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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.
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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.
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refuse. City Sanitary Service.
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