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Newspaper Page TextPA"GE TWELVE rRDFOTJD MATL TRTBTTNT!, rETTFOTtT). OTrenON'. "FRIDAY. DFCFrRTTR IS, 1938, TIME ARMY POST MURDERS By Virginia Hanson ' The Character ttalherin Cornlih, mytelf, vis- Hng Elizabeth on a mid-western rrny post. Elisabeth, Colonel (Vrioht'e daughter. Adam Drew, acting command i no officer. Tntcrdai The strange mom an i the girl i saw on the train. She toMet consciousness and Adam sends me to the hospital where the others are waiting or news of Anne. Chapter IS Who I She?' I IOC MOORE'S stance went from face to face. Hia own toas aim, professionally detached. 'There's nothing anyone can do, ie said. The word! lay in the room like ' he visible presence of deatn. rjiiz ibeth erooed for a chair-back Harney's face Jerked, his eyes 'losea. tie stummed to tne window md looked out into the darkness. Xnnie's hands twitched in her lap Then she was beside Elizabeth, leering up at her with her little tnarlea face that was like with ered, wind-fallen apple. "You'd best be takin' me to to her mother, she said. Barney turned from the wln dow. "Shall I go with you, Elizabeth?' he asked gently. Her pitiful eyes searched ' his lace, seemed to marie tne compo' sure he had gained. "No. you so on to the club see what Major Drew wants. Til be along in a tew minutes. Doe Moore was telling Annie that he would be In to see Mrs. Carewe as soon as he could. Then the three of them were gone, and I was delivering my message in a quick undertone. He was already fumbling with the tapes of the surgical gown which he was wearing over his white drills. "I'll ride with you you can tell me the details, he said. "Turn your car around. I ll be right out. IT. 1nfnJ mA i. - us juiiicu mo u, m iiiiiiuio, dressed once more for evening and carrying his emergency kit. "Now tell me again," he directed as I headed the car down Officers' ' Row. So I described once more my first sight of the girl on the stairs, the peculiar motions she was mak ing and my nnding her collapsed a few minutes later. He questioned me minutely about the color of her face; and was I sure there was foam on her lips? Then he made me describe in detail her actions when I first saw her. "The aura," he murmured. "What? Do you think she was poisoned? "No that Is, ril have to see her, of course. Tell me, was she breath ing when you touched her?" I I didn't notice. You see, I thought she was dead I took it for granted. You think she may not nave Deenr "Possible with a heart . . ." He was silent for a long minute. We flashed past Elizabeth's car parked in front of the Carewes' quarters. "Did you ever see anyone In an epileptic seizure?" he asked sud denly. "Heavens, no. You you mean that girl that's what It was?" "Sounds like It That motion of the arm the aura. Typical warn ing of the nervous system. She would know, you see, and try to summon help. 'Come If Yon Matt THEN I should have stayed instead of leaving her there." "There was nothing you could do. It was all over by the time you reached her. ... Of course this is all peculation. I shouldn't make a diagnosis until I see the patient. , By all means keep quiet about It. She may very well have seen something nervous shock often brings on these attacks." As we wheeled in at the curb I saw Barney mounting the front steps of the club. I drew Doc Moore iter me to the door of the dress ing room. My luck held: we reached the balcony unseen. Adam was watch ing for us from a half-open door at the end of a corridor above the rending room. "She s alive," he said In a low voice. "I found her room she's staying here all right and carried her in there. She either uncon scious or sleeping very heavily. She hasn't stirred. Doc Moore brushed past him and entered the room. I asked Adam the question up permost in my mind. "Who Is she?" "I found a letter addressed to Miss Ethel Curtis. Does that mean anything to you?" I shook my head. "The luRRage was new and un marked. The clothes look new. too, what there arc of them. But I may as well show you the letter is there enough light? I don't want to attract anyone up here." "I can see to read it" I took the envelope from his hands. It was addressed to Miss U. OF 0. STUDENTS EASE DAD'S U EUOENE, tc lfl.fAP) The bur dn of pnylng for a university du AUun U Mfrd for "Dud" by nearly three-fourths of thty sturirnta at the University of Onon, who contribute II or part of their expert-v. Biirvny mndr her by O, L. Constance, basIii innt rvglntrnr, shown. Of the 3334 rt'ttulnr tudM.ta nt the untvrrMty. 