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Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-24

William Andrew Smith of Columbus o. mas mace housanos
during three years as frying po
his controls mixed when ne tries 10 make
landing 6-weeks-old William Major
Smith, Mchgans 1910 team completed more
than 80 missions in holds the Purple Heart Sill
Distinguished Flying Cross with tee
clusters and Air Medal with
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-24
CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

eretofore been indicated
Evening star., 1944-04-19

SAID IL WOulQ De the lnIallCTy 1OT
me or tanks or something and l
wouldn't have the chance to live
that I'd have If I could fight in an
airplane Not me-not the type
person I was. But, I said to them,
If I joined the Raj now I'd get
to be a pilot and when we came into
the war I could transfer over and
be a pilot in the United States
Army Air Force, college degree or
not.
Battle Of Piqua."
France fell and the battle of
Britain started, and I kept on fight
ing the battle of Piqua, Ohio, to
give myself chance for life in the
war that was coming down on all Of
us.
You'll see," told dad. "I1l
make my mark in this war If I can
fly in it,"
used the name and story of Capt.
Eddie Rickenbacker on dad to show
him what man could do and !
finally won the battle Of Piqua.
In September 1910, in the same
week I was supposed to go of to
Ohio State, dad drove me down
to Cleveland to enlist in the Raj.
In all the long drive he didn't say
much: he just sat there looking
like an unhappy little boy. Then
when got on an airliner to go OF
for training, mother tainted at the
airport. And a year later, after
had got my wings and came home
for my last overseas leave, mother
wouldn't get of the train that was
taking me away from her. She
wept and clung to her seat, and
they had to hold up the train until
dad finally led her OF.
SISTER Called Ne . Louse."
My sister Edith was very frank
with me. She told me what a
louise was to do what I had done
and I felt like a louise as the train
pulled me on past Ohio and to-
ward Canada. There was a taste
Of sorrow in my mouth all the way,
and sorrow lay in my eyes like
clouds so that everything on the
train and in the scenery there
looked strange. =
But I knew that what I was
doing was right. 1t was the only
thing and the best thing for me
to do.
When dad said good-by, he told
me, "Son, you're on your own now.
If you're in trouble just write to
me and I'll help you. Whatever it
is and wherever you are, I'll help"
I have thought of that often since
then. I have thought Of it over
Abbeville and Dieppe, over Berlin
Evening star., 1944-04-19
mrs. NJ M'Arfhur Freed
OF Drunk Driving by
Alexandra Court

Mrs. Bowman McCalla Macarthur,
80, of 1900 Connecticut avenue NV,
wife of nephew Of Gen. Douglas
Macarthur, was cleared of charges
OF driving while under the influence
Of liquor, but fined $40 on a charge
Of reckless driving by Judge James
r. Duncan in Alexandria Police
Court yesterday.
Mrs. MacArthur's car collided with
one driven by an Alexandria police
man March 20 at King and Pitt
streets less than an hour after she
had seen her husband of to Fort
George G. Meade following his in
duction into the Army.
Policemen Jack Varney, Jack
Rush and Robert Brenner testified
that Mrs. Macarthur was unsteady
on her feet and had alcohol on her
breath when she was brought to the
police station after the accident.
Mrs. Macarthur testified she had
had only one and q half cocktails
at about lis pm.-almost three
hours before the accidental the
home of her mother, Mrs. w. C..
|Littlef1eld, 416 South Fairfax street..
She said that she did not, have
anything to eat that day and had
taken several sedatives because she
was under treatment for a nervous
disorder and was upset as a result
|of her husbands induction.
DR.. Roy Case, Alexandria chiro-
practor, and the Rev. Norman
Roberts, both of whom were at the
station when Mr.. Macarthur left,
testified that Mrs. Macarthur ap-
peared sober at the time.
Her physician, DR.. Hill Carter,
2121 LIE Roy place NV, told Judge
Duncan that the symptoms de-
|scribed by police could have been
the result Of the sedatives and that
the effect of liquor taken at Ills
pm. could not possibly have been
obvious" at the time of the acci-
dent.
Evening star., 1944-04-19
u. ). Submarines Sink
IS More Jap Ships
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
American submarines whiting at
japanese sea communications have
sunk Is more enemy ships, the Navy
announced yesterday, to run the
total to 682 sunk, probably sunk or
damaged. The number definitely
sunk is 532.
A medium sized naval repair ship
and three tankers, important to the
enemy's fleet, were included in the
newest sinkings. The other ships
included seven medium sized cargo
vessels, two medium sized cargo
passenger vessels, a small cargo ship
and a small cargo-passenger ship.
The Navy did not disclose the
area where the ships were sunk
except to say it was in "the Pa
cific and Far East"
Evening star., 1944-04-19
ISuing Actress
lLkensyWe to
Jungle Antics
By the Associated Press.

