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PAGE ElfllTV MEPFORD MATL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, .TTTNTE 5, 1938 BY PHOEB ATWOOO TAYLOR trim 5! ilic Story So ai; guuitui;(l u aroused mhen iu citizens are cari catured in the pott ofTlce mural. The next nioht the artist's wile, unscrupulous Marina Lorne, is murdered uiith her sister's kni)e. Pamela Frye appeals to Asey Mayo, Cape Cod detective, tell ing him she found 50,000 worth 0 omberorie which Marina tried to claim, and hid it after die covering Marina dead In the garage. Because Asey indicates that someone in the woods, smok ing Turkish tobacco, is listening, she announces a false hiding place for the ambergris. Pam hides under the wharf as police arrive. They are sure Pam is the murderer, but Doctor Cummings swears it was done by a left handed person. Chapter Seven Danger "AN' FURTHERMORE," Asey conslnued tranquilly, "I'm aort of sick an tired of doin Han son's work for him. He says this it clear as crystal, you say it ain't Can't you compromise on the girl's husband? Honest, 1 m sleepy, an this don't move me much one way or the other. Kind of a common . place murder, when you come right down to it Girl stabbed. That's all there is to it Girl stabbed. Now. If vou had auintuolets hung in a row or someone stood up against the mural an' mowed down with a ma chine gun, why that'd be dill'rent But girl stabbed!" The doctor gaped at him. "Well, really." he said. 'Really! ' If that's the way you feel come on, Hanson. Let's battle it out to a finish ouchl Owl Asey. why can't you fix your damned wharf? I nearly broke my neck on tnat loose board! Asey watched them stride up the path listened to the cars as they roared off in the direction of Quanomet Okay, Pam," he said. "Come on out. Are you frozen?" She swung herself up on the wharf. "No, the water's not so cold Asey, why'd you do that? Why didn't you go over?" "Because," Asey said, "I didn't want to leave you wanderin' around loose to catch pneumonia, or meet up with our fine feathered friend the listener, who ought to be comin back pretty soon to find out more about the ambergris. I think. Hustle up to the house. We got things to think about" Pam chuckled. "Now that the sheer terror is beginning to wear off," she said, "I'm almost enjoying myself. Cummings isn't he an old lamb? I nearly giggled out loud when he yelled at that loose board he really didn't trip, you know. He just yelled because he was sore at you, and he had to take it out some way." "He yelled," Asey said, "because I pinched him from the rear. He'll be back shortly, an' find out what's goin on. rne doc got consid rable more brains than most folks, in cludin' Hanson, suspect." Unknown Watcher UP IN his house, Asey un strapped a suitcase and rum maged through it. "Here," he said triumphantly. producing a pair of flannels, I knew these was in the clean lot They got shrunk so they're about your size, an' here's a shirt An' a sweater I was brinein' home to Betsey Porter, but your need's greatern ners. upstairs, tlrst left, there's a bathroom. Take a hot bath, please, an' a cold shower, an' I'll leave food in the bedroom next door. You stay up there while I do some organizing" There was cold roast beef In his refrigerator, potato salad and a custard pie all donations from his cousin Syl's wife. With the deft ness acquired from his earlier days at sea. when he was a cook. Asey dressed up a tray, brewed coffee, and concocted a hot toddy. He never thought to pull down the shades in his kitchen, nor did it occur to him to look outside the window, where a figure watched with interest as Asey left with the . heaped-up tray for Pam. Asey re turned, sat down at the kitchen ta ble and ate his own meal. At its conclusion, he toyed with the carv ing knife beside the platter of beef. Knives. He knew all about knives. He had learned about knives in a scries of installments over a long period of years, and from a strange and widely scat tered assortment of people. There was that Jamaican cook and his razor sharp cutlass, and the dagger of an Italian mate, and the stiletto of that Spaniard in Hong Kong The Spaniard and Asey had got to be friends, later; he'd taught Asey a lot about knives, and knives needed knowing. Practically any fool could pull a trigger, but a neat stabbing, such as this seemed to be that took a bit of skill. Asey balanced the carving knife. Somewhere around the house he had a jackknife with a six inch blade. For fun, he'd get it out. Probably he'd be no use with It. You had to keep in trim to play with knives. The watcher outside stared in tently, and fondled the gun in a nip pucKel. Actually neitnei Asey nor the girl had to be killed. Asey would be put out of business, and well, if there were trouble with the girl Slowly the gun was raised. Knock At The Door ASEY continued to finger the carving knife. It nod on the whole a nice balance. He flexed his wrist and then on sudden impulse hurled the knife at the bread board, hanging on the wall next to the window. Instinctively, the watcher ducked. "Huh," Asey said to himself with quiet pride, watching the knife quiver in the exact center of the 5 nil""' kS Jt 1 r m H ! A A. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, tneloilnt 4 it&mped antelope (or reply. Bee;. U. 8. Pat Off. 1 Vv I It vTf RollSP 330 IN M OttiCAL f'W jW jrMc!M -yt A KNOT'S yW Vy ir. : rr.1 1 " . :ij-t in ..', it in commons mnmoH foA i$b fj v'y laf I IT r to' urcnsmV n llvv lojcntv? PurOrsC I Ut'i Instinctively .the watcher ducked. soft pine board, Mit must be like' oicyclin : You don t iorRet. He wrenched tho knife from the board, and standing in the far cor ner of the room, hurled it twice more. Both. times it hit within a quarter of an inch of the center. The watcher returned the Run to his pocket. A few minutes later the knocker on Asey's front door sounded. The insistence of that continued rat-a-tat did more than jerk Asey back from his reminiscences and his knife throwing; it made him keenly aware of his stupidity in shilly-shallying when he should have been indulging in a good dose of constructive and thoughtful planning. "Fool! Asey murmured to him self. "Dum fool, you even left the shades upl" And anyone over two feet tall approaching that side door, frotr the back of the house, might wel! have been watching him for the last 20 minutes. Asev gritted his teeth and summed up nis own men tal caliber in a few terse nautical phrases. En route to the door, he detoured into a bedroom and rummaned in a traveling bag. Finally he brought lorin nis tavonte Colt, the old sin gle action Army forty-five, which he thrust into his belt. To think of it! To think that he could have sat there like a lump, fiddling with that knife! As if he hadn't a sincle care in the world. The trail of reproachful mur murines accompanied him as he slid through the dark hallway; he wouia nave greeted with merri ment, at that moment, any sugges tion that his knife fiddlina hud probably saved his skin. bnapping on the outside lieht he peered through the curtainec side class at the straneer wht stood on the millstone doorstep. (Cetyrttkt, J9fS. 4mV 4hrf4 Tyte Bowled "330' Better than perfect that Is the way his friends describe BUI Rogan. Minneapolis bowler. Strange aft It aeems, Rogan last year did what no man had ever done before on a bowling alley scored 330 In a league game bowled under official American Bowling Congress rules! The event took place oh January 36. 1037, when Rogan was bowttng with the Budwelsers against the Carnegie team In the Minneapolis City league. The match wound up with both teams tied at 1,129 pins each. Rogan had bowled 13 consecu tive strikes a perfect "300" gnme. Because the tenms were tied, A. B. C.s regulations specined that on extra frame be rolled, Its score to be added to the total. Strange as It seems, Rogan proceeded to score another three strikes In the roll-off. Thus, in one game of 11 frames, Rogan achieved the "Impossible" score of 330. The contest took place at. Minneapolis' Central bowling alleys. Origin of Coroner tn it original meaning, a coroner had no part In condutclng Inquests. The term originated In 12th cen tury England and designated an of ficer whose duty it wbb to record the pleas of the Crown in a county, and to guard the revenues arising therefrom. America's Oldest Hotel Ppubllcatlon In Strange As It Seems last March of the record of Bennington, Vermont's Walloomsao Inn, which has operated continu ously for 174 years, drew forth sev eral challenges by proprietors of other old establishments claiming longer records. Best claimant to date for the title of "America's Oldest Hotel" in point of continuous operation la Rhine beck. N. Y.'s Beekman Arms, found ed In 1700. This colonial Inn began as a one story stone house of two rooms with a .loft above. William Traphagen. the builder, slept on a pile of sheep skins before an open fireplace. Beekman Arms has been the scene of many historical events during the 283 years It has operated. Twenty four landlords have run the establishment. Monday: The Immortal fire I advisory board of historians of the Texas centennial commission of con trol, took Issue with the ceremonial leaders. He said he held a newspaper clipping describing another type of burial accorded the Alamo heroes. also under Seguln's directions. Ke-mp. however, waived his objec tion to the ceremony but declared he waa "positive the bone are not those of the Alamo heroes," snd refused to participate. When Kemp's commission planned to remove the bones of Boses Austin, father of Texas' founder, Stephen P. Austin, from Potosl, Mo.. Missouri authorities objected and the proposal we temporarily abandoned. President of 'a score of students' unions of universities and colleges of Britain have Issued a manifesto at tacking the government for "compla cency In the face of international barbarism." More than 400 species of fish have been observed In the Mediterranean sea. STOP AND ENTER' By GLUYAS WILLIAMS SftRlS ACROSS mUERSECflOrl , Wfifr OV IH6 TurKE WAS A SlO? SI6N "THERE. JfiMS ON friE BRftKES B PREflV WEU. M IHTO CR0SSIH&. DOEStW KKOW WHEIrtER 10 mH UP OR SO AHEAP. 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J i3L s Oj W r CLAM TO WAVE Tomorrow: The stran(er Is Ml handed and smokes Turkish tobacco Texas Is Perturbed By Dispute Over Bones Of Alamo Heroes SAN ANTONIO. Ttxu (UP) TVjns Is wrapped In Interment problems Involving Its heroes. Civil, military, church nd state leaders are Involved In ft controversy that arose over a ceremony at the old Cathedral San Fernando here. It all began several months ai;o when workmen renovating the cathe dral altar floor unearthed a small pile ol bone and fragment. Recalling an account written by Capt. Juan Seguln. who commanded ft company under Gen. 8am Huston at the Texas-liberating battle of San Jacinto, officials of the cathedral assumed they had ample proof that the bones found beneath the eitai were those of Col. w.lUam B. Travis ftnd t&e 180 heroes wUo died lta him In the massacre of the Alamo. Tot Seguin had written how, re turning from the Texss revolutionary battles three months after the bloody Alamo Incident, he found the i-harred bonea of the victims In ptlea where Oen. Banta Anna of Mexico had ordered all the boolw burned. Srguin wrote that he gathered up the bone and relnterred them beneath the altar of San PVrnando. Upon that authority, the officials of the church recently at.ged ft for mal ceremony of reburlal. tn which army and state euthor'.tles partici pated and paid tributes tj Travis. David Crockett, Col. James Bowie and many ctherj who met death from the Mrlr.inv :-ad end stcvl. U VY. Kemp, cu.Uiuiau of the BEN WEBSTER'S CARRER What a Sockl BETTER 61T READY FER A JOLT, SON.' LEMME SEE NOW IF I KIN FIND THAT FULL PAGE AD. 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