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Show UTAH THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, EE iUIEEEJ ipimdedily nrjc.MM THE CHEERFUL CHERUB --- Looking operational; the rest were under repair. Ill never forget our closest one, said Master Sergeant Red Varner, We got the Swooses crew chief. notice a and halfs minute a just that the Japs were coming. Now the General could have stepped down into a foxhole and been perfectly safe there, watching the Japs pound the field. But not our General he wanted to save that plane, and we had to run like hell to jump in, the General leading everybody, slam the doors, and lam out of there. We had to take off down wind, which was bad, missing a little hill by a lot less than 100 feet. We wouldnt have missed it if it hadnt CHAPTER XXII been for those smart trees they have Because the real truth is, he on New Guinea growing on top of said, our present Army fighters dont climb fast enough, or high enough and they dont have the range. Every Jap knows this, if the people back home dont. Maybe it would hurt their morale to find it out, but Im only thinking of the morale of my pilots. Thats why he wanted tQ come home. Poor guy. P-3- 9 Meanwhile Florida played on in the sunshine, said Margo, and I was trying to write letters to some of the other girls we knew whose husbands would never come back. Some of the letters I wanted to write I couldnt. For a while I had been on exhibition because my husband was supposed to be dead in Java, and theyd look at me and groan with patriotic sympathy, and then get to work planning the next golf tournament. Id look at those strong, healthy young golf professionals, coaching flabby men on the putting greens, and wonder why they werent in uniform. Only that was the wrong attitude; theyd tell you we need recreation now, more than ever, to keep our morale up during the war. I suppose it was true, but I kept wishing the weary boys in uniform I knew could be getting more of it, instead of these stagnant, contented men. There were some more names to be added to that list of letters, said Frank, but with us the feeling had It was wonderful to be changed. able at last to smash them back, as the fighters had done at Darwin. And from its base in North Australia, the old 19th Bombardment Group which included the 7th now was flying out over New Guinea and New Britain islands, landing heavy punches on them at Lae and and at Rabaul. Also the Japs were getting a healthy respect for the Forts. Not long after the Olympics, I eard Kobi Ishi had entered the Jap Air Force.' After that I thought of them all as Kobi Ishi, a pretty good diver with some fair tricks and a toothy smile, but nothing you cant handle if you train for it. Maybe theyre all fanatics, craving to die for the Emperor, but I remember a story the 19th told me in Australia. Six of our Forts were coming in over Rabaul to give the Japs a pasting when one lone Zero showed up. The six Forts were all brand-neE models, and the Japs had learned about them. The Forts continued in formation, but keeping their guns trained on the Zero. Now most fighter pilots, whether theyre American, Jap, or German, are nervous and quick like fox terriers. Theres no gap between thinking and acting, so you can almost watch a fighter plane and read its pilots mind. Thats how it was with this little Jap. He starts in, thinking heres a chance to pick off a Fort, and then suddenly he sees all those guns and thinks how sweet and cute his little almond-eye- d geisha is back home, and how nice it would be to get back to her, so about half a mile away he pulls out in a turn, out of range, and continues parallel with the six Forts, thinking it over. Well, the little geisha finally wins out over the Emperor, because he doesnt go in, but he thumbs his nose at them. In early April Port Moresby on New Guinea was our problem child. Our air base there was a single hewn landing strip with no adequate antiaircraft guns. We were building dispersal fields, but they werent done yet, so that the aircraft had to be lined up along the side of that gravel runway and of course were slow in getting off, which made it a setup for the Japs. Also, our equipment was flown by green youngsters from the States. The big problem was supply. Moresby is as far from Melbourne as Los Angeles is from Pittsburgh. Then at every state line the Australian railroad changes gauges, so all the freight cars had to be unloaded. We had about a dozen to bring supplies in over the water from the end of the railroad at Townsville, but only about four of these were Sala-mau- a, w , jungle-- B-2- The cannibal head hunters who lived in the jungle used to stalk the tame village natives. that hill the most intelligent ones Ive ever seen. Because they saw us coming and ducked. I happened to be looking out and saw them. Then I looked back, and bombs were already breaking on the field right in the dust of our take-of- f. The Colonel here, who of course was doing the piloting, pulled a smart one. The Japs were right on top of us, so he hugged the at pe.rLIe living kere. on to unknown ends TF ANY Hollywood movie lays an Aegg this year it will surely be a I I ss I I In different styles of clotke. eeck golden one, cause our movie moguls have cooked up the most elaborate, ambitious, and expensive program in the history of this industry, is known as The period 1943-4- 4 the Year of the Big Take in movie circles. Box office returns hit a new high, exceeding even producers wildest nightmares, jj there ever was a time when movie men could get away with a siapjash uc now tjiat time But true to yevr. 