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MEDFORD MATT, TRTBTTNE. MTCnFOKI). OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1934
Is Marian Gordon!' j
ft Smi bv JEiXXH w--v I
tfr.vuriia. MTartun oord.
porter for the Morning lapuw
hae eent the tooutd-bo eutcttle, l.''
Hondon. word that Silver, hie wt'(
te reconciled. It tavet CUII'e tile,
out the meeeaoe te not true. Sow
Silver is trying to take Lon Caead,
Uarian'e lionet, away Iron her.
Uarian hae returnci to Oakland
rom Iteno. and i looking over the
panere vhioh oontatn the Hondo
etoriee.
Chapter IT
SILVER'S RETURN
,f AKUN turned back to tbe Brat
paper and found t aecond atory
d the Hondon case. In aurprlae
he read the contenta, then aat back
orerirhelmed at what the had done
to CUD Hondon, In tricking him Into
, light Cor life. '
After reading his letter to Bllrer,
abe bad realized he waa on the rerge
of bankruptcy, but ahe bad not refi
lled how deep) be waa lorolred.
The newspaper account gare thla In
detail, and tbe Inference waa tbat
hla suicide bad oeen an attempt to
evade bla creditors, ratber than any
thwarted lore for hla former wife.
Criminal conspiracy to cbeat these
creditors waa Indicated, as It was
proved large auma of cash bad been
withdrawn and bad vanished.
While he was lying at the hos
pital fighting for life, the sheriff was
conducting a sale of tbe remains of
bis once valuable estate. Everything
save the property be bad given Sil
ver aa settlement was being liqui
dated. CHS Hondon would live. He would
come back from the border of death,
weak, broken, to face destitution or
worse, a criminal charge with Its ac
companying penitentiary sentence.
This was what she bad done by In
terfering In someone's else busi
ness. Eyes wide with apprehension, she
sat staring at a bowl of tulips. Five
tulips, yellow and purple, rose and
red, and one a mottled cup of red
and yellow. She didn't aee them.
Wben Cliff Hondon bad chosen
bis way out, preferring suicide to
an eipose of his faiher-ln-law'a
crooked method of conducting n!s
business, and the subsequent crush
ing of Bllver'i life, ahe. a total!
stranger had mode blm believe 811-
ver waa really tbe woman be bad
Idealized, made blm believe be
might come back, face the odds and
win. '
"Marian Gordon, what In the
name of goodness Is wrong with
youJ"
Anne, pushing a tea cart before
her, bad stopped to look down at the
girl In the chair.
"Nothing," 'Harlan answered.
"Nothing . . . and you look like
that.'" She stopped closo, shook the
other girl. "Snap out of It: tell me
what's wrong."
"I don t dare tell anyone, mur
mured Marian, then "but I've got to
tell someone. Anne, promise me If
I tell you this you'll never breathe
It to a living soul?"
"That's an Insult," snapped Anne,
"you know 1 don't talk. Ian. What
il the matter?"
"There are only four persons In
the world who know this now. Sllvor
Hondon, a man named Max Hamlin,
Bowen and myself. Anne. Silver
didn't send that message to Cliff.
did. 1 made It up and got It across
the wire to Dowen before she could
tear loose from Hamlin's bold and
crab tbe telephone."
"ITTHEWI" breathed Anne and sat
down In tbe nearest chair.
Then sturdily, having recovered ber
breath, "You aaved bis life, What
are you getting all bat up about
nowT"- '
"But, Anne, what good la that life
to blm? He'll learn Silver doesn't
earn for blm. He'll face tbe charges
the newspapers mention and I know
be won't tell the trutb and clear
himself. Ho'll come back broken to
aplrlt, in hope, In belief In anything,
and : for what?"
Anne didn't answer. She bent ber
aleek head over the silver nrn,
poured a cup of coffee and thrust
It at Marian. "Drink that and see If
yon can swallow what I'm going to
tell yon at tbe same time.
"Ian. I've spent slj years holding
the bands of Impulsive men who
thought they wanted to die, while
they, tried 'heir darnedest not to do
IL I'm willing to bet anything I own
that It you were to tell Cliff every
thing right now, he'd still tight to
llva
"Aa far aa Sliver's concerned he's
lived with her long enough to know
ber. As soon aa be gets over the
maudlin stage he'll admit she's a
tatural born wash-out.
"About bla financial condition.
trlend CUB la an ostrich. Ha
tuck bis head In a bole and didn't
I .nnw th rinnert wee full nt frtunilm.
