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Pa#i Twt THE ^ -- wv r > .;%.. «» T^¥^v,<ti'f ,K iff ' • f i iunuK: -**• «.v^ iliMI B»W«s ften&T, April 15, IMS. . - « TUB STORY BO FAS: The story tt iMir part la tkt kttth for dw Pkfllp. ptari ft keiai told by four of UM IVI •aval officers who art all tkat la left •f Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron J. Tfcey arc Ueat. Joki Bnlkeley (now UtateUit Commander), squadron commaadar; Ueat. R. B. Kelly, second'ln-commaaA; and Ensigns Anthony Aker* and GHrfi B. Cox Jr. Ueat. Kelly, tent to the tan* nel hospital on Corregidor, learned from the wounded there how badly the wari was going for at. Cavite, our his naval bate, wat cone and our air force nearly wiped out. While he wat there the hot* pjtal wat bombed. Ensign Ahers It telling tome of hit experiences before Manila fell. IT THEY WERE h*mm W.N.U.FEATURES T! CHAPTER V •:K; >:; • "Twelve hours before the Japs entered the town I was sent back into Manila to pick up the refnnarits. I had just "eighty gallons of gas to go those thirty miles--finally got back with ten. A curious thing happened ; during these closing hours; nobody had given orders to blow up the oil reserves. Maybe some of them belonged to private companies; it wpuld go against a business man's ! grain to blow up good oil. Finally a j little junior-grade naval lieutenant t noticed it. He had no authority, but 1 he gave orders he had no right to give, and presently the oil was blazing. I hear he got a Navy Cross for doing it. . . _ "I was in Manila abqut that time," said Cox. "A big air attack was go- *ing on, although it had already been declared an open city. For that 'reason I had gone in with the guns ! on my boat with their canvas covers ton--for welfare reasons. Yet, open i city or not, the big air raid was on ! --streets deserted except for a few i people running nowhere in particu- {lar like crazy, planes crisscrossing • the sky above. The big church, : about a mile from shore, was just ! beginning to burn. In the harbor, boats were burning and sinking on { all sides--five and ten-thousand ton- I ners. But not a single shot was :.fired at the planes--which came down as low as five hundred feet." "I had to leave all my spare uni- ! forms in my locker there, damn * them," said Akers. "I hope none ' of them fit." "Watching them take over made 1 you feel pretty sick," said Bulkeley. : "We finished up and started home, to g^t back before dawn, now and 1 then looking back at the fires over the water. Every time it made us more." **It was a tough New Year's Eve ! for me, too," said Kelly, "because . we knew more or less what was go- ; ing on. Then there was another reai son. Some of the army officers were throwing a little New Year's | party with the nurses that night, and i. since this medical officer Peggy had i been going with was just back from ; Bataan, of course I knew where she'd be. "Along in the evening after sunset I walked out to the mouth of the I tunnel and sat down, to watch the : twilight of the old year die away, lit had been a tough year, but the | one ahead looked worse. And here j was 1, useless for the Var, in an army hospital. From away off I could hear them playing the portable at the officers' party, and I remembered how cute Peggy had looked in her civilian dress when she danced, and that didn't help any. Pretty soon one of the other nurses I knew, Charlotte, came out and sat down near me. She wasn't at the party because she had to go on duty soon, but that didn't matter, because her boy friend had just been wounded three days before, and she was worried sick about him. "Just then I noticed someone sit» ting down on the other side of me--I turned and, by George, it was Peggy. Not in uniform, either. She was wearing that cute cool-looking cotton-print civilian dress. "I couldn't figure it. 'Didn't you like the party?' I asked. 'Wasn't it any good?' " 'I don't know,' she said. 'I didn't go to the party.' " "Weren't you asked?' " 'Yes,' she said. 