The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 12, 1934, Page 3

MOCKING HOUSE Y WALTER C. BROW! PUZZLED HOUSEKEEPER OW long have you been living over the garage?” Harper asked. “Since about the middie of De » “When did the decorators finish?” “About two weeks ago.” “Why didn’t’ you move back to the house?” “Mr. Dufresne thought it just as | me,” he began anew, “did Mr. Du- ; fresne ever come up here in the there has been m0 one stay- in this house at night?” $ After the workmen left each “What then?” : »*I locked up.and. went back.” “Was it snowing then?” «, “Your husband was there all the ij fh the evening?” : “During the evening, did you at _ any time look out of the window, overtowardthehouse?” « “Not that ft recall. We went to bedearly. The pest thing we knew ‘the phone was ringing and Andrews me that some one had | in the breakfast-room to hurry ever. So we got up dressed.” “Mra, Whitmore, what would you id you thet this house has expression. “Am I to imply from your silence that you don’t believe me?” “I don’t believe it,” she snapped. “It's impossible, 1 would have ie ij not burn down to its socket in four or five hours. But we have the so lution to that question. We found a box of candles in the drawer of the buffet. This box originally held a dozen, which are now only short stumps, more evidence of prior meetings in this house. The four candles you put in the holders, Mrs. Seas LOCALFANS ARE (LOPEZFUNERAL _ |CHALLENGE FOR buffet, untouched.” Mrs. Whitmore ehook her head. “This is all news to me.” “Another thing—last night the electric current was switched off.at the fuse-box, Is that the. way you left it each night?” “Why, no. The only times we cut off the current was when repairs were being made to the wiring or the fixtures, The lights were all | right when I left yesterday.” Harper paused again and there | was more curiosity than animosity now in their locked glances. “Tell evening? Any time since he took up bis quarters at the Austerlitz?” “No, he did not.” i “Did Mrs. Dufresne ever come up here at night—alone?” The housekeeper’s eyes took on @ venomous glitter. “I.see what you're driving at,” she snapped, “and you ought to be ashamed to ask the question. The detective smiled exasperat- ingly in the face of ber fury. “Aren't you a little quick on the trigger. Mrs. Whitmore? | haven't made any ac: cusations. 1 merely asked if Mrs. Dufresne had ever come up here at > night?” Mrs, Whitmore sprang up. “She did not. See if you can twist that around, The idea! ff that’s what's buzzing in your head you'd better open the windows and let some clean air in!” ‘HE incensed woman stalked to- ward the door, leaving behind ber a Sergeant of Detectives who seemed no whit abashed nor em- barrassed by her vehemence. in- deed, his face assumed the pleased expression of 4 man who has sud- denly collared an elusive idea. Her angry suggestion about open- ing a window, by some hidden proce ese of mind, had linked itself with a piece of twine tucked away in his pocket. in a flash he grasped the significance of that clue and the force of this intuition carried certt- tude with it. Mrs. Whitmore, throwing dpen the door fer her wrathful exit, hit the. lanky Lafferty, who had that instant put bis hand on the knob to enter the room. < Lafferty hunched his shoulders ‘an@-raised hie armi-in front of his face in mock defense. “What did yau do to the old crow?” he inquired. “Hew feathers are all ruffled and, wy eare deceive me, she was cussing as she left.” Harper had unrolled hia piece of twine and was fingering it thought “Charming Woman, Mrs. Whit- more,” he exclaimed. “She thought ‘she was giving me a piece of her mind, but she just told me where that missing gue was-hidden.” “That's as clear as mud. Where do you think the gun is hidden?” “Come on,” Harper invited, “I can show you quicker than | can explain it. i know I'm right—it must be there. 1 ought to have fig- ured it out even without finding the atring.” ‘ They made their. way to the top floor, without meeting any one en route, and mounted the cramped and sharply-turuing shaft of steps that led to the square, glass-en- closed cupolas or tower that crowned the house. The detective raised one of the pan Cemre® conn ne ere Harper stood looking arotind. 7? “There itis! There's the gun!” (Copyright, 1934, by Welter C. Brown) Tomorrow, a revetver tells Harper thins he wants te bowen THE ARTMAN PRESS ‘PRIN eeoecnccccccccccocccccccccssecesocoscsosccocees, Pte. fifth place occupant, has/ TING IN THE CITIZEN BLDG. laden spout that edged | °F" f THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SPORTS ‘| “HOMERS DEFEAT | JACKSON-NEBO SERAPSRQOK. | DIAMONDBALL GAME AT BAY- TENTION IN THIS-CITY The fight fans have already he-! gun basing their opinion on the | coming boxing contest between | j Jackson, the slugger. and John | Nebo, the boxer, which is to take; place on June the 14, the same night that Max Baer will crawl [through the ropes in Madison Square Garden Bowl in New York of. lifting’ the | om the mati | ring. Back indzive: mypion and the | jack ign. ; City in | { By