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Steel Plates and PerformanceT? V
The nine day ftT the news broke of the
faking of analysis reports' on sheet steel manu
factured ; at Irvin f works of Carnegie-Illinois
Steel company, m subsidiary I United. States
Steel corporation, this office receired a copy
j of the annual-report of the corporation. With
' out defending, the company for shipping any
off-grade steel plate foruse by thej navy or
maritime commission, we are sure from a. read
ing of the annual report of the corporation that
it has made a -great "contribution to (the war.
President Perry f of the company declared tha
falsifying of reports was without the knowledge
of the higher management. Slipping the plates
through may 'have "been due more to pressure
for deliveries than-reed for profits. Ships, more
ships has .been 4he incessant cry; and it will not
be surprising if flaws both in production of
materials and fabricating them are discovered.
US Steel for instance has lost 70,000 workers
to the war -aad 4tas had to train 109,000 new
workers as .substitutes and for new jobs. Scarce
ly a plant in the country is not in trouble be
cause of ' inferior quality production due to
green help.
Look now at the better side of the US Steel
picture: j
The corporation produced in 1942' over 30
million tons of steel ingots which probably is
more than the total production for Germany and
.Japan together. -Its shipbuilding subsidiary
completed mere destroyers for the navy in
' shorter building -time than any other yard in
the country. Its inventors perfected a steel
landing mat , now used for airplane landing
fields even on boggy ground. They also helped
perfect welding .permitting the production of
welded tanks. The prices it received for Its
products are about the same as in 1939; its
Composite price was two per cent lower than in
1929 while its average cost of labor per hour
was 38 per cent higher.
: While the gross earnings of US Steel were the
highest in its history close to two billions of
dollars; its net earnings for its stockholders
were lowest except in two years, per dollar of
sales of any year, when earnings were reported.
Of the increase in receipts over 1941, wages
to workers took 25 per cent, taxes 21 per cent;
dividends to stockholders were the same, but
the residue to be carried forward was 78 per
cent less than In 1941. The net return on its
capital investment was $71,800,000, which is
less by nearly 20 million dollars than back in
1902 the first year of the company's operations.
Out of the 1942 .gross earnings workers re
ceived $783 millions, government in the form
of taxes $204 millions, the preferred stockhold
ers $25 millions and the common stockholders
$35 millions. i
Who own the United States Steel corpora
tion? The books show that the capital stock
Is held in 218,463 names. Of these 15,482 are
charitable and educational institutions, fiduci
aries, insurance companies, etc, and 12,757 are
brokers, holding for account of others. Most
people will be amazed to know that of the in
dividual stockholders, there are practically, as
many women as men: 95,110 women holding
3,225,000 shares of stock to 95,136 men with
3,648,000 shares.
: Operating a great corporation like US Steel,
Js really a trusteeship. Its managers now are
turning out products, and for the most part
high quality products for military purposes.
They also must respect the rights of labor, and
the corporation has accepted the rulings of the
iwar labor board even when they ran counter
to company policy. They are also stewards for
the investment of thousands of people who de
pend on. bond interest or dividends for their
own support.
It is not enough, therefore to complain over
the imperfect plates the company shipped, re
prehensible as that is. The other side of the
ledger should be examined, and there a credit
able performance on a vast scale is indicated.
The White-Headed
Eagle
Old Oregen Trail Centennial Series' Na. t
" The Hudson's Bay Fur company and the North
c western consolidated in 1821, under the name of
the former. Not liking the surroundings at Fort
George a site was chosen farther up the river
where a fort was erected and christened Fort Van
couver by Governor George Simpson on March 19,
1825. Dr. John McLoughlin was placed in charge
as chief factor of: all the "Oregon Country. He
had a tall, commanding presence, with a mane of
1 anow-white hair which fell to his shoulders and
the Indians called him the "White-Headed Eagle".
