The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 21, 1938, Page 3

re | credulou: y MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1938. 000000000000 000C0SSSSOSSSOCSSESSCSSSEOOSOSEDE SOCCCCOSOOOOOSOOSOSSOSOESOOSOESSSESSESESESSSESOESE SYNUPSIS. A revolt of savage Dyak tribes agatnst the Malays makes it impossible tor my uncle, James Clyde, to run guns to his besieged client, Rajah Mantusen. Anchored beside -ous;'ship, the Linkang (1 ; tropical; Balingong bay. 1s the Forrestere yawl the Avon. Unable to persuade the young Engiisa girl, Christine. to leave the Ganger’spot- Clyde and myself (Paul Thorne) takeades- | perate chance im, reaching. the Tajah. On seeing Mantusen the } mystery 0} the Forresters 1s ex- | plamed. They are supplying the | guns, an.. WE are held re- sponsible, i Chapter 12 Clyde’s Plan NG coi in JOTH id convince rafah that we wére not lezgue with the Forresters nothing to d. with the It, to see, of course; why Cly ud have walzed into Man-| tusen’s stockade if Martusen was| correct. This feature seemed to be } d by Mantuser but with enthu {t was just another one of those au- dacities of the inexplicable to Malay mind. } With every approach to our main} defense blocked off. C a! went on} to attempt other w I do nots v7 hat was i his mind; yt S@u how % coud havel | been colored by much hope He} | déscribed to Mantusen the armz-| | was to get his armament up the | they will not fist mefit. which the Linkang had| brougnt. making the most of it| Then he attempted to point out} that the only thing left to be done river, some way or other, and then join forces to disperse the Dyaks. “They afe easy to rouse,” Man- tusen said, “as you have found Neither you nor anyone else can call them off. They dc not respond well te their own chiefs. I think en to you.” “They will listen to my guns. Ciyde said. Another of those long, deadly silences then. fhe yellow light of the lamps highlighted the hea is and shoulders of that passive row of Aasays, and though these were lookin king men, as Malays go. I enough of that row faces The uncertain light i the Oriental. eyes and Af 0: Mostrils accented wit ead» hollows sin effect e listened to your guns all *Mantusen said. His fingers sted the cloth which covered the head of his b »ther in the basket. “I-bave no stdmach.to lis ten M4 Ly even greater number of "Clyde. in his turn was silent for a time. ‘“ if 1 believed you,” said mn, “even if I believed you were nOw going to fight the Dyaks. I tell yor tha: they can no longer be sent away They are too strong. &nd they have tasted blood. They have burned my palace. Your tit’ e handful canrot push away thou- sands of jungle men.” Clyde tried a new tack, and sug- gested that if this wa; the case .Mantusen himself had a very small chance of getting out. Right there, I recognized the white man’s backache talking out oud! For it was obvious at once that Clydé nad made a mi Nothing 1s more foolish th: Suggest toa Malay that he is any- thing less than self - sufficient, whatever jam he may be in. Mantusen’s silence was so long | that the taut air seemed to ring} like a back-stay. And. then Clyde made his} second Mistake in quick succession “Even if you get out.” he said you're going to look good. aren't entre will be nothing for very un- handed: What is your relative Saremba goitg to say—and “ when you explain to hir that pos Dyaks hag burned you down andy ff chased you out?“ He referred to Massin Ali of Saremba, Sultan of Sumantang. whonpsome thought to be Man- tusen's cousin, and others under- stood tc be his nephew. In any case. Mantusen was only a tributary/ overnor to the Sultan Massin Ali fr it was perfectly truc that nothing} y was} ack | prov- you at tarun beck to Saremba ned but humiliation anc pov: ahead of Mantusen if r to Saremba. having lost his ince. The Last Card you are caug a plan which had at of success, and he w gedly. It w de ver could be forced by a sh of the Malay p greater part c followers ne tusen would Balingong. He whaleboat owles the stockad: through whate | | some de HAVE no intention of going/r nave been laid to block the river Without the Linkang, a: Clyde pointed out, the few Malay praus would be surrounder and eaten alive in the bay of Balingong; be- cause the-sea Dyaks, at least. being of a little different mettle than the hill Dyaks, can fight like hell once they- aré-on= the water. But the Lipkang.was 2 flozting fort. Malays could “not be packed aboard*her could stay in the praus, which would “be protected under the jLinkang. guns..The Avon Would rave beep ystiess for this, but Wre-trrkong/ was an asset that | could not be-derided And there we had cy plain that Clyde was merely putting into words a plan that was already in Mantusen’s mind. Undoubtecly Clyde saw too. But it was too late to do any- thing but to go on After all. per- haps it could