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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1940)
Thursday, June 13, , Henry t YESTERDAY; Unknown to Jiin. Johnny Benton decldns that she will be his wife. Derek Accepts tile fishing barge Job al though he declares that work ll a nuisance. t POSTAL UNIOr WE TELEGRAPH FLOWERS Chapter IB Two Mothers "Of course there Is. The women who seem exceptions are usually women who, by temperament, were never Intended to be mothers. If you bothered to study the subject, you'd find Just as many exceptions in the animal world." She wanted to ask him of his own mother, his childhood, but she could not ask, remembering: "Women and their hateful curiosity!" They walked in silence along the beach front, the climbing sun warm on their faces. Still unspeaklng, Derek started out over the sand, taking her along with him. Paus ing at the uneven mark left by high tide he drew her down beside him on the deep warm sand. "Work is a nuisance," he mused S out loud. "It keeps people from K doing everything interesting In ' life." . "Such as?" "Baking in a sun like this. Dream ing. Greediness for money causes every trouble in the world. If I may repeat a trite truth. Most of the world endures labor and strug gle and poverty so that the remain der have riches!" "Couldn't you do better on a oapbox?" site asked. "Is the pros pect of working so terrible, or am I the bloated plutocrat who will loll in luxury from the sweat of your brow? Most people find work a necessity to peace of mind and body." "They are obliged to," he said with strange vehemence. "They scurry and hurry and worry to make money and if, by the time they amass some, they aren't dead, they're too entrenched in the habit " of work to enjoy Idling. Therefore work seems pleasant to them; idling unpleasant." A grin broke through ?iie cloud on his face. "Don't worry, 1 11 take the Job. I bet I'll make a swell fisherman I" "If you don't start baiting old Cap Tupple instead of the fish!" "On my honor." She stirred uneasily, disturbed by his closeness, his young vehemence. "I've a lot to do at home," she excused, springing up. "Stay here If you like." "I like," he agreed, his teeth shining white against his tan skin. Leaving him she trudged on, pausing at the edge of the sidewalk to empty the sand out of her san dals, to look back at him. He lay prone on the beach, his arms crossed behind his glittering red head, his long length relaxed as a basking animal. Again she won dered why he had asked that about her mother. Ellen Merrlner. Jan could remember so much, almost , too much. She had been sixteen when Ellen would go with him on this final voyage. Ellen, still pretty, IsMll adoring her husband after thirty married years, had been so happy to think that at last she would wrest her husband from her rival, the sea. Peter's wife had been a quiet lit. tie school teacher. She had been swept off her feet by big, handsome Peter Merrlner, then a second mate on an ocean liner. Her tempera. ment, thankfully, did not permit too much restless unhapplness while she waited long weeks for a ship to dock. Lance and Jan had helped, too, although Ellen laughed to Peter, they were mucn more nis children than hers. They were noisy adventurous youngsters with headstrong wills of their own. El len, trying to understand them, not able to. Just loved. It was she who patiently taught them appre elation of poetry, of music, of art and literature. Some day, Jan thought, maybe I'll tell Derek more about my mother. Derek, lazily sunning, was think v Ing of his mother, so brittle, so gay ever striving to be young, to b beautiful, to forget her grown son He could not, even now, remember. 