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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWELVE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1941. by Phoebe Atwood Taylor Chapter 27 At Six Per Cent -I WAS partners with Sim Smith In this schooner," Washy said. That's where my money was tied up. I knew I'd get the money back all right, some day, but the bank, It had to get paid cash money then, see?' Asey nodded. "WelL" Washy continued. "I was feelln' pretty blue about it all when Miss Olive come to me one day, out in the kitchen, an' said she knew how things was, an' she'd like to lend me the cash money to pay the bank. Only she man t want Mrs. uoane 10 Know, So "Why not?" "Miss Olive said Mrs. Doane'd make a lot of fuss over her, an' things wouldn't be the same, an' nothin' but hard feelin's ever come when one woman lent an other woman money 1 think she was right, don't you, Asey?. An' when them cussed cops started pokin' around tonight, I thought to myself, I wasn't goin' to have this spoiled now if I could help it. It'd look awful funny if they asked my wife to explain about the notes an' she didn't know, see, an' nobody'd believe me if Miss Olive wasn t there." "Washy, where In tlme'd Miss Olive get this cash money to pay you with? They told me she was a scnooiteacner. "Oh, she's one of them careful ones, I guess," Washy said. "Think of it, my wife not knowin' about this! When I get the last cent paid up, I'm goin' to tell her an' show her the notes, an' that's goin' to be a peat day, Asey, I can tell youi Asey, you uuii i imnn, eny thing's happened to Miss Olive to. night, do you?" "I don't know." Asey opened the tin box. struck a match, and held up one of the papers. It was a note, an ngnt, wasny was ap narentlv tellinff the truth. "I hope you noticed," Washy aid proudly, "that I pay her six per cent interest, too. I pay that regular, out of my own pay, an' what I pick up shootin' crap with fellers like Rankin around the Inn. "Where's that gun of yours?' Asey said. "Got it in your pocket now?" "Oh, I giva that to one of them eops," Washy said. "I told him I had a gun, an' a license, an' give em to mm, ngnt away, dui you know what I was thinkin' to? night?" T'What?" "I was thinkin'. If anyone's harmed Miss Olive," Washy said, "I don't know but what I might cut loose enough to make up for all them quiet years. I'd like to locate her, Asey, an' be sure she was all right. Can't you flgger out some way we can find her?" "I done my best," Asey assured him. 'Tell me one more thin, Wsshy. This feller Alfred. Lady Boop's chauffeur. You seen him go Into the Inn this evenin' " Mors On Alfred T TOLD them cops I took a pot I shot at him," Washy said with snicker. "I couldn't help myself, t always wanted to, an' there he stood outlined against mat ell, mg as a bargel I knew I hadn't ought to of. but I couldn't help myself. I Just had to, Asey." "Wssn't carryin' anythln', was he?" Asey asked. "Like a large bundle, maybe?" Washy laughed. "Say, you couldn't tell, with him! Once I seen him walk in that kind of waddle of his from the garage to the car, an' it wasn't till ten minutes later that I realized he'd been lucgin' a tire all the timet He ain t such a bad shot. Used to be a cop, you know." "Alfred? He was a cop?" "Yup," Washy said. "Till he got kicked off of the force for bribery an' corruption 'course, he never told me that part. He Just said he didn't see no future in bein' a con. so he quit Say, Asey, anyone "Whose?" "Miss Olive's. I don't know'a I aver knew It to haooen " Washv satd, "hut I been thinkin' maybe she might of come In an' gone to hed with a headache or lomethln'. Seems like somebody ought to of seen her come in, if she did, or her car'd be herejjut she's a quiet sort of person. Don't make any noise. She might have come in without any of us hearln' her. 