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P.AGE SIX MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER, 27, 1939. by FroncM tut Medical lUtiuuiQ janitor poses two Ques tions what became of the ani mals Murchison experimented on, and why does a war veteran keep asking for Murchison. Mi chael finds the wounded veteran, mith, in a hospital. Chapter IS Drawing Conclusion! ' CMITH fumbled in that breast pocket ana Drougni out a cer tain dirtv folded oaoer. "Murchi- on has the mate to this," he said. "Hh eave me the monev when we signed it. He said the minute he sent for me I was to come. He said he might be ready any time. I . . . I been nearly crazy. I couldn't give the money back . . . it's gone. The wife . . . she am t got so mucn now adays." He zulncd. "I didn't ought to have signed it. I was mad for the money. I never got it tnrougn my head what he was goin' to do wun me. "What he was going to do with you? Michael repeated. "Yes." Smith fumbled with the paper. Michael's fingers itched for It. He said . . . ne saia ne a ouy what I had to sell . . ." Smith went on shakily. "He'd give me half the money then and half to the wife after . . . alter . . . ne stopped. 'This Murchison," the big man took up the story. "Smith here was broke. He'd heard about these here people that buy bodies to use for experiments. He went to the University and struck a bargain with this here Murchison. Only "Well? It's been done before, surely." "Yes. Smith thought he couldn't hang out much longer. The doctors told him so. Only . . . Murchison didn't want him after he was dead. He doubled the sum if . . ." "I see," said Michael quietly. His eyes were hard and cold. Smith looked up with awful fear in his eyes. "What would he do with me?" he asked. "What does he want to do to me?" Michael's voice was very low. "He won't be doing anything with you," he said. "Not now. Not at ny future time, either." Smith stared with unbelieving eyes. The big man gave a deep sigh of relief. "I said as how he must be dead," he exclaimed. "Either dead, or they got wise to him. They don't let that kind of thing go on. I bet Smith here wasn't the first one." Michael was frowning. "I'd like to know all the details, if you please," he said in a tone of au thority. "And I must have that paper, of course." 'I been waiting for something like this to happen," the big man saM. Smith cleared his throat. He was beginning to believe. "You got it all," he said. "I said he could have what's left of me after . . . well, after . . . the doctor gets through with me. Mary, she need ed the cash something awful. He said all right, but he'd give me twice as much if I'd come before. He said we could fix it up that he was to operate on me, and he'd give me half the money now, and the rest to Mary later. And then , . . when the operation fell through ... he could just say I'd died on the table. He said he could fix all that. And not to come hanging round until he sent for me. But that was last winter, and I been waiting and waiting and thinking about what he'd do to me there all alone maybe, and no whiffs of stuff to take the pain away . . . and I been nearly crazy. Jake here stays he couldn't hold me to it, but I been scared he could. You sure he can't?" "Sure," said Michael. s Smith held out the paper. Mi chael opened it and read it WE THE UNDERSIGNED HAVE ENTERED INTO A BARGAIN ON THIS TENTH DAY OF JANU ARY. NEITHER OF US CAN BREAK IT WITHOUT THE CON SENT OF THE OTHER. THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT WE BOTH OF US HOLD IT TO BE LEGAL AND BINDING. E. MURCHISON. C. SMITH. "It doesn't," said Michael queer lj as he folded it and put it into his pocketbook. "It doesn't mean a thing." 'Black Books' THE conversation at dinner was sedate. The District Attorney surveyed his daughter-in-law sev eral times with keen and ques tioning attention, but she seemed quite well. Michael refused to meet his father's glance, so noth ing could be learned in that quar ter, and it was not until dinner was over and the two men were walking about the garden with their pipes that ho had a chance to ask his question. "What's the matter with the girl tonight?" he demanded. "I feel as if I were in her black books. She treated mo Just as if I were anyone at oil," he finished with a touch of grievance. "You are." Michael answered. Then, at his father's astonished glance, he hastened to qualify "In her black books. Not iust anvbndv. But I'm afraid Tuck's regard for you has gone to your head. That Paris, Nov. 27. () With wintry weather hampering wes tern front operations, the French high command's com munique today snid merely: "Nothing important during the night to report." Yesterday afternoon's official report took note of "a certnin amount of patrol and artillery