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T H U R S D A Y . JU N E 29, 1944
T IM E S . W IL L A M IN A . O R EG O N
TV? HAT a searching preach-
’ ’ er of self-command is the
varying phenomenon of health.
—Emerson.
Every one is least known to
himself, and it is very difficult
for a man to know himself.—
Cicero.
True love is like ghosts which
everybody talks about and few’
have seen.—Rochefoucauld.
Howe'er so cramped the field where­
in he works.
He has not /ailed — the man who
never shirks.
— l . .4. M c C arthy .
Experience is a good school,
but the fees are high.—Heine.
Impersonation of V. S.
Military Officer a Felony
The impersonation of an Ameri­
can m ilitary officer, which is a fel­
ony, is subject to a maximum pen­
alty of a three-year sentence, or
a $1.000 fine, or both; while the il­
legal wearing of a uniform, which
is a misdemeanor, is subject to a
maximum penalty of a six-month
sentence, or a fine of $300, or
both, says Collier’s.
Yet impersonators constituted
318 of the 756 persons caught and
sent to prison last year for these
offenses.
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T H E S TO R Y T H I S F A R : Lieu t. Col.
F ra n k K u rtz, pilot of a F lyin g F o rtrrs«.
tells of that fa ta l day when the Japa
■truck In the Philippine«. E ig h t of his
m en were killed while fleeing for shel­
te r. and Old »9. w ith m any other F o r­
tresses, was demolished on the ground.
A fter escaping to A ustralia, what la le lt
of the squadron flies to Java, where they
go on m any missions over the P h ilip ­
pines and M acassar S trait. Sergt. Boone,
gunner, tells how Queens die, from eye
witness experience. Java sea Is now fu ll
of Jap carriers. The Japs bom bard a
helpless Dutch town, and a Jap bomb
blows up the kitchen.
Another bomb
scores a direct hit on the fliers’ supply
of beer.
CHAPTER
XVI
j “ The Dutch made us steel tripods
■ for them in a machine shop, but we
i had a hell of a time getting anyone
) to dig the holes. We were flying
! missions and couldn’t do it our-
1 selves. So Silva and I took the
truck and went into Madiun. On
the street corners we saw a bunch
of natives standing around picking
their teeth or scratching their bot­
toms. We argued they must be Jap
sympathizers, or else they would
have been busy helping win the war.
So we pulled out our ,45's, and by a
coincidence they all got into that
I truck, and dug us some of the nic­
est foxholes you ever saw. After
; that, when the alarm would go off
we could run to those foxholes and
swing a gun—we knocked down five
Zeros with them in the short time
we were there.
"We were fixing up our planes,
too. Our tail guns had finally cured
! the Japs of making attacks from be­
hind. Now they were coming in at
all directions, hunting for our soft
, spots, feeling us out like we were
i some dame on a sofa, but mostly
they were hitting us head-on, be­
cause they discovered that in the
nose we had only a single little .30-
caliber. I guess the designers, aft­
er putting in those tail guns, had
figured they could rest on their lau­
rels, but you can never do that long
i in a war.
“So we got busy there on Madiun
Field. We mounted a big ,50-caliber
down in the navigator’s compart­
ment, rigging it so it would fire out
' of the ventilator. And for good
measure we stuck in another .30-
i caliber.
“Since then they’re carrying out
j this idea at the factory, but the only
way any factory can learn what is
, needed is from the combat crews
themselves.
“ That was the week I got into
, something way over my head in this
liaison work,” said Frank, “ but first
you ought to look at that big de luxe
hotel which was the unofficial capi­
tal of Java. Its lobby, bar, and din­
ing room were crowded with uni­
forms—British, Dutch, and Ameri­
can. It looked like a Hollywood cos­
tume parade.
“ The Dutch are great eaters, and
: they have something they call reis-
taffel. You order it and then sit
' back and eat while twenty-three
waiters line up and walk by your ta-
i ble, each carrying a different sauce
or fish or bowl of relish or rice.
“ In the bar you might see the
boys of Patrol Wing 10 in from re­
connaissance, drinking Daiquiris
(this hotel was Navy billeting head­
quarters), and often I would see my
old Hollywood High School classmate
John Robertson sitting there in his
off hours, very handsome in his Na­
val pilot’s uniform, and with him
was the most beautiful girl in Sura­
baya.
