La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 20, 1945, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextPage Six r ':' :..'.....: Tktn la a true lorr of th men wo fix the "huiuii" 'rrr liMC iNiielifiT '! I'li'K" uvrr tbr Itiuh lllmnliiyiiii brltvrrti Inilla mid Chi I'tlnlN (fill 11 the louiclieat nlrllnp ruul In luti wurld. STUFFED SHIRT PILOT VII IT always seemed strange to me . that the Army, with its super high standards for the Air Corps and the rigorous training it puts its pilots through, should at the some time leave so little responsi bility to the pilots In the matter of when they should fly und when they shouldn't. We boys in the C. N. A. C. flew thousands of tons of material across the Himalayas during 10-day and sometimes even two-week periods when not a sin gle Army plane was allowed to get off the ground. If that would seem to reflect more courage and daring on the part of C. N. A. C. civilian pilots than upon Air Force personnel, It should not. The Army pilots them selves would have flown In any kind of weather, and as the Army Ferry Command developed along side the C. N. A. C. on the route between Kunming and Dinjan, the red tape began to thin out a little and tha pilots were given more leeway. But for many months dur ing the time I worked for C. N. A. C. our boys would be flying regular schedules across the moun tains while Army regulations were keeping scores of planes loaded and ready standing on the fog shrouded fields. Tony Mercede took up a spirited defense of the Army every time ainglss or I or others In the C. N. A. C. started to criticize It for Its panty-walst (lying regulations. "Listen, jerks," he said one day. "You guys are getting paid big dough for doing your Job; these kids in the Army arc getting regu lar Army flyer's pay. You can Copyright, 1943, A "Tie On" Set 100 1 By MRS. ANNE CABOT The flattering litlle bonnet ties on so does the charming nina forel Of course the Wiilored panties are buttoned. It will make a pretty, airy and wonder fully cusy to launder summer set for your small girl of one, twu or three years. To obtuin complete patterns fur the bonnet, pinafore uml panties (pattern No. 5001) sizes 1, 2, 3 years included, send 15 cents in Former Governor HORIZONTAL 1,6 Pictured former gov ernor of Washington 12 He is now assigned the Atlantic fleet with the U. S. tab.) 61 He was suc ceeded as governor by Mons C. 02 Kind of window VERTICAL 1 On top 2 Flower Naval Reserve 3 Exclamation 13 Island (Fr.) of greeting 4 It libber tree 5 I.ease 6 Den 7 Lund measure 8 Born 9 Greek lab.) 10 Roman road 11 Ages 17 Weight deduction 19 Palm lily 20 Top ot the jM5 14 Genus o( muples 13 Trunspose tub.) 16 Hops' kiln 18 Whole 20 Vegetable 21 Fruft 23 Weary 24 Vel .k les 25 Legal point 27 Coterie 28 Slumbered 30 Tendency 33 One (Scot ) 34 Each (;ib.) 35 Whirlwind : Sloth 37 Pel tabling to a wall 3D Roves 41 Indian 42 Note In Guido's scale 43 Vats 45 H;aid it Mft danf.r r2 Houn (ob) 93 Daring 55 Before 50 Like 57 Cntei pillar hair 58 Slight bow 60 1 niiiin ormy -IT !i "f:5 TV Tjr C&mi 1 TZI'iLZ fi 55 MrZi r-1 is ft If hi, in m ;a W Rt "ir itf" T. si it T ii jT" ft w " B ii ( i.I " L.1 I I,,,,,. .J I I L 1 I I v quit your Jobs, these kids can't. The Army has a lot more authority over its boys than C. N. A. C. has over you but it has a bigger obligation, too." rVO some extent Tony was right; but he was all wrong on that matter of the money we were making. He wus not the first and by no means the lust to accuse C. N. A. C. pilots and even the men In the A. T. A. in England of being mercenaries, but neither he nor others of his viewpoint considered our side of It. Virtually all of us "mercenaries" had paid for our Hying education out of our own pockets and almost 100 per cent of the Army pilots had been given their training at government expense. We hod Investments in our flying ability; they did not. But I didn't want to go into all that again. Instead I said: "Walt a minute, Tony. Do you remember back In 1933 when the Army took over the airmail routes In the States? Hemember how many planes and pilots were lost