Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 14, 1938, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextPAflE ElfiHT rEDFOTfT) MATL 7RTT5TTNT!. fEPFOTfT). 0"REOOy. WEDNESDAY. T)ECEMBTCR 14. 1933. THE ARMY POST MURDERS By Virginia Hanson The Character Kitherin. Cornlih, myttlf, U Uing Elizabeth an mid-uteiMni Army pott. EliMbetb, Colantt Wright'$ daughter. A dim Drew, acting command ing oJicr. YetUriiy: Shaw propoiu tht theory that thi bullet may have been meant for Barney. Chapter IS On The Wrong Track TXCITEMENT burned In Adam'i eyes. "Well? I'm listening." "Why, I was in the reading room, here, this afternoon, polio lng up for the party. I'd come over to make sure there were enough dishes (or the ice cream. That stuff must be melted to soup by now! They were to deliver it at eleven. The balloon dance was to have been the last before the intermix ion." Adam made a gesture of im patience. "Get on with it What time were you over here?" "Rieht after the polo game, Must have been between five- thirty and six. 'mere's usually two or three soldiers in the read ing room, but they'd cleared out. The piece was empty as a tomb." He paused, shivered. "Tomb is rignt. ... "Well, as I said, I was policing up a bit in here when I heard what I took to be a Distol shot. I tore to the reading room door it was shut and -pened It. "Barnev was standing in the en tryway with a box of colored light bulbs in one hand and the pieces of one at his feet I said, 'What was that noise? "He said, sort of weak, 'It did make a noise, didn't it? Must be the arched roof. I dropped a bulb. "But when I got up to him I could see his face was white and he was shaking so the bulbs all danced and rattled. And I could smell burnt powder. "Well, that was his story, and he tuck to It. But i tninK somebody was gunning for him and he knew It And that would mean "That somebody got the wrong person tonight uia you see any' one? Outside, I mean?" "I never noticed. There were tars passing the polo game was oust over, as i say, i never no ticed. "He would have been an easy mark there in the doorwav. Adam mused; "he was all in white." 6uddenly I remembered some thing that turnrA me cold. What mean uoudi was lining my mina with Dictures of Elizabeth? Eliza beth, determinedly alone, leaving the club before Taps; Elizabeth, n hour ago, standing in her own front door looking sick with what? Horror? Disappointment? Fear? And now Elizabeth taking me tacttuny nut nrmiy nome rrom the polo game, leaving me there nd propelling her shiny little car DacK past tne long row or omcers quarters, past the Service Club, past the chapel, past the Post Ex change, and so out of sight among the small, orderly row of quar ters known as Noncoms' Row. And Shaw had said there were ears passing. Passing the Service Club. I wanted to deny those sus picions. I did deny them. I was ashamed of them. I despise people who are always looking for evil where only good appears. Yet the recurring pictures were important; they had real signln cance if I could have puzzled it out But I didn't know them well enough the principals in that night's tragedy. And even Adam, when, toward morning, I told him all the things that were troubling me, was slow to see where they pointed. Horrible Understanding I TURNED my thoughts resolute ly In a new direction. There was still Shaw, the man who had tried to spoil Swede's beauty. I hadn't been able to lit that In with the murder of Barney's fiancee. But suppose the killer had intend ed the bullet for Barney? We had only Shaw's word that he had been in the reading room that afternoon when the first shot was fired If it was a shot. Couldn't he have fired at Barney from in front of the building, run around the side and in at the door of the reading room? It would be a smart move to tell the story first, before Adam could hear it from Barney's lips. It was easy to discount his wife's story of refusing to marry Barney. No girl in her senses would have made such a choice between the two men. A more likely surmise would be that she had made a desperate play for Barney, only to find that he had been amusing himself at her ex pense and Shaw's. She was prob ably still in love with him; that would account for her turning ILK BOTTLE PATENT EARNS HUGE RETURN against Anne. And wasn't that I motive for shooting her? On the other hand, why would Shaw, at this particular juncture, decide to put Barney out of the way? Anne was doing that for him. I had floundered into confusion again. Barney or Anne? And strong motives for the death of either. Against