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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1934. 1 tj&t&iJunt SYKUFMlt: While Bob Power! flotet up hit work In Uexico, Martha. hit wife, it oaring tor BoSt mother in Sea York. Uartha and Bob have been on the verge ot divorce, but when lire. Powert be ronul Incurably III. Bob decide then mutt pretend to love each other tor her take. Martha wrltei to aek whether her careful reporte ot hit mother"! condition annoti Bab. Chapter !4 TORN LETTER BOB'S situation had been even mora difficult than had been Marsha's. He was straining to ac complish In one week more than two men could In a month, bis one thought being to get bis work far enough along so that be could cut and run. The day's work done, there was usually nothing left for him but moody reverie or wonder. He could not mingle with his as sociates or stay with them mentally even when they were loudest. They watched blm anxiously, and, be cause be was a general favorite, they forgave bis nervous Irrita bility. TouDg Todd, the Insatiable gos sip always found In every group of any size, wondered (aloud) why there was no portrait, In Powers' diggings, of Powers' wife. A more robust type wheeled on blm to order Bob waa doing two men's work, and more. ilm to alienee and In terms that left 10 doubt ot hie being heeded. "Like to etlr up talk, wouldn't rou?" Young Todd beard. "And a lot of reason for It, with Power, pending every free hour reading her lettera. Alexander aaya he'a wakened at night to see Bob read ing 'em by tbe light of a candle. So luppoaa you shut up!" Young Todd did, but be could not help wondering why Powers bad no portrait ot his wife, while be bad two of bis mother; sllvertramed. "It Is odd!" ha murmured to him elf, In his precise and, to men, mad lenlng way, "Very odd!" Bob had been starved for word from Marsha; personal word ot ber. He had read every letter until Us creases were worn and a trifle oiled. He looked between tbe lines about hla mother, lines that counted and meant everything, to try to de cipher bow Marsha was. And upon that late February eve ning, when be read the letter In which Marsha asked him whether she annoyed him with too much de tail, he laughed almost naturally. He pulled a sheet of paper from a rudely made rack he was sitting by a table which served aa a desk end then recklessly, he scrswled: "WES, your letters annoy me; they annoy me ao deeply that I keop Vicente Gonzalea In town, having reserved a permanent seat for him In the post-office. "You see. 1 keep thinking that a miracle Is going to happen and that. In one ot your extra lettera which are not written for effect upon mother, you will some day slip In a "dear." But they tell much of you, without a 'dear,' and they are won derful letters, and they make me wonder how long my life must be without you. "Yea, they are very wonderful let ters and I alwaya hope, as I see Vicente and his mule swinging Into the gulch and crawling up to ua that he will bring more than John Drake's cut plug and Alexander's home papera and the augar or tea for Ling; my hope being tor one of those letters that 'annoys' me. "And sometimes 1 dream, (this Is badly mixed, but thinking ot you I Ti WFNArCHEE. Wssh., Au. 11. -P.) An order stopping shipment of "or third run early" and other immature applrs to dome tic markets was Is 'ltd here today by Walter J. Robin son, director ot agriculture. The ruling becomes effective immediately. Movement of such fruit will be per. mittd only for export under special permit. The fruit must be routed di rect to its foreign destination and no diversion will be permitted I Tivt action tvas taken st the re quest oS laf am&bef j f rowers Jj&LO&atf - ivf&l - I can't he coherent; I am only very I hungry thinking of you, dearest) sometimes I dream that this time 1 there will be a gently sincere and i affectionate letter from you In tbe Idlc'jag. "Yet I know I am a fool to dream so, for I would know If you wrote that sort. Tbere would be a new, bright star In my sky, down here, and I, looking up, would say, 'There's a letter of the sort 1 need coming to me from my wife! Get It, mutt vronte, Vicente, or I will kill you!' "Or perhaps I would run all tbe way myself, (and 1 rather think 1 would) because It would be so mucb easier than waiting." He sat back. His own hurried scrawl mocked and laughed at blm. Suddenly, and with unnecessary en ergy, be tore the sheet In many small pieces and dropped tbem to the floor. "1 say," remonstrated Alexander, whose bed-hour bad been Ignored because