The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 22, 1951, Page 6

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN BARNEY GOOGLE A Page é : ALL YE FLATLAND INERS 1! COME BACK T TIME WE HAVE A (( «AND THATS THE STORY, CISCO. DRIVERS KILLED... HORSES SHOT... COACHES \ FATHER WOULD DO, TO PROTECT MY LITTLE Saturday, December 22, 1951 ND SNUFFY SMITH HOWDY, JUGAAIO-* HAVE 7 SHE HAD A YE SEEN CRICKET-- / FAINTY SPELL AN’ AUNT LOWEEZY TOOK HER UP TO OUR HOUSE IN A WHEELBARRER J \F MY MOM AND DAD BREAIc UP, I WON'T HAVE ( YOUR BIRD . FOLLOWED ME HOME. | SHALL GLADLY PAY You For vit YES, THAT 1S ) My TURKEY” J we". CAN'T HARDLY GLEEP FOR wi6HTMARES. [) [71M LICKED, cisco! AND HE /S IN ALL OF EM !* FUNNY. HOW WE NEVER APPRECIATE SOMBTHING TILL WE LOSE IT!’ fi ED-YES - I'M HOPING MR. WIGGS NS PEBLING WELL ENOUGH TO GO TONIGHT - CRYING ON YOUR SHOULDER MADE ME FEEL BETTER /— GEG I HOPE MOTHER AND DAD p A PATCH THINGS uP --.” SHE MUST A-BEEN HONGRY, ‘CAUSE I HEERED HER SAY SHE WUZ DYIN' FER A BODACIOUS SLICE OF WATERMELON NOT YET, SENOR SAM. THERE IS ONE SOLUTION. WE WILL RUIN MR. JAGGED DAGGER! ii By George McManus OH! THIG GOUT a) DRIVING ME || DAPFFY-I NEVER | | HAO SUCH PAIN ! | HAN Chapter 3 "THE town was taking on a holi- F t. with people com- ing the country, pitching tents ir the big one, staying ay uration of the lectures, spread, favorably. The professor wasn't trying to sell prs ju . He was entertaining a anattuctive and there was the expectation of something big- ger—something dramatic that everyone could sense. The log benches had been ex- tended to accommodate the in- creasing crowds, a raised board platform built up front, three feet above the ground, twenty feet in width, The speaker's stand and the organ were on it. “By the time you've been here three weeks, this will be a differ- ent community. just as we'd hoped,” Maita commented. Three weeks! He had planned to get out, after about a week. But now he didn’t like the idea of going on, back to the old life. . Yet what else could he do? If he remained, Big Nose Sullivan and the Weasel would be coming, de- pending on him to make good, In the background was the law, not to mention Deal Hathaway— “Hoist by his own petard!” he muttered. “I've had a taste of respectability. and I like it—and it’s as far out of reach as the moon!” Ten-Spot Lolo was in the crowd tonight, in a fresh shirt and with slicked-back hair. But there was no disturbance as he got well into his lecture. Then a commotion arose near the rear of the tent. Someone stood up, shouting words which sounded like Liar and Scoundrel. Several others jumped up. and hustled the objector out- Side, not too gently. ENTLEMAN JIM went on, but it was as if another man than himself was doing the talking. There had been something in that half-glimpse of the other man, some quality in that voice shout- ing Liar. which had stirred mem- ory. As thoueh a ghost had en- tered the tent But the fellow had been right. Liar! What else was he. pretend- ing to be civic-minded man, when ..he consorted with killers, when he was here to rob these| who were supporting him? Scoun- drel! There were no more apt a Every State To GMAN'S By Al CODY which had ‘been arf tim aS it, or it him? And way he want it? Maita Gilson, sea! pease the front. was watching with ping eyes. He took his own away from her with an effort, and stared at sight of Deal Hathaway, near the opposite side of the tent from Ten-Spot Lolo. . Hathaway, at least, was im- pressed. His lip curled ly, then deliberately he up, lifted the flap at the side and went out into the night. There was contempt and. as- surance in the man, Qualities which did not have the power to disturb Gentleman Jim. But e- thing else did have thet ability. He was talking himself into a corner — into a position from which soon there would be no retreat, “Ye're a scoundrel and a liar, A: eae eal ht ye aie te the lack-hearted ingrate ai i crite that ye are Bypo It was the same voice that had created the earlier disturbance, He couldn’t mistake it. Now the face was before him, lined and weather-beaten, showing. the marks of the years, of time which had not dealt gently. It. was capped by thinning white hair, the ‘eyes slearntig and. fanatical: The old man had raised up sud- denly. crawling. out from :under the platform on which Gentleman. Jim stood, After, being thrown out, he must have crept, back;-un-| der the shelter of the. newly- raised: platform, av Now. as he raised to. trembling was loud and unmistakable as: he eared it back. Here was more than fanaticism: This was hatred, dark as the brooding shadows of the tree in the coulee behind them. On‘ other oceasions when peril threatened: Gentleman Jim had been swift ta respond, but now he seemed frozen. But the old man was slow. and his purpose motivated. him’ to the exclusion of all else. He was too intent to think about the crowd: and they were upon hiro before. he could shoot. Only his age and being hustled toward the hanging They hustled him outside, with threats and imprecations. Gentle- Jim stood taut, his eyes still xed on the