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T h e K e stu cca V alley F irst, L a s t and a ll tlie Tim e. GOOD ROADS, GOOD HOMES, B E S T CH EESE NO. 8 CLOVERDALE, TILLAMOOK COUNTY, OREOON, SEPTEMBER 20,1917 VOL. j 3. gling aud potting a G erm an b attle ship?” " T h a t’s a good deal like”— began one of the o th er boys, but before he could finish the sentence a m essenger cam e '“r t i y A K E care of your money and it will take care of you. in and spoke to the “R rass H a t,” who ylafcj) Some time in your life you will ueed the help that a little was am ong us, which is to say he spoke to the senior officer* tu j. ready money affords. If you take care of your present “Como on, old chappies.” said ih a t income, you will accumulate a surplus fund that may be used iu Individual. “ W e can’t w ait fo r the case of sickness or loss of steady income. Begin by opening a Inst drink Snn Is bringing. A little job is on our hands.” Saving Account at this Bank and then’ deposit a portion of the As w e ran down the w h arf the men money received. We welcome Savings Account in any amount in th e chnscrs sta rte d the m otors, and from a dollar upwards. Your money will be n&fo and earn inter by the tim e we had tum bled pellmeU est, so that your account will grow, both by your deposits and in- into the boats they w ere read y to got teiest additions, aw ay. Speeding through the Solent, still Ig 4 Per Cent Paid ou Savings and Time Deposits. Best Banking Facil no ran t of our errand except for the i t i e s in Town. B rass H at, w e passed m iles of ship- plug tied up in tbe harbor w aiting for cargoes or to be unloaded. Established in 1902 I.ater on th e B rass H at, whose boat Tillamook, - - Oregon w as leading th e line because of his rank, signaled to us th a t w e w ere i --------------------------------------------------------------------■ ■ ------------------------------------------- ------------- ------------ ____ ___ a fte r a su b m arin e which a hydroplane i ___ _________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________. had sighted off th e Isle of W ight. "streak o f d irty grease” or “line of circle round nml n uinl the spot an d bubbles.” The IT Eoat Chase. drop depth bombs deadly m achines, Brass HRt Still Stranded. Offshore a short d istan ce w as n pa i T hese a re pow erful explosive* which trol boat lying very low iu th e w ater T he B rass H ut is signaling now for tire set so they w ill <uHm«te at a cer and flying d istress signals. W e ran us to go over and help him off. No tain depth. W e first sounded the bot over to her and learned th at ab o u t nn body pays any a tten tio n to those o r tom and then set o u r bom bs fo r ten hour before the periscope of n su b m a ders H e w a n ts to run tilings and get fathom s. S u d d en ly *1 hear a cry from rine had been stuck up not fa r from the IT I'ont him self, but w e w on’t give tbe 1 oat behind us. One of the Crew her; then th e craft had subm erged, him the chance. L a te r we will toil reaches < of. g rab s the collar of a m an appeared aj-ain about a m ile aw ay and him we d id n ’t see his d istre ss signals. who lias Ju st dropped a depth bom b fired four shots, which let in enough Now ho trios to direct the procedure over the ste rn and y an k a h ’m uncere w a te r slowly to sink th e patrol, w hich from w here lie Is. but we are like n lot m oniously into tbe coA pIt. At a before th e w ar had been nothing but a of bounds released from restra in t. glance 1 r.ee w h a t has happened. dirty little traw ler. The one Idea o f our lives Is to get th at T he ein 'mem- has stal «1 his m otor Finding the crew of tbe patrol could LT boat. ju s t as the 1 m mb is let go. It sinks tak e care o f them selves in th e ir sm all All o f ns have tow ing torpedoes out. slow ly, and th ere Is a slight m om en These are bom bs on long cables, which t-mi left In th e su b