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f P /.Ü E two Published Every Thursday at Cottage Grove, Oregon Established August 15, 1889 ........................... Editor. Publisher W. C. M A R T IN Subscription Rate*. Cash in Advance Cottane Ærovr $mtmrl bscription for less than 3 6 Mos. 3 Mos. 1 Yr. months. Outside Oregon in U. S. __........ Foreign Rates on Application. Armed Forces in U. S___ ____ Arm ed , Forces Overseas 2.00 ..2.25 .. .2.50 1.25 1.50 1.75 ...2.00 1.50 1.00 ...1.50 .75 .90 1.00 1.00 GOD IS MY CO-PILOT B y COL. ROBERT L. SCOTT Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class matter. national E D IT O R I A I— H'KU r « t u r » i . SSOCIATION P U B L IS H I S 4 h k 0 ö l * T I I « (Continued from l*at week.) CHA PTER X X II PARENTS RESPONSIBLE FOR JUVENILE HEADACHES With my first burst the next ship Among the new problems throw n in the public lap during the past th irty years is what to do with the way wart! juvenile relied over and dove, with one en- now that parenthood apparently carries less responsibility. The gln* Bv no* 1 had caught was shoot probl.-m is growing more acute principally because we are m t Z ‘at ing at the bombers from exceeding- really hard down honest with ourselves . , , . and . . we are looking . ■ fo ly lung range, I methodically aimed an excuse to pin our troubles on somebody else. The delinquent for bis engines, putting a short burst youth isn t a problem, it s the delinquent parents ami if we into one and then into the other, doubt this statem ent, the facts can easily be cheeked with of- The Jap must have fait the fire, ficials and those who have had experience in dealing with the 1°r he went into a steep, climbing boys and girls who may be inclined to be w ayw ard. In most <urn—which incidentally is very good it you have a ship that will eutrlim b eases the reason the children are w ayw ard, the parents have re .vour opponent 1 thought thia climb fused to accept proper responsibility in the rearing of their ing turn might be • trick; so 1 children or should we say raising th eir children. An ex-jttvenib watched closely for him to turn on officer made the statem ent th at a cheek up was made in a nca me. Out when he rolled over he by comm unity of children found on the streets at night. Stint dove not for me but for the clouds. I tw enty five or th irty homes were visited and the p arents aske< kept going after him and must have if they knew w here their children were. In about eighty pe put two hundred shots into him be cent of the eases the parents knew nothing of the w hereabouts fore he got out of my sighi in the cumulus cloud. Pieces had begun to of th eir children and in a good percentage of the homes vi .ite come from his fuselage, and smoke the m atte r of the w hereabouts of the fam ily children was a mat was trailing behind. I believe his te r of indifference to the p a re n ts involved. engines were bit and were failing, for the props seemed to be "wind- It seems th at there is a grow ing conviction that since t state is assum ing more and more responsibility over the so-eal m illing." And yet I could only claim led w elfare of its citizens th at another responsibility; th at r; it as a "probable," for I didn't see *t catch fire or crash. rearing and tra in in g the children isn ’t too much to ask of t sehools. If you are interested in digging up statistics, you will We got all our bombers back, of course, and the pictures showed find an in terestin g connection between the work the childre very good resuJls for were required to do th irty years ago and now and also an in- of Gja Lam fleW Wc clainied nine t cresting connection between the per capita Sunday school at ot the thirteen enemy fighters defi- tendance now and th irty years ago. One thing we are sure y ’ nitely destroyed, and we hadn't even would find and th at is juvenile delinquency was praetieallv gotten a hole in one of our P -W i. In non-existant th irty years ago and for the two reasons above. our opinion the new 1-45 had turned The kids d o n ’t go to Sunday school like they used to