Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 14, 1937, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextPXGE ETGTTT rEDFOTtD MAIL TOrBTTNE, MEDFOTtD, OTTEGOy. THTJRSDXY, OCTOBER II, 1937. THE WORLD AT ITS WORST By GLOYAS WILLIAMS'. the dark ships STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address the author, inclosing a stamped ejnrelopa tor reply. Reg. XT. 8. Pat Off. BY HULBCRT FOOTHCR SYNOPSIS: Netll, a younff federal au'nl, finds his beloved Janet, a nun and Preicott Fan nine's freshly ihot body locked in a cabin on Fanning' vcht at Absalom's Harbor, MA Weill hides her nearbv in a disused liner, then joins Mark Bonnfner, local Investigator. Aleill learns Janet didn't shoot the flashy swindler, but has to find out who did to save her. He suspects Queer little Eyster, who hated Fanning. 7ra fiuckless, Fannina's hulking bodyguard, is arrested, Weill also distrusts Kettering, a lawyer doum from Baltimore to fish. Buckless easts suspicion on Neil! who knows ke Is in a tight spot. Chapter 35 The Eyster Saga ONCE again Neill and Bonniger met at the breakfast table be fore ))- of the other guests of the hotel came down stairs. Neither had had more than a couple of .hours' sleep. Bonniger' manner was still outwardly friendly, but the warmth that Neill had had a glimpse of was gone. He said: "I see that you have the same Idea as me. It's the early bird that gets the ham and eggs." "That's right," said Neill. "When the mob charges, staff-work in the kitchen breaks down." Bonniger went on: "Our first Job is to check this tough guy Buckless' alibi." Neill was surprised. "Our" first JobI Evidently Bomiger expected to catch him up by making believe that nothing was changed. Neill became wary. "Suppose you and I make a quick trip to Baltimore for that purpose? Bonniger went on. "If we start as soon as we finish eat ing, we can get back here almost before we are missed." "Sure," said Neill. He thought: He doesn't mean to let me out of bis sight. They set out in one of the police ears before the village was up and doing. Constable Mattingly drove them. Mattingly, a fine physical specimen like all his mates, was pretty sheepish as a result of his escapade up the road the night be fore, and anxious to make good. He drove like a streak. From the corner of the back seat, Bonniger conversed in his grave fashion. Avoiding all reference to the case in hand, he was trying to draw Neill out as to his past life. He was like a keen-eyed surgeon, scalpel in hand, and Neill In or der to protect himself let his head nod as if he found it impossible to keep awake. Bonniger finally let him alone and Neill, with his eyes closed, mulled over his own prob lems All depended on whether Buckless' alibi would stand up. The address furnished by Buck less led them to the modest oillce of J. Harvey Braaer, a vouna man who combined the occupations of yacht broker, snipping agent and dealer in marine supplies. "Sure, I sold Ira Buckless the yacht Nadji," he said, "and that's where my responsibility begins and ends. I never met Fanning' He went on to describe the trip to Absalom's on Tuesday night, corroborating Buckless in every particular. '1 am a methodical Kind of fellow and I made note of the time. We filled up at the gaso line station on Hanover street at 8:25 and I left Buckless In Absa lom's at 10:20. I was back home In Baltimore at 12:15." They left him. So Buckless' alibi was watertight Neill was badly let down, and perhaps Bonniger also. As Buckless was cleared, his manner towards Neill hardened. "That eliminates Buckless, We know that the movies were out at 10:15, and that the crew immedi ately returned aboard the yacht Fanning was shot before Buckless arrived on the scene." It was scarcely necessary to go to tne lining station, but they did, and the story was conlirmcd. The Detective's Report THEY sat in