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VXGTZ TWELVE IMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, HEDFORl), OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1934 HYVOfBli: The death of ltareha Moore'e vorente hat tent her to live with her tuintter Aunt ' Gertrude, Ten veart with Aunt Gertrude and her harth regimen have made Martha into a hardt pleaeure-lovtna young woman who hat ttrewn the town with her die carded tuitort. Then Hob I'owtrt arrivet from Mexico, and Martha finds the can not drop him to easily. Unable to hurt bob the hat allowed him to give her a ring, and now 810 it calling on hit old-lath-ionvd, churning mother. Chapter Nine PASSAGE AT ARMS l"r WISH," said Marsha "that I were nice enough to belong In jthls house." She realized It had been long since she had done more than jto laugh, at the word "nice," and now she had said It seriously and her eyes had brimmed. "But, dear, you do belong In this house and to us!" Bob's mother as sured her. She added In an aside to Bob, "A little nervous," and she added to that, and more loudly, "Bob," will you he so good as to ring jfor tear I Marsha had caught It all, Bob laid :a hand on her shoulder as he moved 'toward the bell. They were both anx ilous that she should be happily at ease with them and boyond feeling nervous while within their reach. I "Ob, don'tl" she thought "don't be so kind!" I The tea was, patently, a gala af fair: the best of all the good porce lain was npon a huge, gleaming liver tray which Bartholomew brought to set on a solid table be fore Mrs. Powers. Mrs. Powers measured from a caddy tea.that had come from China. Bob sat staring at Marsha. Marsha tried to speak nslly, naturally, but she could not. I At dinner that night Miss Gertrude was rarely loquacious. Shs had the curiosity that thrives In persons without Imagination to reveal spirit ual toes upon which questions may tread. "I am, frankly, eager," she admit ted with an acid smile, "to hear of rour adventure of this afternoon; I could not conceive the let us say r-melange." i "It was a bit strange,'' Marsha an swered. She stared a little tragical ly at the sliver which, having come from such proudly respectable an cestors, had always made her feel more than evor the Pariah she knew he was. , "How did Mrs, Powers Impress fnu?" Miss Oertrnde probed on. "She Impressed me as a woman who had gone Into caps at twenty oven," Marsha answered pertly, "and I know she knits those scratchy rash-cloths that are wrappod around the soap that smells Uke a dog be ing treated tor mange, and I could soe her giving the amalgamation to the servants with advice. Is my description adequate, or do you re quire more?" That was Marsha's old manner, tut she had lost her way to the mu sic and she could but ehant the words with a new bitterness. Even iMIss Gertmda who saw little beside her own righteousness, noticed the Change. "I ntvsume you will break It off?" she queried. 'I presume I shall," Marsha agreed. She added, "It has been done hofore." "I think perhaps," Miss Oertrnde commented, "that It will be the most heartless and wicked thing that even you have ever done." "We'll not quarrel about that," Marsha stated. "I feel as do you. Ho, thank yon, Alice, I don't care for any sweet." She rose then; "If you'll be good enough to excuse me, Aunt" "IIIEIXI" MIbi Gertrude mur- ' mured as Marsha left the room. She had never thought anything could touch Marsha and Marsha was obviously touched. "But it won't last, It can't last!" she thought trium phantly. Marsha, nervous In the drawing room, wanting to move this, that, knowing sh dared not as each ob ject had Us sacred spot wondered .whether Geoffrey had telephoned while she was out, perhaps. I She wanted to see him, needed to soe him. She wantod to be taken back by 'him to the ground where one stood, icarelota of others' hurls; to the ground where one thought only of "killing" one's own drearily stretch ing tlmo. She moved toward the dining room. "Alice," she said, her voice quick and sharpened by strain, "did Mr. Tarletoa telephone this after noon?" Alice answered with, "Xo, Miss Marsha." Miss Gertrude smiled without raising her eyes from her plate; her smugnoss sang, "The way of the transgrossor Is hard." and Marsha saw, through her, that Pharisee who IMipi HnvcH with nattier THE DAMjES. Ore. (UPI Mr. Walter