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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1942.
1 1 By Roberta!
ijlCOURTLANDl
YESTERDAY: Kalttsa Marlowe
it e light ter.dn on tha lowar
Mississippi, and th. firtt ehangt
at Importance that hat coma tnto
tha Itvas of hert.lt and her old
grandmother ii when an ax
Jtat .ted young hunter stumbles
info her path durinfl e ttorm,
atid Mel it ta bring him noma.
Hit name i Tana ffendrteke. he
telle the Marlowe, and there Is
eomethina In the way he look
at Melissa that wrriee Grandma
' 'arloiva.
Chapter Three
Frank Requettt
T ANDY was younf, not more
than twenty live. He wai
food-looking, with dark hair and
eyes, and an olive akin that had
been burned to a warm mahogany
color by the southern tun. He was
tall and well-built, tn abort, be
wai the very young man. Gran
was terribly afraid, to cause Me
lissa a great deal of pain and un
happiness, because he would stay
today and maybe tomorrow and
then he would go away and they
would never see him again. And
Melissa would break her child's
heart about him.
Melissa was sixteen. And
though In this almost forgotten,
semi-tropical back-country many
"Mr. Hendricks. I don't want my
little girl hurt,"
Randy colored a little beneath
the look in her shrewd eyes, but
he answered instantly, "I'm not
foing to hurt her, Mrs. Marlowe
he's well, she's lovely and all
that but she's just a child."
Gran nodded. "If you'll Just
treat her like a child and not try
to well, to make her remember
you, I'll appreciate it."
"You mean, of course. If I won't
try to make love to her, don't
you?" said Randy, and his law
was set and grim. "Well, you can
set your mind at rest about that,
Mrs. Marlowe. For if she were
twenty, and I were mad about
her, 1 wouldn't make love to her.
Women well, they don't play
much part in my plans for the
future
"Then you're more of a fool
than you look," said Gran suc
cinctly. Randy laughed. "Maybe," he
agreed, but despite his laugh and
twinkle that lived for a moment
in his dark eyes he was quite In
earnest "Look, Mrs. Marlowe. I
came up the hard way in life, 1
was a doorstep baby left on a
friendly doorstep by a mother or
father who didn t care to be both
ered with me. I grew up sort of
mt-or-miss mostly miss. ( went
to school when I couldn't escape
it; I sold newspapers; I battled
for every inch I ever gained: I'm
well, I'm doing all right for my.
self just at present. But I've got
I
; "' mil - mm P
1 iPm
" don't want my little girl hurt.'
girls of sixteen were married and
many of them mothers. Gran
wanted Melissa to go on being a
little girl Just as long as she could.
And as long as personable young
men stayed out of her life. Gran
felt quite sure she could keep
Melissa a child! But there was a
look in Melissa's eyes when she
met Randy's interested, admiring
gaze that shook Gran badly, so
that when Melissa started out in
the hour before dusk to light the
lamp, and Randy said eagerly
he'd go with her. Gran protested
sharply,
"Stay here, Mr. Hendricks I'd
like to talk to you. Been a long
time since I've had a chance to
talk to anybody but a child like
Liss."
"I'm almost seventeen," said
Melissa swiftly.
"You're a month past your six
teenth birthday." Gran protested
flatly. "And you go on and tend
the light Me and Mr. Hendricks
will be here when you get back."
Randy said, unwilling, "But Is
It quite safe for her to go alone?
That path's pretty lonely"
"She's been making it twice a
day for eight years or else in
her rowboat I reckon she'll be
safe one more time," said Gran
drily. And Melissa, looking at
Gran, knew there was no use ar
guing. But as she went swiftly
along the path, her oilskin slicker
buttoned tight beneath her chin,
her young heart was mutinous.
What right had Gran to deny her
the pleasure of Randy's company
on this walk?
Of course it was raining and
storming, but she and Randy
wouldn't have minded that. And
by tomorrow Randy would be
gone and she'd never see him
again. And somehow the thought
of that was an acute pain. She'd
never been really lonely before,
because this was the only world,
the only life she had ever known.
When she had listened, ab
sorbed, fascinated, to her mother's
stories of New Orleans and the
world away from Black Point
she had never thought that some
day she might see those places:
that she might leave the Point
and tne old cabin and see paved
streets and city lights and shop
windows and hear music.
Point Blank
RANDY teemed a little like a
visitor from some strange
world, and she wanted to spend
every possible moment with him.
8o -vriy should Gran have denied
her Randy's presence on the walk
to the Point and back?
Meanwhile back at the cabin
Gran was saying quietly, levelly.
my eyes on something a whole lot
better than I've ever had before
and after I get that, I'll un
doubtedly set my mind on some
thing better than that you see?
A woman, any woman, no matter
how lovely or desirable she might
be, would slow me down!"
