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MEPFORD MATE TRIBUNE, MEDrORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1941 MADE UP TO KILL! Chapter IS Bad For Tommy COMEONE said "Hello," and recognized Amella'i slow, heavy voice. I clanked the receiver on the hook. Tour little roommate ... did they . . . it ahi all rleht? I was running my finger down the B'a to find the Bristol Hotel. I wiihed fervently that thii tall gray woman would let me alone yet I wu borrowing her phone, and it would have been difficult to tell her to be quiet I found the number at last, and dialed the numoer. "Good afternoon, Bristol Ho tel." aaid a lilting female voice. 'Tom Neilson. please, quick! There was a pause, then the voice came again over the wire, still lilting. "Sorry, Mr. Neilson has left word that he la not to be disturbed. "He's got to be disturbed. I've got to talk to him." "Sorry. Mr. Neilson has left word . . ." "Listen," I said, and my voice was definitely not lilting, "this is important I'm calling for the police. You ring Tom Neilson'f room and you rinc it right away." I heard the buzzes then, short Impatient ones. I counted ten of them and I Jiggled the receiver hook. "Will you have him paged, please?" I asked when the girl answered. The gray woman touched me lightly on the shoulder. Her face was worried and she was biting her lip. 'Thia Mr. Neilaon you're calling. Is he a ... a suspect?" "You bet your life he is," I said grimly, holding the receiver against my cheek. "You mean it's possible that he might have tried to kill Miss Blanton?" I nodded. I could hear a bell hop calling Mr. Neilson at the other end. "And his first name Is Tom , , . Tommy?" "Yes. Tommy Neilson. He was in our show." She walked to the window and looked out into the street "There'a quite a crowd in front of the Es quador. Three police cars and I don't know how many policemen." The operator at the Bristol was back. "Sorry, Mr. Neilson doesn't seem to be in the hotel just now. Is there any message?" I hung up and started for the door. "Walt a second! Please, Just a eecondl'SThe woman was standing with her back to the window, grasping the sills with each hand, and the knuckles shone white through her bony fingers. I stopped. She glanced out into the street again, then back at me Her lips tightened as she spoke. "I ... I think I have some evidence." I looked at her sharply. "Evi dence? You don't mean you saw who fired that shot?" She shook her heait MTJn mm Nothing like that. Nothing 'like that at alL Why, I was . . .1 waa in my kitchenette when I heard the snot and when I ran to the window there was no one there. It's something else, something I . . I overheard." "Overheard? Where?" "In your apartment One night about two weeks ago. I was sit ting in that big armchair over close by the wall reading. And the voices came out to me very dis tinctly. I had no intention of lis tening, absolutely none at all I just happened to overhear, that's all." She blushed furiously as she spoke and I knew at once that she hadn't happened to overhear any thing. The woman was a chronic eavesdropper. I thought of some of the rare and spicy tidbits she could have picked up in my apartment during the last year, and I felt myself reddening with her. For a moment we must have looked like a couple of Indian squaws. "Your little friend. Miss Blan. ton, was there. We've spoken to each other several times in the elevator and in the lobby and I recognired her voice Immediately. The person she was talking to was a man whom she called Tommy. That's why I thought . . . when I heard you calling . . ." "I'll Kill Tou" "VES. It waa probably Tommy 1 Neilson. He's been up several times." "1 din't believe that anyone else was there because they were quarreling." "Quarreling? Tommy and Carol" .by K alley Rooa eause if I hadn't been sitting In that one chair I probably wouldn't have overheard. There s no rea son why I should become involved in a thing like this simply be cause I happened to be sitting to that chair. But if this buiidmg is going to be filled with those strange looking men who Jinx tells me are detectives and people are going to fire bullets into the window right next to mine, I sup pose I'll have to make It my busi ness." "Yes, I understand." I thought that if she didn't get to the point I would do her some physical damage. "What was this one thing you heard?" "I heard him say," she said slowly. 