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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN "P1TTERNS Kathleen Norris Says: Can't You Hear the Bugle Calling? i Ernest Haycox SWINQ CIRCLE wnu Release. f ItOBT SO FAB: Clay Mortal! FtJL lo PUT to" lnd ' U Syndicate WNU Feature. .eseeo. a raaeher seat oo run-!TulU run-!TulU country als owa way. The . ..... hfa enemies lor years. iS3 6 i. mMrBmm mMM (OJm Bu ! I A have Si? rordsJ lie Ed aesu, s an! trd Si . .I-. Kim anil Hllevinc ate dttfl nMi married Herendeen. a solitary Stare, devoted to iT .d danzhter. Janet. Al- Hhre women. Catherine Grant and If ' L,a lth him Carnn. rw - - . k, rannot toriet IJU. Ol Lratr rrifndJ. only Hack Breathitt t lone over w n" " taapine with Pete Borden, a nuts nu-ts Is a .futltive from Herendeen's r.rant. Catherine'! brother. Li .hout lolnlni Herendeen, but flTunrrnn i morn enemy when be rnrfd that Catherine had been to . . .... i. .....d hv Fn Will. UC. I "J1 - f. ...irr" he once befriended, that lout i ilMl'n ' "tUe- Men- L Htk' hidlni place minivtitu. L,y Hillhoiise. Herrndeen'i fore- riitt into me roinmn " . nirii Including Gurd Grant. Vej kill Hack. Sickened y the cold fcrdntss ol llaca-1 morarr, uun It Dreaki with Herenaeen. wow tiay ur to Government Valley to In- Lite ro Hllling'i story that lome- H itnllnr, bis cattle. L cssUoue with the story. CHAPTER XV laching Government Valley. foan located the trail ol the rus- cattle a quarter-miie rrom we Ijency buildings. The beef had milled together and driven fcward toward the Potholes. tip the Idea of rustlln' for a te," suggested Jump. "Figure somebody did It to hamstring 4-make a poor man out of you hurry." ou're talking about Herendeen said Morgan. L such." Jell, we'll find out," said Mor-and Mor-and led the group forward on biL ley rode along the flat country. the Haycreek Hills to the right Erf the Potholes a matter of four Ie miles in the south. The trail ! beef made a wiggling line in of them, pointed for the Pot- lrgan said: "If they're driving beef into that section it won't Ir away." L half a mile farther on, Mor- faw that the beef wasn't intend Ir the Potholes. The trail cut t right, going into the flank of Eaycreek Hills and aiming to- a low pass. More and more fed, Morgan followed. They had in entirely open country; now ley rose with the slope of the jthey came to a gradually thick- stand of pines. this point the Haycreek Hills led one edge of the Potholes fe land here began to show the of the geologic upheaval. The pas narrow and circuitous and kd upward to the summit of the reek Hills by labored turns. Lgh this extremely rough and I terrain the unknown rustler But the beef, single file. Harry said: "Hell, we must be right of it now. He couldn't make of a drive through here in a i time. Clay, let me get and scout the land." most at the top," answered an. aking out of the summit tim-ie tim-ie saw a meadow lying steeply t descending hillside, in which pdeen's cattle grazed, and his tattle. There was no doubt of k this short distance he was o read his brand. fgan said finally, "Well, let's t it," and rode out of the tim- He worked through the stock Fox Willing while Jump and live took stations near the A'ter Morgan and Vermilye collected all the Long Seven pis and had driven them back the forest trail the other two came up, ready for the trip l Morgan meanwhile had done thinking. In going down to see Heren- Ight with you," said Harry ut once. lie's enough to lay this out pret- ar." Then he added dryly, "I I can lay ft out so he'll under- k time he openly crossed the w and rode downslope through limning Umber, to come at last k rim of Herendeen's valley. was about five miles from the ow and til another three miles of the Three Pines houses; ping down the shoulder of the Morgan reached the road run-beside run-beside Cache River and set mthward at a brisk clip, soon ig the ranch. From the Inter-ate Inter-ate distance he saw a pair of on the porch and somebody Ing in the corrals. When he ted the yard both men on the i had gone inside and another McGeen had come out ten's face .showed its shad- surprise and Its alert hoslill- ut he kept his mouth shut un- organ spoke, , , .. .. Ben'a in , there, . tell him to out." here all right," grunted Mc-nd Mc-nd raised his voice: "Ben JBcn!" I men walked forward through oue, heavy and deliberate. wrre voices Id the rear yard. talking and afterwards ceas- talk. Morgan looked at the f itandtr.C by tha front vard He hit him once, knuckles and didn't recognize them; he was thinking about this when Herendeen came to the porch. "Ben," Morgan said at once, "I followed a pretty broad trail out of Government Valley this afternooa When I got to the end of it there was a jag of Long Seven cows feeding in one of your meadows. They didn't make the walk without help." Herendeen's round, fresh-scarred face showed what seemed, to Morgan, Mor-gan, something close to surprise; he threw McGeen a quick look but McGeen Mc-Geen