O BY GENERA
ARED WHITE*
w kNu d.u.h
"the STORY SO FAR: More than
tOO,000 foreign troops which had been
•ectvtly transported to Mexico, suddenly
Invaded the United States. InteUigence
Officer Bennlng had discovered their
plans while a spy in Mexico City where
be bad gained the confidence of Flnclce
INSTALLMENT TWELVE
and Bravot, two enemy officers, but his
warning had gone unheeded. The Presi
dent was killed when Washington was
bombed. General Brill, commander of
the U. 8. army in IVxas, was opposed
by greatly superior forces led by Van
Hassek. In spite of Brill's desperate
resistance, Van Hassek’s troops pushed
relentlessly forward. Rt turning to Wash
ington, Henning met Ftnckv who had
cornu there to do espionage work but
contlpued to pose as a friend. A week
later ne saw Flncke enter a restaurant.
Now continue with the story.
CHAPTER XII—Continued
Benning waited for several mo
ments to regain complete com
posure and went over to a seat at
the Fincke table. The Austrian
looked up and brightened slightly.
“Thought I might find you here,
Bromlitz,” Fincke muttered. "I
want to ask you a few questions if I
can talk to you as one friend to an
other.”
“I suppose, Major,” Benning said
with a mischievous grin, “you are
to be addressed as lieutenant colo
nel hereafter.”
Fincke glared and demanded:
"I’m in no mood for being kidded,
Bromlitz. Or did you know Boggio
gave me the double-cross^?"
"I’ve been busy with my own af
fairs,” Benning answered. “For all
I know Boggio is back in Mexico
City."
“Not yet, but he’ll be flying south
tomorrow while here I am stuck
right in Washington for three days
more until the big boat sails. What’s
eating at me now is I may get dou
ble-crossed out of the cruise if Bog
gio hops up to New York to see Bra
vot.”
Benning said crisply, “All right,
Fincke, out with your grievance."
Fincke said at once, leaning
across the table: "Boggio was up
her*' in Washington on another Job
when he horned in on mine. Said
he wanted to check my plans from
the air corps angle. What does he
do but grab off all my calculations
for lights, steals my triangles, and
pilfers all my technical data, then
he sent me out of town at the last
minute on a goose chase so he can
put my plans across himself! That
gives him all the glory for the White
House, and now off to Mexico he
goes to get a general’s crescent."
“I’ve got it figured out, Bromlitz,
you’re in on the big show, aren’t
you?"
“There are some things we’re not
expected to talk about too much,
Fincke,” Benning shot back. “Why
did you ask me that question?”
“I thought maybe if you are go
ing aboard we might work together,
Bromlitz."
“If you're sincere in that, let’s
make sure we’re talking about the
same thing. When do you sail and
from where?”
The Van Hassek spy weighed this
dangerous question.
“I see no harm in saying that,
Bromlitz,” he responded shortly.
“Not so long as we don’t say where
we’re going or what for, which
mustn’t be repeated to anybody un
der any circumstances. Does it mean
anything if I tell you Pier Twenty,
at four Wednesday afternoon?"
Several tables distant, directly be
hind Fincke, Benning had observed
Lieutenant Jones. The lieutenant’s
eyes had let Benning know that he
had a matter of urgency to discuss.
Benning lighted a cigarette and got
up.
“Suppose we meet here on Wed
nesday morning at eight o’clock,"
Benning proposed. “We might just
as well travel together to the pier.”
“Right," Fincke agreed. "Glad
to tie up with somebody I can
trust.”
When Benning passed out of the
hotel into the street. Lieutenant
Jones promptly joined him. Jones
had his private car at the curb and
ushered Benning inside.
“Sorry I couldn’t get to you soon
er, sir,” Jones reported. “Your man
Boggio came out of the Pujol apart
ment at six-thirty. The girl friend
was with him. Outside they were
joined by a man who apparently is
Boggio’s bodyguard. I followed them
to the depot where Boggio and the
other fellow took the seven o’clock
train for New York.' The girl re
turned home. I didn’t have a chance
to get word to you sooner. Captain."
Benning studied his watch and
made a rapid calculation. The hour
was a few minutes short of eight
•’clock.
"Drive me at once to the airport,
Jones,” he directed. “I’ve still time
to meet Boggio when he steps off
his train at the Pennsylvania Sta
tion. Please let Colonel Iflagwill
know I’ve developed a very interest
ing trail.”
