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SERIAL STORY — HOLD EVERYTHING By Clyde Lewis | OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Majer Hoople By Williams

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Trial Flig ht i To Fv NEW BEAL OF A , HE'S ALWAYS WATCHIN' FER | [| OUR TROUBLE 1S THAT WE . > SRT GERTIE'S 1S A 2 BEEN BEAT/N TH' MAIL MAN INSTEDDA CONCENTRATE ON BASEa . : Ae fe d ROOK ane IL 2 ; US TO OE ICE 7 WATCHIN' FER TW' BALL-~ BALL IN SCHOOL BUY By Adelaide Humphries | SoPPosE wien 7 Box PEOE wn < GOLDIE GOT A TOOTH NEVER ON SCHOOL WHEN vy ° 4 217 KNOCKED OUT TH'LAST WE'RE IN BASEBALL /

CAST OF CHARACTERS b 3 7 HME STOLE HER Z 4 we AIN'T N » GAME WHILE LOOKIN ga 5 ime? JACKIE DUNN-heroine; she wanted p 2 FROM YOU, THAT [—/ KNOW THERE ( GETTIN GRAY wa D “ = _\ WN HIS BANK BOOK. / "

to fly. ’ ROGER BRECKNER—hero; he wanted Z MADE HIM A ~ WERE TWO TURKEY A/S WHE

to test the stratosphere. , POLICE rS Js” BERYL MELROSE—wealthy widow; Y CHARACTER WINGS LEFT FROM ! SPRNK ED y . DINNER AND WHEN

she wanted Roger. i EVELYN LA FARGE--Jackie’s mother; : : y 1 RAIDED "THE CE :

she wanted a son-in-law. fr 7 bo BOX LAST NIGHT, Yesterday: Roger's ship goes down Be a nse ena] | : AETER HE'D LOARED when his oxvgen supply leaks and there BR Be } \ 2 Reeaons AWAY THE BVENING is no further report from him while : HE : : : 3 | J ‘ Jackie waits tense, in agony. RRR , i 77 IN hota KITCHEN. HE 2 ) : / “oy ™ WINGS HAD : : FLOWN TH' coor /

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

ACKIE spent most of that day at the airport, waiting in vain | for some news of Roger and his | silver ship. But there not only was | no word from him, but no news from any source about him. “He's blanked out,” Mac admitted finally, after trying over and X over to raise some response to his EEN : _-— / : ot AAR o> persistent signals. He took one look ] £ - ; / E he . wor 4 at Jackie's white face, and tacked 3 | J pi 7 : on quickly, “though maybe it's only 3 te : : 3 a # |E ) adr A his radio that went haywire.” Fa Bhai NE Coe | | 4/4EY ALL HAD ; | LTR ~. : 3: : : : A | ; / TA Lg, MAY J a Ra ey hen a — SUH SOPR. 1938 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. 5.17 TES. THEIR WEADS ( 3 Se— ess ackie said. “Oh, y Vy sup- NEA | ~ RH 3 pose he can possibly make a landing | “Petey’s having financial difficulties—he swallowed a quarter this | : ’ \ Ai, gaa ny wea aR

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motor dead, no ceiling or visibility uy SCRAP WITH THAT DAMES WAS A —has he got any chance at all? | gl APPER FANNY By Sylvia SRR MeN ARO AH ATAN WHEN dK GETS P-HAW-HAW/” ) AN | SERVE OUT THIRTY / SE mi NON'T EVEN . WAL NYO GOT TA ’ WE FIFTY (CHUCKLE ET)

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Give me the truth. I can take it.” ; “He’ll have a job on his hands,” ge x med re : 9 | EN ADMIT AHM A BOY, Li J A CALE Mac returned reluctantly. If any | ‘ JST VE BEE ; ) : y - | . * f one can squash that crate down in AN i RO&K-- RIZE WORTH HAVIN, J i : EE / 4 KE rO7TYy Err)

that rough country Roger will do it. |

If not, he'll have sense enough to 3 , > ® > - bail out.” | BS : = EE “You mean he'll jump?” | E ) | %

