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Show Over But the 0f.AU Richard" Powell ) AN IKIK4 ER STARRING ARAB THIS FAR: Lt- - Andy v. wifeArab, discovered a Mr. by bMde" 'VJ bouse by rl :lt 7, . Y r dead, believed jj, i?M 10 rePrtedI d ?6 He took th. and railed Intelligence. members "l5kTtha.nf. lnr n ietitor "Xn to the seashore. red to 'r 'nL boat to the Island to the island Brethey got the boat and - unable the bland. Both men, drowned. were iia tn ' CHAPTER XV down to the 0, I cciJJ so The garvey was probably to start I didn't know how lor other, or Vine ngine-any ll I can do to - ibut 'I - ' an electric razor. I couldn't handle ii a seven .a, If I had an it. Except S would Ms, everything ShootifiaJ ANDY BLAKE, of" be jake. Iot up disgustedly. The dumbest train-tface from a replacement equipped better be would I center I'r the job than I. He would have at it sooner, too. He would pick walk a hunk of driftwood and peo- start and batting housefta the a bad It wasn't over the head. "Well, then, run down to the inlet.. Dig a hole in the sand and wrap and 5 slipped down the dune toward the house, keeping My fce shadow of the pilings. li had some - : nails at g nasty-lookin- I took it along, rete building loomed up end. the J XI conc- over my s it had no windows. and iron Up tear the roof, however, perhaps feet from sand level, were 531 the concrete: two on each The place the building. looked like an heirloom dating back You could store a to Prohibition. and if you had 1st of Scotch inside, make hijackers a rifle you could tank bathtub gin was healthier. slots in side of .JK.' my ear against up a faint hum ;ad a ticklish vibration. Five would A you ten it was a dynamo; the ; 'ice had to provide its own power. I bruised my shoulder against the Now I coor, but it didn't budge. would never find out whether or not l fel When I pressed ite door I picked MkMM Electrical Engdynamo. 1 took a few practice strokes with ie hunk of driftwood. The wasn't perfect, but that didn't matter. It wasn't a case of ?oa nneded ineering to a B.S. in wreck a I Air-born- around a corner of the spotted a man sitting on back steps. He wasn't looking crept toward me. He wasn't turned the I turned the rusty nails away berusty nails away before letting him fore letting him have it. ve it on the back of the head. He dove into the sand face first. I yourself in the blanket and crawl in fragged him into the shadow of the and sprinkle sand all over yourself. E'eps. He seemed to be alive but move unless you see a Coast Don't iej would need more than aspirin cutter in the inlet. Know Guard Wore he would want to take an a cutter looks like?" what interest in things. I switched a Lu"Oh, yes. Once they made me is from his pocket to mine, hop-p- i stand behind the curtains and they that it wouldn't start shooting pointed out a cutter to me and 'pies in my leg, and then padded laughed and then they" .no the house. I walked up quietly. I knew, so I .anybody 1 inched along the wall and found It wasn't going to be fun to take a census, but H had to be done. The knob turned 'ily. I slipped inside, waited, somebody was breathing. Once be- 1 had waited in a dark room Je, the fat man breathed near by. memory of it made the back of 7l neck prickle. I couldn't tell lether or not the breathing sounds like those the fat man had "'de. I reached forward, touched hf- I lifted the hunk of drift-,oodoor. room-by-roo- - d, stretched out farther . my hand far-""- r . . . A chill skated up my arm. My .Jfieri touched a slender body. It half naked and it tried to move y from my fingers. A girl's laid wearily, "Please don't, don't, please don't, u please The sound droned on as if a n needle had stuck on a very old Ponograph record. Vh 11.. "7 mrat felt sandy 'Arab?" I wea. "Arab?" '"ey haven't brni.wv,f -- ret, t Bt you'll have things first." toin 4 vent brousht hcr back Slim bare shoulders. ,? T I'm nnt u.. "Si UP .aBt.tohelp- rnlrCUUlly- rieid MdtSL lrS - - "Ididnt ? and rve tow u ,f "Paula." "Yes?" "y- - and Joey and Mrs- ancl I don't know you I'd forget you yolt V0ne.PaUia ThomPson. aren't ln Mrs- Fielding'i nn "You .'a ik l: j ain . She was getting choked up again, and I broke in, "If you see a cutter near enough, scr,eam like hell. If it gets daylight, make sure you're well And don't worry about covered. what may happen here. All I want you to do is get away safely. Got it?" "What about you?" "I'll make out. How many people are here right now?" "Joey and Mr. Jones, and . . . and Bill Something stirred in my memory. "Bill who? McAdams?" "Yes." "The guy you were supposed to have eloped with?" "Yes. But I didn't, really I didn't! Why, I didn't love him at all! I thought we were just having friendly dates and I phoned him about the Nazi meeting and . . . and he was terrible and" "He made you call up the next morning and tell the girls you had eloped, didn't he?" "Yes, and all the time I was right ..." in that house next door where the fat man lived. They stood around me and made me call. Then the next day they brought me here. They were going to make me write letters if anybody got suspicious of what had become of me. It was awful! 8ee And they" "Take it easy. Bill McAdams Is the one I clubbed as I came in. Who else is here?" "That'f all the men. And Mrs. Fielding and a slender girl with blonde hair. They shoulder-lengt- h call her Arab. Did you say she's your wife?" "Yes. Have they she" . . . well . . . 