PAIGE SIX
MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE, MEPFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1941
T.IADE UP TO IULIi
.by Kelley Boos..
Chapter 81
A Talk With Clint
WRENCHED myieU free end
and reached out tor the light
My hand met nothing but black
emptiness.
"Hellol Anybody down there!"
"Iff Haila. Clint, and Alice."
"Aj toon ai I find my damn
lighter . . . here it is!" I uw the
flare of his lighter like a minia
ture torch high above me. 1m
Til be glad to fee toil
I wondered where he had
popped from and immediately re
membered that a door opened
from his offices onto the balcony.
The flame disappeared as he start
ed down the steps and was there
again as he reached the orchestra.
He groped his way down the cen
ter aisle, shielding the flickering
iigntcr wiin nis nana, tie
climbed up on the stage.
"I thou Jit Alice was here."
Site is. But I couldn't find her,
"Or was."
"Maybe she's afraid of the dark.
Bne mipht have gone out
"I think she's afraid of herself.
What's wrong with the lights?"
"They're out in mv office too.
And the street lights are out That
Happens sometimes during an
afternoon storm. Every light in
town burning at once, the strain
is too great Hey, Nickl" he
shouted.
There was a startled grunt as
Nick awakened in his cubicle and
shuffled in. Clint sent him out for
a flashlight, then said to me,
wneres Jen.'
"He's due at three."
"I know, bt called me this
morning."
"He's getltng hot, Clint o
thinks he is. He thinks he knows.'
"Knows? Knows who. . . ."
"Yes. He knows who the mur-
oerer Is. '
There was a lone causa and
when Clint spoke again his voice
was grave and quiet "I hope to
God he does. I want to get this
wnoie mess over witn. You Know,
Haila, that child's face Is haunting
me. A kid like Carol living with
that thing over her head, a kid
who never bothered anyone. God!
I see those big frightened eyes
every place I look. And her brav.
ery makes it all the worse. If
she'd break down ... if she'd. . . ."
I said, "Carol can take care of
herself. Clint"
He didn't seem to hear me. "I
tell myself that It's none of my
doing, that all I did was give her
a break that a thousand other
?irls would give their right hands
or, a chance to be an actress. Yes,
that's the way I doctor it up for
myself. I gave the poor kid a
break all right A chance to be
murdered, to live in fear and ter
ror, a chance to spread herself all
over the front pages In a grue
some murder case. It she should
be. ..."
The bitterness and self-reproach
In his voice were beating at me.
In the quick flame of his cigarette
as he drew on it I could see his
face, the sad tight lines around
his mouth, the furrows between
1115 eyes, i couian t stand it
' "Clint" I said, "there's nn r.
eon for you to reproach yourself.
Nothings going to happen to
Carol. Nothing was ever meant to
unpen 10 ner. sne ... It was Eve,
Clint who was supposed to be
killed The murderer meant to
stab Eve, not Carol. The murderer
meant 10 poison eve.
t 1 ou."l ne,r hlm hi
breath. "Evel Not God, not Who
BmiM
"Yesciint" I M ..ni.
His voice was shocked, almost
creaking. "No, no. Not Eve. The
poison . . . Haila, the poison was
put In Carol's glass. Not Eve's."
"Yes. Yes, I don't ..." I stopped.
Suspicion
IF Eve was to be the victim, then
the poison must have been
placed In her glass. That much
was certain. How had Jell figured
"u "l"!?5' n'l?ht? Something
about Philip Ashley and his fight
with Eve. Did he mean Ashley
was the murderer? It was some
thing that Philip had said to Eve.
Why didn't vou unset the table?"
be had said. ''You have he whole
play to yourself and still you have
to steal my one big scene, you
have to rattle everything en the
!?!. '-i r,ttle everything on the
table Then if Eve had rnttled
the g asses ... if she had changed
the glasses . . .
"Clint" I said, "Clint that poi
son was put in Eve's glassl And
she changed the glasses herself!
There were no flowers on the
table for her to arrange and she
ad libbed business with the
glasses. And Carol got the one
that was meant for fieri"
"Yes," he said slowly. "Yet,
that . , .
"But the next night there was
no mistake. Oh, Clint, who could
have wanted to murder Eve? Who
could have hated Eve? You must
know, Clint you were her friend,
the only one who really knew
her. You ve been so close to her
and so loyal . . . producing for
her when she was no longer
great ruining yourself to keep
her on Broadway, giving all you
had through these years! Clint
you must have loved her very
much or . . ." .
Then I suspected.
