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Friday, July 25, lf,4l
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Mistake« to Be Avoided
In Summer Care of Doga
LAN Lt MAY
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INSTALLMENT 19
THE STORY SO FAR:
her father Roper conducted a series of
great raids upon Thorpe's vast herds.
Aral tn Texas, then in Montana
Jody
was deeply shaken when Marquita. a
saloon hostess, convincingly explained
that Roper loved Marquita. and not her
Relieving that her love waa unanswered
Dusty King and Lew Gordon had built
up a vast string of ranches. King was
killed by his powerful and unscrupulous
competitor. Ben Thorpe
Bill Roper.
King s adopted son. was determined to
avenge his death in spite of the opposi­
tion of his sweetheart. Jody Gordon, and
•
Jody Irft the man she loved. Lew Gor­
don Anally realised that Roper was right
in Aghting Thorpe and Lasham, and
went gunning for them.
Roper met
him shortly before the two gunmen ap­
peared This was the moment Roper had
been Aghtlng for during the smoky years.
Ry VIRGINIA VALE
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rHEN it was decided that
the new Garbo picture
would get under way on Fri­
day the thirteenth, the assist­ I
ant director called the cast
together to see if anybody's
superstitions would get in the
YOU'RE A NUR-CRAZY
DRAFTEE IF—
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girls went nuts over you nt home
und you never receive uny boxes of
cuts.
2.
You think you're the "big
boss" us soon us you become the
First Sergeant.
3. You sturt forgetting whut de­
tails you jvere supposed to flnlsli be­
fore you're hulf sturted.
4
You believe the only-girl-in-
the-world when she suys she's stay­ Itathi, Clipping Can Be Harmful.
ing ulonc at home pining for you.
•‘I'AOG DAYS" nre corning, but
5. You're dressed in denims most
they needn't bother your
of the day und you call yourself a dog. With simple, right summer
yardbird 326 times a day und expeet
core he'll be healthy und cool ■■
it always-to fetch ■ laugh.
■ cucumber!
6
You're in the outfit three
Do not clip him, for he aheds
weeks and believe the Top Kick
hia undercout, leuving hia outer
when he says he'll get you u first
cont to protect him ugainat the
and third.
7. You arc tent corporal, und you hot sun, flics and moaquitoea.
get the idea the whole tent must Comb and brush him regularly—
but do not give him too many
bow to your whims about loud radio
baths,
us this removes the oil ha
plays and blaring news reports.
needs to keep hia coat healthy.
8. You believe old-timers when
• • •
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old. without that sultry fire to back time lagged forever as Billy Roper's
it up. "Well, that wasn't so."
pony slowly approached; it seemed
They buried Lew Gordon at Miles
"You mean—you mean to say—” to her that that slow approach was
City. That dot upon the northern 1
"Well." Marquita said, “he did characteristic of all that had hap­
way. Melvyn Douglas said that Fri­
prairie marked, in effect the far- not belong to me, not even for one pened to them—delay, and delay,
day was a lucky day for him. und
thest north reached by that great minute, in all my life. How do you while wars were fought and raids
the fact that it was
•nd dramatic upthrust of power think you would like that, in my struck in, all through those smoky
the thirteenth would
which had welled up out of Texas, place?”
years in which they had been apart
make it so much the
carving new trails, opening new vast
And yet, at last, when be stopped
"But—at the La shim camp you
better. Ruth Gor­
countries, driving herds unnum­ said—"
his horse beside her, and they looked
don, who guve up a
bered. under the name of King-Gor­
"I know I did. I would have got st each other, there was something
number of summer
don. Jody thought that her father
him if I could, in any way 1 could. between them still, as if the smoky
stock engagements
would have wanted to lie there.
years
themselves
had
built
a
wall.
I even came here because I knew
to take this one in
After that was done with. Jody he was coming here. But now I can
Bill Roper said. "Hello, Jody.
pictures,
declared
went back to Ogallala.
just as well tell you it’s hopeless, You're looking mighty well."
that she deliberate­
All through the spring news kept and I'm through. After all. I don't
Jody said. "I'm all right.”
ly walks under lad­
trickling in. A swift bankruptcy need to run after any man; not any
There was a pause, curiously awk­
ders. and loves
was sweeping Thorpe's loosely more.”
ward; in the pause, Jody's horse
black cats. Roland
grouped organizations. Wiped out of
Young said that
"You mean—you're w-illing to let struck at the cinch with a hind foot,
Greta
Garbo
Texas by the so-called Rustlers' him go—even if—"
tormented by an early fly.
he'd bring along
War, broken in the north by the
"Let him go? I never had him.”
one of his china penguins, to break
“You didn't come to see me,”
Great Raid—the shaken power of An odd edge of contempt came into
j the evil spell of the jinx. As for
Jody said.
