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Show Million V It Replace Men Uhes and Forges Supply Armies 11 t L ELLWTT Xi C M Western PINE Newspaper Union. two million more r.Ltbe r recruited for Vio DdUAC riobS ' nf on . war man- V.Q saa bar, -- entered industry in be-,he twelve months 1942. and " . in iyii-? mo Tn that npriod r lrl v, is. women rtfej uva of all sorts, transportation as as and punications tasks that excluto be considered sion's fields. 01 women will along with 800,000 workers men, handicapped now employed, If not to, to lag in the Ruction is not of the great conflict, , phase officials warn. The nation has tonfidence that women will machines. ijrward to man the bureau surirding to census million four about are fer vailable and willing to , .wwinrh these potential work- in a ,vj only been registered no are aouDt There cities. ge thousands ready to help if iew they were neeaea. a teem to be able to do al- -men can. Skepvjy work that ive had to admit, ume aner tat they were wrong. For been jears women have like . in- Usht- factory work, cnocMparts, packing, dipping so and canning vegetables, expected to see !:tia whoever roundhouses, wiping loco-- s, thoveling sand, or operatic cranes and lathes in ship-- f too million be found, 4s edSa H EE INI a rd ...... .11 all these 14 million women nnt strictly war workers, but most of them were doing things that were necessary, such as clerking in bakeries, or running elevators, or operating laundry machinery. It must be remembered that the civilian economy must be kept running, and that making cartridges and plane parts are not the only vital services in wartime. But It is the women in heavy industry who have come forward to fill the breech, somewhat to the joyous surprise of everyone. A sample list of the work women are doing is given by Laura Nelson Baker in "Wanted: Women in Industry." She says women are "Sewing uniforms and barrage balloons, assembling radio tubes, drafting, wiring assemblies for bombers, inspecting, making gas masks, riveting, welding, operating gear cutters, lathes, grinders, drill presses and saws. These are but a few of the well-pai- d jobs that women are taking over from men. Often they show men up by their efficiency." Many times women have found better ways to do the operations men have been doing for years. There have been many improvements in working conditions put in for the benefit of women that will no doubt remain when men return to the factories. Some of the changes introduced are, according to Mrs. Baker: "Safety devices, opportunities to change posture and position, machines at the right working height, and other provisions against farigue are now In general practice. Steel jigs too heavy for women to lift were replaced with masonite jigs weighas much. Ening less than gineers put a new lever on a spinning lathe so It could be operated with 70 per cent less exertion than before." So women are able to do things that used to require strength and endurance, by having a few changes one-tent- h Well, or doing welding? jr art doing all these things, them welL They have fc learn to use unfamiliar tools, fw ways of thinking and act-i- d they have done it in a hurry. t-ir- j heavy industries that fctrance of women is most star-- . I Fifures show that during a a period employment of k in munitions increased 69 knt, S8 per cent in steel mak-- t Women with technical educations per cent in electrical manu-jr-.f- c are needed In research. Catherine 62 per cent in chemicals, Ferguson, a graduate of Northwest)c cent in shipbuilding, 184 per ern university, where she majored lircraft factories! is assisting In the In it huge increases were not in Luntmetallurgy, for new alloys to replace stracalled light While tegic metals such as nickel and i ias been plenty of need for aluminum. She is shown beside a k id the clerical and light fac furnace in the laboratories of the iei, the real openings have General Electrlo company at m the heavy mechanical Schenectady, X. Y., reading an elecIt stands to reason that tric pyrometer, or high temperature metal construction mul- -' thermometer. sanjr times by war demands, lions of men going to war, made. In fact, strength is becomsuit be a great lack of tech--r ing less and less important as matrained employees. Women chines take over the duties of mus:n the answer in Europe and cles. Overhead cranes carry casthave, been the answer here. ings and other parts around from iv cheerfully gone to lathe to lathe, and shop trucks haul materials and