FEBRUARY1960

CHINESE look over the ruin and rubble left of their homes on this street in Liuchow. TheJapanese destroyed the town before they were driven out by the return of the Chinese troops inAugust, 1945. U. S. Army photo submitted by Al Wills.

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Vol. 14, NO.2 February, 1960Ex-CBI ROUNDUP, established 1946, is a reminiscing magazinepublished monthly except AUGUST and SEPTEMBER at Lau-rens, Iowa, by and for former members of U. S. Units stationedin the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Ex-CBIRoundup is the official publication of thf China-Burma-IndiaVeterans Association.

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• The photo of theChinese pagoda On page 2(Dec.) intere ted me. Hav-ing served my time inIndia, I have ne\'er seenone and ha\'e alwa\'swondered if th e a-reaetually trees and bu hesgrowing on tihe ledges, andwhy.

GEORGE E. SUGG,Tampa, Fla.

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• The visit of President Eisenhower to Pakistan andIndia should help to improve relations between theUnited States and those Far Eastern countries. At am'rate, the visit to India closed on a high n:>te of adula.tion. A civic reception for Mr. Eisenhower by lhe c' yof Delhi brought out a crowd of at least a mi ionpersons to honor the president and bid him farewell.Mr. Eisenhower said the dem:>nstration was a "- ul.stirring testimonial." Prime _linis er _'ehru aid,"India has presented to you a priceles hing-a partof her heart."

• Cover Picture 'is a face.to.face "iew of a cobra.Joel H. Springer, Jr., who took the pic ure in India, hasthis to say about it: "I don't recall how this 'portraitsitting' was arranged, but clearly remember jumpingbackwards just after clicking shut er, for cobra struckat me, but I was lo.ng gone."

• It's interesling to note that more and more touristsare visiting India and Burma these days ... perhapsmany who served in CBI wiII eventually go back to seehow things have changed. Ohina, of c:>urse, is still be.hind the bamboo curtain ... those of us who are "oldChina hands" will have to remember it as we saw it.

• One of the most popular features of Ex.CBI Round.up, it seems, is the section containing Letters to tiheEditors. This feature depends upon our readers ... wecan't print letters unless someone writes them. We'recounting on YOU to help keep us supplied with copy!

• Whe:l you move. be sure to send us your change ofaddress. Otherwise your Roundup may go astray.

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YOUNG GIRL who acted as atransient entenainer on theroad outside T ing.Lsien, Hu-nan, China. he sang. juggledthree sticks and beat the drumsimultaneously. Photo oy Wil-liam E. Main.

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BATH HOUSE in Shanghai, China, known as the Yang TszeBath & Massage. Photo by Clinton Staples.

Hungry Python• Say, that 12-foot pyt'honpictured on page 23 ofDecember issue looks likehe's dying, after eating thejackal. Is he?

KENNETH FERRIS,Laredo, Texas

Look.f like he's dead.-Eds.

Drivers Tra.ining• Was wit'h the driverstraining school in India andin China. Would like to seeand hear from friends ofRamgarh Training Center.

FLOYD W. NIFONG,148 Piccadilly Dr.Winston-Salem, T. C.

Eisenhower b India• What CBI wallah didnot follow with entiliusia!S'tic interest President Eisen.hower's visit in Pakistanand India? My wife and Iread every newspaperartcle, watched TV and,mavie newsreels for famil.iar places in New Delhi an'dKarachi.

HARVEY D. FORD,Arlingtan, Va.

Ohio CBI Meeting• In our Ohio. Departmentit is a challenge far onelocal basha to. foIlow theother as host for our meet.ings. Now to Youngstown-and we are looking forwardto a real lively gat'heringof Ohio sahibs and memosahibs representing thestate's four local bashas,C inc inn a t i, Columbus,Toledo and Youngstown.Neighboring ex-CBIers andpast and pre ent nationalofficers are invited. Therewill be a hart businesssession, dinner, dancingand refreshment. Factsand figures are: February20, 1960. At 7 p.m. In theNew England Room ofHoward Johnston Re tau.rant on Route 18 (5860Mahoning Ave. Extension).Austintown, (We t)Youngstown, Ohio. Exit 15off the Ohio Turnpike ismost 'convenient, being onlya few minutes drive east to

the above. Many beautifulmotels close by, or if youprefer a: downtown !hotel itis about a five mile driveto the heart of the city. Afull COUl'sedinner for $2.75... we encourage the olderyoungsters and teenagersto come along and anyoneof these deserving a child'sportion of food will beserved for $1.50. See yauthere!

HOWARD CLAGER,CommanderDept. of Ohio., CBIVA

30Sth Service Group• Certainly enjoy thisfine magazine. Was withthe 305th Service Group atOndal. India, from 1942 to1945. \\'ould love to hearfroOm anyone who remem.bel's "Palsy Kettle."FRANKLIN H. FRANKLIN,1029 East King St.York, Pa.

7th Bomb Group (H)• All former members ofthe 7th Bombardment Group(II) will be interested inleading Walter Ed.mond's"They Fought With WhatThey Had." It's a verythrilling, well.do.cumentedaccount of t'he 7th BombGroup's heroic struggle indefending Java and Aus-tralia in the first threemonths of the war, befo.rebeing diverted to India.Many incidents of personalvalor involving such well.known names as Cambs,Necrason, Schaetzel, Tash,Wade, Basye, Parsel, Keiser,Robinsan, Straubel, "Soap"Silva and otJhers are in.cluded. Although some werekilled in actian in the EastIndies, most of these latercarried on the fight in theCBI.

LARRY HEUSER,San Francisco, Calif.

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IMPERIAL Secretariat at New Delhi. Photo by Charles Curlett.

WOMEN of Yunnan Province in China are hown here carry-ing heavy loads on their backs. Note man leaning against treeat left, watching the women work. Photo by Jim Wilkinson.

Fr. WeIfle's Stories• Always enjoy the inter.esting and informal articleswritten for Roundup byFather WeIHe. His articleon Hindi words was partic-ularly enjoyable.

SAMUEL R. McQUAY,Oakland, Calif.

Russell Stewart Dies• Have been informedt'hat "Rus" Stewart, investi.gator with the 1212 ::\1.P.Company in CBI duringWorld War II, passed awayOn Nev. 18, 1959. His widow,Kate, resides at 810 N. W.137th St., Miami 68, Fla. Iserved with Rus for severalyears and we returned tothe States on the ship Gen.Hase in October, 1945. Ruswas in his 51st year.

ALLEN P. JOHNSTON,Elkton, Md.

Last 100.000• Kindly renew fuI" twoyears. A' his old carcassis \\':>rking on i-last 100,-000 mile_. I would like towallow in the dubious de-light of re rospecting thoseinac ion packed, leech.laden days of wieners andwC>gs.New Year's greetingsto all parties responsiblefor supplying a thoroughlycaptivating magazine.

CLINTON LITCHFIELD,Stamford, Conn.

un,il the war was overwhen I c:JUld return homeon my furlough. I never felthappier being an American.Capt. Vic Ernst pointed meout to the gang at chow,and also said that I'd be onhand for confe "ions andMass the next morning. Thiswa's my first introductionto the 72151. Colonel Em.manuel insistec1 t'hat I callon my next tour of the area.Pretty soon, it was onceevery month, until I wasalmost commissioned. l\Iyassociation with those boY'shas been one of the bright.est, memorable periods inthe 21 years I spent as aHoly Cross missionary inIndia and Pakistan.REV. TONY WEBER, c.s.c.Terre Haute, Ind.

eBI Dead Honored• The plaque hcnoringdeceased CBI veterans isbeautiful and fitting. It isa wonderful feeling toknow our honored dead ofthe CBI Theatre will be re-membered alongside thoseof other theatres and warsin the Trophy Room of Ar.lington National Cemetery.

GLORIA S. MEYER,Baltimore, Md.

Friends in India• What an array offriends it is my privilege tohave, particularly in the721st and 725th RailwayOperating Battalions, Par.batipur and Lalmanirhat,India, respectively. It is apleasure for me to recall afew of them. I Ihappened tobe passing through Parbati.pur, on my way to sayMass for an Anglo-Indianfamily at Santahar. It wasalways hard to catch trainsunder normal conditions,but, in wartime, my methodwas akin to the old footballcoach who advised hisplayers to punt and pray.I prayed and shunted.Seemed like the best prayerI ever had answered ... forI was shunted right into themidst of those red-bloodedAmericans who had justarrived at their bamboocamp at Parbatipur. As amissionary, I had seenplenty of bamboo the lastsix years, and had neverexpected to run into mycountrymen; at least not

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Always Dreamed of Seeing It

Eisenhower Visits Taj MahalCopyright 1959

New York Times News Service

BY RUSSELL BAKER

AGRA, INDIA-President Eisenhowermomentarily turned his mind from grimproblems of the twentieth century Sun-day to contemplate an old emperor'smemorial to his dead love.

For 40 minutes, guided by PrimeMinister Jawaharlal Nehru, he walkedthe gardens and marble terraces of theTaj Mahal here on the holy river Jamuna.

Shimmering EchoesThen, behind a screen of hand-carved

marble as delicate as white lace, hestood beside the sarcophagi of the oldemperor and his dead wife while a Mul-lah filled the dome with 'Shimmeringechoes of the Arabic cry "God is great."

"I read about this when I was a verylittle boy in Kansas and I have alwaysdreamed of seeing it," the president toldNehru. "This is one of the things I havelooked forward to seeing as much as any.thing else on this trip."

"The Taj," as Nehru calls it, was builtin the early 1600s by the Mogul EmperorShwh Jehan as a .mausoleum for his wifeMuntaz Mahal.

Facts about such things in India havea vaporous quality, but there is a vagueconsensus about the story of the TajMa1hal.

