Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1939 — Page 30

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES FRIDAY, MAY, 12, 1939

PAGE 30 | GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty| OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoople OUT OUR WAY By Williams |

SERIAL STORY—

DATE WITH

HAR-RUME: THE NAME IS \| _/ TLL TELL YOU, WHY I CAN \ [ YEH, BUT | WELL, ILL \/ THATS RIGRT--y A MATOR AMOS BARNABY HOOPLE! || BUY STOCK IN TH’ NEW \/ YOU AIN'T | LIVE LIKE | IF YOU'RE BORN “TEAM OF BUD'N' OUD, LEFT HMeMM-Mual USED TO BE A y { FOUNDRY THEY'RE BUILDIN LIVIN! THAT WHEN {| WITH TH SAVIN’ ) THEY ASKED 7 — 1 == BECAUSE WHEN I GETA | WHY, TH | I'M OLD, HABIT, YOU DIE TN a reas LT oe d INST RIMENT/L} RAISE I SAVE IT--1 GOT | CAVE MEN | BECAUSE | WITH IT --AND TO BORROW FOR “THE LET ME SOUND Twa. DO -MI=SOL= || ALONG BEFORE I GOT TH' | LIVED I WON'T YOUR HEIRS LIVE

JUST TELL DUGAN & DIXON THAT BUD, OF THE ORPHEUM

Wi

SOAR

LT SST J

D A N G E R SKITav THERE'S AFEWSTRNGS || DO! BRR-R-RUMP! ARE You RAISE, SO == WELL, RIGHT | BETTER HAVE ANY- Kh. WITH IT! MISSING, AN' “TH' BELLIS 2] FAMILIAR WITH THE MISERERE? NOW YOU'RE WEARING A [ THAN THING --BUT CRACKED A BIT, BUT DUGAN'S (7 SUIT THAT I WOULD You SO WILL HE, HIS HEIRS WILL GOT A STRONG BACK AN' HE 7 USE FOR SUNDAYS DO! BECAUSE HAVE TO WAIT.... |,

By HELEN WORDEN

CAST OF CHARACTERS DUKE MARTIN «— Suave night club gangster.

VOICE wa WILL YA SEE THEY & NEL VENIR, AN! 2 GIT IT, MISTER STOOPLE ¢ CHE DESIA, AM !

CAN BEAT ENOUGH NOISE OUT 8 ae! che La Marve, P\ FOR YEARS! MINE WOULDNT-~} OF IT TO DROWN OUT DIXON'S OGNORA, E TaRpyp Py TUG YO TRY £ : n 1 . f cHE DESA MORIR j 0

Yesterday—Mary Franklin, society edi >" 1 o tor, drops in at Duke's party, asks SE 2 Na \ 3 4 where Janice French is. He denies oR Nz X poD0o, LEONORA: knowing. Mary phones her office and § \ aS ; as she calls, Duke puts in a call too, \ Sse ~~ APDIO, APDIO! N Ax

but there is no answer,

CHAPTER THREE

HE sleet, whipped by a strong wind, shrouded lower New York Empty office buildings loomed like gigantic tombstones in the half-dusk of early night, their blackness strengthened by the thousand lights which twinkied from the New York Morning Gazette, The howling darkness made the hustle and bustle of the big newspaper seem doubly cheerful. People stood about in the lobby talking. Elevators shot up and down the shafts. Messenger boys stalked back and forth, their rubber ponchos gleaming with melting “No, ma'am you can't help today—I'm too busy!" "LI'L ABNER sleet and from the lower floors of - —; 2 A Corn ;

it

2 Jawiuans | vs

4 Po 2 \ 7 " lil ir X | ww ates Sar are "THE POOR RICH GUY

OTES BY DISTANCE MADE MORE SWEET=

2 > li Se GOPR. 1939 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. § PAT. OFF. Po)

