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DID THE LIONG GET THIS LION TAMER?
MUTT AND JEFF
[HQ, HIS
WIFE
DID!!
JEFF, MY BOY, OUT OF THE WHOLE TROUPE I'M PICKING YOU TO SUCCEED MUTT "AS LION TAMER!
ME? OH, DON'T DO ME ANY FAVORS, PLEASE!
JUST THINK OF IT! YOUR NAME IN LIGHTS! FAME AND FORTUNE! SHORT HOURS AND BIGPAY! FIFTY. BUCKS A WEEK TO START!
$50
-AND DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT
I CAN TÁME THE LIONSP
CERTAINLY! ALL YOU GOTTA DO (S MAKE. THE LIONS BELIEVE
YOU'RE NOT AFRAID:
OF THEM!
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 7, 1989.
GR-R-OW-W
By BUD FISHER
GOON, TELL. 'EM YOU'RE HOT_A-SZARED
OF EM!
NOPE MY MOTHER TOLD ME NEVER
TO TELLA
LAK!
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Stateroom 216.
"Here's a case," said the oldest in- he successfully avoided capture. Re- offered for his arrest; spector, "that is a little unusual, yet, wards were boiled down, is just another example of newspaper headlines screamed his ex- how a criminal overlooked one little ploits; the public demanded action.
"Then in August of that summer thing that proved his nemesis."
"Perhaps you remember about Baby- Baby-Face pulled the biggest job of his career. He held up and robbed, Face Kempton. When he was young
First his playmates poked fun at him be single-handed, the Hillisburgh cause of his effeminate appearance National Bank, and got away with the and manner. They dubbed him 'sissy' Hillis Steel Works payroll. It happen- and 'girlie.' Kempton was naturally ed in broad daylight, and ten minutes Bill Chadwick timid, so he took the abuse and made afterward Lieutenant no complaints. But he suffered. No from headquarters was on the job. He.
"Bill was our best man then. Baby- Face had been running him ragged, and this time he was going to spike his play if it were at all possible.
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used to lie awake nights, wishing he'd develop into a giant, thinking of what ho'd do to those other boys if only this would happen,
"Bill was smart. He saw to it that a general alarm was sounded, then he "But it didn't. Kempton attained checked all means of transportation his growth at the age of 12, He was going out of Hillisburgh, and he found five feet five inches. He never grew that the steamship Linton was due to any higher. At 19, he weighed less sail at 1.15. He thought hard for than 180 pounds. He had rosy cheeks awhile, therr he went down and got and soft eyes and a high-pitched voice. aboard the Linton just as she
"The young men in the neighbour- pulling out. hood called him. Baby-Face. They "It was a wild hunch, a hunch born amused themselves by making fun of of desperation. But it was a good
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his appearance. It delighted them to one. Baby-Face was aboard the liner. see the colour leave his cheeks, to see He saw Bill come up the gangplank his fists clench, to watch his face mus- and he smiled to himself and went to cles twitch as he fought to control his stateroom. He wasn't worried, for himself. They abused him physically he had guarded against this very pos- too. But he took it all, never fought sibility. He had taken advantage of back.
his feminine appearance and disguis- "Then one day Baby-Face got hold ed himself as a woman. He had done of a gun.
No one knows how he got a thorough job of it, too. Not even it, but Deke Baleux, the bully of Kemp- another woman would have questioned ton's district, came upon him one day the sex of the comely, smartly-dressed in a back alley sitting on an ash bar- young lady occupying Stateroom 216. rel toying with the gun. Deke's eyes "Oh, Baby-Face had taken every pre- bulged, then lighted. He had always caution. Every bit of his luggage was wanted a gun. He had dreamed of feminine. In case his room was search- having one. And now, without any ed, the searchers would have trouble at all, he could have his wish.
"Baby-Face whirled at the sound of a step behind him, leaped to his feet, clutching the gun to his stomach.
"Gimme said Deke. 'Guns is for men, You might hurt. yourself.
Gimme.
"Deke advanced a step and Baby Face felt himself go cold inside. He knew what was going to happen, and it made him furious. Hopeless frus- tration, came into his eyes, and then in a fit of insane passion, he pointed the gun at Deke and pulled the trigger. "Deke lay at Baby-Face's feet, stone dead, and Baby-Face looked down at him and felt a warm glow course through his body. For the first time in the nineteen years of his life he had coped with the terror of being afraid of somebody bigger than him- self; coped with and triumphed over
it.
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"That's how Baby-Face Kempton be- came a criminal. And as is frequent- ly the case with a man of his "type, he became one of the most feared crim inals throughout the nation. A ruth- less, merciless killer. Fearing nothing so long as he had a gun in his hands. And always he had that gun. Ove
“Within:: a year's time Baby-Face had killed ten men, five of them his boyhood companions whom he hated. The other five were bank cashiers and a policeman: Baby Face had begun a career of murdering and robbing that had not been equalled in criminal his- tory. He became Wealthy, drunk with power, glory! in the fear and droad "he" implanted
• hearts, "of those
found nothing among the wearing apparel or personal effects of this young lady that were not strictly female.
"The first morning out, Baby-Face didn't appear for breakfast. Nor the second, nor third. On the fifth morn- ing, Bill Chadwick, who had been checking all passengers, forced his way into the stateroom, found and re- cognized Baby-Face at once and ar- rested him.
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"How? Oh, it was easy. You see, Baby Face had taken so many precau- tions to have his entire wardrobe and personal effects strictly feminine, that he failed to include a razor, and when Bill, found him he had a three-days growth of beard on his chin.”
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LONDON, YESTERDAY, THE MAYOR OF NEW, YORK, MR. FIORELLO LAGUARDIA, IS TO BE GIVEN THE FREE- DOM OF THE CITY OF GLAS- GOW.
Mr. LaGuardia will come to Britain for the ceremony, which is expected to take place some time next week.
The King - and Queen during their visit to the United States were
MY LaGuardia, that His Major-
EaGuardia to
the King dence for
the