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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1932.
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hj JU Cleft-Ad
RVNUPSIB: Leila Cane txvectt I
Farrell Armltaot to propoet; in
staod a (ell aer h Jove Bar
bara Quentin, whom ht had
matched tram tht path of a
truck a tew hourt belort. Leila
become ally rather than enemy;
the telle Farrell that ehe euepecte
the meant by which her lather,
Mr Jamet Cane, became wealthy,
after hi two partnert, Barbara't
and Uark Loiely't tathert died
bankrupt. It wot to make good
Farrell't fortune that Quentin
and hodely bankrupted thtmeelvee
ueart before. Now tht wealthy
Farrell facet the tact that Bar
bara it tnoaged to marry tht crip
fit, Uark hodely. in live dayt.
And Uark futt hat had a bad folk
Cbapter
LEILA MAKE8 A BARGAIN
THERE ,m faintly through the
housa the sound ot a door being
opened and abut. Leila matched
up an ermine wrap.
"Let'e become anavoldablv ai
tent," the suggested, hurriedly un
latching a French window. "And
you'd better leave tomorrow, don't
you think? Father hasn't quite the
atamlna to relinquish the son-in-law
ot bl prayers without making
a grievance of It."
Armltage followed her Into the
garden. It lay dark ttd aromatic
against Its fringe of Hrs and the
autumn chill that last bitter-sweet
breath ot . ellowlng leaf and iead
flower stirred Leila's black balr
and made play with her fantastic
fringes.
"In any case," she threw at him
as they turned In the direction of
the garage, "I don't imagine that
you'll want to stay on It It's true
that Barbara and Mark are to mar
ry on Thursday."
"But she mustn't marry Lodely
on Thursday or ever. I want her
to marry me."
"Wanting her won't mean getting
her!"
"I've generally got what t want
ed, provided I've worked tor It"
"You're mad, my dear. Million
airing has turned your head. You've
bought so much so many emeralds
for so man: women that you
think you can buy Barbara."
"Going 10 help me?"
She regarded him through the
beavy shadows.
"D'you feel sure you'll get your
emerald's worth?"
"That's cheap and nasty ot you
Leila. Yon kn w well enough why
I'd like to give you something you
care about"
8he walked on. He bad to keep
close to her shoulder to bear her
words.
"All right: ril help you fall.
Don't hate me afterwards, though.
And don t forget the emerald."
"We've a good deal to be thank'
ful for," pronounced Mrs. Lodely.
"Apart from .the shakln', Mark's
none the worse. Bxceptln' In bis
temper," sht added, with the laugh
so familiar to Barbara that It was
the drat thing she expected from
Marka mother.
Neither Barbara, In ber obalr by
tb Ore, nor Mrs. Lodely, oomlng
. forward to bestride the hearth in
her mannish way, were big women:
but they gave the appearance ot
Ailing the sitting-room ot Kings
Barn. The reason lay In the room.
There were a great many small
tables and large chairs In every
eorner and on every ledge stood
brlc-a-brao, and the over-flowered
wall-paper was plastered with wa
ter-colors ot no merit or interest
whatsoever. When Mrs. Lodely
moved an arm to take her ciga
rette-case out of her pocket, she
did It gingerly. Even so, a china
ornament on the mantel-shelf rat
tled and slipped dangerously near
the edge,
Barbara smiled, but It was a dull
ful smile. She had never In all
the years of her love and pity for
Hark she bad never quite made up
her mind about Mark's mother.
Sometimes she liked her Immense
ly. Sometimes no. It was Inde
finable. Mrs. Lodely couldn't, alter
all, help her loud, frequent laugh
and her eve. .istlng tweods and the
drawl that bad been "the thing
when she rode to hounds In her
girlhood. She couldn't help these
things and on the other side of the
medal, tbere was her unfaltering
courage In facing poverty and lone
liness and Mark. . . .
"You'll come and stay with us In
Toxeter as soon as ever you can?'
be asked.
"You betl My only chance ot
gettln' away from this holel What
about Christmas?"
"Oh, before then, Judy, pleasel
"It I come at Christmas 1 shall
only be glvln' you a couple ot
months to yourselves. Short
enough!"
"Why pretend that we shall bs
the average, conventional boney
mooners?" demanded Barbara, ber
Irritation returning. "Our mar
riage everything Is different
from most marriages and our lives
J.
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SANTA CLAUS. Ind Dec. ft (If)
Reappointment by President Hoover
today e! James T. Martin ss post
master In this noted village means a
continuance of servlee begun 30 years
ago.
