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The patients Kad all been moved down into one hundred beds in one of the tunnels in the Rock. I wasn't so delirious that couldn't figure out why. Because with no aircraft or anti-aircraft protection, that big expensive topside hospital was just an unprotected target. "The next I remember was down in the tunnel in the army hospital under Corregidor, the army doctor asking me what treatment I'd had as he cut the shirt off my back--it wouldn't come off over my hand any more. "But the thing that impressed me most--even then--was the army .nurses. There were fourteen of them •on the Rock. "Or maybe it was Peggy herself; because she was a very cute kid, A brunette about medium height and. very trim, but mostly it was her green eyes, I guess, and a cute way; she had of telling you very firmly what you had to do, so that you. grinned, but just the same you did it. She started right in bossing me around while sjm helped cut off my ; shirt. ...| • : • "It came' if eleven at ftight,,r 1 Bulkeley went on. "I had my three. | boats out there by 11:30. Funny (thing, that old ship had been an aircraft carrier in the battle of Jutland--first boat ever to launch a plane in actual battle. She survives the whole German Imperial fleet and more than twenty years later ends up on an American mine halfway round the world. "When we got there, survivors were so thick we didn't have to zigzag to pick them up--just went straight ahead and we got all we icould handle, although there were cries coming out of the darkness all around. "But the queerest thing came at the end. The cries out in the darkness had almost stopped, and we ,were cruising for the crumbs when suddenly, out over the water, I heard aomeone whistling a tune! I couldn't believe it But wa changed course, atnd presently came alongside an aviator. He'd been blown way out there along with three life belts. He'd put one of them under his feet, another er his head like a pillow, and the under his behind. Had his comfortably folded on his ach. He thanked us, said he 't swim, so he'dbeen whistling list to kill time until someone came Asked if there was anything coukl do. That guy had plenty guts. "They began bringing them into iny hospital before dawn," said Kelly. "One of them was a Filipino boy who'd been second engineer. He'd been burned all over except Where his shorts had been, and he •creamed horribly when they ayed fall burns. They'd put him the stiff wagon, but an army door felt his pulse and said, 'Hell, that man's not dead,' so they sent |him here. * "Meanwhile gloomy talk was get- .ttnf me worried about the whole picture, and the next day the skipper fhara came in to see me--" said BJeut R. B. Kelly; "they'd sent him [over on courier duty. He was looking pretty grim. When I asked him bout these rumors concerning the corps, ha said it had practically annihilated--we only had six 's left, and that was why every was going to hell. K "Yet I couldn't see how they had 4kme it, until a few days later when tey began moving patients from a Manila hospital (it was the foreer of evacuation, although we *t guess that yet) into Cbrregir. In the cot on my left was a exas kid, a pilot from Clark Field, the other side was an Ohio pilot Irom Iba. Texas was pretty sick, [§o the first night X shot the breeze with the Ohio boy. He said he'd bein shot down the second day of the war. His squadron had been circling, looking for Jap planes which the - listening devices had picked up out at Sea, heading in from the direction of Formosa. They'd been up all morning, were almost out of gas, so decided to land and refuel. *n»e first plane came in all right, but the second overshot the field. His plane was the third, and he saidas he put As wheels on the ground, a toad of bombs crashed down out of the clouds onto the other end of the field. Of course he poured the soup into her and took off. He tried to gain altitude and headed for Nichols Field, when suddenly a flight of Jap fighters popped out of the clouds. He turped and headed right for the center of it but when he pressed tfte button only one of h'is six guns would work-- the rest were jammed. He said don't ask him why--ask the guys who designed them or installed them or serviced them. His job was just to press the button, and he'd done that. There he was with two Zeros on his tail, filling him full of holes-- they were explosive bullets, too; he had gashes all over where he'd been nicked. He said he dived into a near-by cloud and managed to shake them, but then his motor began to sputter--had been almost out of gas when the attack started, and the Jap bullet* in his tonka .bad SLOCUM LAKE W.N.U.FEATIRtS "Our coastal batteries were hat* ing to fall baek." spilled the rest. So he headed her nose down out