shook his head. Herendeen looked back to Morgan. "I know nothing of it" "Maybe you'd better get acquainted acquaint-ed with your crew," suggested Morgan. Mor-gan. "I'll go up in a day or so and see about it. If you've got any beef there I'll send it back." "I saved you the ride. The beef i on the way home now." Herendeen said: "If there's any cutting to be done on my range I'll do it. Bones, take a crowd up there and stop that We'll see what's going go-ing on." Bones started around the corner of the house at once, to be halted by Morgan's down-slapping answer. "Hold on. I'm going to recite chapter chap-ter and verse to you boys. The beef goes home and if you figure to stop it, you better figure to stop the boys with it." "If necessary we'll do that, too," said Herendeen "Bones, Just bring the crowd around here a minute." He came on to the edge of the porch, his thick legs spreading and taking root Bones moved only as far as the house's corner; he raised his arm and moved back toward the porch. Watching the corner, Morgan saw Chill Purdy and Jim Burden and Slim John show up. These were old Three Pines men. But there were four other men behind these three, unfamiliar to him. They stopped by the corner. McGeen, throwing a look at them, said in a voice that grated the words together, togeth-er, "Don't be bashful in front of the great Clay Morgan." It seemed to be a signal Two of the strangers, both dark men with the same sharp, long-slanted noses, stepped on from the corner and moved on until Morgan, Mor-gan, now watching Herendeen, lost them out of the corner of his eyes. They were somewhere at his left rear; throwing a glance that way he saw them half fifty feet behind him. Herendeen said: "Take a good look before you finish your speech. Clay." "I see nothing new," answered Morgan. "You always liked a big crowd to stand behind." "You hang around with crooks and you stick up for them. It will be a damned cold day when you move anything off my range, no matter what the brand reads. Take a look at these men. I have cleared out Freeport and I have shaken some of the nesters loose. That's Just a beginning. I'm going to drie everything out of this country that don't agree with me. That includes you. I didn't take your beef, but If it is on my land it will stay there until I get ready to move It off. The truth is. Clay, I propose to gut you down to your last calf. If you're on Mogul when spring cornea I'll be mighty surprised." Morgan said: "You always talked too much, Ben. "That so?" cried Herendeen, his temper letting go. "McGeen, get on your horse." "All right" McGeen said, "what'Il it be?" Herendeen repeated, "Do what I tell you. Bones. Get on up there with the boys and head for the hills. Stop Morgan's crew." Bones shook his head and one of the dark men at Morgan's rear spoke for the first time. "What the hell, Herendeen? You got what you want right here. Whut you worryin' about?" "That's all right" said Herendeen.- "Do -what-1 told you;' - '.'.Take care ... of this, first",, said Bones MrGeen, still reluctant Herendeen, a faster man than his bulk indicated, moved against McGeen. Mc-Geen. He hit him once, knocklea slashing McGeen'a cheek terribly. ter-ribly. McGeen, blinded and knocked thoughtless, bit the ground and made an automatic gesture toward -14- slashing McGeen's cheek. his gun, whereupon Herendeen jammed a foot down on McGeen's arm, hard enough to make McGeen yell. Herendeen ripped the gun from McGeen's holster and stepped back; the whole thing had turned him white and half-crazy. McGeen squirmed around the dirt and got to his feet "Get on the horse," said Herendeen, Heren-deen, "and do what I say." McGeen turned and reached for the reins. He missed them and swept his hand out a second time, blindly. When he had them In his fingers he put his head against the side of the horse, stupidly stilL Herendeen said: "Go on or I'll bat you again." McGeen made no attempt to throw the reins over the horse's head. He seized the horn, pulling himself into his seat He stiffened his arms against the horn, bracing himself in this manner and closing bis eyes. He said, "Damned world is going around," and fell out of the saddle suddenly; he hit on his face and belly, bel-ly, one arm doubled beneath him, and did not move. The two long-faced strangers came away from their spot behind Morgan and paused to stare at McGeen. Mc-Geen. Herendeen bent over and rolled McGeen on his back. McGeen's Mc-Geen's eyes wera open but his muscles mus-cles had no life In them. Herendeen Heren-deen nudged McGeen's body with his toe, saying, "Come out of it Bones." One of the strangers said in a disgusted dis-gusted voice: "That's no way to treat a man." Herendeen motioned toward a pair of his own crew. They came up and seized McGeen, shoulders and feet, and lugged him over the porch into the house. The two strangers went on toward the comer of the house. They turned, no longer interested; in-terested; something, Morgan saw. had