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CONCISE SUMMARY OF ALL
ELECTION: B C. Addison $5 40;
B USINK NH T R A N S A C T E D BY Rhoda Adkins $6 10; L C. Aker-
T H E C O M M IS S IO N E R S ’ C O U R T ly $0.20; Donna N. Allen $49.20;
F O R O C T O B E R . 1»44.
G. E. Blanchard $130; A. B.
Ordered that 54 deeds be made Anderson $87.80; W. L. Bathurst
for county owned properties for «0.60; R C. Brewer $210; A. E.
the total sum of «30,102.36
Brewster $6.80; Fred Hauer $1 20;
Ordered that four applications Mary Broom $190, Mamie Knox
for county owned properties for Beidler $4.70; Katie L. Adams
the total sum of $21,108.90 be $0 90: E. E. Blanchard $0 90, R.
rejected.
T. Burley $0.80; Hilma Colgaard
Order establishing way of ne- $5.60; Myrtle W. Cheshire $1.00; i
easity in township 20 south of Agnes L. Congdon $160; Herman
range 5 West of the W illamette Clum $2.30.; Etta Cassity $0.80;
Meridian,
across property of E. L Cox $0.70; L. W. Derrin
Charles H. Sharon, etux.
$310; David L. Dier $1.60; Wal-
r l | .,.TtR VIII Co,
ordcrs
Order vacating portion of the ter Drury $5.80; Grant
D ean ' |he% >u^> report-at « base in E r stem
Plat of Norwood.
$5.30; Pauline Eaton $3.20; W. A. I Aaaara. on tha India-Burma border.
Order concerning railroad grade Edwards $4 70: M E. Eldridge
Crossings.
$160; A. W Frazee $3.50; Naomi
CHAPTER >E
Declaration in the M atter c f !Grunning $4.60; J. U. Goude
—
the Willamalane Park and Re- $4 60: Mamie Gidney $9.30: George
"’e kept low to the 6 it enun-
creation District.
A. Getty $3.50; W. H. Hobbs $1.- t r y now- 80 ‘ hal '» w ouldn't bo ail-
Order to refund money to A 30; Wm G Klussman $3.80; Rob- houetted against the sky. Moreover
L Fletcher, etux and
Lyle N e rt E. Keefe $0.70; Wm. Mad- lhe lre<?s und,;r U1 ca“ scd the olive-
Barker, etux.
daugh $11.00; Minnie Marx $4.60; drab
,h* kh*P lu blc“d ln- »»king
Contract between E. C. Swag- J. H Mathews $0.90; Otto Mur- us harder to see I thought many
gart and Lane County for furn- ton $2 40; Bessie Miller $2 50; l‘nieii u’»t we couldn't get lower;
ishing of certain road surfacing Caroly n Marshik $2.40; Francis bul * • kcpl goirg down unUI 1 lu',ow
materials, near Mabel.
Moffitt $1.00; Elsie I McDonald 11 ,the *'h*el* had been extended
Order designating polling places $2.80;
Murray Nadeau $0.60; w* d bave been Uxyutg.
for Lane County for General Elec- Fred B. Owsley $0 60; Nell G.
1 gucss *’* wer’ 1x111 * *“ ‘e bl
tion.
Price $4.90; E. R. Parker $ l go: , ;wrvous as we peered ahead for any
Order appointing County Road I. J. Rossman $14.40; Alvena little dot that would mean a Jap.
Patrolm an- L. E. Doane.
Roberts $0 50; Elmer Ramsdell F ly specks on the windshield—and
Order concerning resignation $1.60; Mildred Ross $25.30; Ger. you get lots of them when flying as
low a* we were—scared us many
and re-appointment of Ray Bower trude E. Schneider $0.70; W. E.
cj in - r> w
lln,es- I could feel the palms of m y
as County Horticulture Inspector. r 5
s
s
;
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Order recommending issuancce
tin » .
v
i.
creased.
of six liquor licenses.
