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PAGE FOURTEEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFCRD, ffREQQy, FRIDAY, JTjyE 3 '1938 DIFFICULT DECISIONS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot further proof address ti tnthor, inelotlas (tainped envelop tor reply. See- V. S- PiX OS. BY PHOEBE ATWOOO TAYLOR g"'S! K i Pu ton wh. on e c the the cn estl A J r an cot. The Story Ro Far: Quanomet is aroused uiheiTTt cilisens are cari catured in the pott offlcfmural The next night the artist's wife, unscrupulous Marina Lome, ie murdered with her sister's knie. Pamela Fne appeal to Atev Mavo, Cape Cod detectitie, tell ina him the found tS0,000 worth ol amberpris which Marina tried to claim, and hid it after die covering Marino dead in the garage. Became Ateu Indicates that someone near them, smok ing Turkish tobacco, i listening, Pam announce! a false hiding place for the ambergris. At toon ' cm the mysteriotu listener creeps fctfo the woods, police cars arrive. , Chapter Six Left Handed Killer ' "X70U can't get up the path, now 1 Pam, will you take a duck ta'T Till we ee what they're" "Aseyl" It was Hanson, the po lice lieutenant, who yelled. "Up to," Asey finished swiftly. "Get in the water, keep under the wharf, out of sight. Can you?" VT11 try it Take this," she passed derneath the whan, in waivi u,. to her armpits, Pam Frye writhed in silent laughter. Dr. Cummings chronic attacks of speechlessness had intrigued her through measles, mumps, whooping cough, appen dicitis, a broken arm, ana a large variety of assorted stomach aches, contusions and abrasions. "What you're drivin' at, Doc," Asey stemmed the apparently end less flow of words, "is that you don't think that Pam Frye killed her sister, an' Hanson thinks she did." "In a nutshell, yes. It's a physi cal impossibility, Asey. At least it's impossible for Pam. I'll sweat she couldn't have struck left handed blow with that force. She has a strong -ight arm, and she s very right (landed. And besides, it's a psychological impossibility. I know Pam Frye. I know sho couldn't kill anyone. And God knows," Cummings added wrath fully, "if anyone ever presented two people with adequate motives for murder, Marina presented 'em to Pam and Aaron Frye1 Asey, what I want you to do is cim." over to Quanomet and convir i. this crackbrained, dunderhrrr , u t flt which laughingly c:i 1 i v,i the police, that PanvFrve v; not kill Esa tsar vrSf mm mmm mm ' - "Gf Knififr wAar ok of sight. Quick!" ever a slip of paper that he knew was tne agreement Marina had written on tne ambergris snaring. "Quick" She slid over the wharf and Into the water as Hanson yelled again. "Aseyl Asey Mayo! For heaven's aRe, why can t he Aseyl "Hello!" Asey said, blinking as a flashlight hit him full in the face. "Tryin' to blind me, Hanson, or oust my ear arumsy" Asey, Hanson said, "we've got some new business for you. Dull as ditch water it's been since you've oeen gone, ana now you re DacK, things happen. It's a nice murder. Marina Lome, she's the wife of that artist that die the Quanomet mural, shea been stabbed out in her garage. One of old man Frye's daughters lives In the Octagon House, you know? Well, it's the other daughters Kniio, and they hated each other like poison, and Jack Lome says this other daugh ter's been jealous of him and his wife, and Nettie Hobbs was over at Octagon House tonight, and she lays this other daughter, Pam, was nervous as a witch, almost out of her mind. And "In other words," Asey Inter' rupted, "Pam Frye killed her sis ter Marine Lome." "Yeah. She beat It when Lome accused her. Its a cinch. Nettie aw her go to the garago around nine, someons else snw her come out. It's all plain as daylight" "Then why," Asey said, "tear ever here to tell me about it, Han on? Why" 'Crack-Brained Outfit' "BECAUSE," tho stocky figure of. - Dr. Cummings, Asey's own doctor, the district medical exam iner, loomed in the path, "because I made him, Asey, that's whyl Be cause 1 made him. Listen to me, I'll stake my life that Marina Lome was stabbed by a left hand ed person. Got that? Well. I know Pam Frye. She's right handed. And she busted her left arm last winter. And furthermore, 1 don't care if Nettie Hobbs snto Pam Frye kill her sister, I wouldn't be lieve it do you hear me?" "Most everyone." Asey said laid gently, "from here to Prov Incetown heard you, Doc." "Damn it," Cummings stamped onto the wharf, "damn It, 1 don't , care If I wake up the whole bloody town, I don't care if I wake up the whole bloody Cape! I'm mad I'm so mad I can't talk. I'm so mad that words dry up within mo. I'm speechless. I'm spcerhlcss with riolent and uncontrollable ragel" For ten minutes Dr. Cummmgs proceeded to enlarge on the extent of his speechlessness and the vio lence and fury of his anger. Un- her sister. My Heavens, I'm ex hausted." He sounded It, Asey thought Woman In A Fury "WHERE'S the girl?" he asked. "She's beat it," Hanson said. "She wouldn't beat it if she wasn't guilty, would she? Innocent people don't run away and hide. They" "Pfaughl" Cummings snorted. "Why you cops stick to these out worn cliches, 1 will never knowl If you were confronted with the murdered body of your sister, and her husband screaming that he'd told the police you'd killed her, 1 venture to say, my fine fellow, you'd runl I'd run myself. Any one would. Anyone with a grain of sense " "Listen," Hanson said, "she ran away, and that's enough for me. And she won't get far, because she doesn't know now to drive, and she hasn't any car. And she hasn't any money. Lome said she d try to get away in her boat so we've got that guarded, and we've gol her house guarded. We're