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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM. UTAH Sets Jap Trap r" ;iH.,Js j Japanese in the sector were surrounded by two sud-den Allied actions. General Mac-Arth- ur Is pictured viewing the sec-ond action, the descent of American paratroopers behind Lae. The first action was an Allied landing above Lae under a smokescreen of war-ships. "We have closed the ring at Lae and Salamaua," said MacAr-thu- r, as troops of both forces began advancing against the trapped Jap-anese, who were reported to number 20,000. Tripartite Picture Clearer Since Meeting in Quebec U. S., England, Russia Agreed on Funda-mental Policies; Observers Optimistic Concerning War, Post-W- ar Cooperation. By BAUKIIAGE Newt Analyst and Commentator. not quarrel with his action. Death took Darlan from the picture. It did not end the arguments, but since we know now that the head of the Communist state of Russia was able to swallow Darlan, the squeamlsh-nes- s of some of the critics seems a little far fetched. In the days that followed the re-call of the Soviet ambassadors to London and Washington, the outcry over the absence of Stalin at Quebec increased. Roosevelt, Churchill and Secretary Hull were blamed there was the blow-u- p over the charges by a columnist who said Hull was I talked with Secretary Hull about that time. Whatever his feelings may be regarding communism, he indicated from his remarks to me that Russia was looking sympathet-ically on the attempts at a Joint conference, and a few days later, a fcigh British source stated flatly there was no great divergence of views between the Soviets and the Allies. Agreement Both were thoroughly agreed on the necessity of the destruction of Nazi tyranny and Prussian mili-tarism, and it was revealed that Marshal Stalin was rising in pres-tige with the army and that the So-viet army was rising in prestige with the Russian people until it was al-ready on a level with the communist party itself. This seemed to indi-cate, as Captain Rlckenbacker said when he returned from Russia, that the ideologies of the policies and the capitalist nations were growing nearer. Today, as Washington looks back on this last visit of Prime Minister Churchill, there is a feeling that not only are Britain and the United States closer in both their war and their post-wa- r aims, but that the possibility of bringing the Soviets into the circle is greater. One rea-son for this is that certain problems on which there has been disagree-ment have been met and thrashed out successfully between Roosevelt and Churchill and the way is open to a much more extended discussion with Stalin's representatives. WXU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. The ink is now dry on the secret footnotes which appear In the memo-randa officially recorded after the long and quiet conversations which took place in the presidential study in the White House when the Allied strategists worked out the end of another chapter in the history of World War II. My own modest notations, scrib-bled on the backs of envelopes, and on scratch pads, and written in taxi-cab- s, leaning against a White House elm after a press and radio con-ference, taken down while the Pres-ident or other officials were speak-ing, make a clearer pattern. Words and phrases take on new meanings, rough sketches are filled out in revealing detail. The speculation, the criticism, the attacks and the apologies which swirled about the Allied policy toward Russia, for Instance, it is plain now was built mostly on half knowledge. While press and public were cry-ing for a tripartite meeting of the representatives of Russia, Britain and the United States, the arrange-ments for a whole series of meetings were already being made. It was not until almost the end of the Roosevelt-Churchi- ll visit that we learned, first, that the tripartite meetings "on the foreign minister level" had been definitely agreed upon and, second, (which no one then guessed) that a commission was to be formed of representatives of all three powers to discuss the situation arising out of the Allied victories in the Mediterranean in which Russia is so deeply concerned but which, militarily speaking, she has been forced to view from a dis-tance. When we received that news, we were unable to indicate its source. The Darlan Question Another source of bitter contro-versy which has been allowed to fester was cleared up at the same time. Certain groups in England and America from the very begin-ning violently objected to the choice of Darlan as the man with whom Meanwhile, the position of Secre-tary Hull, within the administration, has been greatly strengthened as one after another, he has taken over the functions of all agencies which have any dealings whatsoever with foreign countries. He has placed the question frankly before the Pres-ident who had to choose between his secretary of state and those who opposed him inside and outside of the state department. HuU'm Pnmitlnn the Allies dealt in North Africa. There have been two revelations on that score which, had they come earlier, might have cleared the air. One concerns the Russian attitude and the Russians certainly ought to lean as far to the left as anyone. It now seems that the Soviet lead-ers, frankly opposed