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.
Expand Flour Subsidy
Washington, July 17. iTi
The agriculture d pertinent has
announced expansion of its
flour export program to proide
for payment of subsidies on
shipments of flour from all parts
of the continental United 3'attj
to other countries in the west
ern hemisphere.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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