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By ANNE BOWE kl
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
' CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
Member of Tht Associated Press :x
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the us for publication of all
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this newspaper.
Mass Production
Yankee ingenuity which for a century and a
half has been devoted to applying power to do
chores for mankind attained a notable if sinister
pinnacle in the performance of aircraft in the
battle of the Bismarck sea.' The machine, which
, as .the. sewing machine speeded, up sewing of
textiles, as the cotton gin speeded up the pro
cessing' of cotton, the steamboat Which speeded
up4 travel by sea as the steam locomotive draw
ing cars on rails did later on land, has been
perfected for waging of war. In this' great
battle of the South Yacific, the allied air arm,
at : the - cost of one bomber and three fighter
planes, sank or disabled all ten warships and all
, 12 transports of a Japanese convoy and knocked
down 55 enemy " planes. The estimated 15,000
troops on board were killed or drowned, "almost
to a man." ; This is mass slaughter on a most
amazing scale.
' ' Consider - the proportion. There were prob-
ably engaged fewer than a
irmen. vet thv wirwri nut isnnn-of th orpmv uf aa
; and sank or left in sinking condition 90,000
tons of enemy shipping. The airmen,, with
planes equipped with precision instruments for
aiming and with bombs for destruction, had
the powerful surface -ships and the transports
completely at their mercy. This must surely
have been like shooting ducks sitting on a
ppnd. '
- Brigadier General Billy Mitchell should have
lived to see this vindication of his views. Though
be proved his point in practice the rigid minds
of his superiors remained unconvinced, and he
itfas ousted from the army because his per
sistence in arguing air superiority was offensive.
' The .demonstration of air supremacy over
apan is heartening. Undoubtedly the Japs have
used up their best planes and pilots and they
cannot keep up with American production and
training. If we could only spare planes and
pilots for China we could destroy the industrial
and nerve centers of Japan and speed up vic
tory. The battle of Bismarck sea points the
way to Tokyo.
Stock Market Highs
t. After bumping near-depression bottoms a
year ago the stock market escalator has been
going .up. It's up several flights above 1942
lows; and with a two million share day Monday
It looks as though a good many buyers were
Climbing on thinking it will go still higher. Well,
It still has many stories to climb before it goes
ii fst v rrtt Ka 1 41 - mm
" me iwi, aim me power may go on
to stop the ascent The energy that now propels
the lift is "optimism over the progress of the
war. Some really bad reverses might chill the
peculators; and the taking of profits may put
! a' brake on the rise.
To show the price gains look at the reports
On averages. In the Dow Jones table industrials
touched 130.27 Monday, against a low of 92.92
last year, which was the lowest since 1934.
Railroads set a high mark at 32.19, against
23.31 a Vfar itfn anrf titiliioa ..rWiu V I
Kicking round the lot ever since the new deal
turned the heat ort them, have had a high of
17.47 this year which compares very favorably
with a low of 10.58 last year, which was the
lowest reported, worse than the depression
years a decade ago. V
v. The country is coming out of the blue funk
that settled after Pearl Harbor aneisaafter the
treasury proposals for very high corporate taxes
last year. While for most of the large indus-
L trial and utility corporations . net earnings are
less because of high taxes, they have breath
ing space and hopes of survival. Railroads are
ti the money, but most of the earnings are
going to creditors,' not stockholders. The rail
toads are getting ready for the letdown when
they reach the end of the war run.
i Peace is by no means round the corner, but
the stock traders think prosperity is or they
wouldn't be rushing to buy stocks. The stock
market remain one place free from rationing
which can suck up the people's savings as fast
as they are poured In. Getting them out is
always the problem.
