The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 19, 1952, Page 6

By Fred Lasswell (N TH’ VERY NEXT BREATH YE | ‘ Homer Hatten TH! SHIF'LESS SKONIK cocaine TELLS ME HE Wuz WESTPORT ® nen LANDING IAP Newsteatur I DON'T SEE NOTHIN! WHAT ON AIRTH MAKES YE SAY SICH A THING, L AST HIM HOW HIS WIFEMATE WUZ I SWOW, THIS MORNIN’, AN’ HE AUNT LOWEEZY- RIDDLES BARLOW ACTS @ LEETLE © TETCHED IN TH! HAID » PARDON- sik! BUT YOUR WIFE'S UNCLE AND AUNT PHONED = THEY ARRIVED IN TOWN AND ARE COMING TO visit you !/ eT" KETT WELL, HOW THAT'S THE BEST NEWS YOU'VE BROUGHT ME SINCE YOU'VE BEEN WORKIN’ JUGHAID ? NOW THAT THEY'RE GOIN! TO VISIT US -- MAGGIE WON'T WANT TO GOON A VACATION! WHICH SUITS ME PERFECTLY - AKE A BUS STATION! — ALL THE OLD GRADS ARE HAVING 4 REUNION OF MY ABOUT THAT?! ITs ) CLASS — IM INVITED./— A LETTER FROM MY OLD SCHOOL — BLAZES AND BRIMSTONE! T MISSED HIM! SOME Fun)! SAID SHE NEVER FELT MAGGIE- YOUR > AUNT AND UNCLE ARRIVED AND WILL BE HERE SOON - LAST YEAre ALL THE MEN BROUGHT THEIf2 SONS ALONG! REMEMBER 2 THEY'VE SHOWN THEIR HAND, PANCHO! RIDE IN SHOOTING! TAKIN' HER TO SEE DOC PRITCHART (N TH' MORNIN’ ee. Ty, i.) WE'LL. TAKE THEM WITH US ON OUR VACATION / By Paul Robinson “THIS YEAR We're )’ [ HEARDTHAT: JO BRING Oure 1D LOVE IT./— SONS AND aw" WHEN DO WE DAUGHTERS.- LEAVE 2” x06 | i a Cay él am A =a —U | S ‘| NOSE By Jose Salinas and Rod Reed WELL, I WONT MISS AGAIN! I'LL --- AHHHGGHHH ! Chapter Nine HEAD, the traffic from the levee had fallen into an al- most hopeless tangle. Fifth Street was an impassable barricade, with dar! exican horsemen at every crossing, alert, implacable, facin, each cross street with lowere lances and with rifles across their saddles. Along these streets Fran- cisco de Vaca's oxcarts were car- rying more than a quarter of a mil‘on dollars in gold and silver to the ancient Benoist banking house. A long line of wagons moved down the street—a line attended by armed vaqueros from Sonora. There were oxen in the traces, and, to back the armed men who faced each cross street, a horde of Mexican guards rode beside each wagon. Clay spurred in beside Major Elderson, hot and high in the sad- dle, his voice a rough husk that commanded immediate attention. “My horses are beating their brains out back there! What kind of a half-witted parade’s going on here? Let’s put these horses through—and let’s do it now!” Elderson laid a_ restraining hand on his erm. “Hold it,” he said warningly. “That’s the Vaca train from Mexico. They don’t trust their own banks or currency too much, so they bring their gold and s.lver here. There’s Don Fran- cisco himself.” He was riding to the left of one of the wagons, a tall, spare-boned, knife-lipped grandee with the aura of power about his shoul- ders. Behind him, bred in his bone and his blood, was the age-old tradition of the Spanish colonial hacendados with their absolute power of life and death. Death rode with him—death that was unmistakable and implicit in the long lances and ready guns of the vaqueros beside him. On the far side of the caravan, and about two wagons behind, By GEORGE A. MCARTHUR SEOUL, Korea (®) — Tank-sup- ported U.N. soldiers fought grimly today to break a new Chinese Com- munist foothold on Old Baldy in one of four bloody flareups along the Korean battlefront The U. S. Eighth Army said a battalion of screaming Reds — about 800 men — stormed the crest | of Old Baldy last night, signaling a long - expected Communist at- tempt to recapture the Western Front hill. “Nobody can claim all of Bal- dy,” a frontline U. N. officer said after Allied and Chinese troops grappled through the night and morning. The crest, he said, was a “scene of confusion.” U. N. tanks hugging the south j slope raked the crest with shells |as Allied soldiers inched up the }east and west slopes against | withering fire from Red big guns. The remnants of the attacking bat- talion clung to the north face. Al- lied planes lashed at the surround- ‘ing area to keep back Red rein- | forcements. * { The hill west of Chorwon {changed times four timesf in July jand was captured Aug. 1 by the | U. S. Second Division. | To the west, northwest of Yon- | | chon, two Chinese companies “‘at- | tacked from all sides’ and over- | ran an Allied outpost hill the | Eighth Army said. r | U.N. soldiers called in air-burst- |ing artillery over their own posi- tions when the Chinese charged | atop their bunkers. | At the same time as their as- ‘House Hunti ng NEW YORK (#—A French mem- ber of the United Nations staff sta- | tioned in Africa saw an advertise- | ment of a new air-conditioned lux- ury apartment in New York. Writ- ing to Sol Atlas, the builder, from | Asmara, Eritrea, the U. N. offici-| al said he expected to bring