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Newspaper Page TextPAflTC TWO ggggssa . i a MEDFOHD MAIL TRTBUNT5, MEDFOItD. OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 17. 1936. Golden Rain ty by Margaret CWIddemtre COMPETITION By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address tha author, Inclosing a stamped evrelopa for reply. Reg. V. 8. Fat OS. "31WAS KTNOPSIIt Irli Lannlng, poor, aristocratic, eager, hne been caught tip -in the train of her htphlv suc cessful Aunt rhino, America's moat famous couturlere. Her brolner Owen is already in the train, and Sigrld, China's partner who alio I Oysn's fiancee, rhino it asking trie about her accomplishments, which ere numsrous And trie hat iuet about forgotten Aunt Ella and Vncle Will, at home in Psrila, pa. Chapter SO TRUTH FROM PHINA nHINA asked her lome rapid que tlons In French, and then nodded. 'Yes good. Well, we have a winter before us here In New York, and I hope In spits of lessons you'll have time for some fun., You can ride till late in November In the country after that In Central Park. Now got your bath and get dressed, and come down to the place for a tilling. Aunt Phlna was an avalanche! Iris was beginning to understand why Owen went on being a designer when he wanted to be an architect, What she couldn't understand was why Uncle Will badn't meekly mar rled her the first week tbey met, such a general was she. That strong Irre sistible sureties that you would do what she said swept you along like a tide. But, oh, a kind tide! Iris dressed swiftly. Life was beginning! This . morning a fitting for beautiful clothes; this afternoon a gorgeous party! ... If only Morgan were to be there, Morgan with his quizzical slow phrases that conveyed subtle comfort and encouragement and ad miration! Well, Morgan was ther In the background, waiting, Love with Its strong bands out til hold her. Per haps ho'd come over soon, or she'd run back to him tbey were young, and there was plenty of time to de cide, meanwhile, here were the pleas ures and palaces and Morgan was altogether too cynical about life. . , She splashed through her bath, and, In an echo of remembering Mor gan and Uncle Will and her other life, began to sing as she went down stairs, the old signal: "Just as sure as It is half past sight, Bomeone's tapping at the garden gate "What's that you're singing?" Phlna called from the desk where she was going over a stack of bills like Intelligent lightning, "One of Grandmother Lannlng's funny old songs that Uncle Will used to like, to the guitar, In the evening. I used to dress up In her clothes and put on performances for him, bless his heart, and sometimes I did It for parties." "Something Ella taught you?" sharply. Ella was the one chink In Fhlna's smooth armor. "No . . . Aunt Phlna, after all you'ro a wonderful person and you've dono It all yourself. Why do you mind about poor Aunt Ella?" The handsome dominant well groomed middle-aged woman silting at her desk, mistress of herself and of most other things about her, changed before Iris's eyes. She became suddenly twenty years younger and forty times an grier; the outraged capable pretty thing who had come to the aristo cratic old town with only a needle between herself and the wolf at the door, half defiant, half frightened. Her facs worked, The words poured out In a stream. "Because Ella Lannlng bad been ntrenched In money and position a generation ago because Jean and 1 were 'common sewing girls' as she called us and because the was In sane on the subject of your father, she was Insolent merciless cruel. Bh broke off my marriage with Will she wrecked Jean's wllh Lawrence. I've gone a long way. I'll end higher than any Lannlng ever dreamed of being. When I am, IH go there agnin and show her tell her." AUNT PHINA stopped, pnntlng. white, shaking. Iris shrank back. Was this the driving force be hind thnt dominating capability? Phlna Ross ssw what effect she had made, and was suddenly herself again, the quiet masterful unmoved woman. She smiled. things sny, didn't I? That's all non sense, of course. I really owe the poor soul a good deal; I doubt If I'd have made as much success or money without that feeling. I'd renlly supposed thore was E"thlng left of It. Now sing your dramntlr old auntie the song about the garden gate. I want to know everything you can do. You seem to have all the talents." She put an affectionate hand on Iris's shoulder. Olad of somo outlet for her own shaken feelings, Iris went to the DEATHS PER MILE