The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 28, 1937, Page 4

BY MARIZ DE NERVAUD SYNOPSIS: When Kay Cran- don’s Lazy Nine ranch house and darn burn, Josh Hastings, owner of the Flying Siz, tries to buy her ranch and court Kay. But she hates him and is determined to keep her ranch and rebuild. Ted Gaynor, a.puncher she iinpulsive- ly hired, stirs the outfit to cut its own timber and rebuild without pay. Hastings sends his cowhand Scrap Johnson to tie up the only available timber land. But Ted wins the race for an option, then whips Scrap for molesting Kay and leaves him unconscious on the mesa. Chapter 19 ~ Turning The Tables WAS a good half hour after Kay and Ted had left him on the mesa before Scrap Johnson came back to consciousness. He stirred painfully, tried to sit up, then tell back as he felt himself constrained bound him. Swearing to himself, he strained inst his bonds, and gave a snarl satisfaction as he felt them give slightly. Alternately resting and working to loosen the knots in the rope, he finally cleared himself and staggered to his feet. His jaws ached and his face was ualy with tage as he slowly started back to the Flying Six on foot. He not gone far when he saw .a of dust in the distance, and emerging from it the figure of .a horseman coming toward him at a full gallop. As he recognized Josh Hastings, Johnson’s jaw set and his made an instinctive grab for his gun. A savage oath burst out as by the ropes that encountered the empty holster. He had no illusions as to the re- he would get from his boss. was the one thing for Br Josh Hastings had no -pa- z or sympathy, and his fiery temper when he was thwarted was gomething to reckon with. of this?” | command s pulled his plunging halt as he came yea ioading puncher. ’s your cayuse? And ‘where's that option I sent you to get? tment flared into Scra geen eyes, and in his accion gs it was well for Josh Hastings it his holster was empty. “You were too damn. slow,” Scrap Johnson snarled. “hey beat qyou to it.” A ‘dark. flush came over Josh florid face. He swore. “You mean you let Kay Crandon get there ahead of you?” “Sute I didn't,” Scrap answered | . “I stopped her all right. when I got to Old Man Warren, found one of her punchers, a guy mamed Gaynor, had got there ahead of me, and bought up the tee you wanted and an option on the rest.” > . fi Taunts For Hastings ASTINGS exploded into a string of oaths. “The foxy little filly!” he raged, then broke short and looked ‘keenly at ip. “What do you mean about her? Where is she?” disregard of conse- _— Suddenly possessed Scrap. ‘was slated to be fired anyway, go he might as well get all re- venge he could. ‘ouldn’t you like to know?” he Sed tok ten you, og en anyway! a believe me they ain't waiting around for you! That same Gay- mor guy came up and caught me off damn him, but even i" He gave a wild inco- herent laugh at Hastings’ expres- gion. “! srival you've got there!” he ended, on him? Oh, bay: “Shut up, you Fosh Hastings r wand is she sweet | ‘saddle, ' grabbed his shoulder. “Give me this whole thing straight!” “You've got the whole thing Straight enough!” Scrap wrenched himself away. “I’m resigning from your outfit anyway, here.and.now.” “Resigning like hell!” Josh Has- tings roared. “You're fired, and the quicker you vamoose from this range, the better!” “This don’t seem to be my popu- lar day!” Scrap Johnson swag- gered insolently. “Your sweet- heart's boy friend threatened to kill me the next time he saw me. Maybe you can figure why?” he taunted. A look of cunning flashed into his face at an idea that suddenly struck him, and he reeled over close to Josh Hastings’ mount, where his eye had caught sight of a gun in the saddle pocket. Before Josh Hastings could re- that he was dealing with adrunken man, Scrap had grabbed the gun and covered him with a lightning draw. “Hist ’em!’ There was nothing drunk about Scrap’s tone now, and Josh Hastings dropped his reins and reluctantly obeyed. “Seein’ as how I’m through with exit in style,” Scrap sneered. “Sup- pose you unfasten that belt of yours and toss it over here?” “You'll pay for this: good and plenty,” Josh Hastings: raged as he obeyed. “I'm not sticking’around to make any payments.” Scrap: stooped: to pick up the belt with cits: holster and gun °attached,:with |his left hand. ‘He fever took *his‘eyefrom Josh Hastings or shifted his aim. That Hike Back OOKING the belt over-his.arm, Scrap reached over and grabbed the bridle of his victim’s mount. “Get down!” he ordered, his gun unerringly trained on his former boss. “Now, -vamoose yourself,” he ended ferociously, when this last had been obeyed. “Y. can have that hike back instead of me!” As Josh Hastings hesitated, Serap shifted his aim the fraction of an inch, and sent a shot that d the brim of his victim's 10- ion hat, and sent it spinning to the ground. ithout waiting for a further s tuned reminder, Josh, Hasti thd head ay" ying Six, spluttering with inarticulate rage. After watching him for‘a.second, Johnson swung: into \the fe, and headed -at'a gallop for the distant biue ridges of the Bit- ter Root mountains. By the time Josh Hastings reached \home,” his ‘ragé\was no longer inarti¢ulate, but it was none the less intense. In the two hours during which he had. indulged in the unaccus- Surface of the range, he had had plenty of time to face the bitter truth that he had not only been j made a fool of by his former cow- hand, but by Kay Crandon 23. well. Just when he bad seemingly had everything in his own hands, the tables had been , and he was now apparently farther than ever from accomplishing his ends. The appearance of Ted Gaynor on the scene wprmeatty. soneged him, and the taunting hints that — > ager anatibee bab ng out eing "s “boy friend,” ~ade ‘him see. po _ The thought of any rival was intolerable, but the idea that the man whem he believed he had put ‘H get|down once and for all in the it should come back to was an added outrage. (Copyright, 1237, Marie de Nervand) Josh Hastings finds his two enemies "| at bis merey, tomorrow, and plete i‘ weveage. DITCHES DRIVER (Ry Asscctated Prem ST. FRAN Jaly Brian, fixed a motor car. He decided he knew al! about automobiles and backed the car out of the garage. But he had neglected to how to plate But Brim was glass, cover from his renewed conviction | this range anyway, I'll make my | tomed exercise of trudging pain- | willy “meross the hard sun-baked | eee of! eeeecees ee0e coceee | Charles Hopkins, who arrived, to attend the funeral .services for! his mother Mrs. Melissa Hopking,! jleft on Florida Motor Lines bus; jthis morning for his home in Mi-) jami. | 1 T. E. Price, attorneysof Miami,| | who arrived by. plane yesterday | morning, left this morning by bus j for Miami.after concluding a! | business visit with City Clerk} | Wallace Pinder. | i i 1 i | Mrs. Victor Moffatt left }the highway this morning for a | visit in Miami and -will there ¢ ‘train for Asheville, N. C., to visit Mr. ‘Moffatt who is recovering ;from. an;illness-in the mountains} tof North Carolina. | | ' j i i Mr. and Mrs. C, U. Allshouse, |who were visiting relatives and jfriends in Key West and was |guests at the home of Mr. and. | Mrs. Bernard Allen, left over the |highway this.morning for Charles- ton, S. C., where Mr. Allshouse is employed at the Naval Station. | Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Morehouse, who were visiting in Key West for a few days, left over the high- {way this morning for Miami and ‘after a short stay will proceed to} jWest Palm Beach. | Mr. and Mrs. Will Baez, who pwere visiting for about two jweeks, left over the highway this jmorning accompanied by Mrs.