Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1941 — Page 26

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VES SIR,YER HONOR, HoorLE ! THE RECOMMENOCATION TELLS ALL ABOUT ME «ww I'VE HAD EYPERIENCE IN SEVEN DIFFERENT CITY HALLS wwe AN EXPERT ON TIME= “KILLIN' wuer T MEAN TIME ~KEEPIN'/ wwe S'POSE (T'S SAFE TO SMOKE A CIGAR ON YOU, NOW THAT ELECTION'S OVER ww HA-HA/

? ’ . | By Williams ~ THEM NES, THEYRE USIN’ JOB BLUE PRINTS GIVE \ IT OVER THERE BY ME A LAUGH --IF THERE'S | TH’ TIME THESE GUYS ANY SPIES AROUND ARE GETTIN’ SPY THEY'RE THRU WITH CONSCIOUS! WHY, THAT JOB LONG WE INVENTED TH’ AGO! SUBMARINE AN’ BUT WERE JUST GETTIN’ TH’ BLUE PRINTS NOW!

erial Story—

- Conscript’s Wife

[By BETTY WALLACE

"|! YESTERDAY—Martha fights loneliness with Paul and Suzanne helping. When ® girl in the oice remarks that Mr. Elliott won't let Martha get lonesome, she begins to wonder if she is seeing _ Paul too frequently. One night, Paul arrives at ‘the apartment without Suzanne. They've quarreled. Paul takes Martha to a hotel for dinner, to make {Suzanne “burn.” While she waits for [Paul - to take Butch fori/an airing, she {overhears her neighbors. . . . “That man /8t this time of night. . . . Imagine!”

# CHAPTER FIVE | MARTHA WHIRLED in sick surprise. She peered out into the hall, but whoever it was had already gone. The shuffie of feet on the _ stairs, going up, and the slamming of a door on the floor above, however, told her a second later that _ it must have been the stout, grayhaired school teacher who lived with the thin, spindly piano teacher. || “Neighbors!” she thought, furiously. “Dear, nosy, nasty-minded neighbors!” A moment later, Butch came B bounding up the stars, His tail ar Wagged, his little paws reached up ie «muddy, of course—and his eyes i told her how much he loved her. It was curiously comforting. She closed the door, put the chain on, end thought, “The devil with them.” But the little incident stayed swith her. For days, she could not shake it off. Once she passed the stout school teacher on the stairs, and she avoided the sharp eyes, olding her head high. | She did not mention the incident to Paul. It was too ridiculous. The only thing that troubled her was that Suzanne did not telephone, and Paul did not bring her “around again, as she had expected. THe quarrel must have been more ol ‘§erious than she had realized. It x was awkward, too, for now Paul pi came by himself. And she simply ‘gould not drown that feeling of eyes watching her as she left the it apartment with him; eyes again as vA they said good night at the door. | » ” ”

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= fully said he missed her, sent her rE ‘loads of love. “The only thing that oh worries me,” he wrote, “is how you're getting along. I hate to think you're lonely, or worrying : @gbout me. The camp is swell, betho ter than the Reception Station. We're in winterized tents, barracks too, but I drew a tent. The first f 13 weeks here are supposed to fags. toughen us up; maybe that’s the

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“The captain said ‘take’ me to the hospital, not ptt me there!”

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NANCY --- WOULD 1 YOU'LL HAVE

CHINESE LUNCH AT MY HOUSE?

WE HAVE NO

Reading that letter one morning FORKS !

‘at her desk, she thought with surprise, “I'm getting on even better than I have any right!” Certainly ghe could not be lonely, having : dinner with Paul almost every night, od geeing movies with him, and going riding. || One night they’d stayed in-and played two-handed bridge. And one hight they had taken Butch for a long walk, He was sg pitifully cooped up. Paul said it would be better, perhaps, to put him out to A board on a farm he knew. She read Bill’s letter again. Sud-, denly she decided, “I'll stay home tonight.” She could not quite put sher finger on what made her de¢ide that. , .. : || She told Paul while she was in his office going over some reports lwwith him, “The round of gaiety is we wearing me out, Paul. And I have |: ino clean stockings left. I believe 111 fry myself a_couple of eggs to|night and stay home.” = || “I suppose a girl has to have some * time to herself,” he said. “And {there's no danger of weeps any more, is there?” 3 || “No. I'm getting quite accustomed ~~ * to being a widow.” She added, hon-| ; | estly, “rather too gay a widow, I ex- | pect.” ne || “Nonsense,” he said. back to these reports.” |i She washed the stockings, and | then stuck Butch in the bathtub and washed him. He whined and | moaned piteously, as he always did. | This had always been Bill's task. After that, she straightened her i bureau drawers. It was still only | half past 8. “What's the matter| with me? One evening at home, | land I'm bored stiff.” : || The apartment seemed so empty! | So quiet! She turned on the radio. . | She remembered that quiz program and Pauls voice saying that the Army didn’t separate people quite * | las permanently as Reno. . . . : “What's the matter with me?” Definitely, it wasn’t good to see him as much as she had been doing. And alone. Not that there was anything in it, but « + « « / > #2 2 nn THE TELEPHONE rang. She had

esked Bill to call her long distance; | in her last letter. “Pull louse from

idea of the tent. Darling, be sure - | 2 to ite h : tin YoU LIKE To TO USE CHOP THIS IS SOME ANYTHING : fo yu me how youre getting I SCRAP | HAVE A NICE STICKS, NANCY: Jos! WITH THESE

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ANSWER—Europe, Asia, Africa, North Ameri¢a, South America, Ausiralia and Antarctica. !

