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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TEN MEDFOTCD MAIL TRTBUTCE, MEDFORI), 'OREGON. SUNDAY. AUGUST 2(5, 1931. GN&w SjvuoS lnj (jcuv&uwvi AlcvuL. BYNOPSIB: The OIkii cap tain Wona Bo and the American radio operator Flint are totnt ownere ot the diereputable (ramp freighter "Boldero." and plan to ecutlle her tor the insurance. Annus AtcLeod. catcher ot wild ani mate, ie aboard with a menaperte. Be ie etricken with apoendtcitte and the "Boldero" pute in at a email Dutch vorl en route to Blnaa pore. Ilarveu Bowers, bin onme Atmter. comes aboard with the port doctrr. Chapter Two SCOT IN TROUBLE "I UNDERSTAND," Bowers said, "that yon are on your way to Singapore, and only put In here be cause of sickness." "It's McLeod!" exclaimed Flint "The animal catcher. Appendix, I guess." "And what's the plan?" asked Bowers. "Do you leave him here and then go right on to Singapore?" "Shouldn't wonder," said Flint "At least, we will be beading that way, but you can't tell how long an old tub like this will hold together." "I want to get to Singapore In the worst way," said Bowers; "and I am hoping you will have room for me." "Room enough," said Flint "But you'd be too damned uncomfortable." "Between you and me," said Bow- "Let's have a look," be said. That morning McLeod bad not made bis customary change from pyjamas to the usual two-piece suit of white duck, so that his afflicted side was easily bared for elimina tion. Van Reiner's diagnosis was by eye alone. A lump like the end ot ben's egg told him the whole story. He laugbed cheerfully. "You've got at appendix like a rotteu mango," be said. "If we can gel you to the hospital before It bursts, you'll be on your feet again In two weeks." If Instead ot two weeks, Dr. Van Reuter bad said two years, McLeod'a spirits could bardly have been sunk more deeply. His pain was momen tarily forgotten. "Two weeks!" be exclaimed. "Do you know what It costs to teed these beasta for two weeks, to pay the port expenses of the ship for two weeks, and on top of that the bill at tbe hospital? Man, It can't be donel I think I caunot afford to die, and so I come running to you; and what do I get for all my trust and confi dence? You tell me I can't afford to live." TTAVINO diagnosed McLeod'e -1 trouble, Van Reuter almost au tomatically began to prepare an In jection ot morphine. While ha was FOOD PRICES HIT HIGHEST LEVELS IN PAST 3 YEARS WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. (AP) The highest level of wholesale food prices since August, 1931, was re ported today by the labor department for the weelc ended August 18. For the same amount of food the retailer had to pay II In 192a, he had to pay 4 cents last week. The department's Index for the weelc was 2.9 per cent above that for the previous week and 10 per cent above that for the corresponding week last year. Wholesale commodity prices In gen eral rose to 76.1 per cent of the 1926 average, an Increase of 0.S per cent over the previous week. The farm products group also reached a new high for the year. The Index for the week was 68.9 com pared with 67.6 a year ago and 49.9 two years ago. PENDLETON, Ore., Aug. 25. (AP) Howard Blonlger, 20, of Gibbon, se riously injured In an automobile crash west of here yesterday, was re ported Improved at a hospital here today. