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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION " 'We Fight Our Country 'slattles Sing Marines; ( Combat Correspondents TellHowJhyDoJt Leatherneck Scribe Dodges Ack-Ac- k, Mans Waist -- Gun (The following story was written by Technical Sergt. Harry Bolser, Louis-ville, Ky., a marine corps combat cor-respondent.) I admit now that I wiped beads of perspiration from my brow a few seconds after I was told that I would fly that night in a United States Army Liberator bomber on a mis-sion deep into Japanese territory. A trifle nervous, I quit my type-writer and gathered up my flight gear. Two hours before the desig-nated take-of- f time I was walking restlessly from one wall map to an-other in the operations hut of the squadron on Guadalcanal to which I had been assigned. It was near midnight, when a cor-poral called across the room: "Lieu-tenant, here's the marine sergeant Who's going with you." The slender army officer, slightly grayed at the temples, crossed the room and extended his hand. "I'm Jerry," he said in an infor-mal, matter-of-fac- t manner. "Glad to have you with us. You'll work the starboard waist gun." I gulped once and felt a lump form In my throat. My fingers squeezed ' Lieutenant Crume explained to me that the crew decides before each bombing hop whether they will go down in their parachutes or make a forced landing. Will Land in Water. The decision that "night was that if we get hit we would try to make a water landing. I concurred in the decision. Jerry said he felt we would have a better chance to .survive if we made a water landing and remained together in the rubber boat with which our bomber was equipped. He explained that the jungle surround-ing the target was practically im-penetrable. We would stand little chance to survive if we parachuted into the wilderness. I listened intently to the discus-sion, but all the time I was saying to myself: "These guys think of the most pleasant topics." Suddenly the chatter was smoth-ered by the crack of one plane motor backfiring as it was started. In a few minutes we were deafened by the noise of all four motors. Lieutenant Crume poked me and shouted in my ear: "All aboard." I followed the crew as they crawled through the belly door. I was the last aboard. The others crowded forward. I found myself standing on the catwalk between the bomb racks. They were loaded to crossed. We were caught between two Jap searchlights. The yelled: "They've got us in the lights." I looked out the window just as another shell burst to our starboard side. The Jap searchlights blind-ed me and I jumped back, certain that I had been seen. A second later I felt silly. Enemy ft fire was. burst-ing all around us. It was my first trip aboard a heavy bomber on a night mission. Yes, I was a liftle scared. "Bombs away," Lieutenant Crume yelled. I leaned out the window and looked down as Jerry banked the plane. The sky was illuminated by the search-lights and the fire. It seemed only seconds before the first cluster of bombs landed squarely in a Jap bivouac area. The Louisville bombardier's eye was keen that night. Bomb after bomb landed on the target. Perfect Pasting. I was unmindful of the shells bursting around our plane as I poked my head out of the window. The temptation to watch those bombs as they hit was too great. A feeling of pride engulfed me as each cluster found its mark. Here I was in the air watching a Louisville boy pasting the Japs. And he was doing a per-fect job. As Lieutenant Crume cut loose with the last clusters I could see huge fires burning below. 'We didn't lose any time leaving the target after our bombs had been spent. Several miles away from the scene the Japs were still sending up fire. But we had escaped. Later I learned from the rear gunner that two shells burst just under the tail of our Most of the crew slept on the re-turn trip. When we landed long aft-er dawn that morning, I gave Lieu-tenant Crume a lusty pat on the back and said: "You can bomb for my money." And as we walked into the med-ical dispensary near the squadron's operations hut, I said: "Lieutenant, I don't suppose a marine has ever admitted the army is hot, but I want to say you boys have plenty on the ball." I left Lieutenant Crume a few sec-onds later. I know he and his crew are still giving the Japs hell in the midst of the new Allied offensive in the Solomon Islands. Mow m T P " w" i , 1.9V J,' f.lf r Jjf W J u3 - : ts i In tins jungle cemetery under blue tropical skies, these marines who made the supreme sacrifice find peace. Comrades in arms bow their heads