The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 1, 1952, Page 4

+ soe iPage 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN i (M JES’ FIXIN' TO DO 2.2] TH FAMBLY WASH, Ut. FS P-MoTHER BARLOW-- : (F ¥2.E07 ENNYTHING, ae Be Fe OUT SPIN Ge? GACK Tuesday, April 1, 1952 I SHORE MISJEDGED THAT WIFE-MATE OF YOR'N, RIDDLES-- SHE DO LIKE ME AFTER MAW--THAT'S WHAT I BEEN TELLIN' YE TIGGS-DEAR-YOU WERE RIGHT! THERE ISNT ROOM IN THIS HOUSE ‘ING ee ee eee Pee CROWES THAT BIG ..liLy= I'M GLAD YOU SEE It MY WAY- MAGGIE! SHORE SHE DO) | -ASIDE FROM EVERY- THING ELSE -IT WOULD 2 WITH By Fred Lasswell EV! 2E COMING Ton eer a LOAD OF THE SNAZZY OHERES THE ni K FOR “FIRST. { WANTS” YOu A PICTURE “To SHOW YouR BAND SORRY TO BOTHER REALLY ROCKED ‘em AT THE PROM! You FoR THE MONEY | AT THIS TIME OF NIGHT, C7 HEAR ABOUT THE GUY Sia BOUGHT A, TRAILER SO HE'D Paul Robinson THis Boys Girl~ FRIEND DIDNT WANT), US TO PLAY HERE — 4 Now'S MY CHANCE TO GET EVEN WITH By Chapter 29 HE STCOD up, took his tie and shirt and dropped across the chair. nally got ‘them off and flung them aside. Removing his shoes he looked at his partner. “Don’t get the idea I’m one!” he said. eyes frowning. i ic. . . like her.” q sotks. “I thought a couple of drinks might !oosen her tongue ... until I di: ered she takes to the stuff like a duck to Water, ca kf “Say!” Moe Martin looked in- percent He was so patorected. Be forgot about: the. towe! around his esd. ft was now draped down over his face like a shroud. “I've just thought of something! Nick Walker, I'll bet, was plenty jealous of Smith. That boy sure was mixed - with women. Hannah, the cook, ~ was telling me” . _ “So?” Johnny lay back, closed | his eyes, waited for the bed to stop whirling. “Suppose there was something | between Nancy and Martin Smith. her brother-in-law. Sup- pose Nick Walker knew about it and also essed that’s why Nancy wouldn’t marry him. Just suppose!” “You can take it further than that,” prompted Johnny. “All right?" Moe node the sod- den towel on the floor. The great Dane stirred, went to sleep again. “So Nick Walker arranges that so-called accident. kills Martin Smith. and thus eliminates the other love interest in Nancv’s life. Now he hag a clear field.” “. .. to some of the Smith for- tune,” added Johnny, eyes closed as he lay flat on his back. “Exactly!” said Moe. “Another thing. Nick Walker knew you and Kay were coming back from Northport early tonight in the speedboat, He had called the house here. and Nancy told him. He would have. been driving along 25-A just about that time. BY WILLIAN. G. BOGART - } He's found out Kay’s with you.| cause she lovedshim. Now mer. 's thing she suspects. So he figures know the boat. It ties in!” Johnny was thinking of the im- plication that had been in Nancy England’s words as she angrily talked to Nick Walker on the ter- race. He briefly reviewed the scene for his partner’s benefit “How'd he react?” asked: Moe. “Not the way you think. He He | dumped the accusation right back in her own lap,” “Then what happened?” “He stalked off the terrace and drove home. He was feeling his drinks. Otherwise, I don’t think he would have sounded off.” # “Tt was a cover-up on his part, decided Moe. “That'd be the move for a guilty guy like him to make if he thought . ...” “I don't know,” Johnny went on thoughtfully, His eyes were open now and they flickered with intense. brightness. “Walker's no fool. Certainly he’d know if there ad been something between Smith and Nancy, Now what if Martin Smith had grown tired of the affair between them? If Smith was the romantic bjade you say he was...” “Listen,” put in Moe, “when- ever you want the lowdown on something, you ask the | cook. Hannah knows!” “So.” continued Johnny Saxon, “Nancy finds herself a woman spurned.” He was becoming so interested in his story that he