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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-20
TWIN HOsTEssES

Out Chicago way they'll tell you
that Braniff Always is carrying
its duplicate program" too far.
After advertising for months that
each of its ships was equipped
with twin motors. two pilots, twin
radios, they lined up and hired
two girls-identical twins-as
hostesses. They are numbered
TT twin No. u and T-2 on the
schedule sheets so that the lines
personnel can tell them apart.
The American AirlineS flagship
ekysleeper District Of Columbia
has been big success down on
Pennsylvania Avenue. To prove
1T, the line states that more than
25, 900 persons have walked down
its isle in a total of 100000 steps,
and shows as exhibit "A" two worn
out carpets. Three replacement
carpets already have arrived from
the Chicago base along with $4,000
additional sheets Of flagship sta.
tionery." The substation post Of.
flee alongside the ship reports a
booming business.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-18

water" and that was the beginning
of brain structure, and ultimately
of the human race.
DR.. Tilney advised evolutionary
students to study the brain as the
real organ of evolution, and he said
this would lead back to the walk
ing fish,"
mo scientist today believes that
any living monkeys or apes are
ancestral to man." he said. "These
animals belong to families totally
divergent from the human family.
Whatever interest there is in evolu.
ton therefore should not center in
the ape.
'"The true line of our ancestry
reaches millions of years farther
back. Evolution Of the human race
leads from fish to man."
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-18
SYNOPSIS

Billy Wheeler, wealthy young cattle.
man, arrives at the "a ranch, summoned
by his friend Horse Dunn, its elderly
and quick-tempered owner, because of
mysterious murder. Billy is in love with
Dunn,s niece Marian, whom he has not
seen for two years. She had rejected his
suit and Is still aloof. Dunn'S ranch is
surrounded by enemies. including Link
Bender, Pinto Halliday and Sam Cald.
well. whom he has defeated in his efforts
to build cattle kingdom. Dunn directs
his cow hands, Val Douglas, Tulare Cal.
lahan and others to search for the killers
horse. He explains to Billy that the morn.
Ing before he had come upon bloodstained
ground at Short Creek and found the trail
of a shod and unshod horse. The shod
horses rider had been killed. The body
had disappeared. Link Bender had ar
rived at the scene and read the signs the
way he had. Dunn reveals that because
OF financial crisis the ranch may be in
jeopardy; his enemies may make trouble
since Sheriff Walt Amos is friendly with
them. He says he has asked Old Man
Coffee, the country's best trailer, to join
them. Dunn and Billy meet Amos, Link
Bender, his son "the Kid and Cayuse
Cayetano, an Indian trailer, at Short
Creek. Bender has found the slain mans
horse, but the saddle is missing. Almost
systematically, cattle attracted to the
scene by the blood-stained ground, stamp
out all the traces. Dunn is angered
when Amos tells him not to leave the
county. Following an argument. Bender
draws his gun, but Dunn wounds him
in the arm. Back at the ranch Old Man
Coffee arrives, with a pack of hounds.
Coffee goes in search of the dead mans
saddle. Dunn tells Billy that Marian is
incensed at him for trying to settle
disputes by bloodshed. He reveals that
the ranch is really hers.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-18

Dunn had said, but essentially the
girl was right. 1t was like Horse
Dunn too that he could in no part
lie to this girl, but would put him
self conscientiously into the worst
possible light.
HE said more" Marian added.
"He said that if it hadn't been for
me he would have killed Link
Bender there at Chuck Box WASH"
Billy Wheeler started to say, ooh,
I don't think" 1t was no use. 1t
was futile to try to hide from this
girl certain things which she was in
no way equipped to understand, yet
was sure to see clearly. This is
different country than you're used
to. Marian. Dry country men
learned long ago to depend on them
selves; they've lived that way for
a long time"
The car that had been an APP
preaching funnel of dust upon the
Inspiration road now came careen-
ing around rutty bend 200 yards
below them. Steve Hurley leaned
from behind his dusty windshield to
wave at them, then brought his car
to long-rolling stop. He signaled
Wheeler to ride to him.
"Wait here" Wheeler said to the
girl. He wheeled his horse, then
hesitated to say over his shoulder,
Don't worry; We'll work every
thing out all right"
He put his horse down to the
road, jumping it through the red
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ing for Bob Flagg. He's supposed
to show here with $4,000, as good as
in cash; another $4,000 in different
obligations and notes. Everything
I've got goes to the bracing of the
a."
Horse stared out the open door
way toward the corrals; and now
Billy Wheeler saw Horse Dunn's
rocky face slowly relax, and soften.
Out at the far corral Marian had
caught the quiet old pony that Horse
had given her. and was preparing
to saddle. Horse Dunn watched her,
his eyes gentle. There was always
a shy humility about that strapping
big old man when he looked at this
girl, this daughter of his dead broth.
err. 1t was almost as if he might
have been looking at his own daugh-
ter, who had grown up away from
him. After all, she might have been
his daughter, if things had broken
differently once.
"You 60 ride with her." Dunn
said with a certain awkwardness.
"You talk to her. Try to make her
see that-that this is IA different
country, kind OF"
"She doesn't take any stock in
me, Horse"
"You go, anyway" Dunn insist
ed. II don't like to have her riding
this big range alone"
With curious reluctance Wheeler
picked up his hat and walked out
to the stable where his saddle was.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-18
Fish, Not Monkey, Mans Ancestor, Is
Claim of Professor of Neuro-A Anatomy

