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PAGE TWELVE MEDFOUD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, SITNDXT, OCTOBER 17, 1937 v r PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT By GLUYAS WILLIAMS the dark ships r; STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot farther proof tditreu On author, tnejotfcj a stamped sraretope tor reply. Bat C 8. Pat Oft BY HULBERT FOOTMBR , ..... - J3 ' it Q Q SYNOPSIS: Weill, a vounfl federal agent, finds his beloved Janet, a pun and Pretcott Fan" nine's freshly shot body tacked in a cabin on Fanning' yacht at Absalom'! Harbor, Md. Hiding her nearby in a disused liner, Weill joint Marie Bonnlger, local Investigator. Weill learns Janet didn't shoot the flashy swindler, but has to find out who did to save her. Queer little Eyster, who hated Fanning, Ira Backless, Fan nino's hulking bodyguard, and Kettering, a lawyer down from Baltimore to fish, all have alibis. Weill, suspected himself, is in a tight spot. He turns to Buckless seeking a clue to the murderer. Chapter 3T The Googly Clue VTOW think," said NeiU. "Oo ' i over everything in your mind that happened in Baltimore. Sure ty you can give me a clue." For several seconds Buckless kept shaking his head. Then he stopped in the middle of a shake. "Only a voice," he said. "If I heard (t again I might recognize it. But low can yea run down a voice?" "Well, what did the voice say? And under what circumstances?" "It was the same time I told tou about when I hear the boss liking over the phone. The boss was in the bathroom when the "Maybe this is just a cop's nhone rlnes and I answers' it. For a second the fellow thinks he is talking to the boss, then he pulls up and asks for Fanning. So I fetches tne boss." "What did the voice say during that one second that he thought you were t arming t "He says: 'I ran into Googly In his beer joint accidentally on gur pose.' " "Is that allf '"That's all "Sure you have It' right?" "Positive." Buckless repeated It "Did you figure anything from this voice?" "Only that it was an educated guy. He didn't talk like me." "What did Fanning say to him?" 'The boss just yessed him. This guy was making a report of some Kind to the boss. . . . Wait a min ute! I hear the boss say one thing that struck me. He says to this guy: 'Oh, that don't matter. She never tells him anything.' " Neill studied this over silently. "What do you make of it?" "Not much. Did you ever hear Vjoogiy mentioned again7 ' "No." Neill rose. "Well, I'll follow it up." he said. "It is all I can do." Buckless was scowling blackly at NeiU. "God damn! If you do nab the killer how do I know you will act square by me?" "Nobody but you knows that I ve got the stuff," said Neill. "If you were to split on me I would lo? it. l am in your hands." "Maybe you ain't got it. Mnvbe this is just a cop's trick to learn jumruung mil 01 me. "You will have to trust me." "Trust hell!" "Well, you can be damn sure that if you give the girl nway you'll never see a dollar of it." "Lookit," growled Buckless. "You are free to go and rome as you please. I ll give you 24 hours. If you dnn't show me that stuff by then I blow the works. See?" Neill grinned hardily. In the desperate position ho was in, 24 hours seemed a lot. "Okay." 'Sounds Fnntasilo' T TPON landing from the yacht, NeiU went direct to Bonniger. "Did you gt anything?" asked Bonniger. His face was stern. Suppressing the first part of his talk with Buckless, Neill described the clue he had obtained. Bonniccr considered it. Neill OF GYNECOLOGIST AVERS DALLAS, TVxtw, Oct. 16, iUP Norms 1 motherhood for thousand! of women previously denied children 1b ponMblo through Intravenous injer tion of a ii hormone obtained from the blood of how. Dr. M. Edward DivU, 3 8 year" old sciential of Chi cago, announced Writ lant niRht t the minus I meeting of the Central Association of Obstetrician and OyrnvolcwiM. DavU It awoolato prolsor if ob tetrlca and gyuecoUy tU Ut thought: Probably he doesn't be lieve a word I say. "'Ran into Googly In his beer joint accidentally on purpose,'" Bonnlger repeated dryly. "Sounds fantastic to me." "We have often to build up a case on just such scraps of over heard conversation," said NeiU. 