Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, November 23, 1944
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RABBITS & SKINS
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W A N T L iv e R a b b it* 4 to 4 lb«., w h ite
21c, colorM l 22c, old nnea 10c. W a n t
R abb it akin», p o u ltry , veal.
Bubv
• Co., 933 s W . r r o a t , P o rtla n d ,
Oregon.
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M A N W A N T E D —S E L L In y o u r home
county.
O ld successful com pany
L a rg e line apices, e x tra c ts , s to c k
and o th e r fa rm
product?.
Goods
supplied on c re d it.
O u r fre e g ift |
opens e very door to you.
W r ite
today.
T h e L an g e C o , Boa 173.
D ePero. W ls .
W OMBM
a U G H T fa c to ry w ork In essen tial In
d u s try .
E xperience unnecessary. 5-
Dny w eek, plus a hours S a tu rd a y a t
tim e and o n e -h a lf I f desired.
A p
p ly In txrs o n
A M B B IC A M C B A C -
X B H C O X P A B T , 1461 B lU o tt A va-
nue
W en t,
S e a ttle .
W ashin gton .
A u th o rize d re fe rr a l required.
comes. He aaya coodby to his w ife and
child and leaves tor Florida, where he
P*cks ep his four-motor bomber and ties
Indl,
.
,o ,n<l,a- Here for tome time he la a
torry pilot, tyin g supplies Into Burm a,
When Burm a falls to the Japs he helps
carry refugees to India. Soon he has an
opportunity to visit General Chennault,
sad tells the General be wants to be
Sghter pilot.
CHAPTER X I
I couldn't waste much time In
practice, for after all Burma was
just over the Naga Hills and the
Japs were coming towards Mvit-
FOR SALE
kyina from the South and up the
CALIFORNIA DEEDED
Chindwin and the Irrawaddy It was
open season and I needed no hunt
LANDS
M illio n Acres C a lifo rn ia S ta te Deeded ing license. Now I definitely knew
latn ds now a v a ila b le fo r s e ttle m e n t
fro m 23c to 11.50 per acre.
S ta te that adventure was near.
w ide: lim b e r, g razin g , a g ric u ltu ra l
On that afternoon of April 30, 1942
c o u n try and c ity locations.
Hom e
with
a full load of ammunition and
seekers w anted, not speculators. F o r
locations.
descrip tion s,
m in im u m the shark-mouth seeming to drip
prices, maps, f ilin g blanks and In saliva, it was so eager, I waited by
s tru c tio n s . send $3 monev o rd e r to
my ship for an a le rt Jap observa
STATE LA kD S DBFAKTM BM T
V . S. Post O ffic e , B ox 462, Bnreka. tion planes had been coming over
C a U fo rn la .
at high altitude very regularly. If
S 00 -A C R E tu rk e y fa r m a t B ro w n s they came today I hoped to sur
v ille , L in n Co., Oregon.
N ew . mod.
9 -room hse. and mod. 3-room house; prise them.
brooder and ra n g e equ ipm ent to
At two o’clock the alert came, but
care fo r S000 tu rk e v s ; also ran ge
Many un
and b u ild in g s fo r 150 sheep.
A ll it was not observation.
fenoed w ith
double w oven w ire. identified aircraft were reported by
P ric e 220,000
O w n e r m ust sell on
account o f sickness. W ill g ive pos a British radio somewhere over the
session on Decem ber 1st. H E . Rco- Naga Hills.
I didn't ask for more
▼llle, B e a l E s ta te , B ro w n s v ille , O re
than that scanty information—I was
gon.
In my fighter and climbing over the
A G O O D B U S IN E S S , best location In
c ity lim its .
W ill re tire .
10-room “tea ranches,” as Colonel Haynes
cem ent block house w ith I a p a r t called them.
m ents.
3 greenhouses «500 feet.
High over the field at 22.000 feet,
3500 fee t hot beds.
