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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH (GO I MY LT C-PM- Col. Robert The itnry tbm far: Robert Scott U graduated from Weit Point ai a second lieutenant, and after winning bis wing at Kelly Field takes up pursuit flying. When the war breaks out be is an instructor in California and told be is too old for combat flying. He appeals to one General after another for a cbance to fly a combat plane and finally the opportunity comes. He says goodby to his wife and child and r flies a bomber to India, where be becomes a ferry pilot, flying supplies o Burma. After Burma falls be visits General Cbennault and tells him his story. Cbennault promises that the first to arrive from Africa will be his. Scott soon gets a Kittyhawk and flies the skies over Burma. He gets his first Jap. four-moto- 0 CHAPTER XII After following the Salween to the South until I could see Lashio, I turned West for the field and came In right on the treetops, strafing the guna in two passes. On the second run across the field I felt and heard bullets hitting my ship, but didn't see their origin until nearly too late. Down close to the West end of the field, almost under the trees, were Japanese ground soldiers. They were grouped into two squares like the old Macedonian phalanx, and were firing rifles at me. I turned my guns on them and could see the fire taking good toll from the Jap ranks. But even after I had made three runs on them, I noted that they continued to hold their positions, an excellent demonstration of perfect battle discipline. Later on one of the AVQ aces, Tex Hill, told me that he had seen the same thing down in Thailand, and that after he'd strafed one Of the squares of about a hundred men and there were only two or t three on their feet, those few still were shooting at him when he left the field. Leaving Lashio, I went to Katha looking tor a Jap train on the railway, but succeeded only in gatherFrom ing a little more ground-firthere I went back North to Bhamo, and seeing no barges, continued on to Myitkyina, keeping very close to the surface of the Irrawaddy, and strafed the gun positions of the enemy on the field with the last of my ammunition. When I landed I had made almost eight hundred miles, which is just about the limit for a fighter ship, especially since I had strafed at full throttle for several minutes. There were a few holes in my ship, but mostly in the fabric of the rudder and the flippers. The Japs couldnt learn to lead me enough; I guess theyd never hunted game birds. In less than an hour I took oil again and made a shorter trip to Mogaung and Katha, searching without success for a train. After getting more fuel I went back and strafed Myitkyina, turned South, and caught a barge of enemy equipment at Bhamo. Though I didn't sink this river boat, I put at least eight hundred rounds of ammunition in it, and left it settling in the water and drifting slowly with the current. The crew either were killed or jumped into the river. And now, to close the big day, I got in the air again and set my course for the bridge on the Salween about twenty miles West of Paoshan. I had received a radio report that the AVG under Tom Jones, Bishop, and Tex Hill were g the Japs who were constructing a pontoon bridge there. Reaching the rendezvous point, I couldn't see a thing except some burning trucks that the AVG had strafed on the Jap side of the Salween; evidently I had got to the battle too late. I had turned South towards Lashio aad was flying through a moderate rain when, down below on the Burma Road, I saw a troop column marching South, probably towards Chefang. At this point the Burma Road is about eight thousand feet above sea level, rising nearby to its ceiling, just over nine thousand feet. The troops below me were Japanese soldiers, evidently retreating from the mauling they had taken back there on the river, when the AVG had bombed them with bombs. I turned to the side, to watch them they were in heavy rain, and from the standpoint of their own safety they were in the worst possible place on the road. The Burma Road was cut out of red Yunnan clay, and there were s'ep banks on Iboth sides of the besides don't think they had heard me over the roar of the rain, and I know they hadn't seen my ship. I turned my gun switches on and dove for the kill, sighting carefully through my lighted sight. My tracers struck the target dead center, for I had held my fire until the last moment. There was no need of doing this Job at high speed, for if 1 merely cruised I'd have longer to shoot at them and could also look out for the hills hidden in the rain and the clouds. This time there wag no dust, but the red, muddy water went up like a geyser. The six Fifties seemed to cut the column to bits. As I