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Newspaper Page TextPAGE ETGHT MEDFOBD MAIL TRTBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY. JULY 31. 1940. Gasual Slauakt By VIRGINIA HANSON- VASir..., -,uul ques tion Kay minutely about San dra's murder, atking if anything in the room hat been couched. She think not Sht mnts over to the Pennants and poet with Julia to eee Jeff. Chapter 32 Tha TThole Truth THE man on guard closed the door and flayed outaidt the barred room. He may have been listening, but I don't think Julia thought of that, or would have :ared if she had. She went itraight to Jeff and put both her hands in nil. "We'll get you out of this." she laid in the voice you would use to a frightened child. "It isn't that Dan thinks you did it: he lust has te take some action. It's the aecond murder and they haven't got anywhere with the Utah. 7 c "It's worse than that," he aaid through stiff lips. "They found a blood -stained towel in my -auiv dry hamper. Dan asked me to ex plain it. but how could I? I don't know how it got there. Julia's eyes blazed. "Someone's Irvine to frame you. Any idea who? "Don't you suppose I'd tell If I knew?" he asked wearily. "Who gave her that black eye? I didn't" She drew a deep breath, and her face warmed almost to a smile. "I knew you didn't." she said. I looked away trom them, be cause it wasn't decent to see their defenseless area. But I had learned something. It was the first time I had seen Jeff with the bar riers down. They stayed down only an In stant Suddenly he freed his hands from hers and backed away, fairly bristling with barbed wire defenses. 1 don't think it was anything she said or did: it was just reaction from that moment of forgetfulnrss. "How would it be." Julia be gan bravely, "if we sat down and talked it over? Maybe we could think of something " There's no place to sit except one chair and the bed," he said churlishly. "And there nothing to talk over. If you've come here to pump me you can get out" He glanced at Julia's hurt bewilder ed eyes and seemed to grow an- Srier. He was like a man fighting is own ahadow. "You've probably heard," he went on. with a cold look at me. "that my wife was afraid to oc cupy a room with me. You can be lieve that or not lust as vou please. It's a matter of Indiffer ence to me. I married her. I don't know who killed her. I don't know who killed Ivan. And you can pump until you're black in the lace and still go back and tell Dan that s all you found out Julia stamped her toot. "I did not tome here to find out things for Dan. she stormed. "I came here to help you, but I don't know why I bothered. ' I've al ready lied myself blind, and so has Kay " She stopped, appalled at what he had said. Then you'd better tell the tru.h from now on," he said Icily. "When I need lies told for me I'll let you know." He went to the door and opened It, held it until we had passed through. Head high, Julia marched down the corridor and out of the hospi tal, but as soon as we were in the ear she gave way to a storm of tears. I took the wheel and drove aimlessly for a while, waiting for her to get control of herself. Cold Fury "IF ONLY Adam were here." I said finally, out of the depths of my thoughts "Julia, he was right Jeff was right. We'd better tell your father the truth " "Oh, no. Kay, vou don't mean that not with Dan already think ing Jeff killed her!" But the only way we can do anything to help Jeff if he isn't the murderer is to find out who la. And how can we expect to ar rive at the truth until we all pool our knowledge?" "But don't vou see all we've withheld is just what will make It look blacker for Jeff. And I know he didn't do it!" "Oh no. that isn't alL How about Miml you said it was her car that night at the barge. We naven t told that "I never said that," she said quickly, desperately. "You're im agining things." So that was the way of It. 1 fell silent thinking, until we drew up once more at the colonel's quar tera. Then, before I got out I gave her my considered decision. "I'm sorry. Julia. If Aflam were here I'd go to him with it Since ne un i u win nave to be vour father.