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Show V THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION i,&bkz:XAmericn Mould Head TERNS SEWDNG CIRCLE Matching aeti for divan and chain ma ba made from tranifer ZS333, u eenla Inca It la one of tha naw Improved hoi Iron tranifen which will a tamp mon thar onca. Thla could alao ba uacd for an buffet act. Sand your order to: and comfy, all summer long. This trio is sweet in percale, gingham, linen, seersucker. AUNT MABTKA Baa Kaaaaa city, Mo. Xncloaa IS centa for each pattern daalrad. Pattern No. Name Addreaa Transfer ISS-- Beating Defeat Z9333 KJ S5, WWW1. STORY INSTALLMENT SO PAH: Mora lhaa ses,sw loralca troopa whlck kU beta eraUy Iraaaported to Mexico nddcsly luvadeA tha Uaito Stetoa. Ihuih,.., OBecr Busing had dlieavered their Pinna whfla a apy In Mexico CUy when Sc had gained tha eoaAdenee ot Flacks forcco bd by Van Hauek poshed re- lentlessly forward. His troops wero vast, fr perlor la sombers and equipment to tho Amerleao forces which opposed him. Betoralog to New York, n -i- CHAPTER XV Ccn tinned The boat bobbed icroia the Benning decided that Bravot muct be headed back for come rendezvoua In New York, a part of some crafty maneuver to cover hia littered trail. In that event Benning decided to atrike in the dark-nea-a the instant the launch reached chore. A few minutea later the launch awerved aharply out of its eourac and ilowed down. Benning aaw the maaiive ahadow of a ahlp looming over his head. A voice called down from above. Bravot got to his feet, edged hia way to the bow. A boatman made tha launch fast to the chip's ladder. One by one the paaiengera swung onto the ladder and were swallowed up by the night. Go ahead, Bromlitzl a voice commanded when Benning hesitated. Fincke caught Benninga arm, gently forced him forward. Benning made a swift estimate as he stood in Indecision. Quickly he saw that but one course lay ahead. In the bobbing little boat he knew be would stand no chance if he put up a light for poaseasion of the craft As for swimming ashore, even the atrongeat swimmer could not expect success that set the earth shaking under them. In apite of hell and high water! he concluded as the room cleared of vibrations. It'll take me day to straighten out this tangle and it'll only take Van Hassck a few hours to run up hero with his motorized and mechanized outfits! "General Hague probably has told you. sir, Flagwill said, that we've got to hold on fills line. The country is in an uproar and everyone in Washington, sir, feels we've got to have victory. Sure we've got to hold! Lannes But don't forget that fifty raged. thousand men are fifty thousand soldiers only when they're shaken down, organized, supplied, and ready to fight The Army commander stalked to a wall map and pointed to his dispositions and immediate plan ot action. "Mole is taking an artillery lacing at this minute, which means attack i him at daybreak. With the reinforcements Ive sent up, he must hold on the Colorado as long si possible. Then he's got to fight delaying actions and make another desperate stand behind the Brazos. Somehow Mole must delay Van His-e- k at least three days, maybe for a week, until I can get In shape to take the enemy on here In front of Dalles. It's going to cost us a lot in that feat tonight ,1 Pattern FIFTEEN and Bravot, Iwt way oBlccn, hut his waralass bag com onhoeded. rorcito har-bo- r; "The world wants the kind ol a protective chair set who do not shrink back from men waterlily this graceful Vith The leavea and stems are temporary defeats in life, but Ita appliqued in green; pastel come again and wrest triumph Theodore Roosebrown are from defeat. i and a basket of velt. ered. fat the Benning swung to the ladder and mounted to the deck. Cloae behind him came Fincke. On the deck there wai a glow of light from an I Short World is not long. The created world incandescent Inside the Austrian toned oft hia Think not thy time is short in I is but a small parenthesis in depcoat and stretched himself. Hia face th world, since the world Itself nity. Sir Thomas Browne. now was exuberant Hlmmd, but what a comfort Bromlitzl he exclaimed with a vast sigh of relief. "Now a fellow can taka a free breath. , Fincke paused to give Benning a knowing wink. What does it matter if were over a cargo of high explosives, eh, Bromlitx? Itll not blow up until we give the command and that'll play the biggest card in tha whole Van Hasaek deck! Cheer up, Bromlitx, In ten days from now you'll be back with your girl in Mexico City! Now it waa all to clear to Fincke at last had vitalized the meaning of this cruise, the reason for his own restless misapprehensions. This ship, with its cargo of explosives, clearing New York San Francisco, waa with papers part of an Intricately laid plot to destroy tha Panama Canal and strip the Atlantic seaboard of the protection of tha United States fleet ait-ti- Ben-nin- g. to CHAPTEB XVI Take your hands sff my coat. General Hague nervously paced of men, Flagwill a lot of men! But the floor of his office deapite the I want you to go out and see the end foil situation to yourself long days of driving toil and anxiety that had drained hia energies to Hague why I'm forced info these the point of exhaustion. The last desperate delaying actions out In troop trains had moved south with front! An hour of