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PA'GE ETGHT aiEPFORP MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY.- SEPTEMBER 13. 193$ THE WORLD-Sp WITH A FENCE: 33jfe A New Novel e Moriam Stmt ' "lltS'Jx?! BYKOPSia: Whan Carol Tor rance wie teaching echool in Aeh boro ahe found it mpoaatbla not to worry about her frienda and her pupila. Bha thouuht aha waa escap ing worry for a while when aha went to work for Blake Thornton in hie adverttaing ageney in At lanta, but aha waan't. For there ia aomething very attractive about lilake. and there ia aomething very alrange between Blake and hie older, eelfiah wife Irma. Blake ia viaitlng Irma over the week-end in her mountain retreat. Chapter 2T PARTY TRICK "N Sunday morning Margery tele phoned. "Some of the crowd are coming by this afternoon," she said. "Can't you come too?" "I'd love to," Carol said promptly. The Idea of spending her first Sun day alone had no charms. "WhenY" "About five. Harry'll come over and get you." She demurred faintly at that, but Margery was firm. "He's got to go out tor lemons and White Rock any how this Is very Impromptu. Around five, then." There was time, Carol decided, to try the Sherwood pool before lunch, so she put on her bathing suit and went down. The pool was noisy and ohurnlng with children who made up Is energy what they lacked In numbers-, and the entire bank was fringed with motionless, prostrate forms, sunning themselves: forms that never moved except to turn at Intervals and sun other portions of their anatomy. . Most of them were women, and Carol reflected humorously that she had never seen such a motley col- ilectlon of fat thighs. Some of them iwere as white as grubs, some were jat the raw-meat stage, a few were a smooth golden brown. Hereafter, Carol resolved, she ;would take her swims at sight, and let her own lovely tan go. She bated 'the sight of so many fat, soft peo ple prostrate In worship before the tun. , t I Harry was late, but that was to Ibe expected; Harry was always late. He was two weeks late being born, he explained once, and he bad never yet caught up. He burst In at half past Ave, grinning and unapolo getlc. "Ready to go, sugar?" "For the last half hour." "Well, nobody ever means It whan Ithey say a certain time; they mean -aome time after that." She laughed. " usually go on that theory, '.ut since you're the host J thought you might want me to be r ady." "1 Bid, but 1 bad a golf date and I got tied up." He eyed her critically. "You look good enough to eat. Come on." They stopped at a drug store tor White Rock and lemons, and then drove -madly home. Three of the guests bad already arrived, and Harry pulled her into the living room and made a flourishing gesture In her direction. "Carol Torrance Betty and Jerry McElroy and His Nibs, the Honor able Porter Murray," lie had shouted the names at the top of bis voice, and Carol was about to speak when he added In a low tone: "Carol's terribly deaf, folks: youH hare to talk loud." She turned on him to say: "Why, you dirty liar!" but he cut In swiftly. "Betty and Jerry McElroy and Portor Murray." as If he were an swering her. Margory giggled and screamed: "111! I'm so glad to see you. Dont you want to 'rest your hat'?" nPHKl Idea of deafness bad possl- bljltlei. she decided, so she com posed er features with an effort. "No thanks. It's perfectly com fortable." Porter Murray shouted. "It's aw fully becoming; I don't blame you," and turned to Harry. "That's a damn shame," he said In his natural voice. "She'd be a knockout tt she wasn't afflicted. How did It happen?" "Mastoid." Harry explained brief ly, and Carol exploded in a rather unconvincing cough. Porter Murray was solicitous. He was a patent-leather man ol forty or so. and obviously a squire of dames. "Fix aor a drink, Harry," he or dered at the top of bla lungs, and Harry began opening liquor and White Rock. Carol subsided and smiled ravlshlngly at Portor Mur ray. Two more couplos arrived, both strangers to Carol, and the game went on undei Harry's expert guid ance. Porter exerted himself man fully, with occasional asides that convulsed her. E MASON CITY. la. 5r 13. AP ' Jnnifii RoomvpU, on of the Presl :1pnt, Mid today that "bad spot' on tho economic syntm "ire being re mo.'rd," and condemned those who tell tiA thnt It 1ft no good trying to make America better." , Addressing a Democratic rally, he icfcrrvd to the President as the na tion' "ijeiiprnl m natter." and tald the admlnl.Hrutlnu ia removing the "bad ipotA" in "wbat we call the American (ray." "I could go tor ber In a big way It she wasn't deaf," be confided to Margery, "but I'm already getting hoarse. Somebody else will have to take over." He launched Into a par lor story about a small Negro In a racing stable. Carol looked