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Show THE LEIII SUN, LEIII, UTAH "t &m r "' i ! j . : . :' r d K,S. 4J', By General ARED WHITE 1,7) I " Ja- Uil- ." wmiii.v.ci fcjj ftADlO cn par: Intelligence MM foreign troops tinder Van i re poised He 0,6 R, Wt T tha United an invaMuu v r n. .needed to eaining the Un of Ftacke and Bravot, two oiBcerB! "Overhead the flock was growing." before returning CHAPTER VIII to Franklin Boll, In com- :"j of two outpost companies of Uth United States mianuy m ricinity of Laredo, had patrols the Rio Grande watching for Srst Van Hassek wave. Word lashed through of the bombing :an Antonio and Boll knew that Sand invasion must be shaping i already for a vital blow at ii when daylight came, lonel Derm had spent a fretful well knowing the tight pinch teh he might find his regiment awn. His regiment was at peace gth, rifle companies running as as seventy, total strength 1,132 ers and men. No artillery sup- had been sent him from Fort i Houston, his only supporting pons were the 37-millimeter and ill mortars of his weapons com-ies com-ies His ammunition supply was i than one day of fire, uch a thing as interdicting sus-ted sus-ted points of enemy river cross-was cross-was out of the question. He had en Boll, in outpost, eight machine a and some light mortars. ightaing flashed in the distance. s&rilJ screech came plowing .gh the night. High explosives iied in to turn night into bed-i bed-i Fragments found a victim who . with a bowl of pain. The crew i machine gun was dropped. Men teed, lay flat on their faces, pless against this hurricane of ruction that howled down upon i across the Rio Grande. ill existence was now engulfed the seething uproar of artillery. J saw that the regiment was ming the fullest force of Van sek's rage. li an hour and Boll's casualties re twenty. Patrols had been sight-an sight-an increasing number of skulk- were reported closing in. Boll that his position was becoming enable. e started his men slowly to the with two squads covering his Jirawal. The enemy, suspicious possible trap in the night, fol i cautiously. From this Boll sed that only the first scatter- ; Bridgehead troops were in ae 1 But, having guessed that the encans were without benefit of ry, the Van Hassek officers would use the main bridge and across the Rio Grande it had covered less than two Jred yards when a runner ar- from Colonel Denn.. colonel says get back as fast JU can!" the messpnppr nant- ; "Regiment is pulling out right w me Nueces." an hour later BoU panted a the reeimpntai ro a . .u. uaiUUU. Vf March, assistant rjlans and '8 officer, came hurrying up - vacated regimental position. Regiment pulled out twenty min-; min-; 8o." March reported to Boll. to follow nt . f - Trucks are ready behind this vwonei Denn left you some Z of extra ammunition, but nt to get back of the Nueces ; we tight Second Division is s posiUon somewhere back Hurry y0Ur men along, Cap- !7Jamnn8 his men seventeen to ieeLiT got his command on Two trucks went to the ? m! v ne 10 his remain-' remain-' nachine guns. H ct,,; ts- dialofhis watch, an an. idt r , face as his convoy u i,dy fcPuflout The hour WUe past three o'clock. Plane shnt u.. . anrt 7 u,ueao, traveimg 'Ifii J u e captain's spine. trg oaa tor us U at,- V l nueces by day-w day-w ne muttered ta rin - hour with li&hx due half e jusi can t i S'w31 Brm-area cm- hoJ. pt1.ha head through tan- INSTALLMENT EIGHT Washington. Flagwill, acting chief of Military Intelligence, told him that forces were also reported massing in the Mediterranean Medi-terranean and the Far East Benning continued to pose as an enemy agent when Fincke later appeared in the capital. cap-ital. Without warning, four southern cities cit-ies were attacked from the air. Wash- put an officer of lesser mettle in a dizzy whirl Inventory disclosed that the Sec ond Division had escaped the sud den storm with loss of forty-odd cargo car-go trucks, seventeen men, five officers, offi-cers, and two pieces of artillery. Having given the Second its orders to assemble and march on Kirk, Brill set about his final tactical plans. From time to time Brill and his staff were interrupted by reports of air disasters over New Orleans, Galveston, and Houston. Total losses there aggregated twelve hundred. General Brill directed his senior aide to get General Hague at Washington Wash-ington on the long-distance. The hour was nearing three o'clock when the Chief of Staff of the Army reported ready to talk. My best judgment is to pull out of here," Brill said, after he had re ported latest developments in Tex as. "We're too thin to make a ngnt for San Antonio, but we can do some good delaying back of the Colorado and Brazos while you get troops enough into the Fort Worth country to make a stand."