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PAGj-! SEC ;THE WORLD AT ITS W0RS1 By GLUYAS WILLIAMS the dark ships STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN MX For farther proof address the author, tndoamc stamped envelope tot reply. Re V. 8. Pat. Oft in BY HULBKRT roOTMER V7i AW Sli. .. .. Hi- ml -cf . .. u Balti more girl, 4,'ne i.-.u-im a dot tclth wealthy, laaht Prcscott fanning who kidnap her aboard hit yacht. Next day a myiterloue phone call telle Neil! J ant ft in trouble on the yacht at Abialom'i Harbor. Ruehino there, he find). in a locked cabin. Fanning ehot dead and Janet In a 1airt, a gun beeide her. Weill route her to the dieuied linen kept up the rivr and Hide her in the beet euile. Returning to the village hotel, he returnee hit role oi vititing flthar fnan to watch development!. Horace Kettering, a Baltimore lawyer, and hit ton arrive to fl$h. Chapter 14 Abealom'i Agog KETTERING threw up hit head and aniffed the freah morning air. "Thia la great, gentlemen. A man worka himaelf near to death in the city, and what doea he get out of it? A couple of day'a fiahing a yearl" "Work'a a damn bad haWt," aald Longcope. Kettering turned to NeMl. "And you?" he asked. "Ford Wheatley." "Pleased to meet you, Mr. Wheatley. You're a atranger in the village, I take it?" Yes. Down for the fishing like yourself." "Fine! You must coma out with my son and me as our guests , . . Well, I'll be seeing you, gentle men." He saluted them and climbed back in the car. The son had not opened his mouth. There was something about his busy tongue and darting eyes that made Neill uneasy. This was not a man that he could trust. "A talkative cuss!" he remarked. "Yeah," aaid Virgil turning the cigar. "Looks like a case of the fox lathering the bull pup." At that moment Neill saw a ahitecoated figure appear on the Nadji's deck, run wildly forward and disappear through a door. He forgot the Ketterings. The man re ippeared on deck with his two mates. They ran into the after house. Presently they came on deck again, flung themselves any how into the dinghy and started f ulling crazily for the shore. Neill teeled himself. Virgil, who had not noticed any thing amiss, was talking amiably about the city slickers he had known. The men in the dinghy tied iheir little boat to the wharf In front of the store and came run ning across the road, white-faced and staring with horror. Virgil broke off suddenly. "What the heck la the matter with these three fellers?" "Police!" they gasped out. "We want the police. . , . Where can we And the police?" All three were young men without experience, and they had completely lost their heads. There was a steward in his white coat and two aailors. Their hysterical excitement made Virgil aore. "What's the mat ter with you?" he demanded. "We ain't got no police here. What do you want police for?" . All tried to explain at once. "Murder, mister! . . . There's been murder aboard the yacht! . . . The owner i murdered! ... A bul let right through his head! . . . Must have been shot last night when we was ashore. . . . We slept on board all night without knowing it. . . ." Virgil stood up suddenly. "Mur der!" he gasped. "My God!" NeiU's nerves quivered at the sound of the ugly word. "Murderl" he echoed. "How terrible!" "And the girl Is gone!" cried the Itewnrd. "What girl?" demanded Virgil. All three explained together. "We had a girl on board. . . . The boss' trirl. . . . And she's cone! . . . How could she get off? The other boat's on the davits. . . "One at a time!" shouted Virgil waving his hands. "You, Jake, run and fetch the doctor. You men come in the store! Too Muoh For Vlrrfl NEILL followed them inside. As a stranger, he was disregarded. Virgil, being the leading citizen, felt that it was up to him to take command of the situation