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Enslish Kiddins in The Face o[ Death

Captain John Buckley is a valiant young lurnber friend of mine who has completed his flying missions in Europe and is now home for a change of scenery. John has a grand sense .of humor, and he always saw and is able to relate the funny side of the tragedy of war that he witnessed. He has told me a number of grand stories of the men he heard laughing while death whistled close by, the best one of which is about an English pilot who flew with his squadron, kidding his good friend, the tail pilot, when danger threatened.

They were flying over very dangerous territory when

W. F. Fchs Bcrck Frorn North

W. F. (Bill) Fahs, manager, California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, has been in the Northwest on business for the last two weeks. He was accompanied by Stan Swanson, salesman for the company, and they expected to bc back April 1.

suddenly the tail pilot reported a bunch of Krauts closing in on his tail. Not thirty seconds later his excited voice fairly roared into the phone: "They're right on top of me and shooting the GD hell out of me !"

Further ahead in the squadron the young British pilot, who was the tail pilot's best friend,'chanted into the phone in a sing-song voice, saying:

"Freddie is a fraidy-cat, Freddie is a fraidy-cat!" and in spite of the seriousness of the occasion, every man in the squadron roaredincluding the tail pilot.

Trcnsferred to Eugene Office

Bill .Davis, member of the Los Angeles sales stafi of Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber'Division, for the past several years, has ,been transferred to the E,ugene, Ore., office. He spent a few days at the San Francisco office on his way North, and took over his nerv duties in Eugene on April l.