tools about the huge obeyed rigid shop rorked long hours at hard and plants. In really big factories, partasks, and earned ticularly in the aircraft industry, hxse from execu- - the workers ride about in busses. Despite worry about "ab-r-a" Even with all these aids, war work In the ship(n some quarters, worn-- e is no "featherbed." Dot been away from their building yards, for Instance, women in most cases. do strenuous, dirty work, wearing More Than 15 Million. cumbcrous costumes for long hours. '' end of March, there were weeks arc comtO ffnlnftill flam. mon, and overtime is the rule some ...... (.atitiuu according to Chairman Mc-places that have been launclwg the War Manpower corn-p- i ships at unbelievable rates. Of these 14.100,000 were in Get Same Pay A Men. work, so about a Women shipyard workers are rai f" ter on farms. Of course, the same scale as men for the midc kind of work. The scale is qui'.e attractive, to, but the work, ns said before, is hard, and somewhat danRcrous. Every shipyard maintains a plant hospital with doctms and nurses in constant attendance. Workers are urged to report every accident, no matter how trivial In the aircraft industry, too. n.any thousands of women are helping to turn out the 7,000 planes a n oii'li that arc needed to smash the Ax.s, Airplane manufacturing tolerpeople able to work to fine ances, to be amazingly accurate, and yet speedy. In the modern pi l! e thcra arc hundreds of opcraiioi.s necessary, and women are working at most of them. Except for a few vu.tn-ehighly technical Jobs, where in to able have not yet been the years of experience neccs ary, from they are doing everything VtMr. U . Die presAt to ti, liudrafting "inurra Trnnilli a n women will be al'e to i uc wui hi li piaic ent pace, make complete airplanes without any help from men! a This IS a highly paid field. w;:h of the I to"trBrtlon Most w nxn wHt mad, ia the much overtime work. taken have It in engaged is the ) USUI a" i IE4 ED hard-bitte- . t rcq-nrc- ft "3 :0 n Forty-cinht-ho- f J( I tru con-iJr- lU'r-- - Itifch i "nt". necea. fishUn WJIT4 "f- U,roo-- - r " labor h of im t, Hlwi I mi... f am-luk.- r" J ahort-i- J - are four grand- I P)erl'.utl,1U,Idln 1 1 rT'B I'andmoin L ,n U w lh lhr,r T l"1 )erj,fc Tl I rV lt from workers ln- numper is omr" ' end tr com- - 'e ii, Mm r- able training before entering, and many have had some technical education in high school or college. There are comparatively few airplane factories, and most of these are located near big cities, as Los Angeles, Detroit, and Chicago. Because it is such an attractive field, women have gone into it eagerly, and there is not so much demand for new workers here perhaps, as in 1 .i .: j i' V .v :&kji V- .."Li tt.V..V.V.'.l. MA In the huge ammunition plants that have made the United States the "arsenal of democracy" women can be found In many capacities. This lady war worker is tapering shell cases for anti-tan- k guns at the Frankford arsenal in Philadelphia. some of the less glamorous indus- tries. One of the latter is the chemical industry. Here the work is not so arduous as in the manufacture of ships or planes or tanks, but it is just as vital to the success of the war. The wage rate is not so high as in the metal working crafts and similar lines, but it is still very interesting. Chemical workers generally need some training before starting in the plant, but high school chemistry is often sufficient background for one of the advanced positions. There is careers in opportunity for after-wa- r this field, probably more than in most other lines. Safety Fins Necessary, Too. While manufacturing of planes, guns, tanks, and other weapons and equipment used directly in combat is holding the spotlight, there are thousands of other articles most important to the army and navy that are made by companies turning out their regular peacetime products. Army quartermaster corps officers say that they buy at least 18.000 articles in the open market, that is, the same goods that are made for civilian use. Women are needed to make all these things, both for servicemen and for civilians, who must live during wartime too. Those women who are employed on farms are doing a most necessary job, of course. They should not be tempted to leave their food production to go to a factory. Food is a "munition," and is so recognized in military circles. With all this change in the traditional role of women, however, social minded thinkers are pointing s out alarming possible when the war ends. They ask whether women