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TUESDAY, JUNE 9. 19 44 The South'i CrMtMt News paper THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS TWELVI Texan Who Saw Midway Island Battle Gives Victory Details Gather Scrap For Blow At Jap And Nazi Pals, County Slogan ANSWER DICTATORS WITH DOLLARS Bobby Jones Awarded Commission As Captain WASHINGTON (P) The War Department announced Tuesday that Bobby Jones, the fagious At lanta golfer, and Arthur M. Loew, 1 of Glen Cove, Long Island, N. a motion picture executive, have been commissioned in the army and ordered to active duty. As Capt.

Robert Tyre Jones, the former golf champion, will report at Mitchel Field, N. June 20 for duty with the army air forces. Loew, commissioned a major, was assigned to the special service, services of supply, in Washington, where he will have charge of film distribution for the army. Official Count Shows Hardwood, Bouldin Winners In Primary MOBILE, Ala. Offinal fig-lures for the Dcrnncratir primary runoff showed Tuesday that Robert Harwood, of Tuscaloosa, won the nomination for attorney general, and Judge Virgil Bouldin, Scotts-boro, incumbent, was renamed the party's choice fdr scat No.

1 on the State Supreme Court. Figures released by Gessner T. McCorvey, chairman of the party's executive committee, gave Harwood a majority of 8,961 over O. P. Lee, of Opelika, while Judge Bouldin received a majority of 19,988 over Jesse Drennen, of Birmingham.

Fighters' Dependents Are Assured Of Help By Government, Men Senate Agrees To Raise Minimum Pay Of Soldiers And Sailors To $50 WASHINGTON UP) Dependents of army and navy men bad 1 congressional assurance Tuesday their financial needs would be taken care of. in a moderate way at least, by Uncle Sam and his fighting men. House passage late Monday of legislation embodying the general pay provisions of a bill previously approved by the Senate put both branches overwhelmingly on record in favor of the same scale of payments, leaving extraneous pro- visions to be worked out by a joint conference committee. At thp same time the Senate agreed, 58 to 20, to raise Ihe minimum monthly pay of servire men i lo $50, effective as of June 1. The War Needs Aoney-YOURS Invest regularly in U.

S. War Savings Bonds and Stamps through your companys Pay-Roll Savings Plan. Save money every Eay day so that you, too, can elp your country WIN! steel and rubber they do not actually need. Contributions of scrap should be placed with, not in. the garbage, for easy collection bright I and early Wednesday.

All the money will be used for civilian defense which means it will be used to help protect the lives and homes of the people of this county. Chairman Whiting Tuesday again urged youngsters 13 years of age and younger to enter the letter contest immediately by describing, in a letter to the kiddie contest editor of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the most interesting piece of scrap found or the most interesting feature of the search. Midnight Friday is the deadline for the contest, but the scrapout itself is this Tuesday with the col-j lectionWednesday morning. Jefferson County wants to give the rest of the nation a mark at which to shoot. Lachine, near Montreal, Quebec, was named by French explorers 1 who believed rapids there blocked a northwest, water passage to Chins.

Birmingham and Jefferson County citizens have an opportunity Tuesday to strike a telling blow at the Axis. It is "Scrapout Day. It's one occasion when the weather doesn't matter when little matters except the job at hand. From every section of the city and county word has reached-the salvage committee that citizens are turning their premises inside out in the most intensive search for scrap this county has ever known. The idea has caught on, it seems, with the result that all classes of citizens are determined to have-the biggest share possible in accumulating formidable pile of iron, steel and rubber to help the United I States win this war.

Air raid wardens will assemble at their sector posts at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Shortly thereafter they will start ringing doorbells from one end of Birmingham to the I other to remind you that this is "Scrapout Day and that your ut-1 most in cooperation is needed and solicited. Every citizen Is asked to give to thp scrapout" every piece of iron. JOIN THE RANKS Rides Train At 32 NASHVILLE (jP)-Don Calfee, 32-year-old business manager of The Johnson City Press and Chronicle, has traveled over most of the United States and Canada, but he took his first train ride last 'weekend.

