Fighter Pilot Pictures Strange Sensations In Fall of 5 Miles

Tongue 'Rattles Around' At High Altitudes; Body Made Limp

By THOMAS R. HENRY, fi»»r Stiff Correspondent.

UNITED STATES AIR BASE. NORTH AFRICA, June 23.—A para- chute jump from five miles in the sky brings strange physical and mental sensations—take it from one of the few American fighter pilots who have dropped from such a height and lived to tell about it.

Getting out was no problem, he says. There was no time for debate. The situation was desperate. He opened the hatch and was "shot out like a bullet." But after that, he says, there was no sensation of falling. He was in a vast spaceless- ness with no up or down. There was a pleasant, almost musical hum- ming in his ears. The only incident was when the parachute opened with a jerk. It was almost a knockout blow.

Then, he says. "I began to get giddy and sick. I must have passed out and came to in a cloud. Still there was no sensation of falling. I seemed to be floating with the cloud. I thought perhaps I was in heaven.

"But. then I was in the zone of a 50-mile-an-hour wind and the para- chute began oscillating horribly. Sometimes I think I was turning somersaults. Then I hit the ground hard on my back and was knocked cold. It had taken about 15 min- utes to float down. In spite of the intense cold at great heights, there had not been a minute when I did not leel warm as toast.”

One of the strange sensations al- most invariably experienced in a fight at high altitudes, the fighter pilots say, is the extreme dryness of the mouth. "It seems as if the tongue actually is rattling around,” as one man expressed it. And when it is all over the pilot is limp as a rag. not only physically but men- tally.

No amount of experience over- comes this, they say, and they believe that it is only partly emo- tional and primarily due to the rapid changes in altitude. Even after a routine mission in which no opposition is encountered, the pilots usually go to bed as soon as they return to base because of pure phys- ical weariness. The mission may have been a short one.

The body, they say, remains warm all the time, the temperature prob- ably being maintained by the emo- ! tional stress. Not until landing do i they notice the extreme coldness of hands and feet and they sometimes yell with pain as the blood flows into these extremities.

"In the air," said one. "it is like running over snow, even when you are sitting still.”

Alaska Jeep Expedition Off as OPA Bars Gas i Br the Associated Presa.

TOLEDO, Ohio, June 23.-Re- gional OPA officials rejected tester- day the appeal of Herbert C. Lanks, author and lecturer, from a ration | board suspenion of his C gasoline book, which stranded a Philadel- phia-to-Alaska jeep expedition here) as effectively as an anti-tank bar- j ricade.

Mr Lanks said he and his pho- tographer, Harold Utzy. also of Phil- adelphiafi set out to photograph the new Alaska military highway and that a Philadelphia ration Doard granted his C ration coupons be- cause the junket was in the Dublic interest.

OPA yesterday, however, cancelled the rations and asked district offices along Mr. Lanks' route to notify him Toledo rationing boards stopped the author, whose subsequent appeal to the regional office in Cleveland was

unavailing.

Baltimore Newsmen Arrive in Britain Br the Associated Press.

LONDON. June 23.—Paul Pat- j terson, president of the Baltimore Sun. and Maik S. Watson, military analyst for the Sunpapers. have arrived in Britain for a study of the current war situation.

They plan to meet and talk with , high military and political officials, j both British and American. Mr. ! Patterson said he would remain : until August.

Congress in Brief By the Associated Press.

Senate. May tak» up controversial anti- |

subsidy legislation. Banking Committee considers OPA

rollback order on food. Appropriations Subcommittee

Itudies Army appropriation bill. Truman Committee considers mica

shortage. House.

Continues debate on compromise j agriculture supply bill.

Appropriations Committee consid- ers second deficiency supply bill.

Woman Is Fined For Defrauding 2 Of 4 Husbands

By fhc Associated Press.

RENO. Nev.. June 23_Mrs. Loyal Wyoming Gray Shufflebarger. who said .she was christened after the bat- tleship Wyoming and "has been true to the Navy ever since." was fined *400 in Federal Court yesterday on

charges of defrauding two of her four husbands of support allowances.

