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THURSDAY. JUNE 1, 1944 TIM ES. W ILLAM INA. OREGON CLASSIFIED Q U E E N S D IE PR O U D L Y DEPARTM ENT RABBITS AND SKINS R A B B IT S K IN S W A N T E D — H IG H P R IC K S A N Y am o u n t. S h ip p arcel p o st. P rom p t rem itta n ce. A. H. C ow ard , 731 l o w „ A in a * . 11 M ont». C a lifo rn ia . POULTRY R ab b its, H id es. WooL Good w h ite fr ie r tam e rab b it s k in s 60c to »1.00 a lb S h ip or a sk p r ic e s R u b y * C o , »38 B. W F r o n t. P o r tla n d . Oregon. FOR SALE BAffX TURTLES Make Ideal f t is for Children lO Ita L L F R H a n d » - In ta d or N a t u r a l CrOXOT N A M E S A V T O O R A I-B B D F R B H P r ic e 50c e a c h — add l o c e x tr a fo r p o sta g e , p a ck in g and s h ip p in g (S e n d c a s h ch eck , m on ey order or s u m p s 1 T u r tle s sh ip p ed im m e d ia te ly on r e c e ip t o f order. G u aran tee. *u a r r iv e allT *' B A B Y l O K I l B CO. 734 E ig h th A ve.. 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S a fe s t c o u n t r y to f l y In L in d F ly in g S e r v ic e P h o n e 811, L in d , W a sh . TREATM ENT H ELPS D IA B E T IC S D R O P IN S U L IN , e lim in a t e s su g a r . L eon W ille t H yd e, M. D.. Y on n g B u ild in g , A sto r ia , O regon . G E T O U R C A SH O F F E R B E F O R E YOU 8 E L L TOUR TRUCK OR AUTOMOBILE! B O O N E A CO. 2033 T h ird A ve S e a ttle , W ash . ©I WHITE THE STORY THUS EAR: Lieut. Col. Frank Kurts, pilot of • Flying F ortress, trill of that fatal day « h en the Jap s struck In the Phllipplu««. E ight of his m en were killed Bering for shelter and Old W. with m any other F ortresses, w as dem olished before It could gel off the ground. After escaping to A ustralia, what la left of the squadron flirt to J a v a w here they go out on m issions over the P hilippines. The bom bardier takes up the story and tells of a flying trip to Braril. Egypt, Iraq. India and J a v a . A battle In the clouds In which sw arm s of Zeros attack an E m odel Fortreaa Is described, and In which the Zeros com e out second best. Seven Zeros are shot down. CHAPTER X II W .N .U .r iA T U E Ii •‘ •Yes.’ he said. And then In n minute he said, 'Thank God those Japs didn't see it.’ “ The formation circles above the dead Queen. We circle until the fire dies away, peering down at the wid ening disk of oil. But there is no sign of anything else on the surface. “ Until then it hadn't seemed like a battle—just a game. But now I feel like someone had kicked me in Ihc guts. There were guys on there I'd drunk with. We’d sat around and lied to each other. I'd seen it happen, but I couldn't believe what I saw—it seemed like a bad dream. “ When we landed, all the crew as sembled for the critique, each mem ber dictating just what he had seen to the officer. That's when I was credited with three of the eight Zeros we knocked down. After the critique no one had much to say. Wc were all thinking about what we saw hap pen. "We'd found out our machine-gun oil would freeze at high altitudes, and we were figuring how to clean and oil the guns so they would best “ We've already lost altitude wait- I Ing for the Major (we'd boxed him in so he could stay with us and the . Zeros wouldn't tellr him to pieces), and he seems to have developed en gine trouble. We're down to 23.000 feet. And I ’m the lead bombardier. "B ut now the whole plan is again altered: I get it over the command | radio. We're to lay them in chains across this target. So I set up the : bomb sight again, put the cross j hairs on that cruiser. " I t is a perfect run. I even have time to take my eye off the sight, and fire bursts at two more Zeros as they attack from the front. They ; start way out ahead, to the left and a little below us. Now. coming on in at me, they cross over and up, toward the center of my fuselage, their guns pounding, and then slip on back and dive straight down and away. “ I get one because he miscues. “ Then I jam my eye back onto that bomb sight. Everything is rid ing pretty—the cross hairs right where I want them, the bombs about ready to be released. "A second before the bombs leave my plane, I see that Jap cruiser starting to turn (he's figured our bomb-release line to the hair). He's turning toward us as I watch the bombs go down. By the time they' arrived, the cruiser is three-fourths through a