Calfee. who rode the train to the Tennessee Press Association convention here, said the trip caused him to lose a $25 wager that he would not ride on a train before he was 35. Two Plane Accidents Kill Three White, One Negro Army Aviators women who And welcome relief from periodic pain, headache and nervousness with CHICHESTER3 PILLS. Note contain no narcotic or habit-forming dm, A Take as directed. All food druggist carry them.

uft SUCCEEDS HAWKINS MONTGOMERY. Ala. iP) Gov. Dixon announced Tuesday be would appoint Henry R. Howze (abovpi, Birmingham attorney, as probate judge of Jefferson County to sire.

'WkTm," PIILS Writhing Of Enemies Under Heavy Assault is Related By Seaman How Americans Blasted Foe Is Told; Survivor Hid To Protect Self BY WALTER B. CLAUSEN PEARL HARBOR. Hawaii-(P a tough, fighting Texan who floated for 24 hours amidst the savage Midway Island sea battle returned with a stirring eyewitness account of Japanese naval destruction as viewed from the surface of the sea where he hid under a seat cush- ion from his sunken torpedo-plane to escape detection. Shot down in the morning of the first day of the historic battle and rescued the next. Ensign George H.

Gays vivid observations and descriptions of American successes were disclosed Monday right by Adml Chester W. Nimitz. enmmand-er-in-chief of Ihe Pacific fleet. The navy flier from Houston. is recovering from slight wounds at a hospital here Hp was shot down but not before he had his crack at the Japs.

Flying with his squadron on 4. the first day of the battle. Gay and his two mates saw three Jap aircraft carriers below them, two of the vessels big of the Kaga class. In the face of terrific anti-aircraft fire and enemy fighter opposition, they leveled for the assault. Gay's machine gunner was hit, but he nosed the plane down and launched a torpedo into one big carrier, then swung sharply over the target and sped away.

BUT BULLETS FROM A JAP EERO FIGHTER shot away the control of Gays plane. Gay was hit in the left leg and slightly in the arm. Coolly, he pancaked his craft into the sea several miles astern of the carrier. His gunner was dead. His radioman.

unable to free himself, went down with the plane. Gay's luck was with him. From the wreckage of his plant floated a bag containing a deflated rubber life-raft, and a black cushion of the type bombardiers use to kneel upon. He used the life-raft bag to keep himself afloat, and hid under the cushion to avoid detection from enemy planes and ships all about him. Cautiously, Gay felt his wounded arm.

The bullet, apparently spent when it struck him, dropped out into his hand. He bandaged his injured leg under water. Then from the surface of the sea he had a fish-eye view of the epochal battle in its most violent stages. i i I reed Eugene Hawkins, who will join the army Friday. Hawkins had served as probate judgp 11 years Howze was graduated from the University of Alabama in 1892 and is a member of the law firm of Howze and Brown.

He will serve until his successor is elected in November, 1944. He's the Coolest man in town certain loss, and the two other carriers were probably lost. Surface craft gave Gay some close brushes with death. One enemy destroyer, speeding to aid a stricken carrier, appeared to be driving straight at. him.

but at the last instant it swerved a bit and missed him by a scant margin. A HEAVY CRUISER STEAMED PAST, her crew lining the rail grimly watching the destruction of their fleet units. In the twilight. Gay inflated his rubber lifeboat after making emergency repairs and clambered in for a few winks of sleep. Several hours after sun-up a navy patrol plane spotted his life-raft and picked him up.

As they flew back to their base, the surface of the battle area was littered with black Japanese life-rafts. presumably used in abandoning ship. Great patches of oil were seen. Gay is the 25-year-old son of a Texas oil operator and a graduate of Texas A. A M.

His parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Gay, recalled that their son had been turned down by the army twice because examiners said his heart couldnt stand the strain of dive-bombing, but he worked hard and passed the physical examination a year and Before his eyes.

American tor- a half later, and went to Florida Bomb Dropping Practice At Ft. Benning Takes Life Of Two In Explosion Three white army fliers and one Negro army air cadet were dead Tuesday after two unusual air accidents. In maneuvers at Ft. Benning, where planes were dropping bombs over the reservation in practice, two bombs struck, exploded in midair and blew one plane to bits, killing the three occupants. The Negro pilot was killed when the plane in which he was riding clipped a high tension power line near Tallassee.

cutting off electric service to Dothan, Eufaula, Union Springs, Prichard and other localities and plunged into the Ta-lapoosa River. The three army men lo die in the. bnmher explosion were Capt. Morris Pelham, of Anniston. Lt.

