Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 27, 1937, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE BTX HrEDFOTtD MAIL TRIBUNE, rEDFORT), OREGON, TVEDXESD AY, OCTOBER 27, 1937 By GLUYAS WILLIAMS THE WINNING TOUCHDOWN STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor farther proof address the author, Inclosing stamped envelope for reply. Bet;. V. 8. Pat Off. WO I .Wt ly MAHCAMT CUION HERZOC mm The Characters Nlu. a nlc girt uith bum hair, meett a young man at a party. ' Oivld drlu htr Homt, on ftuin; h eraihcd Dm party and U an automobila talesman. Ha Naj capper hair and a dog named Sutton. Honer, Nlna'e plump, youthful mother, bring home a new hue band. Richard, Mna't ttepather, e harming, poised, dark -haired, well-tailored and Honey'' Junior by 10 yean. Cordelia, Nlna'e closest friend. Chapter Four 'Stick Clow To Her npONIGHT Nina did not notice A har beautlfui room, or drink It In appreciatively, as aha usually lid. She drew her things off over her head, cold-creamed her face, brushed her teeth and hair and opened the windows, in a sort of daze; and the minute she was in bed, she started to cry, softly. "Oh, daddy," she murmured into her pillow; and as the wintry dawn crept in, she was a little girl again, having her first serious talk with her father, about Honey. "But it would have been so easy for her to remember, daddy! I said tan,' so plainly, and she got green . . and now I'll have to wait a whole week for another order, and your present won't be done for Christmas! I do think she might have . . . "Now, listen, youngster," she could absolutely see her tall thin father, with his sensitive mouth and kind, humorous eves. 'There are two kinds of people in this world: the serious, sensmie Kind, like Annie, who mend your clothes and look after you, and never for get things . . . and then there are people like your mother, who make all the fun and gaiety in the world. Now you couldn't expect Annie to make you scream witn laughter, and think up wonderful new kinds of games, and have all the kids crazy about her, could you? . . . No. Well then, you mustn't expect your mother, who brings you so much of another kind of happiness, to be like An nie, as well. That's sensible, isn't It?'1 Nina had been able to see that It was. After that she had thought of Honey as having a very special Your mother cares for ma a lot As a young girl she was engaged to a man, and something went wrong. ... I practically browbeat her Into marrying me. Nina had interrupted. "Oh. dad dy, darling, you couldn't brow beat anyone! "Well I did, Just tha same, youngster; and I don't feel badly about it because we have you as a result, and we've been awfully happy together. Of course I should have let her go in a minute, if she had ever wanted to . . . ever met anyone else. But the point of all this Is that your mother is still a child, almost You're not old enough to know it yourself yet but a normal passion, a love that is satisfied, matures a person com pletes them; and Honey has never had that. ... All her sudden en thusiasms . . . her Instability . . her darling crazy fads, are simply because she has never been crazy enough about me. Can you grasp all this, Nina dear7 . . . Well, now, a person like that needs a lot of looking after, and on the best au thority, I'm not going to be here much longer to do it. Nina had marveled at his being able to speak of his death so light ly. Her own throat had closed up on her till she had had to make a little choking sound to breathe. You've Got To Grow Up' "yOU'VE had a grand childhood, haven't you? And I want you to forget all this, for now, and go on being just as young and silly as you like. But when I'm gone, Nina," he was very solemn, "when I'm gone, you've got to grow up . . . and speedily. Will you prom ise me, child?" "I do promise, daddy, I do." "And another thing, I don't wani any loyalty to me, on your part, to make you unhappy if youi mother