CHAPTER XIII
Lieutenant Jones turned on his ra
dio as the car got in motion toward
the airport. General Hague was just
coming on the air, introduced to the
nation by the Secretary of War.
Without preliminary the Chief of
Staff began speaking, his voice clear
and calm.
"I will speak very frankly to the
country,” he said. ”1 will give you
general facts it is important for you
to understand. First, our inability
to prevent invasion is no fault of
the Army. The Army is your army,
limited by you through legislation
and appropriations. The fact that it
is scattered in small posts throughout
the country, instead of being concen
trated in combat divisions for prop
er training, is no fault of the War
Department.
"I speak without bitterness or
blame, but it is important that you
face the future with belief in your
potential armed forces.
"Briefly, our armies must be as
sembled slowly from scattered gar
risons. Initially our actions must
be limited by immediate lack of am
munition reserves and armaments.
If we cannot supply adequate anti
aircraft protection to our important
cities, deeply as our hearts bleed for
them, it is because we have insuffi
cient anti-aircraft.
"But I want to say to you what I
said the other night to my associates
of the staff. Whatever violence lies
ahead, this country will master it.
Let our foes mark these words. The
United States is unconquerable. Its
resources and manpower, its deter
mination and courage, are equal to
any conceivable emergency. What
ever reverses may lie ahead of us
in the immediate future will only
temper-our spirit of resistance. In
evitably that day will come when
the foes of the United States will
meet the mighty vengeance of our
massed valor!”
Benning, as they reached the air
port, instructed: “Get G-2 on the
telephone at Governor’s Island at
once, Jones. I’d like to have two
good Intelligence men from First
Corps Area meet me at the Penn
sylvania Hotel. One of them to be
Lieutenant Crane, if he’s available.”
On disembarking at Newark short
ly before ten o’clock, Benning took
a- cab into the city and drove di
rect to the Pennsylvania Hotel where
he found Lieutenant Crane waiting.
Crane, a short, chunky young offi
“The Boggio henchman gave a
cry of pain.”
cer with a pleasant, alert face, ac
cepted terse instructions with a crisp
“Very good, sir.” With him was Ser
geant Adams, Intelligence police, a
seasoned and dependable non-com
missioned officer. Both wore busi
ness suits.
Benning crossed over to the sta
tion as the train from Washington
pulled in. Boggio and his hench
man got off as soon as the train
stopped and hurried out to catch a
cab. Benning followed them alone
in a second cab while Crane and his
sergeant trailed from a discreet dis
tance.
Boggio stopped near the McAlpin
Hotel to let out his henchman and
drove on the stone’s throw to the
Empire State Building, where he
paid his fare, dismissed the cab, and
went inside to be whirred up in an
express elevator. Benning waited
several minutes until the identical
cage returned to the lobby.
“Pardon, I just missed a friend, an
Italian in a blue suit and white felt
hat,” Benning said to the operator.
“Did he go to the roof with you?”
"Forty-fifth floor,” the operator in
formed.
Benning shot up to the forty-fifth
floor and walked cautiously down
the hall. A brief reconnoissance told
him there was a light in but one of
the offices. He read the legend on
the door, “Andes Gold Mining and
Milling Company, Inc.”
Without pressing his luck any fur
ther, he returned to the street
He had crossed the street, mean
ing to keep the Empire State under
observation against Boggio’s return
to the street, when his way was
barred by the stubby man who had
accompanied Boggio from Washing
ton. The fellow’s face was belli
cose, his hand thrust suggestively in
his pocket.
"You was just up pretty high in
the big building, wasn’t you?” the
fellow growled close to Benning’s
ear.
"What of it?” Benning asked.
“Supposing I told you I was up to
the forty-fifth to see a friend named
Palacio Quatres about buying a pair
of silver sabers?”
The man’s hostility relaxed some
what as he heard the Van Hassek
words of secret identification. But
after searching Benning’! face, he
shook his head.
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“You may be all right, but we're
playing no chance," he decided.
“What you say to a little jump up
to the forty-fifth with me just to
make sure?”
“If you insist," Benning said in
differently.
Benning. as they returned across
the street, did not risk looking about
for Crane and the sergeant. With
expert eye he watched his own
chance of attack. His prompt ca
pitulation had the effect of throwing
his captor slightly off guard. As
they passed the entrance of a gown
shop, Benning seized the fellow’s
gun arm and drove him Into the
dark entrance of the shop. The im
pact crashed the heavy glass door,
the two went sprawling inside
through a jagged aperture of broken
glass.
