Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 28, 1938, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE ETflHT DON'T MARRY THE MAN Chaoiet 3) "They're Through' IT was Impassible to be gay, or even nanny in such surround ings, yet Kathleen (elt load bad been lifted from her heart and that it was winging up past the singing cables, past the top most light on the superstructure ind on to the mountain stars. "Have you talked to Donald at all?" Bridget continued. "Yes." Kathleen answered slow ly. "First he told me what he thought of me. then, when 1 could catch my breath, I told him in equal detail what I thought of him. We didn't seem to crre for each other, she concluded dryly. "Tell me." demanded Bridget Kathleen '.old her: told her much more than she realized. "That explains so much," Bridg et observed when she had finished 'Kathleen, have vou any Idea where Donald was at the time the alarm was given? "1 overheard Kit-Smvth dic tating a letter to father. He said he was at living field out of Carsted. "But you don't know why he was there. Then listen and see U you can understand why Donald talked to vou as he did. When yoi're en gaged you'll understand how time (lies without you being aware of it Norman and I hadn't time for any thing but ourselves until dinner was ready then Donald came in and asked where vou were. 1 felt conscience-stricken and told him you hadn't come over yet He went after you. He found the note you had left for me. I don't know what vou wrote, but there was some thing in it that sent him flying some place. Kathleen smiled ruefully. "1 con gratulated vou on your engage ment to Donald and told vou T was leaving. I only reached Balrov's He made me come In and we ha. i long talk. He told me about the reud. evervthlng. Bridget frowned In concentra tion. "I'm piecing things together," she said. "That was it then He thought you had left for ilew Vork He went aftet vou. Don't you see. dear. Donald was rushing after you to bring you oack be cause he Invert vou. He was giving up every MacDonald tradition and prejudice because you meant more to him than they did. And in this mood, this eagerness to offer you everything he had. Kit-Smyth found him. I don't know what Kit Smyth said but It's safe t. believe he destroyed this image Donald worshiped. And Donald, heart broken over the disaster and breatbroken over vou, came straight from Kit-Smyth to you." Kathleen nodded "Yes. 1 Know how he felt because I felt lust like that. I've laughed a lot over 'mor tal wounds and stabs In the heart, hut thev're real. Bridget I felt as thuigh Td been mortally wound ed I didn't care much about liv ing for a while." Abject Defeat BRIDGET stood up. "Let's go -' over to the commissary, I'm cold and hungry and I'll bet vou haven't had any dinner." Kathleen followed her DUt she was not looking towards the big building, her glances were search ing the few men around the mouth of the mine, looking for one, Norman found the girls In the commissary. He was taking Bridg et home. "You'd better get some rest, Cleo. they won't be through be fore mid-morning." The name Cleo sounded strange to Kathleen, then she caught the Import of what he had said. "Mid morning . " Six A M. had heen Baltr drndline: thirty-six hours. "Where's Donald?" she asked. Norman gave her a quick searching glance. "Below. I can't pry him loose He'i wrecking him self with worry-" Kathleen made her decision as they drove away She would go down there to him. She couldn't. The technical ex perts were in charge now. the trained rescue crews from the United States Bureau of Mines Thev needed the skips. Kathleen looked at the objects thev were carrying and shuddered Canvas cots and canvas hags. The bags would be needed if thev broke through too late. The mine doctor rushing alone stonned and looked at Kathleen "Go to bed girl." he ordered "I'm ettlng un an emergencv hospital on the 1580 level I'll need the Klrls down there I'll need you up 'ore. got some rest." "But the hospital down there what does It mean?" "Tt means we're preparing for Mfe." the man answered stoutlv "And the onlv life there'll be left will nerd resuscitation In the shortest possible time." Kathleen nodded The medical men were prepared to save mln itrs Time was that precious. She knew she couldn't sleep, but she did to awnken with a start and find the sun high In the Seavens She sat up alarmed. A Hnthlv silence hovered over the nlnre No one was In the hospital, no one even In the emergency room -By Jtnn Bowmtn- Sne rushed out ol ajors u c ....n the entire place was deserted, the only sign of life the swinging cable, the throb ot the motor. Ten o'clock. Mid-morning. A man appeared from the com missary. Kathleen hurrieu to him 'What news7" she begged. "Not much. They gave up trying to break through first, drilled