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Show THEY WERP WW S2?1S WHITE ,, gTOKV r "fficers Th. itorjr SO FAB: W.N.U.FEATUfcES of told by lour of C five U that 1. left h Torpedo Boat Squadron J. They f wtor licut ink Bulkeley (now Ueuten-rommander- ). squadron commander; B Kelly, Anthony Akers and Georje Alter takinr. General and hl party safely 3 pre-rr"0thrn Islands. Squadron w participate la a "treat often, rlanned arainst the Japs. But our Sites and ibipf that were supposed to didn't appear, and Lieut Kelly's UtnL Bulkeley wai and U JJw ia ere forced Into bidlnt. tsigM rex Jr ". S XIII CHATTER .They didn't get us then," "At midnight our escape Kelly said be- I didn't have der what in hell had become of our big American offensive and the air umbrella, because I had to throttle back, stopping the boat momentarily so that the next bomb would land iwenty-nv- e feet in front instead of squarely on us. Then I gave her the gun and started trying to zigzag in mat narrow Wide Channel. mpanuhilo crivincr word to our machine guns to start firing. They bombed us for thirtv min utes, and the farthest bomb was thirty feet awav. We would wait for the bomb release, see it start falling, then I'd give hard rudder and it would miss by a few feet. All the while we had to keep in this narrow channel so we couldn't be beached helplessly on a coral reef, ana wont our way down it toward port, where presently some of the newly arrived American planes would see what was going on and come to help. We didn't doubt, of carried him ashore. Then we went back for a last trip. Only Harris was left, lying where he had tum bled into the tank compartment. But the radioman and I carried his body ashore, because we hoped to give him a decent burial. After reaching shore at Cebu Is land, Lieutenant Kelly turned his attention to his casualties. "I rounded up some native sol diers, who got stretchers, and in these we carried the wounded to the ther side of the island where they could be loaded into a launch, putting them in charge of Sheppard, a s machinist's mate, to get them to the hospital. At this point a banca showed up, and it was a native doctor, the one we had sent Ensign Richardson ashore for, before dawn, for Rey nolds, who by now was en route to the hospital. So I loaded the ship's papers, binoculars, and stuff into this banca, and with them I shoved first-clas- A RMY officers have been criti-cize- ninety-degre- e con-tou- ninety-degre- I . d more than a mere trifle for inability to "understand the need of hard, competitive sport. This isn't true of the large major ity of army officers. They have had nothing to say about Pattern 2984 contain a transfer patters of auc motifs averaging 5 by 7 Inches; Illustrations of stitches; color schemes; materials required. 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SALT LAKS r. j who city ground. $700,-00- er ............. ............... Nam.... ir - Sewing Circle NeedleeraR Dept. Minna SL San Francisco, Calif. it. lost me with so I did a turn so as to pass I astern of her and lose her. on that course five minutes, from her, heading directly away course, that they'd arrived. Four off for Cebu. e Ln to the left in another Halfway over the three planes Jap seaplanes were after us, work turn, and I started looking ing in rotation undoubtedlv those came back and we tried to hide bearound the ship. from the second cruiser the armv hind a fish trap a net with bamboo had reported as being around. "I found Reynolds, my port gunpoles sticking up out of the water ner (he was also cook), had been they weren't strafing now. They When their bombs were exhaust But shoulwere shot through the throat and looking for the fourth plane below and ed they began diving down just over we'd shot down. They scoured the FootbalVs Problem der. I got him down our mast stub to strafe us. With area for twenty minutes. After they Several bad the chief torpedoman and the their first salvo they killed Harris. left we went colleges will be starting on in, and of course I summer radioman give him first aid. He 'was my tomedoman and also But foot soon. practice went straight to army headquarters. ball's main "I found our mast had been shot manning the - starboard will be in latiproblem we so and met the colonel in charge the ns: the off a foot over my head, machine guns a fine kid he was army edict th?t prevents any No. 2 officer of the island. No, he nlHn't use our radio for sending. he slumped down from his guns and buddine; soldier from taking part in but and hit been hadn't heard from had Bulkeley, The port turret rolled on the deck when a bullet send out a radio message to intercollegiate sport. its guns were out 01 action. ripped into his throat. So I put in he'd Those colleges that have drawn hunt for him if he was still alive students will either have to army reAnd maybe I'd better give my Lieutenant Kelly continued: football completely or else give op port direct to the general. I wanted "Our objective now was to get the few available men upon depend out find to wanted and I i also to, Reynolds to a doctor. We were goleft. our what had happened to big I couldn't ing like a bat out of hell. by American Offensive we had been They will be badlyWeoutclassed see the 41 boat it was so dark I understand the navy school. to and that be asked air part of, couldn't even see the shore. I just to drag umbrella which should have pro there is an effort under way side had to look at the compass and of the navy over to the army's us this tected morning. make mental estimates as to how the argument. "The general had been having s far we had gone in various direc As has the stronger side conference at the bar of the Amerl of thethe navy tions since I last had seen land I would be