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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Thursduy, Aug. 6, 1942
ABOVE<1“ HULLABALOO
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Before this war is
there tn full-time war work of one hint
will doubtless be moments which or anothei Seven million women
xVMIPSIx
will not only try the very souls have been registered and ate being
•of men and women, but which may directed into war work. Five ami
Have
Bruc*.
out ul ■ >ih. arrives al
stretch the bonds of the alliances a half million women are already Wilbur Farris' Cross liar lanch. Curran,
working
in
industry.
Even
boys
th« foreman, promise» him a job if he
which today holds together each of
can break a hors« called Black Dawn.
those two groups ot nations caileu and girls are mobolized
In 1941 Britain launched h mil When he succeeds, he discovers Curran
respectively "The United Nations"
the hors« to kill him A girl
lion and a quarter tons of ship rxiH-cled
and the "Axis."
named Lois rides up She Is angry with
In every military contest which ping She is now pnxlucing five Dave for breaking "her" horse and re
fuses to speak to him even after he has
involves alliances of nations, one times as many tank- as she did used
his savings Io help her foster fa-
of the weapons constantly being in August 1940 Even underground lher. Ifooker. pay off the mortgage
used is propaganda to break up quarries have been converted into on their ranch She leaves, and that
these alliances or to destroy their factories By November. 1941. the night, while Hooker Is trying to tell
Dave a secret hr has learned. Hooker is
efficiency. This weapon is often British empire's purchases in the killed
by a shot tired through an open
Byrou Nelson, winner <4 Chica wielded so cleverly that its use is United States were over five bll-
window
As Dave starts to town to get
go's Tam O'Shanter golf tourna not even suspected by those who lion dollars.
the sheriff he meets Lola, who immedl.
ment. is pictured here with his tro are its. victims. Old peace time
On the fighting front the RAF alely believes him guilty Now Sheriff
phy after winning this year's top
has just arrested Dave tor
quarrels and enmities are dragged destroyed 3.692 Axis planes In one Coggswell
money tourney. Proceeds went to
three-month period alone In one murder
the Army Emergency Relief fund up and "warmed over"; false re six-month period they dropped 20,-
and an army officer is on hand to ports of the activities of one's al 000 tons of bombs on the enemy.
lies are spread cleverly about; ru
congratulate Nelson.
For an instant Dave sited up
mors drift around to the effect The amount of damage done to
that the "other fellow" is letting Axis production cannot be exti- the situation. it hadn't occurred to
his allies do all the work. Cleverly mated, but it is very great The him before that he could |xnudbly
planted little acorns’grow quickly RAF has escorted over 8.000 con be under suspicion of haring killed
the harmless old man whom he
Simi was at his aide with a gun In his hand.
into great big oaks and create sus- voys of Allied shipping
While building up her resources had befriended For it moment the
picions and ill-will. Dislikes and
frictions- which are perfectly llor for the untimate offensive. Britain ignominy of his ¡xisitliHi maddened enough to shoot."
dollars by selling them to Farris,
mal reactions in peacetime are has been fighting all over the east him with anger But he hadn't a
"Anything
to
corroborate
that
It was after she had tamed
sometimes spread even to the ern hemisphere. She has liberated chance, with Sheriff Coggswell's i story, sheriff?” asked Lonergan Black Dawn that she hud gained
gun
covering
his
heart
Abyssinia
and
has
occupieid
stra
leaders; and finally—as has occa-
“Nary thing," responded Coggs- complete control over the herd,
So, with a shrug of his shoul
sionally happened- one ally will tegic territory in East Africa. Sy
well.
"No trail nor nothing txxiks which followed her like sheep at
ria.
Iraq.
Iran.
Iceland
and
Mada
ders.
he
held
out
his
hands
While
abandon another for reasons more
'
to
me
this is an open and shut her signal.
gascar. She has been sending 80 Sims covered him in turn, Coggs
emotional than realistic.
case."
To sell Black Dawn to Ferris
per
cent
of
her
military
produc
well
extracted
a
pair
of
handcuffs
The winning of this war de- tion to the battlefronts, and every
had almost broken her heart, but
"Well,
what
did
this
masked
from
his
saddle
bag
and
snapped
pends greatly upon close co-oper- soldier for whom there was ship them over Dave's wrists
man look like?” Lonergan de- she knew that Isinergnn had been
ation and a spirit of unity and un-
pressing Hooker for his money.
