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Show THE LEIII SUN, LEIII, UTAH OH8 of cream and tan 't 5,000,. servant. iblem of 'eel, the 3 origi. ng the of the tput of 1165,. -1 t T7I i . tf SIBI hi-f of staff G-2. LnWl" !", l,,llle.nce. esU- rur(( " . ,,...,iinn that there te'EuroP" troops in Mexico L . .turk on the m Bo" he and " President ri''s,Uact because ot pubUc CHAPTER II Continued. . 1itz Streicneu uui fsinliB," (ace as 5 door opened on the little ' fwhicb he was confined. His 'Twa Pves searched the A;bi, visitor, and he sat up in his face. jo Benmng, c ----..I.m hriehtening. "So its Hime alter me, i - ' Tmust be hanged, that it's to ;;0 American job t jf i . avit(lTPrH( I - A 111 11V v W ,.L hut vou'U understand my ;5Sion of gratification that you ve B . P.mniio Will niB flown ai iaov. vuif' man you killed, was a. I'Bff company. fley engaged in a ouamcu sation. Benning proiuugeu ci while he stuaiea oruuuiw. i nnrnnsps. He asked many eitions of the crorruiw siay w Tembourg, which the prisoner an- -ered treeiy. ne was bihuw edby the evident good humor that !:itBromlitz' parting words cleared . that enigma. "May I ask you a special favor, . ... 1 -i 1 1 T anning" tsrommz hsk.cu ub jjc- jj rose to go. fte prisoner was suddenly soi- 3D, tnere was a pieuume uuic iii I j voice, a beseecning iook in ms I: :ick eyes. '1 owe you no favors, Bromlitz, Penning said brusquely. "A very little favor to a man wno Dst die." the other implored. "Let !ae tell you, Benning, and you ssln't say no. Your coming here ia greatly relieved my mind. I jas-suspicious that I must have sea betrayed to the French, but sow I know it was the American secret service that caufiht ud with ae. A small distinction you say? 3at an important one to me. The :te fine thine in my life has been, Benning, a girl, whom I hoped soon i marry. Please will you take a message to her at Luxembourg? Tell ha I was killed by a train, drowned -tell her anything but the truth. She must think me dead. Out of her loyalty she might wait for me tough empty years, and she's too Sue for that ordeaL , Please let, her iiak I'm honorably .dead and can't ever return. You'll do that for me, please, 'Benning!" CHAPTER III A tramcar took Benning from the Calonia Station in Mexico City to Plaza Mayor, whence he crossed the tad Mexican thoroughfare to the peat stone hulk of the Palacio Na- 1 1 cional. He accosted a gendarme and dssea directions to General Van Hassek's headquarters. The policeman shook a puzzled tad and answered, "I've heard of no such general in Mexico, senor." "Perhaps," Benning suggested, u can direct me to General nuiz," The Mexican's face lighted up, and he spoke almost in awe, "Si, Knor, if your credentials are important im-portant enough you may find General Gen-eral Ruiz in the President's suite at palace." Benning smiled inwardly as he toed to the Porto Mariano and entered en-tered the palace. Many times since Wving at Vera Cruz he had insured in-sured about Van Hassek to find the "dme ""known. It meant that. Van "assek, a real master of the Mexi-n Mexi-n forces, was entrenched behind stout incognito, moving his pawns e name of young Ruiz, the new folate who had been placed in wer by a swift, furious, and mys-nous mys-nous coup d'etat of European Planning, An elevator shot Benning to the toth floor. He presented his cre- "tials to a staff officer with easy surance. So far. his carte d'iden- Had passed him without ques-- The staff officer directed him wn a tiled corridor that rang with inn n Z 01 mUltary typewriters -aa au the hum and buzz of a gen-"al gen-"al headquarters. Jjl Was escorted into a large re-Tm re-Tm at tte far en of. the t l ?e staff officer Sot to his 'grudgingly. 'Til see if Excellency wishes you Port to him personally," he said LGea left the room, but le.w moments to say. itim- . nassek will see you major." Pennine fmm u: ... tow,., u "imaeu in an lm-ense lm-ense chamber whose rich furnish- o dn"not of vivid colors. His Srte!ed to S01e perplexity "POD the solitarv fim,, u. I mo- "i "ie room, featW Sp"wled to deep crimson n eiChair Pced at one side of "".ense blackwood desk. as thi V it. . . em!...-. au "asseKT The re- ihar. a.n 8 fiure was lost in ua-ce was a network f jaw jowls "scaded from nd chin. Moreover, he ap- l!?0,1 animate, k listles tent rl Sme stranee detach-tei2 detach-tei2 beautiy frescoed INSTALLMENT TWO and congressional opinion which failed to realize the significance of the troops. In an effort to obtain more definite proof, Colonel Flagwlll sent Captain Bennlnf, daring American intelligence officer, to the U. 8. ambassador In Paris. Here he was told to impersonate Lieutenant Bromlitz, a former American officer who - "Sir, Major Bromlitz, reporting from Luxembourg for duty with General Van Hassek," Benning said briskly. "Sit down, Bromlitz," the other said without lowering his eyes. "I'm Van Hassek." The Van Hassek uniform was the simple brownish-tinted cotton khaki of this new Mexican army. At the collar was a silver crescent, insignia insig-nia of a lieutenant general. The only other ornaments on his severely severe-ly plain uniform were a glittering order of merit at his left breast and, under it, the iron cross. Some moments passed in which the only sound was the heavy ticking of an immense German clock and the vague