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PAGE SIX' MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKU. OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1934. kVm Ma rian Gordon by JEAME iHWM.l.X irsltit ilarian Catad it l - i detperuttl to av her huf i I Irom th tolli ot Ucau-ain, the crooked contractor tor whom l.on work. Uaa Hamlin ha tht ev'itenct neoeaaary to control 10 Rwaln: when Martan meet Ham tin to talk with him Lon ruine her chance hi hi lealouav. Yet It ha event the evening with Stiver llnitton. llcHicaln' dauahter. Ha rintt cat ton ha mterepreeented thing to her. Chaster 44 BA0 8MA$T4 f ON looked at ber anil nodded. "I ' tee what you mean, but I didn't knowingly misrepresent anything. When I reached the house, Silver met me and told me McSwaln wis In San Francisco and she was to drive me over. I preferred using my own car. "She wanted to go by the way ot the peninsula and I bad no legiti mate reason for refusing, so I took that route. We had dinner with Mc Swaln. At the Ferry building, we bad to wait for a boat and I tele phoned tbe bouse. May told me you were In town at the Steeles, that you'd left In a hurry. I called there, received no answer, eo drove by and atopped in. Ja that clear?" "Perfectly," Marian answered, "and I believe every word of It." "Then auppose you give as boneat an explanation." "All right 1 received word that Hamlin was In town. He had some information I bad to bare. I went to Anne's apartment, telephoned him and asked bim to come over. He bad been there only a few moments when you arrived." "I that all?" asked Lon, "can't you tell me wbat tbe Information you wanted was about?" Marian hesitated, "Lon, 1 want to, dreadfully, but I can't until you trust me fully." "I trust you, but I don't truet that Hamlin fellow; be'a got a bad reputation." "If be ' a. Silver gave It to blm this evening after you two had left me." flashed Marian, "and aba had reason to do so. Lon, tell me, la Mc Swaln still In San Francisco?" "He waa leaving on a late train, why?" Marian didn't bare time to an awer. The telephone rang with a harp Insistent ring. Lon went to It and answered. "For you," he said. "Mrs. Caaad, this la tbe police de partment of Walnut Creek. We bare couple here by the name ot Wakt. The man baa been Injured In an au tomobile crash and tbe woman ln alsted I telephone you." "Yes," Marian cried, "please Is be seriously Injured, and bow did It bap pen?" "No, he Isn't badly hurt but hla car Is surely amashed to the dickens. How be ever got out of It allre I can't figure. His wife waa thrown clear and lit In some brush. Walt, he says he wants to talk to you." "Mlsa Casad. Wikl. My automo bile Isa dead," be paused a moment. "On head la mountain with cut. Arm make pain. May, ahe very One good naici, in nuy you a car. you know who did It, don't you? Tell me what happened. "1 go for borne. Car abe come be hind me rery much fast She see me. Come to me, go on me, go way rery fast." -vou wait there; I'll be right down," she assured him and turned to Lon, eyea blatlng. "Your rood friend McSwaln Just tried to kill tbe warns." M friend McSwaln," Lon " 'repeated after her and laughed, then sobered quickly. "What do you mean he tried to kill the Wakl'sT "He set that Kanaka bo to watch me. When Wakl came back to tbe bouse from the depot without me to night the boy must hare Invest! gated and It dawned on blm that Wakl was my medium for getting news to and from tbe people with wbom I re been In communication. He reported back to McSwaln. and McSwaln ordered him to wreck their car." "How do you know It waa Mc Swaln'a Kanaka boy who did It?" "I don't know. Lon." She turned to hlra as she donned coat and hat "But I'd be willing to bet everything i own that If the police went to Mo 8waln's garage right now they'd Itnd a light truck with amashed fenders." "Tbafa a pretty aerious charge. Ian," he Insisted, reaching for bis coat and hat "We're In a pretty serious mess, both of us, Lon," she answered, "and now that Silver has seen me with Hamlin, McSwaln la going to strike at me through you. Lon, won't you leave blm now while tbere'a time?" i Lon came close, took ber In bla arms, smoothed the red wings of hair Jutt'ng out onto her cheeks back under ber bat "Poor lltle Are-', brand," be said, sadly. "Lon," she whispered, "won't you trust me? Won't you believe that I know what I'm talking about and get away from McSwaln before lt'a too late?" "Ian," he answered, "won't you truat me? Won't you believe that I know what I'm doing?" Marian gave a great shuddering sigh, rested her bead for a moment on his shoulder, then squared away. "Come on," she eald, and they locked the house, took