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A Alza * t. » t-.».. < y » . - t l , 4. >.»>*< i i. T ill ItSDAY I V i' I CUT 1 lin ’d R tto . ill o f l i ’T’iv iin d Published Every Thursday at I saw bum Immediately. Du my Cottage Grove, Oregon second pass, as I "B'ed" across the Established August IS, 1889 road, 1 shut at each truck individu W. C. M ARTIN________________________________Editor. Publisher ally. then turned for the troops Subscription Rates, Cash in Advance agaut. The road was so dusty that In Lane-Douglas Counties ... 1 year $2.00 1 could barely see the bodies of In Lane-Douglas Counties..... __ ......... ....... ..... —..... . 6 months $1.23 those I had hit on the first pass. I In Lane-Douglas Counties... ................................___ 3 months $.73 suppose the others were hidden In the brush to the side As I pulled Outside This D istrict_____ ______ __________ __ __ 1 year $2.25 up, 1 could see the black plume of Outside This District __________ .. . . ___________ 6 months $1.50 smoke to the South—my firrt enemy Outside This D istrict_________________________ _ 3 months $.90 ship was burning fiercely, Exceptions to men and women in armed forces: I made as though to leave the In U. S. A: 1 year $2.00; 6 months $1.50; 3 months $1.00. urea, then came Ui again from the C o l. R o b e r t L. S c o tt W H U R t U t A S t Overseas: 1 year $130; 6 months $1.00, , South on the troops after the dust (Continued from last week.) T vov.ed then on the sacrecT reties had settled. They had reformed but Foreign rates on application. No subscription accepted for less than 3 CHAPTER X: Scott * »roup r o r r t n of my great grandmother that dur were not as closely packed as be months. Important: In changing address notify us immediately and refugee* out ot B urm a, heavil} overload give former as well as present address. ing those thirty-one days I would fore Again 1 strafed them, but thia ing the plana* He pays a visit to Gen. Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class matter. destroy a Japanese plane if I had to time 1 saw that they were tiring at Chennault and te ll* him he I* a fighter Cottage tërtne Centrad GOD IS MY CO-PILOT I could gef from the field With my first burst the whole woods seemed to blow up I have never seen such a Hush aa that which came when that veritable powdcr-traln of high octuue fuel caught fire from the trac er«. I also fired at two of the gun installations on the field. But the bursts from the Jap guns wore go close to ma that I decided to let well enough alone, and turned for home In Assam. Many times on the way home 1 looked over my shoul der. anti the smoke from the thou sands of gallons of gusollne was vis ible when 1 was sixty miles from Myitkyina. Next day. May 0. t made four raids into Burma. On the first of these 1 escorted two transports pi loted by Saits and Sexton to Pao- shun, where they were going to land I to pickup the baggage of the AVO, who were going on to Kunming. I waited for them to land and take off again, and then enlled goodby. They were going on East within the air controlled by the AVG, and I v anted to look for Japs to the South any way. Two hours later Pao.ihan was badly bombed l y the Jap«; and so I missed a good parly bj not staying atuund. (Coutlm ed next week) DECEMBER 21, 1944 D C S T LJUI5HC5 me The trucks couldn't get off go all the way to Rangoon. CHRISTMAS TREKS ARE We got pretty confident, the trans- the road, and I exhausted my am Old pest boys and I, for I used to go munition on them in two more AGAIN GLEAMING IN with them across Burma, and Jop- liaises. One truck that 1 caught THE WINDOWS! dead center with a full two-second CHAPTER X I lin and some of the other daredevils would try to lure the Jap in to at burst seemed to blow up. When 1 THE SHORTEST DAY OP THE YEAR I couldn't waste much time In tack them. Jop would call over the left. I knew that four of the trucks Today is the shortest day of the y ear with about two were burning, and further to the radio, in one the three clear: four 'N R -a ,i ° " rS J*‘SS thBn in ? he <*<».':^P»»nding