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 24. (AP) The Rev. Theodore J. Bernards, pas tor of St. Joseph's Catholic church. Salem, will care for religious needs j of Catholics In the various state in stitutions near Salem, It was an-1 nounced today from the office of j the archbishop, Edward D. Howard, i FOR JOBLESS IS OF HOPKINS Use Mall Tribune want ads. WASHINGTON, Aug. 35. (AP) Relief Administrator Hopkins, turning from a six weeks' study of European relief methods, said today he had come reluctantly to the be lief that "we have got to have a cash benefit somewhere In the picture for persons thrown Involuntarily out of work." The administrator said he was firmly convinced that unemployment Insurance must be fitted Into the New Deal. He predicted revival of the Wagner Lewis unemployment Insurance bill which was Introduced In the last congress. It would have levied a fi per cent tax on payrolls to be turned Into an Insurance fund Hopkins said he brought back from Europe four or five definite Ideas to lay before President Roosevelt. He would not discuss their nature. He Indicated that work relief pro jects would be hastened with the approach of cold weather and that the civil workst program, wlch gave temporary Jobs last winter to 4,000, 000 persons, would not be used again. He said he did not believe any forms of unemployed Insurance used In European countries would be workable In the United States. I A pair of buckskin gauntlets once owned by Jack London attract atten tion of young visitors to the Pan handle Plains museum at Canyon, Texas. CALIFORNIA LISTS SAN FRANCISCO. Aug, 25. (AP California Packing corporation today posted opening prices for canned fruits showing advances over the previously posted figures. Reasons for the advances were given as improved buying demand and Increased oper ating costs. Apricots, peaches and cherries showed the greatest Increases. Apri cots showed an average of 50 cents. No. 2 choice being $2.10 against $160 In 1933, and other grades ac cordingly. Peaches were 30 cents above 1933 opening prices for the best grades and cherries go to $2.20 from $1.90, No. 2'i choice and 12 from $1.45 No. 2 2 standard. Advances In other lines run from 10 to 20 cents. SPECIAL DELIVERY By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Crown Willamette Reports Earnings PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 25. (AP) Net Income of S450.846. equivalent to S2.29 a share on the 200,000 shares of first preferred cumulative stock outstanding, was reported by Crown Willamette Paper company for the three months ended July 31. PORTLAND, Ore!, Aug. 24. (AP) George W. Thatcher, Portland lumber man who died August 14, left the hulk of his SIOO.OOO estate to tits widow. Kate Thatcher, probate of hla wll showed. IS A8S0R8EP IH EXCIflfte BOOK WHEH FATHER CALLS FROM UPSThlRS TO Tif ASE FETCH HIM THC HUMMER. FROM -THE CEILAR SEVERAL SECONDS LATER, FATHER REPEATS RE CWE&T, CAUS HE'5 OH THE WAV STARTS 0WTHROU6H PlrJlrJ6 ROOM KICKW6 POOR WIDE UItU TOOT EASE& HIMSELF THR0U6H SWIN6 POOR OF (WW TUMBLES FOR CELLAR- U6HT SWITCH GiiMA Wiamns 60ES POWK CELLAJ? STAIRS Pi) US DRAWER OF WORK STEP BY STEP, BOOK 6F.TTirli BENCH OPEN WITH ONE MORE AND MORE EXClTlriS . HAND, AMD TOMTJLES ik tr (Copyright, 1934. by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) RETURNS &0WIY UP STAIR WHILE FIMISHW6 CHAPTER. AJD HAKDS FATHER ThE SCREW DRIVER. g-2S 8 MATTER POP Bv C M. Payne "Your ship looks like Aladdin's palace," ssld Bowers. irs, "I don't believe you know wbat t Is to be uncomfortable. 