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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1939. by Frances YESTERDAY. Mrs. Mured.. it shocked when Tuck finds u pipe that looj never out of her husband'! hand Sunny sleuths, also, and discover that Mrt. JHurchiion doei not fcnoto uihere her husband is. That night, the study it broken into. Chapter Eight Michael l ei In All "pOME in. Tuck." Michael laid "Pretty smart guy, whoever he is. That clatter warned him." He shut the door behind him, picked the key from the floor and turned the lock. The smaller of the two big rugs was hung over the glass doors that led to the dining room The blinds sn every window were drawn close and the Indian blanket from the couch was lying on the floor ai if it had been hung over the panes of the long glass door which led to the sun porch." "He certainly wasn't taking any chances on being seen," she de cided. Michael was surveying the room minutely. "Now what the devil do you sup pose he was after?" he said won deringly. "There isn't anything in the place worth stealing." "Hidden passages," Tuck said lightly. A sudden thought had itruck her. but ihe was not letting Michael know all she knew. "Se cret rooms." she repeated. At the moment another tap founded sharply, and Tuck for b11 her nonchalance, jumped. Mi chael grinned at her It's Bunny," he said, and shot the bolt on the dining room door Runny was rap ping on the door to the kitchen, snd saying "Let me In, vou twol This door's locked." Michael turned the key and opened the door Bunny, calm and unruffled, stood there with her hands in the pockets of her black lilk dressing gswn. "What's up?" she asked coolly "A party? Or are they charivari Ing us? I heard Dots and pans bang big " "Burglars," Michae1 said briefly. "Oh. Well. well. Where's Tuck?" "Surveying the ruins." With lifted eyebrows Bunny trolled through the dining room and looked into the disordered study "What vas burgled?" she asked Tuck "Do we keep the fam ily diamonds in here?" "It's true. Bunny, honestly." Tuck told her. "There was some body In here. We heard them. Tap ping on the wails." "But whatever for, Michael?" Bunny's face expressed the sincer est amazement. "1 really didn't Inquire," Mi chael told her. "It certainly is be yond me. I don't understand it at all" - Tuck looked at him scornfully. "Isn't that funny," she said "You really ought to nave things better arranged Imagine not being able to understand it." Bunny laugl.ed suddenly. "You know what I think." she said calm ly. "1 think it's about time you stopped being mysterious. Michael Tuck's getting cross. And, if you really don't understand this bur glary, maybe you could use a little help in unraveling your little problem. The Problem of the Missing Professor." Michael swallowed. "How in the devil did you ferret oul this business of a Missing Pro fessor? Nobody knows he's miss ing Not a soul. Not his most inti mate friends." "Hicqins does," Bunny said quit-kly. "And Mrs. Murchlson knows," Tuck supplemented. Michael groaned. "You haven't been around asking them ques tions, hrive vou?" "It would have served you per fectly well right if we had," Tuck informed him "Trying to keep us In the dark while you sneaked around finding out all sorts of in teresting things." "N it very many," Michael mut tcre I "Will you tell us all vou know?" "1 am abject," he said. "I will." 