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We kept thig up for quite a while, but no Cloncurry, and our gag waa running out I'll gay thig, though, the Major aure wasn't running ihort of advice. What with his cockpit full of air generals of all nations, he had plenty of that end every different kind you can imagine they all knew just what to do. "The trouble was, every time he paced from the nose of the plane back to the tail. It would throw the plane out of balance, and Frank here would have to trim ship, in addition to all the questions he was answering. I guess this pacer had never thought of that "By this time Frank had decided the only thing to do was to make a forced landing, so he was leaning over the side trying to pick a spot." "With all of those guys yammer-in- g at you. telling you what to do," said Red, "and this guy pacing. Only for a while he stopped, but just for a minute, while he was putting on a Why, 1 wouldn't quite parachute. know. Because we were down to 500 feet, and if he did jump of course it would never have time to crack. But 1 didn't say a word, because buckling himself in was keeping him quiet Only right away he starts this pacing again, with the poor Major trying to nose her down tor a crash landing, and he tells me to tell them all to get back in the tail so it will act as a brake, only this guy starts pacing again. Now I was getting the Jumps, for even if the Major is the best pilot in the business, a crash landing So is no joke, even for I grabs this pacing guy and 'Now look, I says to him. 'You may carry plenty of rank on your shoulders, but to this pilot youre just two hundred pounds of ballast So now you quit shifting around you get on back there and sit down. And I herded him back to the very tip end of the plane, and pushed him down, parachute and all, on that little seat Youve probably been wondering all along, just where this little seat is, on a bomber. Well, its just where it would be any place else even on a farm all you do is follow the clothes line, back down to the end of the grape arbor, and there she sets. Well, I pushed him down on the seat, and in about a minute there was quite a bump, but still it was a perfect three-poilanding. In four seconds the Major had her rolling smooth. The ground was soft. tons is a lot of bombTwenty-fiv- e er, and her wheels began to sink in about six Inches. But the Major could sense this, so he gave gas to all four engines to keep her rolling, and taxied her up to high ground hard enough to hold her up. We get out. Pretty soon Australian ranchers begin crawling out of hoes in the ground I dont know where else they came from and right away Lieutenant Commander Johnson gets busy. He begins to get acquainted. They tell him where we are and some of them go off to get a truck to take us into town where we can telephone, and more keep coming, and Johnson is shaking hands all around, and he comes back and tells us these are real folks the best dam folks in the world, except maybe the folks in his own Texas. Pretty soon he knows all their first names, and theyre telling him why there ought to be a high tariff on wool, and theres no question he swung that county for Johnson before we left. He was in his element. I know he sure swung the Swoose crew. He can carry that precinct any day. "Listening to him made us all homesick, said Frank, so I suppose it was a good thing we got suddenly ordered back to the States at the end of the month. In a curious way I was ready now to come. Id turned it down before, because after we were thrown out of Java we all had that sick feeling trying to hold onto something that was slipping away in spite of everything You couldnt walk out you did. feeling things might suddenly cave in again. But now it was different. In Australia and that island chain above we were getting firmly set, the way we should have been in the Philippines and Java, and di- ut have time. But we'd had it now, and knew how to use it. Best of all, we were finally getting some fighting equipment, not just production figures. So even though we were soaking up j box-scarc- h s. nt j plenty of heavy punches In the Island chain, we were aure now we could at leait hold them. But aa yet I hadn't dared hope for much more. "Only now I come to the thing which Jit last changed that, because I had to see it before I could believe it room. It's l:k a bird dog pointing quail, with his tail tip quivering. Only, after half a second. I'm a man again and can think, can remember we havent any bombs swinging on their shackles in our bomb bays nothing we can drop on this beautiful target but the passenger who Is riding with high-ranki- "It happened out on that long us. "Then comes reaction number trans pacific trail where we've worn