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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TEN MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1941 iMAnv vm -. 1 1. . .. .. Bl K 1 1 Chapter 23 Strange Fact "Vou understood, Steve," Jed I went on, "that Morri had never heard the name before. Yes, that's his story and he has stuck to it through everything." "Why. Jeff?" "That's one of the things I want Morris to telj us." Then Jeff went on musingly. "You know the funny thing about all this Lee Gray business is that the police were on the right track from the very beginning, only they didn t stay on it long enough. Their theory was that Lee Gray was someone in the Green Apples company, someone who had signed an assumed name to that note, thinking that Carol would understand it. It would have been dfficult for an outsider to have got Into the theater, up to Carol's ftrAaaintf room and out again with out being seen by anyone. But a very simple thing for a person in the company. They followed their theory for a little while. They checked that note with the hand writing of everybody in the cast, even the men's, although the vritinff was obviously feminine. But they missed checking one person. . . . "Who?" Carol breathed. . H lnnked at her auietlv."You.' Her hand went clutchingly to her throat "I? But. Jeff, it was ... the note was ..." Steve wheeled on Jeff, his face dark and stormy. "What are you talking about. Jeff? That note was aent to Carol. Why should they check her hanawrmng.' "That's what we all thought. That's where we mads our first mistake. Just because the note was found in her purse we as aumed that she had been the re. cipient. Wa weren't bright enough to realize the truth. The truth was that Carol wrote the note herself and it was found beiore ane naa a chance to send it" I laughed and the sound fell like a dull clatter in the tense silence of the room. "But Jeff, it's illy, it s . . . "Look at Carol." Her eyes were fastened on Jeffs face, held there as if hypnotized. Her lips parted and trembled, but there was no denial on them. Jeff continued. "You wrote that note, didn't you, Carol?" "Yes." It was hardly mora than whisper. "And vou left It In vour nurse where the police found it I'm not positive to wnom ll was wriiien but if I had three guesses, all of them would be Greeley Morris. Bight?" She nodded dully. "Yea. It was 4ft Greelev Morris." Steve said, "Carol!" and put his tisnd softly on her arm. She bru.hed it off with a gentle move ment her eyes still clinging to Jeff, and she didn't seem to know that it was Steve who spoke or Steve who touched her. "And the thing you had to see him about that thing which was so imoortant was to ask him not to tell anyone that you were Lee tiray. She said, her voice a monotone. "Yea. How did you know, Jeff?" The Right Clue I GUESS I'm getting to be a 1 detective. Haila told me that the reason you had such a tough time getting a start on the stage was because you were such a bad first reader, that you had to work into a part before you could do anything with it Then yesterday Clint Bowers remarked about your wonderful first reading for him, that after he heard you Alice McDonald didn't have a chance for the part of Dina. I should have got it then. "But I had to be re-cued and Tommy Neilson did it for me. He was in Bowers' ollice, he said, the first time you walked in, and that you didn't give a reading, you cave a oerformanre. And it dawned on me at last that for being a bad first reader you were sure knocking them over right and lett. "I reached out and took a guess. Maybe you save such a spectacu lar first reading because it wasn't a first reading at all. Maybe you knew that cart But how could J'ou? The play was done in Eng and. When Haila and I were visiting Morris at '.ha Gotham I noticed that he had a half-dozen