Illinois Valley News, Thursday, February 13, 1941
Page Six
all lights cut off. Notify the flying
Density of Fogs
fields of our information. Notify Ea­
gle Pass and Fort Bliss.”
In 1921, the British weather bu­
He paused to receive another re­
reau set up standards for describ­
port from Bart
ing fogs which fall into more or
"Sir, Third Army Headquarter»
less definite categories.
They
just called in from Atlanta. They’ve
range from “Very dense,” in
a report from Charleston of bomb­
which objects become invisible at
ers flying high over that city at
27
yards distance in the daytime,
ten-seventeen o'clock, heading north
pockets, make this an unusually through “thick,” “rather thick,”
by east.”
interesting version of your favorite “fog,” “moderate,” “mist or thick
Outside there was orderly commo­
button-front classic.
haze,” and “slight mist or haze”
tion. Troops were pouring out of bar­
There’s mighty little to the —in which objects are visible at a
racks and bivouac camps already,
making, as you can see. Just a distance of IVi miles.
the first drivers were moving their
few long seams, a few simple
trucks out of the fort
darts, to create a tailored effect of
Another report from Colonel Denn.
faultless chic. And this is a style f Help to Relieve Distress of
The colonel’s voice now crackled
becoming alike to misses and to
with intensity. One of his intelli­
Women. Sew chart included.
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gence scouts, disguised as a Mexi­
Pattern No. 8814 is designed for sizes
can peon, had the word from friend­
PERIODIC
12. 14. 16, 18. 20; 40. 42. 44. 46 and 48
ly Mexicans that a heavy motor
Size 14 requires 48i yards of 39-inch ma­
column was moving north from the
terial without nap. Send order to:
vicinity of Palo Blanco. Another
Try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
column was reported moving by
Compound to help relieve monthly
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT.
night through Tamaulipas toward
pain, headaches, backache and
149 New Montgomery Ave.
ALSO calm irritable nerves due to
Brownsville and a third was said
San Francisco
monthly functional disturbances.
Pinkham's Compound is simply
to have passed Mesquite, in Coahui­
Enclose 15 cents in coins for
marvelous to help build up resist­
la. headed in the direction of Eagle
ance against distress of "difficult
Pattern No
Pass.
days.’* Famous for over 60 years!
Name ....
Hundreds of thousands of girls and
An hour later the Second Divi­
women report remarkable benefits.
Address ..
sion's trucks, filled with men, were
whirring out of the fort; rubber-
tired artillery was shifting its light
and medium cannon out of the zona
Increasing Doubt
of possible danger.
We know accurately only when
An aide, whom General Brill had
we know little; with knowledge
sent out into the garrison to ob­
doubt increases.—Goethe.
serve, burst into headquarters,
breathless, his face stripped of
color.
“Sir, airplanes!” he panted. "Fly­
Cause Enough
ing high—but you can hear them
“I’m afraid of my own shadow.”
how you
coming!”
“No wonder. It’s so large it looks
General Brill left his staff at their
like a crowd following you.”
feel inside
allotted jobs and went outside with
Look
in
your
mirror.
See if temporary consti­
his aide. The garrison was dark,
The man who is described as a pation is telling on your
face, in your eyes.
headquarters worked behind drawn
“hard drinker” usually takes it Then try Garfield Tea. the mild, pleasant,
shades.
thorough
way
to
cleanse
internally...without
very easy.
drastic drugs. Feel better, LOOK BETTER,
The roar of motors filled the air
work better. 10c— 25c at drugstores.
as trucks and artillery continued to
Taking Over
roll out of the garrison. But above
Waiter—Aren’t you going to give
that he caught the sharp whine of
me a tip? Why, the town’s cham­
higher-powered engines far over­
pion skinflint gives me a penny.
I For Prompt Relief
head.
Hornpuff—Then just take a look
The 69th Anti-Aircraft Artillery
at me. I’m the new Champ.
had got its guns in position, but was
opiates or quinine!
withholding its searchlights pending
Returned With Thanks
GARFIELD'
IF
YOU
’
RE
taking
a
midwinter
development.
Suddenly a small
It was a very tense scene in the HEADACHE POWDER
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vacation,
you
’
ll
certainly
want
plane zoomed down over the garri­
film. The audience sat enthralled.
10c 2Se
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(See doctor it headache* persi*t>
son and dropped a flare that turned this tailored frock, in White shark­ Suddenly the hero slapped the her­
skin or luscious pastel flannel. And oine in the face.
night into day.
