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"See to it that my orders are car
ried OUT" he concluded. "But one
piece of disobedience and I promise
the carrion birds will feast on thy
bones. Get thee gone and divide thy
force into two bodies, equally COM
posed of men with moukhales and
rifles. Shortly, will I send corporals
to take command of them."
The headman, his dark skin turned
grey with fright, swore by the beard
of Mohammed and three hundred Is
lamic saints that the orders would be
faithfully executed. He withdrew,
excitedly brandishing long barrel
ed flint lock that might well have dat
ed from the first Napoleon's invasion
of Egypt; climbing to the summit of
the fondouk's tower, he watched the
gradual development of the attack.
On the near side of the high dunes
surrounding the oasis, Roberts could
see the khaki-clad tirailleurs patient
ly waiting, stretched prone on the
scorching sand of the desert. By
Captain Roberts elbow stood a rest
less, copper-visaged trumpeter, the
crescents bright on his collar, impas-
sively waiting command to sound a
retreat which would send the various
tirraileur groups scurrying back to
the fondouk. The soldier gazed con-
temptuously upon the noisy disorder
that reigned below, but bit by bit
the various owners were hobbling
their camels and other animals and
otherwise preparing for defense. Rob-
erts' face was grim. He alone of the
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scream of a fire siren, the cry arose
from a thousand distended threats.
When the bowling masses of Toua-
regs were but twenty yards distant,
Roberts shouted "Feu!"
At once the bugler sounded single
sharp note which was instantly lost
in a laundering crash of gun fire
that made the distant palm fronds
tremble. All sides of the fondouk
were blurred with the heavy smoke
of the Anticipated muzzle-loading guns
of the villagers, which at close range
wrought fearful havoc among the
Touaregs. Their heavy booming re-
port sounded in sharp contrast to the
spiteful and brief snap of the modern
rifles. "Allahu Akbar!" roared the
defenders, desperately reloading.
From the courtyard terrified ami
mails bleated and groaned madly, ming
ling their outcries with the shrill ear
splitting shrieks of the women and
children that pressed flat against the
walls; others in complete panic DASH
ed insanely to and fro.
Roberts, from the top of the fon-
douk's tower fired with deliberate
haste at such men as appeared to be
leaders among the enemy. Sweat pour
ed down his face and he cursed as the
rifle grew hot in his hands. In five
minutes he had shot down no less than
seven gorgeously robed officers, and
by voice and example had encouraged
the defenders to greater effort.
For long five minutes the fate of
the fondouk and all within it's walls
trembled in the balance of Death. AS
the engineer had f0reseen, the walls
were low enough to permit camel
rider to charge up, empty his gun or
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-11

the smoke clouds becoming impene-
trable. "Ishould never have let those
moukalahas on the walls. We won't
see our hands before our faces in a
minute" Sweat was pouring down
his forehead in acid streams and the
rifle barrel between his fingers had
grown so hot he could not touch it.
To be continued
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ed in savage anticipation. Their di-
rect, child-like minds were fixed on
the possession of those Lebel rifles,
each of which was worth three of the
best camels to be had.
With frantic courage they rode up
to the walls again and again to de-
liver their volleys, though the trail
leurs moved them down by the doz-
ems.
"Damn!" swore Roberts, as he saw
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-11

uch men as appeared to be leaders
and fired. But he had no time to
throw a fresh cartridge into the cham
Der of his piece, for even as the first
blue-veiled figure screamed and top
pied heavily out of the saddle, the
second, with fierce shout of "Kelbibn
Shaitas," drove his flissa squarely
through the throat of the kneeling I'll
railleur.
A growl of rage circled the walls
as that solitary khaki figure was
trampled from sight by the rush of
camel men bearing down on the walls
in a rushing, multi-colored torrent.
At every embrasure along the walls
knelt villagers and tirailleurs, waiting
anxiously for a single blast of the
bugle. The natives, realizing that
their lives depended upon their ODE
dience to the command from the tower
swore in terror at that onrushing mass
of camel men. Would the Sidi never
give the signal to fire? The scores of
trembling brown fingers lowered over
the triggers. Seconds heightened to
decades.
"Lah-il-il Illah Allah!" Like the
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Is This the Beginning?