Aircraft Wage Increase
The minority on the war labor
Stabilizer Jimmie Byrnes some sharp raps on
.the knuckles for 'interfering with its decision in
the west' coast wace aettlmnt fnr i.r
workers. Byrnes, whose job it is to hold down
wages and head off inflation, evidently whis
pered loudly in the ears of WLB members try
ng to head off or hold down the increase; As a
result it was limited to 4c per hour. While
sympathizing with Stabilizer Byrnes in his dif
ficult task it is hard to see the disparity in
wages from 62 c in aircraft factories to 95c
minimum in. shipyards. The traditions are dif
ferent of course, the former being low-wage
industries for many years, and the latter held
to the high inion scale for boilermakers and
ahipfitters. Sill the welders and sheet metal
workers at Boeing can't help but feel sore when
Others in similar work down at the shipyards
draw much higher pay, and it all comes from
Uncle Sam. ;
; Dean Morse's dissent from the majority de
cision seems logical, though we know every
wage boost speeds up the inflation spiral. No
One has nerve enough to equalize wages by
leveling some off the top.
iThe Co Gatette-Times.
"inanv dairv Viai-H. r h;n -a
fmany dairy herds are being sold
ruptcy.' At a sale here last, week dairy cows
sold at from $175 to $205, which does not indi
cate that dairying is unprofitable. :The close
outs of dairy herds are usually due to shortage
of; help ifor the larger operations. The cows
remain in production, being bought by smaller
producers. - ...
Pres. ; Roosevelt is repeating his pantomime
with reference to another term. New I deal
marinonettes hail a fourth term, ' but no one
I. cars the master's voice. The pattern is the
:me as for Term UL. . . - v - r ' . 1 . -
Aro Favor Sways Uf; No Fear Shalt, AueV
. .rFnan First Statesman, March J8, J831
thousand allied San Francisco."
Sir William
Pat MAOon
board gives more security for
by thesf small
F-7
Ml
am men you may say:
Why not increase the allowances and continue
to follow the path of Beveridge and our own
current j social security system?
They are trying to do that now in Michigan.
A proposal is pending to have the state pay a base
average of $20 a week for unemployment, plus
13 for each dependent, with a protective maximum
of $38 per week.
That suggests a decent living, but It also suggests
tremendous taxation on all the workers and em
ployesjo pay to the few who are not good workers,
or to those who will R .ki i "
dliayor
2ecurity Is a
never attained. He will never, attain it because it
is ot an absolute thing. There is no security In
nature.; J
No government or anyone else can guarantee that
you will not catch a disease tomorrow, for instance.
Uncertainty is an unavoidable factor in human
To protect himself, man builds nouses of brick
and stone, but to maintain these as securities
against the weather, he must constantly kn
I
up mending, paying taxes on thenv buying fuel to
rerxrUj
u is never over.
to avoid bank
which! ha. rt
and canever dVaT: " cffBe? U
rri.ii It.!T i
er ici2irUIUmtln fro,rMto a
SiirSSJ? 1 n"mber People by dif-
fLmf' uch4 mataining a stable value
whmf J3 g00d businesM
't1? IoS SSfV" ernployivaeot.
JlJZ:" Beveridge.
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Who's Hoarding? I -
From hints! we have picked up in our reading
we have a feeling that vast stores of our food
stuffs are piled up in government warehouses.
The 1941 and 1942 food production was very
high, and the government grabbed up large
proportions of the pack of such items as canned
fish, peas, dried beans, etc. The army simply
can't eat: all the stuff that was bought, and the
food proportion of lend-lease has been small.
The shortage; of shipping will restrict amounts
we can ship abroad.
' This paper recommends that Uncle Sam look
in his own cupboard to see if his numerous buy
ing agents haven't overstocked to the point
where civilian cupboards promise to resemble
Old Mother Hubbard's by the end of the year.
Mayor Rossi of San Francisco made a trip
Los Angeles trying to get Twentieth Century
Fox to delete "frisco" from the new film "Hello,
The mayor feels about "Fris-
wc vu auuuv oojcuuics. tut
latter word always makes us want to scratch.
j
News Behind
The News
By! PAUL MALLON
ibutributldn by Klnf Features Syndicate. Inc. Repro
duction In whole or tn part ttrtctly prohibited )
WASHINGTON, March 4 The politicians are
dusting: off !a new brand of goods called the
Beveridge social security plan.
