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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1941. by Phoebe Atwood Taylor Chapter 26 No Motlre npHIS case, thought Asey, Is A nothing but possibilities. If Ann Joyce had been pretending to be Mis Olive (U day, she ought to have had Miss Olive'i ear, and the car lhould be around, now. Perhaps, Aaey thought, it might have been parked out be hind the Inn somewhere when he and Jennie came. He hadn t seen any trace of it when he chased the prowler who knocked over the clams, but that didn't mean that the car couldn't have been there. And still might be. If the fog cleared, or If Miss Olive didn't return by daylight, Hanson s men would have to scour around. But if Ann Joyce had Miss Olive's car, then where was Miss Olive now, and where had she been all day? And where was she keeping herseI An4 uihvf Asey sat 'up straight on the bench. . . Offhand, ha never remembered case where there was so little apparent reason to do away with the two people most Involved. And if there was a dearth of motives, Asey thought, there was a positive desert of. clews. No ihreds of tweed, no cigarette butts smeared with lipstick, no quaint cameo pins, no goos 01 cnewing 011m. or anything else. There weren't even any obviously false clews that you could aangie in anyone s lace ana aemana nlnnritinna fnr. That at least, was the way It seemed. But. of course, there was a mo tive, Asey told hlmseir, mere al ways was. There had to be. "What I want," he murmured lloud, "is a few roots!" He had thought, once that eve ning, that he had actually landed on a root, until Freddy mentioned that cleaning woman ana nippea the root in mid-air. It was such a simple, logical, sensible root that it appealed to Asey, and neither Cummings nor nanson nor anyone eiw naa given it a thought. At least, they hadn't mentioned it They had all simply taken It for granted that Ann Joyce must have been killed inside that telephone booth. It never seemed to have oc curred to any of them that If it had been so easy for Mrs. Ooane to have moved that body from the booth to the porch, it must have been Just as easy for some one else to have placed the body there in tne nrst piaccl The back door of the booth, mat icu i.i uiv tun iipiij could Just as well have been used lor an entrance as It naa Deen used by Mrs. Ooane for an exit While Freddy and Rankin and Lady Boop and everyone else moved around in the living room, the body could have been insert ed in the booth from the other side, without any of them being a whit the wiser. But the presence of the clean ing woman in tne dining room unocKea an mat conjectured pan tomime into a couple of cocked bats. It did even more. It also put n abrupt stop to another thought Asey had been toying with, that Ann Joyce might Just possibly have been shot upstairs in the Inn and brought down in one of the two elevators Rankin had mentioned. What with so many people wandering around the liv ing room, the elevator in the al cove couldn't under any circum stances have been used. Quiet Exit 'A SEY knocked out his pipe. 1 The possibility that Alfred himself might have carried a body into the Inn was, on the one hand, too absurd to consider seriously, and, on the other hand, not quite absurd enough to ignore entirely. Alfred was (at Alfred possessed, as Washy put it, a broad beam. From a distance, any addition to Alfred's broad beam would not be as obvious as it might be in the rase of a narrower person. In the dusk of evening, Alfred with a body might not appear visibly encumbered to Washy, in the woods. Asey couldn't bring