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MEDFORD MATL TRTBUNE, MEDFOTCD, OT?EfiOX, WEDNESDAY, APKTL 2ft, 1338,
SPRING PRACTICE
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
Tot farther proof address the autior, Inclosing a stamped enrelope for reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Pat Off.
FERGUSON
fe
ilie Slory So Far: Judith Good
lot has the code of an old Mary
land family to ilv up to. Reuben
Oliver hoi wealth, and the ethici
: of hf own making. Desperately
lorlnp Judith. Reuben propoei
to her uihen the Goodloe Inancei
collapse. Gary Brent, the man
Judith lotiej, hat left her. Mar
rlafe to Reuben meant (tenpins
' the pleasant lle she has a!uai
known, so Judith accepts.
Chapter 14
Strangers To Each Oilier
THEY were engaged to be mar
ried. They had been engaged an
hour, these two who were almost
strangers. They had much to say
to each other, yet they said only
that which could not remain un
said. All the dear foolish inco
herences, the breathless mur
murs, the divinely silly personali
ties, were unuttered. If their hour
was less than perfect neither
seemed to notice. They were at
peace, sitting on the grass in the
naae or tne mapie.
From under long lashes, Judith
looked critically at her future hus
band at his lean brown hands,
his leaf-brown eyes with Inex
haustible wells of strength behind
them, at his firm mouth with its
elusive hint of gentleness She
wondered why she had ever
thought him amusing?
"He is wise," she decided, "but
he is guileless too. He is being
cheated" She said with brutal
frankness: "I don't love you you
know that.
"Why" he came back from
some far country, "yes, I know It.
He wondered how he could accept
it so calmly.
"I I really don't know you,'
half apologetically.
"Perhaps, when you do?"
"There Is someone else," dog
gedly.
Silence. A hawk flew over the
garden. It cast a dark shadow.
"Who?"
But he knew before she an
swered that it was Gary Brent. He
reflected that he should not dis
like Gary, since to his idiocy he
would owe his wife. But he did
dislike Gary. Intensely he disliked
him. The conceited ass! The dunce!
"I guess most girls imagine
themselves In love with Brent. He
has the thing women fall tor
small talk and flattery. You'll get
over it, gruffly.
"I'm afraid I won't. So If you
want to change your mind ?
"Nonsense! Did he want to stop
the sun from shining? Did he want
to shut all beauty from his life?,
He started to argue with her to
convince himself "You'll be
much better off with me. Brent
will never amount to anything
you'll see."
"That wouldn't matter, If he
loved me." simply.
If anyone had told htm in the
old days that he would want to
marry a cirl who did not love him!
A girl who was openly pining for
someone else. Where was his com
mon sense? Where was his self
respect?
"You're really being foolish,"
he persisted. "You're being a poor
business man too taking us on is
going to be fnahtrully expensive.
He turned to smile at her whim
sically, "I've always had to pay
pretty well, in one way or another,
lor everything I ever got." He
broke off a tiny sprig of the box
wood. It gave out a spicy odor be
tween his Angers. "Life is like that
my life. There's always been
a price."
She reflected watching him that
so far she had never been called
upon to pay for anything. She
reached out and took his hand.
His fingers closed over hers. The
sprig of box lay warm between
their palms a fragrant symbol.
He wanted to tell her that all the
kingdoms of the world would not
bo enough to lavish upon her, but
the words stuck in his throat, so
he just sat there Inarticulate and
happier than he had ever been in
his life.
Buying Her
SHE walked with him to the
gates. At parting his arms
closed around her. "I'm going to
love you so, Judith be so good to
you give you everything.
He kissed her full upon her red
lips and the power, the cleanness,
the beauty of his passion touched
her went surging through her,
not the pure ecstasy of Gary's
touch, but something that was
neither triumph nor humility, but
an odd blending of both.
Halfway home Reuben dis
missed his car and walked the re
maining mile ano a half across
green fields and through dim
woods.
He was going to marry Judith.
She beat in his heart like music
and ran like wild honey in his
veins. The fact that he was liter
ally buying her witr a boxwood
hedpe and sundry considerations
hardly registered upon his con
sciousness. His mind turned to ways and
means. It would take all of $200,
000 to straighten out old Mrs.
Goodloe's complicated affairs and
Jim's mesh of debts. Then, they
must have something to keep go-
ing on. No use to preach thrift and
economy to persons who did not
know the meaning of the words.
