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Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17
W. r. Hearst, Jr., Meets Flying Kid Heroes

cars and pitched the Bottom Tiger
tanks off on their sides.
The locomotives exploded In a
cloud of steam and one OF the
boxcars went up in a violent blast.
Six or eight flatcars and tanks
were set afire and left burning.
The squadron reported 10 to Il
Tiger tanks destroyed, 10 more
probably destroyed and damaged.
two locomotives and three box
cars probably destroyed and
one medium and several light flat
cars destroyed.
But all good things have TO
come TO an end some time and /
just had 10 get Paurs story and
the story of the mission back
over TO you--so of to the rear.
Capt. Carlos Maurice Talbot
of Charleston, H.. and | took off
In little front-end drive Peugot
in a drizzling rain.
Toto Talbot has an interest
ing story.
He was leading his squadron a
while back when they were
jumped by 20-odd ferries.
TAKE THEIR TURNS
AS l told you. a squadron of IL
planes fies in three flights of four
each.
When one flight is diYebombing,
the other two orbit around and
then come in one at a time.
Sometimes the third flight stays
little higher to act as protection
or top cover, as they call il.
That was the situation when
they were pounced on by the
ferries.
One flight was fairly high, one
was getting set 10 90 in and the
other was bombing.
To make things even Worse. they
saw, at another couple of thou
sand feet or SO above them, an
ether batch of 26 JerrteS, who IN
turn were acting as top cover
for their gang.
Generally there would be about
two things TO do in such cirCum-
stances.
One is to do battle with the
enemy that is after you and the
other is 10 get out of there.
A third and crazy thing is TO
break away and go after the top
cover ferries. This is exactly
what Talbot did, climbing up and
singlehandedly piling headlong
into this bunch on top!
Talbot. like all others. does
not talk much about it but you
can figure out for yourself what
kind of fight he got into.
However. by this unorthodox
scheme he got that top bunch loo
busy TO dive down on the rest Of
the boys, which ordinarily they
would have done, and when YOU
get 40 enemy planes against u
of ours some Of our boys are 60
ing TO get caught.
himself.
!Ealhottrgot a couple of
the ferries before they caught up
with him and shot blaZeS our of
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bis plane. but even so, somehow
or other he got out of their sight
finally and crash landed his ship.
Here again the infantry boys,
who had seen the whole thing,
just about made Talbot their
No. l pinup boy.
He was pretty well shot up,
though and came awfully close
10 getting it. For his heroic at
tack he was given official recog-
milton for saving his entire squad
ron.
These are the kind of men I
have been living with. IL makes
you awfully proud TO realize you
come from the same piece of soil.
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17
Air Force Takes Care of Own

After all, 36 isn't really very cid. But started
to tell you about kids not about myself.
They are billeted, at what was during occupa-
ton, an important air field in Belgium
air force mind you takes good care of itself
know boys and the RAE lads do not around sleeping
in slit trenches if they do not have
The barracks there modern and clean.
The building lived in with the Thunder9o squadron
about 100 feet long with corridor running right down
the center and rooms on both sides.
Halfway down was big washroom with half dozen
basins adjoining 1t avatory and adjoining that
room with bath tub and two showers.
Directly beneath cellar with a perfectly fine
furnace which not only heated the by of
radiators but provided hot water for the aforementioned
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17

