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»s%f? fifff Two THS KtHXHBY FIAIHDXALZ* ••iiB . v: " *'* 1 •* T5 Thursday, Jvne 29, 1944 y»?s„ •'• ";:7: T With Ernie Pyle at the Front ns'*?pr»: Doolittle Meets Doolittle; Son Drops In on Father } Tokyo Bombing He^o Has Still Another - | Namesake to Greet in Same 8th Air Fore | " * By Ernie Pyle rfMWi Vof e • fhte t» trwt*mis*ion delay*, brau&tm if ti* vatmma of ******** dispouhrn. Ernie Pyle's fir ft report* on 4&<it Historic w«U have not yel reached this country.. The fotlotcing dispatch un* written before tha invasion startedJ LONDON.--(by wireless)--Here I've been galllvantin' around with lieutenant generate again* If this keeps up I'm going to lose my amateur standing. This time it is Jimmy doolittle, who is still the same magnificent guy «with three stars on his shoulder that he used to be with a ' captain's bars. .. General Doolittle runs the American Eighth air force. It is a grim and stupendous job, but he manages to keep the famous Doolittle sense jef humor about it. <v Doolittle, as you know, is rather short and getting almost bald. Since arriving in England from Italy he has diabolically started a couple of false rumors circulating about himself " " One is that hi* nickname used to 1*. "Curly," and he occasionally throws his head Lisping Lawyer Gets Leave to Fix Teeth CHATTANOOGA. -- Criminal Court Judge Frank Darwin allowed a continuance in an assault case when the defense attorney pleaded: "Counsel has just recently had some new teeth put in and is unable to enunciate properly, and, therefore, does not feel he can represent the defendant properly at this time." Injured in Fight, He Gets Real Mad Yank Flier Shoots Down $ And Staves OS Enemy. £•5: Ernie Pyle back as though tossing hair out of his eyes. His ether Claim is that he used to , be six feet tall but has worried himself down to his present small height in the past five months. Jimmy Doolittle has more gifts titan any one mah^hasja right to be blessed with. • • He hi# beta one America's greatest pilots for more than 20 years. He is bold and completely fearless. Along with that he has a great technical mind and a highly perfected education in engineering. In addition to his professional skill he is one of the most engaging humans you ever ran across. His voice is elesr and keen, he talks with animation, and his tone carries a sense of quick and right decision. He is one of tha greatest of storytellers. He is the only man I've ever known who can tell stories all evening long and never tell one you've heard before. He can tell them in any dialect, from Swedish to Chinese. Above aB he loves ft* tall staHes on himself. Here is an example: He was at a Flying Fortress base one afternoon when the planes were coming back in. Many of them had been pretty badly shot up and had wounded men aboard. The general walked up to one plpne from which the crew had just jgpt ojJt. The upper part of the tail gun turret was shot away. General Ppolittle said to the tall-gunner: 1 J'Were ypyjn there when it hapfX^ ed?'* •.•gTBS ; r The gunner, a little peevishly, retdied: *ami "Yes sir." tm£s affiioy%ed gunfter turned to a lellow crewman and said in a laud voice: """Where in the hell did he think 1 wftg, out buying a harfl IfindwIcKT" A frightened junior officer, fearing the general might havs overheard, said: "My God, man, don't you know who that was?" *'Sure I know," the tail-gunner snapped, "and I don't give a damn. Wbat was a stupid question. ' With which Jimmy Doolittle, the least stupid of people, hilly agrees When he tells the story. • • • Jimmy tells these stories vonderfcilly, with more zest and humor than I can put into them tecondhanded. As he says, the heartbreaks and tragedies' of war sometimes push all your gaiety down into the vdepths. But if a ms n can keep a sense of the ridiculous about himself he is all right. Jimmy Doolittle can. Lieat. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle. head, of the Eighth air force over here, noticed one day in the roster officers at his staff headquarteis the name of a Captain Doolittle. The name is not a very ordinary one, and he made a mental note .that some day he would look the fellow up for a little chat. One day • ' not long after that his phone rang and the voice at the other end said, "This is Captain Doolittle." "Oh yes," said the general. "I had noticed your name and I meant tie call you up sometime." "I'd like to come'in and see you," said the voice at the Other end. "Why yes, do that," the general said. "I'm pretty busy these days, but I'll switch you to my aide and he'll make an appointment for you. Glad you -called. Captain. I'll look forward to seeing you." He was just ready to hang up when the voice came back plaintively over the phone: "But Dad, this is me. ^Don't y<H# recognize me? I've got a package for you from Mchi." The general exploded; "Well why in hell didn't you say so in the first place!" It wss Capt. Jimmy Doolittle Jr., a B-26 pilot in the Ninth air force. The general hasn't got around yet to seeing the other Captain Doolittle. It'll probably turn out to b« his brother or something. • • • The last lisM I had seen General Doolittle was some 16 months ago, way down »t the desert airdrome ol Biskra on the edge of the Sahara. That was when he .was running our. African bomber force that' was .frits* tering the Tunisian ports. General Doolittle flew in one afternoon from the far forward airdrome of Youks les Bains. The night before his entire crew except for the co-pilot had been killed in a German bombing at the Youks field. „ His crew had manned their plane's guns until It got too hot, and then made a run for an old bomb crater SO yards away. 