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Show 4 1 TIIE LEIII SUN, LEIII, UTAH FRIEND rO'HARA .... Tan-yeM-oldltlonsthat.il on W lUy, wy' Wr ta disappointed by Ut84 .t the change WST; bad . : of hi. corral lenc. Lrf W l U.till convinced the le'e'i"ehiei to have any-t any-t what b. considers CHAPTER XIV n She ran I three legs. W.'T.L. nPar the three it', -nint broad- I the friends to care for with her. Mc- ran au uvci u.b ' lees. She was r... setting wnai eu f. .!m treatment; and when Ken woke In i W. ,vrl nut Of his J.tinniPss as a statue, rlin low and relaxed. I"" ,M.h Tten had aMnroflikethe C thing delicious but far I.?. h nostrils of a hound, i victory that filled his " . Aao an1 shone trom w. Cgth to bis hands. .Flicka Flicka naa iwuvc-u. edhim. There was only said at supper that cka's my friend now. She And It doesn't .ad of that, son," said Mc-it's Mc-it's a fine thing to have . . s t jjntimena. , jjce was strained .better," he said, So-" Uhat!" ufiw got to find out, don t oat what?" s toco.' Ob." McLaughlin grunt- frowned. "She's not loco." in said we wouldn't know her training. ton had that in your head Sue? That little filly's got disposition as any horse fcew" - 3ai how do we know? She le crazy like Rocket like herself up in the stables, if put a rope on her and Iti be halter-broke" Sn looked at his small 1 1 quizzical grin on his p, that's what you want, fee help In breaking that :a!" - sodded. Rob's eyes sought fci then he pushed back his m out his pipe and looked rindow gravely. . , ' b we might do that tomor- said finally. "Yes, I think time. Right after' break- sapper was over. Ken fled and ran to take oats. He told her all He stood smoothing her begged her to be good. He to there was nothing to i A in being halter-broken, ber how he and Howard -broken the colts; that the liked it; they had all had s'ier. He begged her he !! Oh, Flicka . !sa to think of what would 3 she wasn't eood. He 3! Rocket and then the hnlo h he laid his face against mm. and stopped talking ecause he couldn't tell her ftose thines ha iet fa-stand. m looking for him. She 1 little visit ever H They walked up through I" together. The air was T " perfume of wild jae sunset there were long oands Of dppn rnco r,A th dark blue sky In Him, . . ' . naa a mass of violet cloud above. A roaein the midst m v, iL - Vi Vilb (me star drawn i N Ken by the shoulder around before he T'we' a new moon in Je-look at it over der-and that's good :J looked. He didn't ',b was good " 11 8 Vfas good luck 3ai leaned in at began to --rtugusi. The ?8iii Fit a i. --r ucjr VOUia War. Th n,0,tv,. "vouici that all thA Jborh?od were get !rn!-e road- .?achmes were i bathes Of frarrDnt . air smol1, J: tat .v ""lereni. When h was cut b1rr,Beoit was ,vIor hundreds of miles. J4rThineS with aU acM. r "suienea, worn iced- i oa th Jam mended; e stackpr. WJ ish of SUSpenSe vus airec- tlons that, surely, meant a full day's "And Gus- added McLaughlin 8 g!ng to haIt-break his filly I want you and Tim on nana Gus' eyes opened In astonishment. He glanced at Ken's scarlet, down-cast down-cast face. "Ja, Boss- Vere will ve do It?" m "In the Calf Pasture. Call Tim " McLaughlin rose from the table. "We'll do it right now, and get it over with." Tim and Gus came down from the stable carrying lariat, halter and a lead rope. ' They stood in a group just inside the fence, and McLaughlin walked forward a short distance with Ken and told him to call the filly. Ken obeyed. Presently Flicka ap. peared coming around the shoulder of the hilL She trotted up to Ken McLaughlin undid the red banl dana from Ken's neck, handed it to him and said, "Just sling that around her neck and tie it in a loose knot." Puzzled by these strange directions, direc-tions, Ken obeyed, and Flicka returned re-turned what, apparently, she "I'd call that halter-broken," said McLaughlin. thought was a caress, nuzzling his neck with her nose. "And now take your belt off," said McLaughlin. "Here," said Ken, in a complete fog. "Slip it through the bandana," said his father. When Ken had done that, the belt hung in a loop under Flicka's neck. McLaughlin waved his hand. "Now go down the path put your arm through that loop." Ken did so, while McLaughlin stepped backward, put his arm across his wife's shoulders, and pretended pre-tended to lean his weight on her. He was thoroughly enjoying himself. him-self. Ken walked down the path and Flicka hopped by his side close to him. When they reached the cotton-woods cotton-woods on the hilL McLaughlin called, "Now turn around and come back. Let go the loop. Just hold your hand in the air under her chin." Ken obeyed. The