Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1939 — Page 14

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SERIAL STORY— | GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichy| OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Williams \ : “| 7 WELLADAY. DUGAN, AY LAD, T4is WHAT KEY KEYES “THAT ) y WE KIN ALWAYS ’ i DATE WITH x 3 < Bf] ARCHLUTE WAS GIVEN TO ME IN IS THAT, AIN'T A KEY : SCARE UP ONE W | SX ; Fl OMSK BY A POOR MUIZHIR OVER = MAJOR? 1 VWATHATS TW’ = EX 1 A / OR TWO IN TW! | | 7A, COME BY GRATITUDE WHEN IT CANT FIND J7 WIND BLOWING A E( pA RE ADMINISTERED TO HIM MEDICAL ITONTHIS 1 TH GARBAGE “hi RAIL FENCE!

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MARY FRANKLIN woes sir. | 18 Ree, A AN BME 2 YO UALA-LALAY An, BRAVO o ig | & ti — ° PUKE MARTIN-—suave night clud X oe M - \ wy LRN Gy NT ” FIGARO, BRAVO BRAV) SS/MO A RBER OP CHORD * a CNEL be on | » : N Ol UM-TE-T aA ! : ; by x. ) > TORTONATISS/IMO) UM-TE-TUMMM . JAN INCH—society deb. : ES Zh o.. ANICE FRENCH—society deb CN o FIGARO QUA, FIGARD La, FieaRO

JIM SHIRLEY-playboy.

ns DNR ; SHCA eG 8 id : as \ \ M a ; | su, FIGARO GIU, PRONI® oy * Yesterday: Nick Hart tries to kill a E [ap h 4 | ; a iy | PRONTISS/Mo z 3 J

Mary when he finds her with the anice French pictures, then he leaves oo : N i ) i | ney CS EES when police approach. Later. Mary goes } , p te headquarters to tell her story,

CHAPTER FIVE

A ARY and Jim Chase arrived at Police Headquarters after Tom Ladd. Commissioner Fenelon had left word for her to come ry

directly to his office a nN ie ’ "iY b es NN J NT g al rt 4 ! t/: wy hg # ! hops ian ar —

She glanced at the big clock in x | ; i } y —_— U | ye X FAL od the white marble hall. The hour ? Rd . os : : \ : 4 low. Win hand pointed to 3. NS 3 = = A ase...

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as they reached the third floor Nodding goodby, she walked into the Commissioner's office At sight. of Mary Tom jumped up “wy s My t »t 9 ~ acl*ar . " v Youre mot hurt?” he asked oo ina blueprints, folks—you can't tell what's going on without a LI'L ABNER By Al Cap

anxiously. blueprint!” | “No, I'm all right.” RR RL ‘ TH TRAWAL OIF —_— - rned, “Miss Franklin, this is . | - CE el, i ranklin. ths Ts HOLD EVERYTHING By Clyde Lewis . Eh ANY MINUTE?) POLEEAT | ¥ ou) won't vou sit down, Miss Frank- TOOK A TRAIN T'NOO YAWK” A ANLL WAIT HYAR RUN. BEY, ke 3 i . COME" TABLE AN’ POUR) BUT SWE GOTTA lin?” asked the Commissionel I 3 Vis . N ON THIS j oy fet ror want to hear more about the Duke i. vi \ ) 3 TRACKS ’ vr ht ar YAWKP- WE and Nick Hart, Their actions ma) La ( : SR 4 OFFA &\WOLILD RE. have some bearing on Janice ’

French's disappearance.’

