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PAC.V. TEN MEDFOTCD MATL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. TFERDAY. APRIL 27. 1937. ROLLING STOCK By GLUYAS WILLIAMS By MARGARET WIDDEMER SYftOPSlS. Wher. tve 6tu nertfleld learn thai her Dtlort. Denny Carter who telt her it anger on the verge or their mar riage, u to wed uealtht Mitzt, the i tha tiered Returning her aunt baking bimnexx, the find content men i in her 200-year-old Con necticut houe and orchara She i kind to old Uncle Henry who help her run the place, and to senou little Judge Featherttone whose parent have left htm with Eve They both adore her George Cleveland. Eve' steady, depend able neighbor, ha quietly waited lor her love all cummer. Chapter 36 l Mies Him Horribly1 -IITE'RE diking as Idiotically as If VV we were Seymours, said Eva. "Are they really idiotic?" George asi:ed then with mild curiosity The only one 1 ever see ts Lance, the poor kid who's always skulking round here under the impression that ue still somehow has rights tc the place, the one r-ho tried to steal his ancestor's portrait from mother last spring re member? If they're all like him they're pretty far gone." She interrupted htm. "Is Lance around it ill 7 Do be careful oi him. George, be has an ugly temper." "As a matter of fact, he was having a run-In with Mattie this very day about some peonies he wanted to dig up. They were a ipeclal rare variety, one of the plants 1 bought the place for. He was making a clean sweep." They were Interrupted by a honk, heralding the young Gardiner brother and sister, driving in with rackets and bathing suits on the back seat; an at tractive pair of slim roung dark things, enough alike in their shirts and shorts to be twins. Anne's hair was curled tightly over her head and Wallace's slicked smooth, that was about the only difference. "Hello, you lazy loafers! Wallace yelled. 'The Warrens are practically on top of us with a earful of guests. Get up and let's cop the best court be fore they do." Anna pranced a little, thrusting a thin brown arm through George's. "1 grab George for a partner." she said. "You and he play together so much It's a racket. Eve." "Racket! Gosh, woman, people are shot for less than that," said her brother. Whereat Anne laughed and went on dancing restlessly, still hold ing on to George. Eve smiled at her She felt a million years older than carefree. 19-year jlo Anne. George glanced at her over the tight-cur led head as if they understood each other partner or no partner. "We saw that poor Seymour boy down by the gate." Anne said. "He was muttering to himself the funny way nuts do. Wonder why there are to many crazy people out in the country?" "Well, the Gardtners would come" George began teasingly. "Make him stop, Eve." Eve laughed and shook her head as the four ran across the turf. It was all warm and pleasant She liked life 1 She hoped she wouldn't see Denny, and have all the pain of him brought back. She had September weather and George's kindly brother I in ess; she had a good game of tennis ahead of her and a swim after that It was all easy and happy. Perhaps she was a shallow sort of girl to be so easily contented. But, If she couldn't grieve over Denny all the time like somebody In a book, wasn't It better for her? And. after all. she had she knew now the life she loved, if not the man. She knew now that she had never really loved the life that was a part of Denny's hap piness. . . And then the Warrens. Jim and his new wife May, and four stranger guests, caught up with her and there was an end to meditation.' A Natural Mistake .'TMIEY played till everyone was hot ! J and drenched; they twam on top - of that, which should have killed them but didn't When the twilight came, bringing the cool wind of 1 Con necticut September evening. George and Uncle Henry built the Are In the outdoor Are place; Eve made salad and Anne Gardiner ran to and fro from the Cleveland house bringing things Inevitably forgotten; Eve's chocolate cake, left In the hall; the salt extra paper napkins. They sat on the