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Show THE LEIII SUN, LEI1I, UTAH First American Ambulance Train in France WOMAK 7- MIMNiiiUM W -J ill Bu PETER B.KYNJF i wm mminmi u i H isn MFflni-bu-uniiun . sM.l tr -r P: K 1 IfffslVl.l r I it V -t V b i , 1 . nm i iiika iiiiiiiiij r-w THE STORY THUS FAR: Mary Suth-rland Suth-rland If lured to Arizona by tlie adi of tba Wagon Wheel dude ranch, operated by Ma and Pa Burdan. She If met at the station by Len Henley, whose lather, Ham, hat purchased the Burdan notes Irom the bank and feels that the ranch It his. Len enters the rodeo, drawing Mad Hatter. He rides her to a finish, tut It Injured. Mary, who has bet three thousand to one thousand that Len rides the borse, now buys the Burdan equity In Wagon Wheel, outbidding Ham. Learning Learn-ing that Mary does not have the money to pay lor the notes, Ham threatens foreclosure. fore-closure. Mary, who Is In love with Len, re-blret Ma and Pa Burdan and drives to the ranch. CHAPTER XII . Pa Burdan," who had entered with an armful of firewood in time to hear this statement, said: "They got a couple o' venal jurors picked an' bought out." "Nothin' o' the sort, Pa Burdan," Ma declared and repeated the local scandal about the sheriff. "Now, Ma, that ain't fair. Hank Wade's a man of honor. The trouble trou-ble with his sons is that their mother had Jnjun blood in her. Jest a little around the edges an' her sons are throw-backs. A full-blooded Injun's got as much honor an' generally more'n a white man, but when the blood's mixed seems like the worst qualities o' both races is liable to ome out." "Sheriff Wade will be here for an xtra special luncheon, Mrs. Burdan," Bur-dan," Mary repeated and .Ma took the hint. "Female o' the species is more deadly than the male," Pa quoted, resurrecting Mr. Kipling from his Tag bag of a mind, and escaped (hurriedly but not in time to avoid a dipper of water down his leathery old neck. Sheriff Wade arrived at noon, served a release of attachment on Pa Burdan and was by Pa presented to Mary. She found him a small, mild, stringy man with a sort of lost iog wistfulness about him; he radiated radi-ated humility and she knew he was kind and thoughtful when, their luncheon concluded, he picked the sbiled dishes off the dining-room table ta-ble and carried them out to the kitchen sink. Mary was to discover dis-cover that, in rural circles in the southwest this saving of the woman of the house a few steps was an almost al-most universal male practice. She liked Hank Wade for it. She discovered dis-covered that he, like Pedro, had once been an employe of Hamilton Henley's; also, like Pedrd, he still was loyal to the old allegiance. He and Mary discussed the cattle business until mid-afternoon, when the sheriff picked up his deputy and went back to the county seat. In his office he found a reporter for the Prescott Register on his daily round in search of news. "Got a news item for you, son," Hank Wade greeted him cheerfully. "A dude girl hds bought Bill Bur-ian's Bur-ian's Wagon Wheel ranch. Girl about twenty-one or two, I reckon, an' a lady. Boy, the minute you hear her speak you know you're lower'n a worm. An' beautiful!" The sheriff whistled softly. "Her name's Miss Mary Sutherland, o' the old Sutherland family o' New York, an' you know they got. barrels bar-rels o' money. Look 'era up in the Blue Book. ' She give me the money for a three-year subscription to your paper, son, an' she wants to join the Yavapai County Chamber of Commerce an' do her part toward promotin' the public weal. She aims to have the biggest an' best herd o' pure-bred Herefords in captivity an' she ain't goin' to be in business for her health or for the romance o' the west neither. After visitin' most ' the counties in Arizona she picks on Yavapai County for its climate an' what-alL Yes, sir, she's taken over Yavapai County with a bang, aims to socialize a lot an' seems to want to meet her neighbors. Plain, simple girL I had lunch with her at the Wagon Wheel today an' drew her a design for a barbecue pit she aims to erect She has an idea, if she's permitted to join the Chamber o Commerce, she'll give the members mem-bers an their ladies a barbecue come spring." The following morning he drove out to the one and a half township range where his sons ran about seven sev-en hundred "head of cattle, and which, in common with his constituency, constitu-ency, the sheriff believed was a blind for their rustling operations. There Was nobody around the ranch-house when he drove in, so he strolled over to a shed in which stood a huge motor mo-tor truck and a trailer of the type commonly used to transport cattle to market since modern concrete highways rendered that method of shipment cheaper than shipping by raiL He knew his sons had at least eight thousand dollars invested in that truck and trailer and he knew, too, that neither the profits from their little cow outfit, nor the size of the spread itself, warranted such an investment, for it would have been far cheaper to pay a trucker when they had cattle to ship. Of course, he was aware that his sons often contracted to ride other people's cows to market in their