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And learning, too this was their first day of real fighting, and there is just a hell of a lot about war that you can't find in any book and that they can't teach you in maneuvers. Buzz Wagner, the best fighter of them all, would have told you that. had "Buzz, with a single done a job that ordinarily would be assigned to an entire squadron. (A fit httr tquodron it 25 pUnesJ Buzz had been sent out in the early morning full of ammunition tor his six fragguns and with mentation bomba under his wings, so he was ready to taekl almost anything he saw. "He waa out over the sea north of Luzon, sitting on the overcast, barwhen suddenly a terrific ack-ac- k rage came snorting up at him through the cloud layer. There was so much of it Buzz figured it must have been at least a Jap battleship shoveling it up at him. so he was pulling off to the south still staying above the cloud layer when he spotted four Jap fighters high above him. He was tempted to dump his bombs which would give him more speed and maneuverability and go up there to tangle with them, but those bombs, according to his brief- P-4- "A lot of damned foolj wer wav-In- f flashlights around unnecessarily, and I thought, "Suppoie a Jap Recco plana catchea a glint of this.' Pretty soon I beard a plane and railed up to listen, but when It cam In plainer I recognized the deep four-motgrind of one of our own Fortresses It wai undoubtedly on of the dozen . which bad been left down on Del Monte Field, now coming In from the long trip from Mindanao to (pend the reft of the night on Clark and in the morning pound aome of thoa acorea of Jap transport which wer laid to be (warming off Luzon. "And I hoped to Cod that (ingle remaining runway (trip, had been cleared so they could get, down, and they wouldnt have to circle and go back home. Just then a nervous antiaircraft battery opened up on the Fortress, and then they all did. "And what about Margo, halfway around the world? Had she heard anything? And how long would it be before I could tell her that Eddie Oliver and I were all that were left of Old 99 she had waved goodby to at Albuquerque six weeks ago? Or would I ever tell her? "I had promised the boys this was just the opening game and that there were a lot more Saturdays coming, so what did It matter If this first one belonged to the Japs? In the end we would win. Only now I began wondering about that sprawling line and where it pointed to. Maybe it trailed off into nothing, and at the end would be only chaos and defeat I didnt know, and when I realized it would do no good to guess or hope, then I went to sleep. "Over at the field, six of the Mindanao gang had come up from Del Monte, coming in two and three at a time and landing on the strip of runway which was all that remained of Clark Field. Then they had been pulled off into dispersed areas while they were gassed up and loaded with bombs. n were The pilots of this now assembled while the Colonel gave them their targets, and towering over the group was Colin Kelly I could see his curly black head, his shoulders back as usuaL I knew the boys would be headed out into plenty of trouble, and I couldnt help walking over to listen while the Colonel briefed Colin. I felt a little brotherly about him because hed been one of my back on The air raid bell sounded and March Field. Now he was headed those guys dived out of the truck. out on his first battle mission. Colin was photographing every ing, were destined for some planes word in his mind. He looked tired the had just put ashore on a from flying all night, had had little field Japs near Lingayen, so he kept on if any sleep his ordinarily neat uni- his course. v form was smeared with grease as But all of a sudden about three though hed been working on his bushels of red-ho- t Jap tracers came engines himself and we had time He pushed his by cockpit. whizzing only to exchange waves as he headed for his plane to load his bombs the stick forward to nose her down, and then in a climbing turn to and I climbed up into the tower. the right pulled her back up into the "The thing was practically a sieve sun and then be looked back to see from bullets which had ripped that two of the four Jap fighters had through the corrugated iron during detached to work him over. A of couple yesterdays strafing. They were coming privates had been up there for twenty-fso he pulled a cute maneuver our hours without food or relief I guess everybody must have for- throttled back suddenly to let them gotten them, but theyd done a swell go roaring on by him, and then on their vanishing tails. job. Looking at all those jagged opened up holes in the sheet-iro- n walls, I didnt His first burst put them both on see how theyd come out alive, but fire. Those good old they explained it told me if I got the 0 had six of them and when strafed, I could lie down along one they speak, they do all the talking. sheet-iro- n wall behind a pile of lead Remember all this time Buzz battery cases used to run the field hadnt dumped his bombs. They lights. might easily have cost him his life, My job of course was to handle but his job was to get to Lingayen the tower lights give the boys the Field, where he had a rendezvous signal when they could come in to with Lieutenant Russell Church. As he approached Lingayen, first land on the field but the Colonel wasnt taking any chances losing he saw Russ, who fell in on his any more on the ground. He said wing, and then he saw his target all those Jap planes on the ground when any Fortresses came back, to keep them in the air, circling the