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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX MEDFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. MONDAY. JULY 29. 1940. Gasual Slauaht ' By VIRGINIA HANSON Cf- TZSTEHDAY: Sanire errfoea at tht Pennant's party tinhorn ly coatumed and wilh a black eye. gveryone it shocked and (rices ,efl h cold shoulder. Kay explains Co Julia thai Sandra hat been sharing htr room. Chapter 30 The Next Victim JULIA flushed to the edge of her J tun-bleached hair and turned to buty hertelf it the mirror. But even under the layer of powder aha wal applying her cheeks were alow In cooling, and her handa trembled a ahe tried to ahape her mouth with lipstick. "That doesn't mean anything." ahe said at last In a atrangled voice. "I don't pretend to know what'a behind it. but you needn't believe everything she says. She's not amid or mm. one s not aima of anything. She hasn't got sense enough to be she thinks she's too good. She paused, smoothing her lipa with her little Anger, and I pon dered that remark. It was odd that she should think that of San dra, too. It agreed with a vague feeling I had formed. "And I don't believe he'd ever lay a hand on her, no matter what ahe did to him," Julia went on valiantly. "She used to get into the most terrible rages at him when we were kids. I've seen her kick his shim and scratch and claw and bite. I used to think she waa trying to get him to hit her so sne could ten and see mm pun iahed. But he'd lust shield his face with his arms, and when he got a chance he'd grab her wrista and hold her until she'd begin to cry nd say he waa hurting her. Oh. ahe waa always a devill" We went back to the party after mat, and ueraid and 1 rallied around Jeff. I don'J know that I was entirely convinced of his In nocence by Julia's eloquence, but I waa will ng to reserve ludff ment And I particularly hate to aee anyone Boycotted at a party. He waa smoldering with impo tent, miserable anger. Even Ger ald could not draw him out of it could not make him smile, or talk. But we did our poor beat to seem to enjoy his company. Sandra, on the other hand, en joyed a great success. Under standably so. She was not only a bride: she was that rarer thine, a bride with a black eye. Perhaps the black eye did not contribute to her popularity, but It certainly brought her attention. She danced with the chaplain several time, and the delicious spectacle of that picturesque pair almost cleared the floor. Couples withdrew to the aide llnea, the better to observe. or retired from the big living room to the safer obscurity of the hall or the library, there to let loose their laughter. It was a strange, hysterics! Dir ty, and Miml gave the Impression of mentally mopping her brow as I took my farewell of her well rter midnight. "The poor child," she said char itably of Sandra. "If ahe had told ma I might have postponed the reception though I think that would have been bad, too, don't you? After the hurried-up wed ding and all. Perhaps she did the only thing she could. Certainly ahe carried it off very welL I'm afraid Jeff was the more upset -though Tm sure no one thought that is. of course It must have been an accident. Sandra said so herself " Beside her Colonel Pennant waa ominously silent. No Sound To Tell 1 REJECTED Gerald's half-hearted oltera of further amusement and undressed and fell into bed aa soon as I reached my rooms. I waa exhausted and must have tone right to sleep, tor I did not near Sandra come in; did not know, when something woke me a couple of hours later, whether ahe had come to bed at all. I lay still in the cryptic darkness, wondering what had disturbed me, listening for Sandra's breath ing in the other bed. For a mo ment I heard nothing, then I saw that there was a thread of dim light around the door into the sit ting room: and presently I detect ed faint little sounds of someone moving about n there. She was restless, I decided, and had cone in there to keeD from waking me. I had left the door open when 1 went to bed. to en courage what little breeze there waa that hot night. I toved with the idea of getting up and opening it again, letting her know that I was awake. But to do so might dispel the lassitude that would let me drill bark to sleep. And as I still looked at the door the rim of light around It vanished and there was silence. Had she gone back to Jeff, after all, or was she lying on the studio couch, in a darkness peopled by unhappy thoughts? There was no sound to tell me no click of the door, no stirring of springs under a restless