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Show THE Thursday, November 4, 1937 r CEaitltlfl EUnnQallciD nrrn SYNOPSIS Wheeler, wealthy young .TEyarrive at the M ranch, summoned esttls-ma- n. Horse Dunn. Ita elderly owner, because ol and mysterious murder. Billy Is In love with Dunn's niece Marian, whom ha has not seen for two years. She had rejected his suit and is still aloof. Dunn's ranch la surrounded by enemies, Including Una Bender, Pinto Halllday and Sam Caldwell, whom ho has defeated In his efforts to build cattle kingdom. Dunn directs his cow hands. Val Douglas. Tulare Callahan and others to search for the killer's horse. He explains to Billy that the momtnf before he had come upon bloodstained ground at Shosi Creek and found the trail of a shod and unshod horse. The shod horse's rider had been killed. The body had disap arrived at peared. Link Bender had the way be the scene and read the signs had. Dunn reveals that because of a financial crisis the ranch might be In Jeopardy; his enemies may make trouble, since Sheriff Walt Amos la friendly with them. He says he has asked Old Man Coffee, the country's best trailer, Dunn and Billy meet to Join them. Amos. Link Bender, bis son "the Kid." and Cayuse Cayetano, an Indian trailer, at Short Creek. Bender has found the Valtr' man's horse, but the saddle is cattle missing. Almost supernaturally, bloodattracted to the scene by the stained ground, stamp out all the traces. Dunn Is angered when Amos tells him not to leave the county. Following an argument. Bender draws his gun but Dunn wounds him In the arm. Back at the ranch Old Man Coffee arrives with a pack of hounds. Coffee goes in search of the dead man's saddle. Dunn tells Billy that Marian Is Incensed at him for bloodshed. trying to settle disputes by He reveals that the ranch Is really hers. own sold his ranch also that he recently In Arizona and that his partner. Bob Flap.g. Is en route with the money. Billy ride to Short accompanies Marian on anow a deputy, "Kid" Bender, Creek. an have argument, rides up. They and by a trick Bender tries to shoot him. Billy saves himself by plunging against Bender's pony and "the Kid" is Injured. Coffee returns to the ranch with the saddle and reveals that Cayuse Cayetano The is on the trail for Sheriff Amos. Saddle belonged to Lon MaRoon, a smalltime cattle thief. Bill learns he Is to be arrested for assaulting "Kid" Bender. On the sheriff's orders, Billy and the ranchmen drive Into Inspiration. On the way. Coffee tells him that the murder victim was not shot by the man riding with him. Billy is disturbed when Marian seems to be interested in Val Douglas. At a hearing before Justice Shafer. the sheriff, aided by Dunn's enemies, tries to incriminate Billy for attacking "Kid" by bis triend d faces of the cow bosses Wheeler saw a strange thine These older, embittered men were teeing Marian not as a girl but as a part oX the 84. He noticed the dark, hard gaze of Link Bender, and the unforgettable green eyes of Rule Dearie, the man who blamed Dunn for the death of bis son. "This court means to. serve out right and Justice, not technicalities," Shafer decided. "And if Miss Dunn wants to testify, I'll call her as a for the court" There wa a moment's pause. "I was at Short Creek," Marian said. "Go ahead. Miss Dunn Just tell the court what you saw, in your witness own words." Marian Dunn still sat with her cheek rested upon her hand; her eyes flicked to Horse Dunn, then to Billy Wheeler, but conveyed nothing. "I was only a little distance away I saw all of It Kid Bender rode up out of the bed of the creek, running his horse so hard he had to slide it to keep from knocking Wheeler's horse over. They sat there talking; Kid Bender seemed to be threatening Wheeler. Fina- lly" "Now why do you say 'seemed'T" Walt Amos broke in. "Either you heard what was said or you didn't" "Let her tell her story!" "Finally," Marian continued, "Kid Bender motioned with his head toward where I was sitting and Billy Wheeler turned, as if to see where Bender. CHAPTER VI Continued They were at the point of the whole thing, now. If the 94 had a chance, it depended on the activity of Wheeler, who, with his credit and his cow finance connections, might gain time for Horse Dunn. Not the danger of ultimate conviction, but delay on a trumped-ucharge was what Wheeler feared. Horse Dunn snarled in his throat, and there was an instant's silence. Nothing could have shown the force of the man, and the resented power he held, better than that! "Order!" said Judge Shafer, looking startled. "Order in the court!" His command sounded fantastic In that quiet room, for Dunn said nothing. "This," Amos went on, "is a wealthy man, as folks around here go. And he's lined up with a wealthy outfit But it's people like him that raise the hell around here, always always roughing the range. We can't hardly get through a season any more without some One's poor feller gets been killed only Just this week. Now If this guy can pull a gun on an officer, and