The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 12, 1938, Page 3

SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1938. SYNOPSIS: Chance and a young English girl have contrived to make the trader and gun-run- ner, James Clyde, rajch of Bali gong. Christine Forrester, com- pleting a plan of her dead father, is behind the Dyak revolt which caused Malay surrender. This desperate enterprise may bring power and wealth, or defeat end death. It means lifelong jungle exile for Clyde and myself (Paut Thorne, his nephew). But Chris- tine needs our help, and we are both in love with her. Chapter 2y The New Rajah Alt these negotiations had to be | 8tted from fever that he seemed: conducted through the goings| and comings of Lundok, for Slyde| Later we learned that three Ma- |lays had ten killed—one of them Happenings Here Just 10 Years an old woman, and another a little boy—when the steersma1 of the last prau had called out insults to the jungle. Inte: i matic difficulties, end with a war with Saremba, might come of an incident like that; but for the present Mantusen and his people were out of there. Late that day, after e long par- ley. with Mantusen aboard the Linkang, Clyde came up the river to his palace. He was brought in a big Dyak bankong, paddiec by the pick of the Tenyalan,. With him came Robert For- Tester, so weak and mackerel- three parts disembodied. It was impossible to make out what he thought about all this, so little a I KEY WEST IN . DAYS GONE BY BOARD ACTS ON PAYROLL ISSUE The Files of The Citizen MIS-USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS IN OKLAHOMA WERE REVEAL- ED IN REPORT TO DEPART- Jenner Brothers will build the; Key Vacas stretch of the highway for $166,844.64. The firm’s pro- posal was accpeted at a meeting MENT of the county commissioners last night. At noon today at another meeting, an executive session, JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March the proposal was read anew and'12 (FNS)—The zeal shown by the operations are to commence the Florida State Welfare Board by March 20 and be completed! in complying with the require- by November 28, 1928. Final ex-' ments of the, federal Social Se- ecution of the contract will be'curity Act was well justified, held in abeyance for 10 days to Clayton C. Codrington, state wel- allow a committee from the com- fare commissioner, stated today, would not go into Balingong again, | onergy was left in him with which missioners to go to St. Augustine! citing the action of the Social Se- and Rajah Mantusen could not} come out. Lundok’s prowlings were! a little safer now, since the orders| to Zenyalang riflemen; but he still} could travel only at night, and| often was delayed for hours in his circuit of the intervening miles of| jungle. In the end, Clyde had to make guarantees of enormous indemni- ics if any accident should befall} m himseh, or his goods, | when Malay praus took to the} river. This was purely a gamble on | {Clyde's part; he could not pay the| indetanitie if our plan: went! wrong. But 1 think those stubborn Malays would have died there if) they could not have obtained terms} whi ae felt satisfactory~to the ace. ¢} Be j ¢ longbdat, moved up the Siderong river at last. It was I who officially took over the improvised which represented te the- s hom] of Balingong a been orced, after mi to. admit that we could no longer ‘him to risk fallin, hostage to tusen. sd Even the danger of some uncal-} culated indignity must be guarded Lares He was no longer simply ‘aptain James Clyde of the Lin- gunrunner to the narrow = He ‘sae3 our ewe pe ne whose ige and supposed in- fallibility. all our plans must de- There was no proclamation cere- mony, under the circumstances. But word was now running ‘enya.ang, and from the fenyalany alan Dyak tril thea through all the tT ith. took age et : & Fee8 ie ek 8 & Pt & ae i to take interest. But, in a way, his pale immobility was impressive; and his blondness among these dark people made him look like some strenge young god. Just before sunset Clyde held his first audience with the Tenya- lang. They came into -he big inner compound cautiously at first, re- luctant with suspicion; the various groups watched each other arro- gantly, and with distrust. But been there, and many pangirans and others who were not supposed to be, for presently the compound was filled with morethan 300 men. The Tenyal: were not pre- Possessing—smal! 5fov-n men with ragged hair, wilé visages, and short naked legs. They wore black goatskin war jackets and sheathed Parangs, but the elaborate shields without which the averagé Dyak will not be seer. in ‘ime of war were not carried by the Tenyalang. In A