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PAGE TT'tf MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. THURSDAY. APRIL 19. 1934. Judith Lane bit JBAXKIi BOWMAN BAufalH: The diaoovery that Morton Lampere, attorney lor the Bevlne hetre. hae beoun myeteri out acllvlllet oB the upper Klo Diablo hae complicated Judith Dale's effort to build the Rip Diablo dam with the money left her tor the purpo lit Bin Tom Bevlne. Lampere te euiug to break the will. Norman Dale. Judith e husband and Lampere'e law part ner, line left the firm and dleap peered. Judith't Mend Clia write! her. Chapter 34 BLACK GOLD IN THE days which followed, Ju dltb sometimes would mingle with the crowds In the streets of Big Tom town, or dine with a crowd o engi neers at Hamburger Joe's. Seated on a stool, swinging her booted legs which wouldn't quite reach the foot rail, she would loin In the conversa tion of Goodwin and Larson, but her ears would be attuned to the voices ot tbe other men In the place. Contentment was apparent In the calm, cheerful tones ot the men who Sled Into Hamburger, Joe's, or tbe Elite Cafe, or the Gulf Sea Food Restaurant. The first change In the voices came not In a note of discord, but one of surpressed eicltement. With the wives ot two engineers she was having dinner at the restaurant. Talk at the table was spirited and Judith was dividing her attention between a tenderloin steak and the conversation, when she caught one word spoken In the room beyond. , "Oil." ' - For one distracted moment she thought of Justin Cunard's words as they made their air survey of the basin: "This looks like oil land but I hope It Isn't" Motioning the others to go on talk ing she slipped close to the next booth. , "They're bringing the derrick and machinery In on tonight's train . . . got mule teams to drag It on up to their layout . . . sure thing . . . don't let on you know; we'll slip up and see If there's any claims we can file on. or buy up, eh?" Judith returned to tbe table, eyes wide with anxiety. If oil was found on Scathborne's property, sbe feared for the Rio Diablo dam. "Max, I've got to get word to Cunard." OIL was the one thing that could stampede the dam workers; the one thing Judith feared. Had Scath borne actually found definite trace of oil, or was this Just another ot Lampere's Ideas to destroy the har mony In Ulg Tom Town? Still at tbe table, she confided to Max what had happened and he, sensitive to her foresight, agreed that Cunard ahould be notified at once so that he, as an oil man, might Investigate. "We might go down to the train and see It they're tolling the truth," suggested Larson, and hurrying through tbelr meal, they proceeded to the camp depot. This night the engine pulled flats behind her freight cars and on tbe flats were engines, pipes, lumber, and drums of fuel oil. Shadowy figures Jumped from the cars, communicated with shadowy figures on the road side ot the depot. Mule teams backed up, their drays even wltb the flats, then the ma chinery, oil and lumber were trans ferred. "Oil . . . them's the makln's of oil derricks." Tbe whisper went the round at the depot when the train came In. Judith regretted Dig Tom's magnanimous Insistence that his spur operate as a general carrier. "Oil . . . where do you suppose they struck it." Claims tow LImis BERLIN, Conn. (UP) Thlth Ithl ths sthory of s. cow tltat ltthps. Joe Psstelc claims he has a two.year-old I Hoistein wit.i ft fissure on trie tip or j it tongue which makes the animal lisp when It moos. Consequently, I Joes pet "Moo-the." eth Thirl People began runnlog up from the little town to stand In groups and discuss It, a thread of excitement In their manner, their voices pitched higher than usual. Some who knew something of tbe enterprise became tbe talkative cen ter of a group, assuring the wide eyed Ignorant ones that no oil could come in "'Till they git them der ricks up an' drill down a piece." "How far?" "Sometimes 1800, sometimes S000, sometimes they've gone way down beyond that," Max and his wife and Judith sauntered with apparent unconcern from one group to another, then Joined their party and mo7ed uphill to Judith s shack. "It looks like the real thing, doesn't It, boys?" observed Judith -In a defeated voice. "Sure does," agreed Max Larson. "Even Lampere wouldn't buy ex pensive machinery like that Just to frighten us with. He must have pret ty tooi evidence of a strike." "How will it effect the dam?" Mrs, Larson questioned, "It needn't," began Judith, a quiv er of apprehension belying her words, "it really needn't, but ... 1 would Just as soon have the dam completed before the rush begins Workmen aren't as efficient wbe prospect ot 'big money lies Jus' around the corner." No need crossing bridges 'till w build them," offered Goodwin and Judith nooded. NO NEED," sbe repeated, looking down on the town from her porcb after the others bad left. The quietness ot harmony lay there. A single figure was plodding uphill wltb a peculiarly determined gait. Judith watched. . expected him to turn In at one of the camp tents, but be plodded on towards her. Not until he was even with her porch did she recognise him and when she did, she felt a rush of fear. , "Mr. Scogglns," she cried, and see ing the expression of his face, "what's wrong?" 