TIMES. WILLAMINA. OREGON
W ay Back When—
T INEN "dusters” were con-
' sidered "the thing” and
were worn by nearly everyone.
People called the phonograph fa
little box with u large horn mounted
on it) a “talking machine.”
The auto gas tank was under
the front seat cushion.
A census of toothbrushes in
the average town of 5,000 peo
ple would not have required
num bers going beyond the unit
column.
/Z/Z of u t wore urixtletl I knitted
by grandma) in the winter.
Hitching posts were essential
features of every “parking lot.”
Churches had a tuning fork
to set the pitch for hymns.
Pattern No. Z9202.
L O U R enticing designs—the love-
* liest of the year—are these for
pillow slip embroidery. A refresh-
big iris motif, the appealing bird
pair, a butterfly and flower a r
rangem ent, and the cross stitch
basket of pansies will And favor.
• • •
A b Z92O2. 15c, you receive an easy-to«
stam p transfer of all four designs—and,
you m ay stamp this transfer more than
tuce. Send order to:
AUNT MARTHA *
Box 16« W
K ansa, City, Mo.
Enclose 1ft cents for each pattern
desired. Pattern No......................
Name ........................................................
Address ....................................................
Durable Consolation
Whether to see life as it is will
give us much consolation, I know
not; but the consolation drawn
from truth, if any there be, is
solid and durable; that which may
be derived from error, must be,
like its original, fallacious and fu
gitive.—Samuel Johnson.
She Turned Him Down!
A fellow can’t get anywhere when
he looks uncomfortable! And he’s
bound to, when heartburn, “fullness”
and acid stomach bother him. Have
ADLA Tablets handy for quick re
lief. Get them from your druggist.
Memory Clings
Experience teaches that a good
m em ory is generally joined to a
weak judgm ent.—Montaigne.
■I
By G E N E R A I
ARED WHITE
INSTALLMENT NINE
THE STORY SO FAR: Intelligence
Officer Benning’s warning that 200,000
foreign troops were poised in Mexico for
an attack on the United States caused
grave concern in army headquarters,
but the people branded the statement
as ‘'war mongering?* Four largv south
ern cities were suddenly attacked from
the air; Washington was bombed and
the President killed. General Brill, com*
mander of the army in Texas, reported
to General Hague at Washington that he
was opposed by greatly superior forces.
General Hague told him to resist the
enemy's advance at all costs. Brill or
dered Captain Boll to lead the 11th U. S.
Infantry into position for battle. Boll’s
motor column bravely withstood a terri
ble strafing from enemy aircraft, but
he ordered the men to abandon their
trucks when he observed twenty more
planes approaching. Further resistance
seemed useless to him.
Now continue with the story.
CHAPTER VIII—Continued
As Boll’s eye went back into
the air, his mind was lifted sudden
ly out of the depths of black despair
by a joyous m iracle of develop
ment. Those new planes were clos
ing in and he m ade out by the
shape of wings and fuselage that
they were not Van Hassek planes.
Boll’s hand flashed out his field-
glasses. He glued them to the skies.
From under the wings of those in-
rushing squadrons flashed the glo
rious legend “ U. S. Army ”
American planes plummeted down.
Van H assek’s hornets now were
droning about in a Lufberry circle
awaiting the developments of attack.
In a twinkling the American bird-
men projected an audacious assault.
Planes circled, dove, rolled, darted
in the throes of combat. A plane
cam e whistling down. Boll’s jaw
tightened as he saw the first casual
ty was an American plane. But
quickly two of Van Hassek’s bird-
men cam e tumbling out of the sky.
If the Van Hassek pilots had
stalled for reinforcements, they now
decided upon precipitate flight
against superior number. Another
Van Hassek plane went down. In a
minute the cloud of darting falcons
passed into the distance behind.
A noon sun was burning the baked
hills and swales when Boll’s sur
vivors rolled in on a Second Division
outpost south of Kirk.
The outpost com m ander came hur
rying up.
"Sorry to report in with my com
mand shot to pieces like this, Colo
nel,” Boll reported in grim dejec
tion. “ But the only choice was—
capture. Where’s the hospital, sir?
My wounded m ust have care at
once!”
