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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1939. by Francf YESTERDAY. Altrr th ttudv it broken into. Michael UlU Tuck and Bunny about Murchiton't dis appearance, and the anonymous diamond note, in turn, Tuck tells him about the proeiior's pipe. Looking in the drawer where Tuck found the pipe, Michael finds a piece of paper with the print o a bloody hand. Chapter Nina Inviliilion To Bridge MICHAEL had crumpled that paper in his hand slowly, as if unconcerned; and neither of the girls 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 naoers 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 L J i .......... l,J Hnl a1 lldllU 111 HOU ftiaapu o.iu crushed the corner or me 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 1 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. Dcane," she went on without a pause. Bunny looked at her frowningly 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 haste 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 Murchlson to make the twelfth. Please tell your husband it's only dinner jackets, quite informal and I do hope you can come. " "Three tnbles?" Michael quired blankly. ln- I IN AUTO INCREASE Salem. (U.R) Oregon led the notion In the percentage of In crease In passenger car regis trations for the ten-year period from 1929 to 19:19, Earl Sni 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 addition to Oregon teptut, ' Shelley Wees "Bridge," aald 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. Dcvoe," 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'a 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, "I 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. ana asking questions here and there, but I've really been waiting for matters to take their course 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 smelted 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 a breakfast table." "I 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, 01 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 ho fell in the river by accident." "He'd turn up down-stream If he did." Bunnv said. "And he hasn't has he, Michael?" 'No." 'So. somebodv 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 nutting 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 1 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 scared 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. "I have a fear I confess that this thing may not turn out to be very pleas ant. I was dreading telling you." They waited. "There arc aspects of It , . he began, and stopped. ''Go on," Tuck urged. Continued tomorrow California showed an Increase of 27 per cent and Washington reported a gain 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 nn increase of 2 65 per cent, Snell added. Hunters Welcome. Billingj, Mont. (U.R' R. E nntoman, district agent for the Biological Survey, has sent out an SOS fi-r more hunters. Preih tory animals some of them big game arc overrunning his dis trict. During the past three months bi ar killed 487 sheep. 7 calves, 2 cows and or pig. Coy otes kuied 74H rheep, 2 calves, 792 '!"-ktvs, 280 Kiousc U deer, 19 teesc. and one w.-k. a mmm. lain lion killed a deer. On the RADIO CHAINS STATIONS Where to Find Them on the Dial: Hex, Portland. 1180: Kt'l, 040. Lot Ancelee; KOA, 1470. Spokane: KOO, 190, San Francisco; Kurt 620, Portland; KJK. 910, Seattle; KNX, lOSO, Los Anieles: KOA, 3t. Denver; KOIN, 940, Portland: HOMO. 936. Seattle; KPO, 630. san FranclHo; KSL, 1180, Salt Lake. Monday :00 Quaker Party, KPO, KPI, KOW: Prank and Archie, KEX, KJR; Sunset Shadows, KGO. 6:30 Time and Tempo. KGW, KPI; Kelaey's Orel)., KOO, KJR; True or False, KPO. 6:00 Rochester Orch, KOO, KEX: Radio Theater, KSL, KNX, KOIN: Qulr. Program, KPO. KOW. KPI. 6:30 Templeton Time. KPO, KOW. KPI: Youth In Crisis. KOO, KEX. 7:00 Dance Orch., KOO, KJR. KEX; Hour. KPO, KOW. KPI: Lorn bardos Orch., KSL. KNX. KOIN. 7:30 Blondle, KNX. KSL, KOIN: Clinton's Music. KPO, KPI, KOW; Radio Forum, KOO, KJR. 8:00 Amoa and Andy. KN, KOIN, KSL; Aloha Land, KOO: Doe'i Mualc, KEX; Fred Waring, KPO. KOW, KPI. 8:18 I Love a Mystery, KPO, KPI, KOW; Lum and Abner, KNX, KSL, KOIN. 8:30 Richard Crooks. KPO, KPI. KOW; Lyman's Orch., KEX: Potato UNDERCOVER (RelMiad by Tht