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THE MOST DANGEROUS
CARGO
IX
T3NY MERCEDE, Ginglsg ond
Fox and 1 were sitting in the
C. N. A. C. pilots' lounge Inter
the same duy when the air-ram
slk-nal sounded. "Potty" Pott-
schmldt was at his desk In the
adjoining olllco, but he kept right
on Working for a couple of min
utes. Then he got up and came
out into the lounge, lighting a
clgaret. ...
"They must have heard Chen
nault's away," he remarked.
I had heard previously that
General Chennault had left Kun
ming on some important military
mission and was not expected
back for a week or so, but I didn't
uttach any significance to Potty's
remark until later wlien 1 learned
. that the General had an almost
foolproof system figured out for
anticipating and gauging the
strength of Jap attacks on the
Kunming area long before the at
tacks took place. It involved an
elaborate chart showing a score
or so of possible Jap plots or
strategics. The chart was not
really foolproof, of course, but
coupled with Chennault's super
ability as a strategist and a tac
tician, It worked like a charm for
him.
But this day ho was away. Tak
ing his place ut the 14th Air Forco
headquurters was u brigadier gen
eral newly arrived from the
States.
Chennault's alarm system had
probably been explained to the
new general before he was left
even In momentary charge, but in
the excitement of having to apply
his sketchy knowledge he devel
Copyrloht, 1945,
Morning Glories
By MRS. ANNE CABOT
For those- who like to do .m
broidory In outline and satin
stitches this design is a perfect
one. The delicately shaded flow
ers in lavenders and purples ami
tho leaves in soft greens will he
easy and pleasant lo wink and
the result is certainly Kniiu! to
be highly gratifying!
To obtain the two transfers for
the morning glory designs (pal
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plus 1 cent postage, your name,
address and the pattern number
to Anne Cabot, I -a (iraiule Kve
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HORIZONTAL samarium
1 Depleted Is 88 Rocky pin-
Insigno of nacle
Squadron 80 Member of
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val ovlation
VERTICAL
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11 Division of
geological
time
12 Girl's noma
14 Slave
1 Carry (coll.)
2 Palm leaf
3 Road (ab.)
4 Otherwise
5 Completed
8 Symbol for
tellurium
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8 Heavy blow
12 Be carried
13 Asiatic coun
1 18 Trim
! 19 Anger
20 Coat part
22 River (Sp.)
23 Ambary
try
24 Hebrew Mlor nMnsurc
25 Near (ab.) "ivb.
27 Debit note
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17 Helps
(ab.)
28 Peer
30 Taut
32 Sesame
33 Blackbird of
cuckoo family
34 Cubic meter
38 Runs discon
nectedly 39 Ells Ibifliih
(ab.)
40 Senior (ab.)
41 Lor Scout
(ab.)
42 Music note
43 Doctor of
Laws (ab.)
4e)Gott-s fixedly
80 Partry
SI dad game
S3 Bill .
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Da maiayan cum
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oped a bad case of jitters, and
the planes were almost over the
field before he gave any orders.
Then It wasn't because he had fig
ured out the chart or knew the
least tiling about the direction and
strength of the attack; he simply
remembered that nearly the en
tire gusoline supply for the 14th
Air Force was concentrated there
at Kunming airdrome.
The generul raced out onto the
field. We watched him In amaze
ment from the C. N. A. C. lounge.
The mechanics had pushed our
planes as far out of harm's way as
possible; there wa3 nothing else we
could do. The Army handled the
anti-aircraft batteries, and their
planes were already camouflaged
or hidden under trees surround
ing the Held. The general prob
ably had something in mind when
he started running, but he forgot
it halfway across the field as the
Jap bombers came In over the rim
of the hills to the north. ,
The bombs rained down. The
gasoline dump blew up with a
roar and a sheet of flame; four
bombs hit the landing strip, and
hulf a dozen planes were wrecked
jr damaged. When the smoke and
dust settled down we saw the gen
eral staggering back from the cen
ter of the field with his hands
clutched in agony to the seat of
his pants. A first-aid gang rushed
out to meet him, and he was the
first man I ever saw brought in
on a stretcher face down. It took
the surgeon at the base hospital
half an hour to pick the shrapnel
out of his fanny.
pon the next two weeks tho C.
