The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 18, 1932, Page 4

ee ost The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) | nes ena cho Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. ' service is to survive. { ————_—_——__| The Philadelphia Public Ledger | Sebscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year........$7.20 Daily by mail per year (in Bis- marck) ... Daily by mai! outside Bismarck) Daily by mail outside of North Dakota .....csssessesscceseees GL ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 Weekly by mail in state, three years . seseeee 2,50 Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year ... . Weekly by mail in Canada, per | year .... | Member of Audit Bureau of | Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively | entitled to the use for republication | of all news dispatches credited to it | or not otherwise credited in this; newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein, All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. i (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives \ SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER Incorporated) Another Conference | Railroads will go to a nonpartisan | clinic composed of some of our best | business and political minds. The bill of particulars doubtless will be} written by men skilled in railroad economics, but for window-dressing | purposes at least, thé names of Cool-/| idge, Smith and Legge are most im- pressive and any verdict they may return should receive more fthan| routine notice at Washington. Railroad problems for the last de- cade have been like the weather, of which Mark Twain once wrote that everyone was talking about it but no one was doing anything about it. It has been known for years that the carriers are in a straight packet of federal control, aggravated by bus, motor and pipeline competition and suffering also from over-capitaliza-| tion and indiscreet competition in the mad scramble for tonnage. Not_all the ills of railroads can be laid to federal control, although many of them can. There haye been serious blunders of management in Peak years. Costly extensions have een built, paralleling existing lines in territory where traffic could sup- Port but one railroad system. Local POlitics has prevented consolidations and economies of glaring necessity. Taxation, federal and state has @rained rail resources while competi- tive non-rail carrie uncontrolled and practically un-supervised, have romped away with a profitable slice of rail business upon a right-of-way furnished by the people and never built or intended for the long hauls that rumble over their surfaces. This recital indicates a few of! things wrong with the rail patient which the Coolidge clinic will Probe for symptoms, pains and reactions. i It is a large order but these men,| it is to be hoped, will return find- ings fair both to the carriers and the public. The interests of neither can be slighted in any effective remedy proposed. | The whole picture of transporta-| tion is to be considered. Busses, ma- tors and pipelines are media of transportation here to stay, but they cannot be permitted to strangle al very necessary carrier such as the| railroads. All tonnage cannot be! verted to the highways, although al very profitable percentage is already there. Railroads will, for sometime at least, be necessary arteries of trade and fair consideration of their needs has been too long delayed. If/ it had not been for taxes paid by them in North Dakota this year hundreds of schools would not have opened and many public officials) j20n, pastor of the First Lutheran| ‘and { abilities, even as they regrct the shift CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON} for no other purpose than to steal business from competitors. Some sections have too many non-profit- able units of transportation while others need more. With the advent of the bus, motor truck and other) media of transportation, the whole} network must be revamped and syn-| chronized if a very necessary public asks some pertinent questions i this! connection: | “Has management been inef- | ficient? “Has labor been exorbitant in | its demands, either for wages or | for the employment of larger | crews than were needed? “Have the railroads been ex- | ploited by financiers for their own profit.” | It is to be hoped this investigation | will demolish that busy clique of tin-| horn politicians who, in the past, have} held their jobs by pot-shooting at the | railroads in a deluge of demagogic attacks, Hail and Farewell Bismarck either has lost or will] lose soon the services of two of its leading citizens, the Rev. Emil Ben-j church and