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Show Star list HD MACLEOD RAINES WILLIAM Trimming Stars Chaplin s Find Hidden Ambitions COPYRIGHT WILLIAM MACLEOD tAINE more than you do, Howard cut back sharply. And I wont have you saying I do, Dan. Theres on for thing more ID aay. My boy Lou isnt in this. If you or Lee or him. He'a our any of his rldera-- do that boy any f, caught iltn suit' A hostage, you might harm, TU never quit till Ive cleaned up the whole Chiswick neat You anything happen to Mis 141 it can put that In your pipe and amok 's 11 off with him. itarfej ftftot d'you mean, he'a on ot it" AD Im saying la that you'd bet. jchoo!!' L onl that did this? Loo doesnt ind carrying girls up Into the ter find Miss Ruth and get her what happened, home," Brand replied, frowning t ft that's so far I can't make head or him. The foreman turned and strode jTJftt." Howard looked reproach-- L You hadn't out of the room. at the L C man. Mile High said to Howard angrily, to Ulk that wild, lawleaa way, Zi About itringing up Lou, and Is it yore idea to throw down on like that. Be reasonable. Morg?" Q talk tell us the atory. Begin The lifeless eyea of Howard slid ofl, I & beginning- - Let' hear what round to meet those of the other. WU1 you have e Dont always be a lunkhead. hii Lpoened . . d Be pushed the bottle High. What has this fellow done but throw down on you and me and Brand. D of ua? You know this 1viU not Brand laid curtly, country tftaeed to begin at the flrat of It. wont stand tor such stuff as he has Lnn. you know that better than Just pulled off. He'd know It. too, j Through yore aple you found if he wasnt crazy. We've got to soma Mexican arauggleri were play our hands to save ourselves. --ontftn to run silver through Live When Morg Norris took this girl linkj. t, with him against her will, he signed canyon to Tough Nut You sent or coctr,; St C ct yore gang out to waylay his t. Dont you go b signing yours. We're going after it around d W jlfa-al- t a minute, Dan." Howard child's he Led a fat band to stop him. No hoc2 U thing Some of the boys diagnr Qed for Tough Nut to see the this ike Sjbut They may have gone by paper CHAITEK IX Continued -- 15 withal Lou got to do with It?1 t-asked. wd one of the gang that did I C-ern- rjf rl to-L- i - death-warran- tat a up, "ijcf Live Oak h wider head m nt A a j betwra j Pc.: own. at the eer lines " mile off Nut," We found two Mexicans rubbed out and the pack-wit- h the silver. Yore crowd sbootin' when we took a lor. bad before1 te 40 said contemptuously. Dont to load me. Sherm. I know it that outlaw bunch went to Live to h: Point than wouldnt route to Tough direct t paper, I canyon. about that H Isn't more still D top af Mexicans must have at-lefHoward protested. them, it would be the way of jStw. When a brush rabbit gets W enough to spit In the eye of a pesnake. Like I said, Lou la our boner. That boy hasn't any sand I his craw. He wilted right off The placed m cutting ea rhe dufr center Ik it" all he knew. Dont juts my time trying to lie. Heres p sub ot it. Two of yore men ?pd away from us up a side fea They cut acrosa to the L C and picked up Mis )r a stitchi I ther. After she had rustled grub p. you haw I 1 them, they took her with them tot hills. ' f real n! hst two men? g instead Ywf Noma and Kansas." Is, Novell ,Tm not responsible for what that Morg Norris doea," the fat help K burst out You know that, s comple! a He'a a bad hombre. irectiool I Long ago, at stoat j its I taw what he was. I washed and sdd.a J hands of him. holds you responsible. So jsplaineshe rest of us. You cant get rl ith that. Sherm. Every de- man in this country will be rou in this thing. If that ll Homs hurts Miss Ruth, youD Jam. Don't think anything br a minute. fhe big moon face of Howard pallid. The reverse at Live bad enough. Not much Play innocent with Lou a IE But this crazy adventure organ Norria was ruinous. 'na did not know which way to L Chiswick hated him, any-- " Tbe JOU oldest son of the L C achman had been a private in the Bangers and had been kRled duty. The father of the boy had ;US always suspected of betraying the youngster 1NGT0N death, though he had never MAN1 ble to prove If this .girl tajured, Lee would go hog revenge would never atop not even at Lou Howard. Mt to be reasonable, Dan," Hr J1 Wouldnt have had this C? " a11 toe money in the it has happened. I cant M blabbed ' i it 5! , L. ' f L? T Mofg la a good-lookin- g Tbe he Just persuaded along a ways. If It waa Want to be sure of that ft a note. Brand laid 'Hosides, the girl who ranch u,' away and What's the sense in trying yoreself? if tt is yoreself ' ft to load. get busy. 01 yore ctowaga out to tv!n.Norns Get Mia Ruth J C Oft me youre trying t0 t( 11 you to tomehw safeiy out of , uyoudon-t- toreman JU Vt! perspiring with a 1 aud J1 bad fkt a bandanna. made up T,'acriflce Norria. It waa was . present, fw outd,h! fatal for Wei would 00t tond I iy of Vi gan to trouble. But I