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
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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
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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
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" HUNTING DOSS" W ftAIL UEKS,
HomenMintf.
fts f P6T as yoes on
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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
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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
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