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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, IIYRUM, UTAH ; Atiomsn M A General Quiz - p. o-- P- - Q- O- - v. v. v. (W Col. Robert The Questions was the son of Edward 1. Why III of England called the Black Prince? 2. What U. S. President was a tailor by profession? 3. What does begging the question mean? 4. What is the oldest royal family in the world? 5. Is the butterfly a dainty eater? 6. What is a peccadillo? 7. What silent and beautiful bird is supposed to burst into song just before its death? 8. What is a nuance? 9. Who was known as The Sage Concord? of 10. gary What does the mean? right of an- The story thus far: After graduating from West Point as a second lieutenant Robert Scott wins his wings at Kelly Field and takes up pursuit flying. When the war breaks out he is an instructor in California and told he is too old for combat flying. He appeals to several Generals for a chance to fly a combat plane and Anally the opportunity comes. He flies a bomber to India, where he becomes a ferry pilot, but this does not appeal to him. He visits General and Is promised a Kittyhawk, and when he gets it he becomes a one man air force over Burma, doing much damage to the Japs on many a lone mission. One day he gets orders to report to Gen. Chennault in Kunming. L. Scoff top-cov- dive-bomber- 0 lt anti-aircra- ft The Answers Because armor. 1. the color of his of, 2. President Johnson. 3. The taking for granted of the point to be proved. 4. The Japanese, dating from 660 B. C. 5. No; it consumes the equal of half of its weight each day. 6. A slight offense. 7. The swan. 8. A shade of difference; a subtle variation. 9. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 10. The right of angary, which Is both a constitutional and international law, allows any belligerent or neutral nation, either in time of peace or war, to seize foreign ships and materials within its territory, subject to adequate compensation. mspm PIf dive-bombin- twin-engi- :V w Kelps Loosen up Phlegm Due to '"4 Up all night with , coughing spasms those dreadful that come with colds ...Why dont you try the Vicks VapoRub , steam treatment? A Just put a good spoonful of VapoRub in a bowl of boiling water . . . well-know- n . breathe in the vapors. Grand relief comes with every breath you take, as the soothing medicated vapors penetrate into the upper bronchial tubes. How wonder fully VapoRub helps loosen phlegm, cold-irritat- ease coughing, relieve upper bronchial irritation . . . inviting the restful sleep need so much. Time-testeyou home-provVapoRub is the best known home remedy a a a mis-erifor relieving of colds. Try itl V VapoRub d, a ed es For relief from the torture of simple Piles, PAZO ointment ha9 been famous for more than thirty years. Here's why: First, PAZO ointment soothes inflamed areas, relieves pain and itching. Second, PAZO ointment lubricates hardened, dried parts helps prevent cracking and soreness. Third, PAZO ointment tends to reduce swelling and check bleeding. Fourth, it's easy to use. PAZO oint menls perforated Pile Pipe makes ap plication simple, thorough. Your doctor can tell you about PAZO ointment. yBEHEEEME twin-engine- d Thus was the 23rd Fighter Group organized, initiated, and activated in combat. When I took over things at Kunming there were three fighter squadrons and one headquarters squadron. Major Tex Hill had one squadron at Hengyang, China, and with him were such deputy leaders as Maj. .Gil Bright, Maj. Johnny Alison, and Capt. Ajax Baumler. Maj. Ed Rector had another squadron at Kweilin with Capt. Charlie Sawyer for his assistant in leadership. These outlying stations are about five hundred miles in the direction of Japan from our headquarters on the plateau of Yunnan at Kunming. The third unit was the squadron under Maj. Frank Schiel, who was very busy training the most junior members of this new fighter group in the way of fighter aviation. I got the Group headquarters to running and stood by for orders to begin leading the fighter forces in action to the East. On July 10, Tex Hill led a small flight, including Baumler, Alison, Lieut. Lee Minor, and Lieut. Elias, up on the Yangtse. Their prime job was to escort a few medium bombers against the docks of Hankow. This objective of mission with our China force was never all we considered to be the duty of our fighters, for if any other target presented itself after the bombers were on the way home, wed have some fun. Tex Hill led his flight along with the bombers, who were led by Col. C. V. Haynes. After the bombs had been released and were heading back for the base with their bomb-ba- y doors closed, Tex called for an attack by the fighters on the enemy shipping in the river. One of the bomber pilots said that Tex rolled his ship over from sixteen thousand feet and streaked down for the Jap gunboats below. The little gunboats were shooting everything they had at the American fighters but that, I've learned since, was what Hill liked. Tex Hills guns were firing even as he pulled out right on the water, and they swept the decks of the enemy gunboats. The bomber pilot said that as the fighter ships would turn low to the water