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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD,1 OREGON, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 31, 1934.
BLOND
A New Serial
SYNOPSIS: Frank Orahame, the
explorer, with the help of hit pal
Spin Wlnelow. etvnt aviator, hat
retcuedjanioe Kent the movie ttar.
trom a gang of abductort theu
believe to have been led by a man
named Ortega. Janice ditagreee
with them. The day Frank learnt
that Me aviator friend Bill Lang
ton may yet be alive in the Vextoon
Jungle Janice antwert hit propoeal
of marriage Kith a ttap. Fie leavee
her, and Janice hyetertcally trlet to
reach him.
Chapter 15
LANQTON AGAIN
TNNALLY Janice got Wlnalow on
1 th wire.
"Spin," she said breathlessly,
about Frank. He waa hero and
"Ifi
"You mauled him plenty. He cam
to tee me," Wlnslow'a voice was re
mote, faintly accusing. "Frank's
well guy. He's not like us. He
can't take It . . . yet You shouldn't
have "
"Oh, Spin, I know! I knowl I've
tried to get him on the phone, but
he's out or won't answer. I don't
know what to do. I think I'm In love
I like blm very much. I
She heard Wlnslow'a disgusted
nort He aald In an even voice tbat
waa dimly bitter, "You don't know
bow you feel. You haven't got
legitimate emotion; with you It
cornea In cans. It's your mess.
hope you love him. I hope somehow
be marries you. And then I hope
be'll beat bell out of you I"
She heard the receiver slam.
Tears sprang to her eyea. She threw
herself on the chaUe tongue and
lobbed. It was two o'clock In the
morning wben she made her last
tall. .There waa no anawer.
In complete exhaustion she fell
uleep at laat upon tho chalte tongue.
Her final Impression was the ahadow
f ber guard who patrolled the lawn
her employer's Insurance that bis
rtar would not be molested.
FRANK bad walked aimlessly
away from Janice Kent's bouse
with no particular destination in
Bind. He waa sorely hurt and be
wildered. All that old baslo shy
'. less that had been before he knew
lanlce knit In hla attitude toward
women, bad returned In full effect.
Until this moment the relation of
Ibe sexes had seemed very simple
ind uncomplicated. Women had
tertaln outstanding characteristics
love of home and of children; they
were gentle and dependent. One
is lied the girl he loved to marry
him, and she accepted or declined;
that was all.
Ha knew he loved Janice; he be
lieved that she returned this emo
tion at least In parL The test had
ailed; to him there was no re
course. Hla walk brought him near Spin
Wlnslow's place. He saw the stunt-
Dyer tor a brief Interval. At Srst be
made no reference to Janice. 'He
Imply told hla friend that ha was
going away; he was going to prowl
about on his own account to see If
he could discover what had really
happened tr Bill Langton.
But Spin was not deceived. "If at
first you don't succeed," he said
qululcally, "take another slap on
the snoot. Yon get used"
Frank's face flushed a dull red.
He could not prevent the uncon
scious Jerking of hla band toward
bis cheek.
The flyer whistled softly. "Sorry,
old man," be said gently. "Didn't
mean I'm a clumsy fool."
It didn't matter, Frank told him
In a dull voice. He'd lust asked Ja
nice to marry him and she had re
fused blm.
"I came to tell you I'm going away.
Spin. I can't stick It out Yellow,
maybe; but I can't take this sort of
a beating. I couldn't work on the set
with her for months seeing her,
talking with her, thinking abont
her. . . ."
He took up bis hal and walked to
the doer. "So long, Spin. Explain
to Myberg I'm called south. Happy
landings."
Later he found himself walking
deserted streets. He waa uncon
scious of time. In the troth of his
memory wore dim jungle paths, men
tal scenes of warm-washed beaches
spotted wltb lavender shadows of
leaning coco-palms, Finally he went
to his apartment
It was very late. He lay down on
bis bed without troubling to un
dress. He would wait for daylight.
Closing bis eyes he hoped to conjure
up thoughts of salt on his Hps. and
that he sailed over warm seas Into
tropic dusk.
But Janlce'a face smiled at him.
She was In his arms. He caught the
fragrance of her hair; he tasted the
daintiness of ber lips.
Wltb a smothered curse be sat up
right He packed his trunk and his bag.
The sun wss an hour over the borl
ion when he pboned for a taxi. By
ten be waa Installed In a Pullman I
Kogut Wins When
Demetral Fouls
PENDLETON. Jan. 31 ifl" Jack
Kogut, Jos-pound Iowa wrestler, won
the main event bare lut night from
Harry Demetral, 303, Chicago, on a
foul.
jpYEAR AFTER YEAR
TllE staiidard OF quality i
GODDESS
by Herbert Jensen
compartment of the train the mat
In the ticket office had told blm madi
the best connection at Laredo foi
Vera Crux.
By his side was a sheaf of newa
papers, most of which contained
press despatches of transcripts front
the Hydrographle Bulletin, pub
lished at Washington, D. C. Thi
transcript was what later became
known to the world as the famoui
Langton Bottle Paper.
