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MEWOTTD MATL TRIBUNE, MEDFOTtD, OREGON. FRIDAY, JUNE 24. 1938. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS naciou House, BY PHOEBE ATWOOO TAYLOR STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tat farther proof addreu the author, to closing tamped envelops (or reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Pat Oft THF NFinHRHRHnnn I FAmTF. imMJWvtMlw y m a - - . m.. y 80 tmn Atey Mayo, Cap . . ..elective, is tnvesttaating vlr j'f murder of Marina Lorn, whose ius band's post otflce mural hat aroused Quanomet. She wot killed ty a left handed blow from her lister"! knife and Pam Frut i$ suspected, ram dis apptari after hiding HO, 000 worth of amberorie the found. Atey know omeone is after the amberarie and he ' I trying to locate it. Then Jack Lorne bringi startling news. He hat dticoo ' ered he wot never married to Marina because the wot already married to . agreeable Tim Carr, boarder at the Frye't Octagon Home, whom the wot . blackmailing. She toot alto playing . around with Roddy Strutt, whose plane crash furnished a suspicious alibi. Peggy fioone, an artist, seem! worried about Pam' absence. Chapter 24 - . A Questlonln' Fire "CAY," the trooper who had been 3 at the front of the house walked up to them. "Say, 1 can't find Shorty or O'Malley you seen 'em? They ought to be around. The car's here. But I can't And 'em." "Been back In the woods?" asked Asey. "Say, I been all over." "Probably they're after the Carrs and Aaron Frye," Asey said. "I wouldn't worry. Now listen, they're having a real riot up town. I want you to Ret your car and go And Hanson, and tell him to get Are trucks from other towns, and use the hose" "But Shorty and O'Malley I got i to find them. And I can't leave this place!" "We'll look after things here," Asey said. "You go get Hanson. I'll find your friends. You trot along. That's an order. If it makes you feel better, I outrank Hanson In an hon'rary way, an' I'm an hon'rary officer of the law of this town, accordin' to a piece of paper I got to home. You go on. I'll take the responsibility "Well, okay. But I'd like to know where Shorty and O'Malley are," the trooper said. "I don't see where they could be. You find 'em, will you? I'm worried " Asey promised, and the trooper went off reluctantly to his car. "M u c h," Peg Boone said, "against his better judgment, I know. I well, well, look at pre , elousl" i She pointed to Emma Goldman, talking majestically out of the woods, her leash trailing behind. "Run away, huh?" Asey said. "Hi, Emma. Where's your folks? Come here 'fore you get caught up with that leash " The cat walked up to him and rubbed her head against his trouser leg. "Funny," Peg Boone leaned down and stroked the cat's head. "She seemed frightened. Isn't this odd, everyone missing? Shouldn't we yell, in chorus? O'Malleyl" she yelled at the top of her voice. "Shortyl Aaron Frye! Carrsl" Asey laughed. "You raised some one," he said. "I hear oh. Mrs. Carr." She panted up to them. "Have you seen Emma oh, thank good ness! Something frightened her. and she ran like a streak. Pulled the leash square out of my hand. I never knew her to" "Where's Tim?" Asey asked. And Aaron?" "Aren't they here?" Mrs. Can asked in some surprise. "They aren't? Aaron wandered off, and Tim went after him long ago." "Have you seen two cops, named O'Malley and Shorty?" "No. f haven't seen anyone. Ex cept a skunk, after Emma left. And two squirrels. All the animal life eems to be in a perfectly terrible rush this evening. I don't know whether Emma got her fright from them, or they got it from her top tugging, Emma! Look at her ears! She" "Listen," Asey said. "Listen " "I don't hear anything," Peg aid. "Do you, Mrs. Carr? I " Asey motioned for her to be still. "Somethln1 queer," he said. "It's a rushin' sound, seems like. I'll walk around ""acts by tho barn, an' see what I can see " "Emma!" Mrs. Carr said In ex asperation as Asey hurried, off. "Emma, what In the world is the matter" "Gosh!" Jack