puzzled. - He repeated it at the top of bis lungs, and she gave up the struggle and laughed herself breathless. "I can't keep it up, Harry," she gasped. "Another thirty minutes of this and I will be deaf." She smiled apologetically at the bewildered Porter. "It was one of Harry's cute Ideas," she explained. "I didn't know he was going to do It until he got me In here. I'd forgotten bow many bright ideas he bad." Porter Murray crimsoned slowly. It had just dawned on him that she had heard the asides as well as the rest of bis remarks. She reassured him quickly. "Don't worry; I call that real gal lantry. It's a lot nicer to overhear a compliment thai, to hear It." The party grew In size and vol ume, and the talk was full of per tonalities. She listened for an hour' with as expression ot Intent Inter est, and felt that her face was con gealing. After a while the guests began to drift away, until at last no one re mained but Carol and Porter. He said gaily: "Why don't we all tour go down town and get a sandwich?" Margery looked at Harry. "I don't know whether Elvira would stay on. I only asked her to stay until the children were In bed." "Walt a minute," Porter ordered, and disappeared Into the kitchen before they knew what be was do ing. He came back immediately. "She aays lt all right," he an nounced. "Get your hats." Margery said: "Porter, you ought n't . . ." itnd Carol reflected that a generous heart must beat beneath bis perfect shin front. Elvira prob ably reoognlzed but one form of argument Harry grinned shamelessly. "Oh, he's one of the big rich. Don't de prive him of the plea;ure." They drove hilariously off In Porter's sport phaeton, and ate club sandwiches at the Boar's Head. Afterwards he dropped Harry and Margery at their house and Insisted on driving Carol home. "Won't you come in for a while!" she asked when they reached the Sherwood. He accepted promptly. "Thanks. I waa hoping you'd invito me." He stayed until eleven, talking al most constantly; skating blithely over surfaces. Carol decided he was one of the eligible that Cornelia had dismissed so contemptuously; a sort of cosmopolitan Ben Tyler. She let him talk to his heart's con tent. He got up finally, with flattering reluctance. "How's about dinner and a movie with me next Thursday?" "1 think that would be grand." "So do I. About half-past seven? Then we can catch a nine o'clock show." "Fine. I'll see you then. And it's been a lovely evening." She know from the speculative look In bis eyes that he was debating the possibility of kissing her good night, so she smiled with twinkling finality. "Goodnight," He shrugged and grinned. "Good night, darn your When be bad gone she undressed slowly and almost happily. Even a single engagement ahead, with even a Porter Murray, kept the days from being quite empty. TPHB city gasped and sweated In -l the clutch of August. The morn Ing cars were merely tepid: the late afternoon irs were crawling, clank ing Infernos. Today, the evening pa pera would announce with sadistic glee, was the hottest tenth ot An gust since 1892, and there had been two prostrations a thing almost un known In the South Tbe sun was molten brass In a cloudless sky and drouth hovered, grinning at whirl ing lawn sprays. At Rock brook Irma Thornton read of the beat wave with detached In Interest, as people read, uncompre hending, ot a famine among millions In Chins. Blake went about his busi ness like a machine, and noticed In differently that his clothes were be coming too big tor him. Carol dis carded a great deal ot apparel she bad hitherto considered necessary to a business woman, and found the world too weary to notice or care. If the society columns were to be believed, No One remained In town. I (Copyright, 193$. by Marian Sima) Tomorrow, Carol has an unex, peeled dinner guest, At one point In hta add res, Jamea Roosevelt referred Indirectly to Gov Alt. M- Landon of Kansas, President Roosevelt 'a Republican opponent, by saying the national administration has enabled "many of our state gov ernments to boast that they hare bal anced their state budget. "Just aa an example, the state of Kansas haa received In grants, loans and loans insured from the federal government the amount of Hai.VJO. 3S0.00. y, Indeed, the budpet of the state of Kansas Is balanced." Age PenMon Ruling SALEM, Sept. 19. (AP) Persona residing In homes for the aged con ducted by fraternal or religious bod lea are not eligible to troelve old -a we pension assist a nre under the Oregon law, but persons boarding iu pnvute homes or boarding house for the aged operated by private individuals are eligible, Attorney Oenciul I. H Van Winkle ruled Wards Installing All New Plumbing The Modern Plumbing and Sheet Metal company, in announcing they have been awarded the plumbing contract for the Montgomery Ward building state that It la thg most STRANGE Tor further proof wldreu cy ej.