ruts In the iky between two. No bombs, but what about the the States and Australia. It waa carriers covering fighters? You talk like this. We were letting down for about a mother tiger fighting for her one of the island steppingstones young that's nothing to the way a which, according to Harry's nsvlga-liopatrolling carrier fighter will defend ahould be somewhere ahesd of its mother ship. Because every carrier-based us. It waa very early in the mornfighter knows that once ing. Harry's the best navigator In his carrier Is hit and the waves bethe business, and he had said we gin to sweep over that long flight should be in there six hours from deck, and one end of her hoists up in the time we left the last island. the air, then he's out in the big sky But of course his figures could be by his lonesome no pontoons, notha little out, or maybe the wind drift ing to do but sink into the sea when would change you never know. The his tanks are dry. Those Zeros will Pacific is too big a place to take come screaming In to hit me from chances in, as Eddie Rickenbacker's almost any cloud. Since I can't party found out So after wed been make a bomb run, I must get away out five hours we got the island on quick! the radio, and asked them to give "But now, over the interphones, us searchlights, just so we wouldn't comes a shout theyve spotted anmiss their little pinpoint in the other carrier. I look and see It too. dawn. Then another! And now my God. it "We'd flown without change of can't be, but it Is four! It makes us course for five hours. Now Harry frantic haven't got something to took his final shots and we started plunk through those smooth flight down the line to that island. Harry decks into their engine rooms, and had said six hours it took us just maybe blow a few square yards out n five hours and minutes. of the bottom of their hulls! The island was an atoll around a "Only we now grow cold, because shallow basin where Navy PBY dy- where are the escorting fighters? We ing boats could light The atoll is cant speed up, because they should two feet above high tide at its high be up ahead, but they might show point On one side are labor con- up any place come leaping up at struction tents, a cantonment build- us out of this fleecy blanket of overing for the tiny garrison, ack-accast like dolphins jumping through searchlights, and even a tiny movie the foam. theater. On the other side is the "Down there are not only four landing strip. 111 swear Harry must carriers but a gang of other stuff have navigated nctf for the island, a fog of destroyers, at least fifteen but for that landing strip itself. For and one thundering big batcruisers, without change of course, all we Only as a bomber pilot I'm tleship. have to do Is let our wheels down. i fixed on those carriers, enormous Some day I want Eddie Rickenback-e- r brutes. Too enormous. Say, whats to meet Harry. going on? Because Jap carriers are As we climbed out of the Swoose, little devils you can hardly pack the island garrison asked us, very forty planes into them, while these excited, 'Did you see anything?' might hold double that, like our best When we said we hadn't, they went ones. Now wait Maybe we're too off by themselves, whispering. I low and these just look big. but wanted to know what was up, so I no I glance at the altimeter and asked their Colonel. Told him we were at 7,500. were on an important mission our"So theyre ours! This big parade selves had a aboard of surface strength is us Ameriand what did he expect here at this cans! I change course just the same atoll? 30 degrees, swinging wide of this Trouble,' he said. Looking at big naval parade, because we can his little setup, I couldnt help think- take no chances on their air patrol ing of those poor guys who were Even an American carrier fighter, overwhelmed on Wake Island. But when he sees a bomber over his the Colonel wasnt sure what kind of mother ship, should shoot first and trouble was coming. He only knew ask questions later. We dont want orders had mysteriously come put- to tangle with Grummans. We swing out wide and away, ting the Navy patrol planes on extra-lon- g hours, doubling shifts. but with what a different feeling! Well, I guess thats about all, Somewhere, somebody was certainly on the lookout for something, and except on our homeward trip, we record those poor devils had to sit on that cracked the trans-Pacifl- c atoll and guess what it might be. wide open. The old Swoose, with It didnt smell good. We gassed her war-wor- n motors, made it from minutes lat- Brisbane to San Francisco in thirty-si- x up and got out forty-fiv- e hours ten minutes flying time, er, just as it was cracking dawn. By now, the equatorial front had the only one of the original 35 on dissolved