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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH. UTAH Salt dpUJIEEEJS IE --i IPEKnnUBILY WJ!. 'Wtife .WHITE Worth It? Weight In Gold in Some Areas A few cents buys a packet of salt in this country. Its very abun- dance here makes it difficult for to realize its value to mankind. The fact is that salt is one Df the most precious products in the world, and in desert areas it Is literally worth its weight in gold. Intrinsically, it is even more valuable, for gold cannot buy health, but salt can maintain it. The famous traveller, A. Tschif-fel- y, who rode horseback from Buenos Aires to Washington, says that when journeying in desert regions, acting on the advice of natives, he always carried a bottle Df lemon juice mixed with salt water to save him from fatigue. us W.N.U.TEATUREf THE STORY THUS FAR: Lieut CoL Frank Kurtz, pilot of Flying Fortress The Swoose, teUs of that fatal day when the Japs struck In the Philippine, killing eight of his men and demolish tag Old 99, with many other Forts, before it could get off the ground. After escaping to Australia, what is left of the 19th Bombardment Group files to Java, where they defend the island until It falls. U. S. fliers evacuate to Austra 11a to carry on the war from there. From Its base In North Australia the 19th, plus the 7th, paste New Guinea and New Britain islands. Red Varner, Swoose crew chief, tells of a close call, with the gen eral aboard. He had to bug the ground to prevent being But of course his figures could be patrolling carrier fighter will defend Released by Western Newspaper Union. a little out, or maybe the wind drift its mother ship. Because every carrierwould change you never know. The -based once knows that fighter Two of the nations most widely Pacific is too big a place to take his carrier is hit and the waves beheralded civilian heavyweights were chances in, as Eddie Rickenbackers gin to sweep over that long flight at Wrigley field in Chiin display party found out. So after wed been deck, and one end of her hoists up in out five hours we got the island on the air, then hes out in the big sky sago a couple of weeks ago and the radio, and asked them to give by his lonesome no pontoons, noth- proved one thing there is no need us searchlights, just so we wouldnt ing to do but sink into the sea when for Sgt. Joe Louis, current custodian miss their little pinpoint in the his tanks are dry. Those Zeros will Df the worlds championship, to go dawn. come screaming in to hit me from into serious training for the defense Wed flown without change of almost any cloud. Since I cant of his title. course for five hours. Now Harry make a bomb run, I must get away The Chicago debacle saw Joe took his final shots and we started quick! Baksi, a big, tough hulk, maul down the line to that island. Harry decision his way to a But now, over the interphones, had said six hours it took us just comes a shout over Lee anPaterson, Savold, theyve spotted five hours and n minutes. other carrier. I look and see it too. N. J., heavyweight. The victory CHAPTER XXIII The island was an atoll around a Then another! And now carried with it recognition of the God, it shallow basin where Navy PBY fly- cant be, but it is four! Itmy Illinois Athletic commission as makes us So the Major started out then on ing boats could The atoll is frantic we havent got something to light. duration heavyweight chaman ordinary problem, two feet above high tide at its high plunk through those smooth flight means until Louis, That pionship. trying to find this Cloncurry you fly point. On one side are labor con- decks into their builds the Conn, Pastor and the rest return. rooms, and engine so many minutes north, and then struction tents, a cantonment build- maybe blow a few square yards out We had figured Savold to win. Not east, and then south, and then west, ing for the tiny garrison, ack-acrugged of the bottom of their hulls! that we were particularly interested, and then, lengthening your time, searchlights, and even a tiny movie Only we now grow cold, because but after all it was a fight supnorth again, and so on. We kept theater. On the other side is the where are the escorting fighters? We posedly of some consequence in the this up for quite a while, but no landing strip. Ill swear Harry must cant speed up, because they should current heavyweight picture. InciCloncurry, and our gas was running have not for the island, be up ahead, but show dentally, that picture is dark, forthey might out. Ill say this, though, the Major but fornavigated that landing strip itself up any place come leaping up a sure wasnt running short of advice. If light Truck As we climbed out of the Swoose, us out of this fleecy blanket of over- bidding and not very interesting to see. What with his cockpit full of air gen- the Patsenger Car island garrison asked us, very cast like dolphins jumping through erals of all nations, he had plenty of If Light Tractor Did you see anything? the foam. excited, if Power Plant Machine that, and every different kind you we said we hadnt, they went Down there are not only four Fighting can imagine they all knew