Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 14, 1938, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE ETOTTT - rEDFOTlD MATL TRTBCTNTE, MEDFOTID, OT?EGQy, THtfRSDAY. JULY 14.4933. OtTAOou House, PUTTING THINGS AWAY STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX- For further proof address the author, inclotint t fUmped enrelope for reply. . JUf. 17, g. Pat OC By GLUYAS WILLIAMS ' BY PHOEBE ATWOOO TAYLOR The Story So Fan Asey Mayo, Cape Cod detective, is fnuestipatinc- the ' murder of Marina Lorn, whose hus band' post offic mural has enraged Quanomet. She wot killed by a left handed blow from the knife of her lister. Pam f ry. Interested parties are; Tim Carr, once married to Marina; Roddv Strutt, whose alibilng. plane crash wot deliberate; Peggy Boone, an artist; Jennings, an irate plumber; and persons unknown who burned doum the Frye's barn, biffed Asey, Tim and Pam's father, de stroyed Jack Lome's mural sketches, and defaced the mural itself. Missing is a SS0.000 lump of ambergris Pam found on the beach the day of the murder. Chapter 40 strange Reception "MOW," Asey fold the Congress 1 ' man, "I'm goin' over to chat with Roddy Strutt. I that car that's comin' has a press card on the windshield so long!" On the way to the Strutt house, Elliott asked for the Inside story of the murder, and Asey briefly sum med it up for him. "And you think Marina saw the ambergris first?" Elliott said, "from the plane Asey, have you thought that if she saw it, any number of others, whoever they were, might have seen it from the plane, too?" Up In the house, Carveth set In motion half a dozen servants. When things quieted down, Asey and Elliott found themselves sit ting out on the terrace that faced the ocean. They were almost en tirely surrounded by a series of large silver trays. "Cigars," Elliott sniffed, and helped himself to a handful. "Ciga rettes all very monogrammed and crested and phew! Turkish. Three kinds of whisky. Soda, gin ger ales, white rock. My, my " he stood off and eyed the plates of hors d'oeuvres, "just look at those things!" "Whatever became of Carveth7" asked Asey. Elliott shrugged. "He said he was going out to fetch Hoddy." "I wish," Asey said, "he'd be quick about it. "Kelax." Elliott advised. "Have a drink and eat up some of these things. There's one kind 1 want to tackle, but 1 want you to tackle em first. If it's fish. I want to be warned. Jean has some kind of fish paste that makes my stomach writhe lust to look at it. Asey picked up a date of sand wiches, and methodically ate his way, layer oy layer, to tne bottom 1 didn t, he explained, have anv dinner today. D you suppose thi coffees any good here? . "There's something you pull or push here. I'll order some," El liott said. "After all. ne told us to make ourselves at home." ran tsru i vn x fern ?apw : ran IN ft SINOLt REASON, CftN flftoW &ON6 rSHTietK JE16HN6 MORE THAN i THEIR ENTIRE SKELETON earfu Ameri TtiSFtR&ocEMGoiNCi ZTSMPOAT; THE FR$T FERMF&MR5D MWtfEM; tup FitxT mPZ &CRE1N PROPELLER! THE FlRtfAMBRICM &SMA lOCMoWE; THE F1R6T fiMSRICM RhlLROW AND BN IROH-CIAD GHlE THT PRECEDED 1HE MONIWf t Pioneered iNfWSHiN6 it TJf tc aii n&uirs i PR. fUMoRIM Chicago, wo.ooo MILES' ToPLM eoLff 7-14-36 Uclfujfct Syndicate, I 3 MATTEB P01 ' '. Bv 0 M PAYNF jt wull . fk m vrof 3 flrstn voya,. of a steatn-power- . SS.rr) Stevens established the first regu- 1 ' l