T h is Is good
enough to sell $7000 00 w o rth a
cuddled my oxygen mask and
y e a r. Sale price $14.000.00. $6.000 00
cash. B alance In 3 p aym ents a t 5% circled, watching for enemy ships to
In t P uch's G arden h W nrsery. 125« the East, South, and Southeast—
C h estnu t, C la rk s ton. W a s h in g to n .
down in the direction of a course to
Mandalay. I searched until my eyes
FARM & GARDEN
hurt, but saw nothing. After about
TRACTORS
an hour, turning to a course that
W a lk in g A* riding: models, no c e r t if i
cate o r p rio r ity req uired. Ed S h ort would take me in the direction from
F a rm % G ardan T ra c to rs , 5821 i«i which an enemy had to come. I flew
A r e . S., S e a ttle , W ash.
off to intercept—I now had barely
two hours' fuel, and the farther
TRAPPER SUPPLIES
I T E A C H C O Y O T E F O X T R A P P IN G , away from my base I met them, the
snaring , scents.
M an y Independent more successful my attack would be
professionals m y students.
Fre<
tra p p e r tips, c irc u la rs .
W . M. T y Lord! the ego that I possessed!
1
son. M id v a le , Id a h o .
honestly believe I thought I could
W a t e r v il l e H o te l fo r S ale; 25 shoot down any number of Japs with
rooms. 5 fu rn is h e d a p a rtm e n ts , din-
in ? room , lobby, k itc h e n a ll com-
p le te and doing good business. Price
$17,000, h a lf down, balance easy
term s,
c. c. M ay o , ow ner. W a te r-
v in e , W a s h in g to n .
provem ents. H a y land, w a te r; sum -
m e r and w in te r pasture.
H om e o f
the big, fa t c a ttle .
T e rm s : »5 per
here.
Box 52, L ew is to n . Idaho.
H A M P S H IR E « -B o a r s .
g ilts :
bred. Send fo r fre e illu s tra te d
le t.
T o n rte llo tte , 403 W h ite
S e a ttle . W a s h in g to n .
32 A C R E S . I r r l g . s u ita b le fo r
h®y. ' e g . g ra in , etc.; school,
^ , 3 , j b ad geen
“My God.” I moaned, “while I ’ve
been away looking for the bastards,
open, they’ve
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slipped
in here and bombed
book-
Bldg..
h e ll out o f th e h o m e
D el‘ ° Ut ° * tt,e norr,e b a s e .
beets
m a ll,
0Ver
With tears in my eyes I nosed
and
doVe
fo r
Z e ro s
th a t
should be strafing the field (Later
"undln7sUt"ood,ewateW
ratr7ghV:PV 55io L WaS \° laarn 8 ,Ot about
™ th'
cash
T. W.
S chram , C o rvallis, cd too.) The smoke was from base
M o n tan a.
all right, but I could see no enemy
.
planes
The only thing in the sky
For Sale Miscellaneous
was a single Douglas transport,
making a normal landing on the
EDUCATIONAL
S H O R T H A N D — In te n s iv e 90-day cor runway.
“Calling “NR-Zero—NR-
respondence courses. T H E M O D B IU f
S C H O O L . 55 H o rth 1 1 th S tre e t, San Zero.” I asked what the fire was
Jose 12, C a U fo rn la .
The reply was muddled, but every-
1 thing seemed to be in order, for I
SPECIAL
noticed two other transports clear
ing the field for China. I circled,
W e P ay Cash F o r Used
I H S T — A C C O B D IO H B
then dove on the smoking ruins of
T A C O M A M U S IC
the RAF operations “basha.” That
317 - 11 th , T aco m a. W n .
building had been the casualty, and
it was a total loss I could see the
operations officer sitting out in the
ASTHM A
M L « n O M »( ma JC a K t SHOJT n s < |V $U A U T u ss than o m
open, some hundred feet from the
M N V T f] IT AZMA^HST V A J O ttZ H AMO MHALAMT. M O N H A H T
charred ruins, calmly carrying on
• O J S d P *. OCXS MOT W ( A * OUT. PLEASANT AMO LAST I O T a * L
M A tM U J S W HEN USED A C C O M » « « TO t M U
O A tC T K X l
his duties.
