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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
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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
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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." '
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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wheat from 37,834,000 acrea
planted in the fall of 1942.
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306,692,000 bushels from 16,602,
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