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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11

pilot to Radio calls Captain
Skiles over the interphones.
Radio answering Pilot. Go
ahead answers Sergeant Boudria.
Get the emergency rations out
says Skiles, and the jungle kits,
and set them by the door.
"'Okay, SIR answers Boudria.
Pilot to Navigator calls Skjles.
Navigator answering Pilot. Go
ahead
"'You and the bombardier come
up says Skiles, go back to the tail
end of the ship, stand by the rear
door, and await a crash landing
You see the nose is usually the
first thing to go in crash, and the
two of us were right down in the
compartment under him.
Pilot to Tail Gunner, calls
Skiles.
"'Tail Gunner answering. Go
ahead
"'Get out of the tail turret, come
forward, stand with the rest of the
men by the rear door, Then Skiles
instructed one man in that rear
compartment to stay on the inter-
phones. He wanted to be able to
warn them just before the crash
came, down into those jungle trees,
so they could brace themselves.
"But suddenly the horizon lifted a
little, and ahead just over the hori-
zon was glow. 1t had to be Belem.
Tell everyone to relax!' hollers
Skies over the interphones. BY the
grace of God and a few landing
lights, we can make it!' How old
Skiles in that fog had managed to
smell his way into Belem, we never
knew. We told him he was part
bird dog. 'Ts:gs 's
"They'd given us up at Belem,
but when they heard us circling up
in the fog they went down the field
in a truck, throwing out lighted flare
pots to mark the runway. Our gas
was SO low that before the ship
was parked the No. engine cut out.
"Next morning we were off for
Natal, and landed there at one
o'clock. We were gassing up and
the crew chief was supervising the
loading-the natives rolling out the
steel drums, and the crew chief un-
screwing their tops to hurry it up
when he happened to stick his finger
into one that seemed a little heavy
and, by George, it was full of wa
ter! The barrel looked like any other
barrel, the native looked like any
other native. Of course it was sabo.
tage, but what could you dol Brazil
wasn't in the war yet. Somebody
hoped that one drum of water would
have brought us down with sputter.
ing motors out in the Atlantic.
I'VE took off for Freetown, Africa,
at ten o'clock. It was an eleven
hour flight. We stayed with the
British there and got along with
them fine. It was a fighter sta
tion. They gave us nice feed and
all the warm beer we could drink
it was New Years Eve.
"Then we started across Africa,
and finally sighted the Nile, and
ate dinner at the British sergeants'
mess at Khartoum.
1.-THE next day we sighted the Pyr-
amids and dronped down to fly be
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11
Mol~]
DeAoAaI

Mistress Maryland how does your
garden grow :. and Mistress Mary
will have to do most of the garden
ing this year and also she'll
have to pinch-hit and drive tractors
on the farm with manpower at the
vanishing stage .and speaking of
gardens some of the old timers were
really expert at coaxing crops out
of the ground /. like Bill Lewis
gone these many years-but we
remember his garden at Lawn and
Vine street as beautiful to behold
and speaking of old timers we
overheard Dode Murray reminiscing
the other day way back when he
earned all of ten cents an hour 60
years ago hauling wheelbarrow loads
of bricks to the masons who built
the Simon Herr block now occupied
by the Basingers furniture store
and dental office . s. and we are
again asking our good friends who
contribute to this column not to for
get to sign their communications
we'll withhold your name if you SO
desire fact is that we have been
obliged to discard some good items
because of this oversight sorry
to have to ask you to do this but
it's one of the things the chief in
sists on-and since in an unguarded
moment he put US on the payroll
we're sticking to it like a fly sticks
to tanglefoot =. surprising isn't il
how quickly one gets attached to q
payroll.
Heard the other day of a Blufftor
youth who was elated with the
prospect of seeing the world-wher
he was drafted by the navy g
year ago. Thus far, he has beer
kept in an inland city at an office
job seeing nothing but the same foul
walls every day. He says the near
est he mas ever been to salt water
was once when he had to gargle fol
a sore throat.
All of which reminds us of /;
snatch of the poem in the old Nc
Guffey's reader that swords sticl
to hands that sought the plow, etc
And speaking of McGuffey'
readers, John Carts in Orange town
ship has a complete set of them
the first to the sixth-and what
more they're in good condition. Nov
don't rush out to Johns place ant
try to buy them as John says they'r
definitely not for sale.
It's off the record--but there's tai
of building in Buttons busines
district after the war is over-o
possibly even sooner if materials ar
available. You can't get confirma
ton of it. but it's fact never
theless It's not too much t
say, however, that business interest
with money to invest like Bluffton'
prospects for participating in tn
anticipated postwar boom. Bluffto
looks mighty good as bigger an
better trading center with all tn
advantages of modern city-goo
schools, college, modern post office
hospital, diversified industries, ra
and highway facilities, abundan
electric power, good hunting an
fishing and right in the midst of on
of the best agricultural regions Q
the middle west. These are som
of the advantages that attract In
vesting capital. Of course there
that skeleton in the closet-the sewe
situation that we don't like t
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11

