The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 6, 1938, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE ARMY POST Bv Virginia Hanson Katherine Cornish, myself, vis- iting Elizabeth on a mid-western Army post. re saaret vod the colonel’s daugh- Adam Drew, a friend, a Yesterday: My fiancé, Charlie, ds still avoiding me. Chapter Six Under Her Spell NSIDE the club the musicians did their best to get hot. Anne’s tiny feet flew, her short dark curls tumbled forward and she tossed them back. She was pale, her big iris eyes a little glassy. Suddenly she faltered, swayed and reached a groping hand toward Barney. *Smatter, honey?” he asked quickly, steadying her with an arm around her waist. “Don’t ever—do that—on cham- . I'm a little tight, you iow?” f “Just a little, pet,” he said sooth- ly. “We'll take a nice ride wn the nice air, shall we?” She drew away from him, looked back into the clubroom and shivered in the hot, oppres- ing night. “Get my wrap, darling. im going to be cold.” ‘ou’re not tight, you’re crazy,” Barney said. scornfully, then scooped. her into his arms and bore her down the steps into the darkness. A car door slammed, wel hailed; the sound of a mo- for diminished and died. They had not seen us, I mur- mu “Tarzan on the loose a ‘Adam did not answer. He was staring into the darkness where they had disappeared. In the half- light his bland, round face looked “J don’t like it,” he said at last, as if he were thinking aloud. “That's girl’s headed for trouble.” “With Barney?” I asked in sur- prise. a thought he seemed rather “Don't know anything against him,” Adam conceded. “Little too » maybe. But I didn’t mean wig Maybe he can handle her if she sticks to him. I waited. There was more to come. I could feel Adam making up his mind. “How old would is?” he asked sudde: “I don’t know. Twenty, twenty- one?’ “She's eighteen—and she’s a ‘But, ‘Adam! Lots of girls fot like Anne Carewe. I know. I'm telling you this because the kid is so complete] alone. Her mother is an invalid; her father is a doting old fool. And she hasn’t an honest friend.” 2 ‘ou say she iy. friend.’ t about Mrs, Shaw? And ‘4 Anne sg eve ae man on in- joey ge Ah aaIel-to- piel man- ner Mrs. Shaw has her claws out. So has Mrs. Orpington.” “But Elizabeth——” Adam knew what I meant. Eliz- a mould never descend to - ing. “You're ent. She'd simply erawl into a shell. I think that’s what she has done where Anne is eoncerned.” ‘Destroying Herself’ HE was silent for a while. Fi- nally he went on. “| may as well teli you what eveiyone else knows, Barney Nel- | hog son and Anne split up early in June—nobody knows why—and Barney started t2king Elizabeth around. Some said it was a bid for the Old Man’s favor. Some said he was punishing Anne for ‘irt- po ped Charlie Spencer. Some she only took up with Char- lie to lure Barney back. . . .” A couple strolled out of the clubroom and down the steps. We waited in silence until they were I was thinking furiously. was Adam telling me this? Was.it to let me know about Char- lie? Or was he really concerned about Anne? The footsteps on the walk grew fainter, Adam's low voice re- “A couple of weeks ago they itched it up. Hebody knows any- fing about that, either, though there’s plenty have tried to find out. ry, lot too 2ri- around the colone! —Barney was ’s quarters or some suc! “But why worry about Anne?” 1 asked why worn “Seems to me ee z; ot reg tig needs sym! —that anyone does, aupposs they both w: ~! y an’ him. Anne got him, didn’t she? At least the engagement is an- nounced and that’s something. If he’s what she wanted—and appar- ently he is—she'll settle down now and all the o!d vats will stop scratching.” Adam said doubtfully, “Sounds Jogi doesn't it? But I can’t get we, idea that some! is eine that kid to destroy