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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1942. 1 1 ' 1,1,11 " 11 "' (t WATKM I WIKXT ' "' - I ii Chapter 30 .", . Flight KJZARINO tha Inn Lavinia taw v people upon the wide veran dah, and tried to rearranf her feature, as it were, ao at not to five away her real feelings. Sev eral people looked up at she mounted tha steps, ana sn im mediately sensed excitement in tne air. Groups were talking in an ex cited, tense sort of way as though something extraordinary had taken place. She was tempt ed to stop and make inquiries, but knew this would mean being drawn into conversation. It would be better to got to her room and rest for a time. She had no desire ' for dinner. She much preferred to stretch oat upon her bed and try to collect her tnougnia. But before she could reach her room Margot Linden aaw her. She came hurrying forward. "Where on earth have you been ail day?" she asked, excitedly. With my aunt in Portland," said Lavinia. "We lunched and saw a movie. "And missed all the excite ment!" Marcot said. "Imaaine. those government men locating the escaped prisoners, ana actual' ly rounding them up." "You you mean they came here?'" Lavinia said in a voice she scarcely recognized at her own. "Yes, they were in tha Inn," said Marmot. "It seem that sev eral men in and near Harbor Head have been helping the men who escaped from Canada sup- living them with outfits, and aid ng in any way posible. You know, enemies of the Allies that sort or thing. "Yes, I I know," said I vinla. "They even used their boats to aid the men," Margot rushed on. "But the government represen tatives got them all. They were marched oil today, to be locked up awaiting trial." Lavinia couldn't speak. Her thoughts were running around in mad circles. Rod gone. Also his Doat. Koa, wno naa oeen so reti cent about himself. The odd way he had acted the night before. Could he have known this waa Soing to happen? Was that why e had said he had no right to Kiss her? "Was my friend" she tried to speak lightly, "was he an es caped prisoner, or one of the men who helped?" "I don't know only he did have a boat," aaid Margot "You ought to remember that." "So you know about tha trip?" Who doesn't?" "I suppose you all lined up on the porch with Held glasses the day Rod took me to the island?" Margot laughed. "No, not as bad as all that, my dear!" she said. "But I warned you there's always a lot of gossip at a sum mer resort" "And how right you were!" said Lavinia. "I'm sorry I missed ail the excitement You must tell me more about it later on, I'm going up now and get a little rest Aunt Dorcas and Iliad a strenu ous day." Margot touched her arm as she turned to go. "Tell ma something. Mist Pren. tin." she said. "What is it?" said Lavinia. "Maybe I'm barging in where I've no business, Margot said, "but you hadn't grown fond of the Elliott man, had you? Just be tween ourselves." "How ridiculous!" Lavinia ex claimed, praying that her voice carried conviction. "Do I look li's. the sort of brainless female who'd grow fond of a chance acquaint who who was afraid to come out and mix with honest people?" Margot shrugged. "Well. I just wondered," she said. "You did spend a lot of time with him." "He amused me," aaid Lavinia. "That's all." With this sha stepped into the elevator, and waa carried up to her room. She bathed