Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 02, 1934, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextPXGE TWELVE MEDFORD IDLR, TRIBIIST:, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 193?. 3 i BLOND fej A New Srisl SYNOPSIS: mnk Orohame U on his vau to the Yucatan oo'jff t Mearch tor his aviator triend. Btll banuton, who crashed there months belare. Ho has been refused bu Jaiiice Kent, the movie star, and hs hat turned down on offer trom Uv bera. the producer to lead a party to mike a picture in the Uericon iunole tclth Janice at star, Mean while Ortega, in a little Uexlcan fou;it on the luupte's edije. has been trttlna hit marksmanthip by chant ing a little dog in the main etreet. Cbapttr IT ON THE BOAT SOMETIME later a littla meitiia girl skipped around tbt cornsr and stopped short at tht light of the huddle that bad been the dog. "Chlqulto!" ihe cried. Her child' leh treble broke. Tears streamed from her eyes as the (ell beside the little body. Dust, dog and all abe gathered Into ber arms aid knelt there awaylng and weeping. Grahame, strolling around the cor ner toward tbe wharves, caught sight ot the small tragedy before him. He threw away bla clgaret and lifted the child ti her feet. She still .clung to the dog. "What Is It?" ha exclaimed In Spanish, brushing tbe dust from the little girl's dress. There was a fresh flood of tears. ".My little dog! My child. My angel. 'Dead!" Grahams glanced swiftly at the 'bullet wounds and growled, "Who (did It?" "I don't know." Sobs wrenched ber breast. "There, there," be said soothingly. "We will take your child home and bury him fittingly. Here . . ." He pressed a peso into ber hand. "This will buy a wreath and a prayer from I the padre." He lifted the child, who latlll clutched ber pet in ber arms, to bis own, and strode toward the bouse she pointed out "He was so young,". quavered tbe girl. I The town was stirring from Its dally siesta, as, a .little later, Grahams continued his' Interrupted -walk to tbe wharves. He Identified the launch that was to take him down the coast, by bis luggage piled upon the deck. Two mon were Indolently colling ropes, and a figure sat on the deck bouse surrounded with oily rags and cleaning a revolver. "Senor Ortega?" asked Grahame. "At your service," replied the man brushing the rags aalde. The American stared at the gun. "When do we leave?" "Whenever you wish. Imme diately." Grahame leaped down to the launch's deck. He looked again at the revolver. "Was It yon that I beard shooting In tht town a little while agor Don Raoul hesitated. "No," he re plied. "I have beun here for hours." The two men paused with their rope-colling and glanced at Ortega. One of them grinned and turned bis bead. Don Raoul spoke to them sharply and one went below while the t ither loosed the lines that held the craft to the wharf. From below earns tbe sound of the engine cough ing Into activity. An hour later the Progreso light house was a bat point astern, and the Yucatan coast a low line to tbe starboard as they pushed agalnat the Gulf current. Grahame and O.'tega lounged In the cockpit, smoking and Idly watch ing a school if porpoise roll through the waves ahead. TEFORB they bad gotten under way Frank, struck by tht coinci dence ot names, bad asked this Don Raoul Ortega It he were tht ont who had been In the United States a tew weeks before In Hollywood. Also he had anticipated the an swer. Ortega Is a common name in Mexico; so sgsln Is Raoul which Is tbe Latin for Ralph. Nor was he dis appointed. The man had shrugged. "A rela tive, perhaps. Halt the gentlemen In Mexico, I think, are related. Why do you ask? Somo friend of yours?" Frank had filled bis pipe and lighted It "No friend ot mine," be answered. "But I would like to ask him tome questions . . . that he might find difficult to answer." Ortega had given him a flickering glance. He smiled a curiously reti cent smile. "What did you say your name was, senor?" "I didn't ssy," answered Grahame abruptly. He did not like Don Raoul. Thert