The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 14, 1952, Page 6

Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, October 14, 1952 BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH ONLY TWO ?? wuat ON AIRTH WILL YE DO Wie VS. ALL YORE SPARE TIME ? (WM WORE TO A NUB, | MIZ HICKERSON=~ LEETLE EBENEEZER KEEPS ME HOPPIN’ FROM DAYLIGHT KEEP ON SEARCHING - MAGGIE -~ MAYBE YOu'LL. FIND THE CANE FOR INSTANCE - I WANT TO PHONE MR6G. CARRIE TALES BEFORE I 6O OuT-- AND I KNOW MY ADDRESS BOOK IS RIGHT HERE IN THIS BAG* THE TROUBLE IS YOU HAVE NO SY6TEM/ I HAVE A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING <- AND T KEEP EVERYTHING IN ITS HOW STUPID OF YOU TO LOSE YOUR CANE! THINK HARD =~ WHERE DID YOU LEAVE IT 7! T IN'T KNOW = iagele! I Just MIBLAID IT T'M SURE IT MUST BE IN THIS BAG SOMEPLACE - - BUOLEY JUST TURNED TWENTYONE = AND EVERY COUNTS .!@ S-H-H = I'M SORRY — Bur you JUST CAN'T [/ BUDLEY. THROW HIM DOWN NOW’ You KKNOW Your AATHER’S TRYING To BE ELe THE DRIP! ANT veeaiN # NEVER!’ WITHOUT YOU, DREAM = Bost.’—~ 4 DATE F—- ACTUALLY MEANINGLESS ‘HERE was a smile of harsh satisfaction on his face as José crea vax He had nay. expected to lucky enough to be able to deal out the same treatment Lopez had recei but here was a candidate for tha’ honor run: forward to receive it. He wait crouching a little, until José was almost upon ly and then he swung the heavy in a_ terrible \ward-sweep: ore ee bern 8 - som oes e left ear. The impact jarred his arms and shoulders, but he felt José's skull crack beneath the crushing blow and saw the side of his face change into a bloody, pulpy. shapeless mass as the hard walnut stock tore the fiesh from the bone. José stumbled forward a few steps, his knees buckling beneath him, and hue as he collapsed Clay swung the again so that José’s head sna back on his shoulders as fresh blood spurted from the new wound. This time the impetus of his share. had spent itself, and he fell at"Clay’s feet, his head stran twisted to one side in the br pont of blood that gushed from bat- tered head. Clay felt a sudden of ex- ultation sweep Saroug him. By sheer Cie luck, and thanks to the unforeseen emergency at the ford, the five men who had ee: posed him had Teduced to one. The odds wefe even now, and with a sudden sense of con- fidence he knew that he was more than a match for Felipe. He left José sprawled ia the grass without a backward glance and crawled cautiously: toward the ridge to reconnoiter. When osé and Manuel had come charg- ing up the hill Felipe had taken cover behind the wagon, but now he was gone. Only the wagon and the exhausted wagon mules re- mained in the river. sharply to attention, for there was not the slightest murmur of a breeze to ripple the taut canvas and the mules, apparently re- signed to their fate, were stand- ing quietly in the traces. Then it came again, just the merest sway of the white canvas as if a man hidden inside the ht have leaned his weight ape one of the wi hoops for an in- him, | Stant as he shifted his position. | th he it grimly, you climbed ee your mule and slapped him on ‘the rump to drive him out of sight over the hill while you were laying for me in the wagon. Tt would be easy enough to lay down a barrage on the wagon by the simple process of firi re- loading, and firing again until the job was done. But if Felipe was inking at all, and Clay was fairly certain that he was, he the taarect hg ye a area ie after ay ha re and before he could reload. It was not safe to depend on the pistol to deliver the coup de grace—the distance was entirely too far. Then, suddenly, the solution came to him. QuPPING back dowh from the crest of the hill, he crawled over to where José’s mule had fallen. Yes, there was José rifle, half hidden in the grass, and here bc José's powder and rifle is. Grimly he loaded both 8, José’s and his own, and laid his in the grass beside him. He would reserve it for the final shot, for/ if he was used to it and knew it threw low and a little to the left. José’s was an unknown quantity, oy would serve admiral y, iN canvas wagon cover rifle balls. He lifted José’s gun and A tattered hole appeared in but As he watched it seemed to him | fired ‘again, that the canv. cover on the wagon stired a Triplets Pose Name Problem Neil Beasley. With eight children at home, Beasley is looking for a larger house. ttle, He jerked | ing by see- ward, and was rewarded the front hoop jerk to one BIRMINGHAM, Ale—Ralph Beasley, 50, part-time sawmill fireman (masked), and his wife } ran out of names when triplets were born Saturday, giving them 15 living children. Hospital at~ tendants at the parents’ request named the healthy infants Carol Joyce, Carl Lee and Charles [| By Jose Salinas and Rod Reed| Radio Hams Hard At Work Look /SOMEBODY SNEAKING UP / NO! WAIT! THEY CAN'T SEE US IN THE DARK-~ git ye Ay Ti wr AFTUH AH FETCH wy BER RANE Me new cover. Then Felipe aj shapeless form tha! waving wildly to wap h tain his balance as he tri through water that breast deep, His Pon and srealdons uncertain target there ing light, and Clay held even though his own tight against his cheek, trembling on the trigger. Felipe fought his way forward, and even as far away as he was Clay could hear breath surging out of his as he fought tically to the farther bank. But it a 32 fare Uline! body beg bg bn = need cant lay let him go ‘until’ he was only knee = al scant six feet from the ; fore he pi the trigger. noared once in the silent twie ight, its sharp bark like a final! . ee re, a we oe ee Se sode. Felipe red as bullet struck him, if turned ap} if to return to the. wagon, and en japsed. a moment there was @ swirl and a turmoil of — Hpples Had then the wit'wan done, he cropped sr rifle in the soft grass and } Ainselt Wo bs feet. ini thet was time, now, wagon and the mules free of the. tiver mud. It was time to go back to Weat~ port—back to Sally. { “ Associated Press Wirephota TWO MEMBERS of the Key West Amateur Radio club operate the sot up at the net control ste- tom in the old Armory during emergency teste held Seturtisy. Left is Gieon Morris, Je. Right ull Harkness, Two complete opersting apparstus set ups were used on two seperate frequency bards and cemages relayed loeally by motile uncts as weil es te relay talons which sent them om up to the mainland and the country beyond