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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD. OREGON. THURSDAY. JANUARY 10. 19?o. PAGE EIGHT MTE & :iSI8 Nicholas Trench, pals, Jofl.V 0 'Wt, Jerry nud Jimmy Fox, have vrrne to Hambridye on Jerry's little yacht to try to learn aome fhiiiji about a missing formula, itolfn itome months before from Molly. The thief was John Osborne, and he had spent a month at 4 am bridge tust before he was mar tiered. Peter Orloft. unecrupvtott Jiussian, clo is tying to flv.d the formula, which is worth trillions. Nirk is trytng to question the wo man with whom Osbnrna boarded when her husband, furiously angry, appears. Chapter 37 DOG FIGHT AVHO are you, Gowlland ae- mandid, "and what the blazes d'you want here?" I looked him up and down with Intentional deliberation. "I wanted some milk," I Bald, "a pint, to be strictly accurate." "Well, you've got It, haven't you?" He pointed toward the gate. "Now clear off, blast you!" I could feel my temper beginning to rise. "Look here," I said, "you keep a civil tongue lb your head .when you're speaking to me." "Tom, Tom," broko in his wife plteously, "what's the good . . ." He turned on her with a scowl of fury. "Shut your niouth," he roared. "I heard what he said to you. A friend of Osborne's, Is he? Well, I'll A bristling mass of fury teach him to show his dirty face here." He spun round unsteadily, and lurching across the yard, begnn to fumble at the door of one of the sheds. Mrs. Cowlland made an imploring gesture. "Go go at once," she gasped. "He's letting out the dog, and it will kill you it It finds you here." Whether I should have followed her advice or not I can't say; In any case It was too late. There was the rattle of a chain from Inside the shed, and with a menacing growl the huge rough-coated brute that I had seen crouching on the bank that morning bounded out Into tbo open. , "At Mm, boy! Get your teeth Into jthe . . ." Swift as light a bristling mass of black fury launched Itself towards me. I sprang back, and as I did so, something sllont and yellow flashed past me from behind. It cannoned full Into my assailant In mid-air, and tne next moment, amidst an ear jspllttlng clamor, two frantic wrlth ilng bodies were locked In a life and Ideath battle. A foul oath burst from Gowlland's flips, and stooping do to he snatched iup the broken handle of a pitchfork. Hefore he could properly straighten himself, however, I had leaped for ward and gripped him by the wrist ".Vo. you don't, ducky," I said. Xt'E swayed to and fro, straining ' and struggling, till with a sav age wrench I tore the weapon from his hands. At the same Instant his foot slipped and losing his balauce he sat down heavily In the mud. A little breathlessly I turned to see how matters were progressing elsewhere. 1 had Just time to observe that George was on top, his teeth burled In his enemy's shoulder, when with another and equally un printable observation, my own ad versary struggled to his (cet. "Better leave 'em alone." I said pleasantly. "You may get hurt If you try to interfere." For a second he stood facing me, a slore of murderous hatred In his half Insane eyes; then he took a pare bsckward and swinging rcund WILL APPEAR AT SONS; 1J A clMle comedy entitled "Tr-e Am.irons." by Sir Arthur Plnero. fm otis British dramMtM of the late IPth century, will he pren-ntd at Ahland January 12. by the l'nlver:t? tha ter of the University of Oregon dra matic department. The Ashland ip pea ranee of the ttudent cist will be the aecond of two In iv.hern Ore joi.. the first to he at Rot burg, January 11. Under the direction of ottille T ftybolt. hend of ihr unucr-Uy drama " if" MM VICTOR BRIDGES suddenly on bis heel, set off at a shambling run In the direction of the house. "He's gone to get his gun. For God's sake , , ." Mrs. Gowlland's frantic appeal was cut short by a shout from behind us. "What the dickens here, come off. It!" Racing Into the yard, Jerry seized George by the collar, and releasing his hold the latter allowed himself to be pulled backwards. With blood streaming from