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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBTjyE, MEDFORD, OREGON", TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1934. GAslw SjvuxJ! Inj (jcuvvuvtwt AIcvul BYN0PB18: The oumere of the "Boldero" Captain Wong Bo an& Flint, the "tparke," plan to lent, tie her tor the tnsuranco. Aboard it Angut UcLeod tollA a cargo ol wild animal! . Uol.eod tatlt ' and nun oo athore. But the animate mull 00 on to Singapore, and Har vey Bovert, hunter volunteere to take them. Bowert vieite a etrand ed Unlay etrmtt at the Httle Duteh port where the "Boldero" t tied up, to nnd on antmat expert to at Ul Aim. Chapter Four BIG BERTHA QOME of tba ballyhoo poatera wer w itlll In place, and l( yon had Judged from these and not from the small ness and ahabblneaa of the tents, you would hare Judged that the Ma tassorl Clrcui was of monstrous caliber and world tame. The dark jungle beyond was lighted here and there by long strong slanting shafts .yt sunlight Bowers and bis Malay chauffeur bunted about for traces of an animal trainer. In the drat three irtdejhow tents they found only erldences of hasty packing and abandonment But In the fourth tent, which was rery little, tbey found a woman who was bit. The ballyhoo posters without bad Informed them that her name was "And only a gulden sac..." said Bowera. " And that 1 cannot be happy with less than six." He selected six of the photographs pretty much at random, Docketed them and paid tor them. This was the easiest money that Big Bertha had aeen in ma-y a day, and she wondered if by any chance, tba youuc and obviously rlcb uLni mao waa one of those rery rare Ameri cana xho admire fat His next ques tion seemed to sugpest to net heart whlcb easy money rendered ex tremely susceptible, that he waa. "Now that the ahow Is on tba rocks," he said, "what are you going to do for a living?" Big Bertha bridled and even sim pered. "In Oriental countries," she said, "women of my type don't have to worry about the old dally bread, It aba thought to have made a conquest she was undeceived by the next question which waa asked her. It waa asked In a very businesslike way. "Can you perhaps," said Bowers, "tell me it the animal traln.r Is still on the premises?" Big Bertha became Instantly cold and distant Doubtless she thought she resembled a queen dismissing an unsatisfactory subject "Last tent down the road," shi said icily.' - "I'm reading 'Eat and Grow Thin'," Big Bertha, that she was a genuine English lady, and that she wolghed six hundred pounds. To many Ori entals, adiposity and beauty are synonymous. At the sight of the representation of the vaat woman on the posiei the Malay chauffeur, who wa young and by nature predatory and a was trel where women were concerned, made a clicking nolee with the tip of bla tongue. Big Bertha, wbo must actually have weighed very close to six hundred pounds, dressed In ber best pink tights and velvet trunks, sat on a tin trunk, reading .a book. Bba bad clear-cut features of the usual alia; but by the scale of ber body, tbey aeemnd small and u ean. It la probable that she hearo the ounda of the two men entering the tent for they bad lifted a flap of the canvaa and let It tall rattllngly behind them, but aha did not look up. Bowera cleared bla throat and aald: "I beg your pardon." With a most snobbish Imitation of in English gentlewoman's way 01 apeaklng, and transferring ber gate from the boot to the Intruders, Big Bertha murmured tne one rord: "Granted." Then aba laid ber book, open tni face down, on thi trunk beside ber, and picked up a bandy sbeat of highly varnished photo graphs. "You will 'ardly wish to snow up at 'ome," ahe said, "without one o: tbese." DOWERS took the photog.aphs In "bis bands and looked through them. Willie be was thus engageu Big Berths perceived that the cuauf feur stood rooted and gated upon ber with awe and rapture. She dropped blm a wink, accompanied by taint twisting of her gigantic torso. Thla incipient romance waa Inter rupted by Bowers, who bad beon reading the One print at the bottom at the photographs. "Did you really weigh twenty-nine po'inds at blrtliT" be asked, and 'O his voice thera vai a kind of borrl Bed admiration. "Twenty-nine pounda to an ounce," aald Big Bertha, "and the mater only a little aprlta of a woman. Fancy!"' BOWERS, who bated to nlva of fense, realized that be had dona so, and as the imperious woman reached for her book, be smiled most engagingly and asked: "What are you reading!" But Big Bertha was jot to be mollified. Her answer waa cold and stately. "Eat and Grow 1 bin," she said. It was all that Bowers could da not to guffaw In ber face. With a choking thanks and a goodhy, be turned and fled. Not so the chauffeur. His eyes had not for a moment quitted the person of Big Bertha, and bla adulratlon bad grown steadily. He now moved toward her bs If drawn by an Irre sistible force. Her face aottened, tor somewhere among the tolda of bla aarong. the chauffeur produced a dirty little purse well stuffed with sliver. "If you please," be said, "1 like to buy pitch." It was not the ballyhoo posters, depicting the most dangerous tar mala in the most enraged and devas tating elates oi mln is wqtd caused Harvey Bowera to hesitate at the entrance to the anlmal-lcnt but a woman's voice. It waa a cold, hard voice to which worda seemed to. come easily. It waa a kind of voice often assoclat Jd with persons who. because of economic pressure, bare no time tor tbe In essential. It was a voice of author Ity, and It waa laying down