the Rey. D. Pierce-Jones, | rector of St. George's Episcopal chureh, | Each has been called to a new field their many friends here are Pleased at this recognition of their in the current of progress which takes them away. All of us wish them well in their new positions. j Their principal work has been as! spiritual counsellor and advisor to} members of their congregations, but each has filled a large sphere also. Because of the prominence which the pastor of any church holds, he im- mediately becomes a leading figure in the community. This has been true of Rev. Benzon and Rev. Pierce- Jones. And the fact that hundreds not of their own congregations reg- ret to see them leave Bismarck is Tecognition of the part which cach! has played here. ‘ But even as these two men leave | us, the city is pleased by the return to one of its most important pastor- ates of Rev. Walter E. Vater of the McCabe Methodist Episcopal church. For more than eight years he has| been an outstanding leader in Bis- marck., His influence for good has been felt in many quarters, both among the members of his congrega- tion and the citizens generally. The! fact that he is to remain, despite the general policy of his church to move their pastors after relatively brief residences, reduces somewhat the sorrow of many persons at the} departure of his colleagues. He,! along with the fine group of other! men who constitute Bismarck’s min-_ istry, will carry on and new men will come to take the places which are vacated. There will be no lack of| continuity in the development of zeal) for Christianity in Bismarck. | Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the frend of thought by other editors. |j They are published without regard || to whether they agree or disagree with The Tribune's policies. { A Provincial Ruling (Boston Transcripts i Under a new ruling by the depart-! ment of labor, students who come as | visitors from foreign countries to at- | tend American colleges, and who!| have to earn any part of their ex- penses here, will be refused admis- | sion. Several hundred young men} from all parts of the world face ex- | clusion and hardship as a result. | Their number is not enough to make | more than an infinitesimal differ- | ence in the employment situation, | but it is quite enough to work heavy | loss to the cause of American leader- | ship in education. | From the beginning of civilized | history the rank and authority of a| city or nation have always been sub- | ject to one clear and simple test. If| @ country has attracted students; from afar then it has been plainly a} center of intellectual force and of | material dominion. On the other ; hand, if it has failed to draw foreign | would have been without their pay checks. This is an angle too lightly dismissed by our corporation-baiting | Politicians with boot strap hoisting | proclivities. | Discriminations unfair to the rail- roads must be climinated. Congress| in a specific act has guaranteed the; railroads an adequate return on their investment. This the carriers have! not been able to collect. As a result,; to protec’ rail bonds and other obli- gations held by banks. trust com-! Panies, insurance corporations and thousands of citizens, the govern- ment has had to come to the rescue with loans from the federal treasury. It is a tribute to rail management! that dividends have been maintained in part at least, on some lines even during a depression. Railroad ownership is so widely spread, that what the Coolidge com- mission will do affects many millions, from financier to farmer. Disruption of the transportation system would add to an alrealy calamitous eco- nomic situation. Railroads early in their career Practiced abuses of divers kinds, Some of which are now corrected through governmental action, but in the ‘train of ail tnis has come a fed- eral and state supervision responsive only in part to carriers or public Welfare. It has been onerus, to say the least, and not always construc- tive. Among the carriers, on the other hand, there has been an expensive campaign of competition. Several empire builders have shot gleaming Avenues of steel across a continent | ! students, it has stood merely as aj province, a colony, a tributary to| some other power of greater mental | strength, wealth and character. For | three hundred years the United | States was, on the whole, considered } simply as a province in the realm | of occidental science, letters and hu- mane learning. Americans, through- | out the nineteenth century, who de- sired to gain higher education and | attain superior standing in academic | matters, went to the universities of | Europe. Thousands of our scholars | had their