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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
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"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.
For three years the boy had
given his parents the Impres
sion he was off to school each
morning. Each day th.y gave
him money for lunch at school
He explained his lack of report
cards by saying 'bright" stu
dents didn't receive them.
Then came graduation day
the moment the hard -working
Zellens had cherhed for vea's.
They paid for graduation pic
ture and proudly bought Wal
ter new suit for the effair.
But a few hours befoie the
commencement he disappeared
Reunion, an Island In the
Indian ocean. Is an Integral
part of France, represented in
parliament at Paris by sens
tor and two deputies.
On the Radio Chains
STATIONS
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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
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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
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