Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, December 7, 1944 CLASSIFIED D E P A R T M E N T RABBITS & SKINS GOD IS MY CO-PILOT C o l. R o b e r t L .S c o tt W A N T L iv e B abb its 4 to I lbs., » lilt« 24c, colored 22c, old ones 10c. W a n t I B a b b it skins, p o u ltry , veal. Mubv TI>* »lory thui la r: After (raduatlng * Co., 935 >. W . T ro a t, P o rtla n d , from West Point a» a second lieutenant Oraros. Hubert Scott win« b li w la (i at Kelly Field and take« up pursuit flylnz. When the war break« out be 1« an Instructor la California and told be 1« loo old for rom bat flung. He appeal« Io several Generals for a chance to fly a rom bat plane, and Anally the opportunity come*. He any« goodby to b i t wife and r h ll d and tile» a bomber to India, where be be­ come« a ferry pilot, which doe« not ap­ peal to him. He visits General Chen- F o r SO Y e a rs nault and I* promised a Klltyhaw k, and «oon he 1« flying the skies over Burm a. He gets hl« flrst Jap bomber, burns up enemy Irurks and cut» a Jap battalion to bits. HELP W ANTED BUCKINGHAM & HECHT SAN FRANCISCO SHOEMAKERS 1500 VALENCIA ST. CUTTING AND LASTING AND Making Room Operators AT T H E IR FACTO RY IF YO U a re Interested in a perm anent post w a r position us a F in e A rts o p ra to r such as: e m b ro idery, chen­ ille , Boness and f e lt em blem s, here is yo u r o p p o rtu n ity . E x c e lle n t pay w h ile learn ing 40 hrs.. 5 days per w k. I.ig h t w ork in modern fa c to ry in dow ntow n d is tric t. M u s t be IS yrs . or older. A p ply Bencoe Co., 518 2nd Avenue. S e a ttle , W a s h . A nth re f. req. CHAPTER M i l SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLECRAFT Gay Accessories Made of Felt ’X W-NU. RELEASE, the burning of the train In Indo­ ship, I would begin to pull out slowly china, and the news of my one- and count—one count for every thou­ 706 man war in Burma, the story got to sand feet of my elevation above the the war correspondents. I begun target. Then as the ship came al­ to hear from home in the State* most level, if 1 was at two thou­ that 1 had been written up ns "The sand feet when I reached the count One-Man Air Force.” From an ego­ of “two," I'd drop the bomb tistical standpoint I felt the thrill ; *\w I let the four barges get almost to that a normal person would, but the makeshift wharf; then I dove by this time I was beginning to real­ from my cloud cover. As 1 got the ize that one man and one ship in middle two barges on my gun-sight, this type of warfare meant very lit­ I made a mental resolution not to be tle. short—for even if I went over I'd hit In the days that followed 1 sank the Japs in the town. As I passed barges Ailed with enemy soldiers, three thousand feet the nearest bombed enemy columns and strafed barge went under me, and I began to enemy soldiers swimming in the wa­ pull out and count: ‘‘One—tw o - ter from the barges I had sunk. But three—pull"—putting in the extra when I went back next day there count to insure me nguinst being were more and more Japs surging short 1 felt the bomb let go as I northward into upper Burma to­ jerked the belly-tank release, and 1 wards India. No, the title was an turned to get the wing out of the empty one—for even I. with my ego­ way so that 1 could see the bomb hit. tism of success In combat, knew by The Ave hundred pounds of TNT now that one man could make no real mark on this enemy that we exploded either right beside the were Aghting. I had the satisfac­ leading barge or between the barge tion. however, of knowing that 1 was closest to shore and the docks. As learning things. I had the experi­ the black smoke cleared, I saw ence of ten years of military Aying, pieces of the barge splashing into V l A K E this season the gayest a hundred yards from the 1 1 ever— for accessories! Get out and I knew I was a good pilot The the , river . day was going to come when that l° ’ *°nui ’ ,went down and »‘ rnfed, those old felt hats . . . cut 'em up knowledge of