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MEDFORD MATT. TRIBUNE. JfEDFORD, OREGOX, SUNDAY. MARCII 10. 1935.
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BYSOPBlSt Brother Faecual
and the UontanQ Kid kavl delb
irately walked Into grlely
Vallev o Dod, Aoptfttp lo rj
cue Mateo Rubrie, condemned to
uork himeelf to death in the val
ley. The terrlhle Juan'Rtlva.
maeler o the valley, hat devteed a
teet to prove that Montana really
it the Kid. He hae had him
locked in a dark room villi three
huge peone. All are armed with
machetee. Urmtana, to lite, mull
kill the oilier three, lie hae
worked himeelf onto c Udoe, and
i removltta hie only garment, a
pair of cotton ehorte.
Charter 39
MONTANA'S RUSE
pEMOVINO ths horti required
minute and minutes an end
leu time heaving himself np on
en elbow and hie knees, working
the cloth down towarda the anklea,
aharpenlng his ears so that not a
aound could he heard without tint
eomlng to bla own senses.
Bat at last he had the cloth In his
band.
He lay on his left shoulder. In hie
left hand holding the cloth to the
extent of that arm. In bis right
hand he kept the machete. And then
ha waited, with eyes closed.
His left arm began to grow numb.
If that happened, bis plan was lost,
for It depended on delicacy ot touch.
No stir of wind would move that
hanging cloth. It was to Montana
as the main spy-thread on which the
spider keeps her foot for news of
anything that touches ber web.
feeling was fast leaving his left
arm. He kept flexing his left hand
from time to time. And bla eyes
were closed. To attempt to see In
utter night would only make blm
strike astray when the time came.
The cloth pulled slightly In his
band. He hesitated, perhaps for the
thousandth part ot a second, and
then struck with all bis might. A
dropping weight almost pulled the
knife from his hand, but be
wrenched It free.
"Diablo!" a man bad gasped.
He reached far out and struck at
the sound. The machete- shore
through flesh.
And a man screamed, short and
harp.
"Vldall GarclasI he hss seen In
the dark! Vldall"
"Vldal!" said another voice. Then
Tidal Is gone It was he that
(ropped "
"My God, 1 am killed, Oarclas!"
"Hush! Fool fool the noise"
But already, under cover of those
voices, Montana was down from the
shelf.
He stepped softly away from the
voices. He lay on the floor, stretched
out flat, the machete gripped In his
right band over his head.
The coo of the floor turned In
tantly hot with his body. He was
aweatlng sll over, and the air was
thicker and staler than ever. He had
a fremled second of thinking that
It would be death by suffocation
merely to remain In the room.
Then he took hold of himself and
cast the panic away.
That man he had atruck through
the skull that Vldal he waa dead;
and another waa badly wounded
Leon that would be. There remained
Oarclas. Well, It was for Oarclaa
that he lay stretched along the floor.
HIS mind stretched back to old
Juan-SUva. Perhaps It would be
letter to die here, mangled with the
atrokes and the savage thrusts of a
machete, than to go out to face that
terrible old man again. All that he
Icould think ot waa the stiff, hard
folds ot the dried skin, and the voice
like the sound of a death rattle.
A wild yell beat through the
room; the echoes ot It crowded hack
from the walls.
"I am dying! I die! .Mercy In the
name of Qod! Mercy In the name of
God !"
Hands began to beat on the well.
"Give me light to die by! Give me
one ray of light light -light!"
The voice went up Into a wordless
acreechlng. It changed to a gasping,
a choking sob.
Would they open the door when
they heard the beating of those
hands?
But Montana lay still and made
every nerve In his body alert, tor
perhaps, under cover of the dying
man's noise, that Garclaa was step,
ping swiftly here and there through
Ithe darkness, searching. He was the
jhugest ot the three, the most perfect
animal.
Something cold touched (be knee
ot the Kid. He struck with the full
weight of his arm, three feet above
the floor.
ON HIGHER LEVEL
PORTLAND. Or . March OP'
Ke baaing amounting to 44.1fla.OOO
feet, 74 per cent ?rrater than tor the
three-year weekly average for Febru
ary wu reported by the Western Pine
association today tor the week ending
March 2. The volume waa alx per
cent lea than tor the preceding week.
