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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT lend Witite wen MARGOT 7 NEVILLE Matt, s BsJtaS Itftvrt SraalssM. las, CHAPTER XXXm nrHEN Orogan turned op at the house soon after break fast, Felix told him about Michael's disappearance. "look here." Felix ended. "I think he's cleared out because he thinks nil be wrung out of him that he aw me go in that side door yesterday evening. He doesn't know that you know It already and he may be trying to shield me." "Oh." Orogan said sourly, "be can't do that walk out because he doesn't want to talk." He turned abruptly and went Into the morning room with Man Ding. As the hours dragged by. the stark fact came home to them all , that Michael was missing. He bad not lu: stayed out (or a night he was missing. - The house was unnaturally si lent. A reeling of calamity hung over It. No one met to chat or drink tea. ' Eileen eouldnt give up hope. Every time the telephone rang, she rushed to it. Perhaps this was Michael. But It was never Michael. It was always somebody for Oro gan. During the day, each one was called separately Into the morning ' room and questioned afresh. If rou passed the door, vou could hear voices going on and on. Bill said under further question ing that he had been In the garden at 3:15 the night Clarice died. He aid he objected to his sister's af fair with Dr. Nugent and had bung around there to tell them so. Joyce came out after an hour or so, very quiet and white, but not giving way to hysteria any more. Denlse emerged In a kind of hostile silence. Huts was with Orogan for a long time, and so was Nugent As the doctor came out, be met Eileen In the hall.' "So young Mr. Rawson eouldnt take It." he said scornfully. "Well, it's an unsavory business. IH admit, but he might have had the stamina to stay and see things through with the rest of us." He snatched up his hat. "I am now permitted to go borne and have a little lunch." ; CXLIX was not questioned that r day. He shut himself up in his den near the stairs. He was going through a pile of old letters and edds and ends that he'd been meaning to destroy for many a day. But he didn't get far with it. Most of the time he just sat there a cig arette burning away In his finger, staring at nothing. He knew the others, were being summoned, one after the other, to the momlng room. Every now and then, he could hear the door open and voices from there. And every time It opened, he expected some one to call him In for another In terrogation. But no one came and that made him more Jumpy, won dering what was going to happen next. At about three o'clock. Eileen en tered the den with a cup of coffee. Bhe put It down on the Uttered table. "You havent had any lunch, I thought you might drink this." ' U. P. CORRESPONDENT -IS HELD IN SUMATRA Salt Lake City, Dee. 21OJ.R) William HcDougall, United Press war correspondent who has been mining since March 4, 1942, when ha went after Just "one more story" before the fall of Java, hag advised his parents "Guadalcanal - r V" A ps From the first scene to the gripping end, "Guadalcanal Diary" la filled with the kind of Jap-baiting action that Is writing this country's history In the South Pacific. Starring Chest X-Rays f A, f' tL-f, , j.L - fh Mothers entering war work, above, are being X-rayed to Unit possible tuberculosis. Tals is one of lbs projects promoted by tbe Chrlsttoaa Seal ' "Oh. yes . . . thanks. Felix got up and stood looking at her. Bhe stood still, too, gazing up at him with a pitiful attempt at a smile. He caught her bands and held them. "Eileen." he said, "who murdered Clarice and then Lena as well?" Bhe shook her bead, she eouldnt