should marry again. I wanl her to ... if he's the right man She would turn into an entirelj different person if she really feli in love, deeply . . . and if I'm any where up high enough to get I flood view of her, I shall be entire y happy about it. But if he isn'i the right man (and here's when you've got to be grown up and keep an eye on her) . . . she'll g( to pieces, you know that. Stici close to her, youngster, you've goi a good head on your shoulders. I't be depending on you. . . ." Nina remembered all this, as ahi lay, now, between her peach crepi de Chine sheets. Her father had been dependin Nina brushed her hair in a sort of daze. sort of gift as Indeed sha had and bad understood her much bet ter. Never Been In Lov ONCE or twice the had coma up on her father unexpectedly, with an inexpressibly tad look in his brown eyes, and she had won dered if Honey's special gift brought him as much happiness as It did others; but she had been too f'oung to think very much about t. It was not until she was 16, and daddy had another little private talk with her, that she understood better. It had been In the library- daddy's room then with rows of slightly musty books and dark green leather chairs and tofa. When he had called her in for that second talk about Honey. they had all known of his heart trouble that he might go, sud denly, at any time. He said: "I want to tell vou some things, Nina dear, that I wouldn't be telling you it I were a well man. I'll plunge in." He tighed. "You may, or may not have noticed that your mother has never Deen in love with me, That's very different, vou know, child, from caring tor someone. on her, and she had always done her best . . . till now, when it was too late to do anything at all, only hope. "Oh, daddy, darling ..." she murmured again, and fell asleep,, because after all, she was young and healthy, and it was nearly 6 a. m. At 11, she went down to break fast. Honey had never, never had breakfast with her first husband, so Nina had always made the ef fort; and now some peculiar left over she always felt disloyal if she stayed in bed. Sometimes after a late night particularly in her debutante winter, she had strag gled in more asleep than awake, merely kissed him, gulped down a glass of tomato juice and returned to bed , . . but it had been com radely, and her father had never been able to break her of the habit. This morning as usual, these last two years, the dining-room was deserted. When she stepped on tha bell. Bridget the waitress, appeared and said: "Good morning." fCopyrioM, IJ7, Uargartt Rtrtttffj Rlrherd wlna Bridget, tomorrow, and turni to Nina. OF HATS. Km., Oct. 37. (AP Mr. Kothryn 0'Lughlln McCarthy, for mer eongremiwoman, today urged the lUt board of administration to pre vent further sterilization in atate correctional Inatltutlona. Mr. McCarthy charged m week "wholesale sterilisation" had been performed on 82 Inmates of the girl Industrial arhool at Belolt the past few years. She told the board In a letter today: "I hope I have brought enough In formation to your attention for use irtdrafting an amend ment to the present (stent I eat Ion) law." At Topeka, Will T. Beck, former chairman of tha board, labeled un fair and untrue" Mrs. McCarthy's charges girls were terllid as pun Uhmcnt la 1035 and 1090. PARIS. Oct. 37. (API The gtant French flying boat. Lieutenant De Valaaeau Paris, landed this afternoon at Maceto, Braj.ll, after a trans- At lantic survey flight from Prench Mor occo. Air France Raid the 7apusenger plane travelled A.7PO kilometers (about 3.013 miles, to surpass the world's non-stop distance record for seaplanes. She landed at 13:58 p. m. (PBT). Her original destination had been Rio De Jsnelra, approximately 1.000 ml lea southward along the coast but, as the distance record already was aurpasaed, It was decided to land at Macelo. The plane took off yester day from the harbor at l.yautey, Morocco. She was in the atr 34 hour. 2H