V,
I
P.CGE TWELVE
MEDFOTCT) MATL TnTBWE, TNfETTFOTW, OREGON, FK17) AY, JULY 22. 1938.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
REST PERIOD
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
Tor further proof address the author, Inclosing s stamped envelope tor leply. Reg. V. 8. Fat Off.
BV PHOEBE ATWOOO TAYLOR
Chapter 47
Aey Finds Some Clews
IJODDY, Asey felt sure, had
come to the garage after Ma
rina's murder, and his plane
wrecking and all the rest had been
inspired by his more or less justi
fiable fear that he would be arrest
ed for the killing. He paid his hush
money to Nettie because he was
scared stiff.
Jack Lome might have gone to
Roddy's, he might have slunk
through the woods near the Hep
plewhites'. But it was Asey's guess
that Lome had been summoned on
the phone by Roddy, and that he
had immediately returned home
when Roddy probably already
dead In the garage, or at least al
ready there with someone else
failed to show up.
While he and the rest raced their
heads off, chasing Jennings, res
cuing troopers, pulling Aaron out
of cellars, hunting gold keys
during all that, the murderer was
laughing up his sleeve. Why
shouldn't he? He'd covered his
tracks as nicely as anyone could.
He hadn't thrust any obstacles
around that would trip him up
later. He hadn't tried to thwart
anyone. He hadn't left any clews.
Rut he must have left clews. You
couldn't kill two people, ruin a
mural, burn a barn, steal a gold
1. MMm . rn.rmamun rirawinffff
from an artist, a knife from a back
j uniiMn'l hncfin tn An all
those things without slipping up
aomewnere.
Wearily, Asey forced his mind
back to Friday nignt ana me De
sinnlne tit evervthinff.
He had worked his way up to
the barn burning when he heard
null nn in hin Hrivf.
"Hanson," Asey murmured
grimly to himself as he went to
answer tne Knocner. xianaun, ju
uiiaiib an nuum
rar iiuiii uing HltDJUU
himself and his solution, Hanson
was worrieo.
"Asey," he said, "I'm stuck. Did
Cummings tell you about Lome?
TTCUi 41. WWII b invtn, v vun...
but my God, you've got to believe
nimi LtOrne claims mai rvuuuj
called him up and urged him to
come over on a matter of great im
portance. Lome didn't want to, he
said, because he was busy working
on a picture for someone's dining
room now, isni mai crazy i
iiVnt Av rnturnpH "if Vflll've
'had many dealin's with Lome, it
sun t. out ne went, jusi me samci
"Roddy kept calling and calling.
So Lome went, at last. When
Roddy didn't show up by the boat
house, where he said he'd be, why
Lome turned around and came
home, and went back to work on
his picture. That's his story, and
he's sticking to It. And I can't
it Wn ran't. None of US. I
can't get him to change a thing, and
honestly, Asey, I m DeRinning iu
think that he's telling the truthl
What do you think?"
"There's the matter of his
drawln's." Asey said. "Someone
burned 'em, an' it wasn't Jennings.
An' the mural. It's been painted
out, you know. I think both of em
have got something to do with this
affair, an' I think Lome's the last
person to harm his own work."
"I guessed something happened
to the mural," Hanson said. "Look,
can I come in and talk things over
with you? I've got pictures of the
mural, they just came from Bos
ton. Asey, if you think there's any
clew in this thing, will you look?"
Asey spread the photographs
out on the kitchen table.
"These sldo panels," he said to
Hanson, "are the things, I think.
Now, let's see. This one here's all
Pilgrims an' Indians an" history.
Local faces. That's past history, I
guess, an' this ones the future,
with more local faces. Yup, here's
Jennings as Industry Mending the
Leaking Pipes of Civilization"
'Look!'
"WHERE'S Pam Frye and her
father?"
"They're in the main one," Asey
said. "She's one of them tired
lookln' women that's stlrrin' things
In the kettle, an' he's either Tmie
or the tax collector, floatin' on top.
