Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1938 — Page 31

FRIDAY, OCT. 7, 1938 By Williams

NO, THEY ROAMED IN HERDS ~ THEY SAY TH HERDS WAS SO RIG T™EY'D HOLD A TRAIN UP FER. HOURS | TRAFFIC LIGHTS DELAY ME LONG ENOUGH - I DON'T WANT NO BUFFALOES!

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Bad I LisTEN-1GIVE YOU MY HULA Suow TO SOUARE MY DEBT AND WHEN THOSE COPS BARGED IN ON A FAKE RAID YOU BEAT IT LIKE TH' BGG THAT You ARE wa F SOMEONE BLEW THEIR BREA AT You, You'D DNE INTO A CYCLONE CELLAR /

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MURDER TO MUSIC

By NARD JONES

CAST OF CHARACTERS — MYRNA DOMBEY Heroine. Wife of | the sensational swing band leader. | ROBERT TAIT—Hero. Newspaper pho- | togravher—detective, ANNE LESTER—Myrna’s closest friend. | DANNIE FEELEY—Officer assigned to | §nvestigate Ludden Dombey’s murder. Yesterday Tait and for the country where hiding and Tait reveals that after the | shooting he found Myrna’s bag with a | gun in it

OUT OUR WAY

SOOD NIGHT! HUNTIN' REF WORK J |

With Majer Hoople

JAKE MAE MAD ( ™' LAW ON HIM 80 MANY TIMES HE CAN SMELL A COP TH MINUTE SHEY OPEN A POLICE STATION DOOR f

HOLD EVERYTHING

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HME: TO HE'S RIGHT SOUARE A veer woeen/ VOU KNEW HE GENDARMES WERE SWOOPING DOWN ON YOu AND THE ONLY REASON FOR YOUR ALLEGED GENEROSITY WAS TO USE ME as A pupe!

GUYS LIKE YOU WHO KILLED OFF TW’ VAST HERDS OF BUFFALD THAT ROAMED THIS COUNTRY AT ONE TIME

Anne start out | Myrna may be

CHAPTER FIVE AIT turned quickly to see how Anne would receive the news that there had been a revolver in Myrna’s bag. Even in the dim light from the instrument panel he could see her face blanche, “That's—not true!” atl Yo { “It is, though,” Tait said “Did | B= or COPR 1096 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. - My ae: Kew of.” Anne] “Please, lady, why don’t ya make another stab at paying for this answered quickly. “Someone Was] thing?” vin rake her seem the guilty | BR “| FLAPPER FANNY “I hope youre right. But shoot- | ing Ludden Dombey and getting that gun into Myrna's bag befare the lichts went on would be a neat trick. And. if she wasn't implicated in some way, why has she run <3 : roi odio Anne sighed. “Heaven knows , n oS y why. But it isn't because she had anvthing to do with it. I know that. I'd bet my very life on it.” | Thev lapsed into silence, and Bob Tait pressed the coupe hard. They had long since left gasoline sta-| tions and roadside stands. Farm- | houses were growing fewer. Soon they were in a country of vast rolling hills, with an occasional tree standing eerily in the darkness. 1'd for gotten there was a coun- | trv like this,” Tait said suddenly “Reminds me of when I was a Kid But I liked it better in the daytime, then—and I think I still prefer some light on it.”

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—By Al Capp

STuL NEE TEVER YO'IS, oe Y ALLY

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By Sylvia

—By Bushmiller

SO! =~ AT LAST I'VE i FOUND You, SPIDER BROWN! -«= T WANNA FIGHT YOU !.-- JUST NAME

--I'LL TELL SPIDER BROWN RIGHT AWAY=--- I WAS JUST ON MY WAY TO RETURN HIS SWEATER?!

HOT DOG! == THERE ME

O. K, == HOW ABOUT NEXT WEEK ? ===

I WONDER IF SPIDER BROWN 118 AS TOUGH AS PEOPLE SAY, HE 1S!

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NNE shuddered mveluntarily A “Tt is lonely I wonder if 1

haven't been wrong, getting us out

OH, OH!

aid vou have, pal. I can't Th ishing out here in MiTha rushing ou oy FAST MR,

SLUGGO!

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couldnt be afraid. Oh—1I

breathed Tait fervis a wild goose chase t some valuable time.” He ed at the girl beside him. “And| or I find you were leading me along the wrong path purposely I'l your neck with my bare

“Hitch-hikers haven't got a speck of pride—they'd ride in ANY old rattietrap.”

By Lichty

GRIN AND BEAR IT

Arne was not resently of Tait's bt. She merely said, “I'm more s to find Myrma than any-

SURE! YOU GOT MEDALS BY THE TRUNKFUL. YOU BIN THRU WARS, REVOLUTIONS AN'GUM FIGHTS BY TH' DOZENS. WHY, WEVE FOUGHT EVERYTHING FROM SPERM WHALES TO BORNEO HEAD-HUNTERS!

DON'T YOU REMEMBER? YOU WERE CAPTAIN OF A MACHINE GUN COMPANY. AN THIS WAS WN KANDELABRA, SHOWING PRINCESS JADA DECORATING YOU FOR BRAVERY,

FYWESE PICTURES O° ME WEARING STRANGE UNIFORMS == I KEEP STUDYING THEM, TRYING TO RECALL SOMETHING

OF THE PAST. BUT IT'S NO LSE, IT, BUDDIE.