in that little misadventure? And do you know why? It was because the Army didn't know a third as much about blind flying as the commer cial pilots did. . . . And It's the same thing over here right now. There are a lot of stuffed shirts in the Army even In the Air Force ond they're so cocky about their rank ond their military dig nity thut they think they know everything worth knowing about flying. . . ." And then I told Tony and Gin glss and Sklppy and a couple of the other boys gathered around about a little incident I had played a part In a short time before. WHEN I left Dinjan one morn " lng with a planeload of Chi nese money baled In big tin con tainers and amounting to over a J. C. Winston Co.; Distributed NEA City News In Brief Cars driven bv H. E. Vincent, taxi driver, and Jack Burtlet, col lided yesterday on Adams avenue mar Depot street, as Burtlet was pulling away from the curb. Richard G. Taylor, La Grande, renorted at the local police sta tion thut his car wus struck by nnother vehicle as he was cross ing the Orodell bridge a mile west of La Grande on highway 30. Ho reported the other driver fuiled to stop after the accident. Chief nf Police Clyde Lund re turned to Lu Gramlo 'yesterday after attending the two-duy po lice sehul in Pendleton. Ernest Nolun of Duiker, iini! Tom Krtwaid Kelley, of Yakimu, Wash., were arrested lust nighl by eily police on the charges of drunkenness. Nolun was held for arraignment in city court, and Kelley was released to leave town. coin, plus 1 cent postage, your name, address und the pattern number to Anne Cabot, La Grande Evening Observer, 709 Mission St., San Francisco, Calif. Blackheads, Too, Went Fast Vr, It it tlilr, llirlr It n 11?, luiiml. .. tn.ilk.il.J liiiukl rjllrti ' KLEENEX tliul thin ti lml- y J ovrniiiiiit -tut m (a to Iimwii mill irlimve Sf HW tl.it klr,li llio- ttlkilnllimrtl lm V ilr illifi Hon mw ui'ilK'l KlMrai uiKin li'thliiii WPIC iiinaiiiiglv HtimHik'tl wlifii tinfy rotllul llii'li iliiikninl hla hlu'iuliliitili1liiitirairi1. 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Four of them had names that regularly made the headlines in American newspapers; the other four were top-ranking colonels and brigadier generals. They had come in from Calcutta in a big Flying Fortress piloted by an extremely solf-satls-fled and cocky little colonel, C. N. A. C.'s field office was alongside the west runway at Din- Jan, and while I was waiting for one of our usual weather reports ("Ceiling unknown; visibility lim ited") I saw the Little Colonel standing out In front of his B-17 with a map In Ills hands. " 'Morning, Colonel," I said. "Where you bound over the Hump or back west?" "Eh?" the fellow said, looking up rather foggily. "Why, ah we're going to Kunming. The ship's being refueled." "It's been pretty rough on the north route the last few days," I offered. "The Ice is bad. South route's not bud for weather, but the Zeros have been thick as flies the last week." The Little Colonel looked at me as if to say he hadn't asked for a speech, so I started to move away. But then I remembered those bigwigs I had seen come in with him on the B-17. So I went back to him and said, "I'm going over myself in a few minutes. I'll wait if you like and lead the way, I know the routes pretty well." The Little Colonel's eyebrows popped up until they almost dis appeared under his cap. If I had been a junior officer in the Army I think he would have organized a court martial right on the spot. Ho waited until his blood pressure subsided a little, then smiled in dulgently and said, "Thank you, son, but I daresay I'll get along all right." Then he turned and strode off. My plane was ready a little while later, and I lit out for Kun ming with a million-dollar puyroll for the Chinese Army. The Little Colonel was still puzzling over his map as my C-83 thundered down the runway. (To Be Continued) SERVICE, INC. Basque By SUE BURNETT At o inusicule the other evening I saw a stunning "date" frock similar to this. It's so simple to muke your ABC special this wei'k. 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