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Show , Col. Robert!-Sco- m IVrt Scott Is story thu fort trma Mat m a fern Uoatouot, an aftorwtaalaf kto wtast at anywar UNootopkopermit to aa butractor la Ota kruki Calltorala at tol4 ka to toa aid for io kat iyla. Ha appaato ta aaa Oaaaral altar aaetkir far a ckaaca ta By a eaaikal pi aaa and BaaflUkaappartaalty aaataa Ha aaya (Htb; ta kla wlfa aad elite aad kamkar ta latte, wkara Blaa a fow-aiotka kaaamaa a tarry pilot, tytef rappUat la Hama, attar Sanaa taQa ka vtalte Oaaaral Ckeaaaalt aad talto kla kto story. Ckaaaaalt praialaaa tkat tka Brat la arrlra tram Afriea will ka kla. Seatt aoaa pato a Klttykawk aad Blaa tka aklaa Wl run 7ii.waa M aar Barm. Ha iota kla Brat Jap. CHAPTER XO m After following the Salween to the South until I could see Laahlo, I turned Weat for the field and came In right on the treetopa, strafing the guns in two passes. On the second run across the field I felt and heard bullets hitting my ship, but didn't see their origin until nearly too late. Down close to the Weat end of the field, almost under the trees, were Japanese ground soldiers. They were grouped into two squares like the old Macedonian phalanx, and were firing rifles at me: 1 turned my guns on them and could see the fire taking good toil from the Jap ranks. But even after I had made three runs on them, I noted that they continued to hold their positions, an excellent demonstration of perfect battle discipline. Later on one of the AVO aces, Tex Hill, told me that he had seen the same thing down in Thailand, and that after he'd strafed one of the squares of about a hundred men and there were only two er three on their feet, those few still were shooting at him when be left the field. Leaving Lash la, I went to Katha looking for a Jap train on the rail- way, but succeeded only in gather-- x Prom tag a little more ground-flrthere I went back North te Bhamo, and seeing no barges, continued aa to Myitkylna, keeping very close to the surface of the Irrawaddy, and strafed the gun positions of the ana-- . my on the field with the last of my ammunition. When I landed I had made almost eight. hundred miles, which is just about the limit for a fighter ship, especially since I had gtrafed at full throttle for several minutes. There wefe a few holes In my ship, but mostly in the tabrie of the judder and tha flippers. The Japs couldn't learn to lead ma anough; I guest they'd never hunted . game birds. i I Xfi less han aa hour I took off again and mada a shorter trip te Mogaung. and Katha, searching without success for a train. After getting more fuel I went back and ttrafed Myitkylna, turned South, and caught a barge of enemy equipment at Bhamo. Though I didn't sink this river boat, I put at least eight hundred rounds of ammunition in it, and left It settling in the water and drifting slowly with tha current The crew either were killed or Jumped - Into the river. ' And noq, to close the big day, I got in (hi sir again and set my course for the bridge on the Salween about twenty miles West of Paoshan. I had received a radio report, that tha AVO under Tom Jooea, Bishop, and Tex Hill were the Japs who were constructing a pontoon bridge there. Reaching . the rendezvous - point 1 couldnt see a thing except some burning trucks that tha AVO had strafed onJhe Jap aid of tha Sal-- i ween; evidently I had got to tha bat-tie too late. ! I had turned South towards Lashlo and was flying through a moderate i rain when, down below on the Bur-- , ma Road, I saw a troop column f marching South, probably towards f Cbefang. At this point the Burma f- - Road is about eight thousand feet , above sea level, rising nearby to its calling, just over nine thousand feet The troops below me were Jape-- I nese soldiers, evidently retreating from the mauling they had taken back there on the river, when the AVG had bombed them with bombs. I turned to the side, to watch them they were in heavy rain, and from the standpoint of their own safety they were in the worst possible place oa the road. The Burma Road was cut out of red Yunnan clay, and there were steep banks on both sides, of the column besides I don't think they had heard me over the roar of the rain, and I know they hadn't seen my ship. I turned my gun switches on and dove for the kill, sighting carefully . through my lighted sight My tracers struck the target dead center, for I had held ray fire until the last moment There was no need of doing this job et high speed, for