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I n u n a u r t r , r t B , l i , 19 4 1 possible,” he directed his chief of staff. ‘They’ll also disperse their artillery. Notify the mayor of San - « Antonio and suggest that he have all lights cut off. Notify the flying fields of our information. Notify Ea gle Pass and F<rt Bliss.” He paused to receive another re port from Bart? Returned With Thanks ery night, and get up early in the Sir, Third Army Headquarters It was a very tense scene in the morning.” just called in from Atlanta. They’ve film. The audience sat enthralled. “Doctor,” said the patient, ear a report from Charleston of bomb Suddenly the hero slapped the her nestly, “I don’t feel I deserve the ers flying high over that city at oine in the face. best. What's the second best?” ten-seventeen o’clock, heading north In the stunned silence which fol by east.” lowed a little voice piped up. What He Thought An hour later the Second Divi “Mummy,” it said, “why Mrs. Broun took her husband to a sion s trucks, filled with men, were doesn’t she slap him back like mannequin parade. An evening gown whirring out of the fort; rubber- worn by an extremely pretty model at you do?” tired artillery was shifting its light tracted her attention. “That would look nice at our parly and medium cannon out of the zone Simple Modesty next week,” she said, in the hope that of possible danger. “The best thing for you,” said her husband would buy it for her. An aide, whom General Brill had the doctor, “is to give up drinking “Yes,” he answered. “Why not in sent out into the garrison to ob and smoking, go to bed early ev- vite her?" serve, burst into headquarters, breathless, his face stripped of color. “Sir, airplanes!” he panted. “Fly Items of Interest ing high—but you can hear them coming!” to the Housewife General Brill left his staff at their the allotted jobs and went outside with his aide. The garrison was dark, headquarters worked behind drawn A Towel Tip—Instead of making Whenever possible add flavoring shades. kitchen towels roller shape, put a extracts to a food when it is cool. The roar of motors filled the air deep hem on each end and slip ß y G e n e r a l A R E D W H IT E If the food is hot, much of the as trucks and artillery continued to roller L,rough. When one end be flavoring will vanish in steam This " i- ^ ¿ r > M'” *»« »«riti f roll out of the garrison. But above comes damp reverse the towel. does not apply to baked foods, that he caught the sharp whine of Less toweling is needed and it will however. “Kejly field in flames.” higher-powered engines far over « * • dry much quicker. head. • • • INSTALLMENT FIVE For washing windows—an old the STORY SO FAR: Colonel Flag- The 69th Anti-Aircraft Artillery soon took him into his confidence. Ben To prevent the odor of cooking auto windshield wiper blade makes Will, acting chief of G-2, U. S. m ilitary had got its guns in position, but was ning was .Joined in Mexico City by Lu- Intelligence department, estimated there cabbage, broccoli or onions from a good utensil to wipe water from withholding its searchlights pending cette Ducos, a French spy, who told were 200,000 European troops in Mexi permeating the house, cook these house windows after they have him that Bromlitz had escaped. He re development. Suddenly a small co preparing for an attack on the Unit vegetables uncovered with two been washed. turned to Washington after learning Van plane zoomed down over the garri ed States. Posing as Bromlitz, an Amer pieces of bread on the cooking Hassek’s plans for an invasion of the ican traitor captured in Paris, intelli son and dropped a flare that turned water. United States. Acting on tlw basis of night into day. gence Officer Benning went to Mexico this information the President sent an • • • City where he was unsuspectingly ac Brill stood calmly observing. He ultimatum to Mexico demanding an im cepted as an officer by Van Hassek, Before hanging clothes on the knew that flare was the first violence mediate explanation of the foreign leader of the foreign armed forces in line in freezing weather, put pins troops on her soil. of an invasion of the United States. Mexico. Fincks;, another enemy officer, on the clothes in the house, then Now continue with the story. He knew that in a few minutes the ^¡i snap on line with double clothes • » » # bombers would circle over their tar (< CHAPTER VI—Continued pins. get of Fort Sam Houston and let been taken by Japan. Unverified “I read a news flash on the Presi * • • He knew, too, that there was dent s ultimatum in the San Antonio reports came from China of heavy drive. Winter Hands—It is a good idea nothing he could do to