S o u th ern O regon M iner. T hursd ay, F eb ru ary 1, 1945
Gems o f Thought
I T IS easy to say how we leva
1 new friends, and what we
think of them, but words can
never trace out all the fibres
that knit us to the old.—George
Eliot.
He who ftaos a child a treat
Make, for M i l ring in Heaven’t
itreet.
And he who gives a child a home
Huildi pulacei in Kingdom come.
-J O H N MASEFIELD.
GOD IS M Y
CO-PILOT
C o l. R o b e r t L . S c o tt
The story thus ta r: A ltar graduating
from Wrst Point. Robert Scott wins b li
wing« at Kelly Field and take* ap combat
Bylas, Wben the war b re a k i out he la
an Instructor and Is told be Is too old
lor combat Syln(. He appeals to several
Generals and Is anally given an oppor
tunity to gel Into the tg b t. He dies a
bomber into India, where be Is made a
terry pilot, but this does not satisfy him.
After visiting General Cbenaaull be gels
k Klttybaw k, and soon becomes a "one
an a ir force" over Burm a. Later be la
d r commanding officer of Ute 3Jrd
b ie r Group. MaJ. Alison gets three
obers one day and lands in the river,
plane sinks, but the Chinese gel It
•ut by a 1,900-yrarold method.
SEW ING CIRCLE N EEDLECRAFT
Not Even One Yard Per Apron
IJ ttlu inatarlal, easy slitc h rry, mah«
Ideai hSSlMS Klfts P a tirli) 7377 rontalns
transfer pattern uf inotlfs; p a tir m i; tf(-
rrctlons
Send your o rd rr lo:
W-N-U- R E.LLA 5E
engine, or carry in the mechanics
and the tools with which to re p a ir the
bad one.
In every organization there is a l
ways one person who holds up the
morale, some one who makes the
darker moments brighter and who
can bring a little sunshine into the
tense reality of war. Out in the
China theatre, and especially In the
23rd Fighter Group, my most unfor
getable character was Lieut. Henry
Elias. This pilot was a Southerner,
like most of the others In the China
skies. When I first reached Heng
yang he was acting as assistant op
erations officer to A jax Baumler.
He had a reply for every person,
and a come-back to every Joke. He
was definitely a m orale builder, and
you can ask anyone if they’re not
as valuable at the front as am m uni
tion.
the night the Fleet landed and the
night I had been kidding Henry
Sewing C lrrle N r r d lr r r a lt llepl.
Elias.
Hue 1311
Man t'raurlsco S, t alli.
Next morning we got into the a ir
Encluae IS cents tur Pattern
before daylight and went for Lake
No_______________
Puyang Hu. near Nanchang. where
Since Time is not a person we
the Japs were moving the Chinese
Name——
—__ ___ ____ ___——.
can overtake when he is gone,
rice out by Junks and barges—rob
let us honor him with mirth and
Addr+a»
- —
-----
bing the breadbasket of China In the
cheerfulness of heart while he
yearly rape of the rice. H ill took
passing.—Goethe.
eight of the P-40'a and I took the
An inconvenience is only an
other eight.
adventure wrongly considered.
Elias was on Tex H ill’s wing. We
—G. K. Chesterton.
split at Nanchang and my eight
went to the South to catch some
gunboats that had been reported In
With the trouble that the Brit
the Sintze-Hukow Strait, near Kuki-
ish Huj is having at the present
ang, coming from the Yangtse to
time with the “Congress” in India,
CHAPTER
the Lake. I heard H ill call that he
it is curious to recollect that this
had caught the rice ships and was
movement wus started In 1885
When stranger things would hap
burning them.
L a te r he told me
Inrgely through the work of an
pen. we talked about things of the
that he found twenty-six of them,
English member of the Indian civ
sort which had once been told in
junks and steel barges; he sank
il service. A. O. Hume, ut the sug
story books. All of us agreed that
some
and
saw
others
with
their
sails
Elias had been on several raids
gestion
of the then Viceroy, Lord
when this w ar was over, there would
on fire, floating for shore where the
be nothing that had ever happened and had shot down two Japanese
DufTerin.
hungry
Chinese
coolies
would
sal
in fiction that wouldn't have actually when I heard the first joke about
Originally named the “Indian
He’d been on an attack to vage the rice.
; happened In this battle of the uni- him.