'I was asked. But it was New Year's, you see, and 1 thought it might be nice here.' I "Not very many nice things happen to you during a war, but this was about the nicest that ever happened to me then, or any other time. It made me feel so good that between the two of us, we managed to get Charlotte cheered up. She had to go back on duty presently, and •be managed to sneak us out a cou» pie of fairly cold bottles of Pebet beer, to celebrate on. But Peggy bad been pr|MMng. The island was on two meals a day, but she'd managed to hold back a couple of apples and a whole box of marshmallows. That was our New Tear's Eve supper, and I'll bet that yours, wherever you had it* couldn't have Hasted any better. "Running any kind of romance, no matter how mild, was a real problem on Corregidor. About the best place to sit was right down where we were, at the tunnel's mouth. But the road ran right in front of it, and every five minutes an army truck would barge tactlessly around the curve. "Meanwhile Bulkeley was reporting to the Admiral daily and was formulating a plan--which he would talk over with me, as I Was his second officer--for what we would do when our gas ran out. We had damned little left, and the army couldn't spare us any. "Our first plan w;as, when we got down to our minimum, to get out to Australia. The navy patrol bombers had planted caches of gasoline among the islands like steppingstones, and the Admiral gave us their location. But the first steppingstone was Singapore, and the Japs were working their way down the peninsula, closer and closer to it. Could we get there first? Of course we wouldn't leave the Philippines until all of our torpedoes were gone and we had just enough gas left to make the final run. But then, as you know, Singapore fell 'Yet, open city air rifd was on." or not, the big and also the southern islands- Celebes and Zgmboanga. The route with the cached gas was closed-- that plan was out. "So then we said, who wanted to go to Australia anyway? Our Job was to defend Manila Bay--wasn't that our part in the war plan? Yet even then it kept coming up: suppose the worst came to the worst and Luzon folded up--the whole archipelago-- even Java--what then? "Then Bulkeley here hit on a real plan. When our gas was down to just what we could carry on our decks, instead of waiting around to get captured by the Japs, we'd take ,our boats to China to continue the war. At first glance you'd say that was crazy--the Japanese holding most of the Chinese coast--but not the way the skipper had it thought out. He knew China from the years he'd spent out there on a gunboat while I was there on a destroyer. "The Japs were closing ia on Hong Kong--that was fine for us! We'd make our dash--shoot our last few remaining fish at their gathered transports just where they least expected an attack, and then head north toward the region of Swatow. "Of course the Japs held that coast too, but Bulkeley had worked out an answer, all in the utmost secrecy. He'd gotten in touch with Colonel Wong, the Chinese military observer. Wong had cabled Chungking to investigate the vicinity. Chungking cabled back that it could be done. "They said the Japs held the Swatow region thinly--at no point did they go more than ten miles inland. So, at an agreed time, and at an agreed rendezvous oq the coast, Chungking would send a raiding party down to fight its way to the beach and meet us. "There we would burn our boated now useless with all torpedoes expended against Jap targets. The Chinese couldn't hold that point long i --but long enough to hustle us | through that ten-mile Jap-held strip onto free Chinese soil. There trucks would take us to the nearest airfield, we would fly to Chungking, and from there a four-motored American ferry-command plane would bring us back to the States. "Where was the flaw? We couldn't see one, unless somehow it leaked out. Besides myself, only four living people knew. They were De- Long of our squadron, Captain Ray, chief of staff, Colonel Wong, and of course the skipper here, who had worked out every detail. "But before we left we knew there would be plenty of action ahead for us here, and I told Bulkeley I was crazy to get out of this hospital, and asked for his help. If they'd let me get back to duty, I'd agree to anything--promise to soak my hand for so many hours a day--anything they said, just to get back even on a semiduty status. "So we staged it for the next morning, when the ward doctor would be dressing my hand at about the same time the head surgeon made his rounds. We tackled him. I made my talk, and he seenied to waver. "Tell this bird you need me,' I said to the skipper. 