quiet, little lieutenant-Henry L.
Olson of Beltrami, Mimi.
Nobody ever calls him anything
but Ole. "
He and 1t. f. Glazier of Silver
Lake, O., each with 60-odd mis-
SionS, were my room mates and
are two of the incest kids l ever
ran across.
l did not get anything in par
ticular on GlaZier other than the
fact that he is gust a wonderfully
steady flier and reliable fighter
and as sound as the Rock of Gil
braltar on any mission.
Ole, though, was with Gen.
sGhennaaits-tfying= Tigers in
China as mechanic and then crew
chief.
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not so much with direct hits from
eight so caliber guns and from
bouncing the shells on the road
just in front or behind the tanks
In such a way that they ricochet
| into less weii-protected undersides
of the tanks.
He is sure In love with his girl
back home and from what | could
gather, he feels it is kind Of mu-
tual. .(
In fact. he is having a really
fine artist, attached 10 the group,
copy a little watercolor he has OF
his girl onto the cowling OF his
plane.
ARTIST NOT so FAST
II is coming along slowly - ]
think IL seems even slower TO HIM
as he stands there watching every
application of the brush-but he
is eminently satisfied with the
work as il is progressing
He has gone so far as 10 get
himself another cowling so that,
if anybody else flies his ship, the
cowling with his girls picture on
ii does not go along.
In fact, he was thinking Serl.
ously OF not taking his girl along
on a combat mission. but at that
rate / imagine he will wind up
by just hanging the cowling IN
his room.
In the evenings. we played gin
rummy or sat around listening TO
the radio with 1t. Kenneth l..
Wilcox of Hastings, Mich, with
time in Alaska TO his credit, Cap,
Meredith w. Henry of Pitman,
n. j., and any other of the "Thun-
derbums" who wanted 10 come
around and beat the breeze.
ONE NAVY IRooTER
You should have seen about 20
of us sitting around on beds. chairs,
tables and just the floor, listening
to the Army Navy football game
a week ago Saturday night.
Poor Mai Leary was the only
Navy rooter-remember he grad
uatcd from Bnnapolis--while in
the gang there were three West
p Pointers Johnny Baer, Hank
MaZur, who captained the 1912
football team at West Point and
1t. Col. Paul p. Douglas, deputy
group commander, who christened
"Thunderbums" when he was
their squadron commander. .-----
We sat in a room shared by
Douglas and Capt Dennis Crisp.
who did a tour in P-40S in Alaska
before coming here TO try to fill
Pauls shoes-a. job that's going TO
be plenty tough.
SPOTS TRAIN
Why, even in the time I was
there, Paul led the "PanZer Dust
ers," one of the other squadrons,
on missions to the Rhineland.
Flying over enemy territory,
southwark of Euskirchen. about 25
miles west Of the Rhine, he saw
tsonc fatcarS on a=raiiroad siding.
Closer scrutiny disclosed 20-plus
Tiger tanks on fiatcars and Two
locomotives nearby, one pulling
several boXcars.
Leading the pilots down TO
bomb, Paul saw a fax battery
open up and Immediately radioed
1t. Eugene L. Resting of Belling-
ham. MINI, and 1st. 1t. Alexander
/ LeLoup of Saratoga Springs, n.
Y, TO bomb the flax battery.
Resting and LeLoup dived on
the gun positions.
LOSE LAUNDRY
The German gunners had their
laundry hanging on lines about the
gunpits and direct hits from the
bombs sent the winter underwear
and other clothing flying through
the air along with the guns and
concrete.
Not another enemy shot was
fired as the squadron bombed the
trainload of tanks and then strafed
the cars and locomotives.
Paul and his flight scored di-
rect hits which upset three flat
ADVERTIsEAfENT
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LEARNS IN HURRY

Being short Of pilots, among
other things. they taught Ole 10
fly, and after six hours of dual
control flying in a training plane,
they checked him out in a P-40
fighter.
He did not fly combat then be-
cause he just plain didn't have
experience, but they did use him
as a ferry pilot.
When the Tigers broke up, Ole
went back to Minnesota for a
while and got himself elected to
the United States House of Rep
resentatives.
Then war came and Ollie joined
the u. S. Air Force and is now a
first lieutenant and flight leader.
He has been shot down once
and flew on the same mission that
l did the other day, but had mo-
tor trouble and had 10 land his
ship up the line way, getting
back next day.
PLENTY OF ACTION
He is a quiet guy, and does not
say much but other fellows tell
me he has seen more action in
the air than almost any one else.
The two of them. Olson and
Glazier, has a sweet little Welsh
Corgi puppy that they brought
over from England with them.
He goes by the name of Corky,
sleeps with either one or the
other of them and has uncanny
ability, being able to get his little
foxlike nose in a muSette bag and
haul out a candy bar or what
ever they might have there that
he thinks he would like.
Another "Thunderbum' is Capt.
Johnny Baer of Cottonwood, Ida.
He is a chunky, round, ruddy
faced, twinkling eyed little fellow
with II missions under his belt.
Strafing is his speciality; in
fact, he is credited with discov-
ering that you can do a lot Of
damage to the German Tiger tank,
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17