'Think Suspect Wonder" Tl'CK dropped Into the big leather chair by the fireplace and hugged her knees excitedly "On on, then." she commanded "St irt at the beginning. Is he miss ing"" "He Is." "Hid lie disnrmeai .' "He dirt." "When?" Mu-hael told hei. "Can't thev find him?" "Tliev cannot." He explained in detail the very careful search maie hv the police. The two girls listened in silence. Bunny's eyes on the toe of her slip- fier. Turk's following Michael's ips as he spoke. There was a little Silence. "So they think they suspect thry wonder " "Exaetlv." Michael acreed "You have it. honcv Thev think, thev suspect and thry wonder Hut they don't know And that's why we're here " "1 knew It," Tuck said "Michael Forrester, why in the name of goodness didn't you tell us Bunny and me, right at the beginning? We've Inst an awful lot of lime What we should have done at the beginning was to get acquainted with the Uevoes nd Mrs Murchi ton and have Dti.ican Murchlson out here to lunch and start finding things out." Michael tilted her chin with his finger "You've answered vourown question there. Tuck. That's ex d:es predicts many Clilrago. Nov. 18. (P) Con gri"i.;imm Martin Dies, chalrmnn of the congressional committee investigating u n-Amrrirunism. pri lirted tnrtay that "there will be hundreds ol indictments Shelley Wee actly what we shouldn't have done Dad expressly itated that we were to act as much like disinterested people as possible, if not more so Ana we have, unless . . ." "Unless I created some suspicion snooping around. Well, I didn't.' "Then we've been here week without a riop a of curiosity around the place we dropped into. "What about Miss Lissey?" "There is that question. Unless your imagination ..." Tuck pounded her fist on the arm of her chair "The next person whr. says that to me will get poison ir; his soup," she said flatly. "It isn'l imagination. It's sense. I suppose next you'll say I imagined Mrs Murchison was frightened stifl when I took over that pipe. Or thai Bunny imagined what she said to her over the "phone." "What pipe? Who said to Bunn over the 'phone? Said what?" Tuck and Bunny explained thai together, in a sort of recitative duet, one taking up where the other left off. Michael listened with the deepest attention, but he was most interested in the story of the pipe. "Can you repeat her exact words, Tuck?" he asked anxiously He had lit a cigarette now. and wo listening with brows squinted t keep out the smoke. "She said, 'Where have you found It? It is never out of hif hand.' She has a French accent you know, that's what's the mattei with her tenses." "Yes ... or ... or she really wonders where he is. . . . That thing will take a lot of figuring out. Tuck. She was very surprised to see it?" "She certainly was." "Michael," said bunny suddenly looking up at him keenly. "There's one think 1 don't quite get. From what you've said, there has been nothing found that would lead the police to suspect foul play A man'; disappeared, but lots of men dis appear and turn up later He isn"' anybody in particular. Is he? Jus an ordinary person . . . it's quid possible he'll turn up by himselt That's what his relatives say There's no reason why they'd want him out of the way that you know of. . . ." 'One Finger Too Many' "I VTELL, Bunny?" ' ' "Then, why have the police taken such a hold of this case? What makes them think it's more than just one more temporarily in-, explicable disappearance?" Michael considered "There's one finger too many in this pie," he said slowly after a minute "There's someone standing on the edge and watching . . someone who isn't supposed to know the Professor is missing, someone who sent an anonymous letter to the police asking 'WHERE ARE PRO FESSOR MURCHISON'S DIA MONDS?' " "Diamonds!" said Tuck incredu lously. "Diamonds? A university pro fessor with diamonds?" Bunny echoed. "Even so. my children. But his wife says he hadn't any His brother doesn't know anything about them. And yet . somebody else hints about them. Is it because . . does that other person mistrust Professor Murchison's relatives? You see?" Tuck caught her breath. There