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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI, UTAH . I rr m THE STORT SO FAR: The tory el thrlr part la toe battle for the Philip-pin- ri ii beinc tuld by lour ol the bit aval fflccrt who arc all that It lrft of Motor Torprdo Boat Sqiudroa 1. Thry arc Uut, Jobs Bulkelty 5ow Ueotm-aa- t Commaader), squadron commander; Lieut. E. B. Kelly, icond and Entires Anthony Aden and George E. Coa, Jr. Marcb 11 Lieut. Bulkeley showed the squadron (heir secret orders. They were so tarry General MacArtbur's party and some additional personnel to the southern Islands where they would be met by transport planes which would carry General MacArthur to bis new When Kelly arrived at headquarters. the rendezvous the others were missinf. X "I had an idea where they would be, and I explained. Bulkeley, I was sure, would take no chances with women and a child aboard. Of course he'd Been the Japanese signal fire the night before. Planes might be out spotting us for destroyers, and as soon as dawn broke Bulkeley undoubtedly had made for the nearest of those other Cuyos picking one from his chart (we'd never been here before) which was surrounded by reefs and water so shallow that no destroyer could venture within gun range or even within sight. There he would wait all day, if not until dusk, at least until he thought the danger of spotting planes was past, before coming to join us here. "So at 8:37 we dropped a hook in the cove and I sent two men ashore with semaphore flags to climb the island's single hill and stand continuous watch for the other three boats of course, but particularly for Japs. "At 5:30, when we figured any spotting planes would have had to head back for home, I was about to pull our lookouts from the hill and get under way when they wigwagged down that they saw a ship apparently friendly, maybe an MTB. I picked it up with my bi noculars and presently made out the 32 boat, which soon tied up alongside us. "It was this boat, remember, which had been repaired after its explosion. The cook had been blown into Sisiman Cove. During the night its struts started coming loose, so they could use only one or two of their three engines, and they, like us, had lost touch with the other boats in the night. But instead of falling far behind the flagship, they had somehow managed, in the dark ness, to get out in front of it. "In the first gray light of dawn, their stern lookout reported a strange ship gaining on them Looked like a Jap destroyer. Now an MTB in good condition can outrun any warship afloat. But the 32 boat was hobbling on two engines, so although he was running full throttle, its commander wasn't surprised that the strange craft kept gaining. In or der to lighten his boat and pull away, he dumped six hundred gal Ions of gasoline in drums over the side, but still the enemy was clos ing on him. There seemed nothing to do now but fight before the de- guns .stroyer opened with its They readied two torpedoes and turned dauntlessly for the attack to discover just in time that the strange pursuing craft was the 41 boat their own flagship with Gen eral MacArthur aboard. "So here they were loaded down to the water line with seasick and puzzled generals. Just at this point there was a rising roar from sea ward, and the 41 boat came around the point, Bulkeley and General MacArthur's party." "We'd lost sight of you a few hours before dawn," said Bulkeley "when you stopped to 'clean your strainers. I went on ahead because I wanted to get as deep as possible into the Cuyo Islands betore sua t i ; 4 .1 Hi I THEY WERE SNAPPPACTS r ABOCT RUBBER TYPEWRITERRIBBONS . DfRRAKS -I iWZZTn.rrJillt "ROW DON?. A - H dimmed ribbon. print. Make ni TV. you work. MAKE and nr Cwnaidnring coat of nil, gas. nIS' expecting something, they could only tiras and upkaap, it is asti. So we had a .TU.ekil. make twenty-seveswat) that the cost of driving !V! typewriter tbo avsrago car for lOOu THE PENNANT CRUSE MOW to good chance of keeping away from sniloo at 45 milos per hour is OUve, (Hek), Keogh them it might be dark before they Hughey by (Written $22.03. At 2 5 snph the cost is Ca. SO over Antiek. Im cat to $1438 and at 35 dido Year's could close in. New day, on his last His bold to $178. "Meanwhile I was hoping they years ago. A perfect turn for the OFFICE EQUIWEN1 hadn't seen us and praying that the two pennant races of 1913.) Malaya and the Netherlands off sun would hurry up and set, but it Indies were the