Ben Thorpe crumbled fast, now that Marquita's voice, but whether for
Miss Garbo, she said nothing- just
"Well,” Bill Roper said slowly—"I
Thorpe himself was dead. A once Jody or herself was not plain. “Can't
showed up on time.
didn't know if you'd want me to."
unbeatable organization, powerful you get that through your head?"
"Don't you know that you're half
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from border to border, was going She turned toward the door impa­
of King-Gordon? And I'm the other
Janet Blair used to be the fea­
down tn such utter debacle as no tiently.
half.”
tured vocalist with the late Hal
man could check.
Jody Gordon supposed that she
"Jody—people like you and me Kemp's orchestra; now she has •
And as Thorpe's power vanished ought to thank Marquita for having
can't go by things like that—things Columbia contract and one of the
into the gunsmoke in which he had come here, for having made the con­
top feminine roles in "Three Girls
i like legacies and will»."
died, a strange new prestige began fession which she had made, but
Jody's voice was very quiet, yet About Town." She'll play the young­
to attach itself to the name of the she was confused, and the words
er sister of Joan Biondell.
man who had destroyed him. Only would not come. Instead she said. it must have seemed to Bill Roper
CAKE FOR YOUR DOG.
that
she
cried
out
"You're
going
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• little while ago Bill Roper had been "Do you know where he Is? Is he
LINEN ON DUTY
to leave me to carry all this, just
Nam»
David Niven not only went back
an outlaw, a hunted man with a well? Is be safe and all right?”
("It is not enough for us merely to
by myself?"
Address
to England to serve his country, but
price on his head, in whose behalf
Marquita's smile was mocking.
trim
the wick and polish the glass in
"Lew
Gordon
left
a
sound
organi
­
he's been made a
few men ever dared speak a good "You want me to find him and send
the lamp of victory."—President
zation,” Bill Roper said, his voice major. Bing Crosby
word.
But now that his enemies him to you?”
Roosevelt.)
dead.
“
You
have
many
men,
and
had
■
letter
from
were down, it seemed that the whole
"I think." Jody said, "he'll good men, too. The works will roll.
With the lamp on the floor
him in which he
length of the Long Trail held men come."
'Neath a volley of bricks.
I think, with Thorpe gone."
mentioned the pro­
who professed themselves his life­
mi? sllrt t lh< Ifoart
"Okay,” Marquita said, and she
Let no man offer help
long,
strangely
Once
more
the
Hu trap»*! la IM •UMttaaà or gull« mag act !lh» •
motion.
He
heads
a
long friends. Like coyotes after a pulled open the doer.
hair Ulggor un th« boari. Al 11 m OrM alfn at 41«tr«M
As
a
trimmer
of
wicks.
poignant
silence,
And
to
Jody
it
■Mart awn ami «.. nma .tepeaj «a Hall ana Tablais to
squadron of defense
killing, like worms after rain, Bill
"I want to tell you something,"
gag h«a No la«a<l»» hot ma.te af ite !•*••<-
Roper partisans were rising up, a Jody said. “1 want to tell you I ap­ seemed a terrible thing that what troops which is sta­
they
both
wanted
was
the
same
With
the
light
almost
out
tioned on the Eng­
score here, a hundred there, where preciate—your letting me know—”
thing, and that yet the smoky years lish coast opposite
And the oil low. alas!
not one friend had been, during those
Marquita flashed a queer, hard
Would you bellow, "One side!
smoky hours of his greatest need. smile; there was bitterness in it. somehow managed to stand be­ France. In his let­
When Men Want
Lemme polish the glass!'*?
ter he said that no
Already men were less ready to re­ more bitterness in her smile than in tween.