mine, learned the hard but ‘.he black s,noke waa ,o “»ick into beanies, belts, lapel orna­ way. would help train the new units that 1 could see very little to con­ ments, slippers. that would come from home. There centrate on; so I climbed to three is no substitute for combat. You've thousand feet and waited for the got to shoot at people while you're smoke to clear. Then I dove for the two barges that were drifting down being shot at yourself. the river. I must have put two For the time being, though, there hundred rounds into each of them. w'as just the one ship, and I nursed I got one to burning, and from the it like a baby. Flying it constantly. black smoke it must have been load- I had begun to feel a part of it. ed with gasoline. Sometimes at night I'd think of my N ever leave pieces of cut-up On my second raid I dropped a wife and little g irt but never in chicken in w ater. Some of the good combat. Sometimes, coming home flve-hundreb-pound bomb on the juices and excellent flavor leaches largest building in Homalin, which after striking the enemy, I'd think of out and is lost. them and they seemed far. far away. the British Intelligence reported the next day had been the police sta­ Towards the last of May. after I'd To prevent the gloss from coming flown just about two hundred hours tion. They said that two hundred Japanese were killed In that bomb­ off white paint, wash w ith m ilk ing. and that between six hundred and very little soap. and a thousand were killed in the If w ater is spilled on the page series of bombings. Many bodies were picked up about thirty miles of a favorite book, place a blotter down the Chindwin at Tamu and Sit- on each side of the page and press tiang All four of my bombs had w ith a hot iron. This should re­ done some damage, and I was quite move all moisture without damugc to the book. satisfied. You'll have lots of fun making frit ‘‘■«•-flaws." Instruction« 704 contain pat­ tern» of all pise«*; directions for s rtlc l.. shown. Due Io an unuaually large demand and current w ar conditions, slightly more tim e Is required In tilling orders for a few of the most popuUr pattern numbers Send your order to: Hewing Circle Needlerraft Uept- Hsn Francisco t. ( all/. llox 1217 Enclose 16 cents for Pattern N o _______________ N am , Arid I— Battle Photos Via Air For the benefit of news syndi­ cates as well us the w a r and navy departm ents, us many us 1,100 buttle photographs are tran s m it­ ted monthly to the United States from ubroud over the 13-station Radio-Telephoto N etw ork of the U.S.A. Signal Corps, says Col- .lier's. Many of llie machines are of the latest type which can send or re­ ceive a 7-by-9-inch picture within •even minutes, over thousands of miles and with such line lines (100 to the inch) that only an expert, in many cases, can distinguish the originui from the transm itted Word had come now that the AVG. with General Chennault as Com­ mander, was to be inducted into the Army Air Corps. Chennault, then a General in the Chinese Army but a retired Captain in the U. S. Army, was to be given the rank of Briga­ WOMEN dier General to head the China Air E IG H T fa c to ry w ork in essen llul In But from what I had d u s try . Experience unnecessary. 5 Task Force. D a y week, plus 5 hours S a tu rd a y ut I gathered from the few newspapers tim e and o n e -h a lf i f desired. An- I . . . . , . K K piv in person A m e r ic a n CRAC- wc naa received and from rumors I I I com pany . 1461 Billot* Avo- that Altered through I knew that A u th o ris ed re fe rra l required not many of the AVG were going to ■ ■ ... - ..... - accept induction X E E D E P im m e d ia te ly : M ach ine oper- a tors and helpers F o r clean, m o d - 1 There were officious men around : ^ n r ^ r . r ,Ä . V / a T ' - . „ d Ä I ‘he China-Burma-India theater who essen tial in d u s try I Tv “ I'.'