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PAGE TWELVE MEDFORT) MAIL TRTBCTNE, MEDEOTW, OREGON'. FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1938, tTA(10uWoUS& BY PHOEBE ATW000 TAYLOR THE WORLD AT ITS WORST STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX for further proof aij dress the anther, lncloamf stamped niTelopa tor reply. Bee. U. & Fat 08. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS The b. . . . ; liucrupu- ioiu Marina Lome, whose hv band't pott offlc4 mural hat aroused Quanomtt, It murderd by left handed blow ram hr iiier fcn(. Asey Mayo, Capt Cod detectiuc, hides hunted Par.. Frye in hfj house. He learns these facts: Pam found (50,000 worth of amberorie which Marina tried to claim, and hid it after die cotitHno Marina dead in the garage; jomeone who imokfi Turkish tobacco was eavesdrop ping on Pam't story to team the whereabout of the ambergris; agreeable Tim Carr, boarder at the Frye'e Octagon House, smokes Turkish tobacco. Is left handed and hated Marina In New York. The Pam disappears. Chapter U Footprint IT wu a quarter to nine that same morning, just as Asey poured himself a third cup of coffee, that the side gate clicked and the am' pie figure of his cousin Syl Mayo's wife hove in view. Asey sighed. Jennie was a dear, kind thing, and while few women could equal her cooking, few also could equal her curiosity. He would, at least, hear all the details. Jennie was on the twenty' one telephone line, and if Jennie was up to par, she should have at least twenty-one versions of Ma rina Lome's murder. "My, myl" Jennie ran true to form. "My, Asey, ain't it awfull Who done it, do yon know? I'd like to ring their necks, that's what I'd like to dor "You're the first person," Asey remarked, "who's felt the slightest bit of sympathy for Marina Lome, or tne least drop 01 anger toward the feller that killed her." "Marina?" Jennie sniffed. "I'm not talking about Marina Lome. Marinal Huh. Plain Mary, that's wnat sne is. Mary Hosannah. And she was a well, she was a bad woman. Asey. Just Dlain bad. De. served what she got. Who done III Asey was puzzled. "Done what, the murder? "Bother the murder. I'm talkln' about them petunias out by your smcnen wmaow nerei wno sam pled 'em down? I spent all day be fore yesterday mornin' in the hot sun." Jennie said, "ettin" in pe tunias like you always have. An' now they're trampled flat as your shoe! I'd like to And the wretch that did itl I'd give them a good piece of my mind " "Trample?" Asey got up. "I Jldn't know it, Jennie. I seen the petunias yesterday, an' thought now fine they looked. I was goin' to tell you how I liked 'em let me take a look, now, at this. This is sort of interestin'." Jennie's ire was conslderahlv mollified by Asey's solicitude for tne trampled plants. "I thought myself, they looked preiiy nice, sne said. "Lome on here, see? Of course I can get sne car wnen oyi comes in Irom quohoggln1 an' drive up an' get oore. iney was aear "I'll pay for the next lot," Asey aid, "an" while you're up there, you get some cut flowers for your self. Well, well. That's tramplin' inai w irampiin , aim itT i think es, i trunk l begin to see. Jennie, was just as dlimmed a fool last night as I thought I was. Some body stood out here and watched." He figured it out. Somebody was watching him there in the kitchen. Pam, coming onto the bedroom after her bath, must have peeked down ad seen the person there. She didn't dash downstairs, or scream out, which on the whole was sensible of ner. To let the per on know for sure that she was there would not have been so good. Asey knelt down. r 'Shut Her Mouth' "T WISH," he said, "that he had- n't milled around this earth is so soft, you couldn't get one good print out of the lot. But here's oho. He ducked at somelhin' say I wonder! I bet It was my. unue comin Jennie stared at him. "You feel all rigs?" she asked anxiously. "I'm fine," Asey said. "Fine. An' then he left. An' Pam wrote that note " "Pam Frye? Asey Mayo, you are mixed up in this, aren't you?" "Pam left that note for me," Asey said, "an' then she hid. I Just locked up the empty room. Then she slid out, probably while Can was here. Chances are pretty good that she gave the watcher the slip, see? Because she knew about him, an' he didn't know about her. She figured that she'd told me all she could, an' that her bein' here was dangerous to me, as well as cur tailin' my comin's and goin's. Without her around, I'd be a lot freer an' a lot safer. She probably rounded out her thinkin' by feelin' that she had nothin' to lose. An' I Siess she's right I guess, Jennie, e can look out for herself." "You mean Pam Frye?" Jennie said. "She's a mighty nice girl. Clever, too. She give the women's club a talk on art last year." "Jennie, what in,... ...is?" Asey