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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TEN MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 19S9. -by France YKSteRDAY: Michael forces Higgins to dig up a box h has hidden (n the garden. It contain! ilurchison'e watch and chain which Higgins found on the path the morning after Murchiton du- appeared. Chapter 28 Bone For A Dog "I DIDN'T know as 'ow 'e was 1 dead. But there was a bit o' bloody paper on the ground be side the watch. I got to thinkln' about it. and it looked funny. I thought as 'ow I'd wait and see. And I did, and s'welp me that's all I know about it." "What happened to the bloody paper?" "When I thought about it, and vent back to get it, it was gone." "When was that?" "The same morning. About an hour after I found the watch." "Who had been along the path during that hour?" "Everybody. They goes to the University that way." 'The path goes to the rlverl" 'There's that branch path goes to the University." "Sio, you found the watch be fore you come to the branch in the path?" "Yes." "And you've kept it hidden ever since? Haven't told the police?" "I thought there'd be a reward If I kept quiet long enough." 'There will, Higgins, there will. Tm sure of it." "I don't know nothlnk else. I found the watch, and I kep' it, and I didn't rightly know what to do with it, so I buried It in the garden, and then when you come around with all yer questions I thought as 'ow likely you'd find it. so I piled the rocks on the ground, like, and then today them women was fool in' around the rocks and actin' funny, and I thought I better dig it up. S'welp me, that's all." "What women?" "Mrs. Forrester and that Church girl." "Oh, Miss Temple? Well, that's close enough. Now, who's your owl, Higgins?" Higgins was bolder. "I don't know nothlnk about owls," he aid flatly. "No? Well, perhaps not You may be telling the truth. We'll let it pass. I won't keep you any longer. I suppose you know that I could put you in prison for what you know? Higgins groaned. "I know it," he said despairingly. "Well, remember it. You may go but I'll be sending for you one of these days, Higgins. And you might tell your owl friend he'd better study hooting. He goes flat." Michael went through the dark house, after the man had gone, in search of Tuck and Bunny. He found them in the little room at the head of the stairs that was Tuck's particular delight. It was fitted up with a little desk and a telephone, and was bright with chintz, and from it she directed the aifairs of her household, Char lotte Jean entering into the game with solemn enjoyment. Tuck was sitting at the desk when he went in, and Bunny curled lazily on the couch, listening, as usual, to Tuck. "Whcre've you been all these hours?" Tuck demanded, more as a matter of form than anything else, for she did not wait for an answer. She went on "Michael, we've got a marvelous Ideal" "What, another?" He kissed her on the tip of the nose, and sat down in the chair bosido her desk. "Umhm. Really. We're going to have a tea party, on Sunday, in the garden, and invite all the sus pects, and their friends; and we're going to introduce pertinent sub jects of conversation quite point edly, and listen, and watch. It will be interesting to see what hap pens." "Bright idea," said Michael ap provingly. "Now, I might have thought of that. My motto always is 'When in doubt, lend trumps. " Late Supper MICHAEL lay flat on his back in the sun porch swing hammock, his feet straight up in the air, propped against the sup porting ropes. Tuck was sitting at the end of the hammock look ing out into the kitchen garden. "What's the row out there?" Michael asked lazily. "It's Gordon Deane. He's got 1 crush on Charlotte Jean, because she gives him cookies. 