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Show The Cache American. IiOgan, Cache County, Ttah Page Seven HU IE QUEENS IPE.UEY .WHITE FAR: IJeut. Cel. THE Frank Kurtz, pilot of a Hlng trtli of that (alal day mbrn the Japt struck to the Philippine. Fisht ol bia nan rra killed ehile Seeing lor skelter, UK many olher orl eat , nd Old demolished on lb (round. Alter atrap-lo Australia, nhal It left of (bn squadron Biaa to Java, nbrra Ihry (o on many mission oar Iba Philippines and Urn Java taa. Tha Japa Irara Iba eakneta ol tha E modal fortress, but Uia boa Uch a .40 caliber (un la tha compartment. Kuril aanvaa navigator" airbed In Java and ona ba la bainc night arakana at Uta flara ol a Bavhlltbt. Tha band that bald It alto bald a dactar. Tba would ba aaaaatin (ata away. gfORV Till P-4- 0 's a, Ma-diu- fear-froze- P-4- Looking al IIIILLYllOOD WW.U.TUTU8U go dovtn in on his run and never come up again. Yet his boys what are left of them still like to hope maybe he succeeded in landing on that Bali beach, hich looks so nice in the travel folders, and will turn up grinning some day, telling them what a social success he was with the natives. "But it was pitiful. We lost almost all our dive bombers there, and about half our fighters. Ot course Bud and his gang made the Japs pay ten to one for taking that airfield but the Japs had it to pay. "With the Japs holding that Bali field, they could send bombers and fighters into every comer of Java, CHAPTER XVII and we knew it was almost over. now "We dreamed and prayed for this. But anyway the Forts could bomb field our own had tak the Japs And a a matter of fact the Navy en from us very convenient, bedid make an attempt. An aircraft and cause we knew exactly where everytender was loaded with atarted out from Australia. But what thing was. "When I got back late to the hohapiened was just what was feared. tel there was that beautiful Dutch stacked In crate Those the one with the black hair girl, to had on so she her decks, high come clear In through skies the Jap and the pale face which was so bombers ruled. She went down with wistfully sad In repose. Only there sudden little smiles lighther entire crew and those crated were no now. She was at the table it up ing forty miles off the southwest coast of Java but I'm sure the Navy where she and John Robertson was doing the best it could for us with what they had. "Of course it gave our morale a kick in the belly. Late the next afternoon young Jack Dale (hed won his spurs In the Philippines with the 17th Pursuit) came in from Gnoro on a personal mission from Major Bud Sprague. When hed finished it he stayed a few minutes. "The next night a Navy man who had just got In from our little fleet told me what had happened to the Marblehead and the Houston, those two beautiful cruisers which had been the nucleus of our Asiatic Fleet helping the Dutch and Australians defend Java. With the rest of the fleet they'd been out in the Java Sea. When they sighted a Jap recco plane overhead about noon, they knew they were In for trouble. They had no carrier, of course, which could send a fighter up to shoot it down. He said the Jap bombers presently came over them from their bases in Borneo and the Celebes (our bases they had captured) in three waves, spaced about half an hour apart. By skillful maneuvering they dodged the bombs of the first two waves. But the third, which crippled them, caught them just at sundown, and chewed their superstructures into steel spaghetti. "In the darkness, they were able , to crawl away out of range, and the Marblehead eventually got back to the States. "But troubles of our own were looming ahead. The boys in Navy Patrol Wing 10 came in with the Caught them just at sundown and report that their planes on reconchewed their superstructures into naissance had sighted a force of steel spaghetti. six Jap transports and five warships headed toward Bali Strait, which di- usually sat, alone. When she saw vides Java from Bali. They were me she jumped up and came runafter the Den Passar airdrome on ning across the room. Had I seen havBali our last stepping-ston- e John? she wanted to know, in her ing already occupied the airfield at pretty broken English. Timor. This was, as maybe you now "Out In the lobby they had told begin to see, a war of airdromes me John was missing. Hed been Sama-rindClark, Del Monte, Kendari, out on reconnaissance patrol in that Kupang, all of them lost pearls lumbering slow old Navy flying boat, in the United Nations defenses, and and there had been two messages now Den Passar. Next it could only from him: 'Many Zeros sighted, and n and be Malang, KNILM, Gnoro, then about a minute later a final all we had left on the strand. one: Zeros closing in. That left Seldom in this war did the Japs three of the ones I knew in only make a brutal assault; always it Patrol Wing 10, Commander was the skillful surgeons technique gallant Peterson, Bill Hardy, and Duke isolate and occupy the airdromes None of them had