graduate training there. | Meanwhile. few came from the old | world to learn in America, for the | nation still lacked superlative repute in education. Since the World war the worth and | authority of American institutions of | learning have come to be recognized, | and the need to gain training here has been more and more felt among | the young men of Europe, South America and other continents. To the future strength of the United | States, to the spread of American thought and standards in all the world, this is a development of vital significance. Today, for example, even the Bank of England has looked to the United States to supply the bank its principal adviser—Prof. O. M. Sprague, on leave of absence from Harvard. Yet just at this time, when the United States is rising above its former status as a province in the realm of education and is gaining dominion, the department of labor would turn from our shores any visit- | ing student who must earn a few} dollars while he is here, even though | this necessity only goes to show the earnestness of his purpose in coming here. The sooner such a ruling is' reconsidered in the light of some-! thing more than a narrow and tech- nical view of the immigration law, the sooner it will be rescinded, as surely it ought to be. The shortest railroad distance from New York to San Francisco is 3,180 miles. jas they call it, and not symptoms THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1932 spread his ideas. For a time, the crowds refused to take something for nothing, Experience told them there must be a catch in it somewhere. Later fair crowds gathered and for two years the Davis millions kept the production on Broadway. His hobby cost him something like $1,500,000. ee & Thereafter Davis dropped from sight and no one seemed to know just where he might have gone. Some said he had gone broke. Then, out of the West, came recent reports of his activities. The story went! that ‘he had run out of funds; that NEXT! PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. | Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis, or treatment, wiil be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self- addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. || Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. IS IT YOUR LIVER OR ; mate depends principally upon the!| YOUR GALL? | number of hours you are in the open i \ One of the numerous things hat, air every sevens Bt dawned on me only after several| ae cy — ss years of practice is that when people! 1 understood you to say nothing ” ; one can eat will cause colic. When Speak of Vweak ankles ited “fest, | mY baby was two weeks old, and per-| Wi ti a Pronated feet! rectly well, I ate some hothouse | nich is tbe jplhiary) oe (pet nue | reaper, That same night the baby| Yeleps into: genuine Tetfootedness in| Went into convulsions with every ap- many instances if the young Person | relieved him. Doctor and nurse | begins to te or shoes! agreed it was colic. Then baby slept | with su rts y i ; i all night and there was no further | aegis, that is just beginning, *9 | trouble till the following night at the | average dumb ex opines its his liver an Lean ee he probably means his gall. But oe eee eae then, it doesn't make much differ-| , Amswer—At this distance I can't, y ; determine precisely what it bi ence what he means for he is mere-| arsenic poisoning, for ‘all I know. T, ly guessing anyhow. So am I, for in, there's a, SUll believe a baby never suffers pain a a ean caer eta ttrom, “eollc,” unless) indeed ‘there is vast_differenee between a patient's! <oetning “sctioucly wrens, Whee | guess and a physician's. The differ-| our doctor and nurse nerecd it wag chee is 28 greal as is the difference) colic they just hoped it was noth: | between your guess or mine that it is| 0° really the matter, | going to rain or be a fine day to- (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) morrow and the guess of the official pyright, John | weather bureau man about that. — All we know is what we read in ANG the histories of our patients, From the peyusal of many thousands of such histories we know that patients Moses was no elephant. Neither | was he a daisy. Yet Moses will be! remembered when most of us are developing gall troubles, either chole- cystitis (inflammation of gall-blad- forgotten Robert Bencnley, writer. * * * der) or gallstones, generally have in- definite symptoms of “indigestion, People should be warned that thei loss from ating cannot be re- i he. pointing toward liver complaint. Liver complaint, if it means actual disease of the liver, generally gives} rise to none of the symptoms ribed to torpid liver or lazy liver or biliousness by old time quacks and nostrum vendors. That's ail we can say about liver complaint today. Now, to be sure and get in a little boost for the doctor business. we had! better repeat here that the wise} course for any adult who begins at) middle age to suffer with so-called) “indigestion,” especially if this oc-' a curs as “gas attacks,” is to go im- mediately to his or her family pi sician—oh, very well, then, if you Church VA mimic HORIZONTAL™ — Answer to Previous Puzzle Placed by fresh water alone.