Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 29, 1938, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Textpxgt: etottt rFDFORD M ATL TRFBirNK, lMTCTOTOTtn, OREGON'. "UTDXESDAT; .TOTE 29. 1938. OCTAGON House, BY PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR "WHAT'S THAT NUMBER?" By GLUYAS WILLIAMS ' STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN BIX For further proof addresa the snthor, Inclosing. stamped envelope for reply. Reg. XT. .8. Pat OS. The Story So Fan Asey Mayo, Cape Cod defecllps, is investigating yester day's murder of Marina Lome, whose husband's post otflc mural has aroused Quanomet. She was killed by a let handed biota from her sister's knife. am Frye disappears for awhile after hiding a $50,000 lump of ambergris, then slips back into the tower of Qcta gon House. Asey knows the is inno cent, as well at Tim Carr, boarder with the Frye'e. Marina wot married to Tim, unknown to Jack Lome, and also had played around with Roddy Strutt, who is now being "menaced." Before the eyes of Asey, Jack and Peggy Boone, the bam burns down Realizing the fire was set by someone who wanted to learn the location of the ambergris, Asey prowls around the woods. Both he and Tim are knocked out bu an unknown "bifer." Later they discover that Pam's father and two troopers are missing. Chapter 28 The Ambergris Enigma A MORE complete mesa, Asey thought as he resumed his seat on the porch, a more peculiar mess, he had never seen. It must have been Roddy Strutt's fellows who were bashing around In the woods. It seemed very likely. In view of Carveth's alibi visit and even though Tim insisted that the man he had caught sight of was not one of the Filipinos. out where that ambergris was, and do something about it Pam Frye. without any warning, swung up over the porch, railing before Asey reached the kitchen door. "You, huh?" he said, briefly flicking his flashlight at her. "How did you get out?" "Tree. Pam said. "A leaf from Marina's book. She always used that big maple for sneaking out in her younger days. Asey, I need your help. I've found Father." "You've found" "Yes, all of you kept beating the woods, but no one seemed to think of Jack's house. He's over there." "Is he is he all right?" "He's got a broken ankle, and his face is smashed up. I think his jaw must be broken. He can't talk. He's in the cellar. I gather he'd been thrown there. He couldn't get up, or veil " "Just a sec." Asey said, "till I call Tim. He can phone Cummings an' join us there. An' I want to see Jack. He can stay here." He found Tim sleeping as heart ily as Hanson, on the front porch. It took a good shaking to awaken Lome. Asey snorted with disgust "Guards!" he said. "Some guardsl Mrs Carr an' her cat'd of done bet ter. Now. Pam. let's get over. An' on the way. will vou tell me before these feet of mine make me forget where is that ambergris? Where is it. Pam?" "Coal bin." she said. "Not a very "Get paper and a pencil! He's tryin' (o say somethin'." On sudden Impulse he walked through the house and asked Tim if he knew Roddy Strutt. "Saw him when he was offering rewards for the murderer," Tim said, "but he wasn't the one 1 saw in the woods, if that's what you mean." Asey returned to the back porch. When you sorted it all out, the essentials of the mess were simple enough. Someone, between nine-thirty and ten-thirty the night before, had stabbed Marina with Pam's knife. Almost anyone had access to that knife, holding up Mrs. Carr's note to Pam on the back door. Anyone could have twitched it out. There was very little to be done in the matter of tracing the twitcher. And the time element didn't mean so much. You could ask questions til) the cows came home on the Where-were-you-last-night -from ninc-thirty-to-ten-thlrty or der. But it was Asey's experience that people, when they set out to commit a murder, usually saw to It that their whereabouts at the time could be explained with great fullness and conviction. ' Jack Lome was lucky enough to be alibied. Tim Carr wasn't, but he believed Tim. Those two were out. Then you came to the problem of motive. Practically everyone, he thought, who ever had dealings of any length with Marina wanted to kill her. Just knowing her seemed to be motive enough in Itself. All the people in Qunnomet vented their wrath about the mural on her. The town was sorry for Jack Lome, but they blamed and hated Marina. Coal Bin! AND then of course there was the ambergris. Someone might well have killed her for that; but why hadn't they taken it with them? And before anytl.ing else hap pened. Asey decided as he got to his weary feet he was going to find bright idea, but the best I could think of at the time. Asey, who did this to father? What's going on?" Barn! ASEY swallowed hard. "I wish 1 knew," he said. "But' Father is strong!" Pam said. "You mightn't think so to look at him, but he is. Who could have done this?" "I'm strong," Asey said. "So is Tim. So're those troopers. Tim an' I got knocked out, though. An' I don't think I ever got hit much harder in all my life." Pam sighed. "Anyway." she said, "the amber gris is all right. Old Strongarm Hasn't got that. That's something to be thankful for." . Asey couldn't bring himself to the point of telling her that the ambergris was not in the coal bin. He tried to, but he couldn't Over in the cellar of the Lome house they fuund Aaron Frye. His face and jaw were bruised and swollen, and his face was con torted with pain. "Don't try to talk," Asey said "Just wait Dr. Cummings will be over in a sec. an' then we'll gel you up those stairs In a stretcher an' fix you up. I" "His ankle looks frightful," Pam said. "Father, don't try to talkl you mustn't you mustn't Asey, we've got to "Get some