m arin e chaser. We are tow ed a ste ru and sink to a certain hoi I < n r lu entli and w atch in suspense, specified depth. If th e cable fouls a n y expecting r u y second to' zee onr com thing at all as the boat goes ah ead tlio rad es hurled into the a!r am ong a bomb pulls up to It. and w hen it bum ps m ushroom i f w a te r and splinters. T h ere Is no w ay to help them . Sud it explodes. We are In line. Suddenly th ere is a denly th e re is a rutaffled roar, a colum n crash and a ro ar Just abend o f ns. 1 of w a te r rises to w h at seem s a hu n am throw n off iny feet. B arrels of w a dred feet and falls back, drenching ter sp lash dow n Into our co kptt and every one w ho is n e a r it. But our com roll off th e decks. T he bow lifts Itself rades are u n h u rt. T he m om entum of clean for a second. 1 th ink th a t the th eir b o at h as carried thaui Ju st fa r subm arine has blown us up. P erh ap s enough to sav e them from being blown I am dead already. j Money will Take Care of You i Thrilling Tales of U Boat Hunting, Told by an American Boy Who Served For Months With the British Fairol and Who Did the Thrilling and Perilous Work That Is Now Being Done by Hundreds of Other American Boys. . . ------1 ■ ■■•am No. 1 Chasing U Boats With Sea Slugs By A SEA SLUG, British Service Name For Crews of Submarine Chasers. C op yright, 1917, b y th e d icate, I n c . —— & = ■— B e ll Syn — —------.--. ■■ ■ ■ .a “T hey can talk all they w an t to about tbe science o f subm arine busting," said one of th e boys, “b u t t b e lt's ju s t one th in g th a t gets su b m arin es—luck. All the schem es th e wise heads devise c a n ’t come up to one little piece o f good for tune.” “ Righto," said a su b altern w ho h ad ju st w hispered som ething into the ear of San. th e girl w ho serves d rin k s' a t j “The K n u t." “ You tak e Max H orton, now, th e m an who torpedoed the j Moltke. “T he w hole th ing is m ostly luck. I t’s luck when we pot a sub, tuid it's luck w hen a sub pots anything. I had th is | arn stra ig h t from Max him self. "H e w as subm erged in one of our subs, an E boat, ‘som ew here under the J ocean,’ aud the plum bing w en t out of com m ission. It isn 't very pleasan t in a su b m arin e ^ n y way. T h e sm ells and | th e stale a ir w hen you a re running j subm erged a re enough to m ak e m any a i m an sick who never tu rn ed a h a ir a t th e roughest sea while he w as afloat. “ Well, as I w as saying, th e plum b ing w ent out of com m ission ju s t as H orton w as d ressin g an d had w ashed up. He h ad n 't put his tro u sers on us yet. He ordered the c ra ft to th e su r face so one of the m echanics could m ake re p a irs to the plum bing and m eanw hile w ent on dressing. TILLAMOOK COUNTY BANK PROLOGUE. The author o f this series o f fo u r a rti cles is a young Am erican, tvho has spent m ost o f his tim e since the tear started tcith the B ritish patrol fleet, takin g an im portant part in helping to organise th a t branch o f the service kn o w n as th e Sc a Slugs < subm arine chasers). H e has accum ulated a rem arkable collection o f anecdotes incident to this exciting branch o f the service, and m a n y of these ia r c personal adven tures *»» w hich he took part and w hich m a ke one o f the stirring narratives to come out o f the tear, lie recently re turned to the U nited S ta te s to a sist the A m erican n a ry in organising the Surprised at Seeing Moltke. sam e branch o f dlie service and should “H e w as stan d in g on oue foot while be o f great value because o f his experi ence abroad. So fa r as know n he is the sticking the o th er through a tro u sers only Am erican who s a v e d w ith the leg ju s t as th e periscope of the subm a B ritish patrol prior to the tslv c n t of rin e stuck o u t above the surface. “ Suddenly a seam an broke into his our destroyer flotilla in B ritish w aters. O f course