The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 20, 1936, Page 3

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1936. BOOMERANG Lop BY AcArna CHaistié SYNOPSIS: Although neither positive that the tanned and han gome chap Bobby Jones found dy- ing at the foot of a clif actually was murdered, both Bobby and Frankie are determined to investi- gate one Mr. Bassington-ffrench, who appeared at the scene. of the “crim opportunely. Besides, somebody has tried to murder Bobby with an overdose of mor- phia, and he resents that fact. Per- aps the two events interlock. Frankie must do the leg work, since Bobby is still in the hospital. Chapter 13 LORD MARCHINGTON ‘RANKIE lost no time in setting to work. She attacked her father that same evening. “Father,” she said, “do you know any Bassington-ffrenches?” Lord Marchington, who was read- ing a political article, did not quite take in the question. “It’s not the French so much as the Americans,” he said severely. “All this tomfool- ery and Conferences—wasting the nation’s time and money—” Frankie abstracted her mind until Lord Marchington, running like a railway train along an accustomed line, came as it were to a halt ata station. “The Bassington-ffrenches,” peated Frankie. “What abcut ‘em?” asked Lord Marchington. Frankie didn’t know what about them. She made a statement, know- ing well enough that her father en- Joyed ‘contradicting. ‘They're a Yorkshite~ family. aren’t they?” See “Nonsense—Hampshire. There's the Shropshire: braneb. of course; “Father,” she any Bassin: re- “do youknow Mirenches?” 4 “That's right,” said Frankie. “He was making inquiries about various small properties with a view to purchase. He was obliged to re turn to town the next day so could not view many of the houses, but I understand he is in no great hurry. Since he left, one or two suitable properties have come into the mar- ket, and I ave sent him on particu- lars but have had no reply.” “Did you write to London—or to the—er—country address?” inquired Frankie. “Let me see now.” He called toa junior clerk. “Frank, Mr. Bassing- ton-ffrench’s address.” “Roger Bassington-ffrench, Esq., Merroway Court, Staverley, Hants,” said the junior clerk glibly. “Ah!” said Frankie. “Then it wasn’t my Mr. Bassington-ffrench. This must be his cousin. 1 thought it was odd his being here and not look- ing me up.” UITE so—quite so,” said Mr. Owen intelligently. “Let me see, it must have been the Wednesday he came to see you.” “That's right. Just before six-thir- ty. We close at six-thirty. 1 remem- ber particularly because it was the day when that sad accident hap pened. Man fell over the cliff. Mr. Bassington-ffrench had ictually stayed by the body till the police - | commissioner of agriculture’s con- g |W. BISHOP WOULD REORGANIZE STATE, FARM AT RAIFORD MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT IN CONNECTION WITH HIS CANDIDACY FOR COMMIS- SIONER OF AGRICULTURE | { (Special to The Citizen) NASH, Feb. 20.—W. B. (Bud- dy) Bishop, Jeffersén’' county farmer and stock raiser’ and} speaker of the 1935 house of rep- resentatives, advanced a plan for the reorganization of the Raiford prison farm today as he announc- ed his candiddacy for election as state commissioner of agriculture. Since the Raiford land is un- productive for general farm crop? but suitable to livestock produc tien, Bishop said, he proposed that it be used for the raising of | high grade breeding stock for dis- tribution at cost to Florida farm- This would make the farm competition of prison farm pro duce with that of private pro- ducers, he said. Bishop said it also would be his policy to use the portion of the state advertising fund, under the ers. trol, which is collected in agricul. tural sections for paid advertising in local newspapers to create de- mand for and assist in the sale of marketable farm products. This plan, he said, would per- mit profitable cash sales of stand- ard packs of syrup, sausage, cur- ed meats, canned fruits and vege- | tables and many other products of Florida farms. He said he favored the use of that portion of j the advertising fund collected in tourist areas for effective adver- tising to increase the winter re 1 Bishop