speak. "You must know," he said des perately, "You're so different from all of us. You're good and and wise. You must have an Instinct, and your Instinct mutt be right." "Why do you say these things tfl me today, Felix? Yesterday you said" "Wlps out yesterday." he begged. "I don't say that I ought to ask you to. but I do." He was stroking back her had and touching her cheek and feast ing his eyes on her beauty. She put her arms around his neck, ready to forgive at a word. They clung together. Steps paused outside the door, which Eileen had left open a few Inches. One of the many policemen around the place had stooped to tie his shoe. Eileen and Felix drew apart quickly. Bhe turned to go, but she saw that he looked calmer now. and she felt calmer too. In spite of all that was hanging over them. Bhe gave him one long look as she went out, a look which said: "111 always believe In you whatever happens. I'll always love you." r WAS odd that so many police men could be wanted. They wen everywhere. They talked to the servants at the Wheatleys'. and te Hurst's housekeeper. Orogan was with Norah hi the pantry for a long time, and Norah came out bitterly resentful of being questioned as she'd never been before. Time hung heavily. The smallest sound In the house seemed to have a meaning. A voice murmuring, the soft opening of a door, a footstep on the stairs . . who was that? What were they doing? To pass by an empty room gave the feeling that there- was someone Inside, someone watching. . Even In the garden, there was this feeling of being watched. A bird flying suddenly out of creeper was enough to set your heart thumping. Would the day never come to an end. Eileen asked herself. But why wish for that when the end might be so much worse, than the waiting for it? Late tn the afternoon. Eileen watered the plants tn the living room Then she threw down the can with a clatter. "Oh let something happen!" she said aloud. "Something soon to end all this awfulnessl" And. though she didn't know It. something was happening, at that very moment, down oh one of the little Jetties. , I . . . iTo be continued! (The characters In this serial art ".cilfloiis; , Oopr. 1S4I, by Arcadia Bouse, Ins, that he Is In a civilian Intern ment camp at Palembang, Su matra. In a card dated March; 14, 1943, and received by his par entsMr. and Mrs. W. H. Mc Dougall of Salt Lake City, yes terday, McDougall said: "I am in good health, eating sufficiently, and am treated all right." ' Dairy" Coming V "Hi T 'iWs& as-nM. a trio of favorites, Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan and Wil liam Bendlx, the film is billed at the Craterlan for four days beginning tomorrow. for Mothers r.r . .MEDFORD MAIL On the Radio Chains tTATIONII Chain affiliation and wbtre Wei are on the Slali KALE (MKS) ISM. fortune gtx (NBC-Blue) 1160. Portland. SUM (NBC-Blue MHs ISIU pokanai KUO (NBU-Biue) siu Sao Vrarelteoi SOW (NBS-Hed) (20, Portland; KJB (NBU-Blucl 1000. eealtles (.NX (CBS) I0IV Loe AngelMl BO 4NBL'-Ked SM Denser) KOIN (CBS) 1U, Port land! BOMO (NBC-Bad) 4 Seattle! KPO (NBC-Red) W San Francises) EBL (CBS) 11SS. Salt Lake CUy. time Shown Is PWT Tuesday no n m Terry and Pirates, BK; Galen Drake, CBS. 6:16 p. m. Dale cross urcn., Dick Tracy, BN; Superman, MBS. 530 p. m florae i-n,..t HBO: Jack Armstrong, BN; Harry Hennery. newe, CBS. 8:46 o. m CspU Midnight, BN; News, CBS. . 