Sutton
$1.00; E. P. Saunders
F in a lly , straight ahead. I saw a
C O M M IS S IO N E R 'S C O U R T
$1.30; Lee C. Stuart $3.00; E. T. Ione column of smoke and thought it
L A N E COUNTY
Tentpleman $4.30; E. W. Twing was Shwebo. The Japs m ust al-
GOD IS MY
CO-PILOT
C ol. R o b e rt L.Scott
A n v October
r R T i s i Claims,
vr
t s 1944. c
i? ’
ADVERTISING. The Spring- Traxler $11.50; Genevieve Thomp-
M i s f i t " 5 53151 GUaFd PUb' C° ®°n S44° : Emma LThom as S3 30:
♦31.86;
S. L. Taylor $0.80; Alice Wheeler
ASSESSOR: Pac. Tel. & Tel. Co. $1 j S0: Earl
W hittaker $0.80:
$6.25, Nat l. A ssn, of Assessing Charles H. Woods $2.70: Madge
tiu n n n .
r- w A8n« i \ « ™ 1 t l i" }Vl£ j an
E-
$ 90.0( S. C. Payne $175.00; M il- $4.80; E liz a b e th H . W a rd $1.00;
d re d C olem an $140.00;
A deline Dean F. W oolsey
$5.90;
La w
¿board evidently lost co u n t for he
came up and told Colonel Haynes
that a ll were inside.
As we crossed South-Central B u r
ma towards the town o( C hitta
gong. we planned to come back that
night and take General S tilw e ll out
If we had to trie k him Qito getting
aboard. We crossed the many
mouths of the Ganges in one of the
worst ra in * that I've ever seen, and
soon landed in the humid iieat of
Calcutta
While we were rcservic-
ing fo r the second trip of some five
hundred m iles. Joplin landed from
Assam, and Colonel Haynes had him
unload his cargo and take off im ine
dtately fo r Shwebo. Once again we
ourselves flew through black raip
across the Ganges into Burm a, but
when we landed we found that a ll
had been evacuated except wounded
v
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,’ “ M S
£
the ha lf darkness, for the night was
lighted by the fires of the burning
villages, we loaded them on and took
therh to Calcutta
ready have bombed that too. We
G eneral S tilw e ll w ith a few of his
k . r „ht
„oina eXDec. i n i any staff, his ADC, Colonel Dorn, and
m inute to see a b e ft
eighteen Zeros
Jack Belden, w ar correspondent,
on our t a il Bombs had started these
'ad gone on to the N orth on the
fires, and Where Jap bombers were, long trek to India by way of the Uyu
fighters could not be far away. The and Chindwin Rivers to the M anipur
smoke plume grew la rg e r and black- j Road. F o r weeks no one knew where
er as we came nearer, u n til we he was.
could see the glow o f the fires and ; One of the officers in tliis last car-
Volkstorf $140.00; Maurine Mer- rence Wheeler $1.10: Ethel M. the lickin g flames. We both m ust : g0 handed me an itin e ra ry that the
cer $130.00; Eva Mae Klope Wallace $2.60;
J. H. Kennedy have autom atically concluded that j General had given him. und I re-
$20.00;
$25.00; , $1.80;
& Stat. Co. , the burning town was Shwebo. fo r solved to try to drop food and vita-
„
, Jack
_
. Rowland
- - - Valley
------ Print.
-
G e neral
Road
$4.2b;
Stevens $829.00; T h e W illa m e tte Press | w ithout m ore than a glance to check m in capsules
to the p a rty ’ as
it
T y p e w r ite r Co.
