Southern Oregon miner., January 25, 1945, Image 2

Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, January 25, 1945
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By P M
GOD IS MY
CO-PILOT
C o l. R o b e r t L .S c o tt
The story thus fa r: After graduating
(rwsw West Point as a second lieutenant
Robert Scott wins kli wings at Kelly
Field and takes np combat SylBg. When
the w ar breaks out be Is aa Instructor
and Is loM be Is too old for combat dylns.
He carries hie case Io several Generals
and Is Snally given aa opportunity Io get
Into the dgbl. He dies a bomber Into
India, where be becomes a ferry pilot
bat this does not appeal to klm . After
visiting Gen. c h e u a u lt be gets a Kitty-
bawk and soon becomes a "one man a ir
force" over Burm a. He Is made com­
manding oglcer of the U r d Fighter
Group. M aj. Alison gets three bombers
<*"• day and lands In the river.
His
plane sinks.
W h U RELEASE
couldn't wait—the Japs would be
there in a matter of minutes.
He tried a take-off with the cur­
rent going through his arms again
and the engine spitting and sputter­
ing—and at the end of the runway
he still hadn't enough speed to get
In the air. He would awerve the
ship about and try the other direc­
tion. Finally after three runs he
got the fighter plane in the air,
pumped the wheels up by hand and
continued doing it tor five hundred
miles—and so flew back to Kunming.
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badly shot up by their cannon,
he had shot one of them down
had got another "probable.”
Down Lingling way on another
aul allon
morning, Clinger went into an attack
with his engine acting up. After the
R eleased bv W estern N ew spaper U nio a.
first contact with the enemy, he was
POLITICS ENTERS
forced to land, followed by two en­
IN TO RATION NEWS
emy strafers. As Clinger maneu­
WASHINGTON. - No point values
vered the failing fighter into a safe
have been placed on government ex­
landing, the two Zeros came down
cuses for restoring point values on
shooting at his rolling P-40.
basic foods, and a widely assorted
Dallas from Wyoming got out on
choice of excuses is available—some
the wing to jump onto the ground,
with no point to them a., 4 little
with his ship still rolling. Just then
value behind them. The facts are
But it wasn't all hard work and one of the Jap bullets went right
these:
no play in China. Some evenings we through his seat-pack chute, passing
used to sit in our cave down at Kwei­ exactly between Clinger's pants and
Last spring when OPA removed
CHAPTER X IX
lin and listen to the Tokyo radio. where he sat on the parachute. He
food rationing restrictions, I re­
They would give us reports on the got so mad he jumped back in the
ported to you the stocks of food sup­
But on the day when he finally
plies available did not waraant the got out on his way to what he wanted missions that we flew to Hankow, cockpit and shot at two Zeros as
removal, that it was done for elec­ to do most, the Japs struck at Pearl Canton, and the cities near Lake they passed over his nose. After all,
Puyang Hu—Nanchang and Kukiang. air-cooled guns are made to shoot
tion purposes, and was dangerous Harbor
Ajax had Just landed at
even if we had bumper 1944 crops. Wake Island, and. soldier that he They'd declare that we were using while the ship is going two or three
and restrictions would have to be w„ he had ^ „ 0 ^ to the Marine barbarous tactics and that we were hundred miles an hour—but Lieuten­
going to be treated as guerrillas if ant Clinger said he got in a pretty
™ ? / * ? " me<,iate,y aMer election Commander for duty. He was hav­
we were captured.
good burst from his grounded fight­
in any event.
ing breakfast with the CO (CO
One night while we sat there calm­ er before the six Fifties froze.