Felt DistraughtThis was outlined for the president

Sunday by Nehru. The empress died in1630 after 18 years of marriage. ShahJehan was grief-stricken.

In the words of the standard localguidebook "the emperor felt distraut.What could take the place of her tenderlove towards him? What was to replace-her dear companionship? To commemo-rate these, lost to him forever, he builtthe Taj Mahal as a fitting mausoleum,extolling her beauty and accomplish-ments for all time."

The construction to:>k 22 years and, thestory goes, all other emple building inthe e.mpire was ihalted.

Shah Jehan planned an exact replica,all in black marble, for himself on theopposite bank of Jamuna but wasfrus-trated when his son cast him into prisonin Agra's red fort.

India's 'hot Dece.mber sun was castinga brilliant white glare from the TajMahal's four surrounding minarets andonion-shaped dome when the president

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and Nehru stepped throug;h the red sand-stone entry arch and caught their firstglimpse of it.

Spraying Fountains"Get thi,s vista," Nehru said as the

president gazed along the cypress-linedreflecting pools through spraying foun-tains to the facade 700 feet away.

"Isn't that a beaut,ifuI place," Presi.dent Eisenhower said. "A lovely, lovelything," he 'murmured.

Then, pointing to the minarets, heasked "are they watchtowers?"

"l'\o," Nehru replied, "they're ,minaretsand in my judgment the Taj would havebeen more beautiful without them."

"Well, I can't quarrel with the architectwho built this," President Eisenhowersaid.

Ora,nge Marigold'I1he president and 'Ms daughter-in-law

Barbara were both garlanded in waist-length loops of orange marigold.

Nehru by contrast was a severe figurein white jodhpurs, white Gandhi cap andsingle red rose in front of his knee-lengthbrown tunic.

He carried a short walking stick whichhe used to point out the inscription fromthe Koran inlaid in black marble on thedazzling white facade.

The broad gardens on either side wereblooming in brilliant scarletls, lavendersand pale oranges and now and then ascreeching green parrot swooped acrossthe president's path. Saturday the gardenhad been Iheavily scented with jasminebut there was no trace of this Sunday.

Sober ContrastNehru showed President Eisenhower

some of the delicately-carved red andgreen lotus flowers and tiger lilies inlaidin the white facade, then escorted him tothe rear of the tcmb to look out acrossthe flanking Jamuna and up-river to theold red fort.

After the idyll of the gardens the scenewas a .sober contrast. 11he river is nowdry and on the mudflat in its centerPresident Eisenhower could see a slopingshoulder-high hut that seemed to behome for a :half-dozen persons.

President Eisenhower made the 120-mile flight from Delhi by jet and drovethe two miles ,from Agra airport to TajMahal along a route lined with 10,000 ormore persons in holiday mood.

President Eisenhower also saw part ofrural India Sunday.

After visiting the Taj Mahal, he wentwith Nehru to the village of Laramda.

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THE TAJ MAHAL is only a shadow in thisunusual picture by C. J. Jacobson, due to thebright sunlight, but is sharply reflected in thelily pond in foreground.

The president told the cheering villagersthat he hoped to 'Come back some day.

The president saw a carefully sprucedversion of a typical village, but traces ofthe normal atmosphere of dust andprimitiveness and general economic hard.ship remained.

Accompanied by Nehru, the presidentwent into a community center wherestatistics abcut the village were display-ed on charts in Hindi. He asked se\'eralquestions. In a corner of the rJOm he sawan old radio. "What's its cost?" he in-quired.

"Eighty-two rupees ($17.20)," repliedKaram Singh, elected head of the villagecouncil.

Karam Singh later said that PresidentEisenhower told him the radio was tooold and the village ought to have a newone and donated 500 rupees ($105) on thespot to buy a new set.

Part of the eight miles from Agra toLara.mda was covered by car and partof the distance by helicopter to savetime.

Shouts and cheers by men and womenin colorful attire greeted the president'sarrival.

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A reception was organized by the vil.lagers in traditional Indian ,fashion ofgarlanding and sprinkling water withmango leaves.

As the president and Nehru arrived atthe entrance to the village at the edgeof a paddy field, they were received bythe head man of the village and twogirls dressed in orange and red _aris.

On both sides of the narrow lane vil.lage women and children collected inlarge numbers, some with veils drawnover their faces, and showered flowerson the president.

Both leaders stepped into the 'house ofTikam Singh, a cultivator who is alsothe elected head of the village judiciary.

The president Showed keen interest inthe kitchen and. how the family livedand what progress had been made inrecent years.

Brick LiningHe was told that 1:thefloor of the house

was of mud three years ago but now ithad brick lining. The president also wastold that food production of the villagehad increased three to four times as aresult of adopting better farmingmethods.

Before going to Agra, President Eisen.hower, a Presbyterian, went to Sundayservices in New Delhi at the cathedral ofRedemption with India's President Rajen.dra Prasad, a Hindu. •

Both presidents sat forward side byside in their pew, holding their hands totheir foreheads during prayers, whileregular communicants kneeled.

It was the first time in his ten yearsas head of state that Prasad had been inchurch. He said he wanted to demon.trate India's respect for her guest.The president and a small group of

American and Indian offidals, including- 'ehru, dined informally and held furtherdiscussions Sunday night.

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"Light Planes Can Do the Job!"

Burma DiaryBY T/SGT. RUSSELL E. PRATHER

As Told to Leo J. Carroll

Chapter One

At the Quebec conference in the middleof 1943 an idea was born. It seemedthat Ge~eral Wingate was determined todrive the Japanese out of Burma ashehad tried to do the previous year un.su.ccessfully. The conference was stale.mated because the conferees believedthe second attempt would be mere dis.astrous than the first because the Nipswould be expecting the Chindits.

But Wingate had the men and mulesto do the job. After all lit wasn't theenemy that had driven him out la3tyear; it was the lack of supplies, am ..munitions, rations, medical items andlow morale of the men. That is whatbeat him. If only that problem 'could besurmounted, it would be a different story.

General "Hap" Arnold was at that can.ference and supplied the answer to mostof the difficulties at once-"C.47s" hesaid, will bring your needs. And we canuse P-51s to protect them. The C-47s canalso carry your wounded back to India.

"The 47s can't land lin that jungle"said the British General. "No, that isonly part of the problem."

They were all silent, thinking, thatwas the big hill that had to be sur.mounted. First one, then another, .madeweak suggestions. "How about jeeptrails." said one. "How about mules orelephants to bring the sick and woundedto the airports," said another.

President Roosevelt ucked on his longc i gar e t t e holder. Winston Churchillchewed his black cigar ,thoughtfully.Prime Minister :VlcKenzie King satimmobile, brows furrowed. To HapArnold :suddenly came the idea. "Lightplanes," he cried. "That's the answer,light planes can do the job." They alllooked at him dubiously, quizzically forfurther explanation.

A few days later our CO of the LiaisonSquadron at Raleigh Durham returnedfrom Washington with big news andcalled a meeting of all L pilots. Hetossed us a few crumbs of infor.mationand asked for volunteers for a six monthsjob overseas. It looked good so we alllined up for it "GI" fashion to get ournames in the hat. We were to fly over.

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IMPROVISING a bamboo splint to a damagedstrut of his L.l, S/Sgt. Lela ]. Carroll is shownhere at Aberdeen strip in Burma.

There were to be a hundred pilots. Wehad to be eager. We must be mechanicsas well as pilots. We must go througha concentrated training program. Wewould flv L.ls as well as L.5s. Thosewere the crumbs he had given us.

As we started the program our .mindswere full of questions but the onlyanswers we could get were-"You willfind out in time and remember you willhave lots of ,fun. There won't be anywomen; liquor will be scarce. A lot ofyou will get sick before this is over."

Hour after hour, day after day, wetrained, like a boxer getting ready forhis big fight. We were 'issued brand new45s and proudly strapped them on. Werode the L5s until our seats wore out,then flew some more. Four hours perday-five, six, over barriers, dropping inwith a jolt. Sweeping low to pick upmessages, low turns with flaps, shortfield takeoffs. Dangerous? Yes, it wasplenty dangerous. We learned how tosnag small two. place gliders with tllieL.ls. The Major (Major Ribori) towedone with the L.5 but shelved that opera.tion.

As the weeks flew by we could discernimprove.ment in our flying. The 1:ime was

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final ~onditioning, such as, plenty ofs?-ck tIme, hearty meals, cleaning theCIty 'for refreshments and gene raIl v en-joying ourselves. I'm forced to mentionthat we took a few short walks out onthe desert of 12 to 15 miles wading thedeep sand but we only did this so wecould eat more.

The aroma of the city and our campwas e}QoHc.Strike out that la sentenceand f!?r~et it! The stench was terrific.The sanItary system of India i certainlydifferent than anything we had everseen. All refuse is flushed into a seriesof shallow ditches. The moisture evap-orates' and the birds carry off the solidpal'ticles. Ravens, crows, buzzards :spar.rows and even bats thrive by th~ thou-sands on this carrion. The birds are allsacred as are all animals here in India.They !help keep India clean, but I neverheard the word clean so described.

December 24th. The boatloads of L.5sL.Is, CG.4 gliders have been unloaded ~there is work to ao. .Eighteen !hours aday are endured assembling the planes.Gatta hurry, they are waiting for us.For Christmas, Uncle Sam gave us eachan airplane. Wasn't that generous? Thenumber of mine ended with 399 (sincedestroyed). Old three ninety.nine wasdestined to do a lot of flying and I washer sale 'crew and pilot. For -ix days weworked, and sweated. and cussed thenflew; yes flew our planes the fou~ hourslow time required on new engines. Oneboy described what he had seen-pink~alt flat;: a the sea's edge, sand dunesIn the dIS ance. From 5,000 feet he couldsee _everal air fields and the air wasrefre hingly clean. From 200 feet hecould see the nurses' showers withoutroofs. I couldn't find the showers.

