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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MA IT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1939. -by Frances YESTERDAY. Alter Wis study li broken into, Michael tells Tuck and Bunny about Murchuon's die appearance, and the anonymous diamond note. In turn. Tuck tell him aboul the proltnor't pipe. Looking in tht drawer where Tuck found the pipe, Michael finds a piece 0 paper with the print 0 a bloody hand. Chapter Nina Invitation To Bridge MICHAEL had crumpled that naner in his hand slowly, as if unconcerned; and neither of the eirls had seen the telltale stain. That the rusty dark pattern was made by blood he had not the slightest doubt; and, as he lay awake in the early morning hours there had come to him a strange picture. The picture of a man, seated at the big desk, a shaded lamp throwing the light on the papers before him; of the open drawer holding his pencils at his right hand. Of something coming out of the shadows there behind him . . . something ... the pipe had dropped from nerveless fin gers into the open drawer; the hand in agony had grasped and crushed the corner of the news paper lying there. But was it a true picture? If It was, if it had been Murchison's hand that had left bloody stains on the paper, where had the blood come from? And if ... if a mur derous hand had left the stains, how had it clutched and left the paper? Michael's face when he came to the breakfast table next morning betrayed nothing but the quietest mind. Murder, he had decided, was not to lie within the con sciousness of his wife if he could help it. Not that she had not wit nessed it before now; but, of course, she had not been his wife then, and he had not been respon sible for her. The little breakfast room was bright with sun. . "It's queer," said Tuck, pouring out the coffee, "that Charlotte Jean didn't hear the commotion last night and come down, curl papers and all. She sleeps right above the kitchen. I don't see how she could have helped hearing it." "Did you ask her?" Michael looked up from his toast. "No. I thought if she didn't hear it, it might be as well to leave her in ignorance, after what Gordon said about maids and burglars. Michael," Tuck demanded, "what did he mean? About burglars?" Michael considered. "He doesn't know anything, Tuck. I Imagine he's been reading mystery stories or listening to some ignorant maid." "He looks like a bright young ster." Bunny murmured. Charlotte Jean, Immaculate in blue and white, her sparse hair crinkly beneath her cap, came in with a tray. "It's the mail, Mrs. Forrester, ma'am," she explained, holding it out to Tuck. "Oh. Thank you, Charlotte Jean," Tuck murmured, taking the envelopes absorbedly. Michael buttered another piece of toast. "How do you like it out here in the country, Charlotte Jean?" he asked her. Her broad face spread into an expansive smile. "It's just swell, Mr. Forrester," she replied. "I like it fine. It's so nice and quiet." "Don't you find it lonely?" "Oh, no. I was raised on a farm. There's a lot of people around here." She blushed under Mi chael's scrutiny. "I get awful tired of them fool girls in town, she went on hastily. "All they ever think about is shopping at the ten cent store and going to the mov ies." She made her exit. Michael cocked a reflective eye after her Uncanny Luck IT'S the gardener," Tuck said absently, her eyes still on the letter in her hand. "You might know