some o f his experiences, of caJLiin and yelled, “T h e re ’s a G erm an m ilita ry value to the enem y, cannot be w a rsh ip on our starb o ard q u arter, sir!” "‘M ax kicked him self free of his “W h lz-z -z l sang the to r p e d o . Bang! related. A t the request o f the service w e n t th e M o ltk e .” tro u se rs quicker thnn you could w ink, publication o f his nam e is w ithheld. an d in a m a tte r of seconds he w as boats and learning th a t the subm arine b e n t over one of tb e fo rw ard torpedo had run over to the w estw ard, w here E w ere nil sit tin}; aro u n d tables tu b e s sig h tin g on the vessel ahead of we knew chain net tra p s to be laid, we in "T h e K im t” a t K eppler’s him . T he silhouette lo o k show ed she circled iu th a t direction. H ead, d rin k in g pink gin and w a s tlie b a ttle cru iser Moltke. O ur pow erful m otors thrum m ed “it,” “it" being A ngostura bittern. We “ Whte-z-z! sang the torpedo. Bang! evenly. T he w ater seem ed to part w ere a crow d of “sea slu g s,'’ a s those ■went th e Moltke. Max subm erged aliiuid of us. and the g u nners squinted w ho m an th e IJ boat ch asers urc coin ag ain aud finished p u ttin g on bis tro u along the surface. monly and unlovingly culled by th e re a t sers. R a th e r clever, don’t you th in k — Suddenly off to th e w est we m ade of th e service. s ta n d in g th e re w ith his sh irt tails clan out her periscope. In ten se joy thrilled our little crew s. She wns Inshore from us. She w as betw een our circu lar course and tbe chain nets--in the trap. T be periscope we had seen m ight lie a dum m y, fo r a subm arine frequently c a sts loose a phoney periscope to d raw fire, but a t any .a te she m u st Ijave been betw een us and the n ets If she cut It loose. P resen tly , probably a fte r a look around, tb e periscope suddenly d isap peared. aud we knew It w as a real one w ith a G erm an U bout on the end of it. T he B rass H at, in Lis ow n boat, was. of course. In the lead. T h a t w as Ids p rero g ativ e ns well us his duty. Like a flock of falcons we w ere sw ooping dow n on the prey. A bruptly th e lead boat comes to a dead stop and lists heavily to s ta r board. E vidently som ething is w rong We see men craw l out over the steru and fish around w ith boat kooks and poles. Cold «■ R Is one m an goes over board and rem ains u n der w a te r so long we could not believe he would com e up alive. W e can see the B rass H at gesticu lating as we run in closer. W e c a n ’t hear w h at he la saying, but w e have a p re tty good idea. W e’ve listened to IERE ¡9 an old 6ayin/' that “any fool can make a dollar, him before w hen d istressed. One of but it takes a wise man to hold it.” TheTe is one pure bis m en signals th a t the boat has foul way of holding the dollar, and that is to bank it. When ed th e chain nets. W e w ouldn't dare cheer, but w e are Inclined th a t way. a man deposits bis surplus he is loath to draw it out. Everybody Ukea to put It over a B rass On the contrary, if he ‘carries the money on bis person there al H at. and now th f-e are only five o f *»» ways is the temptation to spend. Bank your money ¡vith us. to sh are th e glory a t the finish. Each o f ua stan d s a b etter chance of being th e one to give the subm arine its conge. S --------------------------------------- ---- ;___ _____ _____________________________________ ■ _____ — 9 C ircling round in an even sm aller radius, w e search th e w afer for a peri scope. a shadow o r tb e conventional W T cash NESTUCCA VALLEY BANK Cloverdale, Oregon, T hen w e settle down again, an d ex cept for a scared look on th e faces o f a couple o f men and ra th e r nervous, forced Jests ou the Ups of others we are plow ing ahead Just as before. N othing has happened e x ie p t the tow ing torpedo of the boat In fro n t of us in th e line fouled a subm erged sp ar o r a Lil of w reckage