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MY t , « c ? se h - ot StIFBVC CIRCLE PATTERNS Pretty and Comfortable Frock A Smart Collarless Cardigan QuidtReiist ìkàdCoMsi FROM M H IV . f i w n M M M » OF W-KU- R A L E A S I tar : A ltar a * > J s w I tleutaexet ef tatu ttry « « •• ta i to ta a n oa a Ba Is happy wtoa hr AaaU: Bantfo'pS •> **■ T raar, aad air caret, lor ta «jr hat hora Ma life's firsam. H r ta iradaatoA ir e « Belly told aad to r some wtags planed aa hta stost. H r ta aav aa eresy pitot. Thee caarr orders to report la Hawaii, which leaves pretty Mae, as to waatad ta pet ta a girl ta Georgia, ta hone to had Srtvea avor S4.SSI while oa wrek eod trips Iro n Texas, tells the General shoot his pll(ht. C HAPTER rv The route that I flew from Oilca- go, to Cleveland, to Newark, was what was known to all airm ail pilots as the "Hell Stretch” —and It ras Just that, as I found out pretty quickly. Sometimes people on new Jobs got mixed up and sent the Cleveland m a ll in the wrong direction from Chicago, towards Omaha, or sent the Chicago mall from Cleveland to New York, the reverse direction —Just normal events amid the "growing pains” of an Army flying the m a il Once the control officer Anally got a man in the air after sweating the weather out to the West for days. 1 saw his ship take off and disap- ( <he jnoW5lor,a Then j , aw i gam Harris jump up. for the U. S. tnjck h><J Ju#t driven up. It Was 1>te taltr, >nd aiiu in th# U1* excitement of ning the ghip«, clearance the ea- ger pilot had . «nr<miton forgotten to to wait wait to to have the m ail loaded. The control officer had to call him back and start ail over. About that time, when men had begun to die on airmail. I wrote a letter to this girl, the same one I had been going to see by automo bile from Texas. It was addressed to her in case the "old ship hit some- to our usual duties at Mitchel Field. Things sort of settled down, and I began to make more flights and more automobile tripe toward» Georgia. Finally I talked the girl into i t We went on up to West Point and were married. Catharine really fits into thia story because it was the trips over to Georgia to see her, from every place in the United States, that not only mode me drive an automobile but taught me cross country flying, since I had been fly ing in these later mdhths from wher ever I was—by way of Georgia. From Mitchel Field I was sent o Panama. And then began my real pursuit training. In P-lFs I roamed across the country of Pana ma up into Central America and down into South America. I was given a Job constructing flying fields, we figured ■ which — — — — w------ would some day protect the CanaL These field*, were put in for the purpose of installing radio stations and also sir warning devices to tell us when enemy planes approached the Panama Ca nal. I would have to go down on the Colombian border and contact the natives, some of whom were head-hunters, to work on these fields that we were building. We would have to get the g raft cut off, and I would make motions with a machete —the long knife of the Darien In dians—and show them what we had to do to keep that field so that air planes could land on i t The natives didn’t work very well with us at first But we doctored a few of them for chlggers and for other infections under their finger nails which had become very in flamed. or we flew men in to hos pitals who needed operations, and soon they began to appear more friendly. By the time we left there they were calling me "E l Doctor." Instantly, relief from snlflly. aneesy distress of head colds starts to come when you put a Httlo Vs-tro-n o i up each nostril. Also neips prevent many colds from developing if used in ttaw. Just try ttl Follow directions in folder. VICKS VA TRO NOL SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT RUBBER It took them thirty minutes to And out that the mere fact that I was Censumptien e f restalmed traveling in a car with a Wtstern rubber In the United »totes license plate didn’t make me Pretty lesreesed mere then »0 per Boy Floyd, who they said 1 was on sent «rem 1940 to IS O . I finally the prowl in that area. Rettalmed rubber mey fro- had to telephone the Commanding quentty Ito used In Officer of Mitchel Field, and as he H-nnutotturn ef the didn't know me, all he could say was rrtitles from wblsb It that an officer by the name of Lieu reclaimed. tenant Scott was