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1945. -. MONDAY, APRIL 2, Seen a Page Three fi j j . ( f . Col. Robert L. USED IN STUDY OF GENETICS — Bread mold to aid.in unraveling complex probJems of heredity, Dr. G. 'W: Beadle. professor of biology at: Stanfor Uni4 ad a is used the University of Nevada sponsored by the Nevada. Sigma Xi club, composed of members ‘of the national scientific honorary society. At the university F. P. Hungate, member of the biology depatitment factulty who studied under Dr. Beadle at Stanford, is carrying on research work in the field of genetics . by use of the bread mold »whith he grows intest tubes and feeds on apecjally prepared food. . In his lecture Dr. Beadle pointed out that bread mold is used in biochemistry experiments because it deby. scientists . Scott RN W.N.U. RELEASE HAS LONG BEA Ch With the Third Infantry Division Army in. France-—Evidout the Third Infantry of Seventh ence points Division’s 15th Regiment as probably versity said recently in a lecture at! the outfit -in the Euronean Theatre with the oldest amphibious record. Its history reveals a landing was made under General Winfield Scott at Vera Cruz, ‘Mexico, in March. 1847, almost 10@-years ago. The regiment, then’ moved overland 10 Mexico City in a bloodymarch ~in which: half the men were killed and wounded in the many engagements along the route. No more actual ‘landings took place’ until that made at Fedala, ‘French Morocco, and ‘dry runs’ for theFedala affair began .way back . eae CHAPTER XXVIII It looked as if we'd pet. thi chance very soon, too, for the in western Yunnan had been s<lect. ed by the newly formed Air. Trans: . field port Command. whch was sit erseding the Ferry Command, (as-.the Eastern tern of “the route to China. For the purpose of security in future operations, I will not name our base in western Yunnan, But there was a big turquoise-blue lake less than ten’ miles away which the General and@_I called Yeching. To us that meant ‘‘good hunting,’ for ducks and geese abounded. The landmark for our base was Just one of the many lakes in Yunnan. Next mornins I went out on Lake Yeching, and from the bow .of a} native sampan I soon shot eighteen of the biggest geese. I.had ever seen. Even if we were remote from the loved ones.at home, we'd have meat for Christrias dinner*that was . filled with the vitamins we needed. I had hurried back to the field before taking off for Kunming with my’ report on the efficiency of the warning net, and was taking -pictures of some little mongol-appearing Miaows who were holding my geese-aloft—when we had an. air raid alert. There was heavy enginesnoise from the reporting stations over towards Burma. We tossed the eighteen geese. into the baggage compartment, winding their necks around among’ the conduits of the radio so that the cargo wouldn’t shift, and I took off for Kunming. Then as I heard more reports from the Southwest, I turned South, joined the other fighters on patrol, and looked for the enemy. In about forty-five minutes we spread out to cover more territory, and I caught sight of two enemy planes—Zeros I to the water buffalo. with his hand sripping the tail of the ponderous ping animal. Again . found nivs: earthbound cre: frie poe Te tues is . self: ‘‘When vou ‘resch the end of . . that paddy. I'll be many miles from \ here.’ T-suppoce I vet arrogant like . that because I'm .sitting up there with six goad American ffty-calibre-. guns in front of ‘me charged ‘and ready, and off on a mission bound to be’ exciting It didn’t matter now 7 that some other day ting down somewhere around there in bad weather. with night coming.on . or with my fuel running low; I might see that same coolie boy and might reflect how. lucky he was to know i his whereabouts and not be on. the point of cracking up a good airplane that couldn’t be replaced. For a . moment might come when . would give anything just to be able to ask . in sin. language: ‘‘Where is the . Burma Road?” or ‘‘Is Yunnanfu this way?’’ . Landing at the threatened airdrome, I put the General’s plan into immediate effect. I commandeered the necessary transportation on Yeching field and . placed it ready for the instant move. ment of pilots to their dispersed fighters, which were scattered to all parts of) the airdrome. The P-40’s were pointed in the direction.of a run for immediate take-off. All this was to save even the barest minimum of lost time, for when _the alert came we would have to move fast and furious. thirty pilots ‘was kept on alert, and constant, patrols were begun at dawn. We sent two ships above the field at seven o’clock and doubled the number at nine. At. eleven o’clock wé doubled again and continually had eight high in the sky. The Jap had attacked the day be‘If pitying these nid to my. t might be let. . fighters? and Hazeciett had four coming from above the Japs on the oth+ . er flank. = Every one of the I-called for the attack. in order . *2 to get the enemy. before he could. % . bomb the field. As I dove for the; % attack that I had always longed . & for, I saw one P-46 take the lone: % Zero head-on and shoot it down: and . & I knew from the way the shark3 . nosed. ship