Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, September 08, 1937, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextMEBFORD MATL TRTBTJNT5, MEDFORD. OBEflONT. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. 1937. the dark ships r.AMF rn i En- pAnt By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot further proof ddrM the author, lDcJoeteg a (tuspM enrelopt) for reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Pat Oft Y HULBERT FOOTMIH 71 'I'M SYNOPSIS: When Ntlll, a young federal agent, gett to BaXtimor for a week's vacation with hit girl, he finds Janet won't break a din ner date with Preicott Fanning. Angrily Nettl jaw Fanning if too old lor Janet, Do flick and tpende too much money. They quarrel and part, Weill letting out to check up on Fanning. A strange little gray man, David Ev'er, telle him Fanning i "a devil to women." Neill finds Fanning at hie hotel and etrikee up a bar friendship. Jovial chatter hidee ehreuid Question! but Fanning diecloeee only that he made hie money in Wall Street. Chapter Tour In Fanning' Suite "T17HAT you doinf tonight?" V V Fanning asked. "Eating alone, worse luck," said NeilL "Look, I'm having a little party, and I need another man. Id be darn glad to have you Join us. I like the cut of your Jib. Pattern. We must see more of each other." Neill grinned Inwardly at the thought of Janet's face when Fan ning brought him to the party. It would be a pretty little revenge. "Certainly is nice of you to ask me," he said. "I haven t ; my eve- ning clothes with me. "It doesn't matter, my boyl The girls will dress up, bless their hearts! But we don't have to. You're a good-looking young guy, Patton, damned if you're not, and you'll be a credit to my party just as you are." "Wall thnnlra ln llM NpIH Let a no uo to my suue ana saw a dangerous glitter in Fanning' dark eyes. wash. We can start out from here." "Okay." They paid for their drinks and went up in an elevator, Fanning talking and laughing. At the same time there was a glitter in his black eyes that spelled danger. Neill's job had accustomed him to that. He was armed. Fanning' suite was one of the most expensive in the hotel. High above the street it looked over the lower part of town and across the harbor to Federal hill. Neill noted that though Fanning presumably had occupied it for several weeks, there were no photographs or knick-knacks, no personal belong ings of any kind on display; noth ing to give a line on the man's past. They made themselves ready for the party, Fanning keeping up a running lire of humorous stories. As they were slipping into their coats again, there was a knock at the door of the parlor. Fanning went to answer ft, but held the door in such a manner that Neill could not see who was outside, A whispered conversation took place. Mysterious Phone Call PRESENTLY Fanning opened the door further, but still Neill could not see who was on the other side of it As the crack be tween door and frame widened, he had a sense that somebody was giving him the once over. The conversation continued. Though the voices were low, Neill suspected that they were disput ing. Finally he heard Fanning say: "Well, you'll have to lump it then!" . . . "Aah! I never thought to get this from uou," rumbled the other voice sorely. "Shhl" said Fanning. He went out pulling the door almost to behind him, and Neill heard the two of them walking away. Tiptoeing to the door, he put an eye to the crack and saw the two figures moving In close con verse towards the elevators. They were gesticulating angrily. Fun ning! visitor was a rough-looking man of enormous physical strength. His shoulders were t heavy they were bowed forward, and his big hands hung almost to his knees. Neill retired from the door, leav ing it exactly as he had found it. The telephone rang, and he picked it up A man's voice said cautious ly over the wire: Spoils System Hit By Civil Service SPRINGFIELD, III., 8ept. a. (API The convention of the National Fed eration of Federal Employes adopted a resolution today authorirlng tu of ficers to InfeaiUiate the advisability of a constitutional amendment to enlarge the scope of civil service. The resolution also pledRcd the fed eratlon to continue "with Increased vigor" Its campaign In favor of the merit eyilem. The resolution charged the "spoils ystem" waa costing American tax payers $1,000,000,000 ft year, "which