Getting value out Of the food you eat
IS your No. ! health problem whether
you eat 500 or 1000 pounds yearly.
To do this, scientists say, you must
have an adequate supply OF natural
stomach digestive juices and rich. red
blood must be present.
Improper diet. overwork. undue wor-
ries colds, the fiu or other Illness often
fmpAirs the stomach's digestive func-
tions and reduces the red blood strength.
person who IL operating on only n
10 20 75cs healthy blood volume or a
stomach digestive capacity Of only so
70 co., normal II severely handicapped.
Undigested food sours, causes gas .
bloating fails 20 supply the necessary
body energy 10. tissue repair often re-
sulting IN nervousness and loss OF energy.
So with ample stomach digestive juices
PLUS RICH, RED-BLOOD you should
enjoy that sense OF well-oeing which de-
notes physical fitness mental alert
nesSl
n you are subject 20 poor digestion or
suspect deficient red blood as the cause
OF your trouble, yet have no organic
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Tonic may be Just what you need as IL
IL especially designed (ll 70 promote the
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These two important results enable
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Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17

bladder an d liver
d isord ers is de-
scribed in a new
booklet by Dr. L. E.
Paddock, Box 5S05,
Desk 4, Kansas City,
Mo. T his booklet
tells why surgery in
many cases may be
either unnecessary or
inadvisable. or h q W
. suffering may be- re-
licVed by his palliative
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17

WdSIIIIIS IdCIIIIIS5'
Each room has its own window,
and the boys found a lot of Ger
man lockers and beds which COM
pared favorably with anything we
might provide for our own boys.
Most of the rooms have radios.
In fact many of the boys were
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17

frank enough to say they did not
live any better or sometimes as
well even in their training days
in the States. Z
PLENTY OF COAL
This is one of the coal areas of
Europe, so that conlmodity-ter-
ribl -sheFtin Paris, for instance
--is plentiful up here.
Hence, there is plenty Of
warmth in the dormitory and
plenty of stoves in the operational
tent adjoining the runways.
The boys eat in another build
ing. and in addition TO squadron
ready rooms, where the pilots hang
out during the day when not fly
ing, they have an officers club
with a bar, pingpong table, card
tables, etc.
Add TO this the Red Cross
building in town and a little
movie theater and you can figure
that they do all right for them
selves.
1t is in great contrast with the
really terrible rugged life of foot
soldiers at the front. with rain,
mud, cold canned food and wet
clothing.
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17

medical treatment Also are described
many symptoms II Gall Stones and in
fected Gall Binder. Send for free book
lct today.
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17

to marry after graduating from
Annapolis for two years-just why
/ do not know.
Leary decided he couldn't be
bothered with that particular rule
and SO he and the navy parted
company.
l do not know when he joined
the air corps, but he came over
TO Normandy with a group as
operations officer.
His general knowledge OF the
ground and the air caused him TO
volunteer to act as ground con-
troller for his group; that work
entailing, among other things, rid
ing afotnd-Miih-ad -adsance=tas,is:s
and directing the attacks of planes
from that dubious point of Xan-
tage.
-rhat-waS all right for while
until the Germans got mad about
it and put an 8S-mm. shell into
the tank. seriously Wounding
Leary and causing him to spend
the next two and a half months
in an English hospital.
Maj. Gen. Pete" Quesada, in
recognition of his outstanding
work back in Normandy, came
up 10 the field the other day to
pin the Bronze Star on Leary.
MISSES CEREMONY
He wasn't due until noon, so
Leary, who had fallen a little
behind in his flying. thought he
That was all right for a while
until the Germans got mad about
could Just work in mission in
the morning and be back in time
However, over Duren, a'German
flax gunner got lucky, and Maj
Leary missed the ceremony.
With his plane crippled and
losing altitude. Leary turned his
squadron over to another pilot anG
himself turned his ship around
and headed back toward friendly
territory.
Near Aachen, with his plane
rapidly losing altitude. he decided
TO fly it down rather than bail
out, so he picked what looked
like a big, clear space and headed
in for a wheelS-up belly landing
Too late. he saw that running
through the middle OF his proposed
landing strip was a fine set Of
camoufaged dragons teeth--the
ones l saw the other day myself.
But there was nothing he could
do about it, as his motor was not
percolating properly so he just
bounced through the scattered
concrete and eventually came 10 a
stop. unscathed.
Then, leisurely If you please, he
switched on his radio and told his
boys, who were circling overhead
sweating him out, that Re was
okay and TO 60 on with their
mission.
The main thing he was sore
about was that he missed the
ceremony, but / wouldn't be sur
prised if they hold another one
for him pretty soon.
SHELL WRECKS MOTOR
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17
Doctor Explains
Gall Bladder

