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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, tEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 193?.
SPOT MA1MM5E
RYXOPMB: While Bob l.
Uniehce hie work in Mexico
Kile, ttareha, i caring lor In
mother, ill ot an incurable dieeate
in Sew York. Uareha and Bob had
hern on the brink ot divorce, but
Bob hat decided it beet that theu
vrctend affection white hie mother
remaine ali-w. Bob and Uareha
love each other, but are held apart
by a loolieh mieundcretandino.
Chapter Jl
TARLETON AGAIN
IT'EBRUARY was bad for Marsha
twice Mrs. Powers was acutely
111, a nurse became a fixture, the
doctor a constant visitor.
Once Marsha (clt she must wire
Bob, recalling him; but her hope
that the next day "things would be
better" was Justified; for a little
time more, she docldcd, she could
fight on alone.
Mrs. Powers liked Marsha at her
bedside. "The -lurse Is an efficient,
a very admirable young woman, but
I seem to need you, child," said Mrs.
Powers. "I am, I sometime feel,
rather absurdly dependent upon
you, cblld. I hope I do not weary you
by the dependence?"
Marsha said that the dependence
did not weary her, and her voice
was a trifle thick. She, herself, had
learned too much of dependence,
She did not know how she could
go on without Bob's mother, who
was the only person who had ever
roally cared. "1 adore you!" she
thought, looking toward the faded
and shrunken small person who lay
on the great bed.
Marsha thought swiftly then of
the groceries she must order. Such
things diverted one and ever since
she bad cried, face pressed against
Mrs. Powers' knees, It bad been too
easy ior her to cry. And oddly
enough, that was because, at mo
ments and despite circumstances,
the was so very, very bappy.
The nurse talked to Marsha
"rather too persistently," Marsha
felt, about getting out. To Ella and
Hannah, the nurse said, sounding
angry. "She ought to get out more.
She suffers more when the old lady
suffers, than the old lady does I"
"You mean, I prosume, Mrs. Pow
ers?" Hannah questioned chilly. She
knew her place, did Hannah, but
"the old ldy"l Impertinent, It was;
and Incorrect, too, with Mrs. Pow
ers baroly seventy! (Hannah was
aovonty-two).
But with Hannah's anger some
whut calmed, Hannah considered
the matter and spoke to Marsha
about It.
AND becauso the nurse and Han
nah and Ella and even Bar
tholomew said that they felt she
should get out a bit more If she
would pardon the liberty of their
peaking Marsha went out to shop
ono afternoon, saying before she
left, and with mock sadness, tbat
she did not fool she was very popu
lar. Once out, she snw Gcoffroy
Tnrleton.
Her shopping had been done fair
ly quickly considering the time It
takos to move In Now York, where
traffic is controlled In the most
modern manner. And knowing her
early return would he a disappoint
ment to those who wanted her to
have "a long, free afternoon," she
turned, for her tea. Into a small,
sedate hotel on a side street. She
did not think she would meet any,
one she knew.
An old waltor, who saw hor as
very kind as well as most beautiful,
put himself out to servo her well
so much of kindness coupled with
beauty, exporlonce had taught him
Is rare. And although the temper of
orvants had not at one time mat
tered at all to her, Marsha was now
warmed by the wish to plonse that
she felt.
She was actually enjoying the
tame little moment, she decided,
as she loosened ber fur, when she
looked up to see Geoffrey Tarlclon
entering tho dining room and, eyoa
upon her, moving toward hor.
Threading through tnblos swiftly
and with his usual nonchalance,
nine-tenths of ;he few women pres
ent looked after blin.
"Well!" he said, by hor table and
looMng down upon her; she was not
looking quite well, he saw, but he
bad never known her to be lovelier.
"1 came here," said Marsha, "be
cause 1 thought no one I knew would
be here, and Geoff, that has a
moral."
"I snw you come In; 1 tanged you
. . . old hnblts cling. Can't 1 sit
down for a few moments. Marsha!
Fay for the space ot drinking a cup
ot the ghastly tea they must brew
Farley Optimistic
Over Demo Outlook
WASHINGTON. Auk. (API
PoAlmniitrr Ornrrnl Purify returned
from till wrutern trip today ralclMinit
optlmlritn ovfr Drmtx-rntlr fl.-ctlon:
pronpecta. Hn tout nrwnnnprr men
Srnhtor Uomh'i rrUKtnm of ttit NltA
j talk to
"IF" you must, Geoff; but tbere'i
1 nothing (or us tc say to one an
other, and you must know, Geoff,
that I'd rather not be with you."
"I bear tho Jld lady'a acting tho
dragon, and that you're locked In a
tower," said Geoffrey as he settled
to lay the coat he had shed, bis
stick, hat and gloves upon a nearby
cbalr,
"You bear tbe usual lies that are
made by gossips," Marsha answered.
"I've thought ot you a lot, Marsha.
I've wanted to ring you up to ask
you to have tea with me, and wanted
to ask you a few questions. I sup
pose you get your afternoon out, a
la cook?"
