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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
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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
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WITH THE PIRATE
PLAMB HOT UPOn
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TOMMY MAKE THE
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SKBSTM, BETTY- LOU.
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ARE ASLEEP
EXCEPT SKBETSB,. .
BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER
THE NEBB3 The Awakening
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PIMOS IT WECGSSARV TO DELVE I WTO
NOUR SOCIAL ACTIVITIES TO PROTECT
NOUR IMTEREST5, BUT
OF THE COWVERSERS
VCAMDlD CAMERA AND SEJsIT TMEM,
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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
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WM-K&0 ?0,000 MILES
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hffcR &IM6 raveA
The eggs, found 100 feet away lying
unbroken on the beach, had been
Inside an Icebox, but the Icebox was
demolished along with the stand!
Chess Combinations,
Strange as It seems, there are IfiS,
518.829,100.544. 000,000.000.000.000 dif
ferent ways of playing the first ten
moves on either aide of a chesa
game. Playing each combination at
the rate of one per minute, tt would
take you more than 320 sextllllon
yeara to work them all out.
Tomorrow
a photograph of MRgda Lupescu, close
trlcnd or King Carol ot Rumania,
only 13 days after the king waa Adolf
Hitler's honored guest.
A front page picture of time. Lu
pescu and her father waa captioned '
"Ugly Jews." !
The remainder of the newspaper's
first page waa devoted to "the story
of a king and hla Jewish lady friend."
Klce la a development of a wild '
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