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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX MEDFORD MATT, TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 13. 1940. Gasual Slaughters -By VIRGINIA HANSON 'CT Chapter 43 Bugle Call AT FIRST I thought the Randly child meant an automobile horn." Gerald went on. "I took her to a bif automobile accessory ahop and she listened to every horn in the house. Sae thought it was great sport, but it wasn't like any of those. The horn she heard was pretty, and played tunes. "I began to see the possibilities. A school of music; an Isolated teacher of wind instruments; or limply a crowded neighborhood where there was an amateur looter. If I could find out what kind of horn it would narrow things down. "We went to a music store. She listened to saxophones, flutes, clarinets, bass horns, and shook her head. The baby has a good ear, fortunately for us. I wis about to give up in despair when a boy scout came in with his scoutmaster to buy a bugle. The boy played mesa call on one he was trying out, and it clicked. It was not only the right horn, it was the right tune, she told me in great excitement Now could she have the ice cream coney im agine a millionaire's child who doesn't get enough Ice cream cones pitiful, urn t it? - I laughed, and after moment he went on. "I made her wait a bit,' while the scoutmaster took the bugle and played taps. She knew that one, too. I'd about decided I was onto something, but to make sure I asked the acoutmaster if he knew The Roast Beef of Old Eng land.' He'd heard it a few times on an English boat and said he'd have a try at it. He did and the child, said ahe didn't know that tune! 'That clinched It. as far as I was concerned. He played half a dor.cn calls of the American army and she recognized them all. We had ice cream cones, then I took her home and was at some pains to discover that she had never visited on an army post, nor had any occasion to hear bugle calls. Then I asked l.er if, aometimes when the bugle was blowing, she had heard a big boom like a giant firrrrarker, and she said yes. "Isn't it curious how people who have the use of their eyes forget the value of the other fouf tenses? Almost every kidnaped person is kept blindfolded, and Because they can't see they hear things their kidnapers never no tice. There was the man who heard the mail plane going over every night " He paused apologetically. "Sor ry, I didn't mean to deliver a lec ture. 1 Just wanted to ten you what led me here. With the co operation nf the bootmakera and the knowledge and consent of Corps Area Headquarters, I've been traveling about from post to post in this vicinity snooping into matters which did not con cern me, hoping to happen on omething which did. I've fer reted out some Interesting mat ters" here he paused with a grim chuckle "but nothing eeemed pertinent until I ran into the stolen cars of Fort Michigan. All Ears AND now I must go back a little and tell you another part of the story. I'm not tiring you?" I assured him hurriedly that he was not tiring me, that I was all can, and please to go on. "I don't want ynu to get the Idea that I'm handling this case alone. This was simplv my angle of it, and in a sense I played in luck. But the rest of the organi sation is behind me, and because they are it's rather like heating a rabbit out of the brush. No, not a rabbit. A tiger, or a jackal. The beaters were all behind It, and It came my way. 'The ransom bills were old and unmarked. But their serial num bers were taken, naturally. And early in August thry began to filter in. A tremendous amount of routine work was done track ing each one down, usually to a harmless shop, or a prosperous, law-abiding citizen who was at a loss to account for his possession of a ransom note. From all over Chicago they began to come in, and at last we began to get a pic ture of the method. "A few of the possessors claimed they had made change for a stranger in the elevated station. They differed in their descriptions of the stranger. One said it was a little old man, an other on elderly woman. A third described a fat man, another a well-dressed young woman. Al lowing for the possibilities of dis- uise, there must have been at ;ast a couple, man and woman. "The method was always the same. A prosperous-looking citi ten usually a man would be accosted apologetically as he left the station always a busy oni with the story that the ticket seller had refused a twenty-dollar bill, and so on, with the pros perous citizen digging down in the jeans and doing the favor. Two of our most sartorially ele gant operatives began to make the rounds. From station to station and back again, going out, com ing in, watching for the little by play. One rainy night about two weeks ago they