be a”? toej «VcYcd S ?toe cause the pas and mas like to sleep on Suntlay m orning an pilots dldn-t know how to use the they roam the street at night because pa and ma don t lik e to fast.eiimbjng ship. sometimes I no- be bothered. There, reader, is the root of the juvenile problem, peed that when I got on the tail of . . . . j j | . ____________________________ __ » v t j g u u u ic a u tto tu t u ic M u tt one. instead of climbing away from WE HAVE OUR CHOICE me— and he could easily have If Russia keeps going to the right, she will w ind up as to ^ v i^ away fro,r a p 40 hc trie<* . . - - . - .. ' ~ »u ui»«r away from m e, whicn is defl- thc greatest democracy in the world, and if the U nited S tates nitely a very poor thing to try with keeps going to the left, we will wind up where the Russians your opponent in a fast-diving Kitty- were tw enty years ago.” — E dw ard V. R iekenbaeker. aviation hawk. executive. A short time after the H^jioi _______________________________ fight, we captured a French pilot, a Captain Penard. who had landed at xi i j i- , , . . . Mengtze, Just across the Indo-Chi- Aloso had applied to the philosophic white gentlem an for a nese border. Though our question- loan. I w j u u tu rn ed down. The gentlem an sa id ; “ \ o u are ing of him failed to yield much stra- strong a n d health y and work is plentiful. W hy d o n ’t you get a **8ic information, we did get con- jo b ! H ard work never killed anybody.” * " firmation for the day's work of Sep- Mofie said: “ You sho is w rong erbout dat. Boss I ’se done ternber 2501 He claimed to have los’ fo u ’ wives from n u ffiu ’ else.” — The Railroad Trainm en. ob8e,7 ed * • a**1- ««<» ^om his de- --------------------------------------------— — -— ----- ------------------------- -- —. scription his claim sounded proba- on o . . ble. Be said either nine or eleven C O N C IS E S U M M A R Y O F A L L 00, Sara Allen SloO.OO; Blanche enemy planes had been shot down. HIS E X PE R IE N C E y T i ll ’ USO A Y . API!If, ft. 1040 -THE SEXTÍVEfA COTTAGE O HOVE, OREO ON On these same flights against the trucks, Bruce Holloway was shot down. All of us learned rapidly that this ground-strafing was tough business and not conducive to long life Just about every ship on file strafing missions would he riddled with small holes from the constant ground-fire. MaJ. Bruce Holloway, the Group Executive, had been leading several fighters on the truck columns near Chefang. As he pulled from one diving attack he felt something strike bis ship. At first he didn't notice it and continued to strafe flam Just about tree-top altitude. Then his coolant light popped on. Bruce turned Immediately towards find out from a long time (n China, we'd always be foreign to the Chi nese, For. after ull, the only word in China that coukl mean a pee son other than a Chinese was "for eign itevil.” The General told n it about an au- tomebile trip he hud made with M a jor Shu down the road from Chih- , kiung to Kweyang. This waa bandit country, through the wilds of Kwvy- ang province. Arriving at Kweyang, the capital, they had found an an cient walled city. The General, us a trusted servant of the Gissimo, had been taken to the Governor's house, and there dinner waa served. d S"; , { D U or on d me L'lepli one next street had a telepl All through the meal General Chen- nuult noticed that straitfc.'i's whom 1 the friendly Chinese lines, which he did not meet would come in sin were nearly twenty miles awny. He gly, sit down at the other end of (he must have known immediately that table, and after watching hia every . the enemy bullet had punctured his movement for a minute, would prestons tank ttfce coolant of the leave. Th?n another would come in American li uid-ceoled engine*. He and take the scat. After this had had a very few minutes to stay in gone on during the esitire meal, the i the air baf re the engine would General finally turned to Major Shu kN and usked what was going on—what c > i fire or " i -c " lie im: t be ; closer to the all these staring people meant? Ma river, he hi ■... (or he was indicat jor Shu replied that here In Kwey- j ing over two hundred miles on hour, ang the people had never seen a but in his anxiety it seemed to go foreign devil, and the Governor had farther awny. V.’ith almost his last given them permistion to come In That Is a natural question. gasp he c ro -s ri the river into and look at one. There are a number of answers, any one General Chennault's other house- friendly Chinese country and crash- of which may be the one that fits the cose. landed in one of the ever-present boys were "Wang Cook." who had b-.