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BEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOUD, OREfl ON; WEDNESDAY. JULY 6, 1938. PAGE EIGHT OtTAOon House, BY PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR THE MINUTE THAT SEEMS A YEAR By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By J OHN HIX For further proof address th author, tocloalnf stamped envelope for replr. Beg. U. S.P.L Off. I. 1 m I rh Story So r: NtaTlu tumuane in Quanomet had a motius lor mur dering unscrupulous Marina Lome, including the enraged citizens cari catured in her husband's post office mural. But Asev Majo. Cape Cod de tective, thinks she was killed (or a $50,000 lump o; amoergris belonging to her sister Pam Frve Although she was tilled bu a left handed blow from Pam'e knife. Asev believes both Pam and left handed Tim Carr. a boarder at the Frye't Octagon House are in nocent. Marina was once marrted to Tim, and also played around uitth Roddu Strutt. Then the bam is set on fire bu someone truing to locate the missing ambergris, and Aseu, Tim and Pam'e lather are knocked out by person or persons unknown. Two troopers, who disappeared, are found etranded on Dune Island. Chapter 33 A Nice Idea, Anyway "UrE GOT tho guy who knocked "us out, sale the short trooper "Where?" Asey asked briefly. "We got two pictures, while it was still light O'Mallev had his camera, ties a camera tan. seer And we'll get that guv" "Where's the camera?" Asev fle. mended. "Where'd you put It Shorty?" O'Malley askec "Me? You've cot it." . "I gave it to you. You've got ltl" "Say, I guess " "Wait up." Asey said. "Who had it last?" "When we got out of the boat' O'Malley said, "1 hai it, and 1 give It to Shorty to hold wnue 1 tnea to pull the boat up. but tne under tow was too much ' "So we let the old tub go, but we kept the camera dry," O'Malley said. Then we walked over here, It was daybreak then, and we went to sleep. Were we ever dead! "And vou've been sleeoin' ever since? "No," Shorty said, "we got up and tried to hall a Ashing, boat to take us off. The engine waked us about nine. But they fust waved at us and went on. Thought we was lust being friendly. I guess." ' "Ever think of swimming back?" Asev inauired. After a poignant silence. Shorty admitted that whereas tney couia swim, thev were not exoerts. "I see," Asey said. "Now, Where's the camera?" It was Timothy who finally found it, buried deep in the soft dry sand or the dune. 'But your pictures have offt. he said. "See? The film's exposed, One of you gave the camera a good swift kick with a nice heavy boot. It's coming apart It's dripping nartsl Here O'Malley grabbed It from him, and then turned to his companion "You " "No." Shorty said firmly. "1 didn't. That's where you was sleep ing last. And you been kicking around a lot. You done it yourself. Well, there's that bright Idea of . yours al " "Let's lust sum it uo." Asev said before O'Malley could let himself go, by admlttin that the pictures was a nice idea that didn t work. Now. let's sort What happened to vou?" It began. Shorty announced. with him. He thought he saw some. one near the barn. Before setting out to Investigate, he called O Mai ley, and the tw i of them went back to the woods together. "We leaded for the barn.1 Shorty said, "and then I seen some thing move In the woods to the right, so we went there, and some. one made a noise, and I pushed through a bush 'near that sort of summer house, and wham! That was that. Somehodv biffed me. "And he squeaked." O'Malley said, "and I come running up to where he was and bam! I got mine. I never was hit so hard in all my lifel The guv must of had a billy. When I come to, mv head was splitting. And then I found Shorty, and then we heard some one running boy. was that a chase!" 'A Horrid Scowl' "VOU got kmcked out before the 1 Are," Asey said. "I see. Then the feller went to Lome's and ac counted for Aaron. Now. what about the fire?" "What fire?" Shorty said. "After we pulled ourselves together, we seen someone running, beyond Jack Lome's, and we chased him clear to Chatham" "What? Who was it? How?" "We grabbed a car parked there by the corner Belonged to some tourist. I euess Had Indiana plates And we chased this guv that was run.iing he got Into a jpdan with Jersey plates He turned out to be a tourist, too Nice guy He was taking pictures of the scene of the crime fnr his collection." O'Mallev said. "Bov did he ever have an outfit!" "Then what?" "We started back