The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 5, 1953, Page 8

An LEER EF TS Lieto HYPNOTIC. |] THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, June 5, 1953 sy AS THE ‘STARLINER! READIC FOR HER TEST FLIGHT. .GAWSH! I WISH WE WERE GOING ALL THE WAY OUT TO THE STARS. To E STRANGE, NEW WORLI FASTER'N LIGHT CAN TRAVEL.. AUXIL FOCUS DOWN Kile mar = iN = & MAY USE IT? MIND IE 102 W THE BIGGESTEUN </ YOU HAVE ABOARD?) ~ THIS MACHINE CREATURE--ITIS ALIVE--AND THAT VVATER ANIMAL 1S FROM--I DON?T KNOW THE NAME OF THE WORLD IN YOUR PN SPEECH, CREATURES FROM OTHER WORLDS! FIFTEEN MILES T A GALLON THis 1S EASY! SUPPOSE Tr WAS My CAR~ AND IT GiVES | OF GAG? T PUT IN TEN: HOWS. ABOUT USING “SHOULD _ WOMEN, WORK AFTER THEY'RE MARRIED "Foe A THEME 27T cous OK AY,/~ ASK Youe MOMHER By JINGOES, HELL X NEVER KETCH ME! Worritess WILLIE... HE HAPPY, IMPRACTICAL DREAMER... NEVER ACCEPTING REALITY... LIVING IN HIS OWN WORLD OF FANTASY. \/ 1 ouBT IF Youll COME ACROSS ANY ELEPHANTS AT SEA~ BUT YOURE WELCOME To IT. THIS CREATURE, A DULLANIMAL, LIVES INSIDE ROC! 0, YOUR FOURTH PLAN! ‘K-- FROM, CS ~-FOR AN-eL-A CREATURE FROM PLANE; DON'T WORRY, KiD...NEITHER OF 'EM/S GONNA GET KILLED... JUST BRUISED A LITTLE y, D SHE, GIVE YOu LANDS, YES 8 WE GOT TO Nie THAT FURRIN PROPPYGANDER LIVE DECIDED To Weire ABOUT SOMETHING {Communist China NOGUOD HSV13 NVIOIDVW FHL IAVAANVW 1108 Naa DI8 J z < ; is WOLNVHd AHL Offers Fat Trade Deals To Britain By FRED HAMPSON HONG KONG (# — Communist China is offering Britain fat trade deals of up to 2% billion dollars, The offers have been extengled by propaganda publications ‘but | they are accented enough to make | it look as though Peiping really means them. \ It could be another maneuver} aimed at widening the breach be- tween Britain and the United issue. Or it could be evidence that | China. Certainly it is a change in tune | One year ago all nonCommunist | foreign trade was scored as im-| |perialist poison which China no longer needed. | Four months ago Red propagand- jists asserted the Western embargo was a failure because it-had taught China how to get along without | imperialist commerce. | Now the Reds are talking about the benefit of British-China trade and its long history and rich po- tential. For example the pro-Communist weekly Economic Bulletin, pub- lished in Hong Kong, dangled this | bait: “China is in a position to develop trade with the capitalist countries to the extent of 1% billion to 2%4 billion dollars per year.” A commentator in the Peiping People’s Daily was quoted by Pei ping radio as saying: “The U. S, will not open its domestic market on favorable terms. A growing number of busi- ness and political spokesmen British and other countries ha come to realize that the only way out for them is to adopt an in- dependent trade policy, oppose the | American blockade and promote equal and mutually beneficial} trade relations between East and | West.” The Economic Bulletin noted the | British commerce with China had! increased slightly in recent months | but said it was only a dribble com- pared to what it could be. | It said China’s five-year-plan of | industrialization had “created countries.” States on the touchy China trade | loc the Allied embargo is pinching Red | tt |for Communist propagandists. Le | put you away nicely. No noise. THE STRAW DONKEY AP Newsfeatures Chapter 32 BRINDLE swung around. Durst stood smiling in the doorway. The gun in his hand looked much’ larger than Frances’, the black hole more deadly, and the bronzed! finger at the trigger frigidly con- fident. His thin lips were blood- less. “I thought we got rid of you,” he snapped. R “You came too close for com- Brindle answered. But it like you'll have better luck ime.” T expect to.” He moved into room and closed the door be- him. “Pack your things, e’re getting out. Our friend has tipped off the cops. I surprised a couple of them at the front door.” not going to shoot you,” ed Max. “I don’t want our guests.” very considerate. Of , they might not think so/ the police clean this place Durst opened the drawer of! the night table beside the bed and withdrew a small bottle. “An overdost of phenobarbital will No mess. No tell-tale slugs.” Frances broke out of tae closet. the nightgown replaced by a tight-fitting brown suit, a miscel- lany of clothing over her arm. Durst shook the bottle of elixir. o into the bathroom and get) she was gone, Brindle; to Durst. “Were, Chee’s suite when| I visited Lies “Of course.” “Why did you kill him?” Durst laughed. “Even ata time like this, you want the answers. y, of course, and. my) 1 was clearin« out of and knew had| 3 wall safe. I d-cided| { might as well clear out with it.! I stuck a gun in his face, hel opened the safe and I shot him.” | By A. S. FLEISCHMAN “Why did you the aliens ugh last nighy Brindle knew Durst’s gun w ‘t ‘jam, but talking was a. distrac-| tion that might serve him well.' only paid half down er half when ferry ? “A mere ten thousand. But our’ service was deluxe. We put them up here for a few days until they could make connections, and: we supplied the younger men with draft cards. It was a nice business: until things went hay wire up! here. I can thank you for that.” “Don’t mention it.” Frances returned to the room| and handed Durst the glass. He unscrewed the top of the bottle and poured two es of the) liqui to the glass. “Okay my friend; drink this down. Other- wise, I'll be forced to shoot.” RINDLE looked at the pink stuff and then at the There wasn’t much choice. They, were both deadly. He reached for} the glass and Durst’s fingers tightened around the handle of the automatic. The weapon would, explode at the first false move. “Dash the bi in hi: i: dle told himself. would tighten on reflex. drink it up. There are worse ways