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Yorktown
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1888, until August, 1899, when he
became commanding oficer OF. the
Naval Air Station at Pearl Harbor
He holds the Distinguished Service
Medal for action against the Jap
anese from May to May 8, when
air squadrons under his command
successfully attacked nine enemy
ships and numerous aircraft at Tu-
lagi. and in two attacks on May
7 and 8 sank Jap carrier, a cruiser
and damaged another carrier. He
also maneuvered his ship so as to
avoid nine torpedoes and all but
one bomb of sustained attack.
Comdr. True was born at Owen
ton, KY. He had been in command
OF the Hammann since its commits
sioning in 1889. After her sinking
he continued on sea duty.
Capt. Buckmaster Is now COM
nanding officer of the Naval Air
Station at Norfolk.
The carrier was launched from the
ways of the Newport News Ship
building Co. on August 4, 1886, with
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as
sponsor. The carrier was included
In the program OF 80 naval vessels
authorized by the National Indus
trial Recovery Act.
While the japanese began the war
last December with a force Of car
riers believed to have been four or
five more than Americas seven
their losses have been heavier and
presumably their main carrier
strength now is numerically no
greater than that Of the United
States Navy and qualitatively in
ferior.
The Japanese losses at Midway
were particularly hurtful in this re-
spect since the carriers Kaga, Akagi,
Soryu and Hiryu, were among their
best.
The Navy showed in a summary
OF its reports Of Japanese losses due
to naval action that six aircraft car
riers had been sunk, one probably
sunk and four damaged. In all, the
Navy reported that 1874 Japanese
combatant ships and 124 non COM
batant ships-a grand total of 258-
have been sunk, probably sunk or
damaked.
The japanese twice claimed the
Yorktown was hit or sunk in en-
gagements preceding Midway.
On February 26 Toxic broadcast
said "an enemy aircraft carrier
was severely damaged when Jap
anese naval planes plunged into her.
Japanese - military experts were
quoted by German broadcasts as
identifying the vessel as the York
town.
Again on May 8 the Japanese
claimed 1t was sunk in the Coral
Sea battle.
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Eyewitness
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ship. The Stars and Stripes tossed
through the dark haze, and the
flashing signal light showed there
was still life on the bridge. We
circled, waiting and hoping, while
desperate efforts were made to get
the fire under control. The York
town lay dead in the water.
Slowly the smoke lessened. We
could see several planes still on
the Yorktown's deck which appar-
entity had only been nicked. Other
planes were criss-crossing overhead.
The ship appeared on an even keel,
and hopes grew.
Hardly a word was spoken during
those long, anxious minutes.
Look, the Yorktown's moving" ="
The gunners around me were jubi-
liant.
Within another few minutes the
entire feet was under way.
Then there came a quick report:
Enemy planes"
Every gun was manned and the
fleet was set for action.
Enemy planes. Closing fast"
Last Desperate Assault.
The Yorktown had sufficient speed
now to launch her remaining planes,
and they were roaring off the fight
deck
Enemy planes to port"
There were two waves of them,
torpedo planes coming in low and
dive bombers far above. 1t was a
combined attack-the last, desperate
assault of an already beaten enemy.
Our fighters were tearing into
both groups. Few dive bombers ever
got through, and no one was paying
much attention to them anyway
we were watching the flashing tor
pedo planes; there appeared to be
Is OF them. Some fell away in
flames, in spirals of smoke, in weird
tumbles. Our fighters we're taking
heavy toll.
Nine Of the attackers kept right
on coming. They apparently were
aiming straight for the carrier.
This cruiser stood between. AS they
came within range the whole feet S
anti-aircraft opened up with such
din I don't remember hearing a
thing after the first second. The at
tackers tried to dive beneath the
barrage. More planes fell. Our own
planes, too, were all mixed up in
| the dizzy aerial Whirl
Every Gun Blazing.
The most distinct memory I have
OF the moment is that every gun on
the Yorktown was blazing. She was
putting up a scrap if any ship ever
did
Two Jap planes tipped astern OF
Evening star., 1942-09-16