-" The Hague voice responded with quiet firmness, "You'll proceed at once against the enemy, Brill, and make a stand in front of San Antonio An-tonio with your Second Division." Brill groaned. "But Hague, are you sure you understand the whole situation down nere : n s simpiy inviting in-viting a lot of nasty losses to no purpose. I haven't force enougn to-" "Let's not debate the matter," General Hague interrupted stoutly. "Is that clear, Brill?" "Perfectly, sir." There was neither nei-ther remonstrance nor equivocation in the area commander's voice now. In a calm voice Brill repeated the Hague decision to his staff. He offered of-fered no comment. Without speaking, speak-ing, the staff went to work on its new plan. Circling to the south, Brill found the due-south road to Kirk, which ras under military tramc control. and sDed to the v'llage, where he found General Mole, division commander. com-mander. Mole was a thin bit of military hickory now nearing retire ment age. r.pnpral Mole received his superi or's battle orders with a monosylla ble of acauiescence, as if to noara his jaded energies, and promptly set to work with his staff. The division staff was familiar with the country and made prompt plans for organization organi-zation of a defensive position. Orders Or-ders were ready within half an hour, and since there was no enemy immediately im-mediately in prospect, the regiments proceeded to their positions in their cargo trucks. General Brill stood in the growing dawn gravely watching the Second pass out to its battle lines. A force of 10,837 enlisted men and two warrant war-rant officers, led by 546 officers. Ington was heavily bombed and the President killed In the assault National forces were ordered mobilized, but the army was ill prepared to repulse the well trained and equipped enemy columns col-umns which were about to advance against them. Now continue with the story. the distant hum of this new menace. men-ace. Boll broke out the glass windows win-dows of his station wagon with the butt of his automatic. He thrust his head out and peered into the sky. Planes were circling overhead like so many mad wasps waiting the instant of better visibility. There was not long to wait. As night shed its last veil, the war falcons swooped one at a time to pluck the little caravan to bits with their talons of steeL Men in the trucks opened fire with their rifles. But the attacking planes flew with the speed of the wind. They dashed low, pumping bullets from hot machine guns, releasing their fragmentation bombs, and in a twinkling twin-kling were gone. Then back they came, one at a time at irregular intervals, to plaster the road with their fury. Overhead the flock was growing. Fourteen planes, he estimated. Two squadrons, force enough to tear him to pieces bit by bit unless miracles of good fortune and bad marksman ship attended him along the red course to the Nueces. - Inevitably, dropping down time after time without with-out other hindrance than the random ran-dom fire of his riflemen, the airmen air-men would take their relentless toll. A truck, went out, the third one back from BolL It cracKea up across the road under impact of a bomb. The driver slumped dead in his seat Men piled out and began be-gan scattering out of the storm. Boll stopped his car, ran back to straignt-en straignt-en out the snarl. Three planes zoomed down his column, col-umn, knifing the road. He saw two of his men fall. He gave instructions instruc-tions to a sergeant and two corporals. corpo-rals. They were to pass word down the column. Hereafter stricken trucks were to be shoved to the side of the road, survivors and wounded distributed to other trucks as they passed along. All were to act promptly on their own initiative. Boll ran back to his station wagon, leaped in. The car was vibrating with the gentle motion of idling motors. SfAGECSCREENi By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ERNEST LUBITSCH recently re-cently signed a contract with 20th-century Fox that promises us something special spe-cial in the way of movies. He will choose and direct his own stories. So we'll have the celebrated Lubitsch touch applied ap-plied to tales that he feels are particularly suitable. He has one more picture to do for United Artists before he starts out on his new con-tract con-tract Merle Oberon says that she knows it's silly, but she can't help being affected by the roles she plays. For instance, after a day of "Wuthering Heights" she'd go home and cry herself to sleep, because she was so depressed. 