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Page Six THE PALM BEACH POST Monday Morning, June 7, 7.9.? Rrrlitmd B. S. falrn. Offlu By CHIC YOCNQ BLONDII By William Feriuson THIS CURIOUS WORLD Corvette Crewmen Play Rummy While Sub Pack Lurks Nearby By JOHN FERRIS Aboard a Canadian Corvette in the North Atlantic (IP) We are a discarded salted peanut can, seems to be concerned about the stakes. The gunnery officer, who is almost as young, was a Halifax optometrist before the war.

An moving, tn late afternoon, through fog which the wind shreds and whips across the bridge. More than two days have passed since we had our last clear view of the convoy ANCIENTS TAUGHT THAT ALL MATERlAL. WAS COMPOSED OP FOUR. EARTH, AR, FIRE AND WATER ARISTOTLE ADDED A ffth, which HE CALLED THE ESSNCE OF MATTER AND THIS GAVE US "is morning, our fifth at sea jo ireignters loomed suddenly like apparitions to port when the THE WORD II MCM ll, (U FT POP t. t.

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the first officer, all had seen service in the merchant marine. All are typical of the new Canadian navy. The ship swings to starboard and the discards on the table slide away and slide back. The seas pound harder and wash against the curtained ports. We had come out on sailing day in brave sunlight into long blue ground swells which gradually deepened, and whitened on top.

There had been a call to action stations on the second day and men had scrambled up from all parts of the ship to man the bow gun and the japid-fire dual-purpose Oerlikon guns and the depth charges. The men were a curious looking lot. Some, stripped to the waist, were drawing on sweaters: some already wore their hooded duffel-coats, dirty and initialed largely in smears of white paint; some wore dungarees and turtle neck sweaters. They looked grim and their purpose was grim but as individuals they were comic and happy and this mixture of the grim and, the carefree seemed to T. M.

MO. 0. MT. Off. yeiiow watery sun cut briefly through the hurrying gray mist.

They were gone in a few minutes; out for all their unearthly approach and silejit ghostly recession, they seemed no more impersonal or unreal than all these ships have seemed since we took position in advance of the starboard rank and watched them crawling forward across the vast impermanent surface of the sea. The fog contains elements of contradiction: there is security against prowling submarines in its friendly shroud, but there is peril of collision, too, especially at night when the ships must run without lights. And in clear weather the ships are there, like sitting ducks, for any U-boat commander willing to risk a fight with the escort vessels. We had had a report that somewhere to the northeast a pack of submarines, had attacked a westbound convoy two nights running. There ought to prevail on board sense of imminent danger; but danger seems to be the thing farthest from everyone's mind.

Lieut CATTLE HAVE BEEN DOMESTICATED SO LONG THAT NO ONE KNOWS FPOM WHAT WILD ANCESTORS THEY ORIGINATED OR WHERE THEY LIVED. Just because A maim is CHIEF AIR. RAID WARDEN IS NO SIGN HE IS A BLOCK -HEAD" Stpt ROBERT E. Chief, there's where fZ ISJ what we pwnteo whats he A pike brims mm But HOW Just Yell- 1 I KC Wisj ri I aC IMCIWJOC- I I wrs--M a LO I "nw pWnj i TODAY'S RADIO PROGRAMS James A. Tullis of Toronto, the captain, who is only 32.

looked be the corvette. The signalman at the blinking light, talking to a destroyer five WJNO 1130 kt CBS tt lon 61 Bed Nrlwnrk WW PQ Blur, MRS convoy a elated. In two years of work, he has never seen marine. He would like a '9 I Hito 1 XL am br-! miles away, wore dungarees and a brown canvas coat. His hands were red and his hair blew into his eyes, and he had the look of a high school kid.

But he knew his job. And so did the others. The convoy had crept stolidly forward in its singularly lifeless fashion throughout the drill and after it was over, the men had vanished as quicky as they had appeared, with a rowdy and cheerful precipitancy. Neither the rowd-iness nor the cheer they dispensed suggested the importance of their parts in the battle of the Atlantic. That again is typical of the corvettes.

