Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 22, 1941, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE ETGHT by Phoebe Atwood Taylor w.upter 30 The Pincnahion FIVE minutes later, Jennie paused. "Uh-nuh." Asey said. "You ain't listening Asey, can't you stop starin' oR Into space an' tell me the answers to soma of them things?" "Your guess's just as good as mine." "Another thing I want to know about!" Jennie went on. "You lis tenin' to me? Well, nobody's tried to harm you, have they? She broke off as something crocKiea sharply against trie Ve netian blind. Jennie uttered a shrill squeal of terror and jumped from her chair, but Asey looked at the lit tle pieces of gravel on the rug and grinned as he strode over to the window. "Ahoy, Asey!" Washy called up hoarsely, "Ahoyl I can't And no- Dorjyr "Keep on watchln', anyway, Asev told him. When he turned around, Jennie was viewing with acute dismay the contents of the workbasket, strewn oil over the floor. "How'd that happen?" Asey in quired. "Oh dear, ain't that an awful mess! I had the basket in my hand when I jumped, an' it popped right up into the air my, that sravel startled me! Hem me pick things up, will you? I looked under so many beds in such a rush, I'm stiff an' creakin' from bendm' over. 1m tired, anyways. You know it's most one o'clock?" "Feel like call in' it a day an' goln' home?" Asey knelt down and started to gather up the spools. "I thought," Jennie sounded discouraged, "that I'd be a big help to you, Asey. It always seemed to me when you had cases like this before that I'd have guessed things an' figgered things, right off. Maybe not as fast as you. but anyway as fast aa Han' son. But I guess It's easy enough after someone's shown you. He oh, don't stuff things back that way, Aseyl It was just about the neatest worKDasxet I ever seen, an' we mustn't leave it all messy!" "There!" Asey gave her the basket and tossed the last spool into her lap. "See anythin' I missed? "Seems like there'd ought to be pincushion," Jennie said. "There's always a Asey, that's "What? Where?" Asey looked round on the tut. "Not on the floor, nlnnyt I mean, the pincushion s somethin' else I don't understand. Look, when we first come here tonight, didn't I pick up pincushion off the floor in the livin' room? It was a pincushion that looked like a tomato, wasnt it?" Asev thouiht for a moment. "I don't know's I remember whoa! Yes, I do, tool I remember It now. What about it?" "Why, tonight while we was waltm there in the livln room while you was off huntin' Miss Olive, Mrs. Doane picked up her sewin oasxei an- started aarnin sock. I said. Just to kind of make conversation, that I'd picked up her pincushion off the floor, an' she said she was very fond of that pincushion because it was her mother's, an' so different from most shaped 'ike an orange! So I said now, Asey, stop lookin' at them pictures an' listen to me! I said, what I picked up was a tomato, an' she said to take the basket an' look for myself, there wasn't any tomato there, only the orange, an' I must just have made a mistake with the candlelight an' all. Well, like I said. I was gettin' tired of havin' people tell me I just made a mistake, an' I got sort of mad, an' Freddy stepped In quick an' said that Miss Olive had a tomato that be longed to her mother, a real old fashioned tomato pincushion" "What's that?" Asey said. "Say that again." Jennie repeated It. "I wasn't so upset an' worried that I couldn't tell a red tomato from an orange orangei i saia so. too, but Mrs. Doane iust smiled that sort of iu. perior smile of hers, an' said I could see, couldn't I, that there wasn't any tomato there then!" "Wasn't there?" "No!" Jennie said. "I looked tnrough that basket