Lorne said. "Gosh, look look at that barn I" Flaming Like A Torch PEGGY BOONE raced after him around to the back of the house. The scene before her brought her to a standstill. Some 150 fret from the Octagon House, the old octagon barn was Haming like a piece of cotton wool dipped in gasoline. She had never een anything so completely and so furiously on fire. Asey and Jack Lorne, both choking, ran up to where she stood. "Phewl" Asey said. Phe-ew! I was lust goin' to shove that side door open when the whole thing went phut! I kind of wonder that I got a face." "Don't tell me!" Jack said. "1 saw you. One minute the barn was all right the next split second It was a torch! Can't we do some thing? What'll we do? We've got to do something" TO PEARS IN STORAGE POUND BY STUDY CORVALUa (fcpi ) Promising re sults In the line of wax u t protoc tlv atgrnt In prar storage was an Im portant finding tn n-warrh of tin pant Tar, according to Prof. Henry Hartman of the agricultural experi ment tat ion, Oregon 8tat col) cue. Prof. Hartman has been conducting extensive reaearci. on ripening and torago of peara from Onyon, Wash ington and California for man; years, Jointly for the Onvon-Wnahlmiton California Pear Bureau and Oregon SUte col If a. "Likewnai. . i a. j inquired. "Put it outl Call help hurry come on, we've got to do some thing!" Jack said excitedly. "This house." Asey pointed out "has only got a pump. The water system at your house is on the blink. The fire truck's; out of com mission up with the town riot. So the phone. What can you do?" "We can't lust sit!'' Peggy I pro tested. "Mavbe vou can't." Asev re turned, "but that's what I'm goin to do. That barn's tinder, pure ax. simple. It'll be down in five min utes. It's even hot here. We bette; move up onto the norch.". "But the house!" Jack laid "Suppose the house should catch? "S'posin' it does?" Asey said. Jack Lorne looked at him 11 . amazement Had Asey Mayo for gotten that Pam's ambergris wa in the Octagon House somewhere? For a man who was supposed t be so clever. Jack decided Asei Mayo was pretty dumb. Stupid, He started to say so, but Asey wide-mouthed vawn shocked tun Into silence. "IJeat," he remarked, "always makes me awful sleepy. You sec now why the cat was in such u fidget She seen skunkr an' squir rels runnin'. Prob'ly there wa. dozens of animal livin' in that olr ark. When the fire started, the" beat It. Emma seen 'em, an' cit;. cat that she is. she knew enough ti run." "I don't believj it!" Peg Insisted "Didn't you ever e a a forest fln with all the animals runnin' fron it?" Asey asked. "Fire panics 'em Say, you know I wouldn't wonde1 if maybe perhaps this house didn . catch, at that. It's kind of warmin up In sympathy, sort of." "Aren't you going to do any thing?" Peg demanded. "Are you lust going to sit there7 We must dc something something! They al ways drape wet blankets around when there are .Ires like this, over my way. Shouldn't we?" Writhfn' With Disappointment' "IF THIS was a proper an' logl- cal Cape house, Asey said, pulling out his pipe, "we could dabble an' dribble around with wet blankets on the far roof. But it ain't a logical house." "But we ought to save things!" Jack said. "If worse comes to worse, Asey said, "we'll salvage silver an' books an' things. It's the heck of a pity that Aaron Frye can't be around to tell us what he treasures the most. You know. I remember once In Wellfleet nearly scorchin' my hide off to save some old pew ter plates an' a couple of fiddleback chairs, an' a stack of silver, all foi an old aunt of mine when her house burned. An that woman, she laid me out in lavender. What she wanted, an' what I didn't save, was the old wooden spoon she stirred batter with. There goes the roof watch!" The octagonal barn swiftly re duced itself to a mass of charred embers. Without quite understand ing why. Peg and Jack found themselves assuming his matter-of-fact and philosophical attitude. Neither of them noticed his pre occupation with the woods around the barn. "There." Asev said at last. "that's the end i .' that Wonder il Frye had insurance?" frobably not, Peggy said, nin- lcss Pam thought about it Asey. why didn't anyone come to see this fire?" 