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Newspaper Page TextMEDFOP.D MAIL TRIBUNE,- UTEDFORn. OREGON. MONDAY.-JULY 1S.1940.-- Gasual (Slaughters By VIRGINIA HANSON CT TtSTIKDAT: Sandra comes to Kay's room tor a ptintt - Mlk with Jeff. Sht xoanu to mar ry him immediately. Ctrald rup gttts to Kay that a ieia cannot lestty flffainat hot husband. Chapter 18 Definitely Murder SANDRA'S eyes were unnatu rally bright and her eheeka were crimson not. I thought, with rouge. She wasn't Just my idea of the radiant bride ahe waa more feverish than radiant, more excited than happy, more determined than eager. But while f never for a moment doubted that ahe was getting what she wanted ahe had the air of achieving a long-felt purpose I could not reconcile that air with the swollen eyes and twisting hands of the girl I had admitted to my rooms only an hour before girl who hsd lost iier lover and waa wracked with grief. That Sandra waa genuine. Her tortured worda cam back to me: "Thev made fun of him. They're glad. They thought he wasn't good enough " And now all that forgotten in feverish triumph. Or was it for gotten? Wasn't there a quality of malevolence, of vindictiveneaa in her excitement? Waa she, in some way I could not imagine, plan ning to avenge Ivan's death? I am altogether too Imagina tive, a fact which is always being pointed out to me. I mentally shook oft a chill of foreboding which I knew was nothing but an Irish ancestor hanging crepe; but I could not shake a reasonable question which kept asking itself of me. Why was she marrying Jeff? "Sandra." I said, without pre meditation If I had thought twice I might have kept silent f have you considered that people will say you are marrying Jeff to keep from testifying because you think " For some reason I was unable to finish; and it was not neces sary, I aaw. She understood what I meant and it was not a new idea to her. "I've thought of that," she said patiently, as one explaining to a backward child. "But I'm doing what I think best." Her eyes met mine perfectly steadily, but without candor. She waa not rebuffing me; but on the other hand she waa making me no present of her thoughts. I gave up. After all, it was no business of mine. . It was a Sunday I shall not for fet. Sandra made no move to go. She curled up in a chair and. like a well-behaved guest, turned the pages of magazines. The sound, repeated too often to permit her to do any reading, ao annoyed me that all I could do waa sit and glower at my typewriter and de cide that I'd better be going back to Chicaio where the roar of the el seemed to hsve no tendency to aerau my train or thought, and wnere I could get som,. work done before I hsd to break out my safety fund and start spend ing it tiere I waa again, mixed up in murder I quit listening to the annoying rasp of the turning leaves and wondered why I thought it was murder. I remembered that Ger ald had so referred to it and that I had not challenged his assumr. tion. I wondered now if he knew or waa only guessing. And if he knew, how? After the discovery of the body the nisht before. Adam had sent Gerald to take us home from the barge for the last time and to bring back help. Adam had staved there, keeping a lonely vigil, and I had not seen him since. What discoveries hsd they made down tn that horrid black hole what clues to murder and to a mur derer? Very Painful' FELICIA ranned twin anrf r opened the door. She was j i . . , , nresara, nsuea ana giovea, and looked moderately devout. "Going to church," she an nounced aelf-righteously. "Where, in town?" I asked, and he said no, the chapel. "Services announced for today. nsni to comer fore Sandra said "Yea." eaeerlv. he. I had time to reply. "'If kath. erine