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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-20
Mrs. Norman Meginnity TO Move

MRS NORMAN MEGINNITY will move at the end of
this week from Baour road the house being vacated
in Whittier boulevard by Mr.. and Mrs Raymond Wilcox
Mr. and Mrs Wilcox will open their estate near Grand
Rapids . with famous swimming pool. -. and tennis
courts
Mr. and Mrs Wilcox will journey Mercersburg, Pa.
June their son. Stanley graduate from MERGERS
burg Academy. 80.
Mrs. Wilcox tells that her newly married daughter.
Corrine and husband Ensign Ted Grace have an
apartment Gadwyn Manor and hoping to remain
in Detroit . for al least a little while
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-20

JEROME MCNAMARA JR. of
Greenwich road announce the
birth of a son, Terence Jerome
III, April 30.
Mrs. Mcnamara was formerly
Margaret Labadie.
MISS RUTH RAUEN, daugh-
ter of Carl Rauen of Whittier
road, received monogram
award for participation in 10
sports at Saint Mary's College,
Notre Dame.
The awards were presented
at the evening convocation con-
Guiding their recent annual
sports day.
MISS MARY ELIZABETH
KERR of Yorkshire road. a
senior at Hillsdale College, was
awarded a prize for proficiency
in mathematics at the annual
Moving-Up Day exercises held at
the college last week.
Miss Alice Ann Post oil Glen
dale avenue, valedictorian of her
senior class at HillSdale, also
was awarded a prize for out
standing work in the field Of
sociology by Rho Gamma Chap
ter of Chi Omega Sorority.
MR.. AND MRS. JOHN BALO-
WICH announce the engagement
of their daughter, Caroline Balo-
witch, to William Coughlin, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Cough
lin of Kentucky avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14
LOST i'm The Jungle

spoonful OF baked beans, a theunoS
jug of orange juice among us.
We build a wood fire 10 make
coffee.
Anderson is convinced there is a
creek nearby, with Lieutenant
Turner, Janeschek, Pennington and
Hazel, he sets out with rifles and
ASS to find II.
REST DIG WELL
While they are gone, the rest OF
US dig a well, and after two feet
hit water. It's dirty, but we strain
il through a clean undershirt and
boil IL thoroughly for safety's sake
During the afternoon the rains
come again. We catch water In
our tin helmets and in a large tar
paulin. We get almost four gal
Ions of fresh rainWater.
Lewis and Ravey work over the
radio equipment. They initiate q
balloon with water-made hydro
gen, to send up an aerial. But
there is no wind. Lieutenant An
derson and his water-hunters re-
turn in the afternoon. They have
found a tiny stream after hours OF
hacking through vines and under
brush and lodging snakes. They
had followed it downstream and
report that it widens gradually
They hope il leads TO a river.
We do too.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14

Tonight, in the moonlight, the
B-24 Is a monument TO the cour-
age of the men who flew her. But
on some not-too-vague tomorrow
she will streak in fast toward the
enemyp with the ex-boxer and the
musician and the steel worker, and
the bank clerk and others.
And the gunner will be cunning
and the bombardier will be bomb
ing. A monument TO courage will
have come 10 life, and the eN-
boxer and the musician, the steel
worker and the bank clerk and the
others will be fulfilling what some
people choose 20 call destiny.
hope TO be there, too.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14

decide 70 build a temporary run.
way at our jungle landing Held
and fly our bomber out. l am
going back 10 the States. Kersh-
ner and the crew are overioyed at
the prospect of getting their plane
out Of the wilderness.
/ am glad for them, for there is
an affinity between these man and
their ship.
There Is a moon tonight, and out
In the jungle the plane is alone but
not abandoned. Tomorrow rain will
beat down on her powerful motors,
and trickle in thorugh the cracks
in the cowling and run in riWllets
doyVY1 hpf. uyinpc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14
wIDENs GRADUALLY

Through the afternoon, the
stream widens gradually. The in
sects are fierce, and then what dc
we get but an electric eel. It's this
way:
Penny spots II first. He drops
his end Of the pole carrying the
life RATS and pulls out his ma
chete. He slashes like Doug Fair
banks used TO do in the movies
and one eel Is minus one head. But
the shock paralyzes Penny's arm
remember seeing an electric
eel used as generator for a light
bulb at the Worlds Fair We talk
briefly, while taking a rest, about
frying It for supper. We figure
that electricity and vitamins might
not mix we'll with gastric juices.
The going gets tougher, the un-
derbrush more dense. At each stop
Hazel reads from the Bible. Back
in MiSsissippi, his folks are devout
MethodistS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14
LIGHTER is BEACON

