Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 14, 1937, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextPaK3iT TEN TirEPFOKD MATT, TRTBT7NE, MEDFORD. OTtKOOy, SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1937 (cmvanu WASTED BREATH By GLUYAS WILLIAMS ' t STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor farther proof address the author, teelostnr a stamped enTelope for reply. Reg. V. .8. Pat Oft By MARCARET CUtON HERZOG V V The Caac-i.tro 1 don t teei serious and dramatic tonight" Celebrating THEY took elaborate pains with their dressing, for this first date as a married couple. Nina wanted David to be proud of her. She brushed her hair until it shone. She put on her lipstick carefully, just enough, and not too much. And no high-colored nail polish for David. She just had a feeling he might not like it. And she wanted ... so terribly to please, to make ud to him In everv Nla is trying to eicape from Iwr desperate love or her ttep , other by marrying David. Blehsrd, the charming, well ' tailored ttepather, return! her Iocs and resents her marriage. Honey, Wlna's gay, plump, youthful mother, I crazy about Xichard, her recently acquired ftuiband. Dirld, a young auto talesman mho adoret JVina, elopei with her at Nina'e tuggestion. Chapter 19 'You're Poor Now, Baby VTINA and David drove to the Pickwick Arms, In Green wich. Then David became unexpect edly serious for a moment "Darling, no matter how nas- 3T ?U5l4 0flHfc IN KlTB-FMHQ SIMM'S FOR foWBAU. PRAC-tlCE, MCfoER CAUr lN61b"fAKE HIS HEAVY SWEMER lAONcHES IMMEplAmV INTO AUfHEArSOMElOi'S HECArXriiNkor Why HEPOESrW NEEP If ARSUMEHfS PR0!rl6 USEIKS, TRIES SVMfWbV BVPulKiN6 flOf SWEATER IS WAV UPSTAIRS AND HE UrfE AlREAW MOThER EOTAINS TOR 1trl1rlflE5HEWArh'5 HIM 1b HAVE If ALOWS -tbTlrt' OM In Ol5EHE!5 HOTAfEftPflrPRAC-flCE way for her disloyalty. The dress she chose made David open his eyes wide. It was simple black crepe, trickily cut here and Ifljr I may think your stepfather put it, he's right in one thing. I'm not up to you. I know it, and I want to do everything in my pow er to pull myself up and be worthy M you." She tried to stop him but he went on: "Somewhere In my make-up I have a finer sensibility or two, and I realize all the splen did things about you, Nina," he Mid simply, "I I worship you." ., He looked at her with all the worship he felt in his eyes. Nina regarded his fine, clean aut face and thought, "I should bate Richard. 1 should hate him." And then she was in David's' arms. The next morning, David had a tew things on his mind. "It seems a vile thing to men tion, Mrs. Day, but we really Ought to think of plans, a little . you ought to wire vour mother. oughtn't you? I've only got one oia groucny uncie in Syracuse to bother about. And we ve got to eciae wnat to ao witn ourselves." Suddenly, David looked over Whelmed at something. "Gosh, Nina, do you realize that fou're poor now, baby, poor?" ' Nina laughed at the concerned .expression on JJavlds face. I knew a nursery rhyme, once, vat said: Toor in . . . something or other, Rich in . . . something MM. "Well, now, that's quite eom fcrtlng, Isn't it?" No Honeymoon "TVAVID, having you has made J me rich in a lot of things. Let's forget about the money." 'T'hat's the trouble, when you're fa my state you can't forget about It I don't like to look a wedding in the mouth, as it were, but this room is costing me an awful lot of money . . . Could you forego a honeymoon, Nina, and get a little apartment right away?" "Of course! We could honey moon anywhere. . . . It'll be fun. getting a tiny place. Can you get a few days off?" David said he could. When David was nAvfntf the hotel bill, Nina sent a wire to her anotner. LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGH TER she wrote. HAVE JUST tARRlED A HANDSOME YOUNO AN WITH COPPER COLORED AIR. NAME OP DAT. YOU'LL