Oh, here's Peg Boone, on the his
tory side. She's the Indian girl
skinnin' Hanson, what'n time is
that critter she's skinnin'?"
"It might be almost anything,"
Hanson said. "It's got four front
legs. She looks pretty good, com
pared to some. He did her a lot bet
ter than Pam. Asey, there's the
milKman, anci neres ine ronygre
we ran in so many times for boot
legging" At the end of an hour, Hanson
Sighed.
''I can't make anything out of
this," he said. "Not a thing. Can
vou? Oh, don't tell me you're going
to go through it all over again!
Don't! Tell me more about the
ambergris part of things. That am
bergris gets me "
"It geta me, too," Asey said.
"Hanson, 1 wish we had Lome
here. I'd like to know for sure what
was what and who was who."
"Lome's out in the car with my
fellows." Hanson said. "I'll bring
him in."
Lome's general annoyance, an
ger and irritation all characteristi
cally gave way to pleasure at the
excellence of the photographs.
"Get goln'," Asey said, "an' name
people! Hustle!"
"Why should I"
"Name people," Asey said, "or I
go cut a paddle"
With very bad grace, Lome went
through the series of pictures.
"Now," Hanson said when he
got through, "what good did all
that do? We're back just where
we started, Asey. We are right
back"
"No, we ain't!" Asey said sud
denly. "No sireebobl Hanson, we
been goin' at this from the wrong
angler It wasn't the way the per
son was pictured as a person, but
the way they was pictured, an'
what it told"
"What! What? You"
Before Asey could explain, the
door knocker sounded again.
"See," Asey pointed gleefully.
Hanson looked, and his mouth
opened. "My God but how can
you prove oh, damn that person,
he'll have that door down!
"I'll go," Asey said.
Jennie Mayo and her pint-sized
husband, Syl, stood on the door
step. "Look at you!" Jennie said.
"Still in them paint duds! An' you
ain't been to bed tonight, have
you? Oh, It's the police you got in
there, is it?"
She bustled into the halL "Hullo,
Mr. Hanson, is it true that Roddy's
murdered an' you're taken Jack
oh, Oh, I didnt see you Mr. Lome!"
Hanson grinned. "How do you
know so much about things?" he
demanded.
"It's the twenty-one party line,"
Asey said. "She's on it, an' nothin'
escapes her "
'Whalin' Book'
"OE's just laughin' at me," Jcn
fl nie said amiably. "He used to
have a phone on that line himself,
Mr. Hanson, an' he listened just as
much as anyone say, it's kind of
too bad about Roddy, ain't it?"
"Too bad what?" Asey asked,
surprised at the sympathetic con
cern in her voice.
"Why, I don't know exactly how
to say it," Jennie said, "but the first
call I heard this mornln', it sort of
seemed there might of been some
thin' good to Roddy, after all.
Seems like he'd been trying to
well, not exactly to reform, but
kind of make an effort "
"What kind of an effort?" Asey
Ignored Hanson's signal to ease
Jennie into the kitchen.
"Well, it seems that Saturday
mornin', he went into the library
you know, the one that his father
give the town? He'd never set foot
in it before, an' Miss Perkins said
that Roddy was sort of embar
rassed, like. He come in the library
an' wanted a book."
"So he could read, could he7
Asey said.
"I think you're horrid, talkln'
that way about the dead! Anyway,
he asked for that book that his
grandfather wrote, and was Just as
nice as he could be. Left some
money for a new encyclopedia, too.
H airl the nna thev had wasn't
no good. An' he said he'd have the
whalin' book rebound In leather
with nice gold trimmings before he
returned it wasn't that nice of
him?"
Jennie." Asey said, "wno Duiu
Octagon House?
"Who? don t knowl
Asev took her bv the shoulders
and propelled her to the phone.
"See that?" he said. "Well, you
go ring the twenty-one line, man
hv man. You find out. Jennie, who
built the Octagon House! Hurry"
But"
'If vou find out." Asey said, 'Til
do anythin' you want."
