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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD 1TATL TRIBUTE, MEDFOKD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1935. MVU MM IW UOT NIVU mind IHI IU NEVER MIND THE LADY NtVU MIND TKt IAOV NIVU MIND TMI UOT MIVII MINO THI IADV Ay David Garth S7SOPS1B: Allaire West has followed Terry Willett to the dock, where he hae quarreled ii'-h Hit dee in hie effort to tore the man to load equipment necessary for Terry's engineering tob up-river. Uildet attacke Terry, and Allaire thoote him. Although Terry really fioes to fail fa protect Allaire, Al aire thinks he hae sailed for hit job, leaving her in a revolution-ridden country to face the music. And r,ou), iuet after being told by At tach Oeorge Fox of the American Embassy that he loves her, Allaire U sailing tor the States, Chapter 14 THE LASH THE llttla window was seven feet above the floor and had two thick iron bars. A guinea pig would have had to pull In lta stomach "Not a thing yon can do, Bucky, Willett ald. "They've turned you loose, but If you keep hanging around they might think better of it " "Listen," Interrupted Corrlgan, "this talk Is costing me money. What the hell Is the matter with youl Come to, Terry, you've got a Job to do." "Did you And out what I asked you!" "Yeah," said Corrlgan. "The Americans have checked out on the Vera Crui packet" He grunted. "I hope you know what you're doing." It was raining outside, but the sickly grey light that came through the little window was enough to trace the grim line of unshaven Jaw. "Soft," muttered Willett "Soft as dough." "That guy at the Embassy could have gotten you out of this lousy hole." "I told you once," Willett said pa tiently, "the police would have tailed anybody 1 contacted and I didn't want the Embassy mixed up in this. The police would have tailed you too except tbat they'd get sick of bang ing around the Redmonte Bar." "Well, all right," Corrlgan agreed. "Now what?" Willett sat down on his cot and twisted his bands together. "They've given me a choice of three monthB or twenty lashes," he said flatly. "Hildas Is going to pull through, so they've decided to wash me up on a contempt of court tharge." "Three months!" gasped Corrlgan. "No," Terry Willett said quietly. Twenty lashes." Bucky stared at blm, flabbergast ed. "You're a damned fool." "Maybe, but 1 can't stay here for three months. I'd take two thousand belts first." "But you're oraiyl" roared Corrl gan. "Lashes! that penalty Is only for plugs and lice and phonies. for drunks and casblered soldiers they can't do thatl They've got no regular law like that any more!1 "No? Well, they dug up an old law for this American. That's the choice they gave me when I tried to get a suspended sentence." He smiled Ironically. "I Just naturally surprised hell out of those Splgs when I called their bluff." His Iron control suddenly snapped. He sprang from bis cot and seized the bars of his cell door. "I- have to take thera, Bucky," he breathed, "because I've got to get out of here. And you have to help me. That banana tramp" "Yeah," said Corrlgan gently. "Take It easy, fella, I got It And your freight, too. When do you get 'em?" "In an hour or so." Willett ran fingers through his hair restlessly. "Twenty; ten easy, ten hard. Ten by the right band, ten by the left" He laughed, "Like a game.' Bet on whnt's coming hard or easy " Corrlgan gripped his shoulders through the bars. . "Take It easy, Terry," he said again. "I'll fix everything and be waiting for you. And don't worry, son. Your old man will be on the Job and on bis feet too. I know your old man." "If he Isn't," Willett said tensely, "I'll bate mysolf all my life." And Corrlgan, looking at the pow