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Kn 0x Says Invasion

Plans Progressing

wAsillxcrav Julie iii --l.»u—- *4“ "ml: hflflii said ions for an Al- l _ .1: "are goinl; c $120.19 in comment on stzirenlrnt that victory WrLllflllOb begin wltli- r t. t the Russian m“ v Knox snid nt n press a", fff-lfq um it was impossible ‘Gunilla lune to talk in speclfli: Ema-Ii“ lnrlllcre had been no "ces- complC‘0'Iil(‘l1ill‘ilLlOl‘iS for the w‘ m lgltiflilfill of an amphibi- mmn‘ at. on the European con-

llls sicicnlcnt we - itigkqllallficntlnn nnds llellltldrllao (léllllllilt ‘m’ S11 the opinion oi the Secre- .‘m arfront will be opened mdth._li";i.'llD{l0IiS are completed Km t __ me is right. l H X sllicri away from calling it second lrnnl." He llkc mnhv

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mi’? ‘hlilh officials contends that ‘ha-I :nn:.~.cly mnnv fronts in as m But. he said that so for

l‘ operations ngninst Ger- ‘ concerned. "preparations I I ._ llllflCli on Europe are go- Fillhlllfil right along." ‘W’ ismrl there was nothing of §~_ “significance nt the moment.

MlNAROS

in the Pacific situation. Question- ed about reports of Japanese ac- iiun against supply lines across the billions from ourselves without any Pacific to Russia. he said he knew of no occurrence which might provide an "incident" between Russia. and Japan. It had been rumored here that the Japanese. in response to German appeals for assistance had seized some Rus- sian ship carrying lend-lease sup- plies from the United States to Siberia. Such ships must plus through waters which Japan do- minutes.

Clever Criminal In Shock Movie

Suspense and ldWnlMfQ in W! south Seas are enterteiningly serv- ed up in Unlveruls shuddory action drama. “The Mad Doctor of Market Street." which opened to- day at the Capitol Theatre.

Against a lush tropical back- ground. the fiendish intrigues of a madman scientist, -bseased with I Frankenstein notion, are unfolded in‘ thte absorbing main portion of t e s ary.

Lionel Atwlll. Una Merkel, Nat Claire, Dodd. Richard Davies. Anne Nigel and Hardy Albrlght are featured. Miss Merkel

CENTRAL GUARDIAN

I'M: column in run-van [or new: It local interest, but advertising a avlzezznzlniun may are matted "hum" nworrLe ily psy-

CBABWELL tor Pholographn. CONEEDEBATION S B. “ca. LIFE 1N U

TAXPAYEBS are reminded that the second installment of Civic Taxes is duo June 30th. 6-24-61.

ENCOURAGE the work of the Bible Society in every way Possible for the Bible makes [or National Solidarity. 26-21.

. D0 NOT DELAY only a few days remain in which w pay your sec- ‘ond installment of Civic ‘Taxes and llsvoid the interest charge on over- ldue payments.

PLAN T0 ATTEND annual meet-

'i.ng of Bible Society Presbyterian

lChurch. Hunter River, Mondgy 9v- erling , June 28th, seven ilnlrt o'clock. 3.36.3 ,

l rum: antil is the due date for ifialilésSflCflnd installment of Civlo

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_ cannot go on without the searching truths of tue Bible. Show your interest in the work of the Bible Society by at- tending annual meeting at Hun- ter River. Monday night, seven thirty o'ccck. 6-26-21

CENTRAL ROYALTY W. l.

The regular mommy mihtlng of the Central Royalty wumnrs institute was held lit lhe home o. lvlrs. Preston liens on llltlffii-ldy‘ lllgnt, June 3rd. 'I‘lic meeting wls opened with the institute Ode. lwelve members ansuereu the rtull Cali and one visitor was present. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved and the ieports of the dlilcrcnt (JOHXIIIlLitBS Were Presented. an lluiloltercnmfs. 1 1111355. and 4 collts were lurlleu in lcr Red Cross. lt was decided tu discontinue fruit and flowers to the sick for the duration and send n. card instead. The new committees for the coming month are as 101. lows: Sick-Mrs. Diamond, Mrs. Ward. and lvlrs, Warren. Lunch- lvlrs. Lahk Mrs. Ware and Mrs. 3115591 RBPEL- Red Cross-furs. Beck- School-Mrs. Russell Roper. Mrs. Ward invited the members to her home for the next meetln. Roll call to be answered with B. co - lectlon accompanied by B, suggegy. ion for making money. A very 511C. cesstul rummage sale was held “W158 Mfly- Mrs. Diamond and MIB- Bu“?! Roper were appointed delegates to .AIDBHG the Annual Convention. A committee oi’ three We" BPPOMY-ed w assist the teach- er in choosing Kile prizes {Gr the school closing. Fourteen orders were taken for the Institute Cook Book. Dr. J- A. Clark was present and eve a very interesting outline on

roup Hospitalization. The meet- ing adjourned after which lunch was served followed by the Nation.

