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Show 4 4. LEHI FREE PRESS. LEW. UTAH trs aw ASS I Fl ED I rPART S. M E N T NEEDLEWORK PATTERNS Si 7$ sr TRUCKS L ACCESS 4' r It "VAT GERALD Duke McCaOe, privaU deteetive. Is tae Border of Curt ValLua-rour- i, about la marry Vereoita Bigelow, heiress to thirty scillioa dollars. She is the priaripal suspect. MrCale learns of a deep plot to keep control of Ue great fortune in the family through a deal vith VaUaiaroart. Snarl Lynn. Vallainrourt's former wife, is shot ta death, apparently to sileae her. Some- one fires at McCale, vounding him la the shoulder. Thea Veroaica taUs, tell ing aura that the police have arrested Christopher Storm, aoted architect, and former suitor of Veronica's. MrCale phones police lieutenant Donlevy, ta charge of the case, and asks him to hurry aver. EblTOI'S Note: This neuipaper through special arrangement ui:h tht Washington Bureau of Western Seus-PapeL uton at 1616 F Street S. W. Washington, D. C, is able to bring readers this ueekly column on prob Xems of the teteran and and bis family. Questions may he ad dressed to the above Bureau and tbes utu oe ansuerea in a subsequent col umn. So replies can he made direc ly mail, hut only in the column which uill appear in this newspaper regularly lit m 43 Romantic Design to Embroider BROWN WNUMATURCf McCale was alone when the call What was she doir.g up there?" "I I don't know. Putting some came an hour later. He lifted tie receiver with his good hand to hear things a way or " the frightened voice of Adelaide "Looking for something perBigelow. "Mr. McCale's residence?" In spite of the feverish anxiety in her tone, she clung to the formalities. " "Right here. Miss Bigelow and up so "Oh, I'm glad you're about I heard you had been in- haps?" "I couldn't guess. "Who found her?" It flashed through his mind that someone must have known where she was. would have had subtly to reveal her hiding place. "She recovered her senses "after-good- ness jured." knows how long. She "Yes, but I'm quite all right. walked downstairs by herself. VerWhat is it?" He was urgent. Deadlines on Vet Benefits "If i Sybil. She's been attacked. onica found her pacing up and down Right here in the house. I am the hall on the third floor, in As a reminder to veterans ol MISCELLANEOUS frightened. What can it mean? I daze. She she couldn't find her World War II, there are severa' CHAPTER XV own room." E BUT AND SELL thought" deadlines for veterans' benefits, the 1 rurmiure. Filei. Typewriter. ?M That was logical. Many people, Is she "Yes, yes. Sales. Cash Register!. 1946. which December is 31, first, The ease was beginning to irk TtLT LAKE DESK tUHAMit "Alive? Yes, but unconscious A after being struck over the head, 6ll Lk. City. I'Uk applies to some lou.uou alien veter him badly. Not only was he not doctor's here." regain enough of their senses to ans who served in the armed forces-- making progress, he almost seemed wound?" walk about automatically seeking a bullet is "Tell me. it after September 1. 1939. who car, to be going backwards, "No." help, though still in a become American citizens easily "We gathered in Christopher McCale was surprised to hear condition. ir ttiey apply before that time. a Storm." he began. this. "How was she hurt?" "She collapsed again?" the second war powers act expires "I told you to tail him, not ar "Yes, as soon as we got her to "She was was struck on the BUY YOUR on that date. rest him," McCale interrupted sourThe second deadline refers to re ly. His arm was giving him pain, back of the head. Oh, it's so horri-ble- . bed and had sent for the doctor." I suppose I shouldn't bother "What prognosis does the doctor Instatement of National Service Lift and besides that, his thoughts were you, but" give?" insurance. If about 10 million veter- not encouraging. ans who have permitted their in "Not at all. Keep calm. I'm com"She will probably recover, but "He swears he didn't shoot at you surance to lapse ask for reir last night" she may not remember things who ing right over." statement prior to reoruary i, lai. 