He was monarch of aU he surveyed and ruled with
an iron hand, though a kindly one. McLoughlin
married Margaret McKay, f widow of Alexander
McKay who was Jdlled on the Tonquin. Four chfl-'
dren were born to them: John, Eliza, ; ZSoise and --.:
David..-- 4 , ---4 -j ,
The White-Headed Eagle, was a business' man
as well as a fur trader.' He built sawmills and grist
mills, established, dairies and carried on a large
trade along the Pacific coast and in the Hawaiian
islands. The fur magnate imagined that the Bocky
mountains presented an insurmountable barrier to
wagons and the colonization of the Oregon Coun
try. When the historic wagon tram of 1843 reached
the Columbia and - floated down stream to Fort
Vancouver, the White-Headed Eagle saw the hand
Writing on the walL v ;.'.:';
f Disregarding profits, McLoughlin supplied the
needy emigrants with food and clothing, thereby
' preventing much suffering and many deaths. He
retired from the Hudson's Bay company In 1848
and took up residence at Oregon City. His last days
were not happy ones. He was condemned by the
British for his kindness to: the Americans,. and was
censured ty tha Americans who called him a Brit
isher, thou: 'a fee had taken out citizenship papers."
On Septenibert V 1357 the WMte-Headed Eagle
settled to earth and was laid to rest beside the falls
he loved so -well. Doubtless he went to his grave
before his time because of the base Ingratitude of
man. " T - ; -
Like a Tree Planted
The composer of the first Psalm wrote a poem
which fits the late Rev. E. S. Hammond,' who
served for twenty years as professor at Kimball
School of Theology in Salem: , j-;
"Blessed is the man that walketh not in tha
counsel, of the ungodly, nor standeth in the
way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the
scornful. j : '
"But his delight Is in the law of the Lord;
and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
"And he shall be. like a tree planted by th
rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit
In his season; his leaf also shall not wither;
and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Firm in his religious convictions, Mr, Ham
mond was nonetheless kindly and tolerant. Ha
loved his fellow-men, and sought always , for
their uplift. Good works were the fruit of his
long life, and his innate kindliness the memory
which his friends long will cherish.
Herman Oliver, leading stockman and citizen
of central Oregon topped off a long record of
fine service on the state board of higher edu
cation! with a term on the state highway com
mission. His term ends and the appointment
goes to Arthur W. Schaupp, Klamath Falls at
torney. Mr. Oliver proved a capable member
of the highway board. Ha was well I known
all through eastern Oregon and the people had
the utmost .confidence in his judgment and
fairness. During his term marked strides were
made toward completing the surfacing; of the
primary road system in eastern Oregoi. Now
only a few gravel gaps remain, which probably
will not be closed until the war is over. Mr.
Oliver can retire with the satisfaction of having
done a good job. The change is due merely to
the dictates of politics.
Tom Ray, boss of the boilermakers' union, has
changed his mind on the length of the work
day; for shipbuilders. He was plugging for a
ten-hour, two-shift day. "Now, on his return
from a trip across the country he recommends
the eight-hour day, six days a week. Under the
working conditidns and travel conditioiw which
prevail in the Portland area his latter ; proposal
is more sensible. When you add to the eight
hours of work five hours of travel for many
yard -workers i the day is plenty lon. If the
workers could be housed conveniently dose
to the yards then they could do the ten-hour
turn. But that isn't true in Portland.
'1
The most welcome call this spring will bet
"butter up!
Mews Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLON
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(DUtributloa by Kin rcature 8ylcate. Ins. Repro
duction in whola or in. part atrtetly prohibited.)