truck and trailer but this 'business was infrequent: infre-quent: the sheriff had a very strong suspicion that the truck and trailer vera mostly used in transporting the cattle of other people, but without with-out their knowledge or consent! ' He climbed up into the cab of the truck, read the mileaee record- ed on the speedometer, made a note or it in a small book, then got back into his car and sat there reading the Prescott Register until his youngest son. named Henrv for his father but, because of his gar- ruiousness, known locally as Breezy, rode into the yard with three cow- punchers. , "Hello," said Breezy, ' "what brings you out here? Come to preach another sermon?" "No, son. I cot over that habit. seein' as how you boys resent it. i ve just called socially an' also on a little matter o business. You boys want some truckin' business?" "We kin. use it," Breezy admit ted. "I was speakin to Mr. Hamilton L. Henley an' told, him I'd take It kindly if he'd use you boys when he 'had to hire a truck an' trailer." Three days later a doctor on duty at the little Jocal hospital telephoned the sheriff that a Mexican1 had just brought in a beautiful girl with a bullet wound through her right thigh. "Her name is Mary Sutherland," Suth-erland," he added. "A reporter "Didn't I tell you 1 bought the Wagon Wheel?" from the Register was here when she arrived and he tried to get the story out of her but she. refused to talk. Then he tried the Mexican but the Mexican can't speak English. Eng-lish. Under the law, when a person is brought here to have stab wounds or , gunshot wounds treated 1 have to report to you, so I'm reporting." "Thanks, Doc. Put that Mexican on the line. I speak Spanish." - Presently a voice said: "Buenas tardes, senor." "Pedro," the sheriff asked in an agitated voice, "which one o' my boys done it?" t "The youngest Enrico. Dona Maria Ma-ria ran into him branding a calf running run-ning with a Wagon Wheel cow, so he had to silence the witness." "He didn't do a complete job. Why?" "Because she killed him first. So she will not talk to this reporter. All the way to Prescott she wept to think she must tell you, and, of course, she is not happy to know she has killed a man, even in self-defense." "She speaks Spanish and that doctor doc-tor and the reporter do not. Ask her please to keep her mouth closed for both our sakes and you meet me down in front of the hospital in ten minutes. Put the doctor back on the line." When the doctor answered Hank Wade said: "It's O. K., doc. She got hit by a stray bullet from some boob shootin' deer on her range. Bad wound?" "It didn't touch the bone. Lay her up for six weeks or two months." "Thanks for callin' me, Doc." Ten minutes later he pulled up In his official car alongside the Burdan station wagon in which Pedro Ortiz sat waiting for him at the curb in front of the hospitaL He got out and leaned in the station wagon and said to Pedro in English, "Lemme have the details, Pedro. I didn't want to talk to you too long on the telephone. tele-phone. Boy, you played your part well and so did the girl." "I asked her," said Pedro, "and she premised she would. She realizes" real-izes" he switched to Spanish. "Be carefuL Don Hank. That reporter approaches." They continued their discourse in Spanish and then Sheriff Sher-iff Wade returned to his office and Pedro started back for the Wagon Wheel ranch, leaving the reporter from the Prescott Register standing at the curb gazing interestelly aft er him, and thinking: "So. my Mex lean friend, you do speak English! That was no accidental shooting and Hank Wade knows it and is trying to cover it up. There's something doing down at the Wagon Wheel ranch." , , : Within an hour he was en route there to investigate! Mary found a peculiar comfort In her decision to do with the Wagon Wheel home ranch what Len Henley had hoped to be able to do. She discussed the plan at length that night with Pedro Pa Burdan could not be pried away from the radio and they made a rough estimate of the probable cost of clearing the land, piling the dead brush, sorting out the mesquite for fuel and hauling haul-ing it in to headquarters, burning the remaining trash, fencing and drilling drill-ing deeper and, it was to be hoped, more productive wells on the highest high-est point 'of the land, ploughing the land, floating or leveling it and roll ing it up into checks, and preparing prepar-ing a bed for the grass seed. They figured on digging ditches to carry the concrete water-pipe along the northern boundary and through the center of the property so that when the control valves on these pipes should be opened at the head of the checks the water would pour out and down the checks. Mary planned to ride again the following morning and Pedro had just led the saddled horses out of the barn when an automobile drew up into the yard and Ham Henley stepped out He paused with galvan ic suddenness when he saw Mary, in her rodeo parade costume, coming com-ing to meet him. "Good morning, Don Hamilton," she greeted him. "You're just the man I want to talk to." "What are you doin' here?" he demanded. "I live here. It's my home. Didn't I tell you I had bought the Wagon Wheel?" "But I supposed you'd gone back to New York." "You merely hoped I'd gone back to New York. Well, I'm here and unless you start a round-up within three days from date I'm going to start one. I understand that all it requires is some money to hire men and feed, them. I have the horses and saddles now." "You mean that dude?" "I certainly do." "If you'll agree to leave them on the range until July first I'll send you a check for half the annual rental charged you by the state." "It isn't a question of. money," she replied coldly. "I just don't like you."