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Newspaper Page TextROSEBURG NEWSREVIEW, ROSEBURG. OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13. 1931. FIVE 'Murder at Eagle's Nest' By WINIFRED VAN DUZER "Dim" Martin, young newspaper reporter, and her fiance, Waller Vance, assistant police chief, are baffled by the murder of Baroness von Wlese at Eagle'B Nest and the theft of ber jewels. The outstand ing suspects are the butler, who denies receiving a note from the Baroness, her maid with whom slit quarreled, and Mary Frost, wbosu shawl was wrapped around the body. Mary 'left the party with her husband. Ted, i-eturntng alone later for the shawl. Ae cordinx to the maid. Laura Allan had borrowed it. Laura claims she saw Mary enter the garden weur lag the shawl. Blm feels that of fascinating men lthe while they stir the hostility or members of their own sex by ignoring them. Perhaps the maid Jane could con firm this if she would; perhaps sbe could bear it out with many au exciting story. Would any of Jane's stories, Bim wondered, in terest the police? Huw could Jaua, the quiet, the self-contained the ynaid who permitted herself the merest flick er of a smile when she said "After all, the Baroness was a lady" be induced to talk? Jane might, certainly, have something to say if Blm were to inquire the cause of the slash on nary 1b shielding Teu wno iiiriea . ner sr,ouider au(1 . tn carefully wun uie earoness. n ium concealed abrasion on her temple man's ring is found in the gar d'n. Carl Carey, New York report er, arrives at Kingcliffe. Him is atracted to him. His implications regarding Laura Allan prompt Blm to investigate. She learns that Laura entertained Bunny Baird late at night The imprints of the woman's shoes in the gar den fit those of Emily Hardy, the hostess. Bim sees the butler danc ing add wonders about him. Mary Frost confides that Ted left the party alone while she waited ua the terrace and then returned for her shawl. As she left she saw Laura Allan wearing it. CHAPTER XXIII. Bim set out for the village, walk ing along very slowly, and very thoughtfully, with Mary's distract ed wail echoing in her ears. "How does anyone know what Ted may do when he's drinking?" How Indeed! Ted Frost could be so affable when he wished but was so reckless, so scornful of all restraint when be was not himself what wild, terrible thing might not Ted, inflamed by alcohol and by rage, do? Not of course that Bim nor anyone else for that matter, as she told herself suspected Ted to be implicated in the murder ot tne Baroness von Wlese. lei it mained conceivable that ho might know who was implicated; that after he dashed away in a fury from his wile on the night of the killing he might have seen some thing, heard something which would throw a light on the mys tery. He had refused to be ques tioned and this was not in his favor. Bim wondered all at once just IMm had no doubt that theso were the result of an encounter AvU.h I he Baroness; she had no doubt that there had been a wrangle in the dressing room even as the maid Imogene had declared. Imogene was malicious but also she was rather stupid, her imagination, Bim judged, would be inadequate to the task of imagining Fuch scene and then reporting, it con vincingly. Supposing, Bim mused, there had been a quarrel between the Baroness and her maid for any cause whatever; perhaps because the BaronesH did not fancy her coiffure, as Jane had admitted. And supposing that .tho Baronoss had wrathfully discharged Jane, as Imogene stated. Supposing Jane's calmness surely the maid would remain the lady which ob viously her mistress would not so infuriated the Baroneps hat she flew at the girl and utrnck her a blow which sent her reeling. And supposing that the Barouoss, frightened by what she had ,.'0116, rushed out and slammed the door. It all seemed very graphic, very logical, and it bore out imogene s story excepting as Imogene had insisted that both women were "go ing it something fierce." This, though, probably was pure malice Well, then, supposing all this had happened. ' Bim tried to picture the Inci dent. In her mind's eye she saw the beautiful Baroness who was not bo beautiful with her face con torted by fury, rush at the maid and strike her full In the face No that wouldn't have happen ed; the girl, seeing the blow about to fall, would have moved aside instinctively. The blow would catch her, perhaps on the cheek. I to plunge her into hysteria sent tiir ti-m ( n 0 n lh atAlra into ut dressing room where sb might hide temporarily. It all seemed reasonable enough. Indeed' H might have been that tho Baroness, worried beneath her haughty S Indifference by the possi bility of a dead maid, had come into the . house to send