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Show THE BEAVER PRESS. BEAVER, UTAH m my ) Colorful Towels for Gay Kitchen CO-PH- IL 4V Col. Robert L.Scoff engine, or carry in the mechanics and the tools with which to repair the bad one. In every organization there is always one person who holds up the morale, some one who makes the darker moments brighter and who can bring a little sunshine into the tense reality of war. Out in the China theatre, and especially in the 23rd Fighter Group, my most unfor-getabcharacter was Lieut. Henry Elias. This pilot was a Southerner, like most of the others in the China skies. When I first reached Heng-yan- g he was acting as assistant operations officer to Ajax Baumler. He had a reply for ! every person, CHAPTER XX and a come-bac- k i to every joke. He was definitely a morale builder, and I When stranger things would hap"about things of the you can ask anyone if they're not pen, we talked as valuable at the front as ammunisort which had once been told in tion. us agreed that story books. All of Elias had been on several raids When this war was over, there would and had shot down two Japanese ever had that happened tie nothing when I heard the first joke about In fiction that wouldn't have actually him. He'd been on an attack to happened it this battle of the Nanchang, and as the ships turned instance: For I Likiang is a city in China far up for home in the fading light of late n the big, northern loop of the afternoon, some one in the rear of It is China, yes, but the formation observed something 'angtse-Kianthat part of China is as wild as Tibet peculiar. Up ahead there were five nd Arabia. The people are called f'Lolos," and they must be descendants of Genghis Khan. I had flown jver the place, for it was just North il the ferry route from Assam to , Kunming, and I had seen the flat Rearing South of the village that could have been an emergency landing field. I noted that it was close to nine thousand feet above sea lev-t- l, and therefore not a field to use Unless one had to. rfj Capt. Charlie Sawyer had crash-fende- d Just South of there, closer to Talifu, and had been unable to ideng tify himself. While the Lolo tribesmen were getting set to execute him with ancient-lookin- g muskets, Sawyer said the boles in the barrels looked twice as bores. Just at big as the crucial moment, however, when bis fate looked darkest, some new arrival in the party saw the identification card that Sawyer had been pointing to. It was inscribed in various languages, and with pictures. These pilots are tired out by alThe new arrival didn't recognize the most constant alert without relief for 21 days. Chinese flag, or any of the languages, or the Generalissimo's sigwith their sleek silhouettes nature "chop" but he saw a star. As it happened, it was the star of showing wheels up and everything in proper order. But off to the flank. India over the imprint in Hindustani. Then the tribesman pointed to the in almost the position of the number-thre- e man in a Vee formation, was lame star on the wing of Sawyer's one with its wheels extended. ship hip the Insignia of the Army Air Force. Sawyer was saved, and later Some one called on the radio, "Hey, ie was feasted on wild buffalo and Elias, who's that flying in formation with you, with their wheels down?" lice wine. As the words sank into the conI But why? Here in the wilds of the Lolo country, where very few sciousness of the flight, and of Elias IFhite men had ever been, the tribesespecially, their ominous signifElias men were more familiar with the icance became apparent. White star of the Air Force than with jerked his head around and looked at his wing man. Even to an inWe learned any written language. fce principal reason later. experienced eye, the silhouette was I A report had come in to General unmistakable. It was a Jap Model one of the old fixed landing-gea- r Chennault's headquarters that a native village in the Lolo country, betypes. The entire formation tween Lake Tali and Likiang, was tried at once to get it as they finally inder siege by the Burmese north- realized what it was. But they had ern tribesmen who had crossed the the laugh on Elias. Just as he recSalween, perhaps under the direc-io- n ognized the Jap, the enemy pilot eviin the of the Japanese. Two of us, dently recognized the Bolioway and I, were sent to look twilight before darkness perhaps We he saw the leering sharks' mouths. $e place over in two fere told by the General that we For as Elias shoved the nose of his 4mld determine whether the town ship straight down and dove for him, fas under siege by noting whether the Jap pulled his ship straight up cr not the usual pedestrian traffic and climbed for the sky. Later, when our imaginations began to emWas passing in and out of the city the joke, Elias took the kidbroider All the cities are walled, and ff'te are obviously very far from roads ding in good part and always had a Or from civilization. comeback. r A small I We made our observation and rebiplane, a turned with the report. The village Fleet, came to Hengyang from as besieged, and we had seen the Kweilin one day with a Chinese ofhtrsemen encamped a half mile ficer. We looked the little ship over round the city wall. We loaded up as it came into the field wide open miles an hour. id went back with six eighteen-ft!ograat some seventy-fiv- e "We now have just the bait we frags on the wing racks id ammunitneed," I said. "Lieutenant Elias, I plenty of ion. I also carried a Very pistol want you to borrow that Fleet from the Chinese. I know a trick to make 4 4 a'l colors of shells. As we circled the town, we could the Japs lose lots of 'face' and aire