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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TEN arEPFORD MATL TRTBTTNT!!, MEDFOTtD, OTtEGQy, TUESDAY. MAY 31, 1938. SUBURBAN nflGHTS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, Incloilnf a stamped envelop tor reply. Re. 17. 8. Pat OS. BY PHOEBE' ATWOOD TAYLOR The Story So Far: Sleepy Quanimet on Cape Cod wakes up wi'h a b..ng when all ill citt- sent are caricatured in the new post ojlce mural. Asey Mayo, homesptn detective, learnj rom Pamela Frye who lives in the old Octagon House, that her ifeter Afartna if married to the artist and put him up to this malicious trick. Late that night at Asey is returning to his wharf, Pam comes with startlinp news. She hat found 150,000 worth 0 am bergris on the beach, Marina has been killed with Pam's knle, and Pam it wanted for the murder. Chapter Three Running The Gamut "WHEN I found the ambergris," ' ' Pam rushed on. "I did a lot of hard thinking. Funny that in all these years of hunting, I never once considered aftermath and transportation problems. Anyway, the lump wasn t staked, or above high water mark. The sand was soft there, and I couldn't see any footprints. But I'll admit the wind was whipping so that it practical ly had covered my own prints in the sand. On the other hand, any one who might have found it be fore me wouldn't have left it, any more than I intended to." I twisted smile. "Her modeling ant Jack's painting would keep Fathel and me in utter luxury. But Sistei and Jack have expensive tastes, i and they're usually more broke ; than we are. Sister caught on, all ' right. Don't think she's anyone'i fool. I knew there wasn't any use i haggling with her. I said, "All j right. Half if you take it back.' " I Her cigaretie butt described ar arc into the weter. "And Sister said," Pam contin ued, "that I could go to hell. She said she was the only one whe could get the stuff back, and with out her I'd have nothing, lr. short, she would have it all her self. And that was that." Asey grunted. He hadn't likec the sound of the bewitching Ma rina when he first heard about her Now he gave up being open minded ana let nimseir nate her, thorough ly and forcefully. "I hope," he said, "you knocked her teeth out!" "I picked up the stick I'd usee as a lever," Pam said, "and I don'l know where I got the strength, bul before she had time to understand I had that lump of ambergris dowr. in the surf." Asey s eves narrowed. With S50.- 000 and all that it meant staring her in the eye, this amazing chile preferred to throw it away rathei than let her sister get it Sister was out of that beach-wagon in a flash. "Right," Asey said. "Well, I got a stick from some dune drift and levered the lump up above the highest water mark of kelp and seaweed, and then I mt down and got my breath and wondered where to go from there." "Think of cuttin' it up?" "Oil, yes. I thought of that. I usually wear a sheath knife, like the one you've got on your belt. Awfully handy, from cleaning fish to digging weeds. But I'd forgot ten it. then of ail times. I evon remembered just where I'd left it on tne oack porch, too. And" "That's the knife that killed jnannar Asey interrupted. "Yes. Well, there I was, and there was the ambergris I've hunted all my life, and there was the tide, bounding in. I thought of swimming it back, but three miles is too much for me, and if anyone picked me up from a boat or any thing, they could claim salvage. And do you happen to know Rod ney Strutt?" "Young Rodney? No," Asev said. "I don't, but Dill Porter claims Rodney'll be the first of the idle ncn they rend limb from limb, come the revolution, and a good thing it'll he." Pam nodded approvingly. "That's Rodney. He's got a shooting camp beyond the point. I noticed fresh tire marks he keeps a beach wagon with big tires to taxi his bunch over and bock. After con sidering that angle, I decided I'd E radically rather shove the am ergris back into the water than ask Roddy or his pais to help. I've had my little run-in with Roddy, like the rest of the local gals." 