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Show TIIE LEIII SUN. LEH1. UTAII t limn " ' l ' zs -. 8 have ' - ,4 were net i cars. f ' planti ants after ep ahead any amj. ! gardening ''ium, yon (Glory tf wtisfai-j introduce ! i.es Httfc space. Jt; light, and , i a native lorful arden and "Kelly field In flames.1 INSTALLMENT FIVE , s(i FAR: Colonel Flag- toon took him Into his confidence. Ben' M thief of G-2. U. S. military Z department, estimated there 800 European troops to Mexl-Zm Mexl-Zm lor an attack on the Unit-r Unit-r i. nrnmlitz. an Amer- , rvalue Sor captured In Paris, Intelli. DUiter Benninf went to Mexico ' he was unsuspectingly ac i an officer by Van Hassek, 4 Die WKlgn urmcu nacke, another enemy officer, CHAPTER Vl-Continued. ead a news flash on the Presi-soltimatum Presi-soltimatum in the San Antonio '.s last night before I took oft lashington, sir," Benning said, a; opinion is worth anything, p1 Ruiz will merely, stall iin a play for time. He's con- wholly by Van Hassek. ;e're getting ready to mobilize tilTlagwiU rubbed a torment- f Ij ip at tht j fit ind 1 TMENT EAIMIM ia ! RMANE.NT in patienSt, IC I Salt Lib LET WWW red : Direct ft , Salt Lake, erenee. i st rtceN Wallpapa rm priest 00 or M aelett-No early, UbCtr stp! On Ttnpki (or f't WWW. 1 domes ither fit- ANT I Lake City ww. RICK j II lit id and across his brow. "Gad, ;l headache if it finally comes 'it! . i'e'll be lucky if we get any-; any-; mobilized before Van Hassek 'us," Benning predicted. "I 2 if we wait much longer." ait? Wait? What else can we lit wait? The people just sim- :efuse to believe we're vulnera-Benning. vulnera-Benning. Late yesterday a -jnent senator dressed down the atait for sending an ultimatum Suit Said the present troubled : ii not one to rock the boat rated the President was play-1 play-1 politics. The press gave that lesman almost as much space 1 gave the ultimatum. But now get busy and type out your re-" re-" in detail, Benning. General ;ie has called a General Staff ierence for eight o'clock. Hague seen at his desk constantly since -report came in yesterday no around here has had any sleep, le back as soon as possible." ming dictated to a confidential i Ms report covering his move's move-'s and observations from the of his arrival in Paris. J8 done, he reproduced from 1017 the Van Hassek operations : with its numerous sinister red s indicating points of possible m of the United States by a Jt land force supported by war s' and aircraft. 1 Flagwill came in from -conference, his face gravely j. Tbat'j fretting the President Is move. G-2 has canvassed Jt opinion throughout our nine 'areas and finds the public isn't "men excited over the Mexi- situation. The President's ulti- Mirrea up more curios-mo curios-mo alarm in the country. Too f newspapers treat the matter cally, or question the vigor toahty with which the President Presi-dent after Ruiz." tenographer brought In Ben-s Ben-s complete report and Flagged Flag-ged it avidly. His brows met 56 came to the scene in Van :s quarters at the Palacio Mai a say. Rpnni . ,l . """6 juti saw a na8 with crossed sabers with wn eyej-and aU the officers u he asked sharply. . sir." . ."J1 didn't tell me that in your m..- . avs vital hon! That sam Rowing up in Europe among 2li of the Coalition Powers L..eilortsnaveleaked out that .?' hell-bent on taking mat- "se, that s a subterfntr,. governments to maneu- "Wd Whit? tha-a 1 . Brl;.Pea" negotiations. But 7 " flaA fa Van sit rn,, 18 hlghly si- a U tako irn,.. . t to r V J "L repon at w General Ham, mornins'and after- consul. Ul amDassa- .Muls. army and nav at- w0wotM S10n toat JPe continue-d a maelstrom of ed BnTt ' UIy' Spain- and Balkan states wer h..t frontier87:' '!y nad cked ca.13 wire taken h T"n,lar action had can,Japan- Unverified- "om China of heavy ning was joined in Mexico City by Lu-cette Lu-cette Ducos, a French spy, who told him that Bromlitz had escaped. He returned re-turned to Washington after learning Van Hassek's plans for an Invasion of the United States. Acting on the basis of this information the President sent an ultimatum to Mexico demanding an immediate im-mediate explanation of the foreign troops on her soil. Now continue with the story. . troop concentrations north of Shanghai Shang-hai together with concentration of transport