of a new detective tale, "Ling cleaned up hert, today for the first time In three months. That's a hell of a way to encourage blm!" "I'LL pick tbem up," Bob muttered 1 and be did, in a somewhat shamed, foolish way. He wired Marsha the next day, fearing she might wait for his answer before she wrote sgatn: "PARENTHESIS LETTER:' uELP MORE THAN 1 CAN Sa.V AND 'l THANK YOU STOP PLEASE WRITE A3 OFTEN AS YOO CAN WITH OUT TAXING YOUR STRENGTH STOP BOB PARENTHESIS." But even with wiring there waa a gap be felt to be years long, be tween those unconsored histories Marsha wrote for blm. However, at length he read, and bla heart pounded, "This afternoon your mother and I looked at your baby clothes and she did enjoy Ul Forgive me If I dare even mors than usual to rtiaw too close here, (1 have Just bad your wire; I tbank you for It) but I do want to expresa something of my own persons I feeling. j "I do think thst you should now 1 be drawing mucb comfort from the fact that you have alwaya been so good a son. You've made your motber so happy; you have never, , In any way, failed Dor 1 will write you, at your mother's dictation, to morrow. Marsha." He replied in a stilted way, with: "(As 1 said before write me any thing everything you will Your letters, tbelr length; content, could not annoy me!)" then, under the push of all he felt, he added, "(They ; mean more to me, Marsha, than you 1 will ever know.)" , But he scratched this out with a ! letter opener thst one of the newest and still ambitious Northern re cruits had made. After he did It ha sat looking at the spot that be had scratched, which tells lots even to those souls who hsve the wisdom to let psychoanalysis go Its own wsy undisturbed. Ha longed tor the relief of writing all he felt to her; be found himself aching to do It In the middle ot those sleepless dreams which be had assured her would be, and which were. During the night he composed the most amaxlng of screeds sometimes of a purely friendly nature, and sometimes of quite snother sort. (Crtmttl, l'J4. tr t. HmLJ TirtM Rob sustains a great shock, to morrow. and shippers. Roblrwon s!d. They t."M that Immature fruit on domes tic market would have a bad effect on the latter deal by giving all apples i bad reputation. Wool Mart Broader. Held Hopeful Sign BOSTON, Aug. U. vT) (VS D A) Business in the Bcutcn wool market during the past wwk has shown a tendency to broaden, ffales continued scattered, and mrwt transactions were of very moderate volume. The increa? in eslea. even though it was small, waa regarded by some of the trade a hopeful sign as It came on the lines thst had been Inactive for aer era! weeks. The lower price let-els re- j cently quoted on the western f ron j moots were believed to have some In-1 fluence in the lnorerd trade. FieeoAi were very quiet. If you want a really beautiful Per-j manent. call tPl, Medford Beauty Shop, N. Central. P WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. (APJ Condition August 1 Indicated i wheat crop of 490,960,000 bushels and corn 1,607,108,000 bushela, reflecting de vastation by the drought. The department of agriculture made these forecasts today. A month ago the Indicated wheat crop was 484,000.000 bushels, com pared with 528,000,000 harvested last year. Corn last month was expected to be 9.113.000,000 bushels, agalnat 3, 344.000,000 last year. The preliminary estimate of the winter wheat crop was placed today at 400.522,000 bushels, compared with 394,000,000 a month ago, 352.000.000 last year and 632,000,000 the 1927-31 average. Spring wheat production Is Indi cated ss 00,438,000 bushels, compared with 89,400,000 a month so. 176.000. 000 last year and 254.000,000 the five year average. Production of other Important crops indicated by their August 1 condi tion, waa announced as follows: Oats 645.345.000 bushels, compared with 508.000.000 taut month. 732,000. 000 last year and 1,187,000,000 the five-year average. Barley, 119,000,000 bushels, against 125,000,000 lftAt month. 157,000.000 tM year, and 270,000,000 five year average. Hay (tame) 49.000,000 tons, against' S MATTER POP MOTHKk!' T-.-LL "VOU M NOT IMTGRCTED LORD ALCY Bix'A.W HE.5 A. 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V -X LET THE JUST A ENTERED THE OLO WAREHOUSE BV THE I iV, LET HIM HAVE IT ' MMM V COT I SAW THAT LIGHT J M&PEg&ffim OLD POOCH MINUTE WATERFRONT HIS NAILS CLICKED SHARPiy 'lllllllllllllWJ . 