Beveridge is coming to this country
shortly to promote it and is
TV t . mm ,
aireaay tanung to some ot our
meetings on trans-oceanic tele
phone. The London press and radio
reporters handled the recent
debate in parliament on the
subject as if this plan was to
answer man's historic longing
for safety ,.in life. The state
was to care for all his ills, from
cradle to the grave, providing
disability allowance, medical
and maternity benefits. Any
one who was against the idea
was just an old tory.
All right thinkers, with the interest of the com
mon people! at heart, were for it. That is the pic
ture with which we are presented.
What nobody pointed out was that the average
disability allowance for a man and wife under
this Beveridge panacea was $8.08 a week. This la
hardly enough to keep body and soul alive. Cer
tainly it is not social security.
It Is just a pleasant standard guard against
starvation, j and hardly justifies the idealistic ad
vertising that accompanies it.
The American system has provided a similar
pittance of $22.94 a month average . payment for
old age benefits, and $13 a week for unemploy
ment insurance.
Whie all people have paid into the fund, very
few peopl have benefited. Our experience with
social security to date has shown it to be mainly
a sly method of collecting more taxes.
The tw funds in the treasury have collected
$7,000,000,000 more to date than they have paid
out, but this $7,000,000,000 can hardly be called
a fund because it merely represents a debt of the
treasury to itsejf, as the money has been spent
on regular government running expenses.
It is doubtful if many people will ever benefit,
if this government otherwise provides their lives
with a decent living standard. The average good
worker ,(iir never be out of a job in his life, or
should nt be. There was never a time in the
worst degression when more than one-fifth of
the workers were out of jobs.
And if jthe worker is thus provided with adecent
living standard, he can make better provisions
himself for his old age than the government offers
him with! its $22.94 a month to live on.
It is evident, therefore, that real social security
calls for) something bigger than Beveridge plans.
Far more important for one instance, is the price
level and the value of the dollar.
The $22.94 a month cure for old age fears, was
enacted some years ago with somewhat the same
glamor bf publicity, prophesying a guarantee of
ociaT security for all, at a time when prices of
rood were just about half what they are now.
A greater degree of social security would have
been offered if the government had kept prices
stable far more neonla wauM hiv. i .
themselves than is represented
benefit payments to the few.
oH "
goal man always has onoht
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rtWIvIrlal V;m.1 M ?a
.
JLA ''
U.JZi, rcrconr the hazard, of
WeCertainly the kind of security that the political
huckster, now are crying Is a questionableethod
w 7 rT"T
-""v gooas aoes not
re eonteat. therein. ;
Paging Mrs. Luce!
TMay's Kadi Prograinnis
KSLM FRIDAY 1JS Ke.
7:00-hNews tn Brief.
7.-05-HRise'n Shine,
7:lS-j-Rise 'n' Shin.
7:30-New.
7 :454-Morning Moods.
8 XW-Rhythm rive.
S:354-Tango Time.
S.-OOi-Pastor's Can.
9:194-Dickion'a Melody Mustangs.
8 :30i Popular Music.
9:4S Uncle Sam.
World in Review.
10:05 A Song and A Dance.
10:30 Langworth String Quartet.
11 :0O- Maxinc Buren.
11 Sentimental Songs.
11:30 Hits of Yesteryear.
12:00 Organalittes.
12:15i New.
12:30 Hillbilly Serenade.
12:35 Willamette Valley Opinions.
1:00 Lum "n" Abner.
1:15 Rollo Hudson's Orchestra.
lJOt-Bright Horizons.
1 :454-SpoUight on Rhythm.
2:004-Isl of Paradise.
2:15 US Navy.
2:30 State Safety Program.
