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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEIII. UTAH ARED WHIitrK. STORY SO FAR: More thin J ia troop whlh hadbe? .r.prt ii Mexico, suddenly IMUV MIIS the United State. Intelligence Z Benning had discovered their m in Mexico City where tod ained the confil,,!nce ' rlncke CHAPTER XII Continued Benning waited for several mounts mo-unts t regain c0111?1616 com" lure and went over to a seat at Z Fincke table. The Austrian ,;ked up and brightened sUghtly. 'Thought I might find you here, 3'omlitz," Fincke muttered. "I ,'mt to ask you a few questions if I tan talk to you as one friend to an- 'fsuppose, Major," Benning said ,1th a mischievous grin, "you are j, be addressed as lieutenant colo-3tl colo-3tl hereafter." Fincke glared and demanded: ,. in nn mood for being kidded. ii . jromlitz. Or did you know Boggio ave me the douDie-cross '"I've been busy with my own af-airs," af-airs," Benning answered. "For all i know Boggio is back in Mexico city" -Not yet, but he'll be flying south umorrow while here I am stuck right to Washington for three days Mre until the big boat sails. What's eating at me now is I may get dou-ile-crossed out of the cruise if Bog-io Bog-io hops up to New York to see Bra-tot" Bra-tot" Benning said crisply, "All right, incke, out with your grievance." Fincke said at once, leaning toss the table: "Boggio was up :ere in Washington on another job then he horned in on mine. Said ;e wanted to check my plans from ie air corps angle. What does he in but grab off all my calculations :jr lights, steals my triangles, and jilfersall my technical data, then be sent me out of town at the last ainute on a goose chase so he can at my plans across himself! That ;ives him all the glory for the White iouse, and now off to Mexico he pes to get a general's crescent." "Fve got it figured out, Bromlitz, i-ou're in on the big show, aren't -on?" "There are some things we're not rspected to talk about too much, Fincke,' Benning shot back. "Why ad you ask me that question?" "I thought maybe if you are gong go-ng aboard we might work together, 3romlitz." "If you're sincere in that, let's ake sure we're talking about the same thing. When do you sail and om where?" The Van Hassek spy weighed this cangerous question. "I see no harm in saying that. Bromlitz," he responded shortly. Sot so long as we don't say where e're going or what for, which mustn't be repeated to anybody un-erany un-erany circumstances. Does it mean anything if I tell you Pier Twenty, at four Wednesday afternoon?" Several tables distant, directly be- "nd Fincke, Benning had observed Jeutenant Jones. The lieutenant's yes had let Benning know that he rjd matter of urgency to discuss. enmng lighted a cigarette and got P- "SliPDOSe we mppt hero nn WoH. psday morning at eight o'clock," "QrminM i .... -"""s proposed, "we mignt just :s well travel together to the pier." "Right," Fincke agreed. "Glad tie up with somphnriv I pan 'list" , When Bennine nassori nut r 'el intO thf SrtrOO T .lantanqnt es promptly joined him. Jones his private car at the curb and ;nered Benning inside. "Sorry I couldn't get to you soon-sir," soon-sir," Jones reported. "Your man 'IS'O Came OUt of the Pllinl orort pt at six-thirty. The girl friend ;s with him. Outside they were by a man whn 9nn9nti ; Ngio's bodyguard. I followed them : uepot where Boggio and the n fellow took the seven o'clock 2 New Yo1. The girl re-med re-med home. I didn't hao o 5 Set word to you sooner. Captain." .7m,s siuaiea his watch and aae a rapid calmlatmr, tv, t. . - v. w... UUUi cLl minutes short of .eight "five me at once tn tho JU, hp riiror.tn.-J it i-i, . neet Boggio when he steps off train at the Pennsylvania Sta-Please Sta-Please Ipt em .-u owi ve developed a very interest- CHAPTER XIII utenant Jnn uil"" 0 uu ins ra- earn e"r ot to motion toward t-.uGenera! Hue was just ainn Z e Blr' 'ntroduced to the 7 T6 Secrety of War. aff T preIlminary the Chief of -.d Cgjan peaking, his voice clear J,!1",.5.1 very frankly to the -S-fa1f,:5!veyoU unrt.. V ""hui wni tor you ""aerstand. First nr 5k 4 aL yU through legislation iPrp,atlons- fact that it W to smaU Pts throughout C?n y' ,nustead of being concen-Ta,v concen-Ta,v Combat visions for pr0p-CenLiS pr0p-CenLiS DO f3Ult of tte War 'meSPh,a,k. without bitterness or !; th. 18 ""PO'tant that you nUal Jtu belief In your Ual armed forces. INSTALLMENT TWELVE and Bravot, two enemy officers, but hli warning had (one unheeded. The President Presi-dent was killed when Washington was