'Course. I know whoever called up said not to expect her, but Just the same, she might be bark any way. You can't never tell." "What do you make of that cailT" Asey asked. "Oh. I think Freddy got It wrong. You know," Washy low ered his voice, "she's got this fel ler, Freddy has. an' mv wife dun't like him, an' Freddy's kind of worked up about things. She don't pay auemion. jonignt tn there. SIX NAVY IN DIE Norfolk, V., Dec. 18. -P A navy patrol plane crashed on the takeoff at Elizabeth City, N. C, Wednesday and killed alx crew members, the fifth naval district public relations office nnounced. The dead: Give him . . . d A SWEATER $3.95 to $12.50 73aXbva Stor (or Men when she was talkin' with that head cop, I noticed she made any number of mistakes. I didn't say nothin', because I knew if I point ed 'em out her mother" d jump on her my wife's a great Jumper, you noticed that?" "Uh-huh. Mistakes like what. Washy?" "Like about this afternoon. She kept tellin' that cop that there was somebody in the livin' room all the time, every single minute, an' I know for a fact there wasn'tl She an' Rankin an' Lady Boop was out in my kitchen at least twice, all three of 'em, together, yellin for food. Couldn't have been anybody in the livin' room then, now, could there?" "Huh!" Asey saw the remains of his theory about the phone booth's rear door disappearing forever. "An" she kept sayln' we was all In the livin' room durin' that spe cial broadcast, too!" "Wasn't you?" Asey said. "Why, we all come together to hear it, but we didn't stay put, like Freddy made that cop think! The laundry man come just as the King started to speak, an' I had to get up an' give him the laun dry, an" my wife went off while the Queen was speakin', to get Lady Boop a handkerchief think of her, cry in' her eyes out for the British," Washy said, "but she wouldn't give 'em ten cents if her life depended on it! An' Rankin went out durin' that music in the middle of it to get his raincoat he'd left down here begun to look awful stormy about then. An' then Mamie Riggs got up an' left after the President'd spoke a min ute or two. So what I think about that call Freddy took tonight, Asey, is just that she made an nother mistake again. Between you an' me, I think he's around here somewheres." "Who? The feller that shot Ann Joyce?" "I don't know nothin' about him. I mean Freddy's feller. 'Course, no one's asked me," Washy said, "but what I think is, that someone just asked Freddy for Miss Olive, an' said she could expect him to call back, an' Fred dy got it wrong." New Problems - ASEY got up from the bath house steps. "Huh!" he said. "Anyway, that may explain why people been peerln' around, an' where Freddy was, an' why she was so gay when she come inl I think you gone a long way toward clearin' up some things. Washy, but you sure land ed me a flock of other problems!" Washy said in a hurt voice he was sure he didn't see how he'd done any such thing. "I only told you what you asked!" he added. "Uh-huh. An' added a money problem that's got considerable ramifications," Asey said, "an' giva everyone a gun an Alfred a crim inal career, as you might say, an' balled up this timin' Dusiness to a fare-thee-welL. But, anyway, I think you got somethin' in bring in' up her room. 