Pattera No. 8168—Something derstanding between ourse Ives and ping space
"I guess you kin handle this bud manded. "You say you saw him Once
the judge hnd made advanc
The British navy has inflicted ■ hombre. Sima," said Coggswell to How tall was he? What sort of
new in dresses of that popular ' our allies, and rumors should never
long-torso-dirndl skirt silhouette! be repeated unless facts are defi terrific damage upon the enemy 1 his deputy. Me and Miss Lois will build did he have?" Could you es to her and she hail struck him
A dress juniors will welcome be nitely known. One frequently hears naval forces and has sunk five and ride up to the mesa and investi identify him if you were to see in the face That was just before
he began pi rasing Htaiker for the
him again'"'
cause it offers an opportunity for I today for instance, that Britain is a quarter million tons of enemy gate. Turn yore hawss, Bruce "
smart contrast in this delightful allowing us to do most of the merchant shipping All British mu
"Nache rally not, him being mortgage money
In
another
moment
Dave
was
•Dun Dave Bruce hnd come
jacket effect top- i^se a plain fa providing and is letting her colo nitions of war sent to Russia are riding back toward Mescal Sims masked and it being dark ns
bric with a print here or mix two nial troops do most of the fighting under lend-lease; and practically was at his side with a gun in his pitch,” l>ave returned "But he along and broken Black Dawn, a
all aid promised that hard fight
was about yore build, judge, and noted killer, who had taken the
plain colors, crayon blue with rosy
Now here are a few items taken ing ally has been sent convoyed hand, while the sheriff ami Lois he
stood about as high ax you do. lives of four men Worse than
red, for innstance. A style worthy from
were
galloping
back
across
the
her war activities: Britain's by British ships and planes
of a star role in a carefully plan production
and
he had a look like a mangy that, he had come to the cabin to
valley.
of planes used by the through a hell of icebergs, subma-
be the l>artner of her foster
ned vacation wardrobe or even in a | RAF are British
yeller coyote, and ”
made.
Two
out
Mescal,
which
had
appeared
rines
and
dive-bombers.
trousseau; you’ll find it effective
father.
"Silence!"
roared
I-onergan
of
every
three
persons
in
Britain
empty
the
afternoon
before,
was
This doesn't sound as though
for summertime cottons, linen or
banging
his
gavel
down
on
th«
When Sheriff Oiggsweil an
now
very
much
alive.
Storekeep
between the ages of 14 and 65 are Britain was "letting George do it.
rayon materials.
desk. "You'll get nothing by thos< nounced that Dave had murdered
ers
were
standing
in
their
door
Pattern No. 8163 is in sizes 11
ways. looking on Little groups of tactics, Bruce. I'm holding you Hooker in his sleep, probably In
to 19. Size 13. short sleeves, takes
he hope of finding a hoard of
Inhabitants
gathered at street cor without bail for the coroner's jury
3 yards 39-inch material. ltfc yards
Keep him in close confinement, money Lois had never doubted
ners
and
watched
tile
two
men
contrast for top portion.
ride by. A bobtail of Mexican ur sheriff, and see that no one in al- him She knew that nearly all
men were like that Sheriff Coggs-
chins formed in procession, run lowed to visit him.”
Dave was hustled back to th« well was the one man whom she
ning behind the horses and hooting
loudly. It was evident that Lois' I cell an dthe door slammed upon trusted.
He hnd |*crformed many little
story of Hooker's murder had im him The two men went out An
1— Rostov, now in the news, was taken by the Germans during
mediately become public property. hour passed, during which Dave kindnesses for her in the past
World War I. True or false? □
It was with a feeling of relief amused himself by looking out the When her foster-mother lay dying,
2— A lieutenant general's insignia is a (1) gold eagle, (2) silver
that Dave walked up the stone window. Mescal certainly sernird he had ridden all the way into
oak leaf, (3) gold oak leaf. (4) silver star? □
steps of the jail. Faming through to be wrought up over the killing, Hampton to bring back a doctor.