only sources of AND SELL Office '"'"V; we're and BIV about, Ready TJL T.n.wr.ter.. Addinf natural rubber in the wurlj just pooped along seemed to hang EXCHANGE . nFSK again. which had been successfully exthere above the horizon for weeks, .. ' On another leg of this , ploited to an important extent SS Wet DIWU and finally bobbed under at seven race, prior to the present ujt. o'clock. To finish, no one knows where USED Rubbor and ras rationing did "If you've never been in the trop or when. aot drastically cut motortruck ics, you don t realize now iabi u No cares o'er much in the oporabons last yoar. Official gets dark almost no twilight at figuros show that during 1342 case. present trucks haulod an estimated all." No backward glance at the 46 billion ton milos of froift.t "I think it was the whitecaps that on main rural highways, com. The saved us," said Bulkeley. pared with 46.7 billion in ths No vain regrets, nor haunting nor normal 1940. Japs didn't notice our wake, even fear is we beyond though we were foaming away at course the lay That full throttle. our ken Gen the "During the excitement, We've squared away for aneral was lying down in the cabin other year. with his eyes closed, but Mrs. who was with him, heard We do not know what is dead Reduce Moisture Content everything that went on and she ahead In making lard, the moisture conwe that us didn't turn a hair. She took it like (And 'tis best for tent must be reduced to .about 2 a lady went right on rubbing the do not know) per cent to insure keeping quality, General's hands to keep up his cir Or if we are leading, or bemg must be well and cracklings was seasick she culation, though led, this stage is before browned herself. Or good or ills in the winds scorch easiMeat reached. scraps "I never went below, and all my that blow. so they should be removed before ly we'd men stayed at battle stations, so go Perhaps in another way the lard is rendered. the people in the cabin took care of If we shaped our course with themselves there was no one to a vision clear. Indians Visit Buffalo Refuge wait on them. The General saw that 'Tis a Sporting Chance ana Indians still visit the Wichita Old I was supplied with cigars. They we'd have it so Mountains National Wildlife refuge anothwere pretty well provisioned. They d for We're squared away at Cache. Okla.. during buffalo brought from Corregidor, among er year. roundup time, when Refuge Man other things, a few cases of CocaGas for Flying Fortress ager Ernest Greenwait disposes of connecCola the first I'd tasted in many in examinations Physical A loaded Flying Fortress The usual' Indians animals. fully surplus weeks and some of the tenderest tion with war service have given the delicacies from the slauglv uses as much gasoline in an hour obtain ly have ham I ever ate. Both facts. nation two startling as Mr. and Mrs. America's autc "It got dark fast after sunset, a landed with heavy thuds on the na- tered animals. does in six months. wind sprang up, and ahead we could tional conscience. see lightning flashes. But these No. 1, as reported by qualified didn't help us find the narrow pas- officials of the war department, is sage into the Mindanao Sea. We the number of young fellows in the were going in the dark entirely by 18 and class who are undead reckoning. At midnight we fit for service. Out of 100,000 exfigured we'd be off the strait so we amined, 25,000 have failed to pass holdturned into the the physical grade. ing our breath, but still we didn't officer told As one I no had I'd hit anything. charts, millions spends "This country me, never been there before, I could see to take care oi good absolutely nothing, but since we its pigs, chickens didn't crash into a beach, we kept and cows, but very on going, and at last I knew we little" for its kids." were through and safely into MinThe No. 2 shock our danao Sea in the knowlcame navigation had been right." edge that so many And there we really caught star athletes are ; V v jr hell," said Kelly. "Big foaming physically unfit for waves fifteen or twenty feet high war service. There thundering over the cockpit, drench has been a general n ing everybody topside. Also, be belief that any cause of the speed, water, and wind, in athlete, it got damned cold. Our binocu his prime, would Grantland Rice of and our full were water lars eyes make the finest posso continuously drenched with sting sible soldier or sailor material. fli1 ing salt that we couldn't see, in Many of them do. But an