then we headed for a cloud. But
Major Robinson, the leader, came
back with his fight for a second
pass, and picked off another trans
port. Then we headed for home.
Every Fort got back, and we'd
picked off seven Zeros. For days
the damned fools kept up those tail
attacks, and it was the same old
grind-we'd average four Zeros q
mission.
"They tell it that one day FIVE
Zeros are sitting under cloud when
we come by. Four of them 60 in for
tail attacks and are shot into con-
fetti, so .he fifth is smart-he goes
home with the news. But for 4
while there it was q tail-gunner's
heaven"
"You never forget your first battle
mission" said the Bombardier,
"only ! Of course had a bomb-sight
angle on the whole picture.
"Just before we took off Major
Robinson called all pilots, bombar-
diers, radiomen, and navigators into
the hangar room for a critique. He
had new idea.
"My plane is to be in his flight.
When we make our pass over the
| target, my navigator is to watch
Robinson's bomb doors, and when
Robinson's bombs appear, then he
releases four of mine, l meanwhile
sighting the target. Then the planes
behind me release when I do. In
this way We'll make a wide pat
tern, and get away from the target
faster than by making double run.
"We have clear weather, climbing
| for our altitude through few scat
tered clouds, and thirty minutes
away from the target we reach 30,-
600 feet and then level off, follow
ing the Borneo shore line Of Ma
CAESAR Strait. We're all at battle
stations, fiddling with my bomb
sight. Presently we hear the top
turret gunner over the interphone.
'Planes!' he's calling. 'Forma-
ton of planes, right rear, high!'
They were coming down at us from
$4,000 or $4,000 feet, but from the
navigator's compartment ! couldn't
see them yet.
"Then they peeled off for the at
tack, concentrating on Robinson's s
plane. / could hear the gunners
calling these plays over the inter-
| phones-couldn't see the Zeros my
self yet, but / could see their trac-
ers going into the tail of Robinson's 8
plane. Then we turned in on. our
bomb run, and I'd catch glimpses
of the Zeros as they overshot Rob-
inson, some of them coming fifty
feet from his plane.
'But I'm busy on my bombing
run. I've picked my first live tar
get, a row of three transports,
broadside to our line of fight. Ev-
erything else seems to be going
smoothly. I can hear Charlie Britt
on the top turret guns, hammering
away at Zeros, and I cuss him a
little because it shakes my bomb
sight.
fNow we're on the run, coming
In on the target, and I've set my
drift in the sight, plus our true alti.
tude and true air speed, SO | car
put those cross hairs on the target.
''Now the pilot and I switch oul
earphones over to command, so we
can listen to any orders Major Rob.
inson wants to give from his lead
plane, while the copilot stays on the
interphones, SO he can pick up what
our gunners are doing.
"And in minute l hear it. Ma.
jor Robinson is calling.
Robinson to Flight. I've beer
badly hit in the tail-having trouble
holding the nose of my plane down
I'm turning the formation.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11

Preserved olives have been found
among buried stores in the city OF
Pompeii which was destroyed by an
eruption of Mount Vesuvius occur.
ring in the year A. D. 70.
Evening star., 1944-07-26
Streams Of Supplies
Move Smoothly Into
France Via Beaches
by WALTER McCALLUM,
Star War CORRESPONDENT.

