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MEDFOTID MAIL TRTBTTNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 3, 1937. PAGE ETOTTT OPEN AND SHUT py GLUT AS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor farther proof address the author, tncloetnc a (tamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Pat Off. VUIU.3H5 aL- ZL MARCAIirr CUI0N HtRi0C ' The Character Nina, a nlct olrl with flaxen hair, hat alien in lot uiith her stepfather. Honeri Nina' gay, plump, youthul mother, hae brouaM home a neto husband. Richard, Nina' l charming, well tailored stepother, pays conlid trable attention to Nina. David, a youna auto salesman, crashed a party, met Nina and his heart turned over. Cordelia is Nina's closest riend. Chapter 10 'You're Good For Me' BUT Nlna'i reasoning had all been too convenient, too easy ... too brief.- The second atage came on at breakfast She had been quite wrong, she found. As she sat sloping her chilled grapefruit juice, in her new Amer ican Beauty pajamas, she thought: "Now I must snap out of this schoolgirl lapse of mine." But when her stepfather ap peared in a black dressing-gown with dragons on it, she thought: "Oh, Lordl I can't!" She loved him, and It couldn't be helped. But she loved him nice ly ana quietly, and nobody need ever even suspect it. Instead of ftnawing inwardly at her vitals, ike a cancer, it gave her a warm, glowing feeling inside. Something to be treasured rather than ashamed of. This beatific second stage lasted all of three days. She had thought it would last forever. She should have known better. Nina soon found herself pro gressing to the stage where she wanted to talk about it . . . wanted people to know; and immediately, of course, upon the heels of this hideous discovery, came remorse, and self-reviling thoughts about loyalty to her mother. Nina felt sick all over. In the Plaza movies, one after noon, Cordelia had said: "How are ou ana rticnara malting out, aari- That had been the beginning of Nina had wanted to talk and talk bout him; how marvelously they got on together; how marvelous he was to Honey; how maruelouslu he fitted into the household. Cordelia had had to shush her, because the feature picture had Started. And it was then that Nina ad begun to be afraid. Oh, To Laugh About ttl SHE went about then, in a paral ysis of fear lest someone would E aspect it . . . Honey . . . Richard, 1 in self. She dreaded goodnights, and good mornings, lest he should touch her, and the warm blood should come rushing into her cheeks. She felt that she walked awkwardly, talked in a peculiar constrained way when she was with him, in an effort to appear nnrmnl. Sometimes her line felt as though she had been out In a cold 1 wind . . . sun ana irozen sumosi, when she had to reply to some cas ual compliment It was unbear able. And it wasn't only the effort ot trying to hide the signs of her, well, call it infatuation. It was try ing to kill the germ at the root Of the infection. And that she could not seem to do. It was as though Richard were launching a diabolical campaign to win her; to make her suffer, and hate herself the more. One night he said to Carrie Van Alstyne, right in front of Honey and Nina: I'm proud of myself, Came. There aren t many men i who could keep their heads, with two such beautiful women in the house." And Horseface had said, coquet tlshly: "Are you referring to Hon ey and me, young fella'?" Honey had giggled. Oh, to be able to laugh about HI Nina thought with envy of the Jirl who had been herself only a ew days ago, lying all uncon cerned, between her peach-col' ored sheets, figuring it out on her fingers that she really didn't love him at all; who had Been able to curl up, and go to sleep after wards. And she thought, with loathing, of the girl she was now; admit tedly in love with her own moth er's husband . . . trembling at his approach . . . She went out with Tom . . . and with every Dick and Harry who asked her. And she was so nice to David, when he came back from hU trip and called up, that he ap peared within an hour . . . with Button, and a happy gleam in his