fleets. Russia had drawn off to herself behind an unbreakable curtain of censorship. Diplomacy admittedly ad-mittedly had broken down the world over, fretted capitals waited in the grip of fear for the next moves in a world gone mad. Only in the United States was there tranquillity left, a lack of fear and tension. G-2 reports gave the same story from over the country. There was lively interest but little tension. War was something on remote re-mote horizons, isolated by broad seas. America wanted nothing to do with it, wished only to be left alone with her peaceful intentions. Therefore no harm could come. The war scare was jingoistic poppycock promoted by militarists in their quest of heavier appropriations for armaments. Just as though recent millions pledged to. them were insufficient. in-sufficient. As for those mercenary troops in the Mexican army, our own army could gobble them up in a jiffy if they were senseless enough to start anything. During the day Benning saw little of Flagwill. Endless staff conferences confer-ences were being, held, the jyhole War and Navy Departments a beehive bee-hive of strained activity. A new plan was hot in the making, a tortured, tor-tured, impossible plan, out of which the best must be drawn. It was a plan to meet the one emergency for which the United States was wholly and utterly unprepared, un-prepared, the emergency of sudden invasion. At Fort Sam Houston, on the outskirts out-skirts of San Antonio, Lieutenant Colonel Bart, Corps Area G-2 Chief, received a disturbing bit of informa-' tion late in the day. Shortly after sunset a formation, identified as bombers, had passed over the Rio Grande at a point west of Brownsville, Browns-ville, headed north. Bart had telephoned the villages of Kingsville, Gregory, Skidmore, Beeville, and Kennedy to the north of the border, in Texas, without picking up any further report of the flight, from which he concluded that the bombers must have taken out across the Gulf of Mexico. He had alerted Galveston and New Orleans, but as the evening passed no reports came from those cities. Neither Kelly Field nor Randolph Field had any planes out. A query to Washington brought the response that no American bombers were known to be in the lower Texas region re-gion or along the Gulf of Mexico. The reported bomber expedition had followed a series of reports during dur-ing the afternoon that had put General Gen-eral Brill and the whole corps area on the jagged edge. A Mexican had brought into Laredo the report that heavy motorized divisions were spending the day in screened bivouacs biv-ouacs in Coahuila and Nueva Leon. Half an hour later came news from Colonel Denn that was not to be ignored. "Four flights have passed over Laredo La-redo within the past fifteen minutes," min-utes," Denn said. "If my ears know an American plane these were not American. They were headed about due north, and traveling high and fast" General Brill calmly made his own estimate of the situation. Parked in the grounds of Fort Sam Houston were the sixteen hundred shining new trucks of the Second Division, together with the division's material materi-al and supplies. The Second, alert ed and with all leaves suspended, was in barracks- and camp ready for emergency. At Kelly and Randolph Ran-dolph Fields, near-by. were the planes and supplies used in training a small new army of pilots for an expanded air service. "Have the Second Division get their trucks out of here as soon as possible," he directed his chief of staff. "They'll also disperse their artillery. Notify the mayor of San Antonio and suggest that he have NEXT WEEK all lights cut off. Notify the flying fields of our information. Notify Ea-gle Ea-gle Pass and Fort Bliss." He paused to receive another report re-port from Bart "Sir, Third Army Headquarters just called In from Atlanta. They've a report from Charleston ot bombers bomb-ers flying high over that city at ten-seventeen o'clock, heading north by east" Outside there was orderly commotion. commo-tion. Troops were pouring out of barracks bar-racks and bivouac camps already, the first drivers were moving their trucks out of the fort Another report from Colonel Denn. The colonel's voice now crackled with intensity. One of his intelligence intelli-gence scouts, disguised as a Mexican Mexi-can peon, had