it." "Tough. We'll probably lose her. Is he the only man around?" "Apparently. But don't worry she'll find some more. It's a letter from Mrs. Deane," she went on without a pause. Bunny looked at her frowmngly until she under stood. Michael pulled one ear as he thought it over. Tuck went right on. "She wants us to go over and spend the evening." "Tonight?" "Umhm." "Do we go?" She looked up at him and low ered her tone. "It's so lucky for us it's almost uncanny," she said. "I almost believe your father's had his finger in this pie, too. Listen to what she says. . . . T hope you'll excuse the hasle and informality of the invitation, but I thought it would be nice for you to meet your neighbors, and so I have asked three tables for tonight, just the people on the campus and Duncan Murchison to make the twelfth. Please tell your husband it's only dinner jackets, quite informal, and I do hope you can come. " "Three tables?" Michael In quires oiankly. I IH AUTO INCREASE Salem. OIRl Oregon led the nation in the percentage of In crease in passenger car regis trations for the ten-year period from 1929 to 1939, Earl Sn 11 secretary of state, reported hero upon receipt of a national sur vcy of automobile registrations made by a finance company. Oregon's gain of 33 pet cent was far above the national in crease of 11 per cent. The greatest increase. Snell said, was on the Pacific coast where. In adclitiou lo Oregon'i icpoit, Shelley Wees "Bridge," said Bunny laconi cally. Michael groaned. "Such stupidity," said Tuck evenly, "I have rarely encount ered. Bridge, as bridge, is never played at a mixed party. One talks. One listens. One gathers im pressions." "Where does she get twelve?" "Well apparently, two Mc Bains, three Forresters, two Deans, one Lissey, two Devoes and Mrs. Murchison and Duncan. That's twelve." "I forgot Mrs. Devoe," Bunny murmured, helping herself to the marmalade. "Isn't it grand?" Tuck wriggled ecstatically. "Just think of all we'll be able to find out? There's simply no place like a bridge table for watching people's expressions and sizing them up without their sus pecting it." Michael frowned a little. "Don't let them see you doing it, honey," he warned. Tuck was insulted. "You forget that I have an I.Q., Michael," she said bitterly. "I apologize," he said handsome ly. "I apologize abjectly." "You'd better. I suppose you think I'd walk right into that bunch of people and hint and ask questions, and I'm ashamed of you. Don't you suppose I realize that this is about the trickiest case a person could possibly handle? We don't know anything, and we don't know that anybody else knows anything, and maybe no body does, and yet we don't dare take our eyes off them for fear they do." 'Bloodthirsty' "T UCID," Bunny congratulated - her. Tuck put her tongue out. "And what's more, Michael Forrester," she went on, "1 notice that you didn't tell us, last night, just what you'd been doing to find out about the Missing Professor." "Not much. I've been hanging about at the University a bit, and asking questions here and there, but I ve really been waiting for matters to take their cours here In the house, my love. In other words, I've been depending on your little nose to smell things out and tell me." "If you'd told me sooner I'd have smelled out a lot more things." "Undoubtedly. But you might have been heard sniffing." Bunny put down her coffee cup "I should scarcely call this an ele gant mode of conversation for 1 breakfast