The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 9, 1952, Page 8

Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, October 9, 1952 BARNEY GOOGLE AND WAIT TILL TH LEETLE VARMINT GITS HERE > AROUND AN' AROUND, TRYIN’ TO FIGGER OUT @ CALLIN’ NAME FER I WONDER JF M, STILL. MAD AND NOT SPEAKING TO ME -/'LL TRY THAT OLD 7TRICK-/LL THROW ME. HAT IN -AN’ IF IT COMES OUT AGAN - I'LL KNOW a SHE'S STILL \ MAD 7 Fea Copy. 1957, King Features Syndicate, toe, Woe tt ETTA KETT SNUFFY SMITH WHAT ARE THEY, RIDDLES? I AIN'T f- HAD ME A GOOD CHOKIN' LAFF TH! LIVELONG WAAL-- (t'S BETWIxT..\ NAME SNUFFY TO TH! LIST --= JIST IN CASE OF ANAS SS BETTER GET UP IN Your Y SouNDS INDIAN SUMMER/ SOFT, WARM Days/- TIME TO THINK ABour A WINTER VACATION .” STUDIES, YOUNG LADY, WE'RE GOING SOUTH LIE ON THE BEACH For ARSENIC! OW-C000! YOU VARMINTS POIGONED ME! GET ME TO SURE, AFTER YOU TELL US WHERE THE HIDE-OUT 1S! OZARK IKE SOACM, CONSIDER Yours? APREN’, MIND.’== TO - MORROW I'M ™ GOING TO WRITE For RESEI-;-¥ VATIONS.” BUT, DAD.— UNTIL. MOM GO TO ALL THAT } DECIDES WHERE and moved side by side across the prairie. z glanced over his shoulder —_ _— no one Possible earshot is noon I was asleep in the jon and when I woke up Pedro Sanchi talking. ez was outside They did not know I was there. Clay,” he leaned forward = ry oe kill to- per, plan to you hight and take the wagon and mules back to Santa Fe. es of us, those they do not kill, will be left here on the prairie with- out mules or guns or provisions.” Clay straightened in his saddle and his mouth set itself in a grim line of anger. “Just how are they lanning to carry out this friend- little scheme of theirs?” fon” Loy id softly. “ “4 sefior,” Lopez sai $ en you are sleeping beneath the wagon as usual, Sanchez will creep up and stab you. Then Pedro will leap up with his rifle. Any man who resists or tries to help you will be shot. Those who do not will be left here to die goo tfully. “Tt lay ni 101 .. “It’s not a bad poet te admitted. “Is anyone else in it?” Lopez shook his head. “None, { think. It is their plan to leave everyone else here and divi the money only between them- selves.” “Have you told anyone else about this?” “Only yourself, Don Gey. The others are good men, but gold can sometimes change a monk into a bandit, too. There are none FLORIDA BRIEFS MIAMI (#—Dade County has had 184 cases of polio this year, re- sulting in nine deaths, says a re- port by Dr. George E. Lacy, as- sistant health commissioner. Dur- | ing the corresponding period last year, there were 108 cases and one death. JACKSONVILLE #—An 18 mfl- lion dollar bond issue to finance expansion of the municipal elec- tric plant was approved by Jack- sonville voters Tuesday, 6,240 to 1,057. It will be paid off from earn- ings of the utility. LAKELAND (® — The Florida | Tangerine Co-operative Tuesday elected R. V. Phillips, Haines City, president; Roscoe Skipper, Winter Haven, and Fred Johnston, Tam- pa, vice presidents; and John G. | Ariko, Orlando, treasurer. | JACKSONVILLE # — About | twice as much flour and rice was | confiscated this summer over the previous one in Florida because | ¢ : of insect and rodent infestation due By Jose Salinas and Rod Reed | to excessive heat and over-stock- jing by merchants. A. H. Palmer, resident inspec- tor, Food and Drug Administra- | | tion, Said Wednesday seizures in the Atlanta district (Fla., S. C. Ga., and part of N. C.,) included 120, 625 pounds of flour of which 25, | 000 was in Florida; and 16,025 of | rice, of which 5,000 was in Flor- | ida in August and September. | GAINESVILLE # — Florida home demonstration agents elect- ed Allie Lee Rush, Ocala, presi- dent here Tuesday; Louise Tay- \lor, Ft. Lauderdale, and Mrs. |Mary McLeon, Monticello, vice | Presidents; Sue Murphy, Bronson, secretary; Mrs. Mary Minchin, Chipley, treasurer. FORT LAUDERDALE & --Too much fresh water in canals in the Coral Ridge section is killing thou- | | sands of mullet, Acting City Dock- | master J. C. Neilson says. More than seven inches of rain during By Roy Gotto the past two weeks left s layer of fresh water on top of the heavier (salt water in a number of dead- that they support and assist agen- cies seeking a revised Florida con- I had “W: salad piss Solas you te your ou night. rl tike tare of Sinches when he comes sliding in; but you and a may have to keep Pedro off my back.” “Would it not be better to shoot both of. them now, without warn- , and be done with the thing?” ‘lay shook his head vig¢ 5 “It would be easier but it won't work. There’s no evidence except your word against theirs. e other men would begin to won- der if it was just a way of cut- ting Pedro and Sanchez out of their money. Within two days they’d be sure that was it, and they’d be shooting us in the back to protect themselves against the same treatment. No, Lopez, there’s only one way to do it. We'll have to let them go ahead and then nail them just as they go into