The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 1, 1937, Page 3

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN CUBS SHOVE CARDS Today's Tioroscope| NORMAN BROS. ‘DOWN FURTHER BY'* OPEN BUSINESS ‘DOWNING WARNE ' THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1987. PAGE THREE Rubber Plantations Diorama Outstanding at 1937 Great Lakes Exposition Today’s indications are for one; ‘gull of goodness, patience, thrift; and humility. Great work will be’ accomplished in a modest way,{ eet SYNOPSIS: A mysterious shot kils Jude Blinshop, my old flame, at the start of our stormy week- i life but look : my damned family.” Michael has an Irish streak which { ESTABLISHMENT end at Farrington Bluff, home of Michael’s aunts. Strange attacks follow; then we find the body of Michael’s mad father below the bluff. Stout, Victorian Aunt Mar- tha is shot in the shoulder and nearly finished with sleeping powders. The Skipper, Mike’s tall, tweedy younger aunt, disappears; we find her six hours later, bound in the loft, all but dead. A shot draws us to the room of Higgins, the butler, whom we had strongly suspected shortly before. He is dead, supposedly a suicide. Chapter 48 Murder No. 3 BLINKED dazedly. That was the question. What earthly reason could there be for Higgins’ amazing actions? A contented, gentle old man with the rest of his life mapped out for him as pleasantly as anyone could wish, suddenly goes haywire and kills a girl he has known since her baby- hood, a man whom he has spent a good part of his life caring for, and finally attempts to kill the two people who represent all the family and se- curity that fe has. It didn’t make sense. There could be no question of money as 9 motive. I happened to know that'the entire Farrington for- tune had: b¢én deft. in trust for Mi- chael by,his grandfather with a re- quest that Higgins, 0" for as long as he lived. lution seeme@d to. be*in: Q ;. “It'S@-hopel iain. Cay you ‘ihe ve, ailed him?” William shook his have been plumb. nutt¥. I * Didn't seem like that,but he must have been. Funny. You know, when 1 was working for the Blinshops-I al- ways thought Higgins was crazy about Miss Judith.” 1 looked around that bare little room and shivered. Then I walked out—very softly. My watch said 20 minutes past six. ‘There was little point in trying te hustle people off to bed. We were bound to be routed out again within a very. few hours, and | knew from experience that a little sleep is worse than none at ail. It was highly doubt- ful that anyone would be able to sleep anyway. Snapping on the low lamp on the dresser, I turned out the glaring over- head lights. Gently I closed the door, on Higgins’ room and made off in the direction of the main house, Cold showers, breakfast and a plan of ac- tion were in order. Michael's room was empty, but in mine the Skipper was still sleeping soundly, Gay was standing at the window. “Where are the others?” \2..whis- pered. nai pomew lutely sure, Gay. Was the er disturbed at all?” calls for the noble and highly dra- matic. Right then I had no answer for him, I felt rather like a person lost | in the woods who knows there is an animal of some sort behind him, but and look at it. “The police,” I said, “will have no reason for thinking anything but that the poor old chap lost his mind. You haven't either. Stop trying to dig yourself up a family skeleton. Go take—” “The hell with your shower!” Mi- chael exploded. “Who gives a damn what the police think? I’ve got to know why he did it. I've got—” “—to take a shower,” I finished grimly. Picking him up clothes and all, I carted him, struggling, into the bathroom. It was something of a job to hold him, but he was thoroughly crashing on my ear and stalk out. I threw him a towel. “Take a rubdown,” I said. “You go to hell!” But he caught the towel with his bad hand. I grinned and set to work on my own dressing, Jeaving him to his fuming. The at mosphere was so natural that I could have whooped for joy. I was busy with my tie before he got to the point where he could directly address me. “Do you suppose there is any way that they could leave the aunts out of all this? If the about my father hits the he: Aunt Mar- tha will never it, Foster ought to be able to keep-them away ym the Skipper for a while any- ray.” I said, “1 think the best thing to do, Mike, is for me to go into the vil- lage on the first boat that gets here. I'll go-straight to Foster and leave it all up to him, Then, if he'll let me, I'll push on to the Blinshops’. Ought to be back by seven tomorrow night, easily.” Michael was silent for a