The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 16, 1938, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY SYNOPSIS: A widespread re- 7eoit of savage Dyak tribes makes £%t impossible for my uncle, James ' Clyde, to run guns to his client, a the besieged rajah. A further + complication is the presence of the Forresters’ yawl, the Avon, in ~ tropieal Balingong bay. Chris- tine and her brother, Robert, x dlankly refuse to leave because y they are completing a “plan” of their dead father. Unwilling to 4 quit the island with the young ® English girl in danger, we are # attempting to reach Rajah Man- Stusen up-river. There is some~ thing queer and wrong abcut this whole situation, Chapter Eight Refuge! ‘ 4 QUDDENLy, there was a ripping. cae of Tifle ee pee a at first, then quickly subsiding into the ragged pounding of ir- regularly reloaded guns. Over these presently began to sound the hoarse, blunt concussion of lan- takas, the small-bore brass cannon of the Malays. Something like cold fire jumped} into my uncie’s eyes. “By God, Mantusen still holds Balingong!” I remember hearing myself say, “The Dyaks may be fighting among themselves.” “With lantakas, you fool?” His decision then was instant, ‘without es or reason; it was as sudden as the reflex of a muscle, or the crack of a whip. “Paul, swing he: nose up- stream! Set your oars! I'm going through.” I started to say; “Wait! You can’t” He didn’t hear me. “Wait your say wait your swing—Now ‘The faces of the men were blank with astonishment, but they obeyed with everything they had, into action by the sting of Clyde’s voice. “Pull, you fools! i as you never pulled! Lift her, it yen want to live!” ie water boiled from the blades, and from every blade a deep spiraling hole in the river opened up to go whirling away down the stream. It was as if the violence of my unele’s will had lifted the whaleboat half out of the water, and kicked the river out from under him. tid the ugly, rabbish drone of action rose from the stockade. Brown figures raced along the shore and ran parallel to us in the jomme. They piled into 20 praus. in itself; it might have by, a-jumping fish, ex- cept that I had.seen the quick slie- ing flicker in the air that was the with which Dyaks go. into! DIRE FOR 0 LODY ‘Only some long lines of black- ened pilings stood there now. Behind the pilings of the van- ished palace, sét upon a steep beach, now stood double stockade to which Mantusen had evidently retired. The outer and inner walls of this stockade, which opened to the river itself, were both much lower than those of the Dyaks, but strongly built and ad- vantageously placed. Within those defenses figures were moving, rec- ognizable even at the distance as Malays. At a glexze I could see that a few score of Malay krismen could hold that place until they starved, against almost any num- ber of fighting men equipped with primitive weapons. More throwing-spears began to Sting into the water around us now, cleaving deep, then rising again to float away. A dart from a sumpitan, fired from a hopeless dis- tance, stuck momentarily in the back of my wrist, ther fell off. One of those loaded-bamboo throwing sticks caught the stroke- oar back of the head with a sound | like a falling cocoanut, and he col- lapsed, one shoulder trailing in the water. His oar dropped free; and I caught it out of the water and shipped it, as we boiled past. | Then abruptly thespearsseemed |to be all around us, so that you could not count the flickers in the air or the splashes in the water. They ripped into the smooth sur- face of the Siderong as if somebody had thrown a handful of. gravel. Clyde said, “The damned fools will hurt somebody if they don’t look out.” One of the struck an oar close by young Slider’s hands, and |the high spinning bound of the cing spear gave an idea of the force with which it had been | thrown. It came and went like a shadow, leaving a quick flowing curtain of blood on Slider’s cheek. - It began to drip and run down his chest and his sweat-soaked shirt, | without Slider or anybedy else ae how or how much he had wounded, Sea-going Praus ANOTHER spear broke its point 4% against the bottom of the boat, and splinters jumped; but instead of bounding, this spear steod fan- tastically on its head, waving crazjly straight up. Grogan was looking down at it in a dazed way; the spear was standing there be- cause it had gone through his foot. For two full strokes he stared at that phenomenon, until my uncle's quiet, migremety matter-of-fact voice awoke him. “Well, pull it out and throw it away.” Grogan drop} his oar, grabbed the spear with both hands and in a single motion pullec it out and threw it high over his head; then seized his oar and rowed again, slashing a great shower of water over me in his.attempt to catch the Driven by a short choppy stroke with many paddies, very quick in the beat, they look to be going much faster than they are, an ‘WM. | they made our heavy whaleboat out widely cut Pilings in the water itself, or in mud whieh would be water when he river turned brackish with the high tide. There were about of those set high on their stilts, made of bamboo and split orderly arrangement of the Pace so that the first time I ever saw it I thought there were of houses there. Shower Of Spears BY bce now Balingong uad a single | was) immediate meaning. It Tefuge. The