1940 , By ': T1'- kjnEPuiuKi'sVniiKiif. (n't'. WMn(M rwnJ. ' ''' "-' W3 TIDE her without bitterness. The last he'd heard she was the Countess Von Lurwlte. Her third, or was It fourth, marriage? He had seen her two years ago. He had not liked her. For years she had used him as a pawn to get more money from his father. But at fifteen, an Im pressionable and lonely age, he hadn't known he was a pawn and he had been pleased and happy when she took him from Eton to her villa at Cannes for the summer. "My son," she would say to peo ple. "A little boy, really, In spite of that gangly awkward length of his. I was such a child when he arrived!" Painting Critic Derek's motlier had kept him Just long enough to extract a sub stantial settlement from Gregory Knowles, then shipped him back to Eton, a boy disillusioned, embittered from seeing tilings he should not have seen; a sensitive lad, too In trospectlve, turning with all the zealous starved fervor of his emo tional nature to music. At eighteen his father took him to New York to live with his step mother, a charming, quiet woman who was good to him. Trouble came. Loyal to his stepmother, hating violently his father's new found love, a sleek young actress, he stayed on with the second Mrs. Knowles until, inadvertently, he learned that she, too, was using him as a pawn. At nineteen he demanded to go abroad to study; his accusing, vio lent dark eyes meeting his father's. He listened to copybook maxims, to fumbling words of attempted ex planation and reconciliation, took his letter of credit and sailed alone. But he could not escape being Derek Knowles, heir to a huge for tune, ncn in his own right, at twen. ty-one, from a legacy of his paternal grandmother, He was news. He was the son of Gregory Knowles, financier, capitalist. Girls clutched at him, fawned over him, pursued mm. At twenty-one he was a cynic about women. Until ho met Lenore Page. "Nuts!" aid Derek, sitting up on the sand. "Jan's right. It's a lot of fun to feel sorry for yourself.' About now, he thought, his fath er would be hearing from his law yers that his son and only heir was well on his way to China. "Might as well be," Derek re fleeted. "I'll never run Into any one I know down here. I'm safe enough. Safe from Lenore and Lea and all their kind. I like It. I'm going to stay." He chuckled to himself over the fact of Jan hunting him a Job. He'd never worked for anyone In his life, except his music professsors; never earned a penny of his own. It would be novel, at least. Cer tainly, today, he was In no mood to cast himself Into the water. He wondered if a great deal of money would spoil Jan. His smile soured. He had no wish to find out. She tolerated him; pitied him. probably; would In all likelihood try to manage him as she did Lance and her house; but he had no intention of letting her know who he was or how rich he was. He'd try to earn enough money to pay for hLs food and the rest of the time, well, the hot sun was pleasant. Tomorrow? It never comes. When Jan heard the trap door lifted