-en on the US Gunboat Panay. rice paddies. It's possible your neighbor on the nest street Now begins Bruce's trip back and "Gunboat." who had served ui ordered service sooner than you did , . , has from the interior of China to our the American Navy for three years been waiting longer. The General used to take me hunt base at Kunming It's almost a O r the neighbor who applied loter but got saga, for Holloway was feted, wined ing witii him, and 1 came to under service sooner may be one whose responsibil and dined in the prim itive fashion stand that throughout these hunting ities for defense, public health, welfore ond of the remote village people, who trips he was giving me lessons in were tribesmen called "Miaows." tactics, lessons he had learned the safety require it. Though Bruce was only fifty min hard way against the Jnpanese O r there moy be more wire capacity ovoil- utes by plane from Kunming, his Without my knowing it, he would. In oble on his street. mode of travel by sedan chair, don elfect, eriticize my method of for Until the telephone factories are able to turn key and water buffalo required three mer attacks and udvise me about from war production, there will continue to be weeks. From the moment he rode better ways to do the Job. 1 used into headquarters on the last buf to listen to him for hours as he told shortages o f certoin facilities here on the falo he had hired, he became known of cases in which he had got his home front. as the "Lochinvar of the Salween." own ship shot up by going in too W e are doing our level best to meet the close, and then, after he learned Later Lieutenant Welborn was essential requirements of our country ond shot down farther to the South. Wel how and knew that his longer range community. . ..... out ............. . ......... „ fifty-calibre guns would out-shoot the born had . gotten of his burning ccomplishcd the same plane two hundred miles South of ' ^ p-^ had Your co-operation and understanding are Paoshan, and his trip out o f the destruction on the enemy without appreciated. getting his own ship shot to pieces. rough country was the longest of any man that was lost. 1 remember that These critiques taught me exactly Buy Wer Bonds for Victory when he reached the first village what he meant to impart without from which he could get word to his ever hurting my pride by telling THC PACIFIC TFLEPHONI AND TElIGBtAPH COMPANY ua. he sent a message that at first me that I was wrong and could ac sounds facetious, until you under complish more by fighting in hia I ’lu.nc R.) 521 M a in S tn-vl stand the conditions under which one way. Coming home some nights from travels in the interior of China; then I n'nr^i you realize that he was coitserva- the exercise of our hunts together, ax “the old broken-down transp ort e le<i»"r€’ «it 1 would think of my wife and little lam « nlaving mpor- pilot.” In a way. this was music to girl far away in Oeorgia, and get our ears, for it meant that the J a pa. In-it roles in su»-h dlver«lfl<-<J fields very homesick. Once 1 looked at television, nese were being hurt by his bomb as vitamin nr-dvrls the General and told him how 1 ings or they would not have re- blackout I htm - and ne'ri-leiun wished that 1 could press a button sorted to such propaganda. But It pro-1 re tiny, and it Is a valuable tool and kill all the JspJoese, to end made General Haynes so mad that not only tor rhemleta and physiolo the war, so that we could all go he could have turn the Jap to pieces gists, bot criminologists, mineralo home. He thought