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Show THE LEIII SUN, LEIII, UTAH j&, Deputy sheriff Jim Doane U called In by thcrtff Sam Flick to track down a (anc of train robbers. The iherlff tells Jim that he believes the gang li led by girl, the daughter ol Plo Alvaro, for-tner for-tner rancher. Star La Rue, a cattleman who hat bought Alvaro's ranch, report! to the iherlfl that rustlers have stolen more than half bis herd. He accuses the Alvaro girl. Sheriff Flick arranged lor a special train to take Jim to the point in the desert In San Loreto county where the holdup took place. Jim knows Miss Alvaro, and doubts that she is the leader, or even a member ol the gang. Be trails the robbers by the boorprlnts until his horse dies. Then he begins walking. Beat and thirst plague him. CI1 AFTER II "Uh-huh," agreed Flick; "that's , it That's sort o my gen'rl idea, anyhow. Just keep it in mind. But one thing I'm stakin' my hat on, Doane. This train job was hatched from Inside the Sand Wells country, not outside. I'm bettin' you'll be able to pick up a nice fresh trail of shod hoots within half a mile of where them four fellers left the train. That trail will then hit for the nastiest, toughest-ridin spots which is to be found In that end o' the county. An" that's sayin somethin'. See If I'm right." And sheriff Sam Flick was indisputably indis-putably right But Doane's trouble had not come from rough country, or a hard ride. He went through that like a bullet goes through paper. As the sheriff had prophesied, there was a fresh hoof trail within a few hundred yards of where the train had stopped. One of the band had evidently evi-dently managed the horses. The trail turned straight north into the desert country, avoiding what scant habitation existed in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of Sand Wells Junction. Doane followed fast and light, with the quart canteen of water and a pocketful of dried Jerky for food. He intended to hit the fresh trail for perhaps a day, to make certain of its general description, unless there was a luckier break. If the trail continued northward, or turned into the foothills of the Sierra Nueva, as he suspected, a man hunt might be outfitted with greater swiftness an ease from the sheriff's office San Loreto, with riders coming dow on the scene rather than worklni up from Sand Wells4 Hours later he noticed that tl animal had begun to limp. Glan lng down, he saw that the rig foreleg was badly swollen; he si out of his saddle and looked at t iee. Snake bite! That's why tl horse had flinched; a rattler h struck him and Doane hadn't ev known it! Maybe the rattler h lost his rattles. Anyway, there was. He cut the swelling ar1 applied a tourniquet He'd made a bad mistake in ri ing the animal so long; he'd giv the poison a good start But n told himself it wasn't serious; rrl ' tier's bite doesn't often kill stoc But the animal's foreleg conti lied to swell, with a rapidity th hurled Doane into a momenta panic. An hour later he took merl on the beast and shot it He look to his canteen. Less than a pint water left! He made some cald lations. He would go on to waterhole, rest there through pd of the night, drink until his syste1 was saturated with moisture, thd head back for Sand Wells with brimming canteen to see hi through. It was the only sensib thing to do. The riders he followd had also been making track for t! waterhole, and that lured him o to see what general course thd would take in leaving. The waterhole proved to be fa ther than five miles . . . twice th But the outlaw trail didn't trout to turn into It The waterhole w dry. A big shot of dynamite h. been exploded in it cracking t lower structure. And In Doane canteen were Just two man-siz drinks; his throat was alreacl parched. "Dry!" ' It was a cry from cracked, i vered lips. The hour was suns Twenty-four hours after he had d covered a waterhole that was on so much hard-baked mud, Doa dropped to his knee in the suns light and held his tongue against t canteen cover of burlap. There w no saliva on his tongue, but on tl covering of that canteen was a c cle of moisture three or four inch wide. The circle was a deep, cav dent in the side of the canteen. Doane had fallen. When he pull the canteen from under him tl damage was done. The fall b dented the metal side of the c teen and a soldered seam h eracked. Not a drop left inside. I sobbed thickly. For hours his thr had cried just to taste the stuff, j j for him to let a drop or two betwe thick, swollen lips, just for a drop water in that burning, . choki throat of his. For seeming hod he had been able to think only that to Imagine only tne uuer4. stasy of the touch of moisture. He had goaded himself on with the thought He had lured himself on step by step with the promise. ' At sunset that iron will of his had promised the weakened, tortured body that there would be rest and ii DESEBT RO ROLLIN BROWN one swallow of water! Countless times, over and over, he had imagined imag-ined it. He would take the water drop by drop; hold it on his tongue, feel it on his palate; drop by drop it would drip down the leather-cracked leather-cracked throat. Or would he take the swallow with one lustful, trembling, trem-bling, satisfying gulp? A thou-sand thou-sand times he had imagined it while the force of an iron will drove his unsteady body on. . The fall had come within five yards of the mark he had set for himself, the spot where he would finally sink down, rest and drink. Driven muscles had weakened wit the joy of anticipation and tl eagerness. He was cheated now b yond any human measure. He kne only despair. But his w,arped miii was no longer concerned with t) despair of death; only with the meaj ure of his loss that pitiful quanti) of stale water that was gone! He cracked. He would gladly ha traded his life for