was something sinister traslre about the big Mexican. But It was fortunate that bt was able to get this transportation around Cape Catoche, and down the coast of Quintans Roo. Tht Progreso port officer had told him that morning that tbt light house tender would not bt making that trip tor weeks yet, hut tbst Don Parliament Done mark shirts. ROME. (P) Fascist members of ltalq's senate and chamber of depu ties (and all eicept a handful ot senators carried over from the old regime belong to the party) have been ordered by the party secretariat to wear bli-ck shirts at all parlia mentary aesslona. EVERYWHERE GODDESS by Herbert JTensten Raoul, a haclendado whose planta tion waa some distance along tbe coast, was leaving that day. Agree ably be found a man to take Grabame'a baggage down to tht wbart and make arrangements for the voyage. Ortega did not look like a planta tion owner. Haclendados kept up the traditions ot tbe Indolent gentle men land-owners. men whose air was that of being aloof from tbt peonage, and whose bands were soft. Since their discussion of his namt Ortega bad showed almost an im pertinent curiosity regarding his passenger. Moreover he had disre garded Frank's avoidance of bis in quiries. Aside from tbe obvious bad taste ot what Grahame considered Ortega's impertinences the man seemed to be Insensible to tbe fact that on the outposts of aoy country a man's motives were his own. There is an unwritten law that a man's Identity shsll not be Inquired Into, nor confidences sought Inqulsl tlveness sometimes bad a penalty that carried a sting with It But still be persisted. "But you cannot want to be left on a little Island off the coast That Island scarcely supports a few fish ing families." Grahame remained silent "Tht jungle, behind the coast at that spot Is uninhabited, and dan gerous." Grahame tossed bis clgaret over side. "Yet, Don Raoul, you have a plantation thereabouts," answered Grahame. "Yes," salt Ortega. He watched tht American closely, "I am famil iar there. It Is not dangerous tor me." The other shrugged his shoulders. "Then wby should It be dangerous for me? I can take care of myself." 'Ah , . ." Tht Mexican looked ei presslonleasly at Grahame. "It Is possible, then, that you seek a dan gerous place, tor reasons of your own, where someone could not fol low?" Perhaps," replied Grahame In- differently. THEY ate just before dusk, tht Inevitable beans and rico, with slabs ot a delicious mackeral-llke fish one of the crew bad hauled aboard from a troll-ilne. Grahame spread his blanket In the bow ot the launch and rolled himself with in It Ortega seated himself In the cockpit with tbe two that composed tht crew and tht American could hear their voices above the chug ot the engine, talking betweon them aelvea. Drowsily he wondered why they had set out no running lights but decided that tht trufflo in that part ot tbe coast warranted no such pro tection. ' He wondered about that point again the next day. They bad been sailing within a quarter of a milt of tht coast when Ortega pointed astern. The crew followed bit ges ture with their gate, and Grahame noticed a smudge of smoke over tht distant hortion. Immediately the helm waa put over and tbe launch headed tor tht beach and a point where tht surf diminished. There were no orders given, but one ot tbe men went be low and the exhaust ot the engine Immediately picked up. As they approached the short Grahame noted that tbe beach swept back into tht opening ot a lagoon. Within a few minutes the launch passed through .he narrow straits and onto tbt placid waters of a la goon that stretched back paralleling the beach. Mangroves hid the lsunc) trom the sea They stopped tht tn glnt and threw over the anchor. Grahame was curious. Tbe thrci men seemed unperturbed anc watched the smoke come closer un til the steamer unquestlonbly be came outlined as an old-time gun boat plowing along at no great speed two miles off shore. Grahame be lieved he could make out the flag It flew as Mexican. He asked Ortega sbout