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PAGE SIX MEDFORT) MA 17 j TTiTTJUXR MEDFORD. OREGON'. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 6. 1933. THE ARMY POST MURDERS By Virginia llanton The Character Katherln Ceratih, mvI, t)d- Iftns Elizabeth on mli-ireitem Army pott. Fllubeth, tht colonel'! daugh- ter. Adam Drew, a friend. TetUrdty: My lance', Charlie, It itlll avoiding me. Chapter Six Under Her Spell INSIDE the club the musicians did their best to get hot, Anne's tiny feet flew, her short dark curls tumbled forward and she tossed them back. She was pale, her big iris eyes a little glassy. Suddenly she faltered, swayed and reached a groping hand toward Barney. '"'Smatter, honey?" he asked quickly, steadying her with an arm around her waist "Don't ever do that on cham pagne. I'm a little tight, you know?" "Just a little, pet," he said sooth ingly. "We'll take a nice ride n the nice air, shall we?" She drew away from him, looked back Into the clubroom and shivered In the hot, oppres sive night. "Get my wrap, darling. I'm going to be cold." "You're not tight, you're crazy," Barney said scornfully, then scooped her into his arms and bore her down the steps into the darkness. A car door slammed, gravel hailed; the sound of a mo tor diminished and died. They had not seen us. I mur mured, "Tarzan on the loose again." Adam did not answer. He was staring intu the darkness where they had disappeared. In the half light his bland, round face looked troubled. "I don't like it," he said at last, as if he were thinking aloud. "That's girl's headed for trouble." "With Barney?" I asked in sur prise. "I thought he seemed rather steady." "Don't know anything against him," Adam conceded. "Little too handsome, maybe. But I didn't mean Barney. Maybe he can 1 handle her if she sticks to him. it . . :' I waited. There was more to come. I could feel Adam making up his mind. "How old would you say she Is?" he asked suddenly. "I don't know. Twenty, twenty one?" "She's eighteen and she's a drunkard. "But, Adam! Lots of girls drink." "Not like Anne Carewe. I know. I'm telling you this because the kid is so completely alone. Her mother la an invalid; her father is a doting old fool. And she hasn't got an honest friend." "What about Mrs. Shaw? And Elizabeth?" "Listen. Anne could have had nearly any man on this post. Un der that chummy girl-to-girl man ner Mrs. Shaw has her claws out. So has Mrs. Orpington." "But Elizabeth " Adam knew what I meant. Eliz abeth would never descend to woman-fighting. "You're right. She'd simply crawl into a shell. I think that's what she has done where Anne is concerned." Destroying Herself HE was silent for a while. Fi nally he went on. "I may as well tell you what everyone else knows. Barney Nel son and Anne split up early in June nobody knows why and Barney started taking Elizabeth around. Some said it was a bid for the Old Man's favor. Some said he was punishing Anna for flirt ing with Charlie Spencer. Some said she only took up with Char lie to lure Barney back. . . ." A couple strolled out of the clubroom and down the steps. We waited in silence until they were gone. I was thinking furiously. Why was Adam telling me this? Was it to let me know ahout Char lie? Or was he really concerned about Anne? The footsteps on the walk grew fainter, Adam's low vole re turned. "A couple of weeks ago they patched it up. Nobody knows any thing about that, either, though there's plenty have tried to find out. Some sav thing cot too jH ous around the colonel s quarters Barney was a. k, it lii Inten tions, or some uch tr:(e. Some say F.Urabeth turned him down "Bui why worry nbout Anne?" I asked pntii-ntly. "Secnn to me Elizabeth is tlt one .ho needs the sv!nuathy--thiit i. if enyone does. Suppose they both wanted him. Anne got him, didn't she? At least the engagement is an nounced end that's something. If he's what she wanted and appar ently he is she'll settle down now and all the old cats will stop scratching." Adam said doubtfully, "Sounds logical, doesn't it? But I can't get over the Idea that something Is driving that kid to destroy her self." I remembered, then, the conver sation about her with Elizabeth that afternoon. I told him about it, and he seemed touched. But I FEDERAL ROAD AID FIXED FDR OREGON WA.SHINOTON. Ic. 8 (AP, Ore Ron' fthm-e In 1940 ftvtrni. hljihwny aid will flpproxlmnte I3.1P3.000, the bureau of public road illscloAed to do y. Th Btt'i apportionment tor the current fluml year, 1U39. ending next June 30, amounted to I3.033U40. Officials said that on November 1 some 131 miles of road and one (trade rrcaltir were either under construction, under contract or ap proved for construction. This w.