will lend me a hat an4 gloves?" I said that I would lend them gladly, and I meant it, I was in one of those moods when I felt there was a conspiracy to keep pie from doing any work and that if It persisted I might as well cut my throat before I starved to death. A mood common, I dare say. to most writers. While I sought out the required articlea Felicia was expressing her sympathy to Sandra. It w-j a rotten way, she said, to lose an old friend. "Yes." said Ssndra. "Very pain ful." She said it quite steadily, and I began to wonder If I had imag ined the grief-tortured face ahe hsd brought to my door. Thankfully I watched then, de part now i couia worn. But first l ought to see Julia. After all. It waa Sunday, a day of rest And I really ought to see Julia. Because it was Sundsv I had dressed with care; I would not need to change. I fixed my hair and my face briefly, feeling sudden urgency, and set out along Officers' Row at a brisk walk. There were two cars in front of the colonel's quarters. One of them waa Adam's, and at sight of it I hesitated, wonde. Ing if he would think I was forcing my wsy into matters that did not concern me. But the other csr a police car from the neighboring town decided me. I had to see Julia, Sulky black Cora answered the doorbell and grudgingly admitted me. She would aee if Miss Julia was home. She went upstairs muttering about morning callers and Sunday dinners. I waited In the hall, hearing men'a voices in distinctly beyond a closed door and trying, with a horrible sense of guilt, not to know that some thing was scorching in the kitchen. Cora must have gone down the back stairs hurriedly, no doubt for I did not see her again. In stead. Julia came to the landing in a tailored satin robe the shade of a red peony and beckoned me with gestures warning ailence. "We'll go to my room," she whispered as I reached her, and led me, feathered mulea hurrying along the oriental runner, to a room at the end of the hall a neat room of Quaker aimplicity, furnished in early American ma ple, with two brown hooked ruga on the floor, a white candlewick spread on the poster bed, tailored yellow curtains ct the windows snd two framed photographs on the plain, cream-colored walls. The pictured women must have been Julia's mother a woman in wartime fashions a woman of that same strsnge, salty ugliness but with a light of great happi ness in her eyes such as I had not aeen in Julia's. The other picture wsa of Jeff, In cadet uniform. And his eyes, too, surprised me. Though it must have been taken no more than two or three yeara before, he looked much younger, anuch more trusting. I thought of a dog who hsd lost a good home and found that the world is not all cracked marrow bones and an easy chair by the fire. Driftwood JULIA said, In a voice pitched very low, "You haven't told anyone what we saw on the barge?" "Of course not. That's what I came to warn you about, . . . How do they know it was murder?" She motioned me to a low slipper chair and, dropping down on a rug at my feet, leaned back against a pine chest. "I listened at the landing be fore they ahut the library door. When they moved him the bodv there was a stick of driftwood under It. The .tick waa. still pretty dry, especially the part he was lying on And there was blood and hair or. it from a wound on the back of his head." "So they think someone hit him over the head and pushed him in? I don't see why he couldn't have fallen in and struck his hesd on the stick it may have already been in the water." "No, because it wasn't wet enough, or something. I don't know just how thev know, but thev do; it was murder, all right" We stared at each other, and I saw dread tn her eves. "I wonder if Sandra knowa that." I