The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 30, 1938, Page 5

priate 4 112A lenicat e By AVHET FERGUSON The Story So Far: Loving somé- one else, gently bred Judith Goodloe marries Reuben Oliver —self-made man and outsider— for his money, only to discover that his fortune is lost, But Judith’s code insists that she stick to her marriage and follow, Reuben to a dismal mining town, Fordney’s Gulch, Nevada. Un- fitted for poverty, there are times she hates Reuben bitterly, and he knows it. It is Thanksgiving, with nothing to be thankful for. Chapter 23 Only Half Alive A GOOD quarrel would have “% cleared the atmosphere but they were so careful, so very care- ful to avoid even a remote hint of one. Perhaps neither could have tdld why they feared an eruption | even while they longed for one that would rock the earth. “Hurry and change, Reuben,” Judith filled a bud vase with wa- ter, put the geranium in it and placed it in the center of the srrall table richly laid with damask, sil- ver, crystal, “I'll keep the things warm until you’re ready.” Despite their combined efforts it was not < festive meal. The dis- heartened turkey was quite taste- less from too lor hours spent in a steamer. The cranberry jelly was leathery. The potatoes soggy / While they were pretending' to Fp ioy tl.emselves Mrs. Kraus came ustling in with a platter of piping hét*home cooked turkey. The skin galden brown, the meat ten- jatéy. The dressing and gravy ry dreams. ‘could cook like that!” Ju-| banat envied. “You could, if you tried hard enough,” the woman told her. “The Row feels sorry for Mr. Oliver.” “Sorry?” The womar nodded. “It ain’t tight for a man to have to do out- side work and inside too, so when ‘ saw him coming with a basket—” The reighbors felt sorry — not for her — for Reuben They felt sorry for Reuben— “I'm afrai¢ [ wasn't cut out for a miner's wife,” frigidly. Mrs. Kraus agreed. “But the one sure way to keep your man always in the mine is to let your end down.” “Don’t mind her,” Reuben said when they returned to their inter- rupted meal, “This tutkey is worth @ few insults.” Judith tried valiantly to capture the holiday spirit, so did Reuben. They tried too hard. Perhaps that was why it eluded them. They ad so pitifully little in gommon, Judith triec t take an interest in Reuben’s work, but she hated the mine, so did Reuben. He would have talked of their days in Maryland, but the subject al- ways led to regrets and hurt feel- ings, ¢o they spoke brightly of im- personal things. “E hag a letter from Jim,” Reu- | ben remembered suddenly and felt | his pockets. “Left it in my other | coat.” What dia he say?” ‘Hugo is fine. Jim has been hunt- ing with him a lot this autumn.” He wanted to add that he hoped to send for Hugo soon. but plan- ning for the future was taboo be- cause Reuben visiored largely— @ panorama of vast proportions. Sime day he would buy back Five Chumneys buy her sables — a yacht~ When a man has no future | the less he says about it ihe better. 86 Reuben banked the fires of his ambition deep within himself. Sometimes sitting in the clut- tered little room with Judith so —and dream of the cool, high ceil- inged rooms at Goodloe’s Choice. When the sun went down she sat on the doorstep and waited for Reuben. Sometimes the neighbor women came to chat with her. They were kind, friendly, gener- ous, ‘They thought Judith queer, stiff, unsociable. “Will_you go down the Gulch to the picnie-wisk us next week, Mrs. Oliver?” another foreman’s wife invited her cordially. 7 “Why—” Judith started to re- “Pll pack enough lunch for you,” Mrs. Kraus offered, “You , won’t have to bother about that.” “T'll go, of course.” The wooded hollow where the picnic was held was shady. It would have been pleasant had not thé smoke and smel! of the mine hung over it. The lunch was de- licious —homecuoked har , pickles, jellies, cakes and what not. The women talked ha»pily of their homes, their husbands, their chil- dren, their future, their p-.st—as happy women will. They asked Judith questions. “From the South, aren’t you?” “From Maryland.” “My—that’s a long way.” Most of them had been born within a radius of 100 miles of the mine “Was it a pretty place?” “Pretty?” If only she could told them of home as it was they would -have though bragging or lyingor ort At rare 1nte ry mg when she stopped pitying herself, Judith thought of Reuben and pitied him too. Poor Reuben—working long hours in this fiendish heat. She re- membered the car's he had driven, the yacht he had sailed. the money he had handled, the power, of a sort, he had wielded. Yes, it was hard for Reuben tov. have ! But e was Mysterious Process OON he weuld be coming home, tired, dirty