Mood For War | 3 pond thing common to them all was enough to send chills down the back of any white man wha knew his business here. Around the neck of almust every man was a thong suspending that sn.all, in- tricate jimat of the Tenyalang— the same hornbil. cut-out that Christine had shown me, and that I had seen swinging from the gun taken by Mantusen. Anc each man carried a rifle crooked in his left elbow, muzzle high. The ordinary Dyak handles his Saspip- gun, if he has one, with a “ingerly awkwardness, yntil he has had it for a long time. After that he uses it for driving stakes. But there was something loving and reverent, and also practiced, in the way the Tenyalang warriors handled their weapons. These were not simply men who had rifles; they were riflemen. If I had not learned by this time to believe what Christine Forrester had told me about her father, I would have oCinde PD vite ‘ob'mats put le pile of mats put at the etige of the and make arangements -for aicurity Board at Washington in right-of-way with the Florida dropping Oklahoma from the fed- East Coast Railway company. eral Old Age Assistance payroll. The Key Vacas group link will be| Brief dispatch from the nation- about 12 miles long, erossing al capital stated that the action hummock lands and stretches of was taken because of the “flag- shallow water, where fills in-'rant mis-use of public funds” in stead of bridges will be built. The administration of the state’s pub- commission also went into the lie assistance plan. The decision matter of printing road maps and followed reports of its investiga- | within an hour they must ali have forms of advertising, which was tors to the Board that Oklahoma eventually referred to a commit- pension checks had been issued to tee consisting of Commissioners dead men and that an incomplete Wm. R. Porter, Carl Bervaldi and audit showed that $635,000 had J. Otto Kirchheiner. been paid out irregularly. ee The Social Security , Board. The Spring convention of the through its publicity department, Stone and Webster power station had previously made public a let- engineers opened yesterday at the term from its chairman. Arthur J; La Concha Hotel with an address |Altmeyer, to Goy: Marland’ of, of welcome by Bascom L. Grooms, Oklahoma, and John Eddelman, manager of the Key West. Elee- | chairman of the Oklahoma Public tric Company.. Sessions are be- Welfare Commission. The fol- ing held today and will come to lowing extract from this letter ‘an end tomorrow with an all-day indicated the close supervision fishing trip. The engineers come exercised by the Social Security from points in Georgia and Flor- .Board over state boards and its ida and are guests of the Key Tigid insistence upon their com- | West Electric Company while in| Pliance with the federal act: Key West. H. E. Hailey, of Tam-| “Grants have been made with- pa, is chairman, and other engi-| out the applications of a uniform neers at i come from Sa- Policy as to the determination of vannah, Ga., Jacksonville, Colum- need. Arbitrary changes have SOCIAL SECURITY DALADIER’S WORD SHOWN AS LAW IN FRENCH WAR PROGRAM PARIS, March 12—Under the black slouch nat of Edouard Dala- dier is the brain that may de- termine victory or defeat for France in “the next war.” As minister of national defense, Daladier supervises the work of France’s army, navy and air corps in_much the same manner as Chancellor Adolf Hitler now does in Germany. Save only for the ready aprpoval of Premier Ca- mille Chautemps and his fellow cabinet members, Daladier’s word and whim are law in the shaping of French defenses. As minister of war for the past two years, and in three cabinets before that, the aggressive square-jawed Daladier is credit- ed with bringing France’s army to its present high efficiency. Now he will coordinate sea and air defenses with the army so that united. French forces may ‘strike together in war. Foe of Dictatorship Political leaders have remarked ! that Daladier was the one man in France whom the democratic masses would trust with such power. This 53-year-old politi- cian’s career has shown him t> be the sworn enemy of dictatorship and a firm champion of democ- racy. And yet four years ago Dalad- ier was hooted and hissed as “as- sassin” and driven from political life. It was freely predicted he could never again hold public Office On February 6, 1934, police fired into a crowd of citizens on the Place de la Concorde demon- strating against the government and the Stavisky scandals. Sever- al persons were killed and Dalad- the People's Front Government of Leon Blum came into office in June, 1936, Daladier became war minister, the post he has held ever since. A