day in June. Short fust" over X ’ S ^ / h i U s "a™ was the transport IT from Just about time for us to lie , ... ,■ ” — v — ------ -- me n u t « n u ts ana me transport one three four—I'm lost South I could still see the smoke thinking of how much wc of my Arst Jap plane rising high days means that most ot us will have to travel in the d ark Japs were coming towards Myit- near Bhamo— give me a bearing w hether on foot or by auto. Holiday tra ffic is the most haz- the South and up the Up there, some three thousand feet above the trees of Burma arc in<|ebted to you, 9 Straight back to base I went, feel ardous of the year, made hazardous by the unusual activity of Chlndwin and the l-ra w a d d y . It was above lh e in 1 d be W llh m y And just about time for shoppers and by the w eather with wet and slippery s tre e ts °^xn* season 1 needed no hunt tighter, just praying that my Mde- ing very intoxicated with success. At last I'd been able to see Japs and us to t-all upon two little The beat safety devices yet praetieed have not elim inated .Tf, !<T n w . Now 1 deflnlteV kne*' coy" would work and some luckless draw blood. In this case they had words that carry more cheer tra ffic accidents, hut they have helped. Last week we heard a On n5’ r' .............. Jap would come in for the kill Then an .A p-ric,,,-- uha-h „ „ „ a f him w ithin att » ,» .“ S J t S i A S S S i i l S { £ ^ * 2 S ' S . i a T ' ” been treated Just as they had been anti gootl will than all the W it h a 1U ij iu a a o i a m m u n i t i o n a n n »«n . t — _______ But treating Allied ground troops, and I inch of his lire and ruined him physically to r the day. He w as, the shark-mouth seeming to drip blazing, big w inds that have ever d riving to work early one m orning and almost ran over two saliva, it was so eager. I waited by ruje never worked. Sometimes I w-ia happy. been coined-— ufternoon I went back on By Dr. II A fingen boys on bicycles because the bicycles bad.no reflectors ami he my ship for an alert. Jap observa- think the "Great Flying Boss in the the That second mission. 1 found the It is a good thing to observe tins within three feet of the hoys Iteforo he saw them. He was turn planes had been coming over Sky" was giving me a little more wrecks of four trucks and baggage. Christmas day. The mere tnurkiiig able to stop because he was driving slow. Since this was told at high altitude very regularly. If practice before he put me to the and obfecta tlujt could have been of times and seasons, when men us we have seen not only children hut adults ruling in the they came today I hoped to sur- supreme test. men. scattered all over the road agree to stop work and make prise them. May the fifth was one of the big d ark without reflectors. ihe place where I had eaught the m erry together is a wise and At two o'clock the alert came, but • days in my life. Waving good-bye column showed about forty wholesome custom It helps one to A there . 8CV,US _ , nother thing we have . observed is ... he no It was not observation. Many ur.- to Gerry Mason as 1 taxied out. 1 troop men The grounded plane had feel the supremacy of the common regulution of m otor and pedestrian tra ffic along .Main street, identified aircraft were reported by saw him hold his thumb up to me dead burned, and with it had burned about |lfe over the individual life It It a m otorist enters Main from 5th. tith or 7th, his progress is a British radio somewhere over the to wish me good hunting. 1 waved ten acres of the jungle. I fi-ed a reminds a man to set his own little likely to he blocked on the opposite sitie of the street by a ‘*ia «a Hills. I didn't ask for more back and was in the air on a sweep long burst into the truck and into slow moving pedestrian and if the m otorist is trv in g to cross than thal seanty information—I was towards central Burma. I went the four fuel drums In front of the wutch now ant, then, by the great to of humanity which runs on th e street, he either has to run the risk of being hit in the ¡2 my fighter and climbing over the straight to Myitkyina: then, seeing debris