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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1941. by Phoebe Atwood Taylor i Chapter 11 Kumping Rankin TOW look. Mayo, who has been i killed," Rankin demanded. "Elissa Hiniham?" "What makes you think (he miKht've been?" Asey countered with another question. "You've heard of people who were born to be killed, haven't you?" Rankin aaid. "Well. Eliua It one of those. She'i been asking to be killed all her life, and I shouldn't be at all surprised to find her lifeless body crumpled in a little heap somewhere, un der the present circumstances. Was It Elissa?" "What do you mean by the present circumstances?" Asey wanted to know. Rankin took a few steps down the driveway. "Right around her Is where I lost that lighter," ha said. "I bad my raincoat slung over my shoul der, and it popped out of the pocket ahal I thought I'd find He bent over and picked something up from the side of the driveway. "What about tha present cir cumstances?" Asey persisted. "See?" Rankin displayed a small chromium Docket lighter, "I mean .ler husband. Mavo. And if you don't know about him. then I don't think ii waa Elissa after all. And If there's really been trouble here. I'm not going to prejudice you against her by bandying her private life about If she hasn't been killed., her domestic problems don't matter. I wish you'd tell me I say, it wasn t Lady Boop, was 117 "Who?" : Rankin laughed. That's my own private name for Mrs. Clutterfleld. Violet Clut terfleld. You know her, don't rou? You don t? Really? Mayo, m beginning to think that you don t get around mucn in yuiS' set's UDDer crustl" "I don't," Asey told him. Tor tne last six months, i vi Deen so busy trailin' Bill Porter around that I haven't even been on the Cape at all very much. I know some folks here, of course, but Ouisset't never been a town I seem to get to, somehow, an' if I do. I Just pass through it with out noticin' if it's got an upper crust or a meringue, ieu me about Lady Boop an' look, let's stroll down the drive a bit so's we ain't quite so visible from the Inn." "About the only place you're visible from now, Rankin said, "is my bathroom window. Why don't you want to be seen?" "I'm tryin' out the enough-rope theory," Asey said. "It bein' about ill i can ao till lieutenant nan son of the state cops shows up. What about Lady Boop?" Rankin smoothed his neat Van tyke and looked at Asey reflec tively. "D you think It's entirely fair," he asked, "to pump me this way. without telling me who's been killed? I can only give you my opinions, which are largely oiased, and might not coincide at fll with someone else's opinions, or all I know, I may be either maligning the dead or supping a aoosa around someone' throat I You're out of sight here, by the way, but you can still get a pretty good view of the place, if that s what you're after. "It is." Asey paused by a clump of pines and looked back at tha Inn. "I'm also after a kind of panoramic view of tha people here; I want to get 'em sorted out in my mind. An' like I told you, I dnn't even know who the body Is that we haven't got But I'm considerably interested in Lady Boop." Lady Boop "IVELL, she' a large, plushy ' lady," Rankin said, "whose husband died ten years ago and left her a fortune, and since then her mother and two sisters have all died and left her their for tunes. Also a grandmother and a fireat-aunt. And last