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Wtimti 'MMWIilTi li'T- """" ' "r Ti8" -"f-Vf PAGE TEN 'MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1939 rleef Jr. Lochinvar By Marit Bliwrd VESTeRDA7; La&v Rathboiu can't find her diamond pin, and Insists that it won't LOST. Urt. Brewster smooths over th un pleasant situation. Back at Olio it's Tony finds her bracelet on Her bed. Chapter 29 . our Quart Of Raspberries LAURA'S small cottage lay I short distance to the right from the fork to the North road. The fork to the North road was a spot that would remain forever in Cecily Stuart's memory. The path to the North road was the one that led to the little shack, to Locke, to her heart There were dewy cobwebs on the grass at that early hour. There Were bright thistles and little crickets. New things to see in the arly morning. Cecily greeted them all. Laura's house had the look of a bouse asleep and, momentarily, Cecily felt that she ought to let it remain in its peace. But the pangs of hunger assailed her. She rapped loudly on the white door. Laura, sleepy-eyed, opened the door. "What brought you here?" "Starvation," Cecily answered concisely, "and a desire for com pany. Lead me to the kitchen and prepare to be waited on." "You know where it is. You'll Bnd bacon and other things in the cupboard. I'll be with you in a IWy." Cecily threw her coat on a set tee and found an apron. She tied it on, took mixing bowls and skil let from Laura's pantry and went to work. Break the eggs into the bowL Add a teaspoonfulof ice cold water and one of thick cream for each egg. "Have you any Wor cestershire? Good! Six drops per egg. Beat trie aayiignu out or them. Home-made bread? It's too good to toast. Put the coffee on. Why does coffee cooked over a wood fire taste like something from Heaven? Cook the bacun quickly and put it on a piece of crown paper to drain. There, now, pop in the beaten eggs. Thick yellow china on a plaid cotton tablecover. A brown bean Jar filled with marigolds. Sunlight like a benediction. Oh. it's fun to play house! It would be heavenly to have a house of one's own. No wonder the song-writers get lyri cal over hearths and little white cottages and curtains in the breeze. They never write about mansions on Fifth Avenue, do they? Or French windows, or team pipes? "Yuml" Laura, wide-awake, her nose eagerly sniffing the break fost smell, came into th kitchen. "So you've domestic tale"tsl" "Try a snack of this and And cut," Cecily said, helping her gen erously from the platter of eggs. "How was the party?" Laura said a little later. "Well, it was exciting. Very for mal at first In fact very formal to the very end, but there was an Interlude! It began with may-I-presents, went on to clear mush room soup, broiled sole, pheasant in wine sauce, peas in cream, arti chokes and a dessert made of fresh raspberries, cream and I-wouldn't-know-what but glorious." "All right, gourmette! Was that all the excitement?" Cecily laughed. "I'll weigh two hundred before I'm thirty if I keep up this Maine appetite. No, pet that wasn't all. Lady Rath bone lost a valuable diamond pin and practically accused all of us of taking it" "No!" "Yes! But Madame Brewster handled it so beautifully. I'm sure that just by willing it she made the pin appear exactly where it should have been after we left I suppose things like that seem ter ribly portentous up here just be cause things like that don't hap pen here, as Aunt Olivia pointed out" Tocke's Strike' "15 UT something must have hap- - penedl If she doesn't find the pin, surely mere u oe ponce om eers." "Oh. Laura, don't be ridicukus! Can you imagine