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Newspaper Page TextPAOE ETC TIT rKDFOTlD MAIL TRIBUNE, ftfEDFCmn, OREGON. TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1938. OCTAOd Mouse, BV PHOEBE ATWOOO TAYLOR The Story .-.u - . . 'i. - -mc Cod detective, it investigauny yester day's murd? jj 11 irina Lome, whose hubariti'i T'-roi.'".v Jtura' ho around Quan.'.r.ct. S".' Hilt ty l?(t hand'4 elom f-n .ttr,i '.. Pom Try Jl.ifllJ.tfn .'ft. ante atvt Mdha J5t C('0 irof.'l of nnk-rvrit, then sups back tntr :'ne winti e Octa gon Hum ilsey kiatul 'f Inno cent, well is 7 If Cert. soarJtr with t.e fpe'i. Af-rHa irai marries to Tim. unkno'u?n to Jacfc home, ana also hcd plumed aroun-i fit fiodci Strutt. ui'in U now being "mciuijtd. Before the eyes oi Asey, Juk and Peggy Hoone, the barn burnt down. Realizing the fire was let by someone who wanted to learn the location of the ambernris, Attey prowl around the woods He finds Tim knocked out, then Tim finds Asey knocked out. Back at the house they discover Pam't fathar and two troopers are missing. Chapter 27 Mun Hunt "limERE are they?" ' CumminRs' lusty bellow brought the trooper rushing into the kitchen from the front of the house, and behind him rushed Lome, feggy Boone and Mrs. Carr "Hanson said that Aaron Frye and the troopers were with you. Didn't he. Ding?" Cummings said. "That's right," the trooper an swered. "That's what Hanson said. He said thev were all of them with Asey. That's just what he said. And now say, where are they? "What inspired tha' brain ripple of Hanson's?" Asey demanded in tones that were crisper than usual. "How'd he get that idea?" "Why, 1 told him," the trooper, said, that OMalley and Miorty had gone, and t rye and the (Jarrs, too. I told him when I went up to tell him about the lire hose, like you ordered me to. He asked how things was, and I told him they was all gone. And Hanson said if you was nere, an right, not to worry. You'd get 'cm. You got one, anyway," he pointed to Timothy. "You got one. Where's the rest?" "They're not in my pocket." Asey was tired of the trooper's re frain. "Lome, you and Carr and this fellow an' I, we'll have to do tome tall huntin'." "Can't 1 hunt, too?" Peggy Boone asked. "You better hadn't," Asey said. The lad we met up with was a great old basher. Say, maybe you want to get home do you?" "Go home, with all this going on, don't be silly I" "Tell you what," Asey said, "you go down the streei an' drop In on the neighbors, an' tell 'em we'd like some help in a man hunt. Mrs. Carr, you go along with her." "To second the invitation? I'd love to. How many people would you want, Asey?" "As many as you can Inveigle," Asey said. "But get natives, please. No outlonders As soon as the croup scattered. Asey slipped upstairs to the attic. Hi, Prim trye greeted him genially. "You don't mind if I on't welcome you with a light, do you?" "Hi yourself," Asey said. "I'm certainly glad to know you're safe an' sound how'd you get here, an' when?" "Oh, I walked In the front door," Pam told him, "while the rest were on the back porch. And if you had a can opener, I could enjoy a light repast of cold beans." Forgotten. Question ASEY presented her with a Jack knife, and told her about Aaron. "Is he missing?" she said. "Oh. I wouldn't worry, Asey. He often wanders. Probably in his present mental stote, he had to wander or bust. Who burned up the barn?" "God A'mighty," Asey said, "is the only one that knows that. Pam, where does your father wander to?" "I've known him to walk to Hyannis." "An' we're shy two troopers." Asey said. "Then I c e r t a I n I y shouldn't worry about Aaron, Pam re marked, struggling with the can of beans. "He wandered off to town, and they went after