Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1938 — Page 14

_ By Clyde Lewis : EGAD, MEN, INTHE ELECTION THAT I was ASKED TO RUN FOR SENATOR 1 DELAYED . MY DECISION AT THE REQUEST OF THE POLITICAL

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MI ISIC 8 ow / Ne | A GREAT DEAL OF SAY, MAJOR, WHY DON'T i GA A © TALK THAT 1 wouLD "YOU JUMP INTO HAPPELSTIFF/S ; 2777 Vi BE APPOINTED A » SHOES AND FINISH OUT TH RACE By NARD JONES a a | 2, 1 MEMBER OF THE FOR STATE : 7 io A As CABINET HAR-RUMF 2 SENATOR? HAP EH . FASS OF CHARACTERS a : TZ - WAS GOING GOOD. ; the I bi ’ 7 7 2 ’ . = Fay i UNTIL HIS RANT _ YEH, HOOPLE, ‘ROBERT TAIT — Hero. Newspaper | [ is 2 Uk; fo : rh ; AND WRANGLE - IT's uP TO You photographer—detective. / ; : } ™ = : Sodan h \ E FOUND THAT HIS TO COME TO / i i ; PLATFORM WAS THE AID OF

ANNE LESTER—Myrna’s closest friend. 77 , 0 2 pr ; 7 DANNIE FEELEY—Officer assigned to 7 a id) 4 Se EE J © = A BAR RAIL f YOUR party’! 4

investigate Ludden Dombey’s murder. ZZ i) Aud 7 See J o Nd ; Z , Z 5 9 : 5 / Lara} : i 4 A A KX : ; } A * haath, *

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Yesterday: When Tait calls Myrna’s 2 2 Z 7 HY EA 11. : ” ; : Nc 2 he finds she has disappeared. This ¢ 71 ¥ Z 4 GE 7, R 4 . z ; ; OT) BON } (Ep Sip lige makes the situation look extremely bad . . d= ! \ z 3 / He 5 on the eve of ihe trial. . 4 “yg FAVE you looked for a note| ZZ di . 4 oo from Myrna?” Tait asked| {777 7 2 yy Anne when he reached the apart-| P7207 7 2 VF NN ment in response to the news that| ¥r7Z 77/7 7 7 7 ))/8 74 > = == rt E Ha £ : : i Myrna Dombey hadn’t returned. 2 / 7 / / = 7 en i / hy == — ANY EN = ; #2 wath “Everywhere,” Anne said. “But{ gg 757 OY 7, = 7 KHZ A = ) BY =: A») p — ne it wouldn’t be like her to just leave % . 7 / 7 7 7 : 3 | J 2 E E x SN $ 2D tne hui, a note and run. I can't understand : 707724 ES 7 . 1 4 Seng B—\RW | = = 7 : ’ a; 2 it, Bob. She seemed in good spirits.” : Ace ad | i TN ; fp i! “Maybe thinking about the trial m—Rah! Rah!" Rah! 4 A i IEEE rma, got on her nerves. Remember, she > \ — LRAT) took a run-out powder on us be- By Sylvia ou BL fore.” : , : Trea Anne nodded. “I know. But that] ; LI'L ABNER : . : . : ly Al-Capp. 5p was when she was frightened and : : a ——— Fifi shocked. This isn't like that. She MAMMY.= \ ( CPORE CHILE-HE KNOWS | ONLY THING AHM YY WHUT? WAL ,PAPPY-TH ¥ MO’ } NICER LONG THET THMINUTE SAM { AFEERD OF, MAMMY, JY-YO' WANTS : BOY HAS REALLY | LIKE HE gon. :

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wasn’t worried about Barkley’s trial. HOW She Whew 8 Shu HI Tome D'YO RECKON \\ G/75 BACK-HE'S GOT 7° \ IS HE. MIGHT NOT ( T'MARRY WIF

and she had faith in you and Dan- ; / BE yy \ MARRY WIFE TH’ STRANGE COME. BACK?” TH S STR ANGE. // Le?

