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Show ;quIF .WHITE THE STORY THIS FAR: Lieut. Col. Frank Kurtz, pilot of a Flying FortreiS, icllt of that fatal day bra tbe Japs struck in the Philippine. Eight of hii mm mere kiUed flreinc for snelter, and Old 99, with many other Fortresses, was After esrap-n- g on the ground. hal Is left of the to Australia. on squadron flies to Java, where they go many missions over the Philippines and Macassar Strait. Sergt. Boone, gunner, tells how queens die. Nine Foris are out looking for Jap carriers when they who fly with meet a flight of them. Too late they discover the forged stars. The "P-sOJap planes open op at close range on the Forts and three Queens go down la flames. CLASSIFIED DEPART MEN ty'JfJ-.TPlit-e mu' W.N.U.TEATUfiEj screw to lighten it and then, turning the motors on full blast, had from that litmade a jump take-of- f tle strip. He grabbed a sandwich and went on in to Malang. "The alarm in Surabaya was now going off regularly, sometimes three times a day, because the Java Sea was stiffer than an old sock with Jap carriers. Colonel Eubank was now faced with a real problem. The three main bases for our Forts were at Malang, Madiun and another town which was spelled Jokyakarta, but the American boys couldn't chew this one, so they all gave it up and everybody just called it Jockstrap. "The Dutch had no system to detect planes coming in from over the sea. Their only warning system was a tiny island about seventy-fiv- e miles cut. It had a radio, so Surabaya got fifteen minutes' notice and Malang about thirty. "So what was the Colonel to do? were badly overworked, Our so when the alarm sounded, if the Forts took to the air the Zeros might shoot them down, while if they stayed on the ground, the Jap bombers might blow them up. Never were we able to keep more than twelve planes in the air, even including reinforcements, for we were losing them about as fast as they were coming in, and a number were always under repair and therefore air-rai- d It was darker than the inside of a black cow, but every now and then the lightning would rip everything wide open the whole cloud around us would flame up, and you could see to read fine print in the cabin. We were like a bug in a neon tube. Then blackness would close in, and it would be a long time before your eyes could make out the little blue- pink exhaust flame of the plane next to you. "After about an hour we had plowed through the storm, and were flying above scattered overcast down below us at about head-firs- XV t, i- y n ground-loope- d 180-degr-ee tail-fir- st rtfWPf 1 MP P-4- soft-boile- e, Kom-panee- P-4- Sil-v- Wg m PERSONAL Cheek C On J earself. Send 10c c stamps for Psychological Chart world famed teacner. Ml. W as.liiin.un I aaoo-s- "T ta Kaiatl. Les Aoceie, ! Eeleased by Western Newspaper Union. . ONE can say how long Joe XJO A Louis and Billy Conn will be in the army or how they will looic in the ring after the war is over and they have traded the khaki lor ring shorts. J "!? ine what new or Used Cars Trailers Hammerin' Armstrong always has fighter for our money. d Henry just about of alltime great boxers. over the list of ring men and who has done what he ha. one find The dark slugger set a recora ior in bowling over his opponents and win three to so doing managed world's boxing championships, holdOFFICE EQUIPMENT ing them simultaneously. WE BUT AND SELL More than once the experts said Office Furniture, Files. Typewriters, Add. Henry was through. That has been- Ing Machines. Safes. Cash ReeiMrrs SALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE the cry for years. Henry again upset the dope recently wnen ne U WhI Brw7. gall Lake Cily, I'taa. knocked out Aaron Perry, a tional comer, in Washington, D. C. HELP WANTED Yet Henry insists he always has AUTO MECHANICS been a pacifist who avoids argu- REPAIRMEN ments and heartily dislikes fighting, Employment for the durmon How is it, then, that a man who Permanent and after the war. Fine Income. Saturday Vacations with Da v. PIsb. Hptoetc fierhtmp- can WOrfc UP SO afternoons off.conditions. Get set now with ant working much fury when he steps mto trre a strong and reputable compily Wr I OMPAV'T A. lKLtSO tKt-e ring? Distributors Jose or draWf R mm jk ZSJSZZ forces j the armed will develop sensa-whic- at the moment seem to be Lee Savold and Baksi. Billy Conn Baksi, a bit. strong:, rugged fellow, game enough and a pretty good puncher, has had some time in which to iron out a few kinks and polish off a number of rough spots. He was at least a prospect when