Raymond Manley, Rrooklyn, W. and Cpl Ray Roland, Route 1, Columbia, Iowa. Robert A. Dawson, of San Antonio. was the Negro cadet, I and in this accident also was injured Walter I.

Lawson, of Newton, another Negro cadet The bomber was based at Atlanta, and was at Ft. Benning for bomb practice. The other plane was based at Tuskegee. The Tallassee accident was reported by W. A.

Winston, superintendent of the Upper Tallassee Dam of the Alabama Power Company, who said that electric service was restored Monday night to the blacked-out communities. Four Die In Crash Of U. S. Army Plane COLUMBUS, Miss. (PL A hoard of officers Tuesday was investigat- ing the crash of a twin-engine plane from the army flying school here late Monday in whieh an instructor and three cadets were killed.

The public relations office said the plane fell on a routine training flight, but other details were not made public. A witness at the scene said the plane went into a spin at about 1.000 feet and dived. One flier bailed out, but the falling plane clipped the parachute ropes. The dead were listed as Second Lt. Jasper Kennedy Larkin, 21, of Palatka, an instructor; Cadet William K.

Anderson, 27, Kent, Ohio: Cadet H. B. Boulware. age unknown, Orlando. Cadet Frank H.

Britton. 23. graduate of the University of Richmond, address unlisted. measure probably will ream the president, for final approval late this week. On the dependents allowance bill, the only disagreement of any consequence between Senate and House was over a Senate proviso under which the definition of dependency for draft purposes would have been broadened to include factors other than actual financial dependency, such as the family relationship.

Members of the House military committee, who have gone on record as being opposed to the disruption of established families, told the House the scale of payments provided in the legislation purposely was kept moderate to prevent local draft boards from getting the impression they could draft family heads indiscriminately. The scale calls for a 522 deduction from the service man's pay, to which a federal allowance of $28 would be added for a wife, $12 for the first child and $10 for each additional child. In all cases involving Class dependents wife or children, or both the deductions and allowances are mandatory. Allotments and allowances for Class dependents, such as parents, brothers and sisters, provide for a $22 deduction from the service mans pay and federal additions of $15 for one parent, $25 for two parents and $5 for each dependent brother or sister. These deductions are optional with the service man.

In cases where a man has dependents of both classes, and elects to contribute to both, his total deductions would be $27 monthly, of which $22 would go lo the Class A group, and $25 to those in Class B. The federal payments would remain unchanged. Affected by the bill are dependents of men up to and including the rank of line sergeant in the army and third class petty officers in the navy. Pullman Income Up CHICAGO (P) Gross revenues of the Pullman Company in May were the highest ever recorded for I that month and the best for any month since the Summer of 1930. The report of the company for the month, released Monday, showed gross of $7,464,485, against $5,144,703 a year ago.

For the first four months gross of $27,763,953 compared with $22,195,221 in last year's like period. Net after taxes and charges in the first four months amounted to $2,184,674, compared with $1,420,779 in 1941. Striking gains in military and civilian gains in military and civilian travel, along with the April 1 increase in tariffs were responsible for the showing, the statement said. Tve just finished eating here and found out this place has the same address as our home. pedo-planes scored direct hits on for his training.

the two other carriers. Tremendous fires burst from the wounded ships. Internal explosions ripped their sides and belched great gushes of flame and smoke at intervals. He saw United States aircraft blast other Jap naval units: he saw Jap planes, their molher ships aflame, listing or their decks battered into uselessness, circle helplessly for a landing plare: he saw a line of burning Jap ships pass elose by him, pouring black smoke into the darkening sky. Gay reported that one carrier of the Kaga class could be listed as a He was determined to get into aviation.

his father said. "That was all he thought about all his life. Adml. Nimitz had high praise for Ensign Gay. In ihe navy, he said, there are many Texans both officers and men who.

like Gay, are tough and full of fight. And then aside, the admiral 1 promised: "There will be plenty more stories like Gay's." Father Couldn't Figure This Call From Son SHREVEPORT. La. P) D. N.

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Money hack if one uppMcation does not delight you. Peierson's Ointment also soothes Irritated, tird nr itchy leet and cracks between toes Adv -T I "Where are you, son? asked W'hatley senior. Im at 1004 Busby Street," said his namesake. The youth's father gazed about the room, bewildered, then caught himself and said; Where did you say you were?" I'm al 1004 Rushy Street Tampa. Fla.

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