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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-06-14

DukulV yet makes IL possible 10
keep the vegetables in attractive
whole pieces.
II you are careful, you can re-
dnce the amount of water called
for in the directions for cooking
quick-frozen vegetables. Carton
directions are based on average re-
suits of test-kitehen experiments
ton using various sizes of pans
and degrees of heat. But if you ex-
pertinent, you can learn just the
right size of pan to use and the
right amount of water to last
through the cooking period. For
example, carton directions call y
cup Of water for cooking frosted
peas. This amount can be reduced
to " cup if the frozen
block is broken up to hasten thaw-
ing and close attention is given to
prevent scorching. Then, if any
vitamin-rich LIQUID is left, it can
be served with the vegetables.
For best results in Dreaming
shortening for cakes, let it stand
at room temperature before using.
1t should be plastic just soft en-
ough to be worked readily with a
spoon. But do not allow shortening
to become soft and do not melt it
even slightly. For when too soft,
shortening will not cream properly
and may cause coarse grain and
poor volume IN cakes.
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-06-14
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD
EQUIPMENT

Having sold my farm will sell the following farm an
household equipment premises at Sandy Spring Nd Rout
Is between Ashton and Olney on
Evening star., 1945-06-28

were performed aboard that valiant
ship today.
But the most fruitful work of all,
perhaps, was performed by the pilots
Of the almost fuelless planes that
had been circling overhead for a
landing when the ship was struck.
In the hours that followed, nearly
300 men went overheard, and the
fact that 269 Of these were picked up
by other ships in the fleet was due,
in no small measure, to the work Of
these sharp-eyed airmen.
Although our own flight deck had
been cleared for their use and they
had been instructed to land on it,
these pilots kept combing every inch
of the surface of the sea, tearing
packets OF dye marker from their
own life jackets and dropping them
to guide destroyers and other rescue
vessels to the little clusters of men
they saw clinging to bits of wreck
age below them. Calculating their
fuel supply to hairs breadth, some
Of them came aboard us with such 9
close margin that a single wave-of1
would have sent them and theil
planes into the sea before they coulo
make another swing about the land.
ing circle and return.
Late today, Admiral Mitscher and
60 or more members of his staff
came aboard us to make this car
rier his new flagship. He was
unhurt-not even singed by the
flames that swept the Bunker Hill
but he had lost three ofncers and
six men OF his own xfe0 and =
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blazing oil well. only worse, for this
fire was feeding on highly refined
gasoline and live ammunition.
For more than an hour there was
no visible Abatement in the fury of
the flames. They would seem to die
down slightly as hundreds of thou
sands of gallons of water and
chemicals were poured on them,
only to burst forth more hungrily
than ever as some new explosion
occurred within the stricken ship.
The carrier itself was listing, and
as each new stream of water was
poured into her, the angle increased
more dangerously. Crippled as she
was she ploughed ahead at top speed,
and the wind that swept her decks
blew the fame and smoke astern
over the fantail, prevented the
blaze from spreading forward on the
flight deck and through the island
structure.
Then, somehow, other men man.
aged to break out the huge openings
in the side of the hangar deck, and
I saw the interior of the ship. That,
I think, was the most horrible sight
Of all. The hangar deck was a
raging blast furnace, white-hot its
entire length. Even from where I
stood the glow of molten metal was
unmistakable.
BY this time the explosions had
ceased and a cruiser and three
destroyers were able to venture
alongside with hoses fixed in their
rigging. Like fireboatS in harbor,
Evening star., 1945-06-28