her- se! I remembered, the, the conver- sation about her with Elizabeth that afternoon. I told him about it, and he seemed touched. But J SON IS BORN IN NYA OFFICIAL — CLASTON FAMILY Mr. and Mrs. C, I. Claston an- nounce the birth of a son weigh- ing six and three-quarter pounds at a local hospital on Monday. The new arrival has been given the name of Lawrence Ray. Mother and baby are reported to be getting along nicely. Mrs. Claston was before her marriage Miss Dorothy Hijort. MURDERS could see it was not enough to ex- plain the feeling he had. The strolling couple returned and we fell silent again, I was rather glad to drop the subject. Anne Carewe was a pirate; it was oe es good bit of women to ex- em to feel sorry for her, t did she need with women friends? Even Adam was under her spell—Adam the untouchable, the impervious. I was swept by a wave of an; ‘|noyance. What was I doing here anyway? What were they to me, these group-minded individuals inhabiting their strip of park—an island in a sea of cornfields. Had they no privacy in their lives? | Was each word, each act, even each thought common property’ Were their little lives so bound and tangled by Gee paling that they must snap and snarl inces- santly like a pack of dogs chained in the same enclosure? “Why are we dancing here in- stead of at the Officers’ Club?” 1 asked idly, more to change the subject than because I was inter- ested. “What do they call this, anyway? The Service Club?” ‘Yes, It's for the use of the en- listed men—a survival of the war. Used _to be the Red Cross build- ing. You notice the floor plan is in the shape of a Maltese cross. It’s the only frame building on the post. During the war, and for some time afterward, a Red Cross hostess was in residence here. The post was a general hospital, and the wives and mothers were al- ways coming to visit their boys. You may have noticed that there is a baleony surrounding the dance floor in the center of the cross; off the balcony, in the fou; wings, there are furnished gues! rooms, scarcely ever used now. The hostess lived in one of them.” A Ghost ” (AT became of her?” “There’s quite a tale about that. After the war all but a few of the hostesses were discharged or transferred to other work. This one stayed on. The hospital was dismantled and the regiment came back. There was no job for her; her pay was cut, eventually she was to have left. She was a queer old thing, from all I've heard—a maiden lady of a certain age; and either she was afraid of starving to death or she was extremely fond of her job, She started a sort of poor-farm plea; so the Post Ex- change set aside a sum for her maintenance, But after a_ few months that, too, failed. There was no place left for her to appeal. So one morning the captain walked in and found her hanging from the balcony just under the cantnen tt colors and the crossed sabers that you see as you enter the door... .” “Suicide?” I asked, revolted. “Undoubtedly. That touch about the colors proves it. A sort of war-hysteria hang-over. No doubt she felt, with some obscure logic, that she -vas dying for her col fe “And lg have dances here,” I marveled. “Well, not often. Usually we dance at the Officers’ Club—in the mess hall, you know. Don’t know why the committee had it here to- night. Do it occasionally as a sort of gesture. It’s really a recreation room for the enlisted men. They have movies, dan card parties and the like here. And there's a reading room in the right-hand wi ey didn’t take it any too well when the old girl made her last bow;“and once in a while the story goes the rounds that some- ' ly has seen her ghost fluttering around on that dark balcony. Then the officers get busy and have a dance here and the story dies down for a while.” “No wonder the guest rooms are seldom