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Newspaper Page Text4 PAC5 SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24,-1941. by Phoebe Atwood Taylor . STIRDAY: Asey Mayo, th. Jape Cod detective, teas only U Avertng clams when he ventured into the Whale Inn. He found it detirltd, lighted with candle be cause a norm had put out the liphu, and what if mora impor (ant, ha found a corpse litttna on a chair in tha phona booth. And now, just after verifying tha fact that tha carpi ij atill in tha booth, ha ia accottcd by tha vary self-posternd daughter , of. the proprietor. Chapter Six '. Through The Keyhole ASEV chuckled.' "I must," he uid. "look pretty much of a tramp." The girl didn't deny it "But," Asey continued, "my ap pearance ii deceivin'. I've done tome trampin' this evenin', only I ain't one. Mia Doane, how long have you been lnthia room?" "Since three this afternoon," the flrl aaid tranquilly. "And now, m aure you're in a hurry to get to the Commercial" "You mean," Aiey aaid, "you been in this room ainoe three thii afternoon? All the time?" "Yea," the girl aaid firmly. Asey'i eyea narrowed. "And if you'll be good enough to come to the door,' the girl con tinued, "I'll point our the direction of the Commercial Home." Asey leaned back his head and opened his mouth wide. "Jenniel Ahoy, Jen-niel" The girl jumped aa his quarter deck bellow roared out - "Jennie!" Asey took another breath. "Jen-nle! "Look here," the girl said sharp ly, "you've got to atop that din! I can assure you that there is no one named Jennie here!" "Asey! A-aeyl" "Who'a that?" the girl de manded. "That" Aaey aaid, "la Jennie. Ahoy, Jennie, where are you?" "Upstairs! Come up here, Aseyl I got her, right here! The girl ducked down, opened the low-swinging cupboard doors, squeezed herself through them, and ran over to the staircase in front of Asey. "Absolutely, you can't go up " "Aside, youngster," Asey said, and took the stairs three at a time. He found Jennie on her knees with her eyes focused on the key hole of a room down the corridor to his right "Whats coin' on.. 'Jennie? What're you glued to that keyhole ior? wnoa in mere? Jennie put ber flnier to her IIds. "Sshh!" she said. "She's in this bedroom! Right in here! Sshh! "What's the use of shushlnT Asey wanted to know. "Between your yells an' mine. I guess some- Doay Knows we re in mis general vicinity! Jennie, who'a in there? What you been doin ? ' "Look!" Jennie got to her feet and held out something she'd picked up from the floor beside her. Look! Asey took the white-stltched leather pocketbook from her and glanced at the initials. "O.E.B. Thls'a the on from the phone booth?" "Listen," Misa Doane had been desperately trying to get a word in edgewaya. "Listen, will the two of you simply atop this and" "Oh," Asey said. "I forgot you. Go downstairs, will you, an' phone Hanson of the state police, an' Doc Cummlngs, the medical examiner, over in Wellfleet Tel' 'em Asey Mayo wants 'em at the Whale Inn right away. Hurry, will you? Now, Jennie, wnat'd you take this from the phone booth for?" "I never did, Aseyl I took It from her!" she pointed toward the door at whose keyhole ah had been watching. Misa Doane broke In before Asey had a chance to speak. Th Pocketbook yOU don't look like Asey 1 Mayo!" she said. "I've seen In numerable pictures of him. He weara a yachting cap, and a duck coat with lota of little pockets, and he carriea a gun. And, besides, he's in Washington right this min nute! I saw a picture of him in the paper this morning, shaking hands with people who make engines or something!" "I'm back, Asey Informed her, "an" these are my city clothes. Now, hustle with those calls, will you?" "Well all right" But ahe still looked skeptical as she turned and walked back along the hall to the tairs. "Now, Jennie," Aser went on, "let me get this straightened out What's the story on this pocket bonk, anyway?" "I tell you, I took It from the woman that's in the bedroom in there! 