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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON. SUNDAY. JULY 21. 1940.
Gasual Slaughters
By VIRGINIA HANSON Of
ttSTLRDAY. Adam drop. ..
at Kov'fl totth an address book a;
trait's containino Che umei of
Itferary and theatrical people in
New fork end Hollywood and
the doa-eared manuscript o a
play. Then Sandra en!ri.
Chapter 23
'Highborn Russian'
I SMILED and Adam caught me
at it. He raised his white
brows.
"Just Imagining you in i pow-
aerea wig, i saia.
"One of the things I like about
you is that you understand me
so thoroughly, he returned
' blandly.
Sandra glanced from one to the
other of us with Darned distrust.
Then her small dark eyes rested
on Adam in a child s frank p
praisal. "Your hair looks sort of pow.
dered, she said. I never saw
such white hair on s young man
us aistinguisnea.
"Not white just tow." Adam
corrected. But the most idiotic ex
pression of gratification sprained
his face, and there was s gleam
of approval in his eyes as he
handed her tenderly into a chair.
"It's not every man," he began
expansively, "who is lucky enough
to get a word alone with bride
on her wedding day
"What do you mean slone?'
asked coldly. "Would you like me
to witnaraw?
"Dear me. no. Think of the
proprieties! I was speaking in a
relative manner only. Relatively
alone, 1 meant to say."
"Then I'll relatively with
draw.
I stood up and strolled toward
the inner bedroom, swishing my
silk housecoat, making it swirl
around my ankles. I had not
missed the teasing note in his
voice; neither had J missed his
moronic response to Sandra's
crude flattery. I felt unreasonably
irriuiea.
I gave the door a push as I
passed it, but it did not entirely
close. Eventually, I knew, he was
going to work around to asking
her questions, and I wanted to
hear the answers. So, having
gathered up the necessary arti
cles. I settled myself near that
partially open door and pro
ceeded to do my nails.
He was wishing her happiness
and making the usual remarks
about Jeff being a lucky devil.
"I'm so glad you feel that way,"
she answered plaintively. "I'm in
rather an awkward position here,
as you've probably noticed. Jeff
tried to get another station, but
Colonel Pennant insisted on hav
ing him in the regiment, so what
could we do?"
"I must be stupid. It seems to
me an ideal arrangement you're
all such friends."
Her laugh was a little overdone
as to bitterness.
"You're not including Julia in
that, are you? She'd scratch mv
eyes out if she dared. She wanteH
him herself, of course, and the
poor boy had to make heroic ef
forts to break away. He couldn't
avoia oeing thrown with her a
great deal when they were both
ai west roint and he was so
young ne didn't realize what he
was letting himself in for."
The point of my nail file slipped,
and I had to go into the bathroom
to stanch the bleeding before I
could finish. So I missed some
of what followed. When I came
back they were talking about
Ivan's play.
She admitted that he had told
her about it.
"It was a shame the way they
treated him," ahe said indignant
ly. "It's not as if he was entirely
unknown he had a play on
Broadway last year."
"Did he?" Adam sounded sur
prised. "What was the name of
ft?"
She told him. I had never heard
of it. Neither, apparently, had
Adam.
Devoted Servants'
rTD it have good notices? How
J long did it run?"
"It was a wonderful play," she
Said firmly. "But the critics
chose to make fun of it. I suppose
because he was a Russian. People
In this country think Russians
are all crazy. Just as thev think
Swedes are funny and Italians
romantic. It's a form of national
conceit that is really Just ig
norance." "There's something In what you
say," Adam admitted. "So Ivan
was Russian. You mean he was
born in Russia""
"He was smuggled out of Rus
sia by devoted servants when he
was only a smsll child. His own
people, of course, were all shot.
They they were too close to the
crar."
"The servants brought him over
here''1
"First to England. They passed
him or? as their own child, who
died of privations en the way.
But there were people who knew
other refugees, and members of
the British aristocracy. Thev saw
to it that he was educated at Ox
ford. Then then he had to come
over here."
"Why?"
"It was safer."
She stopped, snd I could hear
her draw a long breath. "You
mustn't ask me any more about
it. That's ail I know There were
things he couldn't tell me. I know
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
SEES m ME
Hollywood. July 10 (jT"i
Shirley Temple (You remem 'of
err ner, sne used to be a movie
star) knows now what a bus-
mans holiday is.
She spent one yesterday vis-
lung her Inend Dcanna Durbin i
that he had powerful friends.
You you haven't heard from
any of them yet?"
"You mean they would have
read of his death in the papers?"
He sounded skeptical. "No, I can't
say that we have. We had a wire
from his people this morning
his mother and father in Brook
lyn. The address was among his
papers and we notified them last
night. Early this morning, rather.
Soon aftc- we found him. They
want the body sent home."
"The devoted servants," Ssn
dra breathed softly. "They would
have followed him to the ends of
the earth"
It sounded like a bad radio
drama. Was it possible that San
dra believed all this stuff? Didn't
she know that everyone who
came out of Russia during the
revolution was at least a grand
duke? And there was that child
ish joke about Bertie Wooster
that Gerald had perpetrated last
night, and Ivans outrageously
phony British accent He had
never seen Oxford; I thought it
unlikely that he had ever seen
the British Isles.
There was a short pause, then
Adam spoke regretfully.
"I had hoped you could help
us. You see, it seems such a point
less crime. There's no motive."
"Isn't there?"
My flesh crawled a little at that
flat, emotionless voice. She might
as well have come right out and
accused Jen. Did she really be
lieve he had killed Ivan? Could
any woman marry a man she be
lieved to be a murderer?
Adam chose to ignore the im
plication.
