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GENERAL
ARED WHITE
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THE STORY SO FAR: More than
200,000 foreign troops which had been
secretly transported to Mexico suddenly
invaded the United States. Intelligence
Officer Benning had discovered their
plans while a spy in Mexico City where
he had gained the confidence of Fincke
CHAPTER XV—Continued
The boat bobbed across the har-
|bor; Benning decided that Bravot
.must be headed back for some se-
; cret rendezvous in New York, a part
i of some crafty maneuver to cover
his littered trail. In that event Ben-
ning decided to strike in the dark-
ness the instant the launch reached
shore.
A few minutes later the launch
swerved sharply out of its course
and slowed down. Benning saw the
massive shadow of a ship looming
over his head. A voice called
down from above. Bravot got
to his feet, edged his way to
the bow. A boatman made the
launch fast to the ship’s ladder. One
by one the passengers swung onto
the ladder and were swallowed up
by the night.
"Go ahead, Bromlitz!” a voice
commanded when Benning hesitat-
ed.
Fincke caught Benning’s arm,
gently forced him forward. Benning
made a swift estimate as he stood in
indecision. Quickly he saw that but
one course lay ahead. In the bob-
bing little boat he knew he would
stand no chance if he put up a fight
for possession of the craft. As for
swimming ashore, even the strongest
Swimmer could not expect success
in that feat tonight.
Benning swung to the ladder and
mounted to the deck. Close behind
him came Fincke. On the deck
there was a glow of light from an
incandescent.
Inside the Austrian tossed off his
coat and stretched himself. His face
now was exuberant.
"Himmel, but what a comfort,
Bromlitz!” he exclaimed with a vast
sigh of relief. “Now a fellow can
take a free breath.”
Fincke paused to give Benning a
knowing wink.
“What does it matter if we’re sit-
ting over a cargo of high explosives,
eh, Bromlitz? It’ll not blow up until
we give the command—and that’ll
play the biggest card in the whole
Van Hassek deck! Cheer up, Brom-
litz, in ten days from now you’ll be
back with your girl in Mexico City!”
Now it was all to clear to Ben-
ning. Fincke at last had vitalized
the meaning of this cruise, the rea-
son for his own restless misappre-
hensions. This ship, with its cargo
of explosives, clearing New York
with papers for San Francisco, was
part of an intricately laid plot to
destroy the Panama Canal and strip
the Atlantic seaboard of the protec-
tion of the United States fleet.
CHAPTER XVI
General Hague nervously paced
the floor of his office despite the
long days of driving toil and anxi-
ety that had drained his energies to
the point of exhaustion. The last
troop trains had moved south with
the force of fifty thousand men that
was to stop Van Hassek on the Fort
Worth-Dallas line. But reports from
the south shook him with new mis-
givings and he had sent for Colonel
Flagwill.
Young Benning got away this
morning for Mexico City, didn’t he?”
Flagwill’s face dropped. “Sorry,
General. Benning has vanished in
thin air. Not a word from him all
day.”
“Benning missing?” General
Hague scowled incredulity. “That
doesn’t sound like Benning.”
“I authorized him to follow a
Van Hassek agent aboard a Norwe-
gian tramp freighter, thinking we’d
get a haul of spies. A destroyer
overhauled the boat last night after
it sailed, only to find Benning was
not aboard as planned. The ship’s
captain claimed not to have seen
anyone resembling Benning.”
“Nothing should have prevented
Benning’s flight to Mexico City,
Flagwill,” Hague complained. “All
right, let’s hope he turns up soon.”
Flagwill drove at once to Bolling
Field where a fast new 0-47 obser-
vation plane put him in the air short-
ly before dusk. Seven hours later,
as the plane approached Dallas, a
radio warning told the pilot to avoid
the Dallas airport and put down at
an emergency landing-field south
of the city.
The savage winks of detonation
bombs caught Flagwill’s eye as his
plane drove past the city. No soon-
er had his plane roared to a stop in
the emergency field than his ears
rang with the bedlam of air bom-
bardment over Dallas. A staff offi-
cer from Army headquarters was
waiting for him.
“Dallas and Fort Worth are tak-
ing an awful beating tonight,” the
staff officer reported. “We’re forced
to detrain troops and impedimenta
north of the city. An hour ago a
bomber registered on one of our
troop trains—three hundred men
killed. Things are in a pretty bad
jam here,
“I’ll be frank with you, Flagwill!”