astonishDelicious Rice Krispies 6Q(S($fi strange waters with islands all ing number don't. The fit ones make around us. We could see the out the best war material, but the numare ready instantly. . lines of the big ones Negros and ber of unfit is numerically large. lT 1 M Hear them snapJcrack- " ff If r Mindanao very dimly against the t Rice champion Greg vl horizon through the storm. But there le!pop!inmilk.Lotsof runner triple or double herwere dozens of small ones and prob nia. 11 -crispness lotsofpro-Golf ably hundreds of reefs. Wood champion Open Craig tein there! They're "The sea was on our port bow, badly affected spine, requiring se exrestored to whole us drive We to south. tending nV rious operation. M ear pected to make a landfall forty values in Leo Durocher punctured 9ran miles dead ahead a small island drum. ttiamin (Vitamin Bi), where we would turn and let me George Kurowski World Series tell you this was an unpleasant situ- star defective arm. niacin, and iron. ation for a navigator. The helmsByron Nelson golf star quick man's eyes and ours were full of bleeder. Copr. 1043 by Keilogx Company salt, you had to keep one hand in Many others with defective eye front of your eyes to avoid the slapwhich is the leading barrier "They wigwagged down that they ping force of the water, and yet you sight, defects. all among a saw ship apparently friendly. needed both to hold on. The AdSAVE Country Money was Nelson miral 'I've Case The of pretty up. wrought Mindanao on and to had eral gone Bonds U. S. By Buying would go to Australia by plane, as sailed every type of ship in the Several have written in, asking one of these MTB's,' except navy mes a this and delivered hale Nelson, planned. Having he shouted at me above the wind, why Byron athlete, who can sage, the 32 boat was to go to Iloilo 'and this is the worst Short Short Story bridge I've march all day, should be deferred on Protege of the TJ. S. on the island of Panay, only one At a stag dinner at a certain club Traditionally a protege of the hundred and twenty miles away ever been on. I wouldn't do duty the grounds of "easy bleeding," to some years ago there sat, between United States, Liberia was first coloThere she could get repairs and on one of these for anything in the use the common term. can them.' have Owen Johnson and myself, a young nized by American freed slaves world you enough gas to bring her on down to This is a story that few know. a real problem to keep was "It writer who was known for his pol- nearly a century and a quarter ago. rest of us in to the join from a small chain Cagayan 41 boat so Suspended for lookout the astern ished light fiction. But he proved as Liberian independence was set up we and would the other three boats, a conwe wouldn't lose jt. Three good around Nelson's neck there is glum as a clam on this occasion, in 1847. Its government and finish the war together in the south a with waves in a row and "we'd be out of small disk, hidden from sight, generally modeled and he admitted that were stitution hoped finally ern islands certain number on it. Byron has the critics would take his next vol- after those of the United States; its "What went wrong with this plan, sight, and in that weather we could been wearing this for some years. and within seventy-fivume more seriously and not speak of capital, Monrovia, was named for yards we don't know to this day. The pass This disk represents the blood type the 41 was each The see other. never his Lieutenant Schu light touch. Then he fell again James Monroe, fifth President of boat's commander, that Nelson must have m the wake me two now about is hundred Sam keeping an into Uncle abysmal silence. Afterwards, United States. macher, must have decided that it of any cut. Owen said to me: "The trouble with leading buyer and seller in Liberian wasn't in condition to follow these yards astern, hunting for the lan"After just a slight cut," Craig orders. Anyway, when the subma- smoothest part of our wake, to keep Wood poor X is that he has severed his markets. English is the official a will start told "Nelson and me, General's the comfortable. settled party Charles Hanson guage, spoken in the rine arrived, he had it shell the jocular vein." flow of blood that is Towne. 