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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-04

A safeguard for sleep walkers, ty-
ing them to bed with intangible and
almost invisible light beams instead
Of ropes or strips Of bedcloths, has
been devised by British manu-
facturer of photo-electric cells and
similar devices, states a London
correspondent of the Chicago Trib-
une.
One or more light beams Of dim
blue or red light are directed across
the bed from special lamps and re-
Electors like miniature searchlights.
These beams enter one or mora
light-sensitive cells, which give an
electric current so long as the light
beam enters them. If anything in
terrupts the light beam, even for
a small fraction Of a second, the
electric signal ceases. This stoppage
may be made to sound an alarm or
to work any other kind Of electric
apparatus.
When the sleeper retires this light
beam system is switched on. If then
the sleeper gets out Of bed or even
sits up in bed, his body must cut one
or more of the light beams passing
across the bed. This casts a shadow
on the ight-sensitive cells, stops for
an instant the electric current from
this device and sounds whatever
kind of alarm that has been
provided.
In hospitals the device is sug-
gested to watch over restless or de-
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-04

For moment Wheeler was
deeply troubled. If, by any chance,
Horse Dunn's prophesies should
prove correct, Wheeler did not see
how he could refuse the old man
the assistance he asked. But evil
IDENTIFY this would mean tn a t
Wheeler would have to sign on to
help with the management of the 81.
Thinking of this awkward POSSIBLE
ity, he thought again of the blue
eyes of Marian Dunn, of the
strangely lovely glow of her face in
the reflected light of the red-gold
hills. For him there was a magic
in that girl. 1t was magic which
could humble man, and break
him, heart and soul; taking the light
out of every victory he might win,
when only she turned away her
face. And he heard her voice, full
of that same magic still: "I'm sor-
ry-truly sorry )"
Far ahead dark specks Of horse
men showed, emerging from Chuck
Box Wash as if from the surface of
the plain. Dunn booted his pony
into lope.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-04
Light Beam Devised to Protect Sleep
Walkers; Is Suggested for Hospitals

lirious patients not attended con-
tinually by a nurse. Any move of
the patient to get out of bed instant.
ly flashes a signal to the nurse in
charge of the ward.
For sleep walkers who want to
break their habit or to guard
against hurting themselves, the
alarm may be arranged to ring a
bell If the sleeper arises and thus
to wake him up, to turn on the bed
room lights, to lock the door auto
matica11y, to call some other mem
Der Of the family or to do anything
else that may be desired to protect
the sleeper. -<
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-04

had drawn up. "You'll be able to
help Link, here, recall how the sign
looked when you first seen it,
Behind him, lounging in their sad
dies, sat three others. These,
Wheeler knew, were Link Bender,
tall, hawk faced, close Tipped;
Links son, lanky, weasel-faced
youth whom Wheeler knew only as
''the KID; and Cayuse Cayetano,
saffron-faced Indian breed who wore
a circular shield marked Indian
Police" upon a green and black
checked shirt.
These three had nodded in greet
ing, but said nothing; and now
there was a moments awkward
pause. In the silence could be heard
an irregular moaning sound some
where far. to the north-the below
ing Of cattle working themselves
into state of mind over some un-
known thing.
II was figuring to ride over to
your place later, anyway, Dunn"
the sheriff said. II was especially
kind of hoping you'd recognize this
horse"
Link Bender" Dunn said slow
ly-"he found him, did hep"
''He found the horse-this horse;
not the man."
Dunn studied the led horse at the
sheriff's flank. $50 this" Dunn
said, "is the horse a teller got killed
on"
The horse the sheriff led was a
runty bay of the wild pony type
which infests the intermountain
ranges from border to border. 1t
bore no brand; but broad on the
withers and extending downward on
the off side almost to the knee were
the dust-crusted stains of yester-
days blood.
Dunn leaned low to study the feet
Of the led horse. "It's the horse
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-04
Papua Governed by Australia

Papua, a territory slightly larger
than Utah, adjoins New Guinea and
is governed by Australia. Because
of their appearance, Papuans. OBJ
serves a writer in the Washington
Post, have been called Oriental
negroes" They can't count above
six. They wear only loin cloths,
but carry umbrellas of leaves when
it rains. They get tattooed when
they kill another man, scar them
selves with ugly gashes when they
make successful sea voyage.
Their houses are 500 to 700 feet
long and in them are kept human
skeletons as relics. Pigs are their
pets
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-04
CATTLE KINGDOM
Rv AIANIFMAY @Aan LIE May
~ @AAe@AA% - AsA@A WHU
SYNOPSIS

