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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, Növember 9, 1944 CLASSIFIED D E P A R T M E N T RABBITS & SKINS W A N T L iv e R a b b its * P o u ltr y , W o o l, • ¡ood « h i l a fr ie r la m a r a b b it a k in » SOc to SI 00 a lb S h ip o r as k p ric e » B a b y * Co.. M S B. « . F ro n t, GOD IS M Y CO-PILOT C o l. R o b e r t L .S c o ff SEWING CIRCLE NEEDIÆCRAFT Use Rich (lorde for That Bag D uu to an unusually la rg e de m a n d and c u rre n t w a r conditions, slig h tly m o re tim e la re q u ire d In flllln g orders lo r a law of the m ost p o pu lar p a tta rn num bers. W N U R lL tA S E Send your order to: t h e «lory Ihas ta r: R o b ert Scott, a sell m ade W est F o is t g ra d a a te , « la s h it F o rtla a fl. Oregon. « la g s at K e lly F ie ld . Texas. He la te n t 1 Sc-Stic K A p a id f o r w h ite | f r y e r ) to P a a a m a , w here his re a l pstrsalt tra in ra b b it s k in s H ls h -te n s lo n s t r e t c h ln< la began la c. F -ltS . W hen the « a r er«. SI 70 do» P re p a id . S h ip Io to m es closer he has been laitrtscto r lo r B. B. L ace. W a rre n . Ora. several years, and tears be « U l g e l no co m b at ty in g . A t the oathreah of « a r be pleads « It h m an y G en erals asking lo r a chance to flgbt. and a l t a i l the oppor- H T STOCK tn a lty cornea. He aaya goodby to his G O L D E N H A M S T E R b re e d in g S lo c k « li e and child aad leaves tor F lo rid a S tro n g , la rg e , no ne b e lte r . Tar W as* B a m a te ry , B ellevue. W ash. w here he picks up his F lyin g Fo rtre ss A fte r some flvlag las tru ctlo a (tra m a fo r W A N T E D — I to 4 -lb . liv e r a b b its , to p m er student of his) ho flys the big ship lees S h e rw o o d '« , N . 7716 S m ith , I3 .6 M m iles to In d ia . H ere he becomes okaae, W a s h in g to n . Qlen. 8535. a fe rry pilot flying (a p p lies Into B u rm a but be does not lik e this Job. an unarmed ship, and then get to Corps officers In Asia were waiting destination and the General won't for him outside. ■ e w lB i t í r e l e N e e d le rra ft U ept. go—things Juat don't much m atter. That night,* as we gathered at tea Box 3311 San Fran cisco 6, C a lli. We loaded the anxious staff and planter Josh Reynolds' house, we Enclose 16 cents lo r P a tte rn took off for Calcutta, with over forty had the greatest gathering of Gen M» passengers. We could easily have erals' stars that all Assam had ever seen. There was Wavell, Alexander taken from fifty to seventy, but the N a ~*~ 11 RABBITS staff colonel whom we instructed to —who made on that occasion the AAHenen give the signal when the load waa classic statement: "The situation in aboard evidently lost count, for he Burma Is very confused"—Brereton, > came up and told Colonel Haynes Naiden, Bissell, Stilwell. Hearne and Siebert. Just about everyone ex- ! that all were inside. Faithful Tibetans Carry As we crossed South-Central Bur cept General Chennault, and he was ma towards the town of C hitta very busy getting the AVG out of Prayer Wheels to Spin gong, we planned to come back that Loiwlng and up to Paoshan. Burm a j night and take General Stilwell out had at last fallen. Every faithful Tibetan Buddhist The evacuation of these Chinese 1 if we had to trick him into getting M A N W A N T E D — S E L L In y o u r hom e c o u n ty . o ld s u c c e s s fu l c o m p a n y . carries a prayer wheel, which he aboard. We crossed the many armies from Burma to India and • C H A P T E R IX I ^ r g e lin e spices, e x tra c ts , sto ck constantly spins round. The Ti mouths of the Ganges In one of the China now gave us rry>re adventures a n d o th e r f a r m p ro d u c ts . G oods s u p p lie d on c re d it. O u r fr e e g i f t We kept low fo the flat coun worst rains that I'v e ever seen, and in the A. B. C. Ferrying Command. betan« believe in constunt prayer, opens e v e ry do or to you. W r ite ! saying that the more often you soon landed in the humid heat of They were scattered all over north to d a y . T h e L a n g e C o - B o x 175. try now, so that it wouldn't be sil D e F e re . W ls . houetted agaipst the sky. Moreover Calcutta. While we were reservic