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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT Gasual Slaughters By VIRGINIA HANSON Chapter 44 Her Excellent Brain "I BELIEVE that tht murders 1 were done without Felicia's knowledge," I laid. "At least about Sandra. I saw her face when she learned ot it, and she was shocked" "But why did sha worm her wsy in here three months in ad vance? It was a carefully thought out plan, and here was the brain that conceived it, in my opinion." "And I shared her room last night! Gerald, sha wasn't the one who a tucked me. Who teas the man?" "The Imposter at Tort Michigan. I had my eye on him from the first, but Sandra threw me off. That poor girl that poor fool! Did she think sha could pit her self against " "Ceroid fell me at once!" "You asked me two questions. Who was the body in the csr? And who was tha man who at tacked you? The answer is the same. Only not the same, if you follow me." "Either tell me or go away. If that's your idea of soothing a sick person try it on the state hospital for the insane. Maybe they'll ap preciate you. I don't" "Kay. my dear, forgive me. Only it seems so obvious. I keep forgetting your head is probably hazy yet It was the chaplain, of Course." I stared at him. ' "I guess my head fa hazy," I admitted. That doesn't seem to make sense." 'Think it over a bit and you'll let it Chaplain Henry, the chap lain Sandra had known in Texas, was ordered to Fort Michigan. He wrote to the adjutant You were present in the mess hall when Felicia told about the letter. She probably thought if she didn't the adjutant would, so it was good strategy. The letter asked, you re member, about rooms, and also detailed his program of action, in eluding his plans for purchasing a new Ford in Jhica.o and driv ing it here. "He even asked where he ehould stop for dinner. Dollars to crullers, aa the saying goes, aha wrote back and recommended Fieldstona Inn. I say again that hers was the mind behind this coup, and I have plenty of rea son to think so. Her husband, after that near escape from the elevated station, was in need of a hide-out She knew of his sus ceptibility to poison oak. and there was enough of it around tha post to give her the idea. The chaplain delivered himself into her hands. The husband call him Bride well for the sake of convenience, though it's probably not his name lay in wait at the Inn. You were with me the night I tried to find someone who had seen him. I haven t been able to prove it, yet. But I know how it was worked. It's the only possible wsy. An scquaintance struck up, a casual mention of Fort Michigan, and tha offer of a lift. Once in the ear, events probably took place much as described later, but with important omissions. The real chaplain was murdered, by chloroform, carbon monoxide, or aome similar method which would leave no trace after the body was urned. "Felicia had been to Chicago that day. It was the following day, after I arrived, that she told you she had to po back as they had sent her the wrong girdle. I ll wager she really bought that girdle, really exchanged it the next day. It gave her all the ex cuse she needed to make two trips to Chicago on consecutive days. "The first nleht she met Bride- well by prearrangement on seme deserted road. The body of the chaplain was transferred to the luggage compartment of her car. Bridewell drove the chaplain's car back to Chicago, checked all his luggage st the La Salle Street Station and drove back to the place where the car was later found abandoned. Felicia picked him up there, drove him to the edge of the reservation, where he stripped " "W hy? Why strip?" Two Reasons TWO reasons. Felicia's excel lent but misguided brain again. I'm sure. First reason, the chaplain's clothes U'ould not fit him. Second reason, he made him self a laughing stock, and there is nothing quite so disarming to suspicion as that. Oh yes, one mora reason the poison oak That mas the most essential part ot tne disguise, lie had been seen, and his fingerprints were known And. while Felicis had made careful Inquiries and found that no one on the post Knew the real chaplain, there was always the chance of some accidental meet inglike Sandra's. The poison oak was meant to take care of that. I think he must have rolled In the EXPOSITION LURES WONDERLAND REGION Treasure Uland. (Spl.1 Tour ist and vacation parties ranging from two to five persons each. 79 parties In all. have been rout ed Into the Shcsta-Cascade Won derland within the past two weeks by the information and travel depattmrnt of the Shasta Cascade building. The vacation lata were from 20 cities In Cali fornia, the tourists from five different states. Utah, Illinois New York, Wisconsin and Min nesota. After spending an hour in the Shasta-Cascade building and the stuff. Captain Jones had admitted that he was much too concerned about his wife to observe the phenomenal extent of the Irri