the word from friendly friend-ly Mexicans that a heavy motor column was moving north from the vicinity of Palo Blanco. Another column was reported moving by night through Tamaulipas toward Brownsville and a third was said to have passed Mesquite, in Coahuila, Coahui-la, headed in the direction of Eagle Pass. An hour later the Second Divi sion's trucks, filled with men, were whirring out of the fort; rubber-tired rubber-tired artillery was shifting its light and medium cannon out of the zone of possible danger. An aide, whom General Brill had sent out into the garrison to observe, ob-serve, burst into headquarters, breathless, his face stripped of color. "Sir, airplanes!" he panted. "Flying "Fly-ing high but you can hear them coming!" General Brill left his staff at their allotted jobs and went outside with his aide. The garrison was dark, headquarters worked behind drawn shades. The roar of motors filled the air as trucks and artillery continued to roll out of the garrison. But above that he caught the sharp whine of higher-powered engines far overhead. over-head. The 69th Anti-Aircraft Artillery had got its guns in position, but was withholding its searchlights pending development Suddenly a small plane zoomed down over the garrison garri-son and dropped a flare that turned night into day. Brill stood calmly observing. He knew that flare was the first violence of an invasion of the United States. He knew that in a few minutes the bombers would circle over their target tar-get of Fort Sam Houston and let drive. He knew, too, that there was nothing he could do to prevent what was to follow. A hissing shriek caught his ears. Involuntarily he raised himself on his toes and placed his finger-tips at his ears. A savage flash of yellow yel-low flame leaped from the earth into the heavens. The ground under him shook with volcanic intensity from the savage wrath of a heavy bomb. Long fingers of light leaped into the sky from the 69th' s searchlights. A heavy demolition bomb detonated in the field from which the trucks were whirring. Brill caught, in the momentary flash of light, the grim tragedy of shattered men and material. ma-terial. Above the din he heard the cries of wounded men. Another bomb crashed and another. His antiaircraft anti-aircraft regiment began crackling, but his handful of guns were almost al-most lost in the din of titanic thunder thun-der that crashed from the sky. Incendiary bombs rained down, bringing an irresistible heat that ate its way into all combustible parts of barracks. General Brill turned back into his headquarters, sat down at his desk stricken by his utter helplessness, help-lessness, but maintaining his self-control. self-control. His staff, their bloodless faces drawn and lined, worked coolly, outwardly out-wardly oblivious to the danger. Information kept coming in, reports that had to be appraised until the whole picture of attack and disaster dis-aster had been assembled and appraised ap-praised as the basis for whatever later action was to be taken. The wooden hangars at Kelly Field were in flames. Randolph Field was being hammered. San Antonio was in a mad panic which had got out of all police controL People were flooding the streets, rushing about in a mad frenzy in their efforts to escape the city. Roads were choked with passenger vehicles. But the Van Hassek bombers were confining their major fury to Fort Sam Houston and the flying fields, which told General Brill that the attack presaged a crossing of the Rio Grande by mobile troops during the night or at daybreak. From New Orleans and Galveston came reports of raids that were still in progress. Hundreds were killed in the streets. No other details. Shortly after midnight the violence suddenly ceased, the bombers and their accompanying attack ships sailed off to the south. Colonel Denn called in again from Laredo. The head of a motorized column had halted at Nuevo Laredo just south of the Rio Grande. His intelligence patrols had verified this with their own eyes. "AD right gentlemen," Brill told his staff. "Get the Second Division together as quickly as possible and start them moving south toward the Nueces River! Tell General Mole of the Second I'll meet him at Kirk in three hours with his orders for the defense of San Antonio. Get General Gen-eral Hague on the