Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, March 1, 1945
GOD IS MY
SFATIXC CIRCLE X F F D F F C R 4F T
N ew est in Crocheted Chair Set
CO-PILOT
C ol. R o b e rt L.Scott
The t lo r j that far:
After grsduatln*
fro m
W i l l Point, Robert Scott « la s bit
"la g s at Kelly Field and takes ap combat
ty ta c .
He h at been aa Im true tor tor
toar years when the w ar breaks oat. and
Is told be Is now too old lor combat t y
ing' Appealing to several Generals, be
la Anally told be caa get late the BgbL
He Ries a bomber to India, bat oa ar-
rlv a l Is made a terry pilot sad this does
not salt him. After a visit to Gen. Chen
aa a lt he gets a Klttyhaw k aad soon be
comes known as the "owe man a ir force,"
taking heavy gap tall la Burm a. Later
be Is made C.O. of the M rd Fighter
Group, bat still keeps on knocking down
dap planes. His "Old E xterm in ato r" Is
badly mauled la a dogAgbt.
CHAPTER X X IV
As I looked around now the bomb
ers were gone, but climbing up from
the South I saw four twin-engine
ships that I thought were 1-45'»;
later we decided they were Japa
nese Messerschmitta. I had plenty
of altitude on the leader, and start
ed shooting at him from long range,
concentrating on his right engine.
He turned to dive, and I followed
him straight for the water. I re
member grinning, for he had made
the usual mistake of diving instead
of climbing. But as I drew up on
the twin-engine ship, I began to be
lieve that I had hit him from the
tong range. His ship was losing al
titude rapidly in a power glide, but
he was making no effort to turn. I
came up to within fifty yards and
fired into him until he burned. I saw
the ship hit the water and continue
to burn. We had been going to
wards the fog bank in the direction
of the Philippines, and I wondered
if the Jap had been running for Ma
nila.
I shot at two of the other twin-
engine ships from long range but
couldn’t climb up to them. Then I
passed over Hongkong Island, flying
at a thousand feet: I was too low
but didn’t want to waste any time
climbing. And I saw something that
gripped my heart—a fenced-in en
closure which I knew was Fort Stan
ley. the British and American prison
camp. There was a large group
standing in the camp and waving
at my ship. My saddest feeling of
the war came over me then. Here
were soldiers who had been prison-
era of the Japanese for nearly a year.
Month after month they bad waited
(or the sight of Allied airplanes at
tacking Hongkong—and at last it
had come. Even in their suffering
they were waving a cheer to the
tew United States planes that had
finally come, and I swore to myself
I’d come back again and again.
WN.U. RELEASE
emy lines that night, they stopped Sitting there smoking his pipe and.
to rest, and the wounded pilot like a football coach, planning the
crawled away from them to Insure next week's work. Joe. the Gener
their getting away to the guerrilla al's little black dashshund, would be
lines. They escaped, and later we burrowing Into the rocks, looking for
received a letter signed by the other the inevitable rats. When with the
two crewmen which said that the passing minutes the P-40'» or the
pilot had been captured and was bombers were due to return, the
then In a Japanese hospital. The General would begin to watch the
letter was a Japanese propaganda eastern sky. There he would sit
leaflet that the Japs had dropped without a word until the last ship
near Kweilin, but being properly was accounted for. Sometimes .
signed. It gave us hope for the re thought: The General lives through
mainder of the crew, and for the every second of the combat with us.
heroic pilot. Lieutenant Alters.
With his keen knowledge of tactics
That night Morgan led a night and of the Jap too, he sees exactly
raid to bomb Canton, and had a what we are doing.
successful attack. Later the same
Another memory that always
night, Ed Bayse led six bombers to brings a smile is Lieutenant Couch’s
destroy the power station on Hong face when he was explaining what
kong Island. In his return to Kwei happened the first time he got a Jap
lin, five of his ships landed but the Zero In his sight*. The enemy ship
other continued to circle— informing was a lone "sitter.” probably some
the radioman that he had no air inexperienced Japanese pilot who
speed and thus was having difficulty wasn't looking around and didn't
bringing the fast bomber in to land. know the P-40 was behind him.