'The other showc is elvin' us too much comoetition," Asey said. Well, I guess this concludes the performance " Performance is rlghtl" Peggy Interrupted. "Do vou realize that we sat sat, and never lifted a fin ger? And Asey, how did it start? Was It set?'' "What a horrid thought!" Asey said, the shadow of a smile playing around the corners of his mouth "Set? Tsh, tach! Why, barns in- cumin octagonal Darns they burn down every day. Set? My my. An' there we never lifted a fin ger, never did a thing we was s'posed to do. Just twiddled our thumbs. Someone is probably writhin with disappointment out there. In fact someone is there I'm sure. But I'm guessin' about the writhin' part" What are vou talk ng about? Lome demanded. "What do vou mean, someone set the barn on fire? Why? Who? What for?" "It was a nnpstinnin fir " Asev said. "But it didn't get answered, 'cause there ain't no answer. Now, if you two 11 be good enough to hold the fort" "Where are you going?" Peg asked. "I'm ffnln tn rec'noltre" Asiv said. "You an' Jack are herewith pro tern, deputies, or somethln Anyway, you stay here, vou stay put right here, no matter what vou think, or feel inspired to do. See?" The pair nodded. There war something 'n Azov's voice that for bade any questioning. "Okay." Asey said, "an' hanp onto the Carrs. nlease. if you have to hang on to their shirt tails." He strolled out past the smolder lng barn to the woods beyond. ICttmtH. I'll Jnteed rWrJ What did Ar? mran tT "a ques tioning" Are? Continued tomorrow. He indicated In a recent report that after treatment by one particu lar wax, the laboratory pears display ed no vWble wilt and had a fine, clear appearance at the end of the storage period. He also found that wax doea not Interfere with ripen-InfT- The unusual amount of wilt during the past aeavin was gene ml and not due to any specific storage method. It was found. Investigation Indicated that growing condlttona had been peculiar in that much of the fruit did not develop the normal amount of wax and the lent tee la remained open even after narveet. fruit In thla condition la extremely sensitive to wilt, according to the experiment station, and will wilt even under fa rorable storage humidities. Under certain conditions wilt can be reduced by hlh atorage humidi ties but there Is danger in that high humidity la often accompanied by high peroentiiKe of dpcuy. acco:d:r; to the prolrsaot. There were some TOUZZ f)$ A MODEL (Ztined) 5AMUBL COLT, imsNidR of Trie eix - Cdti MTdftlW flweoTrti&W omwvo ooo RBfeweR? foRtne CWAfc IN... Colt's Dilemma Samuel Colt, Inventor of the fa mous six-shooter which bears bis name, found himself In a very em bnrruBslng position one duy when the V. S. government petitioned him tc make 1,000 of the revolvers for the Texas Rangers. Colt didn't own a Colt six-shooter! Ho had not made them for the past five years In fact, he was bankrupt For a long time Colt had attempt ed to Interest the government In his famous six-shooter, but always he had been refused. The Texas Rin gers and the frontiersmen of the Texas plains had adopted the weapon for fighting with Indians and Mexi cans but because they lacked funds cases whore wilt was Induced by pre mature harvesting but because pears last season began dropping from the trees early, harvesting could not have been delayed. Results of studies of ethylene gas and Its effect In the ripening process Indicated that ethylene acts as an activator for the enzymes and Is ef fective only so long as pear contains starch, the roport disclosed. No new results were found In the TAILSPIN TOMMY A Surprise ytSTEUOAY THBEE STRANGERS, WHO CLAIMED THEY SVE8E NEWSPAPERMEN, TRIED TO ENTER HANGAR 4 WHERE TOMMY'S mercury PLANE IS HOUSED BUT WERE STOPPED BY OLD TIM, THE WATCHMAN. . AND' IT DEVELOPED THAT THE MEN WERE FAKES WHO HAD EVIL DESIGNS ON THE RACING SHIP! TODAY TOMMY IS HAILED BY... La. ... Kt. 1 J , 3 ..i. iv .