Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1942 — Page 17

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OFF. THE COAST OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, COVERING AN AREA OF 700, OOO SQUARE M/LES... & WAS BUILT ENTIRELY BY COUNTLESS

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embered your old comjust to out-smart you some e I had in mind laying ng your last dollar er. But when Junior JAPANESE CRIGIN nig after he had IS THE MONKEY GROUP 1 in the hold-up—you see,| we 2EMINDING US TO all that was doped up while a AAO Ev I was out for a ride with Oliver, YET THE JAPANESE ARE and so I didn't know anything SECOND ONLY TO THE about it until too late: well, I fol-| NAZIS IN THE SPREADING lowed those blood stains, I went up OF EVIL PROPAGANDA. y your office, because Junior would make right straight for you if he got into trouble, I opened the safe, and there was the bag of money. With my own little hands I reved {it 1d got wind enough of | iat was going on to know the money had to be restored I told vou I know who has it Ne =

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over to Mr. Temple. I asked him te see father, and the two of them ‘ worked out some way of going on|murder!” vour Bond and letting vou out, If ~ We still have one of those messy couldn't tell them much. I couldn't |things to clear up.” say to Dad that Junior was the aa ax hold-up man. I just turned the| “SO WE HAVE" Hunter said. “So ev back to the bank and told| Wwe have. Look here, Red. Let me them to keep their mouths shut|tell you how I have this doped ( up.” He knit his brows, groping | for words. “Let's start from the

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asked a man to/at your house Hank Temple let it marry me and he turned me down drop that he had to get to the bank cold.” to see a shipment of money get I'm talking about coming to see|out. Seventeen thousand dollars. vou in jail and making a wager| “It would have to be a private with you that you'd soon be free |matter. Maybe only Hankins and his and you would propose to me and | father, and the parties who were to I'd say yes, and we'd get married./get the money, know about the I even laid my bet on the barrel-|business. Hank didn't mean, perhead &nd you wouldn't put up| haps, to let it slip. But it was be-

nance plant. Some one down there in the know was getting ready to talk. Ghibarto—and this is hard talk but we have to look things in the eve—and perhaps Banker Temple, and just possibly your dad, who usually hag irons in all the civic fires, fingers in all the local pies, though I take it for granted neither man knowingly got caught with his pants down—had to get

it was secret it looked safe enough. The murdered messenger left the bank. He had to go on foot, part of the way in any case, because the street was closed down which he must hurry. “He goes along, Junior drives into town with the gang and strikes out after him, and yells “Stick-'em up’

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vou fust sat there dumb. Well, if tween friends. All right. The gang|in his best style. Up to now it is vou don’t want to marry me you|is there, hears; and Hank has to all just a good joke. Good sports don't have to” She assumed a g0. They make their wagers. Sup-| standing on their sportsmanship. lofty manner. | pose, just as a hypothesis, the Ghi-| “But the Ghibarto twins, rascals Red, you're plain crazy! You barto twins make & wager no one|like their daddy, see a chance to Tisdale are engaged to be|there could intercept the messen-|pick up $17,000. Looks ike a suremarried, He's rich, He's in on the|ger and take that roll off him. Or|fire setup. The gang don’t dare Ballard fortune. What's more log-|it could have been any one elsé/talk. Kill the messenger and he cal than vou two should marry|present who bet. Junior, with ajean’t talk. Might as well shoot and keep the fortune intact? What|little too much under his belt as|Junior, too. Two men, nondescript am I? A kind of glorified hired|usual, took the bet up.” and dark, did appear, and the fireman for your dad. Why, even the » oo 0 works started. Well, those were the colts T raise eo to | The strain] “OKAY, LETS consider facts twins. Why they didn’t leave town of prolific corn I develop becomes There is that ordnance plant scan=-| when the plan flopped—they didn’t his. What chance do I have?” ldal which has just broken. The older figure on Junior really shooting gE & 3 Ghibarto is involved in fraud back to keep the joke from spréadDid it ever occur to vou that against the government. Rascal. ing, and toting his hot lead like a I might be a good sport after all, And a man who in wartime puils| true sport—is explainable when you Hunter? You've made vourself. And something like that is a rascal. Like heure that Junior won't talk; he youve only begun. Your whole | father like twins. The money isimay yet die without talking. Belife lies ahead of you. a bribe. Know about that wharf sides, the guy that runs looks guilty.) Cod.” he sald, “I do love you!" |project which is just across the river|So—" : “I wouldit have you now on ajfrom the old landing below Water (Te Be Continued)

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