O. L. MILIAN | "By O. L. MILIAN ED TO TAKE PLACE ode ig VIEW PARK LAST EVENING 14; ATTRACTS WIDE AT-‘- RESULTED IN FINAL SCORE t OF €TO03 In an exhibition game of ia- mondBall that served as a tune-up for. the coming three-game series with the Pirates, the Lopez Fun- eral Home ten downed a strong pickedjteam by a 6 to 3 score in} the’ Bal night. The-picked team ‘held the lead through the’third inning; at one iew Park grounds. last nothing, but the Embaliters wak-}: ed yp. iy. the fourth and with three safe Kite and. four, ¢éffors put over a quintet of . runs whieh was enough to sew up the, contest. The fans are all up jn the air} have come.to pabout -the, coming series, between of.owe-fans. jthe conelusion that. Nebo, now} making his home. in: Miami, Fi and out and going hungry, is com- ing down to Key West'to enter the ring against Willie “Jackson and take a couple of socks‘on the ehin, then lay down before his home town admirers. This writer being well acquainted with all local fighters, will say frankly. that this laying down business is not in the | blood of the Nebos, John, like his brother, Pete, will absorb punish- ment as long as he ean stand on his hoofs, rather than lay down. According to news received here from the Magic City, the Spanish battler is hard at work in the Mi- ami Beach gymnasium, Different Jackson \ Nebo will find a different Jack- son when he crawls through the roped arena in the Athletic Club next Thursday night—a stronger. better hoxer- and a.well trained body, “ Willie, claimed by his old) | sparring mate, Young Fernandez, to be hitting harder than ever and: timing his blows with unuvwal care, will enter the ring with the odds in his favor to put his conqueror out in less than six rounds. |. & beut which gives. promise of nearing the main event in action and excitement is the semi-final in which two club fighters have {been matched to battle ¢éight rounds, im the persons of Young Fernandez and Bobby Waugh, a pair of hard hitting young veter- ans, Waugh, sore at Fernandez | because the latter made a monkey of him in'a bout'that was suppos- ed to have been an exhibition at DeWitts arena last week, welcom. E the opportunity to meet Fer- : so that he may show the former truck driver what a real fight is like. Both of the boys can sock like nobody’s business and it won't surprising if one of the two get ia knock out before the bout reaches the fourth or fifth round. +s Three other preliminary bouts will complete the card. Tickets. may, be reserved ate ther Russeil’s Smoke Shop os Ru f sell’s Sport Shop. NO MAJOR LEAGUE GAMES YESTERDAY RACE FOR PENNANT REMAINS TIED UP IN BOTH Loops NEW YORK, June 12.—There no games scheduled in either of the major baseball leagues yes terday afternoon, all clubs maki! up the loops having an open date, | The exciting race for the pen- ants of the respective circuits re+ mains as “tight” as ever. The {first four teams in the younger jloop have been changing top places j with each other frequently. Wash- ‘tington and Boston, in fifth and {sixth place, are not out of the race by a “long shot,” and as the the Pirates and the Funeral boys. The Pirates are the city baseball champions while the Lopez Fun- eral Home have been holding the title of diamondball champs for some two years, The team copping two of the three contests will receive in ad- dition to the title three cases of beer and the gross receipts of the gate. The. score by innings of night’s eontest follows: last R. H. E. P. T. .... 010 000 200— 3 4 8 L. F. H. 000 510 00x— 6 5 3 Batteries: Gates and Garcia; Sterling and Ingraham. The probable line-up for the Pi- rates- Lopez games will be: Lopez Funeral Home Machin, rf Gonzalez, If McCarthy, ef Cates, 3b Ingraham, e Sterling, tb Albury, ss C. Lunn, sf Goehring, 2b A. Lunn, ps Pirates Carbonell, If O. Gonzalez, rf. A. Acevedo, ss Pena, 1b C. Gates, p M, Acevedo, ¢ Perez, cf Mayg, 2b Kelly, 3b Casa, sf AMERICAN LEAGUE | Wz. L. Pet. 29 20 592 27°20 .574 .24 20.545 25 25.500 24 24 .500 sl 28 404 17 30 862 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. 82 18 640 ..29 18 617 a..-.80 20 .600 26 19 678 24 22 .522 20 29 .408 16 29 .356 11 33 .250 Philadelphia Cincinnati TODAY’S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago at Washington, St. Louis at New York, Detroit at Boston. Cleveland at Philadelphia. NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston at St. Louis. | Brooklyn at Pittsburgh. | New York at Cincinnati. Philadelphia at Chicago. hot weather becomes more pro-/ nounced, both these |climb up with the leaders and clubs may over Brooklyn, in sixth place, who® is pretty much out of the picture. - ise inva Horoscope eocce enenecerseceeeoqcoeors eee Today’s Horoscope SOQCagseeseoosegseesesesy Today gives another eccentric C 4 ,;Person, this time generally with _ very unsociable habits, Very inde | pendent of what other people ai doing, with peculiar tastes of your of jas you may often be missing 1 . For Second Primary Election, Tuesday, June 26, i934 3 COCerescccccccccegscdseosersecoocoooceseooeeeeree For State Senator WILLIAM V. ALBURY For State