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PAGE EIQIIl MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKU, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1935 nivib mind nn uot mvu'mwi no iao NEVER MIND THE LADY NIVII MIND FHI UDT by David Garth ntvia MIND IHI UDT NiVII MIND THi LAO, SYNOPSIS: on AM way to The capital to tee what w deluding on important ship tent o equipment to bo used in hit engineering pro ject up the yellow Palva river, Terry willett etope in Proptonoire anil rescues an old Iriend Tomity Bpccdc, from a Portuguese assaS' tin. He is now at the American em bassy in the capital demanding to tee George Fox, the attach. And Fox is in conversation with a most charming girl whost name it Allaire. Chapter Six FATEFUL MEETING WILLETT, all right. "Where Is he now?" He was to the billiard room of the Legation Club, waltiug for Kovaes to come back and get his arm broken unless the Seflor Foi apreared. "Is be smiling?" Fox asked sur prisingly. Novaes looked positively aston ished. "But yes, Scfior," he returned. "With the mouth, yes. But with the eyes, ah, no, Seflor. Name of a name, Seflor Fox, but be would have broken the arm, by damn!" "Smiling, eh?" Fox muttered, as It starting to solve a geometery problem. "Means he's going into ac tion. He's going to sock somebody." He turned qi Ickly to Allaire, shak ing his head ruefully. "Feel like a fireman," he com mented. "There's a third alarm In the billiard room. There are. all kinds of smiles In this world " "He's going to sock somebody." Allaire was looking at him Interest edly. "Not you, by any chance. Am bassador?" "No, but he mustn't sock anybody," he explained. "Pie told me that if he ever Intended to start any trouble with the coffee company big shots, he'd let me know first. He's Just po litely keeping his word." He held out nls baud. "May I take you in before I go to wave the lamp of reason In front of a fighting machine?" There was a queer smile on her Hps as she leisurely clasped slim bands behind her bead. "yOU know," she said reflectively, I "I didn't come on this Odyssey to see Stove Ferry play polo and Ray play the fool. I had Ideas, absurd perhaps, of gentlemen with side burns righting their wrongs and wronging their rights. "So far I bear away memories of a snake farm, some giraffe-necked women or something, and a moun tain In the middle of a harbor. But," she went on with that rare spark ling smile, "if I can also bear away the memory of you waving the lamp of reason in front of a fighting ma chine who wanta to sock somebody, the trip's a success." Fox felt something go chasing up and down his spinal column. He'd fell the same way when as a soph omore he'd awaited the klckoff In his first Yale game. He knew he was on edge. Who wasn't In this country on the brink of revolution? But he had never lost bis aplomb before It was the sudden crazy sen satlon be had that this girl was so like tbe dynamite-charged city all about them. Both awaited sparss? The top of a green hill blown off by a hither to unsuspected volcano the rise of a tide that had long threatened to sweep past boundaries. Coolly reckless, cynically defiant this lovely mocking girl was a far cry In the wilderness from the child who had shown her heart, as a thor oughbred panted In agony before her. "You want to meet him?" he said a Utile vaguoly. She lit a clgarot and flicked the match dexterously past Novaes' ear. Then she leaned back In the same careless posture he had found her. "Darling, if anything Is going to happen around here i'ui sitting in. Heaven only knows I've wanted to sock somebody many times myself." Wlllett might be drunk "You've saved your arm, Novaes," he told the runner. "Ask the tall red - head to come here." He came swinging down a garden walk, tall, clad in immaculate white ducks, bareheaded sick to death of red tape and inaction, with the lights and music of the Legation Club try ing to chase from bis mind the thought of a daok river "Hello, Fox," he said abruptly, and then paused to stare past the at tache. The girl watched him, smoke from the clgaret between her fingers curl ing tip past her cheek. "The Foreign Service." Wlllett re marked with a brief-appearing grin at Fox, "Is something