1 didn't take it from th phone booth woman!" Asey sighed. "Let's start at th heglnnln'," he said patiently. . "Somebody knocks over a bucket of elama, an' I ruth out into the rain. What did you do then?" "The minute you left" Jennie aaid. "I somehow begun to feel awful acared an' trembly. All alone there with those candles flickerin", an' her In that booth! Why, for a minute or two, I Just ahook! An' then I shut th closet door, an' then I begun to . . little better. An' then in . come!" "Who?" Asey demanded. "Thi Doane girl that was just here?" "No, no, no! Th woman at the red lights! The one with the um brella! The one" "Look, Jennie," Asey said sooth ingly, "I don't blame you for bein' confused. I tell you what I'll do. I'll phone Sam over at the garage an' have him drive my roadster here an' take you home. You need to lie down. You had a hard day even before you got to this place, an' what'a happened since hasn't made it any easier. I'm not a bit surprised you seen a ghost! Come on downstairs, an' I'll call Sam." It waa not until he took hold of Jennie'a arm that Asey realized his error. The sudden gleam in Jennie's eyes was not gratitude for his consideration, but sheer, unadulterated anger. "You think I'm a fool, Asey Mayo? You think I don't know what I seen? You think I don't know what I'm talkin' about? I tell you, it was that woman, an' it wasn't no ghost!" "You mean, ahe recognized you, an' spoke to you?" Asey asked. Jennie shook her head. "She walked straight past me, Asey! Never said a word. I don't think she knew I was there! Straight past me, an' across that livin' room, an' up the stairs!" "What did you do?" Asey de manded. "Did you speak to her, or put out your hand an' touch her? what did you say?" "I was so flabbergasted," Jennie said, "I didn't do a thing but gape, an' I think my eyes nearly popped out of my head, Asey. They ain't felt right aince. Why there one minute I'd closed the door of that booth, an' the next minute there she was, com in' in the front door an' walkin' past me! I thought it was a ghost first. But that woman wai just as real as could be." "Honest Jennie, d'you " "I kept thinkin' of things to say," Jennie went on. "Only they all stuck in my throat She was halfway up the stairs before I could unloosen my tongue an' find my voice. Then I let out a scream. A good loud scream. It even scared me! Scared her, too. She went up the rest of the stairs like a streak of greased lightning. Then I come to an' rushed up the stairs after her. An' right on the stairs was this pocketbook here. I guess that proves she was real, don't it? Ghosts don't cary pocketbooksl" "An" She Dripped!" ASEY restrained himself from remarking that ghosts had been known to carry far stranger objects than ladies' handbags. "Huh," he said. "Then you didn't actually take this bag from her, did you, Jennie? You just found it on the stairs." "Same thing!" Jennie retorted. "She dropped it when I let out that scream! Don't you look so doubtful, Asey. She had on that (elt hat an' that tweed coat I tell you, it was her." Asry frowned, and played with the clasp on the pocketbook. "An" you saw her