stopping all cars up at the bridges, up Cape, so she can't bum a ride and get away. She's crazy about her la ther, and sooner or later she'll gel in touch with him he didn't know about it, he was away. We'll ge: her through him. Now. Asey. 1 want you to come over and talk with Lome, and this Hobbs wo- mn nnrl Bnn lha knrli, nnA Ann vince this pill peddler he's crazy A woman in a fury can do any. thing, even to stabbing with hei left hand why, wo had a woman in East Brlnslow, she " Icily, "murdered her husband with a razor blade held between hot teeth, being armless and legless. I've no doubt at all. Ripley's car toons are full of just such auaint coincidences. The fact remains, Pam r rye did not kill her sister, and Asey. I want you to come and prove it! Asey yawned elaborately, while Hanson and the doctor stared at him in surprise. It was not Asey Mnvn'i rnctnm in Drnnt caw, with such languor. As a matter of fact, Asey said 1 sot back here in town todav after four rough days up from Ja maica, an' I been out in my boat since early afternoon, an' to b downright honest with you, I'rr sleepy. An' furthermore " What! Cumnuncs raised hi? voice. "What? The fact that Pan Frye Is shortly goinc to be arrestee by that brainless thine th.r doesn't move you any? Asey you've got to come!" tCttrrtgkl. I9.t. rtv Jhiced Tsits) Tomorrow: The listener returns. AUDITIONS 10 START Auditions for thts summer's fourth annual Oregon Bhnkf&pcarean FVstt val will begin Monday evening at 8 o'clock in the Southern Oregon Nor mal ftchool auditorium In AAhlanri and will be continued throughout the wee'-. Prof. AnguA L. Bowmv, feMlvaj director, la Inviting all Interested In southern Oregon to try out for thi year'a aerloa of plays. The fefvthnl will be held from AURUAt 8 to 13 Inclusive, on the outdoor Kllibethun U In A&hland'a beautiful LIUita park. Four nlnys are nlnted for thla year nriMlucllon. "Twelfth Night" and "Turning of the Shrew" will be re pented from la.t yenr. with "Ham let" and "The Merchant of Venice" a the two new productlona. A doren talented young actors fnm all over tho United Statra are coming hero for the summer and will take part in the plnyi. but their prewnce will not Jeopardlr chances of local persona Intercepted In taxing part, Bowmer pointed out. PVirty took part In last year'a thtvo playa. which Included BO mien. Thin year's four playa will Include m'Te than 120 roles and a greatly enlarged cat will be needed. The festival this year promises to bo the finest in the history of the productions. Last year's record at tenrtnnce assured ample financial sup port and enabled the festival direc tors to expand their plana In every direction this vnon. Youiir actors nho are .-pcmllng the Mtimncr In the vnllcv mid run urnilt by the Shakespearean experience art I our of wains, leeo-qo., KIVCK ICCrWlCU l ia (li frAi I wn in rtw noose j CATS CROW ffclCoN .TlMKAV f?IU.fl. Phillies" fiiehet flNisrtepftifc-lNrWfl ! erWtsNlliloui n . foRPrVS . t . British aQricuttuHer, S3r ftRTUN WKlTlNfl on The Succefisful Failure Arthur Young, former British sec retary of the board of agriculture who made fortune writing nook on ' now to farm, himself waa un able to make a living tilling the solll ... Strange aa It seems, thla great au thority, whose "Annals of Agricul ture" for yeara have been the "farm bibles" of England. Russia and France, four times tried to make a go of farming and four times failed at It. Born In London,' 1741, young Toung at 33 went to Brad fie Id where his mother gave him 80 acres to farm. After three years, Young checked his budget and found he was operating at a tremendous loss. Later, he 'assumed management of a fine, 300-acre farm in Essex, where he launched several new experiments In farming. Needless to say. Young again lost money, end finally paid a farmer $500 to take the job off his hands. His successor made a for tune from the place. Finding himself in financial dif ficulty, Young wrote and sold a book on the subject he knew best but prospered In lenst animal husband ry. Cheered on by the thought that he might yet become a successful tiller of the soil, Young took the proceeds from his book's sale and bought another 100-acre farm In Hertfordshire. Aglan, he failed to make It pay. Young began to realize he could better tell other people how to farm than farm himself, so he traded the spade for the pen. Volume after volume poured forth: "Essay on Management of Hogs"; "The Farm er's Outde In Hiring And Stocking a Farm ; Ruml Economy"; "A Course In Experimental Agriculture"; "The Farmer's Calendar." From 1771 he wrote; his first year netted $5,835. The king prlased hie work; the Royal Society. elected htm a fellow. Rrom 1784 until 1815 he turned out "Annals of Agriculture." .a 46-volume masterpiece of advice on farming. From these writings he bought his greatest farm of all a 4,400-acre af fair In Yorkshire a 4,400-acre "White Elephant" which he soon disposed of as he had the others. But Arthur Young's triumph came when. In 1703, he was appointed sec retary of the board of agriculture set up by parliament! Invited to contact Mr. Bowmer at the normal school and try out for one or more of the parts. Ancient Veat Works WEAVER VILLE, Calif. (AP) Mrs. Dave Wlllburn's yeast Is 50 years old, but she still bakes satisfactory bread with It. she says. , MISSISSIPPI FIGHTS MAD DOG MALADIES JACKSON, Miss. (p) Mad dogs animals suffering from hydrophobia or rabies may soon become a thing of the past In Mississippi. To stamp them out, a new law provides for a station In each of the B3 counties for lnnoculatlon against the maladies. 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