"E leventh's men are being evacu
ated to San Antonio, Captain,” the
outpost com m ander advised. “Colo
nel Denn was killed, total casual
ties over three hundred men. But
maybe th at’s not too bad when you
consider our border cavalry was all
gobbled up. The Twelfth and Fifth
are still fighting it out, but they
haven’t any more chance than Cus
ter had. From all reconnaissance
reports, we’U be attacked in force
here before many hours pass. All
right, Boll, get rolling.”
CHAPTER IX
QUINTUPLETS
CHEST COLDS
use MUSTEROLE for
M o th e r-G iv e Your CHILD
This Same Export Carol
At the first sign of the Dionne Quin
tuplets catching cold - their chests and
throata are rubbed with Children's
M ild M usterole— a product made to
prom ptly relieve the DISTRESS of
children*« colds and resulting coughs.
The Quints have always had the
b est of care, so mother — you may be
assured of using just about the BEST
roduct made when you use Musterole.
[ORE than an ordinary “ salve”—
warm ing, soothing Musterole helps
break up local congestion. A!so made
in Regular and Extra Strength for
those preferring a stronger product.
P
BEACONS of
—SAFETY—
• Like a beacon light on
the height — the advertise
ments in newspapers direct
you to newer, better and
easier ways o f providing
th e t h in g s n e e d e d or
d esired . It sh in e s, th is
b ea co n o f n ew sp ap er
advertising— and it w ill be
to your advantage to fot-
lo w it w h e n e v e r you
make a purchase.
-
In Washington, Captain Benning
spent a sleepless nightm are of a
night on the assignment from Flag-
will of observing panic-stricken
streets.
Daybreak and exhaustion restored
some degree of reason. People
moved about now as if stunned, but
from time to time looking fearfully
into the skies or straining at every
word of radio loudspeakers that
had been put in service on principal
streets.
Traffic jam s finally had been re
duced, steady stream s of cabs and
cars were pouring out of the city on
all roads. Thousands flocked about
’he railway station clamoring for
standing space on any train that
led away from Washington.
E xtra editions of newspapers burst
into the streets at frequent inter
vals.
Texas invaded. E xtras massed
black headlines over meager dis
patches from San Antonio. Van Has
sek was moving north in three col
umns. American infantry and cav
alry were fighting him at the Ric
Grande. American Second Division
was moving south to repel the in
vasion.
Another extra dashed out. Wash
ington safe! Benning read eagerly.
It had been as Flagwill guessed.
The night raiders had planted a re
fueling field. Back of the Tennessee
River, southwest from Nashville.
The thing had been camouflaged as
a new airways enterprise, had even
been fostered by ambitious and un
suspecting cham bers of commerce.
When the bombers and their con
voys of fighting craft had put down
to All their tanks after bombing
THURSDAY, MAR. 13. 1941
One’s Best L ig h t
confirms what we’d guessed long
It pays to follow one’s best
ago. They also suggest that the
enemy espionage has its headquar light; to put God and one’s coun
ters in New York, disguised as some try first, and ourselves after
large corporation, no details avail w ards.—Samuel C. Armstrong.
able. Second, I have positive infor
mation that Van H assek’s bombers
had ground liaison in Washington
last night. Light signals were flashed
from the area of the White House
Washington, a few mounted m a during both raids.”
C¡4¿Íckly tirite
chine guns had kept curious natives
L IQ U ID
Benning
started.
Into
his
mind
away. The aircraft had taken all flashed Captain Fincke’s cryptic
TABLETS
SALVE
personnel off at resuming their flight
N O S E DROPS
at
the
Shoreham.
C O U t H DR O P S
back to Mexico. Another raid on statem ents
Washington would be impossible— Promptly he decided against report
unless attack could be launched from ing this conversation for the time WNU—13
11—41
being. He gave Flagwill a brief ac
the sea.
count of his discovery of the Aus
The night’s panic had swept the trian captain and Colonel Boggio and
whole country. In the midwest there explained his logic in not im m ediate
had been incredulity at first. The ly causing their arrest.
whole thing seemed too inconceiv
“ All right, Benning,” Flagwill
able. Invasions, bomber raids, were
an intangible atrocity occurring to said, his eyes snapping. “ I ’ll as
H E N kidneys function badly and
distant peoples and recorded in dis sume you made no m istake in not
you suffer a nagging backache,
patches. Those inexplicable atroci arresting them last night. But now j
with dizziness, burning, scanty or too
ties belonged to the black pages of you forget everything else and get
frequent urination and getting up at
out after them! Use your own judg- j
Shanghai, Canton, and Madrid.
nignt; when you feel tired, nervous,
all upset. . . use Doan’s Pills.