LOS ANGELES, April 1s.-Actress
Florida Edwards, suing the Holly
wood Canteen for injuries allegedly
received when a jive-dancing serv-
iceman sent her into spin, COM
mented in court yesterday you Just
cant stand still with a jitterbug." !"
Asked by canteen attorney why
she didn't stand still when the serv-
iceman assertedly insisted on Utter
bugging with her, she replied:
"Jitterbugging reminds me of the
antics of jungle natives. It's the
most ungraceful dance I have ever
seen.
when he insisted on jitterbug-
|ging I yelled for help, but no one
paid any attention. Jitterbugs are
always screaming anyway"
DO they drink" asked Superior
Judge Henry M. Willis.
mo, they're usually SOBER" she
responded. They're just crazy"
Testimony in the case, in which
Miss Edwards asks $17,500 damages,
has not been completed.
Evening star., 1944-04-19
BY CAPT. DON S. GENTLE,
As Told to Ira Wolfert.

AN 9th AIR FORCE FIGHTER
BASE, England, April 19 (By Wire
less) My father and mother and
I worked it out together. They
wanted me to go to college, and !
wanted to go to college and get
ahead and make something Of my
self. But I told them this is the
kind of fellow I am: It's airplanes
Ior nothing for me. Anywhere else
I'd be a round peg in a square
hole for the rest of my life. Put
me in an airplane and I know am
sure I can make something of my
self.
Dad saw that. Mother did, too.
guess, although she wouldn't ad-
NIT it. She never understood why
anybody wanted to fly and when
it came to the flesh-her f1esh-she
was more than puzzled. She was
frightened She was like a her
which had Matched out a strange
bird.
told them we were going te
get into the war soon and that II
be drafted. I'd never be allowed te
finish college. I applied for ad.
mission to Ohio State, but that wa.
just to make my folks happy while
the argument went on. Withou
a college degree, 1 told them,
couldn't fly for the United State.
Army. When they drafted me,
Evening star., 1944-04-19
Pearson, Dartmouth Athlete,
Missinq in Action in Pacific
PIone Dives in Seq
During Attack OFF
PuIuu Islands
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HANOVER, N. H., April 19.-Lt
q. g. Charles Pearson, Dartmouth
College Phi Beta Kappa football and
basketball captain in 1912, has
been reported missing in action in
the South Pacific.
Dartmouth officials said his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred c. Pear
son of Madison, Mimi, were notified
several days ago that the Hellcat
fighter plane pilot had crashed into
the water. T.
Details of the crash and Of the
young flyers interest in newspaper
work were reported by Associated
Press War Correspondent William L
Worden. Mr.. Worden wrote that 1t
Pearson finally worked up nerve
enough" to show him samples of 8
column he was sending periodically
to small newspapers in his home
Estate.
Mr.. Worden said 1t. Pearson
planned to continue writing for the
small home State newspapers and
then after the war he wanted to
go to Yale Law School. He also
mentioned a girl he'd met while on
the Dartmouth teams.
I'm pretty sure she's the one,
he said.
On March 80, Mr.. Worden wrote
1t. Pearson was in a group of planes
Evening star., 1944-04-19
|U-Boat Skipper Who
Shot Self Captured
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A U-boat skipper who shot him
self when a British bomber sank
his craft is a prisoner of the United
States Navy.
An American aircraft carrier task
group picked up the undersea boat
commander and those of his crew
who escaped.
The Navy said yesterday that the
incident occurred recently" in the
vicinity Of the Azores.
A wellington bomber of the Raj
coastal command sighted the U-boat
cruising on the surface. In an ex-
change of fire, the subs cannon
destroyed the rear turret of the
plane, wounding the gunner.
A few minutes after the sub went
down, the task group, composed Of
World War destroyers and an escort
aircraft carrier. picked up the sur
vlvorS.
The Nazi captain said that he
wounded himself "in a moment of
depression"
Evening star., 1944-04-19
Allied Troops Repu|se
-Four Raids Against
One Anzio Position
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
Naples, April 19.-Allied troops
yesterday repulsed four raids
against one position on the Anzio
beachhead, infiicting heavy losses
on the enemy, headquarters an
nounced today.
Allied patrols and artillery were
active. along the entire Italian front,
communique said. with artillery
destroying an ammunition dump.