acrapboks overflowing with clip pings. I got in his room while he was out and. . . ." "How in the u-nrld did you get In his room, Jeff?" I asked. "It was touuh. Even after I con vinced a cha'T:b--rrairi that I was a detective. I had to give her ten dollars and rv fraternity pin with promises. We're encaged, out 1 think I can break It. She doesn't know my name. Brakles I wouldn't marry a iha". didn t trust me She watcher! np while I read Morris" scrapbxk ro I wouldn't awipe anything. We", I found the London nntvj c: Green ADBlrs, no Carol 5'r.ntoi. Tut t'e ploy was triei cut in Marchestcr, ani New Doctors Portland, Aug. 28 Eighteen applicants have passed atate board examinations and have been licensed to practice medicine In Oregon, Dr. L. S Besson. board secretary, said yesterday. Labor Day Feed Reedport. Aug. 28. T Vlsi tori to Rrcdsport on Labor Day will be fed two tons of royal Chinook salmon taken from the lower Umpqua river, the cham ber of commerce reported today. Barker's BIO Sale Sanforised WASH SLACKS $1.19 T3axk$c& Store or Men . 1 a U Bfj-jk 'lall ' n playing Dina was a girl named Leila Gray. I knew from the re view who Leila Gray was. The critic described you pretty mi nutely, UaroL tie ravea dou. you. Steve s fingers Peat a nervous rhythm on my mantelpiece. He was watching Carol quietly, his face a stony question. She said, not looking In his direction: "I'll tell you about It u you want me to. There isn't any use hiding it now." "No," Jeff said. "Maybe if you tell us everything we can help you." "Carol Blanton's my real name. My mother's name was Leila Gray and I liked it I took it when I went to London. "Mother died when I was baby, my father when I was six teen. I was all alone. I found a job In a department store. I hated Salt Lake City, I hated the store and I hated everything about my life. I wanted to be an actress. And I saved my money, the little I earned. "I finally saved four hundred dollars and then I won a dramatic prize that a woman's club gave. That was enough to go to London and enroll in the Royal Academy there. I'd dreamed about that for years. For the first time in my lifa I had what I wanted. "There was nothing to remind me of that store. I had a little room, all mine, and new clothes and new work. A brand-new life in a brand-new country. Every thing was wonderful, the way fd planned it to be. It was while I was at the Academy that I met Greeley Morris." She stopped and passed her hand wearily before her eyes. Steve had stopped his drumming and there was only the sound of our breathing in the room. Cruelty "TIE came to see our graduating 11 exercises, along with a lot of other playwrights and producers and directors, all the really big people in the London theater. My performance had been good, he said: perhaps ha could use me. He had a play now with a part that I might fit He thought I had some talent might someday make an actress of myself. I suppose he did like my acting, too. But that wasn't the reason ne gave me the part of Dina in Green Apples. "I worked for him. Oh, how hard I worked! He was nasty and sarcastic and sometimes I wanted to cry in front of everybody. But then I wouldn't I was learning to be an actress. I hsd a part on the stage. Everything was won derful, too wonderful. She smiled bitterly. "Well, it was so far. "Just before we opened in Man chester he started at me. Coming into my dressing room and paw ing at me, following me home nights and everywhere I went He wanted me to live with him and I ... I hated him. You don't know Greeley Morris. Oh, yes, you saw him in Clint Bowers' office, but you don't know him. You think I n friRhtened now because some one's trying to kill me, but I was more frightened then. "I locked my door at night rushed the bureau in front of it carried aandwiches into my room and ate them there because