January 6, 1945 (4 pages)

—' NEVADA CITY NUGGET These were. led by five of the best . men of the AVG, arid: there was one . . great ace-in-the-hole that only the . General and the *AVG@. could ‘have . arranged: Two squadrons of: these . Flying Titers had azreed to stay behind for a two weéks’ period to . help the newly formed 23rd Fighter . . Group. men I think this gesture by those such as Bob Neal, Charley . George T. Burgard, Frank . Lawlor, John E. Petack, Jim How; the range, the point where the fire crossed—the zeri or convergence point of the puns—was right at the waterline of thé Jap boat, and it must have knocked in a hole that crippled the On boat right. away. the second att ack one.of these gunboats was ng-and on fire. Hill’s ] four fi fighters sank ail four of the lit tle metal gunboats. Next day,*on another flight such as this one, Hill led eight fighters ’ four. bombs, ways known that Japan was our natural énemy.When. he was Fes tired frony the Air Corps, instead, of staying on his farm in Waterproof, Louisiana, for the rest of his life and living an easy life shooting ducks and fishing, he had gone ‘to China. ~ Here, ‘in. a rugged _ exist ence, he=had, told his story to the Generalissimo. Vith the ——ee es ahe PooxoM Seago $e ot p>%engerz CAR ARye tee _ iS a { the speed of the fighter narrowed este Me lefestonk “wife steshe notes toy Fan approval of high Chinese officials he had built this air-warning net, had caused to . be constructéd many stratesi ir-" o he he she whe 52 2 Me o% 3, testis o teteteototetestelerteofeniecteotentestete is<>GS eee+f-+ Serger he she teatert feet sf test rt Paenter: CHAPTER XV . . . ? _._. Page Three i rate me erent feofesfeteteteteihafesterfeats . Col. Robert L. Scott with bombing ‘wing Nanchang. for While ‘these ' Heleleteoteitestesterfeate mineatt © BUY © DEFENSE —e— te Sao Bi teh atocl * Hate . oe cae eens aE ? Now. lé Phe ‘Time ‘FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE ~ DRIVE IN FOOD PALACE _-Vegetables OF ALL KINDS John W. Darke New Dea otel Clunie IT’S FAMOUS COFFEE SHOP AND COCKTAIL , BAR CLARENCE R. GRAY TOY AND JACOBS. SACR. NTO, CALIFORNIA JACK BRUNO, Manager 520 COYOTE STREET er the deck of the target: a Then, as It seems that the General had. al see the lake Kunming igson.” (TO BE CONTINUED) . NEVADA CITY, © "~ KEYSTONE MARKET HE wh aM Meleweioy iHierkRee eyek i, a % 7 Nt Coie SUCCUMBS } ard, and others who were suffering . . from combat fatigue and ill health, Me ae THOS. RICHARDS W-NY. RELEASE a . dromes in China, and’had preadhed dive. } the uoctrine of pursuit aviation. : a _The warning net is of course sewas-one of the-bravest-andmost four went down with their bombs,-. cret and.cannot be discussed in deHill was to stay aloft with the other . 'Funeral Tomorrow self-sacrificing intidents_of this war. four to act as ton-cover—just in case . tail. But if you imagine two conFor James Grimes In the two weeks that they remained, eentric circles, one with a radius of two of them gave their lives, and . some Zeros tried ,to surprise the one ‘hundred kilometers and the othFuneral services under the direc-. . dive-bombers. -Ajax Baumler ‘ said their sacrifice was beyond the call er of two hundred kilometers, around tion of Holmes Funeral Home wil! :Johnny of mere duty. Thése men, with those . that he saw the whole thing each of most of the fields and large Funeral services will,be held this be held tomorrow morning {at 10} five who stayed with us to lead our . Petack dove for his target, one of cities in Free China, you have a afternoon in the Holmes Funeral o’clock in St. Canice Catholie Churen squadrons — Hill, Rector, Schiel, . . the gunboats on the lake, but as his general picture; _In these circles bomb hit the boat the Home for Thomas Richards who diad for James Grimes who died in OakBright and Sawyer—and the AVG P-40 was seen . are thousands of reporting stations to explode, evidently hit by ground» Friday night in a Grass Valley hosland Saturday. Interment will take radio, enginéering, armament; and . —some within the enemy lines, some ground personnel, were our back. fire. Ajax followed the burning ship right on the enemy fields thempital following a short. illness. place in the Catholicgfemetery. almost to the. ground and saw it bone and our inspiration. We of . The deceased was born in Nevada . Grimes was in Oroville, -bern . Strike in a rice paddy near a Budselves. There may be a coolie sitthe 23rd Fighter Group salute you. . ting on a city wall watching for airCity 70 years ago, the son’ of the Butte County, 79 years. dhist temple. ago, and That Fourth of July, as the over; planes or listening for engine noise late Mr. and Mrs. William Richards. came with his parents to Nevada! So Petack, one of the AVG who and reporting it with a visual signal. confident enemy ships came in over had stayed for the extra two weeks, There may be a mandarin in a watch who. owned and operated the . New City when a boy. He graduated from Kweilin, they brought a new twinwas killed in action. It’s peculiar tower; a soldier in a field with a York Hotel here during the late sixthe schgols here and for many years engine fighter that was supposed to how a man could fight all through . walkie-talkie radio. All reports final‘They came in doing ties and early seventies. was empteyed as miner, He was murder us. those last nine months and then go ly get in to the outer circfe,where acrobatics, expectingto He was associated with his broamong the first group of miners to afrogant ‘down from a lucky ahti-aircraft shot. : some of the information is refilther W. S. Richards in. a grocery ; reach Tonopah, Nevada, after gold strafe the Chinese civilians in the + John Petack had