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MEDFORP MATT, TRIBUNE, MEDFOR1V OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1934.
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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.
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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.
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WASHINGTON, April 34. (AP)
Orders to take kinks, conflicts and
overlaps, out of NRA codes are ex
pected from Hugh 8. Johnson almost
Immediately.
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"green light" ahead of the serious
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attempt at further wholesale short
ening of work hours brought to the
fore In the publicity-lighted code
authority assembly of early March.
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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.
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(Copyright, 1934, by Tho BU Syndicate, Inc.)
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