Billy Wheeler, wealthy young cattle.
man, arrives at the "a ranch. sum.
moned by his friend Horse Dunn. its
elderly and quick.tempered owner, be.
cause OF a mysterious murder. Billy is
IN love with Dunn's niece Marian, whom
ne has not seen for two years. She had
rejected his suit and is still aloof. Dunn's
ranch is surrounded by enemies, includ-
Sam Caldwell, whom he had defeated
In his efforts to build cattle kingdom.
Dunn directs his cow hands, Val Doug.
las, Tulare Callahan and others to search
for the killers horse.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-04

from Short Crick, all right" he said
at last. mo, l never seen him be.
tore"
The sheriff looked hopefully at
Wheeler, but Billy Wheeler shook
his head.
Nobody knows the damn ami
mali" the sheriff burst out fretfully.
"I'd have thought you fellers would
know every horse in the country by
this time.
"You get around as much as any,
body" Dunn grunted. Where's the
saddle?"
Link didn't find any saddle"
Dunn glanced at the dark, lean
visaged Link Bender. Dead man
must have taken his saddle with
him across the big divide" he COM
mented sarcastically.
Sheriff Amos looked irritated.
We'll, come on; We'll look over the
ground"
They turned and rode northward
at jog. A curious tension had
come over them for no plain reason.
They were nearing Short Creek;
and the believing Of cattle had be-
come near and strong-a fantastic
deep booming broken by whistling
soprano squalls. what the devil
them steers raising hell about?"
Amos demanded ENORMOUSLY.
Nobody answered him. They rode
in peculiarly oppressive silence, a
silence somehow unnatural and omi-
nous, even among these naturally
quiet men. Now as they rounded
the shoulder of Two Bull Butte they
sighted the disturbed cattle at the
quarter mile, dark milling knot,
restless with tossing horns.
Link Bender raised his clenched
hands to the sky and swore abrupt
ly, savagely. "There goes your
sign! There goes your evidence, and
your trails!"
Billy Wheeler's scalp crawled;
men might misread, the sign, but
the cattle knew. One Of the strang-
est things Of the range, and the
source Of many a weird legend, was
the way the big white-faced range
steers would come for miles to
mark the place of killing, bawling
and paving, and throwing the dirt
over their backs.
The sheriff said in strange
voice, rs that the place." -
''Sure it's the place! The fool crit
tiers have swarmed in on the smell
Of blood!"
Wheeler heard Horse Dunn curse
between his teeth. The Old Man
jumped his pony forward, whipping
up side and side, and charged down
upon the milling cattle. The others
joined him, whooping and whipping
up their ponies.
The steer bunch broke reluctant
ly, half inclined to face out the
charging riders.
Wheeler had been less interested
in the running off Of the cattle than
in the reactions of the riders. All
sign would have been obliterated;
he was anxious now to see who
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-04
CHAPTER II

Walt Amos, sheriff of the Red
Hills country, was a youngish man,
with direct but mild gray,green
eye. He led low-headed pony by
a rope to his saddle horn.
''I'm right glad you rode over,
Horse" he said when the "a men
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-04

