Illinois Valley News, Thursday May 15, 1941
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THE STORY SO FAR: More than
ton.ooo foreign troop« avcretly assembled
In Mexico by Van Ha»»ek suddenly In­
vaded the United Stale«. Vastly superior
la number« and equipment to the Amer­
ican force« which opposed them, Van
Ha«aek’> troop« pushed relentlessly lor-
ward. The U. 8. army was not pre­
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pared for this sudden attack, and could
only retreat In the face of overwhelming
force. High army officer« worked des­
perately to organize an effective resist­
ance against the Invader Intelligence
Officer Benning barely escaped with his
lite when a dvnamlte-laden ship explod­
ed In Use Panama Canal, trapping the
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CHAPTER XIX
Colonel Flagwill had sprawled out
on a cot in his office in the Muni­
tions Building for a few winks of
sleep at sunrise, when he was shak­
en to wakefulness by an assistant.
"Here's our report from the
Fourth Army at San Diego, sir,”
the assistant reported, "Air recon-
nalssance confirmed Major Ben-
Van
ning's report from El Paso.
Hassek’s troops are moving north
from Guaymas! Facts confirmed by
photographs taken by one of our ob­
servation planes.”
Flagwill sat up and read the re­
port with a blank expression. The
staggering succession of events, the
crushing responsibilities of the past
few days had bankrupt him of emo­
tion.
"Well—one more report from our
Asiatic fleet and we’ll know the
worst,” he muttered. "Is General
Hague at his desk yet, do you
know?”
"No. sir, the general has been
asleep for nearly an hour.
His aide
refuses to let anyone disturb him
on any account. Major Benning re-
ported in from El Paso half an
hour ago. You were asleep—”
"Let him come in.” Flagwill in-
terrupted.
Benning responded at once, his
face a peculiar chalky color. Flag­
will's eyes centered on the major's
left arm that hung from his neck in
a woolen sling.
"You didn't tell me you'd been in
a jam," Flagwill accused, •'What
are all the bandages about?”
Benning smiled placidly, and said:
“The sawbones took a Luger slug
out at El Paso, sir. I’ve only my-
self to blame for taking foolish
chances, but at least all’s well that
ends well, and I suppose I'll always
feel better about the way I handled
it.”
"What about Boggio?” Flagwill
sharply interrupted.
"When I met him, instead of
shooting him at sight, I said, "Bog­
gio, I’m Major Benning. United
States Army. I understand you claim
responsibility for bombing the White
House." Boggio snatched out his pis­
tol and went into action. I aimed
very deliberately at his heart and
effected a clean bull's-eye.
I didn’t
even know I’d been hit until some
minutes later.”
Flagwill nodded gravely and said:
"I'm glad you did it just that way,
Benning
Hope your arm isi
too bad a fix."
"Just a little hole, sir.
El
gave me anti-tetanus treatment and
said I'd be as good as new in a
short time. Things seem to look
pretty black just now. Anything new
from Panama?”
"Yes. Engineers affirm that it'll
take a year to put the Canal in
commission.”
General Hague's aide-de-camp
banged into the room with a sum­
mons, his ashen face and distended
eyes eloquent of some major ca-
tastrophe that he did not wait to
disclose.
Flagwill got to his feet. "There
must be blood on the moon. Ben-
"Better go
ningl” he exclaimed
out to Walter Reed and get your arm
treated, then report back here to
me in event I need you.”
Benning passed up the hospital to
search through Intelligence summa­
ries and press reports They reflect­
ed a world now black as pitch with
stark omens of mighty violence.
An hour later President Tannard
walked slowly up and down his
study, head sunk to his chest, hands
tightly clenched, the tense silence of
the room broken only by the soft
tread of his feet and the noisy tick
of a small clock
Across the room
from him stood General Hague and
Admiral Hunt, the latter, chief of
naval operations.
The President halted In front of
Hague and said in a low voice. "You
are sure of your estimate. General,
that you haven't sufficient forces to
hold the Pacific coast against a ma­
jor invasion?”
"Positive, sir." Hague affirmed nt
once. "Even if we shoved all our
available troops onto the Pacific
coast, we couldn't zupply them with
ammunition for more than two
weeks of action. If that long. As I
said before, sir, our defense plans
have been laid on having an effec­
tive force ready in three hundred
days after mobilization.”