1 have leen a year In the Jungle. Your ship ooks like Aladdin's palace to me." "Tbls awful smell!" objected riluL "1 like It," said Bowers. ."The fact Is, 1 want to get to Singapore, and I don't care bow 1 get there." "What's so nice about Singapore?" isked Flint "It's the lights," said Bowers, with a quick wink ot one eye. "1 (eel a great need ot lights. Lots and lots ot white lights, and a. sprinkling of red ones. I Invite you to dine with me our first night ashore. Is It a bargain?" "It would be swell," said Flint, and bis enthusiasm was genuine. But tor various reasons be did not wish Harvey Bowers to sail on the Uoldero. Flint knew her to be a doomed ship. He liked Bowers at first sight, but Bowers did not tit Into the schema ot things. He could be nothing but a complication. On the other hand, it tbe port au thorities made a point of It, they would have to give him a berth. Flint and Captain Wong Bo could not af ford to take any stand which might arouse suspicion. A NOUS McLEOD had heard the rasp of the doctor's launch alongside, the approaching voices of Wong Bo and Van Reuter, and their steps along the deck. This, as Is often tbe case with a sick man, distracted him from his pain and gave blm moment's op tlmlsm. With the coming of scientific- help, bis own responsibilities toward himself were ended. "Well," said Van Reuter cheer fully, "what sCcms to be the mat ter T" McLeod, who had been writhing consltlersbly In bis discomfort, and was now lying Oat on bla back, touched bla right side lightly with the tips of bis fingers, and made an attempt to be gallant and bumoroua "Whatever It may be. Doctor," he said, "It Is one of the tew things of which I am possessed, that I would be glad to part with." Van Iteuter emlled In response to McLeod'a mood, and went down on one knee. Slusc1 I Caki V vam! Wou r( Suppose You maTn ' TlaWColtTo-p1 Coulkm't Tt) SiTizoKes okj owe Houe.1TieE6) i loaw Mt op vo7 f:: i 'iS, Voo Do rffjow ) ' Sj Jj fc (Copyright. 1334. by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) TAILSPIN TOMMY The Sheriff Isn't Convinced! sponging McLeod's upper arm wltb alcohol, the sick man still further complained. "I was taking the beasts to Singa pore," he said: "and now It looks as If we would all go to hell together." The Jab of the needle Interrupted blm. The point must have touched a nerve, for be gasped and grunted. Van Reuter laughed. "You will be comfortable In Ave minutes," he said. "1 have bearers and a stretcher In the launch. We will rush you to the hospital and j have you on the table In an hour." ! "Is there no other way?" asked McLeod. "Wbat would happen If I refused to be operated on?" 1 "Well." the doctor explained, "the pain would leave you more sud- ' denly than It came. That would 1 mean that your appendix had burst. I Presently a different kind of pain would set In, peritonitis; and yon would be a dead man. It's the ex pense tbat'a worrying you. Why not let your menjgorle go on to Singa pore without you?" It was not only the expense which troubled McLeod. As a matter of fact, be had bad two fortunate years and could well afford It He waa troubled about the animals them selves. They needed expert care and management. He voiced the diffi culty. "There Is no one on the ship." he said, "who knows bow to care for them In one way or another, what with madness and worrying, 1 would lose the lot ot them." "Well," aald Van Reuter, "mayb 1 have got an answor for that." He looked about blm and located Harvey Bowers. There were two tigers In McLeod'a collection, a mala and a female; and Bowers was ex plaining to Flint that the Jungle did not contain two liner specimens. The beasts themselves were mag-nltk-ently undisturbed by the at tention they were receiving. They did not return It. So far as they were concerned, the two men who dis cussed them did not exist. Van Reu tcr called to Bowers. (Crrttkt. IvJt, h G94ner ksrtit) Tomorrow, ths strinoe group plins to eeve a atrangtr cargo. 