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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
PEACETIME MISSION
Weekend Fliers Are Main Cog
In Marine Corps Air Reserve
WNU Features.
“Week-end fliers,” they’re generally dubbed, but these
Leatherneck volunteers play an integral role in the marine
corps aviation reserve program. The marine air reserve
again is ready to resume its peacetime mission, corps officials
emphasize in reporting on its first year of activities, which
ends on July 1.
As the initial step in launching the organized reserve pro
gram 12 months ago. 20 Leather-<$
neck fighting squadrons composed
of week-end fliers were activated.
Since then a total of 24 fighting
squadrons have been formed.
Motivated by the principle that
the reserve is the force needed in
an emergency, no effort is spared to
make the reserve a combat-ready
unit, according to Brig. Gen. C. F.
Schilt, commander of the marine
air reserve training command.
“Every flight has been con
ducted to further the pilot’s
military proficiency,” General
Schilt insists. Training for en
listed men commenced with the
first drill period and has been
organized on every level of skill
from basic training to aircraft
engineering, he adds.
For their annual summer maneu
vers, the marine week-end fliers
will congregate at Cherry Point, N.
C.. and El Toro, Calif., from Au
gust 14 through August 29. The 12
RESERVE FLIERS
Ready for Combat
AIRPORT CHATTER
Participating in observance of
National Air Week, South Dakota
Flying Farmers will make a state
wide aerial pilgrimage over 100
towns this weekend. Col. Joe Foss
of Sioux Falls, national guard air
squadron leader and former marine
ace, will lead the air cruise of at
least 50 planes. . . . With Clyde Ice,
the state’s pioneer aviator, in
charge, a new flying service has
been opened at the Pierre, S. D., air
port, recently returned to city con
trol from the army. Two of Ice’s
flying sons, Cecil and Charles, will
assist in operating the school and
charter service. . , The' slogan,
“Air Power Is Peace Power,” was
emphasized at the first national air
power conference of the Rocky
Mountain Empire held in Denver
under auspices of the American Le
gion. Headline speakers were Gov.
Lee Knous; Brig. Gen. Leon W.
Johnson, commanding the fifteenth
air force; Brig. Gen. Frederick H.
Smith Jr., commanding general of
the Civil Air patrol, and Rear
Adm. Irving M. McQuiston, adviser
on naval reserve to chief of naval
operations. . . . With 27 charter
members, flying enthusiasts of Man
chester, Iowa, have formed the Man
chester Flying club. Aviation inter
est in the community has increased
steadily since establishment of a
flying field. ... A fleet of 28 private
ly owned airplanes carried a group
of fishermen from Storm Lake, Jef
ferson and Des Moines, Iowa, to
Bemidji, Minn., for a weekend of
fishing.
east coast squadrons will assemble
at Cherry Point while the 12 west
coast air reserve units will partici
pate in the El Toro maneuvers.
The maneuvers are designed to
co-ordinate all individual and squad
ron training with problems of close
air support of marine ground units.
While close air support will be the
primary function, air defense will
play an important secondary part.
Although the fighting squadrons
were activated first, two other
phases e* the marine corps’ post
war pro ram also have been empha
sized. They are formation of the
marine ground control intercept
squadrons and training of the vol
unteer reserve.
The ground control intercept
squadrons, successors to the air
warning squadrons of World War II,
are equipped with radar and com
munications gear with the mission
of detecting enemy aircraft and con
trolling friendly aircraft to intercept
enemy planes.
Training of members of the vol
unteer reserve has been conducted
on marine air stations at both El
Toro and Cherry Point. Reserve
units are receiving training as funds
and facilities permit.
This Proves There’s
No Perfect Crime’
NEW CASTLE, DEL.—As New
Castle’s night police force consists
of only one patrolman, two burglars
thought they had figured out the
perfect crime.
They broke into a grocery store
directly across the street from the
state police station, where they
could watch Patrolman Francis J.
Hewlett sitting at his well-lighted
desk.
However, Hewlett spied the bur
glars and telephoned the state po
lice barracks five miles away. 'Two
men just broke into Platt’s grocery,
right across the street,” he said.
"They can see me, so if I make
a move they’ll scram.”
Ten minutes later the burglars,
still watching Hewlett, were startled
when state policemen pounced on
them.