On the second night at sea there was a movie: a preposterous piece out of Hollywood which made even the crew snicker. The movie made the rounds of wardroom and crew's quarters, fore and aft. There was little talk of the new MOKMNO 8:00 News lOailj Wr Journal World Nawt 8:15 Oi'Kan Reflection! Il'asel of MeM lo You Remember? Today's taUnilar ll'exaa Jim Robertson Ito You Remember? 8:4." Morning Devotions IMorning Devotion Newt :00 News IBreakfast Club IKverything Goes 9:15 The Cnapel Sinirert IBreakfast ('lub IKverything iioes This Life Is Mint IBreakfast ('lub IMorning Stringi 9:45 Sing Along Limit IBreakfast Club lliobert St. John 10:00 The Svmphonettes ITown Talk ITunes and Topics 10:15 Famous Amer. (Jull Watch That Word rht O'Neills 10:30 tincle Sam lHaby Institutt lune Recommends 10:45 Ni'ws lUncIa Sara ILont Journei Unannounced iBn-akfasl at Sardi't JRoad of Life 11:15 Just tor the Indies Breakfast at Sardl'l Vie and Sad Tri-aiirjr Star i'aradi I Nancy Martin Snow Village 11 :45 8-6-SI-i ll.ittlt Jack Little IDavid Harum AFTKB.NOON 12:00 News IBoake Carter News 12:15 Big Sister Itlill Hay and Bible Ijjm 'D Abner Music Karm and Home Hour lu-i- Ranch' 12:45 Our tial Sunday Gardens War Analysis 1:00 Life Beautiful IHaukhage Talking ISinging Keyboards 1:15 Ma Perkins M.ospel Sintcer ISinging Keyboards 1:80 WJNO News Service Fathers I Beverly Mohr The Goldbergs llinoch Light's Or.

I Carey Longmirt 2:00 Or. Malonc IF.noch Light's Or. I Light of the World Jordan IMystery Chef lonely Women 2:30 We and IJames G. MacDonald 1 Guiding Light 2:45 WJNO News IHollywood News Girl iNews Singing Sw.ethearta Gaeth, News I Mary Merlin 3:15 Joe Ethel Turp IMy True S'ory Perkins 3:30 Grandstand: BandsUnd My True Slur (Pepper Young 3:45 Grandstand. Bandstand; Between the bookends iRight to Happiness 4:00 Home Front ReporterK'lub Matinee IBackstage Wift 4:15 Hume Front Reporter Medical Meeting Bulletin Board 4:30 Grandstand, bandstands LnmL Air Sea Men Willi) Mcrrimen 4 Grandstand: BandstandiThe Sea Hound IWIOD Meirimen 5:110 Grandstand Bandstand! Hop Harrigan When Girl Harriet 6:15 WJNO News Top O' Evening Portia Faces Life 5:30 Wartime Living Top O' Evening Good Neighbor Rhythm Keep Fiies Burning I Superman INews to ram one.

That's the corvette spirit, and the spirit, for tha- matter, of the whole Royal Canadian Navy, built up since 1939 from six British-built destroyers and five minesweepers and about 300-odd officers and 3,292 men to more than 300 fighting ships of all sizes and 50,000 officers and ratings. Our thousand tons of deadweight rides seven feet at the bow and 18 feet aft; our blue and white camouflage bears the scars of the winter's seas; we have a slightly roguish, slightly vagabond air and our decks are dingy. We aren't much to look at as we rigzag ahead of the convoy, our nose deep in the mounting swell; and we carry enough depth charges on deck and ammunition below decks to make life look pretty black to anyone who speculates too long on a torpedo hit. In the wardroom, four of the corvette's seven officers are playing rummy. Over the amplifiers there and in the crew's quarters, fore and aft, comes the voice of Fats Waller from a phonograph near the pantry: "You meet some very nice people, "Some very, very, very nice people; "You meet the nicest people "In your dreams." The record has been playing for 25 minutes.

Presently someone will change it probably to "Thanks for the 'boogie' ride; I'm mile-by-mile protection of the At-1 U. 1:45 lantic route to Britain. Instead there was talk of good times in places like New York and Boston last winter and of more good times to come. There was talk of everything, indeed, except the hazards of convoy escort work. The work itself, the changes in course and the weather, were thrashed out but life on board generally was serene.

The fog had come from the southeast and the ships had disappeared into the sinister gray-ness. and from the distance had come the report of a Nazi undersea pack. But the phonograph played on and the games of rummy went on, and in the meanwhile the c- InL. fl coca, mi 'iy kia we. iitAT.