National Congress,” it Is not, us
Through
the
four
passes
at
the
Nanchang, and as the ships turned
! verse. F or instance:
Japs Elias was right on T ex’s wing. | r p A C H o f these nprons
tukes in the United Stutes, the title of
Likiang is a city in China fa r up for home in the fading light of late
but on the fourth pullout he dropped I \ 1(, ss t h a n o n e y a r d t 0 m u jte . a legislative body. It is a political
afternoon,
some
one
in
the
re
a
r
of
on the big, northern loop of the
is so party—the largest und best organ
! Yangtse-Kiang. It is China, yes, but the formation observed something behind the formation, perhaps to T h e c o lo rfu , e m b ro id e ry
ized in India, although its m em
Now to help relieve con-
shoot at something H ill hadn’t seen. sin le eyen Q youngsU>r ju s t
peculiar
Up
ahead
there
were
five
that part of China is as wild as Tibet
bership in 1941 wus only a mil
(gestion and irritation
Maybe he'd seen a Jap fighter and
learning could do it.
and Arabia. The people are called
x in upper bronchial
lion and a hulf, or u ratio of
had gone for it; we knew there were
tubes, muscular soreness or tightness, | "Lolos,” and they must be descend
1 in 259 of the total population.
eight Zeros supposed to be over Nan
coughing spasms—most voting mothers
ants of Genghis Khan. I had flown
chang.
Elias
didn't
return
with
the
rub Vicks Vapoftubon throat,chest and
over the place, for it was just North
flight, and for two days we carried
back at bedtime. And at once VapoRub
of the ferry route from Assam to
him as "m issing.”
Kunming, and I had seen the fiat
Then the Chinese net reported that
clearing South of the village that
a group of Chinese soldiers had seen
to upper bronchial
could have been an emergency land
a lone Am erican P-40 engaged by
tubes with its special
ing field. I noted that it was close
four Japanese Zeros. The A m eri
medicinal vapors
to nine thousand feet above sea lev
With bottle brushes scarce, use
can had fought them but his ship
el, and therefore not a field to use
had been shot down. The American waxed paper from bread to scour
chest and back
unless one had to.
had jumped out in his parachute and bottles. It does the jyb well.
surfaces like a
Capt. Charlie Sawyer had crash-
— •—
four Japanese had strafed him on
wanning poultice.
landed just South of there, closer to
the way down.
When
wringer
rolls begin to lose
So soothing, comforting . . .VapoRub
Talifu, and had been unable to iden
The body had been found, with the their grip, the glaze can be re
invites restful sleep and keeps on work
tify himself. While the wild-looking
identification flag number listed. moved by roughening the rolls
ing for hours to relieve distress. A nd. . .
Lolo tribesmen were getting set to
The pilot’s name was Lieutenant with coarse sandpaper. Wipe with
ONLY VAPORUB Gives You this spe execute him with ancient-looking
Elias. All of us watched for Japs a damp cloth. Use sandpaper with
cial penetrating-stimulating action. i t ’s
flint-lock muskets, Sawyer said the
bailing out, so that we could shoot discretion, of course.
the best known home remedy for re
holes
in
the
barrels
looked
twice
as
lieving miseries
A
one or two down for Elias, but we
big as fifty-calibre bores. Just at
o f c h ild r e n 's
didn’t get the chance.
When you have a bottle or jar
colds. T ry itl
V VAPOR US the crucial moment, however, when
We sent Captain Wang down to that is difficult to open, use a
his fate looked darkest, some new
Kian to get E lias’s body. Wang had lighted match. Run this quickly
a rriv a l in the party saw the identi
to travel a hundred and sixty miles around the edge of the bottle or
fication card that Sawyer bad been
by buffalo cart, by alcohol bus, and jar and It will come open imme
SN A PPY FACTS
pointing to. I t was inscribed in v a ri
war O i" î,u re
on foot, but he finally got there. The diately.
ous languages, and with pictures.
These pilots are tired out by al trip took him twenty days. When
—
•
—
ABOUT
The new a rriv a l didn't recognize the most constant alert without re lie f for
the body of our lost pilot finally a r
When discarding worn bath tow
inform ed
PoWder.
Chinese flag, or any of the lan 21 days.
RUBBER
rived a,’ the field from which he had els, save the best parts and use
who use Calo«
loc.,
guages, or the Generalissimo's sig
McKeiMX* * J “ 0
last takei: off. it was in a Chinese for making washcloths or bath
P-40's
with
their
sleek
silhouettes
nature “ chop” —but be saw a star.
