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Tfaiirsday, June 3, 1943 , S 1 ]*• -"* . . THE McHENRY PLAINDEALER ; * \' - ' - ^ - r T - ^ 1 - ' • _ j t t ,'k / *, . .;• •. i * > \ •*": » . p, * frv tp: p»p Our . '• •'• Washington Letter ;•.?•?• --Br-- Natfoml Editorial Asaodatfc* stand under the new set-up with former Justice Byrnes as top-man. Tliese concerns share the attention of Capitol Hill, which is voting the cenferwhich have studied and criticized the war program in detail. Meeting- quietly here at the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week are a group of experts, whose conclusions | floundering ' and under internecine ence report on the new tax tyll before jlittle publicized or even understood by 'strife. Congress this week. (the average citizen, will have much j Congress has opened its purse of necessary articles is roundly denounced in many quart*'re and figures prominentily in the proposed reorganization of the priec control group now VOLO (By Mrs. Lloyd Fisher) President, Arvilla Fisher1; vke-pres-' and Mrs. Ernest Rider and daughter, ident, Mary Case; secretary-treasurer, jMrs. Gertrude Winslow and 6i. ughter, Lilah Mae Fisher; publicity chairman, i Mr. and Mrs. Frarfk Ehredt Joyce Creaves; recreation chairman, ,a daughters. Jean Hironiriius; cleaniness chairman, 1 Mr. and Mrs. Elwood-Dowell and Marian Wirtz. Officers for the Volo family of Libertyville Sunday . , , . . . , . , , - , . . . . . M r . a n d M r s . J a m e s V a l e n t a of Chi-; Sunshine Qutfetis for the«en?uine year ^uests at the home of Mrl and Mrs. While there is considerable criticism j to do with the fight against inflation, j to the justified demands of the actual <*2° Sunday at the home of Mr. are. President, Bettv Anderson- vice- Lloyd Fisritow* i A. aV - 4m«4 A# , TVlft Anils T/Mt A/\Ttri/) f 1 Am AT I > I A«k°J lf_ ClA. » ' , • * Washington, June 2--Congress and ttnat tne wm notjpusn sever*, sloie rev.».o i. « «i« u* rec»..eu essential ™ ma!lf Arvilla from I measures now pending. The Chief Ex-. wage controls imposed by the govern- j0jnt'committee with this objective in ^rs- Ellwood Dowell, at Libertyville. man, Betty Bowser; Cleamness chair- hesday evehinp at their home j ecutive's latest order superimposes the ment are based on the cost of lmng view has reported the continued gov- Mrs- Frank King was a dinner guest man Orpha Crook. J graduates were Marv Case A : Office of War Mobilization over exist- studies at the May, 1942 level. The extravagances in travel And the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bruno • m, , nr_i.». \rr_--. FicVior- on^ r ;ioi, vr about the substitution of executive The agenda calls for consideration of war ageneies, various investigating ' ^d Mrs. Frank St. George. president, Lilah Fisher; secretary- Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Bacon ?ronsororders for legislation, indications are jthe official Jiving cost index and pos- jcommjttees are trying to keep a tight Lilah Mae Fisher spent the week- treasurer. Mary Case; publicity chair- ed a party for the eighth grad^ rraduthat the soions will not push several sible revision. It will be recalled that. ^ on non-essential spending. A her aunt and uncle, Mr. and man> Arvilla Fisher; recreation chair- ates froiu the Roseville school Wed- * ~ The Arvilla Mr.and Mrs. Walter Vasey and fam- Fisher and Lilah Mae Fisher. at Mr? and Mrs. Jack Balmes, Mr. Mrs. Lloyd Pmithburg of Evar order creating the Office of War Mob- i stymied in the House after passage several raises to petitioning wage during the first quarter is followed for Mrs-iFrank St. George. a"? KeiJ and Mr- and home ilization. Some lawmakers are dis* • by the Senate relates to a separate groups with the result that others are the &lance of this year, the travel' Gene Raven of SlocWs Lake spent i SSSf1foreV a party George. posed to believe that the President Office of Civilian Supplies. This pro- demanding similar treatment- Sta- an(j commUnications costs to the tax- "a few days here with his grandmother, ? f a +lf S • aj e\en- Arvilla Fisher spent the -weekend /'pulled a fast one" in the issuance of ; posal was fought by the War Produc- ; tisticians employed by trade unions payers will exceed ioo millions. The Mrs. Pearl Dowell. t 'ng l^e, e,gl? , wth her aunt and uncle Mr s-d Mrs the edict in that he staved off more tion Board and by industry alike on are attempting to show that the De- joint committee wants drastic cuts, es- The Volo Sunshine Oueens and the v? V m 7n i ^na" ^ George Scheid Jr., in Waucor^a. sweeping legislation destined to close- the ground that radical elements ^partment of Labors living cost basis p^j^iy where the agencies are not Volo Busy Bees 4-H clubs held a joint v nne ei ® f 1 er- ue.