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OtTAOon House,
BY PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR
THE MINUTE THAT SEEMS A YEAR
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By J OHN HIX
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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
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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.
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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. S. army consists of
one tin cup, nlfe, fork, spoon and
meat can.
Rural villages in Germany which
have no motion picture hauses are
now visited by motor trucks which
contain complete projection outfits.
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