ern Burma, from West of M yltkylna, pray the more likely are your the trees under us caused the olive- ing for the second trip of some five North to Shimbyang and Putao. It prayers to be heard. FOR SALE drab of the ship to blend in, making hundred miles. Joplin landed from was our Job now to drop rice, salt, So inside every prayer wheel us harder to see. I thought many Assam, and Colonel Haynes had him and medicines to these thousands of are hundreds of tiny pieces of pa CALIFORNIA DEEDED times that we couldn't get lower; unload his cargo and take off im m e starving soldiers. I rem em ber that ■ per, each one bearing the prayer but we kept going down until I know diately for Shwebo. Once again we as I first saw Burma it used to look LANDS “Om Mani Padme Hum,” which, M illio n A c re s C a lif o r n ia S ta te D eed ed . if the wheels had ____ been extended ourselves flew through black rain to me like the greatest hunting coun- C O Y O U w a n t a Corde bag! Too being interpreted, means "O, the L a n d s n o w a v a ila b le f o r s e ttle m e n t; I w e 'd h a v e h e e n t a w i n o fr o m 23c to » 1 5 0 p e r a c re . S ta t e - | , n a V e D een t a x y ln 8- across the Ganges into Burma, but try in all the world, completely wild expensive to to buy? buy? Then cro- Jewel in the Lotus.” Every time expensive w id e : tim b e r , g ra s in g . a g r ic u lt u r a l: , 1 guess we were both a little bit when we landed we found that all and unspoiled. And It was Just that chet either of the beauties piw the wheel is spun round, all the Keekers w V n ^ '.'n o !OX c u T a to rV °? o r P « « « 1 ahead f° r an* had been evacuated except wounded —but there was nothing to hunt, for tured—inexpensive and easy to do. pieces of paper rotate, sc that lo c a tio n s . d e s c rip tio n s , m in im u m l i t u « dot that would mean a Jap. British and American soldiers. In evidently there wasn't anything for . .., each turn meuns that hundreds of "iap*' a “ ?? blanks »"d •»- ! Fly specks on the windshield—and the half darkness, for the night was even the animals to e a t tria n g le s . P a tte rn #36 contains directions f l u t t e r i n g pieces of paper have 8TA TB lands B B TABTW BM T <et lot® of them when flying as lighted by the flres of the burning Once when it was clear enough to fo r purses; stitches; list of m a te ria ls , j sent their prayer to Heaven. c ^ f 1 '-E*” * o fflc *' Bo,< Bnr*ba, low as we were—scared us many villages, we loaded them on and took see the surrounding country, I was .— ----------------------------------------- :______ times. I could feel the palms of my them to Calcutta. aware of a strange sight We'd been A o0 0 » i F S IN 5 ? .? ' lo c a tio n in hands sweating as the tension in- General Stilwell with a few of his dropping rice at Shimbyang when I c lt y lim its . W i l l r e t ir e . 10 -ro o m staff, his ADC, Colonel Dora, and saw some villages, and there again c e m e n t b lo c k house w it h 2 a p a r t - c r e a s e a - m e n ts . 3 g re e n h o u s e s «500 fe e t. ' Finally, straight ahead. I saw a Jack Belden, w ar correspondent, I noticed something that I realized S500 fe e t h o t beds. en o u g h to '0s%beroooTooIS worth”"? lone column of smoke and thought H had gone on to the North on the now I'd been seeing through al] the > s e ll »71 ____ y e a r. S ale p r ic e 314.000.00. _ 36,000.00 was Shwebo. The Japs must al long trek to India by way of the Uyu Burmese towns— white cattle, the cash. B a la n c e in 3 p a v m e n ts a t 5 % By Ruth W yeth Speara We and Chindwin Rivers to the M anipur bullocks of the East. I t started me In t Fuch's G arden B N u rn e ry , 1256 ready have bombed that too. N O T E : P a tte rn 370 give« a fu ll sire p a t kept right on going, expecting any Road. For weeks no one knew where to thinking; How could people starve C hestnut, C larksto n , W a s h in g to n . te rn fo r the cu rv ed (h e lv e s of thesa book minute to see about eighteen Zeros he was. when there were hundreds and thou 160 A C R E S lo c a te d on A s to r ia h lw a y , c a te« and la rg e d ia g ra m s w ith dim ensions 60 m i. fr o m P o r tla n d , n r. e s s e n tia l on our taiL Bombs had started these