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MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKI), OREGON. THURSDAY. JUNE 23. 1938.
CTACOU UoUfe
BY PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR
SHOW-OFF
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
For further proof address the author, Inclosing itamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. S. Pat Oft.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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lae Story So Fan Asey Mayo, Cape
Cod detective, is Invssttgatlno uexter-
day's murder ol Marina Lome, whose
husband's post office murat hat aroused
Quanomet. She was killed by a left
handed blow Irom her sister's knife
and ram Frye it suspected. Pam dis
appeare after hldino $50,000- worth ot
ambergris the found. Roddy Struti'M
allbying plane crash looks deliberate,
and the allot of agreeable Tim Carr
boarder at the Frye't Octagon House
1$ false. Asey overhears Tim's grand
mother ask him. "Where did the girl
put it? Then Jack Lome brings
starflina news. He has discovered he
was never married to Marina, because
she was already married to Tim Carr.
Chapter 23
Incriminating Evidence
"AND thu other. This note,"
Asey picked it up. "Twenty
flve thousand dollars, payable to
Marina Carr. On demand. Signed
by Timothy Carr, and witnessed
by two people. Where, Lome, in
heaven's name, did you find these
two chunks of dynamite?
"I found them this morning, in
a tin box in the bottom drawer of a
wardrobe trunk of hers. I never
knew she had such a box. I was
hunting for a will and insurance
policies i tola ner to put em in
the bank box, but they weren't
there. So I hunted, and I found
this box. There were lots of other
trophies there. Diaries. Everything.
You want me to tell you about
those diaries?"
Asey nodded. "Or you could let
me see them."
"No one'll ever see those!"
Lome said savagely. "I burned
them, page by pagel
"Was that wise?" Asey asked.
"I see how you might have wanted
to, but this note and this marriage
certiflcate'll put Tim Carr in a
hole"
. "The diaries," Lome said,
"would have hanged him. That's
one of the minor reasons I burned
them. The real reason was me. Me.
and Aaron, and Pam. I decided
that the three of us had taken
enough. We" he gulped. "We
took plenty, we did."
"I'm inclined to think," Asey
said, "that maybe perhaps you all
have. Now, she married Tim be
fore she went through the motions
of marryin' you. That right?"
Lome closed his eyes and leaned
on his elbows.
"Today," he spoke as if he were
Suoting, "today I hooked Tim
arr."
In the same voice, he sketched
the story.
"Hooked Tim Carr. Found to
day he's all front. No money. Tight
wad. Everything for that grand
mother. I hate her. Todav I swirjed
his prize money and the old lady's
jewelry. Going abroad with
Lome, the sap. He'll be famous
some day. Got Carr fixed. The
sample note he wrote for his moth
class, when they learned about
making out checks and notes and
accounts. Grabbed it from waste
Dasket and ironed it out last week.
Got Sammv and Peter tn sitrn.
They'd sign anything if I asked
them. Let Carr try to divorce
me
Asev whistled snftlv. "T oat It
It Tim tried to divorce her, she'd
raise hell with that note. But her
witnesses"
"She thought of them," Lome
aia. "&he thought of everything.
They witnessed it in the apart
ment, while Carr was there, just
after he'd written something at the
desk. She shifted the paper. The
diary had all the details. She had
him cold. For Carr to divorce her
would have cost him $25,000, and
I guess it might as well have been
t million as far as he was con
cerned. Marina hated the grand
mother. That's why she did it The
grandmother told her where she
got off, and she was going to make
the Carrs suffer for it. She had
them, don't you see? If they tried
to do anything about her, or her
and me, all she had to do was to
wave that note. She had them. And
she also had some pretty rabid let
ters from Carr. I burned those."
"Threatening her?"
Lome nodded. "I started to give
mem 10 rinnsan, ana men 1 burned
them up. They would have hanged
now. Carr did it, not Hoddy, as Peg
thought And I hope that you and
Hanson can't get him."
"Know anythin' about amber
gris, Lome?" Asey asked.
"That's what Pam's always talk
ing about" Lome said. "What she't
always hunting. I never under
stood much about it It's used foi
making perfumes, isn't It or some
thing like that? It's a whale's chin
or tail. I never could see why she
made such a fuss over it."
"It's a sort of greyish stuff,"
Asey said, "that grows in the in
testines of a whale. Fatty an' a
little smelly, an' sort of streaked
like marble. You can probably eel
around $35 an ounce .or it."
An ounce. Lome said. An
ounce?"
