Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1941 — Page 35

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. partment store window a couple of

~ ghe managed to get in the front + girl to wait on her. The girl couldn’t

kK: they were annoyed at being inter-

hand on her watch went on, and if did not like, it was for the office

te had already spent three lunch hours _ looking for a bag and she intended

she had indigestion from gulping

‘ of his family. During the years that

. had .didn’t look clean.

| FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1041

| ABBIE AN’ SLATS

FORGET ; WAY TO BE

{MR % 15 ALREADY N TE | CAR, HE WILL CONVERSE WH | You THROUSH A SPEAKING TUBE. PLEASE REMEMBER WHAT I TOLD YoU—DO NOT

| “J YOUVE BEEN\ THATS SWELL, KID, | |30 6000 TO | TO FORGET SLATS. TRY TO FIND

JTL NEVERT YOUR FUNNY LITTLE TOWN OF CRAB: TREE CORNERS, THAT'S THE ONLY

GOOD

BUT YOU MUST TRY

HAPPY AGAN- B LUCK! 4

—By Raeburn Van Buren

LATER-- 00 HOLLYWOOD DRIVE--A ESTHER 1 WAS EARNING MY WAY HOME - DRIVING A MYSTERIOUS MAN I'VE NEVER SEEN -AND DISGUISED AS.A BOY - SHE'D HAVE

OBJECTED-PERMAPS INSISTED ON PAYING MY ‘FARE -BUT da, SHE'S ALREADY DONE TOO MUCH FOR ME.

AND 50, "BOB" GROGGINS AND'MR, JOHN A"

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START OFF ON THEIR FANTASTIC JOURNEY-:

TODAY'S SHORT STORY Betty Decides

By MARY KING

"SHE WOULD have to get married some time, of course. As she sat at the marble topped lunch counter waiting for her sandwich she compared notes with herself on wha like if she married

she didn’t. If she married him she'd have a home and everything that went with it. If she didn’t, it would probably mean 8:30 to 5 from now until infinity taking down what her employer had to say regarding his special brand of pickled herring and putting it back on his letterheads. It ‘was love at first sight with her and Tom; but soon after she met him the stock market crashed and he had to take over the support

followed she had plenty of time to think. Tom | liked golf and bridge and football games. She didn’t. All his friends liked the things he liked. All hers liked the things she liked. The more she thought about it the more impossible the situation seemed. When she tried to discuss it with him he either became hurt or waved the whole thing aside as being too silly to talk about. So-she thought about it alone. Tom

was financially able to get married|

pow and wanted her to make up her mind. 1 ” ” 2 SOMETIMES she thought that if she stopped seeing him she might meet someone else who had her own likes and dislikes. But she had arrived at the conclusion some time

ago that if a man reached 35 and|

wasn’t married, he was either slightly psychopathic in some direction ot ore arilstio that canceled his eligibility automatically. ‘Her sandwich came, and with it her coffee. She looked at the silver with a wry face and asked the boy| for another teaspoon. The one she Eating at messy lunch counters in order to get some shopping done at noon was one of the things that went along with the pickeled herring. The food was indifferent. She ate it as fast as She could. paid her check, and started for the Loop. A picture she wanted to see was advertised at a theater at the corner. She stopped for a second to look at the billboards and then hutr-

ried on, thinking that if she were}

,married to Tom she could take walks in the daytime while the sun was shining: and go to a movie in the afternoon if she wanted to. She was on -her way to buy a handbag. She had seen it in a de-

days ago. When she arrived at the department store she stopped to sée if it was still in the window; but the merchandise had beén changed. The handbag depa:iment, when she got there. was mobbed. A sale was going on; everyone was in a hurry, impatient and grabbing with a will. Making use of the football technique that seemed to be in order

liné of scrimmage and get a sales-

rémember ever having seen the bag] but she asked some of the other girls if they recognized its descrip‘flon. No one did, besides which,

rupted in the middle of a sale. ; " ra. RATHER HOPELESSLY the girl

who was waiting on her went to look for the buyer. The minute

th was ohe thing her employer force to come back late from lunch. But she wasn’t going to leave. She

to get the one she wanted now and have it over with, The buyer came. Yes, she remem‘bered the bag. They only had one like it. And it was stunning! She began opening drawer after drawer ny gh and it. Ab last she £av 3 ‘m Sorry,” she smiled. “It must have been sold.” i 2 a =a