in this Indiana car." Shorty said, "and we left It where we found It and then we seen this other suv running out of the woods thnt nlace was lousy with neonle! So. we run after him- "By then." Tim said, "the bifTor having laid me and vou out I sup pose. Tm " "Let em gu on, Asej saia. "an' see if it turns out like I think." They had chased th- man to th river, where he grabbed a boat and they followed him In theii leaky tub Pam'a boats had caughi their eye. but the chains had thwarted them In their haste. "Then." Shorty said "all of sudden we got into a current, anr the oars we found in the boat wasn't much, and one got lost over, board, and while we tried to gel that" "You lost the other," Asey said "How'd you l.now?" Asey sighed. "People always; do. Well. 1 guess it happened abou' the way I thought. He got you, Tim an' then he got these two, and thei. he got Aaron Frye. Shorty an O'Malley got sidetracked to Chat ham. an durin' that time the biffei got me. Then, as he left the woods He run into the troopers comin back, an' they all had their litth boat trip when'd you take your pictures?" "When we came back from Chat ham. as he was on the edge of thi woods. You see. I had my camera ready to take a shot" "What did he look like?" "He was big." "An' strong," Asey said. "Yes. know all that. But what did he lool like? How tall was he? What size?' Fifteen minutes of questioninf brought forth only the informatlor that the man was big and dark. "You followed him all that time an' that's all vou can tell?" Ase demanded. "It was dark in the woods.' Shorty said. "And he was big anri dark" "Big and dark." Tim said, "anf doubtless about to start on a long, long iourney. overseas Why. 1 sau more of him In a tenth of a seconf than you two did In all vour chasp' t know that he had a horrid scowl what did you say, Asey?" Wheelbarrows And Things "1 SAID, the next time these fel- lers went off on chases," Asey wagged a forefinger toward tht troopers, "they better remembei all the things they got taught in school, about how to place an' de scribe people. Just leave voui cameras for your lighter moments Big, an' dark, an' mad! A woman would of been able to do better than that. Least she couIl say what he wore." "Dungarees and a dark shirt," Shorty said. "I know that much No hat. And listen this'U make you kid us more than ever, but this fellow that knocked us out. I don't think he was the first person 1 saw, before I called O'Malley. The first one wasn't so big." Perhaps. Tim said. Tie got er the more you saw of him. It was different people." Shorty Insisted. "It should have been," Asey told him. "The first one you seen was the one that fired the barn. Then the biffer got you. and vou chased him again after vour interlude with the tourist that took the nice fiictures. Now, there's a few more ittle d'tails I want to get settled before we go back. Did either of you see Aaron Frye wheelin' some thin' into the barn, yesterday?" The troopers stared at him. "Why. he carried soms coal out," Shorty said, after a pause. "I asked if I could help, the first trip. I helped him dump it. He told me he could manage the rest" 1 see. Asey said. Apparently Aaron had first-car- rled a load of coal out in the bar row, and thus lessened any sus picions anvone might have had. Once having implanted the idea that he was carrying out coal, he could carry out the ambergris "1 see," Asey said again "Now did you spot anyone carryin' anythin' out or tne barn? Shorty shook his head. "1 don't think so. You see anyone O'Malley?" "I don't know, It seems to me who helped Frye later? Someone was doing some carting. That woman, the one with the cat." Oh. not Gran." Tim said "She's not much of a one for carting She's better at telling people where to cart, if you know what 1 mean." No. she was the one." O'Mallev said. "I know, because the cat was sitting In the wheelbarrow, big as life. She had th- barrow." I do remember, now." Tim said. "It was after they put up the barbed wire, after the crowd had trampled around the (lower beds. Gran couldn't stand it. so she went and tried to repair the damaee. 1 was flitting around." he explained to Asey. with Hanson and over at Lome's. Irving to catch sight of those papers Gran did do some re pair work, on the zinnias, and probably she used the barrow then. What does It all signify?" Was thnt .-ifter Aaron did h s carting, or before?" Asev wanted to know. "I don't think I remember." O'Mallev said "After, I guess. 