remained for the ’ tered, and finally it goes to the plotOur patrons find that despite city without opposition. General store for many years and later bewas discovered there. purpose of: training'the new pilots ting-board in our cavé or operaChennault watched them with field rationing and wartime condiand his job was that of airdrome came maintenance man for the Pactions shack. There Chinese interglasses from outside the cave. and tions th@ quality of our meats: ific Gas and Electric Company at Mrs. Molly Rowlands called directions to Bob Neal, Ed . defense. He was killed on this ofpreters get the reports and move measures up to the same high fensive mission. It was one that he little pin flags along the map of Cisco, Nevada County. He was active Succu Rector, and Tex Hill, who were sit. mbs In Oakland _ could have stadnards we have always refused with honor; inting . China—and we know where every with their ships ‘“‘in the sun” . officer of Hydraulic Parlor, Native Mrs. Molly Rowlands passed away stead, he had volunteered for this enemy ship is in our territory and maintained. Our meats come high overhead, at twenty-one thou. Sons of the Golden West and one of jin Oakland January 2. She was born . sand. At his radio order of ‘‘Take . dive-Bombing flight and had been can see where ours are. The net from the best cattle, lambs and the founders of the Order of Curly in North San Juan June 15 1871 and ’em,”’ killed in carrying it out. It was the works so efficiently in certain areas the newly formed 23rd with . swine that money can buy. Our “Bears which was popular among the was educated in the schools ‘there. the AVG attached dropped down and “. . most inspiring thing he could have . that we don’t take off until the service. to our patrons is built done. . Japs are within the one-hundredbusiness and professional men here In latter years she moved to the San massacred the Japs. There were on a foundation of high quali kept sweating out the organiza. kilometer circle; this gives us more Francisco bay area. She was marri2a soon thirteen wrecked Zeros and new for several years. _ ity and reasonable prices. Ask fuel. with which to fight. tion of the-Grou p, and . twin-engined I-45’s around the field finally on July formerly — of Rev. -Gerdic Porter of Trinity. to William Rowlands 17, I received orders from the Gen. your neighbors about us. They for the Chinese to celebrate over. When the Japs come we know at Episcopal Church will officiate at the Camptonville and they made their eral to proceed to Kweilin area and}: what altitude they are approaching will tell you. Out of this initial air battle for services this afternoon. Graveside. home ‘in Oakland for thirty years. . the new Group came one of the best take charge of fighter operations. I and from exactly what direction. We know my heart nearly beat my ribs know their speed and their numrites will be conducted by Hydraulic. . Mrs. Rowlands was huried in Mi. . nicknames. of. the. war. General to pieces, for I was at last being or-. bers. It’s kind of, a joke, too, that Parlor. Interment will be in the Pine . View Cemetery January 6: Besides ' Chennault told me that after the dered to go out and lead the fightin several places we know when the her husband she leaves a niece, Mrs. . Jap attack had been broken he saw Grove Cemetery. ing. Just as I landed on this airJapanese roll-their ships from their . a lone Zero tear across’ the tops of Seley’ Fuller of Fresno and numerdrome. in the Kwansi province I hangars or revetments,when they . the hills that. jutted up. all around ous cousins to mourn her passing. Kweilin, arid far behind it he heard. saw the remainder of the AVG get ; Start their engines, and when they To Plant Trees the unmistakable rolling thunder of . take off. Also it not only works for DAVE RICHARDS, Prop. Heavy Rainfall six fifty-caligre guns. The hurrying the obvious purpose of defense but BERKELEY, Jan. 8—January and In Sierra County _ ; Jap kept goin in the. direction of has permitted us in many cases to 213 Commercial Street February are ideal tree planting DOWNIEVILLE, Jan. 8—William Canton and home, locate lost pilots, for the navigation . and had just Phone 67 Nevada-City months. in California, according bo Ac} elsgn fire control assistant, and about disappeared in the: Southeast facilities in Chinn are not the Woodbridge Metcalf extension spec. world’s best. Fred T. Rixey, timber scaler of the when the General saw a shark-nosed jalist in forestry, Agricultural ExtenTahoe national forest staff, have reP-40 roar out of-the West, with its Of course the locating of lost, sion Service University. of Califorsix guns going steadily, the tracers friendly ships took another element ,turned from a survey of snow condi~ “dropping far, far below and behind nia. . besides the warning net. It required tions on the Yuba Pass Summit. They the existence of intelligent radio op“Good raing during November and report that average depth of the the fleeing Zero. Well, the Jap-got “KEEP ’EM away and when the American ship erators who knew the country and December have put the soil in fine snowmeasured was 34:36 inches had finally gotten his guns stopped FLYING” had common sense. These men, condition and trees planted now will with a water content of 11.36 inchand cool enoughto . land, the pilot ‘+ like Richardson, Mihalko, Miller, Sinai e—. get a much better start than if plantes,“ Snow conditions were excellent was found to be Lieutenant Dumas and Sasser, with others, stayed out ed too late,’’ “il —just an eager American pilot who there with us, and if you count the” for skiing. : had seen the Jap at too great disAVG aces as the first factor that A large supply of cork oak