® a ; ly co-ordinate the government's war might easily wreck war plants if they j is not in .harmony with the facts and (lssent-&l to the war effort. Th'e ex- owni^tion^mUine SS ' S"*" A ^ ^ ® ^ " programs. The War Production Board, were placed in control. On the other; will demand a.revision. Late estimates , es criticized as inordinately li^chool Friday evfning * ^ ^ ? a If"' ^ the Manpower Commission, the O. P. hand, some of the declared purposes ; of this agency allege that city living ^ ^ report to Congress repre-! 7 n 1 hoe' Mr" and Mrs- Kel1 and ^htev The late Roxy,- famous t«eatrlc«l A. and others, which have been feud- of the executive order were in con-(costs have arisen nearly six per cent sents strong feeling amoug taxpayers m 1 ing .as to jurisdictional rights, are' formity with recommendations of two above the May, ,1942 standard. The amj legislators that many economies THEY WERE © WHITE were: Mr. and Mrs. Horace Grabbe of Ivan- ,hoe, Mr. and Mrs. Keil and daughter The following officers were elected of Chicago, Harvey Baur of Lake for the Volo Busy Bees 4-H club: Zurich, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ritta, Mr. leader, once served with Se U. £ marines. to ascertain just where they ^investigating committee^ of Congress. j'O. P. A.'E failure to roll back |>Hce^ |be effected without hurting ea-. ; tests were received about ldng tele-, i.grams from Federal groups on sub- ! jects in whi^h the tmve element of S , coirrmunication was not kftpor$aht, A _ lot of travel by government employ^ ' ! ees when transportation facilities are ff>:^S.^-:;;.b^dly needed was likewise condei^neili •' »| jThe Senate expressed ..its -feeling' on W.N.U.FEATUREl THE STORY SO FAR: The slory of " --;thelr, part In the- batUe for the Philip- * ' pines is being told by four of the Ave naval officers who are all that is left of Motftr Torpedo Boat Squadron 3. They , >are I.ieut. John Bulkeley (now Lieutenant Commander), squadron commander; ^JlLieut. R. B. Kelly, second-in-command; %nd Ensigns Anthony Akers and George E. Cox Jr. March 11 Lieut. Bulkeley showed the squadron their secret orders. They were to take General MacArthnr'* party and some additional personnel to the southern islands. When they arrived safely at Cebu, General MacArthnr promised Bulkeley he woCdt^tfy to get him and his key men out'tof the Philippines. CHAPTER XII "The skipper was frantic to get some of our little fleet back into commission so we could finish out ' the fight. We'd started the war with six boats. Two "were lost off Bataan. One was lost on the escape trip south. That left only three, and two of these were wrecks, fit only for the dry dock, Bulkeley's being the only craft left in fighting condition. But he was bound to get the others back into shape. Did I think "I could get mine to Cebu? "Well, we could try, and we started off, my poor old boat with her earthquake making twelve knots, her back end wiggling like a shipwrecked sailor's dream of a French ; ^snusical-comedy star. Whatever she was good for now, it wasn't fighting, end I was glad we didn't meet any Japs. * "The machine shop was run by 'Dad' Cleland, a seventy-one-yearold American who'd been in the islands since 1914, and a swell gent he was--originally from Minnesota and a typical hulking frontiersman. Didn't look a day over fifty and was a kind ot patriarch in those parts. His native name meant 'the eld man* or 'the headman' in Tagalog. " 'What are you going to do when the Japs come?' we asked 'Dad.' He straightened up--all six feet two of him, " 'Have my dignity to think about,' he said. 