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PAGE SIXTEEN fEPFOTtD MATL TRIBUNE, fET)FORT, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1037. the dark ships VACUUM By CLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHNHIX V HULBERT FOOTHCR For further proof addru tha other, 1nclolaf staxowa tat taplf. Re. TJ. B. Pit, OS. I miw i ii r m hi i asJViiOi.. nem, a young federal ayent, finds his beloved Janet, a pun and Preicott Fan nitio's reinly (hot body locked in a cabin on Fannlno's iacht at Absalom's Harbor, Md. 1idinp her nearby In a disused liner, Netlt Joins Mark flonnioer. local investigator. Weill learns Janet didnt shoot the flashy swindler, but has to find out who did to sa her. He suspects queer little Ey"er, who hated Fanning, and Ira Buckless, Fanning' i hulkina bodyguard who is arrested, but both have alibis. Weill also dis trusts Kettering, a lawyer down from Baltimore to fish. Weill is in . - s tight spot, himself suspected by Bon nig er. Chapter 36 Sparring With Buckless DURING the short walk to the entrance, Naill had to do some bard thinking He inevr that he wu atMnU to be matted. Matting ly had tha tar at the ioor. When he was arracad. what would Janet do? Ha must make a getaway. In the lobby they ran Into Bragar, the yacht broker, coming In from the atrael. "Here you are, he said. "I want down to the tilling tation after you and they said you had come here. There I something i warn to leu you mat i rorgot "What that)" .clraW R.,nir,a.. "Whnn nnnbioee Bnrt I ninJ down to Absalom's we stopped at the hotel in King's Green for a Deer, st was men m:io. "Much obliged," said Bonniger. Thjft Was A Von, email niiWB nt Information for the man to chase tnem arouna town with and Neill wondered what was behind it RmOPr UiantttA in ,hn1ra UnnH en parting from them. When he kur iieuia nana ne pressed a piece of paper in it, and Neill fialmed it. While Crager was shak ng hands with Bonniger, Neill coolly turned his back and read: Bucklest just sent me a phone message to tell you to talk to him before you did anything. Brager left them. Neill, having crumpled the paper in his hand, stood with bent head trying to dope out the note's significance. "Come on," said Bonniger, be ginning to show impatience. Neill maHn nn hi minrl in what there was in It. "Okay," he aaid, following Bonniger. The ride back to Absalom's was not a pleasant one. Bonniger's face was stony now. He seemed more sorry than sore, and that made Neill feel like hell. Bonniger rode with Mattingly and Neill had the back seat to himself. There was no talk on the way. When they got out in front of Longcope's store, Neill faced Bon niger frankly. "Mark," he said, "I ve got a favor to ask of you." "What's that?" "I want to talk to Buckless aione. we coma tee last night that ne wasn i telling tne wnolo truth, and I think maybe I can get some thing more out of him." This request surprised Bonniger. He thought it over, stroking his chin. "All right," he said at last "Mattingly will row you out." Bonniger spoke quietly to the eonstnblo and went into the store to receive the reports that had come in during his absence. The Threat To Janet tllS words in the ear of Matting i f.ly smoothed the way for Neill. The constable rowed him out to the yacht and he and his mate remained on deck while Neill descended the fo'c'sle hatch. Ira Buckless was silting on a sea man's chest in the half-dark and stifling forepeak. He looked up eagerly as Neill started down the ladder, and the light from the hatch fell full on his flat and bru talized face with its ugly grin. "So you come." he saitT .How did you get word to me?" when I heard you went to town I got my lawyer to telephone Brager. I didn't want you to do anything foolish until you seen me." "Well, what do