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lrEDF0T7D MATL TTJTBUXF!, "MTrDFORB. OBEnO, RTNDAY, .TTJVE 13. 1937. f PUDDGD BROKE By GLUYAS WILLIAMS' STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX J-or further proof ddrM tb .uthor. inclo.lnf i iUmpod en.Iop. for replr'. Re. TJ. B. Pt Off. OD TOE DtLUPF MKOI'SIS: Our wild, slormv weekend at FarrlNBion Bluff, home o Michael's aunts, cpem uiilh the mysterious shooting to death of attractive Judt filmjhop. A series 0 ftrnnoe oifacltt it ap parently explained when we find belou, the bluff the body 0 Mich ael's mad other. Then Aunt Mar tha it ihot in the shoulder by an j unieen hand, and the Skipper, Mike's tall and tweedy yountter nunt, disappears. Mike etayt with Gay Palmer, his Jlancee, UJhile William, the chauffeur, and 1 fu- . tilely Mearch the oround. Return ing, ici find Aunt Martha nearly dead after taking sleeping potu ders. Chapter 33 On To The Cellar! MICHAEL cam rushlnf out of the bathroom, a plain gray box In hl hand. It was half full of powders; but on the top was written merely, "Sleeping powder. Dr. Foster," and the date. No help there. "Get hot-water bottles " 1 aald. The chances were that it was the wrong thing to do. but the chances were better that tr lett in mat conomon much longer M. Farrlngton would be finished, i raced Into the bathroom and ransacked the medicine chest. Everything from sodium bicarbonate and iodine to a nerve tonic. But no ipecac. "Get those hot-water bottles as fast as you can, Mike," I said and tore into the hall. One by one. I went through every medicine chest on that floor. There was enough stuff there to cause a druggist to turn cartwheels. But no Ipecac. Coming ogt of Mike's room. I caught sight of Gay coming up the stairs with William at her heels. One glance at her face told me there would be no help from downstairs. I shouted, "Is there any Ipecac in the house? Ask Higglnrl Ask" He nodded. "Miss Barbara had It for a dog that got some bad meat. It's In the kitchen. I'll get it" Mike had hot-water bottles In place and was working for all he was worth. We hastened to help him. My arms were already aching by the time William appeared with several bot tles and a whole trayful of glasses. Without waiting to read Instructions, I poured out a dose. I knew that amount hadn't killed Hog Fowler at school, but that was all I did know. We had difficulty in making her swallow It, and when we finally got it down, there was no effect We rubbed and rubbed. William was obliged to take Michael's place. We rubbed some more. And then things began to happen with startling suddenness and considerable force. But what little vitality she had left seem to go after that. Gay tried to pour some whiskey down her throat. with no success. We ail tried. Useless. Finally Mike straightened up and met my eyes. "She's dead," he said In a still voice. Sweat was running down my face Into my eyes. My throat was hard and dry. "She can t bel She William's hand coming down heav Ity on my back froze the words in my mouth. He pushed me to one side. Frantic Resuscitation I'M NOT quite clear on what fol I lowed. William had taken charge, We were all moving mechanically, obeying his orders. As I remember it. I was holding the old lady's unin lured arm up over her head, flaying It back and forth from her sides In a sort of windmill motion. What the others were doing 1 have no idea. Finally, beneath the wheezing noises of her rescuers, M. Farrlngton began .to breathe faintly, spasmodically at , first, and then with more strength and teadlness. Mike and I stopped simul taneously, but William made us keep going. Weariness was floating over me, nut through It droned words, "Thi Skipper! The Sklpperl" We must hur. ry. But where? Where? Just as M. Farrington's eyes flew open, 1 had the answer. "Stay here. Gay," 1 whispered and unceremoniously yanked Michael Inio the nail. 'The cellar." 