"I regret to say, General.” Pres­
ident Tannard responded, "that with
al) my years in the Senate I didn't
realize that condition.”
The President turned to Admiral
Hunt and asked him, "With the loss
of your naval bases on the Pacific,
you will have Pear) Harbor to fall
back on?”
"If two of our battleship divi-
along and other craft are to be or­
dered to protect the Atlantic, sir. I'd
recommend against risking what re­
mains of our fleet on the Pacific in
Pearl Harbor
Such a division of
the fleet Is very dangerous."
"Then you recommend abandon­
ment of the Pacific coasts, at least
for the time being?” President Tan­
nard demanded.
By VIRGINIA VALE
I). 8. Beet tn the Pacific Ocean. Ordered
u> Mexico City, be learned that Van
Haiiek would toon invade America’s
west coast. Benning then left for Wash­
ington to report to Colonel Flagwill,
chfel of the V. S. Intelligence Depart­
ment.
Now continue with the story.
Memos of a
Girl Friday:
Dear W. W'.: Quentin Reynolds
has arrived safely via convoy. He
made it that way to do an article
for Collier’s on convoys . . . FDR
and John L. Lewis haven't exactly
buried the hatchet, but the things
they say of each other privately
aren't as nasty as they were.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
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Vf
obert taylor has
very rarely visited his
R
wife, Barbara Stanwyck, on a
motion picture set, but he
broke the rule when she was
working in “The Great Man’s
Lady” (originally titled “Pio­
neer Woman”) and watched
her working with Brian Don-
levy.
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The admiral's face went ashen;
pulling out of here, Hawtry. I want
He swallowed several times and to get to the Puget Sound country
licked purple lips.
as soon as possible.”
Mrs. T. Roosevelt Jr. resigned
“That, sir,” he said in a low,
They took off at once for San
tremulous voice, "is a matter of de­ Francisco. Below them they saw from that "Women United for
Peace” outfit. She was a speaker
cision entirely beyond my province.
A few days before, Donlevy had
the roads massed black with flee-
I can only give you the facts as to ing thousands from Los Angeles, along with Senators Reynolds and been shooting Taylor for the final
Bennett Clark at Carnegie Hall. She
the limitations of your navy.”
Pasadena, and towns along the path said in her talk that America had scenes in "Billy the Kid.” Now that
Tannard nodded slowly and re- of impending invasion.
“Billy the Kid" is finished a quan­
no room for intolerance. The com­
sumed his pacing of the floor, His
At San Francisco they put down ment met stony silence—so she re­ dary has arisen. In the Metro script,
head sunk again to his chest, the for the night because of heavy fogs.
Billy was left-handed, so Taylor
signed. Hurray for her.
knuckles of his clenched hands were The city was in a panic. Steady
practiced for several months draw­
white as bleached bones.
ing his gun from the holster with his
streams of people were pouring out
You wanted me to remind you to left hand. Then came word from
"Very well, gentlemen, I will de­ of the city on all roads. The Mint
gang- William S. Hart and Col. Archer
cide,” President Tannard said at was being emptied, money and se­ say something about the Ism
sters who pin themselves onto Adams, both familiar with the des­
last.
curities from banks being shipped
Americans who are popular, Will- perado's character, that he used his
He halted and looked from one to by train and truck.
kie sure was brave when he threw
another. His face now was wrinkled
A new terror fed the panic. Fog away the votes of many by publicly right hand. Looks as if the argu­
ment never would be settled.
and drawn until he had the aspect had engulfed most of the coastline
announcing that he didn’t want
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of a very old man.
from Seattle to San Francisco. Vis­ Fronters, Bundists et al on his side
Anne Shirley, who appeared in her
“The inevitable decision,” he add­ ibility had been stripped from the
. . . Dare the Dept, of Commerce first picture when she was three, has
ed, and wet his lips with several sea by vast blankets of fog. Air ob­
to deny this . . . That our oil ex­
a word of advice for
nervous flicks of his tongue. "You, servers were land-bound. If the fog ports to Japan are still averaging
mothers who want
Admiral, will be prepared to with­ held out through the next few days, about 400,000 barrels weekly and
their children to be­
draw your fleet to the Atlantic to the invader would be able to put have been as high as 600,000 per
come movie actors.
protect the country's vital centers of ashore in whaleboats and establish
week!
