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PAOE RTT MEDFORP MATT, TRIBUNE, MEDFOR1V OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1934. 1 Judith Lane by JBAWK UOW MAS BYSOP&1S: Oil has been struck upstream trom the Itto Ulabln dam. which Judith Dale Is building ae oitlltui to llig Tom Bevme' plan, with the fortune he left her tor the purpose. She teare her workmen may be stampeded by the ttrtke, and has arranged to take them to the scene, and provide a midnight lunch tor them when they return. The oil drilling has been financed by llorlon Lninpere, vho ts trying tn dinert the Uevlns money trom the dam to the pockets ol ilrs. ticrins and her daughter. Chapter 38 NORMAN AGAIN SINCLAIR, proprietor of tho Elite ' Bating House, bad been a top sergeant In the Marine Corps during the war. Judith went directly to blm . told aim what she would need and appointed blm "Major" of the com mlsai.y department He was to or ganize the other restaurant men, one to swing lumber Into long tables, another to see about coffee, third to organize the women Into small groups. Judith Joined one of these groups. She out bread, spread It, slipped slices of ham, of bologna, of cheese, of pressed meat, of chicken, of roast, between the bread. Excited voices were constantly plying bcr with questions and she was constantly answering. There were times when her weary muscies rebelled and she wished she were a thin slice of something to be slipped between sheets. She began to look upon her bed as a sandwich, herself as a filling, laughed at hersell for thinking It, and then found Delphy at her side with a cup of coffee. "Mr. Larson, he say he's back with one truck load and you're to come along over aext trip." Judith agreed wearily. She left the big, tent with Its makeshift tables, piles of sandwiches and washboll- ers of coffee. Its laughing women. Its returning truck loads of excited men talking "Oil oil." Shs climbed Into the high seat of a gravel truck, sat botween the driver and Larson. "Sandwich" sbe thought sleepily. The shout of men in the truck awakened her after a long lapse of semi-slumber. This time her eyes saw twinkling lights, saw the skel eton derrick, looming ahead, saw men running like pygmies about a roped off enclosure, "There she 1b!" Larson helped her down, steadied her a moment, then they walked r over to the lighted area. Judith stepped In something that squashed under her foot. Oil . . , the place was drenched with It. "She came in so fasi we couldn't cap her," one man was saying ex citedly. . Judith looked at him and then at tho man to whom he was speaking, an oil-Hold worker, evidently, from his stained clothes. She started, loaned forward, peering' Intontly, then closed her eyos and clutched at Larson's sleeve. The man was her husband, Norman Dale. Judith Dale opened her eyes slow ly. Larson, Intent upon the scene before him, had not noticed. She looked past him to the man who had been talking to Norman Dale. He was still there but Norman had vanished. Perhaps she was wrong. Perhaps she lad longed so to soe him that she fancied some person similar to him was he. This man had looked at her and his eyes bad seemed to widen In surprise. Of course she hadn't seen him cloarly, hla hat brim was tipped forward, his face covered with several days' growth of beard. Norman shaved every day. ""THAT mon, the one you were 1 talking to when 1 came up, where did he go?" She had leaned across Larson addressing the man on the other aide. "He Just saw a fellow ha wanted to catch before be got away." "He reminded me so much of a frleiid of mine, would you mind tell ing me his name?" "Lot's see, now what do they call him. Ot course nib nlcknn.je's Professor, becauso he talks so booky, and I think his other name Is Jackson." "His ho been In camp long?" "Not so vory long, 'bout a month or so. lino fellow." The man turned away. Judith didn't sleep on the return trip. 1 erbaps Norman was there within a few miles o her, had been thore right nlong Tut" hadn't come near. So he'd left Lnmpere, she thought In derision. Perhaph he'd left Lam pere's office. Could hi- have been the man who had talked to Scog gins, his oil man! Hut no, Scogglns would have remembered him as be ing tor husband. Professor Jackson. Was oe spying ther for LampereT No -use thinking about It, her NEGRO SHOT TO DEATH IN CROWDED COURTROOM CROCKETT, Tex- April 34. (AP) Prank Brlaby, negro, was shot to death lu a crowded courtroom here today while a Jury was botng select ed to try htm for murder for the killing ot J. M. Ellis, a white man. woary mind protested. A sleep and tomorrow she would go back and look for him. But when she awakened she did not call for a borse ana ride over as she had Intended. What could sbe say If sbe located blm? If he tiad wanted to see her, he'd had i month In which to visit Big Tom Town. Sh.. stuck, literally and figura tively. It seemed as the summer pro gressed that she was glued to the blgb stool over ber drawing board, checking progress with Big Tom's specifications. The heat burned down through the boards of her vhack until even Delpby, who usu ally congealed In tho winter and thaw-id Into comfort at midsummer, admitted It "am quite wa'm." Cunard sent Insulating board np from Laredo, wblcb helped a little. Awnings at tbo windows, made by some of the engineers from old can vas and daubed with varl-colored paint, added to the comfort Del pby's window boxes wltb their pro fusion of petunias and nasturtiums broke the drabness oi the outlook. Down In Big Tom Town, tents and motor houses were graced with coffoo tins, sprouting blossoms, gifts of seed trom