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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1939. by Franc! YESTERDAY: Michael talks discreetly with Dr. AfcBoln about Afurchison and learnt that the lat ter'! iipenminli mere with lit). Ino oroanisms, alto that Murchi on uu not interested In other women. Mrs. Deane, ask M rj. Murchteon about her diamond necklace. Afrf. Murchiton denies poutning one. Chapter 12 Tuck's Necklace pHAHLOTTE JEAN," said Tuck next morning 3 she dried the newly washed flower vases, "we had marvelous melon cocktail last night. Mrs. Deane is an awful ly good cook. Not that you cook the melon, of course." she added hastily as a question grew in Char lotte Jean's eyes. "It seemed very imple. I poked mine to And out how it was done. Order some mel ons today, will you? One of every kind they have." "Yes'm, Mrs. Forrester. Did you drink it or eat it?" "We ate it. Like an oyster cock tail, Charlotte Jean." "Yes'm." She sighed. "I'm for Prohibition, myself." "Why the sigh?" Tuck asked with sympathy. "Has somebody disappointed you over it?" "Yes, ma'am, Mrs. Forrester. It's my new gentleman friend," she said with a certain self-conscious pride. I m afraid he drinks. Tuck set the glass down and ad mired its shining brightness. "That's too bad. Did you speak to nlm.about it? "Indeed I did." She pursed up her lips. "But I'm afraid he'll go right on drinking to his dying aay." unanotte Jean rubbed the stove resignedly. "And if I thought xnat i woman t marry him. "My goodness, had you intended tor" "Yes, Mrs. Forrester, I give him my promise true the other night. Of course I don't know him very well yet, but it's just as well to say -yes the first time they ask you, and then you have a kind of a hold on them. And of course you can always back out, can't you, Mrs. Forrester?" "Apparently. Who if the gentle man, Charlotte Jean?" "Well, you may not approve, him beln' so near and all, but it's Hig gins, Mrs. Forrester. He's kind of little man, but I don't mind that. Seems to me little men have more brains than big ones. And then," she paused melodramatically, "It Isn't as if it mattered much if he has brains or not. He's coming into a lot of money." "Money? Higgins? What Is he, Charlotte Jean? The younger son of an earl, over here i.i disguise?" "Of course not, Mrs. Forrester. I've seen earls, with my own eyes, In the old country. He don't look nything like them. No, I don't exactly know where it's coming from, but he's going to get it. He told me not to mention it to any body, but of course I'm not, Mrs. Forrester." "Certainly, you aren't. Much money, will it be?" Tuck looked at her curiously. "I don't know. Quite a bit, I think. Maybe five thousand dollars, he said." "Doesn't he know?" "No ma'am, Mrs. Forrester. It dep 'nds on something." "On what?" "I don't know. On something." "Does he expect to get it soon?" "I think so. He talks, as if he had It already, he's that grand about it. A bird in the hand's worth fifty In the bush, Is my motto." "And two or three in the hand, I suppose, Is better than one?" Two Rockeries pHARLOTTE JEAN hung the Vj stove rag In the -ellar-way. "Now you're teasing me, Mrs. For rester, she said reproachfully. "Do you want me to cut them flowers for you, or are you going to do it?" Tuck glanced out of the window over the sink. "Oh, he's working In the garden? Well much as I hate to slow up love's young dream, I am very anxious to have the silver polished very thorough ly. The District Attorney is com ing to dinner." Tuck had gathered an armful of Sladioli, put them in vases in the ouse. and was down hv the heHpe before she noticed what Higgins was really doing. He was bringing his barrow full of stones and piling them in semicircles, one at each side of the garden gate. "What are you doing?" she asked curiously. He got up from the ground and Jerked the barrow a little closer to the pile of stones. "I'm niakin' a rockery, mum," he i ,..ied. "A rockery? Two rockeries. Mr. Higgins? But why? This Isn't at all the sort of garden to have rock eries in, is it? It's too formal. Won't they quarrel with the sundial?" "It'll be easy to whitewash 'em, mum. Then they'll mate..." "But surely, are rockeries sup posed to be whitewashed? I don't want to interfere, but I think a rockery two rockeries anninst the hedge I think it will spoil the garden. Don't you?" He piled two more rocks on the heap. ''I don't know nothink about it, mum. Orders is orders," he said Itubbornly. "Yes. But don't you think your LAID TJJMCI Kankakee, 111., Nov. 23 Wi Director A. L. Bowen of the state department of public wel fare and three officials of the Manteno state mental hospital were under Indictment today, the aftermath of a spccinl grand Jury Investigation of a typhoid epidemic that caused B2 deaths at the Institution. After a seven dny Inquiry, the j Jury returned indictments yes- j terday charging the four with J malfeasance in office, piumb.