The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 12, 1953, Page 8

9 , THE KEY WEST CITIZEN LASH GORDON DON'T YOU NOTICE SOMETHING OOD ABOUT TRE “TIME - CASE; RAY? : —S “PHANTOM"— WHATA YARN!) | ON VoUR SUITS! AMI CHASING HIM-~OR IS HE LEADING | | WELL YEAH? YOU ALL CAME BACK FROM | THE VESTA JOB WITH SKULL MARKS } Monday, January 12, 1953 WHEN L LOOK DOWN’ \/ THROUGH THE CENTER OF THE ‘TIME-CASE’ L CAN SEE THE FLOOR, BUT THE ‘NME-CASE’ SCAFFOLD 15 MWVISIBLE! WHY DO YOUTHINK THE VESTA JOB FLOPPED? ANDWHO SLUGGED ! A PALAC ME® I THINK HE WANTS ME TO FOLLOW) OF THE JUNGLE! WHATIS THIS? By Dan Barry NO! NO MIRRORS! THE EXPLANATION IS SIMPLE! THIS “TIME - CASE’ EXISTS IN BOTH THE PRESENT AND THE FU’ THE SCAFFOLD DOES NOT: EVERYTHING YOU SEE THROUGH AND BEYOND THE ‘TIME-CASE” EXISTS IM THE FUTURE! Key Books by A. de T. Gingras (ADLAI’S ALMANAC, a collection of the wit and wisdom of Governer Stevenson of Illinois, edited and complied by Bessie R. James and Mary Waterstreet, published by New York City, 80 pages.) It is heartening to intelligent Americans to know that a man like Adlai Stevenson guides the helm of one of the largest of our states. And it is even more heart- ening to know that he was the Presidential nominee for one of |- our major political parties, and at- tracted the large vote which he did in November. For Mr. Stevenson is a man of brains, character’ and wit. This paperback book which an oppor- tunist publisher slapped together while the political campaign was still going on is evidence of all of these. It consists of excerpts from speeches which the governor made before or while he was campaign- ing for the presidency of the United States. For one thing Mr. Steveson, shows his firm and clear stand on the racial issue and clearly says the answer to communism is democracy; “‘not less democraty, or just enough, but more. And . cau. avis | democracy is color blind.” OUI vLY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HIGH HEDGE- On Labor day of 1952, he ad- vocates better information on la- bor problems. “. . labor problems earry a high voltage these days. PROMISE OF DELIGHT dinner supper from her attractive new neighbor, Joe Carlotti, Anthea Grainger goes home to advise her mother, who is strangely disturbed, and who wants her daughter to see more of Jim, a fellow worker in the Grainger family office. Then Mr. Grainger comes home and gets in on the act. Chapter Four N thea into the kitchen, and helped himself to radishes from} the glass dish on the tray. “By| the way, 1 see the new owners) have moved in next door. Have you any idea what they are like?” “Yes.” she said, “their name is Carlotti. Father and son. The Fa-| ther is Mario Carlotti, the film, director.” Mr. Grainger could not have, been more astonished if she had) told him a wild African tribe had} settled in the Avenue. He gazed} at her over his carnations. | “Good heavens! Film people.” “Isn’t it exciting?” she said. “Yes,” he said cautiously, “I suppose so. Let’s hope they won't give wild parties, or anything like that. It’s important to your moth- er. After all, she’s at home all day.” Mrs. Grainger came down from the bedroom. She had discarded her smock and tidied for dinner. “Hello, dear.” She gave Mr. | you? By Mary Howard Td like to go.” Her mother shrugged. “Why not go some other night? It’s so lovely, I thought Jim might care to come| with us.” “Mother,” Anthea was annoyed} to find her voice shaking, “please| don’t te over my head. I am} going next door for coffee. It would oe rude not to go, as I have already accepted.” ] There was a little pause. Mrs.| Grainger looked at Anthea. There! R. GRAINGER followed An-|was no anger in her face, but| Her voice w: there was an expression in the fine dark eyes which Anthea had never seen before. Fear? Impos- aun: What was there to be afraid of? “You can do what you like, of course, dear,” she said smoothly, “but in my experience, people never mean those casual invita- tions. I never accept them. I think it’s extremely foolish to begi a little more about people. W can hat} these people have to o:fer) “TI don’t know. They might have! a job for me. I want to change! jobs.” “A job,” repeated ner father in | surprise. “Aren’t you happy at the} office?” “No,” said Anthea uncompro- | jmisingly. She reached out her hand and patted his. “It’s not your | fault ... or perhaps it is. iN RS. GRAINGER busied her- seli breaking and_buttering acquaintanceship before you know) p AP Newsteatures Accepting an invitation to {me in for coffee, as I told you.