1 "No," she said quickly, "no, they haven't. I think they've just been second talking to her so far." you're 3ust try- "Where are they?" "There's a big sort ot map room ,cared talkine this two doors down the halL They You're 8in to hurt might be In it. Or upstairs." and "O. K." I went to the door Td 6 nr?" 2 SETTEV PRETTY . . . This Irish setter, of hi'h degree, has no use fcr weather of low degree. So when the temperature hit eight below, he did something about his comfort. His master's hunting cap and muffler came in mighty handy. HOWELL so" . "Eut, Chief" "Lower the window shade, Joey. blind glasses glared And you"-t- he right hand out your at me "bring both of your pocket slowly and clasp hands behind your head." I obeyed. There wasn't anything I could to be gained by seeing it In less time than a feet ten Jump move a quartrigger finger could around me dctoured inch. Joey ter Then shade. the down and pulled and careful.y me be came up behind worked the gun out of my pocict (TO BE CONTINUED) Friends of Joseph Anderson will be pleased to learn that "Joe", who recently had a major opcr' ation in Logan, has recovered sufficiently to be out and around again. Miss Shirley Brown, Mr. Victor Marshall and Mr. Jack Bell, all from Ogden, were Sunday guests at the Steve De Jarnatts. Mr. and Mrs. Dc Jarnatt spent Monday in Ogden on business and visiting. Frances Gunncll has returned from Mesa, Arizona, where he spent the last week visiting with relatives and friends. A dance was held Tuesday evening in the Howell ward. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Fallows and small son arc visiting at the home of Mrs. Fallow-- sister, Mrs. Lc land Hansen. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Buckley of Rupert, Idaho, have been visiting with Mrs. Buckley's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Forcsgren. A turkey dinner was served at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mirl R. Mason, in honor of their son, Ruse, and wife and danghtcr, Glade and husband, Hal Nielsen, vho has recently been discharged Twenty-sifrom the Marines. members were present including, one brother, Don Borher of Brig' ham and family. Two sisters and their families also were present. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hawkcs are in Salt Lake City on business and visiting with relatives. Word has been received that Denzil H. Bair has been promoted from Technical Sergeant fifth grade to Technical Sergeant fourth eradc. Denny is stationed in wishes he was in the and Tokvo U. S. A. Sergeant Glenn R. Taylor leaves Friday, 12th to return to the scr vice after a ninety day furlough. Glen has reenlistcd for three years. i 7 (As spelled out in the Agricultural Adjustment Act, "parity," as applied to income, is "that per capita net income of individuals on farms from farming operations that bears to the per capita net income of individuals not on farms the same relation as prevailed during the periiKl from August 1909 to July 1914.") "Farmers should have a fair share of the national income," the Secretary said, "proportionate to the percentage of the national population on farms, adjusted for the relative costs of producing and living on the farm under modern conditions. "Within this big goal, the par ity prices or given commodities should make a pattern of prices, which, multiplied by output, would yield a fair share of the national income. "Further, parity prices in any case should be such as would promote the most efficient use of our and 'efagricultural resources ficient use' means production of needed crops and livestock, and stimulation of conservation-typfarming." With their guide books for conversion to peace already written, Secretary Anderson stated that farmers are ready to lead the way into a new period of economic cooperation aiming toward full production and employment on farms and in factories. e Highest Prices in the valley paid for your Ill ! A CAR OF JUST UNLOADED DRIED BEET PULP and some PELLETS 16 PER-CEN- T x d a Tommy four rifles, a shot-gugun, several revolvers, and even a hand grenade. I let them alone. My Tab'e of Basic Allowances called for one club, and I was already overequipped with a Luger I would never be able to handle. The gleaming panel of the short wave transmitter deserved some attention, though. I looked behind the panel and selected the biggest tube I could find: one which bulged with cathode and grid and anode. I decided against breaking it because it might explode too loudly. Instead of that, I dropped it in the waste-baskand covered it with papers. It was only a start, anyway. By the time I finished with the shortwave set, the only way it would ever would be reach Deutschland-sende- r by parcel post. I stretched out a hand toward the wiring . . . then got an idea which wiped the radio from my thoughts. I raised the blackout curtain of one seaward window. I swung the lamp around on the desk so that its light glared directly out to sea. There's one code signal everybody knows. I blinked it on the desk lamp. Dot A voice jeered, "That's illegal, Jack. Wanna get us fined?" I swung around, c.awing for the Luger. I might just as well have tried to coax a live crab from my the pants pocket. Joey Raeder and fat man stood in the doorway, watchA couple of ing with polite interest. were looking my way, automatics too. I froze. I glanced at the hunk of drifta table. wood, three feet away on could If it