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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TEN MED FORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MED FORD. OREGON. THURSDAY. JULY 18. 1940. Gasual Slaughters By VIRGINIA HANSON CT i tSTCROAY' To spare heart, broken Julia her family's curt only, Kay takes her to field ' stone Inn for lunch. On (he tray, Julia says (Hat she k notes Sandra tciii make Jtg unhappy. Chapter 21 Room For The Night TELL me about It," I sail. "About Sandra's visit during first-class summer, and about how Jeff acted whe,i she first came, and how long it was be fore you noticed anything." It was a long time." She pushed her untouched dessert away and lit a cigarette. "At first he seemed to regard her as a duty, and not a very pleasant one. He brought men around to drag her, of course, until she got ac quainted, which was o-et'y soon. She was smooth she could have had several men. Dut she kept changing, and sticking I ) Jefl and me, making it a foursome. I didn't mind J-rT and I weren't hunting any comers. I thought it would be dumb to start that when we had another year to wait and I thought he felt the same way about it. though we hadn't discussed It. And it never entered my mind to be jealoua when she'd go up to him and kiss him good night after all, they were raised together like brother and sister. I guess I'm the world's prize fool." "Then what happened?" . "Sandra went to New York an J got a one-room apartment and started studying dramatic art. I went back to boarding school my last year, and I had to work pretty hard I'm not very bright as you may have noticed." I grinned, but sha went on without pause. "I didn't get home ss often, and when I did I hardly saw Jeff. First classmen have week end priv ileges, and his always seemed to coincide with my week ends st home. He was always going to New York. To see a show, or the sights. He said he needed a change of acene. And he hardly ever came to see the family while I was away Dad commented on it. and wondered if Jeff was sowing few oats. "Sandra asked ma to stay with her the week end of the Notre Dame game, and 1 did. I don't really know whether Jeff took her or me to the game. It was all very mixed up and Jeff wasn't like himself st all. Christmas week he went to New York and stayed with a classmate. He sent me a gold cigarette case with his class crest on it I had just be gun to smoke. He sent Mimi one Just like it They were expensive and lovely, but I cried. I had thought it might be a miniature." She snubbed out her cigarette, looked again at her ringless hands and put them out of sight in her Up. '"Sandra wrote to me In April that they were engaged. And that was that." "How did your family take it?" "How would I know? I pretend ed to be vVry busy and staved at school as much as I dared. Mimi's letters sounded delighted Dad never writes anything but "Dear Julia: Enclosed find check.' They'd asked her up for an oc casional week end during the winter; and from then on through the most ghastly June Week I ever spent, she prr.'tically lived at West Point" "Why weren't they married In the chapel?" "I never quite icnew, but 1 think it was Jeff. He can't be rushed. Though it may be that Sandra wanted another year in New York. She wouldn't need to be afraid of losing him when Jeff once glv?s his word he doesn't break It. As he nasn't . . And then Dad had to move heaven and earth to get JefT In his regiment which has made it Jolly all around." She pushed back her chair and rose. I followed her out to the little entrance hall where a pretty, buxom woman had greet ed us when we came in. She was still there, but now she was talk ing to a tall man and a girl who had iust arrived. Td like to talk to the proprie tor." the man was saying. "Mv husband Is awav for a few dnys," said the buxom woman. "Is there anvthlng I can do?" The hall was dimlv lighted, t might not have recognized them 1f Julia had not stonoed and stif fened. Jeff and Sandra. Their barks were toward us. "Yes." said Jeff. "Mv wife and 1 would like a room for the night Xet Me Be The First 'T'HE proprietor's wife said, "Just step into the parlor." and as they turned thev saw us. Sandra was composed; but Jeff's color faded as if the light In the room had turned green. He took a step toward Julia. She was not looking at him "Let me be the first to congratu late you. Sandra." she said in a brittle voice. I suppose it was as near to an insult as she could manage on short notice. "Thank you," said Sandra, her eyes suddenly hard. "I knew you'd be glad to have the ordeal over with. "Is that whv vou played such a dirty trick on Jeff?'' BY IAN. 1, Washington, July 18. 