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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MATT. TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. FRIDAY. MAY 3, 1935. PAGE TWENTY-TWO SnMTRTRJPES BY.SOPS18: The Oreat War served, at least, to poslpons what teemed an inevitable break between Jamea and Jane Bttmson. It took Jamee out of Sew Concord. Kaa. and away from the law bualnea that hta miserable home HI ten elotrlu destroying James tan back a mator waa arreted at M Loula bu an apparently pleaeaiu Jane and found that he didn't have anything whatever he wanted to say to her. r.'nic he is home, and has elmplv walked out on Jane alter their first luncheon together. Chaptei 41 JAMES WALK JAMES had left th Mansion with every Intention of walking a fast as his legs would carry blm the two miles that separated him from his waiting dinner, at Oak and North Fifth Streets. He was late already. Jane would have a right to be sore as belL He came to the lane that dipped abruptly down to the River Road. Almost Involuntarily bis feet turned Into It He was a coward, a cur, a contemptible ass. But be had not, he could not And the courage to go back and face Jane. He knew, nevertheless, that soon er or later he must go back. It was Impossible, being what be was, Just to walk out of her life and never see her again, as he desperately longed to do. Well, thle was his last day In uni form, the last hours he had left to feel himself a man and not Just a husband. Wasn't be entitled to spend these hours to suit himself? The Northrups, mere and pere, were cer tain to put in an appearance that evening. If he bad to listen another balf hour to more of Mr. Northrup's slob ber there sure would be murder done. Godl How be would enjoy squeezing that fat purple throat, grinding his hob-nailed beel on tbat blotched overfed face! James ate bis "welcome borne" dinner out of a can beside a camp Are. It consisted of stew, baked pota ' toes, coffee and raw corn whiskey. His host waa an extremely dirty but engaging member of the I.W.W. who bad been thrown off the Kansas City local a tew miles north of Leavenworth. James saw the camp fire from the road, made tor It and was Invited to dinner. He stayed until after ten, arguing the merits and demerits ot the capi talistic system. He had a glorious time. So did his host. By the time James had drunk his full share of the quart bottle he bad pledged him self solemnly to a war ot extermina tion ot the capitalistic class. Shooting was too good tor them. He'd bostn In the morning. And be knew just who he'd begin with. But first he bad a little matter to settle which could not be put off any long er. It his friend, bis dear friend BUI, would look him up In the morn ing. . . . James heaved himself unsteadily to bis legs, wrung the hand of his new-found comrade and started northward. The first mile or two he sang, be danced, be capered. Afraid of Janet Afraid of the Northrups? He laughed long and loud. He hadn't been afraid ot the Germans, had he? He badn't been afraid to tackle a nest ot machine guns? Well, yes, he had. He had been damned afraid. He'd even been sick at his stomach. But he'd kept on going, hadn't he? Just as he'd keep on going now until he'd had It out wltb Mrs. James Stlmson and told her a thing or two that needed telling. One thing was that her paunchy nitwitted old bore of a father should never step toot over their threshold. The damned old capitalist! His friend Bill was right. BY THE time James came to Com mercial Street his head was a little clearer. He was not so anxious now to face Jane and have It out with her. Jane had a nasty way of getting under his bide and putting him In the wrong, no matter how guiltless hit actions, bow virtuous his motives. It would be like her now to say that be was drunk. He had never been so sober In his life. Let her say what she liked: he wouldn't listen. After she had finished