boid, recon- noitering of my had sud» Sy aaeeet into something else. We had come ingly at first, feeling our van oe e's bdrillianly swi: through the blockade, and there ‘was no longer any question of turn-} k. Al we were irre- trievably caught in the undertow of events. With, the first sight of Balin- in his water gupete foes. Gatant snes, Be :o Mantusen had been able to elect that no other house should be be- the sea. It had iver like most of the rest, and like them had been with rated Stilted amwciated Prean) FOND DU LAC, Wis, Feb. 14. —Mrs. Leonard Scheibach. a bride of only a few hours, spent what was supposed to have been her hnoeymoon in a hespital bed recovering from an appendec tomy She became il! befo: mony, but refused to postpone either the wedding or the recep. tion which followed. At the latter, the cere- decision — even | then I thought it questionable in| the extreme—had snatched us| seem to flounder. I said, “Shall I fire, sir?” “Mr. Thorne, you will please get | away from those weapons. What, shoot at our little brown brothers, with ammunition that setsme back better than seven cents around?” Fortunately those praus were a arn. too. Some of them had | come a long way by the coast. If }they hzd been river canoes the: | could not have hel; Tunning all | over us. But their long outriggers, | ight built though they were, put a | bad drag on them, and the praus } age it — eg w | beams, eeper than the; ie , | though they seemed able | to close a good b:t of distance, they put less a into it than it ve body stopping us. At the stroke oar, Schweicamp, who had | knocked out, began to flounder | about a little again, trying to find }out where he was; ani | the next oar on Schweicam; was sho' his teeth as he @ mighty effort to make | Schweicamp’s missing oar. rest of the crew. was smoothly. Clyde laid hands upon half picked it up, then lai again and took a tol. } passed me so closely that I felt | hornet-like buzz of it along | skin of my arm. | The praus faltered. } “Ram her where the | Palace used to be,” said. } (Coteright, 1938, dian Laltey} i } "4 evtti Feat had a crooked smile. He found a crooked partner, who had walked a crooked mile. They stole a crooked car, left it on a crooked trail, Now they both live together in a little crooked jail Japan her is wary about reply on avy; denies 42,000-ton ships are being built however, she collapsed un- derwent an emergency operation. SPORTS }z BY IOVeE THE KEY WEST CITIZEN oo j ecececcccccccccccoocceccccscecesnceoseseosaecaces FOLLOWING THROUGH escccccccccccscesoseso: CONCHS SHOULD ENTER DIS- cleaned up easily on two of the weaker state teams on their rec- | ent read trip. walloping Pompano to whom they recently lost. They have been defeated only by Mi- strongest team on the East Coast. Why shouldn't Key West enter the District Tournament in Miami March 4 and 5 at the Miar:i Beach enough to make a strong bid for would not surprise sayome ror them io take first plac. What Basketball League? By the way what has happened to the basketball league? Is it a boys league or a man’s league for like most everything in this city it has been left half done . Spring Training Ahead! The baseball clubs are heading south . . . Boston Bees open their training at Bradenton, Fla., Feb. 24, Cincinnati at Tampa, Feb. 26, Yankees at St. Pete, Feb. 27, Washington at Orlando, Feb. 27, Cardinals at St. Pete, March 2, Red Sox at Sarasota, March 3, Brooklyn, at Clearwater, March 4, Tigers at Lakeland March 6, in other states, the Cubs open at Catalina Islands, Cal, Feb. 24, Philadelphia A’s at Lake Charles, La. Feb. 22, Phillies, at Biloxi, Miss., Feb. 25, Cleveland, at New CLASSIFIED COLUMN eeccccsee FOR SALE 75 ROOM GOING HOTEL. Won- derful future. 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Private lessons. For Particulars apply street every day except Sun- day, 12 to 9 p. m. jan29-;mon-wed-fri-Imo (SOMO OMMAMMAMTTEEOEEOEMIAOOAOMATOMMMOOOOAOE Ss, eaccececes Orleans, Feb. 27, Giants at Baton Rouge, La, Feb. 28. White Sox at Pasadena, Cal, March 3, Pir- ates at San Bernando, Cal, March 5, Browns at San Antonio, Tex., March the 7th. Hot American League Race Mickey Cochrane says it is go- ing to be a hot race and that his Tigers wlil be in the midst of it. He claims his infield will be, | Greenberg, at first, Gehringer at second and Rogell at short, with third base open. Fox, Walker, Lazas and White will be the cut- fielders, York, Tebbets and Ha- worth the receivers, and the pit- ching staff will be almost the same as last year, with a few rookies that promise to make the grade this spring . . . Here and There It is rumored that Cleveland will trade Mel Harder to the Red Sox for Doc McNair . . . Frisch thinks he will have more trouble signing Joe Stripp than any oth- er Cardinal . . . Joe DiMaggio, a third-year man, nonchalantly asks the Yankees to pay him $40,000 a year or $266 per game, . . - - Schoolboy Rowe is just a name on the Tigers roster this Tonight at the High School Gym, the fast-stepping High School Varsity five will clash with Carbonell Stars, leaders in the City Basketball League. The Stars have been walloping the High School regularly, but with the School's recent wonder- ful showing against the best up- state High School quintets, fans are anxious. to see how the out- come will be. Some seem to think the School players are