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TAGE TWELVE Gasual Slaughters By VIRGINIA HANSON Cf T CSTHRDAT; Kay tails ail ens rvalues that the Colonet Is wu csmtrinced of Jfff'l emit 5He pots up to her room end finds Mimi there sftsmi bursts out Tm olad she's dead. Shi idoj bad through and through." Chapter 34 Mlml' Story , I I IMI took cigarette from the pack I offered her. lit It and began walking aimlessly about the room, itraightening a picture, brushing an invisible speck from the dresser acarf, changing the position of a chair. Tm nobody," she began abruptly, in the hard voice of one making an unwilling confession. "I probably don't need to tell foil that it must be obvious that m out of my element No don't Interrupt Maybe it isn't obvious. That's what you were going to say, anyway perhaps a bit more tactfully, we'll consider it said. But that Isn't really what's trou bling me. I Just want to give you a complete picture of my back ground, so you'll understand bet ter " She laid the smoking cigarette on the edge of the dresser and be can resrraneinf my comb and hand mirror which I had not yet repacked. 1 could see her face In the big glass as she talked, taut ana sirainea ana uiieny uncon acious of what he was doing. She had been born in a little town in Ohio, and her people were nobody even in that town. Her father worked by the day, her mother took in sewing. They grew before my eyes decent. liod-rearing people, witn no edu cation beyond the public schools. They had never been anywhere and never wanted to go. They named their only child Mamie and expected her to grow up and be happy in the same rut But Mamie had other ideas. She won a beaut contest when she was in high school. Her voice was flat as she told me about it, but a blush swept her tense face. The prize was a trip to New York. Mamie entrained from her home town, but Mimi atepped off the train in Grand Central Sta tion. And Mimi stayed on in New York a beautiful girl in a city of beautiful girls, each,' like Mimi. with bright dreams of the future. She cashed in her return ticket and by the time it was spent the dreams were fading and she waa glad to get a job as stock girl in one of the Fifth Avenue stores. "You'll never know how I lived I don't know myself. I still had high hopes, but I don't photo- fraph well; I can't sing or dance: m too short for a model and I have no education. I lied about the last and Anally they promot ed me to selling. "I was selling teen-age dresses when I flrat saw Dan and Julia. He brought her in to be out fitted for boarding school, and I waited on them. Kay, you've no idea now wonderful he looked to me. In my ten vears In New rork i nad met a lew men most of them hopeless drips. I could have done Just as well in my own home town, msybe better. I want ed to get married, but not to that kind. Dan waa like the man from Mars." , She was In her lata twenties. getting self-conjrious about her age. Here was man neither old nor callow, a man who looked as a man ought to look, handsome and lean and healthy. He came back a couple of times with Ju lia for fittings, and she found out who he was, that he was a wid ower and that he waa stationed at West Point She couldn't have been more impressed if he had been the Prince of Wales, Insanely Jealous GRADUALLY Julia's clothes became Miml's problem. Ev ery two or three months they would come in for a new outfit: between times he or Julia would write tor little things the kid needed. Mimi grew to look for ward to those letters and to the shopping trips. Once they came just as sne was going to lunch and insisted that she lunch with them. After that they always took her to lunch when they were In town. And then, quite suddenly, aha tost ner joo. It wasn't anything to her dis credit The store was reducing expenses. So were the others, she