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Newspaper Page TextPAGE ETGHT MEDFORD MATT, TRIBUNE, MEPFORD. OREGON. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1937, the dark ships HOME-COMTNG By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address the author. Inclosing stamped envelop tor. reply. Reg. V. 8. Pat Ctt. BY HULBKRT FOOTMCR SYNOPSIS: NeUt. a vou..g fed eral agent, quarrel with Janet, a comely Baltimore girl, btcatue the won't break .a date with Preicott Fanning. Weill tuepecU him of being a crook. To cheek up, he flnde Fanning at hie hotel bar and (hey get acquainted. Next day Weill waken up, realii ino he'e been doped. la. et, Fanning- and Fannlng'e yacht are gone. A miileritmi phone call telle him Janet's in trouble on the yacht at Abiolom'e Harbor. Nelll ruehee to the fishing village and rows to the Nadji after dark. In a locked cabin he finds Fan ning shot dead and Janet un harmed, but in a faint with a gun beside her. Chapter Nine A Hideout For Janel TEILL set his jaw and consid i ered. He was on the other side now. He was hunted instead of the hunter. Quite a different thing. No powerful department tc back him up now. strictly on nis own. Where could ht hna Janet a hideout? The obvious thing was to hire a car and drive to town: but a car could be traced and in that case his usefulness as her defender would be over. He must be on the spot in order to discover the truth of this affair. Where could he put her under cover in this unfamiliar neck of the woods? Suddenly he inougni or me cians snip? up river, "Take me awayl Take me away: murmured Janet. . "Okav. Jen. We're setting: out.' Running back into the after cabin, he snatched ur her velvet wrap where it lay on a chair. It was a flimsy garment. Apparently that and the gauzy evening dress were all she nad. Not enough to keep her warm in an open boat. He Dicked uo a traveling rug that lay folded on a seat locker and, re turning to the saloon, wrapped tier in it. She clung to mm. carrying her up on deck and down the lad der, he deposited her in the stern seat of the skiff. He paused to make sure that everything was straight in his mind. Must take food. He started back aboard the yacht. Janet raised up: instantly wild with terror. "Don t leave mel" "Only to get something to eat. Back in a jiff." In the pantry adjoining the din ing saloon on deck he found a re frigerator stocked with cooked food of various sorts. He packed ' everything hastily in a tin bread ' box along with the bread and ran out on deck again. "Hurry! Hurry!" murmured Janet in the skiff alongside. "Half a moment!" He gave a hasty glance In the direction of the shore. All quiet there. Remembering a flashlight he had seen on the book-case in the saloon, he ran down to get it. While below he thought of some thing else. In the after cabin he droppedto his knees beside the dead man and went through his pockets. Finding the little photo graph of Janet that Fanning had taken from him the night before, he transferred it to his own pocket, and hastened up on deck. Casting off the painter of his skiff, he ran out the oars and pulled towards the open water. Sounds From Shore AS NEILL rowed along with the lights of the village on his left. It was still only about nine o'clock and there was plenty of life in the place. He could see shadowy fig ures passing under the street lights, while the sounds of dogs . barking, motor horns and male laughter from the porch of Long cope's store reached his ears. Fur ther along he could hear music coming through the open windows of the moving picture theater. At Absalom s Point he lay on his oars for a moment debating whether it might not be better to row across the bay. It was a calm night and he could have made it in safety. Nobody would think of looking for Janet over there. But it was 15 miles and he couldn't possibly get back before daylight Nor visit her there. No. Better the ships. So he turned the point and rowed on up the wide river, pass ing along the other side of the vil lage. The sight of Janet bowed and silent under her blanket wrenched him with pain. After