Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 30, 1938, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Texti PAGE FOUR MTCDFOTIT) MAIL TRIBUNE, M"EDF(VRD, OREGON. MONDAY. -MAY 30. 1938. Octagon Uou& BY PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot further proof address the author, Incloitnj a stamped e&rriop for reply. Ref . 17. & Pat Oft COURT OF APPEAL By GLUYAS WILLIAMS The Storj Bo Far Sleep! Quanomet on Caps Cod wake. up with a bang when all iti cfti zens are caricatured in the nev post office mural While (rupee! ing the cause ol the upfieatra. Asey Mayo, homespun detective meets engaoini Pamela tryt who Ilvei in the old Octagoi Howie. She tells him her brother in-Iata, Jack Lome, li the arils; but that her sister Marina is thi one rejponjlble for the mallciou trick. Asey hat never heard more hatred in a voice than when Pan speaks of Marina, Chapter Two Murder! ONCE in the headlines, Quano met stayed there. Those pierc ing optics, the Eyes of the Nation, focused themselves on the town. It became, ar a Boston newspaper fTudgingly admitted, a cynosure, n 24 hourt, the average blindfold ed residen. of Walla Walla or El Paso could have navigated Qua nomet's Main Street with greater ease than he could circle his own back yard. Aunt Nettie Hobbs, the Pickle Lime Lady, was Woman of the Week in three news magazines, banishing the bud;(et and wars way back among the dandruff curer. that's the worst," Pam said. "Asey. they'll be after me now. Huntinj me. It was my knife that killeo her, you know. Jack Lome recog nized it. He knows it's my knife There there isn't any way out ol iti" "Pam Frye," Asey spoke almost In his quarterdeck voice, "snap out of ltl You didn't kill her, did you?" "Of course notl Of course I didn't. But," she added, honestly, "I've often wanted to. I wanted to this afternoon." "There's a vast difference," Asey said, "between feelin' an urge to kill someone an' actually killin' 'em. If you didn't kill her, don't worry." "But I did want to, and It's my knife, and they think I did. They're hunting me now, probably. I heard them a thousand times while J waited in the last hour. Some body's sure to come to you and tell you and as your help, even though they aon t Know i n nere Pam's voice broke. "They'll arrest me and" Asey held a match for her cig arette. In another half minute, he said, "I'm coin' to begin to wonder if you didn t kill her Pam, I know you're all worked up, but you've got to quiet down an' tell me things. Until you do, we can't get "What're you doin' here, child? What's wrong?" The continued headlines, of course, were not due to the post office, or even the mural. But like the Octagon House and the Pickle Lime Lady, they continued to pro vide an important and bizarre background. They were what the ?ress meant when it referred to the ncredible Background of These Startling Incidents. The first incident which startled Asey Mayo happened in the bright moonlight at two o'clock that morning as he rowed back to his landing. His mind occupied almost en tirely with the new sailboat which he had Just returned to her moor ing, Asey didn't see the figure lurk ing in. the shadows on his wharf Until a hand reached out and rrabbed the prow of his sharpie. Shipping his oars, Asey jumped lightly onto the landing. "What the who Pamela Frye, lhat ain't you?" "Yes, Asey, I " "What're you doin' here this time of night look, child," Asey discovered that she was trembling from head to foot, "what's wrong? "Asey, you know today you laughed about my always hunting ambergris, and I told you that I (till did, and" "But God A'mighty, child, you lin't found some!" "Asey, I havel I did, this after noon, on Quanomet Point. A huge lump. It's 100 pounds, anyway." "What!" Asey did some rapid calculating. "That's more'n $50. 