The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 9, 1939, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE ARMY POST MURDERS Rv Virginia Hanson The Characters Katherine Cornish, myself, vis- iting Elizabeth on a mid-western Army post. Elizabeth, Colonel Wright's daughter. Adam Drew, acting command- ing officer. Yesterday: When the light be- side Anne’s hospital bed goes out Annie rushes forward, but noth- ing is proved. Chapter 34 The Sound Of Shots ‘HE roar drowned further speech as the big army plane swooped down, touched earth and taxied toward us. Colonel Wright does not need the eagles on his shoulders to make him a commanding figure. Well over six feet, craggy faced, im- peccably military, in his presence Adam alone did not suffer by com- Parison. He put an arm_protectingly around Elizabeth and let his eagle eyes sweep the group. “You're alone, sir?” Adam ven- tured in a parade-ground bellow. Colonel Wright seemed able to make himself heard even against the crescendo of the impatient plane. “Yes. Pilot’s going right back,” he said crispiy. “Got tired waiting for the Department of Justice man —let him find his own transporta- tion.” He turned, waved a casual dismissa] to the pilot. “Well, got your man?” Adam said cautiously, “I'll have some informatiom for you when we get back to quarters.” “Let’s get there then,” said the older man and set out across the field toward the rank of cars. Adam already had the motor going when Elizabeth appeared at his side of the car, looking rather frightened. “Major Drew—I can’t find An- nie. And my car’s gone——” Her father came up behind her. got out quickly. “You ride with Adam, Colonel Wright. Elizabeth and I will sit behind.” “What on earth do you sup- pose?” Elizabeth asked as we swung around the curve onto the main road through the post. “My fault, I'm afraid,” I said dismally. “I was supposed to watch her.” Her surprise was certainly gen- uine. “Watch Annie? But—but why? Adam surely can’t think— oh no! Probably she felt ill or thought of something. ...” She had called him Adam. One Pid of my mind registered the ‘act, but it gave me no pleasure. Her voice trailed off. We were shooting et a terrific pace along the indifferently surfaced road. We clung to the sides of the car. Speech was no longer comfortable. we roared down Noncoms’ Row I glimpsed a car ahead of us, traveling very fast. “Look—is that it?” And then I saw it was not—it was a roadster. Down the long row of officers’ quarters it kept well ahead of us. Suddenly, at the far end of the post, I saw Elizabeth’s little car take a drunken corner and careen on its way. ‘He's Dead’ Se not stopping at the house,” Elizabeth shouted at me. She was right. Her car had slackened speed, was weaving back and forth along the road that led to the gate of the post, where a row of trees swallowed it from sight. The second car had gained on it, and as we swooped around acorner and approached the com- manding officer’s quarters I saw that the second car was Charlie's. The brakes squealed as Adam drew up in front of the house. He was out of the car almost in- stantly. “Out, girls, quickly!” he ordered crisply, giving us each a hand. “Get into the house—this won't be peaty- Hi, Sentry! On the running joard. And you, sir?” “Drive on,” said Colonel Wright. Elizabeth and I stood on the sidewalk staring after them in -dumb resentment as the car lunged away. And then, for no reason that Tll ever know, the hair rose on = head in a terror I had never felt before. A man’s voice was bellowing, “Corporal of the Guard, Post Num- ber One!” Then the sound of shots—four or five in rapid succession, follow- ed by the unmistakable, metallic rending of a car smash. Only a heartbeat of silence, while the whole post seemed to echo that ery: “Corporal of the Guard, Post |™arTy Number One!” A single shot. Then silence. I began to run, and Elizabeth after me. I did not know I was crying until things began to swim in front of me. As we turned into the road to the gate I could see the dark bulk of cars and moving figures, but I could distinguish mone of them. Winter Season | Kern i] Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Krieg| Below are the answers to test) and daughters, Nancy and Lois, | of Harrisburg, Penn., are in Key West again for the winter and have leased the Smith residence! at 1306 Division street. +} The Kriegs are old friends of: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. B. Norman, 727 Eaton street, and originally came here at their suggestion. “After one winter in your de- lightful city no further invitations will ever be necessary to make, us return”, said Mr. Krieg. - _ I stopped, ee _ hapdkerelict