2:454-Broadway Band wagon.
3 00 KSLM Concert Hour.
4:00 Charles Magnante.
4:15News.
4 iSO -Teatime Tunrs.
5:15 -Records of Reminiscence.
6 :00-tTonight's Headlines.
6:15 War News Commentary.
6:20 -Symphonic Swing.
6 :45 Soldiers of the tllsl
7 -OO News in Brief.
7:05--Facts About Taxes.
T:15-tCIyde Lucas Orchestra.
7:50 Four Polka Dots.
S:00 War Fronts in Review.
:30 Treasury Star Parade.
:45-4-This My Story.
t:00 News.
9:15-HPrize Fight.
10:30 News
KALE MBS FRIDAY-
6:45f-Uncle Sam.
-1339 Ke.
7 H-Newt.
7:15r-Texas Rangers.
7 JO Memory Timekeeper.
8 i)0 Breakfast Club.
:30 News.
8:45 What s New.
9. -004-Boa ke Carter.
9:15 Woman's Side of the News.
9:30 Buyer's Parade.
9:4&-Edgewater Arsenal Band.
19:00 News.
lOSi Curtain Calls.
10:30-This and That
11:00 Cedric Foster.
11:15 BiU Hay Reads the Bible
1 1 JO Concert Ge ms .
12:25 On the Farm Front.
1230 News.
12:43 Music.
1:15 Music.
2 Mi Sheelah Carter.
2:15 Texas Rangers.
2:45 Pat Neal and the News.
3. -09 Phillip Keyne-Gordoa.
3 :1$ Wartime Women.
3:29 Hello Again.
3:45 Stars of Today.
4-00 Fulton Lewis, jr.
4:1$ Johnson Family.
439 News.
4:45 Let's Leant to Dance.
5:15 Superman.
830 Norman Nesbitt.
5:48 Remember When.
60 Gabriel Heatter.
6:15 Movie Parade.
630 Candlelight and SUver.
70 Zivic vs. Jacks.
80 Lone Ranger.
830 Music Without Words.
90 News.
9:15 Speaking of Sports.
930 General Barrow.
9:45 Fulton Lewis. Jr.
100 A Son of Bushido.
1030 News.
11 0 Johnny Richards Orchestra.
11:45 Sid Hoff Orchestra.
aiXBN FRIDAY Ke.
60 Moments of Melody.
6:15 National Farm and Home.
6:45 Western Agriculture.
70 SmUm' Ed McConnell.
J Home Demons tratioa Agent.
2:15 Music of Vienna.
7:45 Gene and Glenn.
80 Breakfast Oub.
J-Keep Fit with Patty Jean.
S:?2?,eet Your Neighbor.
5:15Wom Worlds
Breakfart at Sardi's.
190 Baukhage Talking.
19:15 Uncle Sam.
Your Federal Income Tax
Ne, S
Items Net Deductible
personal, living or family ex
penses and capital expenditures
are not deductible items in the
computation of the statutory
net income, whereas all the or
dinary and necessary expenses
of) carrying on any trade or bus
iness are deductible. ;
In the event a taxpayer is en
gaged in an occupation which re
wSe eTir AXeS
Cl rZ-1 7 " Army officers.
quires the use of equipment as
SrVennTiuSe
ajchl, deducuWotS ;T-me
extent 1 that it isrirffL.n.
r4LA LlU.&T???
w l " ace not
gt place of ordinary cloth-
in Thus expenditures for the
of cleaning of Jocke?.
uhif orms and baseball tuSorms
of pmfessional baaebanpbrverl
d ets of City firemen
policemen are allowable deduc-
tioo. whfl. the cost of uniform,'
or army and naw officer, tmr
es. raflwav train kLT"
: " ., . .
These schedules are sapplleti by
the respective stations. Any varia
tions noted by listeners are due te
changes snade by the staUons with
out notice to this newspaper.
AH radio stations saay be eat freaa
the air at any time la the interests
of national defense.