Bayse. who had worked all the Couch said he kept moving up closer
day and most of the night over ene and closer until he knew the Jap
my lines, started his ship and went was going to be dead the instant he
C 'V ER Y O N E will w ant to follow
aloft, got the other ship on his wing pressed his trigger. Then he pressed
suit when they se e your ch airs
in formation, and told the pilot to —and
nothing
happened.
He beautified with this lovely pineap
keep the position. And then this squeezed the trigger until he thought
ple - crochet basket filled with
experienced bomber pilot led the he'd press the top off the stick; he
d aisies.
younger pilot in to a safe landing. found that he shut his eyes, flinched,
• • •
It was teamwork of the sort that and bit his lip, but still the guns
Daisy medallions—easy Io memorize—
had begun to appear among the didn't fire.
All thia simple crocheted basket In the
lovely pineapple design. Pattern 7W8 has
bomber crews, and more important
The American pilot from the Caro Instructions, stitches.
still, as the co-ordinated attack had
shown, between the fighters and lina* swore and throttled back, drop
bombers. This was what Colonel ping to the rear while the Jap kept
Cooper had been working for during flying innocently on. After Couch
had recharged his guns he began to
the past several months.
stalk the Zero again, going closer
Cooper had done another fine Job,
and closer until he could see the
one that we learned of only after we
enemy pilot at the controls. He set
returned to Kunming from the at
his sights right on the cockpit and
tack. In India the field in Assam
pressed the trigger once more. And
If the knob is pulled off a tight
again nothing happened.
ly closed draw er, u se a plunger
Couch came home disgusted, and or a large suction cup to open the
I think he worked on his guns all drawer.
night
Up between Hengyang and Ling-
ling we had broken the main Jap
force with several attacks and there
were only stragglers around the sky.
We had been searching them out for
fifteen minutes when I saw and
heard a remark that was nothing
short of classic. From 21,000 feet
I observed a lone Zero. But there
was a P-40 trailing him, and so I
held my altitude and watched. The
P-40 closed the gap more and more,
following the acrobatics of the Jap.
and then drew up for the kill. As
the tracers from the six gun* went
Into the Zero I heard the voice of
Captain Goss say, “There. Hirohlto,
you bastard—God rest your soul.
Over the radio you could also hear
the staccato roll of the six Fifties.
TTie Zero slowly rolled over to de
struction.
Then I saw above me the criss
crossing vapor paths of an area
where fighter ships have sped
Sometimes the ha.ed Japs haa the
through an air attack. They almost
Gen. Chennault observes the re last word. In regions where the a ir
covered the sky in a cloud. Here turn of the C.A.T.F. from a raid. warning net was working poorly or
and there were darker lines that Lieut. Grossclose at left.
not at all, our first knowledge of
could have been smoke paths where
the approach of the enemy would
ships bad burned and gone down to had been raided heavily by the Jap be the sight of Japanese bombers
destruction.
anese at the same hour as our at overhead As the bombs blasted the
tack
on Kowloon, and simultaneous runways and the Jap radial engines
I was rudely jerked back to at
tention by a slow voice that yet was ly the Japanese had tried to strike were taking their ships at high altl
(harp: “If that’s a P-40 in front of at Kunming with a large force. Colo tude back towards their base*, we
me, waggle your wings ” I rocked nel Cooper had been left behind in would hear over the radio on our
my wings before I looked. Then I the hospital with a sinus Infection. exact frequency, in perfect English:
saw the other ship, a P-40 nearly a He was chafing at the bit, and we "So sorry, please, so sorry."
mile away. I think from the voice sympathized with him—for after
We would just shake our fists and
It was Tex HilL I went over to having planned the greatest raid of wait for better days.
the
war
in
China,
he
had
been
forced
wards him and together we dove
out of accompanying the mission.
towards home.