"She had dark hair, and an almost
ghostly pale face that was sad in re­
pose. Then a smile would quickly
light it up, and you’d wonder how
i you could ever have thought that.
And the most beautiful legs in the
city. When she’d walk through the
bar clinging to John’s arm and look­
ing up at him, even the oldest and
! crabbiest admiral would rustle a lit­
tle in his chair and lean out to give
them a formal inspection.
“ John was very busy and I don’t
think he gave her much thought,
but still it’s nice to have the most
beautiful girl in town crazy about
you, to the point where it even both­
ers the admirals.
“ She was, so they said, a very
high Dutch socialite and had lots of
money, which you might guess by
how simple and expensive her eve­
ning dresses were. In the daytime
she wore a beautifully tailored uni­
form of one of the woman’s volun­
teer organizations. I think she drove
a car for the Dutch General Staff.
“ Meanwhile my job was growing
by leaps and jumps. In that hotel
dining room you might see General
Wavell, the British Commander in
Chief, or Admiral Hart, or General
Brett, who commanded the United
Nations Air Force, or Van Oeyen,
the Dutch Commander in Chief. I
was circulating among the tables,
and my brief case was so crammed
with hot information I wouldn’t trust
it in a checkroom.
■
The same fist which held the flash
light also held a steel knife.
suspected they were listening In
the corridor outside. One evening a
couple of the pilots were down from
Malang—going back the same night
—sitting on my bed while we talked
over new orders, and somehow a
feeling grew on me we were being
watched. I whispered to the others
to go on talking, slipped off my
shoes, tiptoed to the door. Just as
I opened it I caught a glimpse of a
white robe flitting around the corner.
When I got out into the blackcd-out
corridor, I could see nothing. But
then I was sure.
“ That night I slept with my brief
case under my pillow. In addition
every bed was provided with a Dutch
widow. At first the American pilots
didn’t know what to make of this
and would kick them out on the floor.
I should maybe explain that a Dutch
widow is a long padded bolster, and
if you sleep with it between your
knees, it keeps your legs from press­
ing together and sweating in the
tropical heat. After a while the
pilots began to like them.
“ But that night I went to sleep
wondering about the white shape
I’d seen flit around the corner. It
seemed about the same size as the
waiter who had been staring at me
in the dining room for the past three
days. Only staring isn’t quite the
word. Because this particular little
chili-picker had glassy eyes like a
turtle. I could never catch them di­
rectly on me, but I had the feeling it
was I he was interested in.
“ Two nights later Lieutenant Jac-
quet came up from Malang. By the
time we had finished work it was so
late I suggested he’d better spend
the night with me. I put my brief
case under my pillow as usual. On
this particular night it contained
something so important I don’t even
like to talk about it now. Maybe
that was why I slept uneasily. Or
maybe because the whole outlook
for the war was so bad. I realized
in the Philippines I had only been
lucky, and I might never get out of
Java. It was very hot, and in the
distance a thunderstorm was mut­
tering as it moved toward the city.
“ Anyway, I’d been lightly asleep
for about an hour when a glare
awoke me. It was a flashlight, held
very close— a haze of yellow light
coming through the mosquito net­
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"There was a feeling of tension.
Refugees had been crowding in from
Singapore and Sumatra. Now there
was a feeling that maybe they’d be
crowding out soon. Lots of the na­
tives had already left, and those ser­
vants who remained you knew were
staying only because they were very
loyal. But to whom? Maybe to the
Dutch. Or maybe to someone else
—staying around to watch us, re­
laying information we knew not how,
or to whom.
“ Except that I knew they were
watching me, maybe only out of idle
curiosity as I circulated from one
table to the other, and kept that
brief case leaning against my leg
when I sat at my own table.
"That hotel certainly wasn’t built
to keep military secrets. The big
high-ceilinged bedrooms had only
swinging half-doors like barrooms—
open to the air above and below.