He didn't speak; there was no
sound from behind the glow of
his cigarette. Suddenly the the
ater wasn't any longer warm and
cozy. It was an enormous cavern
filled with cold dark danger. I
wanted to get out I stood up and
the floor was hard and icy under
my stockinged feet
"Left go out and wait for Jeff,"
I said.
"All right."
I didn't scream because I had
firessed my hand tight over my
ips, holding them ciosed before
the sound got to them. The voice
that had answered me had not
been Clint Bowers' voice. But it
was, it must have been, I told my
self frantically. It had come from
right behind that point of light
It was Clint Bowers' voice with
all its pleasant friendly warmth
gone. It was Clint Bowers' voice,
harsh and cruel and with a dead
ly quiet
It was then I knew.
The burning cigarette was
there, unmoved, barring me from
the stage door. I felt sick with
the weak nauseous feeling that
pervadea you when you're com
ing out of ether. I couldn't run
or fight or scream.
Then the light leaped toward
me, the length of a step, and my
head cleared and I snapped out
of it
Putting my cigarette behind
me I crushed it between my
thumb and forefinger. I crept for
ward toward the footlights, feel
ing for them with my toes, mov
ing toward them by slow inches.
Thank God for the rain and the
snow that had soaked my shoes
and had made me take them off.
The lights couldn't have been
more than three feet from the
davenport where I had sat but it
was taking eternities for me to
reach them.
Hide And Seek
THEN the edge of their groove
was beneath my toe and I
stepped across the reflectors and
lowered myself into the orches
tra pit. Unless I had moved far
to one side, the center aisle should
be almost In front of me. I reached
out and swept my hand across the
blackness and it touched one seat
another, and then no more.
I looked back. The cigarette was
moving across the stage to the
davenport where I had been,
moving as stealthily as I had
movedT I started up the aisle,
feeling for the rows of seats,
counting them as I passed. How
many rows did the Colony have,
how long would it take me to
reach the back? The Music Box
has fourteen rows. The Plymouth
has nineteen. I thought hysteri
cally, why doesn't Clint Bowers
chase me through the Music Box?
Then I'd know how far I had to
go, I'd know when I had passed
them all. Then I'd have a chance.
I could hear him behind me on
the atage, moving about and
bumping into things.
I could see the faint glimmer
of daylight through some crack
in the outside door. My hand tan
gled In the velvet portieres that
hung behind the last row of seats
snd the brass rings above them
clanged together and rattled. I
stopped dead, holding onto the
mass of velvet to keep myself
from falling. He had heard the
sound on stage. Hia voice came
booming through the house.
"Haila, where are you!"
I made one last stab at keeping
up this insane farce. "I'm going
out the front door, Clint. Jell will
be coming by this way."
The voice was calm, laughing.
'It's locked, Haila."
I didn't try to be quiet, then, or
to pretend I wasn't terrified. I felt
wildly for the door. In my wet
sticky hand the knob was cold. I
turned it and my hand slid aim
lessly around while it staved still.
I put my coat over it and turned
again. It was locked.
I ran from one door to another
and they would not budge. I
turned and with my back up
close against the doors, I faced
the stage. The light was coming
down into the orchestra pit; now
it was starting up the aisle.
Hugging the wall and side
stepping. I moved along the back
of the theater, my eves holding
onto that small circle of light with
an intensity that made them burn
and water. I moved toward the
side aisle. I was a step from it
when the light turned too and
crossed the row of seata toward
the spot where I was goijig. He
had seen me. PcrhaDS that tinv
shaft of light that crept through
the doors at my back had been
enough to outline me for him.
I crouched there for a second,
then eased myself under the seats
Into the last row and lay there,
my knees almost under my chin,
my arms squeezed in around me,
holding my breath to make my
self smaller. I could hear him not
four rows In front of me now,
walking up the aisle. He would
rasa an arm's leneth from m
he wouldn't pass.
Te be eontlneeel
NAVAL AIR BASE
Vnabska, Alaska, Sept. 3.
lir) The latest link In Uncle
Sam's swiftly growing Paoitic
coast defenses the Dutch Har
bor naval air station on this
second largest island In the
Barker's BIO Sal
Sanforised
WASH SLACKS
$1.19
Store or Men
Aleutian chain extending toward
Siberia was in operation today.
Commanding a 1,200 -mile
long chain of Islands once de
scribed as "a necklace bearded
with volcanic peaks." the sta
tion was 'formally but quietly
commissioned yesterday.
Comdr. W. N. Updegraff be
came station commander.