$7.50; T h e W il- $14.50; Pac. T e l. & Telg. Cb. $6 - I the map we headed fo r the South- made its way to the West The pro-
lam ette Press $40.00; Bailey Mo- 40; Shelton-Turnbull-Fuller Co. east corner of the town, where the ' jected itin e ra ry would lead them
tor Co. $14.36:
$78.50; A lle n b a u g h P rin t. Co. $11.- field was supposed to be.
from Shwebo North to the Uyu R iv
CIRCUIT COURT: Pac. Tel. & 65; Lloyd Howe $150.00: Helen
Then I saw them, high overhead— er. down that stream to the Chind
Telg. Co. $17.90; The L a w yers! Raymond $140.40; Gladys Herrig th re * planes. B ut I almost sighed win at Hom alin, then down the C hin
Co-op. Pub. Co. $12.50; Seaver’s $140.40; Hulda Burr $140.40: Reg- in relief, fo r they were only Jap dw in to Sittaung and Tamu. and
Lodge $16.25; West Pub. Co. $5 ; ina Koon $110.00; Etta Casity bombers—no fighters yet. We kept thence on the M anipur Road to Im -
R. N. Appling $250.00; Dorothy $95.00; Doris Cassity $95.00; Mary' on low. try in g to find the field, while
phal. Using it, I expected to be able
Putnam $20.00; Mark Hathaway Broom $75.00; Janell Lay $60.00; m ore bombs blasted the town. A fte r
to contact them and drop the neccs-
$48.00; Reese V mg art $15.00; Bertha P. McClain $17.50; Mary searching fo r several minutes we sary food; Joplin and I even figured
Bancroft Whitney Co. $20.90; Rasmussen $45.00; Nadine Sco- realized that we were looking into , we could |and on a sand bar in the
Reese Wingard $13.00; Clyde N field $50.00; Gertrude F. Smith , the smoke of the wrong town, fo r Chindwin and pick them up.
We
Johnston $15.00; Day T. Bayly $25.00; Lucille Moor $5.00; Ruby fa rth e r South we saw another smoke planned a ll this out the next day as
$15.00; John S.
Duer $44.00; Winther $45.00; Keystone Print- column, and after checking our posi-
we flew back home, four hundred
Osburn Hotel $57.30; Gordon A. mg Co. $18.15; Cressey's $19.15; tion bx 8 canal to the West, we m iles to the Northeast, transporting
Ramstead $30.00; Thos. S. Wells Boehnke Print. Co. $36 30; O. H. agrc*d that this town was Kinu and our first jeep into Assam by plane.
$52.00; Johnson & Hom ig, Inc. Jones $62.50; T h e W illa m e tte that Shwebo was ten m iles South.
But though we began next day to
$25.00;
Press $8.50:
Shwebo was burning too. and. as fly into B urm a to contact General
COUNTY COURT: Pac. TeJ. &
FRUIT INSPECTOR: Ray Bow- we learned later, had been bombed S tilw ell's party, again we found that
Telg. Co. $15.15; Koke-Cbapman
er
$155.00; - ----------
James ---------------
Hemenway
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. . . only minutes
. . before we , a . rrive
.. d . . Jap
.
there was many a slip 'tw ix t the
Co. $1.00; Patricia Sylvers 5150 00;
YZ7 T Tv I t
V
wer
a vi
W. J. Holland $3.75; Allen P.
Wheeler $4.44;
COUNTY FARM: E w a Gandy
$10.00; Mt. States Power Co.
$19.11; Pac. Tel. & Telg. Co.
$3.50; Gordon
Hoare
$145.00;
Margaret Hoare $100.00; Georgia
Blackburn $100.00; Henry B. Hil-
ton $95.00; Ben B.ackburn $5.00;
Claude Ivy $12.50; N ettie Follett
$5.00; Standard Feed Co. $7932;
Pioneer Grocery Co. «20.02; C. D.
Chezem $7.00; EUiot Imp. & Seed
Store «11.20; N. Scott Jew ett
$1.30; General Road $28.27; Eu-
gene Fruit Grower’s Ass n. $1.50;
Packer-Scott Co. $6.00; J. C.
Penney Co. Inc. » 9 5 ; D. E. Neb-
ergall Meat Co. $9.46; Williams
™C' r FrUit &
$25.00; Patricia G. Short $29.00; fi«hter» b8d accompanied the bomb,
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Miriam A. McCallum $20 25- Vera ers' 50 once again ,oni* hand oI ! itin e ra ry .