Janer os the rumbling of VERYTHING By Clyde Lewis y ji Duper me wm MOLD EVERY YOU JUST Tok WWE DELIVER ] ( LOOKIT THET | GOT PENCIL A HALF MILE DOWN THE TRACKS: THAR'LL. YOU CAN HAVE. Re : } MISSED LI'L JP HIS MAMMY | HAM YET, PURTY SIGNS | | USE TO PICK TEETH] fu os - | | BE. SEVEN GALS THE MOST, MY On the 12th floor the click of ABNER, BOYS f DONE SAID | MY PAL. IF AH KIN READ WE MAKE UM COPY THE WORD, THEN THET J CHEAP AN’ ONLY TWO © PAL- I'LL. TAKE ' typewriters proclaimed the location HE'S ON § WE COULD / TRAIN CAN NUMBAHS - IT CAYS | OF WORD UNDER Us. HOW IS WE THE. THREE. FATTES » of the editorial offices. At inter- > THET TRAIN HAVE TH’ FOLLY TRACK \*SEVEN*-AN' *ONE *SEVEN"AN’ ASK GONNA DIVIDE ONES. vals the pounding of keys was punc- T'NOO YAWK. /DOLLAH EF WE | TO NOO YAWK | DOLLAH"~HM-WONDER | SOME EDUCATED ‘EM EVEN? pr by cries Re Coby!" as this ————— DELIVERED THIS | WHY CAN'T WEY WHUT YO' GITS SEVEN | FELLA TO READ DUNNO BE or ars oh utried. 10 or HAM T' HIM. J LE'S GO. A OF FO'ONE DOLLAH? 4 UM TO Us. WHA Oo porter or that one ! Y eq ( OVERLAND FREIGM Ax am yp " make a deadline. The first edition 0. niGHY 2 WITH UM AFTER was going to press in 10 minutes -—_— “Give me all the ad you've got Hl -€7 Ran 4 45 Jo "Ary 1 ene / Fo on Janice French Tom Ladd stu R / i A : his head out from the managing /: PN editor's office and then drew it back i FA just as suddenly / Ae J ARC He could do more things at the L RAN same time than any juggler who'd 2 NN . ever spun plates at a circus side- CEN A show. Here was a queer man with #4 \ 2 a singular career. It was inevitable 2s | LN that he would eventually land on Co Tan | t a newspaper p In hit ae Sos hi something Ni RED RYDER —By Fradkiarman the hawk in his handsome face, he : been managing editor of the | [ICOME HOME AND FIND MY YOU GONE THEN WHAT P we = [IF TH' CREEK WASHED TH' ME GET HELP--- BUILD LOOKS LIKE OUR FIRS B) De five vears. Before that he a CABIN BURNED TOWN LONG TIME, 1 SUPPOSE TH® You GUESSLM, CABIN AWAY AFTER TH' NEW HOUSE, BLT TO BUILD A NEW CABIN TLE ' been city editor and before that AND YOU SAY TH' CATTLE RED RYDER! | | CREEK OVER FLOWED!E RED RYDER! WIND BLEW OFF TH’ ROOF, ll LIGHTNING STRIKE'M | | BEAVER / En editor. He seldom talked GOT LOST: HOW'D ITALL [| RAIN QLOUVD y ! HOW COME TH' BURNED AN' BURN UM DOWN-=+| I = RAIN CLOUD THINK Se am Av Te Den # wat OLD === BIG TIMBERS ¢ SO ME JUST SIT AN’ MEBBE You BETTER BO ary, Juve BR are a WIND COME WAR Phe WAI T=== LIKE THIS! CATCHUM B16 DEVIL known that he'd gone to Harvard BLOW OF Ee p— CAT FRET oe ar ‘ and that he'd shipped as a sailor ROOF + THEN ( COME EVER Mien? to the Orient the year he left col |= 2 ’ : i lege fo : D™ He'd written for pulps, edited a : housewife’s magazine (he never . mentioned this) and once, when he was broke, composed menus for a physical culture restaurant. He'd “ also slept on park benches and | x N : : ’ stood in bread lines COPR. 1939 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. 