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Newspaper Page TextPAGE ETGHT MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON. TUESDAY. JULY 9. 1940. Gasual Slaughters i By VIRGINIA HANSON C YCSTCKDA . SowJra mo 1 0i ipou iui named Ivan to a beaclt party. He look UJce am actor but hintt myturiously that hit voccnon it a mora vital on. Chapter 11 The Barge ADAM put hi hands under my rir.s and, lifting me quite easily I am always surprised at the strength in Adam's (lender body slung me over hia shoul der like a sack of meaL 1 stopped slrugglin when he Dejan to ctv,. aiung uie nar row rim of the barge (or. invert ed ai I wu I could tee too clear- ly the thirty-foot drop on either aide. "Don't let go." 1 prayed, with what Breath was left in my dia phragm. 'There unpleasant dark water in the hold of the ahip." "Ralr water," he responded practically. Probably mosqui toes down there. Must send out some kerosene before the next beach party. He eased me to my feet "I could carry you down the ladder, he boasted, "but you might not like it. "I don't like it anyway," I con fessed. "But I prefer to do it my self" Adam says that his ninety-ninth great-grandmother grew disgust ed with the aquatic life one day when her old man rose to the bait for the last time. So, having a pio neering spirit, she marshaled her children and flopped ashore to try life on dry land. But he thinks it was a mistake. Once a Ash, al ways a fish, he says, and darts around in the water in a most Improbable fashion, usually with his head and shoulders above the surface and his arms and legs all over the place. Once when he warn up behind me and, wrap ping them around me, bore me down, I thought an octopus had me. I can swim, but I have yet to learn to breathe under water. He towed me to shore. Anally, half drowned, and made me race him down the beach, almost, but not quite, letting me win. As I may nave said. Adam is a man or prin eiple. Somewhat spent, I found a big piece of driftwood and sat upon It. He stood for a moment looking down at me, an odd little grin on ais i ace. "You're all right." he said and I thought he meant it for ap proval. He sat down beside me then and began patiently to scoop and pour the dry. reluctant sand into mils ana valleys. "It's too dry it won't stay," I told him after I had watched him Idly lor a tew minutes. "I know. You can't shape It. It's like this business of Immer-man." "Have you learned anything new?" "Not a thing. He went back to barracks after you saw him at the i-ost txenange. put on civilian clothes and said he was going to wane to me village, out no one admits having seen him there. wa ve asked at bars, pool halls, all tha soldier hangouts. He had a girl who works st the local din er, but she says she hasn't seen him for two or three weeks. And she says he never gave her an in signia or anything else. I saw her myself, and I believe her." "Felicia says the man Jumped on her running board at the last red light in th village." "I know. I asked her if it could have been Immerman. She says she never thought of it at the time, but admits she might not have recognized him with a mask on. She estimates the time at ten o'clock or later. It's not quite four miles to the village. He could have walked It in an hour, if he didn't pick up a ride. An hour and a half at the outside. So where was he between, say four-thirty and ten o'clock? Dollar Bills ""JETTING the money?" 1 sug J gested, with what I felt to be an inspiration. And then I re membered something. "What did you mean when you said Cor poral O'Connor might be Inter ested in that box of money?" Adam grew a deep breath and looked at me queerly for a mo ment "He was." he said, and went back to scooping ssnd. "Any particular reason? Unless Its a state secret Oh, that's very Eood! State secret state police, et it?" "I got It." Adam said dlscour aglngly. "A very particular rea son, as it happens. He's looking for a little matter of fiftv thou sand dollars in twenty-dollar bills twenty.five hundred of them, if your arithmetic agrees with mine. It's no secret You read about it in the Chicago papers in June. Re member the Randlv child?" "You mean the"little girl who was kidnaped for a week and brought back unharmed? Yes, I remember. And the fifty thousand is ransom money? Oh, Adam, do you mean that the man in the burning car was the kidnaper?" "I'm afraid not It would be rice to know the world was rid af him, but unfortunately it wasn't the right money." I "But how can you know It Unt the right money? it was all burned up!" An exciting thought to have seen