I minutee. WMmm M-V"! ' vt' -M swy COMMANDING P COmVZRffc s f nt?f?p OF U-7fft(ftMS, Battle of Snblne Pass Along with the credit of having saved Texas from Invasion during the Civil war, to Lieut Dick Dowling and bis 47 men goes the distinction of having won out In a battle against what were perhaps the more over whelming odds faced in the entire war, Backed up by four gunboats a Yankee force numbering 6.000 men attacked the small, rebel-held fort at Sabine Pass, Texas, on September 6, 1863 and. strange as It seems, were i beaten off by the tiny force man-1 nlng It. To top this off Dowllng end nia men actually captured two of the attacking gunboats with the crews and soldiers aboard them. The cap tives numbered 330 over seven times the number of men who captured them! Founding of Carson City Late In the 1850's a pioneer named Abram Curry arrived In the Mormon settlement of Genoa, Nevada, liked the town and considered settling down there. When told that the price ! of the corner lot he selected for him- ! self was $1,000, though he waa riled, j "I'll found a town of my own rather than pay that price." he declared. ' and found a town he did. Going far ther into Ea?le Valley, Curry bought j a ranch for a few hundred dollars and j laid out the settlement which grew Into Carson City, now capital of Ne vada. I Football Veto Challenged In 1873 by the DtilTer slty of Michigan, the Cornell univer sity football team agreed to take part In what would have been, If It had come off, the first Intersectlonal foot ball game. The game was to be play ed in Cleveland. When Cornell ac cepted the challenge they didn't fore see any faculty objection, but a facul ty veto of the game waa fast in com ing. President White, of Cornell, on being told of the Impending game said, "I will not permit 30 men to travjl 400 miles merely to agitate a bag of wind!" and that was that. Tomorrow: Which Chapter of the Hlhle Ends with a comma? Zellerbach to Up Newsprint Price SAN FRANC SCO, Oct. 37. (AP Crown Zellerbach company announc ed today that It would Join other companies In Increasing the price of newsprint 7.50 a ton for the first tlx months of 1038. The new price will be 50 a ton. Stock exchange oficlals here said all major paper companies would post the new price, except Northwestern Paper, which would charge 848 a ton for the six month period. Cockroaches were originally con fined to the tropics. They spread with the Increase of commerce. .on don Too Lonely LONDON (UP) Because ;ie found London, with Its S.OuO.OOO imputation, lonelier than his sheep station in Victoria, Stephen Staughton, 39, had a nervous breakdown. This as the oTory told at w Inquest when ho fell from a window of a London nurs-I.-; home and suffered fatal Injuries J3. wrfBRu.c)oTPoDft5, furious M&uMDtf n-- 0NE-VARD LINE , CAUS MEDlWElY BE6INS , EACH fEAM BWK AMD SRVS MEMBER OF BACKFIELD HE'U. CARRV If OVER WflNlN6 1b SCORE 1HE 1Qis oppeWEHi's.Wno ARESHOlrflltelfeHURxV UP AND PlAY BALL, 1b PiPEDOWtJ oVOERWS Of SUPERIOR lung power, Finally decides he'll carrv KOiER At YHIS P0)Kf, HI5, MOTH ER'S VOICE K HEARD CALLING HIM HOME f1 ONCE DANCES UP AND DOWN , TEAMMATES REOPEN AR- SI6HS AND $TAR$ fDR. SHR1EKIN6 1b HURRV 6UMEHT, P0lliTlN6 OUT HJIL HOME. WrfH A HEAVY" UP AND PASS friE BALL. fiEf THE DICKENS WHOME Uli- HEART WATCHING HIS HE'S SOT TiME FOR 6NE LESS HE (jfifi NOV. FATHER'S RIVAL SCORE THE MORE PLAY CILL IS ADDED To WTHER'S IbUCHDDWN (Copyrlibt, 1937, by Th Bill Syndics!, Inc.) S 'MATTER POI By C. M. PAYNB TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy In Grave Peril! By HAL FORREST V TOMMY, I HAVE A FUnrlY FEELIriG. . SORT OF . . . .APPREHEMSIVE . Y N I ' . , ... NOTHING TO BE h OONT MEAN BEMTLyTj it.. I kll 7i 7? ALARMED AT. BESIDES Hf'.S NOT IM 3f . . - U 'T'lT'Z.'LU L )' K SORT OF ... .1 J BETTY, I DOn't M THE PARTY. " V . XN K SET-UP' UT V . V APPREHENSIVE. THINK BENTLY I L BUT . 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