pulled up in his chanoe delle of glory that Dallas Clinger . %# had become an ace with his fifth + enemy ship. ~ We made the. attack from three = . directions. simultaneously. Lieuten& ant Couch led:his ships’ on a stern attack that I did not see, for Iwas 3 diving on the course of the bornb-. . ers from the flank-where the low % sun was. [ was going in for a full. & defiection shot from out of that sun, * for I. had planned this method of 3 how I wanted to attack a oomper Ke formation long ago. On my WINS, were six fighters. in two ship ele. % ments. #n. Cguch’s flight were. four * +3 % + *, eS I had to dive from 20,000 feet to % 17,000 feet to get on the level with the enemy formation, and when I got! there I had plenty of excess speed over the Japs. I passed them rapidly -from out of their range, but could sce their tracers curving short of my flight. When I had overrun them a thousand yards, I turned right into the bombers and we went) after the three Vee’s of Mitsubishi . bombers. By being on the same . level with them I’m sure we caused + part of the enemy formation to blanket out some of their own ships from Me stestest Heese <2 cS + enleiotetebs eerie SS * o 435 DG we p> 2 ee + ¥ firing at us. .I opened fire from six i . hundred yards and led the enemy * leader by at least a hundred*yards; Ks it must have been just right, for the . * tracers seemed to go into the top of . the wing. I just held the trigger . down.and kept going into the sides of . ¥ the Japs—they blossomed out of: , ye Sloteiot tottetetoteieatnieteteieininioies: ] & Our patrons find that despite rationing and wartime conditions the quality of our meats measures up to the same high stadnards have always maintained. Our meats come from the best cattle, lambs and swine that money can buy. Our service to our patrons is built on a foundation of high quality and reasonable prices. Ask your neighbors about us. They will tell you. we setotutetvtetetieieieieieiditieteieinieieiieies aR ae etreterte st S + , or Hn ote he oh oh, tafe ste ate of s * a& So vte teat Sethe ae : the. sky. at me, growing larger. and . an spi napa ne aoe in 1939. Sergeant William L. McMil. thought, at first see Ne be fore at 2:35 in the afternoon, or eieer gantooanaa” 8 ee Heel: monstrates clearly the simplest form lan. Washington ,a cook in the regi-. the others and attacked. ven as 14:35. The General Kad told me . cnield. As the bombers passed by, . g i h 2 I knew the : 79 . Go aha reat mental staff kitchen, recalls small . eee my /bullets were raking them with were too slow and too ~< Genes are believed to control the chemical reactions which determine both mental and physical characteristicg inherited by the individual from parents. Since the gene is essentially the same in all types of life, animal or plant, and discovery concerning the behavior of genes in the organism will throw light on similar responses im other organisms and may be applied to plant, animal or human fields of investigation. By growing the mold in a test tube under controlled conditions, changes in successive generations of the organism are quickly noted. An albino mold having no coloring has been produced from the orange colored type through artificially induced changes in genes. Similarly, genes are held respofsible for the natural occurrence of albinos in animals such as horses and rabbits, and even in human beings, All are characterized by complete lack of pigment causing pink or red eyes. FRACTURED SKULL Francisco Andrade, 32, a Mexican national, is a patient: in the Community Hospital, Grass Valley, believed to have suffered a fractured , skull as a result of brawl with Vinecante Avevado, 33, another Mexican. Avevada was arrested and placed in the Grass Valley jail on open eharge. It is alleged he struck Andrade with a beer bottle causing a skull fracture and facial lacerations. 2000 CORK OAKS PLANTED State Forestry ‘Ranger W,. F. Sharp reports that through his headquarters here more than 2000 cork oak trees have been given out to residents of this area for planting in the past two years. There are still 100 trees remaining for those who desire {to plant them. scale maneuvets in a lake. near Ta-. coma, Washington. “A cargo net was hung on a. deck he declares. That training months prior to regular landing craft that around Henderson Inlet Sound: This program continued until the spring of 1942. The regiment was fanatically amwas replaced two Pearl. Harbor. by from the balcony of one of the barracks in Fort Lewis for occasional ‘dry runs’ and climbing over another one constituted a part of the fort’s tough obstacle course. All this training culminated in a in the spring of 1942. Major sell Comrie, Fargo, North Dakota, . then ammunition officer and now regimental S-3 tells how men of the 4,7 and 15 regiments boarded transports in Puget Sound and steamed south to a rendezvous point 500 miles off the coast for the ‘invasfon.’ When the division was finally consolidated in Fort Ord, on Montérey Bay, the 15th, along with other 3rd Division units, continued their intensive training in the bay. and for a,time off San Diego. The final training phase took place in Chesapeake Bay, just a few weeks prior to its first combat landing at Fedala. The rest of the landings, Lieata, Anzio, and the French Riveria constitute important, parts of the regiment’s knockout blows at the axis. The total number of Chinese living permanently in other countries was estimated in 1936 to be 7,838,888. e a agp England’s. telegraph service is government owned and operated, and telegraph offices are located in post offices. 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Christian Science Monitor, for which . enclose $.. : (— ese a) OE Coe Ws) eNO OR RD CD ONE BA AE SN SO and we’d go down that into a boat’ . cruised . on Puget} phibious. A cargo net: was even’hung: practice landing on Monterey Bay, . Rus. large for Zeros. Then I saw‘that they were single-engine reconnaissance-bomb. ers.° I caught-the rear one and . gave it a short burst, keeping my . eye on the other. . The first one went . down with most of one wing gone. The next I chased down every valley on the Mekong, getting in several good shots, but I never did see him go down or crash. From the evidence of the thin trail of smoke . that I last saw coming from it as I . dove and circied to look around again, I claimed it as a ‘‘probable.” The first one I*had confirmed as a “‘certain.’’ The others in our patrol engaged four other planes and probably shot down two of them. The General had been correct as usual— . the Japs were keeping the end of the ferry route under close surveillance. When I told the General about my victory, which had been my twelfth confirmed enemy ship, and told him about the geese in the baggage-compartment, he said he didn’t know whether to congratulate me for the meat or for the Japs—at that time of the year Christmas dinner was more . important. As for. myself, I told him, I hadn’t worried so much about the Japs’ shooting me down as I had about their getting a lucky burst through my fuselage and ruining all that good meat with their explosive bullets. Besides, in the maneuvers of combat, if the necks of all those geese had jammed the controls and made me spin in, the Chinese who found me would have talked a long time about the pilot whom they’d Lae dead with feathers all over im. Christmas night, while we were enjoying the geese, George Hazelett came in with his Squadron to report that the Japs had bombed our base near Lake Yeching with’ eighteen ships on that afternoon of Christmas Day, and the first warning the field had was the sight of the enemy bombers. in the clear blue Yunnan sky. Luckily the bombing had missed the field and no-ships were damaged, but many Chinese in the village. had been killed. Definitely the warning net in western Yunnan made the operation of the Transport Command at Yeching hazardous. I could tell by the General’s face that he had some plans he would tell me about in private. The General had been sick with a cold over Christmas and had a fever that night, when he told’ me what he had to do at Yeching. At dawn the next morning—December 26th in China, but actually Christmas Day in America—I took off with full instructions. When I left, the Doctor told me General Chennault was running a temperature of 103. All of us were worried about him, and knew that the defeats on Christmas Day hadn’t helped his spirits. As I flew West towards Yeching, 145 miles away, in the half light I saw the coolies carrying drums of gasoline on wheelbarrows up the Burma Road. Some of these I knew would go on through Kunming’ to Chungking, 390 miles away by air. Trundling these crude woodenwheeled vehicles of the. ages goneby, these patient workers would require seventy days of constant ef. ” fort, at their dogged trot, to reach the capital at Chungking. The twowheeled Peking carts with three drums would take a shorter time— 44 days. I saw coolie boys plowing in the rice paddies halfway up the sides of the mountains—paddies built like steps from the top of the hill to the valley, so that the irrigation water could be used over and over. I laughed as I saw the ancient means of cx!tivation—the boy, standing with his feet on the wooden scraper, was using his own weight to make it seratch the mud, but was holding on ’ Little Miaow Christmas geese for Col. Scott. children holding many times of the propensity of the Japanese for the exact duplication of former military operations. were going to get gradually more vigilant and stronger above the field for the expected blow. At the same time we were going as far as was commensurate with safety to conserve the invaluable aviation gasoline. Most of the fighters kept right over the field or slightly away, in the direction of the expected attack from Burmese bases. Four fighters began to patrol from Yeching to the Mekong, on course to Lashio and seventy miles from where we were waiting. At two o’clock I sent all planes into the sky except mine. I sat in that on the ground, listening for Harry Pike’s expected report from his patrol to the Mekong River. I was within shouting distance of the ground radio operator, who would tell me of any developments on the weak-functioning warning net. The Jap would come today, I knew, between two and four—that’s 14:00 to 16:00 hours. At 14:54 I saw the radio operator wildly running for my ship. He yelled, ‘‘Report from W-7 says heavy engine noise coming this way—the report is right recent.’’ I was already energizing my starter when Harry Pike called excitedly: ‘‘Here they come—fighters and bombers— I’m just East of the river.’’ I knew then that the Japs were close to fifty miles away; we had all we could do to get set and be waiting for them. When Pike called in, as I got the engine started, I heard that the-Japs were at seventeen thousand, and I called to him to take the fighters, for I heped by that move to make the bombers come in unescorted. From Yeching at its level of 6500 feet I was climbing with full gun, climbing for all the altitude I could grab. -I watched the temperature but drew all the boost I could without detonating too badly. At exactly three o’clock I reached twenty thousand feet and picked up most of my Group, which today was made up of Hazelett’s Squadron. Just six minutes from the time’! had given the ship the gun, I saw flashes reflected by Japanese windshields in the sun. They weren’t far away, but I grinned—for they were below us. I heard from the chatter on our frequency that there was a fight going on towards where Pike had seen the formation cross the river. As the enemy ships materialized on the horizon, I knew that Pike had done his job well, for there was only one fighter with the bombers as escort—one fighter with nine heavy bombers. I think I knéw then that we were going to make jt tough . for the Japs. full-deflection shots, and as fast as . three hundred to two hundred yards ’wds a flash ahead, and I dove as fast as I could shove the nose down. oe We . my formation turned the other five . men were diweg the same. I saw the! lead bomber climb a little, then settle back towards the formation with one wing down. As I saw the second Jap in front ' of me—the left wing man of the leader—I realized I’d have to dive under the enemy very soon or I’d run into them. Things hit my KEYSTONE ~ MARKET DAVE RICHARDS, Prop. 213 Commercial Street Phone 67 Nevada City ‘ ship now, and with noise lke a wing . : coming off, the side glass of my}; windshield was shot out. I was] . é when I: There ars te 8 riers PN II ON from the second bomber got my long burst into it. As I went under the smoke and orange flame, I thought that the Jap I was shooting at had caught fire, but . as I pulled around, back to the direction the: formation had been’ going, and climbed, I saw what had happene. Ti. cre was only smoke above, and the furmation had broken, for I knew the. bomber had exploded — the bombs had been detonated by the fifty-calibre fire. Behind, over the . g trail the Japs had come. were four plumes of smoke where their bombee ~ Se tis ae oferty Fas FLYING” —_@-—— ®BUY © DEFENSE @®STAMPS —— € — Chamber of Commerce OFFICE IN CITY HALL PHONE 575 ers were going down. Below there were bomb bursts all over the paddy fields where: bombs had been jettisoned in the unanticipated interception. I pulled up behind one of the lone bombers that I could see and began to shoot at it methodically from long range. Over on the left were three more, and I saw P-40’s making passes at them. Over the radio I could hear happy American English, with unauthorized swear words, aimed at the Jap that the individual pilot was shooting at, and by the tone of the pilots I knew that wewere winning this battle and that the General was also going to be’very happy. From 800 yards I’d squeeze out a short burst at one engine, then skid over and aim carefully at the other engine and throw out another short burst. The Jap ship was diving with all the speed he could get, but the P-40 kept moving up. I think all their ammunition was gone, for I saw no tracers. In my second burst on the right engine I saw some gray smoke—thin, like gasoline overflowing a tank and blowing back into the slipstream. The next time I came over behind that engine from closer range I saw two red dots near the engine, two dots that became [FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE DRIVE IN FOOD PALACE Groceries, Fruit and Vegetables Beer and Wine COR. YORK AND COMMERCIAL STREETS NEVADA CITY, PHONE 398 fire. The flame ran to the engine and to the fuselage, but by that time I was over shooting at the other engine again. I last saw the bomber diving, with flames that were orange against the, green of the mountains below. There were no more bombers to . } be seen, but I saw seven P-40’s. Clinger came over and got on my wing; as I recognized his ship I slid my hatch-cover back and waved at him. Even before we landed I 100-3 OF ALL KINDS John W. Darke Phones 100-M thought that we had gotten all the = bombers. As we circled the field, with me trying to dodge the cold air that was knifing through the hole in my windshield and bringing a particle of glass against my face every now and then, I realized -why we still had to wear goggles in fighter ships in combat. Below. on the Yunnan hills, I saw eight forestfires that could have. been started only. by burning airplane wrecks, for they had not been there when I New Deal Under Management of _ Pauline and Johnnie 108 W. 