Bell ( r a WMCHES MOTHER 60 OUT, ATTER 1uCfl6 HIM UP FOR THE NI6HT" AnD TIHK1H6 frlE BLAHXET& 60K IrtTO HIS USUAL ROUTlrlE ALLOWS HIMSELF PLENTY OF "TIME FOR THE FAIRL-V COMPLICATED TR0CES& OF 6EfliN6 HIMSELF UNDER THE BLANKETS A&AlN TAILSPIN TOMMY "TheCamera TTilm from An Automatic camera thkt was R.UNNIN& ON XKFFTTR'S SWIP K Mikic aemcrTcn BEFORE THE STARTLED EYES THE NEBB3 The Casualty nivAW EM6ECRT 6AVE RUWA OF US POWER. PILL VESTERDA.V WITH NEAR TRAGIC "5ESULTS ' PILL THE j BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Lotsa Developments - ByiWlTJ AL6EB "JiiM 0aHA,VJS- I I WDDLSSTICKSI ( ATTABOy.'l MEANTIME, H THE OFFICE Of I OH BRIARSIE Tf LUCK'S ""T fn HERElSHOULDN'Tj SOT AN ELECTION I PIGHTIN' TsTEPLOCK, VOUR BRAWt VffLZT IH NwE' LL T TTZIr 1 T WINigjpWlTI I WITH BALUNGER WAS THEl & Sl I " 'J -jg& illv it jp Bug Band. KOO: Model Minstrels. KNX, KSL, KOIN. 9:00 Sherlock Holmee. KPO. KPT, KOW; Tune Up Time, KNX, KOIN. 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KSL; Information Please, KGO, KEX, KJR. 8jrndict, Inc.) AS SOON AS POOR H(6 CLOSED, CRAWL) DEFTLY OUT "FROM UNDER THE BLANKER IS SOUND ASLEEP WHEN MOTHER LOOKS IN AND C0rJ6RATi)LRTES HERSELF THAT WlTH BLANKET'S PINNED. HE CAN6ET UNCOVERED OR EXPOSED Never Liesl" OF TOMMY, BETTY AND BEVERLY WHEKJ TU AT 'POWER. WEMT OFF 1 TWOOGUT WORLD TIPPED OVER TU4T KVJVS fiOT sSOMETUINGi THERE! 8:16 Jlmmie Pldler, KSL, KNX, KOIN; I Love a Mystery, KPO, KPI, KOW. 8:30 Aldrlch Family, KOO. KEX; KJR; Johnny. Presents, KPO, KPI, KOW; Big Town, KOIN, KNX. 9:00 Tuesday Night Party, KOIN, KNX; Good Morning Tonight, KPO, KPI, KOW; Dance Hour. KGO. 9:30 Mes&ner's Orch, KEX; Bat te of the Sexes, KPO. KGW, KPI; We. the People, KNX, KOIN; News, KJR. 10:00 News Reporter, KPO, KPI, KGW; News, KNX, KSL; Madrlguera's Orch.. KGO. KJR. KEX; Newa, KOIN. 10 :30 Poster's Orch, KPO, KFl. KOW; Saunders' Orch, KGO, KEX, KJR. 11:00 Ravazza's Orch.. KPO. KFI: Thli Moving World. KEX: Gray's Orch, KSL, KOIN; News, KGO, KNX, KOW. $3 Bill of 1809 Moi.;gomery, Ala. (U.R) Mrs Dora Bell Parker of Evergreen owns what is believed to be the oldest $3 bill in Alabama. The note was issued in 1809 by the Central Bank of Montgomery, a private banking institution on which all records have vanished Fourth Graders Kent, O. (U.R) College fresh men are fourth graders in Eng lish and punctuation, Dr. W. I, Garnett, professor of English at Kent State university, an nounced after a survey of three mid-western teachers' colleges. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS OF EHERCI5E, ENTERTAINMENT AND ACRO RATlC TEATS OF STRENGTH AW? SKILL lP5Py fW, SO...SKEETER RAMMED Dlftrt'jN I Jfj,S v U ?, JVL"J!tX 1 I SWP BECAUSE HE LOST CONTROL) Tfd" Im.V'y 1 fcssfMnJ "??NMUST M OF HIS PLANE.'.. AND NOW 7 'WELL.l ALMOST 1 I rvis it I "vrx in. ulDNT CIA STILL IN TUNGSTEN LEAD Chungking (U.R) The foreign trade commission nas announced that despite the war, China STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author. Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. V. S. Pat. OB. J I --:--:-::--!--:-.:-- .-:..!.,':..:;.-jXr U n t"!""irtt- --H--H- 1 ip 1 U Y.i'j' 7TTT" -tjifii-- dTsuer 5a f a relay 's puzze; CUTT1 NO iHe f ON THE ItPT INTO TWO PlCe4 To foRM A PSRFECTSQUhRE MfSNlUA Louisiana ffchmAcolonii. & mil ovER-mm o? pARATARIA French BY fiCCIQEHT IN ft CABINET CONTAIN IH6 AN fjl' opNDl$HofMERCURy.,. i it VAftJR DVU3Pt) Trie DISCOVERY BY ACCIDENT Strange as it seems, eight hours' exposure was necessary to take 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 BEGGED Nnu TO KPED r.w-wr rs it rc tli. BUT NO . IF SOMEONE ELSE MAKE. TROUBLE TOR (JU,OUC MANUFACTURE .REVEL IN T 0. 2-3 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, 492,082. Although exports declined 3,- J J AM j painfen PICTURE,,. ! j 1 PSUPPOSING I OICTV ifcfeT BUNGED UHA ca.iT" -n itr rvT ... Av i i inc. mi kwht iwiinu i LAJ WITH TO A GREAT TORTUNEjTmS 6CEAT DESTRUC ISNT ALWAVS VTIVE POWER? THE ROSES 160,100 kilograms' as compared with 1937, the cash value of 1938 exports increased by SO,- f 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 m PERFORMED MALE NifirVrAftWK PURIN6 MATIN6 REASON... A Fo ft RING SOUND -Z7 By HAL FORRES" By SOL HESS SEEAT FORTUNE ?P wmi AKtXXJ (Tiii. i -rr r-s NOU'RE LIABLE TO HOP WC LARRYING A. -cva IN uu