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Darryl Zanuck, never one to do anything by halves, wiped all B pic- tures off the slate and came up Wilson and with two super-film- s which The Keys of the Kingdom top anything- before- attempted in casts, size, outlay, and "The Keys of the Kingdom is the logical Academy award rival to since it is in black and Wilson, white and the latter in technicolor, which makes both films eligible for the Oscar. also has an cast, although Gregory Peck and Rosa Stradner, who play the most important roles, have each had but one previous Hollywood film experience. But theyve both had fine theatrical training. In Lighter Vein With these two films as a sample, and the Bs thrown into the discard, Twentieths staff of producers has had some reorganizing to do, but quick. The upshot is a program leanextravaing heavily on musicals gant musicals that will rival the biggest attractions on Broadway. has much the same idea. Its going to be a struggle in this era of to see whether William Perl-bermusical can outdo Jack CumOr mings Little Bit of Heaven. whether The Ziegfeld Follies, into which Arthur Freed has thrown the two top dancing men of the world today Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly plus Fanny Brice, Jimmy Durante, - Used Cars Trailers - big-na- The-Key- s all-st- SCHOOLS ar propellers went hell for breakfast, wiggling in and out of gullies hardly 40 feet off the ground, and then out over the sea, where we could see a cloud cover to hide in. We had all kinds of rank aboard that day Australian Air Force generals and other visiting firemen. By May, though, said Frank, we began to get the situation in hand at Moresby. We got some dispersal fields back in the hills for our planes and an operational alarm net so now we can intercept, and also the Zeros run into an intense cross fire from the ground which sends them trailing off across the jungle on fire. So presently strafing is out, and we have only regular raids by Jap bombers pounding the field. Our fighters are getting better every day, and pretty soon theyre chasing them out over the coast, jettisoning their bombs, which whistle down harmlessly to tear up empty jungles. For a while we had a labor problem. The tame village natives wed hired to work on the field didnt like the bombs, and when the alarm sounded, instead of jumping into the foxholes theyd beat it into the jungle, and maybe not come back for a couple of days. However, this soon stopped, because the cannibal who lived in the jungle used to stalk them and chase them back, and as between the bombs and the the natives chose the bombs, so we got plenty of work done. By now we werent worried about Port Moresby. We had that in fair shape, and our bombers were going over almost every day to pound the Japs. But we were uneasy about the other shore of New Guinea. The Japs had already dug in at Lae and Salamaua suppose they came on down the line and put in an airfield at Buna, right opposite Moresby? They could cause us plep- We high-altitu- head-hunte- de rs head-hunter- s, unity A man doesnt know what distance means until he flies that end of the world," said Red, the crew chief, Remember the time we had to make a forced landing right in the middle of the place? Ill never forget, said Charlie, It was about the the bombardier. time of that Buna business. We had left Darwin, said Red, and were flying across the Australian desert headed for Cloncurry. We had umpty-um- p rank aboard, about sixteen in all General Royce, General Perrin, General Marquat, and some Australians Air Marshals they probably were and also Lyndon Johnson, a big lanky guy from Texas, a real Congressman, only now he was out inspecting this area as a Navy Lieutenant Commander, Well, were flying along over, this wilderness which looks like the rum- LAKE BARBER COLLEGE SALT An approved school. Fall term beginning Write for information. September. 