bodv. Perhaps she had gone to sleep, (n the night and silence my own eyes rinsed and presently I ceased to think. It was broad daylight when t had the answer to my question. I awoke late and dressed hurried ly to get to breakfast before the mesa hall closed. I noticed, be tween brush strokes, that San dra's bed had not been slept in. but I had no occasion to go into the aitting room until, dressed and ready for breakfast, I dashed THE G1SH GIRLS- IE Chicago. July IB-H-Ti Lil lian and Dorothy Gish appeared on the tuge together Saturday for the first time in 39 years, and the audience didn't know It. Dorothy had been her visiting ers through on my way la the corri dor. I almost (ell over her. She waa lying on her face, nearly in front of the corridor door, aa it aha had pitched through It and someone had cloaca it behind her. Someone who had left her lying there in her blood-soaked white robe, the handle of a butcher knife vertical between her shoulder blades. A horrible sound tore from my throat I had to atep over her to g?t to the door, to open it and totter out Into the hall Gerald waa coming, running toward ma on quick, light feet, his face white, hia eyes hard. I managed to wait until he got to me, then I fainted abjectly in hia arms. Under Arrest JEFF was put under arrest that morning. Mlmi had called me up to insist that I spend the rest of my visit under their roof, and when Julia came for me at eleven o'clock, ahe waa white and wild eyed with newt. "Dad'a orders," she said tragi cally as I got into the car. "And Kay, ha really thinks Jeff did it!" "Does that mean he's been turned over to the civil authori ties, or put in the guardhouse, or what? "Neither one. They don't put of ficers in the guardhouse, aa a rule, and the civil authoritiea can't come on a post and arrest a mem ber of the garrison. Dan could have put Jeff in arrest in quar ters, which would simply have meant he was on hia honor not to leave hia rooms, but for some rea son he'a put him in the prison ward of the hospital, with a guard over him" "He doesn't think Jeff If in sane?" I asked startled. "I don't think so "On what charge waa he arrest ed?" "Murder, I suppose or maybe he hasn't been charged yet: I wouldn't know about the red tape. But, Kay, he didn't do itl I know he dldn 1 1 tell you, I know Jeff. He'a not cruel and mean; he'a kind. He'a got a conscience too much conscience, I used to tell him. He takea everything terribly to heart He couldn't murder any body, even if they deserved It He lust couldn't!" She waa almost crying. "But Julia, your father must have reasons and think how lucky Jeff is." "Lucky!" "Yes, lucky. Suppose he was be ing bullied by a lot of hard-boiled policemen and a district attorney who were determined to get a confession. At least he'a among friends. Your father is fond of him. He'll see that Jeff gets a square deal " She turned her eyea from the road to .give me a reproachful look. "You. tool" ahe accused. "You think he's gulltyp "No. I don't know what the evi dence Is against him. I hardly know him; all I know la what you've told me. I hope he Isn't Ruilty. But If he Isn't Julia who i?" "I don't know," ahe said alowly. "And I don't much care aa long aa Jeff isn't I can't help it if that shocks you. You haven't aeen, aa I have, what she's done to Jeff. Even by dying she geta him Into trouble. I wonder No. she couldn't have done It herself, could she? I mean, so he'd pay for it I guest I'm thinking pretty wild." "I thought you said aha loved him." "Maybe I was wrong about that. Or maybe something made her change, made her hate him In stead. That black eye. Kay: that waa malicious. She could have said she waa ill And to ahow It off like that, theatrically " "She could have at least dis guised It with make-up." I admit ted, thinking of that for the first time. "She must have had some experience making up for the stage." "She had an elaborate make-up kit. I saw it when she unpacked. And some stuff you paint on with a brush, to cover blemishes. There waa a little birthmark on her forehead, and when she wore her hair a certain way It ahowed. I tell you, she did it on purpose!" "Julia! You don't suppose It tra make-up I mean, that she deliberately painted on a black eye?" "No," she tald alowly. That wouldn't fool anyone on close In spection. Especially especially when they examined the body." We were silent for a few minu utrs. I was thinking over what she had said about not caring who the murderer was, so long as It wasn't Jeff. 1 thought of Sandra lying there in my room with a knife in her back; and I knew that it