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,.
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cows, consuming every day 30 pounds
of alfalfa, 30 pounds of beets, 20'
pounds of silage, 20 pounds of ijraln.
and 35 gallons of water plus an
hour's pasturage.
Hole-In-One On a Bet
Robert Furies. St. Davids, Pa., golf
er, stood at the 155-yard sixth hole
one day last June and watched o A.
Soderberg score an ace. "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!
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homestV anjo
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world champion Hokleln,
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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. Use Mall rrlbune Want Ads.
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