used!” _Adam chuckled. “Catch any sol- dier on this post putting his wom- enfolk in this building for the night!” Something moved in the shad- ows beyond the veranda railing My heart gave an involuntary lurch. “Is that you, Katherine?” It was Elizabeth in her pink shepherdess costume. She was e. “Tm going to run home : r few minutes—Father said he might telephone at eleven o’cl I won't be gone very long, but. thought you might wonder . . .”; My conscience pricked me. I had not really given Elizabeth a thought for the past hour. And she must be having a rotten time. ‘Til go with you,” I said prémptly. Adam, on his feet, spoke almost simultaneously. “I'll get my car.” But she waved us both aside. “Please, no,” she said firmly. “My car is here, and I slipped out the side door from the powder room so no one would bother. Please— T won’t permit you.” Nor would she. Anxious as ! was to cease encumbering Adam. to free him from his solitary vigii by my side, I found myself wait ing on the veranda while he saw her to her car, listening to the tather sad music of the soldier or- chestra, watching through a con- venient window the very wan dancers in their uninspired cos- tumes. (Copyright, 1938, Virginia Hanson) ‘Tomorrow: Death walks the post. VISITOR HERE Joe A, Youngblood, state direc- tor of the National Youth Ad- ministration, is a visitor in Key West today, accompanied by Mrs. Youngblood. With Supervsior Victor Lowe. Mr. Youngblood is visiting the different projects within this area, and will in all probability jleave for Miami this evening. SOCIAL C TUESDAY— «6 p. m. Parish Hall. »>Regular meeting of Key West rHURSDAY— Spaghetti Supper auspices Woman’s Guild of St. Paul’s Church. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SOCIAL ACTIVITIES "4 ar | | ALENDAR Woman's Club. 5 p. m. Woman’s Clubhouse, with bazaar immediately following. 7. —o-—~ Meeting Key West Lions Club, Stone Church Annex, 6:30 P. M. Rotary Club:meeting 12:15 p. Harris Room, Mothers meetin FRIDAY— SUNDAY— MONDAY— | { PERFECT ATTENDANCE ,Perfect attendance ret the Division Street School during semester follows: - 1B2—Onelio . Alvarez, Francis Pazos, Rosa Garcia, Patsy Hamp- ton, Barbara Mora. 1B1—Charles Auxier, Joseph Lewis, Rene Rodriguez, Shirley Albury, Betsy Bell Cates, Zaida Diaz, Loudre Diaz, Althea Hask- ins, Alice Hernandez, Nancy Sands. 1A—Kenneth Albury, Adolfo Walter Johnson, Kermit Kerr, Jr., Vicente Molina, Jr., William Williams, Nellie Aquiar, Beverly Arthur, Carmen Avila, Isabel Avila, Onelia Casada, Roberts, Rose Mary Roberts, Jen- nie Mae Russell, Martha Soriano, 2B2—Eugene Albury, John Cobo, Renaldo Garcia, Tony Her- dolph Richardson, Alayon, Hilda Collins, Roberts, Aleli Villavisanes. 2B1—John' Cerezo, Jack | Lar- sen, Helio Oropeza, Billy Roberts, Jacky Smith, Emmett S. Walden, | Jr., John Williams, Diana Auxier, |Carolyn Camalier, Flora Mae Cruz, Betty Jean Cruz, Hilda | Diaz, Willimina Diaz, Eleanor | Demeritt, Edna Jean Gardner, |Mary Louise Pent, Anna Dell Patterson, Evelyn Roberts, Faye Taylor, Delores Washington, Rose Marie Stirrup. 3A—Dalbert Bethel, Oscar Cruz, | Joseph Lowe, Antonio Machado, | Bonifacio Rivera, Elander Smith, | Edna Mae Alvarez, Velma Cates, |Rose Mary Kerr, Mayfield | Knowles, Helen Narcisa, Evelyn | Skeleton, Antonica Smith. | 4B1—Mildred Tift, Robert Nar- | cisa, Shirley Skelton, Claude Val- | dez, Estel Martinez, Tonita Pe- reira, Grace Estevez, Mildred | Walden, Naldo Diaz, Shirley Tift, | Gladys Washington, Harriet Rus- | sell, Randal Valdez, Shirley Pin- |der, Adoree Rodriguez, Albert | Cruz, John Ogden, Clennié De- | meritt, Olga Perez. |p 2A—Serafin Calero, Jose Gon- }galez, Patrick Russe}}, Ann | Doughtry, Joan Knowles, Fay Roberts, Joan Marshall. 