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JIEDFORD MAIL TRTBTHsTE, ilEDFOKD, OREGON. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1935.
READY MADE WIF
3Y CORAU STANTON.
BYNOPBlBl Lauri Moor haa
borrowed the nam of a man aha
thought dead. Sow that Rex Moor
haa returned, aha must keep up the
pretenaa of beino married to him to
that he may hold hta job with Mark
Albert for whom aha also worka,
Jlex ia in their flat when a woman
ia announced. She ia Wanda Steele,
and aha teems to recall disturbing
memories to Has.
Chapter 18
PAST HISTORY
"T EX, how badly you treated
1- me!" Wanda Bteele'a freat
dark eyes reproached him through
the happiness ot seeing him again.
"How could you do It? Going off like
that without a word! Leaving me Id
that fearful anxiety, not knowing
whether you were alive or dead!
After all 1 bad done for you! it was
cruel It was Inhuman. 1 never got
over 1L Nothing mattered to me any
more after you bad gone. Eight
months ago. Rex, and 1 thought of
.you every day!"
"How did you find me?" he asked
in a dull voice.
"I've just come to London from
Jtaly. I've been traveling for the
last six months. And 1 saw In the
paper this morning that Mark AI
berry had given you a luncheon, that
you were back and were planning a
new fllgbL I rang up the Albery
offices and they gave me your ad-
dress. Rex. why do you look at me
so strangely? Aren't you glad to see
me ? Have you forgotten every
thing?" He was looking at her strangely.
at the woman who, with her bus-
'band, had rescued him In their yacht
when he had crashed In those lonely
wastes of the Pacific, who had taken
him to their home in California,
looked after blm, nursed him de
votedly while be lay unconscious,
comforted him when be awoke blind.
They had done (or him all that
human beings could do. They had
kept his rescue a secret, as be had
asked them to. They had treated
him as an honored guest; they bad
Indulged every reasonable whim of
his broken body and bis darkened
soul. They had lapped blm In the
greatest luxury and paid enormous
sums to the greatest specialists In
the hope of restoring bis sight.
T last be bad been cured, and
only a month afterwards he bad
slipped out of their gates during the
night, because he knew they would
. not let him go In the way be wanted
to, and because be knew he could
never thank them for what they had
done.
And because this woman bad told
him that she loved blm and that
without htm her life would not be
worth living.
Of course, he realized afterwards
that be bad been a little crazy. His
brain must have been unhinged by
ithe Joy of regaining his sight.
"I can only think you must have
jbeen mad," the woman said.
"1 was," he answered. "What I
did was unforgivable. There Is noth
ing worse than Ingratitude."
"It doesn't matter now that I've
found you again," she said. She was
holding his bands, standing very
close to blm, looking passionately,
exultantly Into his eyes,
i She was not beautiful. Her fea
tures were too large. But she was at
tractive, with her eager, wide red
Hps, her long pale golden face, pow
dered with freckles, framed In the
thick platinum hair, with thickly
painted lasnes.
And she was supremely elegant.
Her severe tailor-made costume, her
little grey turban, with a single large
pearl In It, her discreet but costly
onyx and diamond bangles, the grey
molr6 pochette, with the tiny dla
mond Initials; all was perfect. The
Impeccable combination of wealth
and tii s to.
Rex Moore's face was grim, as be
disengaged his hands and put her
gently Into an armchair.
Her eyes filled with reproach
again.
"Rex, 1 hardly knew you! Tell me
about It. What did you do It for?
Why did you r.ever send word?"
"1 kntw that 1 eonld never thank
you," he aniwrd. "And 1 couldn't
go on living on your kindneit and
your bushnnd's fetrlty. I'm
afraid I can't And words to explain
But 1 had to it on my own feet
again. 1 weu'. to New York. It took
me two months to work my way
there. And 1 picked up a living In
one w&t nn other. And then I
suppose tny mind got well again
like my body bad done, and I wanted
CHICAGO. July 19. AP) The
discove: y of i woman's body In a
Chicago sewer gave an exciting turn
today to the hunt for Mrs. Evelyn
Smith, 35, sought In the "swamp
murder" of Ervin Lang. 28.
Investigators rushed to 78th street,
the scene or the discovery. In the
belief the body was that of Mrs.
fiinith. but later decided It was tht
of another woman. The woman haa
been dead (or three month, the in
vestigators said.
Mrs. Smith disappeared after Mrs.
Blanche Dunkel, Land's mother-in-law,
told police she hired Mrs. Smith
to felay Lang for 500.
A group of workmen repairing the
sewer found the body, which was
wrapped In linen. It was in such
condition the investigator t. it
would be dllllcult to establish any
Identification and were unable to say
Immediately whether there had been
foul play. The woman's bands had
been tied.
to come back to England and get on
with my Job. That's all."
" A LL!M she echoed. "It tells me
nothing." But she did not seem
to mind, or to be particularly Inter
ested la what ha bad done during
those months. It was so plain that
all she cared about was that she bad
found him again.
"How is your husband?" he asked.