'Like A Tawny Tiger" " A ND then Roddy's beach wagon bounded up in front of me, and in it was Sister, apparently oi: her way to Roddy's." "She plays around with him, does she, huh?" Pam shrugged. "Father and I de cided years aiio that we wore hap pier not knowing Marina's play mates. It's all very well to take up the white man's burden, but you have tn draw the line some where. Well, there was Sister, Asey, and she caught on about the ambergris. Her eyes gleamed like like a tawny tiger I never saw a tawny tiger, but that's the onlv way I know of describing her. And somehow I don't honestly think I ever hated her more than I did wmi mnmcni. "Would the ambergris mean so much to her? The money, I mean?" The moonlight caught Pam's 1 "Yes, I'd rather have lost it en tirely," Pam echoed his thoughts. "So would you. When Sister saw that lump hit the undertow, she was out of that beach wagon in a flash, yelling for me to get it. And that time, I did the laughing." 'Old Rats And Mice' "PJIDN'T she go for it?" Asey de U manded. "Sister," Pam said, "is terrified of water. She can't swim. And let me tell you, Asey, the primitive emotions that got aired on that beach I felt like something out nf one of those earthy novels, all heaving breasts and stark urges. We ran the gamut, Sister and I did. And the ambergris bobbed on the surf." Asey puffed at his pipe till the bowl burned his fingers. He mar veled at Pam Frye, and the im personal way she could describe such a scene, as though it had hap pened to two other people entire ly. It was, he decided, the Cape Cod half of her speaking. Her mother's family had been an in domitable tribe. "Go on," he said. "I knew the lump would flo.V back in with the tide," she said "But Sister didn't stop to flgun that out. After she got exhausted. I said I'd get it, if she'd promin to take it back for me for $5,00t) And she put that in writing, Asey on the back of a grocery bill. I've got it here. After that, I marcher into the surf and fished out tin ambergris. She helped me get il to the beach wagon, and we cov ered it with a tarpaulin, and start ed home. She was a rag, emotion ally, and I was a pulp, physically. The surf out there is something awfu.', and fighting the undertow almost caved me in." "Did vnu trust her?" Asey asked. "Trust Sister?" Pam lunched. "Don't be silly. Of course not. Half way home, she said we mustn't tell a soul. I agreed we mustn't. Then she said, let's take it strnieht tn Boston, now. And the air was full of the smell of old rats and mice. 1 said wo eouldn t, without mv tell ing Father. Otherwise, he'd" have the police combing the Cnpe foi mo when I didn't return to cot din. ncr. She said that mustn't happen, and I kept on agreeing. It was dawning on me, Asey, that she hadn't an idra in the world of let- ling me have my ambergris, after all. It was one of those things you could feel." (Cfrmtll. lilt, ,i,s,,J r. v.) What did Pam do with the ambei iris? Continued tomorrow. FOR AUTO FIRMS SOUTH BEND. Ind.. May 31. (VP) U. 8. District Attorney Jumps R FleminR Mid today t!:e gnvprnnwiit would hold thrr w-pnnte trlnla oi automobile eor partition. n:fillitr nd executives ncurfM of vl ."latin the Sherman anti-trust act. FVmlnR said tar., vi the muss trloti would cover one dcfendim group Kord Motor company, Chrys ler corporation, or General Motors corporation. The government will de cide within the next month which group Is to be tried first. About 100 witnrss firm "all part of the country" will iMt( at tac;, tij l. r.c-r. I ' ; .!:!. rn? trials will atari Id October unkas pretvnt pin nt are changed. Imllctnirnta against the defendant compinlea and executives were re- turtud Uie Friday by a federal grand Jury which 1 .d deliberated the evi dence since MondAy. Besides the three lrge manufacturing corpora tions. S3 subsidiaries and affiliated finance companies and M) executives were named. World Cruise Ends In Clutch Of Cops OREGON CITY. May 31. iX, Two Newburg boys, aed 13 and 14 years, started around the world In a row bont Saturday, spent the ntcht tn the Orvrnn city .'nil and were returned