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PAGE TWELVE MEDFORD SIAIL TRIBUNE, MEDEORD, OREGON", FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1934. Judith Lane kg JBAKXK BOWMAN SYNOPSIS: Judith. Lane and her Hanoi, Norman Dale, haw been helping Tom Bevins prepare to darn the Rio Diablo river in Western Texan, Judith is Bovine' secretary, and ttorman ie junior partner of the taut firm thai han dles Uevtne' affairs in the city of Houston, where Bevtns1 engineer' ina and building business is cen tered. Bevine, inspired by a terrific storm, has decided that an ouxlll lary dam is necessary and Judith has watched Norman's aulet eUS eirnejt, getting the Bio Diablo t tiers to places of safety. Chapter Fire JUDITH'S CHOICE JUDITH thought of thla a tew nights later. They had left part of their mee to assist the natives 1n rebuilding their adobe houses, othors were carrying fresh supplies in from the nearest Quit Port town, it he county seat of Rio Mar. Anxious to clear preliminaries nd hasten the building of the dame, Big Tom bad chartered a trawler and with Judith and Norman was Reading for Galveston, from where they could motor to their homes In 'Houston. The two men were pacing the deck with after dinner cigars while Jud ith watched the moon rise, then, turning watched It lay shadow pat terns on the deck, angles, quadran gles, squares and quadrilaterals. ' She smiled whimsically, any other girl would have found poetic fancy In the delicate tracery of ship's rig' glng on slanting boards. It remind ed her of her difference in other ways. She wondered how this would affect her future with Norman. Marriage, she reasoned, wasn't as surance of life-long happiness. Per haps, Ilko the Rio Diablo, It needed a dam to control Its storm currents. She might apply her engineering ex Iporlence on hers, make a topograph ical map of the characteristic dif ferences between her disposition and Norman's. Big Tom would know to a euhlo iyard how much rock and cement It would take to hold the Hood Waters In place. Perhaps she might learn how much patience and for bearance was necessary to check a nuarrel. Judith . looked down and ahnd' aered. There in the web-like lines of ahadows lay a perfect triangle cast by three human beings. Black barred jand silver rimmed, It defied her en gineering logic to admit three vor tical figures' eould cast such a ehadow. , "Cold, Judith?" : Before she could answer, one bar dissolved, and the other two merged. Big Tom had gone below and Nor nan had stepped close, j "What were you doing?" be asked. I She looked up with a suddon kmlle "thinking." "Judy," he protested In - mock terror, "don't toll me you're one of these women who think." "On Mondays and Fridays at sine P. M" she assured him solemnly. . "And this is Friday. Mind telling tne your thought tor tonight?" "T WAS Just thinking that for me to marry is like committing big amy. I've been wedded to my Job for so long . . . well, I started engineer ing at the age of six. Built a dam In the kitchen sink ... it was a suc cess, too, Norman, flooded the whole kitchen." "We might find a Reno which di vorces girls from careers, or I'll tell you, I tell lr. love with the perfect stenographer. Suppose I marry her." Judith laughed. "I wish we knew each other hotter. I know you have the uatst set ot Scotch-Amorlcan features In the world. I like yonr chin even If it is stubborn and your warm brown eyes and your hair. Hcholnrs (lot Brfnk ISTANBUL. TJP) Turklnh school kids are being lven a breek. They will not have regular examinations at fixed dates. The anthorltlra hold that thla causes slacking or cram ming. The pupils will be so taught that they are ready to pass exams at any time. LZLl kJ! eve rywh e re .5sl3 t 1 even If you do try to cut oft the curl" , 1 "And yon hare the most amatlnf yes. I look at your dark hair and lashes and expect to see black, hazel, even dark blue eyes and then up come the lashes and those clear grey" "Please he serious." "I am, when will yon marry me!" "Most anytime, I suppose we should wait" "Considering the Importance of a perfect stenographer we'll have to give Big Tom at least a month's no tice." "Notice," faltered Judith. "But Norman, that Is archaic, women don't give up their profession! to marry." "Stenographers do." Judith thought quickly, "It only I were a lawyer like he Is, or a doc tor, or an engineer as I wanted to be." "Norman," she said, "must I choose marriage to you or my work?" JUDITH waited for him to answer her question. Must she choose be tween marrying him or going on with her work? Clla had said he bad comparatively little money, his fa ther having left what property they had to Mrs. Dalo. She felt a rush of bitterness as she realized that her generous sal ary, coming In as a professional fee, might