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Newspaper Page TextPAOE TFN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1934. Judith Lane bg JBASMS BOWMAN " ' BYNOfSIS: Judith Dole hat 0Oit to the ttlo Plaolo dam to su vervlse the work heoun bu her tor mer employer. Bio Tom Bevlns. In accordance with the terms 01 hie will. She hae lelt Justin Cunard and Judge Morgan in lloutton to nam siorton uampere. wno is try . faff to rrcover tor the Bevint heire the monev lelt juatui ou tff t orn tor the completion ol the dam. But mhe nlMn hoe Mt behind her Alls i hand. Norman Dale. Lampere'e . law partner. Norman aoee not ap . vrove Judith's course. The dam workers await Judtth'i speech. Chapter 27 8TRAIGHT TALK ' A S Judith Dale raised her hand, silence ell on tho crowd of dam workers who had come to greet her. They bad asked (or a speech. "Tell me what you would like to know? she asked. "Our lobs . . . acw about our Jobs?' "Who gets Mason's place?' "How long you goln' to keep opor- tin,'?'' Again her uplifted hand "Big Tom would have had the man next In line fill Mason's place. We'll fol low the same plan. Max Larson next In line." A roar of approval greeted this, "Your Jobs are safe. The new company has money to carry on the work and keep your salaries going during the will contest" She stopped. Somewhere on the outer fringe an argument was going on. "What's the trouble?" she de manded. "Aw," came a voice, "there's bird back here says we ought to beat It while beatln's goo' and get - ourselves a real Job. He says the Bevlns women are go n' t' let this dam go as soon's the will's broke and they get the money. "Wbat'll we do with him, Miss Judy?" asked a young voice, "shall we ride him out on u rail? This emergency was one Big Tom could not have foreseen. Judith knew her dam workers. She bad known them all of her life. They could be quickened to mutiny as quickly as they could be quickened to loyalty and upon the turn of word this decision might rest "Ride him out on a rail?" echoed Judith In derision, "why give him . transportation, let him walk." The quick answer won. Roars of laughter, scuffling on the fringe, then silence. Judith spoke again "naturally you are Interested In your Jobs. Whether you keep these Jobs or not I up to you. It will depend upon one thing, your loyalty to Big Tom Bevlns. "As you work, remember you are . working for him, Just as 1 am work ing for him. He earned tha Ave million dollars It will take for the erection and maintenance of this dam and be had a right to say how It should be spent. He left it to me with the orders to spend it as be , would bave spent It had be lived, not for my personal use. I am work ing as his secretary; his stenog rapher, at a salary less than many of you are receiving. "Big Tom knew there would be an attempt to break his will and he pre pared for It. There will be no dan ger from that source ... but the same Influence which will try to bresk the will, will try to send spies Into ramp here to cause dissension, distrust, anything to hinder the work on the dam. "If you listen to these spies, you will e hurting yourself worse than anyone else. "Big Tom had foresight enough to protect your Interests against cur common enemy. Have you loy alty enough to protect his memory and carry out the desire of his life, the building of this dam?" T'O Judith, It seemed the shout of 1 assent was unanimous and shortly afterwards the crowd be gan dispersing and she found her self surroundod by a group of fore men, englnoers and construction men, many of whom she had worked with before. "You said the right thing, Mrs. Dale, said Larson, "they were wor ried about working for a millionaire stenographer. You put them straight on that," "And what you ssld about loyal ty," added anothor. "Say. Judy." Intorposed Clark uoodwln, with whom she had at tended college, "did you mean that about working for a salary?" "I certainly did," she answered, then with a boyish grin, "where do ( pitch my tent? And say, could you rustle a second one for my girl friend? This is Delphy, boys, she decided