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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFCRD, ffREQQy, FRIDAY, JTjyE 3 '1938
DIFFICULT DECISIONS
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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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
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"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!"
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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.,
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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.
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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. It will be unhealthy
for dogs and expensive for owners If
the stations are not patronized.
Moliere, the great French drama
tist, was the son of a valet of Louis
XIII.
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