The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 3, 1933, Page 3

933. MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1 CHAPTER 1; HOTEL IN ARMENE HE thing began, as it ended with the white cockatoo. His THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The WHITE by MIGNON 6. | name was Pucci, and he gave me a doubtful glance from his shining black eyes and sidled nearer, arm while I wrote, as if w eering over my t he saw might confirm his suspicion. He cocked hig head on one side, feathers of his crest, and wa! in ‘a knowing fashion while the card of arrival which the hotel clerk— had thoughtfully been 1 a ughtfully been . guages, French and English, and I fille ee me. The card ruffed up the yellow ed T filled out ager-—had handed d in two lan- in the blanks rap- idly. Date: November 29, 1931. Surname: Sundean. Chris- tian name; James. At place of residence I hesitated; I wouldn’t say Mos- cow, for I loathed the place, and as a matter of fact Thad | not been in Moscow but north of it.¢——____--—__-¢ | My thoughts hovered indecisively over various - possibilities: New York; Chicago, Denver. The card. plainly said “Permanent residence,” and permanent residence was @| thing I hed not, The cockatao’s| waiting black eyes, no less than the eonsclousneas that the swarthy, fat manager across the desk was noting my brief hesitation, nudged me to Aecision, and 1 wrote New York. Occupation: engineer, ... Arriving from: Berlin. ad The cockatoo ‘scratched himself vigorously, his curved beak under| ‘one.wing:, he withdrew, it burried. jwhich the manager was holding to- ward me. The page on which { wrote ‘was entirely bare except for an ink Diot,.and it gave me what, J later found, was a quite correct impres- sion that in November there were not many guests at the hotel, This time | did not hesitate at Place of residence, The cockatoo ‘Was reassured only when 4 put down} the pen; he uttered a hoarse mup-| mur which was unintelligible as to sound but distinctly congratulatery as to tone, reached up bis gray-biue claw in a nonchalant to remove | a soft white feather which had clung to bis beak, and took another sidelong step toward nie, The manager said; “Pucci, Pue. eH” in a caressing way and looked at my signature on the register. He was a short, fat fellow, dark- ish and inclined to glisten. He wore four heavy rings, all set with stones, one of which was.a very dublously cut diamond, and his creased an@ ‘rounded waistcoat would Have been | considerably improved by-a trip to the cleanér’s. rks 1 was at a loss to guess his nation- ality; there wes.e touch ef the tah about him and, faintly, of < COCKATO EBERHART only five francs a day " bill, but @ room difficult. was here. that, reachéd towar@ my} sbag. there occursed a rath strange | } thing. He didn't try to keep It is a long and lean : ter in Armene, with braving, for mare then “Rat you do have an emp! with a bath?” “Yes,” he said, barely “But ft ts over there, court.” He motioned ‘to’ Z i Italian; bia gestures were and there was something vaguely Hebraic about gether above bridge of his nose, It was something @ @ shock w! my eyes again. beamed —_ his fat hands together, and “g TOO, am an American.” His hand was across the desk to ward me, and I put mine ip it and KEY WEST LOST BOTH GAMES OF salen bases, Sawyer 3, Gates 1, G. Acevedo; sacrifice hits, L. Gon- zalez; bases on balls, by Bethel 3, by Albury 2, by Salinero 1; struck eut, by Bethel 7; by Albury 1, by Salinerg 1; hit by pitcher, by Al- bury, Fruto; left on bases, Slug- gers 11, Key West 4; hits off Al- bury, 9 in} & innings: no outs in DOUBLEHEADER withdrew it as soon as possible: his was rather unpleasant; damp, per- haps. “Glad to see you. Glad to see you,” he went on heartily. “Many Americans come here during the tourist season. They come to see the palace and the old Roman ruins, But not many during the winter. So your home is in New York?” I was obliged to say that it was. After all, New York as well as any other—or better, as far as