PAUE SIX
BLOND
A IVw Serial
GODDESS
by Herbert Jensen
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S1IKIJKKAN H Ml, HIS . dy uluihj
J-1 (Copyright, 1934. by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
full 1A7J IT
SYNOPSIS: Prank Orahame
met hae been eoved from death at
'.he hand at Uon Haoul Ortega, in
the wilde of Yucatan. Ortega ie.
Frank eusoecte. the tame who tried
to kldnan Janice Kent in Uollv
uood a ehort time before. Sow
Frank le eearchlna tor a clue to the
dteavocarance ot hie aviator friend
Bill tanaton. and Janice, whom he
lovee but who hae refueed him. te
tin her way to Ueiico to make a
film. Juan, a Uerlcan how. itiet line
aareed to ao cith Frank into the
danacroue interior.
Chapter 20
MEXICAN MOVIE
TJORATIO GREENE was discern-
iA solate. For tht flrit tints In hl
life he felt somewhat at a loss. Mex
ico was uncivilized and not at all
helpful.
Everything had gone wrong that
day and indications were that the
balance ot the afternoon would be
equally baffling. Janice was fretful
with him in the heat of the tropic
afternoon. Hogarth, the director,
had damned him tor an ass because
his Spanish had npt been adequate
for the Progreso customs officials
who had pawed over their cameras
and equipment
And this desplt the official per
missions he had secured in Mexico
City en route to Yucatan. McGrath
the production manager, should
have done that, McOrath should
have been at the dock to meet them,
McOrath, who bad taken a previous
boat, should have done a thousand
and one things he had not done, and
now everything was balled up,
"I'll bet," he rapped at Hogarth,
"that he never was here at all. I'll
bet he's swilling beer In some Joint
back In Tia Juana, or some other
place a couple of thousand miles
away."
"Yeah?" said Hogarth wearily.
"What's beer In Spanish?"
"Cerveia," snapped Mr. Greene.
"God knows what it Is In this dia
lect."
Hogarth strolled off. "Hey, wbere're
you going?" called Mr. Greene.
"We're not through with these boxes
yet."
. Down the street a ramshackle sign
hung out Into ths street In crude
.but unmistakable letters It rea
, "Cerveia." Hogarth was headed to
ward that sign. Evidently be bad
learned his flrstjrord in Spanish and
was -aklng use of the knowledge.
Green turned wearily to his
. iboxes. Later he visited Janice at tbe
American Consulate where he had
left her. She was sitting drearily on
the veranda, In a broken-backed
wicker chair. ,
"Consul back yet?" " .' '
"No. I don't think he's coming
either. This place looks as It It had
been closed tor weeks. Did you find
i McOrath?"
Mr. Greene exploded.
"Please," asked Janice.
"Excuse me," apologized Mr.
Greene; "I'm all hot and bothered.
Damn this country. Nothing goes
right. Nobody knows where Mc
Orath Is. Nobody ever heard -f him.
I got all our stuff In the customs
house and they sock me plenty duty,
"I went to a place they call a bank
and 'hey refused to cash my drafts,
o finally I went to a sort of grocery
store snd the fellow told me he
speaks pretty good English to bunt
a dude up who was last sec walk
Ing toward a wharf.
"It took two hours to find him, but
he cashed my draft all right That's
the only break got Hogarth and
the two came, omen are aottlm
drunk at some ba., waiting until the
train starts for Merlda."
' "Is that whi.ro tha ruins are?'
"NJ. That's the .apltal of this
county or state o whatever It la. We
make our headquarters the-e. The
rulna are a day's ride further on.
Why they wanted to come to thla
country It over my head. They can
build seta better and cheaper than
inia location . 111 cost."
"McGrath and Hogarth felt that
we wanted authentlo and accurate
backgrounds."
"Those fat headsl The only thing
authentlo they wanted was the
liquor."
Mr. Greene regained something ot
his fusty aggressiveness. He located
Hogar'h and the two camera-men,
unbent sufficient!) to finish, upon
th lr rather filck tongued Invita
tion, the cool liquid that remained
in a quart bottle upon the table. He
bundled them Into their aests upon
f. in. .
