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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. Hunting Subs By Lt. ‘Monk’ Fowler (WNU Feature—Through special arrangement with The American Magazine.) From the day we got our orders and were assigned to an aircraft carrier to clean the subs out of the Atlantic, we were never allowed to forget the gravity of the business in hand. The critical menace of the U-boats and the importance of our mission were deeply impressed upon us. At a northern port we got orders to proceed to a latitude and longi tude where a pack of subs had been seen. We were to go out to hunt and kill. I was flying the outbound leg of my patrol as we approached the suspected area. We were 300 feet above the waves peering anxiously about, when Wojcik, my radioman, called excitedly: “Mr. Fowler—you flew over something.” I went back but what Wojcik had seen was an other whale. Great guy for seeing whales, Wojcik. When I turned on the cross leg of my mission, I heard Fryatt, an other of our pilots, phone the ship: “Contact—attacked sub”—then he broke off. I pressed my earphones tighter to hear his next report, figured where I would be in about 20 min utes, and wrote down the position. Straining to hear Fryatt’s voice on the intership phone, 1 almost jumped when Wojcik called: “Mr. Fowler—what is that down there?” I looked, and saw a white streak. It might have been a destroyer, or another whale. But it wasn’t. “We’re in the money,” I called back. “Arm everything—let’s go.” Wojcik said: “Roger-r-r,” and I checked my guns. Bucholz, my gun ner, gave his a burst, and I threw my heels down to lose speed. We came in low—off the sub’s port quar ter. She was moving steadily for ward. I don’t think they saw us until we were on top of them. Wreck Steering Gear. We dived, and I pressed the but ton releasing my load. I could see the faces of the men in the conning tower. Wojcik called: “They’re hit off the starboard bow.” I pulled up and called the car rier: “Ship from Monk—attacked sub—” When I looked back, the sub was circling to go starboard. She acted like a wagon with one of its front wheels tied. We had blasted her steering gear. “Ship from Monk,” I called; “we’ve de livered our attack—sub is going in circles — firing. She cannot sub merge.” The skipper came back to me with his calm “Roger.” I went in again, and Buchola strafed the decks of the cripple. Then those Jerries let us have It. Their fire cut across our tail; I dived and saw their tracers go over me. Wojcik shouted: “Boy, that was close!” •! did some fancy maneu vering to keep out of range. Bucholz was bouncing all over the back end of the plane, but he kept firing. The sub was shooting wild now and a spray of bullets was hitting the water. When I pulled up again and looked back, the sub was 1 settling at the stem. My aerial had been shot away and I had lost com munication with the carrier, but I could hear another pilot reporting: “Ship from Bill—do you receive me?” and the answer. So 1 knew they were sending help. When Bill arrived, I went in again { to pull fire away from him so he could unload his bombs. The sub was still firing, and 1 heard Wojcik say: “It’s getting pretty hot.” Bucholz sprayed the conning tower with bullets. Bill dropped his load and pulled out. He looked at us and grinned as he went by. Sub Went Down. The sub moved forward its own length and went down before Bill called me—“Return to ship.” I dropped a smoke bomb to mark the spot before I went back, but we didn’t find an oil slick and there was no evidence we had made a kill. Back on our base ship I found that Fryatt’s sub hadn’t fired on him before submerging, so I felt I had the edge on him. Hodgson, another pilot, had attacked a sub a few minutes before I sighted m s ne. He had fired on it and strafed the gun crews, but the sub dived be fore he could finish the job. Up to this time we had had no excitement; in fact, things had been so monotonous aboard ship that I had asked for a transfer. The skip per said: “Monk, you still want that transfer?” I almost said: “Hell, no!” Then I thought: "Just a flash in the pan, may ne”er happen again.” I said: “Yeah, let it go through.” Nothing further happened for a while. Sometimes, for a little fun, we would scream down on the ships in our destroyer escort. We always kept several rolls of toilet paper handy for these “token bombings.” Running Hot, Sitting Cold, at Army Climatic Tests Eet's Face Facts The infantry takes it standing np—and sitting down—in tests at the Corps Climatic laboratory at Lawrence, Mass. It is here that the quartermaster corps charts reaction of men and checks effectiveness of equipment un der simulated tropical and arctic temperatures. Left: Three infantrymen with full packs undergo discomforts of an endless treadmill hike under broiling sun in the jungle chamber of the laboratory. Right: Observer checks clothing and condition of soldier who sits it out in searing 40 below zero frigidity of the cold test room. Hunting Dragons With an Eagle Nitrogen From Canada Sold in U. S. Below TV A and Army Price By BARROW LYONS —WNU Staff Corratpoadan# Barrow Lyons Meet a pair of principals In the cast of a new motion picture. Filmed in Mexico, movie stars “Tequi la,” a golden eagle obtained as a fledgling by Dan and Jule Mannix, well-known naturalists and explorers. (1) “Tequila” alights gracefully on wrist of Jule Mannix. (2) “Tequila’s” enemy—the iguana lizard. The reptile is five feet long, with a well-armored back, whip-like tail and is a dangerous foe. (3) Following a furious en counter “Teqnila” has pinned his leathery