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' 1MEDF0M3 5CCLTJ TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1932.
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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he bad the air of beauty withdrawn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
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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