"Five hundred thousand dol
lars will do it," Reuben figured
mentally, "I have half of that
amount lying idle. I'll arrange for
the rest at the bank tomorrow."
He tasted in full the power of hii
money. The taste was sweet.
As he reached his gates Hugo
emerged from some bushes and
flung himself upon him.
"Well welll Did you miss me,
old timer?"
Hugo whined his delight.
The man felt a sudden need to
confide in someone. He went down
in the path, took the dog's head
in his hands, looked deep into the
adoring eyes. "She's coming to
live with us, Hugo. The princesi
out of the fairybook. '
His voice was a bit husky. Wor
riedly the dog licked the man's
face unsure whether his master
was happy or unhappy. Perhapi
Reuben aid not quite know either.
She did not love him
Judith, making her slow way to
the house with the measured
tread of a sleepwalker, was sur
prised to find that much of the
restless uncertainty that had been
her portion since Gary's depar
ture, had mysteriously left her.
She had saved Gran, Jim, the
hedge that was triumph. She had
saved herself from being one ol
those futile, boring women, who
die by inches, crying for a happi
ness that has eluded them She
loathed that type of woman. Mar
ried to Reuben Oliver she would
be a busy person. Important. Be
loved. Unconsciously she held her
head higher.
That evening, In Gran's own
bedroom she confided the news to
her. Casually, gayly, she confided
it.
"Wish me happiness, darling
and get ready to go shopping."
Mrs. Goodloe, at her desk, dog
gedly adding up a long column of
figures, as though in the end she
could beat them down, smiled ab
sently at the girl from harried
eyes. "Wait just a second, Judy
Fourteen thousand and twenty
nine plus six percent"
Playing A Part
WITH a sweeping hand, Judith
pushed the paper aside. Cap
tured the pencil. "Didn't I tell you
to wish me happiness, young wo
man? Where are your manners?
I'm going t o marry Reuben
Oliver."
For the first time In all the years
old Mrs. Goodloe failed to meet a
situation. She sat staring a long
moment, then collapsed in her
chair, repeating in parrot fashion:
"Going to marry Reuben"
hhe was still lauRhing shrilly
and crying feebly, when, an hour
tucked her in bed and put out the
light. When she closed the door
softly hur grandmother was de
manding over and over, to know
which was preferable to b
hangetf for a crime one did not,
commi, or to get a reprieve on
did no'i want?
Judith didn't know the answer.
In 'the morning Amanda was
quite herself.
1 h Goodlne-Oliver engagement
was n nine days wonder.
Mrs. John Walleston Unodlo
announces the engagement of her
granddaughter "
A choice morsel of news. A
young beauty of famous family
about whom romance hovered
with a capital R, was not to marry
Gary Brent after all. but Reuben
Oliver, a man from nowhere, who
had literally pulled himself up by
his bootstraps and whoso doubt
ful millions had grown quickly
and by devious ways.
Almost immediately Goodloes
Choice took on new life. Gay
house parties one after the other.
Guests arriving at all hours, de
parting at all hours. Reuben's shin
ing cars taking them thither and
yon to the city, to shops, to the
atres, to Gibson Island where his
yacht waited to steam down the
Chesapeake. The nights great
golden moon, shimmering sheet of
water were made for romance,
music, laughter and through them
all danced Judith, a stranger.
Not the old reckless, gipsying. un
thinking Judith, but a poised, care
ful person, an actress who had
stepped into a role and was con
sciously bending all her efforts to
lve a good performance that of
appy fiancee to an important
man.
Gary, the old longing, were
pushed Into the background. All
day and far into the night thera
was never a minute in which to
think. She gave such a clever imi
tation of perfect happiness that
even Reuben was deceived.
"She s forgotten Brent already.
he gloated, "she loves me."
Ann that was as it should be. He
felt not the slightest inferiority
where Gary was concerned. He
was a better match for Judith than
Gary Brent with his tumbledown
old house, his mouldy furniture,
his lack of ambition Gary accept
ed his poverty with me same smil
ing good nature with which he ac
cepted invitations. "I'm a go-get
ter a better man.
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CcNTURlES MO.-khOOO.OOO.OCC
IN WWOW IS
Burled Treasure.
Captain Kldd. Sir Henry Morgan
and all other pirates of hlatory uero
"pikers" alongside of the United
States government as far as hiding
money Is concerned.