-r. the) anld. would ulti mately mat about $3 864.033, and the dovernnifnO Mwre mould amtreRa'e 1RP0.318. In addition offirisu said thre bum 31i3e,cn& remaining in Uw could see it was not enough to ex plain the feeling he had. The strolling couple returned and we fell silent again. I was rather glad to drop the subject. Anne Carewe was a pirate; it was asking a good bit of women to ex pect them to feel sorry for her. What did she need with women friends? Even Adam was under her spell Adam the untouchable, the impervious. I was swept by a wave of an noyance. What was I doing here anyway? What were they to me, these group-minded individuals inhabiting their strip of park an island in a sea of cornfields. Had they no privacy in their lives? Was each word, each act, even each thought common property? Were their little lives so bound and tangled by propinquity that they must snap and snarl inces santly like a pack of dogs chained in the same enclosure? "Why are we dancing here in stead of at the Officers' Club?" I asked idly, more to change the subject than because I was inter ested. "What do they call this, anyway? The Service Club?" "Yes. It's for the use of the en listed men a survival of the war. Used to be the Red Cross build ing. You notice the floor plan is in the shape of a Maltese cross. It's the only frame building on the post. During the war, and for some time afterward, a Red Cross hostess was in residence here. The post was a general hospital, and the wives and mothers were al ways coming to visit their boys. You may have noticed that there is a balcony surrounding the dance floor in the center of the cross; off the balcony, in the four wings, there are furnished guest rooms, scarcely ever used now. The hostess lived in one of them." A Ghost "VyHAT became of her?" VV "There's quite a tale about that. After the war all but a few of the hostesses were discharged or transferred to other work. This one stayed on. The hospital was dismantled and the regiment came back. There was no job for her; her pay was cut, eventually she was to have left. She was a queer old thing, from all I've heard a maiden lady of a certain age; and either she was afraid of starving to death or she was extremely fond of her job. She started a sort or poor-tarm pica; so tne f ost ex change set aside a sum for her maintenance. But after a few months that, too, failed. There was no place left for her to appeal. So one morning the captain walked in and found her hanging from the balcony just under the regimental colors and the crossed sabers that you see as you enter the door. . . ." "Suicide?" I asked, revolted. "Undoubtedly. That touch about the colors proves it. A sort of war-hysteria hang-over." No doubt she felt, with some obscure logic, that she vas dying for her country." "And you have dances here," I marveled. "Well, not often. Usually we dance at the Officers' Club in the mess hall, you know. Don't know why the committee had it here to night. Do it occasionally as a sort of gesture. It's really a recreation room for the enlisted men. They have movies, dances, card parties and the like here. And there's a reading room in the right-hand wing. They didn't take it any too well when the old girl made her last bow: and once in a while the story goes the rounds that some body has sren her ghost fluttering around on that dark balcony. Then the officers get busy and have a dance here and the story dies down for a while." 'No wonder the guest rooms are seldom used I" Adam chuckled. "Catch any sol dier on this post putting his wom enfolk in this building for the night!" Something moved In the shad ows beyond the veranda railing My heart gave an involuntary lurch. "Is that you, Katherinc?" It was Elizabeth in her pink shepherdess costume. She was alone. "I'm Koine to run home ' r a few minutes Father said he might telephone at eleven o'clock. I won't be gone very long, but I thought you might wonder . . ." My conscience pricked me. I had not really given Elizabeth a thought for the past hour. And she must be having a rotten time. "I'll go with you," I said promptly. Adam, on his feet spoke almost simultaneously. "I'll get my car." Hut she waved us both aside. Please, no." she said flrmlv. "Mv car is here, and I slipped out the side door from the powder room so no one would bother. Please I won't permit you." Nor would she. Anxious as 1 was to cense encumbering Adam, to free hiir. from his solitary vigil by my aide, I found myself wait ing on the veranda while he saw her to her car, listening to the rather sad music of the soldier or chestra, watching through a con. venlcnt window the very wan dancers In their uninspired cos tumes. fCopvrff. 