The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 20, 1952, Page 8

Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, August 20, 1952 BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH [—_———~_( SHORE-- vo're PLUMB WELCOME MOU WIGHT COULD | TO: SLEEP IN TH’ PUT ME.UP FOR | HENHOUSE, COUSIN: TH’ NIGHT, ‘ Me. SMitH Se WOWEE !-MY NAME FOR UTTERLY IN THe PAPER./—TI WEEKS/IM A DIDN'T KNOW YOU WROTE ) CARRE GIRL A COLUMN / HOW Now! LONG HAS // THiS BEEN |] bh \ GOING ON > iv o \ N Ny Ln SSI, OKAY,/= WHAT ARE WE WAITING For 2-GET ON THE BAUL./— PHONE 'EM.” LETS GET THIS JOINTUUMP ING GUESS THAT'S YOUR ANSWER, SENORITA, IF PANCHO WON'T... 1uSO AHI GONNA CRANK UP AN yarr’ as) HELL'S HORSE wo Chapter 14 they rode out that mile, each Riis thud of the horses ground a warning to the grim-faced bareback Nder that such a pace could not last. Belle knew enoags to hold her mount to a ciently speedy ace so that the men coming up hind could not close in yet con- serving its stamina by not forcing the pace; and h»len Forrest, well- bred horsewoman that ‘she was, followed suit. ? But the pace was beginning to tell and Montana flung his horse over almost against Belle Ram- son’s mount as the of them fled down a shallow. grass-car- peted ravine. “They're gaining,” he yelled. “Up ahead sboat a half a mile is rds away now sudd leaping up all Toned Mae mount. The mouth of the wide its jaws and ° guy. three of them, offering what could be only ments. Belle Ramson loo! and ca did — i Bos on, tryin; in riefly raise a in I-bye, before the timber and Bebra covered: ridge at the turn loomed up, when i gia? arti ey Tt seemed miles away measured by the labored, senda panting of mounts that ha given all and were about done. The rid- ers behind, their own mounts in a like fix, appeared to sense what. was at stake too, for they re- a.deep gully that makes a sharp turn to the left. Hit up that pty until we come to the turn. be right behind you. But when we get there cut right into the thick timber and buckbrush and go SSE Oe the tae Si Pe eep going! I'll swing left and try reals to throw them off.” No use to tel’ her that he was joing to By standing them off. it would do little good. She jerked her head in answer, and his last jlimpse at their faces showed him tt something was there which hadn’t been before. For a brief, startled momeni, back there at the ane his nam~ had struck fear a distrust. That feeling was gone now. He slowed oF to let them get ahead, the shril’ whistle coming from the gelding’s nostrils a dan- er sii Mente it was rine roug) e long trip haulii the stage had been too much. Rifle fire came. as he had ex- pected. With the first reports he swung the horse over to get him- doubled their efforts, A hundred yards. fifty .. . and still. the turn seemed miles away. Then it! loomed up, kidden by trees through which Montana flashed, and a look back showed him no riders in view bel Seconds now, a few seconds. ... The turn came, almost flung it- self at him. He reined hard over, off.|Saw Belle and Helen throwing their strainine mounts oe the sharp incline, as mounts and rid- ers bobbed inte sight every few yards. They went up, higher and! still higher. He caught a_ last limpse of hind legs strainin; ard at the incline near the two hands that waved, and they were over and he was alone, go- ing hard down the other way on a horse that could go no farther without a blow. up. It was now or never. He jerked the stage mount to a halt and leaped off. leaving it tin} and too winged to do little more than move off a few steps self out of the line of fire, the girls| © were now forty yards to the fore. Bullets began to drone and Mon- tana fi a look back over his shoulder. He was not too. worried yet; not as long as they were shootirg from back of run- ning horses. But even as he looked, a man jerked off to one side and was down on one knee. levering shots from a Winchester. Dust spurts that had been hitting thirty Today’s Business Riieror By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (#—The steel mills are finally getting back into full | production. And the government is still.trying today to pick up the | pieces of the costly strike. | Steel prices are officially raised today — as the strike settlement nearly a month ago provided. And steel users get permission today to buy steel a still more ex- pensive way if they need it badly. | This conversion steel will cost | them even more than the new high | prices formally approved by the | Office of Price Stabilization, But buyers of conversion steel won't ; have to charge it off to the regular | quota the government allots them. | The aim is to end as quickly. | as possible the unemployment in industries like auto making where | the steel shortage still pinches. Conversion steel gets its name | Then he heard them coming. MONTANA, the boulder, made _a final in- spection of the heavy Winchester with which he had practiced so much. He ease’ down the lever NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (#—Back in 1945, the hot war was ending and the cold war had not yet begun, I interviewed a fellow who said he was going to produce ‘The Robe.” This week I had another chat with