This may come as something of
disappointment to monkeys, but
it now appears that the human race
did not descend from an ape, but
from fish, writes a New York
United Press correspondent.
And if all goes we'll, mans own
descendants will not be man as he
is today, but gnome-like creatures
with undershot jaws, probably
spindly legs and an enormous dome
like head.
This information was conveyed to
gathering of $50 learned men
at Columbia university, by DIR.
Frederick Tilney, professor Of
neuro-anatomy and an expert on
the evolution of the shape of a
mans head.
1t all goes back to "crossopteri-
gian"-a kind Of fish that did it's
thinking with it's feet. If the cross
opterigian had not come along, man
might still be fish, according to
the professor.
Fish" he explained, possess a
limited power to withhold their re-
actions. They are highly impulsive."
One day millions of years ago an
impulsive fsh-the crossopeterigian
managed to crawl out Of the
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-18

rocks. From behind the wheel Steve
Hurley thrust big square hand at
him, and Steve's big beefy face
flashed quick grin. "Glad to see
you, Billy; the Old Man said he
figured you'd sit in. AS soon as I
see who it was, I pulled up"
Wheeler glanced at the boiling
radiator. whats broke in Inspira-
ton, Steve?"
1.-THE Old Man may be wanting to
call his riders in. Thought I'd stop
and tell you what it was, SOS you
could signal in any Of the boys you
might see while you're out"
"I'm listening"
t'It's all over Inspiration that
Sheriff Walt Amos will make an ar.
rest within three days. They're say
ing the sheriff knows who's dead;
that it's man Dunn swore to kill
if ever he found him on "a range"
Steve Hurley's sun-squinted eyes
rested steadily and keenly on Billy
Wheeler.
"Steve," said Wheeler, "will
Horse Dunn submit to arrest?"
Steve Hurley looked away mo-
ment before he answered. II don't
know" he said at last "But I
guess maybe. Am I right he'll want
his riders in?"
''I'd sure think so. This thing is
coming faster than ] figured it
would, Steve"
The girls eyes were questioning
as Billy Wheeler returned to her
side. Don't worry" he said; "it's
all going to work out"
They turned off, no longer paral-
telling the Inspiration road; and for
long while as the miles slowly un-
rolled under the fox-trotting hoofs
of the ponies neither had anything
to say.
They were near Short Creek when
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-18
CHAPTER 1I-Continued


