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Show vm Wl m SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH I SBCPH SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK Lovable Sleepy Time Gift Doll (Pattern No. 5643) send 16 cents in sthss, num-beyour name, address and the pattern 4 Col, Robert L.Scotf Robert Scott, a The story tuns far: a begins pursuit net Point graduate, after winning bis wings When the war 7 J,n. Field, Texas. a m us be is an instructor in and fearing he will always be an writes to many generals a chance at combat Hying, comes. He a at last the opportunity to his wife and baby and goodby W where he picks up his leaves for Florida, He flies to India where Flying Fortress. some time he is a ferry pilot, flying he does not like T lies tat0 Burma, butbombed and burn-iover (Ms Job. They fly After Chinese towns as Burma falls. of Japs he meets hands the in is Burma his party. Ceneral Stilwell and train-Panam- Cali-frni- I0, SSSfcr CHAPTER X Back at the eld I found that loaded the transport with Payne had wounded Ghurkas. In forty sick or g had to keep more from aboard by threatening them we had with our guns, for after all, off field for taking small same the swung Johnny for landing. wed had we were the ship into the wind and We off in some six hundred feet went in many times again, after runthe Ghurkas had lengthened the moved we and finally way slightly, out most of the soldiers before the monsoon rains ran us out But Ill never forget Captain Paynes feat in that first landing of a transport at get-tin- fact, we Fort Hertz. Following the defeat of the Allied armies down in southern and central Burma, the refugees poured to the North and to the Northwest. Those to the Northwest tried to walk out by the Lido Road, which was nothing more than a game trail. Many of them died, and of those came out many died after entering India. I heard stories of bodies by the hundreds, almost buried in the mud, all along the trail from Burma to India. Those who kept coming North from Shwebo up the railroad to Myitkyina finally wound up on Myitkyinas small field, anxiously waiting for aerial transportation over the remaining one hundred and ninety miles to Dinjan. Some of the loads that ferry pilots would have packed into those DC-3- s curdled the blood of the aeronauti-ca- l engineers who designed the ship. as the airlines or DC-The called the Douglas transport, was constructed to carry a full load of twenty-fou- r passengers or six thousand pounds. The maximum altitude was expected to be about 12,000 feet but we later went a minimum of 18,000 across the hump, and sometimes we had to go to 21,500 to miss the storms and ice. Carrying the refugees, we broke all the rules and regulations because we had to. There were women and children, pregnant women, and women so old that they presumably couldnt have gone to the altitude that was necessary to cross into India. There were hundreds of wounded British soldiers with the most terrible gangrenous infections. At the beginning we used to load the wounded first, those who were worst off; but later, when we realized that with our few transports wed never get them all out, That we took only the was a hard decision to make, but we looked at it finally from the theory that those must be saved who could some day fight again. I remember one of the bravest men I have ever seen, who helped us load and control the refugees on the field at Myitkyina. He was a big, bearded Sikh officer, one of the aristocratic British colonials. He must have been a fine looking man. He worked religiously with the refugees and soldiers, always efficient, always trying to send those out who should have gone. I can see him now, standing there in his tattered uniform, with his turban perfectly placed on his dark head, his beard waving in the wind from the idling propellers. He would patiently herd the passengers into the transport, sometimes holding hysterical people back physically, and in more crucial times pulling his pistol, but never becoming flustered or excited. I sometimes think he was the greatest soldier I have ever seen. Day after day, as the Japs moved North and ever closer to Myitkyina, he would be there, doing his thankless job. When the end came, and I knew that the field would be taken in the next few hours, I went to him and explained the situation. I found, however, that he knew more about it than I knew myself. The refugees had told him, he said, and he knew this was the last day we could land there. So I asked him to get aboard my ship and leave for India; after all, he was an officer and could best he used when once again the British entered Burma. The Sikh officer refused with majestic pride. His orders had been to stay there and supervise the evacuation of those refugees, and he