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Newspaper Page Textf AGE ETGHT Gasual Slaualnh By VIRGINIA HANSON HSTIRDAr: Kay, Julia and . Cmli go back tor lillkir sunn. White thty art in lh tca '. ter thty see someone on the - barpe. Later Ivan it found iKtrt, ' dtad. Chapter 17 . Early Wedding IT IS tuy to look back nov. and IM that Sandra and Ivan be tween them practically signed hif death warrant that night. It i less euy to see why Sandra was not warned by Ivan'i des'h Which bring! up Sandra and her stu- pidity, tnat waa not so mucn iiu pidity aa a mixture of credulity and conceit I believe her sue eeuea had convinced her that the waa infallible. On top of that the waa without discrimination, aa her weaknesa for Ivar. ihowa; and the believed in miracles. ' ' Thia last if the most important tingle lact to remember tne es sential clue not only to her char acter but to the terrifying events whicn followed tne aeatn 01 ivsn Sandra's belief in miracle. She came to my rooms the next morning before I was awake. Ju lia had not stayed with me after all. Ivan bad not needed her room lu on a housecoat and opened the door to Sandra, trying not to ahow my surprise; trying, too. to keep my head from floating loose from my snouiaers; it teemea in securely moored. A surreptitious glance at my watch told me it was not as early aa I thought. I had overslept breakfast. 1 searched tor and found cigarettes, which she re fused, lit one myself that did not taste too good, and tried to get her to sit down. But she would only stand leaning back against the door, looking at me ana twist ing her hands in a gesture bor rowed from the stage but expres sive for once, I thought, of genu ine emotion. Her eyes, swollen with weep ing, recalled to me that incredible moment on the barge when I had aeen her clinging to Ivan. Could she have loved that mountebank? Apparently she had. Then why, In the name of all the saints, had she promised to marry Jeff? - Perhaps if I had been more fully awake, or if my head had not felt so light and- explosive, I might have pressed her for some of the answers; might have caught her off guard, staggered by this ca lamity which must, for a time at least, have shaken her belief in her patron aaint or her rabbit's foot or whatever she did believe in. Perhaps I missed my chance to avert more tragedy. But I do not seriously think so. She would never have confided in me. She waa too stupid to be frightened of what she was planning to do: and she must have thought, after Ivan's death, that fate owed her a break. She aaid, suddenly, "1 had to get out of that house. They they made fun of him. They're glad. They tnougnt ne wasn t good enough Her voles was getting shrill. She choked, said more quietly, "I want to Ulk to Jeff without their knowing. She's in love with him. you know. But it's mt hs wants to marry." There was enough satisfied mal ice in that to alienate the sympa thy I waa beginning to feel for her. Shock Of Dismay DOT If you're not In love with - Jeff yourself," I began rather brusquely. She opened he: small dark eyes and stared at me as if I were mad. "Not in love with Jeff?" she re peated incredulously. "Why, how can you say auch a thing? It's just because I'm so fond of him that's why I've decided why I slipped away this morning. Look do you mind if I talk to him here? You can send an orderly for him." "But he'll be at duty oh. this Is Sunday, isn't it? My head's not on tight'1 I looked her over, saw that she was once more miraculously com posed, and suggested that ahc find the orderly herself. "I'll dress and get out at soon as possible," I promised her. "I'm going to the P.Ex. for breakfast" "Don't leave on my account There's nothing private about what I have to say to Jeff I Just don't want to be interfered with. I want to handle my own