former school teacher. blunt and quiet except for heated speeches on national defense questions in Parliament, Dalad- ties in 1919. In 1933, he became premier for the first time, after Participating in six cabinets. It was his second ministry that fell after the Paris ficts Roosevelt rates dreadnaughts as still most effective naval weapon despite threat of airplane TEXACO ier, premier at that time, and his i cabinet were forced to resign. Everywhere he went, Daladier was called “killer” because his government was responsible for Police shooting into the crowd. Confounds the Prophets Daladier retired to his native Vaucluse in the south of France, rolled his cigarettes, rode his bi- cycle and kept his mouth shut. A year later he resumed his activity in the Radical-Socialist party, then was elected President | PAGE THEEE . "to succeed Edouard Herriot. When @**®®eeecrecsecees secesece Today's Horoscope eeceesccecee ¢ acter ecutive powe hen w they are = You shouic , ier entered the Chamber of Depu- “Tong igh do not rood o PRESENTED BY THESE FIRMS MAY BE DEPENDED UPON Give Them Your Business! and can test your tubes, METAL or GLASS, under actual opérating conditions bus, Ga., Winter Haven and Tam- Conferring of the third degree on a class of 102 candidates will) tonight mark the second day of the official visit of Harry New-| man, of Pennsylvania, supreme chief of the Knights of the Gold- | en Eagle. | The Young Sluggers were de- | | feated yesterday by a team from | theenaval station by a score of 4 ‘10% Good pitching by Tramp of, tform in front | the*naval station team: was feé- | 7; been made in grants without re- gard to individual need. Owing to the state’s failure to carry out its regulations to review the cases of those receiving. assistance. per- sons who have become ineligible after the grant was made con- tinue on the assistance rolls. The |} state and county records purport- ing to’ establish eligibility of re- cipients are not accurate and en- tries made’ in such art clearly at variance with actual facts in a/ substantial number of cases”. Commenting on Oklahoma’s predicament, Commissioner Cod- | said: “In Florida, the} of the house, and when he at last | sponsible for the victory. Tramp state Welfare Board is carrying came to sit cross-legged there, all pitched the whole game:and al-/5.+ both the letter and spirit of ; Movement and sound in the com- pound ‘stopped. Robert Forrester Sat to his right, very still and white. I sat on Clyde's left, and | lowed but six hits. Editorial .comment:- Two —12- its agreement with the Social Se- curity Board, based on the social security act. It feels that any ad- on my left sat Lundok. who helped | mile ferriages over the water gap ditional expense incurred, either with the translations. Clyde was in shoal water, and he knew it. All about us w: huge angry stew-pot of tribes, no doubt ueiuddled by the tarn of events but in a mood for war. It was up to hi to establish at least a semblance of govern- ment, and do it quickly. The Tenyalang, whom Anthony For- rester had brought into cartial dis- cipline, were usefu. to us now as a means of conveying Clyde’s im- mediate intent. At first, of course, he could do} little except to assure them that he represented their friend, the rajah laut—Anthon. Forrester, whom they must not know to be dead—and attempt to obtain their temporary obedience, or at least neutrality. Robert Forrester kept prompt- will make the Oversea Highway | trip much faster. It will undoubt- | exactly the same ratio. Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen and Mrs. Marjory Stoneman Douglass arrived over the highway from Miami this afternoon and have made reservations at the La Con- cha. Although a candidate for congress, Mrs. Owen says her vis- it is merely informal and that she does not intend to make any spetches at this time. Key West Council Knights of Columbus will hold. their regular meeting this event at their hall | ing Clyde out of the corner of his | on Division’ Streét,and all mem- |mouth as Clyde now told them bers are urgently asked to be |what great things were ahead. there. |Their oppressors had been van- }ished and sent*away. Their new jfajah was devoted to their wel- | Reports from the highway were Six i fare. He would defend them in not available today. due to the in the thorough investigation of applications or in the review of Sak edly encourage travel over it in the cases of those receiving assist- ance, is small compared to the loss which the state would sus- tain if deprived of matching fed- eral funds”. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS FIRST DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY TO BE HELD MAY 3. 