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KLBE BIX ' 1MEDF0M3 5CCLTJ TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1932. Nothing 1.. n S- TI7j lL BYHOFSIS: Ferdinand Fraaeie telle a thrilling tale about hul Mexican adventure to a 0ay luncheon party at the Tetterley. A he emphaeleee th nam of Hermann Maenthal, Robert Leon ard grow tenee. Fan Weare won dert whether it alt hae a bearing on Leonard' attempt to murder her husband, Jervte. Chapter 17 TRAILING A CLUE WHAT did 7. F. mean? Was she Just reading Into his words the accusation which filled her thoughts T It was as much as Nan could do to sit next to Robert Leonard with out crying this accusation aloud "You're been trying to kill Jerrls!" George Tetterley was giving her a tabloid version ot bis last game of gait; to such a mellow mood had lunch and her likeness to that earlier Nan Forsyth brought him. Curiously enough, some delicate aztra sense Informed her that of all the people around tbe table he would be the least surprised If she were suddenly to say what was In her mind about Robert Leonard. ... Quite definitely George did not not like him oh, quite definitely. Neither did he like Rosamund much. This surprised Nan. She was young enough to glv beauty too many points In the game. Rosamund bad begun to smoke before she had begun to eat. She ate very little, and she lit one cigarette from another all through the meal. She wore a straight, plain dress of heavy white wash Ilk. In con Irani to Janet Tetter ley, whose thin neck was hung with beads like golf balls, Rosa munds throat was bare. Seen through a bluish haze of smoke, he bad the air of beauty withdrawn behind Its own Impalpable veils. Nan's heart hurt her very much u she looked across the Tetterleys' Inncheon table at this beauty of Rosamund's. Jervls' very anger against her was the measure ot his love and his loss. Having loved Rosamund, It could not be possible mat ae snouid ever love Nan. ' They west out Into the garden latter lunch and had coffee under Ithe shade of two enormous cerUm. As they crossed the lawn with the Isiun pouring down upon them, the party broke up into twos and threes. Nan found herself walking rwltn Ferdinand. . "What did you mean, Mr. Fran. Ma?" she said without looking at rim, "I'd rather you'd not call me Ithat," he said. Nan blushed a little with pleas ore, and he threw out his hand In Ian odd gesture. His Queer bright i eyes twinkled at her. ; "I'd like it if we were friends." I Nan said, "Oh" It was a little sound with a quiver In It. Her leyes were soft and misty. "Oh, mow nice of you!" she said. They began to walk again. The sunlight daisied round her. She dldn t feel afraid of Rosamund any more. Here was a friend of Jer rls' who wanted to be friends with her. She found it Immensely strengthening, she came back to her first question. , "What-did you mean at luncht" -remaps i aiun't mean any- lining." "You did yon told that etory Ion purpose, and you looked at him Mr. Leonard. What did you meani" reramana lurnea and wared a jhand In the direction ot a most un- Idenlable rlew. The trees had been cat away to frame a glimpse ot the sea. "That's rather good isn't It?" he aald. Nan hadn't anything at all to aay about the rlew. "Who was Elsenthal!" she said. Ferdinand turned In a leisurely fashion and let a roving glance travel about the lawn. Mrs. Tetter- ley and Leonard had reached the shade and were already disposed In comfortable chairs. George Tetter ley was In the act of Joining them. Jorris and Rosamund Carow had taken a wide circle away from the cedara and were entering upon shsdy path overarched by tall rho dodendrons. A man had Just emerged from the house bearing the coffee-tray. "Who Is Elsenthal r It certainly seemed safe enough to answer her. "A fellow I met down there." He got a frown, and a clear In llgnant look. "What was he?" "A chemist." said Ferdinand. "You mean an experimental Ihemlst." "Yes that was quick ot you." She shook her head. P1NCH0T CHIDES PRESIDENT FOR REFUSAL OF AID HARRISBURO, Pa.. Sept. 22. (AP) Governor Plnchot today telegraphed President Hoover that his refusal