trees Snow measurements wilt be taken tance and had opened up. permitted us to carry on in a manis available at the state nursery for at Yuba Pass, Gold Lake, Summit, @®STAMPS Dumas ner that_didn’t discredit the Flying laughingl y. told us, during free distribution’ to those who will Sardine Creek Flat and MHaypress Tigers, then these men who helped the usual. kidding that eame that plant and care for them. Anyone ‘Meadows each month until April: At us by radio were the close second evening, that it had. been the first who has space for a number of these factor. Simi’s Camp Pioneer . Lodge rain time he had seen-an enemy plane, trees may contact the county farm Suppose that one of our pilots, re-gauge was checked and at the Dowand-he had gotten so excited that advisor, state ferest ranger, or Metnieville ranger gtation the automatic he’d fired too soon. All he did was Chamber of Commerce turning from a flight, loses: his posicalf, agricultural extension forester, shoot—but when he got the trigger tion cn his map because of a cross. rain gauge measured precipitation down and saw the tracers out in wind, because of unfamiliarity with . University of California, OFFICE IN. CITY HALL Berkeley as on January 4,°2'6.68 inches as front he couldn’t turn it loose. He the country, because of his own stuit is announced. compared with 11.69 inches “for the felt about the game way that-all of pidity--which we call a “‘short cirPHONE 575 “By planting these trees now you same period last*year. _ us feel in our first combat. But this Major Ed Rector, AVG ace and cuit between the head-phones’’—or can help develop an emergency supescapade earned for him the title of Squadron commanding officer, whojust because the maps of China are ply of cork for the future.” Metcalf took heavy toll of the Japs. “Long Burst Dumas.”’ very inaccurate. In many such inMine Workers Protective said. . stances we would have lost an airLeague Seats Officers Thus was the 23rd Fighter Group into a transport to begin their long plane worth virtually millions in The Mine Workers Protective trip home. to the. U. S. A. They our combat zone, and_perh organize d, initiated; and activated MRS. CARMEN WHITE PASSES League installed its new president, aps the called to me.as they got aboard pilot too. in combat. When I took over things : ‘Last rites were said this afterRuséell. Miller, elected to succeed and I saw Bob Neal, their greatest at Kunming there were three fighter The pilot who is lost calls the ranoon. in the Hooper and Weaver Samuel Scovill, who ace, wave from ‘the door’ as he dio station that he thinks served two squadrons and one headquarters is closest Mortuary for’-Mrs. Carmén White, terms. stepped in. We were on our own to him, and in squadron. Major Tex Hill had one code tells the trounow, except for the five AVG ’vetble. The radioman who died Friday in Winnemucca, NeDarrell Kitts past president, was squadron at Hengyang, China, and tells him to cirerans who had accepted induction cle the next vada. She was stricken while preinstalling ‘officer. Others seated in with him were such deputy leaders town he passes for a in China, and the thirty-odd groundfew minutes. Down in that town, paring’to come to this city to attend league offices were Charles Goudge, as Maj. Gil Bright, Maj. Johnny ‘ Alison, and Capt. Ajax Baumler, men. . tmarked on his map with an unknown .the funeral of her grandmother, Mts. vice president, Ed J. Jones, recordMaj. Ed Rector had another SquadAs the transport got away and the Chinese character, some member of Rose E. Fisher who succumbed last ing secretary, William Rowett, finron at Kweilin with Capt. Charlie dust settled down, I climbed out ‘of this warning net sees him and reweek. : ancial secretary, Frank X. Ducotey, Sawyer for his assistant in leadermy fighter and looked around at the ports* one—P-40 circling. In a few Mrs. White had spent her childtreasurer, John M. Young, conductship. These .outlying stations are country. I could but marvel at the . minutes the radio operator gets the geographical situation. Colonel Cooreport and tells the pilot: ‘‘You’re hood years in Rough and Ready or, Ed Baldwin, door keeper, Richabout five hundred miles ‘in the direction of Japan from our headper and I—Cooper had been in the reported over Lufeng—fly fifty-eight where her grandmother owned and ard Bennallack, trustees for the quarters on the plateau of Yunnan movie production business—used to degrees at two hundred miles an operated tire hotel. She was born in three year term, Charles Hatch auditat Kunming. The third unit was discuss the peculiar beauty of the hour and we’ll have supper ready— Suisun, Solano Coe 30 years ing committee member for three the place, and he’d say that it would we’ye got grits tonight—yeah.” squadron under Maj. Frank ago. Her mother, the former Mrs. years, William Penaluna and Fred Schiel, who was very busy training make the greatest location in the One amusing butnear-tragic inOlivia Armstrong of Grass Valley, Wales, executive committee world for a moving picture. the most junior members of this memstance of this orientation by. means ne now Mrs. David Janoski and her bers. fighter w group in the way of It was a flat, tableland country, of the air-warning net happened fighter aviation. I got the Group grandmother, Mre. and over the ages it must have about the time the AVG. induction Harriett ArmPasties and beer were served in headquarters to running and stood been under water. From the level board came to China. Another fightstrong survive. Both reside in Oakthe banquet hall of the league’s by for orders to begin leading the plain rose vertical, rocky hills, like er group commander had waited for Grocutes. Fruit