The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 14, 1953, Page 10

Page 10 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, March 14, 1953 FLASH GORDON HIYA, BOYS/ WHAT APICNIC! THOSE JOKERS DIDN'T HAVE ) (yOu MEAN THEY WON'T BE BOTHERING US ANY MORES see THINK THIS MAYOR'S CRIME COMMITTEE HAS ANYTHING ON US, GEORGIE? IF be ) YOU WILLTHE DOCTORS HERE COULD jWILLTAKE CARE OF YOU~ SOME.) ONLY \ ONE WHO KNOWS REMEM-} YOU WILLSEE BER! { TT IS SAID--HE IS KING LOTHAR-~ FRIEND OF THIS \. MANDRAKE- YOUR FRIEND? AND HAS HE COMETO RESCUE YOU FROM THE JUNGLE WITCH 2 HE WILL SOON BE LIKE YOU-~ ee ANEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH i aT 7 tL, VARMINT I EVER LAID-EYES ON-- AND TELL ME WHAT YOU TRINK BRINGING UP FATHER | | 7O MAKE A PLAY JO cur | OF 8BY OUT WT "SOaby*. | 4S SWE PROM/SED | N@.DAWS SHED 20 — YOU WILL HAVE THE HONOR OF CAPTURING HIM GO--ANO GET HIM! / by “ a. @ | AP Newsicaturee Chapter 20 ‘HE cloudless, star-studded sky held a subdued glow but the earth was wrapped in a quilted shroud of darkness as Charley Bonn approached Boxed M_bal- ancing a fresh-baked apple pie on the pommel of his saddle. Even though Maria disliked having him j Tide at night, she was purely proud of her baking and wanted Jim Rimbaud to sample it, “The poor man probably didn’t have a decent QUALIFIES—Lance Kerr, a determined and literary young man at 4%, browses in the Los Angeles public library after applying .for—and __getting—a regular library card entitling him to all borrowing privileges. Skeptical ‘librarians tested him on the two qualifications for a card: he read from a book se- lected at random, then printed his name‘in legible fashion. After a bit. of. picking and choosing, ‘Lance departed with six books—(#) Wirephoto, Business Boom Shown In High Employment lion Americans have civilian jobs— the most ever for this time of year. That is a good measure of the height of-the business boom. Businessmen’ are scanning some other government figures just out to see what they reveal about the boom, and about-its chances of hanging on. Inventories of the nation’s manu- facturers, wholesalers and retailers are a half billion dollars higher than a year ago. ~ Bank loans to business and agri- are-1¥ billion dollars high- were a year there—a measurer of and of the stabilizing M yelue of the dollar in the term of “the goods it will buy. * in non-farm employ- February runs counter 1 trend: at this time of , ‘the Commerce Depart- notes—calling it significant. jut the department has no expla- nation. for ‘the rise beyond saying that part of it may have come from mid-year school graduates finding jobs. Businessmen are keeping an even closer eye on the inventory situation.’ Durig the first eight months: of last year inventories By George McManus | dropped fairly steadily. But they started to:climb in August and gained more than two billion dol- lars by the eod ‘of the year, to stand at-a record high of nearly 75 billion’ dollars. The Commerce Department re- ports that this January the value of stocks. held. py durable goods producers, wholesalers and retail- ers rose by another 300 million dollars. Retailers inventories of all types were 100 million dollars high- er at the endemf January than at the end of December. Most industries say that their inventory ‘situation is quite healthy. They point out that the ratio of sales to stock on hand is better By Paul Robinsea |now than 2 year ago. Example Manufacturers’ stocks were less than two months of sales in De- cember. A year before they had more than two months supply on hand As long as sales volume goes along at the present high rate everything will be fine. Some more ‘ cautious observers, however. note that in the past such a situation of | re of pie all the time he was in lexico,” she’d said. “And I feel that we're beholden to him for standing up to Lew Stromberg like he did.” There was a light in Maiben’s cabin, and now, as Bonn was on ‘| the verge of announcing himself, he observed the vague shapes of horses standing in the yard. Two or three of them. Charley pulled up at once. Those horses meant that Rimbaud had visitors; unwelcome visitors, most likely. Then, as he tallied three horses near the house and heard another moving over by the corral fence, the full significance of it burst on Charley Bonn: The riders of those horses were doubt- less Roman Four men, and they were in the cabin—which must mean that Jim Rimbaud was either dead or disarmed! That startling realization struck Bonn with the impact of a physical blow. If Roman Four could so swiftly eliminate Jim Rimbaud from the fight, what chances would lesser men have against Stromberg’s bunch? He hadn't thought they’d even tackle Rim- baud. Not with his reputation. The man was supposed to be unbeat- able with a gun, and wary as a wolf. How could they have out- maneuvered him so soon? Easing his horse back into tim- ber, Bonn halted and peered: at the lamplit cabin, What, he won- dered, had happened to Rimbaud? Dismounting, Charley placed apple pie at the base of one tree and tied his horse to another. Then he drew his Winchester from Gunfichter’s Return by Leslie Ernenwein