'We really do,' said Bulkeley, but just then Peggy overheard and queered the whole thing. 'Certainly not!' she said. 'You can't let him go back to duty wittj his hand wide-open I' That swung him back. 'Duty!' he growled. 'Who said anything about duty? Two. weeks of it and you'd lose your whole arm.' v "I tried to argue--point out thai if the MTB's went out on a mission, I could hold on with one arm as .well as two, but Peggy had done it, and now he wouldn't listen. " 'One of these days you're going to find an empty bunk,' I said. I was gloomy all that next week* but Peggy said I was a fool. That there were plenty of well, fit men to do my job. And that if I hadn't been so damned stubborn in the first place, and had got that hand, treated in time, I'd never have come to the hospital, and never met' her, and she would never have been able to break up my plan to get out, so it was all my fault! "She's always had that cute way of seeming to storm at you anddress you down, so that you ended up by grinning and couldn't stay mad at anything long. . "So it went along for anbther week, she leading me out for walks every day to get some of those thirty pounds back, and then one day we returned to find that Bulkeley had fceen by looking' for me--said he was going out on a raid that night, up to Subic Bay looking for a Jap cruiser, that he'd waited lioping to take me, but finally had to leave; "It set me almost crazy. If | hadn't been out on that damned health tour with a pretty girl, 1 wouldn't have missed the raid! So here I was while my gang was up *here tangling with a cruiser, maybe getting killed, because the Japs had Subic Bay so thick with gunt that it was almost suicide to go iri. "All that night there was no newSii I was up at 5:30--'Any dope frorfi the torpedo boats?'--still nothing. But at seven they said, yes, Bulkeley'^ ad' come back, managed to sink a cruiser and get away, but the other boat was missing--probably lost." 1 JOHNSBURG (By Mrs. Arthur Klein) timer Hettermann, Donald Hettermann, Gerald Hettermann and" Daniel Kennebeck visited with Cadet LeRoy Hetterman, who is training m the U. S. Navy Pre-Flight school in Iowa City, Ia. •* Second Lieut. Angela Tonyan and mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Tonyan, were Saturday evening guests in {he Bernard N. Schmitt home. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Althoff, Mr. and Mrs. John Smith, Clarence Smith and Miss Leona Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Smith and children, Mr. and Mrs. Leo J. Smith and children, Mr. and Mrs. Jos. M. Schmitt and family, Carl J. Freund, Miss Lorraine Reinboldt and Miss Dorbthy Fuchs spent an enjoy-, able evening visiting with Corporal Norbert Smith in the Fred J. Smith home Thursday evening. Our sympathy is extended to Rev. A. J. Neidert, who received word of the death of his sister, Mrs. A. A. Lipping, of Tacony, Philadelphia, Pa. Father Neidert and Anton M. Schmitt left Tuesday to attend the funeral. Father Averbeek of Geneva is substituting for Father Neidert in his absence.. •' „ ~ Mrs. Barbara Horick and Mrs, Herman Kreutzer sptent Tuesday- with their mother, Mrs. Catherine Smith. Sunday afternoon callers in the Fred J. Smith home were Miss Catherine Schmitt of Chicago, Miss Lorraine Reinboldt, Mr. and Mrs. John N. Schmitt and Mr. and. Mrs. John Thelen. Funeral services were held for Jos. Thelen Friday morning in St. John the Baptist church. TTiose from out of town who attended the funeral were Mrs. Waller Grube of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wagner of Grayslake, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Heimer of McHenry, Miss Eva Williams of Chicago, Jos. (Shootie) Thelen of Waukgan and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Martin of Spring Grove. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hollander of Chicago spent Tuesday in the home of her mother, Mrs. John Thelen. Donald Hettermann left Tuesday morning for Chicago, where he expects to be inducted into the army. Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Smith, Harold *SHd Marie Smith, Corporal Norbert Smith and friend, Miss Lorraine Reinboldt, Miss Dorothy Fuchs and Mr. and Mrs. Leo Michels enjoyed a chicken dinner in the Arthur Klein home Monday evening. Mr. Ben Tonyan and Miss Louise Williams accompanied Sister M. Lambert back to Milwaukee Tuesday. Private Vincent Tonyan, who is stationed in Seattle, Wash., is enjoying a furlough with his folks and friends. He attended the golden anniversary of his grandparents Sunday. The Lady Foresters will hold their annual banquet at J. B. Hettermann's Tuesday, April 27, at 6:15 .p. m. In- "It was a job we did for the Army," explained Lieutenant Bulkeley (describing the historic attack of his P. T. Boat in Subic Bay mentioned.) "A couple of Jap ships, one of them an Imperial Navy auxiliary cruiser with 6-inch guns had been shelling our 155-millimeter emplacements on Bataan--blasting them with heavy stuff. The major in charge had .been wondering how to get rid of them and had phoned Admiral Rockwell, who gave us permission to tackle the job. We knew they were based in Subic Bay, probably in Port Binanga. Subic is on the west coast of Luzon, just north of Bataan. I decided to send two boats--the 31 boat, which was Lieutenant DeLong's, and the 34 boat, which was Kelly's, now commanded by Ensign Chandler. I went along in It for the hel> of it. "We tested everything--tuned the motors, greased torpedoes, and got under way at nine o'clock, chugging north along the west coast of Bataan. It was very rough. We throU tied down to thirty knots, and even then we were shipping water, but we got off the entrance to Subic Bay about half an hour after midnight. Here, according to plan, the two boats separated. DeLong in the SI boat was to sweep one side of Subio Bay and X the other, We were to meet at Port Binanga, at the end. If something happened and we didn't meet there, then we were to rendezvous at dawn just outside the mine fields of Corregidor. «. (TO BE CONTINUED) SPRING GROVE Charles Thompson, Rockford; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Merritt and Mrs. Lorena Merritt of Genoa. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Klaus of Chicago spent the weekend with Mr, and Mrs. John Lay. Mrs. Charles Freund, daughter, Charlotte, and Mrs. George W. May were callers in the Martin Weber II (By Mrs. Charles Freund) John Kattner is confined to his bed by illness. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rauen of Chicago visited him last week. >, Mr. and Mrs. A1 Schmeltzer have i home in Johnsburg Sunday afternoon, moved to the Ellen Baker house one! Sunday guests in the Math Nimsmile east of town. Miss Lillian San- i gern home were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph born is now living in her home, which j Pittges and Miss Meagher from Chiwas vacated by the Schmeltzers. | cago, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nimsgern, Marcelline Mav sustained a broken I Robert. Jr., and Miss Hazel Peters of leg when she fell from a swing while Waukegan. Miss Bernice Nimsgern sit play on the school grounds. It will:of ChlcaK° was also home for the be necessary for her to be absent from ; we^Jcen£". The First Aid Training Film of the American Red 'Cross, "Before the Doctor Comes," was shown before a verfy appreciative audience at the Town hall on Monday night. Quite a few people attended, as well as all the firemen and all agreed that the film is very educational. Mrs. Burton, one of the First Aid instructors, gave an infant daughter, Irma, were visitors in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Miller on Sunday. Voters were out in good numbers at the Township election held at Town hall on Tuesday. Two hundred and four votes were cast as Frank May was re-elected supervisor without opposition and Joseph Brown, present highway commissioner, won re-election over Ben May. Brown received 112 votes to Ben May's 86. school several weeks when she will be able to return with the aid of etlltches. Gregory Kattner, who has been suffering from arthritis, "is now at the Bath8 in Waukesha. Miss Evelyn Sanders of Woodstock visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs Hew Gas Fuel Was Sated Cutting one gallon from the "A1 gasoline ration coupon, in 16 eastern rationed states, is estimated to save about 20,000 barrels of gasoline daily. $Yank Sanders on Sunday. J interesting talk as a fitting climax to Visitors in the A1 Schmeltzer home the program. • -- Jlds weekend were Mr. and " Mrs. I Mr. and Mrs. George Pershing and , Sea Bright Turf Imported The historic turf at the Sea Bright Lawn Tennis and Cricket club in New Jersey, scene of many world tennis classics, was imported from England more than 50 years ago. Order your Rubber Stamps it The Plaindealer. •• America9* best-loved NAIL ENAMEL..