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Show Page Seven The Cache American. Logan, Cache County, Utah THEY WERE XipENUMJBIL WHITE rR: lurTh THE kTORT SO thrir pari la IS k.itl u bum Md hr ul th Philip-fa- lour o( iht oltlirri aha ara all llul W.N.U.FEATU6ES ttorjr at la t o lilt at Uomi Turprtfo Boat Squadrua S. They arc irul. Jha llulhrley (aoa tJeulea-aa- l (ummaBdrr). aquadrua romraaadrr: lrul. K. B. Kelly, aeeoad la command: AnUtony Akrr, and Geoica aod I am p. ( o, Jr. Purtnf a raid aaaiasl tha the PT hoati rapiurrd a laadiag kaiic and took priaonrr a Jap capuia and one ol hia mra. Bui Squadioa 1 had ,:,D audered the Iota el laa el (heir oncitijl ata hoaia, and they acre plaa-1,1,- 1 ta eve ape la China, a hen all al ihelr loipedoea a era foee, aaieta help CHAPTER VIII When we went out that night," Bulkeley, we didn't dream we were to take our final crack at the jars off Bataan. I took two boats Kelly la the 34, riding myself with Akers In the 35 to see U we couldn't bag one ol the Jap destroyers which the army could see In Subic Bay. They'd been driven far bBck, but from the highest ridge of the Bataan mountain they could still look down Into Subic with their jii binocular. 'But the admiral had said we weren't to go Into the bay. We The Japs n.m-- t coax them outside. bad the bay' rim lined with guns, and It would be suicide. We got outside of Subic about eleven o'clock. All according to plan. Kelly hid hia 34 boat In a cove just outside the bay. while I went Into the entrance and raised a little hell-fi- red my machine gun so they could see the tracers, hoping Jap destroyer would follow me out, whereupon Kelly wa to come out of the cove and lam a couple of torpedoes into their engine room. It didn't work. The Japs had had all they wanted of us. But Just as I was about to leave, I saw from the entrance the outline of a big ship-t- ied to Olongapo dock. "She waa a big one, said Akera, "maybe 10.000 ton. A tanker, we learned the next day. So we turned back, sneaked toward her there was no fire on us yet and cut loose two torpedoes. By the time they exploded, we had cleared the mouth of the bay. But from the mountalni of Bataan the army watched her bum all night, and in the morning there she was, sunk at her dock." They wore our last torpedoes said fired in defense of Bataan, Since December 7 we Bulkeley. had probably sunk a hundred times our own combined tonnage In enemy warships. While we'd lost two of our six boats, neither had been hit by the enemy both bad gone aground in the dark. On the way back I realized that we had fired our last torpedoes, except those we would need to fill our tubes for the run to China. And we had just about enough gas to get us there, with hardly a barrel to spare. If we were ever to make the run, we must make it soon. And it was getting plain that we couldnt do much more for, Bataan, which was on its last legs. I can tell you about the army, I used to get bored at said Cox. Sisiman Cove and take trips to the front sometimes up into the outposts. There were a lot of men in uniform on Bataan, but the frontline fighting soldiers consisted, first, of about two thousand Americans, well seasoned and good fighters. Then, about twelve hundred Filipino Scouts equally well trained and equally good. Lastly, they had in the fighting line about twenty-seve- n thousand Filipino trainees young kids who had never worn a uniform until a few weeks before the war started. Their officers were equally unToward the end, It was trained. experienced Tough, grotesque. American Regular Army privates would be giving orders to Filipino generals. Those two thousand Americans and the twelve hundred Scouts were the only real fighting men on Bataan, and they were run ragged every time the Japs punched a hole in the line, these experienced troops would have to be thrown In to plug it everywhere at once. Then there was the item of equipment no spare parts. They had a few tanks left, with their treads falling off. A missing fan belt would put an entire tractor out of the war for want of a tread, a tank would be junk by the roadside. That's more or less how it looked said Kelly, to us on March 1, which is a day Ill never forget. It started off in a curious way it seemed that General MacArthur wanted to take a ride on one of our boats with Bulkeley. We felt honored, but I couldnt just understand why the General would choose a time like this for a pleasure trip. Still, orders were orders, and even the air force got theirs or rather what was left of it, which was exactpatched toly four decrepit gether from the pieces of many oth- ers. This proud American air force guaranteed us air superiority over that area of the bay while the General was out on the water. The area was only four square miles, and the time only half an hour about all the superiority this pathetic air force was able to guarantee. ' While the General was having his ride I was worried suppose something had come up which might upset our