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PAGE SIX f Gamblers Throw 4 BYNOPSlBt Ashwood, tmuaual panff leader. Emory, and the men Ashwood holds prisoner have been defending hit house trom hie anno, now turned agatnet him. Emory a friend, Jerry Calhoun, hat chased by plant gangsters who captured hit witt and hat resoued her. Jerry's return could safe the be sieged men Irom ths gang's at tacks. Chapter 83 THREE 8HOT8 LEFT LISTEN, you little fighting cock," Emory Bald, hitching blmielf sloser to the other. "There'a only one thing that'll keep me from kick ing off with a smlla on my face." "And that 1b?" Invited Ashwood, guletly. "I'm so curious about you that I'm Itching all over. Since we'll prob ably both be bounced off In the next twenty minutes, won't you tell me what turned you trom a good drink ing partner, as you were back In London, to a hard-boiled egg such as you are now?" The cripple glanced oyer the table top, then turned his vivid blue eyes toward Emory. "I owe you something," he ac knowledged slowly, "so I suppose I may as well tell you. Forgive me If I spare you the details. I'm an American. Enlisted in the Royal Dying CorpL In Canada. Sometime before I ran across you In London, Ashwood fired slowly, carefully, met a girl who drove an ambu lance for the Overseas club. Saw quite a bit ot her. Asked her to marry me. Two nights after that evening ot ours which ended In the light with the military police, she stole some important papers from the pocket of my tunic "Some days after she took the papers, a British push was smashed to bits by the Germans. My fault, you see. On that same day, a Ger man Fokker erocked me over the lines. Our men hoisted the engine oft my leg and took me to the hos pital. But that didn't prevent them trom cashiering me. At the trial they blamed me for other things things I hadn't done. I felt so low that I guess I didn't put up a de cent defence. Spent a year In the Tower of London, expecting to be shot any day. Six months after the armlBtlce I was pardoned. My friends had forgotten me, but had remembered to drop my name trom my clubs. "I drifted about like a pariah. Needed excitement Mad no respect tor justice, bonce none tor the law that admlnlstered.lt War taught mo the real value of human life, which la less than nothing. Turned to crime for excitement and to keep me oft the benches on the Thames Embankment Played the 'Lone Woir racket for a while. Came back to America. Saw lo some of the Chicago gangs that were Just begin ning to lift their beads a possibility for organised crime that would be highly diverting and exceedingly profitable. I recruited my own mob who, by the way, are beginning their attack." ' He rurnod abruptly and fired three hots as fast as he could pull the trigger. Emory, getting Into action, aaw two men stumble and fall. The battle bocame general, but to Emory It was a matter of himself, alone, against halt a doton. He was conscious that the fighting was weeping toward and around the house like a prairie lire. That was incidental. The only matter ot Im portance was his own Individual ef fort to keep that little group of men from reaching the porch. The load er charged desperately, slgsagglng as be galloped ahead ot his corn- IN HEALTH HINTS, OUT S "Nearly everybody can have good health If he Is willing to make a suf ficient effort to maintain It." Such Is the message Isued today by the Oregon State Board of Health and distributed to health workers here and In all cities of the state. "Hard work and active play are essential to the enjoyment of health ful living. Moat of us have good health, but we have considerable dif ficulty In maintaining It," the re port further statu., Iwulng the fol lowing Instructions to those who would be. healthyj "Sat regularly.. rades. Emory wished to stand np and shoot It out with him but trom the shelter of the palms the machine-gun sprayed his window with bullets. It was almost suicidal even to raise his head for a quick pot shot A dozen more