the villagers watching us; then planes." e dove on the Elias had laid down his Operabesiegers and m mbed them from a thousand feet. tions reports and was listening athe lines of Drehistorie cavalrv tentively. "This ought to get you ke and retreated towards the Sal- - promoted," I went on. "Now you ren and Burma. We machine- - get that plane and service it tonight, them until thv cnrpaH in then early in the morning you take Then I used the Very pistol, off for Hankow. Alison. Baumler. I will be along later and will tnic. first green lights, then red.y and arrive over the Jap city before you said it was the best of fireworks he'd ever seen. We do." Elias was looking at me in w ecked up for several days, but the wonder. "Then, when you get there, tf ders hadn't come back, and nor- fly over the enemy airport at thirty-fivhundred feet that'll keep you mal pedestrian traffic was passing fire rouch the city wall. Holloway and just above their small-calibr- e with two of the General's and they can't shoot accurately that low with the big stuff. Over the field W nopttfd a war. The white star of the Air Force you fly with one wing low. kind of skidding, cutting your switch on and jf d been seen by those villagers, off W1 they had told the surrounding so the Japs will think you're wounded or over there with a untry we either that Perwere friends. Jf ps the constant sight of transports bad engine." f"m India to China and return had Elias was trying to figure out ide the big white gtar a familiar whether I was serious or not. Then Jmool. At any rate, the Lolos who I added: "We'll be up there in the about to execute Sawyer d sun, and as fast as the Zeros come it, and to them it meant mora up for you. we'll knock them down. wm written languages and sealed After aU, Ellas, if they get you, a wders. Such Is the strangeness of' Fleet isn't worth much." w Slobal war. But by now Lieutenant Elias was Mure true fiction came out of the walking out and calling over his U'O country during the autumn. A shoulder: "No ir, Colonel. I Just Command pilot. Lieutenant want to be a plain pilot I don't Aronson. "lost an engine"-wh- ich want to be no ball of fire." 'ans that his engine failed-- on his Well, we saw the value of Elias Pp from Assam to we lost him, for in this second when He Kunming. ly made the around Hunan he failed to rebattle big meadow that South of the town of Likiang, turn from the strafing raid of Septhe hairpin loop of the taken sixYangtse. tember 2. 1942 We had when er to back Hengyang several teen f wok days we went in there In shape to ngnt, s the improvised landing-fieli we had gotten them ns4 In thA fcnn u had landed there -Just about ,,14 Ua I bum VUU1U "vfrc knot i W ither transport to him with a good dark to surprise the Japs. That s le d uni-yrrs- e. flsA&ftf ?f ill wild-lookin- k fifty-calib- 's P-4- two-seate- m fifty-calib- re dis-teji- e j j rec-nlze- 'fry 's d I current war conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: WN.U. RELEASE xbe story thus tar: After graduating "front West Point, Robert Scott wins his Vings at Ketly Field and takes op combat fjving. When the war breaks out he Is and is told he Is too old jsn instructor for combat flying. He appeals to several ;nerals and is finally given an opportunity to get Into the fight. Be Hies a timber into India, where he Is made a f rry pilot, but this does not satisfy him. filler visiting General Chennault he gels a Kittybawk, and soon becomes a "one man air force" over Burma. Later he is f rnaJe commanding officer of the 23rd J iithter Group. Maj. Alison gets three bombers one day and lands in the river. Jlis plane sinks, but the Chinese get it method. cut by a r Due to an unusually large demand and 723S ; fiint-loc- SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLECRAFT the night the Fleet landed and the night I had been kidding Henry Elias. Next morning we got into the air before daylight and went for Lake Puyang Hu. near Nanchang, where the Japs were moving the Chinese rice out by junks and barges robbing the breadbasket of China in the yearly rape of the rice. Hill took and I took the eight of the other eight. Elias was on Tex Hill's wing. We split at Nanchang and my eight went to the South to catch some gunboats that had been reported in the Sintze-HukoStrait, near Kuki-ancoming from the Yangtse to the Lake. I heard Hill call that he had caught the rice ships and was burning them. Later he told me that he found twenty-si- x of them, junks and steel barges; he sank some and saw others with their sails on fire, floating for shore where the hungry Chinese coolies would salvage the rice. Through the four passes at the Japs Elias was right on Tex's wing, but on the fourth pullout he dropped behind the formation, perhaps to shoot at something Hill hadn't seen. Maybe he'd seen a Jap fighter and had gone for it; we knew there were eight Zeros supposed to be over Nanchang. Elias didn't return with the flight, and for two days we carried him as "missing." Then the Chinese net reported that a group of Chinese soldiers had seen 0 a lone American engaged by four Japanese Zeros. The American had fought them but his ship had been shot down. The American had jumped out in his parachute and four Japanese had strafed him on the way down. The body had been found, with the identification flag number listed. The pilot's name was Lieutenant Elias. All of us watched for Japs bailing out, so that we could shoot one or two down for Elias, but we didn't get the chance. We sent Captain Wang down to Kian to get Elias's body. Wang had to travel a hundred and sixty miles by buffalo cart, by alcohol bus, and on foot, but he finally got there. The trip