Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 03, 1939, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextPAflT! SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1939. Meet Mr. Lochinvar By Man Bliiard1 iupler 36 U:fl Foot. Right Fool THERE were excited whispers all about them. People stopped at tables on the way to weir own, leaned Jown, whispered. The dance floor was deserted, and thrnuffh the windows Cecily saw the men down on their knees, the porters with I ng brooms, r ine combine the room. She prayed they'd find that which they sought. "Must be worth ten thousand dollars. ... "It couldn't have been stolen "She said the clasp was weak. . . ." "Did you know that there's a rumor that tne reason iaoy nam bone left Mrs Brewster's suddenly was because she said a valuable diamond pin had been stolen? I told my nusDana . . . Cecily heard it all. "StuniH woman to wear a Jewel like that to a place like this," Gloria said. "Why?" Philip asked. "Every body knows everybody else. If there were any suspicion that it had been stolen, the committee would have gone about it more quietly, searched tne guests. "That sounds reasonable," Jim Penny said. "Why don't we sug gest it? Then there won't be any question about it. The men might submit 'o it without letting the ladies in on it." "Good ideal" Philip agreed. 'It's nasty business. I'll tell Lochran. Suppose we go In first?" Gloria said, "Don't be silly, Philip! Mrs. Goodale herself said the clasp was weak. It'll turn up. If you're feeling so energetic you might see if you can snag a waiter. I want some more coffee." Mrs. Goodale came back, look ing haggard under her smile. Im mediately all heads turned toward her. She stood In the door, holding up her hand. "It's all right, every body. I'm sorry my carelessness spoiled the party. Please forget that it happened. We're sure it will turn up somewhere. Anyway, it's insured. I'm afraid there isn't going to be any more dancinf, be cause the search isn't over and . . . So, the orchestra is moving over to my place and yuu're all invited I" Immediately there was con certed movement as chairs were moved back. As she got up, Cecily saw that the food on Laura's plate was untouched. Olivia came over to their table. "Children, it's after one. I'm going home but you all go on to Mrs. Goodale's if you wish." Tony said, I'm for going home." "So am I, Mother. The edge is off the party." They all decided to go Tiome. Laura leaned toward Cecily and said in a low voice, "Insurance companies don't pay large sums without making extensive in quiries, do they?" ucciiy snooK ner neaa. Oh. definitely not. she thought. The time that Doug had lost his gold cigarette case given to him on his twenty-first birthday, the place had been over-run with in' vestigators. If thev'J do that be fore paying a two hundred dollar ciaim, wnat would iney ao ror one as large as this one must be? They'd send detectives. They'd question everybody. They'd say. "Exactly who was at that party? They'd as1, if there were any sus picious characters seen about the grounds. They might even tie this up to the Brewster affair. Nightmares THEY might learn of the figure on the veranda. Had anyone else seen it? Had anyone heard her call, "It's Cecilyl" All that night she dreamed nightmares. Dreams in which po lice stood over her menacingly, threatening her with prison. They finger-printed her. They said, "You know all about it and we'll make you talk." And she sold. "Nol No! But Laura knowsl" And then in horror of what she had said, she woke up and was unable