prevent what troop concentrations north of Shang papers last night before I took off to have a bowl of fine oatmeal together with concentration of was to follow. for Washington, sir,” Benning said. hai near at hand, and to plunge the transport fleets. Russia had drawn A hissing shriek caught his ears. Our Direction If my opinion is worth anything, hands and wrists in this after The great thing in this world is Colonel, Ruiz will merely stall off to herself behind an unbreakable Involuntarily he raised himself on drying. The bowl can be kept cov not so much where we are, but in around in a play for time. He’s con curtain of censorship. Diplomacy ad his toes and placed his finger-tips ered, and the meal will last a long what direction we are moving — mittedly had broken down the world at his ears. A savage flash of yel trolled wholly by Van Hassek.” time. 5 O. W. Holmes. over, fretted capitals waited in the low flame leaped from the earth into “ We’re getting ready to mobilize grip of fear for the next moves in the heavens. The ground under him the army and National Guard, Ben a world gone mad. shook with volcanic intensity from ning. I* lagwill rubbed a torment Only in the United States was the savage wrath of a heavy bomb. ed hand across his brow. “Gad, Long fingers of light leaped into what a headache if it finally comes there tranquillity left, a lack of fear and tension. G-2 report, gave the the sky from the 69th’s searchlights. to that! We 11 be lucky if we get any same story from over the country. A heavy demolition bomb detonated thing mobilized before Van Hassek There was lively interest but little in the field from which the trucks hits us,” Benning predicted. “I tension. War was something on re were whirring; Brill caught, in the mote horizons, isolated by broad momentary flash of light, the grim mean ir we wait much longer.” “ Wait? Wait? What else can we j seas. America wanted nothing to tragedy of shattered men and ma do but wait? The people just sim do with it, wished only to be left terial. Above the din he heard the ply refuse to believe we’re vulnera alone with her peaceful intentions, cries of wounded men. Another ble, Benning. Late yesterday a therefore no harm could come. The bomb crashed and another. His anti prominent senator dressed down the war scare was jingoistic poppycock aircraft regiment began crackling, President for sending an ultimatum promoted by militarists in their but bis handful of guns were al- to Ruiz. Said the present troubled quest of heavier appropriations for most lost in the din of titanic thun time is not one to rock the boat_ armaments. Just as though recent der that crashed from the sky. Incendiary bombs rained down intimated the President was play millions pledged to them were in ing politics. The press gave that sufficient. As for those mercenary bringing an irresistible heat that ate statesman almost as much space troops in the Mexican army, our its way into all combustible parts of as it gave the ultimatum. But now own army could gobble them up in barracks. General Brill turned back you get busy and type out your re a jiffy if they were senseless enough into his headquarters, sat down at his desk stricken by his utter help port in detail, Benning. General to start anything. During the day Benning saw little lessness, but maintaining his self- Hague has called a General Stall of Flagwill. Endless staff confer control. conference for eight o’clock.” His staff, their bloodless faces Benning dictated to a confidential ences were oeing held, the whole clerk his report covering his move War and Navy Departments a bee drawn and lined, worked coolly, out ments and observations from the hive of strained activity. A new wardly oblivious to the danger. plan was hot in the making, a tor- Information kept coming in, reports day of his arrival in Paris. This done, he reproduced from tured, impossible plan, out of which that had to be appraised until the whole picture of attack and dis memory the Van Hassek operations the best must be drawn. It was a plan tc meet the one aster had been assembled and ap map with its numerous sinister red arrows indicating points of possible emergency for which the United praised as the basis for whatever invasion of the United States by a states was wholly and utterly un later action was to be taken. major land force supported by war prepared, the emergency of sudden The wooden hangars at Kelly invasion. ships and aircraft. Field were in flames. Randolph Colonel Flagwill came in from At Fort Sam Houston, on the out Field was being hammered. San staiT conference, his face gravely skirts of San Antonio, Lieutenant Antonio was in a mad panic which