put into word: ly decided to pi yde could do n ¥ think that there was still of a friendly cooperation of fore es: to pretend that he still ng here was irre- He went on to elaborate how, armed as nobody on this ¢nast, had éver been, the Linkang could scour the whole coast, burning the ‘vil- lages of the rebels who were gathered at fing retaking Balingong at and giving ‘the Dyaks such a lesson as, it, would take centuries for them to forget: And when he had finished what he had to say. the Rajab Mantusen told the truth for once. | think. He told us now that this was exactly what he reant to do. He was going to foree the river, seize the Linkang and the Avon too and in all ways put into action Clyde’s plan He even credited Clyde with one or two minor suggestions which he considered valuable and would se. But Slyde and I were not in it. “Without me,” Clyde saia, will never board the Linkang.” “But I think I can,” Mantusen said There you had it M:atusen thouzht he could. And that was all, and the last card was played, so faz as I could see. Reluctant Concession LESSER man than Clyde wou.d have begun to babble about warships which would come an make something very curry thop out of B-lingong It would have been a futile squall, foi no-one knew better than Mantusen that, Clyde himself could never e Sailed thege spas the warships cared anything about. Sumantang or Clyde either. But Clyde had made mistakes enough and did not make this one Further, he cut me down with a glance every time I started to speak—which was just as. well. That interminable footless con- ference went on. ever more large- ly composed of silence than be- fore. {t was a hopeless thing, and I was ready for the end. And yet Clyde gained something, finally. He worked his way to it by such slow suggestions and weary negotiations that I did not tealize t was accomplished until it was done. and even when it was done I could not believe it. I was aware that Mantusen had deen studying me for a long while. and I knew that the rajah believed me to de a fool. He had also seen the whaleboat crew, and with his own eyes watched now they had Towed without question between the stockades and into Mantusen’s own teeth. obeying Clyde “Foi that | matter. he had watched for years as Clyde's disciplined seamen over and over obeyed him as if they had no souls of their own Upon these things Clyde's plan w. The concession Cly *hands of the Rajah Mafftase’ aes L with my w hae Was to return to the ‘you posed control were then Se bring the tinkang into the mouth sible up the stream. that the Linkang guns coul | stockades a could be done, the Dyaks could . and the face of Clyde's orders to me were in i ing out and from the 1 et ere to keep lacing the jungle. whether we saw t at or not The @ nets were to be rein- with copper cable to a of six feet above the rail, and *o on and so on, through a lot ff have known for ned a state on. I thought of vde's place; yak slave girls heve laughe. hat Per PTs: er xe rec: of bignk te ee “a cotter Leave Pe " P. M., artiving Key West 7 Leaves Key West Mo’ for Havana. Leaves Key West Tuesday: Tampa, Fla. For further information Sur A. da Peninsular & Occidental Steamship Company Effective May 30, 1937 S. CUBA Mx Mon days and Thursdays. ys and Thursdays 8:30 A. M. 30 s and Fridays 5 P. M. for Port and rates call Phome 14 J. H. COSTAR, Agent ‘YOU'LL BE ABLE T0 RUN YOUR OWN AIRPLANE IN YEAR 1963 OR 140-MILE-AN-HOUR AUT By ALEXANDER R GEORGE AP Feature Service Writer Only 35 years have passed since President “Teddy” Roosevelt was praised by the newspapers for his “characteristic courage’ in riding an automobile. Today more people in the Unit- ed States ride automobiles than use toothbrushes. Teddy’s grand- children can cross the Pacific in a passenger plane, and transport pushes on toward undreamed of speed and comfort. Stratosphere Travel From scientists and technicians who toil on devices to cater to a populace which travels more than any other in world history, comes this preview of transportation in 1963: 1. AIR TRAVEL DELUXE— The China-bound North Orient Express slips through the placid stratosphere. In the air-condition- ed dining-dancing salon, ‘New York Importer Jack McGee tops off luncheon ‘with strawberries and cream some 25,000 feet above the frozen tundra of the Artic. He and his 200 fellow-passeng- ers are on a. two-and-a-half-daf’ flight from New York to Peiping. In deep-cousioned chairs they en- joy a television presentation of ,the football game between Mc- Gee’s own Fighting Irish and the Golden Gophers of Minnesota. After dinner ahd dancing to melodies from San Francisco, Mc- Gee chats by radio telephone with his wife in their Long Island home. Pipe dreams? Not if you take the work of conservative aviators. Technicians now are working on super-charged engines and cabins for high-altitude atmosphere, and