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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MATL TRTBUNE, MEDFOTID, QREGOy. TUESDAY, APRIL 26. 1938. PAGE ETGHT SUBURBAN HEIGHTS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tar further proof addreu the author, Inclosing stamped envelops for reply. Keg. U. 8. Pat Off. 'ilie Story So Far: Lou..., . .. one Ise, aristocralie J u d 1 1 i Goodloe hat just married ReuOen Oliver self-made man and out sider or hit money. Desperate- , ly in ioue with Judith and hoping aoatrut hope, Reuben hasn't told her that hit fortune it evaporat ing. The fatal telegram arrive! during the ceremony, and Citsv Ropers, who loves Reuben, holdt it back. Then Reuben readt it. With ear in hit heart, he tells Judith. drama in which thero was no line acting, no elaborate atage letting, lighting, propa or trick. Blood hammered in Judith'i ears. He was offering to take her j back to free herl It percolated throuch her brain slowly, while a shamed color stained her face. So that was the type he thoueht herl A cheap gold digger. "You probably mean well." icily, "but you're insulting me." He thought: "I've done it again! Another blasted code." If she didn't S BLANCHE jp'" G"SON - I 7r 3 in , ii Chapter 19 Real Life Drama AS Reuben faced his wife he re alized a man needs all the love woman can give him all the confidence. He felt it in this mo ment He was destined to feel it with the cruel keenness of a double-edged sword in many, many moments. Studying his stricken face, Ju dith remembered that she must not Judge him by her own standard. She as a Goodloe. Gnodloes were good sports. He had fulfilled liii, promise. She owed him the very roof above her She said with a fine show of in difference: "It doesn't matter, really, one way jr the other." "Doesn't matter?" Doubting his ears, even as he was doubting his integrity, "Doesn't matter?" "No." The burden of all the world dropped from him. H- stooped and istSff IIS J 1 1 . if "Pr Ci"y-' Poor - mL9 J UWfM. ben! Poor me!" WmmfMiA kissed her gently. Then aealn not so gently with all his heart's hunger. He said on a note of pity It would be bad enough II vou loved me. Judy." Judith said: "We must go back to our guests." In a hideous walking nightmare ne louowea ner. in this, the first hour of their lives together it was she who had been strong. The thought jangled discordantly in his brain. "I've got to let her go She will want to go " Only Cissy noticed that he was not ouite the same man who had left the dance. Cissy noticed it with 1 great tearing at her heart.. Her eagle was being forced down to earth. Wings clipped. Courage singed. She looked at Judith, radi ant and poised, and knew not only Jealousy, but actual hatred. Discarded? FROM the top of the stairway, 1 . the bride turned and tossed her bouquet to tha expectant rainbow of the bridesmaids, who stood looking up with avid outstretched Jeweled hands. Only Cissv stood apart, making no effort to catch the white shower. J idith, seeing, no longer wondered. Cissy loved Reuben. "Poor Cissy! Poor Reuben! Poor me!" It was all a queer Jumble. Amid a shower of rice, confetti, old shoes, she went away. "Goodby Gran, darling Jim--" "Wr'te often, Judv " "Isn't she the lucky girl, going around the world?" "Send me a spaniel from Japan," omenne shouted. "I like white jade, Judy It's lucky, you know." Dodging rice Reuben rlimbed In the car beside her. The door slammed. They went whirling away through the night. When the home gates were be hind them, young Mrs. Oliver, brushing rice from her smart blue suit, shaking out her silver fox scarf, looked at her u.i.iband In the critical manner of one scan ning a stace figure through an opera glass. The play was end d. The curtain was about to be rung down. There was a hint of weari ness in her voice. "That's that! Now what?" Reuben said with