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MEPFOTil) M ATL TRTBUNT, MTEDFORD. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 17, 1937. P'ACIB TEN A BOY AND HIS NAPKIN By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor farther proof address the author, mdotrnc fc stamped envelope for reply, Reg. U. 8. Pat OS. ly MARGARET CUION HEKZOG if The Character. Nina hoe married David, trying to eicap her interne low lor her ftepather. Richard, the charming, well tailored itepather, tried to pre . vent her marrtepe. Boner, Nina't gay, plump, . youthful mother, ie mild about Richard, her recently acquired hueband. . David, a bright young auto ealeeman who worships Nina, hat (loped with her at Nina'e tug '1 gettlon. Chapter 22 Cordelia'! Black-Tie Party . THROUGHOUT dinner, and lat ar, Nina talked said things but (he couldn't remember what, afterward!. Only the part of- her brain that made her tongue move, warn working properly. The rest of her was a solid mass of longing and, yes, jealousy, too. She ached so, for the feel of . Richard, his arms ... his lips, that it was sheer agony: and when he held Honey close to him she felt Dear to hating her mother. IT a v id's handclasp his arm around her, could bring no com fort now. only more hurt At the end of the meal, when Honey, all unwittingly, suggested that they leave the two men to gether (or a while. Nina de murred . . . David spoke with engaging frankness of his turning Nina into a "homebody." ' "Oh, we don't want to be formal with grooms! ' But the real reason was that she didn't want to be alone with Honey; didn't want to have to talk ally and intimately about her own travesty of a marriage, with Honey who was so wildly happy, in hers. ' Nina thought: "This is sort of the -end, I guess." She could never feel quite the same with her moth er now. That night when David had fallen asleep beside her, she lay for a long time, thinking . . . think ing. And the thing that would come p in her mind, the question that kept insisting itself, was1 this: did Richard love her still? What had been in those dark yes, when he looked at her across the table? Had he meant to cover her hand with his when he reached to refill her cocktail glass? In spite of all her arguing with herself, nothing could change the one thing that she wanted most of all, right now: that he should love her. Nothing could be gained by It; ft was wicked, and didn't "make sense" as she told herself over and over . . , but there it was. He must love her or she simply couldn't live. In the days that followed, Nina was able to overcome her aversion to being alone with Honey, somo what; but her mad feeling about Richard went rieht on. She made no excuses for herself, and she fought it and she doubled up on her efforts to make David happy . . , but it went richt on. "Please love me. Richard. Please. Meeting Nina's Friends pORDELIA gave a very festive dinner-party for Nina and Da vid, during which David survived the evident curiosity of his wife's friends, most creditably. Nina was both pleased and amused that one or two of the girls remembered him from Cordelia's party, in the autumn. . He spoke with engaging frank ness of his career as an automo bile salesman, and of his turning Nina into a "home-body." From their delighted laughter, Nina suspected that some of them thought he was fooling; but she Offer Gang Buster $150,000 Film Job HOLLYWOOD. Nov. 17. (AP) I! Tbomaa C. Dewey, gang buater and district attorney-elect of New York, want, to pick up alftO.OOO, he ran do It In Hollywood. Grand National studio said today that it had offered Dewey that sum to play the hero In a motion picture having to do with catching and con victing gangsters. KLAMATH RELIEF NEEDS SHOW SUDDEN INCREASE KLAMATH. 4ov. 17 (AP) Ml UuO 9f, oonjity relis director, tocUy re port 50 par cent lnrrw in re lief application! ovr lfnt month. Dudley believed the alt Mutton wi due hugely to -raAonnl rixMlne In (arm ad InduiitrUl nprrnt'onft. Cat Mali nib oil) wtat ad. didn't care. And she loved him for not trying to seem to be any thing that he wasn't. The difficulty of dress had been surmounted by Cordelia's saying: "Black ties" to all the men, because she suspected David didn't own a tail coat She said it to David, too, when they were discussing the party . . . and, instead of saying: ''All right." he said: "Swell 1 don't own anything but a tuxedo . . ." And on account of that very small fact, Cordelia had congratu lated Nina