'It was one of those heartbreaking freaks of hard luck. A bomb hit the crater just as they reached it, and blew them all to pieces. General Doolittle has written hundreds, perhaps thousands, of letters tc people who have lost sons or husbands in his air forces. But one of the men in that crew was the hardest subject he has ever had to write home about. Here is the reason- When he led the famous raid on Tokyo, Doolittle had a mechanic who had been with him a long time. Doolittle was a colonel then. The mechanic went on the Tokyo raid with him. You remember the details of that raid, which have gradually seeped out The planes were fradly scattered. Some were shot dawn over Japanese territory. Others rail out of gas. Some of the crews bailed out. Plbfrs landed in Russia. The «olatt?rfSi tf£ms$lves all over tfie ^ice paddieg §f Chlpf That night Doolittle was lower than he had ever been before in his life. There wasn't any humor in the world for him that night. He sat with big head down and thought to' Ou have balled up the biggest chance anybody could evej navi. You have sure maae T mess of this affair. You've lost most of your planes. The whole thing was a miserable failure. You'll spend the rest of your life in Leavenworth for this, and be lucky to get out of it that easy." As he sat there this sergean^mechanlr came up and said: "Dcn't feel so bad about it, Colonel." Do>>! ittle paid no attention. But the s^geant kept at him. "It's not as bad as it seems. Why, I'll bet you that within a year you'll have a Congressional Medal for it and be a brigadier general." Doolittle Just snorted. "Well, I'll bet you so," the sergeant said. "And I'd like to ask one thing. As long as you're flying I'd like to be your mechanic." That finally got inside Doolittle's gloom Somebody had confidence in hirrf. He began to buck up. So he said: "Son, as long as I've got an airplane you're its mechanic, even if we live te be a thousand years old." LONDON --A shell burst which; wounded Sergt. James R. Hampton of Joycetown, Ky., in a big aerial; battle over Germany made him so fighting mad that he shot down pos* sibly eight German fighters in a thrfc<k hour battle, it was announced. Hamilton was tail gunner of the Flying Fortress Bad Penny, piloted by First Lieut. Fred D. Crinham of Coral Gables, Fla., who said: "If that fellow didn't get at least eight Nazis we'll eat our helmets--earphones and alL" "That battle of Sergeant Hamilton," as his crew mates call it, began when their J(*. 4 engine was knocked out as they were over the target, the German industrial city of Oscherleben. The Bad Fenny lagged behind its formation and the Nasi fighters swooped in for a kill. Hamilton opened fire, and the. crew heard him yell, "Wow! I got tha so-and-so's." Then silence. No one jkmfw he had .been hit, tor his .guns atafclad fighters were seen DUlitdf ur fiamts. "Those fighters attacked us far three hours, and Hamilton got the brunt of it," said Grinham. "Be just put on a one-man show back there in the tail. My crew swears he got at least eight Nazis and maybe ten., We would never have reached England if he hadn't been cracking away the way he did. And he was weak from loss of blood, too." Hamilton Is making a rapid recovery from his wound and will soon be ready for another bout. •a OFFICIAL OPENING of ticket sales to the giant Fourth of Jaly eolobratioa to be ImM at Soldier FUU Tuesday, Jab 4, was iaaagatatod whea Mayer Edward J. Kelly parchatsd 4m irst ticket to the oven! froa Mn. Mildred Kneles, secretary off the Caok Ceanty Ceaacil Auxiliary ol As Americas Legion, which is sponsoring the U| show. William P. Kleaakcas, general chairaun of tike Fearth of, Jily celebration* witnesses the MuactUa with appnvaL The forth- Ttmlwr evcat will he the tenth anhaal eelohraMon by the Legion* This year's program will eoataMaMrato the Ittth anniversary feigning ef the Declaration of Ipdspeadoa SLOCUM LAKE (By Mrs. Barry Matthews) Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthew* and son Robert and Mrs. W. L. Spafford were business callers at Waukegan last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. James Thomson of Williams Park were callers at Barrington last Saturday evening. Mrs. C. H. Hansen was a caller at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Luening at Roseville Saturday. Mrs. Provenza and Mrs. McAfee of Chicago were callers - Sunday «t the hfcme of Mr. and ' Mr£! "Jamds* Thomson at Williams Park. Mrs. Arnold Burkhart of Chicago was a dinner guest Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Burk-; hart at Williams Park. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lusk and daughter ©etty Lou spent Sunday evening with relatives at EJmwood j^.;\ ^ . v." MSr. and Mrs. Forrest Grtthewald and daughter Patsy of Wauconda spent Sunday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthcwfe. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Burkhart ot Williams Park spent ten days recently at the home of llr. and Mrs. F. Hulska in Chicago. During their stay there, they made several trips to call on a sister who was ill at a hospital. Mr. C.'.-BL Hansen was a- business caller at McHenry Sfondiky'^afternoon. Mrs. Harold Brooks and Mrs. W. O. Brooks of Libertyville spent last Plane Made Long Trip Hunting Field in Fog A UNITED STATES AIR FORCE FERRY STATION, Northern Ireland.-- It's a tough game when a ferry pilot takes off in the Irish fog to deliver a bomber to England, and wincls up in Scotland with only a drop of gasoline, after flying to Iceland and back by dead reckoning, desperately Seeking a place to land. This happened only a short while ago to an American ferry command pilojt flying without crew, navigator or radio in a Flying Fortress. He could not land for, ten hours becpyse he could not find anything but fo£ and water until he looked down through a hole in the clouds and saw Sk£tland.\ The incident bolstereo the ferry pilots' conviction that they lead charmed lives. Their job is to deliver urgently needed planes to thf Eighth air force bases throughout (he British Isles after these planes haV? been a^§«D^Jed iii Ireland on their arrival from the United States^ They have no navigators or radio; so they skim across the Irish sea, often at only 50 feet and in all sorts of weather. mar Pays Good Wages! We have lrfrtnf>diate opening* on three summer routes. College students or former route men, please phone Waocond* 3321 or write OMAR INC, W&neonda, HL; for immediate employment. Thursday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks. Mrs. Robert Luening of Roseville visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hansen last Thursday afternoon. Mr. George Staggs of Cornell was a supper guest last Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks. Robert Matthews in company with Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Grunewald and daughter, Patsy, spent Sunday at the "Crown Stock Farm" near Wilmot Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Espinff, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Spafford and Mr. and ^iMrs. Harry Matthews and sons Robert and Lyle and Miss Patsy Grunewald of Wauconda attended the Libertyville theatre, Libertyville last Saturday evening. Mrs. F. Dreyer of Island Lake was a visitor at the^ home of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hansen last Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. William Burkhart of Williams Park entertained Mr. and Mrs. S. Tallitsch and Mrs. A. Knockam us of Chicago at a Pinochle {tarty last Saturday evening. City Conncil Proceedings June 19, 1944 The City Council met in regular semi-monthly meeting' with Mayor Overton presiding. Aldermen present: Buss, Ferwerda, IFreund, Nye, Tony an. Absent: Regner. Motion by Freund, seconded by Buss, that the minutes qt the last meeting be approved as read. Motion carried. Reports of officers and employees of 3 the city were received by the Council. Regular committees reported on activities in various departments. Motion by Ferwerda, seconded by Freund, that ^he meeting -fee ad- £ARL R. WALSH, City Clerk. Read the Want Ads! Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg was founded in 1703 by Peter the Great, \but after Russia entered the First World war the name was changed to Petrograd, as the Russians thought the form "Petersburg" sounded too German. In 1924, when Nikolai Leoin died, the city was renamed Leningrad in his honor, and the Soviet government announced that mail addressed to Petrograd would not be delivered in the future. *Leningrad has been the target fior German bombs and shells for about two years and the outer sections have suffered great damage but observers relate that less destruction might be expected is apparent in the central part of the city which * has elaborate defenses in anti-tank barriers, pillboxes and blockhouses. Nearly the entire length of the Dnieper river freezes solid inJ Hie wfemer months. •' v-:" • ; , Read Want Ada- r,ct <; t tup (hicks sad . thSTroNAX in" their nah. Especially aiaar an an any dhmm. AM m a took and < iifmiii sad oaiidair'W em tmemtfk far 400 dtidn for a msmlk, Tfa. Soger's Drug Store Green Street . McHcney - Ammm-- CLARENCE'S SHOP . Bird Houses, Lawn Chairs, Pier Benches, Swings, Trellises, Wheelbarrows, Wagons, etc. Barn and House Brooms, Market Baskets and Wash Baskets, hand woven; genuine Leather Belts, etc. CLARENCE J. SMITH JOHNSBURG, ^ ILLINOIS f) As you know, he did get a Congressional Medal of Honor, and now he has not only one star but the three of a lieutenant general'. And that sergeant, who devoted himself to Colonel Doolittle that miserable night o-it there in China, was still General Doolittle's mechanic the night they landed at Youks les Bains in February of 1943. He was one of the men who ran for the shell hole that night. General Doolittle had to wxite the letter to his parents. Once Famous Lil Still Flashes Diamond Tooth BOISE, IDAHO.