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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TEN MEDFORD MATT, TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1941. YESTEHDAY: with Blazt Sherwood and Pete Mackey, havt landed tn the mid d! of a Mongolian enoiertorm, and are now in the reasonably tolerant custody of the headman of a tiny village. He plane to take the lot of them to the eutftoniiee, and Anne hae pone to find a woman who epaJc English, hop trig that ehe may piuoae her to pipe them eome help. The woman hae taken refuge in iheepold ! from her irate husband. Chapter Six Sudden Plane THE woman had already bedded down for the night She eat up amiably and lighted a candle when Anne appeared. Presently ihe admitted that ahe understood and could talk a bit of English, that (he had known all along the traveler! were English and not Tibetan, though she had told no one. Her name was Khalima. Anne showed her a coin, and the woman's eyes gleamed. She agreed gladly to circumvent the men of her family and save the white woman from being taken to the bmir. At the same time, she declared, .he safest place to hide from the Emir was in his own palace. His wife, the princess, would help them and contrive an escape across the border. She, also, had attended a mission school. Kha lima was her slave girl at the time. Now Khalima's mother cooked in the harem. They could easily gain admit tance with Anne in disguise. To night they should go to a serai an hour across the hills on the main caravan route to the capital All this sudden and dramatic Iiianning left Anne a bit breath ess, but she determined to follow the woman. At least it was better than facing imorisonment. Kha lima went bustling about In the shed, wrapping herself in sheep skins and binding her feet in rags. when suddenly they heard loot' Steps approaching. Sherwood appeared. "You atayed away so long you had me worried," he said, coming to Anne out of the gloom. "Move you oeen able to talk to herr "I have," she replied, motioning for him to sit aown oesme ner on a sile of fleeces. "Khalima's feel- in- resentful against all men just now and thinks we can make her relatives believe I wondered away in the storm and became lost They'll not make much effort to find me since I'm only a woman, ahe says, because a woman who cannot take care of herself is not worth worrying about She'i go ing to hide me." "Where?" "I'd rather not say. Til be helped to escape across the bor der to Chuka." He petted an Inquisitive sheep that came up and nosed him. "Even the sheep find you Irre sistible," she jested. "I hope that's a lesson to you to cease fighting me," he grinned. She shook her head. "I'm one of those disagreeably independent girls. "There's a remedy for that when I have time to get around to It." He pushed the sheep away. "Did your father send a note by the Nagara priest who met you? ' "How do you know that man was a priest?" she asked. "He had a woman with him and he talked to me in English." "Both of them together are one priest" She stared at him. "What kind ef mathematics is that where one plus one equals one?" Doddap HE LAUGHED. "What did you think of those two who came to you?" "They were strange," she said thoughtfully. "Less childlike and sly than most primitive people, but somehow more dangerous." He nodded. "Smart girl. You're going to be a credit to our pro fession. "You haven't told me yet if your father sent a note by the Nagaras." "Why didn't you stay that night at Jus Masar and find out?" "I didn't want to complicate wings lor you. She looked at him curiously, Just why were you there?" He hesitated