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ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 1943 paatz ECey Man for real sport hunt in the everglades says lee hayman In Allied cans To ECayo taly TWENTY-FOUR I i By WES GALLAGHER NEW YORK (T) A taciturn Pennsylvania Dutchman who loves poker, plays the high explosive cards that may blow Italy's wobbly regime out ol tne war before a single Allied soldier sets foot on the mainland. That man is red haired Lt. Gen. Carl (Tooey) Spaatz, 52-year-old commander in chief of the Northwest African Air Forces.

Finally he could not stay silent any longer: "The damn fools," he raged at the Luftwaffe. "They are setting back airpower 20 years." All the top airmen in Africa believe that Italy can be bombed out of the war and there is no On July 7, 1942, he assumed V- Vv command of the Eighth Air Force doubt that Spaatz will deal a full hand of high explosives and incendiaries on Marshal Fietro Badoglio's troubled house before y. ii If In Britain and set out to put some of his beliefs into practice. His direct, frank methods made a hit with his counterparts in the RAF. He worked 16 hours a day and never wasted a minute.

He kept several different size coffee cups in his office for visitors. A the more costly method ot in vasion is tried. i 4" No one could be better suited for the job. He is the organizer of the United States Army's two most powerful air forces, the Eighth great coffee drinker, he always offered some to his visitors, who knew by the size of the cup how long to stay. A small cun five Lee Hayman's hunting camp just about "the end of nowhere" is in the heart of Big in the Everglades, about 40 miles from the nearest road, and on the edge of the Indian Hayman is shown in the picture.

When Hayman goes on his hunting trips averaging several times a year, he takes three or four bird dogs with him. This picture shows his prize dor, which died about three weeks ago, pointing for quail. Air Force now operating from. England, and the powerful, pre dominantly American, Northwest minutes, a larger cup longer, and so on up the scale. By LILLIAN BLACKSTONE African Air Forces.

If you are adventure-hungry For relaxation he plays poker. and eager for the kind of sport and cribbage. you don get every day, go with He built the Eighth Air Force from nothing to a point where it was just beginning to feel its strength when he was called to He is one of the best cribbage Lee Hayman sometime on one of his periodical hunting trips Try'yTi rr i -rr- tf3l. -r i fir Hit I players in the Army but one of the worst poker players, due to his desire to play in every hand. Africa to take over the some- into the deepest wilds of the Everglades.

He plays poker like he fights everything or nothing. Hayman, whose wood no'elties especially those made out of When the Allies invaded cypress knees found in the E.ver glades, are studied with interest Africa, his growing Eighth Air Force was looted for planes and men. It was a bitter blow. But "Tooey," always a well di at his shop, 914 Central avenue, has taken many friends with him 2 on his hunting trips but of all of these, scarcely a half-dozen have sciplined soldier, took it and set out to build again. But he was soon called to follow his planes to Africa when the Allied air ef wanted to repeat the expert ence.

fort faltered and threatened to This reluctance is due not to the danger of the hunting trips for they are no more dangerous than crossing downtown streets in fall apart. He found tired airmen operating from muddy fields, without parts, spare creu or even heavy traffic, Hayman claims ground crews. The Luftwaffe but it is because the excursions was pounding the American and are real tests of hardiness and British ground forces almost at strength. will and bombing the airfields Usually Hayman drives his How Spaatz built these tattered automobile far into the Ever forces into the most powerful arm in the world, excepting the home based RAF, is a book in itself. glades, leaving it there while he plunges afoot into the prairies, cypress swamps and sloughs.

At his favorite camp, on the edge of the Indian reservation about For months his office was in ft 4 'vV rf 'CJJ v. 5 a his hat. 1 He flew to every field in Africa gathering information at first hand and making decisions on the spot. v4v' The bird dog, having got his duck, swims back to shore Hayman says this dog was especially valuable because she could hunt for any kind of game with equal success. ach, through mud and water, uiftil cold, that's another story.