'I didn't think he did. Did you As he stood on the sidewalk, wait- hit her how it happened for a they may do so without a physical let him go?" ing, a shadow detached itself from long time. The police were quite nasty about it. Mr. McCale. They examination, merely signing ; "Had to. No real evidence. And have insisted on a police nurse so statement that their health is a? the lad's too damned honest to suit that she may be questioned the mogood now as when their polic; me." ment she regains consciousness. Oh. lapsed and by paying premium "He came right out and admitit's awful awful!" for only two months. followted was he was the one who OSECURlTYl She reached out an old Home, farm and business loans ing Vallaincourt around the last few C hand toward him, like a dismay be guaranteed or insured b had however. the Said he days, VA up to 10 years after end of thi itch either to tressed child. Her voice was empget his hands on him war. ty, drained. and tear him to pieces, or to get Education or "What can we do, Mr. McCale?" may be something on him that would influstarted up to four years after end ence Veronica." He shrugged away the pity that of war. j to type, don't you think?" flooded his mind. No time for sym'True Rehabilitation for disabled vet- pathy. His business was not com"Hahvahd, Hahvahd, erans must be completed within nine miseration. His mouth was grim; This from Rocky. years after war's end and readjust- his voice held no clemency, no hope The officer gave him a cold stare MOST MOTHERS DO TH S ment allowances for unemployment before he continued. He turned with a violent movement, "Oh, quite. or may be ob- Darned if he didn't meet up with striding toward the door. tained for two years after discharge the glamour boy and have a heart "I want to see the attic' or the war's end, whichever is to heart talk with him, though. ValShe rose obediently, mechanicallimitation of laincourt convinced him that he later with an over-al- l ly. In the hall, she led the way, five years after termination of hoswas going to do right by our gal, some of the granite in her taking of decisions tilities. Appeals from so Storm took himself off to his lawpossession again. She preceded him the rating board on disability pen- yer's and like a boy scout signed up the stairway, dead eyes straight. sions must be taken within one year over the 'Love Nest' or whatever her lips set in a firm of the he calls it" from the date of notification line. decision. "Very civilized. I knew all that" Up the dark, heavily carpeted "Then why in the name of the stairways of the brooding house Questions and Answers Father and the Son did you give they went, past the double doors of AT BEDTIME Q. When my son was discharged rub WORKS FOX HOURS me that cryptic message just bethe drawing room where Karen still throat, chest, back while child sleeps from the marine corps last March fore you were blitzkrieged last to relieve coughs, with VapoRub. played her macabre music, up to found to old he went his job and action muscular soreness the third floor, where a policeman night? Why did you want me to starts instantly... land tightness. they had gone out of business. He put a tail on him?" sat dozing before the closed portal could not get in any other place that I beof Sybil's room where death was n friend, my "Because, home good remedy Best-knowdid the same kind of work, so he to suspect that the lad thinks can use to relieve gan black hovering, up the last flight, darker McCale a unfolded large decided he would learn a new trade a distress of children's colds is and narrower than the others, to lot, that he has more than a glim- silk handkerchief. bill. So he worked nnder the G.I. comforting Vicks VapoRub. as to what this mess is all mer the attic where murder had been in a machine shop learning tool Even while you rub it on, about. I was sure that eventually the cold, dark February night and perhaps only delayed. three to about was work there to starts He making. VapoRub his elephantine mind would hit on walked toward him. Miss Bigelow pressed a switch ease distress . . . and it keeps months and on account of the steel Would he "That you, Mr. McCale?" something important and two yellow bulbs came into on working duringthe night. strikes, the firm was not able to come to me with it? Oh, no. As No wonder most mothers view, dimly lighting the place. A "Yes, officer or hello, Humsecure any steel and since it was you raft the naive honesty of the well-kesay, attic came into focus, ft a small place, my son was laid off. lad is amazing. I was almost sure phrey. If I'd known it was you, I'd this when a 