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Show 1 W V T"E BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON. UTAH y iPMraiY --sap .WHITE VJt.TPtltS. w.M.u.. . MUH& room. It's like a bird dog ail. pointing with his tail tip quWering Only, after half a second. I'm a man again and can think, can re-member we haven't any bombs singing on their shackles in our bomb bays-not- hing we can drop on this beautiful target but the high-rankin- g passenger who is riding with "Then comes reaction number two. No bombs, but what about the carrier's covering fighters? You talk about a mother tiger fighting for her young that's nothing to the way a patrolling carrier fighter will defend its mother ship. Because every fighter knows that once his carrier is hit and the waves be-gin to sweep over that long flight deck, and one end of her hoists up in the air, then he's out in the big sky by his lonesome no pontoons, noth-in- g to do but sink into the sea when his tanks are dry. Those Zeros will come screaming in to hit me from almost any cloud. Since I can't make a bomb run, I must get away quick! "But now, over the interphones, comes a shout they've spotted an-other carrier. I look and see it too. Then another! And now my God, it can't be, but it is-f- our! It makes us frantic we haven't got something to plenty of heavy punches in the chain, we were sure now we could at least hold them. But as yet I hadn't dared hope for much more. "Only now I come to the thing which at last changed that, because Ihad to see it before I could believe "It happened out on that long trans-Pacifi- c trail where we've al-most worn ruts in the sky between the States and Australia. It was like this. We were letting down for one of the island steppingstones which, according to Harry's naviga-tio-should be somewhere ahead of us. It was very early in the morn-ing. Harry's the best navigator in the business, and he had said we should be in there six hours from the time we left the last island. But of course his figures could be a little out. or maybe the wind drift would change you never know. The Pacific Is too big a place to take chances in, as Eddie Rickenbacker's party found out. So after we'd been out five hours we got the island on the radio, and asked them to give us searchlights, just so we wouldn't miss their little pinpoint in the dawn. "We'd flown without change of course for five hours. Now Harry took his final shots and we started Lieut Col. TBI'S FAB: " Flyinf Fortress ol '.l - that fatal day Zm otber Forts, be- - f "und-- ,te; -- nat is If" """Jit GroP Ale. to 55- - . .sum. until , L evacuate to Anstra- - 'Ti 190,1 plM t. Cln nd New Brit-',- L varner, Swoose crew clo call, with the sen- - f the ,r0Und g, tad M jAPTEB XXIII Ate started out then on , h problem, ,d this Cloncurry-y- ou fly .inutes north, and then ; south, and then west, lengthening your time, so on. We kept ."quite while, but no and our gas was running , this, though, the Major running short of advice. s cockpit full of air s, he had plenty of very different kind you all knew Just plunk through those smooth flight decks into their engine rooms, and maybe blow a few square yards out of the bottom of their hulls! "Only we now grow cold, because where are the escorting fighters? We can't speed up, because they should be up ahead, but they might show up any place come leaping up at us out of this fleecy blanket of over-cast like dolphins jumping through the foam. "Down there are not only four carriers but a gang of other stuff a fog of destroyers, at least fifteen cruisers, and one thundering big bat-tleship. Only as a bomber pilot I'm I fixed on those carriers, enormous brutes. Too enormous. Say, what's going on? Because Jap carriers are little devils you can hardly pack forty planes Into them, while these might hold double that, like our best ones. Now wait. Maybe we're too low and these Just look big, but no I glance at the altimeter and we're at 7,500. "So they're ours! This big parade of surface strength is us Ameri-cans! I change course just the same 30 degrees, swinging wide of this big naval parade, because we can take no chances on their air patrol Even an American carrier fighter, when he sees a bomber over his mother ship, should shoot first and ask questions later. We don't want to tangle with Grummans. "We swing out wide and away, but with what a different feeling! "Well, I guess that's about all, except on our homeward trip, we cracked the trans-Pacifi- c record wide open. The old Swoose, with her war-wor- n motors, made