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GOOD ROADS, GOOD HOMES, B E ST CHEESE The Nestucca V alley First, Last and all the Time. CLOVERDALE CLOVERDALE, TILLAMOOK COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 27,1917 VOL. 13. NO. 9 = SLUG STOOLS Thrilling Tales of U Boat Hunting, Told by an American Boy Who Served For Months With the British Patrol and Who Did the Thrilling and Perilous Work That Is Now Being Done by Hundreds of Other American Boys. Horton and another Sen Slug who had been only a short time out of tho Hasda hospital, where he had recov ered from wounds he received at Galli poli. Horton, besides being the hero of the Moltke in< ideut when In com mand of an E boat, bad been tbe first man through the Dardanelles in his (Motor Launches) flimsy M. L., as the British call the By submarine chasers, he being in that service before tak ng over a subma A SEA SLUG, rine. British Service Name For Crews M. L. stand for motor launch. The little craft are called a great many of Submarine Chasers. ether things at times, both by the men C o p y rig h t, 1917, b y th e B ell S y n d ic a te , In c . in them when they don't run just right and by submarine commanders, K= German and British. PROLOGUE. We were all at Portsmouth, which The author of this series of four a rti Is one of the principal M. L. bases. cles is a young American, tcho has spent Horton, his friend and myself bad been most of his tim e since the tear started out on a duty tour and on the way tcith the British patrol fleet, taking an back stopped at The Knut for a couple important part in helping to organize of drinks, then at Monk’s for oysters that Iranch of the service know n as and finally landed at Tot's for dinner, the Sea Slugs. which is about the program followed He has accumulated a remarkable by the Sea Slugs when they can get collection of anecdotes incident to this ashore. “They had the M. L.'s sweeping exciting branch of the service, and many of these were personal adven mines down at Gallipoli," said Horton in a very matter of fact way. “Lots tures in which he took part and which of people think all we Slugs have to make one of the stirring narratives to do is to cruise around and keep from come out of the war. He recently re d'-ownlng. but I want to toll you that turned to the United States to assist chasing submarines is the easiest and the American nary in organizing the safest thing expected of U 3. “Tugboats and trawlers and mine same branch of the service and should be of great value because of his experi sweepers weren't much good in tbe ence abroad. So fa r as known, he is the Dardanelles, because they furnished too big a target. Beside?, everything only American to serve with the B ritish that could float was getting shot to patrol prior to the advent of the United pieces, and before they dared send our States destroyer flotilla tn British wa ships in it was absolutely necessary ters. Of course some of his experience*, to sweep the mine fields. of m ilitary value to the enemy, cannot “We used to hook thousand foot ca be related. A t the request of the service bles between two M. L.'s and cruiso down through the fields as fust as we publication of his name is withheld. could go. The cables were supposed to foul the mines, tip them over and AX HORTON, the man who tor explode them. They did it. Also the pedoed the Gertupu battle cruis M. L.'s themselves tipped over sev er Moltke, was one of the nmeU eral mines and exploded them, and modest men I have ever met. I pahed after that there wasn't anything to around for a eouple of. nlu'Jta with hook that end of the cable to. No. 2 Mine Sweeping With the M. L.’s M Hold Fast to the Dollar. IERE is an oW Buying that “any fool can make a dollar, but it takes a wise man to hold it.” There is one sure wav of holding the dollar, and that ia to bank it. When a man deposits his surplus cash he is lonth to draw it out. On the contrary, if he carries the money on his person there al ways is the temptation to spend. Bank your money with us. T NESTUCCA VALLEY BANK Cloverdale. Oregon. Work Tinder Point Blank Fire. Money will Take Care of You “The Turkish batteries on the cliff* were so close that as we drove down through the mine fields we were nt AKE care o{ your money ami it will take car* of you. poiut blank range. The ammunition Some time in your life you will need the help that a littla wasu't so very good, and it didn't al ways explode on contact, but if ever t f . .