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July 20, 1912 HEUAIJ) AND NRWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE SEVENTEEN t f ) iska Bombing Correspondent Wheeler Pleniy of Excitement "! (Kflilnr'H Note: Thin lit the wr ond tin I f of Hie tti x 111 slory In n arrles by Stuff C'lini'spimili'iit Krllll Wheeler nf Urn Chli-Hgn Times on ui'llnn In Hid Aleutian Islands. Tim first Imlf il the . story iippi'iired In Jim Tm-mlny r ed it lot) of tint Ilenilil mill Ni'wul, . By KEITH WHEELER Copyright, 111-13, Chii-iigo Times, ? Inc.) i Then- liu In agiiln, higher Hum i tin mill elnser Uiiin hi-fiii o. We're 'till ellniblng mid the nltlini'ti-r 'u-sliln tlm clliirt tiililo Mi. vn 11.100 01-1, nriu'ly two miles. 2:511 lie Vlllllnlll'll llglllll ! I the murk luit now h in out mid he's gone into hiiuIIh-i' of his i (Illy iierliil dunces. Hu n sll II Imlf mile off lint you feel us hig us hutisumid twice u visible out f hero In the kIiim nose. You wIbIi 3 yOU lllltl SIMlieuilllK HI Ulliwi in." S hind. f 2:BII You wonder how tho ) bombardier find pilot will eon 1 liivo to bomb thin plm-e through 3 Iho miup. Thu volt-lino Is visible 1 til right but the Jn in iiren't In Iho vulcnno. They're In the vul- Icy mill tho vnlley's full of fog. 3:00 -The lop turret In firing ' aver our liemls, ii luinmierlng : stutter nhiirp mill cleiir iibovo thu . i "nw-wii-wn" of Hie engines. We can't see wind the gunner's shooting lit but It must be our . i plnyfellow In Hie fighter. The ring slops .iiiddenly mid the p crosses In front of tin sliding uto the Mini). He must have at tacked but we seem lo be nil right. We hud ii Knd look lit bin ; ' plnne, n NnkiiJIma biplane fight , er on u seaplane float, i-'rom the way he whips It iiroiind It's both fn.il nnd miiiu-uvi-rabli'. Me puss f ts us whenever he wants to. ! , Dond Ahead 3:02 He's coming In niialn, from the front this tune, lie's diving (lend toward us and there's smoke spurtinii from the front of his mai hine. Yon renli.e uddeuly, with an mid feeling of i shock, thai lie's .-Oinnling nt us. Your stomiu-li sucks itself lu nnd t tries lo (el behind your back i bone, i The navigator Is serimelied ' 1 over bis gun filing back and the Jhlot lifts the nose a little so the Hum liirrei can gel in mm loo. i mere s n iieinsn rm-Kei in your ears. The fighter breaks his run suddenly nnd dives, flirting out of sight Into a cloud. The young navigator turns and grins, lop sldedly. "Missed him, dnniniil," ho snys, "1 never even got a shot." 1 monns Hie navy ensign, equally young and more disappointed. 3:05 We've been circling j ateudily nnd our playmate Is out 1 of sight for the moment. Now the skipper calls the bombardier on the Interphone. We're going down to look, he says, before we drop our bombs. Hig bombers are built for, high level work but -circumstances niter eases. We'vo got to see what's under thai fog. We dip into the soup nnd out again. This Iso't Hie solid stuff wo flew through coining out. '. This lies over the island in over t Inpplng layers, like nn out-of-alumb sandwich. Wo bend for next hole nnd go rocketing down In n spiral dive. One of our bombers Is still on our (lank, i VV'hnt has become of Iho others J -e do not know. . .;, 3:0(1 Tho upper turret fires n S quick burst, so ho must he back. ; But we can't sec him. Your splnn f creeps n little and you look back !. apprehensively, half expecting bullets to be coming through the aide. f ; Can't See i :f 3:03 We're still doing down, III nnd out of the clouds, nnd the ': top turret fires ngnln. n short burst. He must be ntlnrklng ench time we conic In Iho clear but ;. we can't sec him from hero. r .3:12 lie iippenrs nhend, mo mentarily, diving into n cloud and the navigator fires quickly. The Jap rolls over and vanishes, hit wings flashing in the sun. 3:15 Our long glide hns enr- IW-W x-V-v.iVmRI X WORLD. A MID HOTEL ip-nar bath 00, OT" with bath rlv-lrt lobby-level garage; Trip Gave rlecl us down lo the solid simp nnd we're diving tliroinih. We're out now nnd below us urn brok en clouds over Klskn buy mid ii solid muss of mlsl hm-kod up over the laud. We're below Iho nioiinliilii now. !1:I7 He's here again, He emiii! from the left mid the up per turret opened on him and now he's In front cumhiK lienil on. Thu navigator Is firing mid the naval observer, fourth man In our liny glass house, Is trying to bring his slde-mounled mil- -1 1 1 1 i u l lo bear. He's closer now mid the smoke puffbiK from his plnne Is laced wllli white streaks of tracer coming our way. My stomach sucks In and my breath comes fusl. I wonder If I'll sen Iho Klaus break In front beforo tho bullets stitch n semn across my middle. 