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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT - MEDFORD MATT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1939. ME. by France I'tSTtRDAV. Gordc.-. wits Mi chasl that flrrt nis boat wag lunptd, then hit dog killed, but he'll "get even." An analyiii hotel no poison in the meat, but a crop 0 it kills a cat . Chapter 21 Garden Party IT WAS Saturday afternoon be fore the Sunday of Tuck's gar den party. Mkhael sat on the edge of his father! desk, swinging his legs, and look ing gloomily over the drab city root- visible through the open window. His father sat at the oig aesjc, wmsuuig luneiessij Be tween his teeth. Michael had been talking. He went on witn nis story. "So I tried to figure it out," he said. "It seemed to me that there must be some reason why it should oe tne meat mat he ... to use uor- don s term , . . chose to poison. "You Just got through saying It wasn i poisoned, nis latner said tnarply. Michael elanced at him. "Per haps I did, he said mildly. "But of course it war. The dog died. The cat died. What Jethro meant was that it wasn t iioisoned with anv thing he knew anything about. With anything that had any known reaction. But we should have died very suddenly if we had eaten that meat. ' "You're moving Immediately?" "No. We're not moving." "No. It's too iate. It wouldn't do any good to move. He doesn t know how much we know, you see. We're on our guard now. Watching ... at least,' I am. The girls don t know of course. They think the dog had a fit, or I hope they do." John Forrester compressed his lips. "Ye re tne only Doy rve got, he said shortly. "Always thinking of yourself. rent you? Micnaei said re Droachfullv. The District Attorney glared. Micnaei lit a cigarette. "As I was savinff." he went on. I wondered why it was the meat and not tne soup or the pudding. Or the bread. And I found out" "Why then?" "Well, you see, It's this way. The butcher boy came without the meat He left the shop with it he was sura. Anyway, I phoned the butcher, and asked. So we oame to the conclusion that the meat was intercepted on the way. Why the meat? Because, my well beloved father, the groceries and all the ' rest of the supplies come from the city, direct to our door; while the butcher is on this side of town, and invariably sends the meat supply to the University first The boy stops his cart there at the back door of the residences, and carries in armloads of supplies. And, while no is carrying in armloads 01 sup lies, the meat for the Horseshoe is . . . where? It should be roDosins peacefully in the cart waiting to De taKen tor a iurtner ride. "Well?" "Well, it wasn't." "Where was it?" Michael took an envelope from his pocket From it he drew a square of butcher's paper. In the center of it was a hole, a neat round hole that might have been punched out with a lead pencil, save that it bore no pencil marks. Michael held it up. Animal Souls yOU see that hole?" "Of course." "Syringe," said Michael laconi cal !v. "Syringe?" "Well, hypodermic. Clever. Gas eous poison that leaves no trace. Hypodermic so that he doesn't have to untie the parcel. I don't think our friend intended to take the parcel from the cart, no. But he'd scarcely dare stand tr ere too long, even in the covered areaway where the cart was. I think he barely got his hands on It when he heard something footsteps prob ably, and he steps into a conve nient doorway. The footsteps turn out to be the butcher boy s. who thereupon drives off." "Who was around