Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1941 — Page 13

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ABBIE AN' SLATS

CHICK GUMBO FOLLOWS BARRY

WRONG Y STILL-L-L~HES BEEN SPENDING MONEY

NIGHT CLUB TO NIGHT CLUB UNTIL THEY REACH

(“IVE JUST TEN | ITs BARRY KENT IS THAT | DOLLARS LEFT. ID | JUST

AND LOLA FROM

THERE'S GUMBO, THE

OH, LOOK, BARRY: ICR :

COLUMNIST

—B8y Raeburn Van Buren

(“10 IMPRESS HIM WITH MY FINANCIAL STANDING MEANS THAT ALL NOLLYWOOD WiLL KNOW ABOUT IT+HERE BOBS THE GRAND

HERE'S A DOLLAR, BABY. KEEP THE 1 © CHANGE”

SERIAL STORY—

LOVE POWER

By OREN ARNOLD

YESTERDAY -— preparations well.

Leana has made her During her ride with Bob and Carolyn, she pretends friendship, and Carolyn is definitely worried. Later,. Leana comes to the Tyler cottage, tells Carolyn that Beb wanis to see hér in the shaft at 8 o'clock. She walches while Carolyn walks around the mountain, hurries to her transmitter,

Alter waiting 26 minutes, she presses 8 switch,

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE KNOWLEDGE OF her power at this moment, "nd of the vengeance she was about to wreak on the Tyler girl, gave Leana Sormi’s face a wild look of exhilaration. She threw her transmitter switch as if the act were a definite little finale. And finale it was; Not even Leana Sormi, brilliant scientist, had known the extreme potency of X-999! Simultaneously with her touch of that switch, all of hellfire itself burst over the universe. The earth shook in a staccato of doom. Tonto Mountain; it appeared, was lifted skyward. A great spreading bulk blacked out the light of day, extended eastward over a full five miles, then came pelting—roaring—ctashing down in an all-con-suming bombardment. The top half of Mummy Ridge {tself was blown square off and a minute later it and all its area there to the east were buried under countless tons of debris. The very physiography of a mountain range was being altered. And nobody— no living soul—heard Leana Sormi give her long, hysterical scream. From other points of view (as told countless times in the m&nths and even vears to follow) the explosion of Tonto Mountain was that of a volcano, no less. Except that this particular volcano spewed fire from only one side of its mouth, after first bursting out an opening. n n » THE actual eruption was not straight up, but angled. The great force of the explosion naturally took the path of least resistance. The west half of Tonto Mountain was a bulwark of granite, virtually solid rock a mile thick at its base. A flat white face of that granite had showed at the peak to form a Jandmark for centuries. But in nature's own eruptions eons ago she had loosened and stirred the eastern half of Tonto, Upending its strata and piling there loose boulders, smaller rocks ahd soils. It was this loose deposit which gave] way under the force of X-999's explosion. That loose half of Tonto became shrapnel, spreading out fan-wise. .The granite half stood firm, merely shaken by the recoil. The circumstance proved to be extremely fortunate for puny human beings who had dared ensconce themselves in nature's bosom here. It was as if nature had kept a benign hand over them and their little huts. Not that the huts escaped damage—every window in the scientists’ village was broken, and every china dish, every bit of

glass equipment in the laboratory. Rock chimneys were toppled | over. One cabin was moved quite | off its foundation. The stables, | flimsy structures at best, flattened and three of the horses! killed. A dozen major or minor avalanches were started on neighboring mountains, and their roiling, pelting rocks were still an echoing thunder 10 minutes after the actual explosion, ” n

MOST OF the village people, as Leana Sormi had mentioned to! Carolyn, were at dinner. When the! great shock and noise came, they were stupefied. Ears were deafened, muscles numbed. The story of all that was destined to make good telling for generations after. When Carolyn and Leana left him at the stables shortly after 5 o'clock, Bob Hale lingered to rub down his black gelding rather -than give the] task to & stable boy. Currying,| brushing, patting and talking is the way to get acquainted with a horse, Bob knew; it can be genuine pleasure for both. About 15 minutes later, though, Bob was called to the stable telephone, It was Leaha. “Robert, dear,” she began, “is it too much to ask that you ‘drive in to Blair for me, at once? There is some equipment—a microscope part —which I simply must have in the laboratory early tomorrow morning, and I really wanted it tonight. It was due on the mail stage today énd the Blair postoffice closes at 6 I-I wouldn't want to trust it

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THIS CURIOUS WORLD

BARNACLES

CAN TAKE 20 PER CENT OFF THE SPEED OF A S.000-HORSE POWER VESSEL.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES OUR BOARDING HOUSE

(74 GWELL STUFF! (5 4 STRIKEOUTS AND 5 BASES ON BALLS wav AND YOU LOSE A =O GAME BY WALKING IN THE WINNING RUN IN THE NINTH / YOU'RE WILDER THAN A REFORMATORY PicNic!

