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PXCIT! TOURTKFtf MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MED FORD. OREGON. THURSDAY. JUNE 27. 19-.0. Gasual Slaughters By VIRGINIA HANSON - TtSTCROjir: The robbery of Ihe chaplain's car cud clothes is tht second occurrence of the kind recently at Fort Michigan, Adam explain. The chaplain' ptteht arouses amusement on Ins post. Chapter Three Gerald Beaufort "PHAT noon. In tht mess hall. Colonel Pennant asked the Ju nior medical officer how the chap lain was. Captain Jonea'i slightly promi nent eyea blinked; his Adam's ap ple made a couple of trips up and down. "Sorry." he mumbled. "Didn't realize I was being addressed. The chaplain, air? Worst case of poison oak I ever saw. We washed him did everything we could. He seems unusually susceptible to it. Face, hands, swollen out of lhape." I'm sure we all tried to keep decently sober; I know I did. But in spite of all I could do little ihuddery giggles began to escape me. Adam, pink faced, was avoid ing my eye and feeding radishes rapidly into his mouth. Colonel Pennant made clucking sounds through lips that could not seem to keep from stretching horizon tally. And Felicia, at the head of table, I surveyed those lashes nar rowly, for the unworthy thought did just occur to me that they might be artificial. And then, with a little bow, and not quite click ing his heels, he said: "From Peele's. in London." So it was really the voice that got me; and I make no apologies. Take a pair of Middle Western ears, tuned to the flattest accent on the globe, expose them to Eng lish well sDoken hv sr. Enchsh. i man not the lah-de-dah of bored I affectation or the vocal acrobatics of the Cockney, but the unpre tentious, sterling article "Hm, you're a new man," ob served Colonel Pennant "Used to be a big fellow, red face, regu lar John Bull." Gerald Beaufort Inclined his head. "My uncle. Laid up with gout." He drew down his mouth sadly. "Poor old duffer." "Too bad. Remember him very well. Used to buy Peele boots myself when I was young and foolish. Before I was a family man. Up to you, Adam, and Jtf. Hm, little late for him, too. Too bad you didn't get here a month or two earlier, Beaufort We're about to have a wedding on tht post." Blot Eyes And Gray GERALD BEAUFORT'S eyea those special gray, lash trimmed eyes met mine across the Uble. T T I r - "I'm often a bridesmaid, never a bride," I said sadly. the table, eyes round and mouth folded, was, I felt aure, compos ing one of her lines for later re lease. Somewhere a telephone rang and Captain Jones, with a mut tered apology and a haste that nearly upset the waiter with the soup, fled from the table. He did upset his water glass, transform ing his mound of crumbs into t soggy, unwholesome pulp. He dis. appeared into the lounge, happily unconscious of the bitter glance rencia oriaeweu sent after him. "As if that bread isn't crumby enough, without pulverizing it," the said with distaste. "What's the matter with him?" demanded Colonel Pennant. "His wife's in Chicago having a baby." aha told him resignedly. "I alwaya thought doctors took such msttcrs very lightly, but it seems that'a only when it's the other guy." Lines that were not from laugh ter deepened in Colonel Pennant'a face, and I remembered what Adam had told me that the first Mrs. Pennant had died when Julia was born. I glanced at Fe licia Bridewell ana saw that she had just remembered, too. Eyelashes, Too I DON'T know why It Is that at 1 such moments talk dries up like spilled alcohol, leaving be hind the same clulL You could feel the attempted cerebration around the Uble. I had just opened my mouth to make some ooisonous remark about the weather when I glanced toward the door and saw what at first I took to be a mirage. I left the remark unspoken and the mouth open, for as the vision advanced it turned into the handsomest voung man ever seen anywhere, by anyone. He as wearing aomrthing spe cial in the way of civilian clothes. which in itself was enough to mark him as not of the army, for tne civilian clothes of most otli rers are apt to be special In quite a different way. But the faultless tailoring was only the gilding on the lily. He had shoulders, he had lercth. he was built Then, as he paused beside the vacant chair across the table from me. I saw that he had eyelashes. While Felicia was informing us that he was Mr. Herald Beaufort pronounced Bewfort) and intro ducing him formally around tin "The bride?" he asked pleas antly, but with Just the right hint of regret. "Not this time," Adam said Just as pleasantly. The blue eye and the gray met and measured each other. "I'm often a bridesmaid, r.avet a bride," I told him sadly. Adam said, "You don't live right" Gerald Beaufort screwed an Imaginary monocle into his eye, leanea confidentially toward me across the table. "Are you double-Jointed?" ht asked politely. "I I'm afraid not." "How jolly f Neither am I. Per haps we're soul mates!" Having settled that, ha turned his attention to the soup. Felicia Bridewell telegraphed me one of her looks that meant in any language, "Loopy!" "Are you susceptible to poison oak?" Adam began hollowly and was not allowed to finish. "If you don't mind," said Gerald Beaufort politely when