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DFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, TirEPFWlD, OREGON. TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1938 PAOE ElrrrTT Bv GLUYAS WILLIAMS II I 1 STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proot address the uthor, Inclosing- stamped enrelope for reply. Reg. TJ. .8. PL Off. CHEESE BY PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR CITRTTDKAN HFTnHTS The ilui au - Juununntl around when its citizen art cari catured in th pom offict mural. TJi neil niphl lh ariut'i wile, unscrupulous Manna Lome, iJ murdered ou a let handed blow from ner tljier'i (cnle. Ae Mayo. Cape Cod delectlue, con ceals hunted Pamela Fry in hie house. He hat learner then facte: Pam found $50,000 worth of am oeroru which Marina tried to claim, and hid it after discover ino Marina dead in the on race, omeone who smokes Turkish tobacco wai eavesdropping on Pam'e sloru to learn the where about! of the amherorts. Then agreeable Tim C'arr calls on Atey. He is 30. a boarder at the Frye't Octagon House, emokej Turkish tobacco, it left handed and telle Asey he hated Marina,. Chapter Nine News Of Octagon House A R I N A never mentioned Cape Cod," Tim went on, "Never. I thought she came from the Middle West. She called her self Marina Fern. Not Frye, or Lome. Fern, like the plant. She was modeling at an art school I went to ..t nicht. Jaci. L,orne was in one of the classes, by the way, but I didn't know that then. Or that they happened to be married. Those were Doints she didn't bring up. Well, I fell for Marina, and not even Gran's japing snapped me out of it. In fact, I didn't emerge till the day I found $400 of mine, and all of Gran's jewelry, missing from our spartment That emerged me." "Why?" Asey wanted to know. "Most anyone might steal " "Yes, most anyone might, except that Marina was the only person who knew about that money of mine. Id sold some drawings a major miracle. I never sold any De fore or afterwards. And I'd told Marina about it, and how I'd hid den it, and how I was going t take Gran on a bust of a trip. Gran man t know anything about It. "What d you dor "For three days I detected," Timothy said. ''Marina had disap peared, no one at her boarding house knew where she'd movea The third day, I found a key shop where the man had made a dupli cate of our key for her. and the time he made it checked with Marina's going and coming to our filace one day. She'd apparently aken Gran's key from the hall table, gone, had the key made, came back and left Gran's in its place. Carlton that's Gran's to bacco beau he found most of the jewelry in a downtown pawn shop, and gallantly redeemed It We never could have. At art school, ihortly after, someone displayed a post card from England. 'X marks our room, wish you were here, Marina and Jack.' And I discovered they'd been married a couple of years. That week "ack was award ed a prize for some splendid work happened to be copies from some stuff of mine, with a lot of polish ing and embellishments. StuIT I was saving up for a scholarship competition. Marina, someone said, had helped him a lot. I thought so. too." "1 get," Asey said, "the Idea. An' you didn't do anythin' about her?" "There wasn't anything to be done, then." "Did you keep track of the Lornes? Asey asked. "Yes, through friends of theirs I knew. When they returned to New York, I took Gran and Carlton and ruid Marina a call. She was wear ing Gran's diamond rings. It was splendid interview. I held her, and l firnn rpmnverl the rinss. Then Cartlon said gently we'd like the S400, and the money pam tor. re- deeming the jewelry. She was frightened to death, and wept and waueu aim &UIU nicy wcin penni less, and Carlton said, very well the police could take a hand. She had $200 cash, and so we took that and then snatched a few pictures off the walls and called it a day after much rhetoric from Gran and me as to what physical damage she would suffer if she crossed our paths again. We discovered later that the original stones had been removed from the rings, but by that time the Lornes had flitted again. That, in brief, is why we don t like Marina "An' when did you discover she was here? "Tonight, when we came back from the moviea, all God's children roamed the rrounds and vicinity of Octagon House and a woman named Hobbs was having hysterics and saying lhe d Just come oacK for her pocketbook, but she knew all the time, she knew, she knewl And nolice raced around, and final ly we got someone to tell us the trouble. They said Marina Lome had been killed, she lived in the CaDe Cnd cottage at the corner, be vond. Gran asked who did it, and thev said her sister. Pam Frye. That was the first we knew of Pam and Marinif being related Gran And Emma HORN blew outside. "Who's that?" Asey asked "Oh. it's Gran," Timothy said "She thought she'd better not come In, she has Emma with her. Emma Goldman. Her cat. It s a red Per sian." he added in exnlanation. "Do you mean that your grand- DESTROYED BY FIRE TACOMA. June 7.