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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1939. After A Man's Heart by JEAN RANDALL- YESTERDAY: AtMnt, the dit honest foreman who rented Tim the Carroll's ranch for Septem ber, hot rented it aaain for Oc tober. The new arrivals are Mr. and tin. Hunt, and daughter Maudie May, uhoj appetite IcnouM no bounds. Chapter Eight The Siege ALONE in the dining room, Tim and Buif were joined by Mrs. Webb. "Should I take her up some oda?" asked the anxious cook, "Or mebhv we'd best net Dr. West land out right away. She added the exclamation she employed only in times of crisis. "Mygood- nessgracioussakesalivel Tim moDDed his forehead. ihall burst myself, just thinking bout it. "Oh, don'tl" Buff pleaded. "1 feel absolutely suffocated. Still, her narents didn't seem alarmed. And she hasn't put on all that poundage nibbling away on a lamD cnop ana nineaoDle diet. Tim. I'm sorry to leave you alone, but I've got to get some exercise at oncel l snail take a long tramp climb Audu bon and JLongs ana fine a, per haps. He caught her arm. "No, you don'tl I can get about pretty well on these infernal crutches, and I'm not going to be left alone here with that that anaconaa. 11 migni oc cur to her to come down for a mid - afternoon snack. Take me along. Buff, of your charity. Mrs. Webb " The cook had sunk Into a chair and was starine at the table. "I wouldn't a-believed it if 1 hadn't seen it with my own eyes! (our chickens, and a good size they was, too! besides all them vegetables and things. You sure ain't going to make money on tnese ooaraers, Miss Buffi" "No," the girl assented, "I sure ain'tl Webby, about supper now I hope you heard me say supper! Webby nodded, her eyes glazing as she made a mental inventory of the food consumed. "I ain't no murderer, Miss Buff. The Hunts were still In posses lion when Buff and Tim returned late in the afternoon. Mrs. Webb reported that there had been sev eral calls for Tim from Boulder. He applied himself to the tele phone and came away, looking troubled. "We can do nothing about It this afternoon, Buff. Worse than that, it looks as if Hunt has a real case, if you try to put him out. He rented the ranch in good faith, as he says, from a man who was, to all intents and purposes, your father's legally constituted agent. Johnson says" Johnson was the name of the law yer "that it will be a couple of weeks before you can get rid of them if you can at all. How ever " he came closer and sank his voice. "There are more ways to kill a cat than by choking it with butter! If the table you set fails to iatisfy Maudie May " Mischief danced across her face. "I get you!" She flashed out of the room and into the kitchen. When the strangely assorted family assembled for the final meal of the day, Maudic May looked about her in pained surprise. There was a bowl of bluish milk at each plate; crackers and none too many of them in a bowl on the table. Nothing else. "Where's the soup?" she de manded. "I never heard of starting dinner with crackers and milk." No More Food?' BUFF explained pleasantly. "We dined at noon. We're simple ranch folk, you know, and keep to country ways." Maudie tipped her bowl and wallowed the last drop. "I hone there's plenty to make up for this silly start." "Have you all finished?" Buff was urbane. "Then shall we go in to the living room?" "But but " Maudie May's eyes were popping. "We haven't had dinner supper yet!" "Oh, yes! I thought you under stood. We have our big meal in the middle of the day, as I told you. Just a snack at night." "No