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Tom Gerety Spends
Leave With Parents
Aviation Ordnanceman, 3c,
Thomas Gerety, from the naval
air station at Miami, Fla., is
spending a leave at the home of
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. M.
Gerety, 126 South Newtown
street
He will report December 8 to
San Diego where he will take up
duties as aerial gunner on a
TBF.
Gerety entered the service In
July, 1943, and is a gradutte ol
Medford high school, class of
43. " .
It Is easy to have breakfast In
Japan and dinner In Canada on
the same day. Both are small
communities In western North
Carolina.
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BIG SHELLS RIP
TO DESTROYER
IN NAVYBATTLE
One-Ship Task Forces Sur
vives Clash With Japanese
Fleet Off Philippines. ,
Br Roger A. Johnson
United Press Staff Correspondent
Mare Island Navy Yard, Cal..
Nov. 30 (U.R) Fourteen-lnch
shells shrieked through her rig
ging., and Japanese shrapnel
splattered her decks, but the
tiny destroyer, the U. S. S. "Un
mentionable," a one-ship tasK
force, steamed head on into a
column of four enemy battle
ships and four cruisers and lived
to fight another day.
The incident, which occurred
daring the battle of the Philip
pines October 25, was reported
with navy permission today
with the arrival of the gallant
little, 2,100-ton craft in port for
repairs.
Skipper's Story
The saga of this heroic "small
boy" of Vice Adm. Thomas C.
Klnkald's 7th fleet and how it
helped to save the American
beachhead at Leyte was told by
the skipper, Cmdr. Amos Hath
away. 30 U. 5. N., Chevy Chase,
Md., and Bakersfield, Cal.
For security reasons, the name
of the ship must remain anomy-
mous. She was part of a force
of three destroyers and four de
stroyer-escorts screening six es
cort carriers in the decisive bat
tie of San Bernardino straits.
Two other destroyers, the
Hoel and Johnston, and the de
stroyer escorts, Samuel B. Rob
erts and escort carriers St. Lo
and Gambier were sunk, but
this gallant little task force chal
lenged and perhaps foiled
Japan's biggest naval threat to
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's inva
sion of the Philippines.
Japs Open Fir
'The "Unmentionable" began
her three hour fight at 6:45 a. m
when the Japanese dreadnaughts
and cruisers suddenly opened
fire on the baby flattops 60
miles off Samar island, north
east of Leyte. The enemy was
drawing a bead on the slow-
moving St. Lo, Gambler Bay.
Fanshaw Bay. White Plains. Kit-
kun Bay and Calinin Bay when
the screen commander ordered
an attack.
"We threaded our way through
the formation," Hathaway re
called, "and headed toward the
enemy. The Hoel was ahead of
us. When we were 15,000 yards
away, the four battleships broke
out or tne enemy battle line.
fired seven of my ten torpedoes
at tne neavy cruisers at the head
of the line, then made for the
battleships." -
At 8.500 yards, the battleships
opened up with 14-inchers, but
tne gallant little destroyer bored
in and fired her tiny five-inchers
derisively.
Jap Destroyers Yellow
"The Jap destroyer screen was
yellow as hell," Hathaway said
"We thought we were going to
have fo fight our way through
it. But when we got there, the
destroyers were gone."
Then Hathaway launched his
last three torpedoes, sending ohe
exploding against the side of the
lead Kongo-class battleship. She
ceased firing momentarily, but
her three companion dread
naughts maintained a steady
barrage against the entire task
force.
Shrapnel bursts swept the
deck of the "Unmentionable,"
but she kept boring in to within
4,000 yards of the lead battle-1
ship before she retired to permit
the DEs to make their David-like
runs against the Goliaths.
"Do you want us to go in with
you?" the senior DE skipper ra
dioed to the screen commander.
"Line up your little boys and
come in after us,", was the reply.
DEs were never designed- to
attack heavy cruisers, but the
little ships charged in point
blank.
Turning from the battleships,
the "Unmentionable" attacked
the leader of the cruiser squad
ron, a heavy cruiser, and in a
20-minute slugging match, set
fire to the enemy's superstruc
ture. The other three cruisers
opened up on the tiny "Unmen
tionable," inflicting the great
est damage.