turn of 180 degrees. The first bombs are falling short—three of them. Now mine come—two direct hits on the cruiser, the other two going over. The plane back of me gets some direct hits. My left wing man’s string is barely in front of the cruiser, my right wing man’s string is barely behind it — the damned thing seems enveloped in bombs churning the water, and de bris flying above the foam. Boy, that Japanese captain just turned the wrong way! “ But now our formation swings and heads for home, Zeros still Boy, that Japanese captain Just swarming around us, and we’ re still turned the wrong way. losing altitude to stay back to pro tect the Major, who seems able to operate up there. You couldn’t tell use barely enough throttle to keep the officers from the men (remem I her in the air. After forty minutes ber, we had no maintenance crews the last Zero drops away; they’re in Java; we did all the work our short of gas and daren’t chase us selves) and my pilot had his cover alls on, installing an extra oxygen any further. "Presently, over the command ra- outlet in the tail. After seeing what had happened to Robinson's tail gun 5 dio; “ ‘Robinson to Skiles. Go ahead.’ ner, he figured if his toil gunner got wounded, another man in the “ ‘Skiles answering.' “ ‘Radio the base at Malang to crew could go back there and they have an ambulance ready. We have would both stay on oxygen. two badly wounded men aboard.’ "The E of course was a big ad "We wonder who they are. One vance over the D. But any new is probably the tail gunner, since model w ill have little things wrong we saw Robinson's plane taking so that you never find out until you many tracers there. The other must take one up and fight it. be their radio operator, or else they “ Anyway,” said Frank Kurtz, "we could have sent their own dot-dash , had stopped the Japanese there in message back to base. Macassar Strait for a while. The “ Meantime our radio operator is little Dutch Navy helped, but mostly telling Malang to have the ambu it was American air power. We’d lance out. Our plane is now leading sunk quite a gang of them, so the the formation. Major Robinson’s just rest had to go home and lick their behind us. We’ve drifted slowly wounds, realizing they couldn’t down to 4,000 feet altitude, protect move in on Java until they had air ing Robinson. Then, all of a sud control. This meant they would have den, Robinson’s plane swoops down to clean us out of our advance fields . beneath us about 1,000 feet, and the in Borneo and the Celebes. : incline sends it scooting on out in “ But meantime Colonel Eubank i front of us, heading a little toward had hauled me down to the ground ; the coast of Borneo. Is Robinson for a while to do a different job. going to beach her? And now over Too many wars were going on. The the command radio: Japanese were running a pretty good “ ‘Skiles to Robinson. Is there one, but against them were the anything wrong?’ our pilot asks. American A ir Force, the Royal “ But there is no answer. We Dutch Air Force, the American, watch. Now Major Robinson is mak Dutch, and Australian navies, all ing a gradual turn, as though to of us running wars of our own. i rejoin the formation. But halfway “ Finally it was agreed that every in the turn his plane starts nosing over, goes into a dive, goes fa s te r- night they’d deliver to me in Sura straight down at the sea. We baya a safe-hand message, giving watch, holding our breath. Just be the position of every American ship fore he goes in, his tail elevator in those waters. We’d swap infor blows off. The poor guy must have mation about operations, so every had the stick clutched back into his one would be pulling together. It stomach trying to pull out of that was a liaison job, and since I ’d dive, and the terrible air pressure have to deal with Navy men so on those elevators ripped them off. heavy with rank and gold braid on There’s a huge splash—flame—a spi their sleeves th»:y looked like they’d ra l of black smoke, and a widening had their arms up to the elbows in circle of yellows, reds, and black, scrambled eggs, the Colonel gave which is burning gas and oil on that me a set of captain's bars, so I could talk up to them. Presently I topaz-green water. “ The second after it hits I call was dealing with everyone — the Lieutenant Duphrane on the inter Dutch and the British, too. phone. “ The Dutch, for Instance, were “ ‘My God, Duke,’ I said, ‘did you begging for help in Sumatra. I t ’s see that?’ that long island which parallels Ma laya, pointing down In the direction of Java. The Japs weren’t in Singa pore yet, but already they were swarming across the narrow sens from Malaya trying to grab the oil refineries at Palembang. So the Colonel sent the Forts.” 