her face, kicked off her shoes, and flung herself down upon the bed. Tears came finally. Then sobs sobs that shook her from hesd to foot Another chok ing sob, and then quietness. It was then that Lavinia male her self look matters squarely in the face. And when she did she knew she could not stay on at tha Inn. She sprang from the bed. She reached for the telephone and asked for the room clerk. "Will you please make out my bill? she said, when a voice an swered her call. "Miss Lavinia Prentiss speaking." "But Miss Prentiss, your bill Isn't due yet,'' said the clerk. "Yes, I know. But I'm leaving I find I mut get back to New York as quickly as possible." "Not tonight I trust" "No. the first thing In the morning." "We're sorry to have you go. Miss Prentiss." 'Thank you," said Lavinia, and hung up. Then she began taking her clothes out of th closet Good bye to castles in Maine. Good bye to Harbor Head. Good-bye to foolish dreams. Hello, Man hattan! How do you do. Arm worth's! Home Agaia GRAND CENTRAL Station again. Lavinia following a redcap who carried her luggage following him, but glancing up now and then at tne artificial start high up in th vaulted eeillna. "They sure do look real, don't they, miss?" said th redcap, grinning. "Yes said Lavinia, they do." And she remembered the stars up at Harbor Head, the stars that twinkled down at the ocean, the start she and Rod Elliott had looked at and talked about "Sometimes I wondered If they are inhabited," Rod hsd said. "And If they are, I nope things are in better shape up there than down here." "If you look at 'em long enough, miss,' the redcap was saying, "you can see 'em twin kle." "Yet, I know," Lavinia sail Tve done it" They moved on across tht huge rotunda. . Did you want a taxicab, miss?" "Yes. But I want to send a tele gram first" "There's a Western Union stand right over there, miss." .'hank you." Lavinia wrote a short message to her aunt "Back home again. To heck with romance.." Then sha paid the clerk, and went back to where the redcap was waiting. She thought Thus endeth the first lesson in romance and what a lesson! She tipped the redcap generously, told the taxi driver her address, snd leaned back against the badly worn upholstery. What a homecoming? What a vacationl She felt cheated, and oddly disapointed. She closed her eyes, squeezing the lids tight sgainst the tears that tried to flow. She wondered what her aunt would say what she would do what she would think, when the telegram reached her. It ought to arrive in Portland within a few hours, that is, if the girl got it oil Immediately. Dorcas To Th Resco AND the girl did get the wire off immediately. It reached Miss Dorcas Prcntij in record breaking time. It found her sit ting on a high stool in Professor Plunkett's woodshed. There was a clothespin on her nose, and t notebook in her hand. "If you don't hurry up this re search business," she said to the Professor, "the health department is going to do some researching My, that whale smells unpleas ant!" "Even with the nosepin on your clothes?" said the Professor. "1 mean, even with the clothespin on your nose?" Miss Dorcass laughed. "Yes," she said. "And, frankly. Professot Plunkett 'I'm beginning to feel a decided lack of interest ovei the kinship between that Jonah swallowing mammal and th dinosaur." There, there. Miss Dorcas." the Professor chlded, "don't