000 worth no wonder you're quiverin'l I know what you want. Sure, I'll help you lug it to Boston, an' get it to the right place, an' " "But that's not what I've been waiting for. Asey. It's about me ind Sister. She "Your sister Marina? Oho," Asey laid. "Did she find it with you?" "No, but she helped me take It home. And tonight I went over to get it, and Asey, she's been killed!" "What?" "Murdered. And they say I did It!" With My Knife' ASEY stared for a long moment at her face, chalk white in the monnlinht. "Sit down, Pam," he said gently. "Here, on this clam drcener, be fore you tremble yourself oT into the water. Now," he made fast the sharpie, "tell mc everything, just as short an' s..t as you can make it. Bejin back with the ambergris ambergrishonest, that amazes me morn'n the rest!" """"t it's the rest that matters any place at all. Begin with thi ambergris." 1 Bawled "I FOUND it around live this af 1 ternoon," she made a valiant effort to pull herself together. "On Quanomet Point. 1 thought at first it was a lump of tallow oh, Asey after all these years, I couldn't be lieve iti There it was, staring me in the face. A chance to get a way from that Godforsaken town, and that tumbledown rat trap of e house, to get Father away, to gr places ana no tnings art scnool everything. I just sat down and bawled." Asey lighted his pipe and wait ed for her tears to pass. Tq, a certain extent, he thought he understood how the girl must have felt. That afternoon he had driven past Octagon House, as massive and ark-like as it had been when he first saw ir years anc years before. The sides facing the road were bravely painted, thi lawns and the flower beds wen well kept. Even the stilT-nockcr iron stag by the elm tree secme to be doing his gallant best to ben up past tradition. But the rear of the house w; bare of paint, and the back non- sagged. The old octagonal bar was warped to a circle that ho ered uncertainly on rotted undo; pinnings. No electric wires, he w ticcd, ran to the house. That mcar kerosene lamps and a hand pum and all the drudgery that wei with old time housework. And , casual inquiry hnd brought fort the information that Pam Frye, a 23, lived there throughout the yea; supporting herself and her fathe; and somehow keeping the old place going. They were completely ig norea oy me Dewucning Manna. "I'm Dulled together now." Pum said. "Asey, after I finished bawl ing, mo problems Involved sud denly burst on me. There I wa three miles up the beach. The tici was coining in, lickety larrup. Tr ambergris was almost awash, couldn t carry It, or even lift it. didn't dare leave it, to go back f: a barrow, or a car. or anythin And I began to wonder what wou! happen if anyone came.". "Uh-huh." Asev said. "It am like $50,000 worth of stocks o bonds registered in your name. 1 you happened to meet someor. who felt like claimln' it, an' if the happened to be bigger than you nail squarely on the head." "You have." slie said, "hit th (Cetyrir. MS. rct rr.-- What happpnrd to the ambergris'. Continued Monday. 