- "You mean you're going to tell him everything?" She looked stunned, as If her last friend had deserted her, and I had to steel myself against sym pathy. "Everything." I said firmly "It's different now Sandra's death and the way she was killed There's no use talking. Julia, someone around here isn't hu man. And every lie we tell la in that creature's service. I'm not going to take the responsibilty." "I see." she said. Her tears were dry. and there was cold fury In her voice. She got out of the car and walked, without a backward glance, into the house and up the stairs to her roonv I had to see the colonel at four. I followed her into the house. MERRILL POPULATION TREBLED IN DECADE Klamath Falls, July 31. (P The town of Merrill In south ern Klamath Vounty has treb led its population In the last 10 years, census figures showed today. The 1940 total ia 943. Other totals are: Donanza, -VM: Malin, 373, and Clnloquin, 740. lers Miml must have been lying down, for the living room and li brary were untenanted. So pres ently, feeling myself an unwel come guest f went up to my room and put my things back in my overnight bag. I went down a soon aa I heard the colonel come in, and faced him with inner quaking across his big desk in the library. "Colonel Pennant I have a con fession to make." I began. "I hope you don't mean that literally," he aaid with a nice smile. The smile put me a little more at my ease. After all, I had danced with this man and laughed at his jokea and warmed to his good-natured flattery. He looked a little tired this afternoon, and his eyes were sad, but he was not formidable. He placed a chair for me, found cigarettes and supplied me with light Then he went back to his chair behind the desk and looked at me expectantly. "I've been holding something back," I said, looking him atraight in the eves. "This isn't going to be easy, because Julia and I don't see alike about it and it's sort of like telling tales out of school to come to you with it" "You mean Julia has been hold ing out on me, too?" he asked impassively. "Yes. but with the best of mo tives. Please don't let me get her into trouble. I'm fond of Julia. I know ahe'a atraight I just think she's mistaken about this. But where Jeff's concerned you see, she's in love with him." "Good Heavens!" He atared at me serosa the desk. Blacker For Jeff "fAYBE I ahouldn't have told I' a you, but I thought it would make you understand better. It's quite true," I assured him. "I hope you're mistaken," he said simply. "Jeff will almoat cer tainly stand trial for murder." "You mean you think he's guilty?" He opened his hands aa If to show his helplessness. It isn t a matter of what 1 think. I'm not all-powerful. I can't obstruct justice by shielding my friends. Civilian authority can't simply be flouted" Julia said " I began. 'I know. Julia thinks all I have to do is wave a hand. But these things are ticklish. Civilian au thorities were called in about those cars and about Ivan's mur der. He was a civilian. So wa Sandra, though in one sense she colics under my jurisdiction. But murder is different Its a mili tary crime, but it's also a civil crime. Even if Jeff were tried by court-martial he could still be subject to civil trial. And I doubt if 1 could successfully oppose the arrest for murder of any of my Fersonnei. except by the one step have taken." "You mean by arresting Jeff yourself? Oh, but why didn t you explain all that to Julia? It would make her feel so much better. She thinks you're convinced of Jeff's guilt " I saw his fact then, and my words trailed off. "Jeff has been like a son to me." he said slowly, after a little pause. "Don't you think I'd rather believe him innocent? But what am I to think? First Ivan, now Sandra. There's only one com mon factor, and it'a Jeff. Then there'a that blood - atained towel "But don't you think that waa too stupid to be true?" "Murderers aren't all as clever aa the ones In books," he aaid dryly. "And he had obviously manhandled Sandra " "He told us he didn't give San dra that black eye" "Would you expect him to ad mit it? Then the chaplain he has rooms next to theirs at the club told me reluctantly thia morn ing that he heard them quarrel ing for about an hour, after they got home from the reception. He said he couldn't hear any words, but they both sounded angry. And Jeff didn't deny it He lust refused to say what the quarrel was about" "It may have been merely be cause she had appeared in public looking like that But the fact that they quarreled doesn't necessarily mean that he killed her, does it? Colonel Pennant looked deeply troubled. "I don't want to think the boy Is guilty " he said. "But if he isn't who is? "1 wish I knew." I drew a deep breath and plunged. "And the worst of it is that what I have to tell you is only going to make It look blacker for Jeff. That'a why Julia doesn't want it told. And maybe she's right But I have an old - fashioned