moment. “That's decent of you, Jim.” I climbed into my coat, “Forget it,” I said. “Keep your ear cocked'for the Skipper, I'll see how the breakfast is coming.” Splotch On The Wall N broad daylight, the effect of the electricity in the hall was rather ghostly. The sooner we got all the lights out and the house nearly nor- mal, the better for everyone con- cerned. Switching them off as I went, 1 headed down the hall and into the servants’ quarters. At the head of the back stairs 1 remembered the lights in Higgins’ room and in Jude’s, I turned back. With my eyes averted |from the bed, I made for Higgins’ dresser. And then something leapt into my throat, Directly in front of me at the level of my eyes, was a splotch in the wall plaster, and within that splotch the doers which had “aang Higgins’ lite, bewil over. m There eal mistake, was there. Was my memory of the situation blurred? I rushed to the bed and flung back | the blanket. doesn’t dare turn around to look. : Higgins must have had a motive. But | just then I didn’t care to turn around: | doused before he managed to send me | GIANTS BERET AGE. ones and hot enough aggressive- LEADING BRUINS BY WHIP-! ness, and hence but little fame is |likely. This will matter but little, Re aes Saas TAKE | owever, for there will be enough ANOTHER, jof suecess to satisfy the modest sages {requirements of the native. (Special to The Citizen) | NEW. YORK, July 1.—Chicago|to third place, a full game _be- {Cubs continued to hold, their}hind runner-up White Sox. Bridges smal] lead in the National Leagae;and Lee hooked up in a brilliant race as they downed St. Louis | pitching performance. ;Cardinals for the second time im} Washington |two days. The Bruins overcame | Boston Red Sox, 6 to 4. Wes Fer- tan early Cardinal lead yesterday|rell was the winning pitcher, de- lafternoon and went cn to win, 9{feating his former teammates. ito 4. | Cleveland Indians walloped St. | Lon Warneke started for the|Louis Browns, 10 to 3, piling up |Gashouse Gang, pitched six full/a total of 17 safeties. linnings and started the seventh; The summaries: jbut was relieved before a man| National League jwas out. He gave up 13 hitsané; First Game jwas charged with the loss. Ryba| t Boston |went in, huried one inning, al‘ow-' Laide ing one safety, and was taken out{ on. eee Litasee of adage who gave up _ Batteries: Mungo and. Phel ix safe blows during the rest of , Gabler, and Lopez, jthe contest, Parmelee started for | jthe Windy City Tribe but went) Second Game ‘to the showers after two and two-} At Boston |thirds frames. Root, the fourth! Brooklyn moundsmen for the Cubs, received | Boston sere \ credit for winning the fracas, The}. Batteries: Fitzsimmons, Herman victors amassed 20 bingles, jin-j@nd Phe!ps; Bush and Lopez, cluding home runs by Hartnett | and ‘Galan hd four doubles. In! At New York two aye 7 pitchers have seen Philadelphia ..... action on both teams combnied. |New York .......... 7 New /York Giants, aided by! «Batteries: LaMaster and At- four-baggers off the bats of Ott, wood; Castieman and Mancuso. and Bartell, downed Philadelphia | Phillies, 7 to 2, Atwood hit a R. H. E. 404.0 eg Ips; R. H. E. -0 5 0 .2-4 0 740 At St. Louis R. H. E 1 4 0 6 1 Berg; At Philadelphia [New York Philadelphia ? Batterigs: Gomez and Dickey; Thomas, A Brockey. homer for the Phi's. Lamaster/ Chicago and Castleman staged a mound j g¢. Tous : duel. The victory kept the Giants; Batteries: Parmelee, 4 right beaind leading Cubs, a half: | shoun, Root and Hartnett; War- ‘8 | doveski. within a half-game of third place) and three games away from the} SEH A league-leader.. The Bucs shutout! je 6 8 ‘Cincinnati Reds, 6 to 0. amare Cincitinati z B: 071 et. down, Che, Hace with weven mare Batteries: Blanton and Todd; bey tt Bees ‘pulled’ “up two | Gtissom, Sehott, Vandemeer and S j i games closer to Brooklyn Dodg-| arte ers by taking a twin bill from the z Gotham players, both by shutout} i arcane League scores, 1 to 0 and 7 to 0. The) a t Washington Pees scored the lone tally in the} ‘oston very first inning of the opener, | Washington ne =e which enatled Gabler to have the| Batteries: ag bat ledge over Van Mungo in one of | W- Ferrell/and R, Ferrell. the t'ghest pitching due's of the season, . Bush handcuffed the Dodgers in the nightcap. New -York“Yankees* increased their lead to three and a half games by whipping . Philadelphia Athletics, 5 to 1, as the White Sox lost. Senators downed; %1the belief that Fleming street is R. H. EL” R. H, E.