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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWELVE Chapter 28 To The Rendezvous DELIA sat up. wondering what time it was. her nerves ull vibrating from the inistence of the bell With an eflort the straggler1 to her feet She groped her way across the room, trying to remember what had happened and why she was there. The an awer came with sudden clarity and something cold clamped bout her neart. Still not knowing what time it was but only that she had been waiting for this call since early afternoon, she fumbled for the telephone and picked it up. "Yes?" Tm the guy that spoke to you about that envelope. It was a reedy, drawling voice, barely loud enough to be distinct. "Yea. I you said you'd call this noon." "I changed my mind. Tm call ing now. . . , You got it?" For a second or two fear closed her throat Why hadn't she brought the envelope here? She knew even as the thought cave; they bad decided to leave it with Joyce so that it would be safe re gardless of any further attempts to find it here. But what should she say? "Well?" the voice demanded. "Yes," Delia said. "Yea, I have K." "Then listen, I want you to bring it to this address. Memorize It. Two seven three Morton Street Room twenty-four. I'm going to give vou twenty minutes." "Oh. please." She was trembling now, and panicky lest she forget "Can't you talk a little louder? Two seventy-three what street? "Morton." -Yes "In twenty minutes." "That's not time enough." She was grasping at straws now be- eause she had to get to Joyce. "I'm not dressed." She waited, afraid to press the point and yet knowing twenty minutes was not enough. "Okay," the voice said. "A half hour: no longer. And get this. No tricks. Come alone. ... Under atand?" Tm to come alone." "If you don't, if you stall me, I call the cops." Til be there." Delia said; then stopped, aware that she was talk ing over a dead wire. A half hour. Twenty-nine min utes now. Hysteria SHE left the motor of her car running, sped up the two flights of stairs without waiting for the elevator, and thumped on the door. When she saw the knob turn she said, half aloud: "Oh, thank God!" and then the door was open and Joyce was there. She rushed past, hearing the aoor close c-entnd her, turning, finding Joyce in front of her again. The envelope, Joycel Oh, Tm so glad you're here. "You got the call?" Delia wanted to scream. Would she stand there forever? Couldn't she see what it meant? "Oh, darling, hurry!" she plead ed. "Give it to me. If I'm not there by thirteen minutes after ten he may be gone." Joyce started to protest, but atcpped quickly to the desk and opened the drawer. "But can't you tell me?" she aid. "Have you called Jack ren ner? Where are you going?" I "Morton Street" "Alone? But you can't" I "I have to." "You haven't called Jack Fen ner," Joyce said sharoly. "And you've got to, Delia. He's got to go with you. There isn't time. And the man said I must come alone or" She broke oil, seized the en velope and thrust it in her coat Docket She had started lor the Chained for XW "VP Three children, found at Scottadale. Ga.. with a 32-foot log chain padlocked around their necks, and In a shadeleta yard ol their home, show Policeman J. C. Holbrook how thty ware chained. The children's parents were jailed on