just one drink water. He sobbed futilely, hoarse! gaspingly. .d..li,mL a strong man with ft and water. "Aqui 'sta! Por Dios, some man is lost afoot! There is his canteen!" can-teen!" Five hard-ridden mounts and a pack animal that carried water tins came to rein in a compact group. "IS? The canteen lay on the ground before be-fore them, half tilted against a rock. It had a dented, caved side. There were other things to be seen in the dust A man's body had laid there. Struggled. The marks where the man had tried to get to his feet and again lay still. There were the marks of his raw knees. And to the south went the wavering track where he had disappeared. , "What do you think?" "I think" a lean, straight old "vaquero smiled "that a certain man who never fails has failed. Ae- Curiously, he felt of the sheet spread over his body, felt of the bed frame. The fear hung on. Then a door opened. (TO BE CONTINUED) Kathleen Norris Says: Our Daily Bread Bell Syndicate. WNU Features. "There is hardly a household in America whose mistress could not cut down lood waste.'' By KATHLEEN NORRIS TNT O WOMAN knows how far she can cut down the food waste in her house, until she tries," writes Mrs. Elmer Hillgrass of Santa San-ta Barbara. "I've never thought of myself as wasteful, waste-ful, but I've always set a generous gen-erous table, as my mother did before me. My family includes a good husband, a brother just back from four years' service, my mother anfl her ten-year-old son, and my own two babies. Milk',' meat and grocery bills have run around $170 a month; that is, averaging $24 a month per person not high, considering the cost of everything nowadays. "However, when the call went out for food economy, I determined to see what I could do, took the whole family into my confidence, and set to work. Brother Chester approved, because in Europe he saw the bitter bit-ter need of food shipments to the starving; ""Elmer approved because our bills were worrying him a little and he saw this plan killing two birds with one stone, and Mother approved because she tfiinks we haven't character enough and hoped this would help. 'Bread was one of our weak spots; do what I would, we threw out what amounted to a loaf or two every week. Cut slices, cold toast, the end of a trench loaf all grew stale and sometimes mouldy, and when my jar of crumbs was full there seemed nothing to do with it but throw it away. Saved It All. "That I stopped. While conced ing to my family that fresh bread is much more tempting than stale, determined that no bread should ever be thrown out again. Housewives House-wives know a hundred uses for old bread, I employed them alL Odd bits, crisped in a little margarine, went into soups; old slices were freshened and put under asparagus, scrambled eggs, creamed things. "Once a week every last scrap was toasted, buttered, put into a tureen and covered with hot salted milk and that, with dessert was our supper. Everyone liked it and it was finished to the last ladleful and my bread box was washed, aired, and ready for fresh supplies. 'Ones the bread problem was conquered, the rest came easy. Every Ev-ery saucer of tomato sauce, every chicken or steak bone, every half-onion half-onion or spoonful of the babies' uneaten carrots or spinach went into the soup pot Doughnuts, grape fruit chops weren't bought by the dozen any more, but on a strict ra tio of five, for my five adults. I say 'chops' but we rarely have chops; the proportion of bone weight and fat makes them a wasteful meat Pot-roasts, stews, ground beef, lamb shoulders, all these are varied by the cheaper foods, frankfurters. tongues, pigs feet beef short-ribs, tripe, fish, curries of all sorts. "These are my figures. In March year ago we used 70 loaves of bread, 80 pounds of meat and 17 pounds of fish. In March this year we bought 41 pounds of meat 44 loaves of bread and 15 pounds of fish. The miney saving is very noticeable. Our milk still stands at 4 quarts a ay; eggs we get from our own chiclens, about one dozen !4t waste U it! THE STAFF OF LIFE , We have all been requested, in the strongest terms, to save all the bread we can. This is to conserve wheat so that there will be enough to ship to the starving peoples of Europe and Asia. Wheat is the most satisfactory food to feed the hungry, so the emphasis is on this grain. Of course, we should avoid wasting any food at this time, for many other products besides wheat are scarce, especially meat and butter. , One woman who successful-ly successful-ly did all this wrote of her experiences ex-periences to Miss Norris, who is passing it along to her readers. read-ers. It is a simple, cheerful story, of how a busy mother trimmed down the waste in her household, and yet served better meals than ever. She also was able to reduce food bills by about a third. Miss Norris commends this woman for her unselfish desire de-sire to help others. At the same time she was rewarded by a substantial montetary saving, sav-ing, no little item in these days of high living costs. Every family, says Miss Norris, could save a good deal of food, even if not as much as this woman did. It is every housewife's obligation to be as economical as she can in this time of crisis. a day. The famDy is deeply interested interest-ed in this experiment of food saving, sav-ing, and claims . that it never has lived better. In fractions this means that we save about one-third in cost and bulk of food, and throw out almost nothing .that is edible. I don't cut on my vegetable or fruit bill, and haven't calculated in here the help that homemade small breads give me, cornbread, muffins, &rd so on, because that ratio remains re-mains about the same. Remarkable Record. "But isn't a saving of one-third encouraging and illuminating?" concludes this cheerful and helpful letter. "Elmer and I say that no