The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 18, 1953, Page 8

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, March 18, 1953 2.. THOSE EXPLOSIONS! WHAT HAPPENED? BRING HIM TO ez ME, DEVIL er S54 By Lee Falk and Phil Davis HE WILL NOT STOP, KING LOTHAR, UNTIL YOU KILL HIM --UNLESS 1 OADER HIM T0.STOP ~~ ANDI MANORAKE--S JT ORDER HIM TO += CANNOT FIGHT YO! aries STOP UNLESS YOU MAYBE THAT'S WHERE THE TROUBLE iIS— ASSERT YOURSELF, CARSON... MARGOT LIKES A MAN TO BE THE BOSS)..MAYBE | MARGOT NUMBER... WHAT SHE N&EDS IS THE CAVEMAN ROUTINE, GRAB HER, KISS HER LIKE SHE AIN'T BEEN KISSED BEFORE. MAKE HER KNOW YOU NOTHIN’ works BETTER, PAL| BARNEY GOOGLE AND SWUFFY SMITE OH, ZAT IS SIMPLE! eee BUNGERSOME 2 SEAST OF BURDEN, BUNGERSOME MONSIEUR TO TH RAILROAD cg asa a ON, PLASTER 2 AZEE HEY, MAW !! HURRY RIGHT BACK HOME-- YE GOT WOOD TO CHOP AN’ SUPPER TO FIX! DONT FERGIT — E AIMIN’ TO GIT BRINGING UP FATHER SO THAT'S THE NEW LAMP MAGGIE BOUSHT YEGTERDAY!-- IT'S A MONSTROSITY! TLL MAKE HER TAKE IT BACK AND EXCHANGE [T!- AND IF SHE REFUSES <I OH-IT'S RAINING! -- My. UMBRELLA THE SHE'S UPSTAIRS N HERY yes I KNOW.’ Hi, MR. Davis’ ROOM, AND MAD aS A ua was Wind ts Dassy HOME ~2?)\ Wat HORNET,’—"Saapy* A" yy WAS SUPPOSED ~- ys TO MEET NER - By Fred Lasswell woth sighs cme By Paul Robinson The World Today By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON — Charles E. Bohlen, one of this country’s top diplomatic experts on Russia, ran into a political meat-grinder. And Secretary of State Dulles, at the rate he’s going, will get caught in it if he doesn’t watch out. President Eisenhower and Dulles both thought the 48-year-old Boh- len, who has spent 24 years with the State Department, was the best man they could find to be U. S. ambassador to Russia. They asked ; the Senate to approve him. i For a few days there was some | oe trolled Senate would approve Boh- len, although now the clouds seem to have rolled away. He'll probably be confirmed by a comfortable vote. But the fact that the opposition got up steam at al: was a stiff- arm jolt for Dulles who asked the Senate to hurry up on Bohlen be-! cause of Stalin’s death and new doings in Moscow. It wasn’t the first jolt for Dul- les. Only recently he and Eisen- hower wanted the Se: prove a resolution, which they had prepared, to condemn Russia for breaking agreements with the U.S.; particularly those made at Yalta, But Senate Republicans, who for years had.been denouncing deals made with Stalin by President Roosevelt ‘and President Truman, decided to add a paragraph of their own. The result was hash. At one point the finished prod- uct condemned-as Eisenhower and Dulles wanted-Russia for. break- ing agreements. But then it promptly said the Senate wouldn’t admit the agreements were agree- ments at all—which is. what the Republican senators wanted, i Recognizing this. as a botch, the Republicans put it on the shelf. The result: no resolution passed, | although dulles had pleaded for it as part of the Fisenhower psy- chological war un Russia. Dulles had suffered a couple of other rebuffs from Sen. McCarthy, Wisconsin Republica: . McCarthy, investigating the State Department's “Voice of America,” made Dulles’ men back water sev-| eral times. They did what Mc- Carthy wanted, Dulles can’t stand much more of this without losing both prestige and effectiveness and, for all prac- tical purposes as one of the heads of a most important department, the leadership in foreign affairs he’s supposed to provide. Bohlen started with the depart- ment in 1929 under : Republican President Hoover, stayed with it through the Roosevelt-Truman re- gime, and is still there under. Ei- senhower. He’s a career diplomat. He be- gan to make himself a specialist | on Russia. many years ago and mastered the language. He served several times in the American Em- bassy in Moscow and took part in’ a number of internationtl confer- lt ences. WASHINGTON \# — Malenkov may think this is a good time to make peace in Korea, or at least to talk about it. That might have been his pur- Pose at his rubber-stamp election in Moscow recently in saying: “There is ... no question which cannot be settled by peaceful means.” He could not lose much by ges-| tures about a Korean settlement, whether or not he was in earnest. Even if he was against peace but talked peace he could, if the war continued, use it for propa- ganda, blaming the West. ramatic moves that fo- cused attention on him would be so much gravy