4 S JAPAN brought airp1anes into
action for the first time since
the new Sino-Japanese crisis devel-
oped, and threw all available
strength into campaign against
the Chinese Twenty-ninth army in
North China, it was feared that the
expected long japanese military Of
fensive had begun. While it was diff
fcult to assimilate many conflicting
and confusing reports, there was
good ground for the belief that all
attempts at truce had failed, for
while at least.
The Japanese airmen rained
bombs upon Chinese military bar
racks around Peiping, and pressed
infantry and artillery attacks along
the Peiping-Tientsin railway and the
highway to the sea. Entrance of 200
japanese marines into the Chinese
Chapel district of Shanghai sent TO-
600 men, women and children fleeing
into the international settlement in
search of protection. 1t was ru-
mored Chinese mob had killed a
Japanese sailor, provoking Japa-
nese reprisal.
Meanwhile the threat of real war
continued to hover as the Chinese
army refused to leave positions in
and near Peiping, in what Japan
considered violation of the Tientsin
peace agreement.
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personal supervision, was making
advances, but at such loss of men
that the cost might be too great.
Insurgents stormed loyalist en-
trenchments directly in the face of
point blank machine guns. Losses
were so terrible that thousands of
wounded lay without food or water
among thousands already dead and
decaying in the hot sun. Infantry,
tanks, cavalry and artillery were
supplemented by airplane bombers.
In one salient $4,000 men were
fighting, including the cream of both
armies. The loyalist position was
admittedly the most serious of
the whole war, and upon the govern
ment's ability to withhold against
the attack rested the fate of the
best units in its army. 1t was re-
ported that 10000 Italian troops
had joined the rebels for the battle.
While the Madrid conflict was in
full sway, the insurgents sprang
surprise air attack on Barcelona.
In the early dawn advance planes
dropped flares which lighted up the
city. Then came additional planes,
dropping bombs on the easy target
and turning machine guns on citi-
zens who attempted to flee. At least
IS persons were killed and $50 in
jured.
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Glory Be to God!'

n YING for weeks, the scheme to
- add to the number of justices
of the Supreme court finally choked
its last gasp and left this world. On
a roll-call vote the United States
senate voted to recommit the Rob-
inson substitute for the Presidents
original bill to the judiciary COM
mittee. The vote was 70 to 20, the
most crushing defeat the Presi-
dents legislation has yet suffered
at the hands of a house of congress.
In an agreement made at ses-
sion of the judiciary committee ear
lier, it had been decided to let the
opposition senators write their own
bill, an innocuous measure for "ju-
dicial reform" not dealing in any
way with the Supreme court. Sena-
tor Barley, the new majority lead
er, attempted to save the Presi-
dents face by having the bill left on
the calendar, but he never had a
chance. When the roll-call came,
even Senators Ashurst of Arizona
and Minton of Indiana, two of the
Supreme court bills chief support
ers, voted to recommit.
GLORY be to God!" said Sen. Hi
ram Johnson (Rep., Calif.) when
the results of the roll call were
made known. The applause that
beloved forth from the senators
and gallery alike left no doubt that
the veteran from California had
voiced the sentiments of the great
majority.
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Ask Me0
Another !.
A Quiz With
Answers Offering
Inform alton on
Various Subjects

4. 1t must have a speed of sos
miles per second.
5. If an elephant ate the same
amount proportionally as a mouse
it would consume 10 tons of food
daily. Actually it eats only about
100 pounds.
6. Rushed through congress in
1901, measure directing that the
Supreme court should meet only
once a year, on the second Mon
day of February, closed the court
for IA months, until February,
1903.
7. London, England, is virtually
the only free market for gold, the
chief city where gold can be
bought freely and the only city
where the volume of transactions
is great enough to constitute a de-
termining market. While there
are other centers where buyers
and sellers of gold may trade free
ly, in none of them is the volume
of trading sufficient to term it
true market.
8. No one knows exactly how
long coins have been used. 1t is
thought they were invented in
Lydia in Asia Minor about the
Sixth century, B. c. Their value
then depended on weight, but the
value was not stamped on. An
clients determined how much
coin would purchase by weighing
IL
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40 Hurt in Strike Riot