'I will kill you first!' " I gulped audibly. "You , . . you must be mistaken!" She shook her iron-gray head, "No. Those are his exact words. T will kill you first' he said. Of course," she added with a pathetic eagerness, "he probably was jest ing. People say foolish things when they're excited. I'm sure there's absolutely nothing in it." I thought of Alice McDonald's story and then laughed at myself. Of course there was nothing in it If Tommy Neilson had threatened Carol she would have told us. She would have been afraid of him, and she wasn't Yet why on earth should this woman, who was obviously re lieving her conscience and would give her right arm to have noth ing to do with this mess. Invent such a tale? I looked at her suspiciously. "Why haven't you said anything about this before? The papers have been full of the murder for two days now." "Because I didn't want to get mixed up in any vile murder case," she said defiantly. "I'm a schoolteacher. I have my work to think about, my iob to take into consideration." "Well, thank you very much. I'll tell someone what you've just told me at once." I started for the door but ahe caught me before I quite made it "You , . . you don't have to tell the police, do you? ' "Naturally, I do. Why not?" She fidgeted nervously. "They won't want to question me, will they? Detectives, I mean, and policemen. They won't be eom ing up here to my apartment?" "They won't hurt you." Carol Clears It Up I LEFT her looking not at al! re assured and went back to my place. Jeff was sitting by the tele phone scribbling something on piece of paper and paying no at tention to Carol who sat bolt up right on the couch and rubbed hei chin with a tentative motion. "Well?" demanded Jeff. "Wait a minute." I went straight to the point "Carol, did Tommy Neilson ever sav that he would kill you. or anything like that?" Her eyes met mine, but sin seemed bewildered. Apparent); she had not recovered from ths table's left uppercut to the jaw. "What are you rattling about?" Jeff cut In. "I explained about Miss Tal madge and what she had over heard. "I think she is telling ths truth," I finished In time to hear Carol gasp. Carol sat very still and a strangs little sound burst from her lips. She said slowly, "Yes, It's true But he didn't mean it He was Just talking the way you do when you're hurt and angry. I swear that he didn't mean a thing and I swear that Tommy never tried to kill me. I know he didn't." "Why?" Jeff was looking at her Intently. "Because . , , because he loves me." "Suppose you start right out now, Carol, and clear this whole thing up for me." Carol s hands were clasped tightly In her lap. She hesitated as though she couldn't find a way to begin. "It's awfully hard. It sounds so terrible ana . . , and damaging, and really it's silly and innocent. What Tommy said, I mean. You see, when we first started rehearsals Tommy was nice to me. He took me to lunch sometimes and to dinner and bought me cigarettes. I think that Haila asked him to ... to be kind to me." Over Carol's head I nodded at Jeff but didn't Interrupt her. "He was swell and I liked him lota. He was elwavs saying funny things and acting crazy and we naa a good time together. And then all of a sudden there was Steve, and Steve and I loved each other and everything was so beau, tiful that I ... I Just forant about Tommy, I guess. And then I aaw "Oh. ves. Yes milt violently Trier raised their voirea anH : talked very loud. That's why 1 1 what had been happening to him happened to overhear them, you ! hadn't even noticed. And I Understand." I was srared and terribly unhappy." "Yes, of course." "What had been happening. 