¿I ready money affords. If you take cure of your present one of the heavy shells smashed income, you will accumulate a surplus fuud that may be used in through a chaser there wasn't much case of sickness or loss of steady income. Begin by opening a of anything left but the hole it made on tbe way through—like a doughnut Saving Account at this Bank and then deposit a portion of the after you eat It. money received. We welcome Savings Account in any amount “Of course the Turk guns firing into from a dollar upwards. Your money will be safe and earn inter the fields detonated a lot of their own est, so that your account will grow, both by your deposits and in mines, but that didu't add to our com terest additions, fort any, for many of them were right under some of the M. L.’s. 4 Per Cent Paid on Savings and Time Deposits. Beat Banking Facil “One day we were sweeping in near ities in Town. shore. The sun was so hot that pitch Just seemed to sweat out and run down the decks. The glare off the Established in H03 water was almost blinding, and it Tillamook, - - Oregon really didn't seem as if it could be much better In tbe other place to which we might go if one of those shells hit us. The Turkish batteries fold me n bud feature o' me fi-htlng were hammering away at us, but the there was trying to keep clean. There der w ’.il not be moving ns 1 squeeze terrific heat was so uncomfortable thet wasn’t water enough to drink, to snv tbe trigger. “I a:n sighting ri'bt for tha pilot's nobody minded the shells much. All nothing about washing, and the only of a sudden something went by my i way they could clean their shirts was | chest. I tire. He veers off like a stomach so close I thought it had cut to lay them on the ant hills. Even at wounded bird. Ills plane wabble*. It me in two. Just beyond my boat a that if they left them there too long looks as If it v.-ns going to fall, but he shell splashed Into the water. tlie shirts themselves would disappear. gets it straighten«! out Red files away. “One of the smaller projectiles had Another Job the M. L.’s had down Both of us begin to fire Ht the other grazed and seared me. I enved In so there was boarding nil the fishing machine. If rises. The pilot does not that I couldn’t walk straight or erect smacks and other apparently noncom- dare to fl.v straight Info the rifle fire. for several days—and that is literally bataut vessels and searching them for From aloft he co:zienfs himself with true. My stomach felt all the time as ammunition and mines. I talked to dropping more bong's, hut. he must be if some one was drawing a red hot one man named D., a brother of the w ithin range of our rlfies, for presently officer I told about in my first article he flies away and does not bother us knife across it.” “I got it worse than that," said the who rammed one of his own subma any more, “If he had been a German air man other chap, who hnd been in the hos- rines, mistaking her for a German, who had a fight with two Turk aero the end of the story might have been 7 IA. 1 , ‘ivV'.blly “Mj boat .lumped a planes while he w as visiting a number different." mine. I don't know how it is to get of such vessels. Sea Slugs Are Fiqhters. shot, but when that thing blew up The crews which officer and mao Fought Planes With Rifles. right alongside of ns it felt to me as “We are just running over to a fish the submarine chasers are not trained though it was my own body exploding. navy men. They don't know overmuch It seemed like a sudden and terrific ing smack to search her,” said D., of the king’s regulations, and the “when I hear the throbbing of an aero- pressure from I he inside of me that discipline they maintain is most cer- was going tc burst me like a toy bal tainly not that to which one is accus loon. tomed on board ship. “We finally got back to the tender But—and I want to emphasize this under our own power. We had to strongly—they are scrappers. They shore up the bows a little, but we fight in their own way. They may managed to make it. Mines do freak not know how to do it according to ish things, and I don't believe there is the book, but I hey are among the gam- a man living who cun give any logical ost men afloat. Many of them are reason why we weren't blown into wealthy’and formerly owned nnd op atoms." erated their own bouts. They are a “¡’lain luck. I guess,” cb*?rved Hor hard fighting, hard riding crew, and ton placidly. “It's funny that a mine the devil himself can’t scare them. powerful enough to sink an ocean liner Before they are assigned to boats or n battleship w ill sometimes explode the men are given about a ten day and fail to destroy a motor launch or course In navigation, for they must a submarine that is almost alongside somettmr« cruise out of sight of lund it. A lot of people think submarines and at night. Many amusing and some are very easily put out of business. times almost tragic incidents arise We Sea Slugs know It’s different, e<pe- from t lielr Inexperience. claliy tbe U boats. I saw one of our I was out once In nn M. L, command own down at Gallipoli which Imd hit a ed by a subaltern named C. All ho mine and came In with her bow patch knew nbout navigation hnd been taught ed uii under her own power, just as him in ten dajs. He got lost, was you did In your chaser. sslianied*fo say so and admit that he didn’t know how to get his location. Sixteen Dead In Launch. v He figured fer two days trying to find “I never had the bad luck to bump out where he was. He'd get