GOD IS MY ( CO-PILOT ? Col. Robert L.Scott -w*umuau tfm Wtat PlM, BAert ImB Wtea Ma ?rMca *1 Mty FteM ud Ufcw ?? t?III tjteg. M MM kM u lattracM M tear ywi vtaa Ma yar femki mk, aal kMihtlBBav laaaM Mr iwlil Ajtec. ?a aw Hi" M aavaral CI?rite ud la fea la ??!< a terry pOM tert Mte Mm aal 1iM Ma a Klttykawk ter iilal fly* few, aal aaaa la tytaf Ma aktea mi aaaa air terra." Later ka la aaaka C.Q. BMatM Ftckter Grway, kaft ka MM kaapa kaarfcteg Jay pftaaaa aal af Ma l " CHAPTEK XXTI We figured that aome important an nouncement was about to be mads. I -and- out there in the hostel area wniililai was quiet. The amber hquid was divided among soma forty men, and each of us got a few drops in a Chinese teacup?but 8 was enough for tha ceremony. The General grinned at us add said. "We've got the Jape worried aow, we've hit everywhere except what ha thought we'd attack. To morrow is the Day." We could hard ly keep from cheering. But we hell - ap our "brimming cups" and lu?t said, "To you. General." The drops never tasted better. That night, after tha announce ment, we closed the poet and kept ail neo from going kite town. This would cause talk in tha right places. Colonel Cooper went iota Kweflln and discreetly peased out the news that we were ready tor the main attack. Somehow he arranged for Just tha right information to begin 8s round-about Journey to the Jap The teed had now bean sown. On November 27 the largest force at bombers we had ever used in Chi na, aocarted by the largest force of fighters, rolled down the runway at Kweilin. There were fourteen bomb ers, with twenty-two P-tO's for es cort. We had also left a strong ?wee on the ground at Kweilin, just in case the Jap tried something while we were away. 1 led the headquarters section of the fighter escort and made up the reserve. My position in the escort would be three thousand feet above the bombers. Down below me a thousand feet was Johnny Alison with his flight of eight, on the right flank of Morgan's bombers. Colonel Bruce Hollo way had the flight on the left flank, an other thousand feet lower. Colonel Cooper was riding in the lead bomb er as intelligence officer, and that day was going to demonstrate the tsanework ibat he had striven tor, ' between the fighters and the bomb ers. Cooper had been so anxious to ac company our raids that he seemed keenly disappointed whenever other duties interfered. He was threaten tag today to take over one of the tur rets in the lead bomber and shoot down the first Jap. I joked with Coop on the way to our fighters that morning, and told him that we in the fighters were so glad to have him along that we were going to let one Jap through, just so he could shoot it down and get tha pilot's ears for his httl? boy. We laughed as we sep arated. The large formation?la rge for us ta China?assembled over the air drome and took a course North in the direction of Hankow. We want ed reports from other spies in Kwei lin to get started, for this mission was planned mainly to get the Jap Air Force into the air where we could get at it. We usually evaded towns as we began our attacks, but today we went krW over Kweilin. and then to the Worth. When we erere beyond the prying and ready ears of sup spies, we turned to a direct heading for Hongkong. Now we climbed above high over east to twenty-thousand feet, and settled down for the three hundred ?die* ahead. In flfly-ftve minutes ?he clouds began to break and scat ter, sad are approached enemy ter ritory with a cloudless sky and per fect visibility. Over to the right bow I caught the glint of the sun on the Junction of the three rivers that meet- near Canton in a figure tike a trident. Far ahead I saw the h a alow, almost too deliberate half-loop, stalled out, then dove straight doom. At first I thought that I had find too far in front of him and he'd turned to evade the Are; then, as I watched the speeding ship go straight Into the hills between Tten Ho Held and White Ooud, I knew I had shot the pilot. The ahip did not burn until it era shod I fired at six Japanese lighters so fast that I didn't see what happened to any of them. You got a map shot and then the Zero ie gone, rolling over, or you're turning for another one, or you're getting your noaa down to make sure that you never lose your speed and too much altitude whan you're