him, and probably they're ail up there now. Didn't you see the to-do? I spent some time viewing it this afternoon, and apparently my tourist face Is convincing no one noticed me." "Where did you go last night?" "Someone." Pam said, "was prowling around your house. I don't know who it was. but I saw the figure beneath the window. There didn't stem to be any sense in exposing you to danget. so I upped and left Went to vour ga rage, as a matter of fact." "I looked in the garage an' the shed too." "Oil. I climbed a tree until after jrou'u gone to bed," Pain re marked. "Then 1 sneaked into the garage and curled up in your Porter. And if Jennie's mad about a pie she missed from the shed this afternoon, don't blnme tramns. Asey. what's that noise outside? Hordes of people " "Mv man hunt." A,,v "Look, you slay here quiet for the I night, will you? Don't go rushin' olf again. I'll be up later an' bring you some food. Cummingt an Mrs. Carr'll be downstairs. I've got to go an' make sure your fa ther an' them fellers didn't meet up with my biTer " "01;ay," Pam said with her mouth full. , It occurred to Asey as he ran down the stairs to the kitchen that ho had not. In his relief at finding the tirl. .isked a single thing about the question uppermost In his mind. Ho still didn't know where that lumo of ambergris wasl "We've got around two dozen for yoa," Mrs. Carr said with a touch of quiet pride. "All natives, and for ail I know, all of impec cable Mayflower ancestry." "A triumph," Asey said, "of or ganization. Thanks We'll see if we can" get somewheres." At two o'clock that morning, they gave t,p the search. Not a sin gle trate of Aaron Frye or of the two trooper could be found in the woodier tne vicinity. "An' that," Asey said wearily, after cCsrnifiinx his searching par ty, "Is tiilP Cummir.gs agreed. "What are you goin.; to do now? What say, here's Hanson in his car. Maybe he' got some news." Hanson regarded them sleepily through glazed eyes. "News? he said. "I lie town's in order, if that's what you mean." "but i rye. and your two men, thev're still missing," the doctor said "Missing!" "Don't shout. I believe you," Haiisar said. "Woao up for a second," Asey said. "Have you seen Shorty an' O'Malley up town? They're still missin' I'm beginnin' to believe they must have joined your crowd in the village." "They didn't." Hanson yawned widely. A Complete Mess "0 GRAB some sleep, Hanson. J You need it. There's a ham mock on the front porch. Tumble into it. You can sleep and be on guard duty at the same time. I'll look after things here. I've got Lome and carr to help. "That's white of you," Hanson said. "I mean it. Usually I can take three or four days without sleep, but this mob in the town got me. Asey led him to the hammock. Before CumminRs finished drap ing a blanket over him, Hanson was dead to the world. "I'll get another blanket," Cum minRs said. "And look, what about Roddy?" "Ho could menace me," Asey said, "more'n I could menace him, at this point. If there was another hammock, I d flip into it myself." In the kitchen of the Octagon House, Mrs. Carr was bustling around with coffee and sand wiches. "You have a choice," she said, "of ham with mustard or ham without mustard. Last week 1 saw an ad of the perfect hostess serv ing a midnight snack, and she had thirty-four different kinds of cheese and sixteen varieties of cold cuts. By those standards, this is a low-class party. But it's food. Peg, get the butter" "I forgot about you." Asey spoke to Peggy Boone. "Want Cummings to take you home?" "She can't go home," Mrs. Carr said. "She's going to stay and take the bedroom next to mine. I shall feel safer. Did you know that my bedroom has 16 sides?" It was long after three o'clock before Asey got the household straightened out, with Mrs. Carr and Peggy Boone upstairs, Tim on the front porch beside the snoring Hanson, and Jack Lome in the cellar. 