Hero with them, and went to the garage. On the drive In Marian waa silent She longed to tell Lon everything, and yet her telling might be the mcana ot taking from him bis only chance to free himself of McSwaln. A chance word dropped to Silver, or one of McSwalo'a men at the building, would destroy everything, She felt, too, tbat she should warn Hamlin, but bow to reach blm? "Poor, Wakl," ahe said, "he re ferred to bla car as being dead. Ita losa meant aa much as a death to him. I wonder bow many lawn clln- plnge, window washings, and hours of labor went Into buying that old wreck? He lored It like a person." "Shame," agreed Lon, "It it didn't mean tearing you without available cash, I'd use tbe money that came in from the prune crop to replace It" "I don't need any money." Marian remonstrated, "and surely be de serves It He's been so faithful." AT the police station they found Wakl looking very oriental, bis bead awatbed in bandages whlc: completely bid the "mountain with cut." The arm that "made pain" was In a sling, and various plasters showed where cut and abrasions bad been Buffered. It waa plain to Marian bowerer, that Waki's physical Injuries wsre nothing compared to his grief over the loss of the car. Lon's offer to re place the car brought no response. and not until he thought of trying to salrago aome of the old car, did tbe little man brighten. 'Sink mebbe find him mota, rery fine r -U," he auggested hopefully. "I'm sure we can And the motor. we'll assemble Ml the parte that can be used and build a new car around these," Lon promised. Wakl. Deci ded, departed for home in a police car. I doubt it you can find enough to! start anything," said the ofllcor w o bad brought May and Wakl In from1 the wreck. "I tnlked to the farmer: who saw the crash and telephoned. n to us. He said It was the most de liberate thing he'd ever seen. ! "Said Wakl waa driving a little to,' the middle ot the road as be alway-' does, we know blm around here,; when .rom behind him come this truck driving like mad. He gave Wakl the born and Wakl began mov ing orer to hie side of the road. Had hla wheels turned that way and was about on tbe edge when the truck driver ahot Into hl:n and sent him Hying Into the ditch. "The crash aent the truck over to the other side but the driver straightened her uut. He haC to stop ot course, but he didn't stop long. One fender had crumpled so it rubbed the wheel. He got out and didn't look towards the car In the ditch, had some tools handy, straighten -d the tender, turned off bis lights and went sailing down the highway. "The farmer didn't get his number because be was more Interested In finding out If the people In the otber car were killed, but bellere me we're looking for that truck." - "Would you like to find It?" In quired Marian, cheeks flushed, eyes bright with anger, "then take a run orer to McSw- In's, the Hondon place I mean, ana look Mi Kanaka boy driver." Hondona, eh. and a Kanaka boyl Okay!" He was on bis feet "1 only wish It bad been that Hondon girl: ahe ran over my kid's dog the other day, looked back to eee the poor lit tle tellow In the road and drove on." Marian noticed the officer go to a telephone Jooth. She waited until h bad left, then went Into the booth and called the Oakmere Hotel. (CHmtel, 1931. h ... !m) ton stays out lots aoaln, Monday. LOCAL HEN'S RECORD WILL GO INTO WORLD IS AS OFFICIAL J. A. Hanson, welt known poultry raiser from CorvallU, wu In Medford Monday to make the reoorda official, by affidavits, that tha white leghorn hen belonging to ,Mra. R. E. Carley or the North Pacific highway had laid a total of 3M egg within the past year, which total surpasse the world'a record. The egg from which the prize-winning hen waa hatched wu purchased by Mn. Carley from Mr. Hanson. R. B. Henderahot of the News Ad vertising agency waa here Sunday to photograph the bird. Additional publicity was given Medford and the hen on the front page of the Pacific Rural Press, pub lished in San Pranclsco. when a pho tograph made by J. Verne Shangle was shown. Under the heading. "Olve This Lit tle Hen a Hand," was the following story: "No remarks about her untidy clothes. plrtse, because this matron has been busy these are her work clothes and you can see from he: glance that she knowj she Is some body and will stand for no nonsense. It is claimed for her that ahe laid 350 eggs in a year at her home on a Medford, Ore., poultry farm. Too bad the record waa not official and officially verified, because missing an egg only six daya a year would be a world's record the record being 358 eggs. However, this hen is a good ex ample of whai a hard working leg horn matron ahould look like and we