Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 17, 1936, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MATT, TRTBUNTV MEDFORI). OREGON', MONDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1936 SYSVl'litS: ISobtiy and Frt.tk are trying their beat to determtn first, whether there waa murdet dont in the matter ot the man Khu lett aver toe ciij , kwhu. wnui Baaainaton-ffrench'e opimioho" with the matter was; third, how tt happene that the photoyraph found later in the dead man'e pocket teat not the one tiouliv eato there in the ftrat place, la ilaaaington-fjrench oniltyt Are the Camane mixed up in itt Who tried to poison Booby t What do the dead man'e enigmatic lat tcorde meant A CCOHDING to our present the- ory It goes Ilka tbla," Bobby continued. "Dead man X la deliber ately pushed over cliff presumably by B. F. (pardon the Initials). It la Important that X should not be cor rectly Identified, so the portrait of Mrs. C. Is put In bis pocket and the portrait of Fair Unknown removed. Who was she, 1 wonder?" "Keep to the point," said Frankle sternly. "Mrs C. waits for photograph to appear. Then turns up as grief stricken sister and Identifies X as her brother from foreign parts." "You don't believe he could really have been her brother?" . "Not for a moment! You know, It puzzled me all along. The Caymans were a different class altogether. The dead man was well. It sounds most awful thing to say and just like some deadly old retired Anglo Indian but the dead man was a pukka sahib." "And the Caymans emphatically weren't?" "Most emphatically." "And then, Just when everything has gone oft well from the Caymans' point of vlow body successfully Identified, verdict of accidental death, everything in the garden lova ly you come along and mess things up," mused Frankle. "'Why didn't they ask Evanar" Bobby repeated the phrase thought fully. "You know 1 can't sea what on earth there can be In that to put the wind up anybody." "Ah! that's bocausa you don't know. It's like making crossword puzzles. You write down a clue and you think It's too Idiotically simple and that everyone will guess tt straight, off, and you're frightfully surprised when they simply can't get It in the least. 'Why didn't they ask Brans?" must have been a most frightfully significant phrase to them, and they couldn't realize that It meant notblng at all to you." "Mora fools they." "Oh, quite so. But It's lust possible they thought that It Pritchard said that, he might have said something more which would also recur to you In due time. Anyway they weren't going to take chances. You were safer out of the way." "They took a lot ot risk. Why didn't thi-y englueer another 'acci dent'?" "No, no. That would hare been stupid. Two accldenta wltbln a week of each other? It might have sug gested a connection between the two, and then people would have begun Inquiring Into the first one. No, I 'think thero's a kind of bad simplic ity about their method which la real ly rather clever." "And yet you said lust now that morphia wasn't easy to get hold of." "No more It la. You have to sign poison books and things. Oh ot course, that's a duel Whoever did It bad easy access-to supplies ot mor phia." "A doctor, a hospital nurse, or a chemist," suggested Bobby. "Well, 1 was thinking mora of Illicitly Imported drugs." "You can't mix up too many differ ent sorts ot crime," said Bobby, "You see, the strong point would be the absence of motive. Your death doesn't benefit anyone. So what will the police think?" "A lunatic," said Bobby. TAnd that's what they do think." "You ace? It's awfully simple really." notiriY began to laugh suddenly. - "What's amusing you?" "Just the thought