There wouldn't be enough hot water--She had left one kettle filled un the back of the stov: — There never was enough hot water Never enough room, nor air. Never enough of anything ex- cept discomfort. dirt, work—end- less work. It was the dishes with streaks of egg gummed to them that made Judith wish she were dead. Per- haps she would die — she hoped she would when the baby was born. She looked forward to going to the hospital with something akin to delight. There would be plenty of hot wate: there. Smooth nat beds No dirty dishes— She and Reuscn never spoke of th? coming child. He longed to speak of it, but the shee miracle of it tied his tongue. His son! An- other Reuben Oliver! It was up to him to make good now—a little lad had to be proud of his daddy ~He made happy solitary plans. Resentful, confusea fearful — Judith would sometimes think of the child that would soor. be hers with a great, rending pity—not a Goodloe, an Oliver- -born to squal- t, struggle, to everything that was unlovely and «lien! Poor lit- tle tad! Horrible to think of--im- possible to speak of. When learned there were to be two c! dren— Well! Into a bréathiess, humid July night Judith’s twins—a boy and a girl—wer born. White, shiny, shppery walls. Bright lights making circles upon them. White hurrying figures Low babble of voices. Confused. broken, Judith won- dered if all women felt as she did. Was it all a lie this rant about ma- ternal 'ove being the gréatest thing near he could touch her. he knew | a loneliness greater than any he| had felt in the heart of the wilder- | ness If for an hour. she would un- derstand. If he could hear her laugh in the ola spontaneous way He lonkéd at her across the table | ith its lavish display of elegance | fe sadly out of place in the mean Perhaps he could find the it word — di _stinct nieve s and smiled ab= | wy She reminding herself that thé easiest way was just to} Slive for one day at a time, to feet} nothing; want nothing: remember nofhing——that was wisdom Self Pity | sledge set in in earnest. Snow Wind Blizzards Steet. Thaws Reuben'’s wet muddy boots ary- ing by the kitchen stove. The air filled with wood smoke. drying teather. stewing food- but at last | Spring’ Bringing a hint of beauty | even to Fordney's Gulch with its mining shafis, its smoke. The muddy pocket handkerchief | of lawn sent out feeble shoots of | grass. Judith planted petunias and | nasturtiums close to the water) pipe fence and bought a green window box. The plants © ade a brave effort to live. Flowers bloomed sparsely, feebly. but be- fore the pitiless summer sun and dry, searing heat withered, grew altogether discouraged - died ted ach day | ie house crowded ugly living slope roofed be: ay’s Horoscope nature be. h a love of gins to be ming luxury and may give way to self ulgence. fmuch for natives of t ther good aspects for nereasing R Rela Sdunate day dession. in the world? She looked at the pink, scowling faces of her chil- dren: at their waverin. fisted little hands with d “This voung tady ts ex: her daddy ™ the nurse Judith closed hot eyes. She knew she should say sumething in Re ben's defense. Keuben didn’t have a puttytsh lump for a uose, a wrine kled chin or squint eyes Most peo- plé thought Reuben handsome. She was too trred to ar poutitt. If this woman in white wanted to say the girl baby looked like Re Ben, let her go ahead She-felt apphinted neated beratse’ s| céuld not love even ser own ba- the first time she heard one of the pink m sneeze Ju- who had never known fea st died “Nurse dying Talcum powder up her no: the nurse said easily, but it w halt hour before Judit! knew a biessed, tearful peace while deep within her. & mysterious proc- ess, was bor a love for the: perfectly diy ug! gorgeously manity sh with a greed Wanted it for Sports DEAN HURT B CUBS STILL WON WALK DOWNED PHILS AFTER TWELVE INNINGS: YANKS DEFEATED RED SOX (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, April 30.—Dizzy Dean pulled a muscle in the fourth inning yesterday in the Cub-Red game and was yanked precaution but the Windy Tribe nosed out Cincinnati, 6to 4, just the same. A walk with the bases loaded fn the twelfth inning won for Brooklyn Dodgers against Philadelphia Phillies. New York Yankees downed Boston Red Sox, with the score also 6 to 4. Cleveland Indians edged out St. Louis Browns, 3 to 2. Lowly Philadelphia Athletics went one better than Washington Senators and so won. Detroit Ti- gers overwhelmed Chicago White Sox, 5 to li Results of the games follow: National League At Chicago Cincinnati Chicago 6 8 2 Batteries: Derringer, Cascarel- la and Lombardi; Dean, Russell, Bryant and Hartnett. as a City Rt © 2% A E. 2 3 At