v. ! II lar scheduled steamboat line on the I If vajJ4 V 1 1 Delaware and Connecticut Rivera and I I I 1 JTS f i 3 1 l In 1811 started the first steam-pow- i M A I f OVC'S I T ) I I W a ered ferry from Hoboken. N. J., to V J ' J I Ol c I ) New York City. Stevens then turned ' . -Vi""T Z JX A If J 1 V- J 'J I to railroading. In 1815 obtaining the v C-vrO 11 a, XJjr' M first rallrcad charter In America , jk ' n -pLo"-tfZ i -Jf from the Delaware to the Rsrltan . v m -KlJ ---- v Rivers. isBst:- "C"BiMej sssyj wu . w.m He built the first locomotive with srN.. Y-Ia'. X " V a 1 xr ' a multitubular boiler and ran it on CV - M ) f (X C the first railway track In this coun- J1 h ( PISeTT- ) I I -f IX,. try. He built an Ironclad ship In Xw? V oo3 I V ' X 1813 for the double-track railroad to JsP" j S I nil v icf run from Albany to Lake Erie, to re- JnU l C ) wi, I place the slower Erie Barge Canal. ' ' BjJ T- x!- ' Jl Jv Tomarrow: The World's smallest 3r I V- I "V'vMl'LA. . publlo park. 7 - I QTra , 'a iWnS-A V . K5- . J v V r I ' Distress Not s.. Acute. , . ti.i P- . l fS.4A M f?7y J B 11 OornTcZr fTZ OAWA. On,-(DP)Au Ottawa . W f ' S P . . VV ablv alont when he nnticrt h.in, . autolst had hla car stolen Dut re- Cll2T?--H S rf"1 flSH A HV ! large pile of brush laid out In the celved a bit of advice from tne thief . V CVr" V W ill 1 form of a circle It was a slenal of who took it: After .h...i.. .v.. Ja-W Vl "ifV- ,1 III 1. I! ??ti'f. ECS LviWfflr I . . . . r . By HAL FORREST MlOoJl? ESCAPED T VT"' WL'"S. 1 f Tdon-T KNOW, LJ I r- ' Ffjf h skk rall&y llS-JTEa 'iPSsy": ACID BEING POURED vj BM vm ' fW W Pm ' T WiL,L,6E A' 8Y SNEADE Tvt -: tERIS, ' LKmsl , ITTCXXOPF. HE STAMP WITlV'wuVAMESliiDAPPESTO Hssse" HP tVlLil J -iraS HAS S6MT FOR TWO. ML roRRES-T, this paper, for sex of RjL&A. sbT Uu)- . T"3i jLSSK ffiBS ?SLN5-g ' mQPEL PLANS THE PCUOAS RS.T. PLAME 10. f, ., IjaJSBgl ' BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER-Misunderstanding? 1 By EDWIN ALG' C rVHAT HAPPENED To ( "ij ) JYSOLD IT TO THE FELLOW " I I f 6EE, THAT'S IN 131 WkWJti nr it I BCw w tuc ,1BMur ' THE TURKEV "J CYV feX, WHO RUNS THE BUSY J Swell I " p JZ? sl ' iJ F r 5' BEH S,W THE JIPPEMS I YOU TOOK TO r BEE RESTAUPANT-HE f SrSL- Xs WmWffiXt M MAVBE HE WlHKS THE NEBBS Everything Is All Right Now ' ' . ' By 80L HESS 5A HEwfv J HE TUBMED UP AUVH HE HAD AM YTlI ORW IS THE BEST TUlUS VOU L. oLip fSIFL MTECV- IMTEREST INJ THE PQOPERTV AMD DO -VJHV DONJT VOU H OUT A.P -vOKJE 8UCklf . TO 5ELU HS IMTEREST TO ME J j 5lSM " UJHV VWORRV..UET MESS DO ' ' VjXFOR. NOO' r KrfV J ; Jify iifrf into the air. Asey admitted that he had given that angle a considerable amount or attention. "As for Roddy himself," Elliott saia, "i personally can t say a kind word for him. I don't thifik he's got the brains of an ox. I don't tninn it's ever been my misfortune , to meet a weaker and stupider young man. But somehow I feel that If Roddy had killed that wo man, you'd have been extremely positive about him by now. Roddy wouldn't have had the wit to use Pam Fryo's knife, for example. If itoddy ever got up courage enough to kill anyone, he'd lay such a stupidly elaborate plan that you've nave seen tnrougn It in a second. Like this business of crashing the plane for an alibi. It was expen sive, and it was spectacular, and it was eiaDorate, But it wasn t very bright He might have killed him self. And he