'There is Fanning's saying to put with it: 'She never tells him any thing.' 'She' obviously refers to Miss Rayner. I could go to her for further information." Bonniger was silent. "If you approve, I'll go back to town and see what I can do." "Certainly is good of you to take all this trouble!" NeiU made believe not to notice the dryness of his tone. "Oh, that's all right. Will you come, too?" "You can go," he said at last, "but I've got to stay here." Neill thought:' He is willing to appear to let me off on my own in the hope that I may lead him to something. "Meanwhile I'll be questioning Eyster," Bonniger said, looking at him hard. . Neill knew that was hopeless. "Mattingly will drive you," Bonniger weiit on. "Get something to eat before you start." NeiU thought: He wants time to arrange to have me trailed In town. Well, that's all right. "And by the way," added Bon niger, "telephone me from the trick," growled Buckless. Lord Baltimore as soon as you ar rive, so that I can let you know if anything turns up while you're on the road." "Sure," said Neill. He thought: His sleuths will be planted in the Lord Baltimore. Does he think I can't see through all this? As soon as ho had eaten some thing, Neill made another break neck dash to town with Constable Mattingly at the wheel. Another Avenue Closed IN THE streets of Baltimore they heard boys calling an extra in the Fanning case. Neill bought a paper and learned that Miss Emma Hayner had fallen dead from heart disease in her apartment as a re sult of having been told by her attorney tnai certain securities which she had showed him were worthless. It was nunored that she purchased these from Fanning. Neill felt profoundly sorry for the unfortunate victim, and also a little sorry for himself. Every way he turned he appeared to be blocked. Mattingly had been keeping s sharp eye on him, but when they arrived at the Lord Baltimore he was willing to let him go. Neill sent Mattingly to a garage to wait until called for, and duly called up Bonniger and told him of the death of Miss Rayner. "Too bad." said lionnlger. "Have you any other lead to follow?" "Not yet. Give me two hours." "Good lurk." Very dry tone. Neill sat down in the lobby ol the hotel with a cigarette, to dope out a course of action. Word by word he went over his cryp'ic clue. '1 ran into Googly in his beer joint accidentally on purpose.' Fanning was so extremely cautious in talk ing over the telephone that "Goog ly" was probably a code word, and it would therefore be useless to look for somebody who was called Googly hy all. The name had no douht boon suggested by some physical peculiarity. If Googly ran a beer Joint, beer joint would have been taken for granted. The plain inference was that the beer joint was one frequented by Googly. It was also clear from "accidentally on pur nose" that Googly was not a mem ber of the gang. A kind of cat's paw perhaps. Neill lortlM Uoojlr'i bow joint tomorrow. Vfrlty of Chlrano and ft member of the stuff of the Chicago lying In hos pital. Many women cannot bear children because ovulation, the process by which the esg is formed and released from the ovary, never occurs, bo ex nlnined tonteht. The sterility has been ovVrvome In a great majority of esses tested over a year, he said, by Injection of a sub. stance taken from the blood of preg nant mares. Ship Out of Vncer HONOLULU. T. H.. Oct. 18 fAP) Apparently out of immedisto tan ner, the steamer Phyllis foto early today reported she was wallowing io ward Honolulu at a speed of three knots. 