-' Shalley Wtes- self they'll be ugly?" "I ain't got nothink to say about It. mum." Tuck turned away In despair, and encountered the gaze of Miss Alix Lissey, who had come into her own back garden, and was leaning on the hedge. "What's that idiot doing?" she asked, none too quietly. Tuck went closer before she an swered. "He's making rockeries. Miss Lissey," she replied sweetly. "I think they're wonderful, dor'4 you? So picturesque." "Hmpf. Who told him to?" "I'm sure I don't know. What person has charge of the gardens out here? ' "He has, mostly. But the man's a fool. He has the brain of a hen." She changed the subject abruptly. "I suppose you had a wonderful time last night?" "Yes, I did. It was awfully nice of Mrs. Deane to have us. Lovely party, wasn't it?" There were suddenly a great many more wrinkles in Miss Lis- scy's face. "A lovely party," she repeated distastefully. A lovely party yes, the way a wormy ap ple is lovely." "Ugh Surely ..." Alix Lissey's eyes were sharp. "How did you like Mrs. Murchi son?" she demanded. "I notice you didn't spend much time with her." I didn t have the opportunity. I think she is very beautiful." ' Beauulull hhe stared at luck for a moment, then turned away from the hedge. "I suppose she is, if you want to think so. She com pressed her lips angrily for a mo ment. "I'm going to ask about those rockeries," she said briskly. "I won't have any in my garden. If he tries to unload his cast-off stones on me I'll throw them at him." 'Licked To A Fraztle' IT was a thoughtful Tuck who 1 greeted Michael when he came home at lunch time. Bunny was spending the day in town and com ing out with the District Attorney later: so Tuck and Michael had lunch alone, and she told him the whole long story of Charlotte Jean and Higgins and Miss Lissey, and all the minor complications. Mi chael did not seem as worried as she wanted him to be. "I'm afraid you'll let everything get on your little nerves, honey, he said. "People have their indi vidualities, you know. All of them aren't bound un in mysterv. Prob ably Higgins had too much beer last mglit, and talked through his hat, and has a hang over, and I've told you what's the matter with Alix Lissey. She's jealous. Too bad all the women who live in this house are beautiful. And bv George, Mrs. McBain's a beauty too. Shes got Mrs. Murchison licked, in my mind. Licked to a frazzle. It's like comparing a little French dressmaker's model with a Greek statue." "Michael." said his wife severe ly, "we will now change the sub ject. What happens to things when they fall down the cold air reg ister? Do they go right spang into the furnace without a pause?" "Is this a rhetorical question, or does it require an answer?" "I need an answer. It's my neck lace. I dropped it last nicht and down it went, whoosh, somewhere. I looked into it as far as I could stretch, but I can't see it." 'Which register did it fall Into?" "The one in the little dressing room. "Probably the pipe has a crook in it. I will investigate." "Could it have gone Into the furnace, Michael? Or some place where we can't get it?" "Rest assured, my love, it could not. Even if the furnace were burning, it would be quite safe, curled up snug and warm inside the Jacket." He was running down the basement stairs as he talked and Tuck followed him. "Let's see now," he muttered. He wandered about looking at the ceiling, his hands in his hip pock ets. "It'll be in the southwest. cor ner . . . that room's rieht over the study . . ." he put his hand on a Dig square pipe that ran flat along under the lliior for several feet and then took an abrupt bend to ward the furnace. "Here's where your beads will be," he decided. "This is the study ventilator, and the dressing room probably con nects with it somewhere up above in the floor." "Can you get them, Michael? It looks awfully solid." Michael got a screw driver nnrt performed a minor operation on the ventilator, at the angle where it entered the basement. He peered into the opening. He put the screw driver In and moved it about. "That's funny," he said. "Are you sure that's where they went. Tuck?" "Of course I'm sure. I just dropped them right bang Into it." Michael peered into it again. He prised the opening wider, and put his hand in. The ventilator was empty. "Couldn't they be farther along, Michael?" "I don't see how, unless they had feet. That pipe runs Hat for ten feet before it takes another bend. They'd slide sumc distance, of course." As he spoke he was pulling the sheet of tin loose along one side