The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 24, 1953, Page 8

Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, February 24, 1953 FLASH GORDON { I'D LiKE TO GIVE THIS WISE GUY. A GOING OVER, Boss! Ry (TORN THIS” Wves~cir? i Senecanae DONT HIT ME =¥OU Wil AND DON'T SHOW ME YOUR FACE? MANDRAKE THE Cus HARMLESS. “ ~-THEY MOVE NORMALLY, DOC EXPERIMENTED WITH THE | BUT FEEL NOTHING. MYSTERIOUS POWDER , WHILE IL WASHED BOTTLES, SWEPT THE LAB~-AND WATCHED. THEN, | 2 ONE DAY-- MEANT TO BE! MAULING THIS POOR BOY ,<aS sWHY, IT'S CRIMINAL! «ARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY ~ AW, mister PLASTER YE RASCAL 00-LALA VS ALL ZISS :99R HOW LOVELY YOU LOOK ZISS MORNING! TKISS 4 zee HAND !! BRINGING UP F*T''FR ae WELL. DO IT YIKES. I THOUGHT THAT AGAIN! YOURE * PAIR OF SLOW LEAKS WOULD NEVER BRING US ~~ IVE Gor A NITE! THE ROLLER RINK WAS FUN. om | { AT LAST THEYRE} ‘SHOWING ( SOME LIFES} [WHEN HE COMES TO, THIS JOKER'S GOING TO TELL US ALL ASOUT THAT GADGET — JUST LEAVE IT TO ‘BOSS PUNCH’! WHILE WE WERE \ TUSSLING WITH THIS GUY, THAT TRICK ‘FLOATING EAGY, BOYS. I'M ON YOUR SIDE. WHAT Ge IGUYS ARE TREMBLING-«« SCARED TO DEATH! Many Visitors Expect To Call On Eisenhower WASHINGTON (2—A lot of for- eign leaders are coming to see President Eisenhower in the next few months, bringing their trou- bles with them. Many are old friends from his days as commander of Atlantic forces in Europe. Foreign Secre- tary Anthony Eden of Britain, Pre- mier Rene Mayer of France and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany head the list. The first to arrive will be Hal- vard Lange, Norway's foreign min- ister. Lange is coming for a United Nations meeting, but he will also visit Washington Feb. 28. Next come British Foreign Sec- retary Eden and Chancellor of the Exchequer R. A. Butler: They will be in Washington March 4 to 6 for what are officially called ‘‘explora- tory talks.” The big issues are expected to be economic: Can the pound ster- ling be made freely convertible with the dollar? Is the U. S. going to do anything about removing trade barriers? Less than a week later, on March By Lee Falk and Phil Davis |12, Lord Ismay will arrive with 11'S A PERFECT ANESTHETIC, A BOON TO MEDICAL SCIENCE. BUT IT HAS STRANGE HYPNOTIC Fr EFFECTS -- I MUST TESTITON A , HUMAN--MYSELF, YES. IF NO MORE IS TAKEN, IT WEARS OFF. AFTER I’VE TAKEN IT, HERE’S WHAT YOU MUST 00-- ->- By John Cullen Murphy < P >) PUT HIM IN MY CAR=GENTLY, ¢ TOO! AND COME ALONG WITH i ME... YOU'LL HAVE TO CARRY HIM INTO MY HOUSE! By Fred Lasswell GIT OVER YONDER AN’ KISS \ ‘| HER_HAND QUICK, UNK SNUFFY, OR WE-UNS WON'T GIT NO GRITS AT ALL a By George McManus AST ALWAYS SAY-*WHEN BUYIN! A HAT- 601 BOUGHT A HOMBURG! By Paul Robinson CAUSE POINTS ARE FIXIN T RAIN THiS all of NATO's troubles in his. bag- gage. He is the secretary general— chief civilian official—of the whole 14-nation body. He will undoubted- ly have on his mind the: problem of each nation’s contribution to the big program, which some of them say can’t be determined until they know how much aid will be com- ing from the U. S. Mayor Ernest Reuter of West Berlin will be in New York March 10 to confer about refugees from Soviet-dominated East Germany. No doubt he will also come to Washington. Before the month is out French Premier Rene Mayer and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault will be in town. The French have even tougher financial problems than the British. Early in April, Konrad Adenauer, the aging West German chancel- ine < make his first trip to the He will talk about Germany’s contribution to Western defense— how much and in what form. An invitation also has gone out to the Princeton-educated foreign minister of Belgium, Paul Van Zeeland. He too will have military problems on his mind. As it stands now the last man in the visitors’ list is Prime Min- ister Louis St. Laurent of Canada, a country with which the U. S. has no major problems. There has been some trouble, though, about the proposed St. Lawrence seaway, with Canada unable to get U. S. government co-operation and try- oF despite difficulties to got it alone. . ° Eisenhower Will ° ee Fight Policies ° o,e Of Anti-Semitism MIAMI BEACH (#— President Eisenhower is fully informed about Russia’s anti-Semitic policies and will ‘take appropriate action,” says Maryland’s Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin. “Israel