discovered: and ther were onlv taking in college girls. She couldn't get work. And ahe On the Radio Chains si snorts Where to Mod TIiim on the Ulali MX. llhO, Purl land. lH. 40, uo jiiel; SUA, 1470. apoaait HWO, I mi, Sao rraiM-IM-ui klW i:u. Portland kJH. 1v. Seattle. KNX. 1060. til Anirlral M)V ISO tsrntrti kol.N, alii. Portland. hllMII m amities kPU. SMI. Hi trsnrl.ro: kl., MSn. palt I ahe. rrldas. SflO Dint's Orrlt.. KOO. KEX. KJR; Walts Time. KPO. KQW; Clark Rose. KNX, KOIN; Sweet end Swing. KSL B:30 Koeene Orch KOO, KJR. KEX: Villi! Mr Name. KPO. IWW; Orand Central Button. KNX. KSL. KOIN. 00 Public Affairs. KNX. KMU KOIN; Variety Hhow. KPO. XUW; Na. KOA. KEX; Filbert mhar. monle. KOO. a JO Al Pram. KNX. KSL. KOIN; Quia Kids, KPO KOW; Concert Orch, KOO. KEX. KJH 1:00 Pred Warms. KPO. KP1. KOW I Amoa and And;, KNX. KAt, KOIN: Measuera Orrh.. KJR, KEX: lll.l.al Hftlt.gr. KOO 7 :S0 Johnny Present. KNX. KSL. KOIN Ralute to Bvrd Eiprdltlon. KOO. KOA, KEX: "how Boat. KPO, KM. KOW. a .00 Treasure Is;and, KPO: Sparta KUO-. Oarber'e Orch. KSL; John Clara. KNX; ErenbodT wins, KOIN a:0 Death Valley Dars. KPO. KF1. KOW; Baseball. KOO. KEX; Dance Orch, KAL, Leun f. Ilns. KOIN. couldn't go borne. Her fsmily had consigned her to perdition ten years before, and in the mean time ner mother nao oiea ana her father married again. Her savings dwindled. In des peration, she took anything. She waited on tables in cheap Broad way restaurants: she even washed dishes for a week. Then aha got sick. But Dan and Julia wera look ing for her. They found her. and Dan asked her to marry him. She was pacing nervously from window to door and back aiain. The cigarette had bumed almost to the edge of the dresser. I got up from my chair and extin guished the stub in an ash tray. She paid no attention to what I was doing. "You see" s h swallowed nainfullv "I've always known ha did it because he was sorry for me, that he's never loved any one but his first wife. I've tried snd tried not to let it matter. iust to go on loving him anyway; iut every once in a while I break out and do something silly, like trying to make him Jealous, or be ing sura he's having an affair with some woman" She paused to moisten her soft curved lips with the tip of her tongue. I don t think I ever leit so sorry for anyone in my life. But I aid not speak. Just waited for her to go on. Anything I could have said would have seemed too hollow. "That's why I drive so much at night" she said at last in a stran gled voice. "Sometimea some times I follow him. I have spells when I'm insane with Jealousy. It's destroying me. I know it's in sane, but I can't help myself. I'm always bitterly ashamed when I find he goes fust where he says he does. But the next time I do it all over again. Once I got the idea he might leave the meetings early and go on somewhere else, so once in a while I drive around and around, watching his car to make sure it's still parked where It was. One mailt one nisht I passed a florist's shop and saw a man come out with a tox of flow ers and get in his car and drive away, it waa dark, put the light from the show window filtered out, and it looked like Dan's car and the man looked like Dan. I went through hell that night 1 walked the floor waiting for him. I might have done something ter rible irrevocable. But when he came in he was In uniform it was an American Legion meeting, or something of the kind and the instant I saw him I remembered that he had gone In uniform that night And the man I saw was in civilian clothes. Of course it wasn t Dan, But that just shows you Ingratiating "IJAVE you ever let him know you were jealous?" "Just once. When we were first married. He snubbed me so frightfully that I've never dared speak oi it again. Kay, a woman is at a terrible disadvantage when she's in love. I'm so afraid that I'll