affair. I assured her that it was my stomach and not her interview that waa sending me forth, and retired into my bedroom to dress. I heard her waylay an orderly in the hall, and before I was quite dressed I heard Jeff's voice in the next room. Having no wish to eavesdrop, I waa nevertheless an unwilling audience to Sandra's demand that they be married at onre. I felt a shock of dismav. Un like Sandra. I do not believe in miracles, but I do like happy end ings. Julia was so desperately in tuvc wun jen inai t wouta not i admit fate could let her lose him. The scene on the barge last night had fed mv hniu Ihmt I thing would happen. If only Julia had been less gentlemanly; if only Jeff had seen what we saw His voke was a brief, Indistinct rumble dissenting, I thought, for hers strengthening in passionate entreaty. "But you can apply fnr earlier leave and what does it matter. JUNE SET RECORD Salem, July 13. Wi All records of the Oregon Stste Em ployment service tince itt es tablishment five years ago were broken In June when 30.670 new Jobs were reported supplied through the 21 field offices. Di rector L. C. Stoll announced to ers anyway? I can move over here we can be together " Her voice dropped to a caress ing murmur. I decided that I had heard enough. I cleared my throat loudly at the connecting door, opened it and marched past them at casual ly at possible. They were seated close together on the studio couch, and they paid no attention to me whatever, to that I waa able to f ratify my curiosity about Jeff, can t aay he teemed actually thawed, but my brief glance found evidences of a alight aoftemng around tne edges of hit icy re serve. His face was perceptibly flushed and he waa staring at San dra like a hynotized but fright ened bird. I went out into the corridor and closed the door after me, con scious of resentment and a vague, unpleasant feeling that I had been forced into betraying Julia. Gerald Beaufort was alone at a table in the Post Exchange res taurant I joined him with real pleasure. "You've no Idea what a relief It is," I confided to him, after the waiter had brought my order," to be with someone else who is sn outsider. Not in the ermy." He raised his glass of tomato juice in mocking salute and drained It, looking at me serosa the rim with gray eyes that were like himself as I waa beginning to know him. At first you saw only the outrageous lashes snd musical-comedy manner. But under the lashes the eyes were friendly and intelligent; and under the man ner, so was Gerald. Jealous RageT TOU mean they take them selves a bit seriously," hs observed shrewdly, setting down the empty glass. I nodded, feeling guilty, aa If we were guests discussing an ab sent hostess, which waa not a good analogy, for we wore both paying for our board and lodging. Nev ertheless, I felt disloyal. "I couldn't help noticing," he went on soberly, "that it wasn't so much the fact of that poor devil being killed that occasioned the indignation last night, aa the fact that it happened on the reserva tion." e "You can't blame them for that Murder makes ugly headlines." And, changing the subject not al together happily, "I left Sandra and Jeff in my rooms planning an early wedding." His eyes flew to my face and his butter knife hesitated over the toast "Too bad." He founded as if ha meant it. "Why?" "Julia it a much nicer person." I studied him for a moment while he went on prosaically con suming bits of toast "No disagreement about that," I aaid at last carefully. "But she's known Jeff all her life. I don't suppose he seems very romantic to her." "Oh, doesn't he?" There was literally no expres sion to the words an effect which I know from experience is almost impossible to achieve. It rang a little bell aomewhere in my brain like the one on my typewriter that I pay no attention