let a lit tle unpleasant odor discourage you." It waa at this point that Mrs Plunkett came out to the wood shed bearing Lavinia's telegram. m.v M1 riftpaa Yea." said Mrs. Plunkett '" Just came." Miss Dorcas laid down the note book, took off the clothespin, and tore open the envelope. "I hope some ambitious arche ologists aren't after me to get off on another digging expedition," she said. Then: "Oh, It's from my niece." The Professor examined a piece of bone with a magnifying glass, and Mrs. Plunkett watched him, holding a handkerchief to hei nose. "Weill" Miss Dorcas exploded "Weill" "Nothing unpleasant I hope, my dear," said Mrs. Plunkett. "Do they want you to go into a Jungle again. Miss Dorcas?" asked the Professor. "No." said Miss Dorcss. "It's t message from Lavinia Prentiss, the niece I told you about" "Is she III?" No. she's not 111. She's cut short her vacation and gone home." But why should she do that?" Mrs. Plunkett wanted to know. That a what lm loina to find out" said Miss Dorcas. She got down off the high stool. "Profes sor Plunkett you'll have to get along without me from now on." The Professor looked up, push ing his glasses high up upon hii forehead. "What's that Miss Dor. cas?" he said. She said youd have to get along without her from now on," said his wife. "Ethelbert I wish you would pay attention to what "But Miss Dorcas." the Profes sor said, ignoring his wife's re mark, "I can't get along without you!" You'll have to, said Miss uor- cas. "Why why the resesrch Is at a critical point," said the Profes sor, much distressd. "I've discov ered a decided similarity in the vertebra ot the whale and tne prehistoric animals, and now" "Sorry." ssld Miss Do rest briskly, "but I've an Idea my niece is on the verge of mskint a mess of her life. The business ol vertehra will have to wait. May be l m being silly and precipitous, but I can't help feeling, Professor, that my nieces heart Is mors important than a whale's backbone." No amount of argument would make Miss Dorcss chsnge hei mind. "And so you're going to leave me all alone with the whale," the Professor said ssdly. "You've got your wife," said Miss Dorcas. 'Why can't she take notes for you?" "And smell that swful odorp said Mrs. Plunkett "No indeed." T a cenllnar 32-YEAR OLD SUIT IS BANKER'S fRIDE, JOY Kansas City, Jan. 33. P J. Z. Millers boss made him buy a new suit when he tent hi mto New York on banking errand in 1910. It cost $90 and waa or is some ault. The banker hat worn It exclusively on hit New York and Washington business trips tha past 33 years. - And he i let it t known h wants to be garbed In It for that last trip of all. LOTTERY DRAWS TERM Seattle, Jan. 32 Arthur W. Kane, a Superior, Wis., rail road clerk, was sentenced to serve 11 months in the King county Jail for his part in the operations o! the International Transportation and Communica tion Mutual association, a lot tery. Federal Judge John C. On the Radio Chains TTIONSt Ckala affiliation ant where they are on the dial: KALE (MH I13A. Portlan. KEX (KBO-Miic) 1180, Portland; kM (NHC-Hlu MBS) lAiet. Spokane: KUO (NBC-Blue) SI. Ban s'ranrMro! SSUW (NHC-Hrd) eai. Portland: KJR (KBC'-HluM loo, ftrettte; KNX CBH line to angelrs: KOJt (NBC-Red) aJMt. Denveri KOIN (IBS) S70, Port, land: HOMO (NBT-RXI) M arattle; KPO (NBC-Red) HO. tan fraiKIM-o; KSL (CBS) Ilea. Salt Lake City. " Time Known