I'll have to look Into." FOX smiled himself. Ask Terry Wlllett or i.ome of those other hard-Jawed builders down here thou- a II HOU)ON'. K wRiGLey's LATELY f A my 7 ft H'$ WRIGLEY'S. Trt' PERFECT G U M r S Ml H .1 NIVU M1NO IHI UDV NCVM MIND FHI IAOV NtVll MIND mi LADV NIVU MIND IHI LADY NIVU MIND THI LADV sands of miles from borne, what the; thought of the Foreign Service and the answer would probably make the Secretary of State blush Into his portfolio. "Take a good look at him, Allaire," he told tbe girl. "Tomorrow morning he mlgnt be In jail." "Is that the penalty," she Inquired, "for socking somebody?" "It all depends," said Fox. "Allaire Wost, Terry. She loves to throw rocks through greenhouses and ride ninety miles an hour." Wlllett Jammed his hands in bis coat pocketa and regarded her in tently. As she drew on her clgareL the i ;ht glow traced the short str t line of her nose, deepened the :.dows of her eyes, and Wil- MM at w i .Hi' Terry came swinging down the path. lett suddenly felt as though a cool breeze bad passed his forehead at ha watched a fuse hole drilled through solid rock with the tompera ture a hundred and six In the shade. Something, Intnngible, elusive, that be felt once In a while, In the sun rising behind mountains or tht rhythm of native music In the qulel cool of evening, but could nover cx plain. "What's on your mind, old son?" It was Fox's voice. Wlllett saw It again, the slimy yel low Palva. He swung bark to tht qulet-volced attache. "Hildoz." he snld tersely "That Splg shipping agent haa my ship, mcnt buried In a warehouse on a dock at Roslna B. It's been there six weeks. There was a silence. Terry nodded at the girl. "The penalty for sucking some body," he informed her, "Is Jail. Take a good look at me "1 will," Allaire returned prompt ly. "And I'll place my bet. Step up to bat, George." Fox took out his clgaret case, turned It absently around In his hands, and stuck It back In his pocket. "If they're pulling anything queer," he said, "we'll soon check up. Sit tight a couple of days and let me help you handle this." "Yenh," snld Wlllett, "start a flit of communications about me." He shook his head "Can't be done, George." (Copyright, las, by David Qarth) Terry start for.tha dockt, Mon. d.iy. Women Fix Road When County Lags MONTANA. KM . Dec, IB. (J-i For month four tnrrn wonifn oui;ht uruuu'ce.vrully to Rft th Ibptt county road loading to thMr homoa rrpallrd. Then thpy t.-vk matter, Into th,ir own hs!ids Mk.pb Ji-nnla ond Tny Onaton hlt,iiM np a t-am and havilcd rcvX wliloh Mra. A. W. Foster and Mta. E. n. vvoll ahovelrd imo tile mudholen. Mra F,vtr rolled th road mrvth with her husband a CALLED 'HODGE-PODGE' IN MT. ANGEL. Dec. 18. (p Declar ing the people's utility district law wu a. "Jumble and hodge-podge of petitions and errore" and written eo that It would be Impossible to issue STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, inclosing stamped envelope for reply. Reg. V. 8. Pat Oft. UlAtl .lllMPEa f FfcT. Oi INCHES virtue ice- syy. rjACKWAiRPv fii Mir. ' -To ft draw... Caihenne 11, Empress of Russia called Catherine the Orrat, wu Ger man born said christened Sophia Au gusta Frederic. Like Oatherln I, she was neither Russian nor was she nam ed Catherine. The first Catherine was born Martha Sksvronsky, the daugh ter of a Lithuanian peasant. Catherine the Great was the daugh ter of Christian Augustus, petty Ger man prince. She was born In 1729, and at the ag& of IS was taken to Russia to become the wire of Grand Duke Peter, nephew of the Empress Elizabeth and heir to the Russian TAILSPIN TOMMY Off for PffBHB msSEN S1SERS AN a OiReBLS h'ERE vSWV DUE TO THE SOS FlASHEO 3 y TcnnYAvD SKEETER BEFORE THEY VADe A CQASH IANDNG ONTHSSAfSMXA. THEIR Ftis: REPA&ED )VD THE SOYS yi&e OFF THREE-FaATF- BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER RCriVa VJAMT VOU TO S. I LOOK UP MV BROTHER, JES AAORGAKl.ATTHE UTTLE i LO00N6 CAMP - 6NB HIM TW5 LET1ER AM'WE'Ll TELUYOU YiHAT TO DO NEX.T- m THE NEBBS Poor Emma I N ) UV Sl-UV BPJL.L, CALLED Tj iT J1LL BE (4' w' Tl fi fT ' CA'S SOT A LOTOP HfeS iV f MF UP AMD TOLD ME I 55 , AMD DOKjV ao5 TT1ATS . Siltrf MILES OJOER YS HOOO BUT V Yl I w SZsREADV Vrl mCVi-lT'3 A BASSGAlNj-ASJO KJMENJ t