just When It wasnt so long ago that Savold, off by themselves, whispering. I carriers but a gang of other stuff what to do. the to wanted know a loser, looked like a fine fighting was of what so I fog up, destroyers, at least fifteen The trouble was, every time he machine. But the machine appears asked their Colonel. Told him one and we cruisers, batthundering big paced from the nose of the plane were on an important mission our- tleship. Only as a bomber pilot Im to be quite well worn out. He had back to the tail, it would throw the selves had a ABOUT fixed on those carriers, enormous two good rounds against Baksi aboard plane out of balance, and Frank and what did he expect here at this brutes. Too enormous. Say, whats here would have to trim ship, in going on? Because Jap carriers are addition to all the questions he was atoll? little he devils you can hardly pack said. Trouble, Looking at answering. I guess this pacer had his little setup, I couldn't help think- forty planes into them, while these never thought of that. of those poor guys who were might hold double that, like our best By this time Frank had decided ing on Wake Island. But ones. Now wait. Maybe were too overwhelmed the only thing to do was to make a forced landing, so he was leaning the Colonel wasnt sure what kind of low and these just look big, but Using a combination of nafuv trouble was coming. He only knew no I glance at the altimeter and over the side trying to pick a spot. 'if ral and synthotic rubber in orders had mysteriously come put- were at 7,500. Now I was getting the post-wthe period may rejumps, ting the Navy So theyre ours! This big for even if the Major is the best patrol planes on sult in automobile parade tires that pihours, doubling shifts. of surface strength is us Amerilot in the business, a crash landing extra-lon-g will establish new high marks cans! I change course just the same is no joke, even for for longevity, according to a So Somewhere, somebody was certain30 degrees, swinging wide of this B. F. Goodrich chemical techI grabs this pacing guy and Now ly on the lookout for something, and nician. He cites the big milelook, I says to him. You may car- those poor devils had to sit on that big naval parade, because we can and atoll take returned from Goodrich no what it guess chances on age be. of their on rank air might ry plenty patrol. your shoulders, synthetic tires, made in 1940 but to this pilot youre just two hunIt didnt smell good. We gassed Even an American carrier fighter, and composed of both types dred pounds of ballast. So now you up and got out forty-fiv- e minutes lat- when he sees a bomber over his of rubber, as the basis for quit shifting around you get on er, just as it was cracking dawn. mother ship, should shoot first and his predictions about postask back there and sit down.' And I By now, the equatorial front had questions later. We dont want war tires. herded him back to the very tip end dissolved into a spotted ceiling. I to tangle with Grummans. Another We reason for tires for essenof the plane, and pushed him swing out wide and away, down, suppose wed been going an hour but tial At the beginwith transportations what a different feeling! parachute and all, on that little seat. when, through a hole in this ceiling, ning of last year, 85,168 school JOE LOUIS Well, I guess thats about all, Well, I pushed him down on the out suddenly popped four or five buses were in service transporting seat, and in about a minute there ships down on the wrinkled sea. But except on our homeward (trip, we the children over 1,383,091 4,258,788 and fifth but he wasnt cracked the was quite a bump, but still it was a I could only look at one of them. record the fourth miles of route. same who wide scored prefighter open. The old Swoose, with Now you think youre a man, perfect three-poilanding. In four n her seconds the Major had her rolling with everything under motors, made it from vious successes in Chicago against yet Brisbane to San Francisco in thirty-si- x Nate Bolden, Lem Franklin (twicer smooth. The ground was soft Im telling you I reacted control, to this one hours ten minutes flying time, and Lou Nova. Twenty-fiv- e tons is a lot of bomb- the way a fox terrier does to a rat. the Baksi is no graceful gazelle. He and only one of the original 35 on her wheels began to sink in Because it was a whopping aircraft er, Clark to Field aboTit six inches. But the see home ahead with his pointed jaw plods again. Major carrier! And after Java and the could sense this, so he gave gas stuck out belligerently and his huge to Philippines, say carrier to a pilot, When they said long distance lands flopping. But that all four engines to keep her and he steadies everything for his jaw is fash-one- d was from San and taxied her up to high rolling, calling of is and bomb tense of Francisco, as a violin granite run, course that didnt mean anything to to blows that would wilt impervious hard enough to hold her up. ground hoping his bombardier has thestring a man o;! hairi said Margo. We got out. With two brothesser stamina. Pretty soon Aus- lines of his bomb sight crossed on me, ers in the Air tralian ranchers