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Newspaper Page TextPAGE srx irEDFOTtD MAIL TRTBXTNE, MEDFORD, OKEGON, "WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1932. Gamblers Throw by Eudtxuz L. AcUvm. BYNOl'SIS: Operating by nr jitonee, a gang of kidnaper! carry off tour millionaires, an Im fortani gangster and a musical comedy star, Nancy Wentworth. Ashwood, the leader, keep hit whll he demand Installments of money Irom their friends and rel ative. An aitylune is Ueard over the island one day, and machine s ' flune are made ready lor an at' tack. The hydtoplane is rsady to take off it Ashwood sipnale. ileanwhile a detective who is searching lor tHs kidnapers, flte vens, has joined toroes with Jerry Calhoun, who was Injured in m pom wttn tne gang wnen nanoy teas captured. Jerry and Stevens and Emory Battles, a friend of Jerry, in an airplane which Jerry pilots, watch the kidnapers when they take away the ransom money . in a hydroplane. They follow the hydroplane, keeping out ot sight. They plan to locate where the prisoners are hidden, Chapter 15 THE COIN 13 MATCHED . rlE tiny black dot In the air gradually assumed form. A single, silvery wing developed atop a tapering cylindrical (r.selege. Nancy watched It, Her b'jort boating wildly. Could it be tbat tbose flyers were searching (or her and the oth er victims of the kidnapers? "Back -n the bouse, everybody," Asbwood'a voice was quiet, unwor rled. From her bedroom window Nan cy watched the monoplane buzzing onward toward the south. For a tew breathless seconds she thought tbat the flyers must have seen the bouse on the island, but her heart sank aa It droned steadily on. Without turning a hair's breadth from its course. It passed out of ber range of vision. In a few moments tba narl of Its motor had dwindled Into nothing. "There's your pecan grove, old timer. If our luck bolds ouil" shout ed Emory triumphantly, aa Jerry pointed down at the tiny spit of land below. "There's a house big enough to bold a regiment, and a . bangar, too. Whoops, sisters, whoops!" "I ll say tint's some navigating," grinned Jerry, watching the Island slide beneath the gleaming wing. "Now we'll have to keep going until they'll think we haven't seen them, Then I'll glide down and come back just over the top ot the water so they can't see us. Watch for an Island down there tbat would make a rood landing nlace." "Make It far enough away ao's they can't bear the motor," sug- sraetnrl RfAvena. mfllrlnar enrAfnl notation upon a large-scale map. "I don't aim to bavo them waiting for us with a couple dozen . machine, guns." His Jaws resumed their placid, rhythmic motion aa he turned his at tention to the machine gun, which be wiped as carefully as though It . had received no care tor wssks. Ahead, astern and to the left, the sea was dotted by thousands it tiny lBlands, hrd-edrd spots of dark green against the sapphire blue of the water. To the right there was nothing but the endless expanse of the Quit ot Mexico, extending to the very edge of the horizon. Ex cept tor the bouse act hangar they had Just passed, there was no algn ot a human in all the tremendous panorama beneath them. The silent Islands were, tor the most part, slm ply clumps ot dense mangroves which seemed (o have grown out of , the watar with no earth to give them anchorage and 'sustenance. Far over to the eastward the Islands became mora numerous until there was more land than water. Here, as the Islands blended one Into an other, began the Everglades, which extended straight across the south ern Florida peninsula to the Atlan tic ocean. Aa Jerry cut the throttle and nosed the monoplane Into a tbln glide, flocka ot herons, cranes and penguins flapped their wings and flew away from the strange air monster which had invaded their age-old privacy. The pilot's spirits danced as he realized that they were at the end of their two-thousand mile chase. He had not the slightest doubt that Id that low H-suaped house were to be found those who bad llsappeared ao mysteriously from the midst of olvlllzatlon, as well aa those who bad spirited them away. Just ahead and soven or eight miles from the Inhabited island, waa a long, narrow key, bordered on the east by a mile-long stretch ot sand which looked hard enough to sustain the monoplane's weight. Making ene low flight across Its en tire length to assure himself that the beach held no obstacle! which might trip the wheels, be dropped the plane, light as a bird, in a per fect three-point landing. Then, cut ting the engine, be pushed himself out ot his bucket-seat and stretched bis tired muscles. "Someone'U have to pry me out ot