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Show TcmtUIEIEUS- - HDRIE IPELdDUUDIUif Colonel Frank Kurtz and the other members of the crew of the Swoose, who furnished the material for this story, are as modest as they are brave, they asked, me to point out that this does not pretend to be a complete history of the air force in the Southwest Pacific war, or even of the achievements of the flying fortresses in those islands. After they had read my completed story, they insisted that many men who did as much or more in this war as they, are mentioned here only casually or not at all. These omissions were necessary because I wished to build the story on personal nar- 1900 12-2- 0 Its Sophisticated e A SLIM afternoon or date dress has subtly curved and fitted torso lines.- Wear the Jacket over a long skirt for danci ing! O . . two-piec- - 0 Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1900 la designed lor sUea 12. 14, IS. 18 and 20. Size 14. short sleeves, requires 3 yards ol material; yard extra tor pleating. 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Brett, who is one of the ablest of that small group of officers who pioneered air power in the American army arid who, soon after the original debacle on Clark Field, took1 command of the Far Eastern air t forces and in six months laid the foundations for our eventual Pacific vict-ory-f could, after reading the manuscript, write me that as far as memory serves, the incidents you described of operations in Java and Australia are historically , correct ji mens y i A quit with answers offering ? information on various subjects 1 ? i 1. Who because be had decided to become an Olympic fftatform diver and there was a famous instructor on the Coast the boy hoped he could persuade to coach him. He did persuade .him,-b- ut easy to earn his way through Hollywood High School while he took the training. Before- leaving him, Frank had decidecfto become a pilot Hell tell you its so much like diving all you need is perfect balance and timing and control; yet it wasnt easy to take those many hours of flying lessons, or later to win the Junior Worlds Landplane Speed Record, or to work his way through college and marry so popular and pretty a girl as Margo, or to learn to fly the Army way at Randolph Field. All of it was hard, and Frank Is never quite satisfied, because hes sure, loqking back, that they all could have been done maybe s little better or at least a little quicker If hed only worked harder; so naturally hes modest about them. I dont know .where It begins, he said. Maybe with the Swoose. Yet she wasnt my plane at the very first I thing It begins with Old 99, my very first plane, and with old Tex (Lieutenant Arthur Edward Gary), and the rest of my crew, my that I saw lying there on Clark Field eight in a line. Maybe it begins with Old 99 and those eight in a line, lying so still, and It was such a bright sunshiny day, and so quiet after the Jap bombers left You see, on the morning war began' Old 99 was .clear down at the - . co-pil- was the last Aztec em-er- or of Mexico? 2. Ou of every 1,000 men and 1,000 women, 102 men but only 3 2. Approximately how many gla-de-rs women are six feet in height. and lakes are there in Gla-d- ' 4. In 1553. ' 8. William Pitt. National park? 8. Tiberius. 3. What is the proportion of 7. Jupiter. romen six feet tall or over to that er & men of that height in the United Itates? 4. When was the University of Iffexico founded? 8. Who said: Where law ends, yranny begins"? 8. Who ruled Rome at the time d Christs death? 7. What is the largest planet in he solar system? 8. The British farthing is worth low much in American money? 8. One-ha- lf cent Just 3 drops Penotro Noao Drops la sscb aoatrll you nolpalmost brosths freer Instantly. Reiter the head cold nasal misery. Only 38o 3S4 times as much for 60c. Caution : Us only as directed. Psaatr Maas Drops ' 6RANDPA TODAY Of the very few to escape Clark Field, she is the only one to come homeland now, her guns removed, ahe la an old war horse turned out to pasture, the transport plane of a three-sta- r general of the American of miles through cloud canyons and over oceans and islands of the war zone, and now in the shade of her wing sit six who have a story to telL The pilot is standing. He is Frank ' Kurtz, who has been three times a member of the championship American Olympic Team as a high diver, who a year ago was a lieutenant in the 19th Bombardment Group, and who now holds the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Silver Star, and is a lieutenant colonel NS at thirty-on- e. The others are Margo, his pretty, d blonde, wife; Captain Harblackry Schrieber, his black-eyehaired navigator; Master Sergeant Charlie Reeves, his bombardier; Master Sergeant Rowland Boone, his gunner; and Master Sergeant "Red .Varner, the merriest embalmer in the Air Corps, who a few years ago ran a comfortable little undertaking parlor out on the Coast. I Red is now crew chief of the Swoose, and lords it over the ground crews who swarm over her to check her engines when she hits the ground. He brings hot coffee and sandwiches to her pilot and passengers when she is aloft, and it, was his duty in Java and Australia to steal anything from a carburetor to a roasting chicken necessary to keep the General comfortable and the Swoose in the air. But this is getting ahead of the story. (Since this uas written, all the master blue-eye- SOEilTOClI MANY MEN are persecuted by lumbago or other nagging muscle pains especially after exposure to cold or dampness. II every sufferer could only know about soarrom Liniment! In addition to methyl , salicylate a moat effective agent. Sorelone acta like cold heat to speed relief: soothes fast with GOLD HEAT' ACTIOil pain-relievi- 2. Quickly Sorelone mete to enhance local circulation- 2, Chock muscular cramp. 