he first came along, but just how much polishing he can absorb is another guess. His main needs have been more speed and much more cleverness, which only come through hard work along these two important lines. These twe qualities don't look up and knock. In their last meeting Savold was much the smoother competitor, but Baksi still proved that he had certain possibilities that could be carried much further with any touch of smartness or ambition. h Joe Louis and Billy Conn still have some time on ahead in which to retain a good part of their stuff. After all Bob Fitzsimmons was 35 years old when he knocked out Jima Corbett at Carson City. Fitz, with pair of shattered hands, was still good at the age of 40. Corbett was close to 34 when he carried Jim Jeffries into the 23rd round at Coney Island. It will be several years before Louis and Conn are as old as Fitz and Corbett were in two of their greatest fights. The, point has been made that army life won't be any great help to either. I disagree with this angle. Army life, in the matter of keeping physically fit, is sure to be better than civilian life. I know Louis has been boxing in army shows for the last two years. He is over his old fighting weight by some eight pounds, maybe ten pounds, but that will be easy to take off. Louis never gets far off the proper road. The primrose trail has never appealed to him. Outside of Gene Tunney, I'd say that Louis has kept in better shape, year after year, than any fighter I've known. Certainly old Ruby Roberts, winning the title at 35, was no stickler for the path. Louis won't be as fast as he was a few years ago. But he will still have most of his punching power and most of his ring skill. He will keep most of his ring instinct. His reflexes won't be quite as rapid, but they will still do in a pinch. After all, Jack Dempsey had a three-yea- r rest between his Firpo and Tunney contests, without an intervening fight. Jack, in this long layoff, did nothing like the ring work Joe Louis has been doing in the army. He was in nothing like the same shape that Louis is today, and will be for two or three years more. My guess would be that Louis at 34 or 35 will still be something to beat. w Have Some Years Left Billy Conn is harder to guess. Not so much has been heard about his army life or his army work. But Conn, younger and faster than Louis, a better boxer, should have the same chance to finish the war as a first class ringman. Conn could always afford to put on a few pounds without losing any speed. I hear that he is now up around 185 pounds. It would be no trouble to boil this down to 180, which should be his more effective weight. The Pittsburgh entry has an amazing amount of vitality and too much courage for his own good especially when he meets a Louis. Conn is another who should be a first-clas- s heavyweight at 34 or 35, provided he takes any care of him- the physical side. self Both Louis and Conn have more than one or two years to go, before starting downhill at any rapid pace. Just how long the war will last-j- ust how long they will be kept in is anybody's wobbling service on guess. American League Race BODY-FENDE- j Pontiae-Cadilla- 635 Simple Answer The answer is simple and quite obvious. Henry needs the money. He is fighting for board and room. During his ring career the little Negro probably earned a million dollars or so. He isn't absolutely 1- South Main, Salt Lake City, Utah. Flying Boxcars Army and navy ships of the air are properly referred to as "flying boxcars." With normal range of 3,000 miles and capacity of 30,-00- 0 pounds, these planes are playing a vital part in winning the war. Tractors, trucks, tanks, and a wide variety of army equipment is transported by air to the hosbattle fronts. A pital was flown from St. Louis to Nome, Alaska, and was in operation 36 hours after leaving St. Louis. HENRY ARMSTRONG broke now, but he isn't a rich man by any standards. The disappear weaitn ance of his doesn't cause Henry too much mental anguish. He remembers cheer-- ; fully how his likable the late Eddie Meade, managed to mess up their finances following every big bout. Henry remembers that when the time came to split the purses, Meade always came up with a brilliant idea for doubling their money. The schemes always failed. Gene Kessler, a Chicago sports writer, tells of some of Meade's ideas: "There was the movie, 'Keep Punching,' in which Henry was star and financial actor, angel. All Henry got for his bankroll in that venture was a few souvee nirs and photos of himself. There was the flash-frochop suey joint in