- He was a man of .'quick decisions and, like most of his sex, he shrank from a finish fight with a woman. "If you want to buy those cattle, as is and where is," he answered, "I'll sell them to you at cost to me." "Go on. Name the terms of payment." pay-ment." "I'll carry you for them and also the deed of trust until July fifteenth next, without Interest" "Thank you. That's what I call putting humanity into business and I accept the offer. I must spend considerable money putting this rundown run-down ranch into such shape I'll not be ashamed to live on it and my bank balance will not admit of doing do-ing this and paying your deed of trust just now. By the way, Pedro Ortiz is here with Don Leonardo's horses and automotive equipment He informs' me he's in your employ." em-ploy." "He was. I told him to come out here when I thought I was going go-ing to acquire this property. I want-ed want-ed somebody here to keep an eye on things, and I knew the Burdans wouldn't object to havin' him here until they were dispossessed, provided pro-vided he didn't cost them nothin'. I came out this mornin' to relieve him." "Have you any objection to permitting per-mitting me to hire him now as my superintendent?" " "Glad to have you, for his sake. He's a good, loyal, competent man. I ought to know.' I raised him from a pup." "Are you going to remove Don Leonardo's horses from the Wagon Wheel?" "Not until he tfsfes me to. I reckon reck-on he'll feel better about them if he knows Pedro has them in charge." "They're" welcome here. I think he will offer no objection if I ride them." "I'll ask him. If he objects I'll let you know. You got any message mes-sage for my son?" "No nor do I anticipate having any. And I daresay you find that news very palatable." "Suits me fine, dude." He lifted his big black hat and left and she had a feeling, tha.t he was very glad, indeed, to see the last of her for, of course, her future business with him would be transacted through her attorney. As she gazed after his disappearing car she thought: "So I worked a squeeze play on you after all, Mr. Hamilton L. Henley. Senior! Good! I tried reciprocity and you preferred to throw your weight around. Well, I'm glad to see the last of you as you are to see the last of me." TO BE CONTINUEDt Washington, D C." U. S.-BRITISH OIL ACCORD ! This column, it should be noted in idvance, is likely to be dulL But if rou are interested in keeping your ion or husband out of another war, It should be Important i The United States and Great Brit- tin are just concluding the first igreement aimed to remove the ianger of war an agreement on oil. Oil is one of the most ticklish eco nomic subjects in the world. Oil is what makes a nation'! battleships move, runs the automobiles, sends the planes into the air in fact, spells the difference between a nation of strength or a nation which must bow to the whims of others. The present oil agreement seeks to set tle the battle for oil; eliminate one Important cause of war. The last war was scarcely over when Great Britain began maneuvering maneu-vering to corner the oil supplies of the world. British leaders were quite Crank about it. United States Protests. Finding itself in this position, the United States government jumped Into the battle for oil with vigor. The secretary of state, Charles Evans Hughes, wrote a series of blunt, bare-faced notes to the British, wanting want-ing to know why they barred American Ameri-can oil companies from Palestine, since Palestine was not British but merely mandated to the British by the League. Meanwhile, the British, though barring the U. S. from their areas of Interest quietly invaded ours. They turned up with concessions in Colombia, not far from the Panama CanaL Even in Panama proper, a British gold-mining company staked out a huge and suspicious claim in an area where no gold was known to exist. History Begins to Repeat. In World War II, history at first began to repeat. The five senators who toured the world war fronts came back with the story of how the U.S.A. was-rapidly depleting her oil reserves while the British were hoarding theirs. They told how the British were trying to keep us from further developing oil resources in Arabia; how the British had a refinery re-finery on the Gulf of Persia, 50 per cent idle, while we shipped oil clear across the Atlantic to British armies in the Near East. . Yes, it looked as if history woult repeat. f On last April 29, however, rep- ' resentatives of the British and American governments negotiated negotiat-ed an informal understanding 'timed to eliminate the oil battles bat-tles of the future. It was an excellent, ex-cellent, far-sighted agreement. And during the last two weeks in Washington, Lord Beaverbrook and his associates have been negotiating ne-gotiating with Secretaries Ickes and Hull to make this Informal oil agreement formal and binding. bind-ing. This time, the British have been far more cooperative and far-sighted than in 1919 with? one possible exception. After U. S.