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cation for your child costs about
$4,000? Your regular purchase OF
War Bonds will come in handy for
his or her education.
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United States Employment Service
office. unless the specific adper-
tisement indicates otherwise.
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"windmilling OF gas. | put
the wheels down and landed without
even looking to see which way the
wind was on the runway. | got the
ship parked without the engines dy-
ing, but the mechanics said thev
couldn't see any fuel in the tanks.
Rather excitedly | told my story.
We counted the holes in my ship
and then went over to count those in
one of the fighters that had been in
another battle that morning. Just
then Miller came dashing up in a
jeep to say that my air engage
ment had been reported over Lei
yang, sixty miles to the East, and
that confirmation had already come
in on my bomber. 1t had crashed
and burned eight miles from the
town. That noon | was SO excited
that I couldn't eat my lunch-I Just
sat there and relived the battle.
The sergeant came in to tell me
there were seventeen holes in my
ship, and two of them were from the
cannon of the Zeros-they were all
back near the tail; so maybe George
Paxton had been right, and maybe
the little bastards couldn't shoot.
Well, we were to find out during the
next ten days, very vividly.
few on to Hengyang that after
noon, and with Lieutenant Cluck in
a jeep we drove to Leiyang. We had
information that some of the crew
or passengers had jumped from the
bomber that morning and had been
captured, and we needed the prison
ers for information. With Chinese
guides we climbed on foot over the
rice paddles built on the hills, to-
wards the scene of the crashed
plane. Even before we'd covered
the ten or more miles that we hao
to walk, I saw evidence of the air.
plane. 1t seemed as if every coolie
that came towards us was carrying
q piece of the Jap plane. Near the
wreck / saw pieces of aluminium on
the houses covering holes in the
roofs, and saw some of the clothes
from the Jap airmen. These we ex-
amined, and found notebook, a map,
and a pistol. Later the soldiers al
the wreck gave us a chute and
some other things of military value.
When we came to the burned
bomber we found 1t pretty well scat
tered. The fabric was gone from
the parts that hadn't burned, but
the larger part was just a mass of
burned metal. I noticed that the
bodies of four Japs were lying where
they had fallen, and several days
later other visitors reported them
still in the same positions. / looked
in vain through the wreckage for a
Samurai sword, which is the souve-
mir we value most from the Jap.
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were uSea TO Ll1t. -. ss~.asa.sy.
just didn't know enough about aerial
combat TO worry much, OF I might
have gone on anyway. My six guns
would neutralize their four; I could
shoot the bomber down and dive into
the clouds before the Zeros could
get me.
I really don't know whether
thought it all out or not, for by now
was shooting. The tracers seemed
to go towards the enemy all right,
but now the Jap came into my sights
SO fast that ! don't know whether
they hit him then or not. I dove
right under the nose of the twin
engine ship, and I'll bet he was one
surprised pilot. I noted that he had
started to turn and maybe that
made me miss.
As the ship crossed over my head,
I pulled around in the tightest turn
have ever made, mushing down
in the clouds a good distance, and
that must have hid me momentarily
from the fighter escort. AS I came
out, the bomber was completing its
turn opposite to the way | had
turned, and moved in for a full
detection shot-a shot possible when
the other ship is crossing your path,
at 80 degrees. I had slowed down,
however, and had to reef in and
shoot at it from beneath and behind.
I got a good burst in here.
But now / saw tracers all around
me and felt couple of hits: the
Zeros we're shooting at me. One of
the enemy fighters dove in front of
me and I got snap shot at it from
a hundred yards. / dove under the
bomber again, and with the speed
that I gained, tried to make belly
attack; got in another shot burst
and felt some more hits on my
ship.
AS ! pulled up, the Zero that had
been shooting at me made the mis-
take of rolling at the top of his
climb, and I dove at him and gave
him about two hundred rounds with
a modification shot; know the burst
hit him badly. l shot at the other
fighter from long range as he tried
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DeuAotsoI

oldtimers declare there's always
an Easter storm-so Mondays rain
and high wind must have been it
blew down trees, electric lines
and started fire in an overturned
orooder house -. and just to keep
the record straight we'll mention that
1t rained the second Sunday after
Easter if it didn't rain the first :.
