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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. IIYRUM. UTAH MY 4. Col. Robert L. Scoff story thus tar: After graduating from West Point, Robert Scott wins his wings at Kelly Field and takes np combat Be has been an instructor for flying. four years when the war breaks out, and Is told he Is now too old for combat flying. Be appeals to several Generals and is finally given an opportunity to get Into the fight Be flies a bomber Into India, but on arrival is made a ferry pilot and this does not suit him. After paying a visit to Gen. Chennault he gets a and soon becomes a one man air in the skies over Burma. Later force he is made C.O. of the 23rd Fighter Group but still keeps knocking down Jap planes. Bis Old Exterminator is badly mauled and he gets a new k tour-engi- P-4- P-4- shark-mouth- P-4- one-minu- P-4- . V 20,-00- y Anti-aircra- ft k t WWU. RELEASE bomber formation again, I felt proud of the crews of those perfectly spaced ships. This really was like a football game: the bombers were carrying the ball while we in the ran the interference. I imagined General Haynes, down there in the lead bomber, grinning as he thought of dropping a few hundred more of his leaflet souvenirs to the Japs, Compliments of the old broken-dow- n transport pid lot along with at least sixty bombs. Big Butch Morgan, the best bombardier in the Air Force, had probably wormed his huge bulk through the tunnel into the nose of Haynes bomber and CHAPTER XXIII was even now intensely interested in It had been only recently, when he his pet bomb-sigNow I could even smell the freshhad been taken from his thirteen bombers on the way to ness of the Pacific. The sky had never been so blue. The beauty of Mast Tokyo, that he had been to transports. The Japs must the day and the beauty of those have known just how to get under weapons flying so smoothly under Ms skin, but in die end I think the us made me forget the scratching of the oxygen mask on my sunKnowledge worked against them. Now he was getting back at them burned neck. It was a Joy to look shark-moutby having thousands of little leaflets back and see the six grinning at me. printed in several languages, espe- on the other Some day, I thought Jap mothers cially in Japanese. They read: were going to frighten their children COMPLIMENTS OF THE OLD by referring to them and reminding BROKEN-DOWTRANS. the brats of Nippon that their fathers had more than likely had that PORT PILOT 0 for a last He used to drop some of these view of an American memory. Bn every bombing mission he led. As we got closer to the target Hed go out and tie some to each we split our formation of fighters bomb; put them in the bomb bay 10 that they fell out when the doors automatically. Tex Hill, Hampshire, were opened; even throw them out and Sher stayed with me; Marks on the opposite over the Japanese-occupie- d cities took the other three that he blasted. I knew now that he flank of the bombers. The country was getting a new supply ready for below had become lower in elevation but was green and still hilly. Hongkong. Over the radio, ns we reached a Towards the end of October came the word we had so long been waiting for. Victoria harbor was filled with Japanese shipping. In deepest gecret we got ready to go. Our ships would leave from Kunming, but we would of course use the intermediate bases in the section, 500 miles to the East. Hongkong, you will recall, is about 325 miles Southeast of Kweilin. It is protected by surrounding enemy fighter fields at Canton and Kowloon. Our objectives would be the shipping in the harbor, the shipping at the docks in Kowloon, and the ships at the drydocks In Hongkong. Early on the morning of October 25 our twelve bombers took off from Yunnan for Kweilin, and shortly afterwards Hill, Alison, Holloway and I led the fighters off. We were all to infiltrate into Kweilin, a few ships at a time, so as not to alert the coast of eastern China. For two weeks I had worried about this attack. I thought it would The men were all showing combat come any day, and because of the fatigue and needed a rest. They tension I couldnt sleep. were tired ont by almost constant When I learned that word hadnt alert without relief for, twenty-on- e come, Id spend another sleepless days. Many of their flying mates night. I got the doctor to give me had been killed In action, and this something to make me sleep and I helped to lower their morale. had a headache the next day. I knew "my wind was up, as the point North of Macao, came the jabBritish say but why in hell didnt bering of Japanese voices on our we go on and get the attack over frequency, and we knew from its with! ominous sound that they were warnBut now I was on the way. I ing of our attack. s of the could see the I tensed a little and looked about all around, and the whole for enemy planes. Far to my left thing was easy just what I had I could see the three rivers meetwanted all the