European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 01, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Is perhaps she was kidnaped1 Ellen gelled. -.-., that seems to be the Only con Susion Stan replied calmly,." flow s your head feeling terrible. I went to a doctor this and had the wound dressed again. He. Made some x rays and,.luckily for me he says there s no fracture. He says i ought to be All right in a Day or a what Are you going to do for dinner the girl asked. ,. Of open a can or two i no you re not i m going to. Coo dinner right Here for you. I la go out. And do some shopping. What would Youliye treat. To rather you did to Ellen Stan said. I m not fit company for anyone in my condition but thanks All the same. Row does it happen you re not at the Arnolds. " mrs. Arnold did t want me to stay at the House with Olivia gone Ellen explained. Now about dinner if you wont Tell me what you d like 101 get couple of steaks. And Don t argue please."-. All right if you insist and a Good. Steak would taste Ellen went out and came Back with groceries and steaks.,.i Laid in a Supply of Staples she explained. re entirely too Good to me Ellen he Saidyou know just having you around has made me feel better Al ready v Vav -.-,. A e went into the Kitchen and watched Ellen a she prepared potatoes for French Fries fixed a Saladi an then got the steaks ready for broiling. They were half Way through dinner when the front door Buzzer sounded and she answer. It was a Mes Senger boy carrying a big Basket Al done up in cellophane. So you have an admirer Ellen remarked As she put the Basket Down in front of him at the. Table. He grinned and removed the wrap per. There was a card buried Amon the fruit and Stan dug it out it s from Tark he said. I phoned him this morning that i had gotten a bad bump and would t be Able to work. For a week or so and now he. Comes through with this Basket he passed the card Over to Ellen. On the Back of a regular business car was written Best wishes for your speedy is Nice she commented pit. Ting the card aside. He was very Niceto me too last night. He took me to the Arnolds in his when they had finished their meal she refused to let him help her wit the dishes so he sat in the Kitchen again while she worked at the sink she rearranged the fruit in the Basket and placed it in the Center of the dining room table she had put the card on a Side table and now got it to replace it in the Basket when she had. Read it before she had merely glanced at the message and thought no More about it now she read it again an the unusual word recovery caught. Her Eye. That morning she had seen the same word spelled the same Way at the. Arnolds. It was in the note Rolph Laramie had written to mrs. Arnold. But this writing was different it was Small and. Cramped. That on the Laramie note was Large and bold. She slipped the card into the pocket Trof her dress under the apron she had brought from her aunt s apartment Ellen left Stan s immediately explain ing she had some things to do for he aunt and once she was in the other apartment telephoned Leo. She was eager for him to see the card Tark had written to Stan and Haveit compared with the handwriting samples he had of Laramie s letters. Leo want at the Arnolds nor at his. Office and. A Call to his apartment was equally fruitless. She left word at both the estate and his office for tiny to come to her aunt s apartment when he i returned. Free wrote a note to the detective slipped Tark s card inside Ana sealed it in an envelope to expecting Leo Ham Momm he told tier aunt and when he comes please give Hon this .1 have to go out Lor awhile an errand for mrs. Arnold."-. She phoned the club to Tark would see her but was told that he would t be in until nine o clock or later. So ays were made and. Revealed no " Tark. Seemed genuinely concerned and reached for the Telephone after several minutes he got his. Party could Tell from his conversation that he was arranging for a thorough examination of the aviator the follow ing Day. That was a brain Man Tark explained when he Hung up. He s going to. Give our Young Man a thorough going Over tomorrow and then Well know How things Ellen go t to her feet now i won worry about him she said for i know. Hell get the Best of must let me drive you Home Tark suggested. My car is you very much but i have my aunt s car and i can get Home Allright she saw her As far As the elevator again thanking her. For telling him about Stan. Outside parked at the curb Ellen saw his big car As she walked past nowhere she had left her aunt s coup. She drove by it a moment or so Lateran glanced into the front seat. Tark s chauffeur was not there the car was went around the Block stopped and turned nut her lights. Then she locked the Coupe and walked slow Lyback toward the limousine. She looked carefully vehicle. It was still empty. ,. On impulse she opened the backdoor and got in. After she had closed the door instead of sitting on the seat she crouched Down on the floor out of sight she did t think she was running much risk of being discovered in the. Back of the car. Tark she knew always Rode in front with his Driver. There was hardly a Chance that either he Orthe chauffeur would even bother to look in the Back. V probably nothing would happen but there was a Chance she might uncover something. If Tark were Rolph Lara. Nie he might have the car driven tothe place where he had hidden Olivia. On the other hand of course there. Was a Strong possibility that she was All-wrong1 a til probably wind up in the Park ing lot outside the carnival club she told herself. Then Ellen Tensed she heard the footsteps of two men a preaching the car. She crouched lower behind the front seat and scarcely dared id breathe when she heard the doors open. ,. I she heard Tark Grunt As he settled into his seat and then the chauffeur go tin his Side pulled the door shut and started the be concluded next reporter in route ,.