she wssn't going to let me come down here and eat mantillas and holy beans, so I found her on the train, spending her last nickel to take care of me." "Good for Delphy, you bet we can Ind a tent for her." They had been walking uphill and ludy saw they were fast coming to the queer ship-rock where the sur veying crew bad taken shelter dur ing the storm. There In Its lee was a small bouse, lights gleaming through bare windows, hammers beating a rapid tattoo. They stopped before the opened door and a man In coveralls, pound ing a final nail in the door step, stood up. "Welcome home, Small-Jude," he said. "Slim Sanford," gasped Judith. "If I dlun't know you had wings I'd believe you were your own ghost. However did you get here?" "With my wings. Cunard sent ms down as soon as you made up your mind to come. He wired Laredo for lumber to be sent in and the boys worked In their off hours to put this up." "1 repeat, you're a great gang." ' Judith, who knew the dearness of ' lumber so far from shipping cen ters, appreciated the little wooden aback for Its true value. It was Just one long barren room with a board ed lean-to for a kitchen and a cur tained alcove for Delphy, but it spelled luxury. Delpny took In the situation and called Slim Sanford aside. Slim had been around Hlllendale enough for Delphy to have assumed a proprie tory air over blm anl his services. Ma's Slim, reckon I'd best make coffee and sangwlchens?" He decided It would be a fine Idea and he presided over the oil stove which Delphy eyed with consider able apprehension while she made sandwiches, devoured by the men who sat in the big room talking to Judith. $93,711 TO 0POT CLOSED SCHOOLS rSALEJM, April 10. (AP) The atate relief administration Monday allocat ed. $93,711 to be used In-re-opening closed rural schools and in maintain ing schools by paying teachers' sal aries In 120 other districts which are far behind In redeeming warrants, j Charles A. Howard, state superlnten- dent of public Instruction announced t last night. 1 Howard stated that the funds had been provided only to take care of those schools hopelessly behind In payment of warrants, and that no help had been received to aid ap proximately 1000 other school dis tricts which are four months to a year behind. Howard warned that school dis tricts, in making plana for next year, should not rely on the generosity of the federal government. Only dis trict in which schools have closed ; through lack of funds and those still j operating but which have uncashable I warrants, Issued prior to March. 10, 1 1033, can qualify for relief funds un der the federal regulations, he stated. TWO DIE IN WRECK OF VIENNA EXPRESS VIENNA, April 10. (AP) Train wreckers derailed the Vienna-Paris-London Express early today between Wei and Llnz, capital of upper Aus tria, causing two deaths and a score of Injuries. , No foreigners were reported amonj the Injured. The casualties were con fined almost exclusively to trainmen j and railway postal employees. STARTS APRIL 16 SALEM, Ore., April 11. (AP) The new butter code providing for li censing and grading butter accord ing to quality In all retail stores will become effective April 16, Max Gehl har, director of agriculture, has an nounced here. AH . butter will be stamped A, B or O grades and be packed under supervision of butter graders licensed by the agriculture department. i Fair prices fixed by open free com- petition Is another feature of toe code, Oehlhar said. Hhe declared the coda was designed to Increase butter consumption. The average consump tion now in Oregon Is 18 pounds per year. The goal was set at 30 pounds. Willie the code sets prices accord ing to competition, certain bedrock mini mums have been established to aid the creameries. THE DRIPPING CREAM PITCHER Dance at Rogue Elk Saturday night. April 14. MJH 'I " : 1 s n ' q 1 NOTHIM&1DTHI& - lllf MAK.E IT STANDARD 1 1 USUALLS DO IT 0 VjrmTeTRAETHHL ) By GLUYAS WILLIAMS POURS CREAM ON CEREAL SETS PITCHER. D&WM AND TAKES A BifE IN MIDDLE OF BrfE Wlf CRift CREAM PITCHER'S 60WS 1& . DRIP, CAUSING HIM lb CHOKE SWATCHES