In my dress pocket and mo) my eyes. Elizabeth had persed me, I saw Adam just outside the gate, wrenching open the door of | beth’s car—what had once been Elizabeth’s car, now a crumpled toy listing against a tree by the side of the highway. Colonel | Wright was with him, and the two sentries. I did not see Charlie. Then from the little knot Annie | detached herself, ran to Elizabeth | and wound her arms around her in a gesture both restraining and cherishing. “Don’t look,” she was saying compassionately as I came up with them. “He’s dead—put a bullet through his head. I seen him make off with the little car and I did | me best to catch him. But there— I'm no driver. Ah, Elizabeth, the poor little car!” Elizabeth looked past her with | death in her eyes. “I can get another car,” she } said and, turning, stumbled back toward home. Annie went after her and I stood there alone, hanging to the fence, staring out through the closed bars, whispering, “Not Charlie.” On the plain behind me the | cannon boomed once for reveille, or for requiem. Then cars came, and the ambulance. And they were lifting him out—a fair-haired man | in olive-drab slacks and a khaki shirt; and I saw what I had been waiting to see and remembered Elizabeth stumbling toward home. Not Charlie. Barney, the hand- some Norse giant, with a bullet through his head. ‘Eleven O'Clock’ NNIE and I sat in Elizabeth’s living room and talked, trying not to think of the gir] upstairs who had asked to be left alone. There were questions in my mind and I asked them, and Annie told me what she knew. Hours before, the sentries had been ordered to let no one leave the post without a written pass from Adam. Barney must have known of the order, or suspected it, when he chose Elizabeth’s car in which to make his getaway. The sentry had seen it coming, weaving uncertainly along the gar- rison road, and had thought Miss Wright was at the wheel. He had challenged, standing in the mid- dle of the road until an instant more would have encompassed his destruction. Then, from the side of the road where he had leaped, he saw the driver's face and realized that he had been hoaxed. He had fired at the tires of the accelerating car, seen it crash into the tree; and before he could reach it Barney had shot himself with his own gun, Why he had lost his nerve and fled she did not know —unless there were things that Anne could tell. Remembering that struaele be- side Anne’s bed, my cheeks burned. I asked Annie’s pardon and she asked mine. “Sure and it was all I could think of they could do to her, caged up there—put poison in her or change the medicines. So teas to myself, ‘There’ll be none of that.’ And then, when I saw it was you, I could hardly believe me eyes. For I said to meself, why would she be killing the child? Not on account of her young man, for wasn’t Anne decided to marry the other one?” “Motive,” I said. “That's what I couldn’t figure about you. But what earthly motive did Barney have? I thought he was in love with her.” Annie’s face grew grimmer. “Maybe he was, to begin with. Maybe he was all the time. He was a queer one—no making him out, I told Elizabeth he was a wrong ’un, him throwin’ cigarette butts in me clean sink—no bringin’ up, I said, and her well rid of him. But there, the poor lass had her heart set on him—it was to meet him for the last time that she came back to the house tonight. And me own fool fault that she didn’t have the alibi he’d planned for her, what with me coming up the front row and seeing the car and thinking she'd left it home after all and deciding I'd have one turn around the post in it—_—” s aan it was you drove past the ub? “Who else? You didn’t think Elizabeth would lie to you? And of course Barney had counted on me being in by eleven as I always am. She told me about it while we was lying awake in the dark u there awhile ago. ‘Eleven o'clock,’ he wrote on a scrap of paper and left it in the chair where her eve- ning bag was while she was danc- ing, for Anne wasn’t letting him get a word with her all evening.” “But why? Are you ee to tell me that Barney was love with Elizabeth and was going to Anne?” “T can’t answer for who he loved —I'm thinkin’ he took that secret with him. But it was Elizabeth he wanted to marry—maybe it was for love, maybe he had his own reasons.” “Then what happened?” (Copyright, 1988, Virginia Hanson), Tomorrow: Annie continues. Arrive To Spend | ANSWERS TO TEN THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SOCTAL ACTIVITIES MONDAY— Center. High School P.T.A. meeting. Semi-annual meeting of Key West Golf Club. 8 p. m. Residence | of president J. Otto Kirchheiner. SOCIAL CALENDAR Regular Camera Club meeting. 