doesn't seem to have , taken the pilot into consideration at all." "That's true," Asey said. "He wasn't even bright enough to be solicitous about Brigham an' his hurts. If he'd had an ounce of sense, Roddy s have taken him to tne Hospital himself, an called in every specialist within 100 miles. Then he'd have had Brigham on his side, instead of havin' Brigham hatin' him, an' wonderin' what the whole business meant anyway Well, we'll soon be seein' things." The Filipino with the cauliflower ears was guarding the closed en trance to the driveway. If he rec ognized Asey as the man who had tried to come in the day before, he gave no sign of It, but he refused to let them through until he had called the house. , "Mr. Strutt," he said at last, "he come." Deserted pARVETH STRUTT tripped down the driveway with the odd springy walk that Asey noticed so often in short, fat men. "Mayo!" he said. "And why, It's Elliott. Larry, old man, I'm so glad you've come! This is very decent of you, "ery. I assure you that we won't forget this!" He asked the boy who brought the coffee where Mr. Strutt had gone, but the boy didn't know. This Is Not Funny! "I'M beglnnin' to have a horrid feelin'," Asey said, "that we been foxed Come on. Let s find out iust what'n time is goin' on here." Elliott pulled the bell cords, but no one answered the summons. "Let's try yellin' There was peo ple enough flittin' around when we come!" Asey suggested. They yelled. No one came. well, we'll pull every damn bell cord in sight, simultaneously," El lott said, "and see what happens then!" But nothing happened. "I'm damned!" Elliott said angri ly. I m everlastlnulv d What do these birds think they're trying to pull, I'd like to know!" "Let's hunt," Asey said. They hunted through the house, and around the house. Finally Asey drew out his old Colt, and fired it info the air "That," he said, "ought to do some thing!" In a minute a house hnv nn- peared. He .was followed by more servants. At last Carveth wearilv walked up to where Asey and Elliott stood. "Have you found him?" "Have we." Asev asknrl. "fmmrt who?" "Roddy!" "Listen." Asev said. "Thi t nnt funny. This is not smart This is" It s a damned outrage!" Elliott was thoroughly aroused. "We come here to help you. and to help yout precious nephew and what nap pens? You Stick US vnil mnrnnn us! You maroon us on a piazza and go away, leaving us to cool out heels while you Hit around damn It, man! I m not used tr bems kenf waiting! I'm not used to such treat ment! What's the meaning of all this? Where is Roddv?" "He s disappeared. Carveth was so excited that he squeaked. "He's disappeared! He's gone!" 'CotvritU, mi 'W Aimcti Tsrltt) a trlrkf Continued tamor- John Stevens, Inventor The history of transportation In America might bo a vastly different story tf it had not been for tne In ventive genius of Colonel John Stev ens, early American Inventor. Stevens waa nearly 40 when he turned to the study of steam engines and their adaptation to water craft. In 1788 he built U:e first multitubu lar boiler on record f:r use in his marine englnea. In a desire to protect this inven tion. Stevens petitioned Congress for a patent law. My profession a tawyer In New York, Stevens was able to draw up a sucessful outline for a patent system which waa passed by Congress as the Patent Law of 1790, the foundation of the present Patent Office. Stevens was the