LEAST ICE 1932 6AI.KM. Orf.r April 17 (AH Ho tnrlAM In Oirnon trawlM 7,4!!l.a.n mil for f'h fatality dua to a mo tor whirl arrMcnt In IMS, 8cre 1ary of Bute Earl BnMl rrportd to day. entMt'a figure listed on acrtdant to flvtry 70.443 ml lea travll and one perianal tnjui-y 10 cvrry ;U7 138 ml). Tha flgurta were bantd on an average of la mi ion to tha gallon of Kanoluia for v?iilclr of all tyr. Thla allowing wm the best since 1933 In rrtard to fatAiitiea nnd u anbatant 'ally better than the yeara incs that lime. Snell said that a atudy of Ore gon'a accident problem had convinc piano and sang the gong through with all it outmoded gayetlsa and archnesses. Phlna clapped when she bod done; sue was completely her self again. "Darling, you art nearly a profes sional diieusa, bless your heart. W must work on that. I'll get you cos tumes. Now come along." Pblna's shop was not like any shop Iris knew: not like a shop at ail. Indeed. An ostentatiously quiet window with one hat and one drafts tossed on a chair; an almost In visible sign. Witbln, two large rooms, one with paneled pale green walls, one fur nished as a replica of on of Marie Antoinette's, so she was told later. A handful of bright particolored necklaces dung on one table, a dress or two across chairs. A fireplace full of flowers at one end, with chairs grouped about it; three or tour lovely young girls, "types," drifting about, gay and docile and flattering to the five or six women who were being shown as If one's relatives did It, rather superior relatives clothes from behind the panels. An e 1 e c t r 1 e stiffening went through the rooms with Pblna's quiet arrival. The customers be came excited; the sales people in tensified their manners, whether thce were gny or scornful or coax ing. A tall awkward girl with face that might have been handsome If it had been less tense, broke away from her salesgirl and rushed over to Phlna. Her attitude was that of schoolgirl toward a worshiped teacher, "Ob, Miss Phlna! Oh, Miss Phlna!" Her Insistent voice rang through the room, and she stopped short, embarrassed and frightened. Phlna spoke to her very much like a teacher, Iris thought; kindly, a little reprovingly. "New. my dear Miss Camilla," she said, looking brightly up at the girl's stooped height, "you don't need any thing mora at all this snrtne. Your mother would think you war hor ribly extravagant If I let, you go on buying." Iris, waiting at a little distance, was sura the heard one of tht ex quisite goddess blondes snicker. There was some Joke about the poor girl. But but Mother won't mind, honestly she won't at all," said Ca milla, Jerking her shoulders under the smart cont and flushing a dull red ucder her unpowdered skin. WHAT you need Is more time Id the beauty parlor." Phlna said almost severely. "If you wear your clothes properly, and look after your ihake-up better, that's all you need." "But 1 do need one more evening frock, anyway I" pleaded this topsy turvy eustomer. Phlna shook her head Indulgently. Very well, If you must, but speak to your mother first," she said. "Oh, It tbls your nleca? Is this Owen's sister? Oh, she's lovely!" said Camilla with ber uncontrolled voice. "And ehe looks like him too. You look Just like Owen!" She stnred at Iris with the same devo tion she bad given Phlna. "Do come see me! Or bavt luncheon with ma tomorrow." The enigma was solved poor glrll It was Owen't designs, Owen him self, In fact, that Camilla came for. But the girl was so helpless, to honest and Inept In her schoolgirl crush thnt Iris could only be sorry for ber. It this was a New York so ciety girl, one needn't feel back- wood sy! Phlna made the luncheon engage ment tentative, shitted Camilla adroitly to the head saleswoman, and beckoned Iris upstairs to the tilting room. "Is she" Iris began, half pitying, half laughing. "She la," said Phlna Irritably, and yet with an amused lifted eyebrow. My dear, thnt poor girl has every- hing; except personal attraction. Her mother turned her over to me to dress. In despair; and I really was doing well with her. All on earth thnt nils hor Is a complete convic tion that she Is awkward and ugly and nobody loves her. I have told Owon a doien times that It he had mercy on her and married ber she would bloom. She Isn't actually plain Its her manner and voice. Iris, you could help the poor child. Will jruuT" 'Oh. not to marry Owen!" "It might be tor his best In terests." said, Phlna. "But 1 don't mean that, foolish child. Don't be romnntic. In splto of her money