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P "A"GE FOURTEEN rEDFOTlD MATL TRTBimE, MEDFOTID, OREGON, FRIDAY. JULY 8, 1938, By GLUYAS WILLIAMS' INTERRUPTION STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot further proof address the author. Inclosing a (tamped envelope tor reply. Beg. V. 8. PaL OS. GlDVflS 7-7 BY PHOEBE ATWOOO TAYLOR The Story So Fart Attv Mayo, Cop Cod dtctit, it inuti;atlng tht murdtr of Marina Lorn, uihon hut band' poll offlet mural hat tnraatd Quanomtt. Sht wot Killed 6v a ljt handed blou from tht knle of her titter, Pam Fry. Milling around Octagon Houie and jtherwiec in volved are; agreeable Tim Carr, who wot married to Marina; Jack Lome, who thought he ua her hueband, Roddy Strutt, tohoie plane craihed the night 0 the murder Feggu Boone, an artist; Jenmngt, a plumber; and perron unknown who tmokt Turklth tobacco, burned down the barn, biffed Attv, Tim, Pam't father and two trooperi, and deetroued Jack' mural ketchee. Mining it a 150,000 lump oi embtrartt belonging to Pam. Mean while, Tim teemi to be thinking 0 Pam in connection with hu future. Chapter S5 The Sweet With The Bitter "DAMI" Peg Boone called from tSe kitchen. "Pam, where are you?" "I've got to go," Pam said hastily, "She wants?' ' "I do," Tim wai replying to her housemaidy question. I do, do i. What nice hands you have, I'm so lick of painted claws. Look, what's this about ambergris? Is it like verdigris, or a vamtion of amper sand? I'm sure I ousht to know, it'i probably something I should be teaching the youth of America, but my miners a Diarw. wnat are am bergrisr Ana on. Peg Boone walked over to them and eyed them botn ratner curi ously. Pam felt herself turning red again. "Something definitely wrong with the Spanish cream, Pam," she aid. "I can't tell if it's too Spanish, or too creamy, but it's not as it should be. "I'll be riant In." Pam said. ' Timothy watched Peg stride back to the house. . "What," he said, "does she do around here? "'What do you mean, what does she ao7" Tim shrueied. "Every time manage to haul you off for a nice long chat, up she poos. She re minds me of Aaron s clocks. Just as you forget them, they strike." She's nice," Pam said. "She's a friend of ours. "I suppose she is," Tim said with t sigh. ''Well, I'll just have to take the bitter with the sweet. I ud- pose. You won't like lots of our friends, either. We know a tea taster who wears a coral bracelet round one ankle, and sandals with ' thong next his big toe. I'll tell you what we'll introduce him to Peg. Maybe they'll marry. Isn't It wonderful how problems disap pear, if you just put your mind to An1 " U nAAr,A kAfn Dam had time to speak, "where did Aaron get those clocks, anyway? With shavina soap?" "Auctions. Pam said. "He got the first ones by accident, and then It got into his blood. He slinks iround attics, hunting them. Why aon t you like "Gran's that wav about ele phants." Tim said. "She buys iook, do you really have to see Dout that bpanlsh cream? I thought it was one of those things you couidn t alter aiterwards. J mean, either you hit it on the head. r you don't. "I know," Pam said. "You're what they call an extravert You " "The things I draw on phone pads," Tim said, "are as normal and healthy as can be. Well, let's eope with the Spanish cream, but ion 1 lei s asK me uoone to stay on Indefinitely" Pam stopped short. "Why ever not, Tim? What's the matter? Why don't you like her?" "If I were a woman," Tim dropped his bantering tone, "I'd say it was lust my intuition. I don xnow wny 1 don't like her. Do you warm up to ner much, yourself? " Pam hesitated. "Therel" Tim said. "See?" 'Her Eyes Don't Smile' "DUT I do like her," Pam said. - "She's been awfully decent to me. 1 m not -lolently enthusiastic about her. 1 ve known her too Ion and too well, and besides. I don often get violently enthusiastic about people. What is it you have against her?" "Nothing," Tim took her arm. "Come on" "You have," Pam said. "I want to Know before we go In." ."Well, you asked for It " Tim told her. "It's lust that she's an damn hearty, but her eyes don't smile. 