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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.
Cloatns tuna inr Too Lata to Clas
sify Ada Is :S0 p. m.
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DETECTIVE DENIES
Eugene, July e.'PiVT.- 3.
Herrmann, Oakland. Calif, pri
vate detective, pleaded not guil
ty before Judge G. F. Skipworth
in circuit court here today to the
charges of kidnaping and assault
with a dangerous weapon. He
will be tried later this month.
He.rinann was indicted at the
last session of the Lane cminty
grand jury on a charge of kid
naping and assaulting Edward
Campbell, Eugene, who was
wanted as a witness in a mur
der case at Redding. Calif.
The accused man was freed
on $3000 bail. 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
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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
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ANP VCNUllAN W-INVSw.
(P!e&anl Valley Itilhem Church, ,
Wisconsin)
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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
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