January 1st 1944. A smaIl group of usleft Karachi for maneuvers at Chattapur.We stopped at Japhur and Gavilior. AtJaphur I bought a genuine Japhur jade

growing short; we had a date to keep.The Major gave the order to pack up:"We leave lin the morning for GoldsboroN. C." ,

Project 9 was our temporary name andheld priority over any other movementthrough the staging area. Two days sawrthe group on the train for Miami.

November 17, 1943. At dawn part of usboarded a C.54 and took off for India.This was the first time that most of ushad ever left the shores of the UnitedStates and our eyes were wide open try-ing to see everything at once like a boyat his first three ring circus. We were tosee many strange and exciting thingsbefore we reached this coast again. Thefirst stop was five hours later at PuertoRico, a aistance of 981 miles. We at.tempted to leave there On the second legbut No. 3 engine caught fire about anhour out so we returned and RONed.

November 18. Today we touchedGeorgetown, British Guiana, and Belem,Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon.Natal came next and we left the WesternHemisphere on the 20th. The big C.54roared out over the Atlantic in quest ofa small pin point of lava 1,400 milesaway. Ascension Island was on the FireBall route, but oh, so small, comparedto that wide expanse of ocean. The pilotassured us that we would never be morethan five or six miles from land, onlythat was straight down. The weatherwas perfect and the trip uneventful.Being all pilots we !had confidence tn ournavigator, so didn't worry.

November 21. Was largely accountedfor by the hop from the Island to Accra,S. Africa. The next day a C.47 carriedus across S. Africa touching at Kana.Nigeria, Maiduguri, El Geneinia. then 0K'hartow in the Anglo Egyptian udan.At 10,000 feet it was prettv difficult adistinguish many of the d'etail of thenatural landscape or the man madeimprovements, but we could see numer.ous native villages of gra s and mudhuts surrounded by walls of earth andbrambles to keep out the lions and otherwild animals that abound in that section.Saw the great Nile with its many smallsampans sailing about like white birchleaves on a calm lake in the fall.

November 24. Having spent the nightflying from Khartoun to Aden Arabia.then Mascri Island on the Arabian Sea,we were ready to fly to Karachi, India.It seemed like <it had been a long tripand it was, for it totaled 11,544 miles.vye had covered that in 68 hours flyingtIme.

The period between November 24th andDecember 24th at Karachi was spent in

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necklace far 'the wife far 20 rupees. Arupee is war'th abaut thirty cents. Oursmall group visited many of the qua'intshoOps. One in particular was autstand.ing. The praprietor was a stoutish gentle-man of very refined manners and paise.One forgets that these peaple are blackskinned after mingling with them. Heshawed us through his' shop of manyrooms with utmost tact. The first can.tained spun and molded silver trinkets.Bra'celets, rings, ear boObs, anklets,lavaliers, broaches, all hand made byJaphur craftmen. The seccmd room en-clased as was the first one by exquIsitetapestries, revealed ivcry carvings. Theseranged in 'size from a small ant to aUfesize peacock. Each carving delicatelydane, shawing utmost patience by themaker or carver. The third room un.cavered brass vases and statues, a htrays and incense burners. One wasslowly wafting a heavily perfumedsmake that tickled your sense af smell.These merchants dan't miss a trick afselling. They appeal toO the eyes, noOse,ears and touch. A 75,000 rupee fourstrand pearl necklace was the ultimate.This came toO light after he had three ofus seated on a red plush divan with atray af semi preciaus and preciousjewels open befare us an a carved teak.wa:>d coffee table. He sat crosslegged onthe floor apposite and .facing us, hand.ing us each jewel far approval andpraise. This became samewhat boringafter a while and sensing tiliis, hebrought forth the necklace. We werestunned and hastily handed it back whenwe learned the price. They were beauti.fully matched pearls, each one just ahair larger than the previaus ane. Indiais rich in jewels; much toa rich for us.

Janu~ 3rd. The 23rd strip where weenjoyed nine days of maneuvers was asmall strip cut out af the moun'tainousjungle af Central India and manned bythe British. It was here that we came toknaw Brigadier Fergusan, the authar ot"One Mare River To Cross," an accauntof Wingate's 1942 campaign. The Briga.dier j,s a rangy Britisher with a monacleand a definite Suffalk brogue. Hisassistant, Captain Harman, is a saftspoken, tall, bland fellow of na meanability as director of ab:>teuring. It isthese two men we are to wark with andfor. The operations see.'11 incomprehen.'sible to us. It was our jab not to reasonwhy, but toO da and fly

Jc::nuary 5th. Went hunting with AlPodlecki and shoOttwa pinked faced ba.boons. We had read that they were goodto eat so being tired of the usual "C"rations, dressed them out and asked theBritish mess to "cook up these rabbits."

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They served them for supper and de.clared the "hares" very tasty. Sameonementioned "mankey" and the word wasechoed three times. One by ane, faurleft the mess hall. The others gulpedand said "yes they were pretty gaod."Our little boak on survival says "eatwhat the monkey eats and if you can'tfind that, eat the monkey."

January 11th. Have made severa'!flights araund here into and out af fields.Fields so small that we wouldn't havebelieved it passible had we not done it.Naw we know what we can and will beexpected to do. We are ready for war.

January 18th. The last six days werespent in Agra, the home of Tapamahal.That old building and the Bastile justacross the river, are over 400 years aIdand the main point af interest in India.It is on a par with the Pyramids andSphinx of Egypt and the great wall ofChina. Made of white and grey marble,it stands out in that part of desert like asore thumb. We pulled all inspectionsand generally readied our planes foroperations in the theater. Two days laterwe arrived at Hailakandi, our rear base,after passing over Ala'habad, Gaya,Ondal and Tezgaan. The little planespurred right alang.

January 27th. Fram Hailakandi, twoaf us staged a tiger hunt. We arrangedwith a native to secure a small cow forbait, engaged a stalwart Indian as gunbearer, an intelligent one as interpreterand a very old ane as guide. Traipsingoff inta the jungle we bath envisionedaurselves as rich American playboys,gaing big game 'hunting in the myster.ious Bengal state in India.

That might well never be fargotten.After reaching oOur pre. planned standand tieing the calf out we made a shortsortie thraugh the nearby 'hills searchingfor a deer. The 'SUn sank lawer as theNme passed. The guide sensed the com.ing of night and deftly led us to the edgeaf a big rice paddy. Twilight was briefas we made our way aut inta the open.We adjusted aur headlights and snappedthem an. At that instant foOur big wildbaal'S thundered acrass our path headingfor the bush. They came and were gonesa fast that there was anly time to stoOPand gasp. Our ofriendly tree waited forus and welcomed us as we climbed itssturdy trunk to await the big cat'sappraach to the bait. We slept by turns,sitting in a cratch tied to the limbs whilethe ather tried toOcatch the sound of astealthy paw. We had seen his tracksand they were enormaus. As time woreon we wandered why we ever came outhere. Mosquitaes buzzed in our ears and

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we slowly brushed them away. Didn'tdare slap at them or we wauld frightenour game away. Al was armed with aBritis'h 30 ought 3, I had a Springfield.Bullets had been dumdumed for greaterkilling effect. Minutes dragged by, hoursstretched to years. We wanted toOsmokebut didn't dare. After ages the sun brokeaver t!he harizon and we sighed with reolief, lit cigarettes and in'haled deeply.We didn't care much that the tiger didn'tcome out la'st night; we had had enough.of this. The tiger was later killed byanother party. What an experience! Letthe rich men hunt tigers. I'll huntsquirrels.

February 6th. We left Hailakandi,stapped at Jashat and Chabua andlanded at Leda in upper Assam. Nawwe were just over the mauntains framBurma. There would be many flights intaBurma from here but first we set up ourtents, dug our slit trenches and tried toget camfortable.

Februaxy 10th. The first mission wa'stoO Shingbwiyang, one ~ours flight. Sixplanes went. I was scheduled but at thelast moment our Chinese pilot, GnangTom, took my 399 and went. To.m didn'tcome back. He suffered a callisian inmidair with S/Sgt. Neff and both planescrashed. But for the grace of God, theregoOI. We gat parachutes after that. Notthat we 'could use them an our lowcontour flights, but they did boost ourmarale.

February 24th. Oh, oh. We are mavingup. Tara is .our forward base naw. Taroon the Chindwin. The Japs were justdriven out a few days aga. Maybe theywill return. Well, here gaes nothing. Wemade a straight in approach to a land.ing, no use advertising our presence bycircling the strip. Hastily we disbursedthe planes and saught aut the bushes.This was to be .our home for severalweeks .or months. Fram this place weWould supply the British troops andevacuate the sick and waunded. Fromhere we would accamplish our part ofthat idea developed way back there atMontreal.

February 25th. The Japs are repartedto be just three miles away; there arebattle noises over the next ridge. This 'iswar and we are in it .or awfully clas2 toit. The natives regarded us with suspi.cion. They were Kachins and Shall'S,squatty little black men wearing a loincloth .or a skirt. There eyes were decided.ly Oriental as were their features. We.must make friends with them and didwith gifts .of cigarettes and unga[} (Bur.mese far r-ice) and a friendly "Kaja"meaning "O.K."

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Februu'IY 26th. My .mission toOLeda witha sick patient was incomplete because.of heavy weather aver the mountains.Dropped 'him off at Shim and picked upan Indian dactar far the .outfit. His nameis Dactar Abdul Haleem. Trained inBritish schools and served the Britishtwo years. We can use a doctar. Ourmedical man hasn't arrh'ed \'et andthere is plenty of illness here' in thetrapics.

