The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 22, 1952, Page 6

: Pose ‘6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, August 22, 1938 TT SURELY THERE MUST BE SOME MISTAKE, SID SWIPED MY DUDS !! NOW THAT MAGG! AWAY - IIM GOIN! TO TAKE IT EASY--I'M NOT GOING TO LET Rady OISTURB Cops, 1952, King Features Syndicate, Inc, World rights reserved. ———= MEMBER, JUSTESN ie youre GUEST / CANT You GIVE HER A PARTY? ATLEAST GET HER 11S AST GIT SETTLED | i= Bur, MOM.” I'VE BARNEY GOOGLE AND SWUFF. SMITH BY JEEPERS !!(— tTHaT DON'T SCARE TH’ LIVIN’ DAYLIGHTS OUT'N THEM INFUNNEL CROWS, NOTHIN’ WILL !! OHNO, THERE AIN'T!! \SID! THERE'S 1 BOUGHT ME @ GENUINE NOT 8 SOUL FIT AVENOO MOUNTAIN { OUTFIT JUST TO WEAR HOLLER WHO DOWN HERE-AN' NOW IT'S GONE! ~> NOW WHAT? JLIST 1M THE \“1IM THE MRS.JIGGS ORDERED PLUMBER! ME TO TAKE DOWN AND CLEAN THE CURTAINS DOWN NEW LINOLEUM IN TH! NUY POPEYE "" LS 1 THINK y see L KNOW, MOM —ITS THAT age gee was BEAUTY CONTEST.” = ALL THE SHOPPING /—-SHE UYS HAVE GONE FOR THE ISE enmoura Girets — I CAN'T AS A — IT’S Your DUTY TO SEE THATSHE HAS 4 GOOD TIME WHILE HERE ON A NDT I Chapter 16 BAck in Smeller-A-Mile the town woke the next morning to the fact that Pete was in charge of Carson’s store and that the trader had disappeared dur- ing the night. As for Pete, that worthy hauled out a battered guitar, se- curity for a three-dollar loan to an_ indigent -rider, and gave the strings an experimen’ twang. | i, The discordant reply was joy to his soured soul. se A shadow darkened the door- way and its maker moved inside. Pete, busy with the guitar, fo- cused his gaze on far away places to woo the muse. “Fishin’ maybe. Shore, that’s where he went! Said he’s gettin’ tired of eating Le’s see now —goose, hooch, loose, moose, noose”— He broke off and tried an experimental line. Fe Out-of-tune strings groaned. “T onct had a Sguaw who had a pa- Poose, she—’ “Turn around and stop that noise,” snarled the voice. Pete turned, and found him- self staring blankly down the barrel of a six-shooter. At a dis- tance of three feet, its muzzle looked like a railroad tunnel. “I'm strictly neutral,” he said hurriedly. His forefinger caught under one of the strings as he shifted position and the string a off a eae seme inda outa tune,” he apologized. The man moved closer. Pete was a little drunk but now he recognized his caller. It was the man who had been with McBain. | first—' ‘My name’s Horton, in case you've forgot,” the holder of the Colt announced grimly. “I’m go- ing to ask you some questions. Where’s Montana?” “I'm blowed if I know,” Pete answered truthfully. “Where’s Carson?” snapped Horton. “He ain’t here, is Pete said, and forced down a titter at his own es wit. “If he was I'd be over in my saloon. Been kinda thinkin’ I'd sell out and hit further north. You wanna buy a saloon? Four hundred cash .for stock. I'll throw in Official U. S. Navy Photo Lieutenant Commander Joe w. | Williams Jr., USN, son of Mr. and | Mrs. Joe Williams, 207 E. Dallas St., Palestine, Texas has recently completed a four months course in All Weather Flight at the Fleét All Weather Training Unit, Key West, | Fla. The course consists of advanc- ed flight training in instruments BY WILLIAM HOPSON building free, It leaks anyhow,” he apologized. Horton's lips thinned in exas- a. After they had been iven out of town by fire from in oh of the store, McBain had decided’ to catch the train north and report to Black Jack. He, Horton, was to remain and find out what he could. So Horton had camped that night by the tracks and returned to town the follow- ternoon. Cautious inqui! had elicited the information that — reiger who had visited Car- le previous be ais was gone and that, sometime duri ie night, Carson had disap the had disclosed only one set of horse tracks leadiny A North. HO8TON stepped up close, his eyes blazing. The hook ham- mer of the big pistol metallic click as the back-country man cocked the weapon. “Just one more time I'm asking,” he snarled. “And if you don’t tell me ll blow you to kingdom come. Where’d Montana go? “Go to blazes,” snorted Pete. “I can be stubborn too. You won't sing with me, I won’t tell you that Montana went North on the Shen? “Last night. Only one train through here, blast you.” “Carson go with him?” But Pete only wagged a cun- He fore! T, having a little difficulty in cHaing. his balance in the propped-back chair. “Oh, no, you don’t! You got to sing But Horton siesartad moved. He slid the uncocked ‘weapon into its sheath and turned. In his mind