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IR E Published Every Thursday at Cottage Grove, Oregon Established August 15, 1889 ....................... E ditor. Publisher W r M A R T IN ................... Subscription Rates, Cash in Advance Subscription rates, cash in advance. No subscription fo r less than 3 3 M ok 6 M ot. months. 1 Yr. C o tta n e (g r o v e £ e n t m r l 1.25 ................2.00 In Lane-.Douglas Counties .... 1.50 Outside This Dist in Oregon ...... ...............2.25 1.75 Outside Oregon in U. S .......................... ................ 2.50 Fbreign Rates on Application. 1.50 ...............2.00 Arm ed Porces in U. S. 1.00 Arm ed Forces Overseas ..................... ................ 1.50 Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class m atter. NATI ORE P u n is c i IREI .75 .90 1.00 GOD IS MY CO-PILOT 1.00 By COL. ROBERT L. SCOTT AL É D IT O R IA L — S S O C IA T IO N WNU Feature«. (Continued from '••• w eek ) CHAPTER XVIII ! AT I So Johnny glided to the held with SHALL GERMANY HAVE A HARD OR SOFT PEACE? No sensible m in i w ants this world to he embroiled a g a in ¡his missing engine, and then we in such a war, for another w ar like this would not only destroy heard him say that he couldn't make ..........b » . ¡, whole civilization. We all agree that w ars must be stopped. fairly bright but evcn al ,ha, i knew that the germs of w ar must be destroyed before they are given that Johnny had to be mighty good the opportunity to incubate . . . hut 'how to do it is the pro- and very lucky. Then I wondered hlem. The idealist leans tow ard a soft peace. The realist insists whether or not he was wounded upon a hard one. But regardless of our sentim ents, the British Silhouetted against the light from and Russian« are going to have a voice in the d e c is io n -a m i J»« their sufferings and sacrifices will determ ine th eir thinking JkinX d oJer S ChSese juniis on W'e who live in com fortable American homes and in cities the river and t saw the gpiasb Dl still unharm ed by bombs cannot know the real terro rs of mod- the wjth its wbeels up. hit ihe ern war. To u n derstand its tru e m eaning, all we need do is siang Kiang. Down on the ground use our im agination ami change shoes for a moment with a they heard his engine give one more Russian, a Germ an or a Britisher. , dying gasp, as with « surge of power F o r example, if von wi re a resident of B ritain you would -p ro b a b iy from fu i i r i i i ..<7«« i him over tne know the m eaning of war. v You would have 1:.. ln e d i . suffered Ugt low of pitch—it 0>< maits lifted of the Junks and and endured it. _ let him level off to skid across the In B ritain home front casualties have been extrem ely iurface of the river, heavy. Before the coming of the super Nazi V-2 rockets, the We came m an<j landed now, for total casualties exceeded 136,000 persons. And one out ot every the ground crew had gotten the three houses had been dam aged or completely destroyed. En- smudge-pot boundary lights set out lire blocks were wiped out bv a single Y-l buzz bomb. to mark the runway as well as the Men work long hard hours in factories, and hours that bomb craters We gathered togeth- i i i i i ... lawk«,;., er fast with the boys who had stayed should be spent . i • l l sleep are of ent.imes ..»n:«. utilized i ♦ to v ,.i clear debn., on ground an<J talRcd abou, ,he and restore essential services. Almost everything is rationed. An great battle j remembcr Tex Hill egg is a rare delicacy. Men w ear shabby clothes and taxes a n shaking his head and saying. " I'm fa r higher than in America. afraid Johnny didn't make it. Dog- Out of a population of 47 million people. 