the car to discuss the next move. Bonniger said: "To me there is something queer in the story this fellow Eyster told. But since you and he h:.ve both testified that you spent Tuesday evening together, I reckon there is no use trying to pin anything on him." Neill guessed from the dryness of his tone that Bonniger was only trying to draw him. lie said noth ing. He felt now that Eyster must be their man, but could not say so. "Anyhow, let's check up Eyster's story, said Bonniger. This suited Neill. He didn't care if he was proved a liar so long as they obtained positive evidence against Eyster. They went to headquarters to enlist the assistance of the police In searching for a taxicab that had made a trip to Absalom's on the previous Tuesday. While they were there, addi tional information was forthcom ing. It transpired that when Eyster's name was first brought into the case a headquarters de tective named Penly had been as signed to look up his antecedents. The trail had led him to Canan daicua. a town In New York slate. EXTORTION ATTEMPT WINDS UP IN ASYLUM NEW YORK. Oct. 14 .-(f) Wilbur Rothtr, 48, forirwtr ftmn and Bronx tenement Janitor, who vk Indicted for t tempting to extort M,0O0 from Oeorge ratmcr rmnnm, the publish er, under the nretcnw tht he knew where Amelia Enrhnrt Putnam could be found alive, wm committed to Mnttewan state hoxpltftl for the criminal tnAnne today. Rothnx wrote Putnam a letter in which he Mid he hnd been a mem ber of a uhlp which found Mlu Ear hart, wife of Putnam, on an unin habited Pacific .aland ehortly after he and her navigator were loat last July while making a round-the-world flight. WINDOW citAHA - Wt aell windo glaaa and will replace rout nmket window wtaonably IYuwunaa Cab UMt Work. from which ha had .Just now re turned. The commissioner had him in to tell Bonniger what he had gathered. It was all in the day's work to Penty. He told his story without a trace of feeling. "Eyster up to a couple of years ago was a manufacturer of straw hats in New York state and dding welL He had a hard life when young and couldn't marry till ha was above 45. "He marries a girl that worked for him in the factory. A sweet, pretty, gentle kind of girL She was poor and he gives her the nice things she never had before. For a couple of years they was as hap py as a pair of clams at high wa ter, though she was 25 yean younger than him. Built an ele gant little home and all. "Then she gets to running around with a slick, showy kind of guy, the usual thing. It was go ing on some time before Eyster gets on to it When the show-down comes, she runs off with the slick guy, leaving Eyster fiat He went through hell And that wasn't the worst of it because a year later she comes back to her husband sick and ready to die. This slick fellow, it seems, was an out-and-out swine. Treated the girl some thing awful. The folks didn't know his name. "He takes his wife back and gets doctors and nurses and all. But she dies anyhow and Eyster they says wasn't never no good after that He sells his business and just bums around. They said when the money was spent they reckoned he would fust jump off a wharf somewhere! But his sole aim and desire wai to get square with that slick guy before he died." The hard-boiled grin with which this story was told somehow gave it a sharper edge for Neill. Taken with what he knew already, it wai certainly true, and his feelings to wards Eyster underwent a change He and Bonniger exchanged a look and each knew what the other wai thinking. The poor little devil! Who could blame him for shooting the man who had wronged him so? Both Eliminated? A3 BONNIGER and Neill pro ceeded to the Lord Baltimore hotel, Bonniger said: "Had you neara any or tnis7 "No details, but I had guessed there was something of this sort in his life." "But if It was Eyster, whers does the girl come In?" Nevertheless