Already the hue and cry was ris ment about when you make arrests, J
Doan's are especially for poorly
ing west of the Alleghenies sharp but see to it they don’t get away |
working kidneys. M illions of boxes
on the heels of the first hysterical from you. I needn’t tell you that |
are used every year. They are recom
waves of fear. What of the Army? the Coalition spy net is ten tim es j
mended the country over. A sk your
Why had our arm ed forces been more dangerous in the long run than
neighbor!
caught napping? Why hadn’t the Van Hassek’s present rotten inva- j
raiders been detected and shot sion.”
down?
CHAPTER X
The first reports of mobilization
of Army and National Guard were
General Mole sat in the hot shel
pouring in. Mobilization was less
than one fourth complete. The Reg ter of his command post which had
Good N ic k n a m e
ular Army was ready to entrain for been dug by engineers into the re
"John calls his girl the 'Queen of
verse
slope
of
a
squat
ridge.
He
concentration points from its far-
the Links.’ ”
flung network of small garrisons puffed glumly at the stub of a cigar
"Ah, so she’s a golfer, I presume.”
whose location had been dictated by as he observed the arrival of his
“No—far from i t She sells hot
cham bers of commerce and con regimental and battalion command dogs at a roadside stand.”
gressmen rather than by the neces ers whom he had summoned from
sities of m ilitary training in the vi over his battle position.
Right Classification
Planes soared overhead, Ameri
tal team-play of larger units.
Husband (looking over household
Plans were being laid for a call can combat planes covering his posi accounts)—What is this item of $3.75
for 500,000 volunteers. That would tion against air attack. From time
for overhead expenses?
have to wait action by Congress, to time an observation plane dashed
Wife—Oh, that’s a new umbrella
low
with
a
dropped
message
report
but Congress could be depended
I bought, dear. I left my old one
ing
progress
of
the
Van
Hassek
ap
upon now to go the limit. A draft
on a bus.
arm y of a million men would come proach. At last word, the main Van
Hassek column had cleared the Nue
next.
As for modern equipment, that ces River after routing a motorized
would have to wait. There would battalion strong-point that Mole had
t>s no such thing as buying it in sent out to gain contact and delay
France and England, even in Can the enemy.
from common colds
Mole’s plan of battle was shaped;
ada, as at the time of the World
War. A year, or two years, might his formal orders had been distribut
elapse before industrial mobilization ed. Since morning the men had been
Creomulslon relieves promptly be
the country’s own resources, could digging in.
cause it goes right to the seat of the
All his artillery had been dug in
trouble to help loosen and expel
and camouflaged. Here he had an I germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
immense, hastily organized citadel
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in
flamed bronchial m ucous m em
of mutually supporting strong-points.
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
Machine guns had been placed for
a bottle of Creomulslon with the tin
the maximum of destructive effect.
derstanding you must like the way It
The breaking of one line yielded the
quickly allays the cough or you are
enemy the grim necessity of attack to have your money back.
ing a new one. Roads menacing his '
flanks were strongly covered. It
was not such a position as he would j for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
have selected of his own choice,
but since necessity forced it on him,
Wretched Minds
he meant to m ake the most of his
How wretched are the minds of
opportunities for stubborn
re men, and how blind their under
sistance.
standings.—Lucretius.
His senior aide-de-camp cam e up ■
to him and saluted.
Help to Relieve Distress of
“Sir, the officers are assem bled,”
the captain advised.
There was a greenish hue to the
general’s lean, cadaverous face,
PERIODIC
brought by the stress of the past
few days. His eyes were bloodshot
under puffy black lids, but they
Try Lydia E. Pinkham ’s Vegetable
shone with a stout, 'even glitter, that
Compound to help relieve monthly
p a in , h ea d a ch es, b a ck ach e and
proclaimed the m astery of will ovei
ALSO calm Irritable nerves due to
flesh. As he stood up to face his
m onthly functional disturbances.
