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Show t , THE LEH1 SUN. LEIII. UTAH you any i may I I j through! rywheu and get e fitting wis jfe it won't eymust 1, and and the Bin the needti Good i V, bed or lodernize, to. J. a things It order to: LRS General (. WHITI ARED WHITE WNU SIRVICI "The President of the United States is dead." SED EVE i NWAY iy, lop m'ffionj Neit i relief, ; of your ; like a disturb j rerkths j iemc5 i d,it i mpplj . rtsmly : w id the ; ughest : vtlm rEO bv SO FAR: In an effort to Lte rumors that 200,000 foreign nre in memu puiiai.u.j t opoo the United States, Intelli-Giter Intelli-Giter Benning went to Mexico m it Joined the staff of the (ttuil Van Hassek, leader of On jiPIEE VII Continued. tw was spreading. Thou-fere Thou-fere fleeing the city In taxi- ad private cars. Cavalry was jinto the city rrom e on jsoy-belp jsoy-belp police clear masses of who flooded the parks de-frantic de-frantic radio warnings that up was dangerous. i dismissed all thought of .-again tonight for the Van Has- !poe, nose. 4 of light leaped into the .ross the Potomac. Benning me as he saw the restless ait into the skies of that omi- her bolt of light shot up, the illed with those long pennants from the Sperry drums, driv-ards driv-ards with the intensity of their ad million candlepower. The i a cannon crept across the It told Benning that the lights itked up an enemy craft within six thousand yards' range of n. Other cannon barked; iree-incn guns were driving at .uly he lifted his wrist close i and strained at the lumi- iial of his wrist watch. -ir racking seconds ticked by. nning braced himself, wet js, his hand was stricken by at Through the crackle of tyhe caught the ominous roar ators in the sky. At this in- wmbs were plummeting down- be reckoned, released three and yards or more to the south- i Washington while the planes ed toward the city. nvtd yellowish sheet of light .over the city, low against arth, In the next instant came ap of thunder as the mighty ation smote the city. Bennine & earth reel under his heels, as rang with the reverberation. crash, a third, fourth, fifth, tonic wrath of the bombers -wed all sound of the anti-air-o a bedlam of volcanic fury ai all existence. Two more separated by short inter-& inter-& time. see came swiftly, a hush that no sound for several sec-Tten, sec-Tten, as his ears recovered, -8 caught the shrill roar of ;s overhead, the sharp staccato icaine-gun fire. Near-by, the the .50 caliber anti-aircraft f guns were peppering away A few rounds of futile bursts ceased fire. Nnw ramo '"i of excited masses of peo- 8 headed into Fifteenth ' People were running this "at on the heels of hysteri-idled hysteri-idled terror. Others were " in stricken silence, gaping Taxicabs and auto-a auto-a sped crazily in aU direc-. direc-. "nning saw pedestrians L?r by wheeled' vehicles, amderme on iha fl!Pemen were trying to HW w pamc. Sirens . laS.ambulances and police ,aced into tho tar4j . .afewminutes before iplvw .ennulg into wan,. Avenue. There was thing aS a taxicah i v, It J: . - border. Hp n,n, :J Jih!.Whit Hoe. intent ?io lefs paced p,acidly e 7? and tolnblike in the ut of a quarter moon, the 'mass of it . aihv . . 6 ajr waus un- ' Ecnn; "6"icu wmaow. enninr. ae k u , . 5 Fac . . c o-ieenea Win-51 Win-51 thp W6nCeS W0Uld Car" of,Charted fte desperate bCr Dati0n Plunged .bal report of an :b S0nel- Asnearas bers haw0f SeVen Planes- tl rl"mt shiPs-eSas. shiPs-eSas. B!eported n hits, and "P now to cover the city INSTALLMENT SEVEN foreign forces, and gained the confidence confi-dence of two other officers, Flncke and Bravot. Discovering that foreign troops were poised for an invasion of the U. S., Benning returned to Washington to report re-port to Colonel Flagwlll, acting chief of Military Intelligence. Flagwill stated as best it could against the return trip of the invaders. "It'll not be very long now before they're back over the city for a second fling at us," the air officer predicted, speaking in a calm voice. "No report yet of damage to important im-portant buildings, but one bomb came pretty flush into a crowded street and we have a preliminary report of heavy casualties." "No word of any other squadrons headed this way. Colonel?" Flagwill asked. ' "None. We'd have picked them up if any more were coming tonight But what puzzles us is how these bombers expect to get back into Mexico without refueling. Especially Especial-ly since the bombs dropped sounded like heavy ones, probably a thousand pounds or more." "I'll want all details as rapidly as you get them," Flagwill instructed. "By the way, have our planes taken off for Texas yet?" "Yes, sir. We've notified Operations. Opera-tions. Our Third Wing will have one attack and two pursuit squadrons squad-rons at San Antonio before daybreak, day-break, all ready for business. Other forces will report there as rapidly as possible." The telephone buzzedr summons for Flagwill to conference with the Chief of Staff. Flagwill gathered up his notes and turned to Benning. "You'd better come along, Captain. Cap-tain. There may be some questions ques-tions on Mexico City for you to answer." an-swer." Briefly, as they marched down the long corridor to the staff chief's conference con-ference room, Benning sketched in his own observations of the bombing of Washington, emphasizing the panic pan-ic in the streets, the chaos and disorder dis-order that followed. The floor under them reeled with the impact of a sudden terrific explosion ex-plosion in the distance. Flagwill's expression did not change, there was no hesitation in his gait "Here the birds