The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 5, 1953, Page 10

Page 10 ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, March 5; 1953 , FLASH GORDON AGO! DO YOU THINK SOMETHING'S HAPPENED? ia z : THE PHANTOM —_ 3 f 3 ig i/ ~ WALCES Tt EF AND we AS HE CHA! C! eee, RIDER Til 7 RS AGA AND WHAT--A JOKE--HO-HO-—THE Saal NOWICH Oh---‘OU ATE THE SA\ FUNNIEST THAT 7 : YOU HYPNOTIZED ME! YOU HAVE DALAT WvAS POWERLESS ‘TE ONE OF MENTAL POWERS -- BUT NOW -~ ALIKE THE WHERE AM 1?-WHAT HAPPENED? -Oh-= “Chapter Twelve ‘1M RIMBAUD crouched motion- Jess for a moment of bewil- dered disbelief. What would a woman be doing here? He turned his head and saw her standing in a cleft of rock above the creek. Her smiling face, be- neath the upcuffed brim of a gray | hat, was not familiar to him, and now an expression of astonish- ment swiftly altered it. “Why, you're not Sam Maiben!” laimed, she exc! “No, ma’am,” he said, and waited impatiently for her to ’ Jeave. A girl like that deserved a good kick in the pants. He had his pants on and was using his shirt to dry his feet when she came down, leading a saddled horse. “You must be the Jim Rimbaud they’re talking about,” she said, smiling. “I missed seeing you in town last night.” Rimbaud ignored her. He pulled on ais boots, shook out his damp shirt, and shrugged into it with the casual ease of a man dressing in the privacy of his own home. But he was seething with resent- ment. He wondered who she was. “So_you’re the one who shot Ernie Link and gave Hugh Jubala beating,” she said with seeming satisfaction. Rimbaud nodded, now con- | vineed that she was a Spanish Strip homesteader’s daughter. He met her bold inspection with an appraisal equally deliberate, see- ing that she had brown eyes and black hair and pouty, full-lipped mouth. There was a dust smudge on her nose, and tiny beads of per- spiration on her temples.: Young, he thought; not more than nine- teen or twenty. She wore denim riding pants and a man’s cotton shirt that seemed a trifle too large. “Who are you?” he asked. “Della Stromberg.” “Not Lew Stromberg’s daugh- ter?” Rimbaud-demanded in dis- belief, and when she nodded, he still couldn’t believe it. Rye ong ed, aren’t you?” she said. Then her lips curved into a faintly cynical smile and she ex- plained, “Roman Four comes first with my father, but not with me. ri s 5 = if 8 decision i e 3 By STANFORD BRADSHAW east area. The federal government, at the help for the stricken areas. “The greatest of modern times.” | the countryside, without rain now since 1950. The state of Sao Paulo alone estimates that it has received 455,000 refugees in the last two years, The presence hungry “floatine given rise to vx meless, } on h ice in some Vv. of a hoi lages. WELL - WELL = I SEE MAGGIE'S LOCKS ESCAPE FR JAI # ifr a &, = SF a gae a 2 : . 4 3 be said leave Asia, he said that for whatever happens this week when a foremost authority on K rea, Gen. James A. Van Fleet, re- | turns here to give any ideas he may have on how to win the war. Van Fleet, soon to be 61 and coming home to retire after com € RIO DE JANEIRO «A pro-|Jose do Egipto, in Pernambuco, | longed drought—now in ‘its third |food stores have been raided by year—is spreading hunger, riots |hunger-stricken mobs. A crowd of :}and death in Brazil’s hilly north-|50 persons reportedly invaded Pa- tos do Espinhara, in Paraiba, with ithe slogan “food or sack.” insistence of the states of Ceara, |., tee Pernambuco, Paraiba and Rio #5ked help from ‘the state govern- Grande de Norte, now is mobilizing | ment Saying the city was men- j ace The authorities have termed the | 2°." 6 drought, in a normally dry area, Sroughout the region. They report a mass exodus from | Tribuna da Imprensa, which sent a special team to the region, said {seven children in Imaculada had died of hunger. Starving children begged food and water at the road- side, s Drought 4s | trimmed bark from trees, or made | medig: to area | il-|a stew from nettles, in an effort | pay ~ =, |to feed their children. | Statements provide a backcround' Army offensive “certainly” the bombing the Chinese Manchurian bases—Eisenhower elready has ex- pressed concern about an enlarge- Gunfighter's Return} by Leslie Ernenwein There’s more to living than grass’ and water and the size of a calf crop. I ride where I please and make friends where I please.” “Is Sam Maiben a friend of yours?” Rimbaud asked. “A very good friend,” she said smilingly. Jim Rimbaud stared at her. “What kind of a brat are you?” Rimbaud asked with the blunt honesty of a man wholly puzzled. “Don’t you call me a-brat!” she objected. Rimbaud watched anger stain her. cheeks. It was