| | Baez’s niece, Betty Lou Johnson, |who will visit for a while with the | Baez family at their Miami home. Joseph Baker, who was_ spend- ing a while in Key West with his family, left yesterday afternoon jon the Cuba for Tampa, where he is engaged in the insurance |business. He «was accompanied by his aunt Mrs. Rhoda Baker, }who will spend a vacation in Tampa. Mrs. Al Benson and infant son, Bill, arrived here yesterday jfor a visit with Mrs. Benson’s' mother, Mrs. Hubert Saunders. Mrs. Benson was formerly Miss ‘)Muriel Thompson of this city. ‘NEW ARRIVAL IN “PIERCE FAMILY Mr. and “Mrs. Joseph Pierce announce the birth of a fine boy last Friday in their home at 921] Whitehead street, The baby weighed eight pounds and has been named Harold Michael. Mother and son are do- ing nicely. PPPS 2299 © Today's Birthdays PPOTESSI OSHC HFSS CCCeCeeEe Gen, ‘Ballington Booth, founder- head of the Volunteers of Amer- iea, New ‘York, torn in England, 78 years ago. Joe E. Brown, actor-comedian, born at Holygate, Ohio, 45 years ago. ; Rear Admiral William T. Tar- jrant, U.S.N., born at Black Hawk, Miss., 59 years ago. |. Henry W. Phelps of New York City, president of the American Gas Company, born at Lewistown, Il, 74 years ago. Dr, J. Gresham Machen of Phil- adelphia, Presbyterian theologian, born in Baltimore, 56 years ago. of at John A. Brown, president fSocony-Vacuum il, born |Hampton, Pa., 52 years ago. Mary Anderson de Navarro of England, famed oldtime actress, bron at Sacramento, Cal., 78 years ago. Lesccccccecereseceeeceoes iToday’s Horoscope ee * Today gives strong character, | eoce . e- j { given to scientifie methods and} jcapable of carrying out difficult tresearckes to the ultimate end.} }There may develop a vein of eun-| ining and sometimes cupidity, a tkeen sense of rivalry, and some jjealousy. These latter traits! j should be kept strictly ander con- i trol, if present. : decided to make his own car, so he'd be sure to know how to oper- ate it. ¢ Pe a The finished product rambles” 192 weree. : yeor Recrant totahe. Druggats 50¢ 3 Botte. about the streets of this Wabash the It’s the envy of all the grownups are! river town, with Brian wheel children, and the interested, at least. at At first he operated it by hand! But pumping, like a hand car. now it operates with a wi machine motor, It will cum di miles an hour, and once dumped persevering. He: Brian in the ditch. over | Twith a set cf |flare | Yardley Lavender with atomizer | Partest eeeececocecccscecooeses | T00 LATE T0 By RU Sopeccssreceooessouece A lot of folks shave been - ter- ribly upset for the last week or} 0 about what Governor Fred weal gonna do with the Citrus Com-! Ht { mission. Some of em was dead} ‘certain he was gonna kick every; in last one of the present members! off the board and xeplace ‘em newly discovered} relatives from vp around Lake City. | Other folks who seem to have a for gubernatorial _mind-} readin’ had it all doped out that; all the yovernor was interested in! was gettin’ his meat-hooks on that | $400,000. of advertisin’ money so} he could'ttrt. it over to some; friends of ‘one of his relatives’ down in Miami. ; I’ve had no less than a_ dozen! fo:ks tell me what Fred was. gon-| na do and al! of ‘em went to! great length to explain-just how- come and why. Well, I just sat: back and let ’em rave and carry on, but as far as I was concern- ed they wasn’t foolin’ nobody but themselves. { If you ask me, there ain’t no-! body who kiows what Mr. Fred Preston Cone is gonna do on ac-} count of Fred not realiy knowin’ himself until he up and does it. And while a lot of folks may! not approve of what he does and can’t for the life of them under-| stand why he did it, there is no disputin’ the fact that whatever Fred. do nd regardless of how; he does it, the big idea in the back | of the Governor’s mind is to do’ RIGRT. i Some folks may snort and kick up their heels at that statement, but that’s because the'r idea of what was right differed with Fred’s viewpoint in some particu-| lar instance. But if you’re in-| clined to ke fair-minded and un, biased you'll find that with all} his bluntness, plain talk and gruff manner, there’s a whole} lot of horse-sense, old-fashioned! honesty and a mighty big heart, | | tin’ baek to the