6:06 p. m Dill nenir, nvwv, w. m -m Uctun Theater. NBC: Three Romeoe, BN; Gabriel Beatter, MBS: Burns snd Allen. CBS. 6:16 p. m. Oracle rums, . m.mn 1 WhhM UiAm mil Unl. ly, NBC; Spotlight Bands, BN; Forum of the Air, MBS; Report to Nation, OBS. 7:00 p. m. Bob Bope, NBC; Bay mood Oram Swing, BN; All-star Ra dio Show, - CBS. 7:16 p. m. Pulton oursier. podo ,.. - nmA SUraltJtn WBH Hed Ryder, BN: Joy Orch, MBS; Congress a i r.na 7:46 p. m. Ouy Lombsrdo oren.. 8:00 p. m. Pred Waring, nbo; i Love a Mystery, CBS. 8:16 p. m. Fleetwood Lawton. NBC: n Tnwn . OM' I.tim and Abner. BN: Harry James Orch., CBS. 8:30 p. m. jonnny rreiwaw, pdu. a.nt flalnf- Vmttn NRG: News, MBS; Judy Canova. CBS. 9:26 p. m. josepn v. nsrsco, uuo. n . . . n. . I . T ..,. i- URH vno ). nruiiwi w v.., ... - 10:00 p. m. News, NBO; Henry mug urvni, jhod. 10:00 'p. mWIUIam winter, CBS in-fln. n ' m .frivln fi. Hill. CBS: AUM11VS lUWIVIIUWi ' 10:46 . p. m. Voice of a nation. NBu; Tea rowen urea.,, iwj. 1 1 .nn n - n, Wt 1 ,r".ir- Mntol Orrti.. linn. ThU Undns Wnrlri. RM: Sin. lomeita, moo; neon siusso urou., Wednesday 8:00 p. m. Oalen Drake, CBS; Ter ry and Pirates, BN. 6:16 p. m. Superman, MBS: Rhythm and Romance, NBO; Dick Tracy, BN. , 6:80 p. m. Jack Armstrong, BN; Harry Flannery,' news, CBS. 8: 46 p. m. Louis p. Lochner, NBO; Norman Nesbltt, MBS; Capt. Mid night, BN. 8:00 p. m. Eddie Cantor. NBC: Gabriel Heatter, UBS: Band Wagon. BN; Three . Romeos, BN. 6:16 p. m. Oracle Fields, MBS. 8:80 p. m. Mr. District Attorney NBO: ' Jaek Carson, : OBS; Soldiers With Wings, MBS; Spotlight BsniH BN. 6:68 p. m. Harry Wlsmer, sports BN. 7:0O' p. m. Kay Ryser's -Kolloge NBO: Momenta In Muslo, CBS; Johu B. Hughes, MBS; Raymond Oram Swing, BN. 7:16 p. m. Pulton Ouraler, MBS ' 7:80 p. m. Lone Ranger. MBS. 8:00 p. m, Fred Waring, NBC: Paul Nellson.. news, BN; I Love a Mystery, CBS: Main Line, MBS. 6:16 p. m. Fleetwood . Lawton, commentator, NBO: Lum and Abner BN; Harry James Orch.. CBS. 8:80 p. m. Beat the Band. NBO: Battle of Sesea, BN; Dr. Christian CBS: Bulldog Drummond. MBS. 8:86 p. m. Joseph O. Harsch. CBS ' 0:00 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Nortb NBO; Sammy Kayo .Orch., CBS; News. MBS. 8:30 p. m. Scramby Amby, NBO, Oeneral Malone, MBS. 9:48 p. m. Pulton Lewis. Jr., MBS 10:00 p. m. News, NBO. 10:90 p. m. William Winter. CBS 10:80 p. m. Ted Powell Orch., CBS 10:46 p. m. Voice of a Nation NBO; Eddy Howard Orch.. MBS. 11:00 p. m. Blltmore Hotel Orch. NBO; Halls of Monteaume, MBS; This Moving World, BN. ... VetV Employment Centers Will Open In Six Cities Soon Washington, Dec. 21 (U.R) War Manpower Commission cen ters for veterans' re-employment wil be opened in six cities in January, Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt announced today. The cities are New Haven, Philadelphia,' Minneapolis, Fort Worth, St. Louis and Los An geles. "The centers are to be In ef fect laboratories to try out de tails of the . planned expansion of the War Manpower Commis sion program already In opera tion," McNutt said. Officials said that armed serv ice discharges are now approach ing 100,000 a month. Oaks are slow growing trees which require several centuries to produce high-class saw timber, THI WOULD AT ITS WORST fWWe SEw A IMf MINlftE 4MUlfftNE0UV SHOOTS 1t THE J 7 ton mn, Kitt to rvi mis nubbers on, np weuts 10 m Till BuTlttt CO OR HT1L BE lAlt TSR 1H PftRTV TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OUTPUT EXCEEDS TOTALOF AXIS Plane Production Reaches 100.0CO a Year Pre dicted Double In 1944. By Arthur DeOreove United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) The United States Is producing airplanes at the rate of 100,000 a year the goal set by President Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor and the na tion's capacity to turn out planes and other war weapons has not yet been reached, informed offi cials said today. The 1944 arms program Is tak ing shape as the country pre pares to enter the third year of war. Its details naturally are a military