supposed to be on In 194.1 gotolln« a n t the way to Mitchel from Kelly. Any veMde tax revenues eembtaed way. I still don't think I looked— accounted for nearly 3 0 per , s rt o f the total stole revenues. even then—like Pretty Boy Floyd. My arrival at my new station was tout yeer w ill ------- birtletb anniversary ef tbn the start of a hectic time for the Sm art T w o-P lecer use ef metor vehicles In the Air Corps. First I began to try to H E sm artest of the high-priced rural free delivery mell work in some flying time by volun suits are collarlesa— and A m e r service. Rubber-tired mail teering for every flight I could get ican women w ill take this c ard i cars had a baarin« an tha I had an especially good break when passin« af tbn first federal gan fashion to their hearts instant I got on tlie Department of Com aid blgbwey law la 191«. ly ! You just can 't have too m any merce weather flights. I used to separate cardigan Jackets, suits have to get up at two o'clock in and two-piecers in this style. the morning and take off—no mat S P R E T T Y as they come— and ter what the weather was — at as com fortable as any yet de Pattern No. 8660 Is In slses 34. 38. 38. 40. 1:45 a. m. » signed, a frock w ith a wide-shoul 42. 44. 4S snd 48. Size 38. short sleeves, re On one of these I found myself in dered effect which is achieved by quires 4 yards of 39-lnch materiel; th yard quite a bit of trouble. As soon as I the subtle placing of the two rows contrast for collar. took off I went on to instrument fly of frill which ends neatly under a ing and climbed up through the SBW1NO CIRCLE PATTESN D EFT. velvet bow a t the w aistline. heavy clouds in the Curtiss Falcon I4S New Montgomery St. When my training of other pilots —known then as an 0-38. Out to See Prseeltco, Calif. P t'.e m No. 8683 Is In sixes 12. 14, IS. IS began. I realized the terror I must the side, fastened to the "N ” struts. Enclose 23 cents In coins for each and 20. Size 14, short sleeves, requires 3'.b have caused my own instructor. For yards ot 39-lnch material. I could dimly see the barometro- pattern desired. in training I perceived my own graph which was to record the Pattern N o ...................... S i z e . .. . . .. . PIRST IN R U B B E R faults better, learning even to an changing weather as we climbed to Name .. ticipate the mistakes the student as high as the ship would go. It Rats F ish W ith Tails Address would make. And I learned much rag necessary to climb at a con about the peculiarities of man. for tent three hundred feet a minute, Rats on the uninhabited and b ar on one occasion I had a student ren atolls off N ew Guinea subsist vhich in several thousand feet be who attempted to kill me. I don’t entirely on crabs, which they came fairly monotonous. I finally -G I Fuel Tablets know why—he would have killed catch by the unique method of idjusted the stabilizer so that the For the Preservation Cel. Robert U Scat! Jr., anther ef himself, too. hip would climb this altitude, and dangling th e ir tails in the w a te r Soldiers in the field who for hen all I had to do was to keep the “ Ged b My Ce-Pitot.” One day I was told to take out a fro m the edge o f a flat rock. Usu O f the American ft ft rings straight and level with the th in g ," and I carried it around in cadet listed as an Incorrigible and a lly , in a m a tte r of m inutes, a m e rly used paraffin candles to heat th e ir food, now use a new Way of Life ft ft ft urn and bank Indicator and the my pocket during all my trips of to try to find out what was wrong crab comes along and grabs a synthetic fuel tab le t which heats course constant with the gyro. with him. I gave him forced land ta il, and the rodent hauls in the airm ail—I nearly wore it out. Just BUY U. S. W A R BONDS! cans in seven minutes. But I had reckoned without real carrying i t But the ship didn't hit ings snd such, and when he tried to catch lik e a fisherman. glide down and land on a highway. knowledge of flying. My first indi- anything and she didn't see i t In it :ation of trouble came at some sev- I must have Just asked her to mar I would take the ship and caution ¡nty-Ave hundred feet, when I was ry me—that's all I used to ask her him about gliding low towards trucks and automobiles. On one of surprised to see the reflection of anyway. '' 'W' these tries, as I gave him a forced he moon down directly beneath my One night I took off from Chicago