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Show THE BEAVER PRESS, BEAVER, UTAH SEW11G CIRCLE PATTERNS tUMFMJL ffiT Col. Robert L.Scoff N.U. thus far: After many on' ...i iMpmnts. Scott finally miIim E!.. point, and In the summer of 1932 ,nrv The route that I flew from Chicago, to Cleveland, to Newark, was what was known to all airmail pilots as the "Hell Stretch"-a- nd it was iecond lieutenant of infantry goes to on a wficb he tours motorcycle. just that, as I found out pretty Ju BarPy when he finally arrives at quickly. 1 mf iccc r ' adoipn ... In flv has hein Hi- llfo'a Be is graduated from Kelly field ranch. . Kjm. Sometimes people on new jobs got mixed up and sent the Cleveland mail in the wrong direction from Chicago, towards Omaha, or sent the Chicago mail from Cleveland to New York, the reverse direction just normal events amid the "growing pains" of an Army flying the mail. Once the control officer finally got a man in the air after sweating the weather out to the West for I saw his ship take off and days disappear in the snowstorm. Then I saw Sam Harris jump up, for the U. S. mail truck had just driven up. It was late, and in the excitement of getting the ship's clearance the eager pilot had forgotten to wait to have the mail loaded. The control officer had to call him back and start all over. About that time, when men had begun to die on airmail, I wrote a letter to this girl, the same one I had been going to see by automobile from Texas. It was addressed to her in case the "old ship hit some- - KUMENTi . i. Then came an army pilot now te report in Hawaii, which leaves """Jfcjltri " ..tried to be '"d driven over M,W ll0X on w the General le weose mOes trips irom Texas. Be eek-en- u about us plight. CHAPTER IV minutes to find them thirty the mere fact that I was in a car with a Western didn't make me Pretty plate jjjue Floyd, wno iney saia was on I finally prowl in that area. to telephone the Commanding iter of Mitchel Field, and as he ju t know me, all he could say was Lieu-aiajft u officer by the name of Scott was supposed to be on IMway to Mitchel from Kelly. Any- lyaj, I still don't think I looked iteok st ' ''I ' - ihn Hire Vrnirxr Rn lTlrnr1 jty arrival at my new station was 4 start of a hectic time for the First I began to try to '4 Corps. atw CnJ k in some flying time by volun-rin- g for every flight I could get. fed an especially good break when ron,nen jot on the Department of Com- -Jjjrce weather flights. I used to :ve to get up at two o clock in morning and take off no mat-Vt- t moo nui iiiAatViAM FVBuiv. a at Git to see the reflection pisei down fiffijf I: Jwl II ft rl of partly on instruments ftarned pretty soon was about Im- &ible, for I went into the nicest I have ever seen. Recovering four thousand feet below, I hilt tho cam thinff fcened. I then realized that after set my stabilizer for the steady nd narrr feb of three hundred feet per min-W- . ader.t as the fuel was used the weight S me:- fthe ship decreased and the nose ox&p in up, for the fuel was of course tithe ut w IStd it flPnin Of-i- wa; p This gradually preclpitat- - pard. stall which turned into a spin the big Conqueror twisted the ION, plage from propeller torque. I K to resolve to do all ronchi my instruflying by hand until the auto-Vi- c pilots were Derfected later. a afternoon I looked at the paper of the barometer re- ring, and there were two little Led lines, plainly showing where ship had lost nearly four thou-- d feet in two spins. TTn) re weather flights got pretty mo- nOUS. nnH T wniiM alr nft frnm lhel and fly up over Boston. let back down to my home Finallv th mptenrolneist ?ht on and told me to please over the area, as he had other er ships taking the same read-ove- r fTjKat ?h "klt Boston. ' flights my btwn I the fHA nnvrnmnt air lines concerning airmail Racts. To me even this was D of us had recently been or- to fly no more than four a month. This was the bare "num to receive flying pay, and, I turned out for many, the best in airplanes. Iff came that takes constant to Ket killed tlce. ' o i f f or flur In tn -rnrrY the winter of r mil during the worst hlstorv. n, P-- ' '"K " 1934 Shout I In ,tim think the powers on high taiirie rl were aluunccn n .iuis ifng mat airmail run, and '5tof them were killed because we dlnF 00 Instruments for the ships, or t me proper type ior ny- ty we new Pursult Z 'P. fifty-fiv- e Ci e"rri pounds of Bew 0,1 B"fl bombers that '""I'fc ' Snl'"1J "rry a ton of mail at a f T 01 riffhiv m(1o an hour nrn. the uinri in tmnt nf von .nil' f n'os too stronc anmetimex thev ont backwards. We flew 7thing from a Curriss Condor Mrs. PnnflounU tnA heen na Fords. if; 10 e old flew through the worst h In the country ,rtrT--ltj k , " i ' I ' ' EEKBHESK ric-ra- Jr., author of thing," and I carried it around in my .pocket during all my trips cf airmail I nearly wore it out, just carrying it But the ship didn't hit anything and she didn't see it In It I must have just asked her to marry me that's all I used to ask her anyway. One night I took off from Chicago and came to Cleveland. They couldn't find the man who was supposed to take the mail on to Newark; I found out later that he was sick. So I talked them into letting me take the ship on East. I climbed in and headed out towards the bad weather. When I got to it, following the experience I had gained in the months before and the advice I had received from the airline pilots, I climbed instead of diving, At to hunt for a way through. 