go into this room?" he asked, as he casually opened the pocketbook and peered inside. "Where is she now?'1 "Oh, I didn't see her go in, be cause she reached the top of the stairs before I even got started," Jennie said. "But I know she's in this room. This is the way she ran. An' I been in every room on this floor that'a unlocked, an' I listened outside every room that's locked, an' this is where she is. I heard a nisllin' sound. Twice." There's nothln' in this pocket book," Asey said. "It's empty. Tell me. Just where did you And it?" "On the curve of the stairs, to one side, just where she dropped it when 1 yelled." Jennie told him. "An' I wish vou'd stoD askin' a lot of fool questions an' either tell her to come out, or break that door in. I knocked an' banged, but she didn't pay a speck of attention!" Asev reached out and raooed his knuckles against the door. "A self-respectin' flea," Jennie said with scorn, "wouldn't hear that knockin . An if it did, it wouldn't Dav anv attention to it! Tell her to come out here!" Will the occupant of Room rive," Asey said, "be good enough to open the door?" Nothing happened. Asey repeated his reauest and then he drew a long breath. Honest Jennie, don t you think that maybe perhaps it was Just possibly an imaginary woman. sort of a picture in your mind?" "I do not! sh dropped that pocketbook!" "Maybe. But someone mleht'v been goin' out in a hurry, an' shift ed things from one pocketbook to another 1 v known you to do that Jennie an' left the empty bag on the stairs." "I tell you. the dropped It! An' she dripped!" she was?' "She dripped rain. Sh was wet." "Let me tell you what 1 think." Asey said, "an' don't interrupt ma till I get through. I think it was perfectly natural, after your clos ln' the door of that phone closet to look up an' think you seen that woman s image. Most likely you did." Jennie's lips pursed themselv Into a thin, stubborn line. To be eenUnacd FREIGHTER LAUNCHED Portland, Nov. 24 P The John Barry, fifth liberty freight er launched In Portland In the emergency shipbuilding pro- Timely Tuff-Twist Suits hold thair lhap and won't wrinkl $39.00 Sold only at 73aXk$C4 fstor for Moo v gram, entered the Willamette river from Oregon Shipbuilding corporation ways yesterday. A sixth is scheduled for launching next Sunday. SMELTER HOPE DASHED St. Helens, Or., Nov. 24 ?) Th OPM advised the Colum bia county central labor council today to forget its hopes for an Iron smelter here. Edwin M. Martin, assistant to the chair man of th OPM plant ait board, wrote that the necessity for speed in inci easing iron pro duction forced expansion of ex isting facilities Instead of new construction. On the Radio Chains TATIONIl Chain affiliation and her they arc on the dial! KALE (MHS) 1330, Portland RtX (SRC-Blue) 1100. Portland: K(.A (MM. -Blue 4) SIHKt 1510 Hpokane; kUO (SHI-blue) am Kan Franrlaro; KUW (NHC-Ked) 620, Portland! KJK (SHt'-Hlue) 1000. Seattle; KNX (CBS) lul Loa nele; HOA (NBC-Hedt SM Oenter: KOIN (CBS) (70, Port land; HOMO - (SrM -Rrd) S.VI. Heattle; KPO f NBC-Krdl SXO tan rranrlaro; KSL (CBS) I ISO sill lake City. lima Bboirn la l9T Monday 6:00 p. m Adventure Stories KOO, KEX. KJR; Vox Pop. KSU KOIN"; Stars of Today. ROW; Jane Arden, KOMO; Don Wlmlow of the Navy. KPO. 0:30 p. m. News of Th World. KOO. KEX. KJR; Cocktail Hour. KOW; Bill Henry, KMX: Scatters ood Balnel, KOIN; November Overcoat era, KOMO; Waits Rhythm, KPO; Voices of Yesterday, KSU 1:00 p. m. Radio Theater. KNX, KOIN, KSL; Or. i. q , jim McClean. KPO, KOW, KOMO: Secret City, KOO, KEX; Scandinavian