The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 5, 1952, Page 4

Saturday, January 5, 1952 Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH OF ALL TH' GOSSIPY OL HEIFERS iN TH' NEWNITED STATES AN' CANADY, WIZ HICKERSON (S TH’ WUSS!! WHY, IT WOULDN'T INVITE HER TO A-- 4 FER LAND SAKES DON'T GO AN' AST MIZ \HICKERSON, LOWEEZY I wuz JE THINKIN’ ABOUT WHO-ALL I WUZ GOIN' TO (INVITE TO YORE SHOWER, MIZ_HICKERSON KNITS TH' PURTIEST BOOTEES YE EVER LAID EYES ON see AN ATROCIOUS ’ i ~ PUN, CISCO -- FOR KICKING AT BUT APT. YOUR DOOR iNSTEAD OF TELL YOUR HOMBRES TO WILLIAM! DO AS DISARM THEMSELVES, OR THE MAN SAYS! VLL PUT A BULLET IN sell ane yy KNOCKING, SENOR. IT WANTED _ETTA KETT CHUCK.” You * CAN'T RUN AWAY.: LWON'TT LET / A . IVE GOT A icBY./--- IT ALWAYS HAVE ONE STUCK UNDER JHE FENDER.” [TRY AND STOP We HAVE THEM.) ME ./--WHERERE) | DRIVING WITHOUT A THE KEYS TO 7 “4 LICENSE.’ My JALOPY ?/ AMISO. YOu ALL RIGH Si V PANCHO, ARE GRACIAS TO ‘ ” Yar THE RATE ) THERE ISN'T AP Nowsheatures ‘Chapter 19 AIN was ini: | s face as he came | shower. It would take more than | Fain to wasa’ awa; nis troubles. evening had only added one re preblem. What should he do the saloon, with his win- ° He had said what he was to do with them, but it was 30 as Deal Hathaway’s had been a foolish fathaway would not ~ “ea. town Nor would he take 3 Sefeat withous another trv at ation. The fact that Gentle- Jim had let him live would excite mo. gratitude in the mind of the gambler. Quite the con- trary considering how and where it had been done, But all of those matters, and what. they added up to, were rifes compared to the unrest which tormented him. He knew now how much of a fool he had been to came here in this guise. Henpv had oren right. Tizd_aimed to play a part and t well paid for it. Bu. the look @ weman’s eves hea changed . New x¢ was viaying a dual role, both in violeat contradiction. Ana no matter what he did, dis- | aster was'sure to follow. He was no professor, no decent or respect- | sole character. Playing that part didn’t’ make it so, Sooner or later his past would catelt ty with bi ene wasn't a | fool, f ee innings and fet out, It was the only thing to do. Onlv—- : Already it was vast midnight, which meaht that this was Sun- | dav. Was supposed to give a menerg! léeture on Sunday morn- ing poe oxpin in the evening, with a big picnic dinner for everyone | to be held’in thempen during the afternoon, if the weather per- mitted. + The rein had :tonped, and a few rau s oe Zhe ju but none at rei jndged. 4 “Better come to bed,” Happy suggested. “Besices, this ain’t a healthy place to be foolin’ around not: after what's happened.” Gentleman Jim started. He realized* that. he‘ had been stand- ing for-same time. lost in thaught. Happy: ad waited wita the fidel- ity ofa 4 Out, but 1: Was only a passing} stars were showing overhead, It}; HANGMAN'S COULEE By AL CODY ri) “Go on. Rappy.” Ye said be along pretty soon Happy hes ‘tated Protest, then gloom. Gentier siewly. He had rea perch when he bec a a shadowy figure lurking and tensed. Then he saw that it} was Maita. She came toward him and_ in! the half-light her eyes were wide with anxietv “You're back!” she whispered. “I had to know! I heard what you were doing! But there was no | | shooting?” “No,” he trouble. to sp She drew a sighing breath. “You're a strange man.” she whispered. “A strange one, indeed.” Gen- tleman Jim agreed. “Tonight [ Was a gambier.” “But in a good cause,” she said, and now her eyes seemed to re- id. “No shooting. No of.” flect the stars. “Oh, the word is} . all over tow. —how you might have killed him, spared him instead! You—vou are verv good.” quickly, shyly almost. But praise had been sweet. and heady like wine. ‘HERE was a changed attitude} -n town the next morning. Gentleman Jim became aware of it :at the breakfast table, in the way John Gilson looked at him. ‘These peovle had liked him be- fore. had come to respect and to hold him in some esteem. But his exploits of the evening had added to his stature. The big saloon was locked tight oday. as he had instructed. No ene among the bartenders who had worked there for Dea! Hath- away had disputed his right to give those orders. whatever might be their, personal loyalties. ‘Wiis talk—lecture seemed the wrong word—went well enough. ff. they had exvected anything new or biz. he didr’t give it to them. How could a man point a