-(AP)-Two TVomo factories were burned and a tldellnti bridge da ma Red Sunday night in a general alarm firn that taxed trie city's flre-ilghtlng forces and md damage estimated nt more than 1200, 000. The flume levelrd the Taroma Saah and Door Company plant, tmread tc the Pioneer Sand and Gravel com pany and licked at the approaches of the newly constructed 15th street bridge over main line railroad truck Ashe, sparks and burning mater:ai were acattrrd over a large area id the aouth end of the city, acme of it falling three mllri Lftay. - - - Ue Mall Tribune Want Ads. .tuthdi na ucen siuiiiA out there all this time, holding a cat?" Asey sounded incredulous. "Oh, Emma's trained to a leash," Timothy said. "There goes the horn : Tll .1...W aKUlll II uaau uu, Asey started to follow him, but remembering Pam Frye, he first ran upstairs to the bedroom. There was a note stuck on the door. "Dear Asey, I am taking a nap, I am ex hausted. but call me when you need me for anything. Pam." Asey hesitated, and then thought, as he carefully locked the door and . pocketed the key, the Lord knew she needed a nap. Outdoors he round iimomy standing beside a small coup parKea in mc uiivcwbj. "My grandmother. Mrs. Carr," he said. "With E"ima." The white haired woman inside was too absurdly youn looking to be anyone's grandmother. Asey said so, to Mrs. Carr's delight. 'There, Tim, she said, "mars the sort of gallantry 1 miss in your contemporaries. I I watch Emma, she's getting out." The largest Persian cat Asey had ever seen jumped will, dignity from the seat down to the grass. "She's still ruffled." Mrs. Can said. "Just the sight of brass but tons annoys her, and there were so many over there. Has Timmy told you how we yearned to kill Ma rina, and that we're botti left hand ed? And what's to be done about Pam Frye of course she didn't kill Marina, she's much too nice a child But everyone seems to think so That Aunt Nettie person do you know that Nettie?1' Asey found it hard to maintain his prejudices against Tim Carr and his grandmother. Perhaps, he decided, they were just naturally expansive and chatty. Perhaps they lust couldn't help It On the other hand, under the circum stances, their very matter of fact attitude was in itself suspicious. "Aunt Nettie Hobbs," Asey said "has been a pain in folkses'-necki as long as I can remember. An' it's Kind ot hard to sum ner up ioo. 'Combing The House' MRS. CARR announced tartly that she personally could sum up Aunt Nettie in several words, and that nothing but modesfy pre vented her from doing so. ' She takes 'jelly and custards to the sick," Mrs. Carr said. "And after she departs, the sick prompt'y die. Yes, I know the Aunt Nettio type. But the stinker dear me. Timmy, you do add such foul words to my vocabulary! But tne sunner was identifying the knife that killed nna as fam l rye s LQh nh Was nhe?" Asev caught himself just in time to keefl from adding that Pam had ad mitted that the knife was hers. "Yes. I knew it was. I recognized it. But listen here. Pam was away. this afternoon when we all de cided to go to this clambake, and we left a note for her, and I per sonally stuck It on the back door with that knite it was just silling there, that knife, on the railing, i o- night I noticed that the note was still on the door, but it was held up hv a Din. A common Din. And " "And obvious! y," Timothy chimed in, "Pam Frye wouldn't remove the knife and then pin the note back againl That's just silly. What we think Is, someone passinfi by grabbed the knife, and the same person used the knife to kill Ma rina with, knowing that it would implicate Pam. uoesn t mat seem likely?" Asey aomittea tnai aid. "And that Ncttiel" Mrs. Carr said indignantly. "There she stood. when we left, telling noroes oi po lice and all those reporters thai Pam must have had the knife on her belt this evening, because she had on the bcltl That woman is a menace, she should be forcibly re strained! And so should the police. Did Tim tell you they're simply combing Octagon House?" "Combing what for?" Asey de manded, thinking instantly of the ambergris. That was hidden there, somewhere. "This Nettie saw Pam run out of the garage, and she saw Jack Lome stumble " "What was Nettie dnin" back there or," he amended hastily, hadn't she gone, or what?" "She'd come back fdr her pock etbook, she said. She is," Mrs. Carr said, "one of those women who al ways strews things so she can have a legitimate excuse to return and stand outside the door and find out what's being said about her after ehe went. Anyway, Nettie started for home, but returned in time to see Pam dashing off, and Nettie wasn't sure that Pam hadn't dashed into Octagon House." "I ain't