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Show PAGE SIX I i ns eg r : (edD-ipniiidD- Col. Robert that lari Koktrt Scott Is Wost Poiat as a socoaS Iron tralutot lioateaaat, aaS afur wtaalag his wtn at Kelly Field takes as parsott tyUf. Whsa the war breaks sat hs Is as (attractor la Th. i tory Callforala end told ke Is too old lor com hat flylaf. Ho appeals to oao Geaeral aft at aaotker tor a chaaco to fly a combat ptaao aad laaOy tbo opportaalty comes. Ho says toodby to bis wife bad child aad bomber to India, where flies a bo becomes a terry pilot, flying sappUes to Banna. Afur Burma falls be vleltt General Chenaaalt and tells him bis story. Cheanaalt promises that tbo flrst Ptd Is arrtre from Africa win bo bis. Scott soon gets a Klttyhawk and flies tbo skies over Berms. Ha geU bis flrst dap. fonr-mot- CHAPTER XII After following the Salween to the South until I could see Laihlo, I turned West for the field and came In right on the treetops, strafing the guns 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 near ly too late. Down close to the West end of the field, almost 'under the trees, were Japanese ground sol dlers. They were grouped into two squares like the old Macedonian pha lanx, and were firing rifles at me. I turned my guns on them end could see the fire taking good toll from the Jap ranks. But even after I bad made three runs on them, I noted that they continued to hold their positions, en excellent demonstration of perfect battle die clpllne. Later on one of the AVO aces, Tex BIB, told me that be had , teen the sama thing down in Thai land, and that after ha'd strafed one of the squarea of about a hundred men and there were only two or three on their feet, those few still were shooting at him when be left anti-aircra- ft fifty-calib- ? ' f f i Y . i 4 . r f i i ; I t I i r .. ! i A : i ! I ; ; dive-bombi- i v vi n " f r j i j TO THE TKe "Adopted Daughter Speaks L. Scoff BaB flyadtaaSaWHTf Fenturea. WHO. RtCEASE so dark that my tracers burned brilliant to the ground and then ricocheted away into the air again, still burning. I think It wad in my third pass, as tha 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-timfor they spread out as much as they could and ran South on the road through tha rain. I kept on cutting them to pieces until my e, ammunition was gone; I fired 1,890 rounds into those three or four hundred Japanese, and I dont think mora than a handful escaped. As tha May days drifted Into weeks, I made up little schemes to fool the Japs. Perhaps tha schemes y worked, perhaps they didnt eased the disappointment they 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 AVO. Some of these pilots I had taught to fly In tha Army Schools back home. I had checked quite a few of them and I was older, but I'm glad I realized then any-wa- Ha fought his way paVtlaDy out of tha trap, but two of them right on his tall literally shot him to pieces. Georges ship was seen .to trail smoke and dive straight down, from about fifteen thousand feet Doctor Gentry said they watched tha stricken Forty and. knew who it was by tha number. As It disappeared behind the trees they mentally crossed the boy Paxton off their list of living men. But George and tha sturdy 0 were not through. There waa tha surging scream of an Allison engines last boost and the ship skimmed over the trees and made a belly landing on tha soft part of tha field. Even then, considering the number of Japs who bad been using George for target practice and the way the ship looked, with big boles In the taQ, wings, and fuse-- , lage, as they drove out for him in the jeep they expected to find just a body. Instead, they found Georgl Paxton standing by the aide of his ship, swearing and shaking his fist at tha sky. Doctor Gentry laid be looked into the cockpit The instrument panel was Just about shot away, the rudder pedals wera partly shot to pieces, the armor of tha pilot's seat was badly bent but Paxton was out thera yelling: 1 still say thosa little snakes cant 'shoot! Even his Texas boots were practically shot off. Two doctors picked rivets from Georges back all tha afternoon, and Jap explosive particles from his feet, legs and bands. Tha worst Injuries bad been caused by the Japanese explosive bullets hitting the seat armor and driving tha rivets through Into Georges back. But for the armor, thoso explosive would have been In Paxton's back. Instead of just the rivets. Symbel of the Amerlcaa Volun- FOR A NEW HOME! start savin for your futore Now is the time to homfl After the war when new materials are on the market, h to bnild your new home. you will have the ready-casENROLL NOW! BARNES BANKING CO. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. KAYSVILLE, UTAH , . On May IT. I flew with the AVG on a mission from Kimmlng into Indo-Chin- a. Squadron Leader Bishop led the attack. I flew the wing position with R. T. Smith, one of the aces of the Flying Tigers and one of tha pilots I remembered checking during his training days at Santa Marla. California. Chennaolt aa commander. We got off the Kunming field with our fightera and headed South over a knew these that younger pilots lakes at twelve thousand feet the. million times more about combat a In few minutes we passed Meng-ti- e than I did. Td comer some of these and the clouds thinned out nnd ask and them quesFlying Tigers the We weather got pretty clear. tions, for I longed for the day when went abouton over Just Laokay, Id get to fly on attacking missions the s border. Then with them. we followed the River Rouge At first they were hard to know. through the very crooked gorge in Tha men they had mat as representthe mountains, on South towards Haing our Army in China had boon noi. ; g pretty harsh with those Just about halfway between tha flyers, who after all had done tha greatest job in tha war agalnat tha border and Hanoi wa saw a train enemy. In the beginning they were coming North on the railroad. Bishreluctant to answer my questions or op led four of us down to strafe It tall me tha secrets of thair success while the other four stayed at twelve We circled in combat They couldnt understand thousand for over as we the train down aspiralled In Air Colonel the Army why Corps had to know anything. As to attack, and whlls tha speed of George Paxton put It: Didnt the the dive built up I got my on and triad to trim tha ship Army know everything? "Seems like to me," he said, "every army for tho Increasing speed. As wo levelled off and went In officer weve seen out hero knows for tha kin, I saw Bishop's tracers all the answers." hitting the engine. By the time 1 When he found out that 1 was and that my ambition was to got thera in number two position, get over there and fly with them, on Bishops wing now tha white and lean combat from them, so steam was spraying from tha puncthat in the end I might teach it to tured boiler. 1 saw the engineer and our younger pilots who would be fireman Jump from tha locomotive, coming out, he told me things that 1 and as we went on down the cars, would never have learned otherwise. shooting Into them, I saw Jap soldiers and probably Vichy French "First," he said, leading me off civilians jumping off too. We came under the wing of one of the set some of the cars on back and "first, the Old Man says, neverturn fire. It was a cinch now, for the with one of the Zeros. He says train had stopped and was no longer thats bad." weaving through the narrow curves 1 learned that the Jap ship would of the gorge. outmsneuver anything and would While the boys talked to one anoutclimb the 0 four to one. "But we and I heard other, that doesnt matter," Paxton said. bomb the rail"Lets say, Bishop Is 0 the strongest ship In "The road yards at Laokay with our the world. Its heavy as hell, but (Fragmentation, bombs.) I e that makes it just about frags:" then that was wrong, for we thought e the Jap had alerted anything, and itll Laokay as we flew over two to one. With those two Fifties and were they listening to and the four thirty-calibguna in uk and would probably ba for us. waiting the Bs we have done pretty good. That didnt matter, though; wed get Now with the six Fifties in the new the railroad yards and some of the n Kittyhawks we anything.' crews too. If they didnt He told me that Hill, Rector, Bond. look out I Neal, Lawler, and other aces had We spiralled down to bomb the seen Zeros disintegrate in front of target and I saw Bishops bombs bit their six Fifties, and went on to ad dead center on the vise that I use the good qualities of Then I dropped mine. Just at that the against the bad qualities Instant Blshop'a fighter belched fire of the Jap. but never try to beat him and I saw him slide his at his own game climbing and ma- and smoke, and canopy open jump. His chute neuverability. opened so close In front of my ship Paxton did me a lot of good he that I pulled up for fear Td run into got me my first flight with the AVQ It I hung there tor what seemed on the Emperors birthday. But the like hours, with my air speed indiJap didnt come in. We were the cating three hundred miles an hour, most griped bunch youve ever seen. while black bursts of Everyone up end waiting at' three fire broke all around me. The ship a. m. and then the dirty Just seemed to stand still, but didn't have the guts to come in! saw Bishop floating down towards I heard a story on George Paxton the river that was the boundary that will show you the kind of tough between China and At Texan he was. It was down over the very last moment, as I got my Rangoon, near Mingaladon air- nose down and got out of the cenI saw art drome, in the early days of the Bur- ter of the ma war. Doctor Gantry, who told unlucky wind blow the chute back me the story, said that the squadron to the or Jsp side of George was in was aloft and engag- the river, and Bishop was captured. him later, that, ha 10 ing the Japanese over the field. Look- We b a , con-could see was the ing upstairs, you really prisoner of the French dens a tl on streamers and was getting along all right the sky, and every how and then a North of Laokay Wa trail of smoka as a Jap Zero burned and went back to Kunming. General and plunged towards the earth. Chennault said that the train wasnt Finally eight or nine Zeros ganged worth Bishop we should have left up on George Paxtoa They got Laokay alona. f on his tail and they got all over him. (TO BX CONTINUED) teer Greap "Flying Tigers which made aerial combat