Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 10, 1937, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TEN HfEPFOKT) MATL TRTBTTXE, MEDFORD. OKErtONV THUTRSDAY. JTJNE 10. 1937. On TOE DIUFF - olrVOPS4- our u;l. 'Weekend at Farrinpton tiluj, dome o Michael's aunts, apen . with the mysterious (hooting to death of attractiue Jude BUiuhop. A terlet of stranoe attacks it ap parently explained tohen uie tnd , . beloui the bluff the body ot Mi chael's mad father, supposedly iony ttnce dead. Then Aunt Mar that is fhot In the shoulder by an unseen hand and the Skipper, Mike'f tall and tweedy younger aunt, disappears. I leate Mike with hit fiancee. Cay Palmer, and itart out to get William, the Chauffeur, and hunt for the Skip per. But firit I search the body of Norman Warrington and find a key. Chcpter 31 The Unfed Dog REPLACING the cover, I stepped to the door end tried the key In 111 lock. It worked Immediately. I turned out the Ughti and moved through the hall to the dining room door. It worked In that lock too. A ikeleton key! Then someone had certainly en ticed Norman Farrlngton to hli death, Only person without a key would have broken the lock to get Into or out of Jude'i room. And mad at he was, Norman Farrlngton had left that locked room at least once. With the welclit ot evidence already against me, 1 dired not be found with that key. 1 polished It hurriedly with my handkerchief and returned it to Its original resting place. There was only one consolation. The murderer either did not know or jr had over looked the key's existence. ,1 switched off the game uom lights a second time. There was no help for It I must take the risk or hla remembering and finding that key. The servants' hall was empty and rapidly darkening in the gloom of the February twilight I passed through It quickly Into the kitchen, where 1 found all the sen ants. Hlgglns, Cook and Annie were at the table drinking coffee. William In his boots and oil skins was coming down the stairs, a sou'wester in his hand. It didn't take a Sherlock Holmes to deduce what they had been talking about There waa a dead silence. Anr.io began to blush furiously. So either William or Hlgglns hsd talked, after all. "I'm going with you Instead of Mr. Michael, William," I satd. "His arm Is bothering him. I don't think he should (0 outside." To say that this Information was not well received would be to put it mild ly. William favored me with a sullen stare. Annie started to say something nd was heavily shushed by Cook. Hlgglns' face held a positively malig nant leer. "I think that's a good Idea, sir," his voice was silky. "While you're In charge, It's only right that you should do all the searching." I tried to Ignore him. "Have you a good flashlight William? It may be dark In the stable." William's answer might best be described as a sort of grunt But he dragged a flashlight from his pocket and handed It to me. At the door I paused with one more question. "Have any ot you seen Miss Bar bara at all this afternoon or heard anyone leaving the house?" "No," said Cook and Annie In the same breath. "Not that I recall, sir," from Hlg glns. Witched By William WILLIAM followed me out Into the late afternoon. It had cleared 'miraculously. The wind, if not alto gether dead, was rapidly dying, and Ithere was a crisp snap in the air, llnflnitely refreshing after the caged iatmosphere lnduors. Gratefully 1 filled Imy lungs with the salty tang. A single istar glowed In the red-rimmed west j and beyond It to the south, the gray- ana-wnne rumoie oi mo aouna stretched before us. William allowed acant time for observing It. "Are you In a hurry, Mr. Wells?" 1 was In a hurry. 1 turned o-. my heel and led the way down the rapidly freezing drive toward the stable, Wil liam stalking sullenly behind me. Halfway down the drive, I stopped short "We shall have to go back, William." The man was watch'ng me like a hawk. "Why?" curtly. "I'm pretty sure the stable's locked, and I forgot to get a key." "I've got a key here." His laugh grated on my nerves. We went on In silence. I reflected that If the stable were locked, the chances of the Skipper's being Inside were very slight I could, however, check up very easily on whether the dogs had been fed. If they had, It would be a simple matter to check back and nnd out whether someone other than the Skipper had fed them. "Who usually feeds the dogs, Wil liam?" I Inquired. "Miss Barbara. Always." "Always? Even the last few days?" "Once or twice I've fed them for her but not lately." SENATE SWITCHES ANTI-LYNCH LAWS WASmNOTON, June 10 (AP) A senate Judiciary sub-committee approved today the Wagner-Van Kurt antl-lynching bill. Chairman Van Nuys (D-lnd.) Mid the committee rotM to subatltute the bill for the Oavagan meaaure recent ly pawed by the houee. He said he understood this would be satisfactory to Representative Oav .igan (D.