Now the government Is con­
means Commanding Officer), Major ly listening to the news and playing
Johnny Alison had helped to train
cocting minor truths Io cover
Devereaux. when the Japanese at' gin rummy, Tokyo news-analysts
Clinger in the tactics of fighter pi­
up the political motive be­
tack came to Wake.
announced they did not think the lots. In fact, Johnny used to fly with
hind its "m istake” last spring
Ajax used to say that the unusual American fighter force in China was ever man in his flight on his wing,
(it is officially called a mistake
strength he demonstrated that morn­ large. True enough, said the radio, at one time or another. In one
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now), and furnishing sound rea­
ing was due to the heavy supply of they had struck weakly at several training flight such as this he took
sons for its latest step which was
vitamin pills he had taken. As the cities, in their barbaric way bomb­ Clinger up and they practiced at­ I F YOU lik e a c o v e re d -u p feel-
inevitable anyhow.
first bomb hit the runway of the ing innocent Chinese women and tacking one another—"dog-fighting," * in g w h ile you w o rk , y o u 'll be
They say, for instance, pro­ field, he ran with the others for the children, and for this the American the "pea-shooter" pilots say.
Up d elig h ted w ith th is p retty and
longation of the war in Europe up­ door and the safety of the slit pirates would pay when they were there at nearty 20.000 feet they came p ra ctic n l ap ron w ith tu lip sh a p ed
set their calculations; that people trenches on the outside. The door prisoners of the Imperial Japanese at one another head-on, time after p ock et and b ord er. Look through
are eating more than they expected. opened inward, but Ajax opened it Government, now fighting to liber­ time, until the moment when, as y o u r sc r a p b ag for p retty p ie c e s
You can wrap all this kind up and outward, taking the screen, the ate Asia for the Asiatics.
Johnny told me later, he was sure to trim th is a ttr a c tiv e apron.
put them aside in any analysis of door, and most of that end of the
Clinger was going to run into him
We
listened
to
the
usual
“blah”
conditions.
flimsy building with him. Part of
Alison, who usually forced others to
Pattern No 1815 comes In sizes 14. 18.
Cai«» To»'»
They are publicity excuses and the glass hit him in the face—and without raising an eyebrow, until give way, had to dive under Clin 18. 20: 40. 42. 44 and 46 Size 18 requires
Radio
Tokyo
continued:
"We
don't
h s « *“* '
T O O TH
pointless because the main one that cut was the only wound he re­
2',s yards of 32 or 38 inch m aterial; 5
ger's P-40. They circled and tried yards rlckrack to trim .
think
the
American
lighter
force
In
would have required this return to ceived in the bombing. But he car­
China is more than three hundred again, and again Clinger kept right
rationing anyway, and actually the ried the scar with him when I last
on coming, until, as the ships drew
ships.”
SEW ING C IR C L E P A T T E R N D E P T .
administration fared better from un­ saw him in China.
together at well over six hundred
H» N e » M onlzom ery Bu
expected circumstances than they
Baumler got out of Wake Island
COLD-CLOGGED NOSE
San Francisco, Calif.
There was a squadron that came miles an hour relative speed, once
had reason to expect because the the next day on the last clipper, but
more Johnny had to dodge, and the
over
from
Assam
to
work
with
us.
Enclose 23 cents In coins for each
Opens up Quickly
1944 crop was better than it antici­ to join the AVG he was no longer
pattern desired.
part of another group from India. Wild Man from Wyoming went on
K sedss's Nasal M b has been a euccsee for ! •
pated last spring at planting time. going West It was now necessary
years in quickly <>|irnin< up cold clog-
In this squadron there were some over his head.
Pattern No...........................Size.. •sesea
fe d raars.relieving headculd miaerias
Excuses Given.
to go all the way back and around fine fighter pilots, one of whom was
They landed then, and by the time
Is n 't Irqurd. D oasn t run Soot long snd '
Nam e ...................................
plraaant. M illw n a of tuhra used, ( e l I j
Another excuse is that too many the other way, towards the East Lieut. Dallas Clinger from old Wyo- Johnny had climbed out of his ship
kaaSaa's Naaal M N at any drug store
A d d re s s .................................
Anyway
he
managed
to
go
by
way
he
had
calmed
down.
Clinger
came
points had accumulated in the hands
KONDON’S NASAL JELLY
nonchalantly over. Just in passing
of the people for the amount of food of Washington and got promoted to
I believe if Ajax had
Alison said. "That was pretty good
now available. People just would Captain.
flying. Clinger; you fly formation
not spend 80 points for pineapple stayed in Washington Just one more
well and you look around okay. But
juice and 40 or 50 for a bottle of day, he would have been a Major.
