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MEBFOTID MAIL TRIBUTE. rEDFOKI). OttEGON. SUNDAY. JULY 23. 1935.
READY MADE WIF
.BY CORALIE STANTON .
SYNOPSIS; Laurie and Olady
Moore have gone to the country
place at Laurie' employer, Mark
Albery, because Albery need
Laurie' help. Hex Moore, to whom
Laurie i pretending to be married
tor Albery's benefit, ie in Africa on
a spectacular flioht. The complica
tion ie that Albery himself is in
r.. . .-"i Laurie.
Chapter 20
SURPRISE
A FOOTMAN opened a door lead-
leg off the great ball Into
long room, full of soft lights and
wonderful brocadei and dull glided
furniture and mellow Italian pic
tures, and roses roses roses
everywhere!
The room was empty. They had
met some people when they arrived
an elderly lady, very fashionable,
relative of their host, an elderly
man, and bis chic, ultra-modern
daughter. Glad hoped to get some
bints from that girl.
"How lovely to be rich!" chanted
Gladys to horself. as the footman
shut the door behind her. "Mr. Al
bery Is a lamb! 1 love blm! Girls on
the stage often marry millionaires!
1 wonder If I shall?"
The door opened again and a tall
young man came In, smoking a
clgaret and whistling light-heartedly.
He bad rather thick features,
which gave bis face a blurred ef
fect, but he was very good-looking,
and exuded tbat curious magnetism
that no one can describe. His eyes
were hazel, with green lights, very
merry: his balr was light brown
and thick, but fashionably plas
tered: bis ears were big and stuck
out from bis bead, whlcb was very
broad on the top. His evening clothes
bid their perfection under an air
of belonging to blm.
Gladys gave a little shriek.
"Jimmy! Jimmy Smith! Here's
bapplness!"
The young man gave a quick,
startled glance round the room; tben
bis eyes came back to Olady's lovely
little figure In the azure-blue frock
that Laurie had made her. A dream
of witchery, with her grey-blue eyes
so deliberately Inviting his admira
tion. This was like a fairy tale, to find
ber boy here, tbe boy of the clgaret
eaae, the boy who had taught ber
to eat oysters in the grill of the Mid
land Grand at Manchester, the boy
of the streara-llned sporting car In
which they bad skimmed over the
roads like a long red-and-whlte bird!
"What are you doing' here?" be
asked.
"Staying here, pet! Are you?
I'm with my sister she's Mr. Al
bery's secretary."
"Staying bere!" He looked at her,
and, with a quick movement, took
her In his arms and kissed ber.
"You're the same cuddlesome
eutle!" he said teaslngly, and light
ly pinched her ear. "But, listen, you
mustn't know me hero I Don't ask
questions! There's no time. My
name's not Smltb. i can't explain
now. Somebody may come In any
minute. Vou don't know me. Glad
understand? We've never met be
fore. You're adorable, cutles, and I'll
tell you later on. I'm Just the same,
but I'm not Jimmy Smith. Now.
there's somebody coming!" His
Tolce fell to a whisper, as the door
handle turned. "Don't play the fool,
or you'll get us both In a hell of a
mess!"
TT was Mark Albery who came Into
A the room, alone.
He smiled at tbe two young people.
His eyes did not fall to take In
Glady'a spectacular loveliness, but It
made no appeal to him.
"So you've Introduced yourselves
that's right!"
lie had the careless ease of the
born host, never worrying about bis
guests, but making everybody feel
at borne by showing that be expected
tbem to.
Gladys, who bad tbe Instinct of
luxury In Its crudest form, looked at
blm with flattering eyes, lost In an
ecstatic adoration of bts sheer
wealth.
"1 hope my young friend Jimmy
Dallas will amuse you, Miss Gladys,"
he said. "According to bis father, be
only lives for pleasure. Sorry your
people couldn't come tonight.
Jimmy. An Important political meet
ing at Cambridge, your father says.
Well, he's the kind of a man the poor
old country wants. Always puts duty
first. There'll tie a few young people
dropping In after dinner to dsnce.
YouT have to mind your step with
Miss Olsdrs she's a real dancer,
and Is going to be famous some day."
Gladys nearly burst out that
Jimmy knew ibai quite well. She lust
saved berself. Hbe was ansry with
htm, and for a moment hsr eyebrows
met snd ber moutb dropped In those
PLEASES BOARD
SPORTLAND, Ort . July 37...
Oron'B highway comminMone r were
pltiuwt toly with what thry dpjwrt'x.
d ns the "good prtet" which the dt
pnrtment's bond brought t ft $3.
000.000 Ml hre.
A evpn -company nyndlcM bonded
by th First National bank of Port
land took the bond tune with ft bid
of ftOO.lM) pr hundred dollars.