torow Mgh must ,M toey bad High the llon ,fter d- - jhucb th,0 Uitg tter taUt turkey. be ad tomg la to get Miss Sk 4 1 tH ! can Pforoiae to oomblng the hiUa V"' 1 in- - r" 1 them to the Hrand made blunt an know wher be U any "One of them stayed He pointed at the sUD body. A pulai of excitement hammered to the scrawny throat of the r. line-ride- Begorry, youre right There hea been e fight end one of them got kiUed." The younger man differed. "Not e fight but a murder. For tome reason Norris made up hit rnimi to get rid of Kansas. He did so, end then Ut out Ten going down." Look out tor a trap, the advised. old-tim- -- Dont think lfs that Two of the horses have gone. But Gray did not take any unnecessary chances. His rifle was across the saddle as he rode down Into the park. He made sure nobody waa in the house before be took e close look at the dead man. Kansas, lika you said. Sorley looked at his companion and then looked away. Both of them were thinking of what this meant to Ruth. They cant be far ahead of us, if we knew which way they had gone. It would be possible to find In what direction they had started, but both the men knew there was little chance of running down Norria In hundreds of miles of rough mountain terrain. Sorley began to quarter over the park looking for sign. He shot Kansas in tha back of the bead, from off to on tide." Gray mentioned. The horses beaded up toward that patch of little pines near the ridge, Sorley caDed to him. Two of them. Morg waa In a sweat to get away. "Yes." Gray's voice raised in sudden excitement Come here, Pat Someone left e message for us." Sorley ran to him. He pointed to some writing scratched in the sand. The old man read It aloud slowly. Wild Horst basin. Its meant for us," Gray said. "Either the girl wrote it or Norria did. Its signed with her Initial, but that doesn't mean a thing. Tha scoundrel may have left It to fool us. The letters are done kinds shaky, as if she had made them In a hurry, on the aly." His eyes were back again on the writing. , r. Thats right, agreed the If Norris had done it, he would have fixed the letters deeper, so we wouldnt miss seeing them. Td say Miss Ruth wrote it. Where is Wild Horse basin?" Sorley pointed to the north. Up in the high hills, back thataway. Say, how would the girl know where he was heading for?" She might have heard him aay or Kansas may have told her before he waa killed. Likely Kansas made some move to help her. Morg wouldnt have shot him if be hadnt figured the other feUow was turning against him. Lets get going." Tor Wild Hors basin? "Yes. I have a hunch the girl did that writing. Morg never would have thought of it Sorley looked down at the dead man. 1 hate not to bury him before we go, even if be was a scalawag. But weve got to Jump. It will be night soon." They carried the body into the cabin and covered it with two line-ride- e -' end cold. here." Be pc abed through the a mile. Morg to get him. You get you a horse and with one of the posset. if a doggoned good against a few year in Yuma." brisk fee. bad better trail along YouD find insurance the pen at CHAPTER X Jeff Gray had to fight down an impulse to hurry. It would be folly to wear out the horses getting to the Walsh cabin, only to find out that Kansas bad tent them on a e chase. After all. the man waa one of the gang. What more likely than that, under instruction of Norris, he had been trying to direct the pursuit in the wrong direction when he freed Nelly? With a heavy heart Jeff admitted to himself that this waa very likely a Job that could not be done in a hurry. He might Dave to sleep on Norris traD for a week. The fellow knew every pocket in these hills. If Kansas were they might not find the putlaws wild-goos- gun-nyaac- The riders followed the traD left by Norris and his prisoner. Once out of the park, Sorley waited only to make sure of the direction taken by those in front of them. He struck into the hills, dipping across gulches and winding round the shoulder of elephant humps. Tha country grew wilder and more rugged. Sometimes they were in a region of at alL More often the hills The two men traveled steadily, stunted pines. scarred with rock and were dry Sorley in the lead. The little Irishman was e good guide. Be had an outcroppings. From the summits range Instinct for short cuts, end he held they could see a his horse to the fastest gait that would not sap its strength. They flung the miles behind them, moving always deeper and deeper into the farther?" Gray asked A new ice age, the third, in geogrim once, his mouth set to logic history, is being indicated by straight slit Not 10 far, Sorley answered. measured risings of parts of the Thats Crowfoot over to the left eastern hemisphere, according to Prof. F. X Schaffer of toe UniverWere swingin round It now." mounthe of back circled sity of Vienna, writes a Berkeley, They tain, dropped into a gulch, and Calif., United Pres correspondent Dr. Schaffer, who is an