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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1935.
READY MADE VVIft
.BY CORALIE STANTON W
SV.VOPSS." haunt Moore, tun-
Boscdlji the widow of Hex Moore,
the dxrtnan who was believed killed
while truing to flu the Pacific,
works lor Hark Alhery. Albery it
interested ill her. .Voto Rex Sloart
returns, rolls on Laurie, and de
clares lie is astounded to find he
hns a widow when he never had a
wife. Laurie collapses.
Chapter Seven
EXPLANATION
"you are Rei Moore?" Laurie
1 whispered. "You are alive?"
She collapsed, and burled her
face In her arms on the table. The
ihame that this particular man of all
men should be Rei Moore was too
much for her.
He stood in silence, gazing at her
bent russet head. In the nape of
her neck was a little hollow and
round It grew downy ringlets of red
gold. His eyes lingered on them.
Laurie raised her head. She was
not a coward, whatever she was.
She would show him that
"1 thought you were dead," she
said. "I never thought you would
come back."
"That's obvious." His retort was
accompanied by another of those
mocking smiles. "Just as you never
thought the railway carriage door
was open the other day! You don't
seem to be a sound thinker. By the
way. what Is your name?"
IMIMI
I!
yon and sent you to England?"
asked Moore.
"Yes."
"And they mad no Inquiries
about you?"
"No: they took my word. 1
should never have thought of It but
for them."
"But bow did you manage It?
How could you play the part of the
widow of a man you bad never set
eyes on?"
"I knew Belle Mason very well.
She was always talking about you.
I remembered everything she bad
told me. She came from Warrablllo,
too. We went to school together. I
knew that you were engaged to her
and would have married her, If she
hadn't suddenly died of typhoid." .
"I see. Poor Belle! Poor kid! Yes,
we were going to get married."
His voice was remote; then It
hardened.
"So you took up the role of my
widow to sponge on the charity of
Albery's firm! You did It deliber
ately?" "I did after the first"
"It turned out fine for you."
"It did. But I've worked bard. And
H saved my sister's life."
" A NO when you'd made good, you
didn't think of telling the
truth?"
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The shame wai too much for Laurie.
"Moor."
NAb, then you bad a good start!"
"Moor without an E," she cor
rected. She was up Id arms.
"Would It be too much to ask you
to tell me what the game was?"
"It wasn't a game." She hurried
over her words, her cheeks crimson,
her blue eyes dark with defiance,
"And 1 didn't start It; It started It
solf. 1 was down and out In Sydney,
whore I'd boon living with my little
alster alter my father died. My
father left us penniless. We came
to Sydney from the country, where
he bad been trying to farm. But
be couldn't get on.
"I tried all sorts of jobs, but 1
couldn't keep them. It came to when
we hadn't enough to eat, and had
to move from our lodgings and got
Into a house, where the woman ac
cused me of stealing and called In
the police, and my sister was very
111. and I was half crazy.
,,TPHE police were kind to me;
they know the woman had a
bad reputation. And at the hospital
where my sister was they were kind
to me, too. And there happened to
be a gentleman there, visiting, who
hoard that 1 came from Warrablllo
County, and for some roason he got
It into his head that 1 was the widow
of Rex Moore.
"They bad beard that he bad
secretly married a girl from that dis
trict before he started off on his
flight, and was kilted. They were
anxious to find her and do some
thing for her. There had been a
mystery about the marriage. And I
said I was Rex Moore's widow. 1
say I was crazy, but it saved me
and my slater from all sorts of
things."
The man, looking at her Intently,
did not show that he knew she was
cot telling all the truth. She was
not. There were things she would
not tell him.
"This man, 1 suppose, was Mr.
Albery's friend, who looked after
Ml may have thought of It. But 1
should, have lost my Job, and
everybody would know I was a cbeal
and a fraud."
"Two years you're kept It up?"
"Yes."
"Did you ever think of me? A dead
man, while you were living this He?'
"1 thought of Rex Moore not ol
you. 1 thought of Rex Moore as I
Imagined him to be. And 1 thought
I folt. If he knew, he would forglvt
me. He would not mind."
"But you think I would have
minded?" x
"Yes. You're a cruel man." Hei
eyes blazed with defiant misery and
intolerable shame.
There was a long pause. Then
Rex Moore said:
"1 mind this much, as 1 bappeo
to be alive. You're made a fool ol
me In Albery's eyes. I didn't tell
blm just now that I hadn't a wife
at all. 1 wanted to come along and
have a look at the girl who had
played this trick on a dead man. So
he la under the Impression that we
are Indulging In a happy reunion."
