Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1943 — Page 15
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| THURSDAY, JULY I5, 1943
The Indianapolis Times
SECOND SECTION
Hoosier Vagabond
A ABOARD A U S NAVY SHIP OF THE INVA- { ston FLEET (By Wireless, Delayed).—When I came sboard the vessel that was to carry us through the \invasion T was struck with the odd bleakness of the walls and ceilings throughout the ship. At first I thought it was a new and verv unbecoming type of interior decoration, but then shortly I realized that this strange effect was merely part of the navy procedure of stripping for action. Inside our ship there were many other precautions. As you go into battle all excess rags and blankets are taken ashore or stowed away and locked up. The bunk mattresses are set on edge against the walls to act as absorbent cushions against torvedo or shell fragments. The navy's traditional white hats are left below r the duration of the action. No white clothing is allowed to show on deck. Stee] helmets, painted battleship gray, are worn during engagement. Men who go on night watches are awakened 45 minutes ahead of time instead of the usual few minutes and ordered to be on deck half an hour before going on watch it takes that long for the eyes to become accustomed to the full darkness,
Food Stores Decentralized
ALL SOUVENIR firearms are turned in and the ammunition thrown overboard. There was one locker m full of derma an and Italian rifles and revolvers ich the sailors had gotten from frontline soldiers. i throw away ammunition was a court-marital offen nse. “Th e officers didn’t want stray bullets whizzing around in case of fire. Food supplies were taken from their regular pers and stored all about the ship so that our eniire supply coulan't be destroyed by one hit. Doors opening on deck have switches just the reverse of refrigerators—when you open the door the
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
» SCHLENSKER, sec of the Indianapolis 1s, receives a long distance phone call every is son, William Robert Schiensker, taking boot training at the Great Lakes naval He left y ere a week ago Monday. Al dreads to receive his next phone bill. . , . One of our agents, driving on Central near 22d. Monday reports hearing a loud crash. A minute or so later he discovered the source of the noise: A hapless motorist had run into the rear of a police cruiser. What makes the incident newsworthy is that the cops got out of the car, looked for damage, and then laughed as though it were all a big joke. . . When ga tire went fiat on a trailer hauling a load of watermelons ; downtown section, a corner cop rushed r and gave the driver a hand in removing the tire. He worked like the dickens. And he acted very surpriced when the driver handed him a melon—one of 2 maller ones. He didn't want to Keep it
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Our . Fail Hhiful | lgenis
EV EN WHEN THEY'RE out of town, some of our 1ts continue working for old Inside. For ince. there's Charley Mosier. director of safety 1e C. of C. Charley's up in Chicago on business. rites back that folks up there are “talking their “neers to the bone.” Says he counted 54 members yf the National Society for the Deaf. in the lobby of the Hoel Sherman, conversing gaily and dexterously hands. . Wallace O. Lee was seen in the ALP at 34th a a lin 10is inquiring for the “garden seed department.” . . . Besides an onslaught by all and vegetable diseases in the dictionary, lism and theft, to boot, gardeners in the
In Africa
ALLIED FORCE COMMAND POST. North Africa, 15.—Some will say it was just luck but some will say it was the prayer that Pvt. J. Regan scribbled on the nose of the “Coughlin Coffin,” a B-26 Marauder “Coughlin Coffin’s” last raid over Sicily on Sunday was indeed the last raid over anywhere but the “Coffin” came back on one engine with an unbroken record of never having lost a man, never having one wounded in 50 bombing raids during which the plane had been hit many times. Three times it came home on one engine, “Coughlin Coffin” started out as a jinx ship but became the luckiest ship in the bomber force for no matter how badly the ship was damaged the crew always escaped. There was great commotion among the air force people when the word spread that “Coughlin Coffin” came back from Sicily so badly battered it would never fly in combat again. A search B now on In the salvage rg for a Rcpare wi to take her hack to Americ for war pond selling campaigns,
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WHEN THE factory in America turned out this rticular airplane something seemed to be wrong 1 1er. She never was right on her tests but Capt. William R. Pritchard, of Mobile, Ala., had been assigned to the ship and he put up an argument to keep Finally it was decided to let her start for Africa. On the night before the flight, one of he mechanics wrote in pencil on the side of the nose: A “God bless the crew of this plane. I'll say a prayer for your safe return—Pvt. J. Regan.” On the way over the ship's engines sputtered so
My Day
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Wednesday. —I flew into lan Francisco yesterday just before dinner time. I was happy to see our youngest son and his wife again and we had a pleasant dinner and evening together.