action.” “Suppose Sanchez kill you?” “He won't,” Clay promised grimly, “but I'm not making any peng about what’s going to ippen to Sanchez.” INCE they teft the Jornada Clay had formed the habit of spreading his bedroll directly be- neath the wagon so that he might better protect its contents. night he took particular note of the fact that Pedro lay down not more than six feet to his right, while Sanchez was about an equal distance away on his left. | ting Lopez lay to Clay’s left, perhaps twenty feet away and between Sanchez and the other men, while his brother, Miguel, was on the Opposite side of the circle. It laced Clay like a tethered = tween Pedro and Sanchez, but Lopes and Miguel to tus. Poare to cut down with a withering cross fire if it became necessary. The ome See quiet as the embers of the fire burned down and the pesmi it of the coals gave way to pale, shad- ide | owed glow of moonlight and star- thine. C lay lay lengthwise be- neath the ween, bs feet toward Sanchez _ and head toward Pedro, He had pulled a blanket over his body and his left arm Tay ‘across his chest, the upper |i right-hand corner of the b! tight in his fingers. His right arm, High Pressure Eleanor Parker Has 3rd Child HOLLYWOOD #~Movie actress Eleanor Parker and her husband, parents for the third time last | weighing seven pounds five oun- lees. The couple’s two other chil- dren are Susan and Sharon. | move itself as a party from col- lective bargaining in labor dis- | putes A. E. Booth, Cocos postmaster, was elected district governor and these lieutenant governors were | chosen M. O. Brawner, Pensacola; T. |W. Smith. Panama City; C. Archie | Buie Jr, Lake City; F. W. Koko | moor, Gainesville; J. Don Hag- getty, Winter Park; Alfred A. Me- ; Kethas. | ORLANDO &—A “Dead” mas | walked into the office of County straight at his side, was concealed beneath the blanket, and also hidden beneath the blanket was the heavy-headed hand ax that was grasped in his right hand. Five minutes passed . . . ten minutes .. . and then there was the faintest ible whisper of sound from the spot when San- chez lay. Clay opened his eyes the merest fraction of an inch and saw that Sanchez had stealthily lifted himself w his elbows was cautiously surveying the sleeping camp. As Clay watched, Sanchez brought his eyes around to Clay’s face and lay motionless, Studying the position of Clay's chez moved slowly forward, inching himself al on his el- bows and knees as silently as a soft breeze moving soundlessly over the prairie. The long blade of a naked knife glitte: in his hand, and Clay saw that he was pure ® chave to creep well up on right side before he would be close enough to use the blade he canes. He lay age watch- ing ez approat measuring the distance between them as he gr. on the rough and ax. Suddenly he became aware that Sanchez Doty had reared up from the ground like a striking snake and the gleaming knife blade glistened like white fire in the moonlight as it poised momen- tarily at the top of its stroke be- fore it lea) forward in avsavage downward arc. Clay jerked his body to. a sit- Position so that he faced ere Sire and arf arm straightened and swept forwa: shrouding the startled Sancher shoulders in the folds of the blanket, In the same in- the hand ax rose and fell and he felt it bite into Sanchez’ neck as it crushed its through fiesh and muscle He felt Sanchez’ body collapse across his knees, and in the same instant a pistol flashed fire well to his left and he heard Pedro's as Lopez’ buliet struck home. ught his way free of the entangling blanket and ee to his feet. In the dim light could Bad ag ys writhing on the on feet, a Smoking pistol Th his hand, while el stood a dozen feet away, a riffe. (To be continved) Citizen Staff Phote | NAVAL FIREMEN. play 2 streams across the edge of the dock as a mock fire was fought Wed. a. m., at Key West Navy Base, Merchant Marine Still Integral Part Of Seapower producer Bert Friedlob, became | LOS ANGELES @—Vice Adm. William M. Callaghan, commandes night with the brith of & $08! of the Military Sea Transport Ser- vice, warns against-2 “too ready belief and reliance’ In the mer chant marine in time of war; ‘The concept, he added, con lead jto “some dangerous conclusions land illfounded complacency as te | its adequacy.” Addressing a national defense j panel at the Propeller Club of the | United States. the sdmiral de clared yesterday: | “We can no longer look upee | merchant marine ship: as being lreadily convertible to men of war | What military features they poe sess is incidentel. The time te drawing seer when orean trans Brooksville; N. L. Van merchant marine is still an integral part of cur seapower. In 1946 there were three female recommendation was con-| Judge Victor Hutchins Tuesday | immigrants to the United States of res aed asked for « copy of bis birth ifor ewery male, whech reflected ithe lange sumber of war brides i beought beck by sofdiers. | |