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PAGE EIGHT JIEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOK1J. OREGON, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 20, 1934. BYXOPSW: ch is t Avon the hearina from Sir W, story of that chemical engineer1 dealings with John Osborne, the man r,cnotaa juai nas oern acquw ted of having murdered. Osborne had stolen the formula of a new metal from Molly O'Brien after her father, who invented it. died, Osborne agreed to eell the formula to Sir William, but with the thief's death the paper disappeared. Nicholas, Molly and Jerry Afor daunt are trying to find It, rw- Chapter 21 NEW PLANS ELL?" I Inquired when the door closed, "and how did It iturn out?" "Exactly u Oiborne had itated, Sir William answered. "I needn't .bother you with a lot of technical detalli, but both as far aa lightness 'and strength were concerned It was .Incomparably superior to any other metal In existence. Applied to the .manufacture of aeroplanes, for In stance, It would. Increase their effi ciency by at least twenty-Ore per cent. "The possibilities it opened up were obviously so enormous that no question as to whether Osborne was the actual Inventor or not could be permitted to stand In the way. I gave him a check for two thou sand pounds on account and agreed that be should have the rest as soon as I had examined the formula. I "The arrangement was that he 'was to bring It to my office at ten ,0'clock on the morning of August the fourth. As you have reason to jknow, the appointment was never kept. At that hour he was lying dead In his study with the safe open land bis papers missing." The slow deliberate voice ceased speaking and for moment or two (I sat silent. I am much obliged to yea for telling me all this," I said, "but I should have been still more grateful If you bad come forward a little earlier. It might bava saved me a good deal of discomfort." Sir William nodded composedly. That was an omission for which I must ask your forgiveness. I con sidered the matter very carefully and I decided that It would be wiser to wait until I had heard the case against you. With such Important dnterests at stake I waa anxious to kvold any unnecessary publicity." "But supposing they had found jme guilty?" I persisted. "Were you going to stand quietly by and see (roe hanged?" He shook his head. "In that case I" should have felt It my duty to place the facts before your solici tors. With the new evidence that I was In a position to supply they would have had no difficulty In se curing a fresh trial." There was a cool frankness about Sir William's admission that In -spite of my resentment made me hnore disposed to trust him. After all, he had told me the truth, and If he were prepared to be honest Ion a point like this the odds were that I could rely on the rest of his jstory. He was obviously a man who did not allow any delicate scruples to Interfere with the course of busi ness, but on the other hand, he ap peared to have treated Osborne with strict fairness, and I saw no resson for doubting that he would be equal ly straightforward with ua. ' I hesitated tor an Instant; then I jdeclded to take the plunge. "ITTELL, you've carried out your ' side of the bargain," I ob served, "and now I propose to do the same. Before I begin there's juat one point I'd like to be elear about I assume from what you've 'aid that you're not anxious to take an unfair advantage of anyone. If jOsborne did steal the formula, and lit the rightful owner of It happened o turn up, . . ." "I should be delighted to meet hlm," he Interrupted. "If such a per son exists, and he Is prepared to do business, I csn asaure you that he will get better terms from me than from any other firm In the world." I pushed aside my plate. "Then dlsten!" I said. It was a longlsb task I had In 'front of me, and I made no effort to hurry over It. Once I started to tell toy story 1 felt that half-measures would be worse than useless. It I were going to trust my companion the Job would have to be done thor oughly, so without attempting to keep anything bark, I settled down to let him have the tacts. It must have taken the best part of halt an hour before I reached the end, and all the time I was talking Sir William maintained an un broken silence. He set there, solid By VICTOR BRIDGES S and massive, like an expressionless stone Buddha, his keen eyes alone betraying the Intense Interest with which he was following my narra tive. At the conclusion he very deliber ately lighted a cigar. "Thank you, Mr. Trench," he said, pushing across the box. "I am glad you've had the good sense to take me Into your confidence. It's an ex traordinary affair and I congratu late you on the admirable way In which you have kept your head," "What do you make of It all?" I Inquired. "Do you suppose those chaps Stellman and Dlmltrl fol lowed Miss O'Brien from New Or leane?" "The latter undoubtedly did. From your description I should think that the other was probably a German aome well known Inter national crook whom Dlmltrl may have picked up over here. He would need help In a business like this; it's not the type of Job that an Amer ican gunman could handle by him self." "But even then we are not much further on," I observed. "No matter who they are they certainly didn't kill Osborne. Somebody knocked blm on the bead, however, and somebody opened the safe and went off with the papers." "That aeema to be the logical con clusion." He puffed meditatively at hla cigar. "How do you propose to act In the matter?" he inquired sud denly. "If you are afraid of these people, there's nothing to prevent yon from going round to Scotland Yard and telling them your story." 1 SHOOK my head. "I've had quits enough of Scotland Yard," I said. "You can do as you please, hut far as Jerry and I are concerned, we've made up our minds to tackle the thing ourselves." Ton have?" He nodded slowly. "A very sensible decision! The less the police are brought into this bet ter for all of us. Whatever else they might do, they would certainly de stroy sny chance we have of recov ering the formula." "You think there Is a chance then?" "It's not Impossible. It depends to a certain extent upon whether the man who stole It la aware of Its value. He msy have been an ordi nary thief who was Interrupted Just as he had opened the sate. In that case his first Instinct would prob ably be to grab what he could and bolt from the house." 