Anthem.

Personals

Mrs. James Campbell. 99 Powrlal Street, has received word that her son Flight Engineer Terrence E. has been made a Sergeant. His many friends are glad to hear the good news.

Miss Elva E. Malone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Malone of Souris, formerly employed in the office of Brown Durrell Co. Boston, ., has accepted and is now em- ployed in a more lucrative position 1n the office of the Boston and Maine Railroad in Boston.

Crawford-Dbhn-Wayne Excel In Exciting "Reunion In France"

As ll spoiled. pampered and pet- ted Parisienne society beauty who encounters the brutal realities of the Nazi invasion of France. Joan Crawford delivers one of her best performances in M-G-Ms "Re- union in France." seen today at the Prince Edward ‘theatre.

With Miss Crawford teamed with Philip Dom and John Wayne. the story presents a. romantic lave sto told against a. background of intrugue. suspense and ever-present per .

Endeavors to Aid The star is first seen as a haughty. carefree girl who laughs B-WBY the forebodings of hcr sweet- heart cver France. Later she is torn betwen love and loathing as she finds her fiance openly cooperating with the hated invaders. She is forced. however, to turn m mm when she endeavors to aid a youn Amerififlh. an escaped prisoner o‘ war. to return to England. TllTlllS and spectacle are present in the scenes of the flood of refug- "5 13-"1118 Paris, in the ornate rec*'7f""ns of tire-Occupation drivs. and the bitter hatred of the Frenchman for the Germans trim throng France's beloved Paris while the)’ hystcmrliicmlly loot it. Drllglgfi‘ dlxllfilélllilll *lS by young aiuleg - ucure was ro uce

by Joe Manklewicz. p

CANADIAN ARMY’ C ENGINEER s "IEF

llnd Pendleton provide excellent comedy.

Al Martin wrote the original screen play for "'I‘he Mad Docto ofPMllrket Street"

Joseph Lewis. Cameraman Jerome

Ash and Associate Producer Pull

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melt. A. c. Pleileglnr. s7. test pilot at an nlrcfalt firm. killed at Ininghoe Hill, Bucking-

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hamshire. when I bren gun car was overturned.

_ unpainted chief reduction credits go to Director,

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was his services and I‘

Brigadier J. L. Melville, M. c Ii. D.. an en ineer of note in civill inn life and ln two warn has been flliinccr of (he First Canadian Army Overaepa. Bflillllfl‘ Melville i! 54 yegrg Q1 R89. For the lust year of World War I he was Field Engineer in charge of all bridge construction at an Corns heflflfilmj‘ ~- m was awarded the military Cross for

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‘Steinbeck Finds Plane’s Name Vital Concern of Bomber Crew

of Men of the

By JOHN BTEINBICK By Telephone to the Herald Tribune and Charlottetown Guardian Copyright, i948

"SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND"

We are coming close to land. The birds picked us up this morn- "IR and a biz flying boat circled us and then darted away to report us. There has been no trouble at all and. if on the bridge the enemy has been reported, we know it. The word slits down from the bridge that we shall land tonight. The soldiers line the rails and report ever low-

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hanging cloud as a landfa . Now that we are near and the lines of our approach are narrow. the dan- iler is greater. The ship swerves and turns constantly. These waters are the most i; tigerous of all.

The men are reading a little booklet that has been distributed, telling them how to get along with the English. The book ex- Dlains lnnEuaEe differences. It Sllilgests that in England s closet is not a place in which to have clothing. that the word bloody should be avoided. that a garbage can is a dust bin. and it warns that the English use many common words with a different meaning than we assign to them. Many of‘ nur men find this very funny and they go about talking a curious gbbBIiSh which they imagine is a .ritLsh accent.

A light haze shrouds the hori- zon and out it four Spitfires drive at us and circle like angry bees. They come so close that we hear the fierce whistle of their wings. For a long time they circle us and then go sway and others take their place.

