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Hfoursday, June 10, 1943 "•' ••'"- r. • :. ,\v. ^ * ,,/f- ,r * **r » . - ,r • •' - f , P?Wwip^ X2J**L**fV i ' 'WW'^'T MJ THE MSBSNS* PLMjmmuM Page Seven •?.••"•'*£ •%•• -si Washington a strong rear guard of investigating! England' as "cradle-to-the-grave" se~ committees posted to keep an eye on! curity, has provoked widespread disthe conduct of affairs. The mere cussion. The theories back of the presence of these Congressional out- j legislation will be thoroughly studied \ allowances, dental care, nursing posts is calculated and probably will j during the summer months. The . .. • have a restaining effect on the per- Uponorship indicates thieve measures j I"ed,cines•in_the home- In other words, | formances of the Federal agencies. have the Administration's backing and \the 'egnslative sponsors deny it has j T^iere are, of course, a few odds may eventually become a "hot" polit- j the broad socializing scope advocated •; and ends of legislation to whip into ical issue. Open approval is given by ; by the British economist. Someone! ; laws before the proposed recess, t the two major trade unions ^which i has figured out that one idea, is to j Uppermost this week is some of an: provides a hint of the pressure be- j utilize the pending bill as an antiidge features as provision for work- I personal trust accounts, including 400 ' Crystal Lake were Sunday dinner men's* compensation, grants on marr-1 m'^*on dollars obtained from approx- j guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. iage and birth of children, children's iI*...miUi?n._t.!,r?u?hj Walter Vasey. at the home of Mrs. Earl HironimtMT in Wauconda Tuesday, in honor land continuous payroll deductions. I VOLO (By Mrs. Lloyd Fisher) r _ . _ -- ahd'Mrs. Edward Rossdutcher anti-strike measure, which at its best, hind the extension of the social secur- inflation control by drawing over five .®nd ^am^y» Mr. and Mrs. John Capal- open house Thursday evening for stu- . ••• m It IkA A MM •••«»!» AAlMMaAlM * 1 A Wl 'Plt'A W> 1 1 Ik M A 1 • • -- I I II am1a>«1 I Kl Hi A Q VAQvtv IV) 1^ Kll f 1AMOI 1" a fiHw PS. RftlJPrt. Oftltj^S JlflH ! rl Am4>* Da «ao>k4 _ i.M ^ . t. . _ J £ " _ _ _ 1 Mrs. Frank King attended the commencement excercises at the Maine Township high school at DesPlaines Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. William Wirtz and family were Waukegan* callers Saturday. The Volo public school observed Mr. and Mrs. anniversary. Hironimua's 4 *s French Canadians' Celebratiea Christmas is traditionally a religious holiday in La Province de Quebec. French Canadians celebrate New Year's day with frolic" and gifts. .^Washington June 9 Suppressed t>e a patchwork of compromises.; ity law. The bill has features calcul- billions yearly in contributions from |fr» ^r- an<* Mrs. Robert Oakes and dents, Parents, teachers and friends. Anxiety about the extent and initial Irrespective of the final outcome of ated to win the support of servicemen employers and employees. It has daughter, Betty, of Chicago were, Mrs. Walter Vasey and family were Peanuts Important Food 1 yesult of theAmerican participation in > the coal strike, the legislators dare and other powerful groups. More post-war adjustment angles which Sunday visitors at the home of Mrs.! Woodstock callers Thursday. The essential part that peanuts, the imminent Allied invasion over- |not return to their "home districts than fifteen million persons, such as would set up unemployment relief ^°u'se Rossdutcher. | Mrs. Sarah Fisher spent a few days j P«anut oils and other peanut byshadowed the bitterness on vital do- without doing something to curb fur- domestics, farm help and self-employ- during the transition to peace. Coup- , Miss Miriam King of Waukegan the past week at the home of Mr. and products are playing in the war efmestie issues. The Cogress is defin- ther labor disturbances. The coal \ ed, now excluded from the benefits of led with the Treasury's plea for work- spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. Mrs. Leslie Davis at Slocum's Lake. itely in a mood to take a two month's crisis is so strongly interwoven with social security would be brought under ers to increase deductions for war and Mrs. Frank King. The Volo unit of the Lake County recess beginning about July Fourth, politics that homeward bound Senators i the tent by the leislative proposal*. It bond puchases from 10 to 2o per