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Newspaper Page TextTAGE TWELVE MEDFORD MATt, TRTBUNE. MEDFORR OREGON THURSDAY. "AUOUST 15. 1940. Gasual Slaughters By VIRGINIA HANSON Gf Chapter 43 'Not Discerning Eooagb' "I REMEMBER now that the chaplain wu shocked when we told him about the piece of driftwood," ' said. "But Gerald wouldn't the have auspected him then? And if ahe did, why keep silent?" "She waa stupid, ahe wanted money and she had grudge against the world. So had Felicia. "Felicia really told me fhe wu the widow of an FBI man; and I found, on Investigation, that ihe had told the aame atory when ihe applied for the poaitlon of hostess here. Furthermore, ahe had refer ences in proof of her assertion. There was such man; and short ly after his death his widow dis appeared. I won't bore you with the details of the undercover work we have done, from both ends. checking the story. I had the re port this morning. The widow Is living abroad. Felicia was a girl hood friend whom she had not seen in recent years, but with whom she kept up an intermittent correspondence. When her hus band died she had sent Felicia copies of her references in the hope that Felicia could find a lob for her, and had never thought to ask for them back. "Felicia, she said, had been en gaged to a stockbroker who lost his shirt in the depression end then disappeared. And there was some talk of Randly a midas hand being behind the failure. I think we can safely assume that Bride well is the missing broker. In what company he has spent the intervening years, we can't yet say. He has managed to keep out of jail, otherwise his prints would be on record. But one can imagine the two, separate and penniless, nursing their wrongs, coming to gether again and hatching their plot for revenge and for financial restitution. That would have been all, at first Then the panic of near discovery, the Intoxication, for Felicia, at least, of pitting her wits against the law. She had never seen the chaplain. Why would she hesitate to sacrifice a life that meant nothing to her, for one that meant everything?" "But how could they hope to keep up the deception?" Ingenuous Disguise' THEY didn't Colonel Pennant tells me that the chaplain had already put in for a change of station because of his health. That poison oak was a diabolically In genuous disguise it would even account for any variation in his signature, because of his dis abled hands. And they wouldn't have permitted it to wear off until he waa safely away from here. I think that, somewhere en route to the new station, the chaplain would have disappeared from the train. And after a safe Interval Felicia would have given up her job and followed. The money is probably in a safe-deposit box in Chicago. We haven't discovered it yet, but we will. All but the twenty-five hundred one-dollar bills. And Randly will consider that well spent " "There's only one thing I don't understand." I said, after a little pause. "Why did they kill Ivan?" "Ivan's was the most casually vindictive murder I have ever en countered. And it was a mistake. A most fortunate one for me, by the way. It leaked out after Ue ransom was paid that an FBI man had Impersonated the butler that night. Of course he didn't see me. he only heard mo speak, and h'l may sy I csn do a very nice Cock ney when h'l 'ave to. My father was English, you see, and we lived over there until his death. Now I'm an American lika my mother. "It was Ivan's misfortune that he had fallen into a slight con fusion as to the manner of speech of the typical Oxford man. It wasn't very good Cockney, either, to a discerning ear but it at tracted the chaplain's attention." "Oil, there was something else, too!" I exclaimed. "I've just thought of it. The night of the beach party I asked Ivan if he was an actor and he quoted Shakespeare about all the world's a stago and one man in his time plays many parts. Then he said his vocation was more important than acting. It must have been just his dramatic way of leading up to his writing. Perhaps he felt he had a mission; but I thought Sandra shushed him. Anyway, he didn't go on. And the chaplain was listening. He must have thought " I paused, hor rified bv the reallration that, but for that speech. It might have been (jeralrt. "Exactly," Gerald screed grim ly. "I'm afraid he acted hastily in pure race and without refer- inre to Felicia's more subtle brain. She might, perhaps, have LISTENING POSTS ON AIR WAVES OF 1ST I TO BE SET UP San Francisco, Aug. IS. (Ti Far-flung western links in a chain of monitor receiving sta tions to guard the nation's air waves against illegal communi cations of unfriendly agents will be established very soon, it waa disclosed here today, V. Ford Greaves, chief in-ixt-tur of the federal communi cations commission's western area, will leave Saturday for Nome. Alaska, to arrange for sites of three stations, to aug ment receiving equipment now In use at the junior office. Early next month he will fly to Hawaii set him on the right track. It has been on her account, I may add, that I have plsyed the fool. She is not quit subtle enough, fortu nately for me, to realize that more than one can play at thst game. Though ah may have had doubts of me originally she quickly lost them. I could almost hear her think that no man would deliberately make such an idiot of himself." " saw through that," I re marked complacently. "As I have said elsewhere, you're a discerning young per son. But not, fortunately, dis cerning enough. I blame myself for not making sure you under stood. But you see, I thought you were perfectly safe at the Pen nants. You told me, if you re member, that you were spending the night there," ha added re proachfully. "Circumstances r, arose," I said weakly. "I hope youll be more care ful about circumstances in fu ture, then. Have you any idea how you disrupted the forces of law and order last night?" "What do you mean?" 1 thought you probably wouldn't know. Well, to begin with my movements last night: I left you at the Pennants' before dinner snd drove to Fieldstone Inn where I had an engagement to meet a colleague. No, not the gentleman in need of eyelashes. That was a reporter. The man I met