altogether agree with Horse Dunn.
He had seen range quarrels settled
by gunfre-but never to the adj
vantage of either winner or loser.
However, he wasn't going to argue
with the Old Man.
what if she ties my hands?"
Dunn demanded. eve got to fight
this thing my own way. For myself
] wouldn't SO much mind. But amt
the outfit hers, ito begin WITH"
"Hers?" Wheeler repeated.
"Sure, it's hers. Didn't you know
that?"
Wheeler had not known it. "But
look here! You've run this brand
ever since can remember. You
must at least have some part in
terest here"
mot penny or a head of stock"
Dunn told him.
"But happen to know" Wheeler
declared, "that you've always had
an outfit. another outfit, down in Ari-
iona. Yet your Arizona outfit hasn't
seen you four times in a dozen
years."
1--WE had my hands full here"
Dunn said.
"You mean," Billy Wheeler said,
"you spent the last twelve-thirteen
years neglecting your own outfit to
build up a brand that don't belong
to you?"
Dunn shrugged. Somebody had
to take holt. My brother died-sud-
den. He didn't leave the "a in very
good shape. For two years it was
run by different bosses I hired. But
this same Link Bender-he had a
big outfit then-he was stealing the
"a blind. Pretty soon there wouldn't
have been any 81. And it was all
the kid and her mother had"
Billy Wheeler stared at Horse
Dunn. Once he had heard it ru-
mored that Horse Dunn had loved
Marian's mother, long ago.
"Marian's mother always hated
and feared this country. She
brought up Marian to feel some sim
liar. That's why the kid can't stand
gunsmoke, or anything done by
force. You see-my brother died
with gun in his hand"
Wheeler, unable to endorse the
Old Mans leaning toward violence,
expressed belief that there ought
to be some way to avoid smoking up
the range. IF we can hold the 81
steady on the finance side" he said,
"what can Link Bender's crowd
do?"
"God knows I've took all the steps
] know to steady the finance side"
Horse Dunn said. IA minute ago
you spoke OF my having an outfit
in Arizona. Well, had an outfit
in Arizona. Six weeks ago sent
word to Bob Flagg, my partner
there, to sell her out. She's sold.
For the last ten days I've been look-
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-18
CHAPTER III

A rise Of dust was going up on the
Inspiration road as Wheeler sad
died.; he knew the approac ching car
must be driven by Steve Hurley.
For a moment he hesitated, for he
would have liked to hear the latest
word from the camp of Horse
Dunn's enemies. Marian Dunn, how
ever, was looping eastward along an
old trail not far off the Inspiration
road. Steve Hurley would be able
to signal to him from road to trail
if any new word concerned him. He
let his pony lope out and caught up
with Marian within the mile.
do you mind if I ride your
way?"
Maybe" Marian said, you'll
show me where Short Creek is"
Wheeler was startled. "Short
Creek?"
Sometimes" the girl said, cts
easier to look at thing than to
imagine it,"
Il was thinking some OF riding
over that way" he conceded. "Only
Il wish you'd let somebody know
when you set off to ride distance
like that, so somebody could go
with YOU"
She looked at him sidelong for a
minute. Sometimes it seems to
me you people do everything you
can to make this into an unfriendly
country"
II don't know what you mean.','
"These Red Hills, with the sun
on them, are the background of the
very earliest memories ! have.
When I came here again it was as
if ! were coming home. ] felt free
and natural, here-at first. And
Horse Dunn is almost exactly like
my father, what little I can remem-
Der of hina-so nearly like my IA
ther that ! can't remember my
fathers face any more; because my
uncle's face comes in between"
HE worships the. ground you
walk on" Wheeler said.
II know" A little shiver ran
across her shoulders, anomalous in
the blaze of the sun. "Then he turns
and does some wild, awful thing
like yesterday; and it gives me the
strangest feeling of being complete
ly lost in a country ! don't under
stand"
Yesterday? What awful thing?"
"He-he shot Link Bender"
"It was kind Of unfortunate, sure.
But don't know what else he could
do. Link drew on him. And all
your uncle did was to nick him in
the arm, so that he dropped the
gum"
Marian's tone was curiously de-
tached, unforgiving. HE admitted
he set out to goad Link Bender into
fighting"
That was not exactly what Horse
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-18
The Isle of Pines

The Isle of Pines, or Isla de pinos,
in the West Indies, is about thirty
miles south Of Cuba, of which it
forms a part, belonging to Habana
province. The island, discovered
by Columbus in 1894, has an area
of 1900 square miles and popula-
ton Of about 5000. Nueva Corona
and Santa Fe are the largest towns.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-18