to Darlan and ell he stood for, actually accepted the British and American policy on the basis of an old Russian saying that in matters of military strategy or comparable situations it is sometimes necessary to deal with the devil and his grandmother. A word from the chief of staff re-vealed in his annual report to the secretary of war is interesting in this connection. He says of the dip-lomatic preparation before the in-vasion of Africa: "Should an ap-proach be made to a single French-man who proved unsympathetic to our purpose, we risked the slaughter of our soldiers on the beaches of North Africa as well as decisive losses to our shipping . . . unexpect-edly, Admiral Jean Darlan, Petain's designated successor, and command- - of all French forces, was found to be in Algiers visiting his sick son when our forces landed. He was taken into protective custo-dy and when it was found that French leaders stood loyal to the Vichy government, a series of con-ferences immediately followed with the purpose of calling a halt to the French resistance against General Patton's task force in the vicinity of Casablanca." The Background Then, on the morning of Novem-ber 11, the Germans invaded France and Darlan obligingly rejected the pseudo-independe- Vichy govern-ment and assumed authority in North Africa in the name of Marsh-al Petain and ordered the French to cease all hostilities. Just what pressure or argument was used in getting Darlan to yield to Allied wishes has never been re-vealed or what his motives may have been they may indeed have been prompted by the devil or his grandmother but those who knew the inside military expediency, did Secretary Hull's position is this: the policies which I have sponsored and insisted upon have justified themselves. Either my department must have full authority in the field of foreign relations or I will hand in my portfolio. The President faces, first, a con-gress which has had time to think over its position, has heard the com-plaints and received the advice of its constituents. It returns deter-mined to imprint its will on national policy, foreign and domestic. Its texture is and has been for some time strongly away from the new-de- policies, strongly toward the conservative side. Sec-retary Hull probably stands higher, has more friends, and can exert more Influence with congress than any member of the cabinet. The President needs a congress which will stand behind him if he is to carry out the plans for further con-duct of the war and the winning of the peace according to methods he believes it is necessary to employ. And, of course, there is the fourth term ahead, for continuance in of-fice is essential, the President's friends believe, if he is to mold the post-wa- r world. Secretary Hull is his anchor to windward. This is due to his polit-ical influence and also because he and what he symbolizes both at home and abroad, have become in-extricably bound up in world nego-tiations. And for the President, there is but one objective now that is, to be the peacemaker as he was the war lead-er. All else choice of counsellors, domestic policies, must dovetail into that purpose. rfT THEY WERET t OJPEMIDlAIBLL- - 31 w"TE w..u.FriEs at the coral the propellers and rud-ders had chewed into. "I called the crew into the for-ward compartment and told them the skipper had left it up to us. I talked about what the old boat had done to date with them in it sunk two ships and two landing boats. So now, were we going to let this be her end sit by and watch the surf pound her to pieces? Or were we going to get her off? " 'You're damn right we're going to get her off!' they said, and some-on- e suggested maybe we could hire work gangs of natives to help us, whereupon the whole crowd started pulling money out of their pockets and piling it on the table. They'd had no pay since the start of the war, but since they'd been down here in Mindanao, they'd had shore leave and a chance to play poker with the army. The government could cut the cost of the war by Just paying the army and then giv-ing the sailors a chance to play poker with them. "We hired what men we could, and all of us got to work with them digging out those razor-shar- p coral boulders with our naked hands. But there were other boulders fifty yards out. We got some dynamite and worked all one afternoon pounding holes in them and blowing them up. With our money we hired natives driving carabao to pull pieces away, at the rate of one peso for the na-tive and another for the carabao. "We were about ready now for the test," said Lieutenant Kelly. "Another army tug showed up. We hitched a line onto it, we bridled the wheelhouse of the first tug with a line, and as the tide came in we took soundings. The 34 boat needed five foot of water to float that IT FAR: The tory ' VJ . w phl,,p- - 5 iflour of the five '1r. all that Is left v Toti 3. They K ZIm now Uenten - commander; 1, .econd ? . .. Alters and Geori J "Madron their secret r-- J 2S MacArtnur'. perwaael to party th. ?