Dropped himself up on one-elbow and looked intently at “Do you know of anything more dan- gerous than a woman given the brush-off by a guy she intensely loves? Love and hate, are deep emotions. And sometimes there's only a hairbreadth of difference between the two, They are both.” ‘he added, “basic emotions that lead to murder.” M2Es eyes were like bright t round marbles. “Golly!” he said. “You mean. .Nancy sould have killed Smith?” “The idea sort of intrigues me,” murmured Johnny. He lay down again. on his back, eyes studying the ceiling. “She killed Smith be- } and perhaps she’s told you some-!-a motive for you. it's safer to kill both of you. He'd} M, )Johnny’s words. “T think Pll take Walker.” su.d loe. “Five gets you ten bucis that...” “Wait a minute! Who si: d@ Nancy. and Nick Walker are tie only suspects?” “My God. are there more?” Johnny. said, “Kay. ised t or father. Kay's a very intellige at irl. She: knew ‘the Mdeal t) at er mother, unsu wat getting from Martin, Pagricide is nothing new.” § ees Moe ‘was _ silent, “absorbi iz . “Then. ‘there's the nurse—K: r- en. I'd like te. knw where sie fits in.” tu “I don’t like that, babe!” zn. nounced Moe emphatically. Ther *’s something about her. . as though she's always watehing you!” ‘ “She was watching this roony this afternoon. I have an idea she might have even. here, tend th ng di _ that young doctor friend of hers!” Moe added. I. know right well he heard Irene*scre:m tonight, I heard it. The dog heerd it. That’s what bi ht us up here from the pool, But the ¢oc knew Karen was in the Rouse and maybe he didn’t want hear Trene’s yell.” “Don’t we have a delightful list of suspects, though?” ured Johnny. He ‘sighed, wicked pillow’ beneath his head. thought of gétting up‘and looki for his Tiveg f= ‘too foams fortable the way he? Now 1, en down. Jo sleep. he, srid 0 lv. “coun' in- stead of tianting aioe fait Sow ne all the nice suspetts leaping over the... RE: out!” said, d's- sates Aeoutt Hehe econ They were both it for awhile. Outside, in the quiet night, acricket 10: made,chir > ing sounds. Moe Teach -d out. turned the light on t1e- table — 2 ane ae iis. was some time Settic tably in the bed. Then he was quiet, : A moment later Johnny, was asleep. * {Te be continued) HIGHWAY DEATH TOLL HAS DROPPED STEADILY By REX THOMAS | MONTGOMERY, Ala. (P—Ala- bama’s. governor, striving to stop the. slaughter on. state highways, , hag put the brakes on speeders, A rigidly enforced speed limit» of 60 miles an hour in the daytime | ahd \50 at’ night prevails on all UsS, highways? and 56 of the most heavily traveled state routes. In’ the first three months the i highway death rate dropped sharp- ly. The 90-day total was 174, com- pared with 241 fatalities in the | * 4 | ‘Alabama Governor Ends Speeding On Highways 'Myrtland Cates, Jr. Completes. Course At Ft. fackson: Cezporal Myrtland Cates Jr. . of, 1014 Varela street, r com- pleted “the’ eight-weeks ‘Leaders’ Course conducted by the 4ist Tank Battalion of the 8th Infantry Divi- sion’s' Spetialist Training Regi- ment at Fort Jackson, South Caro- lina. Leaders’ Course candidates are the Third Army area. The ‘Schogl develops the individual’s potential selected from the enlisted ranks of° Transferred To Norfolk ee RE TERRIFIC, { corresponding period last year. . HER.” | bk Before Gcv. Gordon Persons took matters into his own hands and speed-zoned the roads, the ) HAVE A PLACE pe TO LIVE WHILE HE HUNTED for Army leadership with emphasis on infantry weapons and combat leadership. The Leaders’ Course consists of ,% a ne AFRAID TO * only thing resembling a state-wide By Jose Salinas and Rod Reed 'T JUST STAND DONT JU THAT BUT THERE! GUN DOWN OTHER HORSE THROW ME YOUR } FAST ONE, LEFTY? + RECKON | SHOULDA * .