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By JAMES A. MICHENER WITH FAST CARRIER U.S.S. ESSEX IN KOREAN WATERS, Feb. 26__The unhap-
I ask Felix {if that is why he is so mournful and he says, “No; it's because they won't give me any work ¥8 do. Pitiful
James A. Michener; Pulitzer prize-winning author of “Tales of .the South Pacific,” has just
of Independence, Mo. would be given the safe and uninterest-. ing shore route. “You might find something, a truck or an ox cart hauling
“up what was to be. one of the most sensational night flights in history. He thought he saw a light in what could have been a very large building. «
With a terrific blast Red cut the track leading to the tunnel. Felix knocked some cars off the other end of the line. Locomotives were trapped,
take over, we went north, where we were supposed to have been all the time. ’ Felix was in luck. Leaving
our -pilots bomb and ‘strate North Korean civilians?
I have inspected some 3000
photographs of actual bombs ings. They were not selected or
piest man in thes ts i: J ee flown a night attack mission " te r viaka." . , ol on ow the traims, : oar a @ parts is a = )ittle missions. Never a real “over Korea in a cafrier-hased Suppliss. Dog} Ske any Nake I don’t see anything, Red NOW WE HIT tpem from | ains he got a truck, &8 (ensored in any way. In fact, 6 0 36-year-old pilot strike, It would break your plane. Here is his story, as re- elix mumbled to " B sald. y 0 al arge Woat, and a nest of ‘they were secret. In some ot called: Felix Bertanga of = yaart leased by the U. S. Navy. the way it always is. “I'll drop a hundred pounder every angle. Out of ‘absolute sampans. them 1 did find houses ablaze,
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Andover, N, H. He can sit in
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There is nothing like a night
anyway,” Felix replied.
darkness, with not a single light
He now had one bomb left.
but -always close to a railroad
dhl “ : ; . ; catapult launching. You are He leveled off for a terrific lanes, Felix an track or a bridge or a factory, eal JupDlex fhe ward: room of the carrier THINK OF WHAT we night _ everybody leaves us in a cor- whipped forward at enormous bomb run, dropped to 150 feet o pl Li a s fr : Red Red scoured the countryside for When we. go back to the EO Essex and just about break fighters go through. You day ner’ No correspondent ever speed, shot out into perfect and let go. Felix hit a hig combe se trains from end - one last target. Felix and then ghip Felix made a perfect land. vi $160,000 your heart, fighters sleep at the proper comes out with us. You wouldn't darkness, dropped perilously munitions plant. There was a to end, thev could’ iv: tr- the Red flips 3 beauty. A boat in® ng and then tried to act as yd “Look at ” ratly. 4p ; t hi . low over .the ocean that you gigantic explosion, our plane y cou y . 1 a dry dock, if this morning's mission had 4d first aid me,” he wails, “I'm time, so they keep the ship dare take a night flight, would was lifted 20 feet in the air, onr pitch dark, weaving back and * nn been
civil defense medical orning after ymmittee ap-
the
one of the best trained men in the Navy. A night heckler, You know: what that is? I take a plane off this tub in darkness, I go over Korea and fight in
quiet. We sleep at day when there's one lousy bugle or siren every 10 minutet, We never get regular food. And if we have
you?" I was hooked. 1 had foreseen this and had brought special orders covering such cases. We rolled out of bed at 8:00
can't see, and then shoved upward into the sky. " ” ”
FELIX AND RED joined up at two thousand feet and headed
tail was higher than our nose. The countryside was a blaze of light, “Do you see what I see?’ Red called to Felix.
