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PACE EIGHT MEDFORD MATT, TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17. 1040. Casual Slauaht 1 My VIRGINIA HANSON CT- YESTERDAY When the CoU ' smel Questions her. Kay keeps silent about seeing' Sandra in Ivan's arm j, as Julia tcished. The Colonel ttopt (he investiga tion irhen he learnt that Jeff end Sandra have run off. Chapter 20 Lunch Data JUST t minute nr." said Adam. J "Iff possible there's another explanation for this thing." Colonel Pennant topped, cowled. "What do you mean, an other explanation?" The murder Investigation." Adam reminded him gently. The colonel was shocked out nf bis anger. "I don't know what you mean, he protested. But he did. An ex- Eression of uneasiness crept over is lace. He started to go en, glanced uncertainly from Julia to me and said. "That's all for you girls for the present" They were deliberately silent until we had left the room. "That's done ft," said Julia, as oon -s the door of her room nad closed behind us, and burst Into tears. ' I let her cry, her sobs muffled lr. the pillow, until she had exhausted herself. Then, closing the door softly behind me, I tiptoed down the hall to the bathroom. I was coming bark with a wet washcloth and a towel for Julia when one of the doors along the corridor opened and Mimi. freshly dressed for the day. came out. "Oh. hello. Kay," she said. '1 didn't know you were here. I've alept outrageously late this morn ing, but we were up until all hours last night What's going on?" "Colonel Pennant and Adam have been questioning us," I said, hoping she would let it go at thut I did not want to tell about Sandra again I wanted to get back to Julia. Colonel Pennant's voice at the foot of the atairs provided a wel come distraction. "Ia that you, Mimi? Will you come down here, please?" "Right away, she called bark. "You'll stay and have dinner with us, won't you, Kay? It's dinner on Sundays, you know. And I'm afraid it's quite soon. Cora haa the afternoon oil." I thought of Julia's tear-swoilen face and of the uncomfortable . curiosity of families. I made up t.iy mind quickly. "I've asked Julia to have dinner with me somewhere we thought we'd like to go to Ficldstone I.in if I can borrow a car." "Take mine," she said, as I had hoped she would. Fieldstone Inn is an ultrarespectable roadhousa on the Chicago road. I thought she looked surprised, but not sus picious. "Where is Julia?" "In her room. Thanks for the cr you're sure you won't be want ing it this afternoon?" ''No. Stay as long as you like. Only be back before dark. These roads around here are not safe." It was in my mind that she did a good bit of driving after dark herself, but of course 1 did not say so. I watched her start downstair and thought that for all her care ful grooming, she looked her age or a little more this morning. Which might be merely the result of lost sleep. Julia was sitting on the side of the bed staring at the floor when I came in. I gave her the damp cloth and, while she scrubbed her face, told her about our lunch date. Nostalgia "CWELL." she said huskily. "Now J I won't have to keep to my room and answer dumb questions. I wouldn't want them to know about this, they're so thick why Mimi has promoted this marriage as if her life depended on it Not" aha added with instinctive fair ness, 'that she could have brought it off without their cooperation. I'm not fool enough to blame her." While she made herself present able, and while we drove the ten milea to Fieldstone Inn I encour aged her to talk about them about Jeff and Sandra, and abou. Mimi. I learned much that had been vague in my mind before perhaps more than Julia knew she was telling me. More, certainly, than 1 had sense enough to recog nize until later, when I began put ting the pieces together. Ttwre was only one thing she emitted, and I don't know vet whether she simplv didn't think of it. or whether he kept silent from a sense of loyalty to her father and Mimi. For it was not until a long time later that I learned about Mimi - where Colonel Pennant met her and how he came to marr her. And that piece of informa tion was to make clear much that puzzled me. She talked now wistfully, with nostalgia, oi me years just com eluded at West Point Colonel Pen. nant on duty at the post Jeff a cadet Mimi a bride: Julia at home week ends and vacations from boarding school. I had been there one never-to-be-forgotten June Week the veat Charlie graduated: but 1 had not known Julia then. It was s strange feeling to remember that week the hops, the parades, the hatrball games, the horse shows. High DEAD PILOT TAKEN ML Missoula, Mont., July 17. (J'h A dead pilot and his Injured companion, victims in the