a moment "I wanted to see the girl who rated receiving the Nagara dagger." "And what about the little bird that warned you "Oh, that," he Uughed. "It was the hermit who lives nearby. I'd made friends with him. "How did you know I'd be there?" "Doddan divined it He'. prophet a seer. I didn't believe him but I flew over just to" he faltered and smiled "to see if he was right And there you were. I guess he's aot me aoina " They gated at each other until she brought herself back with an effort. "Yes. father sent a note. Would you like to know what was In It?" He gave her a sidelong glance. He told you they had been cap- 6y RiTx AVhfcr flWto, Anne Wlltard, I tured by the Nagaras ana lor you I to go aneaa as pianneo. "Wrong," she smiled. "They are ' negotiating with the Nagaras, and ! we are to go ahead as planned. But the only plan I can think of i was a hope to gain permission i from the Chinese governor to set ! up a radio they took with them for the purpose of sending out news or any discoveries iney might make.1 "He might rater to your pian i to marry Dr. Oliver." "Of course not," she cried im patiently. "It is something impor tantsomething to do with this new project." Then she relaxed. "But Dr. Oliver probably knows what he means by 'plans' and 'prophecy and will tell me when I see him if I see him." Sherwood put a hand over hers. "You'll see him if I know any thing about prophecy. Sure you don't want to tell me how this wo man is going to help you?" "Quite sure," she replied and turned her hand in his to clasp it "But I want you to know I'm grateful to you for bringing me through alive today. Ana now good by." A sudden constraint fell etween them. Khalima went to another shed on some errand and while she was gone Sherwood left Ann heard the nogs barking outside and feared for a moment that the head man might have eome looking for his prisoners. Khalima returned with the as surance that he was undoubtedly deep in ha usual opium sleep by now. bne neiseu was ready to travel. Old Lady TJLOWING snow obliterated L) their tracks almost as soon as made. When they had passed the last house in the village and struck off up a side canyon with a black ribbon of water running between snowy lands, Anne caught hold of the older woman's belt, bent her head to the storm and Dlodded doggedly along. On the far side of the divide they found the wind loss severe. Very little snow had fallen. The path led down to bare stony ground. How Khalima could And her way was more than Anne knew, but within the hour as she had promised, they came to a caravanserai. It was n mud walled building of rows of rooms surrounding a court on three sides. Khalima took Anne into the owner's section of the inn and the Mohammedan woman of the place promised to help them. me next nav was clear ana warm with a return of spring weather. Anne expected to see Sherwood and Mackey come by some time during the day on their way to the capital, but they did not show up. She and the women spent the afternoon perfecting her disguise, blackening her teeth with laquer, rubbing her face with grease and soot building a cotton hump for her back and selecting the ragged clothing appropriate for a pil grim grandmother. "It's a good thing for me," she thought, "that Chinese influence makes the aged respected in this Mohammedan section of the coun try." .... finally sue took ner purse mir ror and looked at herself. "Heav ens, ' she cried In dismay, can tuis be my parents daughter? The women giggled, though they didn't understand her. "My face looks like a polished cannon Dan," she moaned and nroceeded to streak it with wrinkle lines, ac