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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1933
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NEVER MIND THE LADY
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by David Garth
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SYNOPSIS: Terry Wlllett u at
(ho American embassy in the capi
tal, telling George Fox. the attache",
that he proposes to have the ship
ment of equipment he has come to
see about on board the 'faraiaibo"
this same night. Fox knows that
mean trouble, tor the native gov
ernment is mixed up In the delay.
Allaire Weat knows the some thing,
and is already making plans to 00
in on the tun, whenever and wher
ever U starts.
Chapter Seven;
TERRY BEGINS
t I7ILLETT went on. "Dad' Blttt
VV nj the river with a .45 In one
hand and a rial of quinine In the
other. That atult goes aboard the
Tarajalbo tonight!"
"Strike one, George," breathed the
girl.
"Would you mind telling me what
you're going to do?" Fox aaked po
litely. Wlllett ehrugged.
"How do I know? Start off for the
docks and take my cue as I go along.
The ship clears at noon tomorrow."
Allaire flicked her clgaret Into the
shadows. He was right Thinking
dragged at speedy action. Step on
the gas and catch the signals as you
sped by.
"Do you want to go along,
George?" she asked lazily. "Or hear
about It over the radio?"
"So long," Wlllett said,
Two men looking at her one as
tonished, the other with downright
ippreliension.
"Huh?" said Wlllett uncertainly.
"Go along?"
"She's funny that way," Fox said
rapidly. He felt a little Irritated.
Somehow they made him feel like
the kind of a person who put his feet
In hot water and a mustard plaster
on bis chest every time there was a
fraught.
Her amused glance goaded blm
Into going on.
"Lay off the lone wolf stuff, Terry.
Tomorrow "
"Tonight," said Wlllett, not even
looking at him, "they're loading the
farajalbo.'" His eyes were on the
tin.
Tonight! Always tonight! Fox
was a man In a leaky rowboat buck
ing a strong current, and be knew It
"Are you serious about going?"
His voice was elaborately casual.
"Beccuse It you are I'll have to go
with you, 1 suppose."
. He grinned.
"Rule One of the efficient Foreign
Officer "Promoting and protecting
the Interests of the United States
and lu citizens.' "
"Yeah," drawled Wlllett, "so they
tell me. Hildez will swoon when he
sees those clothe-. Better get a coat
George."
TOX nodded and strode away up
the path toward the Legation
Club. Wlllett watched him go, and
then turned quickly to the girl.
"So long," he said, holding out his
hand.
"You're not waiting for him to
come back?"
He shook his bead.
"Leaving by s side gate. It there
was sny trouble old George would be
caught In a bad spot."
Ho smiled. She liked bis smile,
white teeth In the bronze of his face,
and his eyes crinkling at the cor
ners. ' stay away from docks at night"
he said eRslly. "No bsnds playing or
people waving lust some damn
fools stumbling over packing boxes
and wishing they were diplomats"
He dropped hor hand and turned
away; lenvlng behind something
that bad hit him queerly and passed.
CHRISTMAS SALES
10 PER CENT OVER
NEW YOHK. IC. IP ( AP A
nation-wirlo imrvey by the National
Retail Drygoodd association tndirat
M todny that, retail ChrlMmaa wilea
ha vp expanded alrnont 10 per vent
ever lust yenr for the first hall
vt December.
Bawd on telegraphed report from
merchants In representative cirie.
the increase Is virtually equhMlen1
to a 20 per cent Improvement over
the 1K.33 Christ mn 5 period.
If it is irtnii.,ncrl, aald Chaunin
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Back to the Job, the everlastini
Great God Job. Wearily fightlni
both the Palra and malicious red
tape Lawrence Wlllett waiting foi
him, looking eagerly down the river,
a .45 in his band tor all the Chalkli
to see.
His own hand tentatively touched
a slight bulge under his left arm.
Good medicine for the docks at
Rosina B. A lovely girl In evening
gown poor Fox had perspired
blood.
He went out at the side of the Le
gation Club and balled an ambling
carriage.
As a child she had loved to follow
parades, chase a brass band and the
tread of marching feet. And when
the ring in the air passed she had
always felt the surge of a desire to
keep alive that note of spirited
rhythm somehow.
The gardens were very quiet, but
a note still rang. A thin-lipped young
man had come and gone; come her
aided by a shaking Embassy runner,
and gone with a grin tor the wel
fare of an attache. She knew she had
seen a 'parade and the gardens
were very quiet.
SHE got np restlessly and went
back to the lighted Legation
Club, slipping through a door on the
terrace Into a swirl of muslo and
the scrape of feet smell of starched
holding out his hand.
shirts, and cocktails, and perfumes.
She surveyed the scene estlmat
Ingly a moment, balancing It against
thousnnds of others, and then moved
straight through a poll to 1) Impor
tuning stag line toward the conser
vatory. It was there that Fox found her.
Fox with a topcoat buttoned about
bis throat and a soft black snap
Lrlra In his hand.
"Wlllet,t ?" be began.
"He's gone," she told him, sinking
Into a chair. "Y'know, darling, the
lamp of reason kind of backfired on
you. didn't It? Why?"