Britain In Sighted

In the afternoon land shows through the haze and as we get closer the neat houses and the neat country, orderly and old. The men Haze at it in wonder. It is the first foreign place most of them have ever seen and each man says it looks like some place he knows. One say its looks like California ill the springtime of a wet year. An- other recognlzes Vermont. The mm crowd to the Dortholes and the ra . '

The troopship moves into a. har- bor and drops her anchor. She is surrounded on all sides by shipping and by naval units. The men will go ashore in lighters. but not et. for disembarkation is. if anyth ng. more complicated than embarks- tion. Men can easily be lost or mixed with the wrong units.

The night comes and in the stuff room the officers gather and wait until they are assigned the trans- portation for their men. It takes a good part of the night. At an exact time each unit must be in an exact place. where a lighter will be waiting to take them on. The troop trains will be waiting ashore. It has been a perfect crossing. No trouble, no sickness. no attack. The ship's ofP-ers show the strain They ha \‘c slept much. After a few VOYBELJ they must be relieved. The responsibility is too great for a man to boar for too lonl a stretch.

Lighters Take Them Off

In the morning the lighters come in and hug the sides of the troop- Rhip. The big iron doors o en and the troops move out. and ta e their places on the decks of the little boats. The portholes high above are filled with heads looking down. Men for a later debarkation. The little boat moves off. Duffs up the bay among the tugs and the de- stroyers and the anchored frei ht- ers. The soldiers are self-consc ous in a new place. They regard this new land skepticnlly as one must when he is not sure of himself. The little boat puffs up to the clock, which has mysteriously be-

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i Troops Hear Skirl of Bagpipes and Realize That They've Really Arrived at the War. Terrible Experience

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Q4‘VE5'A DECIDED SHORTAGE iN MEN-

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come a quay, pronounced key, which is, of course. ridiculous. Now u the lighter ties up an astonishing thing happens. A band pipers marches out in kllts. with bagpipes and drums and the swlngy march of pipers. The harsh skirling cuts through the air. The most military, the moat fighting music in the world. Our men crowd the rail. The band approaches. drums banging, pipes squealing. and. as the draw abreast, the soldiers brea into n. great cheer. They may not like the harsh music: it takes time to like it, but something of iron of the music goes into them. The piper: wheel and march hack and away. It was a good time to do. Our men, 1n some deep way, feel honored. The music has stirred them. This is a than the one of and strategy at

different war training camps _ post exchanges.

Prom the deck of the lighter the men can see the roofless houses. the burned-out houses. the piles of rubble where the bombs have fallen. They have seen pictures of this and have read about it, but that was lctures and reading. It wasn't res. This is different. Ii. isn't like the pictures at all. On the quay. the Red Cross is waiting with caldrons of coffee. with mountains of cake. They have been serving since dawn and they will serve until long after dark. The gangplank to the lighter is fixed now. The men. earring their heavy barrack bags. pac on their backs and rifles slung over their shoulders, struggle up the steep gangzvly to the new country. And in the distance they can hear the sound of the pipers greeting an- other lighterload of troops.

A BOMBER STATION. June 26 -The bomber crew is getting back from London. The men have been on a forty-eight-hour pass. At the station an Army bus is waiting and they pile in with other crews. Then the big bus moves through the narrow streets of the little ancient town and roll: into the pleasant green country. Fields of wheat with hedgerows between. On the right is one of the huge vege- table gardens all cut up into little plots where families raise their own produce. Some men and women are working in the gardens now. They have ridden out of the town on bicycles.

The Army bus rattles over the rough road and through a patch of woods. In the distance there are a few squat brown buildings and a flagstaff flying the Ameri- can 11a . his is a bomber station. Englan is littered with them. This is one of the best. There is no mud here, and the barracks are pennlment and adequate There is no high concentration oi’ planes in any one field. Prob- ably no more than twenty-five Fly- ing Fortresses live here, and they are so spread out that you do not see them at once. A raider might. get one of them. but he would not he likely to get more than one.

Camouflage Doesn't Work

No attempt is made to camou- flage the buildings or the planes- it doesn't work and it's Just a lot of work. Air protection and dis- persal do work. Barbed wire is strung along the road. coils of it, and in front of the administrative building there is a gate with a sentry box. The bus pulls to a stop near the gate and the men jump down. adjusting their gas masks at their sides. No one is permitted to leave the place with- out his gas mask. The men file through the gate. identify them- selves and sign in back rm the post. The crews walk slowly to their barracks.

