The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 23, 1953, Page 8

Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN FLASH GORDON IT'S GORDON! "AND Gi Oe #* >! HE SLIPPED » MURLIN THROUGH THE OU CAME TO KILLTHIS IN THE EERIE DINING QUARTERS OF THE *LIVING-DEAD’! MANDRAKE--HOW YOU GET THIS WAY =-HOW ALL THEM GET UKE THIS 7 THEY MUST BE VERY LOw-CLASs PEOPLE! TLL GME THEM. A. PIECE OF MY MIND! (THOSE NEW. NEIGHBORS NEXT DOOR MADE AN AWFUL LOT OF NOISE LAST NIGHT! I'M GOINS OVER COMPLAIN! WHA? TO MORE FI8S: Vay 0 4 Gy mace oe, OZARK IKE S 7 Jus’ 3 weEXs WN” GAME F.. Pris AMIE BE BACK ON Fei, O38 gar THATS EASY. HERES HALF OF A FIFTY] Monday, March’ 23, 1953 4g AND THE GUY — BUT QUICK DOLLAR BILLINHis POCKET, HE'S A CUT-RATE ASSASSIN. BOYS! GET OUT THE BLUE AEROCAS — THE HIGH- \CATCH THAT GOROON By BOSS! OH--YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND ME ~-OR TELL ME. YOU MUST EAT > WHY SO ANXIOUS ME . EAT? HUH-- FOOD SMELL ALL RIG! WHY NOT EAT?’ By John Cullen Murphy if ‘I’M HERE TO ASK YOU TO BE My Wi |ANO IF PERSUASION WON'T WORK «BY GOLLY, T/LL Use FORCE! (LU TARGIT “you, YE WUTHLESS, OU REPPERBATE!! &° SP BOY FRIEND TO YOUR COLLECTION“! } I HOPE YOURE f 4 ISFIEO. You've ADDED MY / 7 \ CRAWLING WITH By Paul Robinson | sound of the title—and remem- st Key Books (THE STARMEN by Leigh Brackett, science fiction novel, by. Gnome Press, New York City. 213 pages.) | Here is an original love tri- angle, two starmen and a starwo- man. Their-story is enacted: in an ob- servation planetarium sort of world, with a theme of idealist social responsibility tossed in a- bout midway in the book. The tale starts in Brittany on the coast of France, for it seems witchery and the supernatural cling to this section more than to other earth places inhabited by human beings. Old Breton festi- vals in midsummer, wind blow- ing over ancient» ruins in the marshland, otters’ huts, and things Gaelic, are the spring- board setting from which nevel- ist Brackett jumps into her yarn, of starmen and starflight.. One of the angles in the tri- angle is Trehearne. An earth born creature who is really the son of a starman, the author uses him as the device to tell the story. He has always lived on the earth, jand until the story begins all his} experiences have been of the/| |earth. So when he takes off on.a} |starship into .the galaxy, the author plans that, the reader will see all the new impressions through his eyes, Now no human being has gone star hopping along the Milky Way. This means that authors aiming to follow in the literary shoes of Jules Verne and H. G.| Wells cannot use any good re-| porting to make the novel be-! lievable. Instead they must do a powerful job of imagining in order to give the reader the feel- ing of being out among the stars, stopping at planets for a cup of | tea or to trade in lamp shades. Leigh Brackett succeeds only | in occasional passages, and these | are mostly in the last chapters. In | this reviewer's opinion there ar several possible reasons for this} failure in imagination. The plot skeleton is there but not enough | flesh in the form of intimate de- | tail has been gathered to it. The | characters too, are only sketch- | ed. They are dipped in stardust | but remain. types. | A comparison with the recent-} ly reread “Country of the Blind” of H. G. Wells immediately pre- sents itself. Here Mr. Wells has} tackled ‘a situation and charact- | ers he could not have in any way | personally experienced. Yet,} with the use of carefully imagin- ed sensuous detail, the reader is completely in that country of the blind for the course of the story, and all the figures which move in the story are vividly alive. One scene Miss Brackett should be very proud of concoct- ing. It is the three starmen’s ar- rival on the dismal planet where Orthis’ ship has been for a thou- sand years. Somehow she man- aged to put this over with a real mastery. GUEST REVIEW BY DICK MILNE i (THE CUMBERLAND RIFLES, historical novel, By Noel B. Gerson. 