to. I didn't pay much attention to thia. either, in the sense of getting scared snd thinking, this man could be a murderer: I was pretty sold on him. But the thought did just cross my mind that he might have depths. "That's not the only reason It's too bad," he observed presently. And the gray eyes were so open and candid that I forgot about the depths. "What else?" "Murder investigation," he re minded me. "Wife can't testify against her husband. I've studied a bit of law," he added modestly, and then quite obviously said no more. "But but you surely don't think Je " I began and, with sudden horror, remembered San dra in Ivan s arms and Jeff com ing up the ladder. Could he have seen? Could he -ave killed Ivan in a jealous rage? Gerald did not appear to notice my discomposure. "I know less about It than the newest recruit." he assured me. "Here's your check. If you girls U'lll vote you must take the bit ter with the sweet and learn not to depend on masculine chivalry. If I had invited you to breakfast I should simply have to stand for your eating up fifteen cents, but since this is virtually a pickup, I must insist tnat you pay your way." The cashier's goggling ttare pur sued us to the street "But I still think It's too bad," Gerald said with no change of tone. "Someone's sure to think she's protecting him." "Thst's nonsense." I said sharp, ly. But I knew that it was not Julia. I needed to see Julia. I stood on the sidewalk in front of the Post Exchange and thought about going there now. Then I re membered Gerald's depths and hia rather disconcerting way of leap ing upon a conclusion. And meek, ly, but uneasily. I walked beside him back to the club. Sandra was still in my rooms, but I was relieved to find that Jeff had taken himself off. "He's gone to tee a man he knows about getting a special li cense." she told me. "We're going to be married today If we can." Te be ranllnuea day. Only 16 677 tuch Jobt were found In June. 1939. The service's file of persons available for employment dropped from 43 072 on June 1 to 40 229 on July 1. Stoll said The Portland office had 22.792 names on file on the latter date Casual placements, principal ly of seasonal farm labor, ad vanced to 24.782 last month, an other all-time high mark and a gain of 170 per cent over June last year. Cloaint tuna t-ir low Lata to Clas sify Ada la I JO p. m. MEDFOP.D MATT. On the Radio Chains STATIONS frnere ta Sins Thm aa the Dial! HEX. nee, fori land ; tttl. . uoa AnttMi KG A. 11. Spufcan: sua, iwi. rranrltrei H.w HO. Portland: KJK. SI. SmiiM: Ik NX. 1 050, Las anlrteei kO. SSS. Otnmi KOIN. 40. Portland: (OMO nt Soltlei KPO. SS0. Kan FrilnrUroiSlJtJOjUake Sunday B:oO ajumraer Hour. KNX. KBL, KOIN: Uanbattan Merry -Oo-Round. KPO. KOW: B. a. Fiesta. KOO, KEX. too Take It or UaT It, KbL, KOIN: Goodwill Hour, KOO. KEX. KJR: Hour of Charm, KPO. KOW. S:30 Carnlral. KPO. KOW: Demo e ratio Pra-conventlon. KOIN, KSU KNX. 7:00 Chanaonatu. KOO: Ratal Amblings. KPO: Musical Oame. KMX. KOIN. 7:30 Bradley's Oreh, KPO. KOW; Ktnny's Orcb.. KOO. KJR; Good man's Orch.. KNX. KSL. S:00 Buaas's Orcb.. KOIN; Walter WlneheU, KPO, KOW; Km, KOO. KJR. S JO Millar s Orcb, KNX. KOIN: Dance Orcb., KPO. KOW; aura's Newaraal. KOO. KEX. KJR. 8:00 Night editor. KPO. KOW; Naws, KOMO; Holden and Orch.. KOO, KJR. S:SO Ravazza's Orcb., KPO. KOW. 10:00 Harpas Orcb., KOO. KJR, KEX: Goodman's Orcb., KNX; Re porter. KPO. KOW. 10:30 Martin's Orcb.. KOO: Rich ards' Orcb., KNX. KOIN. J 1 :0C Ntw, KOO; Nottlrujbam'a SHAVING AUDIENCE IHTHERS FACE UNEASILY AWARE THtrf JUNIOR HAS COME IN WAfCH MIM SHAVE . MAKES HIM fclf D6WN AWD 6RM1FCT HOW auM HE IS finds CUMS6 UJIU.1AM. TAILSPIN TOMMY A Desperate Planl I . TTTZ 5W 1, 'II I l . . - a, t 1 I fa fai,RND0 5. ALU XtL I I I-.. THIRBJ A RADIO 5WtU.'