--She's practically dead to the 10,000 men she once entertained from coast to coast. "Diamond- Tooth Lil," who in the early 1900s was the toast of the Barbary Coast, now owns and operates a tourist court near Boise's railroad station. At 57 years she's not recognizable as a former queen of the dance halls, but her eyes still sparkle as brightly as the diamond that flashes from one of her front teeth. Born in a small Austrian town, and christened Evelyn Fialla, she's had eight husbands. Lil was first married at 13. A year later she was a dance-hall and cabaret entertainer. The year 1907 found her in a Reno dentist's office for the setting of a diamond in her tooth. Since then her real name has been forgotten by all except herself. She was the one and only "Diamond- Tooth Lil." £ tl Pep-up your pressure canning season's coming! Ernie Meets Another Old Friend around the country the other day I ran into Lieut. Col. William Profitt Sr., whom I used to «ee occasionally in Africa and Sicily His old outfit was the first hospitunit ashore in the African invasion, landing at dawn on D-Day. They are so proud of that lecord that they'll tear your eyes out at the slightest intimation that you're confusing them with the second unit to land. This is the hospital my friend Lieut. Mary Ann Suliivan of Boston served with. She finally wound uf as chref nurse of the unit. But when I dropped in to say hello I discovered that Lieutenant Sullivan had gone back to America a couple ol months ago. She well deserved to go, too. She had been overseas nearly three years. Grows Profusely The carnauba is one of numerous trees which grow by countless ons in the tropical, semi-arid of northeastern Brazil. The "graceful, straight - trunked palm Crows slowly, attaining an average height of 25 to 35 feet. It has a fough, scaly bark. Fan-shaped leaves spread out to give the crown of the palm a pinwheel appearance. Priceless Art Burned , By Nazis, Briton Says LONDON.--A German incendiary squad in Italy has wantonly destroyed priceless works of art and important archives of European history dating from 1238 to 1811 despite a plea by Italian authorities to spare them, War Minister Sir James Grigg told the house of commons. The outrage occurred September 30 at Livardi, where the Italians had deposited art treasures from Naples--886 cases of selected documents from state archives and m quantity of museum pieces. Among the objects destroyed were registers of the Hohenstaufen and Angevin kings of Naples, kings of the House of Aragon and the Bourbon dynasty, and 60 to 70 paintings, including an early portrait by Botticelli and a Madonna and Child by Baked Beans The most popular way to serve ! dry beans is baked. Increasing the ! amount of salt pork called for in the ' recipe increases the lusciousness of 1 the dish. WAR BONDS--your way to back country's attack! • Towel Warmers Because English homes are not heated as warmly as American homes, the English use towel warmers consisting of chromium or nickel- plated pipes through which hot water circulates. Fhi Vaeelne Widespread tests are under way In the effort to develop a successful preventive vaccine for type "A' flu. Sulfa drugs are not advisable for this type of flu as the ailment itself sharply reduces the white corpuscles in the blood and so do sulfa drugs. Sulfa compounds can be of great value in treating some of the complications resulting from flu, such as certain types of pifeumonia, but should in any case be used only when and as prescribed by a physician. Give your pressure cooker a beauty treatment inside and out. Cleanse and dry after each using. Clean threads on control valve. ^Leave control vslve lever in horizontal position when not in use.) Oil band-lock screw. Ventilate cooker by leaving cover un* damped. Keep ia dry1 place. Always keep pressure gauge dty. Never place hot cooker in cold, water or put cold water in hoc cooker. Incidentally, never fry otsear food in cooker. Always pot- -ifSk Public SERVICE CompanyCpf Northern Illinois. 1 /» 4 HAVE GOHi TO WAR 1151' Pubflc Service people are now in the Armed Fore** of Our Country.. . those remaining wiU . , continue to bsdt those in Service by providing vital powet sad gu to factories, funs, aad bosses*.. & . A,: •