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Show UTAH LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHI, mrv VIM WfM CHAPTER IX Continued A few obeyed him. The rest could act, be ssddenl realized ; tad be bad to lei re them, dying. Jack Taylor waa beside him, firing a rifle. They j were five altogether who were falling back, firing. Figures from the black leaped at them, and It was band to hand. Tony fought with a bayonet, then with a clubbed rifle, madly and wildly swinging, lie was struck, and reeled. "Come on:" cried Jack Taylor's voice; and with Taylor be ran In the dark. They reached the buildings. Gunflre was flashing from the laboratories which otherwise were black. The dormitories sprang Into light; windows shone, and spread Illumination which showed that they were deserted and were being used now by the defenders of the camp to light the space already abandoned. The attackers could not shoot out hundreds of globes so simply as they bad smashed the searchlights. And they could not advance Into that Illuminated area, under the machine guns and rifles of the laboratories. They bad first to take the deserted dormitories and darken them. They were doing this ; but It delayed them. It held them up a few minutes. Boom by room, dormitory windows went black. The lights were not being turned out; they were being were smashed and the window-pane- s crashing. Yells celebrated the smashing, and shots. The yells ceased; some sort of as sault was being reorganized. Tony moved In the dark. "Keep flown-nlo- wn down down," he was window-line- . the crying. "I3elow DownP For bullets from machine guns, evidently aimed from the dormitory windows, were striking In. Many did not obey him; he did not expect them to. Yells at the farther end of the main laboratory told that It was there, in the dark. A charge a rush had been pushed hand-to-han- d borne. Tony found Taylor beside him ; they bad stuck together In the dark; and a dozen others rose and ran with them Into the melee. The best brains of the modern world, fighting hand to band with savages! Shoot and stab and club wildly, desperately, In the dark! More and more lay where they fell. Tony, stumbling and slipping on the Stickily wet floor,, realized that this rush was stopped. There was nobody left In the room tor fight nobody but two or three distinguished as friends by the spots of the arm bands. "Jack?" gasped Tony; and Taylor's oIce answered him. They were staggering and bleeding, both of them ; but they bad survived the fight together. Tony found the flashlight which, all through the fight, he bad had In his pocket, and he bent to the floor and held. It close to the faces. lie caught breath, bitterly. Bronson was there. Bronson, the discoverer of the two stranger planets whose passing had loosed this savagery; Dr. Sven Bronson, the first scientist of the southern hemisphere, lay there In his blood, a bayonet through his throat ! Beside him Dodson was dying, his right arm hacked almost off. A few of those less hurt were rising. "To the ship! Into the ship I" Tony cried to them. "Everybody into the shlpl" There was nt alternative. 'Creeping on hands and knees, from wounds or from caution, and dragging the wounded with them, the men started the retreat to the Space Ship, Women were helping them. Yells and whistles warned that another rush was gathering, and that this would be from all sides. Tony caught up in his arms a young man who was barely breathing. fl bad a bullet through him; but he lived. Tony staggered with him into the great metal rocket When he laid bis buruen down, Ransdell confronted him. From head to foot, the South African was dabbled and clotted with blood. He was naked; a bullet had creased his forehead; a bayonet bad slashed bis ahoulder. The second rush was coming. No doubt of it, and It would be utterly overwhelming. There would be no survivors but the women. None. For the horde would take no prisoners. They were killing the wounded alreadytheir own badly wounded and the camp's wounded that they had Eliot James, a bullet captured. through his thigh, but saved by the dark, crawled In with this information. Tony carried him into the ship. They were all in the ship all the survivors. The horde did not suspect It Then they suddenly seemed to realize that the ship was the last refuge. They surrounded It firing at it Their bullets glanced from Its metal. three-quarte- rs mlu By EDWIN B AIRIER and PHILIP WYLIE 15 Cepjrrlf at hr Somebody It Kdwla WMJ Balnw Itrrlct Philip WyUa who bad grenades bombed A frightful Probably they flame shattered them. Imagined, at first that the grenade bad