bis shoulder, the other dog retreated snarllngly against the wall. "You got here Just In time," I said, "at least George did. If he hadn't that brute would have chewed me to pulp." Still keeping his grip on the col lar, Jerry glanced lnqui lngly from one to the other of us. "What's It all about?" he demand ed. "Mr. Gowlland doesn't like my ap pearance," I explained. "He set Fldo on me. and now's he gone off to fetch a gun." "Oh, don't stop here don't waste time talking. Go quick, all of you, before he comes back." 1 looked down at the half dls traught woman, who bad again clutched me by the sleeve. "We can't leava you alone with a homicidal lunatic," I objected. launched Itself towards me. "Ho won't hurt me. Go go, I Im plore you. It'a the only tfcing that will atop murder." From somewhere close at hand came the hang of a door. "Sounds sensible to me," observed Jerry. "He'd probably shoot George and then there'd certainly be a mas sacre. Any objection to beating It?" "None," I said. And without further ado we bolted Inglorlously through tbe gate. T LAV on my back, gazlug up at the glass skylight, against which the rain was still fitfully driving. "There's one thing dead cortaln," I repeated; "the man's as mad as a hatter. What's more, if I'm any Judge, he's on the verge of D.T." Jerry picked up his pot of beer from the cabin floor, and took a long gulp. "Pleasant for his wife! Good looking, too, In her way; bit of the gipsy about her, I should think." "I wonder what made her marry him," I said. "He's old enough to be her father." "Perhaps ha didn't drink so much then. It's only quite lately that Ihe place has gone to pieces like that. Last time 1 was hero everything was as smart as paint." "Well, thero must be some reason for It," broke In Molly. "I believe Nick was right In what he suggested yesterday." "You mean about Osborne?" She nodded. "I've been thinking It over the whole morning. Of course, I haven't seen Mrs. Gowlland, but if she's as pretty as you say. It all fits together nicely. I expect she was frightfully poor and mnrrled Cowl land becauso he hsd a farm. As soon as she found herself shut up In thai dismal place with a man who wai twice her ape I imagine she brsan to feel a bit sorry. "It might be mighty loncaomi here In winter time, and you can t get much company out of cows and pigs. As I see It, the poor thing must have had a pretty dreary time, and then, Just as she was feeling bored stiff, who should come along but Osborne." (Copyright, ;pfl;, rvnti TuMlsftiup Co.) Tomorrow, the group mukts in. ether attempt to interview Mre GowlUnrt. . ed tn the wme gh., rollickliyi mood with wMoh It met with much uc I cw or'.Blnallv ?SKed. and In a re- I vival at New York, nea.vn Nfor i It l the atory of a mother who. bit terly rffirettlnn that her glr'.a are no hoy, rrin them ip m auotv Vie complication nuirin when 7lrlA A rawv1 In mntriil!ti m t I r a quire "Alitor, jviv.ide tn hilar lout l perform n oe. Member of the cat In-'Iuar B.M Cotr.rell of Aahland. Ted Karnfotla - i of Portland, Horace Hoi)",wn. drama instructor and dfjigr.er of the s'use setting. Dorothy Pirks. Helen r len, Eeleanore O.illlon. Mary Bennett. Dan Clark. Jr . Robert Winstead, JV1-gsj- Wulvn. Luc;.le Stewart and Rich ard Knken. all of E iene Soap weed, also knon as yucca or bear Bra w hidi thrive tn any eaon In the Tex a Panhandle. beinu ued for ennlspe during BE PREVIEWED BY IN By WALTER B. CLAUSES' AttoclatPd Press Staff Writer PASADENA. Cal., can. fl.