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Newspaper Page TextPXflE TEN rEDFOHT) MATL TRTBTjyE. rEDFOKP, (TRT.GCK. SUNDAY. MAY 1(5. 1937 C3UQDGD SELF-HELP By CLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address tho suthor, Inclosing m stamped envelop for reply. Bf. V. 8. Pat. Off. on THE D1UEFF ' SYHOPSlii: n on wild ana ttormi nipht at Farrlnoton Bluff, home of Michael' aunts, Jude BHruhop. an old flame of mine, ij shoe to death on the bluff: the Skipper, Mike's tall and tweedy . younger aunt, disappears, and Michael dislocate! hie shoulder by falling into the ihurnlng surf. The Skipper returns to say she's been in the stable with her sick collie. Aunt Martha, stout and prudish, has hysterics a couple of times. Gay Palmer, Mike's red' headed sweetheart, keeps a fairly sane view. Next momtnp at breakfast, everyone has jangled nerves. Chapter Nina Searching The Grounds IIGHTING cigarette, the Skip per contributed. "Martha's break' fasting upstairs. She'll be down later." And silence descended upon 19ft dining room. For the ipace of about Ave mln utes we crunched bacon and con sumed coffee without Incident Hlg gins, looking rather seedy, appeared with fresh toast opened his mouth to ask about Michael, discreetly closed It again, and took himself off. The Skipper smoked furiously, and the rest of us kept out eyes on our plates. Then, monotonously and with irritating force. Gay's fingers began a steady tattoo on the tablecloth. At least two sets of nerves promptly began to act up again. Michael's cup went down with a bang that bathed the surrounding territory In coffee. "Damn It Gay, quit that, can't you?" Gay flared, "Don't be so touchyl" Before I could get In my two cents' worth of sunshine, the Skipper In terposed. "Easy, kldsl Let's talk this over. That being the one thing we all had in mine', we lapsed into silence. The Skipper smiled "We might as well look It In the face. These storms always last at least three days, which means that wa must stick together or go i.iad. There's been a tragic accident which ' we must certainty explain to the sat isfaction of everyone, if we're to keep from each other's throats not to mention Jude's family or the local police." Michael was breaming so fast and so heavily that 1 could distinctly hear him across the table. The Skip per waited for someone to speak. No one did. She sighed. "Obviously there are two possibil ities. Jude was killed either acciden tally or Intentionally, and in either case by some member of this house hold. If It was accidental, we should be able to establish that fact Imme diately. If it wasn't" Another pause, this time a breath less one. Then "we shall have to establish that fact too," concluded the Skip per. Michael's voice was hoarse. "But what can wa do?" 1 answered him with more hope in my voice than conviction. "For one thing we can search the Brounds. There must be a thug of some sort out there. Its the only logical an swer." Michael shot me a peculiar look "Why not let It rest?" he demanded. You know damn well that there's no one out there, Jim. Wa can't help Jude now. Old Foster would give us a fake certificate if the Skipper asked him, and we could say that she'd fallen off the bluff In the storm and and forget about It." . I had known Michael slnoe we were 17. but I had never heard him make such a proposal. Neither had Gay. She gasped in amazement Once more the Skipper climbed Into the breach. "Michael, don't be ridiculous. Ac cidents don't need hushing up. And If It's not an accident Jude's parents and we, her friends, have a right to know It And no right to let a delib erate murderer remain at large." Grasping At A Straw OUT of the numbness his speech had produced In my head came an Idea. Mike thought the Skipper was guilty I Wild elephants could never have dragged that suggestion from him otherwise. And there she sat. In sisting that we Investigate. 