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PACE FTX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1942. c ' tv WATKlHi I WRIGHT Wit VtSTtRDAY; Lavinia's 6m kissed, in rplte of all she has don to ducouragt romance. Th'j day she had allowed Freddy to drive her to the Zoo and to the Brook- . tyn Museum, and to pay him back for long hourt of boredom, she aoreed to have dinner with him. After dinner, in Freddy's ear, Freddy vp and kiued her without asking permission and without apology. Chapter Sis Thank For The Ride THERE!" salj Freddy. That't the sort of thing jrou read about in books!" Lavlnla Jerked back into bar corner of the seat. "Don't you aver do that afslnl" aha raged. "I make no promises." said Freddy. He released the dutch, and the car started forward. "With a little practice, Uvinia." ho added, "you could become quite a gal quite a gal!" Lavinia said nothing. And the drive back to Manhattan was cer tainly nothing to write home about Lavinia tried to occupy her mind entirely with unspoken opinions of men in general, and Freddy Rand in particular. And Freddy kept wondering if he wasn't a fool to keep after La vinia, when that Bessie Marshall, who took Lavinia's dictation, was to easy to Impress. "Don't bother -o come to the door with me," Lavinia said, when they reached her apartment house. "And thanks for taking me to the Zoo and the Museum. "Don't mention it," said Freddy. "Thank you for taking me for a ride." He waited until Lavinia was out of the car, and said: "I hope to heaven some man comes along and makes you suffer like like all get-out." With this he started the car. and drove off. He didn't bother to say goodbye. 11 or did Lavinia. She went Into the house, climbed the stairs to the third floor where the apartment which she and Zoe shared was located, and paused ther for a moment She frowned. She aa still angry over Freddy's silly kiss. But she wondered if she hadn't been too bard on him. After all, Freddy wai Freddy, and there was nothing she could do about it And maybe if she hadn't planned to make her life business success, she might even learn to love a man like him. But she had planned her life, and she wasn't going to fall in love. So that waa that She dug in her bag for the apartment door key, and finally found it As she Inserted It in the lock she thanked her stars that Zoe wasn't at home that ah had planned to have dinner with Peter Raymond. She was in no mood for ques tions, and she knew how Zoe would ask them. She would want to know all about what happened ' if Freddy had made love to her If he had suggested marriage, if he had talked about his wife. Besides, she was tired. Come to think of it she and Freddy had done a lot of walking. Those long walks in the Park, and the stair and hard floors in the Mu seum. It waa going to be nice to take a warm bath and get into something comfortable. Then she would go to bed and finish that book about prehistoric animals. She had rented It from a library and didn't want to keep It too long. She pushed open the door. She (topped stock still In her tracks. A woman was standing In the center of tl.e room smiling at her. "Hello, Uvinia. my dear!" she said. "Aunt Dorcas!" Lavinia cried. And she ran to th older woman's outstretched arms. Surprise Fran Auntie NEITHER Lavinia nor Miss Dor cas spoke for some momenta. They Just clung to each other happily. "Where's your young man?" Miss Dorcas Anally asked. "Why - what? aaid Uvinia, astonished. "Your young man," Miss Dor cas repeated. "I haven't got such thing." said Uvinia. "But Zoe told m a young man had taken you out to dinner." "Oh, that!" said Uvinia. "Fred dy Rand. I left him down stairs. He's gone on home, I suppose." She led her aunt to a chair. "Why on earth didn't you let me know you were coming?" she said. After all these years coming unexpectedly like this!" "I was lucky to get here at all," Miss Dorcas said, "consider ing the state of affairs on th other side." She sank down gratefully against the cushions. "Besides 1 couldn't tell you when I w.n com ing. 1 didn't know myself. Good lord, Lavinia. the time I had Ret ting visas, and permits, and argu ing with men in a half a dozen d liferent countrlesi To make mat. ters even worse, th countries were always changing hands I never knew what language I was supposed to try and speak." It must have been awful!" La vinia aaid. She dropped down upon a low atool at her aunt's feet. "Jut let me look at