The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 8, 1938, Page 3

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1938 2 MER POP PPPOPPO CCC CD Lo ed THE ARMY POST MURDERS ‘The Characters Katherine Cornish, myself, vis- iting Elizabeth on a mid-western Army post, Elizabeth, the colonel’s daugh- te ; er. Charlie Spencer, my fiancé, esterday: Anne Carewe is meraeres during the balloon. ince. Chapter Eight : Capable Of Murder Sommons was breathing hard at my shoulder. I turned. “Charlie!” I whispered. Fear shot through me and left me trembling. His face was paper white undet | th, the golden down that covered it like peach fuzz, and his odd, yellow cat eyes had the brilliance of topaz. He looked wild, tigerish; his hand closed on my arm and the fingers sank in like claws. But he was looking past me at that tragic, down-flung form. “She’s dead,” he said suddenly in a shockingly ordinary voice. The crowd panicked. Some wo- man began to laugh. Doc Moore glanced up from his examination, said something in a low voice, and Adam, with courteous, ‘relentless finality, forced us all outiiof,the foom. 1 “Everyone wait, please,” he di- tected and closed the door. be alone,” I whispered to Charlie. He merely stared at me stupidly, I took -his unr: hand an hurried him aeross the floor to the reading room. For the moment we had it to ourselves, “Listen, this is serious,” I said, frying to fix his wandering, fever- gaze. “Listen, Charlie—please By, attention to what I am saying, Tealize this is murder, don't you' The vacant yellow eyes looked back at me impersonally. “Well, what of i*?” he asked erisply; and I saw what I had missed before, that he was very | break it to’ see | just to throw Bv Virginia Hanson THE KEY WEST CITIZEN oecee | oo, current youth singing like angels the rumble seat. ood rambling thro’ southern France on his sabbatic: transferred to Los Angeles, their Ag summer, our last at | home. It was all changed new: Dad | | eeccccccccoeqese ouis Steams ; Charlie’s father | house sold; Rileen singing de- | terminedly against the incessant clatter of my typewriter and the | periodic, devastating typhoon of the elevated outside our window. | And Charlie — Charlie drinking himself out of the picture because a girl named Anne Carewe had got | herself engaged to another man. | And Anne Carewe lying on 2 | chaise longue with a bullet hole in her back. ... I remembered his conversation | with Elizabeth that afternoon and | ran my hand ort. the back of ie ver’s seat. The gun was there, wedged in behin? the cush- ion, the grip where he could-put | his Land on it. I" By GARDNER SOULE, AP Feature Service Writer CLASSIFIED COLUMN LOST ! |e TRANSPORTATION | Steamer Cuba Arrives Arriving Tuesday afternoon from Havana, the Steamship ! Cuba, of the P. and O. S. S. Co.,; |had on board 39 first cabin and ‘ |LOST—Small, black and brown} 1} second cabin passengers for | A week before Eric Tipton of | |Duke punted his team to its 7-0 | |victory over Pitt, Eddie Dooley, NEW VALDEZ INN, 521 United. the famous football forecaster ‘and commentator, who has been } ' i I drew it out and looked at it i with the distrust I always feel for pistols. I had shot Charlie’s twenty-two rifle when we were kids, but this was different — an ominous, heavy. thing,.a man- | hunting weapon. Tt was- be | didn’t know how long it wou! it was fired. I thing except that I wes going to set rid of it for a while. 