-,. � ,.cariuthia is Tito s fancy Klagenfurt Ith the appearance of edelweiss on the lower reaches of the nearby Alps the people of Carinthia anticipate a reappearance of yugoslav. Clamors for annexation of their province they like All austrians Are feeling a Claustrophobia with there coup in Czechoslovakia Hemming them from the North Tito people democracy on the Southeast and the threat of communist Ascendancy i Italy almost completing the encircle ment. For the past few months the pro yugoslav slovenes in the District Only. A minority austrians claim of the total slav population of Twenty thousand have been relaxing probably because the cold weather makes demonstrations bit uncomfortable. In spite of their Small numbers they Are apparently Well organised and Well supplied with Money. They Are permitted to organize and demonstrate by both the austrian civil government and the British forces in whose zone the province is located. Working in groups of about a Hundred they move from Village to Village hold. Ing rallies inking speeches and paint ing slogans x on buildings. Austrians claim that the same group May. Visit a Many As a half dozen villages in the same Day hoping to give the impression that they Are a. Half dozen times As strongasthey_are_in reality. Nevertheless there is a fairly Large percentage of slavs in the area. As in the Trieste Region they Are primarily peasants Liv ing in villages and farming the country Side Austria s treatment of this minor Ity has. Not been Good even before the anschluss and while Many of the slovenes and slavs Are anti Tito some Are also anti s claim on the territory is based on ethnic grounds. Slovenes and slavs have been living Here for hundreds of years. While Many have been German sized Tito for the Sake of propaganda Calls them brother slavs and wants them reunited to thefatherlandcarinthians, however sometimes wonder at Tito s Strong interest in their province. A poor mainly mountainous Region with Little Industry. Carinthia would be far from a Rich prize economically if it were annexed. Strategically though it would be a different Matte series of Mountain ranges parallel ing the present Austrup yugoslav be in Tito s hands. At the name time the Tito line would guarantee to Slovenia. Continuation Tif the water Power which Carinthia now austrians of the Region who admittedly did not oppose the earlier anschluss Are fearful of the new an sch tis. From the South not this year maybe but As they say when the British and americans British forces whose departure from the Klagenfurt Post binges on the signing of the austrian peace treaty Are now convinced that they must stay a while Longerlast summer a British officer said recently we took the troops Winter uniforms and fold them they would t be needing them. We had to give it backing the fall and took their summer stuff for shipment Home damned if we Haven t had to give Back the summer stuff now this time they la blasted Well keep their Winter " the nearby Woerth Ersee a summer resort which normally brings the province something vaguely resembling. An annual temporary Prosperity was. Turned Back to the austrians last fall having been used As a rest Center for British troops for the past few British As one officer obviously aiming at an americanism put it con Sider Klagenfurt a dead horse Townthe average Tommy hereabouts would be in Vienna or farther West in the British area. An inquiry As to How they like their surroundings usually results in a blast of profanity implying,.in much less reticent terms that the. British officers opinion of Klagenfurt extends to All ranks. " the local austrians especially the More progressive ones who before the War hoped to build up this locality a tourist Trade have a chamber of com. Rearce attitude about the Region. The Yare Quick to Point out the natural Beauty of the Region and its Ideal accoutrements for both summer and Winter vacationing. With the Alps for Winter sports and the neighbouring Woerth Ersee and other nearby lakes for summer they say the Region has every thing that is except the c. Oliver books u recollections of Man who sensed four administrations on Active service in peace and War. By Henry l. Stimson and Mcgeorge Bundy. 698 up. Harper & Bros. New york$5. R unlike most memoirs published Oil tote the Stimson Story has not been ghosted but was written by Mcgeorge Bundy under the direction of the elder statesman. Hence Chebook has life vitality and interest. There is no attempt to make this account of the Public life of a Man who gave 43 years to the service of his country a Noble or heroic one on the contrary it is merely the tale of the difficulties an honest Man encounters in Public life. And it further tells now difficult it is to do the right thing even when the right thing to do is self Evi Dent. Hence it is not a jubilant Story. That the world Between the wars Wasa screwed up place is Best illustrated in Stimson s account of his experience a Secretary of state in the Hoover administration. At be time
