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Show The Cache American. Logan, Cache County. Utah QUEEMS TxkM FMOTHEY Just demolished krlora It tould taka off. After esnplns to Australia, bal la left of tba aquadroa Blra to data aabrra they to out oa many missions nser tba lbltipploea. Mna Ml Bfblrr plaara arrive from AattraUa a few da a before a Jap bomber force la reported over Java. Three aval of Japi coma over, and Eeros tel Major Slraubel, aquadroa commander. Tba Forta a pot a Jap carrier la the Java tea and aend It away llmptof. Tbea morn torn arrive. CHAPTER XIV W.N.U.TtATUftlS probably be on the ground for a while, so I couldn't understand it. Nobody In the State doubted yet that Java would hold. I told him I'd call him a soon a I reached Florida. And then he said a curious thing. Darling. he said, Id better warn you that these calls may not last much longer. "I didn't ask why, because I knew it must be something the censor would not let him tell me. So because the time was up. I just said Without ever talking good night it over, wed always made it our That rule never to say goodby. was too frightening. Always it was good The Japt by now were ttirred up. They came over obviously off a car. tier hidden tomewhere near and strafed hell out of Timor airdrome. Luckily there wa nothing on the field Just then. Now we began to tee that it would be only a matter of time until the Japt took that ttcppingstone field at Timor, which connected ut to Australia, and it would all be over for no more fighters could get through to ut under their own power. Jap bomberi had already hit Surabaya. If we got no more fighters, how long before they smashed our Fortt at Malang? The skies were darkening fast "But about this time we did a curious Job for the Dutch, I was In their Navy headquarters on business when Kommander van dcr Straatcn came running up. You got to help me! he said. Our bravest sub is In trouble she cant dive. Then he explained that she was more than three hundred miles out In the Java Sea, moving slowly toward home base, but that Zeros were circling overhead. Bnd had probably summoned Jap bombers to polish her off. Two Dutch PBYs had been guarding her, but those big flying boats are clumsy as ducks, and the Zeros had already shot one down. "What they had to have. Van der Straatcn explained, was fighters to cover the submarine. But the little Dutch Curtiss fighters didnt have the range to get out and back. "I got Bud Sprague on the phone, told him I was coming out urgent Then I wrote down on a piece of paper what Van der Straaten told me of their submarine's course, speed, and hourly position. "Bud laid it out on a chart and figured fast It was a long distance. Even with belly tanks, his fighters could barely get out there and spend fifteen minutes patrolling the submarine when theyd have to start back. "But he figured he had enough planes to keep two of them over her reall the time in fifteen-minut- e lays until theyd escorted her back to a point where the little Dutch Curtiss fighters would have the range to take over. "Bud led the first pair out himself (he's no swivel-chai- r officer), and the Dutch, in addition to being tearfully grateful, woke up to the fact that maybe liaison was a good idea. Van der Straaten noticed Id had trouble getting a car getting out to the field Id been spending most of my salary on taxis getting everybodys business done and the next morning a Dutch staff car with a sergeant at the wheel reported to the door of the hotel. They assigned it to me for the duration of the war. But at this point another submarine showed up with a hard-lucstory she was one of ours which had sneaked through the Jap blockade from Corregidor, with a load of fourteen passengers most of them pilots I knew, who had lost their planes and been left when we had to pull out of the Philippines. They came roaring into the hotel late. They were sick of fiddling around on Bataan with rifles, and now were itching to get into the air again. In addition to which, theyd been cooped up for days under water in that stinking little tin cigar box. You can imagine how a pilot would take that. Here they were at last, free in a big luxurious hotel, with lights and girls. They nearly pulled it to pieces, and danced with all the girls in the place who would take a chance- with them on the floor. But in between they had plenty of news. I told them they had me in liaison work just now, and they said, hell, if