Lewis has an inspiration. He
pulls out his cigaret lighter. What
a flimsy device for rescue. But II
works. 1t responds TO the first
snap. and bursts into a flicker that
is like a beacon in the dark jungle
We are picked up by boat that
makes the run only once a month.
And Lewis cigaret lighter hasn't
worked since.
The boats crew feed us spar
linQlv They know what havoc over.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14
The Diary of 10 u. S. Soldiers

cornmeal, sugar. and a slab of
pork. A boy prepares coffee at
our fire.
The coffee is very thick and
very sweet. They sit around while
we eat duck. We are not very
hospitable and offer them no duck,
as we figure we need IL more than
they do.
JULY 20
One OF our native friends brings
us breakfast.
Breakfast, July 20: Orange
juice and coffee. A New York
stenographer's breakfast, no less,
but not enough 10 live on.
The sun grins down ruthlessly,
and the sweat pours down your
body, and there are not enough
vitarnins in your stomach to go
around.
We paddle all day, taking turns
at sleeping, then an hours turn at
the paddles. Sleep gives US our
only energy now.
Late in the afternoon we stop
at native hut and buy two chick
ems, some eggs and fish. We camp
a little earlier tonight 10 have
enough daylight to roast the
chickens.
EGGS, FISH INEDIBLE
The eggs are rotten.
The fish Is fnedibie.
Dinner, July 20: Roast chicken.
Everybody is depressed. It was
an adventure for few days. It's
an ordeal now.
Sleep is fitful, and the jungle
noisy.
JULY 81
Padding from dawn to dusk
Empty river except for a boat
manned by three boys. 1t looks
like a cross between a Chinese
sampan and a miniature Roman
galley. We hire IL, tying our RATS
behind. We paddle. while Lieuten-
ant, Grenfell says he feels like Ben
Hur on Roman slave ship. The
oldest boy signals TO huts along
the river and decides this Is as far
as he goes.
We start padding our RATS
again. It's tough. Your stomach
gets knots In il. Your head gets
light. The chocolate-the only food
we have left-is not much help.
REACH AN OUTPOST
At dusk, we approach an out
post that has two painted build
ings. We figure IL Is a sure sign we
are reaching civilization. 1t Is q
pig farm. We get oranges, bananas
and papayas from frightened Is
year-old boy, the only male around
the place. I wonder where all the
men are. -
There Is new moon tonight.
but by 10 o'clock storm clouds
cover ii.
We paddle In utter darkness.
Over in the next boat, Ravey is
singing:
Row. row, row your boat"
SEES STEAMBOAT
About midnight, Ravey sings out
again, a different tune, yelling
about a steamboat around the
bend. II doesn't seem possible. We
yell back for him to shut up.
But he's right.
We begin the most frantic few
minutes Of our trip. Forgetting the
RATS are tied together, we begin
furiously. We shout, but
the noise Of water and the steam
boats motors drown our voices.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14

eating can wreak on a starving
man.
We go TO sleep.
The jungle is quiet that night.
JULY %
It's all over but the shouting
now.
We shave our Today growth OF
beard.
JULY %
We see the light Of a town.
JULY 81
We arrive at a United States
Army Air Force base and officials
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14
REMEMBERS TRAINING

Here in the Jungle. he remem-
bers his training. At first we joke
about il a little and kid him be-
cause he never bothered much
about things religious till he gets
in a jam Later on. we quit kidding
him. We're in a tough spot. and all
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14

We search frantically for a flash
light. It's lost somewhere on the
floor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14
JULY 16

Our satari starts at 8 a. m. We
police up the joint thoroughly on
lKershner's orders. He insists on
army camping regulations even
here In the jungle. We destroy the
secret radio equipment and all
secret papers.
We pillow through the under
brush for half an hour before we
can reach the jungle itself. Push
ing through the jungle Is like un-
tangling yourself from a steel fish
net. Heavy vines wrap themselves
around your arms. legs and even
your neck. Fallen trees litter the
path we hack before us.
We reach the stream about 100
III a. M. It's just a three-foot
rivulet of dank and stagnant
water. For all we know, it's full Of
snakes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14
JULY Is