of how slck-mak-tng It must be for theml All that morphia enough to kill Ova or all peoplo nnd here 1 am alive and kicking." "One of Life's little Ironies that one can't foresee," agreed Frankle. "The question Is, what do we do oeit?" snld Bobby practically. "Oh! lots of things," said Frankle promptly. "Such ss ?" "Well finding out about the pho toRraph Hint there was only one, not two. And about Basslngton ffrenoh't house hunting." "That will prolmbly be quite all right and above-board." "Why do you lay that?" "Look hero. Frankle. think a mln nte. PaMlnKtr-n ffreneh mint be . jt,,ti au-yicion. Ho uiust be all cleat ud above-board. Not only must .here be nothing to connect blm-ln any way with the dead man, but he must have a proper reason for being down here. Ha may have Invented house-hunting on the spur of the mo ment, but 1 bet he carried out some thing of the kind. There must be no suggestion ot a 'mysterious stranger seen In the neighborhood ot the ac cldent.' 1 fancy that Basslngton ffrencb Is his real name, and that he's the sort of person who would be quite above suspicion." "Yes," said Frankle thoughtfully "That's a very good deduction. Then will be nothing whatever to connct-Basstngton-ffrencb with Alex Prltcl. ard. Now If we knew who the des man really was" "Ah! then It might be different." "So tt was very Important that thi body should not be recognized Hence all the Cayman camouflage And yet It waa taking a big risk." "You forget that Mrs. Cayman Identified him as soon as was buman ly possible. After that, even It then had been pictures of blm In the ps pers (you know bow blurry these things are) people would only say 'Curious, this man Pritchard who tell over a cliff is roally extraordl narily like Mr. X.' " "There must be more to It than that," said Frankle shrewdly. "X must have been a man who wouldn't easily be missed. 1 mean, he couldn't have been the sort ot family man whose wife or relations would go to the police at once and report him missing." "Good for you, Frankle. No, he must have been Just going abroad, or perhaps Just come back (he was marvellously tanned, like a big game hunter he looked that sort of person), and he can't have bad any very near relations who knew all about bis movements." "We're deducing beautifully," said Frankle. "1 hope we're not deducing all wrong." "Very likely," said Bobby. "But l" think what we've said ao far Is fair ly sound sense granted, that Is, the wild 'Improbability of the whole thing." Fraukielwaved away the wild Im probability with, an airy gesture "The thing Is what to do next?" she said. "It seems to me we've got three anglek of Attack." "Go on, Sherlock." "The first is you. They've made one attempt on your life. They'll prob ably try again. This time wa mlgbi get what they call a 'line' on them Using you as a decoy, 1 mean." O, thank you, Frankle," said Bobby with feeling. "I've been very lucky this time, but 1 mightn't be so lucky again If they changed the attack to a blunt Instrument. 1 was thinking ot taking a great deal of care ot mysolt In the future. The decoy Idea can be washed out." "I was afraid you'd say that," said Frankle with a sigh. "Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays. Fa tber says so. They don't enjoy being uncomfortable and doing dangerous and unpleasant things any longer It's a pity." "A great pity," said Bobby, but he spoke with firmness. "What's the; second plan ot campaign?" "Working from the 'Why didn't they ask Evans?' clue," said Frankle. "Presumably the dead man came down here to see Evans whoever be waa. Now, if we could find Evans" "How many Evanses," Bobby In terrupted, "do you think there are In Marchbolt?" "Several