'U.R' Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, predicted today that the army's full 18 divisions will be equipped completely with modern weapons by January 1. Tremendous strides are being made In the rearmament pro gram, Marshall said at a press conference. The IS division whiUi lie, Ranrlra lauffh.d. "1 think I'd let Jefl be the Judge of that if I were you." She put a confident hand on hii arm. "Was marrying you a dirty trick. Jeff?" He did not aeem to aee the hand, nor hear to bantering question. "What do you mean, Julia?" he asked, his eyes on her, intent and watchful. No one but me seemed awart of the bright inquiring eyes of the landlady. "Isn't there somewhere we can talk that isn't so public?" I put in hurriedly, and she led us to the parlor. Then a car drove up and she excused herself, reluctantly. I thought Perhaps I should have gone too, but it didn't occur to me at the lime. I closed the door and stood against it watching and listening, remembering all that Julia had just told me, and trying to make up my mind about Jen. He turned to face Julia, stand-' im closer to her nov and looking at her as if there were only the two of them n the room. "What do you mean, Julia?" he repeated gravely. "I mean that Ivan was mur dered last night." she said fierce ly. If it was news to them they did not betray the fact "And they're already saying there must be some reason for your rushing off and Retting married in such a hurry. That that maybe Sandra did it to protect you!" Jeff looked as If he still did not understand until Sandra broke into cool, deliberate speech. "And what if I did? Wasn't that better than being forced to tell about the time you knocked Ivan down in my apartment? And about your seeing us together on the barge last night? Oh, it was very noble of Julia to pretend she had caught us in a compromising position and was covering it up especially when she knew you'd already seen -what there was to see." "And what was that? asked Jeff toneleasly. "Just Ivan trying to persuade me to run away with him. and taking it rather badlv when I re fused. But you would belirve the worst just as vou did the time you knocked him down." Never Mind TOU may recall that I thought he was annoying you. And it may interest you to know that I did not see you last night on the baree." "Oh, what's the use of talking about it? I did what I thought was best And I don t really aee what business it is of Julia's when we choose to get married." He continued to look at her for a minute, with no expression whatever in his eyes, while Julia turned and walked proudly to ward the door. But before she had quite reached it he spoks her name, and she stopped and wait ed. He came over to her then and. putting a hand cn each ihoulder, turned her around until she looked up and met his eyes. "Do vou think I killed Ivan?" he demanded. 'I know you didn t she an swered quietly. "Thanks. tn the instant's yause before he dropped his hands from her shoulders something very much like grief showed in his eyes. The landlady met us at the door. Now about the room" she began brightly. But Sandra's voice behind us out her short. Never mind about the room. I've changed mv mind. We won't be needing it after all." Julia was quiet on the drive back to the post, but not with the heaw ailiet nf Hest.air 7nr ilmiul the first time since ! had known her there was a light in her eyes. I asked to be drooped at the club. She must have sensed my unspoken question about what she planned to do, for she said. "It's all right now, 1 can go home. There are announcements to send out and letter to write Miml and I will put a good face on this if it ran be put Kav. what is she trying to do to him? But it's all right You saw him look at me. She can't hurt him. It's all right I wasn't sure what she meant, but I was glad something had comforted her. I watched her drive sway. Then I went to my rooms and slept. A light, almost timid rapping at my door woke me. I had been dreaming that I was trapped in a