The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 4, 1952, Page 6

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, August 4, 1952 BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH UU BALLS O FIRE! IT'S A PIZEN=TAILED SNAPPERWHOG AN" HE'S HEADED THIS-A-WAY 1! AND BESIDES THE CONTRACT, HE GAVE WHITEY A PERFECTLY TERRIFIC BONUS / IT MADE A 4 KNOCKOUT DON’T LET UNK SNUFFY FOOL YE, MISS TIGER! (t’S JES’ A LEETLE ou BABY ‘POSSUM fe PERSON o US THIS BLANK SHEER ae eo FOR ICICLE ISLAND! 1T 1S COMIN’ IN EVERY DAY! fhe irked Cope. 1993, King Features te, Inc., World nights seserved. —AND WE SCOOPED EVERY OTHER PAPER MR. WHITCOMB! HOowS ABOUT THAT ? THEY SAY MONEY TALKS, SO _HERE’S ALITTLE BONUS CHECK To TELL YOU BAH! THAT CHATTERBOXER KNOWS EVERYTHING EXCEPT HAR! more wemard 7 ¢ | _/OH, BUT HERE'S THE PA 5-4 Li og, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, inc. WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED By George McManus TH WAS Qui WORK! MASTER-MIND,/ Irpwas ALL cK REAL || TOMMYS" IDEA” WE'LL SPLIT.? Chapter 31 Ate beam of light streaked down again and spotlighted his passage up the farther slope, following’ with ease, sometimes sntictoaiine a maneuver to avoid an obstacle, but returning al- ways to its point of focus, the struggling, cursing, sweating fig- ure that half-clim| half-fought its way towards the summit. The searchlight stayed with him until he breasted the surface and | p, Sacearen into the shoulder-high shrubs that lined the adjacent roadway. Then it sna with an air of finality and a sickly moon picked up the fleeing figure as it moved along the road, to- wards Thirteen Grover Street. He forced a rear window of the house and felt his way through the darkness of the lower floor room to the narrow staircase. He found his way without difficulty into the studio. Through the un- covered window panes the moon threw its pale light across the room and into the miror of the dressing table. He strode to the dressing table | the body and reached for the drawer. His fingers felt into the farther right corner and fastened upon an au- tomatic pistol. Brin, it foi he felt with the fea his (tee Th the magazine. Then he shifted the safety catch and with his thum! pulled back the hammer until it gripped after the second click. Instinctively, he closed the drawer and glanced up into the mirror. He fell back as the dulled features of Kate stared out at him from the mirror, and raised the pistol, but did not fire it. It was an illusion, like the rest of it! Like there being no. rot- ting carcase at the bottom of Wade’s Hole. Like his marriage to Melisande and the menace of the ubiquitous Danny. It was an illusion of the mind, all of it, and off | Kate, Power to destroy the false and restore reason. “Hullo, Paul.” a had a tongue, then! It ce Four times he pressed the trig- ger, smashing the glass of the mirror into a fantastic pattern of jagged streamers. The room spun with the detonation of .45 calibre stuff within its con- ae tk of wder. can’t do it thal was, Paul. Tie whose then, to face the face settee. There was the of out- wards at hi i elled a howl of fear and aimed the pis- tol, but at the moment of his aiming an orange streak flashed | the out from the settee and once again the walls of the room shud- o“Gardiners pistol fell trom bis ardiner’s pi: fe) 7m ae fingers and nara yy) floor. re upon the. settee rose and al proached the stricken artist. Her arms rea out and broke the momentum of his fali and when was fully relaxed upon the uncovered boards, she folded arms neatly across his breast and wey ers his legs, until it seemed it he merely slept. en she save him a final, wist- ful look and silently left the room. ib} At the foot of the stairs she paused and began to fumble with a rose that was pinned to her dress, but she thought better of it and went quickly out into the darkness of Grover Street. A LATE afternoon of mid- ing ett ap po — ore through the window of a sta- John Taylor stood on the platform, i lean- ing sasinst the open window. ell, it's all over now, Meli- id pee tin er were a le alt Pies sidered.” this was his studio in Grover Street and this of seeing Kate in the mirror was the result of a disordered imagination. But was sudde: strong and ta fis hands peayeee the ing. I expect FS petbacte for the whole business—" “T think all the blame has been Cherry Pies Cause Fractured Ankle DAYTON, 0. ® — Fireman Wilbur Sager blames the cherry pies for his broken ankle. Sager, 44, was working as a fireman at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base here—until he was taken to the hospital. He said he was baking three cherry pies when a fire rm sounded. He raced to the pole and slid to the floor below. Slid? He Plummeted. Flour on his hands. SSS Flying Rivers Puzzle Scientists CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — You can | have your flying saucers. Scientists have spotted “a flying river.” No pint-sized saucer, if you please. A man-sized river 100 miles long. f Observers spotted the waywai stream several nights ago on their radar screen at the University of Illinois airport. It had them in deep water for a while. They finally figured out it was a reflected radar image. The Illinois State Water Survey’s airport station has kept a radar check on the skies since 1948. Meteorologist Glenn E. Stout said the station’s observers have sighted some weird objects—from “flying saucers” to colored neon signs and rows of street lights. Stout said some of the images were caused by rain high in the air which never reached the ground. Others were reflections of ground objects caused by the bending of