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HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1942 FIVE 111! Pi, Sinking of Destroyer Porter En South Pacific Described I Giraud Is Symbol of France Nazis Have Never Captured Flowers In Sick Room Are Held Harmless I at a secret police assigned to recapture him at any cost After arriving in Switzerland and proclaiming his faith in the eventual delivery of France, he traveled to Vichy, where he held his conference with Petain. As a young officer. Gen Giraud served with the Moroccan legions which set the pace for empire building when they subdued the fierce tribes in western Africa. In the first World war. Gen.

Giraud commanded an infantry unit and sparked his command with an intense love of France and traditional enmity of Germany. In the second world war. he commanded a French tank unit, fell into German hands. PHILADELPHIA, If you are hesitating about sending flowers to a patient because of the popular belief that they are harmful, perish the thought and send along that bouquet. Dr.

Russell C. Erb. associate dean and professor of chemistry and toxicology at the Philadelphia college of osteopathy, gives his blessing to the floral decoration in a sick room. The amount of poisonous carbon dioxide thrown off by the plants is negligible. Dr.

Erb said. A nurse, sleeping in the room with the patient, gives off far more carbon dioxide than the innocent bouquet. Not only are flowers harmless, added Dr. Erb. but they are symbols of life and have a highly beneficial effect upon the morale and general outlook of the patient.

torpednmen performed their duties so quickly it was necessary for me to give but a few orders." Left Ship Reluctantly Cmdr. Roberts said the men on the guns were among the last to leave the ship. "They left reluctantly, still hoping to bring down any Japanese planes that might try to take advantage of our situation." he said. Seaman First Class Malcolm Graham. 21.

of Burbank. told how the impact hurled him across the deck of the auxiliary control station. He was dazed momentarily but escaped uninjured. The Porter's crew credited Chief Machinist Mate Thomas of San Diego and Chief Electricians Mate Charles Reidrl of San Francisco with savin; the lives of at least seven men who were below decks when the torpedo struck. Acting quickly.

Ashton and Reidel utilized what little steam pressure remaining to restart the generator and provide light rtr the men be E. W. P. ST. GEORGE Ai Em i limit in imtrn )Mi iliiVxVafcJ i.

i .1 Veteran of Many Wars Here Again Here on duty for his ninth war. Vocation School Is Aiding in Vital War Production Vmintf tnanhwvl Tfawflil hit Edward W. P. St. George has reached Honolulu and js "somewhere on Oahu" in the air service It.

11 A it. Mr. St. George, anxious to get back into the war although he is no youthful stripling, volunteered By CHARLES P. A KNOT ABOARD A U.

S. BATTLESHIP. IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC. Oct. (delayed) (U.R) The United States destroyer Porter rolled slowly over on her starboard side today and disappeared beneath the surface, the first casualty of the battle of the Santa Cruz islands.

She was the victim of a torpedo which struck her while she was idling to rescue three fliers following a forced landing. The projectile caught the destroyer amidships below the waterline. ripping a jagged hole in her port side and sending her reeling. The explosion cut off her power and left her dead in the water. From my observation post aboard this battleship I saw the Porter's fatal blow.

She seemed to explode amidship. then she heeled over and rocked violently. North Of Santa Crux The Porter was torpedoed during Japanese aerial attacks on our task force 100 miles north of the Santa Cruz islands. I was watching three Japanese divebombers run for home on the horizon when I noticed a fighter dive sharply toward the Porter. It was one of our planes.

The pilot apparently had sighted the approaching torpedo from the air and was signalling' the destroyer below. The torpedo struck almost Immediately, sending up a geyser of water spurting 125 feet in the air. I thought then that we had lost the Porter. But despite the hole in her side she refused to go down. Two hours after the torpedoing it was necessary to sink her with gunfire from another American ship.

More than one salvo was fired before the Porter reluctantly submerged. Damaged Too Severely There was no alternative. The Porter's damage was too severe to be repaired at the scene, and he was completely without power. Considering her damage, her casualties were comparatively few. Just before the sinking the Porter's survivors were transferred to another destroyer.

As her bow slipped under the water, the entire crew stood silently at attention. Many wiped their eyes and swallowed lumps in their throats. The Porter's skipper. Lt. Cmdr.

David G. Roberts of Flint, told me: (Sptcial to The Star-Buiictin) WASHINGTON. C. Nov. 12 The value of French Gen.

