Show PLAY GAME WITH HUNTIN HUN TIN FISH london how a certain united states observer dally daily plays the tha acae of life and death with hun tin ish fish was interestingly told here by a member ot of the committee n public information ng as follows A short thick temporary ensign one me T 11 murphy with rod red face anti and very aery blue eyes sits day and night in his office in a little shack at a united states naval air station poring raised maps with colored strings stretched on them and queer pins stuck in them his job Is 13 to keep track of every hun submarine that la Is in operation being a former submarine man himself his instinct for them Is that of a ferret erret after a rat ile he knows hen hell they need air how badly every depth charge has tickled them knows even when they must come to the surface tor for the kipper to smoke his cigar as there Is no smoking inside a submarine murphys Murp hys knowledge decides the success or ar failure of the young youn 9 reserve ensigns of the naval flying force now at stations where there are young men who have left the hall rooms of new york or the battlefields of yale find and harvard to take a whack at the hun take for instance ensign R E J ln of new york city and of the yale class 1919 tie ile Is direct descendant seen ant dant of john jay of revolutionary fame and his father ic left ft home for the spanish american war in the same ship that carried his son to this one murphy was right was in murphys Murp hys office early one morning when that expert tool the pipe from his mouth stuck a pin pill in the middle of the north soa sea and then blow blew out a blue cloud of 0 smoke be one he said right about there one what A smoke of course been under so many hours on such and such a course in three hours broach find and the reason will be tobacco search area and und and find a sub relin was the he first pilot the second pilot was roger W cutler stroke and captain of the harvard varsity crew of 1917 the crew of the big seaplane was completed by bernstein the machinists mate and electrician and champion tham plon yard sprinter three hours later a bright herringbone sea was creeping under them through the mist the visibility was bad but suddenly both off leers made the same exclamation under their breath as the seaman called to his mate A large hun Is going north one gan ln remarked soy say murphy was right only I 1 dont see anyone smoking the plane got itself between the sub find and the sun run then for two whole minutes it bore down on the nun hun shark she loomed up through the mait big ns is a house said afterward within a halt half minute she started to submerge with crash now said cutler we wa will give them a light brought home the th onions ile he tripped his bomb release at the instant the big plane was directly over the conning tower which was exactly awash ln lu threw the machine into a vertical bank to observe the effect of the explosion A white geyser spouted fifteen feet on the port beam the delay had been just right look her propellers out laughed one of the men they knew then that she was da damaged deranged find and that her diving planes had been so injured that she could not submerge they knew she had to cling to the surface that all her advantage in being a sub was lost and that she was a prey to any patrol As tile the plane was short vt of petrol having a forty mile wind to fight fi against the american lads lad set sail for home with a sense of a de deed ed well done the rest was wag routine the plane signaled a drifter there Is a damaged sub five miles biles northwest ot of you the drifter knowing that a sub rob on the surface would wait start to run like a scared cut cat as damaged subs do and that they catch her relayed the news to certain destroyers the destroyers did the rest hurried up tip rammed the U boat and there were mere only six survivors her diving rudder had bad probably been damaged the destroyers put her down but she was the prize of felin ln ol of yale and antler of harvard it was cutlers butlers Cut lers first fly as a pilot on a war patrol the first bombs he ever dropped in action brought home the onions |