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page sre & Gamblers Throw J& , by Fudiacz L. AdinuL. fiK.VOPffa? Jerry Calhoun triee to etart hie airplane engine under the machine gun lire of gangetere who are carrying axeay hie wife, Nancy. Btevene, a detective, holde the gang off. The gangstcre have revolted from their leader. Aeh wood, who hae kidnaped Nancu. Emory hae come with Jerry to -reecue her. Chapter 33 BEHIND THE BARRICADES A GUST ot flame belched crimson from the slowly revolving mo tor. Ah, she'd make It! No. Churn ing, churning, every second drag ging Itself Into an Infinity ot time. Stevens' gun still barked. Another bullet and another raked the cabin. Again a ball of flaming gat bal looned from the exhauBt stack. Then the engine roared, backfired, missed and suddenly burst into full throated, rbytbmlo lite, causing the plane to vibrate In evsry Inch of her fabric Stevens' figure appeared in the doorway. In the darkness over bis shoulder, guna stabbed the night with their vicious points ot scarlet Jerry, trembling with eagerness to push forward on the throttle, watched the old man hesitate, turn back and fire a full clip ot cart, ridges. Then carefully closing and latching the cabin door, the detec tive took bla seat. The great monoplane rolled for ward over the bard-packed shell. Then she was free, an earth-borne monster no longer, but a Joyous, throbbing, bird-like thing hurtling through the air, 1 Stevens' steady foreflngor pointed slightly to the left Jerry banked over to follow a faint red line of ex haust Are. As he straightened out again, he glanced down and back ward toward the house. From a row of windows on the east end ot the low building tiny pinpoints of flame flickered from the guns ot the be sieged. From three sides came an swering flashes. The exhaust flames of the amphib ian were clearly visible now, and Jerry knew that he was gaining, slowly but steadily, upon the north-ward-speeding plane. Stevens held his beloved machine gun. He squint ed ahead at the fleeing plane. ! "How long?" he Inquired tersely. "I haven't any Idea," confessed Jerry. "They don't know yet that we're following them. When they see us they'll give her full throttle. ;We're fairly evenly matched In speed. Maybe fifteen minutes. May .be two hours. Have to wait till we 'see how much speed they have.' "Ashle, old bean. It won't be long now!" Emory Battles' amoke-be- grlmed lace broke Into a wide- mouthed grin as he rolled over on his side and looked at the man who shared the shelter ot the up-ended living room' table. The cripple ducked behind the heavy shield just as It vibrated un der the sharp smack of a bullet His lined face was drawn with fatigue, ' )ut the dancing light in his blue yes was undimmed as he roturaed the other's smile. "One would think, my dilettante friend, that you looked forward with pleasure to dying." His drawling voice had lost nothing of Us mock ing brilliance. He reached tor a olgarette from Emory's case. "From where I lie," he puffed, "It looks at though we would be able to hold them oft about thirty more minutes at the longest, and then only If we are able to continue keeping them from passing to the rear ot the house and surrounding us." "They may all have sunstroke within the next thirty minutes I" re torted the other, squinting cautious ly over the top for a brief glance to ward the hangar which. In the first faint pastel tints ot the dawn, looked strangely peaceful In comparison with the wrecked living room be hind him. A bullet snapped by and he dropped his head unceremonious ly. "You picked out some pretty fair sharpshooters when you organlted your mob, Ashle," he declared rue fully. "As ye sow, so shall ye" pro nounced a resonant voice from the center ot the room. , "Please, please, Dr. Tltherlng