1 grasped at a feeble straw. "Mlkel The footprints! The foot prints on the tennis court. There imust be someone out there. Wo'd lhave noticed the clay on snyone's feet In the house." Michael's eyes were far away. "Drop It I say. For God's sake. Jim. what good will It do? I tell you there's no one there. It lust keeps things boil ing to pretend there is." "There must be!" Gay was on her feet. "Mike, don't be a sap. These grounds must be searched, and if you won't go with Jimmle, I will and so will William." "And so ivlll I." said the Skipper, "and so will Michael!" Michael looked at her, a long look that to save my neck I could not de cipher. "All right Skipper," he said at last W took all sorts of precautions. Heavy jackets, oilskins, boots, plenty of brandy, and Higglns revolver. With the exception of Cook and An nie, we all assembled In the library and none of us looked cheerful. My own state of mind was a bad Jumble. My thoughts were whirling from juoe and the past to the ghast ly reality of the present spurred on by a certain Insistent suspicion that made my blood run cold. -Action of any sort was a godsend. The proba bility of accomplishing anything was another matter. 1 should have pre ferred leaving both Gay and the Skipper in the house, but there was a glint In the former's eyes that In vited no Interference and 1 had never given the Skipper an order In my life. Furthermore. 1 wssn't counting on Michael (or anything. M. Farrlng ton voiced my feeling to the letter "It strikes me. Barbara, that you and Grace will be more in the way than anything else. Am, Michael has no business out or bed. I should think that James and William would gel along much better alone." Gay's chin ;ime up with a jerk and 1 braced myself for the deluge, but the Skipper spoke t-efor it could get started. 'Two people can't search these grounds, Martha. Gay and 1 can take care of ourselves, and 1 think Ml chael'a mind will be easier If he goes He's well wrapped up. Dcn't fuss." "Barbara. 1 will not allow It" Her voice was rising. Unless I missed my guess, she was warming for a scene and It was going to be a corker. "1 absolutely Insist" But Michael's patience snapped. He whirled on M. Farrlngton. "Rot Aunt Martha! All the ser. vants are here but William, and the doors and windows are locked." His words were rude, and his man ner ruder. But M. Farrlngton amazed us. The explosion for which we breathlessly waited never came. "Very well, my dear." she said quietly. 1 could have knocked Mike down with pleasure. Footprints Still There I 7T went out the west door from ' the game-room, a wet. cold wind howling up to meet us. Since 1 had suggested the expedition. It was more or less up to ,ne to eneineer It Ac. cordlngly, 1 stationed William half- way between the edge of the blurt and the house, with Michael and Gay at Intervals along the drive. That left the grounds divided into four sections. I took the Skipper with me Beginning at the edge of the bluff to the west we went down toward the boathouse. In one way and one only were we better off tha.i on the pre. vious night At least It was now pos sible to see more than 10 feet ahead of you. Water still lapped the former side of the boathouse steps. A large sec tion ot tne pier had washed awav and the boathouse was completely noooeu. we went up a:ong the path to the courts, which we scrutinized thoroughly. The footprints were still there. They ran clear across the courts to tne drive, seeming to start from the rocKS lust above us. It was mnns. sible to tell how large had been the foot that had left those prints or in what direction they had been head ing, incy were Just shallow impres sions In soft clay, rather like the marks left by walking across a melt ing sheet of Ice. The wind was still at our backs. Up the steep and slippery rocks wc scrambled, the Skipper disdaining my help. The beaches below us were completely covered with thrashing water that boiled up Into our faces. Silently 1 pointed to the scene ol Michael's disaster and the Skipper nodded. Wa went down cautiously, separated at tho foot of the rocks. and compassed the remaining section of the lawn between us. Nothing. A snort distance up the drive stood Gay. looking