YOU'RE TH FIGHT- 1 INGEST BUCKAROD THAT EVER LIVED

he countryside grew more hilly had to resort time and to the car's second gear ' Anne sald at fork in the road : 5 — q x LE @ THERE'S NOTHIN Take the road to ; Hebden | ie : p ; v NOURE ASAD

ere getiing neal

1 There's a Just along here. the left In the Tait's lights end his hand wheel abruptly to road grew narrower rutted Are Jou sure weYe right?” he asked, slowing down a : a i | > This looks to me like one of those : a Covi \ Co 2) 8 N— 4 ve 7 PT ’ wk Y ; 7 iC |

next quarter of a mile picked out the fork pulled the steering ‘to the left. The and more

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roads that peter into a lane’ Anne was peering through the windshield. “I'm sure this is the road. The cottage is right up there on that hill It—" She stopped pointed “Look! There's a lilgl She's there!” increased his speed. ‘Good!’ the darker outline of I don't see an) ou sure?” We'll probably see it at the next curve in the

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—By Blosser

Ir was A CiNeH! YOUNG MR: MG GOOSEY HAS HIS NECK IN THE NOOSE --- NOW ALL WE GOTTA DO 1S PUSH HIM OFF THE

suddenly DONT EVEN MAVE © TELL J HIM IM THROWING THIS

them

voad I wonder if we ought to go the rest of foot?” Tait mused ighten her After all, she doesnt know you and I are out here after her.” Anne nodded able to drive We'll come to a and the rest of the way a footpath.” hs % & VEN 2% she loomed ahead

1thout

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out of the cottage.

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is along! “Well, then can 1 have tomorrow off? If the Vankees keep winning that'll positively be the last day of my grandmother's funeral!”

THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson

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—>By Thompson and Coll

PETROS THESE TWO ARE THE PILOT AND STEWARDESS WE WERE TO BUMP OFF BEFORE WE LEFT THAT AIRLINER

spoke, the TYence| and the road ceremony Tait {turned the ignition switch and the find the path?”|

NOS AMD ¥ VOLYLL BUT THAT GUN DOWAL, TLL PORE ! VOLE I) THAT QO&LY BEEZER - SO HARD YOULL ww

THE THIS GATE , MV #REN'S, ANID YOU ARE NO LONGER. IN THE STATES! VOU BRING FETRO -

CAYRA DOES A BIT OF FAST THINKING, AND THEN...

naeaq w STOPS YOU CAM'T SHOOT US NOW Sf WE'VE COME TO MAKE ARRAMGEMENTS FOR MISS LAVERE'S RE=

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Anne was quietly opening the! door of the car Yes But we should be able to see the light fromm here, She must have turned it out.” Tait nodded grimly, and slid out of the car behind Anne They | started through the blackness. Tait | 1d firmly to Anne's arm to keep r from stumbling, but he had to t himself be guided A host of worried thoughts fretted through Bobe Tait's head Nothing but the sheerest sort of cesperation, or a mind tempo-| rarilv unhinged. could have made| 4K a girl like Myrna seek this place.| =~ And if she were desperate, and that desperation was caused by guilt, then what would keep her from shooting them down as they stole along the path in the darkness? If she had been burning a light, as Anne insisted, and had extinguished it. then the must have seen or heard the car Suddenly further forward step ish,” he whispered. “There's no telling what that girl doe next You'd better let her know who you are Anne nodded. There in the darkness she called Myrna’s name clearly. It echoed and re-echoed Rut there was no answer from the cottage shrouded in blackness ; “That's okay.” Tait said. “At least she knows voure here. She's prob- 0-37 / ably being cautions, but she wont x {8 yA ANSWER —Wrong.

—By Martin

[CONT WORRY, TREY VE | YOO MEAN ABOUT HEARD PLENTY | MY STUDIES, AND ABOUT You .

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Tait held Anne from This is fool-

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AND NOW--IF THAT BIG DOG'S TEETH SINK INTO THE COLLAR--IF THE VIAL IS BROKEN AND GERMS RELEASED--WE WILL HAVE THOUSANDS

THOUGHT WE WERE CLEVER TO SMUGGLE INTO THIS COUNTRY A VIAL CONTAINING HUNDREDS OF THE DEADLIEST GERMS THAT

THE BOTTOMS OF | WELLS IN DavyTIMmE | SET or WRONG? |

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be trying any fireworks.”

» » » AIT stopped, clutched Anne's) ; ; arm. Unmistakably, there was) For a breathless second there was seen danger. The next thing Tait

a threshing in the brush near the shack. Yet Tait was positive that the door had not opened since the dwelling had come into their view Anne heard it. too, and stood back fearfully against him Tait reached into his pocket, clutched the revolver he had found in Myma's bag “Myrna Dombey—" he called the words suddenly and clearly. “If that’s Myrna Dombey we want to help you. If it isn’t, then come on down the path —with yor hands in the air.”

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lonly silence. Then the threshing [started again, wildly this time, and ‘they saw a figure run down the hillside, away {was a figure in trousers, unmistakably, and yet Tait dared | shoot for fear it might be Myma. “I'm—I'm afraid,” whispered Anne with & queer catch in her voice. “Lets hurry.” | She began running headlong towali the cottage, heedless of un-

from the path. It

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knew she had thrown open the door, stood staring into an even deeper blackness. “Myrna? Myrna, Anne.” . | Tait flashed a light and held it faloft. There in a corner of the

room, the flickering light was reflected in two fear-widened eyes.

(To Be Continued) (All events anf, huraste in this story are Wholly fictitious)

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