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, June 17, 1943 THE MfcHBflY PLAEfDEALIB «*§• , *X "•*$% -r- . , " - ' ' ' 9'" •<"' * «t •t^zaS. Ji *£•:»* •3iwS^e?v';T;* *' II ^..,.\>.* 1 f'^Ki^TjiHWSTS<i?>..4 j-.W ^rv ^'vi- >."ti<. " «•• -*9*;.. '•• "*jj. .- . . "' ':*' : """ Fife Wtffm z" •• •~ ** j^, *' ' v '. . •AXl. * ••! ~ • '. 4: ^ Our Washington Letter! --*< J*-*; --By-- MMImmI Editorial sidy, , the complications ®ow developing may keep the lawmakers on the job during the summer months. Federal agencies are at their wit's end striving to keep the inflation problem within bounds. *" So far the lawmakers have turned should personally conduct field sur- j the significance of Barney Baruch's veys among their constituents. j re-appearance as an advisor without Jimmy Byrnes is taking many ** 's ^e^eve<* home-front reSpoBsibiUtie. off tte,'^V"1 mov« forMhadow. .^pianc. .. ., . ,j ~ . .. . i of Baruch's ideas publicly advanced President's shoulders. One chore that over the years and resulting from his i^he Director of the Office of War wk}e experience in Wnrld'War 0ne - Mobilization has in mind involves; Uncle Sam.s Ux collecting agents VOLO (By Mrs. Lloyd Fisher) The St. Peter's school held their graduation exercises and entertain| a deaf ear to administrative proposals j procedures to check the growing fric-1 anticipate considerable confusion ment at tlle Grant hign school audi- 'that they begin writing another tax j tion between Capitol Hill and the ad-jajK)Ut t^e gathering of taxes 'begin'- tor*um Sunday evening June 13. The j bill to supplement the pay-as-you-go ! ministrative agencies. Byrnes, a vet- ! ning July 1. -Millions of workers and are: _ Dorothy^ Wagner, i plan now on the statutes., Many solons j eran legislator, has requested Con- Revision • Recent war developments have brought an upward revision in estimates of probable military and lease-lend food and textD* requirements in 1943. worker* * xwivmy v»««utrr, Mane- Schaefer, Mary Lou Baur, John Washington, Jane 16--Plans for a •Congressional summer recess may be violently upset by prolonging the coal strike controversy. Pent-up demands tof other trade unions and farmer's . falling for higher prices are among the predictable ramifications of any i' imarked increase in miner's wages. *' -The compromise anti-strike bill ' emerging from a welter of debate will not solv#5 the requests of the pressure ' groups for lifting the ban on increases ;; ,,in wage and farm commodities prices. / "With official crop surveys indicating & ^scarcity of harvest yields and various V'labor outfits advocating a roll back ;i<v':of food prices by a billion dollar subtheir employers have been asked to w t « , liliarize themselves with the re- SiTr 'kk 1 *£"5 ' M „ . . . . M_.rements of the latest regulations. * «i ® |ni* „ He is vorking iS; expected that DfimA AmninttAAe ^ &v(?n of Slocum s L*&1cg spent j would like to roll seniment in their gress to d«signat^ a liaison committee famiijarjZe uie. re ! home districts during the next two | to ventilate grievances without the quirements oFthrVaVest" reiul'ationt ford Gibbe and Billy Martini. nnuummeerroouuss iinn - >n ~ ^ employees Monday with her grandmother Mrs I ^""®tight before > the magistrate for wll resent pVing their bosses mfor- ner S^motner Mrs. | breaking ^ law at 2 \ mv He months. They would, in particular, fanfare of publicity like to ascertain the reaction of the ; hard to eliminate the wiij I WIVll o^ss^s iru0r rank and file of voters to the su,t-; yestigatingcommitt^s which, in some ^^^^'^Vrhelr^sonaMifeV ^w100!6"- , rtl1 . , gested tax program, the broadening instances, are duplicating inquines- T. „ w;thhnldinp tax mak^ it r.hiio-» ' Mr> and Mrs- Charles Ollendor* and of the social security scheme to cqver ; into the conduct of the war. Thei-e to ^or empi0yers to deduct from Park, Mr. and Mrsx Ellabout everbody and incidentally pick are three House committees prohing 9alaries and It is also nee. ' ~ up clues as to political sentiment re-! phases of the grade labeling issue. A essary tj,at worker8 file exemption lating to the 1944 campaigns. It <1s; few potant critics of the admimstra- ^rtjficates before July 1 Failure Enlightened Stadent Od» Turkish student knows a ttttl* Inore about time than he did. In Angora, Turkey, there is a law that radio sets must not be switched on after midnight until windows are closed. A student, Ahmed Nuri, was Lvnber Prom Waedlat A good woodlot can produce th|| lr500 board feet of lumber that thff buildings of the usual farm require each year for repairs, additions •»»# replacements, and in addition will furnish fence posts, poles, and ftiek wood. realized that one item on the Presi- tion frown on this program as resdent's tax plan having do with com- tricting their • activities and keeping pulsory savings through purchase of the public from