1 teel the same way about your brother-in-law. God knows no one would ever accuse him of being hearty, but his eyes are such fishy things. Like cod on Ice In a fish market window. And then every time I get myself up to the pitch of telling you about Marina, she appears on the scene. That's worse than her eyes." "What about Marina?" Pam said. "I was married to her." Timothy said. "Before Lome. I no, please don't say anything now. Not till you've considered how. much we have In common. It isn't Marina that matters. It's what she did now, tell me about ambergris. Is it either portable or valuable?" "Both," Pam said In a small voice, "Really." Tim said. Tell mt aU about It 11 He remembered, ai they went Into the kitchen, ail the questions Asey had put to the troopers about the barrow and the cartings that had gone on the day before. And he remembered that Peggy Boone had helped his grandmother re pair the flower beds. "All about it," he continued, still avoiding Pam's eye, "Ambergris One, an Introductory Course." While Timothy was being told about ambergris, Asey parked his car in front of the Pochet hospital, and went in to see Roddy's pilot. "I was just going to call you." the nurse on dutv said. "Susan asked me. Brigham's doing nicely. He reaily snouldn t nave any call ers, though, so vou won't get him excited, or stay too long, will you? Dr. Carter sent you his regards, by the way, and says he's coming down for a sail before his vaca tion's over. I'll show you the room." "How's Earl Jennings?" Asey asked as they walked down the corridor. "I hear he's been actin' up." "So you heard about that epi sode, did you?" the nurse sighed. "Thank goodness, he's going to morrow. We're Just about worn out with him. And he was so nice at the beginning, toot It's the mu ral that's fretted him and got him so obstreperous. Here you are. Mr. Brigham, this is Asey Mayo." "I hope," Asey said sincerely, "that all them bandages ain't any indication of how you feel. An' what's this contraption for, the busted leg?" Brigham smiled behind his bandages. "Thanks to you and your doctor," he said, "I feel pretty eood. And I'm triad to see vou. I've got a lot I want to tell you, and a lot more I want to be told about" Fifteen minutes." the nurse said warnlngly, anr1 went out. What A Bunch!' '.""THEN," Asey said, "we got to work fast. First off. who are you really? They didn't get any re sponse from the wires they sent off about you, to the folks whoso names they found in vour wallet. That made me wonder if Brigham wasn t a kind 01 pen name. It is. I'm Charles Horn. Asey whistled. "Horn!" "The lad himself. And because we haven't a lot of time. I'll tell you that I was sacked from the L. and N. for drinking. So I'm Brigham for a while, till I can work up to beintt Horn aeain. And If I hadn't been a little bit tight the other night, Strutt wouldn't have got me into that plane. And if I wasn't one of the best pilots I know. I wouldn't be here now, nor would Strutt. All I ask is that I can get out of here and give that mug a good licking before somebody kills him for me." . "To save a lot of flddlin' around. an' to save you from talkin'," Asey said, "let me guess, an' you tell me where I'm off mv trolley in the story. Go back to Friday. You spent the day takin' Strutt an' his pals on Joy rides" And howl If I'd known more about that outfit, you couldn't have got me there in irons. What a unchl" "Uh-huh. Fridav evenin'. vou an Roddy trailed a pal of his to Provi dence, an' then come back here when? "Around elcht or so. And I sat down for the first time all day, and had a couple of drinks. I needed em, too, he said. "I needed 'em! And btrutt went out. and then he came back, Asey said, say around eleven, and told you that you had to go up again. That right?" Yes, I said he was crazv. and I was tired, and the plane needed some overhauling, and his lighting system was lousy. But nothing would do, after arguing and argu-, ing, but we had to go up. Finally we got things organized and the way I felt about him and his crowd then. I didn't care if I did smash up his plane, and him. and myself, too. And he went up, and he dared me to land in the town square. For the hell of it. I did. I wouldn't have cracked up If he hadn't got panicky and froze onto me say, what was going on? What was his Idea? It must mean something, or vou wouldn't be Interested. Asey explained. ' A lbf." he fin ished up. "No one's asked him lust what he was doin' an' where he was, an' why, durin' the time Marina Lome was killed you know about that?", The nurses don t talk about niijiuiiiK ctoc, uuKiioiii etiiu, ex cept her, and that plumber that wants to light anyone his weight for two cents. They've been having a time with him. He roared for a solid hour this morning. Say. was Strutt mixed up In the murder?" 