Msrtln has been postmaster for
nearly 16 years. Prior to that he
was ssslstant postmaster. His vork
Is liqht 11 months of tbe year, but
thousands of letters and gifts are
mailed to blm prior to Christmas
for remalllrm so they will bear the
Santa Claus atamp.
Tbe postoffloe Is conducted In Mar
tin's genersl store.
- -
It takes s Chridmse Seal to make
it Christmas mall. -
$2
Barbara
AeUu -TOO UNI MAJMT-
. he different, too." She
paused. "I wonder it you both
thoroughly realize that my job
keeps me out all day, every day?"
"'Course we do!" returned Mrs.
Lodely heartily. "But Mark won't
mope for bis shabby old mother
even It he is left alone at borne.
He'll make friends. Fill the house
with 'em. You'll come back to find
em all amokln' and drlnkln' and
talking'"
"We shan't be able to afford
very much hospitality of that kind.
Judy, dear. Not at first anyway."
My dear gel, Mark naturally
won't sponge on you for things like
smokes and drinks he'll pay tor
em out of his own pocket"
"Ob, I know," agreed Barbara
hurriedly.
And In case of emergency,
thero's his legacy, the three hun
dred poundt from bis Aunt Alice."
She puffed out smoke again and
laughed. "Funny to remember 1
once paid that for a fur coat!"
Poor Judyl" At once Barbara
was filled with the passion ot pity
that Mark and bis mother could al
ways arouse In her. "Dear Judy,
lite hasn't been fair to you!"
"Ob, my dear gel, I'm not com-
plainin'l It's on you children that
plnchln' and scrapln' comes bard."
"On Mark, yes, very bard. I can
manage perfectly. But you'll see,
I'll take good care of Mark." She
made a little grimace at the bric-
a-brac "Anyway, my rooms will
be barer than these. One advan
tage of not being able to afford
much furniture!"
"Look here, Babs, If you dont
mind my sayln' so 1 believe Mark
feels It a bit when you talk about
'my rooms and 'my' Income and all
that Ot course, In theory, there's
no earthly reason why a woman
shouldn't make mere money than
a man and spend It on both of 'em,
but the way things will be with you
two, in an ol cathedral city Uks
Toxeter well, any man would feel
It Especially If he's as sensitive
as Mark. Mark'll feel It very
badly."
Barbara looked down Into the
Are. No sense In arguing with
Judy on such a subject as this.
Instead
"1 must bs more careful," she
agreed lightly, and added "I think
I'll go up to him. It's only Just
nine and he never sleeps before
midnight does he?"
"Not otten. But 1 don't know
whether he'r In a wicked mood,"
concluded Mrs. Lodely, and this
time her augh covered a distinct
Ill-ease.
"Poor Mark!" said Barbara soft
ly and lett the room.
Mrs. Lodely listened to her foot
steps on the stairs tor a moment
and then, pitching away ber ciga
rette, ant down in the empty chair
by the tire and took her close
cropped grey bead Into her hands.
It was the attitude ot despair, the
pose ot detest
But when she moved slightly and
showed her eyes to the Are and the
orowded room and the autumn eve
ning outside, they were not the
eyes of the oonquered. They were
absorbed, calculating, patient and,
withal, fundamentally stupid,
"Once they're married" ah
said aloud, checked herself with a
cautious glance round her, and tell
again Into ber reverie.
Barbara, on her way to Mark,
turned aside Into Judy's room to
borrow some powder and fun a
comb through her hair. Also, to
brace herself against the mpment
wben Mark's mood should turn Its
cruelty upon her and exhaust Itself
upon her -teadfaatness. . . .
She stood In front ot the long
glass and seriously studied herself
face, figure, hands.
Her beauty was Important to ber
because It was through her beauty
that she reached Mark. He might
be cruel, but to her bis cruelty
would always be tbe crying of the
ailing child; she bad other mem
ories of blm and while tbey ruled
he held her lite in his thin hands.
She lett Judy's room, sighing a
little, and went lightly across the
landing. On this landing tbere was
a settee with the springs bulging
out a grandfather clock that
wouldn't go and a bamboo plant
stand. Mark's room, however, was
tolerably clear.
Mark, In pajamas and dressing
gown, wss lying on n couch near
the fire. Barbara quietly took a
chair opposite him and then, fear
ing that tbe room was chilly, lifted
a log from th basket and put it
on. It was ; thick tor the small
grate and .. fell with a clatter back
on to the tire-Irons.
Mark laughed.
(Copyright. Itjt. Julia Cleft-Adiamt)
Barbara maata, tomorrow, a
heartlaaaly savare taaU
IN SECRET MEET
WASHINGTON, Dec. US. (AP)
After a week of hearings on the do
mestic allotment farm relief plan,
house agriculture committee mem
bers gathered behind closed doors to
day, to seek agreement upon a bill
for presentation to the house.
