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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-09

to identify him because Of the
clothing he wore. She knew every
gesture, knew his long-legged
stride.
They've captured him! He's a
prisoner! He's-Oh-h-hw
She was careful to lie prone
while looking, lest someone see her
silhouette against he afternoon
sky. But she lay there for a full
half hour, studying the situation
in detail. In that time she deter
mined that no harm had come to
Shot Rogers-at least he showed
no sign of injury because he moved
around easily. But she also came
to realize that he had been made a
servant in the camp. He went back
and forth to the fire. She decided
it was cooking fire, for it was
near the tents, and from time to
time other men came there. She
could not make out what they were
doing, but she reasoned that some
body would have to prepare food
for so many people, since night
was approaching again, and this
fire was the logical place.
She had taken off her wrist
watch again-remembering Shots
warning that it might reflect tell
tale CLINT of sun-and now she took
it from her bosom and saw that it
showed almost five o'clock. She felt
weak. Had the discovery of Shot
SO unnerved her, she asked herself {?
Probably. But no-not entirely;
some of her extreme fatigue now
was due to nervous letdown, but
much of it wEs due to hunger, too.
Before leaving her campsite at
noon she had stuffed everything
she could carry in her blouse or in
her tiny pocket, and she was ex-
tremely grateful for that now. She
unrolled handkerchief and found
six rather large pieces of hard Mex
lean candy. They were homemade
candies that the servant woman
Concha Gonzales had made in
Sally Braces kitchen. Also there
were six or eight short strings of
jerked Neat, raw but edible, black
and hard, but nourishing.
Lorena ate two of the meat
strings and one of the candies. She
felt better When the meal was done
and she knew she would be better
able to think a way out of her diff
ficulty, or try to. She was extreme
ly happy for having found Shot,
but genuinely alarmed at the po-
sition he was in. Not the least of
her trouble. she realized, was that
she was in rugged Mexican wild
erness y or IS miles from the
hor,e ranch
Il bcro-o I could lind MY way
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-09
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
FOR AND RELEASED BY
CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION

SHOT. ROGERS found that the
dry stream bed was not as badly
eroded as the other two beds had
been. More water went down them,
tearing out the soil, sculpturing
the rocks or rolling hem, making
rapids and water falls and gen.
orally doing havoc over the CEN
euries. This dry bed was compara-
lively smooth and that was a
blessing to his walking.
Water diverted into it Temporal
rily, Of course, had erased any cat
tie tracks in the bed itself, but he
was STOPPING to scan both banks
to see where the stock had been
turned out. He knew there would
likely be a regular path that Esco-
bars men had used several times,
for several herds had been myS-
teriously driven out of the valleys
below. They must, surely, leave a
Well-marked trail.
He found it. Not more than half
a mile from the plank diversion
dam, where he had discussed it
with Lorena Shot came onto a
definite trail some SO feet wide.
There cattle and horses had come
SOut of the dry bed. There they had
turned up steep incline, circled
in a wide arc and headed directly
south. Shot knew the trail led fur
ther into Sonoro, Mexico. Doubt
less it would lead directly to Luis
EScObdr'S main camp.
His first thought was to go back
to LOrena.
Then ne realized that the hour
couldn't be more than midnight, if
that. By being careful to keep an
eye on landmarks so as not to be-
come lost, he could follow the trail
a long ways, perhaps learn some
thing Of value, and still get back
to Lorena before morning. They
would have to sit in concealment
all day, he knew, and hasten back
home the next night. So, now
while ne could, he'd best follow the
cattle trail and learn where to lead
his mounted lighters when he could
get back to them with the impor-
tant news.
Being afoot, Shot necessarily
moved slowly, but he had no diff
Guilty following SO plain trail even
at night. He could deduce, Just
from looking at the contour of the
land, which way the cattle had
been driven most of the time, so
that he did walk reasonably fast.
This was all unknown country to
him. Doubtless in Mexico, it had not
been visited by many American
folk, certainly not by many cow
boys. Thf Phantom cattle were
kept down on the grassy flats be-
low. The canyons and cliffs made
natural fences in most places there
so that few cowboys could handle
lot Of cows. Things had gone
smoothly until Escobar started
raiding.
Shot decided ne would be safe
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-09
by OREN ARNOLD