R. McCallum $21.00: N. Wilberta Providence had intervened - had Naga H ills
Winniford $14.00; Hildur A War- madc us mistake Kinu for Shwebo follow the
„er $2.00; Barbara C. Dorris and * ast.e “ little time ci,rcli"e;
Colonel Haynes saw the field at
$2.00; Patricia J. Rush $4.00;
Vida M. Everts $4.00; C. June Shwebo and , iiulled„tbc bi« iitr3ns’
fighter,
Caras $2.00; Sylvia S. Sackter p o rt ‘ around ” lik e a <,-
u— slipping
her in and siftin g her down lik e a
$2.00;
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HEALTH DEPARTMENT: The feather-bed. We taxied over to the
C. V. Mosby Co. $7.50; Mrs. Mary shade tor try to p a rtia lly hide the
LaCasse $12.00; F. L. Armitage ship, and I stayed to guard the
$17.00; Mrs. Grace Murray $12.00; Douglas while he went to see Gen
Pac. Tel. & Telg. Co. $21.75; C. e ra l S tilw ell. You could hear the
R. Lindgren $414.50; W. J. Cloyes staff officers and the soldiers y e ll
ing, and see them throw ing th e ir tin
$296.35; Mary E. Turner $218.50;
helmets in the a ir. Jack Belden of
Lucille H. Vale $200.45; Zula L ife magazine told me later that
Kickbusch $179.20;
D o r o t h y they had never expected an A m eri-
Schmakeit $120.00; Mrs. N. E. j can shiD to eet through and that
Harrell $14.50;
i wTen X whUe ,U r of the U S
a m
ev<n
onc ,J3(J an
a
A fte r I'd crossed the
In <ny single P-43. 1 would
Chindwin South u n til 1
S O L D IE R :
Pac. ! A rm y A ir Force was identified, they
te n a T eL & T e l«' C®' & 2 -8 0 '
L in e had even sung -G od B lis s A m eri-
, H 85: J 8 M o r ia r ity
B ut to us rig h t then. A m erica
Shelton-Turnbull-Ful- $9.10; Sacred Heart <Gen. Hospi- seemed a very, very long way oil.
W ll2?™e" e ,a i 5101 40: W a lk e r C lin ic * 150° : : W hile Colonel Haynes went for
T h ?l, G^
CLERK
Press $ 1 3 .0 0 ,S . E. Skene $190.00; Eugene Hospital & Clinic $99.20; General Stilwell, I stationed the
Ek"3 L- Duckworth $175.00; Grace Bartlett Johnston $10.00; Jim crew around the ship, and we
M. L. Dawson $155.00; Helen Brannen $5.40; Schulz Motor Co. watched the sky with Tommy guns,
i
o,51^ ; 00^ S a ra . A,,en ,1 3 7 5 : Smith-Short $32.57; Gen- There was a dead feeling in the a,r
£
8wet ! S135 00-' eral R«ad $24.50;
_ t h e srneU of smoke and of human
I ,C^i^n<S eer
Feg-
IN SA N E: Jam es C. Zan $5.00; flesh from the burning town—and I
Lucile Lansing $140.- John L. Haskins, M. D. $5.00; expected any moment to see Jap
Gen. Archibald Wavell, who w as
•»<'
Putnam $130.00; L. James Russell «10.00; Dr. Theo. ■ Zeros diving on the transport. There
com
m ander-in-chief of B ritish forces
5
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Rowland Lundy «5.00; Dr. Geo. P. Win- we stood with our viritable pop-guns,
in India.
.9 ^ ’ Dffice Mach. & Sup. Co. chell $15.00; Dr. H. E. Lamb $5.00; waiting for Jap cannon.
510.50, Cressey s SJ60; Railway Dr. Thos. A. McKenzie $10.00; j
Just a few minutes la te r a jeep came to H o m a lii. Then I'd turn to
Express Agency $1.54; The Nat l.