SOMEWHERE IN NORMANDY
Things are quieting down on the
beach nowadays. While there is still
4 steady stream of guns and vehicles
and men across the beaches of Nor
mandy toward the fighting fronts
there isn't the hectic rush there was
In the first few days Of the invasion
when the vital necessity was time
and stun enough to push back the
German Immediately.
The foxholes are there, just as
they were dug In the first few days
and they are being used now just as
then. The ack-ack gunners have
their guns set up all over the place
and delight In knocking down any
Jerry plane that comes overhead, but
there isn't the atmosphere Of get
1t there and quick" there was for the
nrst few days. Things have
smoothed out and the steady stream
Of stun goes back to the front with
out hindrance or holdup.
Those ack-ack gunners are pretty
wonderful. The first day or two
Jerry used to come over every night
Che didn't attempt much in the day.
but he was greeted by so rough q
reception he takes 1t easy nowadays,
what with the barrage balloons and
the ack-ack. One antiaircraft out
Evening star., 1944-07-26

Ifit Knocked out IA German plane.
In Is days. I hardly thought Je-r,
had sent that many over, but wher
YOU see the fireworks streaming ur
at night, and you cover a little
deeper In your foxhole and you keer
the overhanging lip In the direction
Of the planes. you realize that Jerry
sends over q few once In q while-tt
the death Of many of them.
POWs Moved Quickly.
The best sight of all is the way
the prisoner of war pens up near
Cherbourg are being cleared out
and how the POWs are beine
shipped away-to England or some
where else. We took q lot OF pris-
oners when Cherbours fell, around
10000. They all had to be evacuated
somewhere, those that weren't be-
Ing kept to dig graves or do other
things. Many Of them were sent to
= big POW camp few miles south
where they lived in the open for a
few days, after which the Army
furnished them pup tents.
Daily the big trucks moved them
south and east toward the beaches
Most of them are elsewhere now
I'll never forget the thrill got on
D-day when I saw pit back of the
concrete seawall along the beach
full of prisoners and later on saw
q long file Of them being marched
along the sandy road across the
marshes back to the beach. They
had their hands in the air, almost
all Of them. Some had lost their
pants, and all were pretty crest
fallen. They mean," I said to
myself. that Germans do surrender
in droves, and that they don't like
to die more than any one else" But
the prisoners pen along the beach
holds only few now, remnants of
the Cherbourg job, and a few COM
ing from west and south, where the
fighting noE goes on.
The barrage balloons swing lazily
and the gunners stand at post, and
the men still sleep in Jerry con-
crete blockhouses, but the rush is
over. Now 1t is systematic, methodi-
cal and mechanical-the crossing OF
the beach and its approaches from
the land side. The 88s don't snipe
any more, and the machine guns
don't chatter. 1t Is very quiet COM
pared with those first few days, Just
like production line in a busy fac
tory.
Air Mastery Did It.
They were thrilling days. those
first few, and I'll not forget how
wondered how we ever cracked the
beach defenses, just as I've won-
dered many times how we cracked
the defenses of Cherbourg. 1t proves
again that a planned offense which
clicks, combined with absolute
mastery of the air over any given
point. can crack any position, nc
matter how strong, even on such
a hazardous operation as a beach.
head landing.
There wasn't much time, those
first few days. Carentan, eastern
anchor Of the Allied line. had to be
taken and quickly, to permit the
4th. 10th and 9th American Divi-
sions to move at once on Cher
bourg. The beacnhead was estab-
lished, but in the rush to get the
stun up to the fighting men at the
front there wasn't much order
Time was the essential commodity
Evening star., 1944-07-26