-.-n. BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER THE NEBBS The InforniRtit r HERE'S WILFRED JIPPEM AGAIN, RUSTY- SWELL) 1 I AND HIS FATHER'S I . , I I ., "V' HO-W vvE-LL DID 1 N DID VCX, KKeOSW SKwSSiArwO V MV AUKJT OPwELIT OF HER WUSrVXKJD'S w " ' '-a i " i A.C rW A sHooteR with which to buy them In large numbers, Colt had to give up re volver making. Then came the outbreak of tlie Mexican war. The Texas Rangers of fered their services to Zachary Tay lor and furnished their own mounts and equipment which included the Colt six-shooter. With tho so-called Texan" model Colt, they soon be came a terror to trie Mexicans. In response to demands for more of these weapons, Oeneral Taylor requisitioned the government for 1,000 Colt revolvers. They were not to be had, so the government turned to Colt. Strange as It seems, he had none eltherl Colt frantically- placed advertise Sporotrlcum rot study, and tests have not been completed for the season on "pinhole rot." Although fungi cides to be u&e'd tn connection with the wash process were again Investi gated, particularly In regard to chlo rine compound. Prof. Hartman said he could announce no outstanding re sults as yet. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads is 1:30 p m. for Tommy! Being Cautioui A ( ON, MISTER I IS CUMEKALSII j . Five Ltm&s -ALPHABET we fitter? , -;r:;y H tofM$TofcrmR- . PttfQrtiA b RIVER "SgctioN For women -BranfonJRlwti C O77, - UAWMlfSN Cri.MWN toteMQ Mine SUfAMSR- 0 ' ments In the newspapers In hopes of securing one of bis own guns, but to no avail. Finally he began to produce revolvers, but not to speci fications of his old favorite, the "Texan" model. Letter Repetition Every written alphabetic language manifests a high degree of constancy In the relative frequency with which its Individual letters are employed. From a study of 100.000 letters ap pearing In telegrams of a commer cial and military nature, the letters of the English alphabet were found to occur most frequently In this dt der: ETRINOASDLCHFU PMYQWVBXKQJZ. The let ter "Z" alone falls in lta proper place Vases Puzzle Experts PARIS (Pj Workers In a stone quarry near Nancy found fifteen glass vases. Paris experts, couldn't tell wliy they were all of the same peculiarly curved design or who made them. Other explorations at the site dis closed the remains of a medieval vil lage, but the expert say the vases antedate the town. Use Mall Tribune Want Ads. K MR. TOMklNS, MAY NOT MEAN ANY ME THING TO YOU. WHAT I AM dive i I I SURE, WILL I FOR UMITH) TIME ONLY.' SEND A THREE-CENT STAMP WITH VTOt NAME AMP ABWESS TO HAL FORREST, ,THIS PAPER, FO SET Of MODEL PLANS OF THE POUOLAS P.S.T. PLANE ""iKl ACMIWT f WILFRED TELLlN' THE OLD MAN ABOUT OUR BIG 60BBLER! AND DOES THAT SlVt 0$ CHANCE j y I 5VE WAD .TUMERVLSf WHEN EDDIE SELZfR'S PARENTS WENT OUT RR "THE .AftERHOON WITHOUT, IN SO IWr1 WORDS, TELLlNS HIM it StAV IN BED WITH HIS COLD, HE FELT IT WOULD BE ALL RIGHT To SET UP AMD 60 OVER Tb-friE J.0T 1b PITCH IK THE-6&ME . BUT HE HADN'T COUNTED OH THE OPPOtf EUTS BRIW6)W6 HIS FATHER ALOKS "TO UMPIRE S 'MATTER POI I AM V VOU BUT STRANGELY. GOING TO MR. SMELTZ! AA yOU GO OUT AN TALK TO THEM, BEN I'LL SHOW UP A LITTLE LATER VSl JJ Uk. I II I II IKJSURA.VJCE OKJ HER LAST HU5BANJD BUT TME. OTHER. TUJO DlDM'T HAVE KJOTHIKJ' AKJD DlDNJ'T LHAVE. MOTWIM' BUT iJL SAV, TOR, VOOR , r x aumti e - c s y ALUJAV MICE 5-- v j it s f?: ) (Qgpyrlgtit, 1838, by The BH Syndicate, Inc.) fj . r-- j-- ' i have a check V VV-W- I'LL GET HERE MADE PAYABLE " iplHi Right down lT. to you in the I AT WmMifiFmm VrO BUSINESS SUM OF TEN -lAIHAI 1 w'wMM . f WILFRED TELLS rULUS UVCK DEVELOPlK A OF TURKEY T IN THE r SOU NEVER GOT ) r i .r fc7 etty Jren 'tfiiLyM) 1 CAM SEE THA.rVOU GOT f PACE TMAT'5 t-EK LAU6H TROUBLE, IT AINJ'T MET UP WITH YOU &.0Y&S Wiumns Bv 0. M. PAYNF By HAL FORRES" By EDWIN ALGF' ME YOU ' MtKt Wt NEW BREED ANY TRUTH" s-y-' mi By SOL HI" MARRIED LOOllsj' ACOOJD IP VOL) GOT VET. f THERE A I MIGHT I . BE J i
