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been one of those involved in the
attack. Like Norris, he had been
appalled, at the swiftness with which
three men had been wiped out so
horribly. To shoot men was one
thing; to burn them up another.
"Morg and I were just hoping no
body got caught in there" Gray
told the cowboy.
The startled eyes of Kansas
stabbed at Norris. "Why would
there be anybody in there?" he
asked hoarsely. "You don't figure
that-that-"
"We don't figure a thing" Norris
answered, his cold gaze fixing Kan
IS. "Crook-Nose here allowed that
maybe someone sleeping in the hay
might have lit it from a cigarette"
"Gray is the name, if you're
meanin' me-" the red-headed man
drawled gently.
"That's right" The young killers
words dripped malice. "Clint Gray,
isn't it,"
mo, sir. Nor jeff Doke. jeff
Gray would be right. I'm a little
particular about my name, Mr.. Nor
ris." The steady gaze warned the
other that he was treading on dan
gerous ground.
Call yoreself Paddy Ryan or
John L. Sullivan for all I care"
Norris said, his laugh insolently Of
fensive. "Well, the shows over. I'm
headin' back to the seven-up game.
You comm along, Kansas"
Gray watched them 60. "That's
two of them," he thought. Lou
Howard is probably another"
He walked up the main street to
the Golden Nugget and sat in at a
poker game.
Sherm Howard slammed a big fist
down on the table in front of him.
"Never saw anything more crazy
in my life. That's no way to get a
Mantle in wait for him right here
in town so Lee Chiswick will know
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Historical Inconsistency

History is anything but logical or
consistent. The Pilgrim fathers, for
instance, originally sailed for the
Hudson and found themselves at
the end of their voyage on the Mas
sachusetts coast. Their destination
was the Hudson, then Dutch, be-
cause they had come from Holland,
whence they had sailed from Eng
land seeking religious freedom. But
in Holland, life was so good that
the little band of Pilgrims, seeing
absorption imminent with so many
intermarrying with the Dutch, de-
termined to keep themselves sepa-
rate by journeying to the New
World.
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Puzzle No. 8 Solved:

Scattered about the gulf are many
islands, romantic, little known. One
is Sweers island, which many years
ago was the site of a fourishing
settlement owing its existence to
yellow fever. In the early 1865 two
sailors arrived at Burketown dying
with yellow fever. As the dread
malady hit others in the town, the
population fled, most of it to Sweers
island, where it lived for years be-
fore returning home.
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V-Continued

Gray said: "Ready to leave town
yet? Or am I still too big a liar to
believer"
II don't know what you are"
Frank answered. Hadn't been for
you they would have got me. But
you fired the first shot at me-"
"You were walking right into
their ambush. I fired to stop you.
Lucky for you. It started them up
before you were close enough to hit
in the darkness"
Frank was still suspicious and
ashamed of it. "You disguised your
voice when you talked with them in
the barn."
$50 I did. I'm staying here. Would
you want me to yell out my name
to them?"
"You saved my life. No two ways
about that. At the risk of yore
own"
"Oh, hell" Gray said. "You're
such a fool someone has to look
after you Where is yore
horse?"
AT the Alamo corral"
"Then get down there and sad
die. Hit the trail for the L c.
quick as you can"
The younger man agreed. "I'm
much Obliged" he added grufly.
II won't forget it,"
Gray watched him 60, then cut
re to the main street and
joined those who were hurrying to
the fire. He saw the roof of the
barn crash in as he climbed over
the wall.
His gaze swept the crowd. He
caught sight of Morgan Norris and
joined him.
How'd the fire start?" he asked.
Norris slid a look at him. How
would I know"
Thought maybe you we're among
those here early" Gray said light
ly. It was important for him to
find out whether he had been recog-
nized by the ambushers. He thought
not, since in the darkness he had
not known any of them. But he
had to be sure.
mo, sir, l wasn't"
The eyes of Norris were Sits of
shining light. This business tonight
had got out of hand, and he had to
watch his step. He had started out
to kill n man, not three. Now
there would be war to a finish with
the L c outfit. Lee Chiswick would
not rest until he had avenged the
death of his son and the other two
riders.
Thought l heard some shooting"
Gray said guilelessly. II was down
at Ma Presnall's fixing to turn in
when things began to pop"
II reckon some drunk was pune
tuating the scenery" Norris said,
watching his words. me, l was
playing seven-up with some of the
boys"
Likely some lad was bedding
down in the hay and Lit it from his
cigarette" Gray suggested.
might be that way. If So, hope
he got out"
Time this town had a fire de-
partment," the red-headed man
mentioned. If a fire started when
the wind was blowing hard, the
whole main street would Co."
$50 it would" Norris agreed in
differently. but l got no chips in
this towns real estate"
A vaquero known as Kansas ST.
died up to them.
Fires burnin' out" he said to
Norris.
Gray read fear in the mans shifty
eyes. He decided that Kansas had
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VII