his| family to New York by way of Ja-| pa | Rent schedules were mail the apartment was \agsed through negotiations half way around the world | ‘Long-Distance | | | and brochures d to Tokyo, from where tode his son, Don Pedro de Vaca, ripe ‘in the wisdom of savage In- dian wars and hard-lipped border trading, welcomed for himself as well as for his name at any camp- fire between Westport and Chi- huahua. “I don’t care if it’s the devil himself,” Clay said shortly. “I’m taking those horses through, and the man who gets in my way can look out for himself.” He touched Sweet Nancy .with the spurs and she lunged forward, striking the shoulder of the horse that carried the vaquero blocking the passage before them. The lit- tle Mexican pony stumbled, knocked backward and off bal- ance by the attack. Clay was too close to the rider for the startled Mexican to bring his long, red- mnoned lance into play, and be- fore he could lift the rifle that lay across his saddle the needle- tipped, three-sided épée that had been hidden in Clay’s sword cane was out, its point a perilous inch short of his throat. N an instant the street was thrown into utter confusion. The wagons were halted, their guards a harsh, menacing cordon around each one. Half a dozen riders had detached themselves from the column and raced for- ward to their comrade’s aid, while young Pedro de Vaca, his face harsh with anger, spurred across the cobblestones and through the confusion until he was only an arm’s length from Clay, his pistol ready in his hand and the threat of sudden death in his face. “What is this, sefior?” he de- manded harshly. “Do you think you can take the gold and silver in these wagons from between the fingers of my men?” Clay’s own eyes were narrow slits and his mouth was a hard line of fury and determination. “I don’t give a good damn about your gold and silver,” he growled. sault on Old Baldy, the Commu- nists staged a diversionary attack on Pork Chop Ridge, a few thou- sand yards to the west. Allied troops hurled the Reds back after four hours of bitter fighting. Red artillery and mortar fire raked both hills west of Chorwon. On the Central Front, the Reds made two fierce but futile attempts to recapture South Korean posi- | tions on Finger Ridge. During the night, two Chinese companies were driven off after launching a 90- minute hand grenade and small arms assault Later, two Red pla- toons fought for four hours but failed to scale the ridge seized early Thursday by the South Koreans. More than 100 fighter bombers Thursday struck at Chinese troop and supply targets in the Finger “As far as I'm concerned, can dump it off the levee throw yourself in after it. I've got a couple of high-strung race horses back here that I'm gcing to get into a stable before they kick this end of St. Louis over into Illinois. Just hold your pa- rade up for a minute while I get them across, and then you can go on to Benoist’s—or to hell, as far as I'm concerned!” Young Vaca’s searchin was as sharp as a hawk’s rf iftin; down over a barren praesent then, suddenly, he threw back his head and laughed. “Por Dios!” he roared. “You should have told us and we would have delayed our march. A good horse is always worth more than money. Pa sefor. We await your pleasure.” Instinctively, Clay shifted the glittering sword to his left hand | and held out his right toward | the caballero. “Why, thank you, sir,” he said courteously. “We will be obliged. | If I can ever repay, the favor—* The dark hand of the Mexican |: clasped his in a grip that was ' surprisingly strong in view of the small hand and slender wrist he offered. “It is nothing, sefior,” he as- sured him. “After all, two hun- ! dred thousand dollars can wait a moment, but good horses won't. When we meet again we'll drink a toast to their success—and yours.” At a movement of his hand the vaqueros opened a path, their eyes wide with amazement and their fingers still distrustfully light on the triggers of their guns. Clay lifted his arm in a forward- waving gesture and Sam and Henry led the slim-limbed, danc- ing thoroughbreds between the wagons and across the street with Sweet Nancy in the lead and Major Elderson bringing up the Tear. you and (To be continued) | 4l U.N. Troops Fight For Korean Hill Today , Ridge-Capitol Hm area. Twelve B29 Superforts from Ok- inawa and Japan bombe tdhe 82- acre Hulliak supply center at Su- nan, about 12 miles north of Pyongyang, capital of North Korea. The U. S. Navy said the de- | stroyer Bradford fought off four | Red MIG jets late Wednesday in the Yellow Sea. It possibly was the first clash of the war between Com- | munit spanles and an Allied war- | ship. The U. 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