18,000 feet I came out and over the clouds. I was alone, for as far as you could see. There were stars and a moon, and down below were the swirling clouds over the dropping their snow and ice. If I had turned back towards Cleveland, I would have had to let down in the dark and probably would have crashed. So I decided to head into the clear sky of the night, at 18.000 feet, and as the dawn came the next morning I started my letdown, for at least I would have light in which to make the landing. My radio had not worked since I had got into the snow and ice; so I was flying merely by I let down somewhere over what I thought was northern Pennsylvania, but after buzzing the town and reading the name, found I was over Binghamton, New York. I flew on South, having remembered a field and at Scranton, Pennsylvania, there I landed. The landing was quite an experi ence. As I dove over the field I saw workmen there, frantically waving their arms. They were repair-in- g the field. But I was about out of gasoline, so I came in, motioning with my band for them to get out of the way. The only damage was caused by my landing on one of the small red flags on a stick that one of the workmen had been wav inghe had hurriedly stuck it In the ground when he saw me landing regardless, and I came down right on top of It; but the small tear was of no consequence. I re paired it had coffee with the man in charge of the airfield, and went on toward Newark. They had long ago given me up for lost for In that same night two other army pilots had met their death over the Alleghenies. Once again I felt that something had told me to climb when I got to the bad weather, and if that same thing had told those mert t climb they would have flown through instead of going down they might have disregarded a warning In a case like that we think it's luck, but maybe it's nnt. To me something had said, "Get altitude, don't roam around down here, get altitude and go on " And 1 think that after that things Just took care of themselves. With airmail over, w vent bock dead-reckonin- g. taught me enough to life when the Army took ' the airmail contracts a little f In the year. Jou remember 1934 there was ! O Alle-ghenie- s, ct "Me f'f Ready to be Enjoyed & t." partly by visual reference. This K JJPj lite Col. Robert L. Scott "God Is My I then forgot all caution and to fly fed i 8690 h directly beneath my 1 moon mm head-hunter- s, . mam T HEAD COLD MISERY fUR yside, tsrtt l 's FUEI? BOOKLET v 0-3- 9. at (? sic1 "7 34-4- St . Viim3rr4 more automobile trips towards Georgia. Finally I talked the girl into It We went on' up to West Point and were married. Catharine really fits into this story because it was the trips over to Georgia to see her, from every place in the United States, that not only made me drive an automobile but taught me crosscountry flying, since I had been flying in these later months from wherever I was by way of Georgia. From Mitchel Field I was sent to Panama. And then began my on ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM real pursuit training. In I II you suffer from Arthritis, Neuritis, roamed across the country of PanaSciatica, Lumbago or any form of Rheumatism ask your druggist for a fret ma up into Central America and or writa to No. booklet on NUE-OVdown into South America. I was Ova, inc., 412 8. Welti St., Chicago 7, IlL COPV. YOUR FREE for given a Job constructing flying fields, Successfully used for over 19 years which we figured would some day were the fields Canal. These protect put in for the purpose of installing radio stations and also air warning QUICK RELIEF FOR devices to tell us when enemy planes approached the Panama Canal. I would have to go down on the Colombian border and contact 1 ff the natives, some of whom were to work on these fields that we were building. We would have to get the grass cut off, and I When nostrils are would make motions with a machete clogKed.nosefeelBraw, Inthe long knife of the Darien yri. membranes swollen, dians and show them what we had reach for cooling fi 7 RKM Ic In cWoa 1 Nn Pattern Mentholatum. Speedto do to keep that field so that airand 8 years. Size 4 Jumper requires 1'4 ily it (1) Helps thin out planes could land on it. of stubborn mucus; blouse, material; thick, yards yard. (2) Soothes irritated The natives didn't work very well munhranM' tH Hplna m SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. if. with us at first But we doctored a reduce swollen rms- - F 149 New Montgomery St. few of them for chiggers and for sages; (4) Stimulates i San Francisco, Calif. other infections under their finger8 25 cents in coins for each Enclose .Kim w n i n m t u. nails which had become very inpattern desired. Every breath brings re- Trim Frock. hosIn to Morning or we flew men flamed, he! Jars, tubes. Size No Pattern too and of idea and yours pitals who needed operations, Name soon they began to appear more something pretty in a mornwe frock! Address left there Your favorite time the friendly. By ing princess they were calling me "El Doctor." lines, so flattering and trim, will make you look nice and feel comWhen my training of other pilots fortable too. There's added interbegan, I realized the terror I must est in the little rolled collar and have caused my own instructor. For pocket design. YoVll like it in all in training I perceived my own cheery cottons or ginghams. faults better, learning even to anBarbara Bell Pattern No. 1242 is deticipate the mistakes the student would make. And I learned much signed for Sizes 34, 36 , 38, 40, 42. 