Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 04, 1940, Image 6

Historic Oregon Newspapers

Medford mail tribune., June 04, 1940, Page 6, Image 6

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 4, 1940)

Prev Page of 8 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (2.7 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Prev Page of 8 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX MEDFORP MAIL TRTBUNE, MEPFORD, OREGON, MONDAY. JUNE 3, 1940. By Jean Randall' YtSTIRDAT: femethtne is icrong vith Adelaide vhm she returns horn. The doctor to no- eble to tell trhdl her tvkntlM is, and Adelaide ffftl prooressipely WOTM. Chapter 26 Tha Wick Women MRS. ARNOLD'S Dorothy was an excellent nun. Brenda rousin( at two with a panicky feeling- that ah had deserted Adelaide too long, peeped into the noor ana saw tne tnicxset woman lilting Mrs. Rosttetor effortlessly in one arm while she shook and smoothed the pillows, straight ened the wrinkled sheet with the other hand. Adelaide was mur muring contentedly. It was during this time of trouble for Adelaide was Brave ly ill, not so much from any spe cific aisease out irom sneer weak ness that Brenda came really to know and love Tha Shortest Street It was as thouih one roof shel tered all tha families, one tooic concerned them all. Judge Harper ana mien came twice a day to uy 3uire for Adelaide. They brought owers fruit anything they could think of which might make her Illness more bearable to the patient, the nursing easier for those who cared for her. ' The Misses Ponsonby whom Brenda hardly knew slipped in and out like gentle wraiths, dust ing the living room (grief for her employer had made Grenadine doubly careless), quietly taking Charge of Adelaide's small per sonal mail, and generally making tnemsejves useful. And out from their seclusion came two women previously known to Brenda only as " tne wicks. Isobel had described them to Brenda tha week after her ar rival "Not that I've seen them," she hastened to say. "Nobody in this house has ever laid eyes on them cut Adelaide. They're recluses. The only exerclne they take is in their own back yard after dark, and they've let the hedges grow so high that nobody can see them even then. They do all their order ing by telephone. Even the de livery men have orders to put weir pacxages on me pack porcn ana go away. "But but what made them like that?' Brenda a eyes were wide. "A trsgedy. R seems that the man Miss Wick was engsged to was driving out to dinner .vith her lather, and both were killed in an accident It was a double bereavement to the nrl. vou see. and her mother gradually became anectea oy rrr daughter i melan. eholia. and refused to sea people jusi as miss wick aia. "Real melancholia?" "Not in the natholoaical sense. I believe, though it well may have oecome so oy now. it started wltn Mrs. Wick having to keep callers away from the girl, and ended by ner getting tne same twist I sup pose." "How long ago was this?" "Seventeen years." Brenda was dumbfounded. "You don't mean to tell me that for all that time a perfectly sound and healthy girl had shut herself away from her friends from sun shine and fresh air" "She can't be a young girl low," Isobel argued. "And I greatly doubt if ahe was sound and healthy or the wouldn't have behaved so. Why are you so sur prised. Brenda? Aren't wa for ever reading in the papers of some person who stayed In bed for