The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 6, 1953, Page 8

Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN FLASH GORDON B PANIC SPREADS AS THE AIRBASE AT WHICH FLASH LANDED 1S COVERED WITH A DEADLY BLANKET OF GAS. AS THE DESTROYER /S LEAVING; THE | PHANTOM REACHES THE GUN LANYARD, FIRES IT WITH HIS TEETH**AND WARNS ( |A SHORT TIME LATED, HE COMES OUT, STIFF, HIS EYES LIFELESS--ONE OF THE *LIVING-DEAD'S THE STRUGGLING, TERRIFIED NATIVE IS DRAGGED INTO A HUT-+ SCULPTORIN' FELLER, PAW--MR. PLASTER ETTA Ki:i a GS, YOURE FIRED.” LES SEE DINAN. $SOO A GAME FER 20 GAMES WOULDA ADDED uP Friday, February 6, 1953 ROCKET, A CRASH CREW. SEARCHES INTICALLY FOR SOURCE OF ESCAPING OUTFIT HIM PROPERLY, THEN PUT HIM TO.WORK IN THE FIELOS. PERFECT! SIMPLY PERFECT GONE ON LOOKING FOR MONTHS, IT'S COMING FROM MURLIN'S TUME-CASES auT--wuaT }{ YOU'VE SEEN ENOUGH: DID THEY DO FOR THE TIME BEING, LATER YOU MAY SEE MORE~ A VIOLENT WARD mT! A HARD- WORKING CAREER GAL.WAND YOU'RE GOING TO DE- VELOP INTO A VERY SHREWD INVESTMENT ! OH-- JUST MAKING ZEE HIGH HAT IS, FOR! SO TH FELLUMS ARE COUNTIN’ ON A BIG, T CHECK FER Reds Claim US. Plans Air Base’ At Lonely Spot By SELIG S. HARRISON OE dropped Anthea’s hand PONDICHERRY, French India | J nits. "aati ree hitching (®—This tiny French colony cannot} the belt round his narrow waist even boast a harbor, but Commu-; with an ominous little gesture, nist propagandists claim the | and walked across the sun-baked United States plans to make it a! Quayside, pushing his way be- major Southeast Asian naval base. | pies Get ee “India’s hobnobbing with the | tapped him on the shoulder. and American imperialists prevents | jerked his head toward Anthea. the Nehru government from taking | Donati followed him over to the a firm stand against the French| °¥tskirts of the crowd. imperialists,” says the South In- | ‘Papa doesn’t like people to dian vernacular Communist week- uietly. her ly Janasakhti. “All the French | Moke, ait Sacoe coments imperialist colonies are at the mo. | if she keeps fluffing. She has trou- ment coming under the grip of} ble memorizing her lines, any- American warmongers who desire| WaY-” that ports like Pondicherry should! , Donati was shorter than Joe, ” but just as broad. A tough. thic serve as warbases. fete set customer under his over- Many of the 222,572 citizens of | tailored summer suit. this outpost appear apathetic about! “She has trouble memorizing who governs them. Unenthusiastic | anything,” Donati said s: subjects of the French-controlled| ly, “Particularly - old fr: I municipal government which ad-| don’t see what aieren agit a ministers Pondicherry, they find poore ay this ie She ake little cause for greater enthusiasm | cated the small crowd of fizher= in the state of affairs across the| folk, vacationists and tradespeo- Indian border. ple who stood cond ene The same language and racial| ¢VeTy movement and listening strain mark the “French Indian” aor fee ie? ci cack mae on one side of the boundary and| way Je giumeenel. and sithoush the “Indian” on the other. So does} his voice was quite calm and un- the same poverty. Aes there a a pa ed When Britain turned over Indian | little glint in his eyes. “The im- rule to the Nehru government in Lol chante ace 1947, French authorities promised paid for, and it’s important that to let Pondicherry citizens decide} she gets paid. You see that?” their future by ballot. But Indian Mr. Donati laughed pleasantly, and French officials failed to agree | and took out a fancy and very on the basis for a referendum. Tho, peg Se ee oes India government says municipal; Pevitiy “when ‘youre ‘orcke, I elections in Pondicherry prove tnat| Wouldn't want to stop the little the French do not intend to play| lady from earning her dough!” fair. Last October Prime Minister peas u zing ES aa ee ye ~~ Nehru ruled out any future refer- . proffered cigarette, endum to determine Pondicherry’s| 2. pia bys ooh eye eager fate “‘in view of the terrorist at-| pis “own, “All these folks are mosphere which