Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1938 — Page 15

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1938

SERIAL STORY— HOLD EVERYTHING OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoople

. : ) A A PAL OF MINE APPENDICITI®S 18 CRAWFORD JOHNSON | == GOOD GOSH/§ ILL GIT. § T IS Man £| |] wap Aran WN NOTH THESE MAD A PAIN IN HIS g 1 NEVER A LICKIN’ ’ bY HIS SIDE, RIGHT OAYS / BEFORE LEFT SIDE ONCE BE Nr cy | FERS ED 3 WHERE OLD SPOOK THEY HAD A RUN AFTER HE'D SWALLOWED Nr J M Lf =) 2 HAS MIS, AND ON FACE-LIFTING A GOLD TOOTH wa THEY oe urray : : \* "WHEN THE ETHER THEY GAVE YOU SUNK FOUR SHAFTS Tr : N | PZ WORE OFF THEY A TWO=- MONTHS INTO HA BEFORE FOR FEAR 2 DRIVER MIGHT By William Corcoran 7) HAD QUARRIED (7| STRETCH BETWEEN THEY MIT PAY. DIRT/ 5 : \ BE ASLEEP AN. ie : ENOUGH STONE [| RIDES IN A HOSPITAL |\ SLIP YER SNAPPERS oA NoPE “NOPE - JOE MURRAY bre ren is, Hew A OuT OF HIM TO SCOOTER wu NOW OUT, MAJOR, AND : ts = =\ THE WNT —= : ~ | Pave A Terrace! ) [ 11s ony A GIVE YER STORE = : = —————— —

jobs, girls, : 3 HELEN-Fell in love—hard—once. _ g- ti MATTER OF MOLARS “TH' TERRY MALLOW—Found love—and a : ; = EiGHT weeks! ROLL cALL/ kept it! : 5 ) - , s o 3 : ; \ { -

Yesterday—One erisis follows another | ; when Terry is laid off and then Joe is | : A out as the shipyards close. It looks like : al: 7 x K

the sun is going down forever.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

ERRY sent him money out of what had been saved as soon as she heard form him. It was railroad fare, in case he lacked it. Come home! Come home, come | home this minute to Terry! He went around with the money | in his pocket, thinking, not an- | swering. What he was thinking | vou might know without being told. Sinister thoughts, dangerous 7,7 thoughts. Both of them jobless. Their home, finished. He pookk (3 home again, back to the old home, OW YOU a burden and a drain on them. : LL) / 787 She returning to her home, to the | n+ , BY FEELIN, MATOR 2 / 7 7 7 —— grim servitude it was. He would ” 4 OP. $038 1. MEA YAM XO NY, - : — call on her,” visit her in that hos- | “What do ya mean, ‘Come in an’ have a chair'?—We're after the " tile, triumphant household, while | piano this time, Buddy!” LI'L ABNER

they begrudged him the air he ‘ breathed there. | : QR NAME XT THIS IS ALLUS HAS PEEThere was a boiling and a burst- | FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia T RARNABY BLL 27 MIRACULOUS" KOOLYAR DREAMS ing in Joe Murray. A berserk sen- | § YOu . ’ EVERY SINGLE AFTER AH GITS MAH dering of the bonds of impotence. | A THING THAT HOW Tt, Be he wrong, be right, he could not | ; 25 GIVES ME SULPHUR go back. There was no clear duty rs > ! CAME AN’ MOLASSES. to guide him, no sure responsibility i u NEVAH FAILS F”

to hold him. He did not scorn oF > : 4 pt ne Terry's pleading, but he had no pl. 3 5 Aan : Ti means to grant her wish, to keep | BEFO 7 : El Io¥ Y MOLASSES: 4 her at all. Life had taken her from \¢ SQ A OR ZF - A : HM - him. If, in the ultimate shuffle and | + X 4 ~ { OA 7 wy ” » AE final deal, she was lost to him . , \ Xv tej N\ were better for her. Even to p ms 7 Tommy Withers, who had money : »

and substance, and whom Terry, a = A ) ; 3 now that she was a woman firmly : : L$ STON on her feet, could surely and ade- - ! - g quately handle. Even unto Tommy + Pod \ : S x LL]