314 pp. New York: Doubleday.) Historical novels are a drug on the market these days and good); historical novels are few and far between. Top-notch stories are rare. Mr. Gerson's third adventure into the frontier days is a good job, but, to this reader, a cut be- low “Savage Gentleman.” In that flight into our 18th cen- tury past, Mr. Gerson dealt pri- marily with the Indians of the French wars against the British. It was a good job of story-telling. We missed the second, “The Mohawk Ladder,” whieh, by the} brance of the first book—probab- ly was regrettable. We haven’t/ missed this latest—and we're not} sorry. This time the culprit is Spain, not France, which is only a slight! change in geography. Hi There are the usual ingredients | two dashing young men, Har- old and Janus Elholm, who rep- {resent Spain in the New World j|—and lovely Rosalind Walker, a lechoslisachar from—you guessed it—Boston. (Somehow, we wish a novelist could write a school teacher into! | THE CISCO KID XG) Sa Chapter 27 ‘VEN. though Rimbaud had counted on this, knowing it was his only chance icr success, Jubal’s cowardly surrender an- set him. “You dog!” he scoffed. ‘ou yellow dog!” Booger Bill, with blood staining AP Newsfeatures: his shirt, had propped himself on! hands and knees. Now: he reared back and tugged his gun from the holster with both hands. Rim- baud and fired, di watched the big man tip over i the. slow mnderous way of a sledged bull going down. “Dead,” Hugh Jutal muttered, staring at his two sprawled com- panions. “They’re both dead” And over”by the wall Gabbert' blurted, “They should've knowed better than to draw agin him.” Perspiration greased Jubal’s fear-chalked cheeks and made a glistening necklace around his wattled throat. “I ain't drawin’,” , he announced sullenly. “It would be suicide.” Rimbaud laughed at him; harsh, hooting laughter that sounded loud against the saloon’s strict silence. “So you want it cold tur- key,” ‘he jeered. “No!” Jubal protested. “By Rimbaud God, you can't do th “Who'll stop me? asked, knowing this was the acid test of all his planning: the test that. would mean the difference between freedom or prison for Sam_ Maiben. Jubal glanced at the group of silently watchful men along the side wall as if pleading for help. His right hand made a habitual gesture toward the Di in his shirt poc! away, and he Tt would be suicid Sheriff Sol Robil!a thtough the ba‘, i “What's up? W baud commanded, not ; aze from Jubal's fear-olancicd ace. “But I'm the law here,” Robil larde protested. “You won't be. Sol, if you mix this,” Rimbaud told aim flatly. “You'll be dead as a ruptur juck.” nis Gunfighter’s Return by Leslie Ernenwein Then he said. ‘to-Jubal, “How about it, Hugh?” Dread was a plain and shame- ful thing in Jubal’s eyes..He had lowered his hands but now kept the right-one Well away from his holster, Xa can't io shoot me lown like a—a dog,’ insisted. “Oh, yes J can,” Rimbaud cer- rected. ‘Then he said savagely, “You're ay get it, Hugh—' unless you 43 “Talk how?” s Jubal blinked his eyes and said, “I don’t know’ what you mean. “You know, all right, and you've got just one minute to. get hear you.” Jubal shook his head. “I don’t! know what you mean,” he whined. “I always did hate a liar, Ju- bal. And you're the biggest liar ‘T_ever met.” Then he snarled, “Talk, Jubal—or take it in the gut!” Hugh held .out both. hands, palms forward, as if to shield his body. “You mean about that Ro- man Four brand that was worked | into a Boxed M?” he asked croak- ingly. | Rimbaud nodded, only the | brighter shine of his eyes show- jing the exultation that rifled} through him as Jubal muttered,| “Well, I done it. The boss threat- | ened to fire me if I didn’t git the goods on Maiben. Lew suspi- cioned Sam was stealin’ calves, but we couldn't never catch him at it.” “Did you tell Stromberg how) you framed Maiben?” Rimbaud) asked. | Jubal shook his head. “I just, done it to save my job,” | it told, out loud, so-everyone can} boss fashion of a m: Tking*in his pcre a man wa! ‘p. Doc Featherstone bustled in with his little black bag. He ex- amined the bodies, then peered curiously at Rimbaud. “You shoot real straight for a man with two broken ribs,” he said frowningly. Rimbaud grinned. “You tied ‘em up real nice and tight, Doc. TH stop by and pay you before T pull out.” “You leaving Quadrille Basin?” Featherstone asked. .