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PAGE TWO THE HAGERSTOWN GLOBE ! Published Every Friday at 34 North Avenue, Hagerstown, Maryland Address All Communications to THE HAGERSTOWN GLOBE, Editorial, Business or Circulation Department, not to individuals. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ®pne ¥epr ... - . 100 B e TELEPHONE 1200 FARMER JOE FOSS & COMPANY TROUNCE THE JAP AIRMEN 69-0 (By Sé-rgeant Samuel E. Stavisky, USMC Combat Correspondent) As a Sarsity football player, he | was a bench-warmer. As an ama teur boxer, he was strictly so-so. But as a Marine Corps flier, Cap tain Joseph Jacob Foss is an ace of aces. He and his Grumman Wild cat have downed 26 Jap Zeros and bombers. Captain Foss landed in the Solo mons hotbed with seven other members of his flight team, since dubbed “Joe’s Flying Circus.” To gether they have 69 enemy planes to their credit—and they're s3till flying! Leaves Farm To Fly Joe Foss is 27. His wind-burned, sun-tanned face and manner of speaking identify him as a farmer. That’s what he was back at Sioux Falls. S. D., before he traded his plowshare for a Wildcat. Joe’s nose is broken, was broken eight different times—by a boxing opponent’s fist, a Kkicking horse, and a kicking jitterbug, a quarter back's knee and by a slamming barn door. Perhaps that’s why he has the uncanny faculty of smell ing out—and snuffing out—Japa nese airmen. At least that’s one theory broached by his aerial com rades. Other pilots explain that Joe Foss is a “natural.” Not a flying fool, but an instinctive sky fighter who knows precisely what he’s do ing up there, between 20,000 and 30,000 feet, where the bcys get but one guess. ‘ Attended South Dakota U. | It took Captain Joe Foss six years to acquire his B. S. degree‘ at the University of South Dakota, for he had to take time out to earn the necessary tuition. He la bored at a packing plant, attended a filling station, worked on a farm as a hired hand, assisted a butcher, waited on tables and washed dish €s. Joe knew what he wanted. Farm‘ born, he’d always had a hankering‘ for the air . Upon graduation in‘ June of 40, he joined the Marines. At Pensacola, Fla., he won his wings and stayed there as an in structor. He then went to North‘ Island and Camp Kearney for fighter training. There he bandedl together with the seven who were to comprise the ‘“Circus.” With them, he flew to Guadalcanal. That was last October when the Japs made their most desperate efforts to recapture vitally-strategic Hen derson Feld. In First Fight October 10 The octet first took to the skies of battle on October 10. It was an inauspicious beginning, but shortly thereafter things began to happen. From that point to date, the highlights of Joe’s activities run something like this: . October 13—First blood. A Jap bomber fleet, protected by a Zero escort, struck at Henderson Field. As Captain Foss’ Wildcat shot sky ward, a Zero swooped down on his tail, raked him with machine-gun fire, but that Jap never came out of the dive, for Joe shot him down in flames. Motor Is Riddled There was little time for elation, though, for three Zeros instantly ganged up on Joe and riddled his motor. But Captain Foss broke away and made a ‘“dead stick” landing. October 14—Joe went up in an other Grumman and a Jap went down in another Zero. October 15—Business picked up. The Japs swarmed in at 29,500 feet. Joe promptly knocked off a fighter and headed for bigger game —a bomber. But one of the other lads took care of that one. Joe tried another and had the pleasure of seeing it streak off smoking. But “smokers” don’'t count. The third try was good, and the bomber went down officially. Then a pestiferous Zero joined the bomber, making three for the day. I Gets Four In One Day October 23—Four for four. Alll Zeros. A big day for the “Flyingl Circus”’—22 among them. Joe made another cold motor landing. October 24—Apparently in the groove. Four more Zeros, one for breakfast, three for lunch. BSix Zeros jumped the boys lin the morning, and five of the Zeros will never jump again. Sixteen more bombers and