10:30 The Great Melody.
110 Breakfast Club.
11:15 Current Events.
11:30 James G. MacOonald. News.
11:45 Keep Fit Club with Patty Jean.
12:15 News Headlines.
1230 Cote Glee Club.
12:40 Market Reports.
-12:45 News Headlines.
10 Club Matinee.
130 Johnny Doughboy Reporting.
1 35 News
80 The Baby Institute.
8:15 Clancy Calling.
235 Labor News.
8:15 Kneass with the News. .
330 The Gospel Singer.
3:45 Pages of Melody.
40 The Latest Word.
45 Scramble.
430 Excursions in Science. ;
4:45 News.
90 Terry and the Pirate.
S 15 The Sea Hound.
5:30 Jack Armstrong.
5:45 Captain Midnight.
8:00 Hop Harrigao.
8.15 News.
85 The Lion's Roar.
30 Spotlight Bands.
35 Little KnowJi Facta.
70 John Gunther.
7:15 Gracie Fields.
730 Your Income Tax.
7:45 Construction Goes to War.
80 Earl Godwin, News.
8:19 Dinalv Shore.
8:30 Gang Busters.
90 Meet Your Navy.
930 News Headlines.
9:45 Down Memory Lane.
10:15 Deep River Boys.
1930 Eye Witness News.
10:45 Modern Music Box.
110 This Moving World.
11:15 Organ Concert.
1130 War News Roundup.
S
KOIN CBS FRIDAY 979 Ke.
6:00 Northwest Farm Reporter.
8:15 Breakfast Bulletin.
630 Texas Rangers.
6:45 Koin Klock.
7:15 Wake Up News.
7:30 Dick Joy, News.
7:45 Nelson Pringle. News.
6 .-00 Consumer News.
13 Valiant Lady.
830 Stories America Loves.
8:45 Aunt Jenny".
90 Kate Smith Speaks.
9:15 Big Sister.
9:30 Romance of Helen Trent.
9:45-rOur Gal Sunday.
100 Life Can Be Beautiful.
10:15 Ma Perkins.
1030 Vic and Sade
10:45 The Goldbergs. '
110 Young Dr Malone.
11:15 Joyce Jordan.
11 30--We Love and Learn.
II :45 News
12:15 Bob Anderson, News.
1230 Wm Winter. News.
12:45 Bachelor's Children.
1 0 OWL Uncle Sam.
130 American School of the Air.
2 o Newspaper of the Air.
230 Your Friday Date.
2:45 Ben Bernie. ,
3:15 Today at the Duncan's.
330r-Keep Working, Keep Singing.
l America.
3:49 News.
40 Milton Charles. Organist.
4:15 Sam Hayes.
j43 Easy Aces.
4:45 Tracer of Lost Persona.
80 Martha Mean.
830 Harry Flannery.
8:45 News.
-835 Cecil Brown. News. i
8:15 Oregon at War.
630 That Brewster Boy.
70 Caravan.
7:45 Nelson Pringle. News.
80 Four to Go.
8:15 Secret Weapon.
639 Playhouse.
! 90 Kate Smith Hour.
930 Adventures of the -Thin Man.
! 9:53 Quiz Quotient. 1 - '
19:00 Five Star FinaL
19:19 Wartime Women.
1930 Air-Flo of the Air.
1830 The World Today.
and surgeons is a personal ex
pense and not deductible. r
'Among, other.- nondeductible
items of expense paid or incurred
by taxpayers during the taxable
year there may be mentioned
premiums on life insurance pol
icies, insurance paid on a dwell
ing owned and occupied by a
taxpayer, ' amounts expended i In
seeking a position or in traveling
to I the place of a new position,
commuters' fares,' the ' cost of
post-graduate courses, bar exam- j
i M u '
ma nun xeea, ccsMUMua iui wip
maintenance and operation of an
automobile used for . personal
convenience and not by reason
ofj necessity .to connection with
a 1 business, penalty, payments ,
with respect to federal -taxes
whether on account of negli-
gence, delinquency or ' fraud
amounts paid by a parent to tin- I
emancipated minor- children for
services rendered by such minor
children, and amounts deducted
and withheld from the wages) or
salary of employees as federal
old-age benefit Ua -.-;!,
10:45 The Marines Have Landed.
