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P'AGE ETOTTT fEDFO'R'D MATL TRTBTTSTE, fTOFOTlP, OREGON, THURSDAY. 'APRTTJ 28. 1938. TRICK PERFORMANCE STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address the author, Is closing stamped envelope for repljr. Rej. V. 8. Pat Off. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS 4 FERGUSON 7 tO n V) . & J By BLANCHBSMJTTi The Story . -. . om m tlu. aristocratic Judith Coodlot marries Reuben Oliver, tell-mait man and oulilder. for hij money, only to discover that hit fortune it tort. With dif ferent baefcarounde, different codei, a clash U inevitable. Judith toill stick to her marriao. even ace poverty, but the reuiei to . help Reuben make a fresh start with the money he hoe already given her family. Chapter 21 Fortlney' Gulch fHEY had been about two A months In Manhattan when Reuben learned that his marriage to a Goodioe had. in a way. made him a jerson of importance be cause, where his failure would have passed unnoticed before, the eastern japers now 'nought it worth headlinea. "Oliver. Oil Op erator, Bankrupt." This publicity was an added lia bility. It made starting over again harder. Made him a joke, back In Warder, Oklahomr. the only place where he could hope to borrow. There was no longer an:- reason for him to emain in New xorK; didn't knnw where tc CO when hi- ont nut "3ut the thine that real!" Kept him befogged by doubt was the difference Detween juaiins ethics and Ms own. He felt her criticism of his every move. Was filled with strange conrusion. Pprhnna hud he been more used to women and their ways or if he had not loved her so completely He found her brooding over the papers when he reached the notel room uuver, un uperaior "I don't :are," defiantly. "I'm not ashamed. She managed a laugn. "It's something to move from the society column and achieve the first page. "You could have stopped It," sul len lv. She flung the paper angrily to the floor. "KeuDen, as long as we live you will please never refer to that again. "I just wanted you to know." He removed his coat and moved to wards the bathroom, "Five Chim neys, horses, furniture, cars I had to throw them all into the maw. Sacrifice them thanks to you. It ipells the Hid." She caught his muted note of despair; tried to shut her ears to It. What was the use? "I asked - favor of your family today you needn't look so horri fied I only asked Jim to take core of Hugo." Here was .omethlng she could understand and sympathize with his love for his dog. She crossed the room, took his troubled face be tween her hnnds, looked deep Into his eyes: "I'm sorry. Reuben, I know lust how vou feel." "How can you? I hardly know mvflf " One Reuben mortally hurt, hated her. called her hard, selfish, cruel. The other the Reuben who hod battered his way up alone, gloried because she had saved him from accepting a favor from the Good loes. "You'll make more money, Reu ben. I have every faith In you." It was cooling water poured over his scars. Whether she meant It or not it was cooling water. He couldn't resist her. "If vou believe in me, Judy, I can can come hack Never lose fnlth In me promise!" "I promise." She had little faith to lose. When he was down to almost his last dollar he was offered a mining job In Nevada. He knew little of mines and their workings but this was a foremnn's post He would desl with men. not ore. He tried to fit Judith into a min ing town as he walked hack tc the hotel. He couldn't do it. It wasn't because or the fine trousseau, fine gifts, ill the feminine doodads. Cissv had those things and he could fit Cissv Into the picture easily while Judith stood persis tently out In bold relief. Dark And Dingy "rETTER not try it this winter," he advised his wife