Mac nodded. “He's probably sitting in a treetop somewhere right now,” he said. “See here, Jackie, there's nothing you can do around here — why don’t you run along | home and take it easy for a spell? | I give you my word, I'll let you know the second I get any dope.” | “All right,” Jackie said dully. It | was true; there was nothing she | RX : = { x i could do. That was what made it Te ae Ds Raeate. Ine = .

so hard. RS A ; - oy . 4 vw | N= i LOOKS LIKE THAT PLACE ) ( YEP, AN’ THAR'S BATS WAL, SHERIFF RECKON I'LL BE SORRY, OLD MAN, BUT PVE GOT b. why, HE felt numb all over, almost | § 5 WAS ONCE A CHURCH, IN TH’ BELFRY. THAT'S SETTIN ALONG UP THAR 100 [xia J (EUES HN) Youu! | | V'BEE , Mins NORTH, WHEN ANYBODY IN ; | : 1 : HOW COME TH ING TO BE DONE ON THE BLUFF, Pro] | THESE HILLS COULDN'T KEEP LIP as though the life had gone out | ! ¥ PLACE GOT ITS ~~ I'M THE ONE WHO'S ee ( THEIR. PAYMENTS TO TH’ PERFE SAM of her body; her heart was beating | | GONG TO DO, : HE BET MiB BVIL EYE ON EM AN slowly and painfully, as though it | | y ~ 2% : : A > SOMEONE IN) THAT FAMILY we were a heavy weight within her : ? ge. ge 4 ' h RIOT" um A breast. Her mind did not seem to | ’ p ” register any outside impressions; it was burdened down with but one! thought--what had happened to Roger? In that last message from him, he had estimated his position as the west leg of the Bellefonte beam; Jackie knew, without being told. that that particular stretch was the most hazardous in the Alleghenies. It would be a miracle to achieve a EANWHILE, THE ARMAMENT RACE

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with the motor dead, and after that «J got a special way of counting for YOU-sick, man, poor man, beggar- GOING TO WORK FOR YOU, SON — TRIGGER WE'RE KINDA { - tremendous dive from 35,000 feet. | man, thief; gangster, gunman, bandit chief , , .” MURPHY AND HALLELUJAH ROBINSON, THE PROUD OF OUR | IT REALLY TAKES OLD U%, BUD, WE | TURNIPS, THERE'S NUTTIN ON : / JERRY \ =p VOU But Roger was such a wonderful | Ww CHAMPION MACHINE GUNNERS OF GUATEMALA. / KNIFE -THROWIN', / EASY TO PLAY YANKEE Fo bas, EARTH WE ct ae LIKE . HES J a3 THE GM UNE " TERRY pilot; he would come through T 2 eet Sg TOO, BUD, DOODLE ON A y WITH FIRE. Nea , RACKETEERS,] OFF THE ROCK) BAYS YOU [a s( caTRAD somehow, if it were humanly en GRIN AND BEAR 1 By Lichty eee i BROWNWG. 177, 3 il AE age MIGHT | \WELL WELLE sible. Yet, Jackie realized how frag- 3 BO = 1 \ RT a {gt % a | E TORTONN: / — { SIT DOWN, ile the human element may be. 7. \ Neh A A : EN Rn Tel RGR DL, NY On her way home from the field ™ my i N ) Na ER am ; Anas A AM Tay A OUY: | FRIEND OF she heard the newsboys calling the 0 7° AT nn, SEN Lp MRT CY ce oli 3 Je NPS (it 2 | / ET Se 'S first extra. She jammed on her Ba 1 hy : 7 by ; JHE = \ JN \ RIGHT WITH brakes to purchase one. There, 0 LAR Shi wil TOAFFIC Bl 5) eel EK £3 3 i 7 \ doe EN 4 \ ne ‘8 A Wh looking at her from the front page, ¢ wl VIOLATORS B70) be . SO | "SS \ 3 : NS S\N J hii a EAR ~~ “yr was Roger, wearing his broad, con- | Ww ir FORNSH IL +a Bei \ ; 7d Ng PA NRE < Na f \ Na Von A ye BY a A \ Ng od LL} 3 LS ; 9

