Show Aerial Crusader Tells Adventure Epic to Herald From Quiet et Country Village Tillage in California Hero Becomes Center of Tangled Web of Intrigue and Scenes of Derring Do COPYRIGHT T BY DY CAPT CIP Guyn GUYD SMITH CHAPTER I How I-How How I Began It WHEN SAT HEX HEN I look back over t the tho o past f ur years cars filled to their very brim hrim TV with adventures and experiences such as rarely fall to tho the lot lot lotof of one man in a lifetime I find myself lf often if I am ain not wandering in inthe inthe the mazes of a n. dream ream I About it all there is is a n sense of unreality These four years have c glided by so EO swiftly ly that their beginning seems but yesterday ny The days before that yesterday were just the days of quiet arid pence that any farmers farmer's boy oy lives But tile the days since have piled thrill upon thrill adventure upon adventure adventure ad ad- venture so rapidly that sometimes I feel I am nm going to wake up in a n. minute or two and fine it time to get up and start tho morning chores I I To begin with m my name Is nn and my home Is In Guerneville Cal It Is difficult even O for m me to understand how anything unusual could happen to a Smith And anyone ln ono who has visited a tiny Uny hamlet on the Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian river In Sonoma RUS-I RUS county count knows that there are aro never ne but ut two sources I o of excitement there there the the the visitor Isi coming of or a summer I tor seeking rest and scenery seen seen- ery en and the arrival al of the Iho dailY dally train from San s. I f I Francisco Had you yon Oll any n personal knowledge o of ot Guerneville Guerne you ou would wouT scoff at tho the Idea that one of or the regular Inhabitants inhabitants tants could o er be a a. parly party party par par- ty ly to 10 anything more stirring than a a. tooth tooth- ache acho J G CAL CALLS CALIS H ILM M DEAn DEAD But when this ide i. i that perhaps m my c experiences are hut hilt the flitting flitting- fantasies fantasies fantasies fan fan- of a dream comes to lo me I seele the consolation con con- and confirmation of or my my scrapbook There Thero I find upon au authority nu- nu I au-I not to be bo disputed disputed dis die that I am a dead deadman man For In my collection lion ion Is A a. from His Majesty George o V Y V. king kingor of or Great Britain written to In my father and bearing sincere condolences upon I Im m my untimely end I am aman aman an officer in his majesty majest s s royal air force but even oven at the risk of or m my commission commission com cam mission I must venture the tho opinion that for or once King ICing George was vas mis rule taken Even Een did I not have this letter from Brittania's ruler 1 I still for my reeling belief belle could find balance in photographs I have o gath s-ath- ered red With those these 1 J can look n again aln upon cities ruined by 11 the tho awful tornado tornado tornado tor tor- nado of or war yot yet so far tar removed from rain the tho western west vest ern erit front of or Europe I that they are given gl a n. thought b by lie tho casual reader leader of news new of tire the great conflict I can nee ace exploding bombs blowing to lo bits railroad trains as they carried guns and powder over tho land where the tho Man of Galilee Galileo Gali Gali- leo lee preached His Ills message of ot peace I can see ace moll modern ern Crusaders Crusaders Cru Cru- sadera rl riding the air above o the tho land where whore Richard the tho Lion-hearted Lion led the tho CrUla Crusaders of or old to wrest from the infidel l Saracens the ground round Hallowed hallowed hallowed hal hal- lowed by the footsteps o of Christ I cc can l look down from my airplane upon minarets minarets mina mina- rots and mosques of jt mys- mys Arabia and then I can look Jook up from my pictures to tho lie tops or of ort t twenty story skyscrapers III in this lila mo modern ern American I Continued on page J. J 9 |