you. darling! Oh, It's wonderful hav ing you back!" "And 1 can tell roil it'a won derful being back! Miss Dorcas hunted for a cigarette, found it and lit it She inhaled deeply, and blew a smoke ring toward th ceiling. "Home! America! I can hardly believe It." "How did vou get here finally?" Uvinia wanted .n know. "Oh. I chased from one coun try to another, or rather 1 was chased from one country to an other. Miss Dorcas answered. "Always trying to And a boat that was sailing in this direction. But I gave up in the end. and by chance got a plane out of Spain. We got as far as Bermuda, and were stopped because of a spy suspect oi something." She sighed, and slid down low In the chair. "But early this afternoon I stepped off at LaGuardia Field, got a taxi and here I am!" "Thank God." snid Uvinia soft, ly. "I'm so sorr I wasn't her to greet you Oh. your dinnen You must be starved." "No, Zoe fed me." Miss Dorcas said. She fixed me some eggs, and toast and tea. It's all I wanted. I haven't got back my land stomacb yet" She let her eyes take in ea-h and every one of Uvinia's features. "And whst a beauty Zoe's grown up to be!" "Yes. said Uvinia. "A beauti ful girl throwing herself away on a man. She's being married next Sunday." "She told me. I'm glad. Her young man sounas very nice." "You're glad?" "Yes, my dear. A good husband la Just what Zoe needs." Lavinia shrugged. "Peter's all right," ah said, "as men go and come. But let's not talk about men." "Why not?" said Miss Dorcas. "I like talking about men." Lavinia laughed somewhat un certainly. Then she changed th subject You came back Just in time to move in with me," sh said. "Since Zoe's moving out" Beauty Parlor "VTTLL discuss that later," said ' Miss Dorcas. "I've already registered at a nearby hotel, and left what little luggage I could get out of that European mess." "It'll be only temporary." said Lavinia. "You can stay at the hotel for this we;k only. Then you come here ith me. .Where did you register at the Martha Washington?" "Heavens, no!" Miss Dorcaa said, chuckling. "Can you picture me in a hotel fo.- women only?" She patted Lavinia's cheek. "Never mind answering, my dear. But when I've been to a -beauty parlor and had something done to this straight hair of mine, and learn how to apply ouge grace fully, I'll look different." "You mean you are going to beauty parlor?" said Uvinia unbelieving. "I most certainly am," said Miss Dorcas. "From now on I'm going to live like civilized fe male." "But but I thought you liked the way you lived." "I did. But it's time 1 stopped trudging throug:-. jungles and digging In ruins. Maybe it's not the sort of life for a woman, any way." Mijs Dorcas blew another smoke ring. "I'i going to try the other way for a time. 1 can alwaya go back to my trudging and my digging." Lavinia said nothing. There didn't seem to bs anything she could say. She felt a sense of confusion. She hud been saving and planning to live her aunt's sort of life, and now her aunt had come back to live the sort of lives a lot of useless, pall ted women lived. It was beyond her. Her aunt went on talking. "Thank goodness," she said. "I had aense enough to put money in an annuity, so that I can live without havii.o to skimp too much." She was thoughtful for a moment "I might even get mar ried." Then Lavatilr did say some thing. "You married?" sh gasped. "Yes, my dear," said Aunt Dorcas. "Goci'. heavens, it Isn't a complete impossibility, you know. After all, I'm only forty-nino. And this day and tinu that's con sidered voung for woman as well as a man " "I know. Aunt Dorcaa," said Lavinia in a dazed sort of way. "But you always seemed to thiiik that marries wdi a mistake That women should have careers do things- make something of themselves, and now" "And now I'm beginning to think I waa wrons? ." Mm Dorcaa said. Uvinia s.emed to wilt. Her spine was l'ke rubber. And she had the reeling that tils womsn who had co- e p mt wasn't her Aunt Dorcas at all. She aj wear ing Aunt Dorcas's kird of clothes, yes but she hsi none of the characteristics of her aunt im sorry, her aunt said, "that you didn't ring thia young Mr. Rand up. I'd like to meet him" "He's nothing out of the ordi nary, I assure yoj. said Uvinia somewhat primly. "He's an em plnyee in th store and he's a widower. "Widower - sometime nake the best husbanuj." said Miss Dorcaa "Experience you know. They've learned how to treat a wife." "I wonder, said Uvinia. But befon they could continue