&. would b. , would rt plane, which VArtnu, to hi. ne B J, weaker wai bad. .ipeaWnr- - hapTERXI !, aereatter we were sup-- l: e,landfall-- an island Uaare- - v whi5h tturn in order make which would bring ss ifall ; 1 , wind and sea, we v retarded, but by how 'I at it. Also to guess having a wres-- v i was with the wheel- -it was within ten , do to keep i either side of the com- - meant' a possi--"' --which t twenty degrees. We island entirely in the tjm then on until dawn C! thought nee .use as I ? en came at six and we ead, Point which I le the peninsula Just west ; our destination. I : J the Admiral, and he - ead with satisfaction. V up to top speed now, j from the motors, and I sighted the light on the igayan's entrance. We " tt the 41 boat lead the i ad the channel charts, a Sharp, commanding of Mindanao, was etui, and as soon as we ie pier we woke up Gen-riur- ," said Bulkeley. 2t salt water out of his !'i cap, flipped it on his bow it always lands at ) :gle, seems to go with ad looked around with - hi line figure of a sol-- j laid to me, 'Bulkeley, wery officer and man ) ier Star for gallantry. d me out of the Jaws of I won't forget it!' : that afternoon be told boats never accomplish lore and were burned have earned their keep times over. If possible, to Melbourne I'll get you (j men out.' ved on the thirteenth, .'ortresses from Austra-:pose- d to have met the :ae cracked up on the came down in the Aus-sr- t, and the one which ved had supercharger had to turn around and -- out any passengers, so didn't get away until the the crews to keep quiet, it get out whom we'd the Japs wouldn't 'I maybe attack while as waiting." too risky. But Soriano said as long as I was here, maybe we could go over to the President's home it was about forty-fiv- e kilometers away-a- nd he might change his mind. We went ripping over there in Sariano's car at sixty miles an hour. Quezon was up, dressed, and considerably Interested. He listened to us, looked me over very carefuUy- -I had a long black beard then, which must have been quite impressive and finally said he'd go. (Later on when he saw me in Melbourne, shaved, he said he'd never disregarded Wain-wrigh-orders if he'd known he was riding with a mere child of thirty.) Anyway, Quezon and his family were loaded into cars and we were off. "Meanwhile I'd left Akers on pa-tr-outside the harbor. If a Jap destroyer came nosing around, I didn't want him to cut off our re-treat and figured Akers could han-dle him." "I was riding back and forth, about two miles offshore in my 35 boat," said Akers. "keeping my eye-balls peeled for any of these seven Jap destroyers, when all of a sud-den there was a thud and a splinter-ing noise we had Crashed into a submerged object, a raft with metal on it apparently, which ripped a twenty-foo- t strip out of our bow. Water came pouring In, and we got busy with buckets and pump" "and kept right on with your patrol " said Bulkeley "which took plenty of guts." "The water kept gaining on us, but we thought we could hold it until Bulkeley got back with Que-zon to the pier, although I knew we could never get her back to Minda-nao in that condition. When I saw the lights of the car I figured it was safe to come into the harboi. She was sinking fast then, so we left her in a place where she would drift on the sand and in the morn-ing the army could salvage her ma-chine guns. Then we all climbed aboard the 41 boat with Bulkeley and the Quezon party. You might say that was the end of the 35 boat, and yet It wasnt quite, although she fought her last fight. Bulkeley was working frantically to keep the squadron together. A few days lat-er he came over, plugged the bole temporarily, and towed her back to Cebu, where we hoisted her on the marine railway for repairs. We burned her just before the Japs came into the town." 'The trip back with Quezon was as rough as I'll ever see," said Bulkeley. "We left at three o'clock with one hundred twenty miles to go before dawn. At four o'clock a big sea landed us a punch in the jaw which knocked two torpedoes loose in their tubes and instantly they started a hot run a terrific hissing of compressed air, the pro-pellers grinding, it sounded like the end of the world. "In a situation like that," said Bulkeley. "The logical thing is to get them out by firing an impulse charge touch off some black pow-der in the rear of the tube which sends them scooting. But we were having trouble with the mechanism it took a minute to get this done, and meantime the two aft torpedoes were sticking out of the tubes so far they seemed about to fall, so the two torpedomen, Houlihan and Light, got out on them with their feet, hang-ing on by their hands to the for-ward tubes, and tried to kick them loose. They couldn't, but they cer-tainly impressed President Quezon, who, when he got to Australia, gave them the Distinguished Conduct Star of the Philippines for what they did that night, as well as to Ensign Cox and me. And it was a ticklish job for the torpedomen too. Before we blew the torpedoes out, their back ends, where their motors are, turned pink and then bright red from the heat. On a normal run, of course, the surrounding water keeps them cool. But out of the water, they're not nice things to crawl around on. "At first President Quezon didn't understand what was going on, and asked why we were getting ready to fire the two torpedoes. Not want-ing to worry him unnecessarily, I said we were just firing them at the enemy, who was near by. When we got him ashore at Oroquieta, I ex-plained that we'd really been in quite a dangerous situation. "We found