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trEDFOTlT) rATL TRTBTJyTE, ITDFOTM?, OREGON". FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1937. the dork ships CLEATS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN MX Tar farther proof tddres the author, lnctoerng stamped ttrelepe tor reply. Reg. U. 8. Pat Oft WiUiAr) BY HULBCRT FOOTME FOURTEEN I ) M li II ..j. Atiu, a young ea ...... uuent, findt hit beloved Janet locked in a cabin on Prescott Fanning'! iacht at Abjotom'e Harbor. With her are a pun and fanning' freihly (hot body. Neill hide her nearby in a diffused liner, then joint Mark Bonnlger, local investipator. Weill learne Janet didn't thoat the (lathy swindler. He tutpecU queer little Eytter, who hated Fanning. Alto in the picture are Kettering, a Baltimore lawyer down to fish, and Ira Buctdett, a tough who trail! Neill Bonnlger lead! a eearch ot the darfc ihipi. Neill leaoee the eearching party, reaches Janet't mite and together they tllp into the dark corridors to hide. Chapter 30 The Dumbwaiter TpHEY crouched on the principal stairway, listening (or sounds from above. A close heavy silence lay on the ship that was like a weight on their breasts. Neill searched (or Janet's hand in the dark and pressed it "Jen, darling. I'm so sorry I got In a race last night." She leaned against him. "That was nothing, Neill." "But it was! It wasl If I hadn't been such a fool, this wouldn't have happened. "Don't!" she whispered. "I can't bear to hear vou blame yourself! . "Everything you said was right, Jen! There was a man hidden in the clothes closet of your cabin on the yacht We found evidence of It today." "Then you know now that I didn't shoot Fanning." "I know it not that It makes any difference to me. She kissed him. After what seemed like an age, they heard doors opening above them in the ship, and subdued voices. The searchers had entered the restaurant on A deck. They did not pause, but came down the stairs. Nor did they linger on B deck. Evidently the plan of search ing the vessel had been changed. Neill and Janet had to snatch up their belongings and run on down in a hurry. At one moment Bon niger was so close to them that they heard him say: "If we cornered them in the hold of the vessel, a desperate man night shoot It's better to work from the bottom up. We'll force them out into the open on deck." Hand in hand, Neil) and Janet flew down the stairs as silently as If thev had been on wings to D deck and on to E deck. In the grand saloon they distributed their im pedimenta amongst the other lit ter, hoping that it would not be too closely examined, and ran across the immense room, keeping only Janet's clothes and the pre cious food and water. As the pantry door swung to behind them, Bonniger's light showed around the bend of the stairs. Running across the pantry, they entered the corridor between the bakery and cold storage rooms. As they came into the galley beyond, a door on the other side opened and a light showed through. They drew back with the cold hand of (ear on their breasts. "It's no use!" whispered Janet "We're caught between them!" "Back this way," said Neill. In the pantry, he switched on his , light and cast it desperately' around. In the middle of the room dumbwaiter rested on a table with its ropes disappearing into a shaft overhead. Going Up "IT'S a chance!" said Neill. 1 "Quick! Into it!" "There's not room for two!" (asned Janet "I stand on top!" The dumbwaiter had a hinged shelf. Janet crept into it, pressing the shelf up. and Neill climbed on top. The contraption had never been designed to lift such a weight. Neill pulled the hoisting rope and they started to rise from the table. The whole apparatus crenked alarmingly, but it held together. Thev disanoeared into the closed shaft and Neill stopped pulling. Listening, they heard the doors swing below them. Bonniger and Bickcl met in the pantry. Each had a man with him. Bickel said: "Aft of the galley there are doors into the port and starboard engine rooms. You and I can take one side, Wilson and Forsvthe the other." "Lend the way," said Bonnlger. "There's a man posted on every stairway." The door swung again, and there was silence below. After waiting minute. Neill whispered: "Are you all right? "If the stairways are watched. we re still trapped, said Janet "We're going up," said Neill. "Where does this thing go toT "Darned if I know." ' He started pulling again and thev rose slowly. After a seem ingly endless ascent through the closed shaft one side of it opened and thev looked into a room thev had not seen before. A little star light was coming through the HUNTER CLEARS UP COMPANION'S DEATH TACOMA. Oct. a.