Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1937, Page 32

B—14 , TOONERVILLE FOLKS. I e " THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MOON MULLINS. MONDAY, MAY 31, 1937. A Ladies’ Man. —By WILLARD SOME OF US GIRLS WENT TO 1 KNOW ALL ABOUTMY | PAST AND PRESENT EMMA . BUT THERE ARE SOME THINGS I SHOULD LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT MY FUTURE. S WISE T WOMAN? YOU ARE IN SOME DIFFICULTY-~ HUMM-- AND YOU WILL GO ON A JOURNEY, A LONG, LONG JOURNEY IN THE NEAR FUTURE- AH-HA I SEE A WOMAN, A YPUNG WOMAN, A BLOND — YOU OLD REPROBATE ! YOU OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF// PAST; PRESENT AND FUTURE MR. AND MRS. | WISH You CouLb SEE WHAT “THAT GIRL CALLS DusTing | © 1337 N Y. TRISUNE, | WISH | Coulb GET SOMEBOD | CouLD DEPEND ON'! | SN/ To HER, ZOBELIA—DID You DUST THE TOP oF THE PIANOT AND SHE SAYS, YES, MA'AM AND TiEN | TAKE A CLOTH AND SHow Her.! Do You cAlL. THAT DUSTED © —1 ASK HER YOU NEVER WILL . ZoBELIA WAS A WONDER. WHEN You FIRST GOT HER AND NoW SHES AS BAD AS CORA ok SIGNY With knited brow, Jane stared at the spot where Annette's footprints ended so mysteriously. “People do not vanish into thin air,” she said. “There is only one place she could have gone—up there.” As she spoke she leaped to an overhanging bough. DAN DUNN. Secret Operative 48. IR e e 6T To LEAVE % HMM--THERE'S THE BANK | HERE AND MAKE ‘EM THAT'S IT! WELL LEAVE THE WERE GOING TO HOIST--| THINK WERE GOIN’ BANK, HEAD SOUTH/TO NOW T'LL GO AROUND SOUTH-- BUT WE THAT FIRST STREET--- THE BLOCK A COUPLE |WANT TO WIND UP THEN TWO BLOCKS WEST Jane did not answer. Like a detectiv studying the jungle clues to the mystery. The slightly scuffed bark indicated that some crea- ture had rested there. And she noted that twigs had been cut away with a knife to give the thief a view of the camp. “But she couldn’t have jumped up there like you did,” Brown objected “She didn't,” Jane re- plied. “If she had jumped. her tracks would have shown it. She was lifted up.” “Lifted up! My God, Miss, by what?” Brown's voice was trembling with emotion, kidnaper. —By NORMAN MARSH. FROM THERE WE TRAVEL FIVE BLOCKS ON GRAND TO WARREN THAT'S A 7| THROUGH STREET-- AND THEN NORTH-- TVE GOT NOTES ON ALL OF IT--- THAT'LL FOOL THEM PLENTY---WE CAN 60 ON FROM THERE TO QUR HIDEOUT AND T'VE GOT A SWELL OF TIMES---SEE HOW | TO THE NORTH TRAFFIC 1S-- IN MEADVILLE-- THEN THEN TWO BLOCKS SOUTH-- EAST TO GRAND-- ONCE WE'RE ACROSS THE BRIDGE INTO MEADVILLE WE'LL SWITCH ] THAT WILL CONFUSE THE POLICE-- PLACE---BETTER DRIVE QVER THAT WAY AND PICK UP SOME GROCERIES SO WE CAN LAY LOW AFTER THE STICKUP! eg U. S Pat. OR.; Copyright, 1931, by Publishers Syndicate Across. . A sudden spring. . Turning machine. . Poisonous tree of Java. culine name. tive ion. . Substantive. . Beautiful maiden beloved by Zeus. . Cast off capriciously. . In any degree. . Polynesian chestnut. . Tufted tope. . Formed by the lips. . Nameless. . Single high metallic sound. . Place of abode. . Being. . Harsh. . Humble. . Large German examination room. . Dirk. . Chief god of Memphis. . Duck genus. . Musical composition. . American Indian. . Pertaining to a branch. . Aliment. . Girdle of a Jewish priest. 32. Sharp-edged instrument, . Storehouse. . Thick. . Imperious. . Trustee. Row. . Unique person: . Type of folk song. . Managed. . Resembling & wall. . Decree. . Horse mackerel. . Perforation. . Priest of a mosque. . Mountain in Moab. . Capital of Western Samoa. . Produces as clear profit, 2. Subtle exhalations. 3. Continue. 6. Sphere. . Egyptian singing girl. . Teamed 5. Feminine name. 7. Perplex. . Cupid. Capital of Tunisia. . The hour of prayer among Ma- hometans. . Quilted or padded. Plumps down. 5. Character in “Idylls of the King.” . Musical instrument. . Female of the ruff. 9. Limited time. Body of classified laws. 3. An insertion of cord in cloth. . Sounded allke in pitch. . Stupor. . Scopes. . Mimic. . Having wings. 5. Sword. . Quote. 