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Show T"E BULLETIN, BINGHAM. UTAH XIMMRU mm GRANVILLE QNCEpft CHURCH I' w.n.u. service 'JZOi TAI -- to FAR: Jeff CurUi and SPlllV "- ,- their way to Tierra Sift, receives a note Irom them not to eome. Raaed!'l ',Jerry Mclnnls that S w j m een mutieTei anl Table) chief enjlneer for a tt Jeff has been caUed 5 Y(Wal ' ttey arrive ta T,err 50 y l's ti,CTt ' Iometh,n ated.th( 0. Jeff and Lee meet 6 Tet '., employer, and go with Proved uejo where Montaya teUi W scan, rt Mitchell has "committed mt Jeff nor Lee believes Jfcy t ui'ld' Zorl1' to'7 , the type to commit ITffi mpct MonUy 01 r" I'fS Mit of knowing about : fleaHl. m at er lus,)an,,, UT jug HITH THE STORT And if you should Interest yourself In the case, you might perhaps In-vi- te a similar fate, no?" Mpntaya put an end to the sub-Je- ct With an apologetic flash of teeth 'I cannot risk that Engineering work is behind schedule. I need you to very badly, Mr. Curtis." The next hour was spent in meet-In- g key workers of the general staff, persons with whom Curt would have frequent contact. It was a whirlwind tour. The bulk of employees, numbering fifty to six-ty, were Americans, with a sprin-kling of Britishers and other Euro-peans. Then said Montaya, "This is the best time of day for you to meet Dr. dumpy, bearded man had, he'd sold Montaya on It pretty solidly. At last, as final courtesies were being said, the worthy doctor let down the bars. He asked with what could best be described as a cun-ning look, "You blay gribbage. ja?" Cribbage?" Curt laughed. "Sure. I know the game." "Goot We blay sometime, la?" "Certainly." Montaya explained as they left the laboratory. "Dr- - Toenjes' one regret here Is that he has no good opponent at his favorite game." He smiled po-litely. "He is very good at it. I hope, Mr. Curtis, you will be able to stand up to him." Curt chuckled. "If I can't, I'll sic' my wife onto him. She can play the game backwards and forwards." He added, with another chuckle, "If he'll comb out his beard first." Their final stop was the engineer-ing office, a one-stor- y structure, square like the laboratory. It occu-pied the corner between the general offices and the clubhouse, thus com-pleting the layout of principal com-pany buildings about the square and balancing the community center. Here Curt was introduced to his own staff. It was now midmorning. Three draftsmen were at work, two at detail drawings, the third on maps. One room was reserved for the field men when they came to San Alejo to submit their progress reports. There was a dark-room- , and a big vault containing records and master charts. From photo-static machine down to electric erasers the equipment throughout was ultra-moder- Curt's own office was airy, light, cool, with both desk and big table Toenjes. Later he is likely to be in the field." Using a handy phone he called for the laboratory, and when he got his connection spoke in French. "French?" queried Curt, as the other hung up. "I thought the name was Dutch." Montaya smiled perfunctorily. "Oh, Dr. Toenjes also speaks Span-ish and English after a fashion. He is more successful with French. You do not, then, speak French?" As Curt shook his head, "I thought not. He will use English with you:" The Agricultural Department oc-cupied an adjacent building, filling a corner left by the administra-tion building and the hospital. Mon-taya pushed on through the outer office, vacant except for a young man typing cards, and on to a door at the rear. In the huge working laboratory there was shelf upon shelf, and row upon row, of carefully labeled boxes and jars. Along one side of the room a number of steel flline cabi. ywK , --I ,was a new day at San Xirf ind cool and clean at m abi jtter what the blazing ' else bring later. Even the being srfoot was toned up by hard. Curt swung along for isley. ointment with Montaya. should have been toned a the tangy air so much lllf mrning a nome bu l is to Lee just now he'd I i cker between her eyes I III ;ois ears. I a be worrying about mmmK' ta," he'd told her. "I it doesn't sound like her, jf ft seen her for six years vf gth of time will work if! my of us." 'A er little girl I was think- - Q i bad answered him so-- f jit about her." 0 I t his way to Montaya's , j ,? ceilinged room pan on which to spread out his papers, a swivel chair between, a handy upright rack for rolls of blueprints. But the one thing which instantly took his attention was the huge aeri-al photographic map of the C. A. T. tract permanently framed against the wall. Here was something! Montaya led the way across the room, to tap proudly with his finger tips. "I'd never have gotten my planting under way without this." This map showed a rough triangle of about 20,000 hectares, or 50,000 acres. The Quebrado Mountains formed the western boundary. Along the south and east flowed the Masica River, joining the turbulent, unruly Rio Negro, the northern boundary, just below the rise of land where stood Tempujo. No buildings and no engineering work showed on the map. It had been made before any preliminary work had been done. But it gave Curt an instant picture of the en-tire project; of the drainage neces-sary to clear the huge