been and then you have the country. It Campbell. able to tell her, and when I looked was a game we knew well too, but at her face I found I couldnt either. you've got to buy chips before they Because it was the face of someone will deal you a hand, and we didnt frozen with fear in a nightmare so have the equipment. frozen you knew she darent move "All I can say is the Dutch and to accept the truth if you told her, Americans were ready to defend so I too was afraid. Bali with what we had. Our little "In all the evenings that were left surface navies moved in that night were not to be many) I avoid(there to clip them a glancing blow on the ed that lobby, because it was hauntrun, as theyd done at Macassar ed by a ghost a pretty, pale, n Straight, and our submarines did a face that came running up grand job in the moonlight. The to you and asked, with hope forced Colonel sent his Fortresses out and into a frightened smile, if you had down to 5,000, to paste them from seen John. To me the most frightenthe air. We left two transports ing ghost of all the ghost of a dead burning In the moonlight, and a crip- love which will not die. pled cruiser. "But theres something else that "Next morning it was up to the should be told, only I must go back Air Force alone, because the Navy in the story a little. The Army had was too tiny to venture out by day. sent a high ground officer to SuraThe Forts went over, of course in on a special mission of great fact everything we had, to smash baya and with about a milimportance, at those Jap transports as they lion dollars deposited to his credit poured thirty thousand troops onto In the Javische Bank. With this he were was to the beach at Bali. The buy and equip with supplies led by Bud Sprague himself. That three blockade runners which would morning he got his commission as carry to Corregidor ammunition, a lieutenant colonel. He paused just medical supplies, and food for those to scrawl his before the take-of- f poor devils on Bataan who were still signature on his papers, but he didnt fighting on. Two of the ships had take time to pretty himself up in already left. A third was almost his new silver leaves; I guess he ready to go. was satisfied to die in his old gold "This officer left Java the twenty-sixt- h ones. Because what they desperateThe day after of February. ly needed was dive bombers, and he left, his assistant, a young seca about all they had was ond lieutenant, called me up in confighter plane which was never built siderable anxiety. His chief, he exas a stable platform to launch an plained, had paid him the compliegg from. But all right, there the ment of leaving him in Surabaya in job was to do, and so Bud climbed entire charge of completing the arinto the cockpit. rangements. " How many passes at the target "Nothing remained to be done exare we going to make? someone cept the most important thing of all: asked. the officer before leaving had been Depends on how many wild unable to find a radio operator for hairs Im sprouting when we get this last ship. Without one they over her, says Bud with a grin, could not start, because unless they and they were off. gave a prearranged radio signal "He led them cold pigeon into that when they approached Corregidor, the Rocks guns would blow them to Jap barrage over the Bali beach Christ! back here the people don't pieces. Could the Air Force possibly know that boy ever did a thing out let them have a radio operator? there and the other boys saw him Since the mission was a dangerous P-4- J one, the assistant said he would pay a man who volunteered a bonus ou of the money hi chief had left tt IT TAKIS an actor to direct an the bank. actor," says Irslng Cummings. "Now asking our Colonel for a ra Well, he should know. Cummm dio operator was like asking him fui spent years on the stage and senen his right arm. But Java was caving befure he directed such motion picIn. the situation was tense. Our Colo- ture hits as "What a Woman!" and nel hesitated, and then said Uiai "My Gal Sal." He believes that a while he couldn t order anyone on sc man who has worn grease paint dangerous a mission, he thought, himself understands a peiformeri even after we explained clearly whai problems better it was, we could get a Volunteer. than one whose "And we did. We told the men experience has the mission was most dangerous but been limited sole- of the greatest possible service tc ly to wielding a our country. And out of the lin megnj hone, and how right he 11 stepped a clean-cukid "Actor require called Sergeant Warrenfeltz. Only understanding by after this did I tell him of the a director If they bonus. We let are to feel at ease go down and look over the ship, loaded with surgical equip- and give the best ment, food, drugs, and three hun- that's in them, says Cummings. dred thousand rounds of On the set ot ammunition, so that she was practi"The Impatient Years" Cummings cally a floating bomb. He talked to was directing Jean Arthur and lee the captain (a Swede) and