3:22 Ho began mi uttnek up throutih n cloud but lie didn't press II home. We'ro down to :I200 feet nnd except for bits of fluff wc hnvc n clear view of the harbor. We cruise buck mid forth In figure eights across the harbor nnd along the mountain flank. Thu iinll-nlrcrnft should be com Iiik up but It doesn't conio nnd nfter n while wo begin to think It won't conio nt all. Occasion ally we see our plnymnlo skip plnK out of one cloud or rolling into another. Tho drifting clouds won't let us net n good look nt our work but wo enn seo tho tip- ended hulk of tho transport bombed nnd sunk by this plane threo day.i ago. Gllmpia There's iinolher ship In (here We bail ii glimpse of il, iiueliored near the Ingoon but we enn't net nt It this low nnd we won't be able to see it If we go higher. We cnn'l see the tent village hut wc know It's there mid prohnbly, the navigator says, we'll bomb Hint on n bearing from the penk. 3:34 We've slnrted up again through the murk. Tho navlgat or snys we're going to bomb nnd the bombardier Is fiddling with the bnmhsight nnd checking his ballistic tables. Whatever de struction we nro going to accom plish will be starling soon now (-,..p ,.,,, ..... v,lllla,.H h w cling to tin illogical hope Hint one of those bursts got him. You yell m the navigator, nsk- Ing how high we'll go to drop. He holds up one hnnd, the fin gers spread, Five thmiMind feel. We're almost there now between two layers of cloud. 3:40 We're up In the clear again and the other fortress is I still on our flank. We've come i over the mountain and hnvo lie ! gun our hnmhing run, nn exer I else III dellency nnd cnlm for the skipper. Artist at Work We must fly this course, speed, exact level without the slightest deviation until the bombs are gone. Three little red lights TRAINED MECHANICS QUALITY MATERIALS LOW COST YOUR CAR OR TRUCK WILL LAST LONGER IF YOU HAVE IT SERVICED REGULARLY-SEE YOUR CHEVROLET DEALER He has trained mechanics. e He uses quality mate rials. ... He performs all service operations! reason able rates. ... 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We're com inn on the tnrKi'l and I'm breathing quickly, thinking quickly, think ing what terror and death arc about to turn loose and wonder if such merciless de.struclion can be dealt without something like terror In Hie dealer. 3:141 The bombardier's fin- gers move slightly nn the switch, pass setting and the navigator We hear n series of faint clicks. ! reluctantly gives up his gun and "Domhs on the way," Ihe tinvl. : turns to the charts. We're bond gator snvs nnd grins. I haven't ' lug home. We're not there yet. '. felt anything and I try to look i below nnd back, wondering If 1 1 enn see thorn fall. 1 can't. It's ns' WswiieiiV SyS Shoes REDUCED TO CLEAR ' Comploto Runs and Sizes Brown and White. Blue and While Pumps Wore 3.98 and 4.45 Now fci7 and 17 "IE simple as that. From this height wc" cun't even henr them hit above the motor's constant yell. Nor can wo seo what they ac complish. Almost Over 3:46 We're In a circling dive, heaving down under the blanket for Ihe long run home. It's al most over, but not quite. The fighter breaks out of a cloud at the right and swings in front of us for one more try. Our guns open up momentarily and we see the darting white streaks of his tracer agnin and then he's gone. 3:50 The major asks the nav igator for the homeward com- There nrc plenty of dangerous miles ahead, but we'ro on our way. 0 1 for years, Chevrolet dealers have had the largest num ber of trade-ins and, there fore, the widest experience in servicing all makes and models. . . . Better have a check-up today. Langefl Valley Mrs. Merle Brewster and Mrs. Cecil Conley will entertain with a layette shower at the Conley home on July 30, in honor of Mrs. Klla Shelley Mlnnlck. Kveryone Is cordially Invited. Mrs. Ruby Brown spent sever al days last week with her son and dauKhter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown. Mrs. Evelyn Hoyt and Miss Helen Czlnowski of Klamath Falls spent from Friday until Monday with Mrs. Hoyt'j par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Camp bell. Friends will be sorry to hear of Hie illness of Private Paul Mosshurg. He has been in the hospital at San Francisco for sev eral monthi with rheumatic fe ver, but was moved recently to tho hospital at Springfield, Mo Paul attended Bonanza high school before Joining the army. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cox and daughter spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Con- Icy. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Brown were dinner guests at the Dale Brown home on Tuesday eve ning. Mrs. Mary Dearborn and Cath erine Dearborn spent Friday with tho Al Dearborn family. David Pepple had his tonsils and adenoids taken out last Mon day. Now is the time to have all your front teeth tightened corn-on-the-cob season. "Pearl of the Orient" Reduced to Ghost Town By VAUGHN MEISLING LOUHENCO MARGUKS, Por tuguese East Africa, July 25 (Delayed) tH') Hongkong, once the "opulent pearl of the orient" has been reduced to a ghost town In the months since the Pacific explosion of last Decem ber. Some 1,000,000 Chinese have been starved to such a point that the whole town has a wralthlike appearance. The four horsemen have rid den roughshod over the once smiling Riviera of the far east, and now famine, pestilence and destruction of physical and moral values stalk the former British crown colony. The Japanese conquerors, real izing the increasing gravity of the internal situation, are doing their utmost to evacuate poorer Chinese residents to country dis tricts of Kwangtung, Kwangsi and Fukien province, but are unable to remove sufficiently large numbers In time to cheat death. It is estimated that thus far 500,000 have left of their own volition or by compulsion, but 1,000,000 who remain face an increasingly bitter struggle for life. isolation of Hongkong island through rupture of all former trade routes, including those supplying fruits and vegetables Strike TWICE For Victory! Your Old Scrap Meial We Need Every Bit of Cost Iron and Steel Melting Scrap W . Can Get to Fill a Navy Contract Right Here in Klamath Falls Buy. Wan, Saoinal Bandi With the Money ! VISIT THE VICTORY HOUSE On 8th Street Between Main and Pine " Continuous Entertainment Friday and Saturday Klamath Machine from the mainland, has caused famine-like conditions. Rice routs eight times (he former price, and many other commod ities are ten or 20 times as costly as they were. Owing to the virtual cessation of business, Chinese are flocking lo the public rice queues in mounting numbers, although the cheap stocks distributed are ut terly Inadequate. Mt. Laki Employes of the California- Oregon Power company helped with haying at the Sam Dehlin gcr ranch last week. Other farmers have had help from the mills and postoffice crews and the haying is near complet'on. Mrs. Estclla Hill returned to VISIT CANADA THIS SUMMER You'll return to your wartime job refreshed and invig orated after a holiday in Canada. For all details cover ing Banff Springs Hotel in the Canadian Rockies, and urmsn ioiumDia resons . . seij , your local agent, or W) Wm. II. Deacon, 6J6 S.W Broadway, Portland. BR. 0637 Vnur American Hntlart go fyrthtr,,, all prices In Canada are Covtrnmtnt controlled. BANFFSPRINGS HOTEL IMS & Locomotive her home Wednesday. Mr. Maude McDonnld la staying with her. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Thomp son moved into their new home at the Henry Semon ranch this past week. ' The community extends Its heartiest congratulations to Lieutenant and Mrs. Don West on their recent marriage. West Is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. West and is stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Dorothy Dixon accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Burrell Short and daughter Patricia, to Ashland Saturday. . Mr. and Mrs. Short wilt spend some time at Ashland. Miss Short and Miss Dixon re turned Sunday, The Mt. Lakl Sunday school had a picnic dinner at the church Sunday afternoon. All reported an enjoyable time. 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