The Boggio henchman gave a cry
of pain as the glass tore into his
body, but floundered into battle with
a surge of frantic strength that shook
I his arm free of Benning’s grip. Ben
I ning regained his hold before the
spy could bring a pistol into play.
They had staggered to their feet in
the uncertain battle over the weapon
when Crane and Adams dashed up.
A sharp tap of the sergeant’s serv
ice pistol promptly ended the fray.
“Keep a watch outside, Adams,"
Benning instructed.
With Crane’s help he bound the
prisoner’s arms. A watchman in
tan uniform, attracted by the crash
of glass, rushed in with drawn pis
tol. Crane promptly dismissed the
watchman on the mission of notify
ing the owner of the shop of his
broken door.
They were getting their prisoner,
still in a daze, on his feet when
Sergeant Adams hurried in from the
street.
“Your Italian just came down,
sir,” he reported to Benning. “He’s
now getting into a cab.”
"Follow him!" Benning promptly
instructed. “Follow him as long as
he stays in New York. If he at
tempts to leave the city, arrest him.
You don’t need to be gentle if he
gives you any trouble, Sergeant.”
“Yes'r,” said Adams.
Benning instructed Crane to take
the prisoner to Governor’s Island,
there to be held in close arrest.
Crane was next to report to Benning
at the near-by McAlpin. Benning
walked to that hotel and called Co
lonel Flagwill on the telephone. Flag
will was tied up in conference with
General Hague, and an hour passed
before he responded on the tele
phone. Benning reported events in
pertinent detail.
There were several moments of
silence as Flagwill’s mind searched
through Benning’s disclosures, then
he burst into excited enthusiasm.
"That sounds like the real quill,
Benning—sounds like the trail we’vt
all been looking for!
’Til instruct Colonel Wallace al
once to give you whatever you want
from corps area, Benning. Have you
decided on any plan of attack?”
“Tonight, sir.” Benning replied, “1
thought I’d keep entirely away from
the Empire State. In the morning
I intend to go up to the forty-fiftl
alone and give the Andes Gold Min
ing and Milling Company the once
over.”
Benning was having a late break
fast at his hotel the next morning,
after a busy night plotting moves,
when Crane came in, his face glum
and heavy with tragedy.
“Your Italian got Adams last
night,” Crane said at once, sinking
heavily into a chair at Benning's
table.
“Adams, when we brought him to
hospital, told me Boggio got suspi
cious when his henchman failed to
join him outside Empire State. He
had the cab drive him under the
Hudson and headed to the Newark
airport. Adams followed closely.
Boggio slipped behind a hangar to
observe his rear, and as Adams
came up, shot without warning He
had a plane waiting at the airport
which took off immediately.”
“Sorry,” Benning said glumly.
“We put out a warning at once,”
Crane went on. "Our intercepts
picked up the engines of the plane
over Lexington at two this morn
ing. It was traveling high and fast
and must have been Boggio’s plane.
Our estimates give small hope that
pursuit aviation can pick him up in
Texas, but we’ve put heat on the air
corps to make a try.”
The public radio in the dining
room was buzzing with war bulle
tins. Van Hassek’s attack had
jumped off at daybreak, but at eight
o’clock had made small progress
against the Second Division. Eu
rope was in a turmoil, expecting war
to break at any bour in France and
Belgium. Unconfirmed reports came
through London of an immense troop
concentration on the Chinese coast,
another report of a Coalition fleet
mobilizing in Mediterranean waters.
Enemy bombing had centered on
only two cities last night—Galveston
and San Antonio. Fort Sam Hou
ston had been heavily pounded and
many of its installations destroyed.
Hastily formed defenses seemed im
portant.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Up-to-the-Minute Easter Costume
Calls for Gay, Tiny Flower Hat
Rv CHERIE NICHOLAS
MYRIADS of provocative little
flower hats will “top” spring
suits and ensembles this season.
Why not climax your Easter cos
tume with a gay flower chapeau?
You’ll not only be “right in fash
ion,” but you will be joyously “in
tune” with spring.
This is a season which calls for
“prettiness.” No matter how simple
the frock, the suit or the ensemble,
you should give it lovely-lady airs
by enchanting accessory details—
flowers, perfumes, veils, decorative
handkerchiefs, frothy fragile neck
wear, an intriguing handbag or col
orful gloves.
Flower hats this spring are as
bewildering in type, color and de
sign as a garden of flowers. Some
of the floral haedpieces seem not
much more than a cluster of posies
anchored to the head by a labyrinth
of ribbons and bandeau devices.