bore," muttered the detective, , . HE'LLJQUIT POST NSW YORK, July 37. (AT) An drew W. Mellon, returning today on the liner, Msjestle, denied reports he Intended to resign as ambassador to Great Britain. "That's news to me midsummer news there Is no foundation for It',' said Mr. Mellon. The ambassador, while on board the boat, was not certain whether he would go directly to PltWburg or to Washington, but aald he wit Id spend no time In New York. He declined to discuss the reason for his trip home, saying only: "There was a lull over there for the time, and I took advantage of H." He refused to discuss debts, repa rations, or anything official. crossly. He climbed sillily out of the cabin door. "Pardon me If I seem to crow," offered Emory, "but yotf birds will have to admit tbat this was a pretty piece ot navigating. Vou were both fit to be tied when that gasket blew out and we bad to slide down near Tallahassee, leaving the amphibian to sail away on Its merry course to the southward." "Hub, you weren't doing any buck-acd-wing dance yourself 1" re torted Jerry. "Not at that moment," admitted his comrade. "But you'll grant that when I studied the map last night, used the ruler and projected the line of the amphibian's flight, I drew a circle around the Ten Thou sand Islands on the extreme south western coast of Florida. 1 told you we'd And our little hlde-and-go-seek partners somewhere within my pen cilled line." "1 have a plan," announced Jerry, his face suddenly serious. "Now that we're here, we've got to do some thing about getting our feet on the Island that bouse Is on. We wouldn't get anywhere landing there with our plane. They've undoubtedly got machine guns and would wash us out before our propeller etopped whirling. We'll have to use strat egy." "What ho, the Delphle oracle speaks!" applauded Emory, his face solemn. "One more peep out of you and I'll bury you alive in the sand!" Jerry threatened heatedly. "Now here's, what 1 have In mind. We'll pump up the collapsible rubber boat Then I'll paddle it from one island to another until I get to the one nearest them. I'll deflate the boat and hide it in Vie scrub, go to the shore toward the house and yell for help. They'll probably rescue me, out of curiosity. I'll tell tbem some kind of a cock-and-bull yara and try to get the lay ot the land and" "And tomorrow," Interjected Em ory, "Steve and I'll fly over the Island and drop sand-burrs on your grave." "Shut upt Tomorrow, some time in the afternoon, you get your ma chine gun ready and, as our witty friend h-3 suggested, fly over the Island. If things are right, I'll And some way to show something white, a table cloth, or a sheet, or a. nan kin, out ot a window or on the lawn. It you see It, come on down, ready for trouble, while I start some kind ot a rumpus in the bouse to keep everyone annoyed." "It's a lousy Idea!" drawled Emory. "Why?" "Just this; I hate to throw money matters In your face, but 1 financed the expedition for the tun there would be In It. Now, the first time that It looks as though there might be a little excitement, you go and try to take the play away from me. Seems to me you might let me pad dle over to the island and you and the old-timer here do the manna from heaven act." Stevena spat reflectively and scratched himself. ."Me." be venturedi "I don't think It's so good, either. What we ought to do is to fly to the nearest town and get all the cops In sight and then come back In a boat and raid the place, good and proper. I'm a peaceable feller and 1 smell trouble It we're going to mill around eo 1m- potuous llke. But, on tbe other hand. It we call In the bulls, we'll have to split the rewards twenty-thirty ways." It was evident that the detective was on the boms ot a dilemma and the others were quick to see their advantage. "Sure," agree Jorry hastily. "To take a place like tbat Island In a diroct attack would give them time to prepare sand trenches and em placements for their machine guns. It they haven't them airoady built. For a massed attack, fifty men would be none too many. We'd hard ly get a nickel of the reward." 'Toll you what I'll do, Emory!" suggested Jerry, brightening. "I'll match you to see which ot us goes alone to t' Island." 