I K a z m a a h u v a z o jiz u I t m t c n iO M M U O f n > s n c
When I ’d gotten my fighter parked
p J M A I A J F l M A T W IA L 9 TOU« D «U «fcST O O M MOT HA««
again I went over and heard the
W H R O M « O O U C U W RiTl
W NtFWJOM C O K A M T . U C O M A < W A D «
story. No Jap attack had come,
and I felt relieved—my single-ship
war and I had not let the station
down. But as I heard the embar
HEALTH TO YOU!
rassed operations man tell his story
Correct Racial, Colon A llm tn ft
I remember choking discreetly and
Hemorrhoids (P iles), Fis
leaving before I laughed myself to
sure. Fistula. Hernia (Rup
ture) d ••troy health-pow er 1
death.
to earn-ability to enjoy life.
Oar method of treatment
When the alert sounded, “Opps” —
without hospital operation
the
operations officer—had hurried
su ccessfu lly em ployed for
33 years. Liberal credit
to the window of the thatch and
terms. Coil for exam ination
bamboo “basha" to see me take off
or send for FREE booklet.
in the “bloody kite—that Kitty-
Open Evening», Mon., Wed., Fri., 7 to 8:30
hawk.’’ Seeing a transport from
Dr. C. J. DEAN CLINIC China about to land, and fearing that
the Japs would bomb it on the field,
Phytlclan and Surgeon
he had then fired a Very pistol out
H. E. Cor. E. Burnside and Grand Ava
Tslsphone EAst 3918, Portland 14, Oregon
of the operations window: the red
Very light would be the signal for
the transport not to land but to fly
RHEUMATIC
D o n 't le t la c tic o r s c ia tic congestions In the “stand-by” area. The Very
In Joints and muscles, c rip p le you light had gone nonchalantly out of
fo r life .
B re a k I t up, s w eat I t out
n a tu re s own w a y v ia th e easy Steam the operations window, into the
B a th e tt W a y , a t home, convenient, wind, had curved gracefully back
colla p sib le , f u l l In s tru c tio n s , $3.95
another window, and had
postpaid.
S u p p ly sub ject to w a r into
tim e lim ita tio n s . S team B a th e tt C o . burned the bloody building in five
13601 - 4 6 th A v e n u e So., S e a ttle 88,
minutes. Operations was being car
W a s h in g to n -
ried on as usual from operations
desk, which was located in front of
W hy suffer needlessly ? You
can get fast relief, know the
the site of the former office. Bloody
joys of good health again
shame, wasn’t it?
quickly . . . with inexpen
Well, it was tragic, but I guess
sive, pleasant tasting Medi
cine Rock Mineral Water.
it was better than a bombing. And
This is nature's own reme
so my first mission ended.
dy, discovered in the moun
tains of Southern Oregon.
Came May Day, and I began the
greatest month in my life. I flew
Gel relief with
W hat it has don« for oth *
every day in that long month, some
«rs it can do for you! <3.00
M
EDICINE
times as many as four missions a
bottle. (Money beck < u ia -
•ntee . Folder on request.)
day. By putting in a total of 214
ROCK
M ed icin e Rock M in e ra l
hours and 45 minutes, I averaged
M INERA L
W a t e r C o . 2269 N W
over seven hours a day for the
Northrup, Portland 9. Ore
W ATER
month. Most of this was in fighter
ships—my little old Kittyhawk and
I learned a lot, and we were very,
STOMACH
ULCERS
very lucky. When I had come in
from my first sortie, the day oper
ations burned down, my pal Col.