us to drop their deadly fish right at
the carrier. I didn't see them hit.
At the same moment another
enemy craft was slashing over our
bow through a veritable wall Of
shell fire. His machine guns were
pounding straight toward us. Across
the bow he went into steep glide
and let his silvered load plop into
the water. He died within 10 Sec
onds in mass of flames when the
last plane to roar off the Yorktown
cut him to pieces. The attack was
over.
The sudden stiffness was sitting.
Our own fighters now were far away
chasing the few remaining enemy
planes. Every eye was on the York
town.
The huge water spouts sent up
by the torpedoes had died. The ship
was listing badly. Two planes clung
like struggling beetles to her fitting
deck. 1t was sickening sight.
Destroyer Picks Up Men.
Men were sliding down ropes and
dropping into the water. Destroyers
were pulling alongside and picking
them up. The signal went up, Il am
abandoning ship"
Hundreds of survivors took to life
boats and RATS and were taken to
several nearby ships. Hundreds of
boiling heads found safety with the
lifebelts tossed from all sides. Men
were working fast, but it was an
orderly abandonment-if any such
drama could ever be so described.
An hour went by, two hours
hours that seemed like bad dream.
We watched silently from a few
hundred yards away. All this time
the enemy never came back-and we
knew suddenly that the battle of
Midway had been won. We hated
to see the abandonment finished,
because we were afraid of what our
own guns might be called on to do.
1t would have seemed like terrible
cruelty TO living thing to have
blasted that stricken ship.
Then we learned she was not to
be sunk. With three bombs and
probably three torpedoes, she still
had a chance to live.
Evening star., 1942-09-16
Sailors Say Yorktown Took Terrific Toll
Of Jap Planes at Coral Sea and Midwuy

Boudreaux said the Yorktown was
ready for action and launching
planes from the flight deck In less
than five minutes after the report
was received that the enemy feet
had been sighted.
The first we knew that our fight
ers were giving it to the Japs was
when a scout plane came back and
dropped a message on the flight deck
saying one carrier destroyed, he
related.
Most of our planes, though, were
gone, when the Japs attacked, al
though we had some fighters in the
air. We could see only part of the
attack by our fighters on the Jap
dive bombers, because the ship was
swinging from side to side. That
was before the dive bonbers got in
close"
Boudreaux said when the bombers
came in. the real shooting began.
Most of the Japs were shot down
by the United States fighters or by
the guns Of the carrier and her
escort OF destroyers and cruisers,
but some got through, the sailor
said. OF the most damaging bomb
hit reported in news accounts re-
leased by the Navy, in which the
explosives crashed on the fight deck
and tore away gun stations, Boud-
reaux said, the damage was repaired
'by the time we saw it."
He declared that "the whole thing
was over about dark-so far as the
Japanese planes were concerned.
Its funny thing but one of
our pilots told us that when. they
attack a Jap carrier all of its escorts
get away as fast as they can and
leave the carrier to fight it out
alone. Boy, our destroyers wouldn't
do that, leaving a carrier without
protection. They close up and shoot
with everything they have.
II haven't seen a Jap ship yet:
the boys who fly the planes see
plenty of them and give them plenty
of trouble. But no Jap ship has
ever gotten close enough to us to
see us, let alone attack us There
isn't any doubt, now, who is going
! to win
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japanese
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transfer OF Yamashita. rated the
most successful Of the Japanese
Arny's field commanders IN the first
phase Of the Pacific war, took the
form of a broadcast mentioning the
British surrender of Singapore last
February and referring to Yama-
shita as "the then commander in
chief OF japanese forces in Malaga"
Admirer Of Nazi War Machine.
1t was the first time TOXIC had
indicated he no longer held that
post.
Six weeks ago, however, uneon-
f1rmed reports circulated in Chung
king that Yamashita, an ardent
admirer Of the German war ma
chine, had arrived in Manchukuo
and assumed command in prepara-
ton for drive into Siberia.
The Berlin radio and the Turkish
press both reported that Vice
Admiral Naokuni Nomura and Rear
Admiral Katsu Abe. chiefs of the
Japanese commands co-ordinatine
committees in Berlin and Rome.
respectively, were due In Turkey to-
morrow. e.
Japanese military men have vis-
tied Turkey before at critical juno
lures in the European war. 1t has
been suggested that they have
sought there detached view Of
Germany's military fortunes in
Eastern Europe. A survey of neutral
opinion in Turkey might lead them
to recommend either boldness or
caution.
The Tokyo broadcast on Yama-
shita told of famous japanese art
ist who had visited the Singapore
area to paint a picture of the Brit
ish surrender at Bukit Timafl, ON
Singapore's outskirts, last February
Is. 1t said he had spent the last
three months there and during that
time had sketched Yamashita, indi-
eating that the generals departure.
II 1t has occurred, was recent.
Evening star., 1942-09-16
Flying Tiger Praises
Army Successors
For Wonderful Job
Texon, Veteran Of IS
Sorties in China, on Way
Here to Offer Services
Ey tie Associated Press.