grass in the sweaters that were welcome now, eating more than seemed possi ble. Georjte, moving round the circle with the Immense gray coffeepot safd: "All gone. Warned another cup. didn't you. Warren? Mrttie has more In the house. I'm up. I might as well go" "Oh. George, bring my coat wlU you?" Eve called after him. "In the hall." But George was out of hearing "Judpe dear, run after him." One o' th ftrnrn uls. mixed on the very swn t'So-csale introduc tions, said hvy, "On. t your little ooy to get mme too, Mrs. Cleveland. In the car." "Judge gel alt the coats" Then Eve took Uno to explain ilabo:t)y that the r."w to arrld to C and Jiittg . w iit.r ion; 4-pi 4$ .Kerle la i tartness, is hp iic r xwL' petulantly, like a grammar-school glrL .tea, anybody would nave thought ..." said the UtUe girl with the War rens, unperturbed. "What Kay means Is that If you and George aren't married, you ought to be," said young Wallace Gardiner. "All very proper. Kay Eve s keeping Judge while his parents do something thrilling In Hollywood Nobody's any relation to anybody" "Here's the cottee, George s voice Mid placidly above them in the dusk. "Here's your coat Eve." He dropped It over her shoulders as be passed, and threw Judge his sweater with. "Put your sweater on. son- Right awayr "1 teave it to anybody!" com plat aed Kay. In the laughter and confusico of teasing and explanation Eve sat very still George, so far as cne could see by starlight was quite unembar rassed. Well. It was s natural mistake; George and she serenely Intimate, with the fatherly old man and devoted small boy belonging to them ail Later still, when everyone, eves Judge and Uncle Henry, had gone, leaving Eve and George to clear up the last things and wet the embers, George spoke slowly, out of the dim ness. "1 thought It was a nice mistake. Eve. How did you feel about It?" She did not answer. She was scarcely paying attention to what be said. She was staring up at the stars, dreamily happy In the Septembei night "Eve?" She came out of her dream, and answered at random, "You're an an get George; you pulled us out of ih Kay girl's blunderings without the quiver of an eye 1 ash I" "AU right" George said shortly. "But I'm damn tired of the role oi angeL Good night Eve." He strode off to the house. Eve laughed to herself as she went her own way. George was no angel, certainlybut- there was something funny and endearing to her always about his flashes of up-and-over tem per. She wondered why he' ha;, sud denly turned cross, and decided that he had been working too hard lately. "Bless his heart" the said as she ran Into her own house. "I'll scold him tomorrow." George Leaves Abruptly BUT the morrow brought a hurri cane of sudden orders. And before she had a moment to use the tele phone on her own account Judge, teetering on the doorsill as he waited for the basket of morning deliveries, said: "Oh. say, George drove of) to house party in Sharon last night after we ail went homel Adrlano says he's staying till Tuesday, he thinks." She felt a tittle dashed. But after ail, George was showing his usual good sense. He had been looking tired and strained lately. "What do you think of th-tT' she said to Uncle Henry who was coming in with a basket of eggs "Our 3eorgie off and awayl I'm glad, aren't you?" "He's so homey we forget he has a Ufa besides the one he lives here, said Uncle Henry. "Yes. a break will do him good." They smiled together, pleased that their George was having a rest and change. Eve went on with her work, cutting out ginger cookies deftly, row after row on the enameled table, and stnglng lightly the old song Uncli Henry whistled so much: Plaltlr d'amour n dure qu'un moment . . Chaprin d'amour dure toute la Viet She worked hard that day, feeling a queer lack. It was so strange to have no George, sunburnt and "smiling, leaning on her sill, resting as he talked and waited for his Jass of milk or square of gingerbread, telling her some scrap of village gossip he had heard, or passing on a piece of scien tific Information, or delightedly boast ing how right