'That." Asey said. "Is what 1 yearn to know. Can't you cast any light?" All I know Is. he went off after we cot back from trailine that guy, all high and hannv. When hp came back around eleven, he was frightened about something. IC-titll. If It. ftstt. J tweed T.rlt'l Brtfhara casU more light, tomorrow Y E United States civil tvrvlc commU Ion today announced opn oompotl tive examination! for the following positions: Assistant home economist, 93600 a year, junior homo economist, $2000 a year. Junior in home economics In formation. $2000 a year, bureau of home economics, department of ag riculture. Applications for the foregoing po anions must be on file In Washing ton, D, C, not later than July 38. Assistant messenger, 11080 a year, for appointment In Washington, D. C. Closing date for receipt of appli cations at Washington is July 22. Asnlstant electric-rate Investigator, $36000 year, federal power com mission. Closing date for revtlpt of applications at Washington, D. C has been changed to July 14. Complete Information regarding these examinations and position may be procured at the Medford postof flce from Earl H. York, secretary of the local board of civil service examiners. Klamath Will Seek Control Of Midges KLAMATH FALLS. July 8. VT) The Klamath county court today agreed to contribute a.300 from It pest control budget toward starting a study of the midge nuisance on up per Klamath lake. Plan U to employ an entomologist through Oregon State college who will make an Investigation of the annoying bugs which perennially In fest the lake area ami powt'ily dwlw program lor their extermination. TWO-STATf MILL RiitftwitefitoraS to BoTHerm ON THE GROUND FLooff... (RiWM Mill 'of-'the REGULABLE WiTJ d. Atetttf &0R UVIN6 ACROSS UNPWIrtSOlO zlM r l t.ul f Knn A.D.i K iA.ki k fORh ROMhH To R33 Ml0 t ft f&MAN... 1 i CftPTftIN rAMC6oTBCHM.K- ' Alaskan fur 'fader, ' 14 Trie ONLiMAN KNoHH ToHMB CR05SEDTHE 5lhMlt-UlDE 3SRIN3 3tnhTON fooT ReftCH HlSHMfcRft filgeka, fRoM ftSf Cftpe, Siberia. Gottsclialk's YVulk. Sclenoe baa long held' the view point that ancestors of the American Indiana came originally from Asia but how they got here has been a difficult question to answer. Close to the Arctic Circle, the northwest section of the Asiatic con tinent reaches otit and almost touches Alaska. From East Cape, Siberia, It la merely a distance of M miles to Cape Prince of Wales on the Ameri can shore. Across this wnter barrier ethnol ogists assert the early migrants trav eled. Tho poslblllty of theli cross ing by boat In the summer months has been severely discounted be cause of the great dangers attached to such a trip. t Undoubtedly, some of thm cross ed the region known as Bering Strait, i on foot, according to Dr. John P. Harrington, Smithsonian Institution ethnologist. Such migrations were In all probability made during the closing days of the last Ice Atie, when the Ice there was thicker than It Is today. Now the strait Is never completely frozen over. In the summer strong south winds drive the Ice Into the Arctic sea; In the winter thcro re main open stretches treacherous, shifting floes and thin spots. Conclusive evidence that a foot crossing of the Bering Strait Is pos sible was received recently by Dr. Harrington in a letter from Captain Max Gottschalk of Nome, Alaska, who recounted a trip ho mode In 1913 from East Cape to Shlshmaref Alone with a dog sled, 10 dogs and a load of fur, ho struck out for Big Dlomede Island, which he i eached In two and a half days. The next step to Little Dlomede was covered easily. There a white man, Bill Schroeder, Joined him. following on snowshoes. Twenty-five miles out, Schroeder fell through the .ce, even tually died of exposure after Gotts chalk returned him to Little Dlo mede. Carried northward on the drifting floes, Gottschalk eventually complet ed his precarious Journey at Shlsh moref, 75 miles north of Cape Prince of Wnles, after traveling some 300 miles. "I do not think I could do It again," Gottschalk wrote. Sunday: The caterpillars that stop ped a train! COURT HEARS ARGUMENT ON FEHL COMMITMENT SALEM, July 8. (;p) Arguments of attorneys were heard in the state supreme court here today in the case of Earl H. Pehl. ex-Jackson county .Judge, who Is attempting to set aside a decree of Circuit Judge Norton of Jackson, county, commit ting him to the Oregon state hos pital. Prior to his commitment to the hospital Pehl served a four-year term in the state penitentiary for ballot thefts in Jackson county. Chicken population Estimated NEW YORK. (UP) The United States today has an adult chicken population of 400,000,000 hens, ac cording to the American Poultry Journal. In relation to population, there about 300 hens In tho United I States for every 100 Inhabitants. K A. syiMm cfvfcri wnu EDDIE sa2ER AND SEMDS ONE 51 FE OVER H15 HEATf . un.UF11 .WHVneE'ihrl' tffR LEtfelW EX ue cumx r-rmir pe- chaWCE Of VIEWS, AM PMK6 HE CM CHPSE It NoUNCES TlMW friM" HMSEIT HE WON'f 60 MYER rf m sns down on curb JU6&VES TEBBLE5 f0 sunw HE ISTLEASANtlY OCCUPIED AMD ISNYeO- iN&TOMtteE WSfWD IN 'PICKIN6 U? 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