1 conside: would not do found and traced te Charlie— registered, I knew. Where, then. id | could I hide it? The only place I could think of was my suitcase in» Elizabeth’s guest room. 4 Fantastic Thought A bess thought of Elizabeth brought me up with an icy shock, She must be still at home, waiting for her call. She ought to Lt told about the tragedy. I would make that an excuse for my ac- tions, The one were in the car. 1 was relieved but not surprised to find them. Charlie was casual about In that moment of horror it was for me to believe any- 1 remember looking him ly for suspicious sags | I. Ti He was untidy—his ‘was mussed, there were in his white mess jacket slacks; but there was no sus- of a gun on his lean, tail- form. “All right, Charlie. I just wanted sure you remember ith me in this room when shooting took place.” was a fool, but at that tht I had to get him take a chance on fixing ? I don't believe I itelngene. with a flash of I in assumed impatience. “T was afraid you were too tight to aber. I sup, ose you've for- er you not to take that Nothing of the sort. Of course I remember. The trouble | d, sy A Ff Ee It's to me capable. bolstered aos i if & = Ha] & # i zZ : 8 iit: iy tai is seal 52s G32 ié dd E “i H 4 z. 53 g By 2 Hi : Hs Hl | | i ‘ i i Es 4 =: it 3 sf i & E u | was not in sight. such things, We warmed to each other like old friends, Charlie's roadster and he quarter mile or so from one end of the plain to the other van- ished behind us like a thread of smoke and we drew up in front of Colonel Wright's - -arters. T was conscious of a pang of dis- appointment Elizabeth must have gone back to the party. Her car was r ell, I would go in, hide the pun and leave. I could at least say.I had been looking for her. The knob turned under my hand —doors are never lucked on a post —and I entered softly, remember- ing Annie's promise to be in early. The lights were on in the front of the house, but I saw’no one as I tipteed through the hall and up the creaky stairs, I found my suit- case in the dark, removed the pistol from the capa~‘o.s sleeve of the mandarin coat where I had been carrying it, and buried it un- ler some lingerie. Then I locked the suitease and put the key in my evening bag. That much, at least. vou opty iio ton &. way downs! a disturbing thought came to me How lon; id Bisebeth e props an alibi for ied to « is ai the fantasti ss intastic thought, F and oe) Adam's recital o: kept :om Bo~~ -~ Nelson’s love .angie, as the tabloids have. iaeed it jot that T ve Eli: ct murde. The Te pe. aes fantastic. 2 Wek hot gossipm~ngers' “ n't they be the first to ama "Motive? seni And so, intention her, T snooped. been some ex. dling in Charlie's was none for what-I did now. Nice Old Lady—Why are you | in prison, my good man? driving a The ewner caught up with me. success, then”, said a friend to an unsuccessful stage manager. ’ ithey were a tragedy”. “It was not", admitted the stage manager. “When we played trag- edy. the box office receipts were you. Skumguilion—Naw, too slow. a farce and when we played farce Stay warm after | idn’t know how to | z it-had been fired. | I didn’t know anything about the | I pe somewhere | “Quick, som place where we'll | = the dark; foreventuallyit would H the numers, or something, were | Work of the headhunters? No, just Heavyweight | | Champion Joe Louis in a steam bath at French Lick | Springs, Ind. He’s training for fight with John Henry! | Lewis. Huddleston Announces High } broadcasting weekly for Chester- football team. That Dooley’s placing of the Duke star on his ace team was fully justified, was amply borne out by Duke's bid and acceptance to the Rose Bowl after its remark- able unbeaten, untied and un- scored-on season. Chesterfield’s All - America football team, as chosen by Doo- ley and announced recently over his nation-wide hookup, is being hailed by coaches and critics as one of thesmost representative teams of the year. The team was chosen by Dooley in collabora- tion with more than one hundred leading coaches. No eleven of ing punch; more hard running backs and aggressive