internaclambered up its atony bed. Near the tpp of the canyon Sorley stopped tionally known geologist, said that exhaustive measurements taken at his horse. The cabin is m a little park Just Stockholm show that to the last 50 over the ridge," he said. What do years Sweden has risen about eight we do? Bust right down on them? Inches, while similar measurements In Finland show that that country weltlll its dark? has risen 10 inches to S4 years. Better have a look first An increase to the altitude of a the ridge,1 Grey suggested. declared Schaffer, or below continent, They left their horses Just to Up of the park, climbed up to vest n portion of a continent by 000 feet lowers the the ledge, and locked down. No approximately temperature by on average annual nere bouse. moke rose from the We know that were no horses to the corral, but on degree, centigrade. addled bronco was grazing near a decrease to toe present temperature of Scandinavia by about three the spring. Sordegrees centigrade would (tart a been here, have sure They glaciation to Europe ai big aa that done gone, have But they ley said. of the Quarternary, to which period and to some hurry, looks like. Didnt ice age took place. even take time to unsaddle. Why-fo- r the last the last period of During horses of the one did they leave to ice covered here? of toe present area of conti-nent- s. one-filt- h someat down Gray was looking Before that time man bad the thing sprawled out to front of two appeared on toe eastern hemisphere cabin. They didnt need but and ha moved south ahead of the harsh his volca horses. be aald. false-cardin- g, saw-tooth- WNU SERVICE lifting its crest into S'Sky of violet haze. Behind a crotch of the hills the sun waa setting. Already dusk She haa brought crowd to the thehad softened the vivid tints of oraters where ahe haa appeared, and motion picture ex ange and scarlet to a taint pink glow. Night soon would sift down hlbltora have told upon too highlands. her that It hasnt Tha pursuers dropped down into been their fault to basin, cams to a little stream that they havent tumbling down through the rocks. shown her picture!. Sorley pulled up his horse. Theyve begged for "No use going any farther," he them. Any picture aid. Got to wait till we can tee. that she ia in makes AD wed do Is get lost If w kept money for them, it traveling. seemi, no matter who else appears Gray read toe despondency in to old voice. He understood with her. It because his own heart was tick. But you Just What Pat said was true. They might s, havent been as well throw off and make eamp. tog any Miss Pitts, Theres on thing," he said. If they aald to her. There a good reason why Miss toey came here, Norris would camp on a creek. Pitts hasnt been making picture, Maybe on this one, since its the first be would come to these last months. A number of in toe basin. You fix up something other actors, also big onea, havent to eat while I drift up along toe been making pictures either. Not bank for a ways." that ahe hasn't been offered roles Sure," Pat answered hopelessly. that she really wanted to play. But the companies who sent for her Wont do any harm." The younger man swung from the wanted to cut her salary to toe saddle and turned his horse over to bone. These days the big money is Reckon TU make better likely, it seems, to go to newSorley. comers to the screen foreign Imon time foot, be decided. The stars were pricking out ot toe portations, cute girls who are being outlines built up. Some of the big players Black, .shadowy sky. marked where the hill boundaries have to swallow their pride, and do, had been. In to vast emptiness and take the cut; others stay off the screen. Maybe that'a why you've Jeff had an acute aense of insignifibeen missing some of your favorcance. He was an atom In an Immense universe. His will to do held ites. Miss Pitta haa tw opportunities no more potency than that of 00 to make her debut la New Yerk as of tha trout in this rippling stream. aa actress; one to a musical shew Ha pushed through the brush tor of Ha authors, is praca half a mile or more. Abruptly he that, because to be a hit, the other to In front of blm. two or tically sure topped. husband and chilthree hundred yards distant, was a a play. If hera weren't dren firmly established light which ha knew must com In California ahe wouldnt hesltato from a campfire. A not gladness about accepting one. poured through his blood. Swiftly, with as little rustling as Remember passing mention that ha moved toward to posslbla, was made here some time ago of camp. It was in an open place, Charlie Chaplin's new screen find, close to the bank ot toe stream. On He had seen toe edge of the clearing, as Jeff Dorothy Comingore? in a little theater performance her drew near, he mad out toe vague shadow of horses. Two figures were seated by the fire. He beard to murmur of a voice. Gray crept forward 'with more cart. There was no Immediate hurat his ry. Norria sat