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Newspaper Page TextTAPE STX MKDFORP MATT. TRTBUyR MEDFORD. OREGON. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 13. 1938. THE ARMY POST MURDERS 'By Virginia Hanson' The Characters Kstherlne Cornlib, mveI vis iting Elizabeth on a mid-tcertcrn Army post, Eliubeth. Colonel Wright's daughter. Adam Drew, acting command ing officer. Yesterday: Adam questions Mcry Shaw. Chapter 12 A Different Slant ' VOU knew her," Adam said im- ply. "For some, time I have thought she was unhappy, tor mented. Do you know why? She made a little artificial ges ture with her long, brittle hands. "Anne was not the confiding sort One knows, of course, certain things from experience. It is not always easy to choose between two men. One falters from inflicting a tevere hurt. . . . Have you ques tioned young Spencer?" I missed Adam's answer. The blood was singing in my ears. My pencil rolled free in my lap and I had to fumble for it in the semi darkness. By the time I found it Adam had launched a counter attack. "Your husband and Nelson were classmates, I believe. Did you know him at the Point?" There was a perceptible pause, but the answer, when It came, seemed candid almost too can did. "Yes. I had been engaged to Phil for some months when I met Bar ney. I said just now that I could understand Anne's problem. Be lieve me, I, too, was very unhappy until I found the right solution. I tell you this, of course, in the strictest confidence. Not for the world would I have let Anne know of it. I was very happy that he had found the right girl at last in fact, I may say I fostered the romance. Poor Barney: One might almost believe It an adverse Intel Adorn made clucking noises and aearched her face with his brilliant eyes. He had another question for ner. uonndentially, what did she tninK of Barney s brier Hurry with Elizabeth? She got out of that one rather neatly without casting a shadow on Elizabeth, who, after all, was the daughter of the commanding otneer. i could not help reflecting that Mary Shaw would have made in able wife for a diplomat According to her the thing was vastly overrated. Anne had sent Barney away until she could test her own feelings and make up her mind. Barney had sought compan ionship and sympathy from Eliza beth until Anne dismissed Charlie and called him back. This she ad mitted to be surmise; Anne had confided in no one. It was a singularly apt surmise, I reflected. If true and I admitted the theory was plausible Charlie was the only logical suspect Suddenly my mind was illumi nated by a flash of memory. Was it .eally only that afternoon that I had leafed through the Howitzer and found Barney's and Shaw's biographies? Clearly I recalled the last terse, descriptive phrase un der Shaw's picture: "Chief claim to distinction: the man who tried to spoil Swede's beauty." I must tell Adam about that at once. I gathered my closely scrib bled sheets and waited, tense, for Mary Shaw to effect her linger ing departure. Certain formalities must be observed, mutual sympa thy and helpfulness expressed. I rose impatiently and stood just be hind the curtains, while Adam ceremoniously ushered her out. Short, Bull-Dog Figure DUT I had no opportunity to 1m part m scrap of information, for the subject of it followed Adam uneasily into the room, wearing his most petulant defensive scowl. It sat down again and studied him a short, bulldog figure who might be effective in a scrap. Why had he mixed with Barney7 Over Mary? But what connection could that have with murdering Anne? Once more I watched, with envy, Adam's peculiar talent for putting people at case. Shaw did not refuse a cigarette. Adam leaned com fortably back, legs crossed, and talked through the smoke that made a blue veil between them. Ho asked no questions; he told Shaw what he had been doing, with an air of thinking aloud, and presently the younger man re laxed his defensive attitude and put in a word. "Say, what did you do to Wheel er? Ho came out looking like he had seen a ghost, and they hadn't got out of the club before that battle-axe mother of his was pumping him hot and heavy." "Did she get anything out of him?" Adam asked idly. "Not that I could hear," Shaw admitted frankly. "His jaw was shut like a steel trap. What was it all about?" "He Just talked out of turn." Shnw snickered. "I figured it might be that He'd be sure to bring it up." Adam put both feet on the floor. "What do you mean?" 