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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA, UTAH 51 T THEY WERE ON THE (HOME FRON ?UTH 'T'HERE is a knack about select-- ing the right thing from the assortment of junk in Mothers attic or a second hand furniture store. Here is a rocker not at all quaint but just awkward to have around. Off come the rockers and on go a set of casters and a seat cushion to make it the right height. That will make it useful but still no WHITE THE STORY SO FAR: The story ot their part In the battle for the Philippines is being told by four of the five naval officers who sre aU that la left of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3. They sre Lieut. John Bulkeley (now Lieutenant Commander), squadron commander; Lieut. R. B. Kelly, and Ensigns Anthony Akers and Georgs E. Cox Jr. March 11 Lieut. Bulkeley showed the squadron their secret orders. They were te take General MacArtburs party and some additional personnel to the southern Islands. When they arrived safely at Cebn, General promised Bulkeley be would try to get him and his key men out of the Philippines. CHAPTER XII The skipper was frantic to get ome of our little fleet back into commission so we could finish out the fight. Wed started the war with six boats. Two were lost off Bataan. One was lost on the escape beauty. A remnant of flowered trip south. That left only three, and chintz will cover the cushion and two of these were wrecks, fit only the objectionable part of the for the dry dock, Bulkeleys being carved back. Paint to match the the only craft left in fighting condisoft blue background of the chintz tion. But he was bound to get the will bring the whole thing together others back into shape. Did I think and soften too prominent curves. I could get mine to Cebu? Well, we could try, and we startNOTE This sketch is from BOOK 5 in ed off, my poor old boat with her the series of booklets prepared for readers BOOK S also contains more than 30 earthquake making twelve knots, other ideas for transforming old furniture her back end wiggling like a shipand making fascinating things from odds wrecked sailors dream of a French and ends on hand. To get a copy send IS musical-comedstar. Whatever she cents with your order to: was good for now, it wasnt fighting, and I was glad we didnt meet any HRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS y Bedford Hills 15 New York Drawer 10 cents for Book No. 5. Name Address WHY TAKE HARSH LAXATIVES? Japs. The machine shop was run by Dad Cleland, a American whod been in the islands since 1914, and a swell gent he was originally from Minnesota and a typical hulking frontiersman. Didnt look a day over fifty and was a kind of patriarch in those parts. His native name meant the old man or the headman in Tagalog. He was a great gourmet, too. Had Bulkeley and me out to dinner and we had bottled beer (a great cocktail, rarity), a big crab-meand then lobster Newburg, which was delicious, but Dad kept warning us to hold back, because then he broke out a couple of roast ducks. Dessert was simple, like the last bars of a symphony. Just delicious chilled mangoes and Chase & Sanborns coffee. It was a magnificent feed after the native chow Id been eating. We talked about the war. People in Cebu felt the show was about up, unless miraculous help arrived soon. What are you going to do when the Japs come? we asked Dad. He straightened up all six feet two of him. Have my dignity to think about, he said. I'm not going to the hills. Ill stay right here and face them. Dad was working for the government for a dollar a year. When he finally finished with our repairs they took many days we asked him how much the bill was. Well forget about it, he said. You fight em and Ill fix em. Its the least I can do. He clenched his big fist, and It was about the size of a nail keg. Since Ive come back here Ive read about some outfits working on war contracts who were paying their stenographers fifty thousand dollars a year and charging it to the government as expenses until they were caught. Its a waste of time to indict them. Just get old Dad Cleland back here and let him go in and reason with them in their swivel chairs. With those big fists of his, hed know how to expostulate with racketeers like that. Until' we got to Cebu we hadnt been paid since the war started. Well, in Cebu the men all got paid and it was quite a spectacle. The dozen on my boat, going from bar to bar, got rid of two thousand dollars in three days. If it had been two million instead, they would have got rid of it just as quick, although it might have strained them some Then they settled back to their routine means of livelihood, which was playing poker with the army. But things were moving in Cebu, and very secretly we began to hear hints of a big American offensive which was coming rolling up from the south through the islands in time to