erful young man about to take twen ty Splg lashes, was discerning enough to reallzo be probably would. Ho'd never be soft again but bard, hard as only a man who knew the cost of being soft could be. "See you later, son." he said, and left hurriedly. N hour later they came for him. He was taken to a small stone room. A wiry little man wltb grey hair and a face heavily creased with wrinkles was leaning against a wall. Terry Wlllett's face wns as stony as the room. He listened calmly to a police guard wltb three stars on bis collar read the order. At the word, ho unbuttoned bis shirt and let It drop from his shoulders. Then he turned and faced the wall, raising his hands above bis head to be secured by a small chain clasp. OF 1834 FOUND; VOLUME IS RARE OAKLAND. Cai. (UP) Enthusi asts In estrn American lore rently dried to their aa$regate store of American with the newi that a (lie of the tim 34 lw-rB of the flrxt ne" fMlxT to oe printed weat of Misanurt had turned up In Oakland. Strarwly; 'e pnpr not print 1 In the boundarie of the United State, but cn th l.fc.nd it Maul, liwnll. founded ii,8:i4 undo; Ameri can missionary suspires at 1. th-i nul lum a. am MJMO IM UOY YU mwO ml IW MVU MINO TM IAOY MIVM HUB ' WF NIVU MINO THtlAOV That was to prevent nis swinging away from a blow and also to bold blm on bis feet Tbe police lieutenant folded his order and out It In bla pocket The I nrlann Anctnr RHnnflli Unobtrusively into the room and sat down on a bench. The wiry little man grasped the handle of a wblp with seven heavy thongs of rawhide and noosed it around his wrist Something cracked about his back with a stinging snap, brought beads of sweat out on his forehead, sent a million stabbing devils racing up his spine. His cheek twitched, his lips were bloodless. But otherwise his face remained unchanged. One hard or was that the easy one? No, the next one was easier. It was delivered with a half stroke from the elbow, but the wiry little man had a wrist of steel. And then the second hard one that snapped and seared and flicked around his ribs. "Plugs and lice and phonies." A white man who had stayed behind to "cover." A man who had pitied who was It? Speedel He'd pitied Speede, the kanasoaked, bewildered kid In Proplonolrel Pitied? he had almost scorned blm. Willett bent his head down be tween his arms. His forehead touched the cold wall. Again now he remembered how his father had looked that day when he'd started on his race against sickness and de sertion. The officer counted on In a meth dolcal, official tone, and tbe little grey-haired man transferred the whip to bis left hand. There was no expression anywhere In that room of stone with the rain rustling out side the wall. The small part of a beautiful young Irish mother's soul that had crept Into him as he stood on the deck of the "Farajalbo" fled as the lash tell across his shoulders hard, easy, hard, easy, one-two, swing your partners, one-two, one-two, a rhythm tbat pounded In his temple. Fire Music! Swing of power there was no room for softness In Terry Wlllett's world. Lay It on. He and his father bad bridges to build, rivers to cross, new worlds to con querwhat was that girl to him? She was something that bad made blm feel be was missing something In life, that's what she was. And If he never saw two heavy wings of honey-colored hair In the reflection of the moon on the Palva, or sensed the fresh young grace of a girl whispered In the breeze through the palms, there would be scars on bis back to remind him of her and the way she had walked into the Alvlo that night with Hlldes sprawled back on Roslna B. Stay bard, tbe lash blssed. Stay hard, the soft stumble JT was over. The little grey man wiped his brow with the back