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Illinois Valley News, Thursday, March 13, 1941 Page Six DON'T BE BOSSED PATTERNS^ BY YOUR LAXATIVE — RELIEVE CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAY • When you feel g»»sy, besdschy, logy due to clotted-up bowel», do as tmlh ana do-take Feen-A-Mint at bedtime. Next morning - thorough, comfortable relief, helping you »tart the day full of your normal energy and pep, feeling like a million! Feen-A-Mint doesn’t disturb your night’s rest or interfere with work the next day. Try Feon A-Mint, the chewing gum laxative, your self. It tastes good, it'» handy and economical... a family supply S£WING THE STORY SO FAB: InteUigenre Officer Benning’s warning that 200.000 foreign troops wers poised In Mexico tor an attack on the United States caused grave concern In army headquarters, but the people branded the statement as "war mongering." Four large south- ora cities were suddenly attacked from * * 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 miracle of develop ment. Those new planes were clos ing In and he made 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 Hassek'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 came 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 came 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 bills and swales when Boll's sur vivors rolled in on a Second Division outpost south of Kirk. Boll's cheek, caked in blood, was throbbing with pain, his right arm hung stiff and useless at his side. He climbed from the truck and stolidly checked his command as It came through the outpost. Forty-two moaned in the throes of wounds, twenty-nine had been left dead along the crimson road from Laredo. The outpost commander 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 must have care at once!" "Eleventh’s men are being evacu ated to San Antonio, Captain," the outpost commander advised. "Colo nel Denn was killed, total casual ties over three hundred men. But maybe that'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'll be attacked in force here before many hours pass. All right. Boll, get rolling." INSTALLMENT NINE ths air; Waihlntloo was bombed and the Presides: killed. General Brill, com- mander of the army tn Texas, repurled to General Hague at Washington that he was opposed by greaUy superior forces. General Hague told him to resist the enemy’s advance at all costs. Brill or dered Captain Boll to lead the I Itb V. 8. FEEN-A-MINT Toi ****** • * * ties belonged to the black pages of confirms what we’d guessed long Shanghai, Canton, and Madrid. ago. They also suggest that the Already the hue and cry was ris enemy espionage has its headquar ing west of the Alleghenies sharp ters in New York, disguised as some on the heels of the first hysterical large corporation, no details avail waves of fear. What of the Army? able. Second. I have positive infor Why had our armed forces been mation that Vah Hassek's bombers caught napping? Why hadn’t the had ground liaison in Washington raiders been detected and shot last night Light signals were flashed down? from the area of the White House The first reports of mobilization during both raids.” of Army and National Guard were Benning started. Into his mind pouring in. Mobilization was less flashed Captain Fincke’s cryptic than one fourth complete. The Reg statements at the Shoreham. ular Army was ready to entrain for Promptly he decided against report concentration points from its far- ing this conversation for the time flung network of small garrisons being. He gave Flagwil] a brief ac whose location had been dictated by count of his discovery of the Aus chambers of commerce and con trian captain and Colonel Boggio and gressmen rather than by the neces explained his logic in not immediate sities of military training In the vi ly causing their arrest. tal team-play of larger units. "All right, Benning,” Flagwill Plans were being laid for a call said, his eyes snapping. "I’ll as for 500,000 volunteers. That would sume you made no mistake in not have to wait action by Congress, arresting them last night. But now but Congress could be depended upon you forget everything else and get now to go the limit A draft army out after them! Use your own judg of a million men would come next. ment about when you make arrests, As for modern equipment, that but see to it they don’t get away would have to wait. There would from you. I needn’t tell you that the Coalition spy net is ten times be nd such thing as buying it in France and England, even in Can more dangerous in the long run than ada, as at the time of the World Van Hassek's present rotten inva War. A year, or two years, might sion.” elapse before industrial mobilization, CHAPTER X the country's own resources, could "1 have two reports that will interest you." provide anything more tha.i the crudest necessities of combat If a In Washington, Captain Benning major war was in the offing, the spent a sleepless nightmare of a country would have to depend upon night on the assignment from Flag the massed valor of its manpower will of observing panic-stricken to take unequal red losses and drive through at all costs. streets. It was nine o’clock before Colonel Daybreak and exhaustion restored some degree of reason. People Flagwil) stamped in from the Chief moved about now as if stunned, but of Staff's office. His face was ashen from time to time looking fearfully and lined, but his level black eyes into the skies or straining at every glowed vitality. "What an inglorious tangle!” he word of radio loudspeakers that had been put in service on principal muttered to Benning with a torment ed shake of his head. "Which way streets. Traffic jams Anally had been re to turn, that's the question bedevil duced. steady streams of cabs and ing all of us." "I've been reading the reports and cars were pouring out