to sleep the rest of the night. A sudden thought assailed her. It wasn't like Laura to be secre tive. Then why was she? Was Laura being blackmailed! Some one or some group, had gotten poor little Laura into his clutches. Elicit was why she couldn't talk. What had happened to Laura the night she went to Locke's cabin? Poor girl, she had looked fright ened and ill I Laura had said, "1 can't tell you, Cecily ... I don't know any more than you do." Try as she would, Cecily, In spile of all she hat' seen, couldn't make a villain of Locke. His eyes kept coming between her and the fiicture of him with horns sprout ng from that clear forehead. Trying Ionian her course, Cecily dropped off to sleep. When she woke it wns bright morning. She felt under her pillow for her watch and .icered at it through sleepy eyes. Ten o'clockl She swung her legs out of bed and, not stopping for her exercises, washed and dressed hurriedly. She wouldn't even stop for breakfast. She felt she must be oft to the shop, to Laura. She put on a knitted dress, ran a comb through her hair and matched up the polo coat she had worn the night before. The house was still sleeping when she let herself out The first deep breath of morning air made her feel dizzy. She was hungry but she could get something to eat after she had seen Laura. Hunger and lack of sleep made her feel cold. The late September air had a sharp wintrj tang. II bit at her eyes, making them smart. She tightened the belt of her coat. pulle. the collar up around ner throat and plunged her hands deep in the pockets. Like the answer to some wire less message tapping at her mind, she slowed her steps, and her right nana in the pocKet 01 ner coat felt around in the depths, finding something unfamiliar. She knew what it was before she drew her handkerchief out Knew instantly what that cold. hard substance was. Mrs. Goodale a necklace lav there bunched in her hand. The sun striking the emerald flashed a cold green fire. As though it were Are. Cecily thrust it back in her pocket. Solution I EFT foot. Right foot. Mrs. Goodale didn't lose her neck lace. Left foot, right foot. Hard little marching steps increasing their pace. The necklace was a leaden weight in her Docket. On her mind. In her heart. Don't walk so fast When you come to the end or your journey, you 11 nave to ao something. There, Cecily struck s snag. She didn't know what to do about it. Take it back to Mrs. Goodale and try to explain how il got in her pocket? Cecily opened the door to hei shop, fumbling the key in the lock because her fingers were stiff. She took her hat off and ran hei Angers through her hair. There was a fire laid in the hearth. She touched a match to it and tried to warm herself befo.e the blaze. hoping with the heat to melt the bands that bound her brain. She sat there for twenty min utes ... an hour' . . . she didn't know how long, and .hen a solu tion came to her. The situation was now beyond her control. She could no longer accept responsi bility for what had happened. She would have to take it to someone else. That souieone was Donald Hem ingway. It might seem strange that it was Donald Hemingway who came to her mind. It wasn't, when you followed her thinking processes. Donald Hemingway was a bal anced person, a man who was ac customed to weighing the prob lems of others, to finding solutions from an objective point of view. And Donald Hemingway cared for Laura Atwill. Cecily s intui tion told her that. She dismissed Donald s attitude toward Laura in the past week, knowing that it was a misunderstanding