Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1941 — Page 18

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WELL, AS YOURE \ A CORPORAL IN OUR OUTFIT, Yyou'LL Just HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE OPEN AT NIGHT=- YOU GOT TO PO

SAY, YOU TELL THAT CAPTAIN THAT YOU CAN'T KEEP TT STUFF IN.OUR YARD! sOME SABOTAGER 1S LIABLE TO MISTAKE THEM FOR THE REAL THING AND

OKAY, MAJOR { ww AREN'T YOU : : THE THE WOLF GOT WHO TOLD US HE OUT=- Jf CREATURE DEFINITELY GAUCER-EYES WHEN Yi WITTED A PACKOF = A GONE Zuw UM-KUME/ HE SAW YOU ELBOW- J WOLVES IN SIBERIA ‘ww OF COURSE T ING THOGE TREES BY HYPNOTIZING HALF ¥ RETREATED ONLY TO OUT OF NOUR WAY, 3%] OF 'BM TO ACT LIKE DRAW THE BEAST AND HE GALLOPED SHEEP SO THE OTHER PF AWAY FROM YOU, OFF HUNTING FOR HALF WOULD EAT AND FIND A STOUT GRANDMOTHERS L EM LP? Z\ STICK WITH WHICH 7 = (To seLABOR Him!

H-HOLY SMOKES ~A GAL #/ GIT OUTA HERE, SISTER GIT OUT--PRONTO/!!

I WON'T SOCK YA

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/ THE BIG OAF BARGED INTO ARTMENT, INSIST) HE WAS THE FL A ER ’’” GUESS HE'S BEEN LISTENING TO TOO MANY RADIO PROGRAMS.

SO YA THINK YA CAN FLY, HUH ?

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. “Cigaret?” He set the steaming amber coffee in front of her. “Thanks, Eddie.” : : . . She looked around at the un- . changed faces. in the lunch room,

WHO'S YELLER?

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? {§ around on her finger.: YELLER! : Life became terribly complicated 0 | . when you discovered that you really 4 didn’t know your husband from the . man on the end stool of the lunch ~ counter; when you found him fading from the guileless boy you loved ~ into a rather clever gigolo, with a devoted, thirty-ish widow that kept ~ him in cigarets, gambling money, ~ and a good humor. | “‘Smatter, kid? Don’t you feel like talking to your best pal? Say,

GET YOUR FEET Se OUTA THE AISLE « ; WELL THIS ASTOL.

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. where's that old smile?” : : ; MAKE 'Y © "Beth forced an automatic, lop- “A permanent if you know any good scandal—and just a finger wav a SO iS x ; > ; . if you don’t!” ; REACH FOR BY

P7 PLEASE, PLEASE E FOR MY SAKE CALM 1 DOWN'S MEANT

sided grin in his general direction. ‘Aol “That’s more like it, Beth. Don’t ! never let nothing get you down.” THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson : Once you had thought that nothing could ever get you down. That day had been warm, but you had ‘wondered if it wasn’t the happiness welling within you that made it glow ~~ go vividly. The minister was mur- ~ _muring, his voice deeply sonorous. £ geatly beloved, we are gathered Sr ere . * >

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THREE SUITS, AN EXTRA PAIR : GRATULATE THIS LUCKY PAIR

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” AN : T 7 7 py 7 rhe ring was pushed onto the| | Su : cori TS NER SERVE vc. NY ta I third finger of your left hand. Your | } 9K : 9 7 eyes blinked suddenly to hold back | | =STUS25 j) EE] the pistatic tears. Two, slim, brown | =.=" 4 % _ | HoH = I gently drew back your little ; > : 2 Ge ’ 7 ) face veil. Your lips were raised to : Zo war Ave YO: _ NA _ Ln AN INDUSTRIES meet your husband’s kiss. Your WwOoO0D als AN OID We aan quote? _ fi iC .husb IS THE ONLY > 4 HD

and. .... =* The thick, pink-tan handle of the STOR coffee mug was digging into the COMMON TO THE ‘third finger of her left hand. Her| UNITED STATES. mug looked just like the others ‘standing. in ‘shiny, straight rows on ‘the wooden shelves. One shelf held four rows of five each. There were two shelves, so that made 40 mugs. A lot of people could drink coffee ‘from 40 mugs during the day. “ ® ” 8 . THERE WAS A pale, yellow-green ‘grease spot on. the counter near her right elbow. It suggested, but did not resemble, the 10-cent hamburger ‘from which it had dripped. It was round with delicately. spattered edges. Beth reached for a paper

pkin and rubbed the grease-spot..he had walked out with her, his ; disappeared. eyes still swung away like the eyes 13h 000 JAPANESE It seemed queer now, a short time of Fate. : J Jater, to be sitting quietly in the| “Like your eyes, Fate,” she whis- ’ ‘familiar spot with the past months |pered, “only farther. And colder.” 0 ASU ALTIES IN YEAR LE through your mind, acceler-| “It hurt you so much?” he asked. j at ‘your pulse until the pot-lid| “Yes,” said Beth. - | Wanted .to lift, Tight off your head.| She bent her trembling mouth to| A CFUNCKING, China, July 8 (U. " d you tip your lid politely at|the cup of coffee and lowered her P)~—Gen. Ho Ying-chin, War St - ‘with a knowing “Howdy?” eyes. When she raised them again,| Minister, asserted today that the ; 7 \ “Howdy,” said the man at the(De Was sitling beside her. Japanese had lost 336,000 men killed : > ’ oy stool of the lunch counter. He “You would have said hello?’ or wounded in fighti ‘durin th ii) Y walked to her side. : Yes,” he. answered, and his eyes ng g tae Ld » «7 |loomed ‘nearer. : 12 months ended May 31. . “Howdy, Fate,” grinned Beth, “I|™; : pow you. Pik ay hands are cold,” she shiv-] He put the ‘Japanese casualties He grinned back, but he didn’t|™ ig. ~~ 1» since the war started four years qugh at her. He didn’t laugh at| no om the wind,” he suggested.|,.. vocierday at 1.094260 killed or |

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