my will my thoughts circled back to their starting point. Strong motives. Elizabeth, if she loved Barney. Charlie.,. . . But I refused to think of that Adam was pacing the floor with ?uick, nervous strides, his open ace mirroring indecision. "But if that's true I'm on the wrong track I've been asking all the wrong questions." He frowned thoughtfully at Shaw. "Who hated him? Who on this post would be glad to see him dead?" Shaw turned a seasick sreen. The man who tried to spoil Swede's beauty. He moistened his lips and I saw them form a word. Charlie. He was going to bring that up again. But a sudden thought as visible as a shadow on his face, intervened and he brushed aside Adam's ques tion with one of his own. "Where is Swede, by the way?" Something in his tone arrested Adam. The two men stared at each other in rather horrible under standing. "You're thinking . . ," Adam's voice trailed off. He crossed the room to a crowded hatrack. reached down from the top hook a white uniform cap. "You you think the murderer might try again?" Shaw's voice was a little shrill. "Adam waitl Where are you going? What about me?" Adam nausea at the side door I had used more than an hour before. "I'm going to bachelor quarters after Nelson. I'll either bring him back here or set somebody on to guard him, ju.it in case. You stay here; I'll be right back. Look have Mrs. Orpington in and see what you can get out of her. It probably won't be much, but keep her until I get back." It was not much. Inside of five minutes Shaw was squirming; and by the end of that time Jjou Or pington was asking the questions and Shaw was on the defensive. To do him justice, she learned little enough from him, and her tongue sharpened. A Woman In White WELLI This certainly .J send ing a boy to do a man's work. Kind of in a daze, aren't you? SiiDDOse I did know something. I'd better not tell you you might forget it before Adam gets DacK. Guess I'll Just wait around." She settled back comfortably and gazed at the ceiling, her thin red tips pressed tightly together, her long bare legs nonchalantly crossed. Shaw looked at her with bafilod fury in his eyes. "If you know anything you'd better tell it before something else happens. "Something else," she murmur ed, and behind her veiled eyes brisk thought was nctive. "I see vou think the killer was after Barney." Either she was very quick wlt- ted or she did know something. For the first time she betrayed signs of nervousness. The high arched foot in the silver sandal that revealed her scarlet-tinned toes began to lash like the tall of an angry cat. "I don't believe it," she said dc- Anntl,, hot hnr Mtnnlra horl rtnlof around their spots of rouge. "It's that girl. She was looking for trou ble and she got it Everybody's crazy about Barney he's a prince. If he wasn't she'd never have got him. She shut her lips tight on that. "But you do see that you should tell what you know. Time may be important," Shaw wheedled. ."Fiddlcsticksl If I knew any thing, don't you suppose I'd have told it an hour ago?" "But you said "I said if I knew anything. I don't. I've got good eyes and I keep them open, that's all. You've had us much chance as I have. You've seen Anne Carewe, haven't you? You've seen her parents? Weill" And that was all she would say. I don't know what nrtide me look over my shoulder. The long lower flight of the stairway where I was sitting was In semidarkness. But the lights from the lounge were reflected upward from the central well of the Dunning and Illumi nated the landing where the stairs turned left about three steps from the top. A woman was standing there a woman in white with floating draperies. Her head was back, her face white and contorted, and one arm hung limp at her side. But with the other she was making fantastic gestures. Fist clenched, she was doubling and straighten ing it at shoulder level, as if she were engaged in weird calisthenics or us ii sne vtp uumiiiik some thing dcsprnteiv hack that threat ened her from Just beyond the turn of the stairs. (CopirltM. J. Virginia Hamon) Tomorrow: The girl from the train. WASIIINUTON. Off. H. (UP) PnM!dnt Rooapvelt's monopoly In YMMpnttng commute today heard evidence purportlnn to allow that a Hartford. Conn., firm which monopo 1Imi patcnta for manufacture of mlllt bottlM earned 40.479,02fl from Its patents alone during the pnat 15 vent. P. CI. Smith, president of the Mnrtfnrd-Kmplre company and tlrat witness In the committee's Inquiry :nlo the effecta of government pat ent policies on monopolistic growth dlilo'cd under