By the time yesterday'! paper waa
on the street we bad a run of visi
tors at the hospital that nearly pot
ua out of business. Fraternity broth
era, crew brothers, yacht club broth
ers. And tbey came bearing gift.
Blank checks with signature
signed, business offers. One brought
a note tbat tbe yacht club bad bid la
on the Island home and U tt got It,
Cliff bad a permanent honorary res
idence at the club.
"We got all of these messages
through to Cliff. So don't yon worry
about Cliff and bla future, Tou'v
given blm a chance to live, clean np
the meaa be left and when be does
check out, he'll have left bli lift la
order."
She refilled the cup. "When yon
get through drinking tbat, to bed
with you."
Relieved, Marian took Anne's ad
vice and when ahe again opened her
eyes she lay staring at tbe twilight
outside her window. "Should call tbe
office," ahe thought, then beard tbe
whirr of the telephone and Anne
calling that Bowen was on tbe
phone.
"Well, where In Hades have you
been?" waa Bowen's reception.
"Llstos, grab a cab and beat It to
the airport."
"1 won't go to Reno again, pro
tested Marian sleepily.
"Walt 'til you're asked. Tonr
friend Silver la due In from there,
en route to Meredith. (Jet In on tbe
reunion and give ns a yarn for the
early edition. And aay, Ian, good
work on your Reno atory; you've
got a raise coming"
"Don't want It," aald Marian fee
bly. And "What?" came the Incredu
lous reply.
FROM tbe mirrored cubicle where
she was dressing, Marian beard
tbe sound of tbe ball door buzzer,
heard Anne answer and a moment
later beard a voice that sent her
heart beating double time.
"Loo's here," said Anne, unnec
essarily, as she entered. "He apolo
gized for waking yon, and when
told blm yon were already awake,
dressing to go on an assignment,
he nearly threw a fit, began waving
a telegram . . , wait, I'll book that,
now you're all fixed; go see what be
wants."
Marian, wondering at the tele
gram, went Into the other room to
And Lon, half laughing, bsir per
plexed, a yellow slip In bis band.
"Little Cheerio," he explained,
"look, she's wired that she expects
me to meet ber at tbt airport. D'yon
suppose she thinks I'm In tbe taxi
business?"
Marian looked at the length of
the missive and said: "At least sbe'e
helping the telegraph company."
She took the slip and read:
Lon my dar, so sorry I mluted
you. Am riylni to city to vlalt the
ei st the honpltal stop. Dread or
deal terribly itop mull hsv. some
one I can depend upon to go with
me atop feel you are that person
atoo cried all morning so disap
pointed didn't M rou nervee
wrecked don't fall n,e need you stop
don't brlna dog stop mint eee you
alone etup Mil eipect you at air
port elnht twenty thla evening stop
your Sliver.
Marian bad a desire to tear the
slip to shreds. Instead she said cool
ly: "Well, what are you going to
dor
"Dor" be aakej perplexed, "1
don't know. I never ran Into a wo
man like thla before. What does one
do with them?"
"I could mention several things,"
returned Marian, "cyanide, for one.
What on eartl, did yon do on your
trip In from tbe cabin that made
ber believe you belonged to ber?"
"I don't know," he answered
honestly, "unless listening to her
rant "
"Lon, what did you talk about?
Think hard did she talk about love
or marriage or anything like tbat?"
"She atked me If I had aver beta
married and I said tbat I hadn't. I'd
never considered It until very, very
recently. Then sbe wanted to know
If the girl waa In the East, and I
said that she was In Nevada at tbat
moment. 8ht wanted to know wbat
aha looked like and I told her the
had golden balr and tbat tbe waa
the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen
and If I had my way about It I'd
bave proposed to her tbe moment I
saw her but I felt I should let a
few daya go by without showing
now i a crashed."
Marian slid Into tbe nearest chatr
and started to laugh. "Tbat't what
you get (or calling my balr gold
Instead of red. She thought you
meant her."
(Cttr"4, I'll, h t.)
Tsmorrew, Mtrlan gets s present
LUTHERAN LEADER
IS RE-ELECTED ON
FIRST OF BALLOTS
SAVANNAH, Oa.. Oct. 19. (AP)
Dr. 7. H. Knubel of New York, pre
' ideut of the United Lutheran Churcrf
In America since Its organization in
1919, wu re-elected yesterday on the
first ballot of the opening session of
the ninth biennial convention.