lose what little have. Not that it's such a little thina to be his wife, to make his home for him and darn his sojks and see him every day and and be here when he wants me. If I wasn't a fool I'd be happy, wouldn't I?" There wasn t any answer to that and she didn't seem to ex pect one. I watched her draw up a chair and sit down facing me. She did not relax, but her face had smoothed out a bit, as if the fiainful confession had been a re let. Like drawing an aching tootn. "I was going to tell you about Sandra, wasn't I?" she asked pres ently. "I didn't mean to talk so mucn aoout myseit. I Just want ed you to understand how such a thing could happen, "Jeff still had a year at the Academy when Colonel Tack died and Sandra came to New York. Dan suggested that I ask San dra to West Point for a visit So of course I did. "1 liked her very much at first She's sha waa ingratiating, you know. Dan thought ahe was per fect always did. 1 noticed that of course. I wasn't very happy, but I hadn't yet learned that there was no use trying to make Dan jealous. He just didn't notice. There were flocks of cadets around the hou.-e all the time, and they all made a fuss over me you know how kids are and I used to play up In the hope that Dan would see I was still fairly vourg and desirable. But as I say, Dan didn't notice." Te be cenUneed 1 B 00 Paul Sullivan. KNX. KSL. I KOIN: Big Town. KPO; Gordon i Orch.. KOW. I 90 In thl Old Das. KPO: Klns ; Orch., KOIN; Woodbury a Orch, KOW. 10:00 Newa. KPO, KP1. KOW; Du- china Orch.. KOA; Jura-rna Orch., i KNX; Krnfa Orch.. KSL. I lOStt-Blltmore tkn: KKX KOA KJR; Omens' Orch . KPO. KOW; llar- ber's Orch., KNX. KU KOIN 11:00 Knot Msnnlll. KNX. KM. KOIN: Nottingham Orch.. KPO; Man With a Pipe. KOA, KEX. Saturday B:00 milmora Buys, KPO. KH. KOW; Jenkins' Orvtv. KtlO. KOA KX. KJR; tfunsrl HalKllcap, KNX. KOIN, Mn.lrr Works, KI, B SO Ituisa s Orol, , KNX. KOIN. Oiiry. KltJ, KOW; Park lonoert. KOO, KOA KEX. KJR. Evsnlnj sierensde. K8U 8 S Serenade KNX. K!U KOIN 00 Newa. KEX: Unrle Kara. KPO. KOW. Message of Israel. KOO. 6:15 Monroe'a Orch.. KKX. KOA, Public Affairs. KNX. K!M . KOIN. SO Byrne's Orrh. KPO. KOW: War New. KNX. KU KOIN; Meludy. KOO, KOA. KEX. KJR. lOO-Kstello'a On-h . KNX. KSU KOIN; Barn Daora. KPO. KOW. James' Orch.. KOA, KX; Opera Jew. IS. KOO T:SO New into Voice. KNX. KfL Muslral Mirror. Krx. KJR. 8. fl Peita, KUO: Leon T Drews. KOIN a 00 Husglsnd Or. h . KOW: nty of St. Francis, KPO, KOO, Hit Pa- MEDFORD MAIL rade, KVX. KSL. KOIN; Scott's Orch, KPI; News, KIX. KJR. S SO Baseball. KOO. KEX; Haldt's Orch, KPO, KPI, KOW. 1:00 Paator's Orch, KPI: Martin's Orch, KOW; BUI Henry, KNX, KOIN: Neva, KSL. :S0 Klnt-'e Orch, KNX. KSL. KOIN; Luc' Orch, KPIt Owens' Orch, KPO. KOW. 10:00 Jones' Orrh, KOW; Jurgen's Orch, KNX; Ptlml. Jr, Orch, KOA: News. KPO. 10:30 Oarbar'a Orcb, KNX. KSL, KOIN: Martin's Orch, KPO: Duchin's Orch, KOW: Blltmore Boys, KJR. 11:00 Ennls' Orch, KflL. KOIN; Organist, KOA. KEX; Knox Manning. KNX; News, KOO, KOW; Notting ham's Orch, KPO. ICE WATER orrssrrToTivEitf, 1rlNKIN6 UNEASILY how coip the water LOOK Srt3 POWN WITH FEET IN WATER, PRETEnD)W6 HE IS SUNMIK6 HIMSELF Arto TRVlrJS fo KEEP FROM SWVER)N6 TAILSPIN TOMMY The f-lrO I THIS MAN HAS BEEN II I P OWE.RI WO IN Xti-l I Islf 3551 cr- I I I ,' i'T I r CV L- Tel at CP' ME, KNEW STAMMfeRS A Ik J(fVS if&HH jLTjIPTf" Ji C .1 Tt' iPtfa- ST? Hfc LIOHTJ ON TM6 CLIPPER MYSTtRlOOSLV U JTi ""' '---5Jk LIp'sTICK? COUt.O ' A WOMAN WAVt uaAiCto... and when tm,y went on Again, A4. m ' J L murdero lord twffdiy") LORD TViTEEDLV WAS SLUMP6J) IK) HIS CMAl R...... 61-1Q aVE4-' ---- I fTH VT.'-T'.".'..