he would have his turn. He kept doggedly on. When be came to the house at Oak and Fifth Streets he saw that the lights were on. Crossing the lawn cautiously Jnjnos peeked under a blind. Jane and her father were In the back parlor. Mr. Northrup was asleep In his chair. Jane was sitting bolt uprlsht with a red spot on either cheek. She looked aa It she aad been crying. Mink Attacked Woman NEWCASTLE. Me. (UP) A mink Invited trouble for itself when it en tered Mrs. Howard Cuamman'a kitch en here. After hearing his wife's screams, Cushman came to her rescue and the mink Jumped at him. He waa able to strike the animal on the nose and kill It before It touched him. The pelt brought the Cushmans a few dollars. Pet Snake Expensive ST. LOOTS, Mo. (UT) A pet snake proved an expensive item to Charlee Sleloff. manapcr of a packing com pany rrtall store hf:c. It cost him 4500 in circuit court when a Jury returned a favorable verdict to Mrs. Jennie Jefferson, wife of a police man, who charged Sleloff frightened her with the reptile. (inl)l Toolh Siilil for .spree BATTLHSBOUO. Vt. (UP) Two CCC hr.ys, whose names were with held, pal.-i for their fun through the teeth Ir.ry entered a Jrwrlry store to r .e funds. All they hart that was f-aiab'.e watt a cold tooth In the j upper Jaw of one of the youths The I tooth v in tll.odrd vir:, pliers. The I Jeweler pnld 61 50 for the gold and, the boys disappeared. But he'd bet his Sam Brown belt against the chances of the Germans at the Peace Conference that Jane wouldn't do any crying wben she saw him. She'd be too busy Haying blm alive. James pulled bis cap down over one eye at a Jaunty angle, straightened bis tie and marched manfully up the front steps. Step by step be felt his couragi oozing down his spine, down bis legs, out ot his lagging toes. But It waa too lata now. They must have heard him. He gulped and opened the front door. Jane stood In the archway between the ball and the front parlor. Jamea closed tie door behind blm and took off his cap. One glance at Jane's an gry contemptuous face, at ber tight ly compressed Hps and Jamea' eyes fell. Mr. Northrup stirred In the next room. James looked this way ana that, anywhere but at Jane. He found himself glaring at the Inoffensive tables and chairs, glaring at the walls. There waa a large photograph of Jane on the mantel. It seemed to James that those pictured eyes were looking down at blm and sneering as Jane was now aneerlng. Those eyes said to blm tbat be was a cow ard and a failure. They knew that he could talk big to a drunken tramp, could talk big to himself. But talk was cheap. "Where have you been?" Jane spat at him. "Nowhere. Just walking around. "I don't believe you. Why, you've been drinking. You're drunk. You loathsome, disgusting beast! On your first night . . . after two years . , you leave me here, frantic wltB anxiety, and go off and get drunkl You dare to come home drunk!" She beat ber hands together fran tically. Mr. Northrup appeared be hind her blinking sleepily. His hair waa rumpled, bis tie askew. When he caught sight of James he was sud denly fully awake. "You," he said, "you . . . contempt ible good-for-nothing. Drunk! You ought, to be horsewhipped, yes, horsewhipped. If Itwere not for the scandal, I would do It myself." "yOU had better go home, Father 1 dear," Jane' said evenly. "I can deal with Jamea drunk or sober. 