the lunghter had died down, "I feel like a new boy at school. I laugh at the jokes, but I don't understand lav-m. I've been hear ing echoes of that one ever since I arrived this morning. What's funny about poison oak? Dashed uncomfortable, I'm told " "You mean to say you don't knoip? Felicia asked Incredu lously. "It s quite a story," observed Colonel Pennant and told it with relish. "I still any It must be dashed uncomfortable," said Gerald Beaufort when he had finished. "You'd think so," Adam said grimly, "if you had seen him trying to wrap himself up In tht stuff" "Is there anv hope of catching the thief?" Felicia asked. "Who investigates, anyway, in an ailalr or this kind; "In this particular case, the state police." Colonel Pennant told her. "The whole thing oc curred off the post. Crimes which occur on a government reserva tion are either investigated by the post personnel or by Department of Justice men sent for that pur pose. We notified the troopers first thing and they came out and talked to Chaplain Henry. Ht couldn't tell them much." Te be continued THREE YEARS HOOKEY ENDS-WITH FADE-OUT ON GRADUATION EVE Pittsburgh. June 17. .V A broken-hearted Russian Immi grant couple ar.ked police to Iny to help locate Ilieir 17 vearold son. wlK.se disappear ance Just before his scheduled ' graduation" from high school revealed he had played "hook ey" for three years. School authorities Informed Mr. nnd Mrs. John Zelltn that their son. Walter, had never : tended high school, and more over hadn't completed his Jun ior high course. 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First of series of news and feature pictures of Queen Eliza beth and her court and adver tising the Ashland Shakespearean productions this summer, were being started this week, in preparation for coverage along the Pacific coast and in the Rocky Mountain region. Both the queen and the court. Mary Elizabeth Shreve of Med ford and Phyllis Collier of Klamath Falls, Marilyn Sher lock of Grants Pass and Carol McCollum of Ashland, will play important roles In the Fourth of July celebration planned for Ashland early next month. They will be feted at teas, luncheons, will be guests of the cavalcade and rodeo, will be honored at a swimming party and water carnival and will hold the keys of the city during the three day period. Cm Mall Tribune want ada. SUBURBAN HEIGHTS By GLUT A3 WILLIAMS YRIV PERLEV BARELY ESCAPED Wlfri H!5 LIFE WHEH HE OPEKtP A WINDOW IN -THE SMOKER OH -frtE 5:)5 OUST WHEN 1V,E FOURSOME BEHIND HIM WERE f C10&E CONfRftCf OF SA HO-TCUMPS 6-28 fff-Va-rrf hr y- H-l S.M1r.,tr. tne i 6IUYAS IA1ILLIAM5 SOUGHT AS TARGETS FOR BOMBING DRILL Salem, June 26. tJP) Aban doned bridges, railroads and highways are being sought in Oregon for use as targets by the United States army air corps, it was learned here to day. An army air corps officer from Hamilton field, Cal.. has been In Salem conferring with highway commission and pub lic utilities commission offic ials, who said they would try to find some targets. The officer explained the army has been using "duds" on bombing ranges, but it now wants to use live bombs on objectives under wartime con ditions. It was believed the air corps might obtain permission to bomb some abandoned ranch homes in eastern Oregon. The officer explained the taijiets must be two or three miles from any other house, road, bridgs or railroad. Seal For Salem Salem (UPJ Tha city of Salem will soon have an of ficial seal for the first time in ita hundred years of existence. The city council has under con sideration two different designs for a seal. One uses the capitol for its theme and the other I based on the circuit rider on the state house grounds. Auto, Plai and Window Glass la. stalled reasonably. Medlord Plat Glass ai Mirror Co. 3d So. Bartlstc STRANGE AS IT SEEMS r7f by JOHN HIX W T at -d -A- m 1 ttT HIM Wk frig Oflo?llfPR6&rrit INK4CRtfN- 4 ?miYL& 1H6 KENTFbWSR tMWit fU Gardner, Mass., vi' V; I UTILITIES COMPANY, Vttt (Kit, i Fuel art light C?) ( umk r?ivei? -m crrv muz Of KLAMATH frSU'5. . Am m i it m w AtoRCi (?NT. Vienna. ClO PHP KNEE SENDS WHILc HOLPINo ftn. 8$-LB.BfiRBELL! TAILSPIN TOMMY Snap Out of it. Hank. Before It's Too Lal.l $1 GAS COMPANY Strange as it seems, for a dollar bill Harold E. Greenwood of Gardner. Mass.. bought debt free, a whole gas works complete with a storage lank, gas plant and mains connecting with 800 homes! For years the Gardner Gas. Fuel and Light Company had been losing money because more people were using electricity. New England Power Association poured more than $250,000 into it and then decided to sell. With no past experience. President Greenwood is learning by reading gas meters and has set a goal of 2,500 customers. "Business." he says, "already it increasing." TOMORROW: Biggest X-Rayl By HAL FORREST BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Tornado t ?YLS'2MER- 1 I IT IS HANK'S JOB TO f,iCOMe.OlR.VSH,..IT IS TIME I OM.HkNk' MA MM.' VOL! CHI . tNUNtlHOS YOUfi. 1 DIRECT THE AT rAC Kl KlG 1 1 TO F-LV AGA I N ' ANOTH B PL. I I 1 eniii T r 'aVaV. sSi'i'I Vkl THBtS POINT eACTORV, IS I "-.1 MODEL PLANES .... ftY I WAFt-pl An 6 CONSIONCC. TO I "'S ' I w u?tVkC iLalil i29U ?" 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