supported measures the distribution of hog sort business. Offers Cooperatica As commissioner of agricul ture, Bishop said he would co THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Today’s Birthdays r. Walter C. Mendenhall, - Aan of the U. S. Geological) Survey, born at Marlboro, Ohio, 65 years ago. Mary Garden, soprano, born in Scotiand, 59 years ago. Dr. Charles H. Judd of the Uni- versity of Chicago, famed - psy- cholngist and director of the Schovi of Education, born in In- dia, 63 years ago. Dr. Howard A. Kelly of Bal- {timore, Johns Hopkins professor emeritus of gynecology, born at Camden,'N, J., 78 years ago. of 1} Rev. Arthur B. Kinsolving Beltimore, Protestant Episcopa! clergyman, born at Middleburg, Va., 75 years ago. . Earle W. Evans Kansas, noted lawyer, Kansas, 63 years ago. of Wichita, born in Vincent Massey, Canada’s high commissioner at London, onetime Canadian minister to Washington, born in Toronto, 49 years ago. statesman also said he would in- sist upon such rigid inspections of prison camps and state institu- tion as to make it impossible for prisoners or state wards to be mistreated or allowed to die in misery. “We cannot afford to have! Florida lose its good name in this way,” he said. He said he favored combining the various inspection services to eliminate duplicated effort and expense and the appointment of inspectors for merit and ability, not for political considerations. Bishop said he would work for unified business control of the, scattered state institutions in or- der that lost motion and waste be eliminated. As a member of the legislature, for serum, control of the screw worm, to fight citrus canker, for the establishment of cold storage and cholera ; FOLLOWING THROUGH Two of the best basketball games of the year will be played tomorrow night at the High Schoo! gymnasium. The Convent girls will play the first contest with the All-Stars. The last time these two clubs met they played a tie }game, 15-15. It was one of the best games played by girls this | season. The tt¢ams have been practicing hard, as they wi!! play }the girl champions from Cuba {next week. In the nightcap Friday night, | the Key West High School Conchs | will meet the Ft. Lauderdale {Tarpons- The local boys have not lost a game with outside clubs in two years. They claim they will make it seven sraight over invad. {ing clubs. The Conchs have J. V Woodson, J. Pinder, Knowles, Saunders, Wickers, Domenech, J. Lopez and B. Pinder who ha’ played 17 games this season, with local clubs and two with vis- iting teams. i ! Woodson has scored 63 field }goals and 17 free throws. Joe | Pinder, 54 field goals and 10 free ithrows. Saunders, 32 field goals and 21 free throws. Wickers, 36 | field goals and six free throws. Knowles, 48 field goals and sev- jen free throws. Domenech, field goals and one free throw with the School five and nine field goals and two free throws with the WPA quintet. | Jack Lopez, the best guard in , Florida, has not many points scor- jed ‘but how he can guard those | boys! : For the Tarpons, Jeffcoat is (their leading scorer; then Crab- tree and Kayhandell. These “Fly- ling L” boys have won two state | championships, in 1932 and 1933. | They are after the title again this year. Key West can and_ will beat them. Then the Conchs will defeat the Miami High next, on March the 6th. First game tomorrow night will start at 7:30 o'clock. | jto winners of the events. CSSA S SSS SB TO SUBSCRIBERS If you do net rucelve your Paper by 6:15 o'clock in the afternoon, call telephone 51 and a paper will be sent to your home. A complaint boy is on duty at this office from 6:15 to 7:15 p. m. for the purpose of delivering com- plaints. Help us give you 100 percent service by calling 51 if you do not receive The Citi- BBO IIDLS: wrestling game in action in this city. The dquatic meet ‘Wednesday afternoon will.2lso be one of the big attractions of La Semana Alegre or The Week of Joy. Some of the best aquatic stars of Key) West, and of the Army and the} Cuban Navy, will take part. A! silver loving cup will be offered} There will also be sail boat races and these are very interesting to! watch. Wednesday, 3 p. m., at the Yacht Basin. Two teams of