The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 31, 1951, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, December 31, | ~ BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH By Fred Lasswell| Oi, St tenon SED CLES" WAAL, BYE-BYE DON'T FERGIT PUL HAVE YE KNOW I BEEN i GOT ‘TO HUSTLE TO PUT YORE DOWN ON MY HANDS AN’ KNEES SCRUBBIN' ; SAKES . HANGMAN’S COULEE By AL CODY FINE AN’ DANDY, ~{ SNUFFY--I RECKON : \ YE HEERED I DONE 4 4 c TOOK OVER ALL TH’ AP News esteres a q (R UP IN : echelon vine Z eee PAPERS Chapter 14 at that hell-hole! Though Pemon priae, Re be ied 2a . E watched abstractedly while ain't got gumption to say it them- a better place to liv ON TH’ LINE AN selves, or to face that black-| such things as being de wna were Passed. and -only|hearted Deal Hathaway! He’s| the good Lord knows wel “Somethings Wee wrong est | killed men before, to say nothing | But what good’s lecturin’, Bonn and Ste. ng. — of the crew of gunmen he keeps | sort of thing goes on at | oe: dare the, sere €t-| at heel! But I say it! He's running| time? Oh, I wish I was Ping. Then Semantha Kearney,| crooked games there. How else| You're all afraid of Deal her hashand in tows Sanenthg | Could everybody be losing, the| away and his mangy | was small and frail beside her| “vit happening?” coyotes. But I'm thinking lot ted een but "toa ht She glared around, but no one} Cutting, and the look pects viten seerees to be a voiced a denial. Plainly they | face—” He shavchitinking and Ppt aps shared the same opinion. She broke off, shaken aiie se Salted ber atein and “It's bad enough for us to lose} Mose Kearney put an. ai ‘stood iit tt that much money,” she went on.| arm about her shoulders, Se cuthea ntormey for the} “But we can afford it—and we'll|” srnere, there, Sa : e, dig up as much for the church} gon't take on so,” ne i ‘ollection way off from what| as you got cheated out of by be- "T know 1 beads i i it/should be?” she asked. in, Si c e? a 8 ig a fool, Mose Kearney! Don't y ae : 1 a ‘It is disappointing,” Staves|think but what you will! Pve fe iy i Tn 5 SE sit ly enough to jin-| helped you scrimp and pinch and NY ee or ral ‘ Pee nye . Be “Har my old gun and go over to: saloon—" “You'll do nothing of the save all these years, and worn Samantha snorted. duds that a scarecrow ‘d be “And it to go to the church ashamed to be seen in a corn you old fool,” Semanths THE cisco KID By Jose Salinas and Rod Reed | wer" Red Loage! I told this oo. ee Ax Peeters tested, clinging to him, “I big walrus that when a collection abgut it—at least not much! But talk too much — someti THE FOOTPRINTS TELL ME | | es : Ae Sa a DRY. AND NO SIGN OF arin se eA ok PANCHO, BUT WAIT... S ~ WELL BUT DION'T usr ee | " F —\ aE coms a came up, and for a church at that, didn’t di j ~E SEE A DOOR! THIS 7a i 5 when I drag you to town here to| didn’t drag you here. just fessor’s softened you up and we got a sky pilot and him a chance to get to tha’ something decent into you, and the first thing you do is go and LOOKING FOR you'd call church-goers — don’t know that we'd be, even if there} joke a fool of yourself by gam- Was a church within a hundred bling—only that ain't even| of your's, if you've got one at—"* { MADRA MIA! HE MUST BE DOWN ‘THERE! | poe | miles, But it’s the principle of under all the callo; | the thing. He could easy afford } rae | the money—it he hadn't gone and| ,,F04,,# moment she breathed] france woud you stand, | made a. Fing-tailed fool of him-| Pe@vily, scarcely able to control tn. thins e does self! Like -a lot of other men 1| Herself. Then went on, more|™an in this town stand coals mentiont® calmly. Deal Hathaway, if it comes én ce SRR “Like I say, we'll make it good,| 84Uns—or anything else? Aw, now, Ma—" Mose Kearney | for that's only fair, and a needed | never been @ man to equal: pratested, ‘weakly. lesson—maybe for both of us, for| that way, and don't you “Don't you ‘Aw, now, Ma,’ me!” | being such grubbing fools so long! | Knows it? Oh—not that, Sarat retorted jndignantly,} When you talked tonight, Profes-| didn't bring you here to “Do yor know how much he put] sor, I looked up and saw stars—| YOu: ‘ - in that» hat? One dollar! One| really saw ’em, I guess, for the| Others had listened with measley little coin. And why? Be- | first time in years, We can afford | Pathy, but now they were cause he'd been over to Deal| that money! unobtrusively away, the -hi Hathaway's. saloon and gambled| “But the pity of it is that|fear upon them as they ail the rest that he had with him|there’s others that can’t, Like| Deal Hathaway had never when te come to town! Lost it!