She was charged with cashing a check for $140 from the pay of Chief Petty Officer Robert Cecil Boyce whom she married in Yuma. Ariz.. May 25. 1940. and a check for $72 from the pay of Electrician (Third Class* Charles Holly Shufflebarger. w'hom she married in Elkton, Md in 1937.

In addition to the two Navy hus- bands. Mrs. Shufflebarger said she married Olaf S. Ericksen. Norwegian merchant seaman, in Yuma, Ariz., February 9. 1941, and Army Pvt. Phil A. Vogel in Las Vegas, Nev., September 30. 1942.

Mrs. Shufflebarger. who gave her age as 39. said she had been married twice before—both times to Navy men—but one marriage was annuled and the other ended in divorce.

Assistant United States Attorney Bruce Thompson said none of her last four marriages had ended in divorce or annulment.

Mrs. Shufflebarger was arrested in Norfolk, Va. *

INFANTRY ATTACK IN CHINA—Throwing up a cloud of dirt and smoke, a shell bursts in front of ; these Chinese infantrymen attacking the Japanese on the Salween River in Yunnan Province. The | action occurred during recent Chinese-Japanese fighting when the Chinese broke up a Jap drive

into the interior of China. _A. p. Wirephoto.

I his casualty of the fighting is receiving treatment from a nurse while another wounded sol- dier is helped toward the stretcher for first aid. These scenes are from a newsreel.

Zoot Suit Riot Probers Ask More Recreation, Parental Supervision

Augmented Police Force Also Recommended by Los Angeles Group

By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 23—Aug-

mented police personnel, extended

recreational facilities and greater parental supervision of teen-age children are among recommenda-

tions of a citizen's committee named to investigate recent zoot-suiter-

servicemen clashes, which also have

come under the scrutiny of a State legislative committee.

The Citizens' Committee on Latin American Youth stated in its report yesterday:

"The Mexican people of Los Angeles do not favor or condone the tactics or the badge of the zoot- suiter and do not believe in mob violence, regardless of how the of- fenders are dressed, be it a fantastic garb or the uniform of our service- men that to most people inspires respect.

“We seriously object to being pointed out as the cause of a con- dition which came into being as a result of international failure of adults to properly supervise them- selves, rather than because of the lawlessness of any racial group."

Before the Joint State Legislative Committee headed by Senator Jack Tenney, investigating un-American activities, witnesses yesterday vari- ously ascribed the source of zoot- suit disorders to Communists, Nazis and police laxity.

Lerov R. Ingram, secretary-man- ager of a colored Chamber of Com- merce here, charged that Commu- nists have been active among colored residents. He also testified that a colored newspaper in his district has overstressed racial grievances.

“We were headed for the same trouble that struck Detroit the other day, when the zoot-suit riots came

along and acted as a sort of safety valve." he added.

However, the Rev. R, O. Quinte- nilla, pastor of a Mexican Methodist church, told the Tenney committee he believes Axis agents have been endeavoring to create racial friction.

Eduardo Queveda. heading an or- ganization of Mexican voters, laid the zoot-suit outbreaks to lack of prompt police action.

China Given Plane Melchor Leon, a Chinese mer-

chant of Mexico City, has donated an airplane to China's fighting forces.

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Firm, Officials Pay Fines In Anaconda Wire Case By :h<» Associated Press.

FORT WAYNE. Ind. June 23 —

All fines and court costs imposed on the AHhaConda Wire $ CSbfc" Ct> and five individuals for alleged pro- duction of $5,000,000 worth of de- fective wire for Army and lease- lend use have been paid.

The company. Thor S. Johnson of | Hastings-on-Hudson. N. Y„ general manager of all Anaconda mills, and Frank E. Hart, manager of the Marion (Ind ) plant where the de- fective wire was produced, paid fines of $10,000 each Monday to the clerk of the Federal District Court

Three other individuals previously had made arrangements for deduc-

ting of their fines from their $1,000 cash bonds. They are Frank Kunkle, former inspector at the Marion plant; Chalmer Bis*.op. chief in- spector, and Don R. Carpenter, for- mer superintendent.