Frank Chiswick swung from the
saddle stifly.
Flows every little thing?" his
brother Bob asked.
"Au right with me-"
Anything doing at Tail Holt?"
"Plenty. Where's the old mani"
"In the house writing a letter."
Frank unsaddled and turned his
horse into a pasture.
Better come along and listen to
my story" he said.
From a kitchen window Ruth saw
her brothers and followed them into
the office. She heard her fathers
booming greeting.
"'Lo, Frank" she said. "You
haven't changed much. We still
have the same old cat"
"You came mighty near not hav-
ing the same old BROTHER" he told
her with a grin.
Had trouble, did you?" Lee in
quired.
"Some. Maybe it was my own
fault. I had a fight. I've been shot
at several times. I was cornered
in a hayloft when the stable was on
fire. A fellow who calls himself
jeff Gray saved my life"
The family stared at him. This
category Of adventures struck them
dumb for a moment.
"Sit down, son, and tell it," his
father suggested after he had found
speech.
When Frank reached in his mar
rative the fight with Lou Howard,
his sister cut in sharply.
II told you to leave him alone
that it was my fault as much as
his" she scolded. "Now you've
made more trouble"
"Sorry it came out that way"
Frank said, in penitent justifc alton.
"He was Dragging around how he
Tilted you. It came to me from two
different people. One was Ma Pres
nall. I thought I ought to stop it."
"You did right, son." his father
approved. II hope you whopped
him good"
He wouldn't fight-not to amount
to anything" Frank said simply.
But I marked him up considerable.
l reckon he made up his mind to
have me rubbed out and took that
killer Morg Norris in with him. They
had two or three others along"
"Along when?" Bob asked.
"When they ambushed me-"
"You recognized Howard and Nor
ris," Lee said, his eyes blazing with
excitement.
mo, I didn't. No time for that.
jeff Gray warned me they were in
tending to bushwhack me-"
Lee Chiswick's face was a map of
bewilderment. Jeff Grayl Why
would he help your"
II don't know. I never did find
out"
"Then what?" Ruth asked tensely.
Frank told his story.
"Son, I ought never to have sent
you to town Alone" exclaimed Lee.
II knew there were a lot of bad
hombres in that bunch of r~ustlers,
but I didn't think they would 60 so
far as to try to burn a boy to death.
Well, I've had my lesson. I might
have known that any outfit bossed
by Sherm Howard would be rotten.
About this fellow Gray. I don't get
him at all. We no sooner get him
pegged for a embarrassing scoun-
drel than he up and goes into the
fire for you. What's his game? Who
in time is he?"
1.-TWO or three times I heard that
he was an outlaw wanted in Texas
for robbing a train," Frank said.
Name of Clint Doke, it was
claimed. He's in with Towards
gang somehow. When we were in
the barn he changed his voice so
they wouldn't know who he was"
RIO RE CONTINUED
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"All right. Go find out the facts"
ordered Howard.
Twenty minutes later his men re-
ported that there were no bodies in
the ashes and that a hole had been
knocked in the stable wall.
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the door frame. Even as he
pushed open the mangled door he
could hear the woman's hurried
steps on the stairway. But he was
not interested in the escape of
the frowsy keeper of the Belve-
dere hotel. He was interested in
the forlorn figure which lay re-
vealed on the bed in the window
less room. 1t was Myrna, and as
ne entered the room she stirred
family. When he went to her side
and lifted her by the shoulders,
she looked at him vaguely.
"Bob :" Her voice was weak.
Plainly she had been doped, either
by Weeks. or by the vile, stuffy
air of the room.
Lets get out of here" TAFT
said. "Can you make it,"
She nodded slowly. II feel
so weak, Bob"
He took her by the shoulders,
lifted her to her feet. When her
knees seemed to give way hn lift
ed her in his arms. But no sooner
had he started toward the door
than he saw the tall, hulking
frame of George Weeks. And in
his hand was a gum
Ito be continued)
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lmateTV o,UUU,UUU.
LARGE NETHERLANDS
ORDER