surely have encountered trouble,
LOrena reasoned. But she could
think of nothing to do. Anyhow, he
had told her to wait for him.
She couldn't sit still. She tried
studying the scenery. Ordinarily
she loved the mountains and cliffs
and the cloud-mountains that
loomed above the real ones against
their inconceivably blue sky. Ordi-
narily she could have been content
just to sit or lie in such an idyllic
setting and day dream. She tried
to force that mood now, without
| success.
Time drags impossibly under cir
cumstances of mental stress, and
Lorena was rested and full of
energy again. Long before noon she
felt that she just had to take some
sort of action or she'd go crazy.
Even though it was daytime, when
she stood an excellent chance of
being seen, she had to move, had
to do something.
Shot had told her he would go
down the dry stream, try to pick
up the trail of the stolen cattle
and follow that a ways.
Perhaps he fell and crippled
himself!" she whispered, in mount
ing alarm. She envisioned him suf-
fering, helpless. "He wouldn't dare
to call out, or shoot his gun in sig
nal. He would be trusting me to
help him, send help or come to him
or something, surely"
Now she knew she absolutely
must move. She gathered the more
essential items in his pack and
strapped them on her own back,
then walked as carefully as she
could to the makeshift dam. There
she stopped to look carefully at the
sand, inspecting it minutely as she
walked back and forth. This sand
was dry this morning as if it had
felt no water for weeks, but it was
damp enough underneath to be
crunchy and hold any track form.
Shot surely should have left his
tracks, she reasoned.
Within a few minutes she found
them. She knew instantly that they
were his because she had often
walked with him and knew exactly
the kind Of imprints his boots left.
And anyway, these were a lone
mans. They could be nobody
else's.
She felt her pulse speeding there
in a nameless fear. The greenery,
the rocks, the high blue sky tinted
in turquoise toward the north, all
connoted peace and tranquility.
Why should she be afraid? She
held a gun. She was just imagin-
ing a lot of things! Like a-like-
like an old setting hen! /
The thought wasn't funny now.
She was not good at self-delusion.
Nervous, and realizing that she
moved directly toward an enemy,
Lorena nevertheless set out de-
terminedly to follow the tracks of
her young friend.
(To Be COntinued)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-09

1 enough at night. 1t necessary ne
could have his pistol out and shoot
ing before anybody could do him
harm, he felt. He figured the cattle
thieves would all be asleep. Maybe
he could creep up within sight OF
their camp and learn exactly the
lay of the land. He walked on in
some impatience, elated at having
discovered so much Of Importance
this night and the preceding day,
elated, too, at having had Lorena
Hamilton share the discoveries
with him.
Perhaps it was his thinking of
Lorena which caused .him to be-
come incautious. Or perhaps it was
just the careless confidence of
youth.
He abruptly topped a low ridge
without creeping up to peer care
fully over it first, and when he did
so he suddenly saw more than a
dozen lights. In that instant, too. a
mans voice addressed him.
"Manos arribaw it said harshly
(the Spanish command for hands
up). "Quien es aqui?"
Lorena Hamilton awoke with a
start.
Without knowing why, she felt
her heart suddenly pounding. Light
was on her face, bright light from
the open sky. She sat up. Dazed
and frightened, she took a full
minute to orient herself, then re-
membered quickly that she was on
a mountain side and that Shot
Rogers had hidden her.
Her concealment was effected
by rocks as big as bath tubs, and
by buck brush, mountain laurel and
assorted shrubs which grew among
them. Her bed itself had been mi
raculously soft, due to grasses
which formed a natural mattress
for her one blanket. She felt in
finitely rested, but Immediately
she was concerned about the man
who had placed her there.
"He said he'd be back before
dawn" she murmured.
Perhaps it was he that had
awakened her and set her heart
pounding, she thought. Maybe he
would be teasing, having fun try
ing to scare her.
But no, that didn't make sense,
not here, with danger all around
them. Shot had gone off before
midnight to try to follow cattle
trail. Her wrist watch told her it
was now almost six of a new day,
and he hadn't returned. The
thought worried her.
She ate some more jerked meat
and drank a cup or so of water
from her canteen while she waited.
When she felt she had waited sew
eral hours, her watch proclaimed
20 minutes Of eight. That was
early, or it was late, depending on
the point Of view. It meant that
Shot had been gone nine or ten
hours. Having promised to come
back not later than dawn, he must
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route to Washington is Eldrdge9
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(Ceatral Prsss)
Evening star., 1939-09-29
Philippine Freedom

The proposal now squarely before
the Philippine commonwealth for
postponement of the date of in
dependence-set for 1946-was not
altogether unexpected. When Francis
B. Sayre was appointed by President
Roosevelt to succeed Paul v. McNutt
as American high commissioner in
the islands it was indicated in official
circles that the question of independ-
ence is still open as far as the
administration goes.
Significantly, it was Jose Romero,
a member of President Quezon's s
party and a member of the Joint
Preparatory Commission which re-
ported last year on the economic
needs of the islands, who brought the
proposal before the special meeting
of the Philippine National Assembly
to consider emergency war measures.
He made public what has been known
for some time-that prominent busi-
nessmen and assemblymen in Manila
have been holding meetings to dis
cuss means of bringing the postpone
ment of independence before the
Philippine people.
Senor Romero had some pointed
remarks to make about the question
Of the islands becoming free while
the forces of aggression and slavery
are loose in the world. 1--WE talk
about the ignominy Of slavery" he
said. 1--WE are not slaves now. We
are free In all but form, but we may
vet be slaves If we refuse to recognize
Evening star., 1939-09-29
Urges Fingerprinting of
All Citizens.