who have been earning high wages and have achieved a large measure of independence are going to be content to return to their homes and live on the comparatively lower standard that their husbands' income will provide? Or whether there will rot be more friction than ever between married people, as wives who formerly worked at high rales become dissatitf.ed with the frequently drab task of maintaining a home and caring for children? Sociologists, clergymen, Jurists and others interested in social welfare are perturbed about what may happen. There is also grave concern voiced about the effects of the times on children of war workers. Mothers who are away from their children fur long hours are not able to give them that care and affection that no agency can supply. Many children do not get even the inadediquate supervision of playground rectors, kindergartens or nurseries. The results of haphazard parcr.Ul direction In formative years may be a serious matter, a few years hei.ee. lUil this is war, and war Is siAays profoundly diiturbing to the social fabric. More iptimistic corr.rr;cr;U-t.r- s tel. eve Hat America can recover from these shrnks and come rut ef the war with conspicuous gains. Having millions of won. en hi can do skilled work is hardly a thing for any nation to drjhre. New products will mean a higher '..andard ef living and thereby bets ter health and educational o p for aiL after-effect- -- 3oS 4 K It 1 u iA 0m A) y & -r - r- s- VVfcKL WHITE THE SO FAR: The itorf of the battle lor the Philippines ts being told by four ol the 6v offlceri who are all that li lett ot Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron J. They are Lieut. John Bulkeley (now Lieutenant Commander), squadron commander; STORY their part In uiil Lieut. R. B. Kelly, and Enslfns Anthony Ake,rs and Georce E. Cox Jr. Manila has fallen, and we bave lost our naval base at Cavlte. Lieut. Kelly has told how he spent New Tear's Ere In the hospital on Corretidor, while Lieut Bulkeley was dlscnsslnf with the Admiral a plan ot escape to China. Lieut Biukeley is teUlnj about a night raid twe af the PT boats made against the Japi. Lieut. Bulkeley rode tn the M boat "So we separated, expecting to meet at dawn. It was the last I nver saw of the 31 boat. But here's what happened to our 34 boat in Bubic. First, remember it was darker than hell, and the shore line was loaded with Jap field guns. None of us had ventured in there since the Japs took over. We had got in Just a little way when a Jap searchlight h potted us and blinked out a we who asking challenge, were. Since we didn't know the code Jap reply, naturally we didn't inswer, but changed course, veering away. But the Japs were getting suspicious by now, and from over by Illnin Point a single field piece opened up. None of it fell near us maybe they were shooting it DeLong in the 31 boat "When we were about abeam of Sueste light another light came on to challenge us this time from a maybe that cruiser. We ihip changed course to go over and have I look, but she was small fry not north a torpedo the hell with her -- we were headed for Binanga and the cruiser. "By one o'clock we were off the north entrance to Port Binanga, where we were to meet DeLong in the 31 boat and go in together for the attack, and when he didn't show up, I began to be afraid something might have happened, yet I couldn't De sure. "But there was nothing to do but lo on in alone. To make the sneak, ae cut the speed down to eight Chiquita Island, tnots, skirted rounded Binanga Point and entered the little bay on two engines at Idling speed. Everything was quiet ao firing down here, and then we law her ahead in the dark not five sundred yards away. Creeping up jn her, we had Just readied two torpedoes when a searchlight came code she asked n and In who we were. "We answered, all right with two torpedoes but they had hardly been Sred when I gave our boat hard rudder and started away. It isn't lafe for an MTB to stay near a :ruiser. One torpedo hit home with l hell of a thud we heard it over Dur shoulders. Looking back, we law the red fire rising, and presently two more explosions which might bave been her magazines. "But we had no time for staring, for we were into plenty trouble. One jf those torpedoes had failed to clear its tube and was stuck there, lust at the entrance, and was making what we call a 'hot run.' its propellers buzzing Ike hell, compressed sir hissing so you couldn't hear yourself think. But worst of all a torpedo is adjusted so that it won't Sre