The fines were imposed by Judge Thomas W. Slick after a hearing on a plea of nolo contendere.

Had the fines not been paid John- son. Hart and Bishop would have been required to serve prison terms.

U. S. Troops in London Go on 'Invasion' Footing By the Assoc.ated Press.

LONDON. June 23.—London's ever-ready home guard was startled last night to find street corners pa-

j ti oiled by armed American soldiers, rifles protruding ominously from hedges and Yank jeeps and motor- cycles coursing the swankier thor-

| ouglifares. Soldiers of the United States Army

London Base Command, who spend mast of their time at "housekeeping"

| tasks such as clerical work. standing i guard and peeling potatoes, went on ; an "invasion footing for two-and- | a-half hours, turning out in battle

gear in mock defense of a square mile around American headquarters.

It was a surprise for them and from their "action posts” they looked on enviously as Yanks on leave from out of towui commands blandly

| strolled the streets. ; No incidents w'ere reported.

Compromise to Save FSA Is Advanced By House Group

Loans Would 6e Placed Under War Food Chief And Appropriations Cut

By :ne Associated Pre-s.

A compromise to give the War Food Administrator complete jurisdiction over the long-em- battled Farm Security Adminis- tration's loan and tenant pur- chase program was advanced in

| the House today as an alterna-

| tive to abolition of the agency. Chairman Tarver of the appro-

priations subcommittee in charge of the 1944 agriculture supply Dill served notice, however, that the compromise would involve a sharp

; reduction in the amounts voted for the agency by the Senate.

Specifically, he said the proposal would call for $60,000,000 authoriza- tion for rehabilitation loans to in-

! dividual farmers, rather than the 1 $97,500,000 Senate-approved figure, and $20,000,000 instead of $29,000,000 for the program's administrative

i expenses. He said the amounts would be

j eat marked to the Secretary of Agri- culture for use by the War Food Administration, a step which he said would leave it up to Adminis- trator Chester Davis as to what machinery would be used to carry out the program.

The House previously had wiped i out all funds for the FSA. which was set up in 1937 to provide small farmers with operating assistance, including loans and technical guid- ance to enable them to become self-supporting.

It makes loans to farm tenants, sharecroppers, laborers and others to help them become owners of

| family-type farms. It also is re- ; sponsible for providing labor supply centers and transportation facilities

| hi this country for migratory farm workers, both American and Mexi-

| can- It has been criticized in Con- ! gress as Communistic. I

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Saboteurs in France Helping Immobilize 2001rains Daily

52 Germans Killed and 150 Injured in Recent Action by Guerrillas

By the Associated Pres*. The combinatlcn of Allied air

raids and railway sabotage Inside France has been Immobilizing, about 200 trains daily, according to in- formation rea-ching Fighting French headquarters here through persons escaping from German-occupied Europe.

Both the airmen from across the English Channel and the French guerrillas operating behind enemy lines concentrate on crippling trans- portation, a headquarters spokesman said today, particularly by putting railway locomotives out of commis- sion. Many locomotives beyond range of the marauding flyers suc- cumb to the boiler-wrecking tactics of the saboteurs or are wrecked in derailments engineered by guerrillas.

52 Germans Killed. One of the most successful de-

railment jobs recently was carried out by guerrillas on the line between Nevers and Chagny, in Central France. Fifty-two Germans were killed and 150 Injured in this wreck and traffic was blocked for several days. Another derailment on the same line, tne reports said, upset a

troop tram moving soldiers to the Russian front.

The guerrillas also have been active In the wrecking of power plants, water works and factories. From March 15 to April 15, the report said, there were no fewer than 122 acts of sabotage In Savoy, chiefly in

power plants. The reports also mentioned a

shutdown of the Gnome et Rhone aviation engine plant at Limoges on

May 28 because of destruction of the central transformers. Rubber-re- claiming factories in the same area were out of production for six months because of wrecked boilers.