a lLTHOUGH the independent
4 \ steel plants were back at work,
there was still plenty of discord
along the labor front. Forty per-
sons were injured in a wild riot
among pickets of the Steel Workers
Organizing committee affiliated
with c. I. o., loyal workers and
police at the Corrigan-McKinney
plant of the Republic Steel corpora
ton in Cleveland.
A mob of strikers hurled rocks
from hillside upon cars of en-
ployees parked in the valley about
the plant. Loyal workers attempted
to drive the strikers away, and at
one time 500 of them rushed out
of the plant and set upon the pick
cts. Police tried to break up the
fighting, relying chiefly on their tear
gas guns. One striker was killed
when a moving automobile, which
was being stoned, got out of con-
troll and ran berserk through a
picket line.
In Buffalo there was a serious
food shortage because of strike
of 1000 wholesale grocery truck
drivers and 1000 butchers at four
meat packing plants. AS c. I. o.
and A. F. of L. unionists co-operated
in their demand for closed shops,
residents of the city were forced to
motor to the country for butter,
eggs and vegetables.
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'Aw, Let's 60 Home!

w ITH Supreme court bill recon-
w mitted to the senate judiciary
committee, new substitute bill for
reform of only the lower courts due
to be reported out of the commit
tee, and new senate majority lead
er selected to take the late Senator
Robinson's place, the overwhelming
sentiment of the members Of the
seventy-fifth congress was to pack
up their bags and get as far away
from Washington as possible.
Even measures which President
Roosevelt had insisted bear the
must" label were being showed
aside with dispatch, as Vice Presi-
dent Garner sought to heal the
party wounds inflicted during the
bitter court battle and salvage as
much of the Presidents legislation
as he could. The first to be buried
was the new AAA and "ever-nor-
NAL granary" bill; the senate agri-
culture committee shelved it until
the next session. The committee
authorized James P. Pope, Idaho
Democrat and co-sponsor of the bill,
to prepare a senate resolution to
lay the plans for regional hearings
on a comprehensive farm program
during the remainder of the sum-
mer and report back in January.
1t seemed certain that the Presi-
dents legislation for governmental
reorganization would be left over
until next session when the record
of three months hearings by the
joint congressional committee was
made public. 1t was revealed that
committee members have not even
come close to agreement on any of
the main points involved.
Majority Leader Barley said that
the White House still wanted the
wages and hours bill, the Wagner
low-cost housing bill and a judiciary
bill passed, as well as legislation
to plug tax loopholes. The Wagner
bill, meanwhile, was reported out of
committee, and it was expected the
senate would act upon it quickly. 1t
would set up a federal housing au-
thority with power to issue $780,
600, 900 in bonds over three years
to make loans for ''low-cost" hous-
ing construction.
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Answers

/. There is one birth in the Unit
ed States every IA seconds, one
death every % seconds, one immi-
grant every Is minutes, and one
emigrant every 1412 minutes,
making a net gain in population
of one person every 35 seconds.
2. Sir William Blackstone (1723-
1780) whose fame as England S
greatest jurist is based on his
commentaries" actually pos
sessed only the vaguest possible
grasp of the elementary concep-
tons of law and was considered
a failure as a lawyer, jurist and
parliamentarian, according to Col
ier's Weekly.
3. Baseball players receive
more minor injuries, but fewer
permanent injuries and fatalities.
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De Valera Is Reelected
IF HIS party. Fianna