and land. headquarters. é fighter forces in action to the East. stalagmites. These were honeyseveral days ‘over in India to come On July 10, Tex Hill led a small combed with caves where water, into China with a large flight of JAPANESE NO PROBLEM HERE W. O. Deal, inspector for the flight, including Baumler, Alison, when they were submerged, must P-40E 1’s. He finally came over on Beer and Wine ‘Walter Carlson, county supérinState Department of Public Health, Lieut. Lee Minor, and Lieut. have dissolved the limestone that a transport and eventually got tired OOR. YORK AND COMMERCIAL Elias, tendent of schools, returning from a on invitation of City Health Officer up on the’ Yangtse. had been in the pockets. Evidently of waiting for the fighters. He didn’t Their STREE TS prime job was to’ sy escort a few meeting -school superintendents, the glacier period had planed the B-25 know that the weather was very of George Calanan, completed a survey NEVADA CITY, PHONE 398 medium bombers against the docks valley flat. as the glacier moved bad in Burma, and that the monschools in Sacramento, reported that of: Nevada City with regard to its of Hankow. This objective of misSouth, —-but—the -jagged—rocks had soon winds from ‘the South could these officials did not anticipate any rat population, and yesterday reportsion with our China force was nevwithstood the pressure. Then, as take them so far off course in a serious difficulties in readmitting ed that the rodents were not numer all we considered to be the the glacier melted, the caves had few minutes that the entire duty flight Japanese children of our fighters, for if any other tarto ‘the public erous enough to cause alarm. formed under water. Now the gray might easily get lost. schools, when their parents return He recommended that refuse acget presented itself after the bombpinnacles of lava-like rock pointed After a long wait he came back straight towards the heavens. These ers were on the, way home, we’d to their homes in California. to Assam in the transport and led cumulations be eliminated and—that one-thousandhave some fun. to ~ two-thousand-foot Tex Hill led his Carlson stated Nevada County all food be kept out of reach of the his pilots towards Kunming. First flight along with the bombers, who sentinels gave the valley an eery apwould probably not have to face any pests. In some instances he gave inwere led by Col. C. V. Haynes. After pearance that always subdued my of all,’ he corrected too much for the southerly wind, and in a very problem concerning Japanese childstructions for poisoning, where such the bombs had been general feeling of cheerfulness. As released and short time he was fifty miles South dren, since it has been many years measures might prove effective. He the B-25’s were heading back for long as I went to Kweilin, I dreaded of his course and near two Japanese the extra nervous base Since any Japanese families resided found that evidence that with tension their that bomb-ba I y doors 100-3 Phones rats were 00-M closed, Tex called for an attack by knew it would produce. Add to this fields. His unbashful deputy leadin the cotnty. not presently a menace. ers herded him to the North. And the fighters on the enemy shipping a summer temperature of over 100 then the monsoon wind from out the degrees, a humidity of almost 100 in the river. Indian Ocean began to’ work on his One of the bomber pilots said that per cent, and a fine powdery dust navigation, and in another ons hour he that gagged you, and you can realTex rolled his ship over from six was lost far to the North of the ize that Kweilin was not a summer teen thousand feet and streaked course. Night was falling, and the Under Management of resort. " down for the Jap gunboats below. ‘Pauline and Johnnie hills of North China were rising . The little gunboats were shooting There was just the single runway . , threateningly. 108 W. Main Street, Grass Valley jeverything they had at the Amerifor the planes, cut there between Then the net, if it hadn’t justified _can fighters—but that, I’ve learned those silent needles of stone. We its existence long before, would have ° had operations office in one of the begun‘to pay for itself. The leader Tex since, was what Hill liked. -~ UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Hill’s guns were firing even as he natural caves, and the radio set in called Kunming, and the operator Delicious Mixed Drinks te Please pulled out right on the water, and another. As I climbed out of my there, a tough old former Navy man, f they swept the décks of the enemy P-40, I could see neither. heard him and gave ‘the instrucrae gunboats. The bomber ‘pilot said Here in Kweilin I first had extions: “Circle, the first town you. that as the fighter ships would turn plained to me the air-raid warning see.’ The group commander began ARE RENOW NED IN CALIFORNIA low to the water and come in, each system on which we depended. It to argue at once—said he didn’t concentrating on one of the little was of course a working dream that have enough gas to waste circling; . RA FROM $1.50 UP Jap warships, he could see the six General Chennault had developed. but the AVG radio-man talked him ‘lines of fifty-calibre tracers cutting Many times it has saved our fighter into. doing it. Then the net reportExcellent Service—Best Food across the water. At long range force in China, and without it: our ed, and Kunming operator. said, they seemed to meet out in front of chances there against the Japanese ‘““You’re over, Yangpi—ily 240 ~-dethe fighter and then fan out and covwould have been hopeless. grees for twenty minutes and you'll 8TH AND K STREET, . tes*,. MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1945