exploded some sort of powder magazine within the huge metal tube. Few of those near to the ship, and outside it lived to see what was happening. The great metal rocket rose front the earth, the awful blast from Its power tube lifting It The frightful beat seared and Incinerated, killing at Its touch. A hundred of the horde were dead before the ship was above the buildings. Ilendron lifted It five hundred feet farther, and the blast spread In a funnel below It A thousand died In thai Instant Ilendron ceased to elevate the ship. Indeed, he lowered it a lit tie, and the power of the atomic blast which was keeping two thousand tons of metal and of human flesh sus pended over the earth, played upon the ground and upon the flesh on the ground as no force ever released by man before. Half an hour later, Ilendron brought the ship down. pale delicate light carried away depths of nljiht. From the numbness and exhaustion which had seized It the colony roused Itself. It gazed with empty eyes upon that which surrounded It The last battle of brains against brutality had been fought on the bosom of the earth. And the Intelligence of man had conquered his A the and shaken, Tony In shoes and trousers, white bandages over his wounds; Eve staring from him to the 6hort, broad shouldered, silent form of Hans-del- l, whose hands, blackened, ugly, hung limply at his sides, whose gorilla-likstrength seemed to have deserted him; the German actress, her dress disheveled, her hands covering her eyes; Smith, the surgeon, stupefied In the face of this hopeless summons to his calling. At last Ilendron sucked a breath Into his lungs. "My friends, what must be done Is obvious. We must first bury the dead. There are no survivors of the enemy. If others are gathering I believe we need fear no further attack. Doctor Smith, you will kindly take charge of all hospital and medical arrangements for our people. I will request that those who are able to do so appear Immediately on the airplane field. I shall dispatch the majority of them to your assistance, and with those who remain I shall take such steps as are necessary. Let's go." Only three hundred and eighty persons were counted by Tony as they struggled shuddering to the landlpg field. Almost half of them were women, for the women, except In the case of Individuals who Joined the fighting voluntarily, had been secluded. As In the other emergency, Taylor was assigned to the kitchen. He walked to the kitchen with his men. Tony, with ten other men, a pitiful number for the appalling task that confronted them, went down to the field and began to gather up tn trucks the bodies there. Not far from the cantonment, on what had been a lumber road, an enormous fissure yawned In the earth. All that day they tended their own wounded. Many of them perished. In those nightmare days no one spoke unless It was necessary. Lifelong friendships and strong new had been obliterated. friendships Loves that In two months had flowered Into vehement reality were ended. For two weeks abysmal sadness and funereal silence held them. Only the necessary ardors of their toll prevented many of them from going mad. But at the end of two weeks Tony, returning from an errand to the fissure where the last bodies had been entombed by a blast of dynamite, stood on the hill above the encampment and saw that once again the grass grew green, once again the buildings were clean and trim. While he stood there his attention was attracted by a strange sound the sound of an airplane motor, and the plane Itself became visible. It landed presently on their field, and Tony was one of several men who approached It. The cabin door opened and out stepped a man. There was something familiar about him to Tony, but he could not decide what It was. The man had a high, crackling voice. His hnlr was snow-whitIlls features were drawn, CHAPTERS Hen-dro- "QUOTES" A?ai nJf.t a COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL CHARACTERS '""What was yoursr Tony replied . ItansJeU held out his hand. heart;!-In that grip the They pipped, and would have been men hands of lesser From that time on those broken. in love were as blood brothers. was held Another general meeting aga; Hendron hall In the dining took charge. HITtfcR TASK FOR SCHOU. A great Greek scholr woman'i col'e-- e ' J1 H ed States, was asked would do the Institution ttT ment of translating motto Into Greek. He agreed and then to was. It waa placed bi nJ be read the words- - ttlng 1 ,ia POtlCIES MLRRAT BUTLER By DR NICHOLAS President Columbia fniversity. must 1 shortly chooFe between two ana two tonflicting points of view of advisers IN GERMANY. Hitler arTw . "".u.forun iit.i. t, Dr. Pierce V Tellets -- . 