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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1934.
By VICTOR BRIDGES
SYNOPSIS: Jerry Uoriaunt
and Nicholas Trench are at th
former's flat. With Molly O'Brien,
the two young men art engaged in
trying to recover a valuable for
mula, stolen by the murdered John
Osborne from Molly alter the death
of her father. Sinister persons alto
are trying to find the formula,
and moat of them belteve Nicholas
hot tt, wince he hoa been accused of
the murder of Osborne, although
I later he is acquitted. Jerry just
f has joined Sick.
Chapter U
SIR WILLIAM AVON
PORKY to have been ao long,"
, lj said Jerry. "I don't know why,
but I waa a bit sleepy tbla morn
W" 1 "It you will Insist on dragging ua
to expensive night eluba and danc
ing till three o'clock ..." I began.
"Waa It aa late as that?" He
dropped Into an easy chair and ran
his fingers through George's silky
coat. "Still, we didn't bare a bad
time, did we? I think Molly enjoyed
herself all right"
'To sure ehe did," I aald. "A sim
ple nature like hers , , ."
"Simple nature be blowedl I tell
you, Nick, that girl's a wonder. She'a
sot only pretty, but she's got brains
nd guta, too."
"According to the best scientific
authorities," I observed, "most
young women have." .
paddling sedately at ,.' -'a. we
emerged through the Admiralty
Arch Into the ordered peace of the
Mall.
Buckingham Palace loomed up
ahead o! us In all Its reassuring
ugliness. Jerry, who was telling me
about bis late trip, rambled on
cheerfully from one experience to
another, while a stream of smooth
running cars, with their well-dressed
occupants lolling back against the
cushions, added to the general at
mosphere of comfortable security.
When we arrived at the gate op
posite St George's Hospital, Jerry
came to a halt.
"I think I'll turn round and toddle
back now," he observed. "If I take
George along Piccadilly he will stop
and look at the shop windows."
't T7ELL, you can expect me some
time about three," I replied.
"I should think I ought to be
through with Avon by then."
"Don't rush It. There's no hurry
aa far as we're concerned. It It's
anytblng to do with Osborne get aa
much out of him as you can!' He
whistled to George who waa eyeing
a large Alsatian that had Just
trotted up from behind us. "I've a
notion," he added, "that we're 01
what they call the brink of dlscov
ery."
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With a sudden smile Sir William
stepped forward.
"Look at the way aha bluffed
those two thugs In your studio." be
went on with growing enthusiasm.
"Masterly bit of work I call It! And
the Jolllest thing about her la that
she's so easy to talk to. We got along
together like a houae on fire."
"What were you discussing?" I
Inquired.
"You, chiefly."
"It's a fascinating topic," I ad
mitted. "She's worried about you, Nick.
Got It Into her head that she's no
right to lead you Into any more
trouMo."
"Oh, tbat'a bunkum," I objected.
"What I want to find out la who
killed Osborne. Until I do, every fool
In England will go on believing that
I'm a murderer I"
"That'a what I pointed out to her.
S'explalned that we were both act
ing from entirely selfish motives.
You wished to clear your name and
I waa thirsting to try my hand aa a
sleuth. If we were able to help her
t the same time ao much the bet
ter." j "Well done, Jerry," I said. "I'd no
Idea, you were such a diplomat."
it'VE always been underrated by
my friends." He glanced across
at the clock. "When Is this appoint-
rent of yours with Avon?"
"One-fifteen," I replied.
I "That will give us time for a walk
'first. Oeorge wanta some exercise
ao I'll come along with yon aa far
a Hyde Park Corner."
"What are you doing atter
(wards?" I Inquired.
"I thought I'd lunch with Molly
at ths Milan and wait for you there.
When you're through you can come
along and tell ns the result. I'm
yearning to know what he wanta to
ee you about."
"It ought to be Interesting," I
evgreed. "By the way, I rang up old
Cresswell Just now, and he suggests
that I should go to dinner with him
tomorrow night."
i "You didn't mention anything. . . ."
' "Not a word. Until I've seen Avon
think we'd better keep the whole
thing to ourselves."
"That'a my opinion." He got up
and with a Joyful bark Oeorge
bounded towarde the door. "Just
you and 1 and Molly for the present:
of course, I don't count Dawson."