Bi)Js>-Po r,' C<*
.u
coffin that Wang had gotten at Kian mitts.
As it happened, it was the star of showing wheels up and everything In
— • —
We placed the flag over the grim
proper
order.
But
off
to
the
flank
India over the im prin t in Hindustani.
rem inder of w ar and sent it by
Wben dyeing wearing apparel
Then the tribesman pointed to the in almost the position of the number-
transport to Kunming, to lie beside it is a good idea to run a few
three
man
in
a
Vee
form
ation,
was
same star on the wing of Sawyer’s
I v e r y gas m ask issued b y the
his other brother pilots in that Bud lengths of thread through an in
ship— the insignia of the A rm y A ir one ship with its wheels extended
U. S. A rm y contains l V i
dhist graveyard in Yunnan.
side seam. When finished, these
Some
one
called
on
the
radio.
"Hey
•
Force. Sawyer was saved, and later
pounds a f ru b b e r.
And so it went: tragedy—humor threads may be removed to fur
he was feasted on wild buffalo and Elias, who's that flying in form ation
with you, with their wheels down?’
Even now, with the rubber situation
—tragedy. For on the same raid I nish an exact match if repairs
rice wine.
improved, it is Important that car
h ad'led the other eight ships, with are needed.
As the words sank into the con
But why? H ere in the wilds of
— a—
owners have their tires recapped
the Lolo country, where very few sciousness of the flight, and of Elias elements led by Holloway, Schlel,
In time. In time means when the
If
an
enamel
pan boils dry, do
and
O'Connell,
and
had
caught
the
white men had ever been, the tribes especially, their ominous signif
tread Is worn smooth, but before
icance became apparent.
Elias Jap gunboats, ten of them, at Sintze- not plunge it from the hot range
men
were
more
fa
m
ilia
r
with
the
the fabric shows.
They were more into cold water. Let it cool first,
white star of the A ir Force than with jerked his head around and looked Hukow Strait.
I t is expected by industry
any written language. We learned at his wing man. Even to an In than likely coming to Puyang Hu to then soak before washing.
— • —
authorities th a t the ea rly
experienced eye. the silhouette was convoy those rice barges—but we
the principal reason later.
period w ill bring a
Corduroy needs no ironing.
It was a Jap Model were going to interfere with their
A report had come in to General unmistakable
for from 16,000 to
rendezvous.
Gently press out the water with
Chennault's headquarters that a na 1-97. one of the old fixed landing
40,000 long tons of rubber
Even as we circled them from six towels, but don't wring or twist.
tive village in the Lolo country, be gear types. The entire formation
fo r the production o f latex
tween Lake T a li and Likiang. was tried at once to get it as they finally teen thousand feet. I think they knew Pin up skirt or pants by waist
foam sponge used in cushions
realized what it was. But they had they were going to have lots of trou band. Brush against nap when
under siege by the Burmese north
JO INOCULATE WITH
o f various types and in fur
Just as he rec ble. They had to stay almost In dry.
em tribesmen who had crossed the the laugh on Elias
niture and mattresses.
— a—
Salween, perhaps under the direc ognized the Jap. the enemy pilot evi line, nose-to-stem, for they were go
tion of the Japanese. Two of us. dently recognized the P-40's in the ing through the narrow strait. We
A small vegetable brush is an
Holloway and I, were sent to look tw ilight before darkness—perhaps circled w arily for a minute, looking effective tool when using paint
the sky over for enemy fighters, then and varnish remover, especially
the place over in two P-40's. We he saw the leering sharks* mouths
were told by the General that we F or as Elias shoved the nose of his spiralled down. As soon as we got on carved surfaces.
close enough to the Jap ships to see
could determ ine whether the town ship straight down and dove for him
• Farmesi report that inoculation
was under siege by noting whether the Jap pulled his ship straight up distinctly, we noticed that the sea
with
N I T R A G I N makes bigger yidda
men
were
jumping
over
the
side
and
climbed
for
the
sky.