swamp, dot-ted with stands of jungle; of the levees necessary to hold back the rivers; of the best terrain for spur tracks to feed the farms. "The Negro is a wild stream that requires taming," said Montaya. "We work on that now. Along here," he indicated with a pointer taken from a rack beside the map, "we make a twenty-three-fo- levee. Your most important job, Mr. Cur-tis, is to see that it is completed within the next five months. On Qtr .nished in unvarnished ott'j An Impression of cool- - psbui seightened by Venetian nmon ipass rug. Us if t to the point before cyof aya could broach busi- - kkjff aid, suggestively, "The i Mitchell's death wa a nf i shock to us to my wife mm $ i looked at him in silence It words needed elabora- - we should hardly have yjj :cide of Zora Mitchell, p u she was leaving a ior I expect it." The senor se ii statement as a sort of ites i He fumbled among pa- - :akc; iesk, bringing forth two tle. (envelopes. ike spread several pho- - i lire Curt. They showed, T 3 at angles, Zora Mitchell T v to a bamboo "pea- - II I ; her head at a curious 1 I was a bullet-hol- e in :jle, and blood had run flij ad, coagulated, stained re ej bwiti land, hanging over the M chair, held a gun Curt lioi l a Luger. A Luger! 3 instantly. Funny I .use get that? jti how Mitchell had al- - ml 4 Colt .45 against all il'm :tso' small arms. raestion forced itself on ffif Why hadn't the physi- - mmmmm "SBtMsWMBasslBSIafafjTStaTsTM flMtiM Si "Ah, but it is sad about her. Poor little thing." nets stood in a straight line. On the work tables were odd-shap-vessels alembics, glass funnels, re-torts. Dr. Toenjes, below medium height, in a dirty linen laboratory smock, proved a colorless individual. In-deed, with his d face and careless dress he looked fair prey for a caricaturist Near-sighte- he wore thick-lens- e spectacles which gave him a bug-eye- d appearance. The first words were conventional greeting. Then: "Your shipment of ah, chemicals at Cabeza aroused Mr. Curtis' curi-osity yesterday," Montaya said. "I told him such questions were your special province." Geniality left the bearded face. Hostile gray eyes bored through the thick lenses into Curt. "You ver vonce vith der beebles across der riffer?" asked the Dutch-man. I J bora's fingers and f imp the gun? foe case of her hus- - l iino chance to obtain J i the ground. The ' Wed to Tempujo. But Z kst we could. I had ,t. f econd envelope Mon- - L out these sketches, and J map marked with an "i holographs of the body !CH ;,he "at handcar. iPf was held, of course, ia tase of Mrs. Mitchell. "T :tldents were quite prop-- :y our local police. We I andancia here, another li jes and the map were I 'the photographs . . . 1 lip one of them. The j sickening, the body mutilated beyond recog-- ? of the cuts were clean, j something about these Cabell in Curt's mind. I didn't at once click that I gamble 8,000 acres of plant-ing! "The Masica will hardly worry us this year. In fact, since the ah, unfortunate happening to Mr. Mitch-ell, I have halted work on the Masi-ca levee and put those machines on the Negro levee. Flooding of the Masica will not endanger pres-ent planting. "Along this line," he indicated with the pointer, "is our main canal. Already it has drained several thou-sand acres. Here will be secondary ditches. But we have so much to do, yes, so many laterals to dig. The canals in the upper half of the tract must also be completed be-fore the rains come. "Now, we have four draglines and a three-yar- d shovel and 6,000 la-borers at work on the engineering projects ..." This wasn't even the beginning. More and more Curt realized he'd stepped into a man-siz- e job. And with people who knew where they were going what they wanted and how to go about getting it. "Who made this map?" "Mr. Ryden and Mr. Lannestock," was the answer. "In a plane I chartered especial for the purpose, a year before I was ready to start work. It takes long to secure a concession, to plan. It is good work, no? They are competent young men. That is why I am so happy now to have them under contract. "Bueno. Here are progress re-ports on the Negro levee, the main drainage system, and the railroad. You will wish to look them over, but you will be brief agout it, no? Directly after lunch we shall start on an inspection tour of the val-ley. For this we shall take the rest of today and tomorrow, so you will bring what personal articles you need for overnight In the meantime, I have much to do my-self . " Curt hardly noticed Montaya's He even forgot the wor-ries in the back of his mind. What a jobl The best equipment to work with, a challenge to meet, with the next' season's rainfall the deadline. He swelled to the task, his eyes shone. He could have stood for hours before that map. Noon rolled around all too sooa (TO BE CONTINUED) Curt nodded, smiled. Montaya s deprecation of the doctor's English hadn't been an exaggeration. "Six years ago. I know Panama disease has shown up with them and that they've tried treatment for it It was a simple question I put. The quantity of lime landed on the docks" "Ah, ja. It iz trrooth I use der lime but alzo der Oder chemicals. Vat I use iz my zegred. Der bana-an- a pla-a- nt vill be der more healthy und