secret, but experts say that the emphasis will be on planes and ships. Several programs were cut back in 1943, including tanks small arms, ammunition, some guns and certain motor vehicles and others will be revised next year, officials indicated. Manpower its availability and methods of encouraging most efficient utilization of pres ent supplies remains one of the chief production obstacles, i Au thorities said the materials prob lem had been virtually solved, but added that there is a "tight" situation still in some compon ents used In farm, machinery and trucks, as well as In parts used in war weapons. The arsenal of democracy has made long strides in war produc tion since the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor, but it has not completely met the original astronomical objectives set by the president. His original pro gram for 1943 called for 129,000 airplanes, 75,000 tanks, 33,000 anti-aircraft guns and 18,000,000 deadweight tons of merchant shipping. Officials of the war produc tion board regarded the schedule as too optimistic but accepted it as a goal to shoot at. Subse quently, the whole program was placed on what WPB authorities described as a "more realistic basis, and on Sept. 17 Mr. Roose velt reported to congress that during the first eight months of the year, industry had produced: 52,000 airplanes; 23,000 tanks; 40,600 artillery weapons; 4,638, 000 small arms. Since that report, WPB an nounced that a new high of 8,362 planes, including the larg est number of heavy bombers ever produced in a single month, were turned out In October. Also the maritime commission re vised upward to 18,890,000 dead weight tons its goal for 1943 and officials said they expected to reach it. Statistics show that since the start of the defense program in July, 1940, this country bas pro duced more than 140,000 mili tary planes, 83,000 tanks, 93,000 artillery weapons, 26,000,000, 000 rounds of small-arms ammu nltnon, 9,500,000 small arms and 1,233,000 trucks. During the intervening tlpie, American shipyards turned out more than 30,000 vessels of vari ous sizes, including 2,400 ocean going dry cargo ships and tank ers, representing a total of about 25,000.000 deadweight tons, In cluded also In the over-all total are nearly 600 combat ships, which Vice-Chairman Charles E. Your favorite war reporter with another bortlefronl story ' Hsymsad Polsje's Yeaag Amlnissl Nadlm Cmw l.3i-DMriDiMiiil Br CLUYAS WILLIAMS BUftoM 0W.U1NI0K WHILE HE BOY ACROSS THE fflREEflft wAlf IV TONIGHT 9, Oft y lll OREGON, TUESDAY,' Wilson said "can slug It out with the best that Hirohito can put to sea." PWB Chairman Donald M. Nelson, describing the nation's production achievement, said that the output of American mu nitions this year will amount to more than Vi times as much as the combined war production of Germany and Japan. He said there is every reason to believe that in 1944, American produc tion will be more than twice that of the combined production of the two Axis powers. He said that soon "we will be turning out completed planes every 5 minutes around the clock, every day of the month.'' War production board offi cials withheld forecasts on how rapidlyor when reconversion STRANGE AS IT SEEMS by JOHN HIX lNMAKABL Thc rrsr csvnyey B.C. Accovowa m uaevo: mpcko neettua hao me invWTOe aoeAi!D, lesr save& AfO OOtD ST MCWDOS- WAS CerCATEO is ntes BY DmsmAoure' tveesnMO , BARNEY google and snuffy SMITH Call for Celebration. . . -Q'-e BLOND1E Grand Stand Seatsl ( , , , Br CHIC YOONQ !