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1945. -. MONDAY, APRIL 2, Seen a Page Three fi j j . ( f . Col. Robert L. USED IN STUDY OF GENETICS — Bread mold to aid.in unraveling complex probJems of heredity, Dr. G. 'W: Beadle. professor of biology at: Stanfor Uni4 ad a is used the University of Nevada sponsored by the Nevada. Sigma Xi club, composed of members ‘of the national scientific honorary society. At the university F. P. Hungate, member of the biology depatitment factulty who studied under Dr. Beadle at Stanford, is carrying on research work in the field of genetics . by use of the bread mold »whith he grows intest tubes and feeds on apecjally prepared food. . In his lecture Dr. Beadle pointed out that bread mold is used in biochemistry experiments because it deby. scientists . Scott RN W.N.U. RELEASE HAS LONG BEA Ch With the Third Infantry Division Army in. France-—Evidout the Third Infantry of Seventh ence points Division’s 15th Regiment as probably versity said recently in a lecture at! the outfit -in the Euronean Theatre with the oldest amphibious record. Its history reveals a landing was made under General Winfield Scott at Vera Cruz, ‘Mexico, in March. 1847, almost 10@-years ago. The regiment, then’ moved overland 10 Mexico City in a bloodymarch ~in which: half the men were killed and wounded in the many engagements along the route. No more actual ‘landings took place’ until that made at Fedala, ‘French Morocco, and ‘dry runs’ for theFedala affair began .way back . eae CHAPTER XXVIII It looked as if we'd pet. thi chance very soon, too, for the in western Yunnan had been s<lect. ed by the newly formed Air. Trans: . field port Command. whch was sit erseding the Ferry Command, (as-.the Eastern tern of “the route to China. For the purpose of security in future operations, I will not name our base in western Yunnan, But there was a big turquoise-blue lake less than ten’ miles away which the General and@_I called Yeching. To us that meant ‘‘good hunting,’ for ducks and geese abounded. The landmark for our base was Just one of the many lakes in Yunnan. Next mornins I went out on Lake Yeching, and from the bow .of a} native sampan I soon shot eighteen of the biggest geese. I.had ever seen. Even if we were remote from the loved ones.at home, we'd have meat for Christrias dinner*that was . filled with the vitamins we needed. I had hurried back to the field before taking off for Kunming with my’ report on the efficiency of the warning net, and was taking -pictures of some little mongol-appearing Miaows who were holding my geese-aloft—when we had an. air raid alert. There was heavy enginesnoise from the reporting stations over towards Burma. We tossed the eighteen geese. into the baggage compartment, winding their necks around among’ the conduits of the radio so that the cargo wouldn’t shift, and I took off for Kunming. Then as I heard more reports from the Southwest, I turned South, joined the other fighters on patrol, and looked for the enemy. In about forty-five minutes we spread out to cover more territory, and I caught sight of two enemy planes—Zeros I to the water buffalo. with his hand sripping the tail of the ponderous ping animal. Again . found nivs: earthbound cre: frie poe Te tues is . self: ‘‘When vou ‘resch the end of . . that paddy. I'll be many miles from \ here.’ T-suppoce I vet arrogant like . that because I'm .sitting up there with six goad American ffty-calibre-. guns in front of ‘me charged ‘and ready, and off on a mission bound to be’ exciting It didn’t matter now 7 that some other day ting down somewhere around there in bad weather. with night coming.on . or with my fuel running low; I might see that same coolie boy and might reflect how. lucky he was to know i his whereabouts and not be on. the point of cracking up a good airplane that couldn’t be replaced. For a . moment might come when . would give anything just to be able to ask . in sin. language: ‘‘Where is the . Burma Road?” or ‘‘Is Yunnanfu this way?’’ . Landing at the threatened airdrome, I put the General’s plan into immediate effect. I commandeered the necessary transportation on Yeching field and . placed it ready for the instant move. ment of pilots to their dispersed fighters, which were scattered to all parts of) the airdrome. The P-40’s were pointed in the direction.of a run for immediate take-off. All this was to save even the barest minimum of lost time, for when _the alert came we would have to move fast and furious. thirty pilots ‘was kept on alert, and constant, patrols were begun at dawn. We sent two ships above the field at seven o’clock and doubled the number at nine. At. eleven o’clock wé doubled again and continually had eight high in the sky. The Jap had attacked the day be‘If pitying these nid to my. t might be let. . fighters? and Hazeciett had four coming from above the Japs on the oth+ . er flank. = Every one of the I-called for the attack. in order . *2 to get the enemy. before he could. % . bomb the field. As I dove for the; % attack that I had always longed . & for, I saw one P-46 take the lone: % Zero head-on and shoot it down: and . & I knew from the way the shark3 . nosed. ship pulled up in his chanoe delle of glory that