table." "1 don't believe In elegance." Tuck said firmly. "And what's more if you re going to talk about murder you ve got to use bloody words." "Murder?" said Michael with lifted brows. "Well, what else?" Tuck de manded. "He's gone, isn't he? He isn't anywhere around the coun try. He didn't walk anywhere, or ride anywhere, and if he did. he didn't get anywhere. This isn't like a tremendous big city, where he might be hiding in somebody's cellar. And if he committed sui cide, what did he do with his body? Unless he fell in the river by accident." "He'd turn up down-stream if he did," Bunny said. "And he hasn't has he, Michael?" "No." "So, somebody must have mur dered him. We're looking for a murderer and some stolen dia monds and a body. You can't hang anybody unless you produce a body, can you, Michael?" "Tuck, you sound positively bloodthirsty. You look like a two-year-old baby sitting there in that pink dress, and you talk about murders and bodies and hanging? as calmly as an executioner. It's indecent. It Isn't right." "It's just too bad that you feel that way, Michael. It's very foolish of you. You ought to be glad thai Bunny and I are hardened crea tures. Some people would weep and wail and shudder and gel afraid of the dark. I don't see any sense In it What we've got to do is decide which .of these people killed Professor Murchison and how they did it, and why, and get them arrested, and then move back to our own little bungalow. 1 can't say that I'm any too pleased with your father for putting us into it without consulting us, and I am certainly going to give him a piece of my mind; but now we are in it I wouldn't leave for ten million dollars until it's settled, and I am not going to get all shivery about it. All I'm seared about is that the people who are guilty are cleverer than we are." "What is it De Quincey says about murder, Michael? Some thing about it being rude to mur der a sick man," Bunny mur mured. "The child's been reading him. She's got his attitude exact ly." Michael did not answer. He drew a deep breath. "I am relieved," he said after a moment. "1 have a fear 1 confess that this thing may not turn out to be very pleas ant. I was dreading telling you." They waited. "There are aspects of it . , ," ht began, and stopped. "Go on," Tuck urged. Continued tomorrow California showed an Increase of 27 per cent and Washington reported a gnln of 18 per cent. In the south and southwest large Increases were also reported. Passenger car registration in Oregon for the first nine months of this voar showed an Increase of 2.65 per cent, Snell added. 1 Hunters Welcome. Billings, Mont. (U.Ri R. K Bntemnn, district agent for the Biolnglcnl Survey, has sent ovit an SOS fi-r more hunters. Preda tory animals some of them big game are overrunning his dis trict. During the past three months bear killed 487 snoop. 7 calves, 2 cows and ore pig. Coy otes Killed 7411 rhei'p, 2 calves, 792 'lii-kiiys. 280 mouse U deor, 19 i,w.i and one omc'. A niuun- 1 lain lion killed a decr. On the RADIO CHAINS STATIONS Where to Find Them on the Dial: Ken, Portland, 1180; KH, 640. Los Angeles; KGA, 1470, Spokane; KGO, 700, San Francisco; Kurt 620, Portland; KJK, 070, Seattle; KNX. 1030, Lot Angeles; KOA, 830. Denver; KOIN, 040, Portland: KO.MO. 026. Seattle; KPO, 630, Han Francisco; KSL. I mo. Salt Lake. Monday 5:00 Quaker Party, KPO, KPI, KOW; Prank end Archie, KEX, KJR; Sunset Shadows, KGO. 5:30 Time and Tumpo, KGW. KPI; Kelsey's Orch., KOO, KJR; True or False, KPO. 5:00 Rochester Orch., KGO, KEX; Radio Theater, KSL, KNX, KOIN; Quiz Program, KPO, KGW, KFI. 6:30 Templeton Time, KPO, KOW. KPT: Youth In Crisis, KGO, KEX. 7:00 Dance Orch., KOO, KJR. KEX; Hour. KPO, KOW, KPI: Lom bardo's Orch., KSL, KNX, KOIN". 