for a second or with his bare hands. After ail. he gists and Industrial engineers. two and then looked back, smiling. had been a pursuit pil >t for years, "Aw now. Scotty,” he said, "we snd (or the last ten years he had don’t want to do that. We've gut to been dean of American four-engine learn to hate this enemy. Think of bombers. The records he had set how much fun it is to kilt them with the B-15 had made history and slow-.” Yes. sir. the General's busi were inspirations to the A ir Corps. ness was killing Japs. Large shipment of lawn and (T o be continuedt Then we'd go home In the daik- ncss, and Wang Cook would fix us a peppery dove-pie from the Gener al's doves and some canned oysters out of the loot of Rangoon. T H E J ^ S^ ^ ? ? D^ , f O U R T ° ° : Doris Feg,es 5140.00; Lucile can ships. Strangely enough, he told Col. Meriam C. Cooper was the , F O B F E B R U A R Y , 1945. Lansing $140.00; D orothy P utnam us of the way the Japanese aur- Chief of Staff to the General. His Ordered th a t 22 deeds be made 5130.00; L. M . Bryson 5175.00; rounded the wrecks of their fight- business was war, too. Cooper bad fo r county owned properties fo r Jack Rowland $110.00; Revolving ers and would not let the natives see been one of the greatest heroes of the to tal of $5,398.80. Fund $20.74; The W illa m e tte them. He observed that they hasti- the First World War. and was one Ordered th a t 4 offers amount- Press $21.00; Southern Pacific Co. ly painted out the rising-sun insignia of the greatest soldiers I have ever ing to $1,250.00 fo r county owned 55.03; V alley P rin t. & S ta t. Co. of Japan and replaced it with the seen. 1 never discovered when it properties be rejected. $130.00; Cresseys’ $1.50; Office white star of the American A ir was he slept. At any lime of night, O rder issuing dance hall license Mach. & Sup. Co. $24.30; W . B. Force. These trophies were then pa- he was apt to come into my room, to Geo. C. Dyer, Blue Rvier, (Ore- Dillard $4.05: raded through the country to im- when he visited us in Kunming gon. * - I COURT HOUSE; P L S ill press 11,6 Population with Japanese Gen. Caleb Haynes, who went Io from his usual headquarters In China Io head General Chcnnaull's Chungking. Or when I'd go to see Order establishing county road $180.00; Edward F. Ivy $140.00; 4n* ‘ncibi,itY- north of Cottage Grove, Oregon. David Swenson $140.00; B ert W ey- A poor way to have to impress bombers. him, I could find him smoking his O rder to make quitclaim deed er $60.00; L illie W eyer $18.00; E u - ever-present pipe at any hour. Coo live. His message read: "Landed to C. M. Young and Grace B. gene M irror & Glass Co. $1.00; 53,0 "e “ ™™*.an a“ per had served in the American Air B. Young. R ill’« c m n n . r - „ i tbe ships they wanted for that pur- safely such and such a sector. My Force in the last war, and when the O rd e e g ra n tin g M ountain States love t S * P k i m b S ^ . W ^ o d t o i e ^ e * J a js cou’ d ' ï l t S T C° nCern* d’ motto is Kunming by Christmas.” It was then September, and Wel war was over he had kept right on ¡ 2 ! ? ^ « 4 9 . 0 0 ; W h ite Elec- born beat his original estimate. He fighting. Hc hod enlisted with the $L73: C & S E,eC C° ™ 8«w* theto ‘“ »wn. and change the required fifty-four days to travel two Poles in the Russian-Polish war, and No. 1204 located in the S W % of 56.86; R. A.Babb Hdwe. Co. $0.40; spots on them. We'd do all we could hundred miles across the trails of had been second in command of the Kosciusko Squadron. After lead Section 2, and SE >4 of Section Packer-Scott Co. $124.00; Eugene to help southwestern Yunnan. 