while the chaplain reads the funeral rite. (Official Marine Corps photo.) tightly on a lighted cigarette. I turned in a circle and picked out a comfortable chair in front of a desk. The corporal who had introduced me to the pilot apparently had detected the sudden change in the color of my complexion, because he chuckled and shoved a map under my nose. "Here," he said, "You can com-pose yourself, by studying tonight's target." I said nothing, but I certainly didn't appreciate his humor. Thirty minutes later I was shak-ing hands with the crew members of our big d bomber. There were the t, bombardier, navigator, and four other gunners. From 'Old Kentucky.' One of the gunners inquired: "Where you from, Sarge?" When I replied "Kentucky," the diminu-tive, wiry bombardier shoved his hand out and said: "Boy give me five. That's where I'm from, too. Louisville's my home." And so again, I was shaking the hand of the bombardier, Second Lieut. Jesse W. Crume, U. S. Army, from Louisville. We eased away from the group, sat on the steps of the operations hut and talked of mu-tual acquaintances back in Louisville until we boarded the truck for the field. As we rumbled along the bumpy road toward Henderson Field, where our plane awaited us, Lieutenant Crume assured me Jerry was an ex-cellent pilot and that he would bring us back safely. "But what about the Jap ack-ack- I asked. "Well," shot back Lieutenant Crume, "There's not much Jerry can do about that. We can only hope the Japs don't get us in their search-lights tonight." In 45 minutes we were to take off. Speaking to me, Lieutenant Crume said: "Bolser, we have a fine group of boys ih our outfit. They're regu-lar guys. And you can see how they feel about this thing. There are only two things they give a damn about now. One is bombing hell out of the Japs, and the other is getting the war over as quickly as possible." Jerry addressed the group. "What'U it be this morning?" he asked. "Will we bail out or stay together and make a water land-ing?" capacity with their lethal charges. Jerry raced the motors for the usual test. In a few minutes we were rumbling down the strip on the take-of- f. I felt I was in a precarious spot. I coulcl only hope that the giant Lib-erator cleared the cocoanut trees at the end of the field. I was relieved as I felt the wheels leave the metal strips on the field and rise into the darkness over Henderson Field. We gained altitude. Soon we were head-ing toward our target. Out over the water, I was told to go aft 'to my station. I examined my machine gun. (The marine corps public relations section of which I am a member was trained in aerial gunnery before leaving the States.) Then I fixed the communications set on my head and plugged in for a test. Jerry, at the controls, was singing. I looked at my watch. We still had a lot of flying ahead of us. Turn on Oxygen. At 12,000 feet Jerry called over the 'phone suggesting that we start us-ing oxygen. I welcomed the word for I was beginning to feel groggy from lack of heavy air. I also felt the bite of the cold at that height and wriggled into the fleece-line- d leather suit. "Bolser," Lieutenant Crume called over the 'phone, "just wanted .to let you know that when I say 'bombs away' you might take a look down and see how my eye is tonight. Jerry will bank just after I let 'em go and you should get a pretty good look." Thirty minutes away from the tar-get Jerry called back to prepare the waist guns. The other waist gunner and I opened the windows. I fed the ammunition belt into the gun and charged it. It was ready for action as I poked it through the window. The temperature at our height was so cold that my fingers were stiff by the time I had adjusted my gun. A few seconds later I got the scare of my life. To the right of the plane a ball of fire burst. At the same time came Jerry's voice: "We're just about over the target." I caught myself shying away as a second burst of fire came nearer our plane. Jerry didn't have to tell me we were nearing the target. 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Boon's sti"1"'0 Kils " tion of the kidneys and blip ,., flush out poisonous ' 'ha:r blood. They contain ol;nL,M.. Got Boon's today. Us. wiUi At all drug stores. Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Release. ConsoUdated Features.-W- NU Five times now N vTscount Waldorf Arte ha. elected mayor of English Plyrn-- S and since no onejaimsjo Plymouth's Mayor dedicated Has 2 Terms Up On Our Top Man may outiast President' Roosevelt in office. 