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MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1941
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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
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a U Bfj-jk 'lall
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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 ,
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0:00 p. m. Glenn Miller's Oreo...
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WHILE BUD RECIltS HIS
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DASTARDLY THAN WE EVER
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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!
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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
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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
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WILL FAST FOR
A MONTH -WAITING
FOR VTS
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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
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June 11. Sentence will be pass
ed Friday.
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