5 million, or one-) gone, he was a good boy." We all th ird of all her men betw een 14 and 64. are in the arm ed forces.! felt a sinking In our hearts. We Almost half the women between the ages of 14 am i 59 are in waited and we kind of prayed too the arm ed services, fulltim e civil defense or in industry. ! sent Captain Wang, our salvage B ritain has lost tw o-thirds of her pre-w ar commercial fleet, man- °“’ ;J ° aee ’ “ he c‘, d any and her m ilitary and sea casualties to tal more than 600000. reporU out and kap, wajtjng on These things must l»e stopped. An enduring peace must be a,ert Just when we had really lxiilt. W ill a soft peace o r a hard peace for the Nazis assure given up hope, we heard the sound the fulfillm ent of a happy, peaceful fu tu re ! W hat do you of sharp explosions. All of us ran out of the alert shack, to see the th in k !— (Selected). — '— --------- ■ --------------------------- — | M rs. R uth Apana of San F ra n - cisco, C alifornia has been visiting M r. and M rs. N a te Compton her m other. Mrs. A. B. Sm ith, were dinner guests o f M r. and Mrs. Anna Bolton returned Mrs. Sam Mackin last Sunday. home Sunday a fte r visiting her Mrs. W . A. Hem enway has been son and granddaughter in P o rt- ill w ith the flu. land. T h e Cedars Ladies club w ill gvhireni too iD aoJw Fhoc ;ao meet w ith Mrs. Read H e m e n w a y ------------------------- F ebruary 13th for an all day Stretch Easily meeting. A potluck dinner w ill be Knit dresses and sweaters stretch held at noon and members are to if hung up. I t ’s better to lay them tie out a com forter fo r the host- on a bed to air, then fold and lay css. them away in a drawer. Cedars i WE ARE NOW PREPARED TO DO FIRST CLASS AUTOMOBILE PAINTING Fast E lectrical S erv ice DEPENDABLE SERVICE—ALL WORK GUARANTEED UNION SHOP LEE’S ELECTRIC SHOP 633 North 9th Street Phone 224R □ M A R T IN M O TO R S * Pontiac Sales and Service E L E C T R IC A L W O R K WE NOW HAVE A N EXPERIENCED ELECTRICIAN BESIDES MYSELF TO DO YOUR WIRING. ALL KINDS OF WIRING AND ELECTRICAL WORK DONE PROMPTLY. BRISBANE ELECTRIC 1049 East Main Phone 73 CITY TRANSFER & DELIVERY A n yth in g Hauled Within the City Limits P hone 252 T H11 HSDAY, FKHKVARV H, I94ft S b A u .u .i, strangest sight that we ever saw. even ln China. A procession had entered the field. The Chinese sentry had passed the crowd of people and was himself holding his thumb in the air calling "Ding-hao—ding-hao." In the midst of the procession and surrounded by children shooting Chinese firecrack ers in celebration, was a sedan chair carried on the backs of the villagers of Hengyang. And Johnny Alison was in the sedan chair—smiling. While we cheered too and some of us even got some firecrackers from the kids and shot them off. we helped Johnny out and heard his story. He'd hit the river like a feather-bed. he said, and had swum ashore, having to kick off his good American shoes to make it. As he crawled up the bank of the river the Chinese had rushed upon him, think ing he was a Jap out of one of the bombers. Johnny said it looked as if they were going to cut him up. until he remembered the one word of Chinese that he'd picked up. He yelled this—one that sounded like "M erugay," which means "Ameri- can." And when they read the Chi nese sign that each of us carried on the back of his flying suit, which asks aid and protection for the American who has come to help China fight, they realized who he was. Just the man who had shot down the three enemy ships. And from then on he was the hero of the town. Johnny Alison had a couple of burns on his hands Ynd legs where some bits of the Japs' explosive bul lets had hit him. He'd been slightly cut on the foix head when, on land ing in the river, his head had hit the heavy metal of the gun-sight. But the scar that would leave would be a common one after the war, for every fighter pilot flies along with his head just inches behind that hunk of steel that contains the lights and prisms of the modern gun- sights. Just the slightest accident and it is out there to split your head. I asked Johnny why in hell he went so close to the bomber forma tion, and he grinned and said, " I was scared I'd misa one of them." Our salvage crew worked and worked at the job of raising the P-40 from the bottom of the Siang-Kiang. But with the fourteen-foot depth and the swift current, they had more than modern engineering with the limitations of our