'Listen, fellers," Interrupted Ste vens. "Seems to me you are forget ting there are three ot us. We'll match; the odd man goes. Gam bler's throw, winner take all." They matched. Emory and Ste vens turned up heads. Jerry tri umphantly exhibited a tall, gleeful ly pocketed the coin and atrode toward the fuselage where the rub ber boat was stowed. While his comrade glowered, Stevens shook his head sadly. Years ago, he re membered, he bad been all get-up- and-go like these boys. Well, time would temper them unless they went and got themselves killed fintt (Copyright, Dial press) Jerry arrives tomorrow, and Ash wood gives him a eold reception. rattler:s hiss 2-day mystery WtNTHROP, Iowa. July 97. (API Tor two days Mrs. P. Etmmerly thought the hissing noise she heard was caused by leaking fruit Jars In the basement o' her home. rinding nothing wrong In the base ment she looked under the dining room table and found the cause. It waa a rattlesnake, four feet lone. Mr. Zlmmerly stopped the noise by killing the reptile. It had ten rattles. A bridge more than two mile long, expected to be the largest In gumpe, has been authorised In Den mark along the main railway line between Copenhagen, Berlin and western Europe. STATE EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE MEETS 8ALEM, July 27. (AP) A meeting of the state-wide unemployment ex ecutive committee, appointed at the representative aeulon held In Port land several months ago, was in ses sion with Governor Julius I Meier here today. The committee was con TAILSPIN TOMMY S'MATTER POP TOrVJYil-- ?53K&? X VG HAD ANOTHER. 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'i, ' HAYCWTMTCNa INTEND ISJ know What to lk t h6 JCa f tS'?V tomwov ft II 1 V Srin'ri it tminc. to Co will be all . fectjilJ. ABOUT, I'M UeVTI -J JJ ? Sgr8) . J&J ' 1 THEE OBJECTIONABwS. Zj . ' XV- lii tP 1 I l Jijy' ! 1. : v II !"" Krme..M.CT. ,x. -11- siLlkf1kjr . ?, . U I mi 777 sidering conditions of unemployment in the state, looking toward obtain ing a loan from the federal recon struction finance corporation under the relief bill. The session of the executive com mittee waa not open. Continue Grid Broadcast;. PASADENA, Cel., July 37. (AP) The athletic heads of the colleges of the Pacific coast conference voted to day to continue the permission of radio broadcasting of football games through 1932 but made no men tion of plans for the years to come. Tommy Makes A Decision! An Aerial Proposition' MORE SECRET THOUGHTS AGREED TO OLR SITTINJ ZT ' . cms "1 'cgF . mas wtwm y : . - -) tMn."! ... .. IFIME.URSTA.KJDIKJQ EXAMPLE ' Him TWE HOTEL, IS VI CERTAIML.V DOM'T i t-st V hloomml AMU vTsl I J TALWMS ABOLTT fl YOUKS 13 TWfc OMLY OPIMIOM A OsO X:Xy:.. ; A VTT.MS OPl RESPECT THE A THE PORCH .A ftBTT ' LAt ' ' ', J . J , VHfcAVSsjs rRTV)WU.-ALVL40rC Harmony In The Presidential Candidates' Camp Jobless Riot In Sf. Johns Streets 8T. JOHNS, Newfoundland, July 27 iff) .Several hundred unemployed men rioted In the streets early today, pillaging shops and smashing win dows before police could get the dis order in hand. Two policemen were Injured and 26 of the rioters were arrested. Chain Store Funds Taken. SAN FRANCISCO. July 27 (AP) With week-end receipts of 91 food ( Sly ' AAkfeLTt1 1? Jti?? NO, JONATHAN, THEM THERE SrSSTHERES THE'ELLSN1, BEN ! tl? e&lSR2PML,?Tiel!SgP,NL I 1 ANCHORED MOST BE MORE VSbxL THE TIDS MOST'VE TAKEM I I JSHSB.AS,6-Ei!S?e'PS I THAT BOA-f OF-EMWORKIN' HER AFTER ALL1 -J I "SW.O. H "COOLDNVT STEAL A. J MV5ELF--T A6lN L)6 AM' WfT Ev'sXr7 ' "C M I AT CTJE AN' THE SAME TIME , V OF SLACK I OUR BOAT t- r4iM iW ' V J JONATHAN ! CANT 1 COLlLrj HE ? STILL, MAVBE THE J FOR THE VxNE'RE SLJMK.! J Effi-jJl Y VOLS SEE HER ) V -e stores In his automobile, Howard Evans, Public Pood Store collector, was kidnaped, bound and robbed here yesterday. He was rob be of between 6,000 and $12,000. Recover Climber' Body. HOOD RIVER, Ore., July 27 (AP) Five men, members of .the moun tain climbing Hood River Crag Kats. last night recovered the body ot Arthur Karstetter, 34, who lost hie life while fishing In a remote, deep canyon near here yesterday. MYRTLE POINT. O. W. Robson Improving a tor. I 'j. Favor Life For " Slayer Of Cop SALEM, Ore., July 27.(AP) Du pree Poe, one of two men charged with the alaylng of James Xverson, a SUverton policeman 'a year ago, was convicted of first degree murder In a verdict brought In by a circuit rourt Jury early today. The members recommended life imprisonment for his punishment. NORTH BEND. Local mill of Coos Bay Logging company to reopen shortly. Coast Lumbermen To Boost Product SEATTLE, July 27. (AP) The Weet Coast Lumbermen's associa tion today called representatives of the Industry In western Washing ton to meet In Tacoma Thursday, July 28, to consider plans to bring about a greater use of Pacific north. wmc lumber and timber In city. county and atate public works. ASHLAND. Resurfacing Boule vard from library to Union atreett underway. - - BT OLKNN CUAFFIN and Hit FORBES! By C. M. PAYNE By EDWIN ALGER By SOL HESS By BUD FISHER By George McManus