- AP) A preview of the end of the world Is patiently awaited by astronomer!. From their choice, seat behind the world's largest telescope they expect to aee the curtain nse some time In the next two years, say Dr. Fritz Zwlcky. astrophysicist of California Institute of Technology. The stage, he thinks, will be In the direction of Virgo star cluster, some 42.000.000.000.000.000,000 miles away. From among Virgo'a fiOO galaxies. Dr. Zwlcky said today, one of the stars will probably step forth In the stellar role of a- super-Nova and en act "the end of the world" quite harmlessly for the astronomers who watch. The play will be fatal to the star for It wll explode with a brilliance perhaps equal to that of a hundred million suns. There have been such collossal scenes before, but modern asronomy has yet to study one. These super novae have bpen recorded by the ancient Chines, and even found on astronomical photographic plates is recent as 1885, bui never have they been studied through modern Instru ments. Dr. Zwlcky believes any star may become a super-nova. The study of B;Mjjtkr"pop- r Bv CMTPayna WaA . m "WsTs, TSuTflP Jvje.BDiNA Cak-eT'' VW vw couldn't IIPO ElIfFo5MAe$1 3?i3A T3rew6 W VcoCAM'T must So u(gjan.lES, itmujt if eet ta Mam' I r PTV ? r v50 CAKE JMeJ ' I "PlLLOW. T-rE.kJjW4A-r Z,o u W E.-R.J 'A TeLH LAV T4a7ILLA- ) I l3 W ,VA A .i l M'W&l i TAr s.IN 1 C -. A . 'a -orL.o!i! By Hal Forrest cor-iejScNoes,! totk ain't sonna Cves, tot'D uk6. I Tvoo wo wish to coc-e? 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"The theory gives us ft new idea of the possible nature of the end of the earth," he said, pointing out that should the sun suddenly explode, the earth soon thereafter would be noth ing but a hot cloud of gases drifting Into space. 4 SALEM. Jan. 10. (AP) Governor. Julius h. Meier yesterday Issued pardon to Lester Darby, sentenced to serve a one-year term In the Multno mah county Jail for larceny. He was committed October 8. 1934. A second pardon waa Issued to Ray mond Johnson, aervln? nine months in the Multnomah county Jail for larceny. He waa received November 17, 1934.- The governor also Issued an order reinstating the driver's license of Eu gene D. Hermann, stating it wsji nec essary for Hermann to have his li cense In order to support his fam ily. Farmers Owe Millions. SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. ( UP) Utah farmers had 125. 000.000 out standing against them In Federal Land bank and State Land board loans on December 1. Reports dis closed 6,154 Federal Land bans loans, totaling $10,963,978.82; 2.397 Farm Loan Commissioner loans, totaling $3,959,936.84, and 1.457 Stat Land board loan totaling $5,276,722.76. W PURCHASE MS SOON IN OREGON PORTLAND, Jan. 10. ( AP) With in the next six months the federal government will spend more than $1,260,000 in Oregon buying up about 250,000 acres of sub-marginal ( land and relocating families which are to be removed from land of poor productivity. The announcement was made by Qex E. WUlard, agricultural adjust ment administration representative. ' About 150.000 acres of land will j be purchased by the government In Central Oregon, and 100,000 acres will be taken up in western Oregon. The central Oregon land bought ' by the government will be turned , over largely to grazing. That in west-1, ern Oregon will go Into national and -state forests. Fearful of price boosts, the federal agents made no mention whatever of particular districts In which the work will be carried out. WUlard said a staff of 15 persons w.ll start work next week on ap- j pralsals. Purchases must be made ; before next June 30. All options must be approved by the AAA. The purchase of the unproductive ; land will fit In closely with the work of the Orecon rehabilitation com- mittee in placing on good lands those , families removed from sub-marginal land. George 8 Shelley of Eugene will J direct the land purchases In west- j ern Oregon and E. M. Peck of Red mond will have charge of this work I In the central part of the state. HE FIRST SPINACH WCHDER5 WHAT- fritt WEW FOoE 15 KIcrfrlER HAS 6rVJTN HIM tO-DAV LlSfEKS WITHOUT INTEREST TO MOTHER'S SALES TALK ON MOW 600V SPlKACH 15 FOR BABIES 16 CORNERED AT LAST AMD TAKES A SPO0NF0L. STUL l-o (Copyright, St - 1 ' : : ' - , TASfK IT WARILY PUSHES BOWL AWAY" TO SHOW WHAT HE THIKKS OF IT tastes een worse Thaw he thdu6ht, but powks it ail at last 1935, by Tha BU Syndicate, Inc.) By GLUYAS WILLIAMS ' I 1 NO, THANKS ! W& SPOOH DOWN HftSTUY A!J2E6 WlTrt SlrJWrfe HEARtl WAT MOTHER SEEMS DE -TERMIMED comforts himself by s0ckin6 Thumb, happily not realizing HIS LIFETIME BUTTLE TO WfolD SPWACH HAS ONLV Jlf BKM (UpeUumcaL, Uie will tw jeMol iced aWu, 1
