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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1941. by Phoebe Atwood Taylor Chapter IS The Pickax Mystery -IVA-EU" Asr-y utd. "Ellui'i i ' ' findin' out lut She seem to hiva been purchuin a pickax. oe ner; - Rankin craned his neck. "No.' "Look into the mirror." Hanson obligingly moved over toward Asey. Rankin wriggled himself around until he finally caught a glimpse of Airs, ningnam wun ner newly pur ' chased pickax. Then, after atralffhtenlns out . hli collar and tie and pulling his coat back in place, he shook his neaa and announced that it v. as all Deyond him. AH I can say Is that the sight of Elissa Hingham bearing a pick ax startles me a lot mote thau the s:ght of her dead body ever would! Mayo, now that she's got her pick ax, what d'you expect she intends 10 no witn U7 "Wa-el." Aju-v uM. "most usu ally when people buy pickaxes they plan to dig. But you can't ever tell. Maybe Mrs. Hingham's aim in 10 join me w .-.. Kankin sighed. "Mayi, do you always take this son oi ining so ngntiy 7 Here you are trailing a body, and youjapel ' Here's Elissa removing a body, and you don't seem to car a whit!" "I care deeply," Asey said. "Hold on some more. Mr. Rankin. we're startin' up again. Just's soon s iney get Dy. He and Hanson bumped their heads trying to get a clear view of tne car as it went past "What did that guy driving have on?" Hanson asked curiously. "He seemed to have something funny around his neck. Was it a scarf, Asey? "Couldn't see." Asey swung the police car out of its parking space and started after the sedan. "I got a pretty good look at him," nanson said. "1 think 1 ve seen that guy somewhere before. Did he look like someone you knew, Asey? Did he look familiar?" "Didn't notice." His crisp, abrupt answers. In such contrast to his easy, Joking manner of a minute before, ap peared to trouble Rankin. He looked questioningly at Hanson, who merely shrugged. "What's wrong?" Rankin formed the words with his lips. When the ear swerved around a corner, Hanson took the occasion to whisper In Rankin's ear as he lurched against him. "Asey's like that some times." Asey, keeping Just in sight the taillights of the sedan containing Mrs. Hingham and her friend, paid no anenuon to euner or nis pas seneer. This whole thing was getting fishier by the minute, he thouehL Again the driver of the sedan was hurtling along at a terrific sDeed. cutting corners, slamming past aide roads. And ha wasn't heading for any remote beach or secluded wooas. He was heading Into South Pochet village, which was well lighted and well populated, and in general no place to dispose of a oooy. One Mystery Solved That had certainly looked Ilk I body up there on the roof, Aaey thought It had every appearance of a body. Mrs. Hingham had cer tainly purchased a pickax, which certainly would come in very handy for burying a body. But gravediggers would hardly a-i oui in costume. Ana unaer Mrs. nngnsms trench coat sha was wearing something that looked like an evening dress to Asev. And the man driving that car had what seemed to be a ruff around his neck, and his coat looked more like a satin waist Those costumes, and that crazy driving! Asey shook his head. If it should turn out that this excursion was a wildgoose chase, as he now strongly suspected, he was going to look like consider able of a fool. But that wouldn't matter. What would matter was ' that in racing off from the Inn, he might well have presented to someone, on a silver platter, the opportunity of making away with the body in comparative peace and safety. And there was always that fan tastic possibility rearing its ugly head that Mrs. Clutterfield and her man Friday might have had the body all the time anyway! The car ahead cut off on a side road, and a little smile began to play around Asey's mouth. He thought he was beginning to un derstand this. Hey, Asey. Where's this road go tn?" Hanson wanted to know. "Isn't this th way to that dairy farm?" "It was." He drew the police car up by the barn Just as Mrs. Hingham alighted from the redan. "Ah!" Hanson said with relish. They're going to drag it out. Come on!" He and Rankin leapt from the car, but Asey stayed behind the wheel. He was chewing on his pipe stem when they returned a few minutes later. "Asey," Hanson said breathless ly, "you know what? You know what that was? Vou know what we been following all this time?" "Rug. huh?" Asey said. 1 "that "Howd you know?" Rankin de manded. "I guessed. What was