8.12 & 4 4 “Why don’t you give me half the road, you big bully!” OW ived in a bachelor = AppED FE RE IN Oe Ne ee | ALAPPER FANNY By Sylvia apartment on lower Fifth . Ave, drove a low-slung black roadster, and smoked a pipe. The newspaper game suited his adventurous pS Y BR ae philosophy He interested himself STOP THAT RAYS Ng SY ‘ BR . a news. He also had You NASTY = YOURE AFTER" 2 P) a healthy temper and a strong voice oLP A . ¥ 1 NAIC Way and Chesterfieldian the next 1) g body in the office but himself knew > he was in love with Mary, that is fa SA a mn ASE en evervbody except Mary +) - ’ This evening, returning to his or mf swivel chair, he pressed a telephone ARMA MAREE — to his ear and mouth with his left . e = hand, okaved copy with his right Se ; and shoved a desk drawer shut with #7 OL ’ his right foot, the while bellowing w— into the receiver, “What do these fool society girls mean by playing | a Come 14101, Extad Praters Renate tne around with veneered hoodiums like {Voge ————— mo Duke Martin? Understand this WASHINGTON TUBBS II —By Crane . Mary! Janice French's family have , - asked the police to make a secret [wy \ CONFOUNDED POLICE THINK WASH AURDERED WONDERFUL WHY, YOU HAVE NO | (Tunes WAVE BEEN RATHER / THEN WOULL X HA!WE \ BUT THIS \ PURELY CIRCUMSTANTIAL! search for her. Maybe the Duke re | OLD SPLENDIX, T'S PREPOSTEROUS! WE'LL IDEA HOW TICKLED WASH WILL | | Tey ING, PERHAPS, BUT BE INTERESTED \SUSPECTED | EVIDENCE, WITHIN THE HOUR, I knows where she is. Maybe he HE ES, STAND BY THE BOY THRU THICK AND BE! HE WAS AFRAID YOU WERE | | WE HAVE THE UTMOST @/ TO KNOW THAT * EASY. WERE | HOPE TO PROVE THAT . doesn’t Somebody knows. Half EASY: THIN. TLL HIRE THE BEST LAWYERS ABOUT TO GIVE HIM THE FAITH IN WASH. HIS "FATHER" AND DREADFULLY | WASH \S ABSOLUTELY | the town may know. but the Ga- . N THE LAND! J'LL=— BLAZES! fg GISTE Zn THAT FAN-DANCER WORRIED. INNOCENT. gette doesn't know. Get the story!” Nl THATS GREAT WERE PHONIES, Jamming up the receiver, Ladd pn) | MR. AKER! ( WRED BY THE . began pounding the desk Bring | \ Ee » me the clips on Janice French, TO RUIN WIM : Pete.” he yelled to a scurrying office | WITH YOu. : boy, “and make it snappy Then 5 ay | he settled back in his chair. Halt %. Sandie 8 . an hour later, Ladd, still excitedly % PE Le ELE BE | put his pipe, pressed a buzzer , Fa marked “City Editor ” ZZ J Padre Cros he ne, vy “Oh, she'll prob’ly turn out to be a beauty. I was the same kind of 3 | . looked inquiringly through the door, little fatty at her age.” “I want to talk to you about | 5. j