time. We sat down ing at Canton, could see two fields intervals from which I knew Zeros were takat Kweilin at at eight oclock. The bombers were ing off to intercept us. We had bysoon in, and the Chinese were busy passed Canton purposely by thirty servicing the field full of ships. They miles. I saw the bombers changwere the happiest people I had ever ing course: we were around Canton seen. Theyd point towards Japan now, and were going to steer straight and point down with their thumbs for the North of Kowloon peninsula. and say, "Bu-haThe blue Pacific looked friendly, All of us were proud to be going. reminding me of the southern CaliBut as I looked at those seven fornia coast. The old, familiar fog escorting ten bombers, I could not banks that should have been coverhelp feeling apologetic for that great- ing San Clemente and Catalina were est country in the world that we shrouding instead the Ladrones Iswere representing. Oh, God, if the lands, with only their hilltops visiday could soon come when we could ble, sticking out from the fog on the China Sea. go against this enemy with a thouWe were turning over Macao, sand bombers, even a hundred bombers! where the Clippers used to land. To Maybe the small fighter force that the South I could see another Jap we had made us lucky ones who field, Sanchau Island. Now to the were privileged to go resolve all right was Hongkong Island, shaped the more that We would make up in like a kidney and mountainous, just quality what we lacked in quantity. about nine miles long and three or Personally I felt like a veteran foot- four miles across. I could make out ball player who has been on the the indentations of the romanticbench and has nr w been called into sounding bays whose names I knew the big game. Nearly a year beSandy, Telegraph, Kellet, and Reto fallen had when Hongkong pulse. There were points of land fore, the Japanese attacks from the Asi-- 1 jutting towards the mainland Quaratic mainland of Kowloon, I had ry Point, with its Naval Drydock, sworn that I would see the first and Shek Tong Tsui, the point over bombs hit the Crown Colony. I had which we would fight our aerial batno idea then that I would lead the tle. Reaching towards the island Kowloon peninfighters, that I would shoot down like a finger was it by the blue from in that the separated raid, sula, fighters Japanese waters of Victoria harbor. Near the we would be intercepted by a suof land closest to perior force of the enemy, but that end of the spit in less than three minutes after the Hongkong, I saw the large modern All of us knew interception there would be only the Peninsular Hotel. and staff Generals S. Air U. Force of that the Japanese Army hips womwith their there harbor. officers Victoria slept over en.. Now I had the familiar "wind up I crossed around and over Genfeeling that precedes combat The hands perspired freely. eral Haynes and his formation, palms of my Far below I As I wiped them on the legs of my watching vigilantly. and Tak Kai on airdrome, dust was sweat the I that saw saw trousers like mud; it had mixed with the red knew that enemy ships were taking dust of Kweilin Field through which oft to attack us. My throat felt dry and I had trouble swallowing; I we had taken oil. 0 turned my gun switch oft and on Our altitude kept increasing to sevenbelow at down nervously. while feet, doors Now I saw the bomb-bateen thousand were the medium bombers in Javelin formation: two opening, and I couldnt keep the Vees of three, and the last element tears of excitement from burning was begina diamond of four. We passed one my eyes. of the river junction check-point- s ning to dot the sky with black and that enabled me to compute our white puffs. As I dove almost to the I could feel ground speed. In fifty minutes I levelack-ac-of the bombers, rock my fighter ship I could see the glint of the sun on the to watch for the enemy the Pactfi Ocean. As I saw the kept Kitty-haw- . Sliirtwaisters Are Top Favorites Buttons and a Bow for Accent CCD-FHL- 0T Th A SETTING CIRCLE PATTERNS g fighters that must be coming. I saw the yellow bombs begin to 6 yr. fall In long strings, imposed on the dark green of the world below. They got smaller and smaller as the noses pointed slowly down. Remembering my movie camera, I tried to take New Method Cost Now pictures of the explosions. The bombs seemed to take years to fall, Reduced to Six Cents and I began to think they were all duds. The ack-ac- k burst closer as 'T'HE chlorinated phenol dunking the Japs got the range while we method of treating fence posts, a went straight in. I know I was comparatively new wood preservanever more excited in all my life. tive, can be used at a cost of from I yelled, Okay, Hirohito we have 5 to 6 cents per post. Tests conlots more where those came from! ducted at the University of Idaho I kept looking behind and under us experiment station show that the for the bombs to burst. life of soft wood posts, properly And then I saw