Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1938 — Page 22

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1938

SERIAL STORY—

This Man, Joe Murray

Jy William Corcoran

CAST OF CHARACTERS JOE MURRAY-—liked new places, new Jobs, new girls. HELEN—fell in love—hard—once. TERRY MALLOW-—found love—and kept it!

Yesterday: Reverses come to the Murray home: Joe loses his fob, there is talk of closing the lace mill, and the Murray hopes fade away.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

HOLD EVERYTHING

OUR BOARDING HOUSE

1 HAVE NO REASON TO POUBT YOUR STORY, ASHLEY, BECAUSE 1 HAD A TAME TROUT ONCE NAMED DAVEY JONES THAT 1 FOUND IN SOME SHALLOW WATER wrtH A BrokeN FIN! so APPRECIATIVE WAS HE WHEN 1 REPAIRED THE

With Major Hoople

NOW DON'T TELL ME YOU WERE “TH WHEN TH’ FELLOW WHO HAD MAJOR LEADS A PET WORM “THAT WITH HIS COULD Give TH' BEST FISH ROCK BASS MATING STORY CALL, AND WOULD THAT NEW DUCK BEHIND TH' BOARDER HOOK TO sAvE COUNTERS DAMAGE, THAT 1 HAD ONLY HIMSELE WHEN WITH A TO DROP HIM INTO A STREAM TH FisH struck! if BETTER AND DAVEY WOULD SWIM one! ABOUT AND DECOY OTHER rE h ) TROUT TO MY HOOK wana 3 Wf ~N | UG NN KAFE - KAFE -F = NN af al 1 HAVE OFTEN < | A LANDED TEN ; BEAUTIES IN AS MANY MINUTES WITH HIS Assistance /

OUT OUR WAY

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COME ON NOW, WE'LL COUNT ‘EM TOGETHER SO YOU WON'T THINK

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I'M CGYPPIN' YOU ...

T'S FUNNY HOW FREE OF WEEDS BOTH NEIGHBORS YARDS ARE, WHEN THEY HAVEN'T TOUCHED HEM YET... VERY QUEER!

OE was grim these days, and o Terry was silent. Her bland gaiety was impotent against this. Joe went out each day when Terry departed for work, and if he had nothing definite to attempt, he walked with her to the streetcar. He was waiting for her when she alighted from the car at night, and they walked home together. When they arrived home he went furiously | to work, either lightening or entire- | ly relieving every task. COPR. 1938 BY NEA SERVICE. INC,

wer to "the Ty oer of “So th’ crowd’s with me, eh? Well, I wish I was with them!” the plants where the “No Men WERE FROM . — — Wanted” signs were waiting, leering| FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia THE DAILY {STEP RIGHT ¥ : THREE CXTRY at him. He lay in waiting for BLAST--WE IN.BOYS = Ps” hl PLATES, MAMMY. bosses he knew and accosted them tL | FLEW IN FROM LIL ABNER § BE STAYIN MAJOR T. RARNARY cheerily, uttering a set formula and THE. BIG CITY JEST R 3 1 a ing y e TO INTERVIEW / WOKE UPS 48 AHLL SET hearing a set reply He ranged QINTERVIE ANLL SET mean streets downtown, eying peo- h ra / Q EXT ple at work hungrily, resentfully, . hatefully. His mind was in the grip of a slow and morbid fever which showed | only in the quiet grimness of his eves. Terry looked at him and was frightened more at his eyes than all | the menace of their plight. This was | something she could not cope with | either, could not beguile him out of; | not all her witchery could prevail against that grim stolidity

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= = 8 { H ARLING,” she cried, “close | your eyes. Kiss me . Now |

pretend.” Pretend what?” “Oh, pretend we're just matried |

and vou love me and we're rich |

and going to have a house and al

little car and a garden in the] back

The grimness cracked a little. “In back of what? The car?” No, in back of the house! We'll have something else in the back of | the car. Guess.” Tools?” “No, no Babies!” But there was no charm for him

in the illusion. He smiled for her p WH ; <4 sins se, but his eyes told the truth. And she Lett 4 {| a fo ; BULB Se. RN

was afraid, for this was a Joe whom 3 ia 3 = : : a= = Yue . 1 DROPPED IN TO SEE WOW BUSINESS \S. PWCKLE JUICE! I DONT (I'M GLAD WE DOESN'T KNOW THAT EVERYBODY'S AND STILL THEY COME!