1 have Invited you inside long ago." shadowy, but unlike most attics, orAs he was planning to be married he'd start digging around by himcoldstrikes. No dust there, no dark corVapoRub in the autumn he wanted work so "Hell, so you knew the office had derly. self. A dangerous game." He patno cobwebs or broken furnihe managed to get into a hosiery ted his bandage. "I wanted to avoid a tail on you. And me thinking it ners, was a real mysterious job I was ture. There were a few chests of mill at New Britain to learn knitanother catastrophe." aw number of trunks and given. That Donlevy! Tells me I drawers, any ting. When he went to this new job Donlevy muttered to himself wasn't to bother I. to learn the new trade, he notified you, but to stick to antique baggage. glumly. An old trunk had been pulled out was me mother's." P the Veterans' administration in Phil"Instead of that," Rocky put in, your door like it under one of the lights for easier of and his to A and job curb the slid changed taxicab adelphia up "they had the mark on you for the It stood open. There was new address. They immediately McCale got In. He held the door perusal. next victim, boss." a damp red stain on the bare boards i I stopped sending the allotment of lieuopen. "It won't happen again," the where the blood had spilled from $65 a month. Is he entitled to the tenant said. "I've put a man on "Come on. Humph. You'll get a Sybil's wound. wiU take this house." G.I. bill of rights now? It dusting from the lieutenant if you McCale dropped down beside the over a year to learn the knitting "Oh, Lord," said Duke, ill humor lose your quarry." trunk, asking curtly, "The weaphad his fault he wasn't trade and it voice. his coloring McCale gave the Beacon street on?" to change jobs. Mrs. A. B., Ards-le"All right. You may not like it, number as Humphrey clambered "The police took it away a chimPa. but he stays just the same." He in. The big officer set- brick wrapped in a towel. The A. It is unfortunate, of course, ney to go. I got up tied himself with a sigh. towel was from the third floor bathbut your son has no recourse unless "Anything new besides that? "We going for a long ride, Mc room." Miss Adelaide's eyes avoidand fURHACeS the knitting mill where he now is McCale inquired. ed the blood on the floor. employed is approved by Veterans' "Not a thing, unless you think Cale?" train"No. Just over the hill, and I administration for Miss Bigelow's voice came hollowKaren is the girl we're after. I've ing under the G.I. bill. If it is, then got a man on every last one of can't take you in. Too bad. The ly, futility dulling it. "Then it he again can qualify for the G.I. them now. She drew $800 from the house is full of beautiful women." must have been oh, if it were not benefits. If it is not, there is noth"You'd better let me come in," true but it must" bank this morning." "She did?" ing VA c&n do about it. Humphrey gibed. "You can't do "Yes," he said quietly. "It could Q. My husband was in the serv"Yes. Looks more like she was your best work with that arm in a only have been the murderer of ice for 17 days and at that time Curt Vallaincourt and Shari Lynn going to pay DiacKmau again, sling." he received what is termed an hon the person who attempted to reHe studied McCale's exwhat?" orable special discharge. Would he Must move me from the world last night no "The Murderer but visible got closely, pression be considered a veteran and if so here in this house. Surely you reaction. He shrugged. "Well," he Be I in the louse!' would he be eligible for the rentaf have known, have suspected. Miss looked his chagrin, "glad to see of the government homes now be "You don't know me. Besides, the Bigelow, that the murderer is eithIf you think of you're breathing. ing built? Mrs. R. D. W., Taylors lady I'm going to see is in a worse er one of your family, or someone anything" who goes and comes at will to and viile, N. C. "Yes," McCale's eyes were far condition than yours truly. Some A. The laws require at least 9 one tried to bump her off." from this house." away. days' active service in order to be He finally persuaded Ann to go "My God. Who is it, Mata Han?' come eligible for G.I. benefits, un McCale laughed and lapsed into A Black Handkerchief home. She wouldn't admit how faless the serviceman is discharger; tigued she was until he callously