Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, February 15, 1945
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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
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DON'T JUST SUFFER
COLD
M IS E R IE S
GROVE’S
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COLD-CLOGGED NOSE
act
SORETONE
COLDHEAT*
ACTION