1 can't think of anything else that would keep him hanging underfoot all the time. He's fun. I like him." "What's he doing now?" "If vou'd raise yourself one foot yc i could sec," Tuck said scorn fully. "Putting me to all the labor of talking . . ." "Labor?" "Sluish. He's fixing the clothes-lint- for her, or sumething. He's up the pole, anyway. And the barking is Fred, down below, try ing to coax Gordon down from danserous heights." "Does Agamemnon enjoy bark ing in his own garden? I shouldn't think he'd stand for it." Tuck laughed. "They've signed a sort of armed neutrality pact, he and Fred," she explained. "If E LUMBER UNIONS 10 KEEP MILLS GOING Portland, Ore., Dec. 9. W) Governor Charles A. Sprague nskod organized A. F. of L lumber unions today to accept their "responsibilities" and re fuse to go out "on foolish strikes." "Your responsibility as lead ers in the lumber Industry Is to keep it going." he said in an address before 240 delegates to the annual convention of the Sh!Uy Wees- Fred comes within a yard of Aga memnon ha stands in danger of losing a couple of eyes; otherwise Agamemnon stalks about majes tically with his tail up and never looks at him." There was a silence. "Oh dear," said Michael at length. "Michael, if you ask where din ner is, I shall murder you. I am fully aware that it's late. It isn't our fault. It's the butcher boy." "Late?" "Oh, no. He came to the other houses at the usual time. But he didn't have our meat. He was sure he had, but he hadn't. He had to go back after it, and he just this minute got here. Charlotte Jean went to the gate and got it. She talked to him vigorously. I could see her." "It won't be long now," Michael murmured contentedly, "Not long. Michael . . ." she turned to him suddenly. "Do you think they might be in code? Really?" "I sincerely Hbpe not," Michael murmured. "I'm starving." "Idiotl The letters." "Oh, dear," Michael sighed again. "There," said Tuck suddenly. "She's putting it in the pan. She just threw the bone to Fred." "Thank heaven," Michael said. "I don't think Agamemnon will appreciate that," Tuck said again. "He's sitting on the fence with an expression of utter disgust on his face." A little later there arose on the still air a low, long moaning. Gor don's voice came from the heights of the pole. "Hey you, Fred, stop that yowling!" But Fred did not stop. He moaned again, his doggy voice rising to a frenzied squeal on the last note. Michael stood up suddenly. "What's he moaning about?" he asked sharply. "I don't know," Tuck replied. "Do you suppose he's got a bit of bone caught in his throat? It sounds as if he were in pain." 'He's Oeadr MICHAEL was through the door in a second, and out with the dog. Gordon knelt by Fred and looked up at Michael anx iously. "He Just kind of laid down," he said. "It looks like he's got kind of a pain, maybe." Fred was lying on the ground. He stopped moaning and looked up at Gordon pleadingly. Gordon patted his head. "There, there, old kid," he said. "What's the matter with you? Eat too fast?" Fred's head went down on the S-ound. His eyes were still on ordon's face. His stumpy tail wagged once, feebly, as if to an swer his master once more. Once more, but never again. "My God I" said Michael