belief that when you get together all the pieces of the truth that are available you'll begin to see the whole truth. And and if Jeff really did kill her Julia might better find it out as soon as possible. Because I think he's in love with her. too." He looked at me helplessly. "It isn't polite to tell a lady she's demented." he said with a quirk of his moutn that didn't quite make a smile, "Well, never mind. I'm accustomed to female intuitions and admit to my sor row that they're often sound. Sup pose vou tell me what you know." So I told him of our seeing San dra and Ivan embracing on the barge, of Jeff coming up the lad der and Julia sending him off down the beach alone. And how Sandra had come down presently and left Ivan up there, and that ss far as we knew he had not left the barge alive. Te bs cdntlngrd PASSENGER CAR SALES AHEAD OF LAST YEAR Detroit July 31 iR. L Polk i Company reported to day that a tabulation of new passengrr car registrations !u.t completed shows that 1.RMR14 units were sold during the first six months of 1910 In the like period of 19J9 the total was 1,409,102. On the Radio Chains STATIONS fOTiere to find fain oa the Diali ktx. Ilt.u. Port land: fell. 4. una Imilai KOA, 1410. kpuaaiw sua, luo. Bio Iranrlaroi ow 120, Portland KJK, mo. KraltM: ft NX. 1040. Lna Angriest It OA. 830 Denver! KOIN. 4(l. Portland: HOMO tit Seattle: KPO. SU. Ma rrsnrlaro; Kl., MM. Bill Ue. Wednesday 5:00 Summer Bhow, KNX. KSL, KOIN: Orean Hornet. KOO. KEX. KJR; Organist, KOW; Introducing. 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The diamond was aaid to have been discovered by Bermudes Affonao Alves at Patos in the state of Minaa Ceraes, a rich diamond producing area in the southwest of Brazil. Occupational HasardT San Francisco, July 31. U?i Guido Grasso, beauty parlor operator, brushed his hair, and almost scalped himself. A razor blade had fallen from a shelf and lodged in the brush. Eight stitches were required. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS hooks -fern over back or chair, Atft BY DltffOF 0ERV HARD WORK rfe Hri HEAD OWlbTnT FRONT IN COURSE OF m SfRtUfelES, CHAIR. feOESOVEK. CRAWLS FROM UNDER, amiKb HE'5 COMPLETELY RE6TEP NOV f MR MEfVB.NOU SAID wuRUV TO SCT THAT ADOITOM TO OUR. POWER. VJ1V.L YOU aisio ok. r.LEPRiMTS fj Southern Oregon College of Education, Ashland, July 31. (Spl.) Fifteen students com pleted the teacher education course at the Southern Oregon College of Education July 19. They are Leland E. Ammerman. Kent Norman Ashcraft, Kathryn Bergstrora, Ralph N. Brickey, STRANGE AS IT SEEMS i COINCIDENCE; WAS 2S 23 MARTIN fREf "WAS 21 JUNSH Roy frey WA4? juiywAUP tmvN FRsy . win ft rr &?r. n a SWASTIKA ORIGIN The sign of the cross has been used as a religious symbol since the dawn of civilisation, long before Christianity adopted it. Strange as 11 seams, the swastika, one form of the cross, was used by long-forgotten tribes of American Indians, Chin-ese, Greeks and innumerable other peoples. Significant today as the emblem of Germany's National Socialist party, the swastika dele ter (right-handed) was adopted in 1849 by the Benedictine monastery at Lamback-on-Traun. Bavaria, where Adolf Hitler was schooled for two yeara as a boy. TOMORROW: From Cripple to Champion! They look, RiSHT-l. DCMT ThMK. The CHAMoES PlU. PACTORV. 1 COOLO MAKE, LOOK OVER, VMXX.O 6E MUCU these, IMPROVEMEMT Mary Esther Davis, Escoe Ful ler and Helen M. Thomas, all of Ashland; Alma F. Hitt, Roberta G. Ivanhoe, Mareta Reynolds and Virginia Rhoda Stout, all of Medford; Jo Norien Carlson of Reedsport, Darrell E. Davia of Myrtle Creek, Robert L. Dusen berry of Cottage Grove and Jack R. Kemnitzer of Portland. Vancouver, Wash., July 31. (JP) A contract to construct a six-story county courthouse for Clark county was awarded the Ross Hammond, Portland, com pany yesterday on a $307,000 bij. PBSfcSN OH fflcffeP AW WMTfto WiTH0UT1?)KlNc5OFFHr5 UNIFORM all OUST SET GOiu rj tuc BUlLDlN3iM MR ' SLlDtR HERE THE - COMSTRUCTlCW vCi) vu.wrr ii.w,cr AMY TROUBLE SETTIN3 YOUR MISTAKES. nr-rjr:tu MIRY ACCEPTANCE 10 AUG. 27 Portland, July 31. (VP) Ralph Cake, Republican national com mitteeman, said he had been advised today that Senator Mo Nary had moved his vice-presidential acceptance from August 28 to August 27. No details of the reported change in the Salem fairgrounds event were given. by JOHN HIX 1 WAS APopTeDfaoM A , A BSHEPIOINS (AomTtKf iNnCKC AlW HllLER MTTCNPCD BASEBALL 6AMK Partem, MC.N37" By HAL FORREST B? SOL HESS GOlKia iwiV Cfl WILL SUPERlMTKin by him : tr