1 "I couldn't hear all they said it waa that Tommy had fall because they spoke so fast. You 1 en m lv ''th you." know how people do when they're 1 Carol nodded. "I couldn't help angry. But I did hear one thing ! realize it Jeff. I would have been and it worried me even then. Not : no to. I ahould have known much, of course, for people say I It sooner except that I ... 1 things they don't mean when 1 wasn't paying much attention to they're angry and their tempers anyone or anything but Steve are aroused. But then, nothing And then when I knew about had happened to Miss Blanton Tommy at last I had to do some, and I forgot about it really." : thing. He had been so aweet and She stopped and knitted her; ' . Ju couldn't let things go bony fingers together, studying ' n and hurt him even more. So I them intently. "1 thoueht it ; told him." wasn't any of my business be- Albany Woman Hurt Seattle, Aug. 25. (P) Mrs Clara Dear, Albany, Ore., was injured critically last night when she ran across a street to catch bus and was hit by the machine. Barker' BIO Bale Sanforised WASH SLACKS $1.19 Store or Men Identical Bids Portland, Aug. 25. The Bonneville administration open ed identical bids of $32.368 05 from three companies on cross arm and X brace fixtures for Spokane, Wash. i On Mudbank Los Angeles P The sloop Snark. built by Jack London during his heyday as a literary man and the subject of one of his books, haa been identified on a mudbank In Los Angeles har bor. The Snark has been through many hands since London's day, and is slowly disintegrating. Washington, Aug. 25 President Roosevelt has nomin ated Helen Preti as postmaster at Turner, Or. On the Radio Chains STATIONII STATION Where to find then on the dial: KtX. IIW. Portland; KK1, (40. Loa Anstlea: KUA. 151 epokane; k(iO. lit. San rranelseo: HUW. SJO, Portland; SWR, ItKM. Seattle: k NX, 170, Loa Anieleas BOA. a SO Denver; KOIN. ). Portland; HOMO. .). Seattle) KPO, , San rraneUeoi It SI 11S4, Salt Lake. - Time Showo la WT Monday 5 :O0 p. m, Forecast, KNX, KOTJf. KSL; Dr. I. Q., Jim McClaln. KPO, KOW, KOMO: string Ensemble, KOO. KJR, KEX. 6:30 p. m. Floyd Wright. KPO; SUra of Today, KOW. 6 00 p. m. Preddy Martin's Orch.. KNX. KOIN, KSL; Oordon Jenkins' Orcb, KEX. KOO; Contented Hour, KPO, KOW. KOMO; Scandinavian Newa, KJR. 6:30 p. m. Cavalcade at America, KPO, KOMO. KOW; Blondle. KNX. KSL, KOIN; Boxing Bout. KOO, KJR; Shall We Walts. KEX. 7XX) p. ra. Amoa 'n' Andy, KNX. KOIN. KSU Fred Warm-. KPO, KOMO, KOW; Amateur Hour, KOO; Ornater Washington Hour, KJR. 7:30 p. m. World'a Best, KPO, KEX. KJR; Oay Nlnetlea Revue. KNX, KSL, KOIN; Barry Wlnton's Orch.. KOMO, KOW. S 00 p. m. Carina Molina 'a Orch., KPO, True or Falsa, KOO, KJR, KEX; What. On Tour Mind, KNX. KOIN. KSL; University of Oregon Forum. KOW. SO p. m. Point Subltme. KPO. KOMO, KOW; Sammy Kaya'a Orcb.. KOIN: Woody Harman'a Orcb, KEX; Memory Book. KOO: Buy Washing ton. KJR; Park Concert, KNX; Dance Orch, KSL. B :00 p. m. Paul Sullrvan. KNX, KOIN; Emlle PetU'e Orcb, KOO. KEX; Hawthorne House, drama, KPO. KOW, KOMO- Dance Time, KJR; Symphonic Serenade, KSL. :30 p. m. Pick a Tune, KPO, KOMO: Beautiful Night. KOO, KEX; Deep Night. KOIN; News. KJR, KSL; Modem Muale Box, KOW. 10:00 p. tn. Bob Crosby's Orch, KNX; Reporter News. KPO. KOMO. KOW; Basin Street Chamber Music. KOO. KEX. KJR; News, KOIN; Mur der on the Hour, KSL. 10:30 p. m. Ed Stocker and Muale, KOW, KOMO; Melodlea by Miller. KJR: Jerry Jones' Orcb, KSL: Con cert Hall. KPO: Nat'l Radio Forum, KOO: Broadway Bandwagon. 