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Show I - THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH the darkness, and pray the leak didn't get worse or a hot exhaust stack didn't set it off in mid-air- . We chanced it, and made it all right, but it turned out to be my last trip, because the next day the Japs came back and put out of com-mission what was left of Clark Field. "I got the story from Eddie Oliver, who had been my navigator on Old 99 he and I were the only survivors of the entire crew when he got down to Del Monte a few days later. "The Japs, having reccoed Clark Field thoroughly, came over all ready for business. Some guy had carelessly left a pillow exposed in the cornfield, so they knew we'd been sleeping there. They blew hell out of it with their high-altitud- e stuff, and didn't touch the regular flying field, which they'd put out in the first day's raid. Then their fight-ers came over and with incendiaries set fire to the nipa shacks which had been our quarters. In them was everything I owned, including the watches, diaries, and wallets which had belonged to the crew of Old 99. "It was now hopeless to operate from Clark, everyone saw. Any-way, the Japs had landed light tanks on the coast at Apari, so five hun-dred rifles were issued to what ground personnel we had left there and they went off with infantry units to chase them out if they could. The poor devils ended up on Bataan. "So here we were now at Del Monte, about fifteen Fortresses in all, but patched up and in such bad rjggU I couldn't tell him I was worried, because that would be letting him down. He would think I didn't have complete confidence in him. I would start to write the little news about family affairs, and it seemed so trite because maybe he'd be read-ing it in a foxhole, not having eaten for a week. Maybe he'd be wound-ed. And maybe each one would be the last letter he would get for a long while the only thing he'd hear from me. "Then I had to do something about myself- -l could see that. Sitting in my room thinking, I would go to Pieces. And I wanted to get started doing something useful before Christ-mas. Back in October Frank prom- ised me he'd call on Christmas Day, and now I realized I'd been building on hearing his voice then more than I knew. I also realized that he maybe wouldn't be able to. If that call didn't come through, it would be hard for me to take. "My little brother (he's a fighter pilot now) was getting married out on the Coast during the holidays. They were asking me to go out. But suppose Frank did call me Christ-mas, and missed me? I decided to wait in Omaha for that call. "But Just waiting would drive any-one crazy. I wanted to help to get close to the Air Corps. So I went down to Colonel Houghland's office he was air officer of our 7th Corps area in Omaha and put it up to him. "He didn't laugh because I wanted to work without pay he couldn't have been nicer. He showed me huge piles of applications for aviatio-n- cadet assignments in the Air Corps that were coming in. I could help, he explained, by classifying and filing these, getting them in their proper groups, help speed up the stream of reinforcements which the boys out East would need so badly we didn't dream how badly." "We needed everything," said Frank. "Ground crews, pilots, co-pilots. And to make it worse, our own group commander, Colonel Eu-bank, had been hurt and was in a Manila hospital. "We were getting more and more uneasy. Here we were, comforta-ble on this beautiful field. It was as peaceful as Clark Field had been before December eighth. We'd fled from Clark down here to Mindanao, and even as we were arriving the Japs were putting troops ashore at the southern tip of this same island, where thirty thousand Japanese "farmers" had taken over the city of Davao on the first day. "But here at Del Monte we saw people who didn't seem to know a war was on. The only military around was some kind of a trans-portation outfit. The first day we were there I got hold of a couple of privates and gave them orders to dim out the headlights of every car no matter whose that ap-proached the field. But the trans-portation officer decided he'd stop all that. It seemed the boys, carry-ing out my orders, had even stopped a staff car, and the transportation officer explained that they needed more light. "Well, our planes were on that field, and I knew the Japs were headed down the coast and would be here soon enough anyway, and I didn't want to attract them any sooner than necessary. "But before they, did come, the old 19th Bombardment Group or what was left of it got in some mighty hard licks at them. For in-stance, there was the Le Gaspi Bay mission. Our Intelligence reported a big concentration of Jap ships moving south toward us down the coast of Luzon. Of course that meant the handwriting on the wall for us, particularly if one was a carrier with Zeros which would presently be in range of us and could strafe us on the ground remember we hadn't a single American fighter within five hundred miles. "Sure enough, Intelligence pres-ently reported that they thought one of this concentration was a carrier, and now they were Just off Le Gas-p- i. It was up to us to take off and do what we could. We'd been work-ing like hell to get the planes in shape, and finally had six which we thought could complete the mission and get home. But remember Old 99 was back on Clark, and I was a planeless pilot. So it ought to be Harry's story he was navigator on Jack Adams' plane." JL? THIS FAB: Lieut. Col. of th. Flying. Fortress ft,,, swoose," which escaped I Field tells ol that fatal 1 n, .truck In the Philippines. Jher Fortress, Is "truck down f of U. 8. with the skeleton, i , Wasner, air ace. U chased i n, P 40. He meet. IJeut. '! sod together they bomb a fail, to return. Other fj?v U.eir targets, Includ.n, 2 Kelly'. Plane settles for a Ihip, but the plane 1. ablaze, jit. Kelly bale, out but 1. .0 h. never had a , me iround CHAPTER V when I heard all this fl ,rse ,rd about the whopping big V'd hit and sunk. But I ilt much of this at the time, t think Colin did either. 