floating equipment could accomplish. Under Captain Wang—Chinese-American and ln our 1 Army—they floated barges out to the spot and tried to tow it ashore i with lines. Then they lowered steel drums, tied them to the ship, tried to pump the water from the sub- I merged drum* and thus float the P-40— but everything failed. During all the work of the Amer icans with windlass and block-and- tackle, the Chinese villagers, who j had offered their services long be fore smiled and stood by. We asked ourselves: What in hell could the Chinese coolies and rivermen do if we, with our general knowledge and advanced civilization, couldn't raise the ship? We went on and failed for three days, and then to the per sistent Chinese we said, "Okay, go ahead.” We watched them float raft after raft of long thick bamboo poles to ' the buoy that now marked the spot where Johnny's fighter had sunk. Mentally we set down the raising of. the shin as ipiccssjble, and cot ready to mark it off the list But the Chinese went on cheerfully with their work. I »aw them pull them- »eve* down Into the riv e r with ropes tied to the fighter, taking with them an eighteen-foot length of bam boo. They would slide thia under the wing of the ship and lash It into place with grass rope. Hundreds of times they did this, until a perfect mat of bamboo was under the entire wing of the little P-40. Then they lashed the mat to the fuselage and ‘ started another row under the wing. Through it all we smiled at the wast ed elTort. and I heard men say. "Oh well, there are lots of Chinese any way Let them work." But toward the second days Cose, I began to wonder, and that evening as darkness settled over the river 1 went out to watch their tire less labor. Suddenly there was a movement among the rivermen to tighten the four cables that tied the lighter to the barge, and I taw the ’ canopy and the prop of Johnny's , fighter ship rise above the surface of the river. Involuntarily I cheered, and I fell a lump in my throat as if I had swallowed something: as _ talk _ to _ ....... I tried to the ........................ officer with m# j felt mv ||() <rcnib|e With emo- tian. ‘ " But ----- the ------------------------- Chinese never cheered - or got excited: they remained as stoical as ever. They seemed to know that they were going to be suc cessful. and had merely been wait ing for the crazy Americans to quit playing around with all the strange gadgets. Clan losing ships- Munetlmv lots died In the unequal battle SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT—OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK July I, HM4 Io December « I. 1944 >■»«'• One day In August. Johnny Alison GENERAL FUND was leading six P-40's to Intercept Num ber Claims Ace, hi nt a larger number of Japanese com 19 ..... ........... ing In against Hengyang from both Advert Islng 2 Hankow and Canlun. When Inter Agriculturist ception was made, the Japs had Assessor ......... 95 ................................ flfty-three planes. They were In Audit mg three waves, so of course Johnny 87 <' ii i-uit ( 'oui i didn't get them all together and let IHti Circuit Court (Special) them take shots at his little force. 178 He circled in the sun, waiting fur Clerk 12 the opportunity to strike, and get Coroner sway with all his ships. Then It County Court 66 came. He dove through nine of County Dues 2 them, and his six planes shot down 176 County Kurin four of the enemy. In his second 7.3 attack, after diving awuy and climb County Owned Lands KN) ing back into the tun, he sent four Court House ¡M of his six down against them and Defense then come on with the other two, Dependent Children«* Inst. 29 just In esse the enemy should follow District Attorney 55 the small'attacktng force out of the District Sealer 4 fam iliar "circling movement'' thut l-’l<-<-t i. hi 1254 the Jap with his ever superior num Emergency ........... .......... bers always went into. 1 Emergency Relief ......... .. The little force of fighters knocked 1 down another Zero. But one of the I'm - I '.I I. s.l 2 P-40's was in trouble. Johnny said Four-H Club later that he had seen the enemy Fruit Inspector . . ......... 