Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1939 — Page 15

MONDAY, JULY 17, 1080 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES PAGE 15 SERIAL STORY — GRIN AND BEAR IT : By Lichty| OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoople OUT OUR WAY By Williams

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\: > J THE PARQUET, INCLUDING PG a ! 7 : ALVIN, WHO EVIDENTLY By OREN ARNOLD T= B HAS ABANDONED a - Ea 5 HIS USHERS ROLE CAPN TARR JUST TOLD ME THE CAST OF CHARACTERS i | 1" Feo ® : # FOR A FRONT, ROW FOG 15 80 "THICK IT RATTLES MER Farmers na aa oan [15k 1 & : & sear! EGAD! mosT LIKE PAPER WHEN NOU WADE T = Fl soa venture at Goldcrest. oh - La loodmk , wr BY OF THOSE ARE FRIENDS THROUGH IT wa HE'S OUT ON : 4 5 : | (a DICK BANCROFT and FRANKLIN i det 3 Bhim AND PASS -HOLDERS vA DECK WITH A HORN - NN) SE SU : LARRAWAY — Ths, also found an in- : Y piv | THE UNPRECEDENTED : > 58 2 2 o 23 \ fo terest in Goldcrest. in : 4 Sh 2 FOG AND COOL WEATHER Ll - ) 0 A) of BIT 8c Yesterdayv—Franklin checks fingerprints > AL! 3 i A J : § PR Ens peor — — = di / i . ¢ \ ; YIN g 2 and finds those in the Golderest bank Jamel - 4 SK \ ; : , / ) ng ; 4 4 " Re are those of Carl Quait, bank robber, { } ag fon re ms - | oy ni fe NTR exconvict. Franklin hurries back to : ~ 0 i i pn : %/ " : y ; TES Goldcrest to warn his co-workers. He %. SEY : does not tell the sheriff of his discovery.

CHAPTER TEN

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7 here in a 50-year-old ghost town | 7 : . : \ : by darkness it was positively terri- | / 7 = 4 : £5 A we 3 / fying. | | Ry NER... AN SAE IR “Ro-se-lee!” murmured Christine, : . i 7 re RON \ % ST) a WH . ” ve.) | FOG AND ANN 3 Since ov sWiahe Y tremulously, grasping her friend's A FEAVY 2 ) ! / ; _ = - a | | rosy 7 iy “Tigh TRWILAMS Shortly after the wail came a new | 7 Ay i 7e ry sort of noise. This time it was a Z . ; BEC, /, thumping and a guttural melange; | \ of voices as of men laboring under LI'L ABNER —By Al Capp Se kl Something heavy St ck| “Tell him we won't cancel his order immediately—he'll have to wait : ve OY ONE. TINGE : the jail's metal bars. Somebody | his turn, 7 , AGO - “HE. WERE. ~ALVE = cursed. V Dick's Wn there!” Roselee HOLD EVERYTHING breathed. Splat! Plop and thump and heave and groan—the sound now | was distinctly that of men fight-| ing. Dick Bancroft's words began | to become intelligible in snatches. L. E “O...%hy... bother... you 3 DRIVERLESS » & 4 Unh! , LL you J. . asked for i ; A nD be To Wn youve . . . Soe : ; EXPLOSIVES The “get” was punctuated by! 3 TERRIFIC what must have been a hard fist MOMENTUM = _ blow. Instantly came a quick slap- | : slap-slap as of footsteps and a| crash into a wall. Iron grillwork rattled.

It must have been Dick who had | R 1-17 ; g got in that hard blow. After the! : 3 ] ? grillwork clanged. comparative quiet | I a Re Co ED RYDER —By Fred Harmen veigned for several s ds. The | | Ni LE A : p> ~~ I He re! I ~~ - OR RED-- You RISKED J 17 WAS NOTHIN, TESS? RYDER! HOW © THANKS, MORGAN? J TM RELEASING THAT | ( FAIR ENOUGH, MORGAN, BUT. ing, almost a gasping in fact. But | >. a i i i 1 SAVING YOUR Ll Pp i Y < BUT WE SLL HAVE - WATER, RYDER, AND USE T™' WATER ==-1'M HEADIN the commotion at Jeast was ended | Nd ? 3 i 2 2 MORGAN'S ii A NT SETTLED ABOLT PAYING You PLENTY FOR OLD MEXICO © HELP A res F Te 1 DAUGHTER RY 2 MY WATER. YOu FOR THE DAMAGE || FRIEND CAPTURE YAQUI JOE!

