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Show 1- -- THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON. UTAH IPROTBEY -- S3F 6'Wr-7PAif- .WHITS. e W.N.U.TEATUREJ , rAB: Lieut. Col. lyl Fort""' h ' ihat fatal day f AMer fjs ,s,and "nU1 S evacuate to AM-- .r from there. 5 Group U back ta Kurtt once more BWaer.hero ar- - rt0" ttt Nlpa. . tte'real truTh is he "sent Army fighters fast enough, or high w don't have the Jap knows this, II J, home don't. Maybe f tneir morale to tod it ' thinking of the .pilots.' That's why he . Poor euv. building dispersal fields, but they weren't done yet, so that the aircraft had to be lined up along the side of that gravel runway and of course were slow in getting off, which made it a setup for the Japs. Also, our equipment was flown by green youngsters from the States. The big problem was supply. Moresby is as far from Melbourne as Los Ange-les is from Pittsburgh. Then at ev-ery state line the Australian railroad changes gauges, so ai the freight cars had to be unloaded. We had about a dozen 's to bring sup-plies In over the water from the end of the railroad at Townsville, but only about four of these were operational; the rest were under repair. "And the Japs were stilt a nui-sance at Moresby dropping down from the overcast to strafe our field at 40 feet altitude. We spent a lot of our time there, and had some close calls getting out to save the Swoose." "I'll never forget our closest one," said Master Sergeant 'Red' Varner, fhem back, and as between the bombs and the head-hunter- the na-tw- es chose the bombs, so we got Plenty of work done. "By now we weren't worried about Port Moresby. We had that in fair shape, and our bombers were going over almost every day to pound the Japs. But we were un-easy about the other shore of New Guinea The Japs had already dug in at Lae and Salamaua suppose they came on down the line and put in an airfield at Buna, right opposite Moresby? they could cause us plen-ty of trouble, intercepting our bomb-ers on the way out and back. "General Brett was particularly anxious, and wanted to move in and tr.ke Buna in May. There was noth-ing there then but a native village and an old Catholic mission. But Melbourne said no, because it would mean landing troops to defend our airdrome there. "But the Air Force knew if the Japs ever got Buna it would take a first-clas- s expedition to get them out. Finally General Ralph Royce, nu"'c- - - - - e Florida played on in Said Margo, "and I i write letters to some girls we knew whose uld never come back. letters I wanted to t :dBt For a while I exhibition because my , ,Upposed to be dead ,d they'd look at me 4 patriotic sympathy, , to work planning the irnament. I'd look at healthy young golf pro-igchi-flabby men on and wonder why 'in uniform. Only that !3g attitude; they'd tell j recreation now, more to keep our morale up war. I suppose it was kept wishing the weary lorra I knew could be t of it, instead of these intented men." ire some more names to that list of letters," said with us the feeling had t was wonderful to be to smash them back, in had done at Darwin, s base in North Austra-3!- h Bombardment Group laded the 7th now was er New Guinea and New ands, landing heavy them at Lae and Sala- - '"if (r. '!' ( vn: wno was ueneral Brett s operations chief, flew out over northern New Guinea on a personal inspection of the whole coast, and sent to Mel-bourne a detailed report, endorsing a field at Buna as vital to our fu-ture air operations. "Presently his reply came. In ref-erence to his report on the estab-lishment of a landing field at Buna, Melbourne headquarters commend-ed him for his initiative in making the reconnaissance, but found that owing to lack of facilities, it wasn't possible at this time. "But this friendly little ground-ai- r argument over Buna was soon set-tled. The third week in July our reconnaissance spotted a Jap Naval task force moving toward the north coast of New Guinea, and now just off Rabaul. We weren't sure where they were headed maybe around the island, to capture Moresby itself. "We were taking no chances, so on July 24 General Brett hit them with everything he had, little as it was medium and light bombard-ment. Forts and obsolescent dive bombers. "But for twenty-fou- r hours the fog closed in, hiding them. When it lifted they were sixty miles off Buna. Now we knew the Jap High Command was thinking in the same strategical terms as we were in the Air Force. "Even though the weather gave us this very short time to pound them, we made them pay for their Rnnn landinff. But still they could Jap lines of communica-- s far extended as ours now we had something luipment they had put We knew, of course, digesting Java and Lies. But we felt now never knock us back on igain, because we were ily dug in so we could Ir punches and put out a own. It was a nice feel- - Japs were getting a spect for the ! after the Olympics, I Ishl had entered the Jap After that I thought of Kobi Ishi, a pretty good some fair tricks and a e, but nothing you can't ou train for it. Maybe fanatics, craving to die Por, but I remember a 'h told me in Australia, ur Forts were coming