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ee eee id Jy hurt.“Are you going to marry Jamet- Clyde?” I ask impulsively. Chapter 33 Jungle Campaign t Ba anigowel was silent for so long that I thought she was not going to answer me. “No,” she said at last. “Then your part of the work is done. James Clyde will go on with this; I know him well enough to know that he does not let go. He’s a@ worker—he’s willing to murder himself with work. He’ll push this thing further than either you or your father ever dreamed.” “But—you don’t want me here.” “You must know this—you’'d see it yourself if you’d think about it; the time is coming when you're going to do Clyde more harm than | gy Ror it’s coming soon. This a lonely job, meant for lonely men. It will be 20 years before Balingong is a fit ioe for a white woman to live in. If you leave now hhe may be able to forget you. But if you don’t it will be late for that; it may be too late now.” She said, “Paul,| | was born in Burma raised in Singapore. I can live any place in the world. You say that if 'd go away he might forget me—and I suppose in that you're speaking for your- self. But I am not at all sure ’'m Teady to be forgotten.” 1 was silent. Uncer other cir- cumstances this gicl might have been my own; she might have shared everything in my life. I knew that as certainly as I knew from down. And another thing I knew much too well for my own was that no other woman in world would ever do in Chris- 's place. I wanted to tell her this. She ‘was ——- to me that I could my thoughts. rom her what I felt. 1 bit my. tongue until I tasted blood, and the sweat was standing on my face. She laid her hand upon my arm. “Paul, do you think—why, you have a chill!” “Just a touch. It won't bother water.” on! “T’'m going up the river. I’m go- ing up thousands of ’em before we're through here. What worries the hell out of me is Jeavying you here in Balingong. It'll be a whole lot easier for me, and for Clyde, and for all of us if you will take the Avon and get out. Go to Singa- pore—go to England. Go any- where where a man can feel you're safe for a while.” Her words came so faintly that they were hardly more a breath. “Enggan ‘mati; eredai mati...” I had enough Dyak by now to know that native saving: “Stay, and die; run away and die too.” I was breaking my own. heart, but I had to go on. The one thing that mattered more than anything else was that Christine was not puny and could never be safe in SE's inno ep ‘ou’re going ave to thinking about, yourself,” I saii Heaven knows we have enough to contend with here, without hav- ing to take double precautions. t now the Tenyalang’ ought to be back in their own villages, dri their people into planting some rice. But Clyde will never let them go while you're A Kiss ‘HE was utterly still; I could no hear her breathe. | was hurting Christine because she had to be got out of that fever river, oe there was no other way to do Se “Paul, do you mean ‘hat?” “Look at it yourself, Christine.” She drew a long breath, and there was'a quaver init like the = in the drifting firefly light we the Siderong. “All right. I'l) go, Paul.” 1 took with me 50 Tenyalang tiflemen, 200 Dyak hand-to-hand fighters, three of our Linkang sea- men to support the idea that this was a white man’s expedition, and Blair. We set ont in 18 paddle- driven bankongs, without sail. My uncle came down to the beach to. shake hands with me as sour boats into the water in : d, “Goad Dy 1 iby. now I'd give some- m your piace.” te, as I was h of the terches { could see she was very pale. SUMMER SUITS AT ARONOVITZ “What's all this you've been telling about in your advertise ments concerning the best sum- mer suits in town?” So queried two promivert Key Westers this week of Charles Aronevitz, pro prictor of this city’s only depart- ment store Upon being shown the famous line of Haspel’s Silk and Yarn suits, the two gentlemen, pleas- SPORT *OOOL SPOS SSC SORESEESSEcEeBOCSOESSEEREES FOLLOWING THROUGH ~ (By AGUILAR) Tiver, to see at once that the Dyaks would shrifl and yammer at first contact with am enemy, Years of his hands on actual