cepting a striped shawl to wrap ner head in. That evening she went out Into the public kitchen for practice and crouched down in a comer and began muttering to herself as an old crone should. A camel caravan lust came in from the south. The men were squatted about in little groups drinking tea and chattering in half a dozen dialects. Khalima. sitting near bv. her fingers busy with a spindle mak ing yarn, watched anxiously when one of the men, a little bird-like fellow with a bird-like voice, ap proached Anne. With the air of a kindly fellow remembering his own mother he offered the old woman a pinch of tobacco. Kha lima hastily produced a little clay pipe, tamped the bowl full, brought a coal and gave Anna the pipe to smoke. She took an experimental puff with mixed emotions remember ing that many of the natives add opium to their tobacco, and then handed the pipe to her woman to finish. The man dropped down crosslegged and began talking to Khalima who listened as intent ly as if he were making love to her. He was telling her fortune. Anne learned afterwards. He had a shaven head, an ageless, sexless yellow face, a wide, humerous mouth quirked like a bird bill and the brightest little black eves Anne had ever seen outside the animal kingdom. Presently he drew from the blouse of his garments a bone rtute, a little drum made of a skull, . book and a bell. Then Anne knew he must be a lama. He began beating the drum and intoning a prayer. Te ee eentinird On the Radio Chains STATIONS! Where to find thrm on the dial HtX. IIUO, Portland; KM. H Los Angrlrs; HUA. 1510. Spokane: KUO. SIU. San rrancl.ro; KUW 20, Portland) KJK. 1000. Seattle: KNX. 101(1. Lot An-rlrs; KO.t S50. tlenter: KOIN. :0. Portland: KOMO. S0. are I Mr j Kpo, S30 nan rranrltco; K9U 1160, Salt Lake. Time Shown Is rst Sunday 0:00 p. m. Manhattan Merry-Oo-Round. KPO. KOMO, KOW; Charles Dant's Orch.. KJR. KEX: Summer Hour, KNX, K8U KOIN; Music For Everybody, KOO; Melody Time. KEX. 6:S0 p. m. Bookman's Notebook, KOO. KJR; American Album of Fa miliar Music. KPO. KOMO. KOW; Vrneent lopes's Orch., KEX. 6:00 p. m. Hour of Charm. KPO. KOMO; Ooodwlll Hour, KOO, KEX. KJR; Take It or Leave It, KNX, KSL, KOIN. 6:30 p. m Deadline Dramas, KOW, KOMO; Helen Hayes Theater, KNX, KSL, KOIN; Comedy, Music, KPO. 7:00 p. m. Crime Doctor, KNX, KOIN; Johnny Messner's Orch., KPO, KOW; Inner Sanctum. KOO, KEX, KJR: News, KSL; Radio Parade, KOMO. 7:30 p. m. Ray Kinney's Orch.. KOO, KEX; Jack Benny, KPO, KOW, KOMOI Hollywood Smart? Party. KNX, KOIN; Oua Amhelm'a Orch.. KSL; Tropical Moods, KJR 6:00 p. m. Oua Arabella's Orch.. KNX: Walter WlncheU. KPO. KOW. KOMO; Neva, KJR, KOW, KEX, KBU Dutch Uncles, KOIN. 6:30 p. rn. Vera Vague. KPO. KOW, KOMO; Al Donahue'a Orch.. KOO. KJR: Don't Be Personal, KNX. KOIN. a 00 p. in. Night Editor. KPO. KOW, KOMO: Bob Saunder'a Orch.. KOO, KJR, KEX; I Was There. KNX. KOIN: Everybody Sing. KEX; String Ensemble. KSL. 0:30 p. m. University Explorer. KOO; Lionel Hampton's Orch, KPO. KOW; Book Chat. KEX; News, KJR; Northwest Roundtable, KOIN; Mlxem and Matchem. KOMO; Ogden Taber nacle Choir. KSL. 10:00 p. m. Orzle Nelson's Orch. KOO, KEX, KJR; Reporter News, KPO, KOW. KOMO; News, KOIN KNX; Temple Square. KSL. 10:30 p. m. Etchings In Brass. KOO. KEX: Ken Stevens. KMX KOIN: Rev. Henry H. Ness, KJR; Sabbath Reveries. KSL. 11:00 p. m.