the first white exptreated by this method, will be from 15 to 20 years. They found that the losion-right on the docks of Kowloon. After that they came so fast you couldnt count them. I let my camera run as the explosions turned from white to black there were sv now. I could see the flash of the guns from the North shore of Hongkong Island, as we conI tinued across Victoria harbor. risked another look at the target; it was covered with smoke from one end to the other. Then I got my eyes back to searching for enemy interceptors. Why in hell didnt the bombers turn for home? They had dropped the damn bombs, but they were still Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more tlm going on endlessly towards that point Is required In filling orders for a few ol of Shek Tong Tsui. All of us were the most popular pattern numbers. keyed up. But then the long javelin Send your order to: of began to turn to the right now they Mission accomplished SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. had the down-hirun to base, and I 149 New Montgomery St. rebegan to get that old feeling of San Francisco, Calif. 8 lief. Then, somehow, I felt cheated. bottom of the Enclose 25 cents in coins for each will last the life post Where were the enemy fighters? I of the pattern desired. Smart Shirtwaister top. raised my camera, sighted again, Size... Pattern No Not only is it possible to treat CIIIRT WAIST frocks have won a and took the formation as it swung wardrobe. in Name favored spot every fence posts, but fence rails, gates, over the burning docks. Address barn sills, bridge timbers, irriga- Theyre versatile, smart and a I saw I as Then, glanced about, tion gates, and similar pieces can boon to the busy homemaker. This button-fron- t them, silhouette after silhouette, be treated. model has a set-i- n belt figure-moldin- g climbing terribly steeply towards skirt. and graceful Chlorinated phenol is a liquid conthe bombers. I know now that they can and full be obtained centrate, had got there from Kai Tak below Pattern No. 1280 is designed for sizes in four minutes; they had made the strength or diluted with various 34. 36. 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size 36. r or short sleeves, requires sixteen thousand feet in that short amounts of oil. Buying in concenof 35 or material; 2 time. I felt my camera drop to my trate form saves shipping and stor- 37a yards material. can then be diluted in pro- yards of it age; to the then hit my knee, drop lap, really soothing because Frock for Tot metal floor of the fighter. I was fum- portions of one part of concentrate to 14 parts of diesel oil, stove they're really on now for mike button the bling tpOR a young miss, a dainty long.medicated the throttle; then I was calling: oil or old crank case drainings. Not to love. sure waisted frock shes Zerooooos! At only for this purpose but for spray- The Peter Pan collar and cuffs are Bandits ahead eleven oclock. Fumbling again for ing purposes, it is usually possible edged in gay ric rac, and the bodthe throttle quadrant, shoving ev- to secure crank case drainings at ice boasts a parade of buttons. One service stations at little cost. erything as far forward as I could, I of the prettiest frocks for a tot marvelled at the steepness of the COUGH youll see. climb the enemy ships were maintwelve Zeros at I called: Agriculture taining. LOZENGES Pattern No. 1279 is designed for sizes 2, Size 3 requires lti 3. 4. 6 and 6 years. oclock, to designate their direction the News In Vt 35 Millions of or use F & F Lozenges to n material; yards yard from us. I heard Tex W. J. DRYDEN for contrasUng collar; ls, yards ric rac give their throat a 15 minute soothHill reply: Hell, I see em. I could to trim. ing, comforting treatment that hear the jabber of the Japs still tryreaches all the way down. For White Ash. to our block frequency. ing coughs, throat irritations or hoarseAmerash The is white not only ness resulting from colds or smoking, I was giving now, aiming for Boothe with F & F. Box, only 10jT. the lead Zero, turning my gunsight icas leading hardwood but its most on and oil, a little nervously check- important ash. It from Nova ing again and again to see that the grows h I jerked Scotia westward was at on. release and felt the to Minnesota and the belly-tan- k n bamboo tank southward almost underslung If the knob is pulled off a tightto the Gulf of drop off. We rolled to our backs ly closed drawer, use a plunger a is Mexico. It to gain speed for the attack and or a large suction cup to open the for the Zeros. I kept stately tree 75 to went hell-bedrawer. 