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Newspaper Page TextMTVDFOTtD MAIL TRTBLTN'E, MEDFOTtD, OREOO, THURSDAY, iHTKE 16, 1938. iAGE TEN HIGH FLY By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Octagon Nou& BY PHOEBE ATWOOO TAYLOR STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof addreaa the author, Inclosing a stamped envelop for reply. Re. U. 8. Pat. Off. The Story So Far: jtiery Mayo. Caps Cod detective, ti privately Inuestlaat nn the murder o Marino Lome, tvhote husband'! post ojffce mural lias aroused Quanomet. She uics killed by a let handed blote from her eiter" knife. Suspected Pam True disappears became an unknown person who smokes Turkish tobacco is trailing her to discover the whereabouts ol f 50,000 worth of ambergris Pam found the day of the murder. Agree able Tim Carr, a boarder at the Frye's Octagon House, is left handed, smokes Turkish tobacco, and hated Marina. Gabby Nettle Hobbs who iweart she saw Pam commit the murder, is called a liar by Peony Boone, an ar tist And Roddy Strutt, whose plane crashed in the square, pays Nettie 15,000 to keep his name out of her ttory. Asey decides to see the injured pilot. Chapter 17 The Indestructible Man "DY the way, how's the crowd D over to Octagon House gettin" along?" Asey asked the traffic cop. "Hanson's eot 'em in order now, I guess. But they ripped up the flower beds, though, and a couple was tryin' to make oft with that Iron deer before he got 'em Under control. There's some still around the garage at Lornes'. Someone went by a while ago with a load of barbed wire, an' there was a state cop on the truck. I guess they're settin' up a barrier. Where you Bound t "Hither an' yon. Oh, if you know where pickle limes come from, Jerry, go tell the minister's wife over at the Exchange. Tell her I think she could nrob'lv nalm off lemons dipped in brine, it she got I 1 .... rth w toll Am thnv'rA I1IX1U UJi Wil Oil n;,, .., w.w ... missin' a good Dei in larry appies. Thttv'd oupht to fetch half a dol lar, an' the prime expense is sticks. He extracted Syl's truck from the maze of parked ears, and bounced over to the little Pochet hospital. The nurse In charge was the daughter of a neighbor of his. She hesitated a moment wnen Asey addressed her by name, and then the laughed. , ' "Why, Asey," she said, "I hardly recosmzed vou in that outfit. I don't think I'd have known you if I hadn t seen Syl s truck. That truck used to belone to Father, you know. It's a family legend. Isn't this business over in Quanomet simply hideous? And is It true that you re not helping with the case?" "What do you think?" Asey asked. "You can't fool your neighbors," she said. "Of course you are. You're up to something, dressed this way, and driving that truck. I suppose you want to see Earl Jennings, don't you?" "Who's he?" "That Quanomet selectman who got bumped In Roddy Strutt's plane crasn last nignt. It a - .,- .. II A .nM na a hiuiivi ui itit-t, nocj oaiu, "I'd like to see Hoddy Strutt's pilot. Can I? She shook her heati. "I'm afraid not," she said. "He's in pretty bad shape. We hoped Roddy would agree to sending for Dr. Carter, but Roddy wasn't interested. Rod dy isn't even interested enough to notify the fellow's family, if he's got any. We telegraphed all the people whose names and addresses we found in his wallet, but no one's answered, and two wires came back. Unknown, or something." "Get Carter," Asey said, and charge him to me, will you? And" "Asey, that's swell of you!" "Not a bit," Asey said. "And when he gets so that he can be asked questions, let me know. Be sure. And just for fun, if Roddy should take it into his head to see the fellow ft-hat's his name? Brigham? Well, if Roddy asks to see Brigham, cause him to be thwarted, will you?" 'Somelhln' Queer "I will, and I'll tell the rest. We're 1 all so mad at him, and anyway, you'll be taking charge. That'll make it all right. You know," she added, "I shouldn't say this, but there's something queer about this crash. Brigham's sleeping now, but he's been unconscious, and he kept muttering about the plane, ana Roddy, and calling him names, and telling him to keep off. It was sort of bloodcurdling. "Could vou sav. Susan. If all Brigham's injuries come from the crash?" "Where else oh. Oh, I see what you mean. That someone might nave hurt him before it. I couldn't say, Asey. Carter might be able to tell you, and Brigham can, cer tainly, when he s better. It was quite a crash, enough to bang up those cars in the square and shake up Earl Jennings look, won't you take pity on him and see him? He's limply raving about this Uunncv met business, and everyone in town's so busy making money out of the tourists, they haven't time to do more than send consoling mes sages by phone. His wife has been over twice, for ten seconds. She's making doughnuts by the hundred thousands, and she says if she can P TO BUILD II FOR CRASH VICTIMS BAN