'I'm not going to the hills. I'll stay right here and face them. " 'Dad' was working for the government for a dollar a year. When 'lie finally finished with otir repairs --they took many days-^we asked him how much the bill was. "We'll forget about it,' he said. 'You fight i'em and I'll fix 'em. It's the least H can do.' "He clenched his big fist, and it was about the size of a nail keg. I Since I've come back here I've ,read about some outfits working on •war contracts who were paying fheir stenographers fifty thousand dollars !a year and charging it to the gov- 1 ernment as expenses until they were .caught. It's a waste of time to infdict them. Just get old 'Dad' Cleland back here and let him go in land reason with them in their swiv- }el chairs. With those big fists of Ihis, he'd know how to expostulate with racketeers like that. "But things were moving in Cebu, • and very secretly we began to hear 1 hints of a big American offensive ; which was coming rolling up from ;the south through the islands in time jto save Bataan, which was almost '©ut of food and ammunition. Word came that two submarines were arriving in Cebu, where they would be loaded with food and returned to Bataan--we brought the first one in through the channel. "It was a big secret--the area was cleared for two miles around. The loading was done at night and by officers only--we helped until our hands were raw--because they were fearful that some sailor or soldier might drop a hint of it in a native bar where it would get to the Japs. For three solid nights we worked until my back and arms ached, stowing all that stuff in the subs, but all the time I kept thinking of Peggy and the grand old gang up there on the Rock and what was left of the peninsula--fighting on without hope or food. f "But that wasn't half of it. Be- 1cause in addition to the subs^-the last one shoved off on April 5--there were seven fat interisland steamers being secretly loaded with food down near 'Dad' Cleland's dock--fnedical supplies, quinine the boys were dying without, everything they needed to hold on." ' "The General in command at SCebu called me in and verified the •Cbints we'd heard of the big Ameri- * ifcan offensive," said Bulkeley. "He Itssured me everything was set. It ^as to start at dawn th$ very next ifi'orning. That very night, twelve &rtr*g£ea and heavy bombers were lining uf> from Australia. A swarm wa£« on their way up ao to Iloilo, where they Ut> fc&d go Into action, mbers wire to land at , take oil, and blow ship in the region, and meanwhile the convoy of interisland steamers would staft for Bataan, bringing food enough for weeks. Bataan was to be saved after all. "The General showed me messages from all the other generals who commanded in different islands, co - ordinating the offensive. But there was one minor hitch, he explained. "Aerial reconnaissance had spotted a couple of Jap destroyers steaming down the coast of Negros Island. Somewhat .to the eastward there was a cruiser which carried four seaplanes, but they weren't worrit i about it. But that afternoon Teports had come in giving the progress of the Jap destroyers. Obviously they were heading toward Cebu. Maybe they had broken down our American codes and knew about the interisland steamers, and were coming in either to blockade them or to shell them at the dock. "Why couldn't we have a part in this great offensive whick tomorrow was to sweep up and llast Jap shipping and warships between Mindanao, Cebu, and Bataan?" Lieutenant Kelly thought, "We could be helpful by going out tonight and knocking off one or both of those Jap destroyers, which by midnight should be approaching the narrow little Jap destroyer but a thtindeiing big Kuma class cruiser sliding around that point--so clear we could almost make out her 6-inch guns. "I gave our boat a hard right rudder, sneaking in toward the shore where the cruiser couldn't see us. Apparently she was alone. Now we curved out, into firing position, on her port beam, making as little noise as we could, and as she passed, five hundred yards away, Cox fired ecenomy to the extent rif paring downs the funds of the National Planning".. Board, an agency headed bv the Presi-,. dent's uncle, Frederic IVlano, > and! curbing expenditures from Mir.' Roose- !