—' NEVADA CITY NUGGET These were. led by five of the best . men of the AVG, arid: there was one . . great ace-in-the-hole that only the . General and the *AVG@. could ‘have . arranged: Two squadrons of: these . Flying Titers had azreed to stay behind for a two weéks’ period to . help the newly formed 23rd Fighter . . Group. men I think this gesture by those such as Bob Neal, Charley . George T. Burgard, Frank . Lawlor, John E. Petack, Jim How; the range, the point where the fire crossed—the zeri or convergence point of the puns—was right at the waterline of thé Jap boat, and it must have knocked in a hole that crippled the On boat right. away. the second att ack one.of these gunboats was ng-and on fire. Hill’s ] four fi fighters sank ail four of the lit tle metal gunboats. Next day,*on another flight such as this one, Hill led eight fighters ’ four. bombs, ways known that Japan was our natural énemy..When. he was Fes tired frony the Air Corps, instead, of staying on his farm in Waterproof, Louisiana, for the rest of his life and living an easy life shooting ducks and fishing, he had gone ‘to China. ~ Here, ‘in. a rugged _ exist ence, he=had, told his story to the Generalissimo. Vith the ——ee es ahe PooxoM Seago $e ot p>%engerz CAR ARye tee _ iS a { the speed of the fighter narrowed este Me lefestonk “wife steshe notes toy Fan approval of high Chinese officials he had built this air-warning net, had caused to . be constructéd many stratesi ir-" o he he she whe 52 2 Me o% 3, testis o teteteototetestelerteofeniecteotentestete is<>GS eee+f-+ Serger he she teatert feet sf test rt Paenter: CHAPTER XV . . . ? _._. Page Three i rate me erent feofesfeteteteteihafesterfeats . Col. Robert L. Scott with bombing ‘wing Nanchang. for While ‘these ' Heleleteoteitestesterfeate mineatt © BUY © DEFENSE —e— te Sao Bi teh atocl * Hate . oe cae eens aE ? Now. lé Phe ‘Time ‘FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE ~ DRIVE IN FOOD PALACE _-Vegetables OF ALL KINDS John W. Darke New Dea otel Clunie IT’S FAMOUS COFFEE SHOP AND COCKTAIL , BAR CLARENCE R. GRAY TOY AND JACOBS. SACR. NTO, CALIFORNIA JACK BRUNO, Manager 520 COYOTE STREET er the deck of the target: a Then, as It seems that the General had. al see the lake Kunming igson.” (TO BE CONTINUED) . NEVADA CITY, © "~ KEYSTONE MARKET HE wh aM Meleweioy iHierkRee eyek i, a % 7 Nt Coie SUCCUMBS } ard, and others who were suffering . . from combat fatigue and ill health, Me ae THOS. RICHARDS W-NY. RELEASE a . dromes in China, and’had preadhed dive. } the uoctrine of pursuit aviation. : a _The warning net is of course sewas-one of the-bravest-andmost four went down with their bombs,-. cret and.cannot be discussed in deHill was to stay aloft with the other . 'Funeral Tomorrow self-sacrificing intidents_of this war. four to act as ton-cover—just in case . tail. But if you imagine two conFor James Grimes In the two weeks that they remained, eentric circles, one with a radius of two of them gave their lives, and . some Zeros tried ,to surprise the one ‘hundred kilometers and the othFuneral services under the direc-. . dive-bombers. -Ajax Baumler ‘ said their sacrifice was beyond the call er of two hundred kilometers, around tion of Holmes Funeral Home wil! :Johnny of mere duty. Thése men, with those . that he saw the whole thing each of most of the fields and large Funeral services will,be held this be held tomorrow morning {at 10} five who stayed with us to lead our . Petack dove for his target, one of cities in Free China, you have a afternoon in the Holmes Funeral o’clock in St. Canice Catholie Churen squadrons — Hill, Rector, Schiel, . . the gunboats on the lake, but as his general picture; _In these circles bomb hit the boat the Home for Thomas Richards who diad for James Grimes who died in OakBright and Sawyer—and the AVG P-40 was seen . are thousands of reporting stations to explode, evidently hit by ground» Friday night in a Grass Valley hosland Saturday. Interment will take radio, enginéering, armament; and . —some within the enemy lines, some ground personnel, were our back. fire. Ajax followed the burning ship right on the enemy fields thempital following a short. illness. place in the Catholicgfemetery. almost to the. ground and saw it bone and our inspiration. We of . The deceased was born in Nevada . Grimes was in Oroville, -bern . Strike in a rice paddy near a Budselves. There may be a coolie sitthe 23rd Fighter Group salute you. . ting on a city wall watching for airCity 70 years ago, the son’ of the Butte County, 79 years. dhist temple. ago, and That Fourth of July, as the over; planes or listening for engine noise late Mr. and Mrs. William Richards. came with his parents to Nevada! So Petack, one of the AVG who and reporting it with a visual signal. confident enemy ships came in over had stayed for the extra two weeks, There may be a mandarin in a watch who. owned and operated the . New City when a boy. He graduated from Kweilin, they brought a new twinwas killed in action. It’s peculiar tower; a soldier in a field with a York Hotel here during the late sixthe schgols here and for many years engine fighter that was supposed to how a man could fight all through . walkie-talkie radio. All reports final‘They came in doing ties and early seventies. was empteyed as miner, He was murder us. those last nine months and then go ly get in to the outer circfe,where acrobatics, expectingto He was associated with his broamong the first group of miners to afrogant ‘down from a lucky ahti-aircraft shot. : some of the information is refilther W. S. Richards in. a grocery ; reach Tonopah, Nevada, after gold strafe the Chinese civilians in the + John Petack had remained for