that bandy-legged fellow in tights sup- fiosea to be? No wonder he stayed n the car where nobody could see him!" "He," Rankin said, "was a page. I asked him from what and he said, just a page. Mayo, did you know this was th South Pochet Barn Theater?" "It come to me after we hit th side Road," Asey said. "I drove Betsey Porter to their formal openin' last summer. Why'd Mrs. Hingham choose such a round about way to remove a rug? Was it Mrs. Doane's rug?" "No, her own, Rankin said. "She bought it last week in Hy annls, and Bram Reid, the director, saw it and wanted it for the set of their first play here. She refused to let him have it but tonight she decided she was I quote a self ish pig, and he could have the rug. Her migraine at once left her, so she phoned for someone to com snd help her get the rug. "Somehow. Asey said. aon i an tonow. "That's Elissa's story. After troubling Mrs. D. so much with her migraine, ah didn't want to trouble Mrs. D. any more. So ahe hit on the roof route. Mavbe that sounds illogical to you, Mayo?" it am t tne most sterlm logic I ever Iieard," Asey admitted. "Let me assure you it'a charac teristic. The Dickax. I might add. is a prop." Just what kind or a play, Asey started the car, "needs a page boy wun a run. an a picxax, an Persian rug?" "Elissa said It was i dear little fantasy," Rankin told him, "and I see no reason to doubt her. Er now you know a little more about Elissa. don't you. Mayo?" "She certainly seems like creature of impulse," Asey said. , "What is she, an actress?" Rankin said that depended en tirely on one's point of view. -personally, I d sum her up as thwarted prima donna. Now what?" "What I'd like." Hanson said, Is some food. I been ud at Camn Edwards all day teaching the traf fic squad, and I rushed down here without dinner when Jennie called. We got time enough to get some food, haven't we, Asey?" Mrs. Clutterfield "11HAT we got to do," Asey said, ' "is to get straight back to th Inn an' comb the place from attte to cellar an' give Mrs. Doane and everybody else a little refined third degreein . An if vou want to kick me for gettln' sidetracked on this crazy chase, go on. I deserve it" TJld you have dinner?" Hanson Inquired coldly. "Nope." "Well, then!" Hanson said. "Let's atop anyway at the cornet diner and get some sandwichea. It wasn't a crar.y chase, Asey, and if It'd taken a little longer, why we'd been longer, wouldn't we? So w certainly got ten minutes to get some aandwiches. Get 'em and eat 'em In the car, huh?" "Somethin' within me says w shouldn't stop, an' somethin' els says we will." Asey drew up at the corner diner. "Get me anything that'a ready, an some coffee in on of those paper things." Hanson urged him to come In. "Nope. If I do," Asey said, "we'll Just find ourselves sittin1 down gorgin' ourselves on Artie's prize fifty-cent dinner. Bring it . out, an' hurry up!" "Well, all right" Hanson said reluctantly. It waa plain that the Idea of gorging himself on one of Artie's regular dinners appealed to Han son a lot more than the thought of a few ready-made sandwichea to be gulped down en route. "Rankin," Asey said, "would you steD in there after him an' stand at his elbow In a menacin' fashion an keen him from sue. cumbin' to anythln' that requires time? He knowa I'm huncrv mv- self, an' he'll tease me into a full meal if I go In." Rankin laughed. "After that drive, I should think you'd need a rare meal to restore vou. inv- way! Sure, I'll restrain him for you." Asev sat un with a lerk as a eai drove past the diner. Lurched was maybe a better word than drove, he thouuht It had lurched so close to Artie's neon sign that the fender almost scraped the post Then Asey noticed the license plate numbers. It was Mrs. Clut terfleld's car! Asrv'a hanit went in th aurttiOi key. He started the car. and then, when the big sedan had lurched on down the road a way, he unosten tatiously slid the police car out of Artie's driveway after it tiometning waa certainly th matter with Mrs. Cluttprfleld's chauffeur. Something was basical ly and radically wrong. The sedan wandered from one side of the road to the other, but mostly It preferred th left aide, to the infinite annoyance of th several drivers who practically had to force their cars up trees, in order to escape imminent collision. Recognizing the police car. one of the drivers howled angrily at Asey to pull that damn drunk oft the road before she hurt some body, T ba Mntlnati IMDUSTRY'S IDEAS OF STRIKE CONTROL GIVEN New York. Dec. 