while they strolled down Fifth Avenue, look ' ing idly 'n windows, "if you want to come out in the spring " "I'm going now." "You'll be sorry." "If I am vou'll never know," proudly. "Goodioes always stick." "A Goodioe has never see . Ford ney's Gulch." "Here's one that will." "You don't know what It can be like." "I can Imagine." Bi'fore ;he went tr bed she wrote to Gran. She made light of Reu 'ben's failure. "The papers exag gerate." Soon be coming back stronger GoinR to Nevada al ways wanted to see the northwest. "We'll have a small house tiny garden, a maid or two. I shall have a horse to -ide. of course later you might ..end Paddy O'Hare, Winona will be happier in the borne stable. Meanwhile there is no cause to worry. Soon vou'll be coming to see us on one of those dude ranches G.iry talks of" Gary! Si-eing his name in black and white crystallized an impres sion in her mind. Gary was some- WANTED FOR MURDER KLAMATH FAL1-S. April 28 (API A man ptokod tip at Chlloquin on a charge ol disturbing the paoe la now en route east in custody of Mlnneota uthorltlea to face trial for im 11-ypar-old murder. Tie suspect gave hla name, aa Trny Martinez, but flr.cerprlnts wnt by Jailer Vernon Wilson to the federal bureau of lnvcsti?a,,or, In Washing ton brought a reply that the man was '"probably Gfore SkaKopee," wanted at Millet. Minn., in connec tion with the murder o fhl uncle In 1S27 tor a (20 bill. Sheriff Hans Dahl of Mlllra. arrived here this wwii with .Mr-mot Alton ey C. C. Mitchell of Millca to Uk the prisoner. where In the northwest Shi would ba nearer Gary. Sha ended her letter by asking Gran to send a few of her wedding presents to Fordney'a Gulch enough flat silver to set a table for 12. Coffee and tea services. Half-a-dozen traya of assorted sizes "Just the necessary, everyday things. Gran. Nothing formal or elaborate." It was a brave letter. Sha gave it to Reuben to read. He read it very slowly. "A couple of maids garden a horse Just the every day necessities of a small house" Again h felt a tender pity for her. They left New York in the murk of a November afternoon. Judith wore the blue suit she had worn on her wedding trip. Reuben spent three of hit ill too scarce dollars for gardenias. He was very proud of her as they followed their ex pensive pigskin bags to the train's shed. Thny arrived at Fordney'a Gulch in sleety, windy November dark ness. They went directly to their new homo riding with their bags in a dirty Jitney. Their house was one of a long row of low, boxiike frame structures behind a fence made of water piping. There wai a pocket handxerchief of mud, called by courtesy a lawn. Inside the house looked smaller and dingier than it did on the out side. Dark, stuffy rooms four of them. Reuben had to stoop at the doorway. Judith could raise an arm and touch the ceiling. Then was, in each room, an electric bulb swinging on a cord. There was a drut i stove In the front room. A range in the kitchen plenty of wood stacked near it Wordlessly Judith looked around. She hadn't dreamed such houses were built Reuben's eyes aald plainly: "1 told you tol" Too Deep For Tears JUDITH'S eyej were two blurred, dismayed pools of deep blue Gradually, and by supreme effort she conjured before them a long strip of boxwood that stretched and grew until it crowded out the yellowish papered walls and cov ered them with spicy greenness. Nearly 2,000 miles away such a hedge grew in safety. Remem berine. she found courage to say evenly: "Bring the bags, Reuben, and let's see what's upstairs." Upstairs were two slope-roofed rooms, smaller and meaner than any the servants slept in at home. A frame cubby hole Jutted out from the back one in which was a streaked bath tub that had once been