fifty thousand dollars in ashes probably the only form in which I would ever see it "And maybe Immerman was the kid naper, even if he did look like a bantam cock!" Adam said. "You're not writing this, you know. You'll have to give the facts a chance." "I'm trying to," I assured him. "If you'll only stop being so dis gustingly important and mysteri ous and let out a few." He laughed, in a satisfied wa. and put out a hand toward me in an unfinished gesture that had grown familiar and puzzling to me a reaching and withdrawing at almost the same instant He buried the hand and brought It up slowly, carefully, watching the sand run off in innumerable fine streams until only a few grains remained ridged along the ack of each long, blunt Anger. "There are two good reasons why we know it was not the ran som money, and why we know the kidnaper was not Immerman. Reasons known only to Corporal O'Connor and me and Colonel Pennant of course. I'll tell you because I know you can keep your mouth shut and because you have helped me before." "Thank you. Now that we've got that straight " "As you may not know, the fln- f;erprints of every officer jnd en isted man in the combined ser vices are recorded in Washington. That was a wartime innovation and has been in effect ever since. A federal investigator managed to get the fingerprints 'of the Randly kidnaper, and those prints are not on Ale. Therefore the kid naper is not Immerman. "As for the money that was a neat bit of work on Corporal O'Connor's part He practically built a box around those ashes before he moved them from the car. He handled them with iiirh care, and they had been so well packed in that it was possible, back at State Police Headquarters, to determine the denominations of some of the bills and to make photographs of their charred remains." Wizard THEY weren't counterfeits?" x Must I remind vou aiain." he demanded good naturedly, "that you are not writing this? They were not counterfeits. They were good old United States cur rency. But in so far as it was pos sible to determine, there were no twenties among them. There were upwards of two thousand bills; and the detective bureau, after hours of painstaking labor, were able to discover nothing but ones among them." "Ones?" "One-dollar bills. Probably two thousand of them, all packed in a pasteboard box and burned al most, but not quite, beyond rec ognition." "Why. the man must have been a mlserl" He looked at me kindly. "Not a miser; a wizard. If you mean Im merman. It would take several years to put away even a thou sand one-dollar bills on a nl. dier's twenty-one dollars a month. And Immerman was serving his first enlistment" 1 frowned imoatientlv. "W needn't have saved it out of hia pay. Maybe he inherited it nr stole it " "All in one-dollar bills?" "Or earned it in his mr. time " Two afternoons a week fn two years?" All right what do you think?" 'I don't think anvthlna evrent that it's fishy. And we know so little we don't even know that the man In the car was Immer man. He was too badly burned to fingerprint him. and the man who would know about his teeth, if it was Immerman. ia beyond reach for the time being. I mean the post dental surgeon. He has a month's leave with permission to visit foreign countrien nH l. somewhere in Canada on a motor inp. i could prnbablv get hold of him and bring him back, but It seems a shame to do it the evl dence will wait: and in the mean time we mav get a line on Im merman. A soldier who knew him says he had been acting queerlv. as if he was scared of something. There's always the possibility that he was in personal difficulties and has simply gone over the hill " "What did the kidnaper look like?" "No idea. No one saw him, and he's not a known criminal. The fingerprints are the onlv clue, which seems to Indicate that he was a lucky beginner. Or un lucky, if you count the prints. No old hand would have left them oh. oh! You're contami nating me with your low puns." "Not bad for a beginner. I told him generously. "I won't charge you anything for the first lesson." "What will you charge not to give me anv more?" 