ADORE HIM. RICHARD IN PAR OXYSMS OF RAGE. SO SOOTHE HIM. DARLINQ, I AM VERT HAPPY. WILL WRITE DETAILS LOVE AND LOVE, AND THEN OMEJ. NINA DAT. w 1 Iff mill ii m i v m i IB Ml, V 1 I jjttiiu r)n' ft it Nina and David took elaborate pains with their dressing. there to fit Nina's slim waist, and to flare, ever so slightly at the hem. It was expensive simplicity, but David couldn't know that. "You should wear black a lot, Wouldn't Honey be surprised! ?n.gel'D-Wuaa 2" he sn.id' H,wa,s? ' They motored back to town in fefe, hard ' ' ' n0t bit 1,ke ffce ramshackle, borrowed car. . . u j . L . and there seemed nothing to do But fm her tasseled turban, to but go to another hotel-! cheap t?L ihSinl. Z SffiJl?' C0UW ' P,a" Srack?nn11kn5ehwn,tnhataSevervt k i oullnf- Thev watched the meter li'J" nwerjn 1 having a eagerly, and once when they were lurge for one night and go to to get out and walk, but David SJh?lf.r- wouldn't let her. "Next time you make up your But it wasn't all fun and joking, mtad to marry me, ' he told Nina, After the revue, which had been e fr.1ah.ead ?' tlme- Just exactly what they wanted to Id do it Just the ,ame way see. and they were on their way If ain, she said blithely, "so you'd home In another taxi, David held better get used to being swept off her close. y"r '" "Do you love me, dear?" he waviw rmiiuicu ner nair, anaiasKea. kissed her. "I'll never get used to the Idea of your being In love with me. It's too wonderful to be true." Nina felt a pang of guilt at that, pear David. ... He must never know. She began to talk quickly . . . making a noise to shut off her thoughts. "Where are we going? Shall we be gay and musical, or serious and dramatic? Orchestra, or second balcony? Formal or overyday?" "We 11 compromise," said David. "We'll sit in the first balcony, but take a taxi. That will get us off to good start And let's see a revue. Nina mumbled InrnlieronHv Intn his ear. She couldn't trust herself to words. Then David kissed her slowly, and sweetly. "David, darling. . . , You're so definitely yourself!" and Nina trembled a little. David and Nina started right in the next morning to look for an apartment. (Coptrrtaht. int. Uargaret tteriot) David and Nina gamble on an partmrnl, tomorrow, and Nina solves the furnishing problem. IN ALLOTS COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (UP) While other municipalities are going through their annual drives tor community chest charity funds, true community of 30.000 will enjoy a "breathing spell" In the knowledge that a full program of aid will go forward without the need of con tributions. The city administration stepped Into the oharlty situation with the offer to provide the full S'0.000 goal out of city surplus funds. The otfer came as generals, cap tains and business men workers ol the community chest drive prepared to amk fundi In a campaign they kaew would be difficult. Merchant lately have felt 'the Weight of tales Usee, social secur ity taxes and other ievlee by the state and federal government and when the city relieved them of the charity burden they hailed the move aa a welcome "breathing spell." The city's action aa announced by Mayor Roger T. Sermon waa made pofl&lhle by the administra tion's development of a H.000,000 municipally owned electric light plant and the careful husbanding of the plan a Income. Since the first of the year the council hss been enabled to reduce city taxee from 0 to e mills on ' e v I valu ation, saving the taxpayers approxi mately S30(WV and has been ame to put Into effect a 10 percent re duction of light bills paid oelore delinquency, a saving of $34 000. Maintenance of street without direct taxation and an appropria tion of 141.000 for civic Improve ments also have been accompllaned through the light plant earnings and economical government. Mayor Rermon aald: "The city administrate n. the civic relief