Orders to be filled by this COM
panv before the end of 1899, in
addition to that from the British
air ministry, include fleet of 10
twin-engined personnel transports
for the army air corps, a $500, 900
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4-Fold Pension
PlanFor Voters
Bv NED RUSSELL
,r-;.I pr... Staff Correspondents

uIkCe
CLEvE1 AND, O., Nov. 2 -
O-P1 Thousands Of ohioahs'
dreaming of Utopia-like old age
now are clamoring to the suppGL,
Of four S3O-a-week" pen:l9n
movements. similar to Calilol nla 9
-Four such schemes are s"eep =,
ing this state of 6,OCO.ooV, s s;.an
o. in the words of State AUDITOR
Joseph T. Ferguson, 1--WE nave ave I" :"
hard enough time paying go u u
month state pensions to sLllat1
group of aged" Backers OF three
gnovements have set up headquaf-
tiers here. ;,,o,va
The differences seem to lnvoiEe
mostly the day of the week the
pensions would be paid. ,
DIR. Frank H. Pagan, a dentist
identified formerly with the
townsend plan, heads the "Onio
Recovery Plan," promising to pay
SO every Wednesday to all non
working persons past so. We are
letting thousands of letters from
81 lover the state" DIR. Pagan
said describing the response 70
his plan. ,
under Edward L. Lansing OF
Cleveland, would pay off every
Thursday. :,,.
The Ohio Welfare council $
"Ohio Plan" proposes to pay sou
q week to everyone past 5o with
no means of support. :.
The fourth organization IS
known as Thirty Every Thurs
dav. Inc" and promises just that.
Ferguson, criticizing the plans
as Impractical" and "not even
good vote-getters" has proposed
that the Ohio legislature place
them all under the jurisdiction OF
the state securities division to IN
vestigate their feasibility.
at would prevent the Fleeing
of aged pensioners by get.rlch-
quick schemers, and the exploita-
ton of the poor by either dreams
or rouges," he declared.
The federal social security
board has told President Roosevelt
that enactment of such "crackpot
pension schemes" would throw
the nation into an economic tur-
MOL "comparable to the disas-
trous postwar initiation period IN
Germany"
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CYCLISTS PAY IN FRANCE

PARIS. (UPl - France has
9 600 600 cyclists and they paw
60 SOC, 900 to the state as tax
ON their machines
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Photographer Frank Carcellare
Of the NEA Service Times-News
Washington staff was covering
the White House the other day,
snappirg pictures of important
men after they had conferred with
President Roosevelt. On his way
back to the darkroom he happened
70 notice these little girls, Patricia
Freeman and Frances Gross, hav-
ing fun sliding on the new railing
that leads up to the executive Of
fees. He said he thought they
made a right cute picture and it
showed the new railing pretty
well.
Yes, it's a cute picture-but it's
also a very important one because
there are very few other capital
cities on this troubled globe where
it could meet photographer
eye. It simply wouldn't happen.
Imagine Berlin. or Rome. Imag-
inc even Buckingham Palace. I'M
agine the palaces of rulers the
world around. And then try to
imagine two little girls having fun
sliding on a railing. d..
SIS troopers in Berlin d. Gren-
adiers at Buckingham . Yer
boten =. You can't do this, you
know. Vigorous shooting away
from the Palazzo Venezia in
Rome. ...
But at the White House little
girls slide down the railing and it
doesn't seem to affect, the prog
ress of Government at all.
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order for the Netherlands East
Indian government, and orders
from the L. S. navy, Aeropourt
Airlines of Jugoslavia and British
Always, Ltd.
The Ryan Aeronautical COM
pany of California has been more
active in the Central American
market. On October IS the COM
pany announced the signing of a
contract with Guatemala for six
sim military training planes.
A similar number of SIN planes
had been delivered to the Guate-
malan air force three months ear
lier.
MASS PRODUCTION NEAR
Leading aircraft manufacturers
are making plans for switching to
Misrepresentation methods to speed
up output for the army, whose
immediate plans include increas-
ing the air force to APO planes.
The army now has approximately
$4,000 first-line planes, with an
additional 1000 under construc-
ton. The government is report
edly considering standardization
processes to facilitate mass pro-
duction.
North American Aviation, Inc,
which is strictly a military con-
Germ. is manufacturing two basic
combat lships a day to fulfil
heavy war department require
ments. This marked new record
in production since the World
war ~
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Flat Rock High
To Present Play
Friday Evening