The navy has not disclosed
how much the base cost but It
has been unofficially estimated
$13,000,000 has been expended
in putting it Into operation.
Dutch Harbor appropriation us
ually have been lumped with
the navy', big air base at Kodiak
and the immediate base at Sitka
The three bases have cost around
$40,000,000.
The navy also has not dis
closed the physical aspects of
the station.
Washington Sept. 3 Tt
President Roosevelt has ap
proved the Idaho-Oregon potato
marketing plan, aides of Repre
sentative Dwonhak (H., Idaho!
were informed today
On the Radio Chains
STATIONS!
vYnare to find them en the dial:
KtX, IIM. Portland: KM, S40,
Lot Annelni kli.V 1510, Spokane;
KOO, tilt. Sao Francisco; KGW.
S.'O, Portland; KJK, looo, Seattle;
KNX. 1030, Los Angeles! KOA.
850. Denier; KOIN. ;o, Portland;
KOMO, SSO, Seattle; KPO, 830,
San t'raneltcol kL 1160, Salt
I s lie.
"- " Time Shown Is PSt
Wednesday.
8:00 p. m. Treasury Hour, KNX,
K8L. KOIN; Speaking of Glamour.
KOO, KJR; Songj of jean Handzllk;
Playground New. KOMO.
6:30 p. m. News, KOO, KJR, KCX:
Concert Favorites, KPO, KOW.
KOMO; Concert Music, KOW.
:00 p. m. Olenn Miller's Orch.,
KNX, KSL, KOIN; Author's PlayhouM.
KOO. KEX; Kay Kyier's Musical
Quia, KPO, KOW, KOMO; Scandi
navian Newa, KJR.
0:30 p. m. Ray Kinney's Orch.,
KE", KJR; Juan Arrtau, KSL, KOIN:
Etchings In Brass, KOO; All Around
Town, KNX.
7:00 p. m, Ouls Kids, KOO, KEX.
KJR; Amoa -n' Andy, KNX, KOIN,
KSU Muslo (or Listening, KPO,
KOW.
7:30 p. m. Plantation Party, KPO,
KOW, KOMO; Dr. Christian. KNX.
KOIN. KSL; Manhattan at Midnight,
KOO, KJR. KEX
8:00 p. m. Ttma to Smile, KPO,
KOW. KOMO; Easy Aces. KOO. KEX,
KJR.
3:30 p. m. Mr. District Attorney.
KPO, KOMO. KOW; Im Brown's
Orch., KOIN, KSU Hljht Music,
KOO, KJR: Dr. Peppar Parade, KNX.
9:00 p. m. Paul Sullivan, KNX.
KOIN; Imlla Pettl'a Orch. KOO;
Fred Waring. KPO, KOW, KOMO;
Aloha Land, KJR; Symphonic Sere
nade. KSL.
:30 p. m Matty Mslneck'a Orch.,
KOO; Ptve Edwards. KPO, KOMO:
Newa, KJR, KSL; Tango Time, KOW;
Variety Prgm, KOIN.
10:00 p. m. Reporter News, KPO,
KOW, KOMO; Bob Crosby's Orch..
KNX KOIN: Jay Burnett, KJR, KEX;
Musical Baseball, KOO; Freddy Ma
gel's orch, KSU
10:3O p. m. Hemisphere Revue.
KOO, KJR: Nell Bondshu'a Orch.,
KOW, KOMO: Held Tanner's Orch.,
KSL; Concert Hall, KPO; Broadway
Bandwagon, KEX; Masterworks of
Musle, KNX; Eyes of the World.
KOIN.
11:00 p. m. Chuck Poster's Orch..
KPO. KOMO, KOW: News. KOO:
This Moving World. KEX; Nightcap
Tarns. KSL. KOIN; Fishing Newa.
KJR; Knox Manning, KNX.
Thursday
8:00 p. m Major Bowes Amateur
Hour. KNX. KSU KOIN; Grant Park
Concert, KPO, KEX. KJR; Musle Rail,
KPO. KOMO. KOW.
6:30 p. m. News Here and Abroad.
KOO, KJR, KEX.
6:00 p. m. Olenn Miller's Orch..
KNX, KOIN. KSL: Cugat Rumba Re
vue. KPO, KOMO, KOW: Rudy Vai
ls Prgm. KOO, KEX, KJR.
6:30 p. m. High Roada to Musle,
KPO; Ahead of the Headlines, KOO,
KJR: organ Muslnja, KEX.
7:00 p. m. Amoa 'n' Andy, KNX,
KSU KOIN: Fred Waring, KPO.
