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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT fEDFOTlD MATL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 12.' 1938 Octagon S j$& PARKING ASSISTANT STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author. Inclosing stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. 8. fat Off. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS BY PHOEBE ATWOOD if LOR a lij .. Uiucrupu- lous Aiur urne, whose hut' band's post office mural hai aroused Quanomet, if murdered by a left handed bloui rom her (titer! knife. Asey Mayo, Cape Cod detective, learnt certain facte: Pam Frye telle him the found 550,000 worth of amberorie which Marina tried to claim, and hid it after discovering the mur der. She disappears from Asey't house realizing that an unknown person, who smokes Turkish tO' bacco, is trailing her to learn the whereabouts of the ambergris. Agreeable Tim Carr, a boarder at the Frye's Octagon House, is left handed, smokes Turkish tobacco, and hated Marina in New York. Gabby Aunt Nettie Hobbs is swearing Pam killed her sister. Chapter 13 Another Motive A SEY drew a deep breath. "Pam rl an" Nettie," he aid, "they're tort of cousins. Is that it? Jennie, how In the world do you happen to know all that? You reeled it off like you'd been sayin' it every day for thirty years." "It'd be peculiar if I didn't "Well, they say someone that was pictured in that mural got mad, an' went (or Jack Lome." "But they didn't kill him. They killed Marina." Jennie nodded. 'That's just it Jack Lome's a good painter, least aways he was when he first come to town. You could tell what he meant to paint, in those days. Aftei Marina married him, he begun V paint this horrid stuff where folks': faces were the same size as then stomachs, or their heads like pin.' He did the nicest picture of the lily pond. I remember that. Last sum mer I saw his things in the exhibi tion, an' they was all mud flats an dung heaps. Stuff like that." "An' you think Marina made the change in him?" Asey asked. "It's not that so much, but well people did some thinkin'. an' the thought about Jack Lome. Nobodj likes him, but he ain't what youY call bad. He isn't so horrid. Asey just sort of slow thinkin'. if yoi know what I mean. Not stupid, bui slow. Folks wonder if he though up them cartoons like all by him self, see? An' the way some folk; rigger is this. Suppose someone who's been painted in that mura. got mad at Jack Lorne, an' ther thought it out, an' decided Marine "Would they send people," Jennie asked, "like G-men?" know," his cousin said, "consider in' that phone's rung steady since six this mornin'. Oh an' did" you hear about Roddy? Roddy Strutt?" "What's that fellow done now? Smashed up another car or another boat?" "It's a plane this time. He got a new one yesterday. Seems some friends of his had their plane own, too, an iney was goin DacK to New York in theirs, an' nothin' would do but Roddy had to trail 'em in his. Went as far as Provi dence, to some airport or some thin'. Comin' home, he Insisted on flyin' the plane himself wouldn't let him land. He landed. He landed it bang down in Quanomet Depot Square in the middle of the night, they say, an' I don't know how many cars he hurt, or folks either. Seems's if everybody was hurt but Roddy ain't that always the way? Oh, an' did you hear about the mural?" "I seen iti" Asey said suc cinctly. "Did you hear about the minis ter bein in it his face? Folks say they're pretty mad about that in Quanomet He does have a mole on his nose, but no one thinks any thing about it, an' he's a real good man. In the mural, It's awful. Seems they got all sorts of folks in it. An' horrid, too. Horrid drawings stuck onto horrid people doing horrid things. They're pretty mad in Quanomet. I well, you mustn't tell, because I didn't hear this on the phone, but I did hear, Asey. that some of the folks was so mad, they was goin' to do somethin' to that mural. Hurt It." "You can't blame anyone," Asey said, "for a perfectly natural hu man reaction; on the other hand, you want to sort of point out that it's gov'ment property, an' the gov'ment ain't had no sense of hu mor for a long time." Slow Thinking' "yOU mean they'd send people," Jennie demanded, "like G men?" "They might, If It happened to strike em that way. Myself, I'd think it sort of funny, but the peo ple that matter might consider it the defaein' of gov'ment property.'' "D'you really think it's true hat they say about the murder?" Jennie asked. "About what really happened?" Asey admitted that he didn't know what they said. put Jack up to it you see what 1 mean?" Asey nodded. It was exactly the same sort" of thing that Pam Frye had brought up during their con versation on those pink granite post office steps the day before. 