110 Del Courtney Orchestra.
1130 Manny Strand Orchestra.
1135 News.
Midnight to 60 a.m. Music & News.
IGW-NBC FRIDAY 629 Ke.
4:00 Dawn PatroL
5:45 News.
5:55 Labor News.
6:00 Sunrise Serenade.
630 News Parade, i
6:55 Labor News.
70 News Headlines and Highlights
7:15 Aunt Jemima.
7 .20 News Parade.
. 7:30 Reveille Roundup.
7:45 Sam Hayes.
8:00 4tars of Today. .
8:15 James Abb Covers the News.
8 30 House Divided.
8:45 David Harum.
9:00 The O'Neills.
9:15 Everything Goes.
9:45 Kneass with the News.
100 Benny Walker's Kitchen.
10:18 US Marine Band.
1930 Homekeeper's Calendar.
10:45 Dt. Kate.
110 Light of the World.
11:15 Lonely Women.
1130 The Guiding Light.
11 :45 Betty Crocker.
120 Story of Mary MarUn.
12:15 Ma Perkins.
1230 Pepper. Young's Family.
13:45 Right to Hspptness. .
10 Backstage Wife.
1:15 Stella Dallas. .
130 Lorenzo Jones.
IMS Young Widder Brewa.
80 When a Girl Marries.
2.15 Portia Faces Life.
830 Just Plain Bill.
2:45 Front Page Farreu.
30 Road of Life.
8:15 Vie and Sad.
-330 Snow Village.
3:45 Judy and Jane.
40 Frank -Hemingway, News.
4:15 News ot the World.
430 The Personality Hour.
8:15 H. V. Kaltenbora.
830 Organ Concert.
945 By the Way. J
60 Waltz Tim.
6:30 People are Funny.
70 Tommy Riggs and Betty .Lou.
7:45 Talk.
80 Fred Waring tn Pleasure Tim.
i :15 James Abbe Covers tn News, j
8 30 Your AU-Tm Hit Parad. '
90 Furlough Fun.
9:30 Treasury Song Parad.
. 9:45 Oregon on Guard.
10 00 News Flashes.
10:15 Labor News.
1030 Starlight Souvenirs.
1030 Gardening for Food.
10:45 Unci Sam.
110 Your Bom Town New:
11:15 Hotel Biltmore Orche?i
1130 War News Roundup.
180-20 am. Swing Shift.
KOAC FRIDAY 49 Ke.
60 Music.
100 News.
10:15 The Homemaker's Hour.
110 School of th Air.
1130 Music of Beethoven.
120 News.
12:15 Noon Farm Hour.
10 Artist In RecttaL
1:15 Today's War Commentary.
130 Variety Tim.
1 :4S Victory Front.
80 Club Women's Half Hour.
,830 Music.
30 News
3:15 Why Nursing?
845 Th Concert HaU. -
40 Treasury Star Pared. '
4:15 Latin Rhythm. .
430-Storis for Boys and Girls.
50 Private Pet Presents.
8:18 On th Came
630 Evening V
8:45 It's Oregon's War.
6:18 News.
630 Evening Farm Hour.
739 Music of Beethoven.
89 Tn Timber Wolves.
830 Higher EducaUon in Wartime.
30 New. -
945 Unci Sam.' . -
190 Th Jtour of Great Musi. .
1030 Th Hour of Great Musi.
119 Favorite Melodie.
Yanks Bring Back Prisoners in
I , I- I. i II, ... , ; lt -IIIIIM ,
f : "
Goarded by US soldiers with fixed
t th rear f&Hawfn sa sT.lJ rail
:T.
t
mm
- "Bruce lias
ept? I thou-
How; like him! Making me
come out in , the! middle of the
night and not bother tq be awake
to greet me" t . ij ; $:
In the door w stopped.