-Vflt SOIMS Tolp1' 1 IT Hill ; I ' ' ' I (Tl llllPir ITS REMARKABLE HOwll, , ( PULL POWN ' .. IB : .' ' ! . fi f SUCH A LITTLE WOMAN! ,TUESUAPE J : : ,B , t ; ... I I CAN THROW A BIS MAN A j ' ' ' " ' HAP HOPPER, Washington Correspondent Tree Man. ' " Edited - OHEW PEARSON DON'T YOU LOOK NICE, MR. f 1600 PENNSY. ...DO YOU KNOW I I6O0 PENNSYLVANIA AVCHOO III Tl THE BIG BOSS AT I60O HOPPER. GOING CATLING ?J WHERE THAT'S ??? , J YOU CERTAIN THAT'S WHERE YUH J l PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 1 -. PyESWA'AW GOTn' MA'AM BUT I VfZT! "VWM GO, POP ? I KNOWS ABOUT TREES? I APPOINTMENT AT 1600 RE CKON M Y CAB ) f-H SHORE. I GOT TO SEE JHe V J T&RMAN 'wij have AN h jfflNSYLVANIAAVE. DRIVER mJ . BK BOSS THAR ABOU1 jJLtfi APPO WTM E NT WIThI J I L1L ABNER A Sell-Mad Fallura. By AL CAPP I YES. LOUT.S. I Y AM OOT A SCIEN- OUIIT. LOUT T- AT NSJETEEN, I I I 6CIENTIFICALLV I SET ABOUT TO PIS- V1 FINALLY, AFTER SIXTY YEARS I oiCEimNO TIFKK B BAIN. TOO VI A NOUTH OF REMABKABLB I I COVER THE EXACT TONAl IFFICT Of RELEKTLESS, CoiNCTNQ I I AM TM rSOST TIMES TWO MAKES ft I PEOPEO TO TRAIN KTSELF- J I AOES. CAUSED FBMALES TO l THE GREATEST LIVING MASTES? I rnuaic Fiou fo- fo'times Fof A to wscfrgruB 1 hk. awooM.? --rl K cf the exact tonal effect I l'rt?tk!!.1e' makes--outf?-- A:JotMtaoomk Of AU. V 1 T--rrg?ml 1 1 that caused females to I I Hltrn3Y-1 mcz.' am p hi-:n TBMsl - , rt I I" 131 I VvSSasIl V faint like ftie, is srumil THE NEBBS The Big Moment. Bt HESS goMSSTWE 'PRESTO CHAN Go! IVL POUR (HAZ NOW TO F1LLV0UR) YE GODS! WHAT 7T7 ATMA 4W1TH WAJ WVt I PONE?j V EXPERIMENT -TS BE PRO- C KcfVS fi OOD ' ' DECEMBER 21, 1943. of war plants to peacetime out put would get underway. Nelson repeatedly has said that the civilian economy is sound but lean. The outlook Is for the produc tion of more civilian goods in 1944, but how much more will be determined by the changing needs of war weapons and by the manpower situation, offi cials said. " ADMIRALS'S BON MISSING Washington, Dec. 21. (U.R) The navy today confirmed that Lieut. George Pettengill, III, 34, son of Rear Admiral George Pettengill, retired, is listed as missing in the sinking of the aircraft carrier Llscome Bay in the Gilbert islands. Use Mall rrlbune Want Ada. GLASS - SHOCUJ lOSe wuce 'r . 7ff APT OF tWOfWAaiS GCAS3 OtCf OtCAAte rflll oetSMAU WAS recNCHSiA-va me 4 nrrofSMotee. MAoe&s tQHTMG A SOU Of PA&? MAf'a rAce. as . . rrt- x i m HEAVY INCREASE IN WINTER WHEAT PUNTipiED Washington. Dec. 21.-4U.R) The agriculture department re ported today that farmers plant ed 47,127,000 acres of winter wheat for 1944 harvest, an in crease of nearly 10,000,000 acres over a year ago. The department said the con dition of the crop on Dec. 1, how ever, was only 69 per cent of normal compared with 88 per cent a year ago. 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Spring wheat plant ings normally are a little leaf than half of that planted to win ter wneat. This year farmers harvested 9a tnff nnn hnhpl of winter wheat from 37,834,000 acrea planted in the fall of 1942. Spring wheat .production was 306,692,000 bushels from 16,602, 000 acres harvested. Closing time for Sunday Too Lata) to Classify. 5 so Saturday afternoon Pleas remember ani WEB to ' ntEVIOUS PUZZLI J Stomach aeldlt J Look Irom eld . 4 Boy's nieknama 5 Discolor 6 Body of water 7 Part o! "to ba ' 8 Symbol lor sodium 9 Chased 10 Ireland 11 Extinct bird 18 Speaker1! platform 18 Weight SO Criticise 4 slang i Jl Oat'a cry 23 Thin opening 24 Posse 25 To sheltered aid 36 Poke 27 Esplanade 2-Prench article . 50 Schomc 51 Mobs ten S3 Span 34 Part of choroh 38 Fur piece S7 Consumed 88 copper cola " W Being, In abstract . , 40 Wrong 41 Pedal digit 42 Ooddeta of daws . 48 Cow's cry 44 Put in plaoe n Ron BIAIPI 30U0S TMjE EVE lo I ' V E t a a Jito 2 !. - 5 12 J 3331 2 B. 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