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Show ) THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM. UTAH k was tneir first crack at the I remember Japs Chalker's face; he's a machinist's mate from Texarkana- -a shootin- - Texas boy. He was pour-ln- g er slugs up at them, cool-e- r than a pail of cracked ice. but that long, straight, pointed jaw of his was set. Houlihan, who was firing the other pair of 50's, was the same They'd picked out one plane and were pouring it up into the sky, when we saw the plane wobble, and pret-ty soon she took off down the bay weaving unsteadily, smoking, and all at once, two or three miles away, she Just wobbled down into the drink with a big splash. So we know the 35 boat got one. Meanwhile the 31 boat had shot down two more. After that the planes didn't bother straf-ing the MTB's. Guess the Jap pilots back at their Formosa base passed the word around. "We went on back to Cavite and offered to carry more wounded. The big base was one sheet of flame ex-cept for the ammunition depot. Only a piece of the dock was left, and through the shimmering flames you could see only jagged walls. Then we saw Admiral Rockwell he was directing the fire apparatus which was trying to save the depot. He is a tall man, a fine figure of a sailor, but his head was down that day. In a dead voice he told us we'd better get out that the magazine was lia-ble to go up any minute. We offered to take him with us to Mariveles, but he said no, his job was here, to I,. fr: The story " I r. orth. Philip- - !W arSfaB that is left of u IS? (now L,eute: l MMdron commander, L lecond " "Urf-Ueu- t Bulke; Uke three 5 Ju Bataan where Jristoas nd fuel from S But when they M-- i ttut th. tender had y. S. the, set up 5 siilmaB Cave. V it iPTER 11 II part we lived on we nev-- 1 i to because would have to q we - the bay in case of a tuck. Anyway we had ! und our barges loaded i which had " u drums t Into the bay for us if they got smacked didn't want them ey f the wharves. There charge but a watch-bo- at holds two thou-Vi- d of course it was a that through a fun- - as we poured, that ith water and rust in fas no way to strain lt b chamois. What we know was, this gas lotaged. We'll never I or where the guy fjafe, If he's alive. But dissolved wax In it gealed inside our gas !t half an inch thick ;ged our filters so that Id have to stop and Jitter an hour's run. l we had to fight the fere to find out. lit over to the section arrangements for our got another bump, eady realized a food coming and cut us rations a day break-er. All you got for omach cramps about was plenty of them, ght I'd better have the at my finger. I'd few days before and Manila I saw something very queer r70 nPBmg.0f aU descriptions was wTr fl0' that Manila open harbor-destr- oy-tnnKmi." e '"P"5. Yangtze River & utramp steams. all going JeU breakfast. And then I saw big formation of about twen-eve- n bombers. By then I was beginning to learn that if we saw Planes i3 the air, they would be Japs, not ours. Then came another formation of twenty-nin- e, and stiU another of twenty-six- . "If they were after shipping, we shouldn't get too close to the other Boats, so I changed course. They wheeled majestically around the fay s perimeter, and each time they Passed Manila a load would go whis-tling down and presently huge col-umns of black and white smoke be-ga- n nsing-- we could even see some Gres, although we were still,eleven miles away. " 'Where in hell is our air force?' our crew kept asking me. 'Why in Christ's name don't they do some- - thing?' "But the thing that really got me was that these big Jap formations, circling the bay like it was a parade maneuver, each time would sail right over Corregidorl Didn't they know we had guns? "They knew all right, but it turned out they knew something I didn't. For presently all twenty of Corregi-dor'- s opened fire, and it made me sick to see that every one of their shells was bursting from 5,000 to 10,000 feet below that Jap formation. Those pilots were as safe as though they'd been home in bed. Later I found out what the Japs ap-parently already knew that the Rock's anti-aircra- ft guns didn't have the range. And only then did it be-gin to dawn on me how completely