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We, the People. KNX, KOIN, KSU Easy Aces, KOO, KJR, KEX; Adventures of the Thin Man, KPO, KOMO, KOW. 8:30 p. m. Concert by Kalaah. KOO; Battle of the Sesea, KPO, KOMO, KOW; Bob Crosbys Orch., KSL: Hollywood Showcase. KNX, KOIN; Baseball Game. KEX. COO p. m. Paul Sullivan, KNX, KOIN; Matty Malneck's Orch, KOO, KJR; Barrel or Fun, KPO; Faithful Stradivari, KOW; Comedy, KOMO; Symphonio Serenade, KSL. :30 p. m. Bill Henry, KNX. KOIN; Nell Bondabu'a Orch, KPO, KOW, KOMO; For America We Sing, KOO; News, KJR, KSL. 10:00 p. m. Reporter Neva, KPO, KOMO: Bill Clifford. Orcb, KOO, KJR; Boa Crosby'. Orcb, KNX, KSU Newa, KOW, KOIN. 10:30 p. m. Chuck Foster's Orcb, KOW, KOMO; Army Band. KOO. KJR; Concert Hall.. KPO: Broadway Bandwagon, KEX; Maaterworka of Muale, KNX. 11:00 p. m. News, KOO: Bob Saunders' Orch, KPO, KOMO. KOW; Nightcap Tama, KSU KOIN; This Moving World, KEX: Fishing News, KJR: Knox Manning. KNX. Scent Bunco Ring 1 ortland, Aug. 25. VPh-Two Filipinos were held here today on grand larceny charges while Detective) Captain J. J. Keegan pressed investigation of what he believed was a coast-wide bund ring. Rain Aids Beans Salem. Ore., Aug. 25. W0 A steady rain came to the aid of Marion county's beleaguered bean growers late this morning to retard the maturing of a crop they have been afraid they could not get picked. Caah for Poultry and Eggs O. K, Poultry Co, 4th and Fir. Tel. 481B, STRANGE AS IT SEEMS by JOHN MX PICNIC ERRANDS 0aurn By CLUYAS WILLIAMS fAKllLV TftRKS CAR AHD SETS out OM frlE 10NG WAIK fO FM&RlIt Pie NIC SPOT OM LAKE WORE HAafwav "There MoiUfR KCIWS JUNOR SHOW Mwr eROUorir his swerI1 b mn 1HE C, JUNIOR AfifcUirte In Vain fcOfcB back for if wiuc-fAftny.rJoriNps CAR UCKED IWW5 AFftR TAMHV 1b 6E1foE KEV, MutltRlrife MTdftrjIbCAR.fePS SrVEA-reR AD hear BWILV CALL 11) BRING SONffHlNfc THAT HF oyjt qoue make oof RUNS AFTER THEM CAUIItt 1b SHOUT LOUDER. ALMOST CAtHES UP BEFORE HfCAN MAKE OCT rtefHE SlfcAMER 60E6PACH1bCAR.ErS STEAMER RUG AND Af UrSf CATCHES UP Wife lAMHYAfRCfilC Slit iliam y Tie Ball traSteSte, la.. I HEARS AtlhT EM 5icHlN6 AT HAVIN6 LEFT CAMERA In THE CAR, At HASTILY RfMOvtS HIMSELF WflH -to food oWflF rnmtf t-25 r .-''- asayaiavF ' ijiwli-j 5 ffipLLVlEWeN.Ca- r SMAUEST INCORPORATED TOWN- HAS HAD NO 0C8T'SiKO MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS, NO BIRTHS OEATrte. OR ARRESTS. vtCe 1925 "foe 8 INHABITANTS DEtLINQER. FAMILY) INCORPORATED THE TOWN IN ORDER TO PASS LAWS FOR PESmOiINQ CHICKBH-KiU.ihlQ DOQSf When Voltaire's Mr, U (2f A Tv5 TOMB WA) OPENED IN ; ? li2X W I86, HIS BODY HAD W ? dJ&?ZJ- (Z DIED IN FRANCE 1178) M AfT .i n wi r- vni i v7 -T ate .MkJI HYDE LQUNTYj fl'Li JrUll J JkJaCI lli'&i t FARMLAND IS MEASURED ,l17.vVVk " (2750 hilh 'Australian ABORIGINES fOIL PURSUERS BY WEARING SOUND SHOES LEAVING NO Jt'f HEEL OR sJ WAl.TOE MARKS. 'SOLES ARE COVERED WITH EMU FEATHERS) AND HUMAN SLQODf Tf INI h, t W4 rmw t.ntlral w TINYTOWN There are no private cltisens in Dellview, North Carolina! Mrs. Tom Dellinaer Is mavort Tom 1 chief of police, though he haa never made an arrest and uses the so-called jail to house chickens. All other adult members of the family are town officials. Henry Dellinger, brother of Tom, is the local mail carrier; ao he is DelWiew's postmaater. BODY MYSTERY When Voltaire died, his bodv waa nlaced In the Pantheon In Paris, and his heart was olvan to a French lady of the day. It waa preserved in a silver case. In 1864 the tomb was onened to replace the heart with the other remains but the body had vanished. No ona knows who took It. or why. TOMORHOWi Fuhrer's Farml LI L ABNER Eating Up the Profltsl By AL CAPP BUTMCSWINE EF VO' V VrE ( TOO BAD.'-I HAVE iA?y&AmMItllTdamTJm iUvUr TAKES HER T' DINNER int. ) LIKEWISE ), A A COUPLE OF FRfiNW?-?- llLIKEWISE 5 WW' JaMOTHErT I'lL13 COST" MONEY WHICH AH IS VOTES J J SNAPPY GIRL BIG PARTV'-?- L RECONSClf-t i ROUMFa I JS31 S POSED T' INVEST WISELY) NO; r ( GULP?) rEMM-WE PARTY r RECONSIDERS MORE S ?Hrr LE'S put IT TO AVorL r HAyi?6- AH RECONSIDERS.'-) -if CHAMfVWaNET ?oo STEAK5"'- 1 ' TAILSPIN TOMMY Mora Evidence of Blade's Villainy! Bt HAL FORREST TfOMMY ANI SKEETER. ESCAPED FROM THEIR. CELL. BUT AS THEY TR.1ED TO PiND TWEIR. WAY OUT OFTHE MINE TMHOUOU A CONTORTED MATE OF TUNNELS , THEV CAME UPON ANOTHER. CELL. IN WHICH WAS A MAN WHO CLAIMED TO BE MAKJIIBI OOOOONO SERVES YA Right , YUH BIO PA10OKA. FER COOPIN US UP.. NOW J YUH GOTTA TASTE OF YOUR. OWN MEDICINE, SENORS. WAIT I IMPLORE YOU I DO NOT KNOW WHV YOU SPEAK SO NEVER. IN MY LIP E "AVE I SEEN VOU AMERICANS 8EFOR.E.' 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