lined up just like it was for an field, until he changed the order. ordinary peacetime Saturday-mornin- g comes inspection. I want you to get there Presently scooting in one of those little low that this to see it isnt only the Ameriwere used by the Filipino Air Force can Air Force which gets caught with its pants down and its suspenan old job with landing gear which is ders trailing. They started the long glide down, practically a museum piece. I give him the green light, because I can circling the field, and then Buzz see he is already so full of bullet peeled off and started in on them. holes I dont see how he can stay in Russ was to follow, but at a good the air and out jumps this little distance, so he wouldnt pick up in Filipino fighter pilot All he wants his propellers the fragments of Jap is more gas and more bullets for his planes tossed up by Buzzs frag little gun, and hes back bombs. So down they went Buzz first, up in the air for more of it Those kids did a magnificent job for their then Russ, just skimming the field. islands with that decrepit junk. As the first target came into sight Everybody was jumpy we didnt Buzz let go first one and then the know what minute the Japs would other of his fragmentation come back. I watched one truck bombs, and looking back over his that was wandering around the field shoulder, he saw old Russ was just with a gang filling up bomb craters. coming in behind him. Buzz went bell sounded, on across the field and then pulled Suddenly the and those guys dived out of the truck up sharply to watch Russ bombs go in every direction to run for fox- right down the line. Russ tail was and he holes, leaving the driverless truck on fire from Jap ack-acto keep wandering right on over onto knew it, but he stayed dead on his its nose in a shell crater. Those run, making direct hits on those d half-doze- P-4- P-2- stick-and-wi- er air-rai- d lull Syndic!. oeatly lined up Jap planes, end then Buzz still watching Ruas pulled up at the end cf the field In e slow half roll end went in. Buzz says its just possible Ruts was able to ball out he couldnt wait to be sure, for now he was getting ready for hie secGrain Spoils, Stock ond run, all alone. He cam In on this second pass through the Jap Sicken in Leaky Barn ack-acwith his alx thoa at parked pounding away Farmers have don a Job plane some wer already burning of maintaining farm machinery than from the bombs he and Ruts had farm buildings. In fact, in only dropped trotted the field once, and four since 1921 have Investhad banked to com In for a third mentsyears in farm buildings equalled dewhizztracers when began Jap pats preciation. Eventually, farmers find ing past his cockpit from behind. He that buildings are essential tools looked over his shoulder to see that aa essential as thrashers, reapjust wer Zeros four those of the last two ers or plows. But too often, farmers diving on him. Of course there was realize this only after a building has his do but could he push nothing or after the "shakes." developed wall fir jamming throttle up to the weather-beateroof allows moisture on all the gas his engine would take to get through it where it can attack and try to get away. the building and the cattle, hogs, (Air fairs slang meaning kit plan feed or machines stored there. rent into thl ground.) Of what use is it to raise an extra "Inch by Inch he pulled away hundred bushels of grain, the War from those Zero he looked back at Food administration points out. if the field once and saw about six that grain is to be lost in a granary good fires going and Buzz said it with a leaking roof? Of what uae it was damned lucky he got back to the field, because he could tell the could outrun a boys that a Zero at sea level. Remember, outma-neuve- r. though, he said outrun, not WNU Ftura. Keep Buildings Tight, WFA Urges Farmers k betr n P-4- 0 "In those days everybody was learning stuff that wasn't In the book, and passing it on. Everybody had to learn, which is why we dont get bitter at being mishandled at what Miriam THATS calls herself her servant. She always hated to talk about himself. 'Did you hear about the Rat? he asked me, very excited. The Rat of course was our old friend Lieutenant Sam Marrett who had picked up this nickname at Randolph Field because of his pointed nose and small face. The Rat took four wtnglings out on patrol, and they were laying back above a hillside on Lingayen when they spotit to expand poultry flock if at ted a Jap landing party, so they much as 30 per cent may be lost climbed to get altitude and then because of uninsulated, damp strucpeeled off out of the sun onto It the tures? Why attempt to raise more Rat leading, of course In one long livestock unless steps are first taken string, each picking his barge. What to save the 30 to 40 per cent which happened no one knew for sure. But never reach maturity because of one of the Rat's bullets must have poor or inadequate shelter? touched off the magazine racks in Like home owners, farmers are the Jap barge, he picked, anyway to forget that roofs can never the barge blew right up in his face, apt relax" in the battle with wind, and the Rats plane disintegrated. rain, ice and snow. While some But the other four kids continued on roofing materials cannot be obtheir runs, first dropping their frag tained, asl, bombs, and then strafing back and phalt roofing, which is easy to apforth they had Japs diving off those ply, is available. barges in every direction.' "That day," said Frank, my Job Many New Uses Found was the tower, not going on missions myself or even listening to For Chicken Feathers