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Pot Holders to Make
For Spring Bazaar
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
'X'HESE moody young ladies
with their sun-tanned faces,
gay bandannas and sparkling but
ton eyes will stand out among pot
holders with less personality. Also,
you can have fun making them.
You won’t need a stamping pat
tern. Just follow the directions in
the sketch to change the faces
from gloom to joy by easy stages.
Baste the tan piece for the face
to a cotton flannel interlining with
* line of basting exactly through
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IM BLACK THREAD
the center up and down and an
other crosswise through the cen
ter. The two pieces for the ban
danna lap one inch below the top
of the up-and-down line. Their
lower ends come one-half inch be
low the ends of the crosswise line.
Stitch these in .place. The one
inch buttons for the eyes are
spaced two inches apart and the
tops are one-fourth inch above the
crosswise line of basting. The top
of each mouth is 1% inches below
this crosswise line.
* * *
NOTE: There are many other illustrated
ideas for gifts and bazaar Items in num
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knowledge and claimed all the
land granted to Lord Baltimore by
the king of England in 1632, the
state would be nearly 17,000
square miles in area, according
to Collier’s. Instead it has only
10,000 square miles, having lost
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,nE oiwi 50 FAR: Intelligence
Officer Benning's warning that 204,000
foreign troopa were poised In Mexico
for an attack on the United States
eansed grave concern In army head*
qurten, but the people branded* the
statement as “war mongering.*’ He had
just returned from Mexico City where
h* had acted as a spy and gained the
confidence of Flncke and Bravot, two
enemy o file era. Suddenly fonr large
southern cities were attacked from the
air; Washington was bombed and the
Preslttent killed. National forces were
ordered mobilized, bnt they were 111
equipped for Immediate action. General
Brill, commander of the army la Texas,
reported to General lianas at Washing’
too teat te wai optMtsed by greatly su*
peHor force* km ordered to real*!
at all coats. General Mole, division com
mander, prepared to make the bvst of a
desperate situation.
Now continue with the story.
* *
CHAPTER X—Continued
As the commanders scattered to
ward their station wagons and mili
tary sedans, the bright sky festered
into a hideous hiss of sound. It
came crashing in out of the dis
tance. The ear could trace its course
as it settled toward the earth.
An instant’s silence and the ground
trembled under the impact of high
explosive. A geyser of muddy brown
earth shot skyward, the air filled
with the mighty detonation.
The departing commanders gave
an anxious look at the spout of dirt,
but changed neither gait nor pos
ture. General Mole calmly touched
a match to the stub of his cigar
and gave several vindictive puffs.
“Well, there’s the first shot,” he
muttered. “Sounded to me like a
long-range baby — probably from
twenty or thirty miles.”
An observation plane radioed in
the information. Van Hassek’s
heavy artillery had set up north of
the Nueces. Mole offered no com
ment. There was nothing he could
do about it until the enemy came
within range of his howitzers. His
own 105-millimeter cannons, good
for fifteen miles, had yet to be mold
ed, mounted, tested, and delivered
to the Army.
rv^ iui ms airplanes, mere was
no taking further risks over Van
Hassek’s moving columns. It didn’t
matter that the air service had sent
in the crack combat groups from
all three of its powerful wings. Nor
that American pilots and gunners
had proved themselves this morning
much more than a match for the
Van Hassek airmen.
The American squadrons had paid
a heavy price for their swoops
against Van Hassek’s invaders. Into
one anti-aircraft trap after another
the Americans had fallen.
The first big shell fell in an empty
field well back from the Second’s
front lines. A second shot followed
quickly, and the business of long
range cannonading settled down into
glum, racking routine. From a
range of approximately twenty-two
miles, observation reported. The
Van Hassek columns were still roll
ing forward in a great, tortuous
martial serpent whose tail reached
far back across the Rio Grande into
Mexico.
The ten thousand men of the divi
sion worked feverishly through the
hot afternoon, deepening and extend
ing their trenches, adjusting gun po
sitions. They pretended indifference
to the roar of Van Hassek’s artil
lery, to the frequent spurting foun
tains of earth that rose hideously
about them. In mid-afternoon one
shell caught a full squad of men
who in a flash were shreds of flesh.
A stark reminder of what was to
come. But the men who saw this
tragedy went stubbornly on with
their work.
Out of the distance came the rum
ble of light American artillery.