.'X rtu n w ith excellen t p o s tw a r o p p o ortu ni i-1 thought the AVG were unruly and ties. Close to tra n s p o rta tio n . A p­ undisciplined. To these statements ply, P acific Waxed Paper Co., 1505 I always remarked that I wished we 6th Avenue S.. S eattle 4. W ash. had ten such undisciplined groups— FOR SALE for they would have destroyed some three to four thousand enemy air­ planes, and that would certainly DOES YOUR DOG have hindered the Japanese. There Place a handful of starch in the HAVE MANGE? were others who claimed that the w ater when washing tile floors. It fighters of the AVG fought for the w ill leave a nice shine. high salaries and the extra bonus of —•— G ives Quick B elief for Ave hundred dollars for each ene­ Sorcoptlc Mange Boil the wick o f a kerosene lam p Get a b o ttle today a t yo u r n earest J my plane they shot down. That in vinegar before using to keep it Feed Store o r d ru g g is t or send made me laugh, for I had seen the 11.00 fo r 4-ox. b o ttle w hich from smoking. w ill be sent p repaid to you. AVG Hght, and later on I was to fly S K IP P E R 'S R E M E D IE S with them against the enemy. I 3980 V. B. 4Oth A v .., knew those great pilots—I knew that { Portland 13, Ore. fGUARANHfDTOPOP they were great American adventur­ ers who would have- fought just as CALIFORNIA DEEDED hard for peanuts or Confederate LANDS money—as long as they were fight­ M illio n Acres C a lifo rn ia S ta te Deeded j W M ITC OR Eands now a v a ila b le fo r s e ttle m e n t: ing for General Chennault and were , ZOCWTOX?, fro n t 25c to $1.50 per acre. S ta te ­ flying those beloved P-40's V«U 0W - I THfNfW, w ide: tim b e r, g razing , a g r ic u ltu r a l: 1 MOT In British Intelligence reports I lAKXACf n« As it stood now: after long hours co u n try and c ity locations. Hom e _ I f the leg of an old stocking is RATIONID read that Radio Tokyo had men­ seekers w anted, not speculators F o r i of combat the m e n w e re tir e d - Ih e v locations. descriptions, m in im u m L . . e men were urea, tney tioned Homalin. One bombing had cut and stretched over the new prices, maps, f ilin g blanks an'd in- n a “ been out of the United States taken place, it seems, with very broom down to a short distance s tru c tio n » send »5 money o rder tc under the most trvin« c o n d itio n « — Buy W ar Savings Bonds— STATE LANDS DEPARTM ENT - , conan‘°nS slight damage, and that only to the above the end of the straws, it V . B. Port Offloa, Box 462, B arska ror nearly a year. They were all w ill prevent broom from wearing innocent Burmese villagers, but the California.____________________________ , showing combat fatigue and needed Imperial Japanese Army had evac­ out so quickly and at the same 3 2 0 -A C R E w e ll and f u lly equipped , a re s ^- Some of them were combat- uated Homalin because of the serious tim e m ake it better for sweeping S N A P P Y PACTS d a iry and g ra in fa r m . F la th e a d v a l- weary and ought never to be risked — • — ley. A ll irrig a te d . i-ro o m mod ¡_ malaria that was prevalent there, house; fin e , larg e barn fo r 2R cows: ln c o m h a t again, ___ I f you have had trouble in m ak- i Anyway, I always like to think that ABOUT X. ’ ’ m ilk in g m achine; o th e r bldgs; 31 Furthermore th e in d n r t in - „e my four trips to Homalin with four I your whitewash stick to trees, head h ig h -g ra d e m ilc h cows: tra c to r . „ “ t “ ' ™ 0 ™ ' Ule lnduction of the RUBBER and horses: m odern e q u ip m e n t AVG had hit a snag, from poor judg- 500-pound packages of good old ' fences or basement walls try us- F irs t-c la s s going fa rm in A t - condl- ment on the part of one man It American Picatinny TN T had some- I in 8 s o u r m >lk or b u tterm ilk in- tio n — a cash producer. $40,000.00. .. . p 1 . e m an- 11 J. C. M organ, The R ealtor, M is-, seems that someone had lined the thing to do with the monkey-men's stead of w ater to m ix the lim e, son la, Montana. ________ | boys up for a flght-talk on the glam- deciding that the malaria was too The casein in the m ilk acts as a B U L L D O Z E R S , t r a c t o r s , w inches I our of induction into the Army, and bad along the Chindwin. | glue w ith the lim e. dru m s, graders, c a rry -a lls , com pres- I had used very little tact. H e re - ■. . 