61 S SACRAMENTO, May 80. (AP Six million can of fruit and vegetable. Including a lnrge ahipment denrlned for the United 8tats navr. was almost totally defttroj-ftf lute Satur day afternoon when flame swept the mnln warehouse of the Bercut Rlchnrris parking plant, one of th? nation's largest. Company officials valued the ware house's stock at $1,500,000. Plr Chief M. S. Dumphy Mid he was doubtful If any of the tvk could be Mved, but that firemen had confined the flames from spread ing to the remainder of the plan. Tom Richard, general managnr oi the company, tentatively estimated the lata at f (3 00, 000. but Ml 4 It could not be determined exactly until ths heavy smoke cleared and an account lug made. Both the building and the atoc!t were "fully covered" by Insurance, he aatd. It was Richards' belief upon taneotu comoustlon caused the btaxe. TOUT COLLINS, Colo,, May 30. (AIM Exception to the action of the McClave, Co'.o., hUh ftcl-.oM In pub lishing In the commencement uwue of it piper the banner headline "WPA. Here We Come." waji taken by state Senator Jnm-i R. Miller of Fort Cellini, in a commencement ao p. mmmm t?. hardy, jr, i MuiM, rnesr, COLUMBIA UHlVSRSif A7t2ANPAT20 HPI O IL DMPftB "7- v I1 AT I U Ml HesSLI on Aklt, ". a rtMV.A B 11 Ml . t i WW !fto0 f$" COUNTRY CHIP OMRS. 9faU$ MVM- No dlHefl couKfrT iNTrie , V jSlSAlZy worm? riftspertrso much M fmfflw-Ap jf& Spain at War Into the home of Spain's Royalist Loader. Jose Calvo Botelo. one July day In 1936 marched a body of the Assault Guard of the Popular Front Government, at that time In power five months. Brutally murdered, Calvo's body was unceremonlou&ly dumped In the Ma drid Municipal cemetery. Jose Calvo Sotolo, It was rumored, was to have been set up as a new president of Spain by rebellious army leaders. Hit death opened the way for Spain's newest era of war. From hie post on the Canary lal ands, General Francisco Franco Ba hamodo deserted to Join the revolu tion, centered In Morocco. In one day the rebels had control of the region, dreas at the Waverly high chool. "The statement used In a com mencement publication la unfortu nate." Miller said. "It la unfortunate because It makes burlesque of the commencement season which, even In a materialistic age. should bo per mitted to retain at least a vestige of hope and Idealism, rt la unfair be oauso It makes the WPA the symbol planned an advance on Spain proper an advance that was destined to re solve Into a civil war of many months duration and to become entangled, with many International aspects. In this manner, Spain set out to fulfill her destiny fl7 years of war fare out of every 1001 This strange destiny was discovered reoently In an analysis of 903 years and 1.815 In ternational dlsturbancea In the past 3.S00 years, conducted by Professor Pltlrlm A. Sorokln of Harvard. Professor Soroxiii round that the war Index for the 20th century reach ed a total of eight times greater than all the preceding centuries. Spain led with wars occurring during 67 per cent of the years of her history. Lowest was Germany, with 28 per cent of her years of history Involved In wars. Rngland was rated at 66 per cent: Franoe 60 per cent; Italy, 36 per cent; Russia, 46 per oent; an cient Greece, 67 per cent and ancient Rome, 40 por cent. Man of Many Degrees In May of this year r. degree of Master of Sacred Theology was hand ed the Reverend Dr. Edward R. Har dy, Jr., 26-year-old assistant priest at St. Andrewa church, Astoria, Queens, New York. Dr. Hardy entered Columbia unlver alty at 12; at 14 he won a ,'hl Beta Kappa key; at 16 s Bachelor of Arts