of the enemy bomber, but ekx'k sun time. m iddle of Main or run the risk of running over the pedestrian. “ ColoneI Haynes nothing, I swung South along the they didn't burn; 1 guess the morn But there is u better thing than Irrawaddy over Bhamo. Continuing ing fire had finished them. 1 *1 h l * situation s i t l l l l f W ill fr n t c t l i o id n r io f /ve* n . i J . v . t __ * The gets the m motorist o r pedestrian in a tight spot High over the field at 22.000 feet, 1 South I went right down on the Bur- searched the country to the North the observance of Christmas day. 8. T Eiutburn, Prop, alm ost every day. One way to elim inate this hazard is to widen I cuddled my oxygen mask and ma Road, North of Lashio, and and that is keeping Christmas more troops, but didn't intercept the streets, hut we are afraid this would not he very practical, circled, watching for enemy ships to searched for enemy columns. North for Arc you willing Io forget what any. otherw ise we may have to come to a tra ffic light d uring part the East, South, and Southeast— of the airport at Lashio I saw two 1 went back home highly elated I o f the day. down in the direction of a C u u » io groups of troops in marching order. had draan my first blood. I felt that an<l to remember what other peo- FINDING Mandalay. I searched until my eyes I would have strafed them imme the world was good again. With ple have done for you; to ignore b ’r <’v** diately, but I was afraid they might pride I radioed General Chennault what the world owes you, and to ,* ^<>U On<* Wh° hurt, but saw nothing. After about POST WAR HEADACHES everyone you see? an hour, turning to a course that | be Chinese; after all. there were two that his “shark" had been In use. think what you owe the world; to . . The post w ar is being painted a rosy hue by some and the would take me in the direction from Chinese armies coming North some- that I had caught lots of rats walk put your rights in the background. Ari’ , b’’r‘‘ shrouds wnt down by same impreaaion w ent out following the first w orld w»r. The which an enemy had to come. I flew where in Burma. I made as though Ing along the Burma Road.’"and"'that und >our d U ,lM «b*‘ middl<’ d‘*- o w " e v .’.rv .h m h <n<4 • average individual isn ’t deluded. He knows there are m any off to intercept—I now had barely to ignore them and they partially one Army 87 bomber would fly t.o ,ance- “nd >'our chances to do a ° ‘ r iv ,r y *brub “nd ,rtv' ? adjustm ents necessary and the sooner we s ta rt work on the ad- two hours' fuel, and the farther scattered to the sides of the road. more for the Japs. uute more ’ha» you«- <lu’y ¡n the foreground; to see that your fel- ' ,r y<HJ think that all is good, justm ents, the better o ff we shall be and the more chance for awa? ,rorn my base I met them, the Twelve trucks in the column kept fhiit conus lw-:ore your eyes, peace; at least for a breathing spell. more successful my attack would be. rolling to the North. Well, ot la « I'd seen an enemy loWm<’n J«»» **» real as you Then 1 momentarily forgot about Anti that the world is beautiful One of the m ajor questions facing the west coast is the ^ °rd the eg0 that 1 P°ssessed! I ship. It wns a grounded bomber— are, and try to look behind their the troops—for in the northwestern Until proved otherwise? but after all. I ve learned since then i a w ’* 10 ,h< i5 b‘‘ttr,,‘' bunK«T for resettlm ent of the Japanese in the relocation centers This u e.s,Jy believe 1 ,h°ught I could comer of the field at Lashio was a that these planes on the ground * ’y; ,0 ow" , b j ' l>r,’b«bly the only question does not bother us much her,- because we hud no Jap- ™ N o m a tte r w h a t o u r a tn lu x is. ship From my altitude of 2500 feet an ew ami the prospects are remote that we shall ever have £ ^ T v S o r S H g n iS S e are sometimes pretty rugged busi- Kood reason for your existence is I saw at once that it was a twin- To see “ g o o d " i* no c h o re . ness to get when you're living down >ou ,,r,‘ going to get out them , but in some sections of the state this question is acute, After