what she had been through what could he say to her? To have tried to make light talk would sound like mockery. In the end it was Janet who spoke. "Where was Fanning when you came aboard the yacht?" Neill thought her mind was wandering. "Never mind him," he said gruffly. "He won't trouble you anv more. ''Did you kill him?" she asked imply. "Don't want to talk about It," said Ncill. "All right." she said, perfectly docile. "Nothing matters as long a? we are together." He hated to think of leaving her alone in her present condition. But there was no help for that. It would be Impossible to trust any body he didn't know to take care of her. Travis county, Maryland, was a peninsula remote from the great world and he Judged that its people at best were inclined to be O. O. F. of Oregon Picks Delegates rOTlTLAND. Bpt. U. (T) The t. O. O. P. or Orpfion announced dl Gfatea today to the aovfirlftn grand lortrfe walorj at Mtlwauklt Wta., upjeI we as FraneU M. iViton. The Dallpa: Ray H. Olbt. a re sham; Joarpb Schwrltrtr, Portland, and Carl Eruiatrom. Salem. William A. Merand. Portland, will attend In Interest of the Oregon A toclatlon of Secretaries and Scribes and accompanying the deleft tea will tie Kdythe P. Kelly, RoMburg, Chas. P. Poole, Ei i ft me, and N. R, Gilbert. Bend. 4 The Morse Llbb; house in Port land, Me., ta one of the most sump tuotu Victorian Amrlrn residences remaining. It waa built about 1(159 by a Portland cltlren who made fortune in the New Orleana hotel suspicious of strangers. Somehow or other he must take care of Janet and save her too. "I'm so thirsty!" she presently murmured like a child. Neill's heart sank for he had for gotten water. He looked along the village front. It would not be too easy for a stranger to obtain wa ter. If ho went to somebody's well it would lead to awkward ques tions. And he had nothing to car ry water in. The main and onl road into the village came down along the river shore before striking across the neck to the harbor in front of Longcope's. Midway along this road he distinguished the lighted front of a store. One could always buy something to drink. In front of the store the usual little pier ran out into the river. The water was shallower on this side and it was a long pier. Janet could re main hidden in the dark at the end of it He hesitated. There was a terri ble risk in landing now. If he were seen, he would De remembered. However, it had to be taken. He rowed in and tied the skiff to the end of the pier. "What's this for?" she asked nervously. "I'm going to get water for you." "No, no. I don t want water." "We've got to have water." "Can't I come with you?" "Your dress would attract too much attention." "Ah, don't be long," she said with a catch in her breath. He walked in over the creaking planks, climbed the bank, crossed the road, and entered the store. It was a much smaller and tidier store than Longcope's and busi ness was not so good. The little old man who kept it was grateful totheunlooked-for customer. Neill bought two bottles of carbo nated water. On his way out of the store a sedan coming from the direction of town passed rapidly and slid to a quick stop a short distance be yond. Neill had an uncomfortable feeling that this stop was in some way connected with himself. Somebody was looking out of the back window, the face merely a grayish blur through the glass. There was nothing he could do about it. He hastened down the bank and out over the pier. Janet let out a shaking breath of relief at the sight of him. The car went on and turned the corner. Present ly a car came back, but Neill couldn't tell, if it was the same one. Who Could It Be? THEY went on, and finally passed the last houses of the village. Now there was a dark field between the road and the river. Neill had rowed upwards of two miles, but he was still only some hundreds of yards from the yacht across the neck of land. Suddenly from the dark shore a light flashed out over the water and searched the river ud and down. It was evi dently a strong electric torch held in somebody s hand. Neill Dulled the skiffs head around