February 27th. T/Sgt. Schnatzmeyerand Captain Smith flew same saboteursdawn into Jap territary but didn't return.S/Sgt. Carroll scauted for them andsighted the two L.1s bagged dawn in thesand .of a sand bar in the river. TheCaptain and the Sergeant are in far alang walk out. It's abaut eighty milesby air. They have only three days Kratians with them. (Twa weeks later theyarrived gaunt and bearded. They madeit, but left thirty pounds of flesh some,where along the route.)

March 1st. We are in full .operationnow, flying daily carrying supplies inand waunded out, landing on sand barsand small narrow strips cutout of thejungle. These ,light planes are taking abeating but they are daing the job anddaing it well.

March 3rd. Another graup of our planescame in today. Something is cooking. Itwas like a reunian seeing the baysagain. They are all wearing Aussie hatsand laaded far bear or yellaw snakes.

March 4th. \Ve packed our chutes andplanes with five days K ratians. We don'twan a recurrence .of the Schnatzmeyer.Smi h incident.

March 6th. Radio reports tell us thatlast night was D day far us dawn in theenemy lines. GHders and C.47s dumpedtheir human cargoes at a spot 'CalledBroadway. They are toOhold that airstrip,after canstructing it in abaut eighteenhours, far planes toO bring in BriHshreinfarcements far Wingate. The lightplanes went in this morning toOhaul outthe injured. Same .of the Gliders crackedup and we lost same men on that moon.light ,invasian.

This spot is a beehive .of activity.Starting at dark the second night, C.47sshuttled back and farth from India toOBroadway unloading their cargoes andgoing back far mare. There was maretraffic on that strip than La GuardiaField in New York. Things were veryhush.hush.

March 12th. We are working like haneybees in the spring now. :\!any flights aremade daily to supply the columns andcarry aut their waunded.

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We tried catching fish by using the kitsfrom the jungle pack of our parachutes,but the results weren't good, so now weUse hand grenades. Suckers and carp areprevalent.

March 20th. We are learning andpracticing a new technique of firingour Cal. 45 colt. The idea is to keep mov.ing because a moving target ~is so muchharder for the enemy to hit than astationary one. Tlhe plan was advancedby a sergeant British saboteur of nomean experience. We set up a tin canthe size of a man's head about twentypaces and at right angles from our lineof walk and would fire a clip of sevenshots in fourteen steps. Each shot wasfired from a poised position on eitherthe right or left foot. By starting offslowly at first and then increasing thepace for each succeeding dip, we man.aged to get a fairly high pr.oficiency insnap shooting. This was also practicedwith the carbine and Thompson sub.machine gun. The Thompson-sub wasfired in bursts of three.

MC:Teh 21st. Major Rebori gave us alittle talk on what to expect within thenext few weeks. It seems that we are infor plenty of action. The majority of usare stuck here for a few days becausewe are out of gasoHne and the weatherwon't let the C.46s in over the mountains.

March 25th. The radio gives us reportsof continued bombing and strafing ofBroadway. The Japs are sure giving thatplace .hell. Two of our boys were hitwhile taxiing an L.1. One was killed andthe other, S/Sgt. Frank Cowen ofTonkawa, Oklahoma, wa's seriouslywounded by two bullets from t.'he straf.ing Zero. One entered his back, clippedhis left lung, just missed his heart andstopped just under the sk,in of his chest,Tlhe other dipped the muscle of his armjust above the elbow. Frank will carrythese scars the rest of his life. As hetells it-"When I was hit, it felt likesomeone struck me a hard blow withhis fist, then there was a burning sen.sation like a hot flash. I stumbled outof the plane and ran,. stumbled andcrawled as fast as I could to a machinegun pit probably fifty yards away. Ithought, well, guess this is 'it. I don'tknow how long I lay there, but remainedconscious until the litter bearers put meon the stretchers. I felt no pain as longas I lay quiet, but the gurgle of bloodwhen they moved .me, made me sick andafraid. I craved water and more waterand, after examination, they gave me allI wanted. I was afraid I would die forawhile then as the shock wore off and Iwas in more pain, I was afraid I wouldn'tdie."

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March 13th. The Japs have discoveredBroadway and are bombing it unmerci-fully. The boys are all dug in thoughand suffered very minor losses. Thetemporary operations and radio waswiped out. The mess shack was des.troyed. The Major radioed franticallyfor help. He said, "This is Major Roberiand I know ZeN}Swhen I see them. Thereare twenty between ground level and10,000 feet. Send 'help, they are strafingthe hell out of us."

Three C.47s were destroyed on theground. Spitfires downed three sure andthree probables. Ack.ack got two. Eightout of twenty is a good percentage. Theywere driven off but will probably return.They did daily for about nine or tendays, until our fighters drove them off.

Chapter TwoMarch 16th. According to reports t~e

monso:m season here in BUlima ISa month early this year. The usual start.ing date is June 1st. This is the middleof March and we are having almost dailyrains. These rains are called mangoes.They don't last long, perhaps two orthree hours, but they make the junglesteamy and uncomfortable. They bl'ingout numerous snakes and lizards, andall sorts of crawly things. The mosqui.toes are pesky and one type is to bedreaded; the female anopheles, carrier ofmalaria. We have to use our insect reopellent, and we sleep under our netsevery night. We don't use quinine oratabrine because they only suppress thedisease. It :is believed better to let thevictim get his chills and fever and reomove him to the hospital immediately,This is contradictory to Army Regulationsbut with our evacuation hospitals avail.able, it is the best way. It is an oddthing about these rains, the flies andants practically disappear, but as soonas the weather clears they come backthicker than ever. Our flying 'is now con.fined to early afternoons and late .morn-ings, Thunderheads usually appear overthese mountains at about three o'clockin the afternoon. The Chindwin River isgradually rising. During the real monosoon, the river fills the \'alley and thiscamp will be ~inundated. \\'e watch theriver from day to day and i is getting!higher and higher. Our bamboo pierwashed away. We called it Dansky's Pierbecause King Dansky of Miami. Fla., hadhis natives build it for our convenience.It was a dandy pier and extended half.way across the river. v,re used it for aboat dock as well as a place t:> swimand fish. Fresh fish tastes so good. Weihave been on a steady diet of C rationsand Ten-in-One; it gets mighty tiresome.

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"The doctors all said I wouldn't flyagain but I flew t'he other day the firstyme in six months." He concluded,Guess they were wrong."March 26th. The weather cleared and

the C.46s came in wit'h enough gas tofill all our light planes. We packed andtook off for Dixie. Dixie is our code namefor a small strip about forty-five minutesfrom Broadway. I was a passenger in aship piloted by S/Sgt. Alexander Pod.lecki of Bedford Hills and we wereloaded to capacity. Besides me in thebackseat, we 'had our two barracksbags, two tents, two bed rolls, two cots,mortar shells, grenades and lots of am..munition for our 45s and carbines. Onlanding, the right wheel hit a .mound ofdirt and we crashed. A bat never got outof hell as fast as we g0't out of thatwreck. We expected the mortar shells toblow but they didn't. This field was ahot spot and after hiding our planes inthe )ungle we made camp, and afterpostIng ample guards retired for a goodnight's sleep. We were up before dawnthe next morning and after a quickbreakfast, half of t'he group got theplanes ready for operation while theother half dug dn. The dirt fairly flew.It resembled a bunch of badgers estab-lishing a new colony. I dug my fox. holeso deep that I had to call for help to getout. After lunch, orders came throughto move again. It seemed that a NiponeseInfantry Division was headed our waywith murderous intent. We were few andwouldn't have a chance against S0'many.We flew away. The first three racerswent to Broadway; the rest back to ourother base. I went to Broadway and thatwas out of the frying pan into the fire.

March 27th. At mIdnight after the O'anO'was settled and sleeping on the gr;und.we awoke and heard some small armsfire perhaps a quarter mile away. Wefigured a small patrol was shoo inO' itout with some Japs and went back tosleep. Twenty .minutes later we heardwhat sounded like a crowd at a footballgame yelling for a touchdown. Well the

. Nips had gained vital yardage and werecoming in for the touchdO\vn. We tookcover like a night 'crawling fish wormwhen you throw a light on him. Threeof us took refuge in a stronghold thathad eight fox holes like entrances orlookouts. I .manned a Thompson sub ato~e outlet all night. It was totally blackWIth a few stars shining through thetr~s. We strained our eyes and earstrYIng to see or hear any figure or softj)ootstep. A twig snapped and all gunslet loose. Tracers cut the black likemeteors. Hot lead sang a song of deathover our heads like angry hornets streak-ing for an objective. Periods of noisy

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shooting were followed by equally silentlulls during which a falling leaf couldbe heard and distinguished as such. Thebattle flared and died, increased in in-tensity and diminished all night. Myears grew an inch and my eves bulgedwith strain. Just before da\\'n the Gurkhaat the main entrance told me his plan"If the enemy starts down this path. I'Iimove out this communication trenchabout. ten feet; you take my place andwe WIll catch them in our cross fire. Tellthose other two to stand by to take ::lUI'place in case we're killed." I whispereda wavering "Okay" and informed theothers. Thank God we didn't have to usethat plan. Dawn broke silently and ahorrible sight met our eyes. Enemy deadwere st.rewn about the ca.mp. Two were~ound J~st out~ide .my p~sition, directlyIn my lIne of fIre. 'J1hey dIdn't seem likehuman beings somehow, but ,more likedead animals. -A rope was looped aroundthe~r feet and they were dragged to aburIal pit. Occasi0'nal firing during theday indicated that our Gurkha andBritish patrols were shooting out snipersthat had e~tablished and camouflagedthemselves In the trees during the night.This countinued until late afterno:>nwhen a large party of British met themain body of Japs and drove them outinto the open directlv into our machinegun fire. We hoped" that would breaktthe back of the attack but it didn't. Thesecond night was a repe ition of the first.The fireworks arted at dark, c::mtinuedspasmodically all night, and stopped atdawn. Th~ second morning was spearedby explodIng mortar shells. Three wouldbe lobbed in. in succession, then a lullwhile he m::>rtar was being moved thenthree more. During one of these' lullshree of us, James Oliveto from Washing-on. D. C., Podlecki and I started out with

a company of Gurhkas to survey thedamage and determine the p0'ssible sal-vage of our L.Is and L-5s. It was adangerous ,m'ission but we were preparedto fight if the situation demanded it.We found a rising sun flagon oneplane's propellor. All eight L.Is weredamaged to some extent. Two were fly-able so these we promptly taxied to ourheadquartel's to make minor repairs. Igot about halfway and heard the highstaccato of a Nip machine gun, at thesame time a string of bulle' hit thedust just off to my right and I tookcover but quickly. Three planes werereadied for flight that afternoon. Three ofus took off in an L-5 into Jap fire andunder friendly counterfire and headed fora base forty minutes away. A C-47 tookus from there to India and- afety.