Also r -elected on first ballots were
Dr. B. Clarence Miller of Philadel
phia, the treasurer, and Dr. W. H.
. Oreever of New York, the secretary.
I A three -fourths vote Is required,
j The oonventton enrolled the Even
Igellcan Lutheran church of Japan as
Ian associate synod. The forming ot
a new synod, the Kentucky-Tennes-
see, drawing its composition irom tne
synods of Indiana and Ohio, also was
approved.
A change in the method of making
nominations to fill vacancies on
Church boards and commission and
commit too also was approved today
and will bo finally voted upon aa re
quired by by-laws tomorrow.
The change requires that nomina
tions must be more than double the
number of vacancies so the conven
tion will have more than one set of
candidates to consider.
ATLANTIC CITY, W. J.. Oct. 19.
(AP) A warning against the Inter
ference of the church In government
and the preaching of "radicalism" by
the clergy, was heard today by the
61st triennial general convention of
the Protestant Episcopal church.
"It Is not the business of the
church to try to run the govern
ment," the report of the committee
on evangelism presented to the house
of deputies declared, but It Is
the business of the church to
make good men out of bad
men, to convert a paganlatle nation
Into a Christian nation by the meth
od of the early primitive church the
Indivldttal contact, the Impact of the
Christian life upon the non-Chris-tlan
life.
" It Is not the business of the
church to undermine governments by
preaching pacificism or communism
or any form of radicalism, but It Is
the business of the church to teach
Ita own people to Ih's so that others
may see our dally lives as lived In the
spirit of Jesus, In order that they,
too, may be Influenced to follow the
same Lord and Master.
A resolution a&klng federal regu
lation of the motion picture Indus
try was endorsed by tne convention.
A resolution offered by the Rev.
George Ployd Rogers of Ashevllle.
N. C. calling for "supervision (not
censorship)" of films before they ar
made, was adopted by the house of
bli hops ratifying earlier action by
the bcSuse of deputies. .
COMMUNIST CANDIDATE
ARRESTED IN PORTLAND
PORTLAND. Ore., Oct, 19. (T)
A communist raid by police here
last night resulted m the arrest
of Earl C. leeward, a, of Morro
county, "Communism against Fas
clem" candidate for secretary or
state.
Steward, described as the main
speaker at the meeting, was charg
ed with disorderly conduct and
blocking traffic
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RENO, Nev., Oct. 19. (Jp) Di
vorce suits filed here toouy Included:
Rosa B. Holmqul&t vs. John Holm
qulst; married Grants Pass, Ore., Au
gust 14, 192S; cruelty.
OLD SALOON EVIL
SEEN RETURNING
WASHINGTON. Oct. IB. (AP)
F. Boott McBrlde, general superin
tendent of the Antl-Bsloon LMgue
of America, said today "everything
that belonged to the old order 01
the aatoon la coming baek."
"I have not found a governor
In any of the thirty-one states 1
have visited sine the first of last
January who will openly defend the
present liquor regime.'
McBrlde said conditions were be
coming such that one distillery had
circularized Brooklyn nteb school
sorority girls "Inviting them to the
cocktail hour and expatiating on the
delights of drink."
As a result, he concluded. Inter
est la growing In temperance work-
DIFFICULT DECISIONS
DENTIST AD LAW
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SALBM, Oct. 19. UP) Appeal
from the decision of the Oregon su
preme court upholding the statute
prohibiting advertising by dentists
was made to the supreme court of
the United States today by attorneys
for Harry Semler, Portland advertising ;
dentist. !
The suit to test the validity of the
statute prohibiting denist advertise -merits
was brought by mler against
the state board of dental examiners.
The Oregon court recently upheld the ,
validity. J
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS 4
L (Copyright, 1834. by Tbe Bell Syndicate, lac. liuiirjS
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SALEM. Oct. 19. (AP) Twenty
four persons vera kill'd and 41
others Injured In a total of 1.830
motor vehicle accidents last month
as compared to IS klllrd. 403 In
juries and .803 accidents In Sep
tember last year, the motor vehicle I
division of ths state department 1
reported today.
Out of 14.893 accident reported I
so far this year, 918 persons were
killed and 3,664 received Injuries.
a marked Increase over the cor-
responding period In 1939 when 17V (
met death. 9 958 were Injured and
IS. 78 accidents occurred.
Of the fatalities reported In Sep
tember, nine were pedestrians.
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