8 p. m. Key West Federal Art | a TUESDAY— Stone Church Service Club supper, open to winter visitors. 6:00. p. m. Church Annex. party. 7:30 p. m. St. Cecil Regular meeting Div School. Everready Star Club meeting. 3 James Adams on Waddell Eighth Grade pupils of Convent of Mary Immaculate have bingo ia’s Hall. n Street School P.T.A. 3 p. m. Harris | 0 p. m. Residence of Mrs. Avenue. ao fHURSDAY— Meeting Key West Lions Club, , Stone Church Annex, 6:30 P. M. | Concert by Key West Hospitality Band. 8 p. m. Bayview Park. First annual meeting of Key West Community Art Center, Inc. 8 p. m. Art Center. | SUNDAY— | Concert, Key West Hospitality | =. | Miss Lillian Lujan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arturo Lujan, and Aquilino Lopez, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Aquilino Lopez, were wedded this morning by Rev. P. |J. Kelleher at a nuptial mass in St. Mary’s Catholic Church. The wedding was performed at | the altar rail preceding the mass at an arch of palms. In the | sanctuary were other palms and the background of the altar was lof pink gladioli. The bride was given away by the father, Arturo Lujan. Miss Lujan’s wedding ‘gown was of white slipper satin with an appliqued flower at the waist. |She wore leg of mutton sleeves | and long lace veil with a coronet | of orange blossom. She carried a bouquet of white snapdragon, white carnation, white roses, baby | breath and asparagus fern with a ; shower of white ribbon. The theme of white was stressed in the wedding party. | The maid of honor, Miss Fortune Lopez, wore watered moire taf- feta with pink gladioli bouquet; and the bridesmaids, Miss Norma Garcia, Mrs. Hilario Ramos and Miss Ophelia Lester were in white Princess style, with short veils topped by gardenias. They Miss Lillian Lujan Weds Aquilino | Lopez, Jr. At Nuptial Mass Today ee Se Band. 5 p. m. Art Center Park. carried old fashioned bouquets of s and baby breath. The groom was in white with rose- bud and spray of valley button- nieres. Best man, Hilario Ramos, had a single white rosebud _but- tonniere. The ushers, George M. rock r Mixon, Allen E. Curry and Hilario; Ramos were in white with white carnation buttonnieres. The mat- ron of honor, Mrs. Arturo Lujan, | Jr. was in powder blue with lace inlay. Miss Marguerite sang, “Ave Maria” crepe Hernandez during the mass and Miss Mary E. Whalton: played for the processional and recessional. A reception at the bride’s 'resi- dence on Southard street was held immediately following the ceremony. served. The young couple left follew- ing the reception for a tour of! Florida points on their wedding trip. Mrs. Lopez wore a goivg- away ensemble of brown offset by bright color embroidery. She carried luggage tan accessories. On their return they will be at home to their friends at their new residence on Reynolds street. PERSONAL MENTION Pare Lorentz, director of gov- ‘ernment movies, Mrs. Lorentz, and staff assistant, Oliver Gris- wold, left yesterday after spend- ing the holidays in Key We: | They enjoyed the sunshine, fish- ing and hospitality of the people most, they said, and will tell oth- | ers of the island City. Mrs. J. A. Miller and the chil- dren, Jimmie and Richie, arrived over the highway last week from |New York to spend the winter | with’ Mrs. Miller’s mother, Mrs. |W. J. Gardner, at 1221 Petronia street, and other relatives. | | Mrs. Gladys Roberts was a pas- | senger leaving on the bus yester- | day morning for a business visit in Miami. ‘ Bridge District at Mrs. Dorothy Cruz, who was spending some time with rela- tives in Miami, was a returning passenger on the afternoon bus yesterday afternoon. Richard Knowles, employed by the Overseas’ Road and Toll Pigeon Key, left on the 5 o’clock bus yester- day afternoon for his station aft- er a weekend visit with his fam- ily. Nelson Spencer and Howard Albury left oh the morning bus | for Bahia Hondg {6 {join their ves- sel, which was berthed over the weekend, on vacation from a sponging trip, while the members of the crew came to the city for the weekend. | Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Shumke and daughters, Mary and Annet- ta, who were visiting briefly in | the city, left yesterday afternoon for Miami and after a short stay will proceed to Jacksonville en- route to New York. William Fripp, manager of a} ‘large department.store, left on! | the afternoon bus yesterday for al business visit in Jacksonville. Mrs. Ruby Jarrett, employed at ‘the Southern Bell Telephone Co. ! offices, left on the afternoon bus} | yesterday for Miami to attend a} | district meeting of employes of! the company. Miss Ruth Crowe and Miss| | Frances Crowe, who