Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1939 — Page 17

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CAST OF CHARACTERS i i J LINDA STORM—Fell in love with with | : a 3 i 5 IT WHEN WE REACH BIG best friend’s flance. ; 2 X : POND JUNCTION wan HMM! gi KING—Nayy girl, loved a SR , ; : BY THE WAY, JAY GOULD, ' JIMMY COOPER—Naval flying in- OE ELDER OF THIS : ’ 1

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Yesterday: At the field Marcia leaves to talk to Bill Brooks, a cadet. Linda tells Jimmy she is leaving for home, __at once. Marcia returns.

. ARCIA!” Qinda cried warn-! | = N per ; : : = FANS ingly. - In the one word was 3 : 3 SA g 2p 1 TS :

contained an urgent pleading. Jim-| g/ i 3 tr i i” \ N : 7 /) / my must not know how she felt SH 12 Ya Va Av : \ co. i : ; i ! : p k oR EE | S = Z.. J i ¥ : | an a CH=

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" about this naval air base, about the planes, about war. =] “But if Jimmy knew the real] = reason why you want to go = home——" 3

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3 33 a) i ¥; , = XX A A J a ol nr 2 ; J * 4 2 wer " ed Td “But Sern iL 1s so silly, when ) to pel ; Mr ZS \ Tt 1S HE DID . it a al ba re you get right down to it! It’s : . pL mt AX ; » Sr : y or : 4 : : Sie : AR TE i 4 3 a Lc EAEMNS 4 TF | Evans Ak ! CI aE 3-1 :

making a mountain out of a mole / : ; i Jaki g = SEE = : - TT : 3 ror we. WHY MOTHERS GET GRAY It would be a mountain, high ani SEL AER CORR. 1 SEE LMR IAL BR ’ > : and impregnable, if Jimmy ever Ar oa pe py Sratieste tae HER EVEBALLS 1S ee FROIN: AN’ EY’S

knew it, Linda thought unhaps| Y~—0 ¥—0 a —— pily. Their fight was hard enough| “Madame would like to know if your ‘Enchanting Allure Special’ will WHIRLIN Roun. already. Because they were both| , also keep away mosquitoes!” TOPPED ’’- IT’S honorable people, they were trying p 14 ATCOMIN’ AT LAST! to reason away the mysterious at- HOLD EVERYTHING : By Clyde Lewis -TH’ VISION O° ° traction which was. catapulting m_— MOTHER RATFIELDY them toward each other. But even) | : , . if there hadn’t been Marcia King,| |™, % - : gC ; for Jimmy—and if there -weren’t George Cameron, in Queensville, for Linda—this thing alone would] have split them apart.

Jimmy Cooper was standing, NN or R . {, : ; Bea straight and still, the sunlight on 2) I i NN ar $: : : = his rumpled tawny hair and his 7 WN ENN Nr / J HE

eyes on Linda's face. “If it’s ; \ 3 “ft - A AL GTS] 4 something you don’t want me to : } QRS p= lai 4 a know, of course Marcia musn’t : NE =a 2 rN 5 io tell me,” he said tonelessly. ; AS Fn : A \ N ps “All right, all right,” Marcia moved ; = ; ; 1 ea St : ; J \ \ V x : impatiently. “But she’s not going 4 haa . Reg: U. gout \W\ AN A [ \. Xz% <f home! She came down here to be . x = : a. a ———— ; oe . > - : . : : -_ maid of honor at our wedding, and x _— / NT WORRY ABOUT PEDRO, : f- WHY You NOT "of 1PLAY SICK THEES WEEK? . .[ADX05,RAQUEL-~-SEE YOU she’s not going to wiggle out-of it! : — Y A 3 RAQUEL; OR YAQUI EITHER # } * | DRIVE WEETH STAGE J] TOMORROW LA BOCA STAGE [~)_\_LATER---GOT SOME MIGHTY Her arm slipped inside of Linda's. ma 2 ; ‘I RECKON HE'S - A You HEES,HANDSOME; " I'D LIKE “To MEET UP WITH --- : TODAY, V05E / =<] CARRY FEEFTY TOUSAND = Ie AT INPORTANT BUSINESS TO 4 = . : : J -T) : = . i yr I

“I'm a rotten hostess, that’s what A BANDIT SPY / BuT 1 LIKE You” ees GH-HeH === LISTEN / _ \N GOLD --= OVER YAQUI it is. I ran off and left you to listen : = 1. is : CH Ci \ JOE TERRITORY "48 ‘ to Bill Brooks’ tale of woe. I'm — vr. 1: 2 by out RYT) going tq take good care of you from WEETH TEN KIDS p ‘now on and give you a real whirl. : \ You'll have such a good time you'll forget all about—all about everything else.” , They cut the sightseeing short. To Linda’s relief, Jimmy stayed on the field and Marcia drove the car home. Nothing had been solved. Somehow she'd have to stand up in that church, smiling, while Marcia be- a \ : came Jimmy's bride. \ : ER VA Ai 5 te : - 2 az = i. 4 : SSS OPR. 1939 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF.