Strange as It seems, the govern
ment does with Its gold exactly what
pirates of old did they bury HI
; While pi rate plunder was oftlmes In
terred on a lonely Islet, significantly
'- marked by a notched tree of other
Indication, todny gold bullion Is stor
ed, away In Impregnable underground
faults at Fort Knox, Kentucky. There
11 $6,000,000,000 In gold. about onc
iialf of the world's total supply!
I The Fort Knox wh rehouse is ne
1 itoved to be the most Invulnerable
nulldlrm In the world. Its vast vaults
low ground nra proofed Against
everything from termites to bombs
Secret devices known only to high
government officials make a raid
there a virtual Impossibility.
Previously, the nation's gold hne
been stored away In Philadelphia
New York and other federal vaults.
Director of the Mint, Nellie Tayloc
Ross, supervised the mailing by par
cel post of the gold bricks to Port
Knox early In 1037.
Oprnuinj's Suit murine.
Submarines, a decade before the
World war, wero little thought of as
war weapons by Germany, yet every
other world power had realized what
possibilities they held.
The United States. France, Russia,
Greece, Turkey, Sweden, Japnn. Aus
tria, Norway, Holland, Portugal, Spain,
Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Great,
Britain all had "subs" before Ger
many. Germany did build and experiment
with two submarines In 1890. but not
until 1906 were they seriously at
tached to the imperial navy. Then,
strange as It seems, Germany led the
world In their use as Implements of
war.
Soon after the declaration of war
the German admiralty decided to
utilize them to Intercept Allied trans
ports running the English Channel.
Warfare with U-boats really began
with the sinking of the British cruis
er "Pathfinder," a month after the
war started 'irst British warship
sunk by a submarine.
Tomorrow: The bird of war!
w . H. Stemmer were Indicted by the
fda county grand Jury today on
! tftaarges of misuse of public moneys
I la connection with two north Idaho
! md contracts.
Each was released on 91,000 bond.
STATE MB ACT
OF IIABIES CASE
8ALKM. April U0.(Al1 A decree of
Judge Jacob Kanzler of Portland,
holding the i935 Oregon aprlcultuml
market Ing act unconstitutional, was
reverArd Tuesday by the state supreme
court In a four to two decision.
The high court, dismissing (he
suit brought by 10 creameries against
Solon T. White. Mate director of wrl
culture , ruled t!ia. the question ol
con'tttulloualitv of the act was not
befo"-" th- eourt. asserting that th
qu-"':l'in lll (y reserved for decunn
Ucn u leiual controversy txlata.
The creameries sought to have the
law declared invalid on the grounds
that It Injured their business. Ihe
law empowered the director of HRrl
culture to maintain balance between
maiketlng and consumption of (ttrm
product, to limit production, to con
trol tar:n urphi5es, to fix prices, to
specify unfair trndc practices, and to
regulate price sprrnria to proee.-isors,
hsndlt-io and distributors.
GRAVE CREEK GRANGE
MAJORITY FOR PERRY
OH ANTS PUS. April 30 Oravs
Crrek Oram, reported todny that B.
W. Prrry ot Hol RIvit received 1 nil
but one vote" tor etate master The
number of votei waft not reported.
ex-idaoo7fTcTaTs
under indictment
noi.r IdAh-v April 20 FVr
mer Public Works Com ml winner a R
MiKe.tt) uU Sute H.hy Dueaor
Phone 263. Odelio Osborne A est ot
jlosalle Leslie for a spring permanent
Jld ley's Salon of Beauty.
FIND FARMER'S BODY
IN RIVER NEAR PEEL
ROSEBURG, April 20. (fp) Tho
body of W. H. Mather, 60, Peel farmer
drowned Monday night when a farm
truck driven by his son, James 21,
plunged Into Little river, nt Pall creek
bridge. 18 miles east of Rosoburg, was
recovered Tuesday afternoon.
The body was found In shallow wat
er about a quarter of a mile below the
scene of the tragedy by boatmen who
started dragging the swift, swollen
stream after diver Mike Sklorenko of
Marshfleld reported Mather was not
pinned in the cab as previously be
ll c-ed.
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By HAL FORRES
Tommy amd skeets
aare at the. home
of jerry swift, in
an attempt to
LEARN IF AffYONE
OTHER THAN JERRY
MAD MANAGED TO
OBSERVE CLOSELY
THE. MODEL PLANE,
WHICH THE LAD
HAD BUILT PROM
THE THREE POINT
PILOTS' plans
WHICH WERE STOLEN
BV THE WEASFL'5
GANG .
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MYSELF KNOWS fl THE MAN
about this plane! A look like,
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BUY IT FROM MEnlflSK-y
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