The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 10, 1953, Page 10

iawn Page 10 THE Si < KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, June 10, 1953 2s LOOK! EVEN IN DAYLIGHT... A TRACE OF THREE MOONS! NOTHING LIKE IT EVEN IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM... OH: OH--THERE © ANOTHER ONE-- LUCKY THAT Missi IT DISINTEGRATES Ri we ; l BEN DUCKS UNDER RED'S WILD RIGHT AND SHOOTS HIS OWN LEFT IN A TERRIBLE ARC, FLUSH ON THE CHAMPION’S JAWs114 , WE GOT US A LOCAL ORDINANCE AG'INST BODACIOUS IDJITS UKE HIM, SUT 54 SAY— WE CAN LANDING 4 PLUSH! JOB SALING A Boar uP To BASK- THEY CAN.” LET'S TAKE A HACK AT IT —JUST FOR KICKS.” SAIL AS WELL AS } THEN...THEN WE'RE IN A... A STRANGE STAR SYSTEM! I KNEW THERE WOULD BE TROUBLE WITH THESE YOUNG SCAMPS ABOARD! TLLOOA LITTLE OISINTEGRAT- ING,MYSELF, DURN HOW COULD T EVER FERGIT THAT OL’ LOCAL ORDNANCE ?_/ GRAB YOURSELF A PAIR OF MY BROTHERS OLD DUNGAREES » Nout. LOOK REAL SHIP-SHAPELY, L104 Nag DI NVIDIDVW JHL ATWUaGNVW WOLNVHd 3HL NoduOD HSV13 3TDO0OD AINUVS WIHLVd dN ONIONTUS GIy O9S19 FHL |) geealeey got to his feet and wrapped a bath towel around} ” his loins. “Just a minute.” The towel slip} and fell on pee the girl. He snatched an- other towel from the rack and padded across the room. Almost to the.door he looked back. He’d left the\bathroom door open and the dead girl's foot and leg showed plainly. He walked back and closed the bathroom door. He had to have time to think. Had he come to the room with the girl, or hadn’t he? And after that, what had hap- pened? ‘The room-service waiter was a middle-aged man with tired eyes. He was carrying the pint of whis- ky on a silver tray, with two glasses and a silver pitcher of cracked ice. “Just put it on the dresser,” Mandell said, “Yes, sir.” Mandell extracted the bills from his pocket and laid a five and a one, all he had left except some silver, on the tray. “That cover it?” The waiter loosened the cap on the pint and set it and the lasses_on_the dresser. “That's ine, Mr: Mandell. Thank you. Thank you a lot.” He permitted himself a smile. “You're pitching a little one, eh?” He picked up the silver pitcher and started for the bathroom. Mandell stopped him. “No. No water. I—I never use it. That's fine, just as it is.” .The waiter emptied the silver pitcher of cracked ice into the glass pitcher on the dresser. “Whatever. you say, Mr. Mandell. Some men use a chaser, some don’t.” “TI don’t,” Mandell said. The waiter turned. “Will there be anything else, Mr. Mandell?” “No,” Mandell said. “Nothing.” The waiter walked to the door, carrying the tray and pitcher. Then, with his hand on the knob, he turned and looked pointedly at the closed door of the bath- room. : “Look. It’s none of my business, Mr. Mandell. But I wouldn't want to see you get into trouble. Have ce ae “Have fun, but be quiet about it,” the waiter said. fun. But be quiet about it, see?” He made a deprecatory gesture. Alone, Mandell locked the door and leaned against it. i “Have fun,” the room waiter had said. : Mandell uncapped the pint and let whisky trickle down his throat to nerve himself to look at the girl again. She was still there. There were no marks of violence on her body except for a faint purple bruise on her jaw. ie sat on the edge of the bath- tub, looking at the girl's face. There was no doubt about it. She was the same blende he'd talked to in Johnny’s Bar. He remem- bered the mole on her cheek. He remembered handing her a line about how pretty her earrings were. She was still wearing the earrings. T WAS close in the bathroom and hot. The dead girl used the same perfume Gale did. She had used the same perfume. Mandell walked into the other room, picked up the phone, and asked for an outside wire. The day barman in Johnny’s had gone Ke duty, but he was still in the lace. “Did I walk out of there with a blonde?” Mandell asked him. , “Yes, you did, Barney,” the barman said. aa. “What time was that?” && “Td say it was around one o'clock this afternoon. Maybe a the phone so h “Did I say when I came back?” “No, you didn’t,” the barman said. “And I didn’t ask. I figured it was none of my business. But why all the questions, Barney?” landell cradled the phone and walked back into the bathroom. He was breathing hard again. His chest muscles hurt. His head ached. He ran cold water in the bowl and, filling his hands with it, ran them