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H M 5 1 PAflE EIGHT MEPFOTCD MATL TRTBUXE. fEDFORD, OREGON, TTEDXESDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1938. THE ARMY POST MURDERS 'By Virginia Hanson' The Character Katherlne Cornlih, myself, vti- (ting Elizabeth on a mld-ufrn Army post. Charlie Speneer, my flanei. Adam Draw, a Hand. Yesterdays Adam telle me that Barney wat interested in Eliza beth before becoming engaged to Anne. Elizabeth leaves the dance around 11 o'clock. Chapter Seven The Music Stops A S Elizabeth had predicted, the ' men were nearly all convex tionally garbed some in white. some in DlacK and a tew in olive drab. Mrs. Flower's liquid dark eyes languished above a harem veil; her lard-white, shapeless legs were imperfectly concealed by sheer harem trousers. She was dancing with her husband, a small, light officer with an intelligent, crucified (ace and i mouth dis ciplined to patience. Mrs. Orpington was a tolerable Pierrette until you saw ner annrp featured, malicious (ace. She had good legs and a marvelous figure, ut she was not young. She seemed disturbed that she was not dancing. I saw her mea sure the remaining possibilities and descend on the Wheelers, mother and son, who sat stolidly side by side, glassy eyed and pain fully smiling. Young Wheeler was tall and lean, with good (eatures; but he burned with self-hatred. You could see it in his muddy gray ryes that veiled turbulent depths. And on her (ace the (ace of that indomitable old woman who kept him chained like a (alcon to her wrist thebitterness was reflected. He was hers; she would never give him up. Mrs. Orpington fluttered down beside them and began to chatter. I could see her sharp eyes roving, could imagine her barbed com ments. But mother and son seemed scarcely to notice her. They were wrapped in ugly solitude, like characters in an O'Neill play. Something impinged on the cor ner of my vision someone slm- plng past the wing of the building. For a moment I was sure it was Charlie a turn o( the head, the neat, fluid motion of the hips that distinguish a dancer and a fighter; Charlie was a little of each. I rose impulsively, only to sink back in my chair. I did not want to see Him, I told myself angrily, I would leave tomorrow: and 1 would send back his ring by the coionei s oraeny. A minute later Adam vaulted the veranda railing and sat there grinning at me. He had been gone quite a while. Had he run into Charlie? "Adam, you're a gentleman.1 said. "But I refuse to let vou carrv off all the honors. We're going in now, and you're going to flatter Ma Wheeler into letting her little ooy aance wun me. I rose. "What a perlectily revolting idea, ne said witn simple sin cerity, "you can t Deueve Id pre (er Ma Wheelerl" While I hesitated he reached out and caught my hand in a friendly, impersonal clasp. "Listen." he said aoftlv. The first liquid notes of Taps were flowing like slow cool water through the darkness. Tears stood in my eyes. I waited, my hand in Adam's, listening, under the spell of an enchantment I cannot de scribe. The last silver note withdrew and I ceased to reach (or it Adam's band was tani ble in mine. "You wouldn't believe how soft we really are, he said gently. "A lot of this hard-ridine. hard- drinking (ront is a pose. There's mat word militaristic. We re sup posed to be tough and hard and oruiai ciont we make war a career? Why don't we give up this archaic bugle-blowing? We could use a sort o( fire whistle. Why must every Doay on me post stand and (ace the flag at retreat? It's an awful nuisance everybody says so." 'Outsiders "yOU love it," I said. "Of course we do. When we say we're in the service we mean it literally. And we don't know quite how to act when a bunch of hard-boiled civilians hurl that insulting word 'militaristic' at us. Some day we'll Invent a word to hurl back at them. Now we merely call them Outsiders." "Am I an Outsider?" "In the sense that you are not one of us, yes. You were thinking awhile ago that we lead a cat-and-dog existence don't deny it, I heard you. You were thinking aw fully loud. And in a way we do. Take a lot of assorted humans and pen them up together too closely I don't care who they are and you'll see sparks fly. But don't for get that we have one bond in com mon; we're all In the service