In just a few minutes I am starting off to visit the { Oakland and Mare island hospitals. When I was here before, and saw the other hospitals in this area, I was told that really to visit the Mare island hospital would take an entire day. I could not do so then, but I can today, So we shall try to cover the whole hospital. I hope also to see my grandchildren for a few minutes before I take the plane to Seattle late this afternoon. Our daughter and her children have been alone now a little over th since her husband joined the fighting forces eas. Fortunately, our elaest granddaughter is 16 and so is able to be a great help. The older boy of 13 has also become a very responsible and helpful member of the household. With a little boy of 4 at home, however, and a job which reguires a good deal
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lights inside go out. All linoleum had been removed from the floors, all curtains taken down. Throughout the invasion period the entire crew was on one of two statuses—either “general quarters”: or “condition two.” General quarters is the navy term for full alert and means everybody on full duty until the crisis ends. It may be 20 minutes or it may be 48 hours. Condition two is half alert, four hours on, four hours off, but the off hours are spent’ right at your battle station. It merely gives you a little chance to relax.
Men Learn Invasion Plon
OUR SHIP is so crowded it takes three sittings in officers” mess to feed the men. Every bunk has two officers assigned to it, one sleeps while the other works, i The ship's officers were told the whole invasion, plan in great detail just after we sailed. Charles; Corte, Acme photographer who was the only other correspondent on this ship, and I also were given a detailed picture of what lay ahead, The crew was given the plan a little at a time after sailing. In ad- | dition, a mimeographed set of instructions and warn-| ings was distributed about the ship before sailing. ! t ended as follows: | “This operation will be a completely offensive one. The ship will be at general quarters or condition two, throughout the operation. It may extend over a} long period of time. Opportunities for rest will not| come very often. You can be sure that you will have’ something to talk about when this is over. This ship! must do her stuff.” The night before we sailed the crew listened as usual to the German propaganda radio program which! features Olga, the American girl turned Nazi. who was trying to scare them, disillusion them and depress them. As usual they laughed with amusement and scorn at her childishly treasonish talk. In a vague and indirect wav, I suppose. the privi-| lege of listening to your enemy trying to undermine] you the very night before you go out to face him expresses what we are fighting for.
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Warfleigh community gardens A colony of moles has taken over. way of discouraging moles?
From the du Ponts
THERE'S AN AMUSING story making the rounds about a young woman in a neighboring city who. in sending out her wedding announcements. prankishly addressed several to “big shots” such as Henry Ford, Rockefeller and one of the du Ponts. We can’t vouch for it. but we're told she received a silver coffee set from the du Ponts. Probably it was sent by a du Pont secretary in the absence of the boss. . .. Mike Morrissey, the former police chief, was in town over the week-end. He's working for the war department now, we understand, advising the larger cities with military camps near them how to control the vice situation. . , . Miss Frata McCabe, stenographer in the mayor's office during the last Sullivan administration, is working in Los Angeles now. She writes that “the climate is wonderful here and I like my job very much” but that she still thinks Indiana is a pretty nice place.
Points His House
VIRGIL STINEBAUGH, assistant superintendent] of schools, is painting his house. Virgil, who's versatile for an educator, has painted his home before— even roofed it a few years ago. He paints an hour or so before going to work, and gets in another hour or so in the evening. Does a good job, too. ... Edward E. Greene, director of war production training program in the public schools, is spending a week vacationing on a farm after a minor illness last week.| Harry E. Wood, vocational education director, is! pinchhitting for him, . . . A reader phones to tell us! that because of the lawnmower shortage, the Fall! Creek Ordnance plant has acquired three sheep po] have been given the run of the fenced-in property One of the sheep has heen named Eleanor,
By Raymond Clapper
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much she was given the name of “Coughlin Coffin.” Capt. Pritchard took the ship into its first action on last New Year's day on a raid over the Tunis railroad vards. The ship went out on 19 raids without incident but on the 20th one engine was knocked out. Twice more the “Coffin” limped home on one en-| gine. Meanwhile Capt. Pritchard had been made; squadron leader and he turned the ship over to another pilot.
