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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOUD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1934 PAGE SIX K'.VO.SS: Tha divorca Bob I'owera waa forcing ilaraha to pet li Hopped becauaa of tha fact that Bob'a mother hoa fallen ill of an incurable dlaeaae. Ha decldea that the old ladv muil not know of their unhappineea. and when ha returna to (Itilan tip hta work In Uextcoha lenvea Unrahd to watch over hia mother. Chapter 2S NEW ROUTINE r TAS th postman stopped ?" Mrs 11 Powers asked Marsha. "I think we Bhould have a letter from Rob ert." "Not yet. dear. I told Bartholo mew to bring the letters up straight off!" "I, too, spoke to him, to give much the same order. Hare you noticed the begonia, Marsha? "The one with the sad, pale leaf?' "Yea, dear. I thought when you smoked, you could blow smoke upon It, but gently." "Yes, darling." "Waa that the postman?" "I think not, dear, but I'll go see. Then I'll smoke the begonia." "It has aphis on It, I tear." "I thought so too, dear." It had been the postman; no let ter from Bob. Was there anything In the post that would divert his mother, Marsha wondered. Thank heaven, ttier was a letter from France- She would make endless to-do about that, and wltb Marsha's con fessing to her wonder about the writer and her further leading Mrs. Powers would tell her all about the writer: who her mother was, etc. and etc. That would mute the disap pointment. Such handling had mut ed Mrs. Powers' disappointment for three days now. Was he well? Safe? She paused a moment on the stair, chilled by fears. Then, with a lift of chin she hur ried upward. "Bob?" Mrs. Powers asked aa she appeared. "No, but we could hardly hope to hear as yot; there hasn't been time. But you've ft letter from France!" "From France? Now I wonder " "Of course I don't know the writ ing; It's a rather bold writing. And beautiful paper. I'll get your letter cutter." "Please, dear. I don't seem to re member that writing. Do you think It was written by ft man or woman, Marsha?" "I'd aay a woman," Marsha an swered slowly. "As would I. The curly P. But come men curl Ps." "Yes. I've noticed." "But there Is a boldness, too, that suggests ft man." Thla took ten minutes. "She's that patient," said Hannah later, "when 1 looked ber way, sometimes I could see ft halo round ber, like there Is on the Saints, themselves. Always gentle and soft-spoken un derstanding, and with a heart that Is rare to see!" SUB had her first letter from Bob while Mrs. Powers' clemyman called. She sent the letter addressed to hla mother upstairs where Mrs. Powers lay stiff orlng In her bed; It was "a bad day." And downstairs, Marsha sat hold ing her letter botween her hands and closely, as she tried to listen. At one time, she knew, ;h would have been amused by "Jolting the old dodo"; now she saw him as rather dear. Ho was trying so to entortaln her with his long-winded and tedious description of a trip to the Holy Land. The congregation had sent him. he explained; she saw his pride. "How they must love you!" she said, "and what a rare opportunity to see that wonderful place!" He nodded, smiling. He had heard sundry whispers of her; this lovely and charming young woman. He couldn't understand thorn; he had norer mot a more delightful or beau tiful young woman; Mrs. Powers talked of her by the hour. He lis tened happily and with sympathy. How unjust were men, and women! She held Bob's letter closely be tween her palms. She heard: "Travel, to my think ing. Is broadening!" "Oh, unite!" she agreed. Sim pljclty touched and warmed her now. The old ono that she had been dead! dead! Bob had written a description of one drunken Pedro who, drunk, had painted his hovel with a sticky sweet wine. Marsha laughed a little, tnd then frowned, rending It. RlTer Tragedy BAKER. Aug e.-(AP)-Auftln Craw ford of Kobmritr. 48. whs drouma a-hlle awlmmlnM In tlie Snake rl.er with a party at friends at the Vt:t horse ranch located about 10 mllM down the river from Robinctte. Oregon Went tier. Pair tonight and Tueaday but cloudy on coast; temperature some what above normal In Interior; gtn tie changeable wind offshore. lllillllli She wrote later: "Dear l Everything is running along, t. smoothly for us here. Your mothoi was made so happy by your lettei to her. But I am going to tell you, because I know you want me to, not to write of drunken natives again. (It was funny.) She was deeply shocked by It, and you see, Bob, 1 couldn't very well keep your first letter to me from her." Mrs. Powers had murmured, "How dreadful; How dreadfull" "So please In writing me neit time, say there are many very good and sober natives. And write me s little more warmly if you can; sbe expects It. Anything you mean you can put in parenthesis. 