S outhern Oregon M in er, Thursday, Decem ber 14, 1944 ASK M i ¡ ANOTHER 1 ? A G eneral Quiz T h e Q ueationa GOD IS MY 4K- COPILOT C o l. R o b e r t L .S co ff SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK U n u s u a l ‘ B ir d Cage’ P o t H o ld e rs clinrt for embroidery send tfl cents In coin, your name, address and the pattern number. W N U RfcLtASE. D u e tu an un usually 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 nault was to be the Task Force Com­ snow from a Christmas tree, and I la re q u ire d In fillin g orders (o r a (ew o f , n n ,~ < __ mander and was to be over the laughed hysterically us two figures thu m oat p o pu lar p a tte rn num bers. 1. What surnam es are m ost Rob„ , Sco,t wln, hll wlnf, KfIly Fighter Group and the Bomber run from a pagoda. C°y'7?2n ln ° U1" arrny ' F ie ld and Lake» up pursuit B v ln t. When Force. 8FW INC 1 ( IK< I K N F H III.C W O lt K That day I landed back home tired 2. What two structures deter- the w a r breaks out he is an In structor in U S N ew M o ntg om ery Nt. If the Scotch hadn't given out, I and happy. More orders had come mine the height and width of our j C a lifo rn ia and told he Is too old lo r com Nan F r a n r lic o , C a lif. b a l ly in g . He appeals la several Gen. warships? would have got drunk that night. for me: I was to go to Delhi before Encloae Hi centa (or Pattern era is lo r a chance lo flv a co m b al plane, But instead I went on another straf­ 1 went to Chinn. I went there the 3. Corse is the poetic form of and A nally the opportunity comes, lie Nn ing raid in the lute afternoon, and next morning with “ Long Johnny” what word? says goodby to his w ile and child and Payne. had to land after dark. N am e 4. What great m idw estern city, dies a bo m b er to In d ia , w here he be­ situated on a river, is nam ed aft­ comes a le r r y pilot, which does not ap ­ So I took it out in action. 1 bombed Address________ ___ ________________ e r Sikak, the skunk? Homalin and the railroad yards at peal to h im . H e visits G en eral Chen- When I had received my ofllclal 5. What nam e is given the in­ n a u lt and Is prom ised a K itty h a w k , and Mongaung the next day. and strafed instructions from headquarters In herent right of a state as a sov­ soon is dying the skies over B u rm a in a the field at Myitkyina coming back. Delhi, and had been wined, and dined ereignty to take private property shining K itty h a w k . H e gets his d rs l Jap During the ensuing days until the by good friends—war correspond­ Sousa W rote First Them e bo m b er and goes out on m any lone m is ­ 26th of June, I carried out attacks for public use? ents like Berrignn. Magoffin, and sions o ver enem y te rrito ry . Song, a Popular March on barges near Bhamo, and on one Briggs—I came on back to pack my 6. What is the largest island io the world? trip went to Shwebo and almost to things in Assam. 1 tried to take the Mandalay, making a round trip of old fighter ship with me, but my C H A P T E R X IV The Washington Post March by nearly nine hundred miles I strafed crew had chiselled a new «Allison John Philip Sousa was not only T h e A n a w era But I had seen enough. Even the field at Maymyo, caught a train engine from somewhero— h a d v l g h * * ' the first them e song but has though this bridge was being built of on the railroad North of town, and bly stolen it from some ship, bi become one of the most popular 1. Smith, Johnson, Brown, Mil­ bamboo, they were making it very set it on fire. It was anything for didn't know where. So I went t >t m arches in musicul history, says ler and Jones, in that order. strong, for the abutments were of action—and the engine of "Old Ex­ over in a transport, expecting to Collier's. 2. The Brooklyn bridge deter­ heavier lumber and of stone. The term inator” got pretty rough at come back later and ferry "Old Ex­ Sousa was commissioned to m ines the height, while the P ana­ Japanese were evidently planning to times, for by then I had three hun­ term inator" to his new home. write it in 1889 by the Washington m a canal determ ines the width. transport trucks, tanks, or some oth­ dred and sixty hours on it and my Post, a newspaper of the capital, As we came down into the rain 3. Corpse. er heavier equipment North. I went mechanics had had little experience over the lake South of Kunming. I and his band introduced it shortly 4. Chicago. right back to Dinjan and had Ser­ with Allisons. afterw ard at a large public gath­ never have felt so good. This was 5. The right of em inent domain. geant Bonner strap on a nice 500- ering sponsored by the publica­ That night, when 1 got home from another step to the East, towards 6. Australia. pound bomb with a delayed action my trip into Burma, I was handed Japan, and when I got out and saw tion. fuse. At any rate the armament a radiogram that saved my life. As all those sleek-looking fighting ships 