The experience of. 80 years with
over 10000 cases OF common gall
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17
DODGE 80 Years Old

Chrysler Corp. was in receipt
Saturday Of congratulations from
the army on the 30th anniversary
of the manufacture of the first
Dodge automobile. The message
was signed by Maj. Gen. l.. III.
Campbell Jr., chief OF ordnance of
the Army Air Forces.
The Detroit Times has far more
nationally famous features than
any other Detroit newspaper.
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17
Build Sturdy Health
and Helm Ameries Win

Thousands and thousands OF users have
testified 70 the dement's SIS Tonic has
brought 70 them and scientific research
shows that it gets results-thats why 80
many say ''SSS Tonic builds sturdy health
makes you feel like yourself again. Al
drug stores In 10 and 20 o. sizes .CS $500.
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17

Tonight on your way home get n
bottle Of MoOnes Emerald oil from
tho drUr-store Before bedtime ap.
ply q good hot towel Just as hot as
YOU can bear IN and keep II on aud
hot Tor about minutes 10 open the
pores. Dry thoroughly then apply
little Of the 0il aud rub on brisk
ly with good massage 'till u dis
app"uts Cover up and go 10 sleep.
lu the morning for good measure
another oil application no hot
towel Noull r-t the surprise ~ your
life. 0u % boz amazed ~ the blessed
relief YOU got bnCk on the job happy
and much moro comfortable Keep u
.ur Tor few ualr.
Thousands uf BOTTLES are sold an
.nually for tired aching fret and legs
y ou can gct Moon'e Emerald OIL at
kInsei Drug CO. or any drug store.
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17
SHELL WRECKS MOTOR

The very next day. 1t. Johnny
Loeb Of Wnliston Park, l.. l..
while coming out OF Germany at
10000 feet got one shell in his
motor and turned his ship for all
practical purposes into glider
Now, these things weigh almost
$4,000 pounds and do not have
more OF a gliding angle than a
rock, and he was Is miles inside
German territory.
II was nip and tuck the whole
way in, but he made il. landing
strangely enough, only 200 yards
from Leary'S plane.
II is funny flying around and
looking 10 sec these two Thunder
bolts sitting there as though they
were on an airGeld.
Johnny did not get a scratch
either.
Then. too. there IS n slight.
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17

Written Expressly for the Hearst Newspapers

AT AN ADVANCED NINTH L. S. ARMY
hIR FORCE THUNDERBOLT BASE SOME
WHERE IN BELGIUM. Dec. l0-l am glad now
that it did take me than week or ten days to
go on that Thunderbot mission that told you about
in my last article because during most of that time
the kids.
And, ladies and gentlemen, mean kids, because
when you get near the age of 80 in that bunch,
they practically put you in wheelchair and feed
YOU by hand.
Worse still in my case, they are terribly polite
and call you mister at least for a while
Granted have been out of short pants for a
few years, but still l resent very much having a
great deal of personal attention paid me as if were
nice but senile old fogey.
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17
For Muscular
AcheS-PainS

Whether in Shoulders, Arms,
Back or Legs-Try This Tonight
For Swift Blessed Relief
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17

ADVFRTIeENrNT
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17
LIVES WITH YOUNGSTERS
WHO MAKE-HISTORY

EDITORS NOTE-This IS the sirt Of series of
rticles by William Randolph Hearst Junior describing
operations Of the Ninth L. s. Ar Force at an adroHced
6ghter-bobber field SomFlrhere IN Belgium.
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-17

Part I. Page 0-Dee. ~, 1914
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ADVERTISEMENT
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-21

Enlarged Microscopic
Particles Gathered
From the Dust in the
Air and Representing
for the Most Part the
Residue OF Shooting
Stars.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-21