cent; Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Birkhead and Home Bureau will meet at the home The legislators feel they have auth- aru* Representatives are hard pressed . is hard for observers-to»discern all and the pay-as-you-eam tax bill, ex- ; family of Antioch, Mr. and Mrs. Hor- of Mrs. Edwin Underwood Wednesday, orized "expenditures necessary" to "the to think up satisfactoy answers to 1 the motives inspiring the presentation tracting 20 per cent of each person's ace Grabbe of Ivanhoe were Sunday June 9. • TOr antj bestowed broad discretionary explain their part to questioning and J of such a sweeping plan at this time.; earnings, the trio of deductions is ex- visitors at the home of Mr. and-Mrs. u Mr. and Mrs. Robert True and fam- »owers on th > administrative branch (skeptical constituents. An attempt is made to distinguish to lessen thecitizens'purchas-; William WSrtz. ' ily of Waukegan spent Monday at so that these agencies should work Introduction of bills in the Senate! the new program from the English 'n£ power and halt inflation. The: Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Case entertained ; the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank King, out their own salvation. Unw^vei, and House containing many features ; scheme in that it is claimed the : |&test security plan levies a 12 per 8.number of friends and relatives at; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fished were it is Iclear that the solons will leave of the Beveridge proposal, known in measure does not include such Bever- ,t;en* tax on payrolls to finance the pro- (their home Wednesday evening in , Waukegan callers Wednesday. j gram, to be shared equally, 6 per cent honor of thair. son, Harry's gradaar j . Pvt. George Passfield of Kearn's, THEY WERE ® WHITE W.w.U.FEATUftlS The .torT'ef ; tkcir part in the b*ttle lor the Philip iflaei i* being told by four of the five mtiI officers who are *11 that 1* left of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3. They are Lieut. John Bulkeley (now Lieutenant Commander), squadron commander; Lieut. R. B. Kelly, second-in-command; and Ensigns Anthony Akers and George E. Cox Jr. After taking General Mac- Arthur and his party safely to Cehn, (a the southern islands, Squadron 3 prepared to participate In a "great offen- ' slve" planned against the Japs. But our planes and ships that were supposed to come didn't appear, and Lieut. Kelly's boat and the one Lieut. Bulkeley was riding In were forced into hiding. CHAPTER XIII "They didn't get us then," Mid Kelly. "At midnight our escape began. The destroyer lost me with its light temporarily, so I did a iiinety-degree turn s<* as to pass festern of her and lose her. I continued on that course five minutes, heading directly away from her, then to the left in another ninetyitiegree turn, and I started looking ground the ship. "I found Reynolds, my port guntier (he was also cook), had been phot through the throat and shoulder. I got hirrT down below and bad the chief torpedoman and the Jradioman give him first aid. "I found our mast had been shot off a foot over my head, so we, couldn't use our radio for sending.i. The port turret had been hit and its guns were out of action. Lieutenant Kelly continued: "Our objective now was to get Heynolds to a doctor. We were going like a bat out of hell. I couldn't Bee the 41 boat--it was so dark I couldn't even see the shore. "Suddenly, directly ahead, a searchlight came on, less than a mile away--a Jap steaming full speed at me. I barely had time tot give a hard left and a hard right and we went scooting past each oth-' er at a relative speed of sixty knots! before he had a chance to fire al; jshot. He turned, holding me down with his light like a bug under a pin, and started chasing, blazing away with big guns--two splashes four hundred feet away, two more fifty feet away. I started digging to squirm out of that light-- wouldn't let my gunners fire a shot; it would help him keep our position. I was getting away, all right, but he ikept firing for ten minutes, although his accuracy was going to hell. By 1:30 I could barely see his light, •which was waving around, searching the water back of us. "I kept on, wide-open, wandering how we'd ever get in, since we had no charts, it was black as pitch, and I knew coral reefs must be all around us. At four o'clock I slowed down and headed into where I hoped the beach was, taking soundings. The water suddenly shoaled off and bumpt we were