MIAMI, Sept. 16.-Flight Leader
Albert E. Probst of Waco, Tex, one
of the first pilots to join the Ameri-
can Volunteer Group in China, had
high praise today for Regular Army
air men who succeeded Plying
Tigers
They're doing wonderful job, y
declared the veteran of some rs
sorties over enemy territory. They
certainly are not losing face"
Mr.. Probst came here aboard a
Pan-American Clipper. He is en-
route to Washington to offer his
services to the Army Air Forces.
The 26-year-old flyer said he will
tackle any assignment handed him,
but hopes to be sent to Australia,
because I feel there will be gen.
eral offensive against the Japs from
there"
Brig. Gen. Claire Chennault, chief
of the Flying Tigers who became
commander Of Army Air Forces in
China, was described by Mr.. Probst
as "the best who ever lived"
He'd come to us, call all the pilots
together and spread out map on
the ground" the flyer related.
These Japs have got something
about here he'd say. pointing to a
spot on the map. 1T would please
me If something were done about
this
well. we'd figure out the dis
tances. 1t is wasn't too far for us to
go with our gasoline supply we'd
say: 'Okay, sir, we'll take off in Is
minutes.
IF it seemed too far, we'd speak
up and tell him So"
Mr. Probst was assigned to bomb
ing raids, straflng missions and
reconnaissance flights.
We destroyed more Jap planes or
the ground than we did in the air,
he declared.
Evening star., 1942-09-16

"First attack was by dive-bombers.
They came down from about $4,000
feet, looking like tiny match sticks
and then like sticks with little sticks
under them. They dove low before
leveling of. We got most of them
before they got through but they
made one hit on us.
Then came the torpedo planes.
The first bunch came in too high
and we began picking them oil too
easy so they turned turtle and
beat it.
The next lot did the damage.
They came in just skimming the top
Of the waves so you could hardly
see them and they were tough to get
a bead on. They would scoot low
like that till they got close to the
carrier, then zoom up dropping their
fish"
One Of the torpedo planes strafing
the men on the carriers deck as it
shot past, killed two boys standing
on either side of him, Henderson
said.
He Took to the Ropes.
Narrowest escape Henderson
thinks he had himself was while
firing a gun at torpedo planes from
the catwalk.
Suddenly I saw the wake of two
fish headed for us right under me.
I knew that catwalk was going.
Good gosh I better beat it, I told
myself and man, I scooted away"
After the last torpedo plane at
tack the Yorktown took a decided
list and the commander gave orders
to abandon ship.
Henderson recalls giving his life
belt to boy that was wounded and
then taking to oily water down the
ropes.
Henderson managed to swim to
whaleboat but was so exhausted
that when they told him he would
have to man the pump or swim, he
topped over the side and made it to
a destroyer.
Planes from the Yorktown made it
to another United States carrier in
the vicinity, he declared.
But some of those pilots took
plenty medicine in that battle"
Evening star., 1942-09-16
BY the Associated Press.

NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 16.-The
United States aircraft carrier York
town took q terrific toll of enemy
planes in the Coral Sea and the
Battle Of Midway before she was
finally sunk June 7, said two Louisi-
ana sailors who served aboard her
Ernest Joseph Boudreaux of New
Orleans, 21-year-old coxswain, said
some of our fighters shot lot of
them down and our guns got
Others"
The Yorktown, william r. Hen
derson, %, of Bogalusia, La, said,
had been standing by the Lexington
when 1t went down and many of
the Lex men and planes came
aboard our ship"
Just as had been the case with
the Lexington, four Jap planes at
night had mistaken the Yorktown
for one Of their own carriers and
tried to land, Henderson said.
I'VE saw these four planes coming
in and the minute we spotted that
Rising Sun we gave it to them," he
related. "One got away"
"Our planes accounted for more
enemy ships and planes than any
other carrier af1oat," boasted Hen
derson, aviation machinist mate
first class
Japs Dropped Like Flies.
Coral Sea was pretty tough. We
had been scouting around for sew
eral days before we encountered the
Japs. Our planes we're out getting
them when thy came in after us.
"Bombers came down at us and
we we're hot at them with our
guns. I think only a few got
through. They were dropping all
over the place like flies. They
landed one pretty good bomb hit on
us but 1t didn't put us out of COM
mission"
After repairs the Yorktown was
again headed for battle, this time to
intercept the Jap forces headed for
Midway.
1T was north of Midway" Hen
derson continued, that our patrol
plane first sighted the enemy. Our
planes went out after them and
pretty soon they came after us.
Evening star., 1942-09-16
Maps Of Vital Area
Are Found on Jap
Seized in New York
One Of 10 Enemy Aliens
Arrested by FBI;
Seven Germans Held
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-A Jap
anese who had maps Of the New
York City water supply system
and statistics on United States
war areas was one of 10 enemy
aliens apprehended in this area
by the Federal Bureau of 1nves-
tigation, P. E. FoxWorth, assist
ant director Of the FBI, said to-
day.
The aliens, all arrested for refus-
ing to serve in United States mill
tary forces, included also seven Ger
mans and two Italians.
The japanese is being held at
Ellis Island for internment after
the maps and notebooks were found
in his apartment. The others will
be investigated by the United States
attorneys Office for possible prose-
cution, Mr.. Foxworth said.
Mr. Foxworth said the Japanese
notebook listed vital statistics re-
lating to the Netherlands Indies,
New Zealand, Australia, Guam, the
Philippines, the Panama Canal
Zone, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Burma,
Bermuda, Indo- China, Hawaiian Is
lands, Russian islands near the
Aleutians and other military objec-
tives.
The japanese, whose name was
not revealed, was 42-year-old
kitchen helper in a hospital. He
came to the United States in 1916
and annually, until four years ago,
reported to the Japanese consulate,
where he enrolled for military serv-
Ice and swore allegiance to Japan.
Also in the apartment, FBI agents
said they found radio-television
textbooks
Agents said they found in the
room of one German, who taught
Nazi principles in a German labor
camp but was rejected by the Ger
man army for physical disability,
two cameras and several negatives,
including pictures of the Golden
Gate Bridge In San Francisco and
Panama Canal locks.
Evening star., 1942-09-16
Belfast Police Seize
IRA Newspaper Edition
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Sept.
16.-Belfast police reported today
they had located what they believed
to be the core of the outlawed Irish
Republican Army's propaganda Or
ganization In Northern Ireland and
had seized an edition Of the IRAs
newspaper, the Republican News,
with printing machines and other
property.
Fearing fresh IRA outbreaks,
police have reinforced strategic
points along the Ulster Fire border
and increased the guard at Belfast
Prison. where nearly 400 political
agitators are interned.
Evening star., 1942-09-16
Perry, Athletic Director
At Annapolis, Elevated
BY the Associated Press

3y the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Sept. To-
Comdr. L. S. Pop) Perry, Nays
1918 All-American guard and now
kthletic director of the Naval Acad-
emy, has been promoted to captains
rank.
Capt. Perry was named athletic
director and head of the Naval
Academy physical training depart
ment June %. He succeeded Capt
Harvey E. (Swede) Overesch, 1915
gridiron star, who now is COM
mandant of midshipmen here
Evening star., 1942-09-16

War bonds make bombers to
bomb the Axis and lower our taxes.
Why not buy some and help your
self?
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-02-13

of more countries.
Beginning with sunrise services on
the FIJI Islands, 1870 degrees East
Longitude, (it's summer there), peo-
pie of more than fifty countries will
successfully join in chorus of pray
er and praise, uttering the same pray
ers and singing the same hymns, in
FIFE, Umbundu, Norwegian, German,
French, Spanish, English, and many
other tongues, ending after forty
hours with late services on Lawrence
Island, close to the Arctic Circle, at
nearly $50 degrees West Longitude.
The Women's Interchurch Commit
tee have set the time for the local OBJ
servance at 2o'clock, and the place,
the Sunday School room of the
Church of the Brethren.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-02-13
VIRGINIA SCHOOL BOARD
MOVED TO ACCOMAC C.. III.