Since then and rather recently
by comparative time tableS-ScienCe
has established that plaques, like
most other diseases, are caused by
bacteria. 1t has also learned that the
ominous fireball was Halley'S comet,
swinging unusually close to the earth
in one of its 76-year-long journeys
around the sun.
And many guffaw naturally has
been vented by modern SavantS at
the expense. of their Sixth-century
prototypes, who were so benighted
as TO imagine that there could be
any connection between comet and
a pestilence.
Yet, in science as in other fields,
il is safest TO laugh last. Almost co.
incidentlY, two distinguished Swedish
scientists have come forward with the
startling theory that hitch hiking
germs from other planets, far off in
stellar space, are responsible for at
least some diseases and epidemicS
here on earth.
One of the scientists, Prof. Louis
Bachman of Upsala University, be-
lieves the germs are propelled here
by cosmic rays. The other, Prof.
knut Emil landmark, of Lund Uni
versity, suggests that the unwelcome
visitors arrive on, or in, meteoriteS.
And, since comets are thought TO be
merely a collection of meteorites OF
various sizes, this lends modern
support to the reasoning of our
predecessors of 400 years back.
The problem of the origin of disease
been a fascinating one. Even toda
know very little about it. They have
classified thousands of different types
but they cannot explain where any O
terra came from, or why so many of Il
have a special knack for making {
human beings precarious and miSeral
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-21

Were germs always earth? Was prehistoric
prey TO typhus. malaria, infantile paralysis,
smallpox bubonic plague, and all the other null
ttudinous germ diseases that afflict people today?
Or is it possible, as Profs. Bachman and Lund
mark suggest in their speculations, that these
deadly but unseen immigrants have come to US
perhaps in comparatively recent times - from
some of the other planets?
Certainly, should this be the case our ancestors
had good reason to be wary Of unusual heavenly
portents and to speak fearfully, they often
did, of "malign stars" "evil planets" and so
In fact erudite people of today might be
OF meteoriteS, or the next comet that comes close
to the earth Maybe, for all know, ii will be
Mars sending us something extra-special in the
line of germs. Probably some germ too, that
doesn't bother the Martians at all, if there be any
such people, because they're immunized to it.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-21

As a matter OF Tact,
though, the researches
of the Swedish scien-
lists haven't gone far
enough to fix tn e
blame, even specula.
lively, on any particu.
lar planet.
The obje ctive Of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-21
BY DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRSHBERG

BY DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRSHBERG
NE night IA centuries ago. in. the year 531
I j a. D., great red ball trailing fire appeared
~ in the sky over Europe.
The celestial apparition struck terror into the
hearts of all. AS it came nearer, night by night,
fear swept through the land. What did it portend?
War? PeStilence? The Day of Judgment? None
could say But all were sure that some dire and
awful event impendcd.
Sure enough, the blazing spectacle had scarcely
faded from the sky when the deadliest plague in
history, up to that time, began its swift march
across Europe and Asia.
People died in Constantinople at the rate of
10000 a day. BY the time the pestilence exhausted
itself the population of the then civilized world
was diminished by fourth.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-21

would be perfectly possible for disease-produG :
bacteria TO reach the earth from stellar space,
either by cosmic waves, or by meteoriteS, or both.
Upsala University is the famed Swedish institu.
ton where the deadly virus Of infantile paralysis
was recently photographed for the first time.
Prof Bachman is one of the most noted research
scientists its staff
His theory is that germs ride the crest of
waves OF light or energy, like surfboarders.
Primary cosmc rays are apparently highspeed
Nny I'll, 1914
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-21

Bacteria OF
BubOniC
Plague (TOp),
Influenza
(Center) and
Malaria Dot
TOM Which
May Be
Among the
Unwelcone
Wayfarers
From Other
Worlds.
their research
h a s b G c n
merely to es.
tabliSh that IL
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-09-05
BAND INSTRUCTOR
FOR SCHOOLS HERE

G. E. Pancheau, band instructor
for Juneau schools arrived in town
over the weekend. He will be
joined later by his wife and two
children.
For the past two years Pancheau
has been teaching at Monte Vista
Colorado, and his band won the
Colorado state championship in
May, 1914 The band also ranked
high in the music contest and fes-
tival in April. Mr.. Pancheaus
bands have stood high whenever
he has been.
Pancheau is a graduate of West
ern States Teachers College of
Gunnison, Colorado, and has done
ost-graduate work at Washington
State College and at the State Col
lege of Education at Greedy, Colo
RADIO. He has been teaching music
and history since 1884
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-09-05
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
LECTURE POSTPONED

The free lecture on Christian
Science to be delivered by Her.
schel P. Num-, C. S. B., member
of the Board of Lectureship of The
Mother Church, The First Church
of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mas
sachusetts, has been postponed to
Thursday evening, September 18th,
instead of Thursday, September
7th, as originally scheduled. The
change in date is due to an un-
avoidable change in itinerary.