"Will you," Jennie asked, "put
on some decent clothes before the
reporters take pictures of you?"
White flannels, an a Diue com,
Apv nrnmised. "an mv best
yachtln cap. Now, get goln Don t
ask questions now. Hanson. Wait'll
we see if this turns out you see
he didn't know about the amber
gris, at first. That is, ne dian i
know the value "
"Who didn't?"
"BnHrtv." Asev said. "Then, aftci
his plane crash, an' before he be
gun flingin' money to Nettie, an'
offerin' rewards, an' beinf so
lavish sure, he'd bind It in gold!
Why not? He remembered hi?
grandfather's book, see? About
whalin', an' ambergris. Looked up
ambergris In encyclopedias, too
nun. Hon't vou see? It was Roddy
who moved that ambergris out of
the barn. Roddy Strutt! Roddy
found out by then how much the
ambergris was worm! An Kodciy
has his savin' streak, an' the fam'ly
ven to get money Roddy moved
It! I knew there had to be another
person, an' some reason for him
bein' killed! Got someone, Jen-
"Well, if It don't beat all," Jen
nie said. "The line was busy 1
thought it would be, It most always
is. But Emmaline, up to the office
she haiin't gone home yet, she
phoned her great-aunt for me"
"Who built Octagon House?"
"Earl Jennings' father, he built
it. But I'm sure I don't know"
"Hanson." Asey said happily,
"here's where we start in our
provin'l"
(CttmiU. IC.II. J,v.l Atwi Tit!)
Asey (els folnf. tomorrow.
REPAIR CANAL BREAK
TULE LAKE
KLAMATH TALLA, July 32. 4
After 60 houn of sWndy labor, wttn
76 men conMmitly on the Job. the
bureau of reclamation at noon today
completed repairs on t canal break,
which Mnc early Tueaday has left
the 25 000-arre Tule lake division rf
the Klamath reclamation project
without lrrtKatlon water tn the midst
of the aummer'i worst hot rpell.
In pplte of the record weed with
hleh the emergency repair Job woi
handled. It will be a full week from
the, time nf the break before wi'er
once again courses over Tule lake's
aun -scorched fields.
The union church service In the
city park next Sunday at 6:30 p.m.
will take the nature of a farewell to
adjutant CI. R. Durham of the Sal
vation Army, who will leave the
city durl rift the coming week. Dr.
Hherman U Divine, president of the
Medford Minister's association, will
preside.
Music will be furnished by the
Salvation Army. Brief speeches will
be made by Mayor C. C. Furnas.
Vugen Thorndlke. president of ihe
Chamber of Commerce; Rev. Joseph
Knott and Adjutant Durham will
deliver his farewell address to Mrd
ford. A large attendance Is expected
I v
aw
'jr&-7tv:pr v a farce nuirr'WO:
- V; " r." ... mi . mi, , a . . .1
For ? Ybars, KILUN6 139 Persons!
WflU io.ooo on Hi new,
trie shTirs frsnch Ami mowti&
10 IfthCK HIM DOWN ...
$0,000 MW,DrOO0 JoiNtPtrie Hl)Kl7
vim cwmivtmio, is
Urt. NiCrol5( MinmAVA,
HWePlP CHtCKtffe BY
MAIL foR2iBhR6i
IX.
lb Tiers of &-6rvun wfvTeR fom&s
fctflf IN ftll WERE PILED INfUfcVfcRD
O? IHE OWENS-ILLINOIS 61.15$ CWfcNV,
ft A , I f, .
m ""on hi.