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“Janice’s parents are frantic, Mary,” Ladd said. “They haven't seen her since Wednesday.” ‘She called them yesterday noon however,” interrupted Fenelon, ‘but i Th MR \: 5 Ee 5 : = ; 5 ~ she didn't say where she was, just 3 | ~—— a 2 - wo | ET AE YO Carin said she'd spend the week-end with , — : . : . ; BEAUTIFUL LADY IS WISSING £711 ABNER - them at Tuxedo.” | A ‘Did they know of this apartment AH Nz RED RYDER she kept on E. 70th St.?” inquired 1 ; i” = : Mary. Gl ~J Z| |< ) (THIS LEAN-10 MAKE Goo \ MEBBE SCAR-FOOT | IF WE DOES, “No. And I haven't told them g { LL Rr BR Ni | RETURNING HOME TILL WE BLILDLM TRY TO STEALLUM ITLL BE HIB WAST hey might lose their heads and #8 f IQ | ot A, © HS NEW CAIN, RED RYDER / a . STOCK TONIGHT / rush to it. I want to keep it clear. \ i BE | 22 HOME INR | A \ A © T may be able to trap the Duke with \ WITH HS the goods. Tell us what happened n : Fi FRIEND to you there.” he : LITTLE Mary repeated the story she had Ni Ra TN ™ PEAVER, told Chase. 5 : A a 0 a 8 RED RYDER “Janice was just ‘a Tat, Juicy 3 a fH | ; FINDS HS plum for Martin and Hart to black- 3 NS : TY CABIN mail,” said the commissioner. “For > Rae Sad He PURNED that reason I can't believe they'd ETT 4 AND HIS kill the goose that laid the golden No STOCK BEING ™ : RAIDED BY A i NS Ns \ (|) ; » A : MOUNTAIN P\ VW a TT “ald NF i | 747 - i ? \ \ 8\ 5 J hanhe he la - ” “My “Fare, please.” os AS 2 . 3 iy LR \ , y a 7 BUT FROM THE ROCK RIM , THE | - SCAR: FOOT, A or . » ~ \ A ll CUNNING KILLER WATCHES nd wr J 0) A" T , THE FEEDING HORSES.

egg. She was worth more alive.” Ri ‘But where is she?” asked Mar) awh 5.15 COPR_ 1939 BY NEA SERVICE, ING “Hiding.” Ladd looked thoughtful La : guess is that Martin and Hart also ELAPPER FANNY think she is hiding. They'll give | their boys the high-sign. Then the Duke will let her know that he's NANCY ts You ZZ] | OR. AUNT FRITZ|-- NOW STOP PESTERING JN [ GUESS

Villon SHEW Have 0. Duy | UTE: A | 1 JusT saw THE ME --- 1 SAID NO--- ILL JUST gain wr woh ip Z| | CUTEST PUPPY --- [4] {| AND THAT'S HAVE TO TRY tire I doesn’t Mary wn. ME A LOT! 227 | | WiLL a BUY ll FINAL AN TET mea i enel A ’ y v They'll take the pictures to her \ parents and sav they'll be sold to a tabloid if they don't come &Cross Those fellows are pretty well organ12zed The commissioner touched some papers in front of him. "Like to see their records

» » » N ARY reached for a report marked, “Jake Martin, alias

‘The Duke.’” and read: “Born in pi 4 . 2 ue 90 n oll” Cite aT : KP = 7 N ty ’ August, 1008, in Hell's Kitchen. Flag I o = : , w / 5 i { {4 Fee foe nd Son of Annie, scrubwoman, who Rag , 7 - 9 08 AX ry NN 4 . BRNINSED Co worked in the Beaux Arts restaurant at 40th St. and Sixth Ave

Annie was arrested ten times Sa / or sai tela (OH, VOU FOOL HELL WANG FOR |T, THE SAP, ( YOURE UNDER ARREST, COKER, FOR.

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for petty larceny. She schooled her son in the cocaine racket “i \ WOU KILLED OLD \ ANY FINGERPRINTS LAYIN' AROUND, LOOK AT THE PAPERS, WHY, THE MURDER OF 1. R. SPLENDIX/ was a good student His name ‘ y LA EE NE NE TR A orkYwe 7 0 BS Sang / GOOSE THAT FOR HIM THIS VERY y— aidn't appear on the police blot- | WAS ABOUT TO MINUTE far a 3 rac +3 - J : ters until 1924. This was the first . LAY THE GOLDEN TE time that the names of Nick Hart 0 and Bill Condon had been coupled with his. Mother's tears are effec- | tive weapons before a Parole Board One year after his sentence, Jake Martin was free again. He and his mother went into the bootlegging business, first in a modest way above a pool hall on the corner of 50th | sas | St. and 11th Ave, later in ‘more “I'he guys certainly seem to like her.” | elaborate surroundings on Eighth “Yeah, she usually manages to ride home from a walk.”