-British experts laid their excellent April 29 ground work, Lord Beaverbrook kicked over the traces at some things, and he seems to be keeping a more watchful eye on the interests inter-ests of the empire than on a fair future peace. For Instance, he has been insisting that Brit-- Brit-- ain have the right to ban the sale of U. S. oil in England, despite de-spite the fact that British Shell sells in this country. However, the basic agreement is truly encouraging en-couraging when it comes to future fu-ture peace. Provisions of Agreement. It provides, first: '.'That petroleum shall be available In international trade to the nationals of all peace-loving peace-loving countries in adequate volume, at fair prices and on ah equitable and non-discriminatory basis." . " This means that Hf the U.S.A. runs out of oil or vice versa, it is up to Britain to help supply us unless, un-less, for example, one or the other attempts to conquer Ethiopia as Mussolini Mus-solini did, and the world peace-machinery countries attempt to cut off their oil as the League tried to do to Italy but because of pressure from the big companies, could not do. The agreement also gives "equal opportunity" for "acquisition,", "development" "de-velopment" etc., in areas under concession. con-cession. This eliminates cutthroat rivalry for new fields. Each nation is to respect the valid concessions of the other and its citizens. Finally, and very important, "exploration, "ex-ploration, development operation of refineries and distribution shall not be hampered by restrictions imposed by either government or its nationals." nation-als." MERRY-GO-ROUND C Cautious Mr. Turk If you want the real low-down on why the Turks finally hmke with Germany, it was because Hitler had moved troops out 1 of Bulgaria just opposite Turkey. I A ter that the Turks weren't afraid i of being attacked. , . . With Sweden , and Switzerland both closed to Hitler Hit-ler ior escape, his few remaining : navens are Japan which won't last , long and Argentina. ... It has ; ioi i been rumored that the Nazi i top men were building up cash re-j re-j terves in Argentina. Transferring patients from ambulances to the first hospital trains to can army. The train runs from Lison to Cherbourg and is made up of box cars left behind by the Germans. Insert shows closeup of wounded being loaded on train. Photo by telephoto. The box cars were completely overhauled to provide all equipment necessary to handle the wounded while they were being transferred to base hospital at Cherbourg. During the last war the U. S. army operated several base hospitals in France. Not all of the refugees refu-gees have left France. This grandmother, mother and children took to the woods as war rolled their way. They had been without food for days when found by American troops. - -"'7; -vm lhvi vr iv nU f i --: Among the thousands of refugees who landed at Hobokcn, N. J., to 6pend the war's duration in a camp In the U. S. was the family of Jacob Dresdner, shown after coming ashore. The family is composed of Jacob and his wife and their nine children, from Hungary. With the rest of the lucky thousand permitted entry under the President's plan, they will be kept in Fort Ontario, near Oswego, N. T., until the end of the war at which time they will be returned to their own countries. Insert shows how many of the refugees when forced, to flee their homes tried to carry a few valuables with them. Yanks Pass Through Pericrs l r"" 1 " j$t r Yank column passes 'through the French town of Perlers on their drive toward Paris and Berlin. The American tanks are shown as they pass through the ruins of this old French city, which was added to the list of captnred towns. As was true In other French cities, the GIs were received with open arms by the citizens of Periers. Sub Blasted by Tanicky Nazis pour out of the conning tower to the deck of a submarine sub-marine blasted to the surface by depth charges planted by U. S. coast guard and navy destroyer escorts somewhere in the Atlantic. A few minutes min-utes later the crippled U-boat plunged to the bottom of the sea. Twelve Nazis were picked np and became prisoners of war. - if Three Generations and a ;U'vf BV'V r. i 1 ' i A$iA ... A Depth Charges . "AS ' -Hi. 1 y i Z6 be operated in France by the Ameri Family The Anxious Seat L Seated on the radiator of a jeep, this German sniper in civiliai clothes Is being driven to Americas headquarters after his capture neat St. Saveur Lendelin. Be looks a trifle tri-fle worried and well be might. Young U-Boat Chief BSC" nizd A 26-year-old commander of a Xazi C-boat was captnred after his ship was runk by coast-guard-manned destroyer escort in the Atlantic. At-lantic. He was a former Californian. L.Xif-tt-.: fV. .v.V ,) i X |
