Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, October 19, 1944 What You Should Know About Frills GOD IS MY CO-PILOT O M A N Y w o m en h a v e le a rn e d to run in tric a te m a c h in e s in the la s t few y e a rs th a t i t is d ou b tful th a t ru ffle r o r h e m m e r w ill e v e r seem aw esom e a g a in . I f you h ave The story thus fa r: Robert Scot«, a a pow er m a c h in e and h ave self mads W rst Point (ra d a a te . wins bis le a rn e d to use th e a tta c h m e n ts , * | B(, at KcUy a rid . Teaas. and m arries th e re is q u ite a savin g in m a k in g a Ctrl from Georgia. From M itchel Field, y o u r own fr ille d c u rta in s , dress N. T .. be la seat to Panam a where bis in g tab le s k irts and bed v alan ces. re a l pursuit training Is begun la a P US. I f you do not h ave a p o w e r m a He la given a Job constructing ly in g Helds which would some day protect the ch in e or th e use o f one, by al) Canal. He begins to train other pilots. The w a r Is getting closer and be 1s un 2-ro-i on k > o < S C o l. R o b e r t L .S c o tt CHILD'S COLDS p g j/e r w g s HOT WATER GARFIELD TEA RUNDOWN? tig ^S C O TT'S Ml EMULSION ''z. ~ A Popular Large-Sized Vestee chilly house. And It w ill make a wonderful Christmas gift for the woman who is too busy to do her own knitting! V /N U R t t t A S t I was about nervous enough to bite m y nails off, for my ship was to be last to leave the States. I had worried every minute of the tim e we had been waiting for fear that some brass hat would get m y orders changed before I could get on my way. The other twelve ships had gone, with Colonel Haynes leading happy because he realises be Is getting FULLNESS FOR In his B-24. They a ll made their RUFFLES. CURTAIN farth er and farth e r from actual combat TOPS. SKIRTS AND way to the East separately, with FLOUNCES OF duty. As director of training In a twin- Instructions to meet In Karachi, In M A T E R IA L W IT H engine school la California be writes to c o n s id e r a b l e k » t dia. for final orders. And Karachi » i - T O - l OR ' S O * ■ G eneral a fte r General asking for a FOR was 12.000 miles away. chance to Rgbt. When that chance comes L IM P As soon as we could leave the GOODS he realises that his wife and child m eant A m erica tor him. West coast of Florida, we loaded MEASURE up and crossed the State. Going on SPACE TO BE East over West P alm Beach, I rang C H A P T E R V I FILLE D the alarm bell, putting a ll men on w it h FULL - I Doug was an ideal flying officer, the alert, and we dropped down, FABRIC •• and it was to him that I first turned with the crew firing at the white- THEN MULTIPLY for advice on how I should m ake caps out over the G ulf Stream . The BY 2 OR 2>b m yself acquainted with this big a ir guns were working fine but we couldn't take a chance. I had to m ean s buy y o u r fr ills . S o m e tim e s plane. Doug had learned to fly at learn right now whether the crew the period when I had been instruct a n e x tra p a ir o f c u rta in s m a k e s a could work as a team, for once we s k ir t fo r a d ressing ta b le w ith v e ry ing. I had taught his class to fly; started it would be too late. now the tables were turned and he little w aste. C u rta in s th a t a re ru f As we came back towards the last fled a ll the w a y aro u nd m a y often would have to be the instructor for field we were to land on in the be split fo r bed v a la n c e s . A lso, it a while. Don’t forget that as yet I U. S. A., something strange met my is possible to buy ru ffle d m a te r ia l hadn’t flown a B-17E. sight, something that made the Introducing m yself to m y co-pilot. by the y a rd . A void s k im p y fu ll blood pound a little harder In my ness. F o llo w th e guide g iv e n in I said, "How about showing m e how temples. There, along the entire th e sketch an d , w’h e th e r you buy to fly this ship— I want to see how beach of Florida, was a jagged y o u r fr ills and flounces o r m a k e to work these turbos and such.” He black line— the clean sand of F lo r m erely grinned at me in disbelief. th e m , ta k e m e a s u re m e n ts firs t. ida's beaches had been made black • • • “ Aw. Colonel,’’ he said, “ you can and terrible-looking by the oil from NOTE: Here is news for homemakers. fly the thing—why, you taught me m any tankers sunk by the Axis sub This sketch is from a new booklet by to fly.” I finally got him to give me m arine war. 