silence for the rest of the ride. McCale sooner because of a physical dis called attention to the droop of her Adelaide Bigelow seemed Intrigues at him bleakly. looked She ability. So if your son was dis shoulders and the dark circles un- changed. Like the house, she was He began to go through the concharged with a medical discharge der her eyes. To in be tragedy. sure, enveloped he is considered a veteran and tents of the trunk, swiftly, urgenttragedy had touched her life more eligible for all benefits to veterans Strikes in the last hours, had ly. It was apparent that Sybil had Someone once than WritQ. I am a disabled veteran recrouched on her own doorstep. But stored her keepsakes there. f T takeso little. Just two intableto a were number labels ten pinned the ceiving a monthly pension for a Dotm Sybil spoons of XZIT wrinkled now it had entered the very house, disability. I have At six o'clock Rocky came in the room. ft once a week keeps your chimney, service-connectIt was this fact that of articles. There was a girl's white of and since married and heating unit cleared the bedroom where he had seemed to have shattered the last dress with a card that read: "Vicdischarge my from !ove,Soot can be dangerous, for soot have one child. Am I entitled to been getting some sleep. He pulled remnants of her courage. She sat toria's graduation." Sybil's own ten causes costly chimney hres the dark windows. huddled in an armchair like a additional benefits for my wife and over gown. Two envelopes concurtains wedding the paraon't take chances. Use XZIT regu- child as dependents? If so, what tained locks of Stephen's and VicMcCale sat wrapped in thought, lyzed person, powerless, watching Jrly. XZIT sorinkled freely in .the Incurls. There were to secure an into fire. His the I take should steps moodily staring flame toria's childhood death like a feD ace or firehnx nuicklv and enec- in monthly clouded and grew bright again several schoolbooks. crease pension? face across her the floor. toward fires. S wely extineuishes creep chimney I .J . r T. J. M. J., Ellaville, Ga. and again, as if his mind had As he removed other souvenirs p a supply 01 A41 1 on nanu "Oh," she said, seeing him standadmissed a to not entitled out and are You just A very reached Isk for XZIT SOOT ERADICAthe depths of their hiding from his arm in ing before her, noticing ditional pension, since disability rata brand-neelusive memory. OR at your grocery, hardware, picture of Sybil Its hammock. "Your arm. I knew, place, ings are made upon the degree of "You've got to go out for me. of course, you were hurt, but oh, I flashed across his mind. She was V F So. Hoover St., Lot Angelei 44. Calif disability and have nothing to do Rock," he said, his voice packed shouldn't have called you." Her revealed, not so much as the womwith the number of dependents. an who clung so desperately to her "Somehow, you voice was dull, hopeless. with excitement. fading youth, who made vapid, silly have got to get into the Lynn girl's Q. I am a gold star mother of "I'm sorry I had to come in my conversation, who bolstered her World War II and would like very suite at the Baysreuth. Bribe the gown, but I had no one to empty middle-ag- e with sherry, but much to become a member of this ofTlcer if there's one on guard, or dressing me dress. I didn't want to more as a doting mother secretly help isn't. if there If the Wonld yon please tell the desk clerk, organization. it would have taken - -- H l' 1 . rooms are sealed up, get in some waste the time keeping alive the brighter moments me how to go about joining? Mrs. to do it by myself. I hope you'll of a not too easy life. me other way." M. O il., Norwood, Ohio. OOT ERADICATOR "What do you want there, boss?" excuse it." McCale unfolded a large black A. National president of the Gold "Of course." is Mrs. silk handkerchief, the last thing in "A list of the pictures over the Star Mothers' organization jj" iBeautify "When did it happen?" His tone the trunk. Eleanor D. Boyd. 1255 East 2nd desk in the living room. Just a more like a doctor's than a dewas s one "This?" Na3. Calif. There Beach, missing." street, Long description. tective's. look for A puzzled look care over her one?" I that "Whcre'll tional custodian of records, emeri"About five o'clock. She must face. 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