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Show The Cache American. IOfran, Cache County, Itah Iatre Seven in- ' i ; IE-- QB'EEBIS ipadDunuiLY O.WHITI TIIE STORY THIS EAR: Licet. Col. Hurls, pilot of flying rorUrtt, tolls of that fatal day whet the Japs truck la tbs Ibillpplnrt. LisM of his ten wort killed tahils firrlnf for shel-toand Old H, stllh many olbrr wss drmullihrd on tbs ground. After escaping to Australia, what Is loft of the squadron Bios to Jasa, stbrro thry go oa many missions over tbs Philippines and Maratiar Strait. Srrgt (loons, gunner, tells bow Queens die, from eys witness esperlrnre. Java sea Is now full of Jap earners. Tbo Japs bombard a helpless Dulrb town, and a Jap bomb Another bomb blows up tbs kltrbea. scores a direct bit oa the Biers supply of beer. but still it's nice to have the most beautiful girl in town crazy about you, to the point where It even bothers the admirals. "She waa. ao they said, very high Dutch social. te and had lots of money, which you might guess by how simple and expensive her evening diesset were. In the daytime the wore a beautifully tailored uniform of one of the woman's volunteer organizations. I think she drove a car for the Dutch General Staff. "Meanwhile my job wat growing by leaps and Jumps. In that hotel dining room you might aee General Wavell, the British Commander In CHAPTER XVI Chief, or Admiral llart. or General Brett, who commanded the United "The Dutch made us steel tripods Nations Air Force, or Van Oeyen.I for them in a machine shop, but we the Dutch Commander in Chief. had a hell of a time getting anyone was circulating among the tables, to dig the holes. We were f.ying and my brief case was so crammed trutt missions and couldn't do it our- with hot information I wouldn't selves. So Silva and I took the it in a checkroom. There waa a feeling of tension. truck and went Into Madiun. On the street corners we saw a bunch Refugee had been crowding In from of natives standing around picking Singapore and Sumatra, Now there their teeth or scratching their bot- wat a feeling that maybe theyd be toms. We argued they must be Jap crowding out toon. Lots of the nasympathizers, or else they would tive! had already left, and those who remained you knew were have been busy helping win the war. So we pulled out our .45's, and by a staying only because they were very coincidence they all got Into that loyal. But to whom? Maybe to the truck, and dug us some of the nic- Dutch. Or maybe to someone else est foxholes you ever saw. After that, when the alarm would go oiT we could run to those foxholes and swing a gun we knocked down five Zeros with them In the short lime we were there. "We were fixing up our planes, too. Our tail guns had finally cured the Japs of making attacks from behind. Now they were coming in at all directions, hunting for our soft spots, feeling us out like we were some dame on a sofa, but mostly bethey were hitting us head-on- , cause they discovered that In the nose we had only a single little I guess the designers, after putting in those tail guns, had figured they could rest on their laurels, but you can never do that long In a war. "So we got busy there on Madiun Field. We mounted a big down In the navigator's compartment, rigging it so it would fire out And for good of the ventilator. measure we stuck in another that wat why I slept uneasily, maybe because the whole outlook for the war waa to bad. I realized In the Thilippinet I had only been lucky, and I might never get out of Java. It sal very Imt. and In the thunderstorm waa mutdistance tering at it moved toward the city. "Anyway. I'd been lightly asleep for about an hour when a glare awoke me. It wat flashlight, held haze of yellow light very close coming through the mosquito netting over my face. But In thi haze I could tee that the tame fist which held the flashlight also held a tteel knife, and that it point stuck down into the yellow cone of that flashlight. The other hand w at Just touch-In- g the edge of my pillow. "I gave a yell and dived through that netting like a cat. but the yellow light instantly winked out, and I wat standing there Alone in the darkness, while Jacquet rolled out on the other tide. He hadnt been at nervous at I. and wat tlceping more deeply. But Just then a blue lightning flash lit up the room, and by its quick glare I taw the door into the corridor closing (I wat ture I had locked it). But when I got out into the corridor it teemed empty. "Why hadnt he ttabbed me? I think because he wat surprised to find Jacquet there. One of u would surely have been able to make an outcry. And I thought to myself, Well, stronger, for a newcomer youre ture getting Into a lot of things, because you never thought r, ter-van- ts pom-pom- (Meaning the gunners uiere in the ball turrets ready to fire.) That was the week I got into something way over my head in this liaison work, said Frank, "but first you ought to look at that big de luxe hotel which was the unofficial capital of Java. Its lobby, bar, and dining room were crowded with uniforms British, Dutch, and American. It looked like a Hollywood costume parade. "It was an enormous spacious thing, open to the soft Javanese air little tropical birds would fly in and out of the dining room and roost on the gleaming chandeliers. The Dutch are great eaters, and they have something they call You order it and then sit back and eat while twenty-thre- e waiters line up and walk by your table, each carrying a different sauce or fish or bowl of relish or rice. I tried it once and managed to live by eating only every other