Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1940 — Page 17

TUESDAY, SEPT. 17, 1940 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES PAGE 17 SERIAL STORY — | FUNNY SIDE UP By Abner Dean | OUR BOARDING HOUSE . With Major Hoople OUT CUR WAY By Williams | WHAT KIND OF A PLACE 1S JoZBA IT'S THAT TORNADD, LEANDER AGAIN ws Hil TUAT WON'T BE ANY OM , THAT'LL gh

his Could Be 4 7 THIG, ANYWAY ? THE FRONT ~~ ™ THUG THAT REDUCED TH' NEIGHBORHOOD | GOOD, STUFF’ A BE TAST 14 — DOOR DOESN'T ANSWER, AND TO A SHAMBLES LAST SPRING. wa WELL, FOOTBALL WITH RAGS. ENOUGH NEITHER DOES THE BACK / I KNOW MY RIGHTS we (F HE'S COMING FOR n \ TURTLL MAE TH PERS: ANOTHER VISIT, T'M CALLING UP TH! POLICE | —— BALL COMDLETELY : % Pl

You I Sto ry " 3 3 3 . J NOT EVEN IN THE HAMMOCK / RIGHT AWAY AND AS A CITIZEN DEMAN D-! : 3 £ ! {| ww DIDN'T AUNT MARTHA ET ING PROTECTION, DAY AND NIGHT! p27 : : 3 4 3 : \ MV LETTER Tun DU GEE, T Zi By Marguerite Gahagan iff % yr | ; : 2 N er mevemBERED we it's % ; STILL IN My

YESTERDAY Joe denounces Sue Marv's Youth Progress friends as Reds and infnriates her. She goes tn 2 som. | ’ 4, ¢ ; 3 S WW &. . ¢ pany pienie with him. finds the work- | | RT. ) ; 8) a i . ih A ! y pe \ ers are happy and econtented It is { J : ; k - Y, , . pix } | ! : ?s, " -- ua

difficult te reconcile Vera's arguments / Sit RB 1 | ~ | | ] / rh. 7 f to save the downtrodden worker with i : x k 3 . J yy” Ll A gr (innsV all Ww | } 4 “i ~ — | ; A A WN / Taw gh

what she sees.

7 CHAPTER EIGHT EEE : ¥ BL NUN 4S “IN! — : Te ay / 1H, : 111, ty # N- Wo VERA GETS A JOB I> “A - 0) —_ V7, j Ny w IT HAD been a week since she and Nick had had an actual date. To be sure Sue Mary had seen him

al the hall when he dashed in to

check on plans for the rally: had

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answered questions, given orders. 4 - —- 2 ad! Say | : 2 == held hurried conferences with Na- / Iz = alice and Vera, and had flashed £ Mary that quizzical smile that Iwavs made her feel thev shared secret understanding Now, after having been with Joe = TT ag FT 3 Ee RE es SS \ : ! IT 1IGN'T 5 tY et Bie had lost that feeling of 3 f . sa . . 3 % a x 5 , : pi os = ; : —- - | LE AN HD Al A Na / COPY 1948 AY NEA 5 6 L CO RWILLI AME, hidden bond between herself and 0 ] y AN —— : NT WL REG US PAT. OFF 1.o Nick. Knowing that he would call ; LAN es ' : 2 S 3 : ; ; —By Al Capp

for her in a short time failed to

give her that sense of anticipation AFTER OBSERVING ALL TYPES | GENTLEMEN-BE SEATEDS” { THE. QUESTION IS ~ IF YOU oF snc elie ore SARE a Cee hia ~ | OF WOOING IN THESE PARTS — ’ | AM ABOUT TO ASK EACH POSSESSED THE MARVELOUS [ 1 thing exciting just ahead. «Ng ng, dear, that thermometer is just to test the temperature 'of | HAVE. NARROWED THE FIELD A, OF YOU A GCRAVELY POWER | AM ABOUT TO Joe's arms about her last night, his the WATER!” DOWN TO YOU THREE. FINE YOUNG 77 "MPORTANT QUESTION. - IMPART TO ONE. OF YOU —THE. calmness, his solidness, his slow. : : MEN ”7-| SHALL CHOOSE ONE. YOUR ANSWER WILL 7 POWER TO WOO ~DOGPATCH STYLE ~ cautious reasoning seemed to have OF YOU AS MY SUCCESSOR 7 DECIDE YOUR FATE!” HOW WOULD You 1 cleared the rainbows away HOLD EVERYTHING eid GEN ee Ns min : THAT WER 7 But when Nick came and they : = 7 were off to the hall and his enthusiasm, his fire, his words carried her along Up to now the

rally had been office talk: plans p—a ; on paper, programs and handbills. a 2) 4 In the hall there was reality; I ~ : reality mn the presence of crowds AJAY {1 LL ne y of people: blue haze from cigarets, dh THEATER | Ix

music from a rhoris on the stage

Inz party songs Ick was here, there and everywhere, but Sue Mary was content to sit quietly in the back near the door where he could slip in the seal beside her when the talks started

