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——— mA SEA AAT LAT TA. TARTAN

SERIAL STORY—

This Man, Joe Murray

By William Corcoran

CAST OF CHARACTERS JOE MURRAY-—Liked new places, new fobs, new girls. HELEN—Fell in love—hard—once

TERRY MALLOW—Found love—and | kept it! Yesterday—Joe hears gossip about |

Terry, corners the Mallow family, the old woman hints this is just other of Theresa's lies!”

CHAPTER FOURTEEN JE stood there, looking at her, at them all, rocking slightly, his breathing deep. After a moment he spoke. “The point is he said. “And get it. I'm a pretty good guy when they're with me. When they're against me, I'm tough. I'm made that way and I like it. I'm tough tonight and I'm telling vou; the next time I'm tough I won't be telling you. But anybody—father, mother, grandparents or pops—that names my wife out of turn, will know all. Don't forget.” He wheeled the room, and he was white of face.

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looking

this,

Immediately after that Joe walked, |

valked, walked. There was a hard, ard, undigested thought inside him. It was bewildering, it hurt. Another of Theresa's lies!” What all did that mean? That he had been tricked? Well, was that news? She had almost plain!y told him she would, if necessary, Joe walked, walked, and in his own way came to retionalize the values involved. He was that kind He knew where he stood. If lied to him, it was for reasons ady well known to him. She ded him, wanted him—and she |

of man

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col need. It not deep resentment was had

For a

lies, we

forgotten

ntance he had encountered father on the street, and | llow, spiteful old fool had |

cynically and allowed cer- | ations which Withers |

was

as gleeful to repeat. Talk? Joe snorted. Talk was| cheap | What had stung, for a little while, |

was that knifelike thought another |

+f Therpea's lige! I 1heresas lies

nger This Joe Murray was Ar man, with a hardness in and a womanly softness to0 er. There was no anger in him t the end of his long walk. If he then he melted the thought of Terry's need for

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been tricked,

mn. Notl had changed So he told himself, turning homevard. But life always changes go0-

ing on, even as a charlatan fooling you before your very eyes. Joe was gentle with Terry when he came in: he told her what he had heard today he had done tonight, leavnly what he had learned nigh He need not tell her that He was glad to be with her and not

3ut in the reaches of the night ame a loneliness that he fathom, that was new and | untable and cold It was almost a premonition NE day

O mecod of expansive, reckless gaiety He tossed the lunch box on thc kitchen table. “You can put tl p in moth ba

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Joe came home in a

lls and start suppcrting your family, babe. I'm one of the leisure classes.”

Terry was home ahead of him and already busy; she turned quickly from the lamb chops sizzling juicily

on the stove. “You mean the job? Laid oft?” They gave me my time this

morning.” Beneath the gaiety was a certain secret bewilderment which the recklessness sought to hide. “I my time and told them to their job up the nearest chimI could get a job. I went i g, but the whistle will blow without me tomorrow. She kissed him. If there was any distress in her it did not show; she issed him. “Poor darling. Give him ime! You've worked every day since we got married. You'll find a job.”

“Yeah?

took pt nev

0oXing,

And I'll already working at it.

find somebody Baby, they're

slipping one up on us. The automobile | contracts have run out at the plant; |

that's Lilia >

i They say there'll

Most of the

why the layoff. be no renewal

week. There ain't that many jobs in the metal trades in town to give us all work.” He laughed. “If it wasn’t for the price of food I'd make you quit and stay home with me.” Oh!” she said. “And be Be together!” he said, looking at her. He kissed her, and they were together for an instant, hungrily, always hungrily and joyously Then she broke away with a ery and ran to the stove He watched her efficiency, he'd be a “good one” whom there are always jobs! ” 2 2 OES doubts about the job situation were well founded. Imperceptibly there had come a creeping change over the world of work and wages. The humble ones who did the work and drew the wages could not be expected to understand it; blithely they went their accustomed ways until suddenly and incomprehensibly their work was taken from them. Joe found a job, two weeks after taking his time at the plant. It was a rush job in a small factory, and it lasted a week. He found another the following month, which lasted half a week. He obtained a few days’ work, here and there, day by day. Then at last that meager trickle from the fountain of subgistence ceased, and there was no more work to be had. He looked, inquired, waited, expectant, hopeful, and there was no more work to be had. This passage of time and this shift of evil circumstances had an