over his face and hair, al- lowing the water to trickle down his cheek. It felt good. He splashed more water on his face and chest. Then what had happened? They had walked out of the bar together. He remem- bered that. Then, to the best of his recollection, he had changed. his mind and had told her so. On the corner of Dearborn Street. And the little blonde had cursed him. She'd called him everything in the book, including a big, dumb Polack. He dried his face and hair with a towel and combed his hair. And realized his hands were trembling. One thing was certain. He wasn't going back to the asylum. He'd had enough of that. ,Hiding the body wouldn't do him any good. Once she was found, someone would remember seeing her enter the hotel. Think- ing he could leave her in the hall or put her in another room was just more crazy thinking. Even the room waiter had known there was someone in his bathroom. Mandell washed his face and hands again, with hot water and soap.this time. Then he went out in the other room and picked his shorts and pants from the floor and put them on, The room had been cleaned. The maid wouldn't come in again until tomorrow morning, By that time, he could be in San Francisco. He- could take a boat from there to Hawaii, or maybe the Philippines. (Te be continued) Today’s Business Mirror By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK #—Prices of many important items—in the fields of food, clothing and basic industrial materials—are bucking the general trend toward lower levels. Prices of most products and ma- terials have slipped from their Ko- rean War inflation peak. But an | important minority are firming up again or threatening to climb high- eré And tthe government’s whole- sale commodity price index still stands 10 per cent above its level when the war began almost three years ago. Producers of items on which the price trend is upward apparently see nothing in the Korean truce prospects to halt this trend. High fliers in foods are pork, lamb and rice. Short supplies and good demand keep these foods well above their year ago prices. The wholesale feed price index of Dun & Bradstreet has been rising again and is now two per cent higher than a year ago. The government’s wholesale food price index —— not as sensitive to price fluctuations as Dun & Bradstreet’s —is four per cent below a year ago. But it, too, has been stiffening jand runs one per cent higher than January. Some of this firning in the wholesale markets hasn’t shown; up yet in the grocery stores. The} government’s retail food price in-/| dex is one per cent below the first of the year and two per cent below | 3ia year ago. Farmers, however, find little to! cheer about. Farm prices average li per cent under last year. Wool prices have stiffened. The | men’s clothing industry says this! price gain, and more importantly | an increase in wages, will mean | higher prices on men’s suits this fall. In the field of basic industrial | materials, steel has been the lead- er in price rises this spring. Most finished steel products now carry | higher price listings. And there is} continued rumbling throughout the industry that the price of basic | steel is still too low. | Wage negotiations now under 'way may send steel prices still higher. Management says that any wage increases must be passed along in higher prices. | The oil industry has been grumb-/ ling about the static price of crude | Marriage License NEW YORK, # — A marriage license was issued Tuesday to Sara {Delano Roosevelt, gtandda lof the late President, and idi Bonaventure, son of an E | Side barber. i The couple said they plan to wed Friday, and that the time and | place would be announced later | Di Bonaventure, a 23 - year - cid} | Pianist and music student, expects }to be inducted into the Army soon her age 25 oil in the face of higher costs of discovery, drilling, transporting and refining. Ample supplies of oil, with some resuiting cutbacks in production, have held crude prices steady so far, But leading oil com- pany executives are now starting to predict that a boost in crude oil prices is but a matter of time. A long list of basic chemicals has seen price hikes in recent weeks. This week the price of chlorine, widely used in industry, is going up. And citric acid prices are being hiked. But the reverse of this coin is a brighter one for consumers—the long list of things