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.
KOIN.
:00 p. m Burns and Allen, KOW,
KPO, KOMO; Wa, the People. KSL;
Secret City. KOO, KEX; Anita Carol.
KOIN: Scandinavian Reporter, KJR;
Second Huaband, KNX.
6:80 p. m. Symphony Concert,
KOO, KEX, KJR; Report to tha Na
tion, KNX. KOIN; Fibber McOee and
Molly. KPO, KOMO. KOW: World
News, KBL.
7:00 p. m. Bop Hop Variety Show.
KPO, KOMO. KOW: Olenn Miller's
Oreh, KSL, KKX, KOIN.
7:80 p. m. Red Sketton, KPO,
KOW. KOMO; Treasury Hour. KOO.
KEX. KJR; Loon P. Drews, KOIN:
Second Husband, KSL.
8:00 p. m. Amoa 'n' Andy. KNX,
KSL. KOIN; Pred Waring, KPO, KOW,
KOMO.
8:1S p. ni. Lum and Abner, KPO,
KOW, KOMO; Lanny Rosa, KNX,
KSL. KOIN; Concert Hall. KJR.
0:30 p. m. Johnny Presents, KPO.
KOMO, KOW; Information Pleas.
KOO, KEX, KJR; Ar You a Mining
Heir, KNX. KOIN; News, KSL.
0:00 p. m. Wa, th People. KNX.
KOIN: Eaay Acts, KOO, KJR. KEX;
Adventures or the Thin Mao, KPO,
KOMO, KOW; 8 porta. KSL.
0:30 p. m. Battle of the Sexes.
KPO. KOMO, KOW: Arkanaaa Travel
er. KNX, KOIN: Mai Hallett's Oreh..
KOO: News. KJR, KSL; Moonlight
Sonata, KEX.
10:00 p. m. Ran Wilde's Orch..
KOO, KEX. KJR; Reporter News.
KPO. KOMO, KOW; Maaterworks of
Music. KSL; New. KNX; Fir Star
Final. KOIN.
10:30 p. m Reld Tanner's Orch..
KSL: Charles Dant's Oreh., KOW;
Stanley Kenton'a Orch., KOO, KJR;
Broadway Bandwagon, KEX: Master
works of Muatc, KNX: The World
Today, KOIN; Concert Hall. KPO.
11:00 p. m. Chuck Wagon Davs,
KPO, KOW: This Moving World.
j KEX, KJR; Ken stavena and Edwin
Teo, KSL, Ruin; riewa, avjvt.
Reverie. KOMO.
Wednesday
8:00 p. m Adventur Stories,
KOO, KEX. KJR: Big Town. KSL;
Ken 8 be vena. KOIN: Jane Arden,
KOMO: Stars of Today. KOW: Don
I Wlnalow of th Navy, KPO.
8:80 p. m. Dr. Christian. KSL;
Newa of the World. KOO, KJR. KEX;
Cocktail Hour, KOW: BIU Henry.
KNX: Scattergood Balnea, KOIN;
Walts Rhythm. KPO.
8:00 p. m Fred Allen. KSL: Fred
Waxlni'a Orch.. KPO. KOW. KOMO;
Secret City, KOO, KJR. KEX; Scan
dinavian Reporter, KJR; Tonight's
Best Buys, KNX. KOIN.
6:30 p. m. 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.
THli IS THE MOST THAT OUR HEAD- sV .
MAGNIFICENT HUNTING ANCESTORS JTp SHE TOOK
HEAD I HAVE. DIDN'T KNOW 1 A PEE-KOOLVARLf
EVER SEEN.' IT ABOUT CAMtRAS. ( SHAPED CAMERA J )
will add iTi;n Miirw X diita a tasf- s
I GREATLY TO NOUR HtATER THIS TfT- AN' THEN Xl i4S2&L
collect, l wav-- ; c? binoot ) jm heSQ V
flil 1
8:lo p. m. Lanny Rosa, KNX, KSL,
KOIN.
a 30 p. m. Plantation Party, KPO.
KOW. KOMO; Dr. Christian. KNX.
KOIN: Manhattan at Midnight, KOO,
KJR. KEX: News. KSL.
9:00 p. m. Tim To Smile, KPO.
KOW. KOMO: Easy Aoes. KOO. KEX.
KJR; Pred Allen. KNX; Hymn Ser
vice, KSL.
9:30 p. m Mr. District Attorney.
KPO. KOMO, KOW; Basin Street
Chamber Muatc KOO; News, KJR.
KSL: Moonlight Sonata, KEX.
10:00 p. m. Paul Whit man's
Orch, KOO. KEX; Reporter News,
KPO. KOW, KOMO: News, KNX.
KOIN: Maaterworks of Muatc, KSU
Serenad. KJR.
10:30 p. m. Stanley Kenton's
Orch, KJR: John Sullivan's Oreh,
KSL: Music for Listening. KOW:
Broadway Bandwagon. KEX: BUI
Clifford's Oreh, KOO; Public Affairs.
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
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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. COLLEGE
OF TEXAS
"IHUMcsING an EDUCAHOM
TO -SAVE TRANSPORTATION COST'S, KEY'S
CARfSON TEXAS A &M ORGANIZED THE
NATIONAL COLLEGE-UNIVERSITY TRAVEL
CLUB, WHOSE 1500 MEMBERS HITCHHIKE
-rctiMu tMrtuo iwc-rsiiry incrvt t
AND THEY SIGN RELErVbE'a
FOR ALL WHO GIVE THEnAWw,Tj
LlrTo... CAkSON HIMSELF 'v
HAS THUMgEP HIS WAY ACROSS,
THE CONTJNENV AND PACK...
12-2-
TRAVEL BY THUMB
Th release signed by hitch-hiking member of th National college-University Travel Club
absolves th driver from any responsibly in connection with giving th student a lift. Th ra
vers sid of th card reads: "Thanks for ih rid. If I hav not merited your kindness to m
notify th National Collg-Univrsity Travl Club, San Antonio, Taxas.
HEALTH BY TOBACCO
Nicotinic acid, derived from nlcolin. Is th pllagra-prvnting mmbr of th vitamin B
complex. Th Commit! on food and Nutrition of th National Research Council recommends
that whit flour b enriched with nicotinic add.
Tomorrow: Lit for th Dyingl
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'BLOW UP THE
CONFERENCE
WALL ? WHiVT
IS ALL THIS?..
WHO IS THE
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BARON VON HOPSIECvA I
SENATOR..' HE'S THE N
LEADER. OF AN ESPIONAGE
GANG IN THE WESTER.N
I HEMISPHERE
J HEMISPHERE...
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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 .'
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