"Please don't call me, Geoffrey."
"Very well. I smashed thing" up
for you, didn't I?"
"Quite successfully," p' admit
ted, "but I haven't blr.med you. It
was my fault"
"Isn't It fixed up?"
"No."
Tho waltor drow near; rather
vaituely, Oooffrey, who waa usually
do(t, ordered "some sort of or
tea."
"No end sorry," said Geoffrey.
Marsha raised her shoulders and
hor brows. "Odd thing," ho went on.
"I never houRht I'd foel sorry you
weren't being lovod by another
man, and I care more than over for
you. Mut ever since that day, I care
In a now way; I want you happy.
Who said. "So much of good In the
worst of us' 7"
1 don't know, Gooff, and you're
kind ... but don't tell mo about car
ing for me again, please."
"Very well, dear."
He saw her eyes grow wldo be
cause she did not want the tears
that had welled in them, to escape.
lie hsd always been bored, hideous
ly bored, by weeping women, nut
now, well, It was quite dlfferont, and
It only hurt d.mnably to see ber
fight bnck tears and he found that
ha waa not hldoously bored by a
weeping woman.
'It breaks me up to hare people
too kind." she snld "Kindness has
come to matter amazingly, and the
things we used to do seem flat.
been knitting washcloths!"
tCervteei. I'll, ty K. Herilend T4tlel
Tomorrow, th, curat, tiktt
and other administration pollrla "Is
not making any ImprcMlon even on '
the people of Idaho."
OLYMPIA. Wajill., Aus. i.Vi I
William Miller, 41. brakemxit on the'
locking rnllrnad of the Mutual Lum 1
ber Co., Bucodn. waa fatally Injured '
tndav aa he fell from a losing train
and waa run over.
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Mrs. Powers liked Marsha at her BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Safe! Bv EDWIN ALGER
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FISHERMEN AGREE
BKATTLB, Aug. fl. (AP) Waah
lngton and AUaka fish will do the
"striking" from now on with some
700 fishermen of the- Alaska Tr oilers
association going back to work yes
terday and the Purse Seine Fisher
men's association of Washington re
turning to the salmon banks today.
George Jurlch, secretary of the
purse seiners, announced here that
the association had accepted terms of
Fishermen's Packers corporation and
had agreed on a price of sock eye sal
mon, ending a strike which was called
at Neah Hay, July 31.
"The first 300,000 sock eyes received
by the corporation," Jurlch said, "are
t't be paid for at the rate of 45 cents
a salmon.
"The second 200,000 at 40 cents
salmon, and all over 400,000 at not
leas than 30 cents."
WASHINGTON. Aug. 8. ( AP)
Secretary Morgenthau plans to in
crease his alcohol tax force to 8000
men as he "fights to the finish" to
eliminate the bootlegger.
In what officials called the greatest
drive ever , conducted against tax
dodging liquor, the treasury head
equipped IS newly organized klcohol
tax districts with supervisory person
nel and disclosed that 1301 enforce-
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ment Investigators already are In the
field.
These are part of force of 3201
now employed, most of the remainder
being at work keeping tab on legal
liquor.
LETTING IS DELAYED
SALEM, Aug. 8. (AP) The meet
ing of the state highway commission,
set for August 23 to let the first of
the new projects under the congres
sional appropriation of more than
13,000,000 was postponed today until
approval of the allocations recently
announced Is received from the fed
eral government.
It was hoped the meeting would not
be deferred more than one week, but
no definite date had yet been set.
U. S. AND SPAIN TALK
OYER TRADE TREATY
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. (AP)
The United States and Spain have
started talking things over to clear
the way for a give-and-take trade
treaty.
Department of commerce figures
dlsclsoed today that trade between
the two countries la Improving, It
nearly doubled In the first half of
1034 as compared with the first half
of the preceding year. It Is hoped
preliminary talks, now going on be
tween the president's tariff bargain-!
Ing committee and Ambassador Juan
Francisco De Cardenas, will lead to
still greater Increases.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (AP) The
marines are coming home from Haiti
next week, closing the book of Amer
ican intervention In Latin America.
When the American flag is hauled
down at the barracks In Port au
Prince August 15 and the "devil
dogs" embark for home, It will signal
the liquidation of another of the war
time tasks that Uncle Sam shouldered
and It will underscore America's
"good neighbor" policy.
Haiti regains full sovereignty after
19 years. The evacuation la being
completed two months ahead of
schedule as the result of President
Roosevelt's visit to the Island repuD
lic In July,
ALLOTTED IRE HELP
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. (AP)--
The appointment of 1,885 additional
regular employes In the large post-
offices over the country was an
nounced today by Postmaster Gen
eral Farley.
The appointments were made, Far
ley said, in order to provide "satis
factory postal facilities for the pat- j
rona of those offices." j
They will be effective August 16 1
and the regular positions will go to
senior substitute employes. j
The postofflces which will draw
new employes, and the number In
each Include: Oregon: Portland, 9,
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