The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 30, 1939, Page 3

PAGE FOUR = The Characters Noe! Marchand, a beautiful —2young actress. Alfén Collings, the man she = loves. ‘, David Norris, the man she ts ha te ’ Yésterday: Noel eccepts Davids: Because Allan is/tost to her. z z Chapter 14 ‘Goodby’ to marry David Nor- a a. ™M going ris,” Noel was glad she'd said that to ss on the way home from their lew Year’s Eve party while her oe Qwas beating tumultuously his mearness to her in the cab. ¢” At léast she had saved her pride, the thought, as she read the insin- @_gossip on one of the society pages ‘this morning. “Her friends F 4 saying that the beauteous ine Schuyler who recently was from the fun-loving Vinnie Reno will try marriage again, time with a South American T who is also an old flame.” ihe ‘had wanted to save him the x fpr explaining after the emo- al. contact on the darkened dance floor at the Cairo, while they ®reeted the New Year. : £1 wish you happiness, Noel— #you rate it,” was all that Allanhad said as he'd sunk back in his cor- of the cab and when he left ne the hotel, he held her hand iefly. ™*This has been a wonderful irtg, the nicest New Year’s Eve ve éver spent—” in a quick, » voice. Then he was gone. “It was the. most marvelous, utiful Eve of her life, Noel ew., For a moment alone in her @eom she had pncughb pernape the dsiss im the dark had meant to lan a little of all the beauty and itasy it held for her. She: laughed now, a little bit- terly, at the foolishness of the no- ‘tion. ‘Allan had always loved laine: Schuyler—at last she was ‘iding she wanted him. *Noel picked up the manuscript “Sasan Is Waiting.” Strange true to life drama was run- ig this year. The girl in the play it her love, too. But she waited. it was the theme of the. plot, id of course he came back to héy always do-on the stage,” 1 said aloud cynically. “In real le it's never like that. But I've il) _gdt the play!” Only part con-| tion, but, because: it. wag so important, Noel forced her oughts -away ‘from Allan’ and tinued Penning the lines she uld:be saying for a first-night blic:‘several weeks ahead. jwahstrom worked quickly. He ays did, once the plans were fixed. He called a rehearsal for ursday. and in the meantime, pt for an occasional) visit to vid: and one dinner with Mrs. hand when Allan was absent, ] ‘gave all her energies to ing her part. David was better, sitting up ina ing-room chair now. «x “I Know what these rehearsals will be. You'll have no time for fe,” he said sadly tr Noel. “The octor thinks I ought to go South] hi 5 recuperate.” 2“Thé Florida sun will do won- rs for you,” Noel replied quick- >“Dailing,” he went on, “I'm not jing to say to you what's in my art. ‘We'll make plans after the 7 Noel ett it.at that. Z Then she was in the midst of iting prelude to a premiere. loved the dusty, gloomy first when the cast got together, out for their parts, taking anstrom’s abuse. The newcom- who hadn't worked with him re: were in terror of his ne ks. Gerald Foster and N anderstood him too well, y ignored the tirade but took iness of whipp! = tions seriously. He knew shape. a play @ . ‘Nick-Of-Time Miracle’ “ST HIS comes in time to stave off e+ the sheriff,” Gerald told Noel while the Sipps 90 one side ct the lark “stage, iting Es first reading of their lines. «Gerald had a wife and young baby out on Long Island. Noe knew it had been months since his ement. She smiled un- is et of nifck-of-time miracle for most of us, I suppose,” she an- They were nerve-wracking hours,, first days spent in the iteeen tn ‘peculiar! ‘them; denounc- , his own. Sight Dut it was, asa ‘of exhaustion. 1Pe*faveful for, Noel ~ when 'd left her at the hotel entrance. ‘= NO GLASS:WASHIN thi YEAR’S LOVE by Angela Lorden “I'm wishing you al] the success in the world—and happiness, too,” he wrote on the card he enclosed. “You've got to let me off a few hours,” Noe] pleaded with Swan- strom. It was the morning of the ft the Ane cnc ueeg rec ea cag Er sph sm ori ae OYA. OS + Jey uctantiy, “Dut bate hes two—” f “I'm tht) si triend off a long trip! oe! protested. “. the boat sails at'three.” “M: get the devil out of here?” manner softened. “Honestly, Noel, we do need you at two. But i don’t have to explain to you, do I?” Noel dashed in a taxi over to the Lancaster. Her make-u} smeared and she had on an old hat. Hastily, as the cab sped. across town, she put on fresh powder and there re-| ! lipstick, tucked back stray hairs | under her hat. Just a few moment to fest! a friendly farewell. No “Goodby, my love” to Allan. Tears came into her eyes, a lump stayed in her throat. At the door of the suite she paused for a moment to regain her composure. (Fvetpaly