WASHINGTON, Ma r e h 25 The congressmen
nave been getting so many letters from back home
that the aitaunlatrations opposition to the Ruml
plan la lixely to be formaL
Speaker Bayburn and Floor Leader McCormack
are talking anything but tough
to, the democratic members,
- ana, wnue mere is no ques-
tlon of their sincere desire to
follow the leadership of ways
: and means committee Chair-j
man Doughton, they realise it
I cannot be done. j
The best they are likely to
Set are some modifications yet
to be worked out. j
Probably the greatest obstacle
they have faced here is the
' fact that influential Mr. Dough4
ton has saved the money for bis I
i. next year's taxes wisely and
prudently, and he has not been sympathetic about
the viewpoint of others who were not able to do
. so, or (who were not so prudent or wise. j. 1
' The treasury opposition has been based ostensi-j
bly on! the idea that the rich would be helped. But
that attitude also may possibly have softened some4
What by the fact that the March 15 income ta
returns did not anywhere come up to expectations
and, bonds were cashed in large quantities! to make
' them. The figures suggested that people Were uni
. able to meet .the current revenues, much less ati
tempt o meet the committee proposal to lure double
payment rot taxation this year with iper cent
belt;::;i j . .
However, Representative Frank Carlson, ret
publican, of Kansas, has estimated that the tadi
pole bit of 9 per cent discount small as it Is, would
cause possibly 5,000,000 people to borrow a billion
dollars this year. J
This, however, would benefit only those! who had
sufficient credit to borrow at less than eiper cent
from a bank. .
It would lonly solve the problem of ithe n
who has cash at hand, not necessarily the iich mari.
whose taxes this year are terrific, or in bonds
(including government). ;j T
; Jheie necessary war taxes are equally burdeni
some bn an.. It causes the rich man just as much
difficulty to raise say $10,000 at bis high rate of
taxation by comparison with his income, as it does
the poor man by comparison with bis $25 a week.
The rates, vary, but It is no easy burden for any; .
one td carry, - j j
Under these circumstances, the rank aad file of .
democfats have broken away from house leadership .
wtBura ana aa.cvrmacx have been required
w wee me aiotauon to get the best they, can. i
ByjANNE ROWfe
CISil
The Impractical Joker 1943
Today's ffiaclSo (Pcogcainni:
KSLM TKIOAY UM K. i
7.-00 Nw In Briet
7.-S5 Risn' Shins.-
7JS New.
7 :4 Mornlnf Moods.
S rtO Rbytbm Tiy.
80 News Brevities.
SS Tango Tbna.
SM Pastor's Can. -
JO Lest We rsrset. 1 i ,
:45 Undo Sam.
10.-00 World m Bcvk. I
10. -OS A Song -and A Dane.
1030 Langwortfa Strtoa Quartet.
11 ao Marine Buren.
11:1S Sentiinntal Sdbrt.
11:30 Hi t ot Yesteryear. -: ... ,
12:00 OrgahaUUes. -12:lSMews.
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12:30 Hillbilly SrBad. --.
1235 Willamette Valley Opinion.
1 -MlAim n' Abner.
1:1S Rollo Hudson's Orebestra.
1:45 Spotlight on Rhythm, i
20 Isle of Paradiss.
2:15 US Navy
230 State Safety Program.
2:45 Broadway Band Wagon.
3:00 KSLU Concert Hour.
4 AO Charles Magnante.
. 4:15 News.
43o Teatima Tunes.
5 LIS Records of Remlnlscencs.
6:00 Tonight's Headlines.
6:15 War News Commentary.
30 Symphonic Swing.
6:45 Soldiers of tha Prs . '
70 News in Brief.
75 Clyde Lucas' Orchestra. .
7:30 Willamette Valley OpuUoftf.
730 Four Polka -Dots. .
30 War Fronts in Rerlew.;
830 Treasury Star Parade. ,
8:45 This My Story.
9M News.; i
:15 Deds Without Words.
30 Guest Night.
10 30 News.
BtAUC MBS FKIDAY 1331 Ke.
6:45 Uncle 8am.
70 News.
7:15 Texas Rangers.
730 Memory Timekeeper.
80 Breakfast Club.
830 News.
8:45 What'! New.
.-00 Boake Carter.
:15 Woman's Side of the News.
3o Buyer's Parada.
:45 Edsewater Arsenal
100 News.
10:15 Curtain Cans.
1030 This and That
110 Cedric Foster.
11:15 Bill Hay Reads tha Bible.