and come in, each concentrating on one of the Little Jap warships, he could see the six lines of tracers cutting across the water. At long range they seemed to meet out in front of the fighter and then fan out and cover the deck of the target. Then, as the speed of the fighter narrowed the range, the point where the fire crossed the zero or convergence point of the guns was right at the waterline of the Jap boat, and it must have knocked in a hole that .rippled the boat right away. On he second attack one of these was sinking and on fire. Hills four fighters sank all four of the little metal gunboats. Next day, on another flight such as th.s cnc, Hill led eight fighters, four with wing bombs, for dive- 5 Irritable, depressed moods are often related to constipation. Take Natures Remedy (NR Tablets). Contains no chemicals, no minerals, no phenol derivatives. NR Tablets are different act different. Purely vegetable a combination of 10 vegetable ingredients formulated over 60 years ago. Uncoated or candy coated, their action is dependable, thorough, yet gentle, as millions of NRs have proved. Get a 25ji box today or larger economy size. All druggists. Caution: Take only as directed. ... i TOMORROW NR LAXATIVE LE , ALRIGHT MiMmw a Ate J' 0 III WORD SUGGESTION FOR ACID INDIGESTIO- N- SAVE YOUR SCRAP TO HELP GAIN ICTORY C!d R1ETAL, RAGS, RUBBER and PAPER fifty-calib- gun-ooa- Major Ed Rector, AVG ace and squadron commanding officer, who took heavy toll of the Japs. into a transport to begin their long trip home to the U. S. A. They called to me as they got aboard and I saw Bob Neal, their greatest ace, wave from the door as he stepped in. We were on our own now, except for the five AVG veterans who had accepted induction ground-mein China, and the thirty-od- d n. As the transport got away and the dust settled down, I climbed out of my fighter and looked around at the country. I could but marvel at the geographical situation. Colonel Cooper and I Cooper had been in the movie production business used to discuss the peculiar beauty of the place, and hed say that it would make the greatest location in the world for a moving picture. It was a flat, tableland country, and over the ages it must have been under water. From the level plain rose vertical, rocky hills, like These were honeystalagmites. combed with caves where water, when they were submerged, must have dissolved the limestone that had been in the pockets. Evidently the glacier period had planed the valley flat as the glacier moved South, but the jagged rocks had withstood the pressure. Then, as the glacier melted, the caves had formed under water. Now the gray rock pointed pinnacles of lava-lik- e straight towards the heavens. These to sentinels gave the valley an eery appearance that always subdued my general feeling of cheerfulness. As long as I went to Kweilin, I dreaded the extra nervous tension that I knew it would produce. Add to this a summer temperature of over 101) degrees, a humidity of almost 100 per cent and a fine powdery dust that gagged you, and you can realize that Kweilin was not a summer resort. There was just the single runway for the planes, cut there between those silent needles of stone. We had operations office in one of the natural caves, and the radio set in another. As I climbed out of my I could see neither. Here in Kweilin I first had explained to me the warning system on which we depended. It was of course a working dream that General Chennault had developed. Many times it has saved our fighter force in China, and without it our chances there against the Japanese would have been hopeless. It seems that the General had always known that Japan was our When he was renatural enemy tired from the Air Corps, instead of staying on his farm in Waterproof, Louisiana, for the rest of his life and living an easy life shooting ducks and fishing, he had gone to China. Here, in a fugged exist- air-rai- - d By Ruth Wyeth Spears cut and assemble the wheelbarrow and a complete list of materials required are included. Ask for pattern 253 and enclose 13 centa with name and address, direct to: WNU RELEASE bombing Nanehang. While these four went down with their bombs. Hill was to stay aloft with the other four to act as just in case some Zeros tried to surprise the Ajax Baumler said that he saw the whole thing: Johnny Petack dove for his target, one of the gunboats on the lake, but as his bomb hit the boat the was seen to explode, evidently hit by ground-fire- . Ajax followed the burning ship almost to the ground and saw it strike in a rice paddy near a Buddhist temple. So Petack, one of the AVG who had stayed for the extra two weeks, was killed in action. Its peculiar CHAPTER XV how a man could fight all through These were led by five of the best those last nine months and then go shot. men of the AVG, and there was one down from a lucky great that only the John Petack had remained for the General and the AVG could have purpose of training the new pilots arranged: Two squadrons of these and his job was that of airdrome Flying Tigers had agreed to stay defense. He was killed on this ofbehind for a two weeks period to fensive mission. It was one that he help the newly formed 23rd