General Lannes said in a peppery,
overwrought voice. “If Van Has-
sek sizes up this mess and hits us
promptly, he’ll roll up my Third
Army in spite—”
Lannes’ voice was drowned by
the mighty crash of a heavy bomb
INSTALLMENT FIFTEEN
and Bravot, two enemy officers, but his
warnings had gone unheeded. Foreign
forces led by Van, Hassek pushed re-
lentlessly forward. His troops were vast-
ly superior in numbers and equipment
to the American forces which opposed
him. Returning to New York, Benning
that set the earth shaking under
them.
“In spite of hell and high water!”
he concluded as the room cleared of
vibrations. “It’ll take me days to
straighten out this tangle and it’ll
only take Van Hassek a few hours
to run up here with his motorized
and mechanized outfits!”
“General Hague probably has told
you, sir,” Flagwill said, “that we’ve
got to hold on this line. The coun-
try is in an uproar and everyone
in Washington, sir, feels we’ve got
to have a victory.”
“Sure we’ve got to hold!” Lannes
raged. “But don’t forget that fifty
thousand men are fifty thousand sol-
diers only when they’re shaken
down, organized, supplied, and
ready to fight.”
The Army commander stalked to
a wall map and pointed to his dispo-
sitions and immediate plan of ac-
tion.
“Mole is taking an artillery lac-
ing at this minute, which means at-
tack on him at daybreak. With the
reinforcements I’ve sent up, he must
hold on the Colorado as long as
possible. Then he’s got to fight de-
laying actions and make another
desperate stand behind the Brazos.
Somehow Mole must delay Van Has-
sek at least three days, maybe for
a week, until I can get in shape to
take the enemy on here in front of
Dallas. It’s going to cost us a lot
unearthed a vast spy ring. Benning con-
tinued to pose as a friend when he
unexpectedly met Fincke in Washington,
and accompanied him on a mysterious
mission which took them aboard a small
boat in the New York harbor.
Now continue with the story.
the field telephone. “I can’t hold
another minute! I hope you have
strong reinforcements for me at the
Brazos.”
“All right, Mole, use your own
judgment,” Lannes retorted. “But
no matter what if costs, we’ve got
to delay Van HasL,cjk until I can get
my Third Army ready to stop him!’
Texas Farm And
Home Notes
LEGAL NOTICES
A Neighborly Bulletin Board
Sometimes when the whole fam-
ily goes away for a Sunday after-
noon, neighbors or relatives may
call, with no way of letting you
know they paid you a visit. We
know one housewife who has solved
that problem by tacking a large
slate alongside the front door of state" of Texw aniTco^ty oL Hidaf-
go and the City of Mercedes are
intervening or implqaded defendant
SHERIFF’S SALE
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF HIDALGO
BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OtF
SALE issued pursuant to a judg-
ment decree of the 93rd District
Court of Hidalgo County, Texas, by
the Clerk of said Court on the 1st
day of August A. D. 1941, in a cer-
tain suit No.
G-3 6
wherein Mercedes Independent
School District is Plaintiff, and
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CHAPTER XVII
Benning woke from a brief fret-
ful sleep and went to a porthole.
There was a bright sun rising across
a smooth sea. He calculated from
the speed of the freighter that the
craft must be well down the coast
of Virginia, perhaps off North Caro-
lina and not far from Cape Hat-
teras. For a time last night he
had flirted with the desperation of
jumping overboard on the chance of
making shore. Now he had given,
up hopes of being rescued by the
Navy.
He was mulling at the porthole
when a figure passed along the boat
deck close to his eyes. The fellow
wore a black mustache, dark horn-
rimmed glasses; his clothes were
seedy and his shoulders sagged. But
the profile was not to be mistaken.
“You knew Bravot was aboard?”
Benning said to Fincke.
The Austrian hotly admonished,
Don’t talk so much, Bromlitz! How j qulte hard punch holes in it with a
her home, with a pencil on a chain
beside it. Callers who find no one
at home leave their names to let
the family know who visited them,
and at the same time deliver any
special messages. The slate has al-
so proved usefu. for leaving messag-
es for the children, in case the mo-
tile is to be away when they come
home from school.
— ® —
Extra Life for Your Linen
You can add extra life to your
your sheets, pillow-casesi, napkins
and table-cloths which you wash
frequetly, by folding and ironing
them differently each time. Fabrics
tend to break or wear thin if al-
ways folded in the same way.
—Successful Farming, June, 1941
A Hint for Better Rest
You’ll sleep more comfortably,
and your matress will last longer,
too, if you’ll turn it over, and end
for endi every month or so.