March 31st. M/Sgt. Kermit Torkelsonfrom Austin, Minnesota, brought in .the

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report that he had been fired on by aZero. Sergeant Torkelson told me theincident over a bottle of beer. He was on'his way from a strip at the front toImphal carrying a wounded Britisher. Hewas flying an L.i with M/Sgt. RobertChambers, Lawton, Oklahoma, as thesecond ship in the twa .plane element.As Torkelson tells it: "I looked backscanning the sky, as was our habit,when I saw a fighter. I thought it was aHurricane until I realized it 'had a radialengine. As it drew nearer I could see thetelltale rising sun on t!he wing. At aboutthat time he saw me and dove towardme. I saw yellow flashes from his wingguns and pealed for the tree tops. Htmissed me, pulled up, and circled fo;another pass. With quick weavingmaneuvers on the valley floor I managedto elude him a sec:md time, but thoseyellow flashes were still present. Hemade a third pass and I hoped to lurehim into a mountain side. He must 'haveseen !his danger because he didn't comeback again. For that I was thankful andlanded safely at Imphal. My patientbreathed a sigh of relief and said, Ithought t!hat was it."

Chapter ThreeApril 7th. After a week of rest at this

rear base which included movies, beerdrink,ing, good chow as a change fromK rations, a haircut, and no shooting, wewere issued new planes and headed backto Burma to our old base on the river. Ournew job was to evacuate Ohinese andAmerican wounded of Generals StilwelI'osand MerriU's outfits. We worked withthem as they moved down the IrrawaddyRiver valley opening the way for theconstruction of the Ledo Road. We landedour L.5s and L.is in strips cut out of thejungle, barely large enoug:h to get a cutin and out. One spot measured 785 feetlong, fifty feet wide and had tall treeson both ends. We practically bent theolanes around those trees to get <in andout. On one particular day we ferried outeighty-eighty from that strip under threatof enemy fire. We lost two planes butsaved t1he eighty.eight lives. We werebusy again and happy. \\"hen the patientswere removed from our light planes forfurther evacuation in C.47s. hospitalplanes, and waved a weak goodby witha "Thanks Sarge," it gave us a feelingof satisfaction ,M !having done a job, ofhav,ing saved a life. The next two weekswere filled with minor missions, such asdropping supplies to the "V" foroe, anintelligence outfit and hauling officersfl'Om one base to another. Things wereslow until-

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April 21st. Colonel Cochran and FlightOfficer Coogan flew in and stayed over.night. The Colonel went on down toAberdeen, another base in Central Burma,to see how things were going. He foundthat ack-ack had shot down a Zero andT/Sgt. John R. Gilmer, Merced, California,had obtained the pilot's Cal. 32 pistol.The boys virtually stripped that Jap whenhe hit 1Jhe ground. He was held forquestioning.

April 28th. We have been sweating outthe rumor that we won't go home t!heend of May like we were promised. Weunderstand that the bomber and fighterpilots and crews have been informedthat they will 'stay. We still have hopes,especially if the rains come.

May 81h. The ra'ins came. They startednine days ago, and it has been rainingsteadily ever since. Our bamboo bashasleak terribly and we repair them as bestwe can. Everyt!hing is damp. We crawlinto damp beds and the heat Ifrom ourbcdies dries out the covers by morning.Our clothes are mildewing, our guns arerusting. This is the most penetratingprecipitation we have ever experienced.And to think 1Jhis continues for three orfour months, Heaven forbid our stayinghere so ina.ctive.

May 9th. The rains stopped and we allrushed to our planes, to get them intoflying condition again. These are oursalvation and we ihope to take advantageof this good weather. Four C.64s 'Camein and brought replenishments for ourdiminishing supplies, also mail, and aEttle pleasant surprise. Special Order No.59 awards us the DFC and Air Medal. Atlast our efforts have been recognized byhiglher officials. For that we are thankful.Now if we can get out of this awfuljungle and back to civilization, our 'hopeswill be realized.

May 17th. Between rain for the lasteight days, MerrrIl's Marauders havedriven forward and have taken t1he air.strip at Myitkyina. The Japs are quitestrong in this sector and it was a terriblebattle all the way. Part of the Marauderswent on to Shadazup and were encircled.They managed to oanstruct an airstrip,however, for 1Jhree of our boys to workfrom. Sergeants Amspoker, Cunningham,and Kempf are doing a magnificent jC}bthere. They al'e instructing and assistinganother light plane squadron in the workof evacuation. And as S/Sgt. Amspokerrelates it: "The first day we got tJhere,the place was bombed and strafed. Wewere all <in the bamboo and burlap messhall when they came over. The buildingdid have two doors, now it !has eight orten. Those boys got out of there like pop.

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to Agra, the home of Tapamahal; Karachiwas next. The Arabian Sea and Arabiapasses beneaVh us. Egypt is t:> our rearand the Gold Ceast of South Africa ison the horizon. The city of A~cra. SouthAfrica, is a memory and here comesAscension Island. A short stop for fueland oil and, Natal, 'here we come. Hop-ping like a huge grasshopper. we leftNatal, sat down at Georgetown. thenMiami. Good old Miami-we literallykissed mother earth as dawn of June2nd made go(}d its promise -THE EXD

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corn out of a popper with the lid off. Thisnew unit had pitched tlheir tents instraight rows, but out of the underbrush,made regular cDmpany streets and hungtheir laundry out in the open. Why itstuck out like a sore thumb. Now it is sowell hidden and camouflaged that theyhave trouble locating the area Vhem-selves. Soldiers learn quickly under com-bat .conditions."

Mey 20:h. We teok off for India thismorning. Wish I had an instrument card.This flight to Ledo usually takes an 'hour,this time it was two hours. We changedour course so many times dodging stormsthat we met ourselves cDming ba.ck.Fina'lly reached Ledo, then went on toour old base at Hailakandi to spend Vhenight. This base is practically a lake.The rains have been extremely heavy inthis sector.

May 21st. After getting paid and col-lecting our bags that we had left Ihereon our way in, we proce-eded to Asansol,our rest camp. As the miles flew by wenoticed an increase in wind velocity andtemperature. This flight was executed ata low altitude so these two facts wereeasily perceived. Upon arriving at ourfield. we found a thirty mile per hourwind Vhat felt like the blast fI';)m afurnace. The temperature triumphed at115 degrees 'farenheit. We sweltered.

May 23rd. 11he past two nights weremiserably spent. The concrete barrackswere like ovens so we moved to theporches. Tlhe porches were like windtunnels periodically sprinkled with finesand and dust. Sand and dust siftedthrough our clothes, the inside of ourshoes had a fine coating, our 'hair wasgritty. It got into our eyes and ears andnoses. We felt like chickens because ourfood was ;full of it. Still the wind blew,never abating, never relenting its cruelsand-blasting practice. We ran for theshowers several times during the day.Sometimes the water was turned off dueto its scarcity. Disappointed, we wouldendure anoVher hour or two of nature'sfury only to dash again to see H theshowers were on. During one of my after-no:m showers, S/Sgt. Rodney E. Petty ofBaton Rouge, Louisiana, burst in andshouted to me that I was going home.I slipped on a bar of s(}ap and started forthe barracks; why, I don't know, butsuddenly realized my mistake when Isawall the people stop to stare, and beata hasty retreat back to the showers. Theygave us two hours to pack. I don't know'how they expected us to spend the re-maining hour and fifty five minutes.

May 27th. We left Calcutta, this smallgroup of lucky "L" pilots, and sped by air

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Something Different on Travel Menu

Denver Woman on Tiger Hunt(From the Rocky Mountain News)

BY FRANCES MELROSE

"The Lady or the Tiger"-Mrs. Mc-Intosh Buell of Denver couldn't helpthinking of Frank Stockton's famousshort story, as she took off on a Februaryday, headed for a tiger hunt 'in India.

Mrs. Buell is a Denver society womanwho has traveled widely. This time, asshe planned a globe-girdling trip withher son, Temple Buell Jr., and a sister-in. law, Mrs. Charles Buell of Lake Forest,Ill., she had her taste set for something"different" on the travel menu.

A LAKE FOREST travel agent 'had theanswer-a tiger hunt in India, plannedand equipped by the personal staff of theMaharaja of Couche Bejar.

The Buell trio arrived in Calcutta byplane where they were met by themaharaja and a Chicago businessmanwho also would be a member of the ex.pedition.

"After you knew the maharaja a while,you called him Baya," Mrs. Buell reocalled.

From Calcutta the group flew toTezpur, 'last outpost in their huntingterritory.