Chairman Jones said it probably
would bs "three or four days" betore
the committee would be ready to act
finally and that hearings might pos
sibly be reopened for one day If fur
ther advice were needed from egrl'
oultural Interests.
PTtEB Pioneers snu descendants
photographed without charge tot
pinnrer historical collection
SIlAMOUt STUDIO.
TATA ON FIRES
TO BE INDEXED
BY FIRE CHIEF
George stokes, deputy state fire
marshal, is In Medford assisting Fire
Chief Roy Elliott In establishing a
bureau of fire prevention for the city
in order that more accurate data
concerning tires bare might be kept
by the local department as well as
the state office.
A modern means of filing reports,
Mr. Stokes said this morning that
tbe Medford department is one of
the first in the state to establish
such a bureau. He further stated
that in cities tbrougbout tbe United
States where sucb Information is
kept on file the loss rstlo goes down
as a check can be made as to tbe
cause of "repeaters" In tbe business
and residential districts.
Chief Roy Elliott Is going back
through the city's fire records since
1023, and all reports of alarms will
be enumerated and classified under
tbe new system. Mr. Stokes ssld to
day when going over the records
that It was very seldom such neat
and accurate reports were found in
tbe towns and cities of the state.
In filing cabinets which will be
kept a white card contains the "fire
record of building," which Includes
tho location, surroundings, building
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BRINGING UP FATHER
BY COLLY- T A TERRIBLE
DAV- BUT t "TOLD DIN) TV
I'D CALL ON HIM- 0 I'LL
TAKE A CHAMCC'
construction, number of stories.
roofing, and slao owner and occu
pant. Through this section tbe
cause ot the fires can be remedied
wben classified.
- Orange cards have the "individual
tire record," and when more than
one fire Is reported by tbe person
iniormauon concerning it Is also
contained In tbe report lists the
time end location of tbe fire, owner,
occupant, value, Insurance, loss, In
surance collected, and the same data
on tbe contents of the building.
An elaborate Inspection snd fire
Investigation report Is to be filled out
by Cblet Elliott on each tire for tbe
fire marshal's office, and a confi
dential report Is made out on the
bsck of tbe pages. This psge also
provides a check on tbe Insurance
Issued for the buildings snd con
tents so that none of the property
might be overwritten.
Mr. Stokes also hsd monthly re
port blanks wblcb ere to be filled
out regularly for the city council
and tbe state fire marshal, which In
cludes the number snd cause of
alarms, the sound value, loss, Insur
ance carried and Insurance collected.
The types of risks are also Included,
and tbe report on tbe equipment
used.
England Against
Debt Arbitration
PARIS, Prance, Dec. 2J. (AP)
Oreat Britain will Informally coun
sel Prance against pursuing sn Idea
under consideration by offlclsls of
hsvlng the question of psyment of
the December Interest on the Amer
ican debt payment submitted to ar
bitration, according to diplomatic circles.
The Bandits Crave "Peace and Solitude!
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AS' BOS OUT 1 1 smarts ro6 jvurof 70 shoot r 1 oniON, bsfors ) ilw
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SYNOPSIS: A dwarf who bu vtolcn
all of Santa's keys la Imprisoned In
a cave by two dolls, Inga and Plnoc
cblo, helped by - fairies. They want
the whistle the dwarf uses to call to
gether his toads who are hiding the
keys, which he stole after the dolls
burned his sister, the witch.
Chapter XVI
Getting the Keys
Letting tbe dwarf out of his prison
was harder than locking him In. The
elves wove hundreds of ropes of long
grass and made little harnesses for
Inga's tiny donkeys. Then, they
wound the long grass ropes about the
rock and all the little donkeys pulled
hard.
Finally the rock moved a few
Inches and the dwarf squeezed out as
fast as he could.
"You're nothing but thieves!" he
cried, shaking bis fists at Inga and
Plnocchlo. He was so angry It looked
as though he were going to hurt
them. So the little elves grabbed
blm and held him.
"Now we're going to whistle and
call all these toads of yours," said
the woods fairy, "and when we do
we'll expect you to command them
to drop the keys so that these two
little dolls can take them back to
Santa."
The dwarf looked very frightened
and he agreed to do It.
So the fairy took the whistle and
blew on It three times, and up bop
ped all the little toads.
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Pnrait) Spisva let-
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and ihe
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"Drop your keys P ordered tbe
dwarf.
Tbe toads dropped them all and
Inga and Plnocchlo quickly collected
them and put them In their little
coach.
"Now what shall we do to the
dwarf?" asked the fairy.