The divisions mentioned did q
wonderful Job, but they couldn't t
have done that Job without the air.
borne outfits. the l01st and 82d,
which went in ahead Of them, and
paved the way. Carentan was taken
and held by the 10lst, and st. Mere
Eglise by the s2d. along with the
country west, which permitted the
American breakthrough west to the
sea at Barneville, and cutting of Of
the peninsula.
In Chcrbourg the French told me
Evening star., 1944-07-26

how the high ranking Germans who
did not have specific defense COM
mands, piled their women and liquor
in automobiles on Delay, and moved
on east. at high speed. toward Paris.
A few days later and they could not
have been evacuated, except by sea,
and the Allies controlled the sea.
AN this came about because the
beachhead functioned Is it did,
without much apparent order. but
with maximum speed and produc-
ton. It was q miracle, first to
Evening star., 1944-07-26

crack the beachhead, and then 10
get the stun ACROSS the marsh and
into the lines 70 quickly. It was
q miracle Of American organiza-
ton, the get It done at-all-costs
spirit. I fiew over 1t the other
day. The mass Of shifts there
on D-day aren't there any more.
Evening star., 1944-07-26

Far out IN the CHANNEL . convoy
moved toward England. But the
beachh1ad continues to function.
Even after Cherbourg Is cleared Of
the last mine and BOBBY trap and
functions as . great port again, the
beachhead viii be used for similar
stun.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-09

WRIGHT FIELD, DAYTON
O. July S CUPl-America has
nothing 70 fear from Hitler $
cretweapons because the United
States has its own secret weapons,
including robot planes. that are
far in advance Of anything the
enemy has disclosed" Mai. Gen.
Bennett + Meyers. commanding
general Of the AAR Materiel Com
mand. SAID today -.
Meyers told approximately III
newsnapermen visiting the ma
terrell command under the auspices
OF the eastern procurement dis
trict that we have our own secret
weapons and materiel command
EXPERTS are constantly al work
on new inventions. new planes AND
new equipment.
II know there ~ no question
~ to the superiority Of our
EQUIPMENT" he said. Although
sometimes people ASK Ms why
Ne don't have certain weapons
when the enemy has them. many
times we do have them. hut we
can't tell every one about II.
We've had robot planes, for
instance. We've been working
ON them for years. But the robot
plane j. frantic, desperate eff
fort ON the part of the NaZis.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-09
Picnic for Aged
AT Isle tuesday

Forty Of Detroit's triendless
aged will be entertained a. a
Belle Isle picnic Tuesday by the
Tribute Fund Committee al the
Detroit Community Fund.
The program Will start Al IL
n. m. on the lagoon opposite inc
coast guard station and viii con-
tinue until 2:30 p. m, featuring
dancing and community singing.
The Tribute Fund was eStah-
hshed 10 provide pleasure and
comforts for Handicapped or deS-
tituie DetrolterS
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-09
Farmer on Probation
For NegIetting Stock

LANSING, July S-Ray Will
liams. Lansing Township farmer,
was free on six months probation
today after pleading guilty to neg
lecting his livestock.
Williams told state police Off
GERS that he didn't have time 10
care for the stock because l am
working at a local war plant"
The court ordered the farmer 10
make immediate arrangements 70
care for the animals or sell them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-09
!. Reveals u. S. Robot Planes

They're strictly . defensive
weapon and we don't need them
now.
when and n the time comes
20 use them, we've got them.
But our whole concept of bomb
ing IL precision bombing"
MEYERS disclosed that the United
States was experimenting with
robot planes in 1918. When the
japanese struck at Pearl Harbor,
the materiel command and avia-
ton industry experts were test
flying a robot plane at a Cali
fornla test base.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-09

CHEBOYGAN, July S tUPl--
The war department has notified
the relatives of Pvt. J. Nacanshe
Brutus, Of his death IN France
June 6. He took part in the first
wave of the Normandy invasion.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-09

N on i nhammable
d e h y drate d type
cleaner.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-09

POLITICAL ADVERTIsFNENT
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-09

,nlITICAL ADVERTIsEMENT
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-09
State Soldier Killed

