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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-
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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.
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KJR.
SUBURBAN HEIGHTS
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10:00 News. KPO, KPT. KOW:
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10:30 Duehln'a Orch.. KOO. KOA.
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Spokane, July 29. (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
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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
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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
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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
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AROARO TMt CLIPPER..
AII ot A NATION IN JtOSAAOrl
Be EDWIN ALGER
I'LL BE
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By SOL HESf