long-distance again while I report We're going to do our best in a desperate situation, situa-tion, and I needn't tell you what we're up against! Til be ready for your recommendations in an hour, gentlemen." iTO BE CONTViUEDl ejt-wowymarfw"iwewwa & v v lift By VIRGINIA VALE (Released bj Western Newspaper Union.) T F RALPH MURPHY, Para-A Para-A mount director, needed to make a little extra money ha could write a book entitled "Ten Lessons on How to Catch a Man" and the shekels would roll in. Here's what he has to say about it. (He's a graduate of Syracuse univeisity, has been a stage and motion picture actor, producer adlrector for years, so he's qualified to talk.) "I have three girls in 'Las Vegas Nights. Each would use a differ ent technique. Each technique would require re-quire eight reels to fold. So I let Constance Con-stance Moor get her man with the direct-approach technique. tech-nique. I give Virginia Vir-ginia Dale a man before the picture starts, and I leave Lillian Cornell out on a limb with nary Constance male to siSht- Moore "The aUure tet?h- nlque is used by a woman conscious of the fact that she has an enormous amount of feminine appeal for men a screen example would be Hedy Lamarr. Flattery is used by women ranging from the baby-talk girls to the mothering moth-ering type. There's the girl who gives the impression that she's helpless; help-less; men want to stand between her and the world Bonnie Baker's an example. "There's the girl who uses the direct di-rect approach; spots the man she wants and makes no bones about it; she a good sport, a play mate, and picks a man with the same characteristics. Bar bara Stanwyck's a screen example. And the coquette, whose eyes say 'if you chase me Til run- but not too far.' Like Virginia Dale on the screen. viii-. ni "Then there's the one who is not brilliant and not dull, not beautiful and not homely; every girl asks 'What's she got?' The answer is 'She's got the man that a lot of other girls wanted.' " Some other girl may have Errol Flynn for a husband now; Olivia de Haviland's married him five times on the screen and when she finished fin-ished "Santa Fe Trail" she fled to the equally ardent arms of James Cagney, in "Strawberry Blonde." She was a little dubious about it; after all, Cagney's had a bad movie reputation where women were concerned con-cerned since he squashed that grapefruit in a lady's face. But Olivia is safe in this one he's cast as a belligerent dentist who gets into plenty of fights, but all with men. 4 4 H If Twenty-four of the show girls in "Ziegfeld Girl" voted for their favorite fa-vorite movie actress the other day. Vivian Leigh got eight votes, and Bette Davis and Greta Garbo each got five. But Judy Garland, Lana Turner and Hedy Lamarr couldn't be voted for. They're in the picture. Billy the Kid has finally joined the side of law and order. It happened recently near Tucson, Ariz., where Robert Taylor was made a deputy sheriff of Pima county. Taylor plays the fast-shooting desperado of the 1870s in Metro's picture, "Billy the Kid," which was on location in the Southwest at the time Taylor took over his duties. They were shooting scenes on the Double U ranch in Pima county when Sheriff Ed Echols paid the troupe a visit and pinned a shiny new badge on the star's shirt. Burgess Meredith rarely wears a hat but he's exceptionally well pro vided with places to hang one. At present he has four homes, (l) His 200-year-old farmhouse in Rockland county, N. Y. (2) Jimmy Stewart's bachelor establishment in Brentwood, Brent-wood, where he has stayed on his previous Hollywood sojourns. (3) The house in West Los Angeles which belongs to Wayne Morris, which he and Franchot Tone rent; it's known as Annex N9. 