Brooklyn H. Philadelphia 1 Brooklyn (12 Innings) Batteries: Passeau, Smith, Johnson, Hallahan, Kelleher and Atwood; Posedell, Pressnell and Spencer. Yew York at Boston, cold wea- th wet St. Louis at Pittsburgh, | grounds. | American League | At St. Louts Cleveland | St. Louis 280 | Batteries: Feller and Hemsley; Van Atta, Bonetti and Sullivan. H. E. R. H. 30 1 | At New York R.H.E | 464 |New York 6 8 0 | Batteries: Ostermueller, Mc- | Kain and Peacock; Donald, Mur- | phy and Dickey. At Philadelphia Washington 611 0 Philadelphia 795 | Batteries: Kohlman, Phebus |and R, Ferrell; Ross, Smith and Hayes Boston R. H. E. At Detroit Chicago 1 Ba dee § Detroit 510 0 Batteries: Rigney, Brown and Sewell; Poffenberger and Teb- | betts. R. H. E. HOW THEY STAND MAJOR BASEBALL , LEAGUES American League Club. Ww. Cleveland Washington National League Ww | Ne York j Pittsburgh | Boston Chie: mdler (0-0) vs. at Boston—Caster Chicago— eland—Ken it} (2-0 NATIONAL LEAGUE M Phitadeiph: Lancast Knott KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just 10 Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files of The Citizen Exactly 1,200 new registr had been entered in the books of Monroe County when the books closed at 5 o'clock yesterday, su- or Joseph Roberts reports. will be no opportunity to qualify for the June primary for those with whom it was nec ry to register. Citiz whose names are already listed. but who have failed to pay the poll tax, are giv- en until May 19 to pav the tax and complete their qualifications. From that time on there will be no way in which the citizen can have himself qualified to v This means that between 4.000 and 4,500 voters will take part in the primary, slightly more than was anticipated when the regis- tration books were opened. Harry Page, 28, heart broken over the death of his father. died suddenly 8 o'clock night at his home in New York, just nine hours after his father, Edward F Page, had passed away in 'Not- folk, Va. They were former Key Westers and their bodies will bc brought to Key West for inter- ment, according to the present plans, but the time of artival cannot be determined. Mrs. Roy Childs, daughter of Edward Page and at whose home he died, will accompany the bodies to Key West. Harry Page leaves a widow and one child. The Lovell ami-Key West buses began making their trips between the two points this m¢ ing at 11:30. The bus from this end left from in front of the La Concha Hotel. Mr. Lovell was on board the bus and stated that everything looked fine and he is satisfied that everybody at eith- er end of the line will be satis- fied with the service given. A special rate will be made for fish- ing and picnic parties to points along the line as far as No Name Key. The charges will be nominal. More than 300 school students will this afternoon at Bayview Park, be presented by Mayor Les- lie A..Curry, with blue ribbons. as part of the exercises of “Child Health Day” and the “May Day” celebration at the park. The par- ade is scheduled to start at 4 o'clock from Caroline and Duval streets. Two floats will be enter- ed by each grammar school as well as the kindergarten. , The high school band will lead the parade and furnish the music at the park. Editorial comment: Haven't you noticed that there are certain city officials in Key West who seem to have overlooked the fact that the law requires a license tag for an automobile. There were 28 cars loaded pineapples transferred at the F cdddddodécdidodd WALTER NASE wes as AGAIN IN "FLORIDA: One Who Made Picture Story “The Birth f A Baby” se PLANS TO PREPARE ade dda eee MANY STORIES CPodecevcesoececoresccesae (Spécial to The Citizen) OCALA, April 30.—Walter Nase of New York City, the photographer who made Life’s picture-story, “The Birth Of A Baby”, which caused such a furor throughout the country and which was temporarily banned in some cities, is again in Florida making a number of stories. Cameraman Nase recently com- pleted two stories on the birth of, an alligator and the birth of an ostrich and is now at Silver Springs working in conjunction with Pathe RKO on the birth of: an underwater motion picture. This picture will show the movie- going public how motion pictures are made under water. An en- tire circus set has been built un- der water, including hot dog and refreshment stands and an entire circus performance will be given with alligator wrestlers, snake charmérs, hula hula dancers and acrobats, and will show divers building the set under water cameras and photo subs in opera- tion: Elephants Battle Nase had this to say of a thrill- ing experience he had a few years ago in Florida while filming an RKO picture featuring Ann Hard- ing and