The sheriff hail roped Hooker's
the ante-room, he was ushered into for there were little groups of peo
3— Do you remember whether it was (1) Mason, (2) Bulkeley,
one of the two steel cages that ' ple in the streets, arguing, and all body across his horse to carry It
(3) Wermuth or (4) Chennault who said, "Sighted sub, sank
looking
toward
the
jail.
down to Mescal for burial. "What
comprised the cells. In one corner 1
same”? □
After an hour Sheriff Coggswell you aimin' to do now, Miss Lois?"
was a cot bed. and that was all.
4— The poem, "In Flanders Fields” ("the poppies blow, be
came back with a pitcher of wa he asked the girl.
The deputy clanged the door.
tween the crosses, row on row”) was written by <1> Joyce Kil
ter and a plate of food. Hr open
"Stay on here, just as I've al
"Ain't
you
goin'
to
take
these
mer, (2) John McCrae, (3) Robert Hall, (4) James Graham? □
wrist-bandq off?” demanded Dave. ed the d«x»r cautiously, set the ways done, I suppose,” she an
pitcher down inside, then the plate, swered.
5— The correct pronunciation of Nazi destroyed Lidice is (1)
“Nope, not till the sheriff gits and slammed the door again.
Lee-dee-say, (2> Lee-dice, (3) Lee-dice-ee, (4) Lid-us? □
back.” answered
the deputy, j
"You can't stay on here alone,
"Yo're a despr-ate killer. Bruce, ! "You seem to think I'm a sort of runnin' wild with that herd of
man-killer,
sheriff,” bi ones, Miss Lola," the sheriff an-
and I ain't takin* no chances with dcsp'rate
Dave suggested
swered. “What yuh want is to go
"Well, I'll say yuh done yore bit out into the world and see tonic-
It must have been midday before
Coggswell appeared, with to keep up that impression sine«- thing of life. Now I been thinkin*
J Sheriff
Sims beside him Each man had a yuh struck Mescal." answer«: for some time, ever since that sale
gun in his hand, and the look on Coggswell. "And yore talkin' that was announced, I could git you a
the sheriff's face destroyed all way to Mr .Lonergan was jusl place with my sister-in-law over
co Hampton.
Dave's hopes of immediate libera plain crazy. He's the coroner."
tion.
"Seems to me he holds a g«xx
"I'm staying on here," answered
"I'm takin' you before Judge many offices in this town,” sal« Lots. "But 1'11 be In town when
Dave Bruce hangs for shooting
I
Lonergan," said the sheriff. "Un Dave.
lock the cage, Sims."
"You said something there, fel Mr. Hooker."
It was the simple code that Lois
PHIL HUAIMtJiri'ONC
"So you think I killed old Hook ler. What you said to him m tin
oy ED ANTHONY
courtroom, coupled with yora but had always known There were
er?” Dave demanded.
4
f
f
1
tin' in and payin' that money to plenty of shootings in Mescal and
"You kin argue that with the Hooker,
means a sure verdict seif-defense was generally accept
judge. He's waitin',” was all that against you."
I ed as excusing the incident. But
Coggswell vouchsafed.
"Listen, sheriff," said Dave, the few cold-blooded murders that
Coggswell led the way. and Dave
had occurred in recent years had
followed, with the deputy’s revolv "suppose I was to convince yuh I invariably been followed by a
didn't
kill
Hooker?"
er pressing into the small of hut
Lois’ feeling
"Yuh couldn't do it, but it lynching parly.
back. They went up a flight of
ugainst Dave was almost an Im
wouldn't
make
a
mite
of
differ
stairs
to
a
small
courtroom
over
t
personal one.
head. The two dozen or so of seats ence anyway. I got my duty to
And, just as if her foster father
perform
without
fear
or
favor.
”
were all filled and other spectators
lined the walls. Lonergan, seated
Sheriff Coggswell had impieM weie still alive, she busied herself
on the bench, grinned viciously as ed Dave that way from the start. with cleaning up the little cabin.
Here la the world's smallest cross Dave was brought in front of him. The sheriff wasn't gifted with a Bile set the blood-stained blankets
FATHEAD
the sun to dry, to be washed
word puzzle. Fill in words accord
"You haven't lost any time since I brilliant brain, but he seemed an in
later, knowing in her heart all the
This is a fish from Mississippi
ing to definitions. The square will you hit Mescal,” he observed. honest man.