- Sklnnay Ennls' Orch. KEX; News, KOO: Bob Saunders' Orch, KPO. KOW; Manny Strand's Orch., KOIN; Knox Manning, KNX; Symphonle Serenade, KSL. 6:00 p. Monday m. Radio Theater. KNX, KOIIf. KSL: Dr. I. Q. Jim McClaln. KPO, KOW, KOMO: String Ensem ble, KOO, KEX. KJR. 6:30 p. m. Drama Behind the Hews, KOO, KEX, KJR; Floyd Wright. KPO; Stars of Today. KOW; Chuck Wagon Serenade. KOMO. 6:00 p. m. Ouv Lombardos Orch. KNX, KOIN, KSL; Gordon Jenkins. Orch, KOO. KEX: Contented Hour. KPO, KOW. KOMO; Scandinavian Newa, KJR. 6:80 p. m. Cavalcade of America, KPO, KOMO, KOW; Blondle. KNX. KSL, KOIN; Natl Radio Forum. KJR: Mlmo Bondaldl. KOO; Shall We Waltz. KEX. 7:00 p. m. Amos n Andy, KNX. KOIN, KSL: Fred Waring. KPO, KOMO, KOW; Voice of Hawaii, KEX; Greater Washington Hour. KJR. 7:30 p. m. I Love a Mystery. KOO. KEX. KJR: Oay Nineties Re- vue. KNX. KSL, KOIN; Harry James' Orch, KOMO, KOW; American Chal lenge. KPO. 8:00 p. m. Nell Bondshu's Orch KPO. KOW. KOMO; Those We Love KNX. KOIN. KSL; Amateur Hour, KOO; Sports, KEX: Buy Washing ton. KJR. 6:30 p. m. Point Sublime, KPO, KOMO. KOW: What's On Your Mind. KSL. KNX, KOIN: American challenge. KEX: Concert HaU, KJR. 0:00 D. m. Paul Sullivan, KNX KOIN: Jim Blade's Orch, KEX Hawthorne House. KPO, KOW, KOMO: Memory Book, Hot Stove TRAIN STOP By GLUYAS WILLIAMS F League, KJR; Hymn Serrtce, KSL. 0:30 p. m. Bobby Ramoa Orch, KPO. KOW. KOMO: Beautiful Mu sic, KOO. KEX; Lionel Hamptons Orch', KNX; News. KJR. KSL; North west Neighbors, KOIN. 10:00 p. m. Muslcale. KNX: Re. porter News, KPO, KOMO. KOW; Basin Street Chamber Music, KOO. KEX. KJR: News. KOIN; Master works of Music, KSL. 10:60 p. m. Music, KOW, KOMO; Nail Radio Forum. KOO: Master- worka of Music, KNX; Eyes of the World. KOIN. 11:00 p. m. Carl Ravazza's Orch, KSL, KOIN: Chuck Foster's Orch KPO, KOMO; This Moving World. KEX; News. KOO. KGW; Knox Manning, KNX. Fishing News, KJR. 65 Drunk Drivers Lose Cards in April Salem. May 24. W Sixty- five persons had their licenses revoked during April for driving while drunk, the total number of revocations and suspensions during the month in the state being 169, the state department said today. During the first four months 1 of 1941, there have been 419 revocations and 42 suspensions, including 342 revocations for drunken driving and 30 suspen sions for unsatisfied Judgments arising out of traffic accidents. Closing time for Too Lata to clas sify Ada la 130 p. m. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS by JOHN HIX Lord edww?d dRuce. WAS SURIED M HOLLAND.. HEART, ENCASED IN A HEART OF SILVER, WAS INTERRED IN CULROSS. SCOTLAND JOE PASCO Brooklyn PUNCHED A BAG CONTINUOUS FOR ; 8 HOURS 1929. REALIZE THKT IhAiK HADN'T BEH MOVING FOU SOME DME 106K4 OOffe SEE WHERE TriEY ARE, BUI" Elf MEEfS N0THIN6 DOT B'UBWRDS WfOMA'fltAU.V LOOKS flf WAfCH, WHICH TttlS HIM NOTrliNfi, BECAUSE HE DOESN'T KNOW lAHZRE TriEY1 ARE LOOKS UP AHP DOWN AISLE 1t SEE IT THERE k5 A BRAKE MAS) HE CAN ASKWHWIHEIfcOUBLEIS 1fclK TO PUT Hft MIND SIAk'5 BUCK RR PLKf- OU PAPER . BIT ffttJ OUlV FORM To 06K COMDUCfbR, THINK ABOUT WlSHltJ6 WHESTPWrJ.VVifH vl- ' TriE TRAlM WOULD 6f OLENT JERKS , StARJS Svfe DOWN, PREClPlDffaV, m With sigh of relief- OPENS TAPER. IfeAlrV, Wrfri A WWEEZE, STOPS A6hiH b-SA (RttMttS by Tlia SSell Syndicate, lae 6IVE5HIMSELF OVER 1b NERVOUS KNE-TAPPri6 AND WftTcH-C0NSl)L1'lH6l 1RAIN EVENTUALLY" 6ET TiK6 M fORlY SECONDS HEAVEN . IS THE OFFICIAL SUCKER TASTER FOR AN EVANST0N, ILL., CANON COMPANY Her wage us suckers a vear OPALS HAVE HO C0Uffim 'HE SHADES ARE DUE TO I PLAWS 1 t Tm. S. t. a rM. 0e-4Jl rlcfcta n HEAVENLY JOB An Evanston, 111., company manufacturing "safety suekers"equipped with flexible handles Instead of tha usual stick, employs 7-year-old Barbara Schula to try new flavors and distribute samples among her playmates. According to her contract, aha must receive her "wages" In advance. She prefers butterscotch. OPAL HUES Tha "color" in opals is due to myriad cracks and fractures whose angles break up the light reflected from tha surface. MONDAY: Sea of Sand. New York. May 24. (VTl William Bioff. leader nf the In ternational Alliance nf Theatrl- JUST . . . 