twice!" uia you hunt around any wheres besides the sewin" basket?" "I was just mad enough," Jen nie said, "that I pawed around the floor for It. an' peered among the magazines on the table, an' I even poKcd in the nower bowl there. Freddv an' Rankin an' Wash all helped me hunt they was polite enough, an' they pawed things around on mat la Die every which way. But it was plain to see they inougni io marie a mistake, too. After a while. I cot to wonderin' if maybe I wasn't wrong, because they all thought so but Just the same I was positive sure I'd picked up a tomato pincushion an' put it in that basket Now, what do you think Asey. what's the matter with you You looked glum as a fish two minutes ago, OPERETTA GIVEN BY GOLD HILL STUDENTS Gold Hill, Dec. 22. (Spl.) A Dutch Christmas operetta In two acts was presented by the grade school here on Dec. 18. in the school gymnasium. In strumental music was furnished by the school band and singing Give Him . . a A SWEATER $3.95 to $12.50 T3axk&a Store for Men an' now you're grlnnln' from eax to ear!" "Cousin, d'you realize what you done?" "What I done?" Jennie sniffed. "Well. I must say, if I'd realized all the fuss an' bother an' to-do there'd be over a simple little thing like my plckin' up a pin cushion, let me tell you I'd have let it lay right there on the floor! Mercy" i sakes! A body'd think "You got me wrong," Asey in terrupted. "I don't think it's bad. I . think it's good. I think it's more'n good. I think it's Just about the best thing that's hap pened here tonight! A Clue "IVHAT you done, Jennie," Asey 'continued, "is to put your finger on somethin', see?" "I never!" Jennie said with spirit "I didn't put my finger on it, Asey Mayo! I tell you, I picked up that pincushion. With my hand!" Asey'g gfrln widened. "An' presented it to me on platter, he said. "Just so. Look, there was somethin' belongin' to Miss Olive, Jennie. On the floor. You pick it up an' put it some where, but it ain't there now!" "I can't help that! I" "Wait It must be Miss Olive's pincushion, all right You say Freddy said she had a tomato pincushion. But there's none in her own basket here, is there? An' you said yourself it was the neat est basket you ever seen! That tomato pincushion ought to of been right here. Only you found it downstairs on the floor. So that means that somebody" "Asey, you feel all right?" Jen nie inqured anxiously. "Don't you think you better go He down somewheres? You're talkln' kind of wild!" "Look," Asey said, "You got somethin' that indicates that someone was here an' took the fiincushion, an' somehow dropped t downstairs, an' then cared enough about it to come back an' remove it " "I bet." Jennie said, "It was that fellow that knocked over the clams,. Asey! That's what he was snoopin' around for! Don't you s'pose that's the fellow the doe seen, too? He was tryin' to get in an' get the pincushion!" "May be, Asey said. "Seems logical. But the big point is, at last we got somethin' belongin' to Miss Olive that somebody seems to of wanted! We don't need to waste time speculatin' If she left the pincushion down there on the livln' room floor herself. Folks aa neat as her don't go atrewin' their belongin's around. An' if this belonged to Miss Olive's mother, like Freddy told you, then probably she's Just as choice of it as Mrs. Doane is of her mother's orange model "But look here, Asev," Jennie's forehead was screwed up into a frown, "what'd anyone want a little ole pin cushion for, for mercy's sakes? I see what you mean, all right but I think it's kind of a silly idea, Aseyl If it was jewels or money or somethin' valuable, I can see why someone might want to steal it but stealin' away a little ole tomato pincush ion seems to me about aa silly a thing as I ever heard!" 