history aver China aad Barma whea tbo Japs were having their Inning, Tbo AVG waa later inducted Into tbo Army Air Corps, with General Claire - Chlnese-Indo-Chln- high-strun- top-cove- r. - gun-swit- ch ao-rlo- P-40- s, P-4- ed P-4- out-div- out-div- er out-gu- anti-aircra- ft round-hous- 's anti-aircra- ft e. Skyline Building & Investment Company Main St., Kaysville, Utah; Phone Kaysville anti-aircra- 300-- BUILDING CONSTRUCTION' PROPERTY MANAGEMENT REAL ESTATE WE ARE THE BUILDERS of those quality F. H. A. firebrick homes, now nearing completion in Kaysville. ' At another time a girl friend said of me iffectioaately to my mother, Fen " ts elweyt to gey everyone loves kerT These homes are offered for sale on easy F. H. A. terms. By KATHLEEN NORRIS A ANY hundreds of moth- X l ers, in the course of 1 V 1 the last twenty years, have written me of the problem of the adopted baby. Here Is a letter giving the opposite angle, a letter from a girl, now 26, who was adopted when she was a foundling three weeks old. "Natural parents," writes Frances Evans, "may or may not welcome the baby. It may represent an expense, responsibility and incumbranceIffrom which they would shrink they could. But with adopted parents It is different. They go out of their way to find the child of strangers, they want It though to risk all tha dangers of Its possible parentage and inherited weaknesses, they announce themselves fit and ready for tha cares of parenthood. Therefore, It seems to me, they should feel an additional obligation to bo wist and good in their parental care. There can be great shame, bitterness and resentment in the lot at an adopted child; there should be a corresponding attitude of bracing, affectionate, sensible understanding on tho part of tha adopted parents, to meet it "In my cast there was real suffering. Tha man and woman I called Daddy and 'Mother felt that they had dona me a great favor, in picking mo up as a desolate and deserted baby, and all thair friends praised them continually for it When I was about five they felt it wise to break It to me that I was not actually thair own child, and I was told that X must always bo an especially good little girl, to repay them for their extraordinary kindness. They aid all this In tha approved manner, of course. Mother had good advice on tha subject She told mo lovingly that other little girls were born of their mothers, but that aa God wouldnt send her and Daddy a baby, they had gone out and found one that they thought the sweetest baby in tha world. "Even at five X was Impressed by their goodness, and aa I grew a sense of obligation grew with me. This was fostered by aunts and cousins and by my own curiosity. Why bad my own mother wrapped ma in a blanket and left me in the dressing-room of a department store? Why hadn't she loved me? What was different about me? Suspected of Theft. "Presently, getting into the teens, I noticed that any mistake of mine, any youthful desire or foolishness, was quietly attributed by my anxious parents to my inheritance from unknown forebears. Once, when I was thirteen, a five dollar bill was missing from mother's purse, and I was 'questioned leveret times,' and reminded that possibly a tendency to steal was In my blood. Wa dont know, dear, said mother In disbill was tress. When the found in her evening purse and she remembered hiding it there, she playfully spent ft on a sweater for me, to make up for suspecting my good truthful Fan! But the sweater wasnt warm enough to warm my flve-doll- ar heart. "At another time a girl friend said of me affectionately to my mother. Tan is always so gay everyone loves her! Later my mother said seriously, 1 wish Daphne had not used the word gay. Pm afraid perhaps your mother was gay, too. Fan. We have to watch out for that' Indo-Chin- fJn CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 1 1 M NO. PRO-POSIN- CONST1-TUTIO- two-thir- ds - two-thir- ds LEE. gov-n- or . man-ne- f 1 pin-prick- s. LEE lh. 2 "JVer mal'kumw N MEM-BER- Pb g O JOINT RESOLUTION PRO- A JOINT RESOLUTION TO AMEND SECTION 1 POSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 10 OF ARTICLE VU. ARTICLE VI. OF THE OF UTAH RELATING AND TO SECTIONS 2, A 4, and S 11 OF ARTICLE VIII OF THE TO COMPENSATION OF OF THE LEGISLATURE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE Be ft resolved by the Legislature OF UTAH RELATING TO THE of SU REME AND DISTRICT of the State of Utah, COURTS, HOW CONSTITUTED. all members elected to each of tht two houses voting i favor thereof: TERMS OF OFFICE, QUALIFISection I That it is proposed CATIONS OF JUDGES, JURISDICTION, JUDGES PRO TEM- to amend Section 9, Article VI, PORE. CHANGE OF JUDICIAL Constitution of the State of Utah, to reau. DISTRICTS BY THE LEGISLASection 9. The members of the JUDICIOF SELECTION TURE, ARY AND EFFECT ON INCUM- Legislature shall receive such compensation and mileage as the Leg, BENT JUDGES. Be it enacted by the Legislature islature may provide, not exceedof ing $300.00 per year, tnd ten cents of the State of Utah, all members elected to each of the per mile for the distance necessatwo houses voting in favor there- rily traveled going to and returning from the place of meeting on the of: Section 1. It