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By GLUYAS WILLIAMS'
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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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, ,
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emptied it" i&sf week
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SEEKS MOTHER IN KITCHEN
1b ASK IT YrlERE'S ANV
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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&
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HI5 CLOTHES AWD WITH
ACRV Of DEli&HT' COMES
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IN POCKET OF BEST SUIT
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door when mother
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SUPPER WILL BE READY
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(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
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