QUDDENLY she wanted, more |... = i ARE WE LUCKY---D'PAPER TSK T5 ' / = 8 5 = == - T'S ONLY 65° Ig ; ; I aug eee o Jee L1£89_8:1 copr. 1939 mY NEA SERVICE. WNC. &J : | SAYS D' WEATHER IS . AND [a | DEGREES BE. 7 : 7 AN SONNA here, close beside her, she'd snap “Gerald’s hay fever has started again!” AWFUL IN D' CITY --~ 7 SO. CooL I'M. GONNA WRITE PM A 2 EAVE “ THIS ; ‘back into her senses. On an im- : = 98 DEGREES !— . up... AND TELL JANEY { SHE Bo THERMOMETER): =. pulse, after lunch, she went to her FLAPPER FANNY ! 2 By Sylvia GOONEY ABOUTS WON'T\| { M : room and wrote him a note. : Sopa — \ hy 5 : = 1 THIS ¢ BELIEVE} || “Dear George — Please come 2) PR : ! > pesmcnt’ 1 YA! A down here right away. I am miss- | Er i ing you dreadfully!” i 7 She sent it air mail. Marcia ap- | proved of the idea. “That’s what | ails you; all right. It might not have been so. bad, if, in the -days that followed, Marcia had not innocently insisted on throwing Jimmy and Linda together so much. But she wanted her friend to have a gay time, and she wanted Jimmy beside her, too. !

. That meant that almost every eve- || : TT Ee so ——r a = - ning there were young people in “ * * C2 — | wo = Nx - : the living room and laughter and RZ ol ; 8 e : 1 wi aL i vf |: T—\THE NAME WAS

gay talk. And Jimmy Cooper, with Za / . ae wh of 4 lc 1 Fe a SQUEEGE,

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couldn’t avoid him. | £ Linda kept waiting] and hoping for an answer from (George. That night—it was a Saturday— Marcia had arranged a party at the Officers’ Club. Linda heard her telling Jimmy, “Donit forget to dance with Linda. You haven't danced with her once since she’s

been here.” ; Oh, the fool! The blind fool! A N SINGAPORE, CROSSROADS OF THE sob rose in Linda’s throat. ; \ WORLD, THERE ARRIVES A SWARTHY GIANT 4 ! / X 2 5 BR] OW WITH THE FELINE TREAD OF A PANTHER. HIS F I # # = Zh ; = pS : MOUTH 1S LIKE A TRAP AND HIS EVES HAVE HE Officers’ Club was not quite EN A er EZ 7 THE PALE GREENISH GLITTER OF A WOLF'S.

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in uniform, girls in evening dress. ID UKE TO WELL, an DANCE WITH . 5 : 4 MY PROPERTY,

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in the night spots at home. Every- Ns a : \ y . one knew everyone else. Seni PDO i a a in Ten ove | ™ ‘CUTEST GIRL Linda was grateful for the lanky “They’re engaged? She told him ‘no’ a couple of times.” : : AND. | ! : . : : young lieutenant Marcia had rope “Guess two negatives made her positive.” DANK rT Dd AE! + DAN ME in to escort her. His name wa! : ha hd ; / : ! Peter. He, too, was a flight instruc- | THIS. CURIOUS WORLD tor at the field. No, he wasn’t brilliant. But he stuck close to her, and that was], something. It protectea her from i. looking at Jimmy Cooper too ob- Ee ‘ 7 ¥iously. She prayed, too, that Peter’s 3/\! SCE NLsTS attentions would ' divert Marcia. & “She'll see I'm no wall flower. She Ty = doesn’t need to force Jimmy to &, : CONTINUE TO dance with me.” Had dence GROW - ; But after she had danced sev- 7 : ; ; = — = : eral times with eer, she sav FER on BER | S02. RRR Yoo =o) (TH So BY SEN! Marcia nudging Jimmy. Linda 7! z : . : HE WAS WELD Ri Y J Oy BY RNY > EES {ame ST VonL e0T . grabbed her vanity case, she stood = qh So x ON YI O0 NOT & R - v Rody : LEE WTO YAM

up. “Excuse me. I—” She ran; for the ladies’ lounge. That was only a respite. She might have known she couldn’t escape forever. The moment she had dreaded came at last. Jimmy Cooper was bending over her. “May I]. | have this dance?” “I—I'm tired—" she whispered. He said quietly, “I won't bite you.” : : So she stood up and slipped into his arms, while Marcia regarded them both affectionately.

Linda had known that dancing MADAGASCAR.

with Jimmy would be torture. But IS THE ONLY LARGE she had not known that .it would] COUNTRY IN EITHER, be heaven, too. The music wailed] - TEMPERATE OR. and sobbed around them, and the TROPICAL REGIONS touch of his arms raced through her |’ Res oF in| fire and ice. She tried to keep a fixed smile pinned to her lips, CANGEROLLS™ but, against her will, her .mouth| SNVALES quivered. : fai Eon, _ A soft sob broke from her. “Please, ; no more.” They were standing perfectly still while the music rose poignantly and unbearably. “Shall ‘we go out on the porch?” he was asking, his voice curiously hoarse. 2

WAAL-VES--BECKY 1S N- YN PRINPIN' UP OKAY (CHORE) GET IT-1 DONT | [THEY DO LOOK HAPPY-TOGETHER- HE'S TRYING | [WE'LL HAVE A LOT AND SHE AIN'T IN. wHAT XK FOR A DATEZ- | NEED NO HOUSE" T0 FALL ON ME | | YO BE NICE TO ME BUT VD BE A FOOL--NOT TO | | O'LAUGHS TONIGHT, | MEAN TO SAY, SON I1S--SKE'S | BUT--TCO BUSY | [El 70 LET ME KNOW IM NOT WANT- | |. REALIZE IM: OUT--AND MARGIE'S IN== EN, BECKY? oo Dsl 2S 37 SES TO TO SEE ME 2+] =. 0. JPLLSD AUT RRA RIDE-. aha Fp : Seas, - ; | SOR “HUM iE-2] BUSY PRIMPIN' UP FOR Eis TE BE rrr H MARGE] lh. on Ie 2

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