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Show THE 17, 1944 ThursdayAugust TIMES-NEW- S. NEPHI. UTAH Burma Road Remains Important Military Object nn. jpr lwWaOy "" UDE WOMAN 3y PETER B. KYNE cows, bulls, p -manager, CHAPTER XVII "I'll be forking a horse by the first of April. Threw my cane away yesterday." "I discarded mine yesterday, too, and drove in to Phoenix to celebrate and biiy. some things. Margaret told me where I could communicate with you. I'm so glad you're in your father's house.; You both must feel much happier now." "We are. How are you getting along out there, darling?" d man "I'm busier than a saddling a colt. That's a nifty I borrowed from Hank Wade. Hank's my friend. And don't you call me darling because I'm telephoning you on business. I've been wondering if. now that you've abandoned the ro deo circuit, you would consider sell' ing me Mose and Pablito. I'd like them for my top horses." "I don't wish to sell my horses. but In memory of some high mo ments and a sentiment I thoroughly realize has perished, I would like very much to present you with them. And you're the only human being I would consider presenting them to." "Wasn't it Sir Launfal who said that the gift without the giver Is bare? Thank you, Don Leonardo;-bu- t I may not accept a gift from yoiS, for any reason particularly a sentimental one." "Well, you win that argument," he answered bitterly. "Very shortly I will come out and remove all of my property from your ranch." "Don't bother to do that. I shall have Pedro deliver it all to your father's Tomahawk ranch near Presone-arme- Arizona. A few days later Len motored over to Earp, California, and made discreet Inquiry of the postmaster for Randall H. Wall. He was in- imvmmm On August first Len received a telephone message from Tom Lundy one of his watchdogs on the Fly ing W range that four men were gathering Flying W cattle. A week later he and his father motored up to their Tomahawk ranch, loaded Len's two horses and his father's top horse, saddled, into a huge truck, together with three pack mules with their pack outfits, bedding rolls, food and cooking utensils and returned to Prescott, where Hank Wade joined them in his official car. They motored a hundred and eighty miles to Wickenburg and U (mmuwmiunwy' .c?ww,w.'Ww wiroiauwww.w- . . (By John Ed far Hoover, Director federal Bureau of Investigation, I nited States Department of Justice.) Nazis In America have been taking a drubbing like the Nazis facing the Yanks in Normandy, the British at Caen, and the Russians in ther victorious sweep through Poland. ''"! .wwwt ' iff p & pyfr&i LA ct H and Failed They Tried fvs YOTMvttAJU1 ... : methodical The planning and scheming of the Nazis have contributed to their own down fall. They tried, but failed, to swing their Fifth Column into action in turned west across the flat or undu- America. It suffered setbacks belating desert to Hope, then north- fore Pearl Harbor, but its back was west to Parker on the south bank of broken once we were freed of peacethe Colorado River and northeast time restraints. over a dirt road to Eagle Landing. ' Since Pearl Harbor, ove I 15,750 suspected Fifth ColumAbout six o'clock the following nists have been arrested. The evening they heard the distant promore dangerous were interned, test of tired cattle and the shout of others paroled, and others remen Urging them down the wash. leased when it was certain they Half an hour later the sheriff with would do no harm. his party watched, from a distance This section of the Burma road in China was taken by a signal corps photographer. The of thirty yards, his sons, Joel and theater of war contains 24 switchbacks as shown in this photograph. Even before America entered the ad Command German The High Rube, and two strangers dismount, from American military and civil life were cooperating with the Chinese in the Improvement war, engineers of their mitted the ineffectiveness unsaddle their horses and three pack of this highway system. The road is essential to China. It serves as the only line of comand development when Column Fifth they dispatched mules, hobble them and turn them of air, that serves a vast portion of the country. The road has been under air bombardoutside munication, America to by loose to graze. They made a fire the eight saboteurs war. since the start of the Chinese-Japanes- e ment almost continually We have down in the wash and all hands submarine two years ago. were saboteurs learned other that in the preparation of supper, helped from which task they presently were trained to take their places. But so diverted by hearing the soft voice of far they have not put in their ap pearance. Sheriff Wade saying: "Up with them, Joel! Up with The Nazi rats must not be underthem, Reuben! Up with them, estimated. Tank shown loading a projectile into the Try cornering a rat and strangers! You're all covered!" see how he bares his teeth and rocket armament of the far wing of the 7 "Up!" Hamilton Henley's voice, strikes back. We can expect the Thunderbolt. Arrows Indicate the rocket prosame from the