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
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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
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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