Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 24, 1935, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextPXGE SUC MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFQRD, OKEGpy, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1935. L L1 ON TIME By GLUYAS WILLIAMS U)lUtrf5 BYNOPBIB: Aliaon Rede realiaea aha ta beaten. Bhe knowa that Daphne Bumera, who it marrying her father tomorrow, to an adven tureaa. and that her tovor U the proprietor of the Bpanteh hotel in which the Redee plan to apend their honeymoon. Daphne hae even con vinced Ur. Rede that Alteon ie "a I1KI0 touched," and ehe hae poi. eoned Aliaon'e mind againal the man toho might be her only friend Guy Lumley. Chapter it BURNED LETTER rvAPHNE u at the door; Robert Rode opened It (or her. Alison standing rigid, paralyzed bj shock, watched them go out together and heard Daphne, In the hall, murmur My dear, that's It! I'll speak to Doctor Mortimer for you and 1 know a wonderful maid." Alison did not move but she found her knees shaking, her hands trem bling, as It she had fever. No matter what happened now, her father would never again be lieve herl She would be carted off, helpless, to Spain with some grim maid chosen by Daphne to support rthe hideous pretence that she was victim of hysteria and nerves! She stared at the fireplace blank ly, wondering If she were to run away tonight, escape, whether she would be safe. Would they chase her, catch her, bring her back, even shut her up, perhaps. In some ghastly nursing hornet The whole familiar room seemed to have grown cold and horrible, un friendly, as she stared down Into the fire. Suddenly she stooped, caught up a scrap of torn paper. Charred at one corner where It had been lying on the Iron bars, It burned her but she did not know It. For she was staring at the words scrawled In a clean, firm, hand, cut short by the diagonal tearing of the sheet " f you know, Allso " and be low " et no answe " with at the bottom the bold signature "Quy Lu " ending In burned dark brown edges. A letter to herself from Guy! She had a swift vision of Daphne standing by the oak chest In the hall. So that was what she had been doing there I That was why she had stood with skirts outspread before the fire! A red blase of angor swallowed Alison's fear. She dropped on her knees on the hearthrug, gathering up all the charred bits she could find not more than bait a dozen little pieces and two of those al most burnt! She hoard the front door shut, as she stood up. Her father was at the door when Alison pushed past him, both hands guarding those small fragments of a lettor. She heard him call after her and paid no heed as she fled up the stairs, gained her own room and locked the door. rpHEY would not fit. Here a word, there a tiny bit of a sontonce clear, tantalising her by hinting at the uncompleted mean ing. She had pushed aside her brushes end little pots, had spread the burned paper out on the glass top of her table, trying each bit to each as one trios to Bt a Jigsaw puizle, but they would not make sense. Guy bad written to her; had left the letter, probably, since he had not bad time to reach her by post; that was all that she know when she sat back at last, bafTled. Twice dur ing that long session, she had hoard her father's knock and had listened to hlrn pleading with her to open the door. She had answered care fully, reasonably, sanoly, "1 don't want to talk just now. I'm going to bed. Please leave me alone." She bad heard him go back at last to his own rooms and now, looking out, she could see that his light was off. Half past two; too late to steal down and ring up Guy. By morning Daphne might have the doctor wall ing, have engaged a maid to spy on her, she might be a prisoner! She opened her evening bag and counted out her small store of change; nine shillings In cash. But she had jewelry, enough perhaps to keep her until she found work Best to go at once, tonight, to an hotol whoro her luggage would In sure her having time to sell what she possessed. Her