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When she adds the bolero, bo-lero, she's as demurely dressed for a visit to grandma as you could O A General Quiz The Questions XnfYw l fill mil fT' '' "imttlT l---t"- "" mm If, when you see Margaret Hayes' face on the screen, it looks familiar, it will be because you've seen it before. She was a model for New York artists and photographers, and a well known one, before she went to Hollywood, and her name in those davs was Dana Dale. She has the second leading feminine role in "The Night of January 16th," supporting sup-porting Ellen Drew and Robert Preston, and look for her In "Skylark," "Sky-lark," with Claudette Colbert 1. Who has charge of the Great Seal of the United States? 2. How does the size of an electron elec-tron compare with that of an orange? 3. Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee Tweedle-dee are characters in what story? 4. Who was the first king of the house of Windsors? 5. Can eclipses of the sun occur in any month of the year? The Perfect Leavening Agent m. .Mi.?'w'i"rMr'y- illill tolBWifcll 1 .. jE-."...' .Itr.tnnti w.r t i Overcautiousness He that is overcautious will accomplish ac-complish little. Schiller. Economy a Revenue Economy is of itself a great revenue. rev-enue. Cicero. The Answers Rio Rita has had quite a career A shout went up from the men during the last two years as a band in Boll's truck. A plane crashed ea(jert singer and dancer; she s ap-out ap-out of the sky and whanged into Deared n Broadway and at theaters the gray earth. It burst instantly aroughout the United States. Para-into Para-into flames. Boll's riflemen had mount signed her op to appear as claimed another bird in this unequal the tropical rival of Dorothy La-clash. La-clash. But the next instant brought mour Aloma of the South Seas" red retaliation. Another truck nosed and promptly changed her name off the road in a crush of wounded to Rita shaw! It was a case of men and dead. Boll saw the sur- necessity, though. Metro's Just vivors act promptly to extricate Dought the screen rights to the themselves, gather up the maimed musjcai, "Rio Rita," from RKO and and flag down succeeding vehicles. wil gve us a new version of it, ti, .riiiaup nf F.ncinal flashed by hio head and swore bit- it's simple enough to make a for- I Hill oituun - 1 - r , . terlv Encinal told him that he had tune these days. First, you write little more than started on nis long, a piay inai s a 5u , dPSDerate run. Next would come second, you sell it to the movies. 1. The secretary of state has charge of the Great Seal. 2. If an electron and an orange could be magnified equally until the orange was as large as the earth, the electron would still be too small to be visible to the unaided un-aided eye. 3. "Alice's Adventures in Won derland." 4. George V. The name of the British royal family was changed to Windsor in 1917. 5. Eclipses of the sun, visible at some parts of the earth's surfaces, have been recorded in every month of the year. ffk i i ft..', miiwi In SALT LAKE CITY THE i 5 3 iw house I mwtmMm HOTEL GiokeoftheDiscrimtnattngTrareler z 400 ROOMS 400 BATHS Rafess 2.00 fo 4.00 Our $200,000.00 remodeling and refurnishing program has mad available tha finest hotel accommodation! in tha West AT OUR SAME POPULAR PRICES. CAFETERIA DINING ROOM BUFFET MRS. J. H. WATERS, Pntldtnt . Manogara - J. HOIMAN WATERS oncfW. ROSS SUTTON DINE DANCE The Beautiful MIRROR ROOM EVERY SATURDAY EVENING Supporting Misfortunes It is better to employ our minds in supporting the misfortunes which actually happen, than in anticipating an-ticipating those which may happen to us. La Rochefoucald. As Captain Boll sprang into his station wagon with his lieutenants, and sped to the head of his truck column to set the pace, his eye aht the flash of ligm inai iuiucu the waning night into day some miles ahead of him. "Step on her!" he barked at his driver. "They'll spot us in a min-ute-and we're still in artillery range." . . , Boll sat with hands gripping his knees while he observed the bursts. Luckily they we-e striking to the right and doing no damage. But shortly the firing ceased, the air observer ob-server roared by again with a flare, and rushed off to radio correction to the distant gunners. He saw that there was the first touch of gray in the air. dawn only a matter of minutes. It would be a miracle if he reached