32 boat, so it would not fall into The General had said that if his boat coastal regions. civilized unbelievable. There we who were ahead should Japanese hands, and boarded the slowed, wouldn't be time set them also the slow, letting pace. Gulf of Siam Recoverable Rubber submarine, which dropped his crew enough to find out I know seasickness can be very unFrench off at Corregidor, and took him safe and Thailand One tire manufacturer estimates blood what type just pleasant, but I wanted to get them ly to Australia occupy most of the sleeping horse that 246,560,000 tires have he needed for a weighing "We found out much later that he safe in port by dawn, in case there shoe curve of the Gulf of Siam's scrapped during to What transfusion. l ney eshad gotten ,to Australia. For some were Jap planes about, so I kept coastline. It is entrance the .at about pounds, 6,459,622,000 only or others might you waters that the Malay states are timate about 40 Der cent has al time their disappearance was a pulling them on. It got rougher be just a scratch the Admiral kept involved. Burma has no outlet on ready been reclaimed, leaving a sur mystery, and Bulkeley here spent and rough? r, and would be to Byron several days flying out over all remembering it had been he who the Gulf of Siam, though the Bur. plus of 1,700,000 long tons, as"'" a serious matter." those islands trying to find some had assured MacArthur that Bulkemese-Thborder at one point is ing that of this surplus we couia of war The the game about was weatherwrong -it trace of the 32 boat. Some day, of ley 20 10 per cent; 19. miles from the gulf coast recover: only nniij airmmiin offers no such der would be calm. nu 50 per course, there will be a full report From Burto 25 Bangkok Rangoon, cent; per " 'The General's going to give me Byron Nelson lay. It is for this on exactly what did happen which 500.00C mese and once the gateway That would mean about capital tonj reason that Byron hell for this in the morning, he said. will explain everything. to the famed Burma road, northwest recoverable scrap from Damned if I thought Nelson twice has been classified in "All we know is that we last uneasily. across sea and land. Is about 370 tires alone. saw them back there in the cove Bulkeley knew what he was talking the F division. air miles. he Those who start criticizing any surely did.' as we left the harbor a hard right about but Eye Dominance "The Admiral stayed with me up deferred person should know all turn and then out to sea, at about Tunnel Vision , (JUL ui 1U1CC bef all reasons the 6:30. We were leading, so that the On the bridge the whole trip, in the answers and t a person has a span Indicate, have one eye which aoe t normally the overboard. weather. r of fore go behind otner could us, they just flagship, Every spite of vision of about half a circle 90 most of the seeing, with the I would send a member of the The various draft boards are dosearch out the smoothest part of degrees on either side. However. eye lagging along. This is on our wake, so that MacArthur's par- crew over the boat for inspection. ing the best they can with a tough about one out of every 100 drivers eye dominance. Surveys have show" ty could ride comfortably. We'd to see how its hull was standing the situation. has limited side vision and the ef that automobile drivers are pron we been going about fifteen minutes strain, for we. were taking an awful fect Is that of looking through to accidents on the side of the Matter A Different when the port lookout called 'Sail-ho- l' licking rig" a a If tunnel laggard obcannot with see Persons person eye. and there she was three points "During one of these I notice! a Certain vital physical defects are likely to at the jects he should clearly for side, example, eye machine-guthe on our port bow, distance about figure by turret. among leading athletes is something be especially cautious at Intersecanother car when passing five miles. "Looks like an enemy sitting with his feet propped up on a that can't be helped. The case of tions, and in places where people cutting in. cruiser 1' said the lookout. I grabbed torpedo tube. His stomach was long our kids is a different matter. ere likely to be walking af the side it was a man my binoculars, and so it was! Hull ago empty, oui ne was leaning for Unfortunately, ol the road. Cards, Besides Parrels rn ward, retching between his knees. named Hitler who first thought up down, but masts and superstructure to a recent survcj According I it this On the be From course we were guessed might plain. the Idea of training and developWore Red Quaker In Robe voted smokes ana our our army of passengers, and sent a ing kids of 12, 13, 14 and 15 on up steering we would cross her