forwards Pearl street. than the team Dooley chose for Chesterfield. | field Cigarettes, picked Tipton for — | the Chesterfield 1938 All-America| street. previous years TWO LOTS -—_-— | packs more line power and scor- | School Basketball Schedule “=: players all of whom have! ! moO -New Material For Team; FOU,QWING THROUGH | | Usual Road Trip Feb. a RRA 2-4; Schedule Opens “pur wonnog COUNTY base-| January 6 \ball league held its scheduled | | meeting last night at the Cuban | jtry & Egg Co. play the double-! LRIC GWYNN, JR. : : ore jheader Sunday. First game will | School Reporter Coach Huddleston of the High|be with Sea Food Grill (Trojans) | q School Basketball Varsity today|and second with Bacardi Club.| announced the schedule for she fee needed, the game pending | Upetets gemes. | between the Grill nine and Poul-| hedule follows: i a ‘at Key West i try nine will be played on a later | ‘date. | | January 6—Ponce de Leon. | Poultrymen released player J. January 13—Lake Worth. i January pce | Barcelo and Bacardi Club releas- ent ad ei aatend, led players G. Diaz and L. Bazo. | Pe | . A . Road Trip Bacardi Club in the future will February 2—Andrew Jackson, be known as the Pirates, ey ry Jackson, | the Pi Th Miami, at Jackson Gym. |have signed J. Barcelo. Poligceats 3—Delray at Delray} Poultrymen signed L. Bazo and | | (iets 4—Pompano at Pom- | Castellanos, Trojans signed play-| pano Gym. {er Wm. Cates. | At Key West | Present were: President J. V., ; Bebruary 10—Pompano. | Woodson, Secretary P. Aguilar, | Februrey 17--Mijgmt Beach. 'M. Sanchez, A. Castro, C. Garcia, | Bebruary 24—Andrew Jackson. ~ | ‘The Varsity has lots of good|M. Alfonso, Joe Navarro, F. Gar- | | material this year, most of it new, | cia, A. Hernandez and D. Cobo. {and should display their usual, }fighting spirit. | ith Elmore Pinder, Frank | Stickney, William Schoneck, Lewin, Sidney Matthews, Tony )Soldano and Sam Collins, Coach | Huddleston stated he hoped to take the District Championship ‘this year. A truly Pep Team is to be se- lected with all High School en- thusiasts in the cheering at the | of TOMORROW NIGHT the bas- ketball lague teams will play a doubleheader. High School will meet Park Tigers in the first game, and Lions Club tackle U. S. Army in the nightcap. Leaders scorers up to date are: Player— FG FT Total Joe Pinder 31 67 J. Carbonell 61 W. Cates 60 Maris. 51 White 50 Saunders 48 E. Sweeting 46 Knowles 43 J. Navarro 30 J. V. Wocdson 25, Matthews 24 Roche 21 15 12 8 10 KH RH OUNMAUNAE Sea Food Grill GREAT KISSER ;Lions Club U. S. Army - | Park Tigers High School DeMolays NEW YORK—Admitting to a judge that he usually kissed the girls to whom he delivered tele- grams, William Casage of this city, messenger boy, was ordered to refrain in future. : EAST COAST WINTER BASEBALL Club— Key West Hialeah Railey-Milam Fredericks’ Market MONROE COUNTY BASEBALL LEAGUE (Round-Robin Series) Club— W.L. Pet Bacardi Club © 1.008 Poultry Co. 1 .000 Sea Food Grill 2 .000 That's That One morning when the chil- dren were eating breakfast, Mil- ford put two heaping spoonfuls of sugar in his cocoa. “I should think one spoonful would be enough”, objected his rr. should think so, too”, he re- plied, “but it ain't”. Drop The Curtain Stage Manager of Very Poor Revue (bearing sudden outburst of laughter)—Lor’, is the come dian actually putting a joke over? | Seengshifter (peering up Mrs. Nutleigh—How brave of stage}—No, it’s a bit of scenery , You, dear, to go unarmed. jfell on ‘is "ead! 3 0 0 Helpmate Mr. Nutleigh—It’s going to be, one grand battle of wits, I tell performed with rare distinction in their respective positions all season. Dooley’s team is as follows: Ends—Earl Brown of Noire North Carolina and Francis Twedell of Minnesota. Guards—Sid Roth of Cornell °™ {Club. It was decided that Poul- and Ralph Heikkinen of Michi- |SECO! gan. mouth. Halfbacks—Vic Bottazi of Cali- fornia and Eric Tipton of Duke. Fullback—Marshall Goldberg Pittsburgh, Normal Mean -.. EINE f | Rainfal Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation °Thin record covers 24-hour period ending at 8 a'eleck thin morning. Tomorrow's Almanac 0 Ins. .04 Ins. Sun rises - Sun sets —... 