The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 23, 1953, Page 6

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SoRRY,M I'M BUSY IR. BEAN. Tuesday, June 23, 1953 HERE, DAD! --MY JACKET I FOUND SOME WILL MAKE hry TREE YOO, BUTSHE' re MONEY IN THE i 0 FAMILY AND DIANAS HER FAVORITE THE GUY GOTHERIN’, A YOU, BABYE -= AN MY. BY-CUE SASS SMIF !! ARN OUT WUTH. TH SASS AIN'T QUITE AS TWANGY_AS (T (LLAMANNERED OU HEIFER ! HOW DAST YE AGREE WiF Mee WHAT'S THE IDEA, \_WANING TO 2 ES) THE WORLD TODAY By DON WHITEHEAD (For James Marlow) Old Syngman Rhee has been striking matches and tossing them around in the world’s powder xeg, Korea. Defiantly, he has slapped his friends because they are willing to stop the fighting and then seek unification of Korea through nego- tiations with the Reds, rather than at the point of a bayonet. The major Allied powers want to sit at a conference table and decide the future of this little country so NoauoD HSVT1I later to reach an agreement on all Asia. And Rhee is struggling against them with an all-or-nothing defiance that some regard as fanaticism. You may damn this old man for his unyielding opposition to com- promise with the Communists at a time when peace in Asia seems at stake. But for any understand- ing of what is happening, you must understand Rhee. He is a strong-willed man as he has demonstrated—strong-willed perhaps to the point of reckless- ness. A united, independent Korea is a dream for which he has fought many, many years. And obviously in his thinking he is seeing this dream slip from his grasp. When Rhee was a youth, Korea had a King. Even at 19, Rhee was WOLNVHd 4HL under the monarchy and elimina- tion of Japanese influence in the government, He was jailed, tortured and hounded, but he had a stubborn streak that would not bend. Then in 1910 the Japanese deposed Ko- rea’s' King and seized his country. They forced: Rhee into exile and | NVIOIDVW HL IAVYGNVA encourage an underground resist- ance in Korea, Delegates met secretly in Seoul to elect Rhee head of a provisional government. But the Japanese learned about it, broke up the meeting and punished the ring- leaders. In 1920, Rhee was in Shanghai helping to organize and direct guerrilla activity against the Jap- anese, Later he lived in Wash- ington, always pleading the cause of an independent Korea. After World War II, Rhee re- turned to a divided country to be- come president of the Republic of Korea. His desire for unity of his country was so fierce that Ameri- can authorities feared he might use the South Korean Army to attack North Korea. But it was the North Koreans who attacked. For a time, when the invaders were hurled back and fétreating pell-mell, it appeared that Rhee had at last achieved victory. But the Chinese entered the war and the stalemate devel- oped roughly along the 38th Paral-| lel, still Korea's general dividing line. More than two years ago, Rhee told an Associated Press writer his people would oppose bitterly any settlement leaving Korea divid- ed. He argued nothing less than a campaign to drive the Reds all the way across the Yalu would be | acceptable, He hasn't changed his view. The real danger has been that Rhee would create situations where South Korean armed forces would be at gunpoint against their U. N. allies. Such a monstrous tragedy could very well imperil the free- dom that has been saved for South ; Korea and Rhee by the allies he| now defies. L108 Nig Dig e z 5 < YAHLVA dN ONIONTYS torn and ravaged by war—perhaps j active in polities, He became a/ force in an organization which | was’ urging democratic reforms | call Gale before he lost his nerve. he went to Hawaii. But he helped | |rooters are KISS. | AP Newsleatures Chapter 13 ah he had gone three; blocks the cold grew so in- tense that Mandell was forced to put on his topcoat. He tried ‘to be afraid and couldn't. He forced himself to be honest with 3arney Mandell. He} was running again. So he couldn't prove he hadn't killed Mr. Curtis. The police couldn't prove he had. Nor was it likely that the killer would make a second attempt on his life on a crowded business | street, What really mattered was Pat's opinion of Gale and the fact that | his mother had been living on charity for two years. Mandell