to take a hand in speeding reconstruc tion Finance corporation aid to Penn sylvania "came as deep great disap pointment." The governor yesterday requested an appointment Fridsy to discuss with the president means by which the corporation's action on the state'a application, now two months old, could be expedited. The president advised htm that if he studied the law he would realise that the corporation alone could de termine Its loans and that he was without Authority to advise it in the ojr rairiciu w vniwurin Why could he make the gueril la chief do as he liked?" "Chamlsts are sometimes useful." "How was Elsenthal useful?" "A handy fellow," said Ferdinand, "Don't you know?" "Well yes, I know." "Are yon going to tell me?" "Well, that's what I don't know." "Why?" He saw a faint sensitive clouding ot those eager eyes. Her Hps parted. "You're not going to tell me" "Elsenthal was a genius gone wrong. He looked like sny other professor, only more respectable, and he'd a tierce brain. And he'd got ad Invention that had been ex traordinarily useful to that guerilla chief." "What was It?" said Nan. "What'H you do if I tell you?" "I won't tell anyone." He began to speak in the sort ot voice that barely carries a yard: "About a month before he'd cap tured me, Pedro Ramirez had brought off a little coup. He was carrying on operations in tbe Madalena district and harassing the government quite a bit. Then the government turned nasty and sent up some real troops and that's where he brought oft his coup, "There were three trains, and they left Madalena at three-hour Intervals. The first of them ran off the line on the edge of tbe big pass where It enters the hills. It went down a couple of hundred feet, and there weren't many sur vivors. The second train crashed through the parapet of the bridge over the Madalena River about five miles short of tbe hills. And tbe third ran off the track only ten miles out of Madalena." "Ho?" said Nan. "Elsenthal," said Ferdinand. "Yes but how?" F.F. waved his hand towards the sea, "I'm not a chemist, but I got the Idea that Elsenthal had Invented a thing that disintegrated certain sub stance The man who told me said he'd seen the ties where those three trains left the line, and they were Just mush." Nan looked at him with eyes like saucers. "But, F.F. the first train got as tar as tbe hills." He nodded. "Why didn't It crash sooner? It must have run over the places where the other two trains went off, and the second train must have run over the bit of track where the third one orashed." , "Yes. You're bright aren't you? I was bright, too. I said to the man who told me, 'Look here, what are you telling me?' He said, 'I don't know but as I told you, so It happened,' Afterwards I asked Elsenthal. I'm an Inquisitive man, and I like to know' how things bap pen, so when I got a chance I asked him, and he told me It was all a matter ot careful timing. "You spray the stuff on, and It takes Just so long to make a thing soft, and so much longer to rot it through. It must all be calculated very carefully. The place where the first train crashed was done first. It ran over the other two places before they'd got danger ous." Nan looked away to the distant blue ot the sea. She said under her breath: "Tbe stuff made wood rotten?" "So I'm told." "Jervls' bridge was rotten." "That's when I began to think about Elsenthal." Nan turned round quickly. "What happened to Elsenthal?" "I'm not quite sure. I think he's dead." "He's not . . .r "Leonard? Not on your lite! All I know is that they were both In Mexico at the sama time but that's not very incriminating for Leon ard." "Will you tell JorvlsT" He shook his head. "Not a bit ot good tolling Jervls. I shall keep my eyes open. Don't you want any ooffee? I think we've been admiring the view just about as long as we'd better." Robert Leonard was sipping his coffee. He looked cool and com fortable. He smiled pleasantly at Nan and engaged her in conversa tion while Janet Tetterley trans ferred her attentions to Ferdinand. George Tetterley kept his paper firmly between himself and the out side world. After a little wbtle a steady rhythmical sound came from behind IL a (CopyrlsM, list, t(pp)oortJ Jervlt somplacaney Is shakan, tomorrow, by a throat from an. othor souroo. manner the governor requested. Al though Mr. Hoover did not refer to the governor's request for an ap pointment, It waa said at the White House that he would not he received. 