Dr. A. B. Peacock $10.00; Dr. H. , drove up and C. V. Haynes jumped the East up the rive r, flying rig h t
-a -’b Reg- Co. $3.38; Pac. Tel. &
E. Scoles
$15.00;
1 out. saying that most of the sta ll down in the canyon form ed by the
Telg. Co. $19.45; Stromberg Time JUSTICE COURT: C. S. Bris-
I was on {he way behind him but that thick jungle trees. I ca rrie d a Very
Corp. $75.00; Shelton-Turnbull- coe $68.05; Howard M. Brownell General S tilw e ll w asn't going. A t pistol to identify m yself, but learned
Fuller Co. $8.40; A. E. Simmons $75.00; C. S. Briscoe $8.75; Koke- m y look of surprise, he added that that we had no air-to-ground liaison
$38.00; Koke-Chapman Co. $43.10; Chapman Co. $63.00; J. H. Wil- the General was going to w alk out— , code w ith which to establish our
Photostat
cyutxt - t - v Corp. $415.11;
I““118 S9'00’’ P * T e i & Telg' Co i th{lt he rciuscd to be evacuated by identity to General Stilwell. As a
BOUNTY OWNED LANDS. W. $6.25; Mark Hathaway $2.00;
1 a ir. Well, fo r th " life of me ’ I substitute - I decided
- - - to fire a green
S. Knutson Roofing Co. $5500;
JUVENILE
DEPARTMENT- couldn't see what face would be light, figuring that anything but red
Monroe Cal. Mach. Co. $28.00; A. Pac. Tel. & Telg. Co. $25.25; F. saved, fo r the B ritis h A rm y had would indicate that I was friendly.
H. Hinkson $96.00; Pac. Tel. & E. Neeley $1.00; Koke-Chapman gone up the road to the N orth, and
Though I saw p a rty a fte r party,
Telg. Co. $6 25; Cascade Invest. Co. $5.50; Stevens Typewriter Co most of the Chinese arm ies were there was no way of id e n tifying that
& Mort. Co. $7.40; J. H. Fowler $12.00; T. B. Hooker $3.00; W e s t - ......
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also ..................
on the way
out. Perhaps .........
the r f the General. I marked th e ir posi
$50.00; Helen E. Soranson $160.-'em Union Telg. Co. $4.05; T id e -1 General knew things that I didn't tions on m y map, and we went back
00; , A. H. Hinkson $185.00; Cres- water Assoc. Oil Co. $7.56; Albert' know. But I remember that Colonel la te r in a transport plane and
sey g «1.30; J. H . F o w le r $50 GO;
•J. H . M acD onald L b r. Co. $49.88;
C O U R T H O U S E : C ity o f E u-
gene $53.97; L o v in g e r D is in fe c ta n t
Co. $158.00; P. L Sill $180.00;
Lennie Haldorsen $165.00; Bert
Weyer $60.00; Lillie W eyer $19.50;
Eugene Water Board $117.11;
Bill’s Garbage Service $10.00;
Allen E. H a m ilto n $1 5 0 ; T he
Broadway «6.38; Godlove the
Plumber $2.50:
CORONER: Chas. P. Poole $11.-
30;
THU R SD A Y, D E C E M B R r T, 194 t
TH« ORNflNKU UJTTAÜIS PROVI, ORBGOM
C. D ie tz $210.00; N a o m i N icholg Haynes and 4 talked it over during i dropped food io a ll o f them —food,
$51.20; Im ogene W ic k s $130.00; 1 the minutes while we waited fo r the medicines, and blankets. L a te r I
C a th e rin e W h e e le r $50.00; Gen- Staff to get aboard
We wunted to dropped letters attem pting to estab-
e ra l Roads $17.53; N a o m i N ic h o ls ' take General S tilw ell out if we had 1 lis li a code between his p a rty and
_____ (C ontin u e d on page 7 )
to use force; after a ll, he was the our ships, so that if he wanted us to
------------- s r h T W V P u ia
- -• i Commanding General of a ll A m eri
land when he reached the Chind
s ^ , lt
XI„
__ » ! can forces in China. B urm a, and In
win, he could signal us w ith a panel.
to have a We were never able to contact him ,
MnnX v
k , . P.,
~
! dia - a " d kllc 'A' •* wa » b
crymnasiunAnd
I very sbm chance ot w alking out to j but we continued to drop food to cv-
ery pa rty of refugees we saw.