'Sounds a bit thin to me," I ob jected. "Burglars don't usually risk their necks unless they know that there's something worth taking." 'I agree with you. It'a consider ably more probable that whoever broke Into the place came to steal the formula. After all we have no proof that Dlmltrl was the only person in the secret Osborne may have had a second confederate whom be let down as well." "There's another idea that struck me," I remarked. "If this Invention Is as Important aa you say, there must be several big firms here end In America who ..." I hesitated "well, who wouldn't be too squeam ish about how they got hold of It." He shrugged his shoulders. "We have some fairly unscrupulous com petitors, but I doubt whether sny of tbem would go as far as murder. I am more Inclined to regard It as a private enterprise, and for that very reason I take a less hopeless view of the situation than I other wise should. "Sooner or later, provided noth ing hsppens to alarm blm, our un known friend will attempt to dis pose of bis plunder." "He msy have done so already." "I think not The metal market Is a sensitive concern, and I make It my business to keep closely In touch with all Its principal centres. I am convinced that up to now nothing has happened. If there are develop menta elsewhere we are almost cer tain to hear of them, but my own belief Is that the first approaches, when they are made, will probably be in our direction. I should not be surprised It something of the kind were to occur at any moment" "And supposing It does?" I said bluntly. "Are you prepared to do business with a murderer?" "Quite," was the prompt answer. "As I told you before, I regard the acquisition of this process ss a na tional duty. It it Is offered to me I shall not hesitate to buy It but you may rest assured that Miss O'Brien's claims will receive the fullest and falreet consideration." fCopyrlpM, III I, "- "Mtlii Co.) APPOINTED FOR CCC OF Announcement of the appointment of new educational advisers for CCC camps In the Med ford district was made today by D. E. Wiedman, edu cational co-ordlnator, who stated that with the exception of camps Humbug Mountain and Cape Bebaa tain, one adviser haa been stationed at each camp In the district. Here tofore seven advisers were assignee to two camps each. Camps Humbug Mountain ana Cape Sebantaln were previously as signed to H. M. Stiles, who has been transferred to Vancouver district, and are now under Educational Adviser Donald Mace. Company 611 is 'sta tioned at Camp Humbug Mountain, and Company 1052 at Camp Cape Sebsstaln. Cellan Ufford, formerly educational adviser at Camps Evans Creek and Elk Creek, has been trans ferred to Fort Arthur, Calif. The new appointments, which are expected to be completed soon with the assignment of , men to Camps Humbug Mountain and Cape Sebas tain, ?rs announced as follows: Linden McCullough to company 02a, Camp Applegate; Floyd O. Bur nett to company 1344, CampGasquet; Harris C. Rude to Company 1554. Yreka; John Blanchard to Company 1555, Camp Evans Creek; Fenton Muldowney to Company 1629, Camp Wolf Creek, which formerly had no educational adviser; George Brlnlow to Company 1841, Camp Clear Creek; Stanley Richmond to Company 759, Camp Sltkum; Leonard A. Moore to Company 1747, Camp Elk Creek. L GROWERS WILL GET STAMP TAX REFUND Approximately 15,000 In refund checks are being mailed out by t:ie Oregon-Washington Melon and To mato Marketing Agreement to 1,000 growers of those commodities In ht two states. Thia amount la 10 per cent of the money collected from a stamp tax on each crate of melons and tomato sold In Oregon and Washington dur ing the growing season, after paying all expenses of enforcing the pact and providing for a sinking fund to start operations for 1935. Only thce growers who bought $10 or more in stamps are receiving refunds, due to the excessive cost of mailing checks for leas than one dollar, according to officials of the marketing agreement. Meetings between growers and the joint control committee are beltg held throughout Oregon and Wash ington, reporting on the operations this year and planning better en forcement for 1935. Producer group so far contacted are well satisfied with the agreement as It now oper ates, but wish stricter enforcement among the growers, according to Har ry Hawkins of Yakima, Wash., ai3 Morton Tompkins of Dayton, Ore , who are conducting the meetings. Use of Butter I Increased OLYMPIA, Wash. (UP) Use of butter has Jumped 6,000,000 pounds a year since Washington levied at 15-cent tax on butter substitutes, ac cording to Dr. Robert E. Prior, state dairy supervisor. CHRISTMAS WEEK NEWS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS TOKYO AS DANGER! PEACE WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (JF) While ; considering Japan's projected denun- j elation of the naval treaty "extreme- ly unfortunate,1 Senator Borah ex- j pressed the view today that "we ought not make the mistake of Interpreting the act as Indicating a warlike atti tude toward the United States." "It Is rather an expression of Jap anese olrlental policy," added the for mor foreign relations committee chairman to newsmen. Senator Stelwer (R Ore.), had this to say: "The Japanese attitude endangers the peace of the entire world. There will be no security on the Pacific until all of the Interested powers can find It possible to be bound by the limitation of treaties to which they subscribe." Asked about American plana far fleet cons true tlon In vie w of tie coming Japanese denouncement of the London naval treaty, Secretary Swanson, at a press conference, si'd "We will do what la necessary f-r proper defense of Amtrlca and her commerce and her Industries." 2.1 Religious Faiths at College COLUMBIA, Mo. 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