'Course, Han son's boys must of looked it over by now, but I think I'll take a look at Miss Olive's room myself. I wonder, could I get to it without bein' seen. Washy? People been gettin' in my hair. Where is her room?" "I'll show you," Washy said. Washy chatted about Cape Cod clam chowder and his own par ticular version of it as he and Asey walked bark to the Inn. "Gorry," he said, as they neared the brush pile, "see them car lights! Looks like there was even more of 'em millin' around! But what I say, Asey, is you can't be gin to tell no New Yorker about clam chowder because they don't even anow wnat a clam Is. "Washy," Asey said, "who do you think shot that girl?" "Gorry. Asey, I don't know! Don't seem to me it could of been anybody hereabouts! She got along fine with folks when she stayed here last summer my wife always likes to have an ac tress or two around, or somebody mixed up with the theater, you know. Kind of sets up the rest, an' gives 'em something to gawp at an' talk about" "Don't you know somebody that didn't like her?" Asey persisted. "Can't you think of any reason why somebody might have want ed to kill her?" "To tell you the truth," Washy said. "I don't know much about the boarders I mean, the guests. Most of the time I'm right out in my kitchen. This Joyce irl seemed nice an' pleasant, an' I'll say for her she always cleaned up her plate! Always had a pleasant word when you seen her. 'Nice dinner,' she'd sav. Or 'Nice lunch.' Or something like that 'Course, I did wonder about the Hing. hams. But then that seemed kind of silly." Te ee eentlnse4 Krne.it A. Simpson, 28, of Se attle, aviation machinist male, first class, navy aviation pilot and piloting the plane at the time of the crash, Samuel L. Llndcmann, 23. of BallinKcr, Texas, avlntlim ma chinist mate, second class. Robert D. Asquilh, 21, of Bowling Green, Mo., aviation machinist mate, third class. Leon I.. Lei.itner, 19, of Kal Isprll, Mont., seaman, second cIbm. (ioulrlen W. Johnston, 27, of R.F.D. 1, Gray, Oklahoma, ra dioman, third clns. Francis J. A. Suttell, 26, sea man second class, Baden, Pa. The crah occurred at B SO a. m. The bodies were taken to the naval hospital here pending funeral arrangements. The navy gave no further de tails. Tests show the old-type nail cut out of genuine wrought Iron has greater resistance to corros ion and 72 per cent more hold ing qualities than steel-wire nails. On the Radio Chains STATIONS: Cbala affiliation ana where tney are on the dial: KALE MH) 1339, Portland; KtX (MtC-Hlue) 1 1 DO. Portland: KOJt (NBC-Blue a MB 1510. Kpokane; KGO (NBC-Blue) 810, han tranelaro; K(iW (NHC-Rrd) !, Portland; KJK NHC-lllur IU00, krattle; KNX (( B 1010. Loa Anielea: KOA (NBC-Red) KM. Denver; KOIN (CBH) J0, Port land: HOMO (NBC-Red) SM. Seattle: KPO (NBC-Red) SM. Ran rranclMo; KSL (CBS) 1160. Halt lake City. """ Time Shown Is PST Thuraoay 6:00 p. m. Adventure Stories, KOO, KJR; Death Valley Days, K8L; Jane Arden, KOMO; Adventures In Toy'.and, KEX; dura ot Today, KOW; Ken Bterena. KNX; Eye of the World. KOIN; Don Wlnalow of the Nary. KPO. 6:30 p. m. Diirfy'a Tavern, KftL; News ot the World. KOO. KEX. KJR; Rleardo's Rhspaodles, KPO. KOW, KOMO; Tonight's Beat Buys, KNX; Leon T. Drews, KOIN. 6:00 p. m. Major Bowes, KNX, KSL. KOIN; Blog Croaby. KPO. KOW, KOMO; Cinnamon Bear. KEX; Judy Splinters, KOO; Scandinavian Re porter, KJR. 6:30 p. m. Jos Oalllochlo's Orch., KOO. KJR. KEX; Christmas Bell ringers. KJR. CHRISTMAS BLUES WM.UAIT4 DOESN'T SEC WhkT HE 6Ef5 Ollf OF AIL THIS fAlK ABOUT CHRISTMAS CHEER. AND IT HE CRIES T6 6ET ATTENTION, IHEV ARE SO WEOCCUPlEP WITH CHRISTMAS THEY" JOjT LET HIM CRY WD HE 6ETS NO TEAST OF TURKEY Art? PLUM PODP1K6 JL)$T THE SAME OP MILK WO CEREAL LI'L ABNER Ha's Olf Againl YOU WERE. ONLY SIX YtARS OLD Ar THE. Tine. YOU MURDE.R&D THIS- HE.NRY ? OMMV THOUGHT SKEETER. WAS JUST CLOWN I NO THE NIGHT BEFORE , WHEN HIS PAL. UNDER NFLUENCE OF DOCTOR. VERMIN'S HYPNOTIC DRUG, ACTED O.UEER.LY. And... as ANOTHER. DAY DAWNS 11-16 -Ml THE NEBBS O. K. TAILSrl . . ,n ' ' rz: i - . 