Biuffton's downtown district strange
ly quiet for an hour Saturday after
noon as business places closed from
3 to 4 as a mark of respect to the
memory of President Roosevelt :.
and this is opera week in Cleveland
which used to be high spot of the
year for a lot of Bluffton music
fans, when cars were younger and
gas was plentiful and speaking
of gas, there's an extra ration for
victory gardeners, if you are a
gardener who really gardens and
you need transportation to get to
your garden . and George Hacker
of Cleveland, former Bluffton man
had a happy birthday last Saturday,
we are sure, since he received
years subscription to the Bluffton
News as present in honor of the
occasion looks like happy days
are coming back again-at least
clothes pins have been added to un-
der the counter stocks that stores
here keep for regular customers
but what we said about clothes pins
doesn't apply to telephones-we
heard the other day there's a waiting
list of more than 40 at the central
office here which looks like a lot of
conversation will be indefinitely de-
layed and here in the middle
of April is open season for mush-
rooms-never recall seeing it this
early-mushroom hunters thick in
the woods last Sunday reminded us
of the first day of pheasant season
last fall-and Harley Reichenbach
who farms for Steiner Sisters north
west of town topped the list with
I'll luscious spring mushrooms in
one day last week.
Even tho it arrives a month late,
the Bluffton News is more than well
come at her mission station in
French West Africa, writes Gather
inc Gratz who says that it is read
"from cover to cover-and then i
read it all over again." The Bluff
ton missionary is located in the in
terror of Africa not far from the
tabled Timbuctoo region. She is ex-
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Well, the lost leader looked at his
map and still couldn't see how he
was North of the course and really
past his destination. So he began
to argue again. The old Navy op-
orator stood the pickering as long
as he could; then he took over"
With the initiative he had devel-
oped, he gave off some of the most
classic advice that I've ever heard,
and he gave it straight from the
shoulder.
"Goddamit," he called, "who the
hell's lost, you or me? Now you fly
the course I'm telling you and wei
meet you."
And so another man of the Occi-
dent failed to change the East, and
in failing learned little and be-
came little more like the East. 1t
saved twenty-five airplanes.
People have asked me what made
me able to shoot down my first
Jap, and probably they expected me
to say that I had practised on tow
targets until l could put every shot
in the black. Or that | had been
to all the schools from Leavenworth
to Mount Holyoke, and had learned
tactics. Or perhaps that | was bet
ter at plotting than the Jap. | must
have disappointed them. For if any
one thing more than another enabled
me to meet the japanese fighter pi-
lots in the air and shoot them down
while | escaped, it was an American
girl.
First of all, I don't know exactly
what democracy is, or the real, COM
nonsense meaning of a republic.
But as we used to talk things over
in China, we all used to agree that
we were fighting for The American
Girl. She to US was America, De-
mocracy. Coca Colas, Hamburgers,
Clean Places to Sleep, or The Amer
lean Way of Life.
To hurriedly explain this theory,
let me say that | learned to fly as
anybody else did-with an instructor
in a flying school, That is, learned
to take trainer off and to land it.
But to correct this, | learned to be
a combat pilot by flying all over the
Western Hemisphere to see an
American Girl. I went from every
State in the Union to Georgia to see
her. I went from South America to
Panama to see the same girl. I
went from Central America to the
Canal Zone to see her. All on gov
ernment missions certainly, but that
mission was more to develop myself
into being pilot who could navigate
over the world, or fly instruments
when had to, or fly at night, than
it was to carry out the routine flight
that I was on. | always imagined
that my sole duty was to get
through with the ship safely. I knew
that If could get through in peace
time could get through in war.
Then if I could fly the ship as an
expert, I would only have to point
the guns at the right place and the
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CHAPTER 1: Scott's early experiences
with gliders and sirpianes. He goes to
Ft Mcpherson and enlists in the regular
army as private.