forth, Is a secret. All I can say fs that here were too massive planes flying 500 miles an hour without a single visible clue as to where the other man
FELIX climbed for a high run, dove down, and blew the boat, the drydock, and what was left of my stomach al} to pleces,
strictly routine for a tough night fighter like him, But later our photographie planes got back and we saw a unified record of what Felix and Red had accomplished,
American Night Fighter Pilot ‘Heckles’ Reds In Pitch Darkness
y of $51,780 darkness, then I come back in to ditch in the ocean at night. 4 m had a big breakfast, and for the coast of Korea. Below. rushing for a long Was. Yet they sometimes passed’ 1 rode with Felix for a rea- When Felix saw this he. fore darkness to find this lousy we're dead ducks because res--- then heard the bad news. We roared up the coast at tunnel, were two locomotives at 50 feet! son he would never suspect, “got how unhappy he was. ed out that bucket, and in pitch darkness I . cye planes can't find us.” Since I was going along, Felix 250 miles an hour then with a and about 30 hox cars. Felix When our morning jet planes It was a problem in which all “Wow,” he cried. “What a and counties, make a carrier landing.” “What burn® me up is that and his wingman, Red Stillwell burst of pure luck Felix opened and Red had them. appeared from the south to Americans are interested. Do morning.”
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| WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (UP) [AGRANGE, Feb. 26 — Four Sheldon R. Barroquille, 19, of lective Service Biron Lewis Hoosiers, including a man and his Wolcottville, : \B. Hershey reminded college men wife, were killed last night in a| police s today that they must file appll-iyiglent two-car crash near here. ently was Ue I: Suert Appa:
jcations by Mar. 10 for the next ,. . ..q stop [student deferment test. : . Lake Rd. and failed to at Max Murray, 78,.and his Wife, 154.9. His auto was hit by the cas
FF''|= The exam will be given Apr. 24 “ 2 |at stations throughout the na- Maude, 70, of Walcottville. driven by Mr. Barroquillo. Mr, and x was thrown from the car
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Of Reds Bared
DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 26 (UP)—A former undercover agent for the FBI described the efficiency of Communist “hatchet work” at Ford Motor Co. as the House UnAmerican Activities Committee opened its investigation yesterday of Red infiltration into
the defense-vital automobile in- ¢pyited into the party by Harry dustry. Glassgold, organizational secre-
mmittee set® 3 for civil deidition te the ropriated by (tion, It will be the last given dur-] Owen Gilbert, 65, Lagrange. {ing the current academic year.| Willlam L. Sabin, 21, Lagrange. and killed instantly, and the More than 100.000 college stu-, In critical condition at the others died soon thereafter at the
"the Budget 2 dents are expected to take it. {County Hospital here are Mrs. hospital.
20 per cent . highway de« STRAUSS
Richard F.tary and husband of the Ford d Indiana O'Hair, a spy for “hatchet-woman.” 5724 lege to plan the FBI for four : S: De years, said a, Moves to Binghampton
Mrs. Edna Glass- He said he stayed in the party gold was sent to and rose to a member of Detroit's! Detroit d uring executive committee of Branch the war with the 1, when he quit and moved to “specific job ®f Binghampton, N. Y. getting a fore- Mr O'Hair stressed the party's man at Ford discipline during his years as an
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re airs at : fired. undercover agent. - He said the : 4 “The frame general membership was told just as you get off the re Mr. O'Hair Worked." he said, ‘what to think at meetings and escalators—there is a separate si “and the com- how to act on issues by the execu- fi pany fired him and she returned tive committee of which he was, ; 5? section that houses these to New York.” ’ a member. : United Preis ¥ altBieny WARDROBER SUITS—49.78 - ‘Lead-Off Witness’ a A OTtal sald the purly ni AND THIS WAS. IT—FBI agents slip the bracelets on John Richard Bayless in New York with. . And the 2-TROUSER WORSTED e “HB ~~“ Mr OHair, 39, now a private tically all auto companies and In hours after he stuck up a bank out in Hollywood. He was nabbed riearly 14 hours after the rob. ? ~~ SUITS of 59.75 hy investigator in New York, 3g not many of their supplier firms when _bery. (Story, Page 1). : : ify the party's projects, nor 3 EE —— - : ee iene sose—— : : 411 aid 4 say igh the frame be dolt for New You | ® =A de fat 2 worked. a T 0, dt Get Wa F byt ea in wie me te mer woe n Church Group | 1AX-DO@Ara 1o Ger vvarren rig Era vers or tows e reek- - ‘ | ings into alleged Communist in- Lists S eaker | By. JOHN V. WILSON mittee chairman, called for aban-jarea contains the Western Elec- men will regard as : filtration of Michigan's $3 billion P Warren Township's parent- donment of the new ‘“school,itric plant and the new Chrysler!
