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P.VGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1939 Meet CTr. Lochinv By Marie Blixard YVSTtKUAY: Philip uki C cily U ht has ever considered him at a luftor, ord attempts to embrace her. Cecily m very much dupteued. Wou) i it had been Lock' . . Chapter 19 The Future? CECILY turned down the lamps In her bedroom and went to the window, dropping to her knees and staring out into the night. The same night that enclosed him in his little shack a few miles away. There was a very small bird on a branch that swept by her win dow. "You ought to be home In your little straw bed," sba scolded. "But I'm glad you're not. I feel like talking to someone." The bird sa'.d, "Cheerp!" Cecily laiighed. "I don't know whether you're saying, 'Cheer up' or 'cheep but we could discuss it. In the iirst place, I don't need jheering up because I'm so happy that my heart is singing and isn t that being happy? Was she happy? She tried to sound her emotions. Could a girl be happy when the man who had become the center of her universe was cloaked in mystery? Why wouldn't he tell her his name? Why did he grow suddenly remote In those moments when she felt that they were closest? As she had done so many times before, she brought out all the memories of the times that they had been together. Two weeks be fore there had been the Unforget table day of their picnic. Then there had been the night of the church fair when she had come out with Laura and heard his whistle and he had walked back to Laura's cottage with them. He had said he was faking her home and they had taken the long way. There was the day of the circus twelve miles away when he had hired a rattletrap car from the garage and over-ridden her ob jections about leaving the shop. What fun they had nad, eating hot-dogs and drinking poisonous Eop like two kids. He had bought er a pin-wheel which even now was tenderly put away in a drawer in her trunk. They had held hands while the trapeze artistes dangled overhead and Cecily had felt that Paradise must be like a circus tent. The day that he brought her Mary Poppins and said that Mary had nothing on him; he could slide up banisters and promised to show her one day. "He talks about the future. He's going to take me to the Battery to see the veils of fog at dusk. We're floing to sit in the Stadium with he stars and hear Tschaikowsky. He's going to take me to Little Italy, to see the F6te of St. Gen naro. He's going to slide up a ban inter but . . ." But . . . But, In the meantime, he talked bout the past, about the future, yet he was as elusive as a moon beam. There was an incomplete ness about their relationship. bout his very self that haggled at her happiness. There was an air oi unreality aoout tne wnoie tning, is though Locke were a character he had read about who had stepped out of the panes of a book ana returned to them and she had forgotten the title of it. Or rather, as though she had sever known the title. He's Maddening HE had a way of turning off her questions as though she had never asked them, a way that was done so gracefully that she was not aware of it until the question came to her again. She hadn't meant to ask him questions, yet he could not control her impulses. He had an Irish way of answer ing her questions by using ques tions of his own. He knew all bout her. He knew about her childhood, her schooling, the things she liked and the things he didn't like, her code and her acceptances. She had told him things she had never told anyone. "He's maddening," she confided to the small bird who lingered on for some reason of his own. "Cheep" the bird retorted un mistakably. "Oh, ves. cheapl But I'm not, my fine feathered friend. I protestl You mustn't get the idea I'm throwing myself at him. Indeed, I am cool as can be when I see him. He doesn't dream that every time that little bell tinkles over the door, my heart does cartwheels all over my lnsidos. He doesn't know that I walk along the street with eyes in the back of my head. No, Indeed! "He doesn't even know that I don't live except when I'm at the hop. This" she spread her arms to include the house "is merely n interlude that mvM be endured every night. But h i doesa't know. And