dash to China? I could see the men didn't understand it either, and were starting to speculate and gossip. But the General explained everything when he returned from the ride, by officially presenting Bulkeley with the order decorating him with the DSC. We'd known about It fur weeks, but this. It seemed, was the official presentation. He also congratulated the men on the fine work they had done, and handed each a package of cigarettes. It wasn't until that night that Bulkeley told me all tills had been camouflage. For that morning the General had called him In and told him of the new plan. China waa out for us. all right Because Washington bad made MacArthur Commander In Chief for all the Pacific and ordered him to leave. A submarine had been suggested, but MacArthur had said Bulkeley wa the only commanding officer he knew in whom he had complete confidence he waa sailing with Buck. But he'd wanted to make trial run first, and ao added the little ceremony to allay the suspicions of the men. Because we were leaving Bataan In absolute aecrecy end very soon. Of course to us this means that the China trip our last hope of feeing America and escaping death or a Japanese prison wa gone forever. Now the MTB'a were like the rest here In the Islands the expendables who fight on without hope to the end. So far as we knew, we would now finish up the war in the southern islands, when the Japs got around to mopping up the last American resistance there. The minute we knew we were to leave Bataan soon," continued Lieutenant Kelly after pause, "we got But the General explained everything when be returned from the ride. to work on the four boats. We knew the trip would be tough, and the boats were old now. The engines had had double the number of hours service without their customary thorough overhaul and returning, so they were making half their original speed. We planned to scrape the bottoms and overhaul their struts, but this was done for only three. My boats turn was last, and meanwhile it was used for patrol. Overhauling these motors without any replacement parts was a n terrible job. For instance. Any garage which overhauls a flivver back in the States always replaces the gaskets with new ones. Only we didn't have any. Or any sealing compound. So those old gaskets had to be carefully removed, handled as gently as though they were precious lace, and laid back in place when the motors were reassembled. How much gas could we carry? We experimented put down planks inch plywood decks to on those strengthen them, and finally decided we could take a chance on piling drums on twenty of tliose each boat Naturally the crews got curious about all these preparations. Since we knew so much about what the Japanese were doing across the bay. we assumed their means for finding out about us were equaUy good. Anyway, Bulkeley and I had decided that there is only one way of keeping a valuable secret during a war: dont tell it yourself. But we had to tell the men something. So we said maybe, after we had exhausted all our gas here on Bataan, we would head down for Cebu in the southern islands. Cebu, where there was plenty of food and more torpedoes, and where they had the most beautiful and languorous girls on the islands, and plenty of gasoline. We painted it as a golden spot. Only Bulkeley and I knew that when we got to Cebu we would be doomed there was no gasoline there and tank-tow- -- fifty-gallo- n Shoe Employment Fall Since March, 1942, three has in the been an 8 per cent deerra number of worker in the tanning Industry and a 9 per cent deciea in th number employed la th manufacture of ahoes. o Sacks for Clip An adequate supply of burlap and paper sacks for handling the 1943 wool clip Is expected. Paper twine should be used for tying Crow Fenca Pont o little In Mindanao. We could never hope to get to Australia. But then there were the two correspondents Clark Lee and Nat Floyd of Uie New York Times, and also Colonel Wong. They knew about the Chinese trip because the Admiral had authorized them to go with us. So we told them yes. we were still going to China, but we didn't know when maybe not for a long time and advised them If they had any olher chance to get out, by all means to take It Meanwhile we kept on the boat all that landing gear equipment we had assembled for the China trip so If sny hint of it had leaked out to the crew, they would think it was still only on. Meanwhile MacArthur had told Bulkeley that Bataan would fall shortly, and Corregidor would go soon after if It didn't get help from No help the State Immediately. was being sent. Apparently It couldn't be gotten to us. Then the Japs could mop up the southern Philippines. It was a grim picture for us. But here was our last big Job. MacArthur was the brains of the organization the only general who could take that territory back. The whole allied defense depended on getting him to Australia. Bulkeley was reporting to him every other day. but MacArthur refused to set a