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TUB LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, OREGON
Our Boarding House
With Major Hoopt Out Our Way
. R. William
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CIX of 3 wuro silting around the
bottered old card table in the
bornliko shack that served us
pilots' operations ut the Kunming
terminal of China Nntional Avlu
tion Corporation. The cold fog
settling slowly over the airfield
had driven everyone indoors ex
cept the mechanics and field at
tendants who were refueling our
planes.
I was $112 in the hole I re
member this distinctly because it
was Just the beginning of a bad'
run of luck at stud poker. Bob
Robertson of Macon, Ca, and his
co-pllot, a Chinese boy named
Woty Sung, were leading by a
heavy margin, each having a stack
cf lettuce in front of him like the
harvest from a Victory garden
back home. Eddie Quinn, also
C.-inese and co-pllot on Capt. Al
Gl igiss' ship, was a little ahead,
too; but BUI Fox of Dolhart, Tex.,
my co-pllot, and young Tsui, our
radioman, were right with me
at the bottom of our pockets. By
every law of chanc :, it seemed to
me, one of us was about due for
a winning hand. So it was an
awkward tlmo to hear Flight
Superintendent Pottschmidt
shouting:
"Captain Genovcsel Hey, Gen!"
And then in a mufrled, impatient
aside, "Whero the hell is that
guy?"
"Potty" was a big man, about
40, with a fighter's build. Stand
ing behind his desk with his
hands in his hip pockets and his
broad shoulders hunched, his big
blond head had to tilt down to
look at me. In fact, my five feet
eight inches looked pretty small
among most of the boys flying
across, the Himalaya Hump be
tween Kunming, In China's Yun
nan Province, and Assam, India,
"Got Job for you, Gen," Pott
schmidt said. "Thirty-two pas
sengers and they're all hot to
get started." He glanced at his
office window, getting steadily
grayer with fog, and shook his
head. "Let me know what route
you'll toke so we'll know where
to look for the pieces."
fHINA NATIONAL doesn't fly
for pleasure. There wore no
tourists among those 32 passen
gers. Aside from two Allied generals
I had flown before, there were
many high Chinese officers and
a few civilians. Among the latter
I recognized a confidential ad
viser to Gen. Chiang Kai-shek
and a foreign-office big shot. They
were all people that really de
served to get whero they w; go
ing, and I wished to hell that it
wasn't my responsibility to get
them there.
I checked with Pottschmidt iust
before taking off und said I would
fly the north route. Ills liiforma-
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We never carried (runs on China National transports
they weighed too much and cut down on cargo capacity.
tlon from Captain GIngIss, who
hod been the lost one in from
Assam about C o'clock that morn-
in, wa- that the stratus forma-
tlon ran ' p only to about 15,000
feet atave that it was clear but
th t there was a sleet storm blow-
Inj near Lake Tall.
Our take-off wasn't too bad: the
fog was thin enough across the
fl' 'd so I could see the ground 100
yards ahead; it was Just a matter
of giving both engines of my
Douglas C-53 everything they had
and then the Instant we were off
the runway, pulling up the gear
so wo wouldn't trip on the trees
hiding at the end of the strip.
tiear or tne Held. Fox and I
relaxed and I settled down to the
serious business of climbing up to
lo.uuu leet wnere I would find
that promised clear salline. Fox
grinned at our present zero visi
bility and nodded toward the
cabin where the oasseneera were
huddled. Then in his slow, Texas
drawl he said, "If It was a clear
day those Japs would be flockin'
around like vultures after carrion,
to bag a load like this."
There wasn't much poetry in the
remark, but there was plenty of
truth. Wo never carried guns on
China National transports they
weighed too much and cut down
on cargo capacity and our only
protection against Jap attacks
were bad weather and our own
flying ability.
AT 12,000 feet, Fox and I and
Tsui, our radioman, put on our
oxygen masks and kept right on
climbing. My hope of getting Into
the clear -t i 3,000 was fading;
the soup seemed to got thicker the
higher we went. And, as a matter
of fact, it cllcln'; clear until we
were at moro than 18,000 feet.
Then for almost two hours we had
good flying except for a strong
wind blowing north.
According to my calculations
we were considerably north and
east of Lake Talf when Fox and I
caught our first glimpse of the
purplish-gray wall rising thou
sands of feet high straight ahead
of us and to either side as far as
we could sea, It was a good quarter-hour's
flying time uway, but
there was no doubt in either of
our minds as to what this sig
nified. "Cop'n Glnglss's sleet has
moved a llttlo bit no'th," Bill
drowled, and after a few mors
minutes, shortly before we would
ease Into the wall of ice, he turned
the switch on our de-icing boots.
I could feel him looking at me
a moment later and I glanced
down at the wing on my side.
The boot was motionless. The
mechanism wasn't working.
"How much drag can we take
and still make it, Gen?" Bill asked
quietly,
"If we're on course there
shouldn't be onv hills hleher than
10,000 feet from here on," I said.
But that was a pretty big "if."
I couldn't be sure how far off
our course the wind was blowing
us, and I knew there were peaks
shooting a lot higher than 10,000
feet that weren't too many miles
to the north. I gave the ship moro
throttle and pulled back on the
stick.
We went into the sleet at 10,000
feet.
I handed Tsui a note giving
our estimated position for mm
to radio to Dinjan in code. Our
sets weren't strong enough to
send word messages unless we
were within a half-hour's flying
time of either base. Tsui took
the note, switched on the trans
mitterand then began to curse
quietly in Chinese. A few min
utes later he handed back the
note with a brief message ap
pended; "Radio dead."
That meant we were out ot
contact with the base, strictly on
our own.
(To lie Continued)
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SAN KHANCISCO, June Kl
(UP) The Japanese Dome! agen
cy reported the deaths of two
mole Japanese generals in action
today.
Maj. Clen. Katsu Yokowo died
of wounds April Hi and Maj. Clen,
Tasuku Yushikawa died in action
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promoted posthumously to the
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AUTOMOBILES COLLIDE
A minor collision between auto
mobiles driven by F. J. I.olles.
(il)4 M avenue, and John It. Camo.
2010 Washington avenup. was le
poited to the cry police yester
day. It occiiili d at Jefferson and"
Hemlock streets as one ot the
ears wa., pulling away from the
curb.
"My girl writes she's llto wenr
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