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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, February 15, 1945 GOD IS MY «, C o l. R CO-PILOT ob © « 'o i. S c o ff S E W IN G C IR C L E P A T T E R N S Tot’s Frock for School or Play Pattern No S74t Is designed for sires 3. 4, S and 8 years. Size 3. with sleeves, requires 2’ « yards of 38 or 30-inrh material: 3 yards ti limning lor tulttra and neck. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time Is required In filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: I. « s u r eue. asc . The (lo ry thu» fa r: A fter graguatlaa from W e il Point, Robert Scott wins b it w tag i at Kelly Field and take« up combat •y la g . He has been an In itru rto r tor tour year* when the w ar breaks out. and Is told that he Is now too old tor combat ty in g . He appeals to several Generals and Is tn a lly given an opportunity to get Into the tg h t. He ties a bomber to India, but on a rriv a l Is made a ferry pilot and this does not suit him. After paying a visit to Gen. Chennault be gets a Kitty hawk and soon becomes a "one man air force" over Burm a. Later he Is made C.O. of the M rd Fighter Group and still keeps knocking down Jap planes. In one of these aghts his "Old E xterm in ato r" gets badly mauled up and Is condemned. from thy Interior of China to our and asked what was going on—what base at Kunming. It's almost a all these staring people meant? M a saga, for Holloway was feted, wined jor Shu replied that here in Kwey Washington. D. C. and dined in the primitive fashion ang the people had never seen a FEAR OF COAL STRIKE of the remote village people, who foreign devil, and the Governor had Biggest problem on the labor hori were tribesmen called "Miaows." given them permission to come in ■ B W IN fl ( IR C I.K P A T T E R N I) K P T . zon is the definitely looming pos- Though Bruce was only fifty min and look at one. US New Montgomery St. siblity of a r.'tional coal strike on General Chennault's other house- Naa Francisco, Calif. utes by plane from Kunming, his April 1. Industry fears it, the gov boys were "Wang Cook," who had mode of travel by sedan chair, don Enclose 38 cents In coins for each ernment fears it, but even more, pattern desired. key and water buffalo required three been on the US Gunboat Panay. perhaps, other labor leaders fear i t weeks. From the moment he rode and "Gunboat," who had served in Pattern N o . .. , , ......... . .Size.. . . . . . . They fear that bull-headed John into headquarters on the last buf the American Navy for three years. I t l t l t t l L. Lewis, head of the miners, will Name .............. The General used to take me hunt falo he had hired, he became known precipitate a strike which will Address........................... ing with him, and I came to under as the "Loehinvar of the Salween." blacken the eye of the entire labor Later Lieutenant Welborn was stand that throughout these hunting movement, further undermining shot down farther to the South. Wel trips he was giving me lessons in public confidence in labor. "Bull born had gotten out of his burning tactics, lessons he had learned the Intricate Curtain Jack" Lewis, as they call him. be- j plane two hundred miles South of hard way against the Japanese longs neither to the A FL nor the CHAPTER X X II Without my knowing it, he would, in Paoshan, and his trip out of the CIO, and the executives of both are , _ The largest and the most com effect, criticize my method of for plex theutrlcul curtuin ever made worried over the effect which a with my first burst the next ship rough country was the longest of any mer attacks and advise me about strike called by the miners would rolled over and dove, with one en- man that was lost. I remember that better ways to do the job. I used is in Radio City Music hall in have on their organizations. For, gjne shot-up. By now I had caught when he reached the first village to listen to him for hours as he told New York, says Collier's. Thirteen they point out, the public does not up to the lead 1-45, who was shoot- from which he could get word to of cases in which he had got his steel cables, sewn vertically into discriminate between different la- ¡ng at the bombers from exceeding- us, he sent a message that at first own ship shot up by going in too the muterial nearly seven feet apart and raised and lowered by bor unions in time of crisis. iy long range. I methodically aimed sounds facetious, until you under close, and then, after he learned Negotiations for a new coal con- for his engines, putting a short burst stand the conditions under