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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX MEDFORD MATT, TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD, OTCEC.Oy. WET)ERT)AY, JULY 20. 1938. OtTA60tlU0U& SUBURBAN hclUHTS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS .LI STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof addresa the author, tncloitnf a atamped envelop (or reply. Reg. V. S. Pat Oft. rioaas BV PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR the Story So rri Atey 41 a io, Capt Cod dettctlut, u muftiisallno th murder of Marina Lornt. whose nui band's pol office mural hoe enragea Quanomel. She woe Wiled by a handed blow from the fcmf of Iter tiller Pam Frye. mttrjd partlu are. Tim Carr, once married to Ma rina. Roddv Strutt, whoee allDipnp; plane crah was deliberate. Peggy Boone, an artist. Jennlno. an irate plumber, and perioru unfcnoum who burned down the Fryee barn, de ttroued Jack Lorne'i mural nketche and delared the mural Iteeit Miuino ti a $50,000 lump ol ambergrie be longmo to Pam Then Roddy Is killed by carbon monoxide poieonino. Chapter 45 No Clcwi. "CTho'IT said they expected - trouble." the officer a I d They don'l seem to know just what Kind, out they expected it They nad the place all armed and fortified Under those circum stances, now did anyone get nere without being seen7 And why did Strutt unlock the garage and go In? He must have, too. The garag kev is on the same ring with th car kevs that were in the roadster. and they tell me that no one else had a key to mis garage, seems there'd been a bit of trouble with the servants swiping the roadster for their Joy rides, and that's why it was here all by Itself. What was the idea. Aseyr "No one knows any ideaa," Asey said wearily. "It's my opinion that the servants was fed up with this armin an lortiiyin and mat ex cept tor the two at the driveway gates, no one was doin' any guard in' at all. I've got some pretty good evidence that the rest was mostly occupied with a crap game an' field -J.... . .U- ... T ...... ha, tin' uay, in mio vaacmciiiH h was bbii.ii dark when Roddy disappeared Someone could have sneaked along 41.. mU nil rink .with,, hflin seen. 1 can't find out why Roddy come here. "Date, maybe?" Lane suggested "He had every opportunity to make dates, Asey said. He s been phonin' people right an' left all day, an' they been phonin him. Carveth put his foot down on a couple of parties Roddy'd planned here for today, but you can't tell how many other dates he might nave made. "But if they were afraid of trou ble," Lane said, "would Roddy have made dates, or come down nere without telling anyone7 And if he'd seen a prowler, whyn't he yen? Asey shrugged. "I think, my self, that he must of had a date with someone that he wanted to keep quiet about, or one with someone he never thought of as Dem a menace. He came here, met 'em, went into the garage for a chat this is a secluded sort of place, here. An' durin' the chat, he got his. Did you find anythin' in the carnoe, by the way? "Clews? No. It's a clean garage. rhsre were things In the car, but jusi tne son or tnings you d expect to find in a Car of his. Hairpins and a lipstick or two, and a glass bead, and compacts, and a powder puff all shades lead me to feel that he preferred blondes. Come on and look. Asey went into the garage. "You know," Lane said. disDlav Ing the articles, "you don't get ciews in ining or tnis sort, un less " Less, Asey said, "you have someone step into some fresh ce. merit, or write names an' addresses an' phone numbers on the corpse's snin iront. uoc, i m drivln back in Tim's car. You're comln' to see Aaron, ain't you? Well, I'll meet you at the Octagon House. Thanks. Lane. HanDV huntln'." Offhand, he thought as he drove along home, offhand he couldn't remember when he had ever felt more bitterly ashamed of himself. If only he had gone to the Strutt home the night before! If only he had gone to see Roddy, and Ironed out the situation. If only he had shown some trace of common sense! If only he had, Roddy might still be alive. He reproached himself steadily and forcefully all the way along the beach road. 'Gentle Philosophising rF COURSE, even if he had gone, he'd only have learned about the Jennings episode, and considered Jennings the menace. That wouldn't have helped matters much. He might have talked with Roddy, but he wouldn't have gone far without the pilot's side of the story to use as a crowbar in prying out the truth. The chances were that whoever set out to kill Roddy would have killed him in any case. Everyone in the town knew of the guarding and the fortifications of the Strutt house, but the preparations had not deterred the murderer in the least. He had made up his mind to kill Roddy, and he did Just that. And Marina had been killed in that same grimly determined way The barn had been burned by someone with the same determina tion and disregard for conse quences. The mural had been ob literated with flnalltv and delib eration. The key stealing was neat and deliberate. Everything, in