1 ,ow the boy, and I think I he saw his oxygen system re, and had given orders her guys to Jump, and was ere hanging back on his fighting his rudder in order . iem a chance to do it, he linking about how many s that Japanese ship dls-i- ut about his parents and I j nd little Corkie. And later lefwas trying to crawl out of -- f escape hatch before his aught on fire, it was the still later, when he cleared j but saw the ground coming i, too close and too fast for ever to have a chance to 0 en, I don't think he was r.j about how big' his post--! nedal was going to be, but ; tying about Marian and e later in the afternoon one t jhters came in and began the field, fluttering like a bird. I could see it was g serious guessed even ileron might be shot away, e him the green light to 'j and land. He began to i ises at the field, cutting his to pick out the strip of ' and through the bomb cra-ke- d by a maze of red flags up. But each time he'd jack his left wing would he'd have to gun her again, , a slow climbing circle up ld. :an to get me. 'Come on, e on, put it down, before to trouble.' On the last trial i it, came around, and then till up straight, but too late. down the field, he caught on one of our slightly 'i Fortresses, tearing it off, himself cartwheeled off into -- killing a sergeant who had iing on a plane back there, wasn't hurt much himself, ) more of our precious few ' is gone. ollowing orders, I was still e Fortresses the red light n the air, and I began to iout this. Maybe orders ' issued to bring them in, ?one had failed to notify ie of them would circle for and then would head on Del Monte, more than six miles away, while they still Sh gas to get there, y old Jim Connally said 1 with it, and came on in t ny giving him any light at needed more gas to get tindanao and couldn't perch all day, and a little after olonel said I could give the e green light to come in JP, although any hour, any e were expecting the Japs ! wanted to save those ts at any cost, it out of bed just as dawn sing and, folding our sheets t brown blankets so no aid show, stuffed them un-paid cots we didn't want that would indicate on a Picture that we were now n that field. The Japs were the hell out of the place cameras, two or es daily. t the next day in the tower a much like the first, ex-a- s plainer and plainer that J have to abandon Clark, next morning the evacu-an- . They gave me one of P they had patched up, and Fr and I made two trips I forth to Del Monte loaded n members of the ground fowere to service our planes He wasn't thinking about how many gross tons that Jap ship dis-placed. repair we were lucky if we could get half a dozen off the ground at any one time. "But otherwise it was a lovely setup. A pretty turf field right up against the big pineapple cannery the executives had used it for their little private planes before the war. A country club these executives had built, swell food (until we ate it all up), a swimming pool, turf tennis courts even a few white women, which set all the boys staring but not an antiaircraft gun or a fighter plane to protect us for hundreds of miles, around. "Pretty soon we improvised our own ack-ac- A couple of ships cracked up, and we jerked their guns out of them and installed them in sandbag pits; this would be of some help against strafing if the Japs were accommodating enough to come in low. "And one of the first things that happened was that we lost our squadron commander, Major Gibbs. He had taken off under cover of dark-ness on a secret mission and did not come back. We never knew what happened. Weeks later the native constabulary of Negros Island was to bring in the cushion of his plane it had cracked up against a mountain in the dark." "But, sweetheart," said Margo, "you're forgetting your first cable." "No, I'm not," said Frank. "I got it off as soon as I could. "All it said," Margo explained, "was: " 'Beloved Doing all right under circumstances Wire Eddy's broth-er. Frank.' "Of course I sent the wire, but I couldn't understand at all. Eddie, Frank's navigator on of course, was Old 99 But what about the other boys' Why hadn't Frank told me to wire their families of all the sergeants. It wasn't like Frank to forget. "Anyway, all cables are unsatis-factory. This one was dated at Ma-nila seventeenth, so of course on the alive then. But x Frank had been hadn't got it until the nineteenth Anything could have happened. " and for the first those two days, time in my life I was Peerless to help him. I'd been furious y writ-ing them to letters-s-till addressing Clark Field. Each was a problem, because I wanted each to fill a need. "Well," said Harry Schrieber, the navigator, "it was like this. The six of us were to start at ten o'clock, and Jim Connally