th conversation Zoe irrived She brought Peter Kay.iond with her. "Miss i lor as she sad, "1 want you to meet mv fiance Miss Prentiss, Mi. Raymond. Or, Aunt Dorcas, this Is Pete." "How do you do. Aunt Dorcas." sa'd Per "Hello Pete," said Miss Dorcas. Vou lucky devil, vou A-d vou. too. Zoe." She laughed "Whv are you looking at me like that Pete?" "Gosh. I don't know. Aunt Dor cas." said Pele. "Only you well, you don't seem a bit like 1 ex pected." "Oh. I know You thousht I'd be leading a leoparl with one . hand, and carrying a shotgun in th other " Ta ft eenUnaed Now Is the Time lo Buy an Overcoat $23 lo $85 Store lor Men Dave Eccles Uses Shiny New Bicycle Salem, Jan. 0. (P) Budget Director David Eccles, who's trying to get state departments to limit use of their automobiles because of tire rationing, set an example today. He rode to work on shiny new blrycle. Dm Mall Tribune want ads. On the Radio Chains STATIONS: Chain affiliation and wbere tbey are en the dial: KALE (.MBH) 1330, Portland. KKX (NHr-Blue) I lira. Portland KI1A (N . -Hlu A MIIH) ISIS Spukane; fcliO (NKC-Hlue) SI. in rranclwoi KI1W (NHC-Mrd) HO. Purlland; KJK (MIC-Blur) 1000. Realties KNX (CHI) 1070 Los Angrlrt: KOA (NBC-Ked) SM. Denver: KOIN (CBS) 70, Port land: HOMO (Mlf'-Ki-ll) S.0 raltlri KPO (MIC-Krd) H0 Ran rram-lsro; KSL CBS 1160. Bait Laka City. " m Tim Shown Is PSt Tuesday 6:00 p. ni' Adventure Stories, i KOO. 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Youngstown police suggest he's 4ot girl friend: A middle-aged women held up drive-in res taurant today at the point of a gun. She forced two waitresses to surrender receipts of $53.00, took their dresses nd drovs away. An even temperature of at least 68 degrees should be main tained for the successful grow ing of plants indoors. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS mtm fe d -J apt it "- msm r is ci i FOB PGOTECT ON I mALW f by JOHN HIX TwOUaW CKiPPUEP FOR 9 THE RESULT OP A DlVlNGi INJURY IoaIa NEWSPAPER f?EP0RTE:F H6 &ZX AEOUUP IN AM UTOET" AND UNABuE TO UNCLENCH HKS RIGHT HAND, PECK'S OliTT0Rl3 ON MKS TYPEWRITER LolNG AN OUD-FA'SmONEP . CURLING IRON yssss. Lanvu urcu. I OF THE AlCLTUE ' 3 JN'3 QAY3 WOUU? SEVERELY PAAAAGE HUMAN ,KIN WITHIN OR A WAoF TOPPED 2 TWAIN'S. ..OKI THE NOCPOUK . it WESTERN R.R. Tt rtrrr r-AtiflUT Vi MOTOr? CONTACT'S, CAUSING AUTOMATIC SK3NAIA TO 00 REP... Near BlacksTone, Va.,mo... ST"?. .. I A. 1. lta. f f 'V UK WfJWiUY I POWN'i RACE OV nan AMt. vVfOM KV 1 iiocivaos rih. s DEirrish, V.i inw r- PlT" 50 NAMEP SECAU'SE UUeT A YEAR BEFORE HE AND H. SAME RIDER FELL INTO A CHALK PIT 25 FEET PEEP CHLjldnu... I HANDICAPPED NEWSHAWK Twenty-thr year old Georg Nelson received his crippling injuries at fourteen by diving into shallow water, but for th past year and a half has been covering all news svents in Canby. Oregon, for th local paper. For th most part he uses a telcphon attached to his bed. but sports events h covers in his electric wheel chair. All of hia writing is don whil lying pron his typewriter being placed on a low desk beside his bed. SUN DANGER According to Dr. Dinsmor Alter, noted authority on astronomy, and director of th Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, violet and ultra-violet light in th sun's raya ar almost screened out by tb carth'a atmosphere, but it Is these rays that produce nearly all th sunburn. Tomorrow! Grav Riddlal TAILSPIN TOMMY It's Sk.ets, Tommy! By AL CAPP a?KEETER., , HIS MIND CONTROLLED BY A MYSTERIOUS HYPNOTIC DRUG ADMINISTERED BY DR. VERM IN, HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED BY SPIES TO DESTROY THE INTERNATIONAL AUDITORIUM AT COBO HONDO Mechanically SKEETS WINGS TOWARD THE BIG STRUCTURE HE'S IGNORED ALL MY SIGNALS: THAT SETTLES IT THE PILOT IN THAT SHIP ISN'T SKEETS HE DOESN'T EVEN FLY LIKE SKEETS . r IHt,lMn , ru oe ,, OUT ARMY INTELLIGENCE OFFICER.? LEARNED OF THE ASTOUNDING PLOT AND TOMMY WAS ORDERED TO LEAD A PATROL TO INTERCEPT AND. IF NECESSARY, TO SHOOT DOWN THE PLANE MAYBE HE KILLED SKEETS TO OBTAIN HIS SHIPWELL, I LL REVENGE MY PAL. AND ALSO r- i CARRY OUT ; JV1Y ORDERS And tommy dives upon SKEETERS PLANE. HIS GUNS SPITTING FIRE AND STEEL LI'L ABNER On Of th New York Pack ST HAL FORREST -AH SHORE S GLAD AH JS THE OFFICES OF AVAILABLE JONES. HIRD AVAILABLE JONES f I .'" V rrND SOME LIKELY J X? A HM.f-NARVA S ARE YOU YOUNG EELLAS T WOO (AW SINGLE. BOY GOOD Y AVAILABLE 1 m CHILE. 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