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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.
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flaaa ana win repiaot rout oroht
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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
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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.
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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
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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."
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