if I merely cruised Td have longer ' to shoot at them and could also look eut for the hills hidden in the rain Chd the clouds. This time there wfs no dyst, but the red, muddy water went up like a geyser. The six Fifties seemed to cut the column to bits. As I passed over, I could see "" those who hadn't been hit trying desperately to crawl up the muddy bank to the safety oil the trees and slipping back. Turning very close to the hills, 1 came back over. Every now and then rd lose them, for the rain was heavy and it was dark in the clouds. anti-aircra- ft fifty-calib- . ff vmu.Rti.EASE. so dark that my tracers burned brilliant to the ground and then ricocheted away into the air again, still burning, I think it was fat my third pass, as the Japs seemed to be giv- ing up the effort to climb off the road, that I decided my ship would be called Old Exterminator. Their officers must have called double-timfor they spread out as much as they could and ran South on the road through the rain. I kept on cutting them te pieces until my ammunition was gone; I fired 1,890 rounds' into those three or four hundred Japanese, and X dont think more than a handful escaped. As the May days' drifted into weeks, I made up little schemes te tool the Japs. Perhaps the schemes worked, perhaps they didn't anyway they eased the disappointment of not getting letters from my wife and little girl and from the .other folks beck home. During this month I went to China as much as possible to talk to members of the AVG. Some of these pilots I had taught to fly in the Army Schools back home. I had checked quite a few of them and I was older, but I'm glad I realized then e, - re . BX Sjnteteoto. He fought his wsy partially out of the trap, but two of them right on bis tail literally shot him to pieces. was -- seen - to- - trail George's-hi- p smoko and dive straight down, from about fifteen thousand feet Doctor Gentry said they watched the stricken Forty. and knew who it was 7. the number. As it disappeared behind the trees they mentally crossed the boy Partem off their list of living men. But George and the sturdy were not through. There was the surging scream of an Allison engine's last boost and the ship skimmed over the trees and made a belly landing on the soft part of the field. Even then, considering the number of Japs who had been using George for target practice and the way the ship looked, with big holes in the tall, wings, and fuselage, as they drove out for him In the Jeep they expected to find just body. Instead, they found George Paxton standing by the side of his ship, swearing and shaking his fist at the sky. Doctor Gentry said he looked into the cockpit The instrument panel was Just about shot away, tha rudder pedals were partly shot to pieces, the armor of the pilot's seat was badly bent but Paxton was out there yelling: T still say those little snakes cant abootl Even his Texts boots were practically shot off. Two doctors picked rivets from George's beck all the afternoon, and Jap exploaive particles from his feet, legs and hands. The worst injuries had been caused by the Japanese explosive bullets hitting the seat armor and driving the rivets through into Georges back. But for the armor, those explosives would have been in Paxtons back, instead of Just the rivets. P-4- ? J 1 - ng Symbol ef the Americas Volunteer Group "Flying Tigere which made aerial combat history ever China aad Burma when the Jape were having their Inning. The AVO was later Inducted Into the Army Air - Corps, with General Claire Chenaanlt as commander. that thesa younger pilots knew a million times more about combat than I did. - Pd corner some of these Flying Tigers and ask them questions, for I longed for the day when Td get te fly on attacking missions with them. At first they were hard to know. Tha men they had met as representing our Army In China had been g pretty harsh with these dona who had all after the flyers, greatest Job in the war against the enemy. In the beginning they were reluctant to answer my questions or tell me the secrets of their success in combat They couldn't understand why a Colonel in the Army Air Corps had to know anything. Aa Georgs Paxton put it: Didn't the Army know everything? "Seems Ilka to me, he said, "every army officer we've seen out here knows all tha answers. When he found out that I was serious, and that my ambition was to get ever there and fly with them, and learn combat from them, so that' in the end I might teach it to