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Show FRIDAY, MARCH t, PAGE FOUR . THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH J las who helped us. From the hor-rible experience I made the reso-lution that from now on any Greek that needs any help from me is going to Ret it. I'd do any-thing in this world for anything Greek." village with some of the Greeks. The guerrillas said they had found the body of the waist gun-ner we had pushed out. He ap-parently had died despite his parachute. The Greeks told me they had given him a military funeral and brought me his dog tag. 'I slept that night with the leader of these antartes and the next morning they sent word that more of the flyers were in a little village across the moun-tains. They put us on some little donkeys and we started out. At this other village we found my co-pil- and the top turret gun-ner, who had been wounded, from the other Liberator that went down with us. The rest of our crew had apparently been captured. "Here we stayed the next night. The next morning we got word that the Nazis had us lo-cated and were coming to burn the village to the ground. The Greeks said that the Germans had burned other villages for hiding soldiers. I saw them shell one village. There wasn't any-thing to do but for the entire population of the village to leave, for they were determined to take care of us and kept telling us how much the Greeks loved the Americans. "The people took whatever food they had and a few of their belongings and we started out. The people from the village made a procession about 2 miles long. The next night it was cold and raining. We spent the night out in the mountains. My copilot and I spent the night under a little donkey, trying to use his body for warmth and for protection from the rain. We didn't get much sleep that night. "The Greeks told us they were taking us to klephts' headquart-ers where arrangements would be made for us to escape Greece. They didn't seem to be sorry that they had sacrificed their village for us. The little food, fruit, and black bread soon gave out and once we went for 30 hours with-out food or drink. "The guerrillas were fierce-lookin- g fellows, armed mostly with rifles belonging to many nations German, Russian, Ital-ian, English, and American guns they had captured in light-ning raids on occupation troops. They had a few machine guns they had captured from the Ger-mans. They had some hand gren-ades which they gave to us in case of fighting. "The guerrillas were magnifi-cent fighters because one night their advance scouts reported that the Germans were lying in imbush for us with some armor-ed cars beside a road we had to cross. The guerrillas got ready and went up to intercept the Germans. There was a lot of rifle and machine-gu- n fire, and soon word came that we could move n. The Greeks mopped up the Germans in a comparatively short time. We were told later by the guerrillas that they didn't need any help, that if the Amer-icans and English would send them enough guns they would throw the Germans out of their beloved country in a week. "Day after day we went up one mountain and down the next. We walked and walked through impassable mountain trails until our feet got sore. One night, when it was raining and slippery one donkey carrying a kitchen stove slipped and fell. We thought the Germans were near and kept very quiet. We heard the stove bouncing all the way down the mountain making a terrible noise. The donkey had stepped on a child's foot and it began crying. Luck was with us, for the Germans apparently wernn't mil th.it nioht " "congressional record American Aviators Over Creece Extension of Remarks of HON. TOM STEWART of Tennessee In the Senate of the United States Mr. Stewart. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Appendix of the Record an article which appeared in the special weekly section of the National Herald, a Greek newspaper of New York, the is-sue of Sunday, December 20, 1943. The article contains an interview with Lt. Frank D. Buehl, of Mem-phis, Tenn., giving an account of his experiences alter his airplane was shot down by Germans while he was flying over Greece, and the story of how Greek guerillas aided him to escape capture. There being no objection, the article was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: (By James J. Kay) Memphis, Tenn. The amazing story of how an American bomb-er pilot was shot down in fierce air combat over Nazi-hel- d Greece and saved by fierce guerillas in a series of dramatic pitched battles with the Germans was told to this correspondent by Lt. Frank D. Buehl, Memphis Liberator bomber pilot, on his return home from Cairo. On his eleventh mission over Greece, he was fly-ing the "Eight Ball" and was really behind the eight ball. "The Germans were concentra-ting