was a little silence. "Then, that's what they might havt been after here tonight," she went on in a queer tone. "Dia monds." Michael looked about him "Hardly, honey Not in a prosait house in the twentieth century 1 doubt if there are any diamonds Only I'd like to know who wrote that letter." "Well, M i c h a e 1 . . . If they weren't after diamonds, wha: were they after?" Michael got up and went over tc the big desk before he spoke "Where did you find that pipe Tuck?" he asked. She went over beside him. Th, right hand side of the desk was n row of drawers. Above them, just underneath the top of the desk was a board resting in the groove made for it. Tuck pulled it out a little way, then pressed a little catch and pushed it back again Beneath it was disclosed a shallou drawer, little more than a pencil tray, perhaps an inch and a hall deep In it lay a ruler, half a dozen pencil stubs and some wads of torn paper. "There," she said, "lying In that drawer. You can see the mark where It burned the wood." Michael bent and examined It "Burned the wood," he aid softly to himself. He stepped back, sat down In the big chair before the desk and reached out his hand to the drawer It was just at a comfortable dis tance. "It means It dropped In there while it was burning, doesn't it, Michael?" Tuck said very quietly "Dropped in there while it was burning . and then he never took it out again Whv? A pipe that was never out ot his hand What jour ney did he go on so suddenly that night that he didn't think to pick it up?" There was silence. Michael pulled the little drawer out farther and looked in. as if the answer to his question might lie there. Nothing but those pencils and the ruler, and t wad of torn newspaper Absently he picked up the wad of paper and spread it out between his fingers. It was as if he had had his ques tion answered at the moment Fot on the paper, clear and distinct, was the print of s bloodv hand. Conllnurd tomorrow and convictions of persons who have violated the laws of this country In spreading subversive propaganda." The Texas congressman made this statement upon his arrlva to resume, nfler a lapse of srv crnl weeks, an investigation of communist, fascist and mui activities in Chicago. Closing ttmr lot 11 J Ada la 1.30 p. Too Lata to CIus On the RADIO CHAINS DTATIONS Where to rind Them on the Dial: Kei, Portland. 1180s KFI. 640. Los Angeles; KGA. 140. Spokane: KGO. 7110. San Francisco; KUU 620, Portland; KJH, 070, Seattle; K.NX. 1050, Los Angeles; KOA, B30. Denver; KOIN, S40, Portland. KO.MO. 026. Seattle: KPO, 630, ban Franrlkco: KKL, I ISO. Salt Lake. Sunday VOO Edgar Bergen, KPO, KOW, KFI; Festival of Music, KOO, KJR, KEX; Adventures, KOIN, KNX, KSL. 6:00 Note Book, KOO; Manhat tan Merry-Go-Round, KPO, KOW. KFI; Sunday Evening Hour, KNX, KSL, KOIN. 6:30 Organist, KOO, KJR, KEX; Album of Familiar Music, KPO. KOW, KFI. 7:00 William Hlllman. KOW; Playhouse, KNX, KSL, KOIN; Sleep Serenade, KPO; Hour of Charm. KOO, KEX, KJR, KFI; Hlmber's Orch., KOW. 7:30 Carnival, KPO, KFI, KOW; Cheerio, KOO, KJR. 8:00 Ranny Week's Orch.. KOO; Hobby Lobby. KNX, KOIN: Night Editor, KPO, KOW. KFI; News, KEX. 8:16 Irene Rich, KPO. KFI, KOW; Weeks- Orch.. KEX, KJR. 8:30 Sweet and Low, KOO, KJR; Jack Benny, KPO, KOW, KFI; Arm- SUBURBAN HEIGHTS wmMm i a ymm FRED perlfy was in A BAD WAY" When: he 60T a storm window where HE COULDM'T LET 60 UNtlL HE HAD PUT" SOME SCREWS IN, AND HIS WIFE WHO WAS HELPIH6 BV PAS5ING HIM YpOLA HAD JU5f SEEN THE' LAUNDRV rOAN PASSlKG WlTtf WHOn SHE WANTED 1b HAVE WORDS ABODT A MlSSIf6 SHIRT TAILSPIN TOMMY New Evidence Unearihedl I WAS ON "THE Point (flEW A J TOM MY.7 THE CHIEF WUNDi f IT LANDED IN SOME VJ2gT TOMMY, THAT PILK X OF- LEARNING PROM I S GUNS ? VTHE AUTOMATIC CAMERA ll; BRUSH. ..AND THE 3- .SHOWS WHAT REALLY RcftTH6rLDiE?ZlTV j- I THAT WAS FIXED ON J Fl LM WASN'T DAMAGED. Jl), HAPPENED ON SKEETS' J g U ll1 ' - T- BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER But Intimating It? 