34 ships following the Forty, but Health Department 109 thought the closest one was another Health Officers 11 P-40. Too late he realized the error ......... 2 Home Demonstration Agent and went to help the pilot, whom he 44 knew by then to be a boy named Indigent Soldier ..... 60 Lee Minor. The Zero rode the In san e ........ 2 American lighter's tail and shot It Insurance down with cannon, and the P-40 Justice Court ..... 139 burned. Johnny watched tur a chuta Juvenile Deportment 97 to open, but nothing happened. Museum .. 46 As we drove out along the high Predatory Animals ..... 7 way thut afternoon—Baumler and Public Welfare Commission 6 Alison. Jack Belden i f Life maga 1 zine and I —we were hoping by aome Rodent Control School Superintendent .. ..... .... . 77 fluke that Minor had bailed out and 204 that Johnny hud failed tu see him Sheriff - General do it, but we suspected that we w r it S heriff - Tax D epartm ent 112 merely being optimistic The fa r S heriff - Jail 103 ther we drove down the road to the Slaughtered Animal« .... 58 South, toward* the battle area of the .. 6 State Industrial Accident Com morning, the more we expected wh.it Surveyor .... 70 we found. Finally we saw It. I'hlstle .. .39 Four Chinese coolies were walking 43 towards the nearest village, carry- , Treasurer ing un object la.-sied to poles, and .3636 TOTALS carrying it in the old way of the East, with the poles over their shoul ders. The thing they were carrying I DOG FI ND 1 ... .. 31 , was wrapped In grass matting, but <"3«lms I saw the bare feet sticking out. We Enforcement O fficer 12 stopped the Jeep and called to the S**'**. ^’',mf*’nsatlon .. 6 3 coolies. Jack Belden spoke to them 1 In Chinese and took the cover from Misevlluni-oux the face. It was Lieutenant Minor, TOTALS ........ 53 and of course he was dead Hix ship in exploding had evidently thrown ID him out and opened hi« chute, but A nim al* the explosion had killed him. He Bobcat .... 24 1 had definitely not crashed with the , Coyote 24 ship, for there was hardly a mark Cougar 7 on his body. -Seal , , Wrapping Minor in his parachute, TOTALS ....... 49 1 we ,ook hiT back ln a rU ke? Ch!' ncsa bus that we commandeered FUND We knew we’d miss Minor and men Bridge 252 like him. He'd been one of the up- Construction nnil Maintenance 1472 and-coming younger pilots, and hud Emergency already shot down one Japanese Insurance 1 Right of W ay plane. 6 We took Minor's body to the Cath I S tate Ind. Accident Com. Amount »1,185 22 4,090.00 7,311 92 2,613.62 1,559 85 15,038.95 302.68 5,096.13 176 77 M 26.63 3,586 2« 5,019.85 1,035 47 979.37 2.732 50 196 12 12.540.55 2.00 358.79 2.800 00 1,160.56 8.939 IS 42.50 1,500.00 1.470 92 622 15 519 89 1.285 60 ,3.675 70 1,286 IS 838 63 50,772 50 400.00 3,164 78 7.803 OS 12,024 73 3,730.15 1.123.97 682.98 2,574.16 2.431 »7 3,008 27 ■ ■UN. They had floated the 9100 pounds of P-40, and now they towed it to shore. Our salvage crew put the wheels down in the water, and with the aid of about a hundred coolies the ship was pulled up the river bank and then out to the Odd. We counted eleven bullet holes through the engine and in the cockpit. Next day the ground crews began the work of repair. Days had to pass before an engine from another dam aged tighter could be installed, and more time had to go by before we got it completely worked over. But in the end it Dew again in com bat against the Japanese— thanks to »180,90050 labor of good mechanics, and the — --------- the _____ bravery of a _--------- gallant ----------- officer, the _ unswerving patience and devotion of » 62885 those brave Chinese coolies and riv- 913 6« ermen who had never heard of the 24 76 word "impossible." '222.02 When I first went to China I think 1625 I imagined in my short stay that 1 would gradually change the simple $1,80554 Chinese. 