| Nobel Cutting, in off that home-| bested in a gunfight, But Five thousand dollars, in a few|stead at the edge of Lonesome,} more to the point, Deal 4 -hours—like: a lot of other fools!”| with his wife! ‘They scrimp be-| 2way had plenty of o} : Geritleman Jim pricked up his| cause they have to! Going to have| Make it unnecessary even for ee : eS ag ears. Five thousand ‘dollars! He|a baby. Came in to these meet-| to draw a gun. | ‘ AN hte Se a LEAD SSN TE EA knew that Hathaway had gotten| ings, and with a hundred dollars},,Gentleman Jim had in a couple of wagon loads of new| above the mortgage that they He watched the others ambling ‘equipment, since they} owe Dan Redding. Five hundred| "Ow, the spirit suddenly. | faa mie to town, and that it had|to Dan, a hundred to get a new| out of them. Samantha Ki ate lot of interest. But tales | dress for Mary and a few clothes} Words rang in his ears, “What good’s lecturin’, if sort of thing goes on at the of such games had somehow not} for the baby! And what does — = penne SEERA | . been ‘relayed to him. It was so moet Fes roar aay. poele ma tine?” Tt IDEA OF HIS y WORRYING * YOU MEAN HIS MOTHER 4N MOM~CAN I PLEASE staggering. when he gets drunk, but go an ee ! SpaYING OUT ALL aaae You TH te | PATHER ARE GOING TS SEPARATE? CALL THE POLICE AND tee enhhe Kearney swung to i as i that crooked coat rpiles she Hap NIGHT.” WORRYING / gap FEELS, WITH THEM | | OH, THE POOR BOY./--NO WONDER THE HOSPITAL ~---TO “That's what's happened, Pro-| theyll do now .. . starve, I ex-| “Where you going?” he de HIS FOLIS HALF BREAKING —|| We’ acts SO WILD AND FINO OUT IF ANYTHING tessor,” she added. “Shows we| pect!” manded, : a TO DEATH RECKLESS LATELY >“ A Eee HAS ead to. chixch, like Sie Giles T’ve got some business to Cm 2 HA-PENED and some of them think. But that GAIN she paused, breathing] tend to,” Gentleman Jim A Rely 7 WIM 22 { jain't the worst! Everybody that hard. Her voice shrilled. Business that can’t wait! A pe ** , | goes to play is being cheated, over! “You talk about community (To be continued) Medal Of ae \Different Groups ISix La Lives In | Winner Was Quiet, Responsible For Weekend Acciden's | By The ASSOCIATED Unassuming Boy Bombing Violence _ \ iess."ie° persons 4 COCOA.i#—Emory Bennett, who} MIAMI (®—Benjamin R. Epstein hee ee — kiljed 50 Red soldiers while shout-jof New York, national director of | two Albertville, Alay ing for them to come and get him,|B’Nai B'Rith’s Anti-Defamation | were killed near Perry when W was 2 lot different boy at home. | League, said Saturday he believed | automobile overturned © He ‘was quiet and unassuming, {four groups with different motives | off the road. They were his family,friends and employers | were responsible for the bombing | 45 pak here said: of the American: soldier who | violence in Florida. | serecne ete tet is Sa was announced Saturday as Medal| Epstein issued a statement after | Pent bs state and | cident. ne 3) NO !F ANY- THING HAPPENS TO HIM, IT’S ALL THEIR FAULT...’ ’ cap! \-— | - of Honor winner. ‘conferences with local, a - = oe SOuNE BEEN Ir onsim so) lf rur-tut--my } ———— | Bennett was killed last June 24| federal law enforcement officials | arto where oa had CRYING-WHATS || WORRIEO-IM | || DAH-LING-YOL | | TELL ME-DID | | in Korea. probing the death of Harry T.