forty-five minutes I turned engined enemy bomber, later iden on them with all the anti-aircraft of *“ e- but " hal >ou arc ««»»«If •“ And people usually do find p articu la rly in the P o rtlan d anti Hood River areas. What they are looking for. for home and began to let down to tified aa a Mitsubishi. Army 97. It fire in the world seeming to con- g,Vv ,o . bfe; ,o cto* ‘> >'our *» « k of A good deal of feeling against the Ja p s is based on the «‘fihteen thousand. Thirty miles was being serviced, for there were verge on you. You've got to worry complaints agaia-tf the marutgi - Mrs Arthur F. Denney, record of the native Japanese soldier d u ring the present w ar frorn the fle|d I suddenly tensed to four gasoline drums in front of it I about small-arms fire from every nM'n^ ° f the universe, und look that evidently un- Crrawell, Oregon. and to the fact that hc.has an oriental mind. Feelings sueh as ^ \ aler! Off ahead of me was a - and a truck rnTfu’e t 1 had Mv cun^switche. enemy soldier, too. and it takes only uround you for a pluce where you n r, w setsls of happiness exist in many places on the coast makes good political fodder in the'alr HghUn’the ¿»H ion on^the wer* “ 'ready on. and had been since one little slug in the prestone radla- can ENFOR< F.MENT DRIVE ON a ri‘ You w illing io do these for the politicians and we . venture the assertion .u-. the home field I had seen seen the the troop troop column. column. Now Nov/ tor or the oil-eoolcr to stop you n . . that ------ m many a n y p poll- o ll- worid-s surf ace that VRKD CAR NAI.EH mighty sudden. things even fo r a day? Then you I was diving for thè grounded bomb ticiaibs will not pass up the opportunty in m onths to eome when should be. My tortured mind flashed The next d ^ 1 went to Lashio can keep Christmas. — — — it s so easy to capitalize on the problem of racial heroics, back to other results of bombings er and getting my “Christmas Tree" again and strafed the hangar that A n- you willing to believe that Launching the first phase of an sight lighted properly. Commenting on this question the Oregon V oter says: No- that I had seen. Hurriedly I began to shoot. I sat* had (Mice been used by China Na- l«»ve is the strongest thing in the <’nforcement drive against viola thing short of the u tte r exterm ination of the Japanese will " M y God," I moaned, "while I've stronger than hate. B°ns on oalea of used passenger men 1 .™ni‘in* running , hI2 from the . truck and tions! Airways Corporation- -CNAC world elim inate the Japanese problem from post w ar consideration. bJ en away looking for the bastards. 7’" .s ia —but I couldn’t bunt it. There were stronger than evil, stronger than cars‘ B °ftl« n d district OPA en- m,. i_____: u „ _ / . . . __________ L , . , , , thev've slin™.a in h . . . jumping into the bushes to the side To be guilty o f so m onstrous a wholesale m urder, we would ve sLip?ed. in hire an* ^°mbcd flrjt officials have usked hit in fror.t of the no ships on the field except an RAF death and that the blessed life Blen.ieim that had been strafed by which beenn in Bethlehem some aPPr,,x* rna,ely 360 (lersons who have to change our nature into a ferocity, sueh as now we ah- ‘ ’ e ba’e! , j plane, probabl probably striking the fuel the Japs on the ground on the North nineteen hundred years ago is the *x,uKht used cars during Ihe past h o r in the Herman and Japanese w ar lords. It is likely th at, Over and dove drums- for hcil heavy dust covered the , . . . . . over and dove for the Zeros that end of the runway. image and brightness of the lite r- fl‘w ’Bonlhg to <x»m«- into the lik e Hermans who m igrated to this country and became some should be strafing the field (Later enerny sh-P- 1 released my trigger I turned back jo the North to look nal Love? Then you can keep ( ,’’A office bringing all jMi|/ers of our finestcitizens. w e have enjoyed s o ’m any of the ben- I was to learn a lot about this moth as 1 pulIed out ot my dive- for the gasoline stores that I knew Christmas. pertaining to th<* transactions, «•fits of o u r kind of Am erican civilization th at wc