last night was the operative who hopes to Identify Bridewell as soon as the poison oak heals. I concluded my business, cam back to the post, to the club to your rooms, to be exact I was still concerned about that short hand notebook which I had not been able to locate. And there it lay. in full view on your table." While I was bsent with Jeff, I reflected. Impassioned Slush' "T SEIZED upon it and took It to my rooms. I'm no expert. It took me a while to decipher that impassioned slush. Ksy, I'm sur prised at you. I did think it might be in code, but I gave that up when I came to the line at the end. I gave it up in favor of a search for Lover's Return. I seem. by the wsy, to have been the only person involved who did not know about that manuscript Next time you're passing the in formation, please give me a sue too! "I came bsck to vour rooms because, of course, ft had to be something of yours. I went quiet ly, because I had no desire to at tract attention. And of course I saw your things were packed. I tnougnt you had been there, nacked up and gone back to the Pennants, leaving your things to be called for In the morning. You see, everything was dark. I had no way of knny Ing you wer bunking with Felicia." "You thought Lower's Return might be a story in a magazine," I ssid, smiling a little at memory of my fright. "So you leafed through the stack on th table, didn't you?" "How did you know?" "Never mind go on." "Well, of course, I thought of manuscript and did what I should have done earlier went back to the colonel's quarters to ask you about it." "Leaving the notebook behind." 'Forgot It." he said briefly. 'Though I can't say it seemed an important oversight." It wasn t, 1 assured htm. If you mean that by doing so you endangered my life. I had already thought or the manuscript and gone to find it when I saw the notebook. I suppose they had it all day?" "Unquestionably. And the night before, when you heard someone moving about in your rooms, it must have been Bridewell look ing for Lowers Return. I have a theory that Sandra was carrying the notebook, probably just hav ing added her postscript, when she was killed. But didn't you have a copy of the manuscript in your papers?" 'Yes. but 11 wasn t named. I couldn't think of a title until I was copying it; snd of course Sandras story wasn't in the cops I kept. And that makes me think of something else " I told him then about the li brary in the chapel snd the book Come Back, Mu Heart. "It must have been that by then they were grasping at straws." "So Anally they decided to leave the notebook there for you to And and lead them to the right storv." "f wonder If Felicia didn't guess when I read her the letter. She went right to the chaplain's rooms said he needed towels." "You can depend on It, they would leave no stone unturned. He waa probably on his way to break open your suitcase when he found you there ahead cf him " Te be centlnaf to seek a site there. The complete plan. Greaves said, rails for establishment of more than 100 such "listening posts'' at 200mile intervals across the country. "The stations will be equipied with rnnge finders and manned by KCC inspectors," he said. 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Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads la 1:30 p. m. A Handl OILED SILK BIB Colvllle, Wash., Aug. 15. P) A large oiled silk bib was blam ed here today for the death of a six-months-old baby it had been used to protect. Dr. Wesley Minzel said the bib had smothered Janice Peter son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Pet'.-rson, as it lay in its crib in the Peterson home at Bossburg, 25 miles north of here. The parents rushed the baby to the physician's office when it was found unconscious, but the child was dead on arrival, Dr. Minzel said. The bib had been kicked over the baby's face. FEWER APPLES IN Pittsburgh, Aug. 15. fP) Growers and shippers will have By GLUYAS WILLIAMS (SHIVA'S LuitciArffl dkEAino 8-16 83.000 000 bushels of apples to' distribute this year, or 5,000,000 bushels less than last years crop, it was announced today at the 45th annual convention of the International Apple associa tion. Shippers said the 1939 crop was "cleaned up" despite loss of European markets, although the government had to do consider able purchasing of surplus apples. Washington leads 24 apple growing states in production. Cloalng time for Too Late to Clas sify Ada la 1 :30 p. m. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS 11 vi " is " mr n HteflJCrt AN IHFSI101J$!AU$H -THAT He WAS 6m A UFBVME PASS To A loihi movie theater r. a, v. a. rat. osu mu, i iynWa im, rtlhli m .as) LAUGHING BOY Herb Ohrenberger, at a Boston theater In 1935, couldn't stop laughing when the picture had ended. He laughed so long and loud that th rest of the audience couldn't help laughing, too. In appreciation, the manager presented him a lifetime pass, for "the most infectious laugh he had ever heard." AIR MONSTER Built lo carry 100 passengers, a giant Capront transport, tried out in 1321, actually had nine wings. It flew successfully, but was accidentally destroyed by fire before lest flights were completed. TOMORROW: Original Flam Throwerl O.S.C. APPLICATIONS SET MARK THIS FALL Oregon State College, Aug 15. (Spl.) Applications for ad mission to the college this fall are being received at a greater rate than ever before, reports E. B. Lemon, registrar, indi cating a freshman class at least as large as last fall when 1504 enrolled. Freshman week ir September 23 to 28, with regis imp THAR 1T1 f tration of old students Satur day, September 28. An aunusually large number of women have applied for ad mission this year, in fact more women have been accepted to date than men, though this ratio is not expected to continue. About the usual number of out-of-state applications have been received. Encircles Toledo Toledo. Ohio (U Ri The Tole do Terminal railroad completely Encircles this city. It is 29 miles long and almost entirely double-tracked. by JOHN HIX wmv of ms,, CHltf ENEMIES GofisHim IN MANHOLES f?l3HT IN "IbWN GERMAN-BROWN W&R00K KOuTf "lite "ninspiandem CAPR0NI HVPRAll," Italian 3fr monster, . hap 9 mfzrsnTwings m Built in 11- By HAL FORREST