A Simple Flower Holder,
Here’s a simple method for mak-
ing a flowerholder for a table
bowl. Pour a small glassful of wax
which has been melted up from old
candles. Before the paraffin is
“Take your hands off my coat.”
of men, Flagwill, a lot of men! But
I want you to go out and see the
situation for yourself — and tell
Hague why I’m forced into these
desperate delaying actions out in
front!”
An hour of patient driving put
Flagwill down the Army’s projected
front. Whole regiments stood about
in the dawn, still waiting for orders
and supplies. The men were tired
and hungry. Shortage of ammunition
was general, even in the infantry.
Ammunition was reported available
at the railhead, but the railhead
was swamped with demands and
there were insufficient truck trains
at present for all purposes.-
As the sun shot over the horizon,
Flagwill'turned back to the Lannes
many times have I got to tell you
not to mention names?”
“I thought we were clear of all
that trouble,” Benning retorted.
“Not with a brand-new crew on
the boat. We still got to watch our
tongues.”
“You think these sailors aren’t
Bravot’s men?”
“Just use your bean, Bromlitz.
Sailors wouldn’t hardly sign up to
get blown to hell, if they knew
the score.”
“I presume,” Benning sneered,
“the captain and crew don’t even
know what their cargo is?”
“The skipper knows, and a few of
his good men. For two years
Schmolz has been laying his plans
for just this cruise.”
The door of their cabin banged
suddenly open. A chunky man with
a squarish, rough-hewn, leering face
swaggered in. The fellow wore a
dirty cotton suit and an officer’s
cap, and bristled with authority and
short temper.
“Who are you two?” he demand-
ed, searching first Fincke’s face,
then Benning’s.
The Van Hassek spy leaped to his
feet and gave the identification for-
mula. Benning was more leisurely
in rising to identify himself. He
guessed that the intruder was
Schmolz, skipper of the ship.
“I don’t like your looks!” the fel-
low blurted, fixing Benning with
glinting green eyes.
“Don’t worry about him, Cap-
tain,” Fincke promptly intervened.
“He’s a major—the two of us been
working together in the United
States.”
Schmolz rubbed a cauliflowered
ear ruminatively and gave Benning
a parting glare in which there was
mingled distrust and dislike.
“Major or no major, there’s some-
thing about your looks I don’t like,”
he grumbled.
Their noon meal was brought in
by an American deckhand, Grimes.
After luncheon, Fincke went out on
deck for exercise. With the compli-
cation of Bravot’s presence on the
command post. Squadrons of Amer-
ican combat planes had combed the ship, Benning knew he must keep
air of Van Hassek’s night hawks to cover during daylight. Also that
he must strike against the Van Has-
sek spymaster without delay if he
expected to survive this cruise for
many days.
Benning sweltered in the torrid lit-
tle cabin through an insufferable
day. With full darkness he examined
the mechanism of his automatic pis-
tol and went out on deck. As he sus-
pected, Bravot was living in the cap-
tain’s quarters. Looking in the port-
hole he saw Bravot sitting alone
on his berth, his face cold and im-
perturbable as he listened to the
news from the Texas front.
Blare of the radio blotted out oth-
er sounds on the deck and Benning
was not conscious of the figure driv-
ing down on him along the dimly
lighted deck until stout fingers
closed on the lapel of his coat.
He turned to see Schmolz glaring
at him out of eyes that seethed with
rage.
“See here, Schmolz!” Benning
shot back hotly, “I’m not one of
your deckhands. Take .your hands
off my coat! If you object to my
listening to the war news over your
radio, why don’t you post an order
to that effect?”
“Listen all you want to,” Schmolz
mumbled, cooling perceptibly at the
rebuff and releasing Benning’s col-
lar. “But keep away from in front
of my stateroom after this. I don’t
allow nobody to do that.”
As Schmolz swaggered into his
room with a muttered imprecation,
Benning returned to his cabin.
For some time Benning waited in
he shouted fiercely over j tense readiness for eventuality. He
______knew that if Schmolz communicated
his suspicions to Bravot, prompt and
fsJEXT WEEK ' disastrous investigation was sure to
i^| (TO BE CONTINUED)
and the day had quieted down to a
rumble of artillery columns and
hum of friendly planes.
Given a day or two, Flagwill con-
cluded, the hastily assembled Third
Army would shake itself down.
American ingenuity somehow would
overcome the shortages of supplies,
motor vehicles, the obsolescent or-
ganization tables, the unco-ordinat-
ed staffs, outmoded weapons, the
lack of training in team-play of
higher units. At least the officers
had sound academic training in the
science of war.