he had guessed about which suckers to keep. Noon came She fixed the usual snack for her men folk. She thought she would go for a swim: they were in for a spell of hot weather apparently. It proved to be a stupid swim. No George swimming alongside, teasing her with splashed water, raolng her out for a game of tennis, or lying on the cement parapet a llttl. sad be cause his too-white skin never would tan evenly or stay tanned long; play ing about with her as If they were a couple of children, there on the gran and in the water "It's awful dull without Mr Georgle." Mattie said when Eve cams into her pantry .for last night's caks plate. "Isnl HI" Eve said with fervor. "1 miss him horribly already" Something stopped her Perhaps II was Mettle's tittle watchful gray eyes, fixed on her with a meaning in terest She said another Idle word oi two and went off through the sun shine with bar plate, the wind blow ing her rose-colored linon that George liked and lifting her hair Suddenly her heart stood still and started rac ing again. She stopped, there on the path through the orchards, gasping, staring ahead. The words she had said were true. tCopvright iJT. Margaret Wtddtmer) As Eve realties she love George, tomorrow, Ellen becomes his fiancee. NAVY IDLE AFTER HAWAII 'ATTACK' HONOLULU, April 27. (AP) The United States fltft moved Into an chorage at Pearl harbor, Hllo and Lahslna Roata today after 48 houra of the most extensive and Intensive army and navy concurrent exercises ever hrld In the Hawaiian area. Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn, land ing the deletue forces of the inlands, aald he was prepared to hear when final reports come in that the fleet's efforts to land troop on Oahu Island Unit been repulsed. Forty thousand men and officers participating In the maneuvers are taking four days of well earned rt before the resumption of fleet mo neuvers. whim will conaist of all weeks of major sea action exercise. Bear Admiral W. T. Cluverlus. ranking officer at Peer) harbor, ob served that the derense forcea "gave us a whale of a time." and added "we watched with arimlratlon the work of their airplanes," G-M WILL DIESEL DETROIT. April 37. (AP) Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president of Oeneral Motors corporation, announced today that the corporation wxm will begin the manufacture of dlwl engine. He ald that a Ifl-acre tract of land had been purchased near the city limit for the erection of a plant and that an engineering labo ratory would be the first building to be constnicted. The first unit of the main plant he said, woull be started next month. Sloan said a new division of the corporation, known aa th dleael en gine dtvlMon. h4 been formed, and that the manufacture of dleet en gines would be conf 1 ned to at n g 1 cylinder units of from 30 to 100 horsepower for stationary use. He announced the appointment ot W. T. Crowe as general manager ot the division. . Oid-age pensions were lntrodued into oreat Britain In 1908. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof addreu the author. Inclosing, a stamped auralon for reply. Ret. T7. .8. Pat. OB. Vllft Of 6tOCst H, CUNwiev it n virion . PZhRL HSCKLMSa.. 6e0f?6fclrbP6leNrXU Trie K&1 PWW TO His fKlENps.! .. niifs uih,U rrmf riowp kUnTuei? PiNCNHCKI Pii WINDOW WERE fftXEt? IK peNMSVWfcNlrS, lW M MOUNTWrVS MO NUMpBRO? WINP0W5 IN wch House cNmb it Sra4au. Yelhtehne National PMAte Humbh fwieNce ie mcsp iH The Whitlow Tax Probably the weirdest tax ever foisted on American citizens was the one levied by the state of Pennsylva nia, in 1703. The tax waa appraised on houses and land, the amount as sessed against each house being de termined by the number and size of its windows. Congress had passed an act levying a direct tax of S2, 000.000. Of this sum, $237,000 waa apportioned to Pennsylvania and it waa with the "window tax" that the state sought to raise its share. Aa can well be imagined, the strange tax brought a howl of pro test. House owners went so far aa to board up their windows and then dare the government to collect for