of bis hand and flexed his wrist Wlllett's hands came free and he discovered be'd been putting a lot more weight on them than he'd thought He sank to bis knees, trem bling a little as with a chill. The prison doctor started to help him up. Willett flung off his hand, took a deep breath, and rose to his feet unaided. He walked steadily over to the bench and sat there Im passively while the doctor poked around with a stethoscope and felt his pulse. Several warm little streams were trickling down his side and his back throbbed madly. Tbe doctor pre pared a basin and started to give bis back and shoulders an antlseptto batb. Tbe wiry little man bad disap peared and tbe police lieutenant leaned against the wall and waited patiently, but without Interest The great strength tbat was his began to flow back through his body, throwing oil the effects of the lash. Willett stood up. Tba doctor chat tered something, but Terry heeded blm not a word. He put on his shirt and nodded to the lieutenant Then he walked out of that little stone room and the doctor stared after blm, holding a cotton ball tinged with blood. "Iron." he breathed. Corrlgan was striding up and down In the rain outside Carcel Mu nicipal when he came out "Terryl How do you feel, son?" "All right," said Willett "Every thing set?" "Your freight's on board wltl about a million bananas," "Let's go." They got Into a tarl. Corrlgan re gariled him Intently as hs sal straight In his seat, away from thi cushions. "Hell, huh?" "I asked for It" Willett sal steadily. (Copyright. I9SI, by David Oorthf Tomorrow, a tngle mtlllgt ll loft for Ttrry. Hsrold C. Holme. Oakland. It 1 de scribed as being "perfect except for I tour small defects." The pajKrs show evidence of the difficulty encountered In printing them. Set from worn-out type and printed on a crude press by native converts under miwionary direction, It note in Hawwiian IsntinKe the I moirmente of ship and important community happenings. The news of t arriving ahlpa is wpev'.aJlv full, aw- in the captains, the hmn ports and destinations. Copies of Ka Lama are mre a-vwd- ing tcollectors of Americana, Bout1 well Dunlap. historian and archeolo- j (list who discovered the fUe of 34 is sues , said: "There Is no other file of this in the distinguished institutions of j western Americana, but the Library of eanjrea. knowing its tremendous im portance and ttJJ'ortcai mltie, is fortunate to acquire a file for t he 1 United St . tea some years uo. and it now repows in the wkiiniton li brary a o:$)oX 11 Uvaeiuod xaiuc," DESERTER FACES COURT MARTIAL AFTER 20 YJEARS PARIS (UP) Sentenced to death for desertion from the French army 20 yeara ago, a soldier muit appear STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHKHIX Jor further, proof address the author,' Inclosing stamped emrelspe for reply, fcjg. U. S. Pat. 08.1 BjI : alI in IHC ClrSCUI-ftrS rrSl inc KtftMP Of- MALTA IS Of PlClftUY -- A Wish. UhP&HP- "H.M.S.EQMoNT" f IS MANHEP eV A CRW OF eAMEM AND C0MMAMPE9 y AN ACMiRAJ.,.. For about a week In February of this year, the District of Columbia waa In charge of a Sultan Commis sioner Sultan, one of the three com missioners in charge of municipal af fairs at the capital. The two othtr commlMloners at this particular time were not on In ty one was Ul and the other out of the district. By a deed of gift, filed in the su perior court of Laurens county. Geor gia, John McDanlel deeded all hlf. property to "Jehovah, the Most Hlflh Ood." TU deed included "my body and ell things therein and thereon TAILSPIN TOMMY Captured I I AViLr f ruh roftTue ship! ffar mjAKiN fc ntSBE F--FRe m IhevI-lemme. soAV lpn?XPlORWS R VJE'Ll HAVE TO TAKt OFF AlKtADYi ftPk (SHOT-rt& CAN SCARE. M DON'T 3VO0T5 ' YOU SOtrSHOWJ 'TS THE SLANO f OFF WITH A OCH.D MOTOfc. JfeW i EH OFF LONG SKEETSi HOLD FREAKS-- , -SO . aW thevmdmadlt Wst,(MLr' jisimJ WmymJ bpacw the- J MPm, fPm'X l BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Tho Island By EDWIN ALGER TME AMD ftWARTO THE if AMD THERE 5 THEANO VOUVJIM.TOoTY Z4kf? kiST: ' -rSsS n ALL RV nLrCiEE, THAT6 RKbHTI 6ANKe OF JEWEL IAVE-BEM H ISLAND, I'LL BET BEU 'CAUE ITS WE U68'.