impotent we were. "When the Japs cleared out," con-tinued Bulkeley, "Kelly and I head-ed for Manila and docked about three o'clock. When we reported, Commander Slocum told me the Ad-miral was considering sending our three boats on a raid off Lingayen, and were we ready? We said we were rarin' to go. So he said to stick around a couple of hours, and meanwhile to load the boats with files, records, and so forth, because they were moving headquarters. It 4 . i fj z sis t,r "z- jr - 'f ucn attention, dui now s about as thick as a ?ssed maybe it was a Section. What I didn't t out East the strepto-e- r and meaner than not to be fooled with, oak and began to talk spital, but I said the I was the second and badly need-th- at I'd come over to r daily. irm came at noon on we'd pulled up along-nep- er for water when iat a large flight of as headed toward the coming from the a. We pulled away ?r, out into open wa-- i n minutes later we TOal formations I twenty-seve- n to twen--s in each two-mot- 'ovely, tight, parade-''Dn- s, coming over at 'est. But, I thought, l! get up there and 2 their hair, those for-- 1 tok so pretty. Only IJf fighters? The Japs u' of sight over the d then we began hear-'-e of bombs only first Orations on our feet, re in the water, and sething was catching Manila? Maybe f even Cavite, our e couldn't know." "Later I found out what the Japs apparently already knew." do what he could to save the maga-zines. "So we picked up from the gut-ters and streets a lot of cans of food we knew we would need they were from the bombed warehouses-stac- ked them in the boat, and set out." "I was back there a couple of days later after the fires were out," said Ensign Cox, a good-lookin- g yellow- -haired youngster from up-sta- New York. "They were burying the dead which consisted of collecting heads and arms and legs and put-ting them into the nearest bomb crater and shoveling debris over it. The smell was terrible. The Fili-pino yard workers didn't have much stomach for the Job, but it had to be done and done quick because of disease. To make them work, they filled the Filipinos up with grain al-- had escaped so far, but right here on the water front it was too vul-nerable sure to get smacked. Through the open door we could see the Admiral conferring with his chief of staff. "But just then," said Kelly, "Com-mander Slocum looked down at my arm, which was in a sling, frowned, and said I should get over to see the fleet doctor. The doctor took off the bandage and began to talk tough. Said he couldn't do anything, and that I was to get that arm to a hospital as fast as I could. "I was dead set on that raid, but I decided it wouldn't be tactful to bring that up, so I said, 'Aye, aye, sir,' and skipped it. We loaded the boat with records, and then went back to headquarters, where we were told that the Jap convoy off Lingayen included eight transports and at least two battleships (one of these must have been the one that Colin Kelly later got), but that we weren't going to be sent. They were saving us for 'bigger things.' " 'My God!' my junior officer said later, 'I didn't know they came any bigger! What do they think we are?' "Anyway the Admiral patted Bulkeley on the shoulder and said, 'We know you boys want to get in there and fight, but there's no sense sending you on suicidal missions-j-ust now.' "So that was that, and we went on out across the bay, to our thatched village. "You might call the next few days quiet for us, although my arm be-gan giving me helL "Presently Bulkeley dropped in on us in the 41 boat, bringing us some stuff issued by the navy to replace everything we'd lost at our quarters in Cavite- -a shirt each, underdraw-ers- , a few tubes of toothpaste, and razors two for each boat, one for the men and one for the officers. But with each razor there were only three packages of blades, so we saw beards in the offing. "Bulkeley had heard about my hand from a pharmacist's mate and asked me if I could stick it for two more days until he could relieve me. He himself had to be on call for consultation with the Admiral, while they needed DeLong and his boat for courier duty. I said 'sure.' "But the next few days were hell. The whole arm began swelling, and my hand was the size of a