fident grin. He was standing, with Bond

Beryl Melrose, beside the silver ship, | i zeus PR LA TN —— vi Ba y { H.C tN GS oY 5 ready for the takeoff from Burbank. | Sy fat 4 ly. it nat NS NRE EC x a : There was no news except what i IN fc Vs ai” S\N a ei | S BY mas Jackie already knew, an account of | | ; pst Hh 3 of WL Aa ER cen? 8 nl N the stratosphere flight, giving “he | aN Re Tvl Qn joa ah | ) 3 ; a ABERVICE, ING, bulletins received en route, and then x R SR Hs ’ aay Nar = 7 ™ v ? v Ca xn oa 4 Roger's last message—and the si- 4 Fr, af) 5 FRECKLES , YOU OLD DARLING! [77 HOW COULD I BUT, GEE==~ [ I'M STILL A i lence that had followed. AR \ Bf \ : A Ey MY. ITS GOOD TO SEE YOU [ GOLLY, DO \e= FORGET THE NIGHT I'M ONLY KIO, TOO, 7” MAY 1 Pl EASE Volunteers were scouring that | f \ EER : ; Co " AGAIN / ~ YOU REALLY ssl WE ALL WENT BOWLING Sy ah FOL ET IE AA » EMEMRBRER ME, AT WESTWOOD, AND AND YOURE IN SPIRIT | HIGH SCHOOL PROM? |

section of the country where it was | ] Ee i rw | MISS DREEM ? BE THE TIME We WENT THE BIGGEST | THATS wily believed the plane—or what was left i | SCAVENGER HUNTING STAR IN I'M GOING

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T was almost dinner time when Jackie reached home. She hur- | ried up the stairs to her own room: she felt she simply could not face | Evelyn, and all her questions and the fuss she would make, now of | all times. She felt she could not | face anyone. Not until she knew what had happened to Roger. Mac had promised he would let! her know the moment he learned anything new. “She knew she could depend on him. But oh, this ter- | rible agony of waiting, this gnawing | uncertainty! “Are you home, darling?” Evelyn's 1 AO wd vo voice outside the door, her hand Oopr. 1938 by United Feature Syndtoatc, Ye, Po m9 rattling the knob. “Why, Jacqueline, | you've locked your door! What on earth is the matter, child? Open it —it's mother, darling.” THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson “Please, Mother . . . I have a | n headache,” Jackie mumbled from | —— —— : the bed where she had thrown her- | self, face down, full length, finding that she was almost physically exhausted. She was glad she had thought to turn the key in the lock.

Af Let Evelyn rattle it as much as she | \ Soul | vi iN ” 7 7, wished, Jackie would not admit be (eA | ih . ah ( B i anyone, Wa - AMA FEL di a er— —_—— y -_ : “A headache . . ., dear me! I'll f gs i " [ 7/4 N LISTEN OOPEY « AFTER YOURE Br al (Bam: wonky CWHLE || OW GEE wo. BRIS SE CR SmatY MEY? 1M J] Foreot ML || MARRIED, ¥ou\ HAVE To ROOT For

get you something . . ."” i OW ! RE “I don’t want anything! Just | 1 SE I {| 5 a di Ve Mg RS ay Tres / ABOOT VOURGELF «. 60 WOU MIGHT AS WEL SAW THE S\ | : - STARKRRVED! | Ul HorACE ( COME ON OUT HERE AND &FE% WOW