- j ISsi-"---. V CR,P' lT W0M 6E yffNELL, BEM.WHATS MAD PARKED TME CAR ATA PML v , OMLV ONE IN JJP.UVH 4POOKV- h, TWE TICKET ? g, FOOTHILL'S HAMLET CALLED SVACj'l jCV V ftlOHT - M0 -'" hi- i , 1 "; " JT ' ::: Ll.r:":'TF3r-TTg ' THIS niibrio I Dover Tliouglit or Tbat Ey s0L HESS r: '' WELL, VOUX UUSeAVJD X 'KKJU,y kjov.-? " J" 'T MA.Ssl'T MPPENJEO BUT IT 7N li 1 TM0O6MT VOU VLE5E ROvJlSJ& . I IS MOT OUV SMART. ...Tov, f WILL HftOBEM VUMEVJ w HFTU BKOBT lOMPBE. PFOnic fitrr - v ,V HE'S een-iKJG LucV : A Zl' I ot& bvck oc it., twe state 13 peace anjd dlhet. vou dosjt meed -V ' , , y r- 1? ' rr' ? LV sepaniisjs route. fc&6 and its a Roa,D vou lasj 5tw up Aii..Kj.r-,Mr' ,. JU C T .,3M-.IP HF.6ETS A ? -- ' o-.r-, Mwuja, before a oourt martial In Parts. Felix Welssman, under' the Influ ence of his French mother, left Oti many at the outbreak o: the war and enllated In the French army. After being wounded later, his feelings underwent a change and he made bis way to Germany 5-nd was posted to the regiment he should have Joined when originally called up for service. When the news of bis action fil tered through to France he was In hie absence sentenced to death for desertion. Years afterward, believing that his history had been forgotten, Welsaman returned to Prench territory, where flJMUNP IAMY- MAPE ARUNMlM3 tWnAD MIMP'foP VI a-' l tsr tyt- I w OH IC 'SKATES.., JNCmflNU Mrs VUVlne i ?yrtT -M I "f, n together with any and all property of any kind or nature real or person al, in or out of this stnte wherever located, to Him, for His use, benefit and glory forever." More busina-llke than some deeds of this nature, Mr. Mc Daniel appoint ed his attorneys as trustees for Ood, and named another party to serve as Ood's merchant and farmer to take care of the property. His home, ac cording to the deed, snd all lta furn ishings are to be used as a church. Malta, the Island stronghold of ftuM- -Feb.. 93: he was later denounced. Military authorities are not seeking enforcement of the death penalty, but they insist on aom punishment to mark disapproval of Welshman's conduct, since he enlisted of hut own free will on the plea of sympathy for France, Budget Cut Kicks Back TACOMA, Wash. (UP; Pierce county commissioners reduced the staff of Assessor Fred A. Smith from 18 to 14 deputies in drafting the 1936 budget. Smith immediately announc ed Increase In assessed valuations of property owned by each of the county commissioners. A'SM.TAN- CoL.VPMik J. UITAN, Great Britain in the Mediterranean. Is all Important as a naval base for the British fleet, rt Is strongly forti fied, has equipment for the repair and maintenance of warships, and Its de fenses Include an important air base. Officially, part of the Island itself is a warship. A round fortress on thej imona is Known oincieiiy as H. M. s. Bgmont" It la commissioned as s battleship, manned by a crew of sea men. And commanded by a naval of ficer. Tomorrow: Heat for Cold. I 'AWT - ' -TV M SUBURBAN HEIGHTS RETURNING SHOPPERS ARE 50 -ftOROU&HLV SCOUTED friAf lfl5 PREfW HARD fO KEEP CHRISTMAS 5ECRD Irt THE NEIGHBORHOOD. Bltf FRED "PERIEV AND milt gris56v outwitted "their. respective families Simply carrvin6 each others bundles S'MATTER POP- ' SEAizlVPcRyJ WfiVtia )v" py CLUYA5 WILLIAMS By 0. M. PAYNE By HAL FORREST SIM I I I I il UMMiJikwstHm