They finish off with a cloud of misty,
colorful veiling arranged smartly.
While flowers of every variety are
in fashion, there is particular em
phasis on roses. You will see roses
on hats, on bodices, on handbags,
on sheer party dresses, and even
under the wide brim of felt hats.
The la Her may match the rose
worn at the wrist as a bracelet.
Even handkerchiefs are apt to yield
to the sway of flowers this season,
in that they have posies embroidered
or painted on them to match those
on one’s “Easter bonnet.”
Above to the right in the picture
is a lovely black satin hat, trimmed
with two waxen white roses. A veil
of black fishnet subscribes to the
slogan "with every hat a veil this
spring.”
Centered in the picture, a young
lady of high fashion wears one of
the tiny pompadour hats so smart
this season. Note the glorified rose
splashed on her handkerchief. These
handkerchiefs come in a series of
flowers, so you are sure of getting
a "hankie” to match your flower
hat.
You will be wanting a red hat
this season to keep pace with fash
ion, or at least one trimmed with
bright red flowers. The little hat
shown in the upper left corner is
gaily flowered with bright red pop
pies. Wear it to set off a navy
blue costume. Add a smart red un
der-arm bag.
Pastels are popular for headgear.
A beguiling soft rose colored felt
beret is shown below to the left in
the group. The shoulder length veil
emphasizes romance and coquetry.
A swatch of pastel silk on a tall
black felt turban is pictured below
to the right. A hat of this type
calls for a shimmering lavender
veil.
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Smart Gob Dress
A smart gob dress, perfect for the
junior high or high school girl, is
here shown. It adheres to a tradi
tional pattern of simplicity in accord
ance with the present fashion trend
toward classics. That this dress re
flects the patriotic note so charac
teristic of current fashions is readily
seen in its every detail—the dress
is of red, white and blue rayon cot
ton, with an all-pleated navy blue
skirt and long-torso lines for the
blouse. The white nautical blouse
is trimmed with red braid and red
anchors.
It’s a two-piecer and makes the
best of all school dresses. With it
you’ll no doubt want to wear a
saucy sailor hat, and perhaps shoes
with turned-back middy designs. It
Is an easy dress to make.
Silk, Rayon Printed Suits
Taking Fashion by Storm
New and exciting in the spring
style parade are suits that are tai
lored of silk or rayon-mixture prints
with exactly the fine nicety and sim
plicity one expects of wool suits.
The long-jacket suit with an all
round pleated skirt is a favorite.
The jacket has revers and a one
button or two-button fastening.
You will find in the stores stun
ning redingote styles as well, tai
lored like cloth, fitted meticulously
as your long topcoat, the dress un
derneath styled in a fetching one
piece manner. These new print tail
leurs are starting a vogue that is
taking the fashion world by storm.
Tiers, Ruffles, Peplums
Add to New Silhouettes
The newest silhouettes call for
tiers, ruffles and peplums. And the
real news about these styling de
tails is that designers are handling
them so adroitly that they in no way
destroy the straight slim lines that
fashion demands this season.
Very good looking are the new
dressmaker coats, cut on princess
lines to above the knee, at which
point a wide pleated flounce car
ries on to the hemline.
Prints and Plain
A new and very helpful aid in se
lecting prints and plains to “go to
gether” is the manner in which ma
terials are being displayed this sea
son in the stores. It is the custom
this season to show a print and the
plain material all side by side in
colors that correlate perfectly.
Flower Bracelets
The newest fashion wrinkle is to
wear a flower or boutonniere at
tached to a ribbon bracelet, the cuff
of your glove, or the edge of the
sleeve at the wrist. Of course the
flower should match the flower trim
ming on your hat.
Designers Defy Raids
In London, dressmakers keep on
dishing out their normal supply
of work, in spite of air raids. Clothes
are made on a sort of ambulating
schedule, workers shifting from the
basement shelters to the upstairs
workrooms and back again.
Gentian Violet
New T reatment
For Pin Worms
By DR. JAMES W. BARTON
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
ONE of the distressing ail
ments of young children
is pin worms as the intensive
itching gets gradually worse
toward evening
and is at its
worst at bed
time. During
the night, there
is sleeplessness
TODAY’S
HEALTH
COLUMN
or a disturbed sleep with
night terrors. The child loses
weight and his blood becomes
thin.
The prevenUon of Infection or ag
gravaUon of the symptoms can often
be effected by keeping the finger
nails clean and cut
short and washing
the hands many
times a day.