begin crawling out its flight deck just over the one in bomSavold was in bad shape much o. engine bardment and Corps, one in pursuit, it he of holes in the ground I dont know room. Its like a bird dog pointing having been mauled in might be either one. Then I heard close time, where else they came from and quail, with his tail tip about the head and kidneys. quivering. right away Lieutenant Commander Only, after half a second, Im a Franks own voice saying Margo Baksi slammed lefts to the ELRSt body anc Johnson gets busy. He begins to man again and can think, can re- Because I hadnt heard any over- whisked short, right uppercuts seas operators, or any censor click- across the chin. From get acquainted. They tell him where member we havent any bombs. the sixth in, I knew he must be here in we are and some of them go off to Then comes reaction number ing on round the Pole big presskept the States. For the first time I could get a truck to take us into town two. No bombs, but what about the his advantage, until, at the , ing on the . cry . . Its nice to phone where we can telephone, and more carriers Lees nose was bleeding and the covering fighters? You talk be strong, but so much more fun to left side of his keep coming, and Johnson is shak- about a mother tiger for her fighting body was the color down let when you can, and I did. ing hands all around, and he comes young thats nothing to the of a boiled lobster. a way (THE back and tells us these are rea END) Relieved in 5 minutes or double Even Hymie Wiseman, Savolds folks the best darn folks in the money back stonach add eanaea painful, manager, couldnt think of a thing world, except maybe the folks in his doctor usually to say in defense of his medicnr known for own Texas. e rekef boy. He mwilcineshkethoaain looked like a preliminary boy. There bring comfort ina Listening to him made us all rf..W,utlTe' bck " retnrn can be no excuse except that he I homesick, said Frank, so I supStaifM; didnt or couldnt untrack himpose it was a good thing we go self. I swear that on his gym showsuddenly ordered back to the States at the end of the month. In a curiing he looked unbeatable. He never was better. ous way I was ready now to come. Id turned it down before, because Great Hearted Do You Hate HOT FLASHES? after we were thrown out of Java we all had that sick feeling trying If you suffer from hot flashes, feel He had one thing that reminded weak, nervous, a bit blue at tlmea-- ail to hold onto something that was onlookers of the Savold of due to the functional d yesterday. in of He had the same heart that he did slipping away spite everything peculiar to women try Ptakhams Vegetable Com-tyou did. when he disposed of Bolden, Frank-lirelieve such symptoms. But now it was different. In and Nova. When the last gong ruT,nkHenvreiKUlaLly7T.Plnam,B Australia and that island chain build up resistance sounded there were many who inagainst such annoying symptoms. above we were getting firmly set, sisted that he had gone over the nnichams Compound the way we should have been in the especially for women-n- lt crest, and that from now on hia ture and that's the kind help?l. Philippines and Java, and didnt fights would continue to grow less to buy! Follow label directions. have time. effective. Perhaps the pace Lee LYDIA LPIKKHAMS SS55 But wed had it now, and knew has always maintained finally how to use it. Best of all, we were caught up with him, depriving his finally getting some fighting equip-men- t, Zorie Corey hated herself for legs of speed and his fists of punch. not just production figures. being Savold made no excuses. I both meek and shy, yet she allowed old So even though we were was up soaking in shape, he said in his dressing plenty of heavy punches in the Admiral Duncan to rush her off to room, but the maritime chain, we were sure now we Hawaii to work on his very dull memoirs took some zip out of me. Iservice could at least hold them. But as concentrate too much on my cant of the n yet I hadnt dared hope for much war. What hapring wars, especially wften Im more. on that trip changed her from a training pened for a bigger battle. Only now I come to the thing docile, The fight wasnt a howling finari-cia- 1 unattractive frumpily pntle, girl .at last changed because into a ihad to see it before I that, and success, luring a $43,355 beaucourageous could believe surprisingly gate, which probably meansgross tiful young woman which even goes to the trln! T?ai?Sened out on that long SriWairPromoted at a deficit since how that meekness has its advantages. trail where weve al-Si net. It also took 60 aPer cent of the between proved sky StatS rUtl mbKCd 16135 spectators! ini fil? wand ?Australia- - It was VtSf SOOTHED 7,500 Look for Girl Overboard QUICKLY lettinS down for uniformed serv- tS?,JVe Whan hot, searing winds omen who were steppingstones VS,and whip your t0 Harrys naviga-Kearns guests. skin Us, lips may 3mdihS?lng CTack, bleed! To be truthful, the They need Mentholatum. somewhere ahead of customers It hnald (1) It stimulates local blood yery early in the morn-iJJ- J probably including Kearns nonpay! 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