General Lannes, his face flushed
and harried, his eyes distended, sat
feverishly at the end of a field tele-
phone as Flagwill re-entered the
command post. After a staccato,
fretted exchange he hung up the re-
ceiver and got to his feet.
“Van Hassek is driving at Mole,
with everything he’s got this morn-
ing!” Lannes roared. “Only the reg-
iments I sent up to him last night
kept Mole from being cracked up
early this morning. Says he’ll be
lucky to hold on till nine. My God,
Flagwill, this mess is going to cost
us five thousand men, maybe ten!”
By eight o’clock, Mole saw he
could hold no longer. Ghastly losses
were multiplying, his flanks were
threatened. Now the American air
service held the supremacy of the
air immediately over the heads of
Mole’s troops, which made possible
the dangerous operation of daylight
withdrawal.
“I’m pulling out of here now,
Lannes!
nut pick or some similar tool.
— • —
Suggestions in One Sentence
Before putting a plant in a new
flower pot first soak the pot over-
night in water, so that the mois-
ture necessary to fill th pores of
the pot will not have to he drawn
from the soil around the roots.
When making candies or sauces
that are apt to boil over, rub the
inside of the top of the kettle well
with margarine, down about an inch
from the top. The contents will not
boil over this. line.
It’s a Fine Idea
Even Curtain Loops—When hang-
ing curtains that tie back, draw
the shade to the desired height
where you wish to place the ties.
By this method there will be no
trouble in getting both sides tied
evenly.
Matching Apron—When making
house-dresses buy enought extra
material to make an apron. Apron
wearing igi not as conspicuous when
apron matches dress.
Children’s Mjittens—Can be made
from old wool socks with ribbed
tops Place child’s hand on the sock
in such a position as to have the
elastic top form the wrist-band for
the mitten. Cut around hand and
thumb in the shape of a mitten, al-
lowing for seam, and stitch.
Tidy Sewing Basket—Use small
bottles for hooks and eyes, snaps,
needles, buttons and other small
findings. It’s easiy to see then just
what you have.
Hand Help—Keep a small bottle
of vinegar ndar where hands are
washed frequently. After washing
and insing, and before drying, use
a litle vinegar as if it were lotion.
It prevents dryness and roughness.
Labeling Jars—When preserving
or making jelly, instead, of using
paper labels on the jars, write the
name of the product with a common
crayola while the jars are still hot.
.—Farm Journal & Farmer’s Wife,
February, 1941.
The Best Cosmetic
It is estimated that the women
and girls of America spent last
year not less than $500,000,000 for
rouge, face powder, and other so-
called aids to beauty. There is a re-
cipe for beauty that is far better
than any of these, but is begins on
th© inside and works out.
‘‘Every pleasing thing you do
makes you a bit more attractive
said a teacher to her class of girls.
That teacher had found the secret
of real beauty. There must he a bea-
utifu soul within if th© countenance
is to be beautiful. Every act of
kindess, every expression of love
leaves its impression upon the face,
softening the hard lines and smoo-
thing out the wrinkles in a way that
n dwturoa-lasthohwe. m
no outward application of cosmetics
can possibly do. And best of all, it
is permanet.—Onward.
NO ROOM
As the woman was climbing
aboard the bus she turned to wave
farewell to her friend.
“Good-bye, dear!” sh© called “I’ll
he with you again soon.”
“Sooner than you think, lady,”
said the conductor, firmly. ‘‘We’re
full up!”—Tit-Bits.
