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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TEN MEDFORD MATT. TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. THURSDAY. JUTV 5.',. 1940. Gasual Slaughters By VIRGINIA HANSON O ra.STa.NDAy. Gerald ufcet Kay end Julia to dinner "to aa t f pot or detectmo.' They discuss Felicia' nearly blind sir-year-old niece who euieed her in m June. Jokingly Gerald nominate Felicia for suspect number one. Chapter 27 Fringy f Y cherce u Chaplain Henry." Julia taid elegantly. "He's uch a dear little dumpling, the kind that always murders his wife in the bathtub and buries her in the back vard. Of course. hes a bachelor "Wait!" I Interrupted. "I think you've got something there. Did you hear Sandra say she had known him in Texas? He's prob ably secretly in love with her and simply follows ner around disposing of all his rivals the cave-man lover, you know. Julia Was giving me an ex eeedingly dirty look and for i minute I couldn't think why. un til Gerald observed innocently: "But wouldn't vou think It would havo been Jeff Instead of Ivan? Do you suppose he made a mil take in the darn? "Oh. Jeff's probably next on the list." I said airily, to cover my slip. "Maybe a long list, for all vou know. You guys better watch your step with bandra. I added darkly. Gerald appeared to shudder. "Men are such brutes, my dear But I'm sure I don't know why vou re warning me. He put hand to the back of his head and ran a finger throush its closelv cut sandy stubble "Look, girls I'm thinking of letting m hair grow or do you like it better the way Im wearing it? Julia put her head on one side "A cluster of curls on top would tuit vour heart-shaped face." she said tudicially. On the other hand. Geraldine. vour neck it a little long "Column of alabaster." he said smirking. "Silly, isn't it? But that's what they tell me." "My cherce is a very phony young man named Beaufort, I observed sternly. "Just look at him in that minor, sitting there playing the fool, trying to make a couple of unsuspecting females tell all. Julia, don't mention vour father'a invention you know, the death ray. He'a probably in the pay of some foreign power. Julia, that young man is deep!" Gerald leaned forward and scrutinized his reflection anxious ly "I'll wager you say that to all the girls," he complained, straightening his tie. But I had not missed the sudden sharp look from under those absurd eye lashes. For an instant a breath of fear dissipated the rosy cloud of contentment around me. "And when does he drift In?" I babbled on. hoping he did not know I had seen that sharp look. "The day the eery day. mind you. that the chaplain was at tacked. And how does he account for himself? He says, mind you. that he's a boot salesman Now I ask you, Julia, is that likely? Is It plausible? Have vou seen him tell a boot? haven't!" "To think you've been holding that against me!" Gerald mar veled. 'Tomorrow aa ever was you shall come to my humble showroom, you shall see the whole complicated scientific pro cedure nay. you shall even or der a pair for those delectable extremitiea which I have been unable to avoid noticing. 1. Ger ald Beaufort in person, shall serve you. That is a chore I never dele gate to a subordinate. It'a alwavs a pleasure the ladies to mea sure " "Ersters." breathed Julia fer vently. Hard-Faced Man GERALD inserted his Imaginary monocle and blinked at her "Have I been overlooking some thing?" he ajked hopefully. "I al ways thought the word was nerts." "No, nol You misunderstand" me. I mean ersters. actually, in the flesh. Don i vou see the waiter approaching?" "Is that all vou see?" I asked dreamilv. "I see approaching, from the opposite direction, a rrim-visascrl male who eats with his knife and sleeps in his clothes Hold vour breath. Julia. I think we're about to become a four iome." It was Monday night. Field stone Inn was not crowded. Fac ing the door. I had noticed this solitary diner arrive and seat himself across .he room from us a hard-faced but not unattrac tive man in his late thirties, with the eves of oni who had seen much and never expected