vigorous from my chemical treatment ufl der soil, und so ve combat der fungi more better as vet Den vill ve haflf der reechest g in Tierra Libre." If Dr. Toenjes did have a miracu-lous cheap compound for soil treat-ment, something to allay the dread-ed fungus disease, something with which Associated could rejuvenate their used lands, then there was good reason for guarding the secret "You still haff frriends ofer der Negro vith Associated?" . The amusement in Curt'i eyes was a better answer than his words. The trend of the interview, Curt'a feeling that Montaya was exhibit-ing him to the doctor, a certain in-definable deference in Montaya'a at. titude toward the Dutchman, con-vinced Curt that whatever tot J lcn djdn't bleed had 'titer death, after the Co"rsing in the body. ;it their little girl?" he Tl J' five, isn't she?" 'X sad about her. Poor - We have her at the Present, where the - ook after her. I am si Untouch with relatives . ' "Mked the photographs Y placed them in their I drew from his pocket J cigarette case and , t the lid one of the 1 Turkish cigarettes apparently he was con- - Problem. 'J said, picking his ould be natural for you 'ethe murderer of Mr. Ill JJ8ht to justice. I also ssure you everything a could be done. You me, Mr. Curtis, it aste of time for you to 'have failed." I ? before he managed, 1 LiBesides' ,haU i con- - motive? If if, I ! Z been "staken nd ' still about, then be man than w fotnir, Britain Limits Its Dowry Girls employed in British post of-fices must serve six years before becoming entitled to the dowry given by the government to women employees who resign to get mar-ried. Cherry Tit Oil A few years ago J, G. Martin, cherry grower of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., stopped on a cherry pit and found it left a grease spot on the floor. Today he is a millionaire making oil used for cosmetics from 1,000 tons of cherry pits a year. Kathleen Norris Says; A'o Shortage of Jobs for Women of 50 Bll Syndicate WNU rtature . Jt Give your fret afternoons every week to the lick of the neighborhood or to your hospital kitchen and you'll not have to ask again for the right to do "some-thing for the boys." By KATHLEEN NORRIS article is written for THIS of 50 years and more who have some time to spare, cannot enter upon defense jobs with regu-lar and difficult hours, and yet are passionately anxious to do something to help our country in her hour of need, and bring nearer the glorious hour of a good and honest peace. Such women speak to me and write to me every day. I am never in any group but what they ap-proach me. "My daughter is work-ing in a machine plant and the boy is in uniform, but what can I do? I must do something!" they say. Well, I'll tell you one thing that you can do, a thing that embraces a thousand others. You can help our woefully small and insufficient army of doctors and nurses. We have not enough now, and we are going to feel a dangerous shortage ITS THERE If you have not yet found a war job, you haven't looked hard enough. You may not find it in a factory, if you have no special skill. You may not find it in the armed forces. But you will find it in a ios-pit- al where there are floors to be scrubbed and linens to be sorted. You will find it in the home of a sick friend. You will, perhaps, find it right in your own home if you have been relying on someone else to do a dozen little things you could do for yourself. And finding it, says Kathleen Nor-ris, is your job. lead to serious trouble, not this war winter! Health is an obligation that we owe America, while her youth and power and glory are committed to this tremendous adventure, and it's mother who holds that responsi- - later on. You can do what the writ-er of this article hopes to do, follow a Red Cross primary training by a special course in midwifery, learn to handle women through normal confinements, and welcome new babies into this war-cloud- world for the young mothers go right on having them, God bless them, and that work must be done. 300 Babies. No Nurses. bility at home. So if Dad is making too long and tiring a shift of cars and trains and busses to get home, see whether you can't find the simplest, the plainest little quarters nearer his work. If the working girls come in weary and cold, have a cup of hot soup or malted milk ready. This idea of a warming drink before a hearty meal is one that dietitians everywhere ap prove. To get very tired and huni gry often means that a hearty meal doesn't get digested before bedtime by the cold and weary stomach) The hot drink, the comfortable chair and pleasant news all help to make dinnertime a success. If cold feet and backache and headache and nerves and restless-ness at night are chronic, they are apt to have one cause constipation. Lack of exercise, long sedentary hours in the factory or office, and lunches of pastry, strong tea or cof-fee, sweets, accentuate it. Mother can do a lot about that with the in-troduction of raw vegetables at din-ner, salads of lettuce, chopped car-rots, apples, cabbage, spinach and by serving a dark rough bran bread. And make desserts laxative; prunes, apples, figs, oranges and grapefruit can be served in about 300 ways, all helpful. Hot tomato juice, hot