| opti, an efficiency: af THE MATTER? || SUSPICIOUS | || MUSTN'T THINK | | YOU EVER | | When his body was brought back | Moore at Mims and the series of | "They were identified ait! Nice ___/|. OF MY | || LIKE THAT-MR. | | CATCH YOUR | | and bitied-here a month ago 300 / dynamite incidents in Greater Mi-| 1d.on Jr.. 32, and Miss. - HUSBAND - | | JIGGS IS AN | HUSBAND | persons attended the military sery- | ami. | eualiae Lasie 26. . | | IDEAL HUSBAND!! | FLIRTING ? | ice. : “The impression is wrong that | ME Petereca dr A S While he was living Bennett|the nearly year-long violence is |, Gorse Fetersol id L ) —~< >, rd i yds iil a care! | killed while hunting near DeLani didn’t’ go much for erowds like | the result of a carefully prepared | Sherif Alex Littlefield s6iie that, plan on the part of a small clique | son's companion stumbled “He enjoyed fishing, 1 think, al-|of bigoted hoodl he said. | Peniet sed most as much as he did eating,” | “Close analysis discloses that the ee cere sph, <a his mother, white-haied Mrs. S.} whole series of violent deeds, cul- | ‘®t, Into “eterson's heart, nog Bynes . | Richard Kenyon, 46, retired G. Bennett, recalled. | minating this week in the wanton | singer, fell trom the eiiae His brother Gary, who operates | murder of Harry T. Moore, can} . Bennett’s Seafood Market, said | probably be separated into four | his betay ohare pee Emory “grew up in that Indian | groups. While there is reason to | Salunlay night and was River and he really like it. believe at this time that the same psn F Mic 1 25 bier a When he was about 10, the fam-| criminals are not involved in each | Olin F. Blakely said he had ily feealled, Emory built a cor-|of the incidents, racial and reli- | determined if Kenyon drowned rugated iron boat and used to pad- | gious prejudice undoubtedly under- joo win bee snes dle around tie 5 ne gah poor Hes them all,” he said. | err ae boys intere: ] Dpstein identified the graups as; | © these was a whole flotilla of them. 1—Collegiate theilkascken s: | Used Car “He was a good shot,” Gary) 2 4 dangerous and hate-ridden | : said. “He'd take a .22 rifle and) paniac | r get-out in thé back Ls 8 oe at) Racial antagonists | Prices Drop = dusk’ and ‘shoot bats on the wing} «phe first series of attempted | SINGAPORE (#)—A drop of 3 He could get three out of five.” |bombings last spring, which in- | Per cent in the price of used ¢ John Pound, editor of the or all eluded school property, was per- | in the colony has been re; ‘Tribune, knew Emory Bennett all | notrated by young men of college | dealers here. i his life. “The memory of his — affiliation who were essentially | Since used car prices hit th ism, which Emory only conside: thrill-seekers, he continued. | peak last July and August, anf his duty as a soldier for the armed “In all likelihood a different | creased supply of new cars has it forces, and for his family whe [eTOUP is involved in the series of |'0 @ steady drop in the prick friends at home, shall always be |/bombings and attempted bamb- | Second-hand vehicles. A | cherished Here,” the editor said. | ings, and desecrations of the syna- | SPokesman believes that | Two men who employed Bennett | gogues and Catholic churches, | hand prices will fall still lower: found him likeable and a g00d/These appear to have been com. | MOFe New cars arrive from E) worker. mitted by a dangerous and hate-| bombings were the \ At, Jacksonville, Emory worked | ridden maniac or by clever and | Feocetas “yeh aa aa |for Harty Alcott at the Fulton Fish | bigoted thrill-seekers who enjoy | volved apparently understood |Company. : ig {reading the resulting publicity. | science of explosives and | “He was a fine boy,” Alcott eaid, “On the other hand the Carver | a le to cause effective devasti* “clean - cut and conscientious. We | Village (Negro housing project) | tion , | break open a bottle here once in MRR RAE Bee Pera soi \a@ while, but he didn’t bend his | ae IT'S Pp pecan bg | elbow. “Our hours are pretty Tugged— | + ~ — _ . Sane 2 -- — ——~ | from early ‘morning until some- | | times late at night — but he} never comrplained.” j OZARK IKE Masculine View BONS Y{ TH £EOPAROS | KEEP YO DISTANCE, * ; sat | PLOWED SMACK f WIN, / & THI Ne vi Be ' \— INTO TH’ GOAL ISrold F JROMPRING, 0 NO 1 0 be Heard . SS 2 NIN \—The Univer- > ss aN TH! WILDCATS pena CINCINNATI (i) nie | RW Lose TH'S sity of Cincinnati is going to pro- SAN? ON aie cast i \' PLAY OF 7 \ DODGE OUR mascoT§ < THOMPXINS,,, }