cruelty charqti. Left to righti riournty Burney. IOi his alitor. Marguerite, 12; Holbrook and Adolph Burney. I. The parontt were Mr. and Mri. Archer H Burney. Parents said the children were chained lor taking three or four nick let Lheii father had beta savins1 door before Joyce could take her arm. "I'm going with you. Joyce said, and opened the closet door. Delia stamped her foot n ex asperation and tried to pull Joyce aside. "I won't have it I tell you. You're not going." Tears of vexa tion brimmed in her eyes and then Joyce opened the door and was talking fast her chin firm and eyes resolute. "I'm going, Delia. I won't even get out of the car. You can meet him by yourself, but I'll drive you there. . . . We should hurry, shouldn't we? There can't be much time." In the car Delia said: Tm sorry I lost my temper." "You didn't really," Joyce said. "But I bad to come." Delia fell silent and watched the panorama of lights slide past the car windows. The city was taking on new character now. Gradually the welter of little neon signs became more widely spaced until there were none at all save those on all-night drug stores and greasy-looking sand wich shops that posed as restau rants. Presently Joyce turned right and then they were in a street where even the drugstores could not flourish. "We're nearly there," Joyce said. This is Morton Street" Delia sat up. Even by daylight the street must have been a dis couraging prospect: at night it had become an avenue of empti ness and shadows, where three and four-story brick buildings marched along in unbroken ranks and the street lamps on the cor ners served only to make the middle of the block more obscure. The Number "IT'S the next block. I think." Joyce said. "See if you can And a number on one of those stores." The Car was throttled down as far as it would go now, and when they crossed the intersection, Joyce shifted into second so that they might move even slower. "Yes," sne said presently. "This is It. I just saw number 220." "Park anywhere," Delia said. "Not too close. Joyce." The car nosed in toward the curb and came to a stop in the middle of the block. She looked at her watch. It was five minutes after ten. Joyce cut the ignition and switched off the lights. For a few seconds they sat there without a word, and Delia could look down along the empty sidewalk to the next corner. "Well." she said, and reached for the door handle. "It shouldn't take me long." "You're sure you don't want me to " "Quite. The rest should be easy. Room twenty-four, he said." She felt a hand press hard on her arm and for just an instant her de termination wavered; then the moment passed and she v a all right again. She put her hand on Joyce's and pressed it. and found herself on the pavement "I'm glad you came, she said. "I needed you." 'And If you re not back in five minutes." Ten, Joyce. Make It ten." "All right," Joyce said. "And then vou d better call the police. You're not to follow me, no matter what you think." She shut the door and went along the empty sidewalk, snug gling her coat more tight'.) about her, telling herself she was silly, melodramatic, talking about the police, and what to do if she did not come back within ten minutes. There was no sense in that. The man wanted the envelope, not her. Above a doorway she saw the figures 264 and realized that the numbers did not run consecutive ly, but 'umped ahead at will. Stepping from the curb, she started diagonally across the pavement, her shoes clicking loudly in the surrounding quiet The number she sought was stamped in stone above a narrow doorway. Tm ka eenUnard Punishment MEDFORD MAIL On the Radio Chains STATIONSi Chain affiliation and where they are on I ha dint: KALE (Mils) I J JO. rortlno Rr.Jk (SHC-llluf 111)0. Purl land SUV (NHt.'