leather belt, the bandana, hung loose on the filly's neck. Ken's hand was in the air under her chin. He led her by an invisible bridle, and the filly followed fol-lowed as close as she could "I'd call that halter-broken," said McLaughlin grinning as the Vioy reached him. Ken was stunned. "But Dad" he said, "but it's not a halter. Dad" broke?" get halter- lv M0g"lndld n"t nswer direct- SLnTi a11, m" he ,ald. ? i.t0 8maU audlence- G" "Sw. 7u Were both grinning. p G,0,ose Bar Ranch. I wish thai" hSd been here t0 8ee "But Dad," protested Ken, slip-Ping slip-Ping the halter off of Flicka's head. She stood beside him. nosing at It. nipping at it with her lips. "Figure it out," said McLaughlin boisterously as he walked away. Come on, Gus, we'll get at those machines" That night, when Ken came back from taking Flicka her oats, he walked to the terrace where his parents par-ents were sitting and said, wagging his head, "More poultices, please" Nell, who was laughing, stopped as she heard Ken's words and turned to look at him. "What's the matter?" "Her hock is swelled up again and she holds the leg up." Both his parents sat so still and so gravely for a moment, that it made Ken anxious. "The poultices cured it before they'll cure it again, won't they?" Nell got up suddenly. "I'll go down to look at it. Ken" McLaughlin went too. They looked at the wound which was swollen and obviously painful. Her right foreleg was swollen too, all the way from the knee up to the scar of the chest wound. Ken was alarmed when his father pointed out to him the second infection. infec-tion. "Can we put poultices on that too?" he said anxiously. Nell nodded. "Sure. It won't be an easy place to bandage, but we'll manage." Next time McLaughlin went to town he brought back a bottle of serum and gave Flicka a hypodermic hypo-dermic injection. "What's it for, Dad?" asked Ken anxiously. "For a generalized infection like this." "Generalized infection?" "Yes. She had just one infected place, on her leg. This chest wound was all healed up and never had been infected. Now it's infected. The infection came through her bloodstream from her leg. That's called a generalized infection." McLaughlin spoke in a casual, matter-of-fact way, and Ken's anxiety anxi-ety was allayed. -- "Will it get her well quick, Dad?" he asked. ".Hope so, son sometimes it helps a lot sometimes they seem to do as well without it." "Where'd you get it?" "I got it from Dr. Hicks." The name of the vet always made Ken think of money and it gave him a shock. That thing his father had said You cost me money every time you turn around "How much did it cost, Dad?" They were walking back together. "It cost ten dollars." Ken stopped walking and McLaughlin Mc-Laughlin strode on without him, heading for the tool house, near which Gus was working on one of the mowing machines. Ten dollars! Ten dollars . . . when his father crabbed about every ev-ery penny the boys spent . . . about a forkful of hay . . . Ken ran after his father. McLaughlin Mc-Laughlin was already arguing over the blades with Gus. "Dad," he began. be-gan. "Well?" McLaughlin's head was raised from the machine. IIdidn't know what you said, you remember " "Well, out with it!" roared McLaughlin Mc-Laughlin impatiently. "That I cost you money every time I turn around. I didn't see how I could, but now, why, Dad! Ten dollars dol-lars . . thanks ever so much, Dad-" "Ten dollars!" shouted his father, with the twisted, sardonic grin on his mouth. "Why. for you, Kennie, You take some convincing, young 1 that's nothing. A mere wave of the feller," said Rob. "But all right. Give us a halter, Gus." Gus stepped forward and gave him the halter, "Now put it on her," said McLaughlin, Mc-Laughlin, handing it to Ken. Ken almost shook. He held the halter in his hands and turned to Flicka but dared not take a step in her direction. "How shall I put it on her?" he asked, thinking of the way he and Howard had to struggle with the first halter and the colts. "Just the way I put the halter on Taggert," said his father. Ken thought about that. His father fa-ther walked up to Taggert holding the halter openly in his hands, and Taggert stood there and stuck her head in it He summoned all his courage, went to Flicka and held out the halter. Flicka. who loved his hands, and had never felt the touch of them except in gentleness and affection, came closer, and Ken slipped the halter over her head, and booked it under her throat "Now lead her." said his father Ken obeyed and went down the path twenty yards or so-an easy in hand. You re the Doy tnat inrew sway three hundred dollars just looking look-ing out the window