'That's Just it!" Asey said. "Iff so silly an' unimportant that I didn't even remember your pick in' the thing up at first!" "You s'pose the girl might have taken the pincushion?" Jennie wanted to know. "You don't s'pose Miss Olive might of killed the girl herself? S'pose she was mad at the girl dressin' up like her? WouldnH it be awful, after how sorry an' worried we been about Miss Olive, if she was oh, no. I guess," Jennie said wearily, "that I'll just get along home an make myself a nice cup of tea an' go to bed! You. too. Maybe the real answer'll come to you over night." "I think I got enough now," Asey said reflectively, "to tackle them an' bluff somethin' useful out of 'em. But this pincushion" "Oh, that little ole pincushion! I tell you that r nice cup of tea what's the matter now?" she added, as Asey walked over to the window and peered out through the Venetian blind. "I thought I heard my car start up!" Asey said. "You never did see, you're Jumpy! You ought to rest an' "Well for the love of Pete!" "Asey. come back herel Where you goln'?" "Goin' to rescue my carl" "You musn't go out that win. dowl Come back here! Asey, are you stark ravin' madl Coma back!" Jennie hustled over to the win. dow, struggled again with the Venetian blind, and finally duck ed around in front of it in time to see Asey land on the lawn below, scramble to his feet, and dash toward the driveway. She could just make out the sleek lines of Asey's chromium plated roadster sliding off through the fog. Jumping Into the coupe parked at the head of the driveway, Asey started it, barked out, and set out in pursuit of his roadster. Te a eenUnas4 by the grade school chorus, high school glee club and sextette. The operetta was directed by Mrs. Opal Mooter assisted by other grade school teachers. The cast included Jessie Dally, Bruce Galbraith, Jocelyn Men nler. Fern McCoy, Raymond Dti' senberry, Arlene Gascon, Jewell Cook, Donald Dusenberry, Rob ert Learotte and Harold Colvln NEW SIREN TO WARN i GOLD HILL CITIZENS ! Gold Hill, Dec. 22. (Spl. The city council has authorized the purchase of a new flv I horsepower siren to be used In MEDFORD MAIL On the Radio Chains STATIONS: . Chain affiliation aa4 when they are en the dial: KALE (MBS) IS30. Portland; KEX (NBC-Blue) IISO. Portland: KUA (NBC-Hlue MBS) 1.110. Spokane; KOO (NBC-Blue) SIO. Ran rranelaco; KUW (NBC-Red) (20. Portland; KJR (NBC-Blur) 1000, Brattle; KNX (CBS) 1070. Loa Anlrles; KOA (NBC-Red) SSO. (tenter: KOIN (CBft) 970, Port land: KOMO (NBC-Red) .V Seattle; KPO (NBC-Red) SSO. Ban Franctaro; kbL (CBS) 1160. Bait Lake CUT. " " Time Shown Is PST Monday 1:00 p. m. Kaeorta and Betty, KOO, KJR; Vox Pop. KSL. KOIN"; Adven tures In Toylaod. KEZ: Stars of To day, KOW; Jan Arden. KOMO; Don Wraalow of tba Mary. KPO. S SO p. rov News of the World, KOO. KEX. KJR: Cocktail Hour, KOW; Bill Henry. KNX: Hewipaper of the Air. KOIN: Christmas Ball ringer, KOMO; Waits Rhythm. KPO; Voices of Yesterday, KSL. 6:00 p. m. Radio Theater. KNX, KOIN. KSL; Or. I. Q.. Jim McCtaln. KPO, KOW, KOMO; Cinnamon Bear, KaTX; Roae Reanlck, KOO; Scandinav ian Reporter. KJR. 6:80 p. m. For America. We sing. KOO, KEX, KJR: That Brewster Boy, KPO. KOW, Kr-MO. 7:00 p. m Mercury Theater, KNX. THE DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS C0MKINr0MPUri'lH6 ANP CflllS TO FAMILY, fcEffirte NO REPLY 51ART5 IN 10 SISTWS ROOM. AND MtKSOCSt CAUSING A RURRY OF WHISKIK6 30ME1HIM6 COT OF 5I6HT ANDSHRJEK5 lb kZZP Otff . LIX ABNER The Crisis 1 1 -AN' SO AH GOT UP AT 7 THIS MAVNIN'-AH HAD SASSIDGES, PCK CHOPS. BACON AN AIGS AN' HAM AN' AIGS FO' AN THE.N AH CAME. HYAK v . - - JjtMuJ Ni ti - S A. t A f BLOSSOM HAW 1 ffph a - HfiJ " TAILSPIM TOMMY Dr. Yermln la Confident gT hal FORREST During a I zowi e i "N I IVll never, be able toI I ( or. vehmin.'