-NYl, author or the house bill. The Wagner bill," Van Nuys ald "14 more simple and more easily en forced." He explained the bill would define mob violence to cover lynching out to exclude gangster deaths or vio lence resulting from labor disputes. WINDOW GLASS-W Mil if inn flaaa ana win repiaot rout oroht wtadowt reasooabiy. rruw bridge Cao UMt Works. Of course not 1 might have known that William would say Jus! that "Then who did feed them these last few days?" I demanded bluntly. "I don't know," and William plodded on. The stable and garage doors were both securely padlocked. William opened the former without a word, and we stepped Inside. "Skipper!" I shouted at the top if my lungs. There was no answer, except for the yowling of the dogs. 1 looked Into every one of those stalls. Some of them had a little water, but there was no food In any of them. The animals were ravenous. The collie bitch sprang at me viciously, subsiding with a whimper when I spoke to her. The others were tugging wildly at their chains and yelling mournfully. So the Skipper had forgotten to feed her dogs from the looks of them had for gotten It two days in a row. "William," I said, "the minute w get back to the house, see that these dogs are fed." "Yes, sir." The Skipper's forgetting her dogs was equivalent to Napoleon's forgetting his ai-my. "It's 'unny. sir." The Only Earthly Reason I AGREED that It certainly was. With poor old Farrlngton stretched out on the game room table, these MStsssf.)iiinwaiiiiniisMsaawaafM s peered into one loft after the other. Where was she? dogi wera the only earthly reason for the Skipper's leaving the house. And she had not been near them. Where the blazes was she then? I mounted the ladders and peereu into one loft after the other, shining the light all around them. One disclosed the few dusty footprint! that I myself had left there yesterday. On the other, the undisturbed film of a decade still rested. I came down slowly. "We may as well look in the ga rage," I said. William's grunt might have meant almost anything We locked the stable door behind us and entered the ga rage. The dry smears of clay hope lessly blurred under our impatient feet. The place smelled stuffy and dead. I called again and again, but there was no answer. "Upstairs?" suggested William. For the second time in as many days, 1 mounted those steps. The first time I had feared to And something up there. Now I was praying that 1 would praying against a heavy weight In my chest that told mt It was useless. (Copyright, IT, Kffaer Tyler) Aunt Martha nears death a secontf time, tomorrow AT POSTAL MEET A TORI A. .Tune 10 (API Two hundred postmasters will register to morrow for the annual convention of the Oregon Aoclat!on of Potmst cre. Ooveruor Charlea Martin and Al exander W. Clrahara if KansM City, national president, will head the lift of speakers. Other distliwulAiird visitors will Include Oeoiye A Starr, Seattle postmaster; t. A Smoot. silt Lake C!ty, national vice president. J. A. MrCarthy, a9an Prancliv'o post master, and Dr. E- T. Hedlund post master, Portland. Legion Scouts Take Week-end On Rogue The American legion troop No. 7 Boy Scout iipent Saturday night and Sunday at the Legion ramp on Rofiue river near the Laurelhunt hrldge 8coutma;ir Rudv BtlU wan in charge, j Troop rommltiiemen fvy and HoitiiM (aecompintM the party. Many acout qualification teata ra I STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tir further proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped enrelope for reply. Reg. TJ. S. Pat Oft. I. tm IT W of iHeun(Tet?sTftf&s, Wrio 1&0K PAFCT IHTKt 1fcl5 I I i'Z I-.,: .."V. x x y x y IN 5 Moves, picking up ohe fAMcrt fw jumping sl fcberi move, cross Trie in fi6. ftfo Form - Answer tomorrow- Defence Attorney At 0 o'clock on the evening of March 6, 1770, ten British soldiers stood at the head of King street, Boston bftyonets leveled. Around them pressed a hooting crowd of citi zens, daring the soldiers to fire. The soldiers loaded, the