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Show TIIE LEHI SUN, LEIH, UTAH 1Y GENERAL 7 V. .r xmmm,, Kathleen Norris' Savs: Lift Up Your Hearts (Bell Syndicate WNU Service.) I ITORY so FAR: More man .1 lortign troop recretly assem- Mexico by Van Hassek suddenly d tb United Statei. Vastly supe-l supe-l namben and equipment to the jean forces which opposed them, tatsek's troops pushed relentlessly IA'hAPTER XVII-Continued . itfljning went to bed after watch-Mr watch-Mr several hours and managed Isoep through part of the day. a Ijm his porthole, Benning saw to; fish; scurry out of the course miH ship in late afternoon, which Itensmed fast progress south. With "Jng he caught the blink of dis-rSJJight dis-rSJJight myriads on the coast line, leiicitplored the possibility of escape ' i night by whaleboat but con-d con-d he stood slender chance of PBss in such an exploit At dark La -sumed his reconnaissance of ,ck In his effort to locate Bra- -tnolz' stateroom was empty at y clock, again at ten. On his . . trip down the boat deck, Ben-ija Ben-ija ound that half a dozen men had Tabled, including Bravot and ilz. He stationed himself again 1 shadows of a whaleboat and I fit An hour passed without de-t de-t Sient, then the group filed out tmirfenUo the rail to strain their SStflto the starlit night nta of them set off a flare, and iJinutes later a second flare. jig't ears caught the distant of an airplane. The sound thes In volume until a plane zoomed nerj'.ead and circled'to a stop. engines of the ship slowed jki Four men lowered a boat Ifift shook hands with Schmolz '"'limbed over the rail to disap- 38down the ladder. A few min-yrs,oater min-yrs,oater Benning caught the flash ' j-s in "the starlight. The plane ' ' ''Mnto a roar of sound, lifted into WGiight, and streaked off into relspeMd whence it had come, "ning returned heavily to his E. Pi Bravofs departure by plane abiefty meant that the ship would 3ompo4use at Tampico or Vera Cruz. Neve"! least Bennulg consoled him-ue him-ue to e could play a stiffer game on rry ttlwith the French renegade out way. lehow, in the tense days ahead, as?n mid find a solution to this hide-! hide-! erroblem, he vowed. If nothing )Ums-, a chance at the radio room e he could flash a warning the coast artillery forts and bate guarding the Canal from g Jfce next few days, while -.ynatnite ship ate up the long s aphis to Panama, Benning carefully )his, ltover the vessel and watched uckioghances. Land had vanished, .!Je by boat he had dismissed ining interest centered on the J roortf as his best chance. The Kiie t.'idge. Several times he Hd th room, pretending interest r mec&anism. But the radio op-r, op-r, on4 Smidt, was sullenly un-111 un-111 limitative and resentful of vis-m vis-m off I u been around here esough, r, i rniat compiainea at cen- tfc, jfd appearance. "I got to Jo, so you please keep INSTALLMENT SIXTEEN forward. The U. 8. army was not prepared pre-pared for this sudden attack, and could only retreat In the face of overwhelming force. While an American spy In Mexico City, Benning had gained the confidence of two enemy officers, Flncke and Bravot. Bra-vot. Weeks later he unexpectedly met his voice a raucous sneer. Murder burned in his round green eyes as he covered Benning with a long-barreled Luger pistoL Behind Schmolz were his mate, steward, and a member mem-ber of the crew. With an oath he unstrapped Smidt's hands and kicked the operator to his feet Smidt took Benning's pistol and message mes-sage and passed them to Schmolz. "Ei, himmell" Schmolz gasped, as he read the message. "A spy aboard!" In a surge of savage fury Schmolz seized Benning by the collar and jerked him out on deck. With a sudden sud-den swing of his bam of a fist he dropped his prisoner and crashed down upon him with his two hundred pounds of beef and brawn. "Got here just in time didn't I!" Schmolz bellowed. "Not for nothing did I have you watched!" Schmolz' beefy fists pummeled emphasis to his words, flailing Benning's Ben-ning's face and head. "Chuck him overboard to the sharks!" he roared. Benning was driven to the rail. He gripped the rail with his hands and held tenaciously against the fatal fa-tal plunge into the Atlantic. One of his assailants clutched his legs, an- Mall Must Go Through' The motto ot the U. S. mall Is "Neither rain, nor snow, nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers cou-riers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." i to TIP JJJin 3k en IBIh t C 4 incident, Benning gained the Jicoitjortable suspicion that he r Wastfem? hatched. Twice he tested antiy tall ly an abrupt about-face on Jdatrois ,th times a hatchet-faced fifafl'"S riouched past him with ex- "a, ate 1 preoccupation. ?se y oe chance remained if he Sifdla et the radi0- That was to ling, pd American officers who and'sw C3r?e aDoard t0 check cargo "biadde the ship was permitted in ,cBck$. But Benning decided that rtthatpust Hot wait on that last des-'.