the Social Dia | mondball League will play this| afternoon at Bayview Park. The; Administration ten will meet the! Research Department outfit. The! Researchers have won three games and lost none so far in the sec-} ond-half.. The Office boys have won two and lost one. Should the latter ten win, these two teams/| will be tied for first place and if| they lose they will be in second) place, tied with the Sanitary boys. Game starts 5 p. m. { SKATING PROGRAM |: AT RINK TONIGHT Large crowds are attending the semi-weekly skating programs at Coral Isle Casino, and apparently this form of recreation is getting | j be given tonight at the | starting at 7 jtra will furnish music during the PAGE THREES a foothold in Key West, those im the recreation section of the local | WPA said this morni Another skating program will casino, 30 P.M. An orches evening. Subscribe to The Citizen. HIGH TEST OR LOW TEST THE REAL TEST OF ANY GASOLINE COST-PER- MILE TEST € THAT'S WHY MORE MOTORISTS “se CROWN STANDARD OIL COMPANY ATED N KENTU “You bet I picked a SAFE CAR” _f¥ has always been given first considera 1928 every Fora car a building Ford cars. Since built has had a steel body operate energetically with the na | Marketing plants, to improve fer-| tional administration’s plan to re-|tilizers, to assist dairymen, poul-! The local baseball players are store farm buying power and bal. | trymen and general farmers, to! getting ready for the big series ance the prices of what the farm | Support the 4-H clubs, county with the Cuban baseball nine next er sells with what he buys and|agents and home demonstration; week. Yesterday there were 14 that he would work in close har. {| Work, vocational education, state players out for practice: William reinforced with steel. Ford was first im the low price field to give you the protection of is the only car in the low price field which gives you super-safety brakes with 186 square inches and then there's the Irish lot. Which are your friends?” “I'm not sure,” said Frankie, ac- cepting the implication of friend- ship with several unknown people. “Not sure? What do you mean? You must be sure.” “People drift about adays,” said Frankie. “Dritt—drift—that’s about all they do do. In my day we asked people. Then one knew where one was—fel- low said he was the Hampshire branch—very well, your grand. mother married my second cousin. It made a link.” “It must have been too sweet,” said Frankie. “But there really isn’t time for genealogical and geograph- ical research nowadays.” “No—you've no time nowadays for anything but drinking these poison- ous cocktails.” Lord Marchington gave a sudden yelp of pain as he moved his gouty leg which some free imbibing of the family port had not improved. “Are they well off?" Frankie. “The Bassingtonffrenches? Couldn't say. The Shropshire lot have been hard hit, 1 believe. Death duties and one thing or agother. One of the Hampshire ones niarried an heiress. An American woman.” “One of them was down hére the other day,” said Frankie. “Looking for a house, I believe.” “Funny idea. What should any- one want with a house down here?” That, thought Frankie, was the question, so, now- asked N THE following day she walked into the office of Messrs. Wheel- er & Owen, House and Estate Agents. Mr. Owen Limself sprang up to re- ceive her. Frankie gave him a gra- cious smile and dropped into a chair. “And what cap we have the pleas- ure of doing for you, Lady Frances? You don’t want to sell the Castle, J suppose. Ha, ha!” Mr. Owen laughed at his own wit. “I wish we could,” said Frankie. “No, as a matter of fact, 1 believe a friend of mine was down here the other day—a Mr. Bassington-ffrench. He was looking for a nouse.” “Ah, yes, indeed! | remember the name perfectly. Two small f’s.” STRICKEN SUDDENLY COLDWATER, Mich.