Leaves Legs Behind
PITTSBURGH, PA. — Someone
walked away and left his legs be
hind. Police report finding two arti
ficial legs complete with socks, gar
ters and shoes. The legs, they said,
had been worn recently.
F. F. A. Boys Build Shop
From Salvaged Lumber
EDMONDS, WASH. — Undaunted
by high building costs. Future
Farmers of America at Edmonds
high school are constructing their
own vocational farm shop building.
Using lumber salvaged from three
abandoned Paine field buildings,
members of the chapter are doing
their own construction work under
direction of Harold Silvemail,
Smith-Hughes instructor
Dusting farm crops by air
plane has become an important
business in Idaho, Oregon and
Washington. In these three
states more than 200,000 acres of
farm crops were dusted by
plane during the past year.
UNIQUE OPERATION
One of the nation’s most unique
flight operations is going into its
third year of successful service.
John Riedl, manager of the Hey-
wood-Gull Lake airport at Nisswa,
Minn., recently completed two years
of power line patrol for Minnesota
Power and Light company.
During that time he has flown
25,000 miles in a Piper Cub, flying a
few feet above the 100,000 volt lines,
which run north to the Mesabi iron
range over heavily wooded country.
In contrast to foot patrols, which re
quired six weeks to inspect the com
pany’s lines, Riedl and his observ
er, John Mattson, make regular
trips over the entire line every other
week.
Damage from lightning, forest fire,
windstorms and fallen trees are
among the causes of power failure
which must be watched. Most fre
quent trouble spotted by the aerial
observers, however, is broken insu
lators atop the 60-foot poles which
have been shot at by trigger-happy
hunters.
• • •
NOT A CRASH! . . . This might
have been a crash—but wasn’t.
A coast guard helicopter is de
liberately landed in the sea, where
no land plane should be, to test
the newly developed emergency
flotation gear. The equipment
makes it possible to land on the
water or on marshy ground.
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ENGINEERS TAKE TO AIR
Highway engineers are making in
creased use of aerial photography to
aid location of new traffic arteries
and to cut survey costs, according
to the American Public Works as
sociation. New aerial survey tech
niques, perfected during the war,
are producing highly accurate
maps, which also are being used to
determine best routes for arterial
highways through and around cities,
to aid in traffic flow and congestion
studies, and even to determine type*
of soil along proposed rights-of-way.
ACCUSED , . . Charged by Amer
ican authorities with committing
“dreadful” atrocities against cap
tured prisoners of war in Japan,
Tomoya Kawakita, American-
born Japanese, was arrested in
Los Angeles for treason. An Amer
ican soldier whom Kawakita is
said to have mistreated recognized
him and put G-men on his trail.
TO HEAD MISSION . . . Dwight
P. Griswold, former Republican
governor of Nebraska, has been
named by President Truman to
head U. S. mission to administer
American, aid to hard-pressed
Greece.
MINISTER . . . This picture of
Selden Chapin, minister-delegate
to Hungary, was taken as he en
tered the White House for a visit
with President Truman, and prob
ably to talk about Hungary.
BROTHERHOOD . . . Radio song
stress Kate Smith received 1947
American brotherhood arts and
sciences citations for her work.
The award was given by the Na
tional Conference of Christian
and Jews.
HOOVER REPORTS . . . FBI
Chief J. Edgar Hoover was called
before senate judiciary committee
to explain why FBI’s investigation
of primary election fraud In Kan
sas City waa not carried to com
pletion.
CLEAR CASE OF THE JITTERS . . . New Fork subway riders who
wonder every evening whether the subways will be running to take
them to work in the morning can take consolation from this picture
of two officials of the New Fork transport workers union who ap
peared on the verge of hysteria as they presented demands for higher
pay. Fingernail chewer is Austin Hogan and to the right is Mike
Quill, president of the TWU.
Atomic Cloud Is
Fatal War Tool
Radioactive Mist Is Called
Deadlier Than A-Bomb,
Senators Told.
WASHINGTON. — Senators were
told by Glenn L. Martin, Baltimore
airplane manufacturer, that our
scientists are working on a radio
active cloud which will be released
by planes at great heights without
explosion of an atomic bomb.
Appearing before a senate com
merce subcommittee considering
establishment of a statutory na
tional air policy, Martin said he is
not sure this country should turn
out too many atomic bombs be
cause of work on this “cloud.”