3Ur A5tor would have been a rank-ta-g member of the Park Avenue father hadn t set here if his flaws ta our grown hippy over economic system and popped off Ennoblement fol-lowed, to London. the more easily, perhaps, because of American millions taken along. Besides being Plymouth's mayor, the viscount is the quieter half of the conjugal part-lershi- p completed by the one-tim- e and always remarka-ble jl amour girl Nancy Langhorne of Virginia., rhey have five, children and mayb !t was the feeding of the five that started Astor's present interest u lutrition. Most people who plump for food reform are lean, and so is the viscount, a rangy, fellow 64 years old but looking younger. Oxford is his university. There he played polo, ran In steeplechase races and grew expert with the saber. His wealth is stiU great, thanks to the Jacob, founder of all Astor fortunes. BRITISH admiral has been say-ing A that only three good things eyer came out of Germany . . . music, sausages and Marlene Die-trich. He 4 Keg Is the Last will, doubt-Thin- g Dietrich's less, grant ,7 that others, Outline Resembles inciuding he Scandinavians, produced good music. And Homer sang of sau-sages centuries before any Germans thought of even so simple a skin Same. But on Dietrich he is as right as rain. Although she has lived here for 13 years, she is Berlin born, and as uniquely German as a keg of Pilsener. But not Nazi. When she was naturalized four years ago Goebbels read her right out of the Reich. A little trip into the thesaurus night have uncovered several bet-;e-r words than that "keg." Burgess Meredith never would have said of i keg, as he did of Miss Dietrich, liat he wished all women looked ike her. Just when Miss Dietrich was born in Berlin is not at hand. However, she was married in 1934 to Franz Seiber, and she has an daughter, a recent bride. So her age must be about . . . Yep! Just about! If not exactly. Miss Dietrich used to be a stormy jetrel. Once she and Garbo had iieir knives out. Once she was In Viae West's hair. And she made nore than one director back up. But she has been swinging less often !rom the floor since she made her :ome-bac- k on those famous under-linning- s, singing "See What the Boys n the Back Room Will Have." Late-y- , helping sell Victory bonds, she las been singing, "See What the 3oys in the Back Room Will Give." JN GEEEN lofty Bogota, President Alfonso Lopez Y Pumarejo has reorganized his cabinet. By shrewd :ompromise, he probably hordes Jnited States Has repetmrfof itaunch Friend in Axis - in- - Colombia's Chief spired dis' turb a n c e s. Ml Liberal factions now are includ-ed in the set-u- Like liberals everywhere, the Liberals of Colombia differ greatly in degree. President Lo-pez is farther to the left than many. He has pressed sometimes against opposition' in his own party . . . reforms in social legislation, taxation, edu-cation; in fact he Initiated many of them during his previous in-cumbency. For he has been president before '34 to '38. Not trusting to any second or third term tradition, he Colombian constitution forbids successive elections. So in '38 Dr Tqd"ardVSant0S "me in, but in back."1 LPeZ Came The United States is fortunate to have him. A thorough-goin- g democrat, he is also our ough-gom- g friend. He came here tynh; aftCF ClassicaI Oxford, to investigate business administration. He did not ente politics until after MicnXn he has had a fling banking and at h! comes from a wealthySgfam6 Colombia fiSl 'Cr 0 served Herrera - ! -- 1, 10 "ins-ensitive face has lonSval under a W dour worn for years Pmpa-han-part. 18 now a left- - ..i5rtfrffcrt Ill Released by Western Newspaper Union. SLEEPING CARS AND GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP AS A WAR emergency measure the government has gone into the business of providing sleeping cars. To supply additional sleeping car accommodations it is financing a new fleet of specially designed cars that will be leased to, and operated by, the Pullman company for the period of the war, used for the trans-portation of men of the army, of whom an average of 30,000 are on the road from somewhere to some-where else every night. They are to be of a new type, patterned on the lines of the conti-nental European lounge cars for day travel, with seats only on one side. At night these seats will be the low-er of three tiers of berths and pas-sengers will sleep crosswise instead of lengthwise, of the car. Let us hope they may not long be needed for soldier travel, and when no longer n'eeded for that the govern-ment will get out of the sleeping car business. This is not the first time the gov-ernment has financed the building of railroad trains for war purposes. In 1918, Col. Henry