might be saved by substituting the merit system." NEW YORK Sept. a (A?) Today Is J. P. Mnrjan e 70th birthday. The banker marked the event At Clan nock, hit lodge at Forfarshire. (Scot land, where he lies been since August 12 for the grouse season "That you, Pres?" Neill subdued his voice to t husky whisper. "Right." "What's the matter?" asked the voice sharply. "Nothing. There are others In the room here." "Oh I I just wanted to tell you that everything is all right. The old girl hasn't squawked." "Who did you say?" "I say the old girl hasn't squawked." "Goodl" "Shall I see you tomorrow as agreed?" "Right. Where are you now?" Again he drew a blank. "Read's drugstore. So long." "So long." Neill hung up. Eyster might be mad, but even the few words he had heard were enough to confirm the fact that Fanning urns a crook! As yet however, he had secured no concrete evidence to lay before Janet He looked around the room sharply. There waa no time to make a search. 'One Last Spof FANNING returned with his made-to-order laugh saying: "These darn realtors call on you at all hours. It's almost impossible to get rid of them." 'That's right," agreed Neill. He was thinking: That was no realtor, old man! Fanning fetched a sealed bottle of Scotch from a cabinet. "We must have one last shot before we go," he said. "Just a short one forme." "This is something special," said 1 Fanning. "A friend of mine brought It from abroad. Such whiskey as this is not ordinarily shipped! to our country." Neill was on his guard, but there seemed to be no danger in drink ing from an unopened bottle, since Fanning was preparing to drink from the same bottle. Fanning took two glasses into the bathroom where he could be heard washing them. He brought them back still wet, and opened the bottle. "When I get my own little place I'll have a cellar, Patton, stocked with the choicest wines and liquors that the world produces. I'm not a heavy drinker, but I must have the best" Ho poured two drinks. "Here's how," he said. "Some to you," said Neill. He waited until ne saw the liquor ac tually running down Fanning's throat, and then tossed olT his own. Certainly it was superfine whiskey. "Let's go," said Fanning. His last act before leaving was to take a packet of 100 new $5 bills from a drawer of the bureau and drop it In his wallet "Just an eve ning's pleasure" he said. "wcD, you're no piker," said Neill. They descended in the elevator and hailed a taxi at the door of the hotel. "To the Belvedere," Fanning said to the driver. "That's where we pick up the girls," he added to Neill. From Hanover street they turned Into Fayette and then into Charles. The pavements of Balti more's best street were almost empty now. Fanning began to tell another funny story, but his voice seemed far away. Neill felt great He had never found the streets at evening so beautiful. A delicious languor was Mealing through his limbs. He seemed to be reclining on a fleecy cloud thot was being wafted away into space. By a certain tone in Fanning's loico he realized that he had come to the point of his story, and he l.iughea politely. Fanning began another. ' Meanwhile Neill was being ; "'afted farther and farther away ' rrom all earthly cares. He passed ' :.-v.o unconsciousness. I rOrr"V. Niltm reetr) i Kelll nntll Janet has gone wltb Fanning, tomorrow. 400 Bodies Found In Hongkonw Ruin HONCIKONO, Kept, a (API Four hundred bodlea have been found along the wreck-strewn trail of last Thursday's typhoon and today's eu mates placed fatalities well over 000. The harbor and acseoaM tor miles hereabouts la a vene of Jumbled debris. Losses run Into many mil lions. Two great Utters still are aground. A Japanese salvage veMel arrived from Mojl today to salvage the Asama Mam. Two attempu to refloat the Italian Conte Verdi failed. I'llme Hunt Nnafce PUEBLO. Colo. UP Exhaust fttmea were used to dislodge a stub born snske from an automobile here A hose attached to the exhsuM end run Into ive car did the work. Tlir snake promptly scrambled out And was killed. I '21 m fTrie VitertlNeToN MONUMENT MP WOUU? WEI6H 5 TMfrS rVS MUCH fVSTHF Abandoned becauae of a flaw in the gran i to near Its center, the larg est obelisk In the world, a single piece of rock, has lain unfinished near Asauan, Egypt, for some 3,000 years. Largest of Egyptian obelisks ever erected Is the one now adorning the piazza of Saint John Lateran tn