'Gallivantin' And Traipsing' "THERE'S also another side," he remarked, "now I consider it S'posen Jack Lorne begins to real ize what a hornet's nest he's stirred up with his mural. An' how the caricatures Marina put him up to are the things that are the most hornety. I wonder if he'd be mad enough it don t seem so." "If he thought that, Marina'd ol talked him out of it right away," Jennie said. "She's talked him out of lots and lots of things. Why, he loved her, they say. He even thought she was faithful to him, think of thatl An' her gallivantin' and traipsing around with every Tom, Dick and Harry. This year it's been that boob Roddv Strutt They say that's how Jack got to do that mural." Asey had to confess that the con nection escaped him entirely. "Why, it's simple, Asey. Roddy't uncie is jometmn in Washington He had the what would you call iu tne letting out or this painting Lots of people tried for the job in a sort of competition, but Jack Lorne won. An they say that his wasn't anywhere near the best from what I hear I guess it was tht worstl Anyway, Roddy spoke ti his uncle and Jack won. An' you can guess why Roddy spoke to his uncle! An' now, Asey Mayo you go straight over to Nettir Hobbs an' shut her mouth upl Per haps if you stop her talk the police won't tnink so much about Pam Frye, an' then she can come back. Poor Aaron, he must be awful up set! You hurry along, an' I'll finish up my cleanin'." Out In his garage, Asey surveyed his long, gleaming Porter roadster. Yesterday that car had caused no commotion in the town of Quano met, but today it undeniably would. Any number of people who didn't actually know him, would recognize him by the car, and bv his familiar hat and jacket. Once he was recognized, he'd be sur rounded, and then Hanson u-onM come. On the whole, it seemed wis er not to be Asey Mayo. tCHmtU. Kit. rkrtf Ttylt,) Tomorrow: Asuy ton to town. MEE1MG CALLED HERE COR V A 1X18, June 11. fV-A vr. lea of 10 county and dUtrlct m?rt Inga to explain details of the new government whrat crop Insurance plan was announced by Clyde Kid dle, state supervisor of crop Iniur ance in the AAA a nice at Oregon State college. Members of the ex tension ervlce will nMi.it In holding the meetings which start June H and continue to July 1. In the major wheat areas one pub tic meeting will be held in each coun ty, while In other sermons of the state district meeting will be held for county committrcmen, county agents and awlstanta who will in turn paaa on the Information to growers AH crop insurance applications muat be filed before fall seeding for the 1939 crop. Application blank will be available following the meet ings. The schedule Includes: District meeting Lake view, June 37 (for Lake snd Klamath); Medford, June 38 (for Josephine and Jackson.). KITCHEN GARDEN LOCKJAW-HAZARD DEL MONTE. Calif . June U.(IT -Your own garon If animal fr tlllrrr U u(M might be moro of hazard for ontrartlng lockjaw than wounds auffcri-d In fallt on the treot or frratohn from nuty nalla. Dr. Karl Moyrr, director of the Hooprr Foundation for Medical Re aeawh at th Unlrermty of oiilor nlt. told the American Academy of Pediatrics yesterday that Jock-Jew. known to medical sv-lrjue na tctanua. la almost as widespread In the Unit ed States aa diphtheria. n lnn aoewi&nfiPiJBS ;s nous ton of v.sj t-vvi Lrv ujgyiwBv UU I K X4V v Xs ill i m.y rr wm --3rk. va 1 1 tnt-- l 25 ycBRSf iV. VA TrittPBSeRT jm USING MIRRORS h.UrTtd V' W rflPlUfiy ,1 lij HiNufct tpkU. U& AA ncnilHi t?hl0r1StPXmPH. CDVgREP 00O MILK fftoMTnc HEftP OPTHS HUH Wfl HORN ' fo IM Vf HOURS- ft RgCoRO N6VER tomtQ 4te ctmto 52 Men mmv iwm mm gtite vitas m Horh and from there Into the Little Big Horn