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Newspaper Page TextPAOfl TOTTRTFT.N MEPFORP MATL TRTBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON. FRIDAY. JTJXE 2S, 1940. Gasual Slaughters By VIRGINIA HANSON P YtSTCRDAY:Thlian4tomn yovna "tan Kov aas tvtr trtn, Gerald Beauart, boot talesmen of London, arrivu on Wis post Felicia BrtdW(ll, (Jit hotM, Colonel Pennant, the command ing officer, Adam and Kay are till duruMina the chaplain'! caie et lunch. Chapter Four Felicia' Shopping TIE WAS Just leaving Field I atone Inn," continued the Colonel, "where he had dinner when he aaw man walking along the road and atopped to ask nim how far it waa to Fort Michigan. The man taid ten mile, and that he waa going there him elf, ao Henry told him to get in. Unfortunately he didn't get a good look at the fellow'a face he had on a aoft hat pulled down over hia eyea and he didn't have much to ay. Henry deacribed him as a email man, short and rather slender. They had covered about nine miles when he pulled a gun and, a few minutes later, directed Henry to turn onto the dirt road back of the post." "They ought to be 'able to trace the car," Gerald aaid reflectively. "Oh, they've found that I had word juit before noon it waa abandoned about twenty miles from here, between here and Chicago. It had been well driven, too you see, the car was bought new in Chicago yerterday and driven directly here, so the troop ers knew just what the mileage reading should be, and it was almost exactly twenty miles short of three times what it ahould have been, if you follow me. In other words, the car could have been driven to Chicago from here, then back to the place where it was abandoned." Felicia looked thoughtful. Any clues in the ear?" "None. The luggage was gone it was empty as when he bought it; and there wasn't a fingerprint in the car, not even Henry's. It must have been gone over carefully and wiped clean by the thief. Probably used it to pull aome very unsavory lob In Chicago last night." The colonel's face darkened. "If It's one of my men I'll get him if it takes until Christmaa." Gerald leaned forward and looked at the older man in some surprise. "What makes you think It's one of your men, sir? Surely that doesn't follow?" "Only because this Incident so closely resembles one that pro ceeded It, one which we have good reason to believe involved some one on the post" He went on to tell them of the affair of the taxicab, which I had heard from Adam that morning. "The presence of that regi mental Insignia In the cab Is rather good proof," he concluded. "Pleasant thought," observed Felicia brightly. "A gangster right on the post with us. lmmer man, that's the second dessert you've brought Miss Cornish; snd with all deference to her taste and her figure, I can't believe she wants two helpings of bread pud trig." "I wondered If I was seeing things," I murmured as Immer xain s agitated hand removed the second dessert. But Gerald was still pursuing the subject. "And you say, sir, that the taxi driver waa also er, divested of his clothing? What a beastly criminal! You'd think one might be left a garment or so, what? I mean to say at least his boots. Man is so helpless in bare feet." "Probably the idea exactly." taid Adam. "Wonder they weren't put permanently out of the way." "That's so, too. Can't hsve been very desperate, eh? Just in a hurry." Gerald Beaufort paused, a serious gleam in the gray eyes. "1 say, sir, did they gi-t away with til the poor chaplain's belongings uniforms and all?" "F.verything. He was In civilian clothes, but he had a small trunk full of hia uniforms and arcouter menta in the bark of the car. Even a full outfit of the new blues darned expensive, I can tell you. And of course they can't be sold for a fraction of their cost pure vandalism." The fringed gray eyes were dreamy. Too Attractive' I UST ask when I can see him. i' Bit of business, what? Boots, belts. Must see what I can do for him?" Mrs. Bridewell pushed back her Chair. "Bit cf business for me, too." the remarked tartlv. living the englishman a withering glance of which he seemed happily utv conscious. "I'm a good shopper If I do say It, and he sounds help- lr,s. She rose, put down her napkin. "Boots snd belts, indeed! the said scornfully. "What he needs is shirts and shorts, and I'm the one to ui that he gets them with what money he has left." Five minutes later, having of ficiated with her charming smile at Colonel Pennant's leave-taking, she turned her back on the rest of us who had dropped lazily On the Radio Chains 1 NtlOVS (there to lino Ihm oe the llal: hlA. IIM, ranlanil: KM, )0. uos Snirhwi hGV I41U. SHttaiie Kim. 5tm. ftan Iraitrltra; M 150. Portland Kill. :. Kr.iu. KNX. 1111. Anitrleal km 10 Urn ten HOI V till Portland: KflMII t'.HI fteattlr; KPO. US" Mln rntM l-rv nM inn I .the FriiMt. 