'B ird Cage’ Holders men told him it was a ten-second that my Group was going to receive 'T 'H E S E unusual bird cage pot delay fuse. This type of target from the AVG in five days, my spir­ * holders will add a gay note had to be hit exactly, and if I were its soared another mile in the air. to your kitchen. Each one is 7Mi G - / / THIS NSW to glide in for a dead shot I'd 1 was through with all that lonesome inches high, and they're not a bit surely get shot down by all the anti­ "one-man w ar" stuff. From now complicated to make. aircraft. So I made up my mind on we'd be fighting as a team, with u s e long before I got there to turn it bombers escorted by fighter ships in T o ob tain crocheting Instructions (o r the loose just as low as I could fly. Even a proper force to represent America. B lu e b ird and C a n a ry n ir d C a g e P oth old ers if I missed the bridge by only fifty I had already met most of the (P a tte r n No. 37011), ac tu a l size b ird , color yards, which is close for dive-bomb­ members of the First American Vol­ ing in ships not made for that type unteer Group, but It was an even Taxes Cancelled for V alor of work. I'd knock a lot of leaves greater pleasure to meet them nOw CORN off the trees, make a big noise, and Some of them were men who were The town of B ahadarpur in maybe k ill some gunners. But the going to stay with the 23rd Fighter Patiala, India, recently had its abutments of the bridge had to be Group and fight under me. Of all taxes canceled for a year because hit just about dead center if I was to ★ the honors that I ever have re­ a local soldier won the Victoria Gather Your Scrap; make the Japs stop work. ceived or ever w ill receive, the cross. COLD I came in to the target from the ★ Throw It at H itle r! greatest to me w ill always be the West, with the sun right at my TABLET honor of being given command of back. I flew so low that I was that great group of sky fighters un­ afraid the little windm ill on the der the Command of Gen. Claire L. nose of the bomb would get knocked Chennault. off by the bushes. And then, as During the four days that followed saw the bridge, I let the bomb go. I took over the m ilitary equipment All hell broke loose. of the Group from the Commander When I got back home I looked at ABOUT of the squadron that was based at “ Old Exterm inator” and I couldn't Kunming, and I got my headquar­ see why it hadn’t spun in right there ters staff organized. In this Army, over the N'umzup. There were holes Sergeant La Rue of the 23rd Fight­ as big as footballs in the fabric er Group. Everything has happened Master Sergeants showing officers flippers and in the metal stabilizers fast in this war, and the organisa­ what to do have always been the of the ta il section. There was a hole tion of the 23rd Fighter Group was backbone of a fighting force, and I in the fuselage and five holes in no exception. There was no holiday, w ill never forget Master Sergeant Demand for military tents the wing. But I guess the h ill just even If it Was activated on the McNeven. I was certainly expect­ Isas had a strong influence on ing to lead the group in its fights East of the target had saved me. Fourth of July. the supply of cotton needed against the Japanese, and the ad­ As the June days passed. Colonel for the manufacture of tiros Haynes was moved to China to head I read it my face must have turned m inistrative work that the Sergeant and other rubber Hems. the Bomber Command under Gen­ white; I know that tears came to Major of the 23rd Fighter Group ac­ eral Chennault, and I was left alone my eyes, for I felt them burn. But complished so efficiently made It A c c u ra te t i r e In fla tio n m eans more now than ever before. Too as Commanding Officer of the F erry­ I didn’t care. I was ordered to re­ possible fo r me to fly and have the ASK MOTHER, SHE KNOWS much pressure encourages im pact ing Command. On the day the cheer­ port in Kunming, China, to General paper work go on at the same time. breaks, too little causes excess ful Haynes left, I felt as if I had lost Chennault, as Commanding Officer Later in the week I heard that flexing and h e a t— a heavy mile­ my best and last friend. For this of the 23rd Fighter Group which was “ Old Exterm inator" was ready with a g e waster. meant that I'd have to stay on the to be activated from the AVG on a new engine. But with the report A compliment to the tech­ ground more, and work the admin­ July 4, 1942. I wiped the tears from came another that some other Group nicians responsible for the istration as well as the operations of my eyes and looked out on an im­ was moving into Assam, and that development of synthetic rub­ the ABC, which was getting tougher proving world. I could hear the the engineering officer had stated ber is the fact that tires and and tougher with all the rice we birds singing again, and people he knew nothing about that