The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 2

2 THE OTTAWA JOURNAL, THURSDAY. MARCH 22. 1945. IN THE "THERE OUGHT TO BE A How many timei have you said it yourself? and we agree. People who block car aisles in traffic-congested cities should be Incarcerated but we are still a free country, and It Just cant be done.

However, you can join the thoughtful ones and move right to the rear of the car and leave by the rear door. YouH have our grateful (if unspoken) thanks. THI OTTAWA ELECTRIC RAILWAY CO. On the Path Pacific Of the Allies with Ernie Pyle IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC (Delayed) We are launching our mid-morning patrol The sun was out bright, and the day warmly magnificent Everything was serene. I had already become acquainted with come of the nilots.

and before each flight I would go to the "ready room" and find out from the blackboard the number of the planes my friends were flying, so I could identify them as thv went nast. Lieut. Jimmv Van Fleet is one of the pilots I know best. We got acquainted Because we nave a Tnntiial friendWar Corresoon dent Chris Cunningham, with wham i snared a tent ana some- times worse through Tunisia and Sicily and Italy. Jimmy and Chris are from the same nome-town Findlay, O.

We knew the very moment he started that Jimmy was in trouble. His 'plane veered sharply to the right, and a big puff of white smoke spurted from his right brake band. Then slowly the 'plane turned and angled to the left as it gained speed. The air officer up in tne -island" sensed catastrophe, and put his hand on the warning squawk-er. All the sailors standing on the catwalk, with their heads sticking up over the edge of the flight deck, quickly ducked down.

Yet such is the riridity of excite ment, I never even heard the squawker. It was obvious Jimmy couldn't stop his 'plane from going to the left. He had his right wheel locked, and the tire was leaving burned rubber on the deck, yet it wouldn't turn the 'plane. And it was too late for him to stop now. It had to happen.

About midway of the flight deck, exactly opposite from where I was standing, he' went over the side at full tilt, with his engine roaring. His wheels raked the anti-aircraft guns as he went over, his propeller missed men's heads by inches, his left wing dropped, and in a flash he disappeared over we side. It all happened in probably no more than six seconds. I had stood frozen while it went on, unable to move or make a sound, eyes just glued. to the inevitable.

We all thought it was the end for Jimmy. But it wasn't. We got birn back three days later. When the 'plane again came Into view, only the tail was sticking out of the water. And then Jimmy bobbed up beside it.

He had got out in a few seconds. "Get your smoke bombs the air officer boomed to the crew over the loud speaker. Those were to mark his position for any ship that would pick him up. When he got back to ua, Jimmy told me what nappenea from there on. He said that when the nlane went In the water, it went so deep that It got dark in the cockpit Jimmy wasn't nun by the crash, outside of a small cut on his forehead.

He nulled his various buckles. eneninf his hatch cover and re leasing himself from bis seat harness. But as he did so be fell forward (the 'plane was riding nose down in the water, of course) and in a moment was standing on his head, under water, and in a hell of a fix. But somehow he got himself upright, and then he couldn get nut because his radio cord, at tached to his helmet was still plugged into its socket back of I his seat So he took his big sheath knife out of its. holder, cut the radio r--A m-vA fVian Tfiil1v rtirt the iuiU) Briife back.

He says he doesn't knpw why he put it back. All this happened under water, and in mere seconds. Some part of Jimmy's, clothing caught as he was getting out ana he nve a tair yank to free him self. Thus he tore his Mae West wide open, both compartments of it and he had no buoyancy at all. But he is an excellent swim mer, so he stayed up.

ft When Jimmy went over the side, a destroyer was' running Sot it mile to our left Here Jimmy was lucky again. For that wasn't the destroyers normal nocitlon: it Just happened to be cutting across the convoy to de liver some mail on the other side. Jimmy had hardly hit the water when we saw the destroyer heel over in a swath-cutting turn. Thev had been watching the take-offs through their glasses, and had seen him go over. Our own ship, of course, had to Keep riffht on ffoinsr straight ahead.