1 to Stewart's Stew-art's abode. (4) A small beach house which he rented at Santa Monica, called Annex No. 2 he took it with the Idea of week-ending there, but so far has been so busy that he's hardly seen it But he has hopes, now that he's completing his work in United Artists' "That Uncertain Feeling." ODDS AyD ENDS Mr. md Mn. Robert Hart in Honolulu listened to radio't "Hilltop House' last year, and liked the story and its star, Bess Johnson, John-son, so much that they named thfir home for the serial Recently Miss Johnson learned that aU her Hawaiian ldands' mail is being delivered to the Harts! . For the betterment of Latin-American relations. Parks Johnson John-son and Wally Butterworth are making mak-ing m ten-thousand-mile junket to Mexico Citr, Puerto Rico and Havana, for three 'Vox Pop" broadcasts "The Uniform" ends Clark Gables two-months' vacation and brings Rose lind Russell back to the Metro lots. PATTERNS SEWING CIRCLE IPs jar v .V . Afc'WYVfc "ia rW mU m I j I j 6876 ) 'TpHERE'S something guileless and appealing about a yoke dress like this that will make you look as fresh and bright as a little girl all dressed up in a new starched frock! It's very becoming becom-ing and youthifying to misses and women alike. Yet design No. 8876 offers you the makings of a very comfortable home style, with waistline that you can comfortably draw in to just the slimness you vJisk Me Another A General Quiz The Questions 1. What is the only state in the Union which is bounded by one state alone? 2. Which of the following is a natural magnet Capstone, thun-derstone thun-derstone or lodestone? 3. What are known as cardinal winds? 4. When was the boundary between be-tween the United States and Canada Can-ada finally determined? 5. What are the odors of the principal gases that are used in war? 6. How many shillings are there in a British pound? The Answers 1. Maine. 2. Lodestone. 3. Winds blowing from due north, east, south or west. 4. The boundary between the United States and Canada was not completely determined until 1925, or 142 years after our country signed the treaty with England, 5. As nearly as can be described, mustard gas smells like garlic; lewisite like geraniums; phosgene like musty hay; and tear gas like apple blossoms. 6. Twenty. want, by means of the sash belt In the back. The high-cut skirt is very slenderizing slen-derizing to the hips and waist. The gathered bodice gives you a nice round bosom-line. Make this of percale, calico or gingham and trim with bright ricrac and buttons. but-tons. Untrimmed, it's a good style for runabout, if you make it up in flat crepe or spun rayon. Send for the pattern today, and be among the first to wear it! e Pattern No. 8878 is deslffned for Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 40. Size 14 requires ZVt yards of 38-inch material without nap; 1, yards trim mini?. Detailed tew chart Included. Send order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Ave. San Francisco Calif. Enclose IS cents In coins for Pattern No Size.. Name Address Beginner Didn't Want Possibility to Be Wasted The instructor was teaching the awkward fellow to drive a car. "Put out your left hand to signal. sig-nal. Then with your left foot step in the clutch. With your right hand put the gearshift into first. Gradually ease up on the clutch, accelerating with your right foot. "When the car has gathered speed, again step in the clutch, shifting with the right hand to second. sec-ond. Then with the left foot slowly let out the clutch, accelerating with the right foot. Then repeat to shift to high speed. Keep your eyes on the road ahead. "There's nothing useful I could do with my nose, is there?" inquired in-quired the beginner. Next Best "Why did they hang that picture?" pic-ture?" "Because they couldn't find the artist" The rain rains mostly upon the Just. The unjust keep borrowing bis umbrella. ; Grounds for Suspicions "I've searched high and low for the furniture cream recipe your mother gave me" , "Here!" said her husband, putting put-ting down his spoon, "where did you get the recipe for this soup?" Quite Obvious "Isn't that a netv frock you've on?9 "Yes; I got it for a ridiculous figure," "Oh, I tan tee tliat!" In the Name of Safety What's making you so angry?" "Nothing much. I cut myself with a safety razor, burned myself my-self with a safety match, and nearly got run over while reading a safety-first notice." INDIGESTION may affect the Heart Oaa tnpiwd to Uw atoowJi or tmllet toaj art like fulr-ulKitf on tii heart. At Ui. first atao of diatrwa mart mem and ffumn depend on tieU-aua TanleU to let tai fret. 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NAGGING BACKACHE Modern life with Its eeaaelea hurry Symptoms of disturbed kidney function and worry, irregular habits, improper I may be nagging backache, peraistent head-eating head-eating and drinking, exposure, contagion ache, dixsineaa, getting up nighta, swelling, whatnot, keepe doctors Duty, hospitals crowded. 