"WE FLEW to Tezpur in a cargo planewith nothing but jump seats," Mrs. Buellsaid. "Tezpur is a small village composedof grass. thatched huts and a few clap.board buildings. Every fifth hut had asewing machine in front of it. We weretold that a native tailor would cut andstitch our hunting outfits overnight.

"We were measured as Soon as wearrived, and the next day we had ourcompleted clothing-three khaki suitsapiece with long trousers and long coatsslit on the sides.

"We bought pith helmets at one of rt'helocal stores. Buck (her sister. in-law) andI had had shoes made in California withhigh tops, in case of snakes. and rubbersoles to help us move around on ourelephants."

JEEPS CARRIED the hunters and theircompany to camp, 80 miles from Tezpur,churning up clouds of dust. The camphad a spectacularly beautiful locationfacing the foothills of the Himalayas.

Col. Kezri Singh-tall, thin, black.mustached officer of the Indian Armv-had been put in charge of the expedition.The entire company of cooks, porters,elephant herders and so on numberedabout 30,

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"We were assigned to .most attractivetents," Mrs. Buell remembered. "Yellowwalls with blue-an'd-white striped floorsof canvas. We had windows over ourcots, and matting at the door spaces tokeep insects out and let air in. Our cotswere very comfortable, and we each hada desk, bedside table and camp chairs.Pegs were provided to hang 'Clothes.

"EACH OF US had a bath tent in backwith his own huge tin tub and toilet. Abath boy, wearing the white suit andorange turban which distinguished themaharaja's personal servants, was as.signed to each of us.

"Our food was superb. The maharaja'sNO.1 chef had been assigned to cook forus.

"We always started dinner with anelaborate soup, then perhaps junglechicken, wild pig or venison we mighthave shot during the day. There wereIndian curries, too, that took the roof offmy mouth. Desserts were lovely-<>ftenan excellent souffle.

"We dressed for dinner every night,believe it or not, and as we sat down atthe table, we were handed elegantcrested menus." ,

NO ICE was available on the trip, butno one minded. All water was treatedwith disinfectant pills, and the Buellsdrank and brushed their teeth in bottledmineral water.

The hunt began the day after they hadset up camp.

"I fell in love with the elephants," Mrs.Buell 'said. "Each of us was assignedtwo elephants-a pad elephant and ahowdah elephant.

"You start your trip on the padelephant. He wears a pad about the sizeof a single bed mattress and just as com.fortable.

"Getting on an elephant is a trick thatmust be learned. He kneels down, and yourush up a 'ladder onto the pad. Then yougrasp the ropes around his tail while heraises his hind quarters, and quickly,then, you grab the ropes around his neckwhile 'he raises the front end.

"You travel on the pad elephant towithin Ilh miles of where the kill is tobe made.

"AT THIS POINT you scramble fromelephant to elephant, to get into yourhowdah. A howdah will hold four personsaboard one elephant. There are slots inthe sides of six guns."

Each day's hunt wa'S mapped by theshakar, who had set out traps the night

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---------------- __ ,Denver Woman an Tiger Huntbefore, to catch small animals. Trapswere checked in the early morning, theday's hunt was set wherever tthere hadbeen a kill at a trap.

"Your elephant clears a path for youas you travel through the jungle," Mrs.Buell said. "He tramps down the brush,and if there's a tree in your way, hesimply upro:>ts it and goes on."

At the designated hunt area, Mrs. Buellsaid the elephants would clear a spaceabout 50 yards in diameter. The ihunterson their elephants would line up at oneside of the clearing. Native beaters onother elephants would ride some distanceoff and then head back to "the clearing,flushing any tigers before them.

"WHEN THE TIGER comes to the clear-ing, he pauses ,for an instant," Mrs. Buellsaid. "You have about 20 seconds to drawa bead and shoot.

"'Phere's no thrill like it when you'rewaiting. The elephant has a peculiarscream when he smells or sees a tiger.When you hear that scream, you getready."

'Phe first tiger was shot by TempleBuell Jr., who killed him with one bullet.

"Such a celebration as we had in campthat night!" Mrs. Buell exclaimed."Special foods were cooked by all thenatives. After dinnert'here was dancingand music. Girls dressed in beautifulsaris came over from a nearby tea plan-tation and danced for us."

And Mrs. Buell did something no oneelse in her party duplicated. She ate thetiger liver.

"The natives consider it a prize del-icacy," she says. "It really is delicious.I ate the liver of every tiger we shot."

The Buells had one narrow escape dur-ing the trip.

"THE CHICAGO MAN misfired at atiger," Mrs. Buell said. "The shot sent thecat straight toward the elephant occupiedby my sister-in-law and me. She wasscreaming mightily, 'Shoot! Shoot!Shoot!' and I am sure it was thosescreams which sent the tiger back intothe brush. But not before he Ihad clawedtwo elephants.

"That was when I learned a realrespect for elep'hants," she said. "Nomatter what happened, they stood likethe Rock of Gibraltar."

Mrs. Buell added that it took theChicago man 21 shots to bag a tiger.

Mrs. Buell didn't try for a tiger. Shedid get a leopard, after a 4-hour wait ina tree house for one to ,make an appear.ance out of the jungle.

The tiger shot by Temple Buell Jr. hasbeen turned into a handsome rug whichlies before the fireplace in Mrs. Buell'shome at 2755 E. Exposition ave. The

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head has been mounted 'separately andwill occupy a wallin young Buell's home.

"WE CARRIED that tiger skull homeby hand," Mrs. Buell recalls. "The headsdon't mount properly unless you have theoriginal skull."

Along with the tiger skin, l\Irs. Buellhas saved her three khaki hunting suits.

"I'm going to use them again." shesays. "I want to make another trip toIndia. And I certainly hope to go on anA'frican safari. I never enjoyed an~1hingso much." -THE END

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Iowa Hosts Planning 13th National Reunion

Cedar Rapids •In '60!Hosts for the 13th annual reunion of

China-Burma.lndia veterans, to be heldAugust 3-6, 1960, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa,will be members of the Carl F. Moerschel(Iowa) Basha, CBIVA.

Tile Iowa Basha of the China. Burma.India Veterans Association was actually"born" at the fifth national reunion atOmaha, Nebr., in August, 1952, whenIowans attending decided to meet thatfall and organize.

Fourteen attended the first meeting inDes Moines on November 15, 1952. andelected as officers four of the ,memberswho ,had been at the Omaha reunion.They were Darwin Carlile of Perry, 'Com.mander; Larry Roesch of Iowa City, vicecommander; Neil L. Maurer of Laurens,public relations officer; and ElizabethEmmons of Iowa City as adjutant. MissEmmons is now Mrs. John J. Gu'Ssak ofNew York City, wife of the presentnational CBIVA provost marshal.

Next meeting was held April 11, 1953,at Amana, at Which the late Bob Bolenderof NO'Lmal, Ill., then national CBIVA com.mander, discussed the purpose of theorganization. It was John Lee of Wash.ington, who will be in charge of registra.tions at the 1960 reunion, who made themotion that the Iowa group apply for aCBIVA charter. Larry Roesch was thencommander.

Charles (Chuck) Mitchell of Kalama.zoo, Mich., national 'commander in 1955,presented the charter to the Iowa Bashaon April 16 of that year at Amana. 'Phegroup adopted the name of the Carl F.Moerschel Basha ,in honor of one of itsoriginal 14 members who had died inthe meantime. A native of the AmanaColonies, he had served as a lieutenantcolonel in CBI with the 10th Air Force.

Meeting'3 of the Carl F. MoerschelBasha are held in the spring and fall,

. one meeting in the "'estern part of thestate and the other in the eastern section.At the meeting in Des :\loines on Oct.13, 1957, with Max Hansen as comman.der, the Basha voted t:> submit a bid toinvite the national CBIVA to have its 1960family reunion in Cedar Rapids. Thisbid was accepted at Cincinnati in 1958.

At the Fort Dodge meeting October 12,1958, Leo "Red" Miner of Cedar Rapidswas appointed as reunion chairman.There were 80 in attendance at this meet.ing, and 125 turned out for the 1959ISpring meeting at Amana at which HenryHertel was elected commander. CBI vets

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from five states, including several nation.al officers, were on hand for this event.A new Basha flag was presented, whichhad been donated by Bill Leichsenringand Henry Hertel of Amana and RayAlderson of Dubuque.

The Iowa Basha won the membershipcontest conducted by National Comman.der Bob Doucette ,in 1959 for getting themost new members in CBIVA, and acheck for $50 first prize was presentedto Ray Alderson at the Philadelphia reounion. This award has since been in.vested in match folders to help advertisethe 1960 event at the Roo,sevelt Hotel inCedar Rapids.

Plans are shaping up for the 1960 reounion. One feature will be Amana Day,with a bus trip from Cedar Rapids for atour of the colonies. Fritz Marz, anotherpast 'Commander of the Iowa Basha, willbe in charge. There will be Amana reofreshments and dinner at the famous OxYoke Inn owned and operated by Ex-CBI veteran Bill Leichsenring.

Iowa Basha members are advising allCBlers to "make a date for the corn state"in 1960. .,

VISIT IOWA

IN 1960

Plan your vacation now toinclude the 1960 National CEIReunion ... to be held August3-6 at Hotel Roosevelt inCedar Rapids, Iowa.

"MAKE A DATE

FOR THE CORN STATE"

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Sews dispatches from recent issues ofThe Calcutta Statesman

MADRAS-A world record rainfall of651.47 inches was recorded at Mawsyn-ram, Assam, in 1957, according to a reportfrom Assam to the daily newspaper theHindu. The world's previous wettest placewas also in Assam, at Cherranpunji. Ithad a rainfall of 375.09 inches for 1957,well below its average of 450 inches.

