Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 20, 1937, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT MEDFCRD MAIL TRTBTTNE, MTCDFORD, OREGON", WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1937 By GLUYAS WILLIAMS the dark ships THE FOOTSTOOL STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHJSTHIX Tot further proof address the author, Inclosing stamped envelop for reply. JUf. TT. 8. Pit Off. V HULBCRT FOOTHI Chapter 40 Back To The Ship TTELLO, Johnny," ild NelU. xl "This Li the guy who passed out In your cab Monday night, and whom you took to the Stafford. You came back the next morning to see how I was. Remember?" "Sure, I remember you." "Are you free, Johnny? Are you free for the whole night? I want to make a trip into the country." "Well, I could be," said Johnny hesitatingly. "Oh, 111 make It all right with you. I've got the jack." "Okay, then," said Johnny. "Good boy! Fill up your tank and meet me on some quiet corner off the center of town. You say where, and I'll drive there in an other cab." "Make it the corner of Lombard and Eutaw. That's quiet enough at this hour." "Okay." Johnny was waiting for him. He greeted Neill with a. grin that spread all the way across his wiz ened face. They shook hands heart ily. Neill felt a real liking for the little fellow. He was square. When the other cab had departed, John ny asked: "Well, where away, Cap'n?" '"I don't exactly know." Johnny's jaw dropped as If he thought his fare was slightly de mented. Neill laughed. "We must stop at If a man could only quiet down long enough to appreciate itl" "Do I leave you now?" "Wait until I make sure that there's a boat." Neill found a skiff tied to a line running out to a post, and pulled it in. There were no oars in her, but he was beginning to learn thc customs of the country now. Searching inside the gate of the wharf-tender's yard, he found the oars in the grass, and silently brought them down, "It's a darn shame to lift the man's skiff," said Neill. "But I'll make it up to him." He and Johnny shook hands. "You'll be hearing from me," said Neill. "Don't, start your engine until I get away from the shore. It might wake up somebody in the house." "Good luck," said Johnny. Neill rowed out on the dark river. After a minute or two he heard Johnny start his engine. The lights were switched on, and the taxi turned around and disap peared over the hill. Then silence except for the creaking and the dip of his own oars. When he got across the river he didn't know where he was. It was clear that if the spot was new to him it must be somewhere above the stretch that he had covered before, and he rowed down stream. Before he had gone far he came to a point of the shore that he recognized, and upon rounding cenTRftL toAWtcp. fvjTrte ttJfci& cRtflb uzhW-secftuse it cm run over,. ltffX0?6 (T LINK'S Ail ifie DOUGLAS SPRUCe, fUK80WNrV&TH 6PRUCBH0R A FIR. fReroy wein ictf-fite VJORUte UfirtTWe6rtTCrtrMPlON4rilP W b knock-out mil ie(SMlH6 OH 1MB Ropes- Benny Leonard, nr- W, ft rKIVfllis Dec. ffW-MkytTK U Ho-p-yf .eill rowed out on the dark river. a filling station and get a map of Maryland so we can pick out our route. I want you to take me down the west side of the Pocomico river. The road on the east side is watched by the state police. I'll have to pick out the spot on the map where I want you to drop me. It's about 80 miles. "Gee!" said Johnny cheerfully. "A mystery! Give us the dope, Cap'n. "I can't tell you the whole story now," said Neill. "But I will soon. I can give you one tip: the big guy who gave me knockout drops on Monday night was Prescott Fan ning." Johnny let out a whistle. "Well I be dogged! And was it you croaked the so-and-so?" "Not me. Somebody saved me the trouble." "Well, I wouldn't of blamed rou," said Johnny. "Let's go!" Neill'a last act before leaving town was to 'call up Mattingly. "Look, old fellow, there's no use fou waiting for me any longer, ve had a clue that's taking me to Washington." Neill could hear the honest con stable breathing hard into the re ceiver. "But . . . bt i . . my orders was to bring you Dack with me," he objected. "Sorry," said Neill. "You've got to come back with me." "I don't know what vou're going to do about It," said Neill cheer fully, because I'm on my way." He hung up laughing. Lifting A Skiff TWO hours later the taxlcab came out on the river at a point where a side road ended at a steamboat wharf. As near as Neill could judge, they were opposite the spot where the big ships were moored. The river was over a mile wide, and the opposite shore was lost in the misty darkness. Except for the shed on the wharf, there were no buildings nearby except a cottage standing on the top of a grassv Dank about 30 feet above. Probably the home of the wharf tender. No light showed in any window. The heavy scent of wild-grape flowers hung on the sir. There was no wind and a silence brooded over the countryside that made the city driver murmur: "Boy! It would scare vou down here when you turn off the en gine." "It's a great country," said Neill. it saw the dim bulk of the great ships moored close in. His heart began to beat, thinking of the coming meeting with Janet. What a lot had happened during the 24 hours since lie had left her! He rowed softly close to the towering steel bulk of the Abra ham Lincoln. By counting the portholes he was able to take up a position immediately below the windows of Janet's little veranda. He lay on his oars and softly whis tled the meadowlork's call with tins that trembled a little. He was so keen to take her in his arms! Closed Windows HE LOOKED up, watching for the weighted string to fall. Nothing came and he whistled again, a little louder. Still no an swer. He supposed that Janet had fallen asleep and he was divided between irritation and anxiety. How could she sleep when she knew he was coming? She had all day to sleep in. And what the devil was he to do if he couldn't waken her? After whistling again once or twice, he rowed a little way out from the hull in order to look up at the windows. Even by star-light he could pick out the four win dows of Janet's suite. They were larger than the windows on either side. Suddenly with a tightening of his breast he rcnlized that all four windows were closed. There was no mistaking it; in each win dow the glass was faintly reflect ing the star-shine. Naturally she couldn't hear his signal. Why on earth should she close the win dows when she was expecting him? Then he remembered that It was impossible for Janet to move the stiff windows. In the first moment the bottom seemed to drop out of everything. What had happened? Had some body been there? Had she been taken away? How could ha get aboard without the ladder? He set his teeth, and got himself under control. He rowed around the ships to the little platform at the foot of the boarding-ladder, and tied his skiff alongside the others. He didn't know if the extra guards were aboard tonight and he didn't much care. If Janet was gone, nothing mattered. There were no lights showing in Captain Bickers cabin. Neill And Jsnet bring rroM-iun Ined by the police, tomorrow. Private To Renrral Son of a peace-loving Quaker, Nathaniel Greene was brought up In anything but a martial Atmosphere. Yet, when the Impending break be tween the American colonies and England became Imlnent, he wns one of the first to prepare for war. Appointed to a committee for re vising the militia laws of the colony of Bhodo Island "as soon us may be," Greene enlisted In the Kentish . Guards as a private In December, ! 