landing—you do this merely by cut - > S r - 1 ihip. 1 then forgot all caution and and came to Cleveland. They ting the throttle to idling speed to Tied to fly partly on instruments couldn't find the man who was sup __ whst the student will do—he J '; ind partly by visual reference. This posed to take the m ail on to New rolled the ship on its back and pulled [ learned pretty soon was about im ark; I found out later that he was it down in a dive towards the possible, for I went into the nicest sick. So I talked them into letting ground. I waited as tong as I could ipin I have ever seen. Recovering me take the ship on E ast I climbed and then I took it away myself, ibout four thousand feet below, I In and headed out towards the bad found that the man was glaring tried it again but the same thing weather. When I got to I t follow straight toward the trees we had happened. I then realized that after ing the experience I had gained in almost h it I landed the ship and [ bad set my stabilizer for the steady the months before and the advice asked him what was the matter. elimb of three hundred feet per min I bad received from the airline pi ute, as the fuel was used the weight lots, I climbed instead of diving, He appeared very sullen, and so I took him aloft again. if the ship decreased and the nose to hunt tor a w ay'through. At Once more I put the ship on its went up. for the fuel was of course 18.000 feet I came out and over the back and told him to bring it out forward. This gradually precipitat clouds. I was alone, tor as far as ed a stall which turned into a spin Immediately he pulled it toward the you could see. There were stars ground, and I knew It was intention ss the big Conqueror twisted the and a moon, and down below were al. With alarm I realized that with fuselage from propeller torque. I the swirling clouds over the Alle him almost frozen to the controls had to resolve to do an my instru ghenies. dropping their snow and I would have extreme difficulty tak ment flying by hand until the auto ice. If I had turned back towards ing the ship from him by force, matic pilots were perfected later. Cleveland. I would have had to let That afternoon I looked at the down in the dark and probably would hurriedly kicked the right rudder, graph paper of the barometer re have crashed. So I decided to head which carried the half roll into cording, and there were two little into the clear sky of the night at complete snap roll. Then I went Jagged lines, plainly showing where 18.000 feet and as the dawn came through every acrobatic maneuver the ship had lost nearly four thou the next morning I started my let I knew until I made him sick; after that I flew him back to Randolph sand feet in two spins. down. for at least I would have light Field with my own heart beating a The weather flights got pretty mo in which to make the landing. tittle wildly. notonous. and I would take off from My radio had not worked since I As I landed the ship two men Mitchel and fly up over Boston, bad got into the snow and ice; so I then let back down to my home was flying merely by dead-reckon stepped from behind a plane, ask base. Finally the meteorologist ing. I let down somewhere over ing to see the student "You Just caught on and told me to please what I thought was northern Penn wait a minute." I said. "After all, stay over the area, as be had other sylvania, but after buzzing the town he’s my student and I have some weather ships taking the same read and reading the name, found I was things to say to him." Then they pulled gold badges out of their pock ings over Boston. over Binghamton, New York. I flew These flights taught me enough to on South, having remembered a field ets to show me they were F.B.L save my life when the Army took at Scranton. Pennsylvania, and men. They had been looking for this student for a long time. He over the airm ail contracts a little there I landed. had been a pilot before and had later in the year. The landing was quite an experi smuggled dope across the Mexican I f you remember 1834—there was ence. As I dove over the field I border, and I believe to this day trouble between the Government saw workmen there, frantically wav that to evade the arrest that was and the air lines concerning airm ail ing their arms. They were repair waiting for him, be was trying to contracts. To me even this was ing the field. But I was about out end it a