The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 8, 1952, Page 6

Monday, December 8, iva Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN FLASH GORDON THE ENRAGED MONSTER g "1 SUODENIS CHAR ee oak --ANO THE BRAVE WARRIORS SCATTER FAST! AS TWENTY WARRIORS TRY VAINLY TO PULL THE SULLEN GORILLA FROM HIS CAGE-- B'G BEN BOLT }--LEAVING LOTHAR AND THE GORILLA G& ALONE IN THE ARENA!} | | | | NEW YORK — Gen. Dwight | Eisenhower’s campaign bombshell | —his promise to go to Korea if) elected president—has been kept. | One of the most dramatic jour- | meys of our generation is over. | What will be the results? | The final fruits of his visit to! the bitter Korean peninsula can be expected to mature slowly. The situation there is too complex to be solved by pulling a rabbit out j of the hat, and Gen. Eisenhower | has wisely warned he has no ready , tricks up his sleeve to end the war. | The great danger of his voyage | to see the facts at first-hand is | public impatience, a letdown into | disillusionment. The hopes of many rode with him, and the hopes of | some were too high. There was | even considerable hysteria in the| minds of many mothers, who per- haps nursed a wild maternal | dream that their sons might fol- | low the general home on the next | plane, H Gen. Eisenhower himself, of | course, encouraged re such illu- sions. His own son is with a front-| line division, and he has seen too much service to promise an easy | solution to a problem tha. has baf- fled some of the best military lead- ers who helped him forge victory | in Europe in the last war. i The present Eighth Army com-| mander, Gen. James A. Van Fleet, | has a son missing in combat in! Korea, The U. S. Army itself—the ! career soldiers—suffered a high rate of casualties, particularly in! the first six months of the war. {| The war has now dragged into its 30th month. What General Te | wanted to do—and now has done— | was to make a personal tour of the | battle area, and get the picture of the stalemate there through his own eyes, unprejudiced by prior commitments to any single course of action. i It is unlikely that any possible | decisive measures he feels should | be taken will become apparent im- | mediately. In war things don’t | usually go that way. It requires | time and planning to carry out any major decision. Thus it seems highly probable ‘Chaplin Trip err" Chapter 9 “a FrRo™ the beginning, Toni had selected the trails they were to follow. Dim trails, little used, sometimes fading away into noth- ingness, sometimes deliberately abandoned, as they swung away from them to avoid some ragged settlement. The rare settlers’ ca- bins they encountered with a lifted hand and a shouted hail and farewell. For the rest, there was only the earth and the sky and the storm and-the wind to bear them company. And so it was that they reached the final wind-swept peak of rock and looked down into Blair Pal- menter’s hidden valley. Seeing it so, with the long Teagues of savage desolation be- hind him, Clay had a strange sense of unreality, For here, in a vast hollow, ringed by jagged rock, was a pastoral of rolling acres, tended, cultivated, and . tamed. Neat rail and rider fences criss- crossed the great valley and spoke of order and discipline and or- ganization. There were trees here, protected from the wind, that grew straight and tall and spread wide branches out above the friendly earth. In the center of the yalley a great two-storied log house gathered a flock of smaller houses and barns and sheds about it, and ringing them all was a stout stockade of upended logs set deep in the ground and rising to sharp- ened points a good fifteen feet in the air. Two massive gates of hand-sawed oak provided an en- trance to the stockade, an entrance wide enough to admit two coaches driven side by side, and on each corner of the enclosure an over- hanging watchtower commanded the approaches to the walls, Slowly, incredulously, Clay’s eyes roved over the scene before him. There was a strange incon- gruity about it—the contradiction of the wide fields and the bellicose stockade, the sheltered trees and the bristling defiance of the fort- like dwelling. “Well,” he said slowly, “I ex- pected everything in world To U. S. Is Rumored LAUSANNE, Switzerland @ — Charlie Chaplin's private secretary “By Homer Hatten but this. Is this where we started to go?” ‘oni’s eyes were like bright stars, and there was a half-smile on her lips. She was as enchanted as some child who had won through to a magic land that had been only a half-heard, half-for- gotten legend, “This is Palmentera,” she said softly. “Palmentera, just as they have always told me. ...” “Told you? Do you mean to say that you've never been here he- fore?” f “Never before. But I have known of it, and I have been told of the trail to follow since the time that I first became one of Las Espinas.” She stopped abrupt- ly and her eyes widened in sud- den alarm, “My tongue