save Bataan, which was almost out of food and ammunition. Word came that two submarines were arriving in Cebu, where they would be loaded with food and returned to Bataan we brought the first one in through the channel. It was a big secret the area was cleared for two miles around. The loading was done at night and by officers only we helped until our hands were raw because they were fearful that some sailor or soldier might drop a hint of it in a native bar where It would get to the Japs. For three solid nights we worked until my back and arms ached, stowing all that stuff in the subs, but all the time I kept thinking of Peggy and the grand old gang up there on the Rock and what was left of the peninsula fighting on without hope or food. Well, here was a little of both we were sending them. To make more room they stripped the submarines of torpedoes gave em to us, four for the 35 boat if we could ever get her into action, two for the 41 boat, which already had two, and charged them for us with compressed air from the submarines tanks. Now MTBs were ready for battle, and into the sub- seventy-one-year-o- ld marines empty tubes we stuffed food, and I kept thinking, as we shoved it in theres another square meal for Peggy back there on the Rock. But that wasnt half of it. Because in addition to the subs the last one shoved off on April 5 there were seven fat interisland steamers being secretly loaded with food down near Dad Clelands dock medical supplies, quinine the boys were dying without, everything they needed to hold on. But how could they hope to get these fat little tubs up through the Islands to Bataan? Bulkeley was to find out three days later. The General In command at Cebu called me in and verified the hints wed heard of the big American offensive, said Bulkeley. He assured me everything was set. It was to start at dawn the very next morning. That very night, twelve fortresses and heavy bombers were coming up from Australia. A swarm of were on their way up from Mindanao to Iloilo, where they were to gas up and go into action. The bombers were to land at Mindanao, gas up, take off, and blow out of every Jap warthe ship in the region, and meanwhile the convoy of interisland steamers would start for Bataan, bringing food enough for weeks. Bataan was to be saved after all. The General showed me messages from all the other generals who commanded in different islands, co - ordinating the offensive. But there was one minor hitch, he explained. Aerial reconnaissance had spotted a couple of Jap destroyers steaming down the coast of Negros P-3- be-Jes- at Simple Fresh Fruit Drink Makes Purgatives Unnec- essary for Most People Heres a way to overcome constipation without harsh laxatives.' 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At five minutes to twelve Glover, filee- - AND SK1.L Office furniture, Typewriters. Addinc Machine. Alfa. SALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE Washington, D. C. Weet Broad as. Kelt Lake City. Utah ON JOB THE QUEZON Its bad news for the Japs that OPERATORS IN DEMAND President Quezon of the Philippines ,8 back in Washington. They knew Learn comptometer operation, mechanical in 10 to 12 weeks. Operator u was not generaUy real. arithmetic, in demand for office work at pood pay, Ized in Washington cost including diploma $60 paya that Quezon had Complete in weekly installments. Write or call 'jufTered a relapse of his old illness, bla for detail. The COMPTOMETER SCHOOL, tuberculosis, which has plagued him 10 West 1st South, Salt Lake City. Utah. ofl and on for 20 years Quezon was a well man at the FOR SALE the quartermaster at the wheel, time of Pearl Harbor. But confine-calle- d Look there she is! A black rnent in the Idaho crossbred yearling awes, ex dampness of Corregidor, 200$ cellent ; 2000 young ewes in lota object was coming round the point. Ijuring the Jap attack, brought the to suit. condition Also 2800 acres spring and fall lead-!thou- said Glover, illness back again. That was one Jumping Jesus! There she is!' because it was no reason MacArthur urged him to relittle Jap destroyer but a thunder-- : turn to the U. S. in a submarine, ing big Kuma class cruiser sliding When he came to Washington, that point so clear we could Iron was advised to take things almost make out her guns, easy. Instead he rushed into the of-- I gave our boat a hard right ficial activities of Philippine Commonwealth affairs, not sparing him- ranges and two forest permits. Inqoiru Steve Protopappas, Kruse Motor Court. Idaho Palls. Idaho. Que-arou- nd Attention RABBIT RAIS&RS j self. on her port beam, making as little noise as we could, and as she passed, hundred yards away, Cox fired two torpedoes, but they straddled her. We fired two from our side, said Kelly, but they also missed." After that, said Ensign Cox, we in the 41 boat made a wide arc and attacked again with our last two torpedoes Bulkeley himself