44 46 requires 43 yards of about the peculiarities of man, for and 48. Size 36 for material; trimming, 4 yards of on one occasion I had a student who attempted to kill me. I don't know why he would have killed With Puff Sleeves. himself, too. A GAY, pretty little jumper "The Cnim are Great roods- "- tfjtftfst&fff One day I was told to take out a frock which has the easiest, cadet listed as an incorrigible and simplest blouse to make, wear and Kellogg's Rice Krispies equal the whole ripe grain in nearly all the to try to find out what was wrong launder you've ever encountered. with him. I gave him forced land- Notice that the "puffs" of the protective food elements declared essential to human nutrition. ings and such, and when he tried to sleeves and the gathers of tha glide down and land on a highway, neckline are just pulled up by I would take the ship and caution means of a ribbon drawstring. him about gliding low towards trucks and automobiles. On one of these tries, as I gave him a forced landing you do this merely by cutting the throttle to idling speed to see what the student will do he rolled thf ship on its back and pulled it down in a dive towards the ground. I waited as long as I could and then I took it away myself. I found that the man was glaring straight toward the trees we had almost hit. I landed the ship and asked him what was the matter. He appeared very sullen, and so 1 took him aloft again. Once more I put the ship on its back and told him to bring it out Immediately he pulled it toward the ground, and I knew it was intentional. With alarm I realized that with him almost frozen to the controls I would have extreme difficulty taking the ship from him by force. I hurriedly kicked the right rudder, which carried the half roll into a complete snap roll. Then I went 4 CX-- ' through every acrobatic maneuver I knew until I made him sick; after that I flew him back to Randolph Field with my own heart beating a little wildly. As I landed the ship two men stepped from behind a plane, asking to see the student "You just wait a minute," I said. "After all, he's my student and I have-somthings to say to him." Then they pulled gold badges out of their pockets to show me they were F.B.I, men. They had been looking for this student for a long time. He had been a pilot before and had smuggled dope across the Mexican Drawing courUty Quaker Stat4 Oil Refining Corp.) border, and I believe to this day was that arrest the that to evade waiting for him, he was trying U end It alL But the worry I had here was that in ending it for himself, he would have been ending it for me. When I first came to Randolph w worked only half a day and had th rest of the day to play around at with the American d men in the merchant give VICTORY begins golf, to hunt or do anything w from before marine chance a to working long belief that the as But recuperate. To give wai wanted. sunset until long after nightfall. Upon him unfortunate people abroad and at home was coming got into a few Americas falls the burden of feeding the fighting a chance to have life, liberty, and happipeople, we started the limited Ail Corps expansion program. We theu forces . . . the civilian population . . . and ness. began working all day, and I wai countries. hungry mouths in war-tor- n The dollars you can give are needed moved up to a Flight Commandei Govfor the To the challenge of producing more more than ever this year. Please give and taught instructors, ernment was giving contracts to cifood than ever, American soldiers of the generously. vilian corporations to train Armj soil have responded with heroic effort was beginpilots. The Air Corps Give generously to Despite shortages of help and equipment, ning to grow. As the years rolled have to established records. have moved Californis was I they They into 1939, contributed mightily towards winning the to become Assistant District Super visor of the West Coast Trainin war. Center. This Job was to check at Now you are asked to help your fellow-me- n flying cadets in the three schooli and in another way Santi to contribute Glendale, at San Diego, Maria. Later on I received my firsi money to give men in the armed forces command that of the Air Corpi needed recreation, to give books and Training Detachment called Cal ti.a National War Fund Represent equipment to prisoners of war, to sports Aero Academy, at Ontario. California. I worked ttys up from forty-twcadets, until after one year w had nearly six hundred. 1242 m. na;,6 ictor,ln one oi these round myself in ''fete a bit of trouble. As soon as I eacdli off I went cn to instrument fly-wu and cnmDea up inrougn me Ikvy clouds in the Curtis s Falcon Etnown then as an Out to fastened to the "N" struts, dimly see the was to record the nging weather as we climbed to It high as the ship would go. necessary to climb at a con- it three hundred feet a minute, ch in several thousand feet be- .e fairly monotonous. I finally sted the stabilizer so that the would climb this altitude, and all I had to do was to keep the pgs straight and level with the and bank indicator and the se constant with the gyro. Jt I had reckoned without real wledge of flying. My first indi- ob of trouble came at some sev- ,'.fiv RELEASE to our usual duties at Mitchel Field. Things sort of settled down, and I began to make more flights and ,A scientist recently proved that the average fingerprint expert cannot distinguish a genuine print, or one made b.: the finger itself, from a forged print, or one transferred from an object, sayal Collier's. Eight experts were asked to tell which of four identical prints on a card were made by the two methods. Only three of the men correctly named all four, but later admitted they did it by guessing. The other five experts, incidentally, called more genuine prints forged than forged prints genuine. h nt tVia Wild jsj err? 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