a police officer tendering nis earn at Mrs. Brew ster s iront door; "It docs sound exciting. Cecily! What good luck! Late yesterday tne orcnia yarn mat Miss unanv pion ordered came in. I can take it up to her this morning and see II me pin turned up. Miss Champion was Mrs. Brew ster's companion-secretary. "Don't you want to take a blood hound with you?" Cecily laughed Cecily kept her bemused smile to herself when she saw Laura looking at the clock later that morning while she unpacked her case ot yarn. "I really ought to take this to Miss Champion, she ventured. "Whv don't vou?" Cecilv ore tended that she didn't know Laura was burning up with curiosity A half-hour later, she was glad that Laura had gone. Locke presented hlmsell at the screen door DacK ot me shop. "I brought you a present,' he aid grandiloquently and he pre tented her a small jar ot jam. "Jam!" she said, as though were a iar of rubies. "The jam what am," he pro On the Radio Chains JAPS LOOK ASKANCE AT STRENGTHENING U.S. NAVAL FORCES TOKYO, Sept. 31. A foreign office spokesman today declared "certain sections of public opinion which can not be Ignored" considered atrenuth lng of the United States navy an "unfriendly act" toward Japan. (The spokesman apparently refer red to the United States' naval con struction program. ) Jnpan's determination remains un ehrtiid.. he asserted, to establish an east Asia economic bloc, Including nounced. "Raspberry, and made by my own lily-white hands." "Locke, how cute of you!" "Please, Cecily, not that! How can you undignify my latest indus trial effort with such a term?" "I suppose now you're going to become a great canner?" she asked, resigned to his nonsense, "Why not? Not that I'm the do mestic type, but a smart salesman knows how to dispose of all his goods. By the way, the berry in dustry is going full swing. Yester day I told four quarts of berries and got an order for more. So, charming as your company is, I must away to my calling." "Where do you berry?" she asked, casting about for something to keep him there. "Remember the spot where we saw the thatched roof through the trees the day we had our steak supper?" Cecily said she did. "It's near there. You strike off from the road we traversed, come to a clump of alders, and back of a fleldstone wall is the berry picker's paradise. I call it Locke's Strike. Or is it that bad?" "Very bad," she said readily. "And I always count on you for the best" "Do you really?" he asked with a quick change of manner. Cecily was never prepared for that change and it found her now com pletely disconcerted, as always. The way he had of searching her eyes, of questioning the very depth of her. Asking and never giving. For she never knew what he was thinking. News-Bearer SHE nodded her head, the ges ture her only answer. She was unable to say: I expect everything good of you. Abruptly, at usual, he was leav ing. This time she couldn't let him go. All the things she had scolded herself about all the resolutions she had made not to try to hold him, to pursue him, were forgot ten. "You're a very unsatisfactory person," she said abruptly. "I know I am," he answered, as though he understood her. "But I warned you, Cecily, that I was. And now I have something I want to ask of you." "Yes." He tilted her chin up and Cecily thought: He's going to kiss me again. "Just remember that I won't always be unsat' 'actory. Do you think you can remember that?" "Perhaps," she said, drawing away because she was disap pointed, ashamed of being dis appointed. "Well, berries won't get off their pretty branches and bounce into my pail. I'm off." ijoodoy," she said. "Thank you