fighting thoae highly manauyarabie ahipa. One ether I aaw trailing smoke aa he colled over, but I didn't get te see him catch Are er crash. The bombers bad outrun our dog-fight and were going down-hill feet for KweOln. I beard Morgan call *ut chew wee on. and I knew he eon Mder.d trie bombers safe. 1 called ? i?? ? - r ? and told Captain Ooes to Meat the bomber* to be**. The other* af us brok* away look ing tor straggling Jap*. I took my flight over toward* White Cloud air dram*. whera ack-ack was *o heavy that it was lust about miking the sky black. I guess I must have thought of Lieutenant Daniels?tor I dove. I hadn't heard a single P-tO call for help; m I was fairly confident that we had woo the battle. My wing man must have got lost in my dive. Pram the altitude at which I had started my dive I couldn't mo what was ?o White Cloud flold. but as I pulled half out of the tour-hundrad mlle an hour dive over the hills South of the airdrome, I saw an air plane. It wm a big ship, which I aoao saw had three engines The door was open, and I think men wera-bnrrying te get in or out Two ear* war* driving away tram the ship. Even at my speed I tried a burst at the tri-motared Junker* S3, but I saw the tracers go short, and when I got closer I coud see the duet tor to the left of the target. My speed was so great that I couldn't hold enough pressure on the rudder steadily tor accurate shooting. But I must have gotten a tow tracers In, for as I swept low over the ship it seemed that dust was churned up all about. Turning low, I cam* back tor a battar shot. Tha ack-ack was so thick that I nearly forgot and turned beat. After all, that which I could sea had already orplndsd, and If I wont hit yet I was as well off cue place as another. My burst caught the anginas of the transport, which I could see new were running. Uni formed peasant are were Jumping out of the door. I turned steeply pad fired ea toe door, than into the fuselage, the ship was smoking, and toe engines had either been toot up or had been cut oS, tor they had stopped. My engine missed several times, SS it had done from some poor gaso line earlier in toe Sight, and I de cided to let well enough alooe and get away from White Cloud. Keep ing Junt about down in the rice, I want straight North to the riser. With the engine every now and than, I spent a miserable tow minutes that seemed like a year until I got old of Jap territory. I landed at Kweilin, and white I counted the botes in my piano I watched for too last of tha fighters to coma in?half trying to count the twenty-seven holes from tha ground firo around White Cloud and half trying to sweat all tha twenty-two fighters back. All the bombers wers in and were being serviced end bombed up again. Eighteen fight ers finally cams in, and we worried until we got word that the other tour wore at another field end would bo back later in toe afternoon. We masts our fyporU to the Gen eral and we knew he was pleased. Out of .49 Zeros that had coma up for us over Canton we bad shot down ? that were confirmed. Ali son had stayed back there for twen ty-five minutes and definitely had jW#n top*, the two freighters loaded with Zeros and engines had been . sunk. The nature of the carge was eventually confirmed. Three weeks later .are dive-bombed the salvage parties that were diligently trying to rates the sunken freighter*. Evi dently there had been something very valuable to tha Japanese on the two big vessels. ? We went on back to Kunming. Sometimes I wonder if the Jap ever did find out where General Chen nault was going. Tears after may be they'd still be flying that patrol ever Hongkong, waiting for toe at tack that we were supposed to make. As we carried out the long mis sion* Into Burma in tha days that Hollowed, I thought about hew the gpirit of our air warfare bad changed from what I had heard about and read of tha test World War to the air. There had been an sleinsut of knighthood depicted in that first struggle in the skies. Now I thought f Irngw ?kv Back there the pilot* had ba?n carefully hand-picked. They war* the adventurous, de vU-may-car* hot bloods, like those bops who had been the Confederate cavalry to the War Between the States. Mere than like ly when they flred at another pilot and then saw that ftieir victim's funs were "jammed," {bey may have "saluted" and dived away, tin willinf to destroy the helpless ene my. But this was a different type of war, afainst a race of fanatics, who had been repressed for so loaf ft their warped minds that they were barbaric madmen. From what I bad already seen, I knew that the Japans** soldier and the J ape nee* war machine were not out merely to beat as hi war?they were out to EXTERMINATE US, even to the extent of klllinf our pi lots whom they captured as prison er*. And we knew that this had been dona even in April of 1M2. We learned of it again after the Honf konf raid. They would nevar five up?they kad fane all-out in a war to the bitter end. There was no ro manca about it We knew that if we ware shot down and were not killad in the crash, or U wa were eaptured, we would moat certainly be tortured and enoML^nafi IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL cundayl Dchool Lesson *?tfiiiWw7SKKK5?5 BS. Lesson for May 6 )- htVrt*^ijPTUfntrnirf'~~^' Council ?< Irflfk^ Waritkai UiM by ? cJ uli i? iic~? umr TXXT-1 Kind ?:ili W 1S:? "ill?MU"Iioni ? l' MOM ?rtS. lTasnlng tip with the neighbor! is not tlwajn ? desirable thing, but both men and nations do it. Whan the last Judge, Samuel, bad become old, Israel began to demand a king like the nations round about thegn. ' Although the rejection of" His di rect rule over them through His cho sen man was a sad development, God permitted them to choose a king. Said, their lint king, was evi dently selected for his appearance and his physical superiority. He began well, in dependence upon God, but came to a tragic end because of sin. David, who followed Saul, had his failings, but was essentially a man after God's own heart. He wanted to build a temple for God, but be cause he was a man of war, God decreed that his son, Solomon, who succeeded him, was to build it. With the reign of Solomon, and especially with the-building of the temple, the monarchy in Israel reached its highest development? only, to go down to disaster. Our la ??an nm after tha remark ably fin* prayer with which Solomon dedicated tha temple. L Dedication Aeeepted (9:1-4). God was pleased with Solomon's intelligent and spiritual prayer and tha act of dedication, and He hal lowed the house of the Lord by put ting His name on it and assuring them of His continual presence. It is a delightful thing that God is willing to accept at the hands of a man tee dedication of either himself or his possessions tor God's glory. The Lord is Maker of heaven and earth and surely has no need of what we have. And yet He dees have need of it, and Is ready to use it as we present it to Him. Our act of dedication results in His act of acceptance and consecration of our talents, our time, our money, or our goods tor His glorious service. But God expects His people to con tinue In devotion to Him if they are to have His continued presence and blessing. n. CeasssreHsa Expected[ (9:4-7). The throne of David was to rerrtafe in the lineage of Solomon as long as he and the people of Israel walked uprightly before God. He expects obedience to His commandments, and apart from it He cannot give His blessing. Note the faithfulness of God. No man would ever have introduced such a note of solemn portent end of warn in,; into an occasion which teemed all gladness and light Pros perity was at its height. The king was in favsr with both God and man. I Into that picture of success and grandeur God paints with bold strokes a great and striking "IF." It is presumption to think that we can coast along on past attainments or former piety. If we are to be used and blessed of God tomorrow and the day after, we must look to our consecration to Him and our obe dience to His win. m. PotseeMeas (Berthed (9:11; 10:19-38). We read in 10:23 that "King Solo mon exceoded an kings of the earth in riches and wisdom." He had reached the pinnacle. The Chinese have a proverb, "The man Who stands on tha pinnacle has nowhere 4- k. ntf " It need not have been a anara lor Solomon to bo rich if bo had main tained bis simple faith la God, but tba temptations brought in by heath en wives whom ha foolishly married, coupled with tba deceitfulness of riches (Matt 1S:8), soon led him into the downward path. The almost unbelievable riches of Solomon could have bean used for the glory of Gad, but instead they were an and in themselves. When money takes the ruling hand in a man's life, be loses out spiritu ally. His life becomes an empty farce; his soul can be satisfied with only aeose and. more gold - , Solomon was' soon led into 1he tot ly of turning to the worship of aH*n gads. Little wonder that wa ?f r IV. Jadgaaeft Decreed (11:4, 11). It would mob that a man wks kno*a the Lord should grow In gmca and become even mora. Intimate with GotUS he grcrwaold. .