you want?" Buckless scowled, "That cop Buy will be listening on deck. Sit here beside m, and keep your voice low." - Thla warn tha mnn k.J ,i - j . , . , "mil viiu null W1CQ Jo kill him two nights before, but 41C111 wasn i going to rcruse a dare from him. He had his gun In his pocket. He sat down beside him. Said Buckless with a hard grin: I only have to say one word and they could go get the girl. "Room 21 2 on the Lincoln.'" Neill said nothing. i"K had said ",at wort' lost flight she would be locked up now instead of me." "Why didn't you?" "I can still do It. But flrat-ofT I wanted to see you." "Well, I'm open for an offer." Buckless hesitated. Neill, with the object of putting nim at his ease, said as ono crook to another, "Look, how did you get on to me so quick, anyhow?" eay" ""'d Buckless. All dy Tue.iHay I was trailing yo around Baltimore by Fan nlrufi orders. When I seen you get OB tha hill tnr Ak, " 10 because I ditln;t know'then that m boss was at Absalom's. I wasm mi alter seven mat eve nting that he called up and told me i he was there. So then I gets a car I as quick as I could and drives down I to see what you was up to." "And late that night you visited the yacht and discovered that Fan ning was dead and the loot gone?" Buckless scowled at him. "I'll ! keep my trap shut about the girl if you go 50-30," he growled. ''Fiftv.fiftv whnl?,T VmA Mall) "Aahf" growled Buckless. "Don't try to play innocent with me. I mean Fanning's stuff." "It hasn't been in my hands." "You liel What did you kill him for if it wasn't for that?" "I didn't kill him." nnlrlace' Mnnac tln I 1. u.m uiJti lip tuiucu UI1LA like a dog's. "I'm damned well sick of sitting in this hole and I'm not going to waste words with youl You got my proposition. Take it or leave it. I've nnlv ant to pall tnai cop down here." NpiM hpaan tn turant nantln II he did satisfy Buckless that ne wa; betray Janet anyhow out of sheer Hisnnnnintmnnt Hi. AHI was to play a double game with tne Drute. "Well, I see it is no use trying to lie to you." he said grinning. "That's what a fell low SflvR uhn he's getting ready to lie some more! muttered Buckless. "It lliain't all lina (k., r ,-iJ r. ..., t on llio, Vila, 1 you. I didn't kill Fanning, so help me Godl I was ready to do it, but the inh Ua Hnna urban T nnl aboard the yacht." fcxpect me to believe that!" "Ynn pan taka it nr It " said Neill. "My cards are on the table now." He went on to give Buckless an exact and truthfulac- fniint nt tha flnilinn nt Cn.... !...- body. In spite of himself, Bucklest was convinced bv the wealth of de tail Neill related. 'You've Got No Choice' I RECKON Fanning was smoked 1 itmt n Pnimln nt minnta, hatnM T rnmn nhn'iprl " enl4 Mailt "IT! hrtHtr i,na iiracm f ..nlinn T .......J away the killer by my coming be cause he didn't out fh nnt 1 got it." What was It?" demanded Buck less. "In what form, I mean? What had Fanning turned it into?" nil, w, guuig ill 11:11 yuu Ulai Something easy to carry around.' "How milch i it"" 'Over a thousand G's." Tlh flnnV nhii-bJ D...1.I-.. v.i, vuli giunucu umiwcao. "What have you done with it?" "If I told you that, you could give me and the girl up, and gel away with the whole of it You and me have got to trust each other for thp nppwnt " "Trust!" said Buckless. "I'd trust you as far as I would a rattlesnakel You fooled me once already." "You've got no choice now," said Neill. "If you 'jetray me or the girl nobody in the world will eve: know where the stuff is hid." Buckless scowled, muttered, rubbed his bristly chin. "Well . . , what's your proposition?" NniW rnlovA-1 n littl. ,hJ ...tn.J his face. "We've got to And the murderer," he said. "When we pro duce the murderer we can all go ireo nr.n enjoy tne sttiir." "Well, who was it?" "Thnl1. ,,! I , I. ..... -....vo mm. 1 n D, MUZHIK yuu could tell me. You know all about FanninR's life, who had it In for 111111, uiiu an. Buckless shook his head dumbly. "The man vuhn HiH it ,c nnn. realed aboard the yacht." said Neill. "He came down from Baltimore." 