Later,
or not the usual "pedestrian traffic
and surer crops. N I T R A G I N is good
was passing in and out of the city when our imaginations began to em into the water Only a few seemed
crop insurance fo r every planting o f
to have remained to fire the anti
gate. All the cities are walled, and broider the joke. Elias took the kid
clovers,
a lfa lfa , leaprdaza, soybeans,
are obviously very fa r from roads ding in good part and always had a a irc ra ft guns, and Schiel and Hollo
Marshal Ferdinand Foch was other legumes. I t costs a few cents an
way silenced most of those with
comeback.
or from civilization.
guest of honor at a dinner.
acre, takes only a few minutes to m ix
A small two-seater biplane, a th eir in itial pass
We made our observation and re
“Why do the French attach so with tha seed. I t ’s tha oldest, most
I think most of the ammunition
turned with the report. The village Fleet, came to Hengyang from
much value to their good man widely used inoculant. Produced by
was besieged, and we had seen the Kweilin one day with a Chinese of had been fired at us while we c ir
ners?” began one discourteous trained scientists in a modern labora
horsemen encamped a h alf mile ficer. We looked the little ship over cled at sixteen thousand feet, for
non-French guest. “Of what im tory. G et it, in tha yellow can marked
around the city wall. We loaded up as it came into the field wide open we were the whole show now. We’d
N itra g in , from your seed dealer.
and went back with six eighteen- at some seventy-five miles an hour. rake the steel decks from stem to portance is politeness? I can’t see
fStt baablati tall haw la «raw battar cosh, feed,
"W e now have Just the bait we stern and then swing out low to the anything in it but wind.”
kilogram frags on the wing racks
oad M il bulldlnf crape. W rite laday.
“So it is. However, neither is
and plenty of fifty-calibre am m uni need,” I said. "Lieutenant E lias, I w ater and come back with quarter
Salaw, Eiparlaiaat $tw-
there
anything
but
wind
in
pneu
ing shots from the beam. We were
tion. I also carried a V ery pistol want you to borrow that Fleet from
the Chinese. I know a trick to make so low that we were actually shoot matic tires,” replied ‘the hero of
and all colors of shells.
As we circled the town, we could the Japs lose lots of ’face’ and a ir ing up at the decks of the boats. I the Marne’ with dignity. “Still it
saw many human heads above the serves the important function of
see the villagers watching us; then planes."
Elias had laid down his Opera w ater as the Japs tried to swim easing the jolts along life’s high
we dove on the besiegers and
TK NITUSIN CO , UN N. MOTH, MIUNAUKU 12. ML
bombed them from a thousand fe e t tions reports and was listening a t from the boats, and I fired at them way.”
The lines of prehistoric cavalry tentively. "This ought to get you Those bullets ricocheted from the
broke and retreated towards the Sal promoted,” I went on. "Now you w ater into the steel side of the gun
Creomulsion relieves promptly be
cause It goes right to the seat of the
ween and Burm a.
We machine- get that plane and service it tonight, boat and went on through. As my
trouble to help loosen and expel
gunned them until they spread in then early in the morning you take range would reach the “ sweet spot’
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
panic. Then I used the V ery pistol, of? for Hankow. Alison, Baumler, of some 287 yards, where the six
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in -
shooting first green lights, then red. and I w ill be along later and will lines of tracers and armor-piercing
firm ed bronchial m ucous m e m
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
Holloway said it was the best dis a rriv e over the Jap city before you Fifties converged, it would appear
a bottle of Creomulsion with the un play of fireworks he’d ever seen. We do.’* Elias was looking at me in as though an orange-colored hole the
derstanding you must like the way It
checked up for several days, but the wonder. "Then, when you get there, size of a flour barrel was being
quickly allays the cough or you are
raiders hadn’t come back, and nor- fly over the enemy airport at thirty- burned into the side of the Jap ves
to have your money back.
We're glad that In spite o f w ar shortages
n al pedestrian traffic was passing five hundred feet—that’ll keep you sel at the water-line.
you can still get Smith Bros. Cough Drops.
We S-ed along the ten-ship line
through the city wall. Holloway and just above their sm all-calibre fire
W e’ll be gladder still when Victory leu us
for Coughs. Chest Colds. Bronchitis I, with two of the G eneral’s P-40’g, and they can’t shoot accurately that and shot at them all from both sides
make all everybody needs. Smith Bros.—
Black or Menthol—still 54.
had stopped a war.
low with the big stuff. Over the field On the second pass, two of the ves
The white star of the A ir Force you fly with one wing low, kind of sels were listing, and others were
SMITH BROS. COUGH DROPS
had been seen by those villagers, skidding, cutting your switch on and smoking. On the fourth attack, sev
THAO
and they had told the surrounding of? so the Japs w ill think you're en out of the ten were smoking and
BLACK OR M IN T M O L —
country that we were friends. P er either wounded or over there with a burning and some of these were on
haps the constant sight of transports bad engine.”
the bottom with their masts barely
For Yon To Feel Well
from India to China and return had
Elias was trying to figure out out of water.
