The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 21, 1952, Page 6

BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH | OUCH!! TAKE EBENEEZER, RIDDLES--AFORE LIVELY HE PULLS MY HAIR YOUNG-UN \, OUT BY TH' ROOTS Z THIMBLE THEATRE—Starring Popeye cy Mi] (A cure Dear I MET AT THE DANCE SZARK IKE HERE COME TH WADCATSS WELL- THEY’RE JOT FIGHTIN’-OR ELSE THERE IS. NO ONE NEVER SAW ONE LiKE “THAT! # MUST BEA NEW MODEL! BourT you, SIR! you're RUNNING FOR JUDGE / — ‘| THE TOWN NEEDS AMAN THATS WHAT YOu WERE MEANT TO THOSE IN FRONT ARE iS FORE FEET! WILLOTT 2? THERE'S AN OLD SKINFLINT By THAT NAME RUNNING AGAINST ME IN THE ELECTION” | I WANTED TO GET EVEN WITH ALL YOU WHIPPERSNAPPFRs FOR TRYIN’ TO HAVE ME PUT AWAY" LIKE YOu Did! BUT 17S ALAMOS KICK b Ore me 50 Alt HAVE } b recst an, Lo Chapter Four horse cars and nickel beer. A twer.tieth- century vogues. 6 p.m.” Devereaux had gallopiug up. horseback said witheringly. “Hiya, * Kennedy.” submitted his face smilingly. “Thought train or a you were catching at.” “Tomorrow. One fine tomor- row.” Devereaux shrugged. “New York won't let go, Kenn Rep igen! once said” os — mount man’s eyes twin! _— . + ” “that tomorrow never comes.” He| Ut, this morning? Devereaux took the clipping: It was a tear from a gossip column, It read: “Radio producer Travis Cord coaxing tough cop Johnny Devereaux out of retirement with $1,000-a-week offer as narrator 01 crime doesn’t pay?” sand per. ‘Tm lighting Devereaux sai your bet that way.” offer still holds good.” Devereaux scowled. “That muc! clipping in his vest pocket. “Can stay parked for a half hour?” “All day, even.” chuckled. “I always actors the run of the block.” radio went out. meeting here Nov. 21. Young Amateur A Eee ORLEANS: a family hotel was a throwback to the era of ot to the side- walk when the whistle arrested him and a cop on horseback came _“Don’t you read, or should the sign say positively?” the Cop ON) gnzers drum nervously on. the Devereaux “Devereatix!” The voice chided. True Crime-File serial. Who said “Big piece of change, a thou- out tomorrow,” irritably, “Place Kennedy grinned. “The offer will ride along with you. And in the end you'll find yourself stick- ing your hand out, hoping the “I don’t need that much money.” money is indecent.” He closed his fist*tightly and put the crushed Kennedy ive radio GIBSONTON @#-—-A twin - en- gined plane crash landed in a pas- | operstion since 1913. ture near here Sunday night and | two brothers, George and John.| Walther, Sarasota, walked away from the wreck unhurt. They told |New Brighton Township Monday officers they crashed after their | following week-end riots which “QORRY,” the clerk said, his eyes widening slightly at the | sight of Devereaux. “She doesn’ answer.” nj} Devereaux looked into the incongruous neon sign across its] small lobby. It was a family ho- face was the only concession to ¢ The} ers had the look of old residents, Buick slid into the curb, parallel with a sidewalk stanchion that warned: “No Parking, 8 a.m, to tel, indeed, and the lobby loung- people to whom the broken chairs, shredding rugs, dust and gloom were as familiar to their close, personal living as their next ofkin “Maybe. sitting out there some- where?” Devereaux suggested. The clerk peered. “No, she isn't.” Devereaux watched the clerk’s counter for a moment, then ob- served mildly, “Slick numbers depot. Smart boy.” Beso a Devereaux,” the clerk a| protested. “You're dead wrong. I quit the racket.” . “For clerking at thirty-five per?” Devereauy's lip curled de- Tisively. _ “It’s a living,” the clerk said. “Tl bet! See Mrs. Gordon go The clerk shook his head, then looked into a mail cubby-hole. “Funny,” he said, “She isn't in, and hasn’t left her_ key.” ‘There was a small mystification in his