number of close friends in the
ships company.
As he was hauled aboard in q
breeches buoy across the churning
water that separated us from the
speedy destroyer that had brought
him alongside, he looked tired and
old and plain. downright mad.
But the enemy is already on the
losing end Of the Bunker Hill box
score. Since she arrived in the
Pacific in the fall of 1913, the
Bunker Hill has participated in
every major strike. She was initi-
ated at Rabaul, took part in the
invasions of the Gilberts and the
Marshalls. pounding at Kwajalein
and Eniwetok. With Task Force
So she has struck twice at Tokyo
and also at Truk. the China coast,
the Ryukyus. Formosa, the Bonins,
Two Jima and Okinawa.
During this time the pilots of her
air groups have sunk or damaged
nearly a million tons of Jap ship
ping. They have shot ATS enemy
planes out of the air, 169 of them
during the past two months. In
two days here of Okinawa they
splashed ST japanese aircraft, and
the ship herself has brought down
IA more by antiaircraft fire.
On q raid last March at Kure
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-NuDy FHOLO.
the Bunker Hill could launch her
readied craft and clear the deck for
landing.
Then it was that a man aboard
our ship caught the first glimpse of
three enemy planes and cried a
warning. But before general quar-
ters could be sounded on this ship,
and before half a dozen shots could
be fired by the Bunker Hill, the
first kamikaze had dropped his $50
pound bomb on the ship and
plunged his plane squarely into her
"a waiting planes in a shower of
burning gasoline.
The delayed-action bomb pierced
the flight deck at a sharp angle
passed through the side of the hull
and exploded in midair before
striking the water. The plane. a
single-engined Jap fighter, knocked
the parked aircraft about like ten
pins, sent a huge column of flame
and smoke belching upward, and
then skidded crafty over the side.
Some of the pilots were blown
overheard by the explosion. Many
managed to scramble to safety. But
before move could be made to fight
the flames, another kamikaze came
whining out of the clouds, straight
into the deadly antiaircraft guns of
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harbor, when the Japanese fleet
was hiding out in the Inland Sea.
Bunker Hall planes scored direct
bomb hits on three carriers and
one heavy cruiser, and then sent
torpedoes flashing into the side Of
the enemy's beautiful new battle
ship Yamoto, sinking her.
That is our side of the box score.
In the Jap column stands the fact
that at the cost Of three pilots and
three planes today the enemy killed
a probable total of 1872 of our men,
wounded 264 others and wrecked
a fine and famous ship.
{Copyriaht, 1945. North American NevspS.
per Alliance. Inc. and the New York SUM-
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they pumped great streams Of water
into the ship, and the smoke, at
last, began to take on that grayish
tinge which showed that somewhere
flame was dying.
Up on the bridge, meanwhile, Capt.
George A. Seitz. the skipper, was
concerned about the list his ship
had developed. He resolved to take
a gambling chance. Throwing the
Bunker Hill into a 70-degree turn,
he heeled her cautiously over onto
the opposite beam so that the tons
OF water which had accumulated on
one side were suddenly swept across
the decks and overheard on the
other. This wall of water carried
the heart of the hangar deck fire
with it.
That was the turning point in this
modern battle Of the Bunker Hill.
After nearly three hours of almost
hopeless fighting, she had brought
her fires under control, and though
1t was many more hours before they
were completely extinguished, the
battle was won and the ship had
been saved.
A goodly thick book could not re-
cord all the acts of heroism that
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RESORTS.
MARYLAND.

BEAUTIFUL PASADENA I'M
The ideal vacation spot All land and
water sports. Excellent nshing Nearby
and reasonahle. Restricted clientele.
ERED HARPER Royal Oak. Nd.
MASSACHUSETTS,.
Evening star., 1945-06-28
Eyewitness Describes Bunker HiI|'s 8-Hour Fight
For Life After Being Hitby Two Suicide Planes

the ship. This plane was Jap dive
bomber, . Judy. A dye-inch shell
that should have blown him out Of
the sky set him afire and riddled his
plane with metal But still he came.
Passing over the stern of the ship, he
dropped his bomb right in the middle
Of the blazing planes. Then he
tipped over and torched through
the flight deck at the base of the
island
The superstructure which con-
tains many of the delicate nerve
centers from which the vessel Is
commanded and controlled, was in
stantly enveloped in flames and
smoke which were caught in turn by
the maws of the ventilating system
and sucked down into the inner COM
partments of the ship. where the
water-tight doors and matches had
just been swung shut and battened
down. Scores of men were suffo-
Gated in these below-deck chambers.
Minutes later a third Jap suicider
zoomed down to finish the job. Ig-
noring the flames and the smoke
that swept around them, the men
in the Bunker Hills gun galleries
stuck, to their posts, pumping am
munition into their weapons and
filling the sky with a curtain OF
protective lead. 1t was q neighbor-
ing destroyer, however, which finally
scored = direct hit on the Jap and
sent him splashing harmlessly into
the sea.
That was the end of the attack
and the beginning Of the fight for
survival. The entire rear end of the
ship by this time was burning with
uncomfortable fury. 1t looked very
much like the newsreel shots of a
Evening star., 1945-06-28
BY PHELPS ADAMS,
Washinston Correspondent of the New
York Sun.