1 told him. For once Mike didn't wait to argue. TTo followed me down the hall Into the servants' quarters as fast as he could go. I could feel his breath on my neck all the way. We sprinted through the narrow corridor and took the back stairs three at a time. 1 was fumbling at the door of the entry and the confounded thing wouldn't seem to work. Behind me there was a banging of drawers, the crash of a chair going over, an awful uproar. The clatter on the back stairs was probably William, but 1 didn't turn to ice. Frantically, I tried key after key on that cellar door. It was an age be fore one of them turned, and the door flew open. Inky black the cellar gaped below us. "Where the devil are the llghta?" I rasped. Mike's hand found a switch and the cellar stairs, narrow, crooked and dusty, lay ahead of us. Farrlngton Bluff was built In the daya when cel lars were designed for foundations ol a house tn which food and drink might be Incidentally stored. We went down those stairs at top speed As my feet left the bottom step, I heard the door above closing loudly "Where's Willism?" 1 snapped at Michael. "Went back upstairs. The women are having a Si about being let' alone." On the spot, I dismissed Wllllan from my mind. By the light of the dim bulb over the stairs, we could see good part of the vast old cellar. Wt were standing at the end of a Ion; passageway, flanked on the left b? the wall of the house and on the right by a room of some description, the door of which was practically at m elbow. Under what must have been abou the main hall upstairs, the passage way seemed to open out Into a large, room. The beam of my flashligl, . picked out a wooden structure rlsin almost to the rafters and blocking of all but a small entrance Into the cen ter room. "Stand here and keep your eye open," I ordered, and pushed open thi door at my right. 1 was looking into what must nau been the Farringlon wine cellar, 1 large, low-ceilinged room, almc square In shape. My light disclose: tiers of bottle racks, mostly empt; completely surrounding the room Her and there a barrel or a kc Over the whole a perfect curtain 1 dust and cobwebs. Cobwebs hung : long, lacy festoons from the ceili. beams, from the racks, from the ba rels. Dust lay In a thick, undlsturb: carpet on the floor. Of any hum- being, there was not a trace. The Preserve Closet LET the door swing softly to. "Where does this passage take us? "Furnace room and fuel bins. Sto age room after that." Silently I led the way along it. uu. footsteps echoed through the ghost); empty place. After we had taken : dozen paces, the dim light over tin stairs was of little use. Aren't there any more lights?" I whispered. There was no reason for whispering, but the atmosphere o, the place already had its grip on mc No. Aunt Martha s stubborn aooui Improvements." Unconsciously Mik was whispering, too. "Skipper was al ways telling her that Cook would break her leg down here and sue us for plenty." I Hashed my light around the lur- nace room. Oblong in shape, running across the entire center of the house. Its left and right walls consisted ol enormous coal and wood bins, respec tively, piled right to the celling. A huge, old-fashioned furnace stood in the exact center of the room, Its pipes running overhead In all directions. Some orderly hand'hart been at work, for there was no dust, and there were no cobwebs. And no sign of the Skipper. Apparently, the wall nearest the passage was also the wall of the wine cellar which we had Just left. In the center of the wall opposite it, was a door for which 1 made without fur ther ado. But It was locked. If 1 had fumbled with the keys up stairs. 1 nearly tore them apart now In my excitement. "What'a stored here? I grunted. Vegetables preserves Junk!'' Michael's words were coming in spss modic Jerks. He may have been think ing the same thing that I was think ing that with the wine cellar left unlocked. It was odd to And the pre serve closet fastened. The door opened at last. A room about the same sire and shape as the furnace room and neat as a pin. lay ahead of us. From floor to ceiling It was lined with high closets wainscoted. In tho center of the room stood a large kitchen tabic with an antiquated tea wagor. beside It. Otherwise, the room was empty. "Sklpperl" I shouted, flinging mj self against the nearest door. "Are you there? Skipper! Skipper.''