-HTV-The body of Luke BlitkPAleNi, 30, of Bremerton. tm rocevered from w grave In the woods wct of dig Hrirbor today by Ernest Dahman, 90. Port Orchard trapper. Bhrrtf John C. lljorklund or Pierce county Mid Dnhman confeawd ho ac cidentally ahot and killed BlakeW with m .30-30 rifle on an ont-of-ara-non deer hunting trip last September 24. Sheriff RtiAh Blankcnshlp Mid Dah man confcAMKl he burled the body when he became afraid to Tv port the ahootlnfi, becftiiM the pair had been huuUug deer out of aeaaon. windows. Around the walls there were sinks, racks of dishes, heat ing tables and the other appur tenances of a pantry. Neill stepped off his perch and, pulling the dumbwaiter higher, helped Janet out of her cramped position inside. He cautiously pushed out a swing door for an inch or two and found himself looking into the restaurant on the boat deck with its tall windows all around. A glass door looking astern stood open and outside it showed the silhouette of an armed man. He yawned audibly and stretched himse'f, pistol in hand. Neill placed one of his boots between door and frame so that he could continue to watch the man. Neill and Janet sat down on the floor, leaning together without saying anything, and a long time passed or so it seemed. Suddenly the dumbwaiter gave a shake and a rattle and disappeared smartly from view. Janet almost jumped out of her skin, and Neill swal lowed a laugh. "It's all right," he said. "They're searching the pantry now. They're only making sure that we're not nminK in me snail. The noise attracted the atten tion of the man on deck and he turned to listen. Neill softly with drew his boot from the door and pulled Janet away. They heard the man coming. The pantry was L-shaned. They retreated around the corner of the wall, and crept under a serving table. The man came in. His mind was on the dumbwaiter. Sticking his head in the shaft he called: Hello, down there!" From deep below a voice an swered: "Hello!" 'Did vou just pull this thing down?" 'Sure." 'That's all right then. All cmlet up here." He went out on deck and Neill and Janet relaxed. Neill flung an arm around her to steady her trembling. Back To The Royal Suite AFTER about a quarter of an hour, Neill said: "The search must have passed beyond the pan try by now. Let's go!" While Janet watched the man out on deck, he very softly pulled up the dumbwaiter. They got in it as before, and he let it down inch by inch until it bumned softlv on its table in the E deck pantry. All was dark and still below. Crossing the saloon, they lis tened at the bottom of the main stairway. Faint sounds of the search on D deck came down. Bon niger's signal was given and his party ascended to C deck. After a long time they heard the signal again, and the search moved up another night. Having recovered the bucket, the rope ladder, the ball of twine, etc., Neill and Janet crept up the stairway and stole back through a corridor to the royal suite. "Home at last!" said Neill. They bolted the doors and en joyed a brief let-down. They presently went out on the veranda. Neill pulled down the heavy window (it opened from the top) and they stood beside it lis tening. Soon they heard the search party come out on the boat deck. Bonniger's final signal was given: and thev heard the whole Dartv descending the ladders. thev have gone, he said. "Oh, Neill!" faltered Janet 'What now?" "I must go back and join them." "How can you get out of this ship if the door at the top of the engine room shaft is fastened?" Thais easy. I ll climb out on the promenade through one of the windows on B deck. You can come With me and close It after I'm out That is, if you're not afraid to come back alone. I won't be afraid," said Janet. Not after what we have nlrenrlv been through. . . . How will you get back without being seen?" 1 11 climb out on the starboard side of this vessel. I'll make sure that no one is watching from above before I try to lump across. Once on the Montmorenci, I'm safe." They set out Remember the signal when I come back tomor row night." Neill said as he kissed her at the window on B deck. He took nlentv of time to make the return tourney, taking care to spot each guard on the boat deck, before exposing himself. The search party was now inside the Columbia. He slid down the rope to the crib that held the vessels apart and dropped into his skiff. He put on his boots and 10 minutes later was tvine his skiff to the platform at the foot of the ladder. As he ran up. the policeman s head stuck out over the rail. "So you're back," he sain. "Anything doing while I was gone?" asked Neill. ' There was an alarm raised over on the Abraham Lincoln that somebody had been seen, but they didn't find anybody. They're in the Columbia now." "I'll watch the middle gangway until they come back on deck," said Neill. "Have a cigarette?" "Thanks." KettniH. Kit. h It-tort The yacht li myMrrloariy rsn larked front lUa to strrn. Monday, FIRE AREA