big swell,” Ricke: packer continued: “It might ha
top of the swell because we'd’ ha_> gone right down.
Raft Gets Tangled
“When we hit we didn’t skid. was a none too comfortable shoc At. that moment, a portion. of © radio that was on a shelf let go a: broke down’ the door to the rac
matters, especially with Col. (Ha C.) Adamson having a sprain back.” For a moment after the landir Rickenbacker related, there. w confusion ‘within the ship. One.
in the rope. - “We were al), so anxious- to £
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gines to conserve gas and pluggec
Before they hit, they dumped oll
were ever necessary, or if you were
learn how little value. they are.’
been unfortunate if we had hit wo 2
compartment and that didn’t he »
the rubber life-rafts became tangi: c
much ‘attention to rations. We left the water behind. For food we had four: oranges—scréwny ones at that
" —=which we lived on for eight days.
“I carved these ‘up into eight pieces and rationed them out. “If you ever had seven pairs of Hungry eyes watching tHe carver, - vow’ll carve pretty well e even if - ‘you haven't the facilities.”
Three Rafts Used
Rickenbacker said that three rubser life-rafts were used. Ricken=
confirmed my we had overshot to the south,” 1: hacker, Cel. Adamson and Pvt. John
"Bartek got in one raft: Sergt Alex
“One of the stations tried to give 2nder Kacamarcyk, who subsequen us what they could and they EC tied suring he deal ay se #04 ons. |us certain courses to- follow but ve “apt. Willlam T, Cherry were inj ~~ |couldn't get crossfires on them. “We kept flying and decided ‘0 pied by Lieut. James C. ‘Whitaker,
| another. The third raft was: occu= Lieut. John D. de Angelis, and Staff
ing our position. We looked for a Sergt. James Reynolds.
“The small two-man boat over-
“The water was roughi’ And ihe boy (Kaczmarcyk) got to drinking "salt water during the night. As a
was low. We didn't know whee result he later died of salt water we were and knew no one els poisoning and starvation.
. Boats Tied Together.
“We tied the boats together. After. we got going, naturally we thought about our: food and water, but ‘we didn’t dare go back to the ship for fear it would sink and suck us 5 down. “There followed five days of calms + It was beastly hot. Some of the boys threw their shoes and socks into the water. | It was unfortunate ;| because they had their feet and .|legs burnt badly. = Three or four had jumpers on, but no hais. I was more fortunate. I had an old | felt hat that (Mrs. Rickenbacker had wanted me to discard for the last 10 years. | I also wore hizh{topped boots.” | i Then he told‘how he gathered to- “| gether all ‘the handkerchiefs. the * men had with them, wet them and {had them plage them .over their ‘| faces to protect them from the , burning sun. |
Rains on Eighth Night
“There was Ano rain until the eighth night, We saw nothing in the way of searching planes or ships. | The little boy (Bartek) in my boat ‘| had an issue Eible in the pocket of his jumper ‘and on the second day | out we organized prayer meetings in the morning and in the evening. “Frankly and humbly we ® prayed - for our deliverance. i “And after the oranges were gone, | there showed ‘up terrific pangs of | hunger. .. We happened o have {wo little fish- { linés but no bait. “If it wasn’t for the fact \that I had seven witnesses, I wouldn't dare tH tell this fantastic story.
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Ther. we prayed for food.
“One hour after the prayer /neet= ing, a seagull’ landed on my shoul. der. You can imagine my nervousness as ‘I reat get it. - But I caught its neck. We feathe stripped its mags, for bait. =... oo; “Capt.” Sony caught a little mackerel and I caught a speckled seabass which we divided up equally. “It was delicious. Everybody got an equal share. ; “The next day another: sesguull ; landed on my shoulder. But I didn’t {have the heart to wring its neck and I let him go.” ~~ The - nekt - night, Rickenbacker said, he and his fellows ran into a heavy rainstorm. Ordinarily, he said, they would seek to avoid a black squall but “we made a busi~ - ness of getting into this one.” ° “We used our shirts, our socks, and our handkerchiefs. We got them soaked yp and then would wring them out into a little rubber, bucket. I was the official wringer in my boat. “We went on water rations—twe sips a day, about a half -jigger. As the days went on and we ran into more rain, we were able to build it up. -“Then Capt. Cherry's ‘boat went upside down during a storm and we ‘lost our flares and medical kit.” Boat Is Retrieved The boat was retrieved and tied up again with the others. ; “On the 11th night, this boy that died was getting very low, .In spite of the fact that the temperature was 178 to 80 and’ the wind was high, it was freezing. The waves ‘were’ constantly breaking over usa ‘nd it was like being doused with ice wa~ ter. I moved the boy into my boat. and cuddled. him like a mother. I fied to give him the warmth of rhe night that young Kaczmarcyk died, he wanted to go bsck to his own boat. Rickenbacker comeplied with the request. rr “About 3 a. m. we heard his last gasp. I had been on cinder (racks and burning airplanes, but I had never been through anything like this. I was afraid to make a decision. Hold Burial at Sea “About 6. a. m, we pulled the boats together. dl and finally proncunced hin de Two of the boys were whity Then we lifted hin over the boat gently and ‘he ppeared. It was one of the hardest jobs I ever had.” Bartek took his. place in the single boat. During the nigkt, for some unexplained reason, :Martek - cut-loose from the other ‘two craft, “In the morning, he ‘was a guare
ter of a mile away and he decided - to paddle back to us.” - :
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