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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKU, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1935
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NEVER MIND THE LADY
NIVII MIND FHI UDT
by David Garth
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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'.
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WRIGLEY'S.
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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)
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Women Fix Road
When County Lags
MONTANA. KM . Dec, IB. (J-i
For month four tnrrn wonifn oui;ht
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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.
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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
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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.
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c,ouinumna.
Neb.,l81o
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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
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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
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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.
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