more food?" The Hunts were plainly incredulous. "But this is outrageous! Maudie May's hun gry," her father announced as one explaining that his child had been on a forced starvation diet for days. "She'll be ill if she doesn't have solid fond." "I'm sorry! I thought this morn ing you wouldn't like staying here. Mr. Corliss," went on Buff primly, "has a bad case of dyspepsia" she refused to see his start of angry surprise "and Dr. West land pre fers that he have a light meal at night I have to watch mv own diet, too, so that's all right. I've a ten dency to stoutmva." said Bull; Buff who was as sltm as one of the aspen trees now shaking its golden leaves ouUMe the window. She led the way .mo the living room, and the Hunts trailed disconsolately behind her. 'There, petty, there! I've just re membered!" Mrs. Hunt lumbered awkwardly to her feet. "There's almost half that box of chocolates left. I'll go up and " She stopped, sending a suspicious look about the room. "Perhaps you'd better come upstairs with me," she finished. At bedtime Buff was conscious of the pangs of hunger. Dinner had gone practically uneaten, supper had been one cracker and the bow of bluish milk. Her healthy young body cried out for sustenance. She put on her bathrobe and soft-soled slippers; crept down to the kitchen. A light burned there. "I thought you'd be down," Tim assured her. "Webby, bless her, apparently thought so, too. Look He pointed proudly to the kitch en table. A large frosted cake glistened; half a baked ham was yielding up its savoriness under his sharp knife. A glass pitcher of milk showed blobs of cream. "Fall to!" he bade her. They ate In companionable silence. Departure THE siege lasted but two days. Tim, after another talk with his friend Johnson, convinced Buff that it was far better to make the ranch an uncomfortable abiding place for the resolute Hunts, than to resort to law in the matter. "It's not Important enough for that," he argued. "And what is more, I think Hunt is staying more out of sheer obstinacy than be cause he wants the place. Let me manage mis ror you, nuir, and we'll see their retreating backs in a day or two." With Mrs. Webb he strueeled for a couple of meals, then finding that her outraged soul could not be brought to setting the kind of table he ordered, he informed her she had a bad case of lumbago and must stay in bed until further notice. The farce turned Into abrupt tragedy as far as meals were con cerned. Whatever else Buff had picked up in the course of her no madic life with her parents, a knowledge of cookery was not in cluded. She struggled with grim convincingness in the kitchen, burning, under-cooking, produc ing biscuits that would have made Webby actually ill if Tim had not prudently hidden what was left of them. This, announced Mr. Hunt the second day, "is unbearable." He flung his napkin down and glared at his plate. On it reposed a bit of tough and scorched beefsteak; a potato which had baked so long it was shriveled within its skin: green beans which were dry and flavorless. "If this Webb woman is actually sick, why don't vou eel another cook?" It s really Miss Carroll's affair. Isnt it?" Tim said gently. "We can hardly advise her about her own household." Its a plot to drive us awav!" Hunt snorted. "Well, it won't suc ceed, of that you may be sure. I've paid for a month's board and room here and a month I shall have. "I really am sorry about dinner. Mr. Hunt." Buff nursed a burn on her wrist the while she gazed with genuine shame at the ill-cooked food. "I tried my very best! Mrs. Webb said even