is proposed to most usual route, and they shall amend Section 10 of Article VII of receive no other pay or perquisite. Section 2. The secretary of the Constitution of the State of state is hereby directed to submit Utah, as follows: Sec. 10 The governor shall this proposed amendment to the nominate, and by and with the electors of the State of Utah at the consent of the eenate, appoint all next general election in the mastate and district officers whose nner as provided for by Article IE offices are established by this con- Section I, Constitution of Utah. Section 3. If adopted by the stitution, or which may be created by law, and whose appointment or electors of the state, this amenelection is not otherwise provided dment shall take effect the first day for. If, during the recess of the of January, 1945. senate, a vacancy occurs in any Monson, Secretary of state or district office, the gover- State of the State of Utah, do nor shall appoint some fit person hereby certify that the foregoing to discharge the duties thereof un- is a full, true, and correct copy cf will readers "Well, perhaps your til the next meeting of the senate, tha constitutional amendment prosay that these embarrassments and when he shall some per- posed by the first special session humiliations are little enough to pay son to fill such nominate office. If the office of the 25th Legislature of 1944, as for a good home, love, care, educa- of secretary of state, state auditor, the same appears of record la my tion, and eventually an engagement state treasurer, attorney-genera- l, office. and marrlaga carried out with as or superintendent of public InIn witness whereof, I have heremuch beauty and generosity as any struction be vacated by death, re- unto set my hand and affixed the real daughters could have been. My signation or otherwise, it shall be great seal of the State of Utah, own life has already been blessed the duty of the governor to fill the this 10th day of August, 1944. the ap- with two small daughters, and a same by appointment,-anE E MONSON, Secty. of State tee shall hold hjs office until third child Is on tha way, so that KIn i successor shall be elected and thera seems no probability of my as may be by law proqualified a child, although I would vided. adopting Each Judge of a district court shall lova to, soma day. His background ye1 Section 2 That it is proposed be at least twenty-fiv- e might be quite aa good or better than to amend sections 2, 2, 5, 6 and 12 age, an active member of the bar & my own, but for many reasons soma of'article VIII of the constitution in good standing, learned laUtah of state the of a resident law, and of mothstate the overburdened as of Utah, discouraged follows: seSec. 1 The supreme court shall three years next preceding hil er might try to find for her child a dithe in home of comfort and security and consist of five judges, which mm. lection, and shall reside selected. strict for which he shall be opportunity rather than subject it to ber may be increased or decreased hold s dithe no but altera- Any district judge may legislature, the crowding and penury of her own by sttne county strict in court tion or increase shall have the efany poor home. fect of removing a judge from of- request of the judge of the district, "I think I know enough to handle fice. A majority of the judges con- and, upon a request of the aa it shall be his duty to docourt the whole thing gaily, on a basis of stituting the court shall be necesto form a quorum or render Any cause in the district temyou needed someone and I was sary pro a decision. If a justice of the su- may be tried by a Judgemember to be that someone, lucky enough a be must who court pore, shall be disqualified wanted you and waited for you, and preme from sitting in a cause before said the bar, sworn to try the caus you were sufficiently precious the parties, court the remaining judges shaft and agreed upon by record. your city to have the authorities ex- call a district of or their attorneys judge to sit with act all sorts of promises from me them on the Sea 6. The legislature may of such cause. hearing before tb$ y would consider me good Every judge of the supreme court change the limits of any judidai enough , to have you. Youve paid shall be at least thirty years of district, or increase or decree your way from the very beginning in age, an active member of the bar,-i- the number of districts, or ids joy and delight to me, and now .. good standing, learned in the Judges thereof. No alteration effect tor remains law, me and a resident of the state of increase shall have the office, to bring you only from to the years when you can strike Utah for the five years next pre- removing a Judge establim out for yourself, with very much ceding his selection The judge every additional district or Jucessection J. the same heritage of good and bad having the shortest term to serve, ed, a judge in and strong and weak and spiritual not holding his office by selec- selected as provided tion to fill a vacancy before ex- this article and earthly that I myself brought Sec. 12. The Judges of the of a regular term, shaft Into the world. You may think this piration be the chief Justice, and shall pre- preme