...THW I I'M COINO TO TRY AND CONTACT Yl OUTSI Ofe JfBMJ riU w, . V I THtRs'S A ioT Of II J" 30OM.V V IPEA ABOVE THIS ADOBE .TAKE . ADOBE... LJ GUYS SOMETHINOXU HISHENCHMEN J A "M. P' 0tftT OUN ANO ouA TH6 0 teES HAPPENED IN Tl Bw vel 1 Jl 1 II "-aaaa-aaaaaeassa r tl r i V r. I Oii, 111! r . III laHSU "L ,rV BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Now IfriS IS AND EVER FAITHFUL COMPANION, BRIAR, A NOBLE AIREDALE THE NEBBS Everything O. K. LAST TW6 POA.tR PlU. BOSiKiESS IS RE5UKE.O - LET US WOPS TmE ROaO TO FORTUNE. HAS MO MOCE. DCTOURS 7-3 1. taestf tj Tie Wr I. . -... a- P 9 PA iSTmi TRTBTJNE. MEDFORD. Orcn.. KPO. KOW: Organist. KZX: Younfs Orch.. KOIN: Xeva, KNX. Monday 100 Forecast. KSU KNX. KOIN; Dr. Quia. KPO. KOW; Oram H Croat. KOO. KEX, KJR. I SO Martins Music. KOO. KJR; Oram Park Coccert. KPO, KOW. SCO News. KEX: Hour. KPO. KOW; Reflections. KOO: Lombardo's Orcb.. KNX. KOIN, KSL. 6 SO Democratic Convention, KPO. KOW. KNX. KSL, KOIN. KOO. 7:00 Amoa and Andy, KNX, KOIN. KSL; Fred Wannf. KPO, KOW; Heatherton Orcb., KOO. 7 SO Washington Merry-Oo-Round. KOO, KEX. KJR: Where and Whan. KPO, KOW; Smoking Tlmt. KNX. KSL. KOIN. 8:00 Passing Parade. KOO; Dance Orch.. KSU KNX. KOIN: The Amer ican Challenge. KPQ. 8 SO Hawthorne House, KPO. KOW; King's Orcb.. KOIN. KSL; Dance Orch.. KEX, KJR. 8:00 Little Ol' Hollywood, KEX: Paul Bullllan. KSU KNX. KOIN: Classics for Today. KPO. KOW. :S0 Cartyn'a Orcb, KOO. KEX: Richard's Orcb., KNX; Prlml. KPO, KOW. 10:00 Ooodman's Orcb., KNX, KSU Reporter, KPO. KOW; Martin's Orch., KOO, KJR, KEX. 10:30 Music by Woodbury, KPO; Duchln's Orch., KOO. KEX; Camera Club,' KBL. KNX. KOIN. 11:00 Sudy's Orch.. KPO; This Moving World. KEX. KJR: Songs. KOIN, KSL: News. KOO. KOW. You'll enjoy the Fresh Sat Poods from Holly's. 136 I. Slstb. il6HS WlfHDKlEf AS JUN IOR 60E4 Out A.6AIN. START SHfWlN &RlSKlV BECOMES AWAPE.EROH A JOefcLE OF Hri ELBOW, THRf JUNIOR 15 BACK Wife S1btt.1bSEDtrfEK -That REA50H foit-'u. founts him out HIS BEIM6 SlilLISfHAff Ka-JtatSfUS fO BATHROOM. HA& 6cf HOLD OF SHAvlHoUCKllfe POOR BfUISH AhIP 6 LfiTMERlK fh' HIS fACS fWtlfS y Tla B11 SrnSlcau. tat r 1 1 ni tr.jrVrW wx hi sia. m'n TTrv rsrs Co On With The Storyl THE STOPYO )RPHANE0 IN SA6VHOO0, BEN HAS HAD C 'A REAL STRUGGLE IN LIFE AND BBN ri to STEM AND HIS INSEPARABLE J7 MOW, IN heavy 1 REO f 1 s I f NOW iJu GET LETTERS OUT ( ANO PHOMFi, SOME OP THE. BI& CUSTOMERS TELLIN3 THEM A: I . OME'RE BACK INI tr. OREGON. SUNDAY. JULY Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Time is Pacific Standard) For Sunday the schedule is: WEAF-NBC 1:30 Commenta tors Round-table. WJZ-NBC 2:15 Delegate Interviews. WABC CBS 3:15 Sen. Burton K. Wheeler; 6:30 Sen. James F. Byrnes snd Postmaster General Farley. MBS 4 American for um, commentators on the cor vention. In starting convention broad casts on Monday, the networks plan to make their pickups ac cord with important develop ments, The first session, with Postmaster General Farley pre siding, is expected to go on the air at approximately 9:15 a.m. As this column had indicated previously, Niles Trammell is the new NBC president, to suc ceed Major Lenox Ft. Lohr. Trammell takes over his duties immediately, stepping up from executive vice president. Al though the network's third pres ident, actually he is the first to assume the post after career which has been basically radio. Sunday brings: Europe includ ing convention, subject to change NBC 4, 5 a.m., 3, 8 p.m.: CBS 5 a.m., 3, 4:59, 7 p.m. WEAF NBC 11:45 a.m. MBS 3:30. gy GLUT A3 WILLIAMS 6ES A10H6 AS BESf HE CtA, UHTilJUMlORairieSUPTO SEE WHAT DADDY LOOKS LIKE IN-MlRROR AND OB SCURES The iiem and lAftER HA4 NOW DRIED ON HlSFAcE,BUfCANrDO ANy-1 Trill ABOUT IT, BECAUSE JUNlflR StlLL WW 8RUSH. SHADES UNHAPPILY" 7-15 OOVHUOU, FATS. HAS DEALT blow; HE AND ANOTHER YOUNGSTER, ' - HAlREO, FRECKLE-FACED1 GOOD-NATURED RUSTV McSURK, HAVE SEEN A LITTLE REAL-ESTATE SUBDIVISION, WHICH THEY WERE TRYING TO DEVELOP, VIRTUALLY WIPED OUT BV A TORNADO' UNV.ESS ASSURING T7T7 W 14. 