1 have a few things to say to him tbat I'd rather say to him alone." She smiled, an ugly thln-llpped smile. There waa anticipation in this smile and . . . and pleasure. It would be a pleasure to Jane to goad and sting him. Horror of Jane, horror and loathing engulfed him. He stared at her a long moment. Why, he wasn't afraid ot Jane. By God's mercy he wasn't the least afraid of her. James abruptly laughed loud and long. "It may eoem funny to yo," Jane said, thrusting her face close to hla across the table, "but I confess I fall to see anything funny In a drunken lout coming home to his wife, hor rible, filthy . . . God, If you could see yourself." Jamw stopped laughing aa sud denly it h bad begun. He leaned even closer to Jane, bis bands on tbe table. "It Isn't tunny," he said sober ly. "I only laughed to keep from cry ing. We ought to be crying, both ot us. It's a mercy tbat you ought to thank God tor on your knees that you cannot see yourself ... as I see you ... as you are." Mr. Northrup. who had been fair ly dancing up and down In Impa tience, broke In. "You'll bear from me In tbe morning, young man. Yea, you'll hear from me. It you say a word more to my daughter In your present obscene condition I warn you that . , ." "Shut up. Another bleat from you and I'll throw you out of that door. Just you open your pig sty of a mouth again . . ." Mr. Northrup had already opened hla mouth. He closed It hastily. James turned to Jane. "May I ask you one question before I go? It's a question that's haunted me for a long time." Jane, clinging to her father, nod ned but did not speak. James asked, "Did you love me when you mar ried me?" Jane amazingly shook off her father's restraining arm and came forward, came around the table ."Of course I loved you, my dear. Of course 1 loved you," she said and put a timid hand on James' shoulder. "But I never loved you, so I am the one most to blame. Forgive me. And forget me. Goodbye." (Copyright. 193t Mateel B. Famtaml Monday, Jtmea goes home again. free Divorce After M Year ALBANY. Ore. (UP) After 36 years of married life, Mr. and Mrs W. B. Campbell, parents of six chil dren, decided they were not suited to each other and could not. make their marriage a success. Mrs. Campbell filed suit for divorce on grounds of desertion. Three of the Campbell children are married. The other three are minors, the youngest being a boy of e. Spurs nae Machinery BOSTON . ( UP ) For 63 years An tone Hoefllng. 77, hss been repairing shoes, and not once during that pe riod hss he used any machinery. I re teltea pride In his fine work by hand. After learning his trade In hi native Oermany. he opened his shoe repair shop m Buttercup row, Roxbury, in 1872. A he Srattrred in Square MKMPHtS, Tenn. fUPl Before Christopher c. Wanner, P0-yearold Memphis pioneer, died he requested his ashes be scattered in Court square. ' a city park This ws d.'nled by eltv oMlcmls. hnwrvrr A bid precedent, they decided. So his remains will be ''.i:'.rd In Mmtm! crmetery. Use Mali rrlbuue wut ad. S FALL PAR SHORT OFFICIAL GOAL Nazi Eugenics Experts View With Alarm Failure of 300,000 Couples to Wed Hard Times Blamed Br Rudolf Jneten BERLIN CAP) Nazi eugenics ex pert are viewing with alarm the failure of 300,000 couples to marry. They consider the world war a partly responsible for a hitch In the "be fruitful and multiply" program because a great decline In marriages la expected, alter 1036. One of them. Dr. H. Burgdoerfer, says the low birth rate during the war la an "uneonquera-ble obstacle" In maintaining the present "record trend to marriage registry offloes." Many Thousand "Missing" This trend led to 360.174 marriages between May, 1S33, and the end of 1934, with the aid of matrimonial loans Inaugurated by Adolf Hitler aa a main pillar of hla repopulation scheme. The figure Is cltd aa proof of the plan's success. But Dr. Burgdoerfer finds that an other 300.000 couples are "missing" they "should have married, but didn't." Adverse economic conditions are loana Inaugurated by Adolf Hitler a i ! A-jP'iTsS ffl 38 fi "JSaxiP3?' V' a a main pillar of his repopulation I ft ft ( jfrTtlf W'SJ S&'LnrtSr"ViTf i JffM 1 scheme. The figure Is cited aa proof pi&l V 1 if jisrVTW Jf i J ftA&BKr V I of the plan's success. VV'VAWSi Ji IlL'IT -bf?