After seeing Ajax Baumler in a few
you want to watch those head-on
ketchup.
runs—you nearly hit me up there.
These unspent points In reserve fights, I wish that he had gotten to
Did you know that?"
had to be killed or the new ration­ be a M ajor before he came to China,
Clinger shifted the weight of his
ing restrictions would not have been for he certainly was a fighter pilot
body back to both feet. With his
During the month of our battle of
effective. So this excuse is true also,
chin out, he answered: “ Yes, Sir.
though secondary to the main in­ Hengyang, I saw Captain Baumler
M ajor—I tried to. You see, you’ve
do some of the nerviest things I ’ve
evitable considerations.
been flying longer than I have and
■ O t It was
ever seen any man accomplish.
There is a story going around
worth having all
I
know I'm not as good a pilot as
We
had
a
few
ships
that
had
been
that the left wingers in OFA put
the young folks here
you are. But, Sir. 1 knew I ’d come
strafed badly on the ground; some
this new order over on the alert,
for our anniversary Just
closer to you than you would to me.”
of them had been shot to pieces, and
to hear 'em rave about your
clear-eyed M r. Bowles. There
delicious rolls. But weren’t they
in others the engines or hydraulic
You can find the remains of i
are left-wingers in OPA and they
a lot of extra work, Mary?
systems
had
been
damaged.
In
most
good
many
Japs
in
China,
or
some
do want always to crack down
cases these same ships couldn't be
where down in the China Sea, who
MABYi Pshaw, no trouble at alll
on everyone, and rub the pub­
But they did turn out nice.
got oB the ground when the Japs
know that Clinger meant just what
lic nose in the dirt. That is their
X used a grand double-quick
came over; sometimes they were
he said. He'd keep coming at them
established way of doing things
recipe with Flrlscbmann's
caught three or four times by
head-on and shoot them out of the
Uow label Yeast
(which I will handle in a later
Zeros, and consequently they were
sky before they got to him.
e yeast with
column).
extra vitaminif
in a continual state of repair.
The battle for the defense of Heng
But not much is put over on M r
yang lasted through August, but we
One
of
these
was
old
Number
104,
Bowles, except by Mrs. Roosevelt,
Pilots of the Chin* A ir Task Force didn’t just sit there on the defensive.
YCS.SlKUI
who was unprecedentedly quoted as the ship that Ajax had been flying.
We rapidly took the offensive as
The
ground
crew
had
worked
on
it
on
the a le rt at Hengyang.
saying his speeches were "dull” (a
AE0CHMANN3 IS THE
our best defense, and kept it up un
ONLY YEAST FOR 0ANN6
criticism, the gratuitousness of for days, but whenever they'd have ming. Clinger was another man who
til higher headquarters sent us I
it
just
about
ready
to
be
taken
back
THAT NAS A0OEP AMOUNTS’1
which suggested Mr. Bowles is be­
l'M F R E E '5 & O F O R M 2
in years gone by in the West would very classic radio:
Of BOTH VITAMINS A ANO
ing steered to play goat for the to the factory in Kunming for over­ have been a great gunman like Tex
"You
either
did
not
understand
or
haul,
the
Japs
would
catch
it
again.
...
LATEST REVISED EDITION
0
AS
WELL
AS
THE
"mistake" of easing rationing and
Hill.
Only Clinger wouldn't have
VITAMIN 0 COMPLEX.
OF FLEISCHMANNS FAMOUS
thus having aided reelection of Mr. Finally one morning Ajax must have cared whether he was on the side of did not receive my last radiogram
to remftin on the defensive. Repeat
said, "The hell with i t " For when
VITAMINS APLENTY, I SAVl ]
Roosevelt).
4O-RA6C REOPE BOOK,
the "Jin-bao” came he went and got the Law, the Mormons, the Church, quote on the defensive unquote.
*THE BREAD BASKET'
At any rate, if you accept OPA
or
Jesse
James.