until its propeller has made a certain number of revolutions I ihouldn't give it exactly, but let's lay it is three hundred. After that the torpedo is cocked like a rifle, blow on Its nose and an eight-pounus all to would set it dot-ias- "After we parted company at the entrance to Subic Bay, he started around its northern rim as we'd planned. But just before midnight he developed engine trouble the saboteur's wax had clogged his strainers. He cleaned them and had Just got under way when more trouble developed the cooling system went haywire. They stopped, and were drifting as they repaired it when there was an ominous grinding sound under the boat they were aground on a reef in Subic Bay. "They rocked the boat and finally started the engines to get themselves unstuck. But the noise now attracted the Japs, and a 3 inch gun on Ilinin Point opened up on them splashes coming nearer and nearer. They worked frantically, finally burned out all reverse gears so that the engines were useless. DeLong gave orders to abandon ship. They wrapped mattresses in a tarpaulin to make a raft, and all got aboard but DeLong, who stayed to chop holes in the gas tanks and blow a hole in the boat's bottom with a hand grenade before he Jumped. That was the end of the 31. Then he couldn't find the raft In the darkness, and being afraid to call out, swam to the beach. "The raft had shoved oft with all twelve aboard at three o'clock. "He waited on the sands until t dawn. Then, in the gray he picked up the tracks of nine men. He followed these until they half-ligh- is vt. t .tV...HS. ,.: .. V vV'v- - UncUPklL -s A off-blo- wing glory. "So what to do? Somehow that torpedo propeller had to be stopped snd stopped quick, or else a good bard wave slap on the torpedo's nose would blow us all to splinters. And at this point our torpedoman. Martino, used his head fast He ran to the head and swiped a handHe Jumped ful of toilet paper. astride that wobbling, hissing torpedo like it was a horse, and, with lh toilet paper. Jan.rned the vanes of the propeller, stopping It "We'd stoprcd f r all this, but we couldn't afford to wait long. The cruiscr'a fire was lichtlng up th bay behind us. Ahead, all over hell was brcak.r g loose. So we started up, gave her everythlr.g wt bad to get through that fire. "With three motors roaring, and us skipping around in that rough , I water with everything guess we made considerable commotion. Anyway the Japancie radio In Tokyo, reporting the attack next day, said the Amcr.cans had a new secret weapon a monster that roared. Capped Its wings, and fired torpedoes In all directions. It was flatonly us. of course, but we felt tered. We got the hell out of there, and that was all there was to It" "Well." said Kelly, "MacArthur wouldn't quite agree. He gve you the D S C for what you'd done." "But DeLong has the real story," Insisted Bulkeley. "I pulled up outside the mine Cold off Corregidor to wait for him. Neither of us could othgo In until It got light, because erwise the army on shore, hearing us In the dark out there, would think It was Japs and set off the mine field. But when the sky got light and 1 saw my b at was alone, t ai In trouble. realized DeLong And since he's now a prisoner of tbe Japanese if he's alive we d i?trr tell bis st ry for him. Su-bi- c, " 'Hey, Joe got a cigarette and a match; they called out And an hour later they were telling their story to Captain Cockburn, In the Ninety-secon- American Infantry's d GOOD principle, not rightly understood, may prove as iurtful as a bad. Heaven is where no unkind word s spoken. One would rather tip than have tthers think one bad "views" on field headquarters tent The nine lipping. were back with us at Sisiman Cove Hall a louf may not be better than no the next evening." bread at all. It depend gred" deal "That afternoon Bulkeley came ipon the baker. over to tell me the story of the enOne may well wonder if moscjul-loe- s believe the slapping sounds to When he was through, gagement e encores. 'Kelly,' he said, we need you." " 'Let's get ahold of that doctor,' All is not well with him of whom I said, 'and you tell him that' This til speak well. It time worked. The hole in my finger was still almost three Inches long and about an inch wide, with some of the tendon exposed (but In a month It was healed, except that I can't move my finger Joints). I had to promise them faithfully I would show up every other day for treatment but the point of it was I got out of that place. 