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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MATL TRTBUNE, MED FORD. OREGON. FRIDAY, JULY 5. 1940. PAGE TEN ftSTCRDAYi ear with a man inside to consumed by fire. Adam tells Kay that the ' uha ore to be eljlsd for clue . es toon at they cool Chapter 10 Bridge Party AH HOUR or to later, Felicia and I itood and looked down from - the edgu at the galley at the black ened, twisted ruin that had been her Ford coupe. It had noted down and lay canted on Its side, but the way its top was crushed indicated that it must have turned over at least once. "Five cents for junk," said Fe licia morosely. "And I only had liability insurance. Maybe the widow and orphans can collect on that I'd finished paying for it too last month. Oh well. I've still got my girdle." And she patted her sleek side. Gerald Beaufort had somehow Insinuated himself into the rumble seat of Adam's modestly correct new Buick. He seemed pleased with the expedition, like a child at a picnic and hovered cheerful ly over the two men Adam had de tailed to do the actual sifting, and presently was down on his immac ulate gray-flannel knees Angering the small bits of blackened debris that made a growing heap to one tide of the workingmen. There were shirt buttons, and buttons from a man's coat There was a belt buckle which looked like any other belt buckle I had ever seen but which was scruti nized gravely by Adam and Ger ald before it was placed in an en velope in true professional style. The cuff links turned out to be the pstented kind that snap together, and were as distinctive, Adam said disgustedly, aa carpet tacks. 'Any Idea what thia isT" he asked, holding something up for us to see. We scrambled down to him and Felicia took the oddly shaped bit of metal from his hand. She rubbed it with her handkerchief, turned it this way and that, said, Anally, "Yes. it's the clasp of my pocketbook. He took a fancy to it, and as it was an old one and had only a few dollars in it I decided not to quibble." "That was big of you." said Ger ald Beaufort admiringly, "I thought so." She turned the blackened clasp over in her hand. . "I shall keep it," she decided, "for a souvenir.'' The luggage compartment was sprung part way open. Adam found a jack lever among the spilled tools and, prying it wider, atuck his head, ostrich-fashion. into ine DiacK maw. . "A flash is what I need." he said, his voice sounding hollow. "There's something in here." He siraignienea. eimled the Ene ish man with his eye. "There's one in my car. Dasn compartment." His handsome face alight with boy -scout enthusiasm, Gerald Beaufort scrambled up to the car. By the time he returned Adam had managed to force the com partment almost wide open and the four of ua crowded around to see what lay in the light of the flash. Charred, but the ash still re taining its shape against the hori zontal metal wall of the car, were the remains of a small pasteboard box. "Yours, Felicia?" Adam asked. She shook her head, but looked apprehensive. "Never saw it be fore. WhRt do you suppose it is?" Adam reached a long arm down and touched the lid gingerly. It powdered under his finger. The aperture which it left revealed that the box was packed with aomething grayish green and tex tured like paper, and we stared at It for a moment before Gerald Beaufort Identified it for us. "Bills. Currency. Paper money." "In other words, jack." said Felicia on a long breath. "And it's all ashes " Adam stared at it silently for a long minute, then flicked off the light. "I'm not going to touch It." he decided. "I'll have them send out Corporal O'Connor of the Detec tive Bureau of the State Police. He may be interested in this." Gerald looked disappointed. "Couldn't we iust noen it tin a hit I mean to say, it's not often one sees a tidy bit of rash like that all gone up in smoke. Adam shook his head. "Not nn. til O'Connor comes. It will require careful handling to identify it at alL He 11 have the equipment Tlnd Immerman' HE FORCED the back of the compartment nearly shut and turned to the soldier who had ap peared at his elbow. 