things should have taught him to guess that, without thinking But how did she know? In sending away Christine we were sending away “ss than we ge age guess, we shoyed she called * ‘ after me, “Paul, stay with your Radeers Chervink | boats. They may fall back to their Phelps and Spencer, catcher: hill sfockades, and if you follow Batcher, ‘Cohen them they’ cut you.off.” ees ae I grinned, and waved goodby, Frankhouse, Hamlin, Hoyt, Jeff- and we went swinging down the coat, Kimball, Lindsey, Marrow, river to the sea. “§ Phe long green rollers smelled | Mungo, Posedel, Pressnell oe eee ee Signar, pitchers (Cohen in the stagnant river. Once clear 2m eae of the pass we swung out through Utthander); Cam Coscoret, open water around the headland Durocher, Ex h, Fallen, H of Panjang Lapa, in the light of a pascett. Hud and Lav rising sun; and wé camped that. 3 4 ie night on the Palowit, in jungle infielders; Brack, Cisar, Manusi once more. . There wasn’t much to our little river campaign, though it eemed . DODGER BOYS— Players in camp for the Brook oncese are and i* only nm in the outfield—34 players. , O @ momentous undertaki: s then. It is.a tremendous experi- er the league starts on April 79 enée when you start out for the’ © — IAA) first time to hunt men, so that’ sHOHTy’S ‘CLUB_...*”; poads Wed pe etes ee At-Orlando;‘under Bucky HAF: | to every ficker of a leaf in the Tis, thereare 28 tisted and-»a | jungle. 2 7“ many PANG cS ore thi¥eeé to tryout The Palowit Dyaks did what Those listed a Ferrell Christine said they would do. But Livireston 27 | if b= % mag Bone: egy back Appleton, Ch: upon their ades I would ‘Ferrell | probably hav . Shong, Ferrell, Hogsett,. Haynes, | Pico Inttend? the Bees n'yté¢(Kohiman, Krakauskas, Leonard, vice. | they began to blast the river om our second day, and ‘Phebous and Weaver, mounds- pot-shot at us with spears; and) men (Chase, Hogsett, Krakauskas | there was a shost savage brush in ‘are lefthanders); Blueze, Kuhcl ne Lewis, Mihalie, Myers, Travis and Famine! Wasdel, infielders; Almada, Case, I LOST eight men, one of them Simmons, Stone and Wright, out- a Tenyalang. After that, their ‘fielders. This is the club th peerage to fn Ro} eo eey Winfield (Shorty) Roberts aa aoe uta defiance. dreaming to at least be in the | fhe thind dae tee peche end of four in the American League out, and we had to leave the bankongs with part o1 our force, REDSKINS— and go on ‘through the jungle Over at New Orleans, the In- trails, climbing over rough coun- dians have a big flock of rookies ‘uy, We had brought along a big trying out. They are: Humphries, Fixpoundes, dismounted, in the 7i,ar Drake, Jungles and biggest of bankongs, and we | <U°@!- Jrake, ung ar took’ this’ with us up the jungle Stanceu, pitchers, Keitner, Irwin, on improvised #ledges. Every man Grimes, Shilling and Russell, in- rope on;vhis-ghoulders fielders. There are aiso a half thro and many dozen trying out for garden posi- tions. Feller, Harder, Whitehill, iGalehouse, Heving, Allen and Fa ot tia “Hudlin’ of the regulars are get- = ting along fine. Hemsley is in pia Ta vances vey See un ‘camp, as are Lary, Solters, Tros- fought th The defenders ‘ky, Averill. Manager Vitt is very ing of the stockade: They prec ag a much piéased with his boys. resistance, rewe lof the ho had Fitzsimmons, } * YANKEES— Parks, Rosen, Winsett-2nd Cuyler ; ing to me. thes¢, Only: 25, wit he“tatHied-aht- /BROWNS— Petersburg, the Cards ne form. Diz- . Johnson, Macon and in practice. are also making Ryba, Owen, t, Frisch, Med- ick, Mize and company are in ape and Manager Frankie very much pleased with ave practical- b with Gordon at Billy Knickbocker ding by. Chandley and Beggs e the pitching staff. have made the They dropped Hemsley and id obtained Mel- Ce Newsom, Kinkem Don Heffner. They also bought Jim Weaver from Pittsburgh, Mc- Guinn from Newark and Tamilis brought im for First Baseman Davis. ill give Gab- Sulli , a good re- er, behind the plate:"Weaver, ke, Tamulis, Newsom, all sea- med hurlers, in the box, with je to help out, not counting 12 others trying out for a position on = t, Bell, West, Knot,, Kress, Hughes, Heffner and Al- len, making the club at -least ready to play for sixth or seventh place. Browns change. CONGRATULATIONS!