Photographs taken
Which nf yo«r two hnsbamlt
24 hours •vsry
»vary day, 7 days evary
made the big white star a fa m ilia r whether I was serious or not. Then later from an observation plane
week, never ’ et
stopping, tht kidneys Slur
Is coning hone tonight. . •
symbol. At any rate, the Lolos who I added; "W e’ll be up there in the showed that seven had sunk Im medi
waits matter
ir 1____________
from the blood.
It more people were aware of how the
were
about
to
execute
Sawyer
rec
sun,
and
as
fast
as
the
Zeros
come
ately
in
the
strait,
and
that
the
oth
kidneys must constantly remove sur
ognized it, and to them it meant more up for you, we’ll knock them down. er three had sunk within a thousand
plus fluid, excess acids and other waste
matter that cannot stay in tha blood
than written languages and sealed A fter all, Elias, if they get you. a yards of the battle area.
without injury to health, there would
orders. Such Is the strangeness of Fleet isn't worth much."
be better understanding of rAy the
I was so happy, so excited and
whole system la upset wben kidneys fail
this global war.
But by now Lieutenant Elias was eager, that I tried to be glamorous
to function properly.
Burning, scanty or too frequent urina
M ore true fiction came out of the walking out and calling over his that morning. A fter the fourth a t
Constipation may make diente formulated over 50
tion sometimes warns that something
Lolo
country during the autumn. A shoulder: "No sir, Colonel, I just tack I had called to re-form and
anyone a M r. or Mrs. Glum.
is wrong. You may suffer nagging back
years ago. Uncoated or
ache, headaches, dizziness, rheumatie
F e rry Command pilot, Lieutenant want to be a plain pilot— I don’t head for the rendezvous point to the
Take Nature’s Remedy (N R
candy coated, their action is
pains, getting up at nights, swelling.
Aronson, "lost an engine” —which want to be no ball of fire.”
Tablets). Contains no chem
dependable, thorough, yet
Southwest. But as the ships left the
Why not try Doon's P ilh l You will
icals, no minerals, no phenol
be using a medicine recommended tha
entie, as millions of N R ’s
means that his engine failed—on his
Well, we saw the value of Elias target, I saw something I had to go
untry over. Doan’s stimulate the func
derivatives. N it Tablets aro
ave proved. Get a 25^
trip from Assam to Kunming. He when we lost him for in this second back for. It was a Japanese flag,
tion of the kidneys and help them to
d ifferen t— a rt different.
Convincer Box todayl All
flush out poisonous waste from the
barely made the big meadow that battle around Hi.nan he failed to re waving defiantly from the mast of
blood. They contain nothing harmful.
Purely vegetable—a combi druggists. Caution: Take
was South of the town of Likiang, turn from the strafing raid of Sep one of the sunken gunboats. For
Gat Doan's today. Use with confidence.
nation of 10 vegetable ingre-
only as directed.
At all drug stores.
in the hairpin loop of the Yangtse. tem ber 2. 1942
We had taken six getting caution, and with the other
A fter several days we went in there teen P-40’s bark to Hengyang when seven planes speeding away to th ■
to look the improvised landing-field we had gotten them in shape to fight,
rendezvous point, I dove to s tra f
over, in the hope that we could fly and had landed there just about the flag in a gesture of hate.
another transport to him with a good dark to surprise the Japs. T h a t’s
S T O / t u
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XX
Congrega in India a Party,
Not a Legislative Body
p lt f r r u r e s
% /IC IC S
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FARMERS F
4 £air
IT PAYS BIG
I k m i i m peace
Foch Points Out That
Wind, Too, Has Value
REGoodrichl
pirst in rubber
d ii
Beware Coughs
from common colds
That Hang On
CREOMULSION
Kidneys Must
Work W ell-
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OR l*R-'w "'!
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D oans P ills
ALL-VEGETABLE C h '/ ì ì / ó C ì m u / u
LAXATIVE
TO-NIGHT/ TOMORROW ALRIGHT
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