The sun., 1918-08-25
US. HASSTRINGS.
FOR U-SKIPPERS
Ensign Murphy Knows When
Each One Lights Cigar
Away From Base.
DIRECTS HUNT BY MAPS
"They'll Be Needing Smoke"
He Tells Schieffelin, Who
Flies Out and Bombs Craft.

LONDON, Aug. ?4-"Ensign T. II.
Murphy" says a statement given out
to-day by the Committee on Public In
formation. "s!ts day and night in an
office In a little shack at a United States
Naval Air StatNn poring over raised
maps with colored strings stretched on
them and little red headed pins stuck in
them. His job is to keep tabs on every
German submarine out from its base
He knows when they need air and
how badly each depth charge damages
them. He knows even when they must
come TO the surface for the skipper to
smoke a cigar. for there is no smoking
inside submarine.
Ensign Murphys knowledge decides
the success or failure OF many young
reserve ens.gns OF the Naval Flying
Force at the station. Take, for instance.
Ensign E. J. Schiefreln of New York
city, member of the 1919 class at
Yale University. whois a direct descend
ant Of John Jay OF Revolutionary fame
SchieFelin Gets Chance.
Ensign Schieffelin was in Murphy's
office early one morning when that ex-
pert stuck a pin in the middle Of his
North Sea map and exclaimed:
They'll be needing smoke right
about there They have been under so
many hours on such and such a course.
In three hours they'll emerge and the
reason will be tobacco. Search this area
(ponting to the map with his finger)
and you'll find submarine
Nila
and Lieut. Roger w. Cutler, stroke and
captain OF the Harvard varsity crew of
1917. and Bernstein. a mach!nist's mate,
and Taggart. electrician and champion
100 yard sprinter, completed the crew
OF the big seaplane. :
"Taree hours after the seaplane had
left its station both officers made the
same exclamation as the seaman called
TO his mate:
Large Hun going north. One gum
THE seaplane got itself between the
submarine ard the sun and for two
minutes bore down on the U-boat. Half
a minute later the vessel started to sub
merge with a crash dive.
Bomb Smashes C-BOat.
Lieut.. Cutler tripped his bomb re-
lease at the instant the big seaplane was
directly over the enemy's connlAg tower.
which was exactly awash. Ensign Schief-
felin put the machine into a vertical
bank to observe the effect OF the ex-
plosion. and a white geyser spouted fif-
teen feet on the enemy's port beam. The
delay had been just right. When the
splash cleared the stern of the sub
marine was tipped up and her propel-
lers were out of the water.
THE air pilots knew then that she was
damaged. that she could not submerge
and was a prey to any OF the patrol
boats. The seaplane, being short of fuel.
then signalled to a drifter: Damaged
submarine five miles northwest of you
But the drifter, knowing that IA sub
marine on the surface would start to
run like a scared cat and that 1t could
not catch her, relayed the news to tor
pedo boat edestroyers.
1.-The destroyers did the rest They
hurried up and rammed the U-boat. There
were only six survivors. The destroyers
put her down, but she was the prize OF
Schieffelin OF Yale and Cutler of Har-
ward. Cutler. incidentally, was on his
first flight as a pilot on war patrol and
the bombs which damaged the submarine
were the first that he had dropped in
action"