SUI,(>rvi„inn
RL driH u"der lbc
I guess i f we had captured Gen- | La te r on Joplin and I took food
supervision of Rodney Safley who cral
and takcn him back to and carrjed two w ar correspondents
, he
1C<? o i assl8t‘ ; Chungking we'd have been c o u rt-, on the Chindwin-Uyu c ircu it. Though
!? n l .’i O‘Jt, lead* r ' P,an8 w e re m adc n ia rtia le d and shot. But we didn t we fired Very light» in compliance
D EPENDENT CHILDREN IN- 1° attefld a Row River court of m uch care w hat happened then any- with the color schemes that we had
STITUTION; Louise Home $36 67-
8t ,h* comm»jn>ty ba)l. way. Burm a was fa llin g , and there dropped in the letters, again wc got
The Boy’s & Girl’s Aid Society Scou,m aster C. E. Roberts an- seemed to be a never-ending stream no answers by panel,
$15.00; Catholic Chartiies, Inc n.°?,n5ed1 that the tro°P <luo,a is o i Japs coming North. I guess we
With the passing days we began
$46.34; Albertina Kerr Nursery SW lack,n« a
members and thought we had a very slim chance to get report« fro m the B ritish
I urges any boy over 12 years who of ever getting out alive. After all. agents near H om altn that Jap planes
$5.00;
DISTRICT ATTORNEY: Pac 18 intereRled m Scout work to we'd been flying around bombed were patroling the sector. F rom then
Tel. & Telg. Co. $40.38; Koke- contact him-
Burmese tow n* a ll m orning, and on, Joplin or Colonel Haynes would
Chapman Co
when you expect to see Jap fighters fly the food transport and I'd es-
$32.80; F reem an,
Day $210.00;
Madeleine - --------
Stone I
ueaao aqt ssoza oi d|qsiue«is any minute fo r hours, w ith you in cort them w ith m y lone P-43. I ’ve
$150.00; Office Mach. & Sup. Co. i ,SI® ‘qeuueAeg s.eapaury jo ‘ofia an unarm ed ship, and then get to often laughed since then at m y ego.
$2.00; F. L. A rm ita g e $12.00;
SZl ‘»urnes aq; saiujouraiu destination and the General won't F or what in hell could I have done
go—things ju s t don’ t much m atter.
w ith one little fig h te r—sans self-seal-
Western Union Telg. Co. $1.13; 'u,o;> XcP »uiftiJeur [euopejg
, We loaded the anxious staff and ing tanks, sans big guns, sans
DEFENSE: Pac. Tel. & Telg
¿«a M um s«N
J took off fo r Calcutta, w ith over fo rty brains? I guess I actu a lly thought
Co. $1242; Walling Bldg. Acct.
Petash fe r High-Octane Gas
passengers. We could easily have then that i f nine of eighteen little-
$100.00; O ffice Mach. & Sup. Co.
Potash can be used in m aking
taken from fifty to seventy, but the old Japs Jumped on me that I ’d
$15.00;
gunpowder, hand grenades and
DISTRICT SEALER; ,Dept. of pther explosives, and even high staff colonel whom we instructed to shoot down that h a lf of them at
Cive the signal when the loa-j w jn 4 is aat, and th f other h a l/ w onkj run.
Agripul I ni p $19,03;
¿.octane aviation gasoline.
h ig h t siHtn I was to learn th a t I
would have been shot down pretty
fast. Such Is the valor of Ignorance.
