Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1940 — Page 18

PAGE 18 a de THR INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ER ———— MONDAY, SEPT. |30, 1040! SERIAL STORY— FUNNY SIDE UP By Abner Dean | OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoople ~~ OUT OUR WAY f~ By Williams

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| : | F—— = te OF COURSE, BUT AS SOON AS SOME |b WIE HER FO! BITS By Marguerite Gahagan % ry : PLANS OF MINE GO THROUGH wm 2\ A HOUR! | || iS mee Ii A UM-M uw MEANWHILE, YESTERDAY: Sue Mary keeps a date TN k Fy £5 I DON'T SUPPOSE You with Nick, hoping to find out more of 3! A SC 0d : | “5% HAVE A SPARE DOLLAR

thé facts behind the strike. Nick talks ? 7 Z 7 ia 3 glibly ‘fer a while, then, as Sue Mary ! \ 9 l/r 7 0) = 5 ON NOUR, PERSON, : SN [( Do You @

questions him, becomes evasive, He asks about the office, Vera. She is going to a gambling place with Clark. Nick suggests they go, too. CHAPTER NINETEEN THE BIRD CAGE was crowded end noisy. Sue Mary had been affaid she would be conspicuous, since she wasn't wearing a formal, but about her people moved wearing all types of clothes. Women in sports dresses, afternoon frocks, and breath-taking evening gowns adorned with orchids, gardenias,

and jewels. She touched her own j 4 y : - simple blue crepe, one of those : : : i forty” Eee EEE

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thrilling adventure, if only shel] . ; OF . T. M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. weren't ever conscious of the real Cobre : Lo. A GAS STATION IN 77 po " + 1840 by Un! ndicate, Ine. \ q- HE MIDDLE PA. | - Z am reason that brought them there.| L— ied Featare Syndteate, me 1232 19 OF THE GREAT, SCORCHED, EMPTY, DESERT: § HATE BEING A _ PRETTY, 1607 BUT CRA NG ACONG he They stopped. at the bar for a few| “I don't mind your reading over my shoulder, lady . . . but please stop MUST (5/GH/)-IT DOES. Y//7- BUT | HAVE Eo ES INOW DESERY ~~ z moments while Nick looked the clipping things for your scrapbook!” : GET KINDA .J- TO/”-1T'D BE TOO RISKY- 3 EVER KNOW IT— ee crowd over.’ LONESOME HAVING IT KNOWN THAT , "HERE, KIDFP» ) A. A GIRL ,ALL ALONE WAS Then they walked through. the HOLD EVERYTHING NX RUN IT MYSELF RUNNING THIS PLACE! other rooms where people. crowd- ; | ~EVER SINCE POP = . x

ed about tables and piles of money 2 and chips were in evidence everywhere. It was in the last room— a | smaller one with only a few people—that she saw Vera and -Ross Clark Jr. \ Ge Vera was beautiful. Regal, : ot ; : \ EN thought Sue Mary, remembering : > - I fy 8 \ £5 . Babs’ adjective. She wore a plain,| 2 ; : : 3 - 5% LN iene

heavy white jersey gown with a| - 2 = ; : ; A \ -— low-cut bodice that showed her| | 5 £4 FE : ~ | iA \o"7 1) : ns IRIN EZ ~\

tanned shoulders; her head was i i D ). i} ; dg held high and her black braids Pi ; : E : \ Sone 1940 by United Peatare Sade. Inc § 9 - 30 \, > worn like a coronet. dF i TT TE Noa TE 5 ; : Looking at young Clark she saw y MENTION IT, RED? HERE IS NO FEE GEE, RED/DD y he'was too far gone to see Vera| | N 2. ri a I WANT TO THANK. YOu DucHeSS? RED | | You'see mY DOR i A aay or anyone else. He was swaying . : Ee AND LITTLE BEAVER FOR ; LOST HIS SIGHT DAD HANDLING i MAN, DORN? we i TEACHING AY SON DON 7 | DO HELPING A FRIEND A WRNCHESTER? | 3 TE and the drink in his hand had © RIDE ¢ 2 AND I'VE HAD AN : ZT NST WHEN spilled over the cuff of his coat. \ Ee A ds EXPERIENCE TLL TT 2 re yey le His face was flushed and his blond \ = TREASURE ALL. ra | 7 YOU MAKE YAMOOSE hair mussed. He was intent on the : . | : MY LIFE # TO) NZ TRE game and it was a simple matter ot 2 Jf 4 All ol | i id for Vera to step back beside Nick. hill J b oH Iii 28 a OZER ly eC Aa) THEY MOVED over to the win- x /) A y dow while Sue Mary turned to watch the play at the table. When | f\ o : Re she looked back she couldn't see| |° Ab 4 RAIDERS. them. She went over to the door| |. I 3 z and in the mirror saw them stand-| } 2 : hE i 9.30 i ; : : P< ing in the hall. Their voices came ET TORRES hy ; = 7 2 a AN A 3 : : EA - l > ZZ a to her. She strained to listen. 5 : | THEN sYOU ¢ : URE, xMARMADUKE --- BUT, ld bp! li YOU'RE { CRYING, “Well, how much do you think he FE ddr LET ME A er 7 2 1 DEAR /--- WHAT'S » »» " . . . g = JOIN YO 2 i) - . € -— 7 I 5 / 0% lil Nick's voice was insist TOR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. ; NG Ne : THE : oN § Soy 1 STAND : uth | ® . 7 E IS i 1 | . “I haven't been able to keep SLyGen 78). : 4 count,” Vera said a bit impatiently. > ’ “But my best guess is about $5000.” : Nick whistled softly. “That| FUNNY BUSINESS much? I wonder how he’s going ; to pay off. Have you suggested anything to him?” “Yes. He was pretty desperate ‘when he dropped the third grand. We went in the bar for a drink and D I! om Bs, | : 3 i A Copr. 1940 by United Feature Syndicate, Ine. { i / i —— . 'I mentioned casually that he could . \ io ; Te OTA HMs remryed a : sEPT-30.. . | sell isome of his real estate and id == YOURE PRETTY, YOURE THE TYPE Y ANYBODY WHOS BEEN ) { BOT PERHAPS YOU SUR SIERO FUER VOU ARE 70 MAKE FRARS) (7 THIS IS PURKY FOWLER. =e