ease. He had no faintest suspicion that there waa any friend of Ruth Chiswick within a score of miles. Ha waa talking. The Blur of his mocking speech came to Jeff before toe words. I sure picked a fine spot for our honeymoon, sweetheart, be Jeered. A million candles In yore bedroom, honey. Id say you were in hick I picked you up. Some break for you to get me instead of that pink-ea- r Lou Howard. The girl a bead was low. Jeff could see she was sobbing. Her courage bad washed out. There could be no help in heaven or on earth for her now, the must b line-ride- rs mak-plcture- cross-legge- d thinking. Norria rose, stretched himself, and yawned, his arms above his head. The mans evil smile looked down on her. He opened his mouth to apeak, but words were frozen on his Ups. From out of the brush cam a chill crisp order. Keep yore arms right up where they are. Norris." The figure of the outlaw grew rigid. A man was coming out of tha scrub, revolver in hand. Dont make any mistake," Gray ordered, or It will be yore last. He moved toward the outlaw (lowly. Fragments of thoughts raced chaotically through tha brain ot toe bad man. Ha yielded to a desperate impulse end dived back of this fire, dragging et his gun. (TO BE CONTINUED) Geologist Sees Third Ice Age in Next Two Thousand Years Period gla-elatl- one-four- th By Virginia Valehas been ZASU PITTS a lot of fun on her personal appearance tour, and has learned a good many things about her own box office value. ice untQ he reached Africa, where he was secure. A study of the deposits left by glaciers to Sweden shows that the flow started northward some 2,000 years ago. In other words, it took tot Ice 5,000 years to recede to its present limits in the polar areas, where it has remained for 7,000 years. At last, however, signs indicate that It is again getting ready to move southward, and unless those signs should fall It should start with. to the next 2,000 years. oncoming Flrat Color af Freech Flag While it is not usual to associate red with the French monarchy, it was really the first color of to kings flag, called to oriflamm. It is only because red was also adopted by the English king that tha French gave it up for blue. It was under the blue flag that Huguenots came to America first as loyal subjects of the king of France. However, toe red flag was preserved on the galleys of the Mediterranean fleet where terrible suffering waa endured by-tunhappy men, who could not understand to injustice at ' the king. oo Teeth 1M,M Years Old Foss lized teeth estimated to he 100,000 years old, found to the mysterious Sterkfonteln 'caves, near Krugersdorp, South Africa, arc believed to have belonged to, a prehistoric South African tlose vnha mlsi-tolink. The owner probably lived on -- the meat of primitive elephants and had toe sabre-toot-h tiger as an enemy. Fossilized skulls indicate the Krugersdorp caveman waa nearer to man than to the chimpanzee to Intelligence. Sterkfontein caves extend four miles underground. In them a subterranean river flows no one knows where. Whea a Moslem Prays When a Moslem prays, at five certain times each day, he not only has to assume 1? various postures to their proper order but he also haa to recite toe particular set of prayers designated for the specific hour and repeat them the prescribed number of times. Furthermore, says Colliers Weekly, any pandering of the eyea or mind, or sneering or coughing vitiates the prayer and the worshiper has to start over again." Origin of Word Mausoleum Artemisia II, a queen of Carla, who flourished about 350 B. C., was the sister and wife of Mausolus, whose death ahe lamented deeply, and to whom she' erected, to her capital Halicarnassus, a monument reckoned among the seven wonders of the world. From the tomb of Mausolus is derived the word Bilateral, Multilateral Treaty In Its simplest terms, a bilateral treaty ia an agreement or contract between two governments with respect to certain matters of mutual interest multilateral treaty A la one that has been signed and effected aa between three or more governments and deals with matters of more or less common interest to aD of them. Terratta Lang ia Use Terrazzo was old before this country was discovered. It was known to and used extensively by the early Venetiani, and many patterns designed by them are copied. Not only la terrazzo used as a flooring, but it also Is employed in a number of other ways in construction. Barring Out tha Schoolmaster An old custom to England ot students locking out the schoolmaster The most was known as barrlng-ou- l typical example of toe practice was at Bromfield school Cumberland, er the Ttudents st the beginning -of Lent excluded toe master from toe school for three days. During tola period the school doors were locked and toe boya armed with mock weapons. On the third day term ot capitulation, usually to Latin verse, were signed and the boys celebrated with gamea or a cockfight The custom was long retained