forty years because he'd quarreled with his wife, or took a vow not to eat bread, or something, until some fancied wrong waa recti fied?" "Y-yes. But those are Just peo ple in the newspapers. The Wicks live on The Shortest Street!" Cross-Section Of Ufa I SOBEL'S green eyes narrowed 1 into laughter. "My dear child, Tha Shortest Street is Just a little piece of the world a cross sec tion of life, maybe, though I do think our isolation brings out any queernesa we may have." And now the Wirka mother and daughter, had sidled out of their own front door late one afternoon and walked boldly to the old Burn ham house and entered without so much as ringing or knocking. It chanced that Brenda was lust coming downstairs after sit ting a long time with Adelaide. She atared in amazement at the two women who stood quietly looking at her. She had an im pression that they were dressed for a costume party of some sort Both had long hair, done up in great bundlea on top of their heads. They were stiffly corseted, their shoes were high and but toned. Brenda incredulous eves lingered on thone shoes, and she asked herself where on earth they She clung to the bannister for a moment wondering what this invasion meant Then she saw their faces; lovely sad faces, with a soft high light of kindness on both as though one reflected the other. "May I know who you are, please?" asked the older woman gently. "I'm Brenda Burnham. She smiled and came down the rest of the steps. "And you?" "Bumham," murmured tha caller. "Frances, do you hear that? You hava tha Burnham mouth, my dear. Your mother, whose husband built this house, had Just such dimples." "My grandmother " Brenda cor rected. "Mother had no dimples." "Was it indeed your grand mother? Yea, I suppose it waa. Frances, this in Anne Burnham'a niece. I am right, am I not? Anna Burnham," went on the sad, gen tle voice, "used to be my closest friend before before she left The Street. But I must explain our er rand here. We have heard that Mrs. Rosttetor is ill. She does not of course, either by inheritance or right of primary occupation, belong to Tha Street Still, she is a neighbor, and seriously ilL May we be of assistance?" Brenda was bewildered. She had entirely forgotten the Wicks. Her native courtesy impelled her to treat these queer gentle wo men with the utmost graciousnesa. At the same time, she could not risk an invasion of the house by those of whose conduct she could not be sure. The younger women saw her perplexity aod spoke for the first time ana in the ssme almost in audible voice as her mother. "Mother is Mrs. Wick, and I'm Frances," she explained. "We live between Miss Ormond and Mrs Arnold." A Daring Idea DRENDA rallied her forces. She realized dimly that this waa quite as likely to be a crisis in the livea of the callers as in Adelaide's illness. She said: "Shall we go into the living room where we can talk?" And when they were all seated, she told the whole story in the utmost detail. "It'll do 'em good," vie thought "to get their minds in something besides themselves." j So she spoke of diets and ice cags, doctors' calls, and the diffi culty of managing a house in time of illness. She" described Isobel. Eric and Mac; even Grenadine. She dwelt on the kindness the stricken family had received, even mentioning the flowers that had come that day, and the jelly Maud VanNess hsd sent in. They drank it all in thirstily. It seemed