I had talents like that, the place for me was on Corregidor. Because the Army had the Navy stuffed into one end of a tunnel while they were stuffed into the other, and relations were so strained that the staffs would only communicate by courier. And now how about a shot of this Daiquiri rum theyd heard so much talk about? "I finally got them quieted down and on the bus for Malang. They were crazy to get back up in the air after all those weeks. "And then, just as I was about to ' go to bed, a call from Margo came through. k "Some friends wanted me to go to Florida with them, said Margo. The girls husband had a war job there. I couldnt decide. But Frank said it looked as though he wasn't going to get any vacation, so I should take a good long one to do for both of us. I must go, and it would be our vacation. I could tell he was very tired, and that worried undertone was in his voice. I had been glad when he told me he would night "I was worried, Margo," said Frank, "because Id just got word from our Navy'a PBYa on patrol that a new Jap invasion fleet was coming down Macassar Strait apparently headed for Bahkpapan on Borneo. It has a fair harbor and is the last base they would need before they took over Java. And I couldn't see how we were going to stop them. "But next day Colonel Eubank gathered his Forts together and they took off at 3.30 in the morning, so that they would be out over Macassar Strait in time to make their bomb run just at dawn. "They had to come down below the overcast to see the target, which was two converging lines of Jap ships, heavily escorted one coming in from the northeast and one from -- 3 (Imp IVn-tr- o loots In you nostril helpalmost torsi!, frswr lulsully. lo ' t"',r cold Nu -- .WHITS FAR: Unit. Col. THE BTORT Till (rank kam, pilot ol Fllnf t ortif , bill of that fatal ay brs lb Japt Struck la Iba Philippines. Uchl of bn pta orra killed Beelns for abrllar, and u Old W, onh many oibrr Fortresses, Page Seven Jg nir. imd J'q times ns nun h I or tv. Csuitoni I only at et dlUKled. Alwsy SEWING CIRCLE tsnslr Nsss Irrupt rived which we hadn't heard of. e we watched as they came closer. demand and . Du to an unusually Ur Only when we saw the white points I current ar comlitnms. sliehlly more lima of our Army Air Force star with is required In Ullin orders lor a lew oI the red disk in the middle were Ilia most popular pattern numbers. we relieved. It hadn't occurred to Send your order tot us that you can take the red sun oi (ewivo runic fattirn dept. Japan and with a few strokes of a Ill Nt Moaisomery liml paintbrush make five white star! ralll. lai JiiKiKi points around it. Enclose 20 cents la Coins lor sath pattern desired. (Shortly after thit incident, the nrmvj IatlriS No. Ills. air fore e emblem aui chanted, and Ihe Hi tistij quiz red central di tit rrmot ed.) Namq Itarrirj "We didn't dream of this, but stiU Address a we W'atched what we were so sure were They were flying along1 with us, about three thousand yards Sheep in Near Ka.--t Need away, apparently paying no ailcn-- ' lion. We didn't suspect they were Cart to Carry Heavy Tail Japs, mapping out their attack. Do you know that in the Near THURSDAY NIGHTS "There was nothing about this maEast there are sheep whose tails neuver which surprised us, for the 10:30 P.M. E.W.T. are so large and ponderous that Japs so far had always attacked us the animals are provided with from the rear. Then they wheeled small In for their nose-ocarriages in or- on lbs entire ELUE retv.crit attack, tnd too late we saw those Army Afr Force der to relieve the weight of the tail and prevent it from coming stars on their fuselages had been CONSULT YOUR into contact with the ground? crudely forged. LOCAL NEWSPAPER The oriental passion for greasy "They concentrated on our first foods has led to the development three planes, and remembts now NUKESSON ROBBINS, INC of this type of sheep in which the CALOX TOOTH POWDER that this first attack, which caught us completely off guard and far fattest portion of the animal, the BEXa VITAMIN B COMPUX CAPSUUS below our regular altitude, happened tail, combines excessive adiposity in only a few seconds. One For- with enormous length. tress they hit only in the motor. TheJ next Fortress, they put an lnccndi-- i gas tank ary through the bomb-bathey must have known through sub- versive activities in Java that oh ot didnt have leakproof ones yet lnT!!E,Sort. w ho e a ' you gets through mgly that model. This set off the oxy- lookinS P" minutKe whole Fortress and the cverJ. gen system, n Make art! flared in front of our eyes in a puff flow er printed cottons for mid-w- e of flame and smoke. Out of this able wear-- m cool and could see two or three para- - summer street g for sheer summery-lookincrepes chutes floating down. Maybe the men dangling from them were alive., an afternoon frock. More probably they had never pulled pattern No. 582 Is In sizes 10. 