in "1 to give the Japs a :a one lone Zero showed t Forts were all brand-kl- s, and the Japs had it them. The Forts con- - I The cannibal head hunters who lived in the jungle used to stalk the tame village natives. the Swoose's crew chief. "We got just a minute and a half s notice that the Japs were coming. Now the General could have stepped down into a foxhole and been per-fectly safe there, watching the Japs pound the field. But not our Ge-neralhe wanted to save that plane, and we had to run like hell to jump In, the General leading everybody, slam the doors, and lam out of there. We had to take off down wind, which was bad, missing a little hill by a lot less than 100 feet. We wouldn't have missed it if it hadn't been for those smart trees they have on New Guinea growing on top of that hill the most intelligent ones I've ever seen. Because they saw us coming and ducked. I happened to be looking out and saw them. Then I looked back, and bombs were already breaking on the field right in the dust of our take-of- f. "The Colonel here, who of course was doins the piloting, pulled a sneak a transport through during the night to put troops ashore. Had we had only a little infantry and artillery at Buna, they could have held them off, giving the Air Force a chance to pound their landing barges at dawn. But we didn't have, and when morning came their transport was steaming away empty. "In only two days the enterpris-ing little devils had chopped a land-ing strip out of the jungle. A few days later their fighters were rising off it to attack our bombers as they took off or returned to Moresby aft-er pounding the Jap base at Rabaul. "It took almost six months of hard fighting by both Australian and American Infantry, down over the Owen Stanley range finally led by General MacArthur himself to clear the Japanese out. What we have now is real The ground forces know the vital impor-tance of airfields, and I hope we in the Air Force have come to appre-ciate the tremendous importance of the unity of air, land, and sea." "A man doesn't know what dis-tance means until he flies that end of the world," said Red. the crew chief. "Remember the time we had to make a forced landing right in the wrmation, but keeping 'rained on the Zero. Now 1 Pilots, whether they're Jsp, or German, are i ?uick like fox terriers, gap between thinking and TO can almost watch a w and read its pilot's bow it was with this He starts in, thinking ;aa to pick oft a Fort, JWealy he sees all those imks how sweet and cute oond-eye- d geisha is back nice it would be to kr.so about half a mile out in a turn, out of continues parallel with thinking it over. Well, 8e'sha finally wins out .Emperor, because he but he thumbs his nose ay: flying alongside, gang watching, he ;5 tamelmann turns. It's which brings you out I? 0I"y flying backward. by a half-rol- l, J right side up again. . 01 fte hardest tricks in properly-beaut- iful , yi "id, and he kept and over, just out of .uch as to say, 'Boys, in, but don't think . KePt it up for fifteen ; latest-mod- super- - and just as he flipped our gang waved ;e for the flying circus, J ftem the high sign -- Be was Kobi Ishl. I'd m after the war. 4 PrU Port Moresby on a our problem child. mere was a single jun- - ng strip with nQ ade. craft guns. We were smart one. The Japs were right on top of us, so he hugged the ground - figuring then the Zeros couldn't dive on us without mash-in- g their own propellers into the bush We went hell for breakfast, wiggling in and out of gullies hardly 40 feet off the ground, and then out over the sea, where we could see a cloud cover to hide in. We had all kinds of rank aboard that day-Aust- ralian Air Force generals and other visiting firemen-a- nd some of weren't used to scuttling Egh in a four-mot- Sanefand by the time we got into Sat cloud they were sprouting some gray hairs." --By May, though," said Frank, the situation m began to get hdatWsby Wegotsomedis- - back in the hills ior S pLes and an operational alarm Z intercept and so now we can raids ny "'fa fighters are tear empty jungles. orawhilewehadalaborprob- - d lem The tame village native. bombs, and when the a the me sounded, instead of upingmto 1 foxholes they'd beat i ttj g,C- - an?emoafydeays Sethis "S heem anJase miuQie ui uic "I'll never forget," said Charlie, the bombardier. "It was about the time of that Buna business." "We had left Darwin," said Red. "and were flying across the Austra-lian desert headed for Cloncurry. We had umpty-um- p rank aboard, about sixteen in all-Ge-neral Royce, General Perrin, General Marquat, and some Australians--Air Marshals they probably were and also Lyn-don Johnson, a big lanky guy from Texas a real Congressman, only out inspecting this area now he was as a Navy Lieutenant Commander. "Well we're flying along over this wilderness which looks like the rum-pled parts of New Mexico or heading, we think, for this Clon-curry, only our arrival time goes by, and no Cloncurry. "Harry the navigator, begins to check things, and dis covers that hi, octant has gone out on him- -it s IiKe sextant on a ship, only you use " air bubble instead of the horizon. It wasn't Harry's fault-t- he prism turning all right, but now he recorder wasn t He could see the out of the navigator's nt into the cockpit shaking fs head and told Frank here what hid haopened-th- at he had no idea the Swoose was. 