Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1940 — Page 15

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¥ | 71 MAYBE. YOU CAN TELL ME, AMOS HOPPLE, EH 7 WHAT'S THAT 2 EGAD, WHOSE BUSINESS 1S 1T | ‘FED UP" 1S GOOD! IT LOOKS Dude C lege a er a | WHERE YOUR NEW-FOUND FRIEND, MR.RUG, MARTHA, IT'S NOT #1 | ANYWAY, (F I WANNA TO ME LIKE PE Ere -. "Y \owa HE SEEMS TO HAVE VANISHED LIKE A POSSIBLE WHY, Lau ff [CAMP CLIT TONIGHT ZL | TO CET FED re INA BIG ir. | x mow i ma MAGIC CARPET,ALONG WITH HIS suitcase! V4 GREAT CAESAR /: ¢ RT IN THAT ‘By OREN ARNOLD : 3 EE Re] V2 ww NOURE SOCH A GREAT CHARACTER : *f) | ANY GUYS WHO Af SHAGK OF YOURS! HOW ES TERONY te shor vou. voi. 1] EAE G GR = | 7} "READER, T KNOW NOULL BE SURPRISED! JAC R ALES SPIER FARILY AND MARIS Sok Sy TRDAYY Tonsle sier wert; seri. = Mo er A 7A ALL I HOPE 1S THAT YOU DIDN'T LEND fusiwiemuBiu_ i [FANLY AND making 17 V/esley York, professor of archaeology. HNN i ; : 2. Bes HIM ANY MONEY wa IT'S BAD ENOUGH WE Gs : WN ?, He is young, ip andsome, and AN J hl Be | Ro 1 <ST 2 TO LOSE HIS b R : 7 94sily embarrassed. After her conference, fl} EE} a on 2% |. ‘of & y = ] Bennie flies south, discovers a group of Hdd ; K : zr: i BOARD siLL/ 4 Men walking. She swoops down on them, 1 greeted by a burst of gunfire.

i - CHAPTER THREE ‘THE MAN ACROSS the table from Andre was scowling. “A fool you make of yourself,” he was saying, “and /fortunate for you is the change in plan.” “What do you mean?” Andre asked. “I got your card. That much was all right, the information. But you would have been called here anyway. An—what is it you call your-| f ; = £ - / ‘ self? Andre Girardea, hah!” : i ahi and oz. / 77 Win 1 ACs \ LS

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mean? No. I %peak not for my- 2 / ee ! 4 self, you know that. [Now at home at i LI'L ABNER : : - a. ngpfie a ul Noe Sp i —By Al Ca you were dlways a soft mark for| |e Wh i Copr. T0035 Tilton Fares Silicate, TC. J n PP the women, and here in America, A i : %r8& ra-krr | THAR WE : YOU make & name for yoursel? With “The only suit he liked was the one I was wearing!” : S YOUNGSTERS? | ‘OL Swie | &~ AEE the first pretty woman you con- doch ; aus ESS — tact. Do you fancy that is ap- j . a : AbL. EL be BAST P TROLBLE---proved?” ; ; CT ! y AN ATTRACK 5 @ >) “Listen, T—" | HOLD EVERYTHING ; i = ; > THEM GALS” “No. You listen. You. Now, you . can never work high if you let your attraction for women rule you, Herr —uh—Girardeau, and the news- ; LOCKER papers have been picturing you and ROOM writing about you and—" Andre interrupted. “I was not making a fool of myself. I told you A the way to get at the father was JAX through the girl. It is he who owns COLLEGE the new bomb sight, remember.” “Ah, the bomb sight!” ” o ”

“EXACTLY! Already I have seen every inch of the big factory here, and sdon I could be intimate with

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live to be a good husband for long —femember that! But enough; there / - : : g STAs 8 y is ‘work ahead. You go at once to <p a / Sa. 533; pes i111 RE - = a J : NN Pueblo, New Mexico,” : : ; ASF = 3 i Ke 7% Sag hi 1 AT : “But that's where the girl is!” be “ll x = ote Andre looked squarely at the other man, a squat, pompadoured one of middle age. “Right. And the father. And the new bomb sight. What better region than a barren desert, to do bombing tests? Eh? We are not asleep, Herr Girardeau. You can go ahead and follow up your heart : g ; i ; : interest, impersonally. But not too ; a : LIES ¢ rn Fo :

far, mind you. If you are not shrewd—” The man shrugged. “Do .you need money?”

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$20,000 in it. There is no lack of En money if the goal is attained, just “This pep talk comes to you by electrical transcription.” DOME A FAVOR: 5 JanISoLp QS by 2 SAN EXPLAIN _ ARGUNG, pL ME

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patience. He detested this man who was his superior here. “What am I toi do now?” “Here is a map.” They spread a picture of North America and the short man began measuring with a pencil. “You can see that, by good fortune, Pueblo, New Mexico, is at a strategic advantage. The principal border towns such as Brownsville and El Paso, Texas, Nogales and Tia Juana, are the wirtual barricade. But where the international line th e land | hE = . — runs through the open desert land WASHINGTON TUBBS II « B - —By Crane

—there, this dot is Pueblo, and | [== there is the university too, where }2-= 5 AT LEAST THEY HAVE NOTHING ON) SORRY, BUT X PLEASE SLEPT FOR WE oT ao or here alte do) 1s : \ . GIVE HIM SPECIAL AGENTS INVES- \[ HAVEN'T % y girl g HIM BUT CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE [ MR.DRINKWATER | THIS LETTER. WE'LL TIGATING ESPIONAGE! HMM! | | NIGHTS! NERVOUS NS A Wve THE SORT, SUN. WE MERELY

you go.” . 2 1 y ; ZI IS TOO ILL TO WAIT FOR AN ANSWER] SHOW THEM IN! 1 WARN YOU! IF YOU START WISH TO HEAR YOUR S\DE : , PDT F TRYING TO PIN A MURDER oO THE STORY > : ii CHARGE ON ME LIKE THOSE 7) CONFOUNDED POLKE, I'LL...

