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fEDFO'R'D MATL TRTBTTSTE, fTOFOTlP, OREGON, THURSDAY. 'APRTTJ 28. 1938.
TRICK PERFORMANCE
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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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
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Maseillori, Ohio,
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-' 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
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SAY YET, JASON-BUT
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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
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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
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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