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KGW; Lyman's Orch., KEX; Potato (Rplessfttl by The nHI Ryndlr, Bang 7"t ,'rr DTNUFQ HAVE Rn-TTVF A RDRTUME THEN tm finiNft CLIFF DEMONSTRATION RESULT ALL DOURT !TET FREE rjgL Bug Band, KGO; Model Minstrels, KNX, KSL, KOIN. 9:00 Sherlock Holmes, KPO, KFI, KGW; Tune Up Time, KNX, KOIN, KSL; True or False, KGO, KJR. 0:30 Hawthorne House, KPO. KGW, KFI: Crosby's Orch, KSL, KNX; News, KJR. 10:00 News Reporter, KPO, KFI, KGW; Paul Bulllvan. KSL, KNX; News, KOIN. 10:30 Music by Woodbury, KGW; Concert Hall, KPO; Roland's Orch., KOIN, KSL, KNX; Foster's Orch., KOO, KJR, KEX, KFI. 11:00 Ravazza's Orch., KPO, KFI: This Moving World, KEX, KJR; Or ganist, KOIN, KSL; Newa, KGO, KNX, KGW. Colliers' Trophy To Howard Hughes New York, Nov. 18. (U.R) Howard Hughes, who set a 'round-the-world flight record of 91 hours and 14 minutes In July, 1938, has been awarded the Col lier trophy ."for the greatest achievement in aviation in America, the value of which has been thoroughly demonstrated by actual use during the preced ing year," it was announced last night. Hughes' associates In the flight also figured in the cita tion, published in Collier's Weekly. v 4 Use Mail Tribune want ada. By CLUYAS WILLIAMS dilute tui?; Dll 1 lkl& .;mall OF MOXAGFWATEC, DROP IT OFF THIS (CURIOSITY AMU VOU iHt IOOO HORSES v)' LIMIT OF ENDURAMC I V T New York, Nov. 18. 7P) Earl Browder, general secretary of the communist party In the United States, was indicted for STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address the author. Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Pat Oft. 1 V dreat Britain, A JoB THAT DOES HoTEKT ('Steward and cam no; we Three Hundred? ofChiltern'O Women of aucieht nosem iP-TUP MtfTrrf? 1HE GARMENTS Wr?e fVENTUALLV BMNED BECAUSE THEV WERE CONSIDERED RISQUE SILK lNtfTNEW SHEER SILK Rivaling sheerest silk made today, a beautiful, temi-iransparent material was all the rage In Rome 2,000 years ago. So delicate was its texture that the fiber was dyed with a purple dye obtained from shel'ish, before being woven. Women of Rome greatly admired the ' Coa Ves tis" dresses, but they provided so scanty a covering that eventually their use was banned. FICTITIOUS JOB Because British Parliament members can resign their seats only to accept another office under the Crown, they apply for a job that doesn't exist. Granted this office, they are auto matically out of Parliament. MONDAY: Discovery by Accident. th MY k 4 the second time by I federal grand jury today for allegedly having made false statements to procure passports and for using these passports. The new Indictment charged that Browder used the name cf "Albert Henry Richards" on one occasion. In the first indictment, re turned against the communist leader last month, it was charged he used the name of 1 Veieran ixftall coach, IN ?0YtftRHASW?M 0MW ZGAMEfBV 0NB POINT-- goiH wrm THe sms. fcbfama oJpHWask. 1126: rome JJ AL . r SEE! I TELL YOU ? 1 v DIDN'T 1 1 VOU FPA K 23 i "Nicholas Dozenberg" and "George Morris." Browder is free under $7,500 bail on the first indictment. . Commutes by Plane Kent, O. (U.PJ Galen Edward Elser, a graduate music student in Kent State university, fliea his own monoplane every day from Youngstown to Kent to at tend classes a total of 2,500 commuting miles every year. i saa i . 31 CUT 1RE AeoVE FIGURE m 2 PIECES WHicH,FnreD Together, foRM A &UP SQUARE (Anetier Monday) By HAL FORREST By SOL HE?" WHAT DID LIE TO YOU Y L UCKY. WERE A LUCKY UCM OW VJUUCiO I'm ai l r