Men will not bend their wits to
Jody Gordon turned away from less than 20 invad­
member what weapons he had used her words. "Keep your thanks to
examine whether things where­
Bill Roper, and faced Dusty King's ing Nazi bombing
in fighting fire with fire than to re­ yourself.” Then she was gone.
David Niven
with they have been nccustomcd
When a swimmer yells “Help!**
member simply that he bad won.
AfteT a moment Jody heard the cross, clean-limbed and slender, planes had been
be good or evil.—Hooker.
With his chances quite slim,
Three governors had issued blanket hoofs of a team, and the wheels of and there was something in her face knocked down above his sector the
Would you toss him a book
pardons for what he might or might the carriage in which Marquita had that was enduring. It was the face previous night.
On "The Right Way to Swim"?
not have done. He could have had come—and gone—slicing the deep of a woman who turned to the future
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without trace of doubt or fear; and
almost any position he wanted near mud . . .
The March of Time’s newest re­
she was the loveliest thing that Bill
the top of any one of three or four
Yet, Bill Roper did not come.
lease. "New England's Eight Mil­ If he slips 'neath a wave
of the great cattle companies. He
And there isn't much hope.
When two days had passed a pan­ Roper would ever see . . .
lion Yankees," shows how the six
"Jody." Bill Roper said uncertain-
could have had almost anything he ic caught Jody Gordon, and she be­
northeastern states are making Would you cry, ‘‘Your address! —
wanted, then.
I will mail you a rope!'*?
gan to haunt the vicinity of Dusty ly. "I want to tell you something, themselves invasion-proof. It is the
• • •
But Bill Roper—where was he? King's cross. She believed that Rop­ Other men wiU have to fight other first of a series of regional films,
Nobody seemed to know. His own er would not leave the Ogallala wars; but my part of all that is fin- and will be followed by releases on When a man's on a raft
As the sharks near him swish
raiders—Tex Long, Hat Crick Tom­ country without visiting once more ished. I’m not sorry my gun is the Midwest, Texas, and other sec­
hung up. I hope it's hung up tor-
Do you think it's enough
my, Dave Shannon—now swagger­ the grave of Dusty King.
tions of the country.
To denounce all such Ash?
But it was the evening of the ever. Once I thought that when
ing wherever they pleased amid a
Merit and Luck
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Thorpe was smashed, my work
curious acclaim, did not know. And fourth day, before Roper came.
Our merit wins the esteem of
Penny Singleton, who's
been
would be through—but now I see
if Dry Camp Pierce, that one most
To be brief, in a war
honest men, nnd our lucky star
it's only begun. I think we're going "Blondie” on the screen and on the
CHAPTER XXVII
trusted of all Bill Roper's men. knew
Such as this frightful one.
that of the public.—La Rochefou­
•ir
for
so
long,
is
hard
al
work
now
to build something pretty fine, if
where his leader was, be held his
Are you just one who says
cauld.
In her first film muslcsl. It’s called
Sitting her quiet pony beside Dusty you'll stay by me.”
tongue.
"Something OUGHT to be done!"?
• • •
Jody smiled a tittle. Without tak­ "Cowboy Joe” temporarily, and
Jody Gordon was making every King's pile of stone. Jody Gordon
Glenn Ford plays opposite her.
Add similes: as unwelcome as an
effort to find out Bill Roper's where­ saw Roper riding toward her when ing her eyes from the cross ahe
be was still a long way oft. Roper reached her hand toward him, and She'd made a name for herself as a Invitation to come to Berchtesgaden
abouts.
singer and dancer on the Broadway
• • •
The weeks passed, and the Dew was not alone. Beside him rode a took his.
stage before she went to Hollywood,
"All
the
anger
and
the
hate
has
little
grasshoppery
figure
in
disrepu
­
grass came on the prairie, and still
WHY
IN IT—
snd her nine "Blondie” comedies
there was no word. Two or three table clothes which Jody recognized gone out of me.” Roper said; ' ‘and
That there seem to be more left­
have
made
one
for
her
in
Hollywood.
times a week, after the first spring as that of Dry Camp Pierce. Some­ if you can only some day under­
HEED THIS AOVICE11
handed eaters in cafeterias than in
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flowers began to show, Jody Gordon how Dry Camp Lad managed to re­ stand that my riding with the wild
other restaurants?