-One might as pect that the passing o? years should mellow and apreetea life. But sad to any, It is often not tba case. "When Solomon was old," be went after fata^gexfc. Haw tragic men this writer ever knew prayed constantly as be went on into his eighties, "Lord, keep me from ever becoming a wicked old man." Other old man and women (yes, and all of us) could w?B pray tba same prayer. So It became necessary for God to arrest the kingdom out of the hands of the great Solomon, and Israel goes on to its history of a people divided, of disobedience to. God. and of ulti mate judgment Of that wa mail saa mora in tba weeks )ust abend. mmm JJQW ?vfl cu you get? Ibe an 1 awar seems to ba?ge:a* far aa yon M?>. Look at thg cinematic coda who, have bacon# idols ,?< mil Usaa, ett because they (an out with that certain schmaltz whs* they smiled Ate! cm tough. Squlab Vgrapafrutt h a lady's pan and baoaoM an taUraatioaal Idol. Fight the frails, tool 'am. kick 'am in tha teeth. That's right, kayo, ba a gold platad had. There's tame in being hrfamoua; eucceaa hi being anida; luxury in baing a lauaa. Alan Ladd, who haula home mora fan mqil than tha mat of tha Paramount hoys, collected his claoue through rugged, halr-co-the ehast snarls and being quick on tha Gun tor Biro" put Ladd hi tha top money clisi. "Mask of Dim!trios" brought im mediate celebrity to Xaahary Baott, who pteyad tha ^_ moat baleful bum poaalble. Ha wasn't even nice to hia mother. "Evil appeals .to the romantic," said Scott, who's - right back being swinish in "Strange Honey moon " since he's ' finished "Hold Autumn in Your Hand." "ira numan nature to want to kick over the trweos and ba unconven tional. Don't ask me why. But eo tew people heve the nerve. Cases of wishful thinking are universal. Evil somehow le If girded as colorful and evildoers are thought to have intes tinal fortitude for daring to be what. to find escap- I ism in pictures hbottt evil, and the ! sinners themselves lure locked upon , as fascinating because they're dan gerous. and danger appeals to the multitude because It offers respite from routine," says the now devil AMI Un|(ri on Although "Public Enemy" was produce* yean efo, that touching sequefcoe Wherein Jamee Cagaey wallop* Ma* Clarke with a grape fruit i* rtill recalled but lovingly by the baddies. That performance definitely estab lished Cagney in motion picture*. Today he'a starring in independent production* produced by hi* brother Bill, and ha* ju*t finished a new rugged portrayal in "Blood on the Sun." dark Gable owes hi* start to dirty doing* in a sagebrush thriller, "The Painted Desert." Gable hadn't even been heard of before when he was hired for that job. But with the release of "The Painted Desert" all worries ceased for Gable. He snagged an M-G-M contract and everlasting fame. Prom Pasadena Playhouse obscu rity to a dynamic bit as a downed Nasi aviator who provided Greer dm. a faw horrible minutes in "Mrs. Miniver" is the tale of Hei asat Dentine. His name was an every easting director's lip* once his nasty Nazi interpretation was seen. Warners cornered the newoomer's signature on a term deal and he's been caus ing the heroines panic ever since. All of which hasn't affected Dentine with the girls of the world. They think he's Just divine. Litt Keep* Crowing As p menace in "Ship Ahoy"?a Bad Bilks conglomeration of non sense?JeSs Badtak arose from the mattitude of oontractees. That he man quality brought him "Lifeboat" opposite Tallaiah II* airhead. The rest has been gravy for Master Ho diak, whose M-G-M future is real ly bright. Gen* KoBy realizes the value of being a heel. From befog a per sonable no-good in "Pal Joey," a Broadway musical, Kelly attracted Hollywood's eye. His introduction to the camera was as a guy you laved hating in "For Ma and My Gkl." What a dirty lif* he gave Jady Garland! The champion nasty character