'Something here you might like to see, sir," he said, breathing a little unevenly. He looked un happy. He held something out on the palm of his hand for Adam to take. -Weve only Just found it. air. Adam looked at the small, crossed sabers with the number above them and began to whistle dolefully between his teeth. He took another envelope from the breast pocket of his khaki shirt. "Regimental insignia. Just as before." he said, and dropped it in. He pocketed the envelope, held TULELAKE COLLISION TAKES GIRL'S LIFE Klamath Falls. July S.OPt Virginia Ryder, 12-year-old Sua anvllle, Cal., girl, died in a hospital here Wednesday night of Injuries sustained in an auto collision in northern California near Tulelake. On the way to Klamath Falls to celebrate the holiday, the car Miss Ryder was driving collided with a CCC truck on the Canbyllatfield highway at 2 a. m. Wednesday. Two other occupants of the car were injured. out a hand to me to help me climb out of the gulley. "Not much of a haul, was it?" I said, hurrying to keep up with him as he strode toward the car. The other two were still scrambling out of the gulley. "It isn't so much what we found that interests me, as what we didn't find," he said cryptically. "Then there's Immerman. who did not return to barracks. A small man, Immerman's build. A regi mental insignia. Next step," he finished, handing me into the car, "next step, find Immerman if Im merman can be found." The bridge club met that after noon. I don't believe there was a woman except the cook left in any of the quarters along Officers Row. I know Felicia had to send out for more tables, and the very walls of tne lounge seemed to shudder at the incessant clacking of tongues. The gentlemen on those walls looked remote and long suffering, as if they would have given much to be elsewhere. I had not intended to be pres ent, but Julia stopped in early and insisted. And I was not sorry of a chance to see more of Sandra. Othera were there for the same reason. Between that and an al most ghoulish interest in the chaplain's mishap and the theft and burning of Felicia s car, there was some haphazard bridge played. Late In the afternoon Mimi Pennant, Sandra and I chanced to be at the same table. Sandra played all four hands. Her part ner, one of those women who seem to feel that the mission of dummy is to enliven the party, pounced on me at once to demand an eye-witness account of the chaplain and his poison oak leaf. I I complied briefly, for I had by now told it so often that the sub ject had lost its charm. An Old Friend SANDRA listened politely, then informed us that she had known Chaplain Henry in Texas. "Mimi and I went to the hos pital to see him this morning. I hadn't heard that he was coming here, and I was so delighted that the chaplain who is going to mar ry us should prove to be an old friend." "I hope his appearance im proves before the wedding." Mimi said practically. "I'd as soon think of being married by a prize fight er who had just lost a Dig ngnu Really, he is a sight!" "Oh, but he'll be over It by then," Sandra said confidently. "He's not bad looking, normally, but rather shy with women. I suppose that's why he's still a bachelor." - The lady on my left launched enthusiastically into an account of military weddings she had seen, a recital which she interrupted only long enough to bid and lay down her hand. Sandra listened with courteous attention as she raked in trick after trick. Mimi's eyes met mine In quiet amusement across the table. "Sandra, my dear, don't you ever lead trumps?" she asked at the close of the hand. Sandra smiled apologetically. "I suppose I should, but I never go by rules. I just play the way I happen to feel at the moment. "Well, with your score you don't need me to tell you how to play bridge," Mimi said ruefully. "I think I m headed for the booby prize." "Oh, I'm Just awfully lucky," Sandra disclaimed modestly, but she looked rather complacent and I thought, ahe doesn't really be lieve that. She doesn't see half the chances she takes she thinks it's skill. She and her partner rose, the richer by a attipendous score and progressed to the next table. The table below us was still in play, and for the moment Mimi Pen nant and I were alone. They say in the army that there is no rank among women; what they mean is that there should be no rank among women. But of course there is. Living as they do, with official ties so inextricably bound up with social ties, how can anyone doubt that the wife of the commanding officer will re ceive deference which mav not b due either to her years or her per sonal merit? Mimi Pennsnt was a young wo. man and a beauty. Men would find no difficulty in paying hei homage. But what of the women? Women older, plainer, longer in the service, yet forced by expedi ency if by no written regulstion to defer to her because her hus band was senior to theirs Wouldn't resentment be human? Might not the smiling faces that everywhere surrounded her be merely masks for acute dislike? But I had detected no such dis like. She seemed genuinely liked. And looking at her now, at the wistful friendliness of her smile, I had a clue to that liking. Mimi