ton I" Interrupted the cripple. "Spare us, on a warm morning like thlal It I hear lust one more such Quotation. I shall troth at the mouth and biie somebody!" Alfred eat up behind the over turned couch. The steward's face was ghastly pale. His left arm, roughly bandaged In torn sheeting, showed as a great splotch of crimson against the back ground ot his white service JackeL A aeml-clrcle ot empty clips was mute evidence to the fact innt he LIFE LOSS HEAVY MARSEILLES. Prance, Aug. 17 (AP) Twenty-two men are fetrM to have drowned In the reported (ink ing of a fast dispatch beet In the air mall service to South America on Saturday. The veuel was en route from NaUI. Brazil, to Dakar, Senegal, when she ran Into a storm. . LONDON, Aug. 17. (AP) A mes sage to Lloyd's today from Tokyo snld nineteen llvee were lost when the steamer Hldcmsru collided with the Mlchtukumaru on the Inland sea this morning. The Nlchliukunuru sank shortly afterward. had been a bulwark of strength dar ing the long night's siege. Martin, as usual, was silent Propped on one elbow behind a parapet ot chairs at the northwest corner window, he Angered his auto matlc lovingly. Emory, sipping bis liquor slowly. gazed across the room at the strange, silent man with something like wonder In bit eyes. Who could bave thought that that taciturn, prosalo little real estate promoter would bave had his bright moment- of cold-blooded, death-defying cour age? Two hours before, Emory had watched, amazed, as Martin had vaulted out ot his window, sprinted across fifty feet ot bullet-swept sand and retrieved an automatic dropped by a dead attacker. "Tired of being shot at without being able to shoot back!" he had explained grimly to Emory, who had raced across the room, leaned out of the window, and whisked him back Into the relative security of the barricades. And Mallory. There was another study in psychology. He had burst out ot his room cold-sober, and at the first massed attack upon the house he had been quietly efficient, Bring steadily, accurately, as though shooting at clay pigeons on a range. Oh, yes, It had been a merry little nlghtl Perhaps ot them all, Dr. Tltherlngton had been the outstand ing hero. A man of peace, unable to bave secured one ot the all-too-few automatics had he wanted It, the minister had stood sentry-go over the two corridors leading to the two rear winga to make sure that none of the gangsters bad suc ceeded In slipping between the house and either beach for s, flank attack. He had done bis duty throughout the long night But most of all, It was the minis ter's tender which over Hamilton which had Inspired even the grudg ing admiration of the cynical Ash wood. , Still tied with the bonds that Stevens had wound round him, Ham ilton lay In a coma from which he had emerged In wild delirium when the lighting had reached a crisis. Yet through It all, Dr. Tltherlngton bad soothed him with never-flagging patience, crawling over to him at frequent Intervals to see It he atlll slept and It the barricade ot furni ture and mattresses still sheltered him from stray bullets. "How much ammunition left?" called the cripple. "Alfred?" "Only two clips, sir." "Martin?" "Four clips." "Good. Mallory?" "Three." "And Battles baa two'. That makes fourteen. I have three myselt Sev enteen In all. We'll bave to go easy from now on. Don't shoot unless you are positive you can-drop your man." vWhy don't Calhoun and Stevens come back?" grumbled Mallory. "With a plane and a machine-gun they could run the blighters off the Island." ' ' "Are you asking me riddles?" de manded Emory, Irritated. For the past three hours he had tormented himself with the. same question. He had hoard hla mono plane take off after the amphlhlan. Something In the reckless surge of Its