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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.
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Salem, Nov. 23. P) Funds
received by counties from the
federal Oregon and California
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provisions of county budget
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same as other funds belonging
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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.
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THANKSGIVING REUNION
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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.
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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.
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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
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