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(Editor's note: On the day after this was written the escort was relieved by a new escort and turned in to its base, arriving there just 24 hours ahead of the first lot of survivors of a convoy the Nazi polated ribald comments on the cards they snare. The game proceeds lightly and without rancor. No one stands to lose more than a very little after a month's play, 1 eVEMNO (1:00 News IHenry J. Taylor, Newt ports Parada 6:15 Where To Go Tonightl Highlights ol Sport Frank Malont :30 Sports Review IHeadline News iPopulairea World Today I Top Evening (Leslie Bain 7:110 I Lovt a Mystery IFulton Lewis. Jr.

Fred Waring 7:15 Ceiling Unlimited iHere Comes the Mail I Lone Ranger 1:50 Dlomlie Myery Hull I Lone Ranger 7 Blondit tMystery Hall i H. V. haltenborn Victory liny by I'ay Up Nesn Gieat Gildersltevt Victory Day by Dy Lum Abner Great Gildersl'evt 8:30 list We 1 orget ITht Better Half IKichard Crooks 8:45 Charlie Barnel Or. line Bitter Half I Richard Crooks 9:00 Theater Evening Enchantment It'elephone Hour 9 Th. aler Manpower, Ltd.

Irelephont Hour Theater Spotlight Bands Or. 1. Q. :45 Theater ISpotlight Bands: Sportt lOr. 1.

Screen Guild Playert Raymond Clapper IContentcd Hour 10:15 Scritn Guild Players IGiacle Fields C'ontented Hour 10:30 Three Ring Time Alee Templeton jlrifurmation Pleas 10:45 Three Ring Time iRhythm Road I Information Pleait Newt INews; Spoitt Analysis I Newt 1115 Last Word In Sports Sign Off iFlasler Orchestra 11:30 Komnnct I I Hut Copy UaUi programs art tarnished by the Individual stations and Tba fot-limes is nul rrepuaaiule lor lata change la programs al ttaick Uit newspaper hat not keen notified. lieutenant who keeps pennies in pack had attacked Gallant Malta Swings Savagely To Offensive After Battering Near the end of November the first convoy since August arrived, and the offensive was strength ened. Malta-based planes played Many of us at them in the QLI EVERYTHING bad time. They too saved Malta, an important role in ine nnal action in Tunisia. The siren sounds.

Malta has been bombed only once in five months. bitter, little beans." He these ugly made a wry face, but fondled the and it was a feeble effort then. necklace reminiscently The sirens mean little anymore IS 1 JOB PALOORA "AM FISHEB NOTICE HOW THE PICTURE I AHEM-OH" 'CH NO THANKS, I BLUB KOFF 5 tufr WT TORCTtT t'' BY THE WAV- I MUST 'y. HCHAN.EN VOU EXCUSE ME.SlR LEEMV. BV THE SIR.

1--ER-- A)NT I IT. VWO A 4 ACH SOME OF COONELS CAME "MS WAV BEPORF I KIN I OT THE WAV MXIKNOyV THE WVRN JOB AND THAT SHIM SHAM I WtU I THIS WAS ALL ENEK HELD, TV. KOiNEL A GIASS 1 MV NAME IT'S ITS ME ENTHuSiASIM-JyvEVL THE IDST FIVE POUNDS THE VESS1R-- 'ff A WATER SIRHERMAN--- l'MAW TFIRSY HOUR COA'iT TO CO 9US The lace-makers and pipe carvers also expect a boom after the War. On a broader scale, Malta's business leaders recognize their position at a Mediterranean crossroads and hope to make the island a post-war trade and distribution center. Stories of such plans occupy the inside pages of the Times, along with 'homely tales of social functions and letters to the editor, much like in any small American city.

One recent letter suggested the navy name a new aircraft carrier "Malta" in a remembrance of the angry Italian radio exclamation that "Malta is an unsinkable aircraft carrier." "Twenty-minute lunch stop, folks!" FUNNY BUSINESS Bj WILLIAMS OCT OL'B WAT uajob noori.B Hlln Ol'B BOARDING HOl'SR By PAI KERN I.EE VALETTA. Malta. W'l Joseph the hackman waved a gnarled hand as many planes roared past overhead and exclaimed "ours ta jjeb" (good, then gestured deprecatingly toward Sicily and rasped "Mussolini Hitler mhux tajjeb" (No good. Besieged, bomb battered and bloody for three years, Malta never gave up. Today, having bound up her wounds, obtained sufficient if not yet abundant food and started the gigantic task of rebuilding, she is on the offensive.

