The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 2, 1952, Page 4

| | Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, January 2, 1952 BA Fé ( WHAT TH' DING-DONG YE MAKIN' THAR, } RIDDLES ? / RNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY LAND SAKES ALIVE, RIDDLES YORE LIP AN' YOUNG-UN WHAT (T IS WHY--IT'S A--UH-- | (‘WM BUILDIN'-- I WUZ--UH “SS — SMITH STOP CHAWIN’ TELL TH’ By Fred Lasswell | THAT LEETLE | VARMINT KNOWS } DURN GOOD | i | AN' WELL WHAT IT IS THE CISCO KID meee GLORY BE, CIGCO! MAYBE WE'VE FOUND M. THAT ) HIS HIDE-OUT, AFTER ALL, 1 DIONT GO HOME! SLEPT IN FRANTIC.” 3 THE MONEY I DADDY- MOTHER JUST PAID AT SHE OWED ME -SO BY GOLLY-I NEVER THS THIS HOUSE ARE GETTING BETTER! AY ee AG hs AP ALMOS' HOME, | OINAH, SO HERES WHAR WE GOTTA PARTY, * He — Starr a) WITH A ROCK GOMES UP J Your MOTHER'S BEEN PHONING LIKE MAO.” SHE'S POSITIVELY EXPECTED VO GIT AROLND RAPIDO! GO TO TOWN. BRING HELP. I'LL STAY HERE ON GUARD! Cape 193 King Fessrn Same, tos World gies eciies By Jose Salin 7, BUT T WON'T JUST WAIT \ Y! PANCHO MAY } NEED HELP--- PRONTO! CHuCcK, YOU OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED —— WORRYING HER yusT / FOR SPITE ” PLEASE -- SHE HAS ENOUGH TROUBLE WITH- OUT YOU HURTING HER J+ HOME.” WITH YouR DAD Yo as and Rod Reed I'LL TAKE THAT-I HAVEN'T ANY MONEY ANDO I MUST GO TO THE MARKET- EXT TIME YOU LOSE IN THIS HOUSE’ By Tom Sims and B. Zaboly i ie fT GET YuP,NOBUDOY BUT YOU UF TH FATFIELDS AN ME UF TH MCBATTS 1S ON SPEAKIN TERMS WITH ONE ANOTHUH J SO WATCH BC\ Our FER TROUBLE WITH THEA FIVE FEARFUL WERE COMES ‘VY > OZARK OVUM TH RIDGE & ¥ } he AP Newsfeatures Chapter 16 | A MOMENTARY hush descend- | ed upon the room, and he saw that Deal Hathaway had just | emer; from his office. Someone had lost no time in taking the word to him. *Disregarding him, Gentleman Jim-eyed the still spinning wheel. These. were the first games of this sort ever:to make their appear- * anée in Hangmian’s Coulee, and he could well understand the fas- cination which they exerted on t who liked to wager money. rdly, they looked pretty, | sleek and dangerous, and they were all of that. al Hathaway paused inde- cisi¢ely, then veered off toward the bar. Probably he had aimed to speak to the professor. But this vis: was an‘unknown quantity, so now he had decided to wait and see what happened. | » Gentleman Jim had seen enough | already. These wheels were an | old story to him. He had worked | similar ones himself, on the Bar- bary Coast. Just long enough to learn ‘their secrets, for he had | prided himself on being a straight gambler. Straight about such a wheel as : : { ! ie dealer sat close to it. He | had to, fo work the device which | tilted .the-running wheel to suit | hig. farrey-and the convenience of \*the house. Gentleman Jim hesi- | tated. ‘He- could denounce the | wheels.and the man who owned them, overturn this one and show the crowd how it worked. That | would be one way of doing. To: do that would finish Deal | Hathaway. It would be a gun- smoke finish, or if he lived long enough, a final act out at the Tree. Other men would almost certainly. be killed as well, before the smoke. settled. But there might be another and possibly better way of doing. There could’ be no sure way of knowing about that, until all the returhs were in. But at least it would be more to his liking. The players about this wheel glanced up, nervously. Sight of the professor in such guise was warning enough. Now they were leaving their chairs, not liking it, scenting trouble. Gentleman Jim shifted one. chair and sat down. Seated so. he was close to the HANGMAN'S gambler wearing twin six-guns| s And there was nothing] . By AL CODY move was not 1 away. “I think I'll tr |Gentleman Jim laid dow d as the now most of in the room were de- The wheel rolled s ght and itated, came to a stop. If z 1 Jim felt any e. his face did not betray dealer gazed a nk! it. The Py “Well, well, Professor.” he said heartily. “Welcome to our enter- tainment! Or should I call you)“ Professor?” “T’ve been c worse. things than that, and probably will be again,” Gentleman Jim retorted. “However, I'm