— Bee Drury, Miami Beach, made all-state Class-A guard at the Gainesville tourhament. Dick Tucker, Miami.High, was at the other guard: post. .and - was elected ‘honorary captain. Re-, ceiving honorable- mention were Dave Parke of Miami Beach, dnd Lefty Schemer of Miami High. Local fan's have seen Bee Drury and Dave Parke play here. state the jungle after a weak And it was three days before I °ee7* ° could get my men to quit scour- TRANSPORTATION ing the jungle for lers and come home. Seveccccessccecssesse when we got back to Balingong. “ —_ ee Clyde had an impressive line of Fight passengers for Key West warehouses about half finished, were on the Steamship Cuba this but as yet there was almost noth- i ; fi T: ing to put in them. Trading by any ee eee ee —— ay Tare the extortion There were also 81 passengers on which the jays called tradin; re ava oar i ible on any stale read the vessel bound beg Havana cause of the ofthe people. Key West arrivals were: H We did not have the right sort of Rose, H. Rose, Jr. Mrs. Rose, trade goods to persuade them to “ $ work. We had almost nothing to Mary Hannah, Mrs. D. G. Gill, H. = except ee. The oe lang |B. Lindsay, Manuel Salverio, were our main stay, and they y; tee would have broken up if we had ae | filled the jungle with guns deliv- The vessel also carried on. the manifest 29 tons of freight, two. We had been gone three weeks, °° and things were not going so well ered at random. Worse than this were the signs that we were going to have a fam- ine on our hands. War, waste, | shiftlessness, and “a bad crop the | previous year had almost cleafied the country of rice. How bad the automobiles and one sacks of maib for Key West, mail for Havana. and 10 sacks of Steamer Leaves Port é Steamship Miraflores, of the Standard Fruit and Steamship Company, which had been in port, consigned the Porter Dock Co., sailed last night 11 o'clock on telegraphic orders from headquarters The vessel arived March 7, and after berthing began making a general overhaul of the engines and hull, and had very nearly completed the tasks, when a telegram was received last even- ing ordering the vessel to proceed to Frontera, Mexico, for a cargo of fruit. to | famine was going to be we did not,! Key ‘Wester’ 1 n Grand Opera +yet know, but we did know that. there would soon be no more rice, and no hope of a fresh crop before | another seven months. | And depressing reports were now coming in regarding the Dvak preparations for rice planting. Weeks had passed since Clyde's decree that the villagers should double their usual plantinzs: and | if they meent to do it, the clear- ing of the jungle for the paddies e been well advanced. 3 well advanced, simply because these peonle could not be broken out of their ancient habits in a week or ina y Strong evi- | dences of coming ne were in- }ereasing every day: but neither | this nor the repeated insistences which Clyde sent them v ing any effect. Here and sc as half-hearted. ly obeying ¢ raiah. but if the rice crop was going to be worth taxing—or even taxable at thout reducing the people to ion — something drastic 2 Save to be done. Copernedt. 293%, Blew Leites! oomenncnny ore Can Ciyde’s will alone stave off de- * xt? Contineed tomorrew, antly surprised, immediately made purchase of one suit apiece. suits have been advertised in the series of daily ads being run by this popular store. regularly Treasury moves to “decentral- ize” income tax appeal machinery by an “experimental” office in Los Angeles, Calif. National Life Federation plans to rally the conservation forces; “week” set for March 20- 26; Jay Darling is re-elected. ‘ evcessse. { BARCELO LEADS LOCAL HITTERS TY BASEBALL LEAGUE WITH .682 AVERAGE Batting averages of the Monroe County Baseball League for the first three games follow: Barcelo, 9 hits, 4 runs, 13 times at bat, .692; Eloy Acevedo, 3 times up, 1 run, 2 hits, .667; A. Acevedo; 14 times up, 6 runs, 7 hits, 500; Rueda, 7 times up, 3 runs, 4 hits, 571; Soldano, 7 times up, 3 runs, 4 hits, 571; M_ Acevedo, Joe Smith, Kelly, each hitting 500; Sterling, 400; F. Acevedo, .41§/7 M.Griffin, “600; Malgrat, 363; Machin, I.» Rodriguez, ».Gabrie?!