: sensational==49.75 i. of the American trustee battle over spending $673.-/already’ under ' construction. He plant. : | : ad- 000 for a new grade school will Warned the group meeting at, With the loss of the huge tax be carried to the State Tax Board. Warren Central High School: base, parents complajned the]
A fight to the finish was prom-. We Will stop this school until township's bonding power would #
defense industry. The hearings were delayed several hours when House Speaker Sam Rayburn (D. Tex.) ruled in
An official Unitarian Association will dress parents and teachers of the
Washington that the hearings North Unitarian Church tomor- jsaq ast night . after Trustee We get a definite ‘promise ¢ for be reduced to a point where the could not be televised. Commit- row night, - Charles ‘F. Kohlmever failed to Construction of a new Shadeland new E. 10th, school “could never tee Chairman John 8. Wood (D. The speaker, patch up the quarrel over school “school.” .” be paid for.” - oa » ] the G2.) delayed taking testimony ifte Rey, Ernesi expansion policies at a mass meet- _ His sentiments were echoed by warren Central Principal C. E. ) until a fruitless appeal to relax W. Kuebler, ex- ing of 200 parents. 5 Mrs. Wayne Evans, president of mech used the same argument
ecutive vice the Shadeland” PTA. She president of the association and
director of its
the ban was made. Mr. O'Hair said he joined the Communist Party in 1943 and became an undercover agent im-
Donald B. Davidson, 3713 Lesley Ave. leader of forces against the trustee, announced he would file an official remonstrance with
told against replacement of the Trustee Kohimeyer: Shadeland school. He declared:
“We intend to have a new The advisory board would be school for 8hadeland. We're not foolish to put a new building -
mediately... He said he was re- divisions of the Countv Auditor. It is the first 28 much concerned with having a (here if it was aware of a possichurches and ed- step in an appeal to the Tax Peautiful building as we are get- yo annexation.” vat ucation, wil Board. : tiing more rooms built now.” : meet with the : Expect 1900 in Fall
Annexation ; Feared
Center of the controversy is Mr.
parents and Kohlmeyer’'s request for an’ extra The battle lines were drawn Using a series of graphs, the Jee a . Rev. Kuebler $130,000 to complete the new 12- after Mr. Kohimeyer disclosed principal pointed out the town(p. m a N.
work on a new Shadeland school ship's critical school room needs. | , could not be started until next From his figures, parents inferred | year or completed before 1954. there was a losing battle in keepThe meeting also brought into ing pace with the ever-increasing the open fears of possible annex- school enrollment. ation by the city of the multi-| This fall, Mr. Esch predicted, million dollar Shadeland com- the township will be eight rooms munity. {short of housing an expected 1900 Annexation, the committee con-|pupils. And by adding 10 more and Shadeland tended, would cut off half of the rooms to the Shadeland school, he {township's $40 million valuation said, a five-room shortage would | Mr. Davidson, planning com- for tax-making purposes. The still exist in 1954.
room school at 8400 E. 10th St.
{| Talbott Ave. The Rev. John K. . : Want New Shadeland
Hammon, North Church minister, and Mrs. Hammon will be hosts| parents, spearheaded by a newin their home. . ly formed School .Planning ComRev. Kuebler, a former presi- mittee, complained * the - school {dent of the national Religious would not meet needs of the fast- | Education Association, has writ- rising population. They demanded {ten extensively on education, replacement of Shadeland grade] | traveled abroad and had wide ex-| school, 30th St. | perience in religious administra-| Ave. | tive work.
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