Pinkham’s Compound Is simply
assembled
commanders,
he
was
per
"I have two reports that will
marvelous to help build up resist
fectly contained.
ance against distress of “difficult
interest you.”
days.** Famous for over 60 years I
“ I wanted a few words with you
Hundreds of thousands of girls and
provide anything more than the before we go into action, gentle
women report remarkable benefits.
crudest necessities of combat. If a m en,” he began in a calm voice.
m ajor war was in the offing, the “ The decision to fight here was
country would have to depend upon made for us by General Hague.
the massed valor of its manpower Therefore, it becomes our decision.
Scornful Silence
to take unequal red losses and drive Let me frankly say that the Army
Silence is the most perfect ex
through at all costs.
is on the spot, that the people pression of scorn.—George Ber
It was nine o’clock before Colonel wouldn't understand the simple wis I nard Shaw.
Flagwill stamped in from the Chief dom of our falling back without a
of Staff's office. His face was ashen fight.”
and lined, but his level black eyes
He paused and his pale, bluish lips
glowed vitality.
drew down into an expression of
“ What an inglorious tangle!” he bitterness.
BY YOUR LAXATIVE —RELIEVE
muttered to Benning with a torm ent
“ All right, we’ll go through! We’ll
CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAV
ed shake of his head. “ W’hich way hold! We’ll give the country a new
• When you feel gassy, headachy, logy
to turn, that's the question bedevil tradition to rem em ber! We’ll fight
due to clogged-up bowels, do as millions
ing all of us.”
Van Hassek with one regiment to
do —take Feen-A-Mint at bedtime. Next
morning — thorough, comfortable relief,
"The big trouble is, we don’t know four or five! If we’re attacked this
helping you start the day full of your
yet what w e're up against and we’ve afternoon we'll fight until night.
normal energy and pep, feeling like •
got to play a cautious game. If all We’ll hold through tomorrow. Then
million! Feen-A -M int doesn’t disturb
we had to consider was Van Has I'll make my further decision. When
your night’s rest or interfere with work the
next day. Try Feen-A-Mint, the chewing
sek, w ’’d rush troops in there and ' the time comes I'll give the order
gum laxative, yourself. It tastes good, it’e
give him his lesson in a very few for withdrawal which must be by
handv and economical. . . a family supply
weeks. WTiat the public will not night.”
be able to understand, nor even Con
General Mole paused again to look
gress, is that we've got to use most about among them and then spoke
of our peace-strength arm y as a in slow, biting words.
framework for building a national i “Gentlemen, a final word! We'll
army.
show the country what our m ettle
"But anyhow, come what may ' is. We'll show the enemy what they
with the future," Flagwill went on | can expect to meet once our arm ies
with a sardonic grin, “ the Chief has are mobilized and organized and
just made one ten-strike of a deci- I trained. Remember this, if we lost
sion. W e're to make our first real every last man in the Second Divi
m ilitary stand down around Fort j sion, our losses would still be only
Worth, which is about as far as ' a fraction of what the good old Sec
T A 7 H E N you sec the specials of
Van Hassek would dare go m any i ond took in France, even if nobody
’ ’ our merchants announced
event.”
rem em bers that fact but the Sec
in the columns of this paper
Flagwill bolted a sandwich and ond's survivors!”
you can depend on them. They
washed it down with a cup of coffee,
His voice rose to a furious in
mean bargains for you.
then pulled himself up to his desk. tensity and his clenched hand rose
" I ’ve two reports that will interest above his head.
• They are offered by merchants
you,
Benning,”
he announced : “ A new Alamo tc rem em ber, gen
who are not afraid to announce
abruptly. "F irst, we’ve a tip from ! tlemen! That’s what we'll give the
their prices or the quality
London that the Coalition espionage country—a new Alamo to rem em
of the merchandise they offe-.
system in the United States is or ber! Put that thought into the teeth
ganized to completely wreck our in- I of your men. T hat's all!”
dustrial organization. That merely 1
¡TO BE CONTINUED)
% CO LD S
Miserabls
with backache?
W
DOANS PILLS
Beware Coughs
That Hang On
C R E O M U L S iO N
(FEMALE)
COMPLAINTS
DON’T BE BOSSED
FEEN-fl-MINTTo#
S P E C IA L
BARGAINS