1 laxatjve-thr- ee - mwl6 The Alarm '"e, CL..I. Happy Father-- My dear, 1 disThe matter which I ba.e to one sharply differing gru.Uw must be time to get mJtlC "is policy. of foreign In matters cuss with you," he beSan, fallen asleep. . One group wishes to gain time by which will come, I am sure, aa a matters all t surprise. It is the result of my temporizing in respect to Is very earnest thought and of careful calcu- of international negotiation and at all realof fieneva to return to the From standpoint reluctant lations. GerIs of It all that that learned believes I have Ism-- atid This group to face many's Interest to continue as she 1? enough are courageous you a truths I am forced to aid that my now' doing, to strengthen herself as decision has been made possible by military power and to keep an eye to gain new advantage should the diminution of our numbers. oiH-which "Ail of you know that I founded any European trouble develop lead or threaten the for purpose ours either of seriously night this village will that to war. of transferring to the planet The other group Is ready to make take the place of the earth s company the with of about one hundred people, terms on which Germany will return our to the League of Nations, after receivrVi mi. hope that they might perpetuate doomed race. It seemed to me that s ing some concessions as to such matters as war guilt, the internal adminship large enough to accommodate such a number might be fabricated istration of certain German rivers, and INSTANT I ICLrriki and launched by the one thousand some like matters. This group, oddly Iron the easy way In iNnimu leaders Nazi U. certain led Is by persons who were originally assembled enough. with the Coleman. I ino lfa2 It Is obvious, of course, that who are very close to Hitler himself. here. place. Its entirely or wires. No weary, endless triilwS. the more Intelligent and healthy the a hot stove and ironing board. Mail own gas. Burns S6 air. Ughtabaw! units of humanity we are able to DIVERSIFIED CROPS no the better the Operating eww! the to transfer planet, xk an honr. See your loci dalri Rv F. W. SARGENT write FREE chances for founding a new race will for foUeu W. Railway. President C. & N. THE COLEMAN LAMP fi. ST0VE -be." DwtWUSlJ. Wtehltm. K . can readily over country roved Ctucxe. Ill .1 He paused and his eyes I'tXsduaCflr' u acres 5,000,000 additional the throng. Not a breath was drawn, and not a word was spoken. in the growth and development "My friends, we are five hundred of the soy bean industry. Aside fron RELIEF In number. There Is not one man or enrichment of the soil that comes from such bears who woman left among us this legume, there are 1100 valuablt disability as will prevent him from commercial that can bf made from the bean. by chewing one or We should grow to a greater extent more Milnesia Wafers our own fibers, outstanding of which, Send tor one week's liberal wippfr-fR- K We are importing enougC SELECT PRODUCTS. Inc, 4402 Stl is hemp. hemp each year to utilize a million 5 tract. Long Island City, Nw Yoifc I American acres. Even if the government were forced" to subsidize farmers to us land for crops other than food prod' ducts, that cost would not be great, 11 anything at all. If we supplement such a policy by real, worthwhile pro tection, we could utilize 50,000,000 acres in supplying our own wants fot products now imported. 't dis-tiL- - n roIemanK' ...... one-thi- THIS QUICK from Heartburn yii'MA e David Ransdell arrives at New York from South Africa, with a casa of photographic plates for Dr. Cole Ilendron. Tony Drake calls at the Hendrona' apartment. Ransdell arrives and Eve Ilendron, with whom Tony it deeply tn n Kve, Introduces Tony to Ransdell. Newspapers publish a statement by saying; that Professor Bronson has discovered two planets, which have been brought under the attraction of the earth's tun. The result of the collision must be the end of the world. The approaching bodies are referred to as Bronson Alpha and Bronson Beta. Bronson Beta will pass, but the other will hit the earth and demolish It. To devise means of transferring to Bronson Beta Is occupying the minds of the members of the League, of the Last Days. Hendron plans to build a "Space Ship." with the Idea of landing n Bronson Beta. He has not been able to find a metal which wilt withstand the heat and pressure of Momlo energy which must be used In propelling the Space Ship. Earthquakes change the entire surface of the earth, bringing death to half the world s population. Bronson Alpha collides with the moon and Wipes It out Ransdell, with Peter Vanderbilt, prominent New Torker, selected y Hendron as a member of the party on the Space Ship, and Eliot James, fly ever a larga section of the devastated country. They are attacked and wounded, but return alive, and Ransdell hat found the metal Hendron needs (or the Space kip. The Ship will accommodate only 100 persons, with the lower of lite Hendron la conveying to the New Earth. There are 1.000 picked tpeclet men and women la Hendron't camp. Half of them die tn an attack by a hunger-craae- d horde. self-assure- - .