The barefooted native servants
looked after them, only I'd catch
them slipping in and out of mine nt
queer times of the day. But I
thought I only imagined it. I also
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ting over my face. But in this haze
I could see that the same fist which
held the flashlight also held a steel
knife, and that its point stuck down
into the yellow cone of that flash­
light. The other hand was Just touch­
ing the edge of my pillow.
"I gave a yell and dived through
that netting like a cat, but the yel­
low light instantly winked out, and I
was stunding there alone in the
darkness, while Jacquet rolled out
on the other side, lie hudn’t been
as nervous as I, and was sleeping
more deeply. But Just then a blue
lightning flash lit up the room, and
by its quick glare I saw the door
into the corridor closing (I was sure
I had locked it). But when I got
out into the corridor it seemed
empty.
“ Why hadn't he stabbed me? I
think because he was surprised to
find Jacquet there. One of us would
surely have been able to make an
outcry. And I thought to myself,
'Well, stranger, for a newcomer
you’re sure getting Into a lot of
things, because you never thought
some guy you didn’t know nnd had
never bothered would ever try to
kill you through mosquito netting in
a place called Jav a.’ The brief case
was okay.”
"And the queer thing was,” said
Margo, “ that just at this time the
report got back to America that
Frank was dead. He'd been killed in
a flying accident in Java. I was
down in Florida by then, and the
only man I could really talk to was
Cliff Jensen, an Air Corps boy we
had known nt March and Albuquer­
que, and later at Morrison Field.
“ He was stationed near by, nnd
now was working twenty-one hours
a day for the rest of the gang who
were fighting in Java. I could real­
ly talk to Cliff—we understood ench
other. The rumor that Frank was
dead somehow reached Australia,
and of course the Air Corps is a
small place. In a few days Colonel j
Truesdell in California heard it from J
one of the ferry pilots, and a few
days later Cliff heard of it. He
didn’t tell me, because he wasn’t
quite sure, but some people thought
it had really happened.
“ I could feel the difference. They
were looking nt me queerly now.
They would say what a fine boy
Frank ‘had been.’ Or that they were
praying for his safe return. They
never understand. They can't see
that what you're anxious about is
not the distant future, but this very
night. Is he hungry? Must he go
out on a mission? Maybe he's been
badly hurt during the day, and you
don’t know it yet.
"Praying that everything will be
all right during those weeks nnd
months to come scares you—it’s ask­
ing too much, you're afraid. You
just pray he’s all right tonight, and
isn’t wounded, and will get enough
sleep, so he’ll be strong and alert
and have a good chance tomorrow.
You don’t dare ask more.
“ Also those strong plump sun­
burned men who could leave their
business for months to lie around
on the Florida sands were very ‘real­
istic’ about the war—sure it was all
a terrible mess and everything was
going to pieces, offering me lots of
sympathy. But what had any of
them ever done to get us a decent
Air Force in the past? Or what good
were they or their ‘realism ’ doing
anyone now? I liked Cliff's better.
He knew what the boys were up
against and was up half the night
trying to hurry reinforcements. Out
of the little we had (and he knew
how little), so they could hold what
' they could. Cliff made sense. The
rest was a nightmare."
“ When we’d first hit Jav a,” said
Frank, “ we'd been full of the offen­
sive spirit—sure we were going to
roll the Japs back off the Philippines
onto Formosa with those thousand
planes which, according to rumor,
were coming within three months.
The second month was almost up
now, Java was unsteady under our
feet, and we’d so far received about
two dozen P-40’s, maybe a few more
Forts than that, and seven dive
bombers. Hardly fifty planes in all.
“Now we knew the offensive was
out for the time being. What we
prayed for was fighters—to defend
what was left of our Forts and those
beautifully camouflaged Dutch air­
fields. With fighters to hold them
off, we knew we could hold Java.
“ All right, suppose the Japs had
moved into Timor and cut the jugu­
lar vein from Australia, so that our
P-40’s could no longer hop on the
island chain to us on their belly
tanks? Why not a carrier? Couldn’t
the Navy spare just one—which
could load up with P-40’s in Austra­
lia and then, when it was still
several hundred miles from Java
and out of range of the Jap bombers,
it could turn the P-40’s loose, let
them fly on in to us, and go back
for another load?
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