The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 28, 1953, Page 10

¢ Bt > . THE KEY'WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, Janvary 28, 1953 FLASH GORDON Page 10 {T mariyn/ Ray! HoT zicceTy/ |] WE'RE ALL LEAVING / WITH MY DAD ‘ho WERE anax te ear BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH FOR ZEE LAST TIME, T SAN--OPEN ZEE OR PLASTEUR ES WILL CHISEL !! DADDY. ‘YOUR HAT LOOKED SHABBY I LEFT IT AT $0 THE CLEANER'S/ THEY PROM! GUILTY! -~ANO I WANT TO TELL HIM SO”, : Dan Barry t Anonymous Threat Against Minister Checked By Police AMERICUS, Ga. @--Police are trying to find an anonymous tele- Phone caller who threatened to beat a former Ohio clergyman who came to Americus last summer. The Rev. Kempton Oakes, 31- year-old former athlete and pastor of the First Christian Church here, said the caller told him Sunday to get out of town after daring him to come down to the corner and fight. He told police the man said he could “beat hell out of damn- yankee.” The minister also complained that someone dumped garbage into his new automobile shortly after the telephone call. Police Chief R. M. Cansler jigned officers to investigate. Last week City Recorder Billy Smith dismissed charges against two of the clergyman’s neighbors following complaints by Oakes that they allowed théir dogs and chick- ens to run loose in his newly planted garden. The minister, who served his church for nine years at Mansfield, O., and surrounding communities, said last night he does not intend to leave Americus. He said his anonymous caller may have been Jr. Barrymores Have In-Law Woe HOLLYWOOD # — The John Barrymore juniors say they had ‘| mother-in-law trouble, but no mari- tal spat, at the windup of their Palm Springs honeymoon last week end. Mrs. Barrymore, the 26-year-old actress Cara Williams, said they invited her mother, Mrs. Florence Williams of Los Angeles, to their bio Springs hotel for the week Mrs. Williams, said her daugh- ter, announced that “I don’t ap- prove of this marriage” and “I don’t like your husband.” How- ever, they took her to dinner and drove her to another hotel. The second phase of the week end which led to rumors of a honeymooners’ squabble had to do with a cut on young Barrymore’s arm. His bride said he was posing for some shots for a photographer friend, did a handstand but lost his balance and feil through a win- dow. The arm cut required five stitches. Barrymore, 20, son of the late “Great Profile,” whose domestic difficulties made numerous head- lines said, had no fight at all. I love Cara with all my heart.” The couple was married Dec. 23 at Las Vegas, Nev. Construction Work In Tenn. Halted OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Con- struction work on an addition to the gaseous diffusion atomic plant here came to a halt Monday fol- lowing a walkout of some 300 AFL! operating engineers. The project employs about 6,000 workers. Union officials were not avail- able for comment but an Atomic Energy Commission spokesman said the dispute is apparently over the engineers’ objection to the con- tractor, Maxon Construction Com- ‘pany, using automatic pumps to ‘bring water from low-lying areas of the project site. RESCUED MAN IN FAIR CONDITION CAMBRIDGE, Md. ® — Louis | Gray, 77 - year - old waterman rescued after spending four days | on Chesapeake Bay without food | or water, was pronounced in fair condition here. | Gray was rescued Monday by| a search party rounded up after a | fellow Elliott's island resident re- ported his disappearance. He had set out last Thursday aboard his 30-Zoot workboat. When | the engine failed the elderly fish- | erman was unable to signal his | plight from the lightly traveled area. Palomino harses are a color phase rather than a type of horse, | but the art of breeding to obtain | the gold color in successive gen-} erations has been devoloped to the point where the palominos are} recognized a special breed of i 9 | PROMISE OF DELIGHT Chapter 18 ‘HE convent?” Joe grinned. “T suppose she didn’t tell you what kind of convent? It was 4 Catholic reform home. Bianca sent her there when she was thir- teen. I was always kind of sorry for the kid; it didn’t seem sires that anyone could be so pre! and so very dumb. Bianca couldn control her at all, and in the end Papa told her that he would wring Gina’s neck if he ever for her in the house again. She was turning into as nice a little delinquent as you ever set eyes on. I suppose Bianca hid her somewhere when she heard us come in tonight. What's she doing in England, anyway, hiding from the cops?” “But, Joe,” Anthea said quickly, “she is very, very beautiful.” “Yeah?” Joe’s voice was unbe~ lieving. “So’s a rattlesnake. I can remember those innocent eyes of hers. ’'ve had too many whippings in my time for trying to her out of trouble.” Bianca was pouring the coffee; her dark eyes glinted toward An- thea with a mixture of terror and “Come along, Bianca,” said Joe good-naturedly. “Anthed has spilled the beans; she didn’t know we'd banned your beloved daugh- ter for the rest of her lifetime.” Mario stopped in the act of play- ing a card, hand and ace arrested in mid-air, his brows raised ques- tioningly. “Papa, Gina has ar- Tived. The prodigal has returned. I knew we hadn't seen the last of that baby.” Mario's face darkened angrily. “That devil child!” he said. He swung round, fixing an awful eye on Bianca, who shrank back, white-faced, her hands raised in| “I an expressive, pleading gesture. He shouted at her, his voice rising By Mary Howard to a