As the days stretched Into wacks
and no news came of General S til
w ell's party, we Just dropped bags
of rice and medicines to all parties,
whether they were led by a Gen
eral or by a Flritlsb sergeant. On
my single-ship escort trip s I noted
that burning barges were floating
down the C hindwin. South of Tamu
One afternoon 1 saw four big rive r-
bouts burning al the dov'ks of the
town where the M anipur Road be
gan. I reported this to the B ritish.
1 Then, about three weeks from .he
day we had flown down to get the
Staff out of Shwebo. I m et General
S tilw ell and his tired group at the
little Tinsukia rutlroud elation. I
told h im that p ra c tic a lly ull the A ir
Corps officers In Asia were w aiting
for him outside.
That night, us we gathered at tea
planter Josh Reynolds' house, we
had the greatest gathering of Gen
erals' stars that a ll Assam had ever
seen. There was Wavell, A lexttnder
—who m sde on that occasion the
classic statement: "The situation in
Burm a Is very contused"—Brereton,
Naiden. Bissell. S tilw ell. Hearne an<|
Siebert. Just about everyone ex
cept General Cheiuiault. and he was
ve ry busy getting the AVG nt-t of
I.oiw ing and up to Puoshan. B unua
had at last fallen.
The evacuation of these Chinese
arm ies fro m B urm a to India and t
China now gave us more adventures
In the A. B. C. F e rryin g Command.
They were scattered a ll over north
ern Burma, fro m West of M yitkyln a ,
N orth to Shimbyang and Putao. I l
was our Job now to drop rlcc, salt,
and medicines to these thousands of
sta rvin g soldiers I rem em ber that
as I first saw B urm a it used to look
to me like the greatest hunting coun- ’
tr y in a ll the w orld, com pletely wild
and unspoiled. And it wns ju st that
—but there was nothing to hunt, for
evidently there wasn't anything for
even the anim als to eat.
We'd fill a sm aller burlap bag
w ith rice o r salt and sew that into
another bag tw ice the size of the
first. When these were dropped from
an airplane, the inner bag broke
but the rice was saved by the second
bag
A ll we had to do was to fly
through the monsoon rains of B u r
ma, dodge the mountains, and find
the places to drop the *ood to the ,
w a itin g Chinese. Then, dodging the
jungle trees, we'd go down as low
as we dared and shove the bags out ,
the door. We learned to h it the ta r
gets pre tty accurately, and by the
way the soldiers went a fte r the
sacks of food they were plenty hun
gry.
Once when it was clear enough to
see the surrounding country. I was
aware of a strange sight. We’d been
dropping rice at Shimbyang when 1
saw some villages, and there again
I noticed som ething that I realized
now I'd been seeing through all the a
E .X t x*;e '-—r : - - t h i i i c j ’ U *— lhe
bullocks of the East It started me
to th in kin g; How could people starve
when there were hundreds and thou
sands of cuttlo in northern Burma?
That aflcrnuon I got to talking
over Uie food situation w ith one of
the best of lhe fe rry pilots, Capt
John Payne. He said he'd looked
the field over at Putao—o r F ort
Herts, as the B ritish called It—and
although It hud been condemned
by the B ritish fo r the landing of
a irc ra ft, he could land a transport
on the short runway. The entire
length o f that field was slig h tly less
than one thousand feet, and If any
other p ilo t than Joplin o r Payne had
made that statement I would have
Ignored the o ffe r; but I knew that
Payne knew what he was talking
about.
We loaded on 4200 pounds of rice
to land ut F ort Hertz mid went over
the Nuga H ills to Burma. As I sat
there being Long John Payne's co
pilot, m y thoughts were on this hap
py-go-lucky flyer. He hud been an
Eastern A irlin e s p ilo t fo r nine years
before coming into the A ir Corps.
As he said, he'd let down into A t
lanta so many tim es In the smoke
und fog that the bad weather of
B urm a d id n 't w o rry him much.
When Johnny first Joined the fe rry
conin’ n rd fc3 came i^ 'o p^>rrilntnce
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