"Maybe he's sorry," suggested Inga.
"Let me talk to blm."
She walked up to him and said:
"Don't you know that you could be
very happy If you gave up our way
of living. We have such a good time
at the toyshop. But we work all day
long at making people happy. I'm
sure Santa would give you something
to do If you promised to be good1
"Well, It does get lonesome around
here now that my sister Is gone," ad
mitted the dwarf. "Would you ask
Santa about me?"
"We'll do better than that. You
can come back with us and ask him
yourself."
"No?? we must hurry," said Plnoc
chlo. So the two dolls got Into their
little coach and amid loud cheers
from everybody, they were off with
the dwarf riding In the high coach
man's seat. t
It wasnt long before tbe dolls
again spotted the roots of Toyland,
and It seemed Just a minute before
they were bursting in through the
Toyshop door.
"Santa, Santa all your trouble's
over I" cried pretty little Inga.
"Oh, here are the wanderers,"
1 DONT KNOW WHETHER
1 AM OR NOT VOU KNOW
SOMETHING . 3IM 1 1
THINK THIS SKELETON
WUtarotto 13 llfcD UP WITH
THE COUNTERFEITERS
WHO ARE SUPPOSE TO BE
kCoorrirtt,
The Bll Syndicate,
58
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Ml sM I I i 7 . XII I I i 1 1
r THINK VLL DON'T TALK HKE A FOOL- I
CO OUT- J ONLIt' AN IDIOT VMOULD J
MAGGltl-J BE OUT ON A DAY f '
cried Santa, running up and picking
up the two dolls with his big hands.
"I'm so glad you're safe."
"And tbe keys are out In our
coach," said Plnocchlo. "We have
So tbe dwarf changed tils ways
and became the best blacksmith
In Santa's toyshop.
them 'all for you, and we have an
other surprise."
"What can that be?" asked Santa.
So Plnocchlo and Inga ran out and
brought In the dwarf.
"I thought maybe you'd let me live
here if I give up doing the things my
sister, the witch, taught me," said
the dwarf to Santa.
"You bet we will," said Santa
"How would you like to work In my
US HAT'S TH
PROGRAM?
this Hiding
PUT-- AND
SHOOTIN AT
AlRV PLANES
IS RIGHT
DAN6EROUS,,
p""
GOOD NISHT?
I DONTT KNOW,
AND DOVOIA
THINK THOSE
GOING TO FIND
TOWlRRDW.I'LL
THAT GOVERNMENT AGENT,
DftN DIGGER. AND HAVE
TALK WITH HIM
KNOW rOR SURE
THOUGH, UNT1L.
e l-IND OUT
WJTUTH!N&
FURTHER -.
ILL
MR
AH-MRVOlGC-1
THOUGHT I'D
CALL BEASTLY
WEATHER ? "WHAT ?
.fl 1. (Copyright. 1932, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
blacksmith shop? You have big,
strong shoulder."
So that's where the dwarf Is today.
And he's become Santa's best black
smith.
Tomorrow: Santa Beads Ills Mall
Zion Lutheran
Will Rehearse
Pageant Tonight
There will be a full dress rehearsal
at Zlon EngllBb Lutheran church to
night at 7:30 fo the pageant "Tho
Holy Night," to be given Sunday eve
ning by the Sunday echojl and choir.
Primary children are to come at 4
p. m.
The committee under whose direc
tion the pageant Is being given con
sists of Mrs. O. P. Kabele, Mrs. E.
Herrle'd, MlA Carla Nerisen, Miss
Irene B re wold and Miss Ruth Deta
iner. Mrs. E. Herrled Is director of
the choir and organist, Mr. Cuffel
will operate the spotlight.
"The Holy Night" Is a Christmas
pageant along the lines of those used
In mediaeval church, from which the
modern drama took its form.
The pageant proposes to tell the
story of the birth of the Savior
through song and action.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 22. (AP)
Robert Stuart Davis, 68, traffic
manager of the Long-Bell Lumber
Co., died of pneumonia today at his
home here.
K ARM EL KORN and home made
Caramels. Fudff?, Fruit Squares, Pop
corn Balls. Holly Theater Bldg.
Desiraole houses always in first
class condition or rent. lease or sale.
Call 106
Bl ULKNN L'HAfKIM
and UAL FOUUtSI
H)HEN IT (SETS DARK
tOC'RE SONNA LAM
' 8ACK TO THAT OLD
, FARMHOUSE AN' HAV
ANOTHER. LOOK FOR
THAT MONEY- IF ITS
OSONE ALL WE CAN OO
IS SPLIT UP AMD
SCATTE.K.
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By EDWIN ALGER
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