to be surprised again. Those eves had impeded me without perceptible change, had lingered for a mo ment on Julia's half-averted face, and traveled on to Gerald's pro file. Now he was coming toward us A hand descended on Gerald's Ihoulder. "Fancy meeting vou here." drawled a husky voice, and I thought I detected a gleam of lazy triumph in the imperturba ble eyes. Gerald looked up. his face as Diar-K as a mask. "Frightfully sorry, old chap." ne said Pleasantly. Never saw vou before m mv life. Dare sav it was a couple of other fellows." Architects Plan j Springfield School Springfield. July "5. -V Architects today wore rii-hing plans for new $100 Poo union high school building for Spring field. Voters yesterday accepted a j bond Issue authorizing the' building of the new structure. It will accommodate 450 stu dents, many of whom will be transported from outlying dis trlcts In the McKcnzie river valley. "Not with those eyelashes," the man said with a malevolent inn. "Come on. Fringy. give." "Ah! These eyelashes? Now that's where you're wrong! One dollar a set you can have them yourself, old fellow, and no end of an improvement, if you don't mind my saying so. Said to sharpen the eyesight, too. Look tell you what I'll do. Giva you the address." He whipped a tiny flat note book and a pencil from his breast pocket and scribbled briefly, tor off the sheet and pressed it into the stranger's hand. "Just say Geraldine lent you. No. no don't thank mel Only too glad to spread a little beauty in a bleak world" The stranger glanced briefly at the paper he held and his face closed like a trap. "O K, Geraldine. do as much for you sometime. Sorry I dropped the brick. I see now you're not the uy. It's those eye lashes better cut them, they'll get you into trouble one day." Gerald grinned. "Just what I was telling the girls," he said innocently. He fanned a hand vaguely at the man, a gesture that seemed to mean "Scram!" At least the stranger departed. He went back to his table, to his waiting plate, and concentrated on feeding but not with his knife. As tar as I could see thereafter his gaze did not drift our way. "Now that. Geraldine, was downright piggish," Julia pro tested. "Anyone with half a wit could see the poor fellow was lonesome, and you sitting here smugly with two glamour girls You might at least have Dretend- ed to know him." I m surprised at vou. Julia. Mv grandmother." he added virtu ously, "made me promise never to take up with strange men." Strange? I low.-red my eyes to my plate so that he would not see the disbelief in them. 1 felt a little sick. Delicate Mission JULIA and Gerald began to wranffle aminhlv over th ufi- dom of consuming the first ovs- ters of the season in a month without an r. but she disposed of the whole question. It s all right. We out the r In the ersters. which makes it ner. fectly safe." she pronounced, and popped one calmly into her mouth. It was not until we had finished our meal and Gerald had lavishly ordered a Courvoisier brandy that he returned to the subiect of Adam's commission. I ve alwavs wanted to do a spot of detecting." he confessed cneertully, swirling the amber fluid in its tiny glass. "Kay. here is a very discerning young per sonvery discerning indeed Yea i minx I mav sav that I am deep: though not everyone, mind you wouia nave the wit or the cour age to probe beneath my light and airv persiflage to the dark ano secret recesses of the man i mysterious mind. Adam is dis cerning, too. He saw at once that I was unusual." he continued mnrl. estly. "That. I am sure, is why he trusted me to execute this delicate mission." He paused Impressively. "H'hnt delicate mission?" rle. manded Julia impatiently. "The trouble with you, Geraldine. vou have Saint Vitus dance of the vo cal chords they're always in mo tion but they don't get vou any where." Gerald looked at her coldly. "Not a discerning nerxnn w h decided He turned his shoulder to ner and addressed me conn fidentially. "Now vou. Kav will comprehend at once the delicacy of the task which has been sel me It was Impossible not In laneh at the fool. Scrap Dy scrap we got ii oui oi