looked a law Bowman. The scene wa over the Negro and Chinese crew. There were two one for topside court. Jean and Lee were asking lor dressed like Javanese natives so the a divorce. Bowman is a returned who arrived from overseas Japs might mistake her for a fish- soldier to discover that the marriage with ing trawler. Then Warrenfeltz came Jean was perhaps hasty. Theirs is a to me with written orders from the four-dabomber command and I told him whirlwind wedding after a soldier then goes the courtship, the porta of call. They were to When he returns the girl slip out at night, down the north abroad. coast of Java, through Lombok and boy are total strangers. It's aone that's hapStrait, then along the Netherlands human situation coun,ry-thEast Indies, then cut up east of.tJcnn8 a" ovcr the scene over talked Cummings Celebes, running the Jap block-- ! e ade into the Philippines till they In a calm way. When a bit of to Manila Bay entrance. ness didnt jell he showed the actora where they would be challenged by how he thought it should be done, the Rock. And he was to answer on Cummings acted it out for Jean and did it darned well, too. Bowman the radio with the proper signal. actors added That the gave "Then he asked what were the other ports of call. So I told him (it makes me creep to repeat it) Know the Ropee they were then to run the block- While we were waiting for the ade through the is - lights to be adjusted for the next lands past Guam (now held by the' Japs) to Honolulu. What else? asked Warrenfeltz, grinning. He was game for anything. And I told him his third and last port of call would be New York. And then what? he wanted to know. I told him if he got that far, he was to have himself some fun, and I was sitting down now to write him out an order for thirty days leave. "He knew what he was getting gives an actor a chance to ease into into. Wed been flying over, those a characterization, get acquainted waters for months; he knew Just with his leading lady, and sense the how thick the Jap surface ships 'pace and inflections of a particular were, and also that they had hardly role. a fifty per cent chance of escaping! "Too, I try to shoot my films as being blown up by a Jap mine just close to the actual continuity of the outside the breakwater. Why did story as possible. It's cheaper for a he do it? To help those poor devils studio to have a film made without in the infantry, dying on Bataan, e regard to continuity of scenes, d seen the cargo. And then the cause of stage space and actors money he told me exactly what to commitments, but I believe a better do with that, and the message 1 movie comes out if we all start from must send, but we'll come to it lat-- 1 the beginning and work steadily to er. Of course it was all pretty irits climax. That way, as on regular, paying a man for heroism. the stage, we get the feeling and Maybe when peace comes, some- tempo. body in a swivel chair in WashingIrving Cummings should know ton will start writing us letters askabout good pictures. Hes been conus we did it, and I dont ing why with them 35 years. know what well say. And then it nected all ended happily for us, because the money Warrenfeltz was supposed O. K., Pal to receive for trying to do what he Joe Pasternak called up to tell me did was never paid. But that comes that Alec Templeton will be in "Cab-bage- s j t. alert-lookin- g War-rcnfelt- z y e For Summer Parties UST the sort of flattering party dress ony young girl likes to wear it can be made in silk crepes or in crisp dotted muslins. Done in percales it is a splendid school frock. 1 btisi-cam- J J coi.fi-denc- 'THE new low neckline, edged with a frill, the ribbon topped with a dainty flower side-lacin- applique design, makes it a orable dress. g, mem- Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1938 Is designed (or sizes 11. 13. IS. 17 and 19. Size 13. short sleeves, requires 3j yards material; 2 yards ribbon. h be-H- Its later. and "Meanwhile we had other things to worry about. The Japs had put a little landing force ashore on a tiny island sixty miles north of Surabaya, and taken over its radio station. "They hadnt told us yet, said the Bombardier, "but we smelled it Rumors were running all over the place that we might evacuate any time now. Madiun, where I was based, was being bombed every day now wed go out on a mission and always come back to find craters in our runways. When wed land, immediately thered be another alarm and wed have to hop off the field without servicing the planes or loading more bombs. Also, instead of going out to targets in formations, we now were going singly. As soon as wed get one ship on the ground long enough to get it gassed and bombed up, wed take off by our little lonesome, dodging Zeros to pick just any target from the countless transports that were swarming off Java. last week I got a light cruiser and a transport blew the end off the transport. "Mostly we were flying in a mental fog. Rumors! Every day theyd say no. we