Gerry Mason kidded me a bit
We got pretty confident, the trans
port boys and I. for I used to go
with them across Burma, and Jop
lin and some of the other daredevils
would try to lure the Jap In to at
tack them. Jop would call over the
radio, in the clear: “NR-o from
transport one three four—I'm lost
near Bhamo—give me a bearing.**
Up there, some three thousand feet
above them. I'd be sitting with my
fighter, just praying that my “de
coy” would work and some luckless
Jap would come in for the kill Then
I'd imagine myself diving on his
tail, my six guns biasing. But the
ruse never worked. Sometimes I
"think the "Great Flying Boss in the
Sky” was giving me a little more
practice before he put me to the
supreme test.
May the fifth was one of the big
days in my life. Waving good-bye
to Gerry Mason as I taxied out, 1
saw him hold his thumb up to me
to wish me good hunting. I waved
back and was in the air on a sweep
towards central Burma.
1 went
straight to Myitkyina; then, seeing
nothing. 1 swung South along the
Irrawaddy over Bhamo. Continuing
South I went right down on the Bur
ma Road. North of Lashio, and
searched for enemy columns. North
of the airport at Lashio I saw two
groups of troops in marching order
1 would have strafed them imme
diately, but I was afraid they might
be Chinese: after all, there were two
Chinese armies coming North some
where in Burma I made as though
to ignore them and they partially
m v s in g le fig h te r A g a in I t a v m o re
/...
8 , n« n ' e.r A 8 a in 1 sa? ' m o re
oi 016 valor of ignorance.
a ><
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After forty-five minutes 1 turned
for home and began to let' down to
F R U I T T R E E S — W e accept
requests. e i 8 h teen thousand.
Thirty miles
Save a t N . W . prices.
No
lim it on from the field I suddenly tensed to
m ost
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p ro fita b le
v a rie tie s .
W r ite the alert
Off ahead of me was a
B a rr e ll, M ab to n , W a s h .
mo
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second-hand business. Good reason in 1,16 alr r,gh, ,n the Position on the
fo r seRIng.
W ill stand In v e s tig a - world's surface that the home field
tlon. B O , 870. K e llo g g . Id a h o .
should be My tortured mind flashed
SOOO-ACRE Stock Ranch.
P le n ty lm - back to other results of bombings
ffy R uth W y e th Spear»
L .S c o ff
The ilo ry thus la r: Robert Scott, a
W ed Point (ra d a a le , beglna pursuit train-
law at Panama after « In n in , hla w in,a
at Kelly Field, Teaaa. When war breaks
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«’« I he la Instructor at a California air*
W A N T E D — 4 to «-lb. liv e r a b b its , to p I ■***• bu’ » » » U n , to set Into combat
prices
Sherw ood's, w 771« S m ith , t y l m he writes General after General
Spokane, W a s h in g to n . O len. 8333.
makln« the re«ued. Finally the chance
HELP WANTED
Curtaining Your French Doors to
Harmonize With Window Treatments
Chinese so ldier* and coolies look
over Jap plane shot down by Col.
Scott.
scattered to the sides of the road.
Twelve trucks in the column kept
rolling to the North.
Then I momentarily forgot about
the troops—for in the northwestern
comer of the field at Lashio was a
ship From my altitude of 2500 feet
1 saw at once that it was a twin-
engined enemy bomber, later iden
tified as a Mitsubishi, Army 97 It
was being serviced, for there were
four gasoline drums in front of it
and a truck that had evidently un
loaded the fuel. My gun switches
were already on, and had been since
I had seen the troop column. Now
I was diving for the grounded bomb
er and getting my “Christmas Tree'
sight lighted properly.
Hurriedly I began to shoot. I saw
men running from the truck and
jumping into the bushes to the side
My first shots hit in front of the
plane, probably striking the fuel
drums, for heavy dust covered the
enemy ship I released my trigger
as I pulled out of my dive, just
clearing the trees behind my tar
get. As I looked back I saw the
red circle on one wing, but the other
was covered by the body of a man
who either had been shot or was try
ing to hide the identifying insignia.