white. The spigots dripped dismally. Judith slammed the door upon It savagely. She hung her silvei tox on one or tne noons tnai stretched in t, row across the wall in place of a closet. , Reuben unstrapped the bags "I'm going up to that restaurant we saw near the station and bring back our supper." He refrained from looking at her. "Final" She hoped her voice didn't hint of tears. If she could keep them back until he went When the narrow front door creaked behind him she found hei misery and rebellion too deep for tears. The stained walls closed in and smothered her. Dust. Mould. Cobwebs All around her were boxes and packing cases silver, china, glass mahogany, satinwood, Sheffield. linen, etchings urans Idea ol what was absolutely necessary tc a small house. Dazedly Judith looked at them tangible proor that she nad not died and gone to some weird hell This was still earth and life as some people lived it. "I won't open those things, I won't I'll send them back go back with them " The green hedge arose wraith like this time she didn't have to conjure it and closed around hei tighter than iron chains. A bar gain was a bargain When Reuben came back, carry ing a slat basket filled with warm, nourishing food he found her washed, brushed, and wearing her most sensible frock. Sha helped him lay out the things on boxes ham, baked potatoes, fresh bread, slaw, coffee and half a dozen ruddy checked apples. "I feel better already," Judith bit into an apple. She thought: "If I loved him, I could laugh at this." She laughed anyhow. Her cheerfuli.ess warmed him like Are and exhilarated him like ol-' wine. He could make more money plenty of itl "Let's open some of these pack ing cases, Judith suggested when they had finished eating, "We need pillows, blankets, sheets " "I'll have to borrow a hammci from our next door neighboi Here's hoping he's a friendh chap!" Reuben opened the doot Air, raw, damp, rcrid rushed in. "And this." thought Judith pil ing soiled dishes into the sla basket and covering them with a red striped towel, "is marriage!" Tomorrow: Bitter, rerettf d hatred. Gar Wood Workers Will Share Profit DERTOIT April 38. (AP) Oar Wood Xnduatrlea, Inc., announced to day profit-aharlng plan under which It employes will receive 30 per cent of all declared divldenda. The corporation also announced settlement of ft two-day strike by members of the United Automobile Workera" union (CIO) which has closed two Detroit plant of the con cern. Approximately 500 workera will return to their Jobs tomorrow. About 1000 men are on the company a pay rolls. strike power Voted PORTLAND. April 38 ( AP Offl rials of the Grocery Clerks union said today they had received by a large majority vote of members the author ity to csll ft strike In their negation with Independent and chain store oo wages sod hours. Jii-ii-v -M1 L At itl )R:ii0i, . 1 XT .J , I eiAvexyHfe not IHTMUNlTBPSrms Street of 14 Steps Rue de Degrea, Paris, la the short- eat street tn France's capital yet, strange as tt seems, It Is hardly a street at all In the common sense of the word. This odd little avenue Is composed entirely of 14 steps that lead up to a ramp between two tenement houses and It Is as broad as It Is long. No wheeled vehicles pass through the Rue de Degres, and there are no shops, residences or numbers along Its abbreviated length. Yet Rue de Degres finds a place In the Paris street directory. "Staircase streets" are not limited to Paris. In Valetta, a town on the Mediterranean Island of Malta, Is the "Street of a Thousand Bteps," a busy thoroughfare which handles Jews In Germany Must List Riches BERLIN, April 28. AP) Jews must register without delay their fortunes and properties at home and abroad, under a decree Issued today by