3, Help reduce local swelling. 4, Dilate surface capillary blood vessels. For fastest action, let dry , rub iu ogaus. Theres only one Soretone-ins- ist on it for Soretone results. 5(K. Big bottle, only fL b MUSCULAR LUMBAGO OR BACKACHE Cm St tatls r ttpnar MUSCULAR PAINS ' Sat Is mM SORE MUSCLES ll 88lflwrti MINOR SPRAINS Mb 0 W ,1, mprli t laid, rate farlaat Inrxlla act Ilk. kiai and McKesson makes itn la Dora-tSa Inrraaia aavalr St tia SM to th ana aad laSaa a ttowlt Siam St vaoaiB naMd sergeants of the Swoose crew commissioned.) hast been Meanwhile Frank, the pilot, paces up and down. It isnt easy for him to begin. Few things have been-easfor Frank Kurtz. It wasnt easy as a boy, when he earned his living telling papers on the streets of Kan y ht y- - off ?'ottaLpint.0Xt The grizzled old Flying Fortress stood on the runway. other end of the field, out of sight beyond the hump in the runway, and my crew was waiting with her, keeping her all warmed for the takeoff while I went to lunch and to the pilots meeting. I was to have bicycled over to them, and we were to have taken off for Formosa, to take pictures of what the Japs were doing. I had finished lunch when the first wave hit. - After that I had to stay in the foxhole for about an hour while they strafed the field. But when the fighters left, I jumped on my bike and rode down the runway through the smoke of the other burning Fortresses, to see what had happened to Old 99. Only If I begin here, maybe nobody would understand what his plane and his crew means to a pilot; that its like his home and his famBoys youve lived with and ily. worked with for months. Your life has depended on them and their lives on you. And youve seen the pictures of their wives or girls, and know just where they carry them in their wallets, and how proud they are of them, and youve told them about your wife,-- and they know what you hope for in the future, and what you haven't told them you know theyve guessed, Jand the same with you about them. And the plane it isnt something that belongs to the Government with a number; its Old 99, the beautiful new Flying Fortress that belongs to you. Its more than your home its, well, a kind of a sweetheart All of you picked her up off the assembly line at the Boeing plant where she was born a beautiful, smooth, shining, naked thing. Then all of you took her up over the clouds and wrapped that beautiful blue gown of the skies around her, which is the wsy every Fortress ought to be dressed, because theyre the Queens of the high skies. 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May emuae urinary w quent, yat acmnty and amarongj lot aieep from "getting P headaOJ -- may feal dizzy, nenroua, 30J" moua for prompt action for car to aa them only at direcwn-Htubtticutca. JJ4 st jour drug lift-ta- CTO BE CONTINUED) i styles when ladies and gentlemen then left It lying by the runway. wore powdered wigs. Valances were mad All T can remember is how Old 99 lust as we make them today and were to valance board In pretty much looked and, a little later, walklne cked Iame manner as ts shown here. over the field, slowly, toward her; afraid to come too close, too fast. NOTE This Is the second of a series on Think about It not as a plane that modern adaptaUons of period curtain has burned, or even your own house, fashions. .Another version of the shaped valance isgiven to BOOK 8 of but like It was a good friend burned type of ten booklets on sewing lor series is is left that up. And all that t0 get copy of Book 8 send tall,e j,om. silver tall still up in the air, not u cents direct to: and even scorched or I am walking over the field toward MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS New York Bedford Hills her. t" Drawer 10 Her poor old 'ribs black, twisted Enclose 13 cents for Book No. S. now; and with the aluminum skinj melted oft them so her carcass is Name .. naked, and you can see right through into the pilots compart- -' Address ment, and the seats where I sat, and good old Tex, my right beside me. And my control wheel, and my two sets of pedals, and the duplicate set for Tex, only all melted or twisted with the heat even the wall bracket where the coffee thermos used to hang is still there, only all twisted. And her four motors tumbled forward out of their CreomuWon relieves promptly benacelles in her crumpled wings onto cause it goes right to the seat of the the ground everything about Old 99 trouble to help loosen and expel still there, only melted and bent germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe aivd heal raw, tender, teand ruined and her back sagging nanted bronchial mucous mem and broken, like you would take a branea. Tell your druggist to sell you delicate silver flying fish between a bottle of Creomulaton with the unmust like the way It your fists and break its back and derstanding you the cough or you an quickly allays drop it on the ground to die. to have your money back. Everything there, only something else, too. And I couldnt make out what It was. Yet I must have for Coughs, Chest Colds, Brondutu guessed. Because I began to feel sick at my heart and my stomach Boyal Indian Navy when I saw that curious, Unlike Indias army, the Royal bundle of something lying there under the crumpled wing, and as I got Indian navy forbids its officers closer