of the pipe, and watching inside it. The necklace was emphatically not there. , Continued tomorrow able n conviction by a fine of $10,000 and removal from office. The epidemic attacked In mates of the hospital Inst July and August and was attributed by health department engineers to pollution of the institution s artesian wells. Bowen and Or. Hinton were charged with fail ing to assure a safe water sup ply. Auto Deaths Decline Salem, Nov. 23. i,V Motor vehicle deaths In Oregon so far this year were reduced by three per cent from the total during the same period Inst year, while the nation-wide reduction was only two per cent. Secretary of State Earl Snell said today. On the RADIO CHAINS STATIONS Where to Find Them on the Dial: Km, Portland, 1180; KF1, 640. Los Angeles; KCJA, 1470. Spokane; KGO, 780. San Francisco; Kurt 620, Portland; KJR, 910, Seattle; KNX, 1050. Lol Angeles: KOA. 830. Denver; KOIN. B40, Portland; KO.MO, 826. Seattlei KPO. 630. Han Franelseo; KSL, 1180, Salt Lake. Thursday. 6:00 Prank and Archie, KEX, KJR; Aunset Shadows, KOO. 6:80 Drama. KOMO; Kelsey's Orch, KOO, KEX, KJR; Army Band, KPO, KOW, KPI. 6:00 Major Bowes, KNX, KOIN. 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KOIN. 10:30 Madrtrutra'a Orch, KOW, KPT: Concert HaJI, KPO: McDonald's, KOO, KJR: Owens' Orch, KSL. 11:00 Nottingham's Orch, KPO. KPI: Oraya Orch, KSL. KOIN; This Moving World, KEX, KJR; News, KOO, KNX, KOW. FUNDS FROM 0-C LANDS SUBJECT TO BUDGET LAW Salem, Nov. 23. P) Funds received by counties from the federal Oregon and California land-grant fund are subject to provisions of county budget laws and are to be used just the same as other funds belonging to the counties, the attorney gen eral ruled today for District Attorney Harlow L. Weinrick of Albany. Trawler Sunk. London, Nov. 23. iPi The 25-ton British trawler Delphine was reported tonight to have been sunk by a submarine. Her crew was reported rescued. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS slides window up noise- IESSM M LEANS OUr. BEL). RIX6S A6AIM This causes callers 1b WHIRL, SEE HIM, AND WAVE CHEERILY . CALL'S FEEBLY HEU BE RI&hTD&WN AND A HEADACHE RESf OF EVENING IP VOU DOMT SET OUT MY WIPE, AMD 'TO HAVE MV SOM UEM AV.L OVER THE COUNTRYSIDE TO SATUER EMOOSH TOGETHER ,50 HE CAM THE INSURANCE COMPANIES ,TO COLLECT MY INSUO-, .6MCE. THANKSGIVING REUNION IS MARRED BY TRAGEDY Vancouver. Wash., Nov. 23. UP) A trip from Albany, Calif., to Yakima, Wash., for Thanks giving ended in tragedy yester day when Mrs. J. E. Williams was killed when her car over turned near North Bonneville. The accident occurred about STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor further proof address the author, Inclosing a (tamped enrelop for reply. Reg. V. 8. Pat Off. BRlTi$H GRbHD FLEET , M;ffltfp zf m REPLACED PAW V mi I -W;lti busiest Wl fiil foil 'station's- U-BOATS VS. BATTLESHIPS Submarine warfare against battleships dates back to the American Civil war when the Confederate U-boat, "David," actually sank the U. S. S. "Housatonic" and herself with it. But, strange as it seems, sinking of the 29,150-ton r-!'-h battleship "Royal Oak," in Oc iober, 1939, constituted Britain's first loss of a battleship lo a 1 enemy submarine. While Ger many's highly touted U-boats sank merchant sh'.p. . ... . . .:i t.uisers during the first World war, they failed lo sink a single battleship of the British grand fleet, despite the fact that, at the outbreak of unrestricted warfare in February, 1917, the best German underseai craft had a range of 10,000 miles and carried six-inch guns with a range of 6,000 yards. One former British first line ship, the wooden "Brittania," was sunk on the day before the Armistice, off Cape Trafalgar. TOMORROW: Last-Minute Success. HIM I ARE LCOWK13 OP ME GNE 7Ji the time Williams boarded a plane in San Francisco to join his wife in Yakima. He learned of her death when the plane landed in Portland. NO NEGOTIATIONS FOR NEW JAPANESE TREATY Washington, Nov. 23. flV Sumner Welles, acting secretary fGET HIM OUT VOU OP HERE '.TUBOW WITH HIM OUT OM UIS 5MOOT iP WE r r W- T? meia VoRk ciTy7 7 v a c-ia HAD ONE OP HIS DOrwrc-r'' of state, told his press confer ence today no negotiations now were under way looking toward the drafting of a new commer cial treaty between the United States and Japan. Welles made this declaration to clear up what he termed con fusion regarding the status of Japanese-American relations. Cse Hall Tribune want ads. Jimmy" Hitchcock PUNTSP 23Z -Times PUR NG 3 vimouTHMtm Pi Single kick blocked . (Atefama Po!i., By HAL FORREST Br SOL HESS CANtT fiPTCftnZT THIS BIRD UP'? ' By EDWIN ALGER TEMPER AMErOTAL. Vm i riT TO PET Hlr1Si ido;ii.i. . .--wrrvjIIMWHr 2uXO we rl BiH05ePUSIM I T1