she could not handle ! Ay das WalNing PRETTY ROTTEN AFTER ALL THOSE STINK BOMBS | vic wiypa || WITH YOUR TRAIN | NEED MY IN FREE.) AND AS FOR CUSTOMERS, TAKE ALOOK| | JUST WATCH ‘EM! HA- | UNDERSTAND I]

. ] Hh S AND THINGS, EH, KIDDO? | | RUNED, You TRAIN WITH , . the gh : A gre or - . A " at RLY JE NONT DRAW ; h ony COMIN' IN DROVES By ceoroe NA You TRIED TO SEEN, XD, at the curb jus 1 1 i NAN AAS ) NN J U HIGHWAY A 2 AIITNMNMNIONRI TH _T_a driver got out to run into a house GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty 4 } 4 S Sy Sechnine TO PAY TH' N Lo LN \ \\ AT THAT; /OUTA BUSINESS, bid apa He recognized Joe and waited. It ON \ ’ \ Ua NPS Br Th NID A, BUY AL NEW MY QFFER“ne y y 1 ) 3 . Z was Tommy Withers, a bit older 4 A sure of himself, prosperous looking How do you like the new gondola, Joe?” Joe locked at him a moment, then looked at the car. “Nice Where did you get it?” Withers was waiting for the question. “Just bought it.” H'm,” said Joe ‘Ng ; ; N WN} X = Lined up a job at the new Pp ; iA 4 \ Wb X \ A —_——y broadcasting station plant on Mar- Ns i a NN £5 I SA Ni shall St. Maintenance work. Steady; | Qf / v > 3 : same old wage scale. You picked

| g THAT'S IT EXACTLY, MISS NORTH - | f : Say 29 : SEEN WE WANT YOU TO ASSUME THE LOT OF YOU, BUT YOU MAY f STARTLING TRANS- SMALL TOWN GIRL iE sf a = = er Sa CHARACTER OF A "POOR BUT HONEST” BE ASSURED OF THE FULL CHEF-TI'LL [| ITION TO LILY COME TO BIG CITY

WORKING GIRL = GO TO THAT CAFE COOPERATION OF ALL GO GLADLY/ JAMES / INTENT ON SUCCESS! IN LONGBAY AND DIG UP WHATEVER GOVERNMENT RESOURCES! [reer EVIDENCE YOU CAN AGAINST oh =

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“Huh—the things some people will do to get attention! Goin’ without sun-glasses so she'll be conspicuous.”

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Ww ’ ' the wrong trade, fellow. y Ai as SR JM SOR, BE “Youre an electrician? Sth \ ; YOU MIGHT HAVE BREEN MUST gee Always was AT FF £279 | MORE COMMUNICATIVE ON Huh! Lucky break; not the A : 5 3 “i ; THE WAY HOME ! You trade,” said Joe. “Glad somebody's SPOKE EXACTLY TWO getting it.” WOR Thanks!” And before going inside Withers added, “How's the missus?” Good!” said Joe, and walked on.

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2 2 » A SMAT 1. incident, but signifiA cant. Withers, whom Joe had | once beaten ignominously, waiting jauntily to show off before Joe, to patronize him. To patronize Joe Murray. Joe grimly, glumly, taking it, and though saying very little, irresistibly impressed, depressed. And then walking, walking. This man, Joe Murray \ . He walked by night too. Not in the streets, on his lean legs, in corporeal reality, but in the mind, during the reaches of the night when Terry slept soundly in weariness beside him and there was no weari- THIS CURIOUS WORLD Bn ness to drug Joe Poo— - And when he had gone far, a : = cs 1 certain distance, he was not alone any longer. So much had things changed, even to that extent: what was gone had returned. There was | a sound of music and a familiar smell of earth in spring. There was Joy of working and sleeping and eating and loving, there was a genial

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THANKS, GEORGE I'D BE GLAD To

TurnY. I'M go LAD Yow GOT AWAY FroM THe coP’/-syuRE I'LL HAVE PEFRESHAMENTS

AW, Mary’ ~AND MARY DINING ROOM | THAT 18N'T FAIR sas ALL CHILDREN - You're ONLY Snes REFRESHMENTS J aN SUPPOSED To

- wiTH ONE THANKS, Gus. With Tash SD on

EAT ICE CREAM BOYS THAT ASKED

ME TO HAVE

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“My stars! Go right into the emergency ward, Madam!”