1130 Concert Gems. '
1225 On the Farm Front.
1230 News.
12:45 Music.
1.-00 Launching- ot S3 Georfs I
Baker.
1 US Music
130 Music,
20 Sheelah Carter.
2:15 Texas Rangers. i
2:45 Pat Neal and the News.
30 Phillip Keyne-Gordon, j
2:15 Wartime Women, j
330 Hello Again. !
8:45 Stars of Today.
40 Fulton Lewis. J. s
4:15 Johnson Family.
430 News.
4:43 Let's Learn to Danes.
S :1S Superman.
30 Norman Nesbitt.
5:45 Remember When.
60 Gabriel Heatter. j
:15 Movie Parade.
8:30 Candlelight and Silver. !
t:uo Grecors Shans.
t0 Lone Ranger.
30 Music Without Words.
80 News.
:15 Speaking of Sports.
30 General Barrows.
8:45 Fulton Lewis. Jr.
100 Soldiers of the Press.
1030 News.
110 Noble Sissle Orchestra.
11:45 Sid Hoff Orchestra.
Bars are axtrS rsaia pragraassv
for the benefit at snaU subscribers
ta The Statesman. Back day the
current day's aracrams will be
puKUsasa as asaal and. ta addition,
thai first half at the next day?
scaedales will appear aa th
7flUSmlllnk .'Id McConneH.
75 Homa Deinonstration Agent.
7:15 Muaio of Vienna
7:4S Geneand: Glenn.
aw Breeszast : Club.
8.-00 Keep Fit with Patty Jean.
AS Woman's .World.
30 Breakfast at ardi'a.
100 Baukhage .TaUdnc.
103 The Gospel Singer.
10:43 The - Baby. Institute.
1 JS Current Events.
1130 Pages of Melody.
11:45 Your Hollywood News.
12:15 News Headlines.
1230 Cote Glee Club.
12:40 Market Reports.
12:45 News Headlines.
(10 News.
130 Johnny Doughboy Reporting.
! 138 News. ,
iS Clancy Calling.
:S3s -Uncle Sam.
j 2:55 Labor News,
i 3:15 Kneass with the News.
sw xrue story.
430 Excursions in Science.
4.-45 News. -
80 Terry and the Pirates.
5 :1 The Sea Hound.
38 jack Armstrong.
8:48 CaDtain Mldnlsht.
; 89 Hop Harrlgan.
L 8:15 News.
'J 6 30 Spotlight Bands.
6 35 Little Known Facts.
70 John Gunther.
1 7 .15 Oracle Fiebls.
7:48 Talk.
30 Karl Godwin, News.
8:15 Dinah Shore,
: 8:30 Gang Busters.
80 Meet Your Navy.
830 News Headlines.
1 8:45 Down Memory Lane.
1030 Deep River Boys.
1030 Eye Witness News.
10:45 Modern Music Box,
11:00 This Moving World.
11 :15 Orxan Concert.
u-wir news Rounaup.
!
KEX BN FKIDAY 119S Ka.
88 Moments of Melody.
8:15 National Farm and Home.
8:45 Western Agriculture.
Stuck to Guns
BXOIN CBS FRmAY 878 Ke.
60 Northwest Farm Reporter.
SOS Breakfast Bulletin.
830 Texas Rangers.
6 AS Kom KlockL.
7:15 Waka Up News.
730 Dick Joy, .News.
7:45 Nelson Pringle. News.
S. -00 Consumer News.
35 Valiant Lady.
830 Stories America Loves.
S .-43 Aunt Jenny.
90 Kate Smith Speaks.
8:15 Big Sister.
30 Romance of Helen Trent
:45 Our Gal Sunday.
00 Life Can Be Beautiful.
10:15 Ma Perkins.
10 JO Vic and Sada
10:45 Tha Goldbergs.
110 Young Dr Malona. '
11:15 Joyce Jordan.
1130 We Love and Learn.
11:45 News
12:19 Bob Anderson. News.