catcher's mitt The nights were worse because I couldn't lie down for any length of time. Also I had to keep my arm blood running down into held up, or would drive me nuts, and it stiff-ene- d that way. The doctor at Mari-veles kept offering me morphine, but dare. There might be an imergency where we'd have to get Z Zl out to sea quickly. Bulke-Sha- d left me in charge, and make me sleep so hard couldn't waken for an air-rai- d I The worst thing was the alarm. kept buzzing around fl es-t- hey get Into that open incision Smyilnser as I held my hand up air! And also I was runn.ng ."Si feVer-ab- out four degrees. (TO BE COSTIWED) oujiceiey laconical-'f- f. at Cavite. The two-ho- warning re coming-fr- om For. !a1ed on down in our I- - ,SJ Northern Luzon. So Lrtts out fat0 the beautiful forma-mh- S fim bi8Vd and they came . with their fight-t- o Protect them f ours didn't show! ft 't. First they JJJ and began to It was Jtoy. and I remem. J fainow, on the bombs. They 1 f1 and 11 mde ihit you could ;, happening to hit a few. Loved over Cavite ' flock ot ""hazards. L hieh to see the llS81; but we could slowly, pickin4 trourT Watched we kit' bmbers rjaight down for Tetd?r t0 ab"t EtoiW ey leveled 4 T both to Eton get Ot loved it-- cohol." "That raid gave me my first big shock of the war," said Lieutenant Kelly, "but it wasn't the damage they did. From over in Mariveles I couldn't see what was happening after the Jap bombers disappeared over the mountain. I got my shock after they had unloaded and flew over us on their way home the same beautiful tight formations not a straggler. Where was our air force? "From over towards Cavite we could now see that huge column of smoke rising into the sky as the Japs left the scene. "It wasn't until Lieutenant De-Lo-dropped in at four o'clock in the 41 boat that I knew how bad off we were. He said the Cavite base was a roaring blast furnace the yard Uttered with those man-gled and scorched bodies-a- nd fur-thermore that all our spare parts and every-thing-ha- d for the MTB's-engi- nes been blasted to bits. Ma-chine shops completely gone. Not so left to see us much as a gasket through this war. with the factory halfway around the world. "Also he said the Cavite radio had been hit. That still left the short-wav- e voice stuff to talk with Manila or Bataan or the Rock, bu couldn't be secret of course this would be de-pending from the Japs, so they on our six boats to courier duty to relay all confidential stuff. said "So I wasn't surprised, Bulkeley. "when early the next caU to re-port morning I got a hurry in Manila. As to the Admiral cleared the m.ne fields our 34 boat around Bataan, looking over toward Pattcrn No. 8443 li in sites 10, 12. 14, 16. 18 and 20. Sle 12 drrsj takes 3 yards material, Jacket M yards. 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' j JARS UPSIDE DOWN In forma t!oa it published ia th Interest of heme and preaerration and conservation of food. fThla BROTHERS COMPANY MUNCIE, INDIAN A, U.S.A. 1, i mi U) tw,m m ut.wini Jl I. ,! im f I awi.i ,i 'MIH MP )HiH H m lH4u5 Aborigines of Australia Still Live in Crude State Although the while colonization of Australia began in 1788, the ma jority of its aborigines still do not know how to cultivate land, make clothes or build a sTielter other than a windbreak, says Collier's. These people have always been looked upon as little more than animals. In fact, up to 40 years ago, a settler merely required a permit to "shoot, poison or other-wise kill" them at will. By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Weatern Newspaper Union. JUDY CANOVA, the Flor-- Ida comedienne who made hog calling pay dividends, is coming into her own this sea-son, after years of being fea-tured, co-starr- and every-thing else but starred. With "Sleepy Lagoon" just finished for Republic studios, the lanky hillbilly Immediately started her own star-ring roles in two mediums, fllmi and radio. In August she goes to Columbia Pictures, to star in an ex-- 't . J , ' if JUDY CANOVA pensive production, "Louisiana Hay ride"; at present she has the honor of replacing Al Jolson on the air, Tuesday nights. Mrs. Robert Donat saw her hus-band for the first time In two years at a recent Hollywood preview, but only on the