the Nueces .:tu Kif nf his men and trucks. W1U1 tic v - . . As the night thinned out. he caught NEXT WEEK Curfew The word "curfew" is taken from two French words "couvre few," Artesia Wells, which would be little Recently Paramount paid $285,000 meaning "cover the fire." more than halfway to the Nueces. for "Lady in me uar, u " He looked at his watch and saw Gertrude Lawrence give, a superb the hour was short of six o'clock. He Periormance-uc . groaned and passed a tormented lOiy TV "My Sister Eileen," an amusing play, well enough to buy it for $225,000. William Holden's dispute with hand across his face. Misgivings struck him of making it through His mma made a nasty rait-uiatioii At their rate ot kill, those vulturei would tear his column to pieces De-fore De-fore he could run under the dubious cover ahead. - Decision snapped in his mind as he saw a new flight swarming into the fight The birdmen were traveling travel-ing high, but heading straight into the conflict More than twenty more planes he guessed in the daze of tragic discovery. dis-covery. His eye raced over the terrain. ter-rain. There were mesquite. juniper thickets, some rugged dwarf pine Scattered, his men would have refuge until Van Hassek's columns menageri wheeled up. Steel la Bridge One hundred and ninety thousand tons of steel were required to make the Golden Gate bridge. Saint Worked as Store Saint Vincent de Paul was captured cap-tured by pirates and later worked among galley slaves. Paramount was settled very satisfactorily; satis-factorily; he got a new. seven-year optional contract at double his former salary. You'll see him before be-fore long starring in Columbia s "Texas." ' ODDS AD ENDS-George Tobuu lets a new record by phymg in four Warner Bros.' films t Um'l . . Abbott and CosteUo have signed up to make lour more comedies lot t ,': l Metro's ecauired quite a lncim ... . , , , Tie 200 deer ana it ; . . . m D .'I I? U -for "Tha Yearling . . !, star of i ne muu yv., Volcano In Kansas Kansas once had active volcanoes. One cone is visible today, just west of Riley, Kan. One-Way Streets Julius Caesar conceived the Idea of the one-way street as an aid to traffic. f H roared an order w stop mr j .,,M surgical instru . u finH lpaned to the ground. Tht , A-,nrt and surgical sun unwounded men with him he in ply h,iusri tends them to Lngtand, strvcted to keep up their rifle Art Standing beside the road he signale-a signale-a halt motioned the command to d truck. (TOBECOmMD- ... l m thnrlntt . . . some- tl art c - , . ... body's started m rumor that Metro u Ul co-star Greta Garbo and Mickey Rooney, which seems too fantastic even for Hollywood . Noble Metals Gold and silver are called the noble metals because they do not rust Why We Sweat The function of sweat is to regulate regu-late the body's heat discharge- Tolling of a Knell The toiling a kneil signifies ei- i i ther a d:'aui or a iumrji. During the past 10 years an aver. age of 2,388,000 motor vehicles annually an-nually have been scrapped. Thirteen Inches From Eye Ordinary reading matter is best seen at a distance of 13 inches according ac-cording to eye specialists. Birthplace Moved Andrew Johnson's birthplace in Raleigh, N. C. has been moved to three different localities. Pestilence Aboard A yellow flag hanging from a ship's halyard indicates that there is pestilence aboard. Philadelphia Chief City Philadelphia was the chief city of the United States in 1790. Chicago did not exist then. Invented Typewriter C L. Sholes. printer and editor, is credited with the invention of the typewriter. One Ont of Six One out of every six American families has a passenger car at its disposal. Foreign Language Papers There are over 1,000 foreign language lan-guage newspapers in the United States. Supply Most Ivory The source of ivory Is supplied mostly by the elephant, hippopotamus, hippopot-amus, walrus and narwhal. Not Permitted to Vote Residents of the District of Columbia Colum-bia are not permitted to vote In national na-tional affairs. Oa the Warpath If an Indian "dug up the hatchet" he would be expected to go on tht warpath. First Representative Body The first representative body in America was the house of burgesses in 1619. Best Picture The award for the best picture of 1940 was given to "The Grapes of Wrath." Much Water A large sunflower will use two barrels of water in growing to maturity. Producers of Panama Hats Colombia and Ecuador are the greatest producers of Panama hats. Watchdog of the Atlantic Puerto Rico is known as the "Watchdog of the Atlanta," uose crises might have |