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"Vitamin Diplomacy’ Scores | Victory in Blockade Lifting

role .in the war. Well informed sources here said the State Depariment was cente’ing considerable aftention on suggestions that the nest big Axis move may be pointed toward an attack on Gibraltar. This,

if successful, might cut off the Bri|ish supply line to its forces in

NOW, THEN =YOU WANT TO NOW ABOUT THE MEN WRC HIHACKED ME | WELL, TREY WERE FS A BONCH OF VERY DETERMINED B80NS WHO F SHOLLONT SE RELD TOO RESPONS\BLE , IN AS MOCHA AS TREY WERE ONY OBEYING ay FOLLOWED ME ALL THE WAY R FROM THE ORENT Y

1 SUPPOSE THER MR. BG \S SOME ENEMY OF YOUR FREND TRE SULTAN, AND RE WAS OETERMINED YO PREVENT YoU FROM DONG WHATEVER NOU CAME HERE TO ACCOMPLISH |

ON , NO THEW THEN » WHAT OO WERENT AX AL TREY WANT 2 INTERESTED IN Boos orca IU WHY 1 CAME % TO TS COUNTRY \

THRE RWG, MY OCEAR THE

. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (U. P.)..— Plans to send food to France and Spain brought the suggestion in some quarters today that “vitamin diplomacy” may replace the past and" often-criticized “dollar diplomacy” of the United States. It was recalled that a similar rb-

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heaven’s sake,

some change,” she had told him. “You're rich on $21 a month, and I want to hear your voice.” She

"| fdidn’t know if he could phone from

camp. Perhaps he had to wait until he got into town. Now thai he was in camp, she wanted to drive up next week-end. It was about 100 miles but Peg could make it. She picked up the telephone.

It wasn’t Bill. It was Suzanne

. | Decker. “Trying to get you on the telephone is about as hard as getting Greta Garbo,” she said. “For where have you been?” “I've been out a lot,” Martha admitted guiltily. “I was just thinking

about it.”

“Out with Paul?” asked Suzanne.

| There was something tight in her

"voice. Something held back, wait-

ing. ... : “yes.” She hurried on, “Whatever

= ‘happened between you two idiots,

anyway? Why don’t you come around any more? I asked Paul, ‘put he told me exactly nothing. What did you fight about, if you did fight?” ¢ | «“syppose 1 come over right now? I've wanted to talk to you. In fact, that’s why I called.”

lief policy won this country mény friends during the World War wlién vast | quantities of foodstuffs and clothing were shipped to war vietims in Belgium, France and other areas. Announcement hy. Red Cross Chairman Norman Davis that |a shipload of medical supplies, dried and canned milk, children’s clothing and |vitamin concentrates would be perniitted through the British blockade followed months of agitation and at an opportune time for Amiericai| diplomacy. z | The decision to permit the gcnds to enter unoccupied France was regarded as u victory for American diplomats since Great Britain, until recently, -had been adamant in her determination that no such goods should pass. Significance was attached tothe move because of reported wavering on tne part of both France ald Spain as to their immediate future

Libya and furnish relief to Italien forces, in North Africa. | For such a niove, it was believed, Germany would need the assent arid possible co-operation of Spain is well as the assent of the French Government at Vichy. The Red Cross program has be¢n kept well out o usual official haniis here. President! Roosevelt has participated as head of the relief spciety, but State Department officicils have declined to discuss it other than to admit conversations have been under way. “i

KIN SHARE $150

SAN RAPHAEL, Cal, Jan. 10 (U. P.)—~When Eugenio Hogni died ‘in Switzerland Ja:t year he bequeathad his entire estate to “all” of his nieces, nephews and grandchildren. Some 35 heirs, residents of Main County, will share in the distrikution of the $15) estate.

way the other girl had asked, "Cut with Paul?” but she didn’t want to think about that. :

SUZANNE APPEARED, in soft black. Silver foxes were slung across her shoulders. Her mouth

There was 'a silence. Suzanne lighted a cigaret. Her fingers were shaking. | “Martha,” she began, “Martha, I'm putting my nose into something that’s none of my business, mayje. But—well—" i

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STOP LOOKING LIKE AN IDIOT AND HELP ME’ GET THIS OLD TRAMP

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HE'S FRIGHTFULLY STILL, SIR-FRIGHT: FULLY #7

HE'S SIMPLY UNCONSCIOUS / HE'LL COME TO PERHAPS A HALF HOUR-AFTER WE'VE : HAD TIME TO GIVE HIM A NICE HOT BATH.

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“Don’t apologize,” Martha seid. “What’s the matter?” i “You're suréc Paul didn’t tell you what we quarrelled about?” { “No, I have:i’t the least idea.” Suzanne tock a long, deep diag on the cigaret. “We quarreled abut vou,” she said. very distinctly.

“Why, of course, come right over.” '. She went to the bedroom, after | she hung up, and looked critically | into the mirror. Paul had said she wasn’t looking so well. And Su'ganne was always perfectly perfect; ‘her hair glossy, each curl in place, her makeup artful. She couldn't

was very red, her voice very -zay. But her eyes were not happy. Martha saw that at once. Saw fhat there was purpose in the squared, slender shoulders; something beneath the mannered way Buzarine divested herself of hat, gloves, far and sat down on the sofa. :

| explain to herself why suddenly| “I called you at least a dozen (To Be Continued) = | shortening. Fill greased muffin tins two-thirds full and bake at 425 degrees F. for twenty to twenty-five min: she war:ted to look well for Suzanne. | times,” she said. (Al events, panes and characters a fu MD, utes. Yield: One dozen medium size muffins... di pop 3

“We were out a great deal.”

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