Taxing Units and C. W. Pitts and j
Tempi© Lumber Company are De- ]
fendants, in favor of said plaintiff
and intervening or impleaded defen-
dant taxing unit, for the sum of
$1201.93 for taxes, interest, penal-
ty and costs, with interest on said
sum at the rate of six per cent, per
annum from dat© fixed by said judg-
ment together with all costs of suit,
that being the amount of said judg-
ment rendered in favor of said
plaintiff and intervening or im-
pleaded defendant taxing units by
the said 9 3rd. District Court of Hi-
dalgo County, on the 30th day of
'September A. D. 1940, and to me
directed and delivered as Sheriff of
said Hidalgo County, I have seized,
levied upon, and will on the first
Tuesday in September A. D. 1941,
the same being the 2nd day of said
month, at the Court House door of
said Hidalgo County, in the City of
Edinburg between the hours of 2
o’clock P. M. and 4 o’clock P. M. on
s,aid day, proceed to sell for cash to
the highest bidder, provided said
bid is as high as the adjudged val-
ue or the amount of the judgment
and costs as to each particular piece
of property included in this suit,
all right, title and interest of said
defendant in and to the following
described real estate levied upon as
the property of said defendants, the
same lying and being situated in the
County of Hidalgo and State of Tex-
as, to-wit:
Block One Hundred Sixty One
(161) containing 5.54 acres of
the Townsite of the City of Mer-
cedes, Hidalgo County, Texas, as
per the map and plat thereof
or, upon the written request of said
defendant, a sufficient portion
thereof to satisfy said judgment, in-
terest penalties and costs; subject,
however, to the right of the plain-
tiff and other taxing units for any
other or further taxes on or against
said property that may not be in-
cluded herein, and subject to the
right of redemption of the defen-
ant, or any person having an in-
terest therein, to redeem the said
j property, or his/their interest there-
in, at any time within two years
from the date of sale in the man-
ner provided] by law, and subject to
any otlier and further rights the
defendant or anyone interested
therein, may be entitled to, under
the provisions of law. This sale is
to be made by me to satisfy the
above described judgment, togeth-
er with interest, penalties and costs
of suit, and the proceeds of said
sale are to be applied to the satis-
faction thereof, and the remainder,
if any, to be applied as the law di-
rects.
Dated at Edinburg, Texas, this
the 1st day of August, 1941.
R. T. Daniel, Sheriff of Hidalgo
County, Texas.
By E. E. Vickers, Deputy.
(Pub. Aug. 15, 22, 29)
— • —
SHERIFF’S SALE
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF HIDALGO
BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF
SALE issued pursuant to a judg-
ment decree of the 93rdi District
Court of Hidalgo County, Texas, by
the Clerk of said Court on the 1st
day of August A. D. 1941, in a cer-
tain suit No.
G-3 7
wherein Mercedes Independent
School District is Plaintiff, and
State of Texas, County of Hidalgo
and the City of Mercedes are inter-
vening or impleaded defendant Tax-
ing Units and J. H. Louthan is de-
fendant, in favor of said plaintiff
and intervening or impleaded defen-
dant taxing unit, for the sum of
$1305.34 for taxes, interest, penalty
and costs, with interest on said sum
at the rate of six per cent, per an-
num from date fixed by said judg-
ment, together with all costs of suit,
that being the amount of said judg-
ment rendered in favor of said
plaintiff and intervening or im-
pleaded defendant taxing units by
the said 93rd. District Court of Hi-
dalgo County, on the 30th day of
September A. D. 1940, and to me di-
rected and delivered as Sheriff of
said Hidalgo County, I have seized,
levied upon, and will on the first
Tuesday in September A. D. 1941,
the same being the 2nd. day of said
month, at the Court House door of
said Hidalgo County, in the City of
Edinburg between th© hours of 2
o’clock P. M. and 4 o’clock P. M. on
said day, proceed to sell for cash to >
the highest bidder, provided said
bid is as high as the adjudged val-
ue or the amount of the judgment
and costs as to each particular piece '
of property included in this suit,
all right, title and interest of said
defendant in and to the following;
described real estate levied; upon as
the property of said defendant, the
same lying and being situated in i
the County of Hidalgo and State of
Texas, to-wit;
5.54 acres of Block 133 of the
Townsite of the City of Mercedes,
Hidalgo County, Texas, as per the
map and plat thereof
or, upon the written request of said
defendant, a sufficient portion
thereof to satisfy said judgment, in-
terest penalties and costs; subject,
however, to the right of the plain-
tiff and other taxing units for any
other or further taxes on or against
said property that may not be in-
cluded herein, and subject to the •
right of redemption of the defen-
ant, or any person having an in-
terest therein, to redeem the said’
property, or his/their interest there-
in, at any time within two years
from the date of sale in the man-
ner provided, by law, and subject to
any other and further rights the
defendant or anyone interested
therein, may he entitled to, under
the provisions of law. This sale is
to be made by me to satisfy the
above described judgment, togeth-
er with interest, penalties and costs
of suit, and the proceeds of said
sale are to be applied to the satis-
faction thereof, and the remainder*
if ,any, to be applied as the law di-
rects.
Dated at Edinburg, Texas, this
the 1st day of August, 1941.
R. T. Daniel, Sheriff of Hidalgo-
County, Texas.
By E. E. Vickers, Deputy.
(Pub. Aug. 15, 22, 29)
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