mm. un the way to the train that mornine. Adam hH re called the simple fact that the chaplain had broker his drive from Chicago by dinine at Field. stone Inn: and that it was near there he had picked up his un pleasant passenger. There was a remote possibilitv that someone at the Inn might have seen the mysterious pedestrian might know his identity, or at least be able to give a better description man me rnapiain. Adam had asked Gerald to make inquiries. Mirn was the delicate mission. We discussed possible nro. eedures: but our combined Intel. lects seemed unable to devise any startling departures in the realm of crime detection. Some what ingloriously. we sought the mistress of the establishment and asKed ner a plain question. "Oh. you're from Fort Michi gan!" she said brightly, looking us over with eves that quite ob viously recalled the encounter be tween Julia and Sandra the day before The eyes lingered on Julia. "Aren't you Colonel Pennant'i daughter? I thought I'd seen your picture in the paper Wasn't that a dreadful thing that poor man found dead on that old barge? And they say he waa murdered! Though I must say, I don't see whv it couldn't hsve been an ac cident. I always think it's danger, ous to climb arcund on an old wreck like that rotten timbers are always giving way. Did you know him?" "Slightly." Julia admitted. "And vou want to know about the gert'eman whose car waa stolen." f'he paused. Te be centimes' Theory and Practice. London. July 23. i.T) Mal colm MaiDonald, minister of health, jpcuking at a Uinrhron today. Mid a well balanced war time meal would be four ounces of bread, two-thirds of an ounce of oatmeal, half an ounce o( fats, five ounces of potatovs. two ounces of green vegetables and one-fifth of a pint of milk. The menu of the luncheon in cluded hors d'oeuvrcs, chicken, sherbet and coffee. Clufetia tunc lor loo Lett to Clas sify Ada la 1 JO p m. On the Radio Chains STAIIIINS There te Hud linn aa Che Dial: fctX. Ilbll. Purl land i ktl. I0. uue Angelea; fcUA. 4?u. myokmue: kUU. llw. aaa FranrUrui kuw e. Pwrtlaad StJK. eld. aeallles Ik NX. loan, im Antrim hov ue Drntrr; KIIIN. l4tl. Port laud: kOMO rtt snille: KPO. Ml HI rrinrlvo; KM., ttso. lt take. Thursday 1:00 Singing and Swinging. KOO, KEX; Uuile Hall. KPO. KPI. KOW; Major Bow as, KNX. KSL. KOIN. 6:00 Quartet, KOO; Miller's Orch, KKX, K8L. KOIN: Crosby's Orch, KPO. KOW; News. KOA. KEX. 6:30 War News. KNX, KBL. KOIN: Buy Aces, KOO, KOA; Concert, KPO. KOW. 7:00 Fred Waring. KPO, KIH. KOW; Amos and Andy, KNX, KSU KOIN: Kinney's Orch., KOO. 7:o Dowry's Orch.. KOO, KOA; Atk-It-Buket. KNX. KSL, KOIN; Oood News, KPO, KOW. 6:00 Strange As tt Seems, KNX. KSL, KOIN: Aldrlch Family, KPO. KPT, KOW: Sports. KOO. 6 :S0 Symphony Orch.. KPO, KP1. KOW: Herbert's Orch., KSL: Answer Auction. KNX. KOIN. 6:00 Paul Sullivan. KNX, KSL. KOIV. 6:30 Dance Orch.. KPO, KOW; Goodman's Orch.. KOIN. 10:00 News. KPO. KPI, KOW; Jur sens" Orch., KNX: Kent's Orch., KSL. 10:60 Safety Pint. KPO; Otrbert Orch., KNX, KSL. KOIN; Prlml, Jr., Orch., KOO. KOA. THE NEIGHBORHOOD LEAGUE 111 III rmu the newly-appointed water boy on THE E)6 BOVS TERM WASN'T 60IN6 to run ANV RISK OF BEIN6 ABSENT FROM DUTY ON THE DAY Of A SCHEDULED 6AME. 7-26 Till entu eKA.... .n.ann iutoi Countess Latroff Displays Anxietyl ' I By HAL FORREST il iti s BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Return to Llfel I STEADY4 NOW, V. V V j I 50NI VOUTL B6 I . MV dco: y I I THE NEBBS Going Bye Bye VNUQ.T APOUT A. VACATION! r PEO UP CU THIS WMLET. ID UKS. TO GET A.WA.V TOR AWHILE V bj' frfM o.l . , yr'fTO PL AM A VACATION! i BCE SO f'-OW NOUD HAVE J- . V 3 "I- -AV f. 1 fJfcftl--) pOOGEpiTiwE-NA5EGaM3' TT 1140 Owens' Orch.. KPO: This storing World, KOA. KEX: Suite's Orch, KSL, KOIN; News, KNX, KOO. KOW, Friday!" 