I shall neve' tell him and if he doesn't speak . . . but he will! He will!" Later, lying open-eyed In her bed, Cecilv wondered if she had dreamed all the things she wanted SPEEO UP RECRUITING 10 ADD 115,000 MEN BY END OF NEXT JUNE WASHINGTON. Bent. IS. AV-The rmy ordered recrultlim speeded to day for the air corps and other crunchen. In response to PreMdent Rooevrtf limited emergency In cludes tor the army, navy and marine corp. More than 13.000 recruits will be ought by the end of October for the air corps alone, more than doubling the orlpinul enlistment echeduleR for the air force. The accelerstlnR was ordered be fore rteutlt were complete for en listing the 17.000 net Increase In rmy itrength which Mr. Roonevelt decreed last Monday. Already engaged in Its moat In tensive drive for rernuta in pence, time olitory, Ui war department bad to believe. Was It only because Locke had filled the dull world with glamour that she had imag ined he was drawn to her? Had those happy silences between them been merely silences? Not some thing dear and precious that you accepted because you both felt them? It was already September. There were only a few weeks longer for her to be in Vickersport Only few weeks longer to make some thing real and lasting of her en chantment. What then? She had made vague plans to open a shop in New York on her return. At mother time, she would have been thrilled, filled with het plans. Now, she couldn't bear to think of them. She couldn't see herself anywhere but where she was. New York was as remote as Tibet and as foreign, because there would be no Locke there. He had talked about New York but she had never been able to make him say that he would be there, or that he would see her there. Oh, he was a very unsatis factory person. Why Cuuldn'i she have fallen In love with a solid sort of person? Why couldn't she have fallen In love with someone say, like Philip Calien? There wasn't really anything wrong with Philip. Everybody liked him except her self. Maybe I'm fated to be one ot those women who always make mistakes, she thought cheerfully. I guess I'm not cut out to be the femme fatale type; and all the rest of us, according to current litera ture, have to make mistakes. She was almost asleep when she thought of that. Then a new thought woke her up. Why hadn't she thought of it before! Locke hadn't kissed her. Three times he had acted as though he wanted to, and then, deliberately, he had turned away. Evidently, he hadn't because he would have thought his kiss was serious, and if it was . . . Cecily meant to find out. Donald CILAS POWERS kicked open this lJ back door of the book-shop with a capable foot and came in with his arms filled with stout logs. "You'll be needin' plenty of 'em. Miss Stuart Gits right cool all of a sudden in Se'tomber up here." 'That's right, Silas. But I don't mind. Hearth fires in a book-shop are good for the book business. There's something about a fire that inspires reading, you know." Dunno," he said, brushing up the chips Into Cecily's neat hearth before ne left, "Business has been awfully good, hasn't it?" Laura said from the depths of a chair where she was bent over a column of figures. Cecily waited until Silas had gone. Then she said, "It's been wonderful, Laura. The whole sum mer has been wonderful. I never dreamed when I came up here that it was going to mean so much to me. I've gained friends; I have you and . . . and this form of achieve ment. Plans for the winter have worked out of it and I ought to be happy." Laura dropped her pencil. "Aren't you? she inquired anxi ously. Cecily laughed quickly. "Of course, 1 am. I don't know what I was thinking of to say that" Laura's quiet waiting embar rassed her. She picked up her pen and took a stack of cards out of the file. The cards were left unnoticed while she gazed pensively out of the window. Her gaze carried over the field at the back and settled on a clump of trees. Beyond there lay the North road and at the end of the North road, a cottage she had never visited. "It would be cold and dismal here in the winter," she said ab sently. "Oh, nol" the older girl protested at once. Cecily half turned In her chali and saw that now it was Laura who was embarrassed. There was a flush on Laura's bent face. "It will be lovely here," Laura went on, "when the ground is covered with clean, white snow and you're enclosed in sturdy walls. Cecily, think of the crunch of crisp snow underfoot the ex hilarating tang of salt on the cold air, the crackle of logs in a big hearth, light spilling a yellow wel conle out of windows. 