would be exasperated and who in
different. Watching, he noted the
conspicuous fury of Link Bender,
the red-eyed anger of Horse Dunn
and the watchful detachment Of
Cayuse, the Indian.
The. riders were gathering again,
disgruntled as they focused upon
the stretch of creek the cattle had
trampled.
Horse Dunn circled a little and
brought them to Short Creek again
200 yards upstream.
"Here you see my trail as come
up to the crick," he said; "it's the
trail of the same horse I'm riding
today Here you see the trail
of the two horses of the killer and
the teller that was killed, riding
side by side along the rim Of the
cut. Right here my trail comes on
to theirs. You, Amos-notice that
my trail is 20 hours younger'n the
other two"
''I'm not so sure" Link Bender
said.
The sheriff hesitated, studying the
tracks glunnly from the saddle. He
turned to the Indian. what do you
say, Cayuse?"
Cayuse Cayetano spoke briefly
and promptly in Spanish. 'This
horse Of Dunn's came yesterday"
he said. "The other two horses.
maybe one day before. Not the
same time"
"That Indians deer hunter,'
Sheriff Amos said. when Cayuse
says he knows, he knows. Well let
it stand at that"
"You'll have to take my word for
it from here on" Dunn told them.
''The cattle sure smeared it up.
But anyway-here the two-horse
trail dropped down into the crick
bed. So did L."
He led them down into the cut and
along the margin of the water.
Dunn moved a hundred yards
down stream, checked his land
marks, and stopped. Here's where
the teller was shot," he said; che
keeled out of the saddle. His horse
stampeded across the crick, running
some sideways. The teller was be-
ing dragged, like from the stirrup."
Dunn turned and led across the
shallow water. ''As I rode up this
bank" he told the sheriff, II seen
that the trail of the killer was fol-
lowing the trail of the stampeded
horse-the same as l." He led on
another so yards across a maze
Of cattle tramplings. Here" he
said finally, lis where the teller
broke loose from the saddle"
How'd you know he fell loose
here?" Amos asked.
Because he wasn't dragged no
further" Dunn said shortly.
For moment now they sat star
ing morosely at a shallow boWl-like
pit which the dusty paving Of the
cattle had dug.
"This what you saw, Link" Sher-
Tiff Amos asked.
Bender nodded. $50 far"
(TO BE CONTINUED)
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-04

hurry to report to the sheriff. with
so little known"
IT had no choice. l was still look
ing over the ground when sighted
a rider, about a mile off. In a min
ute made out it was Link Bender.
Maybe you can remember when
Links Seven S was bigger than the
"a. Maybe you remember how he
tried to pinch out the 94-almost
put Marian's father to the wall. /
broke him of all that! But he's
never swallered that he was licked.
I've got plenty enemies, Billy; but
Link Bender is the smartest of 'en.
Naturally I couldn't leave it SOS
he could report he. seen me sneak
ing away. So / had to signal him
over and show him what I found
"And he read the sign the same
as your"
"Billy, I keep telling you! There
amt any other way to read that
sign"
eyes, but look here-the supposed
dead mans horse"
Link Bender took off on the trail
of the dead mans horse. Hoping
to find the body, like fool. ] let
him go, and haven't seen him since.
So I don't know what he found. But
he went and reported to the sheriff,
like r knew he would ("
II should think you'd have been
some interested in the dead mans
caballo yourself.
"More interested in the other side
of it. The killers trail took to the
crick Short Crick runs two hands
deep on stone for two miles, then
disappears in the sand. I took to
the crick and hunted for where the
killer left it. Plenty horse bands
water at Short Crick, wading in and
out l lost the trail.
$50 pretty soon," Horse Dunn fin
ished, II rode back to the ranch.
BY that time it had come to me
what might be up against here. So
had wire sent to you."
They trotted two miles in silence.
i've been trying to figure out"
Billy Wheeler said at last, "where
l fit in this"
Dunn was silent for little way.
'I've got enemies, Billy" he said
finally.
"a few head of EN-" Wheeler
agreed.
"And you know, too," Dunn re-
minded him, "the COW country is in
terrible bad shape. Everybody has
had to borrow, for three years
straight. Nobody has borrowed
deeper than the "a. Now our debts
come due again. I have to go to
Las Vegas, maybe to San Francisco.
It's close call, by God, to keep
the 81 out of bankruptcy! Now sup
pose this coyote ring, with Link
Bender at the head Of it, can force
some trouble onto the 81. Suppose
that trouble is made to look bad
enough so that can't extend those
loans-let alone increase 'enn? The
work of is years drops fropa under
like shot pony!" ~
Wheeler frowned. "Yhere used to
be pretty square bunch running
the county offices att Inspiration"
he said.
There was whilf' Tom Amos was
alive. He's dead; us boy is sheriff
and he isn't may enough for it.
Link Bender's rims runs the whole
show. They're fixed to make case
stick, all right-for a little while
even if it's poorSone. It's going to
be almighty necessary that we know
more about this than the other
fellers, Billy. sent for good
man to help us with that end Of
it. I sent for Old Man Coffee of Nc
Tarnahan.
1--WE heard of hinr. / guess he's
pretty good on a trail. But still I
don't see where I fit, Horse"
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CHAPTER I-Continued

