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
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tsrntrti kol.N, alii. Portland.
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trsnrl.ro: kl., MSn. palt I ahe.
rrldas.
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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
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of St. Francis, KPO, KOO, Hit Pa-
MEDFORD MAIL
rade, KVX. KSL. KOIN; Scott's Orch,
KPI; News, KIX. KJR.
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Orch, KPO, KPI, KOW.
1:00 Paator's Orch, KPI: Martin's
Orch, KOW; BUI Henry, KNX, KOIN:
Neva, KSL.
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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
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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
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U. S 6oiernmentrrinm Offiee
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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!
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