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Show -: The t Sunday COMIC SECTION COMIC SECTION PROVO (UTAH) SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1936 Herald. r 5 Or vv REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. SOUMBR Off FQRTOMR IP AMWBODV KMOWS WHO K.IDMAPED on rn -rr rri moM r ftHk 1AM UP( BIG SAM RETS BOM'S TRIGGER MAN- MMMAA! NOBODV ANSWERS. 9 I'M POSITIVE THERE WAS A LIGHT AWHILE AGO. I )-L r ' I w I 'ri 1 f I'M GOING TO 1M VESTpATEf ) CAREFUL, SON! THIS ' " "ytA TOUGH PISTRlCX f HESC VOU! WHERE'S I ; XyHICAGii I . i : ( WHERE'S BIG SAM? ) DUNNO, AINT Y :r 7y -7 SEEN MOBODV. :? T I I'M HEE ALL y ALONE, EH"? THEN I SMOKING THESE THREE VOUR SLEEP. ,1k 3t' W J I VOU WERE ClGARETS IN SURE WE .HAVE. THE GANGSTERS HEV, ARE IN THIS BACK ROOM, FOGHORN; ANp BELFRY'S WITH tAA! OPEN UP AND LOOK! HERE'S BELPevs COAT' GREAT SCCTIX EASV, WE'VE STUMBLEP INTO THE HIDEOUT. OPEN THAT DOOR, OS WE'LL BUST IT OPEN! J THEV ASKED T PULL THE . . '!! 0 o r WELL, 1 (J OF ALL THE l Rl AM PTiy- U. AMlCDl V HERE'S A LAPDERTX QUICK! AAAVBE WE CAM STOP 'EM yET.S 9. SS T Sg-AAND SO & BEIFRV? ' MS, JT J DVENTURE Stamps bqLS.KIeirv Last Fight of the WOODEN NAVIES (?) 1936 BY NCA SERVICE , INC. f - 111 WENTY sailing vessels of the British, French and Russian navies, in October, 1827, anchored an-chored silently in the small bay at Navarino, on the southwestern southwest-ern coast of Greece, opposite a more formidable array of 65 battleships, bat-tleships, frigates, and fireships of the Turco-Egyptian forces. Ibrahim Pasha, Sultan of Turkey, was trying try-ing to subdue the Greeks and thwart their struggle for independence. indepen-dence. He resented the interference interfer-ence of the European allies, but bided his time for attack. A Turkish fireship moved to windward of a British vessel, and the commander sent a boat across the bay to have the sailing firebrand fire-brand moved out of danger. Instead, In-stead, a shot rang out from a Turkish Turk-ish frigate, and one of the most TOM ( Wfass -JfeS For four hours the air was filled with bursting shells, with flames from the fireships and with noise of exploding vessels. So dense was the smoke that it was difficult to distinguish friend from enemy. Orders Or-ders to "cease fire" were issued,! but each time either the signal was! A shot down, or the sailor who ran it A up was killed. A Finally, the fires and the firing 4 died down. The Turks surrendered. and the last battle of wooden, over, ureece s inae-. pendence was assured. as-sured. Greece, in 1927, commemorated commemo-rated the centers, nial of this famous, victory with a set of stamps, one. of' which pictures ihiy historic event. , |