adversary to the ground with a powerful claw to show him who’s boss. (4) Closeup of the conqueror “Tequila.” Chaplain and Boys Used Captured Rations Left to right, Sergt. Edward J. Eve of New Albany, Ind.; Capt. Tom P. Senff, Mt. Sterling, Ky.; and Chaplain L. A. Dickson of Waco, Texas, prepare snack of captured Jap rice to supplement their own rations. They ingeniously use a steel helmet in lieu of a cooking-pan. Easy Does It! War Refugee Board Meets B 4fg| W Members of the War Refugee board, created last January by Presi dent Roosevelt, hold their initial business meeting. The aim of the board is to develop plans to transport, maintain and give relief to the victims of the enemy oppression. Left to right: Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimsou Well trained in the technique of handling suspicious enemy objects. Pvt. Gus Capelli of Denver, Colo., isn’t taking any chances in remov ing this German helmet. Aware of the booby trap the Nazi souvenir may conceal Gus gingerly lifts tro phy from ground. A King Weds ' ' $ ' - Vf King Peter of Jugoslavia and his bride, the former Princess Alexan dria of Greece, are pictured here leaving the Jugoslav embassy in London following thei? wedding. (This is one of a series of exclu sive articles on the current fertiliser situation.) There has been much criticism of the price at which the army ord nance plants and Tennessee Valley authority are disposing of ammoni um nitrate for fertilizer—$50 per ton f.o.b. plant. Nitrogen produced by the Canadi an Department of Munitions and Supply is being transported, some of it more than 3,000 miles from Calgary, Alberta, and is delivered in the United States at from $46.29 to $50 a ton. The Ca nadians say they are not selling be low cost—subsidiz ing the American farmer — but the freight from Cal gary to the southern seaboard on fer tilizer ammonium nitrate is between $16 and $20 a ton. The army ordnance plants began delivery in quantity in November, 1943. For the first three months they sold directly to TVA who con tracted with Associated Coopera tives, Inc., set up by a group of farmers’ cooperatives, to sell the nitrogen to fertilizer manufactur ers at $49 a ton. As of February 1, this year, the army ceased to sell directly to TVA but now sells to the Commodity Credit corporation, which, in turn, sells to the coopera tive. The price has been raised to $59 a ton to allow a dollar for freight equalization. Clue to Cost The Tennessee Valley authority has given one clue as to the cost of the fertilizer. On November 7, 1943, at hearings before a subcommittee of the house committee on appropri ations, a table was submitted which showed that the cost of limed am monium nitrate manufactured in TVA plants was $37.82, exclusive of administrative and depreciation charges. In another table TVA showed that it expected to show net cash income before depreciation of $246,000 in fis cal 1944 on the production of fer tilizer and war chemicals despite in clusion of an expense of $900,000 for research work. Apparently the en tire cost of research is being charged for budget purposes as a current expense on all chemical op erations. In 1943 a loss of $612,000 was shown, and a loss of $336,000 for 1945 is estimated. There has been much difficulty in dealing with the army, which is not set up to do ordinary commercial business. It prefers to sell to a gov ernment corporation rather than di rectly to commercial concerns. Its ordnance plants were built in the emergency to assure ample nitrogen production for- explosives, but the operating capacity was found to be far greater than needed—hence ni trogen has become available for fer tilizer. The construction of army ord nance plants has created a problem in disposal of the plants after the war. Some in the fertilizer industry believe that the nitrogen producing capacity of the country after the war will be far in excess of requirements for peacetime industrial purposes and agriculture, and advocate scrap ping some of the army nitrogen plants after the war. In fact, the newest plant—the cac tus ordnance plant near Etten, Tex as—already has been converted to production of other products, and the nitrogen equipment dismantled. Ef forts are now being made to sell this nitrogen producing equipment to Egyptian interests. It is pointed out that in 1939 indus try consumed 230,000 tons of nitro gen, while agriculture used 400,000 tons—a total of 630,000 tons. r 00,000-Ton Capacity The present capacity of govern ment is 700,000 tons of nitrogen a year, and the capacity of private plants amounts to 500,000 tons—a to tal of 1,200,000 tons a year—almost twice as much as was used before the war. But this year some 675,000 tons of nitrogen will be used in agriculture alone, and fertilizer use is increas ing. Purdue university agronomists recently calculated that if the state of Indiana alone were to use as much nitrogen in fertilizer as it should, 178,000 tons would be con sumed, against the 6,523 tons con sumed in 1941. This may seem fan tastic, but it indicates that there is a considerable future for the fertiliz er industry; and that the 1,200,000 tons of plant capacity in the United States may not be too great, if farm ers wake up to the possibilities of the most efficient use of fertilizer. Agronomists also point out that when the proper use of fertilizer be comes more general, farmers who live near the large markets will pro duce more abundantly; and that this may tend to take part of the market from those who are further from the centers of greatest consumption. 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