happened here pretty definitely. Herendeen saw it too, and his talk jumped at them. "I'll do the talking talk-ing around here. We're riding up the hill. I'll see about this beef business." He turned his attention to Morgan. "Come on, get down from there." "No," said Morgan, "I guess not." Herendeen had his mind fixed; he drove his roused talk at Morgan. "Times change. I'm through foolin' with you." Morgan said: "Let er flicker then. Ben." Behind Morgan, suddenly, was the sound of an advancing rider. Everybody Ev-erybody looked down the valley toward to-ward the newcomer except Herendeen, Heren-deen, who was caught In the grip of his own slow, flat-footed will. He pointed a finger at Morgan and said: "You get down." The rider came in behind Morgan, Mor-gan, calling at once: "What's up here?" It was Lige White's voice. Herendeen Heren-deen turned his bead, reluctantly recognizing White. "I'm on the way to War Pass. Better come along. Clay, if you're through here." "I'm through," drawled Morgan, "if Ben is." Lige White atd briskly: ""No objections, ob-jections, Ben?" Herendeen showed black and sullen and on driving temper. "Lige," he called out, "you're interfering. in-terfering. What aide you on?" "On the side of my friends," said White. "You're my friend, and s6 is Morgan." Then you're no friend of mine." White said coolly: "That's your business, naturally. I think I understand under-stand what's in the wind here and of course I could not stand by and see a shooting. The odds art a little strong. I'm surprised at you, Ben" He stared at the new men in the yard. He ducked his head at them. "News to me that you were short-handed short-handed on this ranch. When did you find it necessary to bring in the Ryder boys? I don't like that kind of business and I will not be a party to a general rucku. If we've got to hire outside men. th situaUpo is getting completely out of hand." Herendeen listened to this frank talk with a flat-jawed unreason. He said: "If you're not with me, then you're against me, Lige. Don't come around here for help." "Both very easy to do," retorted White. "I will give you the same advice. Ready, Clay?" (TO BE CONTINUED) The wives ef service snen, when without unall children or other inttcapeble rupontibilities at home, go into the WAC in drove. By KATHLEEN NORRIS IS IT just possible that you are missing an opportunity opportu-nity that is right at your door today? Is it just possible possi-ble that some day in the future fu-ture you are going to look back at these sad, terrible, glorious war years and ask yourself "What on earth was I thinking about that I didn't get into the WACs?" Which means get into the actual military service of the greatest country of them all, wear her uniform, share her great a d v e n tur e s , t r a v el i learn, win your right to glory with America when the hour of peace and victory arrives. For generations for vjfenturles this opportunity has been offered only to men; the excitement and satisfacUon of acting acting with daring and confidence and heroism when the hour of national crisis arrives, ar-rives, has been monopolized by men. For them have been all the thrills, abandonment of routine, new sights, new duties, new friends, new terms and responsibilities. Uniforms, bands, the rare companionship of the camp and barracks the most absorbing club In the world have been theirs alone. For the women. Increased home duties, dullness, waiting, praying, anxiousness. Now that's all changed. Girls are needed and wanted and welcomed In the army now. And not girls only: women of any age between 21 and 44 can seize this opportunity to serve America, build a very bulwark bul-wark of strength and Inspiration behind be-hind our . fighting men, and at the same time gain enough training, guidance, education, experience, to carry them into entirely changed and widened and bettered lives after aft-er the war. ' Opportunities for Wlvea Without Special Ties. The wives of service men, when without small children or other inescapable in-escapable responsibilities at home, go into the WACs in droves. There is no better way to fill the lonesome time of waiting. Busy, healthy, well-paid, allotted to the special work and the special niche for which you are most fitted, you can write to your beloved soldier on equal terms. You'll have your stories of camp life, the top sergeant the drill, the companion soldiers of your company, to match his stories. And af nothing, but. Jhe service interests, him now, your gossip will be a thousand times more alive to him than were the old letters, the lonesome lone-some letters, filled with news of the tomato preserving and the buying of a fall hat. I said up there "well paid." You start at $50 a month; as "non-com" "non-com" you may make that $131 very soon. The WACs haven't been in existence much more than a year, and many a woman is getting that now. But that isn't alL You have no living expenses. You get comfortable com-fortable rooms, bathrooms, recreation