* Statiley and Salinero,- eaeh <3, Molina, .300; Calleja:»<As. Red- riguez, each :250. sa LEGALS “rue RLEVENTH JUDICLAR Chnt- Geneva became part of Switzer- CUIT IN AXD FoR woNok land in I8I5. IN CHAR- ia MCDOUGAL, et al, as Trustees, va. DADE-MONROE €@ Florida Corpor- Defendants. URLICATION N E OF THE STATE OF PLORIDA: TO: The defendants in the we styled cause who are hereinafter named and who are interested in any part or all of the lands bere- inafter described, if living, and if dead, to all parties, claiming an interest under said defendants, or any of them, deceased or other- w . including his or her devine grantees, spouses o if dead, defendan It appearme by complaint filed in the above cause that the plaintiffs are to an Order for Publication, ORDERED that the following nam- ed defendants, and cach of them, appear in this Cause as herein fur- ther ordered: Paul M Frank L. Louise Greene Eaward Purd anda Gretta Burd, his wife. Essie Red or her Samuel J. Schi Mrs. Samuel J The residences of being unknown, sar above named dete: is mare his. or her unk spouse each and every of the above named defendants sepatately and severally, itdixing,.and if any of the avove named, defendants be dead, his or ber on, heirs. .dexisees, or other claiman(s, claiming apy s{ebt, tithn, am interest wager, then, or either, ef: them, deceased of othrr- ike, 24..E0 persons, haying oF claiminyy.. 2%; interest. in the ‘reat an, and if married, his and if married. Manres; Aeunty,. Slate of Florida, 7 voRRORONTE 1 )xima and bring situace in ~Nartth, bait 4X%) of See AT Thirty-sin (26), Township Fifty. (Continued from Page One) intention being, I think, to estab- lish a constitutional government. ' “I forecast the war in, Spain, some time ago, because things like that are easy to see coming. “As a few side slants, did you} know that it costs just eleven pesetas to have a bomb thrown in Spain. One dopy fellow was hired to throw a bomb, and, com- passionately, he lugged the thing around for hours trying to find a place he could throw it where no one could be hurt. So finally he, blew up a public comfort station with it. “Asked about a number of mat- ters over town, Mrs. Pym said that she had seen the Madras, India, aquarium, which is listed as the most “complete” aquarium in the world, that she had admir- ed the Naples, Italy aquutium, which ‘boasts that it is the midst | “interesting” in the world, but/ she thinks that the Key West) Aquarium is the most “beauti- ful” in the world. CHRIS ORTIZ TO TAKE PART IN OPERA TONIGHT KEY WESTER TAKING OUT- STANDING PART IN PRO- DUCTIONS IN LOUISIANA SCHOOL OF MUSIC (Special to The Citizen) UNIVERSITY, La. March 17, Chris Ortiz, the grandson of the) late Ben “Tink” Demeritt, of Key... West, is taking an Olitstanding’ part in the operatie peocduetins b:.¢or, Means anal Fh of the Louisiana State ‘ifijiversity scheol. of music. we Ss AY: _K Itf"La Traviata”, the Verdi of Rip aig he ror ; world be. foug (54) South, four (34) East IT 1S, THEREFORE, ORDERED that the above named defendants, each and all of them, be and they are hereby required to appear in the above styled caus on the 4th y of April, A. Te 1938, other: allegations of the Bill of © nt Will be taken ax confessed by . and each of them 4 it further appearing by sworn of complaint in this cause that Dade-Monroe Realty Company fs a Florida Corporation which has Leen dissolved according to the laws of the State of Florida, and that the said dissolved corporation ix, if it were net for suck dissoluti. the apparent claimant of some claim, titles Interest or es- tate, legal or equitable, in the lands above described, and that they nay be parties or persons, natural, cor- porate or municipal, interested in said land, claiming through or on- der said dissolved corporation and uch persons or parties are un- after diligent search an4 in- Range Thirty- quiry. it further appearing by sworn bill of complaint that