1JI, Virginia Raxttm) Tomorrow! Death walks the port. Oregon account for tine on project proKminmcd but for which plans were not yet approved. 25.315 BIRDS BAGGED IN TULE LAKE REGION KLAMATH FALLS, Pec. 6. (API A total of B.flOI hunter, nearly t'toe as many as a year uro. bniiccd 38, 315 (pime bird. 1B.R04 more than In 1037. on shooting grounds adjacent to the Tiilo lake mlKMtury waterfowl refuge during the six-week trnnon which ctorvM laat Monday, U. 8. Mo. Wvuat Survey Agent C. a. Pntrchtld reported dviny. The 3IV31A birds Included' U.flPfl geeae and 13 351 ducks. SAI.FAI. Dee. fl. ( AP) The bonrd of control agreed today to cooperate with the Willamette Valley Lumber men's association In conducting an Investtir it ion to determine w hither hocked luel could he ud In tie oipttol lira tint plant now under eonatniciiou Present plana rail tt STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN MX For further proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped enrelope for reply. Beg. V. 8. Pat Off. HfcUwCnL PORT OtebNfs AND CRUISE An. iMTrie unit's? -stares Robert Mnr-In-Oiie Cow Nine cows In one Is Ormsby Butter King, champion mllk-produclng Hol ateln owned by the Carnation Farms of Seattle, Wash.' Strange as It seems, her dally production of 60 quarts of milk, five pounds of butter, Is nine times that of the ordinary cow. On Feb. 13, 103S. Ornuby Butter King completed an official one-vear test which showed 38,006 pound of milk and 1.402 pounds of butter for the 365 days. This broke the ,6-year-old record of Segls Plo'ertje Prospect (Ormsby Butter King's Drop Lindbergh In T.W.A. Slogan KANSAS CITY, Dec. 6. (AP) Literature of Transcontinental and Western Atr, Inc., appeared today without the slogan, "The Lindbergh Line" and airline officials met with a blunt "no comment" all nutinn regarding the deletion. Proof sheet of the 1030 r w a mi endar show the slogan has been re placed by a new one. Although Col. Charles A. Lind A,. tarL.nr TAILSPIN TOMMY The Mystery of the Amphibian 1 iff REALIZING THAT THE Pilot OF THB PIRATE PL Ant IS DETCftMIHED TO FORCE HIM AWAY PROM THS PROTECTING COVER OP THE TALL fOa BAMK, TOMMY SUOOEMLY SlDBSLlPS TOWARD THE AERIAL BUC CAMBER Ta, Black ship dives suodbmly to eSCAPB THE DOOM THAT IS SLIPPING OCA UPON HIM BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER THE NEBBS Under Suspicion STEVES rTHAT FAITWFOL. 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"Well, if he bergh, former technical advisor for T.W.A., haa not been associated with the airline since 1934, the company had continued to utilize his name In the slogan. Cite Judge's Wife I n Smuggling Plot NEW VOBK, Dec. 6. (AP) Mrs. Elms N. Laucr, wife of State Supreme Court Justice Edgar J. Lauer. was Indicted today for smuggling and conspiracy to smuggle. Ue is just in time! ' 'A SECOMD LATER, IN REALIZING THE IMPORT OF TONMYS MANEUVER, tOULD HAVE RESULTED IN DISASTER FOR both planes! . No Answer! T PARDOKJ ME, 5AWI&, BUT 1 SEE VOUR FINJE FRIEMDS.TME. 1 rtCAVE t50UP,TS OF Z.!RSS?- homestV anjo ot,e-covJ pairv world champion Hokleln, hltKMW 50 QUARTS -(qiiMesPRoPUtfiOH Or ORDINARY COW) can do it, so can I," Fades said, half In earnest and he called his ohot right. Stepping up to the tee, he let go a long high drive that plopped Into the cup for another ace. "Autn-c; rn ph" Album Frank Plnney's 10-year-old Jalopy was worth only $13.75 when he nrove It to Hollywood, but now he values It at $1,000 because of scores of movie stars autographs he collected on It, painted with white lead for permanency. Tomorrow The hurricane egg. Named with her In the bill was Albert N. Chapcrau, described aa a commercial representative for the consul general of Nicaragua. Chaperou waa charged In addition with malting use of a fraudulent passport and making false statements In connection with the document. Customs agents raided the Lauer apartment In Park avenue October 27 In search of feminine finery alleged to have been smuggled Into the coun try. 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