Gran nodded. "I see," she said
drily. "I see, too. that you'll prob
ably be a sucker for the first
really smart woman that comes
your way. Men that's so almighty
wise and sure of what they want
out o' life usually wind up that
way. But that's vour business!
The only thing was I didn't
want Meussa s neaa nned witn a
lot of crazy stuff about you bein'
in love with her or anything like
that She's apt to take anything
you say to her pretty serious."
"You needn't worry," said
Randy, and meant it sincerely.
"I'll be very careful. She's rather
an extraordinary youngster, at
mat
About Melissa
GRAN nodded. "Her mother
was show-folks," she said.
Her manner was relaxed, friend
ly, and it was evident that aha
liked him and was willing to be
lieve what he had said. "My son
went up to New Orleans once on
a little trip. Went to a show and
saw what he thought was the
rettiest girl In the world. Some
ow he aot somebodv to intro
duce him to her, and the upshot
of the whole thing was they was
married before the end of the
week and come back here to live.
"Sadie that was Melissa's
mother didn't like It much here;
but she did like Jim. her husband,
a heap, so I reckon she was as
happy as a woman expects to be.
When Liss was born. Sadie said,
'I want her to have a name that'll
look good In theatre lights
maybe she'll be a great star some
day.' So she named her Melissa
Malvinia Marlowe. Said she reck
oned that was as prettv a name
as Minnie Mnridern r'iske and
things like that. She started
trachin' the baby to dance almost
before she could walk, and to
sing by the time she was Ave. and
to play that old guitar there be
fore her little Angers was strong
enough to pick the strings "
Randy looked startled. His eyes
narrowed a little and he said
swiftly, "Melissa sings and
dances? It seems too bad for her
to he hidden here "
"The world s full o" pretty girls
that cm sing and dance, said
I Gran sharply. "Girls that ain't got
no homes, nor good lobs like Me
lissa's got"
' Is at cenUeeta
INVASION EXPECTED . . , ,
Washington, Mhrch 11 ('C"nac1a ,rmy ln Cm,t Britain.
Llcuter..t Gennal. A. G a,d Uk1bv th"e wa' " 11000
McN a u ji h t o n, commander of 1 fro,P" " Germany would
- , lain-iiiyi an invasion oi r.ngiann
SHOP AT NIGHT
Barker's are open
until I o'clock
EVERY night.
Store for Men
r
I this spring.
PRACTICE BLACKOUTS
CONTINUE UNDER BAN
I San Francisco, March 11.
iiD Army rules against prac
tice blackouts are still In effect
in the eight states of the west
ern theater of operations.
Lieutenant General J. L. De
Witt, commanding general of
the western defense command
and f ninth army, originally ban
ned test blackouts Iu:t Decern-
On the Radio Chains
STATIONS!
Chain affiliation aad when
they ore on the dial:
It ALE MH) 1330. rortlan
KCX (NHC-Hlucl like. Purtlan.
HO MM-Hlu MHSt MIS
Spokane; KliO (MtC-Hluel ale
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ata. Portland; UJH (NHC-Hlur)
1000. nrnltle; KNX H 1070
los Antrlrs: KOA (NBC-Red) 0SO
Denier: KOIN (CB) S70. Port
land: HOMO (NHC-Red) M
arallle: KPO (MIC-Krrf) ftxo
tan t rsnrl.ro I KSL (CU) 1180.
wit Lake City.
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Wednesday
1:00 p. m Adventure Btorlsa.
KOO, ICJR; Burs of Today, KOW;
Don Wlnilow of the Navy, KPO: Ken
Stevens. KOIN; Brewster Boy, KSL.
a. so p. m Dr. Christian, KSL:
BUI Henry,, KNX: Cocktail Hour.
KOW: Eyas of the World, KOIN; Parent-Teacher's
Ass'n, Komo; News of
tbs World, HEX, KOO, KJR.
6:00 p. m. American Melody Hour.
KOO. KEX KJR; Shirley Tempi In
Junior Miaa, KNX. KOIN: Fred War.
Ing's Orch, KPO, KOW, KOMO;
8 porta. KSL.
0:00 p. m. Or. Cab Calloway's
Qulzzlcale. KOO, KJR. KEX: Ransom
Sherman Show, KNX, KOIN: Con
cert by Kalash, KPO; Highlight Hour.
KOMO.
1:00 p. m. Basin Street Chamber
Music. KOO. KEX. KJR; Olotm Mil
j lor'e Orch, KNX, KBL. KOIN: Kal
, Kyser-a Musical Quia. KPO, KOW,
! KOMO.
7:80 p. m. Otrl Scouts Frfm.
! KOO, KJR; Modern Mualc Bos, KEX.
I 100 p. m Quia Klda. KOO. KEX.
