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.
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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.
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Man-tailored suits in
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Orides Five
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backboard play holding the los
ers scoreless in the second half.
Abbie Jane White played a nice
game for the losers.
Today’s games: 5 p.m.
Indoor court—University house
vs. AOPi.
Outdoor court—ADPi vs. Delta
Gamma.
BATTERY
CHARGED
while vou
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SHOPPING
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brown, beige, chalk.y
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Long slender beadsj^t
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wooden pins with horses’ faces/
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FANCY FARMIN'
Wonderful
sweet - scented ^
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the Herb Farm 'Sji
Shop now has ^
“night .scented '
stock” in the soaps as well as
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you have not been able to get
before—and it comes straight
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’TIS NO PRESSING
PROBLEM
At the Broady ;
way yon canY
buy a skirt of
any color in
the rainbow—
and it will not
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All 23 gores fold right up
against each other. This trick
skirt is just perfect for slip
ping in your suitcase for that
weekend off-campus.
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-all sorts of shapes and col
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now this is just what you need
to put that certain "dash” on
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