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

Friday, January 4, 1952 | BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH NOW, WHAT ON AIRTH AILS THAT FEMALE ? Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN By Fred Lasswell, MISTOFER BARLOW-- (F YE EVER NEED A BABY SETTER, (mM A PLUMB GOOD-UN !! ; AP Newsieatures I JES’ COME FROM TH BARLOWS' SAMANTHY, AN' GUESS ]R Chapter 18 | GENTLEMAN Jim stood up and | @%a¥, 2 clear field in ev WHAT I SEEN -- OU’ RIDDLES IS BUILDIN' A CRADLE !! PECGTELL YE @ LEETLE SECRET (E YE WON'T BREATHE A WORD OF IT, RIDDLES (MA SHET-MOUTH AAS ARY A CLAM, MIZ SMIF PSST: A BODACIOUS BABY SHOWER (UM THINKIN’ ABOUT GIVIN' CRICKET MIZ SMIF YE SHOULON'T | AH, SOMEONE OUTSIDE. ‘| IF ITS ONE OF MY MEN HE'LL_ KNOW ENOUGH TO NOW TO SEE WHOS OUT THERE -- LIVE FRIEND OR DEAD FOE. HIS OWN FOLKS HOW DID I KNOW | cK /—N{ HAVE LET THE BOY } HIS HOME LIFE | TUBBORN.’\ DOWN.’SOITS UP _/ ISN'T HAPPY? | UR MOTHER } TO YOu TO acT NOBODY TELLS | Ek ALIKE A DAD 7 ME ANYTHING.” To HIM 7, cS / MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME, MY Boy.’ BARLOW !! 4E MIND YORE OWN BIZNESS ! NOT "NOBODY, SENOR-- SOMEBODY... THE CISCO By Paul Robinson TOO BAD ABOU? HIS FOLKS BRE, ING UP.Y + ANDO JUST AT A TIME IN HIS LIFE WHEN HE NEEDS - began to gather the money and sort it into stacks. His mind was clear, detached, yet it refused to go beyond the present mo- ment, appalled by the implica- tions. of the future. Color worked a slow way back into, Deal Hathaway’s face. He knew#how what he was going to Go. “Looks. like the saloon is yours, Proiessur,” he said. “Though what a word sharp will do with a liquor store and gambling joint is beyond me. Or have you changed your mind about things? Maybe you aim to run it?” “That's a fair question,” Gen- tleman Jim admitted. “And the answer is no.” ‘Thought so. Well—for a pro- fessor, you're quite Sembice: Or | it looks that wa ere was studied insult behind the words. “You said there was something wrong with that wheel, and ’'m inclined to agree with you. Must be warped from the heat. or a bit off kilter somehow, and vou hada quick enough eye to see it. I'm not blamin’ you for takin’ ad- vantage, That's fair, if I wasn’t | bright enough to see it for myself. | Only—a ganible's a gamble. I’ve fot Other perty in town—put tt all together, and it will balance up to what oe won. I might as well be cleaned out while I'm about it—or back where I was.” “Meaning?” “T'll-take. you on at poker, two- aanded. Winner take all.” Gentleman Jim nodded. “Tm agreeable.” ‘Maybe you don't understand, Professor: I said winner take all. T meant just. that—and I reckon you know what I mean.” Coldness flowed in Gentleman om for a. moment. What Deal Hathaway. was proposing was | that, if hie won, he not only re- | covered his losses, but that Gen- | tleman Jim should quit lecturing | and get out of town, as he had By AL CODY | suggested before. Leaving Hath- | ything Those were big es. They | contained imponderabl for which a man could scarcely gam- ble. Then, looking into the slitted eyes of the gambler, he laughed suddenly and shrugged. “Why not?” he ed. “If you hat was ‘ after all, was only pre- liminary. No matter what way it| | solution. He had guessed that far ahead when he strapped the guns about his waist. This was a test that had to] come. The cards, or their lack, could make no real difference. | Only with them he might strip | Deal Hathaway of all the property he owned in Hangman’s Coulee. Here was a chance at far bigger winnings than he had visualized when he had first decided to come here. But.curiously, he ing of that. Until F cleaned out, the town could not be. And that was what the pro- fessor had come for—even if he hadn't known it when he came. That was what Maita wanted. A fresh deck of cards was brought, and as they sat down at a table, interest w mounting | sna went, it would not be the final} not what the g *| Naked hate HANGMAN’S COULEE good with the te down i with as gun. Gentl watch but His eyes most to tiie a coming, and ing for. Gentl for his flung his face of Ha disconcerti That was He tipped it hard i upsetting he could re was stoopin the gun away For a mo all the t eyes as he sprawled 3 for what he was “You can get up,” Jim said. “Get u Hathaway. It would be so much more so—j you and be done wi can’t very well do that to the breaking point. No one was leaving, though all other ac- tivity had long since ceased. As Gentleman Jim had known, he was matching wits and skill with a gambler who knew every trick of the cards. A man ruth- lessly determined to win. Luck, hitherto mostly on his own side, seesawed now, dividing its favors about equally between them. The real contest hare was one of herves—or nerve. Gambler though he was, Hathaway was starting to crack. The events of the evening had been too shatter- ing, as he saw his holdings swept away, increasingly, with each turn of the wheel. The know]- edge that this game was not the He turned to the croy and a little awed—s held so by the watchfulnc Happy, who had dragged a chi back to the wall and climbed Gent!