'A Baltimore man?" 'Can vnn sitnnlv anv llaUimnH clues?" Buckless shook his head again. HP Rrnivlnrl nnrl rlrtitKlaJ Ul. Thinking was a hard business for nun. me uoss, ne Kept me out 01 this Baltimore deal," he muttered. "Hft milt hnvn hnrl a nortna- n partners in that deal." "If he did, he never let me meet them. He kpnt m nut nt RaliimnN until he wanted the yacht." vino nave mm me lean that took him to Baltimore? Think back. BtlcklpM Pnillrt ftnlw hat., kt. head. "He was already there when T flfat hninl nt ii n..Tt. I, ..u.u ,Vl i,Ui , nucw 11 was something big, something classy." iiuw uiu yuu nnow mat "Wpll. nnPA T Haor tUa kta. .1U ins OVpr thn n),nn whan t 1. his room. He never let nothing drop, but I coid tell he was talk ing to a high-tone guy." 'Can't you give me more than that to gn on a name, a telephone number?" "Nn Tha hn ...... mention anything like that over me uiiuiie. "This man tl.at ka ... . .n.i ., 110 woa lullMllK to may have been the killer." now ao you nguro that?" "I knnm that kV,r,nna ll....j over a million on this deal. There .- ........n vitvn ,11m l)a uivmea It with anybody. If he had a part- ni-i us may nave aouDie-crossed him." Buckless Innkerl at Mailt ...HV. . kind nf artmirntinn G., " k. said, "I wouldn't out It nat' him With tha Vanht hin.i . Kflnway out of the country, and tew,!,, it n, s, Neill nrlpa a iirin . . It lluralm' mtmory, Monday, OF -mphaslnxt that preliminary e. tipnee Is not altogetner conclu.ive and said turllier studlrt would Be undprtnkrn. Hoover Heads List Mills Pallb LANSINO. Mlrh. (UP) Rnntcn asalatanta atudytng fish predatora nsve exposed two "villain" gener ally believed to be harmiea. They are the garterenake. long rrnownpd ' aa a killer ot Injurious Inaocte, and the palntpd turtle, known aa a destroyer of moaqulto larvae. Students' observations Indicate that the gartersnake may be aa great a liability near a hatchery or a trout stream aa a wntersnake and that the painted turtle Is aa much an enemy of young Huh a the teathrrbark. Blandlnb'B. ann stinkpot turtles. Directors of the reeearcli project earers NEW YORK. Oct 15. (API for. mer President Herbert Hoover beadea the list of honorary pallbearers at the funeraj today of Ogden L. Mills, nia secretary of the treaaury. tiu-ludrd among the honorary pau beatera were Vice-President Oamer, Senator Carter Olaaa, Alt M. lnaon and six ineiop're ot the Hoover caou net. The were Charles rrancia Adams. WnHrr fl. Brown. Arthur w. Hyde. William D. Mitchell. Hay Ly man Wilbur, and Patrick N. Hurley The continental divide between Colorado and Canada formed the we, tern limits of the Louisiana purchase. '(?nL tV WOff iT- iAik..v PI6HT-HMOBD, 1 i' . nt 6AMS hrADVJW'V' L 10-1547 Arknnin. or ARinnsnw? Confusion regarding the proper pro nunciation of the namo of the south ern etata, Arkansas, became eo rife a half-ceutry ago that a spoelal In vestigation was launched by the state and a resolution adopted In March. 1881, to settle the Issue. The state's General Assembly iouna: -mat tne only true pronunc iation of the name of the state ts that received by the French from the na tive Indians, and committed to writ ings In tho French word representing the sound, and that It should be pronounced in three syllables, with the final "s" silent, tho "a" In each syllable with the Italian sound, and the accent on the first and last syllables." The "native Indiana" reforred to the resolution were the Arkaius In dians, for whom the "Territory of Arkansaw'' 'was officially named In an act of congress, March 