into a spotted ceiling. I Clark Field to see home again. suppose wed been going an hour when, through a hole in this ceiling, "When they said long distance out suddenly popped four or five was calling from San Francisco, of ships down on the wrinkled sea. But course that didnt mean anything to I could only look at one of them. me," said Margo. With two brothNow you think youre a man, ers in the Air Corps, one in bomwith everything under control, yet bardment and one in pursuit, it Im telling you I reacted to this one might be either one. Then I heard the way a fox terrier does to a rat. Franks own voice saying Margo? Because it was a whopping aircraft Because I hadnt heard any overcarrier! And after Java and the seas operators, or any censor clickPhilippines, say 'carrier' to a pilot, ing in, I knew he must be here in and he steadies everything for his the States. For the first time I could bomb run, tense as a violin string, cry on the phone . . . Its nice to hoping his bombardier has the hair- be strong, but so much more fun to lines of his bomb sight crossed on let down when you can, and I did. its flight deck just over the engine (THE END) at n, w-- fifty-seve- top-rank- IT LOOKS as though history 1801 it s itself and movies wil 10-2- 0 to repeat again maka America danra mad During World War I tha Vernoi Caatlra helped tha country forget It woe and worrte through tha ma dium cf graca and rhythm. Not it seems likely that another pat of dancers, Rita Haywarth and Gene Kelly, will accomplish tha lama thing and let a new vogue In dancing through (hair fine work Rita Hayworth Cover Girl.' During Work War I the folki in the big citie went dance mad Every gay blad out of a whee chair and ever; Jeb wanted to Imitate Irene anc Vernon Castle doing the Castle walk the hesitation waltz, and what wa considered the last word in daring-th- e tango. In Waltz King and Queen Sun-Tann- er Then the movies figured if thi j Castles could pack night spots ant legitimate theater with their danc Ing, chances were the public in thi hinterlands, who had heard abou Irene and Vernon, would pay mone; t the nickelodeons to see the shad jws of the famous pair. So the Castles appeared In Thi In 1918. It was I Whirl of Life great bit, and the dance crazi spread through every cranny of thi country. More than two decades ago, it 1920, to be exact. Hollywood discov ered its first really great dance star Mae Murray blonde, curvacious the original Nell Brinkley girl of tht "Follies," and a dancer to boot When she first came to movies shi did western films and was practl cally unnoticed until Bob Leonars and George FHtmaurire gave het a chance to dance. In "On With Mae was sensationaL A SPORTS dress with a sun-ta- n back held in place by one big button the short, smart bolero can be slipped on when you skip down the street to your market!' Make 1958 12-4- Rudolph Valentino made a num ber of pictures before Rex Ingrair let him do the tango in The Foui Horsemen of the Apocalypse, ant that single dance with a partnei long since forgotten skyrocketed hirr to fame. Joan Crawford, then a young, at tractive girl, was winning cups foi her Charleston and "black bottom' at the Coconut Grove and other When she die of Hollywood. the same routine before the cameras in such epics as The Tax Dancer" and Our Dancing Daugb ters she became a star. WRAP-AROUN- RECORD-BREAKIN- G Mr. Winkle Goes to War is swell. Having read the first page I could not put it down until 1 had read the last. It is a charming, restrained bit of satire which is going to appeal to the hearts of thousands of people who are groping for something which ties this fantastic war into human realities. Heres hoping that Chipsian Mr. Winkle becomes as well known and well beloved as he deserves to be. LOOK FOR "MR. 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But few have ever managed to gain anything of the luster of Rita and Gene in Cover iirl. If they dont start another dance ;raze in America a lot of people who have already seen the musical are going to be very much surprised. lways a Showman Mark Twain always was a show-nan- . I remember him in the theater at a performance given by Inlia Marlowe and E. H. Sothern. He was seated alone in a box. The air was chilly, he was dressed completely in white, and with that white thaggy head of his, took half the ittention away from the stage. . . . A'alt Disneys Saludos Amigos las been recorded in Spanish, Swedish, in addition to Ital-an- . Before the war, Disney made !0 language versions of his pictures e, its an amateur stunt from nearby Hills Crossing, or a network show from work for the armed forces will make r- - CLARION selectivity even more pronounced after the war. 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