called “Prestige”: “We got a number of bull ele- phants from the winter quarters of Ringling Bros. cireus at Sara- sota and took them out in the sloughs to film part of the pic- ture the plot of which was laid in Africa. We set up our cameras on tripods and started to shoot in water up to our waists. Every- thing went nicely for awhile; suddenly one of the large bulls decided to settle an old grudge he had against another bull; he low- ered his head and lunging for- ward rammed his enemy who was knocked completely off his E. C. station and shipped over thé highway this morning in cars of the Florida East Coast Railway A party consisting of 75 Shrin- ers and theit wives will take pas- sage on the Mallory boat which: leaves here next Tuesday for Galveston. They are enroute to | Houston. The entire party were at the Shriner convention, came to Kev Wést té take p: ge for Havana, and returned this week Judge J. Vining Harris, ardent angler, and his family left today for a fishing trip of several davs. The judge said his fishing will b: carried on in Jewfish Channel and vicinity The Governor Cobb arrived in port yesterday from Havana with 444 passengérs, most of them shrin¢rs returning from Hav The vessel was decked with flags from stem to stern, as are the other ssels of the line Get a Genuine General Electric NOW! SAVE MORE IN MORE WAYS! Be thriftier! See this refrigerator that started a néw “save wave” in Amer- ica! Check the multiple savings of the new G-E— in current, upkeep, long life, ice, food, convenience, etc. And we believe you willown a General Electric Sealed-in-Steel TRIPLE-THRIFT UNIT with Oil Cooting The only sealed mechanism that has had the benefit of 12 years manufacturing experience The first choice of millions is NOW POPULARLY PRICED! feet. The attacked bull scram- bled to his feet and the Bedlam broke elephants fight was on. loose, all the tarted trumpeting and began milling around the fighting bulls. The bull men dashed in and tried to stop the fight but the elephants paid absolutely no attention to them. All at once the smaller bull which had been first attacked broke away, and started towards us with the other bull in hot pursuit and the rest of the herd following close behind The fleeing bull in his evident terror of the other apparently did not see as he headed in our direction. It was impossible for us to run, as the mud and water made it difficult even walk Well, for a few seconds it looked as though we were spot, but fortunately the leading bull saw us and orved to one side just in time to prevent us from being trampled upon; the pursuing bull and the rest of the herd seeing the first bull swerve, also swerved aitd went thunder- past less than six feet from us. That cnded our picture mak ing for the day as our cameras were covered with mud from the splashing elephants and also we had nothing to photograph as it took the bull men the rest of the day to round up the herd” In addition to making picture storiés for the magazin: Nase is in charge publicity photo- graphy for Educational Pictures and the stills on “The Birth Of A Baby” were made by him during the filming of the motion picture of the same name. The picture was made in the Eastern Service Studios in Long Island City, When asked if he thought the picture would benefit the future mothers of this country, he said “Most assuredly , and related the ‘following incident proving that benefit nad already been re- ceived During the us in a tough of so”, filming of ‘The ée odseees Sunday’s Horoscope dec allowed full \cy to sat- the neglect are firm sort of yn. often with pers Birth Of A Baby’ the studio cat, which. is quite a pet and } around on the Set whilé Pie ere being made and for the members of the 1 the director down to, porter save scraps lunch, was so impre ern obste weeks after the production w completed she presented the stu dio staff with a litter of kittens s far as is known is the first prospective mother have benefited from advice and information given by the fa- mous obstetricians who present during the entire of this picture”. orders 20 pr percent of rceeds laid PALMER’S ROOFING COMPANY COMPOSITION ROOFING T'S ROOFING seven a0 Estimates Cheerfully Given 1212 White Key ‘West 15 N. E. 17 trace, Miami ) * ® % & ‘ VOTE FOR LEWIS E. MOORE FOR CoNC“ESS a ae ~s eae Fourt.. Coa tonal District ive Business A Voice fend A Busi «<e ess Man To Congress THIS TL SH Ls We eT IFILL & PP a. 5 N 4 N : : PMO ST OF AMERICA---By Tremendous Margin AUTOMATIC |} TUNING | PHILCO with INCLINED CONTROL PANEL lew J wud i EASY TERMS id only with Phileo High-Effi Aerisi re greatest UNUSUAI TRADE IN ALLOWANCE in effect for the next TEN DAYS Come In And Ask About It