but it was a bit too much for him. He flung his derby on the counter and ran his hands through his hair as it ne would tear it out. Keep coon KeeD cool!" he ahouted. Everv time he asked a auestlon he got three answers. The crew it seemed, could not agree on me simplest statement of fact. Out of the confusion Neill could only pick a phrase here and there. Found him when I took his morning coffee down. , , , In the girl's cabin. . . . The door was busted in. . . . There was a hell of a fight while we were ashore. . , . You're crazy! It waa the boss him self busted the door in! . . . Nothing else was disturbed. . , . We don't know who the girl was. . . . Real nice quiet girl. ... We were aboard last night before 10:30. . . ." It was no part of NeiU's game to try to bring order out of the con fusion. He listened, nerves taut. Virgil looked at him in a dis Wool Prleei Ebb WASHINGTON 8Pt. SO. (API The- agriculture department report ed today the domestic wool situa tion hM not materially charterd In the part month, but that wool price at recent Australian end Brit ish tales tended downward. Pepper Cases Oseen peppers, cut In halvee and simmered for 10 mtnutea make lusty cases for creamed or eaealloped mli tures auch as macaroni and cheese or eacalloped fish. After the peppers have been filled put them In the oven for five mlnutea or so to brown the tops. ollllume Devices Oil electrical household devices such as the washing machine, vacu um cleaner and the floor polisher at leaat once a rear. Be sure to follow the Instructions which coma with the equipment, tracted t-shion, loigetting he waa a stranger. "Reckon I better call up the county constable.!' "It's the obvious thing to do." "But he's a farmer. He don't know nothing." "Call him anyway." Virgil sent his clerk running to make the call. "And Mr. Button Billings, the J. P.," he went on pulling his hair, "he'll have to be in on this. He's 'an old grandmother, that's what heJs. Oh, my God! He'll ball every thing up, and the newspapers will call us nicks, and moss-backs and stick-in-the-muds!" Neill said nothing. If things got balled up it would be fine. "If I only knew where to lay my hands on the proper man to handle the case!" said Virgil. After taking an agitated turn Back and forth, his face cleared. "I know what I'll do. I'll get Mark Bonniger. He's a man-of-the-world. And.ne's one of us. We don't want no foreigners horning in. Mark will tell us how to do everything right." When the clerk returned, he was sent back to call up Mark Bonniger and also the justice of the peace, "Tell Mr. Button Billings to come straight to the yacht. He live across the harbor." Virgil ran out of the store, ac companied by the crew. At the door they met the doctor coming in and carried him with them. Al! five of them piled into the yacht'; dinghy, loading her almost to th; gunwale. "No more room," the;, cried, when Neill started to follow them, and rowed away. Neill wa left on the wharf. He looke around for another skiff, but there were too many watching them now. Pawing For 'Evidence' LIKE a wireless flash, word o! the murder had spread fro.'., one end of the village to the othe; Men, women and children stopped everything and came running to to the harbor. Nothing like this nad ever happened in Absalom's. House work was suspended, the stores shut up and fish left without ice. The excitement in every face made Neill sore. What is it to them? he thought.' At first they contented them selves with lining up along the harbor road, staring out at the yacht and passing the some bits cl information back and forth. Then one man jumped in his skiff. Im mediately there was a etampe'e for the skiffs and a whole flotilla set out rowing swiftly to the yach . Women and children were left ashore. Neill .was unable to obtain a place in