PJHE EIGHT
JEEDFOUD MAIL' TRIBUTE, MEDFOTtD, OREGON, THTTRSDAT, SEPTEMBER 7, 1933.
IIul. HIDDEN DOOR
BY FRANK L. PACKARD
KryoPBltl ifter week at
vandering about Sv York' un
derworld diegulted a Clarkut
Lnnn, a crooti, Colin Bewttt at lart
hat com upon the trail of th
Mak, hi quarry. Th Mam hat
threatened volin't Ute: now Colin
suddenly find himielt a member
ot on of th ataek' gang, Benny
Valon. tn a room behind a Httl
Boat Bid tobooco thop.t insrruct
ing him U th layout. B will work
under a man known a Buek. on
0 th ttaek'e lieutenant. Bnny
detcribe th "Win Pre," for
merly a come-on fotnt tor slum-mine-
parti, now bemff used Of
headquarter by th Uaek, and
tell of the owner of th Win
JrM, KeopeUtein.
Chapter ft
PLEASANT PROSPECT
"I F you taw anybody on th poroh,"
laid Benny Halone with a mali
cious crln, "It was old Keppelsteln
and nobody else, becauaa ha Urea
there all by his lonesome, and he's
too much ol a miser to let anyone
else sit In one of his chairs without
paying-for It!"
Colin looked puttied.
"You don't mean that he's In on
"Him!" ejaculated Benny Halone.
"Nix! He's as dirty a crook as there
s in New York but he ain't our
kind of crook. He'd slap a court order
bn your (alee teeth If you owed him
money.
"Th only thine he's in on her
la his rent and he eomes around to
let It from Barney before breakfast
the first of every month. Ha owns a
tot of pioperty and la worth a lot of
money, but nobody ever knew him
to blow any of It eren on himself!
'Born day. If h lire long enough,
lomebcxly'll bump him off. I'd take
th ob on myself and anjoy It He
put a widow and three kids that
lived in a tenement he owns In the
next block out on the street in a hell
of a storm a oouple of days ago.
What do you know about that? But,"
Benny Malone admitted grudgingly
"ha makes a hot blind for nt here
fnst the same."
. "I get you," laughed Colin. "Bay,
I feel like a kid at school putting bis
band up. What else hare I got to
learn T"
"How to get In and how to get
nt and that you're never to come
her unless you're sent for," re
turned Benny Malone. "And get that
last good and hard, darkle! This
tint any clubhouse, and there ain't
tny losing done around here.
"Mr. and Mrs. Barney are sup
posed to be respectable. Beef Only
, the big shots Uke Buck O'Mara and
Helmle Schwann eome hers when
they like, and sometimes when
there's a big Job on one or two of
them sleep here being the roomers
I was telling you about that the Bar
neys sometimes take In.
"The rest of us aren't here more'n
once a week, and sometimes not tor
two or throe weeks only when
we're wanted. And when you're
wanted you'll get a card with W. P.
en It and the hour, or else the same
thing over the phone. Barry?"
Colin licked his llpt greedily.
"I'm sucking It In," he said.
MTTELL, then," said Benny Melon,
' ' "listen to the last shout If you
bare to show up here In daylight
use the store, or else go down and
ee It Solly's got your shoes mended
yet Switch about, shuffle your cards
seel ,
"If it's dark there's another way
In. Duck Into the alleyway alongside
here and then around Into the lane.
There's a door there that opens off
this lower hall. It's got a latch. Lift
the latch and you'll find the head of
a nail only It's a push button. Push
It ones, wait a second, then push It
twice two oulck ones and one of
the Barneys will let you In.
"There's another door there, a lit
tle farther away from the alleyway,
but don't monkey with that It leads
to the back stairs, and the big shots
jars the only ones that hare got keys
to It There ain't anything else
that"
A form hulked suddenly In the
doorway and a man came Into the
room. Benny Malone, as master ot
ceremonies, performed the introduc
tion. Th man's name was Klengell
At Intervals of some few minutes
two mora men appeared stocky
haps like the first with weather
beaten faces. Again Bonny Malone
went through the rites. The latest
oomers answtred respectively to the
names ot Smudge Rllrea and Oeor
dte Napp.