- The Impact of my shoulder on the solid wood of the closet sent a steady ing stab of pain through me. I turned to look for a poker. The furnace room offered better than a poker, however. Mike made straight for the wood bin. There, propped against the wall, was an ax. 1 snached it from him and rushed back at the closets. The pen may be mightier than the ax. but my blows on that hard wood would have been equally effective with either. The ax glanced and twist ed, and twisted and glanced. "Use the butt of the damn thing," grunted Michael. The light was wav ering in his hand. I did. Wood splintered and crashed There was a tinkle as of broken glass. Something wet and sticky w as In my eyes. I was still trying to clear them when Mike yelled, "Try the next one!" I blinked at a closet full ol broken Jars. The mess drooling down my fice seemed to be strawberry pre serve. (CxpyrieM, issr, rtthtr Tvltr) Mike n find eurselret lorket In the cellar, tomorrow. COLUMBIA BASIN 10 CONTROL FLOOD WASHINGTON, Jim 12 (API The hmi uppropltitlona commit te today recommended a $t(M upprcplrMlon for the WRr department to finance flood control, river and harbor Improvement and other non m.UUiry projects. The house Already has approved a MI.V7M.A31 appropriation for the de partment's military activities The ad iitional mJney would bring IU total fund for the fiscal year beginning Jvuy 1 to ifl 07ft 894 Non-military appropriation approv cd b the eommMtee aa 3 730.37H above the current year a figure but V 47. IB l' below the budget bureau estimate. Of tho total ftlSt. 416.300 would go to the army engineer for flood con trol and river and harbor nork. The bill atlpulateA 30.000.000 shall be available for construction of project authorized by the 1930 oinnibua flood eontrol act. The eommlttee earmarked UOO.OOO lor the funds under the omnlbuf Hood control law for the secretary of agriculture to make preliminary turtles of run-olf and soil erosion prevention on the watersheds of au thorised flood control project I A total of I 'J anno, ooo reoom meuded for river and harbor pro ject, of which lDO.733.ioi would re for new work and 34.177,ffl9 for maintenance. 1 Columbia river basin. S1.000 000 I Of ttW.Ma.lOl tor new project not vet under contract, they saul, M.706.- .000 "must lw applied to the con struction of the Fort Peck tinm dur ing the com 1,4! critical ieriod of : cloture; IA.000.000 mut be expended. j principally for f'.ow.t;e eaetmepts. In j order that the Bonneville on the Columbia river may be placed in op- , ration." ! Head hi llitarn. WOODBURN. June 13. iAP I William Elmr McAdamn. 6.1 wan ! found dead in taia bam, eig:u mile ' north of her, by hta wife lart night, with a abotffun wound In hit abdo men. The sheriff office wa investi gating the rae. I'unr Weed Control ONTAHtO. June 12.-APi m Malheur county farmer metiiv iec ooi mended 3A percent of the pay ments under the agriculture act go to the county court for weed control. VicTok UisTiG-. escaped ' coimferfeiteii ' uibz a?nh?TR?0 UNDER HomKtm hating, , 1 M&TiouM. whew OHlHfc . J ,,1 . Bmonu, WeftEfilVENl? tCt r vri-'" 0 CRAVES A SODA , RUf CAN'T PRODUCE 1rlE NECESSRRV HICKEJ. ni RAGLES HIS BANK Wlfrt OUf MUCH HOPE, HAVlNfe emptied it" i&sf week 10 BUV A BPSEBflll SEEKS MOTHER IN KITCHEN 1b ASK IT YrlERE'S ANV JOS HE COUlD PO TO EARN A NlCKEU. NO LUCK WONDERS AB&UTSELUH6 HIS TOP WHICH EDDIE SEUER WANTS, BUT HE MEMBERS THAT EPDlE IS BROKE. foO S066ESTS To SISTER A SHORT-TERM 10AN,8UT IS SHAKPLV REMINDED HIS ACCOUNT IS ALREADY 20 CEHTs OVERDUE 6AZES MODDIlYOOTOT WlNDOW.TriE VEARNIN6 TOR A SODA 6ETTIM& STroHSER BHD STR0K6ER. LoOVS 'THR0U6H P-ESToT HI5 CLOTHES AWD WITH ACRV Of DEli&HT' COMES OW A FORGOTTEH NICKEL IN POCKET OF BEST SUIT ISSTarTiM601)T fRONT door when mother Calls WOT To 60 OUf, SUPPER WILL BE READY IK A FEvV MINUTES (Oapyrlgat. 