like a drowned rat She waved, but only half-heartedly. We went up the drive toward thr stable, the wind In our faces and Ihc rain cutting like lashes of a whip With every step the haunting thought that Jude might have lain for a long time wounded and still conscious In that tlcndlsh whirlwind followed me. It was slow progress. The east beach was comnletelv flooded. By following the drive, we got a clear view both of the section of lawn between us and the house and of the section between us and the beach. I stationed the Skipper al the corner of the garage and wenl laboriously around both It and Uie stable, slipping and sliding along on my hands and knees most of the way. Mounding tho cornel of the stable in safety. 1 could see the solid figure ol William far down the bluff where I had stationed him. And between us nothing. In front of the stable the Skinner Joined me. Both It and the garage were securely padlocked. It seemed to me that to search either of those buildings would be a tacit admission of disbelief in her alibi. I hesitated. but not so the Skipper. Producing a key, she unlocked the stable. With out a word 1 followei her Inside. (Copyright, f!J7, Flther Tyltrf We And someone tut slrpt tn Hie room over the saragf, tomorrow. TEXAS LEGISLATOR CITED AS SLAYER AUSTIN. TMt. Mat 19. f API Bprwntaiive B. K. Qutnn. of Beau mont, grey-hatrwi veteran of t!ie Tex legislature . wrnj chargfy) .vltli the hotel tit yl rig of HTinnn Htokft. Houston civil nstnwr. hort1y M'tir dawn today. In eotnplnlnt filed with a Juntlce of the peace Qui n n -a Immediately ' relenned under 91.000 bond. He went to the Mate cupitol. whert I he legUUiur it In senMon. and reg 'atered when the hoime convened. Hick. Qulnn Mid, wna one of two men who rapped on hla tiarl room door. He told the Aoclated Preae ne fired in aelf defc-nae when the pair threatened to kill htm. The repreaentatlre aatd he com plained to the room clerk that noma "(rolng on all night" In another room would not allow him to iieep and that about daybreak two men bean beat injt on hi door. When he opened tha door there wa I a acuffle, he aald. He wa struck e? erl tlinea and a small caliber pmtol l; hod wna discharged. Qulnn Aald he never had aecn either man and did not know who thev were, Lumber Froduction Slumps During Week PEATT1JC, May M i AIM Produc tion of 171 down aikI operating mllla In Waaiilnnton and Oreson Inat week lotled 1I3.IHR.A16 board feet, down 8,000 .000 feet rrt.m the previous wrek and 71 per cent of the 1P2ft-.lt) av ernno weekly out.' the Vet Coaat Lumbcrmrn'a anecvlatlon reported t. day. The aiworiaton attrthutM the de vilne to closure of 1 Cohimhu rler .ocelli operations by strike or by employers. Shipments dropped from UV400, 311 to U0.8ttl.aiO fevt, while rfw bu.Mi.ru ., from 133.747.704 to 118. 478.47S feM. Heady fur trllp WASHINGTON. MdV IV (APl The National Oeographtc sorlety re etved word 1xUv that the aenpiane tender A voce t nad reached Knderbury (aland, in Me Pacific, with the ;eo .'raphii' society-nary solar ecllpe e pewition The par'y wilt nwrvr the total eclipse ol tiie aune June $. 1 i yr &V "WE ROASTS IT MACf &7-HOUR , NMtGMlHG f mr-MiLs cum . 4Zr I fHRE KEPT IN iNPlVlPUhUTiHie-MCAUSE miR aecTRicw. wwmv KlUU thClr. oTHWmi PHlUPPft, . Fdwarid ml. MP To WftlT 3 yefsRS Bf FORE HER Husew Wry? &ei.eTo raise eNoi&H MoKey TO HWE HER CKOWNEP GueeN Of 6N6I.AW rtWei. WlfirtTMAN WAS CHAMPION fOR A PfcftlOD W XKZ1CWQ 0V6R aJJJ ANPVJOMKRTiONAl. KoulKiut of (lie Air Only one yenr has passed alnco Jean Francois Pilatro de Rozlor had ascended In a captive fire balloon as the first human balloonist when the Roberta brothers of Prance aent Up their "air galley" in the first powered aacenslon. Tho balloon was melon-shaped bag of allk, inflat ed with pure oxygen, from which hung a long car constructed of whit wood. Tho ship was rowed through tho 'air with silken onrs by a crew of six men. In the only recorded cm I no of the "rowboat ol , the air." It remained aloft for seven hour, navigating a curve about one-half mile In radius. Tennis Chump I Th starring list of champion ships complied by Mrs. Hazel Wight man Is nil the more amazing in the light of the periods which they covered. When she won the United States women's singles In 1009. ten nis had only started coming out of It "pat ball" stage. When she won the woman's doubles Indoor champ ionship 34 years later, tn 1033 It was with the sizzling drives, smash ing overheads and speedy footwork thnt modern, top flight tennis de mands. Other championships which Mrs. Wight man annexed In her career were the women's singles of 1910. 