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Nelson'a wtne-planned strategy anni hilated the French fleet off Cape Trafalgar, Spain, on October 31st. but Nelson himself waa killed in the action by a French sniper's bullet. The ship's surgeon aboard Nelson's BOB FOWLER ASSISTS ON COLLEGE MAGAZINE OREOON STATE COLLEGE, Cor- vallls, Oct. 16. (Spl.) Bob Fowler from Medford, Junior in agricul ture at Oregon State collese. has been named an assistant editor or the Agricultural Journal by Imrte Conn, editor of the magazine. The TA1XSPIN TOMMY Rita Covers Up! VHILE BETTY-LOU WAS i-LYine RITA OVER THE DUDE RANCH, THE LATTER WARNED THE GIRL PILOT hOT TO BECOME too fond of gently, adding, "he's 'a dangerous mam x5u know what happened to his wife?".. betty, on the alert, replied, "what do you mean?' but rita realizes that she has said TOO MUCH. BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER THE NEBBS It Looks Bad OT IKTTO HER. SACeTV DEPOSIT BOX IW POTTS AESEJOCE AT THE BAWK AMD HE IS ALMOST SURE SUE TOOK 60NJDS TO uoakj TO AROLEV ip-m flagship, "Victory," waa "forced by necessity to embalm Nelson'a body in a large cask filled with brandyl In this manner he was returned home, the brandy being changed at inter vals. The strange device was success ful, and Nelson was laid to rest In St. Paul's Cathedral in a lead casket, placed in a larger coffin of wood from the captured French flagship L'Orlent, aa a final tribute. Uncle Sam's Present On 'January 1, Just one hundred years ago, the United States was laced with a very unusual problem. It had too much money on hand I No red ink had crossed the treasury's books since 183fi, and money had magazine is published once a month by OSC students In agriculture in order to promote agricultural Inter ests. The November Issue wilt deal primarily with the foreign field ol agriculture. Train Kills Aged Man. BAKER. Oct. 16. AP Relmer Vol It man of Huntington, who for merly encased In farming near Al Jason 'a Support E A riT-BUT3 BECAUSE SHE vIV l'riOT UEALOUS SS!! THAT I THINK lWHY?iS I WAS UEALOUS fA, V f OF . YOU Kllll ' MRS. BENTLY 2CrV OF. . OF. . HIS )(fl I WAS SHE,'.. lj 1 1 D:J rods, emmV came im i ousr sor a phokje. i. J VWMILE I WAS OUT EAT1M3 CALL FROM POTTS - FMMA i : T AMD FELm LET HER IW THE J GOT IKJTO THE VAULT WHILE I ' " y n I VAULT InJO VM SURE SHE TO LUKICM AMD HE t ' V TOok OUT SOME 1 SAVS HE'S SURE SHE TOOK V1 f I V 80WDS 1 1 SOME EOSJDS ANJD 1 KMOW. , i tr-" t sHE-ae(-meM to been rolling in bountifully o much money, In fact, that the nation's big wigs were all agog. Finally congress came to the rescue. On January 1. 1837, congress made history by passing an act giv ing away all the money In the U. S. treasury except a paltry five mil lions I Some $26,000,000 wos apportioned to the states according to their repre sentation in congress. The money waa officially "deposited," but every body understood it to be a gift and not a cent was ever repaid. The fed eral treasury, however, still carries the sum on its books as "unavailable funds." bany, Ore., was lnstnntly killed Thursday afternoon in the Hunting ton railroad yards when struck by a westbound train. Volkman had evidently walked to tho yards to watch the trains and then decided to cross the tracks. The man, who waa 87 years old, was hard of hear ing. , 4 Use Mall Tribune want ads. 91 .-f I. V, rviEM LIKE. t4i & y r-i N Ves&rR. I ML (Oopyritht, 1937, by The Bell SdUittnT) I M WARNING MISS TO LET . ALONE ! there i wow - OU UP A BT AMN1HIMO y CAK1 TWATS BAD BUT V WE 60IMG TO HER EOMDS - SHE Them what she I NOU THISJK WE'RE SOIKJG A LOMG V WAV OUT OP" OUR WAV TO DOESKTT WAKJT I CT PROTECTED AKJOtVT 1 lJHWES US POR XT?) gg' -T j Wf All vje. Cam 3o xJ IS WAIT AN &S.E. AplOl V MAW NOTICES-" By HAL F0REE8T NS YOU, lRMES' 1 Less 1 H I M 1 B AC I. 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