tres} some folks seemed ot Fred had a lot of crust goin’ down to Lakeland and pokin’ his nose into their affaizs, | but eonsiderin’ the fact that those ; boys handle several hundred thou-j sand dollars every year and the! Governor is personally responsible for their behavior, it’s only nat- ural that Fred figured if they; wasn’t gonna come and te!l him what they planned to do maybe; he’d better go down there and: find out for himself. That’s the! kind of a governor Fred is. } The fact “hat the Commission! had a clean record and had been| doin’ a mighty fine job didn’t have nothin’ to do with it. Fred juat! wasn’t takin’ their word for it or, anybody else’s. He wanted to; know what they were doin’, how | they were ‘Coin’ it, why they did; it, and what they planned to do? next. When they found out he wasn’t} foolin’ they zot busy and ave him all the information ke want- | ed. He looked it over, found it} OK and told ‘em to go right on! abead like they’d heen doin’ and} if they needed any help from him! all they had to do was ask for it./ It is proper and fitting for a! governor to keep in close touch: With what is goin’ on and Fred! ought to take s day off every now: and then to drop in unexpected on! this or that department, board or. commission, and demand an ac-* count It shouidn’t stop with the Citras Commission... As the sayin’ goes—“A little checkin’ —Get It At— } GARDNER'S PHARMACY 4 “The Rexall Store” f for Russian Mineral pint $1.25 Similac, pint | M-I-31 Solution, pint - | Heinz Baby Foods, 3 cans __ Lee Dixon-Ruby Keeler in Guy Kibbee-Alice Brady in MAMA STEPS OUT Matinee: Balcony, 10c; Orches MONKOE THEATER |! Stork Nursing Bottles, wide mouth, 8 os. READY, WILLING AND ABLE ||""**es Alcohol, pint i tra, 15-20c; Night: 15-25< 3 PHONE 177 —Free Delivery— Se j be taxed. | : t 1 A wild goose is as silly as a lot 0° auto drivers. They honk at nuthin’ p’ticklar. It’s the surplus prophets that orta | fat $90,000. The theft was com- ; Thus passes in to oblivion WEDNESDAY, JULY: 28, 1937. ‘RESPONDS TO MUSIC (By Ansociated Prem) OKANWVILLE, Til, July 28— KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY ‘Hapenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen Advices received in Key West © Belisario G. Mendoza, -72, for! charms,” ete. today are that “Bésten “Billy” 50 years a resident of Key West,| She dialed her radio to « mnsi- aaa’ jg died yesterday at family home, Williams, -whose real neve. is tes Giiiceten are. (fs en 4 cal peverant and started for -@ James F. Monaghan, the “Gen-: .; “ infirmities ToCking chair on the front porch. q : : j¢igarmaker until the infirmities s fe - A Hileman’ Burglar” was today sen-| of age made it obligatory that he She stepped back in fright. tenced.to.-prison, for 50 years,'retire. He was recognized as an vee black snake had beaten her following his. plea of guilty toa influential member of the Cuban tthe chair. Se gern Tila pond, ) col * , a rhythm- charge of robbery.of- jewels valued; °!"Y- jically, peering through the open window through which the music wafted. Unappreciative, Mrs. Bridges screamed. A neighor armed with a club halted the terrifying terpsi- Gas abiainiion ‘aang Gabi ee, PRMD Ren ee ‘was to have been staged at the trial Recess was taken until man who eame to Key West, made!{00t of Simonton streat hy mem- saturday morning. Only about a host of friends, because of his’ 2°* °f the:Epworth League. of three cases remain to be dis ; Stone Methodist church, has been posed of and they are of minor Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bush an- mitted at the home of Jesse I+inounce the birth of a seven and Livermore on Long dsland. The; paje pound boy. Mother aaa! sentence of 50 years came as &: opi x ‘. ; derprias tg, Meuactak and We child are reported as resting well | torneys who expected a light sen- tence upon ‘his plea of guilty. the ©290900089009600009990990 | PARAGRAPHS; | ' SOCSeecegocceseoseecsese American Place Names Introducing: Minnie, Ky. Have It All Modern women seldom to tears, but there isn’t much left} to ery for.