'I'm takin the back porch." Asey said, "and it seems to be that between us, we'd ought to discour age any further prowlin' or tlrin or bashin'." He had lust settled himself In a straight-backed chair he didn't dare sit in anything comfortable for fear of following Hanson s ex ample when Mrs. Carr tiptoed out. "You've found out about Tim." she said, "and us " Yes. Asey said, ' votive both had a tough time." And you re really not going to arrest him oh, bless you!" she scid. "He's all I've got, and I know I Ret simply maudlin about him, but" "I know" "But I don't think vou do. Asev. He didn't kill her, nor did I. But you'll never know how much 1 yearned to oh, Emma's followed me! 1 thought she was asleep in her basket grab herl" Asey, with the cat purring in his arms, steered Mrs. Carr up to het room. "Now," he said gently, "you go to sleep!" (jiatitude was all verv well in its way, and he liked the Carr fam ily and its cat, but right now he was too exhausted to cope with them, singly or otherwise. A nnre complete mess, he thought as he resumed his seat on the porch, a more peculiar mess, he had never seen. When will Aiey And out about the ambergris? Continued tomorrow. Pomona Grange Hjr OcrtrmlP Hank Orange Sundry uns Iimnnly ob served In AA'-.lnnrt park with about 225 gathered around the picnic din ner UilJlea, nearly every (Mange tn the county bftru represented. Arranemrm wir in rhnrnr oi Mrs. Olive Hoyd, Pomona lecturer; Mrs. Nora Wuit. Poiuunn c imptntn. and Mn. Wlimrftrd Brown, iMmoim home economics commit too . chmr man. A beautiful and Inspiring program wave given tta (allows: Group sliK'tiw, led by Mrs. Dork Nealcm, Bcntriiv (i.i Urn-nth nt the piano. Invocation : A llutnnt Durham oi the Solvation Army. Solos: Hy Mm. WYrner Jew on vt Zlon Lutheran cMiMi, ncccmpanlMl by Mrs, Beatrice Gdluri'utb at the plana Baritone solo: Harold Fish, ac companied by Mrs. Beatrice Gal breath. Address: "in this ever changing world. Ood alone remains unchanged throughout th agra." by Adjutant Durham of the SalvatKn Army. Duet: By Mn. Edith Bohnert and J. E. Vincent with Freda Young at the p.ano. Etpreanlon of appreciation by Roa coe Hobrrts. Pomona master. Boned let Ion: Ilev. Werner Jeaen of Zlon Lutheran church. Clslntt group aong, "Bleat Be the lie That Binds, ' led by Mrs. Doris Nealon. The Pomona ornitne la deeply ap- p:viattve of all thone who so kindly helped t.i make the program and the ilnv such a success. Oramie Sunday Is an annual fea ture fponvred by the Jackson Coun ty P'!iicns Orain;e. n.i-:i'ri i. me fm IVo Late to Claa Mf) Ada la 1:30 p m. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN MX Tot further proof address the author, Inclosing itamnad anrelop tor reply. Bet. U. & Pat Oft w& pispfcfcrttp to rw America rSN INDIAN UPRISING AFTR 1HB UC fioUPPHMSHTArSO REFUSED "THEM rVSSISaPiNCE. J, J '078' V f?RNM? Of MPiRCrl, I936 3 western u&. mtieznaKPj 5tRlK& WITHOUT C0IUN6 J fAWEW MCHEZ II5N6CK, 5WBN-HN&, ;rw UCVCKrVaS C SfitCVt CI llTC " i, 'Jt' enTiRfc wErstm op John Jtcot mo VW6H He cmtip btAeRicbfo open b MltelCSfoRfc, 1189.