On cypress swamps, with occasional one rainy, cold night he crawled into his tent and fell into ex he reaches the flock. The turkey has a keen eye and it is not easy to surprise them. He moved his headquarters up close to the front as communications would permit and it took the combined persuasion of his staff and the official frowns of General Eisenhower to keep him from flying on combat missions himself at every opportunity. As it was he flew on several LT. GEN.

CARL SPAATZ what feeble American Twelfth Air Force and the RAF, which were being beaten to death by the Luftwaffe. He organized the thousands of planes operating from scores of airfields that grounded the Luftwaffe in Africa and wiped it out in the air over Sicily. "Tooey" got his nickname at West Point because of his similarity to a predecessor of the same nickname. sloughs which he explains are low places filled with water and which Webster defines as a wet or marshy place, a marshland creek, 40 miles from the nearest road, he feels as if he were in another world. Just how much he was out of the world was forcibly impressed on his mind in December, 1941.

Far away from radio or newspaper, he came out of the swamps around Dec. 10, to find the United States at war! He was amazed when he read newspaper headlines. Hayman always has been interested in hunting. When he first came to St. Petersburg in 1917 and was still in school, he hausted sleep, only to awaken sometime later with teeth chat Gobblers attain a height of at or mudhole.

tering and a chill almost tearing him apart. He discovered that in the dark he had gone to sleep V- CwPt I Riding into the Big Cypress until it becomes impassable for an automobile is rough going, least three feet, he says, and when they eat they nibble at food an instant and then rise to full height to peer around for possible enemy invasion. A large turkey, according to Hayman, on a cake of ice! missions as a co-pilot and ob a series of bumps and wet places Hayman has had strange, funny and almost tragic experiences. It server, picking out the toughest was near tragedy once when he measures about five feet, wing tip assignments and going with crews whose nerves were on ragged Hayman takes a tent and mosquito netting but little to eat aside from coffee and sugar because he depends upon what he swam out to get a buck and got would cross the railroad at what to wing tip. Gobblers have beards by which they are judged as to Here is Hayman with a deer he has killed.

Deer in the Everglades are a wary animal, he says, and they have a keen sense of smell. is now Fifth avenue north and tangled in water lilies. That happened 18 years ago and he has Sixteenth street, going deep into He was one of the first 25 men in the United States Army to earn his wings as a pilot, In 1916. He went to France as a captain, where his genius for organization found him in charge of an aviation Instruction center for Americans at Issoudon. age.

They are judged also by their spurs. never forgotten it. the woods. He would follow these woods toward the Jungle, He is a successful huntsman, and from an average trip brings back from 150 to 200 pounds of edge because of repeated missions without rest. "I guess I am not so damned old after all," he said after one trip.

Spaatz fights hard for a place in the sun for the air force, but is adverse to personal publicity and this is the first time it has come back through Disston, cross Central avenue where Disston cuts through, and eventually get back to where he started. This wild turkeys, fox squirrel and other animals have been for ages, the colors of their fur and feathers a perfect camouflage to make hunting a difficult procedure. Although the Everglades sec Much to his disgust he had Turkeys have beaten Hayman with their wings, and wounded buck have attacked him. He has had a few narrow escapes from snake bites but these were just trivial occurrences, he says. Recently, he had an experience only 19 days at the front, but was about a 25-mile hunting trip, meat.

These include usually one or more deer, one or two turkeys, 25 to 30 fox squirrel, 25 to 30 quail, and about 20 ducks. Ever since the time he had to stay up all night back in 1917 They like automobiles, preferring paint to good engines, and Hayman Wasn't surprised one day when, coming out of the Everglades, he saw a shiny model A Ford stuck on the side of the road. The Indian owner hailed Hayman, who stopped, and while the white men fixed the automobile the Indian stood at one side and watched. It's about time again for Hayman to go off into the Everglades, for a bit of hunting. It managed to down three German he estimates, and his chief catches appeared in print that he has participated in combat missions.

were quail and dove. planes and won a Distinguished Service Cross with a citation hunts for food. He laughingly tells about the-time he and a friend hunted for deer in the Okaloacoochee slough. They drove into the swamps about 38 miles and then waded to an island where they spent the night. They were unable to find any deer, so they had smoked frogs for supper.