Ben Carson had gone with ay ce both were in sg junction by now. Horton ory of the train, remembered that he had two of black Jack’s valuable and decided he'd have to Horton, by switching s saddles at re; ar rvs made pret jood time. He drove northward ito evening and rode until it was too dark for easy travel. He was up with the dawn and saddled on the trail once News Briefs ROANOKE, Va. #) — George Betzold sold a Roanoke man a family liability insurance policy last week. Betzold filed a claim under the policy Wednesday. The sales talk clincher by Bet- zold was that the unidentified client's big police dog might hurt somebody. The dog did—he bit Betzold. MARSEILLE, France (#—Safety- minded French officials say an ad- venturesome Chicago youth and his crew of three aren't going to sail from this port on pingpong balls. The maritime authorities have ruled that 26-year-old Richard Mil- ler’s raft Ken-Tooki—which floats on 75,000 pingpong balls in steel drums—is not a fit craft for his dream voyage across the Mediter- ranean. f Their decision appeared to have sunk the Miller expedition before it really got started. BELMONT, Calif. 7» — Two Belmont ladies, beth amateur artists, were quietly painting e clump of trees Wednesday when an ancient car pulled up and @ Gl HELL'S HORSEMAN more. Hour after hour he rod: and dusk had almost fallen three evenings later when at last he pulled up in the country that was uite familiar. From the top of the ridge he sat astride one of the crusted horses; a faint wisp of blue smoke was visible a mile and a half away. Horton i Assiniboine squaw’s cooking aad i mounts forward again’ ad hee a lon, iry | tide and he was tired. The trai descended into eaves a a ravine whose ve off a} besi: The saddle belonged to Ben Carson! Leather creaked as Horton Sane Gown: He reached up and took his glasses from their case and began to sweep what little area was not shut in by the limbs of the evergreens. He moved over to a higher point, stepped up on a boulder, and focused the glasses on Buckner’s corral. It was filled with horses. The dis- tance was too great to make out their ownership, but a splash of gray showed him a chinless roan Shean by one of Black Jack’s riders. “Talk about luck!” Frmted Horton, his are shining. “It's the boys all right, and have I got acl for et nin Jack and ie wi lumb surprised when I tell *em Phat Montana is up in this country.” He went to Carson’s A half mile away he tied the here ne ecebg e went on alone, cautiously, pistol gripped in his right hand.” at and night tactics designed to quali- out. ALL GROCERS fy the pilot for Carrier All Weather Squadrons. He will report to the Commander, Air Force, Atlantic Fleet, Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Va., for fur- | ther assignment to duty involving flying. ; Commander Williams entered the naval service in 1941 as an avia- | tion cadet in the Navy V-5 pro- gram. In September 1941, he was designated a naval aviator after completing the prescribed flight instruction at Pensacola, Fla. He subsequently served with squadron VB-19 aboard the USS Lexington. |The decorations which he received while flying in this squadron in- jeluded the Navy Cross, the Air ‘| Medal, the. Purple Heart, and the | Presidential Unit Citation. | Since the end of World War Il, | as Legal Officer of the Naval | Air Technical Training Command, Commander Williams has served | Jacksonville, Fla. and as Assistant \Air Officer and later, Air | | Operations Officer aboard the USS | Antietam. Before reporting to FAW TU, he was Administration Officer | of the Naval Air Station, Jackson- | ville, Fla. | Commander Williams is married ; to the former Miss Helen McCord, | They have j daughters, Patty Ann (4) and Mar-| sha Catherine (1). The Williams) YES, THE FOREMAN (WE'LL “TAKE OUR PAY =a eee THIS PLACE 16 BAD LUCK, WERE LEAVING WHILE Overseas Transportation Company, Inc. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service between MIAMI AND KEY WEST Also Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS Between Miami and Key West Express Schedule (Ne Stops En Route) 1S KEY WEST DAILY (EXCEPT Le TDAYS) at 6:00 P.M. Arrives at Miami at 12:00 o'clock Midnight. LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 12:00 o'clock Midnight pereyaaanle at Key West et 6:00 o'clock A.M. Local Schedule AVES KEY WEST DAILY (EXCEPT se UNDAYS) at 8:00 o'clock A.M. and (Stops At All Intermediste Points) arrives at Miami at 4:00 o'clock P.M. 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