On the; floor, right 14 front of
us, a gray-trousered leg stuck
out stiffly. Ahdjthe foot that
belonged, to if was- small, and
encased 'In a, high-heeled pump.
i My. . eyes traveled lalong the
leg in weird fascination
Gala was 1 jbrouchih on the
floor, in her gray slack suit, her
artificial leg protruding at an
unnatural angle. Slid wis looking
straight at tne, out 'of the sad
dest eyes I had ever sten. Tears
were streaming down iher cheeks
and she. waa holdlngji. man In .
"herarms BruceJ I . i! j."-
His head was Mtedf far back.
His wide-open eyes ( stared up
unseeingly. In the j middle of his
forehead was a smllvf round hole
from which fa thih, drk snake
was crawling over ils face,' down
--Gala's arm and ort tothe floor.
He was quite deadtl f
I don't know 1 io long we
stood in the door,' staring at Gala
and the dead. Brucef Perhapa
only, a minute. Perhaps much
longer. J.
Aunt Millie was the first to
shake off the numbing horror
and find her voice, j-1 1
"Where's the hjeahest tele
phone?" shel asked In a hoarse
whisper. '' ' i i 1 1 -'
It took a while before the
question penetrated Gala's con
sciousness. At the Butler farm.
iwo mues down thfii-oad,'7 she
said at last,1 almost iriaudibly.
"In this direcUonlAunt MU
lie nodded away from the lake
and Gala said "Yes'l fa the same
hushed tone.. f I.
"All right, Kayl You hold the
fort. Ill go tell the ilolice and
your father; and Allan," Aunt
Millie ' announced wth a re-'
assuring pressure of pay shoul
der. Then her feet pattered down
the porch steps-fttte muffled
roar of her motor shattered the
stillness changed inio a purr
dwindled died away
The quiet became absolute
again. ;f- :. - II
I kept leaning against the side
of the door; gazing I at the dead
man and living! woman before
me, my mind aj welter of con
jectures and sudden illumina
tion. Until at lasi f my knees
buckled iwith weakness and
strain and .1 slid fa! a heap to
the high doorsill. 1 1
Slowly the sun IWas gaining;
force. The landscape f was taking;
on stronger, hues, and the Inside
or me cabin sprang i clearly in
to view as a j window behind
Gala -burst iln to J sudden bright
ness, turning her hair into i
flaming halo. ' j
The p 1 a c e was! completely
wrecked. 1 ; . M- I r . ..
The lids had been pulled off
the seat-chests running along the
walls. Old fishing-tackle, mag-p
azines, tennis j rackf ts all the
odds and ends that accumulate in
an unused summer camp-strew-ed
the floor iafwdd confusion.
The upholstery! of a glider couch
had been ripped opeii, the draw
ers of a desk pulled! out
It was the samej Kind of des
truction I had (seen in the Bur
ton library. The same motive for
this second murder?
I do not remember; asking the j
question aloud. I (only know
Gala answered it j j j
"All for the miserable radium,'
she said faintly, jail !f a sudden.
From then t)ni we f talked. Not
coherently. In fragments dis
Jointedly liinkuii out loud.
And yet In complete understand
ing of each other and the situa-
tion.
I said: : "I
knew- "
think you
And she answered, after a long;
pause: "Bruce; told; tne Thurs-j
day. The first time saw himJ
It took bun aj week, finding th
wuriif w hr j me. i -. -i i
"It would. He was la coward.i
It .was dreidfulj I pron
judgment, on' a tniuf - who wi
lying befqre ne deadL murd
But I couldn't help it
"No he wasn't. iHt was
spoiled." A world ! of fortaving
understanding lay j In! the words
Hit bUk mood in tboW
weeks it was you.! He was try4
i-i I.