this. "A gunboat surely," he replied. "'Mexican." "And we avoid it?" Ortega shrugged. One could sot tell, he explained, what tht military might do. They had so little to do that they mlgbt stop them and search the launch. It was often done. It was a bother and a great annoy ance, to It was better to avoid tbe meeting. "But even If they searched yon, what could they find?" Juan, tht younger member ot tht crew laughed, and Ortega's fact wrinkled with a sort ot subduad mirth. "They would And occupation, per haps." (CefyriiH, lt)4, h terlerl lews) Orahims learns fact, Monday. an Important OoW KwovriTtl 000 Auto HARHItfBURO, Pa, (UP) ettl- tlca lAiufd today show thtt in 1933 Ptnnny Ivan la's stata highway police men travflM 174.831 mil afoot; 4,- 0&7.310 milt on motorryelf and 879, 327 mlla In automobile. In addi tion, thajr rrcorercd nearly 800 stolen motor vehicle. 0. S. C. CAMPUS PET DIES ATJPE AGE CORVALUS. Ore., Feb. 5. (API After many season of happy life on the Oregon State college campus, old S'MATTER POP -. i fnf ' rn v 1 " fC) ) MSAVJ PUT-TIM' J K-ETC-Vr t-l- T-rA) (12VNA,.W "TV - l ' 4PnfS yVtl i C TlnW-k. mosical evemiks because oust as iWj fU-JV-v fS JtyiCJsr4 JJ k .Jr I MRS PXOMER BE6RK To 5IK6 HE RE - ( Siifc ) I rK& f 7WC MEMBERED THAT HE HAD COME AWAV LUggg ffiyjl ai tCnvHsbt. lW by Tb. Be,, gyadicate, 0 jj HIS TORU&CE PRAU3IK6 1- fCopyrlgbt. 1934. by Th Bell Syndicate, hie.) WlU.IAff& TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy Prefers Airplanes! ' L hlfokbIsi fjswvlso&n! I'm sPaSS?? 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" 1PPARD THE NEBBS Crowded House By SOL HESS j t I r eve siuce that lem "n l f but vumat evert? os s atisp-actiom " es, amd tmat exwAjnjgss'ir kjever. mwo- kjext V" 1 SUDES C&MJ HERS VJITW L ui! Sl )-tf-it WAS -AU-SFn ikj nil V UlPE OP HI'S IS STICKIKJS Itime. this Pt-ACEUJILL BE. J I (THAT (JPSTAUT WIPE, TW I FAMItSy tljMV 3HCWLD IT eERtrkl TMe RITZOMME. kJEVT SO CROWDED, THLL 7 I WiTTLE slides suv boeswr I e ? l kmol im ioo uToS butVkj ) time THEV COME HERE MAVE TO GET" A r--TXb y p- BRINGING UP FATHER ' " '. ! " By George McManus aT HtWoK0) I II JWc.) II J .-M I I V?3kF HI II J , a little walk- -.Si. I looks just aa Sao- et rF V. , i A That CHILD V . , J v I IS OUT- - - I I ! c- -X. f. A.l I LTEM.nAUcJIro.no V 1 r I .7 ) vOj . !Xf. ME A FAVOR? MAKK IT I fTT7 . M - I V "VJ i (' JW fW ik:Sr -458r1 There's No Guesswork in Tribune A. "Qua." an American pit bulldog, la dead at the age of 1 years. For 10 j yera be was mascot of the Delta Up-1 sllon fraternity, and a friend of State ' college atudents. Ous "matriculated" at o'. S. O. in! 1934 with his master, Harvey Dick,' former polo star. He waa renowned ' as probably the champion dog fight-: er on the campus. He was one of the i regular features at D. U. parties, ' m i 1 1 i 1 l I 7T. spending moot of his time on top of the piano st dances until tbe chap ter acquired a new grand some time sgo. The passing of "Qua" elves an unchallenged claim to "Mac" as the meet famoust dog on (.he campus. He i la the huge Newfoundland mascot of) Sigma Alpha Epsllon and. like "Ous." Is now well post oog-s allotted ' PORTLAND. Ore., Teb. 1. span. i The question of what course By C. M. PAYNE SIJR17RRAN HFIP.HTS : BT. FALLS WATER -(API to take In connection with the 1, 800.000 state building program, in view of legal difficulties which bave arisen, waa discussed here today by the state pwa advlsorv board and C. 0, Hoclc- ley, engineer for the board. Among projeca approved was the .b. n... Oalt. ,tr I appucaiiuil i ' system for 13000, embracing a loon of ! 350O and a grant of 15O0. Butte B. C. Circulation Lake In the - Calcutta Issues Opium Termlti. CALCUTTA, Inula (flj Come 3.000 opium smokers have been given per. mlta to continue the habit here un. der rational allowances certified by physicians. The aim of this method la to prevent the younger generation from contracting the habit. 1 By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Falls Is near Crater Medford district.