I couldnt even deny to my- and men to maintain their usually self what It was. One of my crew. very strict racial and caste difLying under there. And right be- ferences while in its service. side him another. Poor faithful boys, following orders, staying loy- MEDICATED ltch ally by Old 99 even in the face of rash by sprinkling on 1 Japanese bomb pat- POWDER FOR Mezsana, the soothing, medicated powder. Re- tern across the field like a hailstorm and under the plane's crumpled FAMILY USE lieves diaper rash. belly still another, and under the tail our little Dodson he must have Hull Was First run under there for shelter, and Old Cordell Hull was the first cabi99s tail settled down on him as her net member ever to address a back girders melted when she Joint meeting of congress. burned. But only after I had walked around the tail could I see the eight in a line. DONT LET "There they were, lying so very still on this beautiful quiet day, my eight boys of Old 99's crew in a SLOW YOU UP senseless, irregular line toward the When bowel are sluggish and yow woods, to which they had been runfeel irritable, headachy, do s million the modem ning for shelter when they all had do chew chewing-gulaxative. Simply chew been killed at once, and left sprawlbefore you go to bed, ing as they djed. taking only in accordance with package I remember standing there by directions sleep without being die- turbed. Next morning gentle, thorough the tail "Shd counting one, two. three, in that line and so on up" to1 T7 Tastes eight, toward the woods my boys end economical. A generousgood, is bandy family supply and each one I knew. Standing thefce. could see it but not realize it even though I knew it knew which ones would have their wives and girls crumpled pictures in their j British pockets. I knew they were dead The British call their microfilm I .started walking down 'process airgraph, that irregular line of men who had been running toward the woods, and then very suddenly it began to get me. For a while I dont know what I did. Then I remember going along the line from one to the other, talking to each the way I always would, and patting him on the shoulder like he. were alive, because for me fifty werent dead yet And crying. And Im not ashamed of that Talking to each, from good old Sergeant Burgess, who was nearest the plane, on down the irregular line to dear old Tex at the very end, with all his clothes torn off by the blast I recognized his shoulders. They were a fighters big broad shoulders Tex had been boxing champion of Texas A. Si M. So maybe for me it begins when I got to where Tex was lying, and sat down by him to talk it over, g his curly head with one hand and patting his hairy back with the others It was still soft and warm It wasnt a body yet It was Tex him-se- lf at the end line. I told Ji this had happened did. But they could trust me to find out so it would bever happen again. But regardless of that he must derstand this wssnt the end. half-burne- ert It Flies?" It did. for countless thousands fnre fin-gle- aming CREOMULSION The A ns were OU I Bronchitis The grizzled old Flying Fortresa stood on the runway of sn American airfield, presently to depart tor another continent and another war zone. Those scratches on her running gear were made by sand grains of Wake Island when she waa on her way to the Far East before the war. That little dent on her wing was made by a spent-bom- b fragment the war when the Japathe began, day nese destroyed all but a very few of our Far Eastern Air Force on Clark Field In the Philippines. She was one of those few. The battle paint on her wings was later blistered by the sun in the high skies over Java, and atill later nicked by sandstorms over the Australian des- vCfc high-precisi- How To Relieve I Air Force. Flies With Young , When frightened, the mother (Lieutenant General George 11. Brett, 1.- ' Montezuma. woodcock often fiics off with a VSA, who until recently commanded the Far Eastern skies for the United 2. Sixty glaciers, 200 lakes. chick between her legs. Nations.) On her side is a jaunty emblem daubed there by the hand of some boy, unknown ' now and probably dead the outline of a misshapen bird The Swoose" half swan and ACT DADDY, YOU half goose" taken from a jingle, and beneath it the skeptical legend AS S admits is the best ship in the ness. So there isnt anything any of you wont do pilots and greaseballs of the ground crew alike to keep her polished and adjusted and tickwatch She ing like the was when you got her. Well, as I said, there was a rise in the runway, and as I pedaled up It, for a minute I was afraid what I would see, looking ahead. But then my heart suddenly gave a . . . , r1rk big pound, because there was Old cabinet .make curve stabilizer-the big 99s vertical The types of her tail rising high like a game Dial period. stand-th- e become have of their day above salmons tail us but we s runway; so I pumped the bike a ard with the kind of curtains about think few times more, being thankful It that were original-bougand Td draperies bike was a good American this furniture, off a fighter pilot instead of.ly Used with of the junky Jap copies that are sol. Visitors to the reconstructed village then cheap in Manila, only, my God. Just then long before the RevoluUon, and the well I don't know whether I got off tailored canvas lined valance used with co-pilo- t, material. CHAPTER --- It wasnt easy later to her, all of you knowing you're flyleave home when he was fourteen ing a Fortress, which everybody busi- W. L. 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