1, 1819. Arkaneas came to be spelled "Arkan sas" In forming the plural of the word, the final "a" being erroneous ly retained In the singular. One-.rmciI Typist So amazingly well did Russel A Mofflt rehabilitate himself sfter los ing his right arm In the World war. where he served as a lieutenant of ar tillery, that today he Is also propor tionately as fast HoAsdeld, world's and unaided by extraneous mechan ical equipment, typed 68 8 words per minute in a recent Toronto contest. Mofftt's achievement ts more remark able for the fact that he originally was right-handed I The "Worm" That Turned Orrfat must have been the surprise ot tho first bird to single out a harm less Swallow-tall butterfly larva as a possible hors d'oeuvre. For this tiny caterpillar, with Its menacing, make believo eyos and swollen, headlike body segments Just "aft" of Its true I head, rears serpent-like In the ores- typtst as Clcorge I ence of enemies to out-bluff the bold- champlon, whose est robin. To add tnatilt. tha record la 130 words per minute, using, pillar protrudes a scent organ that of course, both hands. i curiously resembles the forked Mofflt, using solely his left hand tongues of a snake. VvjT 6E15 UP FROM HEAR1V EfiRNS A DlflE TJOlrJtS SPENDS PIME OK AS- FAU$ 1W WHH EDDIC LUNCHEON MV fOK AN ERRflNP FOR MRS. SOMMENfOT WEIRD WHO OWES Oirf -CO PLAY WlSSEL NftW DOOR AND FEARFUL CANDIES HIM A SODA "roHlSDEUfcHfriKPS EDDIE IS IK A POSITION" TO PAV HIS DEBT" uiiiLiarfS to-q IK WALK1N6 BACK Wrfi WITH THE OTHER B6Y5 EDDIE MEET'S BUD BE- PAVS A SUCCESSFUL MIS WHO AU6WS THEM CALl ON MRS. MERK A BE EACH FROM HIS WHO HAS BAKEP AFPLE COOKIE'S (Oopyrlgfrt, 1937, by Tha Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DRIFTS HOME AfLASf AND START'S INQUIRING HOW SOOS SUPPER WILL BE READV BE CAUSE" HE'6 HlWgRY 8 'MATTER POF By 0. M PAYNI BRUCE BARTON WOULD REPEAL LAW A WEEK NEW YORK. Oct. IS. (API Bruci, Barton, who wants to be known aa 'The Great RnuAler'1 mm trwtav it elected to congress be would "move w rcraj a law a week. i nn advertising executive. Repub lican nominee for congressman from the "silk stocking" nth district here, said en afternoon In a law li brary convinced him "no other na tion In the world la an rlririan in death by legislation." GRANTS PASS, Oct. IS. (AP) Splinters rnther tnan bruir.es are In store for the Grants Pass Cavemen and Yreka Miners when they meet on the local high school football field Friday night. The decomposed gran ite soil Is being covered with saw dust. Closing time tor' Too Lata to Clas sify Ads is 1 :30 p m TAILSPIN TOMMY Rita Makes a Slip of the Tongue 1 P?se mp? s Xy hJo J--Jl Nfopyngbt, 13T, by ThesM tyaillcat., B5 fS Jkftj Tommy tried to trap bently IriTO ADMITTIP10 THAT H6 KNEW SOMETHING ABOUT PARACHUTE JUMPIMG, BUT THE MAM GAVE TOMMY A QUICK SUSPICIOUS G LA MCE, AMD DECLARED THAT HE WOULDITT RISK HIS MECK WITH OME FOB ANY AMOUNT MEANWHILE, BETTY LOU 13 FLYING RITA , 2912 BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Marching Orders? By HAL FORREST A'J: : 'ry k Mll'AM I rr-i i , , ' WANT TOCj WHYrMISS a rich MAn HE'S A DANGEROUS '1 fe, QVSjM WARN YOU IfO, DUVAL MMI BECOMES W I MAN , MISS BARNESf V Lsw..M AGAINST mm rJl$i!f INTERESTED IT YOU KNOW WHAT J WHAT DO 1 ' """" ' . aai at mum i-n i I itrt , mir i:--rrLr--..'..s!:i-u:r-fetLJjk.Wg.a1 KansweMUUM By EDWIN ALOIS L16&EK1. SCAi I ITU t- CAiet? I vnn nt.n OUT o' HERt- T AWAY FROM HKRf r.Ai ihve i twum I ce w TCNOeKWlTH J! I I I II - I . . -a V l :.:!,-. f ""ENM V'M WLU 'MfIgOT Y L.ErJ. YU . ,TT, P CA.a , v.,t .aeTHJ 1 11 ' saaaaaal 1 1 if, TiWydtttaPatay I -Too Late ffSft NOW VJWAT DID SUE f uiuat Pmi-n A A jnF- VUZVMTFTt V liy DlDsl'T 1 TELL VOU " WNIT MERE ? SNEAKED 1M ) AT?GRUMTVEV H & NOT TO LET MER ,M ? aJTOTO THE NEBB3- By 80L HESS