The Accomack County School Board
moved its quarters this week from
Parksley to Accomack C. H. and is
now occupying nice suite of rooms
on the first floor of the County Build
ing opposite the Peninsula Enterprise
office. The Board office was moved
to Parksley by Supt. ]. M. Shue in
September, 1925. Previous to that
time, Supt. G. G. Joynes and Herbert
Barnes, clerk of the board, had his
office at Accomac, where the meet
ings of the board were held.
The removal of the School Board
office to Accomac, locates practically
all of the county officials in the town.
The County Building houses the office
of the Deputy County Treasurer c..
T. Elmore, Commissioner of Reven-
ue, J. Chandler Taylor and S. l.. Ira
der, his deputy, County School Board,
all of whom have offices on the first
floor. On the second floor of the
building will be found the offices of
County Agent Marshall Clark and AS
sistant County Agent Fred Hall.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-02-13
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Zadok H. Truitt and Alice E., his
wife, from Carrie Belle Jones, real
estate containing 1.67 Acres, more or
less, in the Bird Elec. Dist. Considera-
ton, $40. &c.
Joseph Lynch from Carrie Belle
Jones, real estate containing 1 Acre
more or less, in the Bird Flee. Dist.
Consideration, $40. &c.
John White Clayton Purnell, Jr.,
and Isaac H, Crippen, Trustees of
The Young Mems Progressive Club
from Albert S. Erickson, real estate
in the Bird Elec. Dist, on the N. side
of the County Road leading from
Germantown to Trappe. Considera-
ton, SIS. &c.
Elsie Denston Pusey from Carl
Denston, Admin. c. t. a., farm con-
tanning 1882 Acres, more or less, on
the County Grad leading from Whit
enburg to Salisbury, near Mt. Olivet
Church. Consideration, $500.
Laura Ellen Pruitt from Merwin
p. Selby and wife, real estate in Cir
dletree, in the 9Th Elec. Dist. Con-
sideration, $40. &c.
Henry w. Heine from A. Fletcher
Sick and wife, and others, the follow
ing real estate in the 3rd Elec. Dist:
1. Farm containing 1636.75 Acres,
more or less, in Newport Neck; 2. the
Lane Lot" containing 8 Acres in
Newport Nee Consideration, $40. &c.
Albert S. Erickson from John
White and others, Trustees & c., real
estate containing 2.61 Acres, more or
less, in the 3rd Elec. Dist. Considera-
ton, SIS. &c.
Fred W. Beasley from The CONNER
cial Natl Bank of Snow Hill the cay
delotte Farm" in the End Elec. Dist,
Consideration, $40. &c.
Walter T. Onley Jr., from Jas. S.
Onley and wife, an undivided 1-2 in
terest in real estate containing 10 Ac-
res more or less, near Girdletree, on
the N. side of the County Road lead
ing from Girdletree to Taylor's Land
ing. Consideration, $40. &c.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-02-13
AUTO OWNERS SLOW
IN PURCHASING STAMPS

Many automobiles are still being
operated without the new Federal au-
to use tax stamp visible.
Federal officials, taking into con-
sideration the short time allowed be-
tween first day for sale of stamps
and February 2, when they had to be
displayed, have announced they will
not enforce the act for at least a
short while.
Number of registration tags issued
to County motorists compared with
stamps sold indicates that quite few
cars remain without the stamps.
Some of these may have changed
hands since tags were issued and may
no longer be operated from Baltimore
County; others may have been reduc-
ed to wreckage. But some can still
be seen on the streets without the
small green stamp.
Enforcement of the law remains a
Federal proposition, and not one for
County police. However, infractions
may be noted by peace officers and
the information forwarded to the De-
partment of Internal Revenue or
United States Attorney Bernard J.
Flynn.
A warrant would then be issued by
the United States Commissioner and
served by the United States Marshals
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-02-13
LEWES AMNESIA
VICTIM RETURNS HOME

i. Winfield Birmingham, 32-year
Old Lewes business man who disap-
peared suddenly while ON a visit to
the home Of his father-in-law, J. w.
Farmer, Linwood, Pa, last October
26, reappeared as suddenly at the
Farmer home.
Birmingham told his wife, who has
been staying with her father during
the months that she unsuccessfully
attempted to locate the missing man,
that ne had suffered from amnesia
and was unable to remember how or
why he left home so suddenly.
Mr.. Farmer said Sunday night that
Birmingham was thin and apparently
very nervous and that he would be
placed under the care of a physician.
He added that Birmingham did not
remember visiting any hospitals dur
ing the three months he was being
sought.
Farmer quoted Birmingham as say
ing that he "came to himself in Mo
bile, Ala, and did not know how he
got there or what had happened"
"He wandered to Corpus Christi,
Texas, before he realized his family
background and it was from there
that he wrote the letter to his wife
little more than one week ago." Mr..
Farmer said.
The letter was the first word Mrs.
Birmingham had received from her
husband since he left. She answered
the letter and after receiving it, Brit
tingham started for home.
He was reported missing October
26 when he left his father-in-law's
home to make a brief visit at the
home of relative in Chester. When
he did not return within several hours
police were notified.
A week later police found Drifting
hams automobile parked by the Ches-
ter railroad station.
Birmingham operated a dairy at
Lewes and was president of the Lewes
Rotary Club.