3, Twp. 17 S. R. 5 W . W . M „ Lane W a te r Board $130.95; F . A. Riebe Just as the General had been ex- Our truck-strafing caused us to ing many dangerous strafing raids, County, Oregon, also on County $3.20; H a rry R. Thompson $3.20; pecting. heavy movement began in lose several planes and two pilots, he was awarded Poland's highest Road No. 7, located along the com- J. L. Jepson $3.20: late September along the Burma but we cost .the Japs lots of m a m ilitary decorations. Later he made a reputation as an explorer in Per mon section lines of Sections 29, C O U N T Y C O U R T : A llen P. Road, from Lashio North towards te ria l Towards the first of October, 30, 31 and 32, Tw p 17 S.R. 5 W . W . W heeler $3.95; Pac. Tel. & Telg. Lungling. The Japs were seen by there were skeletons of enemy sia, Siam, and Africa. Following M., Lane County, Oregon; also on Co. $11.25; Nadine H . Scofield our observation to be moving many trucks and tanks from the Salween an active part in the formation of County Road No. 1064 in Sec. 12, $135.00; W . J. H olland $3.30: trucks filled with troops. They were to Kutkai. near Lashio. The Jap Pan-American Airways, he became one of the best known moving-pic 18 and 19, Twp. 21 S.R. 2 W .W .M ., C O U N T Y O W N E D L A N D S : evidently going to renew the at- may have moved a few at night, but ture producers in America. < O rd er directing transfer of Pac. Tel. & Telg. Co. $6.25; Helen lempt cross the Salween that the not many alter Morgan ar.d Bayse Cooper was a soldier through and got through bombing the bridges on funds. E. Soranson $160.00; Kathryn God- AVG had frustrated back in May. through, one of the most Intelligent O rder recommending issuance of ley $89.25; V alley P rin t. C o .! Bruce Holloway and I caught the Burma Road. We caught a few men that I could hope to meet, and 5 liquor licenses. $29.20; A. H . Hinkson $60.00: these trucks the first day and burned Jap planes near Lashio and shot the perfect Chief of Staff for Gen C O M M IS S IO N E R ’S C O U R T I C O U N T Y F A R M : Pac. Tel. & twelve of them near Wanting. On up several on the ground. 1 shot into eral Chennault. Through his con LA N E COUNTY Telg. Co. $3.50; M t. States Power lhc next afternoon, I got through a Zero there on October 5. and be stant attention to our espionage in F ebruary f laims, 194$. Co. $27.89; Gordon Hoare $145.00; !the rain with a sin« Ie fighter and lieve it went down, but only claimed eastern China we learned of the A D V E R T IS IN G : Cottage Grove M arg aret Hoare $100 00- H rn rv caught four of them on a curve in it as a "probable.” Japanese Task Forces coming Japs K® kept towards Sentinel $45.30; Guard Pub. Co. B. H ilton $10000- Georgia Black the road at Chefang. From then on l The n e . daps p *. c2 coming ^ in through Hongkong on their way to « 27 T he Springfield News burn c i ^ y S «“ «'» - « - , « « ■ « • « - « * P - (he Solomons and Saigon, and also N ellie ’ t Foliet't « “« T F « r7 „ K . v ternber. tember' we h bara« e d e every move- “ u 37 1,1 ear'< U" ciouer, ° “er' Dul 14; Guard Pub. Co. $29 81' - ,, arassed v e rv m n ve. Par,y w out 1 of the large amount of shipping in ^ " ' ■ « e ,te ? o i e : s . “ !s s x Victoria harbor. Now Cooper was working tireless Press $21.50; McCracken B ro s., General Roads $11.03; Bird's Rest turned ninety-six ---------- Yunnan, _ they ........................ had lost all their ships Motor F rt. $5265; Pac. Tel. A Telg. Home $6000- M ^h ^ avy truc^* in six days W* ly to plan our greatest raid against to the AVG. Way back on Christ Co. $7.25; S helto n -T u m b u ll-F u ller $ 175 S n / C o F r e d * S S ^ <men^ On bor" bs ” WeH 38 lhe the Japanese. I remember vividly Co. $1.00; Agnes O 'B rien $190.00; ‘ ¡9.75! Eugene S it S w e re ^ - ^ ' 7 ‘i " ’* thCir mas Day, 1941. how he tolled for six days and six Even with the hardships that a nights at the General's house on rugged country like China imposed, the logistics for our proposed at $140 W)1 n N ew m ans F,sh M a rk e t from Lungling to Lashio. I was living a wonderful life there tack on the largest convoy that had S i S ^ h ± ^ x tiim : ^ - 62:. J - c Ponney Co ’ In c ’ 4 '5 8 : ' One da7 Daniels dove ™ a tntek in Kunming. Those were days that Unrt « 9 ^ 0 0 ^ 1 r '? 120'* ) ' J ack K e ith s Elec. M o to r Serv. $2.00; , column to find that the Japs had I would never forget—Dot only lor come through Hongkong. Morning land $25.00 Norm a Hanson $108.