Bottles contalnlnr data to aid In
the determination of and to add to
tho knowledge of current drifts
were thrown overboard and recov
ered as follows:
First poeltlon not given. Recov
ered on January 2, 193, at center
of send bank East Triansle, off the
coast of Yucatan, Mexico, in (ap
proximately) lat 20 66' N.. long.
93' IV West Paper in had condi
tion from sea water. Fragments
believed to be In the handwriting
of William Langton.
The writing (aald the papers) had
been definitely established as Lang
ton's. Upon further examination of
the document the belief was ex-,
pressed that the pigment used In the
writing was bnman blood. This fact
was to be confirmed by laboratory
analysis.
The bottle Itself an ordinary
"pop" bottle seemed to Indicate to
some that the paper was a hoax a
tragic hoax. It true.
However It was pointed out that
the bottle and the beverage It con
tained was largely exported, particu
larly Into South American countries,
and that It would not have been un
usual for Langton to have taken a
supply with him when he began that
Ill-fated flight Further, handwrit
ing experts denied any possibility of
a boat
The paper Itself was a torn-opeu
cablegram envelope. No address ap
peared on the reverse side. Langton
may have carried a supply with him
on the plane.
The message what could be de
ciphered waa meager. The flrat por
tion was fairly legible; It told that
bearings bad been lost about a hun
dred miles south of Belize In British
Honduras. It referred to the hur
ricane, and of his attempt to make
Belize for a landing.
The legibility faded swiftly her.
The word "native" was made out
And startllngly vivid, almost as If
the emotion of the writer had been
concentrated In those four words
was the fragment "I die tomorrow
morning."
SINCE! the general theory appeared
to be that Langton had gone
down at sea; alnce It waa concluded
that the message had been written
with a splinter and blood from a
wound, tbls was Interpreted to mean
tbat Langton bad hopod that soma
native craft-would pick him up, and
that by estimating the rate at which
hla wreckage was sinking he would
die by "tomorrow morning."
Frank Orahame put down the
paper he was reading and gazed out
at the countryside flashing by. To
him that Interpretation made non
sense. No on In the middle of a
storm lashed ocean, hanging on to
what waa left of an aeroplane could
possibly figure with any accuracy a
rate of sinking, even had that per
sonassumed to be wounded and
desperate thought of It In the first
place.
He recalled his own theory: tbat
Langton had gone down In the Jun
gle back of tbe coast It was puz
zling, he admitted to himself, that
the drift bottle bad been picked out
of the sea beyond the north coaat of
Yucatan; yet supposing tbat It bad
floated around from tbe east coast.
Langton could not possibly have set
the bottle adrift down some Interior
point since that coaat had no rlversl
Still, mapa of that coast were
known to be Inaccurate. The coun
try was little explored. Perhaps
there was a river or two tbat topog
raphers had missed, It a topog-
pher had ever been there. Frank
thought not
Once In the smoking room of a
banana boat" enroute to Havana,
Frank bad talked with an unnatu
rally tanned young man with a nerv
ous manner. Later, when remember
ing the Incident be suspected that
the young man traveled In an official
capacity of soma sort, probably a
Navy gum-ihoe, or, to be more exact.
a Department of Justice operative.
This gentleman whoae eyes looked
tired behind their bleached eyelash
es had said something about Quln
tana Roo about natives who
perched In tree-forks abov the
trails, with their throwing sticks
ready, and whose only agreeable
trait was patience.
He said that he knew of only one
whit man who had been through
that particular atrip, that lies be
tween Merlda, the capital of Yuca
tan, and Puerto Morelos on the coaat
opposite the Island of Coiurael.
(CefrriH. Mi, h Berterl line)
Tomorrow, Prank Jumps eff Into
the unknown.
Al Snrll, 131 pounrls, Bllllruts.
Mont., took two straight falls Irom
Bob Stone, 303, Chicago.
Dance at Rogua Ell Saturday night,
February a.
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upon Annabel Johnson, 14-year-old
Willow Grove girl, who has been
ml Ming from her home since De
cember 18.
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In Loa Angeles and was brought
back to this county by Deputy Sher
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The sheriff's office has conducted
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son girl without success. Pour per
sons, Including Logue, have been ar
rested In connection with the case,
but all have denied knowledge of the
girl's whereabouts.
Sheriff Gray has expressed the be
lief that the girl has been entrapped
by a white slave gang.
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ASLEEP NOW?
reached whereby Mrs. Constance May
Gavin will receive approximately 1.
300,000 In settlement of her claim
to a daughter's share of the James
h. Flood fortune, Theodore J. Roche,
attorney for the recognized Flood
heirs, announced today,
Roche emphasized there were a
number , of obstacles yet to toe ov
ercome and that If Mrs. Gavin, wife
of a Loa Angeles bank clerk, event-
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will avoid further litigation, expense,
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said.
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