Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1940 — Page 24

SERIAL STORY—

‘Dude College

By OREN ARNOLD

YESTERDAY —Wes is pleasantly surprised when Ronnie comes to his office, decides to join him on an expedition to Rainbow Canyon cliff dwellings. They explore the ruins, then Ronnie sees a rider coming down Rainbow Canyon. It is Lona Montoya!

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

~ THAT INNOCUOUS looking . liquid called “Blaine’s Compound” which Andre Girardeau carried in - his baggage was before him on the table now. The label on the bottle proclaimed it good for sundry sprains and muscular ailments, but Adrian had no pains. Instead, he dipped a pen in it and wrote with the colorless fluid as fellows: “Apparently actual practice with new bomb sight delayed becaiise of intrusion Japan into the scheme also. U. S. Border Patrol captured five Japanese unmistakably planted on bombing grounds first proposed, hence practice delayed here until new orders Washington. “But I am closer still to Bailey and winning full confidence, have contacted second agent here as instructed. - Have made proper arrangements for handling in Mexico when right moment comes, preparing not one but three potential avenues for transporting. Was carried there to survey grounds by the Bailey girl'in her own plane which was given free privilege across border for helping Patrol. “Think -best not rush attempt to . ‘mequire instrument until perfected .in tests even though Bailey him- - self declares it virtually perfect. Please remit more money must live expensively.” _ He allowed that sheet of paper to dry thoroughly, then with ordinary ink from a fountain pen he wrote a _. completely different message right on top of the other. This new message had to do with a vacation in the southwest, with books, with clothes and similarly uninteresting famliy talk. Signed with a fictitious name, wiped free of possible fingerprints, folded and inserted with gloves in a fresh envelope, the message then was directed to a woman in Washington, D. C. Late that night the stamped envelope was mailed without Andre's fingers ever touching it direct. : ” un »

LESS THAN 48 hours later, by coincidence, Andre Girardeau was ‘on the front porch of the Rocking R {ranch house chinning amiably with Thomas U, Bailey, when two dots in the eastern sky grew inte definite shape and presently circled down over the ranch itself. Andre noted—with quiet

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the Bailey hangars ran out to spread a white cloth signal. Three new hangars had been built on this private field since Andre came west,. he knew. Three besides the one which housed Ronica’s golden monoplane. . Mr. Bailey saw the ships and stood up to gaze at them. “Well, well!” said he. “They're here at last! Army boys, Andre. Sent out from the factory for—uh —a bit of testing.” Andre tried to sound casual. “New type motor, Mr. Bailey?” “No, the new bomb sight. Probably read about it, eh?” “Some mention of it, yes.” “The Army’s using our planes. Want to run some tests on the desert here. No importance particularly, but—uh, keep in confidential, Andre.” “Oh certainly, Mr. Bailey. I should like to see the tests. I ‘mean, assuming any part of them is open to the public, of course.” ~~ “Fine! Don’t blame you, Want to see it myself, so I'll take you along!” Andre congratulated himself inwardly. He was making better progress than he had dared to hope. Not that hé could yet expect any ‘actual study of the -bomb sight, but at least his intimacy with -- Thomas U. Bailey was perfect groundwork, perfect cover against any remote possibility of suspicion directed against him. He already knew that Bailey and the Army department heads ‘worked hand in hand, that not more than 10 men actually had seen the new bomb sight. Even the highyranking pilots who had given it preliminary tests — with such startling success—were unacquainted with the detailed con- - struction of the thing, It was a “gadget,” Mr. Bailey ~ had said in a newspaper interview, which enabled an aviator to drop bothbs from hitherto impossible heights and strike small targets with "almost infallible accuracy. Which, of course, was why Andre and the powerful Eroupean organization backing him were determined to get the secret at any ‘| - cost. Specifically, Andre's as- | signed task was to get a sample {1 of the sight itself! I. 2 8 8

. HE WAS WITH Mr. Bailey when » men from the two planes walked to : | his porch and greeted him. Dressed . *. in business clothes, they were duly s+ | introduced. Mr. Bailey was affable ‘| as usual, but the six guests there | were not very talkative. Andre ©. | understood this situation. 3 .'{ “It’s a pleasure to have met you gentlemen,” he declared presently, rising. “Mr. Bailey said he was ex.pecting business callers, and I was about to leave anyway. I'm glad you had a smooth trip.” “Ho, Andre, don’t rush off! Fact . 4s, I wanted you to know these fcllows, and want them to know you. Mr. Girardeau, here, is a French refugee. Wounded last March, captured, .and escaped before France had to capitulate. But he hasn’t surrendered—ha! “Yes sir, gentlemen,” he went on, “America has got to recognize international conditions no matter how determined we are to stay. out of war. Preparedness is a necessity. And we have something now that will bolster that preparedness to a very great extent. These men, - Andre, have come to conduct extensive bombing tests out there on the desert, although I believe any public - announcement of that fact should come from Col. McDavid hete, eh?” The man called Col. McDayid ‘answered. ~ w“Right, Mr, Bailey. Of course, “ pombing practice can’t be hidden “under a hat; but we do have our ‘ secrets, and we do have our enemies trying to get them. Were you a fiyer, Mr. Girardeau?” : “No,” Mr. Bailey answered for him, and what Mr. Bailey added ‘was enough to startle Andre almost out of his careful poise. “No, Col, * Andre doesn’t fly. But the young fellow has, I think, conquered my . daughter; and if she approves of a { man, he’s solid! I have to recognize that. In agdition, Andre is a gentle5 xi fr ? x

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The air is full of secret-weapons nonsense. The latest is that the Germans are loading specially builf; trains with crude oil.in southeastern Europe and refining it into aviation fuel en route to the north of Europe. : If we don’t stop tastic and mystic chemical and engineering faculties to the Germans, we'll wind up in the lunatic asylum. There’sno doubt that mobile refineries could be built to transform crude oil into finished fuel and lubrica- . tion while in 113 Tr hy Mal Wiliams mass production problems are irisurmountable. 3 The old way of making aviation gasoline out of crude oil was| to heat the oil, pipe off the first yapors, condense them in a cooler, and the résult was aviation fuel. This means about a 5 per cent yield of aviation gas. . On this basis, the German rolling refinery idea is “out,” since from 100 tank cars of crude only five cars of fuel would be obtained. Neither could the Germans use, int transit, the most modern mntethcds, for making a greater volume of ges-

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