bombed. General Brill, commander of the U. S. army In Texas, was opposed by greatly superior forces led by Van Hassek. In spite of Brill's desperate "Briefly, our armies must be assembled as-sembled slowly from scattered gar-risons. gar-risons. Initially our actions must be limited by immediate lack of ammunition am-munition reserves and armaments. If we cannot supply adequate antiaircraft anti-aircraft protection to our important cities, deeply as our hearts bleed for them, it is because we have insufficient insuffi-cient anti-aircraft. "But I want to say to you what I said the other night to my associates of the staff. Whatever violence lies ahead, this country will master it. Let our foes mark these words. The United States is unconquerable. Its resources and manpower, its determination deter-mination and courage, are equal to any conceivable emergency. Whatever What-ever reverses may lie ahead of us in the immediate future will only temper our spirit of resistance. Inevitably In-evitably that day will come when the foes of the United States will meet the mighty vengeance of our massed valor!" Benning, as they reached the airport, air-port, instructed: "Get G-2 on the telephone at Governor's Island at once, Jones. I'd like to have two good Intelligence men from First Corps Area meet me at the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania HoteL One of them to be Lieutenant Crane, if he's available." On disembarking at Newark shortly short-ly before ten o'clock, Benning took a cab into the city and drove direct di-rect to the Pennsylvania Hotel where he found Lieutenant Crane waiting. Crane, a short, chunky young offi- -7 A m X? tiffin 1 ft :i i K IT. - , , LA "The Boggio henchman gave a cry of pain." cer with a pleasant, alert face, accepted ac-cepted terse instructions with a crisp "Very good, sir." With him was Sergeant Ser-geant Adams, Intelligence police, a seasoned and dependable non-commissioned officer. Both wore business busi-ness suits. Benning crossed over to the station sta-tion as the train from Washington pulled in. Boggio and his henchman hench-man got off as soon as the train stopped and hurried out to catch a cab. Benning followed them alone in a second, cab while Crane and his sergeant trailed from a discreet distance. dis-tance. Boggio stopped near the McAlpin Hotel to let out his henchman and drove on the stone's throw to the Empire State Building, where he paid his fare, dismissed the cab, and went inside to be whirred up in an express elevator. Benning waited several minutes until the identical cage returned to the lobby. "Pardon, I just missed a friend, an Italian in a blue suit and white felt hat," Benning said to the operator. "Did he go to the roof with you?" "Forty-fifth floor." the operator informed. in-formed. Benning shot up to the forty-fifth floor and walked cautiously down the hall. A brief reconnoissance told him there was a light in but one of the offices. He read the legend on the door, "Andes Gold Mining and Milling Company, Inc." Without pressing his luck any fur-then fur-then he returned to the street. He had crossed the street, meaning mean-ing to keep the Empire State under observation against Boggio's return to the street, when his way was barred by the stubby man who had accompanied Boggio from Washington. Washing-ton. The fellow's face was bellicose, belli-cose, his hand thrust suggestively in his pocket "You was just up pretty high in the big building. w??n't you?" the fellow growled close to Benning's ear. "What of it?" Benning asked. . "Supposing I told you I was up to the forty-fifth to see a friend named Palacio Quatres about buying a pair of silver sabers?" The man's hostility relaxed somewhat some-what as he heard the Van Hassek words of secret identification. But after searching Benning's face, he shook his head. NEXT WEEK HIT- 7, t L'Tk.lW iA f .