The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 2, 1952, Page 8

Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, October 2, 1952 BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFIY SMITH Fruar MUST BE THE BUTLER FALLING WITH MAGGIE CAN'T PIN THIS ONE ON ME-- SHE'D KILL ME <u) | Dp > ul DAD !S SIMPLY THOSE OVERGROWN STEAMING CREEPS 4” BLAMING THOSE RAIDS ON US OQ. GR40S ” ZO SANTOS! THAT LONGHORN WILL DRAG HIM TO AT LAST WE GOT INEM REBELS OUT IN TH TOP UF TH NINTH... COME ON.” LET'S GOTO } tHE OLD GRADS THE GAME.” T'LL BE GLAD To PAY FoR THE DISHES -SIR-BUT WOULD YOU MIND TAKING THE BLAME? I'M AFRAID TO TELL. MRS. THEY AINT SEEN WE HOPE AU.) NOTHING Yer! WAIT By Jose Salinas and Rod Reed Home’ Hoten da DING = Chepter 20 OO" four columns of the eara- van moved slowly across the harsh, gully-scarred waste of land that lay baked and smold- ering in the sun. Council Grove was more than two hundred miles and two weary weeks behind them. The fight had ended, as such fights ab did, with scores of bruised battered heads. Clay had no idea who had struck him down, for the melee had been so fierce and so tangled that there was neither time nor inclination to count or measure the blows given and taken. Buck Royle had been too badly battered to go on, and he had been left behind at the Grove un- der the somewhat reluctant care of one of his brothers. After the shambles at the Grove there had been no effort to hold another election, and Graydon had soothed the bruised feelings of the group to some degree by naming Palmer as his lieutenant and Link as commander of the | as Somewhat to his surprise, lay discovered that his own standing had measurably in- creased in the eyes of the train as a result of the trouble. The wagon train was almost at the camp site now, and Clay saw that Graydon had ridden ahead and halted his horse at the spot that would form the forward point of the wagon coral. Clay unsaddled and joined the men of his mess, who had gath- ered around the cooking fire of buffalo chips. It was near one of Burl’s wagons, and inside the wagon a man was groaning in agony. “How’s Lopez making out?” Clay asked. Burl shook his head doubtfully. “I think he’s about gone,” he ad- mitted. “Gangrene’s set in on his arm, and you know what that means.” It had been a typical accident of the trail. Lopez, one of Burl’s Mexican teamsters, had jerked his rifle out of the wagon, barrel foremost, for a quick shot at a running wolf, and the gun had been accidently discharged as he drew it toward him, tering The World Today By ARTHUR EDSON (For JAMES MARLOW) WASHINGTON (#—It looks as if the nation’s most secret organiza- tion, the Central Intelligence Agen- cy, may have been'a one-day po- litical sensation. The CIA is the organization on which the safety of this nation de- pends, Its awesome chore: finding out precisely what any potential enemies are up to. The CIA became involved in polities because of something its director, Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, said at the tail end of his testimony in a deposition hearing in Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s two - million - dollar libel-slander suit against Sen. William Benton. Smith said he believes Commu- | nists have worked their wy into | every security agency, including | his own. Later, he qualified his remarks by saying: “They're (the Communists) 80 | clever you've got to proceed on the assumption they can infiltrate you, and that’s what we do.” But never, he said, has a Com- munist been found in the CIA. The Republicans, who have | | Comic Ca AP Newstectures this forearm into torn fiesh and ra splinters of bone. r was no surgeon with the train, and though both Graydon and Burl had urged him to allow them to amputate the injured arm, he had stubbornly refused. For three oars he had suffered | axl the tortures of hell in the jolting, springless wagon in which they | f, had placed him. ,“T think I'll go over and talk to him a minute or two,” said Clay. “After all, there’s nothing else to do for him as far as I know.” ae goes it, Lopez?” he asked gravely. The injured man groaned. “I think I ae sefior,” he moaned. Clay said helplessly, “If there was anything we could do—” Lopez” eyes burned up into his. “Senor,” he whispered, “sefor, I was big fool. I should have let you cut the arm away. Senor, you cut it off now?” oe tine oa knowing - pez coi not possi ive through the crude, amateur sur- gery.of the frontier; knowing, |} anki, too, that it would be an act of mercy to release the sufferer from his unbearable agony. “All right, Lopez,” he said with sudden decision. “By God, We'll relieve you of that arm.” Be Rinap out ers the wate and strode across to the group of men at the fire. “He wants his arm off,” he said imly, “and we're going to do it for him.” Burl looked up in astonishment. “Why, Clay,” he