KJR: Amos 'n' Andy, KNX, KOIN,
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Jnlng Bavsrtaa. KOMO.
i KSL: Point Sublime, KPO, KOW,
KUHO,
0:10 p. m Lenny Boas. KNX, KSL,
KOIN.
040 p. m, Dr. Christian. KNX,
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KPO, KOW. KOMO; Manhattan at
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KOO; Benny Ooodmao'a Orch, KOIN;
Mr District Attorney. KPO, KOMO.
KOW; News. KJR, KSL. KEX.
10 00 p. m. Reporter News, KPO,
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KNX: War Time Women, KOIN; Con
cert Hall, KPO.
I 11:00 p. m BUI Cliff ord'a Orch,
KPO, KOW; Wilbur Hatch'a Orch,
I KOIN, KSL; This Moving World,
Thursday i
0:00 p. m. Adventure Storlea,
. KOO, KJR: Stars of Today, KOW; -Don
Wlnolow of tha Navy, KPO;
Death VaUey Days. KSL; Ad ventures
In Torland, KEX: Eyas of tha World,
KOIN: Dance Orch, KOMO. !
I t so p. m-Newa of tha World.:
KEX. KOO, KJR; Duffy's Tavern.!
KSL: Etchings in Brass. KPO: BUI
Henry, KOIN; Student Theater,
i KOW; Streamlined rslry Tala.
, KOMO.
6:00 p. m. Major Bowea Orglnal
Amateur Hour. KNX. KSL, KOIN;
I Blng Crosby. KPO, KOW. KOMO;
, Secret City, KOO, KEX; Old Timers,
KJR.
6:00 p. nv Big Town. KNX, KSL.
KOIN; Blue Horlson. KOO, KEX;
Armchair Cruises, KJR.
7:00 p. m. Al Peorce'a Oane. KPO.
KOMO, KOW: Rudy Vallee Program.
KOO, KJR, KEX: Olena Miller's
Orch, KNX, KOIN, KSL.
1:00 p. m. Red Ryder, KOO. KJR,
KEX: Prank ray, KPO, KOW. KOMO.
6:00 p. m Amos V Andy, KNX.
KSL. KOIK; Fred Waring. KPO.
KOMO. KOW: Rlcordo's Rhapsodies,
KJR. KOO. KEX.
0:16 p. m. Lum and Abner, KPO,
I KOW, KOMO; Lanny Boas, KNX.
KOIN. KSL.
0:80 p. m. Death Valley - Daya,
KNX, KOIN: Coffee Time. KPO.
KOMO, KOW; Newa, KSL; Tour
THE NEIGHBORHOOD LEAGUE
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
THE LEAGUE HELP A MEETlHS IH EPDIE SELIER'S
6ARA6E TO DISCUSS CURTAILING 5P0RTS FOR THE
DURATION. NO ACTION WA61AKEN BUT SOME TINE
PATRIOTIC SPEECHES WERE MADE, WHICH, UNFORTUNATELY.
fr II TNkll'T ac iir-nrT npjiMir rr- m i nrn V
v.vvuiii i ul nr.ni ocuiiwt ill octrno
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Aldrtch Family. KPO. KOMO. KOW;
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6:80 p. m. Ellery Queen. KPO.
KOW, KOMO: Claude ThomhlU's
Orch, KOO; Maudle's Diary, KNX.
KOIN; Newa, KSL, KJR; News High
lights. KEX.
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KSL: Wtagi over the Vest Cor '.
KPO: Moonlight Sonata, KNX; War
Tuna Women, KOIN.
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KPO. KOW; This Moving World.
KEX. KJR; Wilbur Hatch'a ch,
KOIN: Newa, KNX. KOO; Evening
Reveries. KOMO,
Alien Custodianship
Up to Reserve Bank
San Francisco, March 11.
iff) The Federal Reserve bank
will get up a custodianship ta
protect the property right
persona forced to evacuate mili
tary zones on the Pacific coast.
Thousands of Japanese, alien
and American born, and Ger
man and Italian aliens' are af
fected. Those who have to liquidate
their property on short notice
will be given protection from
fraud, forced sales and unscrup
ulous creditors.
Use Mall Tribune want ads.
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MELODY MASTER
Schubert's melodies seemed to ba endless, and poets could hardly sat down the words to
a song before Schubert had composed music for it. He could carry on conversation while
writing his best pieces, and never hesitated. He seldom changed anything he wrote. In alt
he was the composer of more than S00 songs, not including operas, symphonies or religious
music. He composed two oi his most famous songs in one day "Hark, Hark, the Larkl" and
"Who Is Sylvia?" Though prolific. Schubert never became wealthy through his terrific out
put, and was turned down several times in hi attempts to secure positions as conductor or
composer. '
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