REDUCED DURING PAST SEASON PORTLAND, Oct. 8. J-Fire tn the 30 national fnrenU of Oregon and Washington this senron. numbering 1.453 up to September 30, covered only 7..M4 acre compared to an acre ai;e of IflaW during the correspond ing period In 10,16. when 3t) hum were rerorded, forest amir official nld today. Utthtnlng fliva during th period numht'red 1,016 this yer, compared to 497 In 1038. mancauMvt Urea showing a material decrease. Tirly (all rains hsve prened but not ellmliirttrd danger of future lire, of Mela la a rued. " IN OKfilN IN WSt nu -Too Pncxc-ln Otter Hcfrlevers The II rat time that Emll Lter&, Ho mer, Minnesota, mink farmer, took one of his pet otter on a hunting trip Into neighboring duck swamps be realized the ponsibintles of the aleek, aquatic animals aa retrievers. Llers' pet otter, on this occasion, watched with an appraising eye as nk; master brought down a fino mallard. And by the time LlerV dog was streak ing toward the murkcy pool where the duck fell, Mr. Otter was already swimming shoreward with the olrd llrmly clamped In hla mouth I Since this experience, some 10 yearn ago, Llers has trained thirty-five ot ter to "go fetch" smnll gnmo. HI, method Is to ntnrt them on tennln OLDEST LEGIONNAIRE . FINDS HOME BURNED THE DALLES, Ore., Oct. 8. (pi W. P. "Dad" Jowett, famed "Hermit of JuckaAs Mountain." and oldest American Ltwlonnatre, returned from tho recent New York convention to find his home at Autelopo destroyed TAILSPIN TOMMY "What Retty-lou is usimg all of her CHARM """AND FEMINlMB WILES TO LURE BEMTLV AWAY FROM HIS COMPANION, RITA, FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF GETTING HIM TO TALK, AND PERHAPS DROP A REMARK THAT MAY HELP SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF MRS . BENTLY3 DEATH . . . 291c, BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER WW NOT, AAlTtB. VJt8&TtR. K.UOW VOU'RE IRIDO JOR REPRCSEWTATNE-f THE NEBBS Rocks Ahead lSD BVV5 'F ME Y fU. HE DOES.) ,r MERCS A. PlCTS OF amu Hto HEAsiO OP HIM RTUE ROSOFZ3' GALLERY. LOOK W WM ft 9lH6l& -Noire Pcime2b K W TfcMNED and iiseo " HUNTING DOSS" W ftAIL UEKS, HomenMintf. fts f P6T as yoes on m MUCH LI mm balls, then he advances them to the retrieving of blackbirds and finally ho takes them Into tho field, wnen they have learned not to raanglo the game. Llers puts them through a training period of from six months to a year. Many sportsmen throughout the country are today using otter trained by Llers for their closest hunting pals. Abdication Year Strange aa It seems, in a period of 41 dnys in 1018 more European rulers abdicated their thrones than tn any other year In hlstoix ReorljuBtmont of tlr many small monarchies at the termination of the World War was responsible for the "moss evacuation" of kings that led by fire. Jowett, Spanish -American and World war veteran, announced he will move to The Dalles. All his possessions, Including military med als, citations and trophies from all parts of the world, were lo.t. Sun Spot Visible PORTLAND, Oct. 8. flj One of the largest sun spots to appear in re Out. Botty-Lou!" Loyalty OTfered? TO THE - DAW'S IVOU'RE L M- ) AJOU SEE IP YOUVE. EVER fl 1 eS rteDlCKTlON YEN? ABPlCfflfco IM ft PERIOD imv m off with the abdication of Pordinand of Bulgaria on October 4, 1918. Within a month Crown prince Bor is, who tutfumed the throne of Bul garia on Perdinand s abdication, him self saw fit to abdicate on November 1. Six days later William II of Wurt-i-mburg abdicated, accompanied by the Duke of Brunswick. Kalter Wtl- helm II of Germany followed suit on November 9 as Prtedrlch Evert, vice president of the Socialist Democratic party assumed control of the German government as Chancellor, pending creation of the "constitutional Ger man national assembly." On November 13, Charles of Austria-Hungary abdlcntcd, followed on the 13th by Frederick Augusta of Sax ony. cent years waa visible with the naked eye during an early morning fog Wed nesday, A. V. Goddard and Robert Millard, local astronomers, reported They estimated It covered an area approximately 135,000 miles lojig and Gti.000 miles wide on the solar sur face, and said It could be seen tlirouh colored glaj-sea when the sky was clear. While Rita is fairly consumed with jealousv T CHAhGED YOUR MIND L ABOUT MAKING A FLIGHT ME? CREED W LIFE s LOVAL 1 ?A00 LY MEM I WORK. FOR. - I KVJOVJ MERE TO SAVt THE WU66ET UWE FOR OLD TRA00 AW0 Hl LOVELY 6RAVJ0CAU6HTER., ItR., f OUUET JOROAM- if Z WfS AM ftOfBAU UNIFORM, IRlK IHCLUDIN6 NEW SHOES WITH HOOM O.EWS OF WHICH HE 15 VERV ? R0UO 1AVE5 SHOES OFF, MOI- PUIS TCRm6rr5 6ElTiN610 BE A NUISAWCE, AMD 60ES UP FOR HELMEf InG HEAW lo-l. S 'MATTER POF A WITH ff Lmt 3Se?Tll a(OopyTl;ht, 1937. by Th. Bell 8yndlct..lrc ) ' ( VJELl, I'M A 6000 SOLDIER. 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