course, when he didn’t know where he was soing hit:self? As soon as he coulé get away he moved off by himself. back toward the coulee. The trees and brush. the cool stream winding out from the hills. looked inviting. He. mu have a chance to think. he couldn't figure. Everybody was! | -vaiting expe | of him— She turned then and was gone, | her} “1 busy now- big picnic the men to eat it. It w before it was r be there then. T! w ot the Nose Sulliv For a mor him <veechle: that Big No: from here. helpi keep watch over and John Wi thought, he real slipping badly. seen that either Weasel wou alon~ at his it on what he did. There w ing trusting about those you were here “Well I've been keepin’ well out of sight, wince I t night.” Big No to hear vour spiel jus* now to see how vou could hana it but I couldn't cuite maz Looked like vou were pu‘t cver big as us thougn. Folks suckers, ain’t they “I guess mavbe th tleman Jim «greed. are—wheth But aren’t vou taking a chance. leaving the Weasel y Meader?” “Not so long a one have been to send Nose pointed out. vou and Happv might be needin’ some help. and the idea was that I was to come along and be readv to lend 2 hand when needed. From all I can pick up. you've been doing a fine niece of v-ork. Jim You're a better actor than I fi ured—and I knew vou were goo Gentleman “im brushed that aside. “How is Meader’s leg getting along?” “Doing all -ight.” Big Nose impatiently. “But he ain’t not for us to worrv about. From what I hear. vou've got things about readv for the clean-up. Guess I didh't get here none too soon, ‘hough what sood that would do! eh? (Te be eontinued) Armistice Site Safest Place To Watch War Seven Planes Give Spectacular Performance By DON HUTH | (Murder Charge Filed Against 4 Nurse Killer Misener Maintains That He Remembers Nothing After Return ag To Party SANTA MONICA, Calif. (P—The district attorney has taken an eye witness statement on the Dec. 30 | PANMUNJOM, Korea (?—This | military armistice conference site jis the safest place in Korea to! watch the war. — Soe aaa YOUR WIFE PHONED || IM GLAD YOU THAT'S JUST DANDY! A WHILE AGO S| HERE SHE IS NOW- ) "LL PUT ON ME HAT AND PRETEND I CAN'T STOP TO EVEN TALK TO HER- [- NO || TOLO ME-I'LL LL || GIT RID OF HER IN A ~ HURRY==I’LL TELL HER T HAVE | TO GO DOWNTOWN GEE-MAGGIE-ME DARLING -!'VE GOT TO GO DOWNTOWN RIGHT AWAY -I_ HAVE A BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING AT THE MUGANJUG HOTEL -I SHOULD SHE SAID Si BE HERE IN A | SHORT TIME!” [/ I'M GOING TOMY HAIR= DRESSER -ITS RIGHT GO RIGHT WITH YOU- COME/LET US NOT ‘ —.. TARRY=- = There is some battle activity daily, only a few miles from Pan- munjom where United Nations and Communist negotiators are trying to end the 18-month-old conflict. Bursting artillery , shells ahd aerial strikes on Red positions echo over the meeting tents of the two subcontmittees. Allied and Communist newsmen 'congrégate in the muddy fields be- side the four abandoned huts called | Panmunjom to watch the sideshow. It is like having a grandstand seat | () Wirephoto INTERNAL REVENUE COM- slaying of two nurses and has filed charges of murder and as- sault with a deadly weapon against Merton ©. Misener, 34, of Portland, Me. Mrs. Margaret Cramer, 31, an Mrs. Ann Symington, 42, were stab bed to death and Paul M. Beck, 49 was hospitalized with paring knife wounds. Beck was questioned Thursday in his hospital room by Mervy = | t ‘ball game. Aggeler, deputy district attorne, r . MLE ces far removed| MISSIONER John B. Dunlap |He said he arrived at the nurse Py from the war until U. N. artillery | Presses his hand to his face in | apartment early in the evening an : a oes — and air forces go to work. | Washington during a news con- !that Misener came later. He sai . a A razor-acked hill to the east} ference in which he disclosed |Misener went into a bedroom t¢ e has been getting special attention. | 53 new firings or forced resig- ae sd aby Cramer ane oceans Allied guns have “walked” phos-| nations from the scandal-ridden | left Mrs. Cramer explained tha* THIMBLE THEATRE—Starring Popeye Phorus and high explosive shells) «,, collecting service. He said Missnesswould not *)in their drink- : hie ‘oe we 6 shemenens and the number of employees fired eireeeea the boom on him,” : let Reet [eee serra The white phosphorus plumes | tae eaeee ut during 1951 | Beck quoted Mrs. Cramer. ~+ Ke? H ota lec 66. skyward to form