Henri Honore Giraud to the allied offensive in Africa is approached only bv his morale value as the svmbol of the France that Adolf Hitler never manaped to conquer. One of the most spectacular figures to emerge from World war II. Gen. Giraud personifies France as no other person does. His unremitting hatred of razism and fascism, and his escapes from German prisons, have been construed by Frenchmen as unmistakable harbingers of restored freedom and national integrity.

As the Americans swarmed over north Africa, smashing Vichy resistance. Gen. Giraud. still straight and still dynamic, stepped upon the sands of his country's empire to proclaim the battle of liberation. Vesting Gen.

Giraud with the command of the Fighting French troops in Africa was no mere political gesture. Despite his age 63 Gen. Giraud is an exceptional officer, a distinguished infantry find tank commander whose belief in the offensive is stoked by a hatred of Germany. The Germans do not like Henri Giraud. Three times he hat humiliated them: In the first World war.

when broke imprisonment: and twice In the second World war, bringing with him nail defense plans the first time and a spark of hope the second. When French resistance ended, the German high command announced Gen. Giraud was a prisoner in the dreaded Kenigstein fortress. Then, as the people of France shifted uneasily under the Laval-Hstler parleys, the fabulous Gen. Giraud showed up again to nourish the French with the tale of hi escape-Gen.

Giraud had what he described as "a soldier to soldier" talk with Marshal Petain, while the nazis probed for a traitorous Frenchman to accept the $40,000 reward they offered for their prisoner. When Hitler himself promised the release cf 500.000 French war prisoners in exchange for Giraud's surrender, the latter snapped: "I trust German." Details of his escape made one of the best stories of that period of the war. His wife, as violently anti-German as Gen. Giraud. sent her Incarcerated husband park-ages regularly for eight months.

Each package contained an amount of thread, which the general wove Into a 20 meter cable to escape from Koenlgstein. He traveled through gestapo Infested southern Europe, making his way through a net cf soldiers and low so they could find their way to the main deck. Want New Destroyer A few hours after the Porter's survivors boarded the rescue ship they signed this written request and presented it to their captain: "We. the remaining crew of the Porter, heard that it might be possible to keep thi whole "gang' intact and put a new destroyer in commission. "We are all enthused about sticking with you and pledge every effort toward getting back out here as quickly as possible for another sock at the Japs.

Can we do it? We say yes. To the last man we are behind you." Minister Gives Up Vacation To Help Farmers THERESA. N. Y. (UP.) The Rev.

S. Foster Walker gave up his vacation to help neighboring farmers with their haying, harvesting and threshing. He made out a working schedule and when it was all over, his labors extended from seven miles north to seven miles to the south of this northern New York village. One farmer said that the minister was the best help he ever had in the field, pitching right or left handed. "It's been a dandy way to spend a portion of my summer." Walker said.

"And I have been in my pulpit every Sunday and have been most gratified with the attendance of the WITH SWEAT AND SKILL: Robert rrtrrson. student at the Honolulu vocational school, grinds his mx against the axis with a thaper. the precision machine with which he is pictured working. American Education Week focuses attention to the war contribution Hawaii's youth is making this week and for weeks and months to come, Til it's over, ver there." Star-Bulletin photo. conscious by the crash and was pulled from the plane by Lt.

Shields and other crewmen, and taken to shore on a hfe raft. Private Earl Staples, trainer of nonnen nvrrau unu sleeves. There's work to be done vital war work that youth can do and is doing. American Fduratlon Week calls attention to that contribution this week. For decades the emphasis has been Largely en agricultural work for younr people In the Islands.

Now the emphasis has shifted. Agricultural work, in the sugar and pineapple fields, and on farms, is as important as ever. But a new field has opened, the field of vocational trades. Center of training for the department of public instruction on Oahu is the Honolulu vocational school, on Dillingham Blvd. Quite a lot of publicity was given that school and other associated defense training programs before the war started.

But news has been shut off since December 7. even though the school is contributing to the war effort more than ever before. The vocational school is all out in war production work, producing tools and machinery for the army and navy. Such work, naturally, must be kept secret. Working to capacity, the school has a full enrollment, larger than at any time in its history.

It is seekinr to expand and Increase facilities, so that more island youths ran be trained. The welder the man with the helmet and goggles need not be a flyer, but he's needed just as much for active service in California months ago. He is now here in a civilian capacity but with an unusual background of military training and experience. He was an observer of some phases of the Russo-Japanese war in 1905, a veteran of the Boer war (he is Canadian born), a veteran of the South African war and World I war I. He was also in active service during fighting in British India and likewise as a youngster was mixed up in the Boxer rebellion in China.