at the time Dade- Monroe Realty Company, a Florida corporation, was dissolved, its Di- rectors were Paul M. Frank, M.S Carlton and L. Loulse Greene. who, under the law, s surviving Directors ax such tees, have been made parties defen- dant in this cause: that the resi- dences and addresses of the said Paul M. Frank and L. Louise Greene are unknown to affiant. IT 13, THRREFORE, FURTUER ORDERED that the said Paul M. Prank and L. Louise Greene, as such ‘Trustees, appear In the above st vied cause on oF before the 4th day of April, A. D. 1938, otherwise the al- legations of the bil of complaint will be taken as confessed by them, and each of I? 18 FURTH ORDERED that the said dissolved corporation, Dade Monroe Realty Company, and other persons or ties, whether natural, corporate municipal, in- térested in the ai ¢ dencribed property claiming through or wn- der said dissolved crporation, are required to appear in the above en- titled cause on or before the #th day of April A. D. 1938, the allegations of the bi int & fhe afwevé entitied whi be taken as confessed a6 to them, and each of them. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this Order be published « week for four consecutive weeks in the Key West Citizen, a newspaper >ub- lished. jonroe County, Florida. Jenner made the first inecuis- tion for smalipex im 1796. Southern California estima! the valuc of its tourist busimess te be $2176,000,000 a year. Jt ocr, STATS OF PLO. Bate. t= fe the Tents of J. BUNIGN. BETHEL, Te AN Whem i May Ceneren: Ne . een oho (ited ber fina rix of the estate 2. Bunicn Bethel, deceased: thar has filed. ber petition for fina charre. and that she wi! appt the Honorable Raymon@ & County Juder Moores Florida, on the 193%, for final estate « 4. on 13938. Executrix 1 Bue LEGAL NeTIcE Pursuamt to Chapter 15892 of Florda. ceive until Thursday ferings af matured original or refunding age, Tite is of MONRK af unmaturéd Rowd a funding ¥ TY. FLORIDA All offer ngs submitted MUST FRM FOR TEX DATS QUENT TO THE DATE through Ap must state full mame, dencren- pd seria! numbers ef bonds, eat rate, dutm of ixaue, date of maturity, and price asked The Offer must specifically state exactly what coupons are attached and wi be delivered With the bonds for price asked, 1 fault of i a PLAT price understood price shal! be pre asked ALL WaA- TURITE ree oe. FAULTED « RPA OOF Puxs ATTACHED. lee st herebe given that if any such coupans have been detached priur te detivers any bonds aecepied andior purchased hereunder, missing from purchase price, must be subthitted? on this Basin Sealed cavelope céntatting sock offerings shal] plasty state om ite face that it is a proposal fer the sale of MONRGE County bondr The right ix reserved t reject any and all offering= er portions of of - ferings. ) OF ADMINIFTRA- DA STATE ROA Fred P. Cone, Governor, as Presi- TIGS OF FACTS THAT ARE NEWS WAT! eters 23rd day of Febraary } te, Dh 9B Ada, L tayo" zip BOCLC Sawyer Clerk of the Cire (Court in and Pierida. reputy era) based;on Dumas’ “The Lady parca cfetas#s. mar.2-10-47-24, 1925” of’ thie Camellias,” Mr. Oritz was boli) *« “i chosen by Pasquale Amato, the great operatic baritone who is artist director of opera and head of the voice department at the university, to sing the role of Al- fredo Germont Thursday night. March 17. Katherine Landry of Baton Rouge and E Lyndon Crews of Lawrenceville, Mi., wilt appear in this cast with Mr. Ortiz in the principal reles of Violetta and Giorgio Germont. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Ortix, 7704 Arden street, Tam- pa, Mr. Ortiz is a second year student at the umiversity, hav ing received a scholarship during the summer of 1936 following an audition with Mr. Amato in At- lanta, Ga. He is soloist at the ‘in tured many timés as soloist on Rumerous occasions in the city ‘. He was born in Key West, and later moved with his family to FIRST DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY TO BE HELD MAY 3, 1938 Seececesesesesesessesees Sa T. S. CARO ” For Representative State Legislature BERNIE C. PAPY

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