Germans until the fierce, harsh and raucous supplejectiles, one on each side of the Thunderbolt. mented the sheriffs command; si- last vestige of Naziism is crushed Nazis complain that the new rocket la "unmultaneously he put a bullet into by our Armed Forces. fair" and does not give them sufficient opthe heart of the campfire and scatportunity to get nnder cover. U. S. army arms of tered the coals. Four pairs officials report that its effect will bo America has a perfect score went skyward and their captors in combatting the experts in closed in from four sides; while the doom and destruction. No act Henleys and Lundy held them covof enemy-directe- d sabotage bas ered the sheriff handcuffed them occurred In the United yet and linked them together with two states. additional sets of cuffs. I am sorry to say that even "Paw," Joel Wade whimpered, Americans have tried; "you ain't a goin' to take us in. native-bor- n are you? You wouldn t disgrace I am happy to say that they, too, worker yourself by disgracin' your own have failed. One in an aircraft plant cut 21 wires in sons, would you, paw?" "Your paw's been dead for some two bombers just to see how the a FBI handled v investigasabotage t time, Joel," his father replied sadout. found He tion. ly. "You're talkin now to the sherP-4iff of Yavapai County who took an 7 The "Blunder Bund," which once oath of office to uphold the law. 7 has Thunderbolt eight deadly You an' Reuben promised to stay scoffed at American faith in human machine guns in addition to the out of Arizona after Mr. Henley nature, was set back when its chief armament. new rocket gun Special trainsaved you from that mob in Pres espionage ring was penetrated by been given the ground crew as has a station ing radio We built FBI. the cott an' bought you out an' here you well as members who operate the rocket are back in Arizona with eighty odd with their funds, gave them misficguns. head of Mr. Henley's steers in your leading information, sold them conclusion at the and titious America's answer to the Nazi flying bomb has been the further development of the new rocket gun armaplans, or Shut I'll up gag you." possession. of the case turned over a profit of ment on the huge which not only can do as much damage a the flying bomb, but actually doea many The party was up an hour before $17,000 to the U. S. Treasury to buy times as much, for the bombs can be accurately placed. dawn and Ham Henley and the sher bullets to shoot back at the "super iff prepared breakfast while Len race." Henley and Tom Lundy, with a lan tern, sought out the hobbled horses Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, convictand mules, brought them in to camp ed leader of the German-America- n mim.i;vt I; i.u. II.JIJ ran iuu.biiihmi.hu and saddled them. After breakfast He was ffVvam Bund, fled to Mexico. the prisoners were mounted on their tripped up when the alert Mexican own horses, and connected with military authorities became suspififty-fohorses fishriata, while their cious after he stacked a were tied bead to tail, with a lead 200 pounds of food, 450 with boat ing horse to liters of drinking water, and 50 rope from the number-on- e the pommel of the sheriff's saddle, packages of cigarettes. who was to lead the sorry procession back to the Tomahawk truck, Ernset Fritz Lehmitz was caught parked with its driver at Eagle as the result of some of his newsy WWW' Landing. letters designed to conceal reports Lundy, mounted on his own horse, in secret writing on convoy movewas to follow with the rustlers' pack ments. He wrote that his dog was mules, minus their cargo, and help sick, he was busy with a victory the truck driver load them and the garden and as an air raid warden. rustlers' horses into the truck, which These jig-sabits of Information would then start the long blistering were pieced together and after some journey back for the Tomahawk additional hard work he and his asranch. He was then to assist in sociate, Erwin Harry De Spretter, . loading the prisoners in the sheriffs were arrested. car. In addition to leg irons waitBefore Pearl Harbor, the Nazi ing at the truck they were to be tied In so securely that escape or Embassy in Washington had de- Vf" 1." an attack on the sheriff, en route, tailed plans to foment strikes and 4 A 1 ; would be an impossibility. incite domestic strife. t As soon as there was sufficient 1 An important Nazi official In light to permit movement Ham Henthis country was discarded by ley said: "Well, Hank, you better bis fiancee when she learned of git goin'. You got a long hot day his acheming against the United ahead o' you. Me an' Len's goin' States. Another Nazi official ofto swim across the river an' interThis wooden figure of a Japanese fered to pay $500 for documenview this Wall person. That feller's warrior god was among the wai of the canard and lie tary proof to to he made realize ain't be got inEnglish familiea are pictured salvaging some of the clothing booty fonnd on Salpan after the that Benjamin Franklin was acted right an' that it'd be the part wrecked a big vasion. It is