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Hello, everybody:
Adventure just happen
of East Rutherford. N. J., goe;
know, i've always felt that yo
if you stay right at home anc
seems to have had pretty goot
the last 20 years or so, Jim ha
the biggest scare he ever got i
in the interior of Brazil, when
Gray Spots.
In December, 1922, Jim anr
way up the Amazon on an err
half breed had killed McKay's
in the wilderness. Jim and *
find him in the Geral Indian
after him.
For two weeks they travel
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River Purus and. after a week's
trail from an Indian who said that
Geral tribe or. a stream that branch
Voyagers Reach
They had paddled all that nigh
cf the unnamed tributary of the
Up that little stream they went,
the spot to which the Indian had c
They ran their beat ashor
started ashore. Rack in the ji
lage. and a group of half a doz
them. "The fleral Indians w<
age on the South American c
vanccd boldly toward the han
It was a tense situation, and
night be peaceably disposed?and
Then both of them turned and
though they might be inclined to
feel any too friondly to the two whit
was to take away the fugitive the;
tense situation all right?but nothi
as oau as what actually happened.
The Indians were about It
them?Hie gray spots. The sk
were gray and blotchy and spo
ful disease known to the world
Jim yelled: "Stop, McKay
word. "Lepers!" Then both i
hack to their canoe.
They reached the river b
landed on the beach?right on t
had circled around them to s<
boat. "They turned oa us ai
"no doubt resenting our catcl
and bit and kicked us hetore,
onto the sand and pushed our
lam of shouts from the advant
Fear of Leprosy I
"For the moment we had jus
get away from the immediate neigl
ter of an hour of hard paddling, wh
that we realized, with a strange,
stomachs that we had handled the
and scratched us."
Jim says that worrying at
bad enough, but the real horr
until a week later. Then, tiny,
on his and Jay McKay's wris
Jim, "was terrific. In fact, M
the age of thirty. I wished ths
I guess McKay did, too. Have
colony, or been in the Ladrone
gray-skinned victims of a tivir
one myself."
They pushed on down the rh
nad spread over their entire bodi
For there they were, thousands ol
down with the world's most dreac
civilization would be scant comforl
that hateful, wasting malady of \
symptom.
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"The ghastly horror," says Ji
died along mechanically, like a cc
we'd die?trying to get up the cou
paddled, we prayed. We knew tha
today that they saved us from a w
And then, one day as they wi
the Maderia river, they came up
the English hospital at Porto Velh
a messenger from heaven come ii
that messenger. There in the jur
and then he told them the news.
"Boys," he said, "I know ;
the damned, but yon can stop
form of false leprosy?a disc
thing, bat which a good rest
take care of. It won't be long
That ended those two lads' i
catch the killer. But Jim hopes
he reads this yarn. After all thes
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'/ie Gray Spots"
s to most people, but Jim Burnett
s out and hunts for his thrills. You
u'U have just as many adventures
i let them hunt you up. But Jim
1 success with his system, too. In
s adventured in 54 countries. But
n his life was that time, way back
he ran into the Adventure of the
i his pal Jay McKay were on their
and of vengeance. A Portuguese
; lather and lied upstream to hide
lay had a hunch that they would
country, and they had started off
led up-river in a molloca, a type
on, turned south to ascend the
paddling, picked up the murderer's
a half-breed was hiding with a certain
icd off the Purus a few miles farther on.
End of Their Trail.
it, and dawn found them at the mouth
Purus that the Indian had described.
In a coup'e more hours they were at
lirectcd them?the end of their trail,
e on a narrow, sandy beach, and
ingle they could see an Indian vilpn
natives coming forward to meet
?re once considered the most savontinent,"
says Jim. "but we ad
dful before us."
Jim and Jay knew it. The Indians
then again they might not. And even
started to run back to their canoe.
be peaceable, they certainly wouldn't
e men when they learned their errand
y had been sheltering. Yes?it was a
ng Jim or Jay had yet imagined was
venty paces away when Jim saw
ins of every one of those Indians
tted?spotted with the most dread.