them. Under the leadership of John Fries, the German residents of Le high, Bucks and Berks counties en gaged In open rebellion, seizing the marshal of Bethlehem and forcing him to release 30 prisoners who had been thrown into Jail for tax oppo sition. The militia waa ordered out and captured Prles and some of his followers. Taken to Philadelphia, Fries was" twice tried for treason, was convicted and sentenced to death. He was pardoned In 1800 by act of the president. Quadruple Steal Pitcher McQee. of the Keokuk team, waa In a tight spot. It was the seventh inning and the bases were loaded. Taking hla time, he wound up. The man oh third, Frank Murphy, took a long lead from base then sprinted for home before the pitcher delivered. The ball arrived in the catcher's mitt at the nam time Murphy crossed the late to score. Mizeur, on second, dashed for third and Esrey on first heoded for second to succeed In beating out Catcher Becker's peg. Mizeur, mean while, continued on to home. Four banes had been stolen on the same pitch! iCaged Humans Of the many features which attract thousands of tourists to Yellowstone national park each year, the bear feeding canyon has. proven one of the moat popular. In a complete re versal of the usual order of such things, spectators at the feasts of the bears are caged in by a 10-foot fence to proetct them from any pos sible attacks by the free-roaming bears. Tomorrow: Monkey Business. PORTLAND AUTOIST IS KILLED NEAR YREKA YREKA, Calif., April 37, ( AP) George I. Letaon of Portland met death Instantly early yesterday when hla automobile struck a tree six mtlea south of Yreka. He apparently fell asleep at the wheel. Bishop Dies WASHINGTON. April 37. (API Bishop William Fraser McDowell, 79. for many years a prominent figure In the Methodist Episcopal church, died here today. He waa stricken by a heart attack soon after return ing to his home from Morganton N. C, where he had been on a lec ture tour. Comedian Dies NEW YORK, April 37. (UP) George Fields, 43, veteran black-face comedian and the "Honeyboy" of the radio team of "Honeyboy and Sassafras." died Sunday of a heart r attack. He was a native of Grove-1 spring. Mo., and had been In the -show business since he was 16, I CA11S HE'S JUS-f 66IH6 EoWtl fO HE CORNER. 1b MAIl A LE1TER SttiPES OUT tfUMBUrfe WAlkS 6M,6lft!?IH6 At if, . MEDlfAflOHS IMPR OVER DOU. CARRIAGE AMD W0NDERIN6 WHY RUPfEP Btf HIS 5EP lEPf 0'jfSlDE FRONT CHILDREN CAH'f PUf PlK6 ON A ROLLER SKAlt DOOR -THlKfeS AWAY WrfH HrS Mirffl StjLL OH WlER SKfrtE.SiEPS INTO JUNIOR'S SCOOTER ON TROUT WALK uivai STRIDE'S BACK AND DE MAUDS YHW CHILDREN IMMEDIATELY PUT TrtEl TrtiNS& AWAY MAILS LETTER AND RE' TURNS. IS PLEASED TO SEE HE HM BEEN OBEYED STR1DK INTO HOUSE. DlSCOtfEWNiS-frlAI'TrtE flouiH6 aTocv; has KEfl MOVED TROM OUTSIDE TROWl DOOR TO INSIDE If , (Copyright, 1937, by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.) S 'MATTER POP By C. M. PAYNE vjiluVum V Sta-zt, C-4&W, I ( -TVrVfT ) I fcAf) Swallow.j -v. V f J I-WILL. ArVJ J Ywy HfTe . ' ' (Copyright, 1837. by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) j TAILSPIN TOMMY Will 'ho Navy Be in Time? By HAL F0RR!",, HTOMMY AMD StTCrR HAVE: BC-CTI 'CORMCRtD BY THt BAMDITS ON THE" ISLAhO, AMD THfY ARC CLOsins in.... DE-Te-RMirie-D to KILL THC- BOYS.. MtAMWHILC-, BtTTY BARMY MAKtS THC MAiriLAf1D..A3 THC rut-L Givrs out.. SHE-'DC-ADSTICKS' DOWN TOWARD THC NAVAL AIR BASE". BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER The Trick! ISV.-- WWHEM a VJHAIE EATS A TUP Altl'T net IIA IIAne ..w, r,, , jij, mU HUM WKUINt AM' WHOOPS. THERE GOES THE KR.06EK GROCERIES. AIU'T THAT y TOO BAD j. P 71 SI 1 1 gVJyfflO I STORY.. .. 1 o i , n. , ftafrp CALL THE STORE CAUS.E OSWALD? ff DOWM OUT THERE AIU'T 1 PRIMEO TO AW&WER RIGHT US IT T WEVER. Ml WD FOLKS. Eg The- sky vibratc-s with thc roar or- MOTORS.. AS THC NAVY PlANCS HCAD TOWARD THC" ISLAND.'.. By EDWIN ALGEP LEM? c.UR.6. IT'S ME TUEV'rp OUTSIDE LOOKIU' AT AU AWWIkj' THAT JEST HAPP6UP0 TA RutT UOW-HAHAiHAi OKAY. 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