were visit-| ing briefly in Key West, left yes-} TEST QUESTIONS | ‘es afternoon on the bus for! questions printed on Page 2 The Neva. Department of Labor. Ferdinand de Lesseps. New York Giants. Egypt. Eros. Chimes. Hydrometer: Maine. Seen gap wy Mrs. Frank Casasa, nee Myrtle Solaries, who had been visiting as guest cf her sister, Mrs. E. K. Wilson, and other relatives, left on the bus this morning enroute | to the home in Novato, Calif. Mrs. , Casasa said she had a wonderful time. Eugene Demeritt, captain in charge of the LePecheur, cabin cruiser used by the Toll Bridge District, left yesterday afternoon after a weekend visit with his family. John Anti, who was in the city over the weekend on;a visit with Mrs. Anti and other relatives, {left this morning on the early bus for Miami, Carl W. Rom, radio electrician with the Lighthouse Depart- ment, arrived Saturday from ‘American Shoals lighthouse and! Punch and cake were | Picture-Lectare | Here Tonight | The. third in the series of lec- tures) furnished Camera Clubs by ;the Eastman Kodak Company, Camera Club division, will be ‘presented tonight at 7:30 o’clock at the Art Center. As usual, this lecture will be illustrated with | prepared slides and is of especial interest at this time in view of the fact that it covers the many ; factors that enter into the taking ‘and making of a good photo- | graph, it is shown. This lecture covers tie essen- tials of composition and choice of | picture subjects and also goes in- to-detail concerning the variations _ in results obtained by using lens- ‘es of different quality and speed. The lecture will be of great as- | sistance to those persons who are mystified by the system used to | number .lenses and the meaning of the different names applied to them. Since ‘thi¥ is the first meeting of the new year it is of import- | ance that all members attend in order that preliminary details of the coming exhibition may be ar- ranged, it is announced. Any member having prints or nega- tives suitable for the maritime theme of the show are requsted to bring them out to the meet- ing tonight in order that their suitability for entrance may be determined. In order to make the exhibition the great success that the club’s first showing proved to be it will | be necessary for each member to enter several prints in the com- petition so that the club will have a full representation. _Leunders-Biaza Nuptials | Celebrated In Miami Recent marriage of Miss Lor- raine Lounders, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emilio Lounders, to Rex | Biaza, son of Mrs. Mary Biaza, was celebrated in Miami Satur- day at the Episcopal “Church of ‘the Holy Cross” by Rev. Pen- | nington. Attendagts were Mr. and Mrs. Leon Albury, sister and brother- in-law of the bride, who was at- | tired in an ensemble of bottled | green wool crepe with trimmings ; of black Astrokhan Kimmer cloth | with accessories to match. She | wore a corsage of sweetheart roses and lilies of the valley. Mrs. Biaza is a graduate of the Convent of Mary Immaculate, class of ’55. Groom is connected with Davis cafeteria of Miami. The couple will make their fu- ture home in Miami. | Daughters Of St. Ann Hold Election Last evening the Parish Sodal- ity of St. Mary, Star of the Sea, |and St. Ann held their monthly ‘meeting during which annual | elections took place. | Officers elected: President, Mrs. Mary E. De Barcee;'ivice-president, Mrs. Jo- | sephine Johnson; secretary, Mrs. Aveliria|' Rios; treasurer, Mrs. Steve’ Whalton; consultors, Mrs. | Anna M. Wells, Mrs. Martha Al- varez, Mrs. Daisy Niles. Members are contemplating putting on a_ benefit entertain- ment. Left Today On | Trip To Miami | Mr. and Mrs. J. P. McDermott | left today for Miami for a visit of several days. | Mrs. McDermott will attend a meeting of the chief operators of Florida of Southern Bell Tele- ‘phone Company. Mr. McDermott will take care of business mat- {ters while in Miami. | Bingo Party | Wednesday Night |\SBighith ‘gfade pupils of C.MI. will;hold Giant Bingo Party on Wednesday evening, January 11, | instead of on Tuesday as was re-_ cently announced. The party will start at 7:30 Misses Hilda Chirino and cous-! is working on the installation of o'clock in St. Cecilia’s Hall. e—e—s | in, Miss Lina Chirino, who arriv-; radio telephone on the Tender ed Friday afternoon from Ha- vana and spent the weekend with | friends, left over the Florida Mo- tor Bus Lines yesterday afternoon | | for New York. 1 Poppy. He will return to Amer- ican Shoals the last part of this week. Ed Reilly, vice-president of the P.-T. A. Meeting | Tuesday | There will be a meeting of the | American Sponge and Chamois’ pivision Street School P.