1938 MSS oceecoceocecessceses For State Legislature T. S. CARO PIERCE BROTHERS We have just installed the latest type : TUBE CHECKER GET YOUR RADIO TUBES TESTED FREE RES ND TEXACO aur FIRE CHIEF | DAIRY PRODUCTS GASOLINE Light and Heavy Cream : Pasteurized Milk PAUL'S TIRE SHOP eae a Cor. Fleming and White Sti. Chocolate Mille PHONE 455 —Courteous Service— PHONE 65 TREVOR AND MORRIS INC. INSURANCE 319 Duval Street Office: TELEPHONE NO. 1 eds “Oldest For Representative State Legislature ni Anthony a “by deed of the Sul- ruled Balingong, as- e authority of ‘life ahd i ip and | assis- who Were faith Mantusen ‘as his iT, on pain of death ruction of his village. Mantusen starter down it in the shaded ruai of th witht: “Mantusen’s and eight of the Lin- kang’s men; and when the last of sea-going outrigger around the bend af the river, we sat waiting Sweat was running down face—wi was justified by heat, except gid} sweat. I was listening for the rattle! of gunfire, the wild yammering of the Malays as the * died shout- ing that there was no God but barest possibility that the praus| would get through. I was mentally know when they must have reached the bay. Artz a@ long ame a curious} sound began to cume from far} They sang with an odd in- termittent. rhythm —a chorused Strokes, then silerce for strokes, then the song again. over, until their voices thinned away, and at last died. leading prau must be passing the delta. In imaginatic: I counted bay. I thought finally that they| must all be clear. Then, at the) toward the mouth of the Siderong, | and this was fo.lowec by the quick rifles which spoke together. I knew that it would only take a| over into a malestrom of murder: and I thought that the end was that the gong: had been s‘lent while the Malays were on the ef excited sound broke out all through the jungle as gongs and of Saremba; that the Rajah to its- farthest limits, but man must inter- ri in't1 heavily laden with Jarge, bosun of the the great praus had swung its big fot a long time. the that this was kk tribesmen, and the war cries God. I could not believe in the bom g their progress so that I His, First Audience ey polbiborwere setene ts sin, whine that car ed them six this thing was repeated over a I knew after a while that the 22 praus as they entered the! very last, a gun was fired far down snarling sound of several more! few minutes for that jungle to boil | Until now 1 had not realized Tiver, but now a great hammering drums kept questioning each other without getting any answer. To my Surprise and vast reliet the gun- Sire ended abruptly as it bez-n Sunday’s Horoscope ers. The native should use self- restraint in associations with the opposite sex, and let no ness govern the s mate, that an May not be spoiled by the dar gers indicated in this directica. r. He would Sthem in trade. He would lead ‘them into Ways which would make them great. All this was pretty vague, and it was a good ¢ that it was. If Clyde had a’ apted to give them any exact idea of what he meant to do, they would have gone away scandalized by what little they understood. As it was, they Perhz»s got the notion that he was promising them al] more heads than former], I don’t know whether they be- lieved or ne or how much. Every time Lundoh concluded translating one of my uncle's speeches, the buzz of Dyak voices would spreac. through the enclo- sure and seem to hang in the warm air until the next burst of oratory. The fact that Clyde was 2 white man, sssec of a strong ship, gave him a great-prestige; but it also made them suspicious. (Cotyrigit, 1934, dian LeMay} 60,400_000 pared peak of 56,629,000 fiscal years 1914-1 telephone lin€ béing out of com- mission and communications com- pletely cut off. BERNIE C. PAPY For Judge of Criminal Court of Record WILLIAM V. ALBURY Mrs. Mary Rose, mother-in-law of Attorney Joseph Otto, of Mi- ami, is dead in Cuba, advices reaching this city show. Mr. Ot- to formerly lived in Key West and Mrs. Rose is well known here. For County Commissioner First District WM. H. MONSALVATGE Girls of the Juventud Latina will meet tonight to organize a baseball team, and all members of the organization are to meet at the office of Peace Justice Ro- gelio Gomez at 8 o'clock. Watch The Fords Go By Continuous Ford oe Dealers in the World” PORTER-ALLEN COMPANY IGNACIO COBO IMPORTER and MANUFACTURER —of— CLEAR HAVANA CIGARS Retail Eoxes at Wholesale Prices 1107 DUVAL STREET (Opposite Cuban Club) COLUMBIA LAUNDRY SERVICE PHONE 57 CONCRETE BLOCKS General Merchandise —Wholesale and Retail— Ship Chandlery William and Caroline Sts, JOHN C. PARK 328 SIMONTON ST. 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