But It has always been our con
When e — at brought "Old Exter-
The presence of the other P-40 tention out there that "everything minator” to China, I had painted the
made me feel very arrogant and happens for the best.” And it proved number lQ,on the fuselage. Later on
egotistical, tor I had shot down four out again. When the enemy planes we used the last three numerals of
enemy ships and had damaged oth approached Kunming. Cooper left the Air Corps numbers (or call let
ers. So I looped above Victoria har the hospital and took charge of the ters, or were assigned some name
bor and dove for the Peninsular defense of the home base. He sent like "ash.” "oak." or "pine.” But
Hotel. My tracers ripped into the Schiel’s Squadron towards the South the first time I came back from
shining plate-glass of the pent at exactly the right time. They not Chungking, late one afternoon. I ap
houses on its top, and I saw the only intercepted the enemy and proached Kunming down the usual
broken windows cascade like snow foiled the attack but shot down eight corridor, expecting that to Identify
to the streets, many floors below. I of the enemy. That made the score
me automatically, and from far out
laughed, for I knew that behind for the Group twenty-seven enemy I called by radio; "One Zero, coming |
those windows were Japanese high planes on October 25th, and three in from the North.” Of course 11
pfficers, enjoying that modern ho highly successful bombing raids
was using the numerals of the num
tel. When I got closer I could see
We were ordered home the next ber "ten” to identify me to the ra
uniformed figures going down the
day, although we now had the ene dio-man. Instead, as I came over j
fire-escapes, and I shot at them. In
my at our mercy without fighter the field I saw anti-aircaft men of I
the smoke of Kowloon I could smell
protection against future raids to the Chinese Army running for their
oil and rubber. I turned for one
wards Hongkong.
But heavy at guns, and I saw six P-40's taking
more run on the packed fire-escapes
tacks had come to India, and we off to shoot the invader down. Mean
filled with Jap soldiers, but my next
ing me. You’ve probably guessed It
burst ended very suddenly. I was were needed to protect the terminus by now—the radioman gathered that |
of the ferry route to China.
out of ammunition. Then, right into
We managed, however, to leave a some one had Just warned him that
the smoke and through it right down
small
force of P-40’s under Holloway one enemy Zero was about to strafe
to the tree-top levels. I headed
the field. Needless to say. I took
Northwest to get out of Japanese and Alison, with mission to dive-
myself to safer place* for a few min
bomb
shipping
in
Victoria
harbor
territory sooner, and went as fast as
within the next few days. They utes until I could properly identify
I could for Kweilin.
my ship. Then I landed and changed j
I was the last ship in, and the took eight planes down and dove the fuselage number to lucky “sev-
General was anxiously waiting for through the overcast towards some en” —but definitely not seventy.
me, scanning the sky for ships to big enemy freighters that were on
come in. He knew I had shot down the way South towards the Solo
There Just wasn’t much relaxa-1
an enemy, for I had come In with mons. Their bombs damaged two
my low-altitude roll of victory. But 8,000-ton freighters and sank a 12,- tion In China with Scotch at one|
when 1 Jumped from my cramped 000-ton vessel. Captain O’Connell hundred dollars gold a bottle—when 1
you could find IL In fact, we didn’t |
seat and said, "General, I got four made this last direct hit by almost
definitely,” he shook my hand and taking his bomb down the smoke get to drink anything except boiled 1
looked very happy. "That makes stack of the enemy vessel, and in water and that really terrible rice
He wine. This we had to learn to down
nineteen then,” he said, “for the doing so he was shot down.
took the bomb very low, and In re with the Chinese and In their man
fighters and the bombers.”
covering from the dive he was at ner. which was with the Inevitable!
We had lost a fighter and a bomb tacked by a single enemy, who got
salute, "Gambey,” or “bottoms up ”
er. The bomber had become a strag one of the best pilots in the Squad
Then they’d come and proudly show 1
gler when one engine was hit by anti ron. Clinger and Alison saw the
the bottoms of their glasses,
aircraft; then it was shot to pieces enemy ship, but from their dis you
and you’d have to follow suit with a |
by one of the twin-engined Jap fight tance they could do nothing In time
weak little gambey.
ers. The pilot had managed even
to save O’Connell. While Alison was
then to get it down, but he had re getting the lone enemy ship, Clinger
Then there was the incessant ring-1
mained in the ship to destroy the
dove in anger along the docks of
bomb-sight, w d had been shot
ing
of the telephone* in the warning-
Kowloon, strafing three anti-aircraft
through the foot by a Jap cannon. positions In the face of very heavy net plotting-room that got on all I
Two of the bomber crew had bailed ground-fire.
our nerves. After month* I found
out that without exception every p ilo t!
out and were captured. The other
The most vivid memories of our tried not to let other* know of his j
two carried the injured pilot until
he had begged them to leave him air war in China come from the lit nervousness.
