MEDFORD MATL TRTBUNE, MED FORD. OREGON. FRIDAY, JULY 5. 1940.
PAGE TEN
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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.
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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.
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San Francisco, July S. (JP)
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$15,000 are being distributed to
500 striking Pacific Greyhound
bus drivers throughout western
and southwestern states. Frank
W, Coyle, internatibnal deputy
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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.
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jOOO the amount distributed to
I bus drivers, each getting $60 a
month.
Gets License.
Pottsvile, Pa. (U.R) A. Ten
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after making his first solo
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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.
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