|into her head. I suppose you read that paragraph in toe night ... and you r you might be the this Carlotti is lo voice and ey thea went st, for light, absurd and b had flashed thro} yi “I should forget the whole thing, This man Carlotti may be an exe cellent film tor, but he is @ Notorious re} te, with several broken marriages behind him.” ddenly hard and that now?” Anthea ou don’t know abruptly talk. “His much, “Did s. Grainger her rare, and An- for her rather be: thea’s he: | motuer’s charm w gerous and ofte lously used weapon. jthink I'm an old st: mud, Ant! but it’ to go slowly. If wants to k | Grainger a perfunctory kiss on his| thinning hair. They went into the} dining room. Unfolding her snowy People make up their minds about who’s right or wrong and what’s her roll with an air of faintly ex-| “I'm iN asperated good temper. She said| I'd go tonigh Her mother WHAT YOU U 2, RAILS WAS ON FOR BRAINS, k. THE 2 HOW WAST BAKUS DE! SUPPOSED T’KNOW LIKE HE WAS SUI SED TO- AND FUN? SAKES ALIVE! THEY'RE ENUFF TO MAKE A DOG LAFF, SNUFFY THEM TWO BOYS OF YOURN MUST BE A HEAP OF FUN, RIDDLES THAT'S YOUR WIEE'S GRIP -ISN’'T F? VLL GIVE IT TO HEI iTS | LITTLE HEAVY- J | I WOULDN'T “| / THINK OF LETTING! HER CARRY (T- YOU'RE GOING TO SEE PLENTY OF ME FROM NOW ON .” REMEMBER DAD'S A JUDGE, DON’T TELL ME YOU FOR THAT COLLEGE BUNK! HE ONCE HAD AJOB AS A VANITOR’S ASSISTANT AT VALE wm THAT'S THE CLOSEST HE ADMIT I’M GLAD THAT ARTIE DIDN'T CROAK Wit TH’ TWO YOUNG-UNS NOwW-- TH’ WHOLE BLESSET DAY FROM SUNUP TO-- fe SN'T UNCLE A KIND_ MAN ? HE WOULDN'T LET HiS WIFE CARRY HER GRIP-= HE Is SO. SURE!--BuT I DON'T Ger iT.” } WHERE DO You FIT IN ? \ ANO Youre N \ HIS CUSTODY.”"- 1 Urs AND THEY HAVENT YEAH _OUR AIRTIGHT DEFENSE WILL AAAKE '£ WISH TH BASE BA: SEASON WAS ALR: right or wrong with little or no knowledge of the facts. Most of them react like the tired mother when she hears late afternoon bickeging in the back yard: ‘go see what Willie’s doing and tell him not to.’” In 1950 at the United Nations festival at Rantoul, Ill, he said, “*. . Here on the Illinois prairies we seem to be in the midst of a season of festivals. Only last week I took part in a corn festival at By John Cullen Murphy |Steator. A few days before it was paces BUY THAT. DARUNG. a grape festival at Nauvoo. And I've missed other local celebrations in honor of tomatoes, of sauer- kraut, of pumpkins, and, in one most remarkable instance, of corn break and beans. I am greatly heartened by the fact that you people of Chanute Field have add- ed to this honorable list - the United Nations!” His rapier wit parries all oratorical thrusts in his direction. “His (Governor Dwight Green’s) speech damns me with being on leave from ‘the striped pants bri- gade to the Roosevelt-Truman State Department.’. . .damned or striped I will keep my pants on.” “If the Republicans stop telling By Fred Lasswell |lies about us, we will stop telling HESH!! SHE WANTS ME TO LOOK AFTER TH’ YOUNG-UNS WHILST SHE'S NG To- Re Ou REPORT EVERY NIGHT r me By Roy Gotto the truth about them,” he says in Bakersfield, Calif. in 1952; and in Fort Dodge, Iowa he says Senator Taft is the greatest living authority on what General Eisenhower thinks and that the: Republicans have a ‘me too’ Candidate running on a ‘yes but’ platform, advised by a ‘has been’ staff. Then in a pre- sidential campaign speech in Den- ver, Colo. he says “. . .it would be a $ad thing. . .if a great soldier (Eisenhower) to whom we owe undying affection and grati- tude ended up politically between | the two Republican Parties like | that mule I heard about one time that starved to death standing be- ; tween two stacks of hay, trying to make up his mind which to eat.” Why hasn’t the same enterpris- ing publisher contracted Mr. Ste- venson for several books on his experiences. Many of his admirers would enjoy reading them more than some of the innocuous non- | fiction which is dished up by the | publishers. GUEST REVIEW BY DONN MUN- SON { (THE NIGHT WATCH, by Thomas | Walsh, detective mystery published ‘ by Little, Brown and Co., Boston, | Mass.) | In 1950 Thomas Walsh won the Mystery Writers of America’s Ed- | gar Allen Poe award for the best | first mystery novel of the year. That work, entitled “Nightmare in Manhattan” probably deserved to win. But Walsh's second effort is | no threat for the 1953 prize “Night Watch" is an unevenly |paced cops-and-.obbers story