knowing the costly bonds from current income or past mistakes of their public sesvants. pleaded that he stopped his r&dio every night when he heard Big Ben wood Dovtf%jl and family of Liberty- j !n f^nd6n f c,h K im + e ™dnight He did ville were Sunday evening visitors at ^ f"" ,d^ere^e home of Mr. and Mrs. Uoyd ; m time between the two places" ^ to file the exemption data will result in application of the 20 per cent tax against their entire earnings. Emthe Fisher. Miss Mary Case spent the past week at Peoria, 111., with friends. ooHas irum current, income ur past iuisuan.es ux tneir jjuuuc sejvanw. . . fiipnisTi onrVi nir»l vaa Mr. and *M**r«»s?. Pi ectireir Rivet-iilmaniidu nannud ssuonn savings is an anti-inflation device and Others contend that centering invest- 0S maT, _ ct,tpmr.n nf tV,^ of ' Northbrook have moved to their will have important repercussions oil j ig&ting work in a joint committee political careers. Hence the iegisla- would conserve time and money, tors believe it is high time that they Meanwhile, speculating grows as to THEY WERE © WHITE W.N.U.FEATURES story of tkeir part in the battle for the Philippines is being told by four of the five naval officers who are all that is left of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3. They are Lieut. John Bulkeley (now Lieuten- Ut Commander), squadron commander; Lieut. R. B. Kelly, second-in-command; and Ensigns Anthony Akvrs and George E. Cox Jir. Returning from what turned oat to l|te their last raid against the Japs in j the Philippines, the PT boats ! were bombed and strafed by Jap dive bombers. The men scattered, and Lieut. Kelly, separated from the others, accepted an invitation to stay at the home of t friendly American at Cebu. The attack oa Cebn halt already, begun. CHAPTER XIV "It wap a hell of an explosion which woke me up in the dark, and for a minute I didn't know where I was. Through my window which overlooked the town and the harbor beyond, I could see a fire rising on the outskirts. I looked at my wrist watch. It was 4:25. They were all awake in the house now. Then came an even bigger explosion and a flame ten times as high. My American host came back from the telephone and said that one was the Philippine Refinery; the Japanese were coming and the Americans were blowing up the town. I hustled into my clothes to get back into the city. I wanted to rejoin my three men, but I was stopped on the road by the\rmy--no traffic, everybody must get out. It was 5:30, and by now one-third of the city was in flames. "People were streaming out-- some Americans, and a few of our navy. From them during the morning I heard that the Jaf>s had come back and bombed what was left of our 34 boat on the beach. Well, that was over. "Then I heard that Bulkeley wasn't dead--his boat escaped and was now in Mindanao. That Brantingham had burned his 35 boat sitting there on 'Dad' Cleland's marine^ railway--at least the Japs wouldn't* get it. That Ensign Richardson had assembled what was left of our men, and joined up with our naval forces on Mactan Island, where they would all try to escape to the island of Leyte. It was the last I ever heard of them. "The Japs had already landed twenty miles down the coast of Cebu --also at two other points. " 'Well, what can I do?' I asked the army. " 'Nothing,' they said. 'Maybe . you'd like to join the other evacuees who are assembling at Camp X'-- an army stronghold inland which was going to hold out all through the war until help came from the States. "I couldn't make up my mind, so I waited at this American's house for something better to turn up, and meanwhile watched the Japs invasion from the second-story windows. "The invasion of Cebu was on a penny-ante scale--we could have Btopped them if we'd had anything at all," said Lieutenant Kelly. "They had a destroyer, two transports, and a couple of interisland steamers not a hundred feet long. "I watched them tie up at about ten o'clock in the morning at the only remaining dock and disembark. Meanwhile the three seaplanes (yes, the same ones) were flying over the city, dropping leaflets in English telling the Philippines to surrender, 'We are your friend,' and offering a substantial reward for any American, dead or alive, and a ! handsome reward for any American Officer or his body. Nice guys. ; Meanwhile two Zero fighters were i strafing the automobiles trying to ; get out on the road. "Meanwhile I had been asking the I army what was so good about Camp 1 X. Well, it was way up in the hills, they said. It would take days of i walking over footpaths, because all i the scads into it were blown up. " 'But won't the Japs come after I you?' . " 'Oh, they'd never do that--it's j too hard to get to.' "What about equipment and guns? | Well, they nad a radio station, food for several months, a few hundred troops and a few rifles. The more I