New Reprisals Reported. New reprisals against Frenchmen

regarded as agents of Germany also were listed in the reports.

These included the stabbing to death of the secretary-general of the Vienne Department of Jacques Do- i riot's Fascist Parti Populaire Fran- ! cats, identified as Dr. Michel Guerin: the fatal shooting of Mayor Din of Pierrefitte. near Paris, and the as- sassination of two French judges who had condemned Frenchmen to death for sabotage.

Both these judges, the reports said, were previously notified by let

1 ter they would be killed for treason.

Naval Flyer Gets Medal For Heroism in Pacific By ?hf Associated Pres*

JACKSONVILLE. Fla June 23 —

Cited for the rescue of two Army pilots under the nose of two Jap- anese destroyers, Lt. Glen E Hoff- man. U. S. N R of Aurora. Ill re- ceived the Air Medal yesterday at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station.

The presentation was made by I Capt Stanley J. Michael, com-

|mandant. at the request, of the Army. | On duty in the Solomons area. Lt.

Hoffman was sent in a PBY to pick up a pilot whose plane was dowm

1 on the sea. A P-40 escort protected him.

Lt. Hoffman found the pilot only a short distance from the Jap destroyers and a cargo ship, but landed on the water to take the man aboard.

During the rescue Lt. Hoffman saw one of his P-40 escort shot down in a battle with Zeros and rescued the second pilot, who was badly wounded.

"The destroyers never opened fire." he said yesterday. "Don't know what they thought we were

: doing,”

Queen Decorates Flyer Who Blasted Nazi Dams By th^ Associated Press.

LONDON. June 23.—Queen Eliza- : beth. acting in the absence of King | George VI. presented the Victoria Cross recently to Wing Comdr. Guy Gibson for his part in the RAF raids which resulted in breaching of the Moehne and Eder Dams in Ger- many.

It was the first time a Queen of England had presided at an in-

j vestiture since the reign of Queen ; Victoria. She also presented 23 other decorations, congratulating the recipients and saying the King had asked her to express his regrets

I that he could not be present.

The King was last reported in ; Malta, which he visited Sunday aboard the cruiser Aurora.

ROCHESTER. N. Y. — DENIES SABOTAGE CHARGE — Italian- born Amerigo Antonelli. 52 <right*, president of the Antonelli Fireworks Co., Inc., left Federal Court yesterday with United States Deputy Marshal D. D. Ventura after pleading innocent to a charge of improperly loading powder incendiaries and gren- ades made for the Army. t

—A. P. Wirephoto.

30 of Countrymen Ask Franco to Put Juan On Spanish Throne

New Move to Restore

Monarchy Reported to

Be Backed by Britain By ’he Associated Press.

BERN Switzerland, June 23- Restoration of the Spanish mon-

archy with Prince Juan as king is being urged on Generalissimo Fran-

i cisco Franco by prominent Spanish monarchists who apparently have

1 British indorsement, it was asserted j here today.

Spanish sources said Juan Ven- tosa. a confidant of the late King Alfonso and a leader in the restora- tion movement, visited London three weeks ago and talked with Prime Minister Churchill and other British government leaders.

The plea was said to have been 1

presented to Franco in a letter signed by more than 30 prominent Spaniards, including Ventosa and the Duke of Alba, Spanish Ambas- sador to London.

Praised for Leadership, i The letter praised Franco for his leadership, but urged that every- thing possible be done to bring po- litical unity, the reports said. This presumably involved a truce with former Republicans, many of whom are still interned.

Prince Juan, the third son of Alfonso, left Spain in 1931 after the republic was proclaimed. He is re-

ported to have told his supporters ; that he is ready to return to Spain at any time all elements publicly demonstrate their wish for a king.

iThs Swiss reports of the move- ment for restoration of the mon-

| archv caused little surprise in diplomatic circles in London, dis- patches from the British capital said. Official sources there had no comment, but there have been

i rumors for several months that considerable pressure was being brought for restoration, and these have gained momentum as the tide of war swung more and more

; in favor of the United Nations.) Juan Awaits Reaction.