Brill stood calmly observing. He it’s an excellent style to fit into
In the stunned silence which fol­
Sweetest Plum
knew that flare was the first violence town wardrobes, too—made up in lowed a little voice piped up.
of an invasion of the United States. bright flat crepe or a tailored
“Mummy,” it said, “why
In all the wedding cake, hope is
He knew that in a few minutes the print. Design No. 8814 is one of doesn’t she slap him back like the sweetest of the plums.—Doug­
bombers would circle over their tar­ those slick, immaculately tailored you do?”
las Jerrold.
get of Fort Sam Houston and let styles that form the backbone of a
drive. He knew, too, that there was busy woman’s wardrobe the year-
nothing he could do to prevent what round. And the lines of stitching,
the turned-down corners of the
was to follow.
A hissing shriek caught his ears.
Involuntarily he raised himself on
his toes and placed his finger-tips
at his ears. A savage flash of yel­
low flame leaped from the earth into
the heavens. The ground under him
A General Quiz
shook with volcanic intensity from
the savage wrath of a heavy bomb. ¿a
Long fingers of light leaped into
1. What capital letter is used
the sky from the 69th's searchlights. most frequently in English words?
A heavy demolition bomb detonated i 2. What is a Jolly Roger?
in the field from which the trucks
were whirring. Brill caught, in the | 3. Of currants, grapes, cranber­
momentary flash of light, the grim | ries, oranges, tomatoes and ba­
An old standby in
tragedy of shattered men and nia- nanas, how many are classified by
millions of homes
botanists
as
berries?
terial. Above the din he heard the j
4. Without stopping to count,
cries of wounded men.
Another 1
bomb crashed and another. His anti­ give the number of- zeros in one
aircraft regiment began crackling, ' billion.
5. In major league baseball, how
but his handful of guns were al- |
Tide Will Turn
I hold on a minute longer, never
most lost in the din of titanic thun­ often are games won by a no-hit,
When you get into a tight place, I give up then, for that is just the
no-run pitching performance?
der that crashed from the sky.
6. Are glow worms worms?
and everything goes against you, place and time the tide will turn,
Incendiary bombs rained down, !
till it seems as if you couldn't , —Harriet Beecher Stowe.
7.
Where
in
the
United
States
is
bringing an irresistible heat that ate
the longest stretch of railroad
its way into all combustible parts of
track without a curve?
barracks. General Brill turned back
into his headquarters, sat down at
The Aiuweri
his desk stricken by his utter help­
1. The letter *,‘S,” according to
lessness, but maintaining his self­ Funk and Wagnalls New Stand­
control.
ard dictionary.
His staff, their bloodless faces
2. A pirate flag.
drawn and lined, worked coolly, out­
3. All of them.
wardly oblivious to the danger.
4; Nine—count them—1,000,000,-
You needn't grin and bear a cough due to a
Information kept coming in, reports 000.
cold. Get Smith Bros. Cough Drops! Just 5c!
that had to be appraised until the
5. Only one in about 1,400
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whole picture of attack and dis­ games.
Smith Bros. Cough Drops are the
aster had been assembled and ap-
6. No, glow worms are actually
only drops containing VITAMIN A
praised as the basis for whatever beetles. The males can fly, but
later action was to be taken.
Vitamin A (Carotene) raises the resistance of
the females cannot, so they light
mucous membranes of nose and throat to
The wooden hangars at Kelly up to let their lovers know where
p cold infections, when lack of resist-
J
TWAot^r^
Field were in flames. Randolph they are.
MARK
i ance is due to Vitamin A deficiency.
Field was being hammered. San
7. North Carolina claims this
Antonio was in a mad panic which record. Between Wilmington and
had got out of all police control. Hamlet, a distance of 78 86 miles,
Wishes
fhad only one heart; grief, tw\>
two
People were flooding the streets, there is a stretch of'track without
Anger wishes that all mankind tear-glands; and pride, two bent
rushing about in a mad frenzy in a single curve.
had only one neck; love, that it knees.—Richter.
their efforts to escape the city.
Roads were choked with passenger
vehicles.
But the Van Hassek bombers were
THE SMOKE OF SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS GIVES YOU
confining their major fury to Fort
Sam Houston and the flying fields,
which told General Bril] that the
attack presaged a crossing of the
Rio Grande by mobile troops during
the night or at daybreak.
From New Orleans and Galveston
came reports of raids that were still
ANYONE WHO SMOKES
in progress Hundreds were killed
in the streets. No other details.