recrea-tion rooms. You get the finest food the richest nation in the world can afford for anyone; the very best of everything, and plenty of It You get your clothing from the well-made, well-made, soft-to-the-touch underthings to your uniforms, your cap and top-coat top-coat There la no smarter uniform uni-form In the world than yours wil) be, and ft is carefully and "individually "indi-vidually fitted to you. You get laundry laun-dry work service, and you have access ac-cess to electric irons for extra touches; you get amusement the highest-paid entertainers In the V country are making incessant rounds of the camps, the finest movies come your way. And the home-made camp theatricals, by the men sol- AMERICA CALLS i Our nation needs women between be-tween the ages of 21 and 44 to increase the strength of the Women's Army Corps. Besides Be-sides the gratification of directly di-rectly serving to preserve America, the women of the WAC enjoy these benefits: Training which will prepare a young woman for a postwar job. Good pay. Many noncommissioned non-commissioned officers make $138 a month. No living expenses, ex-penses, yet the best food and clothing that the world's richest rich-est nation can provide. Medical Medi-cal care. WACs receive army medical care which means meticulous attention to health and physical fitness. Such organizations or-ganizations as the WAC are proof of women's role in national na-tional and world events. diers and the girl soldiers, are perhaps per-haps the most fun of all. If you have any special gifts along these lines you may get through your enlistment a chance at an audience that won't forget you after the war. If you're ill. even to the slightest sniffle, the shining bright well-equipped well-equipped hospital and its staff take charge of you. WACs Permitted to Marry. What are some of the questions you want to ask? Yes, you can use make-up and curl your hair, so long as the latter clears your uniform collar. Yes, as an army wife your allotment goes on. Yes, you can fall in love and marry, while in the service. You can go to army dances and find out what rear rushing can be. You'll be Invited to Service Club parties. In short, you'll live on the terms of which all girls dream or at least did dream when I was a girl, more than 40 years ago. Terms of healthy activity, regulated work, interest excitement companionship, fun. And you'll have a chance to learn whatever what-ever you want to learn which I never did. You'll learn to swim, to drive cars, to decode messages, to project movies, to cook, to work In the pharmacy, library, hospital. Very high government officials have WACs as stenographers and secretaries secre-taries now, in Washington. The men these thousands of girls replace are at the fighting fronts. Women working today In essential essen-tial war industries, factories and farms, are doing a magnificent Job. But leave that work to the wives, mothers, ..older women, who. .eant qualify as WACs. They're being better paid than you will be, certainly, cer-tainly, but lots of that pay goes for things about which you won't have to worry, marketing, transportation, clothes, rent house-cleaning, domestic do-mestic help. And much of it isn't progressive; rivetting won't be so much in demand after the war. But what you get will be always like money in the bank. The right to call America truly your country, the country for which you fought In the greatest of all the wars. The right to talk to your returning men on their own terms; no, you didn't sit at home and grieve. You got into uniform, perhaps to be sent overseas, perhaps to work here In the home camps, but always beside your soldier, always sharing with him the greatest experience of your UveSi - . ...This . may . jbe, , the,-lait..,war. ,W,. pray it will be, and we are taking steps, in the new enlightened, quickened quick-ened day of air-routes and radio information, in-formation, to make sure that It will be. Before you settle down to the home-making and child-bearing that are the happiest and most worthwhile worth-while things In life for woman, grasp this chance. It may not com your way again. 12-42 Nightgown Set STUNNING nightgown so flat-tering flat-tering and so comfortable. The simple little bed-jacket will come in handy many a time. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1S3S-B designed de-signed for sizes 12. 14. IS, 18, 20: 40 and 12. Corresponding bust measurements 3U, 32. 34. 38. 38. 40. 42. Size 14 (32) gown requires 4I' yards 33-inch material, bed Jacket 1U yards. School Belle A CLASSIC for the schoolgirl wardrobe, this casual jumper with the set-in belt and ample pockets will make her eyes sparkle spar-kle even more brightly, getting her off to a perfect start. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1871-B is designed de-signed for sizes 6. 