2J74 emu more than 10 iwr cent of their way. whlla W4. or nrnrly one-third, urn wholly atlf sup port Inn. the (tpum Jiow. Approxim ately half earn half their expense while another 36ft atudenta earn a fourth. Only 1060 pay )m tnan 10 per cent of their own way. As might lyr exprclrd, It wni point d out, mcu buw nor UiaicnUuux Ethel Curtis, Hillside Sanitarium. A . Illinois. The single sheet of paper vvas typewritten and un signed, and began without saluta tion: Come if you must, but dont try to telephone me or see me. You owe me that much, at least Co straight to the Service Club; you cant miss it, Ifs white frame building. IVaUc inthe woman's room is on the iet There'e a etairway to the upper floor. Choote a room they're ail vacant and wait there until 1 come. It may not be until late Friday night there'll be a dance. Better take some sandwiches; I dont want you wandering around the post Keep under cover or you'll wish you hail "Then someone knows she's here," I said stupidly. "One of those down there?" "Probably. But not necessarily the murderer." "Then why the secrecy?" His smile was vaguely reassur ing. "Let your creative Imagination go to work on that. I'd say the pos sibilities are numerous. "Doc Moore thinks she It may have been epilepsy." Adam's blue eyes sparkled In the semidarknesa. 'There's one oi your answers," he said. I was still thinking about that when the door of her room opened and the young doctor beckoned to Adam. Their low-voiced murmur went on for some time on the other side of the door. Presently Adam ap peared, looking intensely excited, and drew me into the dimly lighted room. Oddly Familiar THE blinds had been closely drawn to prevent any telltale ?limmer escaping to the street. The urnishings were cold and bare looking, but clean a cheap chesl of drawers, painted white, sur mounted by a small, wavy mirror; a bedside table, one chair, which held an open suitcase and the girl's discarded clothing; and the white iron bed, single size, ornamented with the insignia of the Quarter master Corps. She was lying very still, breath ing heavily, in deep sleep. "As Doc suspected, it was a con vulsion," Adam explained in a low, hurried voice. "She should sleep for a while. In the meantime Doc is needed back at the hospital tell her what you told me about Anne " Captain Moore looked apolo getic. "I would have told you all awhile ago. but Adam gave me in structions when we found she was still breathing. Theres a chance in a hundred that we can save her." "Anne? You mean she's alive?" "By the best of luck the bullet missed the heart and the other vital organs; but there was internal bleeding. We had to explore, tie off she was still alive when I left her, but I'll have to go right back. Unfortunately Im alone for the week end. The surgeon is in Chi cago. . . . There'll hove to be blood transfusions; all of the orderlies have volunteered and they're test ing the blood group now. I want this keDt auiet. at least until I can get on with the investi gation," Adam Interposed hurried ly. "It may be for her protection I don't know; anyway, that's the feeling I've got." This eirl. here I can't take her to the hospital," Doe Moore went on apologetically. "We're not equipped to take care of women no nurses, no ward. And there's no other hospital In twenty miles. I've got Anne in the officers' ward, which was fortunately empty, and I ve telephoned for a nurse; but 1 wouldn't dare put this girl in with her." "I sec; you want me to stay here with her until she wakes ud. All right." They both looked inexpressibly relieved. "I'll be right at the foot of the stairs, in the reading room," Adam said consolingly. I ve got to gel these people's stories and let them go home. She'll be nultc all right" the doctor assured me. "Just make her stay In bed." I kept on telling him that I didn't mind the assignment, and finally they bowed themselves out Adam stuck his head back in long enough to tell me that when she woke up I was to call him. I could come to the font of the stairs and wiggle the curtains and he would know I wrtnted him. Then the door closed and the room began to All with the girl's heavy breathing. 1 found I was still holding the letter Adam had shown me. 1 moved the suitcase to the floor. noticing that it was new and near ly empty, and sat on the hard straight chair under the light o( the single wall bracket that flanSi'd the chest or drawers Once more I read the typewrit ten note, but midway I lost the sense of the words, arrested by an oddly familiar Idiosyncrasy of one of the letters the tail of the 1 was almost obliterated. (Covvrtaht ISJS Virginia Bnn(m) Tomorrow: The clue of the typewriter. than women alnce 7!8. or more than a third, ara wholly twlf-Mivpovt.iiji. CHRISTMAS SEALS AT The annual ChrlMnwa Seal aale fund to combat tuherculoMs wd the, ttoOO mark yeaterday In Jacknon county. Mra. A!e Pparrow, chair man, unnounred. Junt half the let ters, which w'nt out to aulwrlben Thank giving dy haw been ana werrd With a 2Aoo (toal act for thin ywf drive, the committee U urging alt pnrfttn to pvpond a early aa poa alhle. The real Chrlstnwia rush la just ahead and they a.Mt that every ChrlMmna letter and even' pA.