M. Bylesby, then the purchasing agent in England for the American army, contracted for the construction of five complete hos-pital trains to be operated in France. The trains were only partially com-pleted when the Armistice was signed on November 11. Bylesby was the type of business man who does not hesitate, but does things quickly. I was in his London office on Novem-ber 12 when he was in session with the contractor for those trains. Bylesby asked that the contractor figure the value to himself, for other purposes, of the material he had pur-chased that was as yet unused, the value to himself of such portion of the job as had been completed, and to name a price for the surrender of the contract. ' Three weeks later, I met Colonel Bylesby on a train bound from New Tork to Chicago. The United States government was out of the business of building and operating hospital trains as well as many other lines in which we had made extensive con-tracts in England. All such contracts had been settled within two weeks. The nation was out with a very much lower percentage of loss than was to prove true with our trans-portation and other ventures in France, where we sold to the French government at a very small portion of our investment cost, and then did not collect. May there be another Colonel Bylesby around to dispose of our sleeping car investment when the cars are no longer needed to trans-port our soldiers. It is much "better that we buy our Pullman accommo-dations from Pullman than from the United States government. HOMETOWN PAPERS AND WAR BONDS THE INFLUENCE AND VALUE of the country press in America has been demonstrated by the effect of the underwritten advertising carried in its columns on the sale of war bonds. The idea of such advertising start-ed in 1917, just before the second loan to finance World War I. I was familiar with the operation at that time as I had proposed the idea and presented it to the treasury depart-ment. It took some considerable ef-fort to put it over until I reached the then secretary of the treasury, Carter Glass. As the publisher of a small city daily, a typical home-town paper, he saw the possibilities and gave the ifclea his unqualified ap-proval.- Through such advertising the sale of war bonds in rural communities was multiplied as com-pared with the results on the first loan, a result Secretary Glass at-tributed to the influence of the home-town newspapers. To a considerable extent the thing that did the job was the names of the sponsors. That was especially true when those names included the churches, the lodges, service clubs and other local organizations as well as the business people. Those names represented a recommenda-tion on the part of local people. In a letter received from Secre-tary Glass after the successful com-pletion of the Victory loan he said no other one factor had contributed so much to the financing of the war. More than 500,000 pages of such ad-vertising had been printed, and that record has been surpassed by the amount of underwritten advertising carried by home-tow- n papers during World War II. That is what a free press can do, and has done, for the nation. SENATOR BYRD is asking what the administrative departments of the government propose to do with the 244 billion dollars now in their hands as unexpended balances of appropriations that have been made by congress. He thinks there should be some accounting before asking for, more billions. That 244 bil-lions is a tidy little sum to be lying around loose. It amounts to just about $3,874 for each of the 63 mil-lion workers in the United States, and it is the workers who will have to pay the bill. IF, IN THE FUTURE, we Amer-icans are to enjoy the blessings of peace, we must take a place and a part in arranging for and maintain-ing world peace, or we must build an unscalable wall around oufselves and be content to live within that. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE are beginning to hear some false notes In the tune played by the theoretical pied pipers who were attempting to lead us away from our established way of life, our private enterprise lystem. Largest Library j The Wisconsin State Histor y ' brary at the University of l sin is said to be the largest ot kind in the United States 438 Required to Guard 3,000 Prisoners of War While war prisoners in intern- - ment camps in the United States serve one another as barbers, tai-- lors, cooks and cobblers, and also do much to conduct their own af-fairs, a typical camp housing 3,000 of these men requires three Police Escort guard companies, or a to- - tal of 438 officers and