Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1939 — Page 14

. PAGE 14 ret THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _— ’ MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1939 SERIAL STORY — GRIN AND BEAR IT OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoople OUT OUR WAY By Williams

Tg i XE : 2 VOU'RE INVITIN' ME TO A ; YOU'RE TERRIBLE \ IF T HADN'T GOT HER Border : LR bl KNUCKLE “TOURNAMENT 2 was I= GERALD | TODAY ==-YOU INTERESTED IN TH' SPORT " if We EL “ LISTEN, GOOEY ~~ WHEN YOU'RE CAN'T FLATTEN ¥ HAVEN'T PUT A \ PAGE AN' TH’ BIG SALARIES : es ”, 4 EEN BOUNCIN' “TO “M' HOSPITAL IN HIM, WE GOT : | STRIKE OVER THAT OF BALL PLAYERS, ITD BRE ventu re a ~~ Jaa) BER A BANDAGE WAGON, JEST OM, BE ANOTHER { —{ PLATE FOR TEN DIGGIN’ GARDENS NOW -- Ran anh A of. Se REMEMBER wa “THAT BEFORE CAREELUL, BATTLER NOLLD. THROW 2 Bur 2 ONDER ys By OREN ARNOLD _ arr BR 1 TED TH BOW-KNOT IN GERALDw IN OUR | = BETTER CURVES f= INT GONNA MAKE THIS de, \ {. Ye AE . YER €PINE, T OFFERED TO HELL STABLE WHO a? * : THAN THAT! BETTY MARY JORDAN—Pretty young g AX TO GET IT IN SHAPE) vou ! UP ON HIM/{ Border Patrol service secretary. v \ SHERIDAN STARR--Handsome Border Patrol officer. HOPE KILDARE — Starr's fellow officer, also a bachelor. LUIS BARRO-—Mexican smuggler.

Yesterday—Over the protests of the officers, Betty Mary goes to Juarez where, the next day, she sees Barro enter a hotel. |

CHAPTER TEN

ETTY MARY fairly gasped at what the traffic policeman told

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Luis Barro! The man who had ” j \LEIRE ( ! q caused her so much excitement— | 8 Bw =X ul x 3 REET 1 v : 4: § N ) rob ah 2) and had caused the United States) , x : x" yo iit Fon i so much expense and trouble of; . A A late—had passed right before her eves! And she, catching only aj quick artist's eyeful of his car and| : clothing and general picturesque : an J by eh rg al lo look caf®:| “Lester Truftie, defendant—aged Al—arrested for alimony, 1936— = RINaSIDE AALS ht Em PA ATE) av vil 1 . \ , g : ; i" comin’ even remember his feet | Tesi Tor back anny, WEARS I deck atmens, | (6 re AN (dihalis THE ROR 9 GLORY i “I've got to see him again!” she s : > ; a : oe herself. “Just got to, some: {HOLD EVERYTHING By Clyde Lewis | LI'L ABNER iy Cons how And yet, no American girls, and} So : WE SEEN MARRYIN’ | WE. PUT ITON DAISY MUST ! : x probably no other respectable [ Call ‘ J USAM THIS AND AND MAL SY 4 gitls, dared go into El Casiojf Hou 0 don TH CA\MAWNINE HE SOLD \ ALL OUR HUSSINS LEFT | | SAM Tecolote alone, the elderly Amer-| u FUME US SKONK OIL. BE MARRIED” - jean man had warned her. |b ¥ THASS WHUT IT er : SEFOR ET) On the other hand this was jp : : L IN FO r broad daylight. Noon. Yonder aj |... ot RT SAM NOW?” mile or two was El Paso in the} | “ ) geod solid old U. S. A. And she! was a self-reliant, self-confident American business woman, not aj frail little sheltered girl. Hadn't] she. indeed, even shot and wounded a desperate alien in a Border po. Patrol battle, just two nights ago? fuss And wasn't that same pistol in her | hotel room even now? She laughed at herself.