And our next 'plane took off without the slightest wait though nothing had happened. The destroyer had Jimmy aboard in Just seven minutes. They didn't put over a boat for him, but instead sent a swimmer out after him, with a line tied around his waist He pot to Jimmy lust in time. Jimmy passed out in his arms. i4 1 VTXJPPERTAL, a busy Ruhr city of 500,000, actually takes in the sizable towns of FJberf eld and Rarmen and a half-dozen SUD nrhan strunZ along the banks of the non-navigable Wupper river, 15 miles east of Duesseldorf and 10 miles south east of Essen.

The Wunnertal industrial dis trict is famous for its textile and steel plants. In Elberfeld and Barmen sectors, great factories have turned out silk and woollen goods for dyeing, calico printing, braid and lace making. The approaches to Wuppertal are hilly from the south, but the city is connected to the main hiffhwav bv 1 good road that leads over from Duesseldorf on the Rhine. Its strategic importance is evident from the Hank position it occupies south of the main cluster of Ruhr- land industrial cities. With no lifebelt he had taken too much salt-water aboard.

In the meantime the destroyer had let down a metal strexener, and another swimmer was there to heln ffet Jimmv into it It took a while for them to get him on, for he was dead weight, and the stretcher kept going up and down with the waves. But flnallv ther managed it Jimmv was safe and alive, al though a very water-laden and passed out young -man from Ohio (More Tomorrow). RETURN LABOR ALDERMAN. LETHB RIDGE, March 21, Fred M. Seed, Labor alderman for more than 4 1-2 years before being defeated at the polls last Dec.

12, was returned to the coun cil yesterday in a special civic election. Says Lublin Groups Execute Sympathizers Of London Poles By GEORdE WELLES, Chicago Daily Nsws. ISTANBUL. March 19. (De- lavedi The Polish Partisan Militia, acting under Lublin Committee orders, was still carrying out political executions witnout trial as late as March 9, according to an American observer who recently arrived here.

observer, who is or Amer-r'nn htrth and antecedents, stated that IS Polish men. sympathetic to the London Government-in- Exile, were shot between 2 ajn. and 4 a.m. Saturday, March 3, while he himself was in Minsk. The shootings were carried out by four men dressed In uniforms of officers of the Polish Lublin Militia.

They did the killings by the light of kerosene lamps tney carried. The observer was staying in a house next to one in which one victim was summoned. The Lon don Government sympathizer, al legedly, wai told tnat a meeting had been called In the centre of the village and his attendance was required. He arose from his bed, dressed, nrf went to the street where he was Immediately shot The wit ness said he saw officers armea with Srhmeisser' machine pistols. He observed one with gold epaulet and red stripe under his hrnwn Polish cloak.

When morning came the observer counted 15 bodies strewn in the street before various houses where families lost men similar lv. mm The American helped wasn nis neighbor's body for burial. He had been shot three times, once through both cheeks, once througn the back of the head, once through the heart Most London Government sympathizers nave been shot in the Dacx, Lectures on Gems And Precious Stones The National Musetfm condud ed Its Winter Droirram on Wed nesday evening with a lecture, "Rmi and Precious Dy John Lovell Baker, director of Henrv Birks and Sons. Montreal. Using lantern slides to illustrate his remarks, the lecturer gave his audience a better appreciation of the tradition, history and qualities governing their value.

"Stones lacking the qualities which place them high in the the ranks' of precious' stones, are, nevertheless, useful for ornamental he said. At the conclusion of the lecture two films were shown, "Diamond Cutting" and "Production of Cui tured lip 3 Mi 1n -Sgie-'-5 I rati. lights. But tnavs cnangea now, simplicity is the keynote. And many rising young piyer are leaving glamour entirely to individual personality and using their rvum names.

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