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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEIII, UTAH 5 iSSSssssss due mm Burma Road Remains Important Military Object y PETER B. KYNE W-N.U Stnvict 111 D 1 1 idi il r mm 1 1 Ira oil nd led ;ed m sari x 12 irgy ;o2. 38S 3 m THE STORY THUS FAR: Mary Sutherland, Suth-erland, an Eastern girl, It lured to Art. sona by the advertisements of the Wagon Wheel dude ranch, operated by Ma and .Pa Burdan. She is met at the station by ten Henley. While, at Phoenix Len enters : the rodeo, drawing the brone Mad Hat-, Hat-, ter. Mary learns that Len loves her and j that bis lather, Ham, disapproves. She wagers one thousand to three thousand that Len will ride the horse. He does, fcut is Injured. Mary now buys the Bur-i Bur-i dan equity in Wagon Wheel, outbidding Ham. Ham, feeling the ranch Is his, offers It to his son. Learning that Mary does not have the money to pay for the j notes he owns, he threatens immediate I foreclosure. . CHAPTER XI Presently Ma Jangled a cow bell iso Mary knew luncheon was ready. Pa was ready too, as likewise a dark man with handle-bar mus-jtaches mus-jtaches whom Pa introduced, without with-out naming him, as the deputy sheriff sher-iff guarding everything the injured j-dude spinster had attached under the judgment rendered her against the .Burdans. The democracy of the southwest was apparent, tor the deputy dep-uty sheriff had been invited t eat with the new owner and her em-'ployees. em-'ployees. Mary decided to change that custom promptly. Luncheon had Just been finished 4and into the ranch yard rolled Pe-!lro Pe-!lro with Len Henley's pick-up truck jand Len's two horses in the trailer attached. Behind came the old se-jdan se-jdan and the trailer house with a pretty brunette young woman driv-:ing driv-:ing and beside her on the seat, two .small boys about five years old who 'appeared to be twins. I 1 The Burdans gave Pedro unstinted I '-welcome and Pedro was plainly sur-I sur-I prised at seeing Mary present. He introduced his wife, Carlotta, and I liis two sons, Victoriano and Juan, and Pa Burdan said: "Meet the I new owner o' the Wagon Wheel, I ;Pedro. This is Miss Mary Suther-I Suther-I land. Friend Len's," he added parenthetically. . ' j Pedro bowed low and almost I swept the ground with his som-l som-l ferero, but he did not indicate that l lie and Mary had met before. His -wife said to him in Spanish, "How is this, my Pedro? We have been f sent out here by Don Hamilton (she pronounced it Hamil-tone) and now i s"we are informed this lady is the owner." "I am embarrassed," said Pedro. "You need not be, Pedro," Mary -assured him. "Until yesterday Don Hamilton felt so assured the ranch would be his, following some trifling legal formalities, that he anticipat-d anticipat-d his right to send you out here to xepresent his interests. But since "then the situation has changed and it is now my pleasure to welcome you to the Wagon Wheel Mrs. Burdan, Bur-dan, you will please assign the Ortiz Or-tiz family to one of the dude cottages cot-tages and then prepare luncheon for them." ( "We thank you, Dona Maria," said Pedro. "I was pretty tired camping camp-ing out on the deserted rodeo grounds, so I came in to see Don Hamiltone to ask what I should do with the property of Don Leonardo. "I am about to buy the Wagon Wheel ranch,' he told me. Take the property prop-erty of my son out there and bring your family with you and look after things for me.' " "You and your family and Don Leonardo's property are welcome here, Pedro, until other arrangements arrange-ments can be made for you. Don 7 .,t .1 J l l : m i W 1 thought a stranger was in charge of his horses. The cattle on the Wagon Wheel belong to Don Hamilton, so if he desires you to do something lor him in connection with them you must remain to do so. Enter your house." So Pedro and his family entered their house and carried in with them an assortment of groceries, while Mary continued her Inspection of the ranch headquarters and after luncheon Ma Burdan drafted Carlotta Car-lotta for a brisk sweeping and dusting dust-ing campaign in what she called the Dude House. At Mary's direction 'Tdue sbe set a smaU table before te bance fireplace in the living room and rs Co that night Mary ate dinner in the mpton l isolation her position as boss of the , mM rancho demanded. Carlotta very nedidB prettily asked permission to serve ions- her in the capacity of waitress and iCtrWU xiaid, in which, prior to her mar- iompou -iage, she had had some experi- . ence, and Mary promptly engaged , a her on salary. She had already un- f packed Mary's trunks; she could launder fine garments and was an J expert needlewoman and Mary felt 4 a little recession of the suspicion i that she was a hardy pioneer when. upon retiring, she found a fire in the small open fireplace in her room. , her bed turned down and her night-gown, night-gown, robe and slippers laid out. -J The following morning Pedro sad-died sad-died Len's horses and invited her to ' ride with him over the home ranch. j She accepted nor did she consider it worth while to inform him that the was but a bird of passage on (to Wagon Wheel and not remotely 3 Interested in acquiring it for an in-lestment, in-lestment, that her presence here Y.l result of impulse. The home ranch, she