own suitcase was upstairs, stored In the attic; she dared not get It, since that would mean tip toeing past her father's door and up the servants' stairs. She found an old round hatboz which she had used to keep some private, treasured school mementos. ALBANY. Ore., June 24. ( AP) Linn county farmer In large numbers are moving to take the "dryness" out of farming by Installing Irrigation systems. County Aent Floyd Mullen today ssld approximately 40 Irrigation plsnts have been Installed the lait two weeks with still more planned Practically all the new plants In clude centrifugal pumps, Mullen aald. and the motive power most popular Is electricity wherever It la available. Wells and streams are the water sources, In about equal proportions Farmers are about equally divided in favor of overhead sprinkling and gravity flood ayatpms. flpring planting mas so delayed and She put these on the shelt and tilled the hatboz up. She changed quickly Into the grey suit, added a grey felt hat and little marten fur, her stoutest pair of gloves and thick, dark shoes. Yet It was already past three when she unlocked the door quietly and stole very softly down the thick maroon carpet of the pas sage to the stairs. What a noise each step seemed to make at night! She did not dare to turn a light on but found the front door and felt for the chain. The latch gave under her band and a rush of cold air nipped her as she got the door open. The square looked dark and unfamiliar at this hour, with nothing moving and the lamps dim In a rising fog. Victoria St. Pancras? She had so little money that she chose Victoria although It was near, almost too near tor safety. The hatboz weighed heavily on her arm and she was afraid that some policeman, noticing her, might stop her to ask what she was doing at that hour, carrying a bag. She went Into the station; It was empty but there was a waiting room with many people sitting, half asleep, along Its shiny benches. She chose to wait In the third, as being less likely to contain anyone she knew. It was halt an hour before the bustle of a train arriving re leased her from an uncomfortable vigil between a fat old man and a brightly painted, all-too-frlendly Frenchwoman. Bag In hand, Alison made her way towards the Incoming train, min gling with Its passengers, and with them she went Into the hotel. "A single room, please; a cheap one." The clerk behind the booking desk barely looked up; young wo men with hand luggage are not un common In a railway hotel at nlgbt "Number 317," he said briskly. "That'll do." Ton mlnutos later, Alison lay curled up In a strange bed, trying to realise that she had run away from home. rUNDAS; the telephone book '-' gave her the number and street; but when she found It, she got a slight shock. Such a squalid, wind ing little back street, with ragged, white-faced children playing on the pavements, uncleared of refuse from the day before! Even her old grey suit soemed too smart for this street, an Insult to the draggled women who stood eye ing her in doorways. She felt almost glad when she reached the end door with the red sign above It and Sur gery written In white. Once there, she had Imagined she would see Uuy at onco; but the door stood open and the room Inside, bare but for woodon benches round the walls, was crowded. There was no sitting space left, and the people who were stnndlng looked as though they had been waiting for some time. A bare grey room, full of people whose poverty was real and who took It as part of the day's work. Alison, who had never socn these things, remembered Guy sitting In the little restaurant In Soho and saying, "Thoy don't want any fairy godmother stuff. They want under standing, sympathy. And that means ozperlenee." She had thought him brutally frank then but now she saw that he was right What had she got to give to these tired or busy people? She felt rather bumble as she chose a fnr corner, well behind tho crowd, to stand and wait. Sho waB so Intent on the crowd that sho did not hear tho door open. "Come