One of the officers in this last car sands of cattle in northern Burma? of a ll the s tra ig h t pieces. Also a c o m In d u s trie s , la r g e ho use, an d b a rn 3 plete lis t of m a te ria ls req u ire d aryl Illu s go handed me an itinerary that the s p rin g s a n d w e ll. G o od b e rr y , an d flres. and where Jap bombers were, That afternoon I got to talking tra te d directio ns fo r each step In the con d a ir y c o u n try . p a r t ly tim b e re d . fighters could not be far away. The General had given him, and I re over the food situation with one of stru ctio n o f the units To get this p a tte rn >5000. te r m s co n sid ered . 2305 S. B. smoke plume grew larger and black solved to try to drop food and vita Y a m h ill, P o rtla n d , Oregon. enclose IS cents w ith na m e and address the best of the ferry pilots. Capt. er as we came nearer, until we min capsules to the party as it and send d ire c t to: John Payne. He said he'd looked could see the glow of the fires and m -J e its way to the W est The pro FARM & GARDEN the field over at Putao—or F ort MRS. R U TH W Y E T H SPEARS the licking flames. We both m utt jected itin erary would lead them TRACTORS Hertz, as the British called It—and Bedford HUls N s « Y o rk W a lk i n g & r id in g m o d e ls, no c e r t l f l - have autom atically concluded that from Shwebo North to the Uyu Riv- although it had been condemned Dra«sr 16 c a te o r p r io r it y r e o u ire d . B d S h o rt, the burning town was Shwebo, for by the 'B ritish for the landing of F a rm * G arden T ra c to rs , 5621 1st Send IS cents for Pattern No. 370. without more than a glance to check A ve. 8., S e a ttle , W ash. aircraft, he could land a transport the map we headed for the South N a m e ............................... . ............................ on the short runway. The entire TRAPPER SUPPLIES east corner of the town, where the length of that field was slightly less I T E A C H C O Y O T E F O X T R A P P I N G , field was supposed to be. A d d re ss............................................................. s n a rin g , scents. M a n v In d e p e n d e n t than one thousand feet, and If any Then I saw them, high o v e rh e a d - p ro fe s s io n a ls my s tu d e n ts . F re e other pilot than Joplin or Payne had tr a p p e r tip s , c ir c u la r s . W . N . T y three planes. But I almost sighed son, M id v a le , Idah o. made that statement I would have W H E T H E R you have a house in relief, for they were only Jap ignored the offer; but I knew that v ’ of your own or whether you H A M P S H I R E S — B o a rs . g ilt s : ^en. bombers—no fighters yet. We kept bred. S end f o r fr e e illu s t r a t e d b o o k Payne knew what he was talking move often, unit book shelves are SN A PPY FACTS le t. T o n r t a llo t t e . 403 W h it e B ld g ., on low, trying to find the field, while the answer to many a problem. about » S e a ttle , W a s h in g to n . more bombs blasted the town. After ABOUT We loaded on 4200 pounds of rice They may be scaled to fit almost 22 A C R E S , ir r ig ., s u ita b le fo r beets, searching for several minutes we to land at F ort Hertz and went over any space; you may add to them h a y , v e g , g r a in , e tc .; school, m a il, realized that we were looking into RUBBER the Naga Hills to Burma. As I sat as needed and they may be shift m ilk ro u te s ; elec., w a t e r p ip e d to b u ild in g s , good w a t e r r ig h t ; »5500 the smoke of the wrong town, for ed from one place to another ac there being Long John Payne's co cash. F . W . S ch ram , C o rvallis, farther South we saw another smoke M o n ta n a . p ilo t my thoughts were on this hap- cording to your mood. They may column, and after checking our posi py-go-lucky flyer. He had been an start in the living room and end F R U I T T R E E S — W e a c c e p t re q u e s ts . tion by a canal to the West, we S ave a t N . W . p ric e s . N o l i m i t on Eastern Airlines pilot for nine years in the children's room or in the m ost p r o f it a b le v a rie tie s . W r i t e agreed that this town was Kinu and e f eur Pacific w a r before coming Into the A ir Corps. kitchen. The units may be divid F a r r e