-Hlue MUM ISIU Spokane; KOO (NHC-Hliif) Sill. Kan FrancHM-o; KliW (NHC-Hrdt ;o. Portland! kJK (MIC'-HloM 1000. Hc-alll. KNX (H) 1010 I.OS Antrim KOA (NHC'-Hrd) K!U) Ureter: KOIN ('B1 aio. Port land; KIIMO (SKr-Rrd) 9.S0 Faille; KPO (MIC-KMl) SMI San Pranrlaro; KSL (CBS) 1I0 Mil Lake City. lime Shown Is PST rrtdar S:00 p. m. Lcwlahon Stadium Concert. KfiL; H. V. Kaltenbom. KPO. KOW, KOMO; Plying Patrol.' KEX. KOO. KJR; Stars of Today. KOW; Afternoon Dance. KNX. 5:30 p. m. Bill Babranaky, KOMO. Nwa. KOMO: News. KOO; Harry W. Plannery. KNX. KOIN; America Slna. KOW; Polk Music from Many Lands. KJR; Passing Parade, KPO. 8:00 p. m. Walts Time. KPO. KOMO, KOW: Usten America, KEX. KOO; Wilbur Hatch's Orch., KNX. KSI,: Seranade, KJR; Leon F. Drews. OOIN. 6:30 p. m. Plantation Party. KPO. KOW, KOMO; That Brewster Boy, KVX, KSL. KOIN: Dinah Shore. KOO. KEX. 7:00 p. m. Meet Your Navy, KOO KEX: Lanny Rosa. K9L, KNX. KOIN: Aloha Land. KJR. 7:30 p. m. Tent Show Tonktht, KPO, KOW. KOMO; Lightning Jim. KOO. KEX. KJR. 8:00 p. m. Fred Waring, KPO. KOW, KOMO: Earl Oodwln, KEX, KJR: Amoa 'n- Andy, KNX, K8L. KOIN. 8:18 p. m. Dear John, KNX K8L, KOIN: Melody Magic. KOW, KOMO: On Our Bandstand. KPO. 8:30 p. m. Bongs My Brother Taught Me, KPO. KOW, KOMO: Gang Busters, KEX, KJR: Playhotiae. KNX, KOIN. KSL; Remar Rally. KOO. 9:00 p m Richard Hlmber. KPO. KOW, KOMO: News. Ray Kinney's. KNX. KOIN; News Here and Abroad. KOO; Down Memory Lane, KEX' Meet Your Navy. KJR; Roth String Quartet. KSL. 8:30 p. m. Teddy Powell's Orch. KOW. KOMO. KPO; Rafflrs. KNX KOIN: News. KSL. KJR: Moonllttht Sonata. KEX: Charlie Harper. KOO 10:00 p. m. Hollywood Lesion Stadium Fights. KOO: Reporter News. KPO. KOW. KOMO; News. KNX: Studio Party. KEX; Ponular Potpoun-1: Five Star Final. KOIN: Masterworks of Music. KSL. 10:30 p. m. Sports. KNX. KSL: Oman Music. KOO: Botty Martin. KOMO: Broadway Bandwagon. KEX: Moonllrht Sonata. KOW: Northwest Bible Institute. KJR: War Time Women. KOIN; Roller Derby, KPO. 11:00 p. m. Harry Owens' Haw. allana. KOW: This Moving World. KEX: Fold Music. KJR: News. KNX: Danch Orch., KOIN; Reveries, KOMO Hat nrdiiy 5:00 p. trn. Little Blue Playhouse, KOO. KEX; Harry Owen's Hawsllans. KPO. KOW: Soldiers With Wings. KNX,: Dance Time. KJR; Tratflc CONE IN CAR SITS ON SACK 5EftT OF LV K.4 WRIST WH-RE R. BETWEEN MOTHER MELTING ICE CRtAM AND HUNT ELLA,HAPPllV MS RUN DOWN, LICKING ICE CKFAM CONE. MOTHER CRYING TO TRYING TO MAKE IT LAST LOOK ODT, AS LONG AS POSSISLc PING INTO I VlOTMER SftEAKS OFF HER SCOLPING AS SHE PISCOVERS I HAT WHILE MOPPING HIM I'P THE CONE WAS PKlPPIMd ON HEX V 1 J T J S V- 1 AUNT ELLA ATTEMPTS TO TAKE CHARGE OF CONE UNTIL HE'S READY TO EAT IT, CONE STARTING TO COME APART, CHIEFLY ON HER DRESS 3-1 1 Wl ACROSS 37. Iinil m!iLir L i.hntJtnf in-a :s Snmll bono to Rive WfiKlit 30, Woman to aol lralluT foment T. HvorM 3: IH-.,rilllt1on of IS. 8oarfl'H Vlnhnu ws(mnt as. South Anrlcan 14. AUt'V rrsfti-- wn.ttiou hur iroM t rt,inrr 15, Thin meta.1 SS. KouthlT tliV fli .tt,-fj tf. InitiMlent of M F.un.1r-,1 llitt 4 iVr-eieinidnf'tV 17 ftv.i.t 41, t(.M, -il : JO, Va .