of the cloud, and as luck would have it spotted an emergency field. But his wing tip hit a tree and the plane cracked up, mashing in all the bones on the right side of his face. He'd spent a week in a native hospital on a bamboo bunk without the bones set, and now he could only mumble to me out of the left corner of his mouth. "The next day Tex cm the other side told me his story. He was also a fightn pilot and his squadron had been at Clark Field--ftyihg all morning. They'd come down to gas the planes, and the pilots were sitting around on the wings or in their cockpits, waiting for orders to take off, when suddenly there was a big bang and the plane he was sitting in seemed to jump about forty feet in the air, and then pancaked back with its wings folded over the cockpit. The Japs had popped out of a cloud and let them have it He crawled out unscratched, but he said for half an hour everything was in the wildest confusion. "The dope on the listening devices seemed to be, he said, that they had picked up the Japs a hundred miles at sea, followed them in ail right, but then lost when they were fifteen miles off the coast. "But somebody decided the Japs must be heading for Baguio, and they were sitting there, all gassed up, waiting word to take off and intercept the Japs before they got to Baguio. Whereas, as a matter of fact, the Japs were perched in a cloud right over their own field, waiting to let them have it "He said after the bombing they'd managed to piece together out of the wreckage about ten per cent of the planes they'd originally had. A week later he'd cracked up landing on a soft spot on the field--a bomb crater that hadn't been properly fiUed-*-and here he was. "The next time the skipper here dropped in on me,/he said that was the dope he was getting--that We had only six P-40's left. Soon it got j down to two; we called 'em the'; Phantom and the Lone Ranger. | "And I said, 'My God, what's! going to happen to us?' " I "I told him I didn't know," said | Bulkeley, "but that I'd been talking 1 to the Admiral, who'd said that we couldn't possibly hope to hold the Philippine Islands, that Singapore and Hong Kong would fall too, unless help arrived--and soon. And ; probably the Dutch East Indies*" j "Well, that floored me," said Kelly. "So I asked him how they were j going to use the MTB'a--wouldn't they let us go out on any offensive missions? He said he'd been trying to get the Admiral to let him go tc j Ltngayen Gulf on a raid. Eighty Jap transports'were up there landing troops, and our coastal batter- j ies were having to fall back because j of Jap air superiority--Jap fighters j diving on the batteries and machine- j gunning them until no one could ! take it. j "Then I asked the skipper how j the infantry was holding. 'Not worth j a damn,' he said. 'The strafing is I just cutting them to ribbons. Not j only that, but the Japs are landing i tanks--a hell of a lot of automatic ; weapons which are just what we ; need and haven't got.' By the time ! he left, I was as low as he was. j "That night Peggy, who was on | night duty, got a few minutes off j about one o'clock to come in and shoot the breeze with me. She'd been picking up a lot of stuff, and she said a bunch of our tank-corps boys had just been brought in. She told me what they'd been telling her, and finally said she guessed it Wouldn't hurt if I went in and lay down for half an hour on an empty bunk next to them, so I could hear it myself. "They'd walked two hundred kilometers barefoot. Four tankloads of them had been sent in to head off j a Jap landing near Batangas--they j were to go ahead of four columns j of infantry and pave the way for ! retaking a little fishing village held 1 by a small Jap force. ' "The boys said their major had j assured them the Japs had nothing bigger than 50-caliber machine guns --of course their armor would stop that. So they started on in, when all of a sudden--Bam! The Japs had waited until they got within good range, and then opened up with an anti-tank gun which knocked the doors off the lead tank, and then, because the road was too narrow for the rest to turn around on, they knocked the treads off all the others except one. " 'Well, then what did you dot* I asked the kids. " 'Fired about two hundred rounds of 50-caliber and four rounds of 37- millimeter cannon.' " 'Which way were you shooting?' " 'Every which way. You see, it all happened so fast we couldn't tell where the Jap fire was coming from. At the end of five minutes, three of those tahks ended up in the rice paddy--they were fourteento/ i light tanks--two of them with the doors blown off, and in one of these, the Jap machine-gun fire had cut the legs off the lieutenant in command. The others were riddled with holes. Our tank was the only one that wasn't hurt.' " 'So what did you do?' " 'Tried to turn it around and get the hell out of there. But the road was too narrow, and then the Un>r got stuck in reverse, and ended up on its side in the rice paddy.' " 'What did the infantry do?