date for leaving he wanted to stay as long as he could. At this time the boys on Bataan were back In their strongest positions defense line also their and the Japs had had about all they wanted monkeying with this line, and were waiting for reinforcements. But when news came that their General Yamashita was on bis way with many transports, bragging he would capture MacArthur within a month, our departure date waa set for March 15. "But to keep the men occupied and also to keep our secret, we went right on with plans for developing our shore base at Sisiman Cove. We installed a good cooks galley, fixed up the mess hall, screened In everything, as though we hoped to live there for months. We even took all our clothes off the boats and moved them Into the nipa huts ashore. On the fourth of March there came a nice break for me. Peggy ' got me word that she had been transferred to Little Baguio hospital on Bataan, relieving one of the girls who had been working too long under fire, and I got the idea of inviting her down to our base for chow and to spend the evening. Dr. Nelson, who had been looking after my hand, was also on Little Baguio, and I Invited him and his girl friend, too. You should have seen my ship perk up when I told them. The skipper was going to bring a girl aboard! They had the ship all spit and polish, ready for the big event. My cook, Reynolds, and the Filipino mess boy were tickled pink. They were going to show the armyl You see the week before Id gone over to Little Baguio Id had only breakfast and arrived on foot late in the afternoon for my dressing, to spend the night and walk back. But they told me, regretfully of course, of a new ruling: rations were tightening they were down to dried fish, plain rice, and one slice of bread so absolutely no visitors could get food at the hospital So I went to bed supperless, got up, watched them eat breakfast they said how sorry they were they couldnt offer me any hiked back all those miles over the hills, and at nine oclock, sitting at our own mess table, ate seventeen hot cakes as fast as Reynolds could turn them out of the pan. Now their one idea was to show the army what real navy hospitality can be. Its true Peggy brought the coffee we were out of that but they rustled the rest. It started off with fruit cocktail, then a real pot roast of fresh meat with brown gravy, and in this a whole can of mushrooms, which theyd been hoarding for some big occasion. Then rice and canned peas and beans, a delicious apple pie, and then coffee like only we can make In the navy. There was never such a dinner. Then we sat and talked, while the little waves lapped along the cove. I told Peggy I wanted to see her again, and soon. She said they were keeping her very busy, but she might get a night off on the fifteenth or before. There was no way I could call her, so she said shed field teleget to the signal-corp- s phone and ring me up about six oclock on the eleventh, when we could make a definite date. I asked her if she couldnt make it sooner, and she said of course she wanted to, but didnt see how she possibly could. I wanted to tell her why I wanted it sooner. Then I stopped myself. Because in a war you dont tell anybody. Not anybody. And if they have any sense, and Peggy had plenty, they understand this and don't want to be told. So instead we talked about the war, and how they were low on quinine now just had enough to give the worst malaria cases a light slug which would last only a short time and how tired the soldiers were, how uncertain everything looked. Its uncertain for us in the navy, too, I said. One of these days even I am liable to disappear, without telling you good-by- . (TO BE COSTIMED) last-ditc- h Farmers who plan to grow their own fence posts in a plantation of trees may wish to set out seedlings cT ossgs orange, tha most durable post wood that grow In the north. Better even than black locust, e orange post only two or three inches through often last for 12 T ACK KEARNS, who drew In many year as fence supports, it is said. millions In trade with Jack Iosta four to five inchee thick, tut Dempsey, was explaining how tough from the trunk of an osago orange It la to rate and rank fighters. tree, are practically Indestructible. fleece. . .. o o Kearns and Dempsey made th Treat Tool Handle greatest combination in ring history. Keep Short Fit combinIt wa Commcrically treated handles on Cive every pair of shoes the best ation of a smart, picks, shovels, pitchworks, and possible care. Keep them in good shrewd manager, other tools have that blonde look repair. Keep them clean and the major master of because they are bleached with Treat them carefully aft' ballyhoo, and hydrogen peroxide. Numerous other a soaking in slush or rain dry puncher lashing wood products are bleached either them slowly, rub them with a rough with an Iron chin. on the chemical the stifby spraying towel so the leather dors not It all gets down veneer to produce a aurface bleach fen up, and