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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE, AfEDFOTlD, OREGON-. RTJXDAY. JULY 3, 1938 OtTAOOU UoUfe BY PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR CHANGE EN R01TT1 By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address the author, Inclosing- a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. U. 8. Pat Oft 61UVAS . S The Story So tar: Asey Mayo, Cape Cod detective, it investigating the murder of Marina Lorne, whose hus band's post office mural has aroused Quanomet. She was killed by a lelt handed blow from her sister's knife. Pam Frye is Innocent as well as agree able Tim Carr, boarder at the Frye'e Octagon House. Marina was married to Tim, unknown to Jack Lome, and alio had played around with wealth Roddy Strutt. Then the barn ii set on fire; Asey, Tim and Pam's lather are knocked out, and two troopers dis appear. The problem uppermost tn Asetft mind is a 150,000 lump of ambergris which Pam found the day of the murder and Aaron Frye hid in the barn. He Is convinced that the amberaris was not in the barn when it burned down. Chapter 31 Tracking The Troopers "VyELL," Doc Cummings asked, 'what do you make of things. Asey?" "I don't. If you want to know the truth." Asey said. "We've got one shrewd an' canny soul who set the barn on Are to set us runnin' around locatln' the ambergris for him. An we got a violent num . ber well, 1 dont know what he's after, unless it's lust a series of punchin' bags. Maybe his got broke an' he's huntin' a substitute." see him this afternoon. Aftet him we go to Roddy. In one sense, ) don't want to wait one bit. I've go' a feelin' Roddy might try boatin it, though I don't think he'll dare to. An' on the other hand. I don't think I'd ever get the truth from Roddy unless I got somethin' solid on him first. If I get Brigham's story, I think it'll be worth the wait.'' "Brigham," Cummings said. "Oh. yes. I'd forgotten that pilot. So vou're going to let Roddy slide?" "I'm goin' let him sizzle." Asey said, "on the theory that the longer he sizzles, the better it'll be when we do get him. You go see Aaron. Doc. I want to run to the village an' find out how Hanson's comin' on with his trooper hunt." "Where can those fellows be?" '"I wish I knew!" Asey said. "I wish I knewl" As he went out on the back porch. Tim Carr drove up in his little coupe. "I've been helping the blood hounds, but there's no sign of O'Malley and Shorty." he re ported, "Hanson is now little bet ter than a psychopath." "How's the reporters?'" Asey asked. "Where are they?" "Gorging themselves on shore dinners at that roadhouse near the junction. They ought to be logey and waterlogged for hours to come I mean, vou can eat iust so many steamed clams and wash them down with lust so much beer be- Tim blinked as the speedometer swung around the dial. "But what about the third per jn, the one who took the amber 4ris?" Cummings asked. "That's .vhat interests me the most. Who took It, providing they did take it before the barn was burned, and how? Why couldn't the burner have taken it before his burning?" "Your guess," Asey said, "is very bit as good as mine about the whole business. I don't know, n' I don't know how we're goin' to find out. I Hist hope 1 get a crack it this biffer, though, before this is over with. I got a sock to repay. I want to meet up with that violent Dne." Cummings laughed. "Speaking . of violence, you should have seen Earl Jennings over at the hospital this morning. H- was being mad with Chase, the traffic cop. There's i man that's sore at that mural " "Chase, you mean?" "No, Jennings. He's a big husk, and Lorne put him in as Industry Mending the Leaking Pipes of Civilization. Jennings is taking it as a personal affront, and an insult to his business. Particularly as an insult to his business " "Are you talking about Jen nings?" Pam passing through the halk stopped long enough to stick her head in the door. "I thought so. He was simply enraged I think myself that's why he did such a rotten tob on the plumbing over at the cottage, as a sort of revenge. You know, that bathroom over flows copiously and hideously." "An' no one," Asey said sin cerely, "could think of a much worse revenge than that. It occurs to me that Lorne ain't goin' to have an easy time gettln' his vine an' flgtree repaired." "Not to speak of his grocery bill," Pam said. "His credit is nil look, I'm going to yank some car rots and thinss for dinner. I'll be jti the garden if vou want me." Waterlogged " IERRY CHASE kidded Jennings J about the leaking pipes," Cum mings went on with his story, "and they had to be forcibly separated. Asey. what about Roddy, the men aced? I think you ought to see him." "Yup." "Well, why don't you. then?" Cummings demanded. "I'm waitin' to tal': with that pilot of his, Brigham, first," Asey explained. "They told me last night at the hospital that I could fore what's the matter with you?" "Timothy, my son," Asey said, "crawl back into your little low backed car. I just had a brain wave." Sea Hunt "yOU'VE had something," Tim agreed. "This rosy glow look, you don't think you know where the troopers went to, do you?" "I don't know where they went to," Asey said, "but I bet you $10 I know where t' ey are now let me drive, d'you mind? I'm in sort of a hurry, like. Waterlogged That's the answer. Waterlogged Hang on, Timothy." The coupe backed down the driveway at a speed that made Timothy blink behind his glasses. Before they reached me corner, ne was gripping the door strap with both hands. "The right rear tire," Tim re marked in what he hoped was a conversational tone, "is quite old and very eccentric. "Is it?" Asey said. "Handle; nice, for a