—George Bernard Shaw, British writer. * * * The rise of organized labor is the ry of muscle and brawn united ith intelligence—Charles _ Curtis. vice president of the United States. * OK Now I believe in the intrepid soul of the American people; but I be- lieve also in its horse-sense. . . I be- lieve in the sacredness of private | property, which means that I do not believe it should be subjected to the ruthless manipulation of professional gamblers in the stock markets— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic presidential nominee. * Ok * I do not believe there can be Per- | petual peace. It is not possible. That is my philosophy from observa- tion of world conditions and histo —Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator, D bert Swan WELCOME HOME! New York, Oct. 18—The gurgle of a Texas oil gusher may be heard echoing on Broadway these days. And it is music to many Broadway 's, since it forecasts the return of Edgar B. Davis, the most amazing} cal producer ever to be cast adrift on the great white waves. Davis, you may recall, was the gent! a town a play titled It was a flop of flops. { what cared Davis? He had mil-} ons and his play presented rein- carnational ideas in which he was interested. | So he kept it alive. Many a night} it played to ushers and fire depart- merit attaches. After a while Davis began to give seats away, just to Festival 21 Epoch 23 Unit of work, » Japanese coin. 28 Time gone by 29 Pain. 30 To require. 31 Young sheep, 32 One who frosts cake. 83 Second letter of the Greek haven't one you may go to any good! 5 To provide aa : a physician—but just the same, any| food for an ia citizen who has an automobile and a} entertainment. JAN place he can honestly call home to guaden jerk. OE E should have a family doctor, too, just] 4 phought to show he is somebody—and have; isp, think. Sig Al the doctor make a regular examina-| i Where inthe {AW is tion to exclude cradiovascular (heart us “ Iplo} NI or artery) disease, cancer or gall-| Salt 1 stones. ree If it happens that you are develop- , City? RAY ee ing any such condition surely it is 17 Habitual for your best interest to know it, so drunkards SII that you may take in time the nec-| PIA! asunder 19 Short letter essary remedial measures. If there; is no serious trouble, as surely it is} beneficial to your health to know it.! That's why a health examination by; your own physician is worth the, price. I warn you to beware of “in- stitutes’ or other corporations that) offer credulous folk this service which, being primarily personal. only your own physician can render. Once in a while we still meet one} who believes calomel increases the flow of bile or drives more bile out) of the “system” or exerts some! beneficient influence upon a “torpid,” | “lazy” or “inactive” liver, whatever used as si tutes for soap 53 Goad to action 58 vointment _ 22 To strive after 24Te rub out 27 To pertorate the skull. 31 Is poised 34 The mercy of God. 35 One in cards. 36 To eome in 29 Feminine 62 Comfort 63 To make reparations 64 Opposite of odd 65 Inspires rence ype of riddle. that may be. This auaint pon a ronnie 67 Repose longs in the museum along with the 1 : notion that our national sins of over-| $9 Gold. VERTICAL eating and underworking or under- 43 Raised 1 To fail to hit exercising are mitigated if we refer 46 Covers with 2 Heathen deity to their consequence as “bilious- brass 8 Boundary ness.” 48 Inflexible. 4 What church The truth is that precise scientific observation has shown that no medi- cine produces more than a feeble and temporary increase in the flow of bile, and even if we had a potent cholagogue we can’t conceive what use it would be in treatment. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Mechanical Humbug I am 15 and bowlegged. Please ex- amine the inclosed circular and tell me whether it can straighten my legs. (J. M.) ; Answer—Nothing but operation on the bones can straighten bow leg in| a person over six years of age. | Tuberculosis 1 What suggestions would you give| one with pulmonary tuberculosis inj; regard to hygiene? Going to the} southwest, say Arizona? What is the | relation of climate to the suena? | (F. C.) Answer—Send.a stamped envelope | bearing your address and ask for monograph on The. So far as} climate is concerned. I believe you! can recover as quickly in Nebraska! a Colorado. The value of any cli or-Connecticut as you can in ny e| alphabet. tuon: 41 Islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Christ's resur vection 5 Hea haped Monkey. Portugal 7Can for food 49 Guided, stuff 44 Vigor 8 Finishes 45 Sweetheart 9 To change a 47 Pertaining to diamond the sun setting. 50 Plexus of bloo@ 10 What German vessels, faction is in power in 52 To wash 53 Pieces out. Germany? 54 Delivered 11 Tribe of 55 Ocean. Indians. 56 Cat's tuot 57 Custom 59 Lump of mud 60 God of the sky 2 Upright shaft 13 Definite article. depression time tactics had been taken by the banks; that loans were refused and that he was sitting on the rim of millions without suffici- ent money to do anything about it. His money, it was said, had vanished in a@ bank crash in Brockton, Mass., his home town. Hardly had the tale gone about when a press dispatch told of a river of oil in which Davis was again swimming. A few days ago he was seen back in New York. Broadwayites say that the fab- ulous “Ladder” will be revived and that, once more, Davis will have. a fortune to toss after it. Also he will they say. ee SONS Comes another lad following a fa- mous stage father—young Richard de Angelis. Remember his daddy, old Jefferson de Angelis, of the music shows... Richard, however, will become a dramatic actor. And Buddy Rogers, after a long try, has given up jazz banding and will soon return to Hollywood. . . Claude Rains, one of the theater's more col- orful and versatile performers, began as a stage call-boy at the Duke of York theater in London... He was 10 years old and had been a choir boy. Um—um—and now another flash back to the Victorian era with @ large dish of the rococo... It’s a splendiferous golden stairway in the newest late spot on New York's east side “swank” belt where high-toned speakeasies and night clubs are rushing this year. xe Asheville, N. C., may be pleased to! Jearn that the big town took to its cold heart the quartet of elderly old ladies who came north to show the city folks how to weave rugs... They were Fannie Thompson, 64, from Mountain Park; Mrs. Fannie Carter, 60, of Cycle; Mrs. J. L. Shel-| ton, 72. of Zephyr, and Mrs. May, Luffman, 55, of Ronda. . . They had an airplane ride and everything ... New Yorkers, most of whom had never seen a loom, were obviously more impressed than the champion weavers, who saw Manhattan“as a! big town something like Asheville. . .| x Oe OK Will Fyffe, in Earl Carroii'’s latest “Vanities,” recalls the tale about the captain and engineer of a ship who couldn't get along. Each insisted he; could do the other's job in a bigger and better way. So they changed jobs. ‘About an hour later an S. O. the engine room. endow a drama and music school,| @. derstand what's the matter. make the boat go ahead.” i “That's all right—we'’re ashore! x TODAY q | ANNIVERSAR | BELGIAN COAST CLEARED On Oct. 18, 1918, Belgian flags once more flew over every town on the Belgian coast. The allies occupied Zeebrugge, Blankenberghe and Thielt, British occupied Roubaix and Turcoing, cap-| tured villages to the southeast of! Douai and advanced east of Le Ca-| teau. The Germans withdrew from Loges and Bantheville Forests and Bois) Hadois, Americans advanced north’ of Romagne and took Bantheville. Emperor Charles proclaimed steps for the organization of Austria on a! federalized basis. The provisional) government of the new Czechoslovak nation proclaimed its independence | of Austria-Hungary and the Czechs, seized Prague. | Can’t/olis' will serve the states of North Dakota, Minfiesota, Michigan and ‘isconsin. Groots, who also is chairman of the agricultural development committee of the Greater North Dakota associa- tion, came to Minot to address a joint meeting of the four service clubs of the City-Cosmosopitan, Lions, Rotary and Kiwanis. In Minot Monday evening, Groom met with bankers of Ward county to perfect a county committee to act on applications for loans made to tho agricultural credit bank. F. D. Me- Cartney of Oakes is the other North Dakota director. Alaska’s great piedmont glacier, the Malaspina, consists of ice over a thou- sand feet thick. WHICH 1S THE OEEPEST OF THE GREAT LAKES ? | Barbs {! —————_—. Mrs. Hoover is pictured operating! @ sewing machine. A stitch in time | saves nine votes. | x # # 1 Anyway, the romance between Marilyn Miller and Don Alva- radio took our minds off Paul Bern and Jean Harlow. xe % Since the first automobile wa: made by Henry Ford, more than 57, 000,000 have been manufactured. The