Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1941 — Page 13

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By JOSEPH BARTON | Vi ) = : = T DONT KNOW -— BUT = SS J : ZZ ’ E SAID IT'S SOMEONE SISSY HE IS---“There are times, Cragin, when I g SPARRING NAMED ROSIE! ; HAVIN’ A GOIL wish I'd never joined the force—| gl Ye PARTNER ? : , SPARRING-PARTNER ! i and particularly the homicide de- : & tail” Sergeant Grady beefed to the ? custodian of the morgue. “This is

one of them!” Cragin crooked his elbow and looked over the rim of the afternoon paper at the dour detective. “You don’t have to stick around, sergeant,” he offered. “I can handle the people who come in for Krishak.” “Sure. But I'll stick around anyway. There's something, some angle i about this business that doesn't| pf ” = \ quite fit in. About the people who | ¥ 0) RED RYDER were tied up with Aloysius Krishak, Rd rr ID) ¢ a I mean, before the Kahn mob <i oot err | [ I LOOKED EVERY PLACE © knocked him off yesterday.” e 3 « SN NE -%, 4 Z FOR. CHARLENE ---YOU 6 a MID, ICOPR. 1941°BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REC. U. 5. PAT. OFF MEN GO ON HOME =»

“ ve n i uf 2 ste Yo son leis ie “Goodness! What a big mole-hill that must have been to begin with!” || I'M STAYIN’ A SPELL dian grinned. “It’s all as simple as LONGER ple. ‘The guy gets bumped off.| THIS CURIOUS WORLD Somebody-claims him. See?” “No, I don’t see. Maybe you're

a cold fish from working this job,| § Cragin, but there’s a human angle ; F A NEW-BORN

that you're overlooking. Two wom-| } ll TEN-POUND BABY en, mind you, come in and say that ; ATE WITH THE SAME GREAT Krishak is their husband. Does that : \ . GREED AS A NEW-HATCHED add up?” ll POLIPHEMUS CATERPILLAR, - Cragin put down his paper and ; : IT COULD DEVOUR A HERD OF reached for the desk’ memorandum } i, SSO COWS pad. He scanned it quickly and §N EACH WEIGHING 4000 | . OOS. oo oIN ONLY DAYS.

scratched his head. “You've got something there, Grady. It says here that Anna Krishak will clajn the remains —and : * farther on down that Velma Kri-| { : : : : shak will do the same. It can’t be| § -, -~ / CAROL OH EASY, ISN'T done! | Maybe you had better stick| § : a AND 1 ARE IT THRILLING? around, at that!” : ka, 4 / ; WHA 2 : . zm : al, fe A ; : A eT | | TRUTT, \ WEDDMS. WHERES REVEREND | SERGEANT GRADY went back / : to the office and spent an hour making telephone calls. He ordered two men from his detail out to the Krishak apartment to poke around and estimate what was there and to uncover, if’ possible, any clues. Cragin camé in late in the after- «'M. REG, V. S. PAT. OFF. noon with Velma Krishak. Grady motioned the tall, slim young wom- YOU CAN GET an to a chair and swiftly appraised | POISON. \vY her. Young, he figured, bu a hard- INFECTION ened type. The girl returned his EROM LETTING AA look without expression. oc / ahi EF 2 “Well, what do I have to to EF A — get him?” she asked directly. BR == Zz) FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS do I sign?” a : > ; Sergeant. Grady frowned. “Have ” : YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THERE WELL, I re InL SAY IT WAS Gor” 4 08 506 any Teer?” ho asked bey on a 700 Bap on ica | Shrcrine BV | | wore Benge ERD A" FELLOW who AS A | I cu: USE . 7 wd . : a AS ae g ’ EVE L - “Money?” She was instantly on 724 “ fa ; "TRADED IT’ FOR. ‘FHIS ONE/ POPE THAT No 2 MND SPOUNG EaSTERN PACED CELL : the defensive. BROOK. / “It will take money for the . . .| / A Ei , arrangements,” he said. : - ? HH i : ll “Al never told me much about - : / How po THE EGes oF his affairs, but I know he had = : ) SEPTLES DIFFER. plenty of money. I'll just check in FROM BIRDS’ EGGS ¥

his estate and that will take care = it. I've been out at our country ANSWER~—The eggs of reptiles have soft shells, resembling parch-

place.” ment. “I'm sorry, lady, but I'll have to point out something. My men inched |the little woman in black asked, her ; § A over the town apartment, and didn’t |fingers folded tightly in the frayed BRITISH DEFENSE ih . ‘YZ find a red cent. And the furnish-|cuffs of her coat. ¥ ings, of course, He impounded until 8 a \ / after an investigation. So, if you SUEZ STRENGTHENED SE want to take care of it yourseli—»| GRADY LOOKED as gruff as BUDDIES Grady smiled cynically at the wom- possible. “You don’t look as though caAIRO July 5 (U. P). — The — an’s sudden departure. you had enough money to’ take care surrender of Gen. Pietro Gazzera i AUNTIE CORAM 2 =n =» 2 of him, lady,” he pointed out. “You commander of theremaining Ttalian Ree . I. “ANNA KRISHAK, Sergeant lock poor. forces in Ethiopla, strengthened | [i “= | Grady,” Cragin announced some , but I borrow the money. I ¢ ; _® while later, bringing in a dowdy|Scrub floors extra until I pay it Great Britain's defense of the Suez little woman in & black dress and back. But you will let'me take him|Canal and the vital Red Sea trade

black coat’ Grady noticed the|Now?” routes today.

“You claint that you are the wite|K1€W that he would never see her the surrender of Gazzera, who had of Aloysius?” Grady asked her again. Her interest in the late Kri-|taken command after the Duke of without emotion. . |shak was purely a commercial one. : oO deTneyod . WO Every man likes a chance to play |ASta surrendered at Amba Alagi. nodded. * “I Lave come to ine par Omnipotence if he is convinced He surrendered with all Itallan| Si ; : vy ™ V home” she answered in. a broken that he Li Igh t—despite the law. {forces operating in the provinces of | i INN ; RN Zz be you a release, MIS. Gajig.Sidamo “except the Italian] f ad EJ ig LB. PAT. C fo as

English, “He would not come, bei“ ’ Krishak,” he promised, and took ii cant you be his wife? <Hys|IFOm his pocket a manila envelope garrison at Gondar which now is = A ‘wife was in Her Just a half hour containing the effects of the' late {hemmed in by Empire and patriot ALLEY OOP ago,” Grady demanded - reasonably. moister Herts Ssken Hom his forces, and a small column which The woman shrugged and went|from their hiding place in ig, Was dispersed into the wild ? = doggedly. I 2m his wife. There lining. “And here is a pile of nine try southwest of Assab.” / £520 bes o gre a z $1000-dollar banknotes which your| The surrender meant the virtual ho of 4\ Uppase you have papers t0(husband lefi as--a sort of (rust|ond of Italian resistance in Ethiopia » , “But mister—they are only on! fund fof you! Db lease o as of Brith. “s the church records én thé old coun-{ Monday: “Any Other Name,” fr the prin A ana control of Alextry! We have no papers, like Amer-| by Boris Kritchevsky. andria and the Suez Canal.

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