193T, by Ths Bll Byndlcata. Inc.) S MATTER POP . By C. M. PAYNE . Man nf G3 A 1 1 uses Wanted for escaping from the Unit ed Statea detention headquarter In Now York City on September 1, 1335, Victor LustlK was recaptured at Pitts burgh. Penn.. 27 daya later. The following Hat of nllaacs was Included In tho npprchenMon notice leaued by the Federal Bureau of In veatlgat.lon In their search for the escaped counterfeiter. Robert V. Miller, Victor Luatlg, Count Luatlg, Bert LuMlg. Vtlrter Lnstlg. Bert Lauatlng. Robert Lamar, Hubert Duval, Count Duval, George Duval, "Tim Count," Viktor Foster. Victor Fouler, Charles O r o m tt r, Charles Oromer. Charles Ctrubcr, Al bert Grauman, Victor Grow, Frank Herbert. George Baker. Edward BaKer. C. H. Baxter. John R. Kane. R. U. MlUcr, Victor Miller. Robert Miller, tt. B. Miller. Charles Nevera. Novera, Charles Novcra. Albert Phillips, o R. Richard, J. R. Richnrds. George Sco bcl, Edward Scbaeffer, Edward Sell af ter. Edward Shaffer, George Shobo, George fihobol. George Schooel. Charles Taylor, Robert G. Wagner, R. 0. Wngne.r, Robert Oeorge Wagner, G. R. Werner, "The Scarred." John Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, adds the following aliases which are on file for Victor Luatlg: Albert Phillip. Albert Gauman. John Kane, "Le Sabre.' Victor Bow man, R. V. Miller. Ben Schobel Robert. 1. uvnll, Vic Miller. Frank Ktvwler, Frank Heaaler, Victor Merrier, Victor Shaffer, Victor Lustlc, J. P. Richards, rarl Hlllman. Peter Clements. Today the "Man of 63 Aliases" re poses in a cell at Alcatraz, serving time on a 20-year sentence. He prob ably doesn't overly care for hU pres ent surroundings but possibly he finds it rather restful on America's "Devil's Island." Here ho has nly Ms convict number to remember in place of 64 names. Free Rides Permission to lay track on- the San Carlos Reservation between Bowie and Globe was sought from the apache Indiana by the Arizona East ern railroad In the 1890's. After a series of pow-wows the Indians agreed to tho track-laying on the condition that they bo given free ride on tho line. The "free ride" grant expired :n 1935. Lauds "L" Library EUOENE, June 13. (AP) The new Urlverslty of Oregon library, opened to student use this spring, Is more nearly "the library of the future" than any similar structure on any campus in the nation, in the opinion of Sydney B. Mitchell of the Uni versity of California. AMnrla Dyke Falls '.SCORIA. June 12. (AP) A 60 fooi section of tho Columbia, river dike near east Astoria, where a ser ious flood occurred last year, gave way this morning Just before low tide the county court was Informed. TOKYO. June 13. (AP) To olf n't mount in,( armaments In Soviet Union and China, the Japanese army intends to ok 900.000.000 yen 1238, ISO.SOO) and the navy 800,000.000 ven ($V29.718.000) under the 1938 bud get. It wa disclosed today. Nearly 200.000.000 fish have be;n planted in forest streams and lakes by Civil l.i n Conservation Corps work -(loam mb. yr ma;q oui&t; i i Te.i2- -a- y -r, Vm iki U"Te' V . , pullakai3r.it - jr 1 1 ft? iGj tV " V-rH Sjk (OopTTlKlH. m, by Th. B-ll 8rwllcal. Inc ) -Ji TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy Hesitates I By HAL FORREST CONTACT MAM, 13 TO feVQ?Wj DYE" HIS HAIR BLACK AND IJfthL 'fvAW'S yT XJJ ADD A FtW CHAHGtS TO KVHVVrfW jffiJfclFBi J PPl ) AID HIM IN IMPtRSOriATIMG fttfl'jSyc ' MA ArJ ' 'IfjUf HrVjyfl '- ATKXUSC tY, THt- - "' ! HIS Of-F-ICE- S RIGHT DOWN THt HALL, SIR j StCOMD DOOR TO THt LfrPT. fa 11 VTHANK y( x3 V I WONDE-C IF- LACtY WA3 IM THE- HABIT OF- KNOCKING OR I JUST GQIMG IH? ill' BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER The Transformation By EDWTN ALGER TAKE A LOOW. AT Mt. "fJHtM0 VOU HOWM DOW? J GET THOSE -WlLL DUDft, W0T1CE HOVJ VVE'L1UUA66LED f AUD TttMME0 fAI AU'iTACHE . , VN1LL VOU? AWO TUft b JU9T A 'OEE.yoU LG0. LOTS YOUUCiER., auo RATHER SNAPPV. 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