A N. A. C. flew nothing into
Kunming but aviation gasoline,
and there's nothing in the world
more dangerous than that to
transport by air across the Him
alaya Hump. A C'53 can take a
lot of machine-gunning from a
Jap Zero when it's loaded with
tin ingots or tungsten or mercury I
J. C. Winston Co.; Distributed NEA
City News
In Brief
Cars driven by A. J. Brazille,
Cove, and James E. Robertson,
route 1, La Grande, figured in a
minor traffic accident Wednes
day evening on Highway 82 one
mile north of La Grande. Dam
age to the two vehicles was not
listed in the official report.
Dr. W. M. Peare will leave to
night for Portland where he will
oltend the funeral services of
Mrs. Peare's mother, Mrs. T. J.
P'Day, at 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning at a Catholic church in
that city.
Woolf Will Hide
At Santa Anita
ARCADIA, Cal., June 22 (UP)
Jockey George Woolf today was
still wondering what horse he'll
ride in toniui row's $30,000 derby
at Santa Anita, while entries for
Ihe 1 ',h mile race narrowed to a
field of nine horses.
Woolf arrived here yesterday
and said he "figured on riding
Sea Sovereign," Charles S. How
ard's Santa Catalina handicap
winner.
GOLF CHAMP MEET
DETROIT, June 22 (UP)
liyron Nelson, king of the fair
ways, faced another challenge to
his leadership in the golf world
today in a 72-hole medal match
against national open champion
Craig Wood, Harold (Jug) Mc
Spaden and Sam Hyrcl.
The U. S. post office depart
ment handles approximately 500,
000,0110 pounds of newspapers and
magazine annually.
nvrr lo Pri-vlnu rtitxle
18 Musical
discord
38 Search
ity
20 Vendors
21 Gives as an
inalienable
possession
24 Couples
44 Monotonous
48 Symbol for
tantalum
47 Handle
48 F.rcct
20 Tears asunder 40 And (Latin)
29 Indian 50 Young salmon
.'11 Nothing .12 Itwlinn
34 Individual 54 Pedal digit
person 56 Symbol
for
j; i issue isnm.) moron
37 Goddess of 58 Palm lily
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jMeUwUly N .iJo n
nual- discord
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and antimony bars, or even pas
sengers, but when it's loaded with
high-octane gasoline one bullet in
almost any part of the fuselage
can set the whole ship aflame.
Not only are the Zeros a threat
at a time like that; the weather
itself can be your undoing. On
two of my trips across that week
I had to climb so high to find Ice
free air that ths fuel drums I was
currying burst at the seams from
the lowered air pressure. On one
of those trlpj the first one I was
rather enjoying tho weird phe
nomenon of St. Elmo's Fire as the
blue flame swept back and forth
through the rain on the leading
edges of my wings and spread
like a thin sheet over the wind
shleldc. Two or three times I had
put a finger within an Inch or so
of the air-speed Indicator and
watched the arc of blue flame
bridge the gap between my finger
and the instrument. Then, with
a report like a smothered bomb, I
heard the first drum burst in the
rear of the plane.
I couldn't see the tall surfaces
of the plane, but I knew that
St. Elmo would be dancing his
blue fantasy on their leading edge,
too. And I wondered how long
it would take for the gasoline to
seep through some tiny crevice
in the body of the plane and
stretch an incendiary ribbon back
nlnna ihrt fimpl.nsi In thnt flnrrhf
St. Elmo's Fire wasn't the only
hazard; I knew we would be out
of the climatic condition that
caused it within a matter of min
utes. But the occasional sparks
and constant seerlng blast from
tho exhaust pipes on either motor
were hazards that would ride
with us all the way to Kunming.
At times like that It wouldn't
matter how good a pilot you were
or how carefully you handled
your plane. You still couldn't do
anything to keep a tiny -spark
from touching a tiny, leaking drop
of gasoline; and that's all it would
take to blow you to Kingdom
Come. You were absolutely help
less. All I could ever do at such
times was pray. I probably said
on an average three Acts of Con
trition every time I flew across
the Hump.
(To Be Continued)
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direct line to meet a mate that
has just emerged from a cocoon,
even though she is several blocks
away, downwind, and inside a
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