which one how and knew that his longer range their own individual motors, make tract are scheduled to begin March into one and then into the other. travels in the interior of China; then fifty-calibre guns would out-shoot the possible the arrangement of the 1 between John L. Lewis and the The Jap must have felt the fire, you realize that he was conserva Jap, had accomplished the same curtain in thousands of contour coal operators This gives 30 days in for he went into a steep, climbing tive. His message read: "Landed destruction on the enemy without patterns. safely such and such a sector. My which to reach an agreement. Last turn—which incidentally is very good These patterns arc preset on and getting his own ship shot to pieces. year, however, the negotiations if you have a ship that will outclimb motto is Kunming by Christmas." controlled automatically by a pan These critiques taught me exactly It was then September, and Wel Play Frock started earlier, and, even so, didn't your opponent. I thought this climb- el board backstage. what he meant to Impart without conclude by March 31. : ing turn might- be a trick; so 1 born beat his original estimate. He his ever hurting my pride by telling ITTLE daughter will feel quite Meanwhile, Secretary Ickes, | watched closely for him to turn on required fifty-four days to travel two -* grown-up in her apron pina me that I was wrong and could ac me. But when he rolled over he hundred miles across the trails of complish more by fighting in his fore to match mother's. The gay In order to head off a mine shut southwestern Yunnan. dove not for me but for the clouds. I over-shoulder ruffles and sweet down, has sent a letter both to Our truck-strafing caused us to way. kept going after him and must have heart neck are edged in bright the coal operators and John Coming home some nights from put two hundred shots into him be lose several planes and two pilots, the exercise of our hunts together, binding. Ideal for school or play. L. Lewis proposing that they but we cost the Japs lots of ma fore he got out of my sight in the continue the present wage 1 would think of my wife and little cumulus cloud. Pieces had begun to terial. Towards the first of October, girl far away in Georgia, and get agreement for another year. The there were skeletons of enemy come from his fuselage, and smoke coal operators are understood to G f T M U L T IP L E R E L IE F very homesick. Once I looked at was trailing behind. I believe his trucks and tanks from the Salween the General and told him how I be ready to agree to this pro BRIEF ONE- B o A ko fever. to Kutkai. near Lashio. The Jap engines were hit and were failing, posal. wished that I could press a button BRIEF TWO-Ease «taffy Rese. for the props seemed to be “wind and kill all the Japanese, to end John L. Lewis’s office, however, BELIEF THBEE-Badata body atkat. the war, so that we could all go sent a delaying reply. His secre m illing." And yet I could only claim BELIEF FOUB-Ease ewsrie paia*. it as a “probable," for I didn't see home He thought for a second or tary wrote Ickes that Lewis was BRIEF FIVE-Lesseal two and then looked back, smiling. "absent from the city.” This prob it catch fire or crash. To flatten rug corners that curl G rov*'* Cold T a b id * , Ilk * many • We got all our bombers back, of - » "Aw now, Scotty," he said, "we and slip on the floor, cut out re ably means that Lewis is conferring ductor'* z>r**rrlptlon, a r* a m u ltlp l* don’t want to do th a t We've got to shaped pieces of cardboard, and m vd lrln *. A com bination of tig h t ac with his mine lieutenants before course, and the pictures showed very good results for the bombing tive medicinal Ingredient* eapeclally learn to hate this enemy. Think of glue to the underside of the rug he sends Ickes a final decision. dralgned for r H I . f of ueual cold mis of Gia Lam field. We claimed nine • • • how much fun it is to kill them at the corners. arles. In a l*! on g *n uln*. Ä of the thirteen enemy fighters defi slow." Yes. sir, the General’s busi — •— WHY RUSSIAN'S W AITED COLD nitely destroyed, and we hadn't even ness was killing Japs. U. S. m ilitary strategists now dis To prevent corks from sticking T A B L IT S gotten a hole in one of our P-40'a. In Then we'd go home in the daik- close two reasons why the great in bottles containing glue or pol V ? our opinion the new 1-45 had turned ness. and Wang Cook would fix us a ishes, coat the cork with vaseline. Russian winter offensive was de out to be a flop for the Jap. Either peppery dove-pie from the Gener layed. —•— al's doves and some canned