hundred, 1 should think," admitted Frankle. "At least! We might do something that way, but I'm rather doubtful." "We could list all the Evanses and visit the likely ones." "And ask thorn what?" "That's the difficulty," said Frankle. "We need to know a little more," said Bobby. "Then that Idea ot yours might come In useful. What's Num ber 3?" "This man Basslngton - ffrencb. There we have got something tangi ble to go upon. It's an uncommon name. I'll ask Father. He knows all these county family names and their various branches." "Yes," said Bobby, "we might do Something that way." "At any rate we are going to do something?" "Ot course we are. Do you think I'm going to be given eight grains ol morphia and do nothing about It?" "That's the spirit!" said Frankle "And besides that." added Bobby "there's the Indignity of the stomact pump to be washed out." "That's enough," said Frankle. fCffrrit! WJ-JJ-J. At' Cariiti Franklt oeta tome Information from her father, tomorrow, and B thnrt l,ctura h,'l STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. V. 8. Fat Off. SNOWBALLER THE DALLES MINI NEVER OPERATED Few people know that conn-Teas once appropriated 100.000 for mln; In Oregon, that the mint wm con structed at The Dallea In IRtVfl but never coined a dime. A field nfnrkfr tor the. American Guide, WPA writer' project, report thai the building, made ot tin live no) Ml stone, was prepared to take care of the heavy output of the mines In Idaho and the John Day country. At one time the annual output of theae mines was estimated at twelve mil lion dollars. When the mint waa built H. A Hog ue waa named superintendent of the brninh and D. M French, disburs ing officer. Tnee were empty it tie Ths plAcer mines were exhausted and uw mint buiMW bwui a wheat warehouse. Today tt stands a block off Second street between Madison and Monroe in The Dalles. lnhMrmi. Kites Held PENDLETON. Ore . Feb. 17. (AP) Funeral services were held here yes terday tor Henry C. lie-hlstrom. 44. oil compsnv agent who died here suddenly February 13. He wni for mev chef de pare of the 40 et A in Long vie. mmvmcove, ; walked, m 1rpCTa'VcnY Cr nllCtslLniM Ol 4k NUMBERS 6V COfe AMP PrriK 13 5 7 10 NiSLrt i- . i i 1 w f I ' More to TftMP K6uk - vet COWMSlft, NAMED fORTfle L WrVaurM SjTi4iri(. In'. DID NcTCOtAE V riiii ( lit; innnCr0 roLiiMHiw wiTiA fVIORE 70 IftMP KUK-VET Wf5 NEVER WilHlN OOO m&3 ur- cuius m UJVJnOm. NrVlCW tun. mi- 0)4CoVeRf?, m HAD RUT fS CURIOSITIES... 1 , 166 UNTiU 150 , :K6 INVtHlEP. 1 kf Strange as It seems, the Lapps have heavy wool socks but they do not wear them except at night. In the daytime they wear socka made of marsh grass straws, aavlng their wool en socks tor sleeping. It may seem a strange custom to others, but the Lappa say that their grass socks are more protective than fabrics, that they are cheap and available any where, and best of all they are warm when wet. Wool socks are better, how ever, for keeping the feet warm at night. As far as we can learn from the best records of the travels of Christopher Columbus, that discoverer waa never was within more than 1000 miles of the South American land that li now Chile, he may have never come closer than 3000 miles of It, and beyond question the now accepted fact that Columbus touched the South Ameri can mainland at all. Yet, strange as It seems, Columbus has been honored by Chile in seven out of eight of Its early stamp Issues. In the first 83 stamp Issues made by the Chilean government, 73 of of them bore llkness of Columbus. On tho other hand, Colombia was named for Coiumbua and he Is be- JfeTvoO HAVE "lib HP lleved to have explored part of that country In 1503 out there only one stamp issue nonored the discoverer. Tomorrow: The Fading Star. Br GLUYAS WILLIAM3 16 P1AVIM6 IN The srfow WHEN A SNOWBRLU WHI&tLFS FROM ACROSS THE SfREE-f, LRWDW6 20 f EEf FROM HIM 111 bEMUKDS-fRUCULEWW OF BUD BEMIS.WHO l& 1VIE ONLV &0Y Ir) SlfeHi; DID HE-friROW) HA SO0P3 UP SOME 5W0W, Ulrl6 HE'LL fEACH BUD fO 60 AROUND 1HR0WIN& SNOWBALLS Aim REPEATS Tr15 RETRAIN while Trying id mold SHowBM-k, which KEERs CROMBLIrtS SCOOPS VP SOME WEER SNOW, WHILE BUD CriAm? SLEEFOLLV That he cant ejen Make a snowbawu uuftLiftrts 2.