Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1941 — Page 27

THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1941

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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ABBIE AN' SLATS

§ 1) HERE'S TME RACKET- TE RICHEST MAN IN THIS JERKTOWN O'CRABTREE CORNERS |S WILBERFORCE GROGGINS. ACQORDIN' T'OUR INFORMATION HE'S GOT A DAUGHTER EIGHTEEN AND PRETTY. SHE SEES OUR OFFER OF A TRIP TO HOLLYWOOD AND A SCREEN TEST.|F SHE'S THE TY

—By Raeburn Van Buren

NATURALLY SHE |S THE TYPE HER PA BEIN' A MILLIONAIRE WE WIRE MER CONGRATULATIONS **=+ SEND HER A TICKET TO ROLLY. WOQD~ GIVE HER A BIG WEL. COME « THEN A SCREEN

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‘Lb WIRE BECKY GROGGINS" THE MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTER: THAT SHE WINS //

BY THIS TIME THE GIRL IS SO EXC|TED- SHE PER SUADES MER PROUD FATHER TO INVEST THAT MEASLY TWO RUNDRED GRAND IN THE EPIC. HE DOES AND WE TAKE A SUDDEN TRIP LEAVIN' NO FORWARDING ADDRESS! SIMPLE AND SWEET

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Dollars to Doughnuts

By EDITH ELLINGTON

YESTERDAY Anthony kisses Bee and they realize thev have fallen ‘n love, Bee cannot understand this new thrill, Kisses never meant so much hefore, Like happy children they swing in the | park. “This is our world!” Bee knows it.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN “ARE YOU GETTING sweet?” Anthony asked. “Oh, no! I could stay here for-

ever!” She

cold,

slipped out of the swing and her hands on his shoulders. | me, Anthony, doesn't this] frighten vou a lit Evervthing's| changed, now. The things vou told| me about wanting to be a merchan- | disse man, getting ahead . . . do you know that some part of the | drive them will be lost?"| I mean when youre in love, when you want to spend ever min-| ute of your time with someone, you | —you don't give ambition all the strength and force you've got.” | “Don’t be foolish, darling. Loving

you will make me work 10 times harder” T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF,

There was a little slope of hill- GERMANY,

side, above the lake where people] || AT THE BEGINNING OF THE rowed on sunny afternoons. With PRESENT WAR» WAS ESTIMATED its back against a clump of bushes,! TO HAVE SOC 000 DOGS they found a bench. | | UNDER Mir7aARY TRANG, The water below was still and FRANKFORT black, and the bushes at its edge| || BOASTED THE made soft, rustling noises in the| || WORLDS LARGEST wind. Beatrice let Anthony draw! MILITARY her head down to his shoulder. So DOGS SCHOOL... thev sat, she murmured we never thought hing like this when | we were fighting. in the store. You! didn’t think thing special about | me then. I w t a new girl] who was stubborn and dumb,| wa KY $ 1°? » i

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“But, lady, the more I work the hungrier I get!”

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i wondered | with those like vours, and that| lovely poise was do-| ing in Budget Fashions | Bee, vou simply don't belong s/ : there! You're like a flawless dia-! AL mond on a dime store counter.”| . EYE - TOOT His lips moved in her hair. “Dia! R Ai HAS NO CLOSER you think anything special when! CONNECTION WITH THE you first saw me? | EYES THAN ANY “I thought you were the most! CTHER TOOTH. earnest young man I'd ever seen,” she admitted “I wondered how! vou Kept vour face so straight.! listening to all those ridiculous customers. And I wondered ’-—she laughed deliciouslv—"I wondered if you were as smug and polite down inside.” “I usually in three languages, Inside Lucky I studied Spanish, “It's useful for swearing.”| “Later,” said Beatrice, “I won-| dered why vou didn’t simply punch Miss Dane in the nose. And still later, of course, I wondered how Huntington's could be so blind as to Keep you down there. Now if they'd put you right in the front entrance, | all the women would flock in! And if they made you general superintendent . .

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ANSWER—Maryland and Virginia.