Fighter could have refused with honor; inGroup. I think this gesture by those stead, he had volunteered for this g men such as Bob Neal, Charley flight and had been in carrying it out It was the killed Frank Bond, George T. Burgard, Lawlor, John E. Petack, Jim How- most inspiring thing he could have ard, and others who were suffering done. I kept sweating out the organizafrom combat fatigue and ill health, was one of the bravest and most tion of the Group, and finally on July incidents of this war. 17, I received orders from the General to proceed to Kweilin area and In the two weeks that they remained, two of them gave their lives, and take charge of fighter operations. I their sacrifice was beyond the call know my heart nearly beat my ribs of mere duty. These men, with those to pieces, for I was at last being orfive who stayed with us to lead our dered to go out and lead the fighting. Just as I landed on this airHill, Rector, Schiel, squadrons Bright and Sawyer and the AVG drome in the Kwansi province I radio, engineering, armament, and saw the remainder of the AVG get ground personnel, were our backWe of bone and our inspiration. the 23rd Fighter Group salute you. That Fourth of July, as the overconfident enemy ships came in over Kweilin, they brought a hew fighter that was supposed to murder us. They came in doing arrogant acrobatics, expecting to strafe the Chinese civilians in the city without opposition. General ; Chennault watched them with field cave and glasses from outside the called directions to Bob Neal, Ed Rector, and Tex Hill, who were sitting with their ships in the sun' thouhigh overhead, at twenty-on- e sand. At his radio order of Take em, the newly formed 23rd with the AVG attached dropped down and massacred the Japs. There were soon thirteen wrecked Zeros and new around the field for the Chinese to celebrate over. Chen-nau- Ornament for Lawn or Appliqua ffi LT C-1?D- p. cw p-- o-- - O. o- - (V. a Jolly Toy, Duck Design Makes I ASK AS ence, he had told his story to the With the approval Generalissimo. ' of high Chinese officials he had built this net, had caused to be constructed many strategic air-- I dromes in China, and had preached the doctrine of pursuit aviation. The warning net is of course se- cret and cannot be discussed in detail. But if you imagine two concentric circles, one with a radius of one hundred kilometers and the other of two hundred kilometers, around each of most of the fields and large cities in Free China, you have s general picture. In these circles are thousands of reporting stations some within the enemy lines, some right on the enemy fields themselves. There may be a coolie sitting on a city wall watching for airplanes or listening for engine noise and reporting it with a visual signaL There may be a mandarin in a watch tower; a soldier in a field with a walkie-talki- e radio. All reports finally get in to the outer circle, where some of the information is refil- tered, and finally it goes to the plot- d in our cave or opera- tions shack. There Chinese interpreters get the reports and move little pin flags along the map ot China and we know where every enemy ship is in our territory and can see where ours are. The net works so efficiently in certain areas that we don't take off until the Japs are within the circle; this gives us more fuel with which to fight. When the Japs come we know at what altitude they are approaching and from exactly what direction. We know their speed and their num- bers. Its kind of a joke, too. that in several places we know when the Japanese roll their ships from their hangars or revetments, when they start their engines, and when they take off. Also it not only works for the obvious purpose of defense but has permitted us in many cases to locate lost pilots, for the navigation facilities in China are not the I AAA "PHIS wheelbarrow is easy to make from scraps of lumber. The wheel is cut out of wood and leld in place with a bolt. You nay be able to salvage a metal zheel from some discarded toy. The ducks are cut out of plywood with a jig saw or by hand with a loping saw. They are then nailed o the sides of the wheelbarrow and die fun of painting and stenciling legins. You just trace the pattern )n the wood and follow the color ihart. On your favorite N. B. C. ptatian every Saturday mommy j Pattern gives an actual-sizjutting and painting pattern for the large wheelbarrow ducks and for smaller ducks to be used for lawn ornaments or applique Jesigns. Large diagrams showing how to NOTE ting-boar- 258 e 9:00 A. M.f M. W. T. KIDO KGIR KSEI KDYL KTFI KOB KOA 8:00 A. KFI M-- , P. W. T. KPO KHQ Columbus Tall, Dignified, Redheaded, Says Prof. Relief At Last Christopher Columbus was a redhead until middle age, but his hair had turned white by the time he made his voyage to America in 1492. Thats the opinion of Professor Daniel Sargeant of Haverford university, after exhaustive research into the life of the noted explorer. Columbus was tall and of dignified mien, with red hair and beard, a long ruddy face, clear gray eyes and acquiline nose. He evinced a taste for yellow in beads and for crimson in caps, cloaks and shoes, Professor Sargeant said. For Your Cough Creomulslon relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in--. flamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the un- derstandmg you must like the way It quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. well-buil- t, worlds best Of course the locating of lost, friendly ships took another element besides the warning net. It required the existence of intelligent radio operators who knew the country and had common sense. These men, like Richardson, Mihalko, Miller, and Sasser, with others, stayed out there with us, and if you count the AVG aces as the first factor that permitted us to carry on in a manner that didnt discredit the Flying Tigers, then these men who helped us by radio were the close second factor. Suppose that one of our pilots, returning from a flight, loses his position on his map because of a cross-winbecause of unfamiharity with the country, because of his own stupidity which we call a "short cirs cuit between the or just because the maps of China are very inaccurate. In many such instances we would have lost an airplane worth 'virtually millions in our combat zone, and perhaps the pilot too. The pilot who is lost calls the radio station that he thinks is closest to him, and in code tells the trouble. The radioman tells him to circle the next town he passes for a few minutes. Down in that town, marked on his map with an unknown Chinese character, some member of this warning net sees him and re- ports one 0 circling. In a few minutes the radio operator gets the report and tells the pilot: Youre reported over Lufeng fly fifty-eigdegrees at two hundred miles an hour and well have supper ready weve got grits tonight yeah. One amusing but near-tragi- c instance of this orientation by means of the net happened about the time the AVG induction board came to China. Another fight- er group commander had waited for several days over in India to come into China with a large flight of ls. He finally came over on a transport and eventually got tired of waiting for the fighters. He didnt know that the weather was very bad in Burma, and that the monsoon winds from the South could take them so far off course in a few minutes that the entire flight might easily get lost. After a long wait he came back to Assam in the transport and led his pilots towards Kunming. First of all, he corrected too much for the southerly wind, and in a very short time he was fifty miles South of his course and near two Japanese His unbashful deputy leadfields. ers herded him to the North. And then the monsoon wind from out the Indian Ocean began to work on his navigation, and in another hour he was lost far to the North of the course. Night was falling, and the hills of North China were rising threateningly. Then the net, if it hadnt justified its existence long before, would have begun to pay for itself. The leader called Kunming, and the operator there, a tough old former Navy man, heard him and gave the instrucCircle the first town you tions: see. The group commander began to argue at once said he didnt have enough gas to waste circling; talked him but the AVG radio-ma- n into doing it Then the net reported, and Kunming operator said, Youre over Yangpi fly 240 degrees for twenty minutes and youT see the lake Kunming is on. y CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis I'd Have Been a Goner . . ' H X V' iTp; I jv 'Y I rju!' C - . ; & ' head-phone- ' J P-4- E 1XO BE CONTINUED) $ j STAFF SERGEANT JOHN SCHUSTER, infantryman from Stelton, New Jersey j Hit the ditch, hoys; here come the Jerries . Like the rest of the I dove for the nearest hedgerow in a Normandy field on the road to St. Lo. The planes dumped their bombs along the road. Only one missed, and that one hit near me. I was badly men low-flyin- g wounded by the shell fragments and the next thing I knew I was in an evacuation hospital and an Army nurse was giving me blood plasma. If it hadnt been for that Id have been a goner. I m an old hand at plasma for Ive had it twenty times. Now they re giving me whole-blootransfusions. There were Army nurses with me all the time and, tired as many of them were, time with us wounded men , helping they d spend their to bring us back to where we thought things were really worth fighting for. We need all the nurses we can get. If you can, join the Army Nurse Corps. ALL Women Can Help! If you are untrained take a home nursing or nurses aide course. If you are a senior cadet nurse serve your final six months in an Army liospitaL If you are a registered nurse join the Army Nurse Corps. You may mean the difference between life and death to our wounded men. Visit or write your local Red Cross chapter for full information and application blank. Or communicate with the Surgeon General, U. S. Army, Washington 25, D. C. d off-dut- y NURSES ARE NEEDED NOW! Please send me information on how to hc!p the U. 5. Army Nurse Corps to care for our wounded soldiers I am a registered nurse I am a senior cadet nurse am untrained but want to learn I Q Name. Address. .State. City Fill out this coupon and send it to the Surgeon General. U. S. Army Washington 23 D. C or to your local Red Cross Recruitment Committee RPB-SA-- LJ 5 ARfA VI jjTwURSE CORPS t |