course, but your true colonial Dutchman wijl into his big stoke in all twenty-thre- e pot, drenching the layers down with mugs of beer. "In the bar you might see the boys of Patrol Wing 10 in from reconnaissance, drinking Daiquiris (this hotel was Navy billeting headquarters), and often I would see my old Hollywood High School classmate, John Robertson, sitting there in his off hours, very handsome in his Naval pilots uniform, and with him was the most beautiful girl in Surabaya. "She had dark hair, and an almost ghostly pale face that was sad in repose. Then a smile would quickly light it up, and youd wonder how you could ever have thought that. And the most beautiful legs in the city. When shed walk through the bar clinging to Johns arm and looking up at him, even the oldest and crabbiest admiral would rustle a little in his chair and lean out to give them a formal inspection. The younger Naval pilots envied John to the point where they would have hated his guts if they hadnt liked him so much. "John was very busy and I don't think he gave her much thought. high-ceiling- reis-taffe- L - W.N.U.TUTUfilS f rank Since then theyre carrying out this idea at the factory, but the only way any factory can learn what is needed is from the combat crews themselves. "But about the time we got those new guns rigged in the nose, the Japs started staying away from us. Wed be flying along pretty as you please when a flock of Zeros would come into view, but staying well out of range just looking us over. Then one of our gunners might fire a burst in their direction, just to let them know we were on the balls. Or sometimes the Zeros might come in for one or two wide, sweeping passes. But mostly theyd go off with their tails between their legs. Toward the last they only tried to get us on the ground. They knew vve had no protection there to speak of no fighters and no Theyd come in insolent as could be. & The same fist which held the flash- light also held a steel knife. staying around to watch us, relaying information we knew not how, or to whom. You couldnt be sure of anything. "Except that I knew they were watching me, maybe only out of idle curiosity as I circulated from one table to the other, and kept that brief case leaning against my leg when I sat t my own table. "That hotel certainly wasnt built to keep military secrets. The big bedrooms had only like barrooms swinging open to the air above and below. native servants The barefooted looked after them, only Id catch them slipping in and out of mine at queer times of the day. But I thought I only imagined it. I also suspected they were listening In the corridor outside. One evening a couple of the pilots were down from Malang going back the same night sitting on my bed while we talked over new orders, and somehow a feeling grew on me we were being watched. I whispered to the others to go on talking, slipped off my shoes, tiptoed to the door. Just as I opened it I caught a glimpse of a white robe flitting around the corner. When I got out into the blacked-ou- t corridor, I could see nothing. But then I was sure. "That night I slept with my brief case under my pillow. In addition every bed was provided with a Dutch widow. At first the American pilots didnt know what to make of this and would kick them out on the floor. I should maybe explain that a Dutch widow is a long padded bolster, and if you sleep with it between your knees, it keeps your legs from pressing together and sweating in the tropical heat. After a while the pilots began to like them. "But that night I went to sleep wondering about the white shape Id seen flit around the corner. It seemed about the same size as the waiter who had been staring at me in the dining room for the past three days. Only staring isnt quite the word. Because this particular little had glassy eyes like a turtle. I could never catch them directly on me, but I had the feeling it was I he was interested in. "Two nights later Lieutenant Jac-qucame up from Malang. By the time we had finished work it was so late I suggested hed better spend the night with me. I put my brief case under my pillow as usual. On this particular night it contained something so important I dont even like to talk about it now. Maybe high-ceiling- half-doo- chili-pick- STAGECREEHiRADm b Vtrltasrd CTORS come end actors F. but it looks as if the Ameches would p,o on for- ever. Although Jim Jr., now barely six, says he wants to be a mounted cop when he grows up, hes doing right well os a regular member of the cast of CLiSt "Big Sister: he got Ue role a year ago when none of s the tuned Director Tom Hutchinson. 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AMECHE I 149 , , ,. one of the most amusnever bothered would ever try to cast, and its and ing delightful things to be seen kill you through mosquito netting tn in any of New York't many broada place called Java. The brief case j casting studios. wat okay.' Fernando Alvarado was a veteran actor when he was young Jims age. .. , rAhaAuSt.! ,i..;LTe,w;Het ton. and has been in pictures report got back to nine and four months, has Frank was dead. Hed been killed in had years roles in 50 feature pica flying accident in Java. I was tures.speaking His newest one is "The Faldown in Florida by then, and the con in Mexico. only man I could really talk to was Cliff Jensen, an Air Corps boy we Wild Bill Elliott tried for 12 years had known at March and Albuquer- to convince Hollywood casting direcque, and later at Morrison Field. tor that he really was a cowboy. "He was stationed near by. and A series of pictures in which