To the Editor of The Star:
Yesterday my fingerprints were filed
with the Department of Justice My
purpose in writing is to suggest that
your paper initiate crusade of loyal
Americans" all of whom will volunteer
to have their f1ngerprints filed, thereby
showing there are no reservations in
their claims to being true American
citizens. This voluntary act would be
OF tremendous value to the Department
Of Justice. I have heard that some in
dividuals object to flngerprinting as re-
flecting on ones integrity or genuine
Americanism. The very fact they think
such thing would put them in the
questionable class, for one who is open
and aboveboard would welcome the op-
portunity to prove his loyalty. N. T.
Rockville, Md,
September 10.
Evening star., 1939-09-29

flower prettier than the first flush
They have name for it.
Maybe they are right, after all. Be-
cause plants have no minds and cannot
of themselves be happy or unhappy,
or expectant or depressed.
Whatever intelligence they have is in
each separate cell of the plant body.
1t has not single summing-up outlet,
like q brain, but functions only in
subtle changes, apparent to the ey,.
These changes, at least some of these
changes, are taking place in every gar
den and dooryard.
AS long as they are taking place, we
might as well see them.
*A A+A
1t is easy to forget them, however, or
to overlook them.
The time of growth and easily caught
beauty is over for while.
Now we have to think about it, a little,
to realize such beauty as is left.
And man is tired of thinking. You see
1t everywhere.
How else could the terrors Of man.
made destruction come upon the world
Why suffering and death brought by
man beforehand, when all the time
nature is bringing them swiftly enough
to all living things as the price they must
pay for having lived?
1t must be, some will think, because
such thinking as has been done has not
been good thinking, but evil thinking, to
use words from which there seems no
escape.
Garden thinking is clean thinking,
without harm in it to others.
It brings certain sort of satisfaction
scarcely found in any other field.
Garden thinking is easy thinking.
Why not admit it?
There is no stress and strain in it, but
just enough thought to be pleasant, the
sort of thinking which has an immediate
problem and solves it.
Along with this comes appreciation of
the various changes. 1t is here that many
home gardeners might think just a little
bit more. They will find then, beauty
where only ugliness existed for them be-
fore.
This is the one way of extending the
garden horizon.
Did you think that garden was Just
that postage stamp of ground bounded by
hedge?
Any garden is more than that, rightly
understood.
1t is not thing of spring and summer
only, as many think, but an all-year
proposition, with beauty in all four sea-
sons, not just during two.
We're not getting our moneys worth
if We can't admire brown and yellow
grass as we'll as fresh, new green grass.
Evening star., 1939-09-29
Favors Adhering to Advice
OF Washington.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Back in 1917, when we were told that
the world would be made safe for de-
mocracy by releasing rivers of blood,
quite few people who do their own
thinking refused to accept this devas-
tating doctrine. Today the "willful few"
have grown into stanch army which
will do all in its power to keep America
out of foreign wars.
We will, Of course, have "Hitlers" again
and when he is eventually disposed Of,
it will be merely matter of time before
rulers of similar mold will make their
appearance. 1t has always been the
case. Years ago, England was called on
to exterminate Napoleon, with his dream
of world empire; later it was Kaiser
Wilhelm; today it is Chancellor Hitler.
Tomorrow? Well, tomorrow will come.
Inasmuch as these European wars
have been waged perpetually, it would
seem that we should accept Washing
tons advice and avoid the entangling
alliances. E.K. GOIDsBOROUGH.
September 2e.
Evening star., 1939-09-29

ing the situation forcibly to the
attention of Building Trades Depart
ment leaders in session at Cincin-
natl. AS the maneuver was successful
to that extent, and the heads of the
two unions are reported to be talking
peace, there is hope that the truce
now in force will be converted into
lasting arrangement.
That certainly should be the out
come, for the Drivers Union has just
ended two-week wage strike by
entering an arbitration agreement
with dump-truck operators, and it
would be reflection on intra- union
relationships if they were not also
capable of making necessary adjust
ments. BY intervening in the local
situation, the Building Trades De-
partment is implementing its recent
ly announced policy of enforcing
peaceful settlement of union rival
ries.
A concurrent effort to improve
internal conditions in the building
industry underlies the study author
lied by the American Institute of
Architects to determine the FEAST
bility of getting together in one Or
ganization all those engaged in
building work, no matter in what
capacity
The Institute, committed to a pro-
cedure that would not antagonize
labor presumably seeks to compile
ment rather than supplant unionism,
and, while the plan is of necessity in
nebulous state, the goal at which it
aims is specific enough to be worthy
of consideration.
Evening star., 1939-09-29
Asks Consideration Of
Many Questions.