firing them, and this time two of them hit, right under the bridge. They made no flash, but a good bump and a column of water. But even before that the cruiser had waked up probably saw the wakes of one of the torpedoes anyway she speeded knots and her up to twenty-fiv- e searchlight came on and she waved it wildly around in the air, probably looking for torpedo plapes. Our torpedoes were all gone In the 41 boat, said Bulkeley, but I turned around and ran astern of the cruiser to draw her fire so Kelly could get in for his second attack. Then we saw the destroyers, but they wouldnt give chase, although I tried to create the illusion of a lot of boats by firing machine-gu- n His physicians advised him not to remain in Washington during the summer of 1942, nor last winter, But he remained nevertheless. suit was that last spring he suffered a further relapse. Specialists were summoned, and Quezon was given the stern advice that he would have to get out of the humid climate of Washington immediately, if he wanted to live. Yielding to pressure, he went to Saranac, N. Y., and submitted himself to a rigid discipline during most of the past summer. Quezon led the life of an invalid, sitting in the sunshine in a wheel chair, listening to the radio, or to his nurses as they read to him. Result of this regime was that the tuberculosis was arrested, and Quezon gained 12 pounds. When the Japs heard of his relapse, they were ready to say to the people of the Philippines, where is still highly popular; Quezon Look, this is the skeleton you pin your hopes to. But today Quezon is back on his eet at his dek, still hoping 10 realize his one great ambition, to see p?n PhJPPme forces marc I10 Manila, Re-fi- Wa ara HEADQUARTERS for RABBIT BKIN3. Ship pour RABBIT SKINS to m and receiva HIGHEST MARKET PRICES. ; r ve . NORTHWESTERN Hide and Fur Co. . 463 South 3rd West USED CARS TRAILERS LIVESTOCK FOR SALE ' FOR SALE, RAMS have 95 big size, smooth-typ- e yearling Rambouiltet bucks for I im- mediate delivery Phene or Write ODELL M. OMAN Price, Utah hk RABBIT SKIN - a tracers. a SEVEN MINUTES TO WAR When the cruisers searchlight came on, said Kelly, I turned Every day now, pictures are to cross her wake and came riving in a little room in Washing-i- n on her other quarter. She picked ton which seven minutes before me up astern with her lights and were in Algiers, 3,400 miles away, began banging away at me with her One day, just after the landing in secondary batteries and, Italy, 41 pictures came through the from about air and landed safely on top of the guns twelve hundred yards. The stuff was Pentagon building, in a little room Confidential Keep Out. going right over our heads in a con- marked tinuous stream of fire. Inside that room is a little maBut I was good and mad because chine not as big as a typewriter, our first torpedpes had missed, said with a little cylinder on it. The so I decided to chase her. jnder spins around, exposing a nega-- I told one machine-gunne- r to fire tive to dots and dashes of light, and at her searchlight, which was blind-- ! after seven minutes, the exposure is s ing me, and the others to sweep her complete. From there on, its to get her gun crews. iy a matter of developing the nega- d "After a few minutes chase, we tive, and the U. S. public has a closed in to three hundred yards ture of the landings in Italy, or the so close that her searchlight surrender of the Italian fleet, seemed to be coming right down on) And ditto for the South Pacific. It us from an angle about like the j3 farther away, but the seven min-su- n in Then I drew Ufe requirement still holds. From out onto her starboard quarter and an unmentionable post in Australia, fired our last two torpedoes an the dots 0f light flash into the little overtaking shot. They were the last room, and you have a picture of two our squadron was to fire in the General MacArthur flying in a war bomber over New Guinea. Then I gave the boat a hard right The may have been taken rudder and started running away by anypictures one 0f the four photo syndi-fo- r we were defenseless now except cates Acme, AP, INP, or Life or for our machine guns. But the rain they may have been taken by the of Jap tracers kept right on, and Army Signal service. In any case, suddenly another Jap ship showed they can be telephotoed only by the up fifteen hundred yards away. Both official airwaves. started firing their main batteries at What would be a highly expensive me and we were trapped between daily transmission cost for the photo splashes all around us now, as close agencies is thus fully borne by the as twenty-fiv- e yards. We started war department. Officials justify the zigzagging wildly, trying to dodge cost in terms of keeping the public the two searchlights, and also the abreast of the war in fact, only sevstream of fire which were criss- en minutes away from the war. a crossing above our heads