-7 FlNALW SE5 A SNOW BALL MADE AND WARNS BUD HE'D BEffER LOOK OUT NOW 8ECAU5E HE POEJNif WANT foHURf HIM PlKS AU Hl MlfiH-C lrOfo-fnElriROW, SNOWBALL CARRM& BUD BE1N& CALLED IN FOR SUPPER, FOLLOWS HIM Vim BtRlSIVfc. (gopyrlght. 1938. VT half -The Di5f ance tb CBa thai bud will BUD kWOVj BEffERlHANIO . MAIVC A SNOWBALL F16HT VOlfri HIM ISA IN S MATTER POP- Bv C M. PAYNE Weather Northern California: Rain tonight, Tuesday showers; snow over moun tains; slightly warmer south tonight; strong southerly wind and gales off the coast. Oregon: Fair north and unsettled in south, with rain or snow extreme south tonight and Tuesday; no change In temperature; fresh south east wind off coast, strong on south const. ri rv'c Trie PERFECT GUMr X&JL J RiiT jeffr L.- JT (Copyright, 1C38, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) TAILSPIN TOMMY Pancho Mnkes a Discovery! HI LB TOiMV wo iic-trsrs arc ATrenpme TO TRANS4TE to yyr FlSITIV PMNCtT, CALTUS1AC, THAT THEY AGS HS F&SVOS, LSTS FOiiOtO TH FlGHT OF PAYCHO PSTOLA ABOVS THE St. AMD V 7r s.xry- Reno wire o lahdng ,FLD ElEK SACJ By pjmmmmz wwrnmrnm mm&L m-L HAL FORREST ywo THE PISTOL. TAT PAHCHO FOUND IS tme one SKCETEt. POPPED AND TO coe&e: attacked BY THE avases: PANCHO, YOU VE HIT A HOT LEAD! BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Forest Fire! fcJl'cRPlTVwwEU.ll DOU'T A REAL FIRE I CARE IF THAT3 ( eCARKTV 51ARTED- 1 SG LUfl.' By EDWIN ALGEP A REAL FIRE I CARE IF T ir' J I THAIS ( eCARK THE fS 1 cTAnrpn tun i nr. I I-' 1 V I 'V,' -Mf.'S '. THAT FIRE VJIILT ALL ROHT, UES 60T OOMORE THAM nCOMIN 10 H1AA-F 5CARE HIM, T6E1'5 REAL BAD, ME CRIP- J AKi HIS WILD D06S An i1! Alf lllll YllnOnE 1MI I CAVC TUP ici Akin .V Jl' ',.l HOVJ'RE THEVNVOW ) M 60IN6 10 LEAVE ? ) F0R6011EN Vy W VJE'VE 601 ( THAT, BEM- fl PEOET AWO V CERTAINLY HAVEN'1 HEARD PETE'S WFLE 90-"5r4FF."5NFF-WHY,THAT5 SMOKE ! WONDER WHERE IT'S COMING FROM ? yi II T- THE NEBBS-Oh, Happy Dny By SOL HES3 PAI.FM. fVh. 17. (API A thin layer of iileet and snow covered the Rrounrt here this momma, m chill weather continued, The thermome ter recorded a minimum reading of IB derees ijttnday morning and H9 todsy. OrA.RUDV, TM SO eOXD VCU WC'E MDE UP STUR MHOD TO eLU TW15 PLACE AK'O MOVE. TO THE CITV-VOUB. i-J A. RUTWEREAVD A. RUT is AS DFEO A5 A CVUJEV, P:irenU MirprlM-d CHICAOO. ly. 17. ( AP)--flnsppy costumes were worn by suburban Oak Park hlch school Riils In staftlnj thrlr lrtih annual revue. r.nt.'h child hsnded lt parents a hill for the cos tume, reprewntln j a totnl cost of lea, than 1, a new all time low. r v BACK "TO THE. CITY '. .. VM BEGISJMIIOG TO UNJOERSTAUO VtOJ A COMVICT FEELS VOWENJ ME'i APCV-H" TO RELEASED AVJD OOQ. SUCCESSPOl- r .FUTURE W'LL BE SO -t.;'l) MUCU 1 .'-T R TT-it iwa t. in, ai itl...l I TT Hi.', IN W 9 rt Or!, fl'M MOT LEA.VIKK3) TMIS PLACE VAJITM - A I TMOoewT OF A GLOROOS FUTURS. - IT3 because vm mad amo you havemt fared SO BtVULV HERE VOU HAVENJ'T HAD ATHIW6TD DO UMLESS IT TIRED VOU TO TURsJ OVER. THE. PAGES OF ASTORV eOO AVJD AS FOR. OUKJOR., MEE&UT HE fj pFrcsrnjKjiTiES : TME OPPDRTUMTri-- ) HASvrr the Kfc. OiTAKVt ' ' c7 success f? .TO HAStjT THE rfv f- ' VFcsrnjMiTiES r to starve VRI g