-soldier, Buy War Bonds 7
Evening star., 1944-06-02
Uncle Ruy's Corner

Early in the year 1854, Commo-
dore Matthew Perry returned to
Japan. This time he had a feet
of six vessels.
With bands playing American mu-
sic, Perry and 500 of his men
marched to Treaty House in Yoko-
hama. Three weeks were spent in
meetings on shore while the treaty
was being worked out and written
down.
During those weeks, the commo-
dore gave Japanese officials a num-
Der OF presents, which he had
brought for them. His gifts includ-
ed clocks, two telegraph instru-
ments, three lifeboats and, most
important of all, a small railway
train with tracks. The tracks were
laid, and on them were placed the
little locomotive with it's tender and
single coach.
Even a f1ve-year-old boy would
have had trouble squeezing inside
the coach, but a full-groWn Japa-
nese could sit on it's roof and have
ride. A fire was lighted to get up
steam and soon the locomotive was
chugging around the track, which
had been laid in a circle. The train
made speed as great as 20 miles
an hour and supplied free rides to
Japanese officials, one at time.
At last the treaty was signed and
sealed. The American visitors were
given presents such as dolls, baskets
and umbrellas, along with 200 sacks
OF rice and 300 chickens.
The treaty provided that Japan
would allow trading at two of her
seaports. The Japanese also prom
ised good treatment to Americans
who might be shipwrecked in the
area.
In April Perry sailed away from
Japan. He had opened the door OF
trade with the people of the island
empire. Later the Japanese started
to trade with other nations besides
the United States.
The Japanese were to learn many
things about the western world. and
were to make their country up-to-
date by using inventions from
abroad. They also were to learn
about the methods Of warfare fol-
lowed by white men, and were tc
initiate them. In less than a cen.
tury they were to make war and te
Evening star., 1944-06-02
Winning Contract

Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.
Bridge SwindIe No. 200
South dealer.
North-South vulnerable.
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= 10 983
Ksss A1o7s
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8 10 S -
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= A X Q5
The bidding:
South West North East
- IA 20 Pass
3NT Pass Pass Pass
Both deception and care may be
neeoed 10 bring a simple-looking
contract home. West led the spade
six against three no-trump, and
South began his plan of play by
false carding. winning East's 10 with
the queen.
The diamond king was next led
and when the 10 fell South sus-
pected the worst. He shifted to the
heart queen. West feared to pass it.
but when his king won he saw no
good lead, for his partners heart
three was hardly encouraging. So
West returned a spade and South
now had nine top tricks even with
out the hearts.
Had West ducked the heart he
would have been equally as badly
on. His best play was an immedi-
ated heart return, but South had
so deceived him that he did not
know it.
Yesterday you were Oswald Ja-
icnhy'S r,ortnor u,;fI hath r{a.. .,.,,
Evening star., 1944-06-02

One of Wingates aides. Capt. Aung Thin an oxford
educated Burmese acted the brigaders spokesman
these occasions He usually received friendly response
although the villagers had been warned against assisting
the British on pain of death and wholesale reprsal They
had been promised rewards they killed prisoner
any members of the expedition.
1t was clear to Wngates men that the people of
Northern Burma were beginning to dislike their Jap
ters pretty heartily Then Capt Aung Thin had strange
experience when he entered a village alone
The British officer quickly surrounded by a band
OF villagers armed with sticks and dahs long Burmese
swords Villagers demanded ercely do you work for the
British or Japanese?" Continued Tomorrow
he'd by The Press
Evening star., 1944-06-02

One of the major objectives of the Wingate expedi
ton was to sound out feeling the Burmese enlist
their sympathies and strengthen their confidence
Allied victory.
japanese rule in Burma following the usual Axis
pattern Headmen were summoned once twice month
to Japanese headquarters and given their orders They
expected to provide labor to build bridges
and always to have hand enough chickens and
patrol of so
Periodically japanese patrols usually commanded by
noncommssioned officers, would check up each village
to that orders carried and extort
the form OF more food and labor When the MOO in
charge dissatisfied the head shot and the
Evening star., 1944-06-02

village burned down. The Japs knew other method
Wherever Wingate went. he heard the COM
plant mo salt, CLOTH doctors In village, the
brigader noticed vaccination marks mans and
asked who had done it. THAT done two years ago"
the man replied, "by the government" Burmese always
described the British thus.
AT every unoccupied village along the line of advance
Wingate paused long enough to broadcast manifesto and
would rid Burma of the "ferce scowling Japanese"
At many villages the leaders would take Wingate and
his party to the temple where gift of bananas been
laid out for them Wingate always returned the compli
ment by contributing bag rupees the temple
Evening star., 1944-06-02

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