fighters were added to the team’s score in the afternoon. Joe came down with a smoking! tail. November 8 While protecting our bombers in an attack on a Jap destroyer squadron, the lads whit tled down Tojo’s fighter force by six. Joe got one of them. Then Jap float planes came in looking for trouble. They gpt it. Joe pasted two. Lands In Pacific His motor crippled, Joe attempt ed to beat it back to the field. The motor gave out and he made a water-landing off Malaita. The Wildcat sank quickly and Joe floated around. Canoes came out looking for him, but fearing the paddlers were Japanese, Joe kept quiet. This game of hide and seek continued for two hours. It ended when someone shouted: “’E’s over ‘ere.” There was no mistaking the Cockney accent of Tommy Mason, a sawmill operator. November 12—Back in action, and back in the groove. Day’s picking included two torpedo bomb ers and a Zero. -~ November 16—Joe got his 231‘d.‘ ‘Jap and malaria. He was rushed ‘back to a Pacific base for treat-j ment and rest. ‘ January I—Joe came back, face somewhat wan, eyes somewhat flushed, cheeks hollow, and weight down from 190 to 160. But Joe in sisted he was quite ready for action Returns For More Action January 15—Joe proved his con tention, got three Zeros. The gang celebrated the return of their lead er by bagging three more. And that’s the way things stood for the “Circus” when this piece was written—26 for Joe, 69 for the “Circus.” How does the “Flying Circus” do it? “Teamwork,” explains Joe. “We fight as a team. We cover each other up.” How does Joe do it? : “Heck, I just get the most breaks,” he declares. And who are the performers of THE HAGERSTOWN GLOBE, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1943 e B HORSE AND BUGGY |/B E4 2 D AYS 58 3 4 jfi; By the Old Lamp Lighter } f The modern buses hauling chil-| dren to and from the consolidated ] schools, recalls, no doubt, to mind ; of more than one reader of this' column, the Ilittle old country school hcouse in his or her own community. Time moves on. Now the children do not have to trudge through the snow and ‘“half drown” in rainy weather in order to bel present in school. And if you re member, we were generally there, too. And we stayed from the time we got there early in the morning until 4 or 4:30 in the afternoon. Also we could not go off the school grounds at noon or, recess time, without permission. Cold lunches were the order unless a pupil hap pened to live near the school house. Recollections? Here are some of them: The water bucket was placed on a shelf in one corner of the room and when the bucket needed re plenishing, two boys would usually (upon asking permission) go to a spring or some nearby water source. The school teacher, usual ly a man (sometimes a woman; our first teacher was Miss Hite schew, another Miss Rebecca Brown), John Kelly, John P. Fock ler and Grafton Downs. And were we boys afraid of our teacher, and respect him or her? Well, I guess! Those days some big, grown-up young men would attend school for at least several months through the dead of the winter, working on the farm as long as there was need of them in the Fall and then leaving school early in the spring “Joe's Flying Circus?” Lieut. Marontate Drops 13 Well, there’s Lieut. Bill Maron tate, 23, of 2111 Hamlin St., Seat tle, Wash., a University of Wash ington graduate. He has 13 Jap planes on his honor roll. Seven Japs apiece are credited to Captain Gregory K. Loesch, 24, of Montrose, Colo., who studied at Colorado College, and Lieutenant Rgoer A. Haberman, 26, of Ells worth, Wis., who formerly attended Stout Institute. Six were shot down by Lieut. William B. “Bill” Freeman, 24, of 620 West Eighth Street, Bonham, Texas, an alumnus of Texas A. & M. Five fell under the guns of Lt. Frank H. Presley, 22, of Encinitas, Calif.,, who recently was a student at California Polytech. Lieut. Oscar M. Bateman, Jr., 24, of Arden Lane, Essex Falls, N. J., got three. He completed studied at Yale and had finished his second year at Harvard Law School when he took to the air. Add two more planes scored by Lieut. Tom