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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1943)
PAGE FOURTEEN HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON April 20, 1048 Fortress Pilot Completes Job After 66 Days of Hell By OLEN CLEMENTS WITH THE U. S. A1RFORCE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, April 18 (Delayed) (P) The Flying Fortress co-pilot saluted his commanding officer, Maj. Richard Stepp, of New York City, on Guadalcanal and report ed: 1 "Major, we have completed our mission after 66 days. Sixty-six days of hell were compressed into that sentence by the modest airman, Lieut. Ernest C. Ruiz, of Santa Barbara, . Calif. These segments of an amazing adventure were thus condensed: A running, bloody battle on February 9 with eight Japanese Zeros . . . Every one of the nine-member crew wounded . . . The bomber badly shot up . . . A forced landing at sea ... IS days adrift in rubber rafts . . . Provisions exhausted . . . An emergency catch of a bass, a bird and a shark (the shark tasted terrible) . . . Weeks on weeks marooned on small Coral island in the heart of Japanese-controlled waters , . . Befriended by half-starved Melanesian natives who insisted the fliers shave daily (so they did it with broken glass) ... A native doctor's re moval of a bullet, with a piece of glass as the surgical instru ment ... A daring attempt of some of the men to reach friend ly hind in an outrigger canoe, which capsized ... Two more weeks of waiting to repair and replenish supplies. A new start . . . Terrible mo ments of suspense while a Jap anese plane flew low over the canoe (but the feared spray of machinegun bullets didn't ma terialize) . . . Arrival at a new island where a marooned Jap was discovered and killed at tempting to flee ... At long last, a navy flying boat from Guadal canal which picked up the men in the canoe . . . Then the rush ing of food, dropped by army planes, to the others back on the islands . . . And finally aerial return of all to the base they had left "on a routine mission." The nine horoes, In addition to Ruiz, were Capt. Thomas J. Classen, West Do Vera, Wis.; Lieut. Robert J. Dorwart, Seat tle; Lieut. Balfour C. Gibson, Berkeley. Calif.; Sgt. Don Mar tin, Decatur, 111., Corp. W. H. Nichols, Keiser, Ark.; Sgt. James Hunt, Effingham, III.; Corp. R. J. Turnbull, San Antonio. Tex.; and Corp, Theodore Edwards, Youngstown, Ohio. A tenth man (unidentified In the dispatch) was encountered on the islands and was rescued with the others. The harmonica was Invented by Benjamin Franklin. Downs Thousandth Plane, Gets Sweepstakes Prize VALLETTA, Malta, April 20 M1) For downing the ono thousandth axis plane destroyed by Malta-based RAF planes In the war, Squadron Leader John Lynch of Alhambra, Calif., to day won a sweepstakes prize of $316. Lynch, who joined the RAF In Canada In 1041, Is 25, and a former Oklahoma flying In structor. His wife, and a child born since ho left tho United States, live in Oklahoma, Virtually all RAF members here contributed to tho sweep stakes. ; Lynch s victory and tho shoot ing down of another axis plane boosted the total bag of enemy aircraft to 1001 today. Fighter-bombers also attacked tho Italian island airdrome of Lamped usa. (Tho 1001 victory was for Malta-based planes only. Many moio than 1000 planes have been shot down over Malta. A communique last October 13 marked a total of 1000 enemy planes shot down by Malta de fenders planes and nnti-alr-craft. Tho British air ministry Car Strike Forces Workers to Thumb Rides Successfully CLEVELAND, April 20 (P) An AFL strike today 'lod up Cleveland's mass transportation system, forcing uncounted thou sands of war workers to thumb rides from friendly motorists or to walk to their Jobs. Not n struct car or city bus could bo seen on busy public square during the morning rush hour ns tho City Transit Sys tem's riders averaging 1,318, 000 fares dully pulled their frequent ly-ldlo automobiles from said on November 3 that a total of 1004 had been shot down.) garages Vml created traffic Jmt) ivniliilsceut of pi't rotlonln days, Mayor Frank J, Lnuscha urged outomobllo drivers to "travel tho main streets" and pick up podestrlads, and motorists re ported so many people wore co operating thai, on woll-trnvoled thoroughfurcs, they had diffi culty filling their car seats. TUCSON, Ariz. (II Mershel Davis' nutomoblln wus stolon, so ho quickly hopped Into his plane. Spotting the car bring driven along a country road, ho landed and telephoned police. Then he took off again, Buld. Ing officers In a 20-mllo chaso. 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