Thousands of women
urn helped to go «1,111-
The office of Heinrich Himmler,
rode out to the pile of stone with join his chief when the others could bunch was—was what I had to do—"
• • •
Ing thru distress pecul-
He fumbled for words, and chief of Nazi SS men. is as authen­
its wooden cross that marked Dusty not. It was typical of Dry Camp
K
Jay lnr to women -canned
That,
if
she
has
a
dog
and
you
tic a reproduction in Warner Bros.’
V
i
br tain In-riod In life •
King's grave, putting there little that he was riding beside Bill Roper stopped.
”, -gg
with Lydia K. Plnk-
“Give me your knife," Jody said. "Underground" as following actual have a dog. you can speak to a
handfuls of blue Indian hyacinth and now; would always be typical, so
lium's Veiretahle Com-
strange
girl
without
offense?
“My—my what?”
long as both of them should live.
photographs could make it Himm­
▲
pound —famous for
white anemone.
over 00 years. Pinkham's Compound
The two riders hesitated at the
She turned, and herself drew his ler does not permit photos of his of­
And then suddenly one day as she
— made especially /or women —hoe
That
the
coffee
at
breakfast
al
­
Roper said skinning knife from the sheath at fice to be released; however, Kurt
helped thr/uMndr to relieve such
sat her horse before Dusty King's five hundred yards.
ways seems to be better than the
weak, nervous feelings due to this
cross she knew that Bill Roper was something to Dry Camp Pierce and his belt. Then she stepped to the Schmidt, technical adviser on "Un­
^uncUona^Uturd»n«^Tn^tl^
derground,” made some when he coffee at supper and that the scram­
•live, that he was near, that he had after a moment or two Dry Camp ground.
"In justice," Jody said; “in jus- was in favor with the SS head, and bled eggs at supper seem to be bet­
come. The notch that she had seen turned his horse and went back.
smuggled them out of the country ter than the scrambled eggs at
Bill Roper cut in the arm of Dusty's Bill Roper came on alone. Perhaps tice, and in memory of courage ”
Joyous Children
be
feared
this
meeting
more
than
With
her
own
hands
she
cut
the
when
he escaped two years ago. breakfast?
cross to mark the death of Cleve
—Gardiner S. Dresser.
The house without children Is a
anything
he
had
ridden
into
yet
—
but
third
notch
upon
the
cross,
deep
and
The
film
shows
Himmler's
dreaded
Tanner was well weathered by this
• • •
cemetery.
clean.
office for the first time.
time; but now, sharp and freshly she knew he would not turn.
It
seemed
to
Jody
Gordon
that
[THE
END)
Toto,
the
gorilla
that
has
be
­
cut in the opposite arm of the cross,
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come the mate of tiargantua, is
was a second notch that bad never
Bob Hope, who soared to film pop­
now with the Ringling circus.
been there before.
ularity with the song "Thanks for
It's an even bet that both goril­
A choking lump rose instantane­
the Memory,” will have another op­
las spend most of the time look­
ously in Jody's throat, and she spun
portunity to warble an outstanding
ing at each other and thinking,
her pony in its tracks as instinctive­
number, when he sings "You Can’t
“1 hope I never get to look as
Help Them Cleanse the Blood
ly her eyes swept the plain and the
Brush Me Off" in "Louisiana Pur­
terrible as that.”
of Harmful Body Waste
low hills. So freshly cut was the
chase,” which Paramount will pro­
Your kidneys are constantly Altering
Probably
the
Ringling
outfit
new notch upon the cross that it
duce.
Lately he's been content
aula matter from th» blood atrsam. flut
is now wondering about the old
kidneys sometime» lag In thalr work—do
seemed Bill Roper must still be no
merely to be one of the funniest men
not
act ns Nature Intended—fall to re­
adage that two gorillas can live
more than a few minutes away.
on the screen. His "Caught in the
move Impurities that. If retained, may
as cheap as one.
nion the aystam and upset the whole
In the clear light of the late after­
Draft” is hilarious, though the script
• • •
y machinery.
noon she could make out every detail
writers dug up some of the oldest
Symptoms may be nagging barkaehe.