W. Furlow, 23, of Ogden, Ark., and the University of Arkansas. Awarded Flying Crosses Captain Foss and Lieut. Freeman were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for the brilliant rec ords. Joe and Company are looking forward to an easy life of loafing, hunting, and fishing as soon as they get their first chance at it. Meanwhile, the punching power of the Foss family is about to in crease voltage. Joe’s younger brother, Clifford, 22, who’s been tending the farm since Joe’s de parture, is going to join the air fighters. That’ll leave their mother Mrs. Mary Foss, and Joe’s bride— they were married last August— back on the farm cheering and ! praying for them. for work again. Some of thesel students were large, stalwart fel-! lows, but that did not matter as to discipline. Well I remember one teacher who used to tell these would-be bullies: “I'll lick you if you are as big as a mountain.” And he would. This would make the younger pupils quiver and be very good. But not everybody loved the school room, and I am afraid I was one of them. I used to watch the long line of stove pipe leading from the old stove in the center of the room, to the hole in the chimney. The one I particular ly remember was very temporarily put up with wire and sometimes it looked as if it would fall down any moment. And how I wished that it would so that school would have to be dismissed for repairs—as if things could not be fixed up in a few moments and school proceed as usual. And those long black boards stretching along one or more sides of the room. What a dust would be raised as youngsters would erase something on the board with an eraser, or in famil-! iar vernacular, a “rubber.” These{ were made by nailing a piece of' cloth or felt fast to a block of wood. Slates? They were the common thing, most unsanitary as we look back upon them nowadays. The desks were two-pupil affairs. Boys, of course, occupied them to gether, as well as girls together. However, sometimes as a punish ment, a boy would be made sit be side a girl. (Humiliating, indeed, but try it today for the same ef fect). But out of these schools came more than one president of the United States, Senator and Con gressmen, as well as successful SAVE SIO.OO By answering this ad today. 7 week intensive training in short hand and typing qualifies for de serable employment. S Mbue D e Washington County Building and Loan Assoc’n. No. 35 WEST FRANKLIN ST., HAGERSTOWN, MD. NOT HOW BIG —— BUT HOW STRONG BUY AND SELL YOUR LIVESTOCK THROUGH YOUR LOCAL MARKET Four States Livestock Sales (SALE EVERY WEDNESDAY) First and Oak Streets PHONE 812 Hagerstown, Ma. The Nicodemus National Bank Hagerstown, Maryland “Safety and Service” PHONE 817 Organized 1889 CLEAN RECORD NOT ONE CENT LOSS TO ANY DEPOSITOR IN FIFTY YEARS SECOND NATIONAL BANK The Oldest Bank in Hagerstown business and professional men. The little red school house play ed an important part in America’s growth. \__ 1906 Ninety-pouad rails were being laid on the W. Md. Ry. between Highfield and Gettysburg. John O. Leisfer sold his property corner of Baltimore and Potomac streets, to J. K. Jackson; of the firm of Jackson and Shuford, mar le and stone cutgers, for SIO,OCO. TNhe property (-m)f&ted of a rough cdst dwelling house. City Clerk Kelly read a com munication at a meeting of the Mayor and Council from the First Hoske Fire Company, asking for the purcase of a new, modern steam enging. The request was endorsed by Ch\ief Spangler. The \closing hour on markgt wag placed \at 10 A. M., on § instead §of 11 A. M., Tues Thursd remaining at 9 It wa¥® announced that Goldsboropigh would shor duce in th& Senate an anti law. 1886— These wel published ° able items” @n January, 18 is no longer{ popular to Ki bed clothes Qff. Mosquitoe stopped presefting their bill spiration has gfpne out of styl icycle has tak&n the place lawn mower. he garden has been knockefd out by the shovel. The ga%e and the light have swatte§d places wit sofa and the firglight. Mor your salary for a sleigh.” Dr. Charles B. 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