Crew ‘Sweat It Out’
IN TIME the “Coughlin Coffin’ accumulated 120 flak patches. On Sunday the ship went out on a raid over Sicily under a new pilot, 1st Lt.. F. C. Mehsner, a blond German boy, 22, who was born in Dresden. His parents became converted to the Mormon church and moved to America in 1926. They lived for a time in Salt Lake, Utah, and now reside in San Francisco. Just after the bombs were dropped in Sunday's raid, anti-aircraft fire hit the left engine—always it was the left engine that was knocked out—and the ship's hydraulic landing gear apparatus. As pilot Mehsner prepared to land, one wheel stuck. Aboard the plane as a passenger was the original | pilot, Capt. Pritchard. “I wanted to fly the ship on the 50th mission just for the h®ll of it” Pritchard said. “We got into an argument about whether this was the 49th or 56th so I decided to go along for the ride, anyway. just to be sure I was aboard on the golden anniversary. Pritchard kept moving all over the ship during the! critical trip home, helping to take his old pride and joy in safely once more. “I was sweating it out for you. too” said Sgt.| Joseph P. wo Bridgeport. Pa., chief of the! ground crew, “when I saw the wheel was not down.” As the pilot dropped her down. the right wing struck the ground and ripped partly off as the ship swung around. That the end of the military career of “Coughlin Coffin.”
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By Eleanor Roosevelt
In the whole wretched coal strike situation, I am concerned that we should not forget the fact that many of the miners have real grievances, which should be carefully considered. I am going to quote for you a letter which came to me the other day, which I think may have some facts in it which are not generally recognized. “I am inclesing some of my husband's Illinois statements. These are some of the lowest, but none were very high. His earnings for 1941 were a little over $800, for 1942 they were a little over $1100. As far as the 30 per cent increase, which time-and-a-half for the sixth day's work were to produce, in all these months the mine where my husband works has worked the sixth consecutive day once, and only once. As a general rule, they do not even work five days a week. These are not bi-weekly statements. “This is a strip mine and portal to portal pay anid equipment upkeep mean no increase there. The policy seems to be to work only enough to keep the men out of the ‘rocking cheir’ The government might notice and take the unemployment compensation. They) seemingly figure that under the tax set-up they make) about as much profit with a little work as they would working full time. I wish the goverhmenl would take over all natural resources and operate them for the Rit thoes Be gute ooh fot the privileged fev,
F, By Ernie Pyle
{| son of Robert | Stevenson to learn what was keep-
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CHAPTER IL
YESTERDAY I GOT as far as telling you that Mrs. Samuel Osbourne, the Fanny Vandegrift of Indianapolis, abandoned her husband, leaving him to wonder what it was
all about.
Well, Fanny and her three children arrived in Antwerp and, after spending several months in Belgium, went
to Paris.
imost immediately Fanny wrangled a place
for herself and Isobel in the Julian School of Art, at a time when a studio was the least likely place to find a woman
working.
Lloyd was put in a French school.
change of scene completely bewildered him. He clung to his mother’s skirts, a listless little boy of 4. In Paris, Hervey's listlessness proved to be the symptom of a
cruel disease. He lingered awhile, then passed away and was buried
i in an exile’s grave in St. Germain.
Broken in health and burdened with her heavy grief, Fanny called for a doctor who prescribed a change of residence to some quiet country place. A casual ac-
{ quaintance, an American sculptor
by the name of Pardessus, told her about Grez, a village hidden in Fontainebleau Forest on the river Loing. Mr, Pardessus recommended the medicinal properties of the place and said they included a lovely river garden and an old inn which had the merit of being not only of architectural quality, but reasonable enough to fit Fanny's meager
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Guest List Grows
WEEN THE Osbournes reached Grez, they found in the recommended inn only one guest, a voung American student—Walter Palmer by name—who had stayed to make one more picture of the garden. Mr. Palmer, it appears, belonged to a group of congenial voung men, four in number and for the most part artists, who had spent their summer vacations in Grez. Except for Mr. Palmer, they were now back in Paris to pursue their studies. When news reached them that an American woman, and an artist at that had invaded Grez, a thing unheard of up to that time, they sent a scout in the perAlan Mowbray
ing Palmer. When “Bob” Stevenson failed to return, another scout was sent; this time, Sir Walter Simpson. He didn't come back either. That left only one member of the group in Paris, One evening in the late summer of 1876 the little party—three jolly carefree men, two American children and their Indian-apolis-born mother—sat at the supper table in Grez. The air was soft and velvety. Outside, the fireflies were playing; inside the lamps had just been lit. Suddenly a spasm of coughing was heard and, looking through the open doorway, the party saw a tall tired man come lumbering It was Robert Louis He had come to learn the whereabouts of his cousin and the other scout sent in search of
Mr. Palmer, 2 ” ”
26 Years Old Then
WHEN HE first saw Fanny in 1876, Stevenson was 26 years oid, 10 years younger than Fanny. He was unknown, without money and bankrupt in health. To be sure, he had accomplished two
As for Hervey, the
things: He had contributed a few essays to Cornhill without appreciable results and he had taken a canoe trip with Sir Walter Simpson, an experience that furnished the material for “An Island Voyage,” his first book which didn't appear, however, until two years after he met Fanny. Nevertheless. and notwithstanding his comparative obscurity, Stevenson was appreciated by his friends for his irresistible charm and the brilliancy and ardor of his talk, talents that William Ernest Henley had noted as early as 1875 in his vivid sonnet, “Apparition.” After an absence of three unforgettable years with a continent and an ocean between herself and Samuel Osbourne, Fanny and the children returned to California. Not long after her return, she acted with decision. Finding a reconciliation with her husband impossible, Fanny decided to bring suit for divorce, possibly with the help of John Lloyd who was now a successful San Francisco lawyer. Eventually the divorce was granted without as much as a peep out of Sam Osbourne. » ” ”
Stevenson Comes to U. S.