bow. one 1790 a Quaker chemist In a Christmas s watches the by to ask him if he terproof I gave the 34 full right rudder and quartermaster 19. &an through name of John Dalton favorites. The sailors want purchased wouldn't care to go below. The full speed ahead it was much fastThis is something we have overbright red robe, believing that It to bring-- them first a "nXeTV?0 er than eighteen knots, because the quartermaster returned and salut looked. It is something we are still was gray in color. His friends chidwatch and then a portable carbon had burned out of our mo- ed: 'The General says he doesn't facing in a listless fashion despite ed him for his gaudy taste, causing But, men In both service? saw tors. I knew that type of Jap cruis- want to move, sir he knows what's the fact that from 100,000 selectees, nun to realize that be could not dis they wanted Christmas fei" er could make thirty-fiv- e knots with best for him.' 25,000 have to be thrown out. Unguish colors. This Is the first re In their Holiday parcels. all steam up. But unless Uiey were (TO BE COTlSL ED) had dumped most of its gas at dawn, and couldn't proceed much farther at high speed. "This was a rendezvous not only for our four MTB's, but also for General MacArthur's second means of escape a submarine. It had all been carefully worked out, and the submarine would bob up in this cove tomorrow. Had we been at tacked or broken down, the General could have left us here, and continued his trip on down to Australia, by submarine. "General MacArthur, Admiral Rockwell and Lieutenant Bulkeley talked about the night's plans the advisability of continuing with us tonight or going by submarine," went on Lieutenant Kelly. "The Ad miral was for staying with us, but The the General was undecided. afternoon trip had been rough, and Bulkeley had warned the night would be rougher. Yet as we lay there in the cove, the sea seemed calm emfjgh, and the sky gave no hint of bad weather. So on the as surance of the Admiral that it would be good weather, the General decided they'd continue with us. "Then, as Bulkeley had said, there was the problem of what to do with the 32 boat, which had dumped much of her gasoline. She did not have enough left to make the fast run with us to the island of Mindanao, where the General's party would get the plane for Australia. So Bulkeley gave her different orders. Her generals were to be transferred to my boa She was to wait here in the rendezvous until tomor row when the submarine arrived. She was to tell the submarine that everything had gone well, the Gen- - "As the sky pinkened I headed for the nearest and best it was one of the prearranged crosses on the map. It wasn t much of an island only a quarter of a mile wide but it had plenty of shallow water to keep off Jap destroyers. "Lying at anchor, some of the crew picked off a little sleep as we rolled gently in the sunshine. Presently,,, the .GeneraLcame on deck; he was a fine figure in his camel's-hai- r coat and gold hat, frowning a little as he squinted, in-- the sunshine at the water and white sand. Then Mrs. MacArthur and the little boy and his Chinese amah came up to sit in wicker chairs in the sunshine. It was too bad little Arthur couldn't have played on the beach, but I told the General no one should go ashore. Because if dive bombers came over and spotted us, we would have to get the hell 0(4 of that cove quick, leaving even the lookout behind, and out into open water where we could dodge and twist. ' "I figured the morning would be the dangerous time for bombers, if they knew we had slipped out, so by two o'clock I felt it was safe to get under way, and we threaded down through the little shoaly channels between the islands, which would defy a destroyer or cruiser to follow, approaching the last one, which was our general rendezvous. In the distance I could see the other two boats also heading for it, and when we arrived, Kelly in the 34 boat was already there and waiting. "Then there was the problem of jvhat to do about the 32 boat, which I VI W.N.U.FEATUBE. WHITE rise. Mil" I open wm CHAPTER I J OIU ww n. S""".l' na VWo blind-lea- SAV-A- d w CRS-TRAILE- RS . might-have-bee- Mac-Arthu- r, ipiiip pitch-blacknes- s, high-rankin- dead-reckonin- g g well-know- - v. mTjP ? Zi " long-distan- oitCt 1 Sfe. lWl Wiiiltfilhnfnair CY" II 111 f0 ',V' II l MtffiinJ war-servi- hearty-lookin- Your and Your War g e Indo-Chin- a u" 1937-194- Y i 1937-3- i 8. 1940-4- 4-- 11 half-hou- siac-iwi- n ' 1 - ' |