4^ *». sors. lo g g in g equipm ent, cem ent v l- __> .• The »its o f the country'« b ra to rs , fa llin g and bucking saws C lled newspaper stones intimating My raids with "Old Extermina- [ Prevent picture m arks on the axes, boards, 28 new I-in c h p late that the AVG fought for the hieh •ynthetlc rubber production tor” continued through May and into I walls by placing thumb tacks in tan ks 400 to 1200 gal. h eating u n its Day of C a m e o __hotuzeor, tfinn even m ey dep en d n et on ly upon D .v .n n v Bqnlp. Co., 1118 w. P ic k I p y 1 '-amco— Detween $600 to $750 June. Some days I'd climb out of each of the lower corners of the technical prepre««, hut a lto •raon St.. Seattle, W ashington, phon« : a month, depending on whether or A Jap bomber is shot down ln India through the rain clouds of the fram e. L et tacks extend p artly , ALder 3828. I not y,e pjjot was g wing man g upon pellcie» ad op ted fer dl«- Col. Scott’s first aerial combat. monsoon and fly on into Burma. The keeping fram e from wall p e se l o f governm ent-ow ned 1L 1C T B IC hot PLA TES I squadron leader. This salesman trip back would then be one to wor- — • N O W A V A IL A L B E , o nly $12.95. N a-1 went on to s ta te th a t h * plant». In th e opinion of John in combat and had gathered about 7h»me; f for at strafing altitude there would were breaking, and I'd have a nice, Authcrlli«« expect that about T U R K E Y G R O W E R S : Broad breasted l when they stepped off the boat that Chimney soot can be kept down probably be no time to bail out with welcome hole to dive through. On 3 2 ,5 0 0 torn of natural rubber ««ill bronze P o ults. H a v e No. 1 q u a lity c a r r ie d th e m haclr in . u - i t •« j select poults a v a ila b le fo r F e b ru a ry e a r n e d them back to the United the chute anyway, and I knew that other days when I wasn’t so lucky. by throwing d ry salt on a bed of reach the U. S. from the Amaion- o> J u n e .J M l breeders a re fre e fro m | States. In that case, they would of prisoners taken by the Japs receive I'd just have to roll over and dive j hot coals, once or twice a week. lan region thl> year. Our «ynlhetic disease and selected above th e N a ” course be inducted as privates rath­ very harsh treatment, especially for the valley of the Brahmaputra— D ry fuel and good d ra ft helps to tlo n a l T u r k e y Im p ro v , standards. program 1« now geared to pro­ W r ite fo r d etails. W orth Salem er than commissioned as officers. those who have been strafing the and that's where 1 always came out. check soot and creosote in pipes duce 8 3 6 ,0 0 0 long tom a year H atchery, 35 L ansing A vans«, S a ­ A large percentage of the AVG capturing troops when shot down. or I wouldn’t be here to tell about i t and chimneys. of thi« wbttitute for crude. lem , Oregon. are reported to have got up and My greatest bombing day came Some of the flights into Burma D A I R Y M E N — Send fo r fre e sam ple late in the month of May, when were Just a waste of gasoline; I copy o f the P a c ific Slope's new walked out on the speech. After all, Oh, Success! m o n th ly d a iry m agazine. W estern they were high-strung fighter pilots I dropped four 500-pound bombs at would see nothing. It follows that I D airy Journal, 4500 Downey Bond who had fought one of the greatest Homalin, down on the Chindwin, have written of the more exciting I The corpulent, self-complacent Loe A n geles 11, Cal. battles against superior odds that where the Japs seemed to be con­ ones. There's nothing so monoto- Irishm an sank into his most corn- TRAPPERS has ever been reported. In this centrating. Early in the morning I nous as to fly for four hundred miles fortable chair and rem arked to T R A P F ox and Coyote, on bare ground case, they were being threatened headed South with the