considered that trust sacred. We had to leave him, and when I last saw him he was herding the numbers of stricken people on to the North, towards Fort Hertz and the blind valley that led inevitably to the impassable mountains towards Tibet. I guess the Japs finally got him. But I know how he must have died, with that pistol in his hand, nd finally just the knife and I know that several Japs died before they killed him. The winds from the Indian Ocean grew stronger, and the monsoon season began. And oh boy, the rains who able-bodie- o, ever-increasi- W.NU release came! The clouds built up so black I read the technical files and learned and high and thick that you could every little item about the Allison no longer go around them or over engine and the engine controls. I them you had to just get on instru- memorized the armament section of ments and bore through. In some the book, and by morning I was ways, though, it was a relief for ready te put theory into practice and there in the safety of Gods ele- test it out. ments the Japs couldnt bother our That morning I found a painter. unarmed ships. Many times I heard Buying red and white paint from the the remark that there was always village, I had him paint the sharks something good in everything even mouth on the lower nose of the Curbad weather. I can hear still some tiss Kittyhawk. On that afternoon of those pilots griping, saying they of April 30, I remember that as never thought the day would come I waited for the paint to dry, I when theyd be out looking for bad walked round and round my ship, weather. But it was the truth. With admiring the graceful lines, a feelthe Jap fighter ships all over Burma ing of in my heart I gloried pride now, it was comforting to know that in the slender fuselage, in the knife-lik- e there were rain clouds to dodge into edges of the little wings. The with the transports. nose of the spinner looked like sharp On April 26, the AVG finally had an arrow to me the nose that to leave Loiwing, due to the failure sloped back to the leering sharks of the net to the South. mouth. At sight of the wicked-lookin- g They moved on back to Paoshan by blast tubes of the six Mengshih, and finally to Kunming. guns in the wings, I felt my chest One day about that time I went over expand another inch. This was to see General Chennault, for I had shark-nose- d dynamite, all right but a question I wanted to ask him even then I did not quite realize one that Id carried on my mind what a weapon this fighter ship could ever since Id been shanghaied off be when properly handled. the dream mission. I still wanted I dont know how long I walked to fight. Though this Ferry Com- around the fighter admiring it and body. I caressing its wicked-lookin- g know the paint on the sharks mouth hadnt dried yet but Id held the suspense as long as I could. This was as if I were rolling old sherry around on my tongue; sometime I had to really taste it. Now, stepping on the walkway of the left wing, I threw first one leg and then the other over the side of the fuselage and slid into the little cockpit of the fighter. As I adjusted the rudder pedals and fastened my safety belt, I primed the engine a few shots. Turning on the toggle switches, I energized and engaged the starter with my foot, and now I heard the Allison break into a steady roar as I moved the mixture control from idle cutoff. Out in front of me a long (jistance, it seemed the heavy, three-blade- d eleven-foo- t, prop became a gray blur in my vision. An engine, Allison, or any doesnt have to warm up, and idling will soon foul the plugs. I was taxy. ing almost as soon as the engine settled down to the steady roar. Lieut. Gen. Joseph (Vinegar Very proudly I taxied out for my most of popuJoe) Stilwell, one the take-of- f in the new Kittyhawk. first lar generals in the United States All around me on the airdrome I who of seen a lot has fighting could feel the army, jealous eyes of every on the Chinese front. American and British pilot, even coolies or mand was important, Id been those of the earth-boun- d trained for a fighter pilot. And here at least my ego thought it felt their I was, just sitting up there in a looks. During the test flight over the transport, like a clay pigeon for the ' dark green acres of Assam tea garJapanese. I still remembered that for nine dens, sweeping low over the Brahyears I bad been too young; then maputra and then climbing steeply when war came I was suddenly told for the Naga Hills, I contemplated I was too old to be a fighter pilot. with keen anticipation the wonderful When had I been the right age? days that lay ahead. Here was no I wanted to tell General Chennault defenseless transport, no lumbering e bomber that story. At the great age of and unwieldy thirty-fouI just didnt consider that here was