1774. The Kentish Guards was a newly organized military body, know ing next to nothing about military matters. To overcome this, Oreene went to Boston, then occupied by the British, end there managed to Induce nn English deserter to return to Rhode Island with him for the Crooner Worst As Expectant Father NEBRASKA CITY. Neb., Oct. 30. yp) Miss Nicola Monroe, supervisor In the obstetrics division at Kt. Mary's hospital, has her own Mesa about expectant fathers. Some of them pace up and down at the last moment, she said, others talk to themselves, some Just alt and stare, and, some faint. But the most trying of all, she stated, was the one who crooned. Mount Hood Popular. THE DALLES. Dot. 20. ( AP) The 58. Baa persons visiting the Mount Hood .national forest Isst year have given the area a No. 1 popularity In the northwest, Rrlc Gordon, district ranger at Dufur. reported today. Mount Hood Itself, nordon raid, ir the "mo! elimtvrt" of tha major peak In the United State. Seek Grants Pass Radio Permission WA8HINOTON, Oct. 30 (API Attorneys for the Pacific Radio cor poration of Grant Peas. Oro- sp pealed today to the communications commission for a permit to operate a radio station In the westem city. They asked that the corporation be assigned a wave length of 1320 kilo cycles and sllowed to operate with ftoo watts power daytime only. The commission took tbe petition under advisement. HIGH COURT UPHOLDS CONTEMPT CONVICTION 8A1.KM. Oct. 30. (API The itutt ftuprrm court upheld riifwcUy con tempt 'conviction of torn Portland men nhn rrfnt.v, o tratlt) in fin nerr.ot. with ( iir iitw1 mi in purpose of becoming drill master for the Guards. When the Revolution began few months later. Rhode Island hastily provided for the raising of n army of 1,600 men. In recognition of Pri vate Greene's help and ability shown In developing the Kentish Guards, he was given a commission as brlgAdier general In the army, dated May 8, 1776 five months after he had en listed as a private! He was less than 33 years old when elevated to the post. Throughout the war. General Greene was one of the most able and successful of American officers. Neither spruce Nor Fir Strange a it seems, the red fir, the yellow fir. the Douglas fir and the Douglas spruce ere all one and the same tret; yet the tree la neither a fir nor a spruce. Related to both the spruce and the fir. Its scientific name Is Pseudotsuga douglassl. Standing Knock-out Out but not down was the peculiar condition of Freddy Welsh while the referee counted away his lightweight title In New York City. May J8, 1917, In the ninth round of a fight against Benny Leonard. A terrific right from Leonard had knocked Welsh uncon scious but one of Welsh's arms, slung over the ropes, prevented him from falling until after he was counted out. Tomorrow: New York to Paris by I Auto! Rlvermen's association hiring hail at Fourteenth and Alberta street, Portland. The men, Arthur Ruat, Paul Jen nings, C. M. Abbott and Karl Tlgert were witnesses at a trial of Art Shearer, ono of 33 men who were indicted by the Multnomah grand Jury on November 38, 1934, lor rioting. 1 EX-CONVICT ADMITS MISTREATING CHILD COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 30. (AP) Donald White, 39-year old thrtce pnroled convict, pleaded guilty in police court today to a charge oi raping Betty Jane Rush, 10. Judge Fred J. Miller bound White I over to the grand Jury under S0, 000 bond. Maximum penalty on the charges under Ohio law Is life Im prisonment. The little schoolgirl was held cap tive In a vacant nuse for six hours the night of October 9. Police phy sicians said she had been assaulted repeatedly. VY0HDER& I51HERE AMV AMOSEMEM-f "fo BE HAD Wlfri rcurfS-foO). ACR044 -THE R06M CHAW1A OVER 'foil'. DOESH'-r KWOUl MUCH ABoUt K0tSfo6LS , EXCEPf IHAf APPAXEM1W Vol) $t( OH TriEM FINDS Vf HARDER THAN HE tH0l)6r Y0 HOISf HIMSELF OP ON If foOferfOOl SKIDS, lEtfiH6 WM JOWN HArWER-frlAN HE liXES H&S "fR6UBlE SEfflNS K UP Ri&M" A6AIH BUf f iNAllV SUCCEEDS Wrfo MCH 6RUrJ1'lrl6 6EY5 HIM SELF ACROSS If OrJ HIS StbMACH Which doesN'i'seem much rot) -TRIES 1b 6E-f OtT If, BUf WHEN- tJtn he moves torward or BACKWARD foOTSfOOL -flPS S01AE5 PROBLEM BV R01LIN6 0VT ATfER flRll HIMSELf OlW tSVlNft 10 6Ef ON FbOfSfOOL A&AIN, 60ES 1b SLEEP WITH T0C151ODL ON Mir' (Oortrrlgfti, 1937, by Tha Bell BymUiate, Ine. 8'MATTEB POP By 0 M PAYUT V r-s I . , ' J kPA 1 Tints -4im our- L"" (ioopytight,1937, by The Bell gyadlests, riie.)''lCi TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy Is Convinced of Bently's Guilt! By UAL FORREST ' I GET IT ! THIS ?TfI7.. 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