Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 25, 1937, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE KTX MEDPOUT) MATT.. TKTBTTNE, MEDFORT), OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1937 By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Company STRANGE AS IT SEEMS -By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Beg. V. B. Pat Off. If MARGARET CUION HERZOC V f 1 I KiTRITBRAN HFIC.HT5 mm The Characters Nina, a nlc girl uith )Iarn hair, lets a young man (hi hot juit met at a party, drl hr , home. David, the young man, hat cop .. per-colored hair, a beagle, an uppitv neui car and a rereihlns nerve. He crashed the party. Cordelia, Nina' l cloeeet friend, gavt the party. Chapter Two Honey's New Husband' IT DOESN'T take very long to drive from 47th street to 74th 'at 4:15 In the morning, when you drive like David. As he. crossed over to Park, he said wistfully: "Sure you won't have some scrambled eggs, or something? You see, I want to put oft the evil moment." .. "So it's evil . . . your surprise?" "Rather." . "Um-m. Well, I really ought to go in, in a second, because Honey that's my mother got in from Chicago tonight, on a late train. I couldn't meet her on account of Cordelia's party, and she's just crazy enough to stay awake for me,'' But she sat on in the car, after he had drawn up at her door. The beagle puppy put two enor mous paws over onto the back of their seat, nosed off David's bat tered felt hat, and then rasped across Nina's cheek with his long tongue. ; "Weill I must say, he has more nerve than you, David." She scrubbed at herself with a hand kerchief. "Tell me about him. And why do you call him Beagle? He's awfully large for a beagle, isn't he? And even if he were, you don't call a horse, Horse." ' "Don't you? I do. In fact, I call a spade a spade. . . . But I only found him this afternoon, no col lar, or anything, and frightfully hungry. Suggest a name, then." Nina regarded the hound thoughtfully. i "Well, he has little brown spots on him, like buttons. Why not .'Button'? . . . "Button, the beagle.' That's cunning." "It's stupendous. Button he Is." David's Confession VrlNA looked at David's nice clean-cut profile. The street lamp shone on his uncovered hair, and she saw that it really was cop pernot red at all and straighter than you would have expected Funny David. , . . She let her self in. The Stafford house, on 74th street between Madison and Park, was an old-fashioned one, with a high stoop that made you feel sort of naked and shivery as you stood up there, waiting for the maid to let you in. Inside, it was as it had always been: a front living-room, and a back dining-room, with fireplaces in each, and a library on the sec ond floor. Even the sliding doors were there, on little steel tracks; but there were no rubber plants, or statuary, or heavy velvet hang ings on fat brass rods. They were lovely rooms. Queen Anne-ish. Polished floors and antique walnut nieces of rare beauty. In the high- ceilinged parlor, two chintz-covered love seats came out at right angles from the fireplace, giving a comfortable feeling to the quiet, dignified old room. Nina liked it better than the li brary, where Honey kept adding things: a china cat on a taffeta cushion, numerous eccentric blown-glass figures, cacti, "just one more teeny little coffee table" . , . till it looked like a Madison avenue store window. It was Honey s room, and Nina loved it for that reason, but it made her sort of breathless. As she came in, tonight, every light In the house was burning. Well, that was like Honey, too. She looked on the hall table for a note saying: "Come in and see me, or I'll never speak to you again, as long as I live." ... or something like that. But there was none. In stead there was a feeling in the air or nusnea expectancy . . . line a surprise party, with people wait ing behind port!6res to pop out at you. Nina stood still and sniffed. Something Of A Shock PRESENTLY, Honey's voice sang out Irom aDove. "Is that you, Nina? ... Oh, hur ry, darling. Come up quickly. I've the most marvelous thing to show you. I brought it back from Chi cago." "Something more for tha li brary?" "No, sweet ... a new husbandl" "My God, Honeyl" Nina took the steps, two at I time. Her mother and a good looking man of middle height were wait ing in the hall. Little, plump, golden Honey . . . with her blue eyes glowing, like bits of brighl sky. Nina stretched lut her hands David gasped: "Nina!" and she ran up the steps. that color to be . . , Just a sugges tion of a wave. His eyes were brown like her own, and clear and honest-looking. She sighed. "I really must go In. Spill It, David." "O. K. Well, as I have no Inten tion of going out of your life, I may as well be frank. I'm a fake and a phony ... not to say a heel. I crashed that party tonight" Nina raised her eyebrows. "No!" she breathed. "Why, I hadn't the faintest etuplcion'1 "I was transacting a little busi ness with a man at tha R1U saw the festivities and popped In. And that brings me to the next thing: this isn't my car, at all, Nina. It's a demonstrator. I'm an automobile salesman." Nina didn't bat an eye. "Are you a successful one?" "Not very." "Are you trying to sell me this little number?" She remembered his pa?an of praise. "No But it's an Idea." She said: "Come round for a cocktail, tomorrow." And he gasped: "Nina!" and grinned; and she ran up the step. and forced herself to laugh. She said: "So I trust you alone for three little weeks, and look what you do!" She knew her mother would want her to take it that way. They never broke down over each other, as it were. Sometimes Nina broke down alone, and worried herself sick over darling, gullible, impulsive Honey, whom her fa ther, dying, had left In her care . . . but never openly. "Yes. Look at it, lamb,'' Honey echoed. "It's Richard." And Nina snid: "Hello," because she really didn't feel up on cor rect greetings for unexpected stepfathers. But her smile took away any suspicion of brusque ness. , "This must be something of a shock to you. er Nina. At this hour and all , . . but Honey couldn't wait, naturally." "Oh, the hour's all right," she laughed. "Just the shank of the evening for me . . . but thank heaven I'm quite sober. Or am I?" fCopyrfoM. 