ship 41- tubas required by the U. 5. were having to drop and the passen­ were laughing; I knew I was the 1456 belonging to the Chinese Gov­ Ordnance D e p a r tm e n t ora gers we were having to haul. ernment. It would stay in India, he luckiest man in all the world. about 85 par cent converted On the one day that I stayed on said. I went on and flew back to Which of yowr tw e hvsbamis to ■ substitute for natural I carefully folded the radiogram the ground, it seemed to me that India in one of the P-40E’r that we rubber. to show my grandchildren when the Is coming homo to n ig h t. . . every tim e I looked up from the desk had just received from the factory war was over and went out to look that I was "flying,” some long, that repairs them in China. at my ship. For 1 had something lanky tea planter would be standing Landing at my old base, I waited else on my mind too. 1 was going ‘ GLUM" 0 # there in the door in sun-helmet and to go into Burma the next day on until dark, and then had the num­ sMOTTS? With his bony knees sticking four of the damnedest strafing and bers on the ship that I had flown in out, he’d ask me in cold clipped ac­ bombing raids the Japs had ever exchanged with those of my old cents: " I say old chap—do you have C on stip ation m ay make dients formulated over 50 seen. It would be my swan-song fighter. For morale purposes alone, transportation for Calcutta?” anyone a Mr. or Mrs. Glum. years ago. Uncoated or we had to have that ship in the from Assam and I had to celebrate Take Nature’s Remedy (N R From over near Sadiya, we had candy coated, their action ia 23rd Group A ll this change involved in some way or other. Tablets). Contains no chem- dependable, thorough, yet gotten eight elephants, tame ones, was a stencilling operation to put irals, no minerals, no phenol I told my crew to load a 500- gentle, as millions of N il’s and were working them to move 41-1456 on the ship that I had flown derivatives. N it Tablets ara have proved. Get a 2'xt some heavy timbers to be used on pound HE on “ Old Exterm inator,” from China, and another tr put on d ifferen t— a c t d ifferen t. Convincer Box today I All the warehouses of the new field. and I walked around looking the old “ Old Exterm inator" the serial num­ Purely vegetable— a combi­ druggists. Caution: Take There was an old Southern sergeant ship over. Somehow I figured that ber of the fighter that I was leaving nation of 10 vegetable ingre- only as directed. Kittyhawk had had a lot to do with who took good care of the pachy­ pIRST in India. getting me the greatest job in the derms. He must have been a mule- So, early the next morning, July skinner in either the first World War war. It's not every man who finally 3. 1942, “ me and the old Kittyhaw k” gets what he has always wanted in or the border war with Mexico, for wended our happy way across the he did everything in his power to the Arm y—after being pulled out of NO TO-NIOHT, TOMORROW A U IO H T I hills and jungles of Burma to Kun­ keep the eight elephants dry and fighters for being too old, after be­ ming and more adventures together. ing an instructor for four years, aft­ well-fed and content. Even when he From that moment, we left the A ir tied the chains to their legs at night, er being shanghaied into being a Corps number 41-1456 on that in­ Burma-roadster, important as the he would wrap the links with cloth significant ship in India, and for all to keep them from chafing the thick job had been. Well, I had got what from common colds I wanted and I felt as though I practical purposes the old P-40E skin of the big beasts. Another sergeant, from about the could jum p over the moon. I pat­ that I had used for sixty-three days same section of the country that ted the leering shark’ s mouth on old over Burma became another num­ Creomulslon relieves promptly be­ the old elephant caretaker hailed 41-1456, and caressed the prop that ber, but It would always be "Old cause It goes right to the seat of the from, came by one day and looked had taken me in and out of many Exterm inator” to me. In those two trouble to help loosen and expel messes. Then I left, while they months we'd flown together 371 hours germ laden phlegm, and aid nature the stalls over with a quizzical eye. "Say, M icky,” he called back as pulled the belly tank and put the over enemy territory and we were to soothe and heal raw, tender, In­ flamed bronchial m ucous m em ­ he left, "you’re taking too good care big, fat, yellow bomb under the bel­ more than friend«. That is some­ branes. Tell your druggist to sell you those elephants. You’re going to ly, and tightened the sway braces. what over eighty thousand miles, a bottle of Creomulslon with the un­ of get ’em so comfortable that the Yan­ The sight of that bomb made me and in combat that's a long, long derstanding you must like the way it way. quickly allays the cough or you are kees w ill come