'I cannot concede that you are powerless to help." Plnrhot's telegram today aald. "Whatever may be your legal authority over ths Reconstruc tion Flnanc corporation. Its mem bers are your appointees, and would unquestionably respect your wishes. "You suggest that I study the law. I did so most carefully before mak ing application and found In it no requirement whatever beyond the ap plication and certificate of need by the governor, which I made two months ago. Your board has read Into the law fine-spun red tape which congress never wrote Into It, nd is using It to starve our unemployed." 4 First I'rost. LA GRANDE, Ore., Sept. 22 (AP) The Grande Ronde valley experi enced Its first heavy frost of the sea son this morning with the mercury dropping to below freal:ig In some sections of the county. 1st Grande's minimum waa 33 above with the frost damaging: tenderer garden plants and flowers. HALTS ELECTION NEW YORK, Sept. 33. (AP) Mayor Joseph V. McKe won his supreme court fight today to prevent ft may oralty election In November. When McKee recently succeeded to the office of mayor by virtue of the resignation of James J. Walker dur ing an ouster hearing at Albany, the city cleric certified to a vacancy, which he ruled should be filled by a special election In connection with this year's general election. The regular mayor alty election was not due till next year. McK had court action started to prevent the special election, an ac tion which was opposed by Tammany Hall and other organizations. Fair Buildings Razed By Fire WOODLAND, Wash., Bept. 33. (IP) A spectacular blaze, believed by firemen to be of Incendiary origin TAILSPIN TOMMY BOUND TO WIN WfmKmMMMI &VWA KfeCKOr VmZA. HAVtTN T Ue.' AND . I YsAftZPZZrTTTTAllV Unjp Til ! It lr- llTH BEN AND JONATHAN DST6K1INS INn-EtSTLVTO HIS EUERV VJORD, BILU HASSBTT TOOK TH6M FATEFUt OAV- yt, 1895 WHE 1NTHE STEAMSHIP 6BVEN SEA'S" jan wnn MLL ON,,,, SftTTV )tNo, i"THB EEVI1- IO TWO IONSiABLB GEAMEN EeESEZEB COSBY S'MATTER POP A THE NEBBS- MUTT AND JEFF f' .1- Mimi,at(a.'sstaswita-'iw."'!fc Ur'- (isJiT Z, w ?. r 1 L . BRINGING UP FATHER (MOW HVTEM-BCrVVTO r I feu Mti-ve. must IHAMOLt IT IN MOiT (DlCNlwiED NOT 66 V.'E MOST M INCUR J feiiii!!l!!!!t!ii3 ft ;!i- destroyed the main exposition build ing and. dance hall at the former Cowlitz county fairgrounds last night. The amount of loss was not estimated. Stop In City The following motor ists stopped at the out-of-etat bu reau on South Riverside- avenue yes terday afternoon, and lilted Medford as Vielr Oregon address: M. B. Ver tln of San Joss, who la visiting the MUcschea at 818 South Peach, and D. E. Crandall of Vancouver, Wash., who la visiting Mr. and Mrs. Flavins West at 110 Peddy. it. W. Aliens worth of Oakland, Cal., listed Talent as his destination, and R. B. Carter of Palm Springs, Cal., Is stopping at Rogue River. Express Regrets Death of Straub SALEM, Sept. 23. (AP) The state board of higher education yesterday adopted resolution expressing re gret over the death of Dean John Straub, emeritus professor of Greek at the University of Oregon. "Dean Straub died after more than a half century of faithful and de voted service to the cause of higher education In the state of Oregon," the resolution read. -Plane Ahoy! Unfolding The Past BACK TO THAT COMPAN- r VOL) RE VvBS,INDEeoW I SAVEDS WELL B YOU ARE I VS .VOQR NAMED & YOU MADS JlM LIVES KifS RATTY Vi US LEAVES CSSSS, DIDN'T Kia W SIMS T B THAT . JX&A. I ? Hint To Idle Musicians "THE NEBBS" WILL RESUME The Floors Have Ears l VJE ARE M.VJNER-WB MUST SEEM WANON' r ' .