The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 27, 1952, Page 8

Pag. “= KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, September 27, 1952 BARN:. GOOGLE AND I YEP--we SHORE ARE, T_ RECKON SNUEFY YORE HOUSEHOLD \S ALL A-FLUTTER-- WAITIN! FER TH! NEW ARRIVAL, ‘RIDDLES -AND NOW WE WILL HEAR THE VOICE OF THAT BASS SINGER TIMMY O'HANAHAN — SNUFTY SMITH (TLL BE NICE TO HAVE A EXTRY HAND AROUND TO HELP WIE TH! PLOWIN' HOE, GRUB “TATERS, CHOP TH’ KINDLIN' WOOD, MEND TH' FENCE AN'-- MAGGIE-COME LIP HERE -YOUR BROTHER TIMMY _IS_ SINGIN’ ON THE RADIO - ve “Alien HER DREAM Boat- 0" But SHE LOOKED LiKe AN _OVER- ¥ LOADED 3 FReigHTER! VOICE--I_WONDER WHERE HE IS-- IT'S BEEN MONTHS SINCE I'VE SEEN HOW MANY MORE YONDERS To — WE'RE TO \ SE apa MEET THEM BoyS WE MET SIMPLY DREAM- RIGHT IN FRONT OF EEEEEE! THE STAMPEDE! NICK FELL! | NOW PRONOUNCE YOU MAAN AND WIFE MiTCHEO AT LAST, OZARKS 1F IT WE! A GREAT DEAL LARGER WE MIGHT HAH! euc] PCMOMMA! USE TT FoR BABY FISH! ENJOYING \ (econ TAKING US DANCING, | | Our CLASS TO THE NIGHT SPOTS AND SOME REAL FIeATEIeNITY PArer' REUNION 2 ¢ < ~ Orth EUS PRA TORE SyRREATE te WORLD BGKTS RELIED AN JERRY WILL BE VERY (S08-%) HAPPY... ALWAYS J = WHAT A BEAUTIFUL By Fred Lasswell THEN ON T'OTHER HAND -- \E (T'S A BOY, ME AN’ HIM CAN DO A HEAP OF FISHIN @N' CHECKER PLAYIN’ TOGETHER THIS 1S STATION JeA-i-L- BROADCASTING FROM THE STATE PRISON- THE INMATES FURNISH THE TALENT- Y NOT YET! THIS DOUBLE WEIGHT HAS SLOWED DIABLO SO EVEN Chapter 16 “LAY waited until the blade was almost at his w before he moved. Then, with a swift, easy movement like a matador sweeping a cape before a charg- ing bull, he swung backward and to the right, pivoting upon the toe of his left boot and letting knife and man drive past, thi point of the blade a scant f tion of an inch ay chest. But the game was not for as Royle hurtled shifted his weight to hi foot, raised his left boo drove it with terrible, p force into the small of Ro; back. Hurled forward by checked force of h and thrown off ba crushing blow of Royle staggered forwa wildly flailing the a: He struck the hard w thunderbolt and fell to t his legs and arms tw. tesquely beneath him, h a spinning circle of floor a dozen feet aw. There was an invol from the crowd in the a sharp flurry of excited vo a spate of talk that checked in midstream leisurely acros: picked up Roy ably there 2 . the 1 like a flo. dozen men in the room who did | not expect him to plung Royle’s unprotected chivalry was more often i than observed on the frontier. Instead, he walk ly back to his table cheerfully at Royle. long draught of wh from tt bottle he had obtained at the ba Royle had rolled over on ! back and now he sat u hoarsely, looking arou a man half dazed, not sure « surroundings. He looked up at Clay and a look of implacable hate swept across his face. Then slowly he pulled h to his feet and slowly, awk stumbled across the room door that led out into the street In the open doorway he paused again, turning for a long moment ike a curse. wa “There'll be more,” he said | thickly. | He ‘turned and walked, still | slowly. out into the darkness of the night. | There was an almo: fe e | mu: growing slack | appeared. Burl talking urgently | leaned ac he pulled the bottle} the | and lifted it from ” he said | One more ca \t spt to add to the gen- ent and confusion.” "THERE i for was wo! the n iin a wh of excitement as they as- ‘d the equipment and goods semb | for the trip zons to be pur- | ° eat red and r yoners, with pon- 1s iron wheel rims inches a to five ha de up each wagon’s to be se- 3 beamed — warehous slen and cotton goods, calicoe: bombazines, traps, knives, pelisse cloths, sands @ ;|; and I ever expense \d | tested y with a look a “Tve got | do a} to be done, | several days | Mexican to handle yo zht or ten dc | m Im | fle: vice, but when ing the mustang hem wit ved to be com- »ed by her lack ay after day she p and down the streets dropping into the J heard talk of for- here on the hat there was the Santa the endless, ex tunes to be m frontier. S! money he: Fe trade. that lined t land that was rising in value. Her fi for it. Her whole bod cried out for it g into my excitedly out of this hodge- e money than you amed about! Solid money—money in land and prop- erty and goods. Money that keeps on making more money. And Im going to have my share of it” (To be continued) and mind blood,” be people com podge with Today’s Business Mirror By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (#—Fresh signs ap- pear today that the fal! pickup in | business is getting into its stride. They help to sweeten up an over- all situation that makes many ob- servers uneasy: A production slow down in some other parts of the world; a falling-off in world trade; a splatter of dividend rate cutting by some U. S. firms; a trickle of earnings reports that show profits still sliding from their year-ago level. But the immediate future near at home looks a little brighter. Retail trade in most cities is running slightly ahead of a year ago. The Federal Reserve Bank reports department store sales edging up by 1 per cent over last September. Dun and Bradstreet estimates to tal retail trade in the nation this week to be from 1 to 5 per cent higher than a year ago, and order ;volume higher in most wholesale markets. Chain stores and houses report August sales higher than last year, ine ses ranging jfrom 1 to 31 per cent | Television set sales, production }—and in some cases prices—are | reported climbing. Westinghouse | Electric says sales are up sharply. | Allen B. DuMont Laboratories is boosting production to keep up i with the sales trend. Admiral plans to raise prices on some mod els. Christmas retail sales in the na tion's stores should top last year’s | total, according to Howard P } Abrahams, manager of the Sales Promotion Division of the National Retail Dry Goods Association | Jobs are more plentiful, the }Labor Department reports, Since July a number of cities have re ported unemployment sharply low ter. mail order ay A Bit Of The Old Sod BRANDISHING AN IRISH SHILLELAH. The textile industry continues te improvse. A few months ago the talk was all of unemployment. To- day there's a delivery problem in some lines, with reported running behind in filling orders for some synthetic fibers The reports mills Textile Information Service that in August sales of carded cotton yarn ped pro- duction and unfilled orders in- creased by four million pounds. Glove factories are pusier than at any time in the last three years, according to the National Associa- tion of Leather Glove Manufac- | turers The liquor industry has been in the dumps because of a falling off in sales and g' ng invento ries. But a hopeful word comes even in that depressed business Maryland no hay that state