werent gotog to evac uate, because more reinforcements were going to land on the field any our own maintenance day now-e- ven crews were about to land by boat. Then wed hear their boat had been sunk (it really went on past us to India) and that we were pulling out. Nothing was sure, except the fact that all those Jap ships moving toward Java werent pleasure yachts, and that we didnt have any recep- tion committee to meet them. On what turned out to be my last day I got my plane loaded with bombs and took off, headed for a huge con-- , voy wed heard was coming down toward us from Borneo. We met it halfway-t- he plane ahead of us was already pasting it when we rived. We came in at 28,000 watch- -' ing this first ship plunking direct hits on two parallel strings of transports seventeen in each string, thirty- four in all, with fifteen or twenty naval craft circling them. In-the- 1 (TO BE CONTINUED) Kings." He plays the piano and also will conduct the orchestra for several numbers which is good news to all of us who admire, respect, and love Alec . . . Makes me a little ill to read that Bar- bara Stanwyck takes a role intended for Bette Davis. Barbara doesnt have to take anything from anybody. Theres a swell actress . . . Ann Sheridan assures me her overseas wardrobe will weigh only 10 pounds. That includes three evening gowns, too . . . It takes old timers to give old timers a job . . . Veronica Lake wont do another picture until November maybe not then. Little "Shut Eye Goldilocks, by her shenanigans, added $200,000 to the cost of "Bring On the Girls. The day is past when even big stars can get away with that, He SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 14 New Montgomery Street Calif. San Francisco Enclose 20 cents In coins for each pattern desired. Pattern Size........ No. Name Address ' j Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1938 is (or sizrs 6, S, 10. 12 and 14 years. Size 8. short deeves. require 2!4 yards of 39'tnch material; yard contrast for collar. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more Urns Is required In Ailing orders lor a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: Darn the worn carpet. Literally, Johnny fTas for Making Most of His Resources of course, and with a rug wool Little Johnnys mother had just carefully matched in color. This will take away much of the presented the family with twins, and the household was in a state shabby appearance. of excitement. Father beamed A worn anklet makes a good with pride as he took Johnny on cover to pull on over the old wax one side. If youll tell your teacher about applicator when it needs freshening. Wrap the applicator first with it, Im sure she will give you a soft cloths, then the sock is pulled days holiday, he said. on and its ready for. service. That afternoon came Johnny I dont have to home radiant. To pipe with rickrack, turn the he ango to school tomorrow, raw edge of the fabric once or nounced proudly. twice to the inside and stitch rickDid you tell your teacher about rack over it. the twins? asked his father. No, I just told her I had a To avoid losing a handkerchief sister. Im saving the other under a bed pillow in a sick room babynext week. for at night, sew a pocket on one side of the pillowcase. 0 Turning a belt is easy if you insert a tape a little longer than the belt between the two strips of material. Stitch the tape at one end at the same time the end of the belt is closed. To turn, simply pull the end of tape that sticks out and the belt is right-sid- e out in a jiffy. Iw, Kings Heralds Male Quartet) VfcWHuMtMUlUAI. FREE SMSU For painting shelves that are too close together to use an ordinary brush and for other tight corners, make a right angle brush. Cut the handle off an ordinary brush and fit the remaining stub of handle into a hole bored in a piece of wood about 10 inches long. JUNKS ilSHM Stdlt SlUt HAIUI OUw tmiwrinw funis tfMWN ronvCUCS.S cOUUt KEUB EOVO KUTA KVNU KLO RDO KTFI KOH XSEI KOB Newspaper Logs Show Other Stations Q)SM(OSNGIllr3aCAUf Buy War Savings Bonds Picks the Winners Michael Arlen cant get anybody too lucky. In to bet with him. Hes . ... . January he made nnn a e se wyn agains $ , uld bf ?e? March Edgar dled two weeks before time hmlt Its nice to hear Betty Blythe has made a personal hit in Public Relations in New York. Betty was one of our most seductive silent sirens. While this play wont last, it undoubtedly will lead to bigger things for Betty. Yes, Shes Got It Rose Le 'a iust t ud s contract to Bill Goetz. She s more signed on for year four ' ,005S as though Warners is definitely off war pictures. Six of its writers who were working on em Under- ordered to stop Hand reason Louise Allbritton was suspended by Universal is that she ent overseas without the studios consent . . . Since Humphrey Bo- art croons in To Have and Have will Frank Sinatra (for reJot, venge) tote a gun in his next? yearsc . EEEEDDg) MAXFIELD FEED 174 West Broadway & SEED CO. Sait Lake City, Utah t |