because we love It. In any trouble we show a united front. And then It's the Outsider who takes it on the chin." PORTLAND, Dee. 1 ITV-Two hold up victims were beaten last night but a third a woman put a robber to flight by hitting him with "every thing I had." "1're seen you somewhere before," aald Harry De tllaato when an un shaven attrk'iip man forced him to open the cash register at hla aervlce nation. "You have?" the robber asked. "Well, this will make you forget." He atntrk De niasio on the head with a revolver and fled with ass and a wallet. A thug struck Miss Dorothy Ford. 32. brok'- her Jaw. knocked out ft tnotn and took a purse containing ?0. There was no reason then (or either of us to regard that as a warning; but I had cause to re member it later. I was still hesitating over my decision to rejoin the party when Tubby Shaw bounced out of the club with his air of a man of affairs which sat oddly on his round, nondescript countenance. I suspected him of spending some time and thought before a mirror striving (or a world-weary look, only to have it curdle into petu lance when he was not watching. "Everybody inside," he com manded with a deprecatory flour ish of the bouquet of balloons which sprouted from his clenched fist He disentangled one (ussily from the others and presented it to me. "To be tied to the lady's ankle," he instructed pedantically. Adam said, "Do you (eel up to a free-for-all, Kay?" I had always wanted someone to call me Kay, but from my sis ter's Kathy to Charlie's Red, no one ever had. "It's flwfllllv nloflnnnt M,t kav I murmured, marking with gratl- mae me nawiess phrasing of the brief question, the nice asstimntinn o( familiarity, o( reluctance to oreaK up the tete-a-tete. "Sorrv." said Tnhh Khan, "Everyone in (or the balloon dance. Committee's orders. Thr. 'II be a prize." And ne stood there, implacable, until we rose and preceded him. The musicians were ready to begin. Tubbv darted nrnnnH , edge of the dance floor and mount ed the stage where the orchestra was seated (acing the door. He made a little speech, too glib not to have been rehearsed. The music was beginning. Adam pinched my balloon neat ly, grinned at the shn rn mnnrt an4 guided me to an open door half way around to the right. Scream Of Horror ""THE reading room," he said. We StOOd In till rlnnruro,. watching. The liehts haH turned low and a rainhnu cnntiinnt circled its seasick colors across the faces o( the scampering dancers, leaving their feet and the floor in shadow, so that balloons bounded like surf balls on a changeable uuiureu sea. They had livened up under the powerful tonic of rivalry. Men straightarmed their way through massed interference or whirled their partners like Apache danc ers around the edge of the dance floor. From time to time there was the sharp report of a bursting balloon and a woman's squeal of chagrin. Barnev and Anna hnH rt,,-n.j They passed near us, moving rap- u.j ..mug me eage 01 me noor. Beside them floated a bright red balloon, like the their costumes. Barney was hold ing ner close, ner check against his breast, his lins hmchina ho. hair. They passed so close I could nave toucned her, and for a mo ment her iris eyes met mine; but there was no rrvoflniiinn in tham iney were blank and glassy, and i reauzea wun a shock that sh( thai fihn was more than a little tight. I had seen enoueh. "T.nt' re treat," I suggested and turned back into the reading room. I was wondering, suddenly, what Adam liked to read, when a dif ference in the quality of the com motion on the dance floor drew my attention. Adam was listening too. For a moment the voices had stnnnpH and the whisper and stamp of feet. The music faltered on for a few bars and the trap drummer finish ed an insane clamor of cymbals before he noticed that he was alone. In the sudden silence man's voice snoke urcentlv. A alinhi babble answered him. Then, like a siren cuttine thronoh traffic sounds, a woman screamed. Adam was awnv like a starlit deer. For a confused moment 1 wavered in the doorwav. starinc across the vacant floor at the hud dled people outside the door of the women's dressing room. Impelled by the instinct to herd against danger, I fled to Join them. Inside the powder room a limp little figure lav on a :hnise lnnmip Over her was bent Doc Moore, the young