thai prompted it. bne must still have had faith in Locke, she thought, or she wouldn't be going to see Donald Hemingway In Donald's old-fashioned pri vate office at the rear of the bank where they would not be dis turbed, she laid the necklace in his hand and told him the story. She told him all she could. She told him '.low she had first found Locke. She told him other things that revealed more than she knew but she did not tell him in words that she loved Locke. She was as honest as she could be. She told him about the incident of Lady Rathbone's loss, took the respon sibility for Laura's going to Locke's cabin. She told him every, thing that she knew about the night before. When she finished. Donald was silent for a few minutes, drawing tnotigntluny on his pipe. "Why did you come to me with this?" he asked finally. "Because . . , because I want your help. I want you to tell me the right thing to do. And . . . and I want you to find some way out of it without calling in the police. You see ... I ... I don't seem to know the right thing to do. I know that on the face of it all, he appears ir a very bad light, and yet . . . yet I don't believe he's guiltv. I don't believe he is thief!" ' Don t you. my dear? He smiled slowly. "Nor "I don't know him." he said. "but I'm Inclined to trust your judgment of people. Also, I'm graieiui to you tor making me see myself in an unpleasant Tight." His remark surprised Cecily. "1 don't understand ..." He got up and took di hat from a peg near the door. He held the door open for her. About Mrs. Atwill, he said. "I'm going to apologize to her." At that moment Cecily's con cern was not for Laura's mora personal predicament "But what about the . . ." "The handkerchief you found?" he asked blandly. "I'll drop in at the Yacht Club on my way out to Mrs. Atwill's and leave it in the owner's locker." Oh. thank you." Cecily couldn't say more. The weight dropping away irom ner snouidors left her weak. "And my dear. I suggest that you have luncheon with us if Mrs. Atwill can join us. In a lower voice he snid. "I think we should ask her advice." Continued tomorrow- SUPREME COURT WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. ;p Con fronted by a number of Important legal controversiei, the vupreme court JustlceA met Monday to open tlielr new 1930-40 term before going uAhe White House to pay their respecu to President Rooaevelt. Justice Pierce Butler, 111 In hos pital, wu the only one of the nine Justice missing as the members of the court, clsd In traditional blnek robe, marrned solemnly into Ihe chamber while the crier Intniwd the euetomsry "Oyrr, ojcx. oyre." torneya to practice and receiving a few motions, the court adjourned until next Monday. At that time It will announce whether It will re view approximately 300 cases filed during the mimrnrr. Same Territory LARAMIE. Wyo. AP) The trailer camp ground is a favorite place this year for University of Wyoming stu dent. So ninny wanted to pnrfc their trailers there for the winter, using them as college living quar ters, the place became overcrowded. Locations, with Hunt and water con nections, rent for 5 to 110 a month. Manes riant Heeds TUCSON, Arl. (AP) Airplanes now sweep over the wide open spaces of the southwest, droppln seeds The aim Is to prmot growth of tw1 strnv-n on th mmr. thus Im fjpviUf giatiug oottOitlona, On the Radio Chains STATIONS Where to Find Them on the Dial: HEX, Portland. 