170 Regent St. - Salt Lake City, Utah. Photographs Copied any size $3.00. Extra prints $1.00 each. Beautiful, natural oil Insure coloring $1.00. your pictures and send full color directions. Work returned C.O.D. in one week. Write if you need more information. FRANK BALL, 840 Ninth E. Str., Salt Lake. Work guaranteed; Buy War Savings Bonds Metro-Goldwyn-May- er super-productio- ns gs figuring then the Zeros couldnt dive on us without mash- ciate the tremendous importance of Howie, James Melton, Marion Bell, of air, land, and sea. into the the their own bush. Features. CLASSIFIED a wige ground ing ' All mercking our bomb- ty of trouble, intercepting ers on the way out and back. General Brett was particularly anxious, and wanted to move in and take Buna in May. There was noth- ing there then but a native village and an old Catholic mission. But Melbourne said no, because it would mean landing troops to defend our airdrome there. But the Air Force knew if the Japs ever got Buna it would take a first-claexpedition to get them out. Finally General Ralph Royce, who was General Bretts operations chief, flew out over northern New on a personal inspection of the whole coast, and sent to Mel-bourne a detailed report, endorsing field at Buna as vital to our fu- ture sir operations. Presently his reply came. In ref- -erence to his report on the es abhshment of a landing field at Buna, Melbourne headquarters commend- ed him for his initiative in making the reconnaissance, but found that owing to lack of facilities, it wasnt possible at this time. But this friendly little ground-ai- r argument over Buna was soon settled. The third week in July our reconnaissance spotted a Jap Naval task force moving toward the north coast of New Guinea, and now just off Rabaul. We werent sure where they were headed maybe around the island, to capture Moresby itself. We were taking no chances, so on July 24 General Brett hit them with everything he had, little as it was medium and light bombard- ment. Forts and obsolescent dive bombers. hours the But for twenty-fou- r fog closed in, hiding them. When it lifted they were sixty miles off Buna. Now we knew the Jap High Command was thinking in the same strategical terms as we were in the Air Force. Even though the weather gave us this very short time to pound them, we made them pay for their Buna landing. But still they could sneak a transport through during the night to put troops ashore. Had we had only a little infantry and artillery at Buna, they could have held them off, giving the Air Force a chance to pound their landing barges at dawn. But we didnt have, and when morning came their transport was steaming away empty. In only two days the enterprising little devils had chopped a landing strip out of the jungle. A few days later their fighters were rising off it to attack our bombers as they took off or returned to Moresby after pounding the Jap base at Rabaul, It took almost six months of hard fighting by both Australian and American infantry, down over the Owen Stanley range finally led by General MacArthur himself to clean the Japanese out. What we have now is real The ground forces know the vital importance of airfields, and I hope we in tke endless Of kvrran beinge HOLLYWOOD .WHITE THE STORY THUS FAR; Lieut. Col. Frank Kurtz, pilot of the Flying Fortress, tells of that fatal day The Swoose, when the. Japs struck In the Philippines, trilling eight of his men and demolish, lng Old 99, with many other Forte, be fore it could get off the ground. After escaping to Australia, what Is left of the 19th Bombardment Group flies to Java, where they help defend the island until It falls. U. 8. fliers evacuate to Aus trafla to carry on the war from there. The 19th Bombardment Group is back In business again, and Kurtz once more flies The Swoose." Buzz Wagner, hero of the Philippines, who has a desk Job and shows in Australia, steps into a his boys how to nip the Nips. Hov5tr&n$e Victor Moore, Mickey Rooney, and Red Skelton, can make a bigger lra!B. noise than Perlbergs State Fair, for which Richard Rodgers and Os- car Hammerstein have written mu- sic which Twentieth claims will Oklahoma. that sbio6, Say It With Music t Ira Gershwin Weil are responsible for the tunes in Where TOOTH CIU.0X and-Kur- Do We Go from Morrie Agnes De Mille, C. B.s talented niece, will do the dance routines. Metro has an answer to this in Music for Millions, in which Jose Ryskinds story of a I.turbi Here, To relieve distress of KONTELY 4-- F. andMargaraet OBrien are drawing cards. With Larry Adlers harmonica, Jimmy Durante and Hugh Herbert for laughs, how can it .lose? Warners have Hollywood Canteen, also Rhapsody in Blue,1 the story of George Gershwins life. New of Mexico Georgie Jessel is or Arizopled parts na, heading, we think, for this Clon- too. His Kitten on the Keys calls curry, only our arrival time goes for a hunk of stars. Includes Dick Haymes, Perry Como, and both by, and no Cloncurry. Harry, the navigator, begins to Benny Goodman and Jimmy Dorsey, check things, and discovers that his That Lubitsch Touch octant has gone out on him its like Ernst Lubitschs mam concern a sextant on a ship, only you use centers about Czarina, the saan air bubble instead of the horizon tiric which will be Tallulah comedy It wasnt Harrys fault the prism next. Charles Coburn was turning all right, but now he Bankheads . . een slSned to play the chan-cam- e ,s. could see the recorder wasnt. He ceor aso Vincent Price has a big of out the comup navigators Dragonwyck, the story of partment into the cockpit shaking Par Dutch patroons, is another d his head, and told Frank here what kitsch Gene ePi he that and no had Tierney idea happened where the Swoose was. You can Gregory Peck. Bette Davis ripens have her now, Major, he says. "The Corn Is Green. 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