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Scott’s superior officers, Gen. way, and I soon found th at they Joseph Stilwell, left, and Gen. Claire knew exactly what they were doing. T h e iuoJem external treatm ent most Chennault. P riv a te M otley was m y ta il gun young mothers use to relieve discom ner. D uring the entire trip I think was also the beached wreckage of forts o f children’s colds he stayed in the ta il ninety per cent several ships. This w ar was mean . . . muscular soreness or tightness, coughing, irri of the tim e, just to get used to the ing more and more to us as we pre tation in upper bronchia] way to handle the ta il tu r r e t I used pared to shove off for the first stop tubes . . . t s Vicks Vapo- to say of M otley that he Just didn’t out of Am erica. __j Rub. So easy to use. You care where he was going— he want Just rub i t on— and right aw ay blessed Now we were poised for our flight ed to see where he had been. relief starts to come as VapoRub . . . In our two-day Sergeant Aaltonen, the engineer, to Puerto Rico. was charged w ith keeping the en w ait for technical changes on the gines functioning properly, and in engines I worried more than ever, to upper bronchial general the entire enlisted personnel for the other twelve ships were gone tubes with its special . was under him . He was a diligent and I was getting frantic lest some medicinal vapors Finn and one of the bravest men thing might change the orders. F i I have ever seen. 1 can see Aalto nally, after having to w ait during chest and back nen now, standing there behind my days of perfect weather, we took off surfaces like a seat and the co-pilot’s seat, unper in heavy rain for Borinquen Field, wanning poultice turbed in the roughest of storms, P. R. O ften b y morning most o f the misery The take-off and first two hours of from the violent currents of the o f the cold is gone. Remember th is . . . the flight were "instrum ent,” as we ONLY VAPORUB Gives You th is equatorial front of the H am adans were flying through a moderate to the Shimals of A frica and A ra special penetrating-stimulating action bia. E te rn a lly watching the many tropical front. We finally broke into I t ’s time-tested, home-proved, the best known home r e m - a instrum ents, w aiting to correct the clearing weather over Long Island edy for relieving J 9 slightest trouble even before it hap Key, British West Indies. This was miseries o f colds. ▼ V A P O R u S pened. When we w ere lost over on M arch 31, 1942. Just after noon we sighted His trackless seas he was never ruffled, but ready a t a ll tim es with in fo rm a paniola at the point of Cape Frances these TO herbs in tion as to fuel consumption and the V iejo. Sergeant Aaltonen passed out your d aily cup of best R P M ’s for cruising. Once when some hot coffee from the thermos Our spirits were high, for he was told th a t we would probably jugs. have to land in the A tlan tic there now that we had passed the bad was no change in the expression on weather this was like a picnic. The • . . and I m s m the CLINGING waste« his face; he sim ply began to move big ship was handling like a single- T « year daily cop of hot water, odd the Joico the provisions to a point where they seater. We turned from the dark, of tho I t her hi in Garleld Tea and yoa aof •o ly “cleanse lnternally,” hat loooon could be quickly placed in the rub mysterious Hispaniola, crossed Mo «ha hard-to-get-at wastes which ber boats. His job in case of attack na Passage, and landed at Borin cling ts tho lining, undigested. Makes hot water tastier to drink, was to man the top tu rre t w ith its quen Field at 15:07, just three m in adds wild, thorough laxative ac utes off our E .T .A . (E stim ated Tim e tw in F ifties. tion that rdiorta temporary con- •tipation. Caatioa: see as directed, Sergeant B aldbridge was the head of A rriv a l). ltc . Me. Etc at year dragsters. Two of our flight's Fortresses were radiom an. H is secondary duty was