himself to consider Lady Boop and Alfred as a pair of murderers, but it might not do any harm to seek out Washy and have a talk with him about Alfred, hist in case. Even though Ladv Boop was as rich as Croesus, there had been something fishy in her giving Alfred a cool thousand dollars in cash to keep in his wallet for lit tle eventualities like dead goats. And, athough Asey hadn't con sidered this particular angle of the aituation twfore, he couldn't stake his oath that the goat was the only thing Alfred had buried. And, after all. Miss Olive was still missing. "If that goat was a red herrln'," Aey murmured to himself, 'I'm soin' to look one plumb dumb fool!" He strode over toward the kitchen ell. The lights went out before he got there, and as he peered around the comer, Washy, In a belted Mackinaw and with his litle blue knitted cap on his head, sidled out the kitchen door and started down the path. He didn't exactly run, but he walked so rapidly on tiptoe that the effect was the same, snd he held his head down and his shoul ders crouched a little, as if he were trying to make himself small. With a puzzled look on his face. Asey watched for a moment, ana then quietly set off down the path after him. He heard a crackling sound as Washy left the path and skirted the brush pile, and then the soft crunching of his sneakers as he hurried along down another gravel path. Keeping well behind him, Asey followed him around a small pond, through a pine woods, and down a little sloping hill to the bay shore. washy paused for a moment at the edge of the beach grass and then continued more slowly to ward the gaunt outlines of a bath house that loomed out of the fog. Waves lapped on the shore be- f'ond, and a bell buoy rang hoi owly from Quisset Harbor, and then Asey heard the rattle of keys and the click of a padlock. Washy swung open the bath house door, emerged a moment later with a shovel, and then be gan to dig industriously in the sand. After a few momenta he stopped, jabbed his shovel upright mio me sana. ana iook someining from the pocket of his Mackinaw. "The Papers' ASEY strolled forward. His hands were in the pock ets of his coat, a nd he almost sauntered up to Washy, but he was ready to meet anything from a frontal attack with the shovel to what used to be Washy's piece de resistance, a sort of elementary flying tackle. "By gorry, It's you, Aseyl" Washy said in a voice of pleased relief. "I must say I'm glad! I been tryin' to get noid or you ail evenin' long to see what you thought was best for me to do about these cussed things. Here, You take 'em." He held out a flat fifty cigar ette tin. Asey took It with caution. Washy was also a past master of the extended hand and the hearty grip. And when you came to and picked yourself up, you found your arm was broken. wnats mis, wasny7 "It's them cussed papers. Hon est, Asey, I been like to go crazy, with them cussed cods stickin their cussed noses into everything, lor tear they d nnd em an start askin' my wife say, you met my wife now, ain't you? -un-nun. "Then vou know. If they find these papers an' ask her about 'em, I'm a gonerl I kept thinkin' I'd be all right as soon as Miss Olive come back. But with her away, no one wouldn t ever be lieve me. Anyhow, now you got 'em." he hooked his arm chum- mily In Ascy's, "an' everything's okay. My. mv. it's flood to set them cussed things off my mind, I can tell you. Coma on back up to the house. Asev. an' let's us talk about the ole days" 'Wait up," Asey disengaged himself warily. He atill didn't trust Washy even in this mood of benign good humor. "What's all this about papers?" "Oh, they're in the box. Come on out of this damp an' fog an'" "Hold on. Washyl Come back here! What are these papers, an wnat s tne laea or Duryin 'em7 'I told you!" Washv said imDa. tlently. "I don't want them cussed cops to take 'em to my wife an' V. .... .. n . ! . 