gossip. A little after noon I hapThe government is taking all eider pened to be looking up at the over- duck down and geese feathers, leavcast toward the roar made by one chicken and turkey feathers for of our planes which I thought maybe ing civilian use. would be trying to come in when About 80 per cent of feathers for suddenly I saw a parachute blosquilts and cushions came pillows, som just under the overcast and from Europe and China in peacetime another and another. I counted forcing manufacturers during the eight, so it must be a Fortress but war to improve domestic supply no ninth. Instead, at the very end which now also must be of these eight I saw a dark object sources, for increased war needs. tapped go hurtling into the ground. One of Public prejudice against chicken our Forts, but whose? I didnt find feathers for pillows and cushion out until evening that it was Colin stuffing has waned somewhat beKelly. Hed been out there followcause of improved methods of preing his briefing that Id heard that paring them, manufacturers said, morning, which was to attack Jap adding that now they are more sanitransports and their naval escorts. tary, while a curling process has Hed laid a direct hit square on the made them softer. very biggest target any pilot could More than 100,000,000 pounds of hope for and had been on his way feathers now are produced annually home had been about to let down from American poultry flocks, comthrough that overcast onto Clark about 20,000,000 with Field when two Jap fighters, who pared beforeonly the war. About 95 pounds had been hanging on ever since he cent of the total is made up of left the convoy, hit him. They put per chicken feathers. a lucky incendiary into his oxygen Even in surgery, feathers have system, and of course it started to taken on a new value. Chemists burn like cotton soaked in gasoline. have developed a method for disBut Colin wasnt rattled. He gave them and producing a protein solving the regular orders over the interThreads of this plastic can plastic. phone system for the other eight be used as sutures for sewing boys of his crew to climb into their wounds because they are strong and chutes and abandon ship. are absorbed by the body. "Now a part of this procedure in Trade sources say that down a Fortress is that the pilot must be makes ideal sleeping bags for solthe last to leave. Its the same in diers and for fliers jackets. Kapok, the Navy, except that its sometimes formerly used extensively in Ameria just gallant gesture, particularly ca as now is unobwhen the captain cant help much tainable from the Dutch East Inby staying, and if the ship does go dies and available supplies on hand down under him he can float away are used by the government. from the bridge in his life jacket, Poultry flock owners get about five and pretty soon someones giving cents a pound for chicken and turkey n him a slug of rye and a brisk feathers and approximately $1 a in the wardroom of another pound for down from waterfowl. ship. But in the Air Force its the real McCoy. Because if a Fortress is on fire, somebody has to stay on the stick to keep her level and right side up while the other eight make their jumps. That somebody is the pilot, and thats one of the things you must be ready to do in order to wear those pretty silver wings on chest that the your girls stare at in the bars. Well, Colin stayed on the stick as his plane dropped with its oxygen system flaming, and all eight got out, and I suppose carefully counted one thousand two thousand three Dont Use Too Much Seed thousand like it says in the book, In buying seed, it is wise to plan before they pulled their cords and the amount needed for the space to their chutes blossomed. e of carrot be planted. A But by the time the last one was seed, for example, might all be put out, and Colin got his own chute on into a single row. The halfwinand opened his top escape-hatc-h ounce of seed would contain about dow above that fume-fillecockpit 12,000 seeds, and if 90 per cent of and crawled up through it well, he them were to grow, according to the cleared the plane all right, but he germination test, that would mean was so close to the ground that he nearly 11,000 plants in the row, or never had a chance to crack his about 100 to 110 little carrot plants chute. to each foot of row. Actually 25 'TO BE CONTINUED! seeds to the foot is about right. Buz pillow-stuffin- rub-dow- better-upholster- better-upholster- half-ounc- 100-fo- d young line let to board tlteu By KATHLEEN NORRIS first 3ut r d ask tha bto writes me from San Diego, California, of the problem in the Wolfe household, and it isnt an unusual one. Miriam is 54; her son Clyde just 20 years younger, and his wife, Marie, about 30. There are two children, Babs and Butch, aged 7 and 3. They live in a large house that is shared by Maries two brothers and her widowed sister, Ada. Ada and Marie, Clyde and the brothers all work; their united income runs to almost twelve hundred a month. This is Miriams story: husband he left nine died, years ago, lived with When my good hert or pay up. ESSENTIAL ' Work in m tear plant hat been classified as essential. Surely the individual who keeps tha workers on the job the housekeeper is just as essential. Health, efficiency, and the attit uric of workert to their jobs is largely a matter of the cleanliness and serenity of the homes from which they come. A group of workers who have completely overlooked the fine work of a woman and who are taking it for granted that she should carry an impossible load of work, are the subject of this weeks Kathleen Norris