put him out of business, and then walk put of here, free and easy then we aren't going to have any law at all, and I can't answer for It That's all I got to say." "You want to say anything. Wheeler?" Shafer asked. "Judge, if It's got so a man can't even put up bail while he waits for a trial in district court, then there's no justice left" "I'll decide that," Shafer said tartly. "If it's come to a pass where " "Now you look here," Horse Dunn p "Ton Want Me to Finish This With Wit- ness?" EL IE S. MATEf FOR hereT" He sat back and stared scowling at the disturbance which set the whole room in motion as Sam Caldwell thrust his way through the door and up to the table. Reaching It Caldwell Jerked off his big bat end threw it on the table like an fighter throwing his bat into the ring. His face was steaming red, marked with sweat Caldwell looked at Judge Shafer heavily, with the dislike that hard-ridin- g cattlemen have for men whom they consider ineffectual. "There's a man been killed another, by God!" he said. "Cut in two with a shotgun at Ace Springs." Walt Amos said sharply, "Sam, who's killed?" "Cayuse Cayetano! Dead since old-tim- e dust-muddl- yesterday." CilAPTEB Vn As word of Cayuse Cayetano's murder swept through the street the loosely grouped crowd shifted and seemed to seethe, gathering in d knots. The tracker had been loved by none, respected by none; but his trail genius was undisputed, and it bad been widely rumored that he was very close to important revelations. Half a dozen men tried to follow Sam Caldwell into the already-crowde- d county office, forcing in through a considerable number of the crowd inside who had immediately started to make their way out Though it was Judge Shafer's boast that he had never had to clear a court In his life, he was Induced to do so now. "If you've got your court clear, let's have order," said Judge Shafer. "I mean to get this over with. Wheeler, is your defense finished?" "You yourself called the only eye witness here, and the only witness worth a whoop," Wheeler said. "That, ought to be defense enough for any man." "You got anything more to say, sheriff?" "Get it over with," snapped the sheriff. "If you're going to let in testimony like that last I can't stop you. And I've got other work to do." "This is as unsatisfactory a case as I've ever seen on this bench," Judge Shafer said. "Something's wrong something's very wrong. I'd like to reserve decision and think it over." "Reserve, he!l! Let's have it, one way or the other," Amos demanded. "All right! All right! Have it your own way! Case dismissed!" Sheriff Walt Amos angrily crashed his open hand upon the table top and stood up. "There's a sweet decision!" "Any other court would give you contempt for that," said Shafer waspishly. "The court stands ad journed!" He crammed his papers Into his brief case and stalked out looking angry, insulted, and anxious to get away from there.- Nobody spoke to him or interfered with him as he went down the steps and out of sight in the street moving at a hurried amble. Sam Caldwell came back in, bringing with him Pinto Halliday and Link Bender, their deputies' badges half hidden, but evident "You want me?" said Link. "Stick around here. Where's Rufe Deane?" 'He'll be here in a minute." "There's other work to do," said Link Bender, "that can't be done here. I better be getting at it!" "Stay here," said Walt Amos shortly. Link Bender stared at him a mo ment, then leaned against the wall, his dark hawk face hard and tight- half-bree- Tm not through with you. tell you when I'm through," I'll "You'll have to let my wagon boss go, so's be can drive my niece back to the ranch," Horse Dunn told him. The sheriff looked at Dunn for a moment without seeming to see him; be appeared to be listening, or weighing other things. "All right On condition that be immediately gets out of town. An hour from now I don't want to find he's still here." "I'll be out of here, all right" Val Douglas said. "Well. I'll see you start You ready, Miss Dunn?" "Better take my roadster, Marian," Billy Wheeler said. He gave her the key, and she accepted it without meeting bis eyes. After Marian and Val left Sheriff Walt Amos spoke. "Dunn," he said at once, "where was Val Douglas yesterday?" "He was in Nine-Mil- e Valley." Dunn said. "And that's not so far from Ace Springs, is it?" "Not so far." "But riding toward Santlam he'd be going just the opposite way from Ace Springs, wouldn't he?" "What's that got to do with it?" "Toward Santiam," said the sheriff, "was where he said he was, when I asked him a while ago. What's your answer to that?" The two men eyed each other. "If he said he was up toward Santiam, he was probably up toward Santiam," Dunn said. The sheriff grunted and half "How grinned, without humor. lucky. With a man dead at Ace Springs, naturally Douglas was as far away as he could get! Where were you. Wheeler?" One by one they each gave their answers, tersely, without conciliation, as the same question was put to each. "I want