aground--a pinnacle of coral under her belly. Looking down with flashlights we could see the water was twenty feet deep with coral pinnacles all around us about every twenty feet, like a petrified forest, rising to within five feet of the surface. "Studying the shore line, I realized we were about ten miles too far up the coast. I sent Ensign Richardson ashore in a rowboat to send an army doctor and ambulance out from Cebu for Reynolds, and also a tug for us. "For the next hour we sallied shiprocking it, trying to jiggle it off the pinnacle, backing with the engines --and finally managed to roll it off. "Reynolds was feeling fine now. I'd suddenly remembered a little present Peggy had given me on the Rock, went down to my locker and brought it up for him--a couple of codein tablets and a sedative pill. "Dawn came with a low fog which shut out the coastal contours, and because of all the coral we had to stand well off the coast. The sun was well up but that didn't worry me; with air superiority we didn't need to stalk in the dark any more. By 7 :30 the sun had burned the fog away and we started out on two engines--one screw had banged up on the coral but that didn't matter-- we were crippled now, but 'Dad' Cleland would quickly fix us. At eight o'clock we spotted the entrance to the long channel and turned in. "So there we were, fat, dumb, and happy, heading up the narrow channel at fifteen knots, when all of a sudden--Wham! It was a hundred- pound bomb which landed about ten feet off our bow. "Then I looked up, and here a second plane was peeling off, coming out of a cloud. But instead of the big white stars of the American air corps on her wings, there were the flaming suns of Japan! "They bombed us tor thirty minutes, and the. farthest bomb was thirty feet away. We would wait for the bomb release, see it start falling, then I'd give hard rudder and it would miss by a few feet. All the while w£ had to keep in this narrow channel so we couldn't be beached helplessly on a coral reef, and work our way down it toward port, where presently some of the newly arrived American planes would see what was going on and come to help. We didn't doubt, of course, that they'd arrived. Four Jap seaplanes were after us, working in rotation--undoubtedly those from the second cruiser the army had reported as being around. "When their bombs were exhausted they began diving down just over our mast stub to strafe us. With their first salvo they killed Harris. He was my torpedoman and also manning the starboard 50-caliber machine guns--a fine kid he was-- he slumped down from his guns and rolled on the deck when a bullet ripped into his throat. So I put in Martino, or started to, but found they had also hit the gun and put it out of action. "But meanwhile Ross, with the starboard 30-caliber machine guns, had shot down one of the four planes. The next plane got Ross in the leg, and also put out his gun. So we now had no guns, only two engines and a boat full of holes with "Bat meanwhile Boss had down one of the four planes." sbot three planes diving down to less than one hundred feet, raking us with fire which we couldn't returnonly try to dodge. "The engineer now reported the engine room was full of water and the boat was sinking, so there was nothing to do but beach her, if we were to save the wounded men. I headed her oVer towards nearby Kawit Island, and there she beached hard and fast. "I went down into the engine room and there was Hunter, my chief machinist's mate, with his arm practically blown off--a bullet had entered his elbow and gone out a three inch hole in his forearm, but he was still manning the engines. I gave the order to abandon ship. It turned out that there were only three of us unhit, so it was a job getting the wounded out while the Japanese dived to rake us. We made the mistake of taking off our shoes, and the coral cut our feet to ribbons as we staggered carrying the men. "I found Reynolds, who had been wounded in the throat during the night, now lying with his hand over his belly. " 'Mr. Kelly,' ha Mid, 'leave me here.' " 'What happened?' I asked. " 'When the planes attacked,' he said, 'there didn't seem to be anything for me to do, so I went below and lay dotfn on Mr. Brantingham's bunk. They hit me in the belly while I was lying there. I'm done for, sir. I'll be all right here. You get out the others.' "* "Well, the hell with that. So in spite of his protests, Martino and I carried him ashore. Then we