"Well, you see." he said
smoothly, "Tiardly anyone here so
much as knew him. Colonel Pen
nant says he had never seen the
man; Mimi thought she might
have met him once at your apart
ment, but she couldn't be cer
tain; Jeff says he had only the
most casual acquaintance with
him. Now as a rule a crime like
murder cresuDDOses a strone mo
tive. I wonder you ssy he had
powerful friends. Had he any
enemies;
Spies
ALL highborn Russians have
enemies." she said gran
diosely. "But if you mean one of
tnem Killed him, thats impossi
ble. They are all abroad com
munist agents, spies."
We have spies and communist
agents in this country too, you
know," Adam said dryly. "And
not all in books, either.
But not here, on a Middle
Western army Dost." She sound
ed amused.
Why not? Maybe you read In
the papers about a recent case
that involved an enlisted man at
Mitchel Field?"
"No. 1. I didn't see that."
There was a short oause. dur
ing which she seemed to be di
gesting this information, fot
when she sooke again she sound
ed less certain, less in command
of the situation.
"I I can't believe that You'rs
ust trying to find an excuse.
aren't you? Aren't you? Oh, 1
know how it is in the army
protect the personnel at all cost
Especially when it's a civilian
who gets killed. All this talk ol
spies! You don't believe that, do
you? Do iou?"
But there vi-as no question In
my mind that she sounded wor
ried. Adam was silent under this
shrewd counterattack. Perhaps hs
was remembering the talk ws
had had before she came in. But
he would not ask her what she
meant, at whom she was hintirlg.
And by marrying Jeff she had put
herself in a position where she
could not come out openly and
accuse him. If that was what she
wanted to do. And I was becom
ing increasingly more certain that
it was.
"If you are in possession of In
formation incriminating to any
one, regardless of the person, it
is your duty to report it." he said
stiffly. Her attack had been
shrewd, but she had lost ground
with Adam by implying that he
would evade his duty. As I may
have remarked, Adam is a man
of principle.
'I've told you all I can," she
said, and with that equivocal re
sponse put a period to the inter
view, i neard her rise and take
her departure.
I came out of the bedroom
holding my fingers apart to let
the enamel dry and found Adam
standing in the middle of my sit
ting room staring at the floor. I
asked him for a cigarette and ha
placed one between my lies.
struck a light and held it for me.
dui an witn tne same air of ab
straction.
"I was going to ask you to have
supper with me," he ssid abrupt
ly, out i csn t now. i ve got to
see to things I've decided to tske
the body East"
"Couldn't someone else do
that"'
"Yes. but I want to talk to that
pair those devoted servants."
hurely you don t believe that
tale?"
"It isn't a question of what t
believe. It could be true. Sandra
obviously thinks it is. And for
sc:ne reason or other 1 threw an
awful scare into her when I
talked of spies. I want to find out
why."
I was silent for a moment,
thinking bleakly of the da8
when he would be gone.
Te bs coDtinaee
land Joining in chocolate sodas.
I Said Shirley:
I "I didn't know It was so
much fun to watch pictures be
ing made. It's fun to sit behind
, the camera and not have any
thing to worry about."
St. Louis. Mo , July SO. i V
Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Menefee
Yamhill. Ore., arrived here
today to exhibit their
bru:.;l
bresttrd. brome turkeva ! i
24'!i annual convention ant
exposition of the International
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Radio Highlights
By Associated Press
(Time is Pacific Standard)
New York, July 20. New
York's television station, in op
eration a little over a ycr. will
shut down its public program
service August I, to remain off
the air probably until Octo
ber 1.
The two-month suspension
was decided upon to make
changes necessary under the
federal communications com
mission wave length realloca
tion. The NBC transmitter has
been assigned to a new chan
nel No. 1 at 50 megacycles in
place of its present 44-mega-cycle
band which is being turn
ed over to frequency modula
tion. Studio and transmitter
equipment also will be changed
to produce 307-line images in
stead of the present 441 lines
to give greater picture detail.
Great Britain's foreign min
ister. Lord Halifax, is sched
uled for a Monday broadcast
at noon. From London over
WJZ-NBC, CBS and MBS to
talk on 'The General Situa
tion," for 20 minutes.
Sunday brings: Europe and
Inter-American, subject to
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Monday expectations: Europe
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change NBC 4 a. m., 9:4S a. m.;
CBS 4 a. m., 2:45 p. m.
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Candidate for holder of the world's oddest job Is Roy Ross of Cape Vinceni, N. Y., wha
builds "honeymoon houses" for future bass familiesl Ross, government fish hatchery employe,
builds stone "nests" in which the fish spawn. "We are unable te take spawn from the adult bass
as is done in the case of trout." Ross says. "After they have spawned naturally the adult bass
are seined out and returned to Lake Ontario."
SUN AND STARS
Due to the earth's annual motion around the sun. stars appear to rise four minutes earlier
each day. In one year this means stars rise 368 times while the sun rises only 365 times.
Monday: U. S. Possessions.
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National Eye Dog association,
through which trained dogs are
provided for the blind, died last
night of heart disease.
A chiropractor, blind for 25
years. Dr. Christensen formed
the association 11 years ago.
Clearfield, Pa., July 20. i!P
Rear Admiral Charles Fred
erick Howell, retired, died to
day at nearby Ansonville where
he purchased a farm two weeks
ago. He was 39.
He was retired from the
United States navy last July 1
after 14 years' of service.
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Funeral services will be held
in Washington, D. C, Tuesday,
with burial in Arlington cemetery.
New York, July 20.-
Robert Dell, 73, for 20 years
the Paris and Geneva, correspon
dent of the nation, died today
in the Hotel Brevoort after an
illness of two months.
During the last war he was
expelled from France for writ
ing articles criticizing French
policy.
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