It took them all day to get back to the automobile and until they reached there they didn't get anything else to eat. Another time the rains came, inundating Hayman's hunting grounds. He had to stay there In the Everglades, Hayman tion is the habitat of Seminole Spaatz did everything at a trot in Africa, wearing out his aides plucking 35 ducks, he is wary that read: hunts for wild turkey, deer, fox with a cougar also called a squirrel, dove and quail. He and staff. Direct field telephones mountain lion, or panther.

This of killing many of these birds and is glad there is a restriction usually takes three shotguns, a were installed in his bedroom Indians, Hayman rarely sees them. They stand aloof, not even speaking if they ard only 50 yards away. They still harbor a grudge aeainst the white man, carried "Although he had received orders to go to the United States he begged for and received permission to serve with a pursuit rifle and Brownie automatic, and ere he could be end was called is the largest of the cat family and a few of them are in the Everglades. On this particular on the number killed per day. He claims he can pick two turkeys prefers the automatic to other every hour of the day or night.

in the time it takes to dress a squadron at the front. Subordi He kept a sonal jeep on over from early history, but they are harmless except when drunk. nating himself to men of lower duck, and a whole deer in that time. hand and when he felt he must day, he found that a cougar had followed him for about three miles, his tracks having shown up clearly in Hayman's tracks. sounds like real adventure a safe adventure, too, if you know all the secrets of hunting in Florida for, as Hayman, the hunter, says, accidents in woods are caused by amateurs who don't know what they are doing.

Hayman calls the Indian men rank he was attached to a squadron as a pilot and saw conditions end arduous service during the There are a few bear in the get away from the continual routine, he would climb into it and drive jff. Privates and Frenchmen were treated to the sight of a three-star general tearing through the streets driving offensive (Meuse-Argonne). On firearms. He has varied methods of hunting. For instance, if he's after wild turkey he sometimes locates the high trees where they roost.

He can hear them coming, from a quarter of, a mile to half a mile away, and shoots them off the roost. Sometimes he stalks the turkey, especially if he's alone, and then he crawls on his stom- throe or four days before he could get out. Everglades, but not as many as the day west of Meuse while with "the laziest folks in the world." One would think they would hunt the deer, fox squirrel, quail and dove, but aside from fishing they prefer to eat canned goods purchased at the village, or the prod Good hunting, Hayman as you 'Twenty-five years of hunting in Florida makes Hayman thoroughly familiar with the sport in this state. He claims Florida the best hunting ground for natural game, for here the deer, around Inverness, Fla. When the weather is nice tne his pilot over enemy lines, a num The Big Cypress, as he de march again into one of this country's last uncivilized fron Everglades and Cypress swamp are beautiful, according to Hay- ber of enemy aircraft were encountered.

In the combat that his own jeep. scribes this part of remote Flor tiers. ucts from their gardens. Occasionally on these trips he followed he succeeded in bring ida, is a series of prairies and man but when it rains and is ing down two enemy planes. In his ardor and enthusiasm he be would take someone to see the nearby sights.

These tours were always conducted at a breakneck pace like everything else. Inevitable Disaster Faces German Ships came separated from his patrol while following another enemy "I always maintain you can see K'lfil as much in 10 seconds as in two hours," Spaatz would maintain. Alert On ritish Home Fleet Ever or UirpBtz fapaatz got his first chance to put his airpower ideas into effect against Pantelleria, He undoubtedly welcomes the chance to try them on Italy, but would like to go after bigge game. 1 By JOHN E. LEE WITH THE1 BRITISH HOME FLEET, in July (By Mail) (INS) All the world remembers the spectacular pursuit of May, 1941, "Whats the use of bombing rabbits in Italy when you fan when the giant German battleship Bismarck burst into the Atlantic, sank the British battle cruiser Hood and in turn was sent to her bomb wildcats in Germany," he doom in swift revenge.

has often said. Today another prize, the power BELIEVE IT OR NOT to bring about 10 large ships into action, in addition to destroyers, submarines and miscellaneous far beyond the lines. His gasoline giving out, he was forced to land and managed to land in friendly territory. Through these acts he became an inspiration and example to all men with whom he was associated. After the war Spaatz wedded himself to the cause of aviation, serving and studying all over the United States.

