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PAGE ITVB PLAYFUL SHARKS Nimitz Pays Visit To Tarawa ARMY ANALYZES Pretty Sleuth BOY RAPE-SLAYER TO the minimum sentence tor see ond degree murder to which Edwin pleaded guilty County Judge J. Gordon Flannery said he wanted to protect both the boy and society. The army's 155 mm. -gun, mounted on pneumatic tires and weighing about 15 tons, hurls a 85-pound projectile over IS miles. PEN FOR 30 YEARS Poughkeepsle, N. Y- Dec 11 COSILY ERRORS IN AFRICA WAR flJ.R) Edwin Codarre, 13, was sentenced to 30 years to life im prisonment in Sing Sing prison today for the rape-slaying ul 10-year-old Elizabeth Voight, August 13. Ignoring a defense plea for MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1943. TiVl f'L Four Airmen Adrift In Rub ber Boat Unable to Angle Account Strength Sharks. By William L. Word.n (Representing Jhe Combined American Press) With the 7th Air Force In the Pacific, Nov. 24. (U.PJ Sharks 'that tore the fishhooks off their lines limited four airmen adrift In a rubber boat to a diet 'of two fish -and rainwater for the ix days they floated aimlessly about In the Pacific. The story was told today by Naval Lieut Paul Hardy of Huntington, W. Va., pilot of a naval land plane that crash landed in the ocean, out of gas and lost. The crew of 10 escaped but a marine combat correspondent was lost. Launch Tiro Rafts Ensign James Welshorne of Keyser, W. Va., co-pllot, came out of the plane with a broken arm, his face covered with blood and bleeding badly, and nearly unconscious. The airmen could get only two life rafts out of the plane and one of these capable of carrying four men wouldn't Inflate. Machinists Mate Paul Widdel of Rockford, 111., and Aviation Ordnanceman Bob Strouse of Fort Lupton, Colo., blew It up with their own lung power. Six men climbed on one .raft and four on the other. "We. had no water for 50 hours," Hardy said. "Then a rain squall gave us all enough to drink and we saved enough water from it so we each had a couple of sips a day. We saved it by taking water into our mouths, then transferring it into a Mae West jacket. "The other raft was roped to us for awhile the first night but the rope broke and we were un able to see them in the morn tag." Rafts Drift Apart The two rafts were picked up 1UU mues apart. "We had no food. We had some fish line and four hooks. but no bait and were unable to fish until two days later when an old wooden crate floated longside. There were three fish In it, two little perch and one bloater. We were afraid to tat the bloater for fear It was In a shattered mplacement of a pair of Japanese gunt knocktd out in bitter fighting for Tarawa Island, u. 8. Marine Corps Ma). Gen. Julian C. smith, commander of the second Ma.inei, points out Jap guns to Adm. Chaster W. Nimits, left, who made an inspection trip to the recently captured Central Paciiic-base. poison. All of us ate some perch raw. It tasted swell. "Sharks were with us from the first morning, usually five or 10 of them right around the raft. I think they were mostly curious, but when we baited the hooks to fish the sharks tore two of them loose right away. "On the third hook we got a small shark and brought him into the boat. We thought may be we would eat part of him, but he was about four feet long and after he had been in the boat a few seconds it was obvi ous that either he would have to leave or we would. We couldn't use our knives for fear of cutting through the rubber life raft and drowning us all, so we pushed him over the side again. By then all of our bait was gone. Sharks Nose Swimmers "We all tried to swim some every day except Welshorne. Every time the sharks came right up. But I am still not convinced they really would at tack a man. A couple of times they rushed the swimmers but didn't turn over as if to bite and acted more like they were just curious and planned to touch the swimmers to see what would happen." Days and nights of hearing and- seeing occasional planes were climaxed by an obviously searching plane they were afraid Stalin's Journey ' to Tehran Breaks Long Trad it ion London, Dec. 7. (U.R) Premier Josef Stalin's 325. mile trip beyond the borders of Russia to Tehran mav not have represented much mileage compared with the thousands traveled by his fellow conferees, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, but it shattered a tradition of 31 years. Not since 1912 had Russia's "Man of Steel" left his coup, try. He traveled in that year to Crakow, then a part of Austria, to meet Nicolal Len in, the Russian revolutionary lep ' ;r. ' wouldn't see them. "Finally he did," Hardy said, "and we all went crazy. The search plane started dropping canteens and stuff to us. The only trouble was they just about killed us with the dropping objects." Equipment, Bread Asked by Badoglio Italian Provisional Capital, Dec. 7. (U.R) Declaring that politics' must take a back seat until operations in Italy are completed, Premier Marshal Badoglio today pleaded for equipment for Italy's army and bread for her people and said that Italians desired to contri bute to the liberation of their country "with their own blood.' The provisional government's objectives, Badoglio said, were to help in every way possible, particularly with Italian troops at the side of the Allies, to chase the Germans from Italy, and to maintain order in the rear zones. Closing time tor Sunday Too Lit to dually, 1:80 Saturday afternoon riease remeroner. Washington, Dec. T U.R) A special army digest entitled "Les sons From the Tunisian cam paign" said today that the inex perienced American troops who chased the Nazis out of North Africa made many costly errors before the final victory was theirs. At the beginning of the cam paign, it said, the Americans were particularly unversed In tank warfare and did not learn to mass armored units until late In the campaign. In the early stages of fighting, tanks were dispersed over a wide area in piecemeal fashion. Another lesson, the report said, was that soldiers other than the engineers must learn to clear land mines and booby traps. Before this fact was driven home, many troops died need' lessly. The study cited an examnle oi garoiea reports in which an observation post reported thro Italians coming down a hill. The information that reached the command post said that "three battalions" were on the way. American artillery was a standout One Nad who had served on several German fronts said fire from U. S. field guns "was the most deadly he had experienced," the report said. Scouting and patrolling caused some trouble at first, but the men improved rapidly with experience. i AlW i i 4.m Co-starred with Basil Rath bone In "Sherlock Holmes Faces Death," is pretty Hillary Brooke. Rathbdne plays the title role In this latest of the popular series which opens at the Rlalto to-, morrow. Number two feature is "Frontier Law" starring Rus sell Hayden In an all-action drama of the west. S.R.U. APPLICANTS r w WjH w v pi lH. iSTt.. 000 wASxtMA'y CANADA DRY WATER 13' HUt Kfttsil CANADA 0 WATJfi SEC ORDERS HEARING Philadelphia, Dec. 7. (U.R) The securities and exchange commission today ordered a hearing Dec. 18 to consider feos and expenses Incurred by Puget Sound Power and Light Co, Seattle, Wash., a subsidiary of Engineers Public Service Co., In carrying out a commission-approved plan tor reorganization. Persons Interested in petty of ficer ratings In the navy's new S.R.U. 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