that door be tween half past five and six?" Michael looked down at his foot "Well." he said slowly, "Katie didn't sec everyone perhaps. But she saw Duncan Murchison, com ing across the campus. He probably entered the back door, and went up to his room. That was lust as the boy's cart stood In the areaway She didn't watch him, no. She just saw him coming while she held the door open for the boy. And then, a few minutes after the bov hnd driven off. she saw Mr. Dcane crossing the campus toward the Horseshoe, on nis way home. But that doesn't meon a thins. Every body who lives out here has to pnss along the bnck of that residence to get home. IJeano passes there si most exactly at the same time every day." Forrester filled his pipe. "Does the butcher boy call at the same time every day?' "Approximately." Forrester lit the pipe carefully and smoked for a moment in si lence. "You've hnd the body of the dofi analyzed? There might be re action there to the poison." "There's none in the body of Jethro's cat. As for the dog . . ." Michael got up and sauntered to the door. "Do you suppose dogs have souls? Freddie must have one. Because he's walked I tried to dig him up Just an hour or two after we Buried mm. Freddie had gone. Sunday dawned bright and clear and warm, a perfect dnv (or a tea party in the garden. Tuck had the wicker tea table set out of the sun on the east side of the house, facing Miss Lissey s. Whether the Dcvoes and Mrs Murchison would accept Tuck's In vitation had been rather a matter for speculation. It seemed scarcely possible that they would after Rum Store Costs Cut Snlcm, Dec. 12. (A1) State Liquor Administrator J. J. Hague told Governor Sprngue today that costs of operating the liquor control administration have declined materially dur ing th past iix monthi. Shelley Wees Jared Devoe's elaborately con structed alibi for them, and consid ering the fact that Tuck wat violat ing one of society's rules in inviting them when they had not called upon her. But in spite of every thing, they came, at four o'clock almost too promptly, Tuck thought Mrs. Murcnison naa gowned ner self in red ... a color quite inap propriate for Sunday afternoon in the garden but Mrs. Murchison ob viously was not thinking of the garden. Her eyes flashed at Michael as she shook hands with him, and Tuck got a sudden shock, a sudden insight into the woman's mind. Did she think that her smile might accomplish what Devoe's disarm ing manner had failed to do? Tuck stiffened mental!. "We're so glad you could come, Mrs. Murchison," she said sweetly. "We have been looking forward to coming," the red lips said, Just as sweetly. The eyes were so dark it was difficult to read any expres sion in them. Subjects For Conversation MRS. Devoe stood behind her. She looked ill. Her eyes were heavy and lusterless, and the flesh on her cheeks hung .flabby and pendulous as if she had suddenly lost weight. She was in black again, a heavy shapeless black, that some how seemed more rinister that the red. Tuck shook herself. "It's a lovely day, Mrs. Devoe." "Yes." Her hand was limp limp and cold. "I think you'll find this chair comfortable," Michael said as he greeted her. She sank into it with out a word of thanks, and sat there all afternoon as inscrutable as any Buddha. Inscrutable, but never tin noticing. Her heavy eyes saw every movement Her son was as affable and pol ished as ever. He complimented Tuck on the condition of the gar den, and moved on to Bunny with suspicious haste. Bunny sat quietly in her