crowd drew back, guns spoke. Five civilians dropped, three of them killed outright, two of them mortally wounded. The not to go down In history a the Boston Massacre had taken place. It had started as a seemingly harmless, semi -com leal affair. On Friday, the 2nd, a group of rope makers had hurled insults at a pass ing band of British soldiers. The soldiers challenged the group to a boxing match. Instead, the rope makers rushed them with Btlcks, the reieont drew cutlasses and a minia passed by the boys on this trip, each boy made hla own fire and did his own cooking. Sunday afternoon the boys went to a large pond near the Brophy road and enjoyed a good swim, a few of the hardier boys took h dip in Rogue river Saturday after noon. Tho boys were all back in Medford by 6 o'clock Sunday evening. TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy TOMMY !S ABOUT TO EMBARK UPOfl A DAflGE-ROUS ADVENTURE-. HE" HAS AGRttD TO IMPERSONATE" A SLAIN PILOT, WHO GBEATLY ReStMBLtO HIM, BUT WHO WAS A MEMBER OF- A GRE-AT CSPIONAGE ORGANIZATIOMj PLOTTING AGAJNST THIS country: TOMMY HOPE'S TO UNMASK THE CHIEf-OF- THIS GROUP... BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER MVi.Of COURSE, KVJOWC) OP THE EXtRA WOTE C0MW6 DUE At CALEB CO.UUCHEW'i ftUT HE DOES KUOW HETTV H160IU5 HAS BOU6MT A VJHALE OF A 61LL OF 6OO05 FROM HER9 H00AA, TME SLICK. C.AIESAAAU, aWO- iai.v'T tut-oe cniAC JO CAUCEL THE ORDER. THE NEBBS Advice to the i SEvERAL SUITORS... vt-TI MlDOLE-A&ED WITH WAS -OM ' EXPECT IT FOR SOt vLlS AMD 1 A.1NJT5UE iVAM V RCUTf A I LOT5 OP MO!eVIC voo V-r-M .7 locxnjg IMTOXXJR LM GOlM TO rTfirTm5T??rr: C li t KPOT A& A MISTAKE, 1 ) TV ;Vf FUTURe 1 SEE MCTMIKI& BUT PEV5 SPeftKEK Hit McNufkt Sradiut, ture battle ensued In which several persona were slightly Injured before bystanders broke it up. The brawl aroused hot-beads of fr.e town. On the following Monday, a small boy hopped up and down In front of the custom house, thumbing bis nose at the sentinel who stood on guard. The sentinel took a swat at the youngster with the butt of his musket. Yelping, the boy ran down the street and returned with a crowd of yelping men at his heels. The sentinel yelled for help. Colonel Thomas Preston end eight soldiers from the main guard across the street came to his aid and the bloody Boston Massacre, one of the Bparks that later set off the American Revo lution, came to pass. To quiet the outburst of public p rot pet that, followed the affair. Lieu Doiiaugh Renominated. , WASHINGTON, June 10. (AP) President Roosevelt sent to the sen - ate today the nominations of a group! of United States district attorneys. many of them reappointments. In i tho list were: Oregon: Can C.l Ponattgh. I Becomes a Secret Service Man I Still Hope, Tool VtVJ -i Lm.ji,,7 all rioht, millisam, Jtf thanks, ske-e-t3 i'm ''shucks.'.. i thoughtVhe- HAD GOOD fPOOR SKetTs'-.IT'sl n &!f iue'T:s SET BACK V-Kv glao ou brought Sme-bbe- he-had... A news, ske-ets' i, the-mrst time- I 1 :5lWfElSsTO TH- pLANE-. .yfy ) WALT TO SEE ME ... SOME" GOOD nErWS ) I'LL WRITE" f EVE-R HAD TO ) I 'ESiiN V"i BfORE-l LEAVE fOR VTHATO MAKE- YOU S YOU ABOUT DE'CEIVf HIM...r" i k''V-f v n (fe??1!!" AMERCA ( change- mour. ry n late-k.. RW n I 1 T -I -will r-WIWfilT.fflW.y JJ IHr-CTWy uuu Yum a 6EKi? J CWAUCE, UWCLE Lovelorn "J covers The vtKi Pit KfMPAMA, lac tenant Governor Hutchinson had seven of the soldiers who took part In it arrested. Strange as It seems, John Adams, future president of the Unlttd States, took over the job of defending them as one of their at torneys. Tbough his sympathies .ay strongly with the American cause, he detested mob violence. His profes sional ethics, too. proved a factor In his accepting the case. With two colleagues, he succeeded In winning the acquittal of five soldiers. The other two were branded on the hand for manslaughter and released. Itlark Sand Sand on the beach at Kalapana, Hawaii, consists of ground-up black lava. Tomorrow! The Voyage Made Too Leaves Farewell Note. SEATTLE, June 10. (AP) Deputy Cot oner C. L. Harris satd today Mor ns Trover, 36. Black Diamond miner, lock his own life here yesterday with a .22 calibre rifle. His widow, Mrs. Royce Traver, is at Amity, Ore., vla .ting her mother. Trover left a note f-.iy'n "Goodbye Royce and kids." '"TWtaE'l A CLAU6E AVIU6 U 3 OF THE CkEPi TERM? THE OROER CAKi'T BE ,'lAVJCELLEO "sV Aw0 AFTER. 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