A GOOD DEAL. THE
Shortly after midnight the violence
suddenly ceased, the bombers and
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their accompanying attack ships
SLOWER-BURNING
sailed off to the south. Colonel
—
Denn
CAMELS
IS IMPORTANT
called in again from Laredo The
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head of a motorized column had
TOME. ANO THE
halted at Nuevo Laredo just south
FLAVOR IS SO
of the Rio Grande. His intelligence
patrols had verified this with their
GRANO
own eyes.
"All right, gentlemen.” Brill told
his staff. “Get the Second Division
together as quickly as possible and
than the average of the 4 other
start them moving south toward the
largest-selling
cigarettes tested—leas than
4 FLASHING STAK ON ICS
Nueces Riverl Tell General Mole of
EVELYN DOMAN-FIGURS-SKATER
any of them—according to independent
the Second I'll meet him at Kirk in
SNAPPED AT SIN VALLEY
scientific tests of the smoke Itself
three hours with his orders for the
defense of San Antonio. Get Gen­
eral Hague on the long-distance
THE
again while I report. We're going
. THE
to do our best in a desperate situa­
SMOKE’S
SLOWER-
tion. and I needn't tell you what
we re up against! I'D be ready for
BURNING
THE
your recommendations in an hour,
CIGARETTE
gentlemen.”
THING!
(TO PF CO\TIX( Fl)J
FEMALE
COMPLAINTS
“Kelly field in flames.”
INSTALLMENT FIVE
THE STORY SO FAR: Colonel Flag-
will, acting chief of 0-2, U. S. military
intelligence department, estimated there
were 200,000 European troop» In Mexi­
co preparing for an attack on the Unit­
ed State». Posing as Bromlitz. an Amer­
ican traitor captured In Pari», Intelli­
gence Officer Benning went to Mexico
City where he wit unsuspectingly ac­
cepted a« an officer by Van Hassek,
leader of the forvlzn armed force» In
Mexico. Flncke, another enemy officer.
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CHAPTER VI—Continued.
“I read a news flash on the Presi­
dent’» ultimatum in the San Antonio
papers last night before I took off
for Washington, sir,” Benning said.
“If my opinion is worth anything,
Colonel, Ruiz will merely stall
around in a play for time. He’s con­
trolled wholly by Van Hassek."
“We’re getting ready to mobilize
the army and National Guard, Ben­
ning.” Flagwill rubbed a torment­
ed hand across his brow. “Gad,
what a headache if it finally comes
to that!
"We’U be lucky if we get any­
thing mobilized before Van Hassek
hits us,” Benning predicted. “I
mean if we wait much longer."
“Wait? Wait? What else can we
do but wait? The people just sim­
ply refuse to believe we’re vulnera­
ble, Benning.
Late yesterday a
prominent senator dressed down the
President for sending an ultimatum
to Ruiz. Said the present troubled
time is not one to rock the boat—
Intimated the President was play­
ing politics. The press gave that
statesman almost as much space
as it gave the ultimatum. But now
you get busy and type out your re­
port in detail, Benning. General
Hague has called a General Staff
conference for eight o'clock. Hague
has been at his desk constantly since
your report came in yesterday—no
one around here has had any sleep.
I'll be back as soon as possible.”
Benning dictated to a confidential
clerk his report covering his move­
ments and observations from the
day of his arrival in Paris.
This done, he reproduced from
memory the Van Hassek operations
map with its numerous sinister red
arrows indicating points of possible
invasion of the United States by a
major land force supported by war-
ships and aircraft.
Colonel Flagwill came in from
staff conference, his face gravely
tense.
“What's fretting the President Is
his next move. G-2 has canvassed
public opinion throughout our nine
corps areas and finds the public isn't
very much excited over the Mexi­
can situation. The President's ulti­
matum stirred up more curios­
ity than alarm in the country. Too
many newspapers treat the matter
apathetically, or question the vigor
and finality with which the Presi­
dent went after Ruiz."
A stenographer brought in Ben­
ning's complete report and Flag­
will seized it avidly. His brows met
as he came to the scene in Van
Hassek's quarters at the Palacio
Nacional.
“You say. Benning, you saw a
black flag with crossed sabers with
your own eyes--and all the officers
saluted it?" he asked sharply.
“Yes, sir.”
"You didn't tell me that in your
verbal account. Man, that's vital
information! That same flag has
been showing up in Europe among
the armies of the Coalition Powers
It's also been reported in Tokio and ;
China. Reports have leaked out that I
the militarists are rallying behind
tiiat flag, hell-bent on taking mat- I
ters tn their own hands if necessary.