month, I be teve it was another great-aunt who contributed. As Freddy Doane quipped, everyone who goes to their reward seems to kick hack a good share to Lady Boop." "Rich as that, is she?" "She pays more taxes annual ly." Kankin said with a trace of bitterness, "than you and I will ever earn in all our lives. I can easily picture her dying of apoplexy, but I suppose people with all that money are a con stant invitation and challenge to murderers. Was it Lady Boop? Because if It wasn't, by the pro ws of elimination, that leaves only Horace and " "Hey!" Asey said suddenly, 'What's the matter?" Asry drew Rankin back Into the shadow of the pines and pointed up toward the roof of the Inn. "Look up there. D'you see somebody on the catwalk by the small chimney?" Rankin put on a pair of glasses "Yes! Yes. I do! It's a woman! For God's sakes, it's Elissat What's she up to?" "Not so loud!" Asey cautioned. "She's craiyl She can't get down from there) What's she do ing'" Shush!" Asey said. "She'll hear!" "She's dragging something Mnvo," Rankin said in horror, "if a bodyl" "Can't bet" Asey seemed to be trying to convince himself rather than Rankin. "Can't be!" "It certainly is a bodyl" Rankin insisted. Asey peered up at the root When the wind blew them ust the right way, the leaves of the maple trees in front of the Inn swayed and let the street light shine on the figure on the cat walk. It was Mrs. Hingham, all right, although she'd changed her billowing, satin house coat for something more practical. A trench coat or a polo coat, it looked like. And she certainly was dragging something. But it couldn't be a body, Asey told himself. At least, it couldn't be the body he and Jennie had seen. That had been downstairs, and its removal up a flight of stairs was a physical feat beyond the ability of Mrs. Hingham. It couldn't be the body, and yet Asey couldn't imagine what Mrs. Hingham was alternately tugging and dragging at if it wasn t a body. "Rankin." he said suddenly. "would there be an elevator in the Inn?" Two of 'em. Let's Two?" Asey asked in sur prise. One was unusual enough in a lap inn. "One to the dining room, and one in the alcove off the living room. For the aged and gouty. They're more what you'd call lifts than elevators. Mayo, let's go and look into this! Hanson Arrive ASEY took hi arm and pulled him back. "Wait." "For the love of God, what for?" "If w surprise her now," Asey said, "I have a horrid feelin that by the time we get to the Inn we'll find Mrs. Hingham back in her bed, sufterin' terrible with migraine." "So she' been pulling her mi graine act again, has she?" Ran kin demanded. "Hml But we can see her! She can't deny being there when the two of us saw her there!" "Maybe she can't," Asey said, "but I bet you she will. Wait, Mr. Rankin. Wait an' see what she's aimin' to do. After all this to-do. I want to see what her underlyin plan waa." Rankin said - In exasperated tones that he didn't see that wait ing and watching and generally prolonging the agony would get Asey or anybody else anywhere at all. "Get her." he added, "get the body, and get to the root of the thing!" "ill admit it's sort of the first lmDulse vou let." Asev said. "But consider. If she rinds a body in her room, say, an' she thinks it's the best thing to put the body elsewhere, she 11 probably drag ft along to that adjoin in' sun deck an' leave it there. Could happen, you know. But, on the other