I could bake pota toes, but it seems not." Maudie May settled the ques tion. "You make her give your money back, Pa, and we'll leave this afternoon. I'm hungry!" Tears came into her small green eyes. "I haven't had a decent thing to eat since that first meal. Are you go ing to let us all starve to death just for the principle of the thing? I don't care a hoot about principles," she said earnestly, "but I care a lot about us having dinner that some body knows how to cook. Make her give you back all the money," she added. "We haven't had ten cents' worth of decent food since the cook got sick. An hour later Maudie May came downstairs ahead of her parents. Buff and Tim sat in silence in the living room, Tim openlv triumph ant, Bun" struggling with an attack of conscience. Still, she had given Mr. Hunt a check covering the en tire amount he had paid Atkins! Maudie May, well fed, was one person; deprived of appetizing food for two days, she was another. It was her stomach rather than her heart which prompted her now. "I know who you are," she said directly and simply to Tim. "You're the man that Iris DeMuth made a fool of. You used all your money and your partner's to buy up a lot of good-for-nothing land that she'd tricked you into think ing was a silver mine. You were engaged to her, and all the time she was playing around with some, body else. The papers were full of it. If I was Miss Carroll I'd sure watch my step with you!" She waddled to the door, paused to fire a parting shot. "Everybody says you have a nerve to try to keep on In business right in Boulder after what happened! As if any com pany would trust you now!" "Ready, Maudie May? Car's at the door. Goodhy, Miss Carroll. I shall see to it that this little trans action gets plenty of publicity." Mrs. Hunt sailed through the hall without a glance at the two left behind. The sound of their car soon died, leaving the silence un broken behind them. Continued tomorrow. TROOPS SAIL SOON OTTAWA. Oct. 14. (Cnnftdlfin Press) Informed source! reported today that Cnnadna drat overseas division probably would itv'ft to England within two months to rum ple te training ami roceivp aervli-e equlpmrnt. It was Mid thnt, like the ft ml contingent in the World war. It was probable the division of about lo . 000 men would spi-nd the winter or a large part of It In England. Lack of fncilitlra for concentrating ft large bxly of troops in C'mmdn under winter conditions, it was ex plained, mukca the final training of the division lm practicable In Can ada. .. CluSl.. I in Ull to Cas- FOR NAZI PLANTS NEW YORK. Oct. 14 (API A breakdown of Germany's Indus' ua'i system within four to eiUt months for lai-k of raw materials was fore cast todav In the "Iron Ace" steel trade publication, by Felix Devi i described as a German economist who came to the United Stnten re cently. The article, entlttfd 'the comii.K collapse of Oirman industry." sir s'ested the allies' knowledge of In dustrial conditions In Oennsny may explain th mtl'ury Inaction on the western front. WINDOW GLASS -We soil window Rlnsa and will replace your broken wird ... rcijonabiy, Trowbridge Cab inet ulAA. On the Radio Chains STATIONS Where to Find Them on the Dial; KEX. Pomona. 