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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, APRIL 30, 1943 Flying Fortress Dishes It Out By CapU Clyde B. Walker (WNU Feature—Through special arrangement with The American Magazine.) WNU Sen-,, Newspaper Man Stuff: So here's to the gallant reporters. The boys with the pencils and pads. Those cool, imperturbable, calm, in. disturbable, ■ Nervy, inquisitive lads. Each time that we pick up a paper. Their marvelous deeds we should bless; Those bold, reprehensible, brave, indispensable Sensible lads of the press! —Newman l evy. We were carrying some mighty heavy stuff for Jerry in our big Flying Fortress. Leaving our home field in Eng land at six o’clock in the morning, our objective was the submarine pens at Lorient, France. As we approached, somebody yelled “Flak!” and the anti-aircraft shells broke around us. At the same time the ball turret gunner shouted “Wolves coming up!“He had sighted a dozen German fighters, Focke-Wulf 190s, climbing fast from downstairs. I held the ship steady on her eourse. A few seconds later Bombardier Bentinck pressed his bomb triggers. The giant bombs hit exactly where he had aimed them, in the middle of a platform between two subma rine pens. "Bull’s-eye!” he whooped over the intercom. I never heard any one sound so jubilant. Those were the last words Bentinck ever spoke. The next second, everything hit us at once. Things started happening much faster than I can tell them. FW’s Take Us On. We were raked from end to end with flak. At the same time a swarm of FW’s dived out of the sun. They came in like hornets, with 20-millimeter cannon and ma chine guns wide open. One burst of flak ripped into the nose. It killed Bentinck instantly. The same burst wounded Navigator Smith and knocked him uncon scious. A second burst ripped away the doors of the bomb bay. Another burst sprayed around Co-pilot Bill Reed and myself. That wasn’t half of it. Krucher, in the tail, had been hit. A cannon shell had torn a big hole in the ball turret. Radio Operator Frishholz had a flak hole in the back of his head, and the radio room was on fire. No. 1 Engine Is Ont. The first broadside of flak smashed the drive shaft of No. 1 engine. The No. 2 had been hit on top and was throwing oil. It might catch fire any second. Flak had knocked a big dent in the propeller of No. 3, and No. 4 had a big hole in its base. I carried on with 3 and 4. The ship staggered and started falling behind the rest of the squadron. I put the nose down and dived steep ly for the cover of some clouds far below us. FW’s Close In For Kill. Seeing we were badly hurt, the FW’s closed in for the kill. Then the boat really lived up to her name of Flying Fortress. We took plenty during the next 60 seconds, but not half as much as we dished out. My waist gunner. Bill Stroud, took care of 'the first one. It was so close that he could see the back of the pilot’s head. Stroud poured a stream of bullets into him. The FW went into a spin, and Stroud fol lowed him with burst after burst. A moment later another Jer ry eame under his sights. He poured steel into him, saw him fcfcak up. Right waist gunner Berring was pumping 50-caliber slugs at range. He, too, got a “proba ble,” a red-nosed FW which spun down and out of sight. Meanwhile the wounded tail gun ner got a chance. While he was ly ing back there losing blood, an FW roared in to finish him off. Krucher took steady aim and rapped out one long burst. It literally sawed the German’s wing off. He went down in flames. With the wind shrieking through the.flak holes, we raced down, down, for that beautiful layer of clouds. We made it. The remaining FW’s didn’t attempt to follow us into the clouds. Somehow or other, we limped home on our two engines and landed at an English airport near the coast. Our wounded went to the hospital, and have now recovered. Bentinck—as great a bombardier as ever served in any man’s army— was gone, but the other nine of us will soon be flying again. Our trip back was as big an ad venture as our fight with the FW’s. Coming out of the cloud cover, we were down to 600 feet when we saw the ocean again, then a large town, which I recognized as Brest, one of the most strongly fortified places in France. I pointed the ship straight over Brest. We were so low that we could see people staring up at us, but there were no fireworks. Crossing the harbor, we passed right between two German destroy ers at anchor. They could have blasted us to blazes. City editors are like those you see in the movies . . . They really are . . . Cynical, indifferent and inces santly so-whatty . . . Ask Jim Bish op, one of the Mirror’s nimble news paper sleuths . . . Jim was a wit ness to this incident many years ago . . It was one of those lovely tid- vts that brightened a dull night >ut of the nowhere came a stranger msely waving a pistol ... “I wan- a see the Fish and Game editor.” i said softly, “very