- yoa put IP-- -? bis knife took huge pocket to open commenced fiantel shirt sod That and shut its blade nervously. work oi a as a d- -n' toe Pieca -- and Ids skin was yellow. Ills pilot remained at the controls of the plane, and the old man hobbled toward Tony, saying as be approached. "Please take me to Mr. Hendron." Tony stepped forward. "I'm Mr. Ilendron's assistant We don't allow visitors here. Perhaps yon will tell aie your errand." Til see Hendron," snapped the other. Tony realized that the man constituted no menace. "Perhaps," he said coldly, "If you will tell me your reason for wanting to aee Ilendron, I can arrange for the interview." The old man almost shrieked. "You can arrange an Interview! I tell you. young fellow, I said I would see Ilendron, and that's all there Is to It" He came abruptly closer, snatched Tony's lapel, cooked his bead, and peered Into his face. "You're Drake, aren't you, young Tony trakeT Suddenly Tony recognized the man. He was staggered. Before him stood Nathaniel Borgan, fourth richest man tn America, friend of all tycoons of the land, friend Indeed of Ilendron himself. Tony had last seen Borgan In Ilendron's bouse In New York, when Borgan had been Immaculate, powerand barely approachful, ing middle age. He now looked senile, degenerate and slovenly. "Aren't you Drake?" the crackllns voice repeated. Tony nodded mechanically. "Yes," he said ; "come with me." Hendron did not recognize Borgan until Tony had pronounced bis name. Then upon his face there appeared briefly a look of consternation, and Borgan In his shrill, grating voice began to talk excitedly. "Of course 1 knew what you were doing, nendron, knew all about It Meant to offer you ask- for weeks- tated. But at what primeval rutlilessness. cost Around a table In the office of the laboratories a few men and women stared at each other; Ilendron pale SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING " ,oa .lose tecre FOR CUBA BATISTA Cuban Chief of Staff. FREEDOM By FULGENCIO NO OXE believes in freedom than I. But our politics was tending toward pure criminality. I have declared all labor federa MFJSIC TEACHERS. PCP119 lava H on music, catalog fiee. titof tions illegal. They have violated oui HUSIC COm S15 S. Hill. Los Anxelet, Clli laws. But I have recognized the Inalienable rights of the workers. Out Rtammtt 60 different. 10 countries, lOe decree does not permit any one to re- approvals. Special Klft to first lOOntwi ULNOT.ILa duce wages or lengthen hours becaust dera. ACME SUPPLY. 1105. of the failure of the strike. We must buy back some of our land NEGLECT Most of our business Is In the handi of foreigners. We must give Cubans a whl You'll Take Me With You When You Go, of Course." He Banged His Fist on the Table In a Bizarre Burlesque of His Former Gestures. financial assistance, but got tangled up taking care of my affairs In the last few weeks. I haven't been able to come here before, for a variety of reasons. But now I'm here. You'll take me with you when you go, of course." He banged his fist on the table In a bizarre burlesque of his former gestures. "You'll take me all right, all right, and I'll tell you why you'll take me for my money. When all else falls, I'll have my money. I ask only that you spare my life, that you'll take me from this awful place, and In turn go out to ray plane, go out to the plane that Is waiting there for you. Look Inside." Suddenly his voice sank to a whisper, and his head was shot forward. "It's full of bills, full of bills, Hendron; hundred-dolla- r bills, thousand-dollar blllr, bills stacked with them, bales of them, bundles of them millions, Hendron, millions! That's the price I'm offering you for my life." Hendron and Tony looked at this man In whose bands the destiny of colossal American Industries had once been so firmly held; and they knew that be was mad. They sent Borgan away with his pilot and his plane full of money; and the last words of the financier were pronounced In a voice intended to be threatening as he leaned out of the cabin door: "I'll get an injunction