"Helmle Schwann's right-bandars,"
Benny Malone announced for
Colln's benefit "Clarkle here la a
new one. Any more to comet"
PORTLAND, ore., Sept. ". (AP
Th speedy response of a young
boatswain and an elderly dock con
struction superintendent averted
jshet might have been a tragedy yes
terday when one of th women tea
tog th liner Oeneral Pershing off
No on In particular being ad
dressed, th man who had been In
troduced as Smudge Kllrea an
swered. "Nope!" be said. "Thraa of the
Heet'll b all that's seeded. But
Where's Buck?"
"Her!" said role omrtiy from,
th doorway.
Colin looked up. A sandy-haired
man. with thick, bushy, sandy eye
brows, and a tight, determined
mouth, met his gase and th mouth
suddenly relaxed Into a not unpleas
ant smile.
"Hello, Clarkle," Buck O'Mara
flung out "I hear you'r Joined up.
We'll get to know each othar bet
ter." He lookad around th room.
"An set h? except that I harent
heard from Helmle. Do any of yon
know whether he's been In?"
Benny Malone dragged from his
pocket th snralop that Helmle
Schwann had glren him.
'Helmle was-ber a little while
ago," h said. "He told m he
couldn't wait but that this was th
dope you wanted and I was to giro
it to you."
Buck O'Mara tor the nrelopa
open, attracted a sheet of paper, and
studied the latter attentively for a
full minute then he broke Into a
grim laugh.
"Soma boy, Helmle I" he ex
olalmed. "It looks like the goods to
ma but yon thro birds ought to
know. What do you say?"
He handed th sheet of paper to
Smudge Kllrea, who studied It In
turn, while Klengell and Oeordle
Napp peered orer Kllrea's shoulder.
"Okay by me," stated Smudge
Kllrea tersoly. "A blind man could
And It"
"Sam hore," said Klengell.
"Me too," said Oeordle Napp.
"All right then," said Buck
O'Mara briskly. "Soatterl The rest
Is all fixed. We'll be right on your
tails. And tomorrow night show up
here around tan, you three I'll ba
her and there'll be a out for yen to
take to th hoys no matter what
happens tonight"
Th three left th room.
rUCK O'MARA turned to Oolln.
"Erer read the papers, Clarkle?"
ha Inquired abruptly.
"Part ot 'em," Colin admitted
with a grin: "but I pass up the eye
wash and the noise the menagerie
that's In politic makes."
"Brer read about a mob a tew
weeks ago that waa doing a nice
quiet little business down on the St
Lawrenoe turning out the queer?"
Colin a face was Instantly Intent
'Sure!" he said. "Everybody's read
about that Somebody muscled In
and put two ot 'em on the spot"
Buck O'Mara barked out a laugh.
"And then some!" he said thinly.
"The papers don't know It alt Be
sides the two, there was another
on that got a hid full of lead and
had a tough break between trying
to get well and keeping under cover
at th same tlm. And also there
atnt any nice Uttle business down
there any more."
There was only on man that
Buck O'Mara could be talking about
Latarre. Latarr had pulled
through and was alive, then! Colin
rummaged for a match as he hung
a fresh cigarette on his lip.
He stared Inquiringly, a Uttle be
wlldsredly, at Buck O'Mara.
"I'm not sura I get you," he said.
"What are you asking me It I'd read
about that for?"
Buck O'Mara laughed, but went
on without answering.
"This guy that almoat got the
works happens to be a good friend
of somebody Important around tyire,
see? He knew all about that St
Lawrence country, and a lot mora
as well. And that Uttle buslnesa up
there that was Important to this
earns somebody."
Buck borrowed a Ught Colin waa
fascinated by Buck's cold, precise
movements, and with hit own knowl
edge ot what actually happened on
the St Lawrence, had pieced to
gether a far mora complete version
of the story than Buck waa likely
to tell him.
So, these guys being friends, we
took paint to find out who did it I
thought you'd like to know that any
one you ute your rod on tonight, and
you'll have plenty ot ute tor It a
only getting what he atked for.
Come on, left go."
(Oonright, till, Fran a. Pachar)
Colln's esreer of "crime tek.ee
hm on tho high an, mindly;
fell from th deck her.