1 1 , ill 60 in and see if potts A I K "I'l I T 1M imteresteo you sy sure-i pay six XJ T ill coam you the momey V thats the only 7WOMT LOAN, ME ENOUSH MOrJEV 1 V L II I SAY NDU RE PAYlsla SlXpc,R CEKlT AND 1 PAYTHfcJ. VOU MAKE A, NEW NOTE TO ME 1 WAY 1 WAMT1TXHAT TO LIFT EMMA'S NOTE-.1 BANK ATX J ;' CENT AND OU-L RE- INTEREST EVERY FIRST) SJSiS rTO-lveME 'HIS BANK ANO 1M J y-L- ' VCE THE NOTE MOVtTVlLYI 0p THE MONTH AKioJf gKcSPV5 SpJCt) MANYLITTLE HONEST ANO Crfe I lg--r-a HlSSX jTJ EoEcfSp f"Tjy-S lO" SHOULD UICRTOTIA V H 7 7TT TV ZiZS'ZZ'P f 111 TOO p. m. Olefin Miller's Orch.. KNX. KOIN, KSU Cugat Rumba Revue. KPO. KOMO. KOW; Rudy Vallee, KOO, KJR. KEX. 7:30 p. m. Prank ray, KPO. KOW, KOMO; News Hera and Abroad. KOO. KEX. KJR; Who Dunnlt. KMX, KOIN. KSU 6:00 p. m Amos n" Andy, KNX, KSU KOIN: Fred Wartnf, KPO. KOMO. KWW; March of Time, KJR. KOO. KEX. 8:16 p. m. Lum and Abner, KPO, KOW. KOMO; Lanny Ross, KNX. KOIN, KSU 6:30 p. m. Ma jd la's Diary. KNX, KOIN; Saunders of Circle X, KOO. KEX; Panny Brio, KPO. KOMO, KOW; News, KSU; Flowers for the Living, KEX; Captain Quia. KJR. 0:00 p. m. Easy Aoes, KOO, KBX. KJR; Duffy's Tavern, KNX, KOIN; Aldrlcb Family, KPO, KOMO, KOW; Sports, KSU 30 p. m Musle by Moonlight. KOW; Death Valley Daya, KNX, KOIN: Moonlight Sonata, KEX: Din ner at Omar's, KOO; Musical Quln lla, KOMO; Dance Orch.. KPO. 10:00 p. m. America Town Meet ing of th Air, KOO, KJR. KEX; Re porter News, KPO, KOMO, KOW: News, KNX; Maaterworks of Music, KSL; Flee Star Final. KOIN.' 10:30 p. m. W Stoker's Musis. KOW; Reld Tanner's Orch.. KSL; Maaterworks of Music. KNX; The World Today, KOIN; Industry and Defense, KOMO: Conosrt Ball. KPO. ifJUSf MEANS THAT THE T&O BUSV JWSHW6 AROUND WRAPPlKfe PRESENTS AND 1R1MM1N& Trees id play with him AMD EVEN If WHAT 600P HE U. BE 6LAP ftilrsttsWal fcy BH Bjmdlest. Inc.) T YASSUH-H-HE , Y Win.'-ASTONISHING d OH -WE Vg U THE dHO.m XI OT AT CfATT V WAL- 1 I ,EioE-A,"-SJIAy'i I AT WHAT AN EARCf KjEST KICKED 1 CC ATIJF ? T HENRY M GREAT SCOTT.' 1 NOTHIN' M I OyfJ- StM' r AGE CRIMINAU IT AROUND if I iLAI mLKO I CI WERE A V. IF THIS SORT OF MUCH a KNOW TH GUN ITSELF.' WHAT WERE J n AN .c.0Xj A MUCH LONGER IXL aL L UPT'TH' 1 WAS LOADED HAPPENED TO THE V NUTHIM' 1 If INDIAN ? I fA HAVE TO HAVE MY if TIME AH i jHtP.C AytJ NEVAH I BODY?- JJ LEFT BUT I III OWN HEAD EXAMINED.' I GOT SKMTLt 1 Jk. HS:- 'Vi-UJ V f"." :'.:., '.'.".-'..;y 1H rtATMLKa. I V II I -BUT-GO ON WITH I MARRIFP. I v.aM wkupm, i-Miri v.uiit.HiiAr..wMUdir Wv,ie:iHWj( OKAY. iKttTi.'.-.l V I Vsl I NOW WHAT DID HE MEAN BY DID YOU HAVE A VCONCH ITA ?77y WHAT I CALL 0 UNDER.STAND.8UT I UNDERSTAND 'THE CODE LETTER. IS V" FUSS WITM CONCUnKy -s TAKING; IT 0ONT LET IT WORRYN THE CODE r HE SOUNDS NUTTY AS A 1 AST NlGrHTg, ft I WARD A. NOW YOU TODAY.' WrTVE GOT LETTER, IS ) SQUIRREL NEVEI. KNEW ' lTTT V VAiVv I HE PRETENDS TO DO OUR BEST ON VVV HIM TO ACT THAT WAY OVE8 tl I U-JLT.I. VH6 NEVER KNEW THIS NEW V-ATTACK, ) A GIRL BEFOR&CTJ-n ' V 11:00 p. m Etchings In Brass. KPO; This Mortng World. KJR, KEX; Harry Owen's Orch, KSU KOIN; News, KNX. Friday. 