IL But the worry I had here a life-saver in securing flying time, of gasoline, so I came in, motioning was that in ending it tor himself, for all of us bad recently been or with my hand for them to get out he would have been ending It for me. dered to fly no more than four of the way. The only damage was When I first came to Randolph we T his 18 NO DREAMED-UP headline —no “tone poem” conceived on an inspired hours a month. This was the bare caused by my landing on one of minimum to receive flying pay, and. the small red flags on a stick that worked only half a day and had the typewriter. It’s the way the army explains the command “Fix bayonets-charge!” as it turned out for many, the best one of the workmen had been wav rest of the day to play around at way to get killed in airplanes. It's ing—be had hurriedly stuck it in golf, to hunt, or do anything we CrJy the Infantry has it put to them in these words. As one doughboy raid: still a game that takes constant the ground when he saw me land wanted. But as the belief that war “I’ll remember those eleven words the rest of my life." practice. ing regardless, and I came down was coming got into a few American people, we started the limited Air right on top of it; but the small The weather we flew in to carry Remember? How can he forget them? T hey describe the climax of the Corps expension program. We then the mail during the winter of 1834 tear was ot no consequence. I re Infantryman’s assault—they describe the most cold-blooded action on a battle began working all day. and I was was about the worst Ifi history. I paired tt, had coffee with the man moved up to a Flight Commander field. Yet Infantry officers and men have advanced, countless times, to kill or sometimes think the powers on high in charge of the airfield, and went and taught Instructors, for the Gov collaborated to give us a supreme on toward Newark. be k illed . . . at Saratoga. . . at N ew O rleans. . . the Argonne. . . New G uinea... They had long ago given me up tor ernment was giving contracts to ci test There were fourteen pilots Salerno. There’s no rescinding of this o r d e r -n o retreating - no nothing but vilian corporations to train Army killed along that airm ail run, and lost, for in that same night two oth pilot»: The Air Corps was begin plain killinR. most of them were killed because we er army pilots bad met their death ning to grow. As the years rolled had no Instruments for the ships, or over the Alleghenies. Once again 1 Right now, the men o f the Infantry are closing in for the final kill. They’re Into 1838, I was moved to California at least not the proper type for fly felt that something had told me to to become Assistant District Super advancing every d ay—advancing to the order of “kill or be killed.” Remember ing blind. We flew pursuit ships, climb when I got to the bad weather, visor of the West Coast Training which carried fifty-five pounds of and if that same thing bad told those this the next time you see a doughboy on furlough. Remember this the next tim e Center. This Job was to check all m ail; we flew old B-fl bombers that men to climb they would have flown you almost forget to write that letter. Remember it till your dying day. You flying cadets in the three schools would carry a ton of mail at • through instead of going down—they at San Diego. Glendale, and Santa can’t pay the doughboy back—but at least you can be forever mindful o f Ws might have disregarded a warning. speed ot eighty miles an hour, pro Maria. Later on I received my first role in this fight for freedom. viding the wind in front of you In a ease like that wg think it's command—that of the Air Corps wasn't too strong—sometimes they luck, but maybe it’s not To me e Training Detachment called Cal- almost went backwards. We flew something had said. "Get altitude, Aero Academy, at Ontario. Califor everything from a Curtiss Condor don't roam around down here, get nia. I worked this up from forty- the which Mrs. Roosevelt had been us altitude and go on." And I think two cadets, until tfte r one year we ing, to the old trl-motored Fords. that after that things Just took care bad nearly six hundred. of tbemsdlves. And we flew through the (TO BE CONTINUED! With airmail over, we went back «•e th e r in the country. T A I k m iim peace BEGoodrii M// officers and men wiit advance to ■SI -te MM" •Atop yet/f eye M infantry— THt DOUGHBOY DOGS ZTZ*