she knew It was Derek. No one else would venture up here to disturb her solitude. She didn't want him here; didn't want him to see the quite lovely sweep of beach and sky she had Just sketched and painted with water colors. Yet she sensed his coming here was somehow inevitable. "I've come to bare your soul," he announced, striding toward her. a grin on his arrogant face. "You owe It to me after yesterday. I should have left that piano alone. I knew better, but let me see your canvases." Because the day was really warm, Carl Anderson ' ' ( J) Carl " Anderson she had come up here In brief shorts and sun halter. As she kneeled down to take a half-dozen carefully-wrapped pictures from the locker she felt Derek's eyes on her. You have a lovely figure," he commented casually. "Not an ounce of fat on you." "It must be the Melba Toast and grapefruit diet or maybe the rowing machine in the attic which I never use." After all, what Is an attic with out a rowing machine? And fam ily skeletons." "No skeletons," she assured him. At least, not Merrlner skeletons. Not yet, anyhow." To be continued. Radio Programs KSLM 1300 Kilocycles Friday P. M. 8:00 Raymond Oram Bwlni. 6:30 John B. Hughes. 7:00 Panlnft the Past, 7:15 This Is Magic, 7:30 Lone RanKcr, 8:00 News. 8:30 Leon Molcia'u Orch. 9:00 Newspaper of the Air. 0:15 Ed Fltzpn trick's Orch. 9:30 Fulton Lewis, Jr. 9:45 Amer. Leu Ion Fights. 11:00 News. 11:15 Gun Arnhelm'e Orch. 11:30 Buddy Mftlevllle's Orch. 11:46 Midnlsht Melodies. KSLM 1360 Kilocycle Saturday A. M, 6:30 Milkman's Melodies, 7:30 News. 8:00 Dick Barrle's Oreh. 8 :30 News. 8:45 Jeno Bartol'l Orch. 9:00 Pastor's Call. 9:15 Western a ires. 9:30 McFarland Twins. 10:00 News. 10:30 Hits of Seasons Past, 10:45 Ted Fio Rlto's Orch, 11:00 To Be Announced, 11:45 Value Parade. 12:15 News. 12:30 Hillbilly Serenade. 12:35 Willamette Valley opinions. 1:15 Interesting Facts. 1 :30 Hollywood Buckaroos. 3:00 Hiiro Monaco's Orch. 2:30 Slnfonletta. 3:00 For the Children. 3:30 Buddy Mnlvellle's Orch. 4:00 News. 4:40 Ed Fltapatrlck's Orch. 6:00 Hawaii Calls. 5:30 Mozart Opera Series, KOIN f)40 Kllocyclea Friday P. M. 8:00 Louis Johnson. Ast. Sec. of Wat. 6:30 Al Pearce'a Oanir. CBS, 7:00 Amoa 'n Andy, CBS. 7:15 Lanny Ross. CBS. 7:30 Johnny Presents. CBS. 8:00 Kate Smith, CBS. 8:55 The Beauty Explorer, CBS. 9:00 Paul Sullivan Reviews News, CBS. 9:15 Fishlns Bulletin. 9:30 Red Nichols Orch.. CBS. 9:45 Ton In nt's Best Buys. 10:00 Five Star Final. 10:15 Kay Kyser Orch.. CBS. 10:30 Orchestra, to CBS. 11:00 Ray Noble Orch.. CBS. 11:30 Manny Strand Orah., CBS 11:55 News, CBS. KOrN 9(0 Kltoeyeles Saturday A. M. 8:00 Market Reports. 6:05 KOIN WlocX. 7:15 Headliners. 7:30 Studio. 7:45 consumer News. 8:00 Country Journal. CBS. 8:30 Let's Tretend, CBS. 9:00 Instrumentalists, CBS. 9:15 Highways to Health, CBS. 9:80 CBS. 9:45 Southern Baptist Church, CB, 10:00 Hello Again. 