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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIT TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24. 1039. After A Man's Heart by JEAN RANDALL - YESTERDAY: Tttung a cer tain responsibility toward Buff, Tim keep an eye on her new friends, especially Van. He buyi tip all Van'i soap tculpturt of Buff until ihe puts a stop to it. Then a oositp item appear! in the paper laying thol Buff's affecliani are engaged. Chapter 18 Tim Blowi Up TIM, coming home from a long day' work, had just time to wash and brush up before the boardinghouse dinner was served. George had preceded him so he was unprepared for the chorus of congratulation which arose upon his entrance. "Good work, old man!" said a young college professor. "I've met Miss Carrol) and 1 admire her im mensely. But why not have given us a hint before the paper got it?" "Lucky dog," sighed someone else before Tim could answer. "Only child of rich and distin guished parents, smart as whip herself, and easy on the eyes. Does she have any friends you could in troduce me to, Tim?" "What," demanded Tim, "is all this about?" Half a dozen voices told him, in full detail and at great length. George, who understood the situa tion, sat grinning his enjoyment of his frinnd's nosition. Under the cir cumstances. Tim jould not deny the engagement; neither would he confirm it: he flung evasive replies in every direction and escaped from the table as soon as possible. In ten minutes he was confronting Buff, for once alone in her living room. "Did you actually put it In the paper?" he demanded. "If so well, there is such a thing as playing fair Buffi I'm here tonight to let myself be jilted. Gei it over in a hurry, will you? I can't stand any more puouc congratulations. To his astonishment she said so berly: "I didn't put it in the paper, Tim. that is. if vou mean the para graph that came out tonight But I suppose rm morally responsiDie, lust the same. You were here yes terday and heard what I said. How was I to know van would tele phone to the society reporter and vouch for the truth of his bit of news? "Was that all there was to it? The only basis for everybody thinking and saying " "That was all there was to it. But it seems to have been enough." She sighed. "I suppose you're still terribly averse to the idea of marrying me, I mea ? Why. Tim? You really dt need a wife, and I more than ever I need a lob. some body to look after." Tim remarked acidly that he was opposed equally to being anyone's job. or the subject of maternal care. "This has gone beyond a joke," he went on wrathfully. "if it ever was one to start with! You're too foung to know your own mind, as ve pointed out to you more than once. However, if you feel you must mother somebody, go adopt yourseii an orpnan twins preier ab)y." - ' No Modesty?' "CHE made no reply and glancing J up he saw she was blushing furiously. "And well you may," he went on. "Have you m womanly reticence, no modesty? Coming here to Boul der and telling practically every one you meet that you and I are engaged " "That's enoughl" The color re ceded from her face, leaving it rather frighteningly pale. She balled her small lianas into lists and brought them together in her lap. Her blue eyes si emed almost black, their pupils dilated. "I wouldn't marry you now If you were the last man on earth! Practically everybody, indeed! You sound a. if I stopped the very newsboys on the street and conlld ed to them my wild passion for you!" She leaped up and stood before the fire, her small figure outlined against the rough stone of the lire place. "I'm not retracting a word I've aaid, rememberl I do think you need somebody to to be with you, to be a a friend and comrade. I do think I could have done a lot for you. But I'll not be insulted, Tim Corliss, or accused of being deficient in modesty and what not! Not by you or any other man! I'll call the paper tomorrow and demand a re traction of that paragraph. I'll tell everybody I know that so far from being engaged to vou, I simply loathe you! I'll refuse to speak to you the next time we meet on the street. I . . " she choked with rage Ho felt suddenly grcatlv ashamed of himself. This girl had taken in or rather let him stay where he had already installed himself and given him the kindest of care. If in her friendly zeal she had gone a little too far, it was for him to protect her from herself rather than to hurl