patient driving put the force of fifty thousand men that waa to atop Van Hasaek on the Fort Flagwill down tha Armys projected Worth-Dalla- a line. But report from front Whole regiments stood about the south shook him with new mis- in the dawn, still waiting for orders givings and he had sent for Colonel and supplies. The men were tired and hungry. Shortage of ammunition Fla gw ill. Young Benning got away this was general even in the infantry. Cat H You cronoc A4rf drikMy fm fmh orangt iM needs note up" vitamin C in your body.Thats why yon and do feel and your bad each day 80 help you look supply It' hud lo gee enough unless you have an abundance of cteua fiuin. emea But if. wywith orange juke-- an eacellcnf,aftwouKe! Eightvaluable an applies all die vitamin C yon normally need cad day-pand odier mineral. of vitamim A, Bi and G; tmdemaikedSunkht Enjoy a BIG glam evety morning. Mike it with t. IOOOcotyeratingCtliibmia-Arixooagrowethe from Onngtr, net BetfirJain-oo- A n mi molc Emy aw Mm KmUfwM-CM- B, MB obier-vatio- 1l" W.W AS, CALIFORNIA (D3Q3E Qui unm AisBe od' Womaaim's Streams LPPMypa knew that one aisle of one floor in one store 'terything jrou needed to purchase! Suppose that on that aisle rt yon could buy household clothing, thrilling gifts for bride, graduate, 0w, ?uc1 wfihing that would save I How much time, e tnd fretful shopping you would be spared I what advertisements in this paper can do bring all the needa of your daily life into review . ;?a' ne. conven,ent place. Shop from your with tha sbreast of bargains, instead of chas ine til,rertlie,nents'. SP?nd time in your newspaper to upb time and "u,ney in the stores. neces-sma- toy-trc,- essy-chai- r, morning for Mexico City, didn't he? Fla fwill's face, dropped. "Sorry. General Benning has vanished in thin air. Not a word from him all day. General missing? "Benning "That Hague scowled incredulity. doesn't aound like Benning. 1 authorized him to follow a Van Hasaek agent aboard a Norwegian tramp freighter, thinking we'd get a haul of spiel. A destroyer overhauled the' boat last night after it Bailed, only to find Benning waa not aboard as planned. The ship's seen captain claimed not to have Benning. resembling anyone "Nothing should have prevented Running's flight to Mexico City. "All Flagwill, Hague complained.soon." he up 'urns let' nope i right, Flagwill drove at once to Bolling n Field where a fast new 047 shortplane put hint in the air ly before dusk. Seven hours later, aa the plane approached Dallas, a radio warning told the pilot to avoid tha Dallai airport and put down at south an emergency landing-fiel- d ol the city. The savage winws u detonation bombs caught FlagwiU'a eye as hi No soonplana drove past the city. to a stop in roared hia had er plane the emergency field than his ears bomrang with tha bedlam ofA air offstall bardment over Dallas. was icer from Army headquarters waiting for him. Dallas and Fort Worth are takthe ing an awful beating tonight," forced "Were officer reported. stall to detrain troops and Impedimenta a north of tha city. An hour ago bomber registered on one of our hundred men troop trains three pretty bad killed. Things ere in Jam here, air. Til ba frank with you, Flagwilll General Lannes said in a peppery, If Yen Haa-aeoverwrought voice. sizes up thla mess and bite ua Third promptly, he'll roll up my ein apltArmy Lannes voice was drowned by bomb the mighty crash of a heavy k! k I Ammunition was reported available at the railhead, but the railhead was swamped with demands and there were insufficient truck trains at present for all purposes. As the sun shot over the horizon, Flagwill turned back to the Lannes command post. Squadrons ot American combat planes bad combed the air of Van Hassek'i night hawks and the day had quieted down to a rumble of artillery column! and hum of friendly planes. Given a day or two, Flagwill concluded. the hastily assembled Third Army would shake itself down. American ingenuity somehow would overcome the shortages of supplies, motor vehicles, the obsolescent organization tables, the staffs' outmoded weapons, the of highlack of training in team-pla- y er unite. At least the officers had sound academic training in the science of war. General Lannes. nia face flushed and harried, hia eyes distended, sat telefeverishly nt the end of a field the phone a Flagwill command post After a staccato, fretted exchange he hung up the receiver .nd got to his feet. "Van Hassck is driving at Mole with everything hes got this morthe regning!' Lannes roared. "Only iments I tent up to him last night cracked up kept Mole from being he'll be Say thia morning. early God. nine. My on till hold to lucky to cost is mess going this Flagwill us five thousand men, maybe ten I" saw he By eight o'clock. Mole could hold no longer. Ghaatly losses were multiplying, his flanks were threatened. Now the American air iff the service held the supremacy iff air Immediately over the heads Mole'a troops, which made possible iff daylight the dangerous operation withdrawal Tm Lannes I now, pulling out of hero he shouted fiercely over NEXT WEEK D O NT MISS III a detpento Denning formulate! tho elan to worn tho V. S. army of hre miuion. Almoti tho trill ho bottlei in ifte V. S. sucttedt-b- ul Pacific unleu ho W CAN fet hot No. yr 811 00 Is designed In all 1 1 3Hnch ma! . terial without nap; 5U yards braid. For this attractive pattern, send your order to: earthed vail epy rin,. Bcaalsg coo tinned to am ae n friend when ho unexpectedly met Flncko la Watkins ton, nd accompanied him on s myitetlom mletioa which Ieoh Uwm aboard a emaU total In tho New York harbor. Now continue with tho story. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 148 New Montgomery Ave. Saa Francisco r.m Endooo U cents In coins for Pattern No.. Size.. ...... Nome Address the field telephone. "I can't hold another minutel I hope you have urong reinforcements for me at file Brazos." All right Mole, use your cwn judgment Lannes retorted. "But no matter what it costs, weve got to delay Van Hassek until I can get my Third Army ready to stop him!" JUST A DASH IN FEATHERS CHAPTEB XVII Benning woke from a brief fretful sleep and went to a porthole. Thera was bright sun rising across a smooth sea. He calculated from the speed of the freighter that tha craft must be well down the coast iff Virginia, perhaps of? North Carolina and not far from Cape For a time last night he had flirted with the desperation of jumping overboard on the chance ct making shore. Now ha had given up hopes of being rescued by the Navy. He was mulling at the porthole when figure passed along the boat deck close to his eyes. The fellow wore a black mustache, dark hornrimmed glasses; his clothes were seedy and his shoulders sagged. But the profile was not to be mistaken. You knew Bravot waa aboard?" Benning said to Fincke. The Austrian hotly admonished, Dont talk so much, Bromlitzl How many times have I got to tell you not to mention names? "I thought we were clear ct all that trouble," Benning retorted. Not with a brand-necrew on the boat We still got to watch our tongues. "You think these sailors arent Brevet's men? Just use your bean, Bromlitz. bailors wouldn't hardly sign up to get blown to hell if they knew the acore. I presume," Benning sneered, the captain and crew dont even know what their cargo is? The skipper knows, and a few of his good men. For two years Schmolz has been laying hia plana for Just this cruise. The door of their cabin banged suddenly open. A chunky man with a squarish, rough-hewleering face swaggered in. The fellow wore a dirty cotton suit end an officers cap, and bristled with authority and short temper. "Who are you two? he demanded, searching first Flncke's face, then Benning. The Van Hassek spy leaped to his feet and gave the identification formula. Benning was more leisurely in rising to identify himself. He guessed that the intruder was Schmolz, skipper of the ship. 1 don't like your looks I the fellow blurted, fixing Benning with glinting green eyes. Dont worry about him, Captain," Fincke promptly intervened. "He's a major the two of us been working together in the United States. Schmolz rubbed a cauliflowered ear ruminatively and gave Benning a parting glare in which there was mingled distrust and dislike. Major or no major, there's something about your looks I don't like, be grumbled. Their noon meal was brought in by an American deckhand, Grimes. After luncheon, Fincke went out on deck for exercise. With the complication of Bravot's presence on the ship, Benning knew he must keep to cover during daylight Also that be must strike against the Van Hassek spymaster without delay if he expected to survive this cruise for many days. Benning sweltered in the torrid little cabin through an insufferable day. With foil darkness he examined the mechanism of his automatic pistol and went out on deck. As he suspected, Bravot was living in the captains quarters. Looking in the porthole he saw Bravot sitting alone on his berth, hia face cold and imperturbable as he listened to the news from the Texas front Blare ot the radio blotted out other sounds on the deck end Benning was not conscious ot the figure driving down on him along the dimly lighted deck until stout fingers closed on the lapel of his cosL He turned to see Schmolz glaring at him out of eyes that seethed with rage. Benning "See here, Schmolz I shot back hotly. "Im not one of hands your deckhands. Take your off my coat! If you object to imy listening to the war news over your order radio, why don't you post an to that effect?" "Liaten all you want to, Schmolz mumbled, cooling perceptibly at the colrebuff and releasing Henning's lar. But keep away from in front of my stateroom after thte. I dont allow nobody to do that As Schmolz swaggered Into his room with a muttered Imprecation, Benning returned to his cabin. For soma time Benning waited in tense readineii for eventuality. He knew that if Schmolz communicated hia suspicion to Bravot, prompt and to disastrous inveatigation wai aura follow. (TO BE CONTINUED) ORjSPREAD ONiROOSTS Inwardly Borne Great joys, like great griefs, are silent Marmion. Hat-tera- s. t TN ONE pattern, sunspit, frock A and bonnet are all included. Even if she's only two, she can frock all put on the front-buttby herself; the plain neckline and ruffly wing sleeves will be cool HOTEL on BOISE It Cost Whistler Topper BOISE, IDAHO To Appease Swinburne The artist Whistler had just enLargest sad finest hotel In Idaho. Two handred beautl-foll- y tered tiie London Arts dub, when an alarming uproar broke forth. appointed room. Only It came from the coatroom. Hasfireproof hotel la Boise. 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