'I'd Ilka to talk to you. Miss Ju dith," he said, his voice worried; "like to talk over some business with you." "Come In . . . take that other chair; you'll find it mora com fortable." "I ain't lookln for comfort," he answered, slowly, "not for myself. For my wife and my Tommy, that's different." "Ot course," Judith answered quickly, "your thought has alwaya been tor your wife and Tommy. I re member that nice room you built tor Tommy on tbe bouse the river washed away. You can build again now and t.ot have to worry, can't you, Mr. Scogglns?" "That's what I've come about," he said, then sat silent Judith waited Impatiently. "You said you'd coma to see me about something?" she asked, "Miss Judy." be began, "have you ever been Hungry? I mean really hungry, day after day, goln' without so the ones you're a carlo' about get something, pretending food glrei you Indigestion so they'll eat It?" "Not like that, Mr. Scogglns." "And then there's other hunger, the hunger women folk git tor putty things. 1 mind when we was comln' down here, Mamie and me atopped oft In Shreveport Wa walked around the square that night, and we saw a big hotel. tCopvrtoht. JIJ4. by Jeanne Bowman) Mr. Scoaolns Innocently throws e bomb, tomorrow. rrlnre YVrltn Film STOCKHOLM. (UP) Prince Wll.l helm of Sweden. Younaftat son King Oustaf, and known as ft writer I of note, is now at work on the maniu I script for a talking motion picture describing the SM-aiah province ofl 8odermanlsnd. the prince's duchy. SAYS SECRETARY WASHINOTON, April 10. (AP) Estimating 3,750.000 persons had ob-j talned Jobs in the last year. Secre tary Perkins today reported a sharp gain in manufacturing payrolls dur ing March. In the labor department's monthly statement, she said manufacturing Industries added 419,500 men to their forces during the month, bringing the general employment index to the highest point since December, 1930, and wage payments to the highest level since August, 1031. Payrolls increased approximately 960,000,000 since March of last year, the labor secretary reported, and In March this year there was an in crease of el 2.904.000, Employment tor March, 1034, was j listed at 80.8 per cent of the 1023- j 1026 average, compared with a 77.7 1 per cent showing In February- This was the first time the bureau of la bor statistics used the years 1023 1025 for figuring employment. Un der Vie former basis, figuring 1026 employment as 100, the Index for March this year would be 76.4 per cent, compared with 73.5 per cent In February. t The statement said factory pay rolls this March gained more than In any other March of the past 15 years, excepting 1020. Workers reported added during the montti Included : Non-manufacturing industries 163,000; railroads 3UP 000 (between February 15 and March S MATTER POP BRINGING UP FATHER i .w & eD. Z L r- H' II' I II I' f . . if - "I'l If . , i .1 I .YlB. rr J n IV L. se-si-einvsji l l r - ii ill i-rr i w -rr imci I 1 - ' i , xf rr , l v (Copyright, 1934, by Ths Bell Syndicate, Inc.) -y TAILSPIN TOMMY Tough luck . ' t By Hal Forrest K7S-2 IIP ' W OfeUL, AC05B.DNS TO TH I wtfCHA I DERN Trt' (MAMlUE L'VWU-6 HAS fN' HOl BOYl WHAT WM'PEWtD f SCRIPT--MADAMOlSttUE HO'CHAJ W ANVTNG"VOU ' LUCK-THAT S U-nue PLAVMAT6 .THE feSjA CAH.EO TO SEE uOHAT DO I T OSPr4t AFTER- CVRtULE, UFTCD VOUft. 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H- U, J Two floors of her tdtvn house on , Sixty-fourth street were given over to 100 early American furniture re- r productions, made by the Hyde Park village craftsman on the Roosevelt's Dutchess county estate, j Mrs. Roosevelt arrived In New York this morning. j . . I Wolf Crosses Lake j SANDUSKY, a (UP) A large Ca nadian timber wolf has been sought recently on the Cedar Point penin sula four miles north of here. The animal is believed to have crossed ; Lake Erie from Canada, 24 miles ! north of Cedar Point, over the Ice, as several did a few years ago. i AAA? THIS SAfet , -t'm',i ice "i LEFT "THE G-A6 GOINGr IN "1HE rMDEiwe -toast HHI& MOENIN&: , ' By George McManui CHANGING POCKETS CHAN6ES FROM BROWN ' surf to 6ood blue surf. CAREFULLY REMOVES KEviS, CHAN6E,E1C.,FROM POCK ETS OF BROWN TROUSERS " DI&COVERS TWO BUT -T&NS ARE MIS51N6 AND DECIDES HE HAD BET TER Wear browh SUlT AFTER All. THRUSH KEY'S, CHAN6E, EfC.IMO VOLKCl OF : BLOE TROUSERS NEATLY FOLDS BROWH TROUSERS, A QUARTER, WHICH HE HAD OVER loOKEfl R0U.IN6 OUf 0f POCKET 1 V I 0 TAKES OFF BLUE TROU SERS and folds them, FORSETflfte To RfMDlE ' KEyS, CHAN6E,ETC.,WHICH SPILL ON FLOOR Picks Them up and puts them in pocket of brown trousers (Copyright, 1934, by The Bell Syndicate, Ice.) By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Gui-tOS UllUMr H-l RETRIEVES. QUMffER FROM UNPER BEPAW) TAJT& ON TfcOUSERS OF . Blue suit puts on browh suit, finds on return home late thkt wi6httukt FRONT-DOOR KEY MUST SflnJ BE IN POCKET OF BLUE 5LIIT By 0. M. Payne Li