hand, if it's a body she's responsi ble lor, as you might say, she probably got some idea of re movin' It to as far distant a place as she can manage. The more ef fort she makes to take it away. an' the further she takes it, the redder her hands are, an' the harder it's coin' to be for her to deny anythin'. Then you really got her." "I think that' nonsense," Ran kin said flatly. ' Maybe so, but you, Asey said, ain't seen what I seen tonight in the line of bodies bein' one place one minute an' elsewhere the next, an' nobody seemin'ly knowin' anythin' about it, or bein" involved witn it. now that I got someone with a body. I want to run 'em to the ground with It. I think what in time!" She running back to that eave door!" Rankin said. "Some thing's frightened her!" -Asey pointed to the man march ing down the middle of the driveway. It s Hanson! Golly, he would turn up now!" he said. "If he goes bargin' into the Inn, he'll spoil everything. An' if Mrs. Hingham spot us rushln' up an' hailin' him, that won't work out, neither hey. gimme your little lighter, quick, will you?" Rankin looked puzzled, but h dropped the lighter in Asey' outstretched hand, and Asey promptly raised hi arm and pitched the lighter straight at Hanson. It hit him on the shoulder, and Hanson stopped and looked around him curiously. "Keep on walKin', Hanson, Asey sstd as ha neared them. "Don't stop. Keep walkin' about six feet more, an' .hen turn around an' march out the way you come. Go down the road a far as that locust grove, then cir cle around back here to us so' vou won't be seen from the Inn. We'll wait here. I'll explain later." Hanson obeyed without Ques tion. Dttou mind my saylr.g." Ran kin sounded amused, "that thia seems really rather involved?" "Nope," Asey told him, "1 don't mind a speck. It is involved. But 1 hope it s going to have a simple endin', which you wouldn't get if you barged inside the Inn right now an started slattin' around, yellin' for explanations. Think of all the Ooanes an' Mrs. Hingham, all denyin an amrmin an' talking at once." T MBttaat. More than 43,000 campers made use of public camp grounds in national parks In western Canada during July and August. Warm, wrinkle-free fleece overcoats with tha new water proofing process. $27.00 Store for Men T Great British Ships Available In Pacific London, Nov. 29. ?) Unit ed States aid in the battle of the Atlantic has enabled Britain to delegate to the Pacific the sort of ships (that Is, battleships) needed to meet a "really great naval power." an authoritative source said tonight. The Informant meant Japan, whose strength in capital ship la far superior to that of the Italian or German navies. Against the axis Britain needs lighter craft. On the Radio Chains STATION! Chela affiliation 4 wbtrt tney art oa tha dlalr KALE (MUSI 1330, rortlan. atX (NHC-blue) 1 1 Ml. Portland; kOA OBC-Hlua j MHS) I.1IU. apakanc; kOO NUC-Hlue 810 an I'ranrlaro; KUW OHC-Kedl 830, Portland; KJH (NHL'-Hlurl 1000. Seattle; KNX CBS 1010. Lot Anselea: KOA (NBC-Kfd) UO. Denver; KOIN (CHS) (70. Port land; IIIMO (HORed .. Seattle) KPO (NBC-Krd) 0. San rranclsro; SSL (CBS) 116. alt Laka City. lima a bomi Is PSt Sunday 8:00 p. m. Edgar Bergen. KPO, KOW, KOMO; Blue Echoes. KOO. KEX; Columbia Workshop. KNX, KOIN; Ootpel Clinic, KJR; Off the Record. KSL. 3 SO p. m. Fiord Wright. KJR, KEX; On Man's PsmUy, KPO, KOW. KOMO: Bpelllng Beellner, KNX; Mu sical