f25-CKrpo5Tft66
fee k& RgQUlREI? 7N
mKWMOFW P0MIN1CAN REPUBLIC
- PI4C0URA6S UNNECKSARV MfSlL.,
sfWBI-.V. .M
i i i ti TTTyr"-.nu'.. l
"1'IHM. - I. - L .. 1 1 I ' - " 1(V,
.JtaBlBBnsssnlsMnat In t TTTTTTTTTTTsTlIll Ilifll llil
The Lone Wolf
Like & ghost out of the night, a
hugo, lone wolf for nearly three years
In the 1760s struck terror Into the
hearts of half n nation
Silently, without wnrnlng, "La
Bete" killed again and again Up nnd
down the Ri.one Valley of FTance he
ranged, leaving a trail of dfHth 200
miles long nnd 100 miles wide a dis
trict 30,000 square miles In extent I
Bete'B first killing In 1763 worn
limited to sheep, great numbers of
them After such nnssacres the huge
footprints of a wolf were noticed. An
attempt was made to capture the an
imal; the death of several men resulted.
Tho wolf's taste for human blood
Increased. He killed first the herders,
then l:o sheep. On March 7, 1705.
every man In tho Province of Lang
uedoc 20.000 In all assembled at 50
chosen points and started a drive to
enclose La Bete. Surrounded, he
fought his way out, killing one man.
Noted hunters from every part of
the world oame to the Rhone to cap
ture the famous animal, dead or
alive. Simple peasants up and down
the Rhone abandoned their farms
lest they meet deaxn at the fangs of
this unholy terror.
Finally, on August 1. 1765. the
Marquis de Euneval, a famous wolf
hunter, was dispatched by King Louis
XV to orgunlzo the greatest wolf
hunt In history. Pour thousand dogs
were collected, Including aoo Great
HeNHiihl Syndkatsb Im. 7'ZZ3B
Danes, 300 Wolf Hounds and 200
Llmlers.
The entire standing army of France
was turned over to de Euneval 10,
000 heavily armed soldiers. Farmers,
professional hunters and curiosity
seekers to the number of 40,000 were
added.
The mint went on for seven weeks:
time and again La Bete was surround
ed, only to escape. Finally, on Sep
tember 20, 1765, the great wolf was
shot by a soldier and Impaled by in
other but La Bete killed them both.
The dogs held him to earth and fin
ally La Bete was killed. The beast
measured three feet high at his
moulders.
In all, the wolf killed over 135 peo
ple, says Ernest Thompson Seton,
noted naturalist.
Voice Regained
SAN JOSE, Col. (UP) Miss Jose
phine Campagna, 21, who lost her
voice a year ago during hysteria pro
voked by seeing her father fall from
walnut tree, recovered It as the
result of a tonsllectomy. The attend
ing physician believed the operation
would release the contracted muscles
of her throat and vocal cords.
. Kills 37th Cougar.
OLENNVILLE. Cal. (UP) Ma
rlon Vincent, district cattleman, soon
will be In the market for a new
gun, or at least a new "gun stock.
He'has notched his present one the
37th time, for killing cougars nd
there Is little room for cutting any
more. His lost mountain Hon weigh
ed 20 pounds.
Bedouins IMay Soccer
CAIRO (UP) The football n as re
placed the rifle and spear for settling
tribal warfare among some Bedouin
tribes. Visitors returning from Tarlm,
southern Arabia, report that many
Bedouins hove become enthusiastic
soccer fans and now fight out their
buttles on footbnll pitches. The prac
tice Is being officially encouraged.
Is
ISIblD 16 JlTDDWH IN CHWR
AND KESt f OR A WHILE AFTER
UlNCH 601N6 00T1b
EXPERIMENT'S WITH 5tftHDlH6
OH BPiCK OF H6 NECK
AMUSES WMSELF fEiWlK6
CHAIR, WITH HIS FEET HOOKED
OVER ITS BUCK
-TRIES VARIOUS ACR0BKTX.