will not be sold down the river by our country,” McKeldin said here Sunday, “and it will not be permitted to become another Czechoslovakia.” McKeldin spoke at a meeting of 350 Jewish leaders called by the State of Israel Bond Organization. The Maryland governor, who nominated Eisenhower at the Re- publican convention, said he con- ferred with the President Friday and found him ‘‘concerned” about the Jews behind the Iron Cur- tain and about the State of Israel. “The President will, 1 am sure, at the proper time and in his own way, take appropriate action,’ Mc- Keldin said. McKeldin said ‘‘Fullest econom- ic and military assistance” should be given to Israel and “The Amer- ican government should call on the Arabs to make peace with Israel and form a Middle East united front against Communism.” HOLLYWOOD \ — Movie pro- ducer-director Preston Sturgis has | ILLOWING her through the doorway, he wondered at her pee She had never been over- ly erous with her smiles, but he end e one tonight. A man should rate that much wel- come after being gone two years. Eve turned and closed the door behiad him and said, “You couldn’t have brought worse news.” | “What’s so bad about it?” he asked, wholly puzzled. before?” Rimbaud asked with mock concern. ‘She, nodded. “And ten years Limpy Smith looked in from the kitchen, his bald head shi in the lamplight. “That ain't ano’ customer, is it?” he asked com- “No,” Eve said, “Just a shiftless saddle tramp looking for a hand- “Then I'll go,” the old man said, trom] ss Eve s! ed and said, “T'll ex-| each. step. Plain it while you eat.” Then, as he took off his hat, she demanded, “Is that blood on your | Sa forehead? at her, his eyes frankly appraising, She was, he decided, even lovelier than she had been:two years ago. Her hair, richly russet and drawn k to a brait of her framed an oval face with high cheek bones. Her eyes, he saw now, were some warm shade between blte and gray, like campfire smoke. There was an ex- ression like a smile in them now. Rot a smile, exactly, for it didn’t alter the composed fullness of her lips; more like a lingering reflec- tion of something that had made her smile a long time ago. Some- thing in the way she peered at him, as. if a man’s face were a printed page to be read-and un- derstom!, prompted Rimbaud to bow, -showing more graciousness at this. moment than he had ex-) pressed in all the months he'd been away. bun at the nape tone. was so. “Do I know her?” Eve asked. Rimbaud nodded. “She’s just | about your size and shape,” he | confided, reaching for the clean towel Eve handec him. “I came | back to tell her the man chad re- | formed.” : “Sweet Stuff,” he said, using the nickname he'd given her in re- ae for being called “Fiddle- foot.” Eve smiled at that; a slow. re- luctant smile that curved her !'9s. But she said censuringly. * You look awful, Jim, Purely as 4.1.” “Worse than when I was nere “What man?” “Fiddlefoot.” “Reformed how?” Eve asked, lainly skeptical. re “Hes had his fill of fighting,” Rimbaud said solemnly. “And of drifting, also. It took a little time for hae to. he . Peay Sapir nothing in it, bu finally through hi noggin. And he Gunfighter’s Return by Leslie Ernenwein learned it real good. You'd be sur- past how he's changed. Sweet It’s downright astonishing. EYE was standing close to him, the ayn of her hair making @ perfume that roused a thrusti! hi in him. A hunger that had nothing to do with Prompted by an urge he couldn’t resist, Rim- baud reached out and took her in his arms and said gustily, “Sweet “No, Jim!” she exclaimed. “One kiss to welcome me back,” Rimbaud urged. Eve struggled to get free. She used her against him and me go!” Instead Rimbaud kissed her. As if there were some potent magic in the merging, she ceased struggling at once. For a moment she was inert, neither rejecting his lips nor npeponding: her mouth loosely pliant and moist and sweet-flavored. Then she kissed him with a passionate pressing eagerness that astonished Jim Rimbaud and hugely pleased him. It was like a wave, that kiss; a high-cresting wave warml: pee? over — and through 2, possessing completely. A wave that broke abruptly as she her mouth away exclaim- ing, “Don’t, Jim—please don’t!” And at this moment, as he re- luctantly released her, there was a knock at the front door. Rimbaud watched Eve go into ~ dining oom, pat int sheers tucking up a lock of tum- bled. hair. He