We allow ourselves the luxury
OF sleeping late this morning. It's
$500 IS o'clock when we finally
get up.
Breakfast-another G. I. stew.
We have decided TO take a
chance on slashing our way
through the jungle and get our
things ready for the long trek.
Our navigator takes a sight. calcu-
lates that we're 80 miles from
civilization.
Lieutenant Kershner curses hui
morously. He's leaving behind a
50-buck blouse. SO is Grenfell and
he's bemoaning the fact that he's
never worn it and wishes now he
worn Il at his wedding.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14
FLARES START FIRES

In the afternoon we shot off
flares. A couple Of them land in
dry grass and start fires. We grab
an extinguiSher and quench them,
afraid that the flames might
spread 10 the plane Kershner Is
determined 20 fly the plane out
some day.
After fire fighting duty we haul
out the rubber life RATS. Each Is
wrapped tightly in tarpaulin to
protect IL IL we march through
sharp branches. We rig up couple
OF poles. Is feet long. and tie the
RATS 10 them so two men can
carry them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14
EAT BIG DINNER

take with me a shelter half,
packed with some extra films for
my camera, the entire supply OF
cigarets and matches, mosquito
bars and head nets and the crews
various personal items such as
Identification cards.
We also plan TO take four ASS,
two 80 rifles. emergency rations,
medical supplies and ammunition.
Dinner tonight-we shoot the
works on the canned stuff. Too
heavy TO carry with US except In
our stomachs.
slept well that night.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14
LIST OF CREW

EllOl - OCNOilu IL. tliA w
Kershner, "a, Enid, Okla, who left
Oklahoma University in his junior
year 10 become an aviation cadet
Co-pilot-Second 1t. Wilfred l.
Grenfell, a graduate OF Oregon
State University. R6, bank clerk
In his home town of McMinnville
Ore, and a cousin of Dr. Wilfred
T. Grenfell, the Labrador mis-
Sionary.
Navigator-Second 1t. Richard
II. Turner of Dubois, Neb., n, and
before the army. music in
structor in a jamestown, Kan.
high school.
mbardier-Second 1t. Eugene
G.. Anderson, u, OF Hatton. N. ID
Tail gunner-Pvt. Morris Pen
nington, an ex-boxcr from Ia
coma, Wash, %, a family man
with a 9-year-old daughter.
Radio operator-Pvt. Jesse II.
Lewis. Anton. Tex. who dropped
out of college in his sophomore
year TO enlist in the air force.
He's %.
Assistant radio operator-Pvt.
Frank Janeshek. 20. a former steel
: mill worker in Foliansbee, w. Va.
Chief engineer-Pvt. Milton Ha-
Ikel Of Saugus. Mass, who's 26 and
now in his third year in the army.
Aerial engineer-Pvt. Robert
Ravey, %, Pasadena, Cal, a me-
chanic before he joined the air
force.
And then myself
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14
FIRST HOT MEAL

And we talk about it for hours
Our first real hot meal tonight
a G.. I. government issue) stew OF
corned beef, baked beans and to-
matoes. Lieutenant Kershner Is
the cook. The feast is served from
our water bucket.
That night we play poker; As
caliber bullets make good chips, II
you have no other chips.
We go 10 bed about 10.
I toss most Of the night, listen
ing to the jungle-strange sounds.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14

There were 10 Of us when Lieu.
tenant Kershner gave the order
10 bail out.
Below us the trees rose 100 feet
into the dusk. and the wildwood
was deep, tangled and tmpene-
trable.
Then, sud denly, a clearing
loomed up out Of the forest.
watched from window. Kersh.
ner, at the controls, never veered
from his course, which was up
10 give us altitude 20 bail out.
Anderso the 21-year-old
walked up front. He yelled in
Kershners' ear. The plane began
losing altitude, circling.
AS we came down II became
darker, for il is way with the
sky at dusk that the lower you 90
the darker its gets, and in the jun
gle. night drops fast.
The plane kept dropping. and
our hopes rose. We were going 10
try IL. Hazel yelled back:
THE LooIe wants TO know II
anybody wants TO jump"
Nobody wanted TO Leave the
plane.
That was Il.
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CONTINUED from Page one)

&were lost. The sea should have
1been below us. But below was a
jungle, dark in the late afternoon
light.
Editors note: Exact location
Is not revealed for military
reasons.)
We had been blown off course.
There were two hours of fuel in
the tanks, and the watches said
night must fall in an hour.
There were 10 of US in the B-24
wnen we were given the order 10
bail out and 10 throw ourselves at
the mercy Of a scrap Of silk and
the Jungle.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14
FIND ANOTHER HUT