realized that, despite the cold, he was panting. Pat's cruel words put springs in his heels. And they were all lies. Pat had no right to say things like that about Gale. He tried not to breathe so hard. It was attracting attention to him. It could be that Gale had forgot- ten the purpose for which he had entrusted the money to her. Money meant little to her. She didn’t know what it meant to go hungry. She didn’t know what a tremendous accomplishment just paving rent and the gas bill could There was a saloon on the next corner. Mandell went in. The thing to do was get this mental business settled. If he had given Gale money for his mother, he was sane. If he only imagined he had, he was crazy. 2 The bar was warm and dim. Mandell used the phone booth to Her phone rang for a long while. When she answered, her voice was small, like that of a little girl awakened from a sound sleep. “Yes? Mrs. Mandell speak- “This is Barney, sweetheart,” | his head. Mandell said. He could hear her suck in her breath in the once familiar gasp. “Oh, Barney! Honey! Where are you?” “I'm out on the South Side,” Mandell told her. “But I'll grab/ a cab and come right down.” “Please, Barney.” | Ber he said. “Say. Yi ai a paper, girl—” “I don't believe a word of it,” Gale interrupted. “Please come to me, Barney. I’ve been waiting for you all night.” Mandell kissed the mouthpiece of the phone. “Until I can do it in Person.” “Until you can do it in person,” Gale breathed. The holes in the dial were smaller than they had been. Man- to call a cab. He had to dial twice. Mandell walked outside to wait for the cab. He no longer felt the cold. Everything was going to be all right. Gale would make it | right. Gale still loved him. Gale had been waiting for him all night. He would be with her in ten minutes. He saw the bright yellow of the cab three blocks away and walked out and stood om the curb. He looked up, incuriously, as the wheels of a black Ford squealed in a tight U turn and pulled in to the curb just in front of the cab he'd called. Then he saw it was a police car. Bot doors of the car opened. Two uniformed men got out. The officer en the curb had his gun in his hand. His words ac- companied -by little puffs of va- id, “ ‘ou’re Barney indell, aren't you, fellow?” “No,” Mandell lied. “I'm not.” He wouldn’t be delayed in goin to Gale. He couldn't be delayed. Gale was waiting for him. He glanced back over his shoulder, seeking an avenue of escape. “My name is Majcinek. Fr: Maj- cinek.” The other officer came around the front of the car. “Don't try to come that on us. You're Mandell, all right. I seen you fight.” He pushed his cap to the back of “Every cop in Chicago is looking for you. And here you are, standing just as cool as can be on the curb, waiting for a cab.” He looked at the driver of the Yellow. “Don’t pull your flag, hacker. You're on a milk run.” His partner opened the door of the prow! car.” Come on. Get in, Barney.” “No,” Mandell said. “I can't.” Mandell took a deep breath. “And about that business in the y not?” “My wife is waiting for me.” Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK (#—Why, comes the inquiry, has there been no organ- ized move to elect Lefty O’Doul to baseball's Hall of Fame, consid- ering the fact that the record shows Lefty hit for an average of .349 in 11 big league seasons, a life- time figure topped only by Cobb, Hornsby and Joe Jackson among the moderns? The answer is that Lefty, now managing at San Diego, wasted the first four of those years trying to be a pitcher and was crowding 30 before he discovered he was meant to be a slugging outfielder. In his two greatest years with the Phil- lies, 1929-30, O’Doul hit .398 and -383. In his last big year, 1932, he clubbed .368 for Brooklyn. Lefty is tied with Bill Terry of the Giants for having made the most hits in a National League season—254. George Sisler holds the American League record with 257, For many years after he left the majors O’Doul enjoyed tremen- dous popularity as manager at San Francisco, but fell out with owner Paul Fagan two seasons back. They still mourn him in the Bay region. Some of our more rabid Yankee chiding this corner gently for having suggested that} VFW ELECTS HEADS TALLAHASSEE (# — Florida's ; Veterans of Foreign Wars elected | | William D. Morgan, Orlando, de-j partment commander, at the close of their 23rd anoual encampment here Sunday. | Lakeland was chosen for the/ 11954 meetings Other officers named included Lee C. McAlister, West Palm Beach, Senior vice commander; Raney C. Whaley, Havana, Junior vice commander; Gerald E. Horn, | Gainesville, adjutant-quartermast- er: Ernest Yokum, Miami, judge advocate; Dr. W. W. Davies, Coral | Gables, surgeon; Dr. Harold S./ Sanders, Tallahassee, chaplain. JEWISH VETS ELECT TAMPA W—New ‘commander of | jthe Florida Jewish Veterans is Willard Bender, Miami Beach Other officials clected at the final sess f the annual J bh} veterans encampment here Sun jday were Daniel Neal Heller, M ami Beach. senior LLaW VLLI iL = aim 0919 3 | of,” says Harry Markson, guiding i Club, “is the part I played in the! their team’s runaway threatens! serious damage to American| League attendance. They point out | that more than 30,000 crowded into Yankee Stadium to watch the} St. Louis Browns break the champs’ 18-game winning streak | } the other night. That's not the proper test. Wait until Stengel’s mob hits the road | jnext time with its wondrous lead} jand goes prospecting for dollars ‘out through the steaming Western | i tier. That big stadium at Cleveland | is going to look awfully empty after those 70,000-plus throngs it heid when there still was a race | It becomes more evident each | day that the fans no longer will | turn out in large numbers just to see a baseball game. There are jtoo many other things to de, too | many other forms of entertainment competing for the sports dollar. | The baseball fan now demands ad | contest. j | “One of the things I'm proudest) j genius of the International Boxing | idiscovery of Rocky Marciaso. } “Al Weill (Rocky's manager) talked me into watching his new fight some bum at a ute | jciub one night, and sext day be! | OFFICERS CHOSEN ORLANDO o- Howard A. Lily Tamp. s € £ i n here Other cificers wil te next yea an address, B. Roberta , asked me what I thought. ‘Al,’ 1) told him, ‘you'd betetr send that beck to Brockton right now. I n't know what else he can do, t bell never be s fighter.’ ” vice president of the Florida Pow- er and Light Co. Miami, predict-| ed Florida will double in popula-/ ues during the next 23 pears as 2 aot it Lae last 28. | ACROSS OR KILL By Day Keene sweetheart, About that) * dell had trouble inserting a finger | “His wife is waiting for him,’ | the officer holding the door | formed his partner. As big a man as Mandell, other officer wet his ly. “Look. Be a good . Don’ give us no trouble now, Barney. Go on. Get into the car. Mandell backed a didn’t want to be a good He felt cheated. “! The officer drew a sap from pocket, but stood, hesitant to us it, It was bad enough to | a crazy heavyweight Prise Sigh | One thing was for sure: | take a lot of pounding. And do | lot of damage while he was | pounded. He repeated, “Get | that car,” | Mandell shook his head. “No. |He glanced over his | again. The corners of his mou! turned down. He couldn't |run for it. A curious crowd gathered, hemming him in. The officer with the sap | a big breath. “O.K. You're for it, Barney.” He took a q step forward and his muscles rippled as he swung sap. Vanden rolled without his feet and took the blow —~ upper arm. Before the could recover his twisted the sap from his and tossed it over the The officer used his fist and did better. Mandell him back with a short right. he cocked his left hand and in pain apy the officer sta chopped at the of with the barrel of his gun. Mandell saw the sidewalk ing up to meet him. He tried break his fall. He couldn't. Hi felt an impact, knew fresh pain. ‘Then a light bulb exploded in face, and he was pani down a long, dark, cold with closed doors, which Gale by ie been come to me, ': waiting for you all night.” ni the man on the wall th ite foot, to make certain was unconscious and not him?” His partner looked sick, “Yeah. I seen you,” he said. The officer with the “Boy. Did you see me (Te be continaed) DISCUSS FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS rossword Puzzle 35. Diminished 1, Snow runner 4 Large serpent 9. Possesses 12. 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