chair, and let him talk into her ear without evincing the slight est interest in wnat ne was saying. Mrs. Murchison and Michael drifted off together. Tuck caught one gray amused glance from Bun ny, and turned resolutely back to old Mrs. Devoe. She picked a sub ject out of the air at random, as one reaches for a mosquito on a hot summer night. "Have you seen our lovely sun dial?" she asked. "I suppose you must have when your niece lived here." The heavy lids f uttered for the merest instant, and the eyes turned toward Tuck. "My niece?" Devoe broke in. "It was the sun dial she spoke of, mother," he said with a swift glance that Tuck caught. "The sundial. Yes. Yes, I havt seen it" "I never owned a sundial before. They're so romantic, aren't they?" Mrs. Devoe did not answer, and Tuck was casting about wildly fot another subject when she saw witn relief Miss Lissey, smart in a flow ered chiffon, coming hastily down the outer path. Tuck almost liked Alix Lissey at the moment Cer tainly, she told herself, there would be no more of these awk ward pauses in the conversation. Then she remembered what Dr, McBain had told Michael about the Devoe-Lissey contretemps, and groaned inwardly. That would probably stop even Alix Lissey's agile tongue. But other than slight raising of her chin Miss Lis sey showed in no way her disgrun tlement at Devoe, and Devoe was very polite, if a trifle distant, with Miss Lissey, so affairs moved rather more smoothly than might have been expected. But the afternoon was fated not to go smoothly; not with the east and lack of restraint that had char acterized Mrs. Deanc's party. II may have been the fact that the rorresters and Bunny . . . and Lr McBain too, when he finally ar rived, . . . were putting every movement, every word, under s strong microscope, that put the tension into the atmosphere. Not only that, but Tuck had a feeling that everyone, excepting perhaps Mrs. Dcane and Mrs. McBain. was conscious of this. There was appre hension, wonder, mystery, ever fear in the air. No conversation seemed able to live. Tuck decided mentally that 11 was no use to keep to harmless subjects. With an air of utter inno cence she introduced one, that might have a sting . . of which she, of course, couldn't be expected to know. The servant problem. "We were told that it was very difficult to keep a maid out here, she commented. "But luckily. Charlotte Jean likes it very much and hasn't any notion of leaving us. I'm very thankful." Mrs. Dcane, hot and puffing a; usual, spoke. "1 have always a per fectly terrible time with servants I always think my boy Gordon Just miRlit have something to dr with it. He's very trying, at least we find him so, even ourselves Really I don't know what to do about it so I rarely try to keep a maid at all." There was a curiously furtive look in Marie Murchison's eves. She glanced at Tuck with a little frown, then looked immediately away. "Well. I have an old country girl, and I couldn't get along without her." Miss Lissey said. "She's hard working and sensible, and she hasn't any of the silly notions of servants In this country. She be longs to the servant class, and she knows it, and she stays where she belongs. "Is there a jervint class. Miss Lissey?" Bunny asked. "Of course there is. Some people are born to be ladies' maids just as some aren't. Let them keep to their own levels, I say It's no use their trying to pretend they belong to another class." She tossed her head angrily, and the red flamed in her check. Continued tomorrow Record Missoula, Mont. (tV) Mon tnna State university claims the largest majorette corps of any college tn the Unilid Stutes. Fifty-right cords spin batons in their twirling drill between halves of football games. On the RADIO CHAINS STATIONS Where to rind Them on the Dial: Kex, Portland. 