rolled out first, and got a fiat tire right on the run-waythrowing one wing into the ground and crumpling it. That left five, and it wasn't so good, because there is safety in numbers in For-tressesthe more of them that go over a target together, the more fire power you can bring to bear against the Zeros, and the more Forts will get back home. "But anyway we started. The pi-lots were Shorty Wheless. Pease, Lee Coats, Vandevanter, and of course jack Adams I was his navigator. "We are flying in formation to our agreed rendezvous, in case we eot lost in heavy v.eth.er- -a point thirty-fiv- e miles due west of our d we are due to be there In tw0 hours and fifteen minutes after our start JTO BE CONTINUED) ever forget my last trip at night of course it ale to leave a plane on J" by day at Clark any ie were taking off at three 'n'ng m order to be through zone by dawn, and I'd st no sleep at all. But y were warming the mo-m- e ninning to me with 'hat there was a pretty my fuel lille. So what do? I could wait while a fuel line from one of recked Forts standing n "e field, and installed it ut by then it would be dawi. and if we encoun-- f fighters, there I'd be. ,"ts stuffed into every LT Plane' 50 tha we room to swivel a ma- - a our own defense. BW tape up our leaky "e heU out of there In mount of materials specified, send 1) cents In coin, your name and auclresi and the pattern number. 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FWLX J LVtiMj Aj Cf NEW ,DEAS ,N BREADS, WmMr'-M- k ROLLS, DELICIOUS SWEET 1 !ffif!&&fA ( pleads . you'll want - WM? WV I TDTRy THEM Alt., Jj VVRTTE NOW! T All those vitamins V ' Ml4A.ii-- ' go right Into your AH Wads with no great For fe0 'VW loss in the oven, y, wrlte &zfjML Be sure to Use Standard Brandt H Fleischmann's! lnc-Gn-ni iwvl1' A week's supply keeps In the Ice-bo- x, Ynk 17, N.r. f WE ALL know the war isn't over and there isn't one of us who knows when this happy day will arrive. But we at least know it won't last forever, and that we can't lose unless we beat ourselves. It is at this point that I would like to give you a new postwar major profes- - sional sport which happens to be bas-ketball. I got the tip and the idea from Sergt. Herb Goren, a for-mer sporting writer on the N. Y. Sun who is stationed now at the Greens-boro, N. C, Basic Training Center No. 10. which rates first among army bas- - GrantlandBice ketball teams. It is Sergeant Goren's belief that basketball is not only ready for its place in professional sport, but that in addition army and navy teams could turn in a tremendous Job for the war effort in the way of bond selling and aiding the Red Cross. I agree with Sergeant Goren. For basketball is the game that has more combined players and spec-tators than any other sport. "The best basketball In the coun-try Is played by service teams," Goren says. "Great Lakes dom-inates the Midwest. Norfolk Naval Training station and Mitchel Field stand out along the Atlantic coast. Greensboro's Army Air forces team Is cleaning op In the South's tobacco belt. St. Mary's Pre-flig- is the hcadllner on the Facific coast. "Basketball interest has grown tremendously with its spread to army posts and navy bases. It is altogether likely that the game will emerge in the postwar period on a big-leagu- e professional scale. This is a natural outl'" Qr the great bulk of basketball that flourishes throughou' stations . ." . a natural ' VL for the huge following ti, tias ?n drawn to the game. 1 "Given a Judge L Mis to assure its integrity and ket, aith with the fans, it can hardly i iss. A high commissioner must j' 'le the sport. It is the first step i' professional "success. , "I do not know th interest cannot now be sustained by playing an Army-Nav- y basketball game in New York's Madison Square Gar-den. Or In the Chicago Stadium. Put it anywhere even In Soldier Field and it would come close to selling out. Sooner or later your basketball fan can visualize a world series that will be the court game's counterpart of baseball's October classic." The Greensboro Team I talked to Sergt. Herb Goren at the baseball writers' dinner. "I am amazed," Goren told me, "at the number of ca-dets on our post who have become sold on the game. Next to their af-fection for the mechanics of flying, they'd rather talk basketball than anything else. "Put such an army team in the Garden against any of the crack navy teams Great Lakes or Nor-folk Naval Training station or any of half a dozen others and it would be a cinch to swell the funds in Army and Navy Emergency Relief. "Here are a few of the players on the Basic Training Center No. 10 quintet: "Pfc. George Senesky: Holder of the intercollegiate scoring record at St. Joseph's, Philadelphia, last sea-son. He is the choice of Philadel-phia sports writers as the outstand-ing athlete of 1943. "Pfc. George Mahnken: Six feet eight inches tall one of the tallest military policemen in the army. He was an center last sea-son" at Georgetown. "Pvt. Dick Gray: Captain at two years ago and a profes-sional last year in the American league. "The attitude of Senesky may be taken as typical of this whole team. He is a bright boy, and when the war is won he could step into any Job and prove his ability. But basketball is in his blood. If the professional game were placed on a big league level, he would be one of the first to join the ranks. "Big Mahnken feels the same way. lie is eager to go across as soon as tba