a bad mis this case, can Club, sitting with some other take. recognized, and then guess where were we were who some officers civilians I and were. we now thought now all having a drink. Nowa gen- near the narrow channel between the eral is pretty important, and you Racing's Splurge another would islands; Jap destroy don't just go barging mto his con er be laying for me there? A number of noncombatants can't t ferencesnot if you're a mere na understand why racing has come in ahead, "Suddenly, directly val lieutenant in command of a lit for such a boom and why so much searchlight came on, less than i full boat. So, following money is bet at various tracks. tle seventy-foo- t mile away a Jap steaming the lead of this conducting colonel, This is soeed at me. I barely had time to simple enough. As a start we stood off a bit and waited until er give a hard left and a hard right is there something like 12 billion to the general gave us the signal and we went scooting past each othloose around the map, extra dollars come on in and tie up at his table. with er at a relative speed of sixty knots outlets under a spending many he didn't but saw He us all right, before he had a chance to fire blockade. shot. He turned, holding me down give us the signal just went on talkFor one example, you see few with his light like a bug under a ing to the other officers and civilpeople buying cars today. blaziians. and started chasing, pin, In the second instance, there is a realize it with big guns two I ng away "Now, thinking back, demand for quick action on was a most important conference. greater ' splashes four hundred feet away, two of thrills, which to many side the K4J IUJ jl more fifty feet away. I started zigBut at the time I was excited, bea bet can satisfy. only to of out boat that from ging cause I had just come light my squirm Belmont is sure to end Its sumwouldn t let my gunners hre a snot; in which I'd fought all through the it would help him keep our position, war and with which we'd just helped mer season with the highest average I was getting away, all right, but he to sink a Jap cruiser my boat ever sent through track mutuels, kept firing for ten minutes, although which was now lying beached across well beyond the million dollar mark. his accuracy was going to hell. By Even with the big crowds that the bav. with one man dead, an i0 1:30 I could barely see his light, other dying, and all the rest but once traveled to Santa Anita, a which was waving around, search daily average was considered three wounded. I suppose I was un ing the water back of us. strung. I wanted to have him make on the high side. "I kept on. wondering You can understand how strong my report by radio about the cruis how we'd ever er. And then, although maybe it the fever gets to be when so many get in, since we had no charts, it was black as pitch wasn't my business, I'd have liked thousands are willing to walk so and I knew coral reefs must be all to find out about that American far in order to buck 11 or 12 per 'But meanwhile Ross had snoi around us. At four o'clock I slowed he'd invited us to join the cent. down one of the four planes. down and headed into where I hoped night before. the beach was. taking soundings "We kept standing there, the two Winner found The water suddenly shoaled off and Martino, or started to, butand of while I got madder and rnad-de- Bing Crosby's us, n the hit put of also gun And speaking a pinna they had Dump! we were aground racing, a I see now it was unreasoncle of coral under her wrecked has been radio gag belly. Look it out of action. able, but I couldn't help it then. ing down with flashlights we could "Rut meanwhile Ross, with the Finally it embarrassed even the and dismantled. see the water was It rests today in ruins. It all hapmachine guns colonel and he invited me to step twenty feet deep starboard with coral pinnacles all around us had shot down one of the four over by the bar and have a drink pened at Belmont park recently about every twenty feet, like a petri got Ross in with him. I said no, thanks, I had when Bing Crosby's Argentine horse, planes. The next plane fied forest, five feet out to his gun. So work to do, but I'd have a Coca Don Bingo, came spinning along to within and also put rising the leg, oi the surface. 7A now had no guns, only two en Cola. I stuck around ten more min- the front. Don Bingo made it two in a row. of holes with utes "Studying the shore line, I real full boat a and gines drinking it and then, since the Not lzed we were about ten miles too far to less down only that, but he ran away from three planes diving general gave us no signal, I shoved strong up the coast. I sent fields, coasting into the wire. Ensign Richard than one hundred feet, raking us off. son ashore in a This ends all that talk about Crosrowboat to send an with fire which we couldn't return-o- nly 'I arranged to have the boat by's stable. I happened to be with army doctor and ambulance out try to dodge. Because I wouldn't yet from Cebu for guarded. Reynolds, and also "The engineer now reported the admit that maybe both it and we eia- -t a tug for us. water and of full room was were expended now. High tide was; As" his Argentine entry came "For the next hour we sallied ship- - engine boat was sinking, so there was at four o'clock. Couldn t we ; maybe the rocking it, trying to jiggle it off the sweeping to toe front Bing began to do but beach her, if we wu pinnacle, backing with the engines nothingto save the wounded men. I paicn ner up, uuai uci uyci 'calling: orerp and finally Cleland's, get torpedes and a crew "Where is Bob Hope? Will some managed to roll it off. headed her over towards nearby from somewhere, and maybe fight one please page Bob Hope?" "Reynolds was