—Dubuque Tribune. Observation Mussolini wants to make Italy} i No country | ever going to be as self-sufficient | as Benito.—Chieago Tribune. self-sufficient. is Add Definitions oe A great national problem is} anything that a lobby asks Con-j gress tp appropriate money for.—j} San Diego Union. Loud-Talkers Win Just as we expected, There are plenty of persons who can and do talk louder than the talking mov- .—The Nashville ‘Banner, Pious Hope Gyroscopes now keep wisatl ocean greyhounds on an eyen keel, and maybe at long last Eu- rope will find a stabilizer for the apple cart.—Milwaukee Journal. { 1 ‘Why? A new iten. says that-twenty- five peopie were robbed in a New York restaurant. But why specify twenty-five?—The Norfolk Led. ger-Dispatch, Bathroom Singers It is a sort of inferiority com- plex that makes men sing in the jbathroom. That is about the only room in which they can sing and sound as if they had a big voice- —Kaneas City Star, now and then is helpful to the best of men.” And in spite of Fred’s affection for Mr. Roosevelt, it seems that he don’t hold no kindly feelings for some of the “new deal” hired help who seem to think they can order a governor sround, just because they happen to he an office boy in the administration playhouse. So right at the moment there's a big argument goin’ on as to just what constitutes UNEMPLOY- MENT in Flori Fred insists that Mr. Emerson ‘js ‘unemployed and one of Mr. Roose zelt’s hired men contends thet he most defin- itely* is employed. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’m bet- tin’ on Fred. GIRLS DON’T BE SKINNY! —GET SOME CURVES! Fill out those thin places and get the pretty curves men admire. Take Vinol (iron tonic) and you'll be surprised how your figure im- proves. Tastes delicious. Oriental y- SOTTO TTS RUSSELL’S SOOO ODDS. resort | i friendly attitude and gentleman-} - abe Ty. beneing which later was Sound PO ey Pomponet. | importance. to be just a pose necessary to his, successful eareer as a gentleman thief. {. One of the two navy planes’ ; Which arrived, several days ago | trom Pensacola, left yesterday for } Miami. It was commanded by Lieutenant Schilt. It may return here before returning to Pensa- cola. Reverend Otis Kirby, whose picture appeared in.The Citizen of yesterday as one of the grooms in a quadruple wedding, was pas- tor of the.,Congregational church’ Cyiiinal court met this morn ing but found no cases ready for received by a number of is ae mer congregation members in this’ city. 4 Captain Clark -D, Stearns’ deci- sion, just made, not to enter.the race for mayor is likely to leave the field to the three candidates who have already entered. A peti- tion signed by many local voters was presented to the captain some time ago urging “him to give the | £ matter serious thought and when = LL NN 3 he had decided to let them know. JACKSONVILLE hal Goetinemeleranee aot FLORIDA. Y SUMMER COMFORT. at thie ous thought, and eventually de- town Jacksonville. cided to remain active in the and Aleor. 1 © other capacities in which he is now engaged, than to enter the mayoralty race at this time. ‘ on Editorial comment: There is ae no such thing as .a ‘newspaper that’s edited from the -business of-: fice. For, when.a publication be-i gins to be so edited, it immediate-} ly ceases to be a newspaper. <r SE ees” H with Private Effective May 30; 1937 8.8. CUBA Lear:s Port Tampa on Sundays and Wednesdays at 400 P. M., arriving Key West 7 A. M. Mondays and Thursdays, Leaves Key West Mondays and Thursdays 8:30 A, M. for Havana. 3 Leaves Key West Tuesdays and Fridays 5 P. M, for Port Tampa, Fla. For farther information and rates call Phone 14 J. H. COSTAR, Agest. From Key ‘West alternate Fridays From New York every Tuesday From Boston every Saturday From Jacksonvi'le, Miami and New Orleans every two weeks CLYDE A LORY . E. 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