1910. Monday expectations: Europe including convention, subject to change NBC-4 am; CBS 4 a.m., 2:45 p.m. Novelist Saila Stockholm, July 13. 6J The Scandinavian wireless an nounced today that Sigrid Und set, the novelist, who fled Nor way after the German invasion. would leave Stockholm Satur day for the United States to take up residence. One of her three sons fell in the fighting in Norway. Closing tuna tor Too Law to Claa lly Ada la 1.S0 p m. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS 1 '1' -- WRe Used ?y IRE AUIES IN W(?RUWAR1-, To p(?aw ewcMy FiRe CAN WRITTEN 0NTH6 Top K?f Row hLoNE of A TPEWRIIER... 1 yr' kCWA4DRe4SD , JV A4 fY MANDARIN Amp etfTEDWrtH Honor ouTof New V0RK0NIRE JOHN JACOB AsTor To CIRCUMVENT THE. , EM3ARG0 1.1 Cam 1M4 M TsiHe Factar S l tae. " '-- t fill flifcli rtsawiii MANDARIN FRAUD John Jacob Attor, eager to clear hit ship, the "Beaver," from New York harbor for the North west and Orient, in 1809, was annoyed to find an embargo prevented hia tailing. So he petitioned President Jefferson for special permission to carry home to Canton a great Chinese mandarin, aa a gesture of international good will. Astor enlisted the aid of a Chinese coolie dock worker, dressed him up at a mandarin, se cured the pretidential permit and tailed before the fraud wat detected! At a result of this coup. Astor returned to New York with a profit oi $200,000. MONDAY: Biggest Tree House. (SEPARATED FROM fcACH OTH6R DURING RUSTV HAS M-TERIOUSLV DISAPPEARED THE ONLY CLUE BEN HAS SEEN ABLE TO GET WAS FROM A TERRIFIED RESIDENT WHO, WHEN THE WIND HAD ABATED, GLANCED OUTOF A CELLAR WINDOW AND SAW WALK UNCONCERNEDLY HISHWAY THERE HE HITCH-HIKED A RIDE ON A TRUCK BOUND DIRECTION RUSTY .11 III I'VtfS. 1 - - - - i -rtri sd r. t. , FLINCHED AT OANGER, ) BEH CANNOT "ACCOUNT FOR DESERTION OF mi mq wiPfsn I'm KinT imtpcpstpo CAM GET A, CONTRACT ' HE OP DELIVERY- I CAN7T SPEND MONEY SELLING A PRODUCT CTUAT'S CONTINGENT ON THE .SOCIAL STATUS OF THE 4 11 IV:. ti . '. 'A BAXTER ASSIGNED OREGON BISHOPRY San Francisco. July 13. (JP Bishop-elect Bruce R. Baxter of Salem, Ore., was assigned to the Portland area of the Metho dist church today by the report of the committee on episcopacy of the western purisdictional conference. Bishop James C. Baker was returned to hoi Angeles, and He fiktmhk terns- WR 4t ft?,. CFI809 THE STOR, V 1 JMWf. fU& WHOLE THINS IS A RIDDLE BUT BEN, WITH ONLY TWENTY DOLLARS TO HIS mVfc uk Ho (YtlND TO SOLVE IT' RUSTY TOWARD THE IN THE OF THE CITY Showing that a- OuR STORY nPnHC, WlTU BEN AND BRIAR LEAVING THE WRECKED AND RUINEO HAPPY VALLEY WITH ONLY ONFi THOUGHT I fa MlMH. NEVER THE SEEMlNS HIS PAL. TO FIND RUSTY McSURK! TRAYS ALU INTO NOW - WE'LL MAKE 1 DELIVERIES -ILL GIVE NOU A CONTRACT IP YOU WANT IT, BUT THERE WONT BE ANOTHER AT LEAST UNTIL VMS. APFORO IT 1 n Bishop Wilbur E. Hammaker to Denver. Dr. Baxter, president of Wil lamette University at Salem, will be consecrated bishop here Sun day, the first time in 36 years a Me-Jioditt Bishop hat been consecrated on the Pacific coast. He is under mandate to attend general board meetings of the church in Chicago, July 22 to 29. . Tillamook, Ore., July 13. (P) Four boats out on a scout ing trip came home with a ton each of albacore tuna, the first commercial landings this year on Tillamook bay. byJOHNHIX ft A CHAMPAGNE BoTTLKI &W4AN0 8omK NUMBERED CUSTOMERS DAILY... rliiaK bum (1 , 1 J, i?ivre-wvfw mi "it Ghana, Conn., 878) M L A X I is IP IU kA . Vi, ? By HAL FORREST COMB ON . YOU GUVS'SOMnHlNG' HMKHIsrNtD IN THEM.' LET'S CRA5H TH DOOR W I Bt EDWIN ALGER NAME, HAS trrTWfflai. BT 80L HEM THE DISCARD ltl! CXHCK FIGHT HERE- CAN