it from Brisbane to San Francisco in thirty-si- x hours ten minutes flying time, the only one of the original 35 on Clark Field to see home again." "When they said long distance was calling from San Francisco, of course that didn't mean anything to me," said Margo. "With two broth-ers in the Air Corps, one in bom-bardment and one in pursuit, it might be either one. Then I heard Frank's own voice saying 'Margo?' Because I hadn't heard any over-seas operators, or any censor click-ing in, I knew he must be here in the States. For the first time I could cry on the phone . . . It's nice to be strong, but so much more fun to let down when you can, and I did." (THE END) down the line to that island. Harry had said six hours it took us just five hours and fifty-seve- n minutes. The island was an atoll around a shallow basin where Navy PBY fly. ing boats could light. The atoll is two feet above high tide at its high point. On one side are labor con-struction tents, a cantonment build-ing for the tiny garrison, ack-ac-searchlights, and even a tiny movie theater. On the other side is the landing strip. 111 swear Harry must have navigated no,t for the island, but for that landing strip itself. For without change of course, all we have to do is let our wheels down. Some day I want Eddie Rickenback-e- r to meet Harry. "As we climbed out of the Swoose, the island garrison asked us, very excited, 'Did you see anything?' When we said we hadn't, they went off by themselves, whispering. I wanted to know what was up, so I asked their Colonel. Told him we were on an important mission ou-rselveshad a top-rank- aboard and what did he expect here at this atoll? " Trouble,' he said. Looking at his little setup, I couldn't help think-ing of those poor guys who were overwhelmed on Wake Island. But the Colonel wasn't sure what kind of trouble was coming. He only knew orders had mysteriously come put-ting the Navy patrol planes on extra-lon- g hours, doubling shifts. Somewhere, somebody was certain-ly on the lookout for something, and those poor devils had to sit on that atoll and guess what it might be. "It didn't smell good. We gassed up and got out forty-fiv- e minutes lat-er, just as it was cracking dawn. By now, the equatorial front had dissolved into a spotted ceiling. I suppose we'd been going an hour when, through a hole in this ceiling, out suddenly popped four or five ships down on the wrinkled sea. But I could only look at one of them. "Now you think you're a man, with everything under control, yet I'm telling you I reacted to this one the way a fox terrier does to a rat. Because it was a whopping aircraft carrier! And after Java and the Philippines, say 'carrier' to a pilot, and he steadies everything for his bomb run, tense as a violin string, hoping his bombardier has the hair-lines of his bomb sight crossed on its flight deck just over the engine Lble was, every time he . the nose of the plane tail, it would throw the of balance, and Frank have to trim ship, in all the questions he was I guess this pacer had ;ht of that. time Frank had decided isng to do was to make r.ding, so he was leaning ie trying to pick a spot." of those guys yammer-tellin- g you what to do," and this guy pacing. Only he stopped, but just for ihile he was putting on a Why, I wouldn't quite lause we were down to d If he did jump of course ver have time to crack, t say a word, because mself in was keeping him y right away he starts again, with the poor Ma-ts nose her down for a ing, and he tells me to 0 to get back in the tail ict as a brake, only this pacing again. was getting the jumps, the Major is the best pl-ainness, a crash landing even for So is pacing guy and 'Now ! to him. 'You may car- - 1 rank on your shoulders, pilot you're just two hun-I- s of ballast. So now you fcg around you get on and sit down.' And I i back to the very tip end e, and pushed him down, and all, on that little seat, bably been wondering all where this little seat is, er. Well, it's just where any place else even on I you do is follow the ', back down to the end arbor, and there she pushed him down on the 0 about a minute there bump, but still it was a point landing. In four Major had her rolling ne ground was soft, tons is a lot of bomb-whee-ls began to sink in inches. But the Major this, so he gave gas to ines to keep her rolling, her up to high ground to hold her ud. out. Pretty soon Aus-h- s begin crawling out iie ground I don't know ey came from and Lieutenant Commander busy. He begins to L They tell him where ome of them go off to to take us into town n telephone, and more i. and Johnson is shak-- 1 around, and he comes e"s us these are real t darn folks in the maybe the folks in his Pretty soon he knows st names, and they're there ought to be a 0 wool, and there's no wung that county for "e we left. He was in I know he sure swung ew. 