1180; KFU 640, LoisAncelta; KGA, 1470, Spokane, KGO. 790, Sao Franrlaco; KUW JO, Portland; KJK. 970, Seattle: KNX, 1050, Lot Angeles; KOA, 830. Denver; KOIN, 940, Portland: HOMO. 920. Seattle; KPO. 630, San Franrlwo: KSL. 1180, Salt Lake. I 9 :S0 Croeby'i Orch., KOIN; Mar- tln'i Orch.. KGO. KEX: One Man's Family, KPO, KFI, KOW; News, KJR. 10:00 Martini Orch., KOO. KEX, KJR: News Reporter, KPO, KFI, KOW; Sullivan, KNX, KSL; News, KOIN. 10:30 Lorand' Orch., KOIN, KNX; Dance Orch., KOO, KJR; Bridge To Dreamland. KPO. 11:00 Newa. KGO: Barnett'a Orch., KOIN; Nottlngham'a Orch., KPO. KOW, KFI; Newa, KNX. Sunday 0:00 Adventures, KOIN, KNX, KSL; Edgar Bergen, KPO. KOW, KFI; 6:00 Manhattan Merry -Go-Round . KPO. KGW. KFI; Sunday Evening Hour, KNX, KSL. KOIN. 6:30 Brazilian band. KGO, KJR, KEX; Familiar Music, KPO, KGW, KFI. 7. -00 Playhouse, KNX, KSL. KOIN; Volco of Hawaii, KOW; Sleep Sere nade, KPO; Hour of Charm, KGO, KEX. KJR, KFI. 7:30 Carnival, KPO, KFI, KOW; Cheerio, KOO, KJR, KEX. 8:00 Hobby Lobby, KNX. KODJ; Newa, KFI; Weeks' Orch., KGO, KJR; Night Editor, KPO. KGW. 8:30 Jack Benny. KPO. KGW, KFI; Sweet and Low. KOO. KJR; Dance Orch., KNX. 9:00 Walter Wlnchell, KPO. KFI, KOW; Ben Bernle, KNX, KSL, KOIN; Mr. District Attorney, KGO, KJR, KEX. Monday 6:00 Party, KPO. KFI. KGW; We. Present, KGO, KEX. KJR. 6:30 Ttme and Tempo, KFI. KOW; The Almanac, KOO, KEX, KJR; Mas ter Singers, KPO. 6:00 Roth's Orch., KOO, KEX; Radio Theater, KSL, KNX. KOIN; Quit Prgm, KPO. KGW, KFI. 6:30 Templeton Ttme, KPO. KFI; Martin's Orch., KEX; News, KJR. 7:00 Contented. KPO, KOW, KFI; Gordon's Orch.. KOO, KEX, KJR; Lombardo'a Orch.. KSL, KNX, KOIN. 7:30 Blondle. KNX. KSL. KOIN; Clinton's Orch., KPO, KGW, KFI; Radio Forum, KGO, KJR. 8:00 Amos and Andy, KNX, KOIN, KSL; Doe's Music. KEX. KGW; Aloha Land, KOO; Fred Waring, KPO, KGW, KFI. 8:15 I Love a Mystery, KPO. KFI, KGW; Doe's Music, KGO; Lum and Abner, KNX, KSL. KOIN. 8:30 Margaret Speaks, KPO. KFI, KGW: Model Minstrels. KNX, KSL, KOIN; This Moving World, KOO, KEX. 9 :00 Sherlock Holmes, KPO, KFI, KOW; Tune-Up Time. KNX, KOIN, KSL; True or False. KOO. KEX, KJR. 9:30 Hawthorne Hwse. KPO, KGW, KFI; Variety Prgm. KGO; Dance Orch., KNX; News, KJR. 10:00 News Reporter. ,KPO. KFI, KOW; Madrtguera's Orch.. KGO, KJR. KEX; Newa, KSL. KNX; News, KOIN. 10:30 Dance Orch.. KPO. KGW. KFI; Foster s Orch, KOO. KJR, KEX. 11:00 Rsvszza's Orch., KPO, KFI; Onganlst. KEX; Barnett's Orch, KOIN, KSL; News, KOO, KNX. KGW. Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Time Is Pacific standard) HEW YORK. Oct. 14. ( AP The non-partisan committee for peace through revision of the neutrality law announces that IS or more of the 44 stations which carry Father Charles E. Coughlln'a talks have in dicated they will provide time on Sunday for a reply by Monslgnor John A. Ryan of Catholic university and Prof. Charles O. Genwlck of Bryan Mawr college to Father Cough lln's comments on the neutrality law. The reply will be made from re cordings, which also have been fnt to other stations In the radio prifsfs hookup. Stations which advised the committee they would carry the broadcast were announced as VAAB, WCOU, WEAN, WJR, WLBZ, WJAS. WTMJ, KSTP, WHO, WIBA, WICC, WKZO, WIRE, WSAR and WTHT. Exact times the records will be broad- SUBURBAN HEIGHTS J- Cf mm A By GLUYAS WILLIAMS 7r 1 5 -1, , 1 F FRED SrWf MGSf OF ita AFfERK'OOhl UP A TREE , BECAUSE WHEN HIS WIFE, CM HER WAV 1b HER BR)D(j CLUB, Hl1 PEAF OLD MR. LAPPEff WAN-fiN6 1b BORROW THEIR LADDER, SHE 1blD HIM lb 60 RIGHT ahead and -Take rf , compietelv Tm&ffm that FRED WAS EW6A6ED IN PUTT1N6 OUf-frtElR, &)RD FEEDIW6 STAflOW mealed by The BpII Syndicate. 10-10 cast were not announced as the Individual stations are expected to use hours which fit their schedules. In addition. Father Ryan Is an nounced for a WABC-CB9 broad cast next Tuesday night on the neu trality question. Bunday brings: Neutrality, WABC CBS. 10:40 a. m., William Allen White; WJZ-NBC. 3:30 p. m.. Sen. Alexander Wiley; W OR-MBS, fi:00, American Forum, Sens. Charles X McNary and Claude Pepper. WEAF-NBC. 11:30 a. m,, Chicago Roundtable. 