for the compara-! tively unknown Malenkov who is suddenly trying to fill Stalin’s big shoes as Soviet premier. Malenkov will aeed years to cap- | | assured by Secretary of the Treas- Gunfighter’s Return by Leslie Ernenwein | Be ODEGARDE was in the . kitchen, helping Limpy Smith with the breakfast dishes, when Mrs, Al Shumway came in and asked, “Can I see alone for a moment, Eve? It’s very impor- tant.” Mildly surprised, and wonder- ing what prompted a social call this early in the day, Eve led her visitor out to the back stoop and closed the door. “Well, I don’t suppose you'll like what I’m going to say, but I con- sider it’s my Christian duty and I’m going to do it.” Eve smiled. “Does it concern Sam Maiben?” she asked intui- | tively. Faith Shumway nodded, com- pressing her lips. “And you think I should hear it?” Eve prompted. Mrs. Shumway nodded again. “You're the only one that should know about it. The only one.” “Well, if it concerns Sam, I sup- pose it’s all right for me to know,” Eve said. “It concerns him—and our Ruthy!” the woman announced with hissing insistence. “It’s the most scandalous thing you ever heard tell of!” Eve frowned and said, “You mean that Sam has—that he’s involved somehow with your Ruthy?” “Not just somehow.” Faith Shumway hissed, “but like a man with a woman. Honey-fussin’— that’s what he’s up to, with our Ruthy that’s scarcely more than a child. Al caught Ruthy with a man behind the corral last night about nine o'clock.” your Ruthy was with last it,” she said with quiet cabaiecs, “Tm certain of that.” “How so?” Mrs. Shumway de- inna “How could you be cer- jail at nine o'clock.” . “In jail!” Faith Shumway echoed. Eve nodded, smiling a little at the woman's astonishment. “Per- haps it was one of the Isabelle boys who called on Ruth,” she sug- gested. “Oh, Lord—what've I done!” Mrs. Shumway wailed. “Ishouldn’t have told you!” ,_ She grasped Eve’s arm, plead- ing, “Promise you won't mention Pate) a soul. Not a single, solitary soul!” “Of course I shan't,” Eve agreed, “and you'd do well to forget that talk about Sam riding around with Della Stromberg.” Awe at this moment Charley Bonn rode up the valley on a swéat-lathered horse. “Jim Rim- baud needs a doctor,” he an- nounced in a croaking voice. “I been trying to get here all night, but them Roman Faur toughs kept cutting me off. By grab, it was awful!” “What happened to Jim?” Eve asked, hastily stripping off her oe Well three of t} ganged him ell; in Maiben’s cabin,” Charley said, slumping in his saddle, “Booger Bill, Jubal, and Shafter. They Tinger from an inside et of his i his left hand f sf Be bron i ny ree hidden wide sling su) Link went down teens crossed Main Street in time to intercept Charley Bonn. “What you doin’ in town 90 early?” Link inquired. Charley and said eva- sively, iey Shrugged an in for sup- ies. “On horseback?” Ernie scoffed. Bonn peered at him through bloodshot eyes. He said, “I don't reckon it’s none of your business why I came in.” Surprised at such brashness from so meek a man, Link asked, “What you been drinkin’, Charley? Lert snes, be Aeemlk te: talteteee at. “I been dodging my'shadow long pang Bonn said a? think- ing this out as he went PMA man can’t side-step trouble all the time, He's got to take his share. It ain’t no worse to be beat down, or even Pp ae oy wk all the time. A man gets ti jot Bg Me slugged him considerable, all three} Which is of them. They had him down and Booger Bill was booting him to “But it couldn't have been’ death when I shot out the lamp. Sam,” Eve said quietly. “Al knowed Sam had trifling| ways because he’s seen 3 with} Della Stromberg on two or three occasions since Sam got ¢ zed to you,” Mrs. Shumway an- nounced. Eve remained silent moment, revealing none of the; shocked resentment that flared in her. Finally she said, “I wonder who Ruthy is protecting.” “What you mean—protecting?” Eve shrugged. “It wasn’t Sam for aj Rimbaud may be dead by now.” “Oh, no!” Eve cried, and ran up the alley. When she pax the livery stable she called, “Harness Doc’s horse, Joe, and please hurry!” Ernie Link was sitting on the Alhambra Hotel veranda when he saw Eve Odegarde run toward Doc Featherstone’s house, He was won- dering about that as he watched Charley Bonn dismount in the livery-stable doorway. i must be up, S t i asked, a Doc going in such a Bonn didn’t answer for a mo- ment. Finally he said, “Might be = =wenson havin’ another hereupon he headed toward the jail to have a talk with Sam Maiben. (Te