U PST Thursday S:O0 p. m. Adventure stories, KOO. KJR; Deatn Valley Days. KSL: Adventure In Tovland, KKX; Burs of Today, KOW; Ken Stevens and Irwin Too. KNX; lyea ot the World. KOIN; Don Wlnalow of the Navy, KPO. 6:80 p. m. News of th World. KOO, KEX, KJR; Duffy's Tavern. KSL; Rlcardo's Rhapsodies. KPO, KOW. KOMO; Bill Henry. KNX. KOIN. 6:00 p. m. Ualor Bowes Original Amateur Hourr KNX. KSL. KOIN; Bins Crosby, KPO, KOMO, KOW; Secret City, KOO, KEX; Victory Chorus. KJR, :S0 p. m Blf Town. KNX. KSL, KOIN; Joe OalUcchlo's Orch, KOO. KJR, KEX. T OO p. m Olenn Miller's Orch.. KNX. KOIN. KSL: Al Peexoe Oanf. KPO, KOMO. KOW; Rudy Vails Program, KOO, KEX, KJR, 7.-S0 p. nv Rlcardo. KOO; Frank Fay. KPO. KOMO, KOW; Btieem llned Fairy Tales, KEX; Captain Quia, KJR. t KM p. m. Amos n' Andy, KNX. KSL, KOIN: Fred Waring. KPO. KOMO. KOW; March of Tune, KJB. KOO. KEX. 1:16 p. m.- Lum and Abner, KPO, KOW, KOMO; Lanny Ross. KNX. KOIN. KSL. ao p. m Maudle'a Diary. KNX, KOIN; Saundera of Circle X. KOO. KEX; Fanny Brio. KPO. KOMO. KOW; News, KSL; Flower for the Living. KEX; Victory Chorus, KJR. S :0O p. m. Easy Aeas, KOO. KEX. KJR; Duffy's Tavern, KNX. KOIN; Aldrleh Family. KPO. KOMO, KOW. :S0 p. m. Cilery Queen. KPO. KOW. KOMO: Death Valley Daya. KNX, KOIN: Newa, KSL, KJR; Moon light Sonata, KEX. 10:00 p. m. America 'a Town Meet ing of th Air. KEX. KOO, KJB: Reporter Newa, KPO. KOMO, KOW; Newa, KNX; Meaterworks of Music. KSL: Five star Final. KOIN. 10:80 p. m. Reld Tanner Orch., KSL; Muter or ks of Music, KNX; Th World Today. KOIN. 11:00 p. m. Etchings In Brass, KPO. KOW; This Moving World. KEX, KJK; Harry Owens, KSL, KOIN; News, KNX, KOO. 1 Friday - I S OO p. ax Kat Smith Hour. KSL; I Adventure Stones, KOO. KJR: Ed I Btoker'e Or n, KPO: Jan Arden. KOMO; Star of Today. KOW. I I SO p. m. Newa of th World, KOO. KJR. KEX: B1U Henry, KNX: . Bill Sabransky, KPO; Cocktail Hour. KOW; Loon F. Draw. KOIN; Victory , Chorus.. KOMO. ! S 00 p. m Walt Tun. KPO. I KOMO, KOW; Secret City, KOO. iKEX; What's On Tour Mind. KKX, I KOIN, KSL; Victory Chorus, KJR. I IM t. m Michael Piper. KEX, KOO, KJR: Unci W altera Dog House, KPO. KOW, KOMO; First . Ntghter. KNX. KSL, KOIN. I 7:00 p. m. Ela Maxwell' Party ;Un. KOO. KJR, KEX: Hap Hazard i Snow. KSL, KTX. KOIN: Wing of 'DeaUny, KPO, KOMO, KOW. 7:90 p. m. How'm I Doin? KNX. KSL. KOIN; Grand Central Station. KPO. KOW. KOMO: Modem Music I Box, KEX; Amateur Hour, KOO; Victory Chorus, KJR. . 8:00 p. m. Fred Waring In Pleas ure Tim. KPO. KOMO, KOW; Phil Harrur Orch, KOO. KEX: Amoa V Andy. KNX. KSL, KOIN; Buy Wash ington. KJR. 8:15 p. m. Lanny Ross, KNX, KUL. KOIN: Lum snd Abner, KPO, KOW, KOMO. I 8:30 p. mv -Variety Show, KPO, I KOW, KOMO: Oang Buster. KOO. IKEX, KJR; Playhouse, KNX, KOIN, KSL. I .O0 p. m Who Don It? KPO, ' KOW, KOMO: Three Ring Tim. KOO. KEX. KJR. Kat Smith Hour. KNX. KOIN; Sport. KSL. :SO p. m. Tommy Doraey Oven.. KOO; Dark Fantasy. KOW; News. KSL, Sw-t; Moonlltht Sonata. KEX: Victory Chorus, KOMO; Floyd Wright KPO. 10:00 p. m. Hollywood Legion Sta dium Fights. KOO. KEX: Reporter New, KPO. KOW, KOMO; Red Nichols' Orch., KSL: News. KNX: Shining Hour, KJR; Five star Final, KOIN. 10:30 p. m. Hollywood Legion Sta dium Fights. KOO; Unlimited Horf sons, KOMO: Dane Orch, KOW; Broadway Bandwagon. KEX; North west Bible Ins'ltute. KJR: Master works of Musle, KKX: Th World Today. KOIN. 11 KM p. nv Dane