1 used to rant and rave about thia and that, and try to show the houseboys better and more ef » 97.50 ficient ways to do things. But they Itrj.OO never changed, and finally I real 80 uo ized that they were changing me. Now in raising this ship they had used a method three thousand years $ 279 50 old. I have read since how they had employed it in Burma, long years before, when the great temple bell 519,437 20 159,118.66 weighing over thirty ton* was thrown into the deep lake to save it 9 16 from the heathen. When the heath en had occupied the land and had 5.83749 hiniself been beaten in due time, — ■ ■ A. . I! ■ olic mission across the river, and probably by the country and by lime TOTALS ..................... 1730 »184,402 41 itself, they had come back to the bought one of the old. ancient-look m is z u i lake, these Chinese, and with bam ing Chinese coffins, made out of »U N D boo polos had raised the thirty tons Vtood about six inches thick, with ‘Construction and Malntcnunc ».30 248 X3 410 corners that turned up like a pagoda Bridge of metal. 13^563.99 132 , During my stay in China I have roof; they must weigh two hundred 1 watched the Chinese being bombed, pounds. We put Minor's body in TOTALS ...... 542 »43,812.32 and have seen them go out and pick side and held a simple service: for IE ««. their dead from among the ruins of you have to work fast in tempera Lane County. O regun, here- their cities. Then wait bravely for tures of a hundred and eight, when i by certify that the for tort-going Report ia correct «a 1 verily believe. the Jap to come again, while they the humidity ia just about a hundred. IN W IT N E S S W H E R E O F ', I have hereunto net my hand and a f went on scratching out a road with Then we filled the casket with quick fixed the seal of Ijin e County. Oregon, this 23rd day of Junuary. 1945. lime, sealed it up n our brother W B. DILLARD. County Cleric of the County ! their bare hands, stoically working officer, covered It with ten layers of and watching for material to come of Lane, Stute of On Jregon. over that road with which to fight heavy bricks to protect it from rob bers and rats, and left it there to KEMI-ANNUAL REPORT the enemy. Waiting patiently, as July I, 1944 to December 11. 1944 though they knew that some day wait for the r.exl transport to Kun (B oth Du tea Inclusive) they would have a chance to fight ming. ¡T o ta l T ax A Interest Collected »LH66.5gO.6K The headquarters in Yunnan is the the Japanese who have tried to ex Special T urnover ( 12' a % Yield T u x ) ... 1,2?LOT burial ground for all of our pilots Special Turnover (In L ie u of Taxes) ........ terminate them. 12.31 killed fighting against the Japanese I've seen a Chinese woman run There on the plateau in Yunnan is »1.H67.N04 IW into a bomb crater, pull the d »mem bered pieces of her child together, the only memorial ground the 13rd COIJ.ECTIONH CIVIL A CRIMINAL DF.PT. and wipe the dirt from the face of Fighter Group will ever have Our T otal Auto License Fees Collected » 1,025.50 her dead husband, a look tif misery pilots lie beneath a gray slate slab T o ta l Legal Fees Collected , . ,. ............. 671.15 on her face. Then, when she saw from tlie earth of Yunnan, under the wings of the Chinese and the Amer- 1 me staring, she stood there and 1,696.65 .......................................... smiled. When I glanced at General lean Air Force, They be there In TotaJ CJollectton» »1.R69.561.51 Chennault with a question on my the shadow of a little Buddhist tern- | DEPOSITED WITH COUNTY TREAHURER face, he said, "Don't interpret that pte which for all practical purposes (T ax D epartm ent) wrong now. Scotty. She's showing is the Christian temple of our God. Captain A J Baumler was the ,J.u,y I a t 31 • 19^ . * 21,350.43 you she can still smile, no matter (gust U 1st t to August S 31st. 27.619.69 beat operation, officer I ever i August la t 1944 what happens." September 1st to September 30th, 1944 18,074.04 He could go out and shoot down Even with the small fighter and October 1st to Octolter 31st. 1944 .... . 