Willlsm on some pretext to her apartmeut in order, -should such a necessity arise, of implicating him. The Baroness, Bim felt sure, was call able of just such a cold blooded gesture.' But why. If this were the cause. did William not say so' Why, iu stead, did he insist that the Bar oness merely waa ordering hot milk for her night taMe the order he admitted had slipped his mind? Or was the hot milk the Baroness' excuse to get William In to her apartment before she her self appeared there? But woud she have put her hand on William's arm and talked so earnestly about hot milk? Would ho have wilted so? And why, also, did not Jane tell this story If it happened to be a true account? Bim found it rather easy to an swer thiB last question. Jane was nobody's fool; she realised that confessing to a furious quarrel with the murdered woman would draw attention If not actual sua plcion to heraelf and she con Bid ered It discreet to remain as in conspicuous as possible. Tho chances were that she had a rea son for this; that she even, per haps, had her own suspicions. But these, it was plain, she meant tu keep to herself. It one were able to win the confidence of Jane to get her to talking about her late mistress! All at once Bim realised that she was back In the village. She paused on a street corner, unde cided wbethr to go at once to the cided whether to go at once Ui the to Walter of what she had learned from Mary Frost and what she suspected about the maid Jane, when her arms were seized from behind and a gay voice yelled into ner ear. "Hey! slave! Where to so bright and early in the morning? Been slipping it over on your Uncle Carl? How's for breakfast?" . (To Be continued) how genuine was Teds reforms tlon of the past year. Mary had , off balance she w01lM g0 Uowu and and why yes! The blood 1 stain on the corner of the low-boy said, "He's seemed different for a long time no open humiliation for me " Did she mean that Ted had been carrvln on in secret and that she Busnectod It? And why, after Mary's meek patience with the most flagrant conduct on her hus band's part, had she been so' up set by the mild attention he paid the Baroness?. It appealed, Blm concluded, that the beautiful Baroness was one ot those women who either inadvert ent Iv or carelessly manage to arouse the antagonism of all other women. She, herself, had not been exemtp; she remembered the ini milse to reach out and claw the Baroness' lovely, indifferent shoul dor upon being presented to that snooty lady. And Bhe had seen cold dislike in Laura's face for Em's guest of honor while even Km. who seldom allowed herself to show feeling of any sort, had been more pertunc inrv than usual in her manner to ward the lady. As for Millicent Trent well, Millicent had been ton wranned un in the task ot making Bob forget the snub offer ed herself to show anything more than apprehension. Still this didn't mean anything to the case. The Baroness von Wlese, Bim decided, had been what Is called a "Man's woman"; one 01 those essentially primitive females her head had struck there. It would have been a horrible crack a wonder it didn't fracture her skull. She would have fallen and Inin on the floor unconscious. The Baroness perhaps would have experienced a moment of Danic. Seeing what she had done and perhaps believing the maid to be dv ne. ana was not, nowever, stHveil hv anv humane Imnlse. she rushed nut and slammed the door, leaving the injured girl Ho die alone or to come out of her faint as best she could. The Baro ness rushed out and then went cnlmly about the buslnoKS of being Em Hardy's guest of honor inn ing with Mary Frost's husband, snubbing Bob Trent's wife. And the maid Jane . . Perhaps she lay there a long time, coming back to consclousnoss slowly. Then very likely, she pulled herself to gether, stumbled down the hack stairs for, a hot cup of coffee. Confused and ill, It would have ben easy for her to mistake the doors in the narrow back hallway and to have stepped into the but ler's pantry Instead of the kitchen. Then as she pushed through the swing door and came face to face with the Baroness standing there besiA William the butler, the sud den Bight of her tormentor to gether with the nervous shock she Roseburg Chab Also Learns About Phases or Work From J. G. Hammond. Uncolo. the international aspect of Rotary and conservation, were the three suujucu biy dscussed In au address before the Hose- burg Rotary club at Its regular Thursday meeting, by James u. Hammond, national field secretary of (lie Isaac Walton league of America. Incidents of Lincoln's life were told. The speaker knew personally "Tad" Lincoln, son of the Great Emancipator, from whom he ob tained at first hand the stories which he told. For a