1 here would be long, quiet evenings . . ." "You're getting positively poet ic, Laura," Cecily answered from a jireat distance. She was thinking; Life enclosed by sturdy walls can be beautiful. But I can't ever think of them because I have nothing. Mv walls belong to someone else. The thought brought her back to Laura. She turned full around. "What does It all mean, Laura? Aren't you going back to Boston?" Laura took a long breath. "I don't know, yet," she said in i small voice. "It's that . . . well . . . I oughtn't to speak yet but . . ." Cecily crossed the room and sat on the arm of Laura's chair. "Is it Dmald?" Laura folded her hands in het lap. "Yes," she said. Continued tomorrow. On the Radio Chains STATIONS Where to Find Them on the Otal: KEX, Portland, 1180; KFU 64U. Los Angelea; KOA, 1470. Spokane. KUO, 780, San Francisco; KUW 620, Portland; KJR, 870, Seattle; KNX, I0SO, Loe Angeles; KOA, 830. Denver; EOIN, 940, Portland: HOMO, 920. Seattle; KPO, 630, Ban Francisco; KSU 1180, Salt Lake. Wednesday 8:00 Star Theater, KSL, KOIN. KNX; Horae and Buggy Days. KOO. KEX, KJR; Warlng's Orch., KPO, KPI, KOW. fi:30 American Chemical Society, KOO. KJR; Organist, KPO, KPI. 8:00 Concert Orch., KNX, KSL, KOIN; Kyser's Prgm., KPO, KOW, KPI: Union Concert, KOO, KEX. 6:30 American Viewpoints, KNX, KOIN. 7:00 Pred Warlng'i Orch.. KPO. KOW, KPI: Prank and Archie, KOO, KEX; Amoa and Andy, KNX. KOIN. KSU 7:15 Warlng's Orch.. KPI; Lum and Abner. KSL, KNX, KOIN; Stan ford Univ. Prgm., KOO; Organist. KEX. 7:30 Paul Whltoman's Orch., KNX, KSL, KOIN; Held fa Orch., KOO, KEX; Dorsey's Orch., KPO. KPI, KOW. 8:00 News, KOO; Honolulu Bound KNX, KSL, KOIN; What's My Name ) KPO, KPI, KOW; News, KSL. 8:30 Jewel's Program. KPO, KPI, KO'V: News and Sports, KNX, KOIN; Composers, KOO. 8:00 Harvey'a Orch., KPI, KOW; The Almftnac, KPO; Dance Orch.. KSL. 8:30 Dance Orch., KPO, KOW. KPI; Dance Orch. KSL; Waller's Orch.. KOMO. 10:00 Bongs. KSL; Tucker's Orch., KOO; News Reporter, KPO, KPI; News, KOIN. 10:30 Orler's orch., KPI, KEX; Milne's Orch., KPO, KOW; Martin's Orch., KNX, KOIN, KSL. 11:00 Oaborne'a Orch., KSL. KOIN; Nottingham's Orch., KPO, KPI: Or ganist, KEX; Newa, KOO, KNX, KOW. Thursday 8:00 Major Bowes. KNX. KOIN, KSL; Oood News of 1940, KPO, KPI, KOW; Symphony Orch., KOO, KEX. 8:00 Drama, KOO, KEX; Work shop Pestlval, KOIN, KSL, KNX; Music Hall, KPO, KFI, KOW. 6:30 Concert Orch., KEX; Ameri can Viewpoints. KOIN; News, KJR. 7:00 Pred Waring, KPO, KOW, KPI; Prank and Archie. KOO. KEX: Amos and Andy, KNX, KSL, KOIN. 7:18 Question Bos, KOO; Jesters Orch., KOW; The Parker Family, KNX; KSL. KOIN; Safety Plrst, KPO; Doe 'a Music. KEX. KJR. 7:30 Joe E. Brawn. KNX, KSL. KOIN: Dorsey's Orch., KEX, KJR; Savltt'4 Orch.. KPO, KOW, KPI. 8:00 Dance Orch., KPO, KOW: Concert Hall, KOO; Ask-It-Basket. KNX, KSL. KOIN; Now and Then. KEX. 8:15 Now and Then, KOO; Stand ard Symphony Hour. KPO, KOW. j KPI; News. KEX. 8:30 Strange Aa It Seems. KNX. KOIN, KSL; Barnet's Orch.. KOO. 8:30 Dance Orch., KPO. KPI; Pel ton's Orch.. KSL: Sporu, KOIN. KPI; Kent's orch., KSL; News. KOIN. 10:15 Gentlemen Preferred. KPO, KPI; Classics for Today, KEX; Night cap Yarns. KSL, KOIN. 10:30 Grler'a Orch., KPO. KOW, KPI; Nottingham's Orch.. KEX; Mar tin's Orch.. KNX, KSL. 11:00 OUen's Orch., KPO, KPI: Osborne's Orch.. KOIN. KSL; News, KOO, KEX, KNX, KOW. T SEEDLESS FRUITS BOSTON, Sept. 13. yp Seediew tomatoes, which could be eaten by persons now allergic to tomatoes, and seedless watermelons, whose utility Is obvious to anyone who has flicked the seeds from a slice, may well be on the fruit stands of the future, a University of Michigan scientist said today. To a session of the American Chem ical society's 98th meeting. Dr. Felix O. Gustafaon disclosed recent re search In developing seedless fruits nought to sign up nearly 119.000 men as additions and replacements by next June 30, to reach a goal of 210.000 