But it became un
Like the memory of mistakable, for the tension that built I
Alone and escape. They had ban tle things.
General
Chennault,
sitting
there
at
up around the card-table* In the!
daged his foot tightly, but had re
the mouth of the cave In Kweilin
fused to go without him.
alert shack* was not the most ef-
through the long hours while we
Aa they moved on through the en- were away on the attack missions. '-ctlvely disguised In the world.
(TO BE C O N T IN U E D »
To rew ind the spring in the roll
er of a window sh ad e, insert the
flattened end in the low er part
of a keyhole.
—•—
Instead of rooting and digging
am ong the fa m ily ’s cloth es to find
the soiled on es for M onday’s w ash,
give each m em b er of the fam ily
a laundry bag or b ask et and have
him bring nis own cloth es to the
laundry room .
Due to an unusually large demand and
rurrent war conditions, slightly more time
la required in tilling order* for a few of
the moat popular pattern numbers.
Send
your order to;
Sewing Circle Needleeraft Kept.
Box 3217
San Franrlaco (, Calif.
Enclose IS cent* for Pattern
No..____________
Nam e___ -
Address___________________ __
4 0 - P o u n d Fruit
L argest fruits in .he world are
those of the A siatic paea or jack
fruit tree. Som e of the giant fruits
w eigh as m uch as 40 pounds, the
very large ones being found in the
E a st Indies w here both the pulp
und se e d s are esteem ed by the na
tiv e s as food.
A lurge fruit w ill contain aa
m any a s 300 seed s, each one of
which is four tim es as big as an
alm ond.
“ HOARSE” SENSE!
h r COUGHS due le COIDS
re a lly to o th in g b ecau se
th e y 're r e a lly
.m e d ic a te d
M illions use F A F It e n g e s to
give their throat a 15 minute sooth
ing, comforting treatm ent th a t
reaches a ll the way down. F o r
coughs, throat irritations or hoarte-
nrse resulting from Colds or smoking,
soothe w ith F A F . Box, only 10^.
Pull the Trigger?"
Loly Innards
—•—
— •—
try m aking a p aste of cornstarch
and w ater. Apply this to the spot
and allow to dry. Then brush it
off, and the spot w ill be gone.
— •—
p leasing flavor th a t’s som e
w hat different in candied sw eet
potatoes m ay be had by adding
the juice of one lem on to the
m o la sse s (or sw e e te n in g ), and
butter.
A
—•—
W ashing neck w ear in a quart
size m ason jar sa v e s hot w ater
and soap.
R eal bed com fort depends la rge
ly upon the under sh eet being
tucked in so firm ly it w ill rem ain
sm ooth and tight. M iter each cor
ner, then tuck under the sh eet.
tfSYZVyV F IA K £ S OF
n w F A r f / vo sfam
COMO//VFD H o r n
s o a iK -& v £ £ r
r & w e x ffas / m s
----- --------------------------
delicious N E W breakfast idea
• A m agic co m b ln a tio n l C risp
Post’s 40% Bran Flakes— plus ten
der, chewy seedless raisin s...righ t
in the same package. D elicious—
nutritious — that's Post's Ilalsln
Bran! Don't miss this wonderful
new flavor sensation. Ask your gro
cer for Post's Raisin Bran, today t
COUGH
LOZENGES
U se an old toothbrush handle to
rem ove dried g rea se from plated
parts on your car. It w ill not
scratch the m etal and it can be
shaped to clean the grooves.
F o r a g rease spot on w allpaper,
POST'S R r w r BRAN
Buy War Savings Bonds
How To Relieve
Bronchitis
Creomulslon relieves promptly be
cause It goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid natur»
to soothe and heal raw. tender. In
flamed bronchial mucous m em
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulslon with the un
derstanding you must like the way It
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds. Bronchitis
W HEN CONSTIPATION makes you feel
punk as «he dickens, brings on stomach
upset, sour taste, gassy discomfort,
take Dr. Caldwell’/ famous medicine
to quickly pull the trigger on lazy “in
nards'* and help you feel bright and
chipper again.