3B2—Elaine Albury, Zelma Dee | Griffin, Celina Machin, Roberts, Lillian Rodriguez, Rose |Mary Sanchez, Henry Gardner, J. W. Pinder, Buddy Williams. 3B1—Rose Marie Atwell, Mer- cedes Bernal, Amaryllis Demer- itt, Vivian Garcia, Margarite Kerr, Elsie Mora, Onedia Roig, Jose Alvarez, Manuel Lopez, Florencio Reyes, Hilburn Rob- rts, George Villareal, Tom Vil- lavisanes, Ernest Lee Mitchell. 4B2—Onelia Garcia, Geraldine Jaycocks, Clementina del Pino, Rose Valdez, Billy Howez, Gon- zala Labrado, Howard Sanchez, Jose Sesa. 4A-—Charies: Baker, Jack Cur- rie, Denfilé Jones; Kenneth Lar- sen, Marcus Mora, Peter Valdez, Harry Williams, Nathalie Bethel, Rosalie Camalier, Elizabeth Ann Gardner, Lillian Harvey, Camille Pazo,'Catherine Ann Symmon- ette;- Gloria Vinson, Florence Mitchell 5B2—Lee Griffin, John Gibson, Haebecker, 517 Whitehead street. 3:30 p. m. ogee Concert, Key West Hospitality Band. 5 p. m. Art Center Park. 0 Regular Camera Club meeting. 8 p. m. Key West Federal Art _ PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWS | Argelia BMH tine aeale ord at|Boza, Anna Taylor, Mary Thomp- Di lem eritts G. ‘0 the second quarter of the present | | Cerezo, Robert Cruz, Gilbert Hall, ; Onedia Thrift, Edna Mae Harris. | Cleora | m. St. Paul’s Annex. ig at residence of Mrs. William | Key West Musical Society meeting at 8 p. m. Armory. | —— | e | Mrs. Rue said that she~ expects | the joint management of Mr. and | } | Acevedo, -Betty Lou | |son, Ady Fernandez. ! 5§Bl—Forest Arthur, Herman’ Fermine Hernandez, John Knight, ; jardson, Melvin E. Russell, Hilton Lee Tift, Alice Diaz, Joan | Doughtry, Juanita Griffin, Antha ‘Louise Johnson, Gloria Martinez, | Frances Mora, Hildred Roberts, ' | Laurette Russell. } : §A—Andrew Garcia, Robert ; Malone, Marvin Maloney, Frank Papy, Claudius Spencer, Walter Barcelo, Cornelius Carey, Glen-| Vinson, Violet Arias, Lydia Avail,} COLORED YOLKS POPULAR | wood Carey, Norberto Diaz, Ed-|Ruth Beccaise, Yolande de lai uardo Garcia, Edward Jackson, |Gura, Clara Hernandez, Virginia | | Kelley, Virginia Roberts. 6B—Albert Cash, Ward Her- Pinder, Kenneth Spencer, Charles|rick, John Ley, Alfred Lowe,! “made to order” in any Louis James Narcissa, Ogden, George Lowe, Charles Ogden, Claudia|Kirkwood Pierce, Odillio Rod-'is produced by Charles Ar- jCamalier, Elizabeth Ann Gard- | ner, Irene Gates, Jack Currie,’ i Marcus Mora, Harry Williams. 5Bl—Joan Doughtry, Frances; Lauriette Russell, Alice Forest Arthur, Herman! erezo, George Lewis. 5B2—Bertha Prez, | son, Anita Aguilar, Argelia Ace- | vedo, Btty Lou Boza. | 5A—None. | 6B—Ward = Herrick, | Lowe, Odillio Rodriguez, May Roberts. 6Al—Gloria Acevedo, |Bravo, Jennie Johnson, | Elizabeth Knowles. Dencil Russell, Kenneth Solomon, mando Sosa, Andrew Woody, | Evelyn Atwell, Shirley Curry, | Almondo Gonzalez, Mary Gon- riguez, | Sands, nandez, Charles Knowles, Ran- ‘zalez, Josephine Hernandez, Lena} Esperanza |Mae Howse, Marjorie Knowles, | Mora, Lillian ' Ethel Mae Roberts, Amparo Sdn- ; Diaz, |chez, Rose Marie Sands, Sn | | Rose Smith. 6A2—Andrew Atwell, “ Albérto Calero, Juan Espinoza, Willidm Filer, Ernest Hopkins, George Lee, Bobby Sawyer, Solidad Gon- zalez, Elsie Toledo. 6Al—Harold Haskins, Edward Moore, Eloy Rodriguez, Charles Sanchez, Carleton Skelton, Chas. Tift, Gloria Acvedo, Leona Al- bury, Martha Arrango, Camalier, Loraine Goethe, Mary Elizabeth Knowles, Maude Rob- erts, Rosemary Symmonette, Grace Torres, Jun Yelverton. HONOR ROLL Honor Roll of the Street School for the | weeks follows: 1B1l—Betsy Bell Cates, Althea Haskins, Fay Knowles, Shirley Mae Albury, John Craig Smith. 1B2—Rosa Garcia, Teresa Arias, Patsy Hampton, Murray Harris, | Barbara Mora. 1A—Adolfo Barcelo, Kerr, Jr., Vicente Molina, Jr, 2B1—None. 2B2—None. 2A—Fay Roberts, Sylvia John- son, Ann Doughtry, Donald Skel- | ton Josephine Gonzalez. 