present her with a bow toward Med ford." Steel Operations Continue Increase NXW YORK, Nov. 30. (APJ Bteel operations for the current week were today estimated by the American Iron and Steel Institute at 27.6 per cent of capacity against 37.3 per cent a week ago. The gain, amounting to .8 of a point or 1.10 per cent, lifts the av erage operating rate to the highest level reported by the tnsutute since the last week In July. Each week since early Sept-ember when the In dustry reached low for the year at 18.4 per cent a small gain has been shown. ' Power Firm Cuts Consumers9 Cost SALEM. Ore., Nov. 30. (API The Hermlston Light it Power Company filed a notice with the public utili ties commission today of a voluntary reduction in rates for residential and commercial service. The reduction was said to represent a yearly saving of 2700 to customers of the company. ' The Hermlston company serves Hermlston, Umatilla, Stanfleld and Echo, In Umatilla county. KINGFiSH AND WIFE . COMING 10 WEST. IN SUBURBAN HEIGHTS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS McNARY ASKS AID FOR GROWERS OF WALNUTS PORTLAND. Nov. 30. fAP) The Journal today quoted Senator Mc Nsry as having suggested to the federal department of agriculture that an official of the AAA be sent here from Washington, D. C, to hear the complaints of Oregon walnut growers that provisions of the walnut code are strangling the operations of producers In this state. Mrs. Weston and her committee an nounce one of those famous Turkev Dinners at Parish Hall. Wednesday at 5:30. Adults 50c, Children 25c. BATON ROUOE. La,, Nov. 20. (AP) United States Senator Huey P. Lorn;. Louisiana's political dictator who plans to run for president In 1036 or. a third party ticket, announced to day he was leaving for the west on "a honeymoon that will be 31 years and seven months late." "I'm going so far," the "Klngftsh" said, "It will take a 110 postage stamp to reach me. We're going west." Indicating he was through for a while with lawmaking and campaign ing, which have kept him on the go since he. returned to Louisiana from congress la&t summer, the "Klngflsh" declared he and Mrs. Long would leave tomorrow.- "Mrs' Long and I never had a honeymoon and we're going to have one now," Long said. "I'm fulfill ing a promise I made." "I'm getting out of Louisiana." said the state's political dictator, winking, "to show whether It can get on without me." But politics was In the air, with the "Kiugflsh" making no secret of his plans to run for president on the strength, of his creation of a modet state of Louisiana with the powers or hla dictatorship. NEW YORK, Nov. 20. (UP) Wil liam Miller. 32. quarreled with his wife Saturday. Today his body, was found In the kitchen of a nearby cstaurant. slumped in front of the oven of a gas stove, the gas turned on. j (Coprngbt, 1834. by Tbe Bell Syndicate, Inc.) FRED PERU' HASWT FOLLY RECOVERED YEf FROM FiNDlS& HIMSELF ONE" CARP SHORf, ON THE 5: Iff, JUSf AS HE WAS 0M THE POIriT OF MAK.N6 A BID 6RAND SLAM, VULNERABLE. LATER IN THE PAY THE MISSJN6 CARD TURNED UP IN THE POCKET WHERE HE KEEPS HIS TICKET. THE CONDUCTOR HMMS COME ROUND M$1 AS FRED WAS TAKING A -FINESSE ff-ZO FOX 1ST COAST SALE AUTHORIZED LOft ANOH.IS. Not. 0 (API -Earl E. Moae, referee In bankruptcy, today authoring tha sale of tha Foi Wmi Coast Theatere Corp.. con trolllns. mora than US motion pic ture housee on tha Pacific coait. 10 tha National Thratera Corp.. for 117. -OOOOOO. believed to ba ona of tha Unrest aums ever Involved In federal bankruptcy proceedings. The an.OOOOOO reprfented claims efrainat Tax Weat Coast theaters which the National Theatera Corp. agreed to liquidate. Tha truiteea In bankruptcy. Charlea P Hkouraa, Charlea C. Irwin, and William H. Moore, through their at. n-rrya lnued a atatement saylnj th.: tha sale repreaenta the full amount of all creditors' claims and ! all expeneea of bankruptcy proceed I logs. Plan lo attend t?ie 11 -me.Co.ike:". Tnkev D!nnr .'. OVvili; Parian Hi'l Aednesdiv ereninf. 3 30 until 7. JO I tarHaUilB uffVW 4- 1 E REJECT NAVY COMPROMISE London, ov jo r Ambae.dot Tauneo Mauudalra of Japan today, on behalf of hla nation, rejected the British euratton for a compromise in the proposed naval treaty. The laibmitor told Sir John Si mon. British, forcyn e.-retarT. tht Japan oou:d not accept the British offer of treaty which would rrc. nlea only equality In principle ror j -"r-" .iii ..hi. .ii. rmm 10 equality in actual tonnage. At the same time. Mauudalra urseil that the Brsilah coiuuder new waya ot approaching a compromlae whttn would recvynl- Japanese eqiMltty. Multnomah ttrmtta. SAI KM. 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