cha |racterized by some rather jerky | writing, and a plot which is not {quite in the pattern of what mys jtery fans prefer. Despite the fact Saturday Evening Post first pub. jlished it as a serial jerime writing viewer heard jran as a seria appears been rea Briefly, the story it isn’t top tery. This re justified r THE CISCO KID napkins, she sai¢ casually, “It’s a levely evening. Why don’t you run us out into the country some- where, Gregory? How about going to see the nurseries at Belfont. The roses should be at their best now, and they keep open until sunset.” “I should like a sherry,” said Anthea suddenly. Her father gave her a nervous glance and said, “Certainly dear,” and rose to pour a glass at the smiling, “Where on earth will you have a better chance of getting ‘on than in your father’s office?” | “That,” said Anthea, is exactly my point.” “Yes,” began Mr. Grainger slow- ly, “I do see that it may cause a certain amount of jealousy. Miss Smithers resents you. But surely in time you'll settle down.” “Oh. nonsense, Gregory.” Mrs. Grainger served the fish and sideboard. Anthea took it and drank, put down her glass and said. “Mother, Mr. Carlotti asked RENT FORUM (These questions were selected from those often asked of the local rent office. If you have a question about the rent stabilization pro- gram address it to: Area Rent Of- fice, 216 Federal Building, Key | West, Florida.) i I rented an apartment which is{ subject to the rent laws and re gistered with the area rent office. Since then I have been using the apartment as a combination office | and operating my business from | there, listing the telephone number on my stationary, etc. My land- lord claims that the apartment is no longer affected by the rent laws because I have converted it to aj commercial unit. is he right? ANSWER: A determination would | have to be made by the rent office | as to whether the apartment is} being used primarily as a cqm-| mercial or a housing unit. Seve) factors would have to be weighed, such as what portion of the unit | is used as business and what por- tion as residence. | QUESTION: When did overall rent and eviction contro!s become | effective in the Key West Defense Area. ANSWER: The present maxi mum rent and eviction controls | laws became effective in the Key | West Defense area on January 7, | 1952. | QUESTION: My landlord has | been charging me what I believe to be excessive rent for some time. | I called your rent office the other | day and was told the property had not been registered. Does that bar | me fror y lord for Frank Ecksirom, a ¢ tenant d the three d assigned to watch a hide-out used by a bank robber. Th pected hide-o j The police de an empty af listen suing for “The Walsh seem pretty v passed his plate, and began to jserve Anthea. “It's just some ro- mantic notion that Anthea has got overcharges and, if not, how would I determine the exact amount of the overcharge? ANSWER: The tact that your landlord has not registered the property would not bar you from seeking treble damages for an overcharge. You should go to the rent office and give them your facts. If, as you say, the property {has not been registered then the jot as much as rent office will investigate and es jtablish the existing maximum rent ; Which man h on the basis of available facts if they are sufficient to show max QUESTION: Several months ago|imum rent, and you may then sue | mines is a the landlord for three times any {amount he has been charging you! per cent in over that figure for the year pre- vious to the date suit is filed or | $50, whichever is greater, reasonable attorney's fees court costs. plus and Although Lake Africa is 2,356 feet above sea level at the surface, it is 2,172 feet be low sea level at the bottom in the deepest part. 3. Corruded ‘one 34 English letter 35. Rend asunder particle 55- Cereal grass Tanganyika in| but rer manr m a c little edge . The good-humored tolera= ped the job,” said Anthea slow r something in my own line, secre- tarial work. And. Mother, Joe Carlotti was apparently at school lived in the seem par- So I'm going him.” | ticularly predatory to have some cof (To be continued) | NEWS| BRIEFS | Fossil lards) sor lize g o_ read d probably nimal of pterodactyls t coal in U, S. t 1 tons per man case of 30 The output of s day, wh When tobacco w from A it was | thought r drug have taken Although m s show nual rings of growth when trunks are s uch not true of s greens an their that is an rivet shut