the ’ tered, and finally it goes to the plotOur patrons find that despite city without opposition. General store for many years and later bewas discovered there. purpose of: training'the new pilots ting-board in our cavé or operaChennault watched them with field rationing and wartime condiand his job was that of airdrome came maintenance man for the Pactions shack. There Chinese interglasses from outside the cave. and tions th@ quality of our meats: ific Gas and Electric Company at Mrs. Molly Rowlands called directions to Bob Neal, Ed . defense. He was killed on this ofpreters get the reports and move measures up to the same high fensive mission. It was one that he little pin flags along the map of Cisco, Nevada County. He was active Succu Rector, and Tex Hill, who were sit. mbs In Oakland _ could have stadnards we have always refused with honor; inting . China—and we know where every with their ships ‘“‘in the sun” . officer of Hydraulic Parlor, Native Mrs. Molly Rowlands passed away stead, he had volunteered for this enemy ship is in our territory and maintained. Our meats come high overhead, at twenty-one thou. Sons of the Golden West and one of jin Oakland January 2. She was born . sand. At his radio order of ‘‘Take . dive-Bombing flight and had been can see where ours are. The net from the best cattle, lambs and the founders of the Order of Curly in North San Juan June 15 1871 and ’em,”’ killed in carrying it out. It was the works so efficiently in certain areas the newly formed 23rd with . swine that money can buy. Our “Bears which was popular among the was educated in the schools ‘there. the AVG attached dropped down and “. . most inspiring thing he could have . that we don’t take off until the service. to our patrons is built done. . Japs are within the one-hundredbusiness and professional men here In latter years she moved to the San massacred the Japs. There were on a foundation of high quali kept sweating out the organiza. kilometer circle; this gives us more Francisco bay area. She was marri2a soon thirteen wrecked Zeros and new for several years. _ ity and reasonable prices. Ask fuel. with which to fight. tion of the-Grou p, and . twin-engined I-45’s around the field finally on July formerly — of Rev. -Gerdic Porter of Trinity. to William Rowlands 17, I received orders from the Gen. your neighbors about us. They for the Chinese to celebrate over. When the Japs come we know at Episcopal Church will officiate at the Camptonville and they made their eral to proceed to Kweilin area and}: what altitude they are approaching will tell you. Out of this initial air battle for

services this afternoon. Graveside. home ‘in Oakland for thirty years. . the new Group came one of the best take charge of fighter operations. I and from exactly what direction. We know my heart nearly beat my ribs know their speed and their numrites will be conducted by Hydraulic. . Mrs. Rowlands was huried in Mi. . nicknames. of. the. war. General to pieces, for I was at last being or-. bers. It’s kind of, a joke, too, that Parlor. Interment will be in the Pine . View Cemetery January 6: Besides ' Chennault told me that after the dered to go out and lead the fightin several places we know when the her husband she leaves a niece, Mrs. . Jap attack had been broken he saw Grove Cemetery. ing. Just as I landed on this airJapanese roll-their ships from their . a lone Zero tear across’ the tops of Seley’ Fuller of Fresno and numerdrome. in the Kwansi province I hangars or revetments,when they . the hills that. jutted up. all around ous cousins to mourn her passing. Kweilin, arid far behind it he heard. saw the remainder of the AVG get ; Start their engines, and when they To Plant Trees the unmistakable rolling thunder of . take off. Also it not only works for DAVE RICHARDS, Prop. Heavy Rainfall six fifty-caligre guns. The hurrying the obvious purpose of defense but BERKELEY, Jan. 8—January and In Sierra County _ ; Jap kept goin in the. direction of has permitted us in many cases to 213 Commercial Street February are ideal tree planting DOWNIEVILLE, Jan. 8—William Canton and home, locate lost pilots, for the navigation . and had just Phone 67 Nevada-City months. in California, according bo Ac} elsgn fire control assistant, and about disappeared in the: Southeast facilities in Chinn are not the Woodbridge Metcalf extension spec. world’s best. Fred T. Rixey, timber scaler of the when the General saw a shark-nosed jalist in forestry, Agricultural ExtenTahoe national forest staff, have reP-40 roar out of-the West, with its Of course the locating of lost, sion Service University. of Califorsix guns going steadily, the tracers friendly ships took another element ,turned from a survey of snow condi~ “dropping far, far below and behind nia. . besides the warning net. It required tions on the Yuba Pass Summit. They the existence of intelligent radio op“Good raing during November and report that average depth of the the fleeing Zero. Well, the Jap-got “KEEP ’EM away and when the American ship erators who knew the country and December have put the soil in fine snowmeasured was 34:36 inches had finally gotten his guns stopped FLYING” had common sense. These men, condition and trees planted now will with a water content of 11.36 inchand cool enoughto . land, the pilot ‘+ like Richardson, Mihalko, Miller, Sinai e—. get a much better start than if plantes,“ Snow conditions were excellent was found to be Lieutenant Dumas and Sasser, with others, stayed out ed too late,’’ “il —just an eager American pilot who there with us, and if you count the” for skiing. : had seen the Jap at too great disAVG aces as the first factor that A large supply of cork oak trees Snow