Much of it was already familiar

because of listening to Nick and

Sa ’ 4 oe VALLEY RANCH, v/, ) [-Don( LET ANYBODY HERE'S DX HOWDY, DOC! HOPE YOU Help the worker live a decent life: - - : J . o URE Horses / KNOW ACE HANLDN i , = } DIDNT COME on A WILD take the power away from the cap- J I : i = CAN Fix UP § HE 7 THREATENED KILL - COOSE CHASE / - in ME IF 1 RESTORE i p

italists. Stop the munition barons ~ ® FCT : (3 ( wn YY 5 SG : RE i EIA A | 2 -— 7 RYDER'S SIGHT A

Vera The pattern was the same

on Wal] Street. Don't let them send

> prithe excitement 1 Hecklers somewhere in the hall becan velling question Who's paving your wav? “What kind of

a government do vou want?’ “The labor unions are doing ] right without vour help!” Come out

from behind that Moscow front!”

“Where's vour swastika?’

2 ” ” 3 i wr ® JANCY —By Bushmiller

TOPE. 1940 BY MFA SERVICE INC. T. M RIG U 3 PAY. Off THE MEETING was a seething rh

mass of confusion. Nick had di=- “Mavhe 1 won't like the show—] just hrought 'em along to help / OKAY /1T STARTING TRAIN, f nN i JT TH RAILROAD ) (AND Y / AND WE ~/, P

appeared and Vera was struggling me hiss.” You ~— FELLERS' : k / / maT << E IS OVER )( THE { \ OE Th. ARACHUTE i \

up the aisle toward the exit Sue

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Marv cringed back against the wall / aT vasel t 1 31 } nny lest a i Rt i PS -- afraid to try for the door lest she, FUNNY BUSINESS ne) be trampled by the crowr She! JUMP RIGHT police pushing their way In . . er DOWN

then she felt Nick's arms about ; ( HERE!

remembel murh about getting out. Nick had shoved her throuzh a side donor. into an alley and through the blackness of the summer night to a quiet street

where his car was parked.

Jow did you get the car here?” / ; a ! iad ’ zh asked after they were safely 2 =~ - “ “3 i a — J driving into the still, peaceful resi-. vg i yr ps . ® 2

dential section “We were parked! Ne \ . . . Cont 1640 by Untied Petare Syndionte, Ta \ U. 8. Pat OF. r

right in front of the hall.” He Inoked at her quickly and

here was a moment's silence be- Zz = = ” . fore he parked the car and took : aL rE ne [Wel K ILL Jd] QPHE SECOND STEP: THIS 1S MR. (NOW WHAT THE BLAZES 1S COMING OVER THAT GORILLA) EE) WclLO' ucRe's A her in his ‘arms. “Mavbe I "was SEE z TE \ TAKE A BATH Jit} z FOWLERS ROOM TAO BATHS IN ONE DAY... THEN HE GOES IN FOR. te bs Hl PAGE TURNED DOWN ARD just lueky. I didn’t want anything ; : Ze ATS TA [0 iit el {14 ] { AINT IT? HERES 1 LITERATURE 1 WORDS UNDER SCORED, to happen to vou.” £- ’ =; S pr——— rn) ; i : : 1 A f { A BOOK FOR ( Y : ; ¥ : T'S A SECRET MESS 1t wasn't an answer to her fues- L . ey P pp: | v1 vA JB HIM ; mg ho "NEW LEADER AQRWES tion but the suddenness of his PA pt 2 y : 42% PA ce ££ l 5 7 3 / ; oh TRAN TONIGWT, emotion frightened her. She tried ; ; hard te push him away and laugh

lg a at his intensit; “Lace The meeting upset you,” zhe ' ow ae “Whv did those men make that trouble? “Don’t hother vour pretty head about it,” Nick told her, “That's for me to worry about And it wasn't really trouble. We'll get more space in the papers tomorrow than if nothinz had happened

We can show there are forces at m——— COPR_1940 BY NEA SEAVICE, INC. J work that don’t want the people tn know the truth: forees trying to

stop us in our work.”