at Eton and figures In many school stories. r Half Mas tin( toe Flag The custom of lowering the flag to half-maIn honor of the dead is laid to have arisen from the old naval and military practice of lowering the flag in time ot war aa a sign of submission. Spanish shipi to the Seventeenth century displayed the as a signal of disflag at half-matress. . Captain Smiths Seamans Grammar as early aa 1627 makes reference to the flying ot a flag at half-maas a sign of mourning. -- st The Early Railway Trains Passengers on the first trains that crawled along the track usually expected a derailment or two before they .reached their destination. At least one derailment between stops seemed to be part ot the trip, but the iron horses were chugging along too alowly for a mere derailment to cause any damage. Explored Shenandoah Park far as records show, John Lederer waa the first white man to set foot upon that region of toe Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia now preserved as the Shenandoah National park. Details of hla Journeying are related In The Discoveries of John Lederer, March, 1669, to September, 1670. So First Official Surveys The first official surveys of the country were made by Peter Jefferson. father of Thomaa Jefferson. He was employed by Lord Fairfax to survey his vast holding ceded under toe royal grant as far as the headwaters of the Rapidan, Potomac and Rappahannock rivers. Yields of the Field Earl Title of Nobility a title of nobility The name Earl, of Middle English origin, means a nobleman. But the Teutonic origin of the word gives tt the meaning "of keen intelligence." Its use as a givennamls "comparatively Wailtog Wall Since toe destruction of Solomons temple In Jerusalem to 70 A. D., the dew that condenses on the Walling WaD has been considered, by superstitious people, to be tears shed to sympathy with the Jewish mourners, says Collier 1 Weekly, Dew Palace af Neptune and Court When approaching the Belgian coast by sea at night toe myriad reflections of lights give toe effect that a huge city of light lies at the bottom of the sea toe palaces of Neptune and his court. It is estimated that on the average, a field will yield HO pounds of straw for every bushel of wheat, 70 pounds of straw for each bushel of oatt, and 60 pounds of stover and pounds of cobs for each bushel of corn. 14 Greenlands Greatest Elevation e Along the east coaat, to an region, are many high mountains. The Petermann Spitze, near toe ahore of Franz Josef Fjord, is estimated at 11,000 feet in height, and ice-fre- Is considered the highest mountain to Greenland. ( Language of the Face As toe language of the face is universal so tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it; tia the shorthand of toe mind, and crowd a great deal In a little room. Jeremy Collier. Fish Builds Neat The stickleback fish builds a Lakes to Alberta Province Lakes In Alberta Province, nest FREDR1C MARCH at where he had gone to work out toe script of a new picture. Just to case you have wondered what happened next, she has changed her name to Linda Winters, and youD see her to Trade Winds with Joan Bennett and Fredric March. Here's a chance to see if you agree with the great I comedian on what constitutes good screen material Carmel-by-the-Se- a, PINTS CCSEK3.253 When you see "The Great Waltz youU see some lovely bite of scenery used aa background, American scenery to Geneseo, N. Y. The reason is that Richard Rotson, Metro director, lived there for a while when he waa a boy; now hes back in the old home town, shooting it for the public. Cal Tlnney has had such ftm on the air with hit If I Had toe Chance broadcasts that hes been in the stutackling his dio and quisling them about their hidden ambitions. Fred Allen aald hed like to run a grocery store to a small town to Maine, and Jack Benny declared that hed like to be a racing driver, and find out what Its like to tear across the salt flats at Bonneville, Utah, at 350 miles per hour. Aa for Cal himself, his suppressed desire Isnt so hard to attain; he Just wants to learn to play too piano. ODDS AND ENDS Creree im't up to the urnal RogeruAstairo standard . , . Jon Hall too naked back from Nesc York to Hollywood in order to be tent to England to mako Tha Thief of BagdadT ... Sing You Sinners v SltNDED ; IraxkVokt V )iTim:uiKs, BY1 4 c J I x I rxC.O IHOWATE D. is tuch a good picture that if s a hit in London first time thats happened to a Crosby picture and Paramount will make a sequel to it . . . Thr Voice of took e vocation that included a tour of Oregon and a visit to Joe E. Broun in Hollywood, end now is back in New York and on the air . . . Remember Asta, the dog in The Thin Man" and its sequel f . . . You'll see him soon with Constance Bennett in Topper Teket e Trip . . . Spencer Tracy has another grand part in Boys Tourn." C Western Newspaper Union. Experience ' 1 (I v 1 (jjSH? Jl!" Ti Frankfort Distilleries, Ine Louisville and Baltimore r 1 |