many airplanes on fields all through Greece, apparently ex-pecting trouble. They sent us to bomb them. On our tenth mission we had found dozens of German planes lined up on a field and smashed them to kingdom come. The next day the Germans must have been mud and waiting for us. "We had just dropped our bombs on this field near Athens and started for home when about 35 German fighter planes iump-- i ed up. We were only a small for- -' mation of bombers, so they had things pretty much their own wny. The plane to my left went down quickly. The plane on my, right got seoarated from us and that left the "Eight Ball" alone. The Germans swarmed in 6 at a time and just chewed us to pieces with 20 millimeter cannon shells and machine Runs. Our No. 1 engine was shot out with her pro-- i peller blade feathered and a string of machine-gu- n bullet holes in a propeller blade; No. 2 had such u big hole in her I could sen the insides. It wasn't running, No. 3 engine was afire, the right ' wing and bomb bay were afire. My controls were shot to pieces. The bombardiev was killed. The right waist gunner had a big hole inhis stomach. The top tur-ret gunner had shell splinters in his face. The radio and inter-phone were out. The whole plane must have had about 500 or 600 holes in her and we could see the bullets splattering around us like hail. We decided it was time to bail out. "When we finally decided to j leave we were at 18,000 feet, and the only way I could control the j wrecked ship was to dive her and get some speed, then level off for a few seconds to give the boys a chance to jump. They put a parachute on the wounded waist gunner, put his hands on the ripcord, and threw him out. His chute opened by some mir-acle. We didn't have much alti-tude left after the second dive, but we all got out. I was the last one to leave. After my chute opened I got to see the old Eight Ball crash and explode right un-der me. I landed on a rock and was almost knocked out. As soon as I got to my feet two bearded men came running out of the woods with rifles shouting, 'Ger-man- o, Englezo, Americano?' I answered 'American.' " Americano Given Reception "Then they came running, put their arms around me and kissed me, talking in Greek. They led me down the mountains to a lit-tle village where there were more men with rifles, who hugged and kissed me. They put me in a house and went off. I heard some rifle and machine-gu- n fire and after awhile a little Greek guer-rilla, about 16 years old, came through the door pushing a Ger-man soldier ahead of him. A few of the Greeks could talk English and they told me the Germans had sent 15 soldiers af-ter the American flyers. The klephts had intercepted them and killed 14 of them. The fif-teenth was the man the boy brought in. The kid had shot the German through the hand and captured him. "Later that evening my radio operator came walking into the At Headquarters . "After walking several hund-red miles, we finally reached the headquarters of the klephts high in the mountains and word ap-parently had gone ahead for they swarmed out to see the Ameri-can flyers. The villagers crowd-ed around us shaking hands and kissing us. We found it would be several days before we could es-cape and in the meantime we lived with the Greeks. They were very hospitable and took us into their homes and if they had just a little food they gave it all to us. If there were only a few blankets around they gave them all to us and slept on the bare ground floor themselves. "The night before we departed' they gave a banquet in our honor. It was held in their antartes headquarters with about 40 guests. The menu was excellent. It ' consisted of tomatoes, onions, beans, black bread, fried lamb entrails, and a single can of sar-dines for the 40 guests. There was a native liquor called 'cozo' which they drank with great feel-ing. But it was too fiery for us and almost burnt our stomachs out. The leader of this guerrilla headquarters was a man who liv-ed in New York many years ago. He made a speech about how the Greeks loved the Americans and were helping them to whip the Germans in restoring freedom to the Hellenes. "The Greeks discussed politics and the fonn of government by which they wanted to be ruled. To my amazement, almost to a man, the Greeks were against the restoration of King George to the Greek throne. The Greeks were tired of monarchs and wanted a real democratic Greek republican government. I got up and made a speech, too, telling them that I loved the Greeks, and by this time I did love them, rhey sang the Hvmn to Liberty, the Greek national anthem and asked us to smg ours. I was that I didn't know all the ivords of the Star-Spangl- Ban-ker, but when we triert we found jut we knew all the words. "Early the next morning we Left. To tell where the Greek iuerrilla headquarters is would Betray the heroic Greek guerril- - ulljr Imglyam Sullrtut Issued Every Friday at Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake County. Utah. Entered at Second Class Matter, at the Post Office at Bingham Canyon, Utah, Under the Act of March 3. 