“Oouw, you're . . . breaking it” , So 3 » ] | FROM BE ING : v 5 ~ 3 =) { DAMMED uP’ I'VE DONE 7 A ys | N 7 SE] FF || DRAGGED | BE idk > " oll [Yaqui doe TY TAG T= outcry was from a man ob- : j } CEE | | © REA, . %£ ar We, me THE KILLER? a viously in intense pain. They at NG Sy RYDER / did not recognize the voice. § : oo] ! WINS “You bet I'll break it!” Dick ex- : : wiles oe Lg fe i) { | oh es comes, hon prea to entre | Nga 7 | re heavily . “TH dy Ha. - . i less . > et as 1 : aL Whew!" - y ; ; oo | | GRATITUDE

“Let . . . let me up.” The other ; fo a.) | combatant really was suffering, his Ban. : Ra > voice revealed. | RE edn : ia Wi > Dick waited several seconds to| (ire Y i > p# Chui, : ER 2 catch his breath before answering. | = [7 COPR. 1939 BY NEA SERVICE. NG. oa He could talk more distinctly then.| “It’s a mystery to me how anything stuffed with hay can be this hard!” “Not—not until I find out who you ——— — 3 ¥ . - NANCY are, what's your name.” FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia | ; —- No answer was heard, and then SY | 11M SICK OF PHOOEY SAY == THAT there was a sudden slap, hard, and & | | HUNTIN' FOR SOUNDS KINDA R THAT OLD J up! HOLLOW!

another outerv , “You tried scaring the wrong guy, : ol) ey TREASURE Ml Sl CH E ST- r

nister,” Dick spoke again then. 7) J / “You sounded like a ghost, but you AA I'M TIRED. don't feel like one.” s A “For God's sake—unh-h-h-h— what do vou want—to know?” “Everything. Talk man, or I'll break it! Talk!” “My name ... is... oh God. man, don't! My name is Packman. from the Western Metals and Minerals Corp. . .. I came—to scare the Dale 4)

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. = qi Ni ge vou i LZ ; «are bn, Sa LUNK . % ZZ a Nou wr ENS ! . J. Packman, M. and M. field man- AR J ; . NS TATA ean TCR, iE a NN ager?” - a ) — ERNIE BOSIT 1) AER “Yes!” “You better be able to prove it, WASHINGTON TUBBS II =BY Crane < - - t? 1 - ’ 1. i 3 7 v i rs ae. Di yah ) YH | [Es SIREE, GENTLEMEN, [MY STARS! WHAT \ ANTI-AIRCRAFT/ VER. ) (BUT YOU DON'T HAFTA BU Bw wal T= HOTEL, HERE, BOYS, LIVELY! TH Grouse TEI ily, speaking brokenly, in great . si ) , 5 i 5 N strain. “Our lawyer—tried to—tried N, ETCH THE GENTLEMEN'S x f HOOTING, to pay the Dale girl a profit—she woulén't—she turned us down.” “Go on,” commanded Dick. “I came in, with some tourists, to look around. I heard her say— heard her say she would clean out the jail tonight. So I—I came to try to scare her away. Frighten her.” There was a long pause. | “I don't get it,” said Dick, then. | “She wouldn't sell. Golderest— 2-17 \ has valuable ore. Two assays were] . eve op) sent to us from Briscoe and Son.| “Y , i » ; , i Se —— m | “Yes, I see the resemblance. In a few years, his grandfather's going FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

Both said the ore from here was—| to look exactly like him.”

valuable. One amounts to a rich | strike. Now—let me go! Let me—"| [HIS CURIOUS WORLD WERE JusT & LETS STOP IN ONE i O “Well, I'll be—Ill be . . .” Dick] ABOUT OUT OF Q' THEM GASOLINE 1 MADE A IN(TATED A TWO -BT macHine!

went on excitedly. “You're really| NOR) GAS AGAIN TEMPLES AN' GIT J NOSE LIKE ONE SHOULD WAVE Packman, eh? I'll know you in the AN b wll S ! O' THOSE THERE DONE ENCORE, ; t bett . o | IF YOU LEARNED 7 NN BUTTONS? / RESORT TOSSED || NICKEL SLOT light. Tt better be true. So there | THE NAMES OF N e A > : Z * Jit out ON Tue MACHINES HITT | IR | - BN SE NLT Floor © me TH JACKPOT | TW’ How come two? Talk!” TWENTY-FI | ( Nai a > J OBR N/A WHEN LIL WAS FOLKS GOT TW’ ~ : \ Stas THINGS] || TEA AN SHOWER.

were two assay reports from Briscoe.