The bulletin declared bad weather
and poor visibility curtailed all
major air operations yesterday, but
Allied fighter -bombers and fighters
flew nearly 1000 sorties, striking at
German planes aground in Northern
Italy and hitting at Nazi COM
munications as we'll as patrolling
the battlefront.
Nine Nazi Planes Destroyed.
Nine enemy planes were destroyed
in combat. Eight Allied craft failed
to return.
Front dispatches said Allied gun
ners broke up two attacks southwest
Of Carroceto, 81 miles below Rome,
after the Germans launched diver
sionary thrusts in the western sector
of the beachhead and after heavy
enemy traffic was observed moving
toward Cisterna and also into Rome
from the northeast.
The traffic flowing into Cisterna,
important hub astride the Appian
Way and a railway feeding Axis
forces on the main front, came from
Artena and Velletri north of the
beachhead. Significance of the
movement. first observed Sunday
night, was not Immediately deter
mined.
Ten prisoners were seized yester-
day by Allied raiders on the right
flank of the beachhead.
Enemy Fighters Appear.
Pilots who raked Nazi communi-
cations said German fighters ap.
peared in some strength for the
first time in many days. One air.
man had to fight off 10 Messer.
schmitts for SO miles after bombing
railway and freight cars north o1
Rome.
Six German fighters were shot
down when long-range fighters flew
a sweep over an airfleld in the Udine
area of Northeast Italy.
Allied gunners in the Garigliane
Valley sector of the main 5th Army
front destroyed an ammunition
dump northeast of SAINT Ambrogie
and German mortars continued K
pound the ruins of Casino.
Evening star., 1944-04-19
Liberators Knock 0uI
Jan Base $50 Miles
Southeast Of Truk
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific, April 19.-
One more airdrome in the de-
fense ring around Truk in the
Caroline Islands was useless to
the Japanese today.
1t was the airstrip on Satawan
Island in the Nomoi Atoll, about $50
statute miles southeast of Truk.
Satawan's airdrome was neutraliZed
by a 34-ton bombing at noon Sum
day, and the force of four r-engined
Liberators encountered neither
aerial opposition nor antiaircraft
fire. Bivouac areas also were hit.
A spokesman for Gen. Douglas
Macarthur said today the attack
was made in force, and the weight
of explosives carried was sizable in
view of the 2,000-mile round-trip
overwater flight from Solomons
bases.
Rabaul Bombed Again.
Satawan was bombed just once
before by two Liberators on April 10.
Allied airmen continued the pres
sure on the Japanese along the
bomb-pocked north coast of New
Guinea and gave Rabaul, the en-
emy's fast-crumbling base at the
northeast tip o. New Britain, bad
mauling.
Patrol bombers strafed the Aitape
sector of the New Guinea coast
destroying supply dumps and build
ings. They sank two Japanese sup
ply luggers and damaged a 1000
ton freighter.
Nine Barges Strafed.
Rabaul was hammered by 125 tons
of bombs, unloaded by more than
$50 Solomons-based bombers which
concentrated on airdrome runways
gun positions, supply dumps and
buildings. There was no mention OF
opposition. Nine barges were strafed
in the Wide Bay area nearby.
Far to the west, Liberators tore
up the airdrome and supply areas
at Faan in the Kai Islands with
81 tons of bombs, and in the Mapia
Islands patrol bomber shot down
a japanese four-engined flying boat
The Kai Islands are between Timor
and New Guinea and the Mapia
Islands are north of the New Guinea
turkey neck"
Later, but still incomplete, tabula-
tions Of the Sunday raid on Hol-
landia raised to 296 the tonnage of
bombs dropped on that North New
Guinea base which has been the
target of more than 1,400 tons this
month.
Evening star., 1944-04-19
Emil hurja Predicts COP
Sweep Before '7S Club
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Emil Hurja, former executive di-
rector of the Democratic National
Committee, was quoted last night by
members of the Republican "7a
Club" as predicting a Republican
victory in the November presiden-
tial election.
Mr.. Hurja, an executive of Path
finder Magazine, addressed a closed
meeting of the club comprised ot
|65 first-term Republican Repre-
sentatives of the Seventy eighth
Congress.
Members said that Mr.. Hurja told
them 'The trend Is definitely Re-
publican" and that he anticipated
la COP sweep this fall. Mr.. Hurja
served as executive director of the
Democratic committee in 1926.
Evening star., 1944-04-19