was not impressed with herself. "I wish you'd come and see me sometime, she said. "Soon. Julia has been singing your prsises. but don't let her monopolize you." "I like Julia " "So do I. Believe It or not." She smiled again, but I saw the shsdow on her face, the swift trouble In her vlolet-grav eyes; saw too that she was lonely, with the loneliness of one who is fight ing a losing battle alone. Te as cenUnafd OREGON GIVEN MORE FOR NYA PROGRAMS Portland, July S. Vt The NYA has alloted Oregon $482. j 084 for the new fiscal year's out of school work program, Ivan G. Munro. state administrator, reported today The appropriation represent ed a IS percent Increase and will be extended to about 2000 boys and girls. No word has been received about the high school and college work pro grams. On the Radio Chains STATIONS There to find Thm the Dial: fclX. 1160. Portland; III. S40. xi Angela; KG. I4le. epoasnr: KUU. 70, Ma rrawHro; Kutf tte, Portland: MK. Seattle: KMX. IOSO. LM Ansrteal KOA, SJS. Centers KOIN, 4U, Portland: KDMO M arattle; KPO. SSO. hi rrsnljrollnojUJke Friday. 1:00 Dant's Music. KOO, KJR. KEX: Walts TUna. 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KEX: News, KOO, KPO. KOW, KNX, KPT. HICCOUGHING SIEGE IS RESULT OF BURNS Yakima, Wash., July S. (UP) After three days of non-stop hiccoughing. Claude Pettit, 31. today broadcast an appeal for any and all remedies. Pettit was seriously burned in a fire which destroyed the Yakima county horticultural union's plant at Tieton last week. He was stricken by his hiccough attack In Yakima hospital last Sunday and has not been able to stop. Luxury Liner Sinks. London, July 9. (UP) The Berlin radio reported tonight that the French luxury liner Champlain, formerly in the transatlantic servjee. struck a mine an-J sank in the Atlantic off LaRochelle, France. English Star Weds Dennis, Mass., July 5. (UP) Miss Gertrude Lawrence, British stage star, celebrated her birth day today by getting married at 12:15 a. m. to Richard Aldrich. New York City socialite and theatrical producer. Closing time for Too Lata to Clas sify Ads is I 30 p m. By GLUYA3 WILLIAMS STAMPS, ROOEP, WATCHIHG While his sumach seems to do funW THIH6S WSIPE HIM BAIL M1SSE5 SMH PORCH 5V INCHES MP LANDS ) SHRUBBERV. Af OHit Burst's nrfo loud crV -font he WASN'T ErWER SCARED, AMD WHV til NT EPDiE CATCH IT, ANNWAY 7 STRIKE BENEFITS San Francisco, July S. (JP) Strike benefit payments of $15,000 are being distributed to 500 striking Pacific Greyhound bus drivers throughout western and southwestern states. Frank W, Coyle, internatibnal deputy STRANGE AS IT SEEMS MACHINES IN N&T BUILDIN&J ,tk4 l" Oriv.fl tlC.i.lrHri- rninr? nwwrttrfciv? WiTHA ClflClWffloN Of V& IHfcN 2 POZtti TftM ANW nTUei? PuBlffATiiMC " " ' ss s Of 1HC HAMMoND tt-tcTRICoRaAHW! WAS 0RI6INAU.Y PKlfiNEP, U II foRftN UECJRIC CLOCK V , l . . U- 1 d -- , sa,r C- .r Ta.aa.D.aru.oav-aatlAiamna IV. L 'Qjy TO1 i I HAYS PRESS Earl Hays of Hollywood runs the strangest newspaper plant in the world. He seldom prints more than 15 copies and often his papers have only a front page. Yet, strange as it seems, they have the largest circulation in the world. He prints "cinema inserts" you see when a newspaper is shown on the screen. Ha has collected thousands of items from all over the world to make sure his reproductions are authentic. TAILOR ANTS To make a nest, worker tailor ants yank leaves together with their tusks while others stimu late half-grown larvae to spin silk thread which binds them together. These ante are found throuqhout the old world tropics. SUNDAY: Leather Manl president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, announced today. The payment brought to $45,- jOOO the amount distributed to I bus drivers, each getting $60 a month. Gets License. Pottsvile, Pa. (U.R) A. Ten nyson Mille.', 60, has been granted a private flier's license after making his first solo flight. "Shucks," there's noth ing to it." he said after the initial flight. .wsj as-saw gap fSffjr f ga i IV I I I 7 CS .,Ji ,., i SENTENCE STEP FATHER FOR MURDER ATTEMPT Oakland. Cal.. July 9.- For the attempted murder of his 11-year-old step-daughter, John Brearden, 26, former sol dier, yesterday was sentenced to prison for a possible maxi mum of 20 years. Prosecutors charged Bearden stabbed the child to gain re venge upon his wife who had him committed to the Agnew state hospital, from which ha escaped. by JOHN MIX Life insurmcs WfrS PROHl&lTED lHfmitHV,l77-t I mmM "GAMBLING AcT" (Rceptufien ihere WfS an insurable interest) By HAL FORREST BT SOL rtcSS Closing 1st In Too Lata to Clas Das siau Tribune wast aoa. sify Ads la 140 y as.