-f th 4 .! w eck; t'br. 4. N n mi pivin TV Tr.- 4 H...-W, ..f ruSrtca !2. (.Vtt-t'm daTCr 44. It! away U, li i-t 4T. ll.-m mountain In SO. Ah.-mI-M I Orin i-'im.-tr t. rTPi fwlnt $1 Fti1 : t.-r-li iiltv - f a hii.a certain gx't S3 (tn.i,Mt, btM i U J W- 15 e P 5 P If li .i - - -. 3" .7 " " " "7" 5 -r t fi Ti f 7o "" 7T 33 73 jj TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. Quiz. KOIN. 5:30 p. m. Velvet Music, KPO, KOW; Swap Night, KOO. KJR, KEX: News Review, KNX. KOIN. 8:00 p. m. Your Bit Parade, KSL; Summer Symphony Concert, KEX: Barn Dance. KPO. KOW, KOMO: Commonwealth Club Luncheon, KOO; On With tha Dance, KJR, 8:30 p. rn. Hollywood Whispers. KNX: Summer Symphony Concert. KEX: Orant Park Concert. KPO. KOW, KOMO; Serenade. KJR; Leon Drews, KOIN; Gilbert and Sullivan. KOO; News. KNX. 7:00 p. m Sport Newareel, KPO. KOMO. KOW; Tun Out Time, KOO. KEX. KJR. 7:30 p m Grand Ote Opry. KPO ifnT voun- tt.H nvrier KOO. KJR KEX: Eileen Farrell, KOIN; Accent on Rhythm. KNX; Ninth Corps Quartermaster. KSL. 8:00 p. m. News of the World. KNX. KSL; News. KPO. KOW, KOMO; Earl Oodwln. KOO. KJR, KEX; Mel ody Hour. KOIN. 8:15 p. m. Claud Tnornniii s Orch., KNX, KOIN. KSL: Olmsted's R,- -him KPO. KOW. KOMO; Letters to a Lieutenant. KGO. 8:30 p. m. Hospitality Time. iu-u. KOMO. KOW; Dick Jurgen's Orch.. irwv vntv- Dr Cab Calloway's Qulra'cale, KOO. KJR. KEX: Cnarlee Dants Orch., KPO; mui KSL. 8:00 p. m. News. Richard lumber's Orch.. KOMO: Robert Ripley, KOO. KEX. KJR; Your Hit paraae, an, KOIN: Dance Orch.. KOW: Music for a Nickel. KPO: Dance Tempo. KSL. 8:30 p. m. Ray Noble's Orch.. KOO; Teddy Powell's Orch.. KOW. News. KSL, KJR, KEX; Sporta Scripts, KOMO. 10:00 p. m. 'Jance Orch., KOO. KEX. KJR: Erw'n Yeo. KSL: News, vi-ii-i KOW KOMO. KPO. KNX. 10:30 p. m. Freddy Martin's Orch.. KOO. KJR; Harry owen lans, KPO, KOW, KOMO: Sports. KNX. KSL, KOIN; The Quiet Hour, KEX; String Quartet. KSL. 11:00 p. m. Organ Music. KPO. KOW; Martha Mears, KSL, KOIN: This Moving World. KJR. KEX; N-ws. KOO, KNX; Evening Reveries. KOMO. JOAN FONTAINE LIKES TO COOK Eugene. Ore., July 24. (IP) If Joan Fontaine's fans don' know it already, the film star 's a typical American girl, only she really likes to cook. You have Mrs. . G. Bot torff's word for it, and she isn't grinding publicity axes for any one; save possibly herself. She's the -anagcf of a resort neat Viria where Miss Fontaine and her actor husband, Brian Ahern are spending a 10-day vacation fishing for M.'Ker.zie river trout Use Mall Tribune want ads. Br CLUYAS WILLIAMS SUBMITS TO BEING MOPPED UP AND IS TOLD NOT TO DILLY DALLY OVER HIS IT'S DRIP- CONE ANY LONGER HIS. LAP DECIDES DISCRETION 13 IHt Btl ItR r-ART, ETC., AND FINISHES CONE HASTILY, PRACTICALLY IN ONE B1T ai,Mis SjMiElP HAVE T 'JcHLmMr.1h It.A.T F SB T 'A 'fMHT n Mj A u-',1."!! 1 ,a,j EH-.0,:,:'-. c,o,e o H ATI jv t VtptELH1'-'0''j!BKM. SSSi : w .o 'MB 9 v E3 Lh Jpsi'tIS a'n'n Solution Of Yftttrday'a Puule 4 S't-t- mania IRMMM4 TU S,tl !,.'