be continued) EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION — by JACK BELL EXPECTED TO ABANDON RFC wic ama ow omret Lauren Bacall Says Hollywood with the hope that its assets will provide a billion dollars toward cutting the national deficit. Administration officials appa ently ‘are weighing these alterna- ives: (1) acting by presidential reorganization order, or (2). getting | behind a bill by Sen. Byrd (D-Va) | to kill off the agency and transfer some of its functions to other departments. Either move would be in line with President Eisenhower’s an- nounced intention to take the gov- ernment out of competition with private business as far as possible. Byrd would not comment directly, but he was reported to have’ been ury Humphrey and other adminis- tration officials that action on the RFC will be forthcoming soon. Byrd told an interviewer he hopes the administration looks be- yond the RFC toward abolition of some other agencies to which past Congresses have given borrowing and leading authority aggregating about 20 billion dollars.. Should Change ently would involve the sale of large share of the $1,168,000,000in. assets estimated to be in its pos- session in the fiscal year beginning next July 1. Under the government's book- j keeping system, any funds re- alized would go to the Treasury as revenues and would help toward balancing the budget. Former kind of President Truman estimated the deficit in the next fiscal year at nearly 10 billion dollars. Included in RFC assets is a net ments, after estimated losses, | $47,744,000 in other assets. war-supporting program, the “That is a very fertile field/of the RFC some agency which in which to get considerable funds ture the place Stalin held in the to apply to the deficit,” he ob-| small businesses, minds of the Russian people and the Communist leadership in the | Red satellites countries. The Russian Communist party for 29 years had built up Stalin as a kind of super genius and guardian of the flock. Yet, in spite of such obvious’ Stalin successes as turning back Hitler’s invading armies, keeping | control of Russia and grabbing the | satellites, he had some failures: Germany and Western Paces, | in the first couple of chaotic years after the war, may have seemed within his grasp, but Communist influence in them at the time of his death was on the ebb. j Further, by starting the Korean War he drove the U. S. and West-| ern Europe into alliance and re-| armament. And the Chinese and| North Korean Communists, who | did the dying in Korea for Stalin, | may have had some misgivings / about that, | If Malenkov could bring peace, in Korea he might feel i would make him look cleverer than Sta- | lin, at least among some of those linas and Rod Reev | who wanted peace in Korea } At the same time a Koreap set- | dement might soften up the West. [slow down its rearmamest and keep Western Germany from go- ing into complete alliance with the Western Allies. In addition Malenkov would have time to consolids:e bis control of ; Russa apd the sateies. Aud time }t do both is something he prob- jably needs | It is questionable, too, that with | peace in Korea there would be as! | much enthusiasm for egging on. and helping. a Chinese Nationalist nvasion ef Chiesa from Fermesa smmce that might embred the U.S, all over aga ws Far East. ‘ served. Liquidation of the RFC appar- i per os Jd88 ite Jae rer) err | SnG8) Ane BES J088 4 | Small Defense Plants Administra- tion is now making. PIR|O WUI5! Ril INS |e MEL LOMO) RIT DIE] EREMO! ViORC Ee) [TIEISIT MC iO/ViE RMON AIR IT MEL (0 WE ike) i (SPELIE IVER) RIE |CIO/VIE IR] ABE TEES /TiOP am OE REBT AL INITIE|D) 6 MEE LA TIE BRE |ViAl 4 wa os PIE IT] ANGIE East) the iS wa Fay i ee BRE BER SF5e=2 # 3 a 08 | i SAnARARe BORE BRE Its Name By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (® — If Lauren Bacall had her way, this would be a different dateline. Hollywood should change its name. “Hollywood already has two strikes against it because of its name,” remarked the willowy blonde, “By years of the wrong publicity, the name has gotten a bad connotation with the general public. has become a term of derision, a syn- onym for cheapness and immoral- drinking ard carousing. dash home. pat our ehil- the head, change clothes and hurry out to a wild evening of drinking, dancing and debauch. “Unfortunately, too many peo- ple have identified that kind of life with Hollywood. It is too much of a the A fat ha LF) be tle is matte i at 3 i