The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-20
TRAILER
ADVENTURE
BY Nard Jones
g 1897, NeA ssn1es. l"e.

hole above her and sprang from
the pillow. Betty! Betty, we're
not back on that"
mo :" Betty pushed her
rtaLylS back. tsWe'r8 sotf ,Gncle
SammyS Ship this time. heading
for Seattle. And friend Cizmk
and his playboys' are i'm, the. brig,
or so lieutenant Howisen Says,
Betty grinned infcctiously. Hes
nice, isn't he?' 49,. -,
II was too scared to notice.
well" Betty told her, "you
should have stayed on your feet
and you'd have had time to
notice. 49,.
How long have been here"
We've been under way an
hour. The doctor says you're
okay. You came to once, and he
gave you 4 Sedativc. While you've
been Snoozing I've been having
dinner in the officers quarters.
Hungry
Sort Of"
THE cooks Keeping something
for you. L" She was interrupt
ed by a polite knock on the door
1t was Lieutenant HowiSon.
How are you by this time"
He smiled pleasantly, set his neat
officers cap on the table.
Much better" Martha told him.
Sorry to go out on you like
that"
mo trouble ut ALL" HowiSon,
said. IL was telling Miss Haynes
at dinner that it's all been q pleas,
ure. You know, the coast guard
service gets pretty monotonous ut
times. It's not every day We can
round up a gang like this = and
rescue beautiful young ladies IN
the bargainr He was directing
his words ut Martha, but the lat
ter noticed his special glance at
Betty.
"You should get him to tell you
what we were up against" Betty
probably Miss Britain doesn't
want TO hear about it right now.
81 do, though" Martha assured
him.
well the fact is that you
girls found yourself right in the
wind-up of a case the T-men have
been working on long time"
"T-men?"
eyes, Treasury department men
agents. We were just
nelping them out on this little
deal. Ciznik has had a syndicate
'or the past 10 or IL years, I'm
old Ii stretched all up and
Down the coast, and back INTO
Chicago and Detroit. He had the
dea to really go in for transport
ng quantities Of dope-with trail
,r caravans. He figured they
would not be regarded with suspI-
sion, and they wouldn't be run
ming afoul of the truck Legislation
and license laws in all the various
states. Also, he figured they'd be
big enough to carry other stun,
too. Unstamped liquor. Maybe
bring aliens into the INDUSTRIAL
centers. Oh. he was going to go
i'm for it on q big scale"
THAT was the trouble" Betty
ale got too darned
big" $500
THAT'S right. You see, what he
didn't realize when he started all
this new idea was that one OF the
T-men had been working Il long
time right in his syndicate. His
name was Guy Weeks, and he'd
even taken q Chinese blood oath
with some of Ciznik's Chinese
gang, so he could get more IN
formation" :,
"But if this T-man knew all
about Ciznik why didn't they get
him long ago"
HowiSon shrugged. IF they'd
shot too soon they wouldn't have
been able to clean up the whole
mess. This was i big thing you
know. There were more .han 2Oo
customs men all over the country
in on it, and several score
border patrol agents were trans
ferred to the coast to help trap
the opium smuggling rings that
CiZnik had built up. Then the
coast guard came into the picture.
This boat was sent around from
the east coast to replace slower
cutter. We didn't even know why
ourselves until now"
You should see the opium CiZ-
mix had aboard" Betty exclaimed.
Martha nodded. al did see some
of it. Why is it put into cans filled
with flour?" :,
"That's to keep it dry" Howl
son told her. you see, the opium
smuggling liners from the Orient
toss the stuff overheard in sacks
tied with cork floats. At the top
of the sack ia flashlight sealed
in Il bottle. Then the faster,
smaller boats, like Ciznik'S. come
along the steamer lanes and pick
the stuff up. They transfer it to
shore where CiZnik planned TO
it all over the country.
Martha looked at Betty. I'll
ever we get to the old home town
again well never leave, will We!
Don't say that HOwison went
on quickly. Miss Haynes has
promised to come to Seattle again
next summer, after I've done
Alaska duty Anyhow, you
can't leave the coast right away.