crash: of their plane while flying pro i visions to wilderness-isolated I forest fire fighters, were carried by pack horse today to Shearer. Idaho, small civilization outpost west of the Bitter Hoot Moun1 tains. I Dr. J. P. Ohlmacher. of Mis soula, who rode horseback to meet the rescue force at Cut Point lookout near the Idaho Montana boundary, reported I ers hearted days through which I had moved with Charlie beside me. And to know now that near me, crossing my path again and again, part ot that glittering pageant, hod moved Julia, with Jeff by her side; to know that I had walked past the old brick quarters that faced up the Hudson, had probably rad the neatlv lettered sign, LT. COL. PENNANT, on the doorstep the quarters where Mimi had come sa a bride, where Jeff had lived every moment of his free time during his first three years at the academy, until after his first-class summer, when Sandra had come to the Pen nant's for a visit and Julia had lost him to her, Julia took me inside those quar ters now. showed me a homesick. scared plebe dodging into then like a spent lox to cover; resting awhile, not saying much, gather ing courage to go forth again. "I'll never forget that first Christmas," she said. "I brought three girls home from school ana we had a party every night The plebes aren't permitted to leave, you know, and they try to make up for all the fun they've been miss ing, livery tima we turned around we ran into a mob of them. Those girls went to town, I'm telling vou. Even Mimi had herself a time. She was twenty-eight or nine, but .-he didn't look much older than the rest ot us. I was fifteen, and the let me have some slinky clothes. There was one black satin eveninr dress that was a skirt and a prayer that I practictilly vept for when I sawit and Mimi said, 'Let her have it there's a moment that comes once in a lifetime.' " 'Only Me" "VHERE was Sandra then?" ' "In Texas, with Jeffs mother and father. Mrs. Tack died the fc,' lowing summer, and Colonel Tack had a nervous breakdown and was nearlv a vear in the hospital, so Jeff had no home to go to the next Christmas, and spent his Furlo with three other cadets on a cattle boat that went to South America. I think his father turned against him. You know how nervous breakdowns are. Jeff never spuke of it but I know he never went home, except for ma motners funeral: not even after Colonel Tack was retired and he and San dra took an apartment in San Antonio." "So he dldn t see her either dur ing that time?" "Not Until his first-class sum mer. Colonel Tack never got com- Eletely well his heart gave out andxa stayed with him until he died, and then she did what the had always wanted to do came to New York to study acting. And in a weak moment we invited her to West Point" Jeff had never had iny girl but Julia. Had never, apparently looked at anyone else. They we.-e both growing up, and what had started as a natural companion ship based on childhood associa tion, was heading apparently to ward one of those early marriages that often turn out so well. Julia, at least never doubted that they would be married in the chapel on his graduation day. "why, everyone knew he was mine," she told me, clenching her hands on the wheel and staring desperately at the road. "There were week ends when I couldn't et home Mimi was set on my inishing school but he never even took a blind drag. He'd .perd the evening with Dad ana Mimi, or maybe he'd take Mimi to the hop or the movies. He liked Mimi thought she was rule. For a while he used to call her 'Mom, just to tease her, but she didn't take it very well, so he quit Yru might not think so, Dut Jeff's very sensitive to people's feelin-js. He can't bear to hurt anvone. Onlv only me." She stilled the Quivering of her lips and turned the car carefully between the stone pillars that ?tiard the entrance to Fieldstone nn. I don't want anvthlni to eat but I expect you do." she said when she had parked. 1 ordered Tor her, nevertheless, and watched her make a im.t'l meal without, I was sure, knowing what she put in her mouth. The place was not unduly crowd ed, and I had chosen an isolated table. I talked a bit while she ale. told her about Charlie and the girl ne had fallen in love with and that it didn't hurt anv longer 1 brought out all the familiar platitudes about fish in the sea and a hundred years from nw. She listened and tried to take some comfort from it But whn I finished she silenced m com pletely. "You can lose a hand," she said quietly, spreading her ringicss fingers and looking at them as if she had never seen them before. "And after a while the stump will quit hurting. 1 suppose. But you can never find another hard that will take the ulace of that hand or be just as good And be sides, there's Jeff to think about She'll make him unhappy. 