burning car. The f.re was all out side, kept away from me by the glass windows which I dared not open, and I was getting hotter and hotter. Suddrnlv Gerald was beating at a window, trying to break it in, and I was crving to him tn stop, that he would only make things worse. I woke trembling, to find that the aun had dipped to the level of the western window and waa rising Its best to make hav of me. The rapping continued. I swung mv feet tn the floor and called, "Come In." Adam entered, looking none too sure of his welcome. "I'm sorry I woke you tip," he said. "I came to apologize for my behavior last night." He waa carrying a manfla fold er, manuscript size. He laid it on mv table but he did not take his eyes from mv face. 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KEX; Newa. KOO, KOW. Boy 'Kidnaps' Self To Get Pony Money Detroit, July 17. tJP) Eleven- year-old Raymond DiCiare for got when he planned his own "kidnaping" that boys of his age' get hungry, so now he won't get his pony after all. Found staring hungrily into an ice cream store soon after daybreak, the boy who sent police on a frantic search for his captor last night admitted he had written his own ransom note in the hope of getting enough money to buy a pony. Enlistment Okeh If No Oath Taken Washington, July 18. (JP) The justice department said to day that United States citizens in Great Britain need not fear loss of citizenship by enlisting in the Royal Air Force, so long as they do not take an oath of citizenship to foreign power. This statement was made in commenting on information from London that "great numbers" of Americans seeking to enlist in the RAF. had been "gratefully accepted." By GLUYA3 WILLIAMS 7-19,, 1 AffER TALKING PREW 8i6 To a Truck driver. Gov. Olson Gets Told Where to Go Sacramento. Cal., July 17. 'U R Lieutenant Governor Ellis Patterson yesterday said he told Gov. Culbert Olson "to go to hell" when Olson telephoned him from Chicago and suggest ed Patterson resign to further the governor's chances of being nominated for vice president. Pioneer Called Eugene, July 13. () A member of a pioneer Portland family, Mrs. Moriah Emily Sha ver, 83, died here today at the home of her daughter, Mrs. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS m iff w m iv-"vw m. V-r-W. L Tm. be. 21-YEAR BOOK Thomas Howell had only three months' schooling, but ha held a great desire to describe all the flora of the Pacific Northwest in one great book. Ha did it in 21 years and today his work is recognized as the only complete authority for Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Howell did all the work alone, even learning to set the type. Tha result was a volume of 816 pages, describing 2.370 flowering plants and 780 trees, shrubs, sedges, and rushes, 89 previously unidentified. It appeared in print in 1897 and today is a rare collector's item. Tomorrow: Aerial Warfare in South Americal James H. Gilbert. She was born January 30, 1857. in Portland and was the last survivor of the pioneer family of Rev. Clin ton Kelly, who came to Oregon in 1848. Warships Due In Rio Rio De Janiero, Brazil, July J8. ifi Four V. S. warship are expected Friday. The cruis ers Wichita and Quincy ar now at Santos, Brazil, after visits to Montevideo. Uruguay and Rio Grande, Brazil, and the destroyers VS'alke and Wain wright are en roite from Belen, Uruguay. Oaa MaU moune want ada. A flORk Of- NORTHWEST AMERICA . PRIMTSP TH eooKHMSBLFf m . CUmiEOHOFTHEtEhf trie UNG CoV-notsiruecod, CHAN6SS ITS ColORTo MMcri r&Hr?RDUNriN3$ -Trie 4PRING VAu-gy ANTi-H0ffSiHieft?cieT,, OrforJvtfe, Wfe.. iXkb tUiem and mmrfto OWllONSHOf&ZTHlEF by I'nliatt Fasattir V- m OaT4fl rl Spanish Surrealist In Bad With Franco Bahia. Brazil. July 18. -P Passengers arriving from F.u .rope on the Brazilian liner Pu cone said today that Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist pa'n'er. had been arrested in Spain 011 charies of ODL-osing the regime I of General Franco. Dali presented in New York in March, 193U, an exhibition of paintings bearing such titles as "Debris of an automobile giving birth to a blind horse biting a telephone." Das Hall Tribune want ada. by JOHN MX oa Oregon Man fei, , NIMfSfcoN-0N&-T0N MENTPtL MMHlHE, V? AN EXPERT AT1HE 01? CHINESE tfAME o? "NJM7 BtPERITOPEW 11 -h'pfimdhouse MY.. Fail- By HAL FORREST U) i) t (till .