basketball firing ceases but be wants to come back into the sport on a businesslike basis. John points out that there are thou-sands of basketball players in the service who hope to see the game conducted on a major league scale, so that they could enlist their serv-ices to the thing they know best." Tunney for Competition "The report or the rumor that I am against competitive sport is just 100 per cent wrong," Comdr. Gene Tunney, just back from the South Pacific area, told me. "I can tell you this the navy was worked out in my of-fice. This encouraged competitive football, baseball, basketball, track and field, swimming and every other form of competitive sport L with other navy men, was completely Released by Western Newspaper Union. V7HEN Cecil Isbell, one of foot ball's ablest passers, left th Green Bay Packers last fall to be-come assistant coach at Purdue, most observers figured that his old battery mate, End Don Hutson, would spend much of his future play-ing time merely attempting to snare those long tosses. But Hutson proved the weakness of the old argument that a receiver is only as good as his passer. The Isbrll-Hutso- n combination was prob-ably the greatest in football his-tory, but Hutson managed to do right well without Isbell. When Hutson's name was entered on the official books of the National Football league as 1943 pass-recel-ing champion, it was the third con-secutive year he had won that honor. And it was the sixth time in nine years of professional ball. It's hard to believe, but during those years he scored touchdowns on 21.6 per cent of the passes he caught one touchdown on every five catches. That is one of the finest efficiency records ever posted. 1943 Record League records show that Hutson, who came out of retirement in 1943 to play one more season for the Packers, nabbed 47 passes during the regular e schedule for a total gain of 778 yards and 11 touch-downs. Hutson, who is scheduled to be-come an assistant Green Bay coach in the fall, raised his three e records a little higher over the heads of competitors, increasing his total of receptions to 384, number of touch-downs on passes to 83 and yards gained to 6,310. The former Alabama star set one new record during the season three weeks after Wilbur Moore of the Washington Redskins had given him something to work for. Moore topped the yards-gaine- d mark on October 31 against Brooklyn when his seven catches gained 213 yards and two touchdowns. Hutson came back-a- lso against Brooklyn to collect 237 yards on eight passes, two of which brought scores. The eight catches against Brook-lyn plus eight more against New York, enabled Hutson to beat out Joe Aguirre of Washington for the championship. Hogan's Forecast Diminutive Ben Hogan, who topped golf's list of money winners before If ww entering the armed service, forecasts $50,000 tournaments after the war but with less "hurdy-gurdy- " accompani-ment. Now a lieutenant in the athletic office of the Fort Worth army air field, Ho-gan says that "golf is going to be great Ben Hogan more players an(J tremendous purses." It is Hogan's idea that the $50,000 purses will come from businesses in-terested in national advertising. But we're a little skeptical when he states that the trend will be away from the carnival atmosphere now surrounding many of the major tour-naments. Obviously advertisers want to in-vest their money in events which will give them the greatest return for each dollar spent. If they think the addition of a few circus trap-pings will Increase interest In the event being promoted, then those trappings might as well be taken for granted. "Practically all of the name play-ers who carry the professional game and make the tournaments," Hogan said, "have no appetite for the wild hurdy-gurd- y tournament and they won't play in them if there is money to be made at other places. The kind of tournament they love is the Masters, which Bobby Jones started at Augusta, Ga. It was run with the restraint that golf has to have to be perfect. Even the people who came out to watch the matches understood and appreciated the game." All of which is very true. But don't forget the between-halve- s en-tertainment offered at football games and the extra inducements offered by theaters. Those "extras" are to build and hold Interest. Most golf fans would like to see the razzle-dazzl- e eliminated in tournaments. But that isn't necessarily true of the public in general. Crowds want color and if it is lacking in golf tournaments it will be found somewhere else. SPORTS SHORTS C. The athletic program at the Great Lakes Naval Training station is the most extensive in the country. C Mel Harder is approaching his 17th season as a member of the Cleveland Indians. U, According to visitors, only one pic-ture hangs in the home of Luis An-g- el Firpo in Argentina. That's right it shows Jack Dempsey hurtling through the ropes of the Polo Grounds. C All seven National league hockey clubs are making money. i To remove the odor of onions from knife or hands, wash them in cold water. Hot water sets the odor. Two large staples nailed to the end of a porch step will make a handy bootjack for removing heavy rubbers. When making gravy, stir with a slotted spoon. The liquid runs through the slots and does not spill over the stove. Why not keep a game scrap-Dook- ? It is sure to come in handy when the children are shut in on rainy days, or when a party is in ihe offing. |