The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 31, 1938, Page 5

THURSDAY, M: AECH H 3i, i SYNOPSIS: Love for @ young Englith girl has plunged my uncle, James Clyde, and myself (Paul Thorne) into a desperate enterprise. Clyde becomes rajeh of tropical Balingong, bet the struggle to keep our empire from the Malays hes split out forces. A scarecrow. from seven weeks of jungle fighting, I hold Chris- tine in my arms as she sobs out her relief at my «turn. Clyde's fate is still unknown. Chapter 45 Christine’s Story RESENTLY a low chanting be- gan up forward, where my starved Dyaks were being fed rice. The irrepressible vitality of that ple could not be kept down; a jittle rice in their “ +"lies and song Was coming into them even before sleep would bear them down. Christine stirrea. Her words were whispered, so that they were less heard than felt. “What is that song?” I didn’t want to tell her. I couldn’t bring myself to ask her ies the many <hings I had to know; wanted to talk to her gently, un- til she was steady again. But the song was 10 good for it. My pa- Tangmen were using the name for me that I had forbidden them to use, and it still could turt. me sick. “It's song they sang on the river,” Told her, “when we were rates from one blockade to next” “Can you translate it, now? Be- cause I remember that I used_to teach you Dyak words, a lon; long time ago. But I didn’t te: you as much as that.” I was stents for I knew what the song said. She said, “Tll translate it for you. They are saying—The wounded Tuan destroys even the to. for the sake of the White She turned and stood away from me. The Chinese cook, like a fool, | sai, had brought for us those silver tea things over which I had first seen Christine. They were now set} th, out on an ammunition case, look- ing prim and orderly and unspeak- Lege ristine's ims were pressed t- her temples. “I didn’t know. I k hat 1 Ean vasa. nown what | was to you— to James—I would have gone = the very first, before it was too late. He never would have but for me. I’ve done @ more terrible thing to him than any woman ever did to a man. I can’t ever be forgiven, or excused, and I wish that I had died when I fy: oorn.” I hunted franticall: for some way to Lg ren her from this; on itwe was hard, becau:e what, ing the ihe all his life.” She didn’t answer, but stood staring with olank eyes at that = silverware. “But” Then I saw that she swayed. I/ the Jumped for one of the canvas chairs, and got her fixed in it. “I would have gone back up there,” she said, her voice low, despairing. “I wanted to take him the things I know he must need— More gunpowder, these men. But they won't obey me. He gave or- ders for them to keep me here, and they're afraid.” ‘W's Been Awful GUESS,” | said, “that I had Fo pene go up the river.” course. They'll obey you. They re afraid of him, but they're even more afraid of you We'll have to wait for dark But we can ¢ ready. [he first minute that} ‘s dark, we must go.” “We?” “Paul, you :. with youl” “That's:the most idiotic thing, ever heard you say. You are no’ ete ee into that river. You know as we! E.do that you're not.” Her voire-turned very low and «ave to let me com bitter. “I suppose so. That's what | it is to be a woman. Everything is @enied to a woman, always, al- ways. I have to stay he.e, while & go away from me again, and) is time never come Lack. a I glanced at the thin place the sun made in the silver glare above, and thought it would be three rt more until dark. I said gent- | “Don't you want to tell nt lg wrong now?” She covered her face with her me| hands for a moment. “It's been aw- | ful, Paul. I can only tell you what happened at first. and what little | I know from the messages James a sent me since I've been on the ship. She talked slowly at first, but Presently in jerky, sentences that tumbied over each other. Two days after 1 left—she| Temembered it was 3 v—a Maley had run amuk im the east —— everything that name of Al seven people, and 1 her arm. Dvak warriors footie Ten happy g various parts first part of Ap of Good Wil Bett of Fic ritt of Frostproof, nam Winter Hy other girs will West, the West points. wick-running | of sos | away. That night the people were | very restless. Clyde feared riots which would speedily have turned into a mas- sacre. indok, grim] faithful to Clyde to the very last, walked about the caMmpongs trying to smooth down. He never came back; not even his body was THE REY WEST CITIZEN SEIZURE OF OIL CONCESSIONS BY MEXICO IS ‘FIRECRACKER’ By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, March 31.