6:00 Dante's Music. KOO. KEX: Wills Time. KPO. KOW; Bntlllan't Orch, KNX. 6:60 Karen's Orch.. KOO. KEX: What's My Name. KPO. KOW: Ortnd Central Station. KNX. KSL. KOIN. 6:00 Public Affaire, KNX. KSL. KOIN; Variety Show. KPO, KOW; News, KOA, KEX; Filbert Fllhar monle, KOO. 6:30 Al Prarce, KNX. KSL. KOIN; Quit Kids. KPO. KOW; Concert Orch.. KOO. KPI. 7:00 Fred Waring, KPO. KPI. KOW; Amoe and Andy. KNX. KSL. KOIN; Meetner'a Orch, KOO. KEX. KJR, 7:30 Johnny Presents. KNX. KSL. KOIN; Dance Orch.. KOO. KOA. KEX. KJR; Show Boat, KPO, KPT, KOW. 8:00 Treasure Island Varieties, KPO; Sports. KOO: Oarber't Orch.. KSL: John Clark. KNX. 8:16 Baeebtll, KOO. KOA. 8:30 Detth Vtlley Dtyt, KPO. KPI. KOW: La Baron's Orch, KOIN. KSL. 9:00 Big Town. KPO: Dorseya Orch, KPI. KOW; Paul Sullivan. K!CX. KSL, KOIN. 8:80 King's Orch.. KOIN: Wood bury's Orch, KPO. KOW; Ravatza's Orch.. KPI. 10:00 News. KPO, KPI. KOW; Duchln's Orch., KOA: Jurgen's Orch.. KNX. 10:30 Sudy's Orch.. KOO. KOA; 7& .fell 1 IKIA.GIKJE IT 13 HARD HAVINO NOTHIMG .TO DO CUT AMUSE. I TV TOUKStLF FT Owens' Orch, KPO. KOW; Oarbers Orch, KNX. KSL. KOIN. U :00 Nottingham's Orch.. KPO: Butte's Orch, KSU KOIN: Thlt Wir ing World. KOA. KEX: Newt. KNX, KOO. KOW. SPUD CROP WILL BE BIGGEST EVER Portland, July 25. The Oregon potato crop, barring tnc misfortune of too early frosts, probably will be larger than any previous year, a market survey showed today. Growers in the Redmond dis trict predicted a 1200-car out put, compared with 641 a year ago. In Deschutes county total planting is less than in recent years. Considerable gains in acre production are expected. Favorable conditions and more extensive planting may bring the Klamath basin coun try a record harvest. More fields have been put into pota toes in the Portland area and the outlook is satisfactory, both In volume and quality. Klam ath county now grows more po tatoes than the entire state a few seasons ago. ByCLUYAS WILLIAMS HEY! lOOK'T.' HE' N COMIN TO! HE AIN'T DEAD) arRlA" I rE KEAU.V J BUSY TRVIlMCa TO ESTABLISH A frUSlNESS V A. FE.RMAMENT CUTURE FCCTOUj i AND i CJD PL r London, July 23. (.Pi Mrs. Tess Johnston waited happily on a quay to greet her hus band and son-in-law, who were coming home on the naval trawler Campina. The British woman was glad for her daughter's sake, as well as her own, for her son-in-law was coming home to see his STRANGE AS IT SEEMS SrsTT Stiff ' vwroRMomte A HAVA5URM WrW, Arizona, I ill! v' K CENTURIES HAVE f M h f t!w3X FSmB CANYON iNTrie '!U ( p v U-aTcf REMAINED . -Jf If GORGE PEOPLE A virtual heaven on-earth It beautiful Havasu Canyon, a fertile gash in the sun-parched expanse of western Arisona. Here for centuries the Havasupai Indians have mad their home, living today just as they always have. Ethnoloqists consider this the only spot in the United Stales where native culture has remained in anything like its pristine condition. Havasupai. translated, means "blue-green water people." and refers to the sparkling wat ers of Havasu creek. TOMORROW: Legal Monu mentl e?l 6 4 irl'w I'LL , , -ee? Tt F TOLLcT K r'JPT A ' V Th.E TOP OF H e-EEM TOO THAT WILL MAKE oTv HAVEMT HAD TIME AM A VACATION! wife and nine-months-old child From the shore Mrs. Johnston could see her husband in the wheelhouse of the trawler. She smiled at him and waved. A moment later the craft hit an enemy mine. Johnston and his son-in-law were killed. The trawler's loss was an nounced yesterday. Swastikas Unpopular. Whittier, Cal., July 25.) At a cost of $2,500 a Whittier business establishment has chis eled out from the front and side of its building 43 large brick swHstikas. The crosses were regarded as Indian good- fcE g KNOCKED 1 S , r- 4f NOU ESTABUSHIMG A v aJTT- c.V0X1. .ITtu. we anio well GO srr.jrrrvi-?. t:-"'' i CecM SO 5LOW NOUD HAVE luck symbols when the build- ing waa constructed 24 years ' ago. Destroyers in Braiil. Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil. July 23. tP) The United States destroyers Walke and Wainwright arrived here today from Rio De Janeiro, to stay until Monday. Weather. Northern California: Fair to night and Thursday, but fog in creasing along coast; cooler cen tral coast; moderate northwest wind off coast. Ota stall Tribune want ada. by JOHN HIX Ar P K sinister ixchAnoi ot words strwifHl TWO PASSENGERS . MIANS -THAT OUR. pi"! ARil NOT GO'NC, TO HAVfc A'SMOOTHIE" PLIGHT I B EDWIN ALGER By SOL HES" "tOU RGUCE THAT r itS wju ill act like im HlMPUJrwTyg- 1 r KE A K'T