The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 25, 1952, Page 8

Poge 8 THB KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, September 25, 1952 BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFTY SMITH Ghee S LAID i CBeNcezere \\ HIM DOWN FER HIS Temepeigin AFTERNOON NAP, THE'S FIXIN' TO ri HAVE A BRAND- N' HE ACTED SPANKIN-NEW . PLUMB TICKLED LEETLE : PLAYMATE, CRICKET > THIS IS THE CHEAP DISTRICT HE ee Our HOW CAN I HELP IT? YOUR FATHER SNEAKED OUT AGAIN -HE KNOWS I WANTED TO SHOP - WELL- VLL FIX HIM-]'LL FIND HIM IF IT TAKES ALL THEATRE—Starring Popeye WITH THOSE GuYS GeT \OLD GRADS ANY SLEEP ) HOWLING ? - Are You Me Ie1DDING zs LET'S HAVE BREAKFAST ATTHE SCHOOL CAFETERIA —- THEN LOOK-SEE_ AROUN' THE CAMPUS!) = OZARK IKE -AND AS Z/P IDES (IN FELL Just P_ INSIDE HE CAN'T FOOL ME- HE'S SOME I COULDN'T STUDy EITHER.’— IF I FLUNIC, — AND SAy IT'S WHATTA BREAKS - (7 BOUNCED OFF MY SWOE AND INTO Tit” OUTFIELD S By Tom Sims and B. Zaboly 1 KNEW IT FROM THE Pu' WAY _HE COME ON. WE HAVE TO MAKE CLASS.’ you GuyS ‘WESTPORT "orn LAND, Homer Hatten Chapter Fifteen ATTER sundown the lower floor of Abner Yost’s Westport Tav- ern was no place for a woman. Sally had eaten with Clay and Burl at the big, family-style din- ner table, but after the meal she had retired to her room while the men repaired to the long, low- ceilinged, dimly lit barroom that ran all along one side of the es- tablishment. Clay and Burl had seated them- selves at one of the tables near the middle of the room. There was a buzz of talk all about them, broken by an occasional laugh ox oath, for the baroom was almost full of traders and teamsters, mer- chants and Mexicans, hunters and mountain men, many of whom would be far out on the Santa Fe trail before another week had passed. It was the season of the year when the great annual west- ern migration threw the frontier town into . frenzy of bustling ex- citement that would change al- most magically to somnolence and inertia when the last wagon dis- appeared into the prairie They had drunk the bottle dry and Clay got up and walked across to the bar to obtain a new one. The bar was crowded and he waited a minute, knowing that men drinking at a bar shift and cluster and change position and that an opening would soon pre- sent itself. Directly in front of him three men were getting them- selves uproariously and danger- ously drunk. From the square jaws, black eyes, and broad shoul- ders that they had in common, he felt sure that they were brothers, and their flannel shirts and leath- er boots definitely marked them as plainsmen, probably teamsters or traders of the Santa Fe trail. One of them was telling a bawdy story at the top of ai lungs, and as he reached his cli- max he threw his arms higy in the air and fell back from the bar to illustrate his point. He nad moved into action so explosively and so unexpectedly that he caught Clay by surprise, and as his boot heel ground down on Clay’s toes and his hard back crashed into Clay’s chest. Clay aeted instinctively. Like a sleep- ing dog suddenly awakened, he struck out before he realized what had happened. His right arm shot up so that the back of the other’s head was cupped in his hand, and then, with a sudden thrust that had the power of a blow, he threw his weight forward so that the stranger was propelled against from a wagon. The impact crushed hung for a moment, inert and helpless across the edge of the bar, struggling for breath. The conversation in the room stopped as suddenly as if it had been cut off with a knife, and for @ space of time that seemed to stretch out to injdnity the. two men seemed to hang motionless and paralyzed in a smoke-filled circle of suspended animation. Then, with a great heave of his heavy shoulders. the stranger pated himself away from the ar and turned to face Clay, who stood just where he had when the scuffie began, eyes bright and alert, nostrils flaring with the ex- Pectation of attack. The big man was still breathing raucously, but his mouth was twisted into a snarl and his eyes were narrow slits of fury as he surveyed Clay slowly from head to foot. “Why,” he said slowly. “I’m go- ing to stomp your bloody guts into the flobr for that!” “You'll stomp nothing,” said |Clay contemptuously. “You've had one taste of trouble and you'll get a sight more if you keep asking for it.” He looked over the man’s shoul- der at the bartender, who stood transfixed and immobile. 