$ But Dr. Burgdoerfer finds that an- V A M f0LjicCC"t LrSSSSt other 300.000 couples are "mlselng" Wi "TTOp R 1 eJ33ffiKl?S2?, I Adverse economic conditions are lOo ( Copyright, 1B35, by The Bell Syndicate, Idc ) OP- J" " " "'" VcrMTfa yWX. ' J V 7 J r Tat is ( VJoreM ikiTe-) 1 ty y ( fas I XJy( ffc) cssjSsvi" l I TAILSPIN TOMK -An ErcSnro of Gold! wV l1 w- ist 1 '&UT--GARZA-YO' lkfTRUE,5e.N0R I I PERHAPS THAT RASCAL, S flfCSI I STAND ANOw!l (BY THE SAINTS!-A'l I YO' W' BE6SARED LIE DON PL AstO TOLD ME YO' COULD T PERRANDO-BUT V SAttZ A U6.D YESTER-7jl)s! OELWER MMh VSHuiAYMAN'. . HE SENOR I AM ,PRPANDO--YO' 4 SKEETQ aTOfVeD NOT PAY THIS -f I AV BEEN C DAY-IOHEN HE SAY 7M-M DON ,JalW A POOB Mill XABE NOT TOO AT TAVM TO SET HONEY-BUT NOia-TVBTUNADQ.- HE COULD NOT rffol&ffl-lk PN522i T 1 Cffl Z3S'eJS IPMRTO 6EEV' BEN WF-BSTEE'S 0AREEP The First Outrider " ' Bv w -.. , r PIQUET BRIARSIE, AND STAY "Jpiti- fejHllfT WOON VOURE "lSgg -" Tthey'u RNoT' GOOD.' LA3TTME THF.YS gBEOCON THATS WHY LOCOMCnWfTl 3 BY ME .' CHUCK CMAPIN fe;.,vi-Sg n . ' mi, AINT NOU ? pj YES-1 .THE WATER DCUNK THE 'SPRlKkS DRY S m-B WANTS SOMEONE HERE. 1 UBB TOLO 1MB TBUtH-TWEVfiE fflili!eZ 'msjl?L . . . JiSggS, jl iVt FILLED ( An' TORE EACH OTHER UPS ?SWsSS3S& 51EADY LIKE A5 LOM Lp ABOOTTEN . PRETTY BAOLV . -J lps B . s., Am; lifclyk ARSRAMLOse XWELU, MOLU MUCH " 1 DOMT WAMTVQUS. ME,-, unruC-S T-fN. wwrEFATwea fau- r cost to relhseX ( amd im njot so.ros to divorce f nuce .youre too v . n n- IRATE FATHt ; from HLS ) At : VICTOR..' WE'LL BOTH PSHT OUR. SOOD 5RMV J ) OF ViCTOR,. MATRIMONIAL MOTAKE? (Oo S V WW THSOUSH AXJD LUELL SETT ALOVJ6. Us X.OVS. AS VOUgS6Rj J ( AWOAWEALTLfV Be A5 REASONABLE AS Im ,V s 4 V lfr WE COULD GET VOUR LOVE AMD V&orv Vnu MYSELF If ir REBUFFED BV pCCy? NtJ WTvfl 5H CT stSJ L MISSOEKS .p 1 BRINGING FATHER By George McWanui r? : : l l 7 1 l n n r . . t. DOWN PERFECT. NO )-t- , 11 1 V W ARGUMENT AMD WELP PACKX Z fl J THROW STRAIGHT, blamed: "These marriages were due in 1633 but had to be postponed be cause of the depression," he main tains. He expects the run on the registry offices to continue until the second half of 1936, "when the pre-war re sources will be exhausted" and a rapid decline In weddings will set In. Try to Forestall Prop Unable to fill the gap of the war years, during which births dropped from an average of 2.000,000 annually to fewer than one million, racial ex pert now are concentrating on en couraging fruit fulness among newly weds. Their Idea la to forestall another serious drop in the birth rate after 1936 when "the few war children" will begin to marry. It seems their efforts have not been vain. For the first time since the war, birth registration parsed the mil lion mark last year, official figures placing the number of 1934 babies at 1,160,915, some 213,000 more than In 1933. The report emphasizes that 157,881 children were born In 1934 to cou ples who married under the matrl- Mr YM&W monlal loan plan. Couples who marry with a government subsidy ' can de duct 26 per cent of the amount of the loan for each child born. Cupid Felt Depression. LOOAN, Utah (UP) Cupid found a real depression here: not one mar riage license was Issued the last half of the week, said the county clerk. The first time in history uch p?rod haa passed without issuing, or making out sppllcatlon for mar riage license. "Baby Ruth" Still ttit GHrt. SARASOTA. Pla. (UP) "Baby Ruth" Pontico. circus fat lady, is recovering at her home here after a 30 weeks' illness. Baby Ruth has lost 100 pounds during her long Illness, but she still hasn't that girl ish figure. You see. she dropped from 650 to 550 pounds. 4- Auto p hooting Record Set. LANTHA, Mo. (UP) Some sort of record was set by Jack Lawrence, farmer-marksman, who brought down a wolf at 75 yards while riding In an automobile traveling 40 miles an hour. DIFFICULT DECISIONS 1HE 1feM0 DDKNrf KM0W WHAY 15 DO ABOU-f 1UE HEfcW MffcR WHO HAS JUf YOOMZD H0 Y NEIGHBORHOOD, BAUSE WHILE HE'S SURE 1b LEAD THE LEAGUE BftfflKS, fHE HhYl 16 RftPlDW S0IW6 BANKRUPT paying for riE windows he breaks By GLUYAS WILLIAMS ess