paper," Asey said. "He's veamin' to say somethin1 get some pnper and a pencil." Pam raced up to Jack Lome's studio. With difficulty, Aaron scrawled on the block of drawing paper which Pam had brought "I found," he wrote, "smb. In coal bin when I got coal for stove " "Where Is It now?" Asey asked. "Man, where is it now?" Aaron Frye grinned the pencil. "In barn." he wrote. ICtSmtU, 1931. rkeilm Amci Ttvltr) Thick gloom at Octagon House, tomorrow. ATTENDANCE AT STATE It Is expected that t number of mining men from here will attend the etate-witte mining , convention to be held In Baker July 9 and 3. The convention It sponsored by the Eastern Oregon Mining and Mineral association. Morning and afternoon sesMons will dc held Saturday with a lunch at noon and a banquet at 0 In ihe Hotel liaker The grnfrnl fcssloiu will be held In the Elks hall and the public Is Invited. The Saturday morning program Includes talks by Rex Putnam, itnte superintendent of puhllc Instruction, and A. M. Swartley. cansultlng min ing engineer, state department of asolgy ind mineral Industries. A gold exhibit may be viewed In the First National bank lobby. Principal a(!dreps at the Saturday afternoon aoslcn will be given by J. D. Rom. Bonneville dam admin 1st rat or Othfr sp?akem win be Wal ter Fellows, on "Practl"il Mining." Earl K. Nixon, on "Mining and Stream Pollution." and Prof. War ren D. Smith, on -What It Takes to Make a Mine." Mr. Rosa and Prof. Smith will also speak at the banquet. Sundny will be devoted largely to a tour to various mines. News of 4-H CLUBS Kenneth lien dure C. D. Conrad. 4-H club leader, weighed the calves and sheep of the Elk Creek clubs recently on the new trailer scales bought for the Jackson county 4-H clubs. The trailer scale Is a recent development at the Oregon State college, the Jackson county set being only the fifth niade. The stock will be weighed at regular Intervals to check on their development. Two. not provlounly mentioned, who donated toward the Elk Creek scholarships, were Brophy's Jewelry store of Melford and the McLeod Home TxU'P.sion unit. Clositvj; t nie tor Vzq Late to Cloa lily Ada is 130 p m. U,V60 tf 1& PROTECT insM rKOff Cmnvc , . FOR MVCbl zatooi, JIM o MS: 4 fa jv . WV3 NMEO BY lottery NP)rA&S INTO h HftT Winner wte'ifiueftflr- DrSTftMCE fR&WTH6 NoSE op KlUJ HEMRy 1 of eNGlfcHP WrWJWICeVErgtftS, me I re It NIT. la. Following h TRAIL THEIR' PARENT HAD USED 18 YEARS &EFORE ilKumitniurui Of 1HE fAEHiM Barred Groves So prevalent was the custom .of grave-robbing ' In early nineteenth century Scotland that steps had to be taken to protect Interred bodli& from the macabre maraudings. Ono of the most Interesting rellca of this perl on is the strange "Mort Safe," pictured above. Strange as It seems. It was actually found neces sary to Inter caskets In such odd, wrought Iron prisons to protect them frorr grave robbers. Unprotected bodies were quickly disinterred by the wily resurrection ists and sold at a good price to medical schools, which always form ed -i ready market for cadavers. Bodies more than six weeks old were considered unfit for such trade, so it waB customary to unearth the "Mor'' Safes" after this length of time for use again on a fresh grave The King's "Yard" In this day of precision It is hard to understand how certain common units of measurement came Into be ing. During the Middle Ages almost every town had its own standards of weights and measures. Italy, as late as the 18th century, had over 200 different units of length called the "foot." all In dally um. No standardization was effected until royal and parliamentary enactments forced the adoption of specific units. Many of these were amusing In themselves: The English yard, for example, was decreed by King Henry I to be the distance from the point of his nose to the tip of his thumb. This was in the year 1101. Previously a yard measured 39 6 Inches, almost the same length as the present meter. Similarly, a fathom, unit of meas uring water depth, originated as the length of a sailor's outstretched arms six feet. The word means "to em brace. The distance from a man's elbow to his knuckles was called Dy the ancient Egyptians one "pygmy." giving rise to the name of those small people. The Inch In 1224 was stand ardized as the 'length of three dry barleycorns, laid end to end. Tomorrow: Is the Ice Age Over? Thin Out Wildlife JERSEY VILLE. 111. ( UP) Among the deadliest enemies of wildlife can now be numbered the automobile. A count along a 10-mtle stretch of state highway near here showed as victims of autos three turtle doves, one car dinal, two woodpeckers, one flicker. a meadow lark, two robins, five rab bits and a possum. Use Mall Tribune Want Ada. Juvenile Crime Up LONDON (UP) American gangster pictures are blamed by Juvenile court authorities for the large Increase in Juvenile crime revealed In the latent criminal statistics for England and Wales. The number of indictable of fenders under 17 years of aga, It Is shown, rose from 20,540 In 1034 to 27,120 In 1037. Use Mall, Tribune Want Ads. Licenses L'rged HELSINKI. Finland (UP) Pedes trians as well as cyellsts and motor ists may have to take out licenses If a suggestion put forward by the Abo Chamber of Commerce Is adopted. It Is proposed that courses In "road culture" be given to walkers and cer tificates be awarded to those who pass the required tests. Use Mali rrlbune Want Ads. j CAiW WHtrf'S The WIMPIES' NUMBER HE'6 60f1b 'PHONE Bill ABOOf YriF MEN CU" TAKES OFF RECEIVER AS VvifE ANSWERS BUlSXlY MHJN 225f PlrfS RECEIVER BACH AS MUDREP SHOUfS MOfHER'5 60-f If WP0N6, If '5 2452 TRIES 1b ENDAR6UMBW WHICH BREAKS Otff UP SfAlR?.. BV SH0U1W6 WEvER MIND, HE'U. 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