Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1939 — Page 23

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CAST OF CHARACTERS ROSELEE DALE and CHRISTINE PALMER—Partners in a summer tourist venture at Galdcrest. - DICK BANCROFT and FRANKLIN LARRAWAY—They also found an interest in Golderest AN INHABITED DWELLINGS) | YE CARE FER Yesterday: . Franklin {ells Christine 4 : pV : w py RR was ’ A MOVIE g about the ex-convict and robber whe will B Ys Rx s 7 fat VAS —EAR-FAR! 5 | - eertainly come to Goldcrest for his " - LY : \ . \ . money. - Later, Franklin gives the purse A : to Dick to give to Christine but Dick gives it to Roselee! 1

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| CHAPTER THIRTEEN MAN can grow | a very good beard in three to five months: Mr. John Sawyer, formerly known as Carl Quait, No. 32283. spent almost four months growing his after he got a job with the Imperial Feldspar Corp. near Kingman, Ariz. Sawyer’s top hair grew too; it had been cut very short in January, but - by symmer it was scraggly again.| Br long hair and his beard| } -™ 3 Lie 3 5S . ; £/ : . , ied to make him a very dif- i ) po ; / : : ILLIAM ferent man from what he had ap- Be No Fa 7 : : A} : SHE E z i EA SERVIC j ; ! : TRVAMS, b peared at Christmas time. = : Bal onan TM. NEC. U. 8 PAT. COV:

On a day early in the summer | {wap Wararcy SEE (-) 10 2 ; ) f bs : . a 7 | , GY h -R. - he town boss rode out with a feW | “upp hardly ever bothered with lost balls — I usually play somebody | ¥7 BLE SA ETA Al GOTTA i, Yer iA 7- AH! BEAR OMEN VO] comforts” for the men up in the w rh z : ’ ABN YO’ WHICH BOUND | THET/- AH'LL BEHIND THET DOOR’ : else’s TAK CHANCE. ©’ HIM -S-SOMETHIN’ MUSTA 2 ‘ isolated canyon where Sawyer had . a / STI ’ / ~ - Z J MAH WOLINDS AN’ SAVED] GIVE YO' THREE been working. Included Was a HOLD EVERYTHING w—— 2 - LARNIN a. kip o HIT ME -BUT -AH OUTA | TS ‘GIT ol ; batch of newspapers. Sawyer was 3 By Clyde Lewis ws A A keen to read them. When bedtime : ~ came he was suddenly excited. In : one of the Sunday papers more than a week old was a full-page feature article, with five good photograhs and a most interesting text. Oddly Mr. Sawyer went right] then and there to his boss and told him he'd have to quit. He walked in to Kingman that night. The old newspaper had disturbed him. - Next day at Kingman he bought papers from Phoenix, Albuquerque | - X : 3 Z and Los Angeles. One of them was 2 ) a : Vo ROM THE 3 Suntsy Jove vin, afer han : : JS PR inseam, Sarre FUR 2 rst he had read. And by - \ ; ro pd George if it didn’t have some more . : 7 4 nuMM! PLACE LOOK Tl THis 150DD’ 7 —— he 7 RDERED? : news that excited him! » = ef \ e SERTED! NO SQUAW, HAS LIVED ON He BE RARIER Eo 3 Bes ERS Mr. Sawyer promptly rented a : : : on y NOTHIN? | 1 LIND GRANT FoR S2 OLD SALAZAR--DEAD!| | HE NAMED “THE car in Kingman and drove out on “ \ \. $ E\P 2 7 Ym pe MAYBE HE =-- KILLER == LOOK? : : BRN ‘] e 3 4 > ) 7

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2 2 E pulled up after an hour or so at a small roadside stand in the joshua forest country. Back of the stand was a large sign. Twn here to GOLDCREST ARIZONA'S PICTURESQUE

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He read that and the smaller lettering under it, and pulled up to say good morning to the old man who was in charge of the stand. “Got any cold drinks?” he asked. : REE . : “Soft drinks. Goin’ in to Gold- 2 ae ¥ YES, NANCY--= WE TAKE srest) oa THE NEXT ROAD TO THE > Plain lemon. No, can’t spare| “Another new hat? My gosh, Mamie, you'd think I didn’t have to RIGHT ACCORDING TO Sn the time. What's going on up / work for my money!” Lo ] _ MR. MSDIMPLE'S 2 7 : R.. there?” Mr. Sawyer eyed the old DIRECTIONS / Bz w/ IS A VERY 7 _timer shrewdly. 2 FLAPPER FANNY | By Sylvia > SRI 1A (RICH Man! _. “Why plenty, friend! Four young p= ” E \ ! fl) l : people’ve opened it up for ‘show- ~~ THAR ing. Cost you a dollar, and wuth , z. : oS Wak \ AD k * §t. This is a genu-wine—" : ) : HE I ’ / y x 5 hr 14 dtl - “I know about .it. I've seen it, ‘ S320 5 | ZZ ; Ri 7 ad ¥ ” edo : \