KOMO, KOW; Jonny Long 'a Orch,
KOO. KEX; Concert Trio. KJR.
7:30 p. m. Maudle's Diary, KNX.
KSU KOIN; Clark Dennis. KJR, KEX;
Coffee Tims. KPO, KOMO, KOW;
Dinner at Omar's, KOO.
6:00 p. m Easy Aces. KOO, KEX,
KJR: Hollywood Smarty Party, KNX,
KOIN; Udrlcb Family, KPO, KOMO.
KOW; Saltalr Orch, KSU
8:30 p. m. Tommy Rlggs and Betty
Uu. KPO. KGW, KOMO; Carl Rav
azza's Orch., KJR; Death Valley Days.
KNX. KOIN, KSL; Fellow Sportsman,
KPO.
8:00 p. m. Pari Sullivan, KNX.
KOIN; Comedy. Musical Potpourri,
KPO; Emlle Pettis Orch., KJR; Dance
Orch, KOO; Faithful Stradivari,
KOW; Symphonic Serenade, KSU
0:30 p. m. Nell Bonahu's Orch,
KOMO; Dancing With Clancy, KOO;
Newa, KJR, KSU
10:00 p. m. Reporter News, KPO,
KOW, KOMO; Marine Band, KOO.
KJR; Bob Crosby's Orch, KSL, KNX;
Newa, KOIN.
10:30 p. m. Bob Saunders1 Orch,
KOO, KEX, KJR: Ed Stocker and
Music, KOW; Concert Hall, KPO;
American Crulae, KNX; State Traf-
Indcnendenre. Spnt. 3.At
L. A. Hulburt, Polk county Jer
sey breeder, was recovering to
day from an attack by a bull
which tossed Hulburt through,
the bull pen window against a
heavy timber.
LOADING U
Br CLUYAS WILLIAMS'1
WATCHES TAfHEP LOAD
UP "WE CAR FOR THE
JOURfVEV HOME FROM
THE COUUfRV
CHECKUP REvEAlSlrtftf
fHE LITTLE SUITCASE; TrlAf
WAS EtfTt&JSTED fo HIM
IbCARRVOUTfOlrlE
CAR, IS MI5S)K6
60ES BACK l)tb HOUSE
1D LOOK TOR IT, PR0
1tSTitf6 rf'5 NO USE &
CAuSEHEKrlOWS HE
BROUGHT iroitf
TlSDS SUITCASE Ihf HALL
AND CARRIES If DOT STiLL
PROTESTING HE CANT
IMAfelrVE HOW It 60t
"frlERE
CHECKUP REVEALS, 1rlAf
In 6C1N6 BACK FOR SUrf
CASE HE UFTHI5 COM"
IM HAU.60ES BACK
FCR IT
HCfURr43 WITH COAT, AKP
BOW, WD ARROWS ASE
COUlCfiDrl" Of PEBBLES
rWDTUKfii HE HAS DE "
0DEP U TAKE HOME
ARicWElsTEKsilB,
family insists tw
lv that there isn't
room w the car. 're
wctaktly carries
them in again
(ftrtMMtJ tr? Tht It Hrwdlcitt, TfltM
REfURKSTbCAP. AhT)
FAMILY IS FltfE MILES 01,
THEIR WAY BEFORE DI4
CWERIN6 THATHE AL50
LEFT HIS COAT BEHIND
9-3
flc. KOIN; Industry and Defense,
KOKO.
11:00 p. m. Carl Havana's Orch.
KPO. KOMO, KOW; This Moving
World, KEX; News, KOO, KNX;
Nightcap Tarns, KSU KOIN; Plsblng
Newa, KJR.
Fl
Salem, Sept. 3. (P) Five
members of the Future Farmers
of America, winners among 2,
300 FFA boys competing in the
better farming contest sponsor
ed by the Oregon Kiwanis clubs,
were each awarded $20 prize
today at the Salem Kiwanis club
meeting.
Those winning honorable
mention are: Southern Oregon
Frank Prince, Grants Pass;
Roy Gooding, Henley; Joseph
Chotard, Malin.
Closing time for Classified Ads tj
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nitrous earth deposits were useful in "national defense." Changing hands three times in ona
day, the first sale was of 200 acres for $116. The second sale brought $400; and the last deal et
the day a transaction Involving only 1SS acres of the original tract, was closed for $3,000; 30
days later 78 acres ot the original 200 sold for $10,0001
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til all riied. The last heir passed away in 1926, and steps were begun to make the cave a national
park. After much litigation this was finally accomplished on July 1st of this year.
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