'That comes high." A faint halloo from the direc tion of the barge was succeeded by a clangor that sounded like someone beating out Coffee, cof fee, coffee, u'tthout any cream on a tin pan. Te be cantuwc WAGE REPORT 1 roll tax for 1939 has not been completed, as they have only a few days in which to complete the state payment and ask off set from the federal government. C. M. Johns, field auditor for the State Unemployment Compensatiori commission, will be in Medford the rest of thir week to confer with employers regarding wage reports. Mr. Johns makes his headquarters at the employment office on North Fir street. Special attention will be giv en those employers whose pay- Lemur On Spree San Diego. Cal. tl'.Pi A pre cocious lemur, using "fifth col umnist" tactics, tore down cur tains, explored cab'nets and wound up taking a sieita in the wajh. bowl in the Peek resi dence. Tne monkey-like animal, miles from its native habitat was unclaimed by the zoo or any private owner. 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He arrived from California with Sheriff C. A. Swarts Saturday. ' Rare Stamp Sold London Ul.R) An unused New foundland BO-cent airmail stamp was sold at auction here for $1,350. It was one of 300 is sued to mark the transatlantic flight of the Italian Marchesa de Pinedo from Newfoundland in 1927. THE SECOND SHOE By GLUYAS WILLIAMS SrfS.Vltn ML SHOE ON AND one err, liiiriKme or yinU TrlWeS sXErT PARENTS' FINISH PRESSJN6 MCIPE4 HET BETTtR SET OH WrW If. -TIJitS 1b H06K SHOE UP OH HIS TbE SlKCEJPS OHW M kNoKli SHOE AWfW TROH HIM By An ELABORATE TEAfflF foK- ORflOH Pick rf DP WiAsf, Wnfo&Ur6EW6 off BED 5IT5 JU66UN6 SHOE ROILS OVER OU HIS BACK WD-miEfr'TbTctfCE SHOE ON 7-10 RESTS A WHILE, WI66UH6 SvMJE AROUND WrtH HI' Toes, 1AKES SHOE AND StOCK M6 0JT TO LOOK AT f OCT WHEVE HE6CTSWED 0HP1BYIN6 BASEBA11 HEARS rftfrlfR R0AR,rVf$ SHOE OH, AND RACES POWn SfAIRS, SHOE KKAUilllfc UNTifP ALL PAV St t an erieai. iw DIAMOND LAKE ANGLER 'CATCHES' POLE, LINE Diamond Ijke. Oregon, July 8. (Sol.) Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Jacobs, residents of San Lean dro, Calif,, and guests at Dia mond, wero trolling in deep water recently when Mrs. Jac obs felt a rather, dull and life less pull on her line. Hoisting in her line, under the impres sion that she had truigged weeds, she was surprised to find a pole, line and reel dangling frcm the hook. But wait more is yet to come. The line on the snaggd pole had twined arcund the butt of that pole thus eliminating the chance of any more line going out. When they finally pulled the caught pole Into the boat they saw that the line on that pole was still dragging in the water. When they finally got to the end of that line, n 2H pound Rainbow trout was still putting up a do or die struggle, for freedom. Shovel types. 10,000 Conneaut, Ohio Demand for specialized types of shovels has increased to such an extent since 1900 that the American Fork and Hoe company's Con neaut plant now is equipped to make 10.000 types of shovels, with an output of 500 to 600 daily. The United States has 11,000,. 000 homes with telephones, 22,. 000,000 with radios and 21,000 000 with electric lights. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS by JOHN MIX TReBUHP&lFSR CAfT. W. H. ZIMMERMAN, 63ndose,Caltf:, ToTAUV 3LNP, IN 4 ONLY 18 MONIHS Won Ntcoi'SoN" MZ NOMINATED, dr PHI BETA KAPPA found in & ih 1776) 7.d rat. im br vtm ' Wss4c.lAt.raX Vnt1 rtmr 9r4nto be I ft JSMf ' pi Pa fix esatar t-"--..!:' . " asssl A MVSRSPooN- 9 3 OXnm RtaMTMft HflTELflLllgU. GovmBeneftlrid., WA4(?gHlRNepgMAlL m& IffiR WA4 fcMopfttt 1K& A CHURCH! Com&i WiTM RiLPiT, AtTAR, ftt PLANT, Aii? coNpiTioNiM, movxim seats ANP VCNUllAN W-INVSw. (P!e&anl Valley Itilhem Church, , Wisconsin) ..... COACH TO CHURCH Buying an old railroad coach from the defunct Minneapolis, Red Lake and Manliob railroad, residents of Pleasant Valley, Wis., remodeled It into a church. All work of setting it up, remodeling, painting, building furniture and steeple was do nated by the congregation. Painted white, it Is complete with many features which larger churches cannot boast. "The church was not erected for the sake of being different," says former Pastor J. T. Stolee, "but to meet an actual need." v . Tomorrowi Matriarch of 173 Childrenl TAILSPIN TOMMY Bsrrando Plans A Fiendish Revengel By HAL FORREST TMe. L aT T 8 ft. A WARNING, THEN OA$u0 A BOM BER. . AS f L. V , m rf Drs 7-, .77. 1 ( V T'THAT TOO, SMAIl f T THE eUOOft Oe f HI CABIN PLN INvJ Agg VhKSMSlD ) WifTj( felV Ht WAS e-LASHINO A WARNIKJ& PROM ATTACKING- ftv?ft ,h .tfBrN. . r ViL TO TOMMY. 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I J ji ( J 23 OP IT 50 VOO NrVOMT HAVE TO xf OUT OF YOUR ACFAiRS- MOTWEQ I I VpCEVO ' OUTOPTUEBAVJKMARRlEONOU Tq 1 I FEEL OBLIGATED AMD I'M GOlN3 TO KJEBB .J HAS ALWAYS BEEN! ST1CKIMG WER. , I CJ E . rVTffT 5UPP00T YOU- p- : ;iV AMO TELL WlM TO GET Th HELP BACK. 7 XhiT PATMERlS AFFAIRS UMT1L Yrrir TC5s, VT,1 1 -youre 60.NS bac. to be chief jyjg has no affairs mesTm I) ' ' 1' ' By SOL HESS