"Does Dawson know?" I Inquired.
Jerry yawned. "I expect so. It's
Bo use trying to keep things from
Dawson. I gave It up long ago."
The world seemed to nte a very
agreeable place, as, with Oeorge
"You're on the brink of a dog
fight If you don't look out," I re
marked, and leaving him to deal
with the situation I sauntered out
on to the pavement and crossed the
road In the direction of A p s 1 e y
House.
A few minutes' walk brought me
to the Park View Hotel the most
select and expensive of all London'a'
recently erected beauty spots. My
host had evidently left Instructional
at the office, for, on my mentioning
his name, the reception clerk at
once summoned a page, and with
out further preliminaries, I waa
promptly conducted to the lift.
We stopped at the second land-,
In;, where, leading the way down
a softly carpeted corridor, the boy
knocked gently at a closed door. It
was opened by a manservant.
Yes, air, ' be murmured In re
sponse to my Inquiry. "Sir William
Avon la expecting you, sir."
He relieved me of my hat, and.
conducting me across a miniature!
hall ushered me Into a large oral-!
shaped room, the windows of which
looked out on to the Park.
Standing with his back to the
fire place was a man whom I should
have recognised at once. His mas
sive shoulders, his square chin, and
tbs lock of while hair falling across
his forehead were all familiar to
me from his photographs In the
newspapers. Though he must have
been at least seventy he was as up
right aa a dart, and his eyes, which
were a curious shade of frosty blue,
were about the hardest and keenest
that I have ever encountered.
They rested on me for a moment
In a quick appraising glance: then,
with a sudden smile, he stepped for
ward.
"I am glad to make your acquaint
ance, Mr. Trench," be said. i
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things from air
row. .
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LAW HELD MID BY
U. S. COURT
PORTLAND, Dee. 18. (AP) The
validity of the Oregon law requiring
use of uniform berry boxes was up
held In federal court here today In
a decision handed down In the action
brought by the Pacific Btatea Box
and Basket company attacking the
statute.
The company had sued for an In
junction to prevent enforcement of
the law which requires use of uni
form berry hallocka. The company
had alleged that the state law inter
fered with normal course of Inter
state commerce. The oourt ruled that
the constitutional rights of the box
company had not been Invaded.
"Legislation designed to aid and
promote the Industry In the manner
provided by the Oregon laws," the
decision resd. "Falls within the le
gitimate use of the police power of
the state, whether the state de
partment of agriculture acted widely
In making aelectlons. or whether the
containers manufactured by the
plaintiff are aa well or better adapt
ed to the Intended use does not pre
sent a aubject for Judicial reviews."
FLIER'S WIFE CHARTERS
SCHOONER FOR SEARCH
SYDNEY, N, 8. W Deo. 18. (AP)
Refusing to abandon hope for her
husband, missing for two weeks on a
trana -Pacific flight, Mrs. Charles T.
P. Ulm chartered the schooner Lana
kal today through the British con
sul In Honolulu to -make a month's
search for him.
The Lanakal will cruise about reefs
and island! from Honolulu to Mid
way Island.
DEATH TO SAWTELLE,
.NINTH CIRCUIT JUDGE
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 18. (AP)
Judge William H. Sawtelle. formerly
of Tucson, Ariz., one of the three
members of the ninth circuit United
States court of appeals, died sud
denly at his home here Monday. He
waa appointed Feb. 6, 1931, by form
er President Hoover.
28 TERRORISTS SHOT
ON SOVIET ORDERS
MOSCOW, Dec. 18. (AP) Twenty
eight alleged terrorists under death
sentences were duly executed today
In Kiev, bringing to a total of 107
the number of alleged terrorists exe
cuted since the assassination of
Sergei Klroff, December 1
PAY BOOST COMING
FOR RAIL WORKERS
WASHINGTON, Dec. IB. (AP)
Railroad union workers who In 1032
took a 60. 000. 000 -a -year wage cut
will receive an Increase In wages
January 1, restoring their pay to
"within A per cent of the baslopre-
depresslon scale.