.-loox.' Iexperiment?? excellency PRACTICE ( PULLED THAT FLY THIS BABY OUT Of J LT. MlLLIGAN IS S INDEED) I DEAL ONLY IN REALITIES' BOMBING OF -GHOUN0 LOOP" THIS POCKET AND I JVl FOLLOWING- YOUR. J HE IS S MERELY RESPONDING TWEWILDCAT' I JUST IN TIME7 CAN'T CALL THE BASE-MY) V J INSTRUCTIONS HE l$S TO MY SUPERIOR. WILL r FLIGHT OF ry - RADIO'S FUSED.'.' ?tf ' Z y ABOUT TO LAND HER.E -.i -v POWER. THE -NTH 'A. V NJS ZrPI- &.3lt I I CONGRATULATE YOU SXWrPC COMMANDED k;..VN 4 SU WMK'V,! I - - flWK liiN TEelKCN r-iS IS NNSC THE NEBBS Good Newa ..imimii nf THIS IS A SPgClAL VOH-OH'. TMERE.CA.M HE WftlTBS THAT ME RESRETSVeOOO OU3 WAX-S "wElVWEtl. HAVE TO STRUSSLEVxhXTS "K i 'l ! ipi'; i, :' V!H)(E.P,?SMJio rSJWS INABILITY TO SPEND THE J'WE.U.-ME SHOUtO TUROUSH WITWOOT ERMIB SOMe-SRCASM, Our i:;-;;'":.::vi. VorrwE ernie Afrom that euv houdavs with us twis year,wave the pveasurc : how, but there is noOne remember li ;; m7-VTFH 1 7-""-l - I BUT THEY HAVE. AM INVITATION -V ALWAYS VvANTfD V CAM TAKE. UlS PLACH) If HES MY ( " I1 111 V1N Y "tsn rrTl I FROM ERNIE MAXWEU. FROM 1 HIM TO ENOOY ; THAMK . JV I l LjUBJL SjaBROTHeR J li' J l "t. TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. KOIN. KSL; Monaay Merry Oo-Round KEX. KOO, KJR; Contented Hour. KPO. KOW. KOMO. 740 p. m. Cavalcade of America. KPO, KOMO. KOW: Blondla, KNX. KSL, KOIN; Boxint Bout. KOO; Mod ern Muaie. KEX; Greater Washington Hour. KJR. 6:00 p. m. Amoa n Andy, KMC. KOIN. KSL: Fred Waring. KPO. KOMO. KOW; Herbert Marshall. KJR, KOO. KEX. 6:16 p. m Lenny Roes. KNX. KSL. KOIN; Lum and Aimer. KPO, KOMO, KOW; Shall-Bert Wheeler, KJR. SO p. m I Love a Mystery, KOO. KEX, KJR: Voice of Richard Crooks. KPO. KOW, KOMO; Oay Nineties Revue, KNX, KSL. KOIN. 8 :00 p. m. Telephone Hour, KPO, KOMOr KOW: True or Pslte. KOO. KJR, KEX: Vox Pop. KNX; Excurs ions In Science. KSL. 6:30 p. m. Hawthorns Houae. KPO, KOMO, KOW; Hollywood Showcase. KNX, KOIN; Natl Radio Forum, KOO; Newa. KSL, KJR; Moonlight Sonata, KEX. 10:00 p. m. Ran Wilde's Oreb... KOO, KEX, KJR; Reporter News, KPO. KOMO, KOW: Maaterworki of Music, KSL: News, KNX; Five Star Pinal. KOIN. 10:30 p. m. Ed stoker's Music, KOW; Stanley Kenton's Oreh., KJR: Alvtno Ray's Oreh., KSL; Broadway Bandwagon. KEX: Maaterworka of Music. KNX; The World Today. KOIN: Christmas Fund, KOMO: Con cert Hall, KPO. SriSPOWNOH SffcjRS 1blAKEHlfrilrI6S OFE lsfoNtERiil6 WHERE EyERVBOW IS 60E5 UPSTAIRS WTO nHP5 BEDROOM P00R5 AU SHUT. Tries MOW ER'S POOR. WHICH rS 10CKEP SlTS TOWS' Oh SfllRS WONPER1K6 V-rlfrf-fo PO.WHEHFROHTPOOR A CRACK AKP TATHER PEERS IN TAWER, OBVIOUSLY HH . 1K1& SOMEfHIKS BE HIND WS BACK, SEXD5 HIM UPrfR BETORE HE Wilt COME IN m4 try T n Sraitleile. tae.) OtLOCK THET BRINGS STORY O MAH RIGHT UP TDATE. BRECKFUST MOW, HAS YO' OUT WHUFFO KEEPS A-SAYIN X 'CHERRY BLOSSOM" an vaubbiN J OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1941. Tuesday 6:00 p. m. Adventure Stories, KOO. KJR; Are You a Mining Heir. KSL; Jane Arden. KOMO: Kews, KOIN; Adventure tn Toyland. KEX: stars of Today, KOW; Son Wlnalow of the Navy. KPO. 6:60 p. m. News of the World. KOO, KJR, KEX: Bob Burns Show. KSL; Horace Heldt'a Treasure Cheat. ' KPO. KOMO. KOW: Today's Beat; Buys. KNX; ryes of the World. KOIN. fl :00 p. m. Burns and Allen. KPO, KOMO, KOW; We. the People. KSL; Ken Stevens and Erwln Yeo. KOIN; Cinnamon Bear. KEX: Scandinavian Reporter, KJR; Second Husband, KNX. 6 AO p. m. Symphony Concert, KEX, KJR; Report to the Nation, KNX, KOIN: Fibber McOee and Molly, KPO, KOMO, KOW. 7 :00 p. m. Bob Hope Variety Show, KPO. KOMO, KOW: Olenn Miller's Oreh.. KSL, KNX. KOIN. 7:30 p. m. Red Skelton, KPO, KOW, KOMO: Treasury