The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 16, 1952, Page 6

Page 6 Tuesday, December 16, 1952 FLASH GORDON THE KEY WEST CITIZEN GOT KENT WALKING AROUND WITH STARS IN HIS EYES! HE'S BEEN MAKING THINGS FOR HER WITH THE CORNUCOPIAK! "i iy y jf he SOCKY, THAT'S THE REAL LOTHAR. YOU CAN’T FIGHT HIM. LOOK WHAT HE DID 10 THAT GORILLAS LISTEN, THIS (S SERIOUS! JF ONE OF YOU DID IT*AND CAN PROVE IT=*I'LL PAY THAT MAN A THOUSAND DOLLARS! BEN BOLT Seer ey I CALLED je HIM... VES... 2) | ery FIGHT 2 DID YOU, PAULA? ANSWER MISTER DOES ALL TH! NAME -THINKIN-UP FER_OUR TRIBE, RIDDLES -- . YUL AST HIM Q BRINGING UP FATHER — = = LAST I SAW, THEY J HEADING QUT WERE «WHERE ARE } THAT WAY-— WHERE THAT BLACK SMOKE COMING FROM! Al BLE: NOW, WISE | GUY, WELL SEE! HMIM« A CRACK IN THE ROCKS. CAN HEAR VOICES COMING BUT WHEN) [You DID FINE, HE ANSWERED Ni BABY... AND L » oy % OS PAWe-THINK ME UP > _ ANOTHER GOOD BABY NAME By George McManus SAYS NEW YORK (#—How can the Chinese Reds be made to want peace? The answer holds the key to what will happen next in the Kore- H an War. President-elect Dwight Eisenhow- er stated the problem clearly in an off-the-cuff summary of his trip. to the embattled peninsula: «. |, just because one side wants ; peace doesn’t make peace. We must go ahead and do things that induce the others to want peace also.” This echoed a belief General Ei- senhower phrased this way in a more formal statement: “, .. we face an enemy whom we cannot hope to impress by words, however eloquent, but only be deeds—executed under circum- stances of our own choosing.” | These two significant sentences | herald a real effort to change the stalemated Korean situation—a pe- riod when the present groping yearning for peace will be re-| placed by some kind of action to} win it. What form will that action take? | Naturally Eisenhower must re- main silent on this point at this | time. ee there are two ways to get a donkey to move forward: (a) hold some hay out in front of him, or (b) kick and beat him un- til he decides it is wiser to obey your will. i And there would seem to be only | two general methods of action to make the Chinese reds want, peace: | 1. Through diplomatic channels | offer some kind of reward that} would make them wish to reach a | cease-fire in Korea, and move out | of the orbit of Red Russia toward the orbit of the Western powers. | Assuming this could be done, such a program would possibly entail | the jettisoning of Chiang-Kai Shek. who is powerfully supported in the American Congress. 2. Increase military pressure on | Red China to such an extent that crippling losses would lead her to sue for a real peace, even against the wishes of Red Russia, who} now supplies her with most of her heavy armaments. The danger here, of course, is that such a program would fan the long-smoldering misery of Korea | into a flaming third World War. American professional military opinion is sharply divided on this question. Some career soldiers say we cannot risk taking steps that might extend the conflict and com- mit us to full-scale warfare in the Far East. Others say we cannot afford not to take those steps. A general officer who holds this} view recently expressed it to me as follows: “Time is fighting on the other | side, not on ours The other fellow is building up faster than we are. We have to stop this business in Korea now. | “We are fighting the war the | way the Chinese want it—on a fixed } line. We don’t have the manpower to win that way. Our cardinal principle in warfare is mobility, and we have to get back to the ‘four F’s’ of the American Army— find ’em, fix 'em, fight ’em, and, finish ’em. “We need to use everything we have now and finish the Korean War as quickly as possible — by land attack, naval blockades, and bombing of Chinese seaports and, Manchurian supply and armament | centers—yes, by atom-bombing if necessary.” This officer, however, was against employing Chiang - Kai Shek’s Formosa garrison troops inj Korea, not because it would anger Red China to do so, but because | probed the dusky interior andj jtheir arms with them,” he s: AP Newsfeatures Chapter 16 NG the next four days almentera throbbed and ina passion of volcanic y and Palmenter paused be- ere iron rims were ut for the supply t would acocmpan: aa The smith looked u Waved a friendly hand in greeting, pened =| “How many more cag y | pry to go?” Clay . Wo more wagons an’ this job’s done.” He closed one eye in a wink that was almost lewd in its impli- cation of tacit and fraternal con- spiracy. “Course,” he drawled, couldn’t never have done half s well if T hadn’t had such a willin’ helper.” | He jerked his head carelessly } backward toward the shadowy figure that swung a heavy sledge | unceasingly against the hot metal on the anvil. Clay’s hard eyes then he grinned a little as he sud- denly realized that it was Sara- zan who had been given the end-| less, inn reoking labor of Swinging the s fe from dawn till dusk, 3 2 Clay turned the smith, “ guarded?” The smith’s laughter exploded Taucously against the curtain of the sunlight. “You're mighty damned right, he is.” He patted the pistol that swung from his belt. “The first move he makes to pull out of here’s goin’ to be th’ last move he ever makes. He’s what you might call sort of a permanent fixture around here.” Clay nodded. “And at night?” “Night? Why, Colonel, at night I just pull th’ door to and snap a padlock on th’ outside, an’ when I come back in th’ mornin’ there th’ little booger