With teeth that anglers say
then rend the same down as across.
Have you been through your ilsl
"It ain't occurred to you, I while that she would never return
nippy.
After you have solved it, see If you of wanted men yet, sheriff?"
She was going far away into the
s'pose, that other foi\s might have
His appetite you can appease
can make up any good S-letter word
mountains, beyond which, in her
"No, I ain't had the chance," something to gain by Hooker's imagination,
With worms or meat or bread or squares.
lay u sort of
cheese.
Coggswell responded, "but the death?” asked Dave. "It don't fairyland. She there
felt that all the old
How did be get that funny name?
facts is as clear as daylight. Yore seem queer to you, Lonergan life had come to
1, Imposing.
3. Sky blue.
an end. And ahe
What follows will explain the same-
honor heard him cheat Hooker bringin' him In here and orderin' worked like a person
- it. 4. Girl's name.
in a dream,
him out after 12 years because he >
His bead Is big and round and f»*
Nam«...............................................................
out
of
a
half-share
in
that
valu
"'usion.
sweeping
out
the
dust;
then milk
was
threatenin'
to
talk?
”
And that, I think, takes cn '
able property when the said Hook
ed
the
cow
anti
threw
the milk
"What yuh mean by that?" de
er was in a state of intoxication.
Address■•»•»•••••••••••••••••••••••••
away and let the animal amble
Likewise they was seen to ride manded Coggswell.
away together and by the prison-1 "Well, Hooker talked to me I out to find what pasturage she
er’s own admission him and Hook before he died,” said Dave. "And could.
In the early part of the after
er spent the night together in the maybe that slimy murderer outside
Nam« of paper.
cabin.”
the window heard what he said noon she heard the sound of an
Pattern No.........
Size................
"And Miss Hooker?” awked Lon- and figured to kill him and put th«' approaching rider. At first ahe
blame on me. I guess you ain't thought it wtiH the sheriff return
ergan.
Send IS cents in coin, (for
ing. Then she recognised the gait.
each pattern desired* to—
"She spent the night out on the lived here too short a time to It was one of the Cross-Bar horses.
know
some
of
the
things
I
know
mesa with her hawses. Didn't like
Going to the etige. of the mesa anti
Patricia Dow Patterns
the looks of this hombre’s face about Miss Lois, for instance."
looking down, she saw Curran,
206 W. 17th St., New ïork, N. Y.
"Now listen here, Bruce," an- the Crqss-Bar foreman.
and reckemized him for the feller
who beat up Curran at the Cross- swere the sheriff. "I got my Job
It was more than a month since
Bar yestldday. Well, yore honor, to do, and I'm doin’ it to the best
we brung Hooker's body into towm. of my powers. There ain't nobody Curran had been to the cabin ami
He was killed instantly with a 45 kin buy me, and I act on evidence." Lois' attitude toward him on the
slug through the brain, which the
Lois had always known by in-1 last occasion had been far from
doc extracted. Likewise there's stinct that James Hooker wasn’t • friendly. Her instinct had told her
one shell fired from the prisoner's her father, nor the old woman that it was not pure benevolenco
of heart that brought Curran
forty-ffive.”
who had tended her since baby- ’ there.
“Looks like you killed that poor, hood her mother. Her earliest re- j
She watched him ride his horse
harmless old man," rasped Loner membrances were of the westward
gan, "hoping to find some money trek in the big wagon in which over to the steep edge on to the
or something. What have you got they had moved from somewhere mesa. She stood in the doorway of
—to the heights above the valley. the cabin and watched him raise
to say?”
I his hat, then climb out of his sad-
Growing up alone, save for the die and
"All I got to say is,” answered
come forward.
Dave, "Mr. Hooker woke up be- two old people, she had somehow
(TO
BE CONTINUED)
acquired
the
art
of
taming
wild
fore daylight and started talkin' to
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me, and all of a sudden a masked horses that frequented the waste
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man stuck a gun through the win lands above the valley, and some
dow and shot him dead. Did my times, came down to the mesa. Have your work done RIGHT at
best to ketch him, but he was too 1 Most of them were scrubs, but a I the Home of Better Fruiting___
few of them were worth breaking Miner office.
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for cow-ponies, and gradually
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