softly. "Fredl Fred!" Gordon called, terrible fear in his tone. The dog's eyes were open and staring. Michael put his hand over the doggy heart. "I'm afraid . . . he's a pretty sick dog, Gordon," he said slowly. "I think we'd better send for the vet." "The vet?" Gordon looked up at Michael. He looked back at the dog. He looked again at Michael with shrewdness and fear mingled. "He's . . . he's . . . dead already, isn't he?" he asked. His blue eyes were full of pain. "I'm afraid he is," Michael said, refusing to meet those eyes. "I'll carry him for you, old chap." "No. He's my dog. I'll carry him." And Gordon bent, hiding the lower lip firmly caught between his teeth, and picked up the dog. Michael went as far as the gate, and then came rushing back to the kitchen door. His face was as white as paper and his eyes blazed. "Give me that meat." he said to the startled maid. "Every bit of It, Charlotte Jean. You haven't tasted it. have you?" "Why no, Mr. Forrester. That I haven't sir. Is something . . " "Wrap it up in the paper it came in," he commanded sharply. "Take it out of that pan, and wrap the pan. Don't wash it, and don't touch it. Do you understand that?" "Yes . . . why yes . . " He was gone, to the yard again. Tuck was standing where Fred had died. Her face was strange, frozen. At her feet lay the bone, half eaten, which had fallen from Fred's mouth. Michael slipped the piece of paper in his hand under neath it, and wrapped it carefully. He turned to her. "Do you want to come to town with me to eat?" he said brusquely. "There's no meat here for dinner." "Michael . . , was that meat . . . Is it . . ." "I don't know. You saw what happened to the dog. I'm going to take it to Headquarters, to the analyst, immediately. Do vou want to come? I wish you would." "I'll get Bunny." It was three very silent young people who came back to the house on the campus about half past eight that night. Thev had had dinner at the Cat and Fiddle after Michael had been In to Head quarters with the package of meat; the analyst, Dr. Jethro, had promised to start at it immedi ately, and give Michael a report sometime before morning. So thev were prepared to sit up until the telephone call came. Continued tomorrow Oregon-Washington council. "I recognize a strike is legitimate and often a just weapon of labor but particu larly since you have new rights and laws you must remember that rights are always accom panied by responsibilities. 1 appeal to you to play your part as I would appeal to employers to play theirs." Cast Up By Sea Bellingham, Wash., Dec. P. (V) The body of an unidenti fied man was washed up on the beach here this afternoon and police said Indications pointed to a suicide us both wrists were slashed. He was about SO years of ngc, 5 feet, 7 inches tall, had reddish gray hair and wore a double truss. On the RADIO CKAIHS STATIONS Where to Find Them on the Dial: Hex. Portland. 1180: EH. 640 Lot Angeles; EGA. 1470, Spokane; KOO, 700, San Francisco; KUH 020, Portland) KJB. 070, Statue; KNX, 1050. Los Anieles; KOA, S30. Denver; KOIN, 040, Portland; KOMO. 920. Seattle; KPO. 630, nan Francisco; KSL. 1180, Salt Lake. Sunday 5:00 Edgar Bergen, KPO, KOW, KPT: Festival of Music, KOO, KJR, KEX; Adventures of Ellery Queen, KOIN, KNX, KSL. 6:00 Note Book, KOO; Manhat tan Merry-ao-Round, KPO, KOW, KFI; Sunday Evening Hour, KNX, KSL, KOIN. 6:30 Organlit, KOO, KJR; Fa miliar Music. KPO, KOW, KFI. 7:00 Commentator, KOW; Bleep Serenade, KPO; Huur of Charm, KOO, KEX, KJR, KFI. 8:00 Mewner's