GORAKHPUR-The entire territory ofNepal is to be mapped, with a Survey ofIndia party now doing exploratory workin central Nepal. The country has noreliable map, though it was roughlysketched about 40 years ago. 'Dhe work isexpected to take about four years.

SHILLONG-Thirteen h 0 is til e Nagasand 17 members of an Indian Armyambulance unit were kiIIed recently inan engagement 40 miles from Tuensang.The hostiles ambushed the ambulanceunit on its way to Tuensang.

CALCUTTA-T h 0 usa n d s of peoplegathered at the 42 ghats on the Hooghlyfrom Cossipore to Kidderpore in Calcuttato see the end of Durga Puja with theimmersion of images. The procession ofimages started early in the evening andcontinued until after midnigiht. Over4,500 policemen were detailed for duty tocontrol traffic.

DELHI-King Edward Road has beenofficially renamed "MaiIana Azad Road."For nearly a decade-since he becameeducation minister until his death ayear ago-Maulana Azad lived on thisroad at NO.4.

SHILLONG-The Assam Governmentproposes to capture 598 elephants ofwhich 458 are to be captured from theplains districts and 140 from the autono-mous districts ()If the state in the ele.phant catching season during 1959.60, itwas officially announced here.

CALCUTTA-More of Calcutta's work-ing population-are now living in suburbsthan previously. Increase 'in Howrah'ssuburban railway traffic is taken to bea sure indication of this.

KATHMANDU-Thousands of goa t s,buffalos, ducks and chickens were sacri-ficed in Kathmandu Valley at Durjatemples in the recent Dusserah festivities.Focal point of the ceremony was Hanu-man Dhoka, the old palace of Gorkha

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Kings. Nepalis in all walks of life wor-'sh1ipped their colours and implements ofwar. The tradition is for every regimentalofficer to present a buffalo as offeringto the colours of his own corps. Due tothe rise in the cost of 'living, however,every Army officer contributed to acentral fund from Which goats and buf.faloes were bought. Amid firing ofmuskets and guns, the animals weresacrified. Thousands, including foreign-ers and tourists, witnessed the ceremony.

ERNAKULAM-"Vikrant," the new air-craft carrier of the Indian Navy, whichwas commissioned 'in Britian, is expectedto be in India in the middle of 1961 andwiII be based at Cochin. With the opera-tion of the carrier, there wiII be a per-manent naval air station at Cochin.

AHMEDABAD-Over 200 Russian andIndian technicians and workers havebeen drilling for oil at Mahuvej.

NEW DELHI-Mr. D. P. Karmarkar,Union Minister of Health, said here [e-cently that child mortality in the countryhad registered a fall from 160 to lessthan 100 per thousand. The generalmortality. which ranged from 20 to 25per thousand in the last decade, hadcome down to about 12 per thousand. Theexpectation of life had risen from 32 to42.

CALCUTTA-This city wiII soon havea few selected shops where foreigntourists, handicapped by import restric-tions, will be able to buy their require.ments dur:ing their visit. A touri'st willbe able to buy camera films, 'his parti-cular brand of tobacco, and a bottleof his favourite alcoholic drink. Theseselected shops will be recognized by theGovernment, and will sell commoditiesat fair prices. In the event of failureto satisfy tourist customers, a shop willbe taken off the list. Coupons wiII beissued to tourists under this scheme,which is intended to stop shopkeepersfrom dealing unfairly with foreignvisitors.

NEW DELHI-Construction has beenstarted on a new bridge in Assam whichwiII be the first to cross the BrahmaputraRiver. It wiII be built entirely bv Indianengineers. The Brahmaputra'is the onlymajor Indian river which throughout itslong course has not so far been bridged.

NEW DELHI-Railway and s ate police'chiefs meeting here have dec'ded to pro-vide armed escorts on cer ain trainswhich run the risk of being looted. Thenames of these trains wil be kept secret.Protection wiII be extended 0 trains inany sections where railway criminalsmay be operating.

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Hillary Plans Expedition in Himalayas

27,790 Feet Without Oxygen

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covered On many i'solated snowfields ofthe Himalayas. The tracks indicate acreature of considerable weight, walkingupright, with feet similar to a large,abnor.mally broad human foot.

The famous British explorer, EricShipton, who will accompany Hillary onthis expedition, di'scovered and photo-graphed "Snowman" tra.cks in 1951 inMenlung Valley, which will be the areaof Hillary's primary search. If no positiveevidence is found in this valley, thesearch will move to another area wheretracks have been sighted.

The glaciological experiments will becarried out in January and February byexcavating a deep hole in the BarunPlateau and examining ice strata, tem-perature, wind 'strength and snowfall at20,000 feet.

Sir Edmund Hillary, the New Zealan-der who conquered Mt. Everest, will reoturn to the Himalayas with an expeditionto test high altitude survival by climbing27,790 foot Mount Makalu without oxgen.

He will accomplish this by a gradualascent of the mountain which he be.lieves will acclimatize the group duringthe treacherous four-month Himalayanwinter.

The expedition will also conduct acarefully planned hunt for the Abomin-able Snowman. Native reports and fre-quent evidence of footprints indicatethat the creature inhabits the :Mt. Makaluarea. As the expedition ascends themountain, Hillary will establish lookoutposts which will gradually be movedhigher as the winter progresses. Accord-ing to the New Zealander, this will beone of the most thorough and prolongedsnowman searches ever attempted.

The announcement of the expeditionwas made in Chicago by Bailey K.Howard, president of Field EnterprisesEducational Corp., publisher of theWorld Book Encyclopedia. The education-al pubHshing firm is sponsoring theexpedition.

Hillary has obtained permission fromthe Nepalese government for the expedi-tion which will be launched in Septemberof 1960. Accompanying Hillary will beDr. Griffiths Pugh, eminent Britishphysiologist, who will be in charge ofthe high altitude survival experiments.A U. S. physiologist, quite possibly fromone of the armed forces, will also be ,in.vited to join the expedition. Anothermember of the scientific team will be aglaciologist, who will gather data onunusual ice formations and other phe-nomena found in the desolate Himalayan,mountain range.

It is Hillary's intention to fly the expe-dition members and equipment to Kat-mandu the latter part of September. Theymust then hike appr:>ximately 170 milesto the foot of Mt. • [akalu. world's fourthhighest mountain. • lain camps and astring of 10Clk-out posts will be establish-ed between 17,000 and 1 .00:) feet.

The hunt for the Abominable Snow-man, or "yeti," as it is called by thenatives, will be carried on for the firstfour months of the expedition. Hillaryhas invited an eminent American zoolo-gist to take charge of the search for theSnowman.

Belief in the existence of this creatureis based primarily on the tracks dis.

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Edited by BOYD SINCLAIR

THE SILENT TRAVELLER IN BOSTON. ByChiang Yee. 117. W.... Norton and Com pan)'. NewYork, October 1959. $6.50.

Many people have appreciated thedelicate heauty and charm of this Chineseartist's books on Paris, New York, andother cities of the world. Sixteen colorpaintings and fifty line drawings.

ARCTIC WINGS. By William Leising.Doubleday and Company, New York, November1959. $4.95.

The story of the Oblate Fathers of theCatholic Church, who bring religion,medIcal care, and education to the mostisolated people in North America.

NINETY DEGREES SOUTH. By Paul Siple.G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, November 1959.$5.75.

The story of the building of the Amer.ican base at the South Pole in 1957, withthe experiences, dangers, and labors ofthe 18 men who made up the expedition.The author led it.

THE DRAGON'S SEED. By Robert Elegant.St. lManin's Press, New York, December 1959.$4.95.

This report indicates a growing powerof wealthy "overseas" Chinese in South-east Asia and says their CJmmunistloyalties pose a threat to the West. 'Pheauthor cover;; Hong Kong for Newsweek.

THE GARDEN FLOWERS OF CHINA. ByLi Hui-lin. The Ronald Press, New York, No-t'ember 1959. 6.50.

A history of the important floweringplants of China, combining botanicalfacts with legend derived fro.m Chinese,Japanese, and Western literature. Illus-trations from Chinese originals.

LIVING JAPAN. By Donald Keene. Double-day and Company, New York, November 1959.$7.95.

A picture. and-text volume on Japan,yesterday and today. The book has 158photographs, 21 in color, made by out-standing photographers of both East andWest. Size 814 by 11 inches.

FUEL FOR THE FLAME. By Alec W'augh.Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, Ja/lUary1960. $4.95.

A novel with a highly complicated plotset on an island in Southeast Asia. Mili.

FEBRUARY, 1960

tary and business interests stir up a fakeCommunist menace. Trouble in paradisesort of thing, flavored with love andpolitics.

THE REVOLT IN TIBET. By' Frank Moraes.The Macmillan Company, New York. January1960. $3.75.

A report on Red Chinese aggression bya distinguished Indian newsman. Hestates the issues and sounds a warningabout the contradictions and weaknessesof India's Asian policy. The Dalai Lama'sflight is described.

THE BITTER FRUIT OF KOM-PAIl"?I. ByTaiwon Koh. John C. Winston Company. Phil-adelphia, October 1959. $3.50.

The autobiography of a courageouswoman who grew to maturity in a landwhich has never been its own master-Korea. She tells of life under theJapanese and Communists and howAmerica gave her 'hope and refuge.

THE PRACTICE OF ZEN. By Chang Chen-chi. Harper and Brothers, New York, October1959. $4.00.

A Ohinese scholar, now living andteaching in America, gives a lively andbalanced view of the paradoxical philo.sophy. The author trained in monasteriesin China and eastern Tibet.

THE STORY OF INDOi\'ESIA. By LouisFischer. Harper and Brothers, I',ew York, October1959. 5.00.

Political report of a 'complex, neutralnation of 88,000,000 people. It is aboutequally divided between the past andpresent. The author portrays a nationsearching for the formula for stability.

