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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
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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!"
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The Hunt Is On
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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
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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
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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
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