our younger pilots who would. be coming out, he told me things that I would never have learned otherwise. "First," he said,' leading me off under the wing of one of the "first, the Old Man says, never turn with one of the Zeros. He says would anything and would 0 four to one. "But that doesnt matter," Paxton said. 0 is the strongest ship in ."The the world. Its heavy as hell, but e that makes it just about e and it'll the Jap anything, two to one. With those two Fifties and the four thirty-calibguns in the B'a we have done pretty good. Now with the six Fifties in the new Kittyhawka we anything." He told me that Hill, Rector, Bond, Neal, Lawler, and other acea had aeen Zero disintegrate in front of their six Fifties, and went on to advise that I use the good qualities of the against the bed qualities et the Jep. but never try to beet him at his own game climbing and maneuverability. Paxton did me a lot of good he got me my first flight with the AVG on the Emperors birthday. But the Jap didn't come in. We were the most griped bunch you've ever seen. Everyone up and waiting at three a. m. and then the dirty didn't have the guts to come ini I heard a story on George Paxton that will show you the kind of tough Texan he waa. It was down over Rangoon, near Mingaladon airdrome, in the early days of the Burma war. Doctor Oentry, who told me the story, said that the squadron George waa in was aloft and engaging the Japanese over the field. Looking upstairs, you could see the condensation streamers the sky, and every now and then a trail of amoke aa a Jap Zero burned and plunged towards the earth. Finally eight or nine Zeros ganged up on George Paxton. They got on his tail and they got all over hlnv outmaneuver outclimb the P-4- P-4- out-div- out-div- er out-gu- n Chinese-Indo-Chln- noi. P-4- criss-crossi- ng Just about halfway between the border and Hanoi wa saw a train coming North on tha railroad. Bishop led four of us down to strafe it while the other four stayed at twelva We circled thousand for over the train as we spiralled down to attack, and while the speed of the dive built up I got my on and tried to trim the ship for the increasing speed. r. gun-swit- ch As we levelled off and went in for the kill, I saw Bishop's tracers hitting the engine. By the time I got there in number two position, on Bishops wing now the white steam was spraying from tha punctured boiler. I saw the engineer and fireman Jump from tha locomotive, and as we went on down the cars, shooting into them, I saw Jap soldiers and probably Vichy French civilian Jumping off too. W came back and set some of the cars on fir. It was a cinch now, for tha train bad stopped and was no longer weaving through the narrow curves of the gorge. While the boys talked to one anand I heard other, we Bishop say, Leta bomb the railroad- yards , aL.Xaoksywith.our frags." (Fragmentation bombs.) I thought then that was wrong for we had alerted Laokay as we flew over and they were probably listening to us and would be welting for us. That didn't matter, though; wed get the railroad yards and soma of tha crews too, if they didnt ed anti-aircra- ft look out We spiralled down to, bomb the target and I saw Bishops bombs hit dead center on tha Then I dropped min. Just at that instant Bishop's fighter belched fire round-hous- e. and smoke, and 1 saw him slide his canopy open and jump. Hla chute opened so close in front of my ship that I pulled up for fear Fd run Into it I hung there for what seemed like hours, with my air speed indicating three hundred miles an hour, while black bursts of fire broke all around me. The ship just seemed to stand still, but saw Bishop floating down towards tha river that was the boundary between Chine anwIndo-Chlna-. At the very last moment as I got my nos down and got out of tha cenI saw an ter of the blow wind the chute back unlucky e or Jsp aide oi! to tha the river, and Bishop was captured. We heard from him latef that h was really a prisoner of the French and was getting along all right North of Laokay We end went beck to Kunming. Genera! Chennault said that the train wasn't worth Bishop we should have left Laokay alone. antl-alrcrk- anti-aircra- ft WlfU Features. FUTURE -- NowJa thetime tosUrtjMrinr fwjourjuturejiome. After the war when new material are on the market, to build your new home. on will have the ready-caa-h ENROLL NOW I BARNES BANKING CO. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. KAYSVILLE, UTAH Skyline Building & Investment Company Main St' Kaysville, Utah; Phone Kaysville 300-BUILDING CONSTRUCTION PROPERTY MANAGEMENT REAL ESTATE WE ARE THE BUILDERS of those quality F. H. A firebrick homes, now nearing completion in Kaysville. These homes are offered for sale on easy F. H. A. terms. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT Tie most Important thing is te accept CarUtont reruns cksarfully; include year plans as naturally as you mould if ka coma homa uninjured. him in By KATHLEEN NORRIS A letter TEAR-STAINE- D on my desk comes from a Los Angeles wife. Jean Is 22; she hag been married less than a year. Of that year Jean has Just received ward that ke is on his way home, will be with her in a few weeks. A month ago kls right arm was amputated above -- -- even though ha has lost an arm. A tennis champion of today no, not mere player, but has only on arm. A famous actor, now drawing a big salary to Broadway, was Injured to 191$ and has mad a name for himself, although h has lost a leg. One of the most beloved of tho movio stars has one leg. And experts tell us that tha loss of a leg title-holde- r, la infinitely more serious, where a career is concerned than the loss of an arm. Tha professions art filled with men; on of the west's biggest engineers began at 28 with one arm. and has never felt tt a handicap. Tha most Important thing is to ac cept Carleton return cheerfully; Include him to your plans as naturally as you would if h cam homa UQ injured and get him beck into classes as rapidly as possible. Ha can earn some money from the start, correcting . papers, helping the instructors, and. if I know these Instructors, he will be given preference over other applicants. As a matter of abeolute fact tha loss of an arm is not toa dreadful thing It seems at first I learned this when -- I broke my right arm last January, and carried it in e aling for eight weeks. In that time, slowly, of course, and clumsily, I learned to typewrite, sign my name, drive the car, cook, even play croquet Thia is not to maka any comparison between that temporary Inconvenience and tha permanent loss of a member. But it is to assure you that tt you take Carleton condition as naturally aa you can, interest him in other things,' give him plenty of love and companionship, plan with him, spur him into ambl tlon again, you will be amazed to discover how quickly tha major fact of the amputation becomes a thing quietly taken for granted. And when people stop pitying him hell atop pitying himself. Be glad the loss isn't of the soul or the mind. For ell other losses there are compensations. one-arm-ed Making Natural Fertiliser Each fall the dead plant top, leaves from the lawn, weeds that Indo-Chines- Be glad that ka is iii. hava not gona to seed, and other waste plant material should go into the compost pile to make fertilizer instead of being burned. To build the conipost, alternate layers of the vegetable matter of soil or manure are piled and wet so that they will rot quickly and thoroughly. The pile ahould be flat on top or slightly lowed ao that rain and snow soak in. 1 1 PROA JOINT RESOLUTION POSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 10 OF ARTICLE VIL nd AND TO SECTIONS 2, . 5, THE OF VIII ARTICLE 12 OF CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF UTAH RELATING TO THE SU REME AND DISTRICT COURTS, HOW CONSTITUTED. TERMS OE OFFICE, QUALIFICATIONS OF- JUDGES, JURISDICTION, JUDGES PRO TEMPORE. CHANGE OF JUDICIAL DISTRICTS BY THE LEGISLATURE, SELECTION OF JUDICIARY AND EFFECT ON INCUMBENT JUDGES. Be it enacted by the Legislature of of the State of Utah, all members elected to each of the two houses voting in favor there- of: Section 1. It is proposed to amend Section 10 of Article VII of the Constitution of the State of ijtah. as follows: Sec. 16 The governor shall nominate, and by and with the consent of the senate, appoint ail state and district officers whose offices are established by this constitution, or which may be created by law, and whose appointment or election is not otherwise provided for. If, during the recess of the senate, a vacancy occurs in any state or district office, the governor shall appoint some fit person two-thir- first parachute invasion. the elbow. She sent me his letter, tt was a tired, tick boy's despairing tetter. He says ha never thought this would happen to him. Ha wishes ha had never asked her te marry him. No more tennis or dancing for them, and a swell chance he has to get on with his architectural career. Hell