is—big as life an’ twice as poisonous.” Clay nodded, smiling a little. The men were in good trim, cheerful, confident, undisturbed by the adventure be: them. “Hold onto him,” he advised. “He could raise plenty of hell if questioningly to ‘He's being well he sneaked out and managed to tip off the Regulators.” He turned away and adjusted his pace to Palmenter’s painfully slow progres ae Picked your new captains yet?” Palme: sked. “Web picked them. Bert Hewitt to take Sarazan’s pl and Luke Miller to take Web's place. They} look all right to me. They were o 1, win log hut that} the vast bulk of the main storehouse. Palmenter stopped and drew a heavy, well- oiled ke: He| held it out to Clay. “If you'll unlock that pi “I think I can show} ig you won't find ip North America.” you some anywhere arp with surprise, d the key in the pulled b the} door, and red into the light- less interio: OD light, grunting as he tried to lift the nd found them as heavy as lead. Kneeling. he twisted the heavy back edge of his bowie knife into the crack between the side and lid of the first box, pried sharply downward, and then jerked the cover free. It was filled with strangely shaped, roughly oblong packages, each dually wrapped in heavy canvas that was stained with dark oil or grease. He ningly at Palmen- ges and lievingly at what he held in his hand, then his head jerked around to stare at Palmenter. “Colt’s ers! Repeaters! y of them, Blair? How The flashing smile turned Pal- menter’s face fr a dark mask nage of proud del ‘Plenty of them, Clay. Enough for both of the squadrons and some left over.” Slowly, almost fearfully, Clay turned the gun over and over in Guns like this were so still alm own. A gun that hots without re- m and unquestion- © any man armed with the old, single-shot i Colt’s revolvers! He was unable to credit the fact that ther were enough here for the entir@: regiment. The Texas Rangers H them, the army had a few, but: they aoe still so rare that they | were almostmuseum pieces, prices | ie re on the bloody frontier. | ‘ " he demanded, “where | in the name of God did these! come from?” _Palmenter’s eyelids fell so that | his eyes were hooded like hawk’s. He moved his twist shoulders almost imperceptibly. “They were a shipment for the; Rangers, I believe. We heard they : were coming, and we”—the eyes} lids lifted and he smiled reme/ iniscently—“diverted them.” He} touched the unopened box with! the toe of his boot. “Take a look | in Aap e ‘ lis face white with exci } Clay wrenched the scemend 1 the unopened box, knelt immo; bile for an instant, and then came! slowly to his feet. In his hands was a sheathed cavalry saber, curving sleekly along its length! shining a little in a Pregnant with the very spi gallantry and combat and Fe down the wind in the ck. There was wonder and lief, almost reverence in his f: as he drew the great from its sheath. Now that free of its scabbard, vi alive in the flickering flashed upon i# like gl drops of blood, it took on a and a meaning of its own.’ was the queen of wea the stern blade a and pered and edged oy that it might drink blood in the very. vortex of whirling confusion, when ed men fought to boot in # nightmare instant be- tween life and death. “You—diverted these?” Palmenter nodded gravely. lifted his shoulders <A then let them sag in a exhaustion. His face was with fatigue and with sponsibility of the task he “You did a fine job of them, Bair. We'll try to do as when it comes to i work.” 4 i EF | ee 215 COUPLES RENEW MARRIAGE VOWS SUN. LOS ANGELES (#—Two hundred and fifteen couples participated in , a single marriage ceremony Sun- day. The Rev. Wiiliam E. O'Shea performed the rites at St. Timo- thy’s Catholic Church a which the couples renewed their wedding vows. “Althouh many of you have been married for.40 years or more, this act you are making today will give new vigor to those vows of fidelity ‘and love you made to each other on your first wedding annivers- ary,” the priest told them. The Saar has a population of ‘about 900 per square mile. he has no faith in the Nationalist soldiers. “I’m afraid that two months aft- er they were put in the line they’d be bought by the Commies, and go over to the other side, carrying id. How widespread such views are in the professional army I have no | way of knowing, but there is a | growing impatience to do some- thing positive to wind up a conflict , that has caused 128,000 American casualties in 30 months. Perhaps the most meaningful phrase in General Eisenhower's |statement was his reference to fu- ture deeds to be “executed under circumstances of our own choos- ‘ ing.” It is hard to interpret that in lany way except as a clear warn- ing to the Chinese Reds that coun- ter-initiative steps are planned, and they no longer will call all the tunes in Korea, OZARK IKE AS HE STARTED TO CAICHTH OPENING KICKOFF J | 29. More ex- Crossword Puzzle 32. Metal 33. Agreements to suspend ostilities Writer . Scarce . Make lace 13. Buy back 4. Muse of as« tronomy 15, Each: abbr. 16. Table dish 18. Size of shot 19. Hail 21, Small pieces of ground 22. Flow back 23, Gull-like bird 5, 25. Reéline 33, 26. Wan 85, 27. Slow-moving 56. animals £ . Sleeping 50. Five hundred and one Contradict Breathe in Exchanges Seesaw DOWN ive 1. Handles ni . Paradise pe PIEIGHBA! | IDAMIHII | EIRIEICITISMECIAIT] CHUSIT IE R| Solution of Yesterday's Pumig’ &. Public an- . a po | FBS BE RSE RBIS pp & Catnip 5. Seaweed 6. 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