In 1929 he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his work as commander of the "Question Mark" endurance plane which stayed aloft for 150 hours and 40 minutes for a rew record. In 1940 he went to England to view the blitz. For days and weeks he stayed in the center of the bombings at Dover and London gathering firsthand information. A believer In daylight precision bombing, Spaatz stood on the roof of a London building one nhrht while the Luftwaffe dropped bombs belter skelter over the city, many close to where he was standing. LONDON.

(INS) Such ful Tirpitz, sister ship of the Bismarck, glitters elusively before the eyes of Admiral Sir Bruce things as bent nails and used bus craft. lis I Germany's most powerful warships are the Tirpitz, and trolley tickets are used in the construction of the giant RAF Lancaster bombers, according to Lolonel Mitchell, a member of Frasers Home Fleet, which has the irksome task of pinning down the German flagship and other warcraft in harbors where they are concealed. Will the Tirpitz try to break out? That is the chief question in the minds of naval experts who ll with eight 15-inch guns; the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, with at least 40 planes; the battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gnei-senau, each carrying nine 11-inch guns, and the pocket battleships Parliament, in a speech at Manchester. He urged a paper-collecting campaign throughout the country. One thousand component parts of the Lancaster, he Luetzow (ex-Deutschland) and direct the Home Fleet.

Some believe she may attempt it. Others Hid, are made from a paner base. contend the Germans know such This is a ratio of one to five, of all the elements making up the a venture would mean suicide for ncrait. ESI their sole battleship. They insist she will remain in hiding as long as the Home Fleet stands on guard.

That is the view of a famous British admiral commanding a Scheer, each with six 11-inch guns and capable of a speed of at least 28 knots. There are also the 'cruisers Prinz Eugen and Hipper, vessels carrying 8-inch guns, and the cruisers Emden, Leipzig, Koeln and Nurnburg, all equipped with 6-inch guns. The German cruiser Syedlitz may not have been completed. The Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Luetzow are believed to be in northern Norway while the Gnei-senau is reported under repair Junior College to Start 17th Year on Sept. 20 cruiser squadron who recently received this correspondent aboard British sources say this is the first authentic picture of the great German battleship Tirpitz.

taken in her Norwegian hideout. The Tirpitz, sister ship of the Bismarck, is said to be the top prize sought by the Allied navies, which are on the alert hoping that some day the desperate German fleet will make a rush for the open seas and engage in another historic "Battle of Jutland. nis flagship. In a great booming voice he proffered his favorite refresh ment, "gin and blood." Then the what the provocation, the Germans rarely come out. So the home fleet waits, itching for a fight, and goes about its business virtually unmolested.

Yet there is always a chance for the British it is a glimmer hope that the German surface fleet may start something. The home fleet is and always must may have more than we think. conversation as it frequently does turned to the Tirpitz and whether she would try to break out. The admiral strongly doubted be alert and prepared. it.

Chuckling and rubbing his hands together at the thought of action on its own account and only five times was brought to battle. At Trafalgar, inexperienced and stale, it met disaster. Nearly a century later the Russian Port Arthur fleet, after the ignominy of August 10, 1904, chose to be sunk at anchor rather than risk another battle. Finally there is the classic example of the Germans themselves in the last war. After Jutland the Germans conceded command of the seas to the British until nearly the end.