matter what the food situation gets to be in the future, we never want to waste again." , Everyone, I suppose, cannot follow fol-low this brilliant example, and reduce re-duce food consumption so remarkably remark-ably and with such success. But there is hardly a household in America Amer-ica whose mistress could not cut down food waste in some such proportion pro-portion as that -accomplished by Mrs. Hillgrass. Apart from the national na-tional food demand, and international internation-al food demand, there will be immediate im-mediate financial .saving, and perhaps per-haps a lesson to the younger members mem-bers of the family that will stand them in good stead in their own homes some day. Scrimping and parsimony and squeezing pennies is ugly business, but to live more simply sim-ply and St the same time interest and satisfy the family; to serve not only our own government and help to end the suffering of the world those are objects worth any woman's wom-an's time and effort, those are as important today as was the actual winning of the war. Shells Become Bells Three hundred Korean churches whose bells were confiscated during the war have been .equipped with substitute chimes made from Japanese Jap-anese 240-mm. mortar shells originally origi-nally earmarked by American military mili-tary authorities to be dumped into the sea. Church authorities acknowledge ac-knowledge as their benefactor Maj. Roy B. Southworth, ordnance officer, of-ficer, who intercepted a carload of live shells earmarked for disposal had them rendered harmless and presented them to the churches. stTgecscreeoAdio Beleased by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA, VALE IT'S good news for jazz lovers lov-ers that Benny Goodman will be back on the air regularly. regu-larly. Beginning July 1, he'll have the 9:30-10:00 P. M. spot Monday nights on NBC, The famous sextette will top the BENNY GOODMAN 16 instrumentalists backing up Benny Ben-ny and ,his clarinet and two singers sing-ers will be featured, a boy and a girl. The boy is 6 ieet 4 Art Lund, whose effect on the bobby soxers stopped the show recently when the Goodman band performed at New York's Paramount Theater. . ... After Hugo Hass spent a couple of months growing a walrus mustache mus-tache for his role in Loew-Lewin's "Bel Ami," with George Sanders, be was ordered to shave it off because be-cause it didn't look authentic! Now he pastes one on every morning, to look natural. A lot of people have been trying to get Danny Kaye for the one outside out-side picture he's permitted to do away from the Samuel Goldwyn fold during the next six months, and right now they'd probably like to muzzle Frederic March. Kaye, in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," was working on a stage adjoining the one where March was starring in "The Best Years of Our, Lives" and Frederic, who did "The Royal Family" on the screen, suggested that Danny go back to New York and do a musical comedy version of it on the stage. Danny liked the idea. The return of the beloved O'Neills to the air has been so successful that American Broadcasting decided decid-ed to put them on four nights a week instead of two, the original schedule. And Columbia Pictures likes the series so much that Virginia Vir-ginia Van Upp has been working on a series of family pictures based on the characters. Michael Fitzmau-rice, Fitzmau-rice, the experienced actor who plays Father Danny O'Neill, the young priest would have the same role. Incidentally, Michael wanted to be a priest, but the lure of the stage was too strong. Some of you movie fans who have written to Robert Young may see your own missives in his latest picture, pic-ture, "Lady Luck," in which he co-stars co-stars with Barbara Hale and Frank Morgan. One1 scene in the comedy shows a hotel lobby, complete with clerk's desk and pigeon-holes for mail. And all the letters used in that scene were sent to Young, from all over the world, by his fans. Twentieth Century - Fox has named Celeste Holm, a darling of the New York stage, for a top singing sing-ing role in "I Wonder Who's Kissing Kiss-ing Her Now," based on the life of Joe Howard. She'U be seen soon in "Three Little Girls in Blue." Joan Crawford, whose new picture, pic-ture, "The Secret," has just gone into production at Warners', is having hav-ing fun. She's on top in her career again, she's being pursued by the Hollywood wolves, she's doing just what she pleases. When a New York hat designer showed his collection col-lection in the movie colony, she bought hats like mad "Most of them horribly unbecoming!" commented com-mented a friend. William Wyler, directing Gold-wyn's Gold-wyn's "The Best Years of Our Lives," has banned make-up for male actors, including Dana Andrews An-drews and Frederic March, and asked the girls, including Teresa Wright, to use cosmetics sparingly. She'll use only what she wears for the street The grease paint ban is part of Wyler's campaign to achieve documentary realism in the film. ODDS AND ENDS Beverly Roberta of "Life Can Be BeautiiiV began her career on stage, screen and radio at the age of 5, when, wearing green lace, she tang "How Ireland Got Its Name" at woman's civic club function. . . . The slate of Iowa thinks to well of Meredith Mere-dith W Olson's song "linoa" official centennial ballad, that it's being used for theme music in a movie of the state. . . . Back in the '30s Conrad Nagte turned down three aspirants for roles in one of his pictures, on the ground that they weren't good for talkies- they were Bette Davis, Humphrey Began Be-gan and Rosalind RusselL Could k j have been wrong? ' " ;4 ; Pi Tables and Ben.-l,. For Use Outdoor1, ypy NEED sturdy table, ti , b?nches make back va2 picnics a success.. The setahowS here is unusually easy to ma? 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