In with an air hole; hope to shoot through medical supplies if there's anyone on the other end can use them." "And when was that?" "Several hours ago . . . wait here comes a skip " "Dog-weary muckers stumbled out. There was no sign of hope on their worn faces, nothing hut ab iect defeat "Yes. the air hole went through MacDonald called, .here was no answer." They went on their way and Kathleen and the man stood In silence. His clumsy hand patted Kath leen's shoulder. "Don't take that as final. They may be through to another level; may be only a pocket there. Then too, the men fall in a stupor sometimes; lay there hours before it's too late" There la Life' KATHLEEN nodded, then tensed Another skip was up, a man in a slicker, engineer or official was running, calling as ne ran "We're through get the cana ries: Get MacDonald!" "They're through!" Where the scene had been dc serted it was now thronged and mad cries of Joy took up the song "They're through! They've broken through!" Men in grotesque costumes came running out slipping oxygen tank." over their heads a; they ran swinging cages with tiny Huffy canaries in them: little yellow birds that peeped with dismay, un aware of their hero roles More sensitive to poison air than any living thing, they would collapse before the insidious air crept into the lungs of unsuspecting men. Only a relay crew: the others, the picked men were already down: they'd been ' there waiting for hours. Then Kathleen saw Donald Mac Donald and she felt as though her heart had welled up and was pushing on ou'. ol her breast to wards him. He was running. Some one was handing .im an oxygen tank, shouting at him as they kepi pace. Kathleen called to him Just a; , he slipped the mask over his face He seemed to hesitate as though wondering if he had heard a voice then adjusted the gear, stepped into the skip and dropped from sight She ran on to the mine collar. "He's going in Brst," someone said. "He served his time on the crew: felt he ought to take thf first risk. Thats Young Donald if anyone has to die to find oui what s on the other side, he's go ing to be that one." Kathleen sank onto the timoei pile, tears coursing down hei cheeks. "And I said I never want ed to see him again." She sat huddled in a tight, tense, position. He had loved her. Bridget said he had and she, well she knew it too. Yet she had let him go down believing she hated him. She could have given him the chance to explain but she'd lis tened to hei pride. Moment passed. Cars came down from Neutrality, came ovei from the MacDonald mines. Peo ple crowded Into a compact mass. Miners' wive in the foreground Kathleen marveled at the stoical calm of these women who waited at this, the eleventh hour, with no show of emotion. Yet how Ihey must feell After their lonn hours of waiting, how they must wish tr rush through the cordon and fight their way down to that walled-ofl hole to learn for themselves the fate of their men. Moments Dassed. melted Intr half hours, hours. The spring sun heat down in a silent golden pall Few words were spoken. The skip naon t come up. m seemed, tot eons. And then the cable rattled, the roar of the approaching cage was heard. Everv breath In the crowd was held, then expelled in a long sigh as Morgan stepped out. his face white. 'MacDonald Is through. The men are all there. He savs there is life. That's all for now." Later, a second report "Jock Arthur, unconscious but breathing. first man carried out." Kathleen knew the next hour was the longest In her life The skip was coming up slowly now. And each trip brought with it stretcher and on the stretcher s silent figure, but with life. Kathleen was called Into action There weren't enough nurses Oxy gen had heen fed slowly, now there must tie nourishment induced with equal slowness. These lives wMcr had heen so close to death mtir' he brought back slowly, lest th feeble connecting line break. She scanned each face. They were mnstlv strangers to her 'And they were all younger men than Balmy Whv couldn't thev waker and tell her of him? ICtriikl 10 II. It (mol Tomorrow: Danger for Donald. Kents Face Rugged Life In New Australian Post CANBERRA, AuMrsli. (UP) The Duke of Kent will have to tsks ft rin with htm if h plays golf on onr of the numerous courses ouUldo Csnbrrrn ftftor taking up hli post nr jrovrrnor-ttencrnl hcrr. The crows arc ao daring and mis thlrvtms thnt thrjr swoop down on the course mid carry off the jtolf calls. The only way to stop them ta uy ine player brlnlDtf them down with a rifle or ahotun. The Duke and oucheas of Kent aUo will bo able to try the local aport of kaiiKnroo hunting, and if they are iHVffnl, mnv nniple kangaroo ateik.. Their i i(ht mile out- me thf- capital and is ft Une man sion called Yarralumla. The alt otu-f was a famous aheop station. Although hunt In M1, Oowrnment House has been remodeled throiwhout and now the- outer shell la nil that remains of the original building. Canberra la only it jxara old and haa been built along garden city llnrs. with 40 miles of tre-lined avenues, suburbs two miles apart, and with (1A7.