selling now at prices below their pre-Korean War level. Cattle prices are in this class. So are hides, tallow, some live- stock feeds, and raw cotton. Zine and natural rubber are among the industrial materials in this group. And a majority of the others are below their inflationary peaks. The Weaker Sex? NEW YORK w—Rocco Gianar-| dividuals or 45.65 per cent fano and his son Richard have) learned it doesn’t always pay to! trifle with the so-called weaker sex. Two policewomen — Ann Gil- christ, 27, and Joan Hocter, 29— seized the father Monday at ° Manhattan home in a bookmakin inquiry. The 170-pound son we to the aid of the 200-pound father The women officers wrestled ani hauled the father and son to ti» sidewalk outside the home. Then ‘the 115-pound Miss Gilchrist left ts | summon aid. She returned with | six male officers to find the 145-! pound Miss Hocter firmly gripping | her two prisoners. Rocco Giannariano, 45, was held on a bookmaking charge, his 25- year-old son on an assault count. REDS PUBLISH POW AGREEMENT MOSCOW w—Pravda and Izves- j tia Tues. published the full text of the agreement between the United tions representatives and the North Korean and Red Chinese truce negotistors on the Korean War prisoner repatriation plan, Subscribe to The Citizen To FDR's Kin Delano Roosevelt, and the former Betsey Cushing Miss Roosevelt has been legally adopted by John Hay Whitney, to whom her mother is now married. | The rich girl - barber's sos ro-/ mance first became known to the public several weeks ago when the Di Bonaventure family spent week end at the sumptocus Whit- ney estate on Long Island. Pre viewsly the prospective bride's par had been entertained at the apartment in s = of Manhatlams | Blimp ‘Men Advance Large Group Of - Squadron Airship Development Squadron Eleveu at Boca Chica is extremely Proud of the accomplishment of its Personnel as a result of the Febru- jary advancement examinations. 2ZX-11 is comparatively a baby in size in relation to the other activit- ies in the Key West area. Despite the lack of numbers, the squadron made a record which can be en- vied by its larger counterparts, Better than 50 per cent of the en- listed personnel of the squadron were recommended for advance- ment in rate, in all 171 men took the February examinations, During the month of May, the re- sults were published, Of the 171 men taking the tests, 103 passed, This is a percentage of 60.24 pas: ed. Of the 103 who passed, 47 iff in a high enough bracket to vanced or rated against wide competition. One of those who passed, and was advanced, was Burchard Poole who was advanced to Chief Petty Officer. At the monthly squadron inspec- ik ft Delay In Race Question Seen As Opportunity Supreme Court Postponement Gives States Time To Plan ATLANTA @—Postponement: of the Supreme Court’s decision oa segregation in public schools is viewed by some Southern leaders as helpful to states with programs for equalizing white and Negre schools. Jesse T. Anderson, South Care lina’s superintendent of education, regards the postponement in the light of a opportunity for the em tire South. As concerns his own’ state, An- derson said the delay “gives Carolina more time to complete its development cf adequate facill- ties for white and Negro school children.” He reported. the has made available sufficient with which to provide equal facili- ties. Similar views were expressed two Arkansas school officials, stake Commissioner. of. Education Arch Ford, and Director of Negro’ Edu- cation Ed MeCuistion. with them were Dr. J. M. Robinson - lof Little Rock, Negro political leader in Arkansas, and L, C. Bates, Negro publisher of the weekly Arkansas Free Press, McCuistion told newsmen the pace ever set by the state’’ improving Negro schools. Ford al greed. , Bates said “the court’s reticence which le described as having “‘al- ready met the situation.” He said - the state “anticipated the problem by giving equal salaries to Negro teachers and making vast improve- ments in recent years in our Negro schools.” white and Negro schools. Ike Entertains WASHINGTON fh — Preside Eisenhower gave a private dinner party at the White House Monday night for 13 guests, including form- er President Herbert Hoover and Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Others among the guests included Francis Cardinal Spellman of York; Henry Cabot i b SBRIRLIR BUNS SRESERB A f