a skiff until Jake the fish' erman got the idea of starting a terry at two Dits a neaa. mus some minutes passed before he got aboard the yacht The saloon below was packed to suffocation. The men had pulled off their hats out of respect to the dead, and were pushing and shov ing lo get a glimpse tnrougn me door of the after cabin. Neill worked his way through them. Ev erything that happened here was of vital importance to him. He was tall enough to look over a good many heads and he saw Virgil and the doctor, helped by the two sail ors, examining the body, searching his pockets and so on. The young steward sat on the starboard lock er holding his head between his nanoa. Everything in the room includ ing the gun was being well pawed over in the search for "evi dence," and Neill smiled grimly to himseir. Lucky he had only these hicks to deal with! He saw Virgil Dick ud the bullet on the floor be side the port aeat locker, and hold it up lor all to see. Virgil was continually issuing orders without taking any steps to see if they were earned out. Quit your shoving, men! Ain't you got no sense of what is fitting? . . . The girl must nave swum ashore. She couldn't have got far. You, Tom Boiling, organize a posse among the men ana search the woods across the harbor. Send a car up the road, somebody, to stop at every house and ask if she ap peared for shelter!" A voice from the crowd said: "Somebody stole my skiff last night." "Woll then, maybe she tried to escape in that," said Virgil. "A wo man could row far. All you men that have motor-boats organize a search up both shores of the river and into the creeks. What like girl was she?" The two sailors attempted to de scribe Janet. Very little could be garnered irom meir eiiorts, except the pink dress and the black velvet cape. "She musta had a guy helping her," said a voice. "What guy7" asked Virgil. "How the heck should I knowt Who was it busted in the door?" "The dead guy." "Maybe he was already Inside and the door was locked. Neill stiffened. This was getting too close to the truth. Deaplte Vlrill'e efforts, Mr, Butlen nilllnirs moves the body and holdt an Inquest, tomorrow. liny Your Hog A flrnrelet PARIS ( AP) Costume Jewelry la the latest contribution to canine elegance. Necklace and bracelet acta for poodlea consist of gold chain col lara, useful to hold a Iraah. and cold chain anklets, purely decorative. B.nh fasten with key and padlock of Uie same precious metal. r'oolhall l-'rwk Arrhe NEW YORK (API-Football frockt have come to town. One of the smartest la a two-piece model of beige wool, whose bodice has two horizontal colored bamta represent ing the college colors. Kequlm lor tililter NEW YORK (API fluttering se quins embroidery trims hundrult of new fall frocks. Among the motifs which brighten sober dresses are stained glass window patterns, fire works designs and Louis XV bow-knots. m SyrWataU. last. Winning HundMiiike fitmnge as it see ma, a handfthako of congratulation and an umptre'a mla Interpretation of baseball rules won the championship of the Three-Eye (Indiana, Iowa, Illinois) league for Bloomlngon In 193S. Playing agnlnst Springfield for the league pennant, Bloomlngton was be hind In the seven-game series, two games to three, on September 18. At bat In the third inning or the sixth game for Bloomlngton team was Jul ian Poster, first baseman. Leaning on a fast one, he craked out a homer and proceeded to Jog around the around the bases. Rounding third he waa given a aongmtulatory shake of the hand by his manager. Her- schel Martin. Umpire Pat Fohl promptly ruled him out. evidently, Just 4 Acres Not County SALEM, .Sept. 30. -(AP) A Jury In the Klamath county circuit court next week will determine whether four acre tract of land, desired by the state highway commission, Is worth 9112,310 or