fact, that seemed to matter wat characterized by the same quiel and efficient force. By neat timing and firm thinking. The fellow thought things out, and things went with a fine smoothness for him. He turned Into the driveway ol the Octagon House. Mrs. Carr, followed by Emma on her leash, walked down from the porch to meet him. They were the only ones up. she informed him. "Pam and Peg were tired tc death, and so was Tim. 1 packed them to bed. Aaron's asleep, merci fully, but he Asey, what's hap- fened now, you seem so dejected know. You need food!" "I always wondered," Asey saio as they went indoors, "why a wo man always thinks that all anyone needs to make em feel better Is just a little food. I do." he added hurriedly, before Mrs. Cart could retort, "need food. An if you can And me some super-spinach that'll ive me the brains to settle this on't yell at the news this murdei of Roddy Strutt, I'll be willin' tc trail you around on Emma's leash.' "So he's been killed, has he?' She didn't s'eem perturbed by the information. "It doesn't surprise me oh, here's the chicken Pam was saving no, not a bit Nothinc would surprise me at this point Why was he killed?" "I ain't at the who or why stagt yet." Asey said, attacking the chicken. "Is it the same one who killed Marina that did this? Really? Why?" "I can't give you facts." Asei said. "Only a sort of gentle philoso phizin' about the simple murder. I don't think I ever seen anythin more simple than these two mur ders. Girl stabbed with someone else's knife. No clews. Man stunned an stuck under exhaust nine. N clews. There you are. Smart Smooth. Unobtrusive, like. Use guns, an' ballistlcs'll you get Ust E olson, an' toxocol'glsts'll get you ut use a stolen knife an' carbon monoxide, an' combine em with a passion for removin' finger prints. an' a lack of collar buttons an' false teeth left behind oh, you gol somethln' here, you have! We got to prove you took the knife, we got to prove you started the car. so to speak. An' very faw murder ers Invite audiences." - 'Some Nice Person?' WHAT were the motives?" Mrs Carr asked. "Roddy an' Marina," Asey said, sort of inspired motives. The place is littered with reasons for people to kill 'em." "Why," Mrs. Carr asked, "do people kill people, anyway? 1 was trying to think, today, just why J wanted to kill Marina, and all 1 could think of was, she'd hurt Tim . That seems so vague!" usually its love or money. Asev said, "or variations on 'em There are others, of course. 1 once knew a man who killed anothei man on account of bein' unduly sensitive about his toup6, but thai ain't a normal one." Well, murderers aren't normal anyway, Mrs. Carr said. "Emma." Asey said, "is a nor mal cat She eats, an' she sleeps, an shes bright enough to be trained to a leash. How normal would Emma be. if she got a real chance at that parrot?" i almost wisn, ivirs. iarr saia sincerely, "that she would. Toots is the most inhuman bird just sits and stares and stares, and never a wordl 1 suppose that Toots and Emma, between them, know the whole story. They pretend to, any way, uut Asey, murderers aren ' normal. They can't be." i don t see why there s this far re'achin' theory," Asey said, "that murderers have to be either ec centric people with too mani brains, or dumb clods without any More often than not, it's a nici person who turns out to be a mur- erer. Course, by the time th' experts get through, they've got all the symptoms listed in the doc' book, an' you wonder why the wasn't put away behind bars at thi age of three an' a half." You think it was some nice nei son who killed Marina and Rod y? Mrs. Cnrr asked anxiouslv Oh. dear. I thought it would bf someone well, not wilh a beard and teeth missing, but some one " With a leer and no socks." Asev said. "I know. P'raps it Is. But they got a nice way ot ininkin . I give em credit. "How'll you And him?" "By time," Asey said. "Time, an' some other odds an' ends, like who ruined the mural" ' Oh. has that bpen ruined? Hnw perfectly splendid! How perfectly wonaeriuu Asey chuckled. "An' 1 got to Ann out who burned the barn," he said "an' who saw Roddy Strutt on Fri day night" 'innt sounds terribly difficult: "It is." Asev said. "An' I ant I. Ilnd out If Lome's drawings wa burned for soite. or a mirnn- A, just the time clement alone i. enough to keep one msm busy fc the end of his days." ICHyitlt I'JI rW- The police uke a hand, tomorrow fflmmmVV Skz&J mmroom, Africa, dMWY I w OHU ft INCHES . 'St 'I me pu n li n i Un rij mmttrif nnn noted woman educator WA$ RSFUSSD PSRMI&ON To ffltEND Clh&ES WrtfiNSHt imvxo M JoHNs HOPKINS UNWt&sflV- 0877)' ' Uwfttt -sue NuweMTht im Founding A MSDIC U SCHOOL AT Johns hopkih? I li .