Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-08-26
Maps at American SeapIane
Stations Plus Hourly Re-
ports of Subs Activities
Make Captures Possible,
EX-C0LLEGE MEN MAKE
SPECTACULAR MANEUVER
SchieffeIin of Yale a0J Cutler
Of Harvard Soar Over Sub
nlerSibIel Drop Bomb Which
Hits Target SquareIy,

i"F ~0SH'No JouRSAt SPECIAL tGAsGo wiRal
London, Aug. 25.-" Ensign II. H.
Murphy says a statement given out
today by the committee on public in
formation, sits day and night in an
office in a little, shack at a United
States naval air station poring over
raised maps with colored strings
stretched on them and little red head
ed pins stuck in them His job is to
keep tab on every German submarine
out of its base He knows when they
needed air and how badly each depth
charge damages them. He knows ev
en- when they must come to the sur
face for the skipper to smoke cigar.
for there is no smoking inside sub
marine.
Ensign Murbhy's knowledge decid
ed the success or failure Of many
young reserve ensgns of the naval
flying force at the station. Take. for
instance, Ensign E. J. SchIeffeln of
New York City. member Of the 1919
class at Yale university. who is a dl.
rect descendant of John Jay of rev
olutionary fame
Ensign Schieffelin was in Muir.
phys office early one morning when
that expert stuck n 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
course. In three hours they'll emerge
and the reason will be tobacco.
search this area. pointing to the
map with his finger. and youu find
a submarine
Ensign schieffelin was the first
pilot Lieutenant Roger w. Cutler,
stroke and captain of the Harvard
varsity crew of 1917. and Bernstein,
a machinists' mate. and Taggart elec
trician and champion hundred yard
sprinter, made up the crew of the big
seaplane.
Three hours after the seaplano
had left its station both officers made
the same exclamation as the seaman
called to his mate Large Hun going
north. One gum
Enemy Is Damaged
The seaplane got itself between the
submarine and the sun and for two
minutes bore down on the U-boat.
Half minute later the vessel started
to submerge with a crash dive.
Lieutenant Cutler tripped his bomb
release at the instant the big sea
plane was directly over the enemys
coming tower, which was exactly
awash Ensign Schieffelin put the
machine into a vertical bank to OBJ
serve the effect of the explosion aud
a white geyser spouted fifteen feet on
the enemys port beam. When the
splash cleared the stern Of the sub
marine, 1t was tipped UP and her pro-
pellers were out of the water.
Destroyer Finishes Job.
'The air pilots knew then that sh .
was damaged that she could not sub
merge and was a prey to any of the
patrol boats. The seaplane being
short of fuel. then signalled to drift
er; Damaged submarine five miles
northwest of you But the drifter,
knowing that q submarine on the sur
face would start to run like scared
cat, and that it could not catch her,
relayed the news to torpedo destroy.
ers
"The destroyers did the rest. They
hurried up and rammed the U-boGt.
There were only six survivors. The de
stroyers put her down but she was the
prize Of Schieffelin of Yale, and Cut
Ter of Harvard. Cutler. incidentally
was on his first flight as a pilot on
war patrol and the bombs which dam
aged the submarine were the first
that he had dropped in action"