'Two days later I took the 34 boat out on my first patrol from Corregidor up along Bataan toward Subic Bay Bulkeley, who as squadron When KIDNEYS need diuretic aid commander rode all boats on patrol, When overstrain or other cause thwi Joun kidney of course was with me. It was a may ache painfully. calm night and chilly. Sweaters tunciion, the backHow may be lessened Naturally, urinary were comfortable over our khakis, frequent but seamy ofien smarting. "Getalthough In the daytime we wore ting up nijthts" may ruin jjeep. To relieve such sy'mpto'ms, you want only shorts or trunks. tlimiUtion of kidney action. To help "Everything was going well, In fiV attain this, try Gold Medal Capsules. This But when fact it was monotonous. diuretic has been famous for we were about twenty-fivmiles up over 30 years for such prompt action. Take care to use only as directed on packthe coast, hell suddenly started popat drug stores. Accept no age. Only ping. Our own batteries were shootsubstitute. Get the genuine Gold Medal ing at us. Bulkeley explained to Capsules todty. 'J bey acttfitf me that was the main excitement these days to keep from being sunk by your own side and calmly altered course to get out of their range, which we could tell by the light of their tracer bullets. " 'Half the time those dumb dastards don't know friend from foe,' he explained. "Five minutes later we saw a dim light low in the water, and headed toward it. Was It a Jap landing barge, trying to get ashore behind General Walnwright's lines. Then It occurred to us that It might be Ensign Plant and the two other men of DeLong's boat who had disappeared In Subic Bay. They might have stolen a boat and now be headed home we couldn't take chances. So without firing we drew nearer, e e watching the light "Presently It began to blink dots and dashes, all right but no message that we could read. Bulkeley ordered general quarters as a precaution, and the men were crouching behind their machine guns. It was about twenty-fivyards away now a queer-shapeboat, low in the water and suddenly its light Get Into Action For Full Victory! DON'T LET CONSTIPATION e dot-das- h widc-cpen- L- W.N U.FEATUREJ CHAPTER VI 1 1 inci JJPENIMBILuL That Number Ready, Says Census Survey wice !t More Women Needed for War Plank. went out SLOW YOU UP When bowela are sluggish and you feel irritable), hoadat-hy-, do as millions do -c- hew FEEN-A-MINthe modern rhewinK-Kulaxative. Simply cbew "Bulkeley stood up with Uie megabefore you go to bed, He called. he 'Boat ahoyl phone. taking only in accordance with package directions sleep without being disgot a quick answer. turbed. Next morning gentle, thorough They opened on him with machine rolicf, helping you feel swell again. Try guns. It looked like a fire hose of Tastes good, is handy tracer bullets headed for our cockand economical. A gonerous family supply now tryand up, they speeded pit costs only FEEN-A-MINing to head for shore. But we were T pouring the fire back at them. "Now we could see It was a Jap Rich Milk landing barge, packed with men. It had armor on the bow and the The milk of mother seals Is ten stern, and kept twisting and turn- dmes as rich as cow's milk. ing, trying to keep those thick steel plates pointed toward us. Of course our maneuver was to come in from the side, and let them have It where llaftsmd la 5 afootM or denote OKcwy bach they couldn't take It tttocnsvh tt eaiMfHi . painful. Mfrwnfe hea nii hemrtbiK-nttiff dut?tor tMiusilf fefir sjtomav-"All this had been going on for fsMiMlHu-tinimltntM known tor presort! BiMlirirMMt Ilk UwmIii about thirty seconds when I heard a gvmirtnmlr rlif till-ni No UibHv. biinm rum fort In Ttieta. fVur4 rr mmy ttmck 9m rvturn ot bsjili ilffr or cry of pain from behind. It was EnU til Ofk i tiruitipau. sign Chandler. 'I've been hit he said. A Jap bullet had gone through both of his ankles. We pulled him out of the cockpit and laid him down on the canopy, meanwhile circling Die Japs and pouring the steel down Into their vulnerable sides. We could 1 II ... UAf iO'M , I' A ilGO MUCJI soon see we were getting them. The I fAJlI tett XJ in dash ri.TMrnsc In the and lower lower barge sank water and presently gurgled under, while we pulled off to lick our own wounds, give first aid to Chandler, Y0U WOMEN WHO SUFFER FRONU and locate any other boats In the vicinity. Surely the Japs wouldn't attempt a lan hi g with a single barge. All we got though, was If you surfer (rom hot flaahr, dunl-nrmore fire from our own shore guns antr-- u of "lrnularltlr", are a swarm of tracer! and then nervous. Irritable, bVie