likft wicker basketry, and landing in the water all around us. It seemed like Joe Casey of weeks, but was probably only a few seconds. My junior officer. Ensign Massachusetts, now doing various reRichardson, had the wheel, while I inside jobs for athe White House, of made survey political was watching the cruiser through cently England, reported that Maine my binoculars. Suddenly I saw a New so strong for Roosevelts war big splash and detonation in the was middle of her belly another two policies that the only Republican beat him was Wendell seconds, another splash and deto- who could nation right in her engine room! Willkie . . . Admiral Standley, Our overtaking shots had both hit U. S. ambassador to Russia, has home! Her searchlight went from cleared with the state department a speech in which, after bright yellow to orange to red to significantRussian victories plus those brick-repraising and finally winked out dull of England and the United States, She was gun firing. stopped Every A victory for one is a he says: k now. . . . Highly inflamall for But I didnt have much time for victory in Negro newsparemarks matory because this other philosophizing, of close to sedition, them some pers, destroyer was on my starboard bow, are studied by the army . . . being with her closing in, banging away Lew Douglas, war shipping adminguns and me with only istrator, was personally thanked by machine guns left. for the job he did in e salvoes of the President Kelly got twenty-thresmooth British and Amerto helping steel that night, said ican general staff feelings at Bulkeley. But there was no doubt There have been some Quebec. that his two torpedoes polished off differences between the cruiser. I saw her searchlight very vigorous thanks and them, partly to Douglas, fade out, and heavy yellow smoke out considsmoothed were things arise. Her stern was under in three at Quebec. erably the minutes destroyer put the searchlight on her decks, where the CAPITAL CHAFF Jap3 were all running around, not Winsome C. Molly Flynn of OCD reknowing where to go and she had calls that on the day before Pearl sunk in twenty. up to the White But I was running around with Harbor she drove House door, on invitation to Mrs. after which me, three destroyers tea, and was told by were firing all they had, and I could Roosevelts We dont see your name on see another one hot on Kellys tail. guards, but its all right if you say the list, I could the last of see was That so. Today, you cant get near the him and I thought he was a goner. White House. me chased down My destroyers officials of !. Among the canniest to Misamis, but at dawn I dove into OCD is on McCandless, Stanley a place to hide there were six miles leave from Yale At Yale, university. of shallow water where they couldnt he was a expert. With follow even if they had seen me. We he is a black-ou- t expert. OCD, the day sleeping. spent ar-rig- ht cyl-Kell- mere-deck- j HEADQUARTERS a y, sSet the full market for your domestic rabbit skins. C. Elliott & Co. FL 40 N. 3rd West St. Salt Lake City, Utah GIVE HEAD COLD THE AIR breathing passage. Open You breathe freer almost instantly, (eel the diflerenoe. Caution: Use only aa directed. Always use l'enetro Nose Drop. cold-dogg- pic-ha- n. He clenched his big fist, and it was about the size of a nail keg. Island. Somewhat to the eastward there was a cruiser which carried four seaplanes, but they werent worried about it. But that afternoon reports had come in giving the prog ress of the Jap destroyers. Obvi ously they were heading toward Cebu. Maybe they had broken down our American codes and knew about the interisland steamers, and were coming in either to blockade them or to shell them at the dock. Why couldnt we have a part in this great offensive which tomorrow was to sweep up and blast Jap shipping and warships between Min' danao, Cebu, and Bataan? LieutenWe could be ant Kelly thought, helpful by going out tonight and knocking off one or both of those Jap destroyers, which by midnight should be approaching the narrow channel between Cebu and Negros Islands. The cruiser never mind her, American bombers would polish her off in the morning. Bulkeley came in at eight o'clock that night and told me about it, said Kelly. My boat had been in the water just four hours she was supposed to soak for twenty-fou- r before she should be exposed to any pounding, but I asked him if we couldnt go out with him. I was hoping youd like to, the skipper told me. Think you can make it? I dont know, I said, but well soon find out. Thisll be as good a dock trial for her as any. To man the boats I called for I had volunteers, said Bulkeley. no trouble about that. I guess they understood by now that any man who doesnt volunteer wont be in the squadron long if I can get rid of him. They were all tickled to be in on the big offensive, said Kelly. 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