} SITUATED ON FLEMING STREET ' New “Star“ is born into the business firmament of Key West.» Norman Brothers announce on the front page of this issue of The Citizen the opening of a modern high-class grocery store! located at 822 Fleming street, lo-| cation formerly occupied by Tift) Downtown store. Earl W. Higgs will be in charge} of the operation of the store.} Members of the firm are William B. Norman and Oscar N. Nor- man, In an interview with the pro- {prietors today, they stated that ithey believe there is a very def-: linite demand for a food store a STARS DOWN RED DEVILS SCORE OF GAME PLAYED, YESTERDAY AFTER- | .! NOON WAS 12 TO 9 lions, the incessant chattering tone of the city’s main thorough- j fares. ! Norman Brothers have extend. :ed the public an invitation to in- spect their newly decorated es- tabliskment and exprss their desire to serve the people of this city with~ a sanitary up-to-date grocery business, It is the intention of this firm to give the customers the very! finest foods, fruits and vegetables! obtainable and from time to time advertisements showing the bar-} gains which will be offered will palo Red D: 3 appear in the columns of The} noon at ew Park. The loss ' Citizen. {sent the Satans to the bottom of i ithe league. H °°) The Red Devils secured twice as jmany hits as the Stars, but could} Today In History |= convert them into’ runs. fats eae ling cei | The victors collected five sin-| 1837—Horace Mann, Boston'g'es and five dotibles. J_ G lawyer, made secretary of Massa-/hit safely four times. out of six ‘husetts’ first Board of Education | chances. Hopkins hit two doubles —marking the beginning of a new; 2nd a single iw five tries. J. Rob-| {era in American education. 'erts knocked out two doubles in i !four trips to the plate. |} 1847—Act of Congress-in effect} S¢ore by innings: {under which postage stamps made , Caraballo Red Devi a : and sold by Government only—} 101 312 100— 9 20 |previousiy issued by postmasters | Roberts Stars— nd. private empanies, 010 015 50x—12 10 Batteries: C, Gates and ,Hop-; ns; E. Roberts and .F.’ Stickney. } t Roberts Stars defeated yesterday afte: | | 1 i R. H. E.} 5 2 1863—First day of the of Gettysburg. battle | | | 1867—Union of the Provinces) ¢, f Canada into one Dominion, | | { | Standing of the clubs: Club— W. L. Pet} ‘oca-Cola . 8 0 1.000; |Roberts Stars mene 2 3 400 oe Red Devils.1 3. .200 of} LOCAL TEAMS WILL 1874—Historie abduction Charley Ross in Phi'adelphia. 1898—-San Juan Heights, Cuba,‘ Complete in every detail with the distant roar of jungle birds and the steady rhythmical throb of the tom tom, the huge diorama at the Firestone Exhibit depicting a typical scene on the Firestone Plantations in Liberia, West Africa, is one of the most outstanding displays at the Great Lakes “Her hands~ were restless.) Higgins lay on his back with his ‘arms flung out at his sides, the revol- ver tightly clenched in the right I drew her into the next room. “1| hand. In his right temple was the doubt it,” J said, “and I doubt if any-| bullet Hole, and in the left, the nasty one ever will. Now listen, kid. Go}gash made by the bullet tearing take a:cold shower and freshen up.| through. But the mark in the plaster William will stir up some breakfast.| was in the wall on his right! See that Aunt Martha does the same| Ideas began bouncing through my thing anrt send Mike along tome All| head. A man falling in a faint or for the majesty of the law is going to be} any reason other than a blow, falls loose around here in a little while| on his face. Unless Higgins had been and it isn't going to be much fun.” | sitting on the bed, he could never “O.K.” There was something about| have landed in that position. Could the jaunty tilt of the kid's chin that} hé have been sitting? I crouched un- The only Athletic run was a homer by Joknson, Vernon “Lefty” Gomez almost entered baseball’s Hall, of Fame. But for that ‘one hit by Johnson |he world have accomp:ished the j greatest feat of a basebayy player ( —a no-hit, no-run game, Detroit Tigers almost shutout | Chicago White Sox, winning, 4 to 1. The’ victory carried the Tigers! Harded < ahdi At Chideeo Detroit f Chicago wel Ace Meas Batterigss Bridges and Tebbetts; Lee and Sewell. ptured by Americans. | 1918—“Work or fight” Law iv effect. TRAVEL ON FOURTH Key West ball teams will play | |in Fort Lauderdale At Cleveland R. H, E.; 1936—Mexico opens mew Pan-! wood on the Glorious Fourth, St. Louis, 3 10 0}American Highway. Spanish Gov-| A baseball outfit and diamon Cleveldnd ai... 10 17 1}ernment, attempting to end strikes ba’) club will leave over the high Batteritas Barrett and Hemsley; }and lockouts, puts employers into way