little car. don't she? W. had one at the Porter testii grounds, an' it run circles arouni our sixteen. If only they'd stani up" "That's exactly my point abou the rear tire," Tim interrupter quickly. "If only it'd stand ui when you go over fifty-five. But no matter what tubes you put in. it always seems to blow " "Don't seem to be blowin' now." Asey said. Tim watched the speedometer needle swing around the dial. At least, he thought, if the tire stood up, he could truthfully report to his grandmother that those last figures were not the fakes thev had always imagined. "What ahout the troopers?" he asked, suddenly remembering that the speed of the ear and the stam ina of the rear tirr were not. after all. the principal issurs. "Oh." Asey said, "you gimmr the idea when you tnlkcd aboi:' the reporters hein' waterlogged I iust occurs to me that we done lot of land searchin'. hut we so of Ignored the yitcr. Prcttv si' of me nVit to think of it befcr; There's so much water around." "So we're going to sea hunt, hp we?" Timothy sounded very dubi ous. fVtj. 11t. Unto 4tre4 Tlvltr) Will Asey find the trooneri? Con. Untied tomorrow. DEFENSES IN EAST SINGAPORE (UP) Now that ti:e forttflcatlona t Singapore, Great Britain's 150.000,000 naval air baae In the lr east, are nwrlng comple tion, authorities arc concentrating on the defenses of Penang. Penang, the most northerly of t!ie straits settlements. c:minncii one of the entrances to the Mnlvca straits, through which alt dipping between the Indian ocean and the China aea has to pass. Port CornwalHs, the historic fort In Penary? built In the early days of the British settlement, la not to be modernized. H e civilian pcpuistion vuh it to reuiflia aa cy?u space. I&e wlah has been respected, and ft site near by has been selected for new fortifications. Reclamation worV to permit extension!, la being carried out. Thousands of Asiatic laborers are worktng on the military contraete. which provide for barracks, an aero drome and an office building. Oun emplacements are being prepared. The Pennng K. A. F. aerodrome and nnother at Sunget Patanl, on the malnjand. will provide the Key to tr.e defense of north Malaya. Eventually a third aerodrome at K.ua Bahru, on the wist c"ast at the Malay-Slam border, will be built, the landing having nlready been acquired. FASCIST CHIEFS HURT IN SHOWOFF FOR DUCE ROME. July 3. OTi Four fascist party chiefs were injured trday at tempting to show Premier Mu&xolml their gymnastic ability. Io federal secretins te'A ca tae mm WILL IE fH0 WlTrl -rue Pimm (cftu) of Trie it trance. "WrV5 BELGIUM'S CdPilftU PUKING -H IMS- fH6 &C0ND PAV0FMV, 1776, IN THE HlSToftfOFMBRICh ... If 0MH11O BE SoLefANlZED WiTH FbM? AHD PMtovS ... fcoNFlRES PNP IlLUMlNRftoN?. fftcM 1HB HMfc Forward, porevermors...-" ( Member of Declaration of Independence Committee) duly 3, 1776 fHe colons voTep ihbir mmtiotnet oh dUty 2 McfTMVifi im M&0O"W&TK$LW$"-- ChekianS River, China, rWt USED To FLoAT 3t&3 Of RlCBPOWrVSTREftW... frleV fcRE BUILT UKS 1oS050ANS... Independence Day. For the past 163 years the United States has celebrated the anniversary of its birth of Independence on the fourth of July yet. strange as, It seems. It was on July 3 that the American colonies voted themselves "free and Independent states, ab solved from all allegiance to the British crown." July 4th, on the other hand, la merely the anniversary of tho adop tion of the epeclflo document which proclaimed to the world the decision of the second Continental, congress to free the New World from Old World alliances. A daring prognostication was ad vanced on July 3. 1776. oy John Adams, one of the committee of five appointed to draw up the declaration and later second president of the United States. In a letter to his uncle, Adams wrote: "Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated In America, and a greater, perhaps, never was nor ever will be decided among men. A resolution was passed, without one dissenting colony, 'that these United Colonies are, of right ought to be, free and independent states . . . ' "You will see, In a few days, a declaration setting forth the causes which have Impelled us to this mighty revolution, and the reasons which will Justify It In the &ight of God and man. A plan of confedera tion will be taken up In a few days. "The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch In the history of America. I am apt to believe that It will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. "It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bonfires and Illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward forever more." Adams, strange as It seems, correct ly forecast the observance, but missed the date by 48 hours. He died on July 4, 1826, as did Thomas Jefferson. Monday: Was the Declaration of Independence unanimously adopted on July 4, 1776? VERY tomwifiiis OW Or) TfelP MrrfeEBPREStri-flY RE MARKS tf'SPREItY 001 HE'D BEffER Pdf Orl THE EtffRA SWEATER SHE BROUGHT AL0tf6 PROTESTS UUSCESS- Til , TAKES COAT Off, M0CKIH6 Tftfrifl?'5 Hat oft wnH sisve STASIS Sftd66UHS into sweater. WHUE EHfANaED lW SWEATER, CAR HlTS BUMP.-fOpPLlKS HIM OFF SEAT MOTHER HELPS HIM ON Wlfrt SWEATER, REMARK- w6it would 8es1m vur if father would stop -the car FATHER SR0W15 TrtEv' HAEM't TME 1b KEEP ST0PPIW6, AyJD FiSDS THAT IN 6Efflfe SWEATER Oti.OUNlOR'S CAP HAS 60rJE OVERBOARD CAP IS RE-fRiElJED AND TRIP PE6UMEP. WEATrira IMMEDIATELY TURNING VEW WARM 1-1. (Copyright, 1938, by The Bell Byndlcatt, Inc.) S 'MA 'IT IT.' 'FO Bv C M PAYNE points of bayonetB over which they were trying to Jump from a spring board. Anothr was scorched leaping through a ring of fire. 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