came down the elevated steps together, and one of them went into a tobacconist's to make a telephone call. The other was sheltering in the door way against the rain when he saw a little old man, his hat pulled low over his eyes, come out of a drugstore halfway down the block and run spryly up the steps to the station. "On a hunch h. was never able to explain, the operative followed. A train was just emptying itself as he reached the platform, and the old man, standing in the shadow of a stanchion, was hand- ma a bill to a well-dressed, nort- ly man. The operative pounced, but he wasn't quite quick enough. The fellow ducked into the mill ing crowd where it was impos sible to shoot, and the thunder of the departing train covered the shout of warning. Halfway down the stairs he swung over the rail. dropped into the street and, duck ing through the milling traffic, darted into an alley and was gone." . But the operative taw him!" He did. yes. The stooo. the thlck-lensed glasses, were obvi ously a disguise. But the opera tive thinks he would know him again. And remember, we have his fingerprints. Those two things beat the jackal out of his cover to new shelter where, to his un doing, a little girl's memory of a bugle call had already drawn our attention." Who Was He?' "VOU mean here?" I mean here. I was a long time puzzling it out, and I've been a loncer time orovinn what I grew to suspect. There were the charred bills. At first it looked like the end of the road, and that our kidnaper and the ransom money had both Bone ud in smoke. That was the way it was meant to look, those twcnty-tlve hundred one-dollar bills were a burnt offering to fate. But it didn't work. Bad luck for the murderer. Triple murderer. For of course the man in the car was murdered, too." 'vho was he? Immerman?" "Immerman turned himself In at Corps Area Headquarters this morning, after he rend about the last murder. He admits to having robbed the taxi driver. He was stranded in Chicago without enough money to pav his way back to the post, and if he staved overnight he wouU be marked AWOL. That was his way out of the dilTlculty. Ha says he meant to pay the driver back, anony mously. Then he heard Adam tell ing you about the insignia. He had missed one, but had no idea where he lost it. That scared him. But when he went to put on his uniform blouse to go back to bar racks that afternoon, there was another one gone. And when vou saw him buying a pair at the Post Exchange, he decided the only thing for him to do was go AWOL in earnest." But if the man In the ear wasn't Immerman. who was he?" tie looked at me. "You oucht to be able to figure that out for yourself. There's only one person it could have been. There'll be dental records to prove it there was a plate. Of course, we don t actually need those records. We have also a b.iggnce check which was found under the insolo of one of Felicia's shoes " "Felicia? But you said It was a man! Gerald, are you telling me that she you don't mean, vou can't mean that it wasn't her niece?" "I think it was. at first The little girl Julia talked to they wouldn't have dared let the Handly child talk to anyone. Then Felicia took the niece to Chicago and put her on the train for home, and it was the Randly child she brought back with her. Remem ber, Julia said .hey didn't come out to the beach after that, and only took walks in the evening. Some sort of removable dve on the child's hair, and a pair of thick-lensed glasses with bows that were taped with adhesive under her hair, so that she couldn't take them off. The little girl told me about that herself when I thought to ask her. No wonder she couldn't see very well! Arrgh!" There was savage ry in the fringed eves now. "That Bridewell woman will go to the chair, too, if I have my way. She's been groveling said she agreed to the thing only because her husband was going on with it anyway, and she wanted to he sure the child came to no harm. But that the murders were done without her knowledge" T kt nUna4 ' DASH TO ALTAR NO DRAFT INSURANCE Washington, Aug. 13 'T Young men who take their best girls' hands and rush to the marriage license bureau to be come husbands before Uncle Sam ran draft them for mili tary duty, have no assurance they won't be called for a year's active training under terms of the Biirke W'adsworth conscrip tion bill now brfore the senate. The measure contains no rpe cific exemption for married men. They will be required to regis ter for service, Just as any other male citizens from 21 through 30 years of oge. If It becomes law. The President is authorized, however, to defer the training "of those men in ttatuj with respect to persons dependent upon them tor support which renders their deferment advis able." The mcasuie con'ninn no definition of "dependents. UNLAID EGGS PROVIDE Waldport. Ore . Aug. 13. '.