Highlights, KOO; Defense Back Rome, KOIN", Off the Record. KSU 0:00 p. m. Sunday Evening Hoir, KNX. KBL, KOIN: Orandpappy and His Pals. KOO, KEX; Manhattan Merry-Oo-RouDd. KPO. KOMO, KOW. :30 p. m. Bookman's Notebook. KOO; American Album of Familiar Miialc. KPO, KOMO. KOW; Newt. KEX; Conf. of Jews and Christiana. KJR. 7:00 p. ra. Hour of Charm, KPO. KOMO, KOW: Goodwill Hour, KOO. KEX. KJR: Take It Or Leave It, AAA, HOI JWid. j 7:30 p. m. Helen Ha re Theater, j KNX. KSL, KOIN: AdnntUTM of Sherlock Holmes, KPO, KOW, KOMO. fl:00 p. m. Crime Doctor, KNX. KOIN: Vers Vague. KPO, KOW, KOMO; Inner Sanctum, KOO, KEX, KJR; Newt, KSL. 8:30.p. m. Jack Benny, KOO. KEX. j kjk; I was Tnere, ssx, auin; Beau Sou- Mutllalt, KOW: Highway Nlfht Express, KOMO; Etchings In Brass, KPO. :O0 p. m Walter Wmchen. KPO, KOMO, KOW: Irene Rich. KOO. KJR, KEX: Leon r. Drewt, KOIN; suing Eruemblt, KSL. 0:80 p. m. Richard Hlmber't Orch.. KOO; What't It All About, KNX; Quia 0f Two cttlet. KOW. KOMO; Baker Theater. KOIN; Regtl Amblings. KPO; Sunday Craning on Temple Square, KSL. 10:00 p. m. Reporter Kewt. KPO, KOW, KOMO: Screen Oulld Theater. KNX; Stanley Kenton's Orch., KOO, KEX: Newt. KOIN: Maaterworka of Mualc, KSL: National Vespera. KJR. 10:30 p. m. Paul Whlteman't Orch., KOO: Harry Owen'a Orch.. KNX. KOIN; Amen Comer, KEX; Sabbath Reveries, K6L. 11:00 p. m. Bill Cliffords Orch, KEX: Ken Sttvena. KOIN, KSL: Btrlngt that Sing. KPO, KOW; Newt, KNX, KOO. Monday 0:00 p. ra. Adventure stories KOO. KEX. KJR; Vox Pop. KSL. KOIN; Start of Today. KOW; Jane At den. KOMO; Don Wlnalow of tha Nary, KPO. 8:80 p. m. News of the World. KOO. KEX. KJR: CoekttU Hour, KOW; Bill Henry, KNX: Scatter good Balnea, KOIN; November Over cot ten, KOMO: Walts Rhythm, KPO: Voices of Tetterday. KSL. 0:00 p. m. Radio Theater, KNX. KOIN. KSL: Dr. I. Q.. Jim McLean. KPO. KOW, KOMO; Secret City. KOO. KEX; Scandinavian Reporter. KJR. 0:80 p. m. For America We Sing. KOO, KJR: That Brewtter Boy, KPO. KOMO. Beat of tha Week, KJR. 7:00 p. m. Mercury Theater. KNX, KOIN. KSL; Monday Merry-Oo-Round,. KEX. KJR; Contented Hour, KPO. KOW, KOMO. 7:30 p. m. Cavalcade of America, KPO. KOMO. KOW; Blondle. KNX. KSL. KOIN: Modern Mutle Bos. KEX; Greater Washington Hour, KJR. 8:00 p. m. Amos n' Andy, KNX. KSL, KOIN: Fred Waring. KPO, KOMO. KOW: Herbert Marshall, KOO. KEX. KJR. 8:15 p. m. Lenny Roes. KNX. KSL, KOIN: Lum and Abner, KPO. KOMO, KOW: Shall-Bert Wheeler. KJR. 8:80 p. m. I Love a Myatery, KOO, KEX. KJR; Voice of Rlchtrd Crookt. KPO, KOW, KOMO: Oty Nineties Re vue, KNX, KSL, KOIN. S 00 p. m Telephone Hour, KPO, KOW, KOMO; True or Faltt. KOO. KJR. KEX: Vos Pop. KNX; Ntws. KOIN; Sports. KSL. JO p. m. Hawthorn Bouat. KPO. KOMO. KOW; Bollywood Showcase. KNX. KOIN; News. KSL, KJR: Moon light Sonata, KEX. 10:00 p. m. Paul Whtteman'l Orch, KOO, KEX, KJR; Reporter News, KPO. KOW, KOMO; Maater worka of Music, KSL; News. KNX; Five Star Final, KOIN. 10:30 p. m-Ed Stoker's Mualc. KOO, KOMO: Stanley Kenton's Orch, KJR; John Sullivan's Orch, KSL; Broadway Bandwagon, KEX: Ran Wilde's Orch, KOO: Maaterworka at Mualc. KNX: The World Today. KOIN; Concert Hall. KPO. 11:00 p. na. Bob Bradley and Ir win Teo. KSL. KOIN; String Sere nade. KPO. KOW: Thlt Moving World. KEX, KJR; Newt. KNX, KOO; Reveries, KOMO. ZELLCRBACH PAYS New York, Nov. 29. (JP) Crown Zellerbach Corp. and subsidiaries. Pacific coast paper manufacturers, have reported net profit for the October quar ter of $2,224,233, after J2.053. 