choice goes. eee PEOPLE’S FORUM QUESTIONS REPORT OF ‘CONCH DAY EGERCISES’ “Mine is in Chicago. My name is Lovschiem. Marcus Lovschiem. Well, well. I’ve got a brother in New York. He took out his papers of citizenship the same year I got mine. He is in the bootlegging busi- ness ang,” he added simply, “he's doing yery well.” i thought it possible; indeed, probable. But 1 wondered what this self-styled American citizen was do- ing here in a small, forgotten French town. He-knew my thoughts. I was “CLASSIFIED COLUMN Editor The Citizen: Please allow me space in your Advertisements under this head to discover that he frequently knew one’s thoughts. “You are asking yourself why 1 am here? Ah—” he lifted his: fat, dark hand from his cockatoo’s crest »to point roguishly at me--“isn’t that right? Circumstances, my friend, Circumstances. This post offered it- self, and I took it, gladly.” 1 had no reason whatever to sus- pect as I did that the circumstances were unsavory. But 1 was not his friend and had no intention of. be coming that, and I dislike roguish- : > THE NEWS-JIGGER HERE’S YOUR SOLUTION. it just had to ness. Moreover, I was tired and | cold and hungry. I said no doubt and that I should like a room with a bath. On this he became thoughtful, ‘Rooms with baths were a little dif- | ficult. The hotel was old, 1 surely understood, and while it had plumb ing, still, the plumbing had been added many years after the hotel had been built and was not, even now, quite adequate. 1 could havea bath, yes; 1 eould even have a daily bath if I insisted, which would be ‘BROTHER-IN-LAW OF|DIAMOND RING AS |J! LOPEZ SUBMITS: JAS. GARDNER DEAD| PRIZE i be Jimmy Cage News have been received in the ney, or el eity by James A. Gardner of 1021 your solution to Fleming street announcing the gas fice door ‘which led into ‘a large had ats HH AT AUCTION A genuine diamond ting will be given away tonight at. Frank Johnson’s Auction Sale in. the vs directly opposite, loomed a Black bulk ‘and looked desolate and secré tive, rising there:in)the shadow. © “Itvis,.as you see, the-morth™ and a little chilly perhaps when. th wind is from the-north. /itisw@ice room, however, and it has # thath. But people do not like «the wmerth wing in winter, and it is.quise @e serted.” ‘ “Let me have it,” { sali. “When will dinner be served?” He told me and simmoned a porter. I saw no one save the porter as 1 followed him and bags through a’ cold and rather. bare ‘looking lounge, ‘with wicker thaird and @ bare floor and a few anemic ‘ooking potted palms, towari ‘the elevator. It was a very small @le- vator, so small ‘that the porter was obliged te take me up ‘to the floor and ‘then return for my ‘ while J stood in the upper hat! an waited. The ‘hotel was, I saw at ‘once, much larger than my dansied glimpse of it through wind anddusk had led me to believe. But 1.did pot, at that time, particularly note the curious architecture of the place. The lounge was a kind of inside court, extending upward past: two stories and their railed passages, which made encircling galleries, to - the skylighted roof. We laft.thée lounge well and apparently the main® portion of the hotel and wound our way throngh half-tft, ear * peted corridors, down'a fitte Right . of steps, and around several mnex- pected turns until we reached the north wing. ‘There we turned abruptly through a door and walked along a very cold . and narrow passage with + dark doors on one side and 9 wa windows: on the other ‘was no human near. {Copyright, 2933, Mtgnen ©, Gerhart) “TO AN OPERATION LS Juan Lopez, 422 Amelia anil: '| who has been seriously ill for"sev-" the News-Jigger|death of his brother-in-law, W. G.|Colonial Hotel building, Num- on page 2/Taylor, of Holland, Texas. He|erous other prizes will also be giv- was ali wrong.) wes 77 years old. The date of'en away. i The films heard/death was April 1 at 4:15 a. m.; Mr, Johnson gays that it is not from Jimmy in' He is'to be buried in Belton, Tex-j necessary to make purchases in a big way hack'as, today. order to win these prizes, Tickets in that picture! His sister, Mrs, Gardner, died }ase given to all persons attending in which hein Key West on October 31, 1922.