He
just
wanted
to
Signed,
Chennault.”
into the crippled fighter to take off
figures on food, which have been
1
OVER
7 0 WONDERFUL IDEAS
fight.
At Nanchang, on August 11, 1942,
before the Japs could get there to
announced in very limited quanti­
One morning Clinger was one of a I shot down my fourth enemy plane
FOR NEW BREADS, ROtLS,
strafe it again. He told me later
ties, you must accept the soundness
DESSERT BREADS. HURRY J
that he was tired of seeing it sitting formation of three fighters over Hen- that was confirmed. Though I hate
of restored rationing.
on the ground as a target; whether yang. His combat report read like the Japs with a passion, I felt sorry
SEND FOR YOURS NOW!
Figures Lacking.
for that pilot, for he never saw me
it would fly or not, he was going to this:
" I was flying on my leader's wing at all. But as I left his burning ship
Of course there are no other fig get it taxying as fast as it would go
—
Lieutenant Lombard — at 23,000 North of the runway that he had
ures, and government officials have and at least make it harder to hit
taken so many conflicting positions than it had been in the revetment feet when we saw three enemy been taking off from, I thought of
and changed them so often that, on Well, Ajax did better than taxy—he planes down below circling. There the boys in the Philippines and Java,
• And all those vitamins go right Into your baking with
But the story of it all were larger formations reported and I wasn’t so sorry.
the face of the public record, you got off.
no great loss in the oven. So always get Flelschmann’a
around.
Just then I beard my
yeiiow label Yeast. A week's supply keeps in the ice-box.
I had dropped my five-hundred-
reached me later on.
would appear justified in reaching
flight leader say: There are three pound bomb on the hangars, when
the conclusion that either they did
I was on the ground that day, and
• For your free copy, write Standard Brands Incor­
not know what they were doing or didn't see i t But I heard Ajax talk­ stragglers—let's attack 'em.” So wq in pulling out of the dive I saw Lieu­
porated, Orand Central Annex, Box 477, New York
17, N. Y.
had something deep or disastrous ing on the radio, and I heard his six dove into them like mad. As I shot tenant Barnum, from Old Lyme,
into the Zero on the right of the for­ Connecticut, continue his dive on a
behind all this.
guns when he caught one of the
mation I saw that we were in the Jap ship, and begin to fire on it. I
The War Food administration, for Zeros. Just a little later I saw the
midst of twenty-four other Zeros, all looked below. There was dust at
example, just before election, an­ trail of black smoke that marked
shooting at us. I got mad and shot the far end of the Jap field where
nounced ample supplies of food the enemy ship going down. I was
at every plane that I could get my one enemy plane was taking off. I
available, and it should know if any­ glad to hear Ajax talking that morn­
sights on. I think I shot one down rolled over and dove, pulling out
one does. However, a few days later ing; for a minute I'd thought that
but I was so busy I didn’t see it about a half mile behind the enemy
the chief of the bureau of agricul­ smoke might be he, going down in crash.”
at the moment he got off the ground.
tural economics. Mr. Tolley, who that luckless Number 104. All the
This was signed “DALLAS CLING­ His wheels had just begun to move
also should know, said the opposite: time he'd been flying the ship he'd
E R —2nd Lieutenant—Almost Unem­ to the “up” position as I got him
Some army officials have been been having to pump the landing- ployed.”
dead in my sights and pressed the
saying the armed services have un­ gear up manually, for the hydraulic
What Clinger had really done was triggers. As the pilot died, his new
system
had
been
shot
up
by
the
believable quantities of food in stor­
the greatest piece of daredevil fly­ 1-97-2 pulled straight up, then spun
age, but an officer of the quarter­ Jap strafer days before. Added to ing that any of us had ever seen.