measurements wilt be taken tance and had opened up. permitted us to carry on in a manis available at the state nursery for at Yuba Pass, Gold Lake, Summit, @®STAMPS Dumas ner that_didn’t discredit the Flying laughingl y. told us, during free distribution’ to those who will Sardine Creek Flat and MHaypress Tigers, then these men who helped the usual. kidding that eame that plant and care for them. Anyone ‘Meadows each month until April: At us by radio were the close second evening, that it had. been the first who has space for a number of these factor. Simi’s Camp Pioneer . Lodge rain time he had seen-an enemy plane, trees may contact the county farm Suppose that one of our pilots, re-gauge was checked and at the Dowand-he had gotten so excited that advisor, state ferest ranger, or Metnieville ranger gtation the automatic he’d fired too soon. All he did was Chamber of Commerce turning from a flight, loses: his posicalf, agricultural extension forester, shoot—but when he got the trigger tion cn his map because of a cross. rain gauge measured precipitation down and saw the tracers out in wind, because of unfamiliarity with . University of California, OFFICE IN. CITY HALL Berkeley as on January 4,°2'6.68 inches as front he couldn’t turn it loose. He the country, because of his own stuit is announced. compared with 11.69 inches “for the felt about the game way that-all of pidity--which we call a “‘short cirPHONE 575 “By planting these trees now you same period last*year. _ us feel in our first combat. But this Major Ed Rector, AVG ace and cuit between the head-phones’’—or can help develop an emergency supescapade earned for him the title of Squadron commanding officer, whojust because the maps of China are ply of cork for the future.” Metcalf took heavy toll of the Japs. “Long Burst Dumas.”’ very inaccurate. In many such inMine Workers Protective said. . stances we would have lost an airLeague Seats Officers Thus was the 23rd Fighter Group into a transport to begin their long plane worth virtually millions in The Mine Workers Protective trip home. to the. U. S. A. They our combat zone, and_perh organize d, initiated; and activated MRS. CARMEN WHITE PASSES League installed its new president, aps the called to me.as they got aboard pilot too. in combat. When I took over things : ‘Last rites were said this afterRuséell. Miller, elected to succeed and I saw Bob Neal, their greatest at Kunming there were three fighter The pilot who is lost calls the ranoon. in the Hooper and Weaver Samuel Scovill, who ace, wave from ‘the door’ as he dio station that he thinks served two squadrons and one headquarters is closest Mortuary for’-Mrs. Carmén White, terms. stepped in. We were on our own to him, and in squadron. Major Tex Hill had one code tells the trounow, except for the five AVG ’vetble. The radioman who died Friday in Winnemucca, NeDarrell Kitts past president, was squadron at Hengyang, China, and tells him to cirerans who had accepted induction cle the next vada. She was stricken while preinstalling ‘officer. Others seated in with him were such deputy leaders town he passes for a in China, and the thirty-odd groundfew minutes. Down in that town, paring’to come to this city to attend league offices were Charles Goudge, as Maj. Gil Bright, Maj. Johnny ‘ Alison, and Capt. Ajax Baumler, men. . tmarked on his map with an unknown .the funeral of her grandmother, Mts. vice president, Ed J. Jones, recordMaj. Ed Rector had another SquadAs the transport got away and the Chinese character, some member of Rose E. Fisher who succumbed last ing secretary, William Rowett, finron at Kweilin with Capt. Charlie dust settled down, I climbed out ‘of this warning net sees him and reweek. : ancial secretary, Frank X. Ducotey, Sawyer for his assistant in leadermy fighter and looked around at the ports* one—P-40 circling. In a few Mrs. White had spent her childtreasurer, John M. Young, conductship. These .outlying stations are country. I could but marvel at the . minutes the radio operator gets the geographical situation. Colonel Cooreport and tells the pilot: ‘‘You’re hood years in Rough and Ready or, Ed Baldwin, door keeper, Richabout five hundred miles ‘in the direction of Japan from our headper and I—Cooper had been in the reported over Lufeng—fly fifty-eight where her grandmother owned and ard Bennallack, trustees for the quarters on the plateau of Yunnan movie production business—used to degrees at two hundred miles an operated tire hotel. She was born in three year term, Charles Hatch auditat Kunming. The third unit was discuss the peculiar beauty of the hour and we’ll have supper ready— Suisun, Solano Coe 30 years ing committee member for three the place, and he’d say that it would we’ye got grits tonight—yeah.” squadron under Maj. Frank ago. Her mother, the former Mrs. years, William Penaluna and Fred Schiel, who was very busy training make the greatest location in the One amusing butnear-tragic inOlivia Armstrong of Grass Valley, Wales, executive committee world for a moving picture. the most junior members of this memstance of this orientation by. means ne now Mrs. David Janoski and her bers. fighter w group in the way of It was a flat, tableland country, of the air-warning net happened fighter aviation. I got the Group grandmother, Mre. and over the ages it must have about the time the AVG. induction Harriett ArmPasties and beer were served in headquarters to running and stood been under water. From the level board came to China. Another fightstrong survive. Both reside in Oakthe banquet hall of the league’s by for orders to begin leading the plain rose vertical, rocky hills, like er group commander had waited for Grocutes. Fruit and