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1941 |, By Williams he THAT'S ME =

OUT OUR WAY

WHY, IT'S GOOD FOR. YOU == BRILLIANT MEN GENERALLY BELONG TO MANY ORGANIZATIONS CLUBS, COMMITTEES, BOARDS OF DIRECTORS iT KEEPS THEIR MINDS ACTIVE, VERSATILE AND KEEN /

With Major Hoople

T'M NO QUIZ KID, BUT IF You ASK ME, THAT PLATE UMPIRE DIONT GIVE ME ANY MORE CORNERS THAN THERE 1S ON A BALD HEAD! HE'S AS MIXED UP AS A DUCK INA

IT MAKES ME MORE STUPID--ALL 1 KIN THINK. OF 1S GITTIN' THERE, AN WHEN 1 AM THERE ALL{ AN' IF I HAD 1 KIN THINK. OF IS GITTIN' TO TH NEXT

ww AS A FORMER CHAMPION CRICKET. } BOWLER, T FEEL CONFIDENT T CAN CORRECT RUBE'S WILDNESS TOA

POINT WHERE HE K AT TH SECOND,

AN SOON!

4 Une MAJOR 7® CANT EVEN 7} CORRECT # HIS OWN

WILDNEGS THE MUSEUM OF MODERN CRIME-N.Y. CITY SERAEANT SOORER / THE APH TH’ WAX DUMMIES OF SER 7 by My

Both 3 > YOU OPENING THE TRUCK

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COPR. 1941 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. WM. REC. U. 8. PAT. OFF, COPR._1941

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T WAS EXPECTING } SOMETHING LIKE THIS!

WILL YOU GIVE ONE OF THOSE NOISE COMPLAINT CIRCULARS 0 MY,

I TOLD You PEOPLE WOULD COMPLAIN Pp ABOUT YOU CRACKING (Sip THOSE WALNUTS!

P5SS5T--- ARE YOU KIDS FROM THE ANTI! - NOISE LEAGUE!

By William Ferguson

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IS THE FORGO 7 7EN | MAN 7 | HE, HOWEVER, WON MERITS IN HIS OWN NAME BY BUILDING THE FIRST RAILROAD FROM Moscow

———————— COPR. 1941 BY NEA SERVICE, ING T. M, REC. U, 8. PAT. OFF,

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ELESCOPE, DOES THE PLANET VENUS HAVE THE SHAPE OF FIGURE 1, b, C ord 2

ANSWER—We can see Venus in each of the above shapes at va-

rious stages of its travels around the sun,

according to its distance from us.

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a \ | “Surely, Leana! I can drive right ber, youll see. You got a good |

over now. Our group doesn't eat until 7. Be a pleasure.”

He was earnest about it. He re-| membered that he hadn't been suf-|guns, man talk. They were exam(ficiently attentive to Leana any- ining the postmaster’s own 30-30

and this little before-dinner jaunt was easy. ” ” ”

HE DIDN'T rush because there

his car immediately and head off

down the old road from the mine.

Jt swung south and west from Tonto Mountain, winding in a picturesque way. He was still thinking of the girls.

Somehow, despite his avowed desire

to serve her, he hadn't exactly liked Leana Sormi today. For no reason that he could set a finger on, he had resented her manher while on the ride. He forced that thought aside as unfair, senseless. The car on the mountain curves took all his attention. And when he reached Blair he paused to chat a bit with the postmaster. Leana’s parcel hadn't arrived, after all. She would be disappointed. Vaguely he wondered why a mere miscroscope lens, or whatever it was, could be so urgent. There were other microscopes at hand in the laboratory. But then, a person gets used to a favorite one, he knew. He switched the talk to deer hunting.

