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Show SMITHFIELD. UTAH Here SMATTER POP Guns in the Night a Tense Moment, Yes Indeed! By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. LfOUknow, boys and girls, when a guy gets in trouble, gen-eraliy his first thought is: Boy, I wish there was a cop around to get me out of this.- And if there is a cop around, the chances are he can get you out of almost any sort of jam in the world. The police arc called on at all hours of the day and night to do everything from straightening out a family argument, to catching a cat thats crawled up a tree and wont come down. But heres the story of a bunch of boys who couldnt call on the cops whim they got into trouble. In fact, it. was the cops who X - MESCAL IKE were making all the trouble for Frank Zappala, and for his three ' pals. Not that Frank bad done anything to deserve all that attentloh from sr s. l. huntut FINNEY OF THE FORCE the New York police department All. he was. doing was trying to get to New Jersey. There era some funny la we on the statute hooka, IH admit but there Isn't any against going to New Jersey, so Frank was entirely within hla rights when he tried to dig up the half buck he needed to get through the Holland tunbeL But things were happening around New York, that night that Frank and his friends didn't know about Old Lady Adventure wac setting the stage for big doing and aho used the cops for . acton In tha drama aha staged with Frank In the leading rala. Frank and hla friends started out one September evening tor a ride In a car that belonged' to one of the fellows' dada. They hud the car-- hut doggone Uttle money. There was only twenty cents In cash In the whole crowd, and they wanted to go over to New Jersey to see gome friends they had over there. Boys Would Rather Be in Jersey So Watch. Going to Jersey, though, coat fifty cents the price of admission to the Holland tunneL . So Frank suggested that one of the other lads a fellow named Jim sell, an old watch that he carried. Jim was agreeable, and handed over the watch. Frank got out or the car and went looking for a customer tor It The car was parked at the foot of Wall street and it was around 10:30 at night Prospective wateh-buyor- s .were few and far between. As a matter of fact there was only one man in sight, and all tha dough ho had was twenty cents. The boya needed thirty cents, so it was Just no sale. They drove the car down to the Battery and tried again. A street cleaner was working there, and they offered the watch to him. He didn't want it, but be talked to the boya for a while. And then suddenly things began to happen. Police Speed After Some Wrong-Doe-r. A police car shot around the corner, siren screaming, and aped off down the street going about sixty-fiv- e miles an hour. About ten seconds later, another one followed It, going even faster than the first Both cars disappeared around another corner before the boya even had a chance to a good look at them. The street cleaner ran for the corner to pt last look at them, and the four boya climbed back Into their own car.get t JSHS-i- fi, iVl NCASW pinishu mcw making your I MAVE PANTS'alv To oo is put in The POCKETS t dollar-and-a-ha- lf VOW K.tASt,MOM,WlU OKIE OF the POCKETS THREE CORNERED ONE MAKE A Jl AS A FAVOR WILL VMOM? 5 NOW WHO EVER heard of three CORNERED POCKET! WMATfc WRONG WITH RE.GUAR Shaped pockets? IT AWFUU HARO TO FPr a piece op IHNA REGt-A- R f Pie kinoa pocket. mom, HONEST! j Dont 8hoot, Mister Dont Shoot" Whel- - Frank tiSTcK motor, Frank I" the back SSJTlSSS Hssi.sna hIm ery out: hoot! " Do"t shoot mister dont .Pellbound, past Charlie and out Into the street awed-of- f P JffJSS ttw M-Jjj- Charlie out of the th2ebTwdetectlTe g!!1!! nr in.tt,.. told him to climb out. too. were .Uo being pulled By Tfo uniformed polio opened the door and yankei Inl Frank' Wrtff , . , And UDabeaiL ,n the W t omo the " !LBS8thtlL00k Like Theyre Public Enemies. tround the car. A detcct,Tei cJuatmi couplemw'were throuSb it with n fine till? I?.?' K0,ns "ked Frank an toothed comb. are the other two IHtowS? WT Wh-- re " ldn know anythlngabouany'two they couldnt convince the eopi "rebbera ,n the neighborhood, and these tha delTor114'1 carted off to IhsTtion They were Jn8erPrnted, questioned. They hadn't been there to to pu9tirtr7al to7.rea lZCduthat the We" troubllike.y theY had no hand In. Where were ifrl when the question the police kfpt That', the 1comn,Itti asking, corner down by the on Parkcd Buttery not - hi un-d- V gd .2St,,,er! ! 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