18 Shopping Days until Father's Day STORE FOB MEN cal Stage Employes, and George E. Browne, president of the tin ion, were Indicted under the federal anti-racketeering laws to day and accused of extorting $550,000 from four Iradmg movie producers ana aistrmu tors through threats to tie tip the entire movie Industry with a strike. The Indictment, contalnlna two substantive counts and one of conspiracy, was handed up by a federal grand lury after a long Investigation by U. S. At torney Matthias Correa and as sistants Edward J. Enn.s and Boris Kostrlanrtz. The government charged that Bioff. once convicted as a pan derer, and Browne, used their union positions to extort the half million dollars for them selves and threatened to tie up the industry by railing out about 35.000 men and womrn in the Industry's mechanical crafts. LI'L ABNER Britain Could Use Some of ThisI I B ACAPP D-DIDVO'SAY YES.V A I I AS MAMHY'S HEART POUNDS WITH I , M , V "V , " jj fl I -- O -GREAT 2 l&fZ&SL VfrZjr hurry AW&tfK M0 "ORt k K RVi vlil ' X SSSPS Y-YOKUM ?? J sCtA L&s I IN FRONT O HY YES.'.'I ' f Y ,P.1V - ' Z ls a "" TAILSPIN TOMMY Skeets Has a Bright Idea . . If It Works! ' ' " ti HKL tijViHS.S't COSH? YOU'RE RIGHT, TOM.' VwHM EVER. I ICOL.HM.l CABLED " I G-GOLUY.' -Ml I YES. .OR. IF WE ONLV VfSENOR. DON I j S E NO R. Kf HE'S A POWER, IT WAS RIGHT OVER SENOR. IT IS. ..IT ME THIS M0R.NINO. IP ONLY HAD ANOTHER SHIPWECASMETTO.' CA3METT0J1 1 N THIS HERE GORCONA'S PLANTATION AT LOOKS AS SAID THE NAVY J OUR AER.IAL COULD HOP BACK TO - prVC ' JWHAT Tff MAUL GOVERNMENT BOLftNDO.VrVHERE WE WERE S THOUGH . WONT SEND US j CAMERA BOLANDO-. SHOOT SOME w i -( U y .-HE MAY HAVE SHOT DOWN'.. MEBBE THERES Wt'LL J ANOTHER. PLANE. A HADN'T MORE PICTURES... AND J 1 1 II LOST FAITH IN SOM ETHIN' THERE TH'SENOR.) NEVER. 1 AND IS PREPARING) I BURNED UP VINDICATE OURSELVES A. ' WJJ Uf ..BUT HElL DO DONTWANT US TO SEE... r-! SEE IT.') TO RECALL US f-ORj SlN THAT BEFORE THE NAVY r r cfc ' ANYTHING FOR. ; Trr--r-NA - ' AN OFFICIAL V"JIK V WRECK T DEPT. ORDER.S US S&itiC HIS DAUGHTER .'I'LL K liail ,'S1' 1" hrEAH? BUT SUPPOSING YNEZ . NSf !J-- ( I im-hi ft 'MStii I T??7--xrfrv-zi .1 . . ;! . ,al toprs 1 has lost faith alsqke-ts.' ! THE NEBBS Not for Me - - ' - Bt SOL HESS ten? CHAM&CR OP COMMERCE, OF NORTWvmJ. IS CALV.EO TO LISTEN TO A PROP0SlTIC4 TUE MANU FACTURER. HAS TO OFTE. 6eNTLEM6rv OP THE ASSOCIATION lOP COMHVZRCe, THIS MEETIUS 15 CALLED FECAUSP. VgCRe A.SK1K13 TH TOVJK1 TO COM ATE lOO,0OO TO TUE i GEMTRV MANUFACTURING COMPA.NY VMHICH WILL BClMGr 50O EPLOEES. TUE -X AMOUNT IS VNFlMII ESIMALWHEN NOU THINK HOW KeAL E51A1 C .VALUES WLL,vNCREASE TEN TIMES THAT-X 1 MOUNT oie hunoreo thousamo collars r: LET THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THE REAL ESTATE PUT IT UP-1 OONT WANT TO BE TiVPn FOR THEIR PROFIT. LM NOT SO SURE 1 WANT TO LIVE. IN A TOWN VWHERE 5M0V.F. IS BELCHING FROM CHIMNEYS, SO ILL HAVE TOTAKe MY AIRPLANE THROUGH A FLOCK OF GENTLEMEN. VM GRATEFUL FOR YOUR. TIME BUT iVE HAD A BETTER OFFER FROM OTTAWA i CAN SEE MR. NEB S3 POSITION -HE HAS CONE MUCH FOR NORTH - VILLE, BUT IT WOULD BE MOST EMBARRASS in3 TO ME TO COME TO A TOWN WHERE YOUSl MOST ILLUSTRIOUS ClTlIENN 13 SO UN FRIENDLY TO ME. a i vk-B -rn cikjr ni iT wuftufui v ENUuv to ne. r-ivra r i 4 riNOU THINK HOW KEAL EST AT C k Cni; -rue ZZ. II -.rCUoCe ?. J f'-tWV 'Kvh times THAT- Ik iNiri ZK-r J Y.'VS?! V VZZf,S3tZl I