ll, M ab to n , W ash. that Shwebo waa ten miles South. program and tbe growing As he said, he’d let down Into At ed, multiplied or used in various Shwebo was burning too, and, as possibilities of reasonably For Sale M iscellaneous lanta so many times In the smoke combinations. we learned later, had been bombed quick recapture a t seota rub You need no special skill to and fog that the bad weather of only minutes before we arrived. Jap ber areas la tbe f a r las t DELCO LIGHT PLANT Burma didn't worry him much. make the three units shown. have made mea w be knew fighters had accompanied the bomb A u t o m a tic . Good c o n d itio n . These well proportioned shelves When Johnny first Joined the ferry 7 K . W . 120 V o lt D . C. tbe rubber industry best em ers. So once again some hand of were designed especially for ama command he came into prominence phasise tbe need fee sound HOSPITAL BED Providence had intervened — had by originating a saying that to us teur homecrafters to make with S im m o n s . C o m p le te . N e a r ly n e w . policies te deal w ith tbe eco made us mistake Kinu for Shwebo A d ju s ta b le . Good co n d itio n . exemplified our feelings about the the simplest tools. A compass saw nomic and political problems and waste a little tim e circling. 3. B. M A X T L B T T , A L L Y N , which the gradual return of whole affair in Burma. Johnny had from the flve-and-dime will cut Colonel Haynes saw the field at natural rubber «rill raise. said. I f at first you don't succeed, the curved shelves of the end units EDUCATIONAL Shwebo and pulled the big trans Gen. Archibald Wavell, who was give up. for no one in this country Because the shelves were de S H O R T H A N D — in te n s iv e D 0-day Mexico hat Its own «ray of contarv- port around like a fighter, slipping resp o n d en ce courses. T H B M O D ____ signed by a homemaker, a simple commander-in-chief of British forces gives a damn anyway.” Ing tires. Mexican metorhfs are re S C H O O L , 55 N o rth n t h S treet, Baa her in and sitting her down like a in India. method of constructing them with We got over Fort Hertz pretty Jose 12, C a lifo rn ia . quired, by government regulation, feather-bed. We taxied over to the quickly and circled the little cleared no open dust space at the bottom to keep their cors Idle one doy a shade to try to p artially hide the er, down that stream to the Chind SPECIAL worked out and special place on top of a hill. The single was week. Cor o«mers select their ship, and I stayed to guard the win at Hom alin, then down the Chin "motorlett d a y " and then mutt dis thought was given to the width runway. If you could call it that, W e P a y C ash F o r Used Douglas while he went to see Gen dwin to Sittaung and Tam u, and play on their windshield« o sticker BAND IN S T .— A C C O R D IO N S and depth of shelves so that they eral StilwelL You could hear the thence on the M anipur Road to Im - was just nine hundred feet long. T A C O M A M U S IC of a color designated for that day There were tracks where ships had would have the maximum useful 317 - 11th , Tacom a, W a . staff officers and the soldiers yell phal. Using it, I expected to be able of tho week. ness and still be made of stock ing, and see them throwing their tin to contact them and drop the neces landed, but we found later that they sizes of lumber. helmets in the air. Jack Belden of sary food; Joplin and I even figured had been slow R A F biplanes. There Life magazine told me later that we could land on a sand bar in the was ■ makeshift bridge at one end they had never expected an A m eri Chindwin and pick them up. We —two trees across a stream —and can ship to get through, and that* planned all this out the next day as four m arkers made from dead trees when the white star of the U. S. we flew back home, four hundred which showed the other end of the Arm y A ir Force was identified, they miles to the Northeast, transporting "ru n w a y ." Everything else was Jun- had even sung "God Bless A m eri our first jeep Into Assam by plane. gle. As Payne throttled the engine« for the landing, he let down the ca." But to us right then, Am erica But though we began next day to wheels and said in his nonchalant