Los Angeles which packed in customers but, strangely, showed! no profit. In fact, it kept Henry' broke feeding the good citizens of; Los Angeles from his fight purses until a sheriff gracefully closed the doors." builds the rugged hard-earne- d still-lif- nt Financial Venture But Meade's greatest financial ventures had to do with the improvement of the breed. He was known to have invested an entire fight purse on one discouraged nag which ended up just where everyone else expected him to. Armstrong retired in 1940 after absorbing quite a beating from Fritzie Zivic. He took a terrible pounding in that fight. His eyes were hammered into bloody, brutal: messes. And when he retired he had only a small bank balance to show for his great earnings. The story goes that when Henry retired, Meade took the last of his earnings and bought a race horse. It wasn't the best race horse in the world, but one day he won a $5,000 stake at Belmont. It was the first big money Meade had ever collected from the turf and the shock was too severe. He collected his money, returned to Broadway and died. It wasn't love of fighting that brought Henry back to the ring. It was necessity, coupled with the lure of bankrolls. And this time he is going to take care of his own finances. The total gate for his match with Perry grossed $60,000 in Washington. Other good sized gates have given him a comfortable chunk of cash. He could retire now with enough to last him the rest of his life, but he's playing it safe and adding something extra to a bankroll that has had the unhappy experience of fading all too rapidly. war-fattene- d SPORTS SHORTS C Gene Tunney modestly does not rate himself in his list of the eight best heavyweights, but does rank Jack Dempsey, whom he whipped twice, as the No. 1 scrapper. Dempsey was followed by Fitzsim"Detroit," another added. "Better mons, Corbett, Jeffries. Louis. Sulli van, Johnson and Sharkey, in that pitching, day in and day out." There was a vote for the White order. C. In eight of the last nine years, Sox and a vote for the Browns. "But any club that loses one or the team that was in last place in two good men to the draft will be the National league standings on in a bad way," another added. the morning of Memorial day. won the pennant. I asked a group of Yankees how they figured the race, leaving the Yankees out of the argument. "Washington," one said. "Probably the best balanced team in our league. Should run sure." R - About Louis and Conn straight-and-narro- US BHLOJLQI whether or not said forces will give the game another Gene Tunney. In the meanwhile Mike Jacobs is get ting along with the best he has left, 4,000. P-4- 1) -- . moon-flecke- d "At 10:30 we were over the target, and we glided down to 3,000 feet to see what was going on. Through "When that chute cracked open, the hunks of clouds we could see the jerk pitched him out of the harthe gun flashes of Jap warships lobbilchute ness and as the bing shells into that poor old town. lowed loosely back of the plane's tail, Then we would see the flash when we saw him dropping down with his the shells exploded. They had fires and clothes smoking, getting littler already going in several places, and littler. Oh, Heaven! I couldn't look of course the town had absolutely more. any nothing to hit back with. "The plane was settling faster, "But clouds protected the Jap in that steepening curve now, befleet, so we couldn't make a run on cause it was all over. So we who just where we guessed those gun have seen a Fortress die in battle flashes were the thickest. Bombs can tell you how they do it. They were scarce. Orders had been if die like the men who fly them and we didn't find a good target, to bring fight in them would want them to them home, so we did. We had. no die! They die like, the great Sky flares aboard to light up that har Queens they are. And Queens die bor, or any installation for dropping proudly. them. The old Forts were never cut out for nightwork, but of course "Just then I heard our pilot Cap"Also we had some bad breaks in in a war you sometimes get into tain Strother over the interphones, telling Jim Worley, our bombardier, luck. One afternoon Lieutenant Ray cracks where you use whatever Cox had his plane up on a high-altthat he'd opened the bomb-bayou've got to do what must be done. ' We hated it, leaving that poor doors, and for the bombardier to old town burning while the Japs sat go back and salvo all the bombs and the gas tanks carried there. out there and tossed shells into her, without giving it even a little help-- but "Well, Jim Worley