the law. It waa finding faull and reproving, but it was not an angry voice. Indeed It seemed to find a kind of humor In Ita own utterances. But the voice must Lave been addressing It self to a very meek and humble au dience, tor there waa never once the sound of an answer or a wort) of re monstrance In aome other voice. He gathered presently tt,at tus voice was the voice of an exas perated mother, dreaalng down s daughter who had misbehaved. Thi scolding came to a sudden stop, and Bowers bad begun to lift thi dap ol the tent when It started np again. (Cefyrti!, t91', ey MWtw Uerru) Monday, Bowers meets a strange young woman, E JOSEPHINE CASES GRANTS PASS, Aug. 38 (Spl.) Primarily to check on pending cues In order that he might draw up nil docket, Judge H. D. Norton of the circuit court was here Monday and expected to remain todey. The September term will commence according to present arrangements, on the tenth of the month. Judje Norton said It le exported the term will be rather quiet one. Monday Norton tuned a decree In the divorce rase of Mildred Herman vs. Bert Harmon. The plaintiff waa granted a dlr on default of the defendant. PH Kail Triple wtaf Ida, LOCAL FIRM WILL DELIVEI fn order to deliver products of the Rogue river veliey throughout the entire Pacific coeat. the Southern Oregon Dlatrlbutlng company haa been organlred by Claude Thompaon and Warren Butler. Headquarters ere located In the Bnndererm Motor company building at 307 South Riv erside arenue. Medford trucaa will be employed by the new commercial transporta tion company In dlatrlbutlng produce from thla Mctnlty to a large num ber of principal citif. according to Mr. Thompaon. 0 BICVt l.Ks Wo pay ca.h for ueed blkea. lledXoid, Cycle. 33 ft. raj 90 PER CENT OF OLD iGE CORVA1XIS, Ore., Aug. 38. (AP) Orowers who have algned wheat control contracts with the govern ment will be permitted to plant 90 per cent of their former base acreage this coming year, It waa learned here today. , Officials of the Oregon State Col lege extension service were notified from Washington today of the five per cent Increase over the 85 per cent quota this year. Legal details neceasary to put the program Into effect were Being com pleted by the agricultural adjust ment administration, It was stated. The change In the amount planted will not affect benefit payments as these are baaed on the allotment of buahela rather than on acreage grown. It will mean 7000 Oregon contract holders will be able to plant more than 40,000 acres Increase over thla year. The additional area nor mally would produce 750,000 bushels ral mall delivery service In that area from the Ashland poetofflce to the Talent poetofflce. scheduled to go into effect on September 1, to Sena tor McNary. Realdenta of the affected area pro tested the change on the grounds tnat sued a transfer of mall service will Interfere seriously with the reg ularity of their business and social contacts with Ashland. The major ity of the 33 families represented in the telegraphed protest do their trading and business transsctlons In thla city. VALLEYVIEW ROUTE ASHLAND, Aug. 38. (Spl.) Thir ty-two families, residing In the Val leyvlew district adjacent to Ashland, yesterday telegraphed a unanimous protest concerning the change In ru- MEIER CANDIDACY PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 38. (AP) Whether Governor Jullu L. Meier, who rode Into office on a non-parti san ticket, will be an Independent candidate to succeed himself was ex pected to be learned dflnltely this week. Governor Meier said he would nuke a definite statement this week In re gard to his plans In connection with the gubernatorial campaign. Since the recent announcement that Governor Meier waa mulling over action of numerous persons who were said to have urged him to be a candidate, he has been approached on the same subject by numerous per sons who were said to have urged him to be a candidate, he has ebeen ap proached on the same subject by nu merous delegations and Individuals, he said. Governor Meier declined to com ment on what sort of a campaign platform he would use In case he de cided to run. 'ICT AGAIN AT LIBERTY PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 38 (AP) With no other Implement at hla die- DOaal. Clifford DauehertV. AO. whn on,. being returned to the Idaho peniten tiary from which he escaped, borrowed the name of another prisoner and escaped from the Portland city Jail today. Daughertv waa helm. rAttirn fmn. Kelso, Wash., to Boise, Idaho, for re commitment to the penitentiary. Deputlea left him In the Portland Jail last night for "safe keeping." Jailers were warned he waa "slip pery." However, he waa placed In a tank with prisoners eligible to do trusty work. When the Janitor asked for Workers thla moraine- nainrhrtw waa one of the first to volunteer. He gave nis name as Juan Erlckson. a prisoner serving a short sentence. Daugherty soon was on his way, TO NOMINATE BENNETT INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 38. (AP) J. T. Bennett, city commissioner, who unsuccessfully sought the Republl csn nomination for congresa at the May primaries, will be nominated as an Independent candidate for con greas at a convention here Thursday night, It wss stated today. In a letter from Josephine C. Oth us. Bennett wss informed that an In dependent group had decided he would be their selection for the can didacy. - P. W. Bartlett. Medtord'a Taxiderm ist and Furrier, will open shop on or about Sept. 1st. st 30 8. Central. 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