IF HIS party, Fianna Fail, can
keep in power that long, cannon
de Valera will be president of the
executive council of the Irish Free
State for another five years. He
was elected to the nations highest
office by a vote of 81 to So in the
dali eireann (parliament). De VAL
era, in favor of severing all ties
with Great Britain, won even the
vote of the labor group, which does
not endorse his party.
1t was believed that De Valera
would go ahead with legislation nee
essary to implement the new consti-
tuition approved in the plebiscite of
July /. He would in that case set
up a senate and elect a president
by popular vote, as the constitution
provides. If De Valera is elected
president, to serve seven years, po-
litical experts say he will virtually
disappear from politics and his
party will break up.
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A Year of Reclamation

a PUBLICATIONS. for grants under
"A last years agricultural conser-
walton program covered 283, 900, 900
acres-two-thirds of the country's
crop land-and represented an esti-
mated 100000 farmers, H. R. Toll
ley, agricultural adjustment admin
istrator, reported. Nearly 81, 900, 900
acres were diverted from crops
which deplete the soil; 100000
acres received the benefit of soil
building practices.
Conservation payments for the
year totaled $32 1875, 303.11, benefit
and rental payments $235, 744, 264. AZ.
Total expenditures by AAA during
1886 were 1857 1888, 617.30, including
administering expenditures and liq-
uidation of obligations outstanding
when the Supreme court held Sec
tons of the original AAA unconsti-
tutional.
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Football Couldn't Save II

MOT even the excellence and pop
l ularity of Edward Patrick (Slip)
Madigan's football teams could save
little st. Mary's college at Oakland,
Calf, from the auction block. It
was knocked down" to its security
holders for SAIL, 150-the only bid
after it had failed to pay interest
on it's bonded Indebtedness of 81 &c.,
500 since 1884. When Madigan came
to st. Mary's from Notre Dame in
1921 it had II students. His football
teams made it famous and built the
enrolment up to 700. It was indi-
Gated he will remain as coach, at
reported salary of 81 900 year and
ten per cent of the gate receipts.
Receipts last year were $174,67l.
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have a cigar-shaped body about one
and three-quarter inches long. 1t is
golden brown. The outspread wings
measure nearly four inches across.
OF all the present generation of
entomologists on the islands, only
one is said to have seen a Green
Sphinx moth, and that was on the
island of Kauai. An offer by Bos-
ton collector of $500 for a specimen
OF the Green Sphinx moth has
aroused local entomologists. They
are divided evenly on whether the
moth actually exists on the islands.
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l. How often does the United
States gain one in population?
2. Was Sir William Blackstone
successful as a lawyer?
3. Do baseball or football play
ers receive more injuries?
4. How fast must an object trav-
Ell to escape from the gravitational
attraction of the earth?
5. Does an elephant eat as much
as mouse in proportion to it's
size?
6. Was the United States Su-
preme court ever closed for a pc
riod more than one year?
z. In what country is there a
free market for gold and just what
does this mean?
8. How long have coins been in
use as a medium of exchange?
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OF INTEREST TO
THE HOUSEWIFE

For Lighter Potatoes A small
amount of milk added to the water
in which potatoes are boiled will
make them lighter and fuffier
when mashed.
Washing Handkerchiefs - Dis
colored handkerchiefs will regain
their whiteness if a few drops of
peroxide of hydrogen are added
to the last rinsing water.
Cracker Sandwiches-12 cream
crackers, bananas, 2 ounces
cream cheese, pinch of salt, and
a dash of pepper. Beat the cream
cheese, pepper and salt together
and spread half the crackers with
this mixture. Slice bananas thinly
and spread over cheese mixture,
and cover each with a cracker.
Oilcloth for SheiveS.-Oilcloth,
if white, can be used to line the
shelves and walls of dark cup
boards. 1t will tighten them con-
siderably. If placed on the last
step of a dark cellar staircase, it
will make the descent easier.
Removing Mildew Stains. -
Moisten a little soft soap with
the strained juice of a lemon.
Spread this paste thickly over the
stains. Put out to bleach, and
afterwards wash in the usual way.
Mixed Vegetable Salad-Finely
CRATE a small raw carrot, potato,
turnip, parsnip and cheese to
taste. Shred lettuce, finely. Mix
all together, with a little tomato
juice or sauce and serve with a
dressing of olive oil, honey, and
lemon.
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''Phon," Unit of Loneliness

A new name has been added to
Great Britain's list of standard
weights and measures. Known as
the phon it is to represent the Brit
ish unit of loudness, and it is finding
its way into general use in connec-
ton with a noise-meter devised by
the National Physical laboratory.
The ministry of transport in Lon
don has recommended that no noise
exceeding ninety phons should be
emitted from any motor vehicles
for any reason whatever.
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Low Interest for Farmers