heard abqut Camp X, the more distrustful I got, and meanwhile a report came in that the Japs had landed at Toledo. I looked aft my map-- it was the standard map the army used for operations, put out by the Standard Oil Company with all their filling stations marked--and saw that a good road led directly from Toledo to Camp X. So I asked the army why the Japs wouldn't use it. " 'Oh, we're going to blow that up, fust like the others.' "But the whole Camp X plan looked lousy to me. "So I started off by myself for the Cher coast, hoping I could get out some other island where the Japs Imod'I oome yet. X Joined up wttb > •trtllans who were gok* Ike same way-rthey were plantation owners and could speak the dialect. It was a forty-two-mile hike over steep trails which crossed five mountain ranges. "The second day we heard planes at dawn and all scrambled back out of sight in the hut--peering up through the palms. It was three bombers in formation. "Somebody said, pointing, 'Why, look--they're ours!' But I could hardly believe it--even when I saw the stars on their wings, even when I heard the faraway rumble of their bombs dropping on the Japs in, Cebu. They were the first American bombers we had seen since before the start of the war. Then we heard some more planes^--looked up, and again they were American, a new type with a split tail I'd never seen before but which I learned later were B-25's, and now I realized that here was our big American offensive--the one which we thought had pooped out on us the morning after we sunk the cruiser. Here it was at last--three days too late! Because in the meantime Bataan had fallen, and Cebu. "Because we little guys--the ones who are expended--never get to see the broad picture of the war, never find out the reasons back of the moves or failures to move. We only see our part--look up through the . "1 waited at this American's house for something better to turn up." palm trees at the seamy side of it, so when something poops out, and help doesn't come, and everything goes to hell, we can only hope help didn't come in time for some sensible reason like bad weather conditions in Australia. We hope, but at the time we can't be sure, and we get mad. "That afternoon we bumpeel into a bunch of troops; they had come from Camp X. It seemed that at three o'clock in the morning a sentry heard a noise, called out 'Halt!' and was answered by Jap tank fire. Somebody hadn't gotten around to blowing up that road from Toledo. So now impregnable Camp X was no more, all American forces on the island were routed, and everything was going to pot. "Finally we hit a little native village on the coast and started looking for boats, but the mayor said there were none--the native troops had used them to evacuate that day. But they were sprell to us--always out in the country they were swell to us--ignorant guys, maybe, but nice and kind as they could be. I remember on the trail we overtook a ramshackle cart and a few natives, and an old native woman gave the cart driver hell for not putting the baggage in his cart--said we Americans were fighting "their people and they should help us. "The driver tried^to pile it on, but it broke his cart down. He wouldn't take any money--just said he was sorry he couldn't help us more. In those days in the jungle I learned more about how nice the simple Filipino people are than I'd learned in months in Manila; I also learned the more Americanized they are, the lousier they are. "Leaving this village, we kept on down the road to an even tinier one on the coast--still looking for boats. We found a military headquarters and a Filipino third lieutenant--just a ktdr a wpmsl of tweaty native troops, no machine fune aqd olonce a year a statement of the amount farm jjere withheld during the year. Treasury' Mr and" Mrg Albert Hafer of Frebond. salesmen aw^med that, some mont township spent Thursday eVenemployees may be nnhned to offset ^ at the hoifte of. Mn- and Mrs. their apparent loss of income by re- Lloyd Fisher. : ducing their reeulav subscription to / Mrs. Ilarrv Parson Jrv and son of war savings bonds. ' . v ' Chicago speAt the past week at the Rationing officials, lon'Me&se ftgents home of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Bacon, __ and the foot! distributor^ Were frank- Mr. and Mrs. John .Celski haVe 12 ly con£erni>d over..the pessimestic crop moved from the ' Reiland farm tc - outlook reported by. the Department .G'lenview, 111, . ^ ' - : of Agriculture.. Wet weather in im- Special church services wiere held at portant central nortHeastern the: Volo Community Bible Church most no^mwii^^^-^: ^atcs ^e,"y y At the same Sunday evening June 13. ; y ; hard-surfaced road connected it with fime' °t- mmstuio A>as, causing / Mrs, William Fulton and' Mrs. a town where the Japs had landed. »"creasinp concern "i portions of the William Wirtz accompanied Mr. and Grf,atJP!ams- Some .wps-^y. yield Mrs.