5: Moon rises ae, Moon sets — ay Tomorrow's AM. High - 11:37 11:03 Low 5:06 4:21 Barometer 7:30 a. m., today: Sea level, 29.97. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Friday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; not much change in gentle to moderate winds. Florida: P.M. variable Partly cloudy tonight Center—Ki Aldrich of Texas. hristian. Quarterback—Bob MacLeod of . m. .m. |X | temperature; | Deer Pincher Dog. Reward for returning to 907 White- head street. decT-2t LOST — Yesterday somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No re- ward is offered for they are gone forever.—Horace Mann. nov30 ROOMS Sixteen beautiful new rooms. Across South Beach. nov9-1mo ROOMS with or without board. Sunny and cool. 419 Southard dec2-1mo STONE HOTEL, clean, spacious rooms. Hot water. Reasonable rates. White and Division streets. decl-1mo FOR SALE TWO-STORY HOUSE, modern conveniences. Near Casa Ma- rina, lot 163’x98’. Apply 1125 Von Phister street. oct31-s FOR SALE — Six-room house, 1409 Olivia street. Apply 1205 Division street dec2-s FOR SALE—Cotton Candy ma- chine, cost new $150; sacrifice for $30. Gomez Furniture Store, 720 Duval. decl-tf on Washington street, 90 ft. front, 112 feet, deep. Reasonable. Apply 1219 nov11-s| It is made up of SIGNS—“For Rent”, “Rooms For Rent”, “Apartment For Rent”, “Private Property, No Tres- passing”, 15c each. THE ART- MAN PRESS. nov25-tf HOUSE AND LOT, six rooms and bath, $2,000. Easy terms. Phone 895-J or inquire at 912 James} street. dec6-12tx NEW 13' DINGHY. 615 Francis street. nov7-s SHEETS—500 for 50c The Artman Press. novyl9-tf i} FOR SALE—11% acres Planta-| tion Key, 3% acres on ocean, 8% acres on Bay, on Highway, Sengers from Tampa, all high land, beach front on both sides. P. O. Box 23, Key West. sept?-s | FOR SALE—Lot on Stock Is- land, waterfront. Also, lot cor- ner 5th and Patterson Avenues near Boulevard. Apply Box RC, The Citizen, aug3l-s| CORNER LOT, 50x100 feet. Cor- ner Sth and Staple Avenue. Apply Box D, The Citizen. nov2-tt FOR SALE—2 lots, each 50x100’. Run from Washington to Von Phister street. Reasonable. Ap- ply Rear 1217 Petronia street. aug9-tfs PLUMBING ATIONAL PLUMBING CO. has establishd a good reputation with? first quality work and reasonable charges. Estimates given free. 900 Fleming Street. Phone 581. decl-Imo HOTELS BRING YOUR VISITING friends in need of a good night's rest te OVERSEAS HOTEL. Clear rooms, innerspring mattresses Under new management, 911 Fleming St. nov18-tf FOR SALE OR RENT and Friday preceded by light FoR SALE OR RENT—Cabin rain {n extreme north portion this afternoon and on the northeast coast early tonight; not much change in temperature. Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Gentle to moder- ate variable winds; partly over- cast weather tonight and Friday Cruiser with living quarters to accommodate 4. All modern conveniences. Good for party fishing. 