-. man Jim announced. “You me. who work here will continue *» receive your wa, and will held responsible for it.” He gathered up his winnings and went out, trailins the unce- tain customers. Happy was sti.” tagging him, strangely silent. Bu: ; pare. ecause of the way he his.t andled it, and in part because ' + was the professor, who was hel, in such high esteem by so many deciding agent in any case/in the town, there had been nv stirred his impatience. other trouble. Not for the mu- It was in the middle of they ments fifth hand that he cracked. (To be continued) | Joseph J. Erli | Joseph, J. Erli, aviation mech- anic ' first class, has reported |aboard the Fleet All Weather | | Training Unit, under the com- | |mand of Captain J. C. Toth. He} jis working as’ an. air frames! | mechanic. Born in Fenton - Stoke on Trent, in’ England, his parents | still.reside there. His wife, May | Florence, hails from the same | j city. { Erli entered the navy in March jof 1941. Before his entry he |worked at Cohen & Goldman | | Men's Clothiers,, in New York | Ic | Jay aica Vocational High School | |in Jamai New York. Howard F. O’Hern, Reports For Duty Howard F. O’Hern, airman ap | prentice, has reported aboard the Fleet Au Weather Traning Unit |for duty under the command of Captain J.C. Toth. He is assigned | to Line Maintenance. | O’Hern comes from St. Augus-| tine, Illinois, where his father, Mr. Leo O'Hern still resides. He | is single. Before entering the Navy in Mar- |ch of this year, he attended St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Io- | wa. O’Hern reported aboard from | | Great Lakes, Ilinois i : | Today’s Birthdays | John A. McCone, retired under- secretary of-¢air, born in San Francisco, years ago. U.S. Sefjator Everett M. Dirk- sen of Illinois, born in IML. 56 years ago. | Leroy R. Grumann of New York; plane manufacturer, born lin Huntington, N. Y., 57 years | ago. Jane Wyman, actress, born in | St. Joseph, Mich., 35 years ago Pekin, | ‘Octogenarian Will | Sent To FAWTU Not Take Elegant |Of Seet Blackens after his graduation from | more ‘Sent To Key We |service, he worked fo Two Hour Showe: sasas i, Even White Cats Sitting Position | REDWOOD CITY, Calif. u~ A JAFFREY CENTER, N. H. i— | two-hour shower: of soot blacken: 4d apis . | Redwood City and San Carlos, on Miss Mabelle E. Cutter, 80, says i Me Solr raesesu. peaiarita she'll be “darned” if she'll assume |e 54 a ata y “elegant sitting position’’ on a sled when it’s : bled Southern Pacific more fun to slide | freight engine poured soot onto “belly bumps” fashion. jhouses, cars, freshly — washed She coasted down Main Street in| clothes on drying lines, and resi- the prone position on her 80th birth: | Gents. day last week and s: tinue doing it lasts this wint Even white cats changed color, ilecoscenarh CITY FATHERS as a girl she didn't assume the | Ce inued From Page Onc} ant sitting position” | 4 higher minimum wage that wor d and added: “I'll be darned if I'm {low a livable wage, and #' ll going to do it now.” grant percentage raises to | y a aoe men in the city employment. Bobby L. Stanley The following was transacte: Instructed City Manager D: ‘¢ King to write the Florida Lea; ve |of Municipalities stating that the | fee of $600 for membership in «' e organization was excessive, It vs {readily admitted that this Lea, e¢ "ity ‘has done a great deal of good for | the cit of Florida. One of the'r | accomplishments was the return incorporated are workiny jon other projects that will g'-e \ the cities some tax relief. Bobby L. Stanley, ADA‘ reported aboard, in the of line maintenance man, the All Weather Training Uni the command of Captain J Stanley entered the navy ch of last year and re recruit tra in Mar rived his ning at San Diego, Cal- municipalities. 7! ifornia. M Approved three new traffic lig s He is from Augusta, Kansas, ) for Eaton and White, Flagler a d where he attended Augusta High | white School. Before his entry into the | 7ite. Ist and Flagler. an eis Heard Commissioner Jack De © santa ‘laney recommend that two ¢’.y Wee mee sl Mrs. yw, [Policemen be sent to Washington Stanley, Sr. now live in Augusta SHEE a eee aaa aw 351 Broady 7 offered in that city. . Instructed Commissioner Lauis M. J. Eisner to ask the Florda Keys Aqueduct Commission to +s sen hydrant rentals from $50 to SUGGEST CITY HALL (Continued trom Page One) to contract city business, and | $25. City Attorney M. Ignatius Los | would give the City the larger |ter will accompany Eisner to the quarters needed (next meeting of the commiss: n Another suggestion was that | He was also told to look into the the City and County should have | legal aspects of the charge. ne jointly constructed an adminis- | Commissioner thought the FK .C tration-city jail building had no right to levy this amour The cost would have been less ——— to each party concerned, and the| Were constructed : land where the county buildings | the city e owned y | __ Prof. Edwin E. Witte of the University of Wisconsin, econo | mist, labor mediator, born in Jefferson City, Wis. 65 years | ago. | Max Eastman, author-editor, | born in Canandaiqua, N. Y.,, 69 years ago. f | Helen Hall of New York, em-, | inent social worker, born in | Kansas City, Mo., 60 years ago Read the Classified Ads Dr. J. A. Valdes | | Do Your Spring Sewing Now! With a New State Sewing Machine @ Portables at $ 94.95 Specialising in Eyé Examination and Visual Training tal ss y FING.” JUST OUCKY.” Secs eonene Oa Pannen N&xr WEEK I'M TO Go TO CouRrr -- MOM AND DAD a “IM GLAD You wy tes : Y IMTOGOLIVE WITH MY, | OKs i HONED YouR NY AUNT. 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