for an hour." why why I never three hun. dree" dollars" "Go on away and let me work," roared his father, and bent his head again over the machine. Ken found his mother. She was busy too, sorting the laundry, sitting sit-ting on her heels on the floor picking pick-ing over a big pile of shirts, blue-jeans, blue-jeans, socks and linen. Ken posed the problem. "How did I. Mother? I never did, did I?" ' Nell laughed and wrote "six prs. bluejeans" on her list. "Yes, you did. You looked out the window for an hour when you should have been writing a composition. So you weren't promoted and you have to repeat the grade. And it costs about three hundred dollars for one year's schooling for you" "Three hundred dollars," breathed Kennie with awe. "How can it?" "Count it up, eight months' board . t.t 00 a month. A hundred dol- fnr tuition ana lars books. You 3 ii v.o vmi 5pp If vnn had wasiea an j -- --- written the compos ition, your father wouldn't have had to pay that over halt nnrt turn and back again, wi Flicka fonowing so close the iead J 8,in tor yo rope was slack. "" Zipper Suits Keep Mariners Away From Davy Jones' Locker 17 W Neither clowns nor zoot suiters are the young men pictured pic-tured above. They are students at the Sheepshead Bay Maritime Mari-time Training station where 30,000 mariners are trained yearly. Their apparel is the Morner life saving suit which keeps a man afloat indefinitely. They are trained to don these suits in 30 seconds. The backward bend is a result of the speed with which they zip up and lock the watertight fastener. !; CHkrf8 If T i l.-5Tl c urn. , iA ej . ID " f l Victory V (p iPamdel The 13 weeks1 course includes 'ss ysf instruction in deck duties, en- y Sr' f y gine room operations, lifeboat y , 'fjpH handling, swimming, gunnery, ' - j - f' J and safety seamanship. Most of 'f'" j ' the training takes place on a f i ( 4 I craft that has never sailed and j j 1 never will sail. It is a concrete if 11 replica of a ship, complete with j j . . booms, winches, hatches, etc.- ' If l 1 The bridge is raised on hydrau- I ' ; ' ?f I lie jacks so it can be made to roll. I f j W , V f ' ' vl' 'M l V, The maritime service trains crews as fast as American Ameri-can high-speed industrial geniuses gen-iuses turn out ships. Above: If there is no time for lifeboats, the men go over in life suits. Left: He can float this way indefinitely. The suit contains emergency rations. t Circle: At the command "abandon shipn the men quickly take previously assigned positions in lifeboats. Training like this saves lives if the men are forced to actually abandon a torpedoed ship. Right: Deck hands demonstrate their agility by swarming high up a mast. Speed in emergencies must be second nature to these men. Right: A member of the faculty instructs in-structs a class on the correct way to get into a Morner life saving suit. The suits are made of rubber and lined for warmth. m Washington, D. C. CORN 'SIT DOWN STRIKE High ranking officials of the agri culture department are frank In say ing that farmers are Impeding the war effort Just as much as striking coal miners when they stage a sit- down strike on corn. Feed corn Is desperately needed by poultry farmers, dairy farmers. and corn processors. But corn is not moving to market because farmers farm-ers are holding for a higher price. The typical farmer in the corn belt today Is looking at his bins full of corn and reasoning that he might as well hold it for a while, since be doesn't need the cribs yet, and since the price might go up. Washington is partly to blame for this. The attack on OPA, the firing of Chester Davis, and the congressional congres-sional demands to set aside the price ceiling, all have created uncertainty. un-certainty. So the farmer sits tight, saying, "I'll Just wait till they make up their minds." But when thousands of farmers do the same thing, It creates a scarcity which throws the national economy out of gear Just as much as the lack of coal production. The patriotic thing to do, say Washington Washing-ton officials, is to send your corn to market now, especially since the farmer is guaranteed the benefit of a price rise, if it comes. Meantime, the corridors of the de partment of agriculture are seething. seeth-ing. Pressure for a corn rise is terrific. ter-rific. This is Marvin Jones' first big batUe. WICKARD GOES SHOPPING Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard went shopping with Mrs. Wlckard the other day. He stood in the grocery store watching the shoppers, shop-pers, while Mrs. Wickard did the buying. He noticed a crush in front of the meat counter, while the vegetables, including