believed to represent had bomb Nazi a after still flying and intact, The Germans built hosiery o' wisdom if he stuck to alfalfa outfitter's store In southern England. The goods were said to have the dual personification of the Japaup a dollar balance of over farmin' in the future an' left lot Rueckwan-derebeen scattered far and wide by the force of the blast. Some 5,000 of nese Buddha and the protective got r selling $21,000,000 by feedln to somebody else. We aim of warriors. these bombs have fallen In England. marks in this country to inspect his feed lots, see what prior to the war to be redeemed brands he's got there an' burn all in Germany. Practically all the his hay. Words ain't never enough German consulates In the Unitto Impress a crook." ed States were active In proHe and Len had worked their moting the German-America- n way down the wash among the catBond. tle, now beginning to climb out to graze, and had arrived on a sandNazi brazenness reached its bar at the junction of the Williams height when Baron von Spiegel, the with . the Colorado when a detonaGerman Consul in New Orleans, tion sounded across the river, a boasted that the United States would rose in the shower of objects high when the Reich completed be air and a billow of smoke and dust its repaid in Europe. A Midwest conquest followed. A few seconds later the consular attache was greatly emHenleys observed a similar phenombarrassed when he was caught mak enon. ing pictures in a factory area. "I'm Inclined to think some other I , indignant Arizonan had gotten to The Nazi spy, Heinz August Farmer Wall first pappy," Len obarrested and executed in Cuba, served. "See that rosy glow against kept canaries in his room to conceal the sky. That's haystacks burning the noise of his short wave, radio up at the feed lots!" transmitter. They sat their horses watching the rising glow, reluctant to cross the Heavily populated prisoner of war river now but curious to observe camps In the United States hold what developments might eventuate. thousands of frustrated Germans. ' . Mumimtitt V , nr. Presently they heard the occasional Occasionally, some try to get away. Archbishop Francis J. Rpellman oi bellowed protest of cattle being drivSometimes tlicy succeed for a 'Boots," old faithful, a fire department Dalmatian mascot, hover by New Tork, military Vicar of Cath en; the sound approached the river time. But no prisoner has yet been left, greets King able to get back to Germany, and anxiously as respirator Is applied to his master, Lieut. Herbert Lode- llo Chaplains, steadily and above the bellowing VI of England as Lieut In New "hl-yIn Torn a fire smoke overcome George one of ten the hear shrill firemen could by of man, freedom their they periods generally of punchers driving cattle. The mascot refused to leave until his master waa taken away and then Gen. Mark Clark of C. S. Fifth arm re limited to a few hours. (center) looks on. followed him to the hospital and later to his borne. TO BE CONTINUEUI much-vaunte- d :' V' ia America's Answer to Nazi Rocket Projectiles Loading Projectile ' P-4- '.17 T7. p". JfT:yt I '"'-K- v! S2fe Rocket Armament of cott." silence then. So she didn't want That knowledge stabbed him and she knew it did because when he spoke again his voice trembled. "Please tell Pedro that I give him the sedan and trailer house for old sake's sake. He has. for a long time, been planning a visit to his wife's people in Mexico and he will save money and be comfortable if he makes the journey in the trailer." 'Til tell him and see to it that he gets an opportunity to make the journey. Well, I'm sorry you couldn't have been a better sport about this. It isn't like you to get nasty." This was a blow below the belt and she knew it and waited breathlessly for his counter punch. "You're the nasty one I mean well, I don't mean that You're sweet and wonderful " eh? Well, nobody "Nasty-niccould be worse" than that. Mr. Henley, you're a quitter. You can't A to risk seeing him again. er P-4- I: P-4- Gods Fail Japanese Clothing Survives Flying Bombs i e, "Up with them, Joel! Up with them, Reuben!" take it" "I can take anything." , "Goodby," she said coldly. "I soon be your old swaggering, devastating self again, my handsome love pirate goodby!" trust you'll formed that Randall H. Wall was the younger brother of one Morton P. Wall, and both had a ranch about d five miles They had a quarter section each of splendid desert land fronting on the river, cleared it and planted it to alfalfa, which they irrigated with wa ter pumped from the Colorado. The postmaster hadn't seen Randall H. Wall for perhaps two months. The brothers sold considerable baled al falfa which they trucked into the Los Angeles market, but they also fed a great deal of it to cattle, augmenting the alfalfa with' cotton seed cake and sugar beet pulp which their trucks hauled in from Los Angeles on their return trips after delivering baled hay. The postmaster had seen truck loads of feeder steers passing through town on the Wall trucks; he knew they bought feeders over in Arizona, fattened them at their