of the city on all roads. Thousands flocked about recommendations of the staff sec the railway station clamoring for tions, sir." Benning answered. "Mo standing space on any train that bilization seems to be moving right along and the panic is cooling off, led away from Washington. Extra editions of newspapers burst even in Washington." "Mobilizing is one thing, fighting into the streets at frequent inter another," Flagwill snapped out. "By vals. Texas invaded. Extras massed tonight, when the Second gets black headlines over meager dis cracked at San Antonio, the whole patches from San Antonio. Van Has country will be howling for action. sek was moving north in three col The howl for anti-aircraft is already umns American infantry and cav pouring in—and every one of our alry were fighting him at the Rio ten regiments of anti-aircraft is Grande American Second Division short something, a battery or two. a was moving south to repel the in full battalion, or essential equip ment Not to mention ammunition. vasion. "The big trouble is, we don't know Another extra dashed out. Wash ington safe! Benning read eagerly. yet what we re up against and we've It had been as FlagwiU guessed. got to play a cautious game. If all The night raiders had planted a re we had to consider was Van Has fueling field Back of the Tennessee sek. we'd rush troops in there and River, southwest from Nashville. give him his lesson in a very few The thing had been camouflaged as weeks. What the public will not a new airways enterprise, had even be able to understand, nor even Con been fostered by ambitious and un gress, is that we've got to use most of our peace-strength army as a suspecting chambers of commerce When the bombers and their con framework for building a national voys of fighting craft had put down army "But anyhow, come what may to till their tanks after bombing Washington, a few mounted ma with the future.” Flagwill went on chine guns had kept curious natives with a sardonic grin, "the Chief has ■ way. The aircraft had taken all just made one ten-strike of a deci personnel off at resuming their flight sion. We're to make our first real back to Mexico. Another raid on military stand down around Fort Washington would be impossible— Worth, which is about as far as unless attack could be launched from Van Hassek would dare go in any i event." the sea. Flagwill bolted a sandwich and That subdued hum of relentless ac washed it down with a cup of coffee, tivity tilled the Munitions Building Faces were lined and gray from then pulled himself up to his desk. "I've two reports that will interest ■ ■train and fatigue, but eyes burned you. Benning," he announced from smudged sockets with stern abruptly. "First, we've a tip from I resolution. London that the Coalition espionage The night's panic had swept the system in the United States is or whole country. In the midwest there ganized to completely wreck our in had been incredulity at first The dustrial organization. That merely whole thing seemed too inconceiv able. 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Infantry into position lor kxtUs. Boll’s motor column bravely withstood a terrt- bhi straBng Irom enemy aircraft, but be ordered the men to abandon their trucks when he observed twenty more planes approacMng. Further resistance seemed useless to him. Now continue with the story. General Mole sat in the hot shel ter of his command post which had been dug by engineers into the re verse slope of a squat ridge. He puffed glumly at the stub of a cigar as he observed the arrival of his regimental and battalion command ers whom he had summoned from over his battle position. Planes soared overhead, Ameri can combat planes covering his posi tion against air attack. From time to time an observation plane dashed low with a dropped message report ing progress of the Van Hassek ap proach. At last word, the main Van Hassek column had cleared the Nue ces River after routing a motorized battalion strong-point that Mole had sent out to gain contact and delay the enemy. Mole's plan of battle was shaped; his formal orders had been distribut ed. Since morning the men had been digging in. All his artillery had been dug in and camouflaged. Here he had an immense, hastily organized citadel of mutually supporting strong-points. Machine guns had been placed for the maximum of destructive effect. The breaking of one line yielded the enemy the grim necessity of attack ing a new one Roads menacing his flanks were strongly covered. It was not such a position as he would have selected of his own choice, but since necessity forced it on him, he meant to make the most of his opportunities for stubborn re sistance. His senior aide-de-camp came up tn him and saluted. “Sir, the officers are assembled," the captain advised. Th.-re was a greenish hue to the general's lean, cadaverous face, brought by the stress of the past 1 few days. His eyes were bloodshot under puffy black lids, but they J shone with « stout, even glitter, that proclaimed the mastery of will over flesh. As he stood up to face his assembled commanders, he was per fectly contained. "I wanted a feW words with you before we go into action, gentle men," he began in a calm voice. "The decision to fight here was made for us by General Hague. Therefore, it becomes our decision. Let me frankly say that the Army is on the spot, that the people ' wouldn't understand the simple wis dom of our falling back without a fight." He paused and his pale, bluish lips drew down into an expression of bitterness. "All right, we ll go through! We'll hold! We'll give the country a new tradition to remember! We'll fight Van Hassek with one regiment to four or five! If we're attacked this afternoon we'll fight until night. We'll hold through tomorrow. Then I'll make my further decision. 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