at that momenl they both felt that they were about to solve their case, and they were almost friends again. In the hotel all this good feeling was shattered. In answer to Bon niger's question, the clerk said: "Mr. Eyster checked out at nins o'clock Tuesday morning." Neill stared at him incredulous ly. "Are you sure?" he demanded. "Absolutely. I said goodby to him when he left." "Was he tight?" asked Bonniger, "Oh, no. Sober as a judge." Bonniger had left word at po lice headquarters that he could be found at the Lord Baltimore and he was now called to the phone, Neill waited outside the booth in a state of blank discouragement If Buckless and Eyster were both eliminated, where was he to look for Fanning's killer? Bonniger said on coming out! "The police have found the taxi driver who took Eyster down to Absalom's on Tuesday morning." "So that lets Eyster out," said Neill dully. "Not altogether. The taxi-driv-er said he was sober.. Why should he lie unless he was implicated?" "The man who shot Fanning was carried down on the yacht." "That's an interesting theory. But, after all, the crumbs of bread and tobacco are not conclu sive. I'm convinced that Eyster had something to do with it." That didn't help Neill any. Ha knew now that Eyster was inno cent of the killing. While they were talking, a bell boy came by. It was the boy that Neill had talked to on his first visit to the Lord Baltimore. The boy recognized him and grinned. ''H'are yeh, mister? Well, that big guy Fanning that you was ask ing me about he got his, didn't lie? The crazy little guy that was talk ing to you, he beat It next day. it would be a great note, wouldn't it, if it was him got Fanning?" Neill stared hard at the boy. "You've got me wrong, kid. I nev er heard of Fanning until he was killed." "My mistake," bt said with a grin, and started on. But Bonniger had overheard, and Neill without looking at him, knew how he was hardening. "One moment," Bonniger said to the boy. "Give me your name, please. I may want to call you later. My name's Bonniger." The boy, scared now. gave hit name. "I don't know nothing." "All right Beat it." He lost no time in obeying. "Come on," said Bonniger to Neill without looking around. Ctyriitl, 19!!, r Hw!Sr fMr) Tomorrow, Burklru threaten te reveal Jn i' hideout. INCREASE IN ARMY SOUGHT FOR FRANCE PARIS, Oct. 14 T) An Increase of nearly 30 percent In the French army budget for 1938 waa aAkrd to day by Minister of National Defense Edouard Dnlrutler. The minister, In a tentative com bination of the ordinary and extra ordinary budget submitted to parll went for etudy. anked 13.900,000.000 I franca (about M2A.7OO.0OO) tor next year, aa compared with 10.POO.Ooo.rvoo trnnca (about a3M.7O0.OO0) for 1P37. Nearly 10,000 men would be added to the land foroea, wnieh nlready number more than 050.000 In France and her colon lea. Oeorgla produce one-half of the country'a turpentine. The National Civil Service Reform iNgue wr formed in Newport, R. 1. In August, 188U lN$PeCT0R4 v r fisssy -yi m it a I w mrnm" j i,f Flower of the Desert "Full many a flower la born to blush unseen, And waste it sweetness on the desert air." Thomas Gray In this manner paid an allegorical tribute to the wild flowers of the American desert. One of the strangest of our desert flowers la that of a cactus, commonly called the night-blooming cereus. Sensitive to darkness, It opona rapidly when the light of day falls often In only one and a half minutest So permeat ing la the delicious odor of this flow er that It can be detected as much as a half mllo away. Many of the cereus blossoms reach well over a foot In diameter. PART OF CHILD'S FOOT IS FOUND IN MAIL BOX SEATTLE. Oct. 14. iffi Sheriff's offlcera today investigated the dis covery of part of a child's right foot in a residence mailbox. Mrs. Jele Hitchcock found the foot. Dr. J. L. Worcester of the TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy IftEhTLY WAS ALU I 17 WHAT RIGHtN it'S ALL RIGHT. MISTER "f I fS thM. iT V AND SHP IA Tll. 