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“I don't—know! One was on re-| | NEW INSECTS ED ME WITH How rich?” ! ABOUT S77 for? Yeu soid Goldcrest. Oh! I. [iif NAMES OF ALL. lee Dale info selling out again—| |i TT SCIENCE DOS i Wy One nf them, at least. I don't know | A bie NE oll 4 | Eo QONT KNOW HOW This EVER about a second one but I knew ee mem AT el : RA NEO 1 THE DOQUESNES collar a ton profitably. I was go-| ROSE-PINK / 3 VES 'WOU'R OP anything at all to do with you now. | mud, and your neck’s going to be.| you down this mountain slope, and ing, and the two girls nstinctively) grasping the other man’s arm in a| SS , GANGSTER. BUT THE GIRL NER: TOWN TO LEARN TWAT YOU CAN'T JUDGE ATLL TAKE WER IN.

worked ore. Old ore. One was a; | EV , — ki 7. MN 2 be ; ig | Ee CL | ; $5 | < 4 4 r N en, Noes J “Six dollars—a—ton.” i YEARS ™ “Six bucks! Sa-a-ay! What the! Hi MEMORIZE THE get it > You wanted to scare Rose- MH INSECTS KNOWN SY I. 5» So the company could cash in on |[f§ UD AI the ‘new ‘discovery. Well listen,| Hf PN "epg Ba about reworking that old ore. I, on TTR BRR. ¥ Wives vee one ing to sez what Kind of deal we| might make with Western M. and | I don’t like your kind of baseball. Now if I take you out of here and| AN OUNCE Understand? But if you are Pack- | man, then I don't want anything | if vou ever come back here again | ri—" | jumped back out of sight in the NPR 3 : / HERE - imped back ot ignt in the a AND THAT'S HOW IT IS, MISS ABSIE. WATIN' OUTSIDE IN My TRUCK. | WANT THAT | STAY shadows beside a boulder. Dick and THE WHOLE TOWN'S AGANGT HER [wieRE S| {| GIRL TO SHOW THIS TOWN SHE'S AS GOOD NEM SHE'S WILLIN' TO KEEP wrestler's hold. BY BIRDS AFFECTS 2 ho " J SELE-- SHE'S EINE AS SILK. PEOPLE BY THINGS THEY'RE ALL PREJUDICED AGAINST HERYeah, you're Packman, I can see, HER COLORS J I GUARANTEE TWAT // YOU HEAR ABOUT ‘EM THAT'S WHY | COME TO YOU, MISS ABBIE!

“Um. What'd the old ore show? | devil did Briscoe send it to you : R72 2: BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES buddy, I sent in those samples. | know it can be reworked at even a| MY SOUL low SiC M., but T'll be doggened if I have vou aren't Packman, your name's | else to do with you. I aim to kick | There were sounds of bodies mov- | 4 > < _ ABBIE AN’ SLATS Wi vere Tv i inl vy 5 his adversary came outside, Dick] rt ON ACCOUNT HER POPPA WAS A AS ANYONE--- MAYBE BETTER. { WANT THIS TH ME, BUT THERE ANT A Dick said. “But I wouldn't have

thought it ©f vou. Now start run-| ANSWER—Right. ‘Canaries and parrots are well-known examples "a bY iid ola a ning, and when vou stop vou'd bet-| Of birds whose feathers change color with changes in diets. . ¢ xX)

ter be out of sight, forever.”

He gave the man a shove and . |eot i i 1 | ty 7, veter g Packman began running, indeed. | Questions and trati i Hy ! The girls, hardly daring to breathe, | To Wm PVE HE WE

saw Dick stand arms akimbo for a ANsw 146.650. lon j ’ ni | ns ers long ‘minute watching the other! Q@—What is whipped butter, and

man flee. Then Dick slapped his! Q—How yi ® | ht 4: ® ) WY : : | —How many insane persons are goes it IB ( i : he (ANS : : ands if : : it contain 'm utterfat than # . } | ~ LY J ds together as if cleansing them, | admitted to state hospitals | ore butterfat t ) LO) | QI . — = \| ) 2%

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+ » - J i ordi n | ) aa BR 77 - - g ~~ 7 — turned and walked back into the (ordinary butter? { ida $ AN \ k . NN i = J 7 7) ®. i | " 8’ i 4 f Z TH) 4 4 d ORs Cine) v £39, to all the state and two Feg- has air whipped into it. It does | GAY I & NAAN 4 en ie wholly Bictitiousy "Tony [eral hospitals. The total for state, not contain more butterfat. i : Dp tA ANN

4, ¢ annually? H/0 ghost town jail. . g - NS 7 A—Admissions in 1936 were 101. A—Tt is ordmary butter which \ ARN NN : ON / id \ A NS { 4 %! 5 = h : : D 91 (Van ne RT

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