Ave. and 53d St. in ee Pe a x x a “Martin became associated with a THIS CURIOUS WORLD Hy wo OM a a [COPR. 1939 BY NEA SERVICE. INC! dope racketeer named Cokie Conk- . | wa a . bi lin. Only Martin and his old mother know what happened after Conklin a CA . . . —— a“ R—— i oo a ; dined with them the night Cokie EEE 9) » yp : % ass BITE &D np re E20 \ — 7 IT RN | Ts MORE F YOUR Sand a 300 in cash on his person, a SEE COULD OFFER ONE EXCUSE PHONE , POP-- = THIS 16 THE LIGHT AL RIOT 7 FRATERNITY DOINes, EX © X en oon] in cannot tell; he was = \ FOR ITS EXISTENCE 1 Te FOR You / DEPARTMENT / WOULD GOSH, FELLAS, ONE OF YOUR LUNKHEAD never seen again. After that, little, § > RL Wz 22 MIGHT «anes 77; : YOU SEE IF THE DO 1 HWAFTA / FRIENDS ASKED ME was heard of Martin until 1932. B Po : Ne il 'NDIANS BEFORE a7". TY STREET LIGHT ON SAY IT 2 You SHINNY UP THE POLE AND when he started the Dove with Nick| § (Wy 3) | THE COMING OF | A \ n 7777 NW YOUR CORNER : 7" BLOW OUT THE LIGHT ! THEN Hart, his gang lieutenant. Bill Con-| § RTH WW; WHITE MEN 7 | IS BURNING / | | Nar a HE SAID "KITCHY,

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don was the bouncer. Annie, the NY i . | RN ED Ys aa scrubwoman, Martin's mother, had RY {| Tey ‘ disappeared. Martin was putting on | THEM W the ritz. Gradually, he was becoming! | FAIR Ofdey | |

a definite character in the night life | | =O0, of New York. Park Avenue began K | | or) to patronize his place.” | | FODDER, “It ‘was then,” interrupted the | THREAD Commissioner, “that the ‘idea of Hf \ AND OYE. blackmail struck the Duke as an easy racket. He trained Bill to help frame his customers.”

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» x N HE ringing of the telephone interrupted them. “What's that?” (® ; ! 7) "\" 7 nN \ BS | AVERY HEARD : 3 PUG .WOVLONT NOU LUKE TO GO Fork A BN THE WAY , No BEITEM Mich! 1 KNOW VERY WAT {NOW HALE: said Fenelon. “No one in any nos- SWIM ? THE WATER \S JUST R\GAT CAN WHAT \& Puss DRE REO HWM EXCEPT THAY WE THE WORST «1 TEL NOW pital answering the description of MORE THAN TATHER'S NAME 2 GETS AROUND QUOTE A BX Lewce (FB TOR BEEN FRANTIC! PUG FIRST OISAPPEARED , TLE TRWED

| | Janice French? Trv the more 7 | A YE rae 00,000 ad | | SATHER IN OAR TO LOCATE WIM , THRO { |

“Even though I know the Duke's KNOWN SPECIES OF a crook, a murderer and everything else you want to call him, I can't : arrest him without evidence. That

bang s fis 1 desk He banged his fist on the desk WHO = | TI ; - WS LONDON FOWARDWG ~ THAD POORESS

is where you can help me, Miss Franklin.” “At least 1 could describe the pictures I saw tonight,’ said Mary

= ( "DO : : 7 4 ( ’ 2 , - “That wouldn't help,” snapped z= . ; Pf & \ a Fenelon. “If Hart took those snap- ? % x 3 I 7 ¥ | shots of Janice French with him, ’ : = . NE “ ——— : : there's nothing we can do on that N J fr a wl 4

| | | | S { score. “It would be your word: against = a : F a “1 WN h AR BERVICE, Te. REC theirs, Mary,” broke in Ladd, ‘be- : ; : ; fore a hipper-dipper judge and with § the best lawyer in town smearing . . — — — - - oh you.” WITH SLATS IN PURSU SUPER WE'RE IN A TERRIF A knock punctuated Ladd's cen- ANSWER—Wrong. The average draft colt adds seven inches in POWER OF TwE WIDENS THE GAP RR NRE tence. “Come in,” called Fenelon. leg length from birth to maturity. = JND SARSUER IMMEDIATEL An officer stepped in. “The — = 1 = JUS Morgue’s reported the body of al young girl dragged from the ast River near Beekman Place, sir.” Fenelon and Ladd stared at one another. “She's dead?” cried Mary. “Yes. They put it down as sui-

cide.” “Could you identify Janice French, FOR Miss Franklin?”

»y - “I ought to be able to. I've heen 7 % J ”n following her six weeks.”

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telephone. “Call the car.” Then » ; to Mary and Ladd, “Let's go.” this Borie (To Be Continued) | | — A wee Gy in Wor JOYCE 7UP COMPANY BBi—

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