Delphy. A ND then the storm season an nounced Its approach with braBsy sky and sultry beat. For days It seemed the air was filled wltb flinty bits ot bronze. Jurfltb watched the jky wltb apprehension, held long consultations wltb Scogglns and Scofleld. The dam town bad grown to a dangerous size. If one were to try to And place for them In the safety of the ship rock. "It wouldn't come a flood two years together," comforted Scog glns. ,"lt wouldn't any place else In the world," Judith agreed, "but let's be sure our people are above the dan ger line at the time ot the first storm." She saw the first storm coming, a blue-black mist which spread like smoku against the northern skies, then rose and deepened In color. She went back to the house, sent Delphy with messages to the stables and had the boys ride out to warn the men working In the river chan nel. The women and children were brought to her bouse. Tlioy laughed at her for her alarm and she laughed with them, but she wanted no loss of life. She watched the storm's ap proach, grateful that It did not look as formidable as the previous year, but formidable enough at that. Old Mother Summer Is weepln' th' sky," chanted Tommy Scog glns, who had discovered her re treat. He looked up at her and smiled a toothless smile which seemed strangely charming on his fat, freckled face. Judith smiled back, tears behind her smile. Last year how different It had been. Big Tom had been there and she had sat snugly In the curve ot Norman's arm. She wondered where he was now. . , "Know what It makes me think of, Miss Judy?" Inquired Tommy, pointing to black clouds which had separated from the mass and wers blowing forward, slashed with red torkod lightning. "Witches, black ones, rldln' brooms. Say, Miss Judy, d'y' reckon you could talk Pot Into buy In' me an airplane 'stead of car? Gee there ain't no place hert a fellow can drive a car." Judith turned from the storm- swept sky, "Would you be terribly disappointed If you didn't get either oe?" "You moon maybe thore won't ha , . , 1 mean any, oil?" "How far down are they now?" "Past two thousand," he ad mitted. Thon, with bravado, "Gee, I could get along with a horse just as well, It 1 could have two guns to go with It." The near cannonade ot thunder sent them back down hill and a few moments lator the storm struck. Daylight this time, excepting tor the twilight of greenish - black clouds. They could see the blue- white flame ot lightning, tinging down In snaky darts, crashing with brittle force. The river was rising. Judith, Lar son and the engineers watched It with Intorest and apprehension. It flooded the low basin, lapped the bass ot Scogglns No. 1. They saw It lapping the lowest tonts and then with one great roar. Scogglns No. 1 burst Into flame, a 3ame that soemed to rise to meet red dart hurled from the clouds. "She's gone . . . she struck the dorrlck." Judith stood white lipped, silent. She had no more reserve funds to robulld. ( Copyright. 19U. by Jeanne Bowman) Tomorrow. Judith facts eslamlty. NORMA TALMADGE MARRIES UUMbUIAN ATLANTIC CITY, N. it., April 34. (AP) Norma TaI matin, screen star, anl George Jew. Comedian, wer married At Wr Hotel Ambassador here; Into Monday, Mayor Harry Bach arnch performed the ceremony. I GOBLE NAMED MAYOR OF YREKA YREKA, April 24. (Spl.) Dr. J. O. Ooble, the only Add-over council man at the recent city election, was elected mayor by the city board Monday night when that body met to canvaas the ballots of the city election. The newly elected councllmen. Dr. V. W. Hart, A. L, Herzog, J, D. Good rich and F. B. Ackerman were sworn In for their terms of office by U. P. Brown, veteran clerk of the city, w.ho has been watching boards come and go for the past thirty-five years. Three of the councllmen, Hart, i Goodrich and Ackerman, were serv- ing on the board prior to election, by appointment, while Mr. Herzog may or until Mondy, . when Goble was , elected, had been elected by the peo . pie and served his regular term. T,he present board has worked with a ' marked degree of harmony and co operation. 4 " OF SECURITIES ACT WASHINGTON, Apr. S4-(AP)-Pres-sure for modification of the securities act resulted today In the actual draft ing of alterations by administration leaders In the senate. The changes will be offered as mandments to the pending stock mar ket control bll when It comes up for senate consideration. S MTTER POP I I , t ! W&y 7. rl1BF S - m m? mmW . : T-; x ' rflWDA, rELUArl- TELUArr- .) J MWAT, VJH eM. 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This Job probably will get the "green light" ahead of the serious "Three oompahs and A OOMP BEHIND "THE WHOLE ORCHESTRA A&AM ! "What do VOL) THINK TH1& l- A FUNERAL! MARCH f attempt at further wholesale short ening of work hours brought to the fore In the publicity-lighted code authority assembly of early March. The question of hours has there fore descended for a while Into a statisticians huddle. Officials con cede that the flat "ten and ten" plan ten per cent reduction In hours and ten per cent Increase In wages for all but those who can show cause to the contrary Is Just about out the window. I WINDOW GLASS We sell window glass and will replace your broken windows reasonably. Trowbridge Cao met Works. Better. tak:e TSSSltlsr "That big- Tim i PRETZEL OUT AND FILL IT UP WITH feTAMtJARDS'ASOLIWE wmTETEA&THNL UNSURPASSED THE MINUTE THAT SEEMS L 1' 1 ' I tf-2f A YEAR ) I I 1 1 Fsrl WAfCHK6'TV)E ViStfoR MOVER INDECISIVELY OVER. THE ONE CAKfc you've: sf Your heart oti (Copyright, 1934, by Tho BU Syndicate, Inc.) By GLUYAS WILLIAMS u)tAS Willi N"to By C. M. Payne