'krr -zi I -t- e. . - . - - III 1 f . ' - u e-- r5 v ltai f M IV KtT iu r-Mt ill HAVE YOU f I BENTLY ! YOU CAN . SHE t (' WIZARD AT 1 V I T AtSitnetW CTO. . Z.l FLY WITH METOMORROWlJ 3.5S? IS.' J PARACHUTE I SZ10 Dll rtT TLJAT I 111 r-1 1W k!X.Jyg m -'l .lYl -t J 1 " Htflc JU )B 4 "W( If 1 I liM T : 11 T. , I I . BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Easy Victory at Me, wa .. THE NEBBS-A Friend in Need HELLO, AROLEV. f X I " NOU MA.DE: TWE "V" NES, 1 SAID "X I MV NAME'S PUMT- ) WE WEAtta ) W REMARK THAT I WEXiT ThAT BUT (T ) VEK-CROOkl DELUXE OUT NOO. M.. STRAIGHT AMD BODY WAS MO La tt 7ASJmMM ft!to& 3 Soks OtMdbj -- I a: I lau - fadjourt.TeL. r is7 ifuni rr im r sn wnw .w in n i r 'lYikl ATM? " WM(V C 14. One KH0CK6 0OVJH TWO PINS OH t,DJ0lW6 AlieV MTH ON& SHOT. MkKK P, 6ftll Scavengers Next time a customs official bur rows through your luggage In search of a bottle of contraband perfume, caU. him a "scavenger." That's Just what he used to be! In the Middle English period, customs Inspectors Included among their multitudinous duties the care of public streets and were officially known as scavengers, for obvious reasons. Bowling Wizard Andy Varlpapa Is unofficially con sidered by the American Bowling Congress to be this country'a out standing trick -shot bowler. Easy for Andy but nonetheless spectacular In his "boomerang" shot. This alley art ists flips a 16-pound ball with such a tremendous amount of reverse spin anatomy department of the Univer sity of Washington said It came from a child, probably 10 or 16 years old. Sheriff W. B. Severyna ordered a check of missing ohlldren and of all recent foot amputations In Seattle hospitals. Phone 643 we ll haul away yout refuse City Sanitary Service Tries to Trap Bently! - - s PLIKJT IS RESPECTED ME AMD NOU REFLECTIOSj OM ( -y i VJtKfc. TKVINIto "TO UOTHE NOUi BUT OUST S . 5AME AMD EVERY BODY AS A. MATTER. J jX, Ni,VAS A&AIMST VOUAQF COMRXRlSOKj o QOttCONDS.,, rtKrufc ins nit ivwr. vQUftKC ptll-G . that It will roll 20 or 30 feet, atop. and roll right back to him I Then Andy can place the ball at the foul line, kick It Into a wide curve to strike either the number 7 or 10 spare. Or, for diversion, he will set two pins up In one alley and one in the adjoining alley. With a single shot, he gets all three by striking the two pins in No. 1 alley so that one hops over Into No. 3 alley to strike the third pint Vartpapa's coup Is hla famous "tun nol shot " He llnea up 1 pins In two rows Just wide enough to permit the ball to roll between them. Then he gracefully flips the ball down the "tunnel' with Just enough "English" to clip off the last pin In the left hand row) OREGON REGISTRATION HITS ALL-TIME HIGH EUGENE. Oct. 14. (jf) A new 1I tlme enrollment record at the Uni versity of Oregon was reached today when registration figures revealed that 3.103 students were enrolled The figures exceed the previous rec ord of 3.0BS by .wen. "V- J PASSJrtG A WORLD BROADCAST DURIMS A CRITICAL NIMH 1NNIN6 WHEH UR PASSENGERS WOH'T WtH LET V00 SLOW POWM , BECAUSE! 6u)Wj friV ARE AKX10DS tb 6Ef HOM iDlU-lW-S (Copyright. 1937, ty The Ben tyvBaU, Toe.) 10-t 8 MATTER POI Upl? 7(7; froYooAalW AMD SHE IS WIZARD AT PARACHUTE JUMPIMS. SCFAT OCOKI I LVtK IT, MB. BEMTLY? V IF NOU WAMTTO GO STRAIGHT, COUMT ONJ ME, AROLEV NOU 5TAV ' ' MARRY MISS GRUMTLEY- WOOW NOD LOVE WER. BECAUSE NOU TOLO HER , 30 AKJD NO ONE fool FW3M GtTTIWQ By 0. U PAYNE (Copyright, 1937, by The Bn Syndicate. Inc.) Sg I By HAL FORREST A MOT ME! . . I WOULD n T RISK MY MECK ON ONE TrfT OF THEM FOR ANY AMOUMTl By EDWTN AtOBs By SOT, HESS SEE, T WATS PlME " VfOUR IMTFCFT ili rr DUI MAV&E. MISS GRUMTLEN VJOUT HAVE ME MOUJ AFTER THE BOOSTING MEBS .GAVE ME