down here and free feel pretty good. to have your money back. ’em.” Next morning before dawn I was Everything has happened fast in Bob Layher, one of the AVG pi­ In the air, my course set for Homa­ lots, came over for several days, lin. As I climbed out above the this war, and the organization of the for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis and we drank good Scotch whiskey clouds I began to recite poetry in 23rd Fighter Group was no excep­ at night and flew our planes across rhythm with the engine. To the tion. There was no holiday, even If 50—4< into Burma in the day—when I verses of “ Gunga D in" I dropped it was activated on the Fourth of WNU—13 didn’t have to get passengers on the my first bomb of the day on the July. There was no time for cele­ freight ships. I learned a lot, fly­ docks of Homalin. Then I flew back bration. Radio Tokyo started right ing on his wing. We’d go over for a home with the words of the “ Galley off with a bang, and we definitely look at M yitkyina, and it would Slave” going out over the radio in a knew hard work was ahead. On amaze me how effortlessly, without private broadcast to the world. On the night of July 3, Radio Tokyo— apparent forethought, Bob would get my next trip I dropped a flve-hun- the one program we could ever H e lp T h e m Cleanse th e Blood our ships into the sun before we dred-pounder on a barge at Bhamo hear in China—warned the new o f H a rm fu l Body Waste came within sight of the field we and came back and strafed the American fighter group that they Your kidneys are constantly filtering waste matter from the blood stream. But were to observe. I picked up little much-abused Myitkyina. My third would quickly annihilate them, for it kidneys sometimes lag in their work— do things like that as I flew with him, attack was on the railroad station was common knowledge that the ex­ not act as N ature intended— fail to re­ move impurities th a t, if retained, may and they helped me later. at Mogaung and I strafed the empty perienced AVG personnel were leav­ poison the system and upset the whole On the twentieth of June, mem­ freight-cars in the yard. I had to ing for America. But Tokyo had body mechinery. Symptoms may be nagging backache, bers of the Army Board that had use a belly tank on the fourth trip, reckoned without the strategic brain persistent headache, attacks of dizziness, been appointed to induct the AVG and so I couldn't take a big bomb. of the General, or the loyalty of getting up nights, swelling, puffiness • Gently warming, soothing Ben-Gay acts last to relieve under the eyes— a feeling of nervous passed through Assam, and my But I loaded on six eightcen-pound those great pilots of the First Amer­ cold symptoms. Ask your doctor about these famous pain- wnziety and loss of pep and strength. ican Volunteer Group. hopes faded of ever getting over to frags and set sail for Lashio. I re­ Other signs of kidney or bladder dis­ relieving agents, methyl salicylate and menthol. Speedy order are sometimes burning, scanty or The General was expecting an at­ work under General Chennault. I membered to drop the belly tank Ben-Gay actually contains up to 2 V3 times more of these too frequent urination. knew that out of those Colonels, before I went down into the anti­ tack on Independence Day anyway, There should be no doubt tb et prompt famous ingredients than five other widely offered rub-ins. treatm ent ia wiser than neglect. Use the powers-that-be had surely picked aircraft, and I dropped the six little for the Japs had always shown an For quick, soothing relief insist on genuine Bert-Gayl D oane P illi. Doan't have been winning some lucky one to get the greatest frags in two of the big green ware­ affinity for raids on our holidays. new friends for more than forty years. They have a nation-wide reputatloo. Job In the world. This was of course houses by the railroad tracks. I When the Japs arrived over Kwei­ Are recommended by grateful people tbs A BEN-GAY— T H F O R IG IN A L A N A IG E S IQ U F B A U M E that of commanding the AVG after shot up the field but saw no planes, lin, expecting to find green and in­ country over. Ask your neighbor t I R H E U M A T IS M | 1H E R E S A LSO it came into the Army, with its and I finished my ammunition by experienced fighter pilots, they found nucleus of old AVG personnel and strafing the main street of the town. many American boys who for weeks Lr A / S o f o “ ' D U E T O I | M N E U U S R C L A E L G P IA A IN | M E O I L R D C H B IL E N GAY DREN the new pilots as replacements from I saw two plate-glass windows spat­ had been flying with the AVG. home in the States. General Chen- ter across the street like artificial (T O B E C O N T IN U E D ) Th e story thus la r : A lte r grad u atin g j . fro m W e il P oint a * a second lie u te n an t MULTIPLE RELIEF FI COLD MISERIES GR< SNAPPY FACTS RUBBER CLABBER GIRL I k mm