Wasu1uStou correspondent OF the new
York Sun.
ABOARD A FAST CARRIER IN
THE FORWARD PACIFIC AREA,
May II Delayed Two japanese
suicide planes carrying 1,10o pounds
Of bombs plunged into the flight
deck of Vice Admiral Marc A.
Mitschers own flagship early today,
killing several hundred officers and
men and Transforming one of our
biggest and finest f1attops into
floating torch with flames soaring
nearly thousand feet into the sky
For eight seemingly interminable
hours that followed the ship and
her crew fought as tense and terri
flying a battle for survival as has
ever been witnessed in the Pacific,
but when dusk closed in the U. S. S.
Bunker Hill-horribly crippled and
still filmed by thin wisps of smoke
and steam from her smoldering
embers-was valiantly ploughing
along under her own power.
From the deck of neighboring
carrier few hundred yards distant
I watched the Bunker Hill burn.
1t is hard to believe that men could
survive those flames, or that metal
could Withstand such heat.
Fleecy-white, 1ow-hanging clouds
studded bright sky to conceal the
intruders from lookouts manning
all the stations on the ships of
Task Force So. Not until the Japs
began their final, screaming plunge
from the cover of these clouds did
the kamikazes become visible.
Since there was no sign of the
enemy and because the Bunker Hill
and her men were weary after So
consecutive days in the battle zones
OH Two Jima, Tokyo, the Inland Sea
and Okinawa, her crew was not at
general quarters when she was hit.
For the first time in a week, our
own ship had retired from general
quarters an hour or two before.
So it was on the Bunker Hill. Ex-
hausted men not on watch were
catching a catnap. Aft on the
flight deck "a planes were waiting
to take of. Their tanks were filled
to the last drop with highly vola-
tile aviation gasoline. Their guns
were loaded to the last possible
round of ammunition.
Just appearing over the horizon
were the planes returning from an
early mission. They jockeyed into
the landing circle and waited until
Evening star., 1945-08-21

Advise, Anticipate, Reply, Etc.
To the Editor Of The Star:
l am writing to express my confusion
and doubt with respect to prevailing
and frequent use of certain simple or
common words appearing these days in
newspapers and magazines. In my
youth 1 had been led to believe that
newspapers were careful in the use of
words and to rely on them. But now 1
am uncertain
1t appears that I am no longer able
to obtain information or be informed.
If call your office and ask for todays
baseball results I am advised of the
score. I don't want advice-merely in
formation.
Nothing anymore is expected-every-
things anticipated. I always thought
that to anticipate something had to be
done beforehand. One of your recent
headlines read somewhat like this, War
was anticipated but country was unpre-
pared" Reads like a contradiction.
Does no one now ever dns,Uer a ques-
ton? From all read, learn that no
inquirer ever receives an answer, only a
reply.
How about "shambles?" This is used
for almost anything in disorder. Isn't
this but a slaughter house?
That's all for now and pardon my
temerity. H. J. HALL.
Evening star., 1945-08-21
This Changing World
BY Constantine BrOOn