711 provision federal and Cana dian taxes, equal to 69 cents a common share. Alx En Provence, Unoccupied France, Nov. 29. (P) Three residents of Nice and one from Grasse on the French Riviera were sentenced today to prison terms up to three month for listening to the British radio). I Osa atau Tribune want ada. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS "Life on the ocean wave..." by JOHN MX A SPECIES 0? WATER iQ spends rrs WHOLE LIFE ON THE SURFACE Or THD "stft HUNPRCD"3 Or s. MILES FROM SHORE- ?f. PRY LAND SEARCHING PARTY Br GLUYA3 WILLIAMS WUVH3J tuiiuarg FATHER 14 JWitffc UP A NEW F)C 10RE WiD ASKS AJ HE HElP, CWSlWrlER-foDROP A $WU SCREn Mfc CHKRIlV HE'lL HHP 100 FOHirWDAFftR AWHIIE RE PORTS HE SEES If UNDER THE ItJB ATfER lEM MlrWIES OF FlSWHd UOTER THE TUB, WITH JUNIOR. lEArime HEAMllY ON HIS BACK, rmWER TRA6$ OOf A SHALL W CFflHRUL SEARCH CONTINUES. FATHER Af W5f TElUKS JUNIOR FOR TWS SAKE KOI' ALWAYS 10 51NP DiRECfiV IN HIS LhSVif JUNIOR 5CRAMBLE5 Tb OTHER SICE, IN S0DOIN& STEPPIN6 tUftRELV ON FATHER'S ANKl AT1HAf MOMENT" BOTH SPVlfiE SCREW, WHICH JUNIOR HAP APPARENTLY BEN sfMjDiN6 on, mvm FDR If, CRACKIN6 HEAM . WRlNft THE - citemenY screw disappears foR.eoop hh.uk tr t)i BH Srmieata. Inf.) The army quarterma2ter corps operated 563 mile of railroad in 168 posts CAMPS AND .TATlON Equipment includes ifO LOCOMOTIVES 1481 CARS Until 1894 QJ Y,-A TIL 1894 porrTEAi i- PLMINCi TIME WA3 90 MINUTES OR A HALF HOUR MORE THAN T l3 NOW Cm. INI tf Cue htlm -nmn. 7 h Jl. AAA IT V eJANBj WlLLIMOR-E T. JONES INSURANCE AGENT, HAS FOUND THOUSANDS OF 4-LEAF CLOVERS SINCE SHE WAS 7 BUT SINCE1 15 VHAS BEEN CALLED " CALAMITY tJANE " Trained for a sinqer,she lost her voice, wa, VICTIM OF THE ONLY ROBBERY IN HER TOWN FOR 25 YEARS, O ST S HUSBAND'S AND WAS IN ALiTc ACCIDENTS, UO DROPPED HER MONEY IN THE COTTON MAKKET...ETCETC v Ih29 LI L ABNER No Head ARMY RAILROADS A typical example of a small government railroad Is to fa found at Fort Benning. Ga. At the camp there are 19 small narrow-gauge locomotives, 112 gondola cars, 53 flat cars, and 34 passenger cars. This equipment is operated ever about 19 miles of track within the reser vation boundaries. At Camp Blanding, Fla a 100-ton Diesel electric locomotive la in operation. LONG GAMES In 1894 playing time of football games was reduced from 90 to 70 minute. Not until 1908 was the present playing time of 60 minutes adopted. MONDAY! Berry Manl By KL CAPP OH t IT WAS A DELIGHTFUL PARTY. WISH THE1 PRINCESS. 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AN WE ' AIN'T COT VMUCH LEFT 1 J E DIM JKEC X Ij OUIIXti TO ML HAVE MORE THAN JUST FUEll TO WORRY ABOUT SOON THE NEBBS No Sentiment ? SOL MESS f FfcMNY, WILL VOU WWV SHOULD VOU tWM 5we:s "SlFNOT 1 TH1MK, SHE OTlIff LETS FORGET TWE NOU SO OUT INTO Si!il ARB AM SH. TO SEND SeMO PUDVERS JV yZTZ .PJ V5ICK CRANrVUMS UNDER THE AS5ENTIMENT ANO CHARSE) THE VSJOOOS ANO SET1 I 50ME CL0WER3TO EMMAr Nw Mt. r J 11 'TJpJV ".TflSlDEWALK FOR A FCLU PENrJIESIT I IT WOULD fJE A NICE Am A , . r ' AmV WAMD AREVT VOU PAYIMQ HER i NESS-.5HES AM E- STlTirn Ok'j"''! ( SENTIMENT I05" S.? rylCELLENlT COOK AMDIT LETS FORGET TWE "VWOU SO OUT INTO 5ENTIMENT AND CHARSE THE WOODS AND SET 1 TO GOOD SOUND P.USI- ;A BRANCH OFP A DH AMBLE BUSH ANO STICK pv6 PAPER OOLLARS ON THE TWIGS AND SEND IT JO HER-THAT WILL BRING riORE APPRECI ATION THAN A WASWeASViET FULL OF nor uir'