aiways seems to strangers . . . you get used to prevail there.” strangers. It’s when old friends France’s commissioner in Pondi-| tura up that you get put off your! here, cherry, Andre Menard, laughed at watch Gina .working,” said Joe PROMISE OF DELIGHT By Mary Howard stroke. Did you want to speak to| five years, let him spend a lot Miss Scarpi? I'll tell her when! more money, and what is more she’s finished shooting, if you! important to him, give him an. like.” z absolutely free hand. With Gina he “I was going to ask her to dine| is working with an unknown with me tonight.” quantity. He can’t have her blow “I'm afraid that’s impossible,”|up now. And this Donati—he's a Joe said at once. “Miss Scarpi has| threat to Gina.” already promised to dine with} “In what way?” me.” | : “In many ways,” said Joe grim- Donati stared; then a little} ly. “There was a year or more smile came into the back of his| between the time Gina left the | eyes. 4 5 convent, and the time she came } “So,” he said, still very good-| over here to Bianca. Larry Do tempered, sleekly unruffied. “I’m| nati belongs, to that time of her in no hurry. I've got nothing to/ life. We don’t want her upset, do, and nowhere to go. Tell her] and we don’t want a scandal. You T'll be waiting. So long.” He made | know we have always said she is a vague gesture of farewell, and| like a bad child. Well, so she is. strolled off back to the big scarlet | She might run away, or she might’ car. For a moment the attention | drink too much . . . anything.’ of the youngsters and children on} We've got to be on her tail, until the quay was diverted from the Papa's got this’right in the can.” actors to the spectacular car. I see,” said Anthea, t Then in a minute it was climbing| The scene was finished. Joe and the steep, narrow street up from/ the assistant camera-man re= _ the harbor to the main road, ac-| moved the encircling rope, and companied by a clamoring fan-| the crowd surged forward to ask ‘fare on the horn. Joe watched|Gina and Ivor for autographs. | him go, his eyes narowed be-} Anthea crossed over to the | tween their thick dark lashes. café, where the scene had been “I suppose,” he said, “this}shot, and ordered herself a means another night dancing. It’s| grenadine and seltzer. She noticed not much use e: Gina to] with admiration. that though Ivor. sit quietly with her iting or a/ had had a long, tiring day work- good book. I'll Ee young Street | ing in the hot sun, although per-. to come as well. I’m sorry, An-|sonally his mind thea. But we do enjoy dancing, | i: ii suse | don’t we, you and I?” pica and jealousy about Gina, ° i epee training did not. CAN'T come, Joe,” Anthea | let down. He ed auto- said quickly. “We've been — books, scraps eating: working a day. I want to catch | ¢ for a group of up on your father’s work tonight, | youngsters, smiling with gallan- and later I was thinking we| try and ch: answering might do an hour or so on the| questions in rather play.” neh, as though there Y “That'll have to wait,” said Joe | nothing in the world he woul absently. “Look, Anthea, she’s|tather do, Gina sat t to finish this film; too much | the awning near Anthea, sulk as been sunk into it now. This|Said she was hot, and said film means a lot to Mario. If it’s | tably egos Fig nag ee a success, eres & contract waiti Yor hiim And World- | to. The fim to her was just a wi Wide, ‘This is more or less a try-| of making money and having, out. They admire him tremen-| notice taken of her. She said dously. ’re a big company, but | Anthea, “For Pete’s sake, An’ they’re scared of unconven- | get those kids to go away tional methods. If he succeeds | leave me alone, they will engage him for (Te be continsed) cages the Indian charges. He’ says any. terror i toda a manufactured” SETTLE ON SIZE “We have had more than is cases of robbery and violence in OF SPARKLER; one ‘month, including severe} THEN BUY IT woundings and beatings, all trace- able to the, Indians,” Menard de-| ALBUQUERQUE, N. 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