1879. g?r NATIONAL EDITORIAL LELANI) G. BL'RRESS, Editor and Publisher Subscription Rati?, per year in advance $2.50 Advcrtisinir Hates Furnished on Application National Advertising Representative NEHSI'APEII AIIVlTtSIVG SEklVICE. INC. (o ffilitt of td 11National Editorial Allocation) js N. A. S.J ' Serving America's AJvorlisersandths Home Town Newspapers II8W. Randolph Chicago 1,111. OI FII ES Holbroot Bldg., San Franciaco, Cat. Robert Murano ninth birthday Tuesfr school at a "Truth yr quences' party givena J home of his ,? R. A. Murano. EnjoyM birthday cake and lunchJ Jackie Parkinson, Philin pagno, Jerry and Bobbv Russell Oyler, JoAnn ff Brent Murano, Brent Tommy James, Jan rJ Larry Ott. Billy Day Busey, Dennis McNeelv Johnson, Norman ChwlJ Carol Murano. Met Mr. and Mrs. Al Bart,, Tooele visited Monday home of Mr. and Mrs 4 din. Several members of chapter No. 7, O.E.S .h the visitation of Grand o Tuesday at Valley chapter O.E.S.. at the Provo Masonk Attending from here wer. L. W. Sumnicht, Mrs. A n ick, Mrs. Max M. DuBoii Robert Sonne and Mrs' Piii, Evans. : local notes: Mrs. Ruby Forslund and Miss Sylvia Sharp, both of Salt Lake City, visited overnight Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. John W. Nich-ols. Mrs. Byron Thurmond return-ed last Sunday after spending a week with her daughter, Mrs. . Hettrick of Salt Lake City. Mrs. John Barrett was a bait Lake visitor Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Glen and daughter, Bonnie, of Murray, were visitors last Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Thomas. . Miss Alice Johnson of Sandy is spending a week with Mrs. Marvin Cowdell. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Delaney and daughter, were visitors Tuesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Thomas. Mrs. Sam Korologos and dau-ghter, Joyce, and son, John, were overnight visitors in Salt Lake Saturday. Mrs. Thomas Strelich, who has been visiting for some time at the home of her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Baros, left for Greenville, Texas, March 26 to join her husband, Cadet Strelich, who is stationed near there. Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Zorn and daughters spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ivor Luger-bau- er in Union. Ensign Justine Jones, U.S.N.K., spent last Friday evening at the home of her cousin, Mrs. Ludwig : coppERFiEii) : Mrs. W. L. Leatherwood Phone 197-- J Mr. and Mrs. Ted Scroggin at-tended the funeral of Andrew Nielsen, Mr. Scroggin's father, at Provo Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McDon-ald moved to Copperton last Sunday and are now at home at Fifth East street. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burke and family are moving into the home vacated by Mr. and Mrs. McDonald. Tadia Perez of Dinkeyville moved his family to Ogden Mon-day of this week. Boy Scouts of Copperfield and their friends enjoyed a party last Saturday evening. A sumptious luncheon was served following dancing. Those from Copperfield who enjoyed the play "Little Women" Tuesday night at Bingham Cen-tral school included Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Robertson and sons, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Peterson, Mrs. Ernest Hickman, Mrs. Harvey Halverson, Mrs. W. L. Leather-woo- d and Amelia Katis. Copperfield school reports sale of stamps this week as being $78.75. Mrs. Mary Halverson, mother of Harvey Halverson, and Mrs. El iza Sutler of Cheyenne, Wyo., his sister, were visitors March 26-2- 7 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Halverson in Telegraph. Copperfield firemen report an enjoyable party was held last Wednesday evening at the school house. Bingo and cards were played and a late luncheon ser-ved Friends of the Richardson girls, who formerly lived in Telegraph, will be interested to learn that they are now living in Freeport, Texas, with their father. Seaman 1C Selso Sanchez ar-rived last Friday to spend a week visiting at the home of his sis-ter, Mrs. Max Salazar. He re-ports at San Francisco Sunday. The mine sweeper on which Sea-man Sanchez serves and its sis-ter ship had the job of sweeping mines from the channel through which American shios carried service men to Tarawa. Selso says he'll never forget how Jap shore batteries opened up on them and how a motor boat cir-cled about the two mine sweep-ers to cover them with a smoke screen. Two destroyers came in betweon the mine sweepers and beach as fire support Amelia and Chris Katis spent the week-en- d with Mr. and Mrs. John Mastoris of Salt Lake City. Joyce and Tom Korologos were also visitors in Salt Lake City over Saturday and Sunday, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gouvisies. William Davidson and family of Salt Lake City were visitors at the Clarence Bullock home Sunday. " Friends of Mrs. Arthur Phipps will regret to learn that she fell on the ice last week and frac-tured three ribs. Mr. and Mrs. Myles Anderson and family enjoyed a birthday dinner given Sunday for Mrs. Leonard Perry, Mrs. Anderson's mother, by Mrs. Lottie Stead-ma- n at her home in West Jor-dan. Mrs. Steadman is a sister of Mrs. Myles Anderson. Felix McDonald is at St. Mark's hospital for a few days' treat-ment. Mrs. John Pantalone entertain-ed the newly-organize- d card club at her daughter's home the evening of March 26. Mrs. Leon-ard Johnson was elected secretary-t-reasurer of the club. Mrs. Robert Burke was an invited guest. Mrs. Ruth Burke won the Five Hundred prize and Mrs. Elvina Allen the house prize. Mrs. Pantalone served a delic-ious luncheon. Eli Golesh returned from St. Mark's hospital Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. James Stevenson and son, Fireman 1C James Stevenson, and Kathleen McDon-ald, all of Salt Lake City, were dinner guests Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Robertson. J Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Brewer" of Terrace Heights are moving their family to Dove Creek, Colo., within the next few days. Mr. Brewer owns a farm there. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Leon-ard Legg, formerly of Terrace Heights, will be interested to hear that Mr. Legg enlisted in the army and is now stationed at Camp Callan, Calif. He is in the antiaircraft artillery. The Legg family have been making their home at Dove Creek, Colo., the past year. Mrs. Ralph Carter of was Murray a visitor at her son's home last Friday afternoon. Mrs. Helen Colcn of Salt Lake City is spending a few days at her daughter's home, Mrs. Mike Bapis of Copperfield. Mr. and Mrs. Bapis stayed overnight at the home of Mrs. Chris Korologis of Salt Lake City Monday. good through June 20, will not Eecome valid until April 1 for canned, frozen or dried foods Remember that al of these stamps are now worth 10 points each. At a time when we are con-ducting large-scal- e military cam-naig-in every quarter of the globe, it should not be necessary for us to also have to fight black markets at home. The govern-ment cannot do it without the cooperation of all the citizens Let each citizen select which black market he or she will at-tack. Motorists should, of course, fight the gasoline black market. Their first sten is to endorse each and every one of their gasoline coupons now. Make sure the gasojine goes to war not to the black market! Government statistics establish that the cost of living rose only three and one-ha- lf per cent in 1943, as against nine per cent in 1942 and ten per cent in 1941. Almost all of the 1943 increase occurred in the first four months of that year. The rent graph shows how rents have been sta-bilized at lower levels after an inflationary rise that reached its peak sometime after Pearl Har-bor. RATION NEWS In February 57,971 OPA vol-unteer price panel aides visited 295,890 retail food stores in the United States to check on price ceilings and to aid grocers in keeping up with the price con-trol regulations. In Salt Lake City, the recent retail food store survey showed that only 1.4 per cent of the 3,700 items checked were in violation. The December figure showed a 8.9 per cent violation. Ceiling prices on the new en-riched flour has been reduced by OPA by five cents a hundred pounds to enable housewives to provide more nutritious breads for their families. Enriched flour has been selling at 17 cents high- er than the plain flour. You can get out the old pie tins and grease them up again now that lard is off the ration list. Department of Agriculture experiments have shown that lard has no superior as shorten-ing for pie crust and baking pow- der biscuits. When you make that good ol" apple pie, stop and remember that everything you use in the pie is under price con-trol the apples, the lard, the salt, the flour, the pie tin, and even the stove whether new or used. On March 26 your red stamps "G8, H8, and J8", good through June 18, became valid for meat, fats, cheese and butter. Blue stamps "F8, G8, H8, J8, and K8". COME TO THE DIAMOND FOR A GOOD TIME. Beckers and Fisher Beer on Tap. Booths For Ladits PROFESSIONALLY QUALIFIED Our Is a small organiza-tion. We like it so because it enables us to give to each and every case our per-sonal attention and super-vision It also means that each member of the staff is profesionally qualified for the tasks assigned. 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