brutal accusations in her face. He rose and stood close to her, noting as he did so that the silky top ot her head came only to his shoulder. So little and young, but so terribly determined! He smiled and sighed together. "Look here, BufT," he began gen tly. "Can't we forget all this ano just be good friends? Start all ovei. I mean, as if I hadn't hadn't come a cropper last summer and made you . . . sorry for me? Can't we let it be that we've known each other a few weeks, like each other and that's all? I" a deep' and more en nest note rept into his voice "I really do want your friendship, my dear " Still she made no answer and presently he picked up one of her hands, finding it icy cold to his touch. "I'm a brute, barging In here to talk as I did. It was just that every living soul at the boardinghouse started congratulating me, and 1 was in a devil of a fix, wondering how to deny the rumor withoul seeming to reflect on you " "That," she said, "need no longer worry you. I said I'd call the paper tomorrow, didn't I?" Infatuation' "WHAT do 1 care about the Pa ' per? Lord knows it printed plenty about me last summer that was not exactly pleasant reading! I dor't even care about the people at the house now. What 1 do care aboi.., Bulf, is that we should be friends." She tilted her head and he was relieved to see a smile tugging ai the corners of her mouth. "All thought of marriage elimi nated?" "All thought of marriage elimi nated. I'd really make an abomin able husband. " he pleaded. "Late for meals more often than not, go ing back to work in the laboratory till midnight. Knowing nothing ol women, I'd probably say and do the wrong thing on every occasion I give you my word, Bull, I was designed by nature as a perennial bachelor." "Is that why you became en gaged to Iris DcMuth?" she asked coldly. He started as if she had struck him, his face whitening. "I suppose everyone is entitled to lose control of his emotions once in a lifetime." He gripped the back of a chair with tense lingers. "1 realize that what happened last summer is public property but even so, I don t enjoy having actual references made to it in my pres ence." "I wasn't actually thinking ol giving you pleasure! 1 was merely inquiring, in my feminine, illogical way, why you were so keen on marriage last summer if you've felt all along vou'd make such a ter rible husband to any girl you hon ored with your what? Resigna tion? Chivalrous succumbing to her wishes? Fatalistic yielding to circumstances?" "Infatuation," he said curtly "Kid stuff. 1 should have had an attack and get it over with in col lege. May we drop the subject now, please?" "With pleasure." She walked de liberately to her big chair, settled herself in it comfortably and crossed her slender ankles. "And shall we also agree to go our sepa rate ways? I like it here in Boul der, I've made plans to do some work in this apartment, I've reached an agreement with my parents about what we shall all do this winter. So you can have me oft your mind; can, in fact, be late to as many meals as your landlady will allow, labor in your laboratory until dawn for all It concerns me. He folded his arms and leaned against the mantelpiece. we re not to be friends then? "You'd like to be?" "More than 1 can tell you! You'ri swell person. UulT. and even il you don t want my gratitude foi wnat you dirt lor me at the ranch it's still pretty vivid in my mind It's just that that I don't want to come here as as often as I'd liki -and "And rouse false hopes In m maidenly heart?" Her grin of gen Line amusement was reassuring "Suppose vou let me look after my heart, Tim. So far I've done a bet tor iob of it than von seem In hnvr done with yours. "Friends it is, and the latchstrmes out for vou anil George whenever you come out way. Webby mourns over you if you don't come for dinner at least twice a week. Siie's got it firmly fixed in her head that you're a vic tim of malnutrition. When I point out to her that you and George eat at the same place, she counters with the undeniable fact that George is overweight and vou are not." Thjy parted on that note. Bufl sat for a long time in her big chair after he had gone, so long that Mrs. Webb slipped in to see if she had forgotten the lights. Just be fore the girl went away to her room, she stopped for a hesitant instant beside the mantel; then with flushed cheeks, she tiptoed up nnd laid her lips to the place where Tim's hand had rested. Continurd tomorrow. INSURANCE COMMISSION 1 APPOINTMENT TO WAIT Salem, Oct. 24 (AP) Gov ernor Sprague said today he would make no new appoint ments In the near future, assert Jng "I've got most of my np pointments behind me ntul I'll make no more for a while. There have been reports here that State Insurance Commls gioncr Hugh Earle, a Democrat, would be replaced. Salvage Burned Trees Rockawny, Ore., Oct. 24.