the man, whose name is Frank Ross. Now,he says, he is really going to produce “The Robe. “I can hardly believe it is com- ing true,” he confided. “In fact, I still won't believe it until it's all done.” Ross has good reason for his skepticism. He has been awaiting the production of “The Robe” for 10 years now, and many times he has had false alarms. “I bought the story 10 years ago,”’ he told me. “I was mowing | my lawn when a friend of mine, Dick Halliday, an agent and hus- band of Mary Martin, told me about a book he was handling. It ve i LE teed: ag saw Helen Forrest MAN H ao lined as Pegi ree ee top a foot to a ore’ Lonntartaiie st rider shot into view, a ired though clean-shav- aw whe must have been low, four feet below the dot that was a fi: shaven face, and squeezed the trigger: He hated to shoot the horse. No man likes to kill a good horse. But there was no other way out. So tana shot the horse with the 40-65. As the gun i against Montana’s shoulder the brute went down head first, stfuck somewhere around the shoulders and chest, and somersaulted from its Tose to his feet sta; white that had been adirt-covered from contact a hist eg Pe tal ereiibetet hauled midst of as would cut the tracks of horses. years, meanwhile making ‘other films. Finally, Ross related, “I never found out why. In fact, I never could get to talk to Hughes, although I tried many times. We ended up by suing each other for a million dollars. “But I realized I would be in court five years, even if I won. So we reached an agreement whereby I could take ‘The Robe’ to another studio. The deal was all set a couple of times, then the studios called it off and acted as though they didn’t even know mi After failing with MGM, Ross was talking to U-I when he heard that Darryl Zanuck of 20th-Fox had bought Howard Hughes’ interest in “The Robe.” Ross flew to Paris and made a deal with the vacation- ing Zanuck. The picture is now set to begin in the fall, and will be 20th-Fox's most expensive production. The cost is estimated at three and @ half million dollars, A good many stars have been mentioned for: the leading roles, but Ross assured that no one had been cast yet. “I saw ‘Quo Vadis’ again yester- day,” he remarked, “‘and I know what to avoid. Everyone in the from the way it is purchased and , was being written by Lloyd Doug-| cast, with the exception of Robert finished. For example, an auto | las. The story, he said, was about | Taylor, spoke with a British accent, maker can now buy steel in ingot | | form from a steel mill and ed the ingots to other fabricating mills where it can be made into the | sheet or other steel products that the auto maker needs. All of this handling is costly. But the auto maker may not want to | wait until the original steel maker | could fabricate the ingots into bars | and sheets — especially if it has a long waiting list for finished steel products. To wait for this steel to arrive | from his usual supplier might mean | the auto maker’s plant is shut down | | in the meantime. And so he finds it cheaper to pay more to have | steel converted into finished prod- | uets at some other mill whose | schedule permits speedier han- | dling. The government is giving its blessing now to this practice Steel production this week will top two million tons for the first time since before the strike The effects of the strike on the economy will show up for some time, as spot shortages of various finished steel products hamper pro- duction in the industries using steel or steel parts in. their products. | But many observers are now say- | ing that the effects of the strike | on production won't be as pro- | nounced as first feared Some doubt if arms production was badly hampered. They ques- | tion if armament - making sched- ules weren't already delayed for | other reasons, and think that the | steel will reach the defense indus- | tries in time to keep most produc- tion lines going about as smoothly | as they would have anyway | The auto makers — who were leaders in asking the government to relax its curbs on conversion | steel — are stil! falling behind in no great rush of buyers for cars, a man who crucified Christ. “At that time,.1 didn't even know who Lloyd Douglas was. But the idea was so intriguing that I looked into it. I bought the novel when it was only half finished.” Thus began one of the longest production sagas in Hollywood History. Ross took the project to RKO. He worked on it for a few i the actor who played Paul, a Jew, talked very British, “I want everyone in ‘The Robe’ to talk as naturally as possible. There won't be any stilted fi logue, as in most costume pictur The characters will say ‘couldn’ not “could not.’ After all, the people of that era spoke very colloquially.” mere mee FOR HOME or COMMERCIAL USE... We Are Prepared To Furnish You With Clear, Pure Cube » Crushed ICE | and the prices of some used models | | are turning soft. Production of 1953 | lear models will be delayed, the | j auto makers report, but it’s still | ‘ any one’s guess as to whether the | | strike - cartailed output of 1952) models wasn't just about as much as the public wanted to buy. Thompson Enterprises, Inc. TELEPHONE NO 8 «ey . FLORIDA