nie Feeley.” ; ! . Tait sighed. “I wish I could be . Sy , 4 : RACK T/ BE. 5 Fd sure well find the murderer. of : GPATCH 2 BUT YO MUST HAVE \\ ue ANYHOW.IT'LL Dombey before Barkley gets under) : " a \KURRIDGE.YO' MUST /44 : ; BE. LIKE HAVIN’ way. It doesn’t look too good, Anne. | } ; NOT BE AFEERD! > . : : A DOTTER~ And now with Myrna gone like : 3

th “I tell you something’s happened to her, Bob. 1 mean—somebody must be holding her.” = Tait was silent a moment. “It TT might be a stunt of Macy’s—or even WIGS of Barkley’s for that matter. If he <n SKS can make it look as if Myrng is ASKS trying to escape coming to answer ~ the charge against her—” He FANCY Liz stopped, fumbled distractedly for a cigaret. le ——— “Bob, aren’t you any nearer to knowing who might have Killed - Dombey?” : , 3 “Well . . . probably a lot nearer : ; NANCY !l!--- HAVEN'T 1 I'LL HAVE TO TEACH YOU TO than we think. That is, we've gt : b 5 TOLD YOU A DOZEN OBEY ME --- GO INTO turned up some suspicious circum- : Ae TIMES NOT To DO THE NEXT ROOM AND stances. But as for an idea as to : THAT 2? STAND IN THE who and why, we're plenty in the x, : CORNER!

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dark; Ive found a woman—and she’s mixed up with Harris Rogers me way. But I've a feeling we won’t get a step closer until we can find the screwy musician who wrote ‘the Cat’s Meow’.” E4 2 ”

E grabbed his hat and stood up. “One thing sure, and that 7 \ : Vim ee) PY is we’ve got to get going. Can you GRIN AND BEAR | Z = == stay here for a couple of days—not Ls Se CR Mat = a AN ” 5 5% 7 4 i

move out of the apartment?” i 4 LZ 3.3 ] h ’ ¥ “Yes. I'll tell the office I've 8 : obi Fhe Apggshehspce : o = Ree U8 Par OF oR mel | _pRA/E BUSI AU LLERS = cold.” : alr ; ; — Jd : “Good! Myrna may gy 10 telex, Silt A pl 351 WASHINGTON TUBBS II = oe phone you, if she can. ere’s 3 Rr ; : ; ; the off chance that she’ll show up 2 $57 Ramm E AWARE THAT SHE HAS DRAGGED WASH WYO ( — - YOU BET THEV € V T LITTLE of her ny If she does, 1 3 Xx P&H & MESS WITH HIS OLD ENEMY, BULL DAWSON, hs to x SWART CR don’t care what you do as long as : ~~ i; || CAROL SLEEPS LIKE A L06. THAT |S, # ADOLFO, HONEY, TO PLEASE you keep her here. If I run into, : ; y A ; BANDS PARADE THE STREETS “THE VOTERS anything that looks cheerful, I'll S BVER' WHGHT. give you a ring.” : It was just as he stepped out of the Claremont that Tait had a hunch—and he played it immediately. Instead of returning at once to his own room for some muchneeded sleep, he hurried down to the building of the newspaper where he had last been employed. But he did not take the elevator to the editorial rooms. Instead heswent to the classified advertising counter on the street floor. There, unrecognized by the all-night man at the counter, he wrote out the following: Fis Is THE cars MEOW, a, a nr UE = Na : Publishers of Ludden Dombey’s | I’4 HH i ; BA » Sf Hg 7 es i || Was | I | 2oio-iou0 aes. oe J vores Fos royalties for similar swing ban : ae po NE a Z oy LL VE NCE TH : ; hit. Amateurs with pet songs Lo Sy J RE 1 kU ; TO MAKE YOUR 5 ABOUT TOADSTOOL gr as) | eS rlease do not apply. This is an mE Be \ / FOOTBALL DUEL __ : a appeal to professionals who feel N ¥ Bios : FL : am SOMETHING they are as good as Dombey 1] aR 8 AY AAT : i ” COLOBE AL was. Address Box—. NSE A 3 V : | Ti “I want that in the Personals i gf SN lato AY ; LD 1 column,” Tait said. “Run it until z EY J. Li Sy \ CN = a if I order it canceled.” He started Lid Tl es A Nog | , | | away, then returned. “Mind if I : : ? yc: 1 use your ’phone?” J] 2 i. “Help yourself.” ‘| “The sooner we pretend we're leaving, Henry, the sooner theyll 2 8» =» = serve the food!”