und exploded right u n d er our bow. “ If wo had been •a few y ard s closer we would never have been th ere any m ore." As we realized w h at had happened our tongues w ere loosened, and if the crew of tho boat ahead could have beard w h a t wo said ulioiit th em we would have lost th eir friendship m ost assuredly. W ay inshore, a fte r a circling chase of perhaps tw en ty m inutes, the su b m arine cam e up. She w as in such shallow w a te r th a t she probably w as having trouble in o p eratin g subm erged Sbe w as gone then. W hat follow ed w as very businesslike. It Illu strates th e o tlltu d e th e B ritish have come to tak e tow ard th e bu I h niurines l ocalise o f th e ir flagrant vio lations of e 'e r y form of International law and decency, it Is tb e a ttitu d e w hich any country obliged to tight •g a in s t them will assum e. T o the B ritish m ind subm arines m ust be ex term in ated Just as one would e x te r m inate a n est of poisonous vipers o r a nest i f bo<nets. People ask me bow m any sub m arin es n .e Lying captured now. Very fejv. Many a re destroyed, but few captured. No sooner did the hull of the su b m a rine show Itself than w e began to ham m er her w ith our th ree limb guns. Mi" opened fire, b u t her shots w ent wild, and In a few seconds she disap- I>eared. As fast as w e could we ran o v er to w here she had gone dow n. If the principles w hich obtain on land, in tho a ir or In th e navy a t large existed in su bm arine w a rfa re we would have gone over to see if we could rescue any of tb e w ounded, b u t it w as a ! U tioat, and wo sim ply m ade sure th a t ! there w as nothing le ft of th e c raft. Some Bubbles, A Dressy T a tc li— T h afs All. About w here she w ent dow n a quan* j tlty of gas end a ir bubbles w as ris ing. and the d irty patch of oil w as once m ore in evidence. T h a t w-as a p retty c ertain sign th e career o f one U bo at w as a t an end. for th e sea m ust have been pouring in to her, and, even though all h er crew did not drow n. «Mice the sa lt w ater reached th e Plasker Bros. f< r all k in d s of olumb* storage b atteries the chlorine would do ing. Lath room outfits an d fixtures. T il th e work. B ut we are ta k tu g no chances. We lam ook. Ore. ' We Began to Hamm er Her W ith O ur Three inch Guns. Into atom s. T h a t Is tlie second n arro w escape for our little squadron In this chase a f te r a single subm arine. The End of the U Eoat. But o u r w ork Is ib>ne. T here is no doubt now ab o u t th e fa te of the P boat. I t is n< t ne essary fo r one of the ib-pth bom bs a tunllv to come in co n tact w ith the subm erged c ra ft to destroy it. W hen under wirier a sub m a rin e s rigidity Is m ultiplied. Its elasticity Is next to nothing. An explo sion os pow erful a s th a t o f a depth bomb n ear It Is alm ost certain to c rip ple It If n o t d estro y It. It Is th e sam e principle as Hint w hich kills fish in a p o n l when d y n am ite Is exploded b e neath the su rface of th e w ater. T he shock is sufficient to kill th e men In tho U boat, and so we glide along hom ew ard secure in tbe know ledge th a t even If o u r gunfire did n et finish tb e enem y tho bom!)» have dona tho work. On th e su rface we notice sw arm s of dead fish. W e cut th e B rass n n t free from the nets and listen to him curse, then re turn to K cppel’s H ead and “T he K n o t.” w here Ban had our d rin k s w aiting for us. T he su b altern , w ho had lieen In te r rupted in his atory when we w ent out • a fte r th e enem y, took It up w here be had left off. I t Is ch aracteristic o f tb « Sea Slugs th a t nothing w as said of th e d an g er tw o of tb e boata bad run, and if an.vbody felt proud o f w h at w e bad ac com plished he m ade no m ention of It. “ Aa I w as s a y in g ,' rem arked tbe sub altern , “ Max H orton’s exi*erienco when he sank tb e M oltke w as a good C ontinued on Last page.