-tremity. , , . a forty mm X kept up a careful esti-Btufpwp esti-Btufpwp ttie sPeed and progress of hborl lip. nis calculations ioiu una the ship must be approaching Bay. Schmolz' plan, he d, was to detonate the ship assed through Gatun Locks. 2!ning s plan of direct action iiliiea on what be juagea to last afternoon at sea. In his " HQTjhia notebook, a blunt warning Handing General, Panama "anerican freighter now ap-g ap-g Limon Bay from New Ih cargo of high explosives. ! plot in effect to wreck Pan-jaL Pan-jaL Instant action impera-Inning, impera-Inning, Major G-2." lie saw Schmolz go to the Ben :ing loitered about the k, then went direct to the Cm. tr. didn't I tell you to keep Jiere!" Smidt exploded as T stepped into the little room. ig said quietly: "I want to J radio, Smidt You'll be imgh to do just what I tell to." 4 scowled at Benning's lev- iLJol and yielded with a sullen f his head. Benning strapped i&jw's hands behind his back nRpfd him to stretch out face r . sard on the floor. Sitting down ncn t' Benning started putting his tNUJMf I: i tt. i J Art iinu ranama. ne uau W to $W? 8111 words, "C. G. Pana-Salt" Pana-Salt" when a voice chal- Z&, nut-1 om the door. , ' S iy ship has a new radio molz was framed in the door. w&r- i MSS3 "So my ship has a new radio man." other ground with heavy heels at his fingers. Below Benning could see the water foaming down the hull of the ship. , His feet were clear of the deck, his left hand lacerated into helplessness. A knife flashed in the air over his right hand to slash it free of the rail. Schmolz bellowed an order before the knife could reach the flesh and bone of Benning's fingers.: "Stop it! Hold everything keep him aboard! Ja, I got a new idea!" The others turned to Schmolz with questioning glares. The knife hung in the air over Benning's hand. "Ja, in the water it is over too quick! " Schmolz leered. "So I think we give him a nice stateroom where he can think until boom! Schmolz sprang forward, seized Benning's collar and hustled him down a narrow flight of steps from the boat deck. He searched Ben ning's pockets and shouted an or der. A winch sang, a hatch crept open over the hold. At command, one man seized Benning's legs, the other two helped Schmolz cram their Drisoner head foremost through the opening. Benning plummeted through black stiace. struck on head ana shoulders and lay stunned, con sciousness holding by a thin thread siowlv his mind ' cleared, tie stretched his pain-racked Dody out on the hard cargo and tested shoulder shoul-der blades by moving them. There was no fracture. Lying flat on his back, he strained his eyes upward through the blackness. The hatch had been closed. He muttered to himself: "This time, Benning. you've tangled yourself your-self in a fine snarl. Looks like curtains, cur-tains, doesn't it?" : Benning felt drowsiness creeping over him. a drowsiness that had the power of a strong opiate. He woke with a start to find the engines shut down now. The ship was not . moving. mov-ing. He concluded the ship must have stopped at Cristobal Here a quarantine officer would come aboard. Schmolz would advise him of the nature of his cargo, but this merely for the computation of weights and water displacement required re-quired for passage through the locks. Unless suspicions were aroused, the ship would steam on Into the Canal. In a short time the engines churned. Benning took this as verification. veri-fication. The ship was leaving Cristobal. Cris-tobal. After a time the engines slowed down, stopped. Benning's pulse ham- NEXT WEEK Flncke In Washington, and continued to pose as his friend. Benning accompanied accompa-nied him on a boat loaded with dynamite dyna-mite bound for the Panama Canal. On board bu aroused the suspicions of Schmolz, the skipper. Now continue with the story. mered In his ears. He guessed that the dynamite ship had come to the locks and was being made fast to the electric mules that would tow her. By now Schmolz and his hench men must have abandoned the ship, after setting detonators in motion for the explosion, he reasoned. Innocent Inno-cent hands were seeing the vessel through, a hundrsd seamen whose lives would roar iito nothingness witn nis own. Into the black hole there came the soft yellow glow of & ball of light Benning shook his head dazedly against what must be a phantom of his tortured imagination. The ball swung crazily toward him, gaining in brightness, and a bushed voice came to his ears from overhead. "Say, mister, ain't you pretty hun gry about now?" Benning's voice leaped from his throat as his mind oriented itself to this intervention. "Quick, Grimes! Get a rope down here and pull me out of this hole!" The ball of light ceased its rota tion, grew stationary on a thin cord in front of Benning's eyes. Grimes mulled through priceless seconds, and countered, "But the cap'n might get sore when he comes back, and kick me off the ship." , "Schmolz isn't coming back!" Benning shouted. "Quick, get a rope for me or it's only a matter of min utes until we'll be blown to pieces!" Grimes did not answer, but jerked the lantern back up out of the hold, Benning's fingers bit into the palms of his hands through an eternity of waiting until the lantern reappeared, hitched this time to the end of a stout inch-rope. Benning detached the lantern when it reached him, passed the end of the rope under his armpits and tied a hurried knot He put the force of his lungs into an order to heave. With legs braced across the open hatch. Grimes put the strength of his powerful arms into the Job and brought Benning to the deck. Ben ning staggered to his feet and start ed for the raiL ; "Come "bnTGrlmes," 'he "ordered.' 