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...girl who gets rescued from the fire, and who indirectly caused it, is Susan Hayward. Pretty enough to spark all sorts of explosions, Susan gets this one under way by vowing vengeance on a local oil baron (Lloyd Gough) whom she holds responsible for the death of her father. While trying to beat him at his own game, she succeeds in developing oil wells by the dozen, and presently finds that her lust for vengeance has turned into a lust for money and power. Meanwhile, her emotional life develops a three-way split between her loyalty to a rich Indian...
...Near Shrewsbury, a 31-year-old farmer, Reginald Gough, and his pretty wife were on trial for manslaughter and cruelty after their foster child Dennis O'Neill, 13, was found dead in his straw bed one morning. The local coroner deposed that the boy, who was 21 lbs. under weight, had been beaten to death...
...Plot Thickens. In March, when one of these ships was spotted running at full speed with a deckload of oil drums, suspicion first turned on Gough. In April, when the ship docked at Cristobal, she was searched. One man was found carrying plans of the Coco Solo Naval Air Station...
...young U.S. intelligence officer flew to the port of Belize in British Honduras to check on Gough. He stayed until June, when Nazi submarines in twelve days sank 13 ships, five of them in one day in waters where Gough's boats had been operating. At approximately the same time, sabotage of the intelligence officer's plane was discovered. His room was ransacked and a bottle of whiskey in it was poisoned. The first sip of a drink poured out for his British colleague left the Briton paralyzed from the hips down for 24 hours...
Just Deserts. By this time Lieut. General Frank M. Andrews, commanding the Caribbean Defense, decided to crack down. He made an inspection flight over the northern Caribbean area, convinced startled British officials of Gough's complicity. But the slippery Gough was not easy to hook. He escaped. In the days of 17th-Century pirates he might well have outraced his pursuers to the nearby Republic of Honduras. But a Naval patrol plane overtook his boat, forced it to stop, and took over. It was believed the first time in history that an air crew became a prize crew...