1180; KFL. 640. Lot Angeles; KOA. 1470. Spokane. KUO, 780, San Francisco; KUW 620, Portland; KJK, 070, Seattle. KNX. 1050. Lot Angeles; KOA. K30. Denver; KOIN, DID, Portland HOMO, 920. Seattle; KHO. ISM. Han FranclK-o; KSL, 1180. gall Lake. Tuesday. 5:00 Army Band. KPO. KPT, KGW. 6 :30 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, KOO, KEX. KJR; Tuesday night Party, K8L; Heldt's orch., KPO, KPI. :0O The Almanac, KOO, KEX; Aurandt's Orcb., KNX: Shaw's Orch.. KPO. KPT, KOW. 8:30 Fibber McGee, KPO, KPI: Croiby'i Orch., KNX, KSU KOIN; True Story. KPO. KJR, KEX. 7:00 News, KOO. KEX, KJR; Va riety Program, KPO, KGW, KPI; Call ing All Cars, KNX. 7:30 Dog House. KPO. KPI. KGW; Inside story, KOO, KEX. KJR; Sports Pop-Otfl. KNX, KOIN; News. KSL. 8:00 Amos and Andy, KNX, KOIN. KSL; Fred Waring, KPO, KPI, KOW; Information Please, KOO, KEX, KJR. 8:30 This Moving World. KOO, KEX; Johnny Presents, KPO, KPI, KOW; Big Town. KOIN", KNX. 0:00 News, KOO, KEX; Tuesday Night Party, KOIN, KNX: Oood Morning Tonight, KPO, KPI, KOW. 8:30 Mesaner's Orcb.. KOO, KEX: Battle ot the Sexes. KPO, KGW, KPI: We. the People, KNX, KSL, KOIN; News. KJH. 10:00 News Reporter. KPO, KPI, KOW; Sullivan. KNX. KSL; Tucker's Orch., KGO, KJR, KEX. ' 10:30 Foster's Orch.. KPO, KPI. KOW; James' Orch., KGO, KEX, KJR; Chester's Orch.. KNX, KOIN, KSL. 11:00 Razazza's Orch.. KPO, KPI; Organist. KEX: Barnett's Orch., KSL, KOIN; News, KOO; KNX, KOW. Wednesday. 8:00 Wo Present, KGO: Sherman Present. KOMO: Fred Waiing's Orch.. KPO, KEX, KJR, KOW. 5:30 Buenos Noches Aminos, KPO. KPI. KOW; Concert Orch., KGO. KEX, KJR. 8:00 Star Theater, KSL, KOIN. KNX: Horse and Buggy Days, KGO, KEX; Musical Soiree. KPO, KPI, KOW. 8:30 Martin's Music, KOO, KEX: Hollywood Playhouse, KPO, KOW; News, KJR. 7:30 Burns and Allen. KOIN: Kyser's Orch., KPO, KPI; New. KOO. KEX, KJR. 7:30 Burnas and Allen, KOIN, KSL: Radio Forum. KOO. KJR. 8:00 Wartng's Orch., KPO, KGW: Herth Trio, KFEX; Aloha Land, KGO; Amos and Andy, KNX, KOIN, KSL. 8:30 Whlteman's Orch.. KNX, KSL. KOIN; This Moving World. KGO, KEX; Avalon Time, KPO, KPI, KOW. 9 :00 Honolulu Bound, KNX. KSL, KPI, KNX. KOW. KNX. KOIN; Fred Allen, KPO, KOW; Cat. Composers, KGO, KEX. 9:30 Teagaxden'a Orch.. KOO, KEX; Dance Orch., KNX, KOIN, KSL: News, KJR. 10:00 Martin's Orch.. KOO. KJR, KEX: News. KNX, KSL: News Re porter. KPO. KPI. KOW. 10:30 Tucker's Orch., KGO, KPI. KJR, KEX: Razazza'a Orch., KPO. KGW; Dance Orch, KNX. KOIN. KSL. 11:00 Barnett's Orch., KSL. KOIN; Nottingham Orch.. KPO. KPI; Or ganUt, KEX; News, KOO; News, KNX, KOW. t PORT ANGELES, Wash.. Oct. 8 W Ernest Brock, 23. of ths Round mountain district near Port Angeles, shot himself accidentally through the thigh yesterday when he stumbled over s log while deer hunting. He told hospital attendants here his rifle discharged when he stum bled and the bullet grazed his wrist and passed through his right thigh. Intern Hitler's Friend LONDON. Oct. 8. JAP) Dr. Ernst (Putzl) Hanfstaengl, American-educated publicist and one-time close friend of Adolf Hitler, was said to day by acquaintances to have been Interned by the British government. HAIR TROUBLE Is By GLUYAS WILLIAMS KFALI2E5 HEOUorlf 1o DO SOME" tHIrte ABOUT HIS HAIR ON tiUOM OF COMPANY C0MIK6 SWDMHES rf DOWN WllH fiH6EK, ONt S1V0BDRH LOCK PERSISTitJS IN" SfAHDIK6 UPRIGHT A MTV RJf 6tTs PESPERATC, and dips whole head in water. Si USKBmJSH AMP COMB, LOCK S-fiU CJRI.IN6 UPWARDS. WETS BRUSH, Wi H NOf MUCH BEfTER. M AFttR VI60R6U5 BRUSHING, IS PLEASEP 10 SEE -THAT HE HAS TiNMlY fCRCED LOCK DOWM flflf 4-s 60E5 TOWN TO JOIN THE COMPANY, BH55ti)aY UNAWARE "THAI UCK HAS SUBMlffcD ONLY MOMEHfARH W AND 6 STANDIN6 UP ASAlK ( Released by The Bell