spot where the old man had risen up so suddenly, Liarf Black-hearted — ingrate/ The words had stabbed before, but they had been like thorns along the trail, ripping away. man’s coat, scratching to the skin. This time, with protection torn off, they struck deep. He came quietly down from the platform, the spell broken. Still. this oppo- sition had increased his popular- 7. Rised dhe erowd behind him. What he wanted was to get away, and there was no place to go. A man could not outrun his thoughts—or his conscience. What was it that Happy had said? That he had no conscience? Abstractedly he agreed to after- noon as well as evening lectures. What ‘did it matter now? Maita walked. beside him, not speaking, respecting his mood. Having her beside him was somehow com forting. Only when they paused outside the house did she speak “Something is troubling you.” s » said. and half-lifted her hand as if to lay it on his arm, then withdrew it. “I wish that there was some way in which we could heln, You’re doing so much for us.” As he made no reply, she went on, half-timidly “It has to do with that man, doesn’t it-—McGilroy is his name. T think. He lives a ~ouple of miles ‘out of town, just he and his wife. They're very poor. And of course they feel alien here. I supnose, for they've always lived off by themselves and been left pretty erectness. a thin, shabby. much alone—” _ he held a:six-gunt In thea | “He and his wife?” Gentleman, silence the click of the hammer | Jim repeated. “And they are poor, you say?” “Very poor. And very much alone. He—well. they both seem a little strange—queer. perhaps, te the rest of us, Probably we seem as much so to them, What T mean is—I wouldn't take it too hard. the wild things he said about you—" “It's usually the truth that hurts.” Gentleman Jim answered guietly. “And I find that there's too much of trivth in his words to brush them aside. But thenk vou, Mics Maita, Your sympathy is a real comfort.” manifest frailness saved him from Arms Expediter Be Honored By Hollywood LATEST TO GET THE NOD IS “MINNESOTA” 1 By BOB THOMAS ! HOLLYWOOD «—If Hollywood keeps working at it, every state in the ‘Union will be honored in a film. title, Latest to get the nod is “Min- nesota,”’ Which is the title of a Republic mining saga located in the Mesabi Range. The Gopher State joins the select company with other picture titles such as: “Arizona, “Arkansas Traveler,’ “California,” “Colorado,” “A Con- Yankee,” “Florida Spe- "Home in ‘Indi- Kansas cycione,”’ “In Old y,"’ “Louisiana Purchase,” “The Michigan Kid,” “In Old Missoi necticut cial," ton (D. C.) Masquerade.” Most popular state for having its cities in tities appears to be Texas. There have been such as |“Dallas,” Fort Worth,” “San Antonio,” “El Paso,” “Abi lene Town,” “Corpus Curisii Ban- | dits,” “In Old Amarillo.” Not to mention “Mourning Becomes Elec- | tra’’ (population 4,934). | That ends our geography lesson |for today. . Such is fame in Hollywood: Rh | barb, who starred in the title role jin his last picture, is playing a j bit in “We're Not Married.” The pares feline doesn’t even get bill- jing. . . | I finally caught up with “Red “Nevada,” “New | York,” “New Mexico,” “Oklahoma , Kid,” “Oregon Trail,” “Tennes- | see Johnson,” ‘Texas, ‘Utah,”* “Virginia,” and ‘Wyoming.” There has been a “Hawaii Calls,” “Alaska’” and ‘Washing- | (To be continued) Husband Charged With Wife’s Death JACKSON, Mich. (®—A 44-year old trucking firm executive was free on bond today to await ex- “| amination Jan, 11 on a manslaugh- (P) Wirephoto CLAY BEDFORD (above), Oak- land, Calif., industrial engin: eer, was named “‘special ‘ex- pediter” to speed lagging mili- tary production, it was annoul ced in Washington. He -Awill serve as special assistant to'De- fense Secretary Robert’ Lovett. ter charge in the death by freezing of his young bride in the driveway. of their home. Edward G. Spencer furnished 15,000 bond Friday following issu- ance of the warrant in the death of his wife, Loretta, 21. Mrs. Spencer was found dying i Wednesday morning in 9 below zero weather. Prosecutor George Campbell said Spencer admitted he left his wife in the driveway “too drunk” to walk after an even- of drinking together at a tavern. irs. Spencer had filed suit for separation last July, accusing her husband of giving her “a life of hell.” They had been married in | May. Later she withdrew the suit. Wild turkeys originally ranged -}from the Atlantic coast of North America to the Dakotas and from Southern Ontario to Southern Mexico. 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(ICE DIVISION) KEY WEST. FLORIDA have been exhibited with taste and | \distinetion, as such films as “Cy-/ ,rano,” “The River” and “Red! Shoes.”” { Tt understand that John Huston, who made the picture, is heart- sick about its mistreatment and | will not see it in its present form. | Se | The easiest way to remove fat} from a homemade meat soup is to prepare the soup the day be- fore you want to use it, then cool the stock overnight and lift the congealed fat from the top of the soup before you reheat it. TELEPHONE NO. 8