"Hi-;-
i
bayeaeta,
leas' lln mt
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Tr
overs!
didnft
i !
fhg to forget you, by marrying
me," I said next And, a little
&ter: "No" w o n d e r it didn't
woric- -... .. f
j "He hated ugliness. My acci-dentr-it
drove ; him wild with
i horror and repulsion. He couldn't
marry a i cripple a mutilated.
Woman. I didn't understand then.3
It made me terribly bitter.".
j Avery ' was taking you to
nini when It hsnnnH " It ura
ht a question. It was a state-
Pent -W.:r'- i.'-
i -m. i w im nia mm auucruiai
or his act of friendship to this .
day. First he almost died and '
later you know how his wife
acts , - -
j "She's a dreadful person. I
ont see why he stands It, why
aoesn t leave ner
"One accident And so much ,
, for so many people!
nice C u r 1 1 s s I and you.
nice shouldn't have made you '
fan" ., i : ,
"Suffer?. ! didnt suffer. Or
yes, I did. It was a humiliation.
But it's all so long ago. I can't
feel anything now. He was my
htlshsuul tor thr woV-a mrtA
now he's nothing but a dead
stranger. It's all wrong. I should '
feel something I must!" I ac-
cused myself.
luoi.uus ueciarea;
"I couldn't feel anything either
when he was alive. I'd waited '
five years to tell him I hated
him for leaving me to face my
wrecked life alone. And then;
when we met nothing. It was
all over gone burnt out He
asked me to marry him after
leg didn't matter any more. And
I couldn't I couldn't seee him :
any longer as a man. He'd be-
thrown pebbles at me from the
garden next door "
we went on in mat vein end
lessly, it seemed. Telling the past
in rambline snatches that marfo
sense only to us. - , .
An d then Aunt Millie was -back.
,. -.: . . I: '
"They U be here i as fast" as
they can make It" she said,
dropping down' on the, doorstep .
beside me. "But itH be an hour
and a half at best" '
Her return broke our strange .
mood and stranger confidences.
We fell silent again and sat
motionless waiting -
All around us the life of the
auresi was a;oing on. rsiras twit
tered near by, ftittingr in and
out from under th porch roof.
A squirrel sat on the railing a
few yards away, looking at us
suspiciously out of shiny black
yes and scolding furiously.
I tried to watch the small
creatures, keep my mind occu
pied with them. But after a ) j
time they submerged into a great ,
void, with the rest, of the world, U
and I fell into a sort of trance,
staring at nothing and waiting
waiting :' " ;
The noise of several cars turn
ing into the driveway pulled me
out of my daze; a whole crowd .
of men came swarming up the
steep footpath. - I
The Inspector and Doc Tobie,
the Coroner, were at th head.
with Sergeants Hatch and Flynn
at their heels. And behind them
came what looked like the whole
CI iff port police force, photogra
phers, fingerprint men and all,
and oh, joy! Dad and Allan.
sPta rtavt WtAfManr T "
Dad's arms, and he was stroking
"'j c u uiicu uuiie wnen
r was a kid, murmuring gently:
Tfnvf little V..,f iirv '
didnt you confide in me! Why
did you cfrry this burden alone!"
And Allan said, close to my ear: '
"I had to tell your father and
Inspector Pettengill, darling.'
There was no other way no
explanation for your being out
here." r :;;: . : M:
it didn't matter. I merely nod- '
ded my understanding and held - j
on to both of them for pro
tection and shelter.
V But not for long. The Inspec
tor's 'voice, heavy with sarcasm
. , enaea my reprieve.
"So you went i to the Burton .
house for a lost cotnpaetr It ;
said. "You didnt have sens
enough to tell me the truth! Now
look what your fool lying and
accrei-Keeping aonel cost a man
his life. And he your husband '
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