'The same thing you mean. 1 don't know how you missed hear ing about it before. He's shot off his mouth enough since it hap pened." "You mean about Anne?" "Yeah. Now don't get sore at me too. I know all about it, and it's true enough as far as it goes. Only it was a put-up job, and Wheeler doesn't know that." Adam eyed him coldly. "Go on." "Well, you see, it was several weeks, maybe a couple months ago about the time Charlie Spencer started dragging her. We had some house guests and Charlie and Anne dropped in. You know the Wheel ers live in the other half of our quarters and Anne saw him sitting by the window reading when they arrived. Ma Wheeler had gone to Chicago on a shopping spree. Don't know how she could bear to let her little boy out of her sight, but she's go him pretty well trained. You know he's not allowed to mingle with us bad boys and girls. "Well, Anne said there was poor Wheeler all alone over there lis tening to the party, and why didn't Mary call up and ask him to come over. "Well, Mary did ask him once and he declined with horror. So she said never again. And she said why didn't Anne go on over and cheer him up if she thought he needed it. So Anne said he'd prob ably call out the guard. "Pretty soon it began to look like a swell idea to rib Anne up to breaking in on Wheeler. The girls got to work on her, and I think somebody dared her. We went out in the yard and we could see him still sitting there all alone, read ing. Though how he could get any sense out of a book with all the noise we'd been making, I don't know. Thinking Fast "ANYWAY, Anne promised to ' give him the thrill of his life. The front door was open and she just walked in. He was facing the other way and before he knew she was there she had plumped down on his lap, wrapped her arms around him and kissed him like he was Clark Gable. "We could see it all as plain as day from the lawn. The blinds were way up and the lights full on. Well, you've seen a woman get mixed up with a mouse at close quarters. That was Wheeler. He let out a queer sort of bleat, jumped up and tore her loose from him like she was so much poison ivy, DacKed into a corner and held both hands straight out in front ol him to make her keep her distance. He needed to, too. She turned on all the old siren stuff, stretched appealing arms toward him, looked at him soulfully. Been any- body but Wheeler he'd have smelled a rat." What happened?" "That's about all I know. One ol the girls was laughing too loud, so I took her back in our house. The rest of them said V'heoler came to and ynnked down the blinds, so they came in too. But it wasn't Ions until the two of them, Wheeler and Anne, went past, going toward i Anne's quarters. She was hanging I on to his arm and half running, he I was traveling so fast. I guess he took her home. Wheeler's been i talking his head off ever since. Not , the circumstances, you know. Jusl hints of what he could spill." i "And none of you ever told hire the truth?" Shaw looked uncomfortable. 1 How could vou tell a man a thins like that? I guess everybody else on the post learned what really happened, so his talk didn't hurl Anne any. "What do you make of this?" Adam asked him. From the table in front of him he picked up the envelope ink which I had seen him put the little lead slug which he had dug from the pillar on the dance floor. bhaw poked at it with a thick stubby finger. "Thirty-two. Isn't it? That's thi one . . .? His voice ..ailed off. 'No. The bullet that shot hei lodged in the wound. This one hil a pillar on the far side of the floor.'' bhaw whistled. "Are thev Iron- the same gun?" "I don't know. The federal mer will have to pass on that. But thii was a fresh siiot. . . ." Something was d a w n I n s nr Shaw's face. Sayl Mavbo I know some thing" His thick, stubby hand darted across the table and fas tened on Adam's arm. "Could that shot have been fired several hours ago this afternoon?" "Probably. What are vou eettino at?" You could see Shaw thinking fast. Well, I'm not sure. It sounds crazy. But they were dressed alike those big red hearts. It would mean that somebody n.ade an aw ful blunder that the shot that killed Anne Carewe was meant for Barney Nelsonl" (Copyright, 19SS, Virginia Raison STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. V. 8. Pat Off. 4MMIN6 WJm (At QOt$ HOT "TouerttH iw fr ffr . 8--8-TooT Your WMI Jrl p? PoT office, SjHC 9 DeLuz,Calif, I o , f lf(cz ' Vr twwm fSi i it nw sm mm r -J j HEADING HOME WCK-- French blopldUarace. ?UoT FIRST 32 6tRMfcH afwes without a single bnbw bullet Touching his own ship Kne Funrk Rene Fonek. French world war ace. was lucky. Time and again he had whipped his fighting little pursuit whip Into the aklea and turned enemy perman planea Into fiery moteora. Yet not a single Oerman bullet had reached his own craft. On August 16. 