to their homea Sunday. The boys were seen on the Willam ette river near Canny by C. Tithe way. who notified the sheriff and plcxeti up the youn voy;R-urs. spelling, they snld. their pinna to reach Portland (hat n:!it. 1 hey figured on a )ear for the entire voyage. flffiL llfi I 1 11 CFI 1-nn.C fcSTRoNofAlcM. CWCK. PtfiHtTARlUtA AND UoURGLftSS bU.IN.0N6 frn INfcMMBDATM AUCTION WON 1H Rl6rTfo NBfAfi If 8V CoKTRlButlMfi k0 ToWftRP h , A -1793- 7r jm. - I j Ik Il few rkmRGLft$s ir mxr V It M r. ' 1 'l ' 1'f -i I -TP la 111 I ' - :. VilU.7,iM , J 1,1 . i mm " f xcnugni BrMsMta. IM, rBrHrT&ii crtytrrr wn torn engraver) j ON THE HShQ OF A PIN io KSHf ins 9v w:neKw 0?TrtTe)(pr5 VftR4iT 5 INCHES $ IN HEIGHT 5 Alphabets On Pin head A master engraver Is Qeorge Le Vind of the Black Starr and Prost- Gorhim company, New York City. For 48 years he has followed the craft. In order to "keep his hand in" and test his steadiness, Le Vlnd of ten tries to see how minutely he can carve letters and figures with precision. Once Le Vlnd actually engraved five completo alphabets on the head of an ordinary pin. Viewed under a magnifying glass they look like this: A B C D E P GHIJKLMNO PQRSTUVWX. YZ ABCDBFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABODBPQHIJKLM NOPQRSTTJVWXYZ ABCDEPGHIJKLM NOPQRSTTJVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJK LMNOPQRS'T U V W X Y 'Z Clock That Tells AU Built in the 16th century, the fa mous Strassburg clock has now been running without stopping for R6 years since 1852 despite the fict that It has several times been struck by lightning. This amazing, 36-feet-tall time piece, besides telling the hour, ac curately describes the positions of all visible stars, has figures which point to the day of the month, a procession of gods and goddesses showing the day of the week, figures which strike the quarter hours, and one which turns an hourglass! Surmounting all Is a figure of Christ, before whom at noon each day appears a procession of the Apostles, while a cock perched above crows three times. Many other ce lestial phenomena and special feast days are Indicated by this wonderful clock in the Strassburg cathedral. Auction Town Barro, Vt., originally was named Wildersburgh in 1793, but that same year a meeting was held and It was decidefi that the person who wou'd give the most toward building a town meeting house could rename It to suit himself. Ezekiel Dodge Wheeler was tt i. lucky man. The name he chose stl.l stands. It cost him $310. Tomorrow: The Cahtle In the Air. PANKEY CONFIRMED AS POSTMASTER FOR C. P. WASHINGTON, May 31. (P) Postmaster appointments confirmed Saturday by the senate Included the following in Oregon: Hampton T. Pankey, Central Point. Carl H. Massie, Grants Pass; Henry R. Crawford, Salem. lrnss Fire The fire department's chemical crew was called late Monday morning to put out a grass blaze at Summit avenue and Fourth street. The grass had been set on flro to clear the land but the blaze got out of con trol. Chief Roy Elliott reported. It was extinguished quickly by the chemical crew. No damage was done. Employers are obliged to shelter their workers from the elements, the Mexican supreme court has decided, after a laborer died from pneumonia and doctors said It resulted from his working In the rain. 5-31 The OIHEP NlSHf FRtD PERLEV-'- ff&!ULTN)f SET TO SLEZP BECAUSE ERMlEfJLUMER HAD LETtf' HlS PORCH LIGHT sO)rV5, MD IT SH)ME RliSWT 1H FRED.'S -SEPROOM WlWDOlA." NoT WISHIN6 10 WJjRB ERNIE HE SlSOED: OVER To UHSCREW THE BUW&, BO-f HEHfA HARD Tiiyi'E"pii.PJ.WNlW6 TrilNfiS it) THE PlvTROL CPifc Ttfryf HAPPENED ' smVAs (Copyright, 1938, by Tht BsUjSyn'dicste. Inc. UtLlftMS 3 MATTER POI B'v 0. M. PAYNK Srfl VN-D'Ams.Outlaws.SToRm, mm tf -tC 1 IffrSfgE) I I (Copyright, 1838, by The BeU Byndicalt, Inc) '. QnrlSl TAILSPIN TOMMY It's Up to the Mercury I By HAL FORKET f ,1 f ? H' l'jj!j?2RYll rO. 1 ' ITISriV EXACTLY THE MSOCURY! J ' WEVE BEEM n!jT..IF WE DON'T. j: i'M I L2LJ? v-L, i ilt ! YOU DOM'T THOEE-POINT HAS BEfN OPERATING jN f .-. 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