the girl spoke unexpectedly. "I'm
glad you came. You make things
seem straighter and smoother, just
the way you pace your horse along,
without any worry or fret"
"There isn't anything to worry
about"
"You've changed since two years
ago." the girl told him. Some
how you're nicer to ride with
quieter, more restful."
He glanced at her but didn't an
swer.
"You used to be stampedey
sort of person, she explained, cal
ways rushing your horse at things.
Whatever you went at, you always
went at it by the same Way-thun.
der of hoofs, taking al obstacles by
storm. think / used to be afraid
of YOU"
For a moment he wondered If
things would have gone differently
between them if he had been less
eager, less turbulent. When you
wanted a thing too much you over
played your hand and lost out alto
gether. Maybe you could love
girl too much, too soon, and de-
feat yourself the same way. Per-
haps IT,
A quarter of mile away within
the sharp-cut bed Of Short Creek
something moved, held steady a
moment, then disappeared. 1t was
a rider there, who was watching
them; but it was not rider who
meant to rise in his stirrups and
hail.
WELL" he said briskly, this is
Short Crick.
"You see," he said, pulling up his
horse at the spot the cattle had
trampled, "this is nothing but
place where it just happened that
somebody took a shot at somebody.
What is there to see? Nothing. !
want you to think Of this place as
just crick where horses come to
drink"
Marian Dunn sat very quiet, star
ing at the shallow water. He won
dered what things, terrible to her,
she might be picturing.
"I'm glad came" Marian said.
"But especially I'm glad you came.
YOU"
Listen, :" he said.
A horse as yet unseen was COM
ing fast down the cut. Its unshod
hoofs padded quietly in the sand at
the margin of the water, so that it's
thudding lope was sensed less by
sound than by shock-the faint dis.
tant tremor of the ground.
what is lt?" the girl asked.
Don't you hear? A horse is COM
ing up"
II don't" She. started to say
that she didn't hear anything; but
just then the unseen rider cut
through the shadows with a sud-
den sharp sound of thrown water
and the ring Of hoofs on stone.
"Who is it,"
"Quien sabe? Turn and ride back
the way we've come," he told her
without emphasis. "I'll be along in
q minute"
Without word Marian turned her
horse; she was at the two hundred
TT ~ M n
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-02-18

yards as hard-run horse surged
up over the lip of the cut. The rider
was Kid Bender.
The Kid half wheeled his pony,
drove close to Billy Whee1er's
horse; his lean figure swayed back
wards as he brought his pony to a
sliding stop, very close. Across the
back of his right hand showed the
heavy purple welt that Wheeler's
quirt had laid there; and in his face
was the joyous anger of a man
who takes payment for a past hu.
initiation.
What you doing here?"
Wheeler ignored the question.
you're a little off your range,
Kid" he said. "This range comes
under the head of the 81. Maybe
I'll be ordering you off it pretty
quick. I haven't decided yet"
"No," said Kid Bender. II don't
think you will. You're dealing with
peace of6cer-patroling the scene
Of crime"
peace officer?"
Kid Bender tipped over the tail
end of his neckerchief to reveal a
nickel-plated shield. 1t was cheap
and it was new; but as it flashed in
the sun Wheeler felt his scalp stir
oddly, as if he had glimpsed fire
behind smoke. Horse Dunn's view
of the situation was shaping up fast
er than Horse himself had mag
ined.
Yesterday" said the Kid, 'you
knocked a gun out of my hand"
Billy Wheeler said distinctly.
with quirt. I whipped it out Of
your hand with a quirt."
Kid Bender's face darkened for
an instant but the hard CLEAN Of a
joyous anticipation Immediately re-
turned to his eye. 81 have ORDERS"
he said, "to see that the hired men
Of the 81 don't trample over the
scene of this crime any more. I'm
starting with you; I'll give you fell
lers something to remember orders
by. I'm taking your horse and your
gun. Maybe your girl there will
give you lift after you're afoot.
Or maybe I'll send her on home-I
haven't decided that yet"
"No." said Wheeler, you're not
taking either horse or gum
you're against an officer Of the
law. You know what that means?"
II know" Billy Wheeler said,
"what hope it means"
For moment Kid Bender hest
tated; they sat watching each other,
two men in situation from which
neither could withdraw. One of
them had sought this meeting-the
other welcomed it. Both knew that
something peculiarly personal had
to be settled here, now, between the
two Of them alone.
II see your girl has stopped a
little way up here" the Kid said;
"seems like she sets watching from
the hill"
Wheeler suppressed in time an
impulse to glance over his Shout
der. Instead his eyes never left
Kid Bender as he jerked his chin
sharply toward his shoulder as If he
glanced away.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06

was standing on the running board
of his parked automobile, prepar-
ing to enter it when he heard the
screams of the 1O-year- old son of
his employer sitting in the front
seat. At the same instant the lion
bore him down.
The lion had been at large two
hours when Patrolman John Cares,
searching along the boardwalk,
heard a rustling sound and saw him
crouched to spring at him from a
few feet away. Cares already had
his revolver in his hand. He would
not have had time to fire more
than one shot but he sent the one
bullet accurately The lion fell dead
in its tracks, a bullet through its
eye.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06
School District
Vote on Bonds