> TAINUT NEP LAN Y'KNOW ,B800Ts, § lusty and untroubled laughter, there IRGSED. Wo SABE | SWE ] BA-AAAA-RE TOo Taw To MORE ABOUT WAVING ~ 1 LWE TH'\DEA L HORACE : NEE BE ee . | WERE SEE WO i O° Soe NOS. Ti4CS. [7] ® PLANE WESOWG I [1 DRESS IS we # 3s a light voi glint of sun, a E WAS SE , WANT 10 RE OEI0 Nervous perfume, a peace . . . a peace. i : 4 3 | rT dh ar. SEE ME ? AND SCARED WE CAN Helen! Polack! . . . | Fo - L \ | : ‘ SLAVE On Ti Pug Once in the darkness he wept, silently. This man, Joe Murray. = » ” HERE came an afternoon when, as he met Terry at the streetcar, there was a tension on Joe and a determination. She hurried to join him and caught his arm, looking at him “You've got something to tell? News? Good news?” Wait till we get up to the house,” - . Sh he said S : She did not urge him to talk when WHY- JIMINY- | BUT MR. JALINDKCE TOLD they were alone, and he found it a L ! MR SLEDGE YOU DID? He

little more difficult than he ex- THAT COST YOU YOUR J "AMERICAN? SAID HE DISTINCTLY BACK pected. fe Stience Mize it hard. JOB’ : IS SPELT NRDNG! REMEMBERED SEEING TR ND “I found work,” he sai ~~ 1 Now she stopped and looked at Ia ORT ERT 3 { 3 a 4 DEMAND YOUR JOB | AK” | DIDNT Thi] 1. BACK GET ANOTHER

him. “Where?” ‘National Shipyards . . . at Port =\ ADDRESS THAT/ : > h|\| [| JoB IN | THIS 4 = - GX "5 : {3 de TOWN-AS LONG | 3) )Y 8 9 iF ‘ 3 | - ’ |

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ISTO PUNCH MISTER (DEAS CHAUNCEY JAUNDICE | TLE. QAmER'S THE THIRD'S FACE OUT FROM BETWEEN HIS EARS ///

| SEE IT NOW--- HE MUST'VE BEEN GUILTY HIMSELF!

Lansing.” “I knew it,” she breathed. “You want to go away.” She came to him. “Port Lansing is dead. There's no building. Why go there, Joe?” “Refitting; refurnishing. There's work. Maybe permanent. An old

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GOLD, when GROUND buddy of mine has a big job there a TO A FINE POWDER, I wrote to him, if there was an > sS DARK RED, opening to give me a break. I just Ra Or SLACK, got an answer.” Roni & L-76 She stared, then she said, “It's ) so far, Joe. We'd never see each other.” for him. She must have him, | damned thing left to do. If I

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ae a job, a Ti Stumly: i without him she was helpless, | could take care of you better, I _ error Was growing in Rr. > ! » worthless, utterly undependable. All | would—down there I'll send you 7 } Ai [ F 13; 1 I r ( ip L USED WITH job isn’t safe—and it can’t keep us the reasons; he'd likely get away | head . . . all alone” both.” to come see her occasionally. Then| He swore and grabbed up his BOTTLE

“No, Joe! Stay here with me. Terry lost all control. For the suddenly he shouted at her to shut | hat and made for the door. A Bb - A : > first time, she became importunate, ' up. : ST as aa A sk Yo ur Po lk Mi lk man A M i LK

We'll make out somehow. You Kinds of disaster would come to her.| money every week and keep a she wept, she pleaded. She grasped “I'm going! Dont make it any (To Be Continued)

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