you boys," the sheriff said to his deputies, "to remember what these boys have said." "You figure to keep us here all night?" Horse Dunn demanded. "I'm going to turn you out of here In ten minutes," Amos said. Rufe Deane, swinging up the wooden steps, was in time to catch the sheriff's answer. He now thrust in, his green eyes ugly under his shaggy sorrel brows. "You're going to what?" he said. "I have no intention," the sheriff said, "of holding these men on what we got against 'em so far. Rufe Deane angered with an obvious, unexpected violence. "These men'll never leave this town," he said. "I decide that here," said the sheriff. Rufe Deane stared at him a mo ment longer, green fury in his eyes. Suddenly he tore off his deputy's badge and threw it on the floor. "Maybe you do," he said. He turned and went out into the street, the high heels of bis boots clumping slowly, restrained; but as he disappeared from view they heard his step quicken on thejtoard walk. Walt Amos said, "You want that badge, Sam?" Sam Caldwell hesitated a moment "All right," he said. The sheriff turned on his remaining deputies. "If either of you want to string with Rufe Deane, now's the time to say so! Because the next job of this office is to guarantee these men safe conduct out of town." "Walt," said Link Bender, "I'm for you and I always have been; and there's mighty few jobs I'd back off from as a peace officer. But I don't know as I can bring myself to turn my hand to that!" Horse Dunn spoke up, his voice rumbling in his chest "Who the hell wants safe conduct?" he said contemptuously. "When you're tired of jawing, we'll move on out" (TO BE. CONTINUED) Army Takes Pride in Great Naval Guns; Miles Throw Shells Twenty-Si- x gun-totin- g I" "I" dust-cruste- d quick-thinkin- d 2,100-poun- 4 Movie Radio By SEW HOW-T-9. STAR DUST AUaUMsy Srvlc yet" said Shafer. "I what's going on PAGE SEVEN NEPHI. UTAH WlfU I was. While Billy Wheeler was turned away Kid Bender jerked out his gun. It was the most unfair, unwarranted thing you could possibly imagine." "You mean to say" "Be still!" said Shafer. "Wheeler saw the gun Just In time. He half dropped out of the saddle evidently trying to avoid the shot; he seemed to try to get the neck of Bender's horse between himself and the gun. Just then Bender's gun went off. Both horses jumped; but Bender's reared, and fell over backwards." "Well, when did Wheeler fire?" "He didn't fire at all." "But what about this gunsmoke?" "I didn't see any smoke. There was a lot of dust going up from the ground, but that was all." "This is remarkable," said Shafer. "It's an almighty funny thing," boomed. "that this wasn't put "Quiet here!" Shafer snapped. "I Amos said, can't see but what the sheriff's posi- in by the defendant in the first lipped. tion is reasonable, and more than place!" "If you're through with us we'll "You want to cross - examine, reasonable. The statement sworn be leaving," said Horse Dunn. to by Kid Bender and the state- Amos?" "I certainly do," said the sheriff. ment by the defendant is two differ ent things; but there's a witness Look here, Miss Dunn! How long man Wheelbacking up Kid Bender. There's have you known this er?" been altogether too much Rifles 'What's the point to that?" and general ructions on this demanded. Wheeler range. The army uses navy guns to "Judge," said Amos. "I claim this a minute," Marian Dunn .Jtfjt Oahu, the island on which woman guard is said. "Watch- - yourself!" said Billy lies the largest military concentra Judge Shafer halted in full cation under the American flag, writes reer; and abruptly a new motion- Wheeler. There was a general stir through a Honolulu united tress corre less silence came over the people of men. "Come spondent. packed into that room, at the sound all that dense press This paradox of coast defense is of the girl's voice. "Heh?" said Sha- to order!" said Shafer. to diplomats and the formula due Wheeler be don't mean," Billy "I fer. tion of the Washington Treaty. The gan. to let wis "I'll testify." said treaty banned the addition of "Will you tome to order, For a moment Shafer seemed not guns to battleships, so the to comprehend, and there was a Shnfrr. "or take a contempt ol surplus rifles were turned over to moment more of that dense heavy court?" the army. Outside there now rose a disturb quiet Two of these guns, mounted on car came Sheriff Walt Amos spoke, his voice ance as a constructed by the army's it half the carriages street; down fiat ironic, and his contempt for careening the judge was in it the contempt snun as it skidded to a stop in the Ordnance department, were proof 20 of a man for a slow miHHlB nf the roadway in front of fired recentlyof at Fort Barrette, Honolulu, guarding Sam Caldwell. miles west one. "She can't testify." Shafer's office. heavy-neckenii.irp-spt- . ally of the western approach to the island. "Why can't she?" Their performance showed strikforged his way "Because she hasn't been called Link Bender, Bhoul their defense capabilities in came and ingly