COUNTING ABSENCES and including vacations and the like, Fanny had lived 22 years with Sam. As a result of these anxjeties Fanny suffered what is now diagnosed as an emotional upset. To restore her health she retired to the little coast town of Monterey and that's where Stevenson came to claim her, When Stevenson heard of the impending divorce and later of Fanny's illness, he dropped everything to come to America dt once. He traveled steerage. Eleven days later he passed the night in a 25cent Irish boarding house in New York City at what was then No. 10 West st. Strangely enough, it was called Reunion House. Within 24 hours of his arrival he was already on his way, as an emigrant to the Far West, a big part of his baggage consisting of Bancroft’'s “History of the United States” in six fat volumes. Twelve days later, after suffering the torments of hell, he turned up in San Francisco, more dead than alive. When he arrived in Monterey. another 150 miles to the south, he broke down completely. Instead of being any help to Fanny, it was she who had to nurse him back to health. The marriage took place on May 19, 1880—nine months after Stevenson’s arrival in America.
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Indianapolis Surprised
THEY WERE married by the Rev. Mr. Scott with only Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Virgil Williams present. Mrs. Williams will be remembered as the wife of the
LHR ROTI TR ne
By ANTON SCHERRER
The Tiger Lily
[Reproduced with permission of Charles Scribner's Sons. ] Fanny Vardegrift Osbourne at the time of her marriage to Robert
Louis Stevenson.
teacher with whom Fanny had studied art back in the hectic days of San Francisco. The party wasn't the joyous affair that Fanny's first wedding was. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that everybody present that day, including Fanny herself, gave Stevenson a year to live at most, When news of the marriage reached Indianapolis it surprised everybody to learn that Fanny had split her Hoosier surname into three distinct parts, the first and last of which were capitalized, thus: Van de Grift. Those quick to jump to conclusions called her a snob and pointed to what a three-year’s residence in Eurcpe w:ll do to women. Nonsense; all that Fanny did was to revise her name to make it look like that of her Dutch ancestors. Immediately after the marriage, Stevenson and his wife and his stepson, Lloyd Osborne, went to the rattlesnake-infested country, 50 miles north of San Francisco, to seek health in the mountains. Isobel wasn’t in the party because by this time she had a home and husband of her own—Joseph Strong, a California artist. How they took possession of all that was left of an abandoned mining town and lived in independence among the ruins is told, once and for all, in “The Silverado Squatters,” Stevenson's own story of his honeymoon. The book, by the way, was dedicated to Mr. and Mrs, Virgil Williams. ” ” ”
Fanny Lost Her Nerve
AFTER A YEAR'S stay in America Robert Louis Stevenson and his bride sailed from New York and 10 days later found his par=
She was 40 years old; he, 10 years younger.