The Japs broke off the fight
for some unexplainable reason.
but the "Unmentionable," with
three of her crewmen killed, re
pulsed Japanese air raid, shot
down an enemy dive bomber and
pickd up 80 survivors from the
St. Lo. This kept Shin's Sureeon
Lt. Edwin C. Bebb, Wichita
Falls, Tex., busy for the next
two days.
'Contrary to reports.' said
Hathaway, "the war is not over."
Sidewalk Santas
Scarce This Year
New York, Nov. 30 (U.R) A
wartime shortage of street-cor
ner Santa Clauses was revealed
today by the , Volunteers of
America, which sent out an ur
gent call for older men and
women to fill their depleted
ranks.
i Col. Charles Brandon Booth
national field secretary, said
Santa shortages t ere reported
fro mmost of the cities where
the organization has costs, in
eluding San Francisco, Seattle,
and Portland.
KUNG DENIES CHIANG'S
PLANNING SEPARATION
Washington. Nov. 30 U.R)
Dr. H. H. Kung, vice-premier of
China, denied through the Chin
ese- embassy today . that Mme
Chiang Kai-shek intends to es
tablish a permanent residence in
Miami Beach. Fla.
He called a London Daily Mall
story asserting that Mme. Chiang
was unlikely to return to China
"an unmitigated falsehood." She
is in the United States for medl.
cal treatment.
P.-T. A. Activities
Phoenix P.-T. A.
Phoenix Parent-Teacher asso
ciation will meet Friday, Decem
ber 1 at 2:30 p. m. in the home
economics room of the school
Seventh grade pupils will pre
sent a program and mothers of
seventh grade pupils will serve
refreshments. The association
president urges a large attend
ance.
STRING OF FAMED
ThurtdtT. Hot. 30, 1S44 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBTJKS FTTH
On Mill Trunin Want Ada.
Of Interest to valley horse
men. John Cupp, owner ol
Snowy Butte ranch, at Central
Point, announces the purchase
of ten registered Tennessee
walking horses from the estate
of the late Col. Manning, Santa
Barbara. Cal. The horses arrived
in the valley this week and are
now stabled at the Snowy Butte
ranch. The purchase consists of
one 6-year-old stallion and seven
brood mares and two young
horses. All these horses were
purchased In Tennessee by the
late Col. Manning and were very
carefully selected for blood lines
and quality.
The stallion "Chocolate Sol
dier," was awarded first place
for the outstanding stallion
when 18 months old at the
Lewisburg, Tenn., show. Choc
olate Soldier will stand at stud
at the Snowy Butte ranch this
coming season and all horsemen
are invited to Inspect him and
the rest of the string of horses
These horses are under the
supervision and management of
C. A. McCrab, well-known horse
trainer and showman who has
trained and shown horses for the
late Col. Manning. Mr. Cupp also
announced that' there will arrive
in about ten days, six registered
quarter-type Palomino brood
mares from the Palomino farm
of C. R. Upham of Palisades.
Cal. These brood mares are all
in foal to El Tovar, the register
ed Palomino quarter-horse re
cently sold by Mr. Upham for
$4,000 to a Texas breeder of
Palomino quarter-horses.
Phoenix Navy Man
Home On Furlough
Phoenix, Nov. 30 Clifford
Lee Blrk, Slc and former mem
ber of the crew of the U, S. S.
Card, Is In Phoenix on leave
from the navy for the first time
in two years. Crew members of
the Card received the presiden
tial citation for sinking more
enemy submarines than any
other boat in naval history, the
seaman reports.
Birk, who is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. L. Birk of Phoenix,
will report December 21 at Cor
pus Christi. Tex., for shore duty
Birk's brother, Staff Sgt. Eugene
Birk, is in the south Pacific with
the army.
In 1044 there were 1,065
schools of nursing In the United
States' whish offered wartime
nursing courses to candidates
for the U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps,
the U. S. Public Health Service
reported.
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Were 6.49 to 8.98 . . . slightly
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2.98 to 4.98 BLOUSES
Crepes and jerseys in colors or stripes
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3.75 WATERPROOF COVER
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50c NATURAL NURSER BOTTLE
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MEN'S 1.50 TEE SHIRTS
White and colors in novelty weaves.
An ideal gift , ...........................
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