-ir . bp I Y WASHINGTON. Sept. 33. (AP) The campaign speech to be delivered In Des Moines on October 4 by Presi dent Hoover will embrace other Issues as well as the agricultural situation. Secretary Mills reported after more than an hour with Mr. Hoover that "the general political situation" had been discussed. Including the pri mary ballotlngs of yesterday. "There may be something refresh ing In this." said Mills. "It may show that the hat and rabbit act la not so popular, or that you don't have to be a radical to win." . , Phoenix Circle Planning Plays PHOENIX, Sept. 23. (Special. ) Juvenile circle met at Phoenix Orange hall Saturday with a good at tendance. Parts were distributed for the two short plays to be given on a program October 39. One of the REGULAR APPEARANCE ON MOT NOT LET TUE ! OP0ilTtOM TU1MKJJB A LOT OF LOW pKCWV MUST ACT fc- !2T- M TALK UKi CM- EAT LIKE. IM- OOH SLOCA.N MUST n-' EMPTT OlNNER. PAILS - - plays Is of two acta, the "Conspira tors,' and. the other has one act. "Triangle." Another number of the program will be. a .costume dance. Members of the casts will meet on Saturday afternoon for first practice. Five Deer Shot Near LaGrande LA GRANDE, Ore., Sept. 33. (AP) Five deer were brought Into La Grande on the opening day of the season, with Leonard Roe, eastern Oregon Normal school student, appar ently killing the first buck m this county. Ed Fields bagged a five-point, 159-pound deer several miles west of La Grande, giving him an early lead In the annual contest for slaying the largest deer. Kerr Holds First Faculty Meeting EUGENE. Ore., Sept. 32. (AP) Dr. W. J.' Kerr, chancellor of higher education In Oregon, Tuesday held his first meeting with the University of Oregon faculty. "The opportuni ties for higher education In Oregon are as great as ever. The facilities are unchanged and with this In mind the outlook is not discouraging," Dr. Kerr said In addressing the faculty members. STEN,OL VJABST see M CHfc'o 1 1 i VVHAT irM EM IS WORTHMILLIONS AND X) T'S ALL MIN6 : BUT P VOU PLAY S MY SAME, I'LL EES TO IT THAT VOU'LL MAKE MORE MONEil' THANi THIS PAGE WHEN SHIPMENT OOTS-WHAT WE VJANT MOST RiGhT NOW 1 CORMEO BEEF AND Utility Appeals Thomas9 Ruling BALEM. Sept. 23 . ( AP ) Charles M. Thomas, public utilities commis sioner, today received notice of the appeal filed in Portland by the Northwestern Electric company from his order reducing rates of electric service. The appeal was filed with the federal court and claims the order confiscatory, Thomas said. Klamath Cattle Industry Grows KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Sept. 23. (AP) A 40 per cent Increase In the cattle business in this district during the past two years, was reported to Central Oregon cattlemen at a meet ing here last night by F. E. Forbes, president of the Western Cattle Mar keting association. Hunter Killed GREENSBORO, N. C, Sept. 32. (AP) Charles W. Gold. 56, president of the Pilot Life Insurance company, was shot and killed while hunting squirrels near Randleman, N. C, today. ROSEUUKG Improvements being made at Roseburg Country club grounds. 7DU FEWER TALES IHMN IHtM Poor fools. 1 IS RECEIVED FROM NEW an . ABOARD I HF "WW. sr-ft Nlr. VA SOME roOD I m&etin- s j LIKE THA.T- ,f IOuRNEoJ too ny t Clti CASEYS, t 2 ' tirtt i' VETS ATTE OTTAWA. Ont., .pt. SS. W) Two unemployed World war veterans were dead and six others were In custody today alter what authorities describ ed u an apparent "mass suicide at tempt. Police engaged tn a terrlfla battle with the ex-service men last night on the banks of R'.de&u canal, near Parliament hill. Authorities said all the men were Intoxicated and at- I tempted to hurl themselves Into the canal. . Daniel McLean. 38. who served overseas with a Canadian battalion, and Don Clarke, 35, veteran ct the . Black Watch Imperials, plunged Into the canal before police and other rescuers could halt them. Their bodies were recovered arter me can&i locks were drained. Police- aald McLean was leader of . the group. TILLAMOOK Sacred Heart Pariah dedicated new Academy. By OLENN CHAFF Lai and UAL FORBES I IT'S A PLAM. ALL RISHT. BUT UNLESS IT COMES, CLOSE WE'RE OUT S-URC RAMBLING J By EDWIN ALGER Copright, 1932, by By C. M. PAYNE By SOL HESS YORK. By BUD FISHER By George McManus mm M CAN TAKE J THAT IS wA mv vote Si a m V&k A6"NO' At DOUBLE M