hum of traffic in the street below. . "Perhaps you can tell me, Bromlitz," Brom-litz," Van Hassek mused without change of voice or posture. "Yes, perhaps you can tell me." A faint smile passed his thick lips as he went on: "I've just come up from the Salon de Espera on a lower low-er floor of the palace where I've installed in-stalled a hospital. Perhaps I should refer to it as my laboratory. In any event, no one ever leaves it alive, "Sit down, Bromlitz." but they are only spies and traitors who must die by one means or another. an-other. For some months I've been watching them at the moment they leave the world, yet I'm more mystified mysti-fied now than ever. So you tell me, Bromlitz, if you can, is death the end of us?" "Your pardon, Excellency," Ben ning answered. "I'm not a chap lain." The other chuckled, and with a vitality vi-tality in his mirth that was not that of an ailing man. "The profession of arms is so vast and intricate, Bromlitz, I've given up all hopes of mastering it in detail," de-tail," Van Hassek rejoined. "Besides, "Be-sides, I find occasional diversion in other lines of thoughts.' So many, many people must die of violence within the next year or two that I've been trying to satisfy myself whether wheth-er that will be the end of them." "You mean that many will die in war, I take it, sir," Benning suggested. suggest-ed. "Millions," Van Hassek answered, stifling a yawn. His pudgy arms thrust into the air over his head, his heels stretched forward, and he squirmed erect in his huge chair. "You were, I'm advised, an American Amer-ican army officer," Van Hassek said, now speaking briskly in German. "I'm told there are serious charges standing against you in the United States." Benning said: "I hope you'll not judge me by that, General Van Hassek. Has-sek. Despite my past misfortunes I'm a soldier, sir, and hold the view that there is no other profession worthy of a man. That being so, when circumstances beyond my control con-trol placed a price on my head in one country, haven't I the right to find service in another?" "Ja, a soldier is always a soldier, Bromlitz," Van Hassek answered with an approving nod. "I enjoyed my three years in China as much as my station in Vienna; and Mexico Mex-ico is even more to my liking because be-cause there are big events shaping up. Tell me in your own way, Bromlitz, Brom-litz, what you think of the American Ameri-can army's fighting capacity." Benning pondered briefly and decided de-cided upon the full and unequivocal truth which, after all, could only confirm con-firm what Van Hassek must already know. "If you mean the American readiness readi-ness for a sudden war, that is nothing noth-ing short of pitiable, sir. The United States land forces are scattered in small garrisons, are not properly NEXT WEEK v Miii' had planned to work with the foreign agents In Mexico. Expelled from the U. S. army, be bad desired to get re venge for tbe "Insult." Fortunately, ' Bromlitz had been captured, so Benning prepared to visit him In bit cell to study bli mannerisms. Now continue with the story. equipped, and have very little training train-ing in the team-play of the larger ' combat elements." "What do you know of its strength?" "There are four army Infantry divisions di-visions and eighteen National Guard infantry divisions together with some four cavalry divisions. All are at peace strength and it would take months to put them on a war footing, fully equipped. In total manpower count on 300,000 men within the territorial limits." "Ja, very good. What about their fighting equipment?" "Pitiable, when you consider the whole picture. Their artillery is largely World War vintage stuff. They're short on ammunition, antiaircraft, anti-aircraft, instruments of precision, modern rifles. Their anti-tank weap ons aren't out of the factories yet. It would take them a year to make the weapons they'd need, if they couldn't purchase them in foreign markets as they did for the World War. But they have a high-class of ficer personnel, thoroughly trained and" "Ja, I know of that," Van Has sek interrupted with a dash of im patience. "But it takes modern equipment and plenty of training to fight a battle these days. Now, tell me another thing, Bromlitz, would the mass of Americans stick together togeth-er in event of invasion?" Benning pondered briefly and an swered, "I'm sure you can count on it that they will, sir." "But what if they were overrun suddenly? How long would they stand up under terrific military punishment pun-ishment when they had their chance offered them to to buy their way back to peace?" "Excellency, is it probable that anyone would be audacious enough to attack the United States on her own soil?" Benning asked. "I mean when her potential resources in wealth and manpower are taken into consideration?" Van Hassek snapped out, "That's precisely why she must be attacked on her own soil, because of her latent la-tent strength." Benning pretended perplexity and countered, "I'm not sure I under stand just what Excellency means." "I mean it was America's stupid intervention that wrecked the world in the Great War." "But didn't her strength turn the balance in the last war. Excellen cy?" "Strength, bah!" Van Hassek scoffed. "Not for more than a year after the United States jumped into