is about to it had to be. obey, but just then he sees a Zero coming right in on us, head-o"On our return we found that and his gun' there in the nose is storm had moved on down Java and the only one who can handle this was squatting right on Malang attack, so he's got to stay on it. Field. The turf was soaked into ap"He gives her one burst and then ple jelly, and our pilot did a wonder starts to salvo his bombs and gas ful job on the landing. We were tanks, but there's a crashing sound, worried, because w,e knew that a and the controls don't work. He single pound weight on the brakes doesn't realize a bullet has wrecked would start our twenty-fiv- e tons slidhis controls doesn't know what has ing over that slippery field like it was the frozen surface of a pond. happened. "Then all of a sudden Bang! So to keep from piling up in a crash there's a hell of an explosion inside at the end of the runway (rememour plane, and dust, and the stink ber, we had all our bombs aboard of gasoline. After seeing what had and couldn't dump them because just happened to the other two they were precious), our pilot planes, we thought it could mean her, so she would only one thing. We must be on fire! start sliding sideways in that muck. And later on, ask me about that Skidding along, he waited until she railroad spike. had revolved in a turn "But somehow there were no and was sliding backward. Of course flames, so we kept on pounding she would then have crashed into the end of the field and away at the Zeros swarming around us it was the only thing to do. What blown up all of us, but he was able had happened was that a bullet had to stop her by gunning the motors. smashed into our compressed-oxyge- n Even if the wheels couldn't bite into that slippery ground, the propellers tank, and also cut a gasoline feed line, so that gas was spurting could bite the air. It was neat. all over the cabin, but we didn't "Another gripe we had on Malang know it then. Finally the tail gunField was the food. The mess was ner, seeing gas streaming along the in charge of the Dutch. They served plane's belly past him to trickle off only one hot meal a day, and this the tip of the tail, guessed what was always at noon usually hot had happened, and called out to the soup with boiled beef and potatoes. rest of us over the interphones for But I only got to eat this hot noon not With to smoke. that God's sake meal three times I was always out cabin filled with pure oxygen and on missions, which should give some gasoline fumes, it would have been idea how busy we were. We him down saw with dropping a bad idea. Don't forget to ask me his clothes smoking, getting littler "They had baskets of food for us about the railroad spike. to take up in the plane pineapples, and littler. "When we got back to our field tropical fruit, and then sandwiches and were telling about it, someone tude test giving the superchargers which were either a slab of cheese, asked our tail gunner if he wasn't a workover. With him in the cock or else raw bacon, in between two scared when, right after watching pit was Johnny Hughes, who had thick hunks of bread. We found this two down in those other go flames, been checked off as a first pilot just stuff made gas in your intesthat bullet burst our oxygen system after we arrived in Java. They heavy tines and just as you got to high alwith a big bang. 'No,' he said, finished the test, and at two o'clock titude going over the this 'there wasn't time to be scared. were spiraling down when Zeros gas swelled up, givingtarget, the you But if someone had pushed a rail came over to strafe the field below gripes. So we'd eat the fruit and I into would road spike my mouth, These strafing Zeros also had a top throw the sandwiches away. have bit the head of it off, clean and cover of Zeros hanging up at 18,000 "Also Malay cooks don't know hot sharp.' feet, in case our might come food the breakfast d eggs "The Flying Fortress was de in to break up their ground party were always hard, and they'd bring the when signed for the high skies, and if "Well, strafing began, out a No. 10 can of jam for a hunyou keep her in her groove, for her our bovs in the control tower re crew she's the safest plane in the membered that Ray was up, and dred and fifty men. What with getor three hours' sleep a air and for her enemies the most they tried to tell him by radio to fly ting two we lost weight two of us all night, We found out not this from south over the sea for an hour, until deadly. lost nineteen pounds and Charlie lost any book, but we learned it that the Zeros were