look like an awful heel when be gets home; they shsved his head where it was cut and hla arm Is still bandaged. But she needn't worry; he isnt expecting that any girl as pretty and popular as Jean Is going to stick to a man whos never going to get anywhere. "What are we going to dof" Jean asks me. Tve cried myself sick, and the werry is about killing my mother. Ive been with her since Carleton went away, and we've barely enough to Uvt eo as Jt is. llama says we could take boarders, but we havent n spare inch. My father is dead; my brother away with tha army, he baa a wife and two children to care for. T planned auch a happy Ufa after toe war; now Its all ruined. I work with the telephone company, but I lad promised to give tost up the minute Carleton came back. He had beea promised n .Job with our finest firm here, only be had one mere year ef study to finish and w were going to toko a Uttlo place on the college campus, and I taka up some literary and language course with him. I have saved $700; that is all we have to the world. Mama has aa to coon of $33 a month. What can we possibly do with these prospects, aad a man who is not only injured but -- embittered -- by this terrible irerT" Well, Jean, you can do a thousand things, and seme of toam I know fou will do, to rebuild a sana and happy Ufa. The very first has to do home. with - welcoming Carleton - Dont overdo either the pity or the careful avoidance of pity; be as natural sis you can. showing him how glad you are that he is. alive, and feu are together again. You say your quarters are email, hut tt you and your mother seriously think of opening a Uttla privet hotel, feu will find plenty of larger places te rent, and plenty of eager customers in these serventless days. Many Thing Ta De. But there are many other avenues pen. Keep your job, or get a better Job, and talk to Carleton, when be tomes back, as if tha war had only eormally interrupted hla architectural studies. Of course he can be in architect! He can be anything. fJQ - Carleton has spent seven months in England; he. was among the men who made the ft (TO BX CONTINUED) TO THE e . high-strun- thats bad." I learned that the Jap ship . 0 On May 17, 1 flew with the AVG on a mission from Kunming into Indochina. Squadron Leader Bishop led the attack. I flew the wing position with R. T. Smith, one of the aces of the Flying Tigers and one of the pilots I remembered, checking during his training days et Santa Marie, California. Wa got off tha Kunming field with our fighters and headed South over the lake at twelva thousand feet In a few minute we passed Meng-tz- e and tha clouds thinned out and tha weather got pretty clear. Wa went Just about over Laokay, on a the border. Then we followed the River Rouge through the very crooked gorge in the mountains, on South towards Ha- top-cove- 11( FOR A NEW HOME! e. filve-bombl- i2l(EY What Can He DoNow? CSP-FDiLd- DT ur. savings Kathleen Norris Says: : rams-ran- ptluU4 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER. THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, UTAH PAGE SIX ds CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT A JOINT n M NO. L RESOLUTION PRO-POSIN- TO AMEND SECTION 9. ARTICLE VL OF THE CONSTITUTION - OF- - UTAH RELATING-T- O COMPENSATION OF OF THE LEGISLATURE Be it resolved by toe Legislature of toe State of Utah, of all members elected to each of the two houses voting i favor thereof: MEM-BER- two-thir- Section 1 That it is S ds proposed to amend Section 9, Article VI, Constitution of toe State of Utah, to reau. Section 9. The members of the Legislature shall receive such compensation and mileage as the Legislature may provide, not exceeding $300.00 per year, i nd ten cents per mile for toe distance necessarily traveled going to and returning from the place of meeting on the most usual route, and they shall receive no other pay or perquisite. Section 2. The secretary of state is hereby directed to submit this proposed amendment to ths electors of the State of Utah at the next general election in the manner as provided for by Article 23, Section 1, Constitution of Utah. Section 3. If adopted by ths electors of toe state, this amendment shall take effect the first day of January, 1945. LEE. of Monson, Secretary State of the State of Utah, do hereby certify that toe foregoing to discharge the duties thereof un- is a full, true, end correct copy cf til the next meeting of the senate, the constitutional amendment prowhen he shall nominate