for the jam." "I'll be back to see how you like it" That was nearer then he had ever come to saying that he would come again. L,aura returned a few minutes after he left She wore an impor tant news-bearing expression. "Wall nihot no, "Lord and Ladv Rathbone left this morning!" "Not reaflyl Oh, Laura, how friehtfullv unDleasant for Mrs. Brewster! Did you see Miss Champion?" she practically fell on mv neck, dying to talk it over with someone. Their Highnesses, or whatever you call 'em, were sup posed to stay ior tne weex-eno, out Ladv Kathoone had such a bad night her husband thought they ought to leave -t once." "But the pin? Did it turn up?" "Not a sight or sign of it Miss Champion says Mrs. Brewster holds that Lady Rathbone didn't have it with her. Anyway it's insured." Any sign of your nolice offi cers?" "No excitement at all. Misa Champion said Mrs. Brewster had an the servants in last night after me dinner guests ielt and con vinced the Kathbones that they were quite honest and she, Mrs. Brewster, personally vouched for the honesty of all her guests. Cer tainly no one from your house, and certainly the Misses Amanda and Beatrice Smithers would have no use for diamond sunbursts." 'And was that all?" "There was nne mora little thing. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Brewster's cook, Addie, bought some raspberries from a man she had never seen before. She was awfully busy and asked him to turn the ice-cream freezer for that raspberry concoction vou were ( laving auuuu Cecily felt the muscles around her mouth grow stiff while she waited to hear more. I "She put the man 10 work out on the side porch snd left him there. But she's quite sure that he couldn't have got into the house without her knowing it." "Who was the man, Laura? You say it was a man she : ad never seen before? There aren't any men within miles of Vickersport that Addie wouldn't know. Why, you and I know everyone here! "I don't know. That's what she said. And people do come from all over to sell berries." Cecily said, "Laura, where else, other than the Brewsters', would a rfian have been likely to sell four quarts of raspberries yesterday?" Continued Monday, all China. Japan and Mar.ehoukuo. United States trade with the bloc would bo under restrictions such as now limit H In M&n.-houkuo. the spokesman said. Yaklchlro Sums, former counselor of the Japaneso embassy In Wash lngton, told Japanese newspapers that "the feeling of the American navy is unusually bad toward Japan. Suma la en route to a new poet In Hsklnklng. Manchoukuo. He declared an Informal beer drinking salute of American naval officers was "Remember the Panay referring to the United States gun boat which was aunk by Japanese bombs on the Yangtae, December 13, 1937. WINDOW CI LASS We tell window gliua and will replace your broken windows reasonably. Trowbrldgo Cab met Works STATIONS There to Plod Them on the Dial: HEX, Portland, 1180; KFU MO. Lot Angelei; KOA, 1470, Spokane; BOO. 180, San Francisco; KGW. 620, Portland; KJB. 870, Seattle; KNX. 1050, Lot Angeles; KOA, 830. Denver; EOIN, 040. Portland; KOMO, 026, Seattle; KPO, 630, San Francisco; KSL, 1180, Salt Lake. Thursday. 