QY A vote of II to 10, the senate
- overrode the Presidents veto of
a bill extending for year low inter-
est rates on loans to farmers. It
was a defeat even more crushing
than the recommission of the court
bill, and made the bill law with
out the Presidents signature, for
the house had previously passed it
by two-thirds majority over Mr..
Roosevelt's veto.
Senator Barley made a half
hearted attempt to stave off the
overwhelming vote, and the defeat
was accepted by many observers as
an expression of resentment over
Barkley's having been elected ma
jority leader instead of Sen. Pat
Harrison of Mississippi.
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-,
enough to elect Harrison, on the
eve of the secret election. But that
night Dieterich, apparently under
pressure from the Democratic party
organization in Illinois, begged Har-
rison to release his pledged vote, in
order that the Presidents personal
choice might head the party in the
senate.
The slim victory by no means
patched the obvious party rift. Even
the administration admitted that the
Presidents Supreme court bill was
virtually dead even then. Vice Pres
ident Garner visited Sen. Burton K.
Wheeler of Montana, leader of the
opposition forces, and invited the
opposition to write it's own bill.
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Madrid's Moat of Blood

THE Spanish government was de-
4 Tending Madrid against the in
surgent forces in the most terrible
battle of the entire civil war and
the most important. 1t couldn't last;
it was too furious. The whole
loyalist cause apparently rested on
resisting this, the most vicious at
tack the rebels had yet made. Gen.
Francisco FRANCOIS army, under his
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Hawaii Hunts a Moth
1t Isn't Certain Exists

Hawaiian entomologists are en-
gagged in an effort to establish
whether the semi-mythical Green
Sphinx moth actually existed on
the islands. Only one is known to
have been captured here, and that
was half a century ago. 1t is in
the British museum now, writes a
United Press correspondent.
The moth, scientifically known as
Deilephila smaragditis, is said to
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ator from Kentucky,
is the majority lead
er of the United
States senate, sue
ceeding the late JOS
eph T. Robinson of
Arkansas. The vote
was 38 for Barley
to 81 for Sen. Pat
Harrison of Missis-
sippi.
The conservative
Democrats in the
senate had been as
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States senator. He is
forty-two years old.
Traditionally, hav-
ing been nominated
by the state commit
tee, Bailey is "as
good as elected"
but he may be op-
posed in the cleo
tons which he will
call himself, Sep
TENDER IA, by a Re-
publican or by other
Democrats running
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Started Cotton Spinning Industry

Richard ArkWright's Inventions
started the cotton spinning industry.
In ITO, his wife destroyed his spin
ming machine models in the belief
that he was wasting time he could
better employ at barbering.
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Verbal and Oral

Verbal means consisting Of words,
oral by word of mouth. 1t is wrong,
therefore, to say that you gave So
and-so a verbal answer-you gave
him an oral answer. A verbal re-
ply may be given in writingl
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as independents. Rosser Venable,
who opposed Robinson in the 1886
primary, had indicated that if Bal
ley were nominated he would run in
opposition. The state Republican
committee was reported seeking an
opponent for the governor.
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Barley. SO: Harrison, 81
CEN. WI

GEN. WILLIAM H. DIETERICH
y. of Illinois changed his mind at
the last minute and today Alben w.
Barley, hard-fSted. clustering sem
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When to Have Done

There seems to be no part of
knowledge in fewer hands than
that of discerning when to have
done.-Swift.
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Joe Robinson's Successor

THE Democratic state committee
L of Arkansas nominated Gov.
Carl E. Bailey to be the late Joseph
T. Robinson's successor as United
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Censor of Burlesque.

Sam A. Scribner, New York's new
seventy-eight-year-old censor of bur-
lesque, once dramatically resisted
censorship, When he was a lad at
Carnie's seminary in Clarion, Pa,
his music teacher raped his
knuckles for playing chopsticks in
stead of scales. He floored the
teacher with a round-house swing
and walked out and got himself a
job in blacksmith shop.
Then he joined small circus and
later bought small Pittsburgh
booking office.
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