The firing came from the Frio Riv
er, which meant that Major Randt,
commanding, was potting at the
head of the main attack force. The
sound of Van Hassek’s counter-bat
tery assault wafted in fifteen min
utes later. It rose in volume. The ar
tillery duel went on, growing in vio
lence, which told the whole Second
Division that the intrepid Randt was
forcing the Van Hassek advance
guard to extend itself.
Firing broke out to the north and
south on the extreme flanks. At the
division command post Mole and his
staff waited on these actions with
tense nerves. Three o’clock was
near. If Van Hassek’s invaders
could be delayed much longer, they
would not be able to deliver their
attack in force against the Second
before daybreak.
General Mole and his staff made
an estimate of the situation. Mole’s
jaded face brightened in a moment’s
exultation as his staff unanimously
agreed with his own deduction. The
Van Hassek commanders would not
be able to attack now until morn
ing. Their advanced divisions had
not even started into assembly areas
for battle deployment.
“That means we’ve delayed them
one day without a fight,” Mole ex
claimed. “It gives us a real chance
of getting through tomorrow with
out getting blown out of our shoes.
After that—we will see what we will
see. But what a hell of a pounding
we’re in for tonight, without any
anti-aircraft and long-range artil
lery I”
When the hot Texas sun slipped
down to the horizon through the haze
in the west, a furious roar of mo
tors swept the Second Division. The
flight of enemy attack planes, flying
an altitude of less than five hun
dred feet, struck with the sharp bite
of forked lightning.
Over the 9th Infantry’s sector the
attack planes appeared close enough
to be hit with a hand-grenade. Men
gaped after the apparition, or
ducked into their holes in the ground
against the menace of fragmenta
tion bombs. But there came no ex
plosion. The enemy had not opened
up with their machine guns.
••Gas!”
The warning outcry rose in vol
ume from two thousand throats. Ter
ror froze on men’s faces. Officers
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barked orders, noncoms raged at
their men.
Stay put! Discipline slowly but
surely prevailed over the hot im
pulse of self-preservation. Men dove
into their trenches to bury their
faces in the earth, or ripped off their
cotton shirts, and wound them,
doused with water, about their faces.
Gas—and not a gas mask in the
entire regiment—only ninety in the
whole division and those for demon
stration purposes in training tests.
What type of gas had the Van
Hassek barbarians put down? Ob
viously not a mustard or persistent
8as- The Van Hassek infantry would
not want the sector contaminated
in the morning when they launched
their attack to blast the Americans
out of position. A noncom caught
the answer as his eyes burned into
tears.
“Tear gas!” he shouted.
The sector commander cursed
again and trotted off to the left, im
parting a show of deliberation to
his gait. Gas officers were making
their calculations of what appeared
a new gas. Scores of men, afflicted
with a lachrymation and burns that
might extend over several days,
would have to be evacuated to the
hospital at San Antonio for treat
ment.
Overhead the American aviation
was redoubling its efforts. The 33d
Pursuit Squadron was hawking over
the sector. The 77th Pursuit Squad
ron was patrolling to the front. That
audacious attack flight of Van Has
sek’s had used its heels to get away
Mole’s jaded face brightened.
intact. The American pilots were
sharply alert against a second such
surprise. Reinforcements flew up
from Kelly Field.
Overhead the American aviation
was redoubling its efforts. Pursuit
and.observation squadrons had flown
in from Louisiana and Virginia. Oth
er planes were en route from Cali
fornia.
At the division command post,
General Mole and his staff grimly
watched the fading light of day.
There was a tightening of tension
throughout the sectors as dusk slow
ly engulfed them and deepened into
night. Long-range artillery pounded
away laconically, tearing great cra
ters in the Second’s artillery area
and hitting near the division’s main
line of resistance, and back in the
bivouacs of the reserves. This told
Mole that enemy observation planes
had photographed his positions in
detail—and confirmed the hint of
what must be expected during the
night.
Evident it was, as the enemy pur
pose unfolded itself, that Van Has
sek did not mean to brook delay.
With the preponderance of force held
by his main Laredo column he had
no need to wait. For that matter it
hardly made sense, within the Van
Hassek line of military reasoning,
that the Second Division would com
mit the brash audacity of a serious
fight in front of San Antonio. With
drawal would be only the logical
course for the Americans, and Van
Hassek had no reason to expect
anything more than a few holding
battalions at daybreak, resistance
that would roll up in a hurry and
scatter before his massed assault
waves.