1 know she will She's such a devil." It was said so dispassionately that my flesh crawled. But in rrv heart I agreed with hrr. After atl she had told me, my instinct cred foul p. ay But how, and by whom. I could only surmise. Te be centlnued that Dell Clabaugh of Missoula, the Injured flier, had suffered fractured ribs and possible In ternal injuries. Strike Settled Juneau. Alaska, July 17. -A't The fisheries bureau was null fird today the strike In the Ko diak area has been settled and that fishing will start at noon tomorrow. Conciliator John O'Connor went there several days ago. 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KEX. 6:30 Symphony Hour, KPO, KOW; Herbeck's Orcb, KSL: Answer Auc tion, KNX, KOIN; Baseball Oame. KOO. M Paul Sullivan. KSL, KNX. KOIN. 6:30 Hamilton's Orch.. KPO. KOW; Ooodman'e Orch, KOIN. 10:00 Reporter. KPO, KOW; Oood- man's Orch., KNX. 10:30 Safety Plrat. KPO; Harpe'a Orch.. KOW; Richard's Orch., KSL. KNX. KOIN: Prlml. KEX. 11:00 Owen's Orch.. KPO: This Moving World. KEX: Busses Orch., KSL. KOIN: News, KOW, KNX. KOO. 1 Cure, DOWN IM MEDIATELY", fiNNO0rJClH6 SHE NEvER KrSSIDUASDY 600D-r!l6rlf KI5SR HIM UJH6 DH6ERM61.V . TWf, pOWH ALMOST Af 0ME -fo SAV MOD-MlfeHT 10 SftNPV IN 1HE HULL fWel ame fcy TSe SreeiCTf. Ta. DIES PROBERS TOLD WAR policy OF 0. S. Beaumont, Texas, July 17. (P) The Dies committee was told that the Communist party is seeking to dictate the war policy cf the United States and as a means to this end could paralyze overnight all west coast shipping and com munication. The informant was John L. Leech of Portland, Ore., recent ly employed by the commission of public docks there. . Leech, whose testimony In volved a number of California and federal government offi cers, said that during the past even or eight years all im portant west coast strikes were engineered nnd carried out by the Communist party. Asked by Dies why commun ists concentrated on shipping and communications, Leech said they wanted tn gain control i:i an effort to dictate the war policy of this government so that no attack could be made By GLUYAS WILLIAMS AMD KrSSK MOTHER Pm for coop measure w 60ft UP 6BE5 UP, PAUSING ON THE STAIRS To ASK HAWfSHE BETTER KISS THEM 600P NlfcHT AIL ODER A6AIN. HERBS FATHER'S REFlV ANP 60ES HASTiLV UP in) . . . i-,n , V. Qrti'l ITnlnn n, 1 a I allies. Franca To Ape Natia Vichy. July 1.7. (T) The new authoritarian France will train its youth to build health and morals from, infancy along lines already proved successful in nazi Germany, Jean Ybarne gary, minister of family and health, announced today. Portland, July 17. IP) War preparedness will have a "pro found effect" on social organ izations and customs. Dr. Wil liam F. Ogburfi, University of Chicago sociologist, told the In stitute of Northwest Affairs. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS MAPS A mhLL rORIUNc chafing fws id-see his , "PSRpmhL MioNMCHM-ArTHAl-iy RUN BY A HI WEN 'tesisThtfT! 1 1 u sw m i i s con iKftc icy revest rKCTfA imc Krwio vwes ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY ' One of medicine's most ei; active weapons against infectious diseases the fever machine cams into being entirely by accident. Men working near an experimental high-power short-wave radio transmitter complained of headaches and general physical depression. An examination showed they were suffering from fever caused by high-frequency radiations. Coincidentally. a Viennese physician found that general paresis could be cured by creatine; fever through malaria inoculation. High-frequency fever was substituted. Tomorrow: 21 Years to Manila, July 17. flJ.B Man uel Quezon, president of the Philippine Islands common wealth, told a graduating class of the University of the Philip pines that he favored a "new type of democracy" wherein individual liberties are curtailed and the two party system is abandoned. Aflf -';. ., . .1 -' ;'.'- 1'-'.'.-.. -' - i.- v-- '. - -' '-'- '-v.; - - k0CN-FEVER- WrV? DlSCOER0 PlCCIDSNTAUii Write a Bookl Quezon said inefficiency ia government ia due to party pol itics and party opposition causes delay in execution of necessary refnrmr He ureed curtailment of individual liberties in the in terests of the common good. Beds Divide Lands Moscow, July 17. (P) Mon astery lands are being distrib uted to landless peasants in Bes sarabia, former Rumanian ter. ritory, the Soviet radio an nounced today. The Red army marched into Bessarabia June 28th. Ctosing l.u a (or too Late to Clae slfy Ada la I JO p m. by JOHN MX C0UNTEP IN U? AN66!,&5 ftSAM INDSX Of t " TMZlTTl&FFlCf amSOFWSCSHTURf! ARB ENflAfiEP IN , PR&IN3 ON OMR iHse&t: tsh ii r-n '' ?W'-' r 1