and district courts shsUi ungrateful and petty," ends this let- side at all terms of the ceive at stated times compensate ter, "but there are many adopted court, and in case of his supreme for their services, which shall sons and daughters who will agree the judge, having in like absence, be increased or diminished dun manner, the time for which they tit the next shortest term, shall with me." prelected. ai There are. Indeed, Frances, and I side in his stead. Sections. The secretary 3 Judges of the Sec supreme submit with agree you too. Most adopted court and state is directed to sons and daughters have received a selected fordistrict courts shall be to thi such terms and in proposed amendment little more normal and human a tors of the state of such manner as shall be provided generally intelligent treatment th. by law. provided, however, that general election in as ner did. but there election are shall be based solely upon you provided for by UW also many consideration of fitness. for office section L Constitution ol others who have suffered from Section 4. If adopted byj without regard to any partisan posame litical considerations and of the stete, this electors free from Mothers and fathers with adopted Influence of any person whomso- ment shall take effecttbe children, please taka npte. ever, anc provided further that the day of January next succeed method of electing such Judges in determination by the boad of effect when this amendment Correct Use ef Table Knife is canvassers of theinresult Section? The knife is used for cutting i?"? h followed until tion designated Monson, .Secrete too firm to cut with a fork. , by law. Sec 5. The state shall be divid- State of the State of held In the right hand with the the of the handle In the center of me ed into seven Judicial districts, for hereby certify that and is a whch true, least full, one judge the constitutional amendm palm and with forefinger resting 55. selected as hereinbefore lightly on lower side of the. handle provided. Until otherwise the posed by the regular When cutting, keep elbows as by law, a district courtprovided 23th Legislature of 1943.la y at the to tha body aa possible. Cut 01 each county shall same appears ofrecord one bite at a time. Then, transfer be held at least four times a year. flee. Mi fork from left hand to right hand for nd criminal, business la witness whereof, 16 conveying food to mouth. The handle utN county, must be unto set my band in such county, unless a great seal of the State of is held between first finger i end thumb, with the tines turned up to ctiange of venue be taken, in such this ICth day of August, ofS- be ma? Secty hold tha food more E E MONSON. provided by law. easily. a 2523' ft, Indo-Chine- criss-crossin- FUTURE - P-4- e. . F 'ir- re Leaving Lashlo, I went to Katha looking for a Jap train on the railway, but succeeded only in gather From tag a little more ground-firthere 1 went back North to Bhamo, and seeing no bargea, . continued on to Myltkylna, keeping very close to the surface of the Irrawaddy, end strafed the gun positions of the enemy on the field with the last of my ammunition. When f landed I bed made almost eight hundred miles, which Is just about the limit for a fighter ship, especially since 1 had strafed at full throttle for several minutes. There were e few boles fa my ship, but mostly In the fabric of the rudder end the flippers. The Japs couldnt learn to lead, mo onough; I guess theyd never hunted dm birds. Ia less than an hour X took off again and made a shorter trip to lfogaunj and Katha, searching Vithout success for a train. After Yetting more fuel I went back and strafed Myltkylna, turned South, and caught a barge of enemy equipment at Bhamo. Though I didnt 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 dost the big day, I got in the air again and set my course for the bridge on the Salween about twenty milea West of Paoshan. I had received e radio report that the AVO under Tom Jones, Bishop, and Tex Hill were the Japs who were constructing a pontoon bridge there. Beaching tha rendezvous point I couldnt see a thing except some burning trucks that the AVQ had strafed on the Jap side of the Salween; evidently I had got to the battle too late. I had turned South towards Lashlo and 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 see level, rising nearby to its ceiling, just over nine thousand feet The troops below me were Jspa-nes- e 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 steep banks on both tides of the column besides I dont think they had. heard me over the roar of the rain, and I know they hadnt seen my ship. I turned my gun switches on and dove tor 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 I merely cruised Td have longer to shoot at them and could also look out for the hills hidden In the rain and the clouds. This time there was 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 ' flipping back. Turning very close to the"hills, I came back over. Everj now and then Td lose them, fer the rain was heavy and It was dark in tha clouds. SAVINGS Kathleen Norris Says: the field. f t ' oe - I I THURSDAY, OCTOBER TIIE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, UTAH u xt |