puzzle is: how do they all manage to} find the same street to park on? i x * * | Consider Gandhi. It is not al- | ways necessary to have fine | clothes to teach a lasting lesson. \ xe % Perhaps the man who can avoid; paying an income tax should be} drafted zs an expert on the immigra- | tion laws. ke x \ Our idea of a perfect photograph! would be realized with a picture of the Federal Farm Board plowing, | (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Iric.) Says Wortky Farmers | Will Receive Credit | Minot, N. D., Oct. 18—()—Ample | credit facilities for worthy farmers of North Dakota, extended under the terms and conditions that will per- mit them to successfully operate, are assured as a result of the establish- ment of agricultural credit banks, it | was declared in Minot Monday by B. E. Groom. one of two North Da-| kota directors of the bank established | at Minneapolis for the northwest dis- | trict. | Establishment of agricultural credit | banks throughout the United States| S. came from the captain down in; is a part of the program of the Re- construction Finance Corporation “Hey, come down here, I don’t un-jand the bank located at Minneap- There are times when a few scorching remarks are in order. CHAPTER LVIII The night trembled with the sound of shouting. Tie pdunding of horses’ hoofs was like muffled thunder. Mad- ly the horsemen sped out toward the road, and the hand of each touched the pistol at his belt. The shouting died. The hoof-beats faded among the desert sands. Bob turned. “Saddle my horse, Manuel. In five minutes we ride to- gether.” He caught Adcla in his arms, “If Wwe save Ted, it will be because of | you. Go back to your car, little girl. ! Drive to the village and tell your people that soon El Coyote comes, Rouse them. They, too, await my word.” He raised a clenched fist. “By dawn, Paco Morales, you will Icarn for all time the bitter taste of fear.” All that night, under the stars, along dim trails, and east and west over the Verdi highway, swift horse- men rode, stopping for a moment at solitary ranch-houses, knocking on closed doors, giving their brief mes- sage, then galloping on again. Not a border settlement within twenty miles, not a peon hut was unvisited by the galloping horsemen of El Coyote. In Verdi a score of men quietly buckled on their guns and walked out to the corrals. Mendoza’s silent- ly gave forth its quota of fighting men who, in years past, had ridden with Don Bob. So, in twos and threes throu; he long night armed riders rode silently, meeting at cross- roads, joining other grim-faced men, pushing steadily southward, swing- | ing forward in that tireless shuffling | trot of the desert, out toward the hacienda of Morales. They spoke little, their steady eyes fixed on the darkness ahead. No need of speech among these men held together by the bond of danger and & common cause. Ahead lay desperate work, and the reward of that night’s rid- ing was to be for many a bullet in the early dawn, Throughout the night upon the cliff that men called Eagle Rock a signal fire gleamed like an angry star, and far to the south the Yaqui chief read its message and, arming, rode with his naked warriors toward the desert. The border country was rising. Those past years of oppression were bringing at last their full harvest of bitter fruit. Each silent rider knew that with the dawn came the testing, the day when either freedom or failure and exile would be their re- ward, For this day they had waited long years, and now the fierce ex- | ultation of the coming fight held them, making them press their spuds deeper into the lathered sides of their horses, So, through the starlit night they streamed southward across the desert. Just before sunrise a girl drove madly out over the desert road from Mendoza's. Dead-white her face, her blue-black hair swept by the passing. -wind, but ever those haunted eyes ae th BANDIT e BORDE by TOM —_—_—_ COPYRIGHT 1931, BY INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE C0, INC. -~ DISTRIBUTED BY KING FEATURES ‘SYNDICATE, INC. of hers scanned the slowly brighten- ing desert to the south. As the stars paled in the breaking dawn a tall, gaunt figure stood in an upper window of the hacienda. His black eyes rose to the steep edge of the mesa, where the growing light cast in black outline the Cross of the Conquerors. Armed horsemen were circling up there, and even as he watched more men joined them, while still farther back galloping riders hurried on to the mesa’s rim. He turned his eyes to the south, where from beyond the river, draw- ing nearer and nearer, came the dreaded Yaquis, their thick black hair streaming behind them, their almost naked