REMEMBER , IT AInJT MEW hfV Wn OiT rJecaJsE VhOMDHED-OOUAR W SOU CX3VJT EVPECT fd GET OLD, TOO VOUR l r dslTftfmral -1 r-T& CUSTOMER -rjOVOU vvk HAKJDSPS WOLU jf r 1 Wmm: $L MMKiiS. bonds under Its provisions, opponents of the proposed Marlon county dis trict last night attacked the legisla tive sot from every sngle, In & hear ing before the state hydro-electric commission. Led by L. B. Smith, tax expert and statistician, opposition to the forma tion of most of tbe county into a ter ritory for the purpose of generating and distributing electrical energy as governmental function, emphasized not only the "Impossibility" of the set itself, but stressed the Increased tax burden and bonded indebtedness should such a proposal be adopted Proponents of the utility district. I TH? fgpwffi c,ouinumna. Neb.,l81o I'll MMMtt Srndkata, U. throne. Her name was changed to Catherine Alexeyevna, when she was token Into the Orthodox church in 1744, ind a little more than a year later she was married to the future czar. How completely the German girl bride of Grand Duke Peter became Russian during her rise to power and the throne Is best shown during her 34 years as one of the greatest rulers Russia ever had. The luihapplneas of her married life led her to power. Her husband was neither mentally nor physically normal, and after he became czar his misrule and cruelty Three-Point! Ben Accepts t IIISF -) WMStr WUHVSHOULO , t jf-f, SIX HOURS JOON'T UKE To S iPffSW I thatVioeI1R 77 SSthr 8ust,n5 I U ; I I v ;l I 5 Ar8A'l Tou'll be im the neighbor-! T -Xa awkmdu to do this I ) " ' M M HOOO OF JEWEL LAKE , VMAV . i CAltec BBKl CAREFUL, AM BEW U- X I SV y.t II .J j. I III I AMtttSiSi - . . i- I I . . n . in.a . 1) k Prni P-afa Hi r m J ?gJT8 ) rV fr&rWwSM THEVS AM 51AND THERE THAT I ORTA,V AINT APT TO BE TiT- feli V;V? UTT If .?MMm NEEDS LOOKW yvwvi C.U6TOOMEP, BUT IP VOU RUH f 1 Y eJ. h Mi M.J a 1 " S. vXl i rJozzii i r iVmm pluwb into amy real ,y U HI X I . S-yr . 1IP1 WrV f- i-J! J"L JV&'k DANGER 1 WANT YOU It tS COURSE P H ' N I a preliminary petition for which had been filed with the commission, stressed the need and desire for cheaper power, for more rural elec trification, and cited various exam plea of successful municipal owner ship projects as well as cooperative organizations to show the success of tlTTllar activities. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. Jp) A tentative Interstate commerce com mission report today recommended abandonment of 71 miles of railroad from Alnaworth to North Junction In Sherman and Wasco counties, I Oregon. W6Rf NOT MfVAEP CATrA6F?lMe - NOR '5E trtSV RUSSIAN won popular hatred for him. Cath erine, whom he threatened to divorce, was supported by guard regiments in St. Petersburg while Peter was at Oranienbaiun with his Holsteinera. An army order was Issued removing Pter from the . throne and making Catherine empress. During her rule. Catherine Identi fied heraelf completely with Russia. She encouraged travel, culture, and art; wrote a history of RuFsle, and In her foreign policy successfully ex panded Russia. Tomorrow: The 9l.V00n.nno Salute. CHRISTMAS PRIVACY GJUV5 uyuifirts DECIDES A 6005 fME, fAKtS TRESEHTS FJJOrl WHEU HOUSEHOLD IS HIDIU6 flACl AND GUlEf, to Sf PRESETS SPREAD5 1WE.W OW BED, WR&.PPED, LOCKS HES- Ut&t'AS HllSBMJD DE" Sf.lf IN. MAND5 0 COME IN PUIS PRESEKfS AvvaV. 60ES DOWN 1b SEE LAUNPRV MAN, AND P flJRNS 1b SPREAD fHEM 00f AfcRlH l-3 S'MATTEB POP Lwt " ' fS IM (Copyright, 193S, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Finds hc beek INfe IK CEUfiR AMD HAS SPREADS 1UEM OUT ON 1b CHAKfcE CLOTHES. PUTS BED A6WK, A SHOUf PRESEKTS BACK lH BUREAU IMFORM1N6 HER fHE DRAWER AMD LES HIMlK LAUNDW MAN'S HERE" AUnT EM KMOdtfS AND SAVS SHE'S SURE SHE LEFf HER CLASSES lH HEPE AND SHE HAS 1b FIND THEM RI6HTAWAV COIiCVW-y PPESErlfS WHILE AlINf EM LOOKS FOR HER 6LASSE6.1HEH TAKE4 fHEM Ouf AfcAlN (Copyright, MS8, by The Bell Syndicate, By GXUYAJILUAIVIS wori- k sm as he has som Af THIS POlUT OUHlCR FALLS tlOWH STAIR5 AND HEEDS AffElJ-fiOM. 6IVES UP WRAPPIN6 TCESENfS UNfiL SHE CAN BE ALONE IN TrtE HOOSE Inc.) By C M. PAYNE By HAL FORRESi; By EDWIN ALGER COMT VAORRV. SHERIFF VAAOR6AN-1 KNOW HOW TT TO TAKE ARE OF. rMVSELF By SOL HESS