crescendo of bay and volu- bie al "iadenat ee aaa not it was that he had Sirestenet once to send both Bianca and her daughter packing if ever the girl came into his house again. He'd meant it then and he still meant it. He had quite enough trouble in his life without Gina. “Please,” wept Bianca, “please, Mr. Joe ... please, padrone, do not be hard. Gina she is grown up now, very very pretty. You can remember only a naughty little girl. Please do not be =er Let her stay just for a little while...” “A little while!” roared Mario. “Overnight! Get her out of this house by morning, and don’t let me set eyes on her during that time!” He raised his hands and bes to heaven in furious appeal. won't have her. D’you remem- ber, Joe, the time you fetched me back from location twenty miles in the middle of a most important scene of my most difficult picture to get her out of jail!” ‘HE -itting-room door opened and Gina came in. She ha washed and rested since Anthea had seen her. She had changed her shabby dress for a long velvet housecoat of a deep dark red. The cut was old-fashioned but the color was rich and glowing. Her fair hair hung silken and shim- mering to her shoulders, and the strange, beautiful heavy-lidded eyes went round the room like the eyes of a questioning child. Mario and Joe stood Staring, open- mouthed with amazement. “I found this in the cupboard of my room,” she said, fingering the velvet of her sleeve with the curi- ous sensual way she had of feeling anything that was soft or silky. hadn’t anything fit to wear. My, but it’s | snl . ” The big eyes moved one man to the SOME GROCERIES LOWER Prices On Farm Products Hit Skids Again : By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK #—Prices of farm products are skidding again. It even shows up in lower prices on some items at the grocery. The reason: Huge supplies. Almost 30 per cent more wheat on hand than a year ago. Corn supplies up almost one-tenth. A record number of cattle fattening in the nation’s feed lots. Farm stocks of feed grains 10 per cent bigger than last year. So, many a farmer is wondering if the history of the 20s is to be repeated. Back then the farmer had his own private depression be- — it started for the general pub- ic. That’s what is back of all the ruckus now in Congress. Some congressmen from the farm belt want to raise the level at which the government supports \farm prices. Others think the government} should start now buying up food- stuffs to bolster the prices. But if farm prosperity goes sour, little by little it might spoil the boom for all the economy. City folk think the price of food ' is still too high. So firm is this conviction that it has little effect | to tell them—as all connected with the food industry are constantly doing—that the cost of farming, of transporting foodstuffs, of proces- sing and packaging food, of dis- tributing it, and of selling victuais at the grocery, all have gone up in recent years. The city man still thinks he pays too much to eat. The farmer, on the other hand, is well aware of the rise in his operating costs. He knows how ex- pensive modern farming is—the machinery, the fertilizers, the sprays, the labor. He also knows the spread between the price he gets for foodstuffs and the price the consumer pays at the store. And with the present weakness in farm prices, he sees his income shrinking. The Golden Decade when all the world wanted his pro- duce and was willing to pay ever increasing prices. for it seems to be drawing to a close. j Export. demand for American farm products is off. Production of | crops—given reasonable weather— increases right along. Now surplus- | es are piling up First to feel the effect of this are the prices the farmer gets. But wholesale prices are down now, al- though to a smaller degree. Higher | operating expenses cut further into this but retail prices are lower on some food items than a year ago The farmer's expenses haven't dropped as much, if any. In many instances the price of the things he sells have dropped below. parity sig the cost of things he must uy. Under the law the government supports the price of many farm products at @0 per cent of this parity. Some congressmen are now urg- ing that the government raise the support to 95 per cent of parity. Others want the Commodity Credit Corporation to stop selling the grain it bought previously, and instead to start buying grain right away at country elevators. Others want more funds to be granted other nations so that they will have dollars to buy American farm products. The labor force in the United States grew from 49,440,000 in 1929 to 65,832,000 in 1952. ACROSS 30, Pulpy Lat 1. Convened 32. More pai 4 Toward the to souk left side of a vessel 9. Capture are yo an, me from his face, looking at Gina with al oat 4 mt ion Carlotti ...” ‘Anthea i “Don’t wrong. Surely coihine a _— about peoystiee a oO one a an nen oa cigarette-stained them. awe in a box. round, hands on knees, and: She might have attractive merchandise. He said, “We'll do about that voice and acer e big OPpas “Sit down!” Gina was FRENCH ASSEMBLY OKAYS BUDGET PLAN PARIS —The French Assembly gave the government’s four billion dollar military budget an initial okay early Tuesday, overwhelming vote of bt measure as a whole. Each now must be approved separ- rena before the budget becomes The deputies lined up 517. favor of the measure, creases 1952's outlay by 58 dollars. Only the Comm posed. fi i! was put at a minimum lion dollars. ® -E EISISMMALI Is] E/CiL|t PSE Mm AIE { oes = MEP Ory iA