( STOOD IN PUNKINVILLE £ j 2A) ceiling on fast driving was a “rea- sonable and proper’’ limitation. { Every motorist had his cwn ideas what that meant. Meantime, Ala- bama built up one of the nation’s toodiest traffie records. | The Legislature in 1951 turned | down a speed limit bill, but Gov. | Persons was determined. A law {already on the books gave him the answer. It allowed the gover | nor, in effect, to regulate fast driv- |ing on “any part” of a highway if conditions justified it. | So, on the theory that “any | part” of a road could mean all jof it, Persons by executive order | | zoned the entire lengths of the | various highways for 60-50 speed. | There have been some com- | plaints but Public. Safety Director L. B. Sullivan, who runs the State | | Highway Patrol. said the public by and large has been co-opera tive. A Montgenery insurance man. L. M. McNeill Jr.. has started a ccurt test, contending the law pro viding for sneed zones applies only to limited areas and can't be stretched to cover whole highways No final ruling is likely from the State Supreme Court fer several months. MeNeill was fined $5 for doing 65 at night. Under the governor's executive order, it could have been anything up to $100 and 10 days in jail. Most fines throughout the State, says Safety Director Sulli van, have been $10 or $15 What effect, if any. the speed limit has had cn tourist travel is hard t© determine. The operator of a Montgomery motel says the volume of traffic is off somewhat from last year tut he hasn't heard any loud beefs about the new driv ing restrictions. There have been though. and at least ern newspaper su e Mid ing through Alabama Sullivan says some discontent is natural because motorists for years STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE Triumph Coffee Mill ar ALL GROCERS Official U.S. Navy P LTCDR. JAMES 0. WEIM: USN, has recently been tr ferred from Fleet All Weat ¢ Training Unit, Naval Air ¢ tion, Key West,, to Comman Air Force, Atlantic Fleet, Ni Air Station, Norfolk, Virgi: a, instruction in the psychology ot | leadership, the standards of Army | leadership, the methods of Army instruction, dismounted drill and | physical training: field work, in| weapons and small unit tactics, | and three weeks of practical work as an acting non-commissioned of- ficet in one -of the 8th Division's | 7, al training units. “have felt they were home free” ence they got in Alabama. From the time | decree went into effect Nov. until Feb. 15 of thig year, the death j rate fell nearly 30 per cent below that for period, even though the number | nts investigated by the | That increase, says Sullivan, re sulted largely from better acei jdent reporting. A new financial responsi! ility law requires motor j ists to notify the Public Safety De- | | partment ef all mishaps involving |personal injury or property dam age of at least $50. The fact that more accidents re sulted in fewer deaths after the fast driving curb went into effect is a clear indication to the safety director that excessive speed is the most ruthless killer “It's as simple as bumping your head on a door,” he says. “If FAST, DAILY SERVICE ..... the slow-down | 15 | the corresponding 1950-51 | for further assignment to d: ty} involving flying. He was a su- dent in the Ajl Weather Plieht course here, Commander. Weimet, a a- tive. Louisianian, atten > Louisiana State « Univer prior to entering the Navy 1941. Surviving the sinking | the USS Hornet by the ¥ | is the highlight of { eleven year naval career. Commander Weimer resi at 403 Caroline street in * West with his wife, the for Miss Patricia Lucas of Mat Indiana, and their three ¢: ‘l- anese ren it’s going to more than if you're walking si Gov Persons himself swayed by any of the gripe has heard about the speed “if it has saved one life, replies firmly, “it’s worth it.’ you 1 me, NEW YORK CALL 1780 or your travel agent TICKET OFFICE: Meacham Airport NA