discovered, consist- I rising perhaps a hundred feet above the little valley in which the ranch headquarters stood. It stretched about half a mile wide, between the river and the northern hills and about three miles long, toward the southwest and, in general, following the course of the Santa Maria toward to-ward which it sloped almost imperceptibly. imper-ceptibly. "So this is the home ranch," she said disgustedly. "Well, Pedro, I wouldn't give a dime an acre for it, although I will admit it raises a bigger and better crop of worthless shrubs than one will find out on the desert And the State Bank of Arizona loaned ten thousand dollars dol-lars on it Had the board of directors direc-tors been recruited in an insane asylum?" He smiled his kindly, gentle smile. "You do not understand, Dona Maria. Ma-ria. This is rich land, otherwise there would not be such a splendid growth on it! Any kind of growth on poor land is scrubby but this growth, although worthless, is magnificently mag-nificently worthless. If cleared this would make good dry farming land, although one can secure water at from fifty to sixty feet and a generous gen-erous and constant flow. Pumped with a gasoline engine it would irrigate irri-gate many valuable crops." He led her to a lane about forty feet wide that stretched through the jungle and lost itself over the horizon, hori-zon, and they rode down it "At a time when Senor Burdan had some "Well, Pedro, I wouldn't give a dime an acre for it." ready money he had a tractor with a blader on it what we call a bulldozercome bull-dozercome in here and brech this lane," Pedro explained. "This growth is all shallow rooted and the blader thrust it to one side. Four trips up and down the length of the home ranch and the job was done. Then Senor Burdan had a well-driller come in with his rig and drill half a dozen fifty-foot wells to prove the existence of the water at that high leveL" "Then what happened?" "The money he planned to spend to clear this land was then invested in a gold mine. It is still there. But he did clear one hundred and sixty acres along the river. Forty acres he farmed for hay, forty acres he sowed to grass for horse pasture and forty acres he planted to pecan trees and grapefruit On this cleared land which he thus gave value, the bank made the loan, but took in the uncleared land for additional security. securi-ty. Then, a bad frost killed the grapefruit trees which was all right because Senor Burdan knew nothing noth-ing about grapefruit culture anyhowand any-howand it developed he had planted plant-ed the wrong kind of pecans. There has never been a crop worth harvesting." har-vesting." Mary laughed inwardly. Poor Pa, born to futility. Pedro went on. "This mesa land is very rich in volcanic vol-canic ash; it is alluvial, the result of erosion from the hills, and it is not deep enough for alfalfa but any crop that grows in Arizona will grow abundantly here. Don Leonardo always al-ways knew that one day the Bur-dans Bur-dans would lose the Wagon Wheel and U was his hope that when that happened he would have enough capital cap-ital to buy it and work it out of debt Alas, when the opportunity arose he was in a hospital, unable to take advantage of it." Mary had a feeling that Pedro was trying to interest her in Len's dream, so, because it had been Len's dream, she became interested. "What would Don Leonardo have planted here," she asked, "if fate had willed that he should own this ranch?" "Rhodes grass, Dona Maria, imported im-ported from Rhodesia in South Africa. Af-rica. It grows tall and luxuriantly, it has a tolerance for alkali as high as three per cent it is a perennial, very nutritious, does well on poor land and is very drouth resisiant. Ol course, on rich land, with uT.gaiion, It would prove great forage crop, for it can be cut for hay or grazed." "Indeed. -Who told Don Leonardo all this?" "He learned it at the University of Arizona. He had this soil tested there, for Don Leonardo Is not one to leap before he looks and he looked into the future and saw himself him-self the owner of nearly two thousand thou-sand acres of pasturage that would support three thousand cows and their Increase. He would have built up a herd of pure-bred Herefords to sell to other cattlemen for breeding stock at prices double or triple what they would bring for beef. With this home ranch developed and under fence he would have abandoned the open range. There would be no round-ups, he would have a short pay-roll and there would be no chance for thieves to run his cattle off in trucks! Poor Don Leonardo! If he were a cry-baby he would weep when he reflects on what he lost that he might triumph over Mad Hatter. I warned him not to stay too long on that brute, but he would not listen to me. He over-estimated his strength, and now" Pedro spread his hands despairingly. So this was what she had de prived him of when she made that foolish bet with his father. To win that bet for her he had taken a risk that had cost him the dearest wish of his life! Mary could have wept And then came the thought: If he had the home ranch he wouldn't need the open state range, so he would be safe from clashes with cattle thieves f And I bought the state range lease to save him from that! Tumble Tom is a brother of mine! "Of course," Pedro went on, as they rode along, "Don