Getting rid of
these tiny worms
which look like short
pieces of white
thread is sometimes
difficult. In my stu
dent days we were
taught that giving
tablets of santonin
Dr. Barton and calomel and en
emas of an infusion
of quassia chips was considered the
most effective treatment.
For many years the routine treat
ment in children's hospitals has
been enemas of infusion of quassia
chips every morning for 7 to 10 days.
Two ounces of quassia chips are put
in a quart of water and the water
allowed to boil down to one pint
The water is then strained free of
the chips and used as an enema.
This whole process is repeated each
morning for the week or 10 days,
water being allowed to cool.
The New Treatment.
A new treatment that may take
the place of these other methods is
gentian violet now used in staining
organisms and injection of vessels.
Drs. Max J. Miller. Laurent Cho
quette, Wilfred Audet, R. F. Kelso
and J. A. Guenette in the Canadian
Medical Association Journal report
their results in the use of gentian
violet in tablet form in 29 school
children, ranging from 6 to 13 years
of age. The tablets were given over
a period of 10 consecutive days, the
children 6 to 9 getting two 3-20
grain tablets three times a day and
those 10 to 13 years of age getting
a H grain tablet three times a day.
These gentian violet tablets cleared
away the pin worms in 26 of the
29 cases.
Shock Treatment
For Mental Cases
WHEN the shock treatment by
Insulin and Metrazol was first
used some seven years ago, some
physicians began treating many
types of mental ailments. As this
method of treatment was recom
mended for only certain types of
mental cases, there were naturally
many cases where the treatment
was a great disappointment to the
patients, their families, and the
physicians themselves.
When should mental patients be
given the shock treatment?
Dr. G. Wilse Robinson Jr., Kan
sas City, in Clinical Medicine and
Surgery, states that he and his as
sociates divide their patients into
two groups, those above and those
below 40 years of age. They find
that Metrazol is more effective in
those over 40 (and especially if the
symptoms began under 40) and in
sulin in those under 40. Early cases
of day dreaming should have insulin
shock, but where there is marked
depression present, Metrazol should
be used, alone or in combination
with insulin. The use of Metrazol
and insulin combined seems to be
effective in cases in which either In
sulin or Metrazol alone have failed.
Dr. Robinson points out that while
there are points of difference
among physicians regarding shock
treatment, nevertheless all agree
that if the symptoms are recent,
or in the early stages—not more
than six months—good results may
be expected by shock treatment.
The shock treatment is 2% tifnes as
effective as former methods and
time spent in hospital has been
shortened by six months on an av
erage. The death rate of this type
of case in mental hospitals is about
5 per cent per year, whereas the
death rate in those treated by the
shock method is about 2 per cent.
Shock treatment should be given
only where there is competent su
pervision as convulsions can cause
serious complications.
Remember, shock treatment is
given in “selected” cases.
QUESTION BOX
Q.—How can I stop smoking cig
arettes?
A.—Here are some suggestions: 1.
No cigarettes before breakfast. 2.
One cigarette after each meal. 3. If
yon must smoke at other time, eat a
piece of candy before smoking each
cigarette.
Q.—Will large pores of the face
grow smaller as I mature?
A.—Washing face with hot water,
drying it, then washing with cold
will help keep skin elastic. This may
prevent enlarged pores.
NEW IDEAS
By RUTH WYETH gPEARg cjj
P)0 yOU remember how old
fashioned comforters used to
be tufted? They were made of
two layers of fabric with cotton
between and every four inches
or so in rows the three layers of
material were caught together
with a stitch of wool yarn double
which was then tied twice and
clipped to make a fluffy tuft.
The cover is plain, medium
green glazed chintz tufted with
dark green yarn and three inch
Y3MJN—
CUT COTTON W* V
SMALLER THAN THE ^
FABRIC SEW TO THE Jr
SEAMS AFTER THEY ^
ARE STITCHED
SCREW TO A BOARD
dark green fringe is used around
the bottom. A long zipper makes
a center back closing. Each sec
tion of the cover was fitted on the
chair in the muslin lining first
and these pieces were used as
patterns for cutting the chintz,
also the cotton which was trimmed
to be %-inch smaller all around.
After the pieces were tufted, as
shown at the upper right, the
seams were stitched up. Long
stitches were then made on the in
side to catch the edges of the cot
ton in place.
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shows you how to make a pattern first;
also how to arrange openings In covers
for chairs of unusual types, and how to
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ly in place. Books are 10 cents each.
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