His grim chuckle made her wince.
"I'm broke myself now," he went
on. "I have to look to Albery for the
future. I owe him everything In the
past. I'm not going to let him know
bow he's been fooled by you, and
that I stood for It just now. Do you
get me?'
"No " gasped Laurie. "What do
you mean?"
"That you've Just got to keep up
the farce and go on pretending to
be my wife."
"Oh no!"
Laurie stared at Rex Moore. The
misery and shame In her eyes were
replaced by a glitter of Indignant
fury.
"You're Just wanting to Insult me,
to be odious to me. You wouldn't
want me to do that!"
"It's the last thing Id the world
I want to do," the man said.
(Coptricht. I93J, Corali Stanton)
Liurl mikea th btt et a bid
t4rgalri tomorrow.
OREGON POSTMASTER
PORTLAND. July 13. AP) The
Journal's Washington correspond nt
today said that FieMdrnt RoomkcII
li;wl sent to the filiate th follow
ing nominations tot postmasters:
Keg main C. Cooke, Oswego;
Blhnche A. Wood, Rockaway; Cha.tea
A. Purcell. TrouMale; Thomas W.
Angus. Gardiner, Murk A. Hill, bay
City; Mildred Chi.iholm. Monroe; Ed
ward F. Kelso. Voncalla; Harry E.
Mahoney. Oakland; Pearl A. Lawson,
Riddle; Vtva Todd. Cloverdale.
foreigFTruck influx
barred in wheat area
THE DALLES. Ore.. July 13. (AP)
Marshal E Nouman. Held super
visor for the Oregon utilities com
mission, -nnoumt-rt here yesterday,
that Oregon officials will not toler
ate an influx of foreign truck own
ers In this years wheat harvest,
"We Intend to protect legit mute
carriers against lino wildcat conipe
tltioa and recuiie oacU per&on haul
ing grain to provide himself with a
permit and plants." Nffumsn de
clared.
MRS. MARTHA PLUMMER,
OREGON PIONEER, DIES
PORTLAND. Ore. Jxily 13 (APi
Mrs. Martha E. plummer. 84, life
long resident of the Oregon country,
died today at her home on the Mte
of the old Albert Kelly donation
land claim.
Mrs. plummer was the widow of
Dr. O. P. 8. Plummer, pioneer Port
land druggist. Shi was horn Novem
ber 33. 1850, on the land claim wo
months after her father. Aloert
Kelly, settled on It In the Tualatin
valley.
Raring l"g Tires of Exercl
REVERE. Mass. (UP, One of
Clyde Boyd's racing dogs found it
Is easier to ride than to cxerctM.
While Boyd wat. exercising a group
of dogs one sllpprd tta collar aud
ran along the 'ilj;hway. a passing
motorist obligingly opened the door,
and the dog haMi i been seen since.
WINDOW CI LASS We sell window
glass and will replace your broken
windows reasonably. Trowbridge Cab
inet Work. i
PROFIT FROM
ICE DRY REPEAL 3
SALEM, July 12. fAP) Nearly
half of the five and a half million
dollars appropriated by the legisla
ture for unemployment relief from
liquor revenues had been turned over
to the state relief committee by July
B, Secretary or State Earl 8nell re
ported today.
Of this amount which totaled 2.
464.772, the actual profit transfer
red to relief from the manufactuie,
sale, distribution, taxing and licens
ing of liquor, was $1,404,773. half a
million being used to retire certifi
cates of Indebtedness.
Certificates Issued against liquor
revenues to date amounted to
550.000, with the total now outstand
ing $1,050,000. Administrative charges
h? the. ata.tM relief mmmHtM In -.-
nectton with the handling or these '
founds amounted to $12,250, and In-;
terest paid on the certificates vas
$2,214, leaving the total amount ap
portioned to the counties $2,433.
613. Funds disbursed to the various
counties since the Inception of the
liquor commission, until July 9, In
cluded the following:
Baker county $43,739.53, Benton
$42,227.98, Douglas $56,020.65, ' Jack
son $83,946.75, Josephine $29,335.38,
Klamath $82,656.37. Lane $138,969.94,
Marlon $154,392.15. Multnomah $862.
642.10, Umatilla (62.233.84 and Union
$44,612.15.