medico who had been Eliza beth's dinner partner. "Someone help me," he said softly. Adam was at his side In an in stant and together, with gentle hands, they turned the slight body on its side. She looked like a rag doll, lying there In her scarlet and white, her dynamic body so still. I noticed trivial details: a scrap of leaf mold on the sole of her dancing pump; me unoimmea luster ot the dia mond in the new Bold miniature on her limp left hand; the scarlet oanoon still tied to her ankle. Then I had to look at the thine that had forced a groan from the throats of those around me at the black hole In the red heart thai ornamented the back of Anne's ersey. rCoifrtt. Jils, Virginia Hmiton) Tomorrow! SuiDlrloua. When a robber muttered "Stick 'em up." Mlaa Clltabeth Llipfer swung her flata handily. The man turned and ran. Cat Fools Convicts. POIJOM. Calif (API After con vict workers had bricked up a hole In the foundation ot the denture shop, they heard from within the meows of Rusty, the prison cat. Tearing out their work to rescue him, they were Just In time to tea the cat walk calmly out of mother hole many leet away Paul ltetereVlnite Teeth. BOSTON. (API - raul Revere, known for hla ride and for hla silver, smithing, also made false teeth. WPA workers conducting research Into MASfwchU'elta historical reccrds found that Revere not only innde (he teeth but sold them. Amnesia, loss of memory, msy be caused by senility, vsrlnu mental diseases, Injury, shock, or severe illness. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHISTHIX Tor further proof address the author, Inclosing stamped envelope fr- reply. Reg. V. 8. Pat, Off. S&L JBJIjY a fx IZ-7-3? IttNtufhl Svat lllkir A good rival for the "Flying Dutch man" would be 8gt. Jamea "Jock Scott, the "Walking Scotsman," who haa perambulated aome 30.000 miles In the paet five years to enjoy the "last alx months" doctors had given him to llvel Gassed In the World war. Scott's health was on the decline until he atarted walking In September, 1033. Prom London hla rambllnga took him acrosB Europe and clear down to Cape Town. South Africa. In three yeara and eight months he returned to Scotland after having McKesson Stock Under Trade Ban NEW YORK, Dec. 7 (AP) The New York stock oxchango t:day aus- pended from dealings the stock and bonds of McKesson s Bobbins. Inc.. chemical manufacturers and liquor firm, to permit the exchange to In vestigate allegatlon8 of waste and mismanagement made against the comnnnv In ,n nultv rnni,- suit In Hartford, Conn. I TAILSPIN TOMMY Snap Out lfc LBFT riiz a tai , WITH THE PIRATE PLAMB HOT UPOn HI8TAlL". . WILt TOMMY MAKE THE FOG BANK IN TIME? WE HOPE SOl . . Mfamwhiie. we MUST RETURN TO SKBSTM, BETTY- LOU. JERRY Ahu HWK, IN THE AMPHIBIAN f XOMSTHINS IS) PEFI NITBLY WROM6 HERE. (OR, ALL ARE ASLEEP EXCEPT SKBETSB,. . BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER THE NEBB3 The Awakening f THAT MUST BE T $ I BEN AND RUSTV I Jj , V- NOW, W f 3A.WIS, NOO MUST FARDOKJ KARI IF ME PIMOS IT WECGSSARV TO DELVE I WTO NOUR SOCIAL ACTIVITIES TO PROTECT NOUR IMTEREST5, BUT OF THE COWVERSERS VCAMDlD CAMERA AND SEJsIT TMEM, r-rr-N- ,TO POLICE WR x res . t. SjrntUite In covered 29.000 milea. He waa not only atlll alive but was enjoying III Scott aalled to America and last January started hoofing It for Holly wood. Eight months and 4.325 miles later he arlved on the west coast, having covered about 30.000 miles and waa headed east again for new roads to conquer. Keg survivors. A strange twist of fate It was that saved only two egae out of the en tire beach stand of J. Mellltz. Bridgeport, Conn., after the destruc tive hurricane of September, 1P38. Vincent W. Dennis, corporation counsel of Hartford, applied to the United States district court there for the receivership as a holder of 2.000 shares of common stock. Goebbels' Paper Raps King Carol BERLIN, Dec. 7 (fl) Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels' news paper Der Angrlff pursued Its antl- Jewlsh campaign today by publishing of It, Skeets, Before If Too Late TOMMY assla crws bam, - . - . Just One More Detail I 1 TOOK PICTURES , WITU MV 3TUPPY..IN - WHEN. .TDM MAY. l SOTTA. . FLV.TH'. . SHIP l-5T-J- ' . . UH. KINDA . NUMB M YgA THISEttE Ytuenj 1 I WHAT? 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