-n A couple of WaUlpirt turkeys belonging to Mrs. O. V, Hurt would be plrnty embarHsyed she believes, if they knew they were hatched from eggs never laid. Two months ago two unlaid eggs were removed fnm dead fowls after they had been in cold storage for two weeks. Mrs Hurt, curious, placed them un rier a hen. The peculiar turks she said tixiay, are norma! and healthy. On the Radio Chains STATIONS ahere to line 1 bra od lb Dial: ktX. ilea, rurlbuid; Kll. 40. u4W angel! ItOA, 1470. uan KUU. tao, aaa rranrlM-oi fct.W ltd. rurlland KJK. Tu. arallle; KNX. IUAO. U tniflm MM IK IMixrri kulN. wu, purtland: HOMO rn Kraillr: KPO. gsu un fram-lwo: mi, ll.ni. frsll lkr. KPO: King's Orch . KNX. KSL, KOIN. 1 1 :00 Nottingham's Orcb., KPO; Organut. KEX; Buaae'a Orch. KSL. KOIN; News, KOO. KOW, KNX. f ueMlay. 8.00 Marimba Band, KPO, KOW: Eipoaltlon Band. KGO. KEX. KJR. 6:90 Kent's Orrh.. KOIN; Musical Revue. KPO. KOW; Pun With lb Royuit, KOO, KEX. KJR. 6:00 Bonne Bout, KEX. KJR; Doney's Orcb.. KPO. KOW; Aloha Land. KOO; Miller's Orch., KOIN. KNX. KSL. 6:30 Easy Area. KOO, KJR, KEX; Dog Hoik. KPO. KOW; News of the War, KNX, KOIN. KSL. 7:00 Amoa and Andy. KNX. KOIN. KSI,: Information Plraae. KOO. KEX. KJR: Fred Waring. KPO. KOW. 7:J0 Black Velvet. KOO. KEX. KJR: Johnny Present. KPO: Mc. Creery's Orch., KNX, KOIN. 8:00 We. th People, KNX. KOIN. KSL: Musical Americana. KPO. KOW; Sports News. KOO. 8:30 Battle of the Sesea. KPO. KOW; Professor Quiz. KEX. KOIN. K8L. :O0 Paul Sullivan. KNX. KOIN. KSL; Symphonjr Orcll.. KPO, KOW. 6:30 Scott's Orch., KOW. 10:00 Reporter. KPO. KOW; Cros by's Orch., KNX, KSL. 10:30 Younri Orch., KOO. KEX: Prlml Orch., KOW: National Defense. Wednesday. 6 00 Bummer Show, KNX, KSL, I KOIN: Green Hornet, KOO. KJR. ' KEX: Paul Canon, KOW; Introdue ! tr,. KPO. I 6 30 Shield's Revue KOO. KJR. KEX; Rlcardo. KPO: Ltwltohn Con cert, KNX, KSL. 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A broad cast from London by Anthony Eden, British secretary for war, will be relayed by two networks Wednesday. As now scheduled, he will be heard first via WEAF-NBC at S a. m., with a second relay from a recording by the MBS network at 12:15 p. m. He will discuss the general war situation. Replying to Gen. John J. Pershing's recent broadcast in which he advocated sale of a number of V. S. World war de stroyers to England, Sen. David I. Walsh of Massachusetts is to talk on CBS at 6:15 tonight. His topic, ' Navy for Our Own Defense." Tonight: Europe MBS 8, 6:15: CBS 4:55, 6:30; NBC 8. WJZ-NBC 6, Outdoor box ing, Billy Conn vi. Bob Pastor. Wednesday: Europe NBC 4 a. m., 9:45 u. m.; CBS 4 a. m 2:45 p. m. COMMAND PERFORMANCE By GLUYAS WILLIAMS 0 DADDY1 TSIE5 lb WOO HIM OUT Of TriE SU1.K5 BY STANDING ON HIS HERD FOR HIM If WORKS ! DADDY SlfS DOWN 10 RESf ClOUDS IMMEDIATELY APPEAR A6MM, VJrtH mDiCRTiON5 FOR 1W SHOW -fO 60 OH DADDY, Sl&HJNS A LITTLE, OBLIGES AND IS RtvVARDED BY GW&LES Of APPROVAL WHICH CHAN6E iNSTflMTuV To STOKM SlG NRV EvW "TiME HE STOPS Q-4 (B1nr(t h? Th tVH S) rHlratf. Tnr ) DADDY, AfcRNl OUT, AT LA$T 60ES TO LIE POWrJ, LEAVING CONDITIONS EPCTlV WfoeV WERE WHEN' HE BEGAN HIS -performance WHO SHOT EMPLOYER S WIFE AFTER PAY ROW Bend. Ore., Aug. 13. (JV Hungry and near exhaustion. Melvin Jack Williams, 46 year old negro farm hand, was arrest ed near here Monday in connec tion with the slaying of his for mer employer's wife and wound ing her husband. ) State Police Sergeant L. L. , Hirtzell said Williams admitted shooting Mrs. Jim Vaseliu, 53. I as she fled across field, and wounding Vaseliu in a leg. A posse organized by Sheriff Claude L. McCauley found Wil liams in a railroad cut 20 miles south of here about 1:30 a. m. He was not armed and offered no resistance. Hirtzell said Williams quit work Saturday and was paid off. There apparently was some dis pute over wages. Williams re turned to the house, the officer said, entered through a window and obtained a shotgun. Vaseliu said Williams fired at him from a haystack, and then opened lira on Mrs. vaseliu. FAMED FRENCH PILOT AMONG WAR VICTIMS Vichy, France. Aug. 13. (ft Maurice Arnoux, celebrated French airman, was reported today to have been killed in aerial combat against Germany. Arnoux. a world war pilot, was referred to as the first man to fly at more than 500 kilo meters (310 miles) an hour. Closing time tor Too Lat to Clas sify Ads Is 1 :30 p. m. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS by JOHN HIX Jf-O-ySAR-OLP VIEWING HASSOCK I RtComtO WITH MATERIAL- fROfATHfc VltWlM VRt& Of, tftCH WHO 1146$ If , pavenporr, Or-fW Gpankh eoprano, . wtocHAMJN f&ftNClS0lr,AT A. UHt 0niCKeT-$EKR$, U.BL0CKSL0N6 A REMAINED UNBROKEN Mi mN THOUGH NO TICKETS JSS-' f. . 1 .It.' 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