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‘make that much or more. And then OF GIRL WHOM A MAN WISH TO | THRU WHAT I HAVE, MORAL SCRUPLES. PERHAP WITH A CERTAIN G-MAN. YOU ARE TO GAIN HE HAS ARRANGE’ FOR I managed to plant the idea of how PRATEC's AH, IF ONLY YOU ARE MISTER, IS HARD! you WILL NOT DESIRE® TO HIS CONFIDENCE AND LEARN HIS ASSOCIATES YOU To WORK INA BEAUTY

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; 3 bn 1 AVE IN MIND ! wo . 4 = S-MAN 3 : ; WILL ASSIST IN-MAKING YOU | Join ator site. CL MN TN Ti. i ; Wl 7 2 Require WITH THE G-MAN oT > 0 SN Nd & IN SUCH A MANNER THAT

She laughed. “He wasn't too drunk to get the idea. He pointed ’ out that since he was a member be YS seEc of the committee named to select the site he couldn't very well sell his own land. I had to be careful, but I said something about using a friend as a front and so on and so on. I could see he was thinking about it. “And then we came back here. If he keeps on losing he’ll have to do something. He owes everyone in town, they say.” : “Well, kee th ork,” : : Nick told ro, “%Do SE Ry ov wren: Hz We se... | Mary gets the pitch on this?” DON'T You L OF OTHER STUFE g HIDE mel! JUST LOST vou Sue Mary gripped her hot hands] |. WANT TO JUNE / ’ : iE ANOTHER. VOTE / and tured back to the table. They | . 9-30 BE ELECTED, mustn't know that she did under- FRECKLES 2 San) ne JUN Jesh up this pre-| «ge was running for office but went nuts trying to figure what his op- . 7 y i 19 Obviously they weant. fo gel ponent was going to say about him the day before election! young Ross Clark involved in the airport sale. By blackening his Th name they could have it reflect on By William Ferguson old Gov. Miller, for it was he who had Supoinied young Clark to the IN ANCIENT committee. \ He and old Ross Clark had been \ 7 hil law partners as young men, but he |! NR / CAT = . could never know that young Clark a \ ¥ / / | WERE REGARDED would be sich 8 weak link in the AS SACRED / : chain. She could imagine the stories $77 5 ) . ( = ? in the papers. : 7 Nie WERE Lg RECORCAMENGIRE § AT NR [Danae Jo SNe DETAR ™ She read the papers carefully for 4 STUDENTS HOWTO SAX 7 VO SR < NE DP Ten NER the next few days and finally was 7 ENEALMED a (| 1 GAY SHE © THE BE REASON ’ h ae AN AE yy =m rewarded. The airport site commit- / ANNE SLIRRIEES 1M = FOR I CC ne w) STEND \X is WR ? tee had met and annolhced that : THE TEAMPLE OF : TRS FAYWNG T17 ENSWERNG THE | | WAND : another site was bei jg oe BAST, THE { : ? BODO. ¢ NES x : eing discussed: 2 ; = 1 QLEST\ONS one that had fine possibilities. If CAT -HEADED : ; T OBX AFTER they could agree on a price, an an- SODDESS. HN ; : 8 | oe ? nouncement would be made soon. aa > 07D i i ae The paper also told of more trouble at the Smithson factory. Fist fights had started and police had been called to augment the plant guards. Union and plant officials declared negotiating procedure could stand any investigating, and insisted satisfactory progress was being made. But a picket line appeared and the company indicated there _ might be a shut-down until peace ” COPR. 1940 BY NEA stave INC.

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statement that their schedule would he Sevgsoly Yosh if materials didn’t EUROP s gM \USUALLY- USE YEW Sue Mary had a date with Joe YOU KNOW TO MAKE that evening. “Well, it looks as] though we're in for it,” he told her grimly. “We all want to work. We all take our jobs seriously. We

+ know the union won't let the company take advantage of these wartime emergencies, and we know 1S NOT A PART THE we're working for the good of the rit RED BRAIN country. Yet a certain hunch of Sh © ey CEREBRUM, MESODERM,’ half-wits are causing. trouble 4 ; MEDULLA, CEREBELLUM.

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“I. was talking to some of the : > wo a» z . 2 i boys this noon, and none of us| “Nick—"” Sue Mary's voice broke.|at him, and I'm sure this was the| ; EN $ ; knows exactly why this business| «Nick—why should he be there? Same guy. ¢F i : : : : has started. And I tock a look at And I don’t think you would be “I wouldn't be surprised anyway. “? SX A | » that picket line. Some of the guys at He's the kind that starts trouble i in it I swear I never saw before; | able to recognize him anyway. You|jjke this. A super-American work-| J Nf b CR &

long-haired guys, professional pick-| only saw him once.” ing for the under-privileged.” : a

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