WHEN she got back to the office

her sandwich, she was a wréck from

: $0, and, of course, on this th jay her employer would want a

er out in 10 minutes. As though ed herring couldn’t wait! She dered if she could be right .in head for ‘going on with a life this when she could be married owas Be otis the letter bn ; e letter her je rang. “Elizabeth,” a feme the other end of the

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FUNNY BUSINESS

“No, it’s not a mistake—we happen to be short on pants!”

THIS CURIOUS WORLD WHERE 8 TYSCEEPS

DON'T HELP /

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-r HOW TIMES DO CHANGE,” THE WORD : OUSSEAL ES FROM AN OLD FRENCH WORD MEANING

VYLrTTLE BUNDLE.”

corporate names.

ANSWER—There is no difference. R. R. companies use railroad, and the other half railway, in their

By William Ferguson

SLR,

A BIRD OF AUSTRALIA, SLEEPS SO SOUNDLY THAT IT CAN BE 2/750 WP? PRAT WALK NS ee YET IT IS CONCEDED THE " TITLE OF WORLD'S UGLIEST SIRD.”

T. M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.

In the U. 8. about half of the

like to, but I don’t know just how things are with you and him, ahd if you're going to be angry I don’t want to do it.” Elizabeth thought of the handbag. “I won't be angry,” she answered sweetly, “but I think I ought to tell yow that Tom and I are going to be married; he doesn’t know it yet, but he will in five minutes—if yowll hang up!” Tomorrow: A man faces the last important decision of his life. “Rendezvous,” by David R. Moss.

(All evens, hames and characters in this story are fictitious.)

MOBILIZATION URGED BY CLINTON GROUP

The Indiana Committee for Na= tional Defense announced today that the Clinton County Trades and Labor Council at Frankfort has adopted a resolution urging full mobilization of the industrial, economic and moral life of the nation for production of war materials. The resolution also Supports use of American naval forces for police, convoy, or in whatever way 18 most effective to insure the delivery of ese materials to Britain, and urges that public opinion “unite behind the duly constituted government of this country,

IRON MOUNTAIN MOVED PITTSBURGH, Pa. (U. P).-— A 750,000-ton pile of iron ore that has lain almost forgotten in Erie County

“Tom called

Brought to Pitts

since the World War days has heen

P. & E. EMPLOYEES HOLD ANNUAL PICNIC

At noon Sunday at Milligan Park, Crawfordsville, maybe 300 big baskets of food will be spread out on

the picnic tables and the biggest |

eating event of the year for Peoria and Eastern Railroad employees will get underway. It will be the third annual picnic

of the Peoria and Eastern employ- |"

ees, active and retired, families and friends. It is sponsofed this year by the P. & E. Boosters of Crawfordsville, . A band concert and baseball game will be on the afternoon program. Mrs. Raymond Dorsey, of 608 8. Green 8t, Crawfordsville, announces, : _ After reaching the park, picnicks ers should follow the main road to Bite 10 on the south side ahd wateh for the P. and E. signs. The railroad i8 part of the New York Central Bystém and hes offices in Indianapolis,

ROBERT E. ADAMS . ABOARD CRUISER

Robert E. Adams, son of Mr. and Mis, Clarence E. Adams, 528 E. 56th 8t., is among the Northwest= ern University Naval R. O. T. C.

members now cruising thé Great!

es in U. 8B. Navy ships. He is aboard the U, 8. lake cruise w ted this

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

OUR BOARDING HOUSE :

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THAT'S 2 MAMMY! PAPPY// REMEMBER’ Yul PROMISED ¥ ANYTHING

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8. Wilmette, The! ubstii

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YEAH---AN' [IF 1DON'T BEAT YA, I'LL TREAT T SODAS AND EAT MY OWN

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/ HERE COMES QUICK THE CREW /

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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

IrwAs IN A TIN BOX WITH A HANDLE ON IT!

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