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Bridgeport, Conaectioat. - u 'TiV. - V it ' ' .r , . f I - - aMMMMMMMMa)'rffi;riti(i at" mr unrtjtmfMMaMmaatt I Mr. Winkle S Goes to War EDWARD STREETER, AUTHOR OF 1917's RECORD-BREAKIN- G WAR BOOK, "DERE MABEL," SAYS: --Mr. Winkle Goes to War" is swell. Having read the first page I could not put ,t down until I had read the last. . It is a charming, restrained bit of satire wjuch deserves to be. WINKLE GOES TO WAR" LOOK FOR "MR. IN THIS NEWSPAPER BEGINNING NEXT ISSUE AFTER the collapse of Prime Camera at the hands of Max Baer, right and left, it was generally conceded that the day of the mam moths and the mas-todons was about over. Joe Louis, ranging from 201 to 205 pounds, was fig-ured to be the ideal heavyweight make-up. Then Billy Cenn at 174 almost over-took Louis. This was another crack at the pachyderms 'J in favor of faster- - , Conn moving animals. But apparently you can't keep these dinosaurs out of the picture. The troglodytes keep beating back. A few days ago I took this matter up with Damon Runyon, then re-cuperating swiftly in his hotel suite, when who should drop in but Eddie Walker? And who should Eddie Walker be talking about except Big Ben Moroz. It seems that Big Ben Moroz is a Ukranian, born in Philadelphia 23 years ago. Big Ben Is seven feet, two inches tall and he happens to weigh 293 pounds. He is over six inches taller than Camera and some 25 pounds heavier. Eddie Walker says that Moros looks good In a gymnasium, that he moves around neatly and punches' very well. lie also admits there Is some room for Improvement and that Big Ben won't be rushed until he seems to be ready, which prob-ably won't be tomorrow or the day after. A day later we ran across Good Time Charlie Friedman who had a Chinaman in tow, also seven feet In height, also weighing close to 300 pounds. Good Time Charlie is the pros-pector who dug up Camera, using a derrick for this purpose. It might not be a bad idea to match Good Time Charlie's Chinaman against Big Ben Moroz and let nature take Its course. A Few Ring Giants The two heavyweight giants who reached the top were Jess Willard and Primo Camera. Willard, around 6 feet 6 in height, weighed in the general neighborhood of 260 pounds the day he met Demp-se- y, 25 years ago this July Fourth. But the most mastodonlo of all heavyweights was an Ottawa Negro by the name of Henry Johnson who scrambled around from 1898 to 1900 who was well over 7 feet tall and something over 300 pounds in weight. Weight, however, can be an over-played proposition. One of the worst fights I ever saw came about in the meeting of Jess Willard and Carl Morris. Their total displacement ran a trifle over 500 pounds and on that night neither could have beaten a good welterweight Fitzsimmons, weighing at the time around 165 pounds, came close to killing Ed Dunkhorst at 300 pounds, almost tearing his face away with a single punch. The most active big man I've ever seen in the ring was Jim Jeffries. This was around 1903. At that time Jeff weighed 215 pounds. He could run the 100 yards in the immediate neighborhood of 10 seconds and he could high jump nearly 6 feet Corbett and Tunney Jim Corbett and Gene Tunney, at their best, were about the same weight and height slightly over 6 feet, weighing close to 185 pounds. Billy Conn at the same weight with the speed and skill he always car-ried along would have been one of the best. Even as it was, Conn packed his full share of poison. It was the general verdict among the old timers that Jess Willard at bis peak was the best of all the mas-todons, who weighed above 250 pounds. Willard could have been one of the best of all the heavy-weights if he had made any attempt to keep In condition after the Jack Johnson fight, where he worked him-self down to 245 pounds. But Wi-llard would take no advice from any one, and he was never smart enough io handle himself. And strange as it may seem, I'd rather hate to think what would have happened to Willard and Car-ner-a, both heavyweight champions, if either had ever run across Harry Greb at 160 or 165 pounds. It is my belief that Harry Greb, outweighed by more than 100 pounds, would have wrecked both Willard and Car-ner-a in less than