Dallas Clinger . %# had become an ace with his fifth + enemy ship. ~ We made the. attack from three = . directions. simultaneously. Lieuten& ant Couch led:his ships’ on a stern attack that I did not see, for Iwas 3 diving on the course of the bornb-. . ers from the flank-where the low % sun was. [ was going in for a full. & defiection shot from out of that sun, * for I. had planned this method of 3 how I wanted to attack a oomper Ke formation long ago. On my WINS, were six fighters. in two ship ele. % ments. #n. Cguch’s flight were. four * +3 % + *, eS I had to dive from 20,000 feet to % 17,000 feet to get on the level with the enemy formation, and when I got! there I had plenty of excess speed over the Japs. I passed them rapidly -from out of their range, but could sce their tracers curving short of my flight. When I had overrun them a thousand yards, I turned right into the bombers and we went) after the three Vee’s of Mitsubishi . bombers. By being on the same . level with them I’m sure we caused + part of the enemy formation to blanket out some of their own ships from Me stestest Heese <2 cS + enleiotetebs eerie SS * o 435 DG we p> 2 ee + ¥ firing at us. .I opened fire from six i . hundred yards and led the enemy * leader by at least a hundred*yards; Ks it must have been just right, for the . * tracers seemed to go into the top of . the wing. I just held the trigger . down.and kept going into the sides of . ¥ the Japs—they blossomed out of: , ye Sloteiot tottetetoteieatnieteteieininioies: ] & Our patrons find that despite rationing and wartime conditions the quality of our meats measures up to the same high stadnards have always maintained. Our meats come from the best cattle, lambs and swine that money can buy. Our service to our patrons is built on a foundation of high quality and reasonable prices. Ask your neighbors about us. They will tell you. we setotutetvtetetieieieieieiditieteieinieieiieies aR ae etreterte st S + , or Hn ote he oh oh, tafe ste ate of s * a& So vte teat Sethe ae : the. sky. at me, growing larger. and . an spi napa ne aoe in 1939. Sergeant William L. McMil. thought, at first see Ne be fore at 2:35 in the afternoon, or eieer gantooanaa” 8 ee Heel: monstrates clearly the simplest form lan. Washington ,a cook in the regi-. the others and attacked. ven as 14:35. The General Kad told me . cnield. As the bombers passed by, . g i h 2 I knew the : 79 . Go aha reat mental staff kitchen, recalls small . eee my /bullets were raking them with were too slow and too ~< Genes are believed to control the chemical reactions which determine both mental and physical characteristicg inherited by the individual from parents. Since the gene is essentially the same in all types of life, animal or plant, and discovery concerning the behavior of genes in the organism will throw light on similar responses im other organisms and may be applied to plant, animal or human fields of investigation. By growing the mold in a test tube under controlled conditions, changes in successive generations of the organism are quickly noted. An albino mold having no coloring has been produced from the orange colored type through artificially induced changes in genes. Similarly, genes are held respofsible for the natural occurrence of albinos in animals such as horses and rabbits, and even in human beings, All are characterized by complete lack of pigment causing pink or red eyes. FRACTURED SKULL Francisco Andrade, 32, a Mexican national, is a patient: in the Community Hospital, Grass Valley, believed to have suffered a fractured , skull as a result of brawl with Vinecante Avevado, 33, another Mexican. Avevada was arrested and placed in the Grass Valley jail on open eharge. It is alleged he struck Andrade with a beer bottle causing a skull fracture and facial lacerations. 2000 CORK OAKS PLANTED State Forestry ‘Ranger W,. F. Sharp reports that through his headquarters here more than 2000 cork oak trees have been given out to residents of this area for planting in the past two years. There are still 100 trees remaining for those who desire {to plant them. scale maneuvets in a lake. near Ta-. coma, Washington. “A cargo net was hung on a. deck he declares. That training months prior to regular landing craft that around Henderson Inlet Sound: This program continued until the spring of 1942. The regiment was fanatically amwas replaced two Pearl. Harbor. by from the balcony of one of the barracks in Fort Lewis for occasional ‘dry runs’ and climbing over another one constituted a part of the fort’s tough obstacle course. All this training culminated in a in the spring of 1942. Major sell Comrie, Fargo, North Dakota, . then ammunition officer and now regimental S-3 tells how men of the 4,7 and 15 regiments boarded transports in Puget Sound and steamed south to a rendezvous point 500 miles off the coast for the ‘invasfon.’ When the division was finally consolidated in Fort Ord, on Montérey Bay, the 15th, along with other 3rd Division units, continued their intensive training in the bay. and for a,time off San Diego. The final training phase took place in Chesapeake Bay, just a few weeks prior to its first combat landing at Fedala. The rest of the landings, Lieata, Anzio, and the French Riveria constitute important, parts of the regiment’s knockout blows at the axis. The total number of Chinese living permanently in other countries was estimated in 1936 to be 7,838,888. e a agp England’s. telegraph service is government owned and operated, and telegraph offices are located in post offices. Hotel Clunie IT’S FAMOUS COFFEE