feeline fine now. sne Deacnea tnere Kawit Island, and I'd her just once again? suddenly remembered a little and fast. There were about present Peggy had given me on the hard "I went over there to where Brantand Angott hundred yards of shallow and the 35 boat were, taking Armstrong Rock, went down to my locker and twelve unan over ingham water of feet four surf, There is still a healthy doubt brought it up for him a couple of stuff I'd salvaged from the boat, even bottom of coral and sand, and the I the landscape as to whether as around codein tablets and a sedative some lunch me pill. then the palms. The planes kept up and they gave Now he was windmill or whirlwind style had the even and what the about fight talked but we smoking, sitting topside lay there, their strafing as Enof it to and although he couldn't drink because Armstrong can force Sam Henry us, during but happened there was nothing to do now He said my Angott away from his wrestling we water would leak out the hole Richardson telephoned. wounded sign the we got dodge while his throat. Reynolds had died, and they were holds. They'd been short of ashore. and Harris in the Sammy remains the Human Pydrugs on the Rock, but she sneaked room burying him wese out for me "I went down into the engine with a military thon, a hard man to beat, but a cemetery American just in case I got was Hunter, my chief ma- escort and a priest, at four o'clock. harder man to watch. there wounded out on and a of A hell patrol. chinist's mate, with his arm practithoughtful present, and much more I said of course I would go, and It may be that Armstrong's methbullet- had enoff- -a at the bar od of tearing in will finally leave valuable and useful than a Richardson meet cally blown would gold cigarette case. from which Angott in an untangled situation, tered his elbow and gone out ahethree was of the American Club, hole in his forearm, but "Dawn came with a low over together. where he will do his own share of we'd go fog which inch I gave out the coastal contours, and still manning the engines. didn't Richardson but there punching. "I got wcause of aU the coral we had to the order to abandon ship. It turned But he will have to prove that to stood around. I was I show of us up. three were only stand well off the coast. The sun out that therewas a job getting the tirpd and mad and lonesome as hell. quite a chunk of his fellow citizens so it as well came up and I before they will believe it. up but that didn't worry unhit, out while the Japanese Finally a civilian wounded toe; with air He was a we didn't him. to to superiority talking We made the Still, it would be no thick surprise got us. need to stalk in of the to see Armstrong return to his old vice the dark any more. dived to ofrake president nice guy and off our very shoes, taking By ":30 the sun and he spot on top of the lightweight heap had burned the fog mistake cut our feet to ribbons as club. I told him our story away and we started out on two the coral he was, and asked before the scramble is over, not forhow sorry said men. the carrying engines one screw had to the funeral. He getting Montgomery .and Beau Jack. banged up we staggered who had been if he might go the coral but that didn't matter Reynolds, found "I first person I'd sympathetic the was throat during the were SPORTLIGHT BRIEFS: crippled now, but 'Dad' wounded in the with met. his hand over weland would a truck arrived, drivquickly fix us. At night, now lying "Presently ft Before joining the Yankees in eight o'clock we spotted the en- his bellv. en by a Filipino soldier with a mes- 1921, Ed Barrow had served as presme 'leave hance to the long channel and " 'Mr. Kelly,' he said, sage for me that the funeral had ident of two minor leagues and turned in. here.' hppn nostooned until ten o'clock to manager of seven clubs. there we were, fat, dumb, This American found out morrow. 'What happened?' I asked. Joe McCarthy says Ewald Pyle, a happy, heading up the narrow attacked,' he t knew nobody in Cebu, hadn't slept, Washington is the best danes the "'WViPn annel at fifteen knots, when all seem to be any-- S and had no place to go, so he in nitrhins of the American didn't recruit 'there fam-nsudden Wham It was a 2 t do. so I went below vited me out to his house lor league this season. bomb which landed about and the night. Before I went, umon Mr. Brantingham s down and ft Bill McGowan is the oldest lay ff were our bow. ieet in point hit me in the belly I located our three men who. the in leagues major They pire 1 looked up, and here a Xle I was lying there. I m don seri a unwounded. I gave them fifty pesos of service, inis is nis iym season plane was peeling off, com- and told them to go asnore ana get ft Connie Mack caught his last game an ll be I rigm sir. out of a cloud. But instead of for, out and forget the whle mess if for PittsDurgn in iayo. in nis uoi drunk others.' the white stars of the American get could. So in they game career he had 842 assists. "Well the hell with that. (TO BE CONTISUED) thflrps on her wings, there were Martino and I his of protests, spite naming suns of Japan! am The destroyer its light temporarily, 5t V Heavy Canning It Is estimated that American, housewives during 1943 will can more than five billion Jars of foods. or enough to supply every man, woman, and child in the country with about 40 Jars of food. Move From Farms A checkup on the whereabouts of 1,602 rural young men in an Ohio BIGoodrich county showed that about 40 per cent were in the armed services and 32 per cent had moved to nearby industrial centers. Plan Late Props Care of the garden throughout the summer, fighting Insects and worms. j - urns sW' fe?ott- . JUi - iir. DELICIOUS! 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