-W resistance, Van Bassek'i troops pushed relentlessly forward. Returning to Washington, Wash-ington, Benning met Fincku who had coma there to do espionage work but continued to pose as a friend. A week later he saw Fincke enter a restaurant. Now continue with the story. "You may be all right, but we're playing no chance," he decided. "What you say to a little Jump up to the forty-fifth with me just to make sure?" "If you insist," Benning said indifferently. in-differently. Benning, as they returned across the street, did not risk looking about for Crane and the sergeant. With expert eye he watched his own chance of attack. His prompt capitulation ca-pitulation had the effect of throwing his captor slightly off guard. As they passed the entrance of a gown shop, Benning seized the fellow's gun arm and drove him into the dark entrance of the shop. The impact im-pact crashed the heavy glass door, the two went sprawling inside through a fagged aperture of broken glass. The Boggio henchman gave a cry of pain as the glass tore into his body, but floundered into battle with a surge of frantic strength that shook his arm free of Benning's grip. Benning Ben-ning regained his hold before the spy could bring a pistol into play. They had staggered to their feet in the uncertain battle over the weapon when Crane and Adams dashed up. A sharp tap of the sergeant's service serv-ice pistol promptly ended the fray. "Keep a watch outside, Adams," Benning instructed. With Crane's help he bound the prisoner's arms. A watchman in tan uniform, attracted by the crash of glass, rushed in with drawn pistol. pis-tol. Crane promptly dismissed the watchman on the mission of notify ing the owner of the shop of his broken door. They were getting their prisoner, still in a daze, on his feet when Sergeant Adams hurried in from the street. "Your Italian just came down, sir," he reported to Benning. "He's now getting into a cab." "Follow him!" Benning promptly instructed. "Follow him as long as he stays in New York. If he attempts at-tempts to leave the city, arrest him. You don't need to be gentle if he gives you any trouble, Sergeant" "Yes'r," said Adams. Benning instructed Crane to take the prisoner to Governor's Island, there to be' held 1n close arrest. Crane was next to report to Benning at the near-by McAlpin. Benning walked to that hotel and called Colonel Co-lonel Flagwill on the telephone. Flag-will Flag-will was tied up in conference with General Hague, and an hour passed before he responded on the telephone. tele-phone. Benning reported events in pertinent detail. There were several moments of silence as Flagwill's mind searched through Benning's disclosures, then he burst into excited enthusiasm. "That sounds like the real quill, Benning sounds like the trail we've all been looking for! 'Til instruct Colonel Wallace at once to give you whatever you want from corps area, Benning. Have you decided on any plan of attack?" "Tonight, sir," Benning replied, "I thought I'd keep entirely away from the Empire State. In the morning I intend to go up to the forty-fifth alone and give the Andes Gold Mining Min-ing and Milling Company the onceover." once-over." Benning was having a late breakfast break-fast at his hotel the next morning, after a busy night plotting moves, when Crane came in, his face glum and heavy with tragedy. "Your Italian got Adams last night" Crane said at once, sinking heavily into a chair at Benning's table. "Adams, when we brought him to hospital, told me Boggio got suspicious suspi-cious when his henchman failed to join him outside Empire State. He had the cab drive him under the Hudson and headed to the Newark airport. Adams followed closely Boggio slipped behind a hangar to observe his rear, and as Adams came up. shot without warning. He had a plane waiting at the airport which took off immediately." "Sorry," Benning said glumly. "We put out a warning at once," Crane went on. "Our intercepts picked up the engines of the plane over Lexington at two this morning. morn-ing. It was traveling high and fast and must have been Boggio's plane. Our estimates give small hope that pursuit aviation can pick him up in Texas, but we've put heat on the air corps to make a try." The public radio in the dining-room dining-room was buzzing with war bulletins. bulle-tins. Van Hassek's attack had jumped off at daybreak, but at eight o'clock had made small progress against the Second Division. Europe Eu-rope was in a turmoil, expecting war to break at any hour in France and Belgium. Unconfirmed reports came through London of an immense troop concentration on the Chinese coast, another report of a Coalition fleet mobilizing in Mediterranean waters Enemy bombing had centered on onlv two cities last night Galveston and" San Antonio. Fort Sam Hou ston had been heavily pounded and many of its instaUations destroyed Hastily formed defenses seemed im portant (TO BE COMTLW ED) Kathleen Norris Says: Which Door h Yours? (BeU Syndicate WNU Servlci.l Ann went to him, "Why, George, thame on you! We'll move right into the have my baby for nothing, in a ward, we'll cut expenses and we'll pay city, ril have my baby U tnut cut Ujj in jive years. By KATHLEEN NORRIS TWO men, both in the early