again on Friday. Who's next:" She looked up and met his eyes. Ho was across the room In three strides. "You! Down hero! You got my letter?" "I want to talk to you about It. But 1 can wait." She Indicated the roomful who wore watching the two of thorn with Interest and sundry halt hidden winks. "Come In and wnlt In the back room," he suggested. "No. thanks. I'd rathor stay here." That was nil; he vanished again accompanied by his nezl patient. But she wos very leg-weary before the last of the patients had gone In and out again, before twelve o'clock struck and her own turn enme. "Have you a car ontstdf?" H was standing by a desk, very busi nesslike In a white overall and a pair of horn-rlmmed glasses. "No." She laughed a little shakily. "1 haven't even got my fare back to Victoria. Copyright. I93S. Evelyn U. rt'tiii'M Quy confcMet his fear for Alison, Monday. precipitation during May and June ha been so slight UiAt crop condi tions have become alarming and lr rlgatton has become imperative. Mul len Mild. He pred Icted most crop now sprouted can be at least partially saved If brought Immediately under Irrigation. More than 100 irrinatlton pUnts have been Installed in Linn county the last yc&r. ASTORIA. Ore. June 24 lAPi Finding of the abandoned crntt be longing to Charles Karajoata, 54. had given rise tinisy to fears the veteran Antorla fisherman had fallen over board and drowned. W 1 11 YntiUi Hunted PORTLAND. Ore, June 24. (APt- Depuiy Sheriff Mi'Fnrlane n-ported last niht that a gang of youth had wounded William Smith. 60, of Th coma. and pursued two of lus com panion on the railroad tracks near Portland. A cooking and canning school will be conducted at Montgomery Ward from Wednesday through Saturday with clajwes each day at 3 p. m., which will be open to the public, ac cording to H. L. Brown, store man ager. Instruction In the preparation of all types of food with npeclal atten tion given to tho .we of the pressure cooker, will be given by a demonstra tor. Local women's clubs and organi zations have been Invited to attend In groups. "The Importance which Is attach ed to this school." said Mr. Brown, "may be easily appreciated when It Is realized that more than 2,000,000 pressure cookers are In use in this country and that the United States department of agriculture recom mends them as the only safe method for canning all non-acid vegetables, meats, fowls and fish. With the gr:U number of these cookers in the homes. Wards feel that expert In structions should be given the pub lic so that they may obtain the best results." The reason the department of ag riculture endorses the use of pressure cookers, according to Mr. Brown. Is because high temperature and steam under pressure effectually kills dis ease breeding germs. All commercial ly canned foods are canned under pressure. Be correctly corseted In an Artist Model by Ethclwyn B. Hoffmann. TAILSPIN TOMMY Skeets EL 2TORRO jTHE SWAMP FOX, BANDIT CHIEF, CAPTURED SEN. S-MATTER FOP " By C. M. Payne j ' LISTEN ,CHSTER SWAMP FOX, I 60TTA BETTER. IDEA THAN FEEDIN' TWS SQUINT- EYED GOHEZ, TRAITOROUS TH ANTS COMMANDANT OF THE FEDeB.At SARRISON AT EL FELIZ. SKEETER RESCUED DOLORES, DAUGHTER OF EL PReSDeNT)WHO HWJ lifcfcN HtLU CAPTIVE BY SOME2-. THE 3WAMP FOX PLANS TO FEED HIS OLD ENEMV TO THE ANTS - 2116 BEN VEBSTER'S CAREER NAIWT QOIKI 5HOOT AAE , OU.LOCOMOTlVe THE NEBB3 Advice AW EMMA.? HWE VOU 60T W THE MAIM 6TOC IM THE UME CREEK a' -A TROUBLE OR ARE YOU X AtS.ft ,u ' SOMIAW MIME - IT COST ME550 V1U.UA WiORRVe, ABOUT TROUBLE TROUBLE TOWM VD MR BOOBEL OFFEHEO L JVWObTQotTM A TKOU6LE '.