Withers. . . . \ N

= » = 3 ’ OE put the money, excepting SE b . pH five doliars, into an envelope | [FEE : with a note saying he was head- | ing west to no known destination, | MYRA NORTH, SPECIAL NURSE and he wrote Terry's name and | soll / ioe kl ~~ I MUST ADMIT, LEW, THAT I'D SUGGEST YOU MINIGLE WITH sold ALL RIGHT, LEW = I'M JEWELED BROOCH MOST M* 1 SEE/ THE CENTER | 4 Bint , on pe envelope and | i : SCARCELY RECOGNIZE CROWD AND LEAVE BUILDING SN READY, SAY... AM 1 TO PORTANT ITEM OF ATTIRE. “BRILLIANT 1S REALLY A mailed it. en he went down | | Vm. LIKE SIGHT- SEEING VISITOR. oe WEAR “THAT BALIBLE SAME 1S CUNNINGLY DEVISED LENS, WHEN YOU PRESS | to the railroad yards and swung| ? al y ” THEN TARE BUS TO BAY Hl ¢ : Ee >the : ing | ] n 2 Y LONG pti TOO? CANDID CAMERA! "MS HOPE THE SAFETY CLASP YOU aboard an empty boxcar pulling | CAFE CALLED "PURPLE SLIPPER" | = : YOU CATCH FACE OF MUMBER. © | SNAP THE PICTURE,

out in a freight train heading west. | . = ee RD.Sky iii OVE spy! THAT'S REALLY CLEVER!

It was that night Terry arrived | at his boarding house, to find him | gone. And yet another time the Mur- | ays at home were to hear from | their Joe from all parts of the : NH nation. Infrequently, meagerly, | N a word came from him, rarely with | et fd ¥ any real news, never with an ad- Hi : wh, dress to reply to. He wrote merely | |. ; y ? Sb to assure them he was alive, He | 4-19 lle us never made mention of Terry. RR

How he lived no man can tell,| “If you gotta knock it out of bounds, knock it toward town. 1 just be . AN] ER WA v re 1

even those who have done it | g i : me y . 8 8 > themselves. It is one of those) remembered the family sent me to the store

small miracles of existence. He | . found a vast company over the GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty LL fOBOY, IT WORKED! JUST AS IM | YOURE [CAPTAIN EASY, DEPUTY SHERIFF. land performing the miracle daily, SY ? : ' = FTEEN FORCED TO CLOSE TH' TOPSY / UNDER V7 J A DOZEN MORE DEPUTIES AND as Doormifiz 5 muscle Cais, ] FEL | I i TURWY, THIS SUCKER PAYS / ARREST |AND WHOI| pg, (cE ARE OUTSIDE. ¥ YOU os hie, Je learmed Sro when) = ME $15,000 FOR IT. SLAUGHTER | THE SAN MAKE A FALSE MOVE WE WAVE quick K ARE INSTRUCTIONS TO PLU The way of the yards and jun- y= yo gles; a tiny fire, in a gully or under a culvert in the rain with a battered pot boiling . . . scraps of food garnered and begged and pilfered . . . the company of castoffs of every degree through the night, huddled, with newspapers stuffed in the clothes, close to the blaze. In the morning a slow freight trundling through, or a long trek on the highway, with few speeding motorists risking a

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honest work, and a chance to keep get the honorary degree!” 7k \../’ TO CALL -- HE'S B16 Here, SNOOKER - on WELL You SAID ? & body and soul together. AND FAT AND NEEDS | TAKE THIS TO TuREY -DID You eAT J G!Ve IT TO TURD 4 |

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N— . Once on the national highway in| THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson LOTS OF CAKE vl ol THE Towed - B rdaT caKE? AND HE WASN'T

a central state Joe approached al roadside gas station and lunch stand | Zan BARBARY APE. ™ “3 A claNEEe MY DRESS just about dusk. He had pulled out | L 2 mW JF] d = I , of the city behind him early in the | FOUND ON THE ts : “ k att wy) = J afternoon; it was an important city, | ROCK OF GIBRALTAR, ; on 1 | / SRE A & : x 7) / a and the dusk was a grayness| 1S ELIRDPE'S ONLY \g \ gal A : 8 | A ; W streaked with the streaming light of B Pn : WN gf] AEH ASE / - hl) incessant traffic, cars that whirled a : 2 es A "= - Za Z\ V/A Td upon one blindingly and were gone | N a 4) im ff bh in a blow of wind and fumes and | 1\0 > — es : 4 a

humming tires on concrete. . a 2 2 i 4 big | | » Joe braced the restaurant keeper : Ga ww ; Yr —