Mrs. RusmU Amlth of Portland was
waving goodbye to friends aboard
just at the liner ws making ready
to leave, ah lost her balance and
plunged into the water several feet
below, narrowly mining a string ot
logs. 3. Moller, boatswain of the
Oenmal Penning, and O. Reld, con-
struotlon superintendent at the
dock, plunged quickly to Mr.
Smith's raecue. and shortly bed bar
aboard th ship.
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Broken windows glaaen by Trow
ends cabinet works.
NO FAT OF LAND
FOR NEEDY FOLK
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. (API
Harry L. Hopkins, federal emergency
S'MATTER POP
TAILSPIN TOMMY
BOUND TO WIN-Ben's Grand Idea!
JONTHAN,VVE SOT A HUheCVtl
YOU AND I HAVE BCTTH POUND
OUT THRT THESE MOUNTAIN
PEOPLE ARFt PRBTTV Bonn
FOLKS AFTER AU- AND THAT
TFTrTNS to do
PROTECT
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THE NEBBS Who'.
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rs t5YZg STTUAW frtisiY soaew vawo are: these people that i shouldN
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BRINGING UP FATHER By George McManu.
I suE8a n-i AuRkawT to so 1 1 iXa out two U . . ---axin I f ont-TTk you souta . n"l I -vvj-r , . .-,)t ' i
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There's No Guesswork in Tribune A. B, C. Circulation
relief administrator, today told a
press conference th "whole picture
of th unemployment situation from
top to bottom shows inadequate re
lief. Releasing figure showing a drop
of 63 per cent In the number of
families depending on public relief
and a decline of 10.8 per cent In the
amount ot money spent in July
compared with June, Hopkins said
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The Treasure Ship It
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HffilF W6a, HERE'S THE OOPS : x VAMT To INS) ITeT
YOU AND USTTA VJANT TO ) 6M,BLST HOVJ AM
m2s&. &" MARRIED AND I 1 1 SOIN'TO DO IT
fil THINK IT VJOLM-D BE I VMVTH BOTH THE I
ffiS SVgeu. IF YOU INVITED 1 PREACHER AN' I
f spr -l cvBKTMOUr irM hoot NUBTiCEtrvEncB l
yvj nv yep ovmu hoiiom to e.e bbim'Sniped by s
this meant "the peopl in need are
not living off the fat of the land
through relief."
He added the government was
"putting up from 65 to 60 per cent
of th relief money now and If the
"adequacy business" Is stepped up
as It should be. Hi going to cost us
a lot more money "
T
O. S. Rose for Elbertas. I
By C. M. PAYNE
Crippled
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BAN PRANCIBCO. Sept. 7 (API
Building permits In 66 Pacific coast
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DOKNT CARE WHO KrfOWBTf
NO, YOU OONfT SET ME YET T
INVITE THE NHOLE. TOWN TO
L030NIE' PTHe MANSION
FINISHED, OR NEARW FINISHED,
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IT ISNTT, HAVE fT AT THE FARM
rrourvE sot the uceNee
AND NE CAN SET
PREACHER AT.
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cities totaled 18.310,508 In August,
a gain of 86.0 per cent over August
last year. H. R. Baker & Co, report
ed today.
Seventeen cities recorded gains
over botn August last year and July
this year. Normally there Is a mod
erate decline In building permits In
August from July.
The 36 leading cities Issued per
mits totaling et,835,S38 In August,
Wo CM A LMYU PRESSURE
wwie, nttouv 6m way ia
&0BS
(OopyrlgH 1933, by the Bell Syndicate, Inej
BEN WEBSTER! THAT'S THE MOST
CONSTRUCTIVE
EVER HPiD N
DO IT I CL.L.G WE
FOUta TUB Btf5T 6HINUIQ THEr EVEH
MfcRrXD ItiL-V-Ol WH",AFttK TMS
NEDOIr-V I MIGHT EVEN INVITE OL.D
compared with IS.070,778 In July and
13.389,683 In August. 1933.
"
Cleaning and Pressing, the Camelo
serves you right. Pree delivery. Tel.
1260. Members N-BJV.
Phone 643. Well haul swsy your
refuse. City Sanitary Service.
See E. Rose for Elbert as.
Bv GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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taxti no nsr(M
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By GLENN CBAFFDt
and UAL FORRESI
By EDWIN ALGER
THOUGHT FER ME YOU
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THESE HERE MOUNTAIN)
SILVER IN TO EAT
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