The dramatics department o.
Flat Rock high school has begun
The years work. which promises TO
be, very interesting; 4 one Tson
pIay "A Ladv Blows In. mas 80 .r
giveu in chapel, and two other
one-act plays will be presented d.
an early date. ,,,co
A three-act play Mary.Go-
Round will be presented Frlday
evening, Nov. 1, in the school aud
This is the first of four three
act plays which the director hopes
TO present this year. Patrons ana
friends of the school are invited
to attend. ~ -
small admission will be
charged.
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RICH BRITONS TRY
TO UNLOAD FOOD
STOCKED IN CRISIS

LONDON, Nov. 2. (UP).-How
to get rid of unwanted stocks of
canned food is puzzling many
housewives from the weather.
classes all over. the country.
Canned meats, fish and fruit by
the thousands are "all dressed up
and nowhere to CO." This is. be-
cause those who feared: food
shortage during the recent crisis
bought large quantities of the
food which in normal times are
seldom served on the tables OF
high society. Now hostesses don I
want to eat it. ,
Many put in orders for canned
goods up to amounts varylngi be-
tween $3.50 and $500 and some
times more. According to an. OIL
fetal of large department store
here, these same people spent as
much in a week as they would nor
mally in six months. Now, ne SAID
even Mayfair hostesses telephone
personally asking the various ;
stores to "take back the awful
stuff, but the stores IN most
cases are adamant., 49,
Hospitals are benefitting IN
many cases. In desperation, peo-
ME who can't get the stores to re-
imburse them for their war
stocks" are sending them to aug
$500 tha food stocks of all kinds
Of %nnblic institutions from hos
n;,ais to charitable institutions.
Met Of the "gifts' are anonym-
o o the donors" not being
particularly anxious to have it
Known that they bought up such
large quantities.
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MARVIN FREEMAN ON
U.S.S. ENTERPRISE

Marvin Mel. Freeman Of Hen
Jacksonville, now attached to the
U.S.S. Enterprise as Teinber OF
the guard Of its marine corps de-
tachment is enjoying his tour Of
duty aboard one of the latest and
most modern of Uncle Sans air
plane carriers, Savannah marine
corps offices advise.
He enlisted in the marine corps
AT the Savannah recruiting station
on February 2 of this year, and
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England and Wales have twice
as many aged women as men.
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PETER WIND PLAYS TUBA

SAN FRANCISCO. (UP)-The
San Francisco WPA Symphony
orchestra boasts of a tuba player
by the name of Peter Wind; the
Langenford Bakeries are proud of
a treasurer named Albert Crum,
and the San Francisco police force
tops it with a patrolman named
Fred Robbers.
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Without further word. TAFT
stepped back, then crashed his
bulk dead against the flimsy
door. The lock gave, SCATTERING
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o SERIAL STORY
MURDER TO MUSIC ; SS;' 's;Ss+ 20 S'
BY NARD JONES
BY NARD JONES

! publisher is going 10 give me ten
/ thousand for the rights to a new
/ scng I wrote"
TAFT heard the shuffIing Of feet
( behind the door. He could WIS.,
ualize Harris Rogers eIc.tedty
grabbing the Iapels Of Weeks
coat. Look here, you idiot, Stop
/ babbling, " nat have you been
monkeying with The Swingateers
for? And what new song did you
write? You couldn't make a tune
that would set Mother Goose to
music" -.
They think I can. though "
Weeks said. And whac's more,
don't forget they believe | wrote
The Cats Meow
Get out"
+ Rogers voice was choked,
raniscag-and Bob TAFT waited TO
hear no more. He fled, literally,
fearing that within the next mo-
ment George Weeks would De
catapuIted out that door by an IN
sarely angered Harris Rogers.
Too, ne had another goal IN
mind. Downstairs at the curb ne
hailed a taxi. do you know OF
a hotel or apartment called the
Belvedere ,"
The driver cogitatef a moment.
There's a hotel by that name On
Laurel street"
as that the only one you know
of BY that name"
yeah. I don't know of any
other"
Then let's get there as quickly
as you can. There's a healthy tip
in it."
The taxi driver took Bob Tat
at his word. TAFT had been
through the city on some wild
rides-in police cars, in fire
trucks, and even in the limousines
OF suspected gangsters-but this
was the widest. He had hardly
settled himself in the seat when
the driver leaned back and called,
Here y'are, mister. Belvedere
Hotel"
TAFT looked out. It was brown
frame structure with a cheaply
painted sign on the front giving
the price Of rooms by the night
and by the week. He nodded,
handed the driver bill. "There'll
be another one of those if you'll
hang around a while"
cts all your show, Cap" the
driver said.
Almost inside the doorway TAFT
was stopped by a frowsy, gray
haired woman who wanted TO
know his business. Beyond her
was a small and battered desk and
on it a hotel register. Two rock
ing chairs comprised the furniture
of the lobby.
"I'm from headquarters" TAFT
said. II want 10 get into the room
of George X. Weeks" ...
Weeks repeated the woman,
her face reddeping.
Weeks it is. And don't stall.
If | don't get some action from
you III take you with me-" r
Protesting bitterly the inno-
cence of her person and her house,
the woman led him to the base
ment floor. Fumbling behind her
apron she produced a skeleton
key and opened a door near the
bottom of the staircase. There
you are" she said. "And you'll
find nothing amiss with any
lodger in this hotel"
TAFT strobe to the door across
the room. 81 want to see in there,
too"
81 haven't the key to that" the
woman said.
Without further word. TAFT
stepped back, then crashed his
bulk dead against the flimsy
door. The lock gave, SCATTERING
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IT'S LONG WAY TO
SCHOOLS OUT WEST