and rowed further out into the river. He couldn't be sure whether the lieht had Dicked them up, and a nasty anxiety attacked him. Why should anybody stand on the shore casting his light over the water unless he were looking for them? And who could be look ing for them? Who could guess that they were aoout to pass that spot? The light went out, and nothing came of it then, but Neill's anxiety remained. He rowed on. Keening about a furlong off shore, the opposite shore was invisible in the dark. Here and there at long distances a dim light showed in the window of a farmhouse, and up river the red light of a gas buoy twinkled off and on, marking some shoal. With every pull of Neill's oars, two lit tle eddies or phosphorescence swirled astern. A soft breeze from the south sprang up. Janet exclaimed: What s that? Looking over his shoulder. Ncill saw the masts and the funnels of the four (treat shins .isine aeainst the stars. "The German ships turned over to us after the war are moored here," he said. 'Who would expect to find them here!" she murmured. Neill thoueht it over. It was a desperate chance to take, but any way you looked at It their situa tion was desoerate. if there were only four men aboard, it was not enough to keep a close watch at night In one of the cabins below he could make Janet comfortable. Where could he hope to find a bet ter hiding place? Jen. he said, "what would vou say to going aboard one of the empty snips to hide until we can decide what's best to be done? Would you be afraid?" "Not If vou were with me. Neill." He nulled ud to the outermost ship. Her smooth steel side rose towering over their heads like a cliff, ghostly and awe-inspiring in the night. No sound came from aboard her. 'How could we net on?" whis pered Janet. "Thais lust the ouestion. said Neill with a brief laugh. Neltl flndi a watchman en the darst ehlpa, tomorrow. Russ Plane Falls On Arctic Search BARROW, Ahutkn, Sept. M (4"l Reports to t his nort hcmmoAt out post today said Basil Ziulkoff crashed hta flying boat somewhere In the Arc tic ocean north of hero while seek Inn the six l"t RuMisn trnnnolar filers. Meager advices raohtnj this Ice bound station said ZiwUoff s plane was lost but the flier was safe. Two oth er planes, an Amphibian and a fly ing boat from the Ruutan Icebreaker K raw In were said to be stormbound somewhere nmnng the Jnatged floea of the Arctic ocean. Tientsin Is one or the moat Im portant foreinn sources from which American manufacturers obtain bris tles tied in pmdtirinc hleh-gmde hmhft Clo.uiK tin.- (-v Too bate to Cla Jfy Ada U I 30 p. m. fmmMmms.- Mi a j r-s 'v x. RgMOVnL FROM Office 0Y CKZ WhlMM WHO FROM HIS etCK&ED "0 ZoTE rtNoT3AllTY" fVT JOHNSONS IIWeftCHlAEtfT TRIM. UrNtuffet Snditaly Hck Man's Vote. On the eve of the Judgment In Andrew Johnson's Impeachment trial. the President's expulsion from office was thought to be a foregone con clusion. Johnson himself believed hta conviction was a certainty ami packed hla belongings In prepara tion for leaving the Whlto House. Ben Wade, senator from Ohio, waa equally confident of Johnson's re moval from office. As president pro temporo of the senate and next in line for the Presidency because there was no vice-president, he Is said to have had his Inaugural address al ready written. Mrs. Wade had her gown made up for her husband's Inauguration and had her friends all summoned for the event. Oood grounds did everyone have for believing that Johnson was to i Motorist Rescued GRANTS PASS. SeDt. 14. fiJ.MnU orlsta pulled a Long Beach. Calif., driver from hla car yesterday after It slid over a Sexton mountain grade, pinned him Inside, and started to burn. The garage which repaired his car aald he was not seriously hurt but did not learn his name. TAILSPIN TOMMY Another KTHET YOUhG-Ufl's I TAKIfT ATI AWFUL 1 CHArl C E ! Y BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER THE UEXT TVNO VJEEW &PE0 BV AS IF 1M A DREAM' BEVO FOUND WM5ELP IW A MEW WORE, VJITH LARGER. sTOGK AMD DOUBLE THt BUSIWESS Me MAD e-VER. HAD THE NEBBS Trouble Brewing i E . STEWART, UPPER OARBV. FA, VJWO h wcrr fveased kirrw AivW of the AROLEV -DO PTC5EMT JUnORSl aj jerss ah. I er-- m -i n x fr.ntu I wncn iuu i.n i juu T" fvfn in & tsi KMOVJ ? Ma OCVCE SWAWWClU rNRMivjC-HAH AlA.. mrs. aktviur Rvuktrrq CHATSWCRTH ILLJ fCR WEtSCLF ArOO HER WUSBAsJO. WAWT5TWFMTD .MOVE IU NEXT DCORTDSVULV IKJ MOCM KJICK ? 