3Bl—Tom Villavisanes Mora. 3B2—Elaine Albury, Rose Ma- rie Sanchez, Hamilton Williams. 3A—Rose Mary Kerr. 4B1—Mildred Waiden, Albury. 4B2—None. 4A—Nathalie Bethel, Rosalie Ua LA CONCHA HOTEL In the Center of the Business and Theater District Garage——Elevator——Fireproot Open The Year Around PSE ELE NOW OPEN— PRINCESS BEAUTY SHOP at 609 Duval Street Division Past six Gerry | Beach. | evening. Kermit | Elsie { Announcement Of Wedding | Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rue, of this| sort and little daughter, Gerry, | city, announced this morning that | their daughter, Miss Helen Edith | Rue, will on Saturday, Decem- | ber 10, become the bride of Rich- | ard Finley Cook. The wedding! will be solemnized at Miami | | Mrs. Rue was a passenger leav- | ing on the early morning bus to- | day for Miami Beach to assist in| making preparations for the wed- ding. Mr. Rue will leave: Key! West Saturday morning to be in| jattendance at the wedding in the issue of the opening of a new | Before ieavizg this morning the newly-weds will arrive, with! several relatives, for “Christmas dinner in Key West and for short stay. | | { 4 On Vacation Herman Demeritt, engineer on Gomez, Murray ‘Harris,’ Albert | Jack Matcovitch, Norman Rich- ‘the Lighthouse Tender Poinciana, | Wtk assures the public of the Jr.,! who is enjoying his regular leave | best in treatment at the Princess of absence from his duties, left | this morning for Miami, accom-! panied by Mrs. Demeritt. i They plan, said Mr. Demeritt, ; to spend a short time in Miami i but will be back in Key West in |time for the Christmas holidays. | | i} ST. LOUIS—Business is _ brisk }for a St. Louis feed store® that) ‘produces eggs with the yolks color. | Right now red and green are the popular combinations. The color regulating the ‘hen’s diet. Ci j Alfred Ethel Noelia Mary Willette | | a () John Gib-j| NEW ARRIVAL IN BURGERT FAMILY Mrs. F. F. Hoffman received a} } telegram yesterday from her nep- |Monroe County Boy Scout Dis-| rry «rub-my hew, E. J. Burgert, of Detroit, | Mich., announcing the birth of a} son, James Harry Burgert. | Mr. Burgert is employed in the} Photo Department of “The De-| troit News”. Mr. and*Mrs. Bur- were in Key West: on a visit in March apd were .entertained dur- ing thelr stay hete by" Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman at their home on Simonton StS hee % NEW BEA\ SHOP. OPENED Announcement is made in this Beauty Shop in Key West at 609 Duval street. The shop is under Mrs, J. H. Boig and it presents an attractive appearance—clean, roomy, light and well-ventilated. Mrs. Boig is well-known in Key West, having had charge, O the beauty shop at Casa Mari tel | forthe past two years} y | years of experience in beauty | Beauty Shop. ANSWERS TO TEN TEST QUESTIONS Below are the answers to test questions printed on Page 2 Savannah and Chattahoo- chee. The waters of the earth. Federal Housing Adminis- tration. A steam sterilizer for surg- ical instruments. | About one-fourth of the} world’s habitable land sur- | face. No; “Leave hold of the| stick” or “Let go of the stick” is correct. Cumberland River. American Civil War. Stockholm. An agent for removing hair from the skin. MONROE THEATER Sally Eilers—Paul Kelly in A NURSE FROM BROOKLYN —also— BRINGING UP BABY Matinee: Balcony, 10c: Orches- tra, 15-20c: Night, 15-25¢ vB 8, 9. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1938 IN KEY WEST Seeccesosesosesesesesess Tuesday Deputy scout executive Rance Osborne arrives to meet with} mmittee. Wednesday Monroe County Commissioners meeting. 8 p. m. Courthouse. londay District Conference of Meth- odist Episcopal Church in Key West at First Methodist Church opens with’arrival of 200 dele- gates. i ON MEMBERSHIP SHOWS A. F. OF L. 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