PITCHER UP Ah CATCHES DROP WiTH $?00t HOLDS PITCHER UP FOR A ' WHILE 10 SEE IF ANOTHER. DROP IS F0RMIK6 SEfe PITCHER DOWN AMD BrfE, BUT SEES ANOTHER PROfj SIOWLY OOZINb V0WN 1HC aWt SCRAPES IT OFF 0H RIM OF GETS PrfcHER UNDER COM . CEREAL BOWL TROL AT LAST AND CRTS HIS CEREftU (Copyright, 1934, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) PRESENTLY ADDS MORE CREAM 1b IT, F0R6EfliffS ABOUT PircHER WHICH DRIPS ON TABLECLOTH. MOVES SRlTCELLRR CaIER SPOT AND HOPES WIFE piDNT SEE S MATTER POP JUDITH was silent for the most part, listening to them talk and gleaning the real news of Big Tom Town. When Slim came In with the coffee pot she looked up and sur prised his eyes In an unguarded mo ment Sympathy and tenderness were there, and a fierce protective-. nesB. Delphy says lust choc-late for you, Judith," he explained when she held up her cup for coffee. After the men had left, Judith went to her comfortable bed. brought In on the work train for her, and tried to sleep, but her mind sped bock to Houston. What would Norman think when he realized she had left? What would he dor Would be write? Where was he now, still In Galveston, perhaps? His case promised to last for a week at least. Sho wondered If Mathlle was with him? Restlessly she turned and tossed. Mathlle would be with him If it were within her power. Perhaps she would talk blm Into taking her to their farmhouse for dinner , . , per haps there would be clove pinks and hollyhocks along the path. She was being silly, neither one were in blossom this time of the year and Norman would not be out with Mathlle. She should be thinking of the work which lay before her. She thought of Slim Sanford Instend, thought of him wonderlngly. Ol course Slim had been acting as a winged courlor for Cunard, and yet there seemed to be something deopur in his concern for her wel fare. Judith did not want Slim't regard to go deeper than friendship and yet she felt a twinge of pleasure when she thought of the aviator. 8he started to turn and heard Dolphy's springs creak. She held her breath. If Delphy learned sh was awake she'd havo to drink some more chocolate and she couldn't 'I She lay there wondering what th old woman would do when she saw the native children; try to fatter them? What a time she'd have. That was it, she'd write Normst In a light vein "Normy dear, be hold your wife, Delphy accompanied by six cans of chocolate and the ok red brick" She curled Into a comfortable po slllon. punched her pillow Into s puff boll and burrowed her head Into It resolutely. She'd count sheep. She began, one, two three . . . and then one hundred, two hundred . . . tour hundred and fifty , , , was It six or seven . . . there were voices outslje. She opened her eyes, the sun was strenmlng In through the ncurtalned windows and Delphy was tiptoeing to the door, a warn ing "Shhh" preceding her. "Ite right sorry sir, but she didn't get no sleep tilt comi two-thirty this mo'nln an' 1 won't waken her" Judith sat up and peoked out the window. Heads, men's And "vomen'e. Scogglns was In the lead ... a dele gation of the native families were waiting at the door. Delphy," she colled, "tell there II be out as soon ss 1 dress." tCopurioht, 1M, py Jeonn Bowman) Tomorrow. J. dv mti rfctaaa. tlon. By C. M. Paynej By Hal Forres veil :dos . TJaiW Grvs F ' , at me., am' Ie. To AJrT Ya, ' Xjy I j ' T3A- I J-1.34 tffl lj 'l''s W'W'Wi 18M. by Tho Bell Byndlestt, Inc.) TAILBPIN TOMMY Skaeter a Plans Go Astray! " TH0U6HT VOUD PUT ONE 70t AW-FOR LVIN OUt SOSH, MISTER SHEANf,fc VOU'VG. SOT THE DID MAM'IEU--OR Tf XnoEodY TOLD ME I nriN'r ccei TT1 OVERON ME.VOUNS CROWD-ERR---1 WHV'OONT YOU Of STUFF, SWEETER, SOMEBODY TIP J 7 ANVTWNS--I WELL, O&RN YOUfPV srr!" ic- J FEUOW? GET INTO A, ,MEAN CRYlrV OUT LET ME SMACK lk BUT I'M NOT SOINS YOU OFF THAT S KAO YOU ALL. WD6--YOU SURE C HAO fiuSTCO v ,. tHUTE QUICK--IF YOU fS LOUD--HOW 0D THIS CRUST INTO TO LET YOU I lOA&NT SONNA 2 FISURD OUT, F SuRE ;ouT WAYS V SELF Tjd vlT SS. f ? VOU NOW TH' BU&T" ERR" ' SLAUSUTER YOUR- . 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