some per- posed by the first special session son to fill such office. If the office of toe' 25to Legislature of 1944, as of secretary of state, state auditor, the same appears of record in my office. state treasurer, attorney-genera- l, or superintendent of public inIn witness whereof, I have how struction be vacated by death, re- unto set my hand and affixed ths signation or otherwise, it shall be great seal of toe State of Utah, the duty of the governor to fill the this 10th day of August, 1941 same by appointment, and the apE E MONSON, Secty of State pointee shall hold his office until his successor shall be elected and qualified as may be by law proEach judge of a district court toil vided. years of be at least twenty-fiv- e Section 2 That it is proposed ths tor of member to amend sections 2, 3, 8, 8 and 12 age, an active to o learned in good standing, of article VIII of the constitution Utah of state the law, a resident of of the state of Utah, as follows: his senext three preceding 2. Sec. years The supreme court shall the diconsist of five judges, which num- lection, and shall reside inselected. ber may be increased or decreased strict for which he shall be a dihold by the legislature, but no altera- Any district Judge may at tbs tion or increase shall haye the ef- strict court in any county district, the of the of Judge fect of removing a Judge from of- request fice. A majority of toe Judges con- and, upon a request of the goveduty to docourt stituting the court shall be neces- rnor it shall be his district toe in cause to form Any a sary quorum or render pro te a be tried judge a decision. If a justice of toe su- may by member a preme court shall be disqualified pore, who must be from sitting in a cause before said toa bar, sworn to try the caw toe partw court, the remaining Judges hai and agreed upon by record. . call a district Judge to ait with or their attorneys of Sec. 6. The legislature them on the hearing of such cause. judiosi Every "Judge of toe supreme court change the. limits of any or deer shall be at least thirty yean of district, or increase or tM age, an active member of the bar, toa number of districts, w alterstioo No thereof. in good standing, learned in the judges effect the law, and a resident of toe state of increase shall have Utah for the five yean next pre- removing a Judge from ceding his selection The judge every additional district establissbaB having toe shortest term to serve, hed, a Judge or Judgessection 1 in not holding his office by selec- selected as provided tion to till a vacancy before ex- this article Sec. 12. The Judges ot ths supiration of a regular term, hiij be toe chief Justice, and shall pre- preme and district courtJ side at all terms of toe supreme ceive at stated times compel court, and to case of his absence, for their services, which shaUJJ toe Judge, having in like manner, be increased or diminished toe next shortest term, shall pre- toe time for which they s lected. side in his stead. 0j Sec. 3 Judges of toe Sections. The secretarf supreme wbmit court and district courts shall be state te directed to w selected for such terms and in proposed amendment to the Utah tors of the state of such manner as shall be the provided by law, provided, however, that next general election in artert selection shall be based solely net as provided for byof Utah upon section consideration of fitness for office L Constitution with oil t regard to any partisan poSection 4. If adopted by litical considerations and free from electors of the state, thu influence of any person whomso-J1- 0 ment shall take next provided further that toe day of January the boa electing such judges in determination by of !tfeCLjWhvn, 11115 wnendment is canvassers of the result shall be followed until tlon designated in Section? changed by law. L E E Monson, SecreT 3 The state shall be divid-- State of the State of districts,-- for hereby certify thatcorrect wP7 ch leajt one judge to a full, true, and berenbefore toe constitutional amend1 m jTovlded. Until otherwise provided posed by toe regular law., a district court at the 25th Legislature of to w of acb county shall same appears oi record be held at least four times a year. nd criminal business In witness whereof, i -- incviJ unto s.t my hand and an count7 tried in such county, must.be great seal of the State ' VCni!! h biken, fcTSich this 10th day of August, of SS?!, may provided by law. E E MONSON. 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