steps and that chap with the contorted face and staring eyes would be able to dodge behind the overhanging ledge of the porch. Now! Emory's gun smacked against the palm of his hand. The fellow crashed full against the porch. Emory heard Mallory cursing In a monotone, on and on, endlessly, flatly. Interrupted only by the heavy bark of his automatic. Ashwood was silent, his mouth set In a twisted grin, firing slowly, carefully, wasting not a single shot Running men were falling In the sand, some to get up and resume the charge, others to drag themselves away. The two machine-guns ham mered relentlessly, monotonously, Their whining bullets Irritated Emory like persistent mosquitoes on a hot, sleepless night It would be, be thought, those two machine-gum that would eventually turn the tide of battle against the defenders. Their slugs spattered through thi thin sides of the bouse. Only thi heavy barricades stopped them. He glanced again at Ashwood The cripple grinned, pointed at nil wasting not a single shot. automatic, then to a scattering oJ empty shells and held up threi fingers. Three shots left Emorj had loBt count ot his own. He oulj remembered that he had used most ot his last clip. Suddenly his eari became attuned to a new note It the battle. He had been bearing 11 for some time, but It bad not pene trated Into bis consciousness. Thai throbbing, vibrant beat an airplane engine, ot course he listened again, the monoplane. No mistaking that uneven, pulsing drone. "Whoops!" he shouted above tho din of fight "The plane's comlngl Jerry and Stevel" ' . He looked back at bis window. A man stood there, framed in the splintered sash, crouchod, face dis torted Into a mask ot frenzy, bis automatlo foreshortened Into an ugly round bole as it pointed straight, at Emory's head. The flyer braced himself for the Impact ot the bullet His own gun was swinging upward with the speed of light, but he knew he would be too Jate. He could see" thd forefinger tighten on the trigger; Then, suddenly, the man pitched over on top of him. Emory squirmed trom under, glanc ing wonderlngly at the cripple. Ashwood winked at him. "Now we're event" he called. "Much obliged, old top," roared Emory, but the other seemed not to hear. Ho was using his last re maining shot to stop a man who would have reached the barricade in another five steps. Above the all-pervading roar of the airplane engine, Emory could henr the steady hammering ot Its machine gun. Then he saw the plane, as It dived through h!s raoge ot vision. For an Instant he thought It was falling, that It would crash hesdlong Into the clump ot palms which sheltered the nearest enemy mnchlne-gun. But Just as the pro peller seemed about to out a swath through the leaves, the nose lifted and the plane loomed clear, np and up until, whirling around on one wing tip, It dropped again to the attack. (Copyright, TllaX Iress) Jerry haa brought Nancy back afely, but he reallMa tomorrow that no haa promised to releaae her from her marriage vows. Do not go to work on an empty itom- ach. Eat a vnrled diet, Including fruit and vegetable. Do not eat many I aweeta or highly spiced fooda. Drink at leaat elx glaasea ot water dally. Find out what your weight should be for your height. If you are 10 pounds overweight, eat lees of everything, U 10 pounds underweight, eat more at each meal. Hasty eating and swal lowing of half-chewed food are the chief onuses of dlRestlve disorder. Butld up your resistance to disease by getting mff fid lent sleep, rest and proper food.', Aged Pair Hurt In Auto Smashup OKRVAIS, Ol-e., Aug. 30 (AP) Sertoua Injuries were suffered by Mr. snd Mrs, A. Blerwood of Oervals, both paat 10. when their automobile col lided with a truck near here last night. The name of the truck driver was not learned. J. Bsnderwk driver of (he Bierwood car, wu uwnjuxed. MEDFORD MATE G. HELD FOR TRIAL ORANTS PASS, Aug. 19. (AP) Milton Wiley, 38, wu accused of first degrees murder In complaint filed by the Josephine county dis trict attorney, following a week's Investigation of the shooting of TAILSPIN TOMMY SS fZza:s! PLENTYF Sr BOUND TO WIN Ready , By C. M. PAYNE i fvii'i " ill, tassiss ) I Umsmht. 