She’s been working
population. You, General, will meet a foothold unhampered by Ameri­
with a series of
the invasion as best you can at the can fighting planes.
The spending by the visiting Brit­
youngsters in “West
Pacific shore, and fight a delaying
With nightfall word came to San ish tars has saved many a joint
Point Widow”—five
action. There must be no public Francisco that the Fourth Army wag
ready to fold up . . . Eliot Janeway
of them, in all, be­
announcement of this decision tem­ retreating north from San Diego.
has a honey of a piece in the new
cause the babies be­
porarily to abandon the Pacific General Brunn refused to make any
Life called "Hitler vs. Roosevelt”
haved so badly that
coast. We are simply yielding to announcement, but the secret leaked
. Soandso just phoned.
Said
substitutes had to
the inevitable, That is all, gentle- that his divisions were headed into
be used. Miss Shir­
that FDR's jaw is "longer than
men.”
the region of Sacramento. News of ever” and that his knuckles are a
ley thinks it's a
Anne
Shirley
A momentous decision had to be this retreat converted panic into little whiter when he clenches his
great mistake to
made by the commander of the frenzy.
fist—and that his policy henceforth have a child learn to do imitations
Fourth Army. General Brunn and
In the morning Hawtry took a will be "action or dismissal!"— and tap dancing and all that sort of
chance against the fog. He found a Your Girl Friday.
thing; an attractive, intelligent child
hole at Medford and put down to re­
with acting ability needs to do just
fuel.
Four hours later, Hawtry
one thing, says she—obey the di­
nosed about in the fleecy sky over I Notes of an
rector.
Fort Lewis until he found a rift Innocent Bystander:
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The Story Tellers: Edmond Tay­
and dived to a landing.
Walter
Abel
had visitors on his
Here on Puget Sound, some two lor's Fortune piece is a must for set a while ago who rattled him com­
Americans
who
don
’
t
think
Hitler
thousand miles north of Brunn's re­
pletely. He was do­
treating divisions, was the northern­ is a menace here . . . Pic runs a
ing a scene with
most element of his Fourth Army. warning that homely gals are the Paulette
Goddard
For defense of the Northwest were safest, and gives examples of beau­ for Paramount’s
ties
who
got
into
trouble
with
their
i two National Guard Divisions and
"Hold
Back
the
1 looks. A few pages later it shows
part of the Third Regulars.
Dawn,” in a Mexi­
what a grand time Hope Carroll,
Benning reported to Lieutenant
the blue book's glamour mascot, has can border town
Colonel Marsh. G-2, at Fort Lewis
set. The Abel sons,
because "she's got everything.”
headquarters, whence operations in
Make up your mind! . . . Morely aged 11 and 9, re­
the field were being directed.
Cassidy shows, in Coronet, how a spectively, had been
Marsh's bloodless, drawn face re­
studying about Mex­
legacy caused a crime wave and a
flected stunned hopelessness; hit
gold rush in Philly.
He reports ico in school, and
voice was a contained but colorless 25,563 persons claimed a $17.000.000 wanted to see the
monotone as he sketched over the legacy.
set; it interested
Walter Abel
Already it has inspired
operations map with Benning.
them more than this
such crimes as forgery, perjury,
first sight of their father at work.
"This fog has us stumped," he wife desertion and two murders . . .
groaned. “We know enemy trans­ John Cudahy is easy on King Leo­ Abel finally had to ask Director
ports are not far off shore—they pold of the Belgians for surrender­ Mitchell Leisen to shoot the scene
again, on a closed set this time; his
may make a landing tonight. But ing under fire. The former U. S.
they can land anywhere from Gray Ambassador,
writing
in
World sons made him nervous!
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Harbor on down the coast into Ore­ Digest, recalls that the French were
Joel McCrea took a short trip
gon. All we can do is watch and blundering all over the front, and
wait, keeping our reserves massed j Leopold had a choice of giving up when he finished his work in the
Stanwyck picture; went to New
and mobile.