orch., KOO; Hobby Lobby, KNX, KOIN; Night Editor, KPO, KOW, KFI; News. KEX, KSL. 8:16 Drama, KPO, KFI, KOW; Measner's Orch., KEX, KJR. 8:80 Sweet and Low, KOO, KJR; Jack Benny, KPO. KOW, KFI; March of California, KNX. 0:00 Walter Wlnchell, KPO, KFI, KOW; Ben Bemle, KNX, KOIN; Mr. District Attorney, KOO, KJR, KEX. 8:30 Roger's Orch.. KNX, KOIN; THE WORLD AT ITS WORST i i AuuArti SlLW PEELIN6, MlrtGLEP WITH SOME 0 DISMAY LEST YOU BE TAKEN A SHOPLIFTER, lnji." WHEN, VOOR WIFE HftVM6 SENT VOU BACK FOR THE BUNDLE SHE LEFf ON THE COUNTER, VOU START 1b MAKE Off WITH A. PACKAGE THAT HAS OUST BEEhl P0N UP FOR AKOTrlER GJSfiWiTK (RflfMed by Tha tlHI Syndicate, inc.) t-m5 TAILSPIN TOMMY Chuck Takes Offl m Ai FREE-FOR-ALL rinoi LftoUftL I T KtrUKl SURE VOU'RErT 5TOW TH GAO.'..V-3 FEELING OKAY VI LETtf GIT OOIN' kj TO MAKE THIS tl I BEEN READY f" BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Moochem's Question PfIf7wEU, PAL, J WE'VE 60TA ''StmtiX v'PUT T S GO0I & f-jlHw over for mayor, v ;A!V$f AINCHA , CJ RUSTy..-rHATS I . ''mvilftvYf HAPPV? MTHE IMPORTANT f THE NEBBS Yes or Not (TWE DOUGH VEr-lBERTS 1 : I Martin's Orch, KOO, KEX; One Man's Family, KPO, KPT, KOW; riews, kjk. t 10:00 Martin's Music, KGO. KJR, KEX: News Reporter, KPO, KFI, KOW; News, KNX, KOIN. 10 :S0 Noble's Orch., KOO, KJR; Bridge to Dreamland, KOMO. 11:00 News, KOO; Rose and Teo, KOIN, KSL; Nottingham's Orch., KPO, KOW, KFI; News, KNX. Monday 8:00 Quaker Party, KPO, KFI, KOW; Frank and Archie, KJR. 8:30 Time and Tempo. KOW. KFI; Kelsey's Orch., KOO, KJR; Master Singers, KPO. 8:00 Civic Orch., KOO. KEX; Ra dio Theater, KSL, KNX, KOIN; Qulx Program, KPO. KOW, KFI. 6:80 Concert Orch., KOO, KEX; News, KJR; Templeton Time, KPO, KOW, KFI, KMED. 7:00 Hall of Fun, KGO,. KEX; Josef Pasternack, KPO, KGW, KFI; Lombardo'e Orch., KSL, KNX, KOIN. 7:30 Blondle, KNX. KSL, KOIN; Sensations and Swing, KPO, KFI, KOW; Radio Forum, KGO, KJR. KEX. 8:00 Amos and Andy. KNX, KOIN, KSL; Doe's Music. KGO, KEX; Fred Waring, KPO. KOW. KFI. 8:181 Love a Mystery. KPO. KFI, KOW; Lum and Abner. KNX, KSL, KONI; Courtney's Orch., KEX. 8:30 Richard Crooks, KPO, KFI, KOW; Breese's Orch., KEX; Bug Band, KOO; Model Minstrels, KNX, KSL, KOIN. 9:00 Sherlock Holmes. KPO, KFI, KOW; Tune Up Time, KNX. KOIN, JUST AND NOV THE EVER 5 FPU A FLI6HT.. DUAL MAKE GENTLE TU RNS...USINC RUDDER ONLY. I LL. CARE THE " 1 CAklT SLEEP FOR. TMIMKIM& ABOUT IM STICXIMG IM THIS GUY PROPOSITION) - OUST WHY DO; FALL FOR EVERYTMIMG. WWY CAM'T I SAY MQ T TUC C1RUT TIMP' r !v,.'-v.,vv KSL: True or False, KGO, KJR. 9 :30 Hawthorne House, KPO. KGW, KFI; Hiwkln's Orch, KOO; Welk's Orch, KSL, KNX; News, KJR. 10:00 News Reporter. KPO, KFI, KOW; Madrlguera's Orch, KOO; News, KSL, KNX; Ners, KOIN. 10:30 Music by Woodbury, KPO, KOW; Roland's Orch, KOIN. KSL, KNX; Foster's Orch, KGO, KJR, KEX, KFI. . 11:00 Ravazza's Orch, KPO, KFI; This Moving World. KJR. KEX; Or ganist, KOIN, KSL; News, KGO, KNX. KOW. Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Pacific Standard Time) New York, Dec. 9. IP) TBS, the coast-to-chain being set up as the Transcontinental Broadcasting System with El liott Roosevelt as president, has set 7 a.m.. New Year's Day for its inaugural program. Thereafter, TBS plans to transmit 16 hours a day to a list of stations totaling D3 at present, with several others ex pected to be added. Broadcasts will originate from WMCA, New York; WJJD and WIND, Chi cago, and KFWB, Los Angeles. Among the other stations are WHEX Boston, KQV Pitts burgh, WBNY Buffalo, WTOL