*Eugene Prior to the.' Antioch well, but aggregate \ eilds averaging chapter Fridav evening as high as those - secured last places. magistrate told him that his only punishment would be that his college would be told of his ignorance. Lightning PtiIit lightning rods are so conStroctedl as to attract a bolt of lightning to the rod from the house or the metal attachments on the house. The roA lets the discharge pass away by checking the vibrations. BecausO heated air offers a good path for*, lightning, chimneys, as well as meto» ' al fixtures on the roof, are the most vulnerable parts of the house to lightning, and should be connected to various' conductors surrounding ' the house. 1 He said a Jap tank had come up the road the first day but had turned around and gone back. . Why hadn't he blown up the bridges? No dynamite. What was he going to do if the Jap tanks came again? What could he do, he asked, but evacuate? I noticed they had all their gear packed into a bus, and that under their uniforms they, wore their civilian clothing. And I couldn't blame them. But they helped us comb the . place for boats^ and we finally located enough bancas to carry us, and shoved off at dusk. "We - arrived at the next island soaking wet but thankful, and glad we were halted on the beach by native volunteer guards with homemade rifles, instead of by the Japs. "Here I said good-by to the American civilians. They owned sugar and coconut plantations and wanted to get to their families. Then they would try to get them to safety, but where was safety? Or maybe, instead of wandering from island to island, it wotild be better to wait for the Japs in their homes. They couldn't decide. The whole easy, comfortable American world was cracking up fast in those islands. It wasn't nice to watch. "Meanwhile I caught a ride ia • car to the island's military headquarters where there was a general in command, and told the army lieutenant at the desk that I wanted to get over to the island beyond, provided the Japanese hadn't already taken it--what did he know? "Well, he said, he didn't know for sure, but he didn't think the Japs had taken it. "I asked him when he had last Communicated with military head- Quarters over there. ^ "About a month ago, he said. "Well, I said, this was urgMit--I had to find out quick--wasn't there any way of getting in communication with them? "Well, he said, he guessed he' could pick up the telephone on his : deek and call them. But, he explained, I was new around here and » didn't understand the local situation. It seemed that his general and the general over on the other island didn't get on at all--hadn't liked each other since West Point. 'You fellows may think you're fighting the Japanese,' he said, 'but here we know better. The frontline trenches of the real war are between these two generals.' However, he said, my case made it different, and since I was a naval officer and therefore, so to speak, a neutral, he thought he could take it on his own responsibility to call up headquarters on the other island and ask in my behaU if the Japanese had landed yet. "He rang them up, and then reported that at the other end of the wire* th«jy were talking something which wasn't English or Spanish. Maybe it was Tagalog, which he didn't speak himself, but just in case it was Japanese I had probably better find some other way of going to Mindanao. "How the war between the generals came (out I never learned; maybe their finishing it in a Japanese prison camp. "It took me days to get to Mindanao around through the islands, begging rides in cars, hiring small boats to cross little island channels. My objective was to join Bulkeley, who, they had said in Cebu, had escaped the destroyer and was in Mindanao. I wanted to make my report of my part of the battle to him as commander of our squadron. General Sharp, who commanded the island, surely could tell me where he was. "A Chinese mestizo who was doing a smuggling business of luxury articles among the islands finally landed me, for an enormous price in pesos, at a tiny village on Mindanao which had been abandoned by everybody but one old man, who said yes, a torpedo boat had been in there the week before, and with gestures drew a pretty good picture of Bulkeley's black beard. But he said they'd been there only a few hours, and left for he knew not where. Then he asked when the j Japs'were coming. Because all the j villagers had left, because they were afraid they'd be killed, but I didn't think the Japs would kill an old man, did I? j "I hopped a fide on a truck on j down to Iligan, and there was Bulke- | ley's 41 boat, tied to the dockl j "The first person I saw was En- | sign Cox here, and • his mouth j dropped open. After a few seconds, j he said, 'Good Godl I heard you j were dead!' One