DR. CALDWELL’S is the wonderful sen
na laxative contained in good old Syrup
Pepsin to make it so easy to take.
M A N Y DOCTORS uae pepsin prepara
tions in prescriptions to make the medi
cine more palatable and agreeable ’o
take. So be sure your laxative is con
tained in Syrup Pepsin.
INSIST ON DR. CALDWELL’S— the fa
vorite of millions for 50 years, and feel
that wholesome relief from constipa
tion. Even finicky children love IL
CAUTION: Use only as directed.
DR. a i m s
SENNA LAXATIVE
CONTAIHSO.H SYRUP PEPSIN
_
L o w -S p ir ite d M o o o a
A n d Fatig ue A re O ft e n S ym ptom s
O f C o n stip atio n I
For constipation take Nature’s
Remedy (NR Tablets). Contains no
chemicals, no minerals, no phenol de
rivative*. NR Tablets are different
— act different. Purely vegetable—
a combination of 10 vegetable In
gredients formulated over 50 years
ago. Uncoated or candy coated, their
action ia dependable, thorough, yet
gentle. Get a 25»S Convincer Box.
Caution: Take only aa directed.
N* TO-NIOHT, TOMORROW ALRIGHT
AU-VEGETAUE LAXATIVE
G EE-SH E
LOOKS OLD
TODAY
yá
Y O U B E T you show it when those
cruel pains shoot through arms,
neck, back o r legs. D o tom ething.
R u b on so r eto n e L in im e n t. G et
th e blessed re lie f of Soretone’e
c o ld heat action. Q u ic k ly Soretone
acts to:
1 . D ila te t u r fa c e c a p illa r y b lo o d
v e tt e lt.
2 . C h e c k m u t c u la r c ra m p » .
3 . E n h a n c e lo c a l c irc u la tio n .
4 . H e lp re d u c e lo c a l » w e llin g .
D evelop ed by the famous M cK es
son Laboratories, Soretone is a
unique fo rm u la. Soretone contains
m ethyl salicylate, a most effective
p ain -relievin g agent. F o r fastest ac
tion , le t d ry , ru h in again. T h e re ’s
only one Soretone—insist on it fo r
Soretone results. 504. Big, long-
lasting bottle. 11.
r m -T A d ta ra -t«
ONE WORD SUGGESTION')
FOR ACID INDMKST1ON-
|//a
SORETONE
soothes fast with
COLD HEAT'
ACTIOH
in cases of
MUSCULAR LUMBAGO
OR BACKACHE
Sus ts («t I su» t r (> sou r»
MUSCULAR PAINS
du» to » Id s
SORE MUSCLES
due ts »«»rworli
| M IN O R SPRAINS
Y o u can’t see legum e bacteria w ith o u t
a p o w e rfu l microscope. I f you c o u ld ,
you w ou ldn ’t k no w w hether they were
good bacteria o r bad. T h e re is one sure
way to get p le n ty o f effective ino cula
tio n . . . just ask f o r N I T R A G I N when
you buy. N I T R A G I N is the oldest
most w idely used in o c u la n t. F o r 4 5 -
years farm ers have used it to get bigger
yields o f a lfa lfa , clo ver, soybeans, and
to b uild soil fe r tility . I t costs o n ly a few
cents an acre; b u t fre q u e n tly boosts
yields up to 5 0 % and m ore. I t pays to
inoculate every p la n tin g o f legumes.
G e t N I T R A G I N where you buy y o u r
seed. Look fo r the yellow can.
Iks Nltrsjla 0,., |lc , UH N. | Mft IL> m K wi O. i jj , Wlc
FREE Beefcltl*
“and ¡McKcison make» it”
+ Though applied cold, ruho-
faclent Ingrediente In Hora-
tone art like heat to 1 nr relio
the iiiperflclal mpply of
blood to the area and Induct
a (lowing ienao of warniUt
Mow to t r o w
b o t t o r leg u m oi.
W r it e
to d a y .
Look
for
tho
tradenam e N IT
R A G IN on tho
yollew con when