Show Bill Jones tones Is Dead Bill BUI- Jones had bad h d just graduated from agricultural college He was as ambitious to put Into action all he had learned about conservation of ot soil better breeding of at cattle rotating crops because his dads dad's farm was In pretty bad shape When war came Bill enlisted in the army Bill went to the Philippines and the little town where he was billeted was run over-run by a horde of Japs Bill BUI fought as long as he hc could and then under or orders or- or orders orders ders surrendered They tied his htA hands behind him and a Jap soldier started to rape a white woman He had torn tom her blouse off oU when Bill kicked him in the I I the tip of his nose so that in death as asin In life Bill was thumbing his h a nose at atthe atthe atthe the Jap ship that got him x This was the same day you were raising hell because they were ra rationing rA- rA rAtioning rationing gasoline and for fear you couldn't drive up to the lake to go fishing every week-end week this summer you hid four cans of ot gasoline In your garage jj Bill Jones is dead Bills Bill's dad had a Blot lot of ot money and when Bill DIU wanted his own plane dad bought it for him Bill BUI was a wild devil driving a car out of all reason and flying a plane the same way But he was the thc first man In his town to respond to the theAir Air Corps' Corps call for fliers lIers Bill got Into a a. dog fight tight over the English Channel annel There were six German planes planed But with a Tallyho I Bill DUl dived into the bunch of them He got two before a third sent a a. burst of ot bul but bullets bullets lets lct Into his back that almost cut c t him himIn himIn himIn In half halt but he held on to the stick until ho rammed the fourth plane ph and amI and went down with It locked in the flam- flam flamIng flamIng flaming Ing embrace of death This happened about the time you I were ero bellyaching g and feeling abused because of the outrageous treatment given you by the tire tiro rationing board which would not allow you recaps for your pleasure car Bill Jones Is 15 dead Bill DUl was a boy who had Inclinations for tho the ministry but when the thc call came cameI Bill laid aside Iris his Bible Dible and Joined the Marino Corps Bill wasn't much fun I around Ground the blanket where they Were shooting craps and he wasn't so hot at the tho beer drinking contests In the tho Jukes but ho he earned his sergeants sergeant's stripes before they sent his gang ashore in one of ot those new boats which land through the surf Tho The fistful of ot fighting fools charged a machine machino o gun nest and Bill had Just taken careful aim and let go a hand grenade when another machine gun caught him Four bullets In his head but a Marine has four speeds forward and no reverse erse and Bill BIU fell toward the enemy That was the tho afternoon when you were sitting at the tho golf gol club with witha a highball in your hand telling theother the theother other three fellows fell ws In your four four- foursome foursome some somo that if U Income taxes were not reduced they were going to kill kUl Ini loi- Initiative In this country Bill Jones Is dead Bill was a football player who had good prospects as a professional coach at a small college Then came Pearl Harbor Har Har- bor Bill BIU used some football language and headed for town to sign signup up with tho parachute troops He did all right Bill got action n In an nn air raid in enemy country He hit the tho ground with a dozen of ot his pals and raced to where their machine guns and grenades had landed la ded near them Fully equipped they made for tor a nearby farm house from which bul- bul water out of ot a ag lets let were spraying like hose garden g bullets fair fair- fairly those machine gun Six of ot I ly cut Bills Bill's legs off oft and buthe but got two lay on his the tho mud In I belly be of at of all the damn i f Bills Bill's last lat words were fool t ol luckl luck l I II telling were time you the That was that the at nt the poker game I the boys munitions tho and union racketeers making fortunes fortunes manufacturers ma were we had no business out of this getting war Into when It In tho the first f place Bill Jones Jonea is la dead uneducated clam digger I Bill BUl was an coast but he knew New England on tho the and had only one eye I about boats He lie him ranks wouldn't take uniformed the ho shipped on a n tanker His ship chip was go so German bringing pig if oil oat up came came the the- up coast out when of ot the a aGerman aGerman hull slime and sent a torpedo Into tho the amidships The Tho freighter burst Into the side into j I flames flame and Bill Dill went over ty tho the burning oil I When ho no came camo to the tho surface a a. ma- ma machine mac chine hino gun was practicing on tho the bobbing c heads When the bullets hit Bills Bill's head it burst blast b open like a Do dropped egg Ills His charred riddled bullet body sank beneath I the surface were vero tell tell- telling That was the tho night o ing tog tho the folks folk at your party th t lot of ot this war is la being run by a a. old women In Washington Washl the most mismanaged tn mesa mo o ever heard of Bill Jones Jonen Is dead When God In Ills IDs infinite kindness meets Bill DUl Jones at Heavens Heaven's gate gato lie He is going to say Wen WeB done thou good and faithful ul servant 1 I What He Ho Is going to say to you God alone knows Aberdeen Washington Labor Bulletin |