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cccc THE SAN FRANCISCO-EXAMINERf Ta. WS ffi THURSDAY, JANUARY 1943 DARING RECONNAISSANCE SHOT 3 fJdljjCanada Tallies FLYING' -FORTS BEAT JINX III ID ON HUE II SOLDO LANDS IN JAIL AS FAKE MAI LOST IN SMASH I NAZI LILLE YYdrOd5UaiTie5 Ottawa Army List From Start of Conflict Totals 7,243 OTTAWA (Ont), Jan. 13. (AP) Canadian Army casual- ft from the beginning of the t0 ast December 25 totaled i i v. Vl 1 --K VVV wc PHOTOGRAPHER'S FEAT This photo-.

graph by British Coastal Command plane is declared probably most daring recon naissance picture of war. It is closeup of German Hipper class cruiser in drydock at Brest, France, from 500 foot altitude. Secret British Weapon Cleared Sea of Mines Electrical Gadget Fastened to Planes Upset Hitler's Plans for Blockade Bomber No. 13 One of 13 U. S.

Planes to Participate; Flyers Celebrate With 3 on Match By DIXIE TIGHE Staff Carmpondmt Int'l wi Serrlr A FLYING FORTRESS STATION, SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, Jan. 13. Crews of American Flying Fortress bombers returned to their station in this Isolated section of England tonight, happy over success of a heavy raid. on the gigantic Five-Lille Locomotive Works at Lille, France, and delighted with having killed off a troublesome jinx. The jinx is Flying Fortress No.

13. one of thirteen bombers to take off in the telling attack, which came back with the rest of them and made a safe landing. Naturally, the fact the raid was on the thirteenth of the month was a contributing angle as well. 3-ONAMATCH. It was an occasion for an un-' usual celebration, which consisted of liehtine three cigarettes fmm one match the height of contempt for age-old superstition.

Flying Fortress No. 13 is the Memphis Belle. The lady from -Tpnnessee led the formation across the Channel and, when the successful raid was over some sort of a marker in the history fivinir combat was chalked hp wall for posterity. The Memphis Belle was piloted rwf PnKprt Morgan of Asheville (N. C), his copilot was r-nl Stanley T.

Wray of Birming ham who is commanding officer of this station. mtATTNG THE JLNX. Mnmhpr 13 and her crew did not undertake this mission with out due forethought and preparation. To beat the jinx, Morgan wore the same skiing suit under his flying togs that he has worn on all seven previous rams siagea ntrainst Hitler's Europe. And Colonel Wray was armed against superstition with a lucky American penny he has carried for years and an English "three penny bit" that almost broke a front tooth when ne mt into a olum pudding Christmas day.

The three flyers who defied the "three on a match" superstition were Lieut. Charles Leighton, navigator, of East Lansing Lieut. Vincent Evans, bombardier, of Henderson and Sst. Amos B. Cornwell of 6516 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland.

But the boy who really thinks he made a monkey out of the jinx is Lieut. John A. Dean, bombardier, of San Saba (Tex.) "I was really scared that thirteen was my number and that It was up today," Dean told me as he sipped a cup of cocoa and munched on a sandwich. The most remarkable development of the day's raid turned out to be the incredible statement of First Lieut. Olin L.

Hubbard of Dallas, a bombardier who was flying with Lieut. Harold Beasley of Andalusia "You know," he said, "I think I'm the only bombardier in the whole squadron who didn't hit the target." The raid was characterized as a most successful one, with many direct hits scored. Fire in Hospital TACOMA Jan. 13-(INS) Authorities today inves tigated the cause of a fire that destroyed a ward building of the Western State Hospital at Fort Steilacoom, Wash. Seventy-three patients were removed safely.

By ALFRED E. WALL AHsoolatMi rre Staff Writer LONDON, Jan. 14. (ThursdayWussins: rear." which it was learnea toaay at the Defense Department. A summary of the casualties shows: Fatal casualties, enemy action 50 Deaths, all other causes, overseas 130 Deaths, all causes, in Canada 826 Missing 606 Prisoners of war, Including Interned 3,570 Wounded, nonfatal, enemy action "87 The official statement did not break down the casualties to show the numbers which were due to the two main actions in which Canadian troops have taken part so far the defense of Hong Kong in December, 1941, and the attack on Dieppe last August 19.