men, Including the Philippine scout a. One effect of the chief executive's order for a new objective of 337,000 army mvn will be to move the drive forward by several months, It was Mid. Including those for the air corps, ptviihly ao.000 ri'crults may be suiiRht by the end of the yu LATIN-AMERICAN TRADE SEEN HEADING FOR U. S. PORTLAND, Sept. 13. (V) Latin American orders to Germany pmb ably will be diverted to the United States an renvtlt of the European war, H. E. Wnterbury, district manager of the biiremi of foreign and domestic commerce, dee In red In at night. He Inferred hope and potatoes might find reutly enlarged Latin American markets. Seven Latin American countries nounht $3,000,000 worth of hops from Germany last year. He said W :i'7ikI nlr-rriv had made Inquiries conceit. ug Ort'n nopa WALKING LESSON By GLUYAS WILLIAMS bJIUIAttd IS LEFT IN CHARGE OF UNO.E, WHO DECIDES It IS fiME HE LEARNED fO WALK 15 UFfED To HIS FEET, AS UNCLE "TOIES To 6Et HIM To BftUflWCE ON THEM A6 UNCLE LE15 60, SINKS 6RACrTtJLLY T6TL00R AtfD BEAMS UP AT UNCLE HAStu SLIGHTEST IDEA WHAT IT'S AU. ABOUT, BUT THINKS IT'S FiM TO HAVE UNCLE KEEP LIFTING. HIM UP BEGINS lb ENTER INTO SfiME WITH ABANDOM. UNAS, WHOSE ARMS ARE SETTlfte Tired, is WilliH6 to c all THE L-ESSOtJ OFF IRelfMM by Ttift Bt'A Syndicate, loci BVTHBEATENIN6T0 CRY, Forces him to keep on urfiffe HIM. UNCLE CONSIDERS WHOLE IDEA OF TEACHING HIM ANV--CrilKG,. A BiS MISTAKE 9-g. through use of manufactured plant growth hormones. Seedless peppers, summer squash, eggplant fruits, cucumbers and to bacco already have been produced experimentally by treating plants with chemicals resembling nature's growth hormone. But so far the method has been too expensive for commercial application. Tomatoes of the seedless variety would be desirable, Gusrafson said, because seeds now affect certain peo ple physiologically. 4 Use Mall Tribute want ads. LONDON, Sept. IS. (JF United States broadcasting companies have curtailed their transatlantic broad casts from London of European war developments during the past week. Apparently this is partly due to tLs small amount of news officially re leased for publication. Fewer commentators are heard oa the International broadcasts. The script for news or comment must be submitted to a censor st the British Broadcasting company usually a member of the BBC staff aligned as censor. He heards and re turns It to the speaker with any suggested changes, then listens to the broadcast. The radio censors look mainly for military Information which might b useful to the enemy. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof addreas the author, Inclosing a stamped enrelope for reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Pat Off. T OHIO RIVER nooVZ.,, jjM mTWME MosTmtfTm emus' 7f " Pr Hi? ftazi MSVER SOUGHT k PATENT For MY OF HIS INVENTIONS FRANKLIN THE INVENTOR Financial gain ' was no object lo Benjamin Franklin, one of early America's most fertile Inventors, nho never nskeel a patent for any of hln Inventions. Anion? Franklin's luntrllmtinm to science are: a method for retnlnlng heat from a fireplace In a room: Identification of lightning and Invention or the lightning rod; lrl-focal glnsses; n musical Instrument; a smokc-consuinlng stove and an electric stove; Improvements In a street lamp, In meteorology, In hygiene, In ocennography; and a method of cooling hy evaporation. L In his autobiography Franklin wrote: "I concluded to let my papers shift for themselves, believing it nas better to spend what time I could spare from public business In making new experiments than In disputing about those already made." Tomorrow: The Light That Failed! TAILSPIN TOMMY By Guess ... or by Gosh I OH, GOLLY.. I FORGOT V I'M "GROUNDED"... ITS ) UNLAWFUL FOU ME TO FLY A PLANE AGAIN V, EVEN THIS OLDJTMATE By HAL F0EREP" The half-finished mill town DAM, WEAKENED BY TOR.R.ENTIAL RAINS, IS ABOUT TO BURST ALL MEfcNS OF WARNING THE VALLEY HAVE FAILED ALL EXCEPT ONE...TH6 ABANDONED PLANE IN THE BAKN BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Ballinger 's Lament 1 IE BUT I F- I DON'Tr-THOUSANDi TOO LATE NOW TO TUftN , 71 I TT f tmu i.htl. t.,e .c I gC "?f"SN AND DIRECTLY AHEAD 1$. 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