SEWING CIRCLE NEEMÆWORK Shopping Bag of Crochet Cotton CLASSIFIED departm ent RABBIT SKINS P O U L T R Y . Hide», Wool. Good W h IU f r ie r tarn« rab b it aklna <0« to $1 00 a lb Sh ip or ask Pr,£ * i . 1 B u b I * Co., 935 ■ W. F ro n t. P o rtla n d . O ra- ro n .___________ __ - RABBIT SKINS WANTED It to 40 cento ( F r y e r ! skins. crs »1 Dos. I.nce. W s r r sn. Ea. Paid fo r W h lta H ig h tension S tre tc h * P r P*' Sh ip to B. B. Oregon._________ _ help wanted W aitresses JS0.00 m onth and m a in - r .n a n ’e^ cooks h e lp e rs »S0.00 m onth and m aintenance; 8 hour day. At te n d a n u l»S 00 to »119.00 m onth and m aintenance W e s te rn S ta te Mos GOD IS MY CO-PILOT C o l. R o b e r t L .S c o ff Hr WNU RELEASE To obtain com plete crochetln« dire«- lion* for the Strln« M arketing Ila « (P a t- tern No. 549«) »end 19 cent» In coin, your name, address and the pattern num ber. Due to an unuwually la m e dem and and current w ar conditions. sllxhtly mure tint« l l required In nillnB ordera for a faw of the moat popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: ■EWING CIBCLB NKKDI.KWORK 149 Naw Muntfomery Bt. San Pranctaco, Calif. Enclose 19 cents (plus one cent to cover cost of m alUn«) for P attern The partnership began. He taught But I had reckoned without the N o.. old preacher, who had me arrested me some fundamentals, like taxying N am e— for disturbing the noisy peace. When faster and faster until the ship was I got out of jail, more embarrassed almost ready to take off. I went to Address- , than anything else. 1 swore ven Chandler Field in Atlanta and took geance on the Holy Rollers and the several lessons with the Instructors old preacher. Early one morning there in Engles and Jennys, until while delivering papers I took a ra one day I trusted myself to take zor blade and cut off fifty feet of off from the racetrack of my home canvas from the side wall of the town fairgrounds. I still don't see converted circus tent—took it away how. I got by with the flight, be cause I knew nothing about co and hid it in the woods. I had no use for the purloined ordination of controls or the tech canvas, and to excuse myself from nique of flying—though no one Common sandpaper is good to a nagging conscience I tried to for seemed to know much about them in use in cleaning suede purse«, those days. But the ship was a get it. But every morning I saw shoes or Jackets. It remove» th« the jagged hole that I had made pretty safe old crate, the wing skids dirt and freshens the fabric. saved me from digging a wingtip in for vengeance. Later on I decided to build a glider, and for wing on the forthcoming ground-loops, In grinding an ax on a motor- covering the canvas was ideal. and I got away with murder. driven emery wheel or grindstone, Then, with the cloth stretched over All of this ended very suddenly. keep the fingers on the ax-head the ribs of the airfoils and varnished The street-car conductor instructor to test its temperature. If the for tightening, even with American ‘ of mine came back to land one metal gets uncomfortably hot in insignia painted on the fuselage, I night and hooked the Jenny’s right the hand, stop grinding to keep found myself ready to fly. Two of | wing on the guy-wire of a smoke th » n x f r o m Iosina its temper. my friends helped me pull it to I stack. That was the last of him and the roof of a high colonial home in the last of my Jenny, because they I JNBLEACHED string, house- Next time the cream won’t whip Macon, and with them steadying both burned. hold twine, crochet cotton will try this: add the white ol on egg the wings I ran down the sloping make this lft-inch folding bag. roof and flew out into space. Now As the years went on I moved up ; Take it to market in your purse. to the cream , chill and try again. in those days I knew nothing of in the Boy Scouts until at seventeen, It’s strong enough to hold a raft of To save fuel, always measure "main-spars,” “center sections,” or in 1925, I was one of the highest in groceries. the water before heating rather "wing-loading.” With a crack like the country, and had more merit than heating a kettle full of wuter the closing of the Jail door, the wing badges than any other Scout in the then measuring out what is buckled in the center and I crashed South. With all of them, however, 1 needed. Don’t forget it’« patriotic Greatest Ballyhoo sixty-seven feet to the ground. The my schooling had suffered, for to _ to conserve everything, including Cherokee rose bush—that sacred me flying and athletics came before State flower of Georgia into which I books and such. I sometimes think i The greatest build-up ever given fuel