He told reporters that the “cloud”
could be of greater military value
than the atomic bomb, except that
it might “boomerang” because it
would drift with the wind and might
come back and destroy American
armies.
Urge Air Program.
A picture of an American avia
tion industry "slowly bleeding to
death” and in urgent need of a five-
year production program backed
up by a definite government policy
also was drawn for senators by rep
resentatives of the industry.
They told of a “financial crisis”
in the industry because of sharp
contraction of production and of- a
great need for long-range planning
in research and development if
Britain and Russia are not to out
strip the United States in technical
advances and number of planes.
The group endorsed a bill by
Chairman Brewster (Rep., Me.) to
create a national air policy board
composed of the secretaries of
state, war, navy and commerce and
two members each from the senate
and house.
Oliver P. Echols, president of Air
craft Industries association and a
former major general of the air
forces, said the nation is not main
taining “a minimum industry ca
pable of rapid expansion in an
emergency.”
Plane Output Low.
He reported only 1,330 military
planes were turned out last year
compared with a minimum annual
output of 3,000 recommended by the
government’s air coordinating com-
MAN OF ACHIEVEMENT . . . “Worker Father of the Fear” is an
appellation any father might well envy, so John Van Hoose of Rich
ardson, Ky., can be excused for showing a little pardonable pride
over being given that honor by the national Father’s Day committee.
Van Hoose, shown here being interviewed by two ladies of the
press, is the father of 15 living children and the grandfather of an
additional 15.
PATIENCE ON A PORCH ROOF . . . Scenes such as this one which
occurred at Ottumwa, Iowa, were common for a time throughout the
vast flooded areas of the Middlewest. Hardest hit city, however, was
Ottumwa where thousands of persons were driven from their homes
when the Des Moines river overflowed its banks to inundate most
of the town. Along the Mississippi, farm lands were flooded from
Keokuk, Iowa, down to St. Louis.
ASKS MORE PAF . . . Engaging In serious discussion of money
matters are (left to right) Secretary of State George C. Marshall;
Sen. Styles Bridges (Rep., N. H.), chairman of the senate appro
priations committee, and William Benton, assistant secretary of state.
Marshall asked the committee to restore all but five million of the
60-million-dollar house cut in state department funds which he said
should not be whittled down at this particular time. ^
mittee.
Without a five-year program es
tablished by law governing proce
dure practices and policies, hp
added, it will be impossible for the
armed services “to buy modem air
craft and flying missiles efficiently
and economically under the legisla
tion adopted 20 years ago.”
He also urged a “healthy com
mercial aviation” program as an
aid in maintaining the aircraft
manufacturing industry. This, he
said, should include development of
new airlines and encouragement of
air freight.
He said Russia had continued her
wartime plane production, while
output in the United States dropped
off precipitately beginning with
1944.
This 235-Pound Baby Sitter
Finds That Boys Are Tough
BOSTON. — Boston’s huskiest
baby sitter is George Ramacorti, a
235-pound tackle on the Boston uni
versity football team.
Ramacorti, a former day laborer
and bomb loader for the army, said
those jobs weren’t bad at all, “but
this baby-sitting is really a tough
one.”
“They frighten me stiff,” he said.
"The little ones, I mean. I’m afraid
when I pick them up they’ll break
in two.”
Ramacorti finds little girls easier
to handle than boys.
"The little girls only want you to
tell them a story when they go to
sleep just as nice as you please,”
he said. “But the boys—oh, golly!
They really can kick up a fuss. As
soon as they hear I’m a football
player, they want to get down with
me on the floor and try out a few
tackles or blocks.”
War Department Officials
Urge Strategic Stockpiles
WASHINGTON. — Top army and
navy officials have urged more
stockpiling of raw materials needed
for war production and the civilian
economy.
Kenneth C. Royall, undersecre
tary of war, told a senate public
lands subcommittee:
"We know that in the world today
other nations are providing strate
gic military stockpiles," he said.
"We cannot afford not to do the
same.”
John W. Kenney, assistant secre
tary of the navy, endorsed Royall’s
statement.
United States Halts Grabbing
Of Property Owned by Reich
FRANKFURT, GERMANY.—The
U. S. army halted all requisitioning
of additional German property for
military purposes in the American
zone of Germany and in Berlin.