Leonardo would not have given up the state lease until he had the home ranch in shape and well stocked, and to earn the money to do this he would have had to run cattle on the open range. It would have heen many years before his dream came true, but what of that? One must work and one must fight to be happy, and is life not like a tunnel? One travels far in the darkness and then comes the light at the other end and it grows brighter and brighter until one emerges into the sunshine." "And out there in the sunshine is a cemetery," she said bitterly. "Pedro, "Pe-dro, I think I shall be happier if I, too, do some working and fighting, Fortunately, I shall not have to live my life in a tunnel; I have the power to make my entrance and my exit swiftly like a train. " - He pulled up his horse and looked at her eagerly. His brown hand swept the landscape. "You mean you will take up the dream of Don Leonardo?" Leonar-do?" one nodded, "i live a very useless use-less life, Pedro. I do nothing to justify jus-tify my existence . . . The thought has just come to me that it might be fun to make millions of blades of grass grow where none have grown before; that there may be some quiet satisfaction in doing my bit toward feeding the world." "Dona Maria," said Pedro with deep feeling, "you are a different dude lady! At the moment I am employed em-ployed by Don Hamilton Henley but I would it might be my fortune to help you with this dream. I am only a poor man but I am not stupid. I have been to high school in this country and I am not a peon. My father was a hacendado. He was killed in the Madero revolution; Don Hamilton found me at Agua Prieta with the soldiers; there was a big fight there and I was sent across L the line. I was just a ooor little fellow and so frightened . . . well, I am an American citizen now." When they returned to headquarters headquar-ters Mary borrowed the station wagon wag-on and asked Pedro to drive her in to Congress Junction, where she telephoned to Sheriff Hank Wade at Prescott the county seat "This is Miss Mary Sutherland speaking, Sheriff Wade," she announced, and spelled out her name for him. "I have just purchased the Wagon Wheel ranch and find on it one of your deputies guarding a couple of milch cows, some rather obsolescent ranch equipment and some cow ponies that ought to be retired on pension. This livestock is being held on my property and fed on my hay. for I took that over with the real estate and improvements. Also the water those animals drink is mine and it isn't attached and can't be. And I don't want that livestock or that rusty old equipment cluttering up my ranch after today." She heard the sheriff laugh softly. "What? Would you begrudge a critter crit-ter a bite to eat an a drink o' cold water?" "I would," Mary laughed back. "You're a dude, I take it?" "Yes, that's what they call me out here." When she returned to the ranch she said to Ma Burdan, "Mrs. Burdan, Bur-dan, Sheriff Wade will be lunching with me tomorrow, so please have an extra special luncheon." Ma whistled. "That ain't goin' to be so pleasant, Miss Sutherland. Sheriff Wade's three sons was pros ecuted by Pa here a little while back for stealin' our cattle. Pa caught 'em cold in the act got the drop on 'em an' arrested 'em, but they beat the case twice, so it got throwed out o' court" TO BF CONTINUED) They Tried and Failed (By John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation, United State Department of Justice.) Nazis in America have been taking tak-ing a drubbing like the Nails facing the Yanks in Normandy, the British at Caen, and the Russians in thai victorious sweep through Poland. The much-vaunted methodical nlanninir and scheming of the Nazis have contributed to their own down-falL down-falL They tried, but failed, to swing their Fifth Column into action In America. It suffered setbacks before be-fore Pearl Harbor, but its back was broken once we were freed of peacetime peace-time restraints. Since Pearl Harbor, ove 15.750 suspected Fifth Colum nists have been arrested. The more dangerous were Interned, others paroled, and others released re-leased when It was certain they would do no harm. The German High Command admitted ad-mitted the Ineffectiveness of their Fifth Column when they dispatched the eight saboteurs to America by submarine two years ago. We have learned that other saboteurs were trained to take their places. But to far they have not put In their ap pearance. The Nazi rats must not be under estimated. Try cornering a rat and see how he bares his teeth and strikes back. We can expect the am from the Germans until the last vestige of Naziism is crushed by our Armed Forces. America has a perfect score in combatting the experts In deom and destruction. No act f enemy-directed sabotage has yet occurred in the United states. I am sorry to say that even native-born Americans have tried; I am happy to say that they, too, have failed. One 23-year-old worker In an aircraft plant cut 21 wires in two bombers just to see how the FBI handled a sabotage investigation. investiga-tion. He found out. The "Blunder Bund," which once scoffed at American faith in human nature, was set back when its chief espionage ring was penetrated by the FBI. We built a radio station with their funds, gave them misleading mis-leading Information, sold them fictitious fic-titious plans, and at the conclusion of the case turned over a profit of $17,000 to the U. S. Treasury to buy bullets to shoot back at the "super race." Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, convicted convict-ed leader of the German-American Bund, fled to Mexico. He was tripped up when the alert Mexican military authorities became suspicious suspi-cious after he stacked a 25-foot fishing fish-ing boat with 200 pounds of food, 450 liters of drinking water, and 50 packages of cigarettes. , Ernset Fritz Lehmitz was caught as the result of some of his newsy letters designed to conceal reports in secret writing on convoy movements. move-ments. He wrote that his dog was sick, he was busy with a victory garden and as an air raid warden. These jig-saw bits of information were pieced together and after some additional hard work he and his associate, as-sociate, Erwin Harry De Spretter, were arrested. Before Pearl Harbor, the Nazi Embassy in Washington had detailed de-tailed plans to foment strikes and Incite domestic strife. An Important Nazi official in this country was discarded by his fiancee when she learned of his scheming against the United States. Another Nazi official offered of-fered to pay $500 for documentary documen-tary proof of the canard and lie that Benjamin Franklin was anti-Semitic. The Germans built np a dollar balance of over $21,000,000 by selling Rueckwan-derer Rueckwan-derer marks in this country prior to the war to be redeemed in Germany. Practically all the German consulates in the United Unit-ed States were active in promoting pro-moting the German-American Bund. Nazi brazenness reached its Height when Baron von Spiegel, the German Consul in New Orleans, boasted that the United States would be repaid when the Reich completed Its conquest in Europe. A Midwest consular attache was greatly embarrassed em-barrassed when he was caught making mak-ing pictures in a factory area. The Nazi spy, Heinz August Lun-ing, Lun-ing, arrested and executed in Cuba, kept canaries in his room to conceal the noise of his short wave radio transmitter. Heavily populated prisoner of war camps in the United States hold thousands of frustrated Germans. Occasionally, some try to get away. Sometimes they succeed for a time. But no prisoner has yet been able to get back to Germany, and their periods of freedom generally ire limited to a few hours. vW 'fir ?. i 'ft Kfto This section et the Burma road in China was taken by a signal corps photographer. The China-Burma-India theater of war contains 24 switchbacks as shown in this photograph. Even before America entered the war, engineers from American military and civil life were cooperating with the Chinese in the improvement and development of this highway system. The road is essential to China. It serves as the only line of com-munlcatlon, com-munlcatlon, outside of air, that serves a va portion of the country. The road has been under air bombardment bombard-ment almost continually since the start of the Chinese-Japanese war. America's Answer to Nazi Rocket Projectiles v j f -V;r' r Rocket Armament of P P-47 Thunderbolt has eight deadly caliber machine guns In addition to the new rocket gun armament. Special training train-ing has been given the ground crew as well as members who operate the rocket guns. America's answer to the Nazi flying bomb has been the further development of the new rocket gun armament arma-ment on the huge P-47, which not only can do as much damage as the flying bomb, but actually does many times as much, for the bombs can be accurately placed. Clothing Survives Flying Bombs Pj K-y if J i i ( ' WK iVif I'll l - w , : . i English families are pictured salvaging some of the clothing and hosiery still Intact, after a Nazi flying bomb had wrecked a big outfitter's store in southern England. The goods were said to have been scattered far and wide by the force of the blast. Some 5,000 of these bombs have fallen in England. 'Old Faithful' , .1,1.1 j, --u,,.m Mm.mmmwmw V JL - "Boots, old faithful, a fire department Dalmatian mascot, hevers by anxiously as respirator is applied man, one of ten firemen overcome Hi. n f ..rnc.il a l9v. nniil I followed him to the hospital and i -V fit : i - 47 .50- t. Watches Master to his master, Lieut. Herbert Lode- by smoke in a fire in Tew Torfc. liia macior n.a f a k on iviT and thpn later to his home. l V 1 t - . J :i P Loading Projectile Yank shown loading a projectile into the rocket armament of the far wing of the P-47 Thunderbolt Arrows indicate the rocket projectiles, pro-jectiles, one on each side of the Thunderbolt Nazis complain that the new rocket is "unfair" "un-fair" and does not give them sufficient opportunity op-portunity to get under cover. U. S. army officials report that its effect will be increased. Gods Fail Japanese This wooden figure of a Japanes warrior god was among the wai booty found on Saipan after the invasion. in-vasion. It is believed to represent the dual personification of the Japanese Japa-nese Buddha and the protective go' of warriors. Bishop Greets King i. , 7 J 1: 7.''. ) s. v v 1 Archbishop Francis J. pellman oi New York, military vicar of Cetho. lio Chaplains, left, greets Kin George W of England as Lieut Gen. Mark Clark of U. S. Fifth arraj (center) Iooks en. in" : ' -v -v v |