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=” ” ® HE head waiter in El Casino; greeted her obsequiously, bow-| Fk | ing and escorting her to a promi-| po Fi R{[\ nent if tiny table near the orches-| NON » = - . 4 ie WL ay er re elve musicians were play-i | \ aE YY { | LET'EM HAVE \T, RED AN ZEKE! IT MUST BE : 4 , : i's, THEE DE an pay] ER OARS CARR'S FIGGERIN'ON _ ] 1 | TW GOV'MENT AGENTS TAKE TO a : ren SomEn WN OP ing. not the strident, terrific jaz of | 5 a | WIPIR® U8 OUT T'NIGHT! : ¢ Sot ||. COVER, MEN? | | ™ Toor. El WIS SLEEVE! swing or whatever of American; | = i a XR ; 3 5 : T' MORROW! || 1 GOT A BETTER | . EJ cafes but the soft and eternally; po 3 : Cakes . } FOR A DAM ’ - aN CES] PLAN TO GET § SA £ > | ESIC beautiful music of the Latinlands. fs — ; 8 re Ly EM OUT? N ' ee] ACK DOOR, She longed for someone to talk to. “I am an American tourist, mak- | ing sketches,” she smiled at the waiter when he came for her order. | “I dont know much about things here. Will you just serve me an ex- : : : _— cellent Spanish meal, using your x \ Noe own discretion?” | COPR..193 | ANDI PAL, “The senorita is alone? he | “Turn in your uniforms, fellows—you’ve just been farmed out to the | BEAVER asked pop and peanut concession at the Yankee Stadium! | :

“Yes. Just one meal. But I'm |g rol hungry, I warn you.” | FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia She listened dreamily to the or-| I I T AE wheel \ 4 v ; / chestra again. | IL . 8 ¥ LE - HE — | She could not know, of course 1] - Bv Bushmi that many eyes had watched her oy —By Bushmiller enter. Some with envy, some with \ DEAR-- IT NEVER Yo LISTEN, YOUNG LADVY==e = 3 S. ¥' KNOW, AUNT admiration. She had, to be sure, ; SNE \T A THOUGHT--~ {1 TOLD YOU TO BF HOME nw } FRITZ! — Ny °> Su been warned slightly about the : BUT I AM GETTIN A, EARLY=-= GO STAND + REALLY ISN'T \ Z\_ WITHOUT AN cosmopolitan nature of El Casino's BAT=-==1IM LOSIN'MY =| \N_THE CORNER ENOUGH SUPPER! y patrons, but she really had given) GIRLISH FIGGER! s PUNISHMENT == : little or no thought to how this; might affect her. ! | She was sampling the rare delights of combined avocado and tangerine salad when the orchestra began playing a gay waltz and a tenor began singing, in English It was a catchy song and he sang] it with excellent showmanship s0| that he got a swell of applause. | Betty Mary herself clapped her hands, and smiled further apprecia- £) J . DED s tion when he looked directly at her. ; . RQ \ = anvy YUE Then she felt a trifle guilty, without : : 31 08:48 reve ; AN a Le te SD NET IN ED wt ™

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—By Fred Harman

Nothing would have happened in America, probably, but that smile; GEE! I LEVER | NEVER BE SORRY, KIDDO, TM A FRIZZLE-HEADED BLONDE Mee! ! 0° x , Drobaply, but that smile} Y \ " oT HU was a mistake in Mexico. Without] A | | [DREAMED WHEN | AWD SAID TO BE WONDERFUL COMPANY. HEY, WAITER, — WE LOO) a ARITA GET ME | LEAVE I TO FIP) pr. 2 t ne STE came to her | ? | bg NE NT Sian one ME AND 3 \ 8 DON'T BE $0... WELL W A JAM? PEOPLE ; SE Ri adie, dowea d smiled. \ S 2 To : i | ) 2, | ong oF THE CELEBRATE! € lg PL OH ge A USTOMERS .

he American senorita weel dance with me?” he asked. | ¢ Fa THAT € BE A SRL,

It was all so sudden, so utterly un-| expected, that she just stared at him for a moment, her fork poised; OTS 2 in midair. He was handsome in a) ~ very dark foreign way ! “Why—why—no thank you,” she! \ \ a thank you, ge’ | $12

nmered it. “I—I dont—" i Instantly he scowled | “I thi Instanth ; led. hink I got some fever, Fan—what does it read?” Why?" He demanded. “What ees “Just ‘Spring’—and that's exactly normal” wrong with dancing with me?” :