'
PENDLETON, Dec. 18. (AP) Ap
proximately 1,600 wheat allotment
checks amounting to $340,856 were
being distributed thla week to Uma
tilla county wheat ranchers who have
complied with the government's re
qulrementt acreage reduction. An
equal amount will be distributed
later.
Oross returns from Florida's 1933
34 fruit and vegetable crops were
983,407.184.
4 AUTO DEATHS
PORTLAND, Dec. 18. (AP) Four
persons lost their lives In automobile
accidents In Oregon over the week
end, several others were critically in
jured, and a dozen or more were less
seriously hurt.
The dead: Charles W. Mead, 37, of
Portland.
Emory H. Fuller, 32. of Oregon City.
Ous Holgate, 40, of cottage Grove.
Mrs. W. H. Powell. 50. of Yamhill.
Mead waa struck down In Portland
by an automobile reputedly driven
by Francis J. McDonald of Bonneville
who was booked for Involuntary
manslaughter. Fuller was killed when
his car skidded on the Columbia
highway near The Dalles. Holgate's
automobile collided with a truck on
the Row river road near Dorena. Mrs.
Powell died in a hospital here frc-n
injuries suffered near Condon.
Gene Tonles, 19, of Umatilla, was
perhaps fatally Injured when his car
skidded Into a guard rail at Umatilla.
THE CHRISTMAS RUSH
Tiber Ousts Italians
ROME, Dec. 18. (AP) One thou
sand persona. It was estimated touay.
were forced toMeave their homes here
during the night aa the flooded river
Tiber continued on a rampage. Prop
erty damage was large. Three houses
caved In but their occupants escaped.
Funds raised through the sale of
Christmas seals are used to promote
better health by educating children
and adults in the ways of healthy
living and by helping to find early
cases of tuberculosis.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
OU WAfO fRMN STEPS MOTiCB CROWD AND
1Mb DEPARflflENf SlbRC SfCPS 1b WWCH f 1AW
T6 6Ef SLED FOR J0NIO1& DEMoKSTRMfT SEf Of
CHRISTMAS PRESEttf MA&IC HACK'S
INQUIRES WHERE WIU. MURMURS HE REBU.Y
he Find sleds aud rut must hUrrv and sees
rVrlrl MECHANICAL 1bVS && tlSPLAV OF ElECfRlC
OH COUNTER TRAINS, "MO AiSl.ES OVER
elbows his wav 0
Front line position
SH)Vai
PULLS HIMSElF AWAY AT
LAST, B1ST6ETS SIDE -TRACKED
IN PU22LES AND
DEPARTMENT
SEES CROWD FlUtfe lf)RO06H HURRIES FOR TRAlS.
PoorWaV and follows, Pilffitfc off purchase
lO WfllLH SHrtlfl
6REETW& VfcUNG 1lSffORS,
OF SLED, LWLAININ6 0
WIFE Y6U CAN'T SET ANyH
tiWfe DONE IN "WIS
CHRISTMAS RUSH
(Copyright. 1934. by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
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VALE. Ore. Dm. 18 AP) Ore
gon drinker won will hve un oppor
tinlty to iiM "horn grown pro
duct," If pltni for th con it met Ion
of dlfttlUlnR plant near Welwr. on.
the Oregon tide of the Bnake river,
re carritxl out, It ai uid here ye-
terdey.
Articleii of Inrorporetlon for the
Snake River Distilling company, with
capital of 126,000. already have
been (lied In the county clerka of
fice hire, H waa laid, and machinery
for dlatllllng rye and com whlnklea
and apple brandy haa been ordered.
H waa eatlmated that hundred of
tona of apple and prune ralaed In
the Snake river valley will be uaed
b Ibe diatUlex la QiaJUni bjuxL.
SEATTLE. Dec. 18. ( AP)- Tl.e
federal houMng admlnlttratton ti
atlmulatlng new bulne amotintlni
to 30,600.000 each week over the
country. Ward M. Canaday, director
of public relation for the admtnla
tnitlon eald today.
He declared the lumber buMnes In
the Pacific northwest haa felt the
Improvement citing hat one eastern
refrigerator manufacturer ordered 17.
500.000 feet of shipping crate ma
terial thla mouth.
'The whole idea behind the hous
ing program ta to get money moving.'
he aald.
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