LENNON, S. D., Nov: 2. (UP).
Here where the west really begins,
sons and daughters of sheep and
cattle ranchers travel as far as 80
miles over prairie trails to 60 to
high school.
At Serum, 81 students live IN
WPA dormitories, and in winter
often do not see their families
for months. One girl solved her
housing problem with trailer and
five boys live in a herder's wagon
during the school year.
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SALUDA HALLOWEEN
PARTY BIG SUCCESS

SALUDA, Nov. 2. Especially -
The Saluda School Halloween
party was a great success. Floor
shows were given at 2 and 8
o'clock in the evening on Mon
day. There were the usual guess
ing, contests, fortune. telling,
games of chance, ETC., with black
cats, witches and pumpkin heads
spread abroad, in all of which the
large crowd at each hour took
great interest and spent their PEN
MES.
The affair was under supervi-
sion of the Saluda P.-T.A., Mrs.
j. T. Coates, Jr., being chairman
of the program committee. The
children prominent in the floor
show were Cleo Hall, Bud Seay,
Ronald Boiling and Ruby Thomp-
son.
EnolopJ opJ WoIac have fUipa
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PLANEPLANTS
IN j. 5. Are ON
24-HOUR BASIS
Production and Untitled
Orders From Abroad
Reach New Peak
By FRANK P. S. classy
United Press Staff Correspondent

. NEW YORK, Nov. 2. tUP).-
; Worldwide rearmament programs
have pushed the sales Of American
aircraft manufacturers to record
heights. Today, with major ma
tions frantically adding to their
air forces as an aftermath of the
Munich four power agreement,
leading plane factories are work
ing on a 2i-hour basis, and back
logs of untitled orders are at un-
precedented levels.
Sales of military plans to the
army and navy constitute the
principal source Of orders in the
industry, but the governments of
Great Britain, Holland, France,
Jugoslavia, Brazil, Guatemala and
other European and South Amer
lean countries are increasingly
turning to American manufacture
ers to fill the demand that cannot
be met by their own companies.
United States aircraft produc-
ton last year was valued at $685.
260,105. Of that total, S37,07l,-
160, or Sc percent represented
planes for military use. Exports
of planes, engines and parts to-
tailed 500, SOP.
RECORD YEAR ASSURED
Both production and exports
vii establish new records this
year, and leaders in the industry
confidently predict further gains
in 1889. They admit that arma-
ment programs are primarily re-
sponsible for the boom, although
sales of transport planes are also
rising steadily, if less spectacu-
larly.
Approximately 10000 men are
employed in American aircraft
factories, of which the largest are
located in California. Four ma
Tor aircraft corporations operat-
ing in or near Los Angeles report
ed late in October that, as a result
of huge orders from Great Bril-
tain, Canada, Jugoslavia, Ruman-
ia, the Netherlands, Australia and
Japan, their combined backlogs
had reached an all-time peak of
more than S70,000,000.
The. British air ministry has
placed some of the largest orders
recently received by American
companies. The Lockheed Aircraft
corporation of California on Oc-
tober 10 signed a contract with
the British government for the
largest spare parts order ever re-
ceived by the concern. This con-
tract, calling for $4,000 of ex-
ira equipment, compliments the
order received last June from the
British air ministry for 200 recon-
Nuisance bombers costing approx