PAGE SIX
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOltl). OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1934
Judith)
Lane"
Marian Gordon
bv .IEAXXE M'.M.V
SYNOPSIS: Uarian Gordon
ttuming Uiepatch Reporter, i$
anxious to go to dinner with Lon
Valid, who it waiting tor her in
front of the Diepatch building. But
her managing editor demandt a
reeumi ot the Brown bribery trial;
Marian telle him how Jenny Caee.
Brown'e lilted Hondo, hat accused
him ot accepting $10,000 to pate a
detective high echool building, and
haw the girl Brown married ad
mitted to Jenny that the knew of
the bribe all along.
Chapter Two
SILVER HONDON
"DROWN Insisted," Marian went
D on, "and proved that this ten
thousand came to him from a per
sonal friend as a loan.
"Who was the friend!"
"A fruit rancher from Sonoma
county, T. T. Lawson. They put a
tracer on Lawion's account, but
could find no evidence that ten thou
anil had been paid him at any time,
so the Jury waa forced to accept
Brown's word.
"As far u 1 can see, Mr. Bowen.
the only thing proven In this case Is
that Jenny thought up a neat way of
getting revenge on Linda for steal
ing her man."
"The usual 'honor among wom
en,' " commented Bowen adding,
"present company excepted. 1 under
stand the case went to the Jury this
afternoon and that Jones la down
of her spirit Know Silver Hondont
Hadn't Silver made ber hours ot
Joy and misery combined; hadn't
that exquisite pet of the girls' school
taken everything she bad ever held
dear, from the kakemona Uncle Tom
had brought from Japan, to her first
beau?
She thought ot Lon and shivered
slightly, rebuked herself for being
fifty-seven varieties of a fool. She
hadn't seen Silver for at least four
years, not alnce ber marriage te
Cliff. It wasn't likely she'd be see
ing her again, they lived such differ
ent lives.
"Yes," she answered Bowen, "I
know Silver, why?"
"Did you know she waa getting
divorce from her husband?" Bowen
queried.
"I knew she went to Reno soon
after Cliff began losing his money.
I didn't think she was there for her
health."
"That'a a feline remark," chuckled
Bowen.
"Not when you know Sliver," pro
tested Marian; "she's been living up
to her name ever alnce I've known
her."
"From what I've read of the
young lady, ahe should have been
called yellow-back or some such,"
contributed Sanderson. "This Reno
dispatch says she waa given hei
divorce decree this afternoon."
"You know Silver Hondon, don't you?" aBked Bowen,
there for us, waiting tor the verdict.
I want you there too. Let Jonea han
dle the rerdlot. You watch Jenny
Case. It may be that sho has bluffed
In order to discredit Brown, and It
may be that ahe hasn't. You can toll
by watching the expression on ber
face. Don't pay any attention to the
Judge or Jury, watch the principals.
"We've had paving scandals, but
poor pavement Isn't as much a mor
tal hazard as poor buildings . , .
school buildings particularly. And
somehow, Ian, I've a hunch we are
going to hear more of this before
the summer passes."
Marian nodded and arose. She
wasn't going to hear more of It, she
was sure.
Lon hadn't said anything yet, but
she knew; knew aecretly and sure
ly, that before the summer was ovor
she would be Mra. Lionel Casnd with
no further Interest In politics or
newspapera.
"By the way, Marian," asked Bow
en, "have you talked this case over
with your father?"
"No, I haven't been up to the
ranch alnce the trial started."
"IAN, why do all good office holders
retire to ranches?"
"In order to stay good," flashed
Marian.
"You may he right, and say, who
Is the good looking fellow who parks
In our loading tone and alibis that
he's there, waiting for you?"
"Lionel Casad, a friend of mine."
"Isn't he working, or doesn't he
have to?"
"He Isn't working at present. He
wanta to go into business for him
self, and came out from the middle
west to look this country over. He's
a school friend of Dr. Al Steele, my
room mate Anne Stanton's fiance."
"Anne still on duly at Cenlral
Emergency Hospital!"
