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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1943)
Pacific Correspondent Tells Midway Details (Continued from page one) porting his newspaper career for some time. Waterloo was situated near Cornell college, where he nad be gun to study for the ministry. He later attended Iowa State teach ers college and Drake university. His next chance came when a former college roommate wired him in 1928 to come west to work on his paper, the McMinnville Telephone-Register. Later he was given the news editor’s position on the Coos Bay Times. After a short interval on the Salem Statesman, he eventu ally went to work for the Asso ciated Press in Portland. Two years later he was transferred to San Francisco, where he worked on general assignments until his big break came in December, 1941. After floating about the Pa cific on “pleasure cruises,” not having contacted the enemy for over a month of his sea assign ment, his second break came in July when the battle of Midway made headlines. “A general tension among the cruiser’s personnel was the most noticeable reaction as it became known that contact with the ene my was only a matter of hours,” he began. “As soon as the call to battle was sounded, tension eased up and the men began making wisecracks about ‘I’ll see you in Hell’,” he continued'. “The morale of the officers and men was 100 per cent during the battle.” According to Mr. Webb, the three-day battle covered 100,000 sejuare miles of the Pacific. After the first day the United States forces ruled supreme in the air and from then on the rest of the fleet participated in the victorious running battle which chased the remnants of the Japanese fleet across the ocean. The giant aircraft carrier Yorktown, was left nothing but a “big,black splotch of oil" cover ing the scene of the battle, while American planes returned to the smaller carriers, including the Hornet, reported sunk in a later battle. “I was too intent on recording the battle action as it unfolded all around mo to think about get ting scared," he said. "I was proud to be out there. Every corres pondent feels that he has a job to do and all are glad to do it. I think of the boys out there in uni - form as picked men of the coun try. Every one of them was do ing all he could, regardless of personal danger. It certainly makes a man out of a boy. “My biggest worry was getting the stories back home. Radio sil ence on board ship is not broken for news stories. If a tanker comes alongside the correspond ent can transfer his copy; other wise he can only wait until hi:: ship returns to base or makes contact with a naval sending sta tion on some small Pacific island. That’s the reason for the word “delayed" in the datelines of many stories.” A short, jovial character with lots of personality, Mr. Webb was interrupted often during tne in terview by hospitable Eugeneans phoning him invitations to din ner. Forced by previous commit ments to politely decline, his shrugging comment was, “People are just too damn nice.” Getting back to his story, he continued, “Upon my arrival at Pearl Harbor it was obvious that losses were so great that a full story could not be released for many months. The fleet was bad ly hit. Only a lack of imagination or undue timidity on the part of Tojo prevented the occupation of at least some of the Hawaiian isl ands. It would have been possi ble.” Censorship was a big problem in Hawaii. According to the corres pondent, “Uneducated newsmen and censors made it difficult to get any but prosaic news through. The army, navy, and civilian pop ulation was caught looking out the window and it took weeks for them to recover from their daze.” “The army and navy did a tre mendous job of recovery after Pearl Harbor,” he commented. “The ship repairing done was un believable. Ships which I thought would never sail again were com pletely modernized and ready to sail within a few months.” Asked to give his opinion of the Pacific Coast war attitude, he said, “If people on the coast knew just half of the conditions under which soldiers and sailors are fighting I think they could con form a lot more pleasantly with restrictions, both voluntary ard compulsory, imposed on them.” Old Wax, Nylon (Continued from page one) ters. All records collected will be sent to the USO. Silk or nylon hose are also sought in the drive, committee members report, as these mate rials can be used to make para chutes for future descent into enemy territory. Stocking's gath ered in the drive will be taken to Eugene department stores be fore being sent to silk and nylon factories to be rewoven into new fabrics. No quota has been set for this collection, Marge declared, al though previous campaigns held this year have measured up well past expectations. The drive is being carried on in cooperation with the Lane county war board, coming under the supervision of the University student war coun cil. Friday’s collection is in charge of committee co-chairmen Art Damschen and Marge Curtis, aided by representatives from each of the houses. Tin cans will be collected dur ing winter and spring terms at in tervals of about two weeks. I Ice Cream Our ^ Specialty Dairy Products I Visit Our Modern Dairy Store Toasted Sandwiches — Salads Fountain — Waffles Gustafson’s Dutch Girl 1224 Willamette St. Phone 1932 Fresh Girls to Bug Eye (Continued from page one) son have written a skit based on the activities of the big men on the campus, and' the BMOC will appear in this skit and will de scribe their activities. ' BMOC scheduled to appear are Les Anderson, ASUO president; Steve Worth, ASUO vice-presi dent; Wes Sullivan, Oregana edi tor; Ray Schrick, Emerald editor; Bill Bradshaw, interfraternity council president; Bill Huggins, Skull and Dagger president; A1 Larson, Independent Students’ association president; Jim Thay er, Dads’ Day chairman; Bud Vandeneynde, Co-op board presi dent. Dick Ashcom, varsity right tackle; Russ Hudson, Sigma Del ta Chi president; Ray Packouz, senior class president; Bob Hen derson, sophomore class presi dent; Roger Dick, junior class president; Hank Doeneka, fresh man class president; Len Barde, student war board chairman; Clint Paine, rally squad chair man; G. Duncan Wimpress, Em erald managing editor; Pat Cloud, Scabbard and Blade presi dent; Roy Paul Nelson, Oregana managing editor. The “big men on the campus’’ Oregon Scribes Hold Annual Meet (Continued from page one) W. Allen, dean of the University school of journalism. Among those who will attend are Robert Case, nationally known novelist and short story writer; Governor Earl Snell; retiring' Governor Charles Sprague; R. M. Anderson, business manager of the Longview News (Washing ton) ; Senator Merle Chessman, editor Astorian-Budget; Lt. Cur tice Clark, United States army; Henry Fowler, associate editor Bend Bulletin; Representative Giles French, editor Cherman County Journal; F. F. Janney, war price and rationing office, Port land; Charles Jarrett, Portland federal soil conservationist; Hal Short, of Short & Baum, promin ent advertising agency, Poit land; Walter Smoldt, local adver tising manager of Albany Demo crat-Herald; W. P. Steven, San Francisco representative of By ron Price’s censorship office; and Ben Titus, Portland representat' >. e of Elmer Davis’s office of war in formation. assembly is a Phi Theta Upsilon tradition which began in 1941 and has since been sponsored annual ly by the organization. The Univ. of Cal. has 519 books reduced to microfilm. SUITS Underscored for Spring! • Shetlands • Fleeces • Tweeds $12.75 $14.75 $16.50 Dressmaker styles in smart tweeds, and houndstooth checks! Man-tailored suits in men's fabrics. Xavv or black with p i n stripes. Orides Five -----■> (Continued from page four) J backboard play holding the los ers scoreless in the second half. Abbie Jane White played a nice game for the losers. 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