Syndicate iBft.) L ENM '39 PACK PORTLAND. Oct. 8. Edgar M. Bums, secretary of the Northwest Canners' association, said today ap proximately 65 Oregon and Wash ington canneries had sold or con tracted their entire 1939 pack. By January 1, Burns added, buy ers would have to dip Into the 193S surplus for supplies. Prices are low. but Burns declared a profit margin for fruit and vegetable packers ex sited for the first time In years. Burns said sharply curtailed mid western packs and slightly reduced northwestern volume, combined with sudden demand arising from the Eu ropean war, had created the situation. Weather Northern California: Fair and mild tonight and Wednesday but cloudy extreme north portion Wednesday! moderate northwest wind off th coast. Oregon: Cloudy tonight with rain In northwest portion, warmer In west and cooler In extreme east portions; Wednesday cloudy with rain In west and north portions; gentle northwest wind off the coast, becoming variable. Marriage Teat Accepted CAMDEN, N. Jj (UP) Southern New Jersey couples have withdrawn opposition to New Jersey's pre-marital blood test law. according to the marriage license bureau. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address tho author, inclosing a stamped enrelope for reply. Reg. TJ. S. Pat OS. poPPEP OUT OF WATSR PM1CET5 IN HOME'S, II , Cpr. I ll Yf mit remlar Sidkalsv Tb." V ' jgTN g-y TtB- Kef. V. g. fM. Oil All rlfhu itttm4 .1 . f -fastest cfrummerj VzCHht h TRAP CELEBRlTyjv UM&OfM ACCPENJ -$M ItfT HIM CRIPPLED jVRUMMlNd WAS1H6 ' 'oNLV EXERCISE DocToRl Found h walnut leaf WiTH Her initials ( tv) NATURALLY MARKEPpNJT.' IIUXCIinACK OF SWINC1 A little Negro youth lay crippled for life In Baltimore by a fall that made him a hunrhbaek. Young Chick Webb's mother was told by the doctor that the boy could stand no exercise, except, perhaps, the wielding of drumsticks. He developed, on his mother's pots and nans, a sense of rhythm that eventually won him natlon-wlda fame as a drummer. He wrote several hit songs before death halted his career last summer. ARKANSAS' CAPITOLS Still In exlutcnee are Arkansas' three capltol build Ings the first territorial capltol; the one used from 1836-lfUO, and the one In use today. TOMORROW: What state had four governors In two weeks In 1935? TAJXSPIN TOMMY Tommy Blunders ! Bv HAL F0RRE31 T'NK CAN GETl DON'T TAKE A LOOK- !w7 Tfl N. ( TOMMY) ' rvi i UIIU, , l A JOB FLYING I GET YOU SEE. TOMM ft f BETTY vHijl X UJ3Y,lSi.X"LL' M$;0W AN g A CAMERA SHIP, 4 CHIEF PVER THERE MdVJ YOU NOT KN0WTAIL5 PI N f YOU'O WANT TO BE --vj a ir IpT IJ-V!mS . FOr SOUND WIRED?pTHAT MOVIE; IN THIS PICTURE, ' Wi , -W hmWi1 kOU 'AVE KILL THEES JOB ,X : BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER-Idcntity Revealed! Bv EDWHJ ALGER '' :- ( I DEMANOY My GOOD MAN, I I THAT'S LAY M, ISN'T I I DID I HEAR V IF YOUR EARS I I MY PEAR YOUMG LADY PgSgSS' Sa THE RI6HT ANY CITIZEN TELUN" IT HE SOMEONE I AIN'T PACKED AM VERY HAW lo Y mmBk TO ASK A MAY ASK MB HIM, ON, HANDSOME! ASK WHO I I WITH WAX, ANSWER YOUR QUEStToN- ' . 3UESTtONjy fly . rr'?j WILUSLUSji WHO IS MI6HT BEtJV-. Y'DIO! I AM 0 FAGlN StIplOCK, THE NEBBS An Invitation By SOL HESS CVSST1 UELLC? OH, WELLO, SARAH 2 THH.RES GOIkl' TO BE.Vip VOU WAMT XlLL GO ALOMS OUST TO MAKE HECK ( MR NEBB ' ' j VGEE, ITS MICE J APACPST"M ME TO i'D GWdOYj GOOD AMD JEALOUS IT MIGHT WAKE 1 NtDD- 7 VTjo SEE VOU AyOV GOMTA COME JX. TA - (WIM UP TO WIS EARTHLY RESPONSIBILITIES. T i v l!- '? OWITH HECK ?dsr jrr-- 1 BT RST Op WIS AM ATOMY J 4t I s l- rrC 7r Triv? ' V womders what puts life im his