'lite rmitev B&ORSffKFUUy CPiH - 7- f V be removed from office. Btrangc as it seems, this, the only attempt ever made to expel a president of the United States from his post, was frustrated by the act of a sick man. who rose from his bed to cast a vote of "not guilty!" The man was James Grimes, U. 8. senator from Iowa. Suffering from partial paralysis. Senator Crimes struggled to his feet on the morning of May 16, 1868, and went to tne senate to cast his vote on the momentous case. To con-' vlct a president according to law. It required a vote of two-thirds ol the senators. Of the 54 senators who voted. 35 cast their votes for John son's conviction, the remaining fo voting "not guilty." One more vote ngnlnst him would have resulted In the president's being found guilty. Had not Senator Grimes risen from THE DALLES, Sept. 15. (p One hundred and fifty COC youths will occupy the abandoned civilian soil conservation camp at Condon this winter. The troopers wilt plant drought resisting grasses and con struct dams to prevent erosion. , . Ufic Mai) Tribune want ads. Convert to Aviation I The Stranger IS TMIS FELLOW VOO MTTOCr II LfIoV- i-yn lTHAT THE BANK 4W I It-X 1 7in one o' them . TZSM, n LV KJ V turn indicator.. it's A woLnnrVr U A T-rr RAPnons.ys I fm V mister?' i l.l "lLf, !1 1 let apeard to fly m e2io'o V ) teAUO EVBK1 WHEW UWCL6 f WHAT'.Ta,TE5T 6ROVJ1U 6L151ME-55 2J C V iyT: -r- WelL 6 ABLE T UE ALL U I v BEEHIVE ? I OVEB.CAWE CVEB.V OBSTACLE- 7Ct& . . v 11 . . ' . " . ' r ME'S (SOT MAV'5 f WW CUT IMTO M y there IS MOtsJEV FOR ADVCCTIS- KEEPS . MW MOTEL- thtXi TF) THE TIME 1 UJkS ef ' - y hAH LAX MTi ( 111 ' I i irvwV j MrJL; ij i w rvn n ' w a a. . 1 1 v vv -A,-f rvitn mi l j- sArv i l j k i r i c i i i mf INSWAP foR4il,000 Aehtrki rfRt Ort exhibition at PcfJjtte.OfiiD- eflos Angeles, "OliUlNE" r rtlMbN TbK6Sr his sick bed to vote for acquittal. Andrew Johnson would have been expelled from office 1 The O'Leary Cow Bell. Whether or not Mrs. O'Leary'a cow really did kick over a lantern and start the great Chicago fire of 1871 has - never been definitely de termined, but the cow bell that once Jangled from the famous ani mal's neck Is still preserved. It was found in the O'Leary barn Imme diately nfter the fire by a young man named P. G. Pearson who gave mrs. J Lieary 29 cents ior u. ixKiay It Is owned by Lamb's Wholesale, Inc.. Payne, Ohio, and la insured for el 000 against fire. Tomorrow: Where Is Insect Fight ing a NiiMnnal Sport? GRANTS PASS, Sept. 14. (IP) Boyd Jackson, Jr., and Delmar Cole grove, K la math Indjans halted at the California quarantine station on the Redwood highway earl ythls morning, were returned to Klamath Palls by state police Jo face charges of taking horses off the reservation without a permit. 6E15 HOME FROM SUMMER IMIHEttOH-IW.RIlCB U? SfWRSASSOM AS FATHER HM UN10CKED POOR TROPS SUITCASE INSIDE FrWf DOOR AND DASHES OVFR lb EDDI'6, FAMI1Y CA11.W6 1b COME BACK. THERE ARE SOME ERRANDS S MATTER POF j ( bp r: xmnnx t sz WNW SimvJFYW&.Wtfrl mnWi HI5K00N AND B&0N6lW6S,WmiETW1llY ttUSfbCOME HElPDAD ifwiow the car. 60SD0WN,MAWK& A rjElbUR fHR0U6 CEUAR 1b SET IF HIS WORK BEMH ISAU.RI6HT EXCHANGES NEinS WllH EDDIE AHD SMARTS HOME", TJE10UR1N6 fO SEE fHE NEW 8ACKSfOP ON fHE BAVL FIELD (Copyright, 1937, Vy the Bell gyndlemte, Inc.) J (Oopyrlgh 1937, by Th. ar tt-r, rJ Mm.,, 1 DOKfT 5A SERVES ME RlGMT IT GOES BACK TO TVIE sPLAvius wiDe CARRIES A SUITCASE FROM CARIbHOUii ArlTJ SPIES EDDIE SEUER IH HIS YARD itfi OUfON ERRANDS, DE- RETURNS H0ME,5PREAD5 TbURlNS lb LOOK OVER HIS STAMPS, RADIO STOFF THE NEW BOY 0M IHt COR- AMI OTHER TO2ED P05- NER. ErtCHMJfcES CAMOlSJ SESSIONS Oltf, ArJj DECIDES 6REET1N6 WITH HIM THERE'S NO "PLACE LIKE HOME Bv 0 M PAYN1 Jus "A iimcHT i II I By HAL FORREST By EDWIN AtOEB By 80L HESS TMIS IS TIME I WAS anjd go seek