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years ago. They opened up every- : : : { . ; 2 ¥ Tr. | = = thing, en? The old hotel, stores, ||; : ; os >: | : 2 Ze. == i vi =| jail, bank and everything, no |}: 3 7 i ZK 7 BS 0 : ~~ 40 “a CY er i APE) 7 TE A= doubt?” L . : : A : : 7 g 4 » vB it : J . A ; NHL // i t “Nope, not yit. They ain’t opened i 7 nal : : — [ 3 5 . WY 2] le — avd 9 = i a the jail 'yit. It has to be repaired Gti ; va / ; — EE E - No a \ do Ill] some to be safe. Likewise the mine ' JA SN I don, = Ah : . : ATEN RST shaft itself.” g: EF ; Se = Wr BED: UF ~ SSAA “Opened the business houses? All|| ' \ : : a : : eZ h JULY-20 — ERNIE BBUSHM ILL ER. 4 of ‘em?’ ; : re — “Couldn't open the bank vault, I : . Bou ou SAY SOUR." ; 3. : NT TRY \ I Jal You SE: S heard ’em say. Locked. Rusted. 1S A NATIVE WOMAN : Two, three old cellars, too. Mostly dirt.” i “Um, said Mr. Sawyer. “Interesting place. Hope they make money out of it.” “Them kids is smart, mister, lemme tell you. They’ll do well.” “Kids, eh? They live up there? All the time?” “Yep. Mrs. Maude Hogan, she cooks . for 'em, sees to ’em. They stick to business. It’s a lot of tourists that comes in. Hundreds-odd at oncet due here day after tomorrow. Here comes a car in now, too.” Mr. Sawyer paid the old fellow, but loitered a half hour longer Spins i [. x . i r— = - ning. Then he got in his car an fl : WHAT OID : LL PA! 20 ; ; — drove on. Down the road two miles = 4 i I 4 § THE MAN SAY e Y $ | BIN ; we = NOW Laur. AS _LONG \ he halted and waited an hour. Then vo : A, ARE WE HIRED ? AND IF NUBBIN IS . DEBIT! 1 | can : H US, THESE

he turned” back, driving fast. He CLUDED, HE'LL PAY ONRY i ’ A WORT : ; M ALS [ARH 0 ERE wont didn’t think the roadside vendor 7-20 ! iN MELE g

TH J Z would recognize his car if he just p— wr i i Tr us ABLE" HOPPED OF E BACK | on by. returning to Kingman,| “A dime? Nothin’ doin’! ‘I get time-and-a-half for overtime or I tell. I Gre =: ll gr TI | IM |S © GET ae END OF eo PLOW! 2 of —

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Mr. Sawyer had done a geal = papa.” | . thinking. He had evolved a definite |. : : plan re he regretted having to| IHIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson wait two days to put it into opera-| [Emme ee tion. : I. : rien 8 HEN he got back to Kingman he turned in his rented car, took a quiet hotel room, then went to a barber shop. “I'm getting too gray,” he mentioned, in the chair. “Can’t you just

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years off.” the barber said. “What \n ¥ { ui , Hii about the whiskers?’ They got some PE ri Hf 2 : ! LL 1 AS TREY CAME 'N'KEEP MY CH\N White ones.” aid | = : 2 fief > : LP L B-BUT «HE WAS “Touch them up, too. Make it N £ : : IG A LL ; Ah a Nol Ta “The barber wasn't rushed. He \ y A i : 2 > Gone a ; 3 ANSYONE did a good job. Mr. Sawyer, or Mr. : iv] - Zz 7 mae ORO 3 Quaint, looked even reasonably hand- eS ; : \ | ie ARSON some when the job was done. ? eT He bought a new suit of clothes and other articles to dress himself inconspicuously. Then he set out to buy a few books. But in a town «T.-M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF, , the size of Kingman there are no ~~ = ’ bookstores. He did manage, however, to acquire plain Spectacles i : : : : and an umbrella and a suitcase. He x / F * \ : went back to his hotel and sat down SIGHT | Ek. a= BN oP 1999 8 NEA SERVICE, “to be patient. When opportunity 1S THE HIGHEST Yea YOU *=<YOU-+ ) BUT BECKY- SURE! THAT'S WHAT SLATS offered he informed the clerk and| DEVELOPED OF THE LIAR #1? : {1 THiS 1§-THE KID--) \ ALWAYS CALLED Mgeeother guests that he welcomed the FIVE SENSES , 4 ] : : chance to get back to civilization, AMONG MOST = since he had been out in the fields FISH doing some special mineralogical studies’ for several months. In a ; it day or two, he said, he would be| . - ready to head back east again. . IF =o ta : ; : : Then he wished he hadn't talked| : : R > | N \| NT i 1 - SL 4 : 4 57. B so much. Somebody would, likely . Hl NHN iw. : ~ i : rN > =" { remember that he had posed and — — Da semnty 4 DY {ik p g 7 & i : A worked as a mine laborer” at the Te — E : tN At I Al % ; Imperial’ Feldspar. Why, he was He almost a fool! It wouldn't do to get careless now. The thought worried him all that night and into the next day when : / he kept to his room pretending to|- ANSWER~—The Virginia rail is a marsh bird, very secretive in its be reading. So the second after-| habits. > noon Ye set out abruptly to go buy , —— himself a pistol and some shells. |that it was fully loaded. .The clerk . ~ He was already in the hardware| hadn't even discovered his loss when Questions and ——— J

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