Rome. It is 108 feet, seven Inches high and weighs 46ft tons over 38 fee t shorter and 71fi tons lighter than the mighty unfinished obelisk In Asauan, Excavation of the Assuan obelisk In 1022 brought to light many here tofore unknown facta about Egyptian Klamath Schools Show No Big Gain KLAMATH PALLS. Sept. 8 (AP) First-day enrollment at Klamath Palls' grade and high schools Tues day failed to show notable gains In student body numbers In spite of evident growth In the city's popula tion. The elementary schools reported 1013 flrst-dny students, a gain of TAILSPIN TOMMY Aerial After tommy left the offices of the imsurance compamy he picked up betty lou and they both took off in a plane. Ae FIND THEM FLYING OVER l-'LAT COUMTRY TOWARD A SMALL TOWN INCOORADO. BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER THE NEBB3 iZVltLL.BtM, SHE'S OUT, HIT , . i-' -n e-wOT A PEWNY-VOU 6tE,J STEP ALOWG, YsW.AIW'T THE.V COME 1 T-THEV WA JEST &CUFFUW', S IK XOUB. TENT'S 60Mt AWO I . -JJ; AUY A JUST MOVED IM-I WA ( OU 61R.DS- WAV 10 SETTLE TH? FR.EVJDLV-LIK6 IM TME ALLEY, y' "N, A RECK.OW YOUR 9TOCK.'S ) IWSURAV1CCT )60lr46 TO TAKE. SOME OUT : V,-,,. TWUJG 1 THESE BOYS WHEM THE K.E(L0SeME &PILLED OHi A lUP ' C-rOM S(S YOU AU' A MATCH 60T SCRATCHED "itM ? T7AW'. DEAR OLD WAVA0? f-ruiiuw rt-TA!t7' WELL.TME PAKJIC A 9 " Ll NIHKJ 'COME SACK VJELLjP VOW OCT 1 MiWsN A TIME X DROPPED n TOOK ME . 1 WAS ) COMe BACK. J NJ AMOAL.LV - I'M NOT a VJIPE THAT CAW AMCWOR. THERE lOWEM I ) 7 Xjtf frT COrJS)DECED A VOU A,NJ GOI,J J A PAUPER BUT 1 COULDMT )COOK AMD VJORK ImD MV YACHT. THERE V av.NvScsS i MILUOKJAICE 1 WAS AvjAV 45 AS AKJVOVJE TO MARRY MEAMD WAS SOME O WmAMCE PLUS THE AiR. jVV SPREAD OUT TOO TMISJ VC OU ? I'M MV PRESEJOT MQK1E MEBSE e.rl lt.li htklO of H wen, II l., rsWtW6 rrriiwnvi RN6W4IHZIR1E& IN lOOTRlEfr WN$l ffiCioPQRMltt so CEKiUR.es engineering. No chisels nor wedges were used in quarrying the huge granite monuments such as obelisks. They were smashed out of solid gran ite rather than carved. Oreat balls of dolerlte. a form of Igneous rock found In Egypt, were used for the "smashing" process. Sister Horseshoe Pltrhers Taking up horseshoes as a pas time In 1928. Caroline and Charlotte Schultz, of Harvey, 111., sisters, won rating as the two best women pitch ers In the world In 1033 when Caro lyn won the national horseshoe tour nament, and Charlotte finished In second place. Carolyn repeated her victory in 1034. but defaulted in one pupil over the 1036 figure. Klam ath union high school had 083, con siderably under last year's total, due largely to the opening of a Junior high school tn the thickly-settled suburban area south of the city. Bellot Strait Run By Arctic Patrol Strait. Sept. 8. (Canadian Press) Strait. Sept, 7. (Canodlnn Press) Aaconnaissance ! Quick Thinking? J ( THATS THE PLACE, BETTY Z JT WAS A POSSE FROM 3 IHERe pTHAT FOUND THE ew KJJV a COWMCRClPilettANTSSS$ Use0 P6 fOOO FOR OOLDFISH, m&. WtViZU, KNOWN HYMN H01ON& OV Wnltn wrr pueu$HBt)Wrtiieerte LIVED.,. ?'337 M'Mwsrtrt SrodKU, lex. 1035 when she refused to play be cause of weather conditions. Fame After Death An EngllBh Non -Conformist clergy man and author, Philip Doddridge ( 1702-1761 ) was one of the most prolific of all hymn tats. Yet strange as It seems, not a single one of his 364 hymns were published while he lived. Written In connection with his sermons, some of the most famous of his hymns are: "Hark,, the Glad Sound, the Saviour Comes," "Oh God of Bethel, by Whose Hand," and "Awoke, Ye Saints." Tomorrow: What does "O. K." abbreviate? Seventy-nine years after Admiral Mc Cllntock made the first attempt to navigate Bellot Strait, Ma J. D. L. McKeand, leader of the eastern Arc tic patrol, led a party today through a new northwest passage across the top of Canada. McCllntock. who was searching for the lost Franklin expedition, took his ship only partly through the strait September 7, 1848, but today the mo tor schooner Aklnvlk navigated the strait from east to west. WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO LEAR PI THERE, TOMMY? 6H0ltfS-f0PlAVSWMPT' BEFORE rfffAR6f0Wr, PAREN-fe BJ&lKlbCAU -fo COME HOME. ASSURES foEM l-f'5 ALL RlfcHf, K'5 UfflK6 UPRI&Hf NOW 8 'MATTER POP BUT I SEE THE WHERE FOUND &TTaif Tr v A )A My y ( -A m iMo! J J 1 ifre- M leXOopyrlg'ht, 1937. by The Bell BymHcale, Inc.) C. 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