FRANTISCO, Jun lfl. (AP A new medical organisation to dMl with the terrific toll of auto and machine accidents waa formed here today under the name of the American Association for Traumatic Surgery. Autos and machines. It waa de clared have created new emergency medical prohlems. Traffic Injurlea were awrted to be aa grave aa those of the hattlerield and to offer an opportunity to save many Uvrs by building up technique to treat vic live through another day, they'll have a new car." "Is this Jennings hurt oaoi" Asey asked. "No, he's sort of an indestructi ble man. He's just bruised, but his doctor wants him to stay for a couple of days, and rest. He's got a bad heart. Won't you see him?" "Sure, for a minute," Asey said "But I don't know the man. ' "That won't matter. He knows you, and he's so eager to talk with someone." Mr. Jennings, a burly six-footei who seemed far too big for his bed, smiled at Asey and extended his hand. "Boy," he said feelingly, "am I glad to see a human facer Asey laughed. "I hear you're sort of marooned an' deserted." "Oh, lots of folks phoned, but as soon as they find out I'm all right, and just being kept in cold storage, they send their regards and say they'll drop over when 1 get back home. You can't blame 'em. There hasn't been so much money loose in town for years. My boy he's IS he's had trouble this summer, selling little wooden windmills for a dime apiece. To day, he and his friend got the idea of making little octagon houses oui of two by fours, and painting 'em up, and they're getting a dollar apiece for just as many as they can make. Think of itl If only the doctor but .1 suppose he's right. I wouldn't keep quiet, if I got out. I'd be out hawking with the rest. Say, what do you think about this murder?" "There's more to it than meets the eye," Asey said, "if that's what you mean." "Sure there Is," Jennings agreed. "After I heard about it, I went up town I was going to rout out the other selectmen, and have 'em send for you. But they told me you was away, and then that fool crashed his plane, and I landed over here. But you know what 1 think and what everyone else in town thinks? We think its some one that was sore about being pic tured in that mural thing. You don't know how mad people in Quanomet are about that!" 'Red Lead Faint' "E)Y degrees," Asey said, "I'm D gatherin' that there's been consid'rable Indignation. But the point is, is there any one person that's madder than any other? And why should Marina be killed, and not Lome, who painted the pic ture?" "Oh, Marina put him up to It," Jennings said. "Lome's a fool. The only way that fellow can think is with a paint brush in his hand, and then he isn't too bright. Every one knows she put him up to paint ing in the faces. He wouldn't have thought of it by himself." "Then you think it's a local per son, who knew enough to figger that Marina was to blame?" "I do," Jennings slid emphati cally. "And I thought right ofl the bat about Aaron Frye. He's in the mural. Father Time, or something. I don't know. But he's had more than that from that daughter of his in the 'past. So has Pam. The way I figure, if they haven't killed Marina before, that picture wouidn't move 'em to kill her now. Then you'll laugh at this. But I thought of Nettie." "Is she in the paintin'?" Asey asked. "I seen it, but I got to laughin' so, . had to go out before I took in more than the main panel." "The other panels are the ones with Quanomet faces," Jennings said. "Nettie's cn old hag gutting a fish." "A flsh wife, huh? Well, that's apt," Asey said. "Uh-huh. And beside her are two pickle limes. She's had a jar of pickle limes in that window of her store for years. Then I decided it couldn't be Nettie, because the time they said she left Octagon House and the time Pam found her sister, they didn't hitch up. And besides, I had a better idea. And you'll think I'm crazy, for sure. 1 thought of Roddy Strutt." "Is he in the mural, too?" "He sure is. With two girls on his lap, and his fnce well, it's Roddy all right," Jennings said bitterly. "Anyway, las night when he crawled out of that plane, he was laughing like it was a big joke. I hate him anyway, but that made me sore, with Brigham lying there. I limped over, and lousy as I felt, I kicked him square in the seat of his pants. Knocked him down, too. And while he was down. I give him a couple more kicks. " "That," Asey said approvingly, "was the proper gesture." "And you know what I noticed when I kicked him? A couple ol streaks on his pants. I thought they were blood at first, but later I seen they weren't. They were red lead paint. And I'm a plumber by trade. And yesterday morning I spent up to Lornes', fixing up that pump, and painting theii water tanks with red lead. And the old water tank that I painted the big one, that's out in the garage where Marina was killed. See what I mean?" tC9itil. fi.vA Jtvied r.vwl Tomorrow: Asey dors