Of course, that's a subterfuge for
Coalition governments to maneu­
ver behind while they keep up a
pretense of peace negotiations But
the presence of that flag in Van
Hassek's headquarters is highly sig­
nificant. I'll take your report at
once to General Hague.”
Benning spent morning and after­
noon checking over tha G-2 reporta
on complications and developments
the world over Notes of ambassa­
dors. consuls, army and navy at­
taches in foreign capitals, and sum­
maries of press clippings all reflect­
ed the unrest and tension that
gripped the world
Europe continued a maelstrom of
rumor. Germany, Italy, Spain, and
their allied Balkan states were shut
off by rigid censorship. On the plea
of internal necessity they had closed
their frontiers to foreigners, dented
aliens all use of mails and wire
communications. Similar action had
been taken by Japan. Unverified
reports came from China of heavy
soon took him Into hli confidence. Bra­
slag va» Joined In Mexico City by Lu-
ecus Ducos, a French spy, who told
him that Bromlltz had escaped. He re­
turned to Washington aftvr learning Van
Hassek'» plans for an Invasion of the
United States. Actins on the basis of
this Information the President sent an
ultimatum to Mexico demandins an Im­
mediate explanation of the foreign troops
on her soil.
Now continue with the story.
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troop concentrations north of Shang­
hai together with concentration of
transport fleets. Russia had drawn
off to herself behind an unbreakable
curtain of censorship. Diplomacy ad­
mittedly had broken down the world
over, fretted capitals waited in the
grip of fear for the next moves in
a world gone mad.
Only in the United States was
there tranquillity left, a lack of fear
and tension. G-2 reports gave the
same story from over the country.
There was lively interest but little
tension. War was something on re­
mote horizons, isolated by broad
seas. America wanted nothing to
do with it, wished only to be left
alone with her peaceful intentions.
Therefore no harm could come. The
war scare was jingoistic poppycock
promoted by militarists in their
quest of heavier appropriations for
armaments. Just as though recent
millions pledged to them were in­
sufficient. As for those mercenary
troops in the Mexican army, our
own army could gobble them up in
a jiffy if they were senseless enough
to start anything.
During the day Benning saw little
of Flagwill. Endless staff confer­
ences were being held, the whole
War and Navy Departments a bee­
hive of strained activity. A new
plan was hot in the making, a tor­
tured, impossible plan, out of which
the best must be drawn.
It was a plan to meet the one
emergency for which the United
States was wholly and utterly un­
prepared, the emergency of sudden
invasion.
At Fort Sam Houston, on the out-
skirts of San Antonio, Lieutenant
Colonel Bart, Corps Area G-2 Chief,
received a disturbing bit of informa­
tion late in the day. Shortly after
sunset a formation, identified as
bombers, had passed over the Rio
Grande at a point west of Browns­
ville, headed north.
Bart had telephoned the villages
of Kingsville, Gregory. Skidmore,
Beeville, and Kennedy to the north
of the border, In Texas, without
picking up any further report of the
flight, from which he concluded that
the bombers must have taken out
across the Gulf of Mexico.
He had alerted Galveston and New
Orleans, but as the evening passed
no reports came from those cities.
Neither Kelly Field nor Randolph
Field had any planes out. A query
to Washington brought the response
that no American bombers were
known to be in the lower Texas re­
gion or along the Gulf of Mexico.
The reported bomber expedition
had followed a Series of reports dur­
ing the afternoon that had put Gen­
eral Brill and the whole corps area
on the jagged edge. A Mexican had
brought into Laredo the report that
heavy motorized divisions were
spending the day in screened biv­
ouacs tn Coahuila and Nueva Leon.
Half an hour later came news
from Colonel Denn that was not to
be ignored.
"Four flights have passed over La­
redo within the past fifteen min­
utes." Denn said "If my ears know
an American plane these were not
American. They were headed about
due north, and traveling high and
fast”
General Brill calmly made his own
estimate of the situation Parked in
the grounds of Fort Sam Houston
were the sixteen hundred shining
new trucks of the Second Division,
together with the division's materi­
al and supplies The Second, alert­
ed and with all leaves suspended,
was in barracks and camp ready
for emergency At Kelly and Ran­
dolph Fields, near-by. were the
planes and supplies used in training
a small new army of pilots for an
expanded air service.
"Have the Second Division get
their trucks out of here as soon as
possible." he directed his chief of
staff “They'D also disperse their
artillery Notify the mayor of San
Antonio and suggest that ha hava
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