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let me alone.” Thank heaven, her | pl : mother apparently had not heard | > y Rae oR T. i Y : ee \U's OONE - about Roger vet. She would not | po . : 4 hy po Eat in < —— hg f —— ' &3 know what had happened until she > | | ] im) wid lend ¥ FV Vs a | ao \ read the regular evening edition of IX \ | AE / 7), a. [lg OY ° SY [ ae AD the paper. ; ¢ - 0 { 12 7/4 ~I= A eda z “But, darling, vou must let me 7 do something for you!” “Please, Mother!” Jackie threw all the pleading of which she was capable into her voice. “If you'll just go away and let me alone . ..” She heard Evelyn murmur something that sounded like “... dear me . .. I can’t understand . ..” and | ARE SARVIED OLIT” =v THEIR. OWNERS steps res m | RY footsteps resounding down e BE LEN na TRANSES | — v ; x ww EMSELVES TX HIK-QOVERED COCOONS, N rr / TN RECT | ("THE RING! ("IT WAS A SINEU SURE’ I'VE GOT THE I DO YOU, GILBERT TWY TCH, KEE UL ACKIE lay still as long us she| = ARE RETURNED AND WEIGHED, DO LEADS | [ RNG RIGHT HERE 4 MANDY--ER WILL || TAKE THIS WOMAN FOR YOUR | UM-I MEAN | DO-- Yo Ju JIMINY// | THING TO DO-BUT, NO AND THE FEEDER 1S PAID ACCORDING THAT ASSISTANT | / Them TO THE | | WHERE ITS HANDY-=- ) YOU GIVE ME LAWFUL, WEDDED WIFE 2 on ves SIR 100! ONE CAN SAY THAT {

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d. Then she got 1 nd Raul g a ip THE RING / ARICA. SCRAPPLE

rept down the stairs : TO THE WEIGHT OF HIS OFF, . 2? | STAIRS 4 YOUR ARM DOWN = ; ay v crept down stairs once more OFFERING DEESHWASHER 2? A couPLE) WINE THESE STAIRS ! - sO (IVE LOST THE { DIDN'T DO MER BEST

She knew Evelyn would be dressing ; \ n Vr oe =) ye | — hls Ee for dinner now. Jackie could get 0 NNW IPT {WE NEED HEEM"! “3 SLATS, \ [77 20, / © STEN ".. | RING <=") \ Xo aah iby the evening paper before anyone : NY RAZ 2 : i ee NA | \” DEAR? 4“ #. .. \ WX sal CORR) pe , BRIDES Al a else saw it. Back in her room, the — N= | 2 4 ! Re mY ER RO A PAY, VY. ye ZH ES ‘NEARY: ¥ door securely bolted once more, she yo) . Tan . : ’ pulled the sheets apart with féverish fingers. This edition had been printed several hours later but it held no / new news, nor much more hope. < ) DISPLAYS A GORGEOUS The search was still going on but : HEAD ORNAMENT so far not a single trace had been ia a TO ATTRACT ITS discovered of the ship or of its | AMATE pilot. . 1938 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. Jackie felt she could not endure i — . gi AE -

this waiting much longer; it was this uncertainty that was so un- |. . . You'll have to tell her, Mac. | saving, still in that same old voice.

bearable. It would be easier to . 7 And then, after an eternity “Near Kylertown. Pretty badly know that Roger had cracked up, Mac's voice came over the wire, cracked ‘up=-one ‘wing orn ofl, Mo- | q— a —— n ————— — conn . that there was no hope at all, than “Hello . . . is that you, Jackie?” | tor smashed in . . . . : = Ri . y Ti to have to go on not knowing what | “Oh, Mac . . . I had to call you!” “But Roger . . .?” She had to y i «SIMPLE This new method, exclusive W ith I olk Sy does had happened, what to expect. | What had the operator meant? | know, to get it over with, what- ) POLK S FRESH FLAVOR y away with pumping milk through hundreds She would not wait any longer | “Have you heard anything? Isn't | ever the news. 2.~INSTANT of feet of pipe; eliminates long holding; stops

for Mac to call. She would phone | there anything new?” | “They found the ship, all right,” Ww 3.ELECTRIC cxcessive heat. Affords you milk of highest

him er Twas Just goin to call | Mac said again. “But they havent PASTEURIZATION IS SAFE When she gave her name the |you, Jackie.” Mac's voice sounded | found Roger, Jackie. TIO ® ° @ possible ality with true Fresh Flavor, Call ow »

operator at the field, who knew her, |gruff, unnatural. He had heard | : ered hurriedly ‘wside, “It's Miss |sometiihg thor! | eno Be Gontinued) ed Cherry Tx.» for prompt service. P Dunn, o « 1 can’t talk to her! “They found the ship,” Mac ‘Was ¥ holly Botitious) : : BN

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