A headquarters announcement
said that military commanders
would not be permitted to seize any
German property over and above
that already used by Americans.
End of additional requisitioning
was announced following recent
criticism from German authori
ties, faced with critical housing
shortages.
Aged Indian Reputed
Oldest Living Human
Navajo of 137 Still Continues
Work as Retainer.
RUIDOSO, N. M. — Out of this
southern New Mexico mountain re
sort country came the story of a
Navajo Indian, Francisco Saiz, re
puted to be 137 years old—and pos
sibly the nation’s oldest living hu
man.
The account came from a repor
ter, Miss Mary Nell Taeger of the
Ruidoso Weekly News, who inter
viewed Saiz and said she was con
vinced of his age.
She found Saiz living on a small
farm near out-of-the-way Arabella,
N. M., 40 miles northeast of Rui
doso.
The old man makes his home
with Simon Sanchez, 74, who re
lated that his family had first be
come acquainted with Saiz as a
middle-aged man in the 1860s.
The Navajo has been a family
retainer since, serving Sanchez’
mother until her death at 115 and
remaining thereafter with the son.
Still active enough to get about
with a cane, Saiz attends to all his
personal needs and eats three
meals a day with his third set of
natural teeth.
Miss Taeger said questioning had
added these details:
As a youth Saiz was a cowboy
and sheep herder. In later years, he
was the first freighter for the gov
ernment from Las Vegas, N. M., to
nearby Fort Stanton while troops
were stationed at that cavalry out
post.
He recalled Indian attacks on the
fort, something of the Lincoln cattle
war and Billy the Kid.
Comic Books Arc Gone,
Jail Trusty Transfers
FRANKLIN. IND—The John
son county jail is without its
most publicized “guest” again,
all because of a few comic
books.
Albert Perry, trusty, told
Judge Grant Rogers he didn’t
mind when the sheriff took away
his radio because he had been
AWOL for five days. But when
the sheriff denied him his comic
books, that was too much.
Perry was transferred to the
state reformatory.
Got Wrong Baby, Parents Say
In Filing Suit for $200,000
NEW YORK.—A young mother
said that the infant girl she gave
birth to several months ago and saw
daily for eight days was taken from
her by city hospital authorities who
forced her to accept another child—
a boy.
Mrs. Leonard Sosa and her hus
band made the charge in a claim
for $200,000 damages against the
city, asserting that they were issued
a birth certificate for a female in
fant and the hospital had given them
the wrong babyx
The couple said that after eight
days, the boy was substituted for
their girl without explanation. Hos
pital employees, they said, ignored
the mother’s pleas for “my own
child.”
The caesarean birth took place at
Lincoln hospital on March 13. The
Sosas said that on the second day
the mother folded diapers in the
baby ward and put a diaper on her
own child.
On the same day, they said, a
birth certificate was given them for
a female child. They said a second
birth certificate, designating the
child as a male, was sent them after
they had taken the boy home.
The couple claimed that the sec
ond certificate was signed by a
nurse at the hospital instead of by
the attending physician.
Seafarers Asked to Look
For Pygmy Sperm Whale
REHOBOTH BEACH, DEL.—Sea
farers along the Delaware capes
have been asked to keep a weather
eye peeled for a pygmy sperm
whale in the interests of science.
The request was made by scien
tists at Swarthmore, Pa., college,
who want to examine the whale’s
circulatory system to determine
why he is not affected by “bends,”
a type of cramps suffered by deep
sea divers.
The 10-foot, 1,000-pound pygmy
whale dives and rises with great
speed, but never is troubled with
the bends. To avoid cramps, hu
mans have to descend and ascend
in deep water in easy stages under
controlled air pressure.
22 Japs Now Convinced
That War Is All Over
MANILA— Twenty-two Japanese
soldiers rounded up on wild Pala
wan island were held in Manila,
convinced at last that the war is
over.
Maj. Richard R. Prewitt of Hous
ton, assisted by Attorney Thomas
O’Connor of the Bronx, and 100 Fil
ipino troops of the military police
command, captured the holdouts.
For 19 months and seven days,
the Japanese soldiers had roamed
northwest Palawan, foraging for
food and totally ignorant that the
war was over. The prisoners were
chubby and clean-shaven and, ex
cept for three wounded in a fight
with Filipino homesteaders, were in
excellent health.
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