will not be °d too.) The smoke was from base m had been at Myitkyina. I was de- And it you keep It fo r a day '^<d Stern, O P A enforcement at- w illing to give up those benefits for the sakt^of being like the a11 risht. but I could see no enemy teimined they were not going to fall why not always? ’ ’orney. reported today. The OPA J a p o r Nazi gangsters are now .” planes. The only thing In the sky into Jap hands. Not finding them. But you can never keep it alone w i,i bl ,P buyers to get refunds If I spent the rest of my time flying, There is another way o u t and this would be to deport w” a 8ingle D<n' !!las ‘ran«port. ” " Van - Dyke. ‘ actual overcharges are found, he Henry low on the Irrawaddy, looking for said. all native ami foreign b o rn Japanese to Jap an . Ik-fore we * “Calling "NR-Zer^NR* enemy barges. It was a pretty un ORKGON ANHWKR8 FLORIDA could do this however, we would have to take into considcra- Zero.” I asked what the fire was profitable day. ra««ii3 Plato tion the services of the A m erican born Japanese who are The reply was muddled, but every When Myitkyina fell. I went over ' ’ A local resident rewived n When passing your plate for a sec fig h tin g with the native Am erican boys on several fronts, we thing seemed to be in order, for I there every day to burn the gasoline Chriatm n* card i t * * > » . i . > thnt hnH ....... 1 nrtsim«« card. It was decorated ond helping or when you are through m ight also ru n into fu rth e r difficulties in try in g to deport t noticed two other transports clear- •he* woods t h e \ ’Tr'he'?«t' .V the W*'h u blue lake with a sail Ixwt,, ea,t“«- the knife and fork some of the loyal Am erican born J a p citizens and we m ight ing tbe fie'd for China. I circled, .ne wuoas to tne Northeast of the r«.lm n ......... . : n n m i.i .......... .1.- . i . . . ..... end of the runway. I had found out fl° W[ " \ nd a ’ roP“ a ' parallel across the plate with the then dove on the smoking ruins of also have to deal with the soldics of Hawaii, about 60 percent its location from British Intelli- g?rdcn _*‘c<‘ne ,n f l°rtda . T h e front tines of the fork turned up and the of whom are of Japanese ancestory and also m any loyal P hil the RAF operations "basha." That gence, but the RAF Group Captain % to' ^ ' r W“2 m ar,£ d "C hrlst- cutting edge of the knife turned building had been the casualty, and ippine soldier.-?. tow ard the fork it was a total loss. I could see the l u. exacted fro m m e a promise G «• rom Florida.” Such a move certainly w ould not prom ote understanding operations officer sitting out in the that I would not fire into it until he u.LV m < .5 * * " ° , W<IS ,bua: and the peace we say we want. open, some hundred feet from the gave me the word. When the wintry winds are charred ruins, calmly carrying on It seems that he was afraid that blowing his duties. When (or If) V-E Day Comes the firing and the burning of the fuel W ay up N orth, A column of When I'd gotten my fighter parked would excite the native Burmese And H * raining and its snowing I nder the head o f “ W arning to E d ito rs,” an item in a again I went over and heard the Fun ’N Forts who were in the village. I couldn't Way up North, recent report of the W rite rs’ W ar Board is phrased in these story. No Jap attack had come, see what difference that would By M ike We don't mind it, for down here blunt w ords: v . i ui v- . , .. , , and I felt relieved—my single-ship make, for after all the Japs would It’s summer all the year. You have a problem. You m ay not know it, b u t you have. War and I had not let the station capture the thousands of gallons of So we send our Christmas cheer and i t ’s serious. Surveys have convinced W ashington th a t w ar down. But as I heard the embar- Howdy Folks; A Chicago aviation gasoline, and the natla-e* Way up North! w orkers are cherishing a grave m isapprehension and plan t o : rassed operations man tell his story newspaper point« out that were more than likely helping them The receiver of this cord .being the government print« and act in accordance with it. They adm it th