If he had her for

but |

it without being told! That's |

and marched out of |

to- | gether all the time, every minute?” |

HOLD EVERYTHING

AJAY HOTEL

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“One room with a

FLAPPER FANNY

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“I can’t decide which camp’s better—the one where you can cook the hurt was soon gone with | your own lunch or the one that lets your family send you cake”

ik. 6-18 COPR. 1938 BY NEA SERVICE. INC.

By Clyde Lewis

PROF. HARTMAN AND MIS TRAINED ALLIGATOR

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

“My gosh, Martha—don’t just stand there—go get the candid camera out of the car!”

THIS CURIOUS WORLD

By William Ferguson

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PERSONS CAN SEE BETTER IN THE DARK THAN THOSE ~- WITH NORMAL

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OF WATERLOGGED

MAKES ITS HOME IN PIECES

THAT HAVE SUNK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.

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ASPIC JELLY

GETS I's NAME FROM A SNAKE...

THE CAsSsP.” BECAUSE IT Is

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TOLUCA.

COPR. 1938 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. €=158

[inevitable effect on the household of Terry and Joe Murray. Terry

and Joe cut all

| gances, cut all living costs, lived

on her small wage, putting nothing now in the bank. Then that small wage was insufficient, and they drew on the bank, and the little house in Gardendale receded dimly in their vision. There was talk of shut

| down the lace mill till better times.

small extrava- | trick: life, instead of going forward,

and then fright assailed them, Life was playing them a cruel

however haltingly . . . life was going back. Back with increasing momentum into a world from which they had escaped.

(To Be Continued)

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

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m-nof Tt HAVE BEEN APPONTED CHIEF OF “THE VOLUNTEER FIRE BRIGADE / HAW! WHEN HE FIRE BECOMES “00 HOT FOR “THE REGULAR FIRE FIGHTERS TO HANDLE, THEY CALL ON MY BRAVE LADS KAFEZ KaAF-F:

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‘THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES OUR BOARDING HOUSE

IT's OLD SITTING BULL HIMSELF ww WHATS RECOME OF TH' WILD WEST SCENERY YOU'VE BEEN STRUTTING AROUND IN ? DID TH’ BIG

With Majer Hoople

WHAT'S <TH’ . BANDAGE FOR ON YOUR HAND © 1S THAT WHERE MRS, HOOPLE DUS IN TH' SPURS WHEN SHE WAS RIDING You YESTERDAY 2

CHIEF COSTUMER

SCALP IT OFF YOU FOR BACK RENT

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WITH ALL THE ORPHANS YOU BEEN BRINGIN' IN OFF TH' RANGE FER BIG ICK TO FEED, THIS LAMB MIGHT, PUT HIM DOWN IN BED .... THEN WE'D HAVE TO FEED ‘EM 2

PAAR 1K

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1938

By Williams

THET'S WHY 1 WANT HIM TO THINK IT CAME IN ITSELF, AND HE SAVED IT FROM TH' COYOTES HISSELF-« THEN HE WON'T FEEL QUITE sO BAP