a marker for | the artillerymen to get on their Aggeler quoted Beck as sayin he retired with Mrs. Cramer, b jsoon afterward Misener returnc WE GEEN COME ON OFFN Then the sharp kettle-drum beat target. \ Mother. Of Eleven of high explosive shells thumps across the frozen, snow-covered rice paddies. e Sometimes the noise rolls in like M | ( | « » a report from a string of loud | urder & large firecrackers. JONESBORO, Ark. (R—A small, | The air shows are the most in- 39 year-old farm mother of 11 teresting. Planes take over where | children has been charged with the artillery left off. | first-degree murder in the s ‘Children Faces and entered the bedroom with : pistol and a knife. Beck said b was stabbed in the head and sh: in the right forearm. He sa! Misener struck Mrs. Cramer seve: al times with the knife, and thi when the man came toward hit again he fled through the rez door after being stabbed twice the back. ing ; They bank lazily away from the | of her husband who, she told au- Officers say Misener maintains four huge orange balloons that | thorities beat her over a 10-year that he remembers nothing after | mark the armistice zone boundar- | period and threatened to kill her, € returned to the party, Beck ies. Also charged with Mrs. Velma | ‘old the officers that Misener, a Seven planes gave a spectacular | Ardner is her oldest child, 14-year | teetotaler, was told that he wi | performance this week. They circ- | old Claude Jr a “wet blanket” and was putting led a short time. Then the leader | The first-degree murder charge 4#™per on the party j Recien at ina stab dive toward! against the son was only ‘a tech- ary ie nA e valley, apparently on a recon- picality.”’ Deputy Prosecutor Bill I eeuce 2 I 3 naissance run. In seconds, he was | Penix said Thine night. It was nv esiigation Ss back with the flight. |filed against the youth, Penix ad- By Roy Gotto OH, YOU GOT NO IDEA HOW | The fighters moved in for the! ded. because he reloaded the .22 attack. One by one they swooped | caliber rifle from which his mother | }down:The sound of bursting bombs | fired two shots into her husband's ts aneprg. | day * One plane circled wide to rejoin; The husband, Claude (Jack) and machinegun fire was head while he slept early Wednes Wanted By Wiley WASHINGTON ( — Sen. Wile (R.-Wis.) said Friday he will ask complete investigation of a “ma AMBUSHED £ THAR ,OZARK...1T OESPERATE TH’ SITUATION WAS, A C | Arn. of tips’’ on multi-million dollar act - WUZNT NOBUDDY OZARK S...JUS’ THINK UF TH MESS the formation. Three bursts of Red | der, was 59. vities of the Alien Property Offic: \ ( BUT ME US WOT SHOTS WOULD BE IN anti-aircraft fire marred the hazy When the East Arkansas farm The senator said in a statement WITHOUT YOU... SPESHLY NEX* |sky with black puffs of smoke ; woman surrendered Wednesday, he expects the inquiry to touch WGEK WHEN WE PLAY THEM Observers watched rockets spurt | she sobbed out a story of brutal | upon reports of fat fees and profirs UPSTATE HOOPSTERS g from the Allied planes. The flight | mistreatment of her and her child- to some individuals and corpora- | also let loose napalm, dropping the | ren tions, “grave mismanagement” searing jellied gasoline over Red Almost daily for the past 10 and “considerable favoritism.” | front-line installations. jyears. she related. her husband| The Alien Property Office | Rear Admiral R. E. Libby, Al-|had beaten her and the children, under the Justice Department an lied negotiator, joined newsmen and New Year's t had called has had control of more than 2 | watching the show. in their four oldest and told them half billion dollars worth of Ge BUBBUH | “This is more interesting than |he planned to kill their mother to| man and Japanese — properti BEAN’. | anything IT have to say,” the ad-! “get her out of the way seized in this country during Wor . zoe | miral remarked. Sheriff's Deputy Ode Cantrell of War I uae | One jeep driver who served with | Craighead “County said the slight Wiley said the agency had cc LIAB AH WuZz @ front-line company said: frightened mother, who is expect- trol of about 505 million dolla OUT ONS | “Boy, I sure would have liked 2 | ing another chi admitted she | place like this when I was on the | pumped two rifle bullets into Arn- ‘line. All comfort and no sweat.” | der at their home at nearby Cash worth of assets of which 209 m lion have been disposed of a 296 million remain.