not here strictly as a professor tonight. Or if so, as one in an inquiring frame of mind. I've heard it said that these wheels of yours were crooked, Hathav So I thought I'd see for myself.” Sudden silence had fal the room at that blunt charge. Hathaway’s face lost its color, then he smiled. “Then I take it that you con- sider yourself an expert on the subject—of crooked wheels?” The sneer in his voice was plain. Gen- always been a professor.” “A lot of people might be right int’rested to know what you have been,” Deal Hathaway suggested, and the malice was unhidden. “They might. at that.” Gentle- COULEE | readily, but no |back in his voice. long as you paler than habitu takable threat in knew, no man bet ly the game or t er, he had a superstit what might be beginning now Life Insurance | Purchases By Roy Gotto| ‘Occupation Orphans Get “THE LOWLY HAVE RISEN — “cuban Pete.’ one of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo's three iguanas. is very much the individualist and insists he “Of co Deal Hath ious fear of tleman Jim nodded, unperturbed.| With this cold-eyed professo: “T do.” he agreed. “As I think| Playing the red. And like th. T've indicated before, I haven’t|@ealer, he knew how risky i would be to try and control the wheel. He had a conviction that Gentleman Jim knew what he# was talking anos when he dis- cussed such mat! ers. (To be continued) must be fed with a spoon. government announced in its a nual report Babies said to have American fathers head the list. They total 953. Russian fathered babies e second with 639. They «~e€ followed by the British with . .2 and the French with 159 - dren ——— Ee | Read the Classified Ads NEW YORK, (@)—Life insur- gvs x |ance purchases in November to- City Ca re | taled $2;446,000,000, 9 per cent. VIENNA, (4)—Vienna is pub |less than the amount purchased licly caring for 2,083 “occupation ja year ago, the Life Insurance orphans”, fathered by Allied sol- | Agency Management Association | ‘ers. the A capital's city lrepacte, = | ‘The purchases of ordinary life | insurance in November were $1,- | 556,000,000. Industrial life insur | ance bought amounted to 453 | million dollars, about equal to | the figure a year ago. New group life insurance pur- | jchases amounted to 437 million A EE Overseas Transportation Company, Ine. Fast. Dependable Freight and Express Service | dollars. This was 49 per cent less | than the November, 1950, figure and reflected the curb on fringe benefits under the wage freeze, \the association said Bridegroom Recruited WORTHINGTON, Minn., (4”)— An army recruiter, attending @ station, was a guest when Mary | Kay Miller and John Magee were | wed the dotted line. | . Magee is stationed at Lackland | Air Force base, San Antonio, Texas. His bride is working here —————— Of the 16 men on the North Caro lina. State basketball squad only |four ‘hail from the state of North |Carolina. Only one of these is 2 | Starter. between MIAMI AND KEY WEST Also Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS Between Miami and Key West Express Schedule (No Stops En Route) LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY EX- CEPT SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P.M. Ar- rives at Miami at 12:00 o’clock Mid- night (EXCEPT 12:00 o'clock Mid wedding here, kissed the bride LEAVES MIAMI DAILY land recruited the groom. SUNDAYS) at | Sgt. Sidney G. Hibma, chief night and arrives at Key West at clerk at the Sioux Falls, S. D., 6:00 o'clock A.M, | Air Force and Army recruiting Local Schedule (Stops At All Intermediate Points) LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY CEPT SUNDAYS) (EX at 8:00 o'clock | During the reception. Hibma A.M. and arrives at Miami at 4:00 told the 24-year-old groom about o'clock P.M. Seats Tees. of fone LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT As soor as Magee ed. fron SUNDAYS) at 9:00 o'clock A.M. dis wedding trip, he signed and arrives at Key West at 5:00 j o'clock P.M. Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service FULL CARGO INSURANCE MAIN OFFICE and WAREHOUSE: Cor. Eaton and Francis Sts 92 and 9° PHONES: