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Show -E- SEBtT N'EWS Yank Troops Chummy With German Dogs i ? " S,B LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Pilot Rescues 17 From Under Guns of ThE 1,15 Fred Neber WITH FAR EAST AIR landed his big Catalina while FORCES, Philippines. (INS) other American planes covered How a youthful rescue- pilot him and succeeded in saying six - saved seventeen American airmen from under Japanese guns on southern Mindanao and had to form a bucket brigade to keep his amphibious plane from sinking during the hazardous operation was disclosed today by Gen. Paul Wurtsmith, Brig. Thirteenth Air Force commander. The young pilot, Lieut. Frank Rauschkolb of Freewater, Ore., and his crew of seven men have all been cited for r nutstanding heroism by both Gen. George C, Kenney, Far East Air Forces commander, and by Wurtsmith for the rescue Operation which equals Lieut. Nathan- Gordon's now historical Kavieng mission. Rapschkolbs feat is believed to record in have set an; all-tithe Pacific for . a single plane rescue' Of downed American flyers. He was assigned) to cover" Mitchell bombers striking- a strong Jap base near Zamboanga. One American plane was shot and down by enemy ack-ac- k crashed into the sea a mile from shore. Jap Ignoring five gun-ladbarges which put out to intercept him, Rauschkolb coolly By Hal Boyle IN GERMANY (AP) American vehicles rolling through the heart of Germany carry an unusual number of dogs picked up on the way. Almost every other truck carries a German shepherd puppy or a mongrel, happy over a chance to sample American chow. 1 -""Blonde Ills Carpenter, woman war correspondent for the Boston Globe, asked why the Yanks were ferrying so many canine passengers and a soldier gave her this reply: Well, we cant fraternize with the German people. ; But they cant fine you $65 for fraternizing with dogs. Even in the center of enemy country, American boys have to be friendly with somebody or something. 'They havent" it in cold- : them to be permanently faced and One group of doughboys call"Are we playing winter rules Germans Cling ed their new dog 'Stinker, and -" : jexplained: Defenses Torltalian We. whistled to him and he i ROME (AP) German . forcwouldnt come. Then we called i es clung stubbornly to their him Rover, Fritz, Hans, Jerry, defense arc below Bologna in Krauthead, : Muttonmouth and of numerous F i f t h MANILA. ( AP) every name we could think of, Maj. Gen.. I ram). .... moderate... resistanc- e- at face and he just stood - there and Rapp Brush's-Fortiet- h Division TCuadaiupe and also joined up Army patrol stabs, allied head- quarters announced today. looked at us. Finally someone of the Eighth Army landed wjth gucrrinaSi On the Eighth Army front, yelled, Come here, Stinker, and Thursday agamst light opposi- In northern the Twrt most of the activity was along he trotted right over. So Stink- tion, on Negros, last remaining ty.fifth Division made a flank- - the Senior River wher& there er he is." major Philippine island under ' n of grenade The fundamentally sympaseized j"ft met stlff if? pass were a number control, Japanese . enemy reslstanc1' duels. thetic nature of the American strip" and menaced troops is shown in more ways capital, Bacolod. than their kindness to dogs. It Other Yanks had to fight hard, is difficult even for combat sol- Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur disdiers men who have had budclosed today, to take tiny Cabal dies killed by their side by Nazi lo Island, which is within rifle fire to feel marked antipathy range of famed Corregidor on toward German civilian refugees, Manila bay. especially young children - and FOR With the invasion of Negros, ; old people who never have car- MacArthur asserted the enemy ried arms against the Yanks. in the Visayan island group It Is hard for them to refuse "seems bewildered and his de- enemy little boys. and pigtailed, fense is collapsing. Ne- freckled girls who stand by the gros is rapidly a part of the Visayas. roadside waving .. timidly and Masbate and Bohol are the only I f Ecksrs Photographic ofwdio chocoasking for "schokolade II islands of the rr. remaining large j! late from the first soldier who group that have not been In- - i F proudly, presenls a program JI4 of choral and organ music smiles at them. And it is survaded by U. S. forces. for your Easter morning enprising to see how many adult more than 120 miles Negros, Germans come out to admire joyment. and 50 miles at its widest long American tank columns rolling part.' is one of the biggest sugar j Featuring endlessly by. These people have producers in the Philippines. ... an Ineradicable love of power, On recently invaded Cebu IsSIVANEt SINGERS pomp and pageantry even in land the American division over- the army that conquers them. and Recognizing the danger of fraternization, particularly if the war continues much longer, the New Sensation DONALD EARL . army has set up recreation cenIn Small Fruits ters in Belgium ' and France where soldiers can be sent every 35 A.M. month or six weeks for three KASUGA'S days. In these centers officers and Presented by Ecktr't Photographic Studio men have separate hotels and night clubs. Here men can eat , - well, sleep in luxury beds, get a few drinks and hear good music and forget the war. men. ' Jap shells had punctured , a number of holes in his plane but none was below the waterline. The next call was the rescue of seven men on rafts only , 500 yards from the enemy's strongly defended shore position. The Catalina was literally riddled with holes from mprtars and 20 mm. machine guns before' Rauwas able to pick' up the schkolb men. " ei His blister and near flooded ,$nd the forward compartmept had water two feet deep, in it. Rauschkolb immediately, ordered & "bucket brigade formed and his crew members as well aS men he had rescued Joined in the attempt to save the plane. In- - order to The courageous pilot was getting ready to take off for his base with' the crippled plane, already loaded to capacity, when a call came from .a third Mitchell which had ditched about JapsJj7I from where r'Rau- schkolb finished his last res- 15 compart--mentswer- miles cue. He realized that he could not make another ocean landing with is severely, damaged plane so with the bucket brigade to making herculean . efforts stem the rising water, Rauschkolb taxied the. whole distance and succeeded in picking up 'six more men. He had to make five attempts to. take off craft before "his water-logge- d finally responded .to the controls and got into the air. ' -- . j SI" PEARL HARBOR (AP) Jima-.noonly. was the toughest fight the marines have had In t their 168 years existence; they probably will have no tougher combat in the next 500 years, Lt. Gen. Holland M. (Howlin Mad) Smith said, in awarding Purple i. Hearts to Iwo wounded. Smith, commander of the fleet marine force in the Pacific, helped pin Purple Hearts yesterday on 1500 marines, all injured on little Iwo. It. was the greatest mass presentation of in marine medals history. r - en stern-hearte- d. Americans Land On Negros Isle j Picture in WeLdy , ' EASTER MORN '1 lV -- il: KSL 20th Century Strawberry - tion centers will satisfy a so- ldiers craving for friendship. Amerlcan Subs Sink Large Jap Carrier CATALOG SALES DEPT. OFFERS WASHINGTON A (AP) large enemy aircraft carrier is the latest major prize of United States submarine prowling in" Paciflc waters. The carrier topped the list of 11 Japanese vessels . the navy announced yesterday as having been sunk through submarine , action. Two destroyers and two escort vessels also were sent to the bottom. Enemy noncombatant vessels included in the latest submarine - tollwere . ihrfca. medium cargo vessels, large tanker, a medium cargo transport and a small cargo vesseL American undersea craft now have sunk 1083 Japanese vessels, including 122 combatant ships and 961 noncombatants. 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