CHAPTER III: Scott wins the West
Point competitive exam and gets fur
Tough before reporting. He Is graduated
as a second lieutenant of infantry and
goes to Europe. which he tours on
motorcycle. He sells his motorcycle and
arrives at Randolph Field. Texas.
CHAPTER III: Scott makes his first
solo flight. Drives 1000 miles to Georgia
over every weekend to see his girl. Scott
is nov. graduated from Kelly Field and
has wings pinned on his chest Ordered
to report to Hawaii but wanting to get
married he lays his plight before the
General and is ordered TO report at
Mitchell Field N Y. instead.
CHAPTER Nv: En- route to New York
Scott is stopped by police who mistake
him for a bandit lie carries the mail
for. Uncle Sam In order to gain more
flying time. and gets married.
CHAPTER v: The wat edges closer
and he is farther than ever from combat
for combat flying. and after December Z.
l941. he begins writing Generals all over
the country for a chance to fly fighter
plane.
CHAPTER VI: Scott solos q Flying
Fortress for the first time and makes
twenty practice landings. He leaves for
India from a Florida point.
CHAPTER VII: Easter Sunday In At
rica. They fly along the Arabian coast
and land at Karachi. India. covering
l2.000 miles In eight days
CHAPTER VIII: Col Haynes orders
the group to report at base In Eastern
Assam. on the India-Burma border.
CHAPTER TX: Burma is falling into
the hands of the Japs. Flying over
bombed and burned Chinese towns they
land at Schwebo. Scott meets General
Stilwen and his party.
CHAPTER X: Scott's group carries
refugees out of Burma. heavily overload
ing the planes. He pays q visit 10 Gen.
Chennault and tells him he is a fighter
pilot and not q ferry pilot and is prom
ised the next P-40 that arrives from
Africa.
CHAPTER xI: Open season on Japs-
the big adventure Is near. Scott gets
his first japan army bomber on the
ground. He burns up some Jap trucks
and a fuel dump.
CHAPTER XII: Scott goes on some
strafng missions with his "Old Ex-
terminator." as he has now nicknamed
his Kittyhayk. and cuts Jap battalion
TO bits.
CHAPTER XIII: The AVG are told
they are to be inducted into the u. 8.
army. Scott returns to India and con.
tinues his single ship raids on the Japs.
He Is now known back in the States ~
'the one man air force"
CHAPTER XIV: Col. Haynes IL moved
TO China to head the bomber command
under Gen. Chennsuft and Scott Ii left
alone as commanding officer Of the Ferry
Command. Scott is ordered 10 report TO
Gen. Chennault In Running. China. as
commanding officer Of the 23rd Fighter
Group.
CHAPTER XIV: Col Scott Is ordered
10 proceed to the Kweilin area to take
charge of fighter operations.
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PACE SEVEN

Gently graduated from the San An
gelo, Texas, Army Air Forces Bonn
bardier-Navigator school and is now
commissioned second lieutenant and
expecting assignment soon.
Mrs. Elizabeth Schoumatoff, the
artist who was sketching President
Roosevelt when he was stricken fat
ally last Thursday lives in Locust
Valley, N. Y, which is also the home
town of Mrs. Alan Wolfe, the form
er Grace Radebaugh of Bluffton.
Mrs. Schoumatoff, a well known ar
tist, had sketched the President on
several previous occasions. She is a
native of Russia and came to the
United States in 1917 with her hus-
band Leo Schoumatoff who was sent
to Washington as representative
of the Kerensky Government. Her
brother, Andrei Avinoff is curator of
the Carnegie Museum at Pittsburgh.
Coincident with the drive for
clothing for war torn areas, the Ohio
Cutting room on the College campus
operated by volunteers from four
Mennonite churches in this district
is becoming increasingly busy. On
Monday a force of % women cut
1,200 yards of material into child
ren's clothing and mems shirts for
foreign relief. These garments, after
being cut out are sent to societies of
various Mennonite churches thru the
Middle West for sewing. Also here
was a delegation of women from
Archbold with 100 yards of material
to be cut for sewing by their society.
