Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-18
PLAY CAME WITH
! HUN Tin FISH"
United States Naval Observer
Keeps Track Of Ger
= man Subs.
KNOWS ALL THEIR TRICKS
Murphy's Negligence Leads to Success
OF College Crew In sespIsne-
Tells Them Where to Look
for u.Boats.

London.-How a certain United
States naval observer daily plays the
game Of life and death with Hnn 'tin
fish" was Interestingly told here re-
Gently by a member of the committee
OF public information as follows:
"a short, thick. temporary ensign,
n T. III. Murphy. with red face and
very blue eyes. sits day and night In
his Office in a little shack at a United
States navnl air station, porting
! over raised maps with colored strings
stretched on them and queer red
headed pins stuck In them.
His Job is to keep track Of every
Hun submarine that IL In operation.
Being a former submarine man him.
self. his instinct for them Is that Of a
ferret after a rat
"He knows when they need air, how
badly every depth charge has tickled
them-knows even when they must
come to the surface for the skipper to
smoke his cigar. as there Is no smok-
ing inside a submarine.
"Murphy's knowledge decides the
success or failure Of the many young
reserve ensigns Of the naval flying
force now at stations where there are
young men who have left the BALI
rooms OF New York or the battlefelds
Of Yale and Harvard to take q whnck
at the Hun.
take, for instance, Ensign q. J.
Schieffelin Of New York city and Of
the Yale class, 1919. He Is direct de-
scendant Of John Jay. Of Revolution
airy fame, and his father left home
for the Spanish-Amerfcan war In the
same ship that carried his son to this
one.
Murphy Was Right.
"Schieffelin was IN Murphy's ONCE
enrly one morning when that expert
took the pipe from his mouth, stuck
q pin In the middle of the North sea
and then blew out a blue cloud of
smoke.
They'll be needin' one" he said,
right about there
"'One whatf
IA smoke. of course. They've been
under 80 many hours on such and
such a course. In three hours they'll
breach and the reason will be tobacco.
Search area-and-and you'll find a
SUBJ
"Schiefrelin was the first pilot. The
second pilot was Lieut.. Roger w. Gut
Ter. stroke and captain of the Har-
ward varsity crew Of 1917. Tho crew
Of the big seaplane was completed
by Bernstein. the machinist's mate,
and Taggnrt. electrician and champion
100-yard Splinter.
Three hours later a bright her
ringbone sea was creeping under
ther'. Through the mist the visi.
bility was bad. but suddenly both
officers made the same exclamation
under their breath AZ the seaman
called to. HIS mate;
IA large Hun IN going north. one
gum Schieffelin remarked. Say. Muir
ply was right, only I don't SEQ anyone
smoking
"fhe plane got itself between the
sub and tho sun. Then, for two
whole minutes 1t bore down on the
Hun shark. She doomed up through
the mist big as q house. Echieffelin
said afterwnrd.
"Within a half minute she started
to submerge with
"Crashl
SNOW said Cutler. we will give
them a light
Brought Home tho Onions.
"He tripped his bomb release at the
Instant the big plano was directly
over the snemy's coming tower,
which was exactly awash. echiefrslin
threw the machine into a vertical
bank to observe the effect Of tho en-
plosion.
IA white gsyser spouted fifteen feet
On the enemy's port beam. The delay
had been just right.
"Look, her propsIler's out
laughed one of the men. They knew
then that she was damaged and that
her diving planes had been 20 injured
that sho could not submerge, They
knew she had to cling to the surface, |
that all her advantage In being q sub
wal lost and that she was q prey to
any patrol.
"As the plane was short Of petrol,
having a forty-miie wind to fight
against, the American lads set sail
for home with a sense Of a deed well
dono. The rest was routine, The
pinne signaiod a drifter, There 10 q
damaged sub five miles northwest of
YOU
'1The drifter. knowing that q sub
on the surface would start to run
like a scared cat, "a damaged subs do, |
and that they couldn't catch hsr, re-
iayed the news to certain destroyers.
The d~estroyera did the rest,
hurried up. rammed the U-beat and
thsre were only six survivors. Her
diving rudder had probably been dam.
aged, The destroyers put her down,
but she was the prise at sahieffeiia
Of Yale and Cutler Of Harvard. II
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