IMPATIENT GIANT. By Gerald Clark. DavidMcKay' Compan)', New York, October 1959.4.50.A Canadian newspaperman draws a

sharp line between the material gainsand the moral losses of Red China. Hetoured Red China with two "guides" andan interpreter dogging him at all Urnes.

THIRTY YEARS WITH THE SILENT BIL-LION. By Frank Laubach. Fleming H. RevellCOmp(//l)', New York, January 1960. $3.95.

The author reviews !his lifetime ofteaching people-millions of people-howto read. A lot of his work has been inthe Orient. The autobiography of adedicated, enthusiastic man of fantastic\Success.

• cr. RandomHouse, New York, • '01 c "6.95.

A documentary, panoram'c novel ofnearly a thousand page ,'hich turnsout to be an enormous variety ofsketches; it run over he entire historyof the 50th tate from Polynesian set.tlement to the present.

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Commander's

Message

by

Harold H.Kretchmar

National CommanderChina-Burma-India

Veterans Assn.

Salaams:Foul weather continues to dog my trail.

On the 12t'h of December I traveled toToledo to attend the meeting of the De-partment of Ohio, where I was greetedby icy winds accompanied by rain. Onthe other hand the warm hospitality andgOJd fellowship I feund there offset allthe adverse weather.

Eddie Stipes and his Teledo crewhad excellent plans and arrangementsprepared for the visitors from variousparts cf Ohio and the sahibs and mem-sa'hibs wh:) dropped down from Detroit.Among these Johnny (The Host) Daw,son,Clark (Antenna) Peach and Wally (TheClcwn) Reed. From around the BuckeyeState were such prominent CBIers asHoward Clager, c::>mmander of the de-partment; Dick Poppe, national1historian;Wayne Keller, former national vice com-mander; John Thomas, commander of theColumbus Basha; and Joe (Wrong Floor)Nivert, commander of the MahoningValley Basha, and some of the member'sof this youngest member of our familyof bash as.

On my way back from Toledo on the13th I had a short layover in Chicago.Knowing from my previous visit there,that they were to hold a Christmas party,I tried to contact them and after medifficulty finally .managed to reach Mrs.John Carlson, the president of the Chicagoauxiliary.

The Christmas holiday brought manycards from CEl-VA member as well asmany .messages of goodwill and goodcheer. Needless to say these were heart-ily appreciated.

There is one Christmas card which Iannually look forward to receiving andthis comes from Paul Edwards of Indian-apolis. Along with his card is an applica-tion for CBI-VA membership. Printed onthe envelope is the query "Have youjoined the CEl .VA ?" Followed by: "Ifnot, do it today." Paul has been sendingthese out for several years.

Glenn C. Hess of Utica, N. Y., insteadof sending out Christmas cards puts out

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a December issue of the Jackal JuiceJournal to the wallahs who served withthe 843rd AAA AW Battalion. This is amimeographed paper of six pages incor.porating news and stories about the out-fit and relaying messages :received fromvari:}us fc-rmer members who served inthis unit. Glenn invariably includes someitems in regard to our organization aswelJ as some beneficial to Ex-CBI Round.up. Although I didn't serve in this outfitI am happy to be on the mailing list.

For 'Several years there have been re-quests for a complete listing of all mem-be:s of the CEl-VA indicating names,addl'esses and outfits. At the reunion inPhiladelphia it was decided that sincethi,s would entail considerable expensewhich the national organization couldnot afford t::>bear an attempt would bemade to secure sufficient ads for the 1960reunion program and in this way makethis listing part of the reunion programb:lOklet. We need the cooperation of theentire membership to assist us in secur.ing ads from alJ over the 'country. Adprices are as follows:

Full page (7%, x 4%) .._._._.. $100.00Half page .__. _.. . $ 55.00Quarter page . .. $ 30.00Special ads ._ $ 10.00The program booklet wHI be Isent to

all members-not just those attendingthe reunion. Let's get busy and get suf.ficient ads to insure publishing a co.m-plete membership list., This is the timeto get busy on this endeavor. The reunioncommittee also invites booster ads. Sendyour ads to Ray Alderson, 1503 Delhi St.,Dubuque, Iowa, or G. L. Galloway, P. O.Box 188, Laurens, Iowa.

Well, another year is upon us and nodoubt many of us will be making resolu.tions for improvements far the new year.Hew about a resolution to bring a newmember into the CEl-VA during the cur-rent year. In s() doing you'll be helpingthe organization you are part of as wellas yourself, since the growth of ourorganizaNon enhances the benefits eachof us derives. Isn't there a buddy youserved with overseas that you'd like toinvite to join the most exclusive veteransorganization in the U. S.? Better still,why not organize the fellows in youroutfit to get together for a reunion aspart of the reunion in ce'dar Rapids.Wouldn't it be a thl'il] to get togetherwith them after fifteen years? Thinkabout it and then get the ball rolling.

Would like to take this opportunity towish every CBler, everywhere, that thisnew year be the one for the ifealizationof all your dreams.

HAROLD H. KRETCHMAR,National Commander2625 ArthurMaplewood 17, Mo.

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------------------ To The Editors

THIS might be called a "sidewalk supermar -er" in Calcutta. . . . but then, all Calcutta could be called one big super.market. Photo by Joel H. Springer, Jr.

C.N.A.C. Association• Am very pleased withyour magazine and espe.cially enjoyed CBI Datelinecolumn and the book reoviews. I wa's with theC.N.A.C. at Dum.Dum andlater in Shanghai, China.We have formed a C.N.A.C.Association comprised ofthos.e men Wiho worked forthe c:Jmpany in China. Thepresent location of many ofthe men is unknown andwe are attempting to findthem. We plan to have areunion in Miami duringthe summer of 1961. Wewould like any for:mermembers interested to con-tact me, as I am secretaryof the aSSoOciation.REGINALD H. FARRAR JR.,

M.D.681 Bergen Ave.Jersey City 4, N. J.

33rd Fighter Group• Have four more his.tories of the 33rd FighterGroup. Any former memberthat des ire s one-firstcome, first served. Just dropme a line.

DR. WM. L. SMITH,742 N. 12th St.Reading, Pa.

James Donovan Dies• James Donovan, 53,who served in India andBurma, died Dec. 23 follow.ing a heart attack at hishome in Youngstown. As apublic !health nurse, I hadcalled on him for the firsttime on Dec. 21 to changean abdominal post-opera.tive dressing. He told methat he had had a kidneyremoved by a doctor ,fromWisconsin at 20th GeneralHospital on Ledo Road. WeShook hands-I felt againlike I was over there withthe soldiers. He highlypraised the medics at 20thGeneral-told me he was amember of Merrill's Marau.ders and came to India fromSicily. He was known as"Big Jim." We foug<ht theold CBI theater-he wasinterested in our basha andyour magazine. Incident.ally, I am now the historian

for the newly.fmmed Ma.honing Valley Basha inYoungstown-.:had served inIndia with 159th StationHospital; in Karachi, India;S.O.S. Hospital in Chakulia,India; and finished 38months tour at 181st Gen.eral Hospital in Karachi.

ETHEL YAVORSKY,Youngstown, Ohio

Where Is Steve?• In the January issue ofRoundup, the pic t u r eaboard the USS Alderamenby Clinton Staples showsthe little Chinese boy, SteveChin, receiving his giftfrom Santa. I wonder if anyof your readers have anyknowledge of Steve Chin to-day. He was to live in LosAngeles with a Chinese .GIif Ihis parents were provendead.

JOHN T. GANNON,Stanhope, Iowa

Colonel Hickey Dies• Enclosed is a clippingfrom our local newspaperconcerning the death of aformer CBler, Edward A.Hickey of Newtonville. aformer resident of XewBedford. He had been acolonel in the . 'ationalGuard. I did not know him,but noted in one of youri'ssues that my inbrmationconcerning the death of anex-CBIer would be appre.ciated. My very best wishesto you and your staff. Stilllook forward with eageranticipation to each suc.cessive issue of Roundup.

PAUL M. PEREIRA,New Bedford, Mass.

Burma Road• Was with the 209thEngineers On the BurmaRoad as a chief warrantofficer.

RICHARD C. ROBERTS,Englewood, Colo.

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Water Buffalo Horn Carvings!Looking for something new to grace your home-

from India? Here's something really unusual. grace.ful and low. priced to CBI.ers.

These striking black cranes (Rice Paddy Birds.to you) are hand-carved with amazing skill fromthe horn of Indian Water Buffalo. After carving. thehorn art is highly polished and mounted on a rose.wood base. Each has tiny ivory-inlaid eyes.

You'd expect these beautiful cranes to be expen.sive, but hold onto your seats and read these prices.shipped to you POSTPAID!

Crane 8" tall $2.75Crane 10" tall _ _.. $3.25Crane 12" tall ._.. $3.75Crane 16" tall _ $5.95

(Price includes postage)

INDIA BRASS POLISH CLOTHS

At last a jeweler's 'rouge cloththat will keep your India Brass.ware brightly shining. Clothslast for years. Nothing to dryout or spoil. Only 75c. Cigarette Urn with built-in ash tray. $2.15;

Ladies' Powde:, Box 3", $1.95; Shoe AshTray 3", 45c.

No. 187. "'ight Candlesticks. engraved, ollly $2.95 pair. No. 181. Jigger or toothpickcup, Ph", 35c each: 2','. 60c each. No. 172. Small incense burner. 2". ollh- 85c each.NO.191. Small Bells. :r'. .20 per dozen. •

No. 134. Card Tray. 5¥.,..• richly engraved.many uses, ollly $1.25 each. No. 204. LeafMint Dish, 5", $1.50 cacho No. 196. LeafAsh Tray, 5", only $1.50 each. 1650 Lawrence St. Denver 2. Colo.