I —•— fell—probably saved my life, but the only way I ever completed high a movie actress before she ap For crisp bacon that is juicy the thorns stayed with me for • school was for my patient mother peared on the screen was the within, dust lightly on both sides long time. and father to promise to let me ballyhoo about Jane Russell. After my father had pulled me work my way to Europe on freight- > Between November, 1940, and with flour before frying slowly. from the wreckage—more scared ers in the summer only when I February, 1943, during the produc than hurt—I was ordered to tear could pass studies like Spanish and tion of her first and only picture, A half teaspoon of oil of pepper the glider apart. I did, but saved English. I don't think, though, that The Outlaw, the lady was pub mint added to the filling for choco the ill-fated canvas for other plans. my parents knew I had resolved to licized by some 65 magazine arti late pie gives a new and different Later on it was used to cover the go to West Point. For after talking cles and 50,000 photographs. flavor. barrel-stave ribs of a home-made to men in the Air Corps I had d is-' canoe which was intended to trans covered that if a boy went to the port me down the Ocmulgee River Training center at Brooks Field, to the sea, some twelve hundred near San Antonio, as a Flying Ca miles away as the winding river det, his future was rather indeflnit.. ran. I had made about six hun The Government would train you to dred miles of the trip when the sail fly. give you the best course in the ing canoe caught on a snag and , world. Then they would order you F 000 00 E. C. Strah m . A r lin g to n , Ore the current rolled us to the muddy ; to active duty as a Reserve Officer gon bottom, tangled in the rope rigging for about a year. After that, due AUTHOR'S NOTE D I N T Y ’S A U T O C A M P — T w o acres, 14 of the sail. In the seconds that fol to economy programs, it might all cabins, th ree houses: shade, law n, deep w ell, good w a te r system , gas My decision for the title of this lowed I nearly drowned—I saw my be over. In cabins. Established 19 years. Age whole misspent life parade before reason fo r s e llin g. 320.000: term s, book was probably made back there Wanting to fly for the rest of my ▼ lrgll W ln terrow d , 1414 8. F ir st, my eyes. Finally the rope broke life, I had charted my course. I in Kunming one afternoon as the Y a k im a . W ash. and I swam ashore; but I had al resolved to go to the Military Acad N o t being able to h ire com petent help doctor dug those five rivet heads I have decided to sell m y business from my back. They had been driv ready decided to leave the sacred emy and become a regular army con sistin g of Stock o f general m er en in when a Jap explosive bullet canvas, seasoning forever, at the officer first; then to be ordered to chandise, F ix tu re s . B u i l d i n g and , bottom of the Ocmulgee River. L o c k e r box p la n t. 107 boxes located I i hit the armor plate behind my seat. the Air Corps Training Center as a In prosperous w heat section. I . M. To keep my mind off the pain the Once again my mind turned to fly student officer. After completing the M a y fie ld , M a n s fie ld . W ash. big Cantonese intern of Doctor Man- ing. I confined my aircraft con flying course, I would have a life F A N C Y E n glish Cavies fo r fo u n d a get’s kept talking to me. He seemed struction to scale models, and final time in front of me as a pilot in the tion breeding stock a t reduced prices. 400 la rg e sows o f breeding age; also to find it hard to believe that I flew ly made a flying one which won the Regular Army. w eaning age pigs B a r r y O. Covey, the little fighter alone — that I first Boy Scout Aviation merit badge , The greatest fight I had was to B t . 2, C le E ln m , W ash in g to n . dropped the bombs—fired the six in that part of the country. I re- : get into the Military Academy, for R E G IS T E R E D G uernsey b ull calves machine guns — changed the fuel member when General Mitchell ; appointments were scarce in th e ! fro m cows w ith o ffic ia l records. (Billy Mitchell) led a flight of fast South. I wrote all the Senators and W r ite fo r sales le a fle t. M idd ale tanks — navigated and landed the D a iry . P a c H ig h w a y , B ld g s fle ld , fighter. Finally, with disbelief in looking MB-3’s through the home Congressmen In Georgia, but found W a sh in g to n . his eyes, he looked at me and said, town. I crawled into one of the ! they had promised their quotas long A G E pauses us to sell our re s ta u ra n t “Colonel, you are up there all alone baggage compartments in hopes that . before. All such