degree: at 16 a Master of Arts degree; at 18 a Bachelor of Theology degree, and at 20 a Doctor of Philosophy do greel The latest Is his fifth. Tomorrow: The know-lt-all" clock! of despair and defeat, when as a matter of fact, despite Its defects, It Is the only salvation of several mil lions of our people at this time." Lewis Lubers, editor of "The Mav erick" at McClave high school, turn ed out the graduation edition with this bright red headline: "McClave to Graduate 12 WPA, Here We Cornel" TAILSPIN TOMMY Bad News! TALENT CLUB TO HOLD ANNUAL GUEST PARTY' TALENT. May 30. (Spl) Talent Community club will hold Its an nual guest day party Wednesday, June 1 at 2 p. m. at the city hall. All ladles are Invited, esneclallv elderly ladles and strangers. srnmons herseif uwer sets hes-To wiudow h bedroom WIKPOW Where insf andshdutS juhio- mTrllRISlWh'SI'oREST WorWl.Ef HER HAVE A AW SHRIEKS "MOTHER!" fORU OM V&0C1PEPE fiEft A DECISION) AMD 66B 0fT,T)lRECflH6 . rTEVDAi TOWERS Jrf JUNIOR JUNIOR APPEM5S, 6f5 MOfriER to WINDOW m SHOWS DID SHE KEAUV v5AVS15fEX WAS 10 Hft IT Hi A FEW MlWlMIS Met HE IS BRCK SHOUY1N6 NOW SISTER WON'f Uf HIM HUVE A TURN AT AU. Wnfe -.'HE VERPICf WHICH SlSfER. IMMEPIWQV APrlS 6N CTOUNDS THftT HE HAD IT FOUlfoO RIDES AROUND BLOCK AKD SHE F6R OrJW ORE ' (Copyright, 1938, by The Ban gyndleate, Inc.) MOTHER RW.ES VD.&C1PHPE IS TO BE PUTAWAV. S0E5 BACK To REST UWTlL BOTH START SHODTlNS IFTriEV STOP SQUABBLING CANTHeY HhVE lTA6AlhJ? S-3o iDniifrMS S MATTEB POI BiO H. PAYNB ITS TSainiM ALWAYS .S ) Bfet joT8M, by The Bell Bvidlcite, Inc.) 'jl By HAL FORRES"1 TT7'- . .'J, 1 1 rr- .M W A sit dowma sr H'Tr' fd r , TOMMY . I'VE r '"ivJv'tS lr i 60r SOMETHING ) J J Jf fTl Vr , T I TOMMY, THREE- POINT HAS GOT OVES A HUNDRED AND P I FT Y THOUSAND DCtLAItS Chalked up against voub mercury plane! 1 W-W-WHE E I I . . THAT'S ) A LOT OF Cr. MONEY, n . 1 11 ni iu -. . II 1, FOR LIMITED TIME 0MLY1 SEND SELF-A00C.SEt ST-MPEB ENvELOt't TO HAL FORREST. TH PAPER, ,r0R SfcT MOUrL rTJVNS W IHt nOU3LA5 DS.T. rLANt YES. AND fr- THAT AMOUNT IS OH THE I RED SIDE OF OUR I n- ' "IAN THAT THQtt-WSMWS P 1 t1 f point is closer WVwRml II H I L, TO 8BINS BROKE lr4&WSK E I r. pH . THAU IT EVER HAS gfflWm& nlk?l Y you a l been ! Jmsewm&m' fjooKS, soni; 11 l mean. j . u fneiWJM: BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Warning Comirur? By EDWIN ALOF.ft WHILE BEN CARES FOR THE FLOCK ON THE FARM, RUSTy McGURK 15 IN THE VILLAGE OF WHIPPOORWILL HOLLOW TO DRUM UP TURKEY BUSINESS IN ADVANCE HIS jj FIRST STOP IS THE GENERAL STORE THE NEBB3 A Voice from the Grave fZ- 1 V' V I Y 1 k k jnii..iiw y3 if IF 1 CAN LAND J; uri WUWftKt TMtlv lUKKEYS ; GEE, THcRcS THE BETTER STOP AND S THE STORE SEEM LltE THEV WAS BOTTLE-; THANKS, YOUNS WARN OLD SAXTON EZrffrh- IT ' THAT MEANS A rrjf RAISED ANX HAND-FED! WELL.) MR. TRAMP WHO ABOUT HIM,WlLFRED-fe fH 1" J ' LOT O4 ORDER? 1 lLL SAMBLE ON FIFTY OF 'EM! J SAXTON! STRUCK ME WE EXPECT TO JjJ-r OH ACCOUNTtV r-A-ii F-0.??A SELi HIM PtEKTyS 'T5 F-COM A LAAEavr,"6R0Eovj'"50t DlDl WAVEKfr "1 ". C" f LET'S rVlOT SO INJTO Tr-lATgp7j IHHVURITES RePRE5eKmsJSJ7lTl weARD WIDE JS LS5L A we WAS A GREAT" KlO,luAS MV BROTKER. JWO IS TROVER 30 NOU STEVES. AMD OEPEWDABLE -J& amxious to eer If0ZJr vSlTte'll. j - pRojt cauu mini ? J I VOL) COOLO trust him with COHMUNJICATIOJ A MF UP i V NAME WAS STEPt-lEM AiS AUVTMIMCi, VOU WAlOTED Tv'. ' V By SOL HESS L1UI TMC1 LETTER ARRIVES TM AT TWE MESBS HAVE BEEM SO asjhiousl.v AswAitinjG. A.