his sun a mine myself, but I*ve hud my share observations, and hy the time he had of being shot up. I had one end of a the readings calculated he’d he so fsr (able in a mine sweeping stunt at the away, that he had to do it all over Dardanelles one night when the Turk Ba n g ! Goc* O n e Not T h ir ty F eet O ff again. ish batteries got the range. The fire My S ta r b o a r d Bow. He figured for two days, and all tho they poured into us is almost unbe time he was getting shorter In provi lievable. I don’t see how n stick lived plane engine. A few seconds later the sions nnd fuel. For the last half day through It. We were practically under roar of another engine cut3 in, and he followed a destroyer, thinking she water all the time, the shells were fall presently 1 locate them with my was running info port. lie wouldn’t ing so close and spraying us so stead glasses. It never occurs to me that signal her and ask for Instructions or they are after such small fry as my lit ily. for his location, so he Just trailed along “Every once in awhile one came on tle M. L. “Round and round they circle Just after her as though he knew where ho board, but they were not exploding was going. He was too proud to ask right—that is, not right from the Turk over our heuds, getting lower and low the road home. ish point of view. We were perfectly er all the time, until at last they start The sun was under clouds, but It dropping bombs. satisfied to have them fall to go off. came out Just before sunset, and he “The other chap, though, the fellow "Bang! goes one not thirty feet off discovered that he had been running who had the far end of my cable, was ray starboard how. and we are sprayed right away from England. 4Ve got getting It pretty badly. He was in with the foam she throws up. But back off Portsmouth at night. But our terrible shape, and after a particularly the target is too small, and the planes signal box had been lost overside, and vicious burst of fire his engines stop- are traveling so fast they can’t get ns we couldn’t reply to the signal at the pert and he began to drift. I ran over with bombs, so they veer off and come entrance to the harlior, which came to him. We couldn’t sweep with only skimming ba> k very lew In s straight within Inches of costing us our lives, one end rf the cable in motion. line dend for us. They nro so close to as our own batteries fired a couple of “Of the eighteen men in the other our heads thst I feel like ducking, Just 4.7 a at us, and we had to run out and M. L. I found two alive They weren’t ss one doe* going under a doorw’ay cruise around the rest of the night to conscious, hut they were still ellre. that is actually high enough to walk save our skins. However, we hung Tbe sixteen others were dead. We through upright, hut which looks too in sight of the harbor so as not to took these two aboard our launch and low get lost again. got back to the base. That night was "Suddenly they begin to spray us This same chap, though he w’s 4 short hell.” with mschine gun fire. Two Of my on the science of nav igation, was l«ng I have quoted the stories told me by men are hit, and the decks are flying on fight. When cruising at night the these two men as nearly tn their words into splinters All 1 have on board Is M. L.’s, of course, show no light*, and as I can remember them to show a a couple of 30-f!0 rifles, and I begin it Is very hard to maintain an absolute phase of the submarine chasers' work firing wlfb one, while iny first officer ly even speed *j)f| keep Just the prop which Is seldom thought of As Hor uses the other The three pounder er distance from the other < raft ton said, most people think the M L.’s can’t he elevated enough to use It na Steam engines < an l>e controlled right do nothing but cruise around In com an sir gun. down to the inch, but tbe gas engine* parative safety looking for submarines. "We can shoot rapidly, but nothing w-hirb drive the If. L.'s are not so read This Is only one of their duties. like the fire of that cursed spew of ily regulated. A single notch Increase Most of the Pea Slugs have been lead spraying from those machine or decrease on the throt, le may make taught to operate machine guns, and as a difference of a whole ki ot In speed. guns. a result they were frequently usttLfor W ell, C. lost tra. k of the other chas ‘‘Once they drive atraight over ns. landing parties at Gallipoli, running tn and now they are coming back If we er* In hi* squadron one night, and ho under tbe Turkish guns and trying to don’t stop them this time we are gone. didn't dare signal to them. They wen» bang on. by their finger nails almost, I squint along tbe sight* of my rifle out searching for submarines, and to to the cliffs. Pome of tbe Pea Plugs I take a deep breath I let part of It •how light* would only give the who!* were on shore for a long time and out and hold tbe rest, ao that my shoul Continued un !**t page. served in the trenches. One of them TILLAMOOK COUNTY B A N K J S r'