had been in my hand I "That sportI said, it. have thrown will get you ing instinct of yours Herrenvolk." the of out booted asked for it, Joey said, "The guy Chief, "Wait," the fat man said. prc-droug- d s and a couple of hot e Despite one of the worst spring planting seasons ever encountered, U. S. farmers came up with the third largest on record in 1945. The total output fell only 2 per cent short of the all time record of 1942 and only percent below the second largest, turned out in 1944, according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The harvested acreage of 347 million acres for 52 principal crops was the biggest since 1932, and crop yields during the past year averaged 30 percent above the 1923-3period. production marks were set for: Hay, soybeans, ilax- seed, potatoes, sugarcane, oranges, grapes, and pecans. New production records were made for: Wheat, oats, tobacco, rice, popcorn, peaches, pears. grapefruit, almonds, and truck crops for fresh markets. Feed supplies for the coming year are expected to be large enough to maintain a high level of meat, dairy, and poultry production. Anderson Urges Parity Income As Farm Goal "Parity Income" is what agriculture needs for the long pull, Secretary Anderson told the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation at Near-recor- infantry divisions, and landed a task force in Berlin. In a glass case in a corner were house and .the ... Eighty-secon- Just heads. break eighty. ... squadrons. The maps were clean. Too clean. I couldn't resist a temptation. I picked up the Fifth Air Force and First Armored and the follow-throug- h trying to opened it. Whispers still crept alr.g the walls. "Get goir.g, Paula. And good luck." The blanket rustled and a hand touched my arm end the stair began mewing under her feet There was no change in the whispers. I waited a few minutes until I was sure that she was out of the house. I slipped down the hall, counting doors. One two I eased it open a crack, and looked in. A hooded desk but lamp was no one was in the room. lighted, This was it. This was the fat man's Berchtesgaden. This was where he sat like a plump white toadstool brewing poison. I knew 1 ought to get on with the job of batting people over the head, but the room was too fascinating to leave. I wanted a closer look at the filing cases and huge maps and the shortwave transmitter studded with gleaming knobs and dials. I walked in and closed the door. Somewhere in the big sweating country behind me people had been talking. Talking proudly of "my son" and "my war work." Some of the words had echoed from one person to another until they became whispers scurrying through this gray house. A fat man had moved slowly to a filing cabinet and pulled out fat envelopes marked with divisional insignia. He had studied what th contents of the envelopes told him of the state of training, strength and location of the divisions. Then he had moved little flags on a wall map: to a maneuver area, to a staging area, to an oveneas base. Or he had pulled out an envelope marked and had added the fact that they had started to come off the line with twin stingers in the tail. There were pk-ntof gaps in his collection. I checked a subject on which I had some inside information, and found that he was far behind the parade. That wasn't much comfort Even when he only had one extra fact, it was one too many. It seemed like a good idea to mess up his collection as much as possible, just in case anything went wrong with my plans. I let the files alone. It would take hours to open every cabinet and destroy the contents. The pins on the map were another matter. He might not have a small scale duplicate, and it would take days of studying the filed material to replace the pins properly. I swept my hand over the big map. The pins bent like tiny bows, leaped free. With them fluttered small paper bags lettered with the numerals of divisions and airplane y I scrambled across the pil-i-.gand examined the place. The locked door was faced with sheet isead. 1 B-1- 7 a nice hunk of 1 1 buckled against size It was baseball-ba- t irifhvood. TREMONTON, UTAH Jtnuary 10, 1946 Page NEWS w NU FE.ATUHE.S "Paula, I'm your friend. I'm Arab's husband. I'm going to get you out She began crying quietly and repeating, "It's just another trick, it's just another trick . . ." I ran my fingers down her arm and located a strap at her wrist. Below it her fingers were cold. The strap held her wrist to the bed frame. I found the buckle, unfastened it, and reached across to free her other arm. A sharp intake of breath cut off her sobbing. I couldn't see her but I knew she was lying there rigidly, eyes dilated, trying to understand. A small icy hand touched my undershirt, crept up over my chin and face and hair. "I . . . don't . . . know . . . you," she whispered. For the first time there was hope ln her voice. "Of course you don't. Now you've got to answer some questions for me, and then you're leaving." "You won't turn on the light, will you?" she gasped. "A minute ago I was afraid of the dark but now I . . . I . . ." There was a blanket at the foot of the bed. I yanked it loose and tossed it around her. "Everything's clear on the first floor," I said. "Go quietly downstairs and out the back. Don't worry about the man beside the steps. He won't bother you. Can you swim a long way? Or start a motorboat?" 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