-Uiirt white public buildings. AuMrnltnn wattle, with Its golden flower, 60.000 riowerli fruit trers and llrltUh trees especially imported, have been plimtrd throughout the town, while a rurpet or flowers grows In front of Pnrllament House. Erich bimf.a'nw snd prtvnte house is sit u.i ted In a small plantation with no fence, ami each is ilr.Mgncd STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope tor reply. Rf. V. 8. Pat Oft jfpAKJ.coKeerr- fomer hesMwei0 uiampion, NEVER HAD A 30XMQ IHSON INHKIIFE rri 4tt onion I ( WSSL SV EGYPTIANS Wn hW& 11 ii r-r jy f 'fMf Lesy85w iii- a CUl -28-3S BECAUSE 4CrtooL6E06RAPril5 h CEHTURV AGO MteTAKENLV ih&tllO frtfi fffllll HE3RASHA TERRITORY w HIP rtPFAT DPZepT. " ,.' (Ifli Vlltil fi VrVrv.1 fctnucMCN or ncKceiioNs WhS IMPEDED foR TEARS The imit lescrt Strange as it seems, the Inclusion of but thtee little words In the geography books of school children & century ago retarted for nvmy years the settlement of the Nebraska territory, Including the great North Platte valley. Those words were: "The Great Des ert." They were put there on the advice of Major Stephen H, Long, a topographical engineer of the Unit ed States ermy who In 1810 had been sent west to chart the Platte River UeNwchl SyndlcaU, lot cc .iu.j i . tl i.. j mountains b?yo:ul. The war department was anxious to learn H about the topography of the country and ta locate the best pass Into the Rockies. Major Long spent four years at this work. He followed the Platte Into the mountains and upon the conclusion of hla work made a detailed report to the wnr department In which he called the Nebraska territory a desert because he thought the land was of little value. This Is what he said of It: "It is almost wholly unfit for cultivation and of course uninhabitable for peo ple depending upon agriculture for their subsistence." Major Long then prepared ft map of the region, and had lettered upon It the words: "The Great Desert." This map was widely reproduced In the nation's school geographies, and for years after It was proved that the Platte region was very fertile, the notion of It being a desert persisted. Tomorrow: buster I The singing racket in soft pastel shades matching the blues and purples of the foothills of the great dividing range, which en circles Canberra. The Monaro plains which surround Government House are noted for their hospitality and the entertain ment offered at numerous sheep sta tions. Polo Is played on some of the stations, and at Bungendoro there Is a horse race trock for amateur riders. Dances, sports meets and "billy teas" the Australian equivalent of tho barbecue are "held regularly on the sheep stations. Deflation Plus Inflation WILLOWS, Cal, (UP) The evil effects Inflation and deflation are not always purely of a financial or economic order. When a club care taker here chased three boys off the club's hunting preserves, the boys returned and deflated the tires of his car. Besides a 910 fine the boys were sent back to Inflate them again. Identified hy Nil in hers NORMAN, Okla. (UP) Here Is how the Bobby Davises identify themselves: "I'm Bobby Davis No. 1," and "I'm Bobby Davis No. 2." The "twin-name" students are not related. THE WIFE TELLS A STORY By CLUYAS WILLIAMS SftRfS nUH6 COMPANY ABOuY fHEKHUHS "TIME SHE AND HUSBAND HAD IN HE CAR. THE CrTrtER DAY IA0NCHES iWlb-fAtE, HUS BAND PUfflN"6 1H SHE OUfcHY -Tb "TEH. THEM FIRSf ABDUf H&vJ "fHEV ONLV HAD HALF A 0SW6 SAV THAT ABOOf "TWO WLES FROM 1HE NEf -fbWH THE CAR STOPPED. H05- BAft REMARKS If WA& NEARER FOUR MILES RESUMES THAT HETELTFOR HIS WAlLEf AND HUS BAND BREAKS IN -fO SAV -friAT VT WASHT UHfiL LATER HE FOUND HE HAD HO MONEV 60ES ON", 6E-TTIN6 A LUfLE WvffLED, HUSBAND PUfflN6 W MORE AND MORE ItfTER JECfiOrtS tMTiLYHEY' fRE BOTH -TALKIN6 AT ONCE SI6H5.ANP LET'S HIM FlWlgH THE SfoRY (Copyrlrtt. 163, by Th lfeM judicata, K) II-26 UJVM U1IUIAM& 3 MATTER POT By 0 K PAYNB California Bananas Grown TULARE, Cal. ( UP) 'Possibilities of a new Callfornlo fruit growing Industry Is that of bananas. John I Rose has successfully experimented ' here with a tree that was 14 Inches I tall when he planted It 18 months ago, and Is now 18 feet high, with a diameter of 18 Inches and has al ready borne two ripened bunches of bananas. r--s- ! ) rj PSM low To do SI Just- vhoutat) f touhd) rr A COAT UJ r to 6o) "iw--n "a y Sll Ipt (Copyright, 1938, by Th BU Syndicate, Inc.) TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy Doesn't Underestimate His Foe! 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