BRAWLEY, Oct. 6.-Voters viii
90 to the polls here Oct. 20 to de-
termine whether the Brawley 'Unioh
high school district shall vote
$4,000 bonds as the school dis
trict's share for construction of a
new building.
The district seeks the loan and
a S62,16 grant from the PWA TO
build an administration, domestic
science, ana cafeteria unit 10 It
place buildings declared to be uli-
safe for school use.
There will be three polling places
one at the high school. cne at Mag
nolia school for residents Of tnt
Magnolia union and Mulberry
school districts, and one at West
morland school for Westmorianc
and Trifolium residents.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06
Grapefruit Body
Calls for Vote on
Prorate Plan

The California Arizona
Desert Area grapefruit ad-
visory committee Wednesday
afternoon passed a resolu-
tion to put the grapefruit
prorate question before the
individual grower for a vote.
The meeting, attended by more
than 100 growers and shippers from
Imperial county, Yuma and Goa
chella Valley and Phoenix, was call
ed at the Barbara Worth hotel to
discuss the question.
Independent growers at the meet
ing revealed they had not been
notified of the prorate meetings
and demanded that the question be
brought to a vote of the individual
growers.
Motion Passes
After much discussion, involving
every angle from Exchange view.
point to the Forbes injunction, l..
w. Otto, manager of the Arizona
grapefruit exchange and member
of the advisory board, moved that
the prorate question be put to a
vote. The motion was passed unani-
mouSly.
B. A. Harrigan, county agricul-
ture commissioner, Jock Foote and
Al Boutel of Coachella Valley, were
| instructed to send out letters for
ballot to each grower in their Sec
| tions.
All votes must be mailed into
the agriculture office before Oct
u, Harrigan pointed out. Growers
may also vote at the agriculture
commissioners office between
am. and pm. There are 600 grow
ers in Imperial county.
Ballots were to be mailed today
Each grower will be required to tel
his acreage, 1887 tonnage and hi!
decision on the grapefruit prorate
Grapefruit advisory COMMITTEES
members pointed out that the pro
rate for grapefruit was voted thre'
years ago but that desert are;
growers do not have to comply un
less the majority of growers ap
prove the plan.
If a majority of growers do ap
prove prorate the advisory commit
tee will meet each week and sc
the allotments to growers. If grow
ers oppose the plan no prorate vii
be established.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06


owned by Joseph Dobish who oper-
ated the motor drome. When the
master entered the cage at feeding
time, the lion charged past him
and out the door.
Loose on the boardwalk, the
beast strolled leisurely while Dobish
ran to telephone the police. He
soon found the new scenery not to
his liking and went back to the
cage. But Dobish had closed the
door. The lion could not get back
in. He squatted and appraised the
cage a moment, then stole away
homeless for the first time in his
life and frightened by it. Within
a few minutes he had lost every
thing that civilizati-a had taught,
and became a predatory beast.
Thomas Saito, 81, a japanese auc-
tioneer employed on the boardwalk,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06

Real Mannish Tailored
Suits are more popular than
ever. Pin stripes, Herringbones
and subdued stripe Worsteds.
Also plain oxford WorStedS.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06

Ing degrees OF enthusiasm. tIepuD-
licans are vigorously against it on
grounds it would precipitate econo-
mic chaos.
The plan, on the state ballot as
constitutional amendment, will
be voted on at the November gen.
eral election.
San Francisco headquarters of
the pension plan forecast at least
10 to victory at the polls. Man
ayers claimed 215,OO0 men and wo-
men were working for the measure
They claimed at least 100000 had
signed petitions and otherwise made
known their support of the plan.
Opponents of the plan, calling
economists and businessmen to
their assistance, lay down an in
creasingly heavy barrage of criti-
ciSm.
The measure provides for issu-
ance of 80 one dollar warrants
every Thursday to unemployed per-
sons over so years of age. With
each transaction each warrant
would be stamped with two cent
certificate. At the end of the year
when there were So two cent stamps
on the Warrant-or $104-it would
be redeemed for ST., with the extra
four cents being used to pay the
cost of administration.
Among the critics of the plan are
| the California Bankers Association
the California State Chamber ol
Commerce, the California State SUI
pervisors association, the California
Farm Bureau Federation, and var
ious merchants associations.
/ The California Bankers associa-
ton and the San Francisco retail
merchants association have sale
they cannot accept the warrants ir
case the measure is passed.