1 be alter eft ecu are disturbing to the kidneys and oftentimes peoplo aufler without knowing know-ing that disordered kidney action may cause the trouble. After colds, fever and similar ills there la an Increase In-crease of body impurities the kidneys must filter from the blood. It the kidneys THE REASON DO AITS ARE FAMOUS AU ettr the country grateful people) tell otherst "Joan's hare hmlpwi mm f recommend recom-mend Ihrm to you." That ia why wa aay, Ak your neighbor 1 puUmess under the eyes a reeling of. nervous anxiety and loss of strength and energy. Other eigne of kidney kid-ney or bladder disturbance sometimes are burning. scanty or too frequent urina tion. In such eases It Is better to rely on a medicine that baa won world-wide ap- froval tnan on something ess favorably known. Use are overtaxed and fail to remove excess I Poan'e Pitts. They have been winning new acid and other harmful waste, there is I friends for more than forty years. Be sure poiaomng oi me wnoie system. to get uoan . ooia at au orug store. HDAN5 FIILILS Two Tragedies There are two tragedies in life -one is not to get your heart's desire, the other is to get it. And the latter is the greater tragedy. Oscar Wilde. Slow Motion Pictures In slow motion pictures the camera cam-era grinds five to eight times faster than when taking standard pictures. Reverse motion can be made by turning the camera upside-down. West Point One hundred and eighty men from among the enlisted men of the regular regu-lar army and the National Guard are selected for admission to West Point each year. Mix Muffins Rapidly Muffins should be mixed rapidly and stirred only enough to dampen the dry ingredients: 25 strokes or less are enough for a plain-muffin batter. Mantles Over Fireplaces The mantle piece was originally a shelf over the fireplace with pegs attached at-tached to it on which wet mantles or other clothes were hung to dry. Original Manuscript The original manuscript of "Home Sweet Home" is in the Sibley musical musi-cal library of the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, N. Y. Citizen Percentage Ninety four and nine-tenths of the population of the United States are citizens, either native born or naturalized. Millionaires In 1916, during the World war, there were 17,075 millionaires in the United States. By 1928 this figure had grown to 43,184. The figure in 1939 was said to be 14,317. Average Speed Average speed of passenger cars on the public highways of the United States is 41.6 miles an hour, according ac-cording to the Automobile Club of Southern California. Iceberg Below Water The larger portion of an iceberg is below the water. The portion above the water is only about one-eighth one-eighth to one-tenth of the whole mass. Pay Rolls Rise During the .last model year, an average of 428,000 automobile workers work-ers were on the pay rolls. Weekly pay rolls rose to J13.7GO.000. Spider Changes Color . The crab spider assumes the color of the flower on which it lives and hides in the heart of the blossom awaiting Its prey. Expansion and Restriction The Japanese enjoy expansion of their territory, but they tie down trees and enjoy dwarfing pines and maples. Scatter portulaca seed In the cracks in crazy paving. It will come up next spring and give a gay picture pic-ture in midsummer. It will riot germinate until the weather , is warm. Largest Vocabulary Cardinal Giuseppe MezzofanU (1774-1849) is credited with having been acquainted with 114 languages or dialects of which he knew 50 thoroughly. Longest Stretch The longest stretch of straight railroad rail-road track in the United States is between Wilmington and Hamlet in North Carolina. It is a straight track 78.68 miles long. Lindbergh Baby Cost Most Kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby, and the trial of Hauptmann, consumed con-sumed more time and cost more than any other subject in newsreel history. Near Top of Nazi Force Ernst Udet is very near top man of the Nazi air force. About fuurtn to Goering. Udet shot down 62 Allied Al-lied planes in the World war. Least Inhabitants The State of Nevada, with a population popu-lation of 91,058. has the smallest number of inhabitants of any state-in state-in the United States. |