1 can slip extra sheets Into yours. I show her the warm-toned letter I writs you. She likes to see them, I know. But an extra letter sheet from you might not be easy for me to explain. I might open that letter before ber. I want her to know she Is in step wltb us; in full confidence. You un derstand? "I am learning to play checkers. I mean, I'm notl Do you remember Ring Lardner's The Golden lionet moon In that one old gentleman said, 'Checkers Is a child's game,' and the other replied, 1 quote roughly, 'It is, the way you play it!' and that applies! I am being beaten horribly and I shan't be entered In the great American steeplechase! love playing. 1 am happy serviug your mother." Her other letter began with, "My dearest my very dearest hus band" Bob read that again and again and one night be found himself pen cilling the parentheses that were to tell hla chaff from grain, around the "My dearest my very dearest husband" that Marsha had written and, too, around ever? other sen fence of hers that matched the warmth of air be breathed. He dreamed of her, deapite bis' best Intentions to think nothing of her; dreamed of her while awake to And, stepping from the dreams, the coldly bitter reality that was made by truth. January whirled by. The bridge grew. THERE were many games of checkers; there were, on Mrs. Powers' "good days," sober drives In a closed motor. There were small teas for Mrs. Powers' friends when Marsha poured, and talked of storing woo'.ens and of the dietetic habits of moths, and of cooks and their migratory tendencies. Marsha began to plan and to order the meals, to deal with trades people by telephone, to arrange flowers. Once and again sbe was forced to cheat herself of necessary sleep Is order to "get Bob's letter off" Marsha had admired Mrs. Pow ers' deft knitting of wash-cloths; Mrs. Powers bad replied, "Dear,' it Is no task at all after you catch It. Let me teach you to knit them. I am certain It would fascinate you! Nothing la more soothing!" The knitting of the wash-cloths did not soothe Marsha, but she did her valiant best to learn, for she knew Mrs. Powers would find a new lnterost through teaching ber. "There Is more to this than I sup posed, Mother!" Marsha would ad mit with a sigh, to hear, "Darling, you are doing very, very well! In fact, and quite truly, remarkably well, considering that your aunt did not deom it wise to teach you these necessary things In childhood!" Mrs. Powers invariably empha sized "aunt," when 1. applied to Miss Oortri'de Moore. Miss Ger trude had made Mrs. Powers add a codicil to her prayers; this ran, "And soften the heart of your err ing child, Lord, to that woman who waa not fair, aa you know well. Lord, to our dear Marsha!" Miss Gertrude had called upon Mrs. Towers to sit stonily silent as Mrs. Powers eulogized Marsha. The eulogies hud grown loud and tremu lous: they had done nothing. Mini Gertrude loft. Mrs. Powers shaking and close to tears. When Marsha came back from seeing Miss Gertrude to her motor. Mrs. Powers put her arms sround the girl who was chilled by the hideous feeling that her aunt might hare said somathlng to change Bob's mother toward her. I love you. dear!" Mrs. Powers said fiercely. fCWiTi;, Ml, h K, Bnilani Tarler) Tomorrow, Mrs. Powtrs wrlttl a latter to Bob. Pane Prince Hurt COPENHAGEN, Aug. 6. (AP) Prince Harald. brother of King Christian of Denmark, broke hla leg j and received other Injuries when he . fell downstalra In the dark last night, i The prince was brought to a private I hoapltal here. Pickers and packera' tally cards, In large or amall quantities, ready ror delivery at Job Department Malli Tribune. 