- Eugene Concrete Pipe & Prod. C o .1 placed light tanks along with the the adventure that I was sharing after morning, when 1 went in to breakfast, the floor around the tablo Koads J8 1 9 ! Bailey $9.00; Standard Feed Co. $7.33; : truck convoy. When Daniels, who with the other fighters in the Croup, would be ankle-deep with "Walnut" M o to r Cxi. $14.20; W a lte r Hoey B e rt Sm ith $5.40; D r. H . E. Scales j was an offensive-minded fighter any- but for the great privilege of liv tobacco from Cooper's pipe, but the Motors In c $1,380.00; A . E. H ule- $42.50; Korn B aking Co. $17.52; way, saw the tanks he forgot about ing with my boss, General Chcn- plans would be those of a master. guard $11.95; M ildred Coleman The Groceteria $20.79; D. E. Neb- tbe trucks and concentrated on the nault. General Chennault and Colonel Coop- $60.66; Addressograph Sales Agen- ergall M eat Co. $10.76: more formidable vehicles. His F if Gen. Caleb Haynes, Doctor Gen ' er made, in fact, the perfect tacti- cy $11.00; Remington Rand Inc. CORONER: E D Furrer, ties tore two tanks rather badly, try, and 1 lived together with the I cal team. Everything wag ready 560.80: $60 00" and his frag bombs knocked two General in a house the “Gissimo" for lhc bombing raid by the middle C IR C U IT C O U R T : Pac. Tel. * COUNTY DUES: N ational more from the road, but he was had built for him. Situated near of October, and we merely waited Telg. Co. $17.45; H . V . Johnson Ass n, of Co. Officials $10.00: wounded by the heavy fire from the the field at Kunming, it was a mod i for word from the East that the har $30.00; R. N . Appling $250.00; D IS T R IC T A T T O R N E Y : Free- tanks. ern home, or as modern as a bunga bor between Kowloon and Hongkong D orothy Putnam $20.00; M a rk man D ay $210.00; Madeline Stone Lieutenant Welhorn, his wing low could be in Yunnan. With a . was filled with Japs. ’ ? 00: WP8t C° ’ 150 0° ; C a p r i n e P e d e r s o n l ' man, saw the tracers from the private room for each of us, with General Haynes had come to Chi $5.00; John S. D u cr $20.00; S tan- $15.00: Viola W ifV Oil- v r ground firing at his leader's ship the Chinese houseboys the General wick r . l and w ent to he ajd o pat anje had collected in his six years in na to lead General Chennault's le^ D7 ^ 1.iTg 515.00 : A rm itage $20.00; V alley P rin t * C L E R K ; Photostat Corp. $538.- Sta. Co. $0.90; Koko-Chapman Co. But the damage had been done. China, we lived a wonderful life in bombers when he left the leader ship of the Ferry Command. Hc 'rh ii8Ci iT*A &«-,TXlgk CV" ^28 95; 57.20; Legal Directories Pub. Co. One bullet had come up through the a war-torn land. bad hurt the Jap plenty with his pre side panel of Daniels’ P-40 and had There was "Wong Chauffeur” who The Haloid Co. $137.10; J. L. M ur- $2.00; Pac. Tel & Telg. Co $34 25; cision bombing, and had built up a Sho,,on’T u tn b u ll-F u l- Glenn S. Morgan, M. D. $12.50- struck him in the shoulder. The drove the General’s car. Wong had great bombing force, mainly her 516.50; Preston * Hales $1.30; W estern Union Telg. Co. $0.70; wound wag very bloody, and the a little boy—of course called “Lit- through the inspiration of his per- shock had just about paralyzed the tie Wong"—who was suspicious of Nat 1. Cash Reg. Co. $2.64; West Pub. Co. $15.00; Freeman toreign devils and who used to cov- i * on,|l leadership on the most dan- S. E. Sk ene $190.00; Eva L. D uck- D ay $7.55, Office Sup Co $5 00- pilot's arm. Nevertheless, Cocky Daniels flew the ship back three cr his face with his hands when I I 8cf ou» missions, Radio Tokyo had- recently been hundred miles to Kunming and land- spoke to him. The General told me ,G ‘ T M L - D ‘ “ - ' D IS T R li- r SE A LE R son $lo5.00; Helen Romaine $150.-, ment of Agriculture $-19.03: that as far as. li_e had been able to ! ’ci»nning" Haynesl referring to him d it there with his left hand. . I W/iy f/ft/ /»e insta one ore m e . it FERTILIZER garden fertilizer now ready. Get yours. Moose Lodge Meets Meets Every TUESDAY Night, 8:00 o'clock Petersen's Hall 18-tfc BE1DLER FEED unti SEED STORE S S .T r « Are You doing Your d u ly ? ♦ W R IT E . 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