6 Jmsr CMGSem WITH COMPLICITY IN A POSffcTPV, AND OF .'MirtS MS PssseiYeee, towy iVia aio TA! 70 TMYX; 3ti r sxreereQ VTG0&4 T70M M4 ?Oa&0 VV 70 S OLD SLF' )MD rV MS (VVCIV0 J PMV TV that's right, svceets WALTERS "OR WHAT EVER HIS NAME tOAS-OIDNT THROW THE DIAMONDS OUT OF THE 6H1P-STILL E SHERIFF COULDTST FlNO THEM THERE.-- .BUT "THE, CROOKS MAY THINK THEY'RE STILL in the plane mmmr ( til ' II I II VIIIIX am inM MA. 6OLLV! tO&RE B6GINNIN' TO Click- - do "rtxi THINK THETV IaJILL---. 7S ( THINK THE BANDITS ) WILL COME BACK HERE V x&Cperhars tonght-to seacch C THE SHIP FOR THE. MISSING J a. r)U DIAMONDS-- -rTf?NT - SHERVFF, VO LIKE TO SPEND THE N16HT IN 0IK& HANGAR--I'M POSITIVE. I CAN CATCH TWE KILLER , LOITH SKEETER'5. HELV- - SI " """"7 . 4 i3r5so-- J By Hal Forrest VOU'RE GOING O SPEND THIS NIGHT IN JAIL. , YOUNS FELLOtO- AND MAYBE YOUR FRIEND 5KEETER, BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Finding Briar PAYETTE FIRE FANNED TO ml 1 WATER -THIS IS iFfM, TH6 WABEHOUSE HELLO.' THERE'S TRAPDOOR ME CAME OUT Or MigM THAT C fZV; By EDWIN ALGER THE NEBBS To Be or Not To Be . .wrr-J BRIAR. YS-- Bv Sol Heps BOI8B. Aur. 25 (API Whllf the major f lr in the pytt fnrMt flnm yl out of contral, fire line on tli bl7 in the Bolne Nutlonal forwt hrM firm. mump in the 30.000 acre Boiw burn contlmtfal to mnoke but tretKli m prevented It tprradlng Into new The numbrr of men on the Boie fire wjin being gradually reduced. Wind whipped the fire on ftkull creek In the Payett foreat to new fury today and fire llnea gave may before It. Tualatin River Claipis Another TIOARD, Ore , Aug. 35. (AP) Adrian Anderecttee, 19, of Mnltno. mah. Ore . today was lloted M all ot hrr drowning victim of the Tuala tin river. He Mppfd from raft yeMerday and drowned before frlenda could reach him. . Assess Workers Railroad Pension PORTLAND, Ore, Aur. 3ft )AP ' Gordon White, 17, died today from back and head tnjurle aufferec! when he rih-ed into ehaliow mater In the Columbia river yesterday. MtVVOe I'M A, FOOL- APTER. A ( AUV- FOR. MOT MA,R.RVKJt3 r - V XriBV I WD THAT IDG J c TW WMEKJ 1 CAME DOWNJ J - I '. BUT WE DlDKJ'T UAVE THAT IDEfV ..- A.SJO WOW THAT COSJNJie. IS OtO HER WAV BACK , HE1 CHAJOSED HIS rl 1NJVJ MIS M 1NJLJ SO HE OJV.V WAklTJ ME. FOR. MW LOOKS OUST LIKE HE'D pick out a. KjecvsTie oe some- TWINJ& HE'S GOT A.S MUCH SEMTIMEMT AS A. STATUE BUT rtMC-f SCtV ME HAS A. MIL.LIONJ DOLLARS' VXTAT CHAVJSGS iekJ rS3-TTT'Vv.-J s 'j jo r i i r i i BRINGING UP FATHER IsAke Junaliukd, N C , aumnier ra wmbly Rround of the Mthixl'.5t Fp:s- Rrcehea Care- Mra, L. 8. SchuttE of I copal church, nouth, was naniM lor MM ford la receiving medical care at 1 an Indian chf, Jmululm, who once the Community hospital, ruled that tectioa. MOW- THE BEST WAY TO Qtt A, GOOD COrlPUEVlOM .1 S TO Ml Th DitmMT- All WETOLD I r its i i ft,-T tr k. i r-oc I tAT WEEK- nO. I'M GL.D I HAVE IT ALV. RlCHT Bv George McMaaui AMO TO CET THE (3E.ST RESULT PUT Tm-b MIXTURE OM YOUR FACE AID KJECK- RuB VT ALL OVER 1 s fe g- 'i T YOU PUT A TOWEL OVER YOUR. FACE ASJO LET IT DRY NOW TO GET T OFF I'b A. SECRET PROCE.&S- AMD - A' vi ,i TO-MOPPOW NlCHT AT ThiS SAME TIME we will tell you MOW (T lj DONIE,- COOD NlCHT-