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MEDFORI) MATT, TRIBUNE. MED FORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 2(5. 1940.
' By Jean
YESTERDAY: Laarnlna thai
Hugh i tiil in lore with ris
toil and wants her back, Brenda
promises to help him, too. Mac
warns Brenda that interfering
with other people's lives is dan
. geroua.
Chapter IS
Explanation
"n EALLV the afest friend for
1 you in this neighborhood are
the Miisea ronsor.Liy. i.ac in
formed her. "Sweet, if withered
spinsters, rest fully feminine. Not
an ambition between "em" he
went on dreamily. "No desire to
make money, have a career, do
anything, in snort, save make tneir
men friends comfortable.
Gone in a flash was Brenda'a
new-found amiability, cone was
her docile acquiescence with his
opinions. She sat straight in her
chair, her eyes sparkling, every
curl apparently tigntening in
rage.
"Just nice comfortable feather
bed, in fact; yielding to the
lightest pressure, totally lacking
the slightest vestige of a back-
boner
Teatherbeds don't have back
bones, my child. If you're going to
write, you must learn not to mix
your metaphors.
"I (hall mix them If I please!
And nothing on eartli would in
due me to fall back on the Pon
sonby sisters for companionship.
No ambition save to make their
men friends comfortable! If that
lan t masculine conceit I never
heard it displayed! Mac, I do
really think
He sighed. "My fault! I apolo
gize! I'm sorry I ever said it-
whatever it was! Brenda, do we
always have to fight? Couldn't we
spend just one peaceful evening
now and tnen7 1 11 tell you, ne
proposed. "Say on alternate
Thursdays and Sundays we agree
to dwell in love and harmony
well, in harmony, at all events."
"I am very easy to get along
with," she informed him loftily.
"At home I have the reputation
of being a very agreeable per
son "
"Cal, you lie, and you know it.
A spitfire you were born, and a
spitfire you'll die unless you
marry a brute who will club you
Into submission."
"Perhaps you'd like to under
take the task?" Her voice was as
aweet and cold as lemon ice.
"God forbid!" He spoke in gen
uine alarm. "I'm a hard working
man with neither time nbr
(trength to discipline a small
whirlwind like Miss Brenda Burn
ham. When I marry "
"Yes?" she prompted as he
paused.
He shook his head. "I shall
never marry!"
"Oh. but you will. Mac! You're
exactly the sort of man who needs
to Become a domestic drudge in
order to be happy. I can see vou
tinkering with the leaking faucet
on Saturday afternoon, taking the
two oldest out lor a walk on sun
ny Sundays, leaving the office ten
minutes early to buy the loaf of
Vienna bread your wife couldn't
get at the neighborhood baker's."
He smiled at her.
"It's not such a bad picture you
paint, my dear. I can imagine en
joying all those things with the
right woman."
She maintained a self-righteous
alienee. Not Brenda would ques
tion him coquettishly about fhat
"right woman."
The front door slammed and
bobel came in. She looked gay
and rather smart in her new taf
feta evening frork with its jacket
of silver brocade. Her eyes were
dancing.
"Oh, dears, what do you think?
I'm going on the Matinee Hour!
Every afternoon except Sunday;
and scads of money!"
Mac's voice was warm with
pleasure. "Good for you! You de
serve every bit of success that
comes to you." He was -.n his feet,
holding out both hands. "Here, sit
here and tell us about it!"
She was still telling Mae about
It half an hour later when Brenda
lipped away to bed. ThoiiRh they
bade her a polite good nieht. she
was convinced that neither of
them really knew she had left the
room.
Single-Minded
N'ED BARROW arrived on Frl
I day and promptly telephoned
Brenda. There was a peremptory
note in his voice which she met
In her own direct fashion.
"I've got to see you, Ned," she
told him. "About something im
portant." "You bet vour sweet life vou've
got to see me! And 1 11 tell the
world it's Important!"
"When?"
"I'll have the ear In front of
your house in ten minutes."
She chuckled as she took off
her smock and put on a scarlet
crepe gown, pulled a small match
BIT OF A RALLY
I.
New York. May 25.