When they do land, or facing revolt of his troops . . .
all we can do is flght them in suc­ Ann Sheridan confides in Liberty Mexico to see some men about
cessive positions for a day or two that the word "oomph” was parent- some cows. He has enlarged his
Ventura county ranch from 1.000 to
"Very well, gentlemen, I
and then pull out for the Cascades!" ed by a wheeze in here.
Any
will decide.”
Astride his machine gun on the chance to buy back that unfortunate 1,500 acres, and all that extra graz­
sandy beach south of Aberdeen, Pri­ sentence? . . . Reader's Digest ob­ ing space has to have customers.
his general staff had been in a hud-
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vate John Rand, 161st Infantry, serves: "The reason a lot of people
die through long hours.
Constance Moore, feminine lead in
thought he heard a rift in the mo- do not recognize an opportunity
American bombers, attack and notonous splash of the incoming when they meet it is that it usually "I Wanted Wings,” now is deter­
pursuit planes, had hammered Van tide. The gun crew held its breath goes around wearing overalls and
mined to earn wings of her own.
Hassek's marching columns without to strain into the washing waves.
All that flying in the picture made
looking like hard work.”
greatly reducing their relentless
her yearn to do it too—and she
"There’s men moving." someone
northern movement.
ought to be able to manage it eas­
hoarsely whispered.
The Front Pages: The Times of­
Another complication was the
ily, for her husband, Johnny Mas-
Private Rand knew that friendly fered two and a half columns of good
monstrous specter of invasion from
chio, is a licensed pilot. Her close
patrols were not allowed in front of sense in an editorial picture of a
the Pacific, now looming nearer and
friend«. Margaret Sullavan and Oliv­
his own position. His heart pounded possible Hitler victory. The Nazis
nearer. Airplane observers, risking
ia de Haviland, are urging her on;
so hard he heard nothing else.
needn't even make war on us to
themselves far out over the sea,
they both fly, and love it. Constance
A stab of flame leaped from the ruin our liberty, said the editorial. threatens to take to the air any day
verified the actuality of it. Though
A succes­ Chesty after a win over Britain. Ger­ now.
there had been no declaration of muzzle of Rand’s gun
many's threat would make us live
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war, yet transport and warcraft, sion of sharp flames followed as he
in an armed camp—where liberty
poured
the
murderous
might
of
his
cloaked in greasy smudge, swept
Columbia has finally signed all the
can’t live . . . The H-Trib rebuked
toward the coast like some cata- machine gun into the night. A shrill
players who will be seen in the new
FDR editoriallly for his "intensely
cry rang out in front.
series of pictures based on the "Til­
clysmic pestilence.
personal"
remarks
about
Lindbergh.
Rand did not live to near the
lie the Toiler" comic strip. Kay
"We have done our best here."
Why
not
personal?
Lindbergh
takes
Harris, one of Hollywood's Cinder­
Brunn finally told his staff.
"We howling, maddening storm that
bows for the malcontents he heads,
ella girls, gets the lead; others in
have no alternative than to with­ swiftly grew out of that first bark
why
not
the
raps,
too?
Mr.
Roose
­
so
the cast are Daphne Pollard. Wil­
draw northward to the vicinity of of his machine gun. Shadows loomed
velt
takes
them
for
the
New
Deal
—
liam Tracy, George Watts, Jack Ar­
Sacramento. Otherwise we will find out of the fog and bore in on his
and the H-Trib knows that well. The
ourselves inevitably in a pocket from crew. The long steel fang of a bay­ last campaign was so personal it nold and Benny Bartlett
•h
which we'll be unable to extricate onet bit into his breast.
From a mile behind the shoreline didn't even stop with the President.
The release by RKO of Walt Dis­
ourselves
Our withdrawal com­
It
took
in
his
wife,
his
children,
and,
the commander of a battalion of
ney’s
"The
Reluctant Dragon”
mences tonight"
howitzers barked an order. Muzzle if you remember the campaign but­ marks Disney’s entrance into a
Benning heard the decision with
flashes cut the night momentarily tons, even his grandchildren . . .
brand new field: the picture com­
a gloomy tightening of the muscles
to ribbons. The earth rocked from Who is France for? Three Vichy bines both "live-action" photogra­
of his jaw
Events of the past few
papers
were
suspended
for
giving
the force of the explosion that sent
phy and animated pictures. The lo­
days had dulled his sense of acute
high-explosive shells screaming to prominence to the speeches of Cor­ cale is the Disney studio, and Robert
feeling left him numb and dazed.
dell
Hull
and
Sec.