Juan continued to work quietly at j his desk in a villa beside Lake Geneva today and there w'as no in- dication he would make a new decla-

; ration pending some reaction from Franco to the petition by the mon- j arcnist group.

j Franco has paid lip service to the j

idea of restoring the monarchy ever since the civil war. At one time he was reported to have said it would be one of his first steps when the fighting ended. He since has alluded to the subject in speeches, but the monarchists contend he had done nothing to bruig about the restora- tion. W

Juan, to whom his exiled father. Alfonso, signed over the throne a lew- days before his death in Rome in February. 1941, is 30. He is well over 6 feet tall and dark haired and speaks English like an American.

'Emergency Tire' to Cost $1 Pius Ration Stamp By he Associated Pres?.

An unrepaired “emergency tire' will cost $1 plus a rationing certifi- cate.

The Office of Price Administration yesterday established this ceiling price for approximately 1.500.000 low-grade tires which will be dis- tributed through regular trade chan- nels. The tires, being sold by the Defense Supplies Corp.. are intended to provide low-mileage motorists 1

with spare tires. Dealers will pay DSC 50 cents each for the tires.

Additions to the base price of $1 may be made for emergency repairs, in line with present ceilings for that service.

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Dawes Bank Is Sued By Taxpayer Over RFC Loan in 1932 '

Plot to Defraud U. S. Of 35 Million Charged To General, 8 Others

By th* Ass>ciated Pr»*s.

CHICAGO, June 23.—A civil suit for damages, filed yesterday in Fed- eral District Court by a private cit- izen, alleged that Gen. Charles G. Dawes, president of the City Na- tional Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, and eight other officers conspired to defraud the Government of $35,- 331,464.

Filed by counsel for Raymond J. ! Nitkey, the suit alleged the defend- ants conspired in June, 1932, to ob- tain a $95,000,000 loan from the Re- construction Finance Corp., of which Gen. Dawes was then president,- as well as chairman of the board of the defunct Central Republic Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago.

The complaint said the defendants, "knowing the Central Republic Bank was insolvent to the amount of from $17,000,000 to $21,000000. filed a false statement with the RPC, claiming the bank was solvent."

The suit alleged that the money was turned over to the new City Na- tional Bank & Trust Co. on October 6, 1932, and the new bank, instead of assuming liabilities of the old

j bank. Including the $95,000,000 loan. | assumed only the time and demand deposit liabilities.

Ttte complaint alleged that col- lateral was insufficient, and that the defendants still owe the Gov- ernment $35,331,464 on the original loan.

The suit asked recovery of $70.- < 652,928, or double the amount of i the alleged debt.

An official of the City National ) Bank & Trust Co. denied ail alle- gations in the suit.

He said the loan was $5,000,000 less than set forth in the suit, contended that no part of the money was transferred to the new bank and asserted that the City National assumed not only the de- posit liabilities of the Central com-

pany but also its "satisfactory re- .sources in the form of securities and obligations of borrowers.”

Florida Judge Dismisses Macfadden Divorce Suit By the Associated Press.

MIAMI. Fla.. June 23.—Jude? Paul D. Bams yesterday dismissed Bernarr Macfadden's divorce suit against his wife. Mary, on a defense contention that the complaint and a

subsequent amendment did not con- stitute grounds for divorce.

The physical culturist charged his wife with extreme cruelty and ha- bitual indulgence in a violent and ungovernable temper. He alleged that she nagged and quarreled wdth him. refused to co-operate in the

proper education of their children, and. in the amended complaint, said she broke two of his teeth by strik- ing him with a metal razor box in their Englewood. N. J home.

They were married March 12. 1913, in London. England, when Mr. Mac- fadden as the publisher oi Physical Culture magazine awarded a prize to the then Miss Mary Williamson, whom he described as the ideal fem- inine physical culturist.

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