| the aale. smeared Mae Clarke’s face with a juicy grapefruit. Lat. er he was o front pages in a aa = ‘f ==) SPECIAL PAINT SALE | THIS WEEK ONLY FLAT TONE ally bobs up i : wwe the news and {FOR RENT—Fornishea apart-! movie biting: | ments, $15.00 to $25.00 per month. Trevor and Morris, op-} posite new Post Office. BRIGHT SAGE, BUFF, CAEN STONE, CANARY. YELLOW, CREAM, CREAM GRAY, IVORY TAN, OLIVE TAN, ORCHID, PALE GREEN, SHELL PINK, SULVER GRAY, SKY BLUE. 4) ‘sixth jnnii off Salinero 3 in 4 - 3, Will be inserted.in The Citizen at SLUGGERS TOOK FIRST CON-|inines lone ‘pitthen Albury: rere * Pen eee A MORE the rate of 1¢ 4 word for each in- “ ixes, M.-Gareia and-G.-Gareia,- atmo a “a +-+sertion, butdthe-aminimum. for the TEST YESTERDAY WITH) PI.) !™Pirery Me ng : ine oe that'T'have iTrip insertion in every instance is RATES COMING OUT VIC. AB E. y with the Seniors} 95. TORIOUS IN NIGHTCAP erat weeks, underwent a frajor operation Saturday in @ local -hos- pital, His condition is reported slightly improved, © pede Subseribe for The Citinen—20¢ a week. . F $ preeoonedcor Pirates Perez, ef -.... Carbonell, 3b Acosta, if .... ,Q. Lopez, p .. Although guided py Felo Rod- \C. Griffin, ¢ .. riguez, a, local old time baseball | Casa, rf player, the Key West ciub disap-|Pena, 1b .. pointed their many friends yed- ee af terday afternoon waen x lost both} ” . ends af 9 doubleheader to the Young Sluggers, 4-1 and the Pi- rates 6-0. The Sluggers. took the — first game from the Key Westers by heavy hitting. Albury started to do the pitching for the Acevedos and hurled nice ball until the! inc" § sixth inning when ho was relieved] 4 Grietin, p 4 by Salinero. who managed.to check { Rodriguez, eee on Gonzalez’ boys and hold them Albury, rf ay scoreless for the remainder of}— asvado, 3b 2 the game.’ Bethel was in good P. C’tro rf-2b 3 form and held down the opposition |" * " to five singles and one lone score, The Pirates got ‘on ~ Griffids* fast @hes in the very. first inning and before the Key West pitcher could realize what was going on threes runners. had | crossed . the plate on triples by Acosta and],* Casa-and singles by’ Perez , ana hits, Acosta, Odsag double Carbonell. Grittin was not’. in} See tang a ake '“Conch Day Exercises” that was Payment for classified adver- giheld last Friday in the High tisements is invariably in advance, School. I think that the school | pyt regular advertisers with ledger reporter, Maurice Felton, has|aceounts may have their advertise-! 0 given an unfair report of the! ments charged. q}event and slightly twisted the} Advertisers should give their g}faets about in order to throw his street address as well as their tele- j} less in a better light. phone number if they desire re-} 2 Every year the graduating class | gults. __|of the High School has charge of} With each classified .advertise- 5a Program in which the Junior|ment The Citizen will give free an jelass is made the butt of their; Autostrop Razor Outfit. Ask for Meany jokes and asa result a day it. aief fun ensues, This year the Seniors were very careful about their program and did not allow any of their plans to reach the ready ears of the Juniors, A's a} result the Juniors were caught; eompletely off their guard and! 1jd@id not have a single comeback | ljat the Senior Glass. This was Ojstrietly in aceordance with the|_ Se cebbaen of the eanal, jFURNISRED HOUS The Juniors finding, out, that, containing 12 they were gompletely ‘outdone by} 50x128 feet, in sel the Seniors tried to retaliate by! ‘iY, 1807 Whitchead s taking the conch shell from its} Positg;beautiful, ¢ } . on lot! tax on batteries .ce i : facing the sea. resting place in the school lobby a ahd after heme de the butt of Rent, $50 monthly. Apply to L.