a moment I snatched rom rehearsal,” she explained to Mrs, Marchand. “But I had_,to. come and see Allan. I’m so sorry I can't go to the boat.” $ Allan came out of one ofithe other rooms then. s “Noel, this is swell! I was afraid you'd forgotten us!” Forgotten you, Noel thought. It only you knew that I'll never forget. So she smiled sweetly and her words were carefully con- trolled. ‘Tl Always Remember’ "VE just been telling your mother, I’m a slave to my art these days. I practically had to fight my way out of the theater to get here at all. But I did want to see you.” “And I wanted to see you very badly, too, Noel. But I didn’t dare invade that mysterious world. I was sure I’d be thrown out on my ear. I called your hotel this morn- ing, but you'd already left.” “Noel must have some luncheon with us,” Mrs. Marchand inter~ rupted. once, Allan, you. phone’ for ‘a waiter.” Noel protested but Allan -was insistent, too — already calling down for service, “You've got to. eat said. “We can’t have Noe] get sick on us, can we, mother?” Noel pulled off her toque-and sat, down, a tired sigh escaping her, lips. Mrs. Marchand went to the. pantry and came back with a glass of sherry. “Drink this, my dear; it will make you feel better.” It did, as Noel sipped the re- freshing wine. Her eyes followed Allan, moving about the room. She must remember forever the way his hair grew. that look in his eyes, the sure way he walked. She would have another memory, too —a kiss in a darkened club, the feel of his arms tightly around her, It would have to last her for all of er life. The table was set near the win- dows and Noel was urged to eat a her ae Mrs. 's ips quivered when they spoke Allan’s departure but she man- aged her part of the conversation well, hiding her feelings. “One thing for this time,” she remarked, “It's only for three months. Before, it’s meant a year at a time.” ; And when he comes back, went rough Noel’s mind, Elaing will | He waiting, rl 4 as ' lve got to tting to the ted. or Sw will | iv@ my life in forfeit,” Ni - | re hed when the I on was | urriedly finish: They | from the table and as she reached | for her hat, Mrs. Mar told } her feelingly: “I remember that first day I saw you, my dear; you were so lovely.” “You've been so heavenly ‘kin? | =v I haven't deserved it,” Noel re- | pli | ae Tu slwits terienbes our Allan fntered ted: He was ndioel her on with coat. He I his voiee sli, ayn our New Year’s Eve a Noel turned away. She wanted to cry. “I'll remember, too.” Her words were a whisper. the flamboyant lan-| Noel started ci Noel weht home each sort ‘seemed " the mist that came into Noel's own eyes? i “A simple whisper. She ey any more. ‘Toiterrew: The'piay opens. | amey. Party hpap-Tias |, Cat John H. Towers, USN., "SHE KEY WEST CITIZEN ~ Old Key West Preying on the. Spanish gold | pursuit of the Buccaneers. Then, 'galleons going back from Mexico to Spain through the Straits, in shallow water, manned the | when the pirates tried to escape | apnoea Societe 20 AND 30 YEARS OF AGE HACK SYMBOL REPRESENTS 5%, on $0,001 a as] { Windward Passage or Yucatan- | Cuba. passage;.a nest of pirates j operated in “Kéy West ‘for many 19th century, -According to the wind the ves- sels would have to take one of the three passages in order-to get back. Tortugas was ‘another pirate nest. Later the pirates preyed on‘ other ‘vessels using the passages. Black Caesar, Teach, |Captain Blood, Jean Lafitte and numerous other famous: pirates infested these waters, and there ar Sree years prior to.‘the middle -of the! | barges and went in pursuit. In an efficient campaign in this way | Porter captured and destroyed a large number of the pirate ves- Séls. ‘The rest estaped to Cuba at the Isle of Pines. Porter pur- | sued, and there attacked and de- | Stroyéd most of them, Remainder | escaped to Port of Fajardo, Porto | Rico. | Porter pursued again and re- quested the Spanish military au- thorities to give them up. How- | ever, those authorities were being given tribute by the pirates as a i | dear Bernhardt, will i { i | | | ‘we'll have it up here at’ child,” he | of | lem. T've to be grateful | Each symbol represents 5%. or 50,000 infected persons of the total one million fresh cases of syphilis each year in the United States. It is estimated by Florida public health officials that there are 36,000 known cases of syphilis in this state exclusive of those not reported to the State Board of Health and those early cases which have not yet revéaléd the usual symptoms fo heir victims. ( Chart by the American Social Hygiene Association, distributed by Florida State Board of Health.) Peorneverecsed THE PRICE OF HEALTH | By DR. JAMES B. PARRAMORE