into firing position, and alked slowly out of the trees. jonn had circled the cabin and | Was easing in toward an open | kitchen window when he heard | someone shout gleefully, “Pour it on him, Bill—Pour it on!” Charley eased cautiously up to the peeled wall, hearing the meaty impact of fists against flesh, the scuff of feet, and gusty panting. What, he wondered, was going on? With a conflicting welter of appre- hension and curiosity prodding him, Bonn cat-footed to the open | window, peered along its edge, and was astonished by what he saw. be T was an odd sight. A grotesque curiously impelling sight. Jim Rimbaud, with his left hand tied down by a pigging string, and blood oozing from a gash on his | forehead, slugged toe to toe with Booger Bill, who kept a bandaged hand off to one side as he swun; his right fist. Hugh Jubal st near the kitchen doorway with a broad grin rutting his -sorrel cheeks, while Red Shafter shouted, “Git him agin the wall, Booger. Crotch him!” And now, as Rimbaud dodged away from Booger Bill’s massive body, Shafter struck Rimbaud from behind. Repelled by the brutal unfair- ness of it, yet fascinated by Jim Rimbaud’s savage will to fight, Bonn watched in wide-eyed won- derment. There, by grab, was a fighting man—a real fighting man! It made Bonn proud to watch him, Proud and sad at the same time. Rimbaud was dazed and reeling on his feet, but he showed no sign of quitting. His blood- smeared fist swung like a piston, pounding at Booger Bill’s midriff, at his broad-jawed face and the bandaged hand. His lance-lean body was limber as a buggy whip; it arched forward each time he swung, then arched back to either side as he dodged Booger Bill’s re- taliating fist, But Jim was taking a terrible punishment despite his shifty weaving. The big rider caught him now with a solid smash to the face, that pulpy thud echoed the saddle scabbard, levered ai by Jubal’s hooting laughter, Market Wide (Open With No Price Ceilings By WARREN ROGERS JR. WASHINGTON (# — The consu- mer’s market was wide open today —not a price ceiling in sight,— and there was talk of coffee and perhaps beer cosfing more President Eisenhower's step-by- step return-to a free consumer economy came to a halt Thursday after a six-week control-thawing drive. The latest order lifted price jceilings from goods selling at the rate of 40 billion dollars a year. Next date on the decontrol calen- jdar is Aprfl 30 when, unless ex- tended by Congress, the law which authorized wage-price controls and | created the Offic i ii zation expires after 27 me j the books. Eisenhower has said he does not want controls co: ued except for defense material ni critical area rents. He has said he will not ask | Congress for standb x impose controls —power which s | Congress -say he sho } Still under controls vital to the defense effort include steel miil products iron, ferro-alloys, nickel. ber imanganese, tungs te denum, tantalum steel drums, metal tools, co sulphur, sulphur Decon' sides coffee and ins beer and ale—were s: hot water heate most chemicals materials and » dustrial machinery Coffee seemed to be the of commercis Christmas has sometimes changed very rap- of idly. If sales volume show'd ¢re i tories have a tendency to build up quickly. The drop of i'« billion dollars in ‘the moneys supply in January was mostly seasonal. It represents the {price problem for housewives, Price - officials and coffee traders jagreed coffee prices, now ranging |from 89 to 95 cents a pound for mgst brands, might go up 10 to 12° cents. Grocers might absorb jsome of it. “If it goes over a dollar,” one big New York coffee merchant said, “we'll rum mio severe con- jsumer resistance.” | The price officials said some beers and ales may go up one-half jta one cent a can or bottle. They said fuel oil, now reported in ample stock, might go up if a cold isnap develops and depletes sup- plies, No price rises were seen for feedg and buiiding materials. | The Ainu of Northern Japan are believed to be descendants of the primitive Neolithic inhabi- tants of the country, “Bull's-eye!” the Roman } | Tami shout appily. “Shug - him again in the same place!” rocking back on his heels. Twin trickles of blood ran from flared nostrils, He shook his head. He staggered sideways as if dazed, and Bonn thought: He's going down! He dreaded what he would see when that happened. But Rimbaud wheeled and targeted Bill’s with a jab that a spawned shriek from e massive rider ‘to go beserk then. He barged at Rim- baud with the wild blindness of an bar ye bull. “Tl stomp your guts into the floor!” he shouted, tobacco juice dribbling nastily from the corners of his hate-twisted zg M4 i i E i a af PEPE, made a new the only photograph Wright brothers’ first flight near Kitty Hawk, Dec. 17, 1903. > The new print “shows tails not visible in any ‘known previous printing,” few which Wrights knew said in a statement. Prints made from the negative .aspelhy Crossword’Puzzle ACROSS 1. Flat-bottomed 29. Man's garment 30. Watch pocket . Grasp firmly Previously . Valley 35. Sun god Heip . Headdress Small pie Contain For 3. Fine tabrie Working im 99 solemn «tile of respect 51. Possesses