7. Particular size of paper. . System of manual training. . Lesson to be learned. colloq. EDDIE BENTZ, “KING OF BANK ROBRERS"AND THE BIGGEST BANK HOLD-UP OF MODERN TIMES, THE FAMOUS MILLION DOLLAR ROBBERY . Travel by wagon. OF THE LINCOLN NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST CO. - Fool. AND OTHER CRIMES. KON TUE. GANG DEFIED THE G-MEN ONCE TOO OFTEN = GOING THE WAY I MOPSY —By Gladys Parker | %‘Lk’és ASSCOCIATES THE DILLINGER. AND KARPIS ~ " DRAMATIC FACTS / FROM TIE F.B.I. FILES waterways. They are apparently float- | supports the many leaves. Under the ing on the surface of the water. stems there is a mass of hairlike roots. The leaves are finely toothed or cut, growing from erect stems. Perhaps there are small, inconspicuous flow- ers there, or queer-looking fruit if your visit is later in the season. We are told there are from 50 to 60 species in this family of water chestnuts. They are widely distrib- uted throughout the temperate regions of both hemispheres. This one pictured here 1s a native of Southern Europe. It has always A o S enjoyed growing in water ana has o s creeping stems. From the center of (It is these tufty rootlets that hold these stems rises the foot stalk that | the debris to be found in these places, EDDIE DALY ALIAS LARUE; AND AVERY <3 _ALIAS RIPLEY, KNOWN TO GANGLAND AS “THE GOLD) A%w}s‘ BECAUSE OF TWERR SUCCESSFUL BANK ROBBERY VENTURES WITh TUE BENTZ GANG . DOLL SOMETIMES. CALLED ROBEERS WO QUNTED WIS L0OT IN | OB ELDIEEWAS AR CF SAiEVBATES MD KELLY oF MILLIONS, CONCRED THE DILLINGER AND | 3 C™ax) INTERNETIONAL celfiw‘&: WM\ & RECORD OF " B\ "EDDIE BENTZ., BLUSTERING SLIFPERY ‘KING'OF BANK. Solution to Yesterday's Puzzle. KARPIS GANGS N BANDITRY, AND PRISOR ESCAPES == FORSA| OPERATED TROM COAST TO QOAST | DAVLIGHT ROBBERY WITH GUNS, THE BENTZ GANG 1S CREDITEL BEFORE G-MEN RECENTIY ENDED | WITH PERFECT NG THE GETAMAY CHART DISING TECUNIQUE . TERROR, NS LONS BEGR O e arene. 2] TOMORROW: & MILLIOK POLLAR PLOT., FIGHT WITH, resemblance to the wicked instrument ME AGAIN. is struggling with too many water of war is only exterlor, For many | chestnut residents, you can lift some it has meant life, and that makes | f th i 1 th ted the water chestnut a valuable plant, | ©° them out, to relieve the congeste indeed. | condition. The strange-looking seeds In France, the water chestnut re- and gradually the stream becomes choked. The hard, horned fruit, about the size of a chestnut, is your valuable aid to identification. It contains a large amount of farinaceous starch, and this, as you know, is valuable food. The stiff, hornlike projections sug- gest to the mind the caltrop, an an- cient, four-pronged instrument used in BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. HAT fun it is to visit the | streams and places where there is water and find there so many interesting plants, to sit beside them and realize what romantic stories each possesses and that some one has, with great patience and skill, found out the secrets of the individual plants, so that we can go to these places of enchantment and read the signs be- fore us. ‘We notice small herbs choking the can be added to your collection, and, ceived its common name. Here the | as far as the chestnut is concerned in seeds were gathered and dried so that | this country, she will carry on, the starch could easily be extracted. | scarcely noticing your interference. In Italy, the chestnuts are called (Copyright, 1937.) Jesuit chestnuts, for the Jesuits used them freely. In Cashmere they were considered very important as food for the peasants, who formed a greater part of the population, and in China | minican Republic are complaining the seeds are even to this day used | that while prosperity has reached the extensively. island, their wages have not been in- Bo, a8 you sit beside the stream that | creased. - Twizzler Answer. | The performer had arranged with the box-office man to give the par- ticular $5 bill to the first person who presented a large bill for tickets and also to note the seat number and any other information. Complain of Farm Wages. Agricultural workers in the Do- wars. The cruel four-pronged caltrop was strewn over the ground where cavalry horses would step upon them, thus halting their advance. However, the seed 6f the water chestnut has served many people. Its