—A: s her Howard, suddenly | unt, Mr this ¢ stricken and d MONROE “THEATER Jane Withers in THIS IS THE LIFE Ann Sothern-Jack Haley in THE GIRL FRIEND Matinee: Balcony, 10c; Orches- tra, 15-20c; Night: 15-25¢ Nannie was | she prepared to attend the funeral of i] came. He looked quite upset when he came in here. Very sad tragedy, that, and high time something was done about that bit of path. The Town Council have been criticized very freely, 1 can tell you, Lady Frances. Most dangerous. Why we haven't ha? more accidents than we have, I can’t imagine.” “Extraordinary,” said Frankie. She left the office in a thoughtful mood. As Hobby had prophesied, all Mr. Bassington-ffrench’s.actione seemed clear and above-board. He was one of the Hampshire Bassing- ton-firenches, he had given his proper address, he had actually men- tioned his part in the tragedy to the house agent. Was it possible that, after all, Mr Bessinton-ffrench was the complete ly innocent person he seemed? Frankie had a qualm of doubt. Then she refuted it. “No,” she said to herself. “A man who wants to buy a little place would either get here earlier in the day, or else stay over the next day. You wouldn’t go into a house agent’s at six-thirty in the evening and go up to London the following day. Why make the journey at all? Why not write?” No, she decided, Bassington- french was the guilty party. Her next call was the police sta- tion. Inspector Williams was an old ac quaintance, having succeeded in tracking down a maid with a false reference who had absconded with some of Frankie's jewelry. “Good afternoon, Inspector.” “Good afternoon, your ladyship. Nothing wrong, | hope?” “Not as yet, but I'm thinking of holding up a bank soon because I'm getting so short of money.” The Inspector gave a rumbling laugh in acknowledgement of this witticism. “As a matter of fact, I've come to ask questions out of sheer curiosity,” said Frankie. “Is that so, Lady Frances?” “Now do tell me this, inspector— that man who fell over the cliff only had one photograph on him, didn’t he? Somebody told me three!” (Copyright 1933-35-36, Agatha Christie) The Inspector, tomorrow, proves a willing source. OVER-SEA HOTEL CLOSE TO THE BUSINESS AND ENTERTAINMENT CENTER Away From the Noisy Stream of Traffic Its Quiet Rooms and Wide, Hos pitable Porches Invite You 919 FLEMING STREET PHONE 9104 mony with County Agents to im-| marketing, reforestation and con- Cates, Joe Hale, Mario Pena, Cheta prove crops and control insect pests, the serew worm and plant diseases, The commissioner of agricul- ture is also prison commissioner and, a member of the state boards which make up what is, in effect, the board of directors of the state ond Bishop included in his plat- form planks covering his pro. posals and policies as a board member, As a member of the pardon board, Bishop said he would show enble leniency to youthful dave bet that he would| WaS elected to the State Legisla-} country. h “iron-clad determina- hb pardoning or parole of -ed eriminals, especially “racketeers and gangsters who come into our state to prey upon residents or winter visitors.” “Florida owes to its own con- science the elimination of fire traps at the state hospital for the insane and the squalid wooden quarters assigned to white women at Raiford,” Bishop declared. “We can thank a kind Providence that we have escaped a major disaster thus far,” he added, “but it is folly to continue to invite the de- nunciation of the world by al- lowing insane persons to be crowd- ed into tinder boxes that will burn to the ground if a fire ever starts.” Favors Inspectian The Jefferson county VOTE FOR W. B. “Buddy” farmer- pe COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE (Subject to Florida’s Democratic Primary) “I believe the Dept. of Agri- culture belongs to the people of Florida and should not be prostituted to selfish inter- —W. B. Bishop. servation. He, always has opposed ertrav-} agance in government, tax poli- cies that benefitted special inter-] Wickers. ests and all sales and nuisance taxes. The farmer-candidate was born present home, of Georgia and! South Carolina pioneer stock. He! was educated in Florida _publiz! Baker, Joe Casa, Mayg, Rueda, D. Lofiez, Sevilla, A. Acevedo, | Gabriel, A. Castro, Salinero and It is hoped that the boys will be out every day and that more will show up for prac- | tse, The first game with the in Jefferson county, Florida, his; visitors is scheduled for Monday afternoon, beginning at 2 o’clock. The big wrestling and boxing braking surface and 12-inch brake drums. 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