1 . because then I'd be a gonerl So 1 thought I'd just bury em out of the way till Miss Olive come back, because then penple'd be lieve mesay, Asey, you don't think nothin' happened to her, do you?" I nope not. Washy, stop dsncin' around, an' tell me what these papers are!" 'They're just the notes." Washy took Asey a arm again. "She wouldn t never take 'cm. you see. She said she trusted me. But I said, 'Miss Olive, with a sum of money like that you got to have a note.' I told her that ten years ago. So I makes out a note. N'en as I paid her back, I made out other notes. She gives me a re ceipt every time f pay her back. The receipts Is in that box, too." "Do I understand." Asev was honestly bewildered, "that you owe ner money r "Only two thousand now Washy said with pride. "I paid bark the other five." Washy." Asey said, "come over here an' sit down on these bath house steps an' let me get this straightened out. Miss Olive once lent you seven thousand dollars! What for?" Asey asked. Washv understood his Question. "You see, ten years ago the bans lurtMruwu. ima 01 nara. umea was then. An' the cussedest part was, Asey, I had the money tc pay 'em with, only it was all tied up in this schooner. Ever kno Sim Smith?" Te at sentlnactl First Aid Class at SOGE Next Quarter Southern Oregon College of Education, Ashland. Dec. 17 (Special) A standard Red Cross Golly! The biggest selection of Xmas ties In Town( $1 to $2.50 Store for Men first aid class will be conducted by Southern Oregon College of Education beginning with the winter quarter, January 5. The class, taught by Jean F. Eber- hart, certified Red Cross in structor In first aid. will carry two hours of standard college credit and will meet weekly for three months. Following this class, there will be offered, be ginning the spring term, a class in advanced first aid. The conv plot Ion of the two courses will lead to a Red Cross Instructor's certificate in first aid. The college is also planning to offer additional evening clas ses in physical Science and Zo ology Additional particulars can be received about three classes On the Radio Chains STATIONS: Chain affiliation and where they are on the dial; KALK (Mlltt) 1330. Portland; KfX (NBC-Blue) HUfl. Portland; KUA (SHtMllue t, MBH) l.'ilO. ripokanr; KtlO (MIC-Hlur) Sill. Kan rranrlsco; KW MIC-Krd) 620. Portland; KJK (NBOHlur) 1000, Brattle; KNX ((lit) lino. Los Anstlrs; KOA (MIC-Krd) S50. Ilenier; KfllN (CBH) 970, Port land; KIIMO (MIC-Krd) 9VI. arattlr; KPO (MIC-Krd) am. San Franclsro; KhL (( IIS) 11 CO, Rait l.ake City. " Time Shown Is PST " " Wednesday 6:00 p. m. Adventure Btorles, KOO, KJR; Big Town, KBL: Ken Stavens, KOIN; Jam Arden. KOMOr Adventures In Toyland, KEX; Stars of Today, KOW; Don Wlnalow of tha Navy, KPO. 0:30 p. m. Dr. Christian, KST.: Newa of the World, KOO. KJR, KEX: Cocktail Hour, KOW; Bill Henry, KNX; Eyes of the World. KOIN; Par ent Teacher Aaa'n, KOMO: Waltz Rhythm. KPO. 8:00 p. m. Fred Allen, KSL: Fred Warlnga Orch.. KPO, KOW, KOMO: Secret City. KJR; Cinnamon Bear, KEX; Scandinavian Reporter. KJR; Tonight's Beat Buys. KKX. KOIN. 6:30 p. m. Penthouse 'arty, KOO, KJR, KEX; Concert by Kalaah, KPO; Big Town, KNX. KOIN: Highlight Hour, KOMO. 7:00 p. m. Qlenn Miller's Orch, KNX, KSU KOIN; American Melody Hour, KOO, KEX. KJR; Kay Kyaer's Musical Quiz, KPO. KOW, KOMO. 7:30 p. m News Here and Abroad, KOO. KJR; Romance of the Ranchos. KNX: Modern Mualc Box, KEX; Leon F. Drews. KOIN; Clark and Spray nozzle, 6:00 p. m. Quiz Klda, KOO. KEX, KJR; Amoa U' Andy. KNX. KOIN; Point Sublime, KPO. KOW, KOMO. 8:13 p. m. lanny Rosa, KNX, K8L, KOIN. 8:30 p. m Plantation Party, KPO. KOW, KOMO; Dr. Christian, KNX. KOIN; Manhattan at Midnight, KOO. KJR, KEX; Newa, KSU 0 00 p. m. Time to Smile. KPO, KOW, KOMO; Eaay Aces, KOO, KEX. KJR; Fred Allen, KOIN, KNX; Hymn Service. 