Almost all the casualties lnj prisoners, killed and wounded occurred in those two actions, with Dieppe accounting for most of those killed in action. An unofficial tabulation made from published casualty lists of the Dieppe losses shows 515 killed, 570 wounded, 720 missing and 1,571 prisoners. To date 165 men have been re ported killed at Hong Kong and some 1,600 are known to be pris oners; eighty-seven are listed as missing, and seventeen as having died of wounds. The total Can adian force at Hongkong was 1,985 officers and men. Ex-Publisher Dies MIAMI Jan.

13. (AP) Bethel B. Tatum, 79, former Miami publisher, died yesterday at an Atlanta Hospital after an extended illsess. He was owner of the Miami Metropolis, which was purchased by James M. Cox and became the Miami Dally News.

S.F. Theaters Pay Tribute to Allies United Nations Week opens today In San Francisco motion picture theaters, while a new two cent postage stamp with a "United Nations" theme goes on sale at the post office in Washington. San Francisco theaters will participate in the national campaign by running film stories designed to show Americans the life and customs of all peoples in the United Nations. Local theater officials announced that every town In California Is co-operating in the observance. Representatives of the United Nations will Join with civic officials and theaters in the celebration.

United Nations Week ends at midnight next Wednesday. The new stamp will go on sale here as soon as it Is received from Washington. The word's greatest pickpocket is here! -AX Nazi Shortage Of Guns Bared Weapons Captured in Africa Obsolete, Colonel Says ABERDEEN Jan. 13. (AP) Evidence that the Ger mans used obsolescent armament in the Middle East campaign was disclosed today in an exhibit of captured Axis weapons at the Aberdeen proving ground.

Ordnance Col. J. D. Billingsley said the practical inference that could be drawn was that the enemy was being forced to use everything he could lay his hands on. Colonel Billingsley snowed a water cooled machinegun of World War I vintage and several old Austrian rifles captured from the Nazis during Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's thwarted drive toward Alexandria.

2 Wives Kept in OneHouseCharge INGLEWOOD, Jan. 13. (INS) Police today held Bernard J. Lewis, 25, defense worker, on charges of attempting unsuccessfully to keep two wives under the same roof. Arrested at a war plant, Lewis was charged in a bigamy com-J plaint filed by Mrs.

Dorthea Lewis, 21. She said she gave birth to a son and upon being taken to Lewis' home at Bryn Mawr, found that he was also living with Mrs. Wilma Wilson Lewis and another son. "Up to the evening of January 10 more than 800 Japanese were killed In the city in addition to 200 in the suburbs," the communique added. "The Chinese now are In complete possession of the city and Its environ IJRITISH BOMBERS SWEEP OVER BURMA NEW DELHI (India), Jan.

13. (AP) British bombers ranged far into Burma yesterday without encountering air opposition from the Japanese and attacked railway transportation and river and coastal shipping, a British communique said today. Two villages on Akyab Island were bombed by fighter escorted Blenheims, it was reported, and low flying fighters machine gunned railway buildings and rolling stock in the Shwebo district of central Burma. The fighters strafed enemy river craft on the Chindwin and Irrawaddy Rivers and in the Rathedaung area, twenty-five miles north of Akyab, and Sampans carrying supplies near the Burma coast south of Akyab were hit and damaged, the com-j munique said, Private Picks U. S.

Attorney as First Impersonation Victim and Gets Away With It You gotta hand it to Private Arthur Lee Flynn. He combines imagination with daring, even if those qualities did land him in jail at Salinas yesterday on a fistful of charges. When Private Flynn came to San Francisco recently to do violence to assorted Federal stat utes, he went straight to the man that an unimaginative fellow would most avoid. He called on United States Attorney Frank J. Hennessy.

There he introduced himself as a former assistant attorney general of the United States, and sat down for an affable visit. VETERAN IMPERSONATOR. Perhaps he got away with it because he has had so much experience at such things. The FBI says he has impersonated, at various times and places, an FBI agent, a captain, a major and a lieutenant commander. He told Hennessy he was in the uniform of a lowly private be cause he couldn't wait for a commission.

He was In such a hurry to get at the enemy that he en listed. Hennessy introduced him around. One of those Private Flynn met was Deputy U. S. At torney Thomas C.

Lynch. SIGNS OFFIttAL'S NAME. When the distinguished visitor left he proceeded to a telegraph office. There he sent a telegram to his commanding officer at Fort Ord. It explained why Private Flynn hadn't returned from his two day leave.