Wiuwon wss horrttled to Unci her three-year-old son. Jerry, with his two pups, playing with a rattle anaxe In the yard. The snake was atrlklns at the auplclons pupa, with the little boy encouraging them. thanked his God that be ins not a) other men. She could not stand much mere, she felt, as she stood by a window of the drawing room to trace the cars, by their gleaming lights that followed the avenue. Years, It had been since she had suffered thus from her aunt's smile and Us Impli cation. ; Why must she turn back to the younger heart that could suffer! What had made her turn? What could she do about Bob? II was Geoffrey she wanted. Geoffrey. Close to throe weeks be had been In town now, and without sending a word to her. She puffed deep on her cigarette to see, In the blue, floating smoke, Mrs. Powers, saying, "But, dear, you do belong In this house and to us." She belonging In that housel Why couldn't she laugh at It? She had sneered at nervous breakdowns. Was she to suffer one? She mustn't cry, and she Wanted to cry all the time. I "Countless Mrs. Powers will be re lieved," ssld Miss Gertrude who ap peared to pursue the theme, "but It will soem hard to the young man for' a time . . . although I presume ho will live to thank you." . That stopped Marsha's Impulse to tears. I "But you're simply too fond of me, Aunt," Marsha replied, "you think everyone must love me as you do!" It sllonced Miss Gertrude. She glared, and making her angry helped a little. Alice appeared to say, "The telephone, Miss Marsha." Marsha's hoart beat hard, but It was not Geoffrey who had called her. It was only Bob. I "Yes?" she said wearily after his short, heavily-charged and eager, "Dear?" She could not keep It up much longer, she knew. It wss, ac tually, making her lit. . , I NOVEMBER had frozen and thawed again and again; the last of Its weeks was held, for the most part, In a fog which turned the river and harbor craft clamorous and that made old scenes strangely and eerily new. , Miss Gertrude was loud In her de scriptions of the deaths from Influ enza, which was "creeping over the city to paralyze It"; she shook hei head and gloated, a blue-blooded ghoul, who called her fascination for the morbid, "my ready sym pathy." Marsha forced her smile and dwelt upon those lines of Housman's which hare to do with dressing and washing and eating and thinking and "God knows why." She tried to All her time and she tried not to think. She thought a great deal and she could not fill her time. "You're so strangoly and unhap pily restless!" Miss Gertrudo com plained over bor solitaire cards and her never-ending games. It was a relief when Marsha real ized Bob knew. He came the last evening of November. Alice admit ted him in her grim and silent way; Marsha looked np from the book, which was with all the rest she'd read lately, "so dulll" to see him standing In the doorway that led to the hall and soemlng to fin it. She appreciated his silent entrance; it was novel and like him. "I didn't hear you," she said. "Come In" I He moved across the room with out speaking and with the long stride of a tall man whose waist has been thinned by work outdoors and whose shoulders hare been broadened by it. 1 Marsha looked up at him testlngly. "I think you're not very glad to see me," she said. "God help me, I ami" he an swered; his voice was roughened and he breathed a bit unevenly. She rose to stand bv him; he had ovldently been walking, coat open and blowing. Little beads of mist were on his waistcoat; bis stiff shirt wss pock-marked. He looked more ruffled than she had d roamed he, who waa so con tained, could look. "Why the Paaro Nurml feat on a night like this?" she asked; she know woll enough; but anything to get It overl "There's a lovely dew on your shaggy fierce eyebrows. "I do like thorn, Bobl You really are as gentle as a lamb and as lnno cont as those old maids who serve on comnilttocs tor the suppression of vice, but you can look so alarm Ingl" He said nothing, staring down on ber. "Well." she went on, "the day has been dulll Get at Itl You're going to ask me whether It's all been a game, aren't you?" (CetyrltU, It Si. h K. ITeri)mi-Tetir) Martha gin through a bitter leant, tomorrow. Mav rirnMer Criminal. PHILADELPHIA (UP) Heglatra,' Hon o all criminals within 34 hours after they arrive In Philadelphia, was aungerted by