thirties, were going go-ing home in the subway-last subway-last night. It was a bleak dreary night, streets were dark and slippery with slush and the underground train was filled with weary home-goers, home-goers, who occupied seats or hung on straps with the tired expressions of men and women wom-en whose day had been dull and hard. One man was Tom Smith, who rents four rooms in the Bronx for $32 a month. A parlor par-lor and kitchen on the street; two bedrooms on air-shafts. Bathroom, some heat, hot water included. ' The Smiths have one little girl, Eileen, who is 8. Jean Smith is pretty, nervous, dissatisfied. dis-satisfied. She is tired of cooking for Tom, caring for him and Eileen, and doing without furs, trips, down town meals, theaters. She lives by a jealous and minute comparison of her affairs with those of her friends; she has no code and no standards of her own. If some woman friend and most of them are some years older than she, and all of them in better circumstances if some friend has a new blouse, a new hair-do, a new dining table or car, Jean is wretched. Cold Reception. When Tom gets home she is often lying down reading. Or perhaps the house is cluttered from a bridge afternoon; aft-ernoon; the air thick with cigarette smoke, the women finishing the last rubber. A daintily wrapped prize goes to somebody, the guests depart with many kisses and thanks, and Jean wearily begins to straighten up the room. Tom has cold mutton, beets, sandwiches and eclairs for supper, a good enough meal if Jean had any appetite or any interest in it To his kindly inquiries she responds re-sponds vaguely; she isn't disagreeable, disagree-able, but she simply doesn't care what Tom eats or feels or says or wants any more. Half the time her answer to his remarks is "What?" If things are uncomfortable for Tom be accepts them In silence. Any criticism rouses Jean to an angry summary of the situation. She has given Tom Smith the best years of ber life! She has drudged along in mis rotten little place, when Ethel has moved into those new flats and Glad and Billy are buying a house. This can go on for a long time. Tom and subdued little Eileen have learned not to Invite it So Tom reconciles himself to a damp disorderly dis-orderly bathroom, sits cheerfully reading the paper in the cold dusty parlor when meals are late, trots down to the delicatessen for forgot ten butter, or coffee, takes Jean to movies nigh after night Tom doesn't complain, but one day he revealed more than he knew of the situation to his friend George Brown, when he said hesitatingly, "You see, I have to sort of think out the effect of what I say to Jean sometimes. I have to kind of feel my way." Browns Are Happy. George Brown, the other home-going home-going man. lives in the same crowded block with the Smiths. He and Ann pay the same rent for the same spact. But there the similarity be . L . ii - a r n tween the two families ceases. Ana j WRONG WAY? Does cooking for your husband bore you? Are you angry because Tom ayt you can't afford u new fur coat? Are you tired of constantly having hav-ing to make the pennies t-l-r-e-t-e-h? Then you should read Kathleen Norris' answers to wives who are going the wrong way. has a girl and a boy; and she and their father rejoice in them and love them aid they know It. George is the all-important head of the house; he comes home to warmth, light welcome, comfort If there is good news, Ann loves to tell it She has a pleasant little custom of bringing him a cup of hot soup as he reads before dinner. If there's worrisome news, either from his end of the partnership or hers, Ann has a great way of minimizing mini-mizing it. A sick child is either always al-ways better, or "just reaching the peak, George, it's got to go up to go down!" Ann has a dozen amusing anecdotes of her day to relate; if she is tired, it is just being "comfortably "com-fortably tired." Dishes take about ten minutes in the Brown house after aft-er supper; Davy clears the table and Nancy brushes the floor. George comes Into the kitchen to help not because she exacts it but because he likes to share so much pleasant activity and chatter. Sometimes he and Davy work out arithmetical problems with beans on the kitchen table. Domestic Co-operation. The Browns go to the movies once a week and look forward to it as a treat On Sundays they always picnic, pic-nic, in bad weather taking their sandwiches to a big museum or gallery gal-lery and buying hot drinks in the cafeteria. Because with all the pleasure of their lives the Browns are