5 . Maxs-. m,mk amble a mi I ago- on the. stairs 1 1 i i i UmMrmT, mm THE NEBBS How Nice You Look Bv s0i Hes .TV PAHUOtt WITH A 15-CEWT TlPi'it i ffo.,0,r . VE- COT SOOO MEWS-lVey TO ASK VOL) FOR MOWEVJmISHTV FLATTfeRIKJS SOTS VImT rv, THAT VM SOMNJA WtS4f IIKJ' &OT 0OB AJOt-5 1 WMT 1 CtMECWED; SESIVOOVE DOME WOOSM , tZ P5 Aeo cn T I-' V cLS? NEED AWVMORE MOJE-vVll IBVOU'O LIKE TO SO II FOR. ME BV VOUR. lo wer &err vweul oiokjt as , ioo okj account rrf , . ENsJlh"s I 1 came oownj hme i OR A REPAltOT OOB-J VpKJ JW AT OVW E J " ? MOvJ TMlS IMVITATIONJ c 53.000,000 last month, 66.000,000 last year and 72,300,000 five-year average. Beans (dry edible) 9.200,000 bags of 100 lbs., against 10,400,000 last month, 12.300.000 last year, and 11,600,000 five-year average Apples. 110,000.000 bushels, agalnat 112,000.000 last month, 143,000.000 last year and 156,000.000 five-year average Peaches, 45,400.000 bushels, against 48,700.000 last month, 44,900,000 last year, and 67,900,000 five-year average Pears. 32,900,000 bushels, against 22,400.000 last month, 21,200,000 last year, and 22,600,000 five-year aver age. Grapes, 1 .880,000 tons, against 1.960,000 last month, 1.910,000 last year and 2,280,000 five-year average. Potatoes, S27.OO0.000 bushels, against 848,000,000 last month, 320. 000.000 last year, nd 366,000,000 five year average. Fall and Winter Goods Ready Soon Burelsons? Store Exceptionally smart lines of fall and winter apparel for Medford and southern Oregon women, selected by Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Burelson in San Francisco during the recent market week, will be received at Burelson's ladles' ready-towear store within the next ten days. Btyle shows at the Palace hotel were attended by Mr. and Mrs. Burel son August 8 and 9. Black predom inated, while green and brown proved to be favorite fall colors. Dresses for half and Urge sizes were purchased by the Burelson's from eastern firms whose representatives were at the St. Francis hotel. Mr. Burelson dealt with these firms when he was In business in other states, he said yesterday, and is well-ac quainted with their merchandise. Use Mall Tribune want ads. WtiUL.-'OULL DO A"b I js.Y- Wti A FlslK MAM- IN'sl'iTEP ONJ VO'JR FATHf! CETTiNlG WIM A DnMTlOKl AKin MOT TO COME HOC OME FOR PLENTY OF FOOD, FEWER SIRLOINS. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. (AP) Food prices will be "materially high er" next year, says Secretsry Wallace, but no shortage la expected. The drought, which has driven prospective food and feed supplies down to the lowest point In 30 years. Is responsible. In 1935 consumers will not enjoy the "customary supply of sirloin steaks and pork chops," Wallace de clared, "but there will be plenty of food to keep everyone In the best of health." Yesterday's crop report estimated that production of 32 principal crops will be 32 per cent below the average of the past 13 years. Wallace said: "Prices will necessarily be materially higher" but "the essential problem la still the city problem of effective channels of distribution." He added that he would prevent by every means possible speculation and profiteering In foodstuffs. The secretary also declared that drought damage revealed by the re port "makes necessary very great modifications" In crop curtailment plans for 1935. To avoid getting production out of balance again, however, "it will ' e necessary to have some sort of con-, trol," even though acreage cuts are 1 not called for, he said. "It would seem .to be essential to be In a position to resume control In 1936," he said. Use Mall Tribune want ads. WELL-Thi i THE S.T LUCK I'VE HAD lJ FIVE VEW-I COT A JOT3 FER LOD AlCt CHAW lu. K f r-v im. W, TIME TO EAT isofToH Picnic with WlW.-ffii)DESWEAR-1LV BEHIND THEM, WISH ING IriEr'PSIbPro EM" SEES TAfriER Sf BAS KET" TOWN M BREAKS )K1& A fROf UrVM WIU-iArtt ft,) (Copyright, 1634. by I GOT WM A BOJiTiOM FROM FRIENO-MR. CROCKSRY OF THE YOHOHIHUM CHIN1A WARE. CQMPAMY- r ,.. ME STAT SEES-friEM SfoPRf Lft&f RKD JOYfUUY HURRIES It) CfrfcH UP FiNW frtEV WERE MERE LV S-fbPPlXG 1& ADMIRE 1HE VIEW. RETlErfS Brf TERLV TtoT ONE CMi'f EW SCENERY finis tatwer hap STOPPED OWLS' 1b 6Ef A PEBBLE OUfOF HIS SHOE. LOOKS YEARNING LY Af BASKET FAMILY VETOES THREE POSSIBLE STOPPING PLACES BECAUSE OF A COW, AN Artf HILL AND NO SHADE. "IfcAR R0L1$ SLOWLY DOWN CHEEK Th Ball Syndicate, Ins.) nir WES STARTED ALRFDY WE A-E.D For? CW1K1A. TH? AFTERNJQONl- ! ' I . By GLUYAS WILLIAMS f BBJiHS MOUWJf itt.' CHANf 1HAf HE'& HUNGRY", BUf IS T&0 FAR BEHIND T&EM fO HWE If DO AtfV OOV FAMILY STOPS ATlASf. TAKES LARGE BITE OF CHEESE AND JELLY SANDWICH, AND TOft E1S HIS TROUBLES By 0. M. Payn By George McManua EEK! iiliBvr