to pitying Brenda that they had been parched for lust such trivial news of their kind. When the girl had finished her re cital, ahe looked at them with a smile. "So you see wa are in good hands!" Mrs. Wicks mouth drooped. Yes, I see. You don't need us. that is certain. We'd honed to be of some help, Frances and I." She Jiaused a moment then leaned orward and spoke with urgency. "Can't you think of something no matter how simple, or how dif ficult wa could do to be of service?" A daring Idea aeized Brenda'a imagination. Mac told her after ward that no one else on The Street would ever hava had the courage to propose it "There's one thing that we sim ply csn't get around to," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "That'a paying the bills downtown: light and gas, and water and all. you know. The men are so tired with helping us, or so busy making up arrears, that we haven't felt like asking them." A blesk light dawned In Mrs. Wick'a eyes. "You can certainly aend checks!" Brenda shook her head. "Ade laideMrs. Rosttetor would have relapse when she found it outl She never paid anything by check. And. continued Brenda shamelessly, "we hava only cash in tne nouse, anyway, since Mrs. Rosttetor is too ill to sign checks." She paused a moment and then went on "Of course I shouldn't have spoken of it if you hsdn't been so kind about offering to do anything" she put a significant accent on the word "for us. We won't say any more about it Do you think it la getting colder out?" She could aee mother and daughter look at each other. It seemed to her that some signal psssed from r ranees to the older women. At any rate Mrs. Wick sighed, and aaid: "Give me the bills, my dear and I'll tee that they are attended to." iou won't won't send vour own checks? It really would up set Mrs. Rosttetor seriously it would. A faint smile curved the rrave lips of her caller. "I will pay them in cash. Please got them! Their clothes were of a make your mind easy about that!" strangely uniamiuar cut I ceollnae tamerrew On the Radio Chains There to fin This the Dial: KEX. IISU, Portland: fcil. MS, uos Aaseiaai HO. 1470, Spokane: IUO, lae, Saa r'raoelara: KG If. lie. Portland: t)0. catttas KNX. IDM, Lm antelesi BOA, as. Oenrrri KOIN, 4(l. Portland: (OMO. at Seattle; KPO, eso. bmm rranrfaco: Kl, liso. Halt U. 1 oesaae. 1:00 Caralcade of America, KPO. KPT. KOW; Time and Tempo. KOO. KCX. "!: Vocalist and Organ. KOIN. :0 Aurandt's Orch.. KOIN, KNX; Pun With the Rrruera. KOO, KEX. KJR; Pibber afcOae, KPO. KOW, KPT. :00 Bob Hope. KPO. KOW. KPT; Millar's Orch.. KOIN. KNX. KSL. :90 Easy Aoea. KOO. KJR, KEX: Dog House. KPO, KPI. KOW. 7:00 Amos and Andy, KNX, KSL. KOIN: Fred Wltllf, KPO, KPT. KOW: Information Please. KOO. KEX, KJR. 7: SO Brreaaa Orch, KaO. KEX. KJR; Johnny Preaenu, KPO. KPI, KOW: BUr Town, KOIN. KNX, KSL. 1:00 We, the People. KNX, KOIN. KSL: Byrne'a Orch.. KPO, KOW, KPTKPI; Judy Doant, KOO. I :SO Battle of the Sties. KPO. KOW, KPT; Prof. Quia, KNX. KOIN. KSL. 9:00 Paul Sullivan, KNX, KOIN. KSL: HImber's Orch, KPO. :SC Ravszea'a Orch, KOW. KPT; Nichols' Orch, KNX; Treasure Chest, KPO. 10:00 Reporter. KPO. KPI. KOW: Kyaer's Orch, KSL, KNX. 10 :80 Pearl's Orch, KOO. KEX: Prlml Jr., Orch, KPO, KPT; Pastor's Orch, KSL. KNX. KOIN. 11.-00 Sudy's Orch, KPO; This Morula- World. KEX: Noble's Orch, KSL, KOIN; News, KGO, KOW, KNX. Wednesday :O0 Star Theater. KNX. KSL. KOIN; Oraen Hornet. KOO, KEX, KJR; Musical Soiree, KPT. 10 Shleld'e Revue. KOO, KEX. KJR. a .