prune and apple puree are medicinal enough, as are ginger bread and ginger-molasse- s cookies to cure many of these cases of chills and aches and nerves, and to hold off the colds and bronchial and laryngeal conditions to which they lead. Get your family through this winter without a night of lost sleep or a sneeze and you will be doing your share of the big job. No Shortage of Jobs. If the youngsters are tired and nervous enough to complain; if they demand starches and gravies and heavy meats, take them into your confidence. Explain that you are meeting all sorts of war conditions; shortage of fuel, difficult transpor-tation, higher prices, the need for closer management of finances, beef scarce, bananas gone, domestic help unprocurable, and insist that they to the extent of remem-bering overshoes, drafts, over-fatigue and by eating what Mother tells them to! Oh, there isn't going to be any shortage of Jobs for us older women, as the war months go on. The only question is whether we are going to be willing enough and humble enough to step into them. And I think we are. I think we presently will have an army of mothers and wives quietly filling the menial and minor positions that free the younger and more experienced women for actual war services. In one western town whose normal staff was 17 doctors, four are left. The obstetrician among these told me that he had listed among ward, clinic and private patients exactly 300 babies who are due before April. Asked about nurses he said: "There are NO nurses!" and he spoke with considerable feeling about families who keep one nurse or even two for routine chronic invalid care that might be handled easily by the idle women of the family. "It ought to be stopped and I believe it will," he said. Only a few days later I chanced to look, on a hospital visit, into one of those large, clean pantries that hospitals have on every floor, sink, cabinets, gas stove, hoppers, and so on. It was a shocking sight. Trays, pans, basins, tumbled linen, piled dishes were everywhere; the nurse who flashed in and out again was perspiring her face on a very hot day was the color of wax but she smiled gallantly as she said: "Last year this time we had 70 less pa-tients and 39 nurses. Now we have 15 nurses for the whole crowd!" Well, I don't know that I'll ever qualify as a licensed midwife, but I knew right then and there that until that pantry looked very different I had a war job. And in a clean apron with a box of soap flakes and a mop I came back a few minutes later. It takes study and skill to deliver babies, but the woman who washes dishes and assorts sheets and sterilizes bandages frees a grad-uate nurse from that work, and has her place, too, in the great war story. My reward that day was to feel many a young strong arm go about me for a second, while many a grate-ful voice said in m$ ear; "You're an angel!" and nobody could ask more genuine happiness than that Health an Obligation. Give your free afternoons every week to the sick of your neighbor-hood or to your hospital kitchen, and you'll not have to ask again for the right to do "something any-thing for our boys!" Get in touch with your doctor, and he'll give you a list of patients who merely need beds made or soup heated. And do what you can to keep your own home people well; don't tolerate any of the minor ills that Nola Lemon William Conawcll, New Orleans, has a lemon tree from which he picked a lemon four and three-quarte- rs inches long and four and five-eight- inches thick. Flat Pencil For the reader addicted to mak-ing marginal notes, there's a new flat pencil which also serves aa book mark. Sure la On the whole, we like a murder mystery play in which it turns out there was no murder. There's a chance to laugh. Frozen Microbes Revived A Russian scientist claims to have brought to life microbes and other specimens of small marine life after they had been frozen foi Mary Land? thousands of years. 4 A woman speaker of the house has been named in North Dakota, among other places. For Perfect Sleep Busy families should provide quiet bedrooms for perfect sleep. New colorkote insulating panels possess acoustical qualities which tend to keep the room silent. Schmeling a Marine Max Schmeling is a member of the U. S. marine corps. America's Max is a residont of Casey, Iowa. Ice Itreakers Arctic seals break holes In the ice for breathing. The Old, the Hist Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burns brightest, old linens wash whitest! Old soldiers, sweetheart; are surest, and old lover are sound-est. John Webster. Ocean Cables Oceanic cables of the world ag-gregate about 300,000 miles. aj,iMiiniwii.iy mu" ". ''iw' w ihiiihiui- i- MECHANICS WANTED Onersl Mntora Trurk Coach. 174 South Mtiin 81., Halt I.akr Cllr. Utah. I'honf Offer trurk mechanics or pauinior car mschsnlrs who can qualify, an op-portunity to work under tscclltnt working condition! and In plrannl surroundings at top wares. AUo parti men aro wanted, iunlor parts clerks at top wages. If write or phons Mr. Heal? or Mr. Sandqulst for appointment. OFFICE EQUIPMENT NEW AND t'SKI) desks and chsirs. flies typewriters, sddlnv mrh'a. sates, 8. L. 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