155.407.76 bomber force that we now had In Japs all day. then come in and read Novem ber 1st to Novem ber 30th, 1944 1,164,178 34 the combat reports of twenty pilots, China, the people had taken a new December 1st to December 31at, 1944 476,788 55 lease on life. Every time we had an digest them all. and write out the i most comprehenalvc report In the . »1,863,418.81 air battle over Hengyang they would capture another town along the world—one that would give higher SPECIAL TURNOVEIL— 121/j % YIEIT) TAX headquarters a ringside picture of j Yangtse or near the lakes around September 22. 1944 707.05 the fight that had taken place. Nanchang. I think we realized then, December 21, 1944 564 82 "A jax" was from New Jersey. He as General Chennault had realized had fought for nearly two years with | $ 1,271.87 for a long time, that all these people needed was a chance, with air sup the Loyalists in Spain, and had shot ' SPECIAL TURNOVER— (IN LIEU OF TAXES) port for their ground armies and down seven Messerschmltts and $ 12.31 modern equipment for their soldiers. Fiats in that war; when he became 'Decem ber 21, 1944 ....................... an uce in the 23rd Group he was the (AUTO LICENSE FEES) Our small force had put new life first man in the war who had shot ¡July 1st to July 31st, 1944 ........................ » 137.50 Into them They bad plaques em down German, Italian, and Japa- i August 1st to August 31st, 1944 ................ 67.00 broidered in commemoration of the nese aircraft. Ever .Ince America S‘*|Member 1st to September 3Wh. 1944 58.75 battles that we fought. These would 39 50 had entered the war he had led a ¡O ctober 1st to October 31st, 1944 ............ sometimes represent the American November 1st to Novem ber 30th, 1944 26.25 hectic existence. Months before De December la t to Decem ber 31st, 1944 .... 696.50 eagle holding the flags of America, cember 7th he had left America Britain, Russia, and China. In Chi from California to Join the AVG and 1,025.50 nese characters would be a poetic General Chennault, as a Lieutenant account of the battle that the pilot (LEGAL FEES) in the Air Corps He had been or the squadron had fought. As we stopped ln Hawaii for a month and July 1st to July 31st, 1944 .......................... $ 106.15 drove along the roads in our Jeepa August 1st to August 31st, 1944 ................ 132.37 to the field for the alert of the "Jin- then had received permission to con September 1st to September 30th, 1944 . .. 113 98 tinue on. bao," the little children would hold October 1st to October 31st, 1944 ............ 107 40 (To be continued) their thumbs up and call again and November 1st Io Novem ber 30th, 1944 .... 106 22 again, "Ding-hao."1 December 1st to December 31st, 1944 .... 105.03 More and more wa asked our- te! lves, "What couldn't we ao With » 671.15 plenty of equipment tor the Chinese I T otal Deposited w ith County Treasurer »1.866,399.64 ground armies, and us over their - - S lat - (T - a x - D epartm ent) Meets Every TUESDAY (Cash on Ha Hand * ~ December 3,161.87 heads with adequate air support?" Night, 8.00 o ’clock Would the day ever Come when we $1.869.561.51 Petersen’s Hall 18-tfc could make an attack with a force i STA TE O F OREGON, C O U N TY O F L A N E « . that was a credit to the greatest country in the world? Towards the I, O. E. CROWE, a« Sheriff of Lane County, Oregon,, do hereby ¡c e rtify th a t the foregoing is a true and correct report of the T a x Da- middle of August, as nur pilots died AT FIRST ip artm en t, and Civil and C rim inal Departm ents of the Office of Sher in the old ships that we had, we SIGN OF A iff and T ax Collector fo r L an e County, Oregon, for the period com had begun to doubt It. mencing July 1st, 1944, and ending December 31st, 1944, both dates For no, we didn’t win all the time. inclusive. Sometimes we lo^t, even when we Dated this 1st day of January, 1945, A. D. , traded one for ten. We lost because O. E. CROWE, Sheriff Pro-Tern of Lane County, the Jap could replace his lost State of Oregon. olanes: wa could not. Il was more .By A. P, M cKinzey, Chief Tux lX ‘puty. 25-ltc V Moose Lodge Meets L OVD c ie 666 Co/d Prtparatioat ar d in e ttd