IE
T
Dwlght Phlpps, district fire warden
In charge of state lands in Jackvm
and Josephine counties, stated today
that although ho has not yet re
ceived official word from Salem,
150,000 acres of tlmberland In Jack
son county will be closed to entry
except by permit. The closure will
go Into effect today by proclamation
of the governor. which was an
nounced here Wednesday.
Phlpps, who submitted description
of about 150.000 acres of land that
he deemed shovld be closed, said
that It Is Impossible to accurately
describe the land taken In by the
governor's proclamation until he re
ceives the official papers, which ere
expected within a few days.
He stated however, that the closed
land will be divided into three blocks,
situated In1 the Evan creek, the
Butte Falls and the ertreme south
portions of the county.
Evans creek block will be rough
ly bounded by Evans cieeK and
Wlmer on the south, the Trail creek
divide on the fast, the Jackson
Josephine county line on the west
and the Umpqua divide on the north.
The Butte Falls block will be bounded
by the Crater Lake htgnway and Big
Butte creek on the south. Elk creek
on the west, tho national forest
boundary on the east, and the nat
ional park boundary on the north.
The south block will be bounded by
the Ash land -Klamath rails highway
on the north, the national forest
boundary and Nell creek on the weit,
Jenney creek on the east and the
California line on the south.
Permits are necessary when travel
ing or camping In any part of the
closed area except when traveling on 1
a highway, Phlpps explained.
Phone 642. We'll haul away youi
refuse, city Sanitary Service.
IN THE LIGHT
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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1 S Tl
(Copyright, 1935, by The Ml Sjsbou, Inc.)
6K0MK UNEASILY AWARE
tflAf JUMlOR HRS COME ItJ "f0
WtftH HIM Ttf HW6E OH
OJPBCftKP POOR
A MOMENT LfrfER JUHI0R HAS
8LTn oof Auiiferrf
EXPLAINS -0 JUNIOR "THAT DAD-
Vi CANYSEE IF HESIfcMDS WfcHf
JUNIOR oBEDIOHW BACKS Off
AMD to Bf6mSfO INCH FOR
WARD ASKIK6 AT lrtltRWL&
CM DA.DDV SEE ml ?
IW A FErV SECONDS HE A6A,M
P1UK6E6 FATHER HJ-fo "Tar'AL
DARKHESS, CAtlSlte HIM 1b JOB
FlM&ER WHrt SCREW -DRIVER.
IS-lfelD SHARPlV 1b 6Ef OW OF
LlfeHf. DOES SO EPlAIKlrf6 HE
OlJW WANTED fO SEE IF THIS
SCREi HE FOUND FrffED Tr)E MM6E
REMARKS BRI6HTLY IT WILL
BE EEfCER IF HE STANDS ON
OTHER SIDE OFDATOV AND
100KS (m HIS BOCK. ,
IEANS OW TWVlER'S BACK lb
SEE BETTER, 6RADUALW BEARING
HM DOWN Yo FLOOR
IS SENT OUT To PLAV, FATHER
DISCOVER K6 PRESErHW HE HA&
-fftKEN ri SCREW WlfH HIM,
WHICH HE NEEDS FDR HIN6E
1 i 1
B-MATTER POP- By 'C. M. Payne
Trwnr Cti ft j
11 1 .. . 1 ' 1 U f. Tin ,ZJ .77, , J -v-i torn
TAILSPIN TOMMY Jose Is Defiant
By Hal Forrest
YOU ARE A FOOL ,fO
AMIGC--YOU COULD SAVE
EL PREtlDeNT MUCH
TR.OUC.Le--HE HAS OFFERED
TEM THOUSAND PE50NA.S
IM SOLD-FOR. MY
H6AD--
TN ORDER TO 5AVE HIS OWN I Ll7 QUE eSPERAT U56LL, k i HS'i r-jT'
LIPE.TOMnV OAS FORCED TO fir. WCLL--IOHY DO VOU ) ,M T,
.SHOOT DOU3N THE PLANE OF -S. NOT SHOOT ME, V t 'Mi.
OoaeJOLLA-NO0 TOMMY HAS f&OU. TAlLSPlt J f2&m
0ECID6O TO TAKE THE REBEL 'tS.&Sfe'SSSmTDMMY? 3, l41---JJ
W TOKtl. CHtF HK150NEH. EsSJIC-- 7 ri 4 .OCOY. !Of,P
2231 cvsSHi v0ytMi
1 -2b y Vj. ! rufrl-S it v. 1 I KJsi AJk. ii , i
NO EHTIBrVDe?
IOE ARE on
OPPOtVTE soe!