polish them to replace to the matter of to veneer the give the oil wbiih ha been lost. or by immersing atylea." Kearns a bleach that will permit deeper o said. For example. sanding operations. A can lick B, B can Chain in Oil Dip o trim C and C can To prevent damage and wear te Eat Apple L'n peeled murder A. I dont drives on farm machines, dip chain unand whole Eat your apples believe Dempsey chains in a container of oil inor ,the vitamin C, more for when peeled beaten have Greb, could Harry stead of squirting them with a few both were at their best, for Greb serve them sliced In the following and drops from an oil can. combinations: Cabbage even salad had too much speed and was o and rougher than Dempsey was. Yet red apple; cottage cheese, nuts, of Sails From Leave Greb had trouble with such smaller red apple; alternate elices fellows as Tiger Flowers and sevoranges or grapefruit and red apSails, made from leaves, propel eral others, who also had speed. ple; banana, grapes, and apple; the swift outrigger canoes of on or group of Solomon islanders. "Against that. Id aay that Demp- carrot, celery, nuts, and apple; sey would have bad an even chance chicken, celery, and apple, o with Joe Louis for Uils one reason he could take a punch around the To Clean Window in Cold Seasons Windows aro best cleaned by th I'm talking of the head better. Dempsey of Toledo, 14 year old, 185 dry method in cold weather. Finely pounds of punching dynamite, who powdered whiting mixed to a thick was also fast. past with water or alcohol and thin rubbed over the glass in "There Isn't any matter of game-ncOFFICE EQUIPMENT or heart mixed up In this. When layer will dry before it can freeze It comes to taking a hard punch you and may be rubbed off with a soft nrr avd bfi.l onio rniHrw either can or you can't Some of cloth or paper. PllM. TreMrnim. AJdlnt lUrklM, Bala BALT LAKB DESK EXCHANGE o the gamest fighters I ever knew 31 WMt Br couldn't take a punch. Packages 4y. IUH Uk. Citr. t:uk make As many factories now LENSES DUPLICATED Tough Ranking packages for war supplies Instead Ill tell you how tough It la to of for food, and since steel for THE OPTICAL SHOP of rank fighters." the always genial nails and wire is scarce, tu bim bu. sit uk up lir.lr.1 Wholesale pncA Liue burDoc continued. crates, boxes, barrels, baskets, lerviet. Mall in kniaa pkae. "I couldnt name you a greater lap and cotton sacks Is urged, to fighter than Jack Johnson. prevent m widespread shortage of USED CARS TRAILERS But Johnson bad trouble with food packages. CAES TRAILER COACHES USED o first their Sam Langford, and after Libert! Credit Term Earth Moves Irregularly meeting let Langford alone. On the JESSE M. CHASE The earth appears to be someother band, Langrord, another great Sell Trad Buy Blackmovements. Jack met in its what fighter, STORES IN irregular LAKE CTTT, BALT burn seven times without any great It was 36 seconds late for an enPROVO. OGDEN, POCATELLO, BOISE. BLACKFOOT success. Sam will even show you gagement in 1940. This discovery some teeth Blackburn knocked out. was made as a result of observaFOR "You see where that leads us tions on the transit of Mercury from Johnson, weighing 210 pounds, across the face of the sun. LEGHORN SPECIALISTS WHITE o to Blackburn, weighing 139 pounds, of superior chicks St TMn production when Iron looked that weight and who Dont Overheat A p uro top ranking train. Ordeg John170 Iron run. puUct or cockerel ebirka. straight pounds. an electric facing Langford at Overheating Wnu for fokUr, prleoe and oarly opea son, and I say again that he was wastes electricity, damages the date. one of the greatest I ever saw, out- element and creates a fire hazard. Graham Hatchery and Pallet Farm weighed Blackburn by some 80 Dropping an iron may break the California Hayward pounds, and yet, was no better thermostat or throw it out of adfar the than lighter against Langford OLD COINS justment. and smaller man." o Com. 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Mickey Walker was not even electric tristimulus colorimeter, or a middleweight But I know of more an artificial eye for color measthan one worlds heavyweight chamhas been developed. uring, pion he could have beaten. o beI For another example, dont Ants Have Strong Jaws lieve Joe Louis would have given Ants are considered to have the T Dempsey any more trouble than most powerful jaw grip of any aniH Mickey Walker would have given mal. Jack. Crazy? All right. But we o f come again to a matter of styles. Tested Blood Pressure ? have would Walker given Mickey Blood pressure was first measDempsey all the trouble In sight ured in 1733 by the Rev. Dr. Fawn Flour Stephen Hales. The Peacemaker pol-ish- . mmsmi dHEHOSHaj ss vi Re-U- cr re-u- SALE-POU- 11 LTRY INDIAN-HEV- UC- pound-for-poun- d White o Heres a funny story, Kearns said, that few know. By getting me out of a fight for nothing, I got Dempsey Into fights worth millions. 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