FEATS OK ARM6 OF CHAIR
DECIDES TEE.TERM6 CHftl R 15 AFTDJ INEVITABLE CRASH CRAWlS
MOST TON tDl unbtHiHtUj numuv vc-
, CID1HS HRSTlLV HE HAS RESTED
LOrtS EMOUSH
Copyright,' 1938, fry The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
7-2
S MATTER POP
Rv 0 M PAYNE y
Y Come- J y Moi-TAl 6 -AT2e
foLlTAjy To Comme.Ho?A1)
'xl s -mo OT-te'l3i'rsT,j)A-V5 ot-s
NMtW 1 TD-DUKI-r ) v.' U "IgrfH MINUTS. J
MoT2.E. (SfileAT Me.Myj 1 fi b 1-
I couui5 1-ave. ry (fJSy
foopyrlght. 1938 hy Th Bell Bynaicrta, Inc ) tj
(Oopyriglit. 1938, hy Th Bell 8ynillcl, Tnc )
TAILSPIN TOMMY Amos Sneade Gets an "Earful!"
By HAL FORREST
I M SERVING MOTICE
flOW. .THAT TKREE-
POIMT IS GOIMS TO
ENTER THE MERCURY
IN THAT RACE IN SPITE
op vouo roirfa
m X Mf-n i - I r & K J II I Cw r JUOI M niriU C . HW.nicr. ucni-it in crtiiw iiviivs u
H5Y! DOrlJ W'SfW yfflOtyf? HAMDLE THIS InV TEENY-WEENY
vou do that. TUSSmtWA&r v. WAY! POK J
'L-v f A jaspers? they fru:,. tp- J fv,x fw limited timeWv.'swd a vcfsT "3 n ; gi Wxl '
c'-'trn iaKKNiVjHfKl "A TDieO TO KILL sS- I..Trar V" J VCw, stam with vew nams amo akpssss to jj W V JVyft-'-Vil.' Tr.i.r.ptTJ
,Ufff 3S!VTW'D,0f" WY-ZSSSJ iMCWLANjcf TWLg'g8T1'!t 1X1 ,1 1 ft til ,llluiM'.
By EDWIN
P NOW, HOLD Orl.OIPPEM! JT RTAINLY NOT! W 1 WISH' THOu6H' MR.UCMES, 1 Jf WHY, MR.30NES.THAT McGURkT" KNEW ITJ
I YOU CAN'T SAY A WORD fP HE'S ONE OF THE FINEST fif I THAT I COULD SAY A5 MUCH I J YES, YES ! I J I KlD IS DYNAMITE HEL RUIN 3 I KNEW ITJ
.,' AGAINST BEN WEBSTER -PI WUN6STER5 fYE EVER W B FOR THE PED-HEADED UPSTART lp 00 ONI Bffi I YOU, BEN, YOUR FARM AND rWl I'VE ALWAYS -fW
MY PRESENCE1. " " SET EYES ON! r- T WHO'S FASTENENED HIMSELF rvM? ANYTHIH6 ELSE HE LAYS A V I SUSPECTED
V (TTTIJ rpSeSSCB Ion POOF? r VVw ( HAND ON J , J 77 THAT' c-
BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Jason Falls!
ALGER
THE NEBBS He Hath a Way with Him
By SOL HESS
TELL ME. AMD DOMT" T 5TEt, G'VE
-TUllvlkl K'P IMFFOTlMFKl-r I IT TO 1e. 'M
fSJT VJUAT RHSmT WAD 5MALL
VCXJ TD GET SO t? SO 1 CAM
PtZAUriPUL
IT
J'
I A TC v
v n arm n l.v u
V ii," ..I
2 tLrj. "i sr-
( 1E. TRAVELED OV'EFi MOST
cr TUlS VVORLP AMD TWEM
L CAME TO VISIT MY BKOTMEE
N AMD WECE 1 PWO MV D5EAM L 1
CP DREAMS- TO ME A -f -S.
MOST GOCGEOOS t.V'"
CREATURES SzW'lJ
lNf
" 1 JUST PickiED " 'dokit Pur Ton
SJ THAT r y "f?
r
mm
1
y
V
Closmg time for roo Lata to CI-
(Ttms mis, suf u lit out,)
V Mall mount Want A4.
fi