-. IK f" S. lentil S, roor fitnir 4. On tha thltr4l irfa 5. Numti IVifumrO I. Makr of 'rlh-'s ft, Brafl'siti mt a I. Ki-c A-thur i.i'U' 11. Mfil U. Littrr a-iiM- rvttort IS. Lava barm l. SirMi't of ?! A-ioti... " St A 2t. art Wrtrfc'-ri !lh ihc f. Ki-,t of -vja 3i. llHf-l SI. Took too much t -oj Of.! r. L.! V.I I" a'rtic s; i i 5' M t mtAsar S-a'ianM n x 4 I 'k.-;v OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY Commercial and Strategic Value of Egypt Emphasized (Wide World Features) The oldest nation on earth is a key once more to the plans of warring powers. Egypt, in other words, is caught in the middle, even as it was in the days of the Roman empire, of the Arabian thrust for power, of Napoleon's dream of world domination. It has supreme strategic im portance, sitting as it does on the land bridge that binds Eur ope, Asia and Africa, and separ ates the Mediterranean from the Red sea or more broadly, that divides the Atlantic from the Indian ocean. Yet Egypt is no mere strategic counter. In its own right it is a country of commercial import ance, a nation with vast tradi tions, a land peopled by a hardy, individualistic race. Just about this time of year unless the imminence of war has crowded out the ancient cere mony a crier parades through Egypt's capital city of Cairo, singing out the stage of the ris ing Nile river. The ceremony continues for weeks, while the river rises to its peak, then re cedes leaving added fertility and moisture in the area into which it has overflowed. Nile All-Important Cairo watches the Nile be cause it's the lifeline that makes Egypt possible third among cotton producers qf the world and makes Alexandria, with its 4.000 ship landings, a year, one of the great ports of the world. In a country three times the size of Great Britain, the fertile Nile delta and the narrow strip of land along the river's banks support a population of 16,000, 000. More than 90 per cent of Egypt is desert rolling acres of sand broken only by an occa sional oasis. Alexandria jittery since the outbreak of the war because of its strategic location on the Mediterranean forms one point of the triangle of Egypt's three great cities, with Cairo and Pert Said on the Suez canal, the other points. Cairo No. 1 Now While the Mediterranean re mained open to the British, tons of war material poured into Alexandria. Now Cairo has as sumed that importance, receiv ing these shipments from Ameri can and British vessels making the long trip around the Cape of Good Hope, or from air trans ports flying across Africa. Egypt's quiet little people generally have been making ready for months to stand with the British against Germany Just as they did in the last war. In his official acts, young King Farouk I has worked with Brit ish officials. Meantime, the army has been built up to a hundred thousand, the airforce to 1.000 planes. Egypt has had no explosive political or religious problems like those that have plagued India. The population falls roughly Into three classes: the peasantry, the majority of whom are Mohammedans or Copts; the bedouins or Arabs, and the Ber berin, mostly rural residents of mixed Arab and negro blood. Meet John Doe The typical Egyptian city resi dent is a tawny-skinned indivi dual who works in a cotton or woolen mill perhaps a sugar refinery or is engaged in an other of the country's few enter prises, the exporting of tobacco, HAP HOPPER, Washington Correspondent A Discovery 1 a top r mm c&mm mm&m wmmm LI'L ABNER Chilly Symphony By At Cspp ccoONa to the olo Li&tNO or 'vouwa V'"" and -mr nil 1 L.