Bin? Janice 41S CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson |

® = 8 ~ = a, AE LAG

a ts Z ; \ \ h ROSSIE was thin with a long i » pr — NEAR 0 a » Na \ . y RRR C sallow face, prominent nose = ONE TREE ANSWER TRUE I HAVEN'T TIME HERE'S A Ne x 3 3 sHouLo Une large and bony, and great shagey. IF : AA ~ OR ‘FALSE "/ TO BOTHER, YOUNG SIMPLER QUESTION | JERE STOP AND VA sandy evebrows | CA AA KE DO You MAN / DO THINGS EVER _ASNRRS ANSWER, 3. ‘Janice is still missing.” said { - v ~) MILLION ARD ar FOOLISH / Crossie briefly, draping his’ lanky ( MATCHES... PREC TRUE Br’ MAN ie RT , To, opr dhe eye oi Toms Dee | @ RIT ARE 5 AN APPOINTMENT WITH TEETH ARE, / hat's y ant to talk to] fi 7 .. AMA BEING WITH MY IST | T ILL ) you. A grand story here if we can| ji ONE TCH INITIATED T TE = / ’ get at the bottom of it. Where's J : J] CAN DESTROY A IN A Eo that office boy with those clips? ~~ BIG El Pete ducked in, dropped an en- BH wav / '\ 7 velope marked “Janice French” on ’ the desk and sidled out | / “Now here's a society girl who's e ] \ fallen for a Killer,” co Tom, % 9%... QC : G forgetting, in his fren: over the | / iy hb \ story, the sarcastic remark he was rf : about to fling at Pete. “She's easy wan Nh to look at. She's r ! she’s { Ja \ corn 1939 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. TM REC U.S. PAT OFF. sr Jf n for thrills 2 yt 5 guy like Martin, Big money to him BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES =By Martin But how are we going to prove it? : . Jet ABOUT | [YOUR BROTHER OVO THE \ he d 3 > N ITER NOT TM REALLY SORRY = 1 MEAN : Now she disappears SO what He o! YO RE SE bi oN AR » [The WARN 7 S\PPEO Out WI\TROUT SAME: TRANG AND AREY paced nervously up and down. “This = en > #3 CALSE HANDY AN' 1 GWG YOU ANY NOTICE | BUT WHEN | | ME ROLOING TRE SAG, story isnt going to Keep 0 ACK, ! ARE. 1 NO MN BROTHER CAME WELL = THE FOLL OF UNPAID Bw Crossie unwound his arms and iN LONDON, 5. TUR IBN NEASRTIIME — MOOD FOR A SITUATION WAS UNBEARABLE AND 1 held out a hand. “Let's have a ENGLAND TC pn Fe » ; SCOLOWN' THABORT MN SLIPPING OFF WOLLD Jook at the clips He began Cr ~ EERE ¢ (Sa | BE WWE MOST SMALE WAN or shuffling through the newspaper ABOUT 2,000 ’ 2 OR accounts of Janice's activities. “De- UMBRELLAS OW A 2 but cost $50000" he read in a ARE TURNED IN WY ig An FAMILY mowotone. “She was busy as the ANNUALLY AT T™E \ adnan. devil going to theater parties and LOST PROPERTY fl ET, ol —t dances that winter. Hm, now OFFICE or . known as ‘Playgirl of Society! Got — fy aa a home on Fifth Avenue. Pilots her -— FARES ves own plane. Drives like the old NN ) ) = ! : NATIONAL PARKS Nick, according to the number of \\ GINEN IN CORRECT times she's been arrested for speed- = ROER ing. Some girl, I'd sav.” SAND << OF SIZE 7 i “Too wild,” said Tom briefly ! aH YOSENI 7 &= Tar *I've run into her ocecasionally.] o S\N J ROCKY MOUNT7A/N | | ABBIE AN' SLATS Darned pretty but reckless. Always] NN XD s ! YELLOWSTONE co thought she'd make a good story| ...- eT Ja “12 \ RUIRRCIRIE N-NO TOMATO EVER DROVE | | C-CHEE #7 |-) GET IT NOW- AND I'M SURE -B-BUT MADAME POMPY-DOOR /// S-SHE some time. But that's not helping! ANSWER—No. Yellowstone, 3426 square miles; Yosemite, 1150 : We WITH NO OTHER TOMATO AN AUDREY 1S ON ON LE LN D4 Ns us now | square miles; Rocky Mountain, 400 square miles. av Fa LIKE THAT 2207 Ve “There are several courses to pur- ey x GC : sue in this story,” Crossie said ‘ : . wa TEAS IAN 15) Lan | ) ’ calmly. “I think the best approach Questions and | Tex, to Panama, has been) [fie shat Sif yo Vv.’ lies through your society depart- completed? 3 of es WEF vine § GS » a ment. Where is Mary Franklin?” | A—Nearly one-half. /, PE y '] A A COR The phone buzzed on Tom's desk Answe rs Q—In which section of Alaska is e ¥ ' En RI Bo ; : . “This is Mary Franklin calling from Q-—Where is the steamship “Bel 3 Sepa Cie deg : Fw. J Rhinelander 4-7234" came Mary's! _ > steamship “Bel= the greatest amount of gold pro- oa and) Bei agitated voice before Tom could say SiC" that was used to transport|guceq? RL a en “Hello.” “A man named Nick Hart {roops during the war, now operat-| A_Nearly 75 per cent of the! r Po —rEpaiy 7 po ; has just come into this apartment. | ing? production comes from lodes in| \ ~~ 4 A km y Sen] The PO Yoiet stopped] A= was renamed “Belgenland,”| southeastern Alaska. AE eo), =r 7) She A — = a5 ‘and later “Col ’ y ii Ladd heard the receiver crash to in 1936 for a a Was Sola} Q—How many postal cards are - —~— -— the floor. sey of Glasgow 8 {sold by the Postoffice annually? =. -— (T Be Continued A—In the fiscal year 1938 there ————T EE { events characters in this story Q--How much of the projected were 2,186,720,600 post cards issued a 1 are | fictitious.) inter-American highway from La-|to postmasters, — Bo Basa : . wat Faun REVEL ROE er Fins a de « ¥ s ERY x : NC oe A 2 L . Pris es : ; J : TN i —- de