curious de tachment, "If you're wife, vou'll let me take you right back to Goodloe's Choice--to your grand mother." And Immediately tho curtain was rolled up again, on a real life go back he'd be breaking one af ter another all his life. He said wearily: "It will be easier " "To go back on my wedding day- -discarded?" "It wouldn't be that. It Isn't as though you cared." "They would know," with un conscious cruelty, "that you're nol what vou pretended to be." "They'll know it anyhow." Her eyes narrowed. They re minded him of Amanda's eyes. "They won't guess you fooled me (00." He was too bewildered to resent all she implied. He said: "It's a big sacrifice to make for pride." I ve made a bigger one." Married For Life THE car rushed through the night. Air, sweet with the tang of ripened apples fanned them. In the east a star sho'. Judith looked out of the window. Reuben looked straight ahead with unseeing eyes. ne was not winning of her or of her words that hurt, like a too heavy hand upon a raw sore. He was planning how to come back. Unconsciously he was exhila rated by the prospect of getting Into a flcht again taking off his coat, rolling up his sleeves, ham mering his way brack. But for thi girl at his side, he would not have been the least unhannv. If she loved him he could take a licking cnin up laugh it ott In their drawing room, enroute to New York, the wall of ice be tween them melted or rather Ju dith knocked it down. She was Goodloe the habit of a lifetime of generations, doas not vanish at one Blow. Courtesy was a primary law. Good sportsmanship a car dinal virtue. "It's silly for us to start out thi? way, Reuben. We're married for life and I come of hardv stock.' she laughed almost in the old way "I might live to be as old as Gran! She held out thi stead, smal1 brown hand that wore the new wedding ring. He forgot that he was broken humiliated, unloved. He forgot i! he ever knew, tht polish, culture breeding can control human be havior to such an extent that a! except the most canny are de ceived. His heaven returned. closed around him. That he was literally on his knees to her, in stead of on the throne beside her. bothered him not at all. He ordered suDoer served In their compartment. Judith un pinned her orchids, put them ir water. She smiled at him across the 'lttle table. He listened, torn between enchantment and de spair, while she chattered about the places they would see Burma with its temples He had planned to buy sapphires there. The suite reserved for them at the Waldorf Astoria was the best in the house. He kept it. Thei' boat was sailing tomorrow. He'd have to do some tall scouting. His tall scouting amounted t nothing A morning spent wit his brokers and talking over lone distance to Warder, not only veri fled Clem's telegram there wa nothing to be salvaged but re minded him that the new high priced machinery Installed at thi Lutie Just is must be paid for Debts, debts, debtsl (Cctruli. Kit. timi Smk rr' Tomorrow: A dish of eodn. YOUTH BADLY SHAKEN BY FATAL ACCIDENT DENVER, April 38 (l W11' 11am Burnham. 18-ycar o ff cogt tudfnt, hit faro drawn and tfar ttattiPd, rrstcd at , h! horn hero today, nwklnn to recover from the ahocJc of an aecictrntnl hxtln(i during which he killed hla beat friend. Burnham, a freshman student t the Colorado School of Mines, apent the day with his widowed mother. Mrs. June Burnham, at their home here. The youth obvious'.y wi bad ly ahaken over the tragedy at hi rooming hotiM in Oct den, Colo . lat nlcht when he accidentally hot and fcIed Robert A. fitflnmrj.