The train whistled and puffed out
of the atatlon. Mr. Greene bad ar
ranged his party at the rear end of
their coach and placed their boxes
so tuat they separated them from
the pa.ked and chattering humanity
further forward.
"There was no first class coach
on this train. The ua ally have one
they told me. Another funny thing:
They have a flat-car behind us with
about twenty soldiers on It and an
other one behind the engine wltb
some i tore army.
"I'll have to ask their General If
I can use them foi extras. We'll need
a couple of hundred for the 'yelling,
howling, savar.es' scenes. They look
too lazy to yell and nowl much but
maybe we cap put a keg ot eer on
top " ' '.t bis - 'ramld at the ruins
and have 'em charge It."
The train rumbled along; Mr.
Greene's voice rose and fell. Janice
Bat listlessly l'l her Beat, smiling
faintly as an occasional crmment of
Greene's amused her. Hogartu and
the two other men bad produced a
bottle with an odd label, and were
parta' ' g of it w'" ' -sltant c.pres-
sic and wry faces.
Mr. Greene was explaining to
Hogarth and his 'companions the
proper Mayan pronunciation ot
Chicben Itza, the location ot the
rulna where their pictures were to
be taken. It was apparent that none
of hla listeners were particularly in-
tereated.
Mr. Green was proving that a
guide-book could be articulate. He
lifted his arm. He paused to draw a
breath. Then, curiously, be half
lifted In his seat. Hla expression was
one ot hurt and startled surprise. He
toppled toward the aisle, and aa he
fell sprawling, broken glass crashed
about him.
The train lurched as It It had
struck a solid obstruction. The pas
sengers were thrown forward. Their
coach ground to a stop.
A WOMAN screamed piercingly;
whflrfllinnn A hv a alpnnl nthar
PORTLAND, Ken. 6. (AP) Twenty-year-old
Melvln Hansen, of Che
.'islls, Wash., who has had no mu
sical training other than "some pi
ano lessons," beamed, reddened and
took some six curtain calls after the
Portland Symphony Orchestra had
played hla "Symphony in C Minor"
during the final matinee concert of
j the orchestra's season Sunday. An
audience of about 3,000 applauded
for more than ten minutes.
J Sunday's performance was the first
time Hansen's composition had ever
' been played In public. Back of the
, presentation Is a story with Horatio
Alger qualities.
Some two months ago, Hansen ap
proached Wlllem van Hoogstraten,
conductor of the orchestra, In his
hotel. "I have a symphony I want
you to hear," he said. The conduc
tor questioned him, learned that he
had obtained .his musical education
, from piano lessons In Seattle, from
talking to orchestra players and from
Usnlng to broadcasts. His only
previous composition had been a pi
ano concerto which he plRyed with a
Seattle high school orchestra In 1031.
Van HoogHtraten tried out tho sym
phony at orchestra rehearsal, and
decided It was" worthy of presenta
tion. "It Is not a great composition,"
lie said, "but It does show an unus
ual talent."
I Young Hansen Is now earning his
living by playing the piano for a
Portland Sunday school. He has no
definite plana for more musical edu
cation, but is working on other com
positions. IT'S STILL PONDEROSA
SAYS SUPREME COURT
WASHINGTON. Feb. 43. The Unit
ed Statea supreme court today re
fused to reconsider its recent de
cision sustaining the order of the
federal trade commission directing
the Aigoma Lumber company and
eleven other companies on the Pa
cific coast to stop selling lumber and
other products made from Ponderosa
pine a California white pine.
Oil Tax Proposed
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. (AP) A
one-tenth of a cent tax a barrel on
oil at the well and another one-tenth
of a cent on oil aa it reaches the
refinery was proposed to the house
ways and means committee today by
Secretary Irttes.
GIVE IT A WHIRL
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FRS) PrUFr 5HOYET.IKG HIS VRWEWM AND
ERNIE" PLUMFR, SHOVELING HIS FROST
WALK, WERE HAVING A PLEASANT "pME CHATTlKfi
As ihev worked, uwti- free discovered that crnie
Was dumpiks' AR HIS snow ON fpED'S coat
. Which he had LAID CAREFULLY "solded
on -the SNoirJ beside him ,
Guiyas
WRUAT7S
S MATTER POP-
By C. M. Payne
A RKKDY and plilegmy whistle
sounded. Mr. Greene mopped
his face with a wet handkerchief
and observed that they'd better get
going as it probably was the train
coming in to takr them to Morlda,
an hour's rids In from the coast.