“We're rentin’ THIS suit. This is gonta be one party where I won't : : have to hunt for you at intermission.” : —

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sleepy and exasperated voice of| | ; : Feeley answered. “What's up?” | | {F WE PAIL TWO CENTS PER “This is Tait, Dannie.” bo KILOWATT HOUR FOR. ENERGY IGHTING DESPERATELY TO RETAIN ! : : | J ITH HIS LAST OUNCE OF CON ~ : H BUT,JACK. [F CONSCIOUSNESS UNTIL HE CAN: SCIoUsS STRENGTH, WHITEY = £2 SHURT!I E

“Yes,” Bob. Anything new?” FURNISHED BY TH oO “ : E SUN BRING HIS PLANE DOWN, WHITEY'S CON- : : MANAGES TO CUT HIS MOTOR AND Not much. But I'm going to| | . v 3 ) I S - U going THE EARTH'S INDEBTEDNESS TROL 1S SHEER INSTINC Tee WN TOO A LEVEL su

hit the hay for several hours and| { - I want to keep you posted. I've| } SINCE THE DAWN OF CIVILI- ; GOTTA BRING... MY

found the girl with the perfume.| [EN ZATION WOULD AMOUNT TO ha PASSENGERS Nw. Be She’s Nelda Starr, lives in 1009] § Gi A HO, OOO, OOO, OOO . nN SAFE... = at the Beresford Tower. And she’s| § i Hp os ? 200, “ON : SS a friend of Rogers’. I met her to-| | . ® \ 2 night at the Golden Bowl, and went with her to the Beresford. Rogers was there.” : “The devil you say! Ill have the dame tailed from now on.” “Might be a good idea. And I've had a hunch. I'm advertising in the Personals column for our screwy swing song composer. I'm saying that the publishers of the

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“Sounds goofy to me. He’ll never : . : - : FOR TH LAST TIME ,1 DONT CARE WHO WHERE'D THAT UY GO? BEVEL: GOCO OLD 2g WL

bite.” \ S : = “It’s just a hunch, Dannie. I : ve of : NARE INOW GO AWAY , WILLYA PAL 2 COME BACK HERE! : HAT RANDY 1.9] ANDY ts ! 3 < Nou now} PF WHAT 2 we

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if this bird is as full of ego as I think he is he may bite.” = ~~. When he had allowed the detective to go back to bed Tait turnea to the attendant. “If I get an answer to that can you telephone me immediately a Elwood 67502” “Of course.” > . As Bob left the newspaper building he was literally in a doze, fatigued from loss of sleep and energy—and worry over Myrna. His inclination was to try to find her,

but he knew that he was too dead| N° a bi : gone to even think. He had dared E EN NN - ar not tell Dannie Feeley that Myrna A \ = A

was gone. a It would rave made : OW ) ; : Feeley wild, and in panic he ; TOM ; 2 : - —————————————— might have started a police search “9 wo : 'S HEIGHT & I-1'M SORRY |-1 JUST COULDN'T HELP IT. 1} HARD FOR--ME +-SEEING HIM GO ON and told the world. . ANE ©OOPR. 1938 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. : He 2 s oo R ER YOU SEE <I WAS HIS NURSE WHEN HE WAS : rE ALI dey AN : Tait felt that if Myrna was being I SWER—By. multiplying the circumference of an elephant’s track by ih A LITTLE BOY--- AND SINCE HE WAS LEFT AN LAST-+- HIS HEART: IS WEAK AND HE WON" held against her will she was| Wo, the approximate height at the shoulders can be determined. I ORPHAN--|'VE BEEN HIS HOUSE -KEEPER-~ STOP LONG ENOUGH TO GIVE ITACHANCE relatively safe, for the killer of —=T — . SEH CHILD | | VE COME TO FEEL ALMOST=-AS IF HE WERE : Li - Dombey would not be likely to doithe classified department of the most hysterical. - “Keep your chin a | | MY OWN — : away with the suspect surest to newspaper. - "|up,” Tait pleaded. “I think I'm . ; Se stand between him and the chair.| “We have an answer to your no-|on the track of something.” The plan was probably to hold her tice -in the Personals column, sir,”| In a few moments a telegraph until the police and the newspapers said a pleasant voice. “You request- messenger was at the door. He Yrs in full cry then let her beled that we telephone you.’ handed Tait a white envelope, adound. ee In amazement Bob realized that dressed to a newspe numSomehow he made it to his apart~ he had slept through the day and ber in an ee or long, ole mm 1 hes around into the. next night. “Send it to/fingers trembled as he took it. In|} him, e ces me by messenger, will you please?” that smudged envelope might well 2 = = He switched’ on the light and|be incased the solution to the mur- + JIE was startled by the scream- looked at the clock. It was almostider of the tom .of the swing cats. ing of his telephone. The'10! In a frenzy he telephoned In it might be Myrna’s freedom, - room was still in darkness. Mut-|Anne Lester. “Have you heard from| ni”

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