a fighting weapon, with a I was too old to fly fighter planes heart and a soul like the other comand with his help I meant to prove bat ships. But more than that, here an instrument of war with a it Even with only one fighter ship was in the sky with our transports, I distinct individuality, a temperaknow I could give the boys in the mental devil of the skies. Truly like transports just a little more con- a beautiful woman, it went smoothly fidence. Besides, I kind of thought and sweetly at times; and then, as I had a date with destiny, so to speed increased, it might yaw danas the pressures built up. speak or at least a date with a Jap gerously somewhere over there in Burma. I Again, it could become completely had to be flown every desperately wanted to slide in be- unstable. It hind one of those enemy bombers second of the time; ignore it for one second and there was no autoor fighters and shoot him down. matic pilot to keep it on course, Finally I had my chance to tell no to help you it would fall Gento the story of my ambitions soon would be out of and very away eral Chennault. Busy as he was, he control. Yes, like a beautiful womlistened to my case, and even as I it demanded constant attentalked I admired the great man an, There were no extra memtion. more and more. Here, I'knew, was bers in the crew to worry about, as as leader well and officer a great and here in Assam there were no a grdat pilot. Here was an Amer- other fighter ships to worry about. ican who was a General in the Chi- We were both isolated individuals. nese Army, held by the Chinese in When I had landed and had taxied admiration and respect a soldier back to my niche in the heavy jungle who could see the problems that his the field, I trees surrounding modem war imposed on land armies climbed out and reverently patted as well as on navies and air power. the ship on the cowling. The 0 Here, I knew, was genius. was fast becoming a personality to I told the General that I wanted me. one single 0 to use in India and Next day I tested my guns and Burma. I knew they were scarce, dropped aluminum-powde- r practice but I would promise him that noth- bombs, bombs that leave a splash ing would happen to it, and the in- of aluminum paint on the ground or stant he needed the ship I would fly an aluminum slick on the water it back to him in China. The Gen- where they hit, in order to show the eral smiled. Im sure he was think- pilot how near he has come to the ing back and wondering whether, target. I aimed at the black snags if he were in my position, he in the river with the guns, then wouldnt have begged for the same came around again and tried to dive the snags with the chance. He didnt give me some and glide-bomexcuse that he well might have little bombs. I was trying to train belonged to the myself, trying to make up for the used that the Chinese Government, that it would four years that I had been away have been against regulations, and from pursuit aviation and from tacso forth. General Chennault knew tical training, in the art of killing. as I needed a lot of this gunnery and that I would use that "shark, we called the against the bombing, for my life was very soon Japs. He made his own regula- to depend on it. tions then; what did it matter who Ill never forget the first time I killed the Japs and who used the pressed the trigger of my guns and roar of the so long as they were being heard the machine guns. Just six used for China? By the twinkle in his eyes I knew by pressing a small black button bethat I had won my case. The Gen- low the rubber grip on my stick 1 eral said, Some Forties are on the could make three lines of orange way from Africa now. You take the tracers from each wing converge out next one that comes through. Use it ahead of my fighter and as long as you want to. Thats the meet on the snags in the BrahmaNearly a hundred shots a way I got the single fighter plane putra. Second those six Fifties threw out, that was to work out of Assam. and the muddy river turned to foam near the targets. The sense of their With anxious eyes I waited, lookpower impressed me as the recoil ing to the West for the next sharks slowed me many miles per hour in to come to India. came or my dive; I could feel my head snap Kittyhawks Three from the deceleratioa to us from Africa on April 29. Two forward went on to Kunming for the AVG, Sometimes when the guns on only stayed with me. one side would fire, the unequal but Number It was mine, and I was as prqud of kicks from the recoil would almost it as of the first bicycle my father turn the ship. (TO BE CONTINUED) had given me. All through the T fifty-calib- re high-power- four-engin- r, co-pil- ot P-4- P-4- - b s, P-4- fifty-calib- re fast-movi- r. SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK New Montgomery