Fret! Saapls Trial Package! to handle one Of the waist guns back w aiting in Puerto Rico for m inor re W rits far isacrovi un plc. enough for aft of midships. Corporal Cobb was pairs, so we fe lt a little less lone « cap«, to: Garfield Tea Co.. 313.41 it 1 S U Brooklys 32, N. Y-. D irt. D-47 second rad io m an ; he would leave some. Just in case the authorities i ’Me that to enter the low er tu rre t. The in Washington decided to stop the other waist gun on this flight was last ship or the last two ships in to be handled by a radio officer. our mission, I got m y crew up long before daylight next morning, and H l CENILE KUU IHR lEKUM SLKtlMKSI Lieutenant H ershey. The n avig ato r was a Lieutenant we soon were heading South for whom I ’ll call Jack. H e was a T rin idad , ahead of the other two. A real night take-off from T rin i nervy kid who liked his job. I know that a fte r our mission he made dad— we were airborne in the d ark m any raids as navigator to bomb ness at 5:20 a. m. As the wheels left the ground I realized very quick the Japs in Rangoon. We tested the bom bardier and the ly how great a load we were lifting. bombsight, too, before we started This was the first tim e we had tak the flight. Lean, lanky, six-foot- en off with full load of fuel, and it three B om bardier George— I never seemed to me that I alm ost had to did see how he managed to wiggle break my arm s to keep the tail into the nose of the Fortress. I from going all the way back to the can see him there now, tense over jungle—for all practical purposes his sight, w aiting for the bombs to the Fortress tried a loop. ( I t must go— ever with the cross-hairs on the have been that case of Scotch, add target. George had a couple of fifty ed suddenly to the other sixty thou calib re guns up there in the nose sand pounds.) F in a lly we got the jt You “ TkC Easily", have low resistance to with him , too. He was ju st the op ship rigged properly and climbed folds and minor ills—due to lack of tho posite of the ta il gunner—he never on top of the clouds at eight thou Vital Elements—natural A & D Vitamins did know where he had been but sand feet. L a te r we had to go high e-try taking good-lasting Scott’s Emul er to keep from going through the alw ays got there first. sion daily the year aroundl National sur And so the eight of them made heavy tropical thunderheads; with e ty shows many doctors recommend our overload, neither Doug nor I fcott's to help build up resistance, bring up m y crew — eight good soldiers back energy and stamina I Buy Scott’s who had volunteered and who w ant wanted to risk the turbulence that ed to hurt the enemy. None of we knew was there. today—at all druggists! As the sun came up we could look them worried about w hether or not IT'S GOOD-TASTING he’d get home— fo r he knew of big down through holes at intervals and see the dark Atlantic near the Gui- ger things th at had to be done. We had to test everything, for It anas. was over sixteen thousand m iles to O ver Devil's Island at 9:20, I saw Japan the w ay we were having to by our chart that we were only five go; there couldn't be a slip-up on degrees North of the equator. Com G r e a t Y e a r R o u n d I o n ic this mission, and so we didn’t take ing down lower to look at the French • chance. When finally a ll was set penal colony, we found that although Home Remedy For Relieving Miseries o f SKII ING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK the tem perature was comfortable on top of the haze at six thousand feet, down In the soup near the water we had difficulty breathing. Pass ing on over another riv e r Identified as the Rio Oyapok, we went out over the Guianas Into B razil at 9:55 a. m. Cruising low at eight hundred feet, we got some unforgetable views of the steaming B razilian Jun gle. Looking out to sea, we noticed that the blue color already was changing to the murkiness of the Amazon, though we were about a hundred miles from Its mouth. F ly ing low. I noted that the hump of Brazil near the coast was flat and green and hot as hell—tem perature ninety-six and hum idity about nine ty-nine per cent ut 10:55 a. m. We reached the mouth of the greatest river in the world at 11:35 E.W .T. Here the width of the Amazon is about one hundred and fifty miles. Boys w ill have their fun too, no m atter if you are flying low over the greatest of rivers. As we crossed the equator—old Zero Degrees Lat. at 11:56 a. m ., at West Longitude 49 degrees 32 minutes—I saw those of m y crew who had been In the South latitudes before take paper cups of w ater and drop them on the heads of those who were unini tiated. thus m aking them subjects of the sacred realm of Jupiter Rex as identified from the realm of Neptune Rex on the sea. We crossed the Ama- zon. from just West of Point Grossa over Bahia Santa Rosa to M ixiana Is land. thence to Isla da M arajo . This last island In the mouth of the river is one hundred miles wide and reputedly has more cattle on the single ranch than any other ranch in the world. Soon we came to Rio Para, crossed it in a thunderstorm, and were over Belem , where we landed in the blackness of a tropical rain at 12:40 E .W .T. On A pril 4. we left Belem for Na tai at 6:55 a. m ., and climbed to ten thousand feet In order to top as much of the cumulus as possible. We had to skirt one great anvil-head reaching up into the sub-strato sphere near Bahia San Luiz. This storm covered about fifty miles, but we got around it without going into its turbulence. As we went on South of the equator the haze di minished gradually and the country became dry, m aking us think we were over western Texas. We land ed at N atal, our jum p-off point for the South Atlantic crossing, at 12:25 E.W .T. This was to be a real day's flight. For we were not to be able to spend the night at N atal. Our run from Belem to N atal of nine hundred miles, then the crossing of nineteen hundred miles to Liberia, plus the run down the hump of A frica to a Pan-Am erican base on the Gold Coast—this last almost nine hun dred m iles—had to be made with out stops, except short ones for fuel. F or a ll practical purposes, then, we had thirty-seven hundred miles to m ake in one day. We got the big ship serviced and ready for the trip, then went to the F e rry Command Hotel. There we found two more crews of our th ir teen heavy bombers. One group of these had turned back the night before with one engine out. The other, piloted by Col. G erry Mason, had nearly come to grief on the way in from Belem. The rubber life-rafts in the Forts are carried in two compartments where the wing of the B-17 joins the big fuselage. This is to facilitate their automatic release upon contact with the wa te r should the ship have to land at sea. They are of course tied to the airplane with strong m anila rope, and it is on this hemp that the present tale hangs. In the flight down the coast some malfunction had caused one of these com part ments to spring open— and out came the heavy, five-man boat. At the speed of two hundred miles an hour with which It struck the tail section as it went back on its rope In the slipstream of two engines, it nearly took the entire horizontal stabilizer off. Only by very skillful piloting had G erry Mason managed to get the F o rt and his crew of ten to N a tal. Just the same, in m y attempted nap that afternoon, I grinned at the thought that we In old "Hades Ab A lta r” were passing ahead of two more ships of the flight. Boy, I dreamed, they’ll have a hell of a job getting me back there into the training center now! I t ’s four thou sand miles back to Florida and in the morning I ’ll be across the A t lantic. We climbed out of the Fortress and stepped upon Africa at 11:05 G .M .T . Our crossing from Natal had been made in thirteen hours. Leaving the natives at work under Royal A ir Force bosses, we hurried on to Operations, where we a r ranged for clearance down the coast. Then we were led into a thatch-roofed dining hall for good hot food. I f I hadn’t been so hungry and tired from the extra tension I had been subjected to, I think I ’d have "gawked” at those wild-look ing tribesmen who were serving us. In one night we’d left the hotels of South Am erica, and here we were, having our plates brought by jet- black bush Negroes with rings In their ears and noses, jabbering away in a West Coast dialect. 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