aaid. thinking out loud. "How could she? She's still asleep." "You mean to say you haven't missed her?" Julia looked shocked, so I told hi'r of Sandra's early call, of her interview with Jeff, and of the construction Gerald had put upon Julls's face was flushed when I finished. "She can't do that to him." she said angrily. "I ll tell her ahe can't. I felt bound to point out to her something which hsd Just oc curred to me belatedly. "There'e a chance she may be right Maybe she does know something she'd rsther not be forced to tell. About Jeff." "That's the same as saving vou think he murdered that that screwball." Julia retorted with heat. "It's what everyone will think. I ll talk to her I'll show her what ahe's doing to him." She paused, looked suddenly tired. "I suppose they'll both think I'm Jealous," she added bitterly. "Where Is Sandra?" . In church. I told her. She stood up and dropped the cerise robe at her feet and stood, hieh breasted and proud In a belted white georgette gown. For a moment she might have posed for a Red Cross poster, or something equally noble and self-sacriflping. Then a wry grin tw jtted her face. "All-right" she ssid. "I am Jealous. So what? Let them think what they please. People aren't going to have a chance to sav things like that about Jeff If I can help it." She swirled the rntra nv.r head and drnnned It in (H. with an expression of defiant du- dain. I watched her Hreti mnA aM her that it wasn't any use, that I had tried, that no appeal on he half of Jeff Would mnva Qnr- because it was lysn she hsd loved: out juna dismissed that with a little frown. Te be tanUnerd DEWEY SUPPORTER TO AID 1 WILLKIE Colorado Springs, Colo.. July 15. Mrs. Ruth Manna Mc Cormick Simms. one of the chief backers of Thomas E. Dewey for the Republican presidential nomination, aaid today she would work actively for the election of Wendell L. Wlllkie. "Those members of Mr. Dew ey's campaign with whom I have been in touch are 100 per cent for Mr. Willkle." Mrs. Simme asserted. "Mr. Dewey and Mrs. Simms have been 100 percent magnifi cent," Willkie interjected. Mrs. Simms said ahe w,ml,l be "Just as active as I can" in making speeches and writing letters In Willkie's behalf, "nut after all." she remarked tn the nominee. "I'm, old and I'll need a little vacation." On the Radio Chains STATIONS nine ta rtna 1 hat ai the Dial: USX. use, rortland; ktl. 44. uue Anirlea; tu, lite. Spokane: null, twi. Sin rranrlara: kliW 0, rortland: H4H. elo. Mania; K.NX. IUJO, U angrlrai kOA. SSO. Canter; kOIN. Ho. ran land: KOMO ttt Seattle; KrO. STO. Han rranrtarn; KM., 1 1 SO. Salt lake. Oreo . KOO. KJR. KEX. 10 JO llualc by Woodbury, KPO; Ductun'a Orch.. KOO. KEX; Camera Club. KSU KMX. KOIN. 11:00 Buoys Orcn, KPO: This Moving World. KEX. KJR: Bongs. KOIN, KBL; Ntvs, KOO, KOW. Monday :00 Forecast. KSL. KNX, KOIN; Dr. Quia. KPO. KOW; Onea Hornet. KOO. KEX, KJR. 8:30 Martin's Music. KOO. KJR; Orant Park Concert, KPO, KOW. 00 Newa. KEX: Hour. KPO. KOW; Reflection!. KOO: Lombardo'a Orel).. KNX, KOIN, KSL. 6:30 Democratic Convention, KPO. KOW, KNX. KSU KOIN, KGO. T:O0 Amos and Andy. KNX. KOIN. KSL: Pred Waring. KPO, KOW; Heatherton Orch., KOO. 7:JO Waahlnston Merry-Oo-Round. KOO, KEX. KJR: Where and When. KPO, KOW; Bmoklng Time, KNX, KSL. KOIN. 8:00 Paaalng Parade. KOO: Dance Orch., HSL, KNX. KOIN; The Amer lean Challenge, KPO. 8 SO Hawthorne Houae, KPO, KOW; King's Orch., KOIN, KSL; Dance Orch., KEX. KJR. 8:00 Little Or Hollywood. KEX; Paul Bulllran, KSL, KNX, KOIN; Claaalca for Today, KPO, KOW. :30 Carlyn's Orch, KOO. KEX; Richard's Orch., KNX; Prlml. KPO. KOW. 10:00 Ooodinan'a Orch, KNX. KSU Reporter. KPO, KOW; Martina Radio Highlights Tueaday. K)0 Marimba Band. KPO. KOW: Exposition