-r, Jr.. Bl-year eld daa&mat lrora New Orleans. HI VETOES PROPOSAL PORTLAND. Ore, April 3 (AP The hoard of directors of the Indus trial Employe Union. Inc., holdlnn I Its first annual meeting here, voted down a proposal that wagea of com mon labor tn email lumbering opera ttona be reduced to 43 oenta an hour to compete with wagea reported to be paid APL and CIO unionist. The preaent scale Is SO cent an hour. Angus D. Ohtaholm, ITU president, aid tha directors unautmously con sidered' differential of 10 cent and 12 '4 cent an hour between small and large operations sufficient. Closing time for Too Lata to CI mtj Ada u 1 30 p, m. x jvr ..'Hi. 1 1 I in..i i T W 1 mnm J. Wmtf Philadelphia, M0VIN6 2 MftTcrtW chief of Ihe Omaha Indians Wte 5uribp trriN6 on MieffivoRiiEHoRsef Mini Hill, MJ800) &e1iKTrtescoR -fl t.U''M9nlMM 00n XV7 v.nri'innif nvi.ii r& (ff SWSTre CMMNftUS' Lf- Mrr riM j Bun m t nut a ka&m ntJ r Soldier of 8 Battles A cherished possession of Chris tian Hiltnor. Philadelphia News em ploye, la a remarkable Victory meda! with eight bars attached. Hlltner waa J list 22 years old when be engaged In the eight World war battles In 1918 and won the multiple badge of honor, a record few men onn boast of. Enlisting In 1016, Hlltner served with the H-Troop. 6th oavalry, sta tioned In the Big Bend district, at Sierra Blanco. Texas. Finally goln oversea, ho became a corporal tn the 408th motor supply train, Com pany 368, of the famous Mallet re serve. In 1918, Hlltner saw action In four consecutive defensive engagements: The Somme, March 21 to April 2; the A lane, May 27 to June 0; the Montdldler-Noyon, June 9-13; and the Champagne-Marne, July 15-18. He next served In four offensive In the same year: The Aisne-Marne, July 18 to August S; the Somme August 6 to September 17; the Olse Alsne, September 6 to October 11: a nd the Somme of October 12 to November 11. Burial of Blackbird A victim of smallpox. Chief Black bird of the Omaha Indians died In 1800 with the request that he be burled sitting on his favorite horse Accordingly, his body was seated on the animal end led to the summit of a hill near the Missouri river In what Is now Nebraska. Sod and dirt were piled about the animal until a great mound burled both. Atop the hill, now known Blackbird Hill, was placed a tall pole supporting the chief's scalps he had taken In war. aa a final tribute. Bee Wins Ball Game Lady Luck and a bee saved the day for the Massachusetts Reformatory All-Stars during a recent baseball game with the West Cardinals. Just as Pltcber George Johnson of the West Cardinals wound up to le one go over the plate, the bee stung him. Johnson balked so the umpire ruled and the All-Stars' runner on third scored a run. tying the game. Tomorrow; The Wave of Deathl Milk Quenches Fire When Water Gone WARSAW, Ind.. April 25. AP After exhausting the supply of water in a cistern, the Warsaw fire depart ment stopped a passing milk truck and pumped 500 gallons of milk on the burning farm home of Mrs Ed Hongland. saving It from destruction. Jacksonville Loses In Track, Field Meet GRANTS PASS. April 26. (AP) Grants Pass high defeated Jackson ville 84 to 36 In a track and field meet here Saturday. Caton of Ash land, lone representative of the third school, placed first In the 100 and 200 yard dashes for ten points. Turkey in the Snow HARLEM, Mont. Hearing a strange noise in a snowdrift, John Harmon, rancher, started digging. He uncov ered one of his turkey gobblers, alive, but weak. He said It had been miss ing eight days. Phone 26b Ode tie Osborne West or Rosalie Leslie for a spring permanent Hadley's Salon of Beauty. IF SOtfE OF THE WOMEN MEMBERS 0FriE COMMUNnY CLU5 HAVE" "THEIR WAV, FRED PETUEV WILL NOf BE RE-ElEcfED To THE HOUSE COMMITTEE AFfEF HE HAT) friE FRONT HALL VARN15HED ONE PA FORSETT1N6 -THEV WERE HAIKG A MEEHN6 INSIDE (Copyright, 1938, by The EtTJ BymUctto, Ine ) LUIU-IAtrS: S MATTER POI Bv C M PAYNB f(T ri VJ1,A7 iuvse- -xlA s6l I Talk To it -A1 ( VtSS-SS i-t J (s A TteuLiT 3oksK J r"l') $3 lay (Oopyrigtt, ltet. by Tha Bril ByBj TAILSPIN TOMMY If s a Date I By HAL FORREST -J. 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