Shipments totaled 43.093.OOO feet,
and production waa 30,O4O.OOO feet.
The aame mill In the corresponding
week last year ahowed orders of 31.
tnooo feet and production of 25.197.
000 feet.
For the period Jan. 1 to date ordera
are 62 per cent above the total for
the correspond ing period year ago
WINDOW OLASS-Wt sell window
(laaa and Kill replace your broken
windows reasonably. Trowbridge Cab
inet Work.
"Dlos!" gasped an indrawn voice.
A blow fell; ateel shattered on the
stone floor Inches from the head of
the Kid. The sparks leaped, died,
showed him nothing. He bad torn
his blade free and struck again,
swinging sldewlse. He found noth
ing. Something fell heavily en the
floor.
He stood on tiptoe, the machete
poised.
He stood for terrible seconds, wait
ing; and then he heard a queer
groan.
That was all.
Behind blm, Leon was silent at
last
He went to the wall and fumbled
his way gradually around It. When,
at last, he reached the Inside of the
door, he beat three great atrokea on
It with the butt of his machete.
The door quivered, opened a little.
A blasting rsy of light struck
through and almost blinded blm.
"Who Is It? Leon! Vldal?" called
the voice ot the gray-beaded captain.
"El Keed," said Montana.
They jerked the door wide open.
The sight ot him seemed to shock
them like a blow. He looked down
and saw that he was naked.
Here," he said to the captain, of
terlng the weapon. "I'm finished
with it."
THE "good" treatment ot the friar,
when Juan-SUva had commended
him to the keeping of his guards,
consisted in taking him to a long,
low shed, where he was promptly
stripped of bis robe and clad In thi
cotton trousers which were the unl
verssl garb In tbe valley.
Tbe cbaln was fitted to bis ankles,
the length of It running up to s
steel collar that Inclosed his neck,
and as the blacksmith riveted It In
place he laughed a good deal.
"A bigger neck was never fitted
Maybe the singing of psalms and
chants has swelled It, brother, but
a tew days In the Valley of tbe Dead
will make It shrink again."
Then they took blm Into the fields.
With tbe wide straw sombrero to
cover his head he was placed in I
line of laborers. '
Absently be worked, swaying the
wlde-bladed hoe, and forging ahead
so far beyond the others that the;
began to curse him, because the over
seers, shouting, began to drive thi
rest to keep them up with this tr
mendous pace-maker.
When the poor friar understood
that he was tho cause of this tor
ment, he slowed his work. He becami
so conscientious In his efforts to
stay In line that he actually dropped
several times behind It, and received
as a reward several strokes of the
long-lashed whip.
The lust of them, given with a
certain drawing motion, cut tils skin
like a knife, and he felt the warm
running of his blood as soon ss the
numbness of pain left his flesh.
He was not angered. It always
seemed to Brother Pascual that the
more pain we endure on earth, tbe
nearer we have climbed to heaven.
It was a doctrine which he would
not preach to tho simple mountain
eera among whom he worked, be
cause be felt that, after all, they
have pain enough and need not be
tormented by strange doctrines.
So he worked patiently through
the day, with such a gentle and un
complaining manner, that even the
foul-faced criminals on either side
ot him began to look on him almost
with kindness.
He was marched with the rest
towarda the sleep-house, at the close
of the day. There all were taken
through a certain ceremony.
In the first place since unclean
llness may breed dlsoase they were
driven like sheep through a river
pool which soused them to the neck.
After that they filed by a pile ot tin
cups, and past a big caldron tilled
with a sort of bean soup, thick, sour
to the nose, unspeakable to the pal
ate, and on top of the cup ot beans
was dropped a lump ot black bread.
This small ration they bad only a
short time to ent, because the guards
grew restless snd wished to hare
the end of the day come at once.
Accordingly, the whips began to
snsp before the Inst mouthful was
down, and then the doors of the
sleep-house were opened.
Strange things happened then. For
Brother Pascual saw men bolt out
ot the line and scream that they
would die then and there sooner
than spend one more night In the
bell-house.
One ardent example put an end to
this nonsense.
(Copyright, Barper d Brothers)
Tomorrow, Pascual sets Mstie.