Reporter. KJR. :80 p. m For America We Sing, KOO, KEX: That Brewster Boy. KPO, KOW. KOMO; Tropical Moods. KJR. 7:00 p. m Mercury Theater, KNX, KOIN. KSL; Monday Merry-Oo-I Round, KEX. KJR; Contented Hour, , KPO. KOW. KOMO. 7:10 p. m. Cavalcade of America. KPO, KOMO, KOW; Blondle, KNX. KSL. KOIN; Oreater WasblDgton Hour. KJR. KM p. m. Amoo rj' Andy, K.VX, : KOIN. KSL: Fred Werlni. KPO. ! KOMO. KOW; Herbert Marshall, ! KOO. KJR, KEX. 8:15 p. m. Lanny Rose. KNX. KSL. KOIN; Lum and Abner. KPO, KOMO, ! KOW. 30 a. m. I Love a Mystery, KOO. sea. iwk: voice or nrestoae, Kro, KOW, KOMO; Oay Nlnetlea Revue, KNX. KSL. KOIN. :00 p. m. Telephone Hour. KPO, KOW. KOMO; True or raise. OO. KJR. KEX: Vox Pop. KNX; Newa. KOIN; (Sports, KSL. S:30 p. m. Hawthorna House, KPO, KOMO, KOW; Hollywood Showcase. KNX, KOIN; Natl Radio Forum. KOO; News, KSL. KJR; Moonlight Sonata. KEX. 10:00 p. m. Paul Whlteman'a Orcb., KOO, KEX, KJR; Reporter News. KPO. KOW, KOMO: Master works of Music. KSL: News, KNX; Five Star Final, KOIN. 10:30 p. m. Ed Stoker'a Music. KOW, KOO, KOMO: Alvlno Key's Orch.. KJR. John Sullivan's Ores., KSL: Broadway Bandwagon, KEX: Ed KSL: Broadway Bandwagon. KEX; Mssterworka of Music, KNX: The World Today, KOIN; Concert Hall, KPO. 11 XX) p. m Bob Bradley. KSL. KOIN: String Serenade, KPO. KOW: j Tnia Moving World, KEX, KJR: News, iua; icevenea, suuu. Tuesday. 6:00 p. m. Adventurs Stories. KOO; KJR. KEX: Are You a Missing Heir. KSL: Jans Arden. KOMO; News, KOIN; Don Wlnalow of the Nary, KPO. 6:30 p. m. News of tha World, KOO. KJR, KEX; Tha Arkansas Trav eler. KSL; Scattergood Balnea. KOIN. 0:00 p. m. Burns and Allen, KPO, KOW, KOMO; Secret City. KOO. KEX; We, the People. KSL; Scandi navian Reporter. KJR; Second Hus band. KNX; Leon F. Drewa, KOIN. 6:30 p. m. Symphony Concert, KOO. KEX. KJR; Report to The Na tion. KOIN: Fibber McOee and Molly. KPO, KOMO, KOW; Who. What. Where and Why, KNX; World News, KSL. 7:00 p. m. Bob Hope, KPO. KOMO. KOW: Olenn Mlller'e Orch, KSL. KNX. KOIN. 7:30 p. m Red Sketton. KPO, KOW, KOMO: Treasury Hour, KOO, KEX. KJR: Leon F. Drews, KOIN: Second Husband. KSL. 8:00 p. m. Amoe n Andy. KNX, KSL, KOIN: Fred Waring. KPO, KOW, KOMO. 8:15 p. m. Lum and Abner, KPO. KOW, KOMO; Lanny Rosa. KNX KSU KOIN; Concert Hall. KJR. 8:30 p. m. Johnny Presents. KPO. KOMO. KOW; Information Please, KOO. KEX, KJR; Are You a Mlaalng Heir, KNX. KOIN: News. KSU M p. m. We. The People. KNX. KOIN: Easy Ace. KOO. KJR, KEX: Adventures of the Thin Man, KPO, KOMO. KOW; Sports. KSU JO p. m. Battle of the Sexes. I KPO. KOMO. KOW; Arkansas Travel, i er. KNX. KOIN: Mai Hallett'a Orch.. KOO: News, KJR, KSL; Moonlight l Sonata. KEX, I 10:00 p. m Ran Wilde's Orch.. I KOO, KEX, KJR: Reporter News. ' KPO, KOMO, KOW; Maaterworka of i Music. KSL; Kewa, KNX; Five Star Final. KOIN. 1040 p. m. Reld Tanner's Orch, KSL: Cbarlea Dent's Orch, KOW; Alvlno Rey's Orch, KOO. KJR: Broadway Bandwagon, KEX; Maater worka of Music, KNX: The World Today. KOIN; Concert Hall. KPO. XI 00 p. m. Happy Oordon Rang ers. KPO. KOW; This Moving World. KEX, KJR: Ken Stevens. KSL. KOIN; News. KNX. KOO: Reveries, KOMO. BRINGS LUCK Perth, Australia. (JP) An noyed because he continued to tub his toe on a jagged piece of rock on the way to hli camp, Thomas Starr, a prospector in Kalgoorlie, applied his pick and shovel. On breaking th rock out of its earthy bed he noticed yellow gleam on the underside. He had the atone assayed and found that it contained gold worth $875. Cy Young, one - of baseball! immortals, was traded to th old Cleveland team for a suit of clothes. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS by JOHN HIX RESTLESS AUDIENCE By GLUYAS WILLIAMS nutans VOU ARE A IrfftE flAf ItRED WHEN SMA1L NEPHEW A6KS VOU lt 1tU HIM A 5H3RV VOU BE6IM, NOTIONS WITH PlEteURE HOW QUIElLY HE 5175 AfMJUR FEET AND HOW" IrJltNTlV HE ETCHES VOU VOU REAL12E PRESENuV OBSERVING VOUR TIS, ITS VfcUR EARS HE IS PIEASURE . HE PAVS AT- WA1trllW6, WHICH HE savs vvit-aE when voU -flux IfertfON 1b-frE SfORV. -1H0U6H SfaTASCNfMEP W YOUR EARS VoO T10D OA WiTH- VOUR falX, UNCOMFORfABW MARE W HE 15 NOV" AB50RBED Itf WMlNlK aNftNfc OF HIS POCKET'S PRE6ErilW HE A6X5 IF IN KEPIY 16 YOUR flOERV' VOD'P UKE -TO SEE 1rtE HE ASSURES VOU HE DOES 501 J? 0)4 Hli HEEL WWT 16 HEAR 1HI REST" OF THE SfcRV, AND BECOMES iK lEUfWArCH!N6 ATLV fR )( tr Th Bn fflf3tMt, lac ) W SQ0WMN6 AROUND, HErAusorFFotrrsrooi IUR1N6 EHSUIK& COH WM YOU MAKE VOUR. ESCAPE ti m'fwi is. M 50 PROMPT ABOUT Hfi AntAL's WA GEN. ,TONEVVALL" J AC' (SON THAT IF THE FOOD WERE A MINUTE LATE IN BEING SERVED HE WOULD REFUSE TO EAT ITS the TR,T . MOTION PICTUR.E HAD lb LENSES , Sf l IV 1f--tw w Invented by Augustine Le PnncEJj - France, I8S1... JJ fen, fe m v-'L v sf v 7,.. i Li j u uf- r k Un "Always laid on rPs iDE TO PREVENT EVIL PIRlT FROM TTINO ON IT) l cTELieVED BY THE. TRlSE TO CONTAIN THE SOUL OF THEIR PEOPLE Though wakd have been fought over it ahd the british government once demanded it surrender the 'stool has never . been lost or given up in v so years African Gold LoasT... SEAT OF THE SOUL In th illustration above, th Golden Stool, mad of wood. Is lying on its aid on tha seat of a chair. Symbolising A-.hanti national unity and spiritual existence, it has never been aat upon by anyone In more than four centuries of its reoorJed history. In 1900 th British governor of th Gold Coast dananded Its surrender and th Ashanti declared war. Later, when they had been subjugated, th stool had diiappeared. Mor than 25 years later tha lders of th tribe retrieved it from its hiding place and rebuilt It. With rare understand ing th British colonial government decided never to demand its surrender again. TOMORROW: Billiard Muiicl LI'L ABNER Th Skin You Lot To Touchl i Thirty thousand species of an imals are known to rr.aa ho WE'RE ABOUT TO DINE. -AND I VANT VOU TO LOOK NICE, DEAR. H MM -TINY &RISTLCS, ff PERHAPS YOU'D BETTER SHAVE.. ftt TAILSPIN TOMMY Omlnoua Commandl vvvm- sum KSfeF w s yr si i fzzs w rirar-r.. i I COT 'ER. TIED J IT'STH'C-CHOST OP OL' SlTd I TAILSPIN.. UH.. . V I VON BLITZKWEG HIMSEL FnTI JT rZ G-G CRECT il IwWE G GOTTA re-, rfT-ZS..nH Br AL CAPP OH. NO'-ARNirA Mir.UT Dnir.urM tuc TEXTURE OPVOIIB 5.KIKir-i'l I rjurvnn aui ic uira i ncjsi I I MAVF. IX Wll I PRESERVE ITS m (huh'?) By HAL FORREST TMtY RADIOED. .THEYLL REFUEL US GET R.EADY TO CRAR TUEIR TOW LINE I WHEN WE LAND, SKEETS SnROUTE TO PANAMA TOMMV'i PLANE ENCOUNTERED BAD WEATHER AND THE CAS SUPPLY BECAME DANGEROUSLY LOW... BUT JUST IN TIME HE SIGHTED A STEAMER. I WOULD NOT UNTIE B i hai KWHt, IF I WERE YOU, MY FRAN COME ABOARD... HAVE A SURPRISE K run TOU... AND I VTAILSPIN TO M MY.i THE NEBBS It Looks Bad f SOL HESS " ( ILL GO OVER AMD SEE A VCt S T' fBS OUT OP HER, A M SO'N& ID ARHAnSeY HOSPITALS AMD V -vn EMMA..THE DCC REPORTED A f JA'-S?!& WAV) ME-O..BEEM CARRVin 'ITO HAVE HER SENT TO NURSES ARE EXPENSIVE rlJU'XT SHE S ,N4 A PERIODS I 0nE-TS?E SSlso 'k0 L'KE THAT SiMCETHE HOSPITAL WHERE ry SHE'LL, RAISE TARNATION V fr2I!5y t R.r AC tCt' ti STiCirfe SET PROPER SHE CAN NEVER SET J S V 'l-' K, R rU6eyVr ( CARE..5HENEEOSAi3 WELU THib4KIN& AfUT j . i-a. .