William McChesney Martin, youth­
persistent
head a-he, attacks of dlulnasa,
of the rambling little town of Ogal­
jokes in existence for It. Eddie
gelling up nights, swelling, puffiness
ful head of the New York Stock ex­
lala, but nowhere was there to be
Bracken hangs up a few laurels for
under the »yes—a feeling of nervous
change, has been culled by his draft
analety and loaa of pep and strength.
seen any horseman. She turned her
himself in this one too.
Other signa of kidney or bladder dis­
board.
Any training tor war that
pony and rode home with a strange,
order are sometimes burning, scanty or
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he
will
get
in
camp
will
be
super
­
too frequent urination.
empty, gone feeling, because tor a
There should be no doubt that prompt
With the exception of a few minor ficial compared with what he has
■
moment Bill Roper had seemed so
treatment la wiser than neglect. I lea
weekly cast additions, all the regu­ gone through as head of the ex­
Doan'»
Bill». Doan'» have b»en winning
near and now was nowhere in sight.
new friends for more than forty years.
lar roles on the new "Hap Hazard" change.
They have a nation-wide reputation.
When she had unsaddled she went
radio series, the summer replace­
Are recommended by grateful people th»
into the tall white house by the back
country over. A at your rwighior/
ment tor "Fibber McGee and Mol­
What Elmer Twitchell wants to
way, and walked through it slowly,
ly,” have been assigned. It stars know is whether Mr. Martin is going
preoccupied, wondering what she
Ransom Sherman, and features the into the i army for the long pull or
should do.
singing of Edna O'Dell and Billy a quick turnover.
Then, as she came into the front
Mills' orchestra. Nqwadays people
e e e
room, her hand jumped to her
in radio have begun to take these
The Louvain library, restored
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throat, for someone was waiting for
summer replacement shows seri­
largely by America after the Ger-
her there—a woman who stood up
ously. The "Blondie” program start­
mans destroyed it in the last war,
■s Jody came in.
ed as one three years ago—now it
was again wrecked by the Germans
For a moment Jody Gordon hard­
tops all CBS half-hour shows in pop­
in this war, it develops. It seems
ly recognized Marquita. Only a lit­
according
to
the
latest
ularity,
the Nazis couldn't bear the report
tle time had passed since they had
Crosley report.
that there was a book in it.
faced each other in a remote cabin
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see
set in Montana snows, yet Marquita
ODDS AND ENDS—Ona M union
• Like • beacon light on
looked unmistakably older; and the
APPEAL
wound up work in "Wild Geese Call-
live, sultry fire behind her dark,
the height — the advertise­
ing” at 20th Century-Eox, got a vaca­ Life is real, life is earnest,
slanting eyes was gone.
tion from radio uhen Eduard G. Roh- So away with all pretence!
ments in newspapers direct
CHAPTER XXVI
INDIGESTION
/MIDDLE-AGE^
WOMEN [
Watch Your
____ Kidneys/
HANDMADE
The Maguires, a lovable, modern American
family, met the Depression head-on. It
wrought havoc in their lives, but they found
more than one rainbow after the storm had
blown over.
D oans P ills
Here is a story of American youth of today
whose security is menaced by economic up­
heaval, and of a mother who guided her
family to happiness against all odds.
"I lied to you,” Marquita said at
last 'Tm not sorry for that. I'd
lie to you again, for the same rea­
son, or for less reason. But this
time ft didn’t do any good. So I
thought I might as well tell you.”
"You lied to me?”
“I told you I was Bill Roper's
girl. You naturally thought 1 was
at Walk Lasham's camp because
Bill Roper was there.” Marquita's
voice sounded curiously metallic and
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BEACONS of
—SAFETY—
inion'» “Big Town” »how left the air
for the lummer, and headed for Santa
Barbara and a rail . . . Huth Hurney
and Robert Young will be teamed in
“Married Bachelor»,” a romedy of a
young married couple who are alway»
ju»t two jump» ahead of the iheriff . , .
Jane Wyatt hat the feminine lead op po­
lite Dennii O'Keefe in RKO’i “Week
End for Three” . . . Myrna Loy and
William Bowel I will be at it again be­
fore long, in “The Shadow of the Thin
Man."
come! Let’s cut out playing marbles
And speed up with that defense!
—B. A. S.
* • •
In occupied countries the Nazis are
rationing dogs, but word comes
from Belgium that this applies only
to dogs that can be shown to have
German blood. A smart dog over
there is one that knows enough to
goose-step to his meals.
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