The room is long and narrow and unpainted. Against each side wall are iron rlouble-rlecker bunks. alternation with clothes lockers. A long rack in the middle between

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winter costs and rsinconts. Next to it is the rack of rifles and sub machine guns of the crew.

Each bunk is carefully made. and to the loot of each are hung n. helmet and a gas mask. On the walla are in-up girls. But the same girls near each bunk—big- breasted blondes in langorous att - tudes, child faces. parted shiny lips and sleepy eyes. which doubt- less mean passion, but lllwavs the some girls.

Replaced Missing Crew

The crew of the Mary Ruth have their bunks on the right-hand side of the room. They have had these bunks only a few weeks. Fort- ress was shot down llnd the bunks were emptied. It is strange m sleep in the bed of B. man who was at breakfast with you and now is dead or a. prisoner huh- dreds of miles away. It is strange and necessary. His cloths are in the locker. to be picked up and put away. His helmet is to be taken off the foot of the bunk and yours put there. You leave his pin-up girls where they are. Why change them? Yours would be the same girls.

This crew did not name or come nver in the Mary Ruth. On the nose of the ship her name is writ- ten, and under it Memories of Mo- bile. But this crew does not know who Mary Ruth was, nor what memories are celebrated. She was named when they got her. and they would not think of changing her name. In some way it would be bud luck.

A rumor has swept through the Airfields that some powerful group in America lass protested about the names of the ships and that an or- der is about to be issued removing these names and substituting the names of towns and rivers. It is to bi‘ hoped that this is not true. Some of the best writing of the war has been on the noses of bombers. The names are highly personal things. and the ships grow to be people. Change the name of Bomb Boogie to St. Louis. or Mary Ruth of Mo- bile Memories to Wichita. or the Volga Virgin to Davenport. and you will have injured the ship. Sometimes the crew will wait a long time before naming l: ship. The name must be perfect and must be approved by every member of the crew. The names must not be changed. There is enough dull- ncss in the war as it is.

Bomb Boogie‘; Hard Luck

Mary Ruth's crew sit on their bunks and discuss the hard luck of Bomb Boo ie. Bomb Boogie is n hard lurk s lo. She never gets to her target. Every mission is an abortion. They bring her in and go over her and test her and take her on test runs. She is perfect and then she starts on an opera- tional flight. and her engines go bad or her landing gear gives trouble. Something always hap- pens to Bomb Boogie. She never gets to her target. It is some- thing no one can understand. Four clays ago she started out and never got as far as the coast. of England before one of her engines conked out and she had to return.

One cf the waist gunners strolls out. but in a minute he is back. "We're alerted for tomorrow." says. "I hope it isn't Kiel. There wlzsl a hell oi’ a lot of red flak at K e "

"The guy with the red beard is there." savs Brown. the tail gun- ner. "He looked right at me. 1 drew down on him and my guns jammed.”

“Lets go eat." the turret gunner says.

Crew of the Mary Ruth

This is the crew of the Mary Ruth. The skipper is Captain Kenneth L. Brown. of Hodginsvllle. Ky.. and he is referred to by the, crew as “a helluva piece of man. The to-oilot ls Lieutenant James Quenin. of Fort Smith. Ark. Qucnin played blrgpball at Arkansas A and M. and did so well as a pitcher that he was sighed by Cleveland when the war broke out. He had the highest rating in his cadet class.

The navigator is Lieutenant Vincent J. Bliley. of Ottumwu. Iowa. where. before the war. he worked on the local paper.

-lfl"1(‘< P. Feerlrk. of Washing- ton Heights. New York City. is the

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bombardier. These are the officers and they live in the officers‘ quar- ters at the bomber station.

The enlisted men live in the barracks and each of these men has two jobs. James O. Akers. from Minnesota, is the engineer and also operates the guns in the top turret. Richard Maculley. the radio operator. comes from Ches- ter, Pa. rle w rked in the ship yards for a wh le after he got out

high school. He is only nine teen years old, but he is a relaxed man and a veteran now. He can take whole messages in his head.

Operates a Waist Gun

Raymond Litzo, of Denver. Col. is armorer-gunner. I-ie operates a waist gun in action and overseas all the other guns. too. William Allen, of Athens. 0a.. is the other waist gunner. and he is also as- sistant to the engineer. Litzo and Allen have bought bicycles and they probably know more about the countryside near their station, than any other Americans. Litzo,‘ is an athlete. He played football in high school and is a golfer.