"Bombers flying in, altitude be
tween eight thousand and ten thou
sand feet!’*
The warning came in from an ob
servation plane a few minutes after
nine o’clock. It merely confirmed
Mole’s fears. Fast on the heels of
the warning came the devastating
roar of a heavy bomb. The earth
churned under the roar of succes
sive explosions. A squadron of nine
bombers, air service reported, us
ing an estimated three-hundred
pound bomb which would have a
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fragmentation and shock effect. A
second enemy squadron was report
ed flying in.
The warning buzzed out over the
field wire to the sectors. Men were
to take cover as best they could.
More long-range artillery opened up.
Night became another volcanic bed
lam, the Second s position a raging
inferno that drove men huddling into
their holes to claw frantically under
a maddening impulse to dig their
way down, down out of it all. At
tack flights roared over, released
fragmentation bombs attached to
parachutes—small bombs that ex
ploded on coming to earth.
It confirmed Mole’s theory that
Van Hassek expected an American
withdrawal. This enemy blow fell
at exactly the hour the Second would
be pulling out if such had been its
intention.
In the 20th Infantry sector a bomb,
estimated a six-hundred-pounder,
fell in rear of a company position
with a devastating force that re
duced seventeen men to speechless,
trembling impotence, though no man
was wounded. Later they were re
ported slowly recovering their wits
from the shock and were not evacu
ated.
Van Hassek’s planes were operat
ing without lights. American pur
suit hawks buzzed about, but were
ineffective in the darkness. Van Has
sek’s fury rose and fell intermit
tently, then slowly dwindled away
into a mere barking of some long
range artillery that was pounding
the roads into San Antonio.
The clash of musketry far out in
front brought an anticlimax to the
crimson hurricane Van Hassek pa
trols were pressing the American
outposts, seeking information of an
American withdrawal that had not
occurred. Half a dozen Van Hassek
riflemen were gobbled up by the 9th
Infantry outpost and shunted back
for question.
uver the field wire, Mole’s staff
checked casualties at eleven o’clock.
The bombardment had killed only
71 men, wounded 142. Another 80
were numbed by shock. Three had
been stripped of their wits and sent
back, in driveling madness, for
evacuation.
Mole nodded his head approvingly
at this small toll. It did not sur
prise him that he had lost so few
men to the Van Hassek strafing.
This was not Mole’s first battle. In
France he had learned how frugal
can be the night’s harvest of artil
lery and bombardment.
“I’ve been talking to Brill at San
Antonio,” Mole told his assembled
staff when he had completed his
newest estimate. “Fort Sam Hou
ston took another air beating to
night. Our air service has been
forced to abandon Kelly and Ran
dolph Fields. Galveston got a dose
of mustard gas tonight after our
69th Anti-Aircraft Regiment there
shot down an enemy bomber. It’s
all unspeakably horrible—but my
mind has had so many jolts I just
can’t feel things any longer.
General Mole staggered but
caught himself. The light in his un
quenchable eyes burned steady
through the toxins of fatigue. There
had been a lapse in his memory, now
he picked up the gap.
Put the Guard infantry in reserve
just south of San Antonio. Also keep
the mechanized cavalry out to look
after our flanks. I am going to turn
in for some sleep, but don’t hesitate
to call me if anything important de
velops. Otherwise call me when the
enemy preparation fire puts down on
us in the morning. Good night, gen
tlemen.”
CHAPTER XI
First Lieutenant Boynton, 9th In
fantry, lay sprawled on the ground,
his eyes strained into the first gray
ing light of approaching dawn.
Above the thunder of the enemy ar
tillery preparation he could feel the
pounding of his heart against the
drums of his ear.
Behind that curtain of fire and
thunder Boynton knew the Van Has
sek infantry was moving forward to
the assault From his position out
in front of tie American outpost line
it was Boy'.ton’s job to discover
the attack and fall back to the out
post with twenty riflemen of his who
lay immediately behind him.
Boynton's eyes caught an instant’s
glimpse of infantry, men silhouetted
against th* sheet-lightning of artil
lery flash* * Not more than a hun
dred yard? away he estimated the
enemy inf ntrymen. He slipped the
safety lock of his service automatic
and lifted the weapon in front of
his face His men. long tense and
! ready, fit?, d the butts of their new
, serni-autoi otic rifles against their
I shoulders ..nd waited.
Like a ip looming suddenly oui
of a thick fog there came into view
the weaving shadows that were the
flesh and blood of moving infantry.