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Christian Science Monitor, for which . enclose $... : (— ese a) OE Coe Ws) eNO OR RD CD ONE BA AE SN SO and we’d go down that into a boat’ . cruised . on Puget} phibious. A cargo net: was even’hung: practice landing on Monterey Bay, . Rus. large for Zeros. Then I saw‘that they were single-engine reconnaissance-bomb. ers.° I caught-the rear one and . gave it a short burst, keeping my . eye on the other. . The first one went . down with most of one wing gone. The next I chased down every valley on the Mekong, getting in several good shots, but I never did see him go down or crash. From the evidence of the thin trail of smoke . that I last saw coming from it as I . dove and circied to look around again, I claimed it as a ‘‘probable.” The first one I*had confirmed as a “‘certain.’’ The others in our patrol engaged four other planes and probably shot down two of them. The General had been correct as usual— . the Japs were keeping the end of the ferry route under close surveillance. When I told the General about my victory, which had been my twelfth confirmed enemy ship, and told him about the geese in the baggage-compartment, he said he didn’t know whether to congratulate me for the meat or for the Japs—at that time of the year Christmas dinner was more . important. As for. myself, I told him, I hadn’t worried so much about the Japs’ shooting me down as I had about their getting a lucky burst through my fuselage and ruining all that good meat with their explosive bullets. Besides, in the maneuvers of combat, if the necks of all those geese had jammed the controls and made me spin in, the Chinese who found me would have talked a long time about the pilot whom they’d Lae dead with feathers all over im. Christmas night, while we were enjoying the geese, George Hazelett came in with his Squadron to report that the Japs had bombed our base near Lake Yeching with’ eighteen ships on that afternoon of Christmas Day, and the first warning the field had was the sight of the enemy bombers. in the clear blue Yunnan sky. Luckily the bombing had missed the field and no-ships were damaged, but many Chinese in the village. had been killed. Definitely the warning net in western Yunnan made the operation of the Transport Command at Yeching hazardous. I could tell by the General’s face that he had some plans he would tell me about in private. The General had been sick with a cold over Christmas and had a fever that night, when he told’ me what he had to do at Yeching. At dawn the next morning—December 26th in China, but actually Christmas Day in America—I took off with full instructions. When I left, the Doctor told me General Chennault was running a temperature of 103. All of us were worried about him, and knew that the defeats on Christmas Day hadn’t helped his spirits. As I flew West towards Yeching, 145 miles away, in the half light I saw the coolies carrying drums of gasoline on wheelbarrows up the Burma Road. Some of these I knew would go on through Kunming’ to Chungking, 390 miles away by air. Trundling these crude woodenwheeled vehicles of the. ages goneby, these patient workers would require seventy days of constant ef. ” fort, at their dogged trot, to reach the capital at Chungking. The twowheeled Peking carts with three drums would take a shorter time— 44 days. I saw coolie boys plowing in the rice paddies halfway up the sides of the mountains—paddies built like steps from the top of the hill to the valley, so that the irrigation water could be used over and over. I laughed as I saw the ancient means of cx!tivation—the boy, standing with his feet on the wooden scraper, was using his own weight to make it seratch the mud, but was holding on ’ Little Miaow Christmas geese for Col. Scott. children holding many times of the propensity of the Japanese for the exact duplication of former military operations. were going to get gradually more vigilant and stronger above the field for the expected blow. At the same time we were going as far as was commensurate with safety to conserve the invaluable aviation gasoline. Most of the fighters kept right over the field or slightly away, in the direction of the expected attack from Burmese bases. Four fighters began to patrol from Yeching to the Mekong, on course to Lashio and seventy miles from where we were waiting. At two o’clock I sent all planes into the sky except mine. I sat in that on the ground, listening for Harry Pike’s expected report from his patrol to the Mekong River. I was within shouting distance of the ground radio operator, who would tell me of any developments on the weak-functioning warning net. The Jap would come today, I knew, between two and four—that’s 14:00 to 16:00 hours. At 14:54 I saw the radio operator wildly running for my ship. He yelled, ‘‘Report from W-7 says heavy engine noise coming this way—the report is right recent.’’ I was already energizing my starter when Harry Pike called excitedly: ‘‘Here they come—fighters and bombers— I’m just East of the river.’’ I knew then that the Japs were close to fifty miles away; we had all we could do to get set and be waiting for them. When Pike called in, as I got the engine started, I heard that the-Japs were at seventeen thousand, and I called to him to take the fighters, for I heped by that move to make the bombers come in unescorted. From Yeching at its level of 6500 feet I was climbing with full gun, climbing for all the altitude I could grab. -I watched the temperature but drew all the boost I could without detonating too badly. At exactly three o’clock I reached twenty thousand feet and picked up most of my Group, which today was made up of Hazelett’s Squadron. Just six minutes from the time’! had given the ship the gun, I saw flashes reflected by Japanese windshields in the sun. They weren’t far away, but I grinned—for they were below us. I heard from the chatter on our frequency that there was a fight going on towards where Pike had seen the formation cross the river. As the enemy ships materialized on the horizon, I knew that Pike had done his job well, for there was only one fighter with the bombers as escort—one fighter with nine heavy bombers. I think I knéw then that we were going to make jt tough . for the Japs. full-deflection shots, and as fast as . three hundred to two hundred yards ’wds a flash ahead, and I dove as fast as I could shove the nose down. oe We . my formation turned the other five . men were diweg the same. I saw the! lead bomber climb a little, then settle back towards the formation with one wing down. As I saw the second Jap in front ' of me—the left wing man of the leader—I realized I’d have to dive under the enemy very soon or I’d run into them. Things hit my KEYSTONE ~ MARKET DAVE RICHARDS, Prop. 213 Commercial Street Phone 67 Nevada City ‘ ship now, and with noise lke a wing . : coming off, the side glass of my}; windshield was shot out. I was] . é when I: There ars te 8 riers PN II ON from the second bomber got my long burst into it. As I went under the smoke and orange flame, I thought that the Jap I was shooting at had caught fire, but . as I pulled around, back to the direction the: formation had been’ going, and climbed, I saw what had happene. Ti. cre was only smoke above, and the furmation had broken, for I knew the. bomber had exploded — the bombs had been detonated by the fifty-calibre fire. Behind, over the . g trail the Japs had come. were four plumes of smoke where their bombee ~ Se tis ae oferty Fas FLYING” —_@-—— ®BUY © DEFENSE @®STAMPS —— € — Chamber of Commerce OFFICE IN CITY HALL PHONE 575 ers were going down. Below there were bomb bursts all over the paddy fields where: bombs had been jettisoned in the unanticipated interception. I pulled up behind one of the lone bombers that I could see and began to shoot at it methodically from long range. Over on the left were three more, and I saw P-40’s making passes at them. Over the radio I could hear happy American English, with unauthorized swear words, aimed at the Jap that the individual pilot was shooting at, and by the tone of the pilots I knew that wewere winning this battle and that the General was also going to be’very happy. From 800 yards I’d squeeze out a short burst at one engine, then skid over and aim carefully at the other engine and throw out another short burst. The Jap ship was diving with all the speed he could get, but the P-40 kept moving up. I think all their ammunition was gone, for I saw no tracers. In my second burst on the right engine I saw some gray smoke—thin, like gasoline overflowing a tank and blowing back into the slipstream. The next time I came over behind that engine from closer range I saw two red dots near the engine, two dots that became [FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE DRIVE IN FOOD PALACE Groceries, Fruit and Vegetables Beer and Wine COR. YORK AND COMMERCIAL STREETS NEVADA CITY, PHONE 398 fire. The flame ran to the engine and to the fuselage, but by that time I was over shooting at the other engine again. I last saw the bomber diving, with flames that were orange against the, green of the mountains below. There were no more bombers to . } be seen, but I saw seven P-40’s. Clinger came over and got on my wing; as I recognized his ship I slid my hatch-cover back and waved at him. Even before we landed I 100-3 OF ALL KINDS John W. Darke Phones 100-M thought that we had gotten all the = bombers. As we circled the field, with me trying to dodge the cold air that was knifing through the hole in my windshield and bringing a particle of glass against my face every now and then, I realized -why we still had to wear goggles in fighter ships in combat. Below. on the Yunnan hills, I saw eight forestfires that could have. been started only. by burning airplane wrecks, for they had not been there when I New Deal Under Management of _ Pauline and Johnnie 108 W. 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