Bi CHIEF SOE “EATER = c FRIAS LI'L ABNER —By Al Capp GAT GARSON IS ON ) AN’ NOw- we \ | He MEWS OF GARSON'S HAT NIGHT = He SACRA uly || Cs sel [| We pen kT Yi V \ ' BIN KIN* ltl RN TEETER “DAILY BLAST") REA K.. IN SWAMP -WATER, UGH! : " — . ON . BEFO' YO NOTHIN" FO’ ME pr ERR REMEMBER GOES T'BED YO 1) AH HATES TRE THERE'S A GREAT EXACTL GOT TA TAKE THIS HAPPY’ | STORY IN THE ROY WHAT DOSE O’ SULPHUR AN’ N HIS FACE WHO WAS MISTAKEN OCCURS MOLASSES, PANSY ? FOR THE GANGSTER. ~ IN THE \ FLY TO DQGPRAICH #(" FOLLOWING 3 AND GET IT” NELS. ; INSIGNIFICANT EVENTS ?P AND. SEE! ssi) cia. 1834 ned rar La. ta “id Ca | oe Pp ww

MYRA NORTH, SPECIAL NURSE

TO OBTAIN THE SECRETS OF OUR NEW "MYSTERY SHIP" AND WE SUSPECT THAT PERHAPS THEY NAVE SUCCEEDED!

ee WASHINGTON TUBBS II

AS 1 WAS SAYING, MISS NORTH, THERE ARE CERTAIN FOREIGN POWERS EAGER

WE CANNOT BE CERTAIN, BECALISE NOWADAYS SPIES EITHER PHOTOGRAPH OR MEMORIZE THEIR INFORMATION. HOWEVER, OUR SUSPICIONS CENTER ON A TINY CAFE IN LONGBAY, FREQUENTED BY NAVAL MEN ON LEAVE.

(AFTER ALL TH DIRTY WORK DONE, YOU CROOK, You CRIMINAL, YOU GOTTA CRUST COMIN' HERE! WHY, EVERY COP IN TH' STATE \S AFTER YOU.

GOT

I pave A HUNCH HE PULLED THAT FAKE FIRE -

WELL , THAT GALLANT ESCORT OF MINE, DUDLEY WANGLE , SEEMS TO HAVE ° VANISHED ! AND 7 SKIPPED our © AVOID

TROUBLE —- THE Bie Heel! —

LITTLE MARY MIXUP

OH, THEY'LL PROBABLY QUESTION ME, AS USUAL, BUT THEY

ME SWEETHEART,

YOU TR! MURDER

NOTHIN ON

LIKED THE GUY! ER —

I TAKE You

MY GIRL'S LOOKS!

AFRAID YOU

7A SAY, JUNE, CANIT

ED TO ME AN RUIN

SURE, BUT NOBODY CAN PROVE

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TO SAY, HAVE MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED 7

WE ARE HANDICAPPED IN OUR INVESTIGATION BECAUSE SEVERAL OF OUR MEN HAVE BEEN SPOTTED THERE RECENTLY AND, I REGRET

WHAT YOU NEED NOW IS A NEW FACE = SOMEONE TO CARRY ON YOUR. INVEST) = GATIONS WHO 1S NOT SO LIKELY TO BE RECOGNIZED!

SPIKE TRIED TO THROW ACID ON Miss McKEE AND WAS CAUGHT IN THE ACT, LIKE SOME OF THE OTHERS, BUT THEY'D NEVER DARE SQUEAL ON ME! You BET THEY WOULDN'T! BESIDES, 20 WITNESSES WILL TESTIFY THAT 1 WAS IN A POOL HALL DURING THE TROUBLE, 1 GOT AN IRON=CLAD ALB) FOR EVERYTHING!

THE

EXCUSE ME, BOSS, EASY CALLED ) OBOY! HOLD EM)

POLICE, AND THEY'RE READY / OFF 5 MINUTES, TO GRAB SLAUGHTER. Z TWIGNER. ONLY & 5 MINUTES. I GOTTA PLAN TO GET THIS 8020 GOOD'N PROPER!

OFF.

—By Blosser |

SORRY, OLD CHAP, BUT 1 BEAT YOU TO IT} SHE LIVES RIGHT ON MY WAY HOME ,

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TIME A RoY i AsKeED To H TAKE ME To H A PARTY AND Now I HAVE TO

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AND , ANYWAY , YOU'VE GOT SUE ON YOUR HANDS!

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RIGHT, JUNE,

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