took him twenty days. When the body of our lost pilot finally arrived at the field from which he had last taken eff, it was in a Chinese coffin that Wang had gotten at Kian. We placed the flag over the grim reminder of war and sent it by transport to Kunming, to lie beside his other brother pilots in that Buddhist graveyard in Yunnan. And so it went: tragedy humor tragedy. For on the same raid I had led the other eight ships, with elements led by Holloway, Schiel, and O'Connell, and had caught the Jap gunboats, ten of them, at Sintze-HukoStrait. They were more than likely coming to Puyang Hu to convoy those rice barges but we were going to interfere with their rendezvous. Even as we circled them from sixteen thousand feet, I think they knew they were going to have lots of trouble. They had to stay almost in for they were goline, ing through the narrow strait. We circled warily for a minute, looking the sky over for enemy fighters, then spiralled down. As soon as we got close enough to the Jap ships to see distinctly, we noticed that the seamen were jumping over the side into the water. Only a few seemed to have remained to fire the antiaircraft guns, and Schiel and Holloway silenced most of those with their initial pass. I think most of the ammunition had been fired at us while we circled at sixteen thousand feet, for we were the whole show now. We'd rake the steel decks from stem to stern and then swing out low to the water and come back with quartering shots from the beam. We were so low that we were actually shooting up at the decks of the boats. I saw many human heads above the water as tne Japs tried to swim from the boats, and I fired at them. Those bullets ricocheted from the water into the steel side of the gun boat and went on through. As my range would reach the "sweet spot" of some 287 yards, where the six lines of tracers and armor-piercinFifties converged, it would appear as though an orange-colorehole the size of a flour barrel was being burned into the side of the Jap vessel at the water-line- . We line along the and 6hot at them all from both sides. On the second pass, two of the vessels were listing, and others were smoking. On the fourth attack, sev en out of the ten were smoking and burning and some of these were on the bottom with their masts barely out of water. Photographs taken later from an observation plane showed that seven had sunk Immedl- ately in the strait, and that the oth- er three had sunk within a thousand, yards of the battle area. I was so happy, so excited and eager, that I tried to be glamorous that morning. After the fourth attack I had called to and head for the rendezvous point to the Southwest. But as the ships left the target, I saw something I had to go back for. It was a Japanese flag, waving defiantly from the mast of Forone of the sunken gunboats getting caution, and with the other seven planes speeding away to the rendezvous point, I dove to strafe the flag In a gesture of hate. 's w g, P-4- w nose-to-ster- n, g d ten-shi- p TO BE CONTINUED) OU may recall the time when Jim Braddock, supposed to be all washed up, removed the heavyweight championship crown from Max Baer's carefree dome. After that party we suggested that the "primrose trail" rarely led to any pugilistic heights, or any other athletic heights. There are certain physical freaks I won't mention their names in boxing, baseball and golf, who trained largely on gin, scotch and bourbon and still made the headlines. For a while. But for each one of these exceptions I can name you ten who trained correctly and reached the top of the hill Gene Circle Needlerraft Dept. San Francisco 6, Calif. Enclose 16 cents for Pattern Sewing Box 3217 'N Nam e Address.. 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This question was raised by the recent meeting at Madison Square Garden between two primrose trailers from the past Lee Oma and ISaksi. Both started out along the soft and easy road. Both were physically qualified to do a much better Job than they displayed in their efforts. But neither was willing to pay the price of condition the price that Tunney, Dempsey and Joe Louis paid to be ready with the best they had to give. And I'm giving you three of the tops along this rugged road. As a general rule the "primrose trail" has a sudden, At the abrupt and dismal finish. start of their careers Oma and Bak-s- i were galloping merrily along this trail and getting nowhere in a hurry. Now both are supposed to have changed their earlier habits in the understanding that both are about the two best heavyweights left, outside of war service. Both wasted valuable time in improving themselves. It took a world war to plant them up near the front. Oma seems to be going up faster than Baksi. deciHe beat the tough sively in 10 rounds, weighing only 185 pounds to Baksi's 211. Keeping in Condition This isn't any sermon or lecture on the matter of keeping in shape, or the value of hard training. But there is a general writing and talking tendency to overplay some of the playboys who traveled a long way up in spite of their odd ways of training. Harry Greb was one. So was Mickey Walker. Walter Hagen was another, later on in his career. And there was Rube Waddcll, Bugs Raymond, Shuffiin' Phil Douglas great Even the overpowering pitchers. Babe Ruth had his lapses. So did Jim Thorpe. So did Grover Cleveland Alexander. But what about the great majority of stars who made a point of being in shape who trained for the job? The best conditioned fighters I've known in the last 20 years were Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis. And they were not so bad. 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