Chest, KJR, KEX. KOO; Leon F. Drews. KOIN". Second Husband, KSL. 8:00 p. m. Amos 'n' Andy, KNX. KSL, KOIN: Fred Waring. KPO. KOW, KOMO. 8:16 p. m. Lum and Abner, KPO. KOW, KOMO: Lanny Rosa, KNX. KSL. KOIN. 8 30 p. m. Johnny Presents. KPO. KOMO, KOW; Information Please. KOO. KEX. KJR; Are You a Missing By GLUYAS WILIJAMS KClrlER OPENS IT A CRACK.CAREFlJUY COH CEAUN6 VvWrf r5 OH THE BEP, ANP SAMS HE CAN'T' COME IN REfiRES TO HIS BEP ROOM. REfLECf)K6 HAP PILY THAT CHRISTMAS WEEK MAY BE LONELY BUT IT'S ECIT1MC5. snVAft luiuiArrs TH LIFE. NO AND S- I DON'T ( CARE FOUND AH r MM Heir. KNX. KOIN; News. KSL. 0:00 p. m. We. the People. KNX. KOIN; Easy Aeea. KOO. KJR. KEX; Adventures of the Thin Man, KPO, KOMO. KOW; Sports. KSL. 6:30 p. m MM Hallett's Oreh.. KOO: Battle of the Sexes, KPO. KOMO, KOW: Bob Burns Show, KNX. KOIN; New.. KJR, KSL; Moonlight Sonata, KEX. 10:00 p. m. Henry Buaie's Oreh., KOO. KEX. KJR; Reporter News. KPO. KOMO, KOW; Masterworks of Musle. KSL; News, KNX: Five Star Final, KOIN. 10:80 p. m Howard Barlow's Oreh.. KSL: Charles Dent's Oreh. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS ft At "THE v3KTEf OF $A A MiNlTTE IT WOULD TAK6 1900 VEAR A POO OvVMEP BV TCOUT WWCHEGV CARETAKER MARMAN CUALViN HERO'S THE FvA INTO NET'S AISP KlLAS NAKES THfXT menace them He has caught hundreds op mall. trout vet ua never ... uMm ur ihc aw -skcnu ihcn mvt VOICE Winston churchu,l, t& a voung man returning) fcom "TvAE BOER WAR CORCECTEP FAUlTV SPEECH 8V H0UTiNQ ORATION reO TvAE PEeE"RTEC PECK OF THE SHlP PUKING A RAGIMG tORM ORATORS' TRAINING Demosthenes was derided by his audience on his first attempt to speak In public. Weak lungs and an impediment in his speech, he was advised by an actor to recite with pebbles In his mouth, to correct his vocal defect, and to shout above tha roar of the sea to strengthen his voice. He became the greatest orator in history. Like Demosthenes, Winston Churchill was hissed and heckled at hia attempt at oratory, while running for Member of Parliament from Oldham. To increase the power of his voice he stood on the deck of a ship alone and threw oratory into a gale. TOMORROW: Secret Plantl MAYBE I AO HALF CRAZY.' MAYBE I All HYSTERICAL BUT WHO WOULDNT BE- AFTER LISTENING TO YOUR BORING DRIVEL FOR WEEKS.' HA? HA.' I DON'T GIVE A HOOT ABOUT YOUR CHERRY BLOSSOM HAW U MAW.' HAW." a . - . . i.. . I KOW: Stanley Kenton's Oreh. KOO. KJR: Broadway Bandwagon. KKX; Maaterworka of Music. KNX; Toe World Today, KOIN; Concert Hall. KPO. 11:00 p. m. uck Wagon Days. KPO. KOW; Thla Moving World. KEX, KJR; Anita Carol, KSL, KOIN; News, KNX: Reveries, KOMO. USES PARSING METER Amarlllo, Tex. (U.R) A cow boy who dropped the bridle reins over the metal post was the first person to use the city's new parking meters. Workmen 1re FEMALE OP THE OBlNTAU CARPENTER SEE HA55A IN WHICH AUTr- ABE &Ltidon,Mich. KtZ. -Tap iDe?AT YO' ON ACCOUNT MUSTNT GOT HEART- 1 VvtvWT SHAPED LARS?! LAFF AT PORE CHERRY ??-GULP BLOSSOM WHY DID AH TUFT? are busy installing the parking meters. City Manager A. r, Hancock said all the meters would be In operation by Janu ary 1. PULCHRITUDE PRINCE Loveland, Colo. (U.R) When Philo club started Its annual drive for charity funds its mem bers decided to elect the town's most beautiful man at the same time. Townsfolk paid a penny for each vote they cast for their favorite "prince of pulchritude." All money went to charity. , by JOHN HIX POCKfcT yff.nCW CACRlEP TrAOUGH' NO ONE KNOVv WHY... Aoeeue "ieA-rw- By AL CAPP SHE T..A5 an FHPI AIMS SAY ) FAF DVTMIMtt f X ava.is s limv. v SOL HESS il c c case of air raids or blackouts. It is expected that delivery will ibe made within the next 80 days. Closlof tune n. Claaaltled Ad. 6 T a. in, Too Late to Classify U JO