against you from the President himself. I'll have the Supreme court behind me within twenty-fou- r hours." Nearly three weeks after the attack a census was retaken. There were two hundred and nine uninjured women, one hundred and eighty-twuninjured men. There were about eighty men and 'women who were expected wholly to recover. There were more than a hundred who would suffer some disability. Four hundred and ninety-thre- e people had been killed or had died after the conflict. Work of course was redistributed. More than five months lay ahead of them. The Space Ship could be completed, even with this reduced group, In three weeks. On one of the unseasonably warm afternoons In December Tony received what he considered afterward the greatest compliment ever paid to him In his life. He was making one of his regular tours of the stockyards when Hansdell overtook him. in all their recent encounters Ransdell had not spoken a hundred words to Tony; but now said almost gruffly, "I'd like to speak to you." Tony turned and smiled. The South African hesitated, and almost blushed. "I'm not talkative," he said bluntly, "but !- - beea trjlag-tAnd o DON'T surviving, If any one may, the trip chance. But we mustn't Injure anybody's Inthrough space; there is not one but who, if we effect our landing upon terest. We must take It easy, slowly, Bronson Beta and find It habitable, with due consideration. We must dc will be fit to propagate there the hueverything carefully. The misguided man race. opposition wishes to do things too fast We have made mistakes. We hope te "On the night of the attack, we all of us and some who since have died make fewer In the future. crammed Into the Space Ship. We all realize that no such JUSTICE HOLMES crowding will be possible on the voyage By DAVID I. WALSH through U. S. Senator From Massachusetts. space; we all realize that much cargo, other than humanity, must be XTO MAN in the nation's his- stowed on the ship If there is to be tory served the cause of jusany point and purpose In our safe tice more devotedly. He was a landing upon another planet. One hundred persons remains my estimate veritable soldier all the years of hit life, always fighting for justice and of the probable crew and passenger list of the ship which saved us all truth. The ninety-thre- e on that night. years of honorable, useful and patriotic life that speak tc "But I have come to the conclusion that, by dint of tremendous effort and us today from his death chamber, in and largely because of life earned for Oliver Wendell Holmes the success of the experiments which the affection and gratitude of the nain death bis memory should Inwe have made with Itansdell s metal. tion; It will be possible within the remainspire all who are called to public serv ice, in peace or in war, to emulate hla ing months of time to construct a second and larger vessel which will industry, independence, Intelligence, inbe capable of removing the entire residtegrity, and unflinching devotion to his ual personnel of this country's welfare. camp." Hendron sat down. No cheer was lifted. As If they had seen the GorNEED INTERNATIONAL TRADE gon's Head, the audience was turned By CORDELL HULL to stone. The sentence Secretary of State. Imposed by the death lottery had been A VIGOROUS effort to rebuild lifted Every man and woman who sat there international trade is essential was free. Every one of them had a if we do not wish the struggle. chance to live, to fight and to make uui.iv a new career elsewhere In lun.uu iiiusiieruy 10 De too long the stardelayed. lit firmament. Despite all difficulties and desnite They sat silently, many with bowed the artful propaganda of selfish Inter heads, as If they v ore engaged in prayer. Then sound came: A man's ests, we Intend to continue to strive for an economic among racking sob, the low hysterical laughnations that will make the vast riches ter of a woman; after that, like the of the world more readily accessible rising of a great wind, the cheers 10 an, remove as far as ' possible the causes of envy and aggression, and so in Eliot Although a the days appeared to beJa,,s' diaries tane determined first sten in the dl crammed with rection of greater economic well-be- events, to the dwellers In Ilendron's ng and universal peace. colony the weeks passed In what seemed like a steady and BRAIN TRUST INSPIRATION James had been so busy routine, that he was unable to write voluminously; By RAYMOND MOLEY Former Assistant Secretary of State "Dec. 4: Today what we call the TN THE last two or three years keel of the second Shin laid. 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