be acceptable where a stenog rapher's salary would be taboo. . The trawler swished through the water with a gentle undulating mo tion, a slow breeze hummed through the fore rigging. "A choice?" he questioned. "No, Judy, I want you rcgsrdless." It was a concession. Remember ing Clla's picture of their social po sition In the city. It was a tremen dous concession and it was given with such gentle generosity, it swept away Judith'a arguments. She felt she could afford to matoh his generosity "if you'll be patient while' I learn to adjust myself to home life, I'll try." "That's sporting, Judy," he re sponded gravely. "I don't mean to belittle your work as a business wo man. I've seen enough on this trip to make me realize your Importance. 'But Judy-girl, I watched yon among the native children. You no-' tlced they were suffering from mal nutrition before you even looked at the Rio Diablo, and you made Big Tom wait to dictate an Important letter nntll you'd rousted out the cook and bad htm unpack the milk to teed the babies. I realized then you were more the woman than the stenographer, and given a home you'd be contented." Judith thought of a number ot re plies. She smiled Into the masculine shoulder as a vision of Clla Santord swept before her. Clla had very definite Ideas about woman's place and any platitude suggesting she be confined to the home sent her barbed tongue Into action. Clla contended she knew all about' matrimony because she had a thor ough education with a Reno divorce decree as a diploma. Heretofore Judith had approved of Clla's wisdom but ot course, she reasoned now, Clla hadn't been mar ried to Norman, so "I'll speak to Big Tom In the morning," she said. She did speak to Bevlns the fol lowing morning as they had break fast on the after deck under an Im provised awning. He didn't seem surprised, and when she commented on this he laughed. (Copyright, 1931, by Jeanne Boxemont Judith m.k.a more plant, ta. morrow. 4..W Convlcte OTTAWA, Ont. (UP) The prison population of Canada at the begin ning or the current year numbered 4.SB7. according to Hon. Hugh Guth rie, minister of Justice. Of these a total of 9.078 were Canadians. 288 were citizens of the United States and 440 were Russians. Camp Kerby CCO minstrel how, which has been attracting a num ber of peoplt, at the presentations given, ie to be put on at Rogue River thla evening for the Rogue River Olrl Scouta, at Rogue River, announce ment from Lieutenant Preston E. Rohner, welfare officer of the camp, states. The seventeen members of the company presented the show at the camp, ant! also at the Kerby church, ais.10 being produced for the church at the last benefit. The company a! no vtalted the CCO camp at Oas quet, Calif., and put on the num bers. . Participating In the show are Tra Sams. Impersonator; Virgil' Fowler, gultsr player, singer and yodeler; Ed- wura oryan, uiwrtwuMJi, oiyau van ffn. hon Artfut; flam Cre. dlree- ' tor of the minatrel; Gordon Owynne, dancer; George Anderson, whistler; L. L. Rhodes, first tenor; Mil ford Cyrus, nsgro Impersonator; Lieuten ant Rohner, pianist; Hayes Lowe, singer and ukelele player; William Howe, art director; Glen Myers, Joke ster; Gaylord Yokum, singer, ukelele player and fiddler; William Thorp, president of the entertainment club and capable of playing any string Instrument and several wind Instru ments; Lloyd Hayes, saxnphone play er; and H. H. Schneider, also a negro Impersonator. Down from Trail Dave Pence of the Trail district was a business call er In Med ford Thursday. S 'MATTER POP- BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER i3w'-3 ' 4cx llS II TAHSPIN TOMMY Looka Bad For Wilkingl tfyiL&erR.T ;f2FA'D HERfe IS ON6. 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There will be a St. Patrick's COOK ed FOOD SALE, Saturday, March 17, at the Economy Meat Market, spon sored by the Daughters of the Union Veteran of the Civil War. 6AME HERE, MR. JEPPflBD- THE QUESTION) i HCAAJ TO SET HER INTO THe NAtER- - HSR SU&S9TLLLOOK K R OF THIS "V IflL. I . AROUND-COME ON, J . I K3 (TUATlONI hJ-C- V. VsfW I NEIGHBORHOOD BASEBALL NOSHBORHOOD NTMHERS A UP IN ARMS. BECAUSE THE NvV CAPfAlK Of THEfltAM, AFTER KEAD1K6 ABDUf HE BIS TEAMS SOltfM ftJR. SPRIN6 tAlKN6, ; WSISf& OH DAIlY PRACfiCE IN the vacant lot an the south side of -The tracks, mud or no mud (Copyright,' 1EM, by The Sell Synfieate, Ino.) 3-H NB MIGHT GET BOMB OP THOSE SMALL 1 TREES THAT THE! STORM KNOCKED DOWN AND SORT OP PUT ROLLERS UNDER HER--GOSS3 VLL LOOK. AROUND COME ON, ALL. m TAKE THAT. POPSV ! RIGHT , i WE LL c WAIT 1 AND QUIET WHILE? X f HANDLE THB KIO AND. HERE Hra DOS HND TAKE COMPLETE CHARGE r OF THIS -i , erruATioNi K.V By GLUYAS WILLIAMS! By 0. M. Payne By Hal Forreff By Edwin Algel f THAT'LL KEEP VOLi NICE ur,r t i Bv Sol Hess