I was afraid to go out. And at the theater, all those days and those nights, every minute of it was agony. He's ... oh, I can't describe him to you. I can't!" ureeiey Morris darn, sardonic face rose before me. I didn't need Carol to describe him to me. "It was the fourth night that wa played Manchester that it hap pened. I was crazy with all those weeks of being afraid of Greeley Morris. I didn t know what I was doing any more. I walked onto the stage and stood there. I couldn't remember anything, my lines were gone. I could hear the prompter but I couldn't say the words. The audience was all laughing, some of them started to hoot I ... I Just walked off. They brought the curtain down, put in the understudy. And Greeley Morris was waiting for me in my dressing room. She stopped, her eves dark with the horror of remembering. For the first time she looked at us. "You're wondering why I didn't 3uit I couldn't It wouldn't have one me any good. I knew I couldn't hide from him if he wanted to find me. And I ... I needed the Job. "A few nights later It happened again, I forgot my lines almost at the same place. This time I didn't go back to my dressing room. I walked straight out into the street my costume on and my make-up on I walked out into the street I went home. "The next day I started looking for a job. It wasn't anv good. There wasn't a manager In Lon don who would let me work for him. Morris hsd got there first They knew I was unreliable: they knew I had memory lapses on i'Be. I hsd walked out of Greeley Morris' show. Te eentlneei Named Hospital Head Salem, Aug. 28. (T) Dr. Donald Walr, who has been act ing superintendent of the east ern Oregon state hospital for several months, was appointed superintendent yesterday by the state board of control. He suc ceeds Dr. W. D. McNary. Job Lure OSC Students Corvallls, Aug. 28 Oregon State college enrollment probably will decline this fall. Registrar E. B. Lemon said to day. Due to attractive employ ir.ent opportunities for technical school students will cut the to tal. Murder Sentence Friday Condon, Ore.. Aug. 28. D James Harvey Thomas, 19-year-old sailor, was convicted last night by a circuit court Jurv of the slaying of Douglas F. Smith, Aberdeen, near Arlington, Ore , On the Radio Chains STATIONS! STATIONS Where to find them on the dial: EtX, 11 90. Portland: KFi. 640. Lot Anseles; KOA. lalu Spokane: BOO. all. San Francisco: HOW. 820, Portland; KJR. IWM. Seattle: KNX, '110, Los Anseles: KOA. ase beaver; KOIN. tilt. Portland: HOMO, M, gentle; KPO, SSO. San rranclKo; KSL. 11 SO, Salt take. Time Shown Is PSt Thursday 8:00 p. in. Major Bowes. KNX. KBU KOIN; Orant Park Concert. KOO, KEX. KJR; Don Amech In Mualo Hall. KPO. KOMO. KOW. 0:00 p. m. Glenn Miller's Oreo... KNX, KOIN, KSL; Ctwat Rumba Re vue, KPO, KOMO. 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KNX, KSL, KOIN; First Piano Quartet, KOO, KEX; Comedy, KOMO. ( 7:00 p. a. Fred Waring in Pleas ur Tim. KPO, KOMO, KOW: John ny Long' Orch, KOO, KEX, KJR; Amoa -n' Andy, KNX. KSL, KOIN; Dane Tun, KJR. i 7.-30 p. m. Death Valley Days. KPO, KOW, KOMO, Great Momenta from Oreat Plays, KNX. KOIN. KSL; Vox Pop, KOO, KEX, KJR. 8:00 p. m. Will Oaborn' Orch.. KPO. KOW; Orandpappy and HI Pals. KOO, KJR, KEX; Claudia, KNX, KOIN, KSL; Fish Finder, KOMO. 8:80 p. m. Oen Krupa's Orch.. KOO, KJH: Jlmml Fid let. KNX. KOIN; Tou and Tour Bank, KPO. Baseball Oame, KEX; Fort Lewis News, KOW; Fort Lewis Lit, KOMO; Leadere of th West, KSL. 0:00 p. m. Boyd Keller's Orch.. KOO. KJR; BUI Clifford's Orch.. KPO: Paul Sullivan. KNX; Frontiers of Industry, KW; Leon F. Drews, KOIN; Highlight Hour, KOMO; Sym phonic. Serenade, KSL. 9:30 p. m. Weekly Spectator, KPO, KOW. KOMO; Bill Henry. KNX, KOIN; Emll Pettl's Orch., KOO; News, KSL. 10:00 p. m. Reporter News, KPO, KOMO, KOW; Jay Burnett. KOO. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS 0Nf 6EY A WORD IN WHILE BUD RECIltS HIS PI1CHIN6 TRIUMPHS Hr? BflTTinVS AVERflfeE Alir EttelLEMCT . Srft ON HIS TRoNTSTtTS W0NDERIN& WhV PEOWE UKE 10 TELl Vol) YrllNtSS SO MUCH BETTER "THAN HPU1N6 vou Ttu. "Them GIVEN ME. THI5 TO WIPE THE ONE MY OTHERWISE RECORD.'-1 BECAME AS THE, MAN WHO D BET ON ANYTHING SURE I HIN&.T AMAZING PLOT IS MORE DASTARDLY THAN WE EVER REALIZED. SKEETS' IT'S A DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO DISRUPT OUR. GOVERNMENTS FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH MAZIL j v 1 'iiiiillffl 1. 1 in v- 5 -.Rl KJR: Bob Crosbys Orch, KNX; Kawa, KOIN. 10:30 p. m Nell Bondshu's Orch., KOW, KOMO: Matty Malneck'a Orch.. KOO, KJR; Th World Today, KOIN. I X; Concert Hall, KPO: Broadway Bandv. ;on, KEX; Behind the Head lines, UEX: American Cruise, KNX; Dance Orch., KOIN. 11:00 p. m. Oen Krupa's Orch. KPO. KOMO. KOW; Thla Moving World. KEX. News, KOO, KNX; Fish ing News, KJR. Cash for poultry and Eggs O. K. Poultry Co, 4tb and Fir. Tel. 4316. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS A MEENQHR. B0V TRAVELED 7,000 MILES tO DELIVER ONE TBLSQRAMf (Good wi'she's from new vork v to boer president paul kruger during the boer WAR) m."- t r;,:swi i m n.0 OCTAGON HOUSE.., VlV Dudley, Mass.- 0ne of 4- built gv zepuaniava baker who thought they . were the "coming thing v He alo built a round bugsy MESSENGER MARATHON In 1900 James Francis Smith, Western Union messenger, was chosen to carry a message of good wishes signed by 21.84S schoolboys to President Paul Kruger of Boer Republic. After a trip of 12,000 miles Jimmie entered Pretoria. Boer capital, and delivered th message. Th next day th townspeople fled to th hills, and Jimmie was left alone in th public square to meet th victorious British army. The young messenger later Joined th New York police fore and at his death In 1940 was lieutenant of detectives. Six uniformed Western Union messengers were his pall-bearers. TOMORROW: Seeds of Discovery! THEREFORE I ALWAYS V WON f.r- BUT-WHEN I'D ) oui wnn TWU inc. SURE THING NEVER HAPPENED -THE UNEXPECTED THING ALWAYS t HAPPENED .V IT ISS rJOWFIME TO FEED THE YANKEE PRISONERS .'STAND BY PRITZ.UND REM EM BER ..SL AD E ORDERED. .WE MUST CONVER.SE ONLY IN MAZILIAN MtANWWlLE OUTSIDE THE CELL LATELV OCCUPIED BY f mio dai " Bonds Voted Dows Madras, Aug. 28 UP) A Jef ferson water conservation dis trict bond issue of $44,000 was voted down, 30 to 24, at an election here last week-end. is trict officials announced today. Riddl Nickle Deposits Portland, Aug. 28. W) Nickel deposits near Riddle con tain reserves of 6,000,000 tons of low grade ore and 250,000 to 300,000 of slightly higher S7 A NESTING PENGUIN WILL FAST FOR A MONTH -WAITING FOR VTS MATE TO RETURN wrm 1850 '5. e-J6 HAIN'T IT BUT-NOW-I'VE t.1 as . mWW TH" TRUTH OUT A WAY OF BEATING SARTINLY YOU.V-I'LU BET ON THE WILL UNEXPECTED THIN6--YOU SSIT WET1 (St. I JN THE SURE THING-1 THASS FOR INSTANCE I BET THAT A SURE YOU CAN WALK AROUND THING- 1 nc blui.i iih RAIN -AND NOT A ' n tme prisoners ..they .V mm K. Nixon reported Secy. Ickes Willing Port Angeles, Wash., Aug. 28. (JP) Secretary Ickes .defense petroleum coordinator, who is vacationing on the Olympic peninsula, said today he wel comed a senate committee inves tigation of an eastern oil short age. Certain military Informa tion on oil, however, he said, should not be made public. by JOHN MX food grade, Earl today. MooesTaCAuF.- ' WA5 .0-NAMED BECAUSE TOWN FOUNDERS WERE , TOO MOySST TO ALLUW THtIK OWN NAMfe-a TO 85 U3EP AL CAPP FIGURED V AH I HO PvUKIPK 1 AH'U. GET WETr BET ON 1 1 .V r rfr. iwi r rtM rmn s- 4trM. a By HAL FORREST - - q mr'i V-. . S ''I I'l 'I' 1 11 ! rvU oft- By SOL HESS 1 1 . June 11. Sentence will be pass ed Friday. Cl.-ln lima fur Claisltltd Ads t m Tuo taw to Classify 13 90 p t