3 me another bottle of whiskey,” he said peremptorily, “and don’t be all day about it.” The bartender’s eyes never left the scene before him, but he reached down to the cupboard below. located an unopened bot- tle, and placed it gingerly on the bar. With a quick movement Clay stepped forward, picked up the bottle, and spinning on his heel, started back to his table. H's sheer audacity and obvious contempt for his opponent had held the big man spece nie but just as Clay reached his table he heard a sudden flurry of move- ment behind him and in the same instant caught Burl’s high-pitched shout of warning. “Watch him, Clay! He’s got a knife!” Clay whirled and saw that his enemy now held a dark, softly shining bowie knife in his right hand. Its blade was long as a Screen And Stage Star Judy Holliday Says S To Get Involved With Commies 32%: = By JOHN CHADWICK WASHINGTON — Stage and screen star Judy Holliday told Sen- ate investigators that in getting mixed up with various Communist fronts she was irresponsible and more than slightly stupid. When she had her eyes opened to what was going on, she said, she herself hired people to inves- tigate her. “I wanted to know what I had done,” said the actress who won the Motion Picture Academy Award in 1951 for her portrayal of a dumb blonde in “Born Yester- day.” Senate internal security sub- committee disclosed today that, at closed-door sessions last spring, it had questioned Miss Holliday, com- edian Sam Levenson, actor Philip Loeb and singer Burl Ives The testimony of all four was made public. It showed that they all were asked about Communist front organizations or activities with which their names have been linked. They swore they had never knowingly taken part in any Com- munist movement. Levenson ad Ives appeared be- fore the subcommittee at their own request. The Senate group has been prob- ing for any subversive infiltration of the radio, television and enter- tainment industries. Today's second volume of testi- mony, with still more to come, was released by the subcommittee without comment In an accompanying statement, however, Chairman McCarran (D- Nev) said that “communism fast- ens itself like a leech’ on the careers of prominent figures in the entertainment world He remarked on what he called | “the striking number of r controlled organizi and , Communist-sponsored activities in which some of the witnesses have involved themselves | “We do not want to accuse any ; one of ‘guilt by association,” Mc | Carran said, “‘but it is a dangerous type of thinking that leads people | that should be permitt itself freely in such means as | types of ente j the minds of ou: | Miss H two hou: | cret hearing here last She said she had let h used by Communist-fro: tions without knowing what they were “L have been awakened to a re | alization that I have been irrespoo | ubie shightly—more than s ly—stupid,” she said solicited I always simp smt that ton bad. Sure pame “The few things that | actually | When I was sad Ob ase omy he Was Stupid Participated in were things that I couldn't possibly have thought were subversive.” Miss Holliday, who was born Judy Tuvim, testified that in 1948 she was for Henry A. Wallace for president and registered as a mem- ber of the left-wing American La- bor Party. She said she thought of it as “a sort of middle party.” Asked if she and her husband, David Oppenheim, ever discussed Politics, Miss Holliday replied: “Only lately. And boy, we talk about nothing else now.” Similarly, when asked if she now watches organizations to which she contributes money, Miss Holliday exclaimed: i now.” A few minutes later she said “I don't say ‘yes’ to anything now ex cept cancer, polio, and cerebral palsy, and things like that.” Levenson, a former Brooklyn high school teacher who has won a@ reputation on television as a humorist, told the subcommittee