'International Law." WRECK BUMED ON B LONDON, Oct. 14. UPr-The first serious train wreck during Britain's war-time "blackout" sent steel-hel-meted air raid precaution forces Into action today. At least four persona were killed J and 24 others injured In the acci.. dent last nlgut when the second . section of the Scottish Express iront London ran Into the first to Bletch. g ley station. 45 miles north of there,? In "blackout" darkness deepened bJ a heavy rain. Rescuers worked In the ruin, J smoke and steam, aided only by dim blue lights, until authorities lilted. the blackout restrictions In the vt . clnlty of the wreck. j ' f Closing time for Too Late to otaa J. slfy Ads is 1:30 p. m. STRANGE AjS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, Inclosing a (tamped enrelope tor reply. Reg. U. 8- Pat- OS. .fV'.. P$AlHU0lNClP6NCe NANCV mi fcUEM SND , . HhHCi JANE hllttt-'MftofMMnfsirilietiMo., WtO 8 FROM EAcri oTriEi? foR7ARS--BuTMEIER "MEfUNTL DZkTH BROUGHT mmTo the. zamz mortuary Ms same phi Four conscuWb scoreless ties" WERE Pi-AVED By THE DARBY CAESARS VS. EADON DONS, -Philadelphia, -the: bear in california's 3tate eal has been Pictured: ASLEEP STANDING UP EATINQ AND CHASNG TPS TAIL a.. lb wmK&L- : DEATH'S COINCIDENT!! For 17 years tno women with Identical name, lived within elsht mites of each other, yet neither knew the other existed. Then lat mi miner death came to Nancy Jane Allen, "8, and Nancy .lane Allen. 83, and both bodies were taken to Duncan's Funeral Home In Mountain View, Mo. THE VERSATILE BEAR California's Slate Seal, adopted on Oct. 2, 1819, Included a srl"ly hear that crouched at the feet of Minerva, munrlilng crapes. The bear of mil's official seal was slanillng. Since then, numerous state-printed replicas have shown tho hear eating, sleeping, standing and chasing Its tall. There are no grizzly bears In California. MONDAY:l'mbrella Man. Inc. I TAILSPIN TOMMY-Quentin Warns Tommy! By HAL FORRES W ("THEN HOW DID LISTEN ITHERE'sA (YOU'RE. I I A-HREE PILOTS HAVEN ( OR a73 I i'M NOT NklNIG ANV 1 ttWfc THOSe BULLET SOMETHING THE DIED BECAUSE OP JLVMURDERER.1 I ACCUSATIONS RUT I J S dSraa P?iH0LES GET , MYSTERIOUS SECOND ORDERS WRwFP HAVE REASON TO f HrxSINTO THE )AB0UT THIS PERSON GAVE .' THE MAN M I BELIEVE THAT RlTIS ' iiSSC)p-1-- FUSELAQE . PICTU RE.' TAKE M WHO'S 15 EITHER. A JgCf7 A ( KNOWS MORS ABOUT 5- FlfeQ , I J$ OF MY Mr A0VICE AND)told JINX..ORJrff V THOSE CWSHeI y BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER-Political Philosophyl Bv EDWIN ALGER f?i$f ArTVONE SEE T NOT A SOUL, 3 I UNDERSTAND Y I HOPE SO, I 00O0! IT NEVER FAILS.' I f?f WHEM VOO'RE YhA! HA WyKU COME IN, MR. M0OCHEM- VOUR FIRST I SIR-ISAIO iN PROMISE '6M EVERVTHIN', M,4 IN YOU'RE IN AN' I HA tMi$mi STEPLOCk?! IT'S ALMOST SPEECH FER I JUST WHAT Y GIVE 'EM NOTHIN1.' HAND Mi THE FOOL PUBLIC'S I THAT'S yv- i lyrgr' midnight; c" mayor the I vou told I ; out a good grade o1 fJa out as' ours 1 right' SCW V0uitHOV-J OTHER NIGHT I ME TO SAV-vf BUTTER T'THE FEMALES, J WHERE THE PUBLIC fK, ffTTTXrS WENT OVER feta v MAKE OUT LIKE VOUR ' BELONGS! HENJ r-' V TTiP? , V--ril1 kPRETTV BG-J? M fef5 OPPONENT'S A CROOK AN1 HEH! HEH' Lev r7 1 pj sws qy sr THE NEBBS Just Fooling By SOL HESS 't THIS OUlET, UMIMTEREST-V 'IM6 LIFE MUST BOCE YOU ACTERTHE. WILD LIPE OF THE. NORTH WOODS AND LICE - I'LL BET VOUR PEET ARE LONolMG FOR A. 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