first man to apply the principle of screw propulsion to navigation, building in 1804 a steam boat with two underwater propell ers of the screw type In the stern. Stevens then directed his efforts toward the invention and develop ment of high-pressure steam engines and boilers. In 1807 he built, with aid eYom Ills son, Robert, the side wheel steamboat. Phoenix, launch ing it only a few days after Fulton's Cleremont took to the water. While Pulton's engine was Import ed from England, Steven's was home made. Fulton, however, beat Stevens to a franchise to operate a steam boat line on the Hudson, so the lat ter boldly sailed through the Atlan tic Ocean to the Delaware River City Leases Oord Mine. REDDINO, Cal. (UP) This city Is probably the only ono In the world that owns a municipal gold mine. The mine was leased to a Sarramento company which has been operating it lor two months. The city's first monthly 10 percent cut amounted to 1,000. and for the secont month (1,230.79. 15 FEttlrlbED HE HAS SfftRfS DOWN CfUftfO lfX HANinre OrJ LlVlrV Wrfrl rT, &M.RMW, If ROOM TABLE AH& WILL ON fINtsER HE 'PICASE Put IT AWAY At ONCE S5lfMWK0MHfil.l TABIE .WHILE HE 60fSfO TALK fo EDDIE SEL20J, Whom hE hears wms TL1K6 owsiTC KRSEtS ABOUf HAMMER mi MOTHER SEES (TON HALLIABlE. START'S FOR. COLfiR, 6PINKIN6 rrw AiR. CmtHESIfONSHlN- IWSTEATjoriXHAHJ) eSllN&c, UliaiAMi 7.J3 HAMMER STAYS roR&OTYgfi ON" RODR.UWYH FATHER AL MOST TURNS ANKLE OH if. START'S D&WM CELLAR. WlTrilf A&AIN ON HIS WAV STOPS Tb CALL VP BUD BEM15J RFMEMBER5 HAI1MER. HALT AS HOUR LATER 8EF0RE TAKIN6 IT DOWN CFlLARjTRlESIb FlKNAlL IN HIS SHOE. HAMMER EvWtUALLY TURNS UP ONllilK(H?00MfABir (Copyright, 1938, by The Bell gyndleate, Inc.) TAILSPIN TOMMY Potter A.W.O.L. It this row. GRANTS TABS, July 14. ThrM college student employe, rush 1ng down the Oregon Caves mountain tilghway this morning from the Cave peort to the scene of an accident. rere wrecked by tire trouble. Clyde Dunn, chateau bellboy, about SO. of Portland, was critically injured about the head, with him were col mar Lombard, about 33, of Portland. yho operate the Caves service sta ton. end Ray nor Smith, son of i "Methodist minister at Rose burg They received slight Injuries. The econd accident occur: ed about one-half mile from the scene of the first, three miles down the mountain Side A car driven by William Milter, San Francisco, wss forced over the grade when two cars passed. Hla son-ln-low. Prod Klener. and Pred s father Charles of Oakland accompanied Charles Kleser suffered lnjtitlra. Involved in the tccjde&t were four ! Portland women, Mrs. Alfred Zlmmer, Mra. L, C. Brunner, Mrs. Connie Le vake and Mrs. Dudley Turuacllff COLUMBIA IN SAFETY PORTLAND. July 14. The Chsrlee L. Wheeler. Jr., first veniu.1 of Us site ever to penetrate the 80 miles of the Columbia, rlrer between Vancouver, Wash, and The Dalles, loo mllee from the sea. ended Its epochal, voyage when It (locked at Vancouver at 7 p m. yesterday. The 300-foot boat, negotiating dan gerous rapids handily, made fast time on the downstream trip. The Wheelei twice passed through the Bonneville dam arnlocks, highest single lift In the world, and unloaded a cargo at rhe Dalles' new docks, she returned In ballast. Motorcycle rnllre Curlivd CLEVELAND. (UP! Mitorcvcle traffic policemen here have bn or dered to cease hiding and 'popping out of nowhere" at unsupectlnc motorists. I i