MEWOTTD MATL TRIBUNE, MEDFOTtD, OREGON. FRIDAY, JUNE 24. 1938.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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BY PHOEBE ATWOOO TAYLOR
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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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
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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
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THE RACING SHIP!
TODAY TOMMY IS
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BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER
THE NEBBS The InforniRtit
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I AND HIS FATHER'S I . , I
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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!
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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
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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.
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