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This largely is caused by inexperienced ground crews who “oonstantly work on engines, even when in good condition, as well as careless or faulty service when there is real need for maintenance

From experience overseas, the en‘gineers reported that “everything possible must be done in the design and engineering of aireraft to insure ease of service and maximum durability under the most primitive field conditions.” One of the greatest problem of fliers in advanced theaters of operais the general lack of spares. when replacements have been they may never reach their

SWING BAND ELECTS AT WARREN SCHOOL

Richard Powers has been named Where he became: one of the coun~Jemder and Kenneth - Cannaday, trys - foremost. astron manager and treasurer, of the re- | - gently organized Warren Central the verdict. Associates of the pro-

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First British prisoner of Tialy to be released and returned to England is Maj. Gen. Adrian Carton de Wiart, captured in 1941 when his plane crashed in Mediterranean. He lost one eye and arm in

leebox Is Raided,

ASTRONOMER HANGS SELF FROM SCOPE| Only Dogs Lose

CINCINNATI, Sept. 30 (U.P).—| —Some red-faced non-commis-{A verdict of suicide was returned | sioned officers at the Dyersburg

| army air base near here aren't so {today in the death of Dr. Elliott fond. of ham rs these days. Smith, 68, who was found hanged 1; geems that someone was from- the base of a large telescope! making nightly raids on the

‘at the University of Cincinnati| squadron megs hall ice box. Officers knew of the matter, but

Coroner Frank M, Coppock issued protested because the

had been eating gr:.nd horse

high school swing band. - {fessor said he had been in ill health Other band members, who held lately and recently was a patient in| their first rehearsal last Wednes- a Cincinnati hospital. day, are Kenneth Cannaday, vocal-| The body, hanging on a rope sus- |

meat which was being used to feed the squadron's four guard dogs.

yellow float vests. Our destination, still mentioned, from force of habitual secrecy, as “up north,” was Nanomea, or St.

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Augustine island, America’s newest, thorn in the Jap-held Gilberts, 250 miles north from Funafuti which!

without other progress, : Maintain Vigilance

Constant vigilance was maintained over our guns en route, Jap photo planes which had been over Nanomea already had been sufficiently well armed to strafe the ground and with their superior speed might find our far-ranging, but slow, PBY welcome meat. Then came the moment when one of the machine-gunners, with headphones connecting him with the pilot, turned and peered ahead along

fragment of watermelon rind lying, bright green, on the azure waters.

we had been holding nearly a year |

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touched the water experimentally | rand, slowly settled while the water [churned past. the blisters. | | Before long, two outrigger canoes | 'with three paddlers each came from | {the “beach - where the réd-roofed |cupola of a mission church could be

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landing at our farthest point north in the mid-Pacific; everyone around there was too busy working. | Most ‘of the marines and satlors | already had foxholes built and one spid: “This is better. than Funafuti! because you can go down six feet! without getting flooded out by the sea.”

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