"Dead."
"Oh, I am sorry!
"You needn't be. I'm not"
He looked at her with something
like fear In his eyes-
"Don't be a hypocrite," she said.
"You know quite well Ferdy and 1
were nothing to each other. For
years we bad been only good friends
long before you came Into my life.
Ferdy had his compensations, like
all men. I bad none. 1 wasn't that
"What I did was unforglveable."
kind. I couldn't take up with Just
any man, because he was a man."
"I am sorry." Rex Moore repeated.
His long, angry mouth was hard. In
his face was nothing that she looked
for.
"Sorry because 1 am free?" the
woman asked. Her voice had
dropped; there was no drawl In It,
but a breathless question.
Rex looked at her with bis wintry
eyes.
"I should have liked to thank
him," be said dully.
"You have forgotten me? You
have never thought of me at all?"
"Often,"
"Don't play with me! You know
what we said to each other before
you ran away like a coward. I un
derstand. Rex, you ran away be
cause of me. You were afraid of me.
You didn't want to be ungrateful to
Ferdy. You knew I loved you you
knew It. You must have known It all
the time you were with us. But
Ferdy was alive. Now he'd dead
there's nothing between us."
"When did be die?"
"Two months after you left us. He
fell off his horse and It rolled over
htm. I think he was drunk. But. Rex.
let's talk about ourselves. You've
had a shock. But you must see
there's nothing between us now."
(Copyright, 19SS, Coralta Stanton)
Wanda, tomorrow, oats a shock.
FiSH EATING BIROS
GET FEW GAME F
SALEM. Ore. (UP) Fish-eating
birds usually blamed for the dis
appearance of baby trout planted tn
stream actually destroy very few
game fish, according to a report
from the federal biological survey.
Pt!cke!backs, s c u 1 p 1 n s, suckers,
sunflsh. catfish and large trout wolf
up the f Interims that are used
every year to stock fishing streams.
Other enemies of the young fish are
water snakes, salamanders, crawfish.
leshes and large Insects.
The survey said that Rreat hlue
herons, for example, eat mostly the
so-called coarse fish. Insects and Held
mice. Under natural conditions, bioio.
gist believe, the fish-eat Ing birds
do more good than harm, as they
destroy many enemies of the game
fish:
Sam Parka. Jr., new nation; open
chimi-.on. Jo's, down ntes each eve
ning when he Is tn n uui namcnt.
describing flight variations of the
ball from different lies and under
varying weaUier conditions.
STATE EXPENSES
CAREFULLY EYED
BY BUDGET CHIEF
SALEM. Ore. (UP) War on chls
elers of state expense accounts has
been declared by budget director D.
O. Hood.
Budgetary control, vested In Gov
ernor Martin by the last legislature,
la being used effectively, Hood re
vealed. Every voucher is being check
ed by the budget office before being
paid.
Already a number have been turn
ed back because they were believed
to be too high.
The battleship Oregon commission
waa called on the carpet by the gov
ernor, charged with trying to spend
more than Its legislative appropria
tion. The budgetary control law gives
the governor power to "rearrange,
transfer, disapprove or revise" Items
of expenditure. Martin proposed to
cut the commission's expenses for the
rest of the year In half.
Formerly, all vouchers were check
ed by the governor's private secre
tary. The checking was merely a rou
tine signing of the warrants, Hood
said.
Martin transferred the work 'o the
budget division, where Carl Cover,
assistant budget director, studies
each voucher before signing It and
passing It on to Secretary of State
Snell for payment.
Two employes who went to Salt
Lake City and charged the state
$140 each for the trip by automobile,
'5CARLET ACE.
COMMANDER OF
THE REBEL AR.
FORCE, RETURNED
TO HIS BASE AFTER
HIS UNSUCCESSFUL
AER.IA1 DUEL WtTH
ITDMMV--BUT WAS
IN TIME TO SAVE
BETTY FROM THE-
ADVANCES OF CAPT.
GARCIA. MEANWHILE
TOMMY. FLYINS A
CAPTURED REBEL
PLANE, IS ATTACKED
3Y THREE FEDERAL
PILOTS, WHO THINK
HE 15 AN ENE.MY.
BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER
S-MATTER POP- " . By C. M. PiyM
TAILSPIN TOMMY Friendly Enemies! By Hal Forrest
BEN WEB'STER -SENSED 1UAT CAL
PANHARD, THE OLD PROSPECTOR. ,
HAD A "STORY TO TELL-AND, SURE
ENOUGH, THE CRlllLEO WANDERER
LAID ASIDE HIS PIPE AND-
xvr aT -au - -f- z.(m.x -ssdm'r &m : sQmmwM rwwmwMm ':m?m''''
ihjs jNribtio I m sorry
f SAy! I'M ASKING you -IEE I TRIED TO KEEP VtXj" N ' MR, NEBS . I NEVER SA'd
( IS IT NECESSARV TO GO J FROM BEINS GYPPED BY A A YOU W a'sVd - I tqloA
V GABBiNu TO EVERVBOpy STRANGER - AND WHAT HAPPENS?! ( TMEM WUAT A FINE MAN you 1
NJSOUTMV MINING DFAL? V VOU STAY OP ALL NJIGWT I WAS. IF THEy TWNK VOO'RE
-) 5Sk STEU.ING THE POPULACE. tzr. V A SAP TUE.y FIGURED IT" J
J VWMAT A SAP I AM j -sgIBfejjjB OOT TUEMSELVESTT"
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THE BUNGLE FAMILY Fear? Ha Ha! " By Harry J. Tuthili
to you and TSenT" your courjV in ) I A Ah.Coionel.p;eas...r.o) -it must be I I Thjt. Colonel. is whu 2 J Bah for danger! No one I I Ahem'.jThe Count is a bit ah',ve fr nothing. "
,Fhr"i k "Vf f,4.htin4off that di after the rocket ?JJ wokmi. Ve hae K watched eveoj need you. Theres)Can live forever. It those Well If enthusiastic,Co!onel. pThese as&sss...
Z-1 kL'?,; ! Vellcw who cut K-SiucVet. -f- i v?,o.--w herej! (rr.orert until the a bit of dancvTr- fe;;os p!au with us.we "11 Suppose we show gouV-e kutf at then.
lJub.?,',l as dashed nee.txjSri U JX i e.-nment n-.w of course, irf 7 (show them how 4!ad!y we ( lound while I explam.l Ha ha ha!
Pnti Sv' v TT-f It I L J J laccept it. .but ftH , 7 iiau do our lives . r - 7 V7,
were told to cut the Item to around
$30 each, the railroad round-trip
fare. They did. Hereafter, the budget
office has decreed, railroad rates will
be the maximum for travel vouch
ers. Hotel and meal expenses are watch
ed closely. Expense accounts of sec
retaries of state boards and commis
sions have been pared.
Some vouchers have been sent back
several times and not approved until
the expense Items have been cut
considerably, the budget office re
vealed.
WASHINGTON. July 18. fAP)
President Roosevelt today nominated
John M. Hall, of this city, chief in
spector of locomotive boilers In the
interstate commerce commission and
John Brodle Brown, of Oregon, as
sistant chief.
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Grade A Students Gain.
BOULDER. Colo (UP) Forty stu
dents of the University of Colorado
made a straight "A" average during
the winter quarter as compared with
36 for the fall quarter, according to
figures released by the university.
Ose Mall Tribune want ada.
Wrong Again!
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-f NOW, RECKON YOO THINK l'M '&M?fw? "KMWB
A OON'TO POP OUT WITH A YARN EOUT SOME TM 0 WHY, , OOU'T WfmM
S RTCHCnfllUMaEDONTOBAClCTHEREfto KNOW. CAL- f 'AJ f
4 1K1 THE HILLS, EH? AINT THAT WHAT YOU RE ' MAYBE- M&3wi:k JwMl ,A,Lm WY'
SALES TAX TOKEN
SALEM, Ore. (UP) Sales tax to
kens Washington's contribution to
the sales tax system may become
standard equipment throughout' the
country, according to advice received
here from the Olympla office of
Tax Commissioner T. M. Jenner.
The Washington token haa been
cooled by Mississippi, Oklahoma,
Colorado and Illinois, and state gov
ernments continually request in
formation on the Washington plan.
Jenner predicted that If the sales
tax should become accepted for the
whole nation, the United States
would Issue fractional one-cent coins
to replace the tokens. Other nations,
Jenner pointed out. have legal coins
for smaller denominations than our
pennies.
Ose Mall Tribune want ads.
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TO MK M A V. ''
iwn EAJUH rfvlc
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ROUTINE
BftSE, BftU BEMte HIM
fb M BBS BY A 60E
Three rti
HA5 HAW lH0D6Hf.
LEAPS UP THAf
even if "the bali. was
There firsY.Yhe second-
BASE MAN tfEiER..
touched him.
LJ -
PLANTS HIMSEtf ON "tftE
BB6, GIPRES CREDU
LOUSLY AT" UMPIRE AMD
DEMAKD5 WHAT TX)E$
HE MEAW'Oin"?
6ives ioud m
sfAliSfl r NUMBER
OF SKONPS AND f EEf
VHCH HE WAS SAFE
EL
FMUNS "To MAKE AtfV
IMPRESSION WlfW THIS
STATEMENT, OFFERS
PERSONAL COMSAT i0
fXL AND SUNDRV
SVES UP IN DIS&OsT.
brushes off cap and
Pulls won muttering
hi5 opinion of umpires
AtJP frtlEJE5 l)l SWERAL
(Copyright. 1938, by Th Bdl BymBeate.'ftey
8 T
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
7-'8
TEfwiEP -Throws cta on sroukm
ttf DISSDST, AND $rf&
DOWN ON BBS
1RoTS CONTENTEDLV 10
THE BENCH, FEELING HE
HAS SUCCESSFOUV UVED
up To the Tradition of
PROTESTING DECISIONS.
Bv Edwin Alger
By So! Hesl