churned the Par West. Never before had Captain Marsh penetrat ed bo far Into the region his ship waa named after. No steamboat before his had ever gone eo far. Run of the Far West Made under the most trying cir cumstances, the run of the Far West, Missouri River steamboat, of 1,000 miles in 04 hours, for 63 years has stood aa a record along the Mississip pi' greatest tributary. The Far West in 1870 had been chartered by the Government to car ry supplies to a military expedition at the head of navigation In the re gion of the Uttle Big Horn. The steamboat was In command of Cap tain Grant Marsh. Unknown to the ship's officers, the massacre of the Uttle Big Horn had Just taken place; the immortal "last stand" of General Custer had ended in disaster. Up the Missouri to the Yellowstone; up the Yellowstone Into the Big Horn Finally, shortly before arriving, word of the tragedy reached Captain Marsh. Racing against great difficul ties -treacherous sandbars. Innumer able snags and tortoua river bends he plunged on through the wilder ness, i His men cut grass along the river banks and Improvised mattresses on the decks for the wounded men he would have to take back 1.000 miles to Bismarck. Reaching the headwat er, Marsh took on wood and his cargo of 52 wounded and dying men. At daylight on June 30, 1670. be lifted anchor and began a race against death. The first 63 miles to the mouth of the Big Horn were covered with out accident, sailing under full steam. There be was forced to lay over until July 8 to ferry General Gibbon's wag on train over the river. From there It was better than 900 miles to Bismarck. At 5:00 P. M. on the 3rd Captain Marsh again headed down stream. . All night long the steumboat plunged, through the dark ness under full steam, an unheard of practice on so dangerous a route. After two more stops, the Far West safely reached Bismarck at 11:00 P. M. of July 6, ending a 1.000-mile trip In S2 hours, a record that stands today AGE PENSION ADVOCATES SLATE STATE CONCLAVE CORVALLIS, Ore., June II. (UPI Old-age pension advocates from all parta of Oregon will gather here for a state convention June 10. Plana for tha convention were made by dlrectora of the Towaend National Recovery Plan, Inc., and the Oregon State Recovery Plan', Inc. Both organizations have divorced themselves from the old Townsend organization and are dedicated to the "promotion of the principles In volved In the Townsend plan rather than the glorification ot any Individual." Eueene Supervisor Named EUGENE, June 11. (JP) The school board announced the election of W. H. Dutton. principal of the Arizona State Teachers college training school at Temple, as supervisor of the Eu gene school system. 1 '-' Phone 842. We'll haul away your refuse. City Sanitary Service. StES WOMAN HAVIH6 TROUBLE WtlH NARROW PA.RKIN6 SPACE ArJD CAILS T6 WAIT A MINUTE MAKE5 A SURlEY Of SthCS AVAILABLE, DISTANCES AWP SDOK SlGKAlS To CP AMP IT, AFTER CONSIDERABLE TiME COtJ- VWIK6 WHICH Wflr1 HE WANl$ tt CRAMPED 6FI3 HEK CLEAR -fb BACK tti ATLBSf. BALKS HER PERSIS TENT EFFORTS To COME FORWARQ BY STAWDIUS IN FRO NT OF CAR. m?S HER BACKlKS AUD FILL . IM6. SOMETIMES IW HIS DE SlRE -fo SPEED THIN65 UP, GIVING BOfri 6E5TURES 51-MULTANE0U5LV (Copyright, 1938, by The hell Syndicate, Inc.) WOMAN LEANS OUT OF WINDOW AND CRJES SHE'S nRVN6TO 6E0l)T0F?ARXlN6 SPACE, HOT INTO T. MAN HURRIES DOWN" STREET, VER" REP 8 MATTER P0I Bv 0. M PAYNE t ' 'j IS, ( ? ?TT z") UJL Hill -r( 'nottUt? 1o6 nu WV ffB I vATouue.l?ifci' t fttOopyright, 19M. by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 'frffi'Ufr jB Jsf ttt I TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy Capitulates! By HAL FORREST , B I'VE QlSkO pu(ov m i ao iVc GOT On Tup mcociidv . us Ht FAILS IN THE SPEED TESTS I'M THROUGH! WfflL PUT THE STEELEX PROP ON AMD I'LL . 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VWITW TUVS WATER OUSWT TO UAVE A,MO IT TAKES MOMEV TO LET THEM KMOW ABOUT T1 iTHIMK I fVy- if A. I I AT VOUR. 0002. m .VUITUOUT. A dime UlUlllULUiUu" X'O EVPECT TUATS UJWAT NOU'D TUlMVC IS ALU RISUT..K10 MAjsl UJILL SHT PAR. LUMO'S 5AT1SP1PO LUrTU WIS EPP0RT5.V0U REMEMBER. yjHAT Ha, USED TO SAY ABOUT YOU. IHUi-T YOVJ VJOULDUT WAVE TO SLACKEN4 UP MUCH TO MAKE A BUOU..5TATUE, i I