7:30 Blondle, KNX, KSL, KOIN; Clinton's Music, KPO, KPI, KOW; Radio Forum, KGO, KJR. 8:00 Amoe and Andy, KN. KOIN, KSL: Aloha Land, KGO; Doe's Music, KEX: Fred Waring. KPO, KOW, KFI. 8:151 Love a Mystery, KPO, KFI, KGW; Lum and Abner, KNX, KSL, KOIN. 8:30 Richard Crooks, KPO, KPI. KOW; Lyman's Orch., KEX; Potato UNDERCOVER (Ralmiad br'Tb BM r .1 W2rfCHK M01HIER 60 OUT, AT1W 1icMM HIM UP FOR "THE NI6Hf AMD THHH6 1HE 60ES INTO HIS USUAL ROUTINE ALLOWS HIMSELF PLENTY OF TIME FOR TriE FAIRLV COMPLICATED TR0CE5S 0F6EfliN6 HIMSELF UNDER THE BLAMKEfS A.6WN TAILSPIN TOMMY "TheCamera npTiLM prom An Automatic camera that was wnniMB UN iKtt tK.5 BEPORE THE STARTLED EYES THE NEBBS The Casualty vAU EM BERT SAVE RUDY" A. OP HIS POWER PILL VESTERDA.V WITH NEAR TRAGIC RESULTS PILL THE ' fte'i Ini ! ' t4 Mir b- 1 ABfWNT J GOT A HUNCH THAT J ? , 1 BEN WEB Developments! gjj ALGR - oSt opJl VOU NURS.E-Ve ' THE JlI OLP ARTIM MOOCHEM.... ONLywiTHUSWECAM XT JlcA FIGHTIN' sTEPLOCK, VDUB BRAwT ZVL IN MVTlr 1 TO WlN.VjSPIRlTi , I WITH BALLINGER WAS THE I ,?7T ( " U J$ 3l K Bug Band, KOO: Model Minstrels, KNX, KSL, KOIN. 8:00 Sherlock Holmes. KPO, KFI, KOW; Tune Up Time, KNX. KOIN. KSL; True or False, KGO, KJR. 0:30 Hawthorne Houae, KPO. KGW, KPI; Crosby's Orch., KSL KNX; News. KJR. 10:00 News Reporter, KPO, KFI, KOW; Paul Sullivan. KSL, KNX; News. KOIN. 10:30 Music uy Woodbury, KGW; Concert Hall, KPO; Roland's Orch., KOIN, KSL, KNX; Foster's Orch., KOO, KJR, KEX. KFI. 11:00 Ravazza's Orch.. KPO, KPI: This Moving World. KEX, KJR: Or ganist, KOIN, KSL; News, KGO, .'NX. KOW. TucKlaj. 6:00 The Aldrlch Family, KPO. KPI, KOW; Frank and Archie, KEX, KJR; Sunset Shadows, KOO. 6:30 Adventures, KOO, KEX, KJR; Drama, KPO, KFI, KGW. v 8:00 String Quartet, KGO, KEX; Concert Irch., KPO, KGW, KPI. 6:30 Fibber McOee , KPO. KFI, KOW; Crosby'a Orch., KEX. KSL, KOIN; Human Side of Literature, KOO: News, KJR. 7:00 Shield Revue, KOO. KEX; Bob Hope, KPO, KOW, KFI: Calling All Cars, KNX; News. KOIN. 7:30 Sports, KNX, KOIN: Fun with the Famous, KGO, KJR; Dog House. KPO, KFI. KGW; News, KSL. 8:00 Fred Waring, KPO, KFI, KOW; Amos and Andy, KNX. KOIN. KSL: Information Please, KGO, KEX, KJR. Syndicate, Inc.) AS SOON AS POOR HP6 CLOSED, CRAWW DEFTW OUT TRDM UNDER THE BLANKEfS Never Liosl" SH P 5 RFIMP, PRO tfTCft OF TOMMY, BETTY AND BEVERLti ilPWHENl THAT' POWER. WEMT OFF I THOUGHTS WORLD TIPPED OVER . THAT GUVS GOT something there ' r I7TL I i 8:16 Jlmmle Pldler, KSL, KNX, KOIN; I Love a Mystery, KPO, KFI. KGW. 8:30 Aldrlch Family, KOO, KEX; KJR; Johnny. Presents. KPO, KFI, KOW; Big Town, KOIN. KNX. 9:00 Tuesday Night Party, KOIN, KNX: Good Morning Tonight, KPO. KFI. KOW; Dance Hour, KOO. 9:30 Messner'a Orch., KEX; Bat te ot the Sexes, KPO, KOW, KFI; We., the People, KNX, KOIN; News, KJR. 10:00 News Reporter, KPO, KFI. KOW; News, KNX, KSL: Madrlguera'a Orch.. KGO, KJR, KEX; News. KOIN. 10:30 Foster's Orch., KPO, KFI. KOW; Saunders- Orch., KOO. KEX, KJR. 11:00 Ravazza's Orch., KPO, KFI: This Moving World, KEX: Gray's Orch., KSL. KOIN; News, KGO, KNX, KGW. $3 Bill of 1809 Moi.lgomery, Ala. (U.R) Mrs. Dora Bell Parker of Evergreen owns what is believed to be the oldest $3 bill in Alabama. The note was issued in 1809 by the Central Bank of Montgomery, a private banking institution on which all records have vanished Fourth Graders Kent, O. (U.R) College fresh men are fourth graders in Eng lish and punctuation, Dr. W. I. Garnett, professor of English at Kent State university, an nounced after a survey of three mid-western teachers' colleges. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS . . SUNAS OF EHERCI5E, ENTERTAINMENT AM ACRO BWC TEATS OF STREH&fH AHP SKILL is sound asleep when mother looks in and C0N6RATuIf!rttfS HERSELF THAT WrtH BLANKETS PINNED. HE CAN 6ET UNCOVERED OR EtfOSED iPSl P I fTH Ti:h,JUJ:Kf I L-S0...5KEETER RAMMED DIRKAA J$3 I 1ih 4 Corns Jl?&1 I SHIP BECAUSE He IfiST CONTRpJ-f-mSif fe2v LTfi-l 1 .99'S'?N MUST I of HIS PLANE.. AMD NOW 7 AIM IWill".'UlUJ nes,volm V LOOK IfJ ?WEU.il ALMOST uc-v j Noun, BUT DlDNT OU UNA STILL IN TUNGSTEN LEAD Chungking (U.R) The foreign trade commission nas announced that despite the war, China STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author. Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. S. Pat Off. --::.-!::!- 5-i-v--i.44.L. I --n-i"i" -n-i-f -:-i-p-- Ahgl,? tj aJJHrldk 011770! CUTTING THE f 16URE ON THE I.6FT INTO TWO PlgC4 To foRtA A PSRFScTSQUhRi MANILA !l Louisiana ' ftehing&loni, e BUILT OVER M &Mo? -m 0ARATARIA... W$ French pamfe vWotfEREPHIS-SeCREToF QUICK PHOTOGRAPHIC MEIOPMENT vt Lgff AM tiPDZtV PLATE OVfr?NI6(4T- IN A CABINET CONTAINING AN f! OPEN PlH op MERCURYi,, uu Ht VAftJR titVtlOPZQ THE DISCOVERY BY ACCIDENT Strange as it seems, eight hours' exposure was necessary- to lake a photograph in 1830, so slow was the developing process then in use. Through an accident, Louis Daguerre, French painter and chemist, reduced this time to minutes. Working with another chemist named Niepee, Daguerre found that faint images formed on iodized silver plates within two or three hours. One day Daguerre laid an "underexposed" plate of this kind in a dark cabinet, intend ing to clean and re-use it. Next morning he was amazed to find a fine image on the plalo. He soon realized the faster development had come when vapor from an open dish of mer cury settled upon the iodized silver in proportion to the intensity of light by which each part of the plate had been affected. Tomorrow: The Man Who Slept With a Depth Bombl rv ;lv i Pkr.r s snoot out op this. NO IF SOMEONE ELSE1 MAXE TROUBLE FOR , VOUD MANUFACTURE TUUKltV.r'..'VOU KEVEL IN VT maintained her position in 1938 as one of the world's leading producers or tungsten. Estimates for 1939 are not yet available, but it is believed tliat they are commensurate. Tungsten exports from China for the year amounted to 13, 357,700 kilograms valued at $50, 192,082. Although exports declined 3,- I it VII , i T J Li PlcfiJRE.M 11 ci iryvien i, t pir ij i w int. r-tmivAr TO A GREAT FORTUNE ROSES l-cn. i - . i 160,100 kilogram as compared with 1937, the cash value of 1938 exports increased by S9,- . 743,490,bringing the highest re- , . turn since 1929. 1 . West Gouldsboro, Me. (U.R) Police are puzzled by a robbery at the Tracey and Barhydt mink farm. Thieves killed three mink and stole their pelts, valued at $18. A living mink is worth $60. Power dives ARfc PERFORMED BY .MALE NlflriTnAWK'S PURIN6 MWIN6 REASON... lfleiRWIMSR?0PllCE h&MNG SOUND 2W ))) vy? R ri By HAL FORRES" By SOL HESS GREAT ED-n ivit ? WHAT ARE OU " . t2LJ PO - rA V ll-i i ITHIS GREAT DESTRUC- i ivc ruwfcK r THE DEMONSTRATIOM SSIBLETOHOP J