potatoes, were going beg ging. "That's human nature for you," mused Wickard. "Only a few weeks ago, when potatoes were short for a few days, there was a great howl from the public, and potatoes were sold in the black market. Now there's plenty of potatoes but every body wants meat." When Mrs. Wickard appeared from the crush, she announced with pride that she had some meat "How much did you pay for it?" asked Wickard. "Nine points," replied Mrs. Wick ard. "No," said the secretary of agri culture. "I mean how much money how much a pound?" "Oh, I don't know," she said. "All I know is it cost nine points out of my red stamps." Wickard shook his head. "That's the trouble with you women," he said. "You're not thinking about the cost of food, but only whether you can get it or not How do you expect merchants to hold to the price ceilings, if you don't even know what you pay?" Mrs. Wickard promised to do bet ter next time. Want to Move Fast. The method used in invading Sicily Sic-ily was a compromise among land, air and naval elements, resulting in the "peculiar amphibious opera tions" Churchill talked about But the air forces believe they can move even faster and more effectively in conquering other parts of Italy if they don't have to be tied down by classical warfare. For instance, with bases in Sicily, army airmen think they can so pul verize the industrial plants of north ern Italy that they can bomb that country out of the war without waiting wait-ing for huge landing operations to come up and help them. Then with air bases in northern Italy, they are within range of the hidden synthetic gasoline and rubber factories which Hitler has moved into Austria and Czechoslovakia. Czechoslo-vakia. Thus, step by step, the air forces believe they can knock out the enemy without resorting to clas sical warfare. Axis Planes Knocked Out. Here is one significant thing army airmen point to. During the ten days Just before we invaded Sicily the Nazis had been sending a lot of new planes into Sicily and southern Italy. But after one day of fresh Axis air strength, which was heavily damaged by U. S. planes, there followed a day or two of weak resistance. re-sistance. In other words, Axis planes were knocked out and had to wait for reinforcements. These reinforcements re-inforcements kept coming up until about two days before the invasion, after which Axis air resistance was light Use Remnants n otrntive multi-colored gweater out of the remnants of two or more old or outworn uniueu ments. Before taking the cast-offs aDart. wash them in soap and luke- warm water, xne wooi wm i r and pleasanter to handle. p u Plywood Garbage Cans h . nnaorvntinn meas- Al ore, plywood garbage cans, coated with acid resisting paint are reported re-ported being used for war housing; projects in Vancouver, Wash. Protein for Aviators a ,itrh nrntpin diet aonears Ideal for the aviator. The relatively slow breakdown of the food proteins nmvMpg a more lasting .source or nourishment and serves as a siza ble source of carbohydrate, as wen as the Amino acids. The specific dynamic dy-namic action of proteins may be of particular value to the mgn aiucuae aviator in aiding" the temperature-regulating temperature-regulating mechanism of the body so necessary at the colder temperatures tempera-tures experienced above 10,000 feet (3,000 meters). The use of the extra ex-tra heat-producing action of pro teins in maintaining body xempera-ra xempera-ra anneara to be a valuable ad junct to the diet of the aviator. o Guatemala Collects Scrap In a drive sponsored by Presi dent Jorge Ubico of Guatemala, 17K.M0 tons of scran rubber has been collected for reclaiming in North American factories. Of this amount 2V4 tons were collected by Boy Scouts. ; ' O ' As Long As Battleship American shiDvards are current ly building ore ships for service on the Great Lakes capable or cansy-rcr cansy-rcr 10.000 tons of iron ore at a trip. Last year ore ships carried 90,000,000 tons or essential ore. The newest ships are nearly as long as the most modern battleship. o Long Range Telescope The marine exchange lookout Station at Land's End, San Francisco, Fran-cisco, has a telescope"" with a 80- mile range. CAPITAL CHAFF A Since the Washing pnt Dosed the use of dinlnmati'o . driving to dinner, many a Washing, ton diDlomat has been unlnu - C5 & WW4 VW foot . . . Among five Washingtoni- ans wno were penalized for pleas ure driving wa John Quincy ams. L One reason for the Nazi announce- mema mat an Allied Invasion start on such-and-such rfafa i. mu. .a ujat if the invasion does not material!.. 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