Field Marshal Hermann WUhelm Goer lng, nazidom's No. a man, as TAILSPIN TOMMY Will the BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER THE NEBBS The Life of the fi&e cownviuoos WHIRL OF JDCAU EVEMT5 IS WEARIMG RLOM Dcawm Bur HE ALOJAVS SEEMS TO COME UP STROM& FOR. THE Dl AIM ir . W3 i.,JVlkAff- . . mmma '"HI, ' '-r ' -"".M I lS Y T. ..." I ,iSljr 1 B. UlNM v. g j VOU KIN START -X Tl WORKIN' FOR US V--Xl ( Of BY CLEANIN' THEM &0 f FAR COOPS- --T-tf , if it.) I SFyW f AVE, AYE ty 8 JfCK MW- Maseillori, Ohio, &OWISP Z PERFECT 6M& OtfJ 'OF 2... -' April, me- much of the olty's pedestrian traf fic Goats, the city's milk supply, are plentiful, climbing the stone steps as easily as skipping through the Alps. Strangest "step highway" Is the famed "Stairway to Heaven." con sisting of 7000 stone steps, leading four and one-half miles to the top of Tal Shan, oldest sacred mountain on earth, In the Shantung province of China. Strange ss It seems, for ages de vout pilgrims have crawled all the way to the summit on their knees to worahlp at the temple of the Ruler of the United Heavens, the Jade Emperor of Taoism. Slavery Still Exists A few days before his death, Abra director of Germany's four-year plan to attain economic Independence. The decree stipulates that all Ger man Jews must register and evalu ate their entire German and for eign possessions, provided they ex ceed 5000 marks (92000.) BATON ROUGE, La., April 28. ( AP) Rose Long, 31-year-old daugh Boys Bo in Time? A Slight Doublt WELL, BEN, WHAT DO YOU THINK - OF Party lW CERTAIMLVa ft " -v --yrLL BET 1 IOOMDERED " irTMOW, FOLKS, 1 WILL 5WOW -m CH3IS-ALL IT( J- WZ7 SAL-- J? I V ME JWW AV? wZrStKS WERCULES TO -SV4AME- MOAy MAJvlV needs is a " om, WhuT &u--r - 77 eeAunnjL rz ZZZ ' vjomem ikj twe house weigh zoo V. LITTLE Ol LI M& vr -- ( iNS.. ijfrsk f. II SAOC. . I M vi? , ( POUMDS OR OVER?,COMC INCOME . Parte, BROAD AS IT IS LONQ llVffc, iTHftf ANNAS fort wo Nmeeffc... 3TREET IN PARIS ham Lincoln said of the slavery question: "We have finished the Job." He referred to the 13th amend ment to the U. S. constitution which Includes these significant words : "Neither slavery nor Involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist In the United States." Strange as it seems this amend ment, passed In 1865, actually legal ized slavery in that Important ex ception as a punishment for crime. Prisoners sentenced to hard labor technically are sla-ves under the fed eral constitution. Tomorrow: The Blind Man's Bluffl ter of the late Huey P. Long, Raid today her engagement and approach ing marriage would be announced Sunday. Later It was learned that Miss Long's fiance was Dr. O. W. Mc Farland. son of a prominent Nebras ka physician. The wedding will take place June 1. Use Mall Tribune Wnt Ada. 6EE, 1 HARDLY KNOW WHAT TO HIM s SAY YET, JASON-BUT J HE'S SURE OUT OF THE ORDINABY- mother, soys itar mm susah is 6oihc now, SHOW HER HOW HE CAM &UW A KlSt NOfHES. 5AV5 HO, HO, B10W A WtSS . WAVEt HANDS MCrfHER TEM0ST RATES hH. WEERUtf AS POOR SHllfS BEHIND AUrlf SUSAS, BLOWS STARTS fWTiH6 TOE Irl MoiKH A KISS. V0MDERS IF TriW frilMK HE'S AS DUMB (OoprriEhv tow, by th. B.n Bdicst., 1m.) AS rf'S OFfEN Ft)H TO PRETEHP To BE S MATTER POI y C YelE. "VRAv(Ty NHPt I look-, 'Pcrp! :1T Bub 1 a (CopyrlgH 18 Th BU 8yjlictt. Inc.) JJj humph! i'll say! he lifted me like 1 was a feather! anv he don't look strong ENOU6H TO HIST A h ; . PI AP.IACK! ViAVES HAND AM WITH A LIKE OMEGA! MY, I HOPE HE TURNS OUT RlSHTi (ml MOfrtEU. -DEWOHSflRAtES Wrlftf SHE MEAHS, 0BU6ES Wrfrl SOME OF HIS ACR08AiG By 0. M. PAYNB By HAL FORREST; QUICK, SKEETSl THOSE .MEM ARE TRYING TO KIDNAP By EDWIN ALGEP NAME 1 WELL, IF HE OH, DOESN'T WE DON'T HAVE TO AL.L KEEP HIM- By SOL HESS
