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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1933)
PXGE SIXTEEN kt znmmm vaiipy " 7 BYMOPBlBi Curt rmnjioii ku oom 10 Hdmonton from a winter in the eub-Arctio. intmiiino to take a nev. and qooA too. Inetead. to Aulp hie former chief in the Koyal Mounted. 4. A Uarlin. he etarte en the moil dlfflcuK man hunt ol hie aareer trailing Iqor Kara khan, international orook. Van couver Curt diecovere that Kara than had known Helen ifathteeon. and from her he learne that a flyer named Qunnar had taken Kara khan on many airplane tripe, and that 1uei at the time the Rueelan had dleavpearrd. Qunnar had made a ewfUclous departure from Van couver, Chapter Eight INTO THE NOR.'H URT went on eagerly: KJ "Now. wh did Qunnar Ue about nil clearance ar"l take on neb a big loadT And why should a Dxlvats plane, which wasn't sched ule-bound, renture np on a day wben the commercial companies canceled their flights and no planes could set In? I'll tell you why Jim Qun nar bad Important business on hand that day! "And one other quest'on: Where did this youngster, who was just an ordinary barnstormer where did 'ha suddenly at the eighteen thou 'and dollars tor a new planet" Baldwin and Holden exchanged fiances of dismay. They had worked nine months on that case and here came along a person v. ho bad struck bot scent almost at once. How ever much they wanted to see Kara khan arrested, Tennyson was show ing them up too badly. "Don't lump to conclusions," Bald win argued. "Qunnar might just have been flying plane-load of whisky to an Indian camp or smug gllng something across the border. A lot of foreigners are taken into the States by air from here." "Maybe so. I'm merely saying that the trip looks suspicious to me. Holden. did that record give you any hint of where be did go?" "Nothing whatever.' The plane Inst went away Into the tog." "You're sure there's no clue?" "Dead sure. Ion can see for your- fcalf. I made a copy of the clearance record." Curt looked at the hastily scrib bled sheet. Gas and oil were the first two Items. Then fjllowed a few trifling purchases cigarettes, chocolate bars, a box lunch. "That lunch." be commented, 'ought to have put a person wise that Qunnar Intended to stay In the air for several hours. You don't take a luncb along on a forty-live minute crow-hop." His linger moved on down and stopped at a, entry wblcb read NC-6, 60a "What's this Item, Holden?" "Some gadget for 'be plane, 1 suppose." Curt believed so, too, but the In finite patience In him 'ook nothing tor granted. He reached the phone, got the airport and asked the parta can what NO-5, 60o meant on a mm. "That? Oh, that's for a Geology Service map them strip maps that ron hang Inside the cabin on roller and roll up or down s you fly along. That NC-6 chart covers the section from Chtlcotln north to thi Grand Trunk. Is that all you wanted to know?" "Quite all," said Curt "Tbanks." Baldwin whirled angrily on Hol den. "What a blighted tlmbertop. you. 'Dead sure nothing whatev er when the record held a clue like thatl And you even copied It!" Bolden's face reddened. Curt In terposed: "It's all right. Holden. 1 caught that because 1 kno some thing about planes. Arn, sent- a con stable down to got one ol those NC-6 charts, won't you?" WHEN the chart came, be spread ' It os a table for a direful study. The map covered a strip 76 miles wide by 400 long, ending at the Grnd Trunk Railroad In northern British Columbia. Red dots showed where pilots could secure gas, and tars where some sort of mechan ical service could be expected. In that thinly settled country there were only two stars and four teen dots. Before leaving, that afternoon, be wrote night letters and sent them to all the places that he coul- reach "by wire. When he walked Into Mounted headquarters the next morning, a pile ol yellow envelopes lay Baldwin's desk. Baldwin picked up one lying by Itself and banded It glumly to him. "You're an uncanny devil, Tenny son," he growled. 'It I bad your luck I'd be Premier. The tolegram cane "im one of the starred places, a ilttl town called Tsllscot, at the Junction of the Grand Trunk and the Lllluar River. A thrill ran through Curt as he read the electrlo words: Plan you deacrlbed landed here en altornoon seventeenth Stop Car ried pilot and paasenaer Stop Left on morning lRlitnli) 8top Desti nation unknown. Countess Carlisle Hurt In Air Crash SHANGHAI. China, Nov. 34 (AP) Couuteaa Carlisle, niece of Sir Miles Lampeon, British minister to Chins, was reported seriously ! MORE SATISFACTION CANT DE BOUGHT, FOR I Within an hour Curt and Smash were flying north In their ship, heading for Tellacet. At the Edmonton hotel Marlln was surprised to have Smash Des plalnes breeze In on him one after noon three days later. "Hallo, Bwasal Where's Ourtt" "Orer In no.-tre:n B. C At a little jerk-water called Tellacet lie sent yon this letter." Marlln silt the envelope hastily. Qood news this soon? Impossible! even for Tennyson. The message was In the numeral code of the Silent Squad. He ail down at tbe table and began decfr pberlng It The laconlo sentences staggered him as he worked them out. OaarA-Kl Baldwin and I picked up Kara khan' trail at Vancouver. A nyar called Gunnar brought blm north to thl place. Karakhan then sent Gunnar out by train and went on north by hlmaelf In tbe plan. I auppoae ho waa too cautloua to lt anybody know his exact destina tion. I nare reaaon' to believe that bs hiding somewhsr In th Lllluar Mountain. A nunorea muse uurm of hre la a poat called Ruaalan Lake, the Juraping-oR place for th Lllluara. 