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Bright & early next morning, wearing two wrist watches (one set at Chungking time, the other at American E.W.T.), he turned up at the Red Cross Club, known to G.I.s in China as the "Java Dive." Staring at the unmistakable U.S. trappings, Henry Wallace said: "You've certainly created America here. It's swell." Then he stripped down to the waist for a volleyball game between officers and enlisted men, played in a drenching rain. Wallace teamed up with the G.I.s, fell flat on the muddy cement court...
Genesis and many a folk tale notwithstanding, most anthropologists have pictured primitive man as a little fellow somewhere between an ape and a monkey in size. But last week evidence was offered to prove Genesis correct. A Java geologist had dug up bones of prehistoric men bigger than the largest known apes...
...about Dr. Corydon Wassell (rhymes with throstle). Dr. Wassell was a plain Arkansas country doctor who went as a medical missionary to China, later joined the U.S. Naval Reserve. He was put in charge of wounded men from the shattered cruisers Marblehead and Houston, which got to Java just ahead of the Japs. Dr. Wassell stowed his casualties in an inland hospital...
When 60,000 Japanese invaded Java, Dr. Wassell was ordered to evacuate all his wounded who could walk. The stretcher cases were to be left to the Japanese. Disobeying the order, Dr. Wassell brought all of his men back to the coast. When a ship captain refused to take the stretcher cases aboard, Dr. Wassell stayed behind with them. The only able-bodied man among them, Dr. Wassell kept the nine wounded men alive, somehow got eight of them through the jungle to the coast and aboard the overcrowded Dutch steamer Janssens, the last United Nations ship to leave Java...
...Lovely Island. But last week's most interesting Pacific gesture was a carrier task-force raid on Surabaya on the north coast of Java. Next to Singapore, Surabaya was the biggest non-Japanese naval base in the Far Pacific-bigger than Manila or Hong Kong...