tation. Otherwise his suspicions might have been roused." "Of course '.ha chsplsin kept tha brief case in order to prove his identity." I said. I couldn't seem to get over celling him tha chsplain. "What was Felicia do ing all this time?" "Going quietly about her busi ness. She drove home, locked her car in the garage and waited for the wrong girdle to arrive. "I rode as far aa the Post Ex change with her that afternoon." I recalled, shivering a little, - uer ald, you don't mean " "Tha body waa unquestionably in the back of the car. Was she nervous, not anxious for your company?" "Yea. I suggested going In with her and she put me off. She went to see the the chaplain, too, in the hospital. Sha was going to buy him some underwear." "Very cool. Sha made use of everything. Even Immerman. I think ha really inspired her. Of course sha stole his second In signia and planted it in the burned car what? Did you say something?" "Nothing go on." I was re membering what the orderly had said the night before that rang a bell in my brain. That his uni form blouse always hung in the kitchen when he wore a white coat to wait on table. The Authentic Touch "CHE made people laugh at tha 3 chaplain's panties, and they couldn't take the chaplain seri ously. Same way with the girdle. Always' the authentic touch. How could anyone question the pre dicament of a woman caught out in public clothed only in her girdle? "She drove that car out beyond the target range herself and ditched it, first having arranged the corpse In the driver's seat remember, he was a smsll man, and Felicia no weakling. A little kerosene spilled here and there, a candle sheltered from draft that would take an hour or mora to burn down until it could ignite the soaked cushions, or oil-soaked rags " "She was scared white when she got back to the club." "I don't doubt It Suppose she had been seen suppose the can dle had gone out They must have used carbon monoxide on the chaplain, in case the fire failed and the car was discovered too soon. Or she could always have gone back, in the small hours when everyone was asleep and made certain the second time." "Gerald, who was Felicia? And why should she plan two awful crimes like that? Not Just for money. I can't believe anyone would do auch things lust for money. The theft of a child and the cold-blooded murder of good man " "The worst crimes are for money," Gerald said with quiet bitterness. "And thev are usually committed by people who have convinced themselves that they have a grudge against the world. Like Sandra. You read that part of her document didn't you? The rest of it the incriminating part told how they fooled her, too. At least the chaplain did: she never knew Felicia was in it. She simply knew Bridewell was an impostor: but when she confronted him with her knowledge he claimed to be a friend of the real chaplain. The story they hatched was that the chaplain had been refused leave to ay to the bedside of a dying relative and that he, Bridewell, had agreed to attempt the harmless deception." "And Sandra believed that?" "So she said: but perhaps sha didn't really. At any rate, she saw a chance of turning a penny and hadn't the wit to make the obvious deduction when the car was burned, or to realize that she was playing with dynamite. The nearest she came to the truth was to think he might be a spy. "But that was later, after Ivan was killed, when she didn't really care what happened. Ivan had been In Hollywood nd, penniless, had hitch-hiked or bummed his way as far as Chicago. He came to her for money probablv not the first she ad given him. When you and Julia interrupted them on the barge yes. Colonel Pen nant told me all that they made an appointment to meet there later after the party broke up. That was why Sandra was so long In giving the alarm. "She waited until Miml was asleep, borrowed her car and drove back out to the beach, ex pecting to find Ivan waiting for her there. He was there, all right but she didn't find him. He must have been killed by Bridewell while you girls were absent from the bsrge. And it was undoubted ly meant to look like an acci dent " Te he cantinnea' Wonderland Court, viewing the exhibits and seeing the natural color motion pictures of Won derland counties. B. H. Alfred of St. Paul, Minn, came to the information desk for Informa tion as to how to reach the Won derland and what to see there ! "This exhibit is surely a lure for the tourist," he said, 'and it has made me want to see the Wonderland region." I Mrs. E. Ronald Foster of i Berkeley was so enthusiastic I over her sluhtseeing trip through the Shasta Cascade Wonderland that she returned to the Shasta Cascade building to tell mem i bers of the staff how much she enjoyed it. "We received Information and directions about the things to see In the Wonderland when we visited this building In June." I she said. "Sirce then we have toured thu Wcrdrrlnnd and en joyed it Inunciuely." MEDFORD MAIL On the Radio Chains RTaiiosa There to Una Ibru aa the Olal: ktX. IIWl. Porlluid; kH. 40. uM tnMi tut. HJll kuokMiw kliO. WI. San rrancltroi tvl.W an, Portland sum, ;. fwaiiwi NX. 1050. U Sncrlesi fclM. SJO Denier; UIN. . fort land; ko.MO rM ftraitit; art), sua. Mm FranrlM: r.l., MM fall l-ate. Wednrftaay. S .00 ttummer Show, KKX, KSL. KOW; Omen Hornet. KOO. KJR. KEX: Paul Canon, KOW; Introduc tag. KPO. . 