- (AP) Salvage operations in the huge Tillamook burn, scene of two disastrous forest fires in re cent years, are sending -tlltl.OOO to 400,000 board feet of lumber Into the Portluncl area daily, operators said today. AUTO RUNS OVER CHILD BURIED IN LEAF PILE Salem. Oct. 24 (API Six- year-old Fritz Pulner, son of Mr and Mrs. Chester Pulner of Salem, burled himself in a pile of leaves in the street in front of his home yesterday. His uncle's car ran over him. nnd Fritz Is in the hospital with Internal In juries. Priests In Army Paris. Oct. 114. (AP) More than 500 Pans priests, represent ing onethird of the capitals clergy, are fighlinu with Kr.-nrli armies. Canon Pastenu, in charge of mobilized priests in the Paris diocese, said today. Of those called to the colors, he said. 400 are serving in front lines as off i cers or soldiers. Jitterbug Milwaukee. Oct. 24. (AP) Layton Miseldt, 26, can offer undisputablc proof he dances witli vigor. He broke his right leg while dancing at a hall here early this morning. 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KFI; This Mov ing World, KEX; News, KGO. KNX, KGW. Americans Nabbed As Spy Suspects Stockholm, Oct. 24. (AP) Two Americans and nine other foreigners were arrested today for suspected espionage. The names of the Americans were not disclosed. Swedish police said the for eigners were taking photographs in a military zone. The other suspects were six Germans and three Russians. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads la 1:30 p m. DRUMMER BOY By GLUYAS WILLIAMS DRUMS OH fflBLE, WHILE 1rt 13 lb frflM HOW lb BE6IN COMPOSITION TOR StHOOl 60ES ON "THlHKlri6 , BEAT1H6 OUT ti -tune WrTil END or TWCIL COnTiHUES To ThiNK, TAPPIK6 WITH HbfbES. rm'HER.READIri, SHIFTS UNTA5I1V IN HIS CHAIR. GlIES UP fmr)Klrl6 ABOUT OM POSITION IN IHE INTEREST OF TJRUHMIN6 SimULTaNEOUSLV WrfrtflK&ERS IbES ANDPFKCU. FATHER BRRKS FOR PlTV'i SAKE 6ETS STOCK A&AlN PRESENTLY To STOP "THAT RACKET AND 6ET AND BE6INS TAPPIK6 PENCIL Oh1 lb WORK. DOES 50 HIS TEETH. FATHER friSOWS BOOK DOWN1 AND LEAVES ROOM tltnlei-scd hy Thu HHI Symllral. foe., TAILSPIN TOMMY Sketter Gots a Jolt! EFFORTS OF CHINESE Hongkong, Oct. 24. (AP) Increasing numbers of Soviet Russian planes, guns and mili tary technicians have appeared in China during the recent weeks which have witnessed new success by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armies against Japan and revived strength in his air force. Reliable sources today esti mated 500 Russian technicians already are in China and said additional supplies of tanks, anti-aircraft guns and other war materials were on their way from Russia. No Secret Services. Knoxville, Tenn. (AP) There won't be much mysticism about the mystic rites of Greek letter sororities at the Univer sity of Tennessee unless the girls find more private quarters for holding initiations. The rooms assigned to them at the dormi tory for their ceremonies, they have complained, permit no secrecy. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot further proof address the author. Inclosing a aUmped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. S. Pat Off. 1 . Kr-TtT MA'S "SfrVSED OVER HfiOOUMES -SINCE 191?" AN AU-TM2 3r0tt 5ckftvtrfijikiti Crick) ' lll.lM 1 ..... C7 ..KM-TJ HAVE ft PcR CftPUft Of 4 17,000 -- over 111 i P i Roth LEE PIEMONS WEIGHED ONLY" 27 POUNDS . Vtp A6E oF IS '3 32Z RICH INDIANS Klamath Indians, living in Oregon, today are each worth about $17,000, say government officials. In 1864, by oversight, part of the Klamath reservation was granted to the Oregon Central Military Road Co.! in 1906 the United States Government made partial compensation and in 1938 paid cash for ihe rest ($5,313,347). The 1,002,594 acres of ihe Klamath Reserv ation are valued at $18,000,000. PLAY RECORD While famous "Abie's Irish Rose" played 2,500-odd performances, a rural comedy, written by Walter Ben Hare of Phoenix, Arii., since 1919 boasts more than 28,000 rrformances. TOMORROW: Strangest Peni Houses. 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