1230 Wm Winter, News.
12:45 Bachelor's Children.
10 OWL Uncle Sam.
1 130 American School of the Air.
20 Newspaper of the Air.
1236 This Life is Mine.
30 Dave Lane.
3:15 Today at tha Duncan's.
330 Keep Working. Keep Singing;
ii America.
3:45 News.
40 Milton Charles, Organist,
4:15 Sam Hayes.
430 Easy Aces.
4:45 Tracer of Lest Persona.
80 Martha Mears.
830 Harry Flannery. .
8:45 News.
8:55 CecU Brown. News,
8:15 Oregon at War.
830 That Brewster Boy.
70 Caravan.
7:45 Elmer Da via.
89-1 Leva A Mystery.
8 :30 Playhouse.
80 Kate Smith Hour.
930 Adventures of the Thin Man.
188 Five Star Final.
10:15 Wartime Women.
1038-Air-Flo of tha Air.
1038 That World Today.
10:45 Benny Goodman Orchestra. .
1130 Manny Strand Orchestra.
11 35 -News.
Midnight to 830 ajBv-Musl it News.
KGW NBC FRIDAY 428 Ke.
40 Dawn PatroL
3-39 Good Morning.
835 Labor News.
80 Sunrise Serenade.
830 News.
8.-45 Labor News.
630 News Healines and Highlights.
70 News.
7:15 News.
735 Aunt Jemima.
730 Reveille Roundup,
7 MS Sam Hayes.
80 Stars of Today.
8:15 James Abbe Covers the News.
830 Symphonic Swing.
8:45 David Harum.
0 The O'Neills.
as Everything Goes. x
8:45 Kneass with the News.
100 Benny Walker's Kitchen.
10:15 US Marina Band.
14 30 Homekeeper's Calendar.
10:45 Dt Kate.
110 Light of the World.
11 35 Lonely Women.
1130 The Guiding Light.
11:45 Betty Crocker.
120 Story of Mary Marital.
12:15 Mi Perkins.
1230 Pepper Young's Family. t
12:45 Right to Happiness.
10 Backstage Wife.
1:15 Stalls Dallas.
130 Lorenzo Jones.
- 1:45 Young Widder Brown.
20 When a Girl Marries.
3:15 Portia Faces Life.
230 Just Plain Bill.
2:45 Front Page FarreU.
30 Road of Life.
3:15 Vie aad Sada.
3:30 Snow Village.
3.-45 Judy and Jane.
430 Frank Hemingway. News.
4:15 News of the World.
430 The Personality Hour. -8:15
H. V. Kaltenborn.
530 Song of tha Strings.
8:45 By tha Way.
60 Waltz Tims.
630 People are Funny.
70 Tommy Biggs and Betty Lou.
7:45 Talk.
80 Fred Waring In Pleasure Time.
8:19 James Abbe Covers tha News.
830 Your All-Time Hit Parade.
80 Furlough Fun.
930 Treasury Song Parade,
9:45 Oregon on Guard.
100 News Flashes.
10:15 Your Home Town News.
10:23 Labor News.
10 30 Gardening for Food.
10:45 Uncle Sam.
11:15 Hotel Biltmore Orchestra.
1130 War News Roundup.
120-28 ajn-Swlng Shift
KOAC FRIDAY 55 Ke.
100 News.
10:15 The Homemaker's Hour.
110 School of the Air.
1130 Music of Beethoven.
120 News.
12:15 Noon Farm Hour.
10 Artist in Recital.
1:15 Today's War Commentary.
130 Variety Time.
IMS Victory Front
20 Club Women's Half Hour.
230 Music.
30 News.
-3:15 American Legion Auxiliary.
330 The Concert Halt
40 Treasury Star Parade.
4:15-Lstin Rhythms..
430 Stories for Boys and Girls.
80 Private Pete Presents.
8:15 On tha Campuses.
830 Evening Vespers.
6:45 Ifs Oregon's War.
8:15 News.