seemed a very, very long way off fly into Burma to contact General way: • i i After baking always leave the While Colonel Haynes went for Stilwell's party, again we found that "When I say okay, give me full oven door open to permit the General Stilwell, I stationed the there was many a slip 'tw ix t the crew around the ship, and we cup, etc., even when one had an flaps— then if I don't hit the first ten moisture to escape and thus pre H E A L T H SET feet of that field, spill 'em, for we’U vent the oven from rusting. watched the sky with Tom m y guns. itin erary. A fter I'd crossed the go around again.” A T A IL A B L B M O W ! There was a dead feeling in the a ir Naga Hills In my single P-43, I would Well, Johnny Payne brought that —the smell of smoke and of human follow the Chindwin South until I So you are having trouble start G E N U IN E B ird s e y e 2 5 0 -w a tt heavy ship In like a master. He flesh from the burning town—and I IN F R A -R E D RAY g lo b e w it h came to Homalin. Then I'd turn to didn’t hit the first ten feet—I honest ing wooden screws with a screw b u ilt - in s ilv e r r e fle c to r . expected any moment to see Jap the East up the river, flying right driver? Well, put them through a Zeros diving on the transport. There down in the canyon formed by the ly think he put those wheels down on piece of cardboard first and then Set in c lu d e s e y e -p ro te c tin g g o g the first foot of the available run gles. L a m p f i t s a n y s ta n d a rd we stood with our viritab le pop-guns, thick jungle trees. I carried a Very hold the cardboard while the screw s o cke t (r e a d in g la m p , b rid g e way, and we had stopped at least Gather Your Scrap; waiting for Jap cannon. la m p , d o c to rs ’ an d h o s p ita l pistol to identify myself, but learned fifty feet before we got to the other is starting into the wood. M o d e l la m p s ). G iv e s o f f m a n y Just a few minutes la te r a Jeep that we had no air-to-ground liaison Throw It at H itler! end. You ask a transport pilot If tim e s as m u c h h e a t as th e sam e drove up and C. V. Haynes Jumped code with which to establish our u n it lig h t b u lb . A small bowl of vinegar placed eight hundred feet isn't a damn good out, saying that most of the staff identity to General StilwelL As a in a room will absorb tobacco landing. R a y s a r e p u re In f r a - R e d (n o was on the way behind him but that substitute I decided to fire a green smoke. v io le t ) ; w i l l n o t s u n b u rn . Johnny stayed back to unload the General Stilwell wasn’t going. At light, figuring that anything but red — •— ship <>nd guard it, for the Japs were Used as in d ic a te d f o r c h e s t an d my look of surprise, he added that would indicate that I v as friendly. b ro n c h ia l c o n g e s tio n s , m u s c u la r Keep your windows bright and supposed to be fa irly close and we p a in s o r w h e re v e r in f r a - r e d h eat the General was going to walk out— Though I saw party after party, had learned that when people are clear on the inside during the win tr e a tm e n ts a r e d e sired . E v e ry that he refused to be evacuated by there was no way of identifying -that hom e s h o u ld use th e s e la m p s In ter by merely wiping them off with with a single Garfield Headache Powder air. Well, for the life of me I of the General. I marked their posi In the panic of evacuation and .ta r- a soft paper napkin each week. w in te r . S a fe , c o m fo r tin g , r e la x - - vation you can trust no one. ing. G u a ra n te e d . couldn't see what face would be tions on my map, and we went back walked down the tra il to contact the This will remove the moist dirt saved, for the British A rm y had later in a transport plane and A p p ro x im a te lif e . 