- Rimbaud nodded, and was turn- ing toward the bat-wings when Lew Stromberg elbowed his way through the crowd. Roman Four’s flicked a glance at the sprawled shapes of his dead rid- ers, then looked at Rimbaud and exclaimed, “You work fast, Rim- baud! Awful fast!” _ Again, as he had one other time in this room, Rimbaud asked. “Any objections?” and glimosed Della Stromberg’s face in the doorway. throng. “Yes, by God!” Stromberg an- nounced in a rage-clottea voice. “Objections aplenty!” There was no indecision in him now. No sly caution spawned by his od for graze. Raw red ter eg lazed in Stromberg’s eyes a¢ sprang forward, leaned over. and reached for the gun in Red Shafter’s right rigid hand. Instinctively, without conscic’ theught or volition, Rimbaud mace his. dr: and heard Pat Finucan> 0, Lew—no!” Della Stromberg darted toward her fa Rimbaud reme owed another mercy debt that ne here and now, No ma cos’ Roe glanced at Sol Robil-, je and asked, “Is that) 1 coniession to turn Maiben| s or do you want it in writ- ai’s enough,” Robillarde said. He glonced at the two bodies and . saying, “Enough to knock: a5 political career in the head death grip of S watched the barre! saw Della gra h Then he looked at Jubal and =! said, “I guess you better come with me, Hugh.” Jubal sarugged. He turned and | followed Robillarde in the dazed! ; the rent office? R ENT 'to rent and ev’ction control with | ANSWER: Yes. definitely. | There are numerous cases on rec- ord where the Office of Rent FO RUM | Stabilization has taken action in (These questions were selected from those often asked of the local rent office. If you have a question about the rent stabiliza- tion program, address it to: Area Rent Office, 216 Federal Blidg., Key West, Fla.) QUESTION: How much ad- vance notice do I have to give my landlord before I can move? ANSWER: The Fedreal rent laws do not stipulate any spe- cific time required in notifying the landlord of intention to move. This matter would. be governed by local laws and by the terms of your rental agree- ment. QUESTION: Can the rent of- fice reduce the maximum rent on a dwelling unit when there is no request from either the land- lord or the tenant? ANSWER: Yes, it ts the duty of the Rent Director to reduce the maximum rent on his own initiative in the cases where the rent is found to be subsantially above rentals for comparable units in the same locality with- out application from either ten- ant or landlord. QUESTION: Can any action be taken against a landlord who re- fuses to register property subject the plot without making her a Bostonian. Even Mr. Gerson, ex- cellent as he is, seems unable to lelude this pitfall.) There is a plot afoot to overthrow the junior-grade frontier republics, Franklin and Kentucky. Elholm, as commander of Spanish troops, ir in the thick of things. Rosalind becomes involved with the heroes because she’s en route to Franklin to open a giris’ school. Janus saves the young lady from {the courts after all other me of securing proper rezistr from the landlord have beei: ex- hausted. Actually, a landlord gains nothing by failing to reg- lister because he is nevertheless , Subject to minimum rent ane eviction controls and, by failure to register, sacrifices certain rights he would otherwise have under the Federal law. The ancient church at Valenci- jana, Mexico, is said to have been built with mortar powdered silver and wine. Crossword ACROSS 1 Article of belief 6. Berate 11, Gratin; 12, Diminishes dually 14. Concerning 15, Food fish 17, Babylonian i 18, Paddie besser side- 4. Body joint 42. 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