Toledo, WJBK Detroit, KCMO By GLUYAS WILLIAMS FOLLOW WHAT 'OKAY, 0OKAY. I DO ON THE CONTROLS. TAKE OF STICK.. mm mm BUT THE REJOICINGS OF THE BOVS ANP AIL THE GOOD CITI7ENS OF HAPPV VALLEy WERf NOT PUPUMTED IN THE OFFICE OF OLP AWRTlrJ MOOCHfM THEY'VE WON THE FIRST Y'f ROUNP, 81 AST "EM, BUT I S j-r jrtAINT THROUGH YET AaSEs- ili'M HOOKED the. guvs rocx pilei5 doctor BILLS -.5 BUCKS FOR THE FARMERS FENDER IO BUCKS FOR SPEEDlMo l DOM'T KNOW HOW MUCH HE (SOT ME HOOKED WHAT THAT TO COST Kansas City, KXOK St. Louis, WJBW New Orleans, KFJZ Ft. Worth and KYA San Francisco. Because of the death of Er nest Schelling, noted conductor, the Extra Young People's Con cert scheduled for CBS Monday afternoon has been cancelled . . . Virginio Gayda, Italian edi tor, will speak a second time STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX for farther proof address tbe author, ftflotl"t a stamped envelop for reply. Reg. U. S. Pat Off. 3iIII.ilL;Z!lieK A RooF mTBREfflEsfr IhR&ttfO? m KIND IN THE U.S., i AC1DM4.Y WfTHTHE Wft1H2R CWhWGfe! Atec iemefo, Bum tmec $YMPH0N1 ESPAGNOlE "FROfA MEMORY' PtFTER HEARING II PinrcD ONLY ONCE Wfc MftPE PUT ONE MIZIMt IN THe E-MTiRE COMPOSITION... A MAN'S LIFE H&ftD Of ANT&NI0 C6BUIAR,' STEWARD Of THt1rUfN 4 C0NTlERD,WrtoHrtf fAWtN OVERBOARD ATTRMTlNS THE RESCUE PARTY BLIND PIANIST Although blind from birth. Alec Templeton, noted pianist, can actually master difficult numbers which have taken other skilled musicians weeks to memorize. After hearing a com position once, he plays it through with uncanny accuracy. Strange as it seems, Templeton's fingers are so sensitive thai he can Identify the tune on a music box roll simply by running his finger tips over the projections. BREATHING DOME When planning the largest concrete dome in the United States to roof Tulane Univer sity's McAlister Auditorium in New Orleans, engineers sought to prevent its cracking by per mitting it to "breathe" a slight upward movement when sharp temperature changes occur. The dome. 110 feet in diameter, has a thickness of only three inches at the top and is reinforced with 30 tons of steel. Monday: Dictator Against His Will. f THE RUDDER'S MORE "f YOU'RE SENSITIVE THAN THeHt&LLIN') V AILERONS. SO GO M E ( EpEDALs' T3-' V THAT SCAP STEPLOCK RUINED EVERVTHlN' FER ME BUT IM GLAD VAMOO;CD VI -THF CANT LINK ME UP WITH HIM NOW FORlO FOR FOR HOTEL RENT AND LABORATORY IS GOING ME.l DREAD TO FIGURE IT OUT AND ON TOP OF -V. IT 1 ClkPT "l PD' from Rome on WJZ-NBC at 2:14 p.m. Sunday. He will dis cuss decisions of the Fascist Grand Council. Sunday brings: Europe NBC Chains 5 a.m. WABC-CBS 6 a.m. 4, 5:55, 8 p.m.; WEAF-NBC 4:30 p.m. 8 p.m.; WJZ-NBC 4 p.m. 7 p.m. 10 a.m.; Senator James J. Davis; MBS 4:45 p.m. Charles Mk SP TAK6 YOUR HOOP OFF THAT LEF-T pedal... are mm YOU TRYING. Wm TO KICK A MOL J H THROUGH THE fflMlft V PLOOR?.. QUICK, J liU'FA OR. WE'LL l fits: 4 OH, HELLO. VUARNFB yaw 'Bout to phone you- HE!S WHAT Kc WE GOIN' WHEN BALLINGER OVEK AS MAVOR IN VNORNIN j CHANCE WITH HIS LIFE imu o P. Taft. WJZ-NBC 1:30 p.m. AU American football players. Reject Money Plea. Portland, Dec. 9. (JF) A proposal to increase American Hotel association dues to fi ance national advertising was rejected by the Oregon Hotel association yesterday. CUT ftWNfiIHE UH&S Form A PERFECT ZQUhREu, -AtizMPt 'Monday By HAL FORRES""' By EDWIN ALGER ... I tjic. T'DO TAKES THE By SOL HESS - 1 GUESS I'M SHA.RIMG liiw i get this guy off my chest OUNU U BE MY FAVORITE. W0CD IM Tl LFAVORiTE. W0CD IM THE