ents and Sidney Colvin waiting for them in Liverpool, For the first time in her life Fanny lost her nerve. She dreaded the meeting for fear she couldn't make good as Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson. In which connection it may riot be amiss to quote Sir Sidney Colvin who collected and edited “The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson’: “Of her new family,” said Sir Sidney, “Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, brought thus strangely and from afar into their midst, made an immediate conquest. To her husband's especial happiness, there sprang up between her and his father the closest possible affection and confidence. Parents and friends, if it is possible for one of the latter to say as much, rejoiced to recognize in Stevenson's wife a character as strong, as interesting and romantic as his own; an inseparable sharer of all his thoughts, and staunch companion of all his adventures; the most open-hearted of friends to all who loved him: the most shrewd and stimulating critic of his work; and in sickness . .. the most devoted and efficient of nurses.” 2 ” ”
Sought Suitable Climate
AFTER THE Stevensons returned to Europe, Fanny's life parallels that of her husband's. They moved from place to place hoping — forever hoping — that, somehow, somewhere a climate could be found to make the mere business of breathing more comfortable for Stevenson. They went to Switzerland (1880-82), to France (1882-84) and back to England. In Switzerland towards the end of
their stay, Fanny received the exciting news that Samuel Os= bourne had married again, this time a California schoolteacher, It made her heart pump just a little, I'll bet. In 1887, Stevenson's condition was so desperate that Fanny cone ceived the idea that, maybe, the climate of Colorado could help. They got as far as New York when Fanny realized that her husband couldn't possibly make the long overland trip. They went instead to Saranac in the Adironedacks, then just coming into prominence because of the sana= torium for consumptives in charge of Dr. Trudeau. Sometimes the temperature was 48 degrees below zero. It was then that Stevenson wrote the magnificent “Requiem,” the indescribably beautiful eight lines ending with: “Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.”
More comforting at this time was Stevenson's realization that, because of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” he was now a famous man. He couldn't believe it at first, His book made a tremendous impression, especiale ly on the American reading pube lic. The idea of a dual persone ality, of the good and bad in man, was being discussed on all sides. Even ministers preached sermons about it, and the only reason Henry Ward Beecher didn't pare ticipate is because, by this time, he was dead. ” ” ”
Bewildered by Fortune
STEVENSON WAS amazed and bewildered at the sudden turn of fortune; even more surprised when an American publisher offered him 2000 pounds (a good $10,000 at the time) for a weekly article throughout one year, an offer he had to decline. He did, however, accept 700 pounds for 12 articles in Scribner's Maga« zine, some of which like “The Lantern Bearer” and “Pulvis et Umbra” remain among his most treasured work. In the spring after the terrible cold winter in the Adirondacks, Fanny slipped away to California, This time she had a notion that a cruise in the South Sea islands could prolong her husband's life. In San Francisco she chartered a yacht for a six months’ voyage, Once upon a time Stevenson observed that money in this world is good for only two things: To buy a yacht and to subsidize a string quartet. After bringing'her husband to San Francisco preparatory to starting the contemplated cruise, Fanny met the second Mrs. Os< bourne, She came to see Fanny, fell on her knees before her and burst into bitter weeping. Goodness knows she had reason to go to pieces. What had happened was this: One fine day somewhere around five years after her marriage, Sam suddenly disappeared, leaving the second Mrs. Osbourne not only penniless, but holding a heavily-mortgaged ranch he had talked her into buying. From that day to this Sam was never seen again—dead or alive.
Tomorrow: What Happened to Sam?
HAPPY ITALIANS GREET INVADERS
Lt. Cmdr. of British Navy
Says Prisoners Were
‘Relieved.’
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, July 15 (U. P.).—An account of the Canadian landing in southeast Sicily and of Italians emerging {from their cellars and homes to | welcome them was given yesterday oy Lt. Cmdr. J. B. Fernald of the British navy, who was born and raised in Mill Valley, Cal. “Our greatest trouble in the landing was not so much from shore shell fire as from heavy swells which made the task most difficult for the barges jammed with soldiers,” said Fernald, whose father is a captain in the U. S. navy and a well-known naval designer in San Francisco. “The swells constantly pulled the barges away from the shore. The shore batteries gave some trouble, but they soon were silenced by two units of British commandos who went ashore first. “I watched the commandos go ashore. There was some firing and then I waited for darkness. The only noise was the intermittent ma-chine-gun fire and occasional blasts from shore batteries. “I waited, wondering how we had done, fearing the worst. Then flares went up. They were ours, and I knew the beaches had been conquered. “When I got ashore half an hour later. trucks and motor vehicles of all kinds, including amphibians, already had gone inland. The pris‘oners seemed relieved, while the peasants who came out of hidbarrassingly
Urge Serving of Jackrabbits
To Aid U. S.