efforts toward restoration of democracy
in that country.
The administration is expected to
follow henceforth a consistent line of
policy in Europe. The end of the war
is likely also to see the end Of foreign
policy based primarily on "expediency,"
as has been the case in the last three
years. Although this country is far
from Europe, it still enjoys high
prestige in spite of past political mis-
takes and the fact that all the European
peoples realize that We are the only
source from which they can obtain
much needed material assistance.
BY merely following policy of with
holding recognition We can place
dictatorial regime in severe predica-
ment. People can be fed for limited
time only on speeches and theories of
a finer world as conceived by the
Georgievs, the Titos, the Grozas and the
other small-time dictators. A reign of
terror can keep a population in check
for some time. But when the larder
remains empty and conditions such as
prevail in Europe today continue for
long time, no dictator can hope to re-
main in power regardless OF how many
secret policemen he has.
This is already noticeable in Yugo-
slavia, where leaders who in the past
were wholly devoted to the present
regime have begun to grumble and
show unmistakable signs Of dissatisfac-
ton.
Vice Premier Milan Grol Of Yugo-
slavia resigned last Sunday because he
realized that the government in which
La 1,oI tn
a year ago does not represent the DEM
ocratic ideas he thought it would. He
did not object to many of the arbitrary
decisions taken by Marshal Tito, backed
by a hand-picked national assembly.
But when it became obvious to Grol
that he was being made a convenient
tool and that neither America nor
Britain would indorse elections as Titos
OZNA (secret police had planned, he
decided to quit.
Men like Grol, and the four Bull
garian ministers who resigned last week
end, may be considered, in the light of
the edicts which are described as laws
by these totalitarian governments, as
subversive elements and Fascist sympa-
thizers The penalty is either con-
hnement IN concentration camp or
deportation.
The State Department is keeping a
watchful eye on the developments in
Europe The amount Of assistance the
continental countries can hope to re-
ceive from the United States depends
largely on whether they return to
government which is the expression Of
their own peoples free will. The war
is over and this government is not
likely to shut its eyes to the depressing
methods of the various dictators be-
cause of military considerations"
The United States and Britain are
in full agreement that free elections
on the pattern of those in this country,
and more recently in Britain, must be
held in all the European countries
which hope to obtain our recognition
and the advantages they will derive
from such recognition.
Evening star., 1945-08-21
Alarm in Washington
BY Rayn NJ oley

is estimated that 5000 900 must be sub
tracted, because of the men in the
armed forces and the normal labor
float" or turnover The committees
estimate of demand for goods is high
1t is 40 per cent over 1899. II that
proves to be correct, there will be nearly
54,000,000 available jobs. AS is true of
any such composite estimate, there are
thousands of Ifs" in these figures. The
biggest assumption is that the Govern
ment will do everything possible to
remove restrictive controls and try the
grand experiment of letting things find
q natural level
But the administrations hasty reme-
dies offer no assurance that it has any
faith in things finding a normal and
healthy level. The Murray fun employ
ment bill is the assurance in principle
that Government spending can aid, not
hinder, abundant private employment
A practical fact thereupon confronts
the sponsors of the Murray BILL It is
really not an emergency measure. The
preparations for it indicate that the bill
can hardly pass the Senate before early
October. Then the House must spend
some weeks on it, Whatever may be
the optimistic expectations of the bills
sponsors, they cannot hope to get it
passed and signed before November.
The operation of the mechanics of the
bill would then have to 60 over q year.
That's long time in the future in
such days as these. About all the bill
would set up, therefore, would be a
theory OF Government spending with
which q vast number of our people
disagree. There are more immediate
questions which might well occupy our
law makers meanwhile.
(Rsleased b. the Associated Nswspspers, hel
Evening star., 1945-08-21
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