and q lot OF other foreign places.
I once sat all night all by myself
in our squadron's quarters, where I
was the only survivor out Of the
whole squadron, and I thought of
what dad had said. But I always
wrote him that everything was
going fine.
Have to Learn in Combat.
Making a fighter pilot is q. long
business. My instructors had worked
hard back home and when I was
graduated I was graded better
than average pilot" But flying an
airplane is only a part of the fight
ing with one, and most Of the other
part a man has to learn in actual
combat. He has to learn from his
his fellow soldiers and from the
enemy.
I was lucky enough to get at
tached to the Eagle Squadron, where
some Of the finest fighter pilots
who ever lived were working-lucky
enough to get into the war at q
time when man could afford to
be cautious about learning and feel
his way and not just have to throw
himself against the enemy and try
to clout him down blindly.
learned q lot from the enemy
too. In the beginning we were up
against Goering's Abbeville kids
those yellow-nosed Focke- -Wulf vet
eran big-timers. There were not
many better teachers of attack
and defense than those killers. and
Of those who were better teachers
quite a few were in the Eagle
Squadron.
There are two things q fighter
pilot must have to do his work In
combat and that he can't really
acquire anywhere else except In
combat-confidence in his ability
to kill and confidence in his ability
to get away when in trouble. ,sa
If you feel you can kill and feel
they can't kill you, then you'll have
the offensive spirit. Without that
offensive spirit-ability to lunge
instantaneously and automatically
like a fighting cock at the enemy
the instant you spot him-you are
lost. You either "go along for the
ride" as we call it when a fellow
hangs back and doesn't make kills,
or eventually you get shot down.
know because 1t took me quite
a long time to build up confidence
In myself that I thought I had when
I left home, and there was quite a
long time when I went along just
for the ride.
| (To Be Continued.)
| (Copy right. 1914, By the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1944-04-19
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Evening star., 1944-04-19
.WCTU Head Luuds Ban
On Liquor Gift to Bong
By the Associated Press.

6y the ASSOCIATED Press.
EVANSTON, ILL.,, April ls.-Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's refusal to per-
init Maj. Richard I. Bong, Americas
combat ace, to accept . case Of
Scotch whisky as reward for
shooting down n Jap planes, is
gratifying" says the Women's
Christian Temperance Union.
Lauding Gen. Macarthur for his
ruling, Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith,
national WCTU president, said "this
Is one of the few times when q mill
tAry leader has become . moral
leader" She said 1t was q bold
challenge to other military leaders
who should realize that 1t keynotes
the handling Of the entire liquor
problem as far as servicemen are
concerned"
Evening star., 1944-04-19
|EIIender Says He'll
|FiIibusier rs Hours
To Keep Poll Tax
~ the Associated Press.

~ Inc ASsociAted freSs.
Senator Ellender, Democrat, Of
Louisiana was practically hidden to-
day behind his secret weapon"
against q pending antipoll tax bill.
Discovered behind q stack Of docu-
ments on his desk, the Southern
champion Of States rights explained
the reading matter was 'Ammuni-
ton" for . hlibuster. Pressed for
details, he said:
There are 413 pages In the four
sections and in al they run l82.55o
words"
The comment, some speech"
seemed inadequate In the circum-
stances.
Speech, nothing" Senator Ellen
der said. Those are just the histor-
ical quotes I'm going to use" He
said he probably would speak about
125 hours.
Although his own State does not
have poll tax, Senator Ellender
made 1t clear that as long as his
voice holds out there will be no leg.
islating away the right Of eight 9th.
er Southern States to impose such
q levy.
Proponents Of q house-approved
measure designed to do just that
say they are going to call 1t up with
in the next week or two despite the
lack Of q two-thirds majority with
which to invoke cloture rule Linz
iting debate.
Il figure these quotes, extracts
from Colonial history, debates dur
ing the constitutional convention
and other historical matter viii re-
quire So hours running time to
read" Senator Ellender said.
il "Of course" he mused, my speech
will be added to that ."
ut will all be very educational
for the Senate"
Evening star., 1944-04-19
M. P. ShIesinger Resigns
Post at Lunsburqh's