"Yoa. on the dog watch now, mid
night till morning." She stepped
back from the desk as Sanderson
city editor, came In with an Asso
ciated Press dispatch In h's band.
"Walt, Ian," said Bowen. "you
know Silver Hondon. don't you!"
Marian looked up, a flood of appre
hension flooding the former peace
"Oh," said Marian, shocked li
eplte of having cxpoctcd it
A ND thon, romemberlns Slrls whe
hod been In the newspaper garni
aa long as four years must appeal
to be sophisticated, she laughed
"Tbe boya 'do be' economizing those
days. Getting rid ot Silvor Is an econ
omy no matter what sized settle
mont Cliff has made."
She turned to walk qulotly from
the room, then outside darted to
the dressing room to run a comb
through her mass of red gold hair,
to pat a powder puff over the Impu
dent nose which dclicd her attempts
at dignity, and to make a few futile
attompts to covor the parade of
freckles which marched across the
bridge ot that noso and sprnyod fan
llko across her high cheek hones.
She pulled a tailored felt hat over
hor hnlr at a Jaunty angle, dashed
out ot the room and down to the
street entrance, Ignoring the eleva
tor. There she asaumcd the non
chalance of hor chosen profosslon
and sauntered onto the strcou
And then her recently assumed
nonchalnnco dropped from her
shoulders like a storm blown cape.
The space before Tony Gazettes
(lower stand which had harbored
Lou Casad's car was empty and -Tony'ii
now audlonce was a bespec
tacled gentleman buying a pot ot
heather. Lon was nowhere to be
seen.
Marian stood staring at the spot
on which the car had been parked.
Never had an oblong ot asphalt
looked as barren. Of course no man
could bo expected to wait for two
hours and yet. ho could hare come
up to the editorial rooms and left
word ha must go on.
She walled for the traffic light to
turn from red to groon. and when
the green was about to turn to am
ber. sho darted across.
Tony was still Involved In the sale
of the henthor, but he acknowledged
her presence with a dazzling smile
and Interspersed his salesmanship
with asldos to her.
tCetfit'. I". .-.4.)
ten's daftctlon Is tvplalntd.
Monday.
TO EXEMPT HOME
PORTLAND. Oct. 1. (Spl.) "A
'salea tax to remove the salea tax on
shelter" wax how J. C. Barnes, Jack
son county orchard. it, ytviterday de
fter i bed a new tax plan proponed by
the JacVtaon County Chamber of
Commerce, which that group plana
to submit to the utate legislature at
Its next mm ton. Mr. Barnes, author
of the plan, la In Portland tor a
abort visit.
The bill would exempt owners from
paying utate. county and school taxes
on homes up to 11500 of aA&e&sed
valuation, which taxes, Mr. Barnes
(declared, now result In home owners
paying a "30 per cent sales tax on
shelter, a necessity." A 3 per cent
sales tax on other commodities would
raise the revenue lost to the state by
i exempting the home owners.
"The assessed value of property In
Oregon la $1,000,000,000," said Mr.
Barnes In explaining the Jackson
county plan. "We divide that Into
two factors 1150.000.000 on one side
of the line and 9850.000.000 on the
other side. The $150,000,000 repre
sents 'shelter value' and should have
special consideration. It represents
the first $1500 of assessed valuation
on homes.
Ability to Pay at fwu
"We contend that 'shelter value"
Indicates no ability to pay taxes and
that It la an economic error to tax
shelter. The little home of 'shelter
value' Is the only property a working
man can own. If we exempt 'shelter
value' from taxation, we believe we
will change the whole psychology re
garding home ownership, making the
home a refuge and retreat, an old-age
pension and unemployment Insur
ance, safe from all Intrusion, Includ
ing that of the tax collector.
"We contend that when a working
man and his wife buys shelter It
should be considered a necessity. The
average annual wage of a working
man la $1300, of which one-fourth
mere la now in cuecb a ;u per cent
sales tax on this purchase, $60 going
to state, county and school taxes.
Why don't the opponents of the sale
tax object to a sates tax on shelter?
It affects the stability of the state
government when working people
can't own property. If this obstacle
were removed, we are certain we
could have greater home ownership,
BftvmllLs would start up and prosper
ity could be brought to Oregon."