and position sho's the Poor Little Rich Girl. She took to you you can do something kind there. Be her friend, my denr." ((..", i.t.t ', V nUiimtr) Irli trns more, Monday, of the relation between her sunt end Slgnd. ed htm that Oregon motortata v-exa making progrrM In infer driving, and that hla department would continue lta aafety cAn.pntgu. WASHINGTON'S TROWEL IS USED BY ROOSEVELT WASHINGTON, April 17. (AP) In laying the cornerstone of th new Interior department building today. President RooeveU noted that he wa mi rig the aame trow I "uwvt by the flret president In 179S In laying the cornerMon of the capitol it aelf." I think It la a find augury," he added. riMle strait. PORT ANOKUKfl. April 17 (AP) William Ordano, young Vlrtoria. B. v., inventor, arrived hci ivdiy aft or landing on the beach eicht mtlea et of here laat night, he Mid. at the end of a puddle trip tn hla f inner" craft acroea the Strati of Juan de rue a. JartN effoMwicrt - JB64 BlflrlT-rlANPeCS WiMPS... Amy lowell, American poetess of note, wee eccentric In her smoking habits. She tried cigarettes but dis carded them and tried pipes but they were too untidy, rinally she selected cigars, and these sho smoked until her death, when, after the outbreak of the world war, It seemed lUely that her supply of favorite cigars would be stopped, she ordered lo.ooo or them to assure a lasting supply. The thousands of cigars she bought long outlasted the war. They even outlasted her life for In 1035, when Amy Lowell died, many of her war time supply of cigars were still on hand. As a poetess Miss Lowell was con sidered the most representative of the unconventional group. Her moat important work, however, was a two volume biography of John Keats, published shortly before her death. Tha Slmplon tunnel that peases al most twelve and a half miles through the Alps between Brlgue, Switzerland, and Iselle, Italy, Is the largest tunnel in tho world. Seven years, from 1B08 to 11)05, were required for the completion of the task, and It was not until 1031 that the capacity was enlarged to permit another line TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy's I HUE" 5PCE0- HLS RADIO rWEP Af'TER HIS PLANE HAD STRUGGLED IN THE GRIP Of THE INVISIBLE HAnD... 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SOCIETY ACFAitt J H - -) t -L ) OG- WAV VVE SOT TD SET rrZ:n rTTitl MAI K,AoO SILT ,1 AVO 0O KMOUJ V COULOMT X-r-. ACOUAlMTEO WITH THIS VAW MlCAS 1 IfT? V 5-AI.O US TALKIIs'Gj J 6ET injto ONE U0LES 1 IWA5 j H til D - k VJOMAW, EXENJ F 1 HAVE TO LEAS1M V,. I 1l5 5"l j XwAiTito&OKj -me tais.lev' q -3-;: z1 1 j K ma,vjicuriwg, oust to daaxj (rSl TTivrT M f Z I " "C E&fSRJ :jSlLTS CONITENJTMHXJT OLTT OF -f!-, I I fa Jl lll j ' SlMPLON- WW's. 122. MILK THRC7U6rt ft DEPTH Of 7000 FLAVOR I fi&K$!?J TRY , A TOT---'' ' I -- - - aW i m w a V9 v r & mm WRIGLEY'S, TH PERFECT GUMr SOS Is Interrupted w sfSR?rai y : 1 1 'm j n (ARC- rlfRELY WASTING) iVrffiHVl UNTeRCePTED EVERY MOVeV BeinG HELD JC. PRI50ME-R5....II- YOU!' I'M YOUR TIME".... A "1 llPi (YOU M Ave MADE- IM THIi ) JT ARB WILLING TO K' LlISTENINCsJ ""' jeE " r f 3Kin.eo Jumper cp.htrme-1. 10 feet rtoRiiowThuV OP PeCCNTtei -v The tunnel construction wsa un usual In that two parallel shafts were dug, 66 feet apart and Joined by oblique galleries at Intervale of 330 yards. This permitted better venti lation and greater efficiency of con struction. One of tha tunnels was enlarged for railway track Immedi ately, but the other was left In its original condition for 18 years until 1018, when work was started on It to enlarge It for a second track. Slm plon tunnel's greatest depth below the surface is 7008 feet, and normal hazards of digging were Increased by upheavals of the f loor due to tremen dous pressure of the root above. Tomorrow: Alimony Before Mar-rinse. 1 . ' REAllttS.rROM irt BABBIE Of 0ICE5,f AKf MtrfHfR l& HIMH6 A m fEA PARV OR. RELIEF W SIM&IN6 $10?b ABRUPtW ri6HtS fo KEEP BACK WAILS AS SONS BEGINS fill OVER.. A6MM 1-17 (OoprrlrM, 8MATXER POP j BfOopyrlgBt. 19M, by Th. Btll Syndicate, Inc 6& IS A UfftC S-fARftEP PRKEIM.Y 1b HEAR -fUE PlftWO. AND A WOHAH BEaiH -lb 5lt6 VERV LOW SIK6IK& RE6UME, VfcHY . SHRILL AHD SEEMIN6 0 60 RiSWT HIV? NO USE 6IVE5 TARtV IMS, by Tht Bell gywllcsts, Hie.) IS VERV,SORRV BUT HSJDS-f CAM'f HE1P If SILENCE A&AIN AMD MOTHER-. COMES IN . LISTEN'S COMTRlfElY fo HER PLEAS fo BE dOOD AND NO SPOIL HER. ?RtV - ;ir,ut. Wi-fd RELIEF AS SlNdEC OP YriE S-fRUla&LE, AKIKHE SHftES DDWrt -fo BWD6E. Bv 0 M. PAYNS By HAL FORREST