-T. A. | Mayor and Mrs. Willard M. Al-; Company, is a visitor in Key West held tomorrow afternoon, begin- | bury, who were visiting over the on business connected with head-| ning at 3 o'clock, at the school | weekend in Miami, were return-j| quarters of the company, and) building. ing passengers on the afternoon meeting with the local agent,| bus yesterday. Howard Gates. All members are requested to be in ai | Coccccccccccepecccccccccococccscoceoocooooeoesees | MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1939 Loveliest Lips Contestant Misa... iss. . . bliss contest staged by a cosmetics convention to find the loveliest lips in New England num- bers pretty Ruth Allen (above) among its favorite testants. She’s shown at Bos con- ton. Finals are this month. P.-T, A. Council Meeting Tomorrow There will be a meeting of County P.-T. Associa- tion Council held tomorrow eve- ning, beginning at 8:30 o’clock, at the home of Mrs. Sebastian Cabrera, Jr., president of the or- ganizations, 811 Southard street. Monroe All officers and members of the| Meeting for the kitchen of the poard are requested to attend the meeting, which will be the first of the new year. THE WEATHER Pecccccsevencecenccocccs ‘Temperatures’ » Oe aes | ae 69 Highest Lowest Mean Normal Mean zs Rainfall" Yesterday’s Precipitation 1 Precipitation T. Ins. -08 Ins. Sun rises Sun sets | Moon rises - Moon sets Tomorrow's Tides AM. High 12:41 Low 6:57 _ Barometer 7:30 a. m., today: Sea level, 30.13. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Fair to partly cloudy 4 tonight and Tuesday; mild temperature; mod- erate easterly winds. Florida: Fair to partly cloudy and mild tonight and Tuesday; slightly warmer in extreme north portion tonight. Jacksonville to Florida Straits: , Moderate winds, mostly easterly, |and partly overcast weather to- night and Tuesday. East Gulf: Moderate easterly winds, becoming southeast and south, and partly overcast wea- ther tonight and Tuesday. CARD OF THANKS Our sincere thanks is extended to our friends for the many kind acts tendered us during our re- cent bereavement, the illness and death of our beloved one, W. Dor- sett Watkins. We are indeed grateful for the use of the cars and the beautiful floral tributes. jan9-1t THE FAMILY. MONROE THEATER Janet Gaynor—Franchot Tone Robert Montgomery THREE LOVES HAS NANCY Matinee: Balcony. 10c: Orches- tra, 15-20c; Night, 15-25¢ SCOOSHHSSSSOSSSSESESSEOES The Favorite In Key West — THY IT TODAY — STAR >+ BRAND CUBAN COFFEE | ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS | eeccccoccccasccssessosee | Everready Star | Club To Meet : | There will be a meeting of the | Everready Star Club held tomor- | row afternoon, beginning at 3:30 {o'clock, at the home of Mrs. | James Adams on Waddell Ave- nue. There will be a “Towel Show- jer” held in connection with the Masonic Hall. weoceveccsoces Today’s Horoscope | | {oe | i Those born in the early hours | will be contentious and aggres- | sive. ' this into self-reliance which, with | the originality of thought will en- able the native to stand alone aganist opposition. artistic, sensuous that will improve the mind. company in Manila will roads, electric power TRY... Deepsea and Key West Reef Fishing on the | Charter Boat | “MARLIN” | CAPT. FRANK GATES || Phone K. W. CITIZEN—Phone 51 | | '| .WE INVITE YOUR | to A little later hour modifies In many cas- es there is an undercurrent of an temperament PREFERRED JAIL | NEW YORK—Rather than pay a fine of $10 for a minor of- fense, Giacomo Logo of this city went to jail for ten days. Police said he had $230 in cash and $2,- 500 in savings receipts sewn in the lining of his coat. Notice is he: | virtue of a certain order issued out of the Civil Court of Record in and for Dade County, Florida, bearing date the 9th day of January. that certain cause J. Witt is the pl Wale, et al are defendar {Sheriff of Monroe County, ida, have by virtue of said order to my pos: described pe! jthe property of said to-wit: 15 large tent poles 9 large canvas tents 2 coils of electric wire coils of rope iron ring for top of tent hand maul short wood poles steel iron rods boxes of electric equipment iron bed and spring box of old clothes small table long tent poles shovel and will offer the for sale and sell for cash in hand to the highest bidder at the front door of the Monroe Coi Court House in Key W Monroe County, Florida, on the 10th day of January, A. D. 1939, between gal hours of sale to-wit: 11 . M. and 2 o'clock P. M. of said date, to satisfy the order sale of said Court. Dated this 9th day of January, A. D. 1939. (Sd.) KARL O. 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