passed over, I could see those who hadnt been hit trying desperately to crawl up the muddy bank to the safety of the trees and slipping back. Turning very close to the hills, I came back over. Every now and then I'd lose them, for the rain was heavy and it was dark in the clouds. anti-aircra- ft L. Scott W N.U - RELEASE so dark that my tracers burned brilliant to tfce ground and then ricocheted away into the air again, still burning. I think it was in my third pass, as the Japs seemed to be giving up the effort to climb off the road, that I decided my ship would be called "Old Exterminator." Their officers must have called double-time- , for they spread out as much as they could and ran South on the road through the rain. I kept on cutting them to pieces until my ammunition was gone; I fired 1,890 rounds into those three or four hundred Japanese, and I dont think more than a handful escaped. As the May days drifted into weeks, I made up little schemes to fool the Japs. Perhaps the schemes worked, perhaps they didnt anyway they eased the disappointment of not getting letters from my wife and little girl and from the other folks back home. During this month I went to China as much as possible to talk to members of the AVG. Some of these pilots I had taught to fly in the Army Schools back home. I had checked quite a few of them and I was older, but I'm glad I realized then BU Syndic!. of the American Volun- teer Group Flying Tigers which made aerial combat history over China and Burma when the Japs were having their inning. The AVG was later inducted into the Army Air Corps, with General Claire Chennault as commander. that these younger pilots knew a million times more about combat than I did. Id corner some of these Flying Tigers and ask them questions, for I longed for the day when Id get to fly on attacking missions with them. At first they were hard to know. The men they had met as represent' ing our Army in China had been pretty harsh with these flyers, who after all had done the greatest job in the war against the enemy. In the beginning they were reluctant to answer my questions or tell me the secrets of their success in combat. They couldnt understand why a Colonel in the Army Air Corps had to know anything. As George Paxton put it; Didnt the Seems Army know everything? like to me," he said, "every army officer we've seen out here knows all the answers. When he found out that I was serious, and that my ambition was to get over there and fly with them, and learn combat from them, so that in the end I might teach it to our younger pilots who would be coming out, he told me things that 1 would never have learned otherwise. "First, he said, leading me off under the wingof one of the "first, the Old Man says, never turn with one of the Zeros. He says thats bad." I learned that the Jap ship would outmaneuver anything and would outclimb the 0 four to one. "But that doesn't matter, Paxton said. 0 is the strongest ship in The the world. Its heavy as hell, but e that makes it just about e the Jap anything, and itll two to one. With those two Fifties r and the four guns in the B's we have done pretty good. Now with the six Fifties in the new anything. Kittyhawks we He told me that Hill, Rector, Bond, Neal, Lawler, and other aces had seen Zeros disintegrate in front of their six Fifties, and went on to advise that I use the good qualities of the against the bad qualities of the Jap, but never try to beat him at his own game climbing and maneuverability. Paxton did me a lot of good he got me my first flight with the AVG on the Emperor's birthday. But the Jap didnt come in. We were the most griped bunch youve ever seen. Everyone up and waiting at three a. m. and then the dirty didn't have the guts to come in! I heard a 6tory on George Paxton that will show you the kind of tough Texan he was. It was down over Rangoon, near Mingaladon airdrome, in the early days of the Burma war. Doctor Gentry, who tbld me the story, said that the squadron George was in was aloft and engaging the Japanese over the field. Looking upstairs, you could see the con-- j g densation streamers the sky, and every now and then a trail of smoke as a Jap Zero burned and plunged towards the earth. Finally eight or nine Zeros ganged up on George Paxton. They got i on his tail and they got all over him high-strun- P-4- out-div- out-div- thirty-calibe- out-gu- n criss-crossin- Ruth Wyeth Spears cut and assemble th wheelbarrew and a complets list of materials required are Included. Ask (or pattern 258 and enclose 15 cents with name and address, direct to: Feature. hind the trees they mentally crossed the boy Paxton off their list of living men. But George and the sturdy were not through. There was the surging scream of an Allison engine's last boost, and the ship skirpmed over the