p
1T means the sheriff is on the
tide-he's left Link Bender's, head
ed for Short Crick. Maybe you think
he's getting slow start He is.
That's the nature of the man. You
ready?"
Lead out" said Wheeler, buck
ling his chap belt.
"Wait."
Horse Dunn reached down
broad cartridge belt whose holster
carried heavy six-gun, and swung
this about his waist. "Pick your
self gun," he told Wheeler.
What's this for?" Wheeler de-
manded.
"In case of emergency, boy"
Wheeler stared at him. Then he
shrugged, picked a weighted gum
belt from the wall, and strapped it
on.
Bring your saddle"
At the corrals Horse Dunn pointed
out a stocky buckskin pony, and
when Billy Wheeler had roped and
rugged this animal, Dunn led the
way out Of the layout. Promptly
Horse Dunn pushed his own tall
sorrel into a hard lanming trot.
II want to join up with the sher-
iff somewheres about Chuck Box
WASH" Dunn explained. I'm right
anxious to be with him when he
makes his look-see at Short Crick."
Horse" sale Billy Wheeler,
what's happened here?"
"You'l see for yourself, better
than I can tell you, knowing the lay
of country like you do. But I'll tell
you what I know
In abrupt sentences he told
Wheeler what had happened.
Morning of the day before, Horse
Dunn had been riding Short Creek
in the course of making cattle
count. The range of the "a was far
flung and broken; the first step to-
ward count was to read the water
holes, to find out what part of the
range the big punches were fire.
quenting. Reading sign on Short
Greek, -Dunn had come upon the
double trail of a shod horse and an
unshod horse, ridden side by side.
The trail was going his way. He
rode along it without attention-un-
til he came upon blood-stained
ground.
81 studied the ground very care
full, tracing the trails" Dunn said.
I'm five minutes I knew for sure
I'd come on the place where man
met his death"
"But there was no body?"
Dunn shook his head 1.-THE dead
man keeled out of the saddle as he
was shot," she reported the sign.
'But / guess he got stirrup hung,
for he was dragged. His pony pulled
him through the crick. I followed
across, and found where he come
loose. But the dead man was no
more there"
"I don't know as get this"
Wheeler said.
Dunn gave it as his opinion that
the man on the other horse had fol-
lowed and picked up his victim.
"When I saw that" said Dunn, II
knew / was looking at the beginning
of something. Maybe-at the begin
ming of the end"
For moment Wheeler stared at
Dunn; then the spell broke. To as
sumo fatty that a man was killed,
when even the identity Of the vic
tim was unknown, seemed to
Wheeler an outlandish stretch, even
for an old tracker.
"This is the darnedest thing ]
ever heard Of, Horse" Wheeler
complained What no corpse?
What kind of murder is this? Who's
missing?"
"Nobody's missing, that's known
yet"
Evening star., 1938-02-03
CASH F[00DGATES
OPEN NEXT WEEK
U. S. City Power Program
TotaIing $146,917,000
to Start.
By the Associated Press.

The Government will start pouring
out millions Of dollars next week on
its long-delayed municipal power
program.
P. w. A. Administrator Ickes an
nounced yesterday the first 81 600, 900
Of Public Works Administration
grants would go forward in a single
voucher to Memphis, Tenn, on We'd
nesday as an initial Federal contri-
button to the city's mammoth electri-
cal distribution system.
Thereafter, in rapid succession, he
said. P. w. A. loans and grants on 81
public power projects in 81 States
would put total of $146,917 ,808 to
work producing one man-hour Of
labor for each dollar spent.
The projects, involving 6l,225,544
OF P. w. A. loans. $38.4l2,4O Of out
right grants and certain expenditures
by communities. have been held up
from one to three years by litigation.
On January 3 Supreme Court de-
cision in a test case declared the
program constitutional.
Few Injunctions Expected.
In very short time. officials said,
the few remaining injunctions OBJ
tained by private power companies
against the use Of P. w. A. funds will
be dissolved in the lower courts.
Until now the Government has been
unable to release either loans or
grants. and most projects either we're
cropped temporarily or negotiations
begun for public purchase Of existing
private power facilities. Oficials fore
cast rapid demand for advance in
stallments on grants and a boom
business in P. w. A. loans on munici-
pal bonds to start construction.
Meanwhile. they said, the $6,872 900
Memphis plant will become the Gov
ernment's major construction project
next summer. 1t has been under con-
Evening star., 1938-02-03
REPUBLICANS SCORE
BUSINESS CONCLAVE
Democrats Cheer G. O. P. Repre-
sentative as He Calls Roosevelt
"Slickest Politician"