screen. Robert Insisted on her going to America when the war clouds gathered, but he re-mained In England. The picture was "Tartu," In which he playa a swashbuckling secret agent it'll be ready for the rest of us to set. That very good mystery, "The Fallen Sparrow," will be filmed by RKO Radio with a cast ao good that It's got to be fine. Maureen O'llara, who ed with Charles Laugh-to- n In "This Land Is Mine," heads it. Those publicity questionnaires which Hollywood stars fill out for their studios are frequently a source of amusement George Sanders, for example, who with Mar-guerite Chapman in Columbia'! "Appointment in Berlin," came across the question, "What did your parents want you to become?" Whereupon Sanders promptly wrote Eddie Cantor made his first trip East in a year to launch a new Lib-erty ship, look for talent for his new picture, "Show Business," and to raise money to admit 6,000 young-sters from Nazi Europe into Pal-estine; the British government had agreed to admit them if they could be provided for. Cantor gave the arrangements a good start by adopt-ing 500 children himself. Incident-ally, said he, he could always use a new name for his radio show. If you liked Helen Hayes' radio drama, "Bid for Happiness," look forward to seeing It in pictures. Samuel Goldwyn has announced that when Teresa Wright returns to the movies this autumn she will be fea-tured In a film based on the air show. Peggy Allenby, of NBC's "David Harum," has learned to make her motto, "Never expect much." Once a radio director phoned her that she was perfect for a certain part on his show. She rushed to the stu-dioand found the part consisted of one piercing shriek! But at a mat-ter of fact, It was one of the highest-pai- d screams ever screamed over a radio network. Records for Our Fighting Men, Inc. Bob Hope, president has al-ready sent more than 300,000 new and popular discs to the services for distribution. This year's drive lasta all through July; look up your old, scratched or even broken records and turn 'em in. They're sold as scrap to record manufacturers, and the net proceeds go for new records lor the men In the armed forces. Harry Sherman ought to receive a medal from Western picture fans. With almost 100 of his Western films still currently playing to audiences all over the Allied world, he is pre-paring 16 more Americana stories for release in the near future. "The Daddy of Hopalong Cassidy series" is given credit for bringing Zana Grey's books to the screen as well m ODDS ASD ENDSAl Jolion will play himself in th Jeut Latky-Wa- r mer picture, "Rhapiody in Dim! . . . jLnd Otcar Levant will play himstlf in th tarn film . . . Ann Baxter get th rol Janet Gaynor played in the iilent version, whn "Stat Fair" is rmade, by 20th Century-Fo- x . . . Tallulah Bankhead return in th Al-fred Hitchcock picture, "Lifeboat," tchich promises to b on of the year' most dramatic picture ... antes Cflgney bought "The Stray Lamb," by the late Thorn Smith, from th estate of John Barn-mor- e it's another of those tcackr comedies, and film folk wondered if h plannad to eppemr im it. Double Knockouts Of the seven professional Amer-ican prize fights that ended in a double knockout, the last occurred during the welterweight bout be-tween Pat Kissinger and Al Dor-la- c in Memorial Hall in Kansas City on April 7, 1941, says Co-llier's. In the third round, both boys landed knockout blows simul-taneously and went down together for the count of ten. Mother's Tree i The white birch has been of-ficially chosen by the American Forestry association as the tree to be planted as a memorial to mother. And Nary a Drop Was Spilt Along the Way A young Scottish couple had moved from their country cottage Into a modern house. All their goods and chattels arrived safely with exception of the rain tub. After the wife had pleaded with her husband that this was an asset to her household, he said he would go and get it that evening. As he had not arrived home at 12:30 a. m. his wife became wor-ried. At 1:15 a. m. the back gate slammed and there was a dull thud. In a few seconds the door opened to reveal a dishevelled and perspiring man, who re-marked: "Ee, lass, 'A've 'ad job wit toob. Thee didn't tell me it were full o watter." |