Why? Fox didn't care to tell her
the reason. Knowledge like that with
Allaire West might be fatal. He rec
ognized a merciless strain of quick
silver In this girl wbo had learned
to ask favors from nobody.
The lamp of reason he'd never
lost It. He only knew that the one
thing In the world she recognized
was action, quick, spontaneous ac
tion. And sincerity was a keynote to
George Fox's character. He knew
perfectly well lie was falling In lova
with her.
"I could chase after him ," he be
gan. "Don't," she advised briefly. "I
don't think he liked the Idea of hav
ing you tag along."
Her eyes were kind, however. He
was nice, he had etyle and somothlng
the rest ot this crowd didn't have. A
certain boyish earnestness, perhaps.
But attaches don't risk prowling
around docks.
"Thore's LaMarr dancing with
Nell," she said suddenly. "I despise
LaMarr; he's followed us from
Buenos Aires like a scavenging
shark in the wake of t ship. Do go
forth to war, George, and unhorse
yon varlet"
He hesitated a moment. There was
yet lime for him to dash out into
the darkness like a new edition of
Svengall at a fifty-cent matinee.
Then he took oft his coat and slung
It Into a chnlr.
Allaire watched him as he went
out on the floor to separate her
mother tiom the pollened, self-styled
globe trotter, LaMarr,
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Tomorrow, Allaire awlpa. a mo
tor car, and takoa Novae, on an
oxcltlno Journ.y.
C Sweitwr. manaKlng director of
the association, the prediction of
$4,800,000.0000 retail bunlneM for
the month win hare been fulfilled.
Department utore dales, he said.
then will have surpassed any sine
1030. The gain already recorded
compares with a 10 per cent increase
for the entire month of tV-ember.
1934, over the preceding Christmas
season,
Every region shared the increase,
the report showed. The gain tn
New England was placed at 7 per
cent; In the middle Atlantic Kates.
B pr cent; the middle west. 10 per
cent; the south, 0 per aent: and
the far western states. 7 per cent.
Some atorrs said their sales fig
urea to December IS were higher
thaji in anv year since 1PM. and
one In a resort city wired news o:
a 117 per vent giln.
The JuunRs. literally "lear-wearera."
a JunRle tribe of Orlwa, India, take
their mnst ear red oaths on an nt
hill of tiger kln.
GASOLINE SALES
TAKE HUGE JUMP
SALEM, Deo. 19 (AP) Continues:
gasoline sales Increase In Oregon dur
ing the post month, to the extent ot
3,1S,053 gallons over November of
1B34, brought the total Increase for
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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Btrange as It aeems. if all the
horae race In a alngle year were
run on the same day, there would
not be enough horsea to go around
not even one horse per race. Ac
cording to the Jockey Club, New
Tork, tere are more than 14,000
racea every year, although there ere
but 10,000 to 11,000 horsea In train
ing. In 1770, during the American
Revolution, a privately owned Ameri
can man-of-war, flying a red. white
and blue flag, aalled Into the port
of Orange town on the Dutch Island
of St. Euatatlus In the West Indies.
The commander of the ship ordered
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the first 11 months ovr that sold the
esme period last year by 16.223.892
gallons, the secretary of state's office
reported today.
The Increase also adds to the state
tax the sum ot S761, 194.80 tor Im
provement of roads.
Total tax collected on the 169,394.
020 gallons sold ss far this year
amounted to $8,469,729.
HOOD RIVER, Ore., Dec. 19. (AP)
John Chambers, manager of The
Dalles water office, said today that
snowfall Is three feet under that of a
a salute to the harbor fort and in
return the Dutch governor ordered
a salute to the American ship.
This Incident, unimportant except
that It wna the first time a foreign
power had saluted an American flag,
set In motion a chain of events
that cost the Dutch 919,000,000,
ruined the Island economically, and
probably saved the American revolu
tion from failure.
Outside Orangetown lay the Brit
ish fleet commanded by Admiral
Rodney. When he heard that the
Dutch had saluted the American
flag he demanded an apology. This
being denied, he sailed his ships
Into the port, captured the town
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year ago In the Dog River watershed
which helps supply Hood River.
PORTLAND. Dec. 19 (AP) Bart
Coffey, 64. Portland PWA worker, col
lapsed and died while going to work
here today. Death, came from nat
ural causes, the coroner said.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland. Dec. 19.
(AP) Twenty-aix men were drowned
or frozen to death tn a blizzard
which a w e p t Iceland Saturday,
Twenty persona still were missing
today.
and nearly 200 merchantmen and
privateers In the harbor. Instead ol
taking the prize ships and loot, he
conducted an auction, sold the ships
back to their owners, or whoever
would buy them, collected $15,000,
000 In cash and sailed away. The
island never recovered from the
blow.
The Incident cost England much
mere than Rodney collected, for Ad
miral Rodney was under orders to
go to the aid of Cornwallla at York
town. If he had not delayed at
Orangetown, the United States might
never have won Independence.
Tomorrow: Tile Slavery Question.
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