Keeping the ship very low, I
turned 180 degrees for the second at
tack. This time I did better. I saw
my tracers go into the thin fuselage
and then into the engines. At first
I thought that what I was seeing
was more dust; then I realized it
was smoke pouring from under the
ship. It was on fire. Foolishly then.
I pulled up to about six hundred
feet; if there had been anti-aircraft
fire, I know now they would have
shot me down. Again I turned and
shot at the truck and the gasoline
drums, and once more I saw the
tracers converge on the enemy ship.
Smoke was floating high in the sky—
I could smell it over the odor of cor
dite that came from my own guns.
Keeping very low again, I turned
East and found the Burma Road,
turned up it and started looking for
the columns which I now knew were
Japanese. I approached them from
the rear, fired from about a thou
sand yards, and the road seemed
to pulverize. The closely packed
troops appeared to rush back to
wards me as my speed cut the dis
tance between us. I held the six
guns on while I went the length of
the troop column and caught the
trucks. There were only six now,
but I fired into all of them and two
I saw burn immediately. On my
second pass, as I “S’ed” across the
road, I shot at each truck individu
ally, then turned for the troops
again. The road was so dusty that
I could barely see the bodies of
those I had hit on the first puss. I
suppose the others were hidden in
the brush to the side. As I pulled
up, I could see the black plume of
smoke to the South—my first enemy
ship was burning fiercely.
I made as though to leave the
area, then came in again from the
South on the troops after the dust
had settled. They had reformed but
were not us closely packed as be
fore Again 1 strafed them, but this
time I saw that they were firing at
me. The trucks couldn't get off I I OW to m ake French door cur-
the road, and I exhausted my am * * tains harmonize with the win
munition on them • In two more dow treatm ent in a room is a
passes. One truck that I caught question that alw ays arises. F re
dead center with a full two-second quently, over-draperies are om it
burst seemed to blow up. When 1 ted for the doors even though they
left, I knew that four of the trucks are used for windows. The sam e
were burning, and farther to the glass curtain m aterial is then used
South 1 could still see the smoke as for the windows but a heading
of my first Jap plane rising high and rod is used both top und bot
above the trees of Burma.
tom. However, over-draperies add
Straight back to base I went, feel dignity.
ing very intoxicated with success.
Either a wooden or a m etal rod
At last I'd been able to see Japs and extending well beyond the sides of
draw blood. In this cose they had the door fram e may be hooked in
been treated just as they had been place as shown here in the dia
treating Allied ground troops, and I gram . This permits the doors to
was happy.
open without interfering with dra
That ufiernoon I went back on peries.
the second mission. I found the
It is not necessary to repeat win
wrecks of four trucks and baggage,
and objects that could have been dow valance» over doors though it
men. scattered all over the road. m ay be done if desired by using u
The place where I had caught the
troop column showed about forty
dead men. TTie grounded plane had Jones Found There H ere
burned, and with it had burned about Not Enough Comers- In!
ten acres of the jungle. 1 fired a
long burst into the truck and into
Jones decided to enter business,
the four fuel drums in front of the and so he bought an establishm ent
debris of the enemy bomber, but from an agent.
they didn’t bum; I guess the morn
After som e months he failed,
ing fire had finished them. I
searched the country to the North and, meeting the agent som e tim e
for more troops, but didn't intercept later, he said; “ Do you rem em ber
selling me a business a few
any.
I went back home highly elated—1 months ago?"
"Y es," replied the agent. “ But
had drawn my first blood I felt that
the world was good again With what's the trouble? Isn’t it as I
pride I radioed General Chennault represented it to be?”
that his “shark” had been in use,
"Oh, y es,” said the other. "You
that I had caught lots of rats walk said it was in a busy locality
ing along the Burma Road, and that where there were plenty of pass
one Army 97 bomber would fly no ers-by."
more for the Japs
“ W ell!” queried the agent.