solvent and are saving. Seven years go George's father died leaving him debts totalling more than $4,000, and Ann's mother, a helpless cripple, came to live with them. They had an eight-room house in the suburbs then. When he realized that their bouse of cards was Coming down around his ears, George hated to go home and tell Ann. Her mother needed medical care and nursing, a new baby was coming, and he was overwhelmed over-whelmed with a debt that represented represent-ed his entire income for a year and a half. Ann went over to him, where be sat despondently finishing his story and knelt down and put her arms about him and said, "Why, George, shame on youl We'll move right into the city, I'll have my baby for nothing, noth-ing, in a ward, we'll cut out furnace fur-nace and commutation and taxi expenses ex-penses and live right near the office, and we'll pay that all off in five years. We have each other and the babies, and I CAN take care of Mother and that's the great blessing, bless-ing, so you and ril go househunting tomorrow, and start all over again!" Typical American Success Story. Well, you know the rest It is the story of 69 out of every 100 American Amer-ican stories of success. Ann's mother moth-er was the only one who minded, and George and Ann, strong in confidence con-fidence and laughter and their mutual mu-tual love, stood that heroically for the remaining few years of her life. The debts were paid off in less than four years, for saving became a sort of game, and an unexpected commission swept away the last third of them in one glorious wave. All in Silence A scolding wife can say endless disconcerting things, and she hits or misses; but a silent woman says everything. H. G. Wells. Autot Use Quantity Fabrics Textile men estimate that more than 48,000,000 square yards of upholstery up-holstery fabric will go into production produc-tion of 1941 motorcars, according to J. E. Brown, general manager In Southern California for Don Lee, Inc., Cadillac distributor. Loafers In Russia Too Many cities in Russia have a shortage of street car conductors and drivers because of loafing and unauthorized leaves of absence, and a new law authorizes punishment for these misdemeanors. Third Eye The pineal gland, imbedded In the back of the brain, sometimes is called the human remnant of the "third eye" of prehistoric animals. Tills gland seems to affect sex, but little really is known about it Losantlvllle Cincinnati, Ohio, was once called Losantiville, originally given to the settlement by its founders who had purchased land from the Scioto company com-pany in 1788. The name was changed in 1790. Longer Socks Some laundry experts advise men to purchase socks one-half to three-quarters three-quarters of an inch longer than the foot Wool hose should be an inch longer. Enthusiastic Spirit Enthusiasm is "that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or I ADDS Influence of Absence Absence diminishes little passions pas-sions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fixe. La Rochefoucauld. a J Hi,!!". - v 't:T ' J W. 1"."V" , K . f t i e I $. 5 4 Our $200,000.00 remodeling and refurnishing program has) made available the finest hotel accommodations) in the West AT OUR SAME POPULAR PRICES. CArfcltKIA DINING ROOM BUFFET MRS. J. H. WATERS, PrnMaa -Atonogef- J.HOLMAN WATERS and W.ROSS Bright Outlook To temperance every day Is bright; and every hour Is propitious propi-tious to diligence. Samuel Johnson. wttsk Me knottier Q A General Quiz The Questions 1. Which science has been called the dismal science? 2. Whose inventions made the motion picture an accomplished fact? 3. What makes a fish so slippery? slip-pery? 4. What is the explanation of sun dogs? The Answers 1. Economics. - 2. Thomas A. Edison. 3. Its body is covered with a mucus, constantly secreted by special glands, which minimizes the friction while swimming. 4. This term, which is applied to a form of halo around the sun, is caused by the refraction of sunlight sun-light by myriads of tiny six-sided ice crystals floating in the upper atmosphere. So You've Tried Everything? and are still miserable with stomach gas i Spoils your sleep, and you hardly dare eat AD LA Tablets bring QUICK relief. Your druggist has AD LA Tablets. Get them today. fj J '.. J .S V . UP Cat. 1041 hy Kfliotrt Cowir! the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing. Isaac D'Israeli. I? JOY TO YOUR MEALS One Action Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. Lowell. 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