He was last here in 1931, returning at that time from a mission, still secret, during the Japanese-Chinese fighting in Manchuria in that year. He was naturalized in San Francisco and has been a United States citizen for msny years. St. George spent four years here from 1910 to 1914. Then, with other Canadians, Englishmen and Scotchmen resident in Hawaii he left the islands for the first World war.

joining a Canadian regiment and seeing service in aviation, engineering, intelligence and counter espionage. bob In recent years Mr. St. George has been conducting an advertising and merchandising service in San Francisco, with a branch at Los Angeles. He has found occasion to make two trips to the Far East.

During the past year he has been engaged in pure research in hydraulics in the California Institute of Technology at Los Angeles. Since returning to Hawaii he has met many friends of 28 years ago. BUB St. George was one of the pioneers of the Honolulu Advertising dogs hich have been adopted by I the government to be used fr sen- try and defense duty, will be inter-I viewed on the program, The music of Sergeant Jack Ser-' geant's orchestra will form a back-: ground for the program, which ill also be featured by a vocal solo, Did I Remember, by John Downs. jUSN.

and selections by a USO Ha- waiian trejpe- The program will be heard In Ha-I waii by transcription at 8 p. m. Sat Victory Jamboree To Feature Rescue A dramatic skit of a daring part played by an air force lieutenant in rescuing his senior officer from the wreckage of a plane which crashed in the ocean near the Solomon islands recently, will be portrayed Saturday on the Victory Jamboree CBS hookup broadcast from KGMB at 11 a. m. Lt.

Clyde S. Shields, hero of the story, will be on the rrogram as a special guest and Rive his account of the action. On a tactical mission recently with eight others, the plane which the lieutenant and his fellow soldiers were flying crashed In the ocean near the Solomons. Maj. Philo Rasmussen.

senior officer of the crew, was knocked un FINDS TWO FOOT FINE CONE QUINCY. 111. (U.R) A sugar pine cone, measuring more than two feet in length, is believed to be the largest ever found in the Plumas national forest. It was discovered by a blister rust worker, who presented it to Benton Howard, blister rust expert of the bureau of Tugboat- Men Dredge Without Dredges ST. HELENS.

Ore. (U.R) Tugboat operators are an ingenious race, but the new scheme of the Shepard Towing Co. here takes the lead for inventiveness. Mud from a mill dock near here and low tides have shoaled the company's moorage. So the company will dredge without dredges by tying a twin screw diesel en-gined tug to a dolphin, turning on the motor and letting the big propellers create current to carry the silt away.

Company officials declare the operation will clear the moorage without getting an appropriation approved for the job from the rivers and harbors committee of congress. Panama's cinema? are packed. urday. OWNER ONLY DRIVES CAR ROCKLAND. Me.

HP A 22 year old automobile, which has never had any new parts and has had its cylinder head taken off only once, has never been driven by anyone but its owner, Joshua N. Free travel on Newcastle. England, street cars is being offered to regular passengers who volunteer to act as conductors or "platform guards" during rash hours, their duties being to call out i-op-ping places, give signals to drivers, and prevent overcrowding. "There was not a single moment of panic aboard even right after the torpedo struck. I have never seen a crew stay at their posts like that crew.

Every man who was able remained at his post. "The repair party, engineers and as an aviator. The tools of war must be ltttllM club, first and perhaps most successful of all Honolulu's many luncheon and service clubs. In those days there were no Rotary, Lions or Representatives clubs. The Ad club gave way to them about 10 years ago.

$44.44 Per Word Is Paid for Suggestion AKRON, O. API Calvin Coolidge, who earned $1 a word as a writer, wasn't in the running with the newest nominee as "highest paid author." Paul Eckler, a pressman doing war production work on rubber matting at a B. F. Goodrich plant submitted a slip of paper with nine words on it to the employe-management "suggestion box" committee. Ten minutes later the committee had ordered Eckler's suggestion into effect and awarded him $400.

What the nine words were can't be divulged since they involved a better way to make war goods but at $44.44 each they must have been good. Private Learns He Has Few Things Reversed BELLAIRE, O. (W Army doctors told Private Cletus Lyden a few things about himself that he hadn't known before. To start with, his heart is on his right side. He also has a misplaced liver, its position reversed from the left to the right side.

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