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Ilawksbill Sea Turtle Has a Shingled Roof The hard plates of a certain sea turtle are laid down with one lapping lap-ping over another like shingles on a roof. Known as the hawksbill, it supplies the world with the true "tortoise shell." Its shell is about two feet long and the plates are 6 inches wide and 12 inches long. Placed in hot water, the shell will soften and can be bent into most any shape. These turtles are found in the wanner parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. Fly Equipment Among the Interesting equipment sdapted for air transportation is a portable gasoline-operated lighting unit, which makes possible the continuance con-tinuance of work at night, and tha lighting of tha field for night flying operations. Scrapers are flown to combat areas, which can be hauled by Jeep or other vehicle. Rollers are also included, which can be filled with water or sand when In operating operat-ing use. Transporting a bulldozer by plane was something new under the sun. Lean Mixture Wastes Fuel It is a common error to believe that the leaner the mixture the less motor fuel used. Too lean a mixture wastes fuel, causes over-heating. Invites In-vites yalve trouble, Best fuel economy econo-my results from setting carburetor at a compromise between too lean a mixture for idling and a slightly rich mixture representing maximum power adjustment This setting can only be determined by trial under load. Dehydrated YegeUblea Many cooked dehydrated vegetables vegeta-bles have more "to put your teeth Into," that is, have more "body" than do the same vegetables cooked fresh, frozen, or canned. Canned vegetables do not look or taste like fresh ones; and one must learn that dehydrated foods should be accepted or rejected on their own merits, and not because they are like or unlike fresh ones. List Repairs After cheeking machines - to- be tr?d.,i9r..th,.winte.r,: , jtepMixn, can. be listed on a shipping tag and attached at-tached to the implement so that no time will be lost when the opportunity oppor-tunity for making repairs occurs. This will remind the operator to order or-der replacement parts early, and prevent delays next spring. Change of Pace' Monotony in color slows down Size S requires 2" yards of 39-inch material ma-terial for the Jumper and 1 yards for, the blouse. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slif htly more tune Is required in filling orders for a few of tha most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: SEWINO CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 141 New Moatfomery Street Baa Fraaclsee Calif. Enclose 20 cents in ooraa for each pattern desired. Pattern No. Size Name Address ," NO ASPIRIN FASTER than genuine, pure St Joseph Aspirin. World's largest seller at 104. None safer, none sum. Demand St Joseph Aspirin. Chinese Deceive Spirits - To "deceive" the spirits," Cht" nese parents give an only son a girl's name. WOMEN or GIRLS Over 16 Years For Work with Local Mfg. Co. EXPERIENCED OR WE WILL TRAIN YOU We Ilave Government Contracts for the Armed Forces. Steady Work for and After Duration. Weekly Wage Guarantee. No Limit to What You Can Earn. SALT LAKE KNITTING WORKS 244 West 2aa Nerta . Sett lake CHy.Vtak iMnf iml war mm mt mmtt kme txrtificmm j mmilaUUty Eggs for the Allies Powdered eggs have surged for ward as one of the bigger food factors fac-tors In the war. Without them, the marines would have had less varied diet Other fighting men of the United Nations, and civilians In England, Russia, and In other countries who fight behind the lines look upon powdered eggs as a welcome wel-come addition to scanty rations. The space saved In shipping the ggs in powdered form meana that a much greater supply of nourishment from this vital food Is reaching our soldiers sol-diers and our allies. About nine million pounds a month go to world outposts. Spreads Rapidly Rarely cultivated, milkweed spreads lrrepressibly from creeping roots as well as by breeze-wafted seeds. One of Its several promises of utility Is seen in the fact that Its seven-foot roots might prove a means of arresting soil erosion. There are some 1,800 known species spe-cies of this International weed In the world. Pods of the scores of varieties In the United States bear floss conservatively estimated at over two million tons annually. Can Raise More Silk "The climate of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Bra-zil, Is suitable for the raising of three or four crops of cocoons a year as compared with one or two In Japan," says "Agriculture in the Americas." "In the Amazon Basin, by the way, one can raise, with proper precautions, 10 or 13 crops of cocoons each year. Obviously, then Brazil possesses a great potential tpr, sUk, production.. ,,.,,. , Flat Paint A dlatomaceous earth, which Is largely composed of the skeletons of microscopic one celled aqua tie plants, Is one of the materials used to produce flatness or reduce gloss In protective coatings. . Flat paints sre essential for many types of war material to prevent glint . " |