A spurt of flame leaped from the
mu/.zle of Boynton's pistol It re
leased the pent-up rnge of twenty
Garand rifles which sent a stream
of I**ad pouring into those shadows of
the night
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UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Dean of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for March 16
Lesson subjects snd Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
THE LORD’S SUPPER
LESSON TEXT—Luke 22:14-30
GOLDEN TEXT—As often as ye rut this
bread, and drink this cup. ye tlo show the
Lord's death till he come.—I Coimthlnns
11:20
Old things pass away, and new
things take their place—such seems
to be the law of life. That which is
useful and greatly desired fulfills
its time of service and is set aside
for that which takes its place. The
change which occurred in our lesson
shared this aspect, but was in reality
so vital and fundamental that it
merits our closest attention.
The Passover feast had (since
that great and awful night of Israel's
redemption out of Egypt’s bondage)
pointed forward to the Christ and
His cross as the fulfillment of the
type of redemption by the shedding
of blood. But now the hour had
come for Him to give Himself in
death, and He set aside the Pass
over (because it has been fulfilled)
to establish the great Christian
feast of remembrance—the Lord’s
table, showing forth His death till
He come.
I. The Last Passover (vv. 14-18).
Our Lord looked forward with in
tense desire to the Passover which
He now observed with His disciples,
for it was the lust feast of that kind
recognized by God. All that it had
foreshadowed of deliverance und
hope was fulfilled in Him vdio now
sat at the head of the table. He
had moved forward with resolute
purpose and desire to the day when
His mission on earth was to be ac
complished, and He was to become
our Passover (1 Cor. 5:7).
The fact that He had looked for
ward to it with desire does not in
any sense minimize the deep dark
ness of either Gethscmane or Cal
vary. Remember that, when in the
garden he faced that hour and
thought of the possibility of the cup
being taken from Him, He said to
the Father, “Not what I will, but
what thou wilt.” Praying concern
ing the some matter (in John 12:
27), He said, “Now is my soul
troubled; and what shall I say? Fa
ther, save me from this hour: but
for this cause came 1 unto this
hour."
II. The First Communion (vv. 19,
20).
Taking the unleavened bread and
the unfermented wine of the Pass
over, which had just been observed
by Him for the last time, Jesus es
tablished a new feast, the Christian
feast of remembrance, which we call
communion or the Lord’s table.
As we have already suggested, it
is a feast of remembrance. “For
as often os ye eat this bread, and
drink this cup ye do show the Lord's
death till he come” (I Cor. 11:26).
At the Lord's table His followers find
spiritual strength in remembering
His death for them, and they also
find joy as they remember that He
is to come again. In doing so they
testify to the world that they be
lieve in and cherish these truths.
This feast is also rightly called
"communion,’’ for down through the
eges and until He does come the
saints of God have at His table sweet
communion, first of all with Him,
and then with one another.
We also note that our Lord spoke
of the cup as “my blood of the new
testament.’’ The word “testament’’
means “covenant." The Lord’s ta
ble therefore speaks of our alle
giance to Him, of our loyalty to our
Lord, and our devotion to His serv
ice. The Christian Church therefore
speaks of the communion service as
a sacrament, a word taken from
the Latin “sacramentum," meaning
oath, and essentially an oath of al
legiance.
III. Betrayal and Strife (vv. 21
30).
Someone will say, "That point
does not belong with the other two.
Both the feast of the Passover and
the Lord's Supper are for the joyful
remembrance of deliverance and re
demption." The objection is well
taken except for one thing—we are
dealing with human beings as they
are, not as they should be and could
be by the grace of God.
Here in the inner circle of the
twelve there was one traitor. It
seems impossible, but apparently
Judas had maintained such outward
conduct as to turn no suspicion in
his direction, even though all along
he had in his heart the blackest of
treachery against his Lord. It is a
sad and soul-searching fact which
is here revealed, that it is possible
for one to make a high profession
of faith in Christ and even so to live
as to give no cause for criticism,
and yet to be unregenerate and in
fact the enemy of Christ.
What about the strife regarding
position? Shame on us, for it still
1 goes on in the church. Not even
the remembrance of our Lord’s
death and the reminder that He is
coming again is enough to keep men
from wanting to be greatest.
May the spirit of Christ get hold
of some self-seeking Christian as he
today sees Christ os the One whose
body was broken and whose blood
was shed for him.
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Baking soda will keep the baby’s
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A dry cloth is better for remov
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Potatoes to be french fried will
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