1t is now almost "a years since the
admission to the Union of the last two
States, Arizona and New Mexico. which
Congress voted into the Union in the
early winter of 1912 Should Alaska or
one of the other possession mentioned
be admitted, it would mean two addi-
tional members of the Senate and at
least one more member of the House.
What Congress will think about these
new proposals for statehood is not yet
clear-but the prospects are they will be
carefully scrutinized before any favor
able action Is taken. Secretary Ickes has
made no favorable recommendation SO
far regarding either Hawaii or Puerto
Rico. Delegate harrington of Hawaii
this summer introduced a statehood bill,
and similar bills were offered by Rep
resentative Hill of Maine and Represent
ative La Toilette of Indiana Senator
Tydings of Maryland, chairman Of the
Senate Committee on Territories, and
Resident Commissioner Pinero of Puerto
Rico have introduced three-way bills
proposing statehood, dominion status or
independence for Puerto Rico. On none
of these measures, however, has there
been any action.
Alaska was purchased from Russia for
$1,000 900 in 1867. Since that time some
100000 900 in gold has been taken from
the mines. But gold is by no means the
sole mineral of great value found in
Alaska. Silver, copper, lead, tin, tungsten,
platinum are among the other mineral
deposits found there. And there is coal
in great quantities, although it has been
impossible to do much with it, owing to
lack of transportation.
In the early days of American owner
ship, the Army was responsible for
Alaskan affairs-until 1877 Thereafter
for seven years, the Treasury Depart
ment took over. In 1877 an act of Con-
gress extended to Alaska the laws of
Oregon, provided for the appointment of
governor and for district courts Since
then further measures of self-govern-
ment were enacted for the territory, and
in 1906 Alaska was given the right to
send delegate to Congress. Half
dozen years later provision was made for
a territorial legislature
This huge territory is still awaiting its
real development, which officials of the
Interior Department believe is now just
around the corner Indeed, they see a
prospective 50 900 increase in population
In the next few years.
Evening star., 1945-08-21
New Coventry Cathedral

Plans for the rebuilding of Cow
entry Cathedral, recently an
nounced, will be of interest to
friends OF Washington Cathedral
because, like the great unfinished
work at Mount Saint Adams the
new structure is to be "a house of
prayer for all people" A feature
OF the design is so-called "chapel
OF unity" which is to belong to tbe
Free Churches as we'll as to tho
Church of England. The Bishop of
Coventry will have his throne within
the walls as he had in the old Saint
MichaePs, destroyed by German
bombs in the Battle of Britain. But
the new fame also will afford ac-
commodations for other clergy. and
II IS hoped that the result NAV be
Christianization of the whole COM
munlty. Before the war some 80 ner
cent of the population of Coventry
confessed no religious affiliation
Whatever. Such spiritual isolation
was reproach to the town, and the
rebuilding program, as the present
diocesan leader, Bishop Gorton, sees
IT, will afford Coventry chance to
90 Tor itself something more than
a mere construction job.
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, architect
OF Liverpool Cathedral, is respon-
sible for the rebuilding composition.
He has retained in his design the
nne perpendicular tower and steeple
raised more than three hundred feet
against the sky between 1878 and
1883 and still intact despite the
LuttWaffe. The surviving outer
walls, undestroyed chapels and the
OLD sanctuary likewise are incorpo-
rated in the drawing. Seemingly, it
is intended to leave the burned-out
nave clear as a lawn or garden in
the manner of Elgin in Scotland
The style of the new work is to be
Gothic, but a modern interpreta-
ton" is to be given to the ancient
tradition-without going too radical.
Washingtonians who have visited
Coventry, Of course. will watch the
Evening star., 1945-08-21
Let Nature Take Its Course

Long before the war made it nee
essary for other reasons there was a
time when a top limit on the num-
ber of taxicab licenses seemed ad-
visable For, while the public was
enjoying cheap and very available
taxicab service, the drivers them
selves-driven to the business by the
depression-were having hard
time making both ends meet, and
public regulation was, to say the
least, chaotic.
But now that the Office of De-
fense Transportation has lifted its
war-imposed limitation on the num-
Der of taxicabs, and the artiflcially
maintained price of licenses has
dropped almost overnight from fig
ures in the neighborhood of thou
sand dollars to the legal fifteen, the
law of supply and demand should
be invoked and the number of cabs
should be allowed to find its own
level, without restraint.
Representatives of the taxi drivers
and owners may argue otherwise
and seek to place another legal
maximum on licenses issued. But
this would require legislation, and
it would not be in the interests of
the public. Washington is made
quately served by taxicabs now, and
the overwhelming demand for such
transportation has made efficient
regulation difficult, with many, if
not all, of the drivers looking for
short, profitable runs and having
things pretty much their own way
with helpless public.
1t probably will be some time
even if there is a new demand now
for hitherto unavailable taxicab
licenses-before there will be enough
cabs on the street to furnish ade-
ouate service. Until that time
comes, further artificial restraints
on the number of cabs should be
out of the question.