• velt's special fund allotted for emergency purpose. It was this money, [ wjiich was frequently used for activities, Congress refused to authorize. The approval of the conference report on the tax bill this week will not mean the end of wrangling about nec-vj essary revenue. The Secretary of the two torpedoes, but they straddled Treasury insists that the new plan her." will not yield anything like the funds "We fired two from our side," required to pay current expenses. Sensaid Kelly, "but they also missed." timent is growing among legislators "After that," said Ensign Cox, for a retail sales tax. It probably will "we in the 41 boat made a wide be favored now by the Administration arc and attacked again with our last which has heretofore opposed this pro- i two torpedoes--Bulkeley himself fir- gram. Some advocates contend that a ing them, and this time two of them sales tax may retard the heavy purhit, right under the bridge. They chasing and help curb inflation. Irremade no flash, but a good bump and spectiveiOf the taxation question, it is a column of water. But even before known that the treasury definitely has that the cruiser had waked up-- in mind at least two more War Loan probably saw the wakes of one of drives this year. Treasury experts b£- the torpedoes--anyway she speeded Heve that the campaign should be up to twenty-five knots and her directed to raising the money from f# * «• m **» "He clenched kit big flat, and was about the size of a nail keg." channel between Cebu and Negros Islands. The cruiser--never mind her, American bombers would polish her off in the morning." "Bulkeley came in at eight o'clock that night and told me about -it," said Kelly. "My boat had been in the water just four hours--she was supposed to soak for twenty-four before she should be exposed to any pounding, but I asked him if we couldn't go out with him. 'I was hoping you'd like to,' the skipper told me. 'Think you can make it?' 'I don't know,' I said, 'but we'll soon find out. This'll be as good a dock trial for her as any.' " "To man the boats I called for volunteers," said Bulkeley. "I had no trouble about that. I guess they understood by now that any man who doesn't volunteer won't be in the squadron long if I can get rid? of him." \_ "They were all tickled to be in on the big offensive," said Kelly. "It was apparently so well prepared that the army had given us the radio frequency of the co-ordinating planes--that big American air um brella which would be spread over us at dawn--in case we needed to „talk with them." "We got out to the island passage about 11:30 that night and sneaked in close to shore," said Bulkelely. "The moon wasn't due until 2:30. I was riding in the 41 boat, Ensign Cox commanding, while Kelly had his 34 boat. We'd worked out our strategy. If two destroyers showed up, my boat was to tackle the leading one and Kelly the second. If only one arrived, my boat would attack her on the quarter, and Kelly's on the bow. "At five minutes to twelve Glover, the quartermaster at the wheel, called 'Look--there she is!' A black object was coming round the point 'Jumping Jesus 1' said Glover. ; IBT frl'-fcacauM it VM PC " searchlight came on and she waved it wildly around in the air, probably looking for torpedo planes." "Our torpedoes were all gone in the 41 boat," said Bulkeley, "but I turned around and ran astern of the cruiser to draw her fire so Kelly could get in for his second attack. Then we saw the destroyers, but they wouldn't give chase, although I tried to create the illusion of a lot of boats by firing machine-gun tracers." "When the cruiser's searchlight came on," said Kelly, "I turned Nxight to cross her wake and came m^en her other quarter. She picked me lip astern with her lights and began banging away at me with her secondary batteries-^SO-calibersrand 40-millimeter guns -- from about twelve hundred yards. The stuff was j going right over our heads in a continuous stream of fire. "But I was good and mad because our first torpedoes had missed," said Kelly, "so I decided to chase her. I told one machine-gunner to fire at her searchlight, which was blinding me, and the others to sweep her decks to get her gun crews. After a few minutes' chase, we had closed in to three hundred yards --so close that her searchlight seemed to be coming right down on us from an angle--about like the sun in mid-afternoon. Then I drew out onto her starboard quarter and fired our last two torpedoes--an overtaking shot. They were the last two our squadron was to fire in the war. 