5:00 Major Bowes, KNX, KOIN, KSL; Good News of 1940, KPO, KFI. KOW; Symphony Orch., KJB. KOO. SEX. 8:001001 Wives, KOO, KEX; Co lumbia Workshop, KOIN, KSL, KNX; Muslo Hall, KPO, KFI. 8:30 Concert Orch., KNX; Ameri can Viewpoints, KOIN, KSL, KNX; Newt, KJB. 7:00 Prd Waring, KPO, KOW. KFI; Prank and Achle, KOO, KEX; Amos and Andy. KNX, KSL, KOIN. 7:18 Jester's Orch.. KOW; The Parker Family, KNX, KSL. KOIN; Safety First, KPO; Doe's Music, KOO, KEX, KJB, 7:30 Joe E. Brown, KNX, KSL, KOIN; Doe's Orch., KEX, KJB; Ques tion Box. KOO; Savltfs Orch., KPO. KOW, KFI. 8:00 - Dance Orch., KPO, KOW; Concert Hall, KOO; Ask-It-Basket. KNX, KSL, KOIN; Now and Then, KEX, KJB, 8:18 -Now and Then, KOO, KOW, KFI; Newt. KNX. 8:30 -Strange Aa It Seems, KNX, KOIN,' KSL; Bamett't Orch, KOO, KJR. 0:00 Levant's Orch-, KOO; News, KJR. - 9:30 Rawazza't Orch., KPO, KFI; Marlsoo'a Orch, KOO, KJR; Dsnce Orch., KSL; Sports Pop-Otis, KOIN. 10:00 -Nws Reporter, KPO, KOW, KFI; Ken't Orch, KSL: Classics for Today. KOO, KJR; Newt, KOIN. . 10:80 Orler't Orch, KPO, KOW, KFI; Nottingham's Orch, KOO. KJR, KEX: Martin's Orch, KNX, KSL. 11:00 Olsen't Orch, KPO. KFI: Osborne's Orch, KOIN, KSL; News, KOO, KEX, KNX, KOW. Frldsy. 5:00 Plantation Party, KOO, KEX, KJR; Waltz Time, KPO. KFI, KOW; Prof. Quiz, KNX, KSL, KOIN. 8:30 Morltck's Orch, KJR; Quiz Prgm, KPO; In the Good Old Days, KOO; First Nlghter, KNX, KSL. KOIN. 8:00 Drama, KNX. KOIN, KSL: Lombardo's Orch, KPO, KFI, KOW; Concert Orch, KOO, KEX. 8:30 America Unlimited, KPO, KFI, KOW: Heldt'a Orch, KOO, KEX; Robert Ripley, KNX, KSL, KOIN; News, KJR. 7:00 Fred Waring, KPO, KOW, KFI; Amos and Andy. KNX, KOW. KSL; Frank and Archie, KOO, KEX. 7:18 Teagarden's Orch, KFI. KOW; Lum and Abner, KNX, KOIN, KSL; Swing, KOO, KEX; Who's In Town Tonight KPO. 7:30 Dorsey's Orch, KOO, KEX; Johnny Presents, KNX, KOIN. KSL: Deutsch't Orch, KPO, KFI, KOW. 8:00 Fitzgerald Orch, KEX. KJR; Oood Morning Tonight, KPO, KOW. KFI: Danes Hour, KOO: I Want a Divorce, KNX. KOIN, KSL: Death Valley Days, KPO, KOW. KFI, 9:00 Levant's Orch, KPO; Dance Orch, KOOI Newt, KJR, 9:30 Tucker's Orch, KPO, KGW, KFI; James Orch, KOO; Newt, KSL. 10:00 Kelly's Prgm, KOO, KJR: Newt Reporter, KPO, KPL KOW; Kent's Orch, KSL: Newt. KOIN. 10:30 Olsen't Orch, KPO, KOW; Orler't Orch, KOO, KJR, KEX; Dance Orch, KOIN. KNX, KSL. 11:00 Nottingham's Orch, KPO. KPT: Civic Auditorium, KOIN, KSL; News, KOO, KNX, KEX. KOW. CONTRACT FOR SIX LET WASHINGTON. Sept. 1. V-The maritime commission today awarded a contract to the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock company, Chester, Pa., for construction of six direct drive dlesel csrgo vessels of the C-3 design, to cost 12,277,00 esch. Thlt brings awards under the com mission's construction program to 114 ships. The C-2 ships are 459 feet overall; 13,900 tons displacement and have a speed of 15 ! knota. CALLING DADDY toMfife 1 ' By GLUYAS WILLIAMS WANTS to HAVE PADDY HEAR HoW Wm JUKIOR CM SPEAK OK 1E1.E PHOrfE AND CMLSHM UPAf OFFICE DISCOVERS, WHEN SHE AT lASf 616 HIM ON LINE, "friAr JUNIOR HPS MFANWHIIE PRIFfEP OFT SOME WHERE. SHOUTS FOR him JUNIOR REIuRHSjAPW MEAH WH11E HMJ6IK6 UP OS ACCOUHfOF BEitfe VEIN BUSY". GETS HIM AtSflln , M WHICH rWIDrf DOORBELL RIN6e,OtWjOR SAVlKS HE'U 60, SHE SHOlXlHfe 1b COME BACK AMD MAN AT DOOR CflUlK HE'S COME FOR "THE LAMDRY WHEN frit EitClTEMEKTHAS DIED ToWN.-fAKES JUNIOR IN LAP Mere he cmW &e away mv call's wuv once more fRflerfj by Thft Bll Bynrltcat. !n. sets him, explains previous mis adventures AND MAKES A FUTiLE EWE FOR JUNIOR AS HE ROLLS OFF LAV AND BURSTS Ittfb SCREAMS- HArfeS UP - 7-6 U. P: EXPANSION OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 21 (JPf Onion Pacific railroad officials ssld today more than 900 additional men have been hired slnoe Sept. 1 In ths rail road's 918,000,000 expansion program. The road has hired 310 machinists and 803 car men at shops In Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, Cheyenne, Port land, Los Angeles and other points, and 398 locomotive workmen to be placed at various points u they are needed. Wm. Jeffert, Union Paclfle presi dent, announced