a t they expect some 1 remember choking discreetly and anyway. Though I held off, every a loyal Oregonian, not to be out- distributes the speeches sort of Arm istice o r V ictory day in the European war. They leavin9 before I laughed myself to time I raw the shiny four-gallon done sent this reply: made by congressmen en f u rth e r believe th at on th a t day th e y ’ll be m iraculously death- Chlnesc soldiers and coolies look cans in the trees my finger Itched Christmas Greetings From Oregon tirely at a loss, freed from th eir labors— and from labor regulations— and rnor- .he^ n n fr a fi« « ^ 1 ®°’jnded- °PPs the summery sun is over Jap plane shot dawn by Col. to burn the cache before the enemy , When • • • could use it. I passed the three blasting ally free, too. to quit and take w hatever o ther jobs they choose. t0 the window of the th lu h ^an d Scott. days of waiting in burning three It might lie added that Way down South, I t ’s up to you editors to convince y our readers th a t this bamboo "basha” to see me take off clearing the trees behind my tar barges on the Irrawaddy. South of they are read the same And the hot sticky feeling is is all nonsense— a dangerous fairy tale. j in the "bloody kite—that Kitty- get. As I looked back I saw the Bhamo. and In setting a fuel barge way. lasting • • • As you know, there may never be a V-E D ay a t all. hawk." Seeing a transport from red circle on one wing, but the other on fire down on the Chindwln. In Way down South, Some Allied com m anders have already publicly declared China about to land, and fearing that , was covered by the body of a man this last raid my ship picked up a One of our customer« hns We don't mind It, for up here th a t they doubted th a t any G erm an of group of Germ an » e Japs would bomb it on the field. | who either had been shot or was try- few ------------------------------------------- - Jap J|s ... small holes; evidently some decided thnt congressmen Its cool nights and green all leaders could comm and a su rren d er and be widely obeyed. had a Very pistol out , b‘de tbe *dent‘ '" « in ia sympathizers had managed to get year must be heavy drinker«. He »i l -ii i • -i- - - i J -ii of the operations window the red K eeping the ship very low, I mv ranee -1 “ heard about one who made M uch guerrilla and Civilian opposition » expected. It will Very hght would be the signal for . tur" ed 180 dagrees for the second at- [ . t e r m the week, the RAF Croup S° WP send our Christmas cheer Funsi î W NATIONAL NATIONALS tO DI IT O R IA L — SSO C IA T IO N «//Zcen/tA " . . mfeg pilot and not a ferry pilot and I* pr.un tied the next P-40 that a rriv e * ft o n A frica. Keeping Christmas Merry Christmas Sixth Street Grocery j FREE AIR «lie licit (I. the transport not to land but to fly i o avoid friction later, s ta rt now to educate y our read-j in the "stand-by” area. The Very ers S . . . Tell them to forget V-E Day . . . th a t J a p bullets light had gone nonchalantly out of k ill ju s t as quickly as Nazi ones. the operations window, into the This is tim ely w arning, coming as it does when an in-: wind- had curved gracefully back <• x n rem r<*KK tm 111 w creasing num ber of service men overseas are exn »! in,° «‘«wuivi anot|-ar HHiuuw, window, ana and naa had .i . R burned the bloody building in five th e ir concern over the unrealistic optim ism in reg a rd to an | mjnutcs. Operations was h in g car early end of th e war, which they lin d in letters from the j ried on a, usua| from aUon, folks back home. GI Joe, who has fought the Germ ans in desk, which was located in front . - . , . j, ■ . . . . i -i . ---------------- ------------- of — N o^th A friea, in Italy and in France, has no illusions < about the rite of the former office. Bloody the enem y’s resistance “ folding u p ” suddenly, o r even soon, shame, wasn’t it? “ D on’t kid yourself— w e’ve got a long way to go before we Wel>, it was tragic, but I guess have these K rauts thoroughly b eaten” is the tenor of th eir 11 wa’ better than a bombing. And letters, in reply to th eir fam ily ’s wishful th in