heavy yel­ o r deep snow. L e a rn modern tric k s with plenty of ammunition, or some- his w ife, “ W ell, K ate, me dear, low bomb, slowly climbing over the to o u t-w it th e s ly furb e a re rs . Free without complete knowledge of all times for two hundred to three hun- life to m e seems to have been illu s tra te d c irc u la r. Q. Bunch, W elch the facts involved. I know that from Naga Hills and through the over­ dred miles with a heavy bomb at- one long run of prosperity. F irs t M innesota, Box 71-D. that day on they taught the Chinese cast, topping out at 15,000 feet. As tached, and find no place to drop it. 11 was plain Hooley, then I m a r- F R U I T T R E E S — W e accept requests. coolie boy on the refueling truck I continued South on the course to i d have to come back then, and ried you and became M r. Hpoley; Save a t N . W . prices. No lim it on where the Uyu met the Chindwin m ost p ro fita b le v a rie tie s . W r ite jokes about that reverse sales- gingerly letting down through the then I was made C om m itteem an P a r r .U , M ab to n , W ash. speech. One involved an expression River, the clouds lowered but the dark monsoon clouds, land the 500 Hooley, and la te r A lderm an Hoo- overcast remained solid. In one pounds of TN T as if I had a crate ley. F O R S A L E — Good p ay in g ju n k and that of course was never permitted second-hand business. Good reason to reach its destination. The boy hour, computing that I had made of eggs aboard. After all, we didn’t | “ To cap the lot, as I w int into fo r s e llin g. W ill stand in v e s tig a ­ was trained by some of the AVG— the 180 miles to Homalin, I let down tion B ox 870, K ellog g, Id a h o . have bombs to waste. church yisterday, all the congre- who were leaving China—to run up through the overcast, hoping that H A 5 1 P S H IR E S — Boars, g ilts ; open, Early in June I did have one ex- gation w ith one accord rose and the mountains were behind me. Luck citing trip. From reports of the fer- | sang, bred. Send fo r fre e illu s tra te d book­ to every transport that landed, and, ‘Hooley, Hooley, Hooley.’ ” let. T o n rte llo tte , 403 W h ite Bldg.. as the passengers got out, to repeat was with me, as it usually was in B e a ttie , W a s h in g to n . ry pilots I heard that the Japs were for their benefit an unprintable my single-ship war, and I found American expression aimed at the the overcast barely a hundred feet building a bridge over the river | RHEUMATIC The gas-truck coo­ thick. I couldn’t see Homalin and N’umzup, some forty miles North of WJ D o n 't le t la c tic or s c iatic congestions speech-maker. Myitkyina. The very afternoon the in jo in ts and muscles, crip p le you lie would religiously meet every C-47 my target area, but I kept right up fo r life . B reak It up, sw eat It out report reached me, I went over and against the cloud ceiling and circled i . « j .u n atu re s own w ay v ia the easy Steam and with bland countenance would tbe H en«,nee7 at wo/ k on the B a th e tt W a y . a t home, convenient, repeat the sentence. Most of the warily. I knew that I was in luck: I h collap sib le, f u ll in s tru c tio n s , $9 95 I could drop the bomb and then ? I ,n° arly got shot down- AVG used to make sure that he postpaid. Supply subject io w a r for the efficient Japanese had moved tim e lim ita tio n s . Steam B a th e tt Co.. never reached the transport unload­ climb right back into the overcast, ffig in their anti-aircraft with the bridge 13601 - 4 6 th Avenue So., S e a ttle 88, ing the right man, but several times no matter how many Jap fighters W a s h in g to n . crew. When I landed at the base I it took the best of American flying came to intercept. helped the ground crew count the tackles to stop him in time. Soon I saw my target—and sure SPECIAL Handled in another way, I be­ enough, there were loaded barges thirty small-calibre holes in my lieve that every one of the AVG coming out of the broad Chindwin ship. My cap had one hole