1 C L A SSIF IE D DEPARTM ENT PA RTN ER W A N TED R A N C H A N I I I I Y E k T I t l K n p r r n lu r . » ■ - ■ ■ .n a m e d . 1» e ee k ln g an a a a o rla te c o n tro l lin g » u b a ta n lla l r a p l l a l lu lo in h im In a r q u lr ln g v a lu a b le O re g o n p r o p e r ly . C h a n c e fu r lig h t p a r ly In m a k e p le n ty ut m oney F u t p a r t ic u la r » a d rirr» » J A M » » R . H A N S E N . H . a l . N e. 1. W e la e r, I d . k e . BUY—S E L L —T R A D E w u i h i t » r i.ie . o n t r a ( lin n miti am m unition. or. N a r lk O re g e a . llig h M tr« » l, M alem . "We got to Palembang the last week in January.” said Sergeant Boone, the gunner. "The Dutch IN S T R U C T IO N S there were certainly swell to us. E l K l ' T R I C n i ’ T R O A R D M n t O K g r a n lie There is a huge refinery in the town, h u ll! (ru m a v a ila b le p a rte w ith our 7 page w o rk in g d r a w in g , a m t a trp by d a p li, and they took us to a club sponsored • in t i Itn n i 1‘ r l c r g l (Ml S l l V i l t C l C l l k I ’lt H t R lO N t ’O » r . by Standard Oil Company—a pul- 1 M e r k a a le Mt • » liv e r C re e k , N , g . ace. AU the Cub members would drop around to be sure the Air Corps had a place for the night. A ; M IS C E L L A N E O U S Dutch officer took the rear gunner i and myself to his quarters. He'd A ircraft Floor Swccpinga married an American girl, so he M ix e d uaatorttttrnt of n u t*, b u ll» , N l t W f , h r « nu t». t ’ h ltlip « « f r r w i , w a a h r r * t ie via spoke gtxxl English. We had on only (Milta « A » tir nu t», » h r a r nut» r t r JKU per greasy coveralls, but he took us pound m in im u m »»f in poundR M a li o rd e r» o n ly d e liv e r e d ( ' <> |> W rite right into his quarters—all air-con At I I I l> 1*1404 I 1 H U II I 7*4M> » Ilg M ffr » « M |. t e a A » |» le » . C a lif . ditioned and mosquito-proofed. The native couple they had as cook and houseboy gave us the first home- ! cooked meal we’d tasted since the I _______FO R S A L E _______ H O X » A4 r i m t —•4 IK « I r M A W , p h .n c r ; war. p le n t y l im b e r »nd h u a ln r « « M ag “ The Dutch officer was a fine- » • a . t a if t «hh Mt . « » e a r d 'A ie a » . IC afca. looking big blond guy. He brought out clean pajamas for us, and some PERSONA L of his uniforms we could wear for dinner. He was depressed. Early T a le n t» 4 l» « » v e re d tb r e a g h body r hem ta t t y Y o u a re w h a t you e « t M a n y o p p o rtu in January he had evacuated his n itie s ' A in a J in g in f e r f»»r » la m p W r ite 4 • • » • • l a r < } • • ( • ? . 1BIM N tlffll. < M e a g a . m . wife and child to Java—for aafety, although that seems queer to say now. He himself was staying be MEN W ANTED hind, in command of native ground r t l E JIM W A D E A P P L E O R C H A R D , D k a tio fa n , \ \ uMhintff >> ii ba* w o r k troops, to defend those refineries. fo r • n ertfrttc. r e lia b le w o rk er» tf»a He hadn't heard from his wife. You y e a r rou n d In J u n e fo r th in n in g and O cto b er, N o v e m b e r , an d O eeem - could see he was very much in ber fo r b a r v r a tln g Hev«-rnl run» love with her. Also that he didn't d red a d d itio n a l w o rk er« It.elu d in g fa tn lllr a w ith c h ild r e n old e n o u g h think much of the m ilitary setup In w ork w ill be req u ired C om fo rt* they had in Sumatra, so he doubt a b le liv in g q u a r te r » f r e e G ood rural» In ra n ch d in in g room ». 