12. 14. 16. the rip cords themselves, but the 18 and 20. Size U requires 3ta yards of fabric. Kellogg's Rice Krispiea equal the explosion opened the chutes. whole ripe grain in nearly all the "I was working the top turret protective food elements declared and from here I could aee exactly ?" essential to human nutrition. ? on the third what was happening AlC Fortress Captain Duke Duphrane's ship which was just on our left, and . . very close. I saw it, and so did y Sergeant Jim Worley, the bomba j f A General UU1Z dier, who was working the little 1- - Who was known as the mod nose gun, and had brought down three Zeros. We all saw some ern iron man of baseball? GETTING TALKED , of it, but Worley and I saw most. I 2. Can you name three promi-"Firs- t, we saw Duphranes plane nent movie stars with the surname shudder as the Jap tracers crashed of Powell? into its cockpit and into its bomb 3. The figures carved by Borg-luSAMi I thought the in the Mt. Rushmore memoribay. But she didnt go down yet. boys last night For a while she continued on with al are scaled to the proportion of would never stop her chin up, like those pictures you men how tall? eating and raving see of Marie Antoinette or Mary 4. How many persons lost their about these rolls of yours. Wonder Queen of Scots walking proudly to- lives in the great Chicago fire? ward the scaffold. And she didnt 5. In what year was the Constiyou had any left! waver or flinch, even when we could tution of the United States subsee that dull-re- d flames from the mitted to the people? ANNi Darling! And bursted gasoline tanks of that bomb 6. What dynasty was in power theyre simple... so easy to make . . . bay were sprouting out of her, from during the period that China was no kneading. With the cockpit clear back to the tail. the foremost civilized power of the Flelschmanns yellow "We surged just a little ahead of world? label Yeast, they have her nose, and from here we could 7. What is the oldest known toy? extra vitamins, tool see Duke Duphrane and his copilot 8, What is the vocation of a perboth slumped over dead, their heads son who vocally labored under a leaning against the shattered pane ourden? of the cockpit window. So it wasnt YOU SEC, FLflSCHMANNS The Answers any man who was keeping her chin IS THE ONLY YEAST up. It was the Old Queen herself 1. Lou Gehrig. FOR BAKING THAT HAS who wanted to die this way. 2. William Powell, Eleanor PowADDED AMOUNTS OF "We dropped back and came in ell and Dick Powell. VITAMINS A AND D AS a little closer you had an awful 3. Of men 465 feet tall. SEND FORME.. WELL AS THE VITAMIN feeling you wanted to help, and you 4. About 300. feeischmannS NEW THAT COMPLEX. B AND and we saw Sergeant couldnt EDITION OF THE FAMOUS 5. In 1787. LOTS OF VITAMINS Keightley, her radioman and right-waiBREAD BASKET?'. .40 RAGES' 6. The Tang dynasty. gunner, climb through his esOF OVER 70 RECIPES, 7. The doll. cape hatch and bail out, and his 8. A REVISED FOR WARTIME. (A burden is a chorsinger. And then her chute open. SCADS OF NEW BREADS ds or a refrain.) gunner, doing the same on the othROUS, DEUCIOVS er side. We saw her tail gunner SWEET BREADS. SEND Trees Band Time to bail out and his chute open they F0RMET0D AY! found him four or five days later T'HIS is the time of the year on an island. when Victory gardeners, shade "She was enveloped in red flames tree owners and commercial growFor your free now from nose to tail, and through ers should be reminded to protect copy, write All those vitamins go right e we windows could see flames her Standard Brands their trees and vines against the Into your rolls with no great loss shimmer inside her cabin, and as Inc., Grand insects of In the oven. Be sure to use Central Anna x. her plates melted she began to sink ravages Flelschmanns I A weeks supply whose larvae will manifest themBox 477, New in a steepening curve, and along selves later on as the worms and x. York 17, N. Y. . keeps in the the wake of that curve we were to which often completecaterpillars