trees and made a belly landing on the soft part of the field. Even then, considering the number of Japs who had been using George for target practice and the way the ship looked, with big holes in the tail, wings, and fuselage, as they drove out tor him in the jeep they expected to find just a body. Instead, they found George Paxton standing by the side of his ship, swearing and shaking his fist at the sky. Doctor Gentry said he looked into the cockpit. TTie instrument panel was just about shot away, the rudder pedals were partly shot to pieces, the armor of the pilots seat was badly bent but Paxton was out there yelling: "I still say those little snakes MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New Yerfc Drawer 18 Enclose IS cents (or Pattern No. 258. Name...... Address.. P-4- 0 is easy to scraps of lumber. The wheel is cut out of wood and held in place with a bolt. You may be able to salvage a metal wheel from some discarded toy. The ducks are cut out of plywood with a jig Eaw or by hand with a coping saw. They are then nailed to the sides of the wheelbarrow and the fun of painting and stenciling cegins. You just trace the pattern in the wood and follow the color chart. wheelbarrow piIIS make from a NOTE Pattern Sit five an actual-altutting and painting pattern (or the large wheelbarrow ducks and (or smaller ducks to be used (or lawn ornaments or applique tesigns. Large diagrams showing how to Th trouble began when he came home one day to report that 'Mummy' had come to school and had taken him to lunch. She had promised him trips to the circus and the movies and given him e penknife ." By KATHLEEN NORRIS Y problem is a maddening one, writes Molly Bates, from Syracuse, New York. I am 21. A year ago I fell in love with my employer, whose married life was one long quarrel. She was in love with an army airman, whom she married later. Lynn and his small boy of eight went to Reno, I went to my sister in On May 17, I flew with the AVG on San Francisco, and we were a mission from Kunming into Indomarried there as soon as he china. Squadron Leader Bishop led was free. A happy month folthe attack. I flew the wing position then Lynn, who is a with R. T. Smith, one of the aces of lowed, to China, and sent was doctor, and the Flying Tigers one of the I came home to pilots I remembered checking dur- Junior and sister-in-laing his training days at Santa Ma- Syracuse, where my and her baby joined us ria, California. We got off the Kunming field with for the duration. afw Chinese-Indo-Chin- noi. g Just about halfway between the border and Hanoi we saw a train coming North on the railroad. Bishop led four of us down to strafe it while the other four stayed at twelve We circled thousand for over the train as we spiralled down to attack, and while the speed of the dive built up I got my on and tried to trim the ship for the increasing speed. As we levelled off and went in for the kill, I saw Bishop's tracers hitting the engine. By the time I got there in number two position, on Bishops wing now the white steam was spraying from the punctured boiler. I saw the engineer and fireman jump from the locomotive, and as we went on down the cars, shooting into them, I saw Jap soldiers and probably Vichy French civilians jumping off too. We came back and set gome of the cars on fire. It was a cinch now, for the train had stopped and was no longer weaving through the narrow curves of the gorge. While the boys talked to one anand I heard other, we Bishop say, "Let's bomb the railroad yards at Laokay with our frags. (Fragmentation bombs.) 1 thought then that was wrong, for we had alerted Laokay as we flew over and they were probably listening to us and would be waiting for us. That didnt matter, though; wed get the railroad yards and gome of the crews too, if they didn't top-cove- r. gun-switc- h anti-aircra- ft look out. We spiralled down to bomb the target and I saw Bishops bombs hit dead center on the round-housThen I dropped mine. Just at that instant Bishops fighter belched fire and smoke, and I saw him slide his canopy open and jump. His chute opened so close in front of my ship that I pulled up for fear I'd run into it. I hung there for what seemed like hours, with my air speed indicating three hundred miles an hour, while black bursts of fire broke all around me. The ship anti-aircra- ft just seemed to stand still, but I saw Bishop floating down towards the river that was the boundary At between China and the very last moment, as I got my nose down and got out of the cenI saw an ter of the unlucky wind blow the chute back or Jap side of to the the river, and Bishop was captured. We heard from him later that he was really a prisoner of the French and was getting along all right. North of Laokay We and went back to Kunming. General Chennault said