said. "How many do I have around the house? Are they all in the chest?" "All eight she told him promptly. "I put 'em all eight in the blue sea chest when I cleaned." "Then let's see," Asey said, "how many we got now. I know she didn't nave a light with her. 1 think we had three last night, Carr and I." . The eight flashlights were duly accounted for, and Jennie prompt ly wanted to know why they mat tered. "To prove that a light that flicked off an' on," Asey said, "presumably in the spare bedroom, was really a flashlight that our fancy watcher was flickin' to see if he could draw Pam to the window. Probably he was havin doubts if she was there We seen the light from the front an' he was aimin' in the back. I: come straight through the dormer see? Well, if he wanted action, In sure got it. An' certainly, subse quent events ought to of proved t him that I didn't know where shi was or where she'd gone, Jennie your petunias've been pretty help fill "Maybe they have," Jennie said "I can t make head nor tail of il myself. But I do know one thine I know you ought to go straigh over to Quanofnet and shut Netti Hobb's mouth, tight Why, the wa she's been talkln'l It's awful." "What do folks think of thi things Nettie says?" "Those that know Pam, they don't believe Nettie," Jennie said "But those that don't well, they ain't got anything else to go by than what Nettie says. It's a shame My mother used to say that Nettie Hobbs was weaned on sour milk and pickle juice, an' she's right She's a dour, sour old thing, fust the same as the pickle limes In her store window, and now she's got her chance to get back at Pam. she's doin' everything she can. An' you'd ought to stop her." 'She Laughed And Laughed' '"TO get back at Pam? What for?" Asey asked. "What'd Pam ever do to her?" "Aaron Frye. Jennie said mean ingly, rolling her eyes. 'What ahnl.t Aoi-nn ..... awui.t i.Diuii njci "Nettie." Jennie said, "she set her cap for him. Of course, they're about of an age, an' Silas Hobbs's been dead for years poor man, what a life he must have ledl Did you know his tombstone says 'At rest at last'? Well, it does. I've seen it An of course Aaron Frve s been a widower for nearly nine years. He's a nice refined man used to be a professor an' he's a nice lookin' man, an' Pam keeps things up " uo you mean," Asey said, "that on the strength of Pam Frye's meager earnin's, Nettie was aimin' to marry into the ramily?" Jennie nodded. "She don't make much with the Woman's Exchange. I suppose she figured if she could get into me ramily, Ham or the son-in-law or someone d keep her, if anything happened to Aaron. Well of course it was silly, the wnoie tnmg was silly. I said so, the minute I heard about it last winter. But Aaron Frye's sort of a eentle soui, tne Kino mat can be led into things. You know. No, she added, looking at Asev's law. "I dnn'l s'pose you do. Anyway, he's sort of easy goln an absent minded, an if Pam hadn't caught on about all the pie an' cake an' jelly bringin' maybe Nettie might have got him. I wouldn't go so far as to say Pam and Nettie had words, but I guess Pam let her understand she was wastin' her time, an' her cookin'. too." "So Nettie's down on Pam for that Maybe that accounts for things," Asey said. Thats not all." Jennie an. swered. "At least, that isn't the part that matters so much. The im portant part is that Nettie kind of let on to folks that she was goin' to marry Aaron, and one night at a church supper, someone asked Fam about it An Pam. she choked over her baked beans so hard they had to bring her water an' bang her on the back. An' when she got her breath, she laughed and laughed and laughed so hard she cried, an' they had to bring her more water. Well, Nettie heard about it, of course. I guess mai was me pari mat "That grined." Asev said with a grin.. "I see. No more Dowerful weapon than ridicule say. that reminds me. You got anythin' on Nettie? Like well, I don't know what exactly. But if you could rout up somethin' I could use as a club. I might be able to stop her." meres two things, she said, but neither of 'em'll be much good. There was always talk about tne cnurcn accounts the year she had 'em. but 1 don't know how you'd prove it. Mostly I keep think- .1, , ncitic flliv, mill ma l CIHICU, ill! it's a mean skinny way to treat your own flesh and blood, talkin' like Nettie is." Asey wanted tn know how thev were related. The minute hr- asked, he knew he was in for it Jennie began to trace the Sn.