face. waved a newspaper clipping, then handed it down to Devereaux. “Does she usually leave her key when going out?” > mM} The clerk nodded, then looki earnestly at Devereaux, he said, “Going to jump at conclusions?” “Know one reason why shoulda with your record of arr ? “Tl lose my job.” The clerk shrugged resignedly, “Okay, jump. The elevator stopped at the fourth landing. “Step up,” the driver adm« ed. vereaux stood, watching the elevator until it dropped out of sight, then walked to a bend in Tj wail h| the corridor where dirt-streaked windows opened into an airshaft, He found Room 418, and stood 1\ contemplating the door doubtful- ly. Momentary mystification in a room clerk’s face hardly justified forced entry into a private citi- zen’s hotel room, BRIEFS counties. The EDD has been in 1 PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa (®—Heavily armed police ringed left 11 persons dead, at least 27 injured and great property dam- WEST PALM BEACH (#—Assets | age in the Negro section. of the Everglades Drainage Dis- trict (EDD) will be transferred to the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Distriet (FCD) at a At one time during the riot Sat- j urday, about 5,000 Negroes fought a running battle with the police. AUBURNDALE (® — Joe Mer- The transfer means the FCD will! cer, 16, who plays tackle on the | take over responsibility and opera- |tions of EDD in 11 South Florida ° Auburndale High School football team, shot himself accidentally nd An Old Pro He fingered a a flipped it into the air like a t| tossing a coin. He caught thé and stooped to insert it into keyhole. Devereaux opened the door cautiously, closing it behind him, and then, as his eyes adjusted to the curtained gloom, the scene in- side pulled together into a jolting effect. He looked hard, again, as if expecting the scene to dissolve, while another scene, a more conventional one, ap- peared. An elderly, -haired lady lay across a bed ‘Her eyes were fixed and eS lined features contorted, as it suddenly stricken. Devereaux’s rapid examination revealed no weapon, no visible injury. Around her was the disorder of a hundred incidentals to ordinary age from their grooves left in an unca heap. _He glanced toward the bed and his mouth pursed re; a scene before him was all with Cora Jennings miscast. Devereaux went about the busi« ness of seeking out the less ob- vious evidences of assault and search. Corners, recesses, cubby- holes exposed nothing. Nothing of the assailant torn away in stru; le, i* there had been a fied ee air, bits o! loth, nothing, Fin- gerprints, if there were any, must on proper equip: Devereaux went to an only closet and peered inside. It was pitch dark, and crammed with clothing and h He was feeling about for a light switch, when the lights hap. pened like an today Day rocket bursting inside his head. Saturday while cleaning a pistol, He had shot twice at a snake and paused to clean the weapon, VEEP’S STEP-DAUGHTER IS A FRESHMAN MADISON, Wis. (AP)—The 17 year-old step-daughter of Vice President Alben W. Barkley is now a freshman at the University of Wisconsin. Dark-eyed Jane E. Hadley said she “fell in love’ with the state during three summers spent at Three Lakes, Wis. She has lived most of her life in St. Louis but in recent years has also lived in Washington, D. C. and Paducah, Ky., home of the Vice President. Miss Hadley will enroll in liberal arts and plans to specialize in art history. Astccisied Pree Wireghots MIDDLETOWN, Coan —Without benefit of fancy gadgets. nine year old Loelis Daniel sieps up with her box camers to make « clowup of veteran campaigner President Harry 6. Tramem ‘The President's daughter, Margaret (center),-enjoys the proceedings as ber Ded readies Gm cunmer tiast egadet the Republcanm :