General Reduction "Unfair
Mr. Barnes said the Jackson county
chamber proposes to take the "20 per
cent sales tax" of the working man's
shelter and put a 3 per cent salea
tax on other commodities. The small
home owner, he aald, would be re
lieved of a $60 sales tax on shelter
by paying an $18 sales tax on other
necessities annually.
"We believe that a sales tax for
general tax reduction la not a fair
and Just tax, but we do believe that
a sales tax for shelter exemption Is
fair and Just," Mr. Barnes declared.
The owner of shelter value In a home
will get six times the benefit under
such a salea tax that he would under
one for general tax reduction, he said.
The revenue raised by the sales tax
under the Jackson county plan would
be pro-rated back to the counties ac
cording to the "shelter value" In the
several counties.
GROWERS WILL GET
LIS1 OP QUEST
SUBURBAN HEIGHTS
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
Questionnaires for all tomato and
melon growers In Oregon and Wash
ington have been sent to the county
agents of the various counties by the ,
Oregon-Washington melon and to
mato marketing agreement. j
These questionnaires which each ;
grower Is asked to fill In and for
ward to the central office at 516 Ore
gon building, Portland, Oregon, will
give the agreement Information on
the number of growers, acreage ana '
tonnage of crops In the two states, t
The Information gained from these 1
questionnaires will be used In deter
mining the agreement's policy for
next year, and In getting aa accurate
count of growers.
"All growers are asked to fill in
and return these cards aa socn as pos
sible," said Morton Tompkins, chair
man of the agreement's control board.
"We went an accurate list of growers
to whom we can go for opinions on '
various phases of our proposed pro
gram for 1935. As soon as this in
formation Is compiled, we are having
a general meeting to shape plans for
next year. Growers are urged to ex
press their opinions and give any sug
gestions that might help to make the
agreement more effective.
"Our cause haa been greatly
strengthened by an opinion from Ore
gon's Attorney-General Van Winkle
in which he states that a violation
of the melon and tomato agreement
Is a violation cf the state agricultural
adjustment act, and dealers making
violations are subject to revokatlon of
license."
COopyrifflit, 193 by Tbe Bell Byndicate, Inc
10-2
fred terle t0uld ner understand why if always
Took his wife 50 lohg to do the markeyiN6, until he did
it tor her one dav and saw how tme ladies
parked in front of the market
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10
EASE OREGON TRIP
E R. Banto, local co tor and
euttfr of gem, has returned from
field trip Into central and nwif-rn
Oregon, in search of gem stones !ifl
icimena In add to in already size
a ile collection. Mr. Santo Is Inter-ot-d
In oritanirlng a museum of
4 nnes and gems for southern Oregon
1 run a start of some 3 000 sped
vthifrt at approximately $5 000
' v ;n the stones collected on hi
lit trip is a rar rroes semen of
oj'i7P:l r.-dwood liw. which he .taies
l t mot ba,itiful vwcimen In tti''
' - n Mr. antn n'mi tt'itiir. '
v t '. ii.T In! :c t r. t 1 : m '!!
; v of M Crr . aut.'n.
ahicb are & Urue variety oi opal in
the matrix, and polfca-dot apstes
Oilier 5(wmirns Include opal wood
from Quart, mnmitnln, h'.A-'k vvm
from I.itt lo (Uv mountain, white
scoria from nifua mountain, en
e1tlit -pound malachite and arurUe
crystal, coral limestone, zircon, many
fiwlls and arrow heads. j
Mr. Santo has these specimens on
display nt Mouth Ivy street, nhfiei
tlH-y may le sro it any day after 4 10
p. m , on Saturday aftcrnon. or on
Sunday. Mr. Smto said. He Is ln
trreMed Hi obtaining more speotmens. ,
and reiie.t tluit anyone having sniw -suitable
for display get In touch with,
him
Mr .s.intn r pr. is to o;vn a nm- j
eu:n in M-dtord rn'U spring, if he
la iitvcasiul in nrU:nt the coopera
tion of other l.vl $-m collectors
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