P "A"GE FOURTEEN
rEDFOTlD MATL TRTBimE, MEDFOTID, OREGON, FRIDAY. JULY 8, 1938,
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS'
INTERRUPTION
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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