'You can veereh now, Major,' he say, She's all yours!' -- Well, first the Major got our to working, trying to wake "oL Australian station which P bearing. But I m us a W0 5 were all asleep. Our guess 1(wer fnd Sun sinking, too. rum. And SupeLhadsieptini, (TO BE CONTINUED) Victorian Quilts For Modern Bed P4RNlUt WHEW I,imghT ROWS a:)MioiuM8tww,,twTWC)tTt tfFtcT I ON THE center table in most Victorian parlors there was a kaleidoscope. Guests gazed into this after they tired of looking at the family album. Bits of colored glass were reflected in an endless number of intricate patterns in this ingenious device. Very much the same effect was obtained by the method of putting together the simple six-inc- h quilt block shown here and that is why the pattern was called the kaleidoscope. This quilt has just the right fla-vor for today's decorating trends. It will make a stunning spread for your bed either in the colors suggested here or in any other combination that suits your room. 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TIME was when Franchot was a prominent member of Hollywood's stay-up-la- te set. But no more. He s now a leader of the proud parents association. On the set of Benedict Bogeaus "Dark Waters," Papa Tone exhibits snapshots of Pascal Franchot, age nine months, to Merle Oberon, Thomas Mitchell and Fay Balnter till they cry (or help. It wai hot news when Pascal grabbed the edge of his crib and stood up and then wouldn't sit down again. Mrs. Tone Is Jean Wal-- , lace, a beautiful blonde, under con-tract to Paramount The Tones bought Robert Montgomery's house when he went into the navy; Mrs. Tone's sister lives with them, and when servants aren't to be had, Tone buckles down and washes dishes. Jerry Colonna, of the black walrus mustache, will accompany Bob Hope on a tour of Pacific fighting fronts when he finishes work in Re-- JERRY COLONNA public's "Atlantic City." He's a man of many faces In this one even ap-pears as an oversized Infant with blond curlsl Handsome Bill Johnson, Metro's new white-haire- d boy, was taken to the coast to act as master of cere-monies for their "Screen Test," on the Mutual network. He won the as-signment on the strength of his sing-ing ability, but In Hollywood he was promptly given a major role 4n Wal-lace Beery's "Airship Squadron 4." The radio show will serve as a build-up for Bill. Elisabeth Taylor, the actress who made her screen debut In "Lassie Come Home" and ha. the lead opposite Mickey Rooney In "National Velvet," will be starred by Metro In "Hold High the Torch." It's the story of a child and a war dog, the third ef the Lassie picture. The role wa. originally meant for Margaret O'Brien, but Elizabeth ha. proved talented enough to Inherit It. Following more than 40 tests for the part some by well-know- n film stars Jack L. Warner chose Joan Lorring for the coveted role of "Bes-sie" In "The Corn Is Green." She. 18, was born in Hongkong, and has been In this country only five years. She's acted on numerous radio pro-grams. Yank soldiers In Italy are becom-ing patrons of opera, according to reports received by Dr. Frank Black, NBC's general music di-rector. "It started af'er the first Italian campaigns were success-ful," he said. "Many cafes were out of bounds, Italian films had no Eng-lish titles, and the USO entertainers hadn't arrived yet The boys were desperate for entertainment so they went to opera, and liked it." Ji Within 24 hours of the production of his radio theater, "Action In the North Atlantic." CecU B. DeMille'. pie. for recruits for the merchant marine brought about an enlistment of 86 men from the listening audi-ence, practically enough to man a Liberty ship. It's the experience of a lifetime to tag along when Parks Johnson Is do-ing "Vox Pop" at a military hos-pital. The men love the genial Parks, who has a son tn the serv-ice. And during the show before the broadcast it's something to see a wounded man and a pretty nurse doing one of those stunts children do at parties, while Johnson stands j by with a handful of dollar bills, to reward the winner. i As a result of a publicity agent's dream, Basil Rathbone, who's "Sherlock Holmes" in the radio mystery series, was credited with a collector's interest in sculptured 'hands. He's been the unhappy re-- I cipient of hands from fans all over ithe country. ODDS AND ENDS According to present plans, Dick "Henry Aldrich" Jones will make a picture during the k vacation of "The Aldrich Fam-ily" from the air waves; he hasnt made one since he played the young Mark Twain. . . . Don Woods, star of NBCs "Those We Love" has signed a long-ter- contract with Warner Bros.; his first picture will be "Roughly break-ing." . . . Ann Sothern gave up a vaca-tion to play the leading role in the Walter Pidgeon show dramatization of "Tovarich." . . . Helen Walker's soldier-husban- d has been writing her for lots of pin-u- p pictures of Faulette Goddard. Dorothy Lamour and Veronica Lake. |