rada> rays. Layers of hot and cold air have different densities. To- gether they act like lenses or prisms, bending radar and light rays. Stout says they've found—just like the human eye—radar can be tricked to. Seen any “flying rivers?” Burlesque Queens Can’t ‘Bump’ Once! SAN FRANCISCO w# — San | Francisco’s burlesque queens got | the word today—it’s okay to strip | down but just one “bump or grind” and it’s off to the clink. Police Chief Michael Gaffey, angry at reports of lewdness in some burlesque houses, issued the | directive following police raids on two theaters Thursday. Fourteen strippers, caught in the net, indignantly denied in munici- pal court their acts were “sug- gestive enough to keep the cus- they said and pleaded innocent to charges of giving lewd perform- | ances. | The case comes up next week. A full house is expected, tomers goggled-eyed.” It’s art,! fixed. Paul’s dead. Kate’s plea of self-defense lets her out—you proved your point—and all Dan- ny’s got to worry about is dying of cancer in two year’s time. I'm on my way home and every- thing’s fine” “You're bitter, aren't you?” The train whistle blew its first warning. “I'm _a little disappointed with you scientists, that’s all. You had to wait until Paul tried to kill somebody before you discovered Rts Big" aonie W022 al sa business—” “Killing’s not very funny, Melisande.” The train began to move slowly away. Taylor walked along beside PL kaw fea ad the day I knew he was m: day married him,” Melisande said. “Then why did you do it?” “I.won’t know that until I get back home. Maybe I won’t know until I have a few bazaar after- noons with the Vicar. But when I do find out, John, I'll write you a letter about it—for use in your next text-book.” She was shouting, now, from some distance. “It's been nice knowing you. rer aise should’ve been an art- ist.” John St ond stood at the end of the platform, waving, until the train vanished round a curve. He strolled slowly down the len; fully prececupied with the prepo- ully ied wit sition’ that the children of the Mt should associate only with and the church commit- tee, and the children of the streets with the devils of their own crea- principle should Tighttully: bring rin r ly_ bri Forth the same consternation as that registered by a fowlyard hen when it suddenly sees a portion of its, brood alantly taking toa reat gone, The le pleased him and he was resolved to write Melisande that very night and tell her about it. Better still, he would tele- hone her. Or maybe he would ce the week-end excursion train— Election Qutcon: _—_—==EE Still Disputed DEFUNIAK SPRINGS (# —The state attorney election outcome in the First Judicial Circuit is still undecided. Circuit Judge D. Stuart Gillis took under advisement a local) hearing involving the disputed four- county race after a day-long ses- sion. Attorneys for Ed Wicke, Pensa- cola, maintained that the precinct 14 ballot box in Walton County was tampered with after the May 27 vote count but before a recount ordered by Judge Gillis June 5. The recount, ordered after John B. Amos complained the returns were erroneous and incorrect, gave Amos a 34 vote lead, while Wicke was ahead by three votes before the recount. McCarty Supports Adlai Stevenson TALLAHASSEE. (#—Democratic nominee for President Adlai E. Stevenson has the support of Dan McCarty, who as Democratic nom- inee is almost certain to be Flori- da’s next governor. McCarty said here he hasn't been asked to make any speeches for Stevenson and whether he takes the stump for the Illinois governor “depends on the kind of campaign I’m confronted with myself.” ponent for Florida governor is Har- ry S. Swann, Miami, said he thinks the combination of Stevenson and his vice presidential running mate Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama “is a good ticket.” in 80 years. But the state’s popular vote between Republican and Dem- ocratic candidates for President is usually closer than the governor- | ™ ship race. McCarty, who has been vacation- ing in North Carolina most of the time since he beat Brailey Odham in the second state Democratic pri- mary May 27, came here to ad- dress the state American Legion bs seg since he won the nomina- He said he “just can't say how I stand” on recommendations of a New York engineering firm that the state undertake a 275 million dollar toll turnpike from Jackson- ville to Miami with a leg from Titusville to Clearwater, until he gets a chance to study the firm’s Teport. During his campaign McCarty | consistently refused to commit} as-you-go basis. records for a trotter over a half- Men Needed To Instruct Gals In Baseball! With over five sponsors and. score of local girls signed up for @ proposed Girl’s “Donkey Seft- ball league in Key West, Doris Evans, who is sparking the for- mation of the leop said tedey that there is a need for man- agers and coaches to instruct the gals in the finer points of base- ball. Local ballplayers and service- men, in particuler, are asked te contact Mrs. Evans. Walk, don’t run to Evans En- terprises, 509 Southard Street, or phone 439, Saeed Cost-Of-Living Will Rise Higher By DILLON GRAHAM WASHINGTON (#—Government stabilization chiefs look for the over-all cost of living to hit another new high later this month. “The ugly picture of rising prices is plain to anyone with a desire to see it,” Price Stabilizer lowed a Bureau of Labor Statis- tics (BLS) report that food have climbed to period ended Jul; Republicans Economic Sta! im. “There's cost of living is what and that (only recently adjourned) our program,” Putnam radio broadcast (CBS). “There's just no question the was voting EtVERE sc HEE eat it