count seven parachutes, like seven ly defoliate trees, destroy fruit, swirling dandelion seeds. cause serious tree damage. Band"But as yet she hadnt gone down ing of trees which have not been much, and our own pilot, Captain infested with a sticky substance a skillful Strother brave, pilot (who that will retain its consistency unwas presently to die and every man der all weather conditions is good of his crew feels he gave his life worthmuch and very protection was to save ours) keeping abreast while. This should be done as e Salt Lake City, Utah 174 West Broadway of her, so that with our guns we as possible. could keep the Japs away in her early last moments, and give her men a chance to jump. "The last to leave her was Sergeant Leonard Coleman, her turret ; gunner we could see him working J' i f his .50s, but now he left his turret. We saw him go by the side window, and he was struggling to put on his they parachute which he hadnt worn in that cramped top turret, for it would have interfered with his sighting and shooting struggling to get his arms SAM'S PAY through it like a jacket among those favorite , licking flames. We saw him go back to the rear escape hatch, saw him drop through it with his clothes afire, saw him jerk the cord he must have done it immediately, berifle cause by the time he had cleared we tail the flaming by twenty feet, But saw his chute crack tight-opethen, almost instantly, we saw that CAMELS parachute begin to billow loosely like a silk scarf in the wind, beCANY BE BEAT cause Oh, God! we saw something else. We saw the poor guy had had FOR FRESH FLAVOR to jump without having time to AND EXTRA buckle the belt strap of his parachute the price he paid for stayIM ing in his turret for a few last shots at Zeros, protecting the others while they jumped. Maybe he figured he could hold the ends of the belt together with his hands. Maybe his hands were so burned he couldn't Yfitb men is the Arm. Navy, Marme Corp, work the clasp. , and C wst Piiard, the favorite cigarette is (TO HE CONTINUED) Camel. tSrsed on actual sale records.) .... four-wheel- n t oooo Snap, Crackle,Pop o y drChch ! OOCg Q O o u o o o o o jB-lnc- f5l OOOOOOOOOOQ r-- j MY ABOUT m fi I was working the top turret gun and could see what was happening on the third Fort. Tarakan. Well, we hit it. And of course we do some damage. But it's a big force the Navy doesnt dare go in. We have only a handful of Forts, so the Japs keep coming. "But were desperate, and so are the Dutch. Their entire bomber force now consisted of eight old (a 1934 model Martin bomber), which were based at Balikpapan. These boys knew if the Japs were ever to be stopped, it had to be now, to give our reinforcements time to get in if we were going to get any. So that afternoon they made their last desperate stab damaging that Jap fleet of course, but not stopping it And just as these Dutch bombers were coming in to land on Balikpapan Field, they were hit by carrier-base- d Zeros and every plane destroyed. Now the Dutch had nothing, and everything depended on our Forts. "So the next day they put out from Malang to strike at the Japs in Macassar, and if possible sink a carrier. But what happened on that mission should not be my story. For I wasnt there. Two of our Sky Queens died that day in battle and I didnt see it. It doesnt happen often. Plenty of them had come home Others were crippled. beached, like Shorty Wheless plane. Many others have cracked up when fog shrouded the field. But wed lost only.five by enemy action, and rarely have the Japs seen one fall. Colin crashed through the overcast near Clark Field, so they didnt see him they saw Adams, but not Major Robinson. Seldom do our own boys ever see the old Queens go down in battle. So you tell it, said Frank, and here he looked at Sergeant Boone, the gunner. "I saw it, said the Gunner, "and I can tell you how they die. "It began like this. Nine of us had taken off from Malang to Macassar Strait to look for carriers. We had only started, we were about sixty miles off the coast, slowly climbing had reached 7,000 feet when we noticed some fighters in a tight formation. We assumed that but we weren't takthey were ing any chances, because there seemed to be quite a gang of them maj be some remforcements had ar- 's twin-engi- mmei st left-wai- st tree-climbi- Ice-bo- V N SEEEEDD . MAXFIELD FEED & SEED CO. X . . S'A 11 say: ShcUS w n. MILDNESS 50 k.a luv MlMUiduMraav, u (z o f Aw.. ffRsrmmSmc |