Saturday morning. {jail till they agree to arbitrate. | The baseball players 1 } i | will meee € wean have: bona fi ine rubber trees w! ave shipped directly to Cleveland from ‘iarkest Africa. Mechanical natives demonstrate the various operations necessary to collect, coagulate and ship the erude rubber to Firestone Factories all over the world. of innumerable guests of car ferry officials at| Caraballo, J. Russell, Stickney, Port Everglades on Sunday and, Domenech and Malgrat, will play at 3 p, m. against » club; It is hoped that Baker and A. of Fort Lauderdale baseballers. | Acevedo will accompany the play- At night, under flood lights, a hayes softball teamr will meet a~ Holly: | PaLRCE wood outtit im that city. ' Those who will make the trip: bead yi mL a nt ial er have declared their intentions; of going are: C. Griffiny Sainero, | te or fart be Comedy and Seria! Barcelo, | Sterling, Albury, M;! ‘Acevedo, |P. Carbonell, Gabriel, | Al. Rodriguez, Kerr, Hopkins, @ Some people enjoy putting money on horse races—but it’s no fun to risk good money on unknown razor blades! Buy a krrown quality blade—made by the world’s largest blade maker —and play safe. Probak Jr., selling at 4 for 10¢, is automatically ground, honed and stropped to make short work of the Buy a package of Probak Jr. today, and Holly, be A PRODUCT OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST SLADE MAKERS I liked. I stopped her. “Gay,” 1 said, “there'll be a pretty big fuss over this in the papers. If Mike suddenly gets noble ideas about not soiling the hem of your gow: don't let him get away with it,” She flashed me a grin that sent my spirits soaring. “Sonny,” she said, “if he thinks he can get away from me now, he'll need the militia to help him.” Michael Gets A Shower. H® feet, slattered cheerfully, down the hall. Hauling out. geen @lothes, 1 felt a little better. Tt was ‘over at ladfrl. was jumping around in the shower when I heard Michael come in. Grabbing a towel, I strode Gripping after-him: But if my spirits were up, his were hitting a new, } all-tinie glow. He flopped down on the bed. “Don't be such a damned Polly- anna!” he growled. My spirits began to slide. “How's M. Farrington?” “How do you think? Jim, what the devil do you suppose ailed him? Why. did he do it? It's—it's—” til my head was approximately *t the level ofa person sitting on the bed. For a bullet to have passed through both sides of the man’s head and m,| landed where it had, it must have passed right through the top of his skull. And Higgins’ wounds were in his temples. Much as the idea of the old man's guilt hurt, 1 wanted the whole thing to be over with. Perhaps, | reasoned frantically, the impact of the bullet realization sent me staggering against the wall, The revolver was in his tight hand, and Higgins had been pleft-handed! Murder number three! mind clarified. All along 1 had been nearly as ntuch afraid that we would catch the murderer as I was that we’ tured old face as 1 had last seen it alive. I took one more look at it as it | was then. And I. wanted that mur- derer, If it was Michael himself, 1 | was going to see him die before my own eyes. } My jas if it ind began to work as coldly were dealing with a problem spun him around. Perhaps— My next | Right then and there: my state of || wouldn't. But 1 thought of that tor- | | THE REFRIGERATOR You Hear about “Cut it out, Mike,” 1 said. “We! in bricge. Not the Skipper. | had been don’t know and probably) we never | Sitting beside her when the shot was will, What difference does it make! fired. Furthermore, the murderer had now? Get into that shower, You're] all in.” | Michael kicked at the rug. “It| makes a lot of difference. Higgins/ never had a thing wrong with him} in his life. And he never did a thing LEAGUE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE Club. WwW. ke Chicago 38 New York St. Louis Pittsburgh Brook yn Beston Cincinnati Philadel AMERICAN Clad. New York Chicago Detroit Boston LEAGUE W. L. Washington Philadelphia St. Louis 332 put her behind that chest. Higgins must have seen them, to his undoing. (Copyright, 1987. Esther Tyler) 1 devise a trap for the murderer, te- | Toda Albert Bushnell | } : s Birthdays}! Hatt!) med professor eniet- born at Clapievillyy William G. Oreg., oldier of the world war, ex- U. S. Militia. Bureau, born O., 58 years ago. Everson mah, s M. Mann, director / i er} Baptist _-clerzy- | ai Zoological Park, om, D. C., born at Helena, 51 years ago. Svean Glas Davenport, Iowa, 55 years ago. Charles’ Laugh » Sereen star. born in England, 38 years ago. , author, born at | i