a passage through the coral reef outside Oroquieta just at dawn and found General Sharp waiting in his car. In order not to be recognized, Quezon tied a red bandanna over his face below his eyes. But the natives all knew him in spite of it-- hats were waving from the sidewalk as he rode off down the street" "We missed it ' all" said Kelly, "because we were up there in Ana-ke- n trying to repair the crumpled steel in our hind end at that little oversize garage back among the bamboo which they called a ma-chine shop. Native divers, holding their breath, took off the struts and shafts of the rudders and the pro-pellers. We tried to pound the pro-pellers back into shape with ham-mers on palm logs, while the propri-etor did his best to straighten th rest in his machine shop. "Finally there was a trial run. She'd make only 12 knots- -a frac-tion of her normal speed-a- nd the vibration was terrible; you'd think someone had packed an earthquake in our lazet (W BE COSTISIED) mod we arrived," said ielcy told us what Mac-Mi- d about getting us It was good news, o't exactly excited. For !fce couldn't get even ;l!e plane up here from 0 take MacArthur out, e had we? I knew, would be to ;( war in the southern 4 torpedoes while we and on land with rifles e expended. So bet-- J 3r hopes up. I were to be anchored and before I left mine, !utive officer to check were close to the tore was a lot of surf ''coral. jUst to make :'ent on the forecastle aspection myself. The Uut- - I tugged to make ame loose in my hand. engines immediately! tsed in thirty seconds, 3n!s later there was a iPe-o- ne propeller had mother engine conked wedid get it going It ( the waves were slap-fjfc'd- e, each breaker and farther on "M to the 41 boat to l d give us a tow 'd tied her line e stuck-h- ard and H,i0uslyfourhou !SfolidOUt'andby concrete, that now there I of water aft 1 toot forward. Im- - Up at flve 'SSnf WatCr St hCr J'! natives gawk-ene- d because the Pted-t- he .2 " wa, the old CUUSage 8nd in!"6 eain up at Persuaded the army .Jynt and . work- - 1 an! PS' 8nd We ,na Pounding away "All of us got to work digging out those coral boulders.!' meant we'd had to dig a two-fo-hole under her had we done it? "High tide was nine o'clock at night At 8:45 the two tugs started a steady pull; she didn't budge. The water churned as we took sound-ings. As nine approached, we sig-naled the tugs to give everything they had. At 9:03 the 34 gave a sudden lurch she was free and would fight once more! But first something had to be done about her back end rudders, struts, and pro-pellers were a jumble of bent steel. "Before he left for Del Monte the skipper had told us he'd heard of a little machine shop up the coast at Anaken which might possibly have tools to straighten out steel if by some miracle we got her free. So we begged a tug from an army colonel to tow us up there. We were gone ten days, and I missed one of the high spots of the whole campaign while we were gone." "It wasn't much," Bulkeley In-sisted. "Just one of those things where they thank you if you do it, but give you hell if you fail. The army called me In and said that President Quezon was over on Ne-gr- Island, and if he could be brought over here, they hoped to get him to Australia by plane. The trip to Negros was risky seven Jap destroyers were loose in the vicinity. Probably to cut off Quezon's escape. So they weren't going to order it "So we left at seven o'clock I was in the 41 boat and Akers was commanding the 35. Off Apo Island, we sighted one Jap destroyer, but luckily she didn't see us and we could dodge around the island in time It was one o'clock when we entered Dumaguete- -it was pitch-dark- - both the town and the harbor were' blacked out. We had no chart I'd never been there before and when we pulled up to the pier-- no President! However, his aide. Ma-jor Soriano, was there to meet us. He said three hours ago, after we had already left Mindanao, Quezon had got a telegram from Genera Wainwright ordering him to cancel the trip there were so many Jap it was craft in the neighborhood "NO MORE 'DOSING' FOR ME!" 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Canine 'Chutist How a dog should properly exe-cute a parachute jump is demon-strated by "Chips," an army aire-da- le mascot. Top: He jumps. Cen-ter: Floating earthward. Bottom: He calmly trots away. 'White' Elephants "White" elephants are really flesh-colore- d, or reddish brown. Kills 38 Japs a r' -- H fc . - IL ? The first enlisted marine to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor Is Platoon Sergt. John Basl-lon- e. He personally killed 38 Japa-nese. B R I E F S . . . by Baukhage , It is estimated that enough waste fats are salvaged in army camps within the continental U. S. to make 1,500,000 pounds of dynamite each month and still leave a residue of rendered grease for soap stock. e Christmas gifts to naval and ma-rine personnel overseas should be sent between September 15 and No-vember 1. Japanese occupation authorities who still haven't succeeded in paci-fying the Philippines have decided to send out roving teams of public speakers in an attempt to explain Japan's "true mission" to misguid-ed Filipinos, Manila radio disclosed. Bus lines in Washington, D. C, and Los Angeles, Calif., are running their "help wanted" a.ds on buses. |