* Your beloved "stay-on" Revlon Nail Enamel (regy lar size), plus Adheron, •uperb bate coat (cub •ise), the famous twosome that busy Americana hand* cry out for these days. Get them now in this charming "Double Feature" case. Complete, 75c or aeparately, in regular MM bottles, 60c each. FMVIBWBD meant thai every single color of Revl Ion Nail Enamel it pretetted 160 timet on buiy fingertips, before it is bottled for you I BOWER'S DRUB STORE Green Street McHenry, I1L stallation of officers and cards and bunco will follow. All members are urged to attend. #• KINOWOOD SCHOOL NtW8 Ringwood seventh and eighth grades went to McHenry high school April 16th to take standardized tests. There was an election held April 10 at the Ringwood school. Mrs. Chancy Harrison was re-elected secretary of the school l>oard. Mrs. Mead gave us a double lesson in art Monday. r - The Cub Scouts received their Wolf Club books Monday. ----- Miss Thompson will attend our school Wednesday, instead of her regular day, Friday. Wesley Hunt's uncle, Malvin Thompson, will return to his camp in •Oregon, April 16. The third grade is almost through| with its geography for this yean ? Ronny Fredrickson and Joan from Harrisor^ school came with Missr'. Thompson to practice in our rhythm ' band, April 9. i Traveling Tuberculous CWilh-- A tuberculosis clinic that travels about on wheels in a truck is operated by the state board of iieaith in Georgia. Naming the 'Golden Rule* Who first called the verse of Scrbture the "Golden Rule" is not known. The appellation has existed from a very early period and is found in the English language as early as 1674. 7:30 P.M. 'Oharles Leonard, Auctioneer .k'y * VAt Gatiike's Sale Barn--Route 47--Woodstock, Illinois . . . . > 100 HEAD OF LIVESTOCK Will hatffe llife run of choice Dairy Cows, close springers and fresh. Good selection of well-broke Young Farm Horses; also good run of dairy heifers, bulls, beef cows, horses, veal calves and hogs. Terms: 25 per cent down, balance in monthly' installments. 1 to 16 months time at Vi of. 1 per cent interest. Woodstock Commission Sales Company • WILLIAM E. GAULKE, Owner - Call Woodstock 572 or 499 if you have livestock to consign. All consignors make arrangements to get your livestock in, either the day before the sale or bring same morning o f s a l e , a C l - M $ Eddh Rkkmnbackmr soys: OP TO*RIDO IQUADItON S ?• *T« these beyrdfssld getfio undying grafHvds «f every man, womanand child within Hw boundaries of tho Unitod States of America for their daring accomplishments and loyalty to the caus% that will go down In history at one of the Outstanding epics of World War II. "Few of us can visualize the strength of character and courage needed and displayed by the members of Torpedo Squadron S ! hi their willingness IS help destroy a videos enemy when death faced them. "Let every American-- nan, woman and child~ aa the home front try in his humble way li / ' equal the efforts of these men. becom#* $ none of us can ever heps to approximate their sacrifices." count Every American suicide saga of Torpedo Squadron 8. How it lost all l^Kaaes and all but oneof its 30 men in a mission which helped produce our great victory at Midway. It was these ' boys who found the Jap fleet. Who radioed its position. And without the necessary fighter anil high altitude bomber support^ dove to the attack. This week the big 2nd War Loan Drive is on! Our country is not askinjg us to give or even risk our lives. She simply wants us to lend Ker money. And this 13 billion dollars must be raised during April to assure more torpedo squadrons--more victories like Midway.' It's true we've done a good job so far. But this war is far from won. The Japs are building new airfields in Kiska Otx American soil. Submarines acc sinking out supply ships within sight of our own states, It's a long way from Casablanca to Berlin, or Teldio. While you help your country you will help yourself. Your pur* chases of War Bonds helj> retard inflation. They are as safe as yonf government. 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