The horse jogged on past blasted houses where workmen saw broken stones into new, useful shapes as if they were blocks of wood. The great group of planes quickly became distant specks, outward bound to attack the enemy who failed to defeat this eight-by-seven-teen-mile island. When Italy entered the war in June, 1940. Malta's number appeared to be up, but the island hung on in the face of growing onslaughts. The really heavy attacks began after the Germans came in force to Sicily and North Africa.

Day after day 150 to 200 bombers pounded Malta. Thirteen thousand tons of bombs fell in a year. By this time last year three-fourths of Valetta's buildings were unusable. The island had been under attack 12 hours a day. Then, last May, Spitfires were flown to the island from the American Carrier Wasp.

They saved the day. From then on German and Italian plane losses soared. Thanks to Malta's resolute defenses and great rock caverns, casualties had been fewer than Axis airmen killed. But after the blitz came the siege. Bringing convoys to Malta with the barest necessities munitions, food and gasoline became a most hazardous assignment.

For a long time after the great, damaging convoy battle last August, no supplies came to Malta's harbors. The tiny island with 250,000 persons cannot feed itself. But Malta stuck to her caves and there was no surrender. The Axis never tried an invasion, possibly because of the lesson learned when an Italian speedboat attack on Grand Harbor cost them 16 raiders out of 16, The Allied victory in the African desert and the campaign in Tunisia brought a tremendous boost to morale here. Malta's planes quickly took to the offensive.

They pounded German airfields in Tunisia and shot down enemy aerial transports headed for Sicily. vfrlKT'S OeJE) THE OLD il NICE HURRAH, FATHER LETS MORE B0N bCOKtb WOCR.SON WE'RE TRMM YOU KEPT "Probably reconnaissance planes," says a knowing Maltese. "They mostly come to look nowadays, but they're lucky to do that. We'll tear them to He was right. The alert lasted about five minutes.

Men servicing aircraft and repairing blitzed houses hardly paused to glance aloft. This is Malta, GC. The initials go with Malta as D. C. goes with Washington.

They stand for the George Cross, awarded the entire colony for its heroism against blitz and siege. The Times of Malta, which hasn't missed a single day's publication, carries in one corner of its front page: "HM King George VI awarded to Malta the George Cross on ihe 956th day of the war 1541942." The Times recently resumed carrying pictures and enlarged to five column width. In a little nook on Brittania St. near the shattered opera house, Engraver Anthony Schembri rolled out a silver coin and fashioned a George Cross as a souvenir for a gunner from an American ship. "Bad times are over now," said Schembri in a soft voice.

"We still need some things: Hot baths, perhaps more cigarettes, a wider diet for the children, but Malta goes on. Malta will always go on. Many of our beautiful homes are in ruins. They cannot be restored or replaced. In that respect my lovely Malta will never be the same.

It makes me sad! sometimes." Then his soft brown eyes flashed as he added with unexpected vehemence: "Those who did this are paying now; they'll continue to pay, even though they can never pay in full." Down the street in a little curio shop another artisan was fashioning ash trays from Malta stone. "This rock saved Malta." he am preparing for the tourist boom which must surely follow the war. This rock cuts like cheese, but out in the air hardens granite. This rock saved Mal-tr. as surely as our planes and ins." He displayed a peculiar necklace.

"Here's another Malta souvenir. These are locust beans. UPOMA A tic ni)T OS HE BEAT FREE A BIRDS OF THE AIR, VME-N 1 RETURNED THROW THE ACROSS THE I HrVJEfsVT HAVE 9ENT TRESTLE BEEhi SO RENCHS'S LOST RATION BOOK, THE REWARD pn ni ic C088 BACK IN A. PUfJTO TICKLED TO THIRD A riisiieiJf rriKVCC TOOK OFF aa i' -v r-irsiisjn ri'st-i MV V0I I ft ANP MOM JUST TOLD ii ill I ME THE RUBBISH COLLECTOR I I HADM'T BEEN AROUND 1 s- THIS JiitfW, I I THE EARLY BIRD i iMTiise r-? mi It KVtft-t. vr- 'r -pr r-'" tm uVsaT 6ft Bsgft "It's the work of a new taxidermist member of the camouflage corps!".

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