Police Superintendent Joseph te strange as a method of checking their activities while In th city. NEW SCIENCE IS SUGGESTION OF NOTEDJAVANT Cosmecology Would Bind Together Sciences Gov erning Earth Says Dr. Stetson of Harvard. By Alfred Berthtoet United Prp Staff Corrwpondent NEW YORK (UP) Cosmecology a new acienc haa been suggested by Dr. Harl&n True Stetson, research as sociate In geophysics at Harvard uni versity. More than merely adding a new word to scientific dictionaries, this recent acquisition to the terminology of science would, according to Its author,, bind together the sciences governing our earth. Its Uthosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere with those dealing with interstellar space such dm astronomy and astrophysics. 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Research has Illustrated that the levels of certain African lakes correspond closely with sun-spot cycles. ' Run Hpofc Frequency Biological and biophysical reactions have been linked with sun-spot fre quency; variations In the number of rabbit, lynx and fox pelts approxi mated quite closely the Increase and decrease of sun-spots. As the spots Increase, so did the pelts, and vice versa. Business, too, if affected by the aun-spote. Indices of various busi nesses, correlated with sun-spots graphs Indicates tentatively that when the solar constant decreases business takes an upswing. Four or five of the last business depressions followed a sun-spot maximum. Dr. Stetson declares that the sci ence of the modern generation large ly will be synthetic in character In contrast to that of the past which was analytical. PENDLETON RESIDENT IS BITTEN BY SPIDER PENDLETON. July 13. (AP) Cal Hanlon, former fire chief of Pendle ton, was bitten by a spider, believed to have been a venomous, black wid ow, yesterday while repairing an elec tric meter In an Athena flour mill. Hanlon drove to Weston for medical attention and collapsed at the phy sician's door, but was soon revived. MILTON, Ore., July 13 (AP) Bishop James Cannon, Jr., famous prohibition advocate, arrived today to preside over the 60th annual session of the northwest conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. r 1 I J -WnMIAU f S CJ. A.4..TN IT ) C--AWO THAT SI I fj MJG-UIUTY. Yt? W5MDR, GUllTY-?-OH-NO! H KS 6E.T TOO RANK, I'D THEY HA?NT HANGED (vERDIQT.SeNTLEMW 11 Wh. tSUH-TY OP MURDER NO!NO!"VOU g OUT OP SgS 5AY" lOEUL., Hlcl YET--ANYTHING SOFTHEUURY ? i. f 1j IN THE FIRST CANNOT ttEANjf(tJ HERE, SKttTS, IT LOOKS LIKE MAY HAPPEN gr . ,. & ' 3S'V$v DEGREE "THAT-' 5sfs2Ss THtAiaiTS CURTAINS BEFORE THAT- i lihJSsfyfP? Ii ' IJiit JNSri. !IiiLJs5Mril too sfuwv-M for. oous i still eeUEve; w, ""fk 5 ; yMA '. 1 ..AV' , , jsSi-fS- SSilfe , , jCl NOU- - HE'S INNOCENT- ' Vi. IES NAME SUCCESSOR 10 PORTLAND. Ore.. July 13. (AP) Fred Plath of Yakima was elected president of the Northwest Tree Fruits Industries at a meeting of the control committee here Thurbday. He succeeds Paul Schercr of Mcdford. Jack Rogers of Wenatchee was elected first vice-president, and Glenn Marsh of Hood River was elected sec ond vice-president and treasurer. Asked whether the committee had decided whether any control should be exercised over the apple deal this year, Scherer said no action had been taken but the committee had ex pressed the wish to give the control authority to commodity commissions which would regulate prices and ship, ments. No action had yet been taken on the question of establishing a minimum f, o. b. price. PIONEER ROSEBURG MERCHANT PASSES ROSEBURG, Ore., July 13. f AP Isa dore Abraham, 64, engaged in mer chandising at Roscburg for the' past 42 years, died last night as the result of a sudden heart attack. Born In Germany, May 6, 1870. he came to the United States at the age of lo years, and was engaged In business for a short time with a brother at Belllngham, Wash. American colonists carried on a thriving trade with the Creek Indians of Georgia as early as 1680. CTTRITRRAN HF CUVi SIDERED M0VIK6T0THE HOUSE . OH THE CORNER , UNflL HE DID SOME MEASURING AND DISCOVERED TrtM. COME WlKTER . H WOULD HAVE 325 FEET Of SIDEWALK To SHOVEL. INSTEAD Of 0 FEET AS AT PRESENT 6nyAS (QgpTTitM, 1M4, by The BB BywUeato, he.) 7-3 WIIUAS Aw I WEvet (Copyright," 19H y W By GLUVAS WILLIAMS BY 0. M. Payn"y I The Bell Syndlcsle, Inc.) by Hal Forresi By Sol Hess J.