gone that was our twenty-threand it wasn't scared day in combat, which is learning it usual procedure. off either. us, the hard way. And we hoped it "But Ray and Johnny, alone in "We all felt that with a decent wouldn't take too long for this les- this plane, probably intent on their we could do a lot more. So meal son to percolate upstairs." test, must have hnd their head as much as we needed sleep, at "On the way home," said Frank phones off. Anyway they couldn't be or nine o'clock at night we'd Kurtz, "three of the remaining Forts reached, although the boys on the eight Dutch bus into town to a the take afternoon hit a heavy rainstorm. ground tried frantically to let them restaurant owned a Javanese, Visibility and ceiling were zero, and know what they were coming down which had a Dutchby waitress who for hours they flew around the is- into. Finally they saw three Zeros land of Madura, off the coast of hit them at 15,000 feet. Ray imme spoke English, just to buy us a thick, rare steak. Americans have got to Java, looking for a place to land. diately turned out to sea, while John When gas was almost gone they de- ny probably did what he could on have red meat to fight on. Give cided to beach them. Luckily no the guns. But one gunner can't them that and they'll manage to one was killed, but two of the three cover every side at once, and they sleep when they can. "We finally took over the mess, were completely washed out on the didn't stand a chance against three help much, because seashore rocks they set fire to the Zeros. Next day the plane was found but that didn't then the field was being bombed by so the couldn't find Japs wreckage shot down and burned about twenty regularly. The mess sergeant had out anything about the planes. But miles from Malang I leld. his kitchen blown up three times in Lieutenant Fred Crimmons did a "Shortly after that," said Boone a day, and this didn't improve of his setting magnificent job plane the gunner, "we had a "tough little thesingle of things. But the worst flavor down on the beach in the rain. He mission a night flight to bomb a thing was, he'd got hold of three made two passes, looking at his Jap task force which was attacking truckloads of Reigel pale beer, and gas in between, then squared away one of the islands down toward Aus had the cases neatly stacked when a and brought her in she held firm, tralia. I forget which one it was if bomb scored a direct hit, leavJap I little. a harhad the sinking only I ever knew that was the naviga ing not more than three dozen botbormaster's wrecking barge, with tor s business, bix of us took off tles. I never saw men any madder tools and Dutch engineers, on its from Malang, but before we started than we were when we came out of way before daybreak. They were for the target, we had to fly over our foxholes and word went around having a little trouble with the na- to Jockstrap and load up with Dutch they had blown up our beer." tives there they were warned bombs they were running low at "They'd moved us over to Madiagainst Jap parachutists, and our Malang, and the Dutch at Jockstrap un Field," said the Bombardier, boys had to yell at them a password had plenty. Then we took off at "and we had your troubles and some the Dutch had taught them to use if eight o'clock at night in some of more besides. When we first ar!' we were shot down: "Kancha the dirtiest weather I ever hope to rived there were no or antiIt means 'Our Army,' they fly. In that country a storm at aircraft guns for miles to keep the explained to us. night is so black it's like going Zeros up. But we did have three Fortresses out of commis"They worked a full day shoring into the closet under the stairs where up the plane, building a base of all the old overshoes are, and pullsion we were using for spare parti. So Lieutenant McGee dismounted logs and sand under it, clearing a ing the door shut. For our rendeza runway strip. And then, in Java's vous we turned on the wing lights. their guns, and Master Sergeant and I decided to mount them in regular afternoon rainstorm, in But even with them it took us forty-fiv- e came old Freddy onto Surabaya minutes to assemble. Then we holes around the airfield. At least Field. He explained he'd stripped went up to 18.000 trying to climb these would keep off strafers. the plane of everything he could un out. but we were still in that storm. (To nr. CONT1NUEDI CHAPTER vn Wit XWtrWf POMS Wfk T v)(B(BW light True Patnnger Car 1 Light Trodor if Power fkmt WHY BE A SLAVE TO HARSH LAXATIVES? 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