2. A") Industry's wishes In regard to J SPECIAL! warm, wool Overcoats $23 and $27 Store for Mea i anti-strike legislation for defense lines were outlined today at the opening session of the national industrial council of the National Association of Manufacturers. R. S. Smetluirst. counsel for the N.A.M., told the council, at tended by approximately 1,000 representatives of trade assocta tions, that bills introduced by Representative Howard Smith (D-Va.) and Senator Clyde Her- ring (D lowa) came closest to meeting view of manufacturers. U. I. SOLONS ABROAD Plymouth, Eng. Dec. 2. Five members of the United States house of representatives visited bombed areas of this port today under the guidance of Lady Astor. On the Radio Chains STATIONS: Chain affiliation and where thev are on the dial: K.M.K (MBS) 1.130, Portland; m;x (NBl -Bluf) mm. Portland; KUA (MM -Blue Si MUSI 1410. Spokane; KOO (NBC-Blur) SIO, Kan Kranrlaro; KOW (NB('-Rdl S20, Portland; KJR (NMC-Blu'l 1000, Kratlle; KNX (( BH) 1010, tM Ansel's; KOI (NRC-Hrd) S.VI, llrnvrr; KOIN (TBI) 070. Port land: kiimii (NH:-Rdi as. Brattle; KPO (NBC-Hed) tM. San Francisco; KSL (CBS) 1160. Halt lake city. "" lime Shown Is PST " Tuesday 6 00 p. m. Adventur Stories. KOO. KJR, KEX; Are You a Missing Heir. KSL; Jan Arden, KOMO; Sura of Today. KOW; Don Winilow of the Navy, KPO. 0:80 p. m . Nwi of th World, KOO, KJR, KEX; The Arkansas Trav. der, KBL; Horace Heldt's Treasure Cheat. KPO. KOMO. KOW; Today's Best Buys. KNX: Scattergood Balnea. 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Pentbouee Party, KOO, KJR, KEX: Concert by Kalasb, KPO: Big Town, KNX. KOIN; Highlight Hour, KOMO. 7:00 p. m- Olenn Miller's Orch., KNX, KSL. KOIN: American Melody Hour, KOO. XJR; Kay Kyaer'a Mu sical Quiz. KPO. KOW, KOMO. 7:30 p. m. Ahead of th Headline. KOO, KJR: Romano of the Rancho, KNX: Modern Music Boa, KEX; Leon P. Drewa. KOIN; Clark and Spray nozzle, KSL. 8:00 p. m. Quia Kids. KOO. KEX, KJR; Amos n' Andy, KNX, KOIN, KSL: Point Sublime, KPO, KOW, KOMO. SUBURBAN HEIGHTS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS 7 tM DaSW V JC VU VOU CAN'T HEAR- L ) VOURSELF THINK WrfeliM A hy vl ) MILE OF THE STATION WHEM r UVX "H 5:15 COMES lit BECAUSE- 1 17 OF THE CLAMOR RAISEP Eft' WlVK. I 1 CrilLPREN.ANP H0RN OF CARS THAT I ) COULDN'T PARK NEAR-BY fRViW6 To TTRACT THE HOMECOMERS ATTENTION BEFORE TriEV ACCEPT LIFT'S IN OTHER. 6mm PEOPLE'S CARS WllUftl75 . ty Tti. B-n trumu. in.) S-S ' LI L ABNER What Dow This Meant YLS. PRINCESS. Y SIGH.'-HOW TRAGIC MEANWHILE : THE. BOPSHIRE. HOME. 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KNX; The World Today, KOIN; Con cert Hall, KPO. 11:00 p. m. Dancing with Clancy, KPO. KOW; Wilbur Hatch's Orch, KOIN, KSL; This Moving World. KJR. KEX; News. KNX, KOO. r. nlng Reveries, KOMO. OREGON RANKS HIGH Salem, Dec. 2. VP) Oregon ranks high among western states In civilian defense, Jer rold Owen, state civilian de fense coordinator, said today on returning from a meeting in San Francisco of the federal regional advisory committee of the feder al security administration. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS .TOSACCQ THE Nicotinic aod, PBODUCFD PROM NICOTINE U3ED IN PREVENTING AND TREATING THE OREAD PI5EAE PUAGRA by JOHN H1X am OUHCE Op - I . Vf 1 KVINls VJrr-C KiNG Tt ACHE'S PEOPLE TO SKATE EM ClOCT TPAfuiwrti THEM HOW TO FALL, j . 1 builds koxxd? iv yt my, i PLANK'S-SEWED ' . ' ' J!,' A.&M. 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Tomorrow: Lit for th Dyingl if WMXk eta rW.s Br AL CAPP TH' FLASH BULB EXPLODED -AH DUCKED AN THEN AH COULDN'T GIT PIAH HAID BACK THROUGH, SO CHERRY BLOSiOn- rureav 1 BLOSSOM ? ?- WHY DID VOU SUDDENLY SAY THAT? AH D-DONT KNOW.' JEST HAD T'SAY IT SOMEHOW AN' AH - JEST HAPTA SOB NOW S-SOME.HOW soar soft tl BY n ( STRANGE. I luffing TAILSPIN TOMMY An AfUr-Thoughtl IT HAL FORREST 'BLOW UP THE CONFERENCE WALL ? WHiVT IS ALL THIS?.. WHO IS THE -RfcR.ON?. BARON VON HOPSIECvA I SENATOR..' HE'S THE N LEADER. OF AN ESPIONAGE GANG IN THE WESTER.N I HEMISPHERE J HEMISPHERE... S sA. WHILE WE WERE CAPTIVES OF THE BARON, ABOARD A VERSALIAN STEAMER.. HE BOASTED OF HIS PLAN TO "ATTEND TO" THE V.urMr-tK.tr-Jt.c IU ut MtLU HERE IN PANAMA r I ' Mr VaTff ,V I - . fat II' : ,. BY INNUENDO. HE CONVEYED TO US THAT SOME GREAT DISASTER WOULD OCCUR AT THAT CONFERENCE. GREAT SCOTT THIS IS A MATTER FOW THE POLICE TO INVESTI GATE rWHY DIDN'T YOU TELL M ABOUT TH' PAPERS THAT SAILOR. GAVE US .' 17 OEE.' 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