bodies bent low over foam-flecked horses. For a silent moment he watched those gray, dim figures of approach- ing horsemen, then smiled and called back within the darkened room. The huge leader of his vaqueros joined him, and together they followed the descent of El Coyote’s riders until they were lost to sight beneath the river bank, Morales spoke. “Those vermin who come to avenge their leader may find a little surprise awaits, Are all your vaqueros here?” “More than enough to beat back these dogs.” “Do not despise them, Jito mio.” The Mexican made a gesture of contempt. - “Without their ‘leader, what can they do?” Morales's long finger pointed to the river, “I have seen well over a hundred men descend out there, Blind mad they are at the loss of their chief. Beyond are the Yaqui with Anton at their head. No, they are not to be despised—they are to be killed—every man, Bueno, Per- haps within an hour we shall know who is to be ruler of the border, Paco Morales or his peons.” He looked down into the dark obscurity of the courtyard, then turned back to the room. “Meanwhile, should we not close accounts with the new owner of the Esperanza property?” He reached into the drawer beside him and drew out an automatic, But Jito shook his head, “He is a brave man, sefior. Let him live awhile. Besides”—a ghost of a.smile passed over his dark face —“besides I may want to fight with him again,” A little contemptuous laugh broke from Morales, “You stupid fool, Adela loves him,” “I know. But if I let you kill him T could never look at her again. And so, in this one thing, sefior, let me for a time have my way.” Once more the old man’s eyes sought the desert. “I overstay my day on earth,” he said at last. “Adela, and now you. He straightened his shoulders, Again he had become the cold leader. “Go down among your men, Jito. See that the gates are well chained. Station men behind every corner of the building and on the roof of the hacienda Put your best shote at the windows, Let them | GILL - wait until those fools of El Coyote’s attack, then shoot.” Again he looked out at the desert where, high up above them, the mesa caught the first sun ray. Sercened by the steep bank of the river, El Coyote gathered his band. Nearly two hundred strong, they held among their number the best men of the border, and now they crowded around their leader, who led them for the first time unmasked. With a frown Bob looked at the rapidly brightening desert. “I want- ed to attack before dawn,” he said quickly. “Each minute makes it easier for them. Jito’s vaqueros are inside. They expect us to attack the gate and every rifle there will be ready for it. I want all but twenty of you to remain here. Kill every vaquero who shows himself on the hacienda roof, The twenty men I choose will ride with me close to the wall on the south side. There, by standing in our saddles, we can reach the top. It will be a hot min- ute’s work getting over in the face of their fire. Once over, we'll rush them, drive them back into the haci- enda, and while you are pouring lead through the windows, I will unbar the gates. Then in you come, every, man of you. Enough words, com- Pafieros. Let them feel lead and steel.” His lips closed. His steel-gray eyes passed proudly over the men before him, With a thrill he saw on the face of cach a fierce desire to wipe out the domination of those past years. Quickly he chose: the men to follow him, then he turned his horse and dashed for the haci- enda wall. Almost at once flames began flash- ing from the upper windows, The barred gates became a spitting sheet of flame, Bob had been right—to force the gates under that hail of shots would have been madness. They were racing now for the south wall. At his right a grizzled rider gasped, “Dios!” and fell. The short stretch between them seemed an in- finity of space. In the growing light a murderous fire from the hacienda roof swirled among them, and be- fore the first men had gained the wall, Bob’s band had lost a fifth of its number. Ten yards from the wall Bob's horse plunged and fell, riddled by rifle fire. Rolling free, Bob ran to the nearest rider and vaulted up behind him, ._ Adelante, amigo,” he waved his rifle aloft, and together they leaped forward, Already a dozen of his men stood in the shelter of the wall, and standing in their saddles, began springing over into that hell of shot and flame beneath, As Bob landed among them the vaqueros had al- ready fallen back and now were fighting doggedly, their backs to the hacienda, while from every outbuild- ing and from the roofs they poured shot after shot into the oncoming men, From the windows above well- directed volleys lashed El Coyote's band. a