mattered vitally to all of us to learn who had placed it there. "But, Julia - somebody killed her. And whoever it waa has got to be punished. Maybe we didn't like her very well. But vou didn't see her. 1 wish I could for get It She was young she had a right to live. And to be stabbed In the back " "I don't know anyone who would do that" Julia said. "Do you?" "That'! what you think. But someone we know did it Only we don't know that someone '." I stopped, aware that I was In coherent But Julia seemed to understand me. Te at eeailaeti hrr sister, who hat the leading feminine role in "Life With Father." A member of the cast became ill and Dorothy stepped onto the stage at the last moment, play Ing the part of a maid. She was unannounced and the audience apparently did not recognise her. The early stage play In which they appeared together, as small girls, wat "Her First False Step' in 1901. Vat Moil mouse want tat. On the Radio Chains STATION! Tkera to Fine Thm the Dial! La. use. Portlands kit, o. u aogeloei kOA, isle, epofcaiic: goo, law. aaa traawiaro; KiW lie, roniaaei KJR. tames NX. lost. U aoieleal BOA, aso. Oenteri KOIN. Ho, furl land: IUMO. at Mltlcs KPO. tie. Ban fronrlaeojBLJttOaJtJli Monday IOO MrKUI. It NX. KSL. KOIN: Dr. I. Q. KPO. KPt. KOW; Onto Hornet, KOO. KEX, KJR. :0 Martin's Orch.. KOO. KEX. KJR: Concert. KPO, KOW. 6:00 News. KEX. KOA: Variety Program. KPO. KOW: Rieardo, KOO. lMnberdo's Oreh.. KNX. KSU KOIN". t:0 Burnt and Allen. KPO. KOW; Blondle, KNX. KSL. 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(IP) Young fathers ot Spokane are going to have their chance at learning the rudiments of baby care, to that they can pinch hit for their wives, when need arises. The Junior League Child By CLUYAS WILLIAMS HUNGRY IS RIGHT! WITHOUT F003 FOR ELEVEN HOURS I WHAT WOu'.O YOU 00 IF YOU WERE A BOV CP 16, PENNILESS ANO ALONE, SAVE FOR YOUR EVER FiTHeU' 003? 1 fy I PENNILESS ANO ALONE, SAVE FOR It, rTnfT FOR MY 50G AND... i r 1 i ajrti ii-ia--n t-Aii.rii' ri--rj i w i i i I i n. i rv a n s it v Health association announced today that to many requests have come from the fathers that class in baby care will be opened for them this fall. CLEVELAND USES TRICKLESYSTEM Cleveland, July 29. IIP) The city of Cleveland applied the "trickle treatment" today in an effort to collect Sl.700,000 in delinquent water bills. The treatment starts with in STRANGE AS IT SEEMS SslSissv fcrnurriefampueelephmT, A MA l "i . t)iED&yCHARSINC J. I 2 HmmamhMM ' H V N tWl, THS CNOlNcEfy fate WMK tyg SHIP PIER The mall-boat "Fontainebleau." en route from Marseilles to Yokohama in July, 1928, caught fire and ran aground in Djibouti harbor. French Somaliland. Subsequent attempti to raise her were in vain and she was left half submerged In the mud. Last year the "Fontainebleau" made hertelf useful as the foundation for a new pier. Covered with ce ment, stone and concrete, the old mail boat now forma a jetty large enough to be used by warthipt. Tomorrow: Highway of lht Futurel AS TUt SHIP LEVELS OUT. BAKON VON HAfStlC STARTS FORWARD, PAuSinC CHAIR, TO CAUnOUSV DROP C0U.3 I WSH PISHES OR SOmETHIr-,3 i fift i TO GET SOME FOOD TO GET SOME FOOD If 11 II II FOR MY 50G AND.. sertion of a disk In water lines at business establishments and homes which are behind In their water billa. Officials said it was bringing the desired result prompt action by those affected. Weather. Northern California: Fair to night and Tuesday; slowly ris ing temperature in interior; overcast and occasionally foggy on coast; moderate northwest wind off coast. The U. S. forest service esti mates there are 142.000 deer in national forests of the southwest. turn ifir "rn ' '"f f oMTAIN0ND PlK" -Djibouti harbor, m MILT PoURMG CONCR&TZ MAIL tfeWAft? wfar4TAlNfcBlflI WHICH fliW AGROUND WTtf&WZO tT COUNTISI LATaeflll . u"" A NOT I IN HtJt LAP P.NO THI SOME VOU'R-j'V' HUNGRY, rem. I Al V AINCHA? IN V r S Rear Admiral Diet Washington, July 29. '-TV-Rear Admiral David Watson Taylor, 76, who waa the navy'g chief constructor during the World war and who had a lead ing part in the creation of tho modern American navy, died last night. He retired in 1923. Ballard Headt Moose. Eugene. July 29. (Van couver, B. C Saturday wat se lected 1941 convention city of the northwest association of the Loval Order of Moose. J. B. Ballard of Seattle, waa elected president. Oae UaU. Tribune want aoa. by JOHN MX cilia ISA T RFfkhAF A PlEQ I By HAL FORREST AND "MAT OMINOUS NOTg PLtCIS 1 AROARO TMt CLIPPER.. AII ot A NATION IN JtOSAAOrl Be EDWIN ALGER I'LL BE I OiAUT A SECOND, Mister By SOL HESf