Yup. An yesterday. Pam found
a lump about 100 pounds out on
the point And Marina found Pam
After a squabble, Marina brought
it back in Roddy's beach wagon, to
your garage. And"
"Where is It now?"
Asey shrugged. "Pam went ovei
there later, and found Marina dead.
and she removed it I thought she
brought it to Octagon House. It's
not in the cellar, an the cops didn't
uncover it I don't know where It
is."
"That's swell for Pam, Isn't It?"
Lome said. "She oh. But if some
one found it and took it gee,
you've got to And it for her, haven't
you?"
Asey looked at him curiously.
There was no doubt that the fellow
was perfectly sincere.
"Yes, I got to find it before some
one else does," Asey said, "an'
someone else is huntin' it Now
vou don't breathe a word of this.
you know. Not to anyone. But can
you think of any part of the house
wnere it mignt oer
"Nj," Lome said. "You'd think
from the outside that the place was
n.trfiillv mmar hut it isn't av.anl
lor tne snape or some of the rooms.
ana tne arrangement. I ll get a pen
en ana see ir i can tnink it out.
"Think hard, Asey said as hi
got up, "while I investigate Broth
er Carr. You know, it's iust Dossi.
ble that this marriage certificate
an note was wnat he meant an
not tne amoergris come on
"All right," Lome said. "You
know, I I keep wondering whal
mis is going to ao to my work."
"Huh?"
"My work." Lome said. "Ol
course this publicity has got me
aozens ot otters but what will
this do to my work, you see?"
Orgy In Quanomet
ASEY nodded, and suppressed a
smile. If Lome had got to the
point wnere ne couia gauge his re
actions to the murder in terms ol
his work, then there was little
sense in worrying about him, or
leenng sorry ror mm.
"I see," Asey said. "Yes, I see."
As they walked up past the
house, Asey paused by the cellar
window on which he had been
working.
"Might's well take two seconds.'
he said, "to finish up this pane
nere.
Before he finished with the pane.
Peggy Boone came ud the road
vaulted the barbed wire barrier
him.'
Ana you don't want him to
hang, even though you think he
Kuiea your wner
Played For A Sucker
" A LL of us, Pam and Aaron and
Carr and I," Lome said,
weve suffered enough, I don't
know I'm not supposed to be very
bright, and I'm not I don't catch
on to things quickly God knows
I don tl" he laughed bitterly. "But
people who do things like Marina
did, some time or other, things
catch up with them. They caught
up with her. I don't know how to
explain what I feel. I'm not angry
with Carr now."
He lighted a cigarette, and Asey
noticed his hands. They were long
slender feminine hands.
"The diaries had the whole
story," Lome went on. "What she
did to the family, and before she
met me. and afterwards, and who
she did, and everything. Everyone.
Roddy. She was playing him for a
icker. Anyway, it's all over with
and strolled up the driveway.
"Ah," she said. "Mr. Fix-;t. You
get around, don't you?"
"He's Asey Mayo. Pee." Jack
said. "I've told him everything."
"I began to suspect that he was,"
she said, "after I left Nettie's. Your
eyes give vou awav. vou know. Do
you know where Pam is?"
I ve got a lot of faith In her."
Asev said. "She can take cars of
herself."
I hone so and have vou hearri
about the town? Nettie has joined
the midway, and between her and
the fan dancers, it's bedlam
There's a nlckel-a-dance Joint beer
set up Why, the whole plac
looks like a gold rush camp. Forl
nincrs on a bust.
'How are the local hnvs tnki
it?" Asey asked.
The invasion? Oh. they're ir-.
ing to stop the riot So is Hanso'i
with some of his coos. But vn.
might as well turn back a cvclon'
with a bean blower. Honestly, if.
awfull I haven't seen the like sinci
the last bootleggers dumped theii
last loads on the clam flats, and thi
town was knee deep with bottles
for days. It's the same sort of thing,
only they've got something to do
besides drink. And it's not the local
folk. The natives are furiously try
ing to get the National Guard out
or something. They'll have to. The
crowd's got to the stage here it
thinks it's fun to start fires."
"You're makin' it up," Asey said
"as you go along!"
"I'm not!' Peg protested. "I'm
not, I tell you its an orgyl There
were three brush fires when 1 waj
up there, and a Small tent went ur
in flames. And they've tipped th:
fire engine over on its side. O
course, it's a silly old engine, ant
it looks funny, and that sire:
sounds funny .but still there's n
reason oh, well. I suppose Han
son will solve the problem some
how. . . . Where are you going?'