* " 'Ran like rabbits.' " 'Didn't they have any guns?* " 'Only rifles--not a machine gun in the crowd. Maybe they didn't have anything else to give them, but anyway the major said all they would find up there was rifles, and if there were any Jap machine guns, the tanks would deal with that. So there they were, being cut to ribbons by concealed machine-gun fire, and nothing else to do but get for cover.' " 'Didn't all this--sending those tanks into a trap without scouting ahead--seem like a damn-fool maneuver to you?' I asked him. " 'Well,' the kid said, 'the major and the lieutenant had worked out the same maneuver at armored school back in the States. It had worked there; they thought it was pretty good.' "So I asked the kid why ha thought it hadn't worked this time. " 'Maybe because the Japs were too clever in hiding their anti-tun^ guns ami too good shots. They knocked the treads and doors off most of the tanks before they had time to do anything. And then, unlike the roads back in the States, these were narrow native roads, with rice paddies on both -- you couldn't maneuver.' (TO BE CONTINUEDJ (By Mrs. Harry Matthews) Miss Arissa Brown of Wauconda was a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Delme of Glenview were callers last Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks. Mr. and Mrs. William Burkhart of Williams Park spent Saturday and Sunday in Chicago, where they visited at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. H. Ludermann and Mr. and Mrs. F. ifulska. Sunday evening they visitfed at the4 heme, of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Burkhart of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Knudson and son, Sgt. Vernon Knudson, of Kentucky, spent Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse. Mr. and. Mrs. Elmer Esping were guests Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. LaDoyt Matthews at Oak Pa*k. Mr. an<> Mrs. William Burkhart of Williams Park entertained Mr. and Mrs. Henry Berghgraef and Mr. and Mrs. William Berghgraof of Chicago at lunch last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren were dinner and supper guests Sunday at tfye home of Mr. and Mrs. Axel Nerstrom at North Chicago fn honor of their son LeRoy's birthday, : Lyle Matthews, in company, with Mrs. Margaret Confine and son, Jack, and her father of Evanston, visited Mrs. Corzine's two children, Bruce and Carol, on visitors' day, Sunday, at the Wilier school at Evansville, Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Cook of Zion were callers Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks. Mrs. Isabelle Rowley, Sam Weerback of Plato Center, Mrs. R. S. Bouland and daughter, Charlotte, of Jacoby's subdivision, Fox River and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Esping were guests Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews in honor of the thirteenth birthday of their son, Lyle. Miss Marion Dowell of North Chicago and Mrs. Willis Douvalt of Libertyville spent the weekend at the home of their mother, Mrs. Celia Dowell. Mrs. James Thompson of Williams Park spent Monday and Tuesday at the home of her daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fornoff, in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Morgan of Salem were weekend guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hansen. Mr. Morgan is a brother of Mrs. Hansen. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hansen spent last Thursday evening at the home of1 Mr. and Mrs. Francis Dryer at Island Lake. ¥ Mrs. Celia Dowell and daughters, Jennie* Ethel and Marion, were callers at Crystal Lake Saturday evening. Mrs. Cf. H. Hansen spent last Friday visiting at the home of Mrs. Shetler in Chicago. JOHNSBIJRG (By Mrs. Arthur Klein > A shower was held in honor of Mrs. Irene Tamasy at J. B. Hettermann's, Thursday evening. Refreshments were served with bunco and five hundred furnishing the evening's entertainment. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Tamasy, Mrs. Rose Landgren, Mrs. Elizabeth Laures, and consolation to Mrs. Math. Laures in bunco. Five hundred winners were Mrs. Marie Nelson, Mrs. Annabelle Freund, Mrs. Catherine Smith and consolation to Mrs. Walter Haug. The honored guest was the recipient of many lovely and useful gifts. Mr. and Mrs. John Rice 'and daughters of Chicago were Sunday guests in the Bernard A. Freund home. Evening callers were Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Freund of McHenry. Miss June Hagberg of Chicago spent the past week in the homes of Peter M. Freund and LeRoy Miller. • Mrs. Wm. Meyers and daughter, Mrs. Walter Freund, Mrs. Geo. King and Mrs. Frank Klapperich motored to Waukegan Wednesday to visit with Miss. Edna King in St. Therese hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Joe P. Miller and son, Elmer, Mrs. Geo. King and daughter, Bernice, visited with Miss Edna King Thursday. Miss Catherine Schmitt of Chicago, Mrs. Math N. Schmitt and son, Joseph, were Sunday callers in the Fred J. Smith home. Mrs. Mamie King and Mrs. Geo. Hiller have been numbered among the sick the past week. Paul, Daniel and Billy Schmitt visited with Roman Schmitt at St Therese hospital Friday. Corporal Norbert Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Smith, is enjoying a 15-day furlough with friends and relatives. The Community club will hold its regular monthly meeting Tuesday, April 6. Frederich H. Smith of the armed forces has been promoted to rank of corporal. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Thiel, Mrs. Georpe King and daughter, Bernice, motored to Waukegan Thursday to Congressional Views «T CHAUNCEY W. REED WEST POINT AND ANNAPOLIS OF THE AIR: Senator Tom Stewart of Tennessee has .introduced a bill which provides for 'the establishment of a Military Aviation Academy h^avine four branches located in southwestern, central, south central and eastern United States and a Naval Aviation Academy having four branches located on the Great Lakes, Pacific coast. Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast. Under the bill appointees will be selected in the same manner as cadets and midshipmen, and will receive the same pay and allowances. JEFFER90N MEMORIAL TO BE DEDICATED: • The beautiful Thomas Jefferson Memorial located on the Tidal Basin in Washington is scheduled for formal dedication on April 13 (the 200th anniversary of his hirth). If the Capital waather is not too balmy between now and then, the dedicatory services may coincide with the blooming of the cherry blossoms which Surroud the Tidal Basin and which will make a beautiful setting for the occasion. It might be well for a moment to glance at some of the high lights in the career of this distinguished American. Graduating from William and Mary college, he studied law and commenced f -m ' j its practice in 1767; he was a membe? of the Virginia House of Burgessef from 1769-74; a member of the Con* tin'ental Congress in 1775 and 1776; ^was chairman of the committee that drew up the Declaration of Independ^ ence and presented the first draft of that docivnent to the Congress as July 2, 1776; he was governor of Virginia 1779-1781; member of the State House of Delegates in 1782j again a member of the Continental 'Congress 1783-1785; appointed Mini jister to France, 1784-1788; first Sect j retary of State of the United State#, i in the cabinet of President Washings J ton, 1789-1793; vice-president of tfcf; I United tSates, 1797-1801; president of" the United States, 1801-1809; retired to his estate, "Monticello," in Virfi; ginia; founded the University of Vix^ ginia at Charlottesville ; died at "Mon* ^ r'7$ I ticello," July 4, 1826. .* *'V, f is TICS:. . ' • According to the director of the,- ; | census, an examination of the data /?. - vf- | compiled in the 1.940 census, reveals, ' that in Illinois, in that year, male J persons between the ages of 20 anj 124 inclusive (generally more eligible j for military service), had an average | educational attainment equivalent te j more than three years of high school. visit with Miss Edna King at St Therese hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph King and Mr. and Mrs. George King visited with Miss EJdna King Friday evening. Mr- and Mrs. Jos. Schmitt visited with their son, Roman, Sunday. He underwent an appendectomy Thursday at St. Therese hospital, Waukegan. Misses Thelma and Ann Schaefer spent Saturday in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. John Marricks and family of Chicago were Saturday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard A. Freund. Miss Efjna King returned home Monday to recuperate from her recent operation. Friday guests in the Bernard A, Freund home were Mr. and Mrs. Gene Kind and family of Chicago. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Wagner was christened Janice Marie Saturday evening, Rev. A. J. Neidert officiating at the ceremony. Mrs. Florence Smith an4. Joseph Wagner of Round Lake were sponsors. Sunday dinner guests of Mr. an# Mrs. Peter M. Freund were Miss June Hagberg of Chicago, Joseph Callahan I of Great Lakes, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy ' i Miller and daughter, Georgette, Misi Lorraine Freund and Howard an4 Lloyd Freund. First Class Petty Officer Jack Keenan was given honorable mentioSt in the camp paper for winning firsts place in a contest for a design to bft . used in the 88th battalion at Camf Endicott, Davisville, R. I. The dei sign will be used for rings, pins| letterheads, pennants, etc.; Poison Bait for Miee For best control of field mice toT the orchard, poisoned bait should be placed in the mouse runways in four or five stations about each tree, covered with grass or mulch. \ ; Only S Per Ces* 'Only 2 per cent of the men can g|ng, but when 100 per cent sing tsgetiie^, it sounds fine. In IMS . The United States Nava! Obsei va* %>ry began its observations of the ' Sun, moon, planets and brighter Stars in 1845. - Mr TraflU Signals Aviators will have to obey traffic lights, If light signals designed tm airports come into general use. African *Magtnet Una* Between Tunisia and Italian Libya the east, the French constructed • "Maginot line" of pillboxes buried in the desert sands, as well as forts behind barbed wire entanglements, 85 miles from the boundary. The French naval base at Bizerta, near Cap Blanc on the north coast, includes shipyards, dry dock, submarine and air bases. Under French administration 3,700 miles of high- Ways and 1,200 miles of railroads have been built. French capital has developed the mines and ports, built electric stations and quadrupled the land under cultivation, largely in olives and grapes. Ne Loyalty service gets poor and cold even in the warmest and bravest heart if there be no glow of .loyalty to animate it.--Anon. * Where Red Maple Grew* The red maple grows from Canada to Florida and westward to Wiscor* sin, Iowa and Texas. It is an exceptionally brilliant tree, putting out ; red flowers early in the spring. In ; the fall the leaves turn a brilliant : red or crjmson. Red maple reaches ! its best development in Kentucky and Tennfssee and nearby states. It j grows best in damp soil, but is not j a rapid grower. Average mature trees are about 70 feet high and two feet in diameter. In the extreme South red maple becomes a swamp species and is frequently found in the wetter locations associated with black gum. Energy Energy feeds on activity.--Ignace Paderewski. Shoes in New England fn 1890 two-thirds of the boots and Shoes manufactured in the United States were made in New England. Lynn, Mass., in 1880, was the prender shoe manufacturing city of America, with 323 factories producing annually goods worth $26,000,000. Use Glandular MeaS Glandular meats should play an important part in the meat diet because of their value as sources' of minerals and vitamins. The butchering season is a good time to use these nutritious meats freely and thereby s?ve on beef and pork that can be packed for the armed forces. Liver is especially valuable as a food for children because it containa large quantities of iron, some copper, and a rich supply of vitamins A and B. Kidneys rank next to liver in iron content and are a good source of vil^mins A, B, and O, TIPS ON WASHER CARE FROM PUBLIC SERVICE "\4ow I ^eeP from Qt'oWmQ XOLTD never guess my age! But there's only one reason I look so young and work like a brand new washer. That's because my boss gives me special war* lime care. She's smart. She knows she can't get a new Washer now, so she's making sure I keep working for the duradoo. Do os she does--It's very simple to follow my owner's example. The first thing to remember is to dean the washer after using it. Wash, rinse and dry wringer rolls, jUso release pressure to prevent gubbcr rolls from flattening. ;||ib (lie tub-The tub should afeo be washed, but not' scoured. Use a mild soap with warm water. And after rinsing the tub, use a soft cloth to dry it. Oh yes! and don't forget to remove the agitator and wash under it, too. JCeep it under cover-- When • >|ou are finished with the washer, Cover it with a cloth to keep it ^'V/jjfee from dust and dirt. And reaiember, at the first sign of motor --trouble, call an expert repair man. tody, bo careful -- Don't drop *ouiI save money in the end. the agitator because it might chip die porcelain. The metal would then rust and eventually result in , a leak. You ought to treat the enamel on your washer like you do < die fine finish on your furniture. ^ Save the cord--Be sure to keep the cord off the wet floor, never roll the washer over cord. Remember, too, when moving the machine, that the wringer should be directly over tub. It will prevent the washer from tipping. What about lubrication? typesthat y Well, it depends on the make and age of washer. No general instructions cover all So I suggest you follow the manufacturer's instructions fbr lubricating your washer. If you no longer have these instructions available, see your Electric Appliance dealer... and you'd better sec him right soon, if your washer hasn't been lubricated recently. aM ! 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