are back again," he muttered. He shook his head despairingly. "We've been pounding pound-ing the public by radio all evening not to bunch up, but I'm afraid people peo-ple will have to learn by costly experience. ex-perience. God, but I hope no persistent per-sistent gas is dropped!, I doubt if there are a dozen gas masks in all Washington." Another savage detonation filled the night As its vibrations waned, there came the uninterrupted click of typewriters and telegraph instruments instru-ments as messages went hurtling across the country from the War Department mobilizing the country's armed forces. General Hague's conference room was filling with generals and colonels, colo-nels, all self-possessed, but with the effects of fatigue and strain in their faces after long days without rest They were promptly in the room where they stood until the four-starred four-starred head of the Army, now in uniform, came in. General Hague was grave and lined, but his shoulders shoul-ders were erect and his gray eyes burned with a level vitality. . "Gentlemen," he proceeded at once, "I've gone over the situation in detail with the President. First I'll give you a brief summary of available enemy information " "Three enemy columns are reliably relia-bly reported at our Texas border and it is a reasonable assumption that they will bridgehead the Rio Grande tonight ready to attack at daybreak. Likely enough the main body will strike from Laredo with the objective objec-tive of San Antonio. Two other columns col-umns are likely to strike from Brownsville and Eagle Pass. "You are familiar with the bombing bomb-ing of San Antonio, Galveston, New Orleans, and Houston tonight We hope to give those cities the protection protec-tion of our air forces, beginning to-morrov, to-morrov, tut we are at the mercy of night raiders for the time being. I needn't tell you that nothing can save San Antonio and the occupation of our great oil and sulphur belts It looks pretty hopeless for our troops. NEXT WEEK that forces were also reported massing mass-ing In the Mediterranean and the Far East. That night Fort Houston, Texas, was heavily bombed. Reports that an enemy en-emy bombing squadron was approaching Washington threw the city into panic. Now continue with the story. "The President has given us carte blanche. We are mobilizing our entire en-tire Regular Army .and National Guard. This" An aide-de-camp, face bloodless and eyes starting from their sockets, sock-ets, burst into the room. General Hague glared sharply at the interruption, inter-ruption, then stiffened as he caught the stark tragedy that was written in the officer's face. - "Please, sir, will the General take the telephone?" the aide stammered in a rasping whisper. "It's important." impor-tant." The Chief of Staff took the receiver, re-ceiver, of the portable telephone that was handed him by the aide. "Yes, General Hague speaking," he said. There followed a stifling silence. General Hague sat with the receiver receiv-er glued to his ear. Into the leaden silence of the room came the faint metallic squeak of an excited voice. The assembled officers saw their chief stiffen as if an electric current cur-rent had been driven through his body. General Hague stared dazedly across the room for several moments. mo-ments. His hand that held the telephone tele-phone instrument descended in a slow , limp arc to the table." "The aide took the telephone and removed it to an adjoining desk. "Gentlemen," General Hague focused fo-cused his eyes, looked about among them, waited for control of his voice, then spoke firmly, "Gentlemen, by the ill fortune of circumstance, the enemy targeted upon the White House with a heavy bomb. The President Pres-ident of the United States is dead." From ut in the night came the screeching of sirens. The shrill screeches rose above an indescribable indescriba-ble rumble of sound, the frenzied cries, and excited shouts of a terrorized terro-rized populace. The bombers had raced on back into the south. The fretful bark of the anti-aircraft guns was stilled. "Gentlemen," General Hague's voice broke the stricken tension of the room, "we will proceed with our business." The head of the Army resumed his chair and fumbled with trembling trem-bling fingers among his notes to pick up the shattered thread of his observations. The others sat down to a funereal stolidity. "Getting back to the enemy intentions," in-tentions," General Hague resumed, his voice dry and hoarse, "we must now consider only his immediate objectives. ob-jectives. We cannot now deny him possession of the world's largest oil fields lying in that region generally north of Beaumont. At the same time he gains the vast sulphur belt north and east of Galveston. We may reasonably expect therefore, that Van Hassek will drive on to establish es-tablish his army on some such east-and-west line as Fort Worth Dallas Shreveport "Yes, gentlemen, we'll take an awful beating in Texas for the time being. Lack of ammunition for all I weapons will be a serious problem. Our lack of anti-aircraft guns will bring us horrible losses. The country coun-try will be in an uproar for days to come until the people get educated to this terrible new reality of their existence. "But all of this merely increases our own responsibilities. We must do the insuperable, we must achieve the impossible, we must face this crisis with patience and keep before us the protection of our country against later serious attack which I fear is inevitable. Gentlemen, let us remember this " General Hague rose to his feet and the muscles of his jaw hardened. He looked