—A revolutionary firecracker whose fuse has been sputtering in Mex- ico for a generation, has just ex- ploded in the faces of American and British oil companies—and their governments. That's the meaning of President Lazaro Cardenas’ decision to ex- kris, propriate foreign oil holdings and with blood on the hilt but not on the blade, was throwr into Clyde’s compound sometime during the night. The next day, while Balingong still seethed, the trading Malays began dribbling back, and this went on for some jays. It was as if some prearranged signal had re- called them. And while this was going on the Chinese left. One day they were there, and the next day they were gone—ell of them—and the Chinese cam: pong stood empty of its chattering sing-song voices. its shrill argu- ments, its continuously flapping | doors. There was a chill in the re- port of that, even after all this time; it wes so much like the way rats leave a vessel that is burning somewhere in her cargo, when you can’t even find the smoke. A young Dyak runner, a novice of the Tenyalan stumbled ex- hausted into Balingong from a village in the upper Palowit. car was uncertain ee cer PA friendly and part hostile. This boy brought word that Rentongen had passed chrough his village, moving Tapidly overland. He had with him nearly 70 Malays, and follow- ing him came a whole horde of Dyaks whom he had raised against Clyde — wild hill tr-besmen mostly. Three Nights Te boy had no count of these, pt aCyge judged from what he there were some hun- aad By some miracle of looting, Rentongen had been : ble tc ration ese, and they were hell-bent _ war, in spite of the torrential ins. Many of the Village had joined the hostile advance, in spite of do, and tne Tenyaiang eo could reed to take to the Desh to aecid oan fracas with their own people. For the next few days after that other reports came i. very fast, sometimes many in a single day. Clyde begged Christine to re- treat to the winkang at the first disturbance, but she didn’t want to, and there were stormy argu- ments. She dreaded the long sus- penses aboard ship more than she aes anything Lv could haj at Balingong. But one day mistake. There was no doubt in the Erect that an all but successful attempt had es to poison ‘oe white rajal ‘After that Clyde would listen to Christine’s protests no more, and swore that she neyo aboard the Linkang, and tay there, even if she had to be carted there, irons. went, by the fact that Ci aro was very strongly of a mi send the Avon back to Singapore, and her with it, and she was afraid of what he might do. Since then she had necessarily lost touch with 1 great deal that must have happened at Balingong. Clyde came down the river to see her eyed day, but he was hag- ard | Sigg ono and she new that he concealed from her a great many things. Then—Ren- tongen crashed down on Balin- gong; and she had not seen Clyde | again. Clyde had put 30 | aboard the Linkang; she | know how many that le! |his own defense Besi and Schweicamp, he had al er Blair; but after Rent - strike up the had sent Blair to C! | four of her over-sized Singapore Malays from the Avon. Any one of them was worth 10 ordinary Dyaks, so that they were a sub- stantial gift After the river was closed she only got such news as Clyde wrote to b for a while he had sent her hastily scrawled no.e. by Dyak Messengers who crept out of his stockade and worme? their way through the jungle to the bay. At | first she had heard from him jevery night; but later many a night passed without any word } Every day there was a broken rat- tle of gunfire ‘rom Balingong, so that she knew they were fighting, and fighting hard. Fr ee night now there had been no word af all. The thunder lyde’s swivels was silent—she did not know Today ever the rifle fine Hied axg® in the middle ofthe thorning ly daréa believe tial fense st@1 stood. Alan He ha yw sa i Snally! re- of this week stated f time since it op- years Bradley's gambling casino had authority to camonize persons of the Roman Catholic empower native workers to run them in the name of the Mexican government. The fuse was lighted early in this century when Francisco Ma- dero and a group of revolutionists —or patriots, according to your point of view—promised to make the nation a “Mexico for Mexi- cans”. Back to the indians First, they proposed to give the land back to the Indians. Indians and mestizos (half-breeds) com- prise close to 90 percent of the pooulation. Next, they promised to kick out the foreigners and take over the vast mineral resources of the country—mostly silver arid oil. The revolutionary cause seemed hopeless in those days. Dictator Porfirio Diaz had been entrench- ing his ruthless regime for a quar- ter of a century. He fostered accumulation of property by a comparatively few families. He invited foreign capi- tal to help him develop the coun- try—in return for rich profits. Ripe for Revolution In 1911, the fiery Madero and his revolutionists turned out Diaz, and set themselves to liberating Mexico. But Mexicans of 1911 were not ready for fredeom. A succession of miitary conquests and upris- ings followed. Each new president also had to | keep a weather eye on the United States. Uncle Sam was policing the Americas, and a revolutionist in bad odor to the north had bet- ter look out for rivals who could smuggie in rifles or get money from people who had investments in Mexico. Moreover, a leader thrust into power .by a military faction had to find quick monty to run the pil get and pay off his sup- jponeeh ‘way was to The simplest tenis ea Eeagnen Cp ‘to give the land back to the In- dians and drive out foreigners. The Dilemma Here were the horns of a dilem- ma. If a leader drove out for-! eigners and gave the land to the People, he faced bankruptcy and intervention by the United States. If he took the taxpayers’ and for- eigners’ money, he faced revolu- tion. The upshet was the people con- tinued to get promises, landown- ers and foreigners continued to hold their property. In 1917, President Carranza wrote the promises inte a new constitution. That, among other things, pledged the government to: 1. Give workers a share in in- dustrial profits and to divide the land among the Indians. 2. Take over the mineral rights in the name of the Mexican people. Until 1934, however, these still were more or less promises under powerful Plutarco Elias Cales. In that year, Calles selected La- zaro Cardenas to become his rub- ber stamp president Much to everybody's surprise, Cardenas was no rubber stamp. He increased the army's pay and pensions; reduced illiteracy, soft- ened the war against the Catholic church; turned the Calles political machine into. the Cardenas ma- chine; ‘began to fulfill promises of the 1931 revolution. Chooses One Horn Calles ealled a halt—and found himself a man without:a country. Cardenas began turning the land- ed estates over to the Indians. The deposed owner got a promis- sory note. Now, when the oil companies refuse to pay labor costs they say would ruin them, Cardenas in- vokes the expropriation law of 1936, takes over $400,000,000 worth of property. He says Mex- ico will pay the owners within 10 vears. Whether Cardenas is risking economic confusion, or bankrupt- cy, nobody knows. Likewise, observers here won- der what the United States can do under its new good neighbor policy. | The United States has been buying Mexican silver well above the world price, and pegging the Mexican peso (dollar) with these purchases. That might be used as a threat, but the threat of eco- snomic intervention-is ticklish, be- ‘cause every nation south of the Rio Grande is watching Uncle Sam. Meanwhile, Cardenas calls up Mexicans to make sacfifices for “economic liberation”. The 1911 revolutionary firecracker has fi- nally exploded. IS LISTED AS NEXT IN LINE? ‘ By Amwcmees Fre Assecinted Press) In the Vienna chancellery where Europe’s map was re- drawn and a balance of power es- tablished after Napoleon fell a century ago, 2 smart, crippled lawyer, Arthur Seysz-Inquart, 46, recently gave Austria to Ger- many. For four years the nation’s people celebrated — reucously as Americans at the end of the World war t made Austria a democracy. Boys and girls goos Bands quit playing waltzes “Horst Wessel-” / Clear the streets for the brown battallions: Clear the streets for the S. A. man Millions now gaze with hope on the swastika: For the dawn of the day of free- dom and bread. Frontier guards merely shouted “keep on the left” when German to tanks sped in (it’s customary to’ drive on the right in the Reich, on the left in Austria). Boundary Posts were burned. Customs build- gs became hotels for hikers. Prussians flew to police Vienna Germans took charge of their little neighbor's army, press, ra- dio, and treasury. Hail The Fuehrer! Vienna “reeks of Hapsburgs and rotted kings,” but Adolft Hit- ler, an