Both in Uncle Sans Navy, James
Gratz, watertender third class, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Gratz met
his uncle Hershel Moser, seaman
first class in an unidentified port in
the South Pacific area, according to
word received here. On different
ships located for some time in that
area, the two navy men had ex-
changed greetings on several occa-
sions but never had an opportunity
of meeting until both ships were in
port at the same time.
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Mr.. and Mrs. p. c. Solomon are Wis
iting Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Pennington
and daughter in Wisconsin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellie Gierhart, Pfc.
Ronald Dunlap, Mrs. Dunlap and dau-
ghter Shirley were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Truax
and family.
Mrs. Eta Yant was Saturday dim
ner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hart
man and family.
Mrs. Donald Michael entertained
the members of the Leisure Hour club
at her home on Tuesday evening.
The Win-A- Couple class of the
Methodist church had a covered dish
dinner Sunday evening in the church
basement. Present were Rev. and
Mrs. d. C. Chiles, Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Herr, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Herr, Mr.. and
Mrs. Donald Michael, Mr.. and Mrs.
Kenneth Gierhart and son Jerry, Mr..
and Mrs. Ray Zimmerman and dau-
ghter Wilma, Mr.. and Mrs. Russell
Augsburger Of Waynesieid.
Mrs. Charles Hall spent the past
week in Dayton with her mother who
is reported seriously i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Anderson and
daughter Karen, Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Matter and daughter Carolyn of Bluff
ton were Sunday dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Ed Cook and Mrs. VIM.
Weick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Murphy of
Scott spent the week end with Mrs.
Nettie Young.
Mrs. Lille Anderson spent tie week
end with Mrs. Margaret Yant and son
Dickie at Lima.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Ludwig and
family of Cincinnati were week end
visitors of Mrs. Nina AugsbGrger and
Miss Louise Schaublin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Roberts Of Lii
ma We're recent visitors of Mrs. Dora
Roberts.
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the P40.
a head-on run. But the clouds were
worrying the Japs-they seemed to
have trouble seeing me. As my
dive at the Zero built my speed up,
turned towards the bomber again;
it saw me and started a turn to
the right. ] snapped short head-on
shot, and before I got to the enemy
ship, tossed caution to the winds
and made hundred and eighty de-
gree turn-the Jap was right in
front of my guns and was already
shooting. held the trigger down
and saw the tracers hit the big wing,
the fuselage, and saw the glass
stream from the canopy. just
squeezed the trigger and "froze" as
the bomber seemed to come back
towards me.
As I drew up to less than hum
dred yards the big red spots on the
wing grew wider and wider apart,
and I saw pieces come from the
left engine. ! nearly rammed the
enemy-I still don't see how I
missed the radio antenna pole be-
hind the glass canopy; I could see
the guns waving to and fro, and
they shot at me. -r-e-as- ,4s----~.--'.
But the bomber was going down.
| didn't pull up as went past him
this time, but dove steeply. When !
came out of the dive l looked back
for the Zeros but they were not to
be seen. Above and behind me, the
bomber was spinning slowly in
flames, the black smoke making
spiral above the clouds-I saw it
go into the clouds as ! mushed
through in my pullout. | came out
below the clouds, which were broken
in a few places now, but couldn't
see the Jap ships. | made one half
circle and didn't know where was.
Finally remembering my fuel sup
ply, ! breathlessly glanced at the
gauges, and they were all bouncing
around on-EMPTYl | turned and
headed West with my throttle re-
tarded and the prop set back for
cruising. Now called Sasser, hav-
ing forgotten to call him at the mo-
ment of contact with the enemy. I
told him about the interception,
that | knew / had shot down the,
bomber and had gotten some bursts
on the fighters. Sasser told me that
there was flight on the way from
Hengyang, led by Gil Bright.
My altitude was ten thousand now
and | held it while just about glid-
ed with power to the West, where I
should see the Hengyang- -Kweilin
railroad. AS | finished my report
over the radio, Sasser in KWeilin
told me S-3, and Richardson at
Hengyang said S-3 also. But Miller
at Lingling told me l sounded very
close to his station, and gave me the
report SIS. These mean, in radio
technical language, that my volume
was louder III Lingling than at either
of the other two stations. More than
likely | was closer to the middle
town. assumed this and few West,
letting down gradually.