125 feet high. the first Zero right in the lighted wood of The sight and began to fire from over a To rewind the spring in the rollthousand yards, for he was too close the white ash is heavy, hard, strong er of a window shade, insert the a seasons takes and well, stiff, good to the bombers. Orange tracers flattened in end the lower part taste or from is free odor. and polish too. were coming from the Lew Spirited Moods Its proincipal uses are for handles, of a keyhole. And Fatigue Are Often Symptoms Five hundred yards before I got motor vehicle furniture, cooperage, Of Constipation I 0 to the Zero, I saw another ' For a grease spot on wallpaper, parts, sporting and athletic goods, For constipation take Natures bearing the number 151 speed in as well as railroad ties, veneer and try making a paste of cornstarch Remedy (NR Tablets). Contains no and take it. That was Tex Hill. He fueL and water. Apply this to the spot chemicals, no minerals, no phenol defollowed the Zero as it tried to and allow to dry. Then brush it rivatives. NR Tablets are different turn sharply into the bombers and off, and the spot will be gone. act different. Purely vegetable Cows from Select his Tex down. shot it spun Dairy a combination of 10 vegetable intight turn as the Jap burst into gredients formulated over 60 years ' On Standard Basis Real bed comfort depends largeflames. I took the next Zero they ago. Uncoated or candy coated, their under the sheet upon ly being In selecting dairy cows certain action is dependable, thorough, yet seemed to be all over the sky now. so firmly it will remain in tucked gentle. Get a 25(i Convincer Box. I went so close that I could see the definite points must be looked for. smooth and tight. Miter each corCaution: Take only as directed. the most important are: pilots head through the glass can- Among ner, then tuck under the sheet. TO -- NIGHT, TOMORROW ALRIGHT NS 1. which that was Ample digestive capacity, opy and the little not retracted, and I knew it was a means good length, width and depth A pleasing flavor thats someLAXATIVE Navy Zero the little wheel was built of body. what different in candied sweet of a carrier. for the arresting-gea- r 2. A good constitution as shown potatoes may be had by adding My tracers entered the cockpit and by great chest capacity. the juice of one lemon to the cansmoke poured back, hiding the molasses (or sweetening), and 3. A large udder of soft quality. opy, and I went by. butter. As I turned to take another ship below me, I saw four airplanes fallThoroughly and frequently masONE WORD SUGGESTION sage any reddened areas you noing in flames towards the waters of Victoria harbor. I half rolled again tice on a sick person whom you FOR ACID INDIGESTIO- Nare caring for at home. Keep presand skidded in my dive to shake sure off such spots with a slightany Zero that might be on my tail. 0 I saw another shooting at a ly inflated rubber ring or small soft pillows. Jap, but there was a Zero right on his tail. I dove for this one. He grew in my sights, and as my tracW ers crossed in front of him he turned A good type dairy cow. into me. I shot him down as his LM ship seemed to stand still in the 4. The rump should be long, wide vertical bank. The ship was three or four hundred yards from me, and and level and the hip bones should it fell towards the water for a timei be wide apart Muscular Aches and Pains Stiff Joints Bruises that seemed ages. An explosion 5. The hide should be thin, loose medibones of the and black and was' there and pliable, came, only smoke; then I could see the ship um size, with the head showing genagain, falling, turning in a slow spin, eral refinement. 6. Must have dairy temperament, down down down. I shot at everything I saw. Some- or tendency and abiVty to produce times it was just a short burst as the milk. 7. Generally the laiger the dairy Jap went in for our bombers. Sometimes I fired at one that was turn- cow the better. Size and quality, ing, and as Id keep reefing back on however, must be properly corremy stick, my ship would spin, and lated. Id recover far below. I shot down another ship that didnt see me. I got it with one short burst from diFARMERS HAVE SAVED MONEY shot rectly astern, a IN COUNTRY BJUNCE5 M CHECKINS ACCOUNTS see could I the PUBLIC nature of advertising attack JapaIn this BANKS of nese ship vibrate as my burst everyone it touches. It benefits the At th stort of war in guns hit it First it six Europ the products that are offered. It went exactly by one public describing up. wing just shook, then benefits employees, because the advertiser must be more fair I saw the canopy shot completely off; then I went across it. Turning and just than the employer who has no obligation to the public. back in a dive to keep my speed, I These benefits of advertising are quite apart from the obvious May 1st 1944 watched the enemy ship, as it dove a benefits which advertising confers for flames stream the lower prices, the higher straight down, distance the length of the airplane service with that go advertised goods and firms. quality, the better MTOfUtt IBS behind. 2-- Treated Fence Posts Last Twenty Years oil-fir- anti-aircra- ft 1220 ll 34-4- three-quarte- ' clock-fashio- HOUSEHOLD rims gun-switc- fifty-gallo- s, P-4- tail-whe- P-4- MI" SPRAINS AND STRAINS j fR THE fifty-calib- TO BE CONTINUED) |