of them all is Gaarge Bandars, who saunters back and forth between the devil and the angels. George's bdftful daddy in "Lloyds of Lon don" teoud it him to our notice. It was his flist big splash. He's been gplashhig ever since, and I don't mean in a'bathtub, cither. ' *? Yes; itpdys to be bad. Any* actor, aspirin* for {asm. should not mate* it his dasti nation, as far aa dim roles are con cerned, bet arm- triaaslf with a pitchfork and horns and charm the multitude. . ? ? ? Anmomr te War ISsadM R.K.O. has rind Maareea 0*Hara for "The ratuIMS Invalid." This play la taken from the Broad way hit by Meea Hart and George I. Kaefmaa. It's a drama of the American theater, told thrTfh the career oi e famous actress, and will be done in technicolor. The role will give bar a chance to. do some real acting aa wall as look beauti ful. ... Dinah abece serenaded sail ors oh ? warship at San Pedro the zztt&ssrj&s* * SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK ; U Daffodil Cutwork Pillowcases i Tulip Apron Makes a Nice Gift ^ I Cotwort PtOMTMNI f IN EN, cotton or mercerized 1 thread are all suitable tor the 1 taacmating art of "cut work." The 1 -spring daBodil deiign iliustrsted la 1 lovely done in all white or in daf fodil yellow. The deiign ia 11H inchea long and 8 inches high at the center. Buttonhole stitch and -Satin stitch are used throughout the design. ? ? ? lb obtain transfer patterns (or tha Daf fodil Cut Work Ptllowcaaea (Pattern No. MBit and compute lnetructlons on hew to do cut wurit embroidery aend If cants In coin, plus your name, address and the pattarn number. Ami DRETTY aprons are hard to find 1 these days?and very expen sive I So why not aew up a couple af gay and gkldy hostesa aprons tor gilts. Three-quarters yard of > pastel cotton will make one? use your brightest and cheeriest ?craps for the appliqued tulips. S ? ? To obtaia complafro pattern and ftntshtaw Instructions Cor Ota Tulip Apptiqua Apron (Pattern Mo. MM) aend It cents ta cola, plus your name, eddreaa and the patten ?MM Due to an unuauaUy large dam end atah currant war aoadftttena. slightly mora ttma la required In filling orders for a lew ef the moat popular pattern numbers. Send your order ta: ?SWING CZMCLB MIIBLIWOBX lite teste Are. New Terfc. N. ?. Me "a**????????????? Address To a to Id a mail; odor In a metal teapot that la eeldom uaed, keep a lump of sugar In the pot. ?a? When sweetneas of cream la doubt&il and there is no more on hand and it must be used, a pinch of soda stirred into it keeps it from curdling, even in hot weather. TO preserve robber galoshes during the warm summer period, put them in a porous bag and hang them in a cellar where it is cool and damp. Heat injures rubber. A secret to making delicious po tato salad is to cut the potatoes while they're warm and while warm add the onions and salad dressing. As the salad cools, the flavors will penetrate the potatoes. ?a? Odds and ends of soap can be saved by putting them in a small bag made from a wash cloth. When taking a bath, this bag full of soap can be put into the tub and you'll have wash cloth and soap in one. ?o? To clean a vase, cut newspapers into small pieces and swish the pieces around in soapy water on the inside. Wash year oil cloth in a mixture of skim milk and turpentine. It will make it look like new. To keep the potboider handy when working around the stove, tack a piece of tape onto the hold er and place around your nock. Raisins win be plamp and much larger if you place them in ? saucepan and barely cover them with cold water. Set them over a small flame and allow to simmer for ? few minutes. Hang sp dresses and suits, but not sweaters. Lay them flat in a drawer so they will retain their shape. - . ? j [SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT fe) RUBBER Tto cow wW UaortM mhm tto war, wkw IP.Goodrtdi r?aordk mm ex^ecf low-coe* n* tract tf (tit crafty Ac CcWw War baca ijfClraWc upcc inli< M pur mmId Ac m 1M4, tipicli Mm L. CiWf ?< IrnNiit cf Ttc A '? lii< rich Cirapccy. la 1M1 mm? mmia nthir aw AM AM mm pa ml d ?ar ??? TIm AMki ot mm 5,000 flrac O OH nUtAnIIm o# dvMan Mr* itcdi t? INM ?# MM WIT/. Savt Used for ^lis^diyhtiny ^Jront ?1 I PflH ? ? illilM^HBH ?vv^H A Bclanfd dowblo action... for positive action in tho ?*\ mixing bowl... for gratify' ftt ing results in | ??&