10:15 Baron Elliott's Melodies. CBS, 11:00 U. 8. Marine Band, CBS. 11:30 CBS News, 11:35 Old Vienna, CBS. 11:45 Novelteers, CBS 17:00 Bull Session, CBS. 13:30 News. 13:45 Buffalo Presents. CBS 1:00 Eddie Duchln Orch.. CBS. 1:30 Human Adventure, CBS. 3:00 N"w.V CBS. 3:05 AlbTt Warner. Commentator, CBS. 2:15 Onran Mlodis, CBS. 2:30 Nan Wynn. Bonis, CBS. 3:45 The World Today, CBS. I : I . , rLi I I A MAN LEARNS A LOT LIVING M I WOMEN ARE THE MOS Tm 76 vSJ alone, nowis urrortj L -rt innAfMi l J i rstkj'v i uc J LirAJ -rr TEA MAKES THE l3Tl ii m wiw 1 II I I I TkJC TEA Uf- 1 f Mfllll- U-W I nr: j i - j , i-rw i ill I l critters! J ays A SEETjr".SVl aK ZX7-rrZ OT I 7 in ru ruANAPl 1 MP YOU'VE fj CAN'T AFFORD ' 7 S '' pi YsttJ The Capital Journal, Salem,' Oregon 3:rtOPopleit Platform. CHS. 3:30 Newspaper ot llir Air. 4:00 Colunihln Snorts BroHdstrte. CBS. 4:30 Ore son Ian Frd. MiiMc Clubs, CBS. 4:HS niunnba Matinee, CBS. 4:55 Now. CBS. S;00 Kld'fi Qulzeroo. CBS. 6:30 Clark Ross. CBS. 6:45 Saturday Night Serennde, CBS. ROW ni( Kllorycle Friday I. M. 6:00 Don Amcche Snow, nhd. 6:30 Htnry Behind the Hf utilities. NBC. 6:45 lluniun Nature In Action. NBC. 7:00 Fred Wdrinii Pleasure Tim. NBC. 7:1S Ednewater Orch., NBC. 7:30 Shnivbnat. NBC. 8:00 Lincoln Orrh., NBC, 8:15 Armchair Cruises. 8:30 Death Valley Days. NBC. 9:00 Freddie Ebrnrr Orch., NBO, 9:13 University Explorer, NBC. 9:30 Orchestra. 10:00 News Flashes, NBC. 10:15 Gltnn Shelley. Organist, 10:30 St. Francis Orch., NBC. 11:00 Oreftonlan Npws. 11 MS Drake Orch.. NBC. 1 :30 Olympic Orch., NBO ROW fl-JO Kllnryrlf Saturday A. M. 6:30 Sunrise Serenade. 7'00 OrcBonian News. 7:15 Oresonlnn Trail Blazers. 7:45 6am Hayes. NBC. Little Orphan Annie r WHAT? WHAT? YES? WHO IS THI6? HOW DO YOU KNOW f Ybtt- ALL RVQHT- Reg'lar Fellers HAVIM1 ANY LUClA ( IT'S FOOLISH TO WASTED ?5k ''MMk M -v- V TV6 HOURS AN' NOT X V ANY MORE TIME COME J jAjf 3 u sWMiM The Gumps " '. By Gus Edson Will Love Conquer? PREENC6 CHARMEENCi- f Wffl ET,,,.,,,. MiiNtlllgff A M. -y OVJN- Kgg . 1 r U EEF I ONLY WAb KMONMN 1 118 452 LjAV lMMZZ TELL ME THAT W 1 " AB.OUT TOUR eENOURT, ff f 1 llPllllfllllip YOU LCN6 ME. frnn Tun -mi" " A I WOULBHAVECOWE , iW FROM ME-E6T fCji S X vjlc ' " " 1 Tail-spin omy Ha ommy Breaks Ilia Silence I TAKES TO NEW YORK ?- f ' HBRE... ' NOW. I EL I MUST IF I TIXY TO STOP THEIR. YOUR.S UPSET. JON.... TOO I 1 l Tl 1 -yT V TELt YOU EVlRYTHINOl DE ADLY ROBOT PU A N 6 S MNT TEST-HOPS WITHOUT 1 .)!, U 1 CHIEF ALOSt r k. BUT I'M OOINO TO' A LtT-UP.. WE'LL HNVE TO I J - "1AB THAT RISK. NOW ' Mutt and Jeff By Bud Fisher I'lumThis to theTune of "Hands Across tlie'alilc!" mutt, you're a no but, your I . ( she has no right to ) mV 6oodness, mrvj cp Af id have A 600D! I'M RECEIVING HONOR 1 1 COMPLAIN! 1 DIDN'T -s T DIDN'T KNOW ( ( t'm L. .- I LET GO SHE I COMPLAINTS FP.OM ) ain't DONE V 00 ANYTHING! YESTERDAY y00 WAS SO 1 ' I . . WOULD HAVE i YOUR WIFE AGAIN! OTHI N'' J I SAT AND HELD HER , ROMANTIC! I NOT- KILLED M! 8:00 strings That Sing. NBO. 8 15 Nature Sketches. NBC. 8:10 Call to Yoillh. NBC. 8:45 Pfaender nnd Mtlcs. Pianists, HBC. 9;fi0 Lincoln Highway. NBC. 9:30 Matinee In Rhythm, NBO. 10:001 Am an American. NBC. 10:15 Netherland Orel... NBC. 10:30 NBC. ll:oo Stars of Tomorrow. 13:00 Golden Melodies. NBC. 12:30 Boy. Girl and Band, NBO. l:00-rAstor Orch.. NCB. 3:00 El Chlco Spanish Revue, NBO, 2:25 Associated Press News, NHC. 2:30 RellBton in the News, NBC. 2:45 Marie Briscoe, NBC. 3:00 Tropica I Moods, 3:15 Oregonlan News. 3:30 Ambnssador Orch., NBO. 3:45 H. V. Kaltenborn, NCB. 4:00 Drama. NBC. 4:30 Glen Island Casino Orch., NBO. 5:00 NBC. 5:30 Paul Carson. Organist, NBC. KFX 1160 Kilocycles Friday P. 51. 6;00 NBC. 6:30 Biltmore Orch., NBo. 7:00 McAlpln Orch., NBC. 7:30 Thin A mail tin America, NBC. 8:00 Orccontan News. 8:15 Southland Restaurant Orch., NBC. 8:25 Diamond Dust, 8:3n Baseball. 