marveled at the monstrous difference one kiss could make. Five minutes ago Eve Odegarde had been a girl he had known briefly and admired. Now ee cae Gan marry; only woman he hai ever wanted for a wife. By God, she had everything. Everything a man could want in a woman. (Te be continued) Mustard Gas May Be Put To Beneficial Ge : Associated Press Science Reporter WASHINGTON ‘#—Mustard gas —the poison of World War I—looks to some Army medical men like a promising prospect to eliminate a disease hazard involved in the use of blood plasma. An Army researcher said here that recent tests, aided by volun- teers among prisoners in several federal penitentiaries, point to: this possibility: That the poison war gas may be used to sterilize blood plasma of the virus responsible for a disease known .as. “serum hepatitis” —a liver ailment usually marked by jaundice. This. serum jaundice is both a military and a ciyiiiartt problem. A whole batch of blood plasma can be infected if any of it is made from the blood of an unsus- pected carrier of the virus. Not all plasma is so infected, of course,and thousands of persons have received plasma without get- ting serum jaundice. The disease usually develops only among those who receive repeated transfusions. A major difficulty is that there is no known way of telling whether a supply of plasma is infected. So scientists have been seeking a way to sterilize the blood deriva- tive, widely used to treat shock, against any Contamination by the virus. Col. John R. Wood, the Army’s chief medical research administra- tor, said in an interview the Army is interested even though there is a possibility a sugar substance called dextran may eventually re- place plasma fcr certain impor- tant uses. ° Dextran is known to be free of the jaundice hazard. Wood said, however, that the Army would still need plasma for some uses even if dextran should replace it for others. The mustard gas treatment, he | added, was one of two plasma sterilizing techniques which have shown equal promise in Army- supported research. The other in- volves use of a chemical called “beta-propiolactone” which is wide- ly used in the textile industry to treat fabric fibers. Further is needed to determine which is better, he said. But Wood declared that plasma treated by either method has been tried in only a few humans—and in relatively small quantities. He said the Army will soon pre- sent all its test evidence to the National Research Council, and ma would be given to volunteers in military and civilian hospitals. Wood said that in the tests con- ducted so far, each of the alter- native chemicals had been shown capable of killing serum jaundice | virus, without hurting the benefi- cial qualities of the plasma, and without constituting a hazard in themselves. In the mustard gas study, he said, the chemical was mixed with plasma which had been intention- ally infected with hepatitis virus. After preliminary animal tests, some of this plasma was given to prisoner volunteers in several pen- Seniority Is Important In Senate Work WASHINGTON Chairman Hugh Butler had a picture made the other day of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of which I am in my third year of hope for one of the beautiful out- side offices on the main floor and to an inside spot in the making of policy. One member remarked y is that by then he is s0 the other day, “The; itentiaries—this part of the work being under supervision of the U. S. Public Health Service. “The prisoner volunteers took a definite chance of getting the di- sease,” the colonel said. ‘We had only indirect evidence from the animal tests that the mustard gas was capable of killing the virus in plasma.” He said none of the volunteers contracted the disease. The Army estimates that between 5 and 7 per cent of al! the wounded given plasma during World War Il developed hepatitis—but it is not known how many casés were directly due to plasma itself, again at the bottom — and on the outside. ) Capital Hill Notes We solved the mystery of my ered Sunday from Lake Mills, end- ing a five-day search, Hendricks, Orlando soil conser- vationist for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, had been missing since his overturned boat was found Tuesday. The body was found neur the spot where he had been’ putting down brush to attract the spawn taken to of Lebanon Hospital early diter suffering severe