about among them again and bis voice crackled as he concluded. "No matter what force may come against us, no matter what may be our initial reverses, our country has the basic character and the re sources in manpower to make us invincible. in-vincible. In the bitter end of what ever storms may lie ahead, the forces, or coalition of forces, that dare attack the United States, will find the mighty vengeance of oui massed valor. That's all for tlu present gentlemen." (TO BECOSTlSltDi By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) PARAMOUNT'S "The Lady Eve" is certainly one of the best pictures that has come out of Hollywood in years and years; it's the third excellent picture in a row for Preston Sturges, who wrote and directed it. Henry Fonda acquires new laurels as a comedian, co-median, Barbara Stanwyck is completely delightful, the rest of the cast (which includes Charles Coburn, Eric Blore and William Wil-liam Demarest) couldn't be improved im-proved on. The company launched the picture in New York with something different differ-ent in the way of a cocktail party. A night club was turned more or less into a Garden of Eden, and five pretty girls were engaged to act as Eves. Since there's a snake that plays a prominent part In the picture, pic-ture, one was provided. Dr. Raymond Ray-mond L. Ditmars, curator of reptiles rep-tiles at the Bronx zoo, was present; he felt that the party would do much to, dissipate the popular phobia against snakes. A consultant psychologist psy-chologist theorized on perfect worn-en worn-en in general and the five Eves in particular. Then Emma, the snake, departed for the zoo, and the women wom-en guests breathed easier. - Whether you're an "Andy Hardy" fan or not you mustn't miss "Andy Hardy's Private Secretary," if you want to see the debut bf one of film-dom's film-dom's best bets. She's Kathryn t"vr x-swi -T 'WMjlgjjjlygjl & lH4..7 v T Mil I -V v ! L i"i 1- T7 ivrr iiiisaatfrlfritih'f'iftifffirii n,Jf Kathryn Grayson Mickey Rooney n "Andy Hardt Private Secretary." Grayson, who's not quite eighteen, and is being hailed as a real discovery. dis-covery. Eighteen months ago, when she sang at a Los Angeles musical, she attracted the attention of Metro executives. ex-ecutives. Before the afternoon was over she had an appointment with Louis B. Mayer the next day she had a contract. After that she checked in at the studio school-took school-took a regular high school course, had lessons in music, diction, makeup, make-up, dramatic training. She has a magnificent coloratura voice, can sing C above high C, and It is predicted that she may become one of the greatest coloraturas the world has ever known. She's delighted de-lighted over being in pictures but in another two years she's going to tackle the Metropolitan opera. ' Hortense Monath, who recently appeared as soloist with the NBC SvmDhonv orchestra, has made a name for herself as a concert pianist in both Europe and America, playing play-ing with many of the most famous orchestras. She really has a second career; she browses in the musical literature litera-ture of the ages and brings forth each year a series of programs for the New Friends of Musio, one of New York's more Important musical musi-cal organizations. She thinks there's too much sameness about most musical mu-sical programs she also disapproves dis-approves of intermissions, encores, stage seats and prima donna-dom. There's nfc telling how many of our future radio stars will succeed because Fritz Blocki, producer of "Your Dream Has Come True," gave them a start Auditioning for the program is no ordinary affair. The entire week preceding a broadcast broad-cast is spent in listening to the many people who want to appear on the program; when it's difficult to make a choice between actors, a recording record-ing of the voice in question is made and the radio department makes a decision. As big name actors and actresses have no meaning on this program, the unknowns have a wonderful opportunityand op-portunityand under Blockl's skillful skill-ful tutelage they are sure of getting excellent training. ODDS AXD ENDS Frank Capra paid tifiOO for an opinion during production pro-duction of "Meet John Do" hired 3.'0 extras to teeure their reactions to two versions of m speech by Gary Cooper . . . When radio's "Henry Aldrich" reached the screen Jackie Cooper played "Henry' in the first two episodes: now that he's outgrown the role, Jimmy Lydon takes over . . . Meanwhile Ezra Stone goes right on being "Henry" on the air . . . "Thin Is ' ndand" a short, is being released by Columbia Pictures . . . Isrna Turner 'rird eight different coiffures bffore ' e found the riiht one for her role in l)r Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," PATTERNS (SEWNGCORCLE V n CilM ) ) i&vf.'r urn ' I ft' 8877- simple just the type you like best and wear most a basic style appropriate ap-propriate for general wear and afternoon. The skirt is slim and paneled. The bodice is made with smooth shoulder yokes and just enough gathers to ensure correct bust fit. And the nrckline of this dress (design No. 8877) is unusual ly good, at the same time adding a definite note of interest and nar rowing your face. When you see how beautifully it fits and how good it feels, you'll repeat this pattern time after time, in flat crepe, spun rayon, silk print and sheers. Pattern No. 8877 is designed for sizes 36, 38, 40. 42, 44, 46, 48, SO and 52. Size 38 requires, with three-quarter sleeves, 4 yards of 39-Inch material; short sleeves, yards; 2;i yards trimming. 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