Milton p, Shlesinger, treasurer
and controller Of Lansburgh a. Bro.
for the last six years, resigned this
week, Ralph L. Goldsmith, vice
president and general manager Of
the department store, announced to-
day.
Bernard H. Foustman Of Balti-
more was elected treasurer to sue
coed Mr.. Shlednger. Mr.. Foustman
has been q member OF Lansburgh's
Board of Directors for some time.
Evening star., 1944-04-19

attacking Japanese cruiser OF the
Palau Islands.
Pearson was diving" said a
squadron mate. When he was about
thousand feet of the water, the
plane shuddered violently. It kept on
diving. and then turned completely
over just before it struck at full
speed.
II circled around, but the only
thing that came UP was a life raft.
The raft never was opened.n
Evening star., 1944-04-19
james McCIymont. 66. Dies

NEW YORK, April 10 (R.-James
McClymont. 66, former president of
the H. 81 w. B. Drew Co., Jackson
vile, Fla, publishers, and for many
years resident OF Plainfield. N. j.
died here Monday.
Evening star., 1944-04-19
Improved He||diver,
Now in Production,
Put Through PAGES
BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY.
Star staff Correspondent.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 1s.-
Packing a greater wallop than it's
predecessor, which sent the Japs
reeling when they felt its first blast
at Rabaul, the Navy disclosed today,
is the improved Helldiver carrier
based bomber now coming of the
assembly lines of the Curtiss- Wright
Corp. here.
The plane is technically known as
the SB-2 C-3, ready to go to the
fleet to supplant the SB-2 C-1,
which, since its debut at Rabaul.
has been so successful in destroying
ships and land installations in the
Central and South Pacific.
The principal improvements are a
more powerful Wright cyclone air
cooled radial engine, and a Curtiss
electric constant-speed, full-feath-
ering, four-bladed propeller. The
latter replaces the three -bladed pro-
peuor of it's predecessor. While the
power rating of the new engine is
still a naval secret, officials pointed
out that the first engine was rated
at 1,700 horsepower.
The improvements, it was ex-
planned, will give the new aircraft
an increased rate of climb as well
as greater straightaway speed. The
improved craft were demonstrated
to Washington newsmen yesterday
when the new planes were put
through their PAGES by test pilots
Improvements Continue.
Improvements constantly are be-
ing made, even as the planes pro-
ceed along the assembly line, ac-
cording to Capt. j. w. C. Brand,
U. S. n, in charge of the Nays
activities at the plant.
The ship already has set a new
high level in dive-bombing efii-
cheney among the navies of the
world, because it has more range,
climbs faster and has a higher cell
ing than anything in existence,
Navy spokesmen said.
The assembly line methods de-
veloped at this new plant, built
only few months ago on farmland
outside the city, are declared to be
one answer to the vast striking
power required by the naval air
forces in thrusts in the Central and
South Pacific.
The production rate has seen
Navy acceptances of the craft in
creased 700 per cent for the first
three months of 1914 over a similar
period of year ago. Standing on a
catwalk in the center of the vast
plant one sees metal gradually
growing into fuselages and wings,
the engine installed and finally the
finished plane.
Labor Trouble Reported.
Yankee ingenuity has developed
the system of turning out these
planes and they can be kept rolling
to the front II the human element
keeps up.
But labor troubles have developed
and last night were unsettled. One
hundred and nineteen employees on
one shift walked out, seeking to en-
force a demand for two 10-minute
smoking periods a day.
Officials say the dispute is not
supported by the union and thai
the employees involved have beer
dismissed. Men and women were
distributing handbills at the plan
gates yesterday urging the shift
going of duty to join the walkout
Ohicials say discharge of the II!
employees has not slowed production
Barring serious labor troubles, th'
Navy may expect these aerial hay.
makers to be delivered in increasint
numbers.
Evening star., 1944-04-19
Congress in Brief

BY the Associated Press.
Senate:
In recess until Friday.
House:
Seeks vote on one-year extension
of lease lend program.
Evening star., 1944-04-19

$4,000 Washington men and women
are fighting for freedom. $4,000
reasons for buying bonds!
Evening star., 1944-04-19
Gentle Confident From Start That He Would
Make Good in Air; Feared Ground Fighting

Capt. Don S. Gentle, Piqua
(Ohio) 9Th Air Force flyer, 1Dho
has destroyed 80 German planes
in the air and on the ground,
tells the story OF air warfare in
the European theater. (Fourth
OF a series.)
Evening star., 1944-04-19
PimIico Entries

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