Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1939 — Page 19

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= £3 = - iT <i me = Hor wr Eo % " h SDAY, NOV. 15, : . a . ’ a : a 5 4 TIL i X 2 Serial Sfory— - GRIN AND BEAR IT Cig un Bylichly: | OUR ‘BOARDING: HOUSE Ly ES EZ = Th GE 77 MY.TE OF MAJOR ?. CERTAINLY, ¥ 4 MR. TWIGGS = HAR=RUMPH/ {wasn ;

>, 5 , ; : 2 . : J Would SIMPLY AN HONORED NICKNAME / : -

THAT WAR 15 AS FAMILIAR TO ME, MATOR, ASA FISR © HEAD 1S TO A CAT/wme T WAS IN THE CAVALRY UNDER SIR.

AL Ss 4 2 By il \ MOTHER WOULD “HELP HIM SELL } A (T--MINE WOULD |

OUT OUR WAY

“f THERE'S ABSOLUTE \ PROOF OF HIS SUCCESS AND OUR FAILURE =~

2 THAT CLUNG TO ME AFTER THE

ys dc Ce BOER WAR, IN WHICH IT WAS JOHN DENTON PINKSTONE - DOG, nN Br Kill WOUNDED: IN THE BATTLE OF * PRENCHww~ WE \NERE CITED A - A BEST FRIENDS Er AT FAo0R i) Hh ‘SPION KOP/waw ARE YOU, BY £7 FOR OUR SMASHING | TA THAT GUY'D SELL HIS IN ’ By TOM HORNER CHANCE, FAMILIAR, WITH THE ZZ2. VICTORY AT KUP DRIFT ww Bi | DEEDS OF ARMS IN THAT, .YOU SAY You WERE WOUNDED : (fi ONE 4 CAMPAIGN ? AT SPION KOP? THAT'S Nf i “I be killed ton : WHERE. GENERAL BULLER'S 0 . : a Tu ns TAYE Jaen id sr FORCES WERE RUN RAGGED : fhe” The LL cat hat FAB, across ; | / BY THE = BOERS Pin WHERE ons ice posted all 3 i {I HLE : RE YOU SHOT was 210 hd ihe hous but they can'i save : j eal i IN THE BACK? 5 & » IT - “There are five oS ho would bt X : N\ : is : sons Ww. 0! i TT. , \ i ra J) \ ) oh _ Tather see me dead alive. My wife, Shae i i i \ Py : Helen William , my 8 \ Den 7 | \ x ; : A } J gieiniey ad terme wir does ai il AN a, and an old prospector, known as GS NS IED

» hate me. ve this list that the po- “ Bais me, know one of these five would kill me—."

: ARNOLD BENTHORNE smiled : "=a bitter, twisted smile—as he . ead the words he had just written. “They would pay—all of them— ; for hating Arnold Benthorne. In ;Jife he had: ruled them all. In death he would still retain his : ‘power over them. They would

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. 1 suffer. Only Benthorne could have : ; — x fl c ‘such a vengeance. 5 : ELL, WELLwZ| : . ob Deliberately he folded the paper, SMALL WORLD, ISN'T IT ? ! THE HOME INFLUENCE. CRW

‘then rising quickly from his chair, the hurried across the study, pulled

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and knelt beside a small safe. He| : Yiwisted the knob and in a moment| “Do you plead not guilty to assault and battery, or do you care to | | AT THE FINISH LINES- THE LUCKY GIRLS DRAG IN THEIR FIGHTING VICTIMS —— 5 THING > OM - YT Ee Tet SS, BREATHING, ata 1 NUNOM ACCORBNE Oa] 4 the desk lamp glistened on the AH SHECKS, Y THIS HAIN'T HADNT BROUGHT SHE'S AWRIGHT. A AX Fal ‘metal. HOLD EVERYTHING By Clyde Lewis ON Ts NEY. [A HER IN , SHED NAVE NOW. MARRY YO” . ~.Benthorne paused, undecided. JEST AT TERY DIED SUFPOCATION. - ; . : or Deg Bovis Wp Helen and Joey p cy : ; Swould k,” he said, half aloud. = ~n Wf\ € He stepped to the window, : Z ; ho @ulled back the drawn shade. oo 1 —— ®Rain drummed unceasingly against A BS? _ 7 7 ow A, ~ the panes. A fresh, cool draft x ’ swept into the room as he raised 2 _ _ ~ the sash a few inches. (4 : 7 Z — i ! A flash of lightning revealed the 7 7 / - dark-coated figure of a policeman, ) 247% huddled against the gate. There 7. 2 7 , & ’ was another in the garage, a third . at the rear driveway, Benthorne =\ Ps } knew. Thunder shook the house, a ) . £ Stee : rattled the window. 3S =% 4 The ticking of the clock above moa — ‘

the fireplace echoed throughout the ensuing silence. ‘Only a few minutes more, Ben-