-- r J flj i ri . v I v cr tu E y n rt v i - rz- tesi ; TPzy- I I I "'tgyr' I fj'Jj ' ' fL. IP ft.tha itf.j. .,n v t om ytf - V-j. ifewifeiMiiJl THE BUNGLE FAMILY Losses Ooiv1 Mu dispatch caso. Ali my p.i-vi s. Ootie1 In this ft Ivxise i lxi e I am not J Known. It is "C"Rfif impossible, r ...MV hilt .sfr- I in IS SET AT 3 CENTS SALEM, June 24. (AP) Three cents a pound to the grower was the minimum price set for all logan berries sold in Oregon under the Oregon Loganberry growers' code, and announced by members of the con trol board here. The board said the price would apply at the customary place of de livery for the grower. A deduction of 75 cents a ton by the canner or processor was authorized, the funds received to be used as operating ex penses for the board. The price Is effective on all grow ers, Irrespective of whether or not they have assented to the code. Wil liam J. Llnfoot, counsel for the con trol board, stated. Phone 642. We'll haul away your refuse. City Sanitary Service. Has an Ideal At the Ranch i ( I'll lot or tiling i wo or mu best ijowns.. u m I jfZiiil . fdrc gr yfeXtfei 4ilL (Copyright, 1938, by Tlx Bell Syndicate. Inc.) 'Tl' " O'AT EES, TMQSE W f-"' -L. X ' " "Jssj W st hTue'S BIVE THIS HERE BABY A4"" LoeA,MAC-IGO?Iji - fh 1 mfStlfm)? StoAT OF TAR'tV FEATHERS &PERTO jaByH tj t , ayii m J A 'SGI ' e&PLEnoiDor " " 1 fmrW Vff ill "3 i ?'( hfit' $W,lz Vy , ;, 5T&, h U this uiasp-uwsted Vv l,;7rr j li'tit'f t5HUT Uff H'VE BNAaV ntCHO OUT "1 T AlKrt GOT LOM3 TO Llve,SON, BUT "f I BECAUSE. CLAMMY rvOULp-i;1! lilliii.i'il '"mil-" I. ' I NOW. JUST A MINUTE. ':'" A WHAT'S HAPPENED MV I H UBTUKJ uac, hammv-i'm RAWkiwft rtn M ( vjavp viiipd voi.o rw. aio J . x-wWyi ujl'ii'ik BEK1' BEFORE YOU )?k BEN WENT OVER THE BRID6E B YOU TO GET MY HORSE, ACTHOUSH OUTSIDE j I MAYBE OL TOO, IF TT HAONT GET ''w30 AWD WAS KILLED THAT S THAT DOOR YOU'LL BE OUT OF SIGHT" mtMi BEEN FOR ME - SAWY ? A NOOR Nl . . . ,vyu urn ;,;l77rrri Kw.i,i','3 nujwiMrt tuks; oi ap- a tLyj-z: jii w&''xjci 'A i t.Bf'A mw 'V -- i 1 AIjss ot S water. m shoes r ptt vii bst r zjf . Dr. W. P. Shepard, nationally known physician, will be the main speaker at a forum luncheon to be held at the Hotel Medford on Thursday noon, June 27th, it was announced by Chamber of Commerce officials today. The luncheon will be sponsored by the Jackson County Health association, Jackson County Medical association, and the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Shepard, whose home Is In San Francisco, has held many national and regional offices In connection with the American Public Health as sociation and li a recognized author ity on matters of public health. His subject will be "Why Public Health." The toastmaster for the occasion will be Dr. Oames C. Hayes, who urges that everyone cm tain reserva tions immediately at the Chamber of Commerce in order to hear the interesting address of Dr. Shepard. Mu orau suit.'' Whjt ft hat! shoes' ft'oi-n lk-o lJ Clowns You speak of such cheap trifles to me a New tan rl .SB . -v ' - -;'-7 me' Now s1s down to dinner... parent's oerv much parsed because he Was cm "Time AltfOSf Af OUCt BN.1-5 FOR URStRS, ECIAIM 1I6 HE fr-lUkS HE LEFf elcr(c 501deriw6 iron -Corned om Ch?ap ' much was uour t,-i(;es? Jiopotcn case worths Oh I beo 7 'cu can cjet an awful 4 uour c--' ar mrui or mat siurr max n,-.iin , loo's lik leather for 5. li-' ivi tf IMMEDIKf&y fftBlE.OK REQUEST, TO WASH HI'S HANDS RFftff!NS AND SrfS DOvVN, JUSf A6 AP0& FlfeHt SfARfe OltfSIDE RE0RK5 Yo-felE 6 EDDE 5EUER'5 tfmsdt SOUNDS OIKSIPE 60E6 OUf 1&1UL ED DIE HE5 EA-ftKG HIS Dinner., akd "to DisoJss OfHER MWfERS WllA HIM (Copyright, 193 by The Bell Syndicate, WELL.DOMT TELLHlM YOU M'VvE.NJ'T OT IT OUST TE.LL MIM THAT GOLD KAS SOME UP OLD MINJE5 ARE OPE.MINJG UP AJOD YOU TWIrOK YOU'LL HOLD IT L Oh uou do These papers. ...they are J The loss of that suit wiot under- priceless. 1 heir bi&V, stand. may mean. ...yes 1 admit it.. .panic.. rum... in rjA turope . f w Sjtf lutusMW 6-:- DASHB OltflbVARD 10 MAKE SURE CAESAR 5,Nf MIXED OP IK if. RE-ClJRMS ti h FEW MlNltfK RTfDRMS BE&IN5 MEAl, PAREttfS BEIK6 PREW WELL THROUGH BY NOW Inc.) by Hal Forrest Bv Edwin Aln;er Bv Sol Hess 1 TOLO mim ALREADY L CANO'T PinjD IT; SO UP TO ThlAT POI IOT I ncxjT meed mo ADVICE.MAY6E YOU COULD GIVE. ME SOME FROM THERE OM By Harry J. Tuthill lossJ and those shoes will Jp start a panic nc.ht here, ( too. when I catch tne babu -T-P'Viwho 5pt them. ' tp i -' TJ uus. Your JJ '-tji-.-.,-:.-,'