& I r;rki"r tX I HtAT I VNCtVS CUSf-TMt nOiT BEAUTIFUL SlPj. V-YtS, ITX TURN 0T THC LKIMT ) ft i iTrs . nutlCl M w n.4 room vm.L st HuBocRto-wMut I iNoccoy -row ATnosPriuu ff J tl TURN OFF J- --rwc- ' JL- ( mil cuo ithikm rt om, mow L -S t 15-. THOSE -r . a rwautksvo ano nuvoui wto u at irwt jl -7" ht ,rx IvJP' . fiTtiri x FUNERAL 4B : Pl THE NEBB3 About Face By Has relfeRT. "WwrUV THIS SUOCtKljrjlA.-WA-V LtViMvi UKH A. TTMOSeSUYS TV.feyUe Psoa-ljo -Mt-r "VTU3msot&ka, v- - I 'vmtcEST i wj.' f Tiupi- ebmit has r-vAoe hav peen trvingvl'V beak- f AjcesrT i j&rruxx . rve seen ALL lvMT?I 1 -eER KMEW yK n' t -,xj Gipcry IMTne y -TO GET ME AVA! klS UP YtXS ""Nl CN Twe JbsCajSH CF -lOUR yXXoo CAjiEO s , ufc J 'sSA.B.Rer rC- so tme could soliatters jo rouxE p.ce-roMAxE 7 sJtoJ I 24, 1942. grains, fruits, cement or soap. ne is imperturbable and can accept calamity with resigna tion. He s elaborately courte ous, temperate and frugal in his habits. He doesn t make a fancy living, but an adequate one by his country's standards. For entertainment he enjoys music from native instruments played mostly in a minor key although music is frowned upon in the Mohammedan religion and he may spend an occasional half-hour watching the street dervishes go through their snake-charming dance. He has adopted many Euro pean customs of dress, but con tinues to wear the tarbush, or fez. if be has a servant, the servant's class will be indicated by the quality of the shoes he wears. He swelters In 110-degree day time heat during the summer, and shivers when the tempera ture plummets after sundown. If he happens to make a trip across the desert In the winter STRANGE AS IT SEEMS c0 Model MADE EffTlCrltN OF BEMSitoG 5S00 AND S OF MSi.fcMS OF ll NATIONS r It included ANCIENT ANNEBS VfcNNrNl3 INTERNATIONAL. CODE FtAcaS ETC. J. HArBsaiCKi L ff BECAME A PITCHING' Xf I "SUCCESS BECAUSE r W vN-tfe S vNfLZ1 f The accident tt5&J A 5TgEu..ANt n causes TchW A c?5Cv aO&m oyjfe- y of peuv- mmf & CuS.c N EQUAL ONE lOH) fl-IU iaaSaaarfaifiliaaefStaeSj' c-w iwhwmf'' TIN Although only a very thin layer of tin is used In producing tlnplate, the U. S. during peace timet used up to 100.000 tons a year. Tin for the war effort now must come from Bolivia. PITCHER Larry Cheney was moundman for Louisville at the time the accident changed his hurling style. Later, while playing with the Chicago Cubs, his hand was broken again by a line drive, and he tried to pitch with a cast on his hand. The first batter up knocked another line drive which hit the cast and smashed itl Every Dollar Makes 'Em Holler. he won't find the sands burning some times the thermometer registers 32 degrees. He's familiar with much of the 7,000-year-old history of his country, the Pharaohs and Cleo patra, but he can't tell why, contrary to popular belief, there are no crocodiles in the Nile. - Edited by rV ft t t aT a si a .CaWsI m ia Courtesy Syracuse Post-Standard, Grandfather's Pants la Stria St. Helens, Ore. (U.PJSixty. seven years old and right in style. W. G. Henderson Inherit ed a pair of cuffless pants, mad to wear indefinitely, from his grandfather who wore them in the mid-sixties. by J0HNHIX Drew Pearson and Bob Alien