eyes. She was inordinately glad to see him. He had interested her more than any young man in ages . . . before Richard Challoner ap peared, of course , . . and she hoped against hope that his charm would help bring ner Back: to nor mal again. Not Pull A 'Pish Tush'? "I TEL-LO, Davidl" a 1 "Gosh, Nina, I'm glad to see you. It's been S weeks, 2 days, and 13 hours too long! ' That was a bad beginning. Five weeks, 2 days, and 13 hours since she had walked in, all un suspecting, and found her new stepfather. He proceeded to go from bad to worse. "There've been great goings on in your life since I left you that night, haven't there?" She had to laugh. "I'll say there havel" He was gay and ridiculous the entire two hours he stayed. He was no more ridiculous on four cocktails, than he was on none. That, Nina liked about him. She thought it was the only pos sible feature he and Richard could have in common . . . Not that Rich ard was ever ridiculous, but that he knew how to hold his drinks.' When he left, David said: "You won't be an old meany and let me get too crazy about you, if you're going to pull a 'pish tush' on me, when I wax serious . . . will you Nina?" And Nina said: "I'm never an old meany, darling, and 'pish tush' Isn't in my vocabulary." "Is nuts'?" "Nor 'nuts.' " "You realize, of course, that you're practically accepting me this minute . . ." And she said, with mora feeling in r I i l TsWAMITOait MS.' 3 ' LVao CENTAVD. IftMfls of me i?iif MKS OF OLD posT OFFICE RECEIPT FORMS, il COlCMCUrA, WfiTEfZ $011 OR CARS bctt fcuis produces rtewyvJEiaflT boxing crthw? ft &m UM.f 6bCK IN Foo&ALL. ' rYM6M&6R OF THE INT6R4Crl0LrVC m-mtBtCfCLE KlvBR life v ' 2j- Ail-Around 8tr. Only 32, Murray Patrick, versatile athlt of Victoria. B. C, still has plenty of tlma to try out his talenU In tennlff. polo, swimming and cror quet. Thera aren't ao very many sports other than thene for htm to try hla mettle on for, strange as it fleema, he's proved hlnwlf a star In no leas than eight different sports already I Patrick started on his amazing athletic career by playing trasketball for his Bunday school at the r.ge of 11. Five yoara later he was -tarring as the youngest player In organized senior basketball, and three or four years ago whs chosen beat forward in Canau.n amateur basketball. Boxing is another "top" iport with the young Canadian. In 1935 he won his country's amateur heavyweight title. Later In the same year he won the Washington atate championship. In baseball. Patrick haa starred as catcher and fielder on Victoria, B. C. teams. His 1933 baseball playing end ed with a perfect fielding average. The same year, he played football for the Victoria Capitals in British Columbia's "Big 4" league. Young est player on the team, he ivos also the biggest yardage gainer. As a rugby player, Patrick played in the back field with several Victoria cham pionship teams. In (rack and field, - HfNaicbt SrndtMW, la he won the Victoria all-around high school championship two years in row. Today, In addition to being professional hockey player, Patrick also goes in for six-day bicycle riding, (olchluni Itulb. Set somewhere indoors where a lit tle light will reach It, the Colchlum bulb will produce six to 15 lovely lavender blossoms without water, soil or care. When through blooming thi bulb may be planted, dug up the fol lowing July and again used as an indoor plant. Tomorrow : The Chloroform Party 1 RAILWAY MAIL HEAD NAMED FOR DIVISION WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 AP Alvah L. Carr was named today by second assistant Postmaster Oeneral Harllee Branch to serve as assistant division superintendent of the railway mall service at Seattle, Wash. Branch appointed EArl L. March chief clerk for the service at Seward. Alaska. MINIMUM WAGES SET FOR SOVIET WORKERS MOSCOW. Nov. 3. (AP) Minimum wages for factory, railroad and water transportation workers were fixed to day at 110 rubles (957.60) to 115 rubles (959.18) a month by govern ment decree, exclusive of bonuses. It was estimated officially the in creases would amount to 600.000,000 ruble ($308,760,000) a vear. JOHNNY GOODMAN WINS MEXICAN GOLF CROWN MEXICO CITY, Nov.3 AP John ny Goodman. United States amateur golf champion from Omaha, Neb.. won the Mexican national amateur title today, routing Don Schumacher of Dallas. 