went back for a last trip. Only Harris was left, lying where he had tumbled into the tank compartment. But the radioman and I carried his body ashore, because we hoped to give him m decent burial. After reaching shore at Cebu lsby the worker and 6 per cent by the tion. employer. Raising the need for points to qualjify for the purchase of beef; and other foodstuffs has awakened many people to the gravity of the farm problem^ City and suburban dwellers cultivategardens for the first time-have a£ i>":-vS^'Atttew apprecttion of the weather arid iti- ; , v y ^ i n f l u e n c e on agricultural production,; land, Lieutenant Keliy turtwd" tlii ^Discouraged by prolonged rains the attention to his casualties. . , ^volunteer crop raisers, formerly" in-l "At this point a banca showed 'Up, different,, now favor increased aid to* and it was a native doctor, the one the regular farmers. As consumers*^ they display interest in the farm la^oi* fam machinery. Mrs. CUIrence Grabbe and sons of. ; Utah visited relatives here Friday. Mrs, Frank King enjoyed luncheon fort has led to the plan to plant million acres of peanuts in the South this year. The excess acreage will be converted into more peanut oil, while the normal crop will be used for human consumption. Peanuts are an excellent source of energy and are high on the list of the national nutrition program. Their consumption has been increased by their inclusion in various candies. •v'v At- Read the Want Ads! we had sent Ensign Richardson ashore for, before dawn, for Reynolds, who by now was en route to .the hospital. So I loaded the ship's papers, , binoculars, and stuff into this banca, and with them I shoved off for C£bu. • "Halfway over the three planes came back and we tried to hide behind a fish trap--a net with bamboo poles sticking up out of the water. But they weren't strafing now. They were looking for the fourth plane we'd shot down. They scoured the arejfefor twenty minutes. After they left we went on in, and of course I went straight to army headquarters, and met the colonel in charge--the No. 2 officer of the island. No, he hadn't heard from Bulkeley, but he'd send out a radio message to hunt for him if he was still alive. And maybe I'd better give my report direct to the general. I wanted to, and also I wanted to find out what had happened to our big American Offensive we had been asked to be part of, and that air umbrella which should have protected us this morning. "The general had been having a conference at the bar of the American Club, sitting with some other officers and some civilians who were now all having a drink. Now a general is pretty important, and you don't just go barging into his conferences-- not if you're a mere naval lieutenant in command of a little seventy-foot boat. So, following the lead of this conducting colonel, We stood off a bit and waited until the general gave us the signal to come on in and tie up at his table. He saw us all . right, but he didn't give us the signal--just went on talking to the other officers and civilians. "Now, thinking back, I realize it was a most important conference. But at the time I was excited, because I had just come from my boat in which I'd fought all through the war and with which we'd just helped to sink a Jap cruiser--my boat which was now lying beached across the bay, with one man dead, another dying, and all the rest but three wounded. I suppose I was unstrung. I wanted to have him make my report by radio about the cruiser. And then, although maybe it wasn't my business, I'd have liked to find out about that American offensive he'd invited us to join the night before. "We kept standing there, the two of us, while I got madder and madder. I see now it was unreasonable, but I couldn't help it them Finally it embarrassed even the colonel and he invited me to st^p over by the bar and have a drink with him. I said no, thanks. I had work to do, but I'd have a Coca Cola. I stuck around ten more minutes drinking it and then, since the general gave us no signal, t shoved off. "I arranged to have the boat guarded. Because I wouldn't yet admit that maybe both it and we were expended now. High tide was at four o'clock. Couldn't we maybe patch her up, float her over to 'Dad' Cleland's, get torpedes and a crew from somewhere, and maybe fight her just once again? "1 went over there to where Brantingham and the 35 boat were, taking the stuff I'd salvaged from the boat, and they gave me some lunch as I talked