“SHORE thing, Dr. Hale,” the postmaster was friendly, “it's deer as’ll run right over you around here in autumn time! Shore's you're born! Big bucks with 10, 20 points all up in that Tonton Mountain country. You stick here till Octo-

rifle?” They went into the matter of

| when— BROO:0-0-0-0-OM! The earth trembled, shook them to their very teeth! Glass cracked

{was abundant time, but he did také and fell from the bursting shock of

(the explosion. Bob's muscles froze. The postmaster looked quickly at him in consternation, Neither [spoke at first. Then both looked out. The late sun-yellowed sky back toward Tonto was blooming in a magnificent mass of black earth {and rocks and shooting flame. | They saw it boil. Saw it grow— billowing, spreading, roaring and ‘echoing furiously now. It was {greater than anything in their com|prehension. It was reaching out {over half the horizon, as if it meant to engulf all the universe. “I know!” Bob rasped, from the {deep frenzy now within him. “It— |it—Carolyn’s there! Carolyn’s still there! . . . Come on! . . . Oh my God! . . . Carolyn!” The two men were running to Bob's car. (To Be Concluded)

(All events, names and characters in this story are fictitious.)

WAVE THAT BANNER!

FOSTORIA, O., May 10 (U, P.) — U. 8. Flagg, of Fremont, O, today received his selective service questionnaire from the Fostoria, O, draft board here he registered.

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DROP THAT GUN,

YES, CH : DECKER 7 you ES,CHARLENE ‘ RED

THE MYSTERIOUS LAW? CALGHT ME ROBBING

SORRY, CHARLENE / Tf HE WAS SMART LIKE A FOX BUT THE SCHOOLM Eg ) Ok, \ NEE TOOK THE WRONG TRAIL / ) MONEY SO WE Lo 7 } COULD GET MARRIED /

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_ DARSNIRE, THE REAL cAs™R0 1 STILL IN THE SHIP'S HOSPITAL WHEN TWO GOVERKRMENT AGENTS ARRIVE

IF YOU DON'T MIND, SIR, WELL CARRY YOU ASHORE ON A STRETCHER

[/ NO ONES FOLLOWING, ~ ¥ OKAY, DIXON, WE'LL TAKE | HIM STRAIGHT TO THE J AIRPORT { /

[BELEvNG THAT EASY 1S SENOR CASTRO, THE FOREIGN AGENTS REPORT THAT THEY'VE TRAILED HIM TO A HOTEL

SPLENDID, ny LUGWITY SPLENDID! § I PERSONALLY WILL BE THERE TO TAKE CHARGE

PRECAUTION, YOU KNOW, I CASE YOURE STILL BEING WATCHED

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BEAU PEEP! CORAWNYOURE ACTUALY wl HALEN'T SEEN | PRETIER THAN You You S\WN\(Ce WERE THEN! You COLLEGE OAYS « Bl ARE. | OTHERWISE , YOO RANEN'T CRANGED A BAT

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THEY DON'T KNow J WE COULD WHAT T'DO WITH / DECIDE A SHIP LOAD FOR 'EM OF SWAG !

WE CAN'T DECIDE WHETHER TO BURY IT SOMEWHERE OR MAKE PORT AND SPEND

(SURE! WE KNOCKED) OFF A TREASLRE SHIP... MY CABIN'S S0 FULLA JEWELS I GOTTA SLEEP ON DECK

NAW, WE DIDN'T PICK UP ANYBODY OFF TH' BEACH... WE GOT TOO MANY ABOARD NOW TO DIVIDE TH BOOTY 7 WE GOT ON OUR LAST HAUL!

YOU GOT A

HULL FULL | OF SWAG? )

STILL NO TRACE OF Boom!

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pm I could WALK BY HIM A COUPLE OF TIMES, AND IN MY VERY SUBTLE MANNER , START ct HUMMING I(T! A

Its MY June, -y MEATBALL --- MAYBE !

POP ARRANGED GET THE USE OF COMMUNITY HALL ALL WE HAVE TO SELL THE TICKETS R

C | DICK JURGENS ¢& AND HIS BAND ¢ ARE COMIMg

ONE | WHY COULDNT WE GET JURGENS TO INTRODUCE IT FOR USS ME Se REALLY

HEY, REMEMBER THAT SONG WE WwW

ROTE A YOU'D BETTER JUST COUPLE . YEARS BACK! H

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