Asey looked worried when he
returned.
"I can't even get the office," ht
said. "The line sounds deid."
(CetytttSI. It It, Tnlnl
Tomorrow! Arsoal
POTATO SELLER HELD
FOR THEFT OF TRUCK
William P. Carroll. 4.9, of Bonsnrs.
who allegedly stole a 1939 rt-rack
truck Tuesday from William Irvin i.t
Bonanza so that he could haul a
load ol potatoes to the Rue river
Mllejf to sell, was arrested by state
police In Ashland Tuesday n'ttht ana
e wins held In city Jail thero to
await Klamath county officers who
will return him to face a charge ol
truck thett.
State police uld Carroll had K
sacks of U. 8. number a potatoes
which he ni attempting to el! to
Ashland grocers at SO cents sack
Closing time tor Too Late to Cl4
aifr Ada is 1:30 p m.
DEFEATED CANDIDATE
MAY SEEK RECOUNT
MINNKPOUS, June 33 (APt
HJnlmar Peterson. Icwing candidate in
farmer-labor governorship race In
Tursclay'a MlnncvtA primary election
aald today he would that oallota
In St. Louis county be Impounded
and that he mLght demand a recount
He made the announcement when
oddltltmal return from the oorth
e a torn Minnesota county had m,hed
Oovermr Elmer Benson's lead to 13.
000 after the lead aee-sawed Hiring
the early tabulations. Petersen rail
road and writ house commissioner,
said Benson's two to one lead m St.
Louis county "doesn't sound (vnson
able to us."
Returns Iron. 33 ol 3739 product I
wet?e ReaiiiRepTo pav postage
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Disaster at Ita worst visited Hall-
fax, N. C on December 6, 1917, fol
lowing the detonation of 22S tops of
T. N. T., greatest ever heard on
earth.
Fire, flood, earthquake, tornado
and blizzard ripped and gutted the
city leaving 2000 dead, 6000 crip
pled and 10,000 homeless. Three
hundred acrea of the city were lev
eled; property damage totaled $35,-
000,000.
Halifax, previous to the explosion.
bristled with the rich war trade of
shipping munitions and supplies to
France and England. Halifax had
grown to be the third largest Brit
ish port.
Into the harbor that fatal morning
moved the French munitioner, "Mont
Blanc,' carrying from New York 450,-
000 pounds of deadly trinitrotoluol
(T. N. T.), 2300 tons of picric acid
and 35 tons of benzol. The most
powerful explosives known to science
were stowed away In her holds.
As she steamed up the busy har
bor, the empty Belgian relief ship,
"Imo," suddenly appeared before her.
Collision was Inevitable. With a
rending crash, the Imo'a prow ripped
into her side.
Electrified, all who witnessed the
accident froze then broke madly for
cover. Fire had broken out on the
Mont Blanc) For 17 minutes It
flickered. The French ship's crew
went over the side. Some of the
Imo's crew boarded the munitioner
and' attempted to quench the flames.
They did not live to tell what they
saw.
With the roar of a thousand can
non t, the Mont Blanc ripped open
Straight upward shot a column of
surging gas that mushroomed Into
a cloud of death. The detonation
was heard 62 miles away.
The blast of hot gas blanketed the
harbor, swept Inland as a raging tor
nado. Hundreds fell dead before It
as buildings collapsed, treeB gave
way. A tidal wave followed: hun
dreds more were killed. At 8 :05,
9:10 and 10:05 earthquakes followed
the disaster.
Climaxing Halifax's day of disaster
was a terrific blizzard, worst In the
city's history, which greatly tamper
ed relief work. In court it was de
cided both ships were equally at
fault In causing the tragedy of Hall
fax. Tomorrow: The Five Most-L'sed
Letters.
In the state gave Benson 197,504 and
Petersen, 184.370.
ARGEST FISH HAUL
DOCKED. AT ASTORIA
ASTORIA. June 23. (AP) The
schooner Martha of Portland deliv
ered 19,137 pounds of halibut and 3,
700 pounds of red snapper ling cod
to the New England Fish company
today. The catch represented the
largest delivery of the year and one
of the largest since the halibut In
dustry started on the Columbia rlv-
The company reported delivery of
bluebacks, the first appearance of the
run this season.
Bombay la called "the gateway of
India."
The ancient city walls of Teintsin,
China, were pulled down tn 1900.
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