The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 10, 1952, Page 4

- Page 4 Monday, March 10, 1952 BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH . ee ee QH00, CRICKET? “ B oe it's my MAW!! THE KEY WEST CITIZEN By Fred apes Chapter 13 : Cee Sar suring out “SHE'S COME TO VISIT A LEETLE SPELL J ee eran’ straightene ther in the seat, still watching the shore. { “Some' wrong?” The girl) looked at with curious eyes. “I don’t know ...” i it was close. You inter some- e boat, near Johnny was tense now. As he reached for the wheel, to guide the craft harbor-ward, he said, “Someone's using a silenced rifle.” Eear leaped into the girl's eyes. She swiftly fed the boat gas, real- izing his intention to get as far from the shore as possible. But even as the boat started to leap ahead, wood split atop the ° rail, not two feet behind them. Johnny yelled above the motor’s roar, arent the engine. We're a perfect, target here in the boat. Swim! He thought Kay Smith had a splendid. alert brain. She had cut e switch, bent low and. was looming. Pee shoes even as John- ny cal the warning. He, too, had his shoes off in an instant. He yammed them beneath his belt. light coat slid from his shoul- dezs as he followed the girl over- board. 2 Momentarily, the boat shielded nee from a aes as the girl's e surface alm beside fohany’s. she cried, “Can “I hope so,” he said, and dove under again. ‘ + By George McManus Gas ea TTT THAT OUGHT TO BE EASY-MAGGIE - UP TO LEARNED ANYTHING } ABOUT SINGING - >— HE SAYS THE FIRST MOTHER HAS A NEW SINGING TEACHER! HE PREDICTS A I HATE TO THINK | Asour MY FUTURE! erring Popeye had - swift, so almost as she wrigg sled out he By Tom Sims and B. Zaboly § POPEYG, ARE YOU SURE 32 first cram} out swam under water. He remembered opening his : eyes just below>the. surface. He}loosenin, K pse Of] them off. They pulled at his, legs, doubled|But he remembered he =< ~~ up her skirt] rying close to three hundred di and kicked ‘loose her sandals. At thought she was having iter. ‘fohnny did likewise. still hold-|spoke, both conserving all the ing his breath. Fi Finally he was'breath they could. Johnny was BY WILLIAN. S. BOGART forced to come to the surface again. The girl was beside him, treading water. Both twisted their heads and looked quickly behind em. The boat, drifting, was some distance away. It no longer of- fered a screen between them- selves and the hidden marksman somewhere along the shore. Without a word, Johnny and the slim-built girl dived again, strik- ing out under water. This time ier zig-zagged to the left. Final- ly forced to come up for air again, fohnny looked around swiftly. He thought it was a useless thing to do. 2 arate was n@ telling from what direction the shots had come. It was like a marauder using a knife in the dark—silent and deadly. _ Kay was swii her face white “What'll we do?” In the few moments since they had left the boat, the dusk was already deeper. This, Johnny thought, was to their advantage. It should make the marksman’s target deceptive. Ahead of them, perhaps a quar- ter of a mile away, was the curv- ing white strip of beach that be- longed to the Smith estate. Kay saw his gaze dart that wa, “Can you make it?” she asked. “Tl try. Anyway, I'd rather drown than die of lead poisoning,” he told her. They moved toward the beach in stages of swimming under wa- ter and popping to the surface for lungfuls of air. Soon it was fairly dark, and he knew the rifleman could not possibly see them now. Yet the beach looked a long dis- tance away! Johnny thought. Though his trousers were Tight ming beside him, and strained. his belt, and kicking, lars in his pockets and decid Then her legs whipped/ lose his shoes. : a Neanoth drive and she Tt seemed that moments dragged into hours. Neither he nor the gir! ~ NEWS grocer N. J. Shaw suspected shop- lifting today when a 19-year-old woman tried to leave with a screaming baby. infant's blanket. The baby stopped howling when officers removed a frozen rabbit. PHILADELPHIA (®—Some guy actually lost his shirt at the tax es 7 BERR R TE, AGES Oh RE ~ | collectar’s office. , By Paul Ri bi Avple freshly - laundered shirt with fraygd cuffs was found in a . a Mu, POMmson paper bag in the Philadelphia office of the U. S. Internal Revenue }Bureau when it closed for the weekend. Said Collector Francis R. Smith: This is the first year I really got ome.” OHNO.” NOT'ETTA 47 NOW LL. NEVER GET MY TWENTY BUCKS MONEY OUT OF MY OWN eT.’