19,17, Uargarel Htrtog) Nina trlea to alia up her new step father, tomorrow. NEXT YEAR ROSY NEW YORK, Oct. 35. (AP, Motor car manufacturers today looked lor ward to another "(tood" year In 1P38 aa they prepared to present their new modrU at tho 38th national automo bile ahow here Wednesday. Aa the first of the tarpaullivoov ored beauties were wheeled Into the exposition hall, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., chairman of tha board of General Motors corporation, and K, T. Keller, president of Chrysler corporation. Is sued statements predicting the motT Industry would continue Its contri butions to national prosperity. Previous showings of the new cars Indicated that while there were nu merous mechanical Improvements, all msfcinft for added safety, eiwe and economy of operation, the iratest stress hs bn upon "eye npgienl " Um MtU Itibuoa want ad. PLANE DISASTER INQUIRY CALLED SALT LAKE CITY. Oct. 3ft. (API The federal Rovermnenl's Investiga tion of America's worst nlrplane dts aster In which 19 persons leva their Uvea last Sunday, will orx-n hero Tuesday, Miller C. PWtter, department of commerce official, announced today. a - wit it 41 I 'Km' in r ivuii. tv. lafi i kmt of The Man Who Pays and Pays Strange aa It seems, Melvln J. Dunn, owner of a, farm on the United Statea-Canadlan border, pays taxes to no less than elghv different govern ments. Treasuries benefiting from Dunn's tax payments are those of the Canadian and American national governments: Tha province of Que bec; the state of Vermont; Orleans county, Vermont; Brome county, Quebec; and the towns of North Troy, Vermont, and Mansonvllle, Que bec. Oddly enough, though two-thirds of the 160 acres comprising his farm are situated on the Canadian side New (TO ( limp PORTLAND. Oct. S3. ( AP) The federal bureau of biological survey receivrd word from Washington to day announcing the establlsnment of a CCC camp at Plush, 1a Ke county, tor develophient o, the Hart mountain Rn9 refuge. Truffle Deal lis Mount i PORTLAND. Ore, Oct, 28. (API- The dth of J D. Ssnfnrd. ft-), struck down bv s motorcycle yea- , terrtay, sent Portlrtnd's traffic fatal.- j tie to 6i tot the police )eir, I fV ! V Va 1 j j i r nvj' -i . tj- - - ' a? '.m. 9. rfi .TfiJ 1 aftkkT ' I tV aVIKZa. w s-T a fV'Uzf?ra fig a , Vxv v ic (Value $iZ,oo) AAiAM lOUMU. 0aINER Of h B CMMW PROVlNCc - 9i r 1 r a 'A 2 "V' '- 53T MrNtM SrwilfiUFf counTY - of the border. Dunn pays approxi mately two-thirds of the taxes on the American side. In America he pays $245 In yearly taxes while in Canada he pays only $120. Writes Mr. Dunn: "Our barn Is located right on the boundary line. On the American side of the barn we keep 30 cowa and sell milk from these at Newport, Vt. On the Cana dian side we keep 10 Durham cows, cream from these being sold at Man sonvllle, Quebec. Triple Child Marriage On August 20. 1580. Anne, the 14-yeor-old daughter of the king of Denmark, was married to Klnt? James I of England at Cronenburg. Den mark. The royal bridegroom was not present at the ceremony, how ever, the marriage being carried out by proxy. Several months later the marriage was again performed. This time the bride's parents were not able to attend. A third marriage was held In December of the same year, this time with all the princi Jals present. Thus the Anne known to history as Anne of Denmark went through thrtee marriage ceremonials in the same year and was wedded to the same man each time I Tomorrow: Which Is America's Must Popular Athletic Contest? Convict Extradited SALEM, Ore., Oct. 35. ( AP) Gov ernor Charles H. Martin todav au thorized the extradition of Art Llnd- sey, who Is wanted at Sacramento, Calif., on a charge of second degree burglary. He Is now serving a term In the Oregon state penitentiary here. Accused Return EUREKA. Cal., Oct. 25. (API- Sheriff Arthur A. Ross said today James Percival, 23. and his brother. Alfred, 20, of Tacoma had waived ex tradition to South Bend, Wash., and will be returned there for trial on charges of car theft. Ask Uniforms Signs PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 25. ( AP) A uniform system of traffic signs ad vanced here will make "safe think ing Identical for motorists in any section of the state. Use Mall Tribune want ads. Historical Society Elects PORTLAND, Oct. 25. ( AP) Lewis A. McArthur, distinguished Oregon historian and author and member of a pioneer family, became presi dent of the Oregon Historical society today. WINDOW GLASS We sell window 41 ass and will re p 1 ace y our broken windows reasonably Trowbridge Cab inet Works Ht HHH LrUJffl J- !- m 1T JU 1 yTUbtVt The surprise wuwv for miw was more than A FAILURE, BECAUSE AFTER S1AND1N6 IN 1HE RAIN $lrV6lrJ6 (lHAPPV Bm-faDrYr 10 YoO", "THE NEIGHBORS DISCOVERED -tHrVf FRED HAD SLIPPED OUt AFTER SUPPER. AND 60NE B0WLIN6 10-iq (Copyright, 1637, by The Bell 8yndtcat, Inc.) S 'MATTES P0I By 0. M. PAYNE V Llrfe.T4lS fVAAi-K6 LIKE. I . , ) fcjS tiv .N.alaa' lilS. (Copyright, t93T, bylj TAILSPIN TOMMY Danger Ahead for Tommy and Betty! V? 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