-irrmv family down through the centuries. rOvrvl. .!, JlcJ Tmtler) Tomorrow: Newt of Quanome-L WORLD MUSIG CENTER IS AIM OF VERSAILLES PARI 8 (AP) Plant to make Ver utlles the musicM nd artistic cen ter of the world have been (lvldN1 upon, with the creation of t "na tional eninon of music end art" to take Vie? thi aummar. Oaston Hp nry-Haye, Frmcft q. tor and mayor of Vflraaillea. Mid he hoped to draw such orcrwrsi leader as Leopold Atokowskl. Arturo Tosonnlnt and Bruuo Walter who have vowed not to it turn to 8a la burg until the end of the nnel regime. Cane lllmk fmnl 8UBLETTE, Kaa. AP County oi Ui&ift Uiiuk Uief JiikUj hate 0? RWKR-GTMPED IMBhR-OLD NfGRO, f h Tei6Rf,PH OpBRff&R to ftd NORTH CMRTKlft ped Haakell county's traveling aand hill that threatened to block a road. ITiey "anchored" the hill by plant ing ease all around It. The cane. they hope, will hold the wlnda that blow the aand. Volcano Rumbles As Quezon Visits LDOAAPI. p I., June 10. (AP)-Mayon tolcano rumbled a fiery welcome to President Manuel Quezon when he reached Leu a up I today to direct relief workers aiding terrified Filipinos who have been driven from their homes by the seven-day eruption. The mighty fire mountain was In heavy eruption a the presidential yacht came Into Lcuaspl's harbor but the Rev. Miguel Hclga, vol cam 4 -Off l at. said there was no Indication the eruptions were becomiiuf more Intense. He assured PreAidrnt Que zon there was no danger to life at prvacuL 1 y. W ttr m etssm ra XW&A limner ?f V JiMWlfeMl?, Pi m0OfmR 4tfW6P THE 6KEN WW HRE Of 1831 XZ3S Pi WflCKlAftM M ts PftlrAT4r1oP THREW V& WBTtK OVER u , 3URNIHQ WT HM Sf ILTOH ft S1bV, 4PRihVlN6 V 1fte frce m&siio, 000,000 pama&Ej Muter Bucket Ffre. Chicago burned down In 87l when a cow kicked over a lamp, but a buck et of water set Seattle ablaze 13 years later In tho worst fire of her history. In the dark bnsemvnt of a building on the corner of Front and Mad I sou streets a painter waa busy stirring pot of glue boiling on a stove. It was the sixth or June and the heat was stifling. The painter, John Back, pulled a handkerchief from hie pocket, mop ped at his forehead, suddenly before hla eyea a Durst ot emoxe and flamec shot celllngward. The glue had boiled over on to the stove and caught fire. Back grabbed a pall of water near by and hurled Its contents on the flaming glue. Instead of extinguish ing the blaze, the water sent the flaming mass spluttering to the floor, where It Ignited a pile of wood shav ings. In a moment the whole room, the whole building was ablaze. Back rush ed Into the street, shouting an alarm. Engine Company Number 1 respond ed, but something went wrong with the pressure pump. The blaze took on a serious aspect. A rising wind whipped through the flames, now gigantic In proportion. I sweeping from building to building I across Seattle. The entire block waa soon on fire; flames Jumped across ' streets, Btarted new fires. Mayor Robert Moran assumed com mand of the situation, es Fire Chief Joslah Collins was out of town. Re alizing Seattle's flre-flghtlng facil ities wero Inadequate, he wired Ta coma, port Townsend and Portland for help. A special train waa dis patched from Tocoma to bring equip ment to the scene, making the trip in a record time of 58 minutes. By nightfall, June 7, the town was practically leveled. No business building was spared; losses were es timated at 910,000.000 but, strange as It seems, not a single life waa re ported lost In the strange fire started by a bucket of water. BRITISH PURCHASE 400 AIRPLANES IN AMERICA LONDON. June 10. (AP) The air ministry announced tonight that tho British government had contracted to buy 400 planes from two American firms, tho Lockheed Aircraft corpora tion of Burbnnk, Co!., and North Amerlcnn Avtntlon. Inc.. Inglrwood. Cnl. Two hundred of the planes, thow ordered from the Burbank firm, would be for general reconnalftaanoe and the others for advance training. START BUILDING LINE FOR BONNEVILLE LINK PORTLAND, June 10.-(AP) Acting on telegraphed directions from J. D. Ross, power administrator of Bonne ville dam, coiwtructlon crows started building today tho first tranMnlsslon, line from the dam a five-mile hook up with Cascade Locks, the first city to apply for Bonneville power. U. J. Gendron, executive assistant to Ross, said construction was being expedited In the hope that the line would be ready by Jily 9. when com pletion of tho dam will be celebrated by mid-Columbia cities. Iowa's 2 per cent assessment on all new car sales yielded $1,334,083 In Its first year, which ended April 10, state tax officials reported. imvitep & friends on a picnic, v00 f01j.6w -their car for an imtefmiwable iInie, Pis covering WHEN If PULLS UP FOR Gt$s1m S0MFWHFRE IN THE -TRAFFIC YOU 6.0TMWED UP AND PICKED UP A SIMILAR CAR CONTAINING , FoOR MEN, ALL S-TRAn6ER (Copyright, 1938. trr The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 3 MATTER POI maw Socket) J frCS f ,K1 M- )' (Copyright, MM, by Th Btll Syndic.K.Tne ) ffi o " o o Jjjft. ' fjf TAILSPIN TOMMY Mr. Wurtel Appears Confused! 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