50o ed that he would ever see her again. e a c h If d e sir e d A rra n g e n ow fo r Im m e d ia te o r f u tu r e w ork T h ee a “ He’d been back on a visit to Hol e n g n g r il m s im ila r w< rk or In o th e r land just before the Germans came d r a lg n a tr d w ar e s s e n t ia l I n d u s tr ie s n eed not a p p ly W r ite J. M W ade. in. Since then he’d had only one W e n a tc h e e , W a sh ., or te le p h o n e 1U77 letter from his mother—smuggled o r BF3 O k a n o g a n . out. She had had a couple of Ger man maids from over the border. T E E 1IEKÎ They made good servants for the heavy work, but just before the sur prise invasion they’d been called back to Germany. It wos the same, she said, all over Holland. So no wonder, he said, that the Germans knew the name of every Dutch offi cer in Holland. The morning of the invasion, the Gestapo would knock at the door, and when the officer opened it, would shoot him down in cold blood. This was why, he ! explained, the Dutch Navy was so incapacitated for officers. He was ; very bitter. He was in wonderful physical condition—been leading na- * 1 5 J one»—Do you think it'» a sin for tive troops through the jungles. Said : me to play golf on Sundays? his wife was high up in the Java Smith—The way you play golf, it’t mountains and hoped she was safe." | a grime for you to play any day! “ Wc came up a ljttle later," said the Bombardier, “ and by the time we got there, the Japs were moving into the river's mouth, just below Palembang. The weather was over Many cast—a ceiling of 2.000, so we had to work down below that. None Intact» of us liked it, because a Fort is a hell of a big easy target so close to the ground—never built for that. As we came in, so close to the ground, •g lo b in our radio operator called Skiles on Flowin < the interphone. Shrub» " ‘Captain,’ he said, ‘oxygen doesn't agree with me, but I'm w ill HELP fo r Your ing to begin chewing it any time now,' and I broke in, ’ You can say Victory Garden that again.’ “ Captain Northcott was leading the mission—six planes wc were, D O N 'T L E T and when we sighted the target he called over the command radio, as signing our (light to a transport on SLOW YOU UP the left. • W hen b o w el, are .lu g g ith and yon feel Irritable, headachy, do a . m illion , “ It was a monster, a huge Maru do - chew F E E N -A M IN T , l b . m odem liner which I ’ve seen as a luxury c h a w in g .g u m la x a t iv e S im ÿ ly ch aw cruise boat tied up to the San Fran F E E N A -M IN T bofore you go to bod, cisco docks. Suddenly she cut loose taking only in accordance with package d irection . — .lo o p without being dle- a* hell of an antiaircraft barrage at turbed. N ext morning gen tle, thorough us, all coming from this one trans relief, helping you feel .w ell again. Try port—a regular Fourth of July at F E E N A M IN T T e .t e , good, la handy three o'clock in the afternoon. It and econom ical. A generou. fam ily .u p p ly was like looking down into a cone of fire, with this transport at the tip, and smoking red-hot rivets, they seemed like, whizzing up at us. WNU—13________________22 44 They were rocking us around when suddenly we shuddered violently and almost went over on our back. An ack-ack shell had burst under one wing near the fuselage. Big pieces of it tore a huge hole just where the wing joins the fuselage, and one em F o r Y o u T o F e r ì W e ll bedded itsolf just a few inches from hours «vary day. 1 day» every Captain Skiles. , never stopping, in » kidney» fitter “ We were already on our run, al e m atter from the blood. more people were aware of how the most at the release line, and the pya must constantly remove »ur- ja r had thrown out the bomb sight— Huld, »see»» »rid» ®nd other waste er th a t cannot »lay in th» blood it was completely inoperative. But out In ju ry to health, there would I ’d done some practice low-altitude jet ter understanding of r a y th s e nyatem i» upset when kidneys fall bombing at Muroc back in the met on properly. < » « States, so I said the hell with a jrnittK. scanty or too frequent urln«- aometimca warns th a t something bomb sight—I ’d guess at it. I was ■ong. You may Buffer nagging good and mad at the shaking-up headaches, dixzine»», rheum atic getting up a t nights we’d got. ‘All right, you • • • • y not try Itoan » I t l M You will hv • • « • • • * , here they come!’ ing t a ■ medicina men»« io” recommended the •in ry over. Dcow’a »tim ulate the fune- I hollered, and dropped four in rapid of the kidneys and help them to succession. They landed in a clus out poisonous waste from the I. T h ey contain nothing harm ful. ter about twenty-five feet from the Doan'» today. Use with confidence. transport. The other four I released I drug store». more slowly. We’d come down to 1,000 feet now, and that’s low. T t 1 CONSTIPATION -v FEEN-A-MINT Kidneys Must Work Well- (TO B E CONTINUED) DOANS PILLS J