To the Editor Of The Star:
twenty-five years ago the United
States was persuaded to enter the World
War on the plea that it was war to
end war" and ito make the world safe
for democracy" Let us but help to get
rid of the Kaiser" and this noble aim
would be achieved and all would be well
in the world forever
This was the war that the allies pre-
sumably won" To attain this end mil
lions of young men died on battlef1elds
and in hospitals and millions more carry
manned and mutilated bodies for the
rest of their life span.
Since all of this sacrifice was not con-
elusive 1t was necessary after the armis-
tice to summon several elderly gentle
men called Statesmen" around council
table at Versailles to try to determine
who won what.
Their decisions having not proved
satisfactory to all concerned, the whole
hideous business has now started all over
again and again we are being invited
to, help assure the victory of democ-
racy," this time by getting rid of Hit
ler"
The proponents of this school of
thought have as their entering wedge
the repeal of the present Neutrality Act
and the substitution of something known
as cash-and-carry plan.
Exactly what sort of cash" would be
used in the contemplated transactions
does rot appear Would 1t be gold?
The war-waging European powers are
boarding their gold supplies and We
have a surplus. Would it be bonds?
Does any American investor or bank
want any more foreign bonds? Cur
rency? Is there any stability to the
'value Of foreign currency? Goods? The
potential purchasers are not manufac-
turing commodities, they are manufac-
turing war.
The World War did not make the
world safe for democracy and it did
not end war. We did not succeed in ex-
tinguishing the flames OF greed, hate
and cruelty
We did, however, make 2,200 new mil
Honaires in this country-not one of
whom was anywhere near battlefield.
The processes known as "profit-taking"
have already begun in this war.
Senator Borah bears long and hon.
orable record of courageous and de-
pendable service in the cause of peace.
He has no ''bill of goods" to sell. Sena-
tors Nye, Clark, Frazier, La Toilette, VAN
denberg, Hiram johnson. these are all
honored names. consistent in their anti
war stand. Their words should carry
weight in the ensuing discussions.
September 21. r. H. RUSSELL.
Evening star., 1939-09-29

the logic Of contemporary events" )"
And he continued:
Twice in our history we have had
to yield to superior force, and now,
at time when might more than ever
is right, when nations are losing their
independence before the onslaught
of sheer brute force, when we are
encircled only a few hundred miles
in each direction by foreign military
bases, we would refuse. to discuss our
preparedness, military and economic,
and claim that independence must be
had because we would lose face be-
fore the world. know how much
we can lose face-not only face, but
body and soul. That is by another
foreign conquest"
Reopening of the independence
issue is entirely up to the Philippines.
The American Government has taken
its stand in response to the demands
of the Filipinos themselves: The
islands shall be free in 1946. But
that does not mean that this Gov
ernment would not reconsider the
matter. 1t would, but the initiative
must come from the islanders them
selves. They must express the desire
to have independence postponed.
Senor Romero's speech before the
National Assembly brings the issue to
a head before the people of the
islands. Means certainly can be
found for determining their will,
and If they desire now to postpone
independence they will find sympa-
thetic elements both in Congress and
the executive branch of the Gov
ernment, for the United States has
vital reason for wanting to stay
in the islands if it is acceptable to
the Filipinos, namely, the preserva-
ton of the American position in the
Far East, in which the Philippines
are the keystone.
The response in the Philippine
Assembly to Senor Romero's proposal
was not altogether unfavorable. If
1t Is truly the wish of the islanders
to remain under the American flag,
means can be found promptly to
satisfy that desire.
Evening star., 1939-09-29
September Is.
Reorganization of League
OF Nations Urged.
70 the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor of The Star:
The European war now in progress
would never have been started If the
League of Nations had been fully and
Loyalty supported by the United States.
If this be true, then our first duty is to
assist in the reorganization of the League
by giving it our full support, regardless
of expense Also, the present war would
not have been started if international
free trade had been in force in place of
the existing tariff walls between the
states of Europe. Free trade would give
to every country access to the natural
resources of every other country exactly
as that advantage is enjoyed between the
48 States Of our Union under the Con-
stitution. HENRY WARE ALLEN.
Wichita, Kans.,
September 10.
Evening star., 1939-09-29

defended on two oceans against VIC
torious Germany, Italy and Russia on the
east and Japan and Russia on the west.
All that is necessary is to foil our trade
in Europe as Japan now does to us in
China and torpedo occasionally one or
two of our ships in either ocean.
Where will We take our Army then to
fight?
When people lack vision the nation
perlshes. Our failure to see our duty
today may mean Subjection to the
"iSmS' of tomorrow.
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE"
September g.