again, later, for choos ing such a grand person for a hus band. "He's real, Nina. He's a per son." And Nina agreed. "He's a very cute somebody, and I adore him." She did. The next event on their social calendar was very different. Two of David's friends Gracia Nolan, and Jack Knight had ar ranged a little dinner in their honor. Knight was another salesman who worked in the same show room as David; and Gracie had worked there in the past as a pri vate secretary. Jack thought that Gracie was his girl. Gracie thought otherwise . . . but they got on pretty well, in spits of the difference of opinion. Off Come Two Bracelets NINA gave some thought to tht matter of what dress she should wear to the party, and de- elded on a Sunday evening sort of costume, of burgundy velvet ... It had a medium nigh neckline, and a suspicion of a sleeve. Without its perky velvet hat and nose veil, it was almost a dinner dress. "Come in at seven . . . there will be six of us," Gracie had said over the telephone. Nina was frankly puzzled. Bevond the statement that the men were not dressing, David had been no earthly good to her; so without being the least bit snob bish Nina decided it would be in better taste not to run any risk of seeming to be putting on the dog. Before they started, David took her by the shoulders, and grinned at her. "Now listen, baby . . . I'm not making any excuses, because I wouldn't have these people for friends if I didn't likc'm . . . but remember, the Social Register never heard of these gals and boys. They're the people I met when I came to New York . . . iust a fresh kid from Syracuse . . . the only people I'd get a chance to meet See what I'm getting at. sweet heart?" He grinned again. "They're a little . . . dilTerent. that's all. Simpler than your friends." Nina said of course she under stood and was dying to meet them; and she went into the bedroom promptly, and took off two brace lets and one ring. She left on her slender gold wedding-ring, and the single strand of exquisitely matched pearls her father had given her. That was all right. They would probably think they were false, anyway. They took the bus to Grade's apartment 116th St and River side Drive. Nina had been presented to the Court of St. James: she had passed before the critically scrutinizing gaze of the patronesses of the Jun ior Assemblies; she had. in short been put through many tests that required social poise and tact . . . but tonight as she entered the grille-work lift with David, she was really afraid. (Copyright, ttil. Maroartt Rtrttff) N'lna aeadjutta her Ideas about Grade before the party le over, to morrow. Price on Turkeys Shows Slow Gain PORTLAND. Nov. J1. (AP TurKey offertnpa from the country were alow ly pninlnR todny wlt-h an Improved market. In spot the price on hena haA been advanced i cent by buyer with the payment of 3 centa for No 1 birds. Torrw remiln senernlly 314 centa. making tle current premium on hena one of the largeM aeen hers. jilhrr Northern Cnlllornla: Omerally cloudy tonight and Thunday, ahow. era In rxtrrmo northwrat portion and over mountain tontht; cooler aoutti portion tonight; modrrato wt and northwest wind off coast. Oregon: llneettled tonight and rhuraday, ahovrrs In meat portion to night and local anoa-f over mo-.in talna. amiewhut lower temerature In extreme northra.t portton tonight; mcdrrata wlud off coaau i.m zl- . m in i x v w i COINED ifeNftWe FROSV, -foe CtfttKCHMS," &ECf)lZ HE COULP NoT UHPERSThNO ff ficDONS A lift AlleS I . NfiTURES WEIRDEST IllUf ION, T7( J Naming of Gas. Strange as it seems, the nctual dis covery of gaa was made by a 10th century alchemist Jean BapttAte Van Helmont. while he waa decidedly a mystic believing in the philosophers stone, transmutation of mercury Into gold and other medieval- vagaries Van Helmot was capable oY scientific observation and reasoning. He had observed that when coal burned away It left only an insig nificant residue of cinders. Prom this- he concluded that the rest of the coal had disappeared In a vola tile form, which helcalled "wild as." "This spirit that la contained in vessels, but that cannot be reduced to a visible body, I called by a new name Qas," Van Helmont wrote of his experiment. He borrowed the Channel pilot Dlea WALMBR, England. Nov. 17. (jp)- Captain Harry Pearson, 73, who pilot ed many swimmers across the Eng lish channel and sometimes was call ed the father of channel swim ming, died today. Among . those he guided were