— SO How's ABOUT PAYING ME IM NOT CLASS : TREASURER ANY) WHO IS.28 SCRANTON; Pa. (®—Twin sons were delivered Sunday at Crabon- dale General Hospital to Mrs. Rex- ford Oakley of nearby Childs. They were the 17th and 18th children for the 43-year-old woman and her husbaid, an unemployed -| miner, It was the first time any fe the baad children were born | % a e “I'd like to get’ up to 24,"" com- a Oakley. He didn't indicate why. EW YORK (#—The government has a new, faster and more accu- rate means of detecting deposits of uranium, the basic metal used in the production of atomic energy. Atomic. Energy Commis- ‘tions office here said ieee: :Japanes Te ae a 'y Jose Salinas and Rod Reed eft aR RING FEATURES XP NPRCATE, tov, WORLD BIC Ts By Roy Gotto ee eon AM | GLAD TO wiTHEY DON'T CALL ME TH PRIDE OF PUNKINVILLE FER NOTHING Hospital Damaged By, Qu DALLAS, Tex. (#—Neighborhood *: i sien Sunday its engineers have devel- oped a new “scintillation prote an? detecting device’? which will help speed up the hunt for underground and other Western states. Dr. Phillip L. Merritt, head of the AEC exploration program, said that the new device compared with older methods is 10 times more efficient, two or three times more precise, five times as fast, and more versatile, WASHINGTON (@— A_ Defense Department list (No. 517) ‘today added 58 names to the Korean War casualty list. It included 17 dead, 37 wounded, three missing in ac- tion and one injured in a battle} zone accident. NORWALK, Calif. (®—St. John of God Chapel, built in the shape of a fish, was dedicated Sunday by Catholic Archbishop J, Francis A. MeIntyre, Los Angeles, The chapel was shaped like a fish because a fish was an early religious symbol. LOS ANGEL! ‘®— Margaret Truman has, begun a two week vacation at a seashore cottage at nearby. Malibu Beach, play spot of a number of movie stars. The President's daughter arrived Sunday, aécompanied by Secret Service agents and Mr, and Mrs. John Horton, Washington. Mrs. Horton, daughter of Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, is @ close, friend. Horton is’ public® oo (Py THIS HORPITAL AT OBIHITO on Hokkaido Island, Northern Japan, shows heavy damage caused by a 10-minute earthquake which killed at least 31 people and destroyed more than 2, summer tropicals, he considered) oO ii i . a jttle distance away, still against it. Also, he didn’t-want to mate stapes a }| made” aed... AP Newsfectures aware of her labored breathi* > and knew;t even though s immer, the pure had robbed her f{ was a go beat of da energy. The: Da kept swimming . . ess| was black over ft e shore hen geet fina 7 touched sand beneath him. stood up in shoulder-deep wat and his legs felt like somethi: ¢ encased in cement. The i , swayed against him and clute for his hand He tried to stes er. Together they struggled tow: i shallow water, i exertion. Fina! hard-pa d, wet stumbled forward until her f °t touched loose, dry sand. Then: ¢ sank slowly to hei knees. Unnerved now, sobbing. Johnny knelt down beside h ", putting on his shoes. Muscles in his legs and arms were trembling. ‘T . all right,” he reassured lL “The guy can’tegee 1s know,” y said. “I just. can't help = He put his hand on her © :t shoulders and togk it away age His fingers were trembling. decided -he was iy a rotten con tion to be a detective. Perhaps ought to stop smoking. Johnny removed his shirt ‘e flung ,his sodden, necktié aw * “Here,” he offered, “pitty t is around you.” She was only wearing the i: at sweater and some kind of pant. 3. For a moment she did not me She was still crying a lit " she straightened up, rea mn the wet shirt that Johnny out: to her. % “T can’t sce the boathouse,” said.) He started into the gloe . i h way is...” : a uestion trailed off, Neit oft spoke, andithe girl's s’ fingers dug fiercely\into his + as she involuntarily held ¢ the n ose Pe B4sv toward them, shed scuffing, sounds the loose sand. (To be continued) movil aeK relations representative, for a movie firm. | Miss Truman is reportedly 1 3t- ing up for a concert tourof \ie West. CORAL GABLES (—, Funs val plans were made today for il- He ¢alled police, whe probed the | minerals in the Colorado plateau | liam R. (Duke) Dahlstrom, 48}> c+ ing secretary at Gulfstrea: vk who died at his home here y night. be A native of Chicago, he had been in raeing for 20 years, serving f'so as steward and assistant secre! cy jat Tropical Park, secretary. . |lantic Gity"and a steward’ ccin Fields, Chicago. 3 His widow, Mrs. Claire I u- strom, and a son, Charles, surv. e, a COLUMBUS, 0. (®—Miamii» dl be host Jo the American B 1d “masters Association convention: on March 7, 8 and 9, 1953. « The association chose the la city Sunday at the close ts meeting here. Al G. Wright, dite -- | tor of music at Miami Senior B ¢h School, and ¥red McCall, dire::or of the University of Miami .were named te the bourd of tors of the ABA. dite MIAMI (#—* James Roger Morgan, 22, was held on a iy °n- slaughter charge today, Police . {- ficers C. L. Tanner and LV. 1- son said, after” his autbaid’ le struck and killed “elderly” Satme==l Gross Sunday. night. Tanner said Morgyn was speed- ing, fled the scene in hiscear, struck another autymobile.., d abandoned his car bdore he * s ‘captured near the sence of ¢ rash. n « ee oy i rh Wirephoto via Radio from 4 i li ll it 4