It said: "Flynn must be at court to day." It was signed: "Deputy U. S. Attorney Thomas C. Lynch." Then, said the FBI, Private Flynn pinned a captain's bar's on his shoulders, went into a men's store, announced he has just won promotion to major and ordered a uniform. The uniform was delivered C.O.D.

to the Manx Hotel. But by the time it arrived Private Flynn had tired of the game and returned to Fort Ord. Yes, the FBI added, he didn't pay his hotel bill. Actor Dick Foran Married in East HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 13.

(AP) Western film actor Dick Foran said today he and Carole Gal lagher, 19 year old actress, were married on New Year's Day at the Flemington (N. home of his parents, former Senator and Mrs. Arthur Foran. Miss Gallagher is the daughter of Lasher Gallagher, Los Angeles attorney. Foran formerly was married to Ruth Hollingsworth, from whom he was divorced.

They had two children, Pat, 4, and Mike. 3. Theatre Restaurant 1025 Columbus ORdwoy 3030 Kid I I Big U. Bombers Score Hits on Hitler War Plants Rail Yards in (Continued From Page One.) Fortresses and the RAF Bostons were packed into two hours time. United States pilots in Spitfires helped escort the Bos tons, and British and Canadian Spitfires protected the returning Fortresses.

The RAF flyers over St. Omer reported bomb bursts on the air fields and dispersal area, andl said the few Nazi fighters in the district kept out of range of their cannon and machine guns. Two Fighters lost in sweeps this morning on canal barges and gun positions in Hol land, the Air Ministry said. This afternoon Mosquito Bomb ers maae low level attacks on railway centers in northern France, scoring hits on engine sheds, locomotive repair shops, and railway yards, a communi que said. None of the bombers was lost.

Ground barrages opened up to night against enemy raiders over two northeast coastal districts. There were no immediate reports of bombs. IN BRI6HT SUNSHINE. Today's raids over Europe were carried out in bright sunshine and the fortresses loosed their bombs from high altitudes on the industries of Lille, which are making war material for Adolf Hitler, and on the railway yards which make up part of his transportation system. The daylight attacks followed a night assault by the British on the Ruhr Valley of Germany, the seventn time in ten nights that that, important German area had been raided by the RAF.

More than 100 American bomb ers struck Lille last October 9 in one of the greatest raids of the war and on December 6 Fortress and four motored Lib erator planes teamed up for a mighty assault on the Lille loco 1 muuve worns ana tne enemy ainieid at Abbeville. A communique said: "Visibility was good and numerous bursts were observed on the target and in railway yards. CARRIERS REPLACED. "There were a number of encounters with enemy air-craft, "From this operation three Fortresses are missing." Meanwhile, the first lord of the Admiralty, V. Alexander, disclosed that although "we have had heavy losses in aircraft car riers, we have more now than we had at the beginning of the war after replacing our losses." "We have achieved this with at least 100,000 fewer workers in shipyards than in the last war," he added.

(Ine British have announced the loss of the carriers Ark Royal, umrageous, Glorious, Hermes and Eagle. Since the war began she had completed the Indomit able, Formidable, Victorious and Illustrious. Alexander's state ment Indicated that she also had completed the Indefatigable and Implacable, scheduled to be finished In 1942. This would give her seven since the only prewar carrier not sunk is the Furious.) BRITISH ANNOUNCE LOSS OF CORVETTE LONDON, Jan. 13.

(AP) An Admiralty communique issued to night follows: The Board of Admiralty re grets to announce H. M. Corvette Marigold (Lieut. James Halcrow, R. R.

N. has been lost. The next of kin of casualties have been informed. Riches Found in Dead Maid's Room HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 13 (LS) Arrested on suspicion of bur glary and grand theft, Ethel Williams, 41, Negro domestic formerly employed by Lieut.

Clark Gable and the late Carole Lom bard, today died of an overdose of sleeping pills at the West Hollywood Emergency Hospital Police said she had been em ployed at the West Hollywood home of Walter Kane, theatrical agent, who notified deputy iffs he discovered several pack ing cases of expensive silverware, fur coats, dishes and groceries In the maid's room. Army Truck Kills Man LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13. (INS) Crushed under the wheels of a heavy Army truck which col lided with the car in which he was a passenger, Horner Smith. 76, died in an emergency hospi today, police reported.

aridities French Citylwar ine Air Ministry released a tnree year old secret today in tell ing how Wellington bombers helped clear the seas around Brit ain's coasts on the deadly Ger man magnetic mines which once were Hitler's "secret weapon1 and which threatened the supply lines to these islands in the last three months of 1939. The story of the "hazardous and unpleasant was told for the first time in Coastal command, a new booklet in the series on tne British Air Force. the first of which was Battle of Britain. ine minesweepers or tne air were equipped with a shaped casing extending all around them and secured to their nose, wings and tail." The casing held a magnetic coil and the cur rent was supplied by an auxiliary engine of the ordinary Ford V-8 type. CURRENT FIRES MENES.

The equipment was designed to set up a magnetic current which would set off the then new type of mine. Coastal Command said that "when the mines exploded the Wellingtons were severely jolted and their crews had no warning to brace themselves, for they could not know the moment when they would pass over a mine." Minesweeping from the air, it said, continued "some four months, after which it became no longer necessary, the surface ships having been fitted with de- AERIAL MINE SWEEPER Wellington bomber with giant hoop was revealed as Britain's secret weapon to destroy magnetic mines. Circular casing, electrically charged, was designed to set up current to explode mines when plane passed over. Pre Wlreph0l0. nullified th niaErnptir; mines.

Coastal Command tells the publishable story of the aerial watchdogs of Britain's coasts and sealanes. It reports they had flown fifty-five million miles in the first two years of war, escorted 4,947 convoys and made 587 attacks on enemy submarines. TRIBUTE TO FLYERS. It tells of the intrepid young men in whom are combined the British heritage of nautical skill and the RAF's aeronautical genius and fighting spirit. American made Hudsons, Cat-alinas and later Liberators played a big part in the Coastal Command's invaluable service to the cause of the United Nations, the booklet said.

Magnificently illustrated, the 144 page publication shows many pictures never before published, including a striking reconnaissance photograph of the German battleship Bismarck in Heltje Fjord just before she weighed anchor for her last fate ul trip. DANZIG PHOTOGRAPHS. Also published for the first time is one of the most daring reconnaissance photographs of the war, obtained by a Coastal Command plane which slipped out of the clouds and got a sharp, detailed closeup of a Hipper class cruiser in drydock at Brest from an altitude of only 500 feet. The function of the Coastal Command "to find the enemy, to strike the enemy, to protect our ships" has led to the forma tiOn of a large organization working in full co-operation with the admiralty, although its mem bers wear the RAF uniform in stead of naval blues, the publica tion pointed out. The Coastal Command's big gest task is the battle of the At lantic.

Its strenuous efforts are credited with greatly reducing the menace of Focke-Wulf Kon dor air raiders and its relentless patrols have proved a big hin drance to enemy submarines. Weather has been a worse foe of the Coastal Command than the German Air Force, the book let declares, but patrols have been maintained over thousands of square miles of sea from icy Greenland to the sweltering trop ics of equatorial Africa. Sea rescues have been an im portant part of the work. In the first two years of the war about 3,000 persons adrift on the sea after U-boat attacks were sight ed and helped by Coastal Com mand planes. Rich with anecdotes, both hu morous and pathetic, the booklet tells among other things how a patrol plane in difficulties 200 miles off Iceland on Christmas Eve radioed: "SOS.

Am landing In the sea. Merry Christmas." That tale had a happy ending. however, for the plane managed Chinese Recapture Jap Mopup Base in Honan CHUNGKING, Jan. 13 (APHstreet fighting ensued. EW YORK Sinyang, important Japanese base in southern Honan Province on the Peiping-Hankow trunk rail way, has been recaptured by the Chinese, the Chinese high command announced tonight, 1 This was considered the most significant Chinese victory in months In thn rontral Phlna war wpt The high command's commu nique also reported the recapture of Hwangchwan, east of Sinyang, in a battle in which 600 Japanese were slain.

FIGHTING NEAR BURMA. It also reported renewed fight ing In western Yunnan, near the Burma border, where the Japanese attacked Mengma January 8. They encountered Chinese resistance and fighting was con tinuing two days later. Sinyang, a key point In the Japanese defense in southern Honan, has been a base for their operations since 1939, and a favorite starting point for numerous "mopping up" expeditions. CHINESE MOVE EV.

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