Finally the high seas fleet prepared for battle. Mutiny- was the result. As the world and Germany remember, the captive German fleet was escorted into Scapa Flow, where at length it was scuttled. With Sicily invaded and the Italian mainland gravely menaced, Mussolini's fleet evidently considers the German 1918 strategem a precedent fit to Advance registrations are now being accepted at the St. Petersburg Junior college which will begin its fall term Sept.

20, according to M. M. Bennett, registrar. When the college opens its doors Sept. 20 it will be the seventeenth year of its operation in this community.

Founded by the late Capt. George M. Lynch, and now under the presidency of Robert B. Reed, the college hag moved successively from the east wing of the Senior high school to a location at Fifth street and Second avenue north to its present new and modern plant on Fifth avenue and Sixty-seventh street north. Fully accredift-d.

which means its students are taking standard college work, the local collegp offers the first two years of courses leading to the degree of bachelor of arts; bachelor of sci in music education; B. S. or B. A. in elementary education; B.

S. or B. A. in secondary education; and, the pre-medical course. In addition, it offers a pre-dcntal course; pre-nursing course; pre-military course; a two-year secretarial course designed to fit students for junior executive positions; and, a two-year general business course.

Students wishing to specialize in fields other than those mentioned above such as journalism, home economics and laboratory technicians have also been able to take their basic work at the Junior college since it is universally understood in the educational field that the first two years of college, with a few exceptions, are devoted to general background subject material. The registrar's office is open Monday through Friday, and the registrar is available at any time for personal conferences with in a central Baltic port. The Scheer, possibly damaged by the Eighth USAAF, the Hipper in drydock as a result of a New Year's eve clash with British warships, the Prinz Eugen, the Koeln and the Graf Zeppelin, Emden and Leipzig probably are all in the Baltic. The Nurnburg is said to be somewhere in Norwegian waters. In addition the Germans probably have about 24 destroyers, mostly new and armed with five 5.1 inch guns and eight torpedo tubes.

They are regarded as very fast, perhaps faster than British destroyers. The Germans also have large numbers of boats. boats. mans on the eve of the last war had 23 battleships equipped with 12-inch and 11-inch gunsnd five battle cruisers with 11-inch guns (except the Dorflinger, which had eight 12-inchers). They also had 15 light cruisers with 8.2 inch, 8 inch nd 4.1 inch guns and, of course, numerous destroyers and submarines.

Britain's last war grand fleet likewise was far stronger numerically than her present naval force, but unquestionable supremacy over the German surface units is maintained. Hence, the German warships spend most of the time in protected harbors. It would be a great advantage to the Germans to be able to Many of their boats now have been withdrawn from Atlantic shipping lanes and are guarding the Atlantic, North sea and channel coasts against possible invasion. This German naval force, however, is a puny thing compared to the German high seas fleet that clashed with Britain's heaviest naval forces in the Battle of Jutland in 1916. The tactical results of that battle were inconclusive, but it was a strategic success for the British.

The high seas fleet never again dared to challenge the British Grand fleet, and thus British naval power dominated and "contained" the German fleet and held command of the sea. In contrast to their relatively what would happen, he predicted the Tirpitz or any other German ship would have as much chance of survival "as a dog in a meat grinder." One thing appears certain. If the Tirpitz or any other German warships appear in the open, they will become quarries in a sea and air chase such as these waters never before have seen. It Is hard to imagine how they could escape disaster. According to latest Information There is also the thought that any Allied invasion of the continent along the North Sea or Atlantic coasts would galvanize the German navy into action.

It is hard to believe Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, the German naval chieftain, would allow his ships to remain passive as the Italian fleet has done, if Allied troops moved against the Nazi-occupied shores of Norway, the Lowlands or France. Still, history has shown that inferior fleets often would rather die in bed than in battle. During the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars the French fleet never aought armed trawlers and a variety of other "little ships." It would be difficult to attempt any exact ence; B. S. in engineering; B.

harass British sea power in these at this northern British naval base, the Germans might be able iu business administration; S. prospective enrollees estimate of the number. They weak surface fleet today, the Ger- strategic waters. But no matter.