to die. Having your brains blown out, for instance.” Brindle stood in the middle of the room with the glass shal in his hand. Durst stood bac! watching. “Sweet dreams.” He! grinned. Brindle touched the glass to his, lips. The liquid appeared harm- less; it didn’t seem possible that! oe it down would prove fatal. . “Finish it off.” Durst led. “T can’t stand waiting morn- ing. Francy, get your bag into the hall.” Brindle wondered. what had happened to his resourcefulness. He'd been in tight spots often, but had always found a way out. Improper Politic Charged In Fla. Bldg. Work - TALLAHASSEE w—The Ayres said it had found “improper polit- cal influence” was used in two state building projects and recom- |mended all future state construc- jtion be supervised by private ar- md | chitectural engineers Plot Is Claimed | . The committee, appointed to look . , [into state building projects, issued MEXICO CITY W® — Mexico's committee had asked for ‘interim largest newspaper, Excelsior, re-| ve} nt ‘ ported here that Mexican police | Pew ite tara. oe 7 .. | State building, but the request was have uncovered a detailed Russian | blocked by if Senate pcg: plot aimed at Communist seizure | after the House approved the idea. of power in Latin-American coun- | The Ayres group said it found tries. | political inflftence was used in con- Success of the scheme, it said, nection with the Capitol renova- would turn Mexico, Central and tion job and in connection with South America into “another Po-|tile work at the male receiving land and Czechoslovakia.” | ward at the Florida State Hospital. The independent conservative} This improper political pressure, newspaper quoted highly authori-| said the committee, “resulted in tative police sources as saying excessive cost and loss to tax- that Mexico is a center of Russian! pavers of the state of Florida.” efforts to build up Red fifth col-| The committee report added: umns throughout Latin America,; “The responsible officials of Mexican Communists and political the Florida State Improvement exiles from other nations—mostly | Commission were derelict in their Socialists. and Communists—were | duty to the public of Florida in reported aiding in the plot. | permitting political influence to Excelsior said its police sources | sway them in awarding contracts reported that the Russian Embassy | and purchases on both jobs; and in Mexico City controls 32 Com-|they were likewise guilty of dere- munist cells working throughout | liction of duty in making purchases Latin Aerica, The embassy itself,| and awarding additions to con- Uncovering Of Red WIHLVA dN ONIONINA GIy 09519 SHL the sources added 15 working through the Polish and Czechoslo- vak legations here in an effort to; avert suspicion, Italy Approaches Crucial Election ROME —Italy today proached a crucial parliame | ap tension after the nation’s first n jof. political violence in many weeks, Riot police patrolled Naples, scene of a bloody brawl Wed. night between supporters of the pro- Fascist MSI faction and police during which 34 persons were hospitalized and 100 arrested Elsewhere in the peninsiila police outbreaks. Forty MSI were arrested Wed. in Rovigo. North Italy, after they demon strated against a police ban on a planned meeting. Only one day is left until the } whether to stand wit ate coalition of Pre Gasperi or to t partisans of camp. ation che ‘* Back To The City MANILA @—C ry life is not |for Myong Boon Mok Korean war bride veteran of the Kore { “I was lonely cniy again She fied th band, Ernesto V rural area south of ™ showed up at the home | telative of ber husban | ment commission's supervising ar- were on guard to stop any new.” ; ding.” Director Walter E. Keyes and Chief Engineer Williams Speed re- signed from the improvement com- mission staff after the committee started its inquiry. Charles F. Kuhn, the improve- chitect, “‘was derelict in his duty «+ in preparing and interpret- ing plans in favor of favored con- tractors and sub-contractors .. . and his services should be dispen- ; sed with’ by the commission, the legislators sald. Francis Clancy Sr., engineer for “also was guilty of dereliction of in the premises.” The report | said that while hé* carried out the rders of his superiors on the | lol renovation job “he. partici- | pated in the fau'ty estimate andj mn of air conditioning equip-} and work.” } It fropeséd that the Improve-/ ment Commission engineering di- vision “be abolished or restricted | solely to advisory and preliminary ning work.” It said the Cabi-; et Board of Commissioners of | State Institutions or the Florida | i ement Commission should} ll future tuilding projects | rough the employment of privs' ditects and eagineers. committee aise propased | improvement evmmission and net adopt a pulicy of making} in excess of $3,000) ive bidding at length with | mmproper political | exercised” by Carl V.1 b installed acousti-/ mateling job a om the tile contracts | than that called for} ome cost the state) ma” of political | ted aise in the case j ° ang contract and} oes om the Capital project awarded to Deeb Builders of which head, the committee said. Committee members said Deeb. obtained extra contracts on. the Capitol job without competitive bidding and sold air conditioning equipment at “‘an unnecessary cost to the taxpayers of between $75,000 and $100,000." Both Cesery and Deeb denied under oath at hearings last week j that they had received any prefer. ential treatment or undue profits. AGRICULTURE DEPT. REORGANIZATION nai ij H ap i, ¥ BERBER & B Hy i 4 Yet was a i tet 2 i woe aa St Tv. needs for imports from capitalist Investigative committee Thursday |Syde P, Deeb, Tallahassee, is the | nently & fil aif? sh ak | E H i ‘i B i 5g ti i he 1 Influence | Welfare Program : Gains Extension ©