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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
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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
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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.
Also, as the good land is cultivat
ed more intensively, the cost of
farming marginal land will become
increasingly less profitable. This
may mean a more rapid conversion
of marginal lands into pastures and
wood lots, with possible shifting of
population in some areas.
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