there‘is serious talk that coast-to- coast sub-stratosphere trips will be offered the traveler in two or three years. The Plane 2. MIDDLE CLASS FAMILY FLYING—On a sizzling Sunday morning in July, Groceryman Joe Shultz of Topeka, Kas:; drives his auto-plant from the home garage down to TopeKa’s field’ for pri- Vate flyers. Mrs: Shultz, the two children and ‘an ‘ auitomatic ice cream freezer are with Joe as he takes off in his low-priced “fool- proof” plane for a Sunday outing in the Colorado mountain coun- ir A Flight of fancy? Aeronautical folk are, confident all this will }come true within 25 years. Road- able aircraft already are here. The steady..improvement in small planes, plus American marketing talent, a generation growing up determined to fly and the vast air “roominess” of the United States, presage flying by a size- able percentage of the population. Experts say volume will demand low priced aircraft. 3. MOTORING IN 1963—Ver- monter Aaron Snowbound and family leave home in a blue-gray dolphin of the highways for an autumnal week-end at the nation- al capital. Their 1963 car is a bit bulbous- nosed, boasts “dining-car window visibility,”* Super-sgafety glass all atound-and perfected air condi- — tioning. The feather-weight metal auto, streamlined like a fish, has a thick outer layer of rubber to} reduce collision hazards. Chemicaliy - treated fuels help: make the compact power plant! almost 100 percent efficient. The! Snowbounds have put a half-pin' of essence of heliotrope in the; fuel tank to make the ¢ fumes pleasant fer other drive: on the road. Papa Snowbound turns dolphin into a six-lane superhigh- way (with bypasses at all towns) The perfectly-engineered road is illuminated at night, the paving is skid-resisting and self-de-icing With automatic gea automa brakes and perfect stab the car almost drives i can do 14 miles an hour, but the Snowbounds, being conserva ease along at 78. Vibrationless Trains 4. THE TRAIN IN 1963- Cornbelt Comet glides out Chicago, its ho melodiaus .au_revoir . to. subur- banitess% Picking. up: speed,. the | fietaltic rabbit of’ the rail is, a_taize-striped streak of cori rea blue in the prairie dusk Says low FarmerHoffman to his hired ‘mani as they wateh the’ ;Streamliner .whiaz.. 4owatd . Des ! Moines: “Looks like she's hitting 130 tonight, Hank.” In the softly-illuminated, vibra- tionless dining car of the Comet, white-haired Henry A. Wallace, former secretary of agriculture, dines on corn-fed chicken and quick-frozen golden bantam corn Behind the diner is the music- movie-television salon, aid-condi- tioned, noise-umffled, free of dirt and bacteria. Fading from the American scene is the old “iron horse’ its place are quiet, slip-streamed versions of the “steam snorter, electric and diesel-electric loco- motives. » Piling up in the transportation graveyard also is that venerable earrier of freight, the wooden box-car. The “side-door pullman”, which endeared itself to the wan- derers of the open road, is rapidly being displaced by an all-purpose, light-weight metal car to carry everything from mushrooms to machinery. + These cars, which can be load- ed'or unloaded from six sides, have the fleet, joltless qualities embodied in the passenger trains that have replaced old “Number 6” the The on} Most suicides occur about 1) a.m. PIRATES COVE FAMOUS FISHING CAMP On Oversea Highway. 20 Miles From Key West —SWIMMING POOL— Charming Surroundings For Reservations Telephone PIRATES COVE TRANSPORTATION C0, INC: Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service —between— MIAMI and Also Serving All Point? KEY WEST on Florida Keys between MIAMI AND KEY WEST Four round trips weekly direct between Miami and Key West via Diesel Power Boats—with over- night delivery to Key West. Leave Miami at 12:00 o’clock noon on Mon- day, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Leave Key West at 8:00 o'clock P. 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Mort, dean of Co- *|lumbia University’s Teachers Col- j lege School of Education, born at Elsie, Mich., 44 years ago. Leonard Merrick, English noy- | elist, born 74 years ago. ‘ed WHO KNOWS? | . i i (See “The Anwsers” on Page &) 1. How many members belong to the United Mine Workers? 2. In what state was Harvey ; Firestone born? 3. How large is the Brazilian | navy? the Jeanette} | Expedition? 5. What is the estimated cost pa the proposed Nicaraguan Can- 4 How much scrap metal was exported from the U. S. in 1937? 7. Has the United States navy any base in Alaska? 8. Has Japan ever officially : apologized for ‘the slapping of John M. Allison, secretary to the American Embassy in Chin: 9. How many people were kill- in traffic accidents in the United States in 1937? ; 10. Is the present unusual win- ter weather caused by sun spots? 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