- x J' "aUl 11 I J .116. Ate hdr-OfUt SAME BROKEN KffZOR FOR HQ m& WINHIH6 COM0lNftTi0N. WON TW RACS THB SAME AFTERNOON (Newmarket Cfaven Meef i. En&and, April ?, 377) Dr. M. Corey Tlioman One day In November, 1877, the board of trustees of year-old Johns Hopkins University was confronted with the problem of deciding whether or not women should be admitted as students. The immediate problem was Miss M, Carey. Thomas of Baltimore, a daughter of one of the trustees. Well qualified, she had Just graduated from Cornell university with an A. B. degreeat , the age of 20. Miss Thomas was admitted but with a moat unusual stipulation; she would not be permitted to attend classes! t She had sought admission to con tinue her studies in Greek under the late Professor Basil L. Gilder sleeve, but strange as It seems, the faculty did not allow her to enter i ., his classroom along with male stu dents. Instead, Professor Gtldersleeve coached her "after school" for a year, after which she wfthdrew from the university. In later years Miss Thomas dem onstrated her friendship for Johns Hopkins In the face of her unpleas ant memories there by securing the aid of Miss Mary E. Garrett, wealthy Baltimore benefactress, In founding a medical school at that university on condition that women be ad mitted. Miss Garrett contributed over 8300.000 to this fund. Another $15. 000.000 she left Miss Thomas for educational uses at Bryn Mawr where the latter served as president and trustee. After ending her studies at Johns Hopkins, Miss Thomas studied for three years at the University or Leip zig, only to find hersslf refused a degree on account of her sex, Got tlngen too refused her, but In 1883 the University of Zurich consented to admit her to examination. After presenting a dissertation on "Sir Gawaln and the Green Knight" she was catechised for three hours and awarded the Ph. D. degree, sum ma cum laude, a distinction never before given either a foreigner or a woman. Then followed a year's work In Paris at the Sorbonne and College de Prance, after which she returned to the United States to assume leadership at Bryn Mawr col lege. Tomorrow: The church that struck oil. MUST KEEP SILENCE LOS ANGELES, July 30. (AP) A sentence of 10 years silence concern ing the private life of Slmone Simon, petite French film actress, was Im posed on Sandra Martin, ti-.e star's former secretary, when she was tved from a state prison term today by Bui r lor Judge A. A. Scott. Ml.sa Mat tin, convicted on three counts of forging the name of net former employer, must serve nine months In the county Jail, however. H she violates the strange 10-year probation order, Judge Scott set forth, she will be sent to the women prison l Tri achnpi ( r from throe to 43 years. BANKER WOULD PAY FINE FOR CORRIGAN SANTA MONICA. Cnllf.. July 30. W. E. ( Bill l EMtrrwcod. Dallas, Texas, banker, m11 Unlay he will pay any fine the United Statet bureau ol air commerce twwi against Dougtu Corrlunn for any Infraction of rulea In connection with, the flight from New York to Dublin The Tr-xaa financier. w:o backed Capt. DlJudonno Coalea and Maurice Bellonto on their fllsht from Europe to the United Slates In 1B30. also cabled Baldonnel airport authorltl at Dublin that h will take car of any expend, that mluM tv,u!t from the voun Cnllfotni-Mi Utulin there Monday. :RAiMKLIN, junior, is PRnun PAPA flF enw PHILADELPHIA, . July 19. (Ah-A son was born Tuesday to Mrs. Frank lin O. Roosevelt, Jr, wife of tho third on of the president. The baby, weighing slightly .mo.u than seven pounds, was born shortly after 4 p. m. .astern standard time) at the Pennsylvania hospital. Mrs. Roosevelt, tho former Ethel DuPont. was brought there Monday by her husband. The brief announcement was made by young Roosevelt to reporters wait ing In the hospital lobby. He said no name had been selected for the baby. The boy Is the eighth grandchild of President Roosevelt. Name Roundup Head. PENDLETON, July 20. (ff Lowell Stockman. Pendleton rancher, wbj elected treasurer of the Pendleton Roundup association at a board of directors' meeting here last night. He succeeds Mark Barthel, .resigned. SLASHED! Coats and Suits cut to $10 96 up. Ethelwyn B. Hoffmann. FREP PERLBf" H65E WoK'f PEACH HIS BACK LAWN FROM HIS OWN FAUCFf, 50 ALTH0U6H HE HASN'T BEEK ON SPEAKIM6 WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, HE HITCHED ON TO HIS FAOCEf MOWING HIM TO BE AWAV FOR -friE WEEK-END. FREP WAS THEREFORE FWHER EMBRRRA55ED WHEN friE NEIGHBOR NOfCNLY RETURNED ONEXPECtEDlV-BOf LEFT HIS CAR ON FRED'S HOSE (Copyright, 1938, by Th Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 7J S MATTER POI PAVN Bv C M S Cats J YpRcT.c6.k-.( maw KC 5' ) rCoULI M T J S-ET VA OM TttA- J ' Jt "V ciAKiE?r ( ';r ( jS j (Copyright. IMrg TAILSPIN TOMMY Paul Calls Sneade's Bluff I By HAL F0RRF-" V JUST CAME HERE TO TELL VOU. SMEADE. I THAT YOUR BRIBES OR THREATS WILL NOT KKfcV&rsT THREE-POINT PROM r; TRVING TO WIN THAT RACEl , xf Ml aW-i 7 STAMP WITH YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO -y &Ty a'BQ Mooti kans of the ckw&Us bs.t. plame AMD IP TOU SEND ANY X VOU. YOU. A 1 OON THINK I'D TRY THAT) :j hf IN LETS PILeYhOLD i MORE OF OUR COHORTS GET OUT IF I WERE YOU, SNEAQe! ' . '! ' 0OVVN THEIR I OnT OVER TO TINKER WITH OP MY I THINK YOU'VE GOT '"' "' PLIPPER XSKBSTS! OUR SHIPS ILL EXPOSE OPFICE OR TOO MUCH FAT AROUND yL - i WIRES. ITf VOU TO THE N. A A . ! 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