five rounds. By that round the fast-hittin- g Greb would have had both fighters blind-ed, their faces a sight Football or Boxing Question: "Which is the toughest or the hardest game, football or box-ing? Sergeant L.D.H., England." The toughest game in the world Is the ring game, especially among the heavyweights. Few football players have ever gotten anywhere as ring fighters. In the lest ten years, foot-ball has known many hundreds of stars. But In the last 40 years the ring has known only 10 or 12 star hbavyweights. You are on your own In the ring. In football you have 10 other husky mates to help you. Released by Weitcrn Ntwspapcr Union. '"pHE circus-lik- e atmosphere which surrounded the Tarn O'Shanter golf championships for the past three tournaments will be missing this year. Scheduled for August, the Tarn O'Shanter will be conducted with all the traditions of this dignified Scotch game. It will be like those staged by the U. S. G. A Instead of George S. May. May used a full bag of tricks for the first three championships. Most of them were frowned upon by the U. S. G. A. and by many of the players who weren't enthusiastic about the innovations. In fart, George S. and the numerous specta-tors were the only happy people con-cerned. The Tarn meets were na-tionally known as "golf circuses" and have been referred to In a na-tional magaslne as "Golf Without Elephants." But they drew the largest galleries In the history of golf in this country. Entertainment Angle Despite the professional and purist attitudes toward May's shows, he did try to supply a full measure of entertainment for the cash customers. Many of his experi- - GEORGE S. MAT ments were a complete break with tradition, and that always Invites censure. But now May is willing to comply with the regulations of the U. S. G. A. and the P. G. A. There will be less showmanship this year the Tarn will be golf only. But one Innovation isn't going by the boards. That's the one dollar admission fee. More than anything, that low price helped popularize the Tarn. In 1943 admission was through the purchase of a one dol-lar war stamp. The money was handled by treasury department workers. This year May is going back to the one dollar admission, which will absorb the heavier fed-eral amusement tax. Which means that just about anybody can afford to witness the event. We're glad to see that May has decided to discard his policy of num-bering players. From the beginning he thought that If players wore numbers on their shirts which correspond with those on the pro-gram, identification would be made easier for the galleries. Much In the manner of football elevens. Kirkwood Rebellion The idea was decidedly unpopular among a majority of the players. They figured it undignified. In 1942 Joe Kirkwood, Australian trick shot artist, quit the tournament because of a dispute with Mr. May. Kirk-wood refused to wear his number. A satisfactory compromise has been reached. This year the numbers will be affixed to the players' bags and to their caddies. May also has announced that he will abide by the U. S. G. A. ruling which prohibits amateurs from ac-cepting more than $100 maturity value in war bonds as prize money. Last year he offered more than that figuring the official ruling was too severe. Not that he has changed his mind about the amount. He had planned amateur prizes of consider-abl- e value this year, but the U. S. G. A. could not be placated and so May will adhere to its regu-lations. Then, too, there will be no extra exhibition matches, such as were played last summer and which were sources of irritation. A Debt to May It is obvious that the Tarn Is going to be a businesslike golf tourna-ment. That will do much to give the event the position it deserves in golf. We have maintained that golf is indebted to May. While many others folded op as soon as the war started, May did much to keep championship golf alive. He pro-vided leadership which was sadly lacking in too many quarters. The Tam O'Shanter still offers the largest amount of prize money ever known in golf. And that draws en-tries like sugar draws flies. SPORTS SHORTS H Of the 330 college football play-ers picked by National football league teams in the recent draft 46 were from Big Nine schools and 11 from other schools In the confer-ence area. C Lieut. Clint Frank, Yale's finest modem halfback, now if aide to Major General Doolittle. C The life of Sgt. Barney Ross, ring champion and war hero, may b made into a movie. tX There are eight varieties ol screech owls in North America. |