- _ | There was yet one chance—only ) ~ 3 = W THAT COULDN'T OF BEEN ONE. . AND THAT / BERZ MAN X SE, ; one—but he would take it. Quickly [(( | : Be 3 11 ; SRST TRON CONE Si ERY |

he returned to the desk, turned the| } : De > CALLED F lamp shade so that the light fell| § : WER ‘ : di... bi 1 , | A- : — . “more upon the closed door. He mms hs a ( crumpled the paper in his hand, tossed it into the wastebasket. He opened a desk drawer, took out a “revolver. The safety clicked. He replaced it, carefully leaving the Jrawer open. : « He could see the headlines—

¢ : Bloody Benthorne Murdered.” That ¢ would be old Parker's sheet. They

him, too. Fought his methods, 3 = ed to trap him. But never quite CL . > ed. : eria “Come on, Lena, it’s my turn to be editor tonight!” 4% -.- “Benthorne, Financier, Foun 5 Dead.” Good old conservative Carter FLAPPER FANNY : Smith, Wishywashy. Afraid to calla |[™ So Co © pi = Spade a spade. Benthorne admitted | [0 _ © 5 5 » 9.922. 9 RICK NANCY «1: * The liked the Parker's paper W%- J) X77 <2 Zao xX) . —- EY $han the Smith's sheet. That gang | [ro ZR 2 97 re PT TTS HERE Y'ARE 2 2 ! over at Parker's had courage. That's ||-2::- rv: -:; ; . THE VERY a Ly: what it takes. That's what it took LATEST Be ’ 3 s to make Arnold Benthorne. PAPER /

» » » 3: HE SAW A LAD OF 10, thin, . Tay. He saw an older boy, heavier, “stronger, taunting the weeping lad. = Funny that he should remember “now. The older boy, Billy Watson, ~ had challenged his right {to sell ‘papers on that corner. Arnold—his ~-name was not Benthorne then—had refused to fight, had run away in

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terror. ; - Another picture came to mind. Billy’s face, disappearing beneath *. the waters of the river. Arnold had _run screaming to the nearest policeman; men had dived info the river| g * for Billy's body. The crowd praised - Arnold—he had done all he could. They never found Billy's bedy. It was just as well. Someone might ~have wondered about those bruised knuckles—bruised as Arnold pounded Billys fingers as he clung <to the

\ * The papers would not tell that 2 s story tomorrow. ) NN ~ ‘No there would be columns about Arnold Benthorne’s phenomenal D - 3 rise in the business world. They : - would tell how dying stocks revived "W=18 under his magical touch, how he %s ed his wealth into millions.| “... and here’s the sample I want matched for the living room chairs.”

:. pyramid * There would be the story factories. his. thousands of em.| THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson

"WASHINGTON TUBBS II

[TM SICK OF WEARIN MADE-/ NOW, GOLDIE. DEAR, YOU ENT,

OVER CLOTHES, MAMA KNOW : DARLING. IT y\ TAKES TIME

BUT I HEAR THAT CRAZY DON'T 8E SW MR. TUBBS HAS A BUSINESS | DARLING, : MANAGER. |S THAT GONNA, | ouT GUM UP YOUR ROMANCE?

WANT SILK HOSE. I WANT A FUR COAT, WANT A SPORTS ROADSTER=A RED

WITH LOTSA ZIRAND..