important” . . \nd so Bishop brought him to the /'ish and Game man ... “I just killed my wife,” began the fellow. “I trussed her in a trunk and then I tied up her boy friend in a chair and then 1 set fire to him. I always liked your column, so I thought I’d give you the scoop.” Bishop and the Fish and Game editor took him over to the city edi tor . . . Now this city editor is one of those guys who wouldn’t blink if Rommel walked in and brought Hit ler with him—and he was irked . . . “I’m busy,” he said, motioning to his assistant across the slot . . . The murderer was told to repeat his story to the assistant city ed . . . He took a deep breath and rubbed his face, which was scratched like a ten cent ruby ... As he unfolded the details he kept yanking chunks of wire and rope from his pockets, and waving the pistol . . . The city editor never looked up from the copy he was studying, except to stifle a butt. “Now with this rope,” said the killer, “I tied up her boy friend. And with this wire I strangled her lovely throat. And here is the pistol, you can see for yourself that one bullet is missing” . . . The indifferent city editor, who was still occupied with the dummy of a page, looked up and said to his assistant: “Hey. Think there’s anything to this one?” This actually happened recently in one of the editorial offices . . . There had been rumors again that a shake- up was taking place and that heads would roll . . . One morning a stranger sat at a desk in the comer and answered the phone when it rang and when it wasn’t ringing, he just looked around at everybody . . . It gave the staff the screaming jit ters ... Nobody knew just what he was there for and all were afraid to ask . . . Finally, one feature writ er engaged him in gab . . . “What is your job around here?” he asked . . . “Oh, I don’t work here,” was the reply . . . “Well, then,” queried the other, “who are you waiting to see?” . . . “Oh,” said the stranger, “I’m not waiting to see anyone. My friend works in the advertising de partment. I’m his insurance agent. He told me I could use this desk.” The reporters down at Police H’quarters are the most colorful, we think . . . They “live” in a shack across the street from the gold braid cops . . . Life is a game of pinochle, a brass bell bonging a second alarm, a slip boy shuffling in with a suicide’s name and address or a phone call from the city desk to check on a rumor out of Washington that the Nazis are invading Turkey . . . But what we started out to say was that the kid who brings the morning papers to the niteside re porters there was bawled out by one of them. The boy had forgotten to leave a Times for the irate man . . . The kid said he was very sorry, and that it wouldn’t happen again . . . “It better not,” barked the reporter. “You know I bring a fish home ev ery morning. What the hell am I gonna wrap it up in?” My favorite newspaper man story always was the one about the vet eran editor, who on Christmas Eve gave these instructions to a cub . . . “Now I want you to go down to the Bowery,” said the boss, “and dig up some human interest about those poor unfortunates. Jot down how they enjoyed their Christmas dinner at the mission. Then after you cover the Salvation Army feast for the poor—bring me a couple of hot dogs.” Those are the kind of stories scribes tell each other, at any rate, and they have spellbound newspa per men ever since they got their first assignments . . . Take this one, frixample . . . Nobody’s asking you to believe it . . . But take it, any how ... A reporter phoned his city desk about a homicide . . . “The core,” he said, “is still at the scene of the crime!” “Don’t you mean corpse?” snarled the rewrite man. “I cei iny don’t!” was the re tort. “There was only one!” Make Red Points Work! Making red points fit your menus and still give you plenty of valuable proteins and fats on which to do a man - sized day’s work is like work ing out a jig-saw puzzle. But yoU remember how they all can come out if you try The answer is in _ points before you spend them, getting meats with low point value, and extending flavor of meat as much as possible. First of all, let’s realize that meat is a high quality protein, and that the body needs it for repairing and building tissue—which is a full-time job. We designate proteins as com plete and incomplete, the ones which are complete do a complete job of body building and repairing. Com plete proteins are meat, cheese, fish, poultry, eggs and milk. hard enough? budgeting your Incomplete proteins are those which can do just part of the job, and in this class we have breads, cereals, beans, peas and nuts. Of course we can use these foods al ternately or in combination with meat, when we cannot get enough meat to fill our requirements. But, always, please bear the difference in mind. Pork is our foremost source of thiamin or vitamin B,—sometimes called the pep and energy vitamin because of its important