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X Ji- f PAG2 SIX. US Battle Wagon Gets Baptism of Fire At Savo MancTs f50 Minutes of Hell9 NEW YORK, April 2M me soutn jfacuic while protecting American carriers from aerial attack She did the job so well that a carrier admiral radioed to his planes: "Stay away from that big Dastard, when she. gets through amp aas been Known ever since, and her men wouldn't swap the nickname for a general citation. This is the story of the ship's first surface action, pieced together from accounts of t h e ship's crewr try Kebertrisaxwartz, yeo man second class and navy corres pondent for Yank, the army week ly. ; . The action . part of what's known in naval annals as the fifth battle of the-Solomons began at dusk on Nov.. 14, 1842. A task force consisting of Jhe.&ig Bastard and several other battleships and de stoyers had cut away from its carrier for a little show of its own. And at Savo island, just north of Guadalcanal, it found a nest of hiding Jap ships ., , . Hedren Othella Patrick, yea man first class, ' talker on the highest lookoat post, remembers seeing the lap ships come up. He saw the first salvo leave the . flagsb up ahead. His next rec "eUectio Is of being thrown "against a Iralkhead and finding somebody's arm, without a body 'across his face, J ' Ta dead, he thought Here I am dead. This is what it's like to be dead. " But '-the earthly touch of shrapnel in his knee and hip convinced him he was still alive. The two. officers lay dead. Seven enlisted men were stiLL Four wounded looked at . Patrick, not knowing what ta do next. . "Patrick ordered the two least wounded -to go below, and then put tourniquets on. the other two, using their own belts. He applied the same treatment to his own knee .. . . then remembered to loosen ail three every 15 minutes throughout the night. He hunted a long time for morphine and di vided it with the others. As he was about to take his share of the sedative he. noticed that several of the men he had thought dead were stirring . -. . he divided his -No. Synopsis of Annual Statement of the Century insurance Company. Ltd- of Edinburgh. Scotland, -on the thirty first day of December. 192, made to the Inraronce Commissioner of the State of vregon. pursuant to law: capita Statutory Deposit .S 500.M0.M Nt nrtifaui received dur- . the rear .f4.06fljna.57 In terest, dividend mod rents reeeivod during the year U8,6S.4a Income frosn other sources .received during the year 503434.CJ Total ..$4,731,146.67 Dlsbnsseaeeatt Ket losses paid during the year jackaling oJust- 9 .820.77 CommlsskKis and salaries paid during, the -year 1,033,381.87 Taxes, --licenses and fees paid-dur-ag -the year 61.379.71 PivldeneVi paid "On - capital stock during the year tag t None B5.87g.40 Amount of all other expen- diture Total expenditures ..S-i.0C2,76OJ5 Admitted Assets Value of real estate owned (market value) ,. Loans on mortgages and collateral, etc Nona None Value bonds ow n e d (amortized) .91,370,55443 Value of stocks owned (market value) 1.876,662.01 Cash in banks and on .hand 1,190.495.70 Premiums in course of col . lection written since Sep- ' tember SB. 1942 355.379.11 Interest ad rents due -and accrued - - 10.07236 Other assets (net) 86.08s .20 Total admitted assets 4,8895e33 UakiUUes Cross Claims for- losses un- . paid .. ..S1.330,r7s,71 . Amount of unearned pre - miums on all outstanding risks ; . . 1.616.863.64 Due : for commission and brokerage 20.98539 All other liabilities 115J3&J3 Total liabilities, except capital S3.034.184.8 Statutory- Deposit . $ 500,000.00 Surplus over all - Uetrifctiej 1,355,083.47 Surplus as regards poacy holders .S1.855.0S5.47 Total S4.889.2S0.33 Biilimi -tn Oreooa -for tbe Tear Ket premiums reoetved .dur ing the year L S1S.274S9 Ket losses- paid during the year 4.051.70 Nam or pompon. The Century-In auranca Company Ltd. Name of US. Manager, L. J. Tinman. Name of .Secretary. JR. H. Gwrn. Stataiaiy resident-attorney for serv ice. John SchibeL Reg. 15c i I I f I i I I A Complete Garden loot at a I W XV I I - The "Big Bastard," a United States battleship, got her nickname in shooting down Japs, shell use share among mem. He didn't feel heroic. He didn't even think . Patrick was the only enlisted man of the crew who was recommend ed for a navy cross." ' '"Safe Mathewson,; yeoman . second class, took his post as a talker la the; conning tower . v aherUy after midnight the loudspeaker carried a cold stea " dy voice. from plot room. Tar- . get 2S.00S yards, bearing 249 degrees . . target 19,80 yards, bearing 241 degrees .' "There was a terrific explosion up ahead. Mathewson dashed to one of the slits and felt his stom ach drop as he saw a battleship ahead silhouetted by flame. "From over the phone came the admiral's voice: 'Fire when ready. . . Shells screamed out. The captain and the navigator were jarred away from the 'scopes, but voices came in over the phone. 