We compromise on a couple OF
dozen oranges and take off again.
About 1900 g p. NO. that after
noon we run across another hut.
There are two native canoes in
front, and swimming around the
canoes. four large ducks. We go to
the hut and try TO buy the ducks,
but when the native woman sees
us. she scamperS off into the jun
gle like the chickens.
Lieutenant Anderson shoots the
ducks.
We leave two American dollar
bills in payment.
Further downstream, we meet
two young native boys in canoes.
We finally make them understand
that we are searching for a river.
They lead the way three miles
downstream, and there is the
river.
We've looked for ii a week. .
TRADING POST DESERTED
They leave us at a small trading
post. But the trading post is de-
serted and we paddle two more
miles downstream before finding a
camping spot for the night.
Dinner-Roast duck, oranges.
Just as we are beginning to eat,
a couple of canoe-loads of natives
comes up from the trading post.
They bring US oranges, coffee,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14
TAKES PICTURE

went TO the window with my
camera. 1t was just a cheap cam
era. but IL this was the last pic
ture ever taken, l was going TO
get IL before the crash. / pressed
the lens against a window.
Down we dropped, and farther
brown, and the trees swan into
ocus and stood out sharply. Down
10 800 feet 200 and l clicked
the shutter.
The ship lurched. and somebody
Il think IL was Anderson
yanked me back and yelled:
wanna get killed. Lay
down."
I lay down and braced myself
against the supports inside the
plane, braced myself and waited.
Down here IL was getting quite
dark. 1 had vision of the plane
nosing over and bursting into
awful flame, then smoke spread
ing over the jungle. I held my
breath, heard the rapid brush OF
jungle foliage against the belly OF
the plane as IL skinned a few
feet above the earth.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14

There was a JOLT. was hurled
along the floor. II was all over
The plane shuddered and then was
quite still.
Nobody moved for a second, then
we all climbed down the catwalk
and got out under the bomb bay
doors. AS I leaned over TO crawl
under the side. / got my first touch
Of jungle. a handful OF thorns from
a low bush.
We had landed In what was a
small lake in some ancient day.
Nobody was hurt. Lieutenant
Kershner went over the plane. A
window had been cracked in the
bombardier's compartment. The
landing gear may have been sprung
by the shock of the landing. That
was all.
Half an hour later Il was dark.
We sent up flares, but we heard no
planes. We had dinner-corned
beef. baked beans and a box OF
dog biscuits" Everybody was
happy. We were in a hell Of a spot,
Abut we were all alive.
! That night we slept in the plane
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14
JULY IL

All Of us are awake before dawn
The air is damp and clammy. Now
we know what we have 20 face
For an hour after sun-up we prowl
around in the jungle. What this
reconnaissance diScloses is not
pleasant. There is no game around
here, nor any stream nearby. Our
supply of canned goods and emer-
gency rations is limited
Breakfast, July IA table
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-14
CLEARING LOCATED

And then, myself.
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Careless Paint Job Looks That Way;
Patience Makes Job Worth While

of the furniture you plan to work on,
that it is sturdy for use, that it
has good basic design and line. Re
member that many of the depart
ment stores sell interesting and
versatile implanted furniture, much
of which can be made into very in
teresting and dignified furniture. Or
you can do over old pieces, provided
they're good enough structurally.
Now then, after all that stress on
quality, don't go and pick up bar
gain paint or brushes. You won't
save much since good paint isn't
expensive anyway and it will make
all the difference. So will good
brushes.
In applying paint, be sure to fol-
low the directions on the package
carefully. Tests have been made by
the manufacturer before he has
written the instructions, so it's up
to you to follow them. Don't hurry
the job, but don't be sluggish about
it either. Working at good rate
of speed gives best results.
Consolidated Features-WNU Features.
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planned and on its way to the table.
Safest method for canning vege-
tables is by the pressure cooker.
Your concern here is to be sure to
process the exact. length of time
the vegetable requires, as indicated
by the table at the top. If not prop
erly processed, the food will spoil.
Selecting Vegetables.
Young, tender vegetables, freshly
gathered, give you the best finished
product. Canning cannot remedy
tough, over-mature produce, so do
not expect it to. Nor, should you
expect to can what you cannot dis
pose of at the table while fresh.
Commercial Gamers use vegetables
grown to order, not leftovers, so it
behooves you, homemakers, to take
a tip from them.
Cleanliness is important. You'll
enjoy letting cool water trickle,
trickle, trickle over the vegetables
to free them entirely of every trace
of soil. Any soil left on the vegeta-
BILE can carry bacteria, and thus be
a major factor in spelling an other
wise good product.
Process the jars of vegetables as
soon as they are packed, never al
lowing them to stand around until
YOU get to the serious business OF
canning.
Spoilage Factors.
Mold. Yeast and bacteria cause
food spoilage. They Turk In air,
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Bv ELIZABETH MacRAE BOYKIN