Eaward Temme, only man to swim the channel ln both TAILSPIN TOMMY "Dirty Weather Aheadl" AFTER BEMTLY AMD HIS EVIL COHORTS HAD BEEM TAKEM INTO CUSTODY BY THE SHERIFF, TOMMY AND BETTY- LOU FLEW BACK TO THREE-POINT. AND AS THE SCEME NOW OPfMS WE FIMO TOMT1Y AND SKEET3 IM THE AILEROM CAFE DISCUSSING THE AFFAIR WHILE THEY WAIT FOR THEIR TRANSPORT TO BE DOLLIED OM THE MARQUEE. BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER THE NEBB3 You Tell Him, rOMtBOOV TR.VU' LTIB'Rt OM THE AAAIU THeR6' 1 f LET HE 60, ( H6V,. PHOOEY SSs TO ?X A. FAST OWt l&jtf UUt MOW-BUT HOW'RE U DiW(5 g. BEM' TtP feSJ- f VOL) I - PROM US c Kid "3n.vJCrV NOOCi AUfVS BRUCE A?OLEV, IS STlU. IVJ TDWKl TO STRMauTDd OUT fv. FEW BusiNjess MATTERS BF.FORE LEAVIKJG I OUlT I LEAVE. (TWiNJK TRVlM' V 1 lk.VU OF 10,000. il-iS mm tz l.mwmm - name from the Greek word, "chaos," because he suspected gaa to be In the confused state of primordial mat ter. It remained for later observers to find that gas behaves In a wall-regular manner, and not as Van Helmont had supposed. Mirages. Many a thirst-maddened desert traveler has been victimized by one of nature's diabolical disappointments the mirage. Lured on over scorch ing sand toward a vision of cool, lapping water and shady trees only to have the vision disappear, pros pectors find Instead another stretch of sand under a sea of shimmering heat waves. Yet, strange as It seems, these directions, and T. W Burgess who crossed the channel In 1911. Death Driver Indlrted ASTORIA,' Nov. 17. Faville Hanks, charged with driving a car which struck and killed Mrs. Jose phlne Hagman, 62, here October 15. was under grand Jury indictment for "And Many of Them!" WHILE YOU WERE AT WHAT'S So LEMME FINISH ! jl TH' DUDE RANCH A EKCITINQ THIS COWHAND - 111 COWBOY, HUNTIN FOR I I ABOUT FOUND TH Vm i n 1 1 1111 in i. iM'i'M'' STRAYS ALONG TH V THAT? CHARRED REMAINS feab; 1 sspil reg'lar air route, ) -ar of a "chute 1 y-so seuRE eoiu' to f l i-s NOUR UOB AlOO OC THOSE BONOOS TDLtJtsJl 5HOUU5 VOU AJOULO 4FTci TO GYP A POOR KCCl - Tlvr. CA.L raJT. H SIN-gMlN3 WP6 ONCe ft PROflOH IN ft&LrW ANP SCOU&NO.- WOULD EOT ft CRLrSTCf - ftNO DRINK f BovJLOpftlt PERSONS Or ftllTHelR STATES OP THE U;S. fttr&ND NORTH W:- op-me Y lake Erie "ghost lakes" are real enough to be photographed! First mirage ytctures ever believed taken were obtained In 1929 In Africa by Manor and Mrs Court-Treatt. The mirage la an optical Illusion, caused by refraction or reflection of light rays passing through varying layers of atmosphere. Images of far distant objects are made to appear near at hand, or are seen Inverted or reflected and raised In the at mosphere. Most famous mirage Is the "Fata Morgana," often seen In the Straits of Mesilna, In which men, .hips, houses, etc., are seen In various dls torted positions. Tomorrow: The First Candid Cam era. Involuntary manslaughter today. He was released on 2,ocO ball. Gets 7-Polnt Elk PENDLETON, Nov. 17.-rp) Wesley Townsend, Elgin, reported the record bull elk, a 7-polnter with an antler spread of 59 Inches. RoeED I DtUEVt -fl lAv v 1 1- 1 IT" 1 DONJ'T 5ELOX3IWS5, 8EUEVES rrlf T NJOllTl aICTO fl-lMFA KUUCCU l - BACK W TV. hM-nla h. a r 1.1 II N k. II X 1 1 VJ S II II U I- ry I II I I aW I V II -Law-1 T r-i J UNFOIDS NAPKIrl, MCrfrlER CftUllONIrte FflMlW BE fl FOL BECAU5E TflBVE ClDIi) ANP NAPKIWS ARE CIEAH 0WV - rJOliCK PRESENTLY frlKT SOME- HOW ALL THE CRANBERRY JEUY HEAW FOR HIS BAT) GOT ON HIS NA.PKIN l-li 'MATTER POF IT- -riE. i)AW vr-ii I . ll I FT a. I aaT ' "- IF" NOU 'J4T - rr II II . I l i I if ) (T) V Te,tT aJtriJI w4AT?y t' " T j i Come. "Do 1 9 J uOS JfJ "Zr ' al l o N f &'YA us' kT-I m-n vyi a .hdm While urfEU Bis- COtJErlSIWM' NAPKIrl HAS GCf 0M FLOOR AMP UNDER W5 FEEf FlrJlSHES BEFORE THE OTHERS AND AMUSES H1M5ELF KRAC- TiClNS A KNOT TRltX Wttrl NAPWM (Copyright, 1997, by Tht BeW Syndicate, Inc.) hello! here's N WAL YOU DONT NEED THAT CLUE TO PROVE BENTLY A LOW AREA MOVING IN US GUESS MURDERED WELL HAVE HIS wife! j DIRTY WEATHER On INTfl DENVER .' WOSOOV ROS3ED ( -Nk. US DENVER.' ) JUST TOOK OMETWINJ' A.LUAV THAT DIDMT BELOMS TO NOU. DONJT TH1N1K. 1 DID IT CAUS. IMA MERVOUS , - F A UY WITH A. UKJ V A-S1EEOEO WO TRJA.l.OUST t7 PICKS rTUP AND SURBEPfiHouaS' MOPSUPWHH ffTrlE LARGE B1.0B Of 6RAVY ME 5PIUEP MEAL EHD5. CAREFduV foEBS NAPKIN wiih lllhin oivtuyi) 50 THAT IT L0OK5 AS TRtn AS THE OTHERS By C. M. PAYNE By HAL FORREST ON By EDWIN ALGER By SOL HESS NOU-TWEV - NOL VWOULDNJ'" iSKWaoaWfew CoCa