6,000 ho urs. ftS d e ^ "q u k tV e ll3 le"> ? S y General of the Fifth Chinese Army. and polish them at the same time. P ric e f o r se t. In fr a -r e d b u lb and gone up the road to the North, and dropped food to all of them—food, (toggles — — • — I wanted to ask him if he was get most of the Chinese arm ies were medicines, and blankets. L ater I ting the rice, and find out why he Line the container in which you uet desee, lfle fe r 4 deeee. At also on the way out. Perhaps the dropped letters attempting to estab By Mail PostPald needed rice when there were bul remove ashes from the furnace y e a r drugetort.tCssbs: la kb b KraW) General knew things that I didn’t lish a code between his party and locks all around; I guess I really with wet paper to keep down the Check or Money Order know. But I rem em ber that Colonel our ships, so that If he wanted us to Write ter e f i l l lAMFll wanted to see for myself If the sto- dust. e l O erfle ld Heedeche' Haynes and I talked it over during land when he reached the Chind te n d e r- else ter Oerfleld R IC H M O N D S A L B S C O M F A N Y — •— ries of sickness and starvation were the minutes while we waited for the win, he could signal us with a panel. tee, vsed ter cemMpailen, 507 W e s tla k e N o rth , B eattie t true. What I saw and found was In wringing out pillow cases in edd lodleestlen. end le "Seep dee« Inside." WSITf. Staff to get aboard. We wanted to We were never able to contact him, proof enough. the laundry, always insert the emu run., (in « m bs.. i un », tai. o - m take General Stilwell out if we had but we continued to drop food to ev General Ho took me about three closed end into the roller first. to use force; after all, he was the ery party of refugees we saw. HEADACHE miles down the road that led to Su- This will prevent possible burst Commanding General of a ll A m eri As the days stretched into weeks prabum, and I counted fifty-five bod- ing of the seams. G O O D HEALTH PO W Dr-RS can forces In China, Burm a, and In and no news came of General Stil ies of soldiers who had died either T o u r G re a te s t Possession dia, and we knew he was to have a well’» party, we Just dropped bags of cholera or from starvation. As I Regain it by being relieved very slim chance of walking out to of rice and medicines to all parties, walked among them, with the harsh of Hemorrhoid« (Piles). Fis India through Burma. sure. Fistula. Hernia (Rup whether they were led by a Gen smell of death in the air, this chi- ture). Our method of treat I guess if we had captured Gen eral or by a British sergeant. On ment without hospital op nese General told me that his sol eral Stilwell and taken him back to my single-ship escort trips I noted eration successfully used diers had been killed trying to get for 33 years. Liberal credit Chungking we’d have been court- that burning barges were floating terms. Call for examination bullocks from the Burmese. You m artialed and shot But we didn’t down the Chindwin, South of Tam u. or send for FREE booklet. see, thfl Burmese are Buddhists, and much care what happened then any One afternoon I saw four big riv e r Open Evningt, Men., Wetf., Fri., 7 to 8:30 way. Burma was falling, and there boats burning at the docks of the it la against their religion to eat seemed to be a never-ending stream town where the M anipur Road be m eat or to see the sacred bullocks We’re glad that io spite of war ahortaflee of Japs coming North. I guess we gan. I reported this to the British. slaughtered. We must keep on drop Physician and Surgeon ping rice or the entire arm y would 70“ can »»'11 set Smith Bros. Cough Drops, thought we had a very slim chance M. E. Cor. E. Burnside and G rand Ave. Then, about three weeks from the starve,' said the General. And we we 11 be gladder still when Victory lets us Telephone EAst 3911, Portland 14, Oregon of ever getting out alive. A fter all, day we had flown down to get the make all «verykody needs. Smith Bros.- kept it up, dropping o v ir two” m il we’d been flying around bombed staff out of Shwebo, I met General Black or Menthol-still it. Burmese towns a ll morning, and Stilwell and his tired group a t the lion pounds into Burma before the armies were evacuated into India SMITH BROS. COUGH DROPS when you expect to see Jap fighters little Tinsukla railroad station. I for re-equipment. any minute for hours, with you in told him that practically all the Air (T O B E C O N T IN U E D ) BLACK OR MINTHOL—5d K HELP W ANTED Unit Shelves Are Easy to Build; May Be Divided or Multiplied INFRA-RED HEAT LAMP I k «win féxœ ' flRST in RUBBER ★ ★ $4.00 GARFIELD Dr. C. J. DEAN CLINIC