-00 Hurl hurt. KOO; Symphony OitJi, KEX: Kyaer's Pram, KPO. KOW, KPT: Miller's Orch, KNX. KSL. KOIN. :0 Burns and Allen. KNX. KOIN, KSL; Easy Aeea, KOO, KEX. KJR. 7:00 Oene and Olenn, KOO; Amos and Andy, KNX, KOIN", KSL: Hollywood Playhouse, KPO, KPT. KOW. 7:11 Lanny Roaa, KNX, KSL, KOIN. 7:80 What Would Tou Hsto Done? KOO, KEX. KJR: Plantation Party. KPO, KPI. KOW; Dr. Christ Ian. KNX, KSL, KOIN. 1:00 Fred Allen. KPO. KOW, KPT; Ben Bernla, KNX. KSL, KOIN; Mar riage Club, KOO. S:80 Kerbeck's Orch, KOIN, KNX: Baseball Osme, KEX. :0O Paul Sullivan, KNX. KSL, KOIN. 8:30 Rarszza's Orch, KPI: Dennis' Orch, KSL: Mslneck's Orch, KPO, KPI, KOW. 10:00 Oluakln's Orch.. KSL, KNX; Reporter, KPO. KPI, KOW. 10:30 Pastor's Orch, KOO.-. KNX: Relchman't Orch.. KPO. KOW, KPT; Sudy'a Orch, KOO, KEX. 11O0 Paaria Orch, KOIN. KSU Notungham e Orch, KPO: Thla Mov ing World. KKX; News, KOO, KOW, KNX. BY FEARED IN HAWAII Honolulu, T. H., June 4. (U.PJ The Honolulu Advertiser, in front page editorial, Sun day railed attention to the "urg ent necessity" for increasing the production of Hawaiian food stuffs to aupply tha island popu lation in event the islands are isolated by possible spread of war to the Pacific ocean. The editorial said: "If Hawaii should be cut off from outside sources today. here is what we would face a shortage of SO to 60 per cent of our vegetable supplies, and a shortage of 30 per cent of our beef and meat products. "Our dairy and poultry in dustry would have to turn to local sources, which do not presently exist, to supply 25. 000 tons of concentrated stock feed and 23,000 tons of mixed poultry feed per year." BATTING EYE StuVAS . Wiuutrrs it i t r By CLUYAS WILLIAMS MtPi OP To PLWE,tCUJK6 PrfCHER. fO PUf Oht CWER,YnAf'5 ALL HE WMXi , JOST" WT" if OVER "We Punt rifCHER POfS ONE OvtR THE MlTOlE, BfrfTtR OOMPiKb BACK rlDUTlN3 14 HE TRVlrfco TO MURDER HIM? STRIKE OrJE- pifcHER ciK4 Pierre again. BRflER. 100KIN6 UPWARDS , SARtASfiCAUY.fb INDlCMe "WE BAU. WAS 1bO HI6H AIR1VIAIL INCREASE iCLERGYMAN HELD ON REP0RIEDIN1YHARG Medford poi'offlre dljprtc'ied 1.94B pounds of airmail las month, it was rnnounced today by Postmaster Frank tVSoiza. This compares with '..dfie pounds In Mav laxt year in In crease of 680 pounds or "f per cent. Expressed In unit tenia, last month's poundage represented about 37 500 letters, M. De Sou a figured. This compare with 28.500 letters for Ma a year ago, an Increase of o,000.' Albany Ore.. June 4. 'T" Rev. George Davis, rector of St. Pettrs Episcopal ei.rch here. arrested Monday op a warrant chirging 'contti'nit Ing to the di'lirnienry tif a minor, District Attorney Fred McHenry sa.d. State Trooper Curtis C'nam bers made the arrest. The clergyman came here Tour months .iro. Rev. Dvls was taken to C'or-vallis. Celerv emwa wIM In Fnir- land by the sides of ditcliet and near the sea. Ninety-five percrnt of South America lies nearer the old world than does New York City. IS LL UMPIRE Ml If STRIKE "TWO, BATTER EvWWluY RETURHS 1b ' REHRE4.DrSfclTED. AND AW BA-TTtR 6bE WO ACfiON PUrfC AND WlTrt "TWO STRIKES Ch" CHEWS 6Rfl, MOTrERINS aftiMiN6 -the pall was a him swum at nejt piTch which -thevre aprmp tb a vt MIL! CWER HIS HEAP. IS WWN AROUND HIS ANKLES HIM AlWfriN6 -TO Hit 6-5 531 OREGONIANS CHECKS EACH L GET Washippton, June 4. ilPy The social secu-i!y boar! an nounced that 5:'! peraons in Oregon are receiving monthly benefit rnecka under its L.cur ance programs. The monthly payments i i tho state tol;:l ti 724, districted among-3f.G retire:', worker.', 7, 408; 4 jeed wives of retired workers, 534; 84 children SI 087; three aged widows, 47 and 34 w;dows vith dependent'. young di.'dren $98. In addition, said the board. 