Just then Miller must have re-
ceived a report from town that
heard my engine, for he said,
You're Northeast of the field" I
turned a little South and saw the
welcome red clay of Lingling.
started feeling happy then-fd been
in the air on a cross-country for
nearly four hours, and knew that
I'd shot down at least one plane.
couldn't buzz the field though, for
any minute expected the engine
to cough and the prop to start
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pected home this summer on a fur
Tough.
That breakdown on traffic vio-
lators which Marshal Lee Coon says
is coming this spring will not be
confined to motorists-but it will in
clude youngsters who dash across the
street when traffic has the green
light. Green light crashing by
youths is just as dangerous as red
light crashing by motorists. Don't
know just what the penalty will be
in case of the youngsters but a ses-
sion in the woodshed with a good
birch rod might not be amiss.
Prospects for Buttons postwar
airport dimmed this week with an
nouncement of a proposal for a fed
eral appropriation of S31 million for
$50 airports in Ohio, but Bluffton
was not included in the list. Places
in this area included in the proposal
are Lima, Delphos, Ada, Findlay,
Wapakoneta, st. Marys, Kenton,
Bowling Green and Bellefontaine.
If you go west this summer, Wen
wager that you will enjoy a fine
chicken dinner if you drop in on
Noah n. Basinger, former Orange
township resident who is on a chick
en- ranch near Tucson, Arizona. They
have 5000 chickens now and expect
to have between 5000 and 1000 by
June.
Do fish bite better in clear, fair
weather or cloudy and unsettled
weather. Since fishing has developed
into a major outdoor sport here the
question has assumed proportions of
vital Importance among local anglers.
There have always been opinions on
both sides-however now we learn
that some of the boys are taking up
the matter from a scientific point of
view and are making an investigation
and collecting data on the subject of
whether fish bite better when the
barometer is rising or falling. If
we get any definite information later
we'll let you know.
Comes word from j. ]. "Jake"
Makely of Columbia, No., former
Blufftonite and erstwhile pillar in the
Odd Fellow lodge when it was -four
ishing here some fifty years ago.
Jake is still on the job every day in
Columbia's Ford garage on Broad
way, and if any oldtimers get out
that way this summer he will be
glad to see you.
And word comes from A. C.
arch" Griffith of Madison, West
Virginia, another former Bluffton
man that his son, Arch Jr., was re-
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A saucer placed upside down in
a salad bowl viii keep the green's
from getting saturated with dress
ing and becoming soggy. The ex-
cess dressing win accumulate under
the saucer and will not affect the
crispness of the salad, even IL 1t
stands for some time.
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News Want-ads bring results.
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And word comes from A. C.
arch" Griffith of Madison, West
Virginia, another former Bluffton
man that his son, Arch Jr., was re-
Evening star., 1945-12-23

The Speaker of the House, Repre-
sentative Sam Rayburn, took off yes
terday for his home in Texas to
spend Christmas with his sister,
Miss Rayburn.
Also in their Texas home for the
holidays are Senator and Mrs. Tom
Connally, who reached Martin yes
terday, having left the Capital
Thursday. The Senator will return
at the close Of the holidays, although
the second session of the Seventy
ninth Congress will not convene un-
til January II.
Senator and Mrs. Claude Pepper
also went home for Christmas, leav-
ing Washington yesterday for Flo
rida. They plan to be back in their
apartment at 1861 Crescent place
before the middle of January.
Senator Joseph r. Guffey and his
sisters, Misses Ida and Pauletta
Guffey, are in Atlantic City for the
holidays. The Senator's brother-in-
law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll
Miller went up to New York State
to be with their son and daughter
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. william Gard
ner Miller, and their two small sons.
The home of Senator and Mrs.
Charles o. Andrews will be gay, for
they have been Joined by their son,
1t. Thomas Oakley Andrews, who