Austrian customs official son, approached it with the tainty of a sleep-walker His burly army was goose- stepping on foreign soil for the first time since the World war And back he went to his bir! graves for e becoming a modern monarch Seysz-Inquart gave » Austria on the very Sebbeth on which Kurt Schuschnigg had expected to ratify a stand for inde- pendence. Der Fuehrer hed ob- jected. I] Duce had cautioned Schuschnigg—and he had quit cer- | of sight by nazi police. Major Emil Fey, ex-vice-chancellor and foe of both socialists and nazis, soon was found to have killed his wife, his son and himself. As chancellor, Seysz-Inquart as- sured Hitler: “Wherever the way Der Fueb- him to' the governar- Vienna not open for bombarded it an anxious, southeast to before ing im the imperial Sate. ‘+= Der Fuehrer dallied a day in Linz, then motored im, at the head of a regal, military parade in a six-wheeled war chariot Hail Victory! Once upon a time Vienna ruled Germany, but this week gay Viennese decorated their Heroes’ Square for Mr. Big from Berlin. “No force on earth can shake us!” he exulted, on the Imperial Hotel balcony. And Seysz-Inquart’s introduc- tion of the new boss the next day led some hearers to suspect the ex-paperhanger would accept a crown. Austria, Herr Hitler prociaim- ed, will be the German peopie’s “outpost.” Shivers ran down anti- nazis’ back im other lands east the Reich “This land is German,” he con- ued. “It has fulfilled its mis- No one will be permitted t& I declare to history ance of my native land jo the German Reich Hail victory! Then he sped back to Berlin— where he was welcomed as a conquerer—to see about Poland and Lithuania, and call his Reich- Stag together to hear a “deciara- thon by the government.” TEXACO ie it REL RESTCSE Cue wits. Ft Jay N. (Ding) Darling, fa- mous cartoonist, former chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey and President of the National Wildlife Federation, contributed the sixteen color Portraits for these Wildlife Week stamps. THE WEATHER Temperature” Highest 82 Lowest 74 Mean 78 Normal Mean 74 Rainfall* Yesterday’s Precipitation 0 Ins. Normal Precipitation -06 Ins. “Thin record covers 24-hour period ending ot x ack thix morninz. Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises 6:19 a. m Sun sets 6:43 p.m Moon rise 6:41 a.m Moon sets 7:51 p.m Tomorrow s Tides A.M PM High 9:56 10:55 Low 3:34 4:29 Barometer reading o¢ 8 a. m: Sea level, 30.07 WEATHER FORECAST and* Friday; moderate south’ winds. * Floridat Fair to partly cloudy and rat! might and Fri- day tonight nd Teast weath- ight and Friday East Gulf: Moderate southeast winds, becoming north- afternoon or night portion, and her tonight WEATHER CONDITIONS pressure areas off the coasts (Boag docao = Beit Restore Gue Wie = wekeene * crelstasesitbarsncaveennse ower the Lake Superior region. Precipitation has been general stead of 15 percent. during the last 24 hours in the ae mated at $175,000,000 to $270,000 000, and at 5 to 10 percent in- northern portion of the country from the northern Rockies east- | ward to the north and middle At- lantic coast and southward to the middie Gulf coast, with heavy = rain in the middle and lower Mis- sissippi and lower Ohio Valleys. There have also been light showers in southeastern Florida. Colder weather has overspread the Planis States and eastward over the Mississippi Valley to the western Lake region, with freez- i ng southward over western Kan- j sas; while temperatures continue ¢ above normal in eastern and Gulf | coast districts. G.S KENNEDY. Official in Charge © Here's real shaving comfort st 2 rock bottom low price. Why gamble on unknown blades when you can gt world famous Probak Jr. Blades at 4 for only 10¢? These smooth-shaving, doubie-edge biades are made by the world’s largest blade maker, automatically ground, honed and stropped by a special process. For quality PROBAK JUNIOR Pucton of tus city «as green te months im jail for bitmg off ear of Mrs Emily Burus Gumng a fight ee TO BE HELD MAY 2 is8 (Pee eeeoesececocecereces For Congress HENRY H. FILER For State Senator DAVID ELMER WARD “Tl De The Best 1 Cam For alt” For County Commussener Fura: Destrect WM. H. MONSALVATGE For County Comsusmaner Sth District HARRY L. BEAVER For County Commisssoner : T. JENKINS CURRY For County Comanissoner, Fifth Detrict F; riendly Bankin FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST Member Federal Reserve System Member Federa! Depost: insurance Corpersmer