the more mod est sum of $176. THE NEBBS Tlio Low-Down f 1 .SEE THAT VOUS. IBUS1WESS PAQTME5?, TAILSPIN TOMMY Preserving the Evidence ! - By HAL FORREST f'STJOKEBp' "HITf " GOSH, MISTER j VjUST ATI AMATEUR, SOW. . - 1 HEBI-'.S ir! SIaB Sl?i L5 I K'MrfircE I BUT WITH HELPERS LI KB J YOUR A EE.I MOST 2H eSsSIS?? ?rEt fafc&BrZ A OETECnvg )TOU AMD FLASH, I MAY J PAY. ) FOLKS PAY QfPg; lljBlllg BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER So What? By EDWIN ALGER J 1 0om EVEK1 KNOW ) ( CKAY, 8EM,lU ) 1 1 f-fKi UAMfc 15 j Y6S DEATH, AW0 THAT'S K I X AW, VOU'Rt WDOIUG Mt H K.UOW YOU'Ofc" i ,(rikTA't'n? S 1 raAOJOHOMW ( OtATH? )IWHV INE COME TO 9EE J M JORDAM WOT 8-6 WAT'S VOUR PROPOTQVJWlua- ? JJ? V HOJ- 7 UNDERTAKER, T YOU'RE CAWALt II k-J T f t -J JhTtw 0-s VV r- S OP A GREAT (NOME. OF MV BUSIMES5, MIMD NOO; 15 5PEXOKJG A nMECOURTlklGNOUR EMMA. AMD YirA TWE PART OP IT I SHE SEEMS EkVJOV IT sD r r- . 1 i . ,. ...1 . art HISSED HI9 , OWN FIRSlPUtf' richest of merttft Presidents. iuaiiaiipAL iTn1.- a.-Tta. - 'win? . . yy. .Tl JT basing his decision on Rule 49, Sec tion 17, which reads: "If, In the Judgment of the um pire, the coacher at third bese by touching or holding the runner phy sically assists him In returning to or leaving third base, the runner Is out. The runner, however, should not be declared ount If no play Is be ing made on him." Obviously, Umpire Fohl was wrong In calling the base runner out under the circumstances, but the game proceeded In accordance with his rul ing And Springfield ended up the victor by a score of five to two. As this waa Springfield's fourth victory, the team left the field confident that they had won the champion ship. A protest on the "handshake rul Ing" was lodged by the Bloomlngton Born With Teeth PORTLAND, Sept. 30. (AP) Dentally speaking, the five-day old son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Smith had a head start at birth, but he was pulling away from the field rapidly today. Born with one tooth, the In fant now has five. ARDLE LOT OF RL, WORST7 (AiRTieH "v LJCT AltfT KTS " II SUE AlMT MV ' CPillfirtT IN i)Mfc.w nriey emu wirem TO Wm PW PiKE K&3? .wdKKfcTRAT -file ikkik zinnt LikUf - vs. spnnffielcl- team and h. J. Wylie, president of the Three-Eye league, ordered the Springfield team to replay the game. Whn Springfield refused to continue the series, President Wylle awarded the championship to Bloomlngton- In spite of the fact that Springfield had won the series four games to two. A handshake had won Itl Washington I. O. V. One of the wealthiest men of the day in property holdings, George Washington waa frequently short of ready cash. In this predicament at the time of his inauguration, he was forced to borrow expense money to make the trip to New York for the Inaugural ceremony. Tomorrow: What Great Battle Was Fought Because of Shoes? Deer Cauws Deaths SAN JOSE. Cel., Sept. 30. (AP) A deer that bounded into the path of an auto driven by Henry Davis, 56, San Francisco, overturned the machine, killing Davis and Injuring his wife. Mary, 56. near here last night. 1 .SOLD OUT AMO 1 MN CA5W BUT KJOT TO WIM TME BILL OP 5 ALE WAS "TO .SOMEBOOV ELSE 1 DOMT PEMEMBER TME viKtr T err A m JPOR. SHOVJIKJ'.'EM WOVJTO RUKJ lan ? m id miu it. ? S 'MATTER POF GOT OH.PARDOKJ ME, M AV , THAT WAS THE .TDwNJ A)D MOT HAVlfOG TIME ASSAV ALL THE ads TOVJSJ GOSSIP, 1 JUST MAD TO BELIEVE 11 Kmow CJN ) T-Ha Cow Y V I - no THE BOY WHO CARRIED bws and wwer. ALL SEASON 15 NOT INCLUDED IM THE PICTURE OF THE TEAM (Copyright, 1937, by The. Bell Syndicate, Inc.) I I I 111 I I II I Bill I I V. J.V. ! VIMRP .,,.. -r- VLSI "ArFrrLTrriTrSJvrrr l fvrr tup ivmns oii HIM BUT 1 DONJT KKJOVW MHO TO SOX) iTO AMD IF EMMA 1 MARRIES HIM, THE NEXT DRESS SHE - A BUVS AFTER. HEIRESS ! 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