38-30 N Urape. T AND CLEAR SKIES Monthly meteorollglcal notes for July as compiled by W. J. Hutchison, local meteorologist, show clear skies with normal warm July weather pre valent throughout the month. Max imum temperatures averaged slightly lower than usual while mlnlmums ranged a little above normal. There were no unusually high temperatures and all maximum thermometer read ings were below 95 degrees after the first day of the month; the highest temperature for the month being 05 degrees on that day. Nights were cool and pleasant with lowest tempera tures averaging M.l degrees for the month. On the 22nd the thermometer recorded 47 degrees, the lowest for the month, making an absolute range in temperature of 48 degrees. The mean dally range was 33.0 de grees. With an abundance of sunshine and seasonable weather crops In the valley made excellent progress. Small grains matured and were harvested under favorable conditions. Tree fruits developed satisfactorily and some varieties were ready to pick at the close of the month; an ex ceptionally early beginning of the fruit harvest season. Measurable precipitation fell only on the 6th when a light thunder shower passed over tha valley. The total for this shower amounted to .02 inches. Very light rains also oc S MATTER POP riMW.ICAMTiLHV J a-,- K Uoi-r J f "rs,N"r ? soICam t4e Cwl.! i.l-p..t mwoeu) fl Stat-.c f J Stat.c! f "'6S Tfii - rs i (Copyright. 193 TAILSPIN TOMMY Off on a New Adventure! 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The seasonal rainfall deficiency continues to In crease and st the close of July amounted to 6.82 Inches. Total seas onal precipitation on that date was 11.02 Inches. Cloudiness throughout the month was confined to but five days, the remainder being characterised as clear. Smoke from forest fires drift ed over the valley on a few occas ions, limiting visibility somewhat for short periods. Weather conditions dur ing the entire month were excellent for air traffic at Medford. Date Max. Mln. Mean Prec. 1 93 59 77 .00 Cloudy 2 03 58 76 .00 Clear 3 86 48 67 .00 Clear 4 90 50 70 .00 Clear 6 90 56 73 .00 Clear 6 ......... 88 65 72 .02 Clear 7 76 66 66 T Cloudy 8 83 53 68 .00 Clear 9 89 54 72 .00 Clear 10 87 57 72 .00 Clear 11 91 48 70 .00 Clear 12 90 49 70 .00 Clear 13 . 93 60 72 .00 Clear 14 86 57 72 .00 Clear 15 88 63 70 .00 P Cloudy 16 84 54 69 .00 P Cloudy 17 86 65 76 .00 Clear 18 89 56 73 .00 Clear 19 89 57 73 .00 Clear 20 79 51 85 , .00 Clear 21 74 52 63 TP Cloudy 22 86 47 66 .00 Clear 23 91 63 72 .00 Clear 24 .89 67 73 .00 Clear 26 90 55 72 .00 Clear 28 95 64 74 .00 Clear 27 94 56 .75 .00 Clear 28 94 57 76 .00 Clear 29 92 58 75 .00 Clear 30 83 54 68 .00 Clear 31 89 60 70 .00 Clear Mean ....88.0 64.1 71.0 .03 V. TT71 'I W ... tety - CM I 1 kM JkPhmL. LIGHTNING CHIEF CAUSE OF FIRES, 8POKANE, Wuh, Aug. 6. (AP) Lightning continues to be tho fire lighter' worat enemy with the care leu amolcer ft poor second, data re leased Saturday night by the forest service revealed. Information compiled on 62 fires In District No. 1, with headquarter, r.t Missoula, Mont., charged llghtnir with starting 327, while 15 were blam ed on smokers. Trains started six. campers five, and two were of in cendiary origin. Within the belt across northeastern Washington, northern and central Idaho and western Montana, the two major fires that remained uncontroll ed were within an ad of submission tonight, the forest service office here said. Only a high wind would pre vent complete trenching of the Trou. creek fire in the Cabinet forest of western Montana, despite the absence of rain that fell over other flre-bllght-ed ereas. The 30.000-acre fire In the ColvtUe forest In northeastern Washington al ready was quelled on the western front, with control expected tonight, there being large cool areas within the fire lines. Nippon Workers Die HIROSHIMA, Japan. Aug. 8. (AP) ! Twenty-five laborers were killed and eight Injured today by a dyna mite explosion during construction of a power plant at the nearby vil lage of Nakano. 'TWO OUT! ONE QUIT 3 BATTER fAKS . CAILS to Teammates "two out , P1AV tor -the butter" HAS INSPIRATION AMD POINTS OUT THAT A 6UV' WAS PUT OUT TRVIK6 To STEAL SECOND 6UWAV , fcfVPRM. UPROAR OPPOtfEMTS IMMEPlMf fcf" RW5E cry THAT there's omv one 60WE LOWS. HOME TEAM 1K6 SftADIlV "TWO OUT" OPPONENTS SHRIEKIMG IN UNISON ONE OOT' This BEIK& PROUED TO AR60HEMT 6ETTW6 NO" HAVE HAPPENED LAST IN- WHERE, THE CHANT AT IKS PEMArJPS POES AH'- TOP VOICE IS RESUMED' ONE FEE). LIKE CAUIH6 "TWO Ml? "ONE OUT," HIM A LIAR. "'TWO OOT,' "ONE 01)T,rETC (Copyright, 1934, by Tie Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By GLUYAS WILLIAMS FOL- BRIEF LOU. rS SHOW- mtO TO NAME WHO ELb WAS OOT BESIDE THE ONE WHO TAILED. CANT' REMEMBER, OPPONEKTS, HAMS ZOUD ER VOICES, WIN THEIR-' POINT AT LAST. ABOUT WHICH TiME 6AME IS CA1LEP BECAUSE OF PftRKrESS By 0. M. Paym