- M w wum$ 20,000,000 Astora Fortune When John Jacob Astor came to America In 1783 he had a vague Idea of making a business of Bell ing musical Instruments. He paid 26 for a steerage passage and In vested the remainder of his wealth In seven flutes. After an unusually rough crossing. Astor encountered a strange twist of fate that was to start him In the fur trading business, through which he was to amass 20.OO0,OOO Ameri ca's biggest fortune at that day. When his ship reac'.ird Chesapeake Bay the wind died, and a sudden freeze locked it tightly for a month only a day's sail from Baltimore During this enforced wait Astor met a German fur trader who told hlra of the Immense profits to be made In that business. Slowly at first, young Astor set out to learn all about fur and soon had a buslnesa started. Alone, he trekked miles back Into Indian country from New York, trading trinkets for furs. These he sold in London for profits as high as 1000 per cent. Astor soon began trading with the Orient. He shipped cargoes of trin kets to the Pacific Northwest, traded them for furs and shipped the furs to China. There he traded the furs for tea at a great profit and brought the tea to New York. Once, In 1807, whon an embargo was tn effect on Chinese trade, Astor Is said to h,ave dressed a Chinese dock laborer as a Mandarin and secured permission from President JoKltsod to escort him to China, His hold contained a full cargo, and on this trip he realized 200.000 profit. Astor died In 1848, leaving a $20, 000.000 estate amassed In fur trade from a start with seven flutes I Trouble In Alaska The United States had owned Alaska only 11 years when, in 1878, an Indian uprising threatened the lives of 300 U. S. citizens living near Sitka. An appeal for military protection went unheeded, so the colony appealed to the British ad miral at Victoria. B. C, who sent the H. M. 8. Osprey to the scene, Later arrival of the U. 8. Alsska re lieved the situation. Tomorrow: How Did the "Yard' Originate? AT ITS WORST By GLUYAS WILLIAMS THE WORLD ?H express t rr Wlfrt FiVEKIimmsfO 60 BEFORE TRAlM liME, THE HVTAD OF TriE CW9. WHO HAS JliSf DISCOVERED -rHA-f HE HAS ONLY l8-flCK6f5 FOR 19 BOYS, IS REQUESTED 0 1AKE CARE OF GEORGE'S "TRUNK KEY; 1b REMEMBER "THAT ALBERT" CANNOT EAt TOMA-foES. AWD lb SEE IF HE CftjJ SET SOMETriiKG OUT Of OUNlOfc'S EYE (Copyright, 1938, by The BeD Syndicate, Inc.) WHUfttft) S MATTER POI By C M. PAYNE TO FOREGO HOTEL JOBS PORTLAND, Ore.. June 28. (API Student lenders of six Oregon col lies appealed to fellow students to day to "seek honorable summer em ployment' 'elsewhere than the 16 Portland hotels affected by a strike They said the students who re placed workers on strike would "un dermine the American splrtt of fair play and help drive down the stand ard of living." "The men and women whose Jobs we take are resisting breaches ot contract and threatened tub sequent wage cuts In an effort to maintain a standard of living whlcn may enable their sons and daughters to have the advantages of education which we now enjoy." the appeal said. Copies were distributed to students working in the hotels. TAILSPIN TOMMY More Dirty Work! ITewMia -HwtJ ( Intend Iff J r . MAKry rEWNI6.il B g? Kjestt H(0npyrlgbt. 1938, by The Bell Byndicste, lac), yj fft By HAL FORREST rlf ij.H,ll Vestebday A MAN, WHO CALLED MIM5ELC OOEL SMELTZ, OFFERED TOMMY TEH THOUSAND DOLLARS IM CASH IF HE WOUL0"THROVV' THE BENDIX RACE in pavob. op comet Airlines, tommy refused and ran the man off the airport. today we introduce ben snoot: ACE PILOT FOR THE COMET COMPANY.WHO IS IN CONVERSATION WITH LEM POTTER., THKEE- POl NT i:li:'li)fc USE YOUR HEAD, LJUl-l MT lVL- spin'll be WEARIN' A HUTE. HE AN BAIL AND YOU COLLECT ONE GRAND n Ml W no! i can't S ( f DO THAT, SNOOT) I I IT WOULD BE J f h 1 5rTr -a.f. h -ti rsm mm. lis! .8. .-; VAWHJ ..'J tiiM yol g e hot Fovl4l ourII auiwx 1 BKN WEBSTER'S CAREER All Sotl By EDWIN ALGER (COME ON, BIS W ( 60SH, RUST) f COME ON OVER HERE, BEN-tjJH fvVE'RE NOT RUNN1N6U DO THEY LOOK ALL SET, RUSTV-1 AND HIM ANV MP 1 YOU RE GOI N HE'S STILL WANT TO SHOW YOU THE UN rLp OUT OF THOSE LIKE IT? 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