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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.
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Oid-age pensions were lntrodued
into oreat Britain In 1908.
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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
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