1916. Fonck peered from his cockpit and spotted a O -r-man two-seater In the distance. He dived at It, squeezing the mnchino gun's handle and found it Jammed! Fonck pulled up. worked at the gun; it wa no use. Again he dived at the German plane. By bluffing and out-maneuvering the German pilot. Fonck herded the enemy craft far back over the French line and forced him down on Fonck's airport. There, when the Oerman pilot and gunner were taken, he re vealed that his gun had been entirely useless 1 Fonck brought down a total of 75 nprmnn nlAtinn flnHncr fha urni-lrl and. strange as it seems, escaped with niB snip untouched by German bul lets until after bringing down 32 planes. Effect of SliavliiR Strange as It. seems, shaving does ,2-13-33 McNiufM Branca, fa not make the hnlr on y.ur face grow tougher, according to findings of science. Neither does It affect the rate of growth of hair on any other part of the body. It is claimed. After lengthy experimentation ac cumulated evidence indicates that there Is no effect whatsoever either on the growth rate, coarseness, or density of spacing after the change from the soft, down hair of adoles cents to the stubborn beards of man hood. Tomorrow: Mow far iloes your tnlce travel In telephoning Snn Francisco from New York? PLAN HELP FOR POOR LA GRAND E. Dec. 13. (AP) A Union county program waa devised today for administration of medical relief through th assistance of private physicians and dentists. The plan, however, will not be put In effect until 1040 because of insuffi cient funds. Following an explanation by Dr. Neil Black, state relief committee consultant, the county medical and dental societies agreed to care for Indigents under a reduced schedule of fees. A medical director will be employ ed to determine the right of appli cants for assistance. Money will be supplied by the county nnd Mate through matched appropriations. DENTIST IS UPHELD IN CANADIAN ADVERTISING OTTAWA. Dec. 13. (AP) An attempt by the British Columbia College of Dental Surgeons to pre vent Dr. David Cowen of Spoknne, Wash., from advertising In Cnnndlan newspapers that he practices den tistry and from soliciting Cnnndlan clients, giving speclnl rates, fnlled todny. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS I HtKKi SUPPER CflU ANP SH60 HE'J CCM1N6 SfMMS A16X6 BTtlSKW HALF A BUCK AWAY TilRK5 AnD BKIHS SHOUfEP DI5" fUSiiOK Wirh EWJiE SEVZFR Asfo Which of Them shail ffiMf OvTRIblrlEfffHER'S ToNkJrrf WAlfS, SttLlKS PEB81ES AT HYTRMtf, WHUE ETO1E 60ES IN 1t ASK HIS MOTHER WHETHCT HEfAW 60 OVER AfltT! SUPPER TrtWHFLEff THE BOOK HE WAiJTtn -ft borrow. Trots BACK FOR IT SETS HOME AKP IS IHElGUMffl AT8EW&SCOl.!EDRRBElK6 EPDlE EuQnUAUY RETURNS 6ET5 BOOK, STOPPING 1b TEARS HIMSELF AWv ANZ To SHOliT THPrf HE CAN ANp LISTEN To EPDlE WHO HAS STARTS AL0N6, 5T0PP1K6 SUDDENLY HAP A GREAT NOW AND THEN TO EXAMINE LATE WHEN HE CANE THE IDEA FOR 8UIIDIN6 A TPEF- TrtE PICTURES IN1 THE BOCK WNOfE 5HE CALLED MOUSE I'M THE yard (Copyright, 1938, by The Bell ByndicaM, Inc.) ITj-12 Mtlll,a S MATTER POt Bt 0 H PAY N Use Mnll Tribune Wnnt Ads. ' ' V SI.. t ' J r To u j) VA- X3Ji fen (Copyright, 1938, by The Bell Syndiotu, lac.) A TAHSPIN TOMMY Tragedy Looms! By HAL PORREP" J rjnTI ml OUT ON A A FEW SECONDS J f- $ Sjft I hT ZlT 1 $ BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Exact Location! Tomorrow: A itranio flguro. Brm. Ore., IVc. 13 iAi Vernon C. Johnson, 30, and hl father, Albert Johnaon, (17. wr held today while Pol Ire Chief Evetrtt fUmbo tnven tip ted KundAV hoottn affray, Young Johnson was wounded thrw tlmea in the arftia. Rum bo said, And waa held for lnvctiaIton In the nll. Hla rather, who Sheriff Clnudo Mc Caulcy an Id wielded the gun, wni under technical arrest In a hospital with a bullet wound In the foot. MrCauley quoted the father sm avln the ahnotlng followed an ar fiutnent over playing radio, In which the aon struck the elder John eon. McCauley said the father de clared he shot hla aon three tlm?a. and the fourth shot accidentally true his own foot. BRITAIN'S PLANES RATED SPEEDIEST LONDON. Dec. 13. (VPl Britain haa the world'a fastest flhtinR plsnes but Italy lends In iHedy homoera. the 19311 edition of "Jane'a. .Ml !he Wolrrt'a Aircraft." revealed todsy, Jane'a plnced the United Ptatra' vombin and fighting planes as "amon the world's speedier." It said detnila of the newest U. S army machines have not yt born relented for publication and their real per fnrmnncoa are not known. The British super-marine Spitfire I, a single-seat fishtln monoplane. Is listed as the world's fastot military aircraft. The air ministry has just revealed this ship, a type of which Lonrd Nuffield la building l.ono. 1m - opeod of 350 miles an !u ur " " -:tch may mean a maximum of 4o0 mila Ian hour. f Si BE!J! I',ME fi I I ( OOOH, WHEREl TO GIT UP! ARE WE? I tuL'a DIDN'T HEAR (JHE ALARM GOJ I ANV ALARM J Sj? Hy EDWIN ALOEB omt, I uiun i hcak any BtLL Her, WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? WHERE'S THERE A BELL IN A HAYSTACK- AND WHERE ARE WE? i I me . . . JJ J WHERE ARE WE? MY FRIEND, WE'RE ELEVEN MILES NORTH, SIX MILES SOUTH, TWELVE MILES EAST AND ONE MILE WEST OF NO PLACE! J'EVER ncMis ur ii ' . THE NEBB3 Tlie Skeptic PlfS' Wt tWiN Alf:f. By SOL HKa THAT5TEVE IS OUST AMOTUER. P.HAG6HO' MEPS . I OOMT TWIKJK ME EVER HAD A B(5 DIAMOS4D AMD I DOWT TUISJK WE'5 . GOT BIG DOUGH ME CAKl MAKE. A MORE NOISE WITH A DIME. 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