Wr gloom lilted a trifle In the
stock market today without any
special news to account for
it, and leading issues stepned
out of a generally disappointing
week with a fuir-sized rally.
Steels, aircraft and coppers
came to the fore for gains run
ning to 3 or more points.
The Associated Press avcrnne
of 60 stocks held a net advance
of .3 of a point at 38 1 but
for the week showed a net loss
of 2.3 points. It was the fourth
consecutive week's decline In
this) composite. Today the bar
ometer was .4 of a point above
Its two year low established
Tuesday. The 1940 high was
12.2
Randall
ing felt hat down over her curls
and caught up a light coat. She
iiked Ned's single-mindedness. He
wanted what he wanted when ha
wanted it! She found herself hop
ing that in spite of the mysterious
girl with her child and her ap
parent claim on the young mil
lionaire, ha would win Alain
Abernathy.
He barely gave her time to get
settled beside him before he be
gan. "Well? How do matters stand
with Alaine?"
She was not to be outdona in
forthrightness.
"Ned, who was the girl you met
in a downtown drugstore and paid
money to? A girl with a baby
named for you.
"What!" he shouted. "Who the
devil has been telling you "
"It's true then?" siic questioned
sorrowfully.
"Of course it's true. But how
anyone found out, or what busi
ness it is of theirs "
"It might be Aba business,
don't you think? And Alaine's?
He stared at her with puzzled
eyes which slowly cleared into
angry comprehension.
"So! That's what they think, is
it Ab and Alaine?"
"Alaine doesn't know a thing
In the world about it."
He sighed with relief. "Well,
thank heaven for that! I don't
think I could have born it if
Alaine had so misjudged me."
She seized gladly on the last
two words. "Misjudged you? Hal
I thought so. Suppose you tell me
all about it, Ned.'1
"Suppose I don't." His Hps et
in a stubborn line. "It's nobody's
business but mine and the girl's.
I'm not under obligation to go
around explaining every foul idea
some evil-minded idiot has about
me."
"Don't be so wholesale about It,
Ned," she bade him. "It's only on
idea hardly that. Put yourself in
well, in the place of anyone who
is a friend of Alaine's. If you
were witness to the sort of scene
we're talking of. wouldn't you
feel justified in requiring an ex
planation from the hero of it or
the villain, as the case might be?
At least before you advised Alaine
to elope with you I mean with
the villain?" ,
Half-Sister
HE TURNED the car around in
the middle of the block, caus
ing a traffic officer to blow a
warning whistle after him.
"Ned! Where are you going?"
"To lick the tar out of Ab Aber
nathy." "I would," she Jeered. "It will
make Alaine welcome you with
open arms, and promote a nice
family feeling all around. Ned
Barrow, you behave yourself if
you want me to help you! I've no
time to waste on ridiculous boys."
He simmered for five blocks,
then unwillingly slowed down.
"All right What d'you want to
know?"
"Who that girl in the drugstore
was, Ned."
"You consider that's a fair
question? One I ought to an
swer?"
"Most certainly I do." And then
as he seemed unable to break his
sulky silence, she said despair
ingly: "Oh. why will men act like
such idiots! Here I am. leaving my
worx in tne middle 01 toe atter-
noon, doing my very best to fur
ther your cause with Alaine, and
do you help me the least bit in the
world? You do not You brace
your forefeet and roll your eye
and heehaw to the setting sun.
All rignt. my dear, all rtoit; It s
nothing to me whether vou ever
see Alaine again rr not. She's
nothing to me; you re nothing to
me. I'm sorry I ever interested
myself in the affair. Take me
nome. please. Id like to finish a
chapter before dinnertime."
He smiled at her crookedly.
You win! Gosh, what a hard-
boiled little tartar you are, Bren
da! I sure pity Mac!"
She stitTencd in the seat beside
him. "Will yon kindly explain
that last remark, Ned Barrow?"
"No offense golly to Moses,
Brenda, no offense at all! It was
merely a passing thought It has
passed."
"It had better pass." she in.
formed him sternly. "Now if you
can keep your mind on your
own affairs long enough to ex
plain "
"The girl is my half sister." ha
said hrieliy.
"What! But Why ? Does
Alaine ?"
