Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1938 — Page 22

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This Man, Joe Murray

By William Corcoran

CAST OF CHARACTERS JOE MURRAY-—Liked new places, aew Jobs, new girls. HELEN—Fell in love—hard—once. TERRY MALLOW-Found love — and kept it!

OUT OUR WAY

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HOLD EVERYTHING

THEY'RE SURE GITTIN' SAVIN' HERE WHEN THEY GIT TO SAVIN OLD WORN-OUT FILES....WHUT CAN THEY SAVE ON A OLD WORN-OUT FILE?

NO +=NO ++ YOU'LL HAVE TO TURN THE OLD ONE INTO T™' STORE ROOM TO GET A NEW ONE WITH THIS ORDER..... WE'RE KEEPING A RECORD OF ‘EM

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Yesterday: employment, work in the shipyards, Terry's tearful protests,

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CHAPTER SIXTEEN OE had made for the door but Terry flew there before him. “I'll be good,” she said in a small choked voice, fighting for control. I'll stop. Don’t leave me alone the last chance I've got with you.” He looked at her. His face was grim, and he was suffering. He looked at her, and then he threw | down his hat. She did not say anything; she set about preparing their dinner. Sheeregained control, | and she ate with him in no appetite with a quiet, bleakly bland de- |

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close to me? All alone . . . Lere? Nobody to amuse Terry, tell Terry | what to do, make love to Terry.” | He did not speak. She crept on| his shoulder and cried, very quietly, | trying not to arouse him. The sobs | died slowly and she was still. Her | hands on his shoulder began to} clutch him hard; the nails were sharp and cruel. She made a sound, a chaotic, primordial sound of passionate despair, and she 4 / \ > kissed him. Taut with the pain of ! > Bn those sharp nails in his flesh he re- V — C =14 ) turned the Kiss. They were tor, in the terrific imminence of 7 MYRA NORTH, SPECIAL NURSE le : THIS 15 A PLEASANT SUGGEST CHARACTER, And so Joe Murray took to the | A MEN GME WEN SA Sm. HON. road again. Out of one town into NER ALLY L AVE Oa J STRRPIECE!? r: out of Te TO MAKE OUR BOYS GOOD START ALer; out of one day into the | ml | READY MADE BY

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wiping out a wife and home, wip- 4 ing out even what he had possessed before either: the certainty of work and the freedom of the nati

ation. = = » T was a good job, as jobs go. | The shipyard was an immense | place. Hundreds worked there, a small regiment; but yet it looked lean and hungry, for not long since | they had streamed in of mornings | in an army, 10,000 of them. There

was Arv dock h ot | as a ory Sock, and then 5 We T KNOWING THAT MOST OF THE PATRONS ANG (ACIS LOX real Saun SET | WARE NON-PAYING GUESTS OF WASH'S, The dry dock was working, qn | FRU SLAUGHTER CONCLUDES THAT BUSINESS were two ships in the wet iL] a = FH SE 'S BOOMING . [EERE AFTER ALL but the ship ways, 10 of S ae - , loomed empty and silent. There was no building, and Joe was lucky and knew it. How long lucky, he couldn't tell. Men of a h red trades stood about the mornings when he came to K, haunting the closed employment office. He worked and drew good money and sent a large portion of it back to Terry every week. They must save what they could; the future was unknowable The novelty of Port Lansing was to Joe, and the possibilities held never any glamour. Women off to him, not only by : er E » his simple code but by all his inclin- : aS : e A MW 7/47 ple code but by all his inclin : oh h 3 2 I THINK WEVE GOT © DO TI yr) 7 SOMETHING ABOUT THIS GIRL / SITUATION ! 1 DONT LIKE TO SPOIL HIS FUN, BUT I DONT WANT IT © GET = SERIOUS!

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WELL, KID, WODDA VA SAY? WANTA SELL YOUR LEASE FOR %8,000°

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Terry wrote to him often, sometimes day after day. She had one refrain: she missed him, missed him. She worked steadily, and that was nice, but when she came home alone at night, that was terrible. Yet she was careful not to comShe had found a city school where adults could attend at night and she was enrolled. She was learning English literature and French. Not, she said, that she had any use for French or expected to become a bookworm or could hope to | o . : be wiser than her Joe, but you never | ‘At 10 o'clock you have an appointment with the stockholders, at 1 could tell, some day maybe when | o'clock there's the Snodgrass conference, at 2 there's the board meettheir babies were growing up she ing—at 3 o'clock, my wife to see you about my raise.

could help them . .. had she ever id him, they were going to go to| THIS CURIOUS WORLD college? Joe read

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LITTLE MARY MIXUP

THis MARY Mixur HAS TURNED INTO A PEACH -- I'M TAKING HER HOME .

By William Ferguson

these things, and his | AL) aX was empty, and he wrote] \ Ps -

matter-of-fact replies. And he wrote | \ n CYPRESS TREES ARS - / , TRY oi down at the end always that he! |! ’ ] a AV ; > ) N | N 1 /) $n 7 4 \ )

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loved her and missed her and they'd | SEND UP ™ KNEES" FROM make out somehow. Whereupon he | THEIR ROOTS, AND THESE put down his pen in a kind of . GCROWTHS, PROTRLIDING empty bitterness. | M y ; pty bitterness | Bi \@ THROUGH THE SWAMP & » o i WATERS, ARE THOUGHT EN came a letter from her, in | TO ASSIST THE 4 which she told him of the lay- | TREES IN off at the mill. She had lost her job! Some of the oldest girls remained, but most of the mill was out. She Ai : \ p— did not throw herself on him in | YT Ra MN Se Cort rie pois Cex H dt discuss : i} \ i x we NIN TA panic, but discussed immediately | bb re 5 ; s EXPECTED ! ©0 «= | MAY HAVE TASK YA HELP her adjustments and plans. She | [ike EY " ME OUT ww " could find something if she Jooked| |F ? da 7 | hard; she didn’t need much money, | and girls were still hired around | because they were cheap. | She could even, couldn't she, get | a job in Port Lansing . and | they could be together? That was not like her; she | = : . SE would, ordinarily, have incontinently —-— I OY NEA EYIGE. We come. But she was afraid of him, | THE WALLS OF

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he tore up that letter and did not 2 A —By Raeburn Van Buren

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when he wrote he still said no, it| couldn't be done, it was too risky. | She thought he was overfearful, | lacking in confidence in her. She | thought he was really wrong. But Joe was right. The powers were too strong against her. The week after the shut-down of the mill, the shipyard announced complete suspension. The entire small | regiment was turned out. Joe Murray was turned out with them, and he thanked his old buddy for the

WELL -IF YOUR JAW

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ADDRESS WAS IN YOU ECT espa AN’ ALSO OUR WITH A FIST, THAT'LL BE COME IT WAS CHECKED PURE COINCIDENCE OUT AT TWELVE-FORTY-- CHAUNCEY JAUNDICE

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lift while it lasted, and went home and sat by his boarding house room window and watched the sun go down, down slowly into darkness in the west. It looked like a sun that was going down forever.

(To Be Continued) (All events, names and characters in this

story are wholly fictitious)

SO THEY SAY

If the people are as willing as the Government to use the economic knowledge gained in recent years, this recession need go no further.— President Roosevelt.

It is like trying to imagine the size of the universe, We don’t know

how far it will go.—Dr. A. J. Carlson, University of Chicago, testing equipment for curing of insanity.

My girl in the fourth grade got 142 arithmetic questions in one lesson one night last week.—Amos Fisher, Pennsylvania Amishman |

citing disadvantages of modern edu-

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