'We got to get off this ship!" Under the soft light of a new moon, as he ran to the rail of the ship, Benning saw the thick con crete walls of the locks. Beyond were the rows of squad tents of an emergency guard detachment Ahead the electric locomotives tugged at heavy cables. Benning drove the force of his lungs along the deck in warning to the crew and climbed down the ladder, lad-der, closely followed by Grimes. At coming abreast of the top of the walls, he leaped, propelling himself outward with his legs, and landed on chest and stomach. For several moments he lay stunned, then stag gered to his feet and ran toward the tents. Sentries barked a challenge. a figure in pajamas burst out of a tent to level a vibrant voice. "I'm the commanding officer what's all this yelling about!" Benning panted: "I'm Major Ben ning, of G-2. The cargo of this ship is dynamite it will detonate at anv minute! Get everyone clear here!" .... The commander swung on his heels with cool promptness and began be-gan shouting orders. "All out! On the run! Leave everything behind! Get moving to Mindi on the wagon road never mind formation!" There was Intensity rather than excitement in the officer's voice. Benning saw that the crew was bursting from the doomed ship. Some, in their panic, leaped into the water of the narrow locks, others made the long leap to the top of the locks. He ran after the officer, Grimes trailing. A puffing sprint brought them to the railroad grade that led into Mindi. Another long run and the officer halted in a deep cup in the Sierra Quebrancha. He commanded his soldiers to scatter into the foothills. Two miles lay behind. Half an hour had passed, Benning judged. The captain introduced himself, Marlin. He began asking questions, suddenly suspicious that he might have been tricked away from his post of duty. Benning quickly es tablished his identity. "But how do you know the ship's cargo is?" Marlin cut off his query as his cheeks caught the peculiar stir of air as from a gust of wind. Ben nir.g's hands drove to cup his ears He felt himself pitched forward on his face. The earth heaved violently, violent-ly, his head rang with the pain of the volcanic might of the explosion that filled the world. All existence had been reduced to roaring, crash ing, maddening bedlam. A clap of thunder shattered his thoughts. It crashed out of distant hills and jungles far down the Isthmus Isth-mus from Gatun Lake. Benning halted. There came a second crash, a third, a fourth. The detonations followed one another successively within the limits of a few minuter (TO BE COMTIMED) Land Area of Pacific The Pacific ocean has slightly more than one-quarter of the total land area drainage of the Atlantic. Its water volume, however, Is double dou-ble that of the Atlantic. Amerindian Population The Eskimos and native peoples of North and South America are included in-cluded In the Amerindian population, popula-tion, which is estimated at 18 million. Vision of an Ant The vision of an ant differs from that of the human in that the ant can perceive ultra-violet light to which the human eye is blind. 'Fancy Asi&ragrus Lowest Grade Do you know that "fancy" aspara gus Is the lowest grade? Grades of asparagus are fancy, select extra select, jumbo and colossal. Hot Water for Dishes Dishes should be washed in hot water as the heat dissolves the semi solid fat into liquid oil which washes off the dishes. Anonymous Donor An anonymous river mailed a let ter containing $10 Oin crisp bills to the Scranton, Pa.f school board. There was nothing else In the en velope and nothing to Identify the sender. Niagara Not Largest Upper Yosemite Falls, with a drop of 1,430 feet or nine times that of Niagara, is the greatest In the world. Victoria Falls has a drop of Just a little over twice that of Niagara. Without a Fatality The record number of passenger miles flown without fatality by the commercial American airlines amounted to 1 billion before having hav-ing been brokea Swimming Ills , Observations in the past few years, according to authorities, have disclosed many sinus and ear Infec tions were caused by swimming. More Electric Irons The United States has almost 10. 000,000 more electric Irons than it has washing machines, of which there are 14,000,000. Most Densely Populated Kiangsu province, which contains Shanghai in China, is the most densely populated political district in the world. Helium Fields The only commercial source of helium In the world are the natural gas fields of southwestern United States. Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte originated the idea of odd and even house numbers num-bers for different sides of the street COMMUNITY SPIRIT If the war news tends your spirits to a "new low'' and you can't teem to visualize a better future, try the tonic tuggested in today't Kathleen Norris discussion. 'While there are women like M'arie Miller in the world? she says, "the future need hold no fear for American women, and civilization and sanity are safe," congressional medal of honor. She is the wife of a mechanic; she has four children; the family income is $1,500 a year. Pot Own House In Order Pa and I had a talk with the children . about America a year ago," writes Marie Miller. "We told them that the first thing for the Mil ler family to do was to get its own house into order, in case hard times and sacrifices were ahead for us alL That meant a clean house, no debt children doing well In school Meals ought to be hot and prompt and appetizing, these days. Talk at the table ought to be hopeful and amusing; there ought to be plenty of games, plenty of plans. As spring deepens into summer arrange for as many garden and porch meals as you can. By KATHLEEN NORRIS EFE ought to be especially cheerful in your house these days to counteract counter-act the gloom and the fears that the newspapers bring us every morning and 'the radio confirms every afternoon. Every woman in the land ought to feel that her first line of defense is right in her own home, and work out from there to wider spheres of in' influence if she has the ca pacity. Meals ought to be hot and prompt nd appetizing, these days. Talk at the table ought to be hopeful and amusing; there ought to be plenty of games, plenty of plans. As spring deepens into summer arrange for as many garden and porch meals as you can; start a language class In the evenings and ask a few neighbors In; and if the burden of today's shadow grows too heavy turn back to histories and discover how many parallels to today's tragedy there are; how many wars there have been, how little actual trace they have left upon the various nations or upon the map of Europe. . A Saner, Better World.- We will outlive this war. Nations will come back to their senses; dia tators will disappear. Saner men will take their places. This is in evitable. And meanwhile we have to learn the lessons of this war, and apply them. The world has changed in the past 40 years; changed more fundamentally perhaps than in any preceding 40 years since history began, be-gan, and when the battle clouds blow away who knows but what we will find it a better world? Certainly we will find it a world suddenly made conscious of its own wealth, power and potentialities. In my grandmother's day nobody thought that unemployment and slums and poverty were curable conditions. con-ditions. Oppressors coined - smug phrases about being "contented with your lot" and "remaining In that state to which God had called you.' We know better now. We know that God never called small boys to shiver barefoot as they swept muddy street crossings; nor women to cough themselves to death In sweat shops, nor the fathers of hun gry families to be hanged for snar ing rabbits on the L square s pre serves. A Task f Every Individual. What cruei and pagan dictator ships overseas have taught us by their merc'Iess regimentation for war, we miy turn to an equally ef fective use in peace. Their dreams of guns anl hate, of blood and death and destruction, might well have been dreams instead of friendship and co-operation, of homes and gar dens and fields brimming with har vest . And the beginning of that new world of serving and sharing is in your house and mine. It is in our souls, where we have to establish peace, and from which we have to banish fear. Make your own microscopic micro-scopic slice of life perfect live it without hate and fear, and see how soon your vision of world problems simplifies and changes. Until we all realize that no guns, no bombs, no "victories" and treaties are going co do anything permanent for world peace until that peace, with com plete forgiveness and sympathy for enemy nations as well as friends, comes into our own hearts, we are only repeating the old mistakes and sowing fresh wars. Here is a letter from an Ohio voman who ought to be given the Most Nickel Produced Ninety per cept of the world's supply sup-ply of nickel is produced In Sudbury, Sud-bury, in northern Ontario, Canada. Everlasting Blooms Flowers used for making everlast. ing bouquets include helichrysum, mixed strawflowers and statice. Salt In Water When boiling eggs put a little salt In the water and you will have no trouble taking the. shell off. jysTl Compressed Composition "Tommy, why is your composi tion on milk only half a page when I asked for two-pages?" "Well, you see, sir, I wrqte about condensed