30 Shield's Rerue. KOO. KJR, KEX. Rlcardo. KPO; Uwlaohn Con cert. KMX. KSL, KOIN. 0:00 Barber Shop Quartet, KOO: Kyter'e Prgm.. 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OHLY HALE OF rf IRalriBM tr T Plt Sn1lrtlt lor I Above! nATttROOM... -l-0 BEGUILE SECRET IN THE STONE BROKE. all right, GEE, THANKS HERE'S YOUR , MR. CLANCV- FIRST WEEK'S BUT YOU 6AV M6 FIFTEEN" PAV IN ADVANCE DOLLARS . 1 VV OREGON. WEDNESDAY. MODEL HOI TOWNS! I BE OFFERED ID, Washington. Aug. 14. OI.P' The government disclosd plans today to pass on to community ownership its three model towns of the future "Green- belt. Greenhills and Green-Jale. Plans expected to be complet ed soon, call for sale of the three communities to homestead associations formed by residents. Community ownership rather than private will replace gov ernment ownership. Tha three communities repre sent an initial government in vestment of $35,000,000. Green belt, near Washington, cost 13,- 394.406; Greenhills at Cincin nati, cost $11,508,001, and Green- dale at Milwaukee, Wis., cost $10,113,404. The projects were under taken to prove the practica bility" of model homes for low- income, white collar workers and Induce private construction to expand in that field. They were begun in 1933 and com pleted in 1938. fiy CLUYAS WILLIAMS TAKES MOTHER PIECE CF BATTER AMD SPREADS -TORSI" REALIZES THIS COULD SO ON1 FCREvTR, AND WISHES , int nttt ur itrw nut WllUftftSI IT'S NOT HERe.V-- IRO&&IR.1II.. SILENCfc MIM. TONY.' HE MUST I THIEVES J I TONY HE'LL BE CARRYING J f VH-HELP.' J I HAVE EVERY- VlT WITH HIM. Nr. m I lONE HERE IN yi i X U MINUTE.'V D " Qst BKINKIRLIN'S STATEROOM TM TWO C BOOKS StABCM f AUUlt S5LY... KrTV.' X4-" -'.'-aP f LISTEN, ME I BUCKEROO, 1 ( GOLLY, AINCHA V ySf J AUGUST 14, 1940. The farm security adminis tration, successor to the resettle ment administration which be gan construction, said the com munities have operated success fully. None of the capital in vestment, however, has been re paid. Rangoon, Burma, Aug- 14 ii Four persons were killed and 21 injured when an express train to Mandalay was derailed last night 120 miles from Ran goon. An investigation showed spikes between the rails and ties had been removed. Cee Mall Tribuna want ads. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS OneJfaMrs. Oscar 'William. PeltiammanonW. i . ipi AMP Rl4&1bTHS "SURFACE, Homm mine SHARK'S AMU oTHSR fH Moid IT t ATHLETE'S HEART According to modical science, ihera Is no convincing evidence ihat a gcod heart is dam aged by strenuous or violent exercise. Early athletes with already damaged or abnormal hearla competed in strenuous games and athletics undoubtedly harmed these hearts. ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY Oiling his lawnmower for the 1930 season, Paul E. Tignor, field engineer for tha Glenn Martin company, spilled some oil on the red clay. Today the company's flying field is covered with 150.000 tquare yards of oil surfacing as a result. TOMORROW: Man Who Laughsl WELL, QUIT GCOWLIrT THEN! AN' REMEMBER, NO CLANCY WORKER, MAN OR BOV, GITS OTHER THAN THE TOPS IN WAGES I WANT A FIGHTlN', GO-GITTIN CREW AROUND ME.1 ANTI-DRAFT LETTERS Spokane, Wash., Aug. 14. (JP) Walter M. Clist, Spokane apartment hotel manager, as serted today that his name had been forged to letters sent to Senators Bone and Schwellen- bacti of Washington, urging them to vote against the con scription bill now before the senate. PLPiTMM lotoMoTiVE- CCRXtfl IN f0 SMALL IT CAM '- M . 7 wh "MiTE'ftiART 6 A MYTH HSfMiHV Hearts are H.oT PA.MA6ED tjy PftTlflUt CPAK&OHt VMhbi RKUu-TS 8 -if VT THi Stir LA 41 CUPPER WILL COMBAT PLAN! LETS r t - w I Tl . Y MOW, WE'VE CHEWED I THE FAT LONG ENOUGH,! l BEN-GIT BACK TO TIM 1 nM AN' HAVE HIM TELL YOU I YOUR DUTIESJr Clist said he found out about the forgeries when the two sen- l ators acknowledged receipt of the letters. i He asserted he had neither written nor wired the senatora either for or against the bill. "I wonder how many other of the 'pressure' letters received by congress had names signed as mine was?" he added. Roseburg, Ore.. Aug. 14. (Pt Frederick H. Nagel. "9. a res ident of Canyonville. was killed late Monday when he waa i struck by an automobile driven by Bradford W. Wynter, Myrtle Creek. byJOHNHIX W I Ml It! I aJ-hA; f endnop nn l. Martin Co.eni AcaDSNm&QviaNim w a i -FT - y l-t m , lei I. id ll I PXlNfl HIS By HAL FORREST IB PLAN ot Tustt eo.oa.on At SHATTERED wuta rvue LOOSE ITS HAlL fr DEATH.'.' Bt EDWIN ALGER Bt SOL HES3