5:00 Between Altemoon and fven li f. KOO. KJR. KEX; Walls Time. KPO. KPI. KCIW. oluialn'a Orch. KNX. I SO Wnat'a Mr Name. KPO. Kri. KOW; Drama. KNX. KfU KOIS; Nam It and Take It. KOO, KJR. 00 Don Ameche. KI'O, KPI. KOW: Newa. KOO. KEX :SO Pearrr'a OMtt. KNX. K.t. Quia Kids, tU'O. Kri, Kun, into easy chairs on the versnds and, her spike heels tap-tapping across the polished floor of the lounge, made for the guest wing. She waa not a tall woman, but her slenderness and the slim per fection cf her navy-blue slacks snd shirt made her appear to. Her hair, which the wore alwaya in sculptured ringlets, was uni formly gray; but looking at her now, at the taut smoothness of her bare arma and the spring of her step, I doubted if she was forty. To my considerable annoyance, Gerald Beaufort sprang to his feet and pursued her, after only the most perfunctory excuse. "Too bed," said Adam, eyeing me sympathetically. "Losing the old grip. "You mind your own business." "Very pretty. Girlish flush." "And don't be a fool. But I say again what I've taid before, that Felicia Bridewell is altogether too attractive a woman to be hostess for a crowd of bachelors. It's why it's " "Go on, say it," urged Adam, grinning. "Iva heard you on he subject " And together we chanted "It's downright unfair!" Adam had gone back to duty, and I had retired to my rooms with every intention of doing some work when I discovered that I waa out of cigarettes. I do my heaviest smoking when I am at work; and, like most writers I can seize on the smallest excuse to postpone the final, evil moment of facing a blank sheet of paper, Insignias I ALMOST collided with Felicia Bridewell In the corridor. She waa dressed for the city and car rying a suit box, and for a mo ment I thought she was annoyed to see me. But the annoyance proved to be for her errand. "They've sent me the wrong girdle. They were having a big sale of them yesterday at Mar shall Field's, and I'm afraid the kind I want will be sold out, so I have to go back." "I should go into Chicago and collect some unfinished manu scripts," I said, pursuing another excuse for idleness. "I didn't ex- Fect to have time to work when came." "I'll let you know when 1 go again." the promised. "I've rot to call up a friend tonight and I may be late grtting back. I taid, "O.K. Drop me at tht Post exchange, will U yo She gave me the box to hold while she unlocked her cell of the long garage behind the club and barked out her rord coupe. "Do you mind just keeping that on your lap?" she suggested as I climbed in. "The lock of the lug gage compartment sticks that's another thing I have to see about today. I don t know why I don't just move Into Chicago and com mute out there." She hesitated "There'a that poor soul of I chaplain, too, without any clothes. Suppose I ought to offer to gel him some panties, at least. Won der what size he wears." She stopped in front nf the Post Exchange and I got out. "I believe I'll atop by the hos pital," she said. There was a wicked gleam in her eye. "It will be worth it just to see his face. Perfectly strange female popping in and demanding to know what tize shorts he wears." Vi ith little persuasion I would have rejoined her in the car, but she waved her hand in casual farewell, said, "I'll tell you about it," and the little car shot away from the curb. There was only one clerk In sight in the salesroom and he was waiting on a soldier. I drif'ed over that way. There was a tray lull of assorted metal insignias on the counter between them. In his hand the aoldier held a little pin formed in the shape of sabers crossed below the number of the regiment "A pair of these." he was ssy Ing. "I gave a couple to my girl. You know what tuckers women are for this stuff." I laid a dollar bill and a quarter on the counter and asked for a carton of cigarettes. The clerk turned, reached a practiced hand to the thelf, and auddenly the trayful of insignia was scattered all over the floor. The toHier knelt down with his back ti me and began to collect them with fumbling flngera; but it wai not until I was nearly home that 1 realized why that had teemed a fsmiliar sight The soldier wss Immerman, the waiter at the club. Immerman was still on my mind at I combed my hair up on top of my head and put on a long-skirted or gandie dress. Adam must have come in late from duty, for he had not stopped in for a cigarette and a chat as he sometimes did. I went into the lounge early. noping tor a woru wnn nun aione, but he and Gerald Beaufort were together in the bar, waxing friendly over cocktails. I declined their imitation to Join them and settled myself on the veranda with a magazine, hoping Adam would join nie presently. For some reason which I could not explain. I was reluciant to tell of that incident at the Post Ex chanje in frost of Gerald. 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KJR. 11:00 Younis Orch, KSL, KOIN: DOOR SCREW POOR 8&KG LAfCHED, UKlJrfcHK irWrtolWoTiHCERS, UKIOllAvE MlRAOJlfXlSiy ESCPPlK&KSTWCfiOrl FidPS BROKEN WIPE OT SCREEN HAS SNA66ED HrS SHIRT. PflL AXCES TRAY PRECARIOUS WHILE TREEING H'rfSEU ffteltairrt fcr Tti Hftl tti(!1rt(-. Inr Intervenes! I A5KEP TO CCOP FOR SON'S And Canon, KEX; Newt, KOO; Notttnf ham't Orch, KPO, Newt, KOW, KNX, KPI. IRRIGATION SHORTAGE WASCO CO. PROSPECT The Dalles, June 28. (P) Low reservoir supplies threaten loss of Irrigation water in Was co county by mid-July, Water master Roger Wilhelm predicted today. Half the water rights already have been cancelled. The short age will affect most seriously the alfalfa crop, a major feed source for Willamette valley dairymen. By CLUYAS WILLIAMS kicks poor, wipe opeh avid YfflES To PART "TnR6l)6Vi BEfORE It SWlrteS SMuTAGNrl gives Poor a wenXf" kick aud JUST MANA6ES To WHISK Tr!RCUeH BEFOPE IT 5LAM5 SHOT. ftwlTE EltftE LEMONADE StiLL REriWNS IN GLASSES 6-29 TC.I 5P-LTF.' 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