by one the crew would come up, stare, then step up to shake my hand and say, 'Gee, Ml* jryiij» we're glad to see youl' " be coirriiwm year are no longer • within reach. .Thv guarded optimist advanced ws'j to the effect that if weathu good from now unti ^acreage of crops 'grown should be nearly as large as was harvested last, season and crop yields should approach those of the 19:?7-41 or post^ drought period. It is admitted that either further delays in . planting or an early frost would be costly. Government agencies will intensify their programs to increase food output on farms and gardens and to conserve every scrap of food. Oyster Cradles . Cardboard paper cradles--to--contain infant oysters have been de» ligned to aid in their artificial culture. 'Naval Stores' The name "naval stores" was given to turpentine and rosin because in colonial days gum from the southern pines was used in calking ships. Mr. and Mrs . Joseph Wiser Jr., entertained the following jruests Sunday IVl „1<J IVa everting in honor of Anthony Wegener nV Jr's.. graduation: Mr. and Mrs. Henry 1 *• e- » . e Wegener and family. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wiser Sr.. Mrs. Margaret Wegener and Melvin Passfield. The Friendly Neighbors group of the Volo Community Bible Church will meet Wednesday June 16 at the home of Mrs. Kenneth Peterson. Mr. William Wirtz attended a meeting of th Pure Milk Association in Chicago Thursday. The Volq unit of the Lake" County Home Bureau met at the spacious home of Mrs. Edwin Underwood Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Ray Seymour and Mrs. Wendell Dickson acted as assisting hostesses. Mrs. Lloyd Russell and family, Mrs. Pearl Dovvell and daughter, Mrs. John Allen and son, Mr. and Mj-s. Alvin Case and family. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher and family and Mr. William Wirtz and son attended the dedication of the "Honor Roll" at Island Lake Sunday. ." • Jb*; , Released by U. S War Dep»rtni«iU Hureau of Public Relation* STEADY HANDS--Carving part of a quarter of beef is one of the many tasks which Auxiliary Marion Coaster, of Germantown, Pa, Jias learned to do the Army way at First WAAC Training Center, Fort Des Moines, Iowa. WAAC bakers and cooks receive specialist Instruction in their tasks, cook, bake, and serve WAAC's in the mese, halls at the training center and perform the same tasks fet. WAAQ Companies at work in the field with the Army. ATrae or & Tf STATUMMV--Meirs should be kept in the refrigerator until ready to rout. • T1UI • FALSI The *b*vt sutitmmt is Frnht. MtstJ sbtmU it taken out tf tbt rr/rtgrrator 2 tr 3 b«uri itfvrt rotating. --^ STATIMINT--Before routing meat, th* router should be pre-heatcd to; maximum temperature. • Ttm Q PAIS! Tbt mhtu statemtnt is Trmt. STAfCaWtf- A complete mejj--meaf, potatoes, vegetables and dessert --can be cooked in the electric roaster at onetime. Tbt • YtUt • FALSI statemtmt is True. STATEMENT--When cooking meats and vegetables both should be placed in the roaster at the same time. • • TOM • FALSI 3s>e above statement is False. Vegetables requirt M.horter cooking time, and art normally placed •M tht roaster after the meat has been started^ STATEMENT--Meat should be browned JO to 43 minutes with vents open. • TRUI • FALSI •• The above statement ts Trite. After brou ning, turn beat control to tower temperature (as indttaied tn threatens for roasting t arious meats). . ITATIilklNT --YOU should not add water to meat unless braisihg or stewing. * • T«U1 O FALSI Tit abtve statemtnt is True. STATEMENT--Vegetables should be Cooked plenty of water. • TtUE Q FALSI Tit abott statement is Falst. Vegetables should it rooked u itb as little water as possiblt (U if }i cup hot uater). STATEMENT-The clectriC roaster is aot suited to summer tdoking. v •. Q TRUE 0 FALSI , The abott statement is False. Your tUctrie roaster is especially suited for summer cwiing. Thick insulation keeps the beat in the roaster and out of the kitchen STATEMENT-The electric rosster is coovenient for servicemen dinner pardes. 0 TRUI 0 FALSI*' Tbt abott stattment is Tnu. The reasenis that any type casserole tan bt madt in quantity tm tbt will •/ tbt roasttr. Try it tbt ntxt tim. STATEMENT-The large inset pan shoqld always be left in the roaster, regardless of the cooking process. 0 TRUI 0 FALSI . Tbt ahrt statement is True. ' s STATEMENT-The electric router is ideal for canning fruits or acid vegetables.. 0 TRUI 0 FALSI Tit aioi t statement is Trm. STATEMENT - Hot foods csa be taken to outings in the roaster. 0 TRUI O FALSI Tit mi** statement is Trm. Fotds cam it. P**- partd at heme in tht roaster and earned *l«n{ ft tbt outing. The thtckly insulated roasttr will keep tbt fomi fifing hot for hours. PUB]L|C SERVI C E COMPANY 'OE NORTHERN ILLINOIS : fcrvto Offer --101 Williams St, Crystal Laku--TtteptaM SaltrpviM 410&