-fcane be maikrd with the MtnUil of tirMth. u iUiU-luix-rcUioi tluiftuuaa atni. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN MX For further proof address the author. Inclosing lUmped envelope for reply. Beg. U. 8. Pet. Oft. V pANP ucftPER, WAO lP fcRM ANP 5 FArAoUS GERMAN GUH i Vlrticrt 4H6U.eo PARIS ii FROM 75 MilES AWAy, WSR6 UJCATED BV 1H FRENCH IN 3 Hours STRUCK PARIS BY PLoTHNfi -TH& 4i PATH OF h VPUD" FROM Yiow&ttveef in ft building (March, NI8) Discovery of the "llerthna" A note of sudden terror struck the heart of Paris on March 33. 1918, with the explosion of the first ahel! to reach the French capital from Germany's famed "Big Berthas," ' 75 miles away. No one knew from whence the shell had come. It was thought to have been dropped from an airplane flying at an Incredible height. Then an other atruck. At 15-mlnute Intervals the sheila continued to rain on Paris. Soon after the first shell hit, a CHRISTMAS IN LIMA PLANNED BY LANDON LIMA, Peni, Dec. lfl. (AP) Alf M. Landon, ex-governor of Kansas, has abandoned his plan to return to the United States In time to spend the Chrtntmas holidays with his family. On the Insistence of other members of the United States delegation to the Pan-American conference, Lan- don decided to remain In Lima until December 26. He plans to leave by BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER THE NEBBS-Good By r7'WELL.1FOLKS, MERE'S I? CHRiSTMA.3 MOMEV. lirf'Il Meanwhile'' let urcturnto I K"Titf r" VJrJSiZ Ifr u r XV 'tommv, who has reached the. SSs5V'(Vbi 'Via aLj'T- I J&- Xi SFCuttrrr Of- the TOO bank , cn si'Xl f,V sVUIaiir"' i-'5Srlv K CLX : M his attempt to t5?CAPe fbom the ..-t?i lx.anrfAiVj;3tt. rajggSiL t Llr a I armed black piRA-Ter f MAW.' BRING GEE, THEY'RE V'S i'S M NOW, VOU MVS' HAVE 7 MINE'S GOlN'l g I IN ANOTHER II 6000, , I J f?y'j H TO EAT ALL THESE, 1 1 TO WAIST, I j 3 SflfV. l STACK O II MR. tSEV.1 M"ff'"M H TOO 'CAUSE WE DON'T 1 1 MRS. CASEY: FLAPJACKS.' f- S THEY'RE , " ALLOW ANY FOOD TO fA .ifffl? VJWftT VOU WAMT AND IXJKIT FORGET JUMlOnl. I'M SOCRV WE'S AWAV AT SCMOOL AMD HERE'S 2,000 -t ASIDE FDR HIS dC(L 41bHE3RAKR BoWttP 5 PUCKPIH 6ftM&5 roR h 119 ToTAU ANrW6RA660Fl55i .( "dud" ripped through the walla and floor of a Paris house without ex ploding. Military engineers lj&aped into action. It was obvious the shell struck from an angle; that meant It had been fired from a gun. The exact direction of the projec tile's flight was determined, aa well as the angle of Its descent. Soon mathematicians had plotted Its rough path. The evidence led to a small corner section of pie German front, near Laon. Prom maps. It was discovered a plane that day and stop over at sev eral Central American points en route home. STREET SANTAS ARE PURGED OF MICROBES NEWARK. N. J.. Doc. 18. (AP) Newark's street corner Snnta Clauses were de-mlcroblzed today. The health department sent out Inspectors to see whether they had compiled with orders to sterilize their detachable beards, ,atop ktsatng chil dren and wear frequently-washed Jobs? v I eb VLf) ,,., HN SKK&TS FOUMD THE PlECI" OP OllfiBBtt TUBtMe EXTEMDIrte FROM THE MOTOR. EXHAUST OP THH AMPHIBIAM INTO THE CABIN OF THE PLANE, BBTTY-UOU, JEHOy AND HANK AGREED WITH HIM THAT AN ATTEMPT MAO BERN MADE TO MURDER THEM . . . BUT WHY Y Gene Citsey A LITTLE rMJV WITH XT MftV NOU CAM PUT COLLEGE EDUCATIOKJ, i 1 s . Il l OvTr vt r is . r -Y.. 1 , s . F.M yf f : y L-l 1 Vet you rtfwe no coihc &nd now BlllS o WHAT HAVE iOUT (Answer -bmowow) - 2-G-38 railroad spur ran there. French guns were moved Into position; within three hours after the first shell struck, the Big Berthas had been located and within 30 hours the Number One gun was so heavily shelled It had to be abandoned) The Berthas seven In all killed some 256 persons, wounded 020 more, yet the damage they Inflicted was far less than their cost $14,000,000. However, they proved that shells could be thrown aa far as 75 miles accurately a feat hitherto believed Impossible. white gt.ives while shaking hands with them. Henltn officer Charles V. Croster said he believed the edict would re duce transmission of colds, grippe and other maladies. 4 .V1tl Fatality PORTLAND. Dec. 18. (AP) Mra. Albert O. Schulti, 63, of Sherwood waa fatally injured Wednesday In a collision between an automobile and a truck. Her dwth was the clty s 65th fatality of the year. Dse Mall Tribune Want Ads. 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