ranch and then sold them as baby beef at the Los Angeles stock yards Randall Wall had once told him they figured on feeding a critter ninety days and putting two hundred pounds on him. Len drove up a rough sin gle track desert road that paralleled the river until he came to the Wall ranch, a half section of alfalfa stretching from some low hills to the river. He turned in a road that led through the center of the ranch to the ranch-hous- e and noticed that this road was about forty feet wide and fenced on both sides. In the yard of the ranch a man tinkering at the motor of a huge cattle truck came over and asked Len curtly what he wanted. Len replied that he wanted to see Randall H. Wall on a private matter and was informed that Randall H. Wall had sold out his interest in the ranch and moved to Oregon. Len thanked him and departed, apparently satisfied with this lie. Upon his return he armed and mounted two reliable old hands from the Tomahawk ranch, equipped them with two pack mules to carry their bed rolls, camp equipment and rations and sent them over on the Flying W range to remnln there all summer and watch lor rustlers rounding up cattle. r. had organized a If some half-wSkeptics' Society, Hamilton L. Henley would, undoubtedly have been a charter member. And if the society had, at one of its meetings, decided to Investigate the true Inwardness of the old adage that the leopard cannot change his spots. Brother Henley would have been found arguing the issue negatively, even In the face of evidence that modern leopards were achieving considerable success in spot elimination by the use of dyes, bleaches and selective breeding. His experience of life had demonstrated to him that fright and condign punishment do not operate to reform a thief hence when Joel and Rube Wade, figuratively speaking, shook the dust of Arizona from their cowboy boots. Ham Henley's interest in them did not cease. He had bought their Flying W outfit and in April he would throw a large crew of riders from his Tomahawk ranch In on the neighboring' Flying Vf and make a quick and very thorand count. Then and ough round-uthen only would he send Joel a check to cover the final accounting, for tht lease and iron were both registered in the name of Joel, the eldest brother and neither Rube nor the estate of Breezy had figured In his deal. You know, Hank," he told their father on the way back to Prescott, "I wouldn't put it past them two visit an' steal boy to pay me lot o' them Flyin W yearlln's after I'vt paid Joel for 'em. They got the swelled head. They Just know they can outsmart the world an' I got a notion they'll have to cater to that feelin' by workin' on me. Just to catch even with me for makin' 'em sell out to me an' skedaddle." on the Fly-inHe made hla round-uW early in April and the forty riders he put on the Job had It finished in ten days; his Tomahawk ranch manager reported the tally of his calf branding, and tht aged it p p m WN.U LRVICL heifers and yearling calves, trucked his crew back to the Tomahawk ranch and started his round-uthere. Later in the summer, when the late calves had been dropped a few men would return to the Flying W and brand these. So Hamilton L. Henley's Jess Hubbell, sent ;joel Wade, to a Los Angeles ad dress, a check based on this count and the price agreed upon for the various classes of cattle. When his May bank statement came in with the dead checks, Hamilton L. Henley examined the check he had issued to Joel Wade and discovered it had been deposited in a bank in Blythe, California. In discussing the Wades with his son at dinner that night he opined that customarily a man resides close to where he banks wherefore Blythe, just across the Colorado River from Arizona, was too close for comfort. Thereupon Len recalled Pedro Ortiz had told him that the man Pedro had killed on the Wagon Wheel had had a letter on his person addressed to Randall H. Wall, Earp, California, a tiny settlement about thirty miles up river from Blythe, and that, judging by their outfits which Pedro had captured, Wall and his two companions that day were from California. This seemed to argue that the Wade brothers must have had a connection across the river and that the con nection had not been broken when they sold out and, ostensibly, left THE STORY THUS FAR: Mary Sutherland la lured to Arizona by the advertisements of the Wagon Wheel dude ranch, operated by Ma and Pa Burdan. She la met at the station by Len Henley, who tells her the ranch Is out of business and who takes her to Phoenix. Here he rides Mad Hatter In a rodeo and wins three thousand dollars for Mary from his dad. Ham Henley, who has bet against bim. Ham has bought the Burdan notes from the bank and feels the Wagon Wheel Is now bis, but Mary has bought an equity In it. She rehires Ma and Pa Burdan, takes up on the ranch, and fights rustlers. Aunt Margaret calls on Len and tells him Mary bas almost forgotten that she C ever loved him. PAGE THREE it home-steade- 'TOct' Ft)"" 11 a V3 'I anti-Semiti- c. 'Old Faithful' Watches Master ) Lun-ing- . - i, Bishop Greets King if |