oysters The first problem was one of sup it was not all they expected or the A temperature of from 60 to 65 pilots didn't know how to use the out of the loot of Rangoon. plies. Although the red army had degrees F. is suitable for most the bulk of the equipment it fast-climbing ship. Sometimes I no- Col. Meriam C. Cooper was the plants. needed. deliveries of several r e t a - > Chief of Staff to the General. His business was war, too. Cooper had tively small but highly important one. instead of climbing away from Add a bit of vinegar to the dish me—and he could easily have been one of the greatest heroes of items were delayed. water to cut the grease. the First World War, and was one One of the items they waited for climbed away from a P-40—he tried to dive away from me, which is defi of the greatest soldiers I have ever was several million tons of canned ■y ' '■€ ' Put a few rubber bands around seen. I never discovered when it beef which midwestern packing nitely a very poor thing to try with the handle of your bath brush to your opponent in a fast-diving Kitty- A . was he slept. At any time of night, firms have been producing since \ insure a firm grip upon it. hawk. he was apt to come into my room, Russia entered the war. • * —•— Just as the General had been ex- when he visited us in Kunming Red army front-line troops live al A few drops of lemon juice gives most entirely on this canned beef Pecting, heavy movement began in from his usual headquarters in Chungking. Or when I'd go to see added flavor and also helps ten during offensives. The packers knew late September along the Burma a him, I could find him smoking his derize ground beef. they had a deadline to make on Road, from Lashio North towards — •— ever-present pipe at any hour. Coo their order, but couldn't get enough Lungling. The Japs were seen by On your /trvwrffo ff. B. C. efaftaa Keep your household sponges Gen. Caleb Haynes, who went to our observation to be moving many per had served in the American Air manpower to do the job. As the e ra ry S a fa rd a y m orning fresh by soaking them in cold salt China to head General Chennault’s trucks filled with troops. They were Force in the last war, and when the days rolled by. even office work 9 : 0 0 A. M ., M . W. T. war was over he had kept right on water. ers were drafted to the pro evidently going to renew the at bombers. K ID O —•— tempt to cross the Salween that the fighting. He had enlisted with the duction line. However, the shipment 8 :0 0 A. BI., P . W . T. may have moved a few at night, but Cover the top of your bedspring Poles in the Russian-Polish war, and wasn't ready until weeks after the AVG had frustrated back in May. not many after Morgan and Bayse KGW KOMO KHQ KPO KMED with oil cloth. This will be a good Bruce Holloway and I caught had been second in command of date set by the Russians. The same got through bombing the bridges on was true of several other impor these trucks the first day and burned the Burma Road. We caught a few the Kosciusko Squadron. After lead protection for your mattress and twelve of them near Wanting. On ing many dangerous strafing raids, will make it easier to turn your tant products. In the end, the Brit Jap planes near Lashio and shot ish dipped into their own stockpiles the next afternoon, I got through up several on the ground. 1 shot into he was awarded Poland’s highest mattress. —•— in England, and shipped the neces the rain with a single fighter and a Zero there on October 5. and be m ilitary decorations. Later he made caught four of them on a curve in a reputation as an explorer io Per Use the top of a lipstick con sary material to fully equip the the road at Chefang From then on lieve it went down, but only claimed sia, Siam, and Africa. Following tainer over the ends of your cur Open* up Quickly Red army. it as a “probable." Haadaa't Maaal JoWy ha* been a aucccas for SB for six days, until the end of Sep an active part in the formation of tain rods when pushing them Finally, when the great of The Japs kept coming towards year* in quickly opening up cold-do tember, we harassed every move Pan-American Airways, he became through freshly starched curtains. grd no*», relieving head cold imamt fensive was about to start in Isn't liquid. D o r a n I tun Sootbingand ment on the wet and muddy road. Kunming from Indo-China nearly ev one of the best known moving-pic — • — mid-December, an unseasonable pleoaant. M 41 Kin* of lubes used. Get i I Twelve of us burned ninety-six ery day In early October, but 1 ture producers in America. kmdon'a Natal Jolly at any drug H on To rid the