an odd thing. She had seemed so completely self-contained a moment ago, but now she was all fire and passion. Even her lips seemed redder and fuller. She reminded him of the hot-eyed dancer who had be- trayed Durango. There was the same sulky look to her now, as if she would bite in the clinches. Rimbaud grinned at her and said, “A brat if ever I saw one.” “Why you-—you dirty trail tramp!” she raged. And then she slapped him. Rimbaud reached out and grasped her by both arms. Her hat fell back to hang by its throat thong and her hair came down in disorder. There was nothing self-contained about her now. Squirming and twisting, eyes flashing, she was the living image of Durango’s Sonora woman doing her dance in a candlelit cantina. “Pretty,” Rimbaud said. “Pret- ty enough to kiss.” “Take your hands off me!” Della insisted, her voice shrill with out- rage. Rimbaud pulled her in, and missing her mouth, drew his lips across her cheek. “Don’t you dare!” she panted. Rimbaud laughed, and used his} #! shoulder to force her face around. : him that the headquarters crew _ | strung out between his canoe gS es —_ 's. They figure: ; make for i. Brought him some sandweichen?. “So,” Rimbaud mused, porns the C As they rode on up asked, “Is the cave + “We'll pass it just. we out at the top,” = Nearing the the When she bit his ear he loosed a| Maiben gusty chuckle, saying, “Just like|* Sonora.” ‘Then he found her lips. It wasn’t much of a kiss, for she continued to struggle. Rimbaud released her and stepped back. Her face was flushed and she was still breathing hard. “Do you | “ make it a habit to kiss brats?” she | left. asked scornfully. “Only when they slap me,” Rim- baud said. He took out his Durham sack and absently shaped a ciga- In Itapipoea, in Ceara, and Sao ,The Bishop of Sobral, in Ceara, by 300 armed men. “Hun- * the bishop said, “is intense | The Rio De Janeiro newspaper Other reports said that the farm- | rs, as in other drought years, had j could | eed, Van Fleet seemed to be ssing a personal viewpoint. an offensive means widening war—ior instance, Xi if perhaps | | manding the /merican Eighth ment. . Army in Korea 22 months, is a After he got into the White House | longtime friend +f Eisenhower. F enhower had more reason to They were West Point mates encerned about doing anything Van Fleet made he eral weeks ago when about to certainly” the Eighth Army could make 4 successful offensive against the Communists in Korea Form The military deadlock in Korea he said, was “of our choosing and i ae ge .f ive i Hi, DEB Your BG. CHUNK OF CHARM 1S tt 4 gs ' HIM UP ON THAT Dare LAST NIGHT.’ LL FIND Fait a} gtessional ears picked up with a solut: his commander-in-chief comrade-in-arms, Eisenhower. The ic A not imposed by ihe enemy.’ Con An ? Congresional ¢ mittees got ready to question mn when he returned Van Fleet was not criticizing, | at least it didn’t seem he was and old Korean stalemate began under Tru man, not Eisenhower. Van Fieet was critical of the Tru- man regime dw the presiden tial campaign. letter, which made for allow munists in the spring af 1951, Pres- | tween his return and thi ) might bring on World War le got a fast and worried re 1 from America’s allies when nced go he would stralize the American fleet at clear evidence s milttary planners s were jittery about hich might bring Rus vwn on theit necks in retal When Gen per Douglas MacArthur istent public demands ar on the Chinese Com- at Scuman sacked him. Mac oF ed and gave his views to Con Bat there was a difference be- FAPFLIF Al Al cee wt es tic .| Food Service to- send pay under terms of the 3-Yr. Drought Brings Trouble To Brazil Area. tle could penetrate mn in vi ; search of what litde’ could be found, there, Water, bales, gre cal through. January, as in other years, Their situation even more desperate in Fi . Pres- ident Getulio Vargas sent agritul- ture Minister Joao Cleophas on a tour of inspection. A. er con ference is scheduled'on Private help campaigns. ized in Southern Brazil. have noes beak 56 eee area. pending a re- port from Minister ordered the director of Service to proce work on water dent also 4 Northeast Brazil. : Actress Settles Suit Of Agents alleging she per cent of héer their agreement. she fled 6 ersuit to cancel leging that the agents had at ed to induce her to take Ae the film “Ivy” 3 that members of the a financial ‘nterest ie The role later was taken: sister. Joan Fontaise. A board of arbitrators fasor of the ageney. the settlement day was less than Miss land would have been xf * Facy television snack: Ref ples and fresh pears with @ of different kinds of smorted cheese. For that sweet ending—e plate of fudge,