questioning that hi" firm not only control the mlllt bot. tie pntents. but also haa a monopoly on rn'-nu for on- of two method. line 'n ,'.!!. -tlop of tl:- 'T- V't Mall Tribune Want Adi TO HELP NEEDY YOUNG STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof addresa the author, Inclosing stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Pat Oft Vow Voicfc H C&H.IN6 AH f Rfwcisco from sew York. , Mrtfwjht Syndicate. tn WW I SHP4 P0CKIH6 M THt PIER AT BROOME, kUV 100 YftRPS f ROM THE 5EA. Prt tow UPfc 1 IIWI ( M HE EVER SHoT m GAME, ios aatos.cjhf., in i en e. MouNTAlH UoHl x j . F7 I' Telephoning Vour "Voice" Strange tu tt seems, no one has ever beard your voice over a telephone, and you have never heard anyone else's. What la heard la purely me chanical reproduction of the voice. In making a telephone call to San Francisco from New York, for ex ample, your actual voice travels only the distance from your mouth to the mouthpiece of the transmitter. In turn, the transmitter changes air vibrations of your voice into elec trical Impulses, and tt la these that travel the 3000-mile distance to San Francisco. There the electrical Im pulses are again changed Into air vi brations, which reach the listener's ear In a fair reproduction of your true voice. Thus the telephone does not carry your own voice thousands of miles, as popularly supposed. In making long distance calls; only an Imitation of It covers the distance. Hlgh-iind-Dry I'ler Because of the shallowness of Its harbor, Broome. Western Australian seaport, found It necessary to extend a pier almost a mile out Into the ocean to accommodate large ships. At high tide, ships are able to tie alongside of this pier some 5000 feet from land. At low tide, however, quite a different picture Is presented. The ship that formerly had been floating Is then left "high and dry" about 100 yards from the water I Due to the heavy tidal change and the natural shallowness of the region, the water advances and recedes over a mile with the flood and ebb tides. Tomorrow: Does Finland owe the United States a war debt? HEAVY IN Mlf JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 14. (Spl.) There were 4.08 Inches of rainfall In Jacksonville during November, (ac cording to figures released today by Emll Brltt. voluntary observer Great est fall was on November 1, with 1.95 inches. There was one-quarter inch of snowfall on the 10th. Mean temperature for the month was 40.86 degrees; moan maximum, 48.53; mean minimum, 32.4. Coldest days were the 12th and 22nd, with lows of 21 degrees. Precipitation since September 1 Is 5.10 inches, far ' below the 11.57 inches which fell during the same period last year. 25 Discount on all Ready-To-Wear and Hots ETHELWYN B. HOFFMANN GIRLS' SCHOOL FOUNDER DIES OF HEART ATTACK PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 14. (AP Miss Catherine Harker, who founded the Miss Harker School for Oirls hsie In 1902, died at her home as a result of a heart attack last night. She was Born In Portland. Ore., a member of a pioneer Oregon family, and previ ously tauRht at Mills college In Oak land. Calif. She was a graduate rf Vnssar. Survivors Include a sister. Miss Sara D. Harker, associated with the school. SUBURBAN HEIGHTS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS "snini . ' frvd pro) fv Ruurf pi&H-f in otf -far: bridge CLUB MEEfiKS ACROSS 1HF SlRiTEt vVHEN,RE'fllRN)W3 home errly t0 "dress for a busine5s dinner in town, he found that his wife had locked her-. CtfRiSMfb PRESENTS IN HIS CLOSEf AND OFF lAllfH fHE KEY 11-13 (Copyright, 1938, by The Bell Byr.dlc.ate, Inc.) S MATTER P01 Bv 0 M PAVNB I S"PA-M. MOMENT .-J (I JEE.T YoUTJ.lAC. rCK NSSlf3 V 9 CLOTHES AM 60 A jrj " -ow LoMY A 1 f EXPECT M 7 if? Wr - Copyright, 1938, by The Bell Syndleite, lot.) TAILSPIN TOMMY Whose Hand? By HAL FORREST l WEUE RIGHT, oerry! monoxide! TO?0 1 "r V f YOU SAVED OUR uves, pal! r , r ii yr ' ,11 in 1 1 i in. IP WE HADN'T V. 'CARSON MONOXIDE? T H S (ST QSJ ( CRASHED. . WED I BUT. .HOW DID THAT I E3 " Bt&L'rrJr til V HAVE DIED FROM I 1. .GET IM HERE? S TS.3! HOW 1 rVj4f-V S TH' GAS FUMES J J ' DID THF S3 J II . fc tT V9Tir-TT-sr-p; J. -- 11 h ""iii. "r riravciiiiJih 63 ;i.-x7N1 wmm LJU srT i s: a , n-n - r- --r -i:-VJ l wi ;ssr iim t m TrMnoonw -it-MJ l- a.irf'.Kffll--' ; BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Ciuiso for Remembrance I Bj EDWIN ALOF" ( AN1 IN ADDITION TO BEIN1 ALL THEM MILES FROM NO PLACE, BEN, THERE'S ANOTHER MUCH MORE PRESSIN PROBLEM-SEE? A1 'ii VV,!. 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