sure but what Nettle shouldn't be forcibly restrained. Go on." "Well, 'that floor plsn--it's sim ply fascinating the police. AU those odd closets, all alike, and everything They were banging the wall far hideaways, or secret panels, or something. Timmy had to go down and stop them from moving the coal in the cellar." Asey drew a deep breath. Pam hadn't told him exactly where she had put the ambergris, but he felt sure it must be in the cellar. lC-t"l'. Wt. riff Alr. Ttylf) Tomorrow: ram disappears. Traffic Safety ' flay rrize Uwen SALEM. June 7. (AP Dean Jack- aon of Lane county was awarded See retary of State Snell'a first prtw to day In a traffic safety play writing contest for Oregon 4-H club members Helen Marguerite Michael, alw member of the Lane county club, took second place. The winning play will be broadcast Wednesday at 12:15 p. m over station KOAC. Corvsllis. Mrs, J as. Roosevelt Subs For First Lady WAPH1NOTON. June 7.-( AP)-Mr. James i:oosevelt. daunhter-ln-law r: President and Mr?. Roosevelt, iun. at 1 tuted for the first lady today the annual White Hoae ;.inten psry .tJ - lorn LVfllUi International Soldier Charles Lee got bis first commis sion as a major at the age, of 30 when. In 1761, ho was appointed major of the. 103rd Foot Regiment In the British army. He Is said to have received a com mission when 11 years old, but bis name first appears in military records on April D, 1746, when he was ap pointed an ensign In his father's regiment. 1 Lee served In the British army In America under command of Oage. He was at Fort Duquesne during the disastrous Braddock campaign, and commanded a regiment (44th Grene dlers). He was wounded at Tlconder oga and was present at the capture of Niagara. After winning his appointment , as president alone would be on hand to greet the veterans. Mrs. Roosevelt was at the beds! do of her secretary, Mrs. Malvtna Schled- 1U In a Poughkeepsle, N. Y hos pital. The first lady's absence was the fercd bad weather caused four post ponements. TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy m3 I ASSURE "lOU. VOUNS MAN . I AM QUITE SEROUS . BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER THE NEBBS pSr.... AN , doNvT CARE WHAT fwHEw! SHE MAKES THE ) I W'whY, THERE'S BEN AND Szf C OP IN, RUSTY! IVM On) YOU SA YOUNG MAN, I DON'T! TWENTIETH STRAIGHT J" ? BRIAR! WONDER r-r-W Jffi&lY JL WA" TO DR. klLEY,S.v BS WANT NO TURKEYS! NOW, 4 ) TURNDOWN .' U WHAT'S UP? J WjWMfr OLD JASON'S TAKEN A Qf SU1N His Brother UMUE.5IKAOL.C -- r ci n In 4 ; 1 V ROON P twt gives vou elevew I Ja relative t-TY' 'i S!suy --jg J "TV jf - OfloMf- & fait ftbU INIb one nun nwm r? v HcK MP major, Lee served in the same capac ity on the staff of the Portuguese army, being present at the, brilliant affair at Villa Velha In 1763. In 1764. Lee was appointed a major general Id the Polish army, having become Interested in establishing military colonlea along the Wabash and Illinois rivers In the United States. Two years later he accom panied the Polish legation to Con stantinople, where he was appointed an honorary general In the Turkish army. In 1769. strange as H seems, Lee went to Warsaw from America, and there fought against the Turks 1 Lee became Interested In America's bid for Independence, and In 1773 re turned to the new world. He re signed his British commission In 1775 and was appointed major-general In OAK GROVE UNIT TO INSTALL WEDNESDAY OAK GROVE, June 7. (Spl.) Oak Orove extension unit will meet at 2 p. m.,' Wednesday at the school tt which time the new officers for next year will be Installed. All members are urged to attend. Accepts the Challenge I TOMMY. MAJOR HEMDRICKS HAS JU5T INFORMEO ME THAT COMET AIRLINES HA5 A 3HIP THAT CLAIMS GREATER PERTORhWCI THAM THE. MERCURVI Ben's Bulletin! I I I Si T J the Continental army by congress. His rank was second from that of Washington himself. Lee was suspended from command in 1778 for one year, in spite of his brilliant fighting, for certain charges directed against him. Lost and Found Department A communication from N. H. Slack, Knowlton, Quebec, golf fan, relates this amusing coincidence: "I lost my cigarette lighter on the golf course one day last summer and on the following day drove a ball Into the rough, which I also had done on the previous day on the same hole. When I found my ball It was lying an Inch away from the lighter!" Tomorrow; Are Slavs slaves? Scientists report that the flora of the mountains west of the Han river in Hupeh province, China, is the rich est and most remarkable in the world. It Is said to Include more than b.000 species, comprising plants of semi- tropical, temperate and Alpine reg ions. Use Mall Tribune Want Ads. .1 , NO FOOLING, THEV CLAIM THEY'RE V THATS JUST WHAT THE fi ACCEPT THE. W-WHAT1) THAT THEIR. SHIP HAS A V CRAZV COMET PEOPLE OFFER. 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