'Right on! solved! - 'Looked like a cruiser. Taat was a batUeshipr In rapid succession Mathewson heard a "loud crash, a rolling ex plosion, and then the searing rat tle of metal fragments as they crashed -into cables, guns and su perstructure. The ship shrugged. leaned -back into a volley of 6 and 8-inch shells that raked through the sky control tower, topmost position on the ship . . . Her range finders set on .the enemy fire, "Big B swung her heavies into play, sunk her first target and blew up her second. Meanwhile Jap guns exploded three US destroyers. The third No. 21-27 .. Synopsis Of Annual Statement of the National Casualty Company of Detroit, in the State of Michigan, on the thirty first day of December, 1942, made ' to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Oregon, pursuant to law: Capital Amount of Capital stock paid up - f 1.000.000.00 i Income Net premiums received dur ing the year S4.BO0.B33.71 Interest, dividends and rents received during the year Income from other sources received during the year 139.903.14 18,69348 Total income . .. Disbursements S4J57.45440 Net losses paid during the -year -tnnluritwg adjust ment expenses $2,736,413.17 Commissions and salaries paid -dtiMg the year 1.639.381.64 Taxes, licenses and fees paid durina the year 160.208.43 Dividends paid on capital stock during the year 100.000.00 Amount of all other ex- penditures ' 460,542.33 Total expenditures S3.116.S43.59 Admitted Assets Value of real estate owned (market value) S 8.038.53 Loans on mortgages and and collateral, etc. None Value - of bonds owned (amortized) 3.595 M2JT1 Value of stocks owned (market value) 694.720.00 Cask in banks and on hand 703,449.10 Premiums in course of col lection written since Sep tember 30. 1942 705.293.03 22,090 J6 209.342.18 Interest and rents due and Other assets (net) Total admitted assets $5 ,940.873.47 j mgiunei Gross claims for losses un paid S1.124.330 87 Amount ox unearned pre miums -on all outstanding ruxs 1,309,906.76 Due for commission and brokerage 193.879.37 All other liabilities 1.062.756.67 Total liabilities, except capital t3.880.87J.47 i Capital paid up Sl.000,000.00 surplus over au uaDume 150,000.00 Surplus as regards pol icyholders S2J50.000.00 Total : $540373.47 stnesa ib uregon Ier tbe xear Net premiums received dur- Ing -the rear .410,789 SO Net losses paid durtnc the year St8S Name of Company, National Casual ty cost any. Name of Tresldent. W. O. Curtis. Name of -Secretary. W. C Butterfleld. StatMtery- resident attorney for serv ice, a . omusv jrwuano. Oregon. PDw..,.. VHh Coupon (p)o i liaTaJt l ib. V - i Uao for oaanlng and soallng fetlios or I , .xrttlta. Told aftor May , lAl . ' .' 'd Sfayer Dmg gertiee) ' :'. i i i i i Fitch's Cleansing Cream With Coupon ri (fie 3 Keeps the skin smooth and clear of dirt I and oiL Void after May S. IMS. 1 yrW Meyer Ors Seetfen . 1 for victory Gardeners I 0 h Ona Gcrdca Tool 1 tat- " '; O S Ov :., I J Unit! 1 Hera is a gardea tool that is easy ta handle . yet servos tbe purpose of 8 different gardea tools. A Victory Gardea help. Void after I May t, 1943. . . Thm you for target practice. And so the target was a Kongo, class battle ship that passed i the starboard beam of Big B and was cut In half by a salvo "from her No. ! turret aft. Her secondary batter ies continued to oour 'fire into eight Jap destroyers, hiding la cove . . ? "One of the lookouts kept re peating in a low; voice: Lord, Fm scared. Nobody has any Idea how scared I am. How could anybody be this scared.' He said that over and over. No body thought It strange. There was a lull then. The ship steamed alone in a circle of burn ing ships. The admiral's vessel had disappeared in the darkness. Into the narrowest part of the cove came four more enemy ships. The second one threw search lights on the Big B and she opened fire. From her rear came support ing salvos, indicating that the ad miral's ship was still in the fight The assistance was welcome for Big B was being pounded hea vily by the guns of three hard punching Jap warships. Six and 8-inch shells ripped through the top of her superstructure, then cut into her secondaries. Her deck was riddled with shrapnel . Fire broke out in the tattered super structure. Wreckage lay every where ... Big B kept right on rolling. 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