in it, S P A S M S OF / t C T U k J * though luckily it had not been oti b r o n c h ia l > < 9 ln n iA who was physically able would have and heading for the docks of Homa­ K I 4 V I 0 IN FfMAflKABLT SHORT TIM I (USUALI V USS THAN O N t "Tbs Orals* ars Orest Fsofl*”— stayed. As it was, only five pilots lin. I continued circling against the my head but back in the small bag MfNUTT) IT AZMA-MfST VAPOfllZIR A ND INHALANT N ON HA Iff gage compartment of the Kittyhawk. •O fiM iN G . DOTS NOT WEAR OUT. FUASANT AND tA S f TO T A « remained, and some thirty ground- clouds at 11,000 feet. • Kellogg’s Corn Flakes bring you That was pretty bad, though, for it H ARM USS WHEN i n t o ACCORDIN G TO S I M M DlRICTIO ML crew men. We had wanted to di­ nearly all the protective food elements TK AZMA MIST VAPORfZIR IS RRICISION BUHT O f F l ASTC For I had a plan. Dive-bombing was the only cap I had. and for vide them into two groups—those f U N t l A I ^ M R MATERIAL >f TOUR DRUGGIST DOIS NOT HAV1 of the whole grain declared essential from a P-40 is not the most accurate months I had to wear it with all the • R H R O N RROC'JCTS W fllTl who from a physical standpoint bad­ to human nutrition. in the world: you can’t dive very felt torn from the crown by the THt N tFH R O N COMFANY. TACOMA fl. W A S H ly needed rest in the United States, steeply or the bomb might hit the Jap »round-fire. I remember that and those who could stay out in propeller, and also In too steep a later one of the young bomber crew China for six months longer without dive it’s hard to recover in the men asked Maj. Butch Morgan—it GOOD HEALTH impairing their health. We were to high speeds that are built up. It was when we stepped from our ships Y o u r G re a te s t Possession permit the first group to go home seemed to me that the type of bomb­ after bombing Hongkong—whether Regain it by bein g relieved on July Fourth (the day their con­ of Hemorrhoid* (Pile*), Fi«- | ing one had to do in order to keep or not I ’d had that cap on when tracts with Cameo terminated) and •ure. Fistula« Hernia (Rup­ the speed under control and to miss the bullet went through. ture). Our method of treat­ to remain there on leave for no less ment without hospital op­ the prop, was more in the nature I cussed about the cap and loaded than a month, after which they were eration successfullY used of glide-bombing. Most beginners, the ship for another run on the for 33 years. Liberal credit to come back to China It is my opin­ terms. Call for examination - » however, are always short with their bridge. As I came in from another or send ior FREE booklet. ♦ • A / . . x ion that at least ninety per cent of bombs. That is to say, the projec­ direction this time, and very low, 1 the AVG would hve accepted this of­ Open fvemnoT, M on., W ed., Fri., 7 Io 8:30 tile strikes before it gets to the tar- saw bodies of the enemy from my fer. But as it was, five of the great­ We re glad that in spite o f war shortages get on the line of approach, rather flrst strafing, but the Japs were still est pilots in the world stayed with Dr. C. J. DEAN CLINIC you can still get Smith Bros. Cough D r opti than over it. From my practice working on the bridge. I strafed the group when their contracts ex­ P h y tle la n a n d S u rg e o n W e’ll be gladder still when Victory lets ut bombings on the Brahmaputra, 1 the working-party in two passes pired. And those five were enough. N. E. Cor. E. Burn«ide and Grand Avo. make all everybody needs. Smith Bros.— had developed a rule of thumb: I Telephone EAsl 3918, Portland Id. Orogcn Black or Menthol— still 5< I went back to India and continued would dive at some forty-five de­ from different directions, so low that my single-ship raids on the Japs. grees; then, as the target in my gun- the anti-aircraft couldn't shoot at me effectively. SMITH BROS. COUGH DROPS After my flights with the AVG, sight passed under the nose of my (TO BE C O N T IN U E D ) SKIPPER'S REMEDY! ?> me I I k « mi