about the fight and what had happened to us, and during it Eqsign Richardson telephoned. He said Reynolds had died, and they were burying him and Harris in the American cemetery with a military escort and a priest, at four o'clock. I said of course I would go, and would meet Richardson at the bar of the American Club, from which we'd go over together. "I got there but Richardson didn't show up. I atood around. I was tired and mad and lonesome as hell. Finally a civilian came up--and I got to talking to him. He was a very nice guy-*-vice president of the club. I told him our story and he said how sorry he was, and asked if he might go to the funeral. He was the first sympathetic person I'd met. "Presently a truck arrived, driven by a Filipino soldier with a message for me that the funera^. had been postponed until ten o'clock tomorrow. This American found out I knew nobody in Cebu, hadn't slept, and had no place to go, so he invited me out to his house for dinner and the night. Before I went, I located our three men who were unwounded. I gave them fifty pesos and told them to gp ashore and get drunk and forget the whole mess--it they could. . (TO BE CONTINUED) : | force and Federal crop agencies report that increased production with less labor calls for the fullest use of all farm lahor-saving machines and equipment. With more tractor and tractor machines in 1943 than ever before and with the farm labor force in 1943 the smallest in years, evidenty many farmers with tractors and tractor equipment will find it advantageous to exchange the use of their tractors and h^avy-duty tractor equipment with other nearby farmers for labor and team work. The policy of militay deferment for faritl workers is gradually decreasing the labor shortage. ..... j It is generally conceded that if the' War Labor Board yields on demand# of unions for marked increases in wages the entire stabilization program will be endangered and inflationary tendencies given a relatively free hand. Another war loan drive will ; concentrate on selling bonds to individuals rather than banks. The publfap j does not realize that the April sales' drive only raised about 3 million dollars from individuals, parnerships, and Bjr Burcan of Public Relation* " S W»r n*t>t- W«»h D. C. ON ALERT IN NEW GUINEA--The highest degree of agility, coordination and teamwork is de> Bianded of members of an antiaircraft gun crew. In addition, its members most have the kind ofnerves that will stand the protracted periods when nothing happens. Once something does happen they must snap to the alert. Every man has his appointed task and it is timed to the split second with the tasks of his fellow crew members. The work is fast and furious until the last enemy plana is downed or rooted. These pictures show a gun crew and installation in New Guinea where the combination of accurate antiaircraft fire and daring flyers have kept Japanese plane losses high. Gun crew alerted and ready for action. Note precautions taken to camouflage the position. When the battery is inactive the netting with the concealing strips of colored material is pulled over the emplacement, effectively concealing it from prying aerial eyes. Producing FOOD FOR VICTORY on the Farms of Northorn Illinois is America's urgent wartime need. To help farmed of Northern Illinois fill the higher beef quotas set by UocJe Sam, the powerful energy of electricity is on the job. ,#GX£*S£1> Be# worn Working with a determination to ease the nation's wartime meat shortage, the farmers of this area confidently rfcly on the help ofelectricity. This mfght^ source of energy: pumps and heats the water . . « lights the farm yard, grinds the feed and ventilates the feed barns. It runs the feed hoist,grain elevator and countless other labor-savers. Yes, in these strenuous days on the farm, electricity is the indispensable extra hand... the energy that makes increased production m made from tn old automobile fan by this electrically-minded Jjvmer. The ventilating fan circulates the sir Which freshens the feed barn. Fn4 tor caHh mesas food for victory. Grinding the feed is a routine chore of electriciry oo many tana* in this ana. ' .r* " (Lift) AntMutic water tank is what this farmer contrived. By means of a float the electric pump is turned on and oS to muncain water level ia the drinkiag tank. PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS Senri£A »• 101 Willin.m« st Cry »tai Lake -- Tttenhone EoknuiN 4100* itb. •- '