activity," WINTRY WEATHER ON WESTERN LINE Berlin, Nov. 27. P) The German high command report fid a lull today on the western bout, iu cvmmuuiqu t&i'iag Shelley Wees final remark of yours had Just touch of conceit, although I hesi tate to point it out." "Humph," said John Forrester. "Why?" "Oh, I have a certain regard for the feelings of the aged. ' "You're a damned young pup py. Why am I in her black books? What've I done?" "Oh. that Well, she knows that you had something up your sleeve when you got us here." "I thought you'd have sense enough to hold your tongue, Mi chael. It's no use getting her ex cited until we know the lay of the land." "Hold my tongue? Why, I didn't tell her. She told me." "She told you?" His father re garded him incredulously. "She did. She smelled mystery. So, to keep peace in the family, I've told her what I had to." "And what does she know?" "That Murchinson has gone, and that the Commissioner suspects feathers in the soup, to say noth ing of diamonds." "She knows it might be mur der?" Michael sighed. "She does." "Doesn't it give her night mares?" "It does not. She's a bloodthirsty little devil. Murder is to her a thing apart and her sole idea is to catch the murderer. It doesn't seem to enter her funny little head that a man may have been foully done to death with plenty of blood here and there, and all that." He kicked at the stones on the path. "I suppose it isn't (he murder she thinks about. It's the riddle. She's crazy about cross word puzzles and charades. This seems so far to be about on a par. She doesn't really think of what might be ahead." "And Bunny?" "You know Bunny. She'll do plenty of thinking, but she'll keep it to herself and De very sensible about everything that comes up Unless Tuck leads her into devil try." The District Attorney puffed fu riously at his pipe. "What about the blood stains on that paper you found in the desk? Doesn't that bring it closer home to them?" "They didn't see the paper, dad. I saw no reason for calling It to their attention, since they didn't notice that I'd found it." The expert make out the fin gerprints? "Nothing but a smudge. A smudge of human blood. And, under the circumstances, that needn't mean murder." 'Under what circumstances? Unpleasant Aroma MICHAEL stopped and leaned on the gate. His father stood beside him, looking out into the dusk of the woods. Michael turned and looked at him, and dropped his voice. You gave me the tip, he said quietly. "That hint of the anti vivisectionists making trouble for Murchison. I've been asking dis creet questions, and getting equal ly discreet answesi. It doesn't . . ." he paused. "It doesn't have a very pleasant aroma," he said with a gesture of distaste. "Let's have it." his father said shortly. Michael told him of his after noon's adventures, and of the in formation which he had un earthed. Forrester listened in si lence. "The authorities got onto the business with Smith?" he asked at the end. "Not a vhisper. It was the ani mals they knew about. There was a certain amount of most unpleas ant publicity given to the Univer sity, Michael continued lightly. "Some of the older professors were quite put out. You might almost ay annoyed." His father glanced at him thorply. "Mr. Dcane has not spoken to Dr. Murchison for several months," Michael said, looking itraight ahead of, him. 'They had quite a blow-up in the early win ter. Deane had been away during Ihe summer, it appears, and came back only to hear about the vivi section affair in October. He went itraight to Murchison and blew up. Murchison was very insult ing. Told Deane among other things that he was an antiquated old fossil who only kept his job because the college was too soft hearted to throw him out, and Deane got black in the face. I gather it hasn't been too comfor table living here next to each other ever since; but neither n-ould make the first move." They turned back to the house. "You'd better apologize to Tuck," Michael warned. "She may ?aison your coffee if you don't, m not exactly responsible for the effects this atmosphere of murder and mystery may have on her." "Um. Yes. So you think he might have been making some . . . some experiment and that bit of paper . . . what do you think, Michael?" Michael paused. "The paper," ho said slowly, "was torn from the corner of the front page of the Stnr for the day he disap peared." His father waited. , "So," Michael continued, "you tan draw your own conclusions." Continued tomorrow only, " in the west, except minor nrtillery annoyance fire, no noteworthy fighting activity." Roseburg Flier Hurt Roseburg, Ore., Nov. 27. (if) Carl Fair, local student flier, escaped with only severe bruises when his Unlit plane crashed Sunday on the Roseburg air port. Fair had been practicing takeoffs and landings