A slap dash paint job on furniture
usually looks just that way. We're
sorry we can't tell you airily how to
splash paint brush around and end
up with little masterpiece. But
like everything else, it takes pains
and patience to do a really good
Job. If you're willing to concede
that point, then you'll find that it
isn't really hard to do.
Having decided that job worth
doing at all is worth doing well, the
next thing to think about is whether
the furniture you have your eye on
is worth the effort. Because, frank
w. a lot of stuff people spend love
and time on is junk to begin with
and an ocean of paint won't make
it anything else. 1t doesn't hurt to
recall the fact that some of the
worlds most formal and beautiful
furniture, especially in 18th century
England and France, was painted,
in short, that one can go Louis XIV
as well as Greenwich Village in
planning a paint job. So be critical
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THIS WEEKS MENU
Raspberry, Cherry Fruit Cup
Lamb Steaks
Dreamed New Potatoes
Buttered Greens
Onion-Orange Salad
Raisin Bread
Custard Pie Beverage
Cooling the Jars.


Proper cooling is important to the
good keeping of canned food. Do not
set them in a draft, but rather away
from one, with jars far enough apart
to allow a free circulation of air
around them.
Stacking the jars or covering them
with cloth does not allow for free
circulation of the air. Jars should
not be packed in boxes or in the
canning cupboard until they are
properly cool.
When the jars are cool, test to
see if they are sealed properly, by
taking a spoon and tapping the lid
gently. If they give off a clear,
ringing sound, they are properly
sealed. If the sound is low and dull,
there's a leak somewhere, and you
would do best to re-can the food,
and prevent spoilage.
Sterilizing Jars, Caps, Lids.
To dip the jars, lids and caps in
hot or warm water is not proper
sterilization. Before placing in ster-
ilizer, wash all caps and jars and
lids in soapy suds, then rinse thor
oughly. Place in a pan on a rack
or on cloth laid on the bottom of
the pan and pour warm water over
them. Bring to a boil and boil for
Is minutes. The equipment may
stay in the hot water longer, until
you are ready to use it.
Speed Is Necessary.
The time from which the vegeta-
bles or fruit are picked and canned
should be pared down to exceed not
more than two hours. Changes take
place in the composition of the food
which makes it less desirable for
canning, each hour it is allowed to
stand without being canned.
Packing the Food.
Sandwiching the food down in the
| jars too tightly prevents the heat
from getting around it and will re-
suit in improper processing. Espe-
cially important is a fairly loose
packing with vegetables like corn,
peas, green's and lima beans.
If liquid boils away or evaporates
during processing, do not replace
this other liquid before sealing the
jar. Even though all the vegeta.
| bles or fruits are not covered with
juice, they will keep perfectly well
provided the contents are cooked
properly and sealed well.
Since tomatoes are technically e
fruit and are acid, they are canned
differently from vegetables.
| Tomatoes.
Scald tomatoes in boiling water
minute. Soak in cold water l min
|
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tirely obsolete are being reclaimed
and rebuilt to meet the great de-
mand for machine tools of all kinds.
''Since June 1, when our drive for
scrap was speeded up" said Mr..
Kelly, ''we have salvaged more than
$40 tons of iron and steel. We are
continuing our campaign and expect
to at least double today's figure. If
we do, we shall have salvaged
enough metal to provide for 60 of
the MS medium tanks which are
built in our shop and which have
made such an impressive showing"
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If you have china plates with
cracked, old faces you probably
subjected them to sudden, great
or mevenly applied temperature
changes. Or perhaps you soaked
the dishes too long in water and
the body expanded, cracking the
glaze.
Use the tab in opening and clos
ing slide fasteners. Don't force
them. Before washing a zip"
garment close the Upper. Guard
it in pressing so the teeth will not
be thrown out of alignment.
When you want to thicken gravy,
put the flour and water into a
wide-mouthed jar, with a screw top
and shake well.
Clothes iron much easier if they
are hung up carefully, pinned
securely with plenty of clothespins
and shaken occasionally to remove
wrinkles.
Wipe greasy pots, pans and
dishes with paper before washing.
If your bread is too fresh to slice
easily, put it into the refrigerator
to get thoroughly cold.