Knox.
Another
the unseen shoreline.
Benchley is the star.
Brunn’s decision meant the aban­
From the sea came now the roar paper, published by Jacques Doriot,
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donment of the great Naval Operat­
of thunder as heavy naval guns the agitator assaulted Roosevelt.
Maureen
O'Sullivan
paused in
ing Base at San Diego It meant the
picked up the brawl to mock the His sheet wasn't molested.
New York with her baby son, on the
first move of the land forces in evac­
puny defiance of the howitzers The
way from a visit with her husband—
uating the Pacific coast
Typewriter Ribbons:
C. V. R
violence spread in length and depth,
he's stationed in Bermuda—back to
swiftly rose in fury until it became Thompson: Washington is the only Hollywood. Metro will co-star her in
< IMITI R XX
a ceaseless roar of mighty thunder, j place where sound travels faster
a new Tarzan picture with Johnny
There was no such thing in this than light . . . Clyde Fitch: A flat Weismuller — the first Tarzan in
A plane from the 21st Reconnais­
foggy night as observation, no such with rooms like a string of buttons three years.
sance Squadron had brought Ben­
Jack Warwick: Love of coun-
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thing as gauging the tidal wave of
ning from Washington two days be­
invasion, or co-ordinating resist­ try Eighty-five per cent sweat and
The Court of Missing Heirs has lo­
fore as Flagwill observer of the in­
ance. Only by sound could the in­ 15 per cent Star-Spangled Banner cated 71 heirs in 69 weeks of broad­
evitable invasion. Captain Hawtry,
vader be estimated, Ten thousand ... Daniel Webster: God grants casting—and the value of the es­
pilot, was on the lookout for his pas­
men, the staff decided at dawn, liberty only to those who love it tates returned to the rightful heirs
senger
must have landed on the beach un­ •nd are always ready to guard and amounts to $413.375.
"Hear the news. Major?” Haw­
der cover of darkness Men enough defend it.
try inquired. Hawtry, a lanky Vir­
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to force a human bridgehead for an
This from H. L. Mencken: We
ginian with clear gray eyes and the
ODDS ,4\D ENDS—Ruv Collint,
army to follow under the savage must be willing to pay a price for
uho'i plated Vfk) rolei in the theater
relaxed features of a man who takes
protection of naval guns
freedom, for no price that is ever and on the radio, make» hit film debut
life as it comes, added In a laconic
Through the stricken, sodden day asked for it is half the cost of doing in ’'Ciltsen Kane" . . . The V. 8. war
drawl: "It just come in a minute
that followed. Benning remained at without it . . . Steele: Etiquette is department is building 3t> mot ie hotuet
ago over the radio. They’ve cracked
Fort Lewis while the Fourth Army’s the invention of wise men to keep in the nation's draft camp» . .. K arneri
us up pretty bad off the Jersey
Puget
Sound
divisions
slowly fools at a distance . . . H. W. Shaw: have timed trie Setereid, ace Mar cor­
coast with their ships. There's hell
dropped back. They fought the in­ Error will slip through a crack, respondent and radio reporter, to do
popping on the Atlantic It looks like
vader from successive lines of while truth will stick in a doorway background commentating in "I infer-
Atlantic City was in for a shelling
ridges, but the die was cast, the . . . Ray Thompson: A free coun­ ground." a film about a secret revolu­
before the day's over.”
command given.
The Forty-First try should mean one tn which those tionary movement in Germany ... Prig-
Benning merely stared at his pilot
was to cover the withdrawal to the who don't like the way things are villa lane has the lead in "Hot Yoc­
out of hollow eyes and said: "We're
Cascade passes
The conquest of run are free to live elsewhere . . . turn e," a story of swing band fieri . . .
Sincere kicks-in-the-pants Shirley Temple t out of the H allace
the Northwest waited only consoli­ Anon
dation by the now victorious divi­ are better than phony pats-on-the- Beers picture, “Lass bonei"; Virginia
Veidler'i in.
hack
sions of the Invader.
/JJeeatalemeeei
ITO BE COVTZVl I DI
NEXT WEEK
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