BY the Associated Press.
The little business mems conference
touched of a round of Republican
criticism of President Roosevelt's busi-
ness policies in the House yesterday.
Representative White. Republican.
Of Ohio charged the conference was a
"frame-up."
"The report they will make was pre-
pared a week ago." he asserted.
Representative Short, Republican, of
Missouri declared the administration
was seeking even "flimsy pretext or
reasonable excuse" for present eco
nomic conditions. He said it was
singing a hymn Of hate" which had
divided labor and was now trying to
divide business.
Representative Martin. Republican
Of Massachusetts, shouted that the
little man in my district is as bad oil
today as he was March 4, 1888"
A remark by Representative Short
that President Roosevelt is the
'smoothest, slickest politician" ever to
live in the White House brought forth
cheers and prolonged applause from
Democratic members.
you squeeze him here and he's owe,
there" Mr.. Short said. HE blows hot
and cold in the same breath. He call,
big business in and says the war 1.
over, and then he kicks them in the
seat Of the pants before they can get
out"
Evening star., 1938-02-03
a reasonable profit to such banks, be
applied to such loans"

a reasonable profit to such banks, be
applied to such loans"
The resolution explained that this
private financing was preferred "be.
cause of the excessive expense and
difficulty of securing loans for smaller
businesses from the Reconstruction
Finance Corp" but that as an alterna-
tive proposition, some Federal ma.
chinery be provided that will give
small business inexpensive methods
Of financing its needs.
Tied in with the proposal for tax
relief. which included repeal of the
surplus profits tax. and a reduction
in the capital gains tax. was the de-
mand that the Government cut its
own expenses, and balance the budget
See Fear Of Interference.
The Committee on Unemployment
expressed the belief that "funda-
mental conditions are sound and that
business would prosper and unemploy-
ment will be relieved if business is re-
lleVed from the fear OF further undue
Government interference"
1t specified that "unwarranted and
malicious attacks on business by ad-
ministration representatives should be
permanently stopped" and ended on
this note: 1T is the sense of this
body. that Immediately beneficial &C.
ton would be attained. upon the def
mite assurance by our President by
means of a radio fireside chat that the
policy Of the Government would be to
cooperate with and help all business
go back to work"
Evening star., 1938-02-03

struction one year, financed by q local
bond issue. After the restraining
order was dismissed P. w. A. de-
cided to give the city the sum orig
inally arranged. The million-dollar
voucher, officials said, was first pay
ment on 5000, 900 grant.
Lines 10 Parallel Private Ones.
The plants power distribution lines
will parallel those of the Memphis
Power & Light Co., a subsidiary of
the Electric Bond g. Share Corp.
1t will distribute power generated by
the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Authorities estimated that when
the national program is under way it
will provide 146.917,8O8 man-hours Of
work at construction sites and create
behind the lines in private in
dustry AZ man-hours Of employment
IN the manufacture and distribution
Of materials for each hour on the
project itself.
Evening star., 1938-02-03
WRIGHT CONTINUES
STORY OF SHOOTING
Counsel Retraces Many Points of
Testimony Given During
Cross.Examination.

By tce Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3.-pallid-
faced Paul A. Wright. exhausted from
Two days of merciless prosecution
grilling on how and why he killed
Mrs. Wright and John Kimmel, re-
sumed in redirect examination today
his story that he discovered his wife
cheating"
The airport executives counsel,
Jerry Giesler. led him back over much
OF the testimony he gave during the
exhaustive, insistent cross ss-examina-
ton OF Prosecutor S. E. Roll, who
pounded away at Wright's story until
the trail, dyspeptic defendant COL
lapsed and had to be assisted from
the courtroom
Wrights defense is that he shot, in
white fame" Of anger that scared
his brain. because he found Mrs.
Wright and Kimmel in an embrace on
the piano bench Of the Wright living
room in Glendale, November 9.
Mr.. Roll went through Wright's
statement to police, sentence by SEN
tence. Wright said he did not re-
member being asked many of the
questions. He said he did remember
being flngerprinted.
Mr.. Giesler said he planned to call
four more defense witnesses when he
completed his examination of Wright,
and then rest his case. The prosecu-
ton said 1t had finished with its cross
examination, except on one point
Allowing for two days for final argu-
ments and instructions to the Jury,
the case should be ready for delibera-
ton by next Tuesday of Wednesday.