'Then I gave the boat a hard right rudder and started running away-- for we were defenseless now except for our machine guns. But the rain of Jap tracers kept right on, and suddenly another Jap ship showed up fifteen hundred yards away. Both started firing their main batteries at me and we were trapped between-- splashes all around us now, as close as twenty-five yards. We started zigzagging wildly, trying to dodge the two searchlights, and also the stream of fire which were crisscrossing above our heads like wicker basketry, and landing in the water all around us. It seemed like weeks, but was probably only a few seconds. My junior officer, Ensign Richardson, had the wheel, while I was watching the cruiser through my binoculars. Suddenly I saw a big splash and detonation in the middle of her belly--another two seconds, another splash and detonation right in her engine room! Our overtaking shots had both hit home! Her searchlight went from bright yellow to orange to red to dull brick-red and finally winked out. Every gun stopped firing. She was jet-black now. "But I didn't have much time for philosophizing, because this other destroyer was on my starboard bow, closing in, banging away with her 5Vs-inch guns and me with only 50- caliber machine guns left." "Kelly got twenty-three salvoes of 5^-inch steel that night," said Bulkeley. "But there was no doubt that his two torpedoes polished off the cruiser. I saw her searchlight fade out, and heavy yellow smoke arise. Her stern was under in three minutes--the destroyer put the searchlight on her decks, where the Japs were all running around, not knowing where to go--and she had sunk in twenty. "But I was running around with three destroyers after me, which were firing all they had, and I could see another one hot on Kelly's tail. That was the last I could see of him and I thought he was a goner. "My destroyers chased me down to Misamis, but at dawn ledove into a place to hide--there were six miles of shallow water where they couldn't follow even if they had seen me. W spent the day sleeping." {TO BE CONTINUED bond sales to the people rather than to the banks. It is true that the second drive sold twice as many bonds to individuals as the first, but the banks took the larger share. •» * • * • •* * mm 4 * mm* * •. • <* * #. BUSINESSLIKE SNOUT OF ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN--It pokes its way skyward while members of the crew get down to business. At extreme left is the "talker" with his telephone on his chest. Behind him are the ammunition passers, handing np projectiles from ammunition dugouts on either side of the emplacement Just at the right of the gun a shell is going into the fuze-setter which sets the fuse to burst at a predetermined altitude. Sitting at either side of the gun are the men «ho match pointers en the dials of the mechanism which keeps the muzzle of the gun on the intruders. Producing FOOD FOR VICTORY on the Forms of Northern Illinois Hi more Md is America's urgent wartime need To help farmers g{ Northern Illinois 611 the higher beef quotas set by Uncle Sain, the powerful energy of electricity is on the )<.! &E& QU07M Working with a determination to ease the nation's wartime meat shortage, the farmers of this area confidently rely on the help of electricity. This mighty souttt1 ^ «wigy pumps and heats the water . . . ts 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 possible. Homemade ventilating fan made from an old automobile fan by this eltLtxicailj' • _rr,.,nded farmer. The ventilating fan circulates the air which freshens the feed barn. , [Aim) ,- Feed for cattie means food for victory. Gritting the feed is a routine chore of electricity on many farms in this area. iUfi) ak is whit this farmer contrived. By means of a float the electric watef puifip is turned on and off to maintain dbe nttt teitlia the drinking tank. PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS Service Order -- 101 Williams St., Cry st&l Lake -- Telephone Enterprise 41Q0. . j - •