Judge — May 1935 — page 19: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“Heh! Heh! No Cause for Worry OE BILKS just simply disappeared. face of the earth. All his family could tell the police was that he had been listening to the radio. Suddenly he jumped up, kicked the radio into the wall, and rushed out. Vanished, as if he fell into a well. But as time went by, word came of Joe Bilks from the far corners of the earth. He was in Java. A sea captain had recognized him from newspaper pictures, haggard, disheveled, skulking on the waterfront Then Mad. car, Australia, the Gold Coast of Africa. What horrible thing was poor old Joe Bilks fleeing from? What was hounding him? He had left his accounts in good shape. Bill Smith got the letter from him that explained everythin “Yes, sir, the radio v his sanity.” The gang nodded sympathetically. “But where is he now?” somebody asked. “Well, he went on and on,” said Bill, “around the world tryin’ to escape this song, but it was no use. It was all over the world. But now he’s hit a little spot where nobody sings it, whistles it, or has ever heard it. And he's stayin’ there till he gets his reason back.” “Where is it?” everybody yelled. “The Isle of Capri,” said Bill. Right off the said Bill. “On land, on sea, this song on s driving poor Joe nuts. He got afraid for HE only time the average citizen ever explores any ruins is when he goes down to see how his beach cot- tage got through the winter. This is gonna make the mortgage company sore all right!” “I sentence you to life! Maybe that'll teach you to be a better citizen!” comicbooks.com