1180: KFI. 64(1. Loe Angeles; It OA. 1470, Spokane; KOO, 780, Sen FrancUco; KU 620, Portland; KJH. 850. Seattle; KNX. 1050, Loe anteless KOA, 630. Uenier; KOIN, 040, Portland: HOMO. 926. Seattle; KPO, 630. San FranelKo; KSL, I ISO, Salt Lake. Tuesday. 5:00 Aldrlch Family. KPO. KFI, KOW; Frank and Archie, KJR. 6:80 Sherlock Holmes. KOO, KEX. KJR; Heldt's Orcb.. KPO. KFI, KOW; Tuesday Night Party, KSL. 6:00 Hollywood. KOO, KEX; Mu sic Room, KPO, KOW, KFI. 8:90 Fibber McOee, KPO, KFI, KOW; Crosby's Orcb.. KNX, KSL. KOIN; Human Side of Literature. KOO, KEX; Newe. KJR. 7:00 Shield's Revue, KOO, KEX; Variety Program, KPO, KOW, KFI; Calling All Cars, KNX. 7:30 Sports Huddle, KNX. KOIN; Drama, KOO, KJR; Dog House, KPO. KFI, KOW; News, KSL. 8:00 Fred Waring, KPO, KFI, KOW; Amoa and Andy, KEX. KOIN. KSL; Information Please, KOO, KEX, KJR. 8:16 Jimmy Fldler, KSL, KNX. KOIN; I Love a Mystery, KPO, KFI, KOW. FROM HERE TO THERE auvas MuiArft DKIDES HE WAtffe To Bf ON OTHER. SIDE Of UtE ROOM. ftej DOK PREflV WEIL iMTll ARMS A WD SUTOENLV FLV ti ALL DlREdiOHS AT ONCE TRIES R6LLIW6 OVER , DRAWBACK he ncw and then 6ef6 mutto up in the wrow6 direction TAILSPIN TOMMY From One I If.. I K LI 1 fWVl xiu-?V LI. ; hate to do this....' WMM K ZT 7 1 " , ' . ' 'fa??? t gg,vaa ... ' lif BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Another Solemn Pledge! Bv EDWIN ALGER ( VSy IN 7OWri I Y LETS 6eT GOING I KNOW IT NOT ONE I I THEN LET'S SHAKE ON. " GOIN' TO SEE WILLI ) OURSELVES.,. AMR f SINCE; WtT GOT INTO A -rJl .. AFTER ITOPAV lbU?' 1 Ay RUTV.HOW ) POLITICS..,.. I GUE$$ ) VrFW OUTOF LrTK BEN, SO I GAVE OUR L UON6 HAS IT BEEN 1P A POLITICS AN THE AND BACK IN THE ilV ' f y THE NEBBS It's Wonderful! MBERT HAS II f COME OW, MR NEBBVcrrelV f NOO'Re A XiNlrtVYJrVEUL, LOOK AT IT " rfTjft KYpTTf TADE t5eYITS WONDERFUL rsoTvtDl HOP in AMD TAKE V Nj wawtH B,T YEUjOW rTT fV GO1 AND ITS MOT N LU" 2 , n OrKlP I ,r THREW SSaSSIwA THG. WHEEL,- QNEBB,fLLLIVE( W$NY 1 PUT THE A EJ R ZsOBAcS' TO ONE OP THOSE PILLS POWER PILL VSHES ALLREACrV sOlODe I ) ,T-,T A Af V WA.TEJ5 IN MYSELF. ALL.) ts iSOOR WORK AND IT fllN A WHEELBARROW IN THE TANK X. NOW,l OF AJOS AWAyJ3'V Jl H DCOPPEO IN THE H R wANDS 7 ACTED LIKE UT WOULD RLJ OP - 8:30- Aldrlch Family. KOO, KEX, KJR; Johiny Presents. KPO, KFI, KOW; Drama, KOIN, KNX. 0:00 Dance Hour, KOO; Tuesday Night Party. KOIN, KNX; Oood Morning Tonight, KPO, KFI, KOW. 9:80 Battle of the Bexel, KPO, KOW, KFI; We, the People, KNX. KOIN; Meaaner's Orcb.. KOO; KEX; News, KJR. 10:00 Newe Reporter, KPO. KFI. KOW; Newe, KNX, KSL, KOIN. 10:30 Foster's Orcb., KPO. KFI, KOW; Saunder's Orcb., KOO, KEX, KJR. 1 1 :00 Ravaxza's Orcb.. KPO. KFI; This Moving World. KEX; Oray'e Orch.. KSL, KOIN. News, KOO, KNX. KOW. Wednesday 6:00 Frank and Archie. KJR; Sun set Shadows, KOO; Warlng'a Orcb., KPO. KOW, KFI. 8:30 Kelaey'i Orch., KPO; We Pre sent, KOO, KJK. 6:46 Bob Oarred, KNX, KOIN"; Organist, KOO, KEX; Two In the Balcony, KPO. 6 :0O Beyond Reasonable Doubt, KOO, KEX. KJR: Star Theater. KSL, KOIN, KNX; Drama, KOMO; Safety First. KPO. 6:30 Horse and Buggy Days. KOO; Hollywood Playhouse, KPO, KFI, KOW; News, KJR. 7:00 Sketch, KNX, KSL. K.OIN; Kyser'a Prgm., KPO. KOW. KFI; Shields' Orch, KOO, KJR, KEX. 7:30 Burns and