The bond luue will finance con
struction of the Oregon CouM high
way bridge synum. which by rM-n
of the new money available, will tv
toll-free.
Wool Kale Tntr.
BOSTON. .Tuly 37 ( APt (t'SDAl
Sales of urM hr the last week
wera fair In To!ur..e c:m!(iltit t"e
fact thst butn(s wa largely re
trloted to fin grade.
sullen lines that muted at an ugly
temper.
His name was not Smith; it was
Dallas. He bad been playing the fool
with ber In the North. And he didn't
want their host to know that they'd
met. Well, sbe wouldn't give the
show away now. She'd wait and give
him a piece of ber mind later on.
Albery, who knew that Jimmy
Dallas had been a great trouble to
his father, a stern, narrow-minded
moralist, with one of those Iron wills
that must dominate his entire family
and surroundings, was inclined to
be sympathetic to the young man.
Jimmy seemed to blm to be much
the same as all those of bis class
who had grown up In the post-war
years of excess and brilliance of
crisis and gloom. One couldn't expect
those boys to drudge and slave as
their fathers and grandfathers bad
done, building up the great busi
nesses tbat were pow crashing on
every band. Working without
respite, under crushing taxation and
vexatious labor conditions, for a fu
ture that nobody could foresee.
But then Mark Albery was one of
those rare men with the Midas touch,
a gift from birth. And all bis life be
bad had the remakable luck to be
able to work and play as well. Be
sides, be was absolutely non-moral;
a man lacking In conscience.
THE other guests came In. There
were some people from the
neighborhood, besides the bouse
party, an equal number of men and
women.
Gladys sat 'beside tbe handsome
elderly man with tbe very modern
daughter. Her chatter, so uncon
sciously egotistic, seemed to amuse
him.
She was a little Intoxicated by ber'
success. She looked at Laurie, fur
tber down tbe table. How quiet she
was. Jimmy Dallas was beside her,
but she bardly opened ber moutb.
Something bad come over Laurie
since her husband's return. She bad
got kind of dull. Glad was almost
asbamed of her sister tonight. She
looked as If all this luxury and
gaiety was too much for ber.
That was certainly not the case.
Laurie, who had brains snd char
acter, and much more Imagination
than her sister, was far better able
to appreciate her surroundings and
keep ber bead at the same time.
But her three hours alone with Al
bery, although they were working
hours, bad filled her once again with
that curious depression. And each
time she met his eyes and be smiled
In his friendly way, she felt that
there was something deep In hie
nature that she could never under
stand. Also, she was wondering It Rex
Moore were on his way back.
"It's too hot to dance," said Jimmy
Dallas to Gladys, some hours later.
"I'm melting away. Come Into the
garden!"
He knew tbe place well, and led
her across a big lawn, through a
shrubbery, Into a wild garden.
where azaleas and sweet-scented
peonies In rich tints of rose and
apricot and flame made an exquisite
picture unoer ine moon.
There was nobody there and
Jimmy took ber In bis arms, squeez
ing her tight, and covering ber
smooth, peach-bloom face with
kisses.
"Klowerface, what a treat!" be
murmured. "I never expected any
thing Ilka this!"
Flowerface! His sweet nickname
for her! The girl looked Into his
merry deceiver's eyes, trying to b e
angry.
What did you want to call your
self Smith for, Jimmy? What was
the game? Making a fool of me!"
'Darling, I couldn't help myself!
Let me tell! My old governor Is a
perfect terror. He didn't know 1 was
up there at all. Nobody did. I was
supposed to be somewhere else. If
he'd got wind of It, that 1 was having
fun with the sweetest little girl In
the world, I'd never have beard the
end of It."
"You mean your father?" asked
Gladys suspiciously. "But you're not
so darned young you're not a kid!"
"The governor thinks I am an In
fant In arms! He wants me to do
nothing but slave away at the bally
old business. If he knew I'd been
seeing something of you girls np
there In Liverpool, he'd think I was
beading straight for hell."
"Thank you, Mr. Dallas. I'm quite
respectable!" said Gladya furiously.
Sweet, I'm trying to explain the
old man to you! He belongs to an
other age."
"Still using a false name!" shi
objected.
He drew ber to him.
(Copyright. l9Si. Coratte Btantonl
Tomorrow,
miki a pact.
Jimmy and Qlsdys
PAPER TOWEL TAX
PORTLAND, Ore . July 37..
A euiL to enjoin collection of the ag
riculture adjustment administration'
pro.:elii(i ttx on paper for Hat
month was filed tn federal court here
Friday, by the Hawley Pulp A Paier
compiny.
The company's tax on paper towel
for June Is IVJfl A permanent Injunc
tion caln5t col lev-1 ion of the tax. on
the ground the AAA setup la uncon
stitutional, waa ro,uested.