Leprosy!
?stop!" AIcKay uttered just one
gf them turned and started to run
ank together, leaped over it and
top of a couple of Indian boys who
le what they could steal from the
id fought us fiercely," says Jim,
tiing them at it. They scratched
finally we heaved them bodily out
molloca into the river amid a bedling
Indians.
iaunts the Two Men.
t one single thought in our minds?to
aborhood. It wasn't until after a quaren
we were a mile away down stream,
sinking sensation in the pits of our
leprous wretches?that they had bitten
tout their exposure to leprosy was
or of the business didn't hit them
, round gray spots began to appear
its and arms. "The shock," says
cKay's hair turned snow white?at
it I were dead then and there, and
you ever seen the Louisiana leper
s? I had always pitied those poor
ig death?and now I was becoming
rer. In another two weeks the spots
es. Life. then, was like a niehtmare
miles away from civilization, coming
led disease. And even getting back to
t. Not even modern medicine can cure
vhich those spots were the first awful
arse as Time Passes.
m, "grew on us day by day. We padtuple
of automatons, wishing to heaven
irage to end our mental agony. As we
t no prayer could cure us, but 1 believe
orse fate?madness!"
ere rounding a turn near the mouth of
*>n white man?a doctor from
iO, and Jim says that if there ever was
i answer to a prayer. Doctor King was
igle he gave them a brief examination,
you've been suffering the tortures of
i worrying. Your cases are a rare
;ase that looks a lot like the real
and a little medical attention will
before you're as fit as ever."
nission of vengeance. They never did
i that if Jey McKay is in this country
e years, he'd like to see him again.
.-WNU Service.
ut, Murphy, N. C., Thurst
Visitors from Oi
George, Elizj
'I 9a. m., eastern sttitular
nnd Queen Elisabeth of England
for the most icidely heralded ro
England, tchere the battleship Re
and the L'nited States elaborate j
the comfort and enjoyment of Ifri
trhen the royal ample leaves Halt
news papers will be filled with ac
tour. Every minute of their jour
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ity is little privacy. One Hp!
of the fete respites the I
traveling royalty tcill en- i
joy is at Jasper Park A I
Lodge, Jasper national fT^j
park, Alberta. Photo at Mftg
right shoics a portion of
the living room in the \ \jSSj
bungalow specially pre- h-^jSre
pared for the sovereigns. Mtk
Elaborate alteration* utere mat
| the finest possible quarter*. The
lay, April 27, 1939
it of Town:
iheth Go Calling
d time on May 15, King George
set foot on North American soil
yal visit in modern history- In
pulse was remodeled, in Canada
>reparations have been made for
flam's manarchs. L'ntil June 14,
fax on the return trip, American |
counts of their cross-continental I
ney has been scheduled carefully.
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Sidelights on the journey:
Above, the band of
Si the royal marines, Portsmouth
division, ivhich
S! , accompanies the mon-&gm
archs. This is the first
Hi'SaZ time since 1911 that a
royal marine band has
^ accompanied British sov*ai
ereigns abroad. Left,
Mrs. Henry F. Nesbilt,
N| While House accountant
'<a and housekeeper, u:hose
^ duly it will be to make
i George and Elizabeth
comfortable during their
j? stay in W ashinglon.
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le on the HMS Repulse to insure
above picture hxu taken in early
tiling the main dining room.
Prepared for Rig Stuff H
After First Encounter I
An Englishman visiting a friejMf
in Nevada, where the air is ra^H|
and distances deceptive, stanejBJj
on a stroll with his host to a noia.B|
tain which seemed but a fewmikj^B
distant. After walking for several!
hours, he was amazed to findtW^B
mountain was apparently r.o near. I
er and to have his friend ejcplaj. ^B
that it was still 30 miles away.
Returning home by a differed R
route, they came upon an irrigjl ?
tion ditch. The Englishman sat?
down and began removinghissnoes. ^B
"What on earth are you going to ^B
do?" asked his host.
The Englishman, gravely eoo-H
templating the ditch, replied, I
"Swim this river!"
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