Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, August 18, 1943, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextDEATH WRITES THE LAS! EDITION By Adeline McElfresh CHAPTER I A NASTY mixture of rain and mow wii driving across Mid vale as Pat Cleveland hurried along the treacherous sidewalk toward the neat brick building that housed the Midvale Express, the leading and only newspa per in the sleepy southern Indiana town. The sky was a leaden, No vember gray that seemed to hang so low that it shut Midvale away into a calm little world ot its own. Only the north wind that blew in cross the river was bitter. Pat shivered involuntarily as she opened the office door and a fust of wind ushered her inside. "Let's hibernate, Elinor," she called gaily to the pretty blond girl who was a clerk in the cir culation department "Brrrt" But Elinor Roberts did not smile back. There was an excited, frightened look in her eyes. She beckoned to Pat "You look positively scared stiff, Elinor. What's wrong?" Elinor looked more frightened than ever. Her blue eyes were wide and darker than usual. She caught at Pat's coat sleeve like a drowning man grasps at a straw. "Mr. Parker was killed last night" For a minute Pat was silent She stared at the other girl, speechless from shock. It wasn't possible! She couldn't believe it she wouldn't believe it "Dead?" she finally repeated dumbly. "Murdered?" Elinor nodded. She fumbled for her handkerchief as tears beaded her eyelashes. Pat Cleveland didnt say any more. She couldn't not about Joe Parker, her editor, the best friend she had ever had. She turned quickly and went to her own desk in the news room. She didnt want to be in the front office when other members of the staff came in, didnt want them to see the pain that burned in her eyes. Maybe, after a little while, after they had had the same shock and felt the same pain, it wouldn't be so bad. Joe Parker was an institution in Midvale. He had owned the Ex press for half a century, had carved for it a place of respect in the community that few papers have. But it wouldn't be the same, ever again, either the Express or Midvale. Not to Pat nor to the countless' other persons to whom the elderly editor had given a hand during his years ot service. Perhaps, Pat thought stonily, per haps not even to Dave Elson, the star graduate of the Express staff. But no, she scolded herself, Dave Elson would be too engrossed in his own affairs to bother about what was happening in Midvale. Midvale was no longer "home" to the rangy young man who, after writing several successful books, had left his swanky New York friends to go into government work. Pat bit her lips . . . remem bering. '"THAT'S all the police know right now, Patricia," Clem Evans, the Express sports editor, told Pat when he came in fifteen minutes later from the police sta tion. "Joe was at his desk, writ ing something on that junk heap he calls a typewriter. The house keeper's room is right over his study and she says she heard no unusual noises. She woke up around midnight and saw the light in his study was still on she could see it shining out on the lawn and she called down that It was time he was getting some sleep. When he didn't answer, she went down." Clem paused. "Joe was all slumped over. There was a knife in his back." The sports writer ran a rough hand through his graying hair. His eyes were suspiciously moist He walked over to the window and stood looking out his hands boring into his pockets so the girl would not see the tight-clenched fists. Pat was almost glad when her telephone rang a minute later and Josephine BUlingsIey informed her in a stilted voice that she had a party that "just must be in the paper this afternoon." Pat knew, of course, that the cranky spinster expected to pick up some inside news on the murder, but that was beside the point Joe Parker would want the paper to go on he had proved that time and time again. Pat thanked Miss BUlingsIey . nd hung up before the other woman had a chance to question her. She rolled a sheet of copy paper into FUNNY BUSINESS "He'asulking he got bawled out at, inspection this , morning)" ftCAKftVICK. INC. her typewriter "Miss Josephine Billingsley," she wrote, "entertained the mem bers of her Sunday -.chool class at a delightful pre-Thanksgiving party Tuesday night The house was decorated with . . ." Suddenly she stopped typing. She turned toward Clem Evans, who was still standing at the win dow. "Clem. Oh, Clem," she repeated when he didnt answer, "what was Mr. Parker working on?" Evans turned. He shook his head, puzzled. "Nobody knows, Patricia. It was gone." "If we only knew," she mur mured, half to herself. "I wonder . . , Clem, let's look in his desk. we might find something." "We cant now, Patricia," he re monstrated. "Regardless ot what's happened, we have a paper to put out" Pat turned back to her type writer and the story about Miss Billingsley's party. "I know, Clem," she agreed. "I Just thought" "Right after we go to press," the sports editor promised, "we'll have a look-see. But you know Joe Parker. He'd want the Ex press out on schedule." The girl swallowed hard. She could hear the linotypes out in the composing room and there was something reassuring in their clat ter. Something to hold onto in a world suddenly gone topsy-turvy. T5RESS time came and nothing had happened. Clem had been over to the police station again. There was despair in his voice when he told Pat about it Chief Blair was stumped. He had been over the house with a fine-toothed comb, but there was nothing. "Everything under control, Pa- EMBROIDERY LOOKS LIKE APPLIQUE 7593. by Alice Brooks . This appliqued effect is won derfully easy to do . . . and sure to draw exclamations of delight from your family and friends. It's just fast-going single stitch . . . Lazy-daisy flowerets com plete the design. Pattern 7S93 contains a transfer pattern of a 15x191 inch motif and 8 smaller motifs; stitches; list of materials. To obtain this pattern send 11 cents in coin to The Herald and News, Household Arts Dept., Klamath Falls. Do not send this picture, but keep it and the nun ber for reference. Be sure to 'wrap coin securely, as a loose coin often slips out of the envel ope. Requests for patterns should read, "Send pattern No. , to followed by your name and address. Because ot the slowness of the mails, delivery of - Herald and News Household Arts patterns may take two weeks to reach you after your- order is mailed in We're sorry. trlcla?" Clem" asked, glancing over her shoulder at the two-column head she was writing. "Yep, this is the last headline." A short time later Fat was searching Parker's desk, some thing that apparently, had not oc curred to the police, while Clem Evans scanned the front page tor mistakes. There were packets ot letters, clippings, mats and feature serv ices, sample columns that had been sent to the paper, and loose papers that seemed to be nothing but an indescribable mess. Pat tossed aside the mats, features and columns. They didn't interest her, but the letters and miscellaneous papers did. "Ready, Clem? I have things half-way sorted out." The sports editor pulled his chair over to the desk. Pat handed m ( tCr 1 Otyptni $25 CREDIT ONLY, $5 , DOWN $5 A MONTH Mft welt tm ytw Hav tt momt t buy th things yen RMott Qtt tn buying powr Pvnhtm Coupon looks today and apatki tt tm you mad II far any wumbif of artWaa which toft seat mm than M aash. ' Or pay a tittle more down and aoupona nut boy htgner ryhng eharfa THIS CURIOUS WORLD "r William Ferguson Freckle and Hl Friends By Bloaser -j- yf J TSoTO SLBeP.SOM ITS NEARLY I WAVe A fteuHi f MOM .'MOM.' IJtKT RfMtMHEHEO L T-""I""- A A rS A x MIDNKJHT MOO CAM TtLL MP . llVf NE6LECreO,Tci WHAT 1 DlONT DO 4 .l?PCfrJ5?.5e.N? 7-;- I ?. 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