1014 Varela street. octl0-s REAL ESTATE omerepstieerineceensaemnnesitiatientreetenmcntn preceded by light rain over ex- WANTED—Real estate listings on treme north portion tonight. At Least A Postcard The hardboiled captain had knocked one of his sailors over- board. “Help! Help!” yelled the sea- man. “I can't swim. Drop me a line”. The captain leaned rail and smiled sweetly over the “Oh, Florida Keys, preferably Key Largo. Address Key West Pub- licity Bureau, 303 N. E. First Street, Miami. W. M. Egan, Registered Real Estate Broker. oct25-tf pletely furnished. Hot and cold running water, Seasonal or yes, dear, and you write Me (hepwige. Apply, Rear 1217 sometime, too”. Familiar Touch Outside the storm raged. The Lawns, Trees Opposite Petronia street. augs-tis LARGE SPACIOUS BUILDING, POST thunder rolled and the lightning OFFICE Good for any Busi- flashed almost continuously. ness Lease ALL or PART. Ap- Presently, a bolt struck Mr. Jones ply, 532 Caroline St. novl2-s and knocked him out of bed. He rose, yawned, rudbed his eyes FURNISHED HOUSES—all mod- and mumbied, “All right, dear,| em conveniences. rll get up”. 1114 Grin- nell Street. |Key West, and 12 first cabin pas- ‘sengers for Tampa. Key West arrivals were: | Ellen Oswald, Nelson Oswald, |Kathleen Rooney, Jetta Siddal, jJames Johnston, Daller Scott, Charles W. Scott, Morris Miller, Sam Rosner, Pearl Batterson, David Silver, Mischa Elman, Vla- dimir Padiva, {George Bluze, Grace Bluze, Edna |M. Mollman, Wm. H. Mollman, Caemela. Lopez, Loreis Scheller, Donald Lockwood, Maude Reyn-} olds, Lionel Riche, Lorerra Riche, Ray Riche. Charles Lessner, Libbie Less- ner, Dorothy Korhendorfer, Vir- ginia Wooly, Eula Woodhead, Pauline Schiller, Max Schiller, | Silvia Bogesleff, Violet Kurfurst, Frederick K. Roome, Carmine Politano, G. Gilber Captain, Fran- cisco MeNeil, James Cunning- ham, Feliciano Isaac Esteban, Wm. Colabrese, Ralph Domin- guez, Emery Lorentz, Edith! Lorentz, Eva Lorentz, Emery Lorentz, Jr., Joyce Lorentz, Na- omi Lorentz, Antonio Alvarez, Violeta Ortega, Margaret Ortega. Listed on the manifest of the Cuba were the following items: For Key West, five tons of freight, two automobiles and five sacks of mail; for Tampa, 29 tons of freight and 172 sacks of mail. The vessel sailed 5 o’clock for Tampa with one second cabin | | Bonestell’s Rhode Galo Menendez, | IX PAGE THREE LAYS WHOPPER : ~ ROYAL, Neb.—One of B. B. Island hens laid an egg nine inches in cir- cumference and ten inches long. No In His Line Teacher—What is the interest on a thousand dollars a year at two percent?—Ikey, pay _atten- tion! Ikey—For two percent I'm not interested. DEGALS your. CREDITORS; i O¢ exe JUDGE’s COURT FOR MONROE COUNTY, IN ‘A FLORIDA. 1N PROBATE. In re Estate of Charlotte Amelia Hodgdon, also known as Lottie Hodgdon, Deceased. TS al! creditors and all persons having claims or demands against the estate of Charlotte Amelia Hodgdon, also known as” Lottie Hodgdon, deceased, late of Key West, Monroe County, Florida! You, and each of you, are hereby notified and required to file ail claims or demands which you, or either of you, may have against the estate of Charlotte Amelia Hodg- don, also known as Lottie Hodgdon, deceased, late of Key West, Monroe County, Florida, in the office of the County Judge of Monroe County, Florida, in the County Court House in Monroe County, Florida, within eight calendar month: from_ the date of the first pu tion of this notice, to-wit, Ni 17th, A. 7 or demands im contain the place of residence and post—office address of the claimant and shall be sworn to by the claimant,”. his agent or attorney Any such claim or demand not so filed within the time and in the manner prescribed herein shall be ed at Key West, Florida, this: 16th day of Notwmber, A. D. 1938, WILLIAM A. FREEMAN + As Executor of the Last Will and- Testament of Charlotte Amelia Hodgdon, also known as Lottie- Hodgdon, deceased, aforesaid. — + Aqui YO LOP! JR. passenger. b Steamer Comes In | Arriving this morning at 6:30/ o'clock from. Tampa was the! Steamship Cuba, of the P. and O. S. S. Co., with three first and | three second cabin passengers for Key West, and 12 first and one second