"If It's any '..otter when we work
t the ruins," he grumbled, "we'll
need asbestos grease-paint. . The
Kle' i got no ' In;, on thl sun.
They be -- 1 the Irak.. The day
was cooling 'i . the approach of
dusk and the sbon quick shower
that spattered them as they loaded
the boxes, made the air appreciably
more comfortable.
women took up her cry, and men
ahouted. Janice heard, above the
noise within the coach, the crash of
exploding firearms. Glass from the
windows shattered about her, splln
tors flew fronj the woodwork.
Then s suddenly as It had Begun,
the sustained . rattle of firing
topped. There was an occasional
shot, then a small volley or two, but
the firing was not directed toward
the coach. " , -
Janice looked at the other passen
gers. The natives huddled together
or crouched near tho floor. Their
first excitement had ceased and aha
heard them talking together In low
murmurs, the word "revoluclonls-
las" was repeated often. .
Hogarth and the two camera-men
were down behind their seata. A
Mexican waa standing In tha aisle
cutting at the sleeve of another, and
a woman waa sitting close by tear
ing at a white garment. Janice's
glance dropped to the aisle near her.
Mr. Greene was sprawled on hla
face, his bsre, slightly bald head
within a yard of her toot.
"Hogarth!" she cried. "Greene Is
hurt!"
Swiftly the girl knelt beside tha
lax body ot Greene. With efficient
atrength she rolled him halt upon
his back. She cried sharply as she
saw tha mass of blood that stained
bis thlrt front.
"Hogarth!" she exclaimed again.
"Get aome water from the cooler. A
lot of 1L I . . ." She sobbed a Uttle
with excitement. She pushed
Greene'a coat back from his shoul
dors. Her fingers tumbled at the but
tons on the bloody shirt, "Oh, dear.
a knife please, somebody give me a
knife. OK poor Mr. Greene!"
Hogarth dashed u cup-full of water
upon Greene's face. One of the camera-men
knelt opposite Janice and
began to rip with a pocket, knife al
the underwear beneath tbe shirt
The man they were working or
4ghed deeply; hla eyelids fluttored
"Ow," muttored Mr. Oreone.
Another cup of water waa dashed
upou him. This time against bli
chost. The liquid slushed away th
oiooa and snowed a ragged red well
across the white skin. Greene atrsg
gled to sit erect.
I.le still," commanded Janlci
aoftly. "You've been hurt"
fClf si. IW. ir HnkH '...)
Tsmarraw.
turns up again.
a viry bad panny
BANKRUPT RENTER
GETS CLEAN BILL
WASHINGTON, fb. . (AP)
The supreme court held today that
tenants who break leasea by going
Into bankruptcy do not have to pay
damages covering future rents.
The derision, rendered In two
caws appealed from New York, was
considered of great Importance be
naiise of the number of rental leasea
cancelled by bankruptcy proceedings.
Landlords contend bankruptcy In
many Instances was resorted to solely
for the purpose of breaking leases.
They said this was particularly true
of chain stores.
North Carolina dairymen estimate
they sold eio.000.000 worth of milk
to urban consumers last year.
RATTLESNAKE STORY
WIDELY CIRCULATED
A clipping from Vie Omaha Even
ing World-Herald, forwarded to Med
ford residents of that city, shows
how far a strange bit of news may
travel. The clipping la a copy of
the "Strange as It Seems" feature
and In It appears a drawing ot a rat-
llenke puncturing a tire. Beneath
It the story Is told of Just such
happening here last summer.
John His. who writes and draws the
reature, waa a visitor In MM ford
during the pt year. T,1e clipping !
im on display at the chamber of
commerce today.
North Carolina State college salt
mates ths lro.u mr-omr- of farmers t
tli.lt st.itr was :00 OD0.OO0 la.t vi-.o
compared with IWO.000,000 In ls.
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