commission and the cenerais In charge of the charity drive feel that our charity need can be fi nanced without hurrtnln the work, era with the coioeaal ti5k of rnismg t20or,o. Our generous fltlwns wtll be given what they ask and deserve UrNanrM fradcaU. be PrTO'0ft- ; Wfeccwsrt football immortal, MM b toL-YMP DROP KICK IN hZNCMSTorVA k. Northueshrn, ' III .v' wfJmr I 1 : WW MHO Kink ofPenmafk, 9H fil40N$ I t ! r.rll.0Rr:M... touted r?M "tv.r u ii Father of, Kln?. A father of kings was old Svend Eatrld5en. ruler of Denbark from :047 to 1076. Five of his sons followed him to the throne In one of history's most remarkahle succession of rulers. Svend Estrldsen's sons and the years of their reigns were: Harold Heyn. 1078-10BO; St. Knut. 1080-1086: Olaf. 1086-10D5; Erik. 1095-1103; and Niels. 1105-1135. Kite-Frying Pilots. Highest possible aeronautical flight rating In the world Is that of master of ocean-going flying boats. And atrange aa It seems, these master pilots, regularly employed on the trans-Pacific run of Pan American Airways' Clipper ships, must perfectly pass an examination In klte-flylng before they can get their rating I No ordinary kite, the "PAA K-6" kite they fly Is designed to carry aloft an emergency radio antenna when the Clipper la on the water. Never yet used on any of the larger Clippers, the special kite antenna was employed ln broadcasting report of the solar eclipse of last June from the Phoenix Islanda. Subject to international laws regu lating all ocean craft, the Clipper ships carry almost Identical emergen cy equipment to that of ,iasscnger steamers. Including life -Bfts. fog -13-37 warning, flares, otc. At least (our men of the trans-Paclflo crews on all Clippers are qualified steamship pi lota 1 Snowstorm Drop Kick. One of the greatest kickers football has ever known, Pat O'Dea. trade some astounding records during the late '90s at Wisconsin university. Most remarkable, porhaps, of all O'Dea's feats was his 62-yard drop kick ln a snowstorm still standing as the second longest drop kick ever made. Against Illinois, In 1899. he kicked a 57-yard goal from placement, the ball continuing for a total of 70 yards and soaring clear out of the ball park. a breathing spell. The city gov ernment is In position this year to render this service to its citizens despite some unusual other services and an appreciable tax reduction. We are therefore happy to announce there will be no charity drive." Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads Is 1 :30 p. m. 4 Use Mall Tribune wont ads. RESUME SERVICE AFTER WEST PACIFIC WRECK PtrLOA, Calif.. Nov. 13. (API Service waa resumed today on the main line of the Western Pacific railroad, but wrecking crews still sought the body of Fireman L. C. Charboneau. believed killed when the line's eastbound scenic limited was wrecked by hitting a two-ton boul der in the track yesterday. Engineer Harry Potee was killed and his body recovered from a pile of rocks. The locomotive and mail car tumbled 400 yards down a can yon wall. Nine cars remained on the tracks. The 100 passengers were not Injured. Phone 543. We'll haul away your refuse, city Sanitary Service. OPEflS DODR 1b PROVE fdSN'fA WCOIV OR RAW OUT icy blast sweeps im. closes Poor hasTiW amd abandons -mm" argument MAKES ONE LAST 'DRA MATIC. APPEAl 60E5UP1ASAUAL0r.& HE kwew hed have To, and 6ES SWEATER WHICH MOTriEfa KNOWS HE WOnIT WEAR ii25is ii- (Oopyright, 1MT, by The Bell tfrmlicste, loo.) 3 MATTER POI By 0. M. PAYNE TVoiKia f Am' I"iSUoW ) I Comc -HeT26-J el s." . ) ami Copyright, 1937, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) lcUV' 'sij TAILSPIN TOMMY The Fugitives Oet a Shock I By HAL FORREST ' BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER The Hail! By EDWIN ALOES KBauvRsie, we're w ATouau1 6?OT WOVrJ-WE'P BETTER. 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