refusals merely and tr a ile r p ark on h ig h w a y 99 between Tacom a and F o r t Lew is —even talk over the radio when you I would be flown on to Florida in i made me more determined to win W r ite B . A. D e rb y sh ire, B t. 10, Box shoot the guns?” As I waited for this dawn-to-dusk flight. But the i the opportunity. I wrote not only 943, T acom a, W a sh in g to n . Neither can we. him to go on with another question, mechanics found me. and I missed my own State political leaders but I heard the old doctor say, “No, making the pursuit ship any tail- those of other States. Finally, the' SPECIAL If we could, we’d be able to tell you when you son—you’re not up there alone—not heavier than it normally was. Congressman of my Georgia dis-, can have the CLARION radio you want. It was far back, when I was four with all the things you come DENTAL PÏATES trict—at the earnest plea of home-' or five, that I had seen my first air through. You have the greatest co A H D ALL ■ R A N C H E S OS town friends who knew of my Boy But we can tell you this much: pilot in the world even if there is plane. A pilot by the name of Ely | Scout record—gave me second alter DENTISTRY on It will be very soon after we finish our job for just room for one in that fighter spun in and was killed, and my i nate. This proved of little value; CREDIT TERMS horrified mother dragged me from the principal won out by merely Toh« 5 ,1 0 , IS M onths to Roy ship—no, you’re not alone.” Uncle Sam. I believe when this war is over the scene. It most certainly should presenting his high-school credits D r . H arry S emler , D&rti&t that we will be closer to God than have been an ill omen for my fly and passing the physical examina When civilian production is resumed, your ALJSKY BLOC.' 3 m & MORHISOH • PORTLAND. ORE at any time in the past. I believe ing future. However, I know that it tion. The next year I was given CLARION dealer will be able to show you a whetted my appetite to fly. I liked a first alternate from a Senator but S O N G P O E M S W A N T E D ! You send this because I have seen instances anything that flew and freed one again the principal won. th e w ords. I ’ll compose th e music of real faith on all fronts. Take for superb line o f table models, table combinations, F re e e x a m in a tio n . E lio t W r ig h t, Box instance: Just the other day a song from the earth, but most of all I 8861-T , P o rtla n d , Ore. Hope of entering the Academy console combinations, battery sets, portables, came out, “Coming in on a Wing prayed that destiny would make me ' seemed to wane, for I was approach and a Prayer." That could have a pilot of the fast, little single-seat ing maximum age limit for appli and chair-sides. Hospital Helps There are a number of easy-to- been conceived as a title or as the ers—a fighter pilot. cants. The same year I tried a Whether it be your next radio or your first lmprovise hospital helps that will theme of the song only by some real competitive examination with th« In 1921 I read of an auction sale event. A ship landed with an en radio, make sure it is a CLARION. make the task of the home nurse National Guard, but failed the alge easier and give the patient added gine shot away—the fuselage gutted of war-time Jennys in Americus, bra subject. This failure at least comfort. The average bed in the by fire and the plane riddled with Georgia. Gathering the largest for proved to me that though my studies home is so low that it is difficult to bullets. One of the war correspond tune that I could collect, I drove in high school may have been care for a patient. It can be raised ents hurried out to the wounded pi my cut-down Model-T racing Ford to passed, I had learned very little. to a comfortable height through the lot and asked, “How in the world did buy myself a real plane. As the auc My stock in myself was at a low The tioneer’s hammer hit the block for use of solid hardwood blocks about you bring this ship in . . ebb, there in 1926, when the high 10 to 12 inches in height and from pilot shook his head, smiled and re the first time that morning I opened school principal did me the greatest with my maximum bid—Seventy- 6 to 8 inches square. Bore holes in plied, “I don’t know—ask the Man five dollars! The auctioneer did look favor in the world by his remark: the blocks to a depth of at least upstairs.” my way, but the look was merely a “ Well, you really didn’t expect to We who fly are going to get to two inches and a little larger in di go to West Point, did you?” And ameter than the leg of the bed. Re know that Great Flying Boss in the frown. Far in the back of the the smile that accompanied the slur hangar a heavy voice called, “Six sky better and better. My personal move the casters and place a block ambition is that He permit me to hundred dollars.” And to this fat made me swear that by all that was W A R W IC K M A N U F A C T U R IN G C O R P O R A T IO N under each leg of the bed. go again into combat against the man the Jennys went, one by one. high and holy I would get there. 