he had asked to appear “‘to clear up certain misconceptions which might help you and help me.” Testifying last March 20, Leven- son brought with him a to-whom-it- may-concern letter from Harvey Matusow, a former Communist who turned informer for the FBI and who now is employed by the Ohio Un-American Commission. Levenson said he had read an | account of testimony by Matusow before the House Un-American Ac tivities Committee last February implying that Levenson had ‘“‘know- ingly accepted bookings from a Communist - dominated organiza- tion.” Levenson testified the organiza- tion he was referring to was Peo ple's Artists. Subcommittee coun sel previously dentified Peo e's Art as the artist's ivision of People's Sc Ine After learning of M wh communis ha have had was back m the the bar like a sack of meal hurled} the air out of his lungs and he| “Oh, do 1 watch it | ING | man’s forearm and tapered to a wicked, shimmering, razor-edged hand pulling at his sleeve and felt the hilt of Burl’s own knife thrust into his hand. “Take it, man!” Burl urged des- perately. ke it and protect yourself. You" ed into Buck Royle, and there’s no better knife- man on the plains! Without turning away from Royle, Clay dropped the prof- fered blade on the table behind him. “T don’t need it, Burl,” he said easily. It was a gesture of bravado and he knew it, but behind it was the serene assurance that there was no man alive who could teach him a great deal about the use of knives. He had learned in a hard schoo:, among the wild, blood-hungry Negroes who lived on the back-country wilderness acres of Brad's timberlands. Scarcely a night had sed that two of them had not ca’ each other to ribbons in_a_ vicious struggle; and Big Deni, their scarred, battle-trained chief, had labored long and hard to teach Clay the secret arts of the knife that had enabled him to maintain his own supremacy year after year. Before he was done Clay knew all the subtle, murderous tricks of thrust and parry, of cut and slash, of guard and force, of feint and attack. He knew how to use a knife and, what was even more important, he knew how to defend himself against one even when he was himself unarmed. Standing now in the dusk and smoke of Yost’s Tavern, he saw that Royle was holding the hilt so that the blade projected for- ward between the circle of his thumb and forefinger, cutting edge up, ready to launch the ter- rible upward slashing stroke that plunged the blade deep into a man’s fe and then dragged it upward and across his body. He nodded approvingly. It was a_good stroke, hard to counter, difficult to elude. As he nodd the man beside the bar sprang forward, the blade gleaming in a long, upward-sweeping arc with the full weight of his body behind it, (To be continued) | British Officer Speaks At Men’s Club Dinner Mon. The Men's Club of the Fleming day evening at 6:30 in the Social Hall for their regular | meeting of the month A delicious dinner of baked ham, potato salad, succotash, lettuce and tomato, rolls, iced tea and gingerbread was served Allen E. Curry, president, intro- duced Lt. D. J. Adams of H. M. S, | Rocket who was the guest speaker, | Several projects were discussed | during the business meeting Those attending were Bennie Lowe, Sidney Lowe, Hollon Bere | valdi, Allen E. Curry, W. Knowles, |Sam B. Curry, B. Buttram, John | Knowles, Rev. E. Stathan and | Claude Salis. Guests were Chap- lians Felder and Carpenter } Mrs. C. Sam B. Curry, Mrs, Allen E. Curry, Mrs. E. Stathan |and Mrs. R. R. Russell served the dinner. business | Auto | nspections Number 300 Daily City Tax Collector Archie Robe jerts reported today that an aver- | age of more than 300 Key Westers | have appeared daily for their semi- | annual auto inspections at the No, 2 fire station in Poinciana. To date, | Roberts said, 1597 inspection | stamps have been issued With nearly 8000 stamps expect- |ed to be sold, the tests will contin. |ue through October 18th Acting City Manager Charles Roberts said today that he is “well pleased with the way the inspee- tions are being conducted. | spring of 1944.” At that time, he said, he attended some open dis mec.