1 Intend to go ther and try to trac him fartfcer. Sine a plana In that country would arous suspicion. Smash will atand by her at Tellacet with the plane, to be on hand If needed ; and the reat of th work will b done by canoe. By th war, don't mention Kara khan to Smash. H knows I'm hunting a man, but It Isn't wis to trust him with any particulars. After h hand you thla, h Is flying over to Athabasca to get Paul St Clair and fetch him here. need help on thla, and Paul Is th only person on earth whom I can trust absolutely. If this turn out to be a wilderness hunt, Paul will be worth ten ordinary men. So far at least it was a woman. Curt. A THOUSAND yards oft the north shore of Russian Lake, Curt and Paul stopped paddling . few minutes and gated ahead at the trading post, looking tbe place over before they landed. Tbe post lay at the mouth of the Lllluar River, a big mountain stream' which had Its origin 800 miles north, near the Yukon head waters. As far offshore as they were. Its tumultuous current tugged strongly against the elder of their canoe. Small and unimportant, the trading station consisted of a gaunt frame mission, a whitewashed Mounted Police cabin and red roofed Hudson's Bay store repre senting man's three anile '. Institu tions of religion, law, commerce. Five trapper and prospector tents were strung out down the land wash; several shacks stood back at the wood's edge, and the leather tepees of a doten Indian families reached up along the river bank be yond the mission. Curt turned bis eyes from the trading post to the blue-hazy dis tance up the Lllluar valley. "Lord, what a country, Paul I" he mused. The wild spirit of It awed him. Range after mighty range marched north out of sight, all of them top ped with glaciers and iuge enow flelds, their slopes cut by moraines and avalanche paths and mile-deep canyons. It was a primordial coun try, aa lonely and appalling as any thing he had seen In tbe sub-Arotlc, Tbe sun bad already abutted down behind the northwest ranges. In tbe evening hush the lake waa as still as a mirror, but far-away west a mass of black thunderbeads prom ised a rainstorm before many hours. A small group of people, gathered In front of tbe Bay store, were look ing at the canoe and poln.iLg! and several men bad strolled out npon tbe little pier to meet It. Tbe post was so wilderness-burled that two strangers In a boat caused a big stir. Paul gave tbe canoe stroke to keep It headed straight. "1 wonder whether Main'selle Luck in Dame Malbeur Is waiting for u yonder, partner?" He spoke In French, as ha always did with Curt. That's what I'm wonderinr. Paul. We're walking Into a big blank question here. We haven't a ghost of an Idea where Karakhan Is hid ing. He may be close to this place or two weeks' foot-slogging back In that Godforsaken Strong-Woods. See those people there? Well, any of them may be a spy of his. He's almost got to have a onn'.ao. man. We'll have to watch every step we take." Paul nodded, scrutinising the post with his sharp eyes. A slender young metis of twenty-three, he belonged to the old and fine olan of Athabascan St Claires, descendant of the proud "Timber Cree" and the old French explorer fighter, lover and far-wanderer. Bom to the Strong-Woods, he was aa bush-wise aa a pine marten or a t Tiber wolf. Between him and Curt a deep silent partnership had grown ip during their year of foot-loose wandering. fCoeyrisat, 1MI. William . Id oxen) Tomorrow, Curt and Paul find a girl In danger. Jured In an alrplsne crash on Chu- aan Island, northeast of Nlngpo, to day. No on was killed. Lincoln Reynolds, Viols, Cel., the American vice consul to Poochow, wals said In advice reaching here to here been slightly Injured. -. MEDFOUD MAIL SALEM, Ore., Nov. 24. (AP) Dla- trlot school boards having school There's S'MATTER POP By C. M. 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PROFE-SOR CLEFFf WELL- I I I I L DOMT -WU A ,Sk w V?CJ HIM I WIM TWIS l& MR,-JGGS- I WANT TO f N CO f EVERTMIMKOF A rTr COULD TMMK OF SOME I TAKE TWO SMClNC LU&SCXM"- I OH-POP! I JrJV LJ CWM'ECKTO film ISS ?V WAY TQ GIT wM BACK J I EACH D.Y AMO I WANT TO J THINK I LL 4S? M SCHOOL? JiMi-i AMNlON-'NG- j . I TO COLLEGE- - I START TO-DAY- ) 2TKT FOR T -5 w -0 g" " ' ; coulee 'jjt t-: c,'l TTtlBTTNE, MEDFOKD, building repairs and grounds Im provements thet can be done with hand labor are urged to take advan tage of the federal financing plan embraced In the civil works pro gram, by C. A. Howard, state super intendent of public Instruction, who Instructs the boards to submit their proposals Immediately in writing to Vielr county relief committees. The types of improvement recom No Guesswork in OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1i, 1933. mended by Howard are interior and exterior painting and calclmlnlng, gen. eral building and roof repair, fence and equipment repairs and Improve ment of grounds. Eads Fuel Oil Delivery has long hose end pump. Call 315. .,. FUEL OIL, any kind. Quick service. Medford Fuel Co.. Tel. 831 SPOT IS MARKED GRANTS PASS, Nov. 34. :(SpD In honor of B. M. Baucom, state Tribune -A. B. C. Circulation- patrolman, killed ,uly 1 In line JZ?Z duty, a marble marker has ln,eul0OT wlu provided by the state erected seven miles north of town police department.- at the snot where he was killed, J. O. Bromley, maintenance engineer for the highway department, said Thursday, The marker was erected by the highway department. The marker Is a large marble block, 8 feet long, 3 feet wide and 4 feet hleh. and was secured at Baucom, whose home was in iea ford, was shot by John Alvln Bar. rler and Harry -A. Bowles when he had stopped them on suspicion of driving a stolen car. PTTBL OIL Any kind. Quick eervlce. Med. Fuel Co.. Tel 31.