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told and had imagined about El Ca- sR 1 == : (ER DID THAT? T= ’ RB sino ‘Tecolote raced through her st GUESS THAT SUN LOOKS LL ~= = You were ECKLES DID P You &1 How pio \ THE TRANSFUSION mind. She stared up at the singer 1 PRETTY GOOD © YOu. COMING | Lucky THAT THE I DIDN'T KNOW / > HE TAKE IS BEGINNING TO almost rudely. And he was stil § ld OVER TWE HLL | 5000 oo, Pr Ee gO Ee. ee HIM? iT? TAKE EFFECT=-=~= scowling, waiting his answer, There | | Fu eu y y > {| Force ofr, THE ? ; NOSE una scowling, waiting his answer. The : DONT THEY [ g ROAD WAS MAN IT WHEN 57 ! You WONT was but one thing to do—freeze him. / : ee oil ob Eo ; I Zo : ENOUGH © DONATE || RIBBING HIM IT, BUT HE No, thank you,” she said, quite 29 po Ye \ f BLOOD FOR A WHILE He ; i. CRIED! haughtily, and resumed eating. / J ( 47 J TRANSFUSION THAT WAS Here / : > _ He grasped her arm and said, 4 / SAVED YOUR You'll dance! ! Qe Betty Mary gasped in fresh as- A 4 i tonishment. And now, sudden fear grivped her. She did not rise. Nor even speak for a few seconds. She was too stunned. She thought wildly she might jump and run. Or scream. Or—or—or something! Anything! Then it was that the unexpected happened again to venturesome tty. Mary Jordan, who was later —By Martin

to tell herself that she was far luckier than she deserved. ; . TE NO LSE, BNANDNY TL WR! ON) BECALSE ,\F WE ARE, THERE CLGHT 3 SURE ~ L WAS “The senorita has said she does : CAN'T GET OUT OF \\ : We RE SAME, 0 BF A RIER BELOW LS ABOUT ; | O5\WNG MY EYES FOR not wish to dance with you” ai AND 1 CANT SEEM TO WAY WE CAME ? NOW «AND YOL COULD LAND ON NN Sa A OFFERENT suave masculine voice purred just] GET OVER \T 11M SONG : TL WE FOLLOWED tT A LONG WANS | I PURPOSE THAN behind her elbow. “The fact is,!| | of ey she wishes to dance with me. I RX oR WS ue ; ah, had already made the arrangements. Is it not so, senorita?” Something suddenly tightened in- a , side Betty Mary; a strange, electric. \ . \ES tenseness, of recognition. Somehow X RN she sensed, rather than saw, who , Nl NN 5 ANN

the second man was. Quite auto- RAR matically she nodded then, arose ; gnd danced away in his arms. “The senorita waltzes perfectly,” he said. “Muchas gracias, senor,” she barely murmured it. Her heart was pounding and she was conscious of —By Raeburn Van Buren

many people watching them. . “And speaks Spanish! She has . ! been. long in Mexico?" ANSWER—Analemma. It is a graduated scale designed to show \ CARE RVARD M JUST REMEMBER THIS ++ YOUSE ARE ALL SUPPOSED “No. I—I am a stranger here. the equation of time and the apparent declination of the sun for each D MEN* ? N % LUGS PANTS : T'RE HARVARD BOYS AN' THE NAMES YOUSE GOES An artist to do some sketching. I— day of the year. ¥ A NNESSY 1S X Yn oping me §GED AND B INTELLECTUAL EB a of an embarrassing situation. Thank s : x ) y — ! -YOU'R! you very much.” Questions and a BOTRAM V. BOITRAM/ AN HARRY THE KNIFE ~

“It is a rare privilege to have A served so charming a senorita,” he declared, swinging hes in a grace- nswers ful waltz improvisation of his own. Whatever his blackness of heart, G-=What counties afe memory thought Betty Mary, Luis Barro was | America. certainly an excellent dancer. A—Mexico, United States of)

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