engine had hold him that Jerry was at the controls. Having seen Stevens run down the hall after Jerry, he assumed that the two were together In the plane. He knew that Nancy was not In the house, What had happened to her, hd did not know. Nor did he know why Jerry had gone flying away In tbe night when bla presence would have addod to much, to the atrength ot the besieged forces In the house. It had not occurred to blm to question Jerry's motives. Jerry's safety wat the only thing that wor ried him. But no, that reckless, screaming toom ot the monoplane had been with Jerry's band on the stick. And once In the air, Jerry would be safe. If Von Rlchthofen's red-nosed cir cus hadn't been able to bring him down at St Quentln, certnlnly be was In no danger now. Emory, his eyea just over the chipped edge ot the table, gated steadily -toward the hangar. Five men stood talking In the palm grove, just out of pistol range. At he watched them, curious, he taw two ot them pick up a machine-gun and tripod and walk In a wide cir cle toward the easterly aide of the house. Then, just within range, they mounted the gun and lay down In the aawgrass. (Copyright, Dial Preee) Jsrry's plsns eamn within firing ring of tn onoter hydropUn, tomorrow, but "It't no UM killing ths flirl," SUvsns wye. NEAR '31 TOTAL SALEM, Aug. 17 (AD The toUl number of Automobile lletiw ImuM tor the new year reached Ifl7.5a4 up to Saturday night, not including mall ord?n not completed, It vaa liounced by the secretary ot atate to day. This la M.WOfl leu than were Issued at the same time a year ago. Total receipt ot license platea up to Friday night were 4.lo7,8tH, as compared to 95.404,141 at the corre' ponding date In 19.11. Licence bus! new was atlll good, the motor vehicle department aald today, Oraves Jewelry Shop, one block aorxtx ot postollioe. Ffeon iavS-Wj MEDFOPiD MAIL ENANT FARMERS HOUSTON. Tex.. Aug. 17. (API- Tenant farmers were the principal sufferers ot the hurricane whtcb swept southern coastal Texu Satur day night and Sunday, taking at least 36 lives. Reltef workers estimated more than TAILSPIN TOMMY S'MATTER POP- -He ,1'vsu 6eT SOMS MAHIO ON i-- W'CMfT Trc SIGNAL TO THE t-i 1 ... ijs. f rnTx-y rZii:r;-st'M N K 0Mm isorif method of "that pilot has w plane behind l?MW1f?IWV'WPICTUIlES 2Swu'Re 03'MSllu5ms AN INVISIBLE J WVMW!M NERVE- OR HE'S JsLrllM 1 Qi jgf lleT BOUND TO WIN-Waiting For "Big Feet" ' ' - By C. M. PAYNE ARE YOU A ! 3URS AS I'M O' WA.MOIN' WELL, THERE?) InO, OP COURSE NOT f "I I wait A MIMUTB , JONKTHftNlN soH .THAT's II Y IT'LL. EE AFTER. 6URE YOU H6RE, BEN T HE t-OOHED j CERTAINL J I THE OLD GOVT DODGED I DON'T STftRT 6HOOTINO UNTfL 1 RIGHT! ) DARK SO LETS BUILD V SAW ') LKE A RAGOEDY OLD ISN'T ) BftCK A SOON ftS HE SOMEBODY STARTS SHOOTING 'BIG FEET' V A FIRE TO SHOVM HIM SOMEBODY IBIRD WITH HEAPS O' ANYONE j 6AW ME ! BEN. H.1- BET AT US - WE'VE BEEN ANAY Fl5oMl IS ON THE ( WHERE WE ARE-- AND I JONATHAN? I WHITE WHISKERS WAVIN'V THERE ! I IT'S W. O. H. H1SSEL.F T I CAMP FORTHREE DAYS "BIG FEET' I WAY, AIN'T 1 LETS COOK SUPPER I V V IN THE WIND THAT'S f NOW I OH.BEN.I AIN'T GOIN'TO I SHOULD JOIN US HERETONIGHT AS HE?WONDErI h V HE'LL BE HUNGRY IIts . -1 s . . THE NEBBS Ingratitude MA. S HEces a copv I22f ( OP The Budle l womder ; ) . 1 . 1 (lF IT HSW IMTERVIEWJ '1 U I I , nil 1 , . - I -r . s, l-n L "T'l ...iM MUTT AND JEFF - v 1 . . . eit ftspv This X HfcA.it SiCV.Al AU- He LCFtL UjT AN Atx in TVte Personal colvn) WR.Tt-PHcx-oR JTftf mcs. MWk S ,. KSIT 'Ts- AOn- W A NOTCi SATNC, i ASKIM& HIM TO y- - V YSTeRlo DISAPp4ar6 ij1-5 a ft 1 WILL. MOT Bfc BtSPOMSlBLfe Fva&J JfcPP .Jj QM wo one.". WITH A P. 1 COMMyNCATik, BEGAKlMG rT ' sTfVj ?SvE.'(i ANV DEBT COW,'ScTCI T " KPl.AININ6 TMAr WAS (5) HeT"'rY LOOK ' -OssY AuGOSTU S MOTV ' ( sss ! f.! 