at of one over times due to the functional began whistling "mldine-aRe- " period In a woman's them landug two hundred yards life try tydla K Ptnkham'a Vre mind. The we didn't But n away. table Compound the medicine you ran buy today that's army seemed to enjoy It and It marts rsprrioJJi or tromrn. wasn't hurling us. Plnkliam a Compound has helped "We fooled around until almost thoiiMrula upon thouMnda of women to rllrve such annoying aymp dawn and were headed for home toma. follow label directum. plns we couldn't have got Chandler - V'- f ham'a Cnmnnund la mnrflh hosto the fields n the ine through pital utitil sunrise anyway, when Bulkeley happened to glance back. WNU-- W 34-- 44 "Through the half light he could sec, bobbing In Die swell, another FEEN-A-M1N- FEEN-A-M1N- 10 "We answered, all right torpedoes." with twe led into a clump of bushes, where he found most of his crew. They explained they had stayed with the raft until dawn was about to break. Fearing sunrise would expose them to the Japanese, they had decided to risk a swim to the beach, where they could hide. But Ens'"" Plant swim and two men, who coul.It What very well, decided to staj became of them the nine didn't know, and no one knows for sure to this day. "But the first thing DeLong did was to post lockouts, and all day they stayed in that clump, with an eye on the Jap observation planes which Hew over them in relays, watching a hot little skirmish between the Americans and the Japanese on the far shore of the bay. At one point the Japs were falling back, and there seen ed to be a chance that they could make a run for it In daylight rejoining the American lines. Kut never wbs It quite possible, and In the mrantime they had spotted a couple of banras, native boats, farther down the beach. "Two men who were sent out to Investigate, crawling on their bob lies through lie grass, returned to rcHrt the taiiCas were In fair condition. So when the sun had set they crawled to them and started getting them In shape. For rowing of they bad two paddles, a couple ratle. and a board. They had to work fast and quietly, for the Japs as tncy were all around thcm-J- ust were launching the bancas they heard Japanee voices not two hundred yards away, nut a heavy wind came up. and at nine o'ctoek at night both boats capsized. They righted them, but hovels and the board were lost th and they now had only one paddle for each bancs. Yet with thee they continued lo fight the head wind until three in the morning, when dethey were so exhausted that they cided to try the shore. So DeLong landed on what he hoped was Napo Tount They picked their way through the tarbed wire enlargement on the tc sen, and then found themselves up against a steep cl.ff. "They kept very quiet until dawn, not knowing whether daylight would find them surrouhded ty Americans or Japanese. But when It became light th first U ir.fi they saw was a FUllplno aei.Uy. Acid Indigestion r. h J I HOT FLASHES a, t, brat-know- -- low lyli g fiat craft Should we go You're damned right we get even l,miM. the n en saM-- lo f..r Chandler by sinking lome more. closer, sure enough, "As wo it was another landing boat, this lime at arenlly leaving the coast of Lalaan, and we opened up on her with everytliiig we had from four hundred yards away. "But their return fire was curiously light and spasmodic. So we closed to about ten yards. Their fire had slopped, but their boat wouldn't Our bullets would hit Its could see armor and ergines-y- ou the tracers bounce off and ricochet ore hundred feet Into tie air, but st,H It kept g"irg. Suddenly a tracer hit lis f irl tanks up they went In a Uazc, V e motor stopped, and now the boat wss only dnfiing. But even as we pulled alongside, these Japs. Cvy devils, gave her hard rudder and tried to ram ua. back; rt f TO BE WSTIM ID) Anil Your Strength and Tnerey la IMow Tar ft insr be eanevd by dltordw nf ltd. y (unrtioa that pvrrnlu potanaou ute ti amimulaU. tot truly nanr (m4 tird, m4 sniamMe whtt the kMnrye fail u nnmn and aau tnbar 'ia aiatur Iraai the r-- nay euffar earring baekerite, "Int. b'adarhx. diaalnnat, Bifhta. kf Mina, awWIIiti. rihne p IrvqiiMit and tcm .tf arlaa th emarting and barnlag W la-e- hr I., a that rrfl enm1hiag tg wroag tm U Viinra ot bladder. .'h uld be na drat that prompt Th. tr raime.nt la mimr thaa Im limn t 1'iUa. It la brftae to My oa a baa won rna that nd miniryu1 an-ratal thaa on aomathlnr Imm favorably E bave bwa tried and tevt-noa. I'm . Are at all drug M tr.anr Vo rhetmate Itimn today. |