&K!brt- PiikburSh Ptofes, Mr? LosT 0Yb -score of IK" 3 IrtaaHrteMAPe ONLiONS Pitch ih ' Q'tciitnafi. hroTb Himself ToDEtiM JHBN VlfcP WC7KN OUl ?7 -83Z Sir Walter Scott Faced with a debt totaling over a half million dollars In 1820 when the publishing company In which he was interested failed, Sir Walter Scott refused to accopt the Ignominy of going through bankruptcy. Enfeebled In health at SS and worn out by his long and prollflo literary career, he determined to shoulder tbe financial responsibility and wipe It out by writing. Asking no con sideration from his creditors except time, Scott fell industriously to work. In the first three years he produced an astounding amount of copy In cluding some of his most brilliant masterpieces. Among his works of this period were "Woodstock; "Chronicles of the Canongate," which Included three separate talos; "Anne of Oelerstln;" "The Life of Napol- TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy I CI 13 PLANE I II CRIPPLED Bf BULLtTS FROM THt SKY BANDITS' GUMS, SKEETER 15 SPIHNIN0 in. CLOSELY FOLLOWED BY THE CROOKS Anxious fOR me KILL."5UPDt1LY ANOTHER PLANE HARTS URDU THE B4NDIT SHIP..... IT IS FLOWfl BY TOMMY..,,, acoi f IT'S BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER THE NEBBS You Tell Him, J 0 AAA 0E MIOIW'A TOOHAOOW FOrX; ?k0 VOU-i -r-r-uf COME BACK OU ,y DID THEY WAVE . 'SPECT OEV CAW'T MAVI6A1E HKlOW- ) I PlACt UP WIEV ) J U4 W WERE-WE'li j" y! TWUt VJE'U Ykt '.PECT FOOT THROUCjU OE (aV401HER. BOAT? )' V UE'U DtV R.EPWB. F0' HOLES Jm CREEK- (jtuV HAVE TO 6EWD A Vi'Si" 'A F,WD "tWEAA' V, VJE WILL, ) WAMP FO' DE OTHER -l , ( I 6U5TED IVi TO BOTTOM WlT' A J I set AUJA.V FBOt-V MV ' HIS PART HE'S AT MV v J. If "L'M BESIKJKllKJCi TO LOSE ? BROTWEJa-lrJ-LAVW VAJWO'3 f KVvf I VOTEL, SUEEPIKJG AMD ) ' "7 .RESPECT FER NOU-AKTY MAkI ) . V CAMPISJ6 AT MV y UK-Jf V EATIKJG AJOD SMES G'VIMS AS CAMT BOSS WIS OWVJ MOTEL r-, -T ' 'irvi t WIM MOMEV V HOME, CAKJT BE MUCH --" unusual remodeling Job ever attempt ed here. Even though the Ward building Is not old, all of the plumbing is being removed and extra heavy galvanized pipe will be Installed in Its place, according to H. 0. Williamson. Mr. Williamson aaya thta will give a large amount of extra work to local labor. AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX the author, tncloelng a. stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Pat Ofl. If X3. Tttd!3 ' II xT 'If M BuWeP UHPEffMErVTHw . MtHufht Srndttat lcj&ji eon," In nine volumes; part of hla "History of Scotland;' the Scottish aeries, "Tales of a Grandfather;" "The Fair Maid of Perth," In the second aeries of "Chronlclea of the Canon gate," and several magazine articles. Th results of his labors from Jan uary 1828 to January 1818 earned about 9200,000 for his creditors. Early In this period his wife died, and though heartsick, he didn't allow the bereavement to slow his efforts. Following the first three years of his Intense, self-imposed task, warn ing symptoms of the toll which the arduous work had taken on his health still failed to stop him, even when he suffered several strokes of appo ptexy and paralysis. It waa not until his mental powers started to leave him and he came to believe all his debts were settled that he at laat quit work but it Cuts In V VVB3 SKEET3... THOSE MURDERERS ARErjJ TRYING TO CRASH HIM Closing In! Newt "Nose" palmateer Named PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 13 (AP) Apolntment of O. E. "Nose" Palma teer, Salem, aa chairman of member ship activities for the year was an nounced by Guy Cordon, state com mander of the American Legion, Palmateer la also departmental vice commander. was too late. During a Mediterranean cruise on a government, ship put at hla disposal, he sensed the end and hastened back to England that he might die In his native land, 'in Tweetlslde at Abbotsford, September 21, 1932, he breathed his last and waa burled st Dryburgh Abbey. One-Pltn I'pset In a ninth-lnntng upset, Cincin nati scored four runs off a homer by plnch-hltter Sammy Byrd. It hap pened this way: Cy Blanton had been substituted for Pittsburgh's regular pitcher, who. until the fatal ninth, had pitched shut-out ball. In the Inst Inning three runs were scored and Blanton was credited with them when hts first and only pitch was hit over the fence I MnnrtnT: 2-in-one BrldRe. 2d MMMsWaasB SUBURBAN HEIGHTS FRED PERLtV WEttf To fHE DWCE W fHE COUN-mvcLUB ONLV OHfrtE UH0ER 5AMD1N6 -ftprf HE CQVVD IBMt EARLY ' " (Copyright; 19M, by Th Bell Syndicate,, Inc.) WJUIftHS : S 'MATTER POP- ISO" vC(l?y ss'fcl h (Copyright, 1M6, fry The BU 8yiidlcalt. Inc.) 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