a bit of think Im. tims within the first hour after In Jury, The new organisation Includes general surgeons expert on broken bones and abdominal, blood vessel, nerve. Joint and head Injuries. It started with a membership -of ISO. drawn from deletes to the Ameri can Medical association now In ses sion here. The membership will be limited to 200. It Includes many teachera of medicine, aa well aa prac titioners. Chinese Laundrymen Aid Home Defenders HONOKONO. June 1 fl ( AP Four American ambulances bought by Chi nese laundrymen In New York ar rived todsy on the steamer Greystoke Castle on their way to Canton for "China's heroic defender.' With them were two ambulances bought bv Chinese in Manila and 15 huge containers of American aviation products, reported to Include 15 wai iWLr-'M Ml$$ED HlTTlNGTHE VZ.000 MltEef (tfpareef approach on record) 150,000,000 MILES INLEH6W . lUMaum tyadtafc. tat, j yJ Atlantic Oh MJ, or HAP 1b WEF)R BRMSSOU ff$ foRfc Vt66 KfTER INJURING ... IHerAlNAffttt A Friend In Need Ten minutes a day, every day for five and a quarter years, h. E. Look ablll. Roanoke, Va visited a sick friend In a local hospital. Lookabllt act this time aside for the one purpose and let nothing In terrupt It. Death alone intervened to halt' his daily visits which con tinued without a mlae for 1016 con secutWe days. Lookablll In all spent 310 hours. or 13 '4 days at his friend's bedside. yet stranger still la the fact tha, this time wns divided Into 10-mlnute dally Installments spread over a Ion? period of tlmo. The sick friend waa Captain Ed ward J. Rowan, former chief clerk planes for Chinese forces and a num ber of spare engines. The Grey s toko Castle sailed from New York April 18 by way of the Panama canal, arriving at Loa Ange les May 12 and sailing May 18. ADMITS STEALING CAR FOR TRIP TO CHILDREN. GRANTS PASS, Ore- June 16. ( AP) Accusing himself of the theft TAILSPIN TOMMY A Hunch EEN WEBSTER'S CAREER THE NEBBS A Good Place f TVIAT TEVE IS MfiOOMG HIM U GOOD !.. SELP ACOOCvlvjrEn WiTWn4E1wMJM OF MOCmviU-E AMD WESE WE PIMD M1M IM "THE AvJCOMOlsJ ISJNJ, OWNED BV MAX AMD EMMA fGEE, RUSTY, IF WE CAN RAISE! .-3g f HEAVYWEIGHT TURKEYS pS" NOBODY CAS LICK US H THIS BUSIHESS! C-Mttr im&roxe: IP i. DIOMX JTHU. b-15 4 0 of the chief engineer of maintenance of the Norfolk and Western Railway at Roanoke. "Captain Rowan suffered three strokes before his death," Lookablll says. "I called and entertained him for about ten minutes each time for 1015 days In succession and found htm a real companion, never once re ferring to his ailment." Lookablll paid a final tribute to his friend by serving aa a pallbearer at his funeral. Comet of 1843 Appearing suddenly In the north ern skies about the middle of March, 1843, a comet was observed by as tronomers to pass within 32,000 miles of the sun's surface, smallest peri of a car from his employer, a man who gave his name as Stanley Mayer surrendered to Sheriff A. Donley Barnes today, Deputy E. J. Nelson reported. Nelson said that Mayer asserted he was an employe of John R. Clark, Reno attorney, and that he was tempted to steal the car when he learned his children, whom he had not seen for eight yeara because of divorce, lived at Modesto, Calif, That Proved True! 2Ji Rusty, rev 'EO at and cvcdy minute a r i kja ic n i id ANOTHER HUNDRED! Pleasant Future WON'T to Eat WAS AS l u- T HOU CE. WEBBS A iSTEA DKUiHtK.wiiH imhi 1MAPK1NJ ACROSS NOUR AMU lUtSfc an HAIRS OJ -TO 6E HIM NOU ABOUT IT 1 LfclOOKMU, imTeo A eicK Friend O MINuTes A PAY For if 19 successive uni -. IT tl 1 y32 HoMS RUNG IN WXt PAtTEP IN tW MAJoR ItfeGUt dure, mr helion distance ever recorded. Comets are by far the most num eroua objects of the solar system. The total number of planets, includ ing the minor planets or asteroids, Is about 50,000. while It is estimated that there are at least 120,000 comets regularly visiting the sun. Contrary to popular belief, comets' tails do not Invariably point away from the sun. While matter driven from the comet's head by solar ac tion would show this effect, It Is quite common for the tail to consist of several streamers radiating from the head like a fan, proving that there are other forces at work driv ing out the tall. Tomorrow: The Walk of Famel Precautions Realistic LONDON (P) Smelling bottles con taining actual warfare gases and i "Mixture Z," made up to represent mustard gas, are being used to train Britain's air raid precautions instruc tors. WINDOW GLASS - We sell window glass and will replace your broken windows reasonably. Trowbridge Cab inet Works. I V 31 rfi OUR birds'll be so bis and COST US SO LITTLE IN THE RAISIN1 THAT THE 0IPPEMS OUST BE ABLE TO UNDERSELL, US- .rvES. I'm HtS u v, ji sr.. I ) BROTHER. AMD I'M PROUD OP IT, BUT I CANjr GET MUCH pleasure: wavimg OU. HEAD PEOPLE SAV --j, KE AS A H16H FlV h5 HIT, SHoWS, I'VEfcOtiY!" AND BACKS . 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