article. forget that what you are doing Is supremely important and just as backbreaking, too. I wouldnt desert this unappreciative family. But I WOULD read what is popularly known as the riot act to the whole crowd of them. Fd ask the two young uncles to board elsewhere or pay up. Id delegate to Ada and Marie alternate weeks of and table clearing. I'd construct a large chart of financial obligations, and hang it in a prominent place, so that every member of the family might know just where he stood. You are in a powerful position. If you go away one of the young women will have to stay at home and take all the criticisms and inconsiderations, to say nothing of the hard work. Strike now. You know that In your heart you want to be with the family, and are needed by the family, but make it on fair terms. Talk It over with Clyde, if you like, or better yet, talk it over with all of them, and start with a clean slate. Remember, that If their war work is essential, so was the war work you were doing; you ean always return to it To drudge about overwhelming household tasks with hurt and resentment In your soul is like taking a daily dose of strong poison. my me a small annuity. I sister until her death two year ago, then took a good job In a plant, and made about $45 a week. Five montha ago, Marie, my sons wife, came, to me with a proposition. Their home wai limply going to wreck and ruin; the children impudent and neglected, the two women overworked and nervous. She and Clyde and Ada talked me Into moving in with them, giving up my job, and managing their house. For this I was to be paid $25 a week, that is, five dollars from each one of the workers. Since that meant no rent or living expenses and no factory deductions for me, it was a more than even break and I made that Maries hours are arrangement. from midnight to eight In the morning, she sleeps all morning, but the understanding was that she was to take charge of the children after Babs comes homfc from school and Butch wakes up from his nap. Young Folks Dont Keep Agreement. Well, this worked for about three weeks. Then Marie began to make afternoon engagements, I had all the housework as well as the care of the children, marketing, telephone, beds, dishes, and often the babys wash, since laundries are irregular. More' than that, the bills that were supposedly South Pacifics Only laid at my plate every Sunday mornHamburger Stand Rushed ing, began to come in spurts, at odd no was The South Pacific only hamthat there so keeping times, track of them, or at least Maries burger stand operates full blast bebrothers aeemed unable to keep tween 500 and 1,000 sandwiches a track of them. Clyde was always on day at the United States armed time, and often paid Maries share, forces officers mess located in the but Ada, helping me with dishes or Hotel du Pacifique, formerly Noumaking her own bed for a few morn- mea's leading hotel. The hamburger stand is located In ings, would say playfully: Oh, Im one of the help now, I dont have to the patio of the hotel, shaded by palms and tropical plants, and is pay. Its for Mama to pay me!' At this moment," the latter finoperated by Sergt Peter C. Albertson of the United States army, from ishes, I have two babies quarantined with whooping cough; I have Hetland, S. D., and Pfc. Carl C. not been out of the house for ten Reddeck Jr. of the marines, from days; the entire family has gone off High Point, N. C. On the first day of operation Alto New Year celebrations. In checking my books I find that I am owed bertson and Reddeck turned out 627 exactly $105, yet every one of them hamburgers and on the second day is sure I am all paid up. This comes they sold 825 at 10 cents apiece. The of putting down a ten, or a couple stand is open from 11:30 a. m. to of ones, and saying : Ill pay you 1:30 p. m. and 4 p. m. to 8 p. m. the rest soon, and then feeling that daily. It also serves other types of for weeks everything is all right. sandwiches, chile con carne and free "I am working too hard, trying to coffee, but hamburgers a touch of do too much, getting no help. The Americana sadly lacking in the one thing that keeps me here is my South Pacific furnish the piece de beloved Clyde, who is happier, is resistance. The USAF officers mess also opeating better, is having some home comfort with Mama on the job. erates a restaurant and bar in the Since I came, the girls grudge even hotel and furnishes rooms for tranhelping me with the dishes, and sient officers. The only card of adwill call downstairs their orders for mission required is the officers unimore hot water and early supper as form of one of the United Nations, if I was a slave and thats what I the merchant marine or Red Cross. am. Shall I desert them all my beloved son and dear little grandMarmalade and Batter children and go off somewhere When you bake muffins or plain alone? What shall I do? cupcakes, layer a small portion of Mothers Work Not Appreciated. marmalade in with the batter as My answer is, my dear Mrs. you fill the baking tins. Or if you Wolfe, that you are one of the milprefer, make a well in the batter lions of housekeepers today whose after you have it in the pans, and increased problems and absolutely fill with the marmalade. Another insoluble difficulties are not appre- tasty variation is to spread the ciated by the working force of the baked muffins or cakes with the family. Our factory and shipyard marmalade and return them to the workers know what they are do- oven for three or four minutes to set the topping. ing is supremely important; they shlp-build-i- dish-wipin- g flve-doll- ar y |