3 ployees. _— z There would be pictures, too, of RE == uN | : : Benthorne —d a r k-haired, fiftyish,| [=F « * > c.* E— : —— his cold, piercing eyes staring out = ’ . = FL b Gos 7 FROM OUR OWN FOURTEEN , from the lean hardness of his face.| [EF °~ gl MOGETNG. M FAHAT LL YARD 1 THEY Helen’s picture would be back| [BE * - CORE: 3 INE 2, WHAF in the papers again, toa. The so- = . KINGSTON-20| WORRY! NOT WAU i TERRITORY gf 3 ” ciety editors would see that his| [EZ °! SHADYSIDE -7 TIME _ LEFT / wel th PASSES nN. THIS 1 / “marriage to Helen Alston, daughter = . i : “ ® of one of America’s greatest motor | | oe SHADYSIDE ih truck manufacturers, would not be| { : RECEIVES : forgotten. CE O° Tena KICKOFF * = = | i. AND HAS * THERE WAS ONE mystery about | | FEAMNALE THE BALL Benthorne that no newspaperman; (lll MOSQUITOES = would ever solve. For years they| | Ad /ERBELSSONSA TEE WN . i had been speculating as to where| {Hl WHEN WINTER. une ! & Arnold Benthorne got his stake. COAES 2 : No one knew him when he first : A 4 came to New York, armed with BUT THE MALES © $50,000 and the determination to L: OE. “turn it into a million. No one . 28

4 knew—nor would ever know—the ; story of “Big Red.” They had met in Alaska. “Big Red” had come in with the Klondike rush, hunted his strike for

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’ 20 years. And he had found it— aut SAY , POG “+ NAVE YOO far inland, among unmapped WHO MIST CAME © STW TRWWY Shwe's NOTICED ANNTHAING 7 mountains, “Big Red” had found . WN) ,PLG 21 THOUGHT ; STOCK. ON 4 OWN. OF THE his gold. Benthorne—his name [rasa XW OROWNWARYX 2 o had been Benson then—learned of LIGHTHOUSE = the mine when “Big Red” filed his <EEPERS 2 1S » ; y R

He had followed “Big Red” | northward. - He remembered, “Big Red’s” piteous cries as he left him,

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® blind and dying in that forgotten Tor o LS Be had taken This Role name— am THE : Douglas—as well as claim i sold out to a mining company. | FOR LIVING IN THE , © He had listed “Big Red" as one Ble DIPPER LIGHTHOUSE. of the ‘five—and “Big Red” was : : : VISE. NG. ¥ dead. He'd scratch off the name. COPR. 1939 BY NEA SERVICE, ABBIE AN' SLATS : RvICE, : * 1 Noiuse blaming a murder on. a or «Te EG 4. 5. PAY, OFF, : 0 : : —By Ra ddead man. Queer that he “had ) (1-15 : WHY SHUCKS Ta eS m—— sm n = NARY BOY Fassia —— ORDINARY : . © ima even for an instant, that| ANSWER—Counter-clockwise. Actually, the apparent motion is due to | § MIND -- A/LYIN’ ON MOBACE. Sh art AY. : WOULD EVEN ATTEMPT "Bbo : "ROVD GE PIE on &- || POP We PAILE b J, } 31 Bet was alive. our earth’s turning on ifs axis from west to east. IT JUST GIVES ME TIME TO MULL OVER IN_ WHAT SLATS |S OUT DON’ FOR a FORE HE EVEN STARTED-guT| | YouEn 8B reached fon the wastebasket. : : : : : M'MIND WHAT A' GREAT, SMART BOY SLATS - YOUR POP -- GITTIN A FAMOUS SLATS + HE'S DIFFERENT /// : I § Soujmove Benthorme! iS; @ { [ SPECIALIST To COME AN'OPERATE “HELL COME THROUGH-- | ~ Ec or ai aa do Wa BETWEEN YOU SET T= |) § | ona voveery- smacken woemi- | ~~ SOMEHONkE | LIT © | «you, Benthorne gasped. : ap il intl h \(\| LESS OLD HULK LIKE ME? o° , > ALWAYS coves | | Ind {# ‘The muzsle of a revolver shone %4 > AND ME... he Ch : 1 ad : "we THROUGH #/ 1] | EEN Hi | THI ka iin the light. The round, black : x po | : : WE 3 ! v= “IH ol | “hole. held Benthorne’s hypnotized oy) > 1 HES 2 : Pon nn GS NRA) VN | i » : “Bring hands up. Keep HKD en a | : ANE oN ee : EP 1 & ! “BL bP { ! away ‘the desk. You've been 0 K / Be pl al] A & hy 7 ¢ ; J 117. ls : . Ml ¥ 1 | expecting me?” S 2 >e .-. hy ed : , . fp A ; iH i iit | y ¥ ~ { Benthorne did not answer. : TY. NT : b7 1 J) | TH IK iy. '§ : i Flame spouted from that Black ; mio Made x SERS : ; : 2) : wo oo Sl] ino '» . ; circle as Arnold thorne TA ee : 2 Pe ey —11l “Hit 8g