Orchestra. KPO, KOW; This Moving World. KOO, KEX. KJR; Harry Owens' Orch.. KSL, KOIN; Newa, KNX; Reveries. KOMO. Closing Urn tor Classified Ads a. m. Too Let to Classify U:J0 p. m. Young Japanese Quizzed by FBI Seattle, Jan. 32. JP) Feder al bureau of investigation agents were questioning a 17-year-old Japanese-Ameriian youth, ar rested last night by the water front patrol. . Jnhn C Klos of the patrol found the youth hiding between an oil company docK ana pier 14. He carried an open knife. STUDYING By CLUYA3 WILLIAMS K6IN5 SfuWIrte HOMEWORK FFTT BE6IN) LWVvWlrfe 1rlM SttitS AROlWD LEW OF CHAIR, SfARlS SQUIRMlrfe, SETXlhte MORE cwfMto& fY&rtorJ HOMEWORK A55korJMEfJf 6ET5 REAUif HARP vviutrj HEARS -frlEEHP (Beleaaa kr Tke Bell traileete.' lae.) TlrJl5HE5 HOMEvVORK teSterl MErJT BUf HOW HAS 10 SOtVE frt ?R0BlEM Of UKTVirte HlMaF TRoMlfftS CHAR. -22 STRANGE AS IT SEEMS by JOHN HIX & NEBATlOfS rPS " OF OAK. rx" GALL F Of OAK. Ta. fSi ' , ALL-FUE r, fU 7 thirk V ' THAN ,7EEL MAKE . vreEL- Ca4ks of faweet wins ZHSL2i u,ps BAILING TO ANP FRCSU iweetfsr inpie&...tml. rolling ireAre TREATMENT fc l A2 92 PEG CENT OX.YC.EN- ANP ARE KEPT PieAP&ARiKG. V. BV THE 1 PEtZ. CENT OF SILICON , TUEY CONTAIN far IMI , n,M Vnlm Smav.ta.taa, CAS GLASSES According to AUxIs Pincut. American Optical company research scientist, the glass w sa through la largely composed of th same oxygen w breathe to keep alivl Recant discover! show that 92 percent of th volume ot glass la occupied by the oxygen ions, fly percent by the sodium ions, 2 percent by calcium ions and only one percent by silicon ions. The small bulk of ailicon prevents the oxygen from escaping into the atmosphere. Certain other elmnt hav th same powr as silicon to imprison oxygen and make It from glass, and glass basd on soma of ths elements are bing dvlopd. Tomorrows Floating Republic! TAILSPIN TOMMY Chaos In Campl By HAL FORRESl Just before the pernio powder. plant, Adjacent to CAMP MIX.. EXPLODED, BETTY- LOU WAS SIGHT SEEING IN THE CAMP, WHILE LEM TUTTER., RESPONSIBLE FOR. SKEETER-'S INCARCERATION IN THE GUAR.D HOUSE, WAS EULOGIZING HIMSELF AS A ONE MAN ARMY" But nowI LEM SEEMS T0itf BE GOING PLACES M, PAST.'.' t-11-41 H EAVENS I'M TRAPPED HERE.' I CANT RISK. MAKING A R.UN FOR. THE MAIN GATE : BETTY LOU... Iff MEBBE THEY'LL FIND YER VEAH.' IT'S COAT WIT TH LOOTENANTl YOUR. BARS ON IT. LOOTEN&NTAMOVE.. AN THEY LL LET YUH OUTTA HERE, AN'.. .J gS Tea, . I . V Pa. O BvET'S TURN BACK THE HANDS OF THE CLOCK. .AND SEE WHAT SKEETS IS DOING lYorretfT AT THIS INSTANT A MIGHTY EXPLOSION OCCURS.. AND A SHELL RIPS THROUGH THE WALL OF .THE GUARD H0USE.1 LIT. ABNER A Barnsmell't Progress Br AL CAPP HYAfVSYO" V ah'll Xx-- thawk vo' very. I I KIN AH CO MEL f vo Y AN'-THET IS irSADCAL.V wash )tsss, vy Evasf ilwi r? iassJSJt t KEPBA yAHFEELS -inniDIATEJ.Y - 0URT W JJJ1?,"' J A MILE V GITS T " ' THE NEBBS Flrd 3MITM HAS ENTRUSTED POTTS WITH TKE .SUPERVISION) OP HER FACTORY IN NORTHVILLE A.NO HE IS NOT ONE ID LOSH AJMY TIMS. EXERCISING WIS AltthoritY W WR.VOUKlGS.OO WILL i "IKvuwO AR6QU"V'V 6QT PCMER OF f vKEI-V. COYS IT UKS LIKE f TWROU6H H6RG SATURDAY BUT' TO FlRE Mt? YaTTORNEN FOR THAT 1 IM FlfeeO-iTHIS BANKER POTTS 1 NWaSET AN EXTRA. S, WHAT AUTHORITY VsTATE ANO YOU'RE li TO HAVEThE SAY HERE I NsNCCK'S PAY I I 1 HAVE YOU V VM I SOMEBODY I MAOE UP J 11 V NCVJ, ANO HE 5HOWEO iuyUXKl ' S,Er Bom en ruled yesterday.