1JI ill il ill : jlfetlilf ..11 COSBV'S SLEEPlNS'lWB HIS 1 ' I ITI3 ASftlN! ITS (M AN HOUR-, J X--COME ON LETS GE? M i I'll I UT 6' ' ' H if St 6HOOTII-4' IRONS AND THEN THE SISNAUBLI H 9 VI SOIN6--ReMEMBEB YOll'Rfi Y . If MVWAV V W$ iX . 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PUNNV-UOOKSM LSTSorrMCK TIMER Tl THINK I (-VOrvtS , I I LOTTA VOTES v fi . UPP06EC Wtj CX1T ECNITEaeTAlNNeXT ? I TWINa MOVING IN -tWE OFFICE ,, ' MOTHIhOa TO VCA-WWacrsi I I OUT TO 'DIME.- I y OHTTIN' VOTfS XJ CAN'T OIT VOTES POM4TWERB? AND MEET HIHA ST'vFI l DO BUT WAIT BEEN KEEPN' I J CHAHMISIC3 i ' 'J T FX5R MSa. ' FWOTA M1S UOTTA 1 ... 1 A HE COME ivA.' "' 1 1 fV.OU 7 VA ? , . WT 1 PERSON ' - p-r 1? VDTEBIHCTViaV- f " r 1 1 -irr-- " -J- 1 J 7, r1 ' rwr t mA mm m v m wmm& TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, John Blmeman, 48, resident of the Jump-Off-Joe district. Wiley waived bearing and was committed to Jail to await grand jury action. State police and county deputies who Investigated Vie case said testi mony of some witnesses at the coro ner's Inquest was false and that some of the witnesses had admitted their errors In signed statements. Blmeman was shot to death Aug. 10 at the camp of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Pryor on Cove creek. Graves Jewelry Shop, one block north of poatoffice. Phone 498-W. The "Smoke Cure!" u;niL t-- rr r- njr-r (Cepjrrlftrt. 1M1, by Tht BtU 8jmJ.citt.lne.) Trad Mirk Rf. U. B. Pit Offlcsj The Hunt Is On . 11 "'.""'''.a.'l. MQ.-I H.HHI', ' tt 1 i":rnt:: X-LI' , f fjl j. jj::i-:-;;:K .'j OREGON", SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 1932. METHODISTS MEET IN TENTH SESSION COQUTLLE, Ore.. Aug. ra TAP) Nearly 300 of the laity and clergy ol the Methodist Episcopal church, south, met here today In the tenth session of the Pacific northwest con ference and assembly, comprising all of Oregon, a portion of Washington 1 I'VE SOT TD GET" BACK V Akir Kit-rcr-i T-P- ; r- ncrD; CAMPAISNJ WE'RE TO MAKE ' . oy oeoree mcManus and Idaho, and that part ot Montana weat of Butte. The Rev. Elmer T. Clark of Nash ville, Tenn.. formally opened the as sembly with a discussion of the mis sionary activity of the church. Of ficers and class leaders of the as sembly were Introduced by J. A. Mc Kee, of Walla Walla, dean and di rector ot the assembly. Classes will continue until next Wednesday. Bishop Arthur J. Moore of San Francisco, who wlfl preside over the sessions, will arrive tomorrow. August coal special, $13.00 per ton. Med. Fuel Co., Tel. 631. 1 THOUSWT YOU WERE fCrilk fL 1 K. I"T. TTJlC 1 TWOUewT SOU WE. RE GOIW& IMTQ THIS CAMPAISfJ IWDEPEMOEMT AMD ALOWE5 AMU I CUL. KUUK I UK7 : J " WIT. U. TO MEET E OF BEER SEATTLE, Aug. 20 (AP) The executive committee of the Woman's Christian Temperance union today selected Milwaukee, Wis., for next year's convention, the date to be de termined later by the officers of the organization. AM.MARTV, OUT 'OOVS SOT TO TALK TWIWCiS OVER. WITH THE PARTY THAT MOM1NJATEO KOU. VOUVE SOT TO STC( TO (VOUR PARTY T WJD, Dl ftTTA PM With the campaign cry of "no com promise," the convention ended to day. Delegates were returning home planning to win the battle for reten tion of the i8th Amendment by elec tion of dry congressmen and dry state legislatures. While the question of supporting some outstanding dry for the presi dency had been broached both out side and inside the convention, Mrs. Ella A Boole of Brooklyn. N. Y starting her eighth year as national president, reiterated again her belief that now was not the time to form a third party. By GLENN CUAFKIN and UAL FORBESt By SOL HESS SO1. TUE PCPP 1 iLluaMtleorrrJ UW8RIOLEO POUTIClAM 1 - ' , ' 1, wn.i HAS HIS POLITICAL., 1 iWEUl.60 BACK AND SET; BRIDLE ,CURS AMD 8ItJ auO EveaVTWiMa A JWKt OlMSTO iBE ASFBEEAWO UM HAMPERED AS A A rr n By BUD FISHER