Into the ground the few feet It had
this,
an
exertion
which
is
no
pleas­
master general's office told a Vic­
Instead of diving away from the climbed. I passed over it as the
tory garden club in New York last ant task at fighting altitudes, was a twenty-seven ship circus as the oth­ flames belched from the wreckage. I
week that all the surplus of the more painful experience. The cards ers had done, he had stayed and climbed for an enemy observation
army would not keep the whole were stacked even more heavily fought the old-fashioned "dog-flght” plane higher over Lake Puyang Hu,
against Ajax in this jinx ship, for until the Japs just about took him to
country going for a week.
but the Jap outclimbed me, and
This suggests rather plainly no his electrical system was shorting pieces from sheer weight of num­ though I fired at him several times
out.
one even yet knows how much food
bers.
When they straggled home from long range he Anally got away.
On his take-off from Hengyang, as they must have been the most sur­ On this trip, Barnum had shot
we have (the army does not let the
navy know and vice versa, and both he gave the ship the gun Baumler prised bunch of pilots in all Japan, down one enemy ship, and Lieuten­
consider such information validly had felt a terrible electrical shock for this crazy American with his ant Daniels, though unable to release
enough as m ilitary secrets). By its through his sweaty hand on the stick heavy P-40 had done everthing in his wing-rack fragmentation bombs,
own conflicting acts, therefore, the control. He couldn’t turn the stick or out ot the book. He fought right had strafed the field with his bombs
government has cast eternal sus loose or the ship would have crashed side up and upside down, from 23,000 hanging on. After the attack, this
picion on its own statistics and pro­ In the take-off run; so he grimly feet down to less than one thousand. pilot had force-landed his plane in
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held on. Take hold of the spark As many Japs as could fill the air a rice paddy near Hengyang rather
nouncements.
There is no ground for beefing plug of your car some time while the behind Clinger would get there and than bail out—and this decision to
engine is running, and you’ll feel try to hang on while they shot; but save the ship for spare parts had
about it now
Unquestionably, however, tight just about what Ajax felt. But he Clinger wouldn’t fight fair and stay been made with the six frags still
situations exist in butter, meats, kept holding it until he was at an there. In the end, he came right hanging from the faulty wing-racks.
sugar and processed foods and the altitude where it was safe to turn over the field, diving from the en­ He got away with it, and Captain
Bowles figures now at least have the stick loose, get out his handker­ emy until he had outdistanced them Wang was able to salvage the
shed the political necessities of Mr. chief, and wrap it.around the stick. enough to turn; then he'd pull up fighter.
H E R E ’S W H Y g en tly warming, soothing B en-G ay g iv e s
Even after he had been through into an “Immelmann” and come
Roosevelt’s reelection.
Buch fast re lie f from sim p le h ead ach e...B en -G ay contains
Therefore, I would say to the the fight and came in to land at back shooting at them head-on.
When the P-40's got so shot up
up t o 2 y 2 tim es m ore o f tw o fa m o u s pain-relieving agents,
He was last seen after the un­ that we were afraid they'd quit
housewife the sparse sound evi Lingling he had to take some more
m eth yl sa licy la te and m en th o l—* know n to ev e r y doctor
dence, behind the noise and con­ of the shock cure, for by that time equal fight skimming out across the running and we’d lose them over the
- t h a n fiv e^ th er w id ely offered rub-ins. S o -in s is t on gen-
fusion being dinned into her ears, the handkerchief was damp and the rice paddies, making just about 500 enemy lines, we were called back to
uine, quick-acting B en-G ay for w elcom e, soothing relief I •
shows the government merely took electricity was jumping through i t miles an hour, with some ten to Kunming. There, sitting around for
a long chance for election purposes He couldn’t stay long on this last twelve Zeros following. For some two weeks while we worked on the
.
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and escaped better than it could field, for the Japs were on the way reason they seemed reluctant, as ships and anxiously looked for mail
G A a Y ’ - T H E O R IG IN A L A N A lG E'siQ U E BAUME
have, due to the great crops, and back in waves; so he reserviced and though they didn’t know whether to from home, the war seemed far
I H H E U M A IIS M |
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large accumulated supplies, but taxied out to take off. Though the run after Clinger or leave him alone. away.
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engine was now missing badly, Ajax He came in for lunch with his ship
(TO BE CONTINUE
must ration food more strictly.
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