'j BRINGING UP FATHER I ANM TRIBUTE, MEDFORD, 1000 peraona were destitute. Emer- ' gency stations continued the treat ment of the Injured, estimated by station ate nd ants variously from 200 up and In most cases requiring only first aid. Tn Red Cross and Houston relief societies furnished food and other necessities. The government ordered the coast guard cutter Unalga from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to aid In relief worlc. Agricultural authorities said the damage to crops would run Into mil lions, with cotton and rice estimated to be damaged to the extent of 92,-000.000. A New Kind Of "Movie!" Calls For A Count HECES A COPV OP The Budle l womder HSW INTERVIEW .WITH THAT REPOBTHI IflCoprrlcht. IM2. br TIM Bll Srn4kt. Inc.)) . -TTd Mark Rtx U. S. Pil. OSi( So That's The Way It (CtNTLEME.N)'. I VILL MOW iMTNOtXlCe TOTOO,MI TiqOE WHO WILL TALK TO TOO ABOUT VTHB COMINC PIOPL&9 tLeCTIOM roit AT HC maofi or Our faifj CITV OREGON. TTEDXESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1932. 'F WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. (AP) A telegram from Daniel A. Poling, chair man of the allied forces for prohibi tion, expressing belief that President Hoover's election would safeguard "some of the gains made under the S ..wwew a eepeeseTvrArve op The BU$3 CALLED IME&B AT LOSBLBI LODQEi ,HB FOUKJD ) HIM &ETTISJ& HIMSELF Pt-MSICALLV FIT ( FOR THE. STBEfiJVOUS CAMPAfGU HB S A&OUT TO EfJTElfZ CHOPPIKJ& DCMJKJ A M6HTV SUASS . VT BARK AhJD UOKJ& Is! IT KJ lO 1 - i CENTLtMEM, DONT BE DKCEIVEO BY THI CAMDIOATE.rR.JICCS). WHAT THIClTY WEEO 15 AN IWTELLICEMT FAIFW1MDEO PtRSjOM. OWt WHO WILL HAVE THE INTCHESTr. ART. 18th amendment1" was made public today at the white House. "I march with you," the telegram concluded. The message aald: "Tour speech of acceptance Is a document of states manship. It Is clear-cut and cou rageous. "I disagree with aome ot your con clusions, but believe your re-election will safeguard some of the gains made under the I8th amendment, will de feat naked repeal, will preserve the principle of federal control ot a na tional problem and will be a long step toward answering one of the na tion's greatest social questions." OtJ CAUDDATE ISJTO HE USAS THEE.. AFTER hJUMEGOUS HB. GOT THROUGH THE SAT DOWKJ EXHAUSTED AhJD IT WASST BEFORE US FDUfJDOur .HE WAS At-WAVS EX- , , U5TSD MEUTAL.LY... WS. DOMT WANT A VJEAK. FAT-HEAO. A MAN ,WHO l AFRAVO OF Hl WIFE. WHO DOESMT EVtN OARE TO THINK fOR HIM-iELF. IFOLI OON'T INTEND TO VOTe Ml NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (AP) Paul 8. Willis, president of the Associated Grocery Manufacturers of America, told a luncheon meeting ot the asso ciation of manufacturers representa tives of New York today that a defi LS JMAT DO VO(J TWIKJK OF THAT HE DiM ED WITH M6, TOOK A HANJDFUL. far OP CIGARS AMD 1 THOOSWT HE WAS MV &Z FRlENJD 1 WHAT I'LL TELL THE MeTGUVy WHO COMES 1 AW IMTERVIEVL " yKwe cAKi PrawTVT-Low the poikjT rT"31- fin n zj?22La EDLEiFsif ju J mhtx ,f,V'. ,,- WHERE CAM YOU find one:? LOTTA VOTES, AT LEAST "VOL! SHOULD WANT A MAM. WHO lTHS MASTER O'' Hl"i HOME. mmmm 8n nite Improvement In business and a return of confidence and courage among business men are noticeable throughout the United States. Willis has completed a survey of trade conditions which took him to most of the country's Industrial cen ters. "Talks with leaders of the grocery business," he said, "have convjneed me that the nation's economic Uls are lessening, that there la. In fact, a de cided upturn in the situation." August special. Three loads IB-la. slabs for 18 75. Med. Fuel Co. TeL 831. By OLENN L'HAFFIN anil HAL FORK EST By EDWIN ALGER By SOL HESS By BUD FISHER By George McManus THAT REMINOS' ME. MY WIFE TOLO ME TO BE HOMS AT TWO O'CLOCK. msm ;'lV-ei