and was coining into a landing from a height of about 200 feet when his ship fell into a slow spin. Paper Dividend New York, Nov. 27. .V Crown Zcllerbnch Corp., Pacific coast paper producer, has an nounced an Interim dividend of 25 cents a share on the common stock, payable Jan. 2 to holders Of record Dec. 13. On the RADIO CHAINS STATIONS n'here to Find Them on the Dial: Kei, Portland, 1180; KFI, 840. Los Angeles; KG. 1470. Bpokanei KOO, 790, San Francisco; HUH. 620. Portland; KJH. 070. Seattle; KNX. 1050, Los Anfeles; KOA, S30. Denier; KOIN. 040. Portland: KOMO, KB. Seattle; KPO, 630. Ban Francisco; KSL, I ISO, Salt Lake. Monday 5:00 Party, KPO, KPI; Prank and Archie, KEX, KJR; Sunset Shadows, KOO. 5:30 Time and Tempo, KOW, KPI: Kelsey'e Orch., KOO, KJR; True or False, KPO. :00 Civic Orch., KOO, KEX; Radio Theater, KSL, KNX, KOIN; Quiz Program, KPO, KOW, KFI. 6:30 Templeton Time, KPO, KOW, KPI; Drama, KOO, KEX, KJR. 7:00 Dance Orch., KOO, KEX; Josef Pasternack, KPO, KOW, KPI; Lombardo's Orch., KSL, KNX, KOIN: News. 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KOIN: Oar ber's Orch., KJR. 10:00 News Reporter, KPO, KPI, KOW; News, KNX, KSL: Madrlguera's Orch.,' KOO, KJR, KEX; News, KOIN. 10:30 Poster's Orch., KPO, KPT, KOW? Saunder's Orch., KOO, KEX, KJR. 11:00 Ravazza's Orch.. KPO, KPT, This Moving World. KEX: Oray's Orch., KSL, KOIN; News, KGO, KNX. KOW, ' Washington, Nov. 27. tP) Oregon, Washington and Utah depositors increased their sav ings accounts deposited in in sured savings and loan associa tions in October it was shown By GLUYAS WILLIAMS 6USYAS DEPOSITS (TAT LAS-TON ToP OF ROCK ON SIDE -UNE& ,L.I "fiESlTON A 8U&H IN A BORROWED HANDKERCHIEF BvTDOESNT PLAY VERY WELL BECAUSE OF VVATCMrfe AU' M n a NCJLJ IKJTO TM S .... . . . . n M -.ww.-.ww,. . JF WllTl JWitL Nl Jl J KAMI r LJ " " -i - . . . . dtf STAMD THAT Al t ,,P'U7 WHtKt a LITTLE ONE TO today in data made public by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance corporation. Oregonians deposited $248, 110 during the month making the total savings in the 22 in sured institutions $7,836,000. Washingtonians deposited $1, 331,764 bringing their total sav ings in S3 institutions to $40, 340,000 while Utahans deposited STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor farther proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. S. Pat. Otf. hNs c I I Answer fo ZahrJail's puzzle: ?irem & com soihat each: coin Touches AW, Ttfe others IhePolishm op Rice IS BLAMED FOR THOUSANDS OP deaths it Cmha.'- Thb Brown Coating removed contains Vitamin fl, and if tub DEFICietfCV IS HOT MADE UP FROM OTHER FOODS, LACK0F THE VITAMIH -CAUSES BBRlBER! AflRaNCrSRNKlloNfil.e-- K MAINTAINED By THE . NEW York PoUcE DEPARTMENT FINGERPRINT BUREAU FOR PERSON? WISHING 10vE$rABU5H THEIR PENT)!) . ssk J 9f?Va J Ml lit tJ f A M-TV lil i f " aL Tjjp$4;' a i B 5 1 l4"'Cpr IHlbrl'nllirltrr!rndlel.lw. J, , CRASHED NAVAL REVIEW Desiring to attract attention to his newly invented steam turbine engine, Charles Par sons, English inventor, in June, 1897, started a royal fleet review. Naval officers suddenly beheld his liny Turbinia dart in and out against all regulations. A fast destroyer was sent after it, but the liny cratl eluded. The feat won Parsons a gov ernment order, and he was later knighted. DEATH BY RICE ' . Noting that many deaths occurred in ihe Orient among natives eating polished rice almost exclusively, doctors found that removal by milling of Ihe pericarp eliminated the important vitamin B and caused beriberi. Polished rice is an excellent food if the deficiency is made up by eating other foods. Tomorrow: College in a Livery Stablel $179,158 in nine insured insti tutions bringing their total to $7,861,000. There were 14,538 savers in Oregon, 136,929 in Washington and 22,722 in Utah. To Announce Supervisors Portland, Nov. 27. (JP) By. ron G. Carney, Oregon area 1940 census manager, said Sat urday announcement of super I'LL GIVE VOU A DEMONSTRATION TOMORROvvAl THE LIKE OP VWHICH OF IT WILL SUOM. REVOKjri FVPll VHl ID AO.ll 1W H 1U IMC. VA.LUC AND THEN ANY INVESTMENT VOU MAKE WILL ittn 1KIVIA.L AND OU WON'T SAY WITH FEAR AMD A TREMBLING HOu Mi iru um i MHINbSt05Tf' visors for six state districts and their assistants, should be re ceived sometime this week. Car ney's own assistant is A. R. McCall, Rainier publisher. Mull Fish Contracts. Portland, Nov. 25. VP) Plans for contracts under which 100,000 fishermen in 18 unions will work in 1940 were to be mulled over here today. nsriwwWKft",'" 6Tcd77 iurv ntr. fl?A&fcP"A REVEW0F WE RoVAL ftEET WITH A , , 1)R6lNe-PoWERE0f.oATloc:LL" HI'S INVENTION 1b TH& i BRITISH GOVERNMENT OtiTPSTANCEP All oIHers AND W0M HlMSUCCSSSMf -epifkeac,897- By HAL FORREST By SOL HP OUVE NEVER. DKEAMPO Ul- 1 HIS OKfcAT IKJVtNTlOM