-" T MURPEKEP LORD TWEEDLY . . . BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Luck Changing? B EDWIN ALGER " WELL, BPlARSIE, " "Z Tl I f Wh'PE I'tAO bc-j c AN ) I ' OU-? L'J-K CHANGED BACK " MAV0E- THAT'S THE BEGINNING Y0 WE OUST CAN'T fll 1 THE ONLV CLOTHFS I HV'r I ' THEP VHEN SOMEBODV STOLE OF OUR GOOD LUCK H I HAVE ANV MORE J I IN ALL THE WORLLi Ak6 J j AAV SUITCASE -THE VERY NEXT 1 , HOW ABOUT IT. BRIAR? J tfcSs i V BAD LUCKi . f V THE ONES I'M WEARING V MINUTE V'E BOTH GOT A MEAL J Vi , v) , Irl 1 - ' ' Cf THE NEBBS Room for Argument? KlNAfiLe TO GET I nES, TWERrTS KilCE WELL TW.E f NICE LA.KSE AnjELL,! OOmT SUPPOSE rjs KSUV T hE VACAT10M WAS ACCOflMOOATlONS TOURIST CAMP sVSOUT S I US TUEUE -WE CAB I MS f LOOKS YThEV LOOK Ut MUCH ( I 0-Jf, I NOUR IDEA AK.D IM 4 ITtItVaow f SIX MILES DOWN TWEKCAOAHOST SLEEP. I UK.E A ROW CF TO FOLKS RiDIMS ARCHJKiD 2 OP,lRES,?. MlGWTV S0R.RV 1 ' Tr UalmoI? .vSTe ccodaXsome place!; wrem houses ,m a plame but tmev j 1"?"Z, messed it UP.BUT if NEBBS RETURU TH'5c V RICH FEOPLE. . SCREEM FOR THE A AR&UMEMT .LETS I TDTwEAiR- Jjh-T - -S? ZC-- ' PL,6S SETT,G os T WAIT until we port onlv to yTvX" c -rrtrTZ-- "'4 'Si , fv.v' Sthis is A FINE VACATION X KAvE MORE X lC'l DOD TJC ITS 5PANr' ir ICEO WJ V,ONT IC f ,r-rorVS IS VJ LlPTON1 I ECONOMICAL. (M, Al-rrE, M8 Stt'D LETS nCLU INC PAT WMATTMU I I TEA. KG THIS. LET MB JTTt. 1 KSJCW. 1 ITS 50 FULL rLAVOBEO r, , ',TN ALWAYS uT: loton 5 f rl CCTinM TPlflAV I 'lf-0 VCVtE TskI J VLOVtSlTy n.CVTPC HUT rE PEEN II sni'ist Ltll TEA ,V, Jvl. IN CX'U MW H0HC.'...AS5 i jUEOllVN UIWY! 7 Ji in -rue tVv -vr- LI"0N Tt A iconohiiih as" H,TI i?P0T'A at cunt a class !; . r auntTeO V. thu'c-5 ) , . .rrv rTT la-elv jr y plP IT7 V VOU BET 7-i i -Tl, 1 ( Think so? ,r ' : 1CjLv L.Ji v "I vsewill.' TRIBUNE, MED FORD. New Yo.K, Aug. 2. (IP) The I Daily Worker, official central organ of the Communist party in the United States, announced a change of ownership today. The newspaper was sold to the Freedom of the Press Co., Inc., owned by Mrs. Ferdinands Reed, Mrs. Caio Lloyd Strobell 7 ccs S1AIIA. 5TRAI6HfeHS UP AND WAVES CHEER IIM" TO SOMEONE Al REAPV IN WATER, SimREPTtTiOUSLV ItSft WATER WITH TOE SPRINKLES A LITTLE WATER ON BACK OF NECK PEODES fO PUT OFF 601N6 in until. to morrow when water will probable be WARMER Lip-stick Clual OREGON, FRIDAY. AUGUST 2. 1940. and Mrs. Susan H. Woodruff, who said in a statement that they intended to operate the Daily Worker "as a medium of free expression in the interest of the working people of Amer ica." Iron Diet for Trees. Dublin. Ga., Aug. 8. (IP) Farmer James L. Whit&ker did n't think much of a tip a visit ing apple man offered, but he followed it anyway and drove rusty nails into the trunks of all but one of his non-bearing apple trees. Now he is forced to report all but the one he skipped are loaded with fruit. Br GLUYAS WILLIAMS STALLS SOftE tf ORE fW STROLLING UP AHD down float, pre- fKTlrl6 HFS WAlT IN6 FOR SOMEONE AS HE GETS OP SOME ONE DIVES OFF OTHER END OF FLOAT; CAU51H6 HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE 8-3 STRANGE AS IT SEEMS HOOK- ' Z& ENflKnVINCJvt rWA4 FfeirTEO AMD rpfUVCREO IN Ifc HOURS, Maval Cburicf Inquiry R&ort vn inc mNm vr jntr w intr, U. S 6oiernmentrrinm Offiee (Q7 DIFFERENT a "A gu- - egfJL J ' Teat, mi i, t IIKC fHt? atMKBIe W. f x - ' ' - - ae si. flf aJI f-essnrrasi lTl- V. . AT WAR Mniiigr as It serins, since the Declaration of Independence Das adopted July 4 and sUned August t, 1"8, the l ulled Mates has had to light 97 vara or minor rnjagrments. tntrd July 4 and signed August 1, l"8, strange as It seems, the I'. 8. h.id only 21 years of peace! The Inlted Stoles has roufht and won six great tiara, yet scarcely a year tins passed In nlllrll either the army or noty has not been called upon to battle for Its country, hi M)AV: 43 Jobs In 48 Weeks! 6 Ro&t. - - BW SW f ' - Ml - -JT I " J .-. AZ IK.Jli . -i TUL byJOHNHIX SBJH.W k BLOCK oFORftNffe RK7iH6 MOM W THE W5" & MVS FRflMTrlE NEARKT 6r?ftNlTE OUTCROP By HAL FORREST Bt SOL HESS