30 Evening Farm Hour.
730 Music of Beethoven.
0 Science. News of Week.
30 Higher Education in Wartime, '
80 Eyes Aloft
39 News.
.-4 Uncle Sam.
The) question ot where Jim Farley Is gcing with
the support he has been organizing has been puzi.
xling a number of the higher politicos.some ok
i the republicans have been suggesting that he would
look good as vice presidential candidate on V
ticket with Governor Bricker, of Ohio, fori Instance. .
: So far as anyone around here has been able to
detect Mr. Farley's work, whatever It has been,
; has been in favor of Mmjf , T ? r
; A coalition with the rpulUcans presurnes tneri- -ger
ar down the line of the anti-Roosevelt democ '
racy, and whether it could be completed or not, Is a
Question, and there are others; in the naxtr with
T. I urunw son aenaiors. i
ifl w may not jell, but it is
aruunq..
Onterpretins
he War Neivs
By GLENN BABB
Wide World War Analyst for Tha
being talked"
Staff Srt. 8aas Sarpetaa (abere)
ef St Clair. Ifich, stack to Us
frans fat the fall ef a Flytas;
, Fertress after the rear foslsra
w stem cu ot zuui woes a
nasi fighter pUna) crashed Into
it ever 'Berth Africa. Hi felt
ef a
kite daring the beanber'a
trto. eclated
It Is three weeks now since the
r: German high command boasted
that ito resurgent army' ef tha
TJkralne was deployed along the
middle and upper Donets river
Of some ox the most desperate at
tacks of the war, into which the
Germans threw fresh divisions
and a formidable concentration
cf tanks and planes, tha Una of
the river stm holds.
.Therefore there seems to be
justification for the belief that
the German counter-offensive in.
the: Ukraine has just about run
itsj crxirsev Thursday Moscow re
ported a slackening of the en
erity's pressure along the Donets
and even the Berlin communis
que described the fighting there -as
X,onlxlocal teportencav . . ;
German success In the Ukraine
comeback, while considerable, -:
has not been complete. ; It pre
vented the winter campaign
-from being an unmitigated nazt
disaster, it salvaged a portion of
some -of the choicest territory
gained in 1941, but left unan
swered the1 question whether
Germany Russia will hold the
initiative when the spring phase
of the war in the east opens. :
. It may be that the Germans
Intend to stand and fight - for
Smolensk and that they have '
Just about reached the line they
chose for this purpose when they
abandoned the Rzhev-Gzhatsk-Yyazma
eallent. Today's front
may be aroxlrnately fcat from
which tha spring drives, west
ward or eastward, are. to be
launched. -
' Oi&irier. If coktinnef.
1'rfdlesticka! Evf r heard lot a
wom4a giving; a waj a man ihe's
in loe with?t The lastute dowa
ger,aglance fiickied) Amy. Wild
horse couldnt : bate dragged it
out M Stella, pptoher snooping
expetion last night. That seems
to he been the drkp too much.
But !&en she certaiijly did get an
earful when shf crawled after
her 'tfar Curtis jell through; the
dark Voods back loi your garden,
Amymy.imIL-.'J r-y
said my.j Just MOhr.
"Ye. Ohl lirsi Wbby mimick
ed. And rm glad she got scared
enotigV to tell on ihim. Though
in a'tSay it stjruckjme is funny:
Averyf being $s afraid of Stella
as she.: was Of j hm. It - seems '
" realismg she knew had given him
awfulr cold jfeet! Anyway, it
changl all fus plans. Where
' he'd epected to ftay and (play
up to':Kay, h n$w wanted to,;
run, felta Am. 'And In his ex
citement he was Incautiousj and
let th cat out o the bag; let
her se he'd donethe two mur
ders sd wai; ready for a' few':
more-4o kill:Kayj for the stone
and thimuchtalkfd-of envjelope .
and hidearlr beloved wife for
wellyou mightsay, the plea
sure otAV She suddenly beam
ed onjAmy.My hat's off to
you, 4uTd. From what Stella
said, yt did exactly what I
would dbce !ln your place:
kept ycPr head add told him off,'
even wen he thratened td add
you to fcls victims in case you'd
get the Jbotionf of jrunning to the
, police. Stood up t him and! told
him yoVl not allow any more
murdert? wouldnt let him go
near Krf." II ff ... j -
There was dead, silence lit the
" room wen Ms.!libby paused
to let her discioaufes sink In. No
one sai4a Word Least of all
Amy. Ahd aftejT awhile jMrs.