chimney of soot, bum thaw set in on the eastern think they remembered that the last heavy trucks in six days. We used Cooper was a soldier through and potato peelings or the tops from KONDON’ S NASAL JELLY front, bogging down the Red time they had been in the capital of fragmentation bombs as well as the through, one of the most intelligent mason jars or other bits of zinc. army equipment. The Russians Yunnan, they had lost all their ships fifties. When we couldn’t find their men that 1 could hope to meet, and Keep the damper open while had massed tremendous new trucks, we'd hit the dark green troop to the AVG. Way back on Christ the perfect Chief of Staff for Gen cleaning. Buy War Savings Bonds Stalin tanks, larger than any barracks they were constructing mas Day, 1941. eral Chennault. Through his con thing either the Germans or the Even with the hardships that a stant attention to our espionage in from Lungling to Lashio. other Allies have seen. These One day Daniels dove on a truck rugged country like China imposed, eastern China we learned of the could not be moved except over column to find that the Japs had I was living a wonderful life there Japanese Task Forces coming frozen terrain. When the front placed light tanks along with the in Kunming. Those were days that through Hongkong on their way to froze solid again, Stalin gave the truck convoy. When Daniels, who I would never forget—not only for the Solomons and Saigon, and also yo u word and the long-delayed win was an offensive-minded fighter any the adventure that I was sharing of the large amount of shipping in ter offensive began. way, saw the tanks he forgot about with the other fighters in the Group, Victoria harbor. AS 0 1 9 AS • • • the trucks and concentrated on the but for the great privilege of liv Now Cooper was working tireless BRITISH PROPOSE K EE PIN G more formidable vehicles. His F if ing with my boss. General Chen ly to plan our greatest raid against GRANDPA TODAY" HIROHITO ties tore two tanks rather badly, nault. the Japanese. I remember vividly Very little appeared in the papers Gen. Caleb Haynes, Doctor Gen how he toiled for six days and six and his frag bombs knocked two about it. but highly important poli more from the road, but he was try, and I lived together with the nights at the General's house on cies regarding future relations with wounded by the heavy fire from the General in a house the "Gissimo" the logistics for our proposed at Japan were discussed at the recent had built for him. Situated near tack on the largest convoy that had tanks. institute of Pacific relations at Hot Lieutenant Welborn, his wing the field at Kunming, it was a mod come through Hongkong. Morning Springs, Va. Most important of all man, saw the tracers from the ern home, or as modern as a bunga after morning, when I went in to was a proposal by the British to ground firing at his leader’s ship low could be in Yunnan. With a breakfast, the floor around the table retain Emperor Hirohito and the and went to the aid of Pat Daniels. private room for each of us, with would be ankle-deep with “Walnut" Japanese ruling class in the post But the damage had been done. the Chinese houseboys the General tobacco from Cooper's pipe, but the war setup of Japan. One bullet had come up through the had collected in his six years in plans would be those of a master. Sir Paul Butler, leading adviser side panel of Daniels’ P-40 and had China, we lived a wonderful life in General Chennault and Colonel Coop to the British foreign office, led the struck him in the shoulder. The a war-torn land. er made, In fact, the perfect tacti appeal for Hirohito. There was "Wong Chauffeur” who cal team. Everything was ready wound was very bloody, and the Behind closed doors at the swank shock had just about paralyzed the drove the General's car. Wong had for the bombing raid by the middle Homestead hotel, Butler made this pilot's arm. Nevertheless, Cocky a little boy—of course called “ Lit of October, and we merely waited blunt pronouncement: "No alterna Daniels flew the ship back three tle Wong” —who was suspicious of for word from the East that the har tive to a monarchial system, under hundred miles to Kunming and land foreign devils and who used to cov bor between Kowloon and Hongkong the present emperor or some other er his face with his hands when I was filled with Japs ed it there with his left hand member of his family, is likely to Maj. Bruce Holloway, the Group spoke to him. The General told me provide the focus of stability which General Haynes had come to Chi Executive, had been leading several