IN THIS lOAK.
1
I DON'T MAKE A
PROFESSION OF KILLING
PEOPLE--EVEN FOR.
MONE.Y--'n NOT ONI
ANY SOe N THIS. WAR
I'M TRYING TO ESCAPE
IT AND IN ORDER, TO
SO-I'M TAKIN& YOU
PRISONER. TAOLO
BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Here It All Begins
ben fr
and Jy y
BeV) WeB'oTER.'tUB.OY,
COURA6E0U9, UP6TAN0IMG
BOY OF 16, AND HIS IrftEPAfABlf .?4r3
NOBLE AIRECHIE , ARE THE .'S5
ONLY OCCDPAMT5 OF 1051 'fL;iO
CAMYOM RANCH - 't'.
THE RANCH, BENS PROPERTY, ACUOINS 1WE VA5T
"SILENT DKERT MTo WHICH CaMYOn CREErt
LOSES ITS VJATERS, AND LOOKS OUT UPON
THE PURPLE HILLS AND PEAK'S OF THE MYwTERY
MOUNTAIN -BUI THE CREEK, FREE-FLOVJIN6
1HBOU6H THE RAMCH, PROVIDES LUSH (3RAIIN6
CROUKiDS AND BEMS AMBIT10M IS t) RAISE CATTLE
F HE CAN ONLY 6ET ASTAKT-RttHT NOW THERE
Stmi BUT LITTLE CHANCE OF THrS BUT 6CM
6eLIEVE A WAY AAAY BE FOUND
Bv Edwin Alger
DIANA
I O f.-TiC -M "-j. J
FATE, HOWEVER, HAS A HABIT OF
SURPRISING AU OF US, EVEW IM
SUCH OUTFOSTS OF LOHEUKJESS
AS IS LOST CAnYOKI RANCH,
AnD THE FIN6E0 OF CHANCE
soon is To eecKou eew .'
OLD CALMM PANHARD ,
GRaiLEO PROSPECTOR
VNTH CHAUA,HVS FLEA-BITTEN
BURRO, PICW.IM6 HER WAV AHEAD OF HIM OVER
THE: ROCKS AND STONES. OF A MOUNTAIN
TRAIL, o NEAR1N6 THE RANCH
0'n
PANHARw
THERE'S A LOOK. OF- WILD EVCTTcMENT IN THE
MANS EYES HAS HE STRUCK. 60LD? SILVER ?
VJE WMOW HE HAS -SOME SECRET-WILL HE STOP AT BENS?
VJILL HE TALK TO THE. BOY ? TOMORROW VJILL TELL
THE
2 -: !
Bv Sol Hess
NEBBS The Sap?
' "' ' 1 1 1 - -
jUDV HAD LOOKED AT TH4T STOCK AND T's 'y I'LL SEND THE CHECK. I Q S OUGMT TO GrN
HARDLY ACQUIRED f ESS ABLE - AND 1 DON'T KNOW miSmT AS 'ELLBEA Jl.lOO te fe , '. ty out SOM- pan-Prm i
RECEIVED NOTICE tMj SJ XBE TME TALLEST ONE S j XP'N3 FOR you
WASjULL OF Tl "tIIIL 5
j
THE BUNGLE FAMILY Versus Relatives
By Harry J. TuthiU
Whit a relief a hlt!e quiet is. Eer since
we 4pt back from that is'and to find
mg 6i!er renting, out cur reomsjr-r'
there's been more peop'e r "il ' .
trudcXir-K in and out f-i '
of here than at
a railroad Jil (TSi
Staticn.rj
. .. j i -t t
U'e must hae a lot of-
ruster in our nervous s,
Sustems. .The average
coup e with cur rjf'
reltixes would,, jj
have so manu c-!i
nervous blowouts,
that theu could r":
tell time C
fcu them. )
' , J w
Well of course I I
mt m . . ...II
I ther s t.o kmcy
M Lqrrg,at.ves.
Most of them have an axe
to Crind. When they
ik suai rviitrvj nicy j j
use coin nar.es in
letting vou have it
niht in the 1
whiskers,
too.
Meek ones
are all
I x
It's the others
who make all the
trouble. The
ones who
don't
i v
n-n r
tit i i i
.iii i i t ,ii i
placej
fed I 1
ne oniy person I ever heard
or v.r.o could put a touih
re itive in his r.iht oiace is
'i a judi,e who tets a whack
- . , t hi.
tree while
... ' .7 session.
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