runs away with me.” Clay shifted his weight in his —— and grinned quizzically at er, “Las Espinas,eh? In other words, The Thorns. And now you say you're one of them.” She lifted her shoulders in a gesture of rueful regret, laughing a little at her own carelessness and confusion. “It is always the way with women, They chatter and their tongues are loose at both ends and before their minds can curb their lips the damage is done. Si, cora- zon, there is an organization here in Texas of men who call them- selves Las Espinas—but I had were heavy with small arms with swinging, unsheathed “Let's let them come to us,” gested, and at his words pulled her horse to a stop his own. The horses were and they stood qui as mounted men without haste, without barge of hostility or alarm. e group stopped before: them Min could see that were Mexican vaqueros, the steel-muscled horsemen of Generics, knowing no inw thins cenaries, no law or drance except the words an wishes of their master. eyed, they measured Toni in a fraction of an their bodies careless and but their eyes watchful and alert. One of them, a man past middleij age, asked a question with lips that scarcely moved. “Adénde van? Where are going?” Clay glanced Toni and saw that she was forward eagerly, her lips parted, her eyes studying the face of the man before her. 8) spoke slowly, bpd her if there were mo. planned to have Sefor Palmenter | God di tell you of it first.” Clay nodded, his eyes narrowed in speculation as he studied her face. “I know. You haven't exactly overwhelmed me with informa- tion since we started out, a they rode forward across the valley the gates Swung open and four horsemen came riding through, They were in ne hurry. Indeed, they trotted carelessly along like men who had no greater respon- sibility than a casual hunting trip or a pleasure journey to some nearby posada. But there were long rifles across their saddle bows and, as they drew nearer, Clay could’ see it their belts took bs the rii “No ag rosas sin the I guard of ee ria nema a strongho! brigade these men might Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1. Bang 5. Implement 9. Woman’s short hair 33. Grow sleepy, 35. Not false 36. Demolishes 38. Among 40, Native metal months, barring the launching of a gigantic offensive by the million man Chinese Red army. The Korean landscape enough in the summer. In winter its frozen hils form ever more terrible obsiacles to widespread offensive operations. But while Eisenhower’s journey may immediately disappoint those who built their hopes too high, it already has had two heartening effects: 1, It has given the troops in Korea a tremendous morale lift. 2. It*has brought “the forgotten war” into the hearts and minds of millions of Americans in a mem- orable way. For too long it has been a matter of personal concern only to the men who fought there, By Fred Laswell" their families and loved ones TreLIx? orcaaTon.. WE'VE BEEN CUT OFF...GET HIM BA . BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH RIDDLES SWEPT iT ALL UP AN’ at home. An even greater result is that it is likely to take the whole question of the conduct of the war out of the realm of partisgn politics. Eisenhower is a symbol of vic- | tory. He is firmly trusted by most of America’s allies as well as by the American people. They have faith ig his military judgment. Whatever final course he and his advisers decide should be taken, the rage man will probably say: “If Ike says that’s the best way, then it must be the thing to do. He was right before.” The first fruit of his journey should be unity, That has been sorely lacking in the Korean War. By George McManus|OZARK IKE BRINGING UP FATHER 000 MORNING - IR! GOLLY - TM-TRED AFTER ‘Ss TD LKE TO INTEREST WE'RE LOST,’ LUCKY FoR US YOu CaM® ALONG! ne & I'M LOST. TOO! 'M ON A MAvRIDE evemseg? / eTY/ WELL TAKE DIS ame Hac | | YOU = SOON swe 7000 'S PoLLow Kis | | NS) TRACKS. TS CNCHY By John Cullen Murphy that the war will go on for a while | much a& it has been for many | deglined comment here on a re- | is forbidding | | port published in the United States that Oona O'Neill Chaplin made a secret visit to the United States recently to bring some cash rumored as high as five million | {dallars—back to Engiand. . “That*is Mr. Chaplin's private affair,” the secretary said. ‘‘And |I never discuss his private affairs with him.” Chaplin himself, who has been saying here since he arrived from | | England recently, could not be jreached Sat. The U.S. Govern- | ment ordered an inquiry in Sep- \tember to determine whether he should be permitted to reenter the | | United States. He is a British | subject. RESTRAINING ORDER FOR MAKE-UP ARTIST LOS ANGELES Movie make- up artist Bud Westmore.is under court order to pay his estranged wife, actress Rosemary Lane, $650 a month, and not molest or annoy her, pending trial of her separate maintenance suit. 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