6 and 5, in the 36-hoIe final- SHIMS WrtSEtf i fffoDY 1bTAOUrrfa. 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You're good for me." than she meant to: "You atick around, David Day. do you hear? You're good for mo. And she was sorry immediately. for David was no longer a medium-successful salesman of small cars, he was a king among men. Button, ol the dubious ancestry, was a full-blooded wolfhound, and they strode out Into the dusk with conquerors' tread. she turned round from the door, to And Richard looking at her from hair-way down the stairs. He had on a white tie and eve ning trousers, but a royal blue vel vet smoking Jacket instead of t tail coat He said: "I dressed early . . . thought we might whip up a cock tail, you and I. The old feeling of paxalysli came over her. "I've Just had two," she an swered, "but I think I could go an other." There were still enough mak ings for a fresh shakerful. in the living-room. (Copyright, it SI, Urgaret Bereog) Richard Inrrntt an errand to ba with Nina, tomorrow. W KILLED IN FALL WITH EX-1R FLIER BOSEVII.US, Mich., Nov. 8. (AH) A stunting airplane piloted by a man whoiw flying npcrlfnco wiian In the World War. crafhed here late yesterday, killing two perroni and injuring one. The dead were John T. Brltt. 63. ot Detroit, the pilot, and Dennis A. Keohanc. 34. Detroit aaleaman lor a Minneapolis smelting and rellntng company. Taken unconscious from the wreck age was Mrs. Florence Mauser, 41. ot BnaeTlile. Her husband, William, described her aa "always craty about flying." Department of commerce oftinali from Detroit began an Invemgation Immediately and took statements from several witness. BRITAIN WILL SIGN SPANISH TRADE PACT LONDON", Nov. S (API Britain Is about to complete negotiations, an Informed source said tonight, for a trade agreement with Insurgent Spain. The terms, which aro expected to bo announced "at an appropriate momrnt," would provide tor estab lishment of commercial missions In Britain which would have the rlpht to deal with the British department of overseas trade. tins t'teri nil AnlninK ISTANBUL. Turkey. I L'PIItan bu' 7Kllce are uslnft rules firing polaon gaa capsule In their campaign to rid the city of stray dot:s and cats The powerful gas anesthetizes the strays, which are rrtmved and pain leasly destroyed. WINDOW ot.ASS ws sell window jlaar ana anil replace rout broken winuun-i reasonably rrowbrtdga Cab Inst Works. TAILSPIN TOMMY "Cornered!" By HAL FORREST Tn the DimriG ROOM OF THE DUDE RAMCH, THE GUESTS ARE AT Dinr-iER, BUT ONE WOMAN IS TOO EXCITED TO EAT SEVERAL HOURS HAVE ELAP3ED SINCE THE DIS APPEARANCE OF tommy i Betty and pete, AND SHE THIMK3 SOMETHING SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT IT AT OMCE I S956 f lF VOU DONTj PLEASE DON'T7 V . I ll 7d PHONE THE . . U GET UP! ' I'LL 1 1 U SHERIFF ABOUT fflMV TELEPHONE. f "!, ! J , J HELLO, SHERIFF? BENTL.Y TALKING. COUPLE OF MY GUESTS AND A GUIDE DISAPPEARED IN THE iMOUMTAINS . A i us'ini him f laimimii n;i BETTER COME UP AND HELP US FIND 'EM, SHERIFF THAhKS ! 7 HATS FINE , benTuy! SAVES Ine IHE TROUBLE:. m L Wlllllllllilfl ' ' tittt; 1 Krfi BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER The "Conspirator." By EDWIN ALGER f v've ou.T sot to talk to Z J cuaa8 w,oowuy- kOB JAa0U AWD TrHC, 16 m OWt -J NUAT, HAVPEWtO? - CMAUCt WTH0UT TR A.t 3fi i paw asa.ii asmygTTVBi.W J-t J j AWO JUU6 HA 50T A J06 WTH TRA.t? VrJMy, that'6 a WRovie o' atwu 1VL Ml VOL! THOU6WT OF- J-" " I n t i ' -" ' , VJPLL iUVUUSV Tups- Al i-r'a. nM.Di. Ill TUB.tt OP Ui AB.6 Tn 1 Pe.vJnina. M Hii 6ft T06tTHtR. AT K f OKAV ml-A i-' V, WOUtl UrtiAS. tAUIAUT- I V L-l I W I rI II"- - m vssm'Tawasv' 1 I . V, J 1. & TUIT AI7 btf 9 I I THE NEBBS-Yon'U Never Know By SOL HESS PS CO VWIU. TWA-TOtsl LAST TWURSOAV OUST tXS EMMA VrOO ASlOLEV CAME TO JUDGE WlBUCkA COURT IM WALk.TD WIS ArJDSOVJ M.AROLEV. 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