IS
MEXICO. D. F. March 0 Ti
Friends of Paaqual Dlas. archbishop
of Mexico, who disappeared with three
companions yesterday, expressed be
lief todsy he had been arrested or
deported.
Police and government official de
nied all knowing of his where
about. A n lg h t loiig search by Manuel
Maria Carreno. the archbishop's secre
tary, failed to dUrUvc tiny trace ot
the prelate.
I lilna IrNgiMt
ftAIOON. French Inrto-China. Mir
9. (fl) Eleven person mere kliled
and a number of others wounded in
a boiler explosion today hi a factory
at Chdlon. coohin-C'Stiiu
Ak the customer! Ik have tti-.f
natch repairing doua her. Joluison
ta Jeweler,
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ON NRA EFFECTS
Can't Prove Small Business
Not Harmed Declares
Idahoan in Speech in Sen
ate Letters Are Read
By NATHAN ROBERTSON
Associated Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, March 9 (AP)
A dispute over the effect of NRA,
begun with the appearance of Don
ald Rlchberg before the senate fin
ance committee, waa carried to the
senate floor today by Senator Borah
R., Idaho), who challenged the con
tention It had not harmed small
business.
Borah took the senate floor to dis
cuss the recovery law after Rlchberg
and members of the committee had
shot statistics and arguments at
each other for two hours In an ar
gument over whether NRA had been
beneficial.
He cited Rich berg's statement be
fore the committee yesterday that
the contention that small business
had been harmed could not be sus
tained because figures showed the
number of business failures was
dropping.
"The question Is not so simple as
that," Borah said. "You can not de
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. GlT? BACK-jf7M M I SOI THOUGHT- XT 0,
termine tha effect of NRA on small
business by statistics.
Previously, Rlchberg ha warned
the committee that delaya and un
certainly over NRA legislation were
slowing up trade and Industry.
Borah's speech waa delayed a lit
tle, when Senator Olasa (D., Va.) a
long time critic of NRA, Interrupted
to call a quorum.
The Idaho senator had taken the
floor during the' lunch hour when
only a few senators were In the
chamber. Glass wanted more of them
to hear Borah's reply to Rlchberg.
After the senators had filed Into
the chamber, Borah said:
"It Is not alone a question of how
many are actually driven out of
business, but whether small business
enterprise are compelled to live on
the ragged edge of bankruptcy while
the larger enterprises are enjoying
vast profits.
MI have found only one code that
adequately protected small business.
"In the other Instance, the codes
were framed by large business and
enforced by large business and It Is
utterly Impossible to prevent large
business Interests from really direct
ing and controlling the course of
business.
"The small business man Is con
stantly struggling against bankrupt
cy, while the larger Industries are
enjoying as high as 200 and 260 per
cent of net profits."
Borah read a number of letters
which he said came in the mall this
morning complaining against monop
oly under NRA.
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CHANGHAI, March 8.--(AP) H. H.
Kung, Chinese minister of finance,
today characterized rumors that
China la planning to abandon the sil
ver standard and adopt a mariaed
currency as "premature and Ill
informed." f
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TRIAL OF INSULL
LOSING INTEREST!
CHICAGO, March B. (AP The I
court drama of "Samnel Insull Before 1
the Bar," with the original cast prac- i
tlcally intact, la losing ;ta box-office
pull.
Only !0 spectators viewed the em- '
bezzlement trial of Samuel Insull In
criminal court yesterday, though a '
similar production "played" in federal
court a few week ago to capacity
houses. j
The plot ha been altered, so the
defendant Is now charged with em- j
bezzllng $66,000 from the Middle West .
Utilities company. In the federal pro- j
ductlon, Insull and a cast of 16 ex- '
ecutlves were acquitted on charges of
using the mall to defraud. J
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RETIRES ACCOUNT AGE
SAN PRANCISCO. March 9 (API
Edward J. Hanna, Roman Catholic
archbishop of San Francisco since
June 1, 1015, today announced his
resignation because of advancing age.
The retiring archbishop will be 75
years old next July 21.
San Francisco church circles were
surprised by the announcement, al
though It had been known some time
that the aged church official was not
In the best of health.
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