Senator ARTHUR GOMEZ For Representative To State Legislature BERNIE C. PAPY For County Commissioner-at-Large Fifth District ROYS. FULFORD For County Commissioner Fifth District ‘good opportunities, while chasing ‘pubbles, ‘There is much ability jhere if the mind can be guided aright, and kept in a steady line TENS MATCH = nd Subscribe to The Citizen. Alfredo Lucignani, who will the Inside Channel, and returning! play Delio Cobo in. a tennis ex+ outside, Ports visited were hibition match on July 4 at the ; Ketehikan, Wwangell, Juneau, Kappa Pi ¥ Club celebration, has Spagway, "Cordova and Seward. issued the latter a challenge for; ay Skagway @ special exeursion a match to be played Sunday aft- pet yup from Skagway, the old! ernoon at 2 o'clock . in Bayview jumping off place for the Yukon | Park. (gold fields, up over the White Whether Cobo will aceept the; Pass, to Lake’ Bennet in Canada, challenge is not known. In the'to that the Perry Sailormen levent that he does, it is expected) might visualize the scenes of} that there will be a large crowd hardship, suffering, and adven-/ {of fans on hand to witness thei ture which had been enacted; ;match. - there a generation before. bagi ships on the same cruise were the CITIZEN PUBLISHES | Decatur, Trever, Wasmuth and MANY N. AVY ITEMS | 2*"°: all destroyers of the Battle Force, s . It was on the Alaskan cruise asaceetarg. nae tg)| et Se mento sl by. eee c ‘, the nickname ‘Happyship onto }sleep on inner-spring mattresses, James Mackey Lewis's shoulders. Many of the like» jokes above For Captain Lewis believes in; appear in . the: paper in question, ' making his’ ship happy home for) Swhich also) carries. an @ecount of his men. “There is no better ship} thrilling experiences of the mer than the Perry,” said he today. making up the United States navy, “She is my pride, my joy, my t | containing expréssions and re- jatea pecs of life* in far off| lands. In many parts of the periodical will be found names of ships and personnel that have visited Key West from time to time, in which it is shown that the navy men have always been very courteously treated during the many years that these vessels have visited this port, The Perry’s Skipper ing “Tejano” from the Lone Star State, who commands the U. S. S. Perry, Destroyer 340, now in port, was born at Dallas, Texas, March 4, 1893. He graduated from Dal- las High School in 1911, entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, the same year, and graduated from the Nava] Academy in 1915. One of the Senior Lieutenant-Command- ers of the Navy, he has had com- mand of the Perry since Sept. 9, 1932, Captain Lewis has had a varied career» in the Navy, including! threg tours of duty on the China Station. His first tour was on the Yangtsze River in 1916 and 1917, where he was serving on hoard the old Spanish gunboat Quiros at the time of our declara-' tion of war with Germany. China, being a neutral, ordered the! American warships to get out or. be interned. The Quiros, being} 600 miles behind China’s const {range, could not get James Mackey Lewis finished up! his first tour of duty in China al an interned “prisoner of war” at Shanghai. In August, 1917, China entered the war, and the interned Americans were released. Lewis was ordered home, and assigned to a new destroyer, the U. S, S. Dorsey, which acted as convoy for troopships, On his second tour of duty in China, Captain Lewis was given| command of the American gun- boat Samar, which was followed by command of the large Russian! Island Radio ‘Station at Viadivo- 1stok, Siberia. -— 5 East, “he commanded one of the fine new river gunboats, the Panay, plying the far interior waters of China. In 1931 he com- pleted nis latest far eastern tour; as navigator of the fleet flagship, Pittsburgh. Captain Lewis’s first sea duty was on board the old battleship Louisiana of the Atlantic Fleet, in‘ 1915. Other tours of service have been on the U.S. S. Tennessee, the tanker Cuyama, at Puget Sound, at the Naval Academy, and at the Naval Recruiting Station at Salt Lake City, Utah. ! A year ago Captain Lewis took his ship. the U. S. S. Perry on a tour of Alaskan ports, going up! James Mackey Lewis, the as supreme happiness,” According to published sched- ules, the Perry will leave the 14th for Havana; returning to Key West again on the 29th of June and on the 30th of July. | CLASSIFIED eLu COLUMN eeoeee eaeeeee Advertisements unger ti) nead wilt be inserted in The Citizen at the rate of le a word for each in i sertion, but tke minimum for the xe in eve-y instance is Payment for classified adver- tisements is invariably in advance, regular advertisers with ledger aceounts may have their advertise- ments charged. Advertisers. should give their street address as well as their tele- mov number if they desire -re- ru! With each classified advertise- ment The Citizen will give free an ow Razor Outfit. Ask for CLEANING AND PRESSING SUITS CLEANED AND PRESS- ED 35e. Duval Pressing Club, 869 Duval Street. may22-1mo 33 FOR SALE Only %5e. Get them at The Artman Press. 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