“ALL RIGHT.” “See, it is just this far to Tampico, and here is Guaymas on the Mexican west coast, and Mazatlan.” | “YT see.” . . “That's all, now. You go direct to Pueblo, contact our operative there and get further orders. Here is a ring set with a chrysocolla : A 3 3 3 stone. Wear it for identification. ; —— vi ol a: 2 i And the other operative there will i 4 be feigning a sprained ankle and walking with one crutch.”

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When the conference was ended | «For two-minute eggs, sing one stanza of the ‘Star-S , . j , -Spangled Banner'— = a A for four-minute eggs, sing two stanzas.” 1 HELLO, HILDA, TiS 1S LARD SPEAKING THERE'S STILL | ; , ‘ “ ; YOU'D LET ME SEE YOU AND GIVE M pw OOM on the next air transport west. go . A CHANCE TO EXPLAIN THINGS / @ = 1 on CLOSING) Roo 4 = SIRT N 1 Ba WHAT & THERES NO The air, trip ‘was interesting until THIS CURIOUS WORLD By Will F : : y KNOW THAT YOU'LL TLL ASK You "| FARE Tm MAKING HER nightfall, and then because there| °’ : . y. William Ferguson iil 1] 7 NZ, : J a, ALWAYS BE THE SPORT / was no stimulating passengers with kam ? Vrs .- YY. o 77 7 ONLY GIRL FOR ME. . whom he might converse, he retired AT EL MORRO IW I. ‘ PLEASE DONT NAT? : = a ONAL MONUAAENT, d BRUSH ME ore so

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train that would take him to the : g C quaint village of Pueblo. = ; SM SPANKER. From the moment he got to Pue- > ey LIMITS THE VIS blo he was alert for the man walk- LY Le . 3 DOMES ITS OF ing with a crutch. Of course, chance| | a 7 ES7/C CATS might dictate more than one man| | SS $s aanLlS BIRD

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Rocking R Ranch, and seeing| § Z = 1D) Sa Ronica herself. But he had been| | Z =: 3 LTE\N _ = reprimanded for putting personal| | : : Sil HEFL YO BuibeR? S00 ENSUON 0 ALLOW tastes first; so, better he form his sete , ; ME TO PASS wae business contact first. / He liked the general looks of things. Pueblo “University surprised him. The clerk in the expensive if small hotel here informed him that the town and its cluster of To. ranches really depended on the one| ~~ @% o> ‘stream that watered this region year

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cattleman and his wife had endowed the university originally, and unex- SOURCE OF THE pected dude patronage had built it MNMISSISSIPPL into a luxury school. RIVER,

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ings. %he landscaping was super- Fi lative too, and he walked down an VER(TAS CAPUT : avenue of trees toward the admin-| " ooo MEANING ; : ee - 4 gigi the nude status’ TRUE HEAD.” g \ z DAR 2 CAL'S ALL WASHED UP ALL HIS | | AND HE DID IT HE WAS HEADED NOW HE'S ALL THROUGH. A FAILURE! of an Indian maiden in a fountain : Wy de : LIFE HE WORKED AND STUDIED~] | FOR THE -- WHEN YOU CAME ALONG ‘NO SYNDICATE IN NEW YORK WILL GIVE . under the building's main arch,| ° ; : ; FOR A COUPLE OF 6000 AN' DREAMED ~ ABOUT COMING YOU TAUGHT HIM HOW TO PLAY~IT WAS HIM A JOB! HE'S PACKING TO GO { Woen a long whispering sedan drew a ac =“) db Davs: So PVE cous | ERE ™ AL OF You. HE FORGOT HOW © Hous TO CRABTREE CORNERS~AND . p. At the sage moment a be- JFL 3 n : Ni ae = z : IYER GROCERIES // HE'S JUST WHA © spectacled Ro stoop out of the : ¢ NN TO GO OFF FOR A. on | : CARTOX a ; YOU MADE HIM. AREN'T YOU " building, carrying three books and a WEEK: i {i | § ie i? ; J OBLIGHTED 2? brief case, but Andre turned idly to 4 Took at the car; # Through the sedan window he g saw the face of a girl, Spanish or ; Mexican, of extraordinary color- ANSWER—Chilled shot is composed of lead to which a small ing. He could see that she was amount of antimony has been added to increase its hardness. small, and reasonably young, but 50 Yay sure of herself as to be a : il | & trifie haughty. him, and her voice was almost lyric.|poise in time to keep from star 1 || Eo Z| LAME ia The bespectacled man had stepped| “How are you, Senorita Montoya? at her as she hobbled past Sans || Be : wl, 2 Sid Vz 7 “a

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