“No. Not yet. I—I don't want | believe in charity, vowing he had (this night ever to end.” {his own troubles, couldn't be both“Tell me about yourself, Bee, ered. And all the time he had found It's funny, how little I know.” {a Job for some unfortunate man, “I don't know anything about and sent money to a woman with vou, either,” she said softly. “I children. You know. That sort of wish I'd known vou when you were thing.” : : a little boy. You must have been| She saw again Grandfather's one of those heartbreakingly sober |ruddy, lined face, his twinkling blue little boys, with big innocent eves. Coo Her own eyes were wet, “He The kind that takes: clocks apart hated - dressing up. He called it a and cures. sick dogs.” lot of fol-de-rol. He'd sit around “f Was i revolting Hittie : bov |in his shirtsleeves, his thumbs stuck as 1! : : Y+ in his suspenders, with his shoes Always fighting. We lived in one yf. ee “> |tough mining town after another, | She caught herself. Almost she clothes and furs and jewels and a and I had to fight, becaus. I was|had told Anthonv of the disaplife like a dream. You were made always marked sissy before I got | proving countenance of the stiff to be cherished and spoiled with there. My father was an engineer, |English butler Grandfather was alluxury— and their fathers called him ways threatening to fire. Beatrice put her fingertips quickly |\poss’ :

against his mouth. “Don’t.” She'd | : . try " 8 had all those things all her life, and | She Hogi Rh been scudded

they hadn't been enough | tagged “ Anthony caught her hands, kissed grandfather was boss. her palms. "You're too good for| me.” | You don't know anything about

{ % = = HE BECAME suddenly sober. “I've | gO my nerve, expecting vou to care for me. Why, Bee, I'm just a chump A penniless sucker. I haven't got a thing but two hands and a strong back and a lot of gall to even dare to want a girl like you.” He stared off “A girl like vou shouldn't be working in the store. You don’t belong there. You were made for lovely

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. "-8 =» ~_ |But she didn't want this hour to | ANTHONY was saying, his voice | end. | ragged, hy / father died in a mine | A policeman, whacking the bushes me.” v : ie A Sg gi I'and throwing the beam of a powerGuilt and a self-accusation that | Cc ; a Saw my mOUNer| s,) fashlight into odd corners in a was strange to her, who had never fC 0 pieces. After she went, if it, qinesslike inspection, drove them blamed herself for anything, gnawed | hadn't been for the old man who away at last. at She thought, wildly, that | VR my Janets best friend, I'd) “pretty late for woo pitching, maybe if she broke down right now 2 “I'm. alone pe i told him. “1 ain't it?” he grinned. “No matter end told him the truth, he might doh’t even rel b Ie P Hh d| how bad you've got it. Go on, find understand. It wouldn't seem un- efi Ternoni Jer ny mother an a nice warm hallway, or save it u 3 .. | father. My grandfather brought me | yy 3 p der-handed and sneaky now, on this “ 21 tomorrow.” He was a young

: . He was everything to me, fOr bench, wit e sweet spell of t n- [UP : g Mk 1 : we Bere Tiki iss tha p 1" | mother, father, and the best friend Policeman, and merry. “Me and Thess oa Round | 1 I: ed She |? girl ever had.” | the missus used to carry on like 3uU he ssed. ! a gh o 1 ie would spoil |. She wanted to show Grandfather eel iy . BS deed Te bei OL ito Anthony as she had known him. veryvining. ’ > , > her at all. She shivered.

“He had a loud, blustering voice. You are cold!” he accused. “Take

finthony. He'd shout at me, and BY j wave his arms around, and say I'd| L : A ih : : (never amount to a hill of beans.! “Ape!” muttered Anthony. He bundled it around her mas-| But he was the kindest, sweet- got up reluctantly. terfully. “Sure youre warm enough est man who ever lived (To Be Continued) now? Maybe I should take you| “He was always doing things for home, other people. Swearing he didn't|

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sense now, to bust up parkers. Brr. It's cold, Good night, folks.” “Good night,” said Beatrice.

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YES /- YOU KNOW IT NOWI'M BLIND'”-BUT | DIDN'T COME. BACK TO THESE. HILLSFOR SYMPATHY” CAME BACK TO SEE. YOU ONCE MORE. - BECAUSE =~] WILL NEVER SEE YOU AGAINIZ-AND NOW -I'M GOING HOME -

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AUTYMOBILES TEARIN 'ROUN™=OH, MISJAH ERIC -IT'S QUIET / DEPENDENT UPON FUL' IN THESE HILLS =AN” ME. AN” MAH GRAN'MAMMY-WE COULD §

AND HAVE ME POINTED OUT AS A HELPLESS CREATURE, ™

, NO ONE. HAS T/'KNOW YO 1S BLIND,MISTAH ERIC ~EF YO WISHES IT THET WAY=---AH’LL ALLUS BE WIF YO = ~-AH Lis BE YO‘EYES ~2==" THE. KINDNESS OF SS — TWO WOMEN ?-NO/” I COULDN'T BEAR THAT”

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