1911, and 1910; woman's doubles on; 1009, 1010. 1911, 1019. 1924 and 1028, mixed doubles in 1910, 1911, 1015. 10IB and 1920; Indoor slneles tn 1010 and 1027; Indoor doubles In 1019, 1921, 1923, 192ft, 1927, 1928. 1929, 1930 and 1931; and Indoor mixed doubles In 1023. 1924. 1926 1927 and 1028. Postponed Coronation Engaged In almost continuous warfare throughout his reign, Ed ward III was sadly lacking In ready funds when he married his cousin, Phlllppa of Hninaut, by special dis pensation of the pope. In 1337. So bad were the king's rinnnces, in fact that for three years after hie mar riage he could not afford to pay for his queen's coronation ceremony. Phlllppa was finally crowned at Westminster In 1330. New Pine Business Tops Previous Week PORTLAND, May. 15. (AP) Re ports from 114 mills showed last week's new business of 76.771,000 board feet of lumber was 8 per cent above the previous week's mark, the Western Pino assoclotlon said today. Production totaled 81.324.000 leet and shipments reached 72.It28.000 The same mllla showed orders 69, 648.000 feet and production 62,076. 000 feet for the corresponding week a year ago. Today, orders were reported 22 per cent above last year. LONDON, May H. ( AP) Thomas Jame Wise, 77, noted book collector and blbllogrnpher, died Thursday at hi home at HamnsteRd. NOEL BENSON TO JOIN ADVERTISING HONORARY EUGENE. Mny 15 (API Alpha. Delta Sigma, honorary advertising fraternity at the University ot Ore gon. Initiated Noel Benson of Med ford at the annual banquet this evening. Use Malt Tribune want ads. OK ACCOUHf Of RFttrtf HOUSf IEANIK6, CAWf Find me bru. IMrfK rf AUAS-fOrl CLOSEf SHELF, WHERE Mt"fR,lrJ A 6RAND OEArlUP.HAS NEAftf SfoCKED All'HIS "foVS OF fWlM6 "CO REACH SMELT f(Wf5 0FffO6Ei' MOTHER'S HELP DECIDES 1b 8E SELF RELIANT AMD NOf fO BOTHER. DRAG. CHAIR OVER 5-fO IS S1HL A FEW IrVCHES SHOR-f Of BAIL. 1"U66 A-f ONE OF THE BOXES To 6E1' BALI NEARER. -f065B0-foOfAR.i ENTIRE STACK Of 0YS CASCADING Wrfrt If 0HE FLOOR. PICKS UP BAD. ANP66B 001, VERV PROUD TH AT HEDIONK HAVE1& BOTHER. MOfrlERj (Oopyrlfhti 1937, by The Bell JttkBosu, Im.) S MATTER POP By C. M. PAYNE I S i-irfe. t4is- J ( VES- to mm I a ShS4t-t ) j lr" MOVE. A Little. nAvj TO ONE- I'M 1 ' T ? ii n i ; in L T5TS OTtEt. " Oepyrlitit, 137, ty Th U gymllMte. Inc.) Tjj TAILSPIN TOMMY Circumstantial Evidence . . . Against Tommy! By HAL FORRES jRcmouGw it WAS QUITE- LATC AT MIGHT WHtft tommy's r-TYsrtrjv PLAMt, WHICH HAD Brt-Ti STOLCM FRCM rTS HAMSARj CRASHtDj A SMALL. CCOWD, ATTCACTrrD BY THE- IMPACT AMD SUBStCXItNT f-lRf, SAW A F-IGURC- C-Mt-RGC-r-ROM THE" WRCCK, AhD LIMP AWAY THROUGH SOMC BUSHrS... INTO THE- DARKMfSS.. WHAve" AP1Y W"OPt.' oriLVOL' s2xI rrWfl Llvt-STOCK MPRUDY HE-RC-.. BUT vL, &? J K"1, ( 'M TH BASn- J DAD BUR MIT I HAD Vl DID AMYOME- SC-C- AH AT THE- P LAMP- LOOK ErD LIKE-1 Brr-oat- IT. V MY DAD'm S SAW ( t-R .. SHE- WAS YAUE-R WITH A DC-SISM THAT SPLL0 THRCT-PariT AM BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER The Big Idea! A. MAMwlL., TOMMY.:.. HOW o i n IT HAPPE-M? I WAS MAKINS A SHOUT- CUT .TO Ge-T GAS T-OR MY CAR.. AMD r-E-LL OCMTI A RAILROAD CnBAnK- By EDWIN ALOE BRARC,IE , IT A THOU'SAMOlll Q OUC ChAMCE, BUT WEr'Vt OUR. MEAUTHCiT CUSTOMER. - f PEM WEVJT OUT o' WtR.E , f U'C A 'elKCAK. U UUH1MIM .' I - 111 rSRUR.,T00.' BUT OOCOME-oS J U6EE,fvJt AUaAOST GOT W COLD FEET, BUT IT'S, EITHER TUIS OR THE STORE SWILL r 60 TO POT I'LL DO IT r WILLIAM D. HASSETT ' INVESTMEHTS . 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