contribu tion to mental health. Here pork sausage is combined with a cereal for a really delicious “stretched” dish: All-Bran Scrapple. (Serves 8) 1 pound fresh pork sausage i 2 cups water 1 teaspoon salt % teaspoon pepper >/£ teaspoon powdered sage Few grains cayenne % cup cornmeal % cup bran cereal Brown sausage in heavy skillet; stirring occasionally; pour off and save fat. Bring water to a boil, add salt, pepper, sage and cayenne. Stir in cornmeal gradually; cook until thickened, stirring constant ly. Add bran ce real and sausage and mix thorough ly. Pour into dampened loaf pan; chill until firm. Unmold. Cut into %-inch slices and brown in sausage fat on hot griddle. Serve with ma ple syrup or apple butter. Chicken is a complete protein— and goes a long way, nicely in this delightful fruity salad which you’ll enjoy serving company or Sunday night supper guests: Lynn Says: The Score Card: With 35 mil lion homemakers carrying ration books to the grocers, new ways for managing limited foods are the order of the day. Many of these homemakers are accustomed to pulling off cans from their shelves, or taking quick-frozen food from their stor age lockers. Now they will have to glean all possible facts from labels of these processed foods, budget their points carefully. It’s smart to buy the size of can most profitable for her own individual family. Keep a table of equivalents handy in your purse until you become proficient. Usually, 16 ounces or one fluid pint will fill two measuring cups. The 32-ounce size will fill four cups. Remember canned vegetables are already cooked and need be brought only to boiling to be ready to serve. Buying fresh fruits and vegeta bles relieves pressure on canned goods. e This Week’s Menu •Stuffed Veal Hearts Buttered Noodles Quick-Cooked Green Cabbage Grated Carrot—Fresh Grapefruit Salad Whole Wheat Rolls Jelly Rhubarb Sauce Cookies Beverage •Recipe Given. Orange-Chicken Salad. (Serves 6) 1(4 cups orange sections 2 caps cooked ehicken, minced 1 cup diced celery (4 cup lemon french dressing Lettuce and other greens Toss orange sections; chicken and celery together with the lemon french dressing. Arrange on six in dividual beds of greens or lettuce. Kidney beans are a second-class or incomplete protein food, but they are fine to use on that extra day when there are no red points left over for meat. Dried peas and len tils have a low point value which makes them fine for tide-overs on meatless days: Grated cheese adds food value, takes only a few red points: Kidney Bean Loaf. (Serves 6 to 8) 2 .cups dry kidney beans 2 cups water 4 cups stale bread crumbs 2 cups grated cheese (4 cup chopped onion (4 cup shortening 1 egg 1(4 teaspoons salt (4 teaspoon pepper Soak beans overnight in the 2 cups water. In the morning, bring to a boil in the same liquid and then sifnmer until beans are tender. Mash beans fine and add all other ingredients, mix ing well. Pack in to a loaf pan and bake 1% hours in a 325-degree oven. Baste occasionally with 1 tablespoon melted butter and V« cup water. You may use fish generously as a real menu aid during these days. Many types of fish are in season all the year round, and a great many other come in season during spring; Fish Loaf. (Serves 4) 2 cups flaked, steamed fish (4 teaspoon salt 2 eggs, separated 1 cup medium white sauce Combine, fish, salt, beaten egg yolks, white sa|fce and beaten egg whites. Pour into greased baking dish and bake in a moderate oven 20 to 30 minutes. •Stuffed Veal Hearts. (Serves 5) 2 veal hearts 2 tablespoons chopped onion !4 cup chopped celery 2 tablespoons shortening 1(4 cups fine bread crumbs 3 /i teaspoon salt (4 teaspoon pepper (4 cup water 3 tablespoons shortening 2 cups stewed tomatoes 2 whole cloves 1 bay leaf 1 teaspoon salt (4 teaspoon pepper Clean hearts by cutting through side to center, open with a sharp knife, cut out all veins and arteries. Wash well. Make a dressing by cooking onion and celery in shorten ing. Add crumbs, salt, pepper and water. Stuff the hearts with dress ing and tie together with string. Roll hearts in flour, brown in short ening. Add tomatqes, cloves, bay leaf. Sprinkle with salt and pepper Cover with tight fitting lid and cook on low heat for 1(4 hours. Lynn Chambers welcomes you to sub mit your household queries to her problem clinic. Send your letters to her at Western Newspaper Vnion, 210 South Desplaines Street, Chicago, III. Don’t forget to enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope fa your reply. Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. T ’HE Hollywood telephone Repairman was phoning his report. "Yeah, I fixed it; cord was chewed.” Pause. “Yeah, chewed. No, not a dog—a lion.” Pause. "Sure I said lion.” Pause. “Look, I haven’t had a drink all day, and I said a lion chewed it. I’m at Jinx Falkenburg’s house.” He grinned. “Yeah, I knew you’d understand.” The cub, a present to Jinx from her brother. Bob, has since then taken to sharpening his teeth on the piano legs. The Co lumbia star of “She Has What It Takes” says that’s perfectly all right, if he sticks to piano legs. * Pola Negri, who years ago was one of the head glamour girls of the silent movies, is returning to the screen in the United Artists film, “Hi Diddle Diddle”; she’ll play an operatic star, the wife of Adolphe POLA NEGRI Menjou, a role from which Menjou’i real wife, Veree Teasdale, retired because of illness. Martha Scott has the leading role. Animated se quences by Leon Schlesinger, the film cartoon creator, will begin and end the picture. * * N.ne-year-old John Donat, son of Robert Donat, makes his film debut in “This Land Is Mine,” starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O’Hara. John breezed through his lines, and between takes sat high on a stepladder, reading a comic strip magazine—stayed there until Direc tor Jean Renoir called him down from his perch to go to work again. * David Niven returns to the screen after a two-year absence in “Spit fire,” the British-made Goldwyn pro duction which will be released by RKO Radio. A major in the British army, he was given leave to co-star with Leslie Howard in this picture. * After testing Hollywood stars by the dozen King Vidor has selected an unknown for the important role of Brian Donlevy’s wife in Metro’s “America.” She’s Ann Richards, who arrived here from Australia on the last boat to leave after the bomb ing of Pearl Harbor. * Little Margaret O’Brien, who stole the honors in “Journey for Mar garet” and did the same thing when the “Screen Guild Players” did a dramatized version of it on the air, won Jack Benny's heart when, ask ing him for an autograph, she said she’d seen him fall into a lake in a picture. “That was with Bob Hope,” said he. And Margaret replied “Bob Hope? Is he a comedian, too?” * Red Skelton’s been having a swell time, working at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn on “Whistling in Brook lyn”; every member of the famous Dodgers, including Manager Duro- cher, appears in the picture. Five hundred rabid Dodger fans sat in the bleachers for some sequences— and what’s more, got paid for it! —*— The quickest way to become a star on your own program is to do a guest shot on Rudy Vallee’s Thurs day show. During the past year he’s presented Groucho Marx, Billie Burke and Ransom Sherman, among others. Now Marx stars on his own Saturday night program, Sherman recently launched a new series, and Billie Burke will have two air shows going during the summer. * That new “Salute to Youth” pro gram has just about everything ra dio fans can want. There’s WiUiam L. White, war correspondent; Ray mond Paige and an all-youth orches tra; Nadine Conner, Metropolitan Opera star; Berry Kpoeger as, nar rator, and a guest war worker. With most of the cast in their ’teens or early twenties, the program—on NBC Tuesdays—is a salute to youth, by youth. * ODDS AND ENDS—Lesley Woods, “Bright Horizon" actress, has said good- by to her dog. Bouncer; he’s joined the army as a buck private . . . Fred Allen will return to motion pictures this sum mer . . . They’ve found another road for Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, “Road to Utopia," to be made this summer, but probably without Dorothy Lamour . . . After five years, Phil Baker will return to the movies in 20th Century-Fox’s “The Girls He Left Behind" . . . Ginny Simms, star of “Johnny Presents," has begun a tour of desert army camps within a day's distance of Hollywood; she offers a one- woman show and the entire expenses of the trip, including those of the orchestra. UOUSEHOU) HINTS® Save the peels of oranges and tangerines, dry them in the oven, and store them in glass jars. They give puddings a delicious flavor. • • • Small bits of soap in a thin cloth bag are as effective as a large cake of soap for use in a bath. • • • Next time the steps need paint ing, try painting every other step; let these dry, then paint the oth ers. It takes a bit longer, ’tie true, but it’s a lot handier and the kiddies will love having to take ’em “two at a time.” • • • To remove old wallpaper, wet with a solution of one tablespoon of saltpeter in a gallon -of water. Works best if the water is hot. * * * If a little piece is chipped off walnut furniture, touch up the spot with iodine applied with a piece of cotton, then go over the surface with furniture polish. A small piece of tin or a thin piece of wood is useful when washing the baseboard of a room. It can be sbpped along 'as the woodwork is scrubbed and save many a nasty smear on the wall paper. C/WT BUY ASPIRIN that can do more tor you than St. Joseph Aspirin. Why pay more? World’s largest seller at 10c. Demand St. Joseph Aspirin. Two-Ton Baby A whale weighs approximately 4,000 pounds at birth. SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT RUBBER '* rt “ ^ It was not until 1916 fbatfh* U. 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