Half-formed doubts were in her | NT ~ . a, { 3 ELL mem CH, SOM, ITS SO GOOD TO SEE ( Mavee {I CAN OUTLINE “MY

and it was as though Nick! tps i : that uncertainty Joe's] JTHISCURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson RE 1 NOU HOME AGAIN ! WE'VE MISSED Yous THK. | How Dio FINANCIAL CONDITION low Im

“I suppose we gotta drown before 1 can convince you this is not

a mirage!

words stayed with her: erackpots

AM [ TERRIBLY / i TM NOT YOU MAKE | | VERY SmpLy ! HERE, COMPLETELY oli r = GLAD TO OUT UP TAG --~-GO OUT AND INSOLVENT! | ; - pr

po - = - | od J n always waving a flag for some z 7 W f 7 ii I ° SIG Z ir I y / / : BE HERE ¢ WEIGH YOURSELF / BL cause or other. She tried to free : A ne ANABAS TT DID You I jo 4 : -

herself from Nick's arms, but he . 2 NS Ag ~ held her closer, murmuring her Hil % Z ISH, X000 Vii Rpm name over and over. : r : OF INDIA, : / ww EGG? Poor little frightened Sue Mar H : No. the place for voll 13 in a home F yl er Ymi're not like the nthers” 8 h 2 - 1 cues: I'm not like Vera.” zhe == WATER. IN admitted Shes alwavs zo ure Em] THE of what she's doing EE ET “Y/, LEAVES, I've been thinking about Vera #105) x \AW/HEN STREAMS Bi fh Ta o = ; though.” Nick said She's work. EE ‘ po SO DRY I ; 14 | - ome { . ? Aa,

ing too hard and the party can't Ray afford to pay her much Next - N UA * : AND IT 1S 9-1 J ~By Martin

week, after the primaries. there will

he less to dn for a while. EE A ! R BUDDIES I wish Vera rould get a job like . : — Tn ; a [ YES GEE, MINE, WITH OLR. SILENCER) MSS CORA HE OW 3 POOEN ! I'M asLRE | i (

ye kandi help her gel " LoSR BND ALL THOSE HOURS OF GLAD TUE OuX work. Something in vour office, per-| i : hi ct ETS if D Is OIC oe haps. Don't some of the girls 20 on 1 : ff TAKUS A ; - WORK, WAS (EO. X SHOLLD Tel \ y DEX coOMES ! a at soon? ‘Mavbe "Vers ‘could - TOLGY | Re OUD TERN LWKE BAWLING | a vacations soon: NavbDeE era could | SRS RY, \ -

fill in for a few months.” WWE. ! Vs ) EE Rs J TN ! I - —

“Well—I don’t know, Nick. 1 hadn't thought about it, but perhaps NEAH, BN Te ALL LEU, she could. She's very efficient. I {i 4 Fe po 4 ont] WF SA THINK TRY MOTIVE GUN could tell them about her ? | | ws & ih : ; { RE Dn ES Ee » “You will then?” His voice was T.M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF, . 5: A or NA BR No 7 Ny

pacer and she felt herself helpless | MONARCH ” Bo -. C [A .. J 2 ~ > - . 1

to refuse. | 2 ‘zn | BUTTERFLIES AT THE OFFICE nexi morning HAVE CROSSED THE he wiched she hadn't committed RACTFIC OCTEAN, herself Vera was unlike the other 2Y STAGES

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t she waz: unattrac1. Sue Marv could PR 2 she would work ALPE, than many. Yet tt ABBIE AN' SLATS she wondered just how Babs, Kitty . Z 7 ; ree and Miss Grant would react to A i LL : YOU'RE THE WRONG Vera's own individual philosophy , ; : / ONE!!! AND NOW IT'S Rut she had promised Nick, and she " : a TOO LATE-TOO LATE!!! knew she would never have the courage to see him at the hall Fri- — — (2 day unless she carried out his wish. HAT STATE IN THE U.S It wasn't as difficult as she had EPR ISS TWEADEAVINE WV IS LACTHAEST NLTPY, anticipated. Babs gave her the . opening by announcing that she was soing to take her two weeks’ vaca-| ANSWER—Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota.

tion starting the first of the month. | 1 “I'll try to clean everything upjon for a while. And Miss Oliver is thing to her even over the phone: before I leave,” she told Kitty and|very capable. She's a friend of mine that heady intoxication, that feeling Sue Mary, “but the way the work|and very efficient.” of a whole new world unknown. has been coming in from the plane| “I guess I'm a better saleswoman “You've done a gond job.” he said. and aute factories, T just never seem than I think.” she told Nick when “You've helped Vera, who needs to get caught up.” she phoned him that evening. ““Anv- help. and as for me-—well, tomorrow Thzt gave Bue Mary a reason for way, tell Vera to come in within a —tomorrow night I'll tell you how I later thatidav or sn and see Miss Grant. I'm feel about it.” rn her vaca- sure she can finish convincing her (To Be Continued)

work increasing, I that shell do very well” | oan es ' " thought you mignt put an extra girl’ Nick's voice was able to do some. | (Al events, mame: an ions TT mn this .

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