Band, KOO, KEX. KJR; Nwa. KOIN. :S0 Kent's Orch, KOIN. KNX: Muaical Rtrue. KPO. KOW: Pun With the Reruera KOO. KEX, KJR. 6:00 News, KEX; Doner's Orch, KPO, KOW: Aloha Land. KOO; Mil ler's Orch, KOIN. KNX. KSU eSO Easy A era, KOO. KJR, KEX; Dog Huua. KPO. KOW; Newa of the War. KNX. KOIN. KSU 1:00 Amoa and Andy. KNX. KOIN. KSU Information Please. KPO, KOW. 7:30 Breeae'a Orch, KOO, KEX. KJR: llmmy Preaenta. KPO. KOW; Jamea Orch, KNX. KOIN. KSU 8:00 We. the People. KNX. KOIN. KSL: Muaical Americana. KPO. KOW; 6pc.ru Newa, KOO. KOW: Professor Quia, KNX, KOIV. KOW; Profeaaor Qui, KNX, KOIN, KSU :O0 Paul Sullivan. KNX. KOIN, KSU :SO Prlml Orch, KOW: Mlllert Orch, KOMO; Powell'a Orch, KNX. 10:00 Reporter, KPO, KOW; Oood man'a Orch, KKX. KSU 10:30 Yourv Orch, KEX; Duch In'a Orch, KPO: King's Orch. KNX, KSU KOIN. tl:00 Sudy's Orch, KPO: Thla Movlrur World. KEX. KJR: Busae'a Orch, KOIN; Newa, KOO, KOW, KNX. I By Associated Press. (Time la Pacific Standard.) New York. July 13. The keynote address at the Demo cratic convention in Chicago, to be delivered by Speaker Wil liam B. Bankhead at 6:30 to night, will be broadcast by NBC, CBS and MBS. Tomorrow, in addition to the day session, expected to get under way around 9 a. m, and which will be carried by the networks on a high-spot basis, a special morning program has been scheduled for MBS at 6:45 a. m., with talks by Sec. of Labor Perkins and Rep. Mary T. Norton. Tonight: Europe Including convention, CBS 4:55; WJZ NBC 6; MBS 6; NBC 8. Tuesday: Europe Including convention, subject to chance NBC 4 a. m.; CBS 4 a. m, 2:45 p. m. WEAF-NBC 9:13 Mrs. Roose velt. Short waves: HATS Buda pest 3:35, songs and dances: GSD, GSC, London 4:30, news; JLS2 Tokyo 2:30, Chuo sym phony orchestra; 2RO Rome 7, news. SUBURBAN HEIGHTS By CLUYAS WILLIAMS 7-6 FRED PERLFV KNEvV HE WOULD NO LONGER RE AM SPEAkMMfi terms with half the members of the bridge club whK arriving home he found thev had waited for him fo decide 1he correct pj.av of a hand which hfid SPLIT THE CLUB WIDE OPEN 3um ffUWM-tf hf Tit BH Hynfltftn. ftf.. RAID BY PARSONS NO! VERY COSILY Kenosha. Wis.. Julv 15. JP Two Kenosha ministers visited five taverns and two fraternal order clubhouses and played slot machines Friday night. Saturday they obtained seven warrants chareinsr the owners with operating gambling de vices. The evening cost them 36 cents. Slot machine dividends paid for the rest. WAITRESSES WORKING TOO LONG IN CALIF. San Francisco. July 15. (UJH- George C. Kidwell, director of the state department of in dustrial relations, yesterday an nounced a drive to enforce labor laws in small restaurants and ho tels, where, he said, women have been found to work as long as 77 hours week for $7 a week. The campaign for stricter en forcement will be made by Mrs. Margaret L. Clark, chief of ths) division of industrial welfare. Mrs. Clark said sworn payroll re ports by employers had revealed some employed girla for 56, 66 or 77 hours week t l day. Langlie Will Run. Seattle, July 13. (JP) Mayor Arthur B. Langlie, who will b 40 years old this month, an nounced Saturday h would become candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nom ination. Closing tlma tot Too Lata e Claa slfy Ada U I SO p m. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS by JOHN MIX U-j i, PRINTED BACKWARDS (Pi 1 f If Wiry Jfeta? fir ' wQWm&s II 'CaT aTfin II fc if 3 till " B HIGH, mmCHm& r Cetrr tM 8 TnlM restlM TiUlratta. toe! V'-s. '' Tam. Kaw. V. ft. rc OB-AH rtlhls nmmt Ai.V:" "'W &mp Una, Cal pioneer. V coMPlElt- TAILSPIN TOMMY A Radio Appeal For Helpl BIGGEST TREE HOUSE - - Hundreds of feet tall, Hercules, giant Sequoia 87 feet around the base. Is one of the strangest abodes. 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