10:l!i Ambassador Orch., NBC. 1 If THttTS ODD- WOULDN'T If SAYS TO STAND BY-f MAYBE 1 ANNIE6 LETTERS- , V s J I 3 I QIVE HIS NAME- SAYS 1 91 HE'LL GIVE US TIME I NOT- MO I I NEVER ABLE TO TRACE 1 l 4 8 I HE KNOWS WHERE , S I AND PLACE LATER- HARM 1 I THEM BUT SHE SAYS Bft IS XTfaW jJI I ANNIE IQ-THAT HER iMwJS I TO HAVE POLICE A IN WAITING I I SHE'S COMVHG HOME taM KIDNAPERS ARE MOV1MQ KM READY TO ACT- ffl .TO SEE. i 1 ANY DAY NOW O. K W 10:30 Bil Tabarln Oreh., KBO. 10:55 Dog Race Results. 11:00 This Mnvlnu World. NBO. 11:15 Portland Police Reports. 11:18 Bill Snbrmiky, Organist, NBO. 13:00 Midnight War News Roundup. K EX 11(10 Kilocycles Saturday A. 51. 6:30 Musical Clock. 7:00 Irving Miller Orch., NBO 7:30 Dr. Brock. 8:00 NBC. 8:30 National Farm and Home, NBC. 9,30 Luncheon at the Waldorf, NBO. 10:00 Oregoulan News, 10:15 It's a Woman's World, 10:30 Oregonlan Home Institute. 10:45 Merry Music. NBC. 11:00 Ed East's Piano Lessons. 11:15 Arcadia Ballroom Orch., NBC. 11:30 Sherman Orch.. NBC. 12:00 Club Matinee. NBC. 12 :30 OrcKonian News. 12:45 Market Reports. 12:50 Organ Reveries. 1:00 The Brook Orch., NBC. 1:30 Rhythms by Rlcardo, NBO. 3:00 Curbstone Quiz. 2:18 AI Donohuc'a Orch.. NBC. 2 :25 Associated Press News, NBC. 3:30 Renfrew of the Mounted. NBC. 3:00 Message of Israel. NBC. 3:30 Rltz Carlton Orch., NBC. 4:00 Country Club Orch., NBC. 4:30 Radio Guild, NBC. 5:00 National Barn Dance, NBC By Harold Gray ir By Gene Byrnes BOSH.' TELL MAPTUA IS ECONOMICAL.' ITS FLAVOR MAKES IT SO WHY, LIPTON'S COSTS WW HALF A CINT A SLASS. KOAC 550 Kilocycle Friday P. M. 6:00 Dinner Concert 6:15 United Press News, 6:30 Farm Hour. 6:45 Mamet and Crop Reports; Weather Forecast. 7:00 1-H Clubs. Wallowa. mamaih. Grant Counties: Play, City of Port land. "4-H Triumphs." 7:45 Music of the Masters, S : I fi The Business Hour. 0:00 Oregon on Parade. KOAC AR0 Kilocycles Saturday A. M. 9:00 Today's Programs. 9 '03 Homemakers' Hour. 10:00 Weather Forecast. 10:01 Music. 1015 Eves of the Hollywood. 10:30 Music of thft Masters. 11:30 What Educators Are Doing. 11:45 Music. 12:00 United Press News. 12:15 Farm Hour. 12:30 Market and crop Reports; weather Forecast. 1:00 Music. 1:15 Varlely. 1:45 Music. 2:00 4-H Club Assembly. 3C0 Mu.ifc. 3:15 Facta and Affairs, 3:30 Music. 3:45 Monitor Views the News. 4:00 The Symphonic Half Hour. 4:30 Stories lor Boys and airls. 5:00 Music. UPTON 3 6R&N0, FULL FURTHER. A Kti WYS LATER... U( I'M MI6MTY GLAD TOM TaP VOU --V ABOUT LIPTON'S? I'M G0IN3 MARTHA, M SURE OLADV-r OPt"" vou switched to J l i;V JHf LIPTON'S TEA? IT'S f VvJTTrCT 1 ''I Nine School Consolidation Program Approved Aurora It was learned by Edwin A. Wooclworth, Clackamas county school superintendent, that consoli dation of the Union Hill (near Au rora) and Canby grade school dis tricts was approved by voters of both districts. Union Hill voted 37 to 4, and all the 23 votes cast in Canby favored the merger. Petitions are to be circulated for consolidation of Canby and Union Hill, and Canby with Mundorf and Lone Elder. Election dates will be set upon completion of petitions Honor Fraternity Elects Aurora Robert Toon, graduate of Canby union high school in 1937, has been elected president of Ask lepiads for next year. Asklepiads is the pre-medics honorary fra ternity at the University of Oregon. The Voice Wilh a Guile Time for Lunch