recently that ma terial orders for construction of 3.000 additional lightweight box-cart have been issued, representing sn outlay of te.ooo.ooo. Bishop In Smtthnp PENDLETON. Ore., Sept. 31. (AP) Rt. Rev. and Mrs. William P. Remlng- - .. i.m Oreeon Episcopal MJU -w - - diocese were injured, but not danger ously, in an automooue aociucuv night on the highway three miles north of Adams. The bishop suffered a broken finger and cut on the arm and Mrs. Remington. cut on the forehead. Five Hurt In Bmashup. ALBANY, Ore.. Sept 31. (API A collision between automobiles drive by Mrs. Ruth Horn of Portland an Mrs. Adeline Romaln. Reno, Nev last night near Harrlsburg InJureeJ five persons, one crltlcslly. Mrs. Horn suffered t fractured collar bona. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot further proof addret the author, tndotlnf iUmpod onfolops for reply. Re. TJ. 8. Pt Oft. Kct0rMP,L0T?i I'.Z Army Air Corps fyeff m NBVER CRA$HEDA $HIP H MoRg THftH 7BOO HOUR'S of, FLYING oVer 20 AND 'LANDED 7k0 BURNING PLANES' 111 w wm saa ! ni - -am toUQUtt 0? 6endae, Caif., s 3IJH. OWrSfHE GAME CORSA6B SHE WORE AT HER WEDDIN6 i 2o Years haol 5; viOKitVv WKUWI vM0Kt5lftl.lv k 3t Atiacofnf. Mont, WASHM6T0N MoNUMBHT coMPLsmi insipe ny fas fid 8b feet, base) -Trie fiAV SAToR a natural woo J formation jbundby FrankDunn, longIslandlN.t 7 -7 -I"fc'tlMPMtiBn4iifciBi1 II.. M TEST PILOT Thirteen may be an unlucky number, but IS times Major John D. Corkille hurled Into the elr for te flights the U. S. army's new lti-ton " YB-17 V known as Flying Fortresses. Not a single mishap came to Major Corkille, but five days after he tested one of the Fortresses, tt crashed with another pilot at the controls. The 49-year-old pilot first enlisted In the army air service In 1917, became a test pilot at Wright field, Dayton, Ohio, In 1938, There he once brought down a burning ship Instead of using his parachute. In 1919, flying a DH-9 In Florida, Corkille faced a similar emergency when n broken connecting rod set his ship afire. He landed the plan e and stepped out uninjured. The DH-9 burned to the ground. TOMORROW: A 57,000-carat "diamond"! TAILSPIN TOMMY A Downcast Hero! Bv HAL FORREST IT WAS ft BRAVE THING A BUT, MR.HILK, I WAS A PIIotAAN' WHY WELL , I THOUGHT I COULD T 71 TOMMY... RISKIN' DEATH WlT WASN'T THE AT ONE TIME . DIDN'T Y6 JUST START OVER AGAIN., I " -Cl- TO FLY AN AIRPLANE yjfkr-l RST TIME. . BUT LOST MY VTELL US BUT NOW Pvfc LOST MY 1 , Vn. -vvf FOR THt FIRST TIMEjieVrJT rtl LICENSE... VTHAT. LAST CHANCE TO GET Yt J V"- JsTw? iliav jf. iTjw ANDW THU MOMENT AN OFFICIAL i iVS'iWJJT KmSmilt ITW'I J I I'A-- PIAN! FROM WASHINGTON SPEEDS TOWARD BUT NOT FPU TOMMY. f M W Q T- ..rhiJ I W PV'.tlSI MIUTOWN..WITH OUDtM TO CONTACT TOMMY BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Bad News, We Hope I Bv EDWIN ALOES jjl 'pijll.fej;; 'i;r....AAV MAN WARNER SAYs'ijjjjij (III I T OEHOSOPHAT I'LL A I W LISTEN VNUMBSKULLl A I'LL BET THIS IS THE WORK;lllil!j)l)(. ! (Isl! fil;';1!1; WE'RE APT TO HIT OIL AT Villi II I BE RUINED IF 1 I VOU ROUNO UP GENE 1 O1 THEM TWO YOUNG VjllMlllJ''' :l h' HAPPY VALLEY IN LESS'N I I LET THIS SITUATION I I WARNER 'N' GIT HIM DOWN I TRICKSTERS! I JEST KNOW 1 A MONTH HMMM, SOME I I GIT AWAY FROM ME! I I HERE AS FAST AS A J IT IS! AN' I'LL BLAST 'EM I MAIL MEBBE IT'S MORE (feferaTT hmfM a. BULLET! V'HBAR M6? J BOTH OUT Ol HAPP VALLEY ' jR THE NEBB3 At Last By SOL HESS TX.L JUST TOSS IM A A COUPLE TIMES FROM I I THE DOCK. GOT AS MUCH ' A. CHA.UCE HERE AS J j UaM' I rirtV A.T TU AT R&RV MOW IF 1 CAW LA.MD HIM , 1 HAVEMT LIVED IN VAIKJ! 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