WASHINOTON. Jul7 J7 APf
John I.. Lew'., president of the Unit
ed Mine Workers said today that the
union had accepted President Ro-ve-'!'
proposal to extend pre.vnt w,ic
and hour cont;a-ts in the soft ca
industry through September IS to
avert a strike.
Osa Mall mbuue want U.
I
PORTLAND. Ore.. July 27. p,
Before next week has parsed Into his
tory Oregon'a application for a
500,000 state house should be In tne
hands of the PWA director In yVaah
Ington, D. C.
The state planning commlaalon,
urged to Immediate action by Gove -nor
Martin, late yesterday voted t
aend Oregon's application to Wash
ington without delay.
The new building will be built on
the alte on which the old, historic
capltol atood before It was destroyed
by fire last April. Plans to construct
three buildings a oapltol, office
building, and library were abandon
ed. Negotiations with Willamette
university for the campua of that
institution for a governmental build
ing grouping, failed.
Governor Martin told the planning
commission that utmost speed was
necessary "that we may not lose our
chance for government aid."
The etat la expecteed to receive a
federal grent of 43 per cent of the
total cost.
O. C Hockley. PWA engineer here,
observed he probably would point out
to PWA Administrator Tckes that fig
ures for construction and finishing
are About "20 per cent less than they
should be."
Upholstering, repairing.
909-R. Thlbault.
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MOTEL. AT NORTWVILLE AND NS VAS AMEN BUT IT WILL VS5 feMONEV R6URKLIKP vAVcrsr
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V PROPOSITION I PUT A FLOCK- fc3 A PAPALV2ED OATU T fXtK TO t-TvS F Wpl lr t'-P r- -r.
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RUST HITS CROP
CHICAO, July 37. (AP) Wheat
prices at Chicago Jumped wildly to
day to the fullest limit allowed five
cents a bushel on news that the
Northwest's spring wheat crop was
ruined In many districts.
The Jump In wheat values was gen
eral, not only here but in mlnne
apolls and Kansas City. Extreme top
prices were touched in the last hour
of trading, and were accompanied by
dealings on an unusually broad
scale. After the top limits were
reached, trading was practically lim
ited to profit-taking and moderate
reactions were witnessed.
A large wheat grower at Bismarck,
N. D., reported that a combination of
rust, "blight and heat had ruined
most spring wheat In North Dakota.
He said It has swept "like a disease"
and had done Its work so rapidly that
even farmers did not realize Its ex
tent. One Industrial Death.
8ALEM, July 27. ( AP) One death
due to Industrial accidents was re
ported to the state Industrial acci
dent commission during the past
week, that of Dan 8ulltvan of Cornu
copia. Accidents numbered 897.
Deny project Extension.
SALEM, July 27. (AP) Charles E.
Stricklin, state engineer, today flleo
a report and order In the Wasco
county circuit court, denying an
extension of time to the Waplnltia
company to complete Its irrigation
development on Juniper flat.
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look . .nothing .it's
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JEALOUS RELIEF
ROLL KILLER OF
WIFE FACES ROPE
COQUILLE. Ore., July 37. 7P)
Homer McJunklns. 33, relief roll mem
ber who recently got a Job as a, mill
worker, was held In the Coos eour.tj
Jail today en a first dree murder
charge for the slaying of his 37-year-old
wife, whom he described to police
as "no good."
Mrs. McJunklns died at their North
Bend home Thursday after five bul
lets had been fired into her b?.ck
from & revolver. She was preparing
the evening meal for McJunklns and
their three small children when she
was shot from behind.
McJunklns surrendered to trw
chief of police who declared the ac
cused man told him he had shot his
wife becauw "she was no good."
Jealousy was described as the mo
tive. McJunklns waived preliminary
hearing and was bound over to the
county grand Jury without ball. The
grand Jury will meet In October.
Ben Flaxel. district attorney, said
McJunklns was "remorseless."
Trowing Tragedy.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 27. (API
Two were killed Instantly and six
persons injured when a passenger
automobile and a Burlington trans
continental bus crashed head on 26
miles east of Cheyenne on the Lin
coln highway about midnight this
morning.
By Harry J. TutWll
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it's iw. 17, ir,J ' ,-V-i Goir.j up tn) ra.. ' c'naxe roeans - V " ' ? a'c1 ls-.ds t-i
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i-sto perllY missed his -fRRirt The cfaEiR.
M0RWIW6, BECAUSE WHILE CHA-fflti6 WHU
FRIENDS Af-faE StrVfiON HE PERCHED ON "THE
LUS6RSE RACK OF A PARKEP CftR., WHICH
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HE COULDN'f GEfOFF
(Copyright, 1936, by The Bell Syndltste, Ine.)
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
By C. M. Payne