4 6 4 0 W e s t H a r r i s o n S t r e e t , C h ic a g o 4 4 , Illin o is The things that followed were Jap or the Hun; that He help me I must have bid over a hundred Used In War chronologically peculiar for any boy. times before the morning had gone just a little to shoot down a hun Dogs have been used in many I’ll bet I’m one of the few in this military engagements, and in World dred Jap ships—even a thousand. —the sale had stopped for lur.ch world who was graduated from high and had been resumed. Then I hope He lets me come back War I both the Germans and the That afternoon I kept bidding, and school, attended two colleges, and French had units for the purpose of to tell another story. I’m going to as I said “Seventy-five dollars” for then returned to high school to real name that one—the sequel to this message-bearing, locating of wound about my hundredth time, I heard ly get the foundation I had missed. one—GOD IS STILL MY CO-PILOT. ed and scouting work. Until the heavy breathing over my right I know I had at last learned that R. L. S. present war, however, American shoulder. I turned to look at the what one of the old professors said military and naval units merely man who had been overbidding me, was right: “Not tor school, but for CHAPTER I made mascots of dogs—many of and the deep voice said, “Now lis life, we learn.” whom won immortality and world Returning to my old high school, Even the angels in heaven must ten, son, I’m going to let you have wide publicity. The procession ol I chose my own courses and sub this one for your seventy-five dol have shrugged their wings after the “Jiggs” mascots in the marine jected myself to several periods of lars. Get it and get the hell out of few seconds of my first flight. For corps made the underslung-jawed mathematics, history, and English here, because I’m buying all the back home in Macon, Georgia, in English bulldog almost a trademark every day. The professors, who re rest for an airline.” Anyway I had 1920, I must have been, even at age for the Leathernecks. twelve, the “vandal” type. There I a real plane, all crated up. I hauled membered me as seldom opening a climbed the steeple of the Baptist it home on a truck, hid it in Br book, glanced at one another as Go Astray Just about 95 out of every 100 pa Church, and from the belfry took other boy’s garage so my parents though they thought they had a psy tients who, up to January 31, 1944 twelve whitish pigeons, carried them couldn’t find out about it, and be chopathic case on their hands. But I acquired some of the knowledge I had been admitted to the venerea) to a tent-meeting of Holy Rollers, gan trying to assemble the parts. had missed, and the next summer— For days and weeks I worked, and at the tense moment of fanatic disease Rapid Treatment centers op June, 1927—1 went to Fort McPher but couldn’t get the knack of it. Fi prayer released them. I can re erated under the direction of the U ASK MOTHER, SHE KNOWS S. Public Health service, have been member nearly splitting my sides nally I received a letter from a son and enlisted in the Regular Army as a private. There I be street-car conductor who said he laughing at what happened—the girls. Slightly more than one-thirc of these patients (34.1 per cent) have darkies were rolling on the sawdust had been a pilot in the war. He of came Private Scott, Serial Number been between the ages of 15 and 19 floor. They were rolling their eyes fered to help me put the Jenny to 6355544, in Company " F ” of the making this the second largest ag< and yelling, “Gideon, Gideon—hal gether, and teach me to fly and 22nd Infantry. Three months later, group of patients. Ages 20 to 2/ leluiah—glory, glory!” I suppose the navigate, if I would give him use of after a preliminary examination, I training in the Fourth Corp« form the largest group—37.3 pet pigeons really did look like doves the plane for "barnstorming” over began Area—West Point Prep School. the State on week-end«. if peace. cent. (T O B E C O N T IN U E D ) FO RM ORD The author, Col. Robert I.. Scott Jr., served under my command from July p lta l. Tort S te lle co o m . W a sM n c to “ 1, 1942, Io January 9, 194J, as com W A N T E l» — B la c k b e rry p ickers to live mander of my fighter fore«. The only ' o n fa rm . Cabins w ith llk h ta . dou bH criticism of his actions as group com bunks, wood atovea, and w a te r fu r mander MRS that he consistently sched nlshed Seaaon fro m J 15. F in e fie ld s and p r e sa tlln ,. « a j .e s uled himself as a pilot on all possible paid. W rite C. A. B y o n , »01 Sum ner missions. He led all types of combat A v tn n L S u m n T . W o n . missions but specialized in the most dangerous, such ui long-range flights Io FOR SALE b e a u tifu l ffcwn G re a t Oans fe strafe from minimum altitude Jap air m ales fin e s t pedigreed cham pion dromes, motor vehicles, and shipping parents, res- O n” has p o in t. In show deep in enemy territory. It it*» often rin k N e ith e r has yet been bred. necessary for me to forbid bis partici M v kennels overatocked '" e s s h ^ fo r fle a fo r $200 and $150 cash Tor pation in combat missions in order to each Also one golden bhlndle fem a le enable him to discharge the many other G re a t Dane puppy th ree m ° n tb ? duties of a group commander. old. same parents. e«h ! atan dln k. rare b arg a in a t $150 cash , His story is a record of persistence, i f sold a t once. E x c e p tio n a l com determination, and courage from early panion guard-dogs fo r c h ild re n or boyhood. Having determined early in adu lts. E x c e lle n t brood m a tro n s fo r breeders Ship an > w her » e x p £ as life that he had to fly, he overcame all collect. M rs . M a r g a r e t P . M cP h e e t- obstacles in the toay Io the attainment ix e . P . O. B o» $351. T reano , C a lif. of his ambition. This story alone should P O U L T R Y & D A IR Y F A R M . SO acres be an inspiration Io every American of which 35 under c u ltiv a tio n . M od boy. Having become a military pilot, ern house, fin e barn and very fin e bis determined struggle Io meet the en hen house fo r 2,000 birds. Best w a te r ayatem and s m a ll creek in emy and his glorious record first, as a pasture. F u lly stocked and *<D»'PPfd , “One Man Air Force," and latlr, as com S m a ll fa m ily o rchard and nice mander of the American Fighters in flo ra ls . L ig h ts , phone and school China, should be an inspiration to all bus. 5 m iles fro m W in lo c k In one o f best sm all fa rm centers o f the Americans of all ages. state. N et e a rn in g fo r last y e a r Colonel Scott's group of fighters al more than $6,000. P riced a t 3 19.500. ways operated against greatly superior W r ite fo r d etails to V . O. M a rk in a , numbers of the enemy. Often the odds W in lo c k . W ash in g to n . were five to one against them. Their N U T S i>ay o ff e v e ry y e a r ’. And you planes and equipment were usually bat have a ll w in te r to p la y . 200 acres. Inc). 65 o f 18 yr. w a ln u ts In te r-s e t tered by hard usage and supplies were w ith prunes, 25 A. 35 y r. s o ft- extremely limited. Both Scott and his shells. 40 acres cleared land, f i n e handful of pilots had one resource in w a te r svstem . good b u ild in g s 3 -9 .- 000 or 22.000 w ith o u t cro p.D an B a r - unlimited quantities—courage.They also m on. l r o t t r, M ew barg, O regon. possessed initiative and a never-failing M a n y others listed. desire to destroy the enemy. They leorr 160 ACRES, w oven w ire fe n c e. 7 m ile s themselves out doing the work of ten fro m Bend. 113 acres w a te r. 91 In times their number. They demonstrat c u ltiv a tio n Good o u tb ld g s , and m a ch in e ry 6-rm . house, lig h ts , w a te r, ed time and again that American pilots phone: near school, d a ily m a ll. W ith and planes are superior to the Japs. equipm ent $13.000 00. w ith o u t 310,- The results which they achieved prove 000. P red C a rte r. M onta 1, Box 324. indisputably that the enemy ran be de Bend, Oregon. stroyed or driven from China if ade T O U R IS T cou rt, 21 u n its; nice m odern quate equipment and supplies are homo, grocery store, g en eral h a rd w a re store, gro cery store, service made available. The offensive spirit s ta tio n , fo u r pum ps. C ity sew er and displayed bv Scott and his early pilots w ater. On fiv e acres. On h ig h w a y lives on in the men who replaced them. 30 Ben A apey. P.O . B o x 324, T w in They impatiently auait the weapons P a lls , Idaho. needed to drive on into the heart of 450 A C R E S . 1 m ile fro m A rlin g to n . Japan and to final victory. 200 tilla b le , rest n a tiv e grass. 50 A. s u m m e rfa llo w . 18 cows. B u ll. G rade C. L. CHENN.4ULT. A d a iry , equipm ent, w a te r under Major General. A. V. S-, ressure, 7 room house. E le c tric ity , Commanding, 14th Air Force. ncome 37000.00 year. P ric e 312.- OUSEHOLD IMTSf GAN YO G R E A D TH E CRYSTAL« RALE? ★ CLABBER GIRL 9 1