crowd the by either side." through "I want you people to know," derina uo the steps. Inside and out time of emergency. Each is capable projectile said Judge Shafer. "that I'm run- side the quiet broke into mumbling of hurtling a over a maximum range of 45,000 disorder. ning this court!" to finish with cross yards nearly 26 miles. They can lLihe heavy quiet while Shafer "You want me witness," the sher be swung around and elevated to a this Wheeler tillajesitated. watched the auestioning faces of Horse Dunn's enemies. The iff was demanding of the judge, "or maximum of 55 degrees. Hence they could drop a shell at young cowboys were unwillingly not? If you want me to clear this nearly any spot on a line described friendly to the girt swayed by an court- -" "I've never had to clear a court by the perimeter of the island, "svuaoie attraction. But in the water-hoggin- TIMES-NEW- RuthWyeth Spears VIRGINIA VALE months you will be about the great success ol the mm "btage Door," partly because it is such an entertaining picture, but more because it is prov ing a turning point In the ca reers ol the many young actresses who appear in it. Katherlne Hepburn, so long tottering on the brink of whimsy and ob livion, returns to the forthright manner of her great success, "Morning Glory" and really tugs at your heartstrings. Ginger Rogers proves to be a acfine dramatic tress. Andrea Leeds and Lucille Ball make dramatic bits llv' lCyA early nrte:f tively that they have already been rewarded with leading roles. Constance Collier, for many years a great idol of the London and New York stage, proves that she can be equally effective In motion pictures. Katherlne Hepburn Jack Benny has every reason to be proud of his wife's motion-pictur- e debut. In Paramount's "This Way Please," Mary Livingstone tosses nonsensical lines about as deftly as she does on the nation's favorite air program. This picture also serves as the film debut of Fibber McGee and Molly, those pleasant homey folks of the radio, and brings back Buddy Rogers. He isn't as young and exuberant as he used to be, but he can still lead a band. e Crowded as the picture is with favorites, two youngsters manage to walk off with a large share of the honors. Betty Grable is a little bombshell of vivacious beauty and Rufe Davis proves to be the most hilariously-entertaininof all hillbillies with an imitation of a man sicking his hound dogs on a pig in a potato patch. big-tim- g Derision on putting little Leatrice Joy Gilbert, daughter of the late John Gilbert, in the leading role of "National Velvet" is still in abeyance, but she is assured a future in films. 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Cover with your favorite From a very much and she enjoys being THIS: ABOUT COLOS! able to swap professional studio talk pie crust. with her husband, Joel McCrea. Paramount is equally enthusiastic Record Suit over her return and will put her in researches The record time for making a The the lead of "Dream of Love." these doctors) (of man suit of clothes from sheep to led them to believe that colds result from an add is held by a textile concern in condition of the body. To overcome this they and Ernst Lubitsch, Gary Cooper Huddersfield, England. Not long prescribe various alkali e3."That's why, todays, Claudette Colbert have all been ago it sheared twelve sheep, made marking time while the wool into yarn, wove the yarn NOW CONTAIN AN Paramount officials into cloth and cut and sewed the searched for Just the man's suit ALKALINE FACTOR cloth into a three-piec- e right actor to play in 130 minutes. Collier's Weekly a very important role in "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife." They were getting disLIKE By Fred Neher couraged, when they to a to go happened IfI party where "The Copyitxbt 1987. br Fred NeW Prisoner of Zenda" k was shown, and as soon as they saw Gary Cooper David Niven they chorused "That's our man." Luckily, he was just on his way back from England, and Sam Goldwyn to whom he is under contract had no immediate plans for him. LUBEH'S LIFE'S JEF&nSf THAT v guarding it from attack from virtually every side. The guns weigh 140 tons each and are as large as any in the world. Army experts believe they are of infinitely more value for defense than the lighter, mobile guns and indicate they may recom mend construction of similar batteries at other points. A similar battery at Fort Weaver now guards the entrance to Pearl Harbor, the navy's mighty Pacific base. These guns are capable of firing 200 rounds without being disman Thus each of them could tled. throw 200 tons of steel at an enemy anti-aircra- fleet. 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Joan Crawford wishes that fans would write and tell her what sort of role to pUiv next. She does not want to sing or dance, though she does both well, but will try anything else her fans suggest. tO Western Newspaper Union. ... a t ,if "The charge is taxidermy, yer honor boxes (1" lv rt . . be was " is stuHUi' ballot |