86 claims totaling $12,520 had been approved in the state since January 1 for lump sum pay ments to survivors of insured workers who were not eligible for monthly benefits. Fnf th nailnn tha mAAHinn of 21.130 persons to the month-' ly benefit rolls in April brought the total to 62,364, receiving payments aggregating $1,173,933 a month. During the first four months of the year, 13,149 lump sum payments on the death of insured workers amounted to $1,917,124. Peace Commemorated Douglas, B. C, June 4. (CP) Canadian and American rep resentatives m?t at the Peace Arch on the international oor der here yesterday, to commem orate more than 100 years of unbroken peace between the two nations. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS by JOHN HIX i l &fXTV tkMn lrtP TJ1RKIU' KBnM?06. WRY owe pftLcY.THciK coam, frcshman 1He MM otf&MHUN, cfEutvpe, 0tWZHlNDlE6S UNTllaTHEVHftTcH NORTH CWtoUNA, & FOUND NOWHiRl clSclNTHE WOftiP a. '' f itsei A lAt1 Ae TUP CMS llJS. EVERTO pPERWe hMUySAR WlTHouT FPffhLM ORZERIOUS IhUURj To PA&SNGSR OR CREW (March 27,m?'M2nt27,?4c) t aa. o. a rat oeu rig r TAILSPIN TOMMY The Spy I AIRLINE RECORD Strange as it seems, when America's entire network of commercial airlines completed, on March 27, one year of flying without a single fatality or serious accident to passenger or crew, it marked the first time in the history of American transportation of any kind that such a safety record had been established. RARE GEM When Thomas A. Edison sent Earl Hidden to North Carolina, In 1879, to look for plat inum deposits, he found no platinum, but discovered the rare crystalline substance that bear his name. It ranges in color irom light yellow to emerald green, and no deposits of It hay been found outside North Carollnal Tomorrow: Nature's Metropolis! By HAL FORREST BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Plenty! V2kVA.Li lSTsWr 1 "S"-5"0!1. WHf OIO MISTSR.l'M JUS' A I I'M TOMMY ti YEP.' I DID SEE SOMeI ITUAHK.S.' SEND W Wi SM I HAD it' Av'ITVL'iS WWWlK"l'l!!U OU SHOOTl POOR. TH.APPER.....I V JOMK1NS, W FELLERS... LOOKED ?IK6 1 M6 A BILL fl NOW BUT rvAMcV T"AlA t j'K-rri AT M6.? A Tww6ht yum was f( Three point 1ft, city tenderfeett. I for. your. M Anyway. i-ve ll-fSftT1 vA MER3 W .lEa WW?.- MY PlLOTMAVE IN A LEAN-TO..60UT J RjFLE... I'LL fft SENT SlM ON Krr) -V VOUR. n CON?... YUM SWOT iN YOU SEEN P,4THR.EE MILES UP lH'Jl BUY W tti AW to GOOSE k f . UN!l 'T PLUMB OU TTA ANY OTHER. V V" "lif ' . l A NEW ONE 'ivf CME VWKH V. fl j" .1 M. 1 f """VVV MY MANDS.. MIND MEN IN THESE 1 . . fT', 'lf JL l4o GIVES Ml tTmi ITC ' AElt oi At f ". Bv EDWIN ALGER WHERB . I WHV1 sj NOW, MABV, X COMe ON, BOVSl WRAP J OH, GOODNESS MEJ ARE THE VfOUT SOmEVVHERE, WHAT'S TUB I DON'T WANT I THE BABY UP AN' BIT I WHAT WILL BEN AND j BOVS, MB. HASSETT- V MEANING . 1 HO OPPOSITION I J I I HER TO THE HOSPITAL V I RUSTY SAY AND DO 1 I MARY? X. p S OP THIS? k OUT 0 YOUl L ? FAST AS VOU KIN1 J f I WHEN THEY COME I By SOL HESS VCE OAy J ( S. POTTS TO J I EMBERT TO Y i U5EO TO MsSe A CSSmitl ' CRAVE 10 SA,U S00- S ) ST' 2 ' THE NEBB3 Ohl Ohl