8:30 p. m Mr. District Attorney. KPO, KOMO, KOW; Basin Street Chamber Music, KOO: Newa, KJR, K8L; Moonlight Sonata, KEX. 10:00 p. m. Paul Whlteman'a Orch.. KOO, KEX. KJR; Reporter Newa, KPO. KOW, KOMO: News, KNX, KOIN; Maaterworka of Music. KSL. 10:30 p. m. John Sullivan's Orch.. KSL; Music for Listening. KOW; Broadway Bandwagon, KEX; Rev. Peterson, KJR: Public Alralra, KNX; The World Today, KOIN; Christmas Fund. KOMO; Concert Hall, KPO. 11:00 p. m. Dancing with Clancy, KPO, KOW; Wilbur Hatch's Orch.. KOIN. KSL; This Moving World, j KJR, KEX: Newa. KNX. KOO; Eve I nlng Reverlea. KOMO. Thursday 6:00 p. m Adventure Stories, KOO. KJR; Death Valley Daya. KSL: Jane Arden, KOMO; Adventurea In ' Toyland. KEX; Stars of Today, KOW; I Ken Stevena, KNX; Eyes of the World. KOIN; Don Wlnalow of the Navy, KPO. 5:30 p. m. Duffy's Tavern, KSL: Newa of the World. KOO, KEX, KJR: Rlcardo'a Rhapsodies, KPO. KOW. KOMO; Tonlght'a Beat Buys. KNX: Leon F. Drews. KOIN. 6:00 p. m. Major Bowea, KNX. KSL. KOIN: BIBg Crosby, KPO, KOW, KOMO: Cinnamon Bear. KEX: Judy Splinters. KOO; Scandinavian Re porter. KJR. 6:30 p. m. Joe Oalllochlo's Orch.. KOO, KJR, KEX: Christmas Bell ringers, KJR. 7:00 p. m. Olenn Miller's Orch., KKX. KOIN. KSL: Ougat Rumba Revue, KPO, KOMO, KOW; Rudy Vallee, KOO, KJR, KEX. 7:30 p. m. Frank Fay, KPO, KOW, KOMO; News Here and Abroad, KOO, KEX. KJR; Who Dunnlt, KNX, KOIN, KSL. 8:00 p. m. Amos n Andy, KNX. KSL, KOIN: Fred Waring. KPO. KCt.lO, KWW; March of Time, KJR, KOO, KEX. GIFT WRAPPING By CLUYAS WILLIAMS SPREADS HfR PRESENTS OH HEARS BACK DOORBELL TitfM IT'S 1r)E E6fe MAH SHOUTS HIM rfottO BEnf66EfTHEM AIL WRAPPEP AND MARKED NOW "fHAf SHE HA& 1,)E HOUSE 10 HERSElF W6 AlJP RUH5 DOWN STAIR AHt AT SAME MOMEHT 60 UPATAlRS Urtth SHE HERR5 JUNIOR CPU HE HAS PAID THE 66 MAtf HAS COME HOME BECAUSE AMD HAD A CmiCi To WtRt WrWjto 0N 10 PJLAY SHUT HER DOOR, WITH 6Ef5UPlbrlE3?FO0V, AT LAST. CAN'T TND KEY", BUT PRCR5 CHAIR AfcAlrteTDOOR AND HE- (,W& WRAPPjr6 6lff3 L8-17 IMMEPimEW HEARS JUNIOR CAIL HE HAS, CUT HIMSEIT. PARTS OUT IN THE MIPPLE OF BAKD A6IK6 HEARS HUSBAND COME HOME EARLY AND SH0UT6 NOT TO COME DP STAIRS, HER PRESENT'S ARE ALL OUf SlSrrS,PUT5WFSErff3 BACK IN BUREAU PRAVlA ERS,TmiK6SHEWlL NWERfcETfHfMWrWfD UNLESS 1HE TAMMY 6DES fo.-frlE NORTH VOCE. OtslMwd by Tfcs Bsll STBdleatt, Inc.) 8:15 p. m. Lum and Abner, KPO. KOW, KOMO; La any Rota. KNX. KOIN. KSL. 8:30 p. m. Maudlc's Diary. KNX, KOIN; Saunders of Clrcla X, KOO, KEX; Fanny Brlca, KPO, KOMO, KOW: News. KSL: Flowers for the LlTlng. KEX; Captain Quia. KJR. 8 :00 p. m. Easy Aces, KOO. KEX. KJR; Dutly's Tavern. KNX. KOIN; Aldrlch Family, KPO. KOMO, KOW; Sports. KSL. 9:30 p. m. Music by Moonlight, KOW; Death Valley Daya. KNX, KOIN; Moonlight Sonata, KEX; Din ner at Omar's. KOO; Musical Quln ella, KOMO; Dane Orch. KPO. 10:00 p. m. America's Town Meet ing ot the Air, KOO, KJR, KEX; Re porter News, KPO, KOMO, KOW; Newa, KNX; Maaterworka of Mualc, KSL; Five Star Final. KOIN.' 10:30 ;. ra. Ed Stoker's Music. KOW; Reld Tanner's Orch, KSL; Maaterworka of Music, KNX; The World Today. KOIN: Industry and Defense, KOMO; Concert Halt, KPO. 11:00 p. m. Etchlnga In Brass. KPO; This Moving World. KJR. KEX: Harry Owen's Orch., KSL, KOIN; News, KNX. Ladner, B. C, Dec. 17 CP) Driver of an automobile which plunged off a ferry ramp here last night into the Fraser river was identified by police today as Joseph Gordon, Ladner and Haney, B. C, theatre owner, when a hoist pulled the car from the river, 50 feet from the scene of its fatal plunge. TEST BLACKOUT La Grande, Dec. 17 (JP) La Grande will hold its first test blackout Friday from 7:30 to 8 p. m. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS OOO'WZ-OlD A R3CKf DATING PROM Wt; I0TH CENTURY. CANTERBURY, ENGLAND... by JOHN HIX A m 'A owl nz;d jrgrj II I81H CEWURY Mft fesdJ -tO LIFTTH&1R JVffirVSv . iVsrS; " T W 'SMALL ,EA CREATUESf t!t'-y7 DEGENERATED. . 4'&MsM -'ttllv INTO A MERE SAG r wwm It . i H UFts OF. A HUNTING! iL i -r,j N M I - trim infMt SECONDS.7 '(SOOO 5H0T-Z222E0NP) "1-7 t. a.s u. a. est Zu,rZi LI L ABNER Murdar Will Outl RIFLE'S LIFE Although a rifla may serve its owner for a lifetime, the actual life of the gun itself to shorter than the time it would ordinarily take to load, aim and fire It oncel Using, as an example, a model 70 Winchester chambered for the 30-06 cartridge, giving a muille velocity of 2.700 F. S. in a 24-inch barrel, the average accurate life of the piece Is esti mated to be 3.000 shots. The actual time in which the bullet is passing through the barrel for these 3.000 shots would be 2.222 secondsl Tomorrow: Visible Speechl By AL CAPP FOR WEEKS NOW -YOU'VE. BEEN RELATING -EVERY INCIDENT IN EVERY DAY OF YOUR PAST LIFE IN THE MOST BORING DETAIL. .r-(Sie,H.n YOU'RE. UP TO THt MORNING OF YOUR, SIXTH BIRTHDAY YOUVE ALREADY TOLD ME. WHAT VOU ATE FDR GULP.'- C-CAINT AH S-SKIP THET one: MAWNIN i I -SOMETHING ' IN YOUR PAST LIFE WILL EXPLAIN YOUR STRANGE CHERRY BLOSSOM-AND-SOEf COMPLEX.'-WHAT HAPPENED ON THE MORNING OF YOUR SIXTH BIRTHDAY 7 AH WAS POW'FUL MAD.' THAR WAS A GUN LYIN' ON TH' GROUND.' AH PICKED IT UP AIMED IT AT HIM. AH LET HIM HAVE IT BETWEEN TH'EYES.'.' TAILSPIN TOMMY Any Delay Now Is Fatall KEETEH. UNDER. THE INFLUENCE- OF THE POWERFUL HYPNOTIC DR.OG. WHICH DO. VERMIN, a member. of the barons spy ring, in0culwed him with, has rejoined mis squadron Meanwhile... oonchita-; alias freda, espionage agent for. tm e baron, has been apprehended by intelligence officer.s.... MO S-SOMETHIN I IT YES.' "Sf AH WERE PLAYIN' ALONE T llW.. -SOMETHING H-HORRIBLE.' I sLYES-A NEAP, TH' CHICKEN J 1 CONFESSED IT I IL OIM.7 A COME. HENRY.' TNOBODV.' I S?W &S HE GRABBED ONE. J3 J BUT-AH WERE. I pSisWV O'OUR LI'L. ?A SO YOUNG- I MmVft'.3r CHICKENS jWm A AN' AH DIDN'T J W'-Zhri, ..-..ji'"f KNOW TH" 4 v PW'''h-4 ) gun was l l&i&n. lH ' 'S'SS'", m SlltMI 111,, -lam. HIT .til ,'JF a "TT1" rUatavX .i-"C '"U Vl W .V "SSS .safeBSjrSsaKSJW - ,, ai.a ihijisip , . . w EkW-: Tim I ALL RIGHT I ADM IT UM AN N WE MAY CAIN MORE . MAC.A I Ifl S?" UNREGISTERED AGENT OF VERS ALIA ,r? BY INTERROGATING HER. r ?WllAND I AM PROUD OF IT SfACON FEDERATE IN The Js , l TwJ BUT 1 SHALL REVEAL jr--; 6VNEXT 00!f f XA NOTHING NOTHING, il -&K -r r -rTT t fiS LWT. ' f " r , r .. issCi .nri -T- -.Tt:r-r it' ' I ' 'mm Bt HAL FORREST T IS -3 NOW TIME TO SET UP OUR SHORT WAVE INTERCEPTOR, KAUIO IN THf CLEARING, DOKTOR I ' Meanwhile.the baron AND DR.VERfIIN PROCEED TO THE RENDEZYOUSr THE NEBBS Nothing Doing Be SOL HESS HAVE TUE TOVJM 5MVL0CK AT THE HOTEL KITCMEN TO BUY MAX'S NOTE. WILL HE 6ET it r I--I7 r mi.; aai ti c-v tm V wnT or) mj V i,acon u,ir- L, A . , HrJMT IT Cr ? 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