8.00 p. m. Kate smith. KSL; Ad venture Stories, KOO, KJR, KEX; Jane Arden, KOMO: Stars of Today, KOW; Don Wlnaow of the Ksvy. KPO. 6:30 p. ra. Naws of the World, KOO. KJR. KEX; Bill Henry. KNX; Cocktail Hour. KOW: Leon F. Drews. KOIN; November Overcosters, KOMO. 6:00 p. m, What'a on Tour Mind. KNX. KOIN. KSL-, Waits Time, KPO. KOMO. KOW; Cinnamon Bear. KEX; Judy Splinters, KOO; Scandinavian Reporter, KJR. 6:30 p. m Michael end Kitty, KEX, KOO, KJR; Uncle Walter's Dog House, K.-O, KOW, KOMO; First Nlgbter, KNX, KSU KOIN. 7 :00 p. m. Rochester Clvte Orch.. KOO; Shirley Temple Time, KSL, KNX. KOIN: Wings of Destiny. KPO. KOMO. KOW: Candlelight Concerts, KEX; Fish Finder, KJR. 740 p. m. Al Pearca'a Oang. KNX. KSU KOIN: Orand Central Station, KPO. KOW, KOMO; Weekly Spectator, KJR: Modem Music Box, KEX; Ama teur Hour, KOO. 6 00 p. m. Fred Waring. KPO. KOMO, KOW: Amos -n- Andy, KNX. KSU KOIN: Buy Washington, KJR. 8:16 p. m. Lanny Rosa, KNX, KSU By GLUYA5 WILLIAMS h fryer, The owy Time hc sees Them who, HE WANT'S Tb SIEEP AMP THEY BAR&E IN TO HlPE PRESENT'S IN H15 ROOM TriEV LETHIM HAKB HIS STDCXlKd WVIV IT PO HIM. W f ACT, WHEW Hi R0VS UP ug-18 KOIN; Lum and Abner, KPO, KOW, KOMO. 8 :SO p. m. Doct Bt Personal. KPO. KOW, KOMO: Oang Buatera. KOO, KEX; Playhouse, KNX, KOIN. KSL. BOO p. m. Radio Chatter. KPO. KOW; Three Ring Tim. KOO. KEX. KJR; Kate Smith Hour, KNX, KOIN: Punch and Judy, KOMO; Sports, KSL. 6 30 p. m. Ran Wllde'a Orch, KOO: Moonlight Sonata, KEX; Mary Bullock, KOW; News, KJR; Novem STRANGE AS IT SEEMS THT &3a OF 'oOUTH r 11.1 II The larva of a rare teaa". BEETLE HA'i A FRINGE AROUND, rr BODY WHICH PREVENTS ANT FROM CRAWLlMCl under ny -esW 'oOUTH AMERICAN KIKU Ctj v7Jfc Vr f 450 HIGHLY POLISHED IT , j jf f SlSl W V RE-EMgLE PORCELAIN ST MM u p II l 11 Y V tr z F'RT CHILD V" fJr I UNDER. 1 TO BE H I I I II I WW VISIBLE SPEECH Alexander Melville Ball, father of the telephone's inventor, was born In Edinburgh. Scotland, In 1819. A distinguished teacher of elocution, he went to Canada in 1870 and for many years was connected with university there. About the time of his arrival in the U.S.. he Invented system of teaching deaf mutes to speak. It consists of a series of alphabet ical characters based on the position of the vocal cords when they ere in motion. These char acters suggest to the eye the mechanical process of speech in the formation of ell sounds that can be uttered. The system, known as "Visible Speech." was Introduced into the U. S. in 1872 by Alexander Graham BelL Tomorrowi 19-Year Champl ber Overeoatera, KOMO; Floyd Wright, KPO. 10:00 p. m. Hollywood Legion Stadium Flghta, KOO, KEX; Report er Kewa. KPO. KOW, KOMO; News. KNX; Maaterworks of Music, KSU Seattle Public School Prgm, KJR; Fie, Star Final, KOIN. 10:30 p. m. Hollywood Legion Stadium Fights, KOO; Dane Orch., KOW: Broadway Bandwagon. KEX; Northwest Bible Imutute. KJR: Maa terworks of Musle. KNX; The World Today. KOIN; Sparkplug and Sun- THE TINAiVvOU, AMCVilCAN KIKUr V i il ilLTrt IT REEMgLE PORCELAIN,. 6REATEST INVENTION THE TELEPHONE REQUIRED VOICE AND HEARING H FATHER' IMUPWTION Loi?na Lynn, now 8 AT 3 Vi WA- THE FR,T CHILD iimDPR. 1 TO KE LICENCED TO ACT PROFEiONALLV ON THE 3TAsE HE THEN LEARNED IOO i.NS OF , dialocjuE Overnight New SofK... 17-13 L But HATS ah toe. KOMO: Concert Hall. KPO. 11:00 p. m. Plckard Family, KPO, KOW; This Moving World, KEX: Harry Owens Orch, KSL, KO!N: News. KOO. KNX; Scandinavian Mu sic, KJR; Reveries, KOMO. TEETH RECOVERED CadUlac, Mich. CUP) Mrs. Susie Boyce of Hobart lost her false teeth 33 years ago. A neighbor, Ray Loomis, found them in his potato patch. by JOHN HIX VlSgL 'SPEECH," A MC1HOU Ur TEACHING DEAP MUTE TO TALK. I3 SASEP ON THg LACK OF VOICE. AND HEARING J 1 H XMM By AL CAPP it isn't -girl trouble i BOTHERING SKEETER SOL HESS G C Use Matt trie une want ada.