1 tell vou, vesterdav was mixed up It was around the time that Strutt hoy was there, too. I think. I." he frowned. "I think he wheeled something, too." It sounds." Timothy a d. "as though everyone in the vicinity of Octagon House had snent the day playing with barrows." (CetyitSI Hit fkf4 Altt4 Tlari Asey learnt about art, tomorrow E E CHICAOO, July 6. Swllt & company, In an appcnl filed with the United Statea circuit court of appali, today charged Secretary of Agriculture Wallace with attempting to drive It out of competition. Th allegation was made In the company's appeal from Secretary Wal lace' order that it "ceaw snd de aiit" from the "unjustly discrimina tory" credit, discount and weight practice. The compnny. charged In ten aep arate count with violntlon of the packer and stockyards act, opposed the findings as contrary to the evi dence pret?ntd. The whole pro ceedings against the company, as appeal set forth, was a denial of a "full and fair hearing" ns required by the packers and stockyar.1 act. Scottsboro Negro Receives Clemency MONTGOMERY, Aln.. July (AP) Governor Bibb Graves today commuted to life Imprisonment the death sentence of Clarence Norrls. negro "Scottsboro case" defendant. He acted a few minutes after the Alabama b.arrt of pardons recom mended commutation for Norrls, the only one of four convicted in the mass rape to be sentenced to dmm in re-trlals of the widely-publlclred case last yenr. Three others, of nine negroes orig inally accused of raping two white women aboard a freight train in 1931, are nerving long-term sentences. H First Movei, of - TH TMNBKSoTHER, which now nee 9o Of 1Hfc WORURftlM, John f. bmtH k, If I TrMoH, Capital of New Jersey, GEOGXhPHIC CStfTttOFIHB'SfHtei ,p3 NO oTHEl? STMfe 7 GalvaHon Amy WWSM&m- a oim3UTEt ooo,ooom6Httm v ? Li trie vjoru? ww? Hn 'jdBkv 4rtORi6iNKfePtrtcusToA f y-Slv fill o9 w WoNte'R-fiv?,,. I efiMm. n . y UlSr ?HS Hf& MAPS ONLY j !rSWk x k The adage that "an army marches on It atomach" inspired Brigadier Helen Purvlance, a Salvation Army lassie during tho World war to give the boys In the A.E.F. some good old home cooking. Stationed at Montt - sur - Soux, France, she cast about for some good American food, easy to prepare, that would satisfy the appetite of "her army." The Salvation Army's sup plies, however, were limited. 'Finally we discovered that we could make doughnuts with what we had," she recalls. "We made a cutter out of aw evaporated milk can and a shaving stick holder. We used a grape-Juice bottle for rolllng pln. The soldiers were tickled to death." Before the war ended, Mlas Purvl ance estimates she made 1,000,000 doughnuts. Recently, during a Sal vation Army drive for funds, she made another batch of "sinkers" only the third since the war. First Twine-Knotted. John F. Appleby, an 18-year-old Wisconsin farm boy, one day In 1850 tired of the monotonous task of tying bundles of grain by hand, and set out to devise a machine to do the work for him. Ho constructed a model of a ma chine that would tie a knot In a piece of twine, but he lacked funds to build a working machine. He finally persuaded his school teacher to loan him 950 and started to work. All went well until the teacher de cided that he wanted the money back. Young Appleby was forced to sell at auction all of his belongings to pay back the man, and his twlne knotter model went on the block for 17 cents. A friend bought It and gave It back to him! Another interruption from the Civil war held up progress on the Invention, but eventually Appleby completed his machine and eold full rights to William Deerlng, a manu facturer. Today nine-tenths of the world's bound grain is handled by machines patterned after Appleby's original model! Tomorrow: What classmute of Cal vin Coolldge (Amherst, '95) vbted him "niost likely to succeed" and him self received all remaining ballots? Chaplin's Second Weds Third Time LOS ANGELES, July 6. ( AP ) Lita Grey Chaplin Agulrre, second wifo of Film Comedian Charles Chap lin, and her business manager, Ar thur F. Day, Jr., were married today at a Manhattan beach Catholic church by Father Peter Conway. It was her third marriage. Her di vorce from Henry Aguirre, Jr. be came final last Friday. After the ceremony, the bride's and Chaplin's sons, Charles, Jr., 13, find Sydney Chaplin, 13, tied tin cans to the automobile in which the newlyweds departed. The Individual mess kit of a sol dier In the U. 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