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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.
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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.
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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
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SALE AUTHORIZED
LOft ANOH.IS. Not. 0 (API -Earl
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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 !
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London, ov jo r Ambae.dot
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on behalf of hla nation, rejected the
British euratton for a compromise
in the proposed naval treaty.
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mon. British, forcyn e.-retarT. tht
Japan oou:d not accept the British
offer of treaty which would rrc.
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that the Brsilah coiuuder new waya ot
approaching a compromlae whttn
would recvynl- Japanese eqiMltty.
Multnomah ttrmtta.
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