stepping along at too fast a clip for the Stars at present, and others fall back on the past record of the Stars, who have a steady scoring team. The High School has developed ; new stars in Schoneck and Pinder, | and this has strengthened the team considerably. All in ajl, a! keen fight is expected. } Game will be called at 7:15. - year, or Vernon Kennedy will, take his place as a regular, and if Rowe comes through then it will be another pitcher for the Tigers staff ... Mickey Owen, catcher of the Cards, runs a. fill- ing station in California, and his batery mate, Dizzy Dean, runs one in Bradenton, Fila. . . . Lloyd Brown is given his release by the Cleveland Indians . . . Far has signed to fight Max Baer on March the 11th. This same Maxie Baer gave Farr his American re- putation . . . Vadim Makaroff's Vamarie, mahogany-hulled racing yacht that once dominated the St. Peterburg, Key West, Havana, races, will be missed when they line up this year for the start . . . If Wally Berger goes to the Cincy Reds the Reds will be fighting for the fifth notch of the National league ladder . . . The Yankees $390,000 payroll makes the play- ers on the other clubs jealous - It is rumored that Ben Cantwell will manage the Sanford entry in the Florida State league . . . Key West’s “brightest night | spot”, where dancing is made to} order. Moonlight in a Latin-Am-! erican atmosphere—sweet swing! entermingled with the hotest! music in town, by the Habana- | Madrid orchestra. | i “Mile Paree and Don Barbe-j cue” an international dance team; } | Frank and Teddy Sabini, featured i songsters; a floor show of many | pleasant and riotous prescnta-} tions. } Pena’s Garden { | The “March of Time” people} move their base of operations to- | morrow night te Pena’s famous Garden of Roses—so if residents; or visitors really want. to get in} the movies—here’s the chance. . . .| shine forth in all their glory with the famous “music that pleases” | and, all in all, it looks like a big ; DELIVERED HERE LAST NIGHT The following paragraphs are excerpts of a lecture delivered by Judge Samuel W. Greene. CSB. of Chicago, iilincis, member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, at the High School auditorium last evening under the * auspices of Key West Christian * Science Society: “The history of humanity -' through the ages has been an un- ceasing struggle for better condi- . tions. Only the unthinking fail to progress. Each state of improv- ed thought has a wider horizon, | a langer outlook, a higher vision. Sea level, 30.15. WEATHER FORECAST (Till.7:30 p. m., Thursday) Key West and Vicinity Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday, moderate east and northeast winds. Florida: Partly cloudy tonight on northeast coast; slightly warm- er on east-central coast tonight. Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate east and northeast winds, and partly overeast weather tonight and ‘Thursday. WEATHER CONDITIONS Pressure is moderately low this morning from the Rio Grande Mortal man without vision, with- out hope, without incentive, grad- ually degrades, and becomes an object of pity. “Thus is indicated the tragedy of human belief—fallen man. “The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Bake Eddy, has given to the world a new hope, a brighter vision, founded upon spiritual under- standing and progress, rather than upon material belief and limitation. “In following the Scriptual method of healing she saw that the Bible requires spiritual imter- pretation to be properly helpful and healing, This new or spirit- ual interpretation, she saw, must be consistent with a proper inter- pretation of God, and a man in God's image and likeness. The generally accepted view of God ; | as being the creator of both good There has also. been light to moderate precipitation in the Ohio Valley, portions of the Lake region, Tennessee, Virginia, and North i ‘Femperatures have fallen in the northern and central Rocky Mountain and central Plains States, with readings 14 degrees below zero this morning in Mon- tana, and it is also colder in New England with subzero readings in Maine; while temperatures con- tinue above normal in southern districts. G. S. * KENNEDY, | Official in Charge. evening. The ad on page one gives all other details. ILLIPPIIIIIIIILIIISIDODIIAD AIO WASH TUBS— No. i - Ne. 2 No. 3 - SCRUB TUBS 15 Gal. . 26 Gal Garbage Good Hardware Is The Backbone of Your Home FOR BETTER MATERIALS, CALL AT THE SOUTH FLORIDA © ~ “ Porch Swings . . $3.75 each Made of Hardwood and Finished in Natural Varnish—Very Strong Galvanized Ware Wheeling—Gvaranteed Leak-Proof—Rust-Proeef 8 Qt 10 Q. 12 Qe 14 @& 16 Qt. $1.15 130 1.50 5 Gal. 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All the synonyms are readily understood, as this fundamental concept of Ged is-ac- cepted—God is Mind, Spirit, Soul, Deity may be in part startling to the average Bible student, and the newness or strangeness of REMEMBER THE F C hotdh Cansuan Soence to the begmmer is apparent when he attempts & apply this spiriue!l comeept of Deity mm ali @s logeal sequence: in his daily ving Por instance the whole humer family fears Fear seems te be almost msumc- tive. and yet it 1s obviously meee have alwers Proper cam- man has never falien. but that 2 must, or error, has seemed to shut from view the res! man—God's child—and has provided of