land. headquarters. é fighter forces in action to the East. stalagmites. These were honeyseveral days ‘over in India to come On July 10, Tex Hill led a small combed with caves where water, into China with a large flight of JAPANESE NO PROBLEM HERE W. O. Deal, inspector for the flight, including Baumler, Alison, when they were submerged, must P-40E 1’s. He finally came over on Beer and Wine ‘Walter Carlson, county supérinState Department of Public Health, Lieut. Lee Minor, and Lieut. have dissolved the limestone that a transport and eventually got tired OOR. YORK AND COMMERCIAL Elias, tendent of schools, returning from a on invitation of City Health Officer up on the’ Yangtse. had been in the pockets. Evidently of waiting for the fighters. He didn’t Their STREE TS prime job was to’ sy escort a few meeting -school superintendents, the glacier period had planed the B-25 know that the weather was very of George Calanan, completed a survey NEVADA CITY, PHONE 398 medium bombers against the docks valley flat. as the glacier moved bad in Burma, and that the monschools in Sacramento, reported that of: Nevada City with regard to its of Hankow. This objective of misSouth, —-but—the -jagged—rocks had soon winds from ‘the South could these officials did not anticipate any rat population, and yesterday reportsion with our China force was nevwithstood the pressure. Then, as take them so far off course in a serious difficulties in readmitting ed that the rodents were not numer all we considered to be the the glacier melted, the caves had few minutes that the entire duty flight Japanese children of our fighters, for if any other tarto ‘the public erous enough to cause alarm. formed under water. Now the gray might easily get lost. schools, when their parents return He recommended that refuse acget presented itself after the bombpinnacles of lava-like rock pointed After a long wait he came back straight towards the heavens. These ers were on the, way home, we’d to their homes in California. to Assam in the transport and led cumulations be eliminated and—that one-thousandhave some fun. to ~ two-thousand-foot Tex Hill led his Carlson stated Nevada County all food be kept out of reach of the his pilots towards Kunming. First flight along with the bombers, who sentinels gave the valley an eery apwould probably not have to face any pests. In some instances he gave inwere led by Col. C. V. Haynes. After pearance that always subdued my of all,’ he corrected too much for the southerly wind, and in a very problem concerning Japanese childstructions for poisoning, where such the bombs had been general feeling of cheerfulness. As released and short time he was fifty miles South dren, since it has been many years measures might prove effective. He the B-25’s were heading back for long as I went to Kweilin, I dreaded of his course and near two Japanese the extra nervous base Since any Japanese families resided found that evidence that with tension their that bomb-ba I y doors 100-3 Phones rats were 00-M closed, Tex called for an attack by knew it would produce. Add to this fields. His unbashful deputy leadin the cotnty. not presently a menace. ers herded him to the North. And the fighters on the enemy shipping a summer temperature of over 100 then the monsoon wind from out the degrees, a humidity of almost 100 in the river. Indian Ocean began to’ work on his One of the bomber pilots said that per cent, and a fine powdery dust navigation, and in another ons hour he that gagged you, and you can realTex rolled his ship over from six was lost far to the North of the ize that Kweilin was not a summer teen thousand feet and streaked course. Night was falling, and the Under Management of resort. " down for the Jap gunboats below. ‘Pauline and Johnnie hills of North China were rising . The little gunboats were shooting There was just the single runway . , threateningly. 108 W. Main Street, Grass Valley jeverything they had at the Amerifor the planes, cut there between Then the net, if it hadn’t justified _can fighters—but that, I’ve learned those silent needles of stone. We its existence long before, would have ° had operations office in one of the begun‘to pay for itself. The leader Tex since, was what Hill liked. -~ UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Hill’s guns were firing even as he natural caves, and the radio set in called Kunming, and the operator Delicious Mixed Drinks te Please pulled out right on the water, and another. As I climbed out of my there, a tough old former Navy man, f they swept the décks of the enemy P-40, I could see neither. heard him and gave ‘the instrucrae gunboats. The bomber ‘pilot said Here in Kweilin I first had extions: “Circle, the first town you. that as the fighter ships would turn plained to me the air-raid warning see.’ The group commander began ARE RENOW NED IN CALIFORNIA low to the water and come in, each system on which we depended. It to argue at once—said he didn’t concentrating on one of the little was of course a working dream that have enough gas to waste circling; . RA FROM $1.50 UP Jap warships, he could see the six General Chennault had developed. but the AVG radio-man talked him ‘lines of fifty-calibre tracers cutting Many times it has saved our fighter into. doing it. Then the net reportExcellent Service—Best Food across the water. At long range force in China, and without it: our ed, and Kunming operator. said, they seemed to meet out in front of chances there against the Japanese ‘““You’re over, Yangpi—ily 240 ~-dethe fighter and then fan out and covwould have been hopeless. grees for twenty minutes and you'll 8TH AND K STREET, . tes*,. MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1945