| ction of Exide the Scniges Joken tried | th: ruin} "- Artman,, 1309. Whitehead ‘eet, op- | cir picnic for then by letting| StTeet oF The Citizen Office. ' PRICES HAVE BEEN 1, Park, and; vedo t9/ air out of the tires on the cars san} = . wRReeea He DOM AATHhEBARS cor ecuerrey SH etor Semmes o to Ss - 2 44 oe Totals— Key West AB R. H. Pi Machin, If .. 4 Sevilla, 2b-3b 4 Molina, ef ©... 4 3 > FOR RENT - _ Hr ome SwHan eococcesowr Subseribe for The Citizen—20¢ weekly, feb1 | : SHERWIN WILLIAMS . Regular Price $2.55 Gallon, $4.75 95c % Gallon - 53c Quart ecceececocce Sotoncneoe newt, espite the new Tetalsen + Score by 33.0) 5 27°18 4 nnings: 800 010'101-—6 000 000 000—0 Summary: Two hase hits, Q. Lopeérj 1A. Griffin) Gasdy 8) base ¢ in rear. | usual form and weakened rapidly! % to’ Pane. A. under a blistering sunshine, Quintan Lopez pitched the Pi- rates to another victory. Armando Acevedo, Key West shortstop, was the star of the sec- Sevilla to Maygy left om bases.{that was to carry the class on| Pirates 14, Key West 6; bases on. bal by Q. Lopez 1, by A. Grif- ‘fin 3; strack out by Q. Lopez 6, iby Griffin 2; stolen bases, Carke- } the keys. However, they failed and in order to still satisfy them- selves wrote what I think was an unfair account of the program to nell. .Q. Lopez, P. Castro; pas#ed] make the public think that they got the best of their upper class-} men. { As I have heard many com-/ ond game ip fielding, He accept- - to ed 16-chances without a miscue. “bey — smpeee: SB, Ce The box scores: * be Sluggers AB R. H. PO A, B. eeecece. aneceeeee 5 ae ag wor “| ments on the able way in which ee ks ek ee Anniversaries j Today’ the Seniors presented their pro- L. Gen'lez, ib 3 it 1 Fratey i e o| ennagecosoeonsanaseses) cram, I hope that you will find Cates, .3b 5 ®) 1765—Simon Kenton. frontiers.| space in your paper to run this} P. Gon'lex, of ®lman and Indian fighter, whose} correction and advise the school | Trayior, ss ® work blamed the way for the ex-| reporter te be more careful of his/ Gates, 2b Olnansion apd settlement of the| reports for newspapers in which | Ingraham, ¢ 2 great West, bora in Farquier Co./the facts are supposed to be| Bethel, p ®' Va. Died near Banesfield, Obio,} presented clearly without throw-! April 29, 1836, jing any personal feelings into} aj | them MALCOLM PINDER. Key West High School, April 8, 1933,” x ew meeeor 0 1 1 1 2 3 2 1 x 2 715 Totals— | 2783 — Washington Irving, ‘J K.jauthor of goreral of the most Oi charming American tales, his 1 terian and essayist, born in New Sl York City. Died near Tarry-' born at Calais, Maine. A}town, N. ¥_ Now. 2%, 2858 | Mewburyport. Mas, 8} - a | 2921. ©} 1822—Edward © Everett Hale, | ] 1) famed Unitarian clergyman, auth-} 1837—Jchn Burroughs, world-) @lor and humanitarian, Born in Bos /famovs American naturalist, in- °}tem. Died there, June 10, 1909.[terpreter of nature, author, born near Roxbury, N. Y. Died March (“Lucky”) }29, 1921. | ‘alifornia pioneer, noted| figure on the American turf, born 1838—Leon Gambetta, French ‘in Ohio. Died at Les Angeles, :statesman, bern. Died Dec. 31 March 1, 1909. rez. . PO A, 6 ete Died near} Maye, 1b Aug. 15, Salgade, rf G. Aeovodo, Rodriguez, Ryan, ¢ Albury, p Salinero, p ew om a ™ te Totals— 22 Score by innings Sluggers 200 202 000—4 Key West 00 000 100—1} i | Summary: Two base hits, Cates; 1835—Harriet Prescott Spof- 3 base hits, Traynor, A. Acevedo;jfard, noted author of her } Subseribe for The Citizen—20c day,ia week i |FRANK JOHNSON { if FOR OLD PAPER rge bundle for} 5e. Gbod to pack furniture or! for Wrapping purposes. The Citizeti Office. jan7 —=} She RADIO REPAIRING RADIOWREPAIRING. We ropair all makes. Guaranteed service, | J. Ly, Stowers Music Co. j MISCELLANEOUS PERSONAL STATIONER us furnish you with stationery; 100 shects « tionary $1.00; 100 envelopes $1.00; both, with your name and ‘addréss printe! attrac- tive type. The Artman Press,! Phone 51. jan? ; i AUCTION) | TONIGHT AT 7:30 j O'CLOCK iamend Ring To Given Away As First Prize Tonight lo || ' | ' i Colonial Hotel Bidg i REDUCED TO... 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