Allen, KNX, KOIN, KSL; Adventures in Photography, KOO. 8 :00 Warlng's Orch., KPO; Johnny litaieuM or TB Bu Syndicate. Inc.) I2.f TRIES HITCHIK6 SEEMS 1b SftW BEIrfe IHAT and rolls Danger Into Anotherl Presents, KOO, KJR, KEX; Amos and Andy, KNX, KOIN, KSL. 8:30 Whiteman's Orcb., KNX. KSL, KOIN; Quia Program, KOO, KJR, KEX; Avalon Time, KPO, KFI, KOW. 0:00 Pearce'a Gang. KNX, KSL, KOIN; Fred Allen. KPO, KOW, KFI; Marriage Club, KOO, 0:30 Noble's Orch, KOO. KEX; News, KJR. 10:00 Martin's Orch, KOO, KEX; News. KNX, KSL. KOIN. 10:30 Madrlguera's Orcb, KOO. KEX: Ravazza's Orcb, KPO, KFI. KOW. 11:00 Oray's Orcb, KOIN, KSL: Nottingham's Orcb, KPO, KFI; Thla Moving World, KEX, KJR; Newa. KOO, KOW. 2 Berlin, Dec. 12. (P) The German supreme command an nounced today two British tank ers of a total tonnage of 18, 000 had been sunk in the Eng lish Channel. They were not identified. The official communique cov ering yesterday's war operations follows: "Slight artillery disturbance By GLUYA3 WILLIAMS WISHES THERE WERE SOME WAY 6F SFfflNt THERE EXCEPT BY CRETPIN6 . HUMPS HIMSELF UP ON ALL FOURS HIMSELF FORWARD, SlttiNfe UP BUT TTC1W MUCH IH 1flE SAME PLACE DECIDES THAT OLD-FASHIoNED METHOD OF CRE6PW6 A.L0N6 ON HIS SToMACH ISTriE ONLY SURE WAV OFGEfTINfe ANV WHERE fire on some parts of the front between the Moselle River and the Palatinate forest. "Otherwise, the day passed quietly on the entire western front. Two British tankers, to gether 18,000 tons, were sunk in the western exit of the Eng lish Channel," Closing time for Too Late to Claa slty Ada la 1:30 p. m. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor farther proof address the author. Inclosing a stamped envelope tor reply. Reg. TJ. S. Pat OS. fH ocToPU . 1HPif UVK IN Pf. Defiance AqvariJnt&s-Rle . tf Wr faUND IN P. IN PUCJffT -SOUND... WooLWORTH BUILDING -(792 FEET) W KEPT A SECRET 'PURINE ENTIRE CONSTRUCTION . ( i& insure For FRANK WooLWorTH "We - r ' fl WIlUWA HEMRV KT l& DISCOVERED, ANI11N6WW IN COM.-- WHlLE ?EARCrllN3 foR A WW To MAKE ARTIFICIAL QUININE m3Sh. WOOLWORTH'S SECRET One of the oldest practical jokes of all time was the effort of Frank Woolworth to keep the height of his giant skyscraper in New York a secret during construction. According to Louis J. Horowitz, the builder, Woolworth sought to insure for himself for a long time the glory of owning the world's tallest building. When first projected, the Woolworth Tower was designed to rise 692 feet, but when the building opened in 1913, Woolworth revealed its real height was 792 feetl DYE DISCOVERY Sir William Henry Perkin, at 18, discovered the first aniline dye. mauve, in 1856. While oxidizing aniline oil he obtained the dye because of the presence of impure chemicals. Re peated with purer aniline, the experiment failed. TOMORROW: Mystery of the Extra Skull. SKATES NOT NECESSARY FOR GIRLS ON JOY RIDE Portland, Dec. 12. Ph-Roller skates aren't necessary as "Just in case" equipment for girls who go for automobile rides, a resourceful young girl demonstrated last night. The girl left her boy friend's car on the edge of the city OUILPINQ. limits and called police, who drove her home. Can't Tall. Lexington, Ky. VP) Procla mation of a new date for Thanksgiving this year probably led to this sign on a local mer chant's store: "Do your Christ mas shopping early! Who knows? Tomorrow may ba Christmas!" nPiunitx- Kike nvltsfoilrltsn IRON WWCff 06ETHER A fill A UWXU fy '9wt5stv. Cnpr. ItJsb. Cnltd Frtlorc flyn41til.n,f2L v",Tin.a. v. a Tit OOAll rlihti rww.aV By HAL FORREST By SOL HESS