When Myitkyina fell. I went over
there every day to burn the gasoline
that had been stored in tins in
the woods to the Northeast of the
end of the runway. I had found out
its location from British Intelli
gence. but the RAF Group Captain
had exacted from me a promise
that I would not fire into it until he
gave me the word.
It seems that he was afraid that
the firing and the burning of the fuel
would excite the native Burmese
who were in the village I couldn't
see what difference that would
make, for after all the Japs would
capture the thousands of gallons of
aviation gasoline, and the natives
were more than likely helping them
anyway. Though I held off every
time I saw the shiny four-gallon
cans in the trees my finger itched
to burn the cache before the enemy
could use it. I passed the three
days of waiting in burning three
barges on the Irrawaddy. South of
Bhamo, and in setting a fuel barge
on fire down on the Chindwin
In
this last raid my ship picked up a
few small holes; evidently some Jap
sympathizers got my range
Later in the week, the RAF Group
Captain told me that his Comman
dos in Myitkyina were going to
knock holes in all the fuel tihs with
picks before they left the field to the
Japs. Nevertheless I kept watching
the gasoline stores while the Japs
moved to the North. On May 8,
when I got in my ship and started
the Allison, my friend the Group
Captain ran across the field to tell
me that the Japs could not get the
gasoline—it had been destroyed with
out fire, and thus the villagers would
not be panicked. Over the roar of
the engine I yelled that in that case
it would not bum when I fired Into
it. For I had waited long enough;
the Japs were in Myitkyina and I
wasn't taking any chances on their
acquiring over 100,000 gallons of avi
ation fuel less than two hundred
miles from our base
When I came over the field at
Myitkyina. the enemy fired at me
while I was yet ten miles away; I
could see the black bursts of the
37 mm AA in front and below me.
I started “jinking” and moved to
the Northeast, so that I could come
from out of the sun and be as far as
I could get from the field. With my
first burst the whole woods seemed
to blow up—I have never seen such
a flash as that which came when
that veritable powder-train of high
octane fuel caught fire from the trac
ers. I also fired at two of the gun
installations on the field. But the
bursts from the Jap guns were so
close to me that I decided to let
well enough alone, and turned for
home i:i Assam.
Next day. May 9, I made four
raids into Burma. On the first of
these I escorted two traneports pi
loted by Sartz and Sexton to Pao-
shan, where they were going to land
to pickup the baggage of the AVG.
who were going on to Kunming. I
waited for them to land and take off
again, and then called goodby. They
were going on East within the air
controlled by the AVG. and I wanted
to look for Japs to the South any
way.
Two hours later Paoshan
was badly bombed by the Japs;
and so I missed a good party by
not staying around.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
"What's wrong with that?"
"There were too many passers-
by.”
valance shelf or a cornice box
plat ed high enough for the bottom
of the valance to be Just above
doors thut open in.
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N O T E Thia sketch la from a new book
let by Mra. Speers ra ile d M A K E Y O U R
OWN C U R T A IN S
Thia 32 page book la
full of »m art new curtain and drapery
Idraa with lllualraled atep by-alep d irec
tion* for meaaurlns. ru ttin g . making and
hanging all types from the almpleat sash
curtain to lha moat com plicated lined over-
drapery or stiffened valance
W hatever
your curtain problem here la the answer.
O rder book by name and encloaa IS cents.
Address:
MRS K U T II W Y R T II SPEAKS
llrd fo rd llilla
Naw York
D raw er 10
Enclose IS cents for book “ M ake
Your Own Curtalna.”
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Addreaa................................ a
Rehearsing for Normandy
Last winter in Knglund, 3,000 in»
h.ilnLints of eight villages and 180
furms, occupying 25 squure m iles
in South Devon, com plied with
the request of their governm ent to
move away so that Am erican
troops could use the urea for six
months us u training ground for
the invasion of Franc», says Col»
tier’s
As these “ Normandy rehears
a ls” were live-ammunition but
tles, most of the houses, churches,
shops and farm lands in the urea
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