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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
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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
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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 $1,334,083 In Its
first year, which ended April 10, state
tax officials reported.
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covering WHEN If PULLS UP FOR Gt$s1m
S0MFWHFRE IN THE -TRAFFIC YOU 6.0TMWED UP
AND PICKED UP A SIMILAR CAR CONTAINING ,
FoOR MEN, ALL S-TRAn6ER
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