for Havana. Key West arrivals were: E. S. Watson, C. Johnson, Mrs. A. Mc- Keen, O. Russell, E. E. Suarez and M, Ayala. Shown on the manifest of the ship were the following items:! For Key West, 17 tons of freight and two sacks of mail. For Ha- | vana, one ton of freight and 110 sacks of mail. ‘The vessel left shortly after 9 o'clock for Havana with 28 first |cabin and 11 second cabin pas- sengers who made their reserva- tions at the Key West office of the company, and with 13 pas- made a to-; tal of 52 for Havana. j Steamer Arrives } Steamship Colorado, of the! Clyde-Mallory Lines, arrived in port Tuesday morning from New York at 9:30, berthed at the} Mallory pier and unloaded freight | for this port. | A goodly part of the cargo con-| sisted of shipments of plaster, board and three carloads of ce-, ment. The vessel was unloaded | shortly after 2:30 .and sailed at 2:45 for Tampa. | Yacht Leaves | Yacht “Vagabondia", with} owner, Wm. L. Mellon, and par- ty of guests, cleared Monday for Havana, Cuba, having just arriv-| ed from Nassau, made entry at! the custom house and was clear-| ed for the voyage to Cuba by the; Porter Dock Co. The “Vagabondia” captain is George Stoehr, and guests of Mr. | Mellon are Thurston Wright, Richard S. Richards and Gordon | Fisher. | Before leaving it was said by! the captain that the vessel will remain but a short time in Ha-| vana and then go to Miami. ial Master in f the final de- cree of foreclosure entered in that certain cause pending in the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Cir- cuit of Florida, in and for Monroe County, in Chancery, being Case N wherein Kathryn B. Jone: a widow, is plaintiff, and Chas. Hel Plumbing Company, I a Plorida corportation, et al,’ are def will, on Monday, January between the hours of eleven A. M, and two o'clock, the front door of the County,Coourt House in Key West, Florida, offer for sale and sell at public outery, to the best and highest bidder. for. cash, the following described real property in Monroe County, Florida, to wit: Commencing at the south switch point Largo siding of the Florida East Coast Railway, measure southwesterly twelve thousand one hundred and elghty-elght and four-tenths (12,188.4). feet along center line of railway; thence sixty and six-tenthé (60.8) feet along a line defivet- ing one hundred and twenty- four (124) degrees twenty-four (24) minutes to the left to aw iron bolt set in cement on the Easterly right of wey liné of said railway for a point of be- ginning, thence along the ‘ldat named line produced b south eighty-cight (88) thirty-five (35) minutes East, magnetic, being south line’ of tract herein described two thou- sand five hundred and twenty- three and one-tenth (2523.1) feet to an old iron pin set in cement basin, present of Key on shore of largo 20 called; thence meandering along shore of said basin N. W'ly to-@ new iron bolt set in cement; thence along a line parallel to and thirteen hundred (1306) feet distant said south line and bearing } th eighty-eight (88) degrees, thirty-five (36) minutes West, magnetic, two thousand two hundred and thirty-eight and six-tenths (2,238.6) feet a new iron bolt set in cem on the E'ly line of right of way of said railway; thence along @ line bearing south thirty-five 5 werees fifty (60) minutes agnetic, being Bly right line of said Raitway one thousand five hundrea seventy- five (1676) to the first named iron t, the place of = taining seventy and eleven hundredths (70.11) acres, more or leas, together with all, riparian rights and privileges, said property being located in Section 14, Township 61 South, Range 39 ig n . to matiafy said eer; and all coste SUIS A. HARRIS, Specia} Mester in Chancery. 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