Libby Wtot,o:; !i
"I must say, 7 was flabber
gasted. The ldeaijjSteUa coining
to me with hei ffltji Instead of
calling tie police) Well, I gave
her a pieee of rymind and pang -you
up. She -npt lyou knowp
Yes, :iue retjwe all know,
the Insctor fziojdded. "Except
one thiri. Tell nle,- Miss Amy:
what didfyou thipk would hap
pen to ypuv--aftorwards?',
"You'drput me-n prison,' Axaj
said simMy. T-didn't likr the
idea; I tried tojto double-cross
Curt and Call you up last tiight.
. It Is fall nowj The garden is a
riot of late flowers, the trees a
blazing glory ot gold and crim
son and flame.'
. The summer has been short
and very quietj because of my
official -maiming." And I've
had so much idle tune. on my
hands I decided to write . this
account ox my; icxriuu 41m
weeks here in Cliffport.
AH the people who played a
part in them have scattered.
Aunt Millie has gone back to
New York and her own life.
Amy is being "punished" for her
lapse from moral grace by tak
ing an extended South American
trip with her; parents. Stella
Every is in a sanatorium, learn
ing! not to scream. Even Mrs.
Libby thought
turn her back
it advisable to
on her beloved
But I couldn't; I Just couldn't.
So you'd better arrest me now."
"Stop tslkingi nonsense, t told
you onceyou been mighty fielp
ful bringing the murderer to
justice aM majrbe saving Miss
Kay's lifef the Inspector told her
with assumed grtmness. There's
nothing more fesay. This case
Is closed Thi jnlk heaverj the
grand jury's ln Session, and ifll
all be ov: soo Be seeingj you,
on and off thai witness stand, I
hope." . f I - if
And that is the end of my story
about themurder m the empty
Cliffport for a while.
And Curtiss ' Avery, of course,
has been taken to the state pri
son, for life. : j;-
- ' Only dad, Allan and I are left
and Gala. '"
My beautiful tepmother-to-be
is yery busy these days, design
ing my trousseau, and hers. We
are getting married in a few .
weeks. She and Dad, Allan and
The ceremonies will be in the
large drawing room that played
such aa important role in the
murder investigation, and one
of j our few local guests will be
Inspector Josiahj PetfengUL
EDad will give me away
n, then Allan and I will
I- his marriage to Gala.
Arid later well) go on separate
honeymoons and come back to
live in this loyely ' old house.
Allan and I for keeps, in this
grjound-floor apartment And
Dad and Gala upstairs. Tem-
- pofarily, and as our guests.
For the hous belongs to me
now; all of it Gala made my
taking it over trie ,of her Con-.
ditions when she accepted a
share of the Burton inheritance.
Because, after all, her home will ,
be! wherever the government .
sends Dad, while Allan and I
wiU live here for years -as long
as he remains the head of the
shipyard.; '; ' j " "
- There 'was ope other matter
onj which we agreed, in our di- .
vision of the Burton estate. The
large Burton house.
We didn't want it Neither "
Gala nor I had the desire to be
reminded of ou Past mistakes'
and two 'horrible murders each
time we looked at the ugly bulk.
And so it is coming down the -moment
the estate is settled, in
time for the spring planting, we
hope, so that the space it took
up can speedily be made into
part of the garden. ,
Well have a wcmderful view,
when it Is gone, far over the bay -and
the shipyard. Please God
wH enjoy it through many,
many years.' " j '
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