he hours played Wild Bill Hickoek gave him now was working twenty-on- e a day for the rest of the gang who his screen nickname, and at last were fighting in Java. I could real- hea been recognized as one of the ly talk to Cliff we understood each best horsemen the screen has ever other. The rumor that Frank was had, a cowboys' horseman. He's dead somehow reached Australia, creating the role of "Red Ryder in and of course the Air Corps is a Republic's new series based on Fred small place. In a few days Colonel Harman's cartoons. Truesdell In California heard it from one of the ferry pilots, and a few When Anne Shirley showed up on days later Cliff heard of it. He the set of "Here Comes the Bride didnt tell me, because he wasn't with an inflamed eye, Producer-Directo- r quite sure, but some people thought John Auer didn't send her it had really happened. home: he had Anne and Phil Terry "I could feel the difference. They play the pictures five kissing scenes. were looking at me queerly now. "You will please shut your eyes said They would say what a fine boy when you kiss him, Anne. Frank had been. Or that they were Auer. "We will make it come true praying for his safe return. They that love is blind. And the camera never understand. They cant see never picked up a glimpse of her inthat what youre anxious about is flamed eye. not the distant future, but this very Helen Holmes was a star of silent night. Is he hungry? Must he go out on a mission? Maybe hes been films. Now she's on Hollywood movie badly hurt during the day, and you sets again. One of the actors in don't know it yet. The Falcon in Mexico, RKOs e. "Praying that everything will be which stars Tom Conway, is Black-iHelen Holmes directs all right during those weeks and is a cat. months to come scares you its asking too much, youre afraid. You "Lives of great men all remind just pray heS all right tonight, and isnt wounded, and will get enough us of Warner Bros. Following sleep, so hell be strong and alert The Adventures of Mark Twain, and have a good chance tomorrow. the studio has eight other famous You dont dare ask more. lives lined up for us. "Rhapsody in "Also those strong plump sun- Blue, film story of George Gershburned men who could leave their win, is completed: on the way are business for months to lie around the life stories of Will Rogers, Audon the Florida sands were very real- ubon, Marilyn Miller, Cole Porter, istic about the war sure it was all Vincent Youmans, Broadways Sime a terrible mess and everything was Silverman, and Marine Sergeant At going to pieces, offering me lots of Schmid. sympathy. But what had any of Carlo Ross is thanking his stars them ever done to get us a decent Air Force in the past? Or what good for fan letters. Six Veeks ago this were they or their realism doing young war worker was engaged by anyone now? I liked Cliffs better. J. L. Grimes, originator and proHe knew what the boys were up ducer of "Musical Steelmakers," to against and was up half the night sing just eight bars of the programs trying to hurry reinforcements. Out theme song each week. Those eight of the little we had (and he knew bars of song every Sunday impressed how little), so they could hold what 1,418 listeners so much that they they could. Cliff made sense. The wrote to Carlo, in Wheeling and rest was a nightmare. now hes a featured vocalist on each "Steelmakers broadcast. "When wed first hit Java, said visitors to Hildegardes When Frank, wed been full of the offensive spirit sure we were going to "Beat the Band program hail her roll the J aps back off the Philippines as "Charlie shes delighted. It was onto Formosa with those thousand her fathers name, and when she planes which, according to rumor,-wer- e was a child in New Holstein, Wis., coming within three months. it was the custom for the children The second month was almost up to call each other by their fathers now, Java was unsteady under our given names. Hildy was born in Milfeet, and wed so far received about waukee and acquired her famous in Europe. two dozen maybe a few more continental manners Forts than that, and seven dive bombers. Hardly fifty planes in all. Beatrice Kay, will "Now we knew the offensive was of the airs "Gay Nineties. out for the time being. What we make her picture debut in the very Billy Roses Diamond prayed for was fighters to defend near future. what was left of our Forts and those Horseshoe," in which she has a feabeautifully camouflaged Dutch air- tured role, is going into production fields. With fighters to hold them much sooner than expected. off, we knew we could hold Java. ODDS AND ENDS Irene Dunn All right, suppose the Japs had role in Penny moved into Timor and cut the jugu- will play " her originaldone on the air when its lar vein from Australia, so that our Serenade 8 . . . Ingrid Bergman, soon to May could no longer hop on the be seen in Metro's Gaslight, was island chain to us on their belly chosen as the pin-ugirl of Yank," tanks? Why not a carrier? Couldnt army weekly, for one issue . . . Al Jol-so-n the Navy spare just one which will make his dehut as producer of could load up with in Austra- by handling Columbias lia and then, when it was still Burlesque," with Rita ttaxuorlh in several hundred miles from Java the role done originally by Barbara locaand out of range of the Jap bombers, Stanwyck . . . After a Errol Flynn bis checked in at tion, it could turn the loose, let his next starring them fly on in to us, and go back Warnerin Bros, to beginBurma In role, Objertiie for another load? 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