St. San Francisco, Calif. Enclose 16 cents for Pattern 149 X7UAT was the best ball game ever pitched, when you consider the combined quality of pitching on both sides? This query came up recently when we were wishing travelers good luck to such war-zon- e as Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, Ducky Medwick, Dixie Walker, Paul Wa-nand Paul Derringer. None of them went back far enough to offer any complete check on the intricate situation. The only candidate for the honor present was Carl Hubbell, one of the great pitchers of all time who innocently became involved in the argument. As I figure it, there were three Carl Hubbell such games that belong in one compact and select group. The first took place in 1908 when Addie Joss of Cleveland beat Ed Walsh of the Chicago White Sox 1 to 0. In this game lean and lanky Joss, a great pitcher badly overlooked, pitched one of the few perfect games in baseball. Not a White Sox reached first base. Against this flawless exhibition Ed Walsh struck out 15 Cleveland hitters and allowed only two hits. And m those now forgotten days Cleveland had a mighty slugging team headed by Nap Lajoje. 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It never spoils, and tastes fine. efThis is actually a surprisingly cough relief. fective, quick-actin- g Promptly, you feel it taking hold.Irri-It loosens the phlegm, soothes the tated membranes and makes breath- ing easy. Youve never seen anything better for prompt and pleasing results. Pinex Is a special compound of proven Ingredients, In concentrated form, a most reliable soothing agent for throat and bronchial membraqes. Money refunded if it doesnt please you in every way. Game No-H- it This was a pitching thriller that none who saw it will ever forget I was talking about this game recently with Charley Hughes of the Detroit Athletic club who also contest. covered the big-arThat game is my pick, Charley said. Except for one wild throw, neither team would have scored against Joss and Walsh before nightfall. There is no greater thrill than to see a perfect game pitched no one to reach first especially when the other pitcher is allowing only two hits and fanning 15 men. double pitchThe next ing entry we recall was the meeting between Fred Toney of Cincinnati and big Vaughn of the Cubs on May 2, 1917. In that game these two pitchers turned in a double exhibition that has never been equalled. At the end of nine innings neither had allowed a hit. 'A double it game fir one" afternoon was something for the recnine inning .games are ord. No-h- it rare enough and when you get two pitchers offering the same fare on a single occasion, you get close to the limit. What abAit the game." Mel asked, that Carl Hubbell pitched Cardinals against the July 2. 1933? all-st- ASK MOTHER, SHE KNOWS . no-h- hard-hittin- g Hurling 18 Innings Hubbell promptly blushed. Ott said. you about it, Carl beat the Cardinals one to nothing after 18 innings Tex Carle-toworked the first 15 innings for the Cardinals and Jess Haines the last 3. They also pitched great ball. You have to, allowing only one run in 18 innings. But that isnt all of it. If you pitched perfect ball through 18 innings. only 54 men would come to bat. Well, as I recall it, only 57 men came to bat against Carl that day. Maybe only 56. Now its great to pitch 9 fine innings. But think what it means to pitch 18 great innings. "How about it. Carl?" 1 asked. Carl changed the subject slightThe best game I ever pitched ly. was against he the Dodgers. said That was Memorial day, 1940. They got one hit. but that day I had most of m.v stuff working. Eetter than your 18 inning game I asked. and your think so," he said. But that 18 inning thing was a long after- Ill tell n noon Heres Mel Ott on we beat Dizzy Dean and the Cardinals one to a funny said again. Later angle, the second game that nothing same day 27 runless innings for the Cardinals. Anyway, we have offered you three of the greatest pitching contests of all time, slipping on back a mere matter of 36 years. There they stand on their own records h The gem of 1908. n The jewel of 1917. in Joss-Wals- Toney-Vaugh- The Hubbell-Carleton-Hain- es terpiece of mas- 1933, 18 innings. It would be interesting to get a vote from those who follow baseball as to which was the top masterpiece of the three. All Around Fighters How many know that in addition to football ability this navy team has set a new record in the way of fighting or boxing talent? Here they are Capt. Ben Chase, guard, was the regimental heavyweight champion in 1943 and the in 1944. Leo Bramlett, runner-u- p crack end, is heavyweight champion of the academy. Clyde Scott, from Arkansas, won the middleweight championship oi the Plebe summer tournament. 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