number of years Mr. Ham mond served as assistant secre tary of Rotary International. He told the Roseburg club ot his many experiences while in that of fice. The International aspect of the organization as explained by the speaker was particularly in teresting. As present field secretary of the Isaac Walton league Mr. Hammond told of the work or that organiza- tlon. He cited Pennsylvania as a state which three decades ago be gan on a program of conservation and which is now enjoying the fruits of that work. There is no longer a "West" in the United States; we face the same problems here that Pennsylvania faced thir ty years ago, he said. - Mrs. Hammond, a guest of the club, gave a reading on Rotary.! Mr. F. A. Rankin, mother of Mr. HamtuonJ, was also a guest. James T. Goodman, former local! Insurance man and former assist ant stale Insurance commissioner, together with Chas. H. Arundel and Win, E. Ott, formed a snappy orchestra for the occasion with piano, violin mid saxophone. 0 WOOL CUP OF 1930 SHOWS BIG INCREASE WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 Re vised estimates by the agriculture department today placed the 19311 wool clip production at 346,007,000 pounds. 25.446,000 pounds above Uint for 1929. , Mohair production for 19.10 was estimated at 16,006.000 pounds, in the six Import producing stales, an Increase of 300.000. The increase in the amount ot wool shorn in 1930 was attributed both to upward revisions in the number ot sheep on Hums In a number ot stales and to an addi tional allowance for wool shorn at commercial feeding establish ments. The amount of -pulled wool pro duced iu 1930 was 61.000.000 pounds, au increase of 7,400,000 pounds over 1929. ' EDISON GREETED ON FORT Thomas ' t MYERS, Fla, Feb. 11. A. Edison received the The Roseburg Woman's club will hold a cooked food Bale Saturday, Feb. 14th, at McKenn & Baldwin's. Adv. "happy birthday" greetings ot the nation today. The Inventor, cele brating his 84th anniversary at his winter home here, took time oft from his rubber experiments to aid in a general observance of the event. While Florida and the city of Fort Myers prepared to pay the snowy haired genius homage by dedicating a new 1500.000 bridge In his honor, Mr. Edison's friends gathered for a day-long observance. Harvey S. Fire3tone, tire manufac turer, and Cyrus H. K. curttB, Philadelphia publisher, were among them. Governor Doyle E. Carlton of Florida, Chairman Robert Bent ley of the state road department, and Mayor Joslah Pitch of Fort Myers, were among the assem bled officialdom and Est en P. Fletcher, Rochester, N. V.. im perial potentate ot the shrine, led a group of his fraternity members to give added color to the celebration. d Clan A. Lee, state Insurance commissioner, from enforcing te; state law requiring Insurance com panies to pay aa annv.j.1 fee of f5Q0 for a third agent In cities of more than 60,000 population. It applies only to the city of Port land. r . - -- ,....- The suit was bronght by the Northwesters Insurance company ot Milwaukee, Wis. The ruling said "We conclude thst the statute In question so far as It Is an attempt to discrim inate between foreign and domes tic insurance companies as to the license fee for its agents Is for that reason and to that extent void. 8EE THE ACREMETER When you buy radio tubes see them tested on the acremeter. W4 nigh test on tne ncremeter. aov. Phone your news Items 135. General Motors radio Is the best we ever hoard. Priced from $75 to $300. Easy H. M. A. C. terms. Sold by Roseburg Motor Co. and Han sen Chevrolet Co. Adv. ;Tho Roseburg Womnn's club will hold a cooked food sale Saturday, Fvb. 14th, nt McKean & Baldwin's. Adv. THIRD INSURANCE AGENT FEE IS HIT Phone 1S5 when yon have n'.wt t terns. NEW. LOW PRICES on Mohawk and Goodyear QUALITY TIRE8 Drive in for 6ervlcs THE ROSEBURG GARAGE PORTLAND, Feb. 12 The federal district court today enjoin- illrullJuiS AUTO FEE, GAS TAX CHANGES ARE VOTED OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 12 The Washington state senate today passed a bill providing for a $3 flat license fee for passenger automobiles and an, increase of two cents in the gasoline tax. Disagreement with the proposal by the house loomed, however, with the roads and bridges com mittee today reporting favorably the "Eight and one" bill providing an $8 flat license fee and a 0110 cent increase in the gas tax. The senate bill will now go to tne lower branch for consideration The additional two cent gas tax with the two cents now collected for state purposes and the one cent lateral highway tax, will bring the total gas tax )h ' Washington. to live cents per gallon. O. E. R, R. ALLOWED TO BUILD TO S. P. 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