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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
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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
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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-
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SEAizlVPcRyJ WfiVtia )v"
py CLUYA5 WILLIAMS
By 0. M. PAYNE
By HAL FORREST
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