Detroit evening times., September 10, 1944, FINAL, Image 96

About Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958

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Risky Technique of Pilot
Rids Tail of Wicked Jap
By GEORGE LAIT
Inituilltntl Nm War CociMfonint, Ftaeh Rtutai ***■•*» Win*k«S
COL. DAVID W. HUTCHISON, wing commander in Lt
Gen. Kenny’s New Guinea bomber force, now en route
to hia home in Madison, Wis., on leave, told me of a tech
nique devised by one of his night fighter pilots. It is not
recommended for repeat performances, however.
This night fighter took off to attack Jap bombers
raiding Wake Island. Anti-aircraft gunners and searchlight
crews could hear his engine purring in the sky. Sud
denly. over the radio they heard the pilot shout:
“I am coming into searchlights! For (iod’s sake shoot
this so-and-so off mv tail/*
The pilot roarca into the searchlight beams with ths
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Maria Montez confronts the murderer of her father,
Douglass Dumbrille, in “Gypsy Wildcat’’ at the Fox.
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Jap bomber close behind. The anti-aircraft crews com
plied and shot off the Jap’s tail.
* 0 •
THERE’S a big treasure hunt going on at Lae, British
New’ Guinea. Not for Guinea gold, but for 200 cases
of prewar Scotch whisky buried there by Manager Burns
of Phillips Co., before the Jap invasion. Burns, now in
England with the RAF, intends returning after the war
to dig up his cache. The Yanks, with everything from
entrenching tools to bulldozers, meanwhile, are ripping
up the jungle, hoping to beat him to the swag.
JACK BENNY got plenty of belly laughs from Gen.
MacArthur’s Gls with his crack: “I am an oldtimer in
these Pacific islands—l used to spend week-ends at Cata
lina.” Lt. Comdr. George Halas, who used to coach the
Chicago Bears 11. and now is recreation and welfare
officer for the Seventh Fleet, is w’ith Hope’s party on its
southwestern Pacific tour. He sees that the navy boys
get their share of the entertainment.
Another famous football star out here is Marshall
Duffield, formerly of Southern California, now a two
striper on a minesweeper.
* • • •
SOME New Guinea places have a real Broadway flavor.
In one dav I bumped into Maj. Abe Schechter, former
big shot at NBC; Sgt. George McLemore, once sports
columnist, now combat correspondent; Lt. Jack Miley,
sports writer, of approximately the same tonnage as the
heavy cruiser on which he serves; Lt. Larry Jones, whose
father operates Gerther’s restaurant. N. Y.. now’ in charge
of the largest GI messes in the southwest Pacific; Lew
Parker and Jackie Heller, flight club performers, enter
taining troops; Jack Davis, New York representative of
ths Australian Consolidated Press, over for a six months'
gander at the war; Capt. Jack Cross, Westchester
County journalist (husband of
Powers model Betty Riddell)
and Capt. Dick Krolick. journa
list and habitue of East 45th
street's famous Pen and Pencil
bar; Eddie Dowling's son. Jack,
war correspondent for a Chi
cago newspaper; Douglas
(Wrongway) Corrigan, ferrying
planes for the Fifth Air Force,
and Col. Merian Cooper (hFs
gone home on leave to visit his
wife, the former Dorothy Jor
don of the movies) who pro
duced “Chang." “Grass,” and
“Long Voyage Home”; Alfred
Vanderbilt who, with his
brother, George, is giving the
Japs hell as commander of a
PT boat.
• • •
PHIL LAFOLLETTE former
governor of Wisconsin, just
promoted to full colonel, will be
going home soon on leave. Lads'
Emily Coote of Boston’s Back
Bay and widow of the first
Barnet of Ireland, now is in
charge of one of the largest Red
Cross outfits in Australia, car
ing for the wants of recently
arrived WAC. Everybody knows
Cpl. Lew Ayres now is serving
as a chaplain's assistant at Hol
landia. but few know that
T Sgt. Frankie Darro is a dis
pensing pharmacist at one of
New Guinea's big hospitals. He
Is the former child star who
specialized in tough k*d roles.
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ONE squadron of a famous
attack group has all its
B-25s named for characters in
Damon Runyon's stories, such
as “Hot Horse Herbie.'' “I\>c
<s3Sdr&ivfcri‘ v ~TW
cated Edmund” and “Little
Isadore." This same squadron
has a sign over it' headquarters
door reading: "Through ThoM*
Portals Pass the Hottest Pilots
in the World.” Thursa Hershey.
wife of Burnett Hershey, secre
tary of the Overseas Press
Club, is dishing out Rf-d Cross
java and sinkers to Gls at one of
the larger Australian airfields.
• • • *
FEW realize that WAC Capt.
Elaine Bessemer Clark is
the socially prominent daughter
of Sir Norman and Lady
Brooks (he is the father of
Australian Davis Cup tennis)
and the wife of an English steel
millionaire. The last time she
visited the United States. Amer
ican society made a big splurge
over her . . . Lt. Gen. George
Kennv’s son, Bill, is a lieutenant
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Medical Society.
SEASON MEMBERSHIPS NOW
229 Motel Statlec • CM Mil
in the 13th Air Force, which
recently came under hia dad's
command.
There's a bit of drama hidden
in a couple of air mail letters
addressed to Mark Hellinger
which I received after Mark
left for home. They were ap
parently aboard a plane which
landed at sea, as they were
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September 27 to October 3
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Large Orchestra • CHorut • Ballet
Repertoire
Sept. 27 Wednesday—Puccini’s “Totca” with GRACE MOORE
Sept. 2S Thursday—Biset’s “Csrssen”
Sept. 29 Friday—Doaixetti's “Lecia di Laaaeneoor”
Sept 30 Saturday—Verdi’s “II Trevitore”
Oct. 1 Sunday (mat.) —Verdi’s “La Trsviats”
Sunday (eve.) —Verdi’s “La Forsa del Destiuo”
Oct. 2 Monday—Verdi’s “Aids”
Oct 3 Tuesday—Mascagni's “Cavalleria Ruoticana”;
Leoncavallo's “I Pagliacci.”
Tickets, NOW Masonic Auditor)*- (Temple 2-2539)
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water-soaked and much of tha
writing was illegible. Oddly
enough, the water had trans
ferred writing from another
letter which apparently was
Kcked with Mark's, and when
Id up to a mirror was de
cipherable—it * was addressed
to AP correspondent 01 e n
Clements.