that as far as he had been able to MANY MEN are persecuted by will be essential if the state is not soothes fast with fighters on the truck columns near find out from a long time in China, na to lead General Chennault’s lumbago or other nagging muscle to dissolve into chaos in the impend bombers when he left the leader Chefang. As he pulled from one we’d always be foreign to the Chi pains—especially after exposure to ing crisis.” diving attack he felt something nese. For. after all, the only word ship of the Ferry Command. He cold or dampness. If every sufferer Other United Nations delegates had hurt the Jap plenty with his pre strike his ship. At first he didn't in China that could mean a per could only know about soretonr also were vigorously opposed to notice it and continued to strafe son other than a Chinese was "for cision bombing, and had built up a Linimenti In addition to methyl the British policy of appeasing the great bombing force, mainly from just about tree-top altitude. eign devil.” salicylate—a most effective pain- emperor. Most significant of all was The General told me about an au through the inspiration of his per- Then his coolant light popped on. relieving agent. Soretone acts like the position of the British domin Bruce turned immediately towards tomobile trip he had made with Ma- sonal leadership on the most dan- cold heal to speed relief:— ions — Canada, Australia, and New in katas of gerous missions the friendly Chinese lines, which jor Shu down the road from Chih- It Quickly S orclin t act» to en Zealand—which split with the dele Radio Tokyo had recently been were nearly twenty miles away. He kiang to Kweyang. This was bandit hance local circulation. gation from the British Isles itself. MUSCULAR LUMBAGO must have known immediately that country, through the wilds of Kwey "panning" Haynes, referring to him • e • 2. Check muicular cramp». the enemy bullet had punctured his ang province. Arriving at Kweyang, as “the old broken-down transport OR BACKACHE 3. Help reduce local »welling. CAPITAL CHAFF prestone tank (the coolant of the the capital, they had found an an pilot.” In a way, this was music to due t* fstiyu* <r tittiura C. New York's ex-lieutenant-gover American liquid-cooled engine) He cient walled city. The General, as our ears, for it meant that the Japa. 4. Dilate »ur/ace capillary blood nor, Charles Poletti, has been do had a very few minutes to stay in a trusted servant of the Gissimo, nese were being hurt by his bomb tette lt. MUSCULAR PAINS 4u* to 1*14, ing an A-l job in Italy. But at first the air before the engine would had been taken to the Governor’s ings or they would not have re For fastest action, let dry, rub In he got many a cold shoulder from catch fire or "freeze.” again. Thcre’a only one Soretone— house, and there dinner was served. sorted to such propaganda. But it SORE MUSCLES insist on it for Soretone results. Italians before somebody tipped him He must be getting closer to the All through the meal General Chen- made General Haynes so mad that ■In* t* tvarwork 50f. Big bottle, only f 1. , off to change the form of the proc river, he knew, for he was indicat nault noticed that strangers whom he could have torn the Jap to pieces with his bare hands After all, he M IN O R SPRAINS lamations he issued as military ing over two hundred miles an hour, he did not meet would come in sin «ARITO« commissioner in Rome. Poletti be but in his anxiety it seemed to go gly, sit down at the other end of the had been a pursuit pilot for years. MONEY BACK- gan his proclamations with “Io, farther away. With almost his last table, and after watching his every J and for the last ten years he had movement for a minute, would been dean ol American four-engine gasp he crossed the river into Carlo Poletti . . .” For a score of IF SORETONE DOESN’T SATISFY^ *Thnuffh appllrd raid, mbe- leave. Then another would come in ' bombers The records he had set farlent Ingredlenta In Hora- years Italians were fed up reading friendly Chinese country and crash- tune art llk r heat to Inrraaae landed in one of the ever-present and take the scat. After this had I with the B-15 had made history and the aupiTÍltlal aupply of proclamations which began “Io, blood to the ente and Indure gone on during the entire meal, the 1 were Inspirations to tht Air Corps rice paddies. A llo w ln i aenae of warinth. “and M cKeuon make» it” Benito Mussolini. . . tTO BE CONTI? D> Now begins Bruce's trip back General finally turned to Major Shi L "gg * DON'T JUST SUFFER COLD M IS E R IE S GROVE’S D COLD-CLOGGED NOSE act SORETONE COLDHEAT* ACTION