tense. Colonel Bart, Corps Area G-2 Chief had got out of all police control A stenographer brought in Ben- received a disturbing bit of informa People were flooding the streets, ning's complete report and Flag- tion late m the day. Shortly after rushing about in a mad frenzy in will seized it avidly. His brows met sunset a formation, identified as their efforts to escape the city. as he came to the scene in Van bombers, had passed over the Rio Roads were choked with passenger Hassek’s quarters at the Palacio Grande at a point west of Browns vehicles. Nacional. ville, headed north. But the Van Hassek bombers were “ You say, Benning, you saw a . reP°r,ed bomber expedition confining their major fury to Fort black flag with crossed sabers with had followed a series of reports dur Sam Houston and the flying fields, your own eyes—and all the officers ing the afternoon that had put Gen which told General Brill that thè saluted it? he asked sharply. eral Brill and the whole corps area attack presaged a crossing of the “ Yes, sir.” on the jagged edge. A Mexican had Rio Grande by mobile troops during “ You didn’t tell me that in your brought into Laredo the report that the night or at daybreak. verbal account. Man, that’s vital heavy motorized divisions were From New Orleans and Galveston information! That same flag has spending the day in screened biv came reports of raids that were still been showing up in Europe among ouacs in Coahuila and Nueva Leon in progress. Hundreds were killed ,L Z X « '7 the armies of the Coalition Powers. Half an hour later came news in the streets. No other details. It's also been reported in Tokio and fiorn Colonel Denn that was not to Shortly after midnight the violence L- China. Reports have leaked out that be ignored. suddenly ceased, the bombers and Note the “extras” in California Navel Oranges! The the militarists are rallying behind 'Four flights have passed over La their accompanying attack ships deeper color of the juice! The richer flavor! You know that flag, hell-bent on taking mat redo withm the past fifteen min sailed off to the south. Colonel Denn ters in their own hands if necessary utes Denn said. “If my ears know called in again from Laredo. The it has more vitamins and minerals—put there by all-year Of course, that’s a subterfuge for an sunshine, fertile soils and scientific care. American plane these were not head of a motorized column had Coalition governments to maneu American. They were headed about halted at Nuevo Laredo just south These are the seedless oranges! Grand to eat as well ver behind while they keep up a due north, and traveling high and of the Rio Grande. His intelligence as drink. Easy to prepare for salads and desserts. pretense of peace negotiations. But patrols had verified this with their To get top quality, look for “Sunkist” on the skin— the presence of that flag in Van own eyes. General Brill calmly made his own the trademark of 14,000 cooperating growers for fruit Hassek’s headquarters is highly sig estimate of the situation. Parked m “All right, gentlemen,” Brill told that is “Best for Juice—and Every use! ’ Buy a quantity nificant. I’ll take your report at the grounds of Fort Sam Houston his staff. “Get the Second Division once to General Hague.” for economy. C o p y r ig h t. 1 » 4 1 . F tw W Grower« Eschar«« together as quickly as possible and were the sixteen hundred shining Benning spent morning and after new trucks of the Second Division start them moving south toward the B » p p ~ 't CBS * » I5 PM, EST-M «*., MaA, FH. noon checking over the G-2 reports together with the division s materi Nueces River! Tell General Mole of on complications and developments al and supplies. The Second alert the Second I’ll meet him at Kirk in the world over. ed and with all leaves suspended three hours with his orders for the _ I SEEDLESS Europe continued a maelstrom of was in barracks and camp ready defense of San Antonio. Get Gen rumor Germany, Italy, Spain, and Hague on the long-distance At Kelly and «an- eral their allied Balkan states were shut aolph h »elds, near-oy, were the again while I report. We re going off by rigid censorship On the plea planes and supplies used in to do our best in a desperate situa of internal necessity they had closed a small new army of pilots training tion, and I needn't tell vou what for an their frontiers to foreigners, denied expanded air service. we re up against! I’ll be readv for aliens all use of mails and wire the Second Division get your recommendations in an hour ' communications Similar action had their Have trucks out of here as soon as gentlemen." I TU S£ CUM IM KD) AROUND HOUSE S u n k ist CALIFORNIA NAVEL ORANGES