By Science Service
WASHINGTON, July 15.—Jackrabbits are pointed out as a wasted meat resource by B. Ashton Keith, Kansas City scientist here in Washington. The long-legged, longeared lopers of the prairies and plains are seldom eaten, though they are killed as range-robbers by ranchers in great drives that slaughter thousands of them. The carcasses are either left for the crows and coyotes, or at best picked up to be processed into commer-
icial dog food.
Yet, declares Mr. Keith, “some of the pleasantest recollections of my boyhood are of fried jackrabbit, baked jackrabbit, jackrabbit stew and jackrabbit pie. Those delicious
{meals that mother used to cook
after we came in from a hunt on the prairie still make my mouth water.”
Meat Shortage
F. C. Lincoln, zoologist of the fish and wildlife service, confirms Mr. Keith's claims for the tastiness of jackrabbit meat if properly prepared. Most people, he thinks, consider jackrabbit unfit to eat because they try to use the same cooking methods with it that they nse with the smaller, softer cottontail rabbit of the eastern half of the country. Cook it a bit longer and it will be just as good, he stated, adding, “Personally, T think it's even better than cotton tail.”
The same precautions against tularemia or rabbit fever must be observed with jackrabbits as with other wild rabbits, Mr. Lincoln warned. “Dead rabbits must be handled only with gloves, the fur disposed of in such a way that no germ-carrying fleas can escape from it, and the meat must be thoroughly cooked.
‘NOT THE FATHER OF THAT CHILD'~FONDA
HOLLYWOOD, July 15 (U. P.) — From aboard a destroyer in the Pacific, Henry Fonda denied today that he is the father of Barbara Thompson's baby daughter. “I don’t even know her,” said Fonda, who droppéd his role of a bashful film hero to join the navy a year ago. Mrs. Thompson, a divorcee with three other children, filed a paternity suit yesterday demanding $2000 a month from Fonda for support of her month-old daughter, Sharon.
IN SAME LATITUDE
Salt Lake City, Utah, is located
at approximately the same latitude as New York City, Madrid, Naples
Tail Gunners Get ‘All of the Fun'
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, July 15 (U, P).— Sgt. Manuel Reyes of Kingsville, Tex. tail gunner of a Martin Marauder, was credited today with shooting down a German Messer schmitt-109 during a raid on the axis air field at Carcitrella. “He came up underneath me and I never saw him until he almost was close enough to reach out with my tail gun and touch his propeller,” Reyes said. “He kinda caught me by surprise. But he was so close I couldn't miss. I fired 200 rounds into him and he folded up.” Lieut. Jack Disler of Dallas, Tex, the pilot, commented that
GERMAN PLANE OUTPUT SLICED
Reduced 30% by Yank Daylight Bombers, Writer Says.
NEW YORK, July 15 (U. P).— American daylight bombers were credited today by Rowland Burnstan, aeronautical engineer, with destroying 30 per cent of German fighter
plane production. Burnstan, writing in Liberty Magazine, based his conclusions on a four-months tour of bomber bases in England. “Up until the last few days of May,” he said, “Germany suffered 1237 pursuit planes destroyed, plus 365 damaged. Our losses, including planes shot down by anti-aircraft fire, totalled less than 150 bombers. “This is revolutionary. No nation with the diminishing aerial strength of Germany can long endure such fighter-plane attrition, particularly in view of such prodigious aircraft casualties as have been Suffered simultaneously on the Russian and Mediterranean fronts.”
SICILIAN INVADERS WARNED OF STORMS
MEXICO CITY, July 15 (U. P) — Emilio F, Noltey Bustamante, the Mexican scientist who predicted this capital's last earthquake, today warned allied invasion commanders in the Mediterranean to look out for tidal waves and severe storms in Sicily and southern Italy next month. The astronomer said between Aug. 3 and 7, and again between the 17th and 23d of the month, “severe storms and tidal waves” will ocour between 15 and 45 degrees north
V Potatoes Are Sign of Times
IT'S V FOR victory in every thing this year-—even in potatoes. Mrs, Eva While, 411 Trowe bridge st, bought a V-shaped spud at the A&P store on State ave, near E. Washington st. Ane
other one came in a basket of California potatoes shipped to Lewis Thompson, Regal grocer at 42d st. and College ave.
HOLDUP PAIR HAND VICTIM ‘NEST EGG’
CHICAGO, July 15 (U, P.) ~Two holdup men entered a candy store and took $215 from Samuel Frisch, the proprietor. “But you guys aren't leaving me anything to run the store with,” he protested. They handed him back $30.
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