protested. “You know we can't do it now. It would have been a big. enough risk we days. ago. Now it’s impossi- “Of course it is,” Clay “But it's no more impossible than leaving him piled up in that wagon to suffer until he dies. If it puts him out of his misery ¥ e’ve done him Bg ok ie if he sh wuld happen to live—' ie won't,” said Burl dryly. “But you may have a point there, at that.” He heaved hii If to his feet and sighed wearily. “Well,” he conceded, “if it's got to be fone it's got to be done. Let’s get at it” To thrust a heavy king bolt from one of the wagons into the fire and piled blazing buffalo Crew Donates To Youth LONG BEACH, Calif. » — The crew of the heavy cruiser Brem- { erton have given a check for $9,450 maintained all along that the ad- ministration has been lax in its attitude toward Communists, re acted quickly. Arthur E. Summerfield, Repub- lican national chairman, said: “Shocking revelation x x x incred- ible looseness.” But the Democrats, as repre- sented by their presidential nomi- nee, Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, counseled against injecting the CIA into ‘polities. That was after Smith had ampli- fied his original remarks by ex- plaining that it was necessary for him to “assume” that some Com- munists could be smart enough to get into his organization. And from that point on, things began to cool off. Said a spokes- man for the Republican National Committee: “We have no plan to make a political football’ of Gen. Smith's statement, An aide to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower said the GOP presidential nominee would not do anything to endanger the security of the U.S. or the CIA. pers At Ft. Taylor chips about itwntil it turned to a rich, scorching cherry red. A bowie knife was.sharpened against a whetstone unfil its edge was as sharp as a razor, and an old and Tusty saw was cleaned as well as it could be with buffalo fat and ie grease. Slowly, trying to te gente and miserably in their effort Mrenid a & yet out of the and laid him on the short batho grass beside the fire. lay brought a jug of ji from the wagon and piers | Lopez with one arm as he held the jug to Lopez’ lips with the Burl catied certain men by name. “You boys’ll have to help,” he = nig Rhein son ave here 0) ‘im w! at do the cutting.” ere ,_ Silently, the ten men he had indicated came forward and knelt beside the suffering man. They held his hips, his knees, his les; two threw themselves bodily across his waist and chest m4 oo pinned his arms to Clay lifted the razor-edged knife, hesitated a second as hese: lected a spot directly below the shoulder, and then drew the edge smoothly and swiftly across the Totten, swollen flesh. Lopez screamed and his threshed and twisted violently as he tried to break away from the men who held him and from the awful, recurring pain of the knife. There was a gasp of release from the eres as the bone parted. In same instant McQuitty agreed. | lifted the glowing king bolt in heavy biacksmith’s tongs and forced it back and forth across the raw, blood-spurting stump. Burl looked at Clay and shook his head somberiy, but Clay’s hand on the Mexican’s chest caught the faint, spasmodic flut- ter of Lopez’ heart. “He's still alive.” Gently he covered the scorched stub of Lopez’s arm with a pro- tective coating of axle grease and rose wearily. “That's all we can do,”\he said flatly. (To be continued) to a 9-year-old boy from Bremer ton, Wash., who was burned ser iously last May while refueling his toy locomotive. The big ship pulled into the harbor here after nearly six months of Korean action. The fund was raised on ship in appreciation of the city’s efforts in the purchase of war bonds during World War ll for the ship's construction. The crew asked the Bremerton Sun to select the city’s most wor- thy recipient. Jimmy Weers, son of a news vendor, was chosen. The money will help defray the cost of skin grafting. COMMUNISTS IGNORE RED CROSS EFFORT SAIGON Indo - China, —).— The International Red Cross is meeting only stony silence in its efforts to send representatives into prisoner-of-war camps of the Communist-led Vietminh in Indo- China. Repeated appeals have been made to permit the organization to deliver much-needed medicines to French Union soldiers held by the Vietminh. French Union captives of the Vietminh long have been report- ed suffering because of # shortage of food and medicines. U.S Nevy Phete WEEPING JILTED DAMSEL seeks to get bold of the groom, who pradentiy bates behind the shirts of his tride, af the Womanless Wedding skit given Friday night at Ft Teylor ty the Gurfau, Deveicgment Group Cowering groom is Ray Davis. ringbeever m big tie i WJ Nice, aad the husky beide it J. B. Nairn The minister trac played by & H. Byers, ond G. S. Overgaard ® doing the weeping Others in the picture are 8 wedding guest and the best man, A A Riwcet.