milk." - 4 4 PRODUCTION BRED, MOUNTAIN BRED, AND ACCLIMATED ... NEW H AMPSHIRE8 BARRED ROCKS WHITE ROCKS BUFF ORPINGTONS WHITE WVANDOTTK COKNISH CAME8 WHITE KIANTS OfeV. LIGHT BRAHMAS Hatched EIGHT. Delivered FRESH. Over- Bight delivery to all Intermonntain points. Mammoth Bronze Turkey Poults Priced tit to EOc each delivered. Write, Wire or Cull for FREE Illustrated Circular, RAMS HAW'S i UTAH PIONEER HATCHERY i SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH 2SC !Y'! Use of Possessions What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do with alf his might. Cicero. ; No Dance After two miles of route-marching, the recruit retired to the side of the road. "Whnf tA u'm?" asked his sergeant. nn .U 1 1 1 . . . . . .OM aim me uumc ouiiuspiiere always pleasantly, Sitting tnis one outt pieasauu x aiscussea wim my neign- bors my plan to make one American home perfect and they decided to do the same. We then extended our in terest to the entire block of mill- workers' houses, both sides. We visited vis-ited some who were foreign-born and did what we could to make American ways easy for them. "We then began a series of week ly supper meetings, very small at first and in one of the houses, but now in the school-house. Our husbands hus-bands come to these meetings, to which every woman brings five sandwiches except the women who supply cookies, coffee, sugar and cream. We gie out a general sub ject and ask five persons to make three-minute talks on it and we always al-ways break up after discussion at half-past eight sharp. "Last week our subject was 'After the War, What?' and to our surprise a German-born couple, quiet neighbors neigh-bors who are comparatively unknown, un-known, came uninvited to the meeting meet-ing and asked if they might speak. The gentle, unhating picture they gave us of the millions of good German Ger-man fathers and mothers, young sisters sis-ters and brothers, young husbands and wives, who are silenced and intimidated in-timidated now, but only waiting their hour to reopen churches and schools and renew their friendship with all the world gave us all new hope of a better day ahead and did much to quiet the hysterical fears that many of us seem to have had that the world has gone permanently crazy. ' Neighborhood Co-operation. "We find it very simple, in this new spirit of neighborhood co-operation, to take In d sick woman's children chil-dren for a meal, to sit with an invalid, in-valid, to share some unexpected surplus sur-plus in the kitchen, and we feel that in a very obscure and humble way we are proving that community spirit spir-it developed to such hateful military mili-tary extremes In Europe, might be managed here with great safety and profit to all concerned, and close to the eternal law of Christ We think our particular Hock, In grim and ugly 'Factory Town' Is one of the happiest and , safest spots in the world." This woman. Incidentally, was a school-teacher before she was a mill-town wife and mother; and to make her story even more striking, one of her little girls is physically handicapped and has to have extra help in hygiene and gym work. And all this managed on $1,500 a yearl The future need bold no fear for American women, and civilization and sanity are safe while there are - women like this in the world. Little Change "Love-making is the same today to-day as it was in ancient times." "What makes you say that?" "I've just been reading about a Greek maiden who sat and listened lis-tened to a lyre all nightl" Dreaming vs. Reality Some people merely dream of being something; others keep awake and are something. Newspaper Personal "Anyone found near my chicken house at night will be found there next morning." Quite Naturally "How did you happen to become a chiropodist?" he was asked. "Oh," he replied, "I was always at the foot of my class at school, so just drifted into this profession." DON'T BE BOSSED BY YOUR LAXATIVE -RELIEVE CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAY When you feel gassy, headachy, logy duo to clogged-up bowels, do as millions do take Feen-A-Mint at bedtime. Next morning thorough, comfortable relief, , helping you start the day full of your normal energy and pep, feeling like a million! Feen-A-Mint doesn't disturb your night's rest or interfere with work the next day. Try Feen-A-Mint, the chewing gum laxative, yourself. It tastes good, it's bandy and economical ... a family supply FEEN-A-MINT To True Mirror Her husband's eye is the truest mirror an honest wife can see her beauty in. John Tobin. SUCCESS IS ASSURED Habits Multiply HI habits gather by unseen degrees, de-grees, as brooks make rivers, rivers riv-ers run to seas. Ovid. Scornful of Little Things He that contemneth small things shall fall little by little. Ecclesi-asticus. Ecclesi-asticus. ' r XJLjl eT 701 North Michin Avcna f fi I llj 1,000 nixld room If sr. ill OaJr Moc4 xP thnbtt, , hops and bmbiml dlfirict CIom to Iai-Wji-JUooil Par. 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