enlisted men of the army, to supervise and guard it. Alaska Transferred in is;; Formal transfer of Alaska to ; United States after its p;; from Russia for $7,200,000 complished in 1867. Pompeii Discovered Accident;! The ruins of Pompeii were covered by chance in 15M fqr an aqueduct. Illuminated Nest The brilliant sparkle of the r: of the baya bird of India at :j is due to the fact that it v.e; fireflies into it. . Test forArmy, Navy Training Courses WillBeGivenNov.9 The Army-Nav- y College Quali- - fying Test (A-1- which will be held throughout the nation on November 9, will provide means for tens of thousands of young men to become immediately available for training for respon-sible assignments in the armed forces as technicians, specialists and officer candidates. The November 9 test will be Open to those who have graduated from high school or are in their final term and who will be 17 but not 22 years of age on March 1, 1944. Many young men are now in college under the army and navy programs. Many of these were high school seniors last spring when they took the first test on April 2. Those who failed to qual-ify on the April 2 test are also eligible for the test on November 9 provided they have not enlisted or been inducted in the armed services. Those between 17 and 20 years of age on March 1, 1944, who des-ignate navy preference and qual-ify in the test may be selected for the navy college program. They serve on active duty, in uniform and under military discipline and receive the pay of the lowest grade. Seventeen-year-old- s who desig- nate army preference and qualify in the test are offered military scholarships in the army special- ized training reserve program Those between 18 and 22 who qualify and designate army pref- erence are earmarked for special consideration for the ASTP after induction. Detailed information on the army specialized training pro gram the navy college program and the qualifying test on Novem ber 9 has been prepared by the army and navy and forwarded bv theU. S. Office 'of Education t0 high school principals, who will PTTte ProsPective candidates rcfvni''QuaT- - Our Highest Falls Highest waterfall in America is Yosemite ' falls in California. It plunges 2,600 feet down a granite cliff in three giant leaps. Spray from this cascade freezes in win-ter to form a white mountain of ice 500 feet high at the foot of the alls. Powerful Mushroom J The average - sized rr.us .: has the power to lift 27 pour.-.-- - Vanilla From Mexico Mexico is now supplying the Vanilla which we used to import from Madagascar. ' -- I How Devildogs Stormed a Hill in Battle of Bairoko Harbor We had already fought for five days on Vangunu island, when we were rushed north to join in the Battle of Bairoko Harbor. We were 200 yards from the Jap ridge, when snipers forced us to take cover." The story of the squad's last 25 yards was disclosed, at a rear base rest camp, by Corp. William J. Haines. He told Staff Sergt. Samuel Stavisky, marine combat corre-spondent. "But we were ordered to keep driving ahead. So we kept at it, and my squad got within 25 yards of the top, when all hell broke loose. "Corporal Strauss was hit bad, through the chest. We picked up his tripod and ammunition and kept on. "We almost made it. Only five feet to go, when Thornburg, an am-munition carrier, and Shipp, who was bringing up the gun, were hit. Thornburg was killed outright. ' "Hacker grabbed up the machine gun, and stuck it behind the cover of a banyan tree. We turned to give Shipp first aid. 1 was reaching Into my pocket for the morphine, when a sniper's bullet pierced my helmet but it only scratched my head. "I still wasn't sure whether or not I d been hit, but there I was, still on my feet, so I pushed up to the top of the hill with Hacker, and we got the gun in position, and fired belt of ammunition before a quieted down. Then we eot wnS back on our situation Fox-hol- e tenants argue about pri-ority rights. Down at Quantico, Va., where the marines get their train-ing, they learn, among many other things, to crouch in s. This knowledge has come in very handy in the grim island warfare of the South Pai.ilic. But this Leather-neck, Pvt. Harry W. Weber of Skow-hega- Maine, seems to have crawled into a real by some accident, and the little red fox, iden tiHed as "Rusty," is protesting. He claims the burrow is his home, and wants the marine to move out. P"-- KBrwmrmmrmm. - - i ' 'f '"I Test P Befnro . Solution putwki 0ediatsolution ls tested to deters ni ? ShUld Perature , What ,em-es-antiZLe" T 11 strengthen soln.i nCeded t"t the san,;, JP of a't-Ieez'- ' bel.e, added. e be |