k in g about so rny rst mission ended. having them home soon. “ So you folks back there had bet Came May Day. and I began the greatest month in my life. I flew te r keep on the job, buying w ar bonds and keeping produc every day in that long month, some tio n of w ar m aterials up to schedule instead of m aking plans times as many as four missions a fo r w hat y o u ’re going to do on V-E D ay.” — Pulilishers day. By putting in a total of 214 A u xiliary._________________________________________ _ hours and 45 minutes. I averaged over seven hours a day for the Prevent Clouding month. Most of this was in fighter Old Mil! Stream A little glycerin rubbed over fresh ships—my little old Kiftyhawk and The famous song “ Down by the Old M ill Stream" refers to the Blan ly cleaned windows or mirrors will I learned a lot, and we were very, chard river running through Fre prevent them from clouding over very lucky. When I had come in in damp or foggy weather. This may from my first sortie, the day oper mont. Ohio. It was written by Teli also be used for eye glasses, when ations burned down, my pal Col. Taylor, who was born on a farm the wearer is forced to stand over Gerry Mason kidded me a bit. Since near Fremont in 1876 and lived there until his death in 1937. steaming hot water. * * n<'”’ j Way down South! Captain told me that his Comman- dos in Myitkyina were Roing to knock holes in all the fuel tins with Rhlny Glaze Acetate ruyon fabrics on which picks before they left the field to the Japs. Nevertheless I kept watching home pressing has produced a shiny the gasoline stores while the Japs glaze cannot be re-dyed. moved to the North. On May 8. when I got In my ship and st irted the Allison, my friend the Group ' Captain ran across the field to tell me that the Japs could not net the . gasoline—it had been destroyed with out fire, and thus the villagers would not be panicked Over the roar of the engine I yelled that In that case it would not burn when I fired Into It. For I had waited long enough; the Japs were in Myitkyina and I ' wasn't taking any chances on their acquiring over 100,000 gallons of avi ation fuel less than two hundred to miles from our base. When I came over the field nt Myitkyina, the enemy fired at me ' w h ile 'I was yet ten miles away; I could see the black bursts of the 37 mm AA in front and below me. I started "Jinking” and moved to the Northeast, so that I could come fror- — c« ch» P-a i » . . f^ ,r ! I oow. ' tack- Th" I did better I saw tra« r » go into the thin fuselage f nd then into the engines. At first I thought that what I was seeing was more dust; then I realized it was smoke pouring from under the sb,p B was on fire. Foolishly then, I Polled up to about six hundred feet; if there had been anti-aircraft ftre' u - 1 know now they - would have ,hot me down Again I turned and ’ hot at the truck and the gasoline drums, and once more I saw the tracers converge on the enemy ship. Smoke was floating high In the sky— I could smell it over the odor of cor dite that came from my own guns. Keeping very low again, 1 turned East and found the Burma Road, turned up it and started looking for the columns which I now knew were Japanese. I approached them from the rear, fired from about a thou sand yards, and the road seemed to pulverize. The closely packed troops appeared to rifth back to wards me as my speed cut the dis- tance between us. I held the six guns on while I went tbe length of the troop column and caught the tali. «u. MERRY CHRISTM AS and a H A P P Y NEW YEAR my friends and patrons DR. C. R. SIM K IN S I a spt'cch from the floor of the house. • • • The writer came from n long line of politicians. His grandfather ran fpr t he Ixtrder, once. • • ♦ And we ran for work, once, when the alarm fulled Io go off. BULLETIN Window screen—An arrange ment for keeping files in t he house. * * * We'll try to keep you as a steady customer if you'll come and pay us one .visit. Making friends out of cus tomers is another one of our hobbies. V • • Kelly Springfield and Norwalk Tires CLARK’S SUPER SERVICE 12» North 9th Phon«, 202