the war did her soldiers fire a shot in battle. Then only after the French supplied her with cannon, the British Brit-ish with rifles, helmets, and gas masks, and both sides conducted a military kindergarten to instruct her divisions in the art of war. Ja, that was her latent strength!" Van Hassek got up abruptly and with an amazing agility. He went to his desk and touched a call button. but-ton. The captain from the anteroom responded promptly. "Captain Schtoff," Van Hassek instructed, in-structed, "I'm very well satisfied with Bromlitz. You may have him report for the time being to Colonel Bravot. Later I may have more important use for him." CHAPTER IV Benning found himself assigned to a stuffy little room that was piled high with American newspapers and magazines. Half a dozen other officers offi-cers were engaged in reading these publications. Each day this group was required to make a summary of American press opinion as affecting Mexican relations. Outwardly a peaceful enough job, but one that Benning knew to be a vital part of Van Hassek's Has-sek's war machinery. During the next few days Benning Ben-ning kept pretty much to himself, though cautiously making friends with the Austrian, Captain Fincke, who sat at his elbow. A bit at a time he meant to gather the information infor-mation he had come for. If long risks had to be taken in order to secure important secret informations, that would have to wait until he had the lay of things at headquarters. Mexico City, Benning observed in his off-duty strolls, was serene and untroubled. Mexican troops themselves had undergone a transition. They had shoes on their feet and discipline in their ranks and were used largely as labor troops. Except for patrols and a daily guard-mounting there was no daily martial display in the city. Ruiz, holding the military rank of colonel-generaL was an imposing figure, erect, lean, dashing. His uniform uni-form was always vivid and he was forever attended by flashily uniformed uni-formed aides and orderlies. Benning Ben-ning thought Ruiz must have been picked for appearance as well as his susceptibility to control, in order to put on a show that would catch and bold the Mexican imagination. (TO BS WST1SUED) ft- 7rtff. StAGESCRE Br VIRGINIA VALE (RelaaMd by Western Newspaper Union.) CAROLYN LEE is only six years, but already she has made more money in the movies than most people are able to save in a lifetime. By spring, when her latest picture, "Virginia," will have been seen by many people, she should be established as a child star. In "Virginia" she has an important role and speaks almost as much dialogue dia-logue as the stars, Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray. Yet she can't read. Her mother reads Carolyn'! lines to the child two or three times, and little Miss Lee commits them to memory. The Infant seemi to have been shot with luck two years ago; she was In a hotel in Wheeling, W. Va., just a few miles from her home CAROLYN LEE town of Martin's Ferry, Ohio. She toddled up to a man, a stranger and he just happened to be a movie executive. He let her lead him to her mother and a screen test and a bit in "Honeymoon in Bali" resulted. Fibber McGee and Molly have been signed by RKO to co-star In a picture with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy; the picture, a feature film, will be produced by David Hempstead, who produced Ginger Rogers "Kitty Foyle." Maureen O'Hara, RKO-Radio' star from Ireland who is now at work in the leading feminine role of "They Met in Argentina," recently bade farewell to her mother with the injunction to "bring back a bit of the old sod" and a shamrock. Mrs. Fitzsimmons sailed for Lisbon, but expects to return soon with another an-other gifted daughter. She and Maureen came to this country two years Bgo, when Maureen Mau-reen made her Hollywood debut in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." "TVi Rill nf Divorcement" and 'Dance. Girl Dance" followed, and Mrs. Fitzsimmons, who used to be an actress herself, is perfectly satisfied satis-fied with her talented daughter's achievements. How'd von like to act as a target for tomatoes and like it and even ask for more? That's what George Michelson spent his time at the oth er day, and after tbe fourth shot he was the happiest man in Holly wood. Michelson is assistant property man on James Roosevelt's "Pot o' Sold." and he had to make the to mato that James Stewart throws at Charles Winninger. He did it first by filling the thin outside skin with a mess of catsup, chocolate sauce and other little items, and then had somebody throw it at him while a camera turned. After the first three smacks Mi chelson shook his head. "Nope," he sa!cL "This won't do. I'll have to put some whipped cream in it" So the whipped cream was added, and once more he took a tomato rieht between the eyes. This time be could grin he'd made a photo genic tomato, one that photographed so well that when It meets up with Winnineer on the screen all of at will think it was just the ordinary garden variety. Fran Allison, singing comedienne on the "Uncle Ezra" air show, can scratch her forehead and tickle a rih with the same motion, at the same time and thinks probably hp' the only person wno can. 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