"No. Nobody knows. Mv father
was married twice. His first wife
ran off, taking Cynthia the girl
in the drugstore with her. There
was a divorce. When Dad mar
ried my mother he came to live in
this part of town. I suppose not
even An wouia expect mm to get
out rnsraved announcements to
say that he had been married be
fore?" Continued tomorrow
WHEAT PRICE UP;
Chicago. May 15. . (Pi
Wheat prices marked up net
gains of I to Pa ccn.s; a bushel
today, July closing at 847sH5c
and September at 84,.'c. as
the wheat reflected a rally in
securities and sharply higher
prices at Winnipeg.
After the close private re
ports Indicated export sales
amounted to 3 000.000 bushrU,
mostly to Great Britain.
Closing wheat prices at Win
nipeg showed gains of 4 4 3 8
cents from Thursday's finish
after a holiday there yesterday.
July wheat rose to 72 cents, or
about 11 3 8 cents below the
corresponding Chicago contract
Clunm t m for Too tote to Claa
tllj Adt is 40 p m.
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Radio Highlights
By Associated Prats
(Tim Is Pacific Standard)
New Vork.'May 25. The war
and its repercussions in Ameri
ca will have an important place
in weekend broadcasting.
Both President and Mrs.
Roosevelt will be on the net
works Sunday, the former in a
fireside talk on defense needs
and the latter in a special Red
Cross war relief appeal hour.
Former president Herbert Hoov
er, who was to have spoken
Sunday night on defense, has
postponed his broadcast until
9:30 Monday night.
The Red Cross program Is
scheduled for 10 a.m. on WJZ
NBC, CBS and MBS. besides
Mrs. Roosevelt and talent pre
viously announced, it will in
clude Edgar Bergen with Char
lie McCarthy, Lynn Fontanne
and Alfred Lunt and Fibber
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McGe and Molly.
Tha president's fireside chat
ii set for 6:30 p.m. over the
combined NBC, CBS and MBS
chains.
Sunday brings: WEAF-NBC.
CBS. MBS 7:30 p.m. Salute of
Americas from Panama.
WABC-CBS 4, Rep. Hamilton
Fish on "A Republican Peace
Program."
MBS 7:15 a.m. Reviewing
stand. Drs. Glenn Frank and
Wallace McClurg; 2 p.m. James
L. Fly on "Radio in a Democracy."
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS
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At HI YEARS Of AGE.
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BAR HOUND
Patrons at tha tavern of Ernest Thtarsteln of New Glarus. Wis., frequently saw a blac'a
Belgian police dog twist his head and lift an empty bottl from a table and carry It behin .'
the bar. Fido had a bank account of tips patrons gave him. When h died last Februar",
he was able to pay for bis own funeral.
OLDEST PRINTER
Winner of a recant contest to choose the champion Old-Time Printer of Ih United
States was Benjamin Franklin Wail. 97. of Johnson City, N. Y. "I am the oldest member
of tha International Typographical Union." he says. "I still work every day."
Monday: Wire mystery.
APPLEGATE GRANGE AIDS
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Big Applegate, May 25 (Spl)
Through efforts of Upper
Applegate Grange, tome 4 H
youngster of the Beaver creek
school will receive a scholar
ship to 4-H summer school at
Corvallis this year, it has been
announced. Upper Anplegate
Grange was one of three
Granges in the county awarded
scholarships by the Grocetiyia
Markets in Medford througH a
sales slip contest sponsored by
0? OLE LEE,
teshton, M'z.,
Gpell His name
WH&N HELP UPSIDE
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the Oregon Grange Bulletin.
I Other Granges winning were '
Eagle Point and Griffin Creek.
Canada Spends
Ottawa. Ont, May 24 (U.P.'
The department of munitions
and supply announced today the
awarding last week of 195 con
tracts amounting to $8,261,425.
The orders placed by purchasing
boards now total $289,000,000 of
which $73,000,000 was for Brit
ish account.
Clou tic tint lor Too Let to Claa-
tlfy Ad 1 ":30 p. m.
by JOHN HIX
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FROM TABLE'S.
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Ernezilhiereieiti,
By HAL FORREST
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