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woman, an elderly woman, gray- | /} haired and busy and thin, with the | q . ERR xs look of one who has raised her chil- : 4 ht: BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES wr Niel SEE BABE ..\T [| HORACE OWOWA [veel Ta’ (BABE LETS MAKE UP OLR (OW, NES «TX WOLD | AN’ WHAT 1 LIKE ABOUT \T 16,1 KNOW DOGGONE WELL |

dren and seen them go, and now od i - s her time with her patient rt / y ¥ ; bines per lime Xin be feuen | SYLVANIA SEEMS TO ME] GET TH FLOORS] FURNRURE CAN | | MINDS ABOUT TH' WEDDING! | | 00 ‘AWAY WITH EXPENSE, | TH TUTTE AN’ SEVERAL OTHERS ARE PLANNIN’ they ran the stand and the station o ue ! | 'S THE ONLY NOURE GETTWG| \N OLR BE MOVED WN WE'VE GOTTA DEC\DE SOME- $0 MuCw Yoo | ON DOIN’ A LOT OF ENTERTAINING AN' THEN 'VE between tending the fields and the EAT ky ; STATE IN ALONG GRAND J APARTMENT [7] ANY TIME TIME , AN’ YOU'LL. WANE TO FLUSHING [Fl DONE FAR TOO MUCH ALREADY = GEE ,\F WE er BY : E LL.S | WAXED ? AOMIT TH' WEDDING NN A ; : 0 WERE MARRIED IN A PLANE IT'D AL) BE OVER stock. : Pes | ™ +S. PLANE WOULD SURE Z, en py -. we JO8’ LIKE

OE stood ih the doorway of the BEARING 0 we £0 SWMPLIFY A LOT OF TH\NGS

tiny shack housing the restau- id Si THE NAME i J, S vant and spoke his ritual, and he| po oF Is \ —— was surprised at its reception. | a ; ee p The woman straightened up from | the stove, the old pot-bellied stove | on which was lavished for mere | heat lengths of beautiful native oak | and hickory. She looked at Joe quickly, almost guiltily in all seem- | ing, and she told him to come in,

to sit down, pear the neat, to wait | : : i Zz k 5 ing for him. SOM : Reo = oe at dom, Se wes Be oman. | ECL ROPE. 1938 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REQ. U. § PAT. OFF, barrassed. More oddly. fhe woman | seemed embarrassed. There was a | : EE fo fing le & presence that you HAUNCEY | PP GLAD HEAR IT/ AN’ LAST YEAR'S 7 JUNIPER! OLD JAUNDICE'LL gus, Jaclifie JIe 3 presence that you | | EAT INTER-ALLEY LIGHTWEIGHT \ rauMPIN. JUNIPERYY Y( 1Ave YouNG scrap could Jot place. | ONE STAR OUT OF Every CHAMPEEN O' NEW YORK WAS Tit BIG BOSS HnsseLr | PLE RUN OUTA umping down a deep din of sew | EXPO AS 2 | SLATS SCRAPPLE-™€ FIRST } ’ \,, 17s JASON JAUNDICE TOWN FOR THIS #/ ¥ Com

lumping down a deep dish of stew | BD and full of nourishment. “1|_ OF PLANETS, THE SAME AS APRLE

guess you can make out on that” | DOES OUR OWN STAR, =) a 8 “ ' THE OLD MAN'S EYE’ A _ wo rg ! gan, sald Joe In fi tr i THE SUN. rN ~ : Z < ‘ ” , . |] } \ > ] in tone. “I'm mighty grateful.” | StRwiC : A a =r’ : : . S Jl ( Re made an indefinite sound. | SORA. Tom By NEA Loe. 4-18 ih Je ; / La \ and he fell to eating without delay. | She sat down in a rocking chair can't feed them all. They come 3nd The old woman came back presentnear the fire and watched him eat. | 1 harden my heart and I turn them !ly and gave him a sack of tobocco There was something, and he did| =. {and cigaret papers, and she smiled. not know what it was, Hy ; . He thanked her, wishing he could “I supose you have a lot of | She got up without saying any-|say something more. Then he went fellows asking for a meal?” Joe|thing more and went into the other|on. He saw her watching him from said. room to her cook stove, where she|the window as he went up. the road. “Fellows?” she said, and her |shook down the fire vigorously and| He went on, alone. breath kind of caught. “Yes. And |put on coal and shoveled ashes. girls too.” “They're always coming,| He sat there in the warmth, (To Be Continued) and I've fed so many of them. I'thinking, watchig the gray mist, ' (All events names Shi characters in this , ; > Sia MOR Sal

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