that the train wasn't worth Bishop we should have left Laokay alone. Indo-Chin- "Junior is an eager, normal, fectionate little fellow and I know he loves me. But the trouble began when he came home one day to report that Mummy had come to school and had taken him to lunch. She had promised him trips to the circus and the movies - and given him a penknife. This mother of his went to San Diego upon her second marriage, and has shown no interest in Junior until now. He asked me if I minded him seeing his mother. Of course I said no, hoping that this exhibition of interest was just a flash in the pan. "I wrote to Lynn about it and he answered with much feeling that Adele was an unbalanced and hysterica) person, bound to excite and hurt Junior, that she had shown no affection for him in his babyhood and that the understanding was that she was to have no responsibility for him whatsoever. He writes that she agreed a year ago to this arrangement. Mother-In-LaInterferes. "But a complication is that my husband's mother, old Mrs. Bates, has always sympathized with Adele, who evidently flatters and amuses her, and while I am working for I still keep my hours as office nurse at the clinic they often pick him up after school, and carry him off for cookies, stories, spoiling him generally. His mother does his homework for him, and he comes home tired, unmanageable, and with no appetite for supper. He wants it debated continually. I have to love my own mother most, dont I, Aunt Mollie? My Granny 6ays that if Daddy gets killed Ill go live with my real mother. "I went to see my mother-in-latried to explain how difficult all this makes things for me. Her answer was that if Lynn were home it would be different; as it is, the child's mother comes first. She lives in a small apartment; Adele also has a very small place but visits and goes about continually. Here we have a spacious backyard and a windmill, and Juniors friends live all about. I went to see our lawyer. He tells me that short of court proceedings I cannot do anything while Lynn is Adele says that she wants way. her child, and in any court, he says, that has tremendous appeal. I don't want to admit myself beaten, but I do want your advice. w LET HER HAVE JUNIOR Molly finds herself in a tangled situation. She is the second wife of a doctor, now in service. Her husband, Lynn, son in left his her care. All went well until Lynns first wife, Adele, began to take a renetced interest in her son. Junior. She now takes him to the show, gives him presents and, in general, spoils him. Lately Adele has been demanding complete possession of her child, and hinting at legal action. Lynn, writing f China, is entirely from opposed to this. It all places Molly in a difficult and annoying position. Miss Norris counsels Molly to give in gracefully to Adele s wishes. If hen Adele has had the care and worry that an entails, she will probably be glad enough to relinquish him after a little while. Then, says Miss Norris, Molly can make her own terms about taking him back. eight-year-ol- d t tt.M. C. itngaa rf Saturday aaniag 9:00 A. M.t M. W. T. KIDO KG1R KSEI KDYL KTFl KOB KOA 8:00 A. M., P. W. T. Columbus Tall, Dignified, Redheaded, Says Prof. Christopher Columbus was a redhead until middle age, but his hair had turned white by the time he made his voyage to America in 1492. Thats the opinion of Professor Daniel Sargeant of Haverford university, after exhaustive research into the life of the noted explorer. "Columbus was tall and of dignified mien, with red hair and beard, a long ruddy face, clear gray eyes and acquiline nose. He evinced a taste for yellow in beads and for crimson in caps, cloaks and shoes, Professor Sargeant said. well-buil- t, Td KHQ VWWWW Relief At Last For Your Cough Creomulsion relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell yon a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you must like the way It quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds. Bronchitis Have Been a Goner . ; far-of- eiglit-year-ol- d lng final in such a course, but just now that will be much the wisest plan. Adele's actions smack just a little of malice; she is evidently trying to annoy you. This will com pletely reverse the situation, and call the bluff of both these women. An boy is a great care and responsibility; he is noisy, de manding, destructive, he cannot be left alone in an apartment, and yet he cant be taken to week-enparties and dances. The care of his clothes and meals is a real burden, and to be away from his friends will make him all the more restless and dissatisfied. Let them try it awhile, and get a good rest yourself eight-year-ol- d d before, upon some pretext or anoth er, they send him back to you. And when they do, make your own terms. Gain Lynn's Sympathy. If Lynn rages about this, rise above it. Merely answer him as amiably as you can that you talked to your lawyers, who assured you that you have no authority, and that you will not make a legal battle of it until Lynn comes home. Go on after that with the usual chatty, affectionate letters, as if the question was closed once and for all. If you treat it in this spirit, with no ugliness or argument, Lynns sympathy will inevitably go to you, his young wife being harassed by these older women. And very shortly you will begin to receive messages that Junior would like to come home for the week-enthat perhaps it would be better for him to finish the school year under your guidance, since it is so much nearer. Then you can say "yes or "no, just as you feel inclined. If it is yes, be sure to stipulate that only occasional visits are to be permitted, for the child's own sake, to his mother and his grandmother. Often, in this life, the bad thing turns into the good. Often by con0 ceding a point, accepting a humiliating defeat, we win through to a My advice, Molly, is that you surrender the child at once to his mothreal, rather than a seeming, victory. er. When Lynn gets home he can To lose the first trick, in this case, reclaim him, for there will be noth- - actually will give you all the trumps. ice-crea- a. STAFF SERGEANT JOHN SCHUSTER, Slellon, New Jersey infantryman from 7lit the ditch, boys; here come the Jerries. Like the rest of the I dove for the nearest hedgerow in a Normandy field on the men road to St. Lo. The planes dumped their bombs along the road. Only one missed, and that one hit near me. J was badly wounded by the shell fragments and the next thing I knew I teas in an evacuation hospital and an Army nurse was giving me blood plasma. If it hadnt been for that Id have been a goner. Im an obi h&nd at plasma for Ive had it twenty times. Now transfusions. There were Army theyre giving me nurses with me all the time and, tired as many of them were, time with us wounded men, helping theyd spend their to bring us bark to where tee thought things were really worth fighting for. We need all the nurses we can get. If you can, join the Army Nurse Corps. ALL Women Con Help! If you are untrained take a home nursing or nurses aide course. If you are a senior cadet nurse serve your final six months in an Army hospital. If you are a registered nurse join the Army Nurse Corps. You may mean the difference between life and death to our wounded men. Visit or write your local Red Cross chapter for full information and application blank. Or communicate with the Surgeon General, U. S. Army, Washington 23, D. C. low-flyin- g whole-bloo- off-dut- d y NURSES ARE NEEDED pleate send me information on how to hc!p tho U. S Army Nurae Corp to cart for our wounded aotdierc. NOW! am a registered mira . am a aonior cadet nure I am untrainod but want to ioarn I n I Q Repairing Blankets t, Indo-Chine- (TO BE CONTINUED! fM vs KFI KPO shoot! our fighters and headed South over the lakes at twelve thousand feet In a few minutes we passed Meng-tz- e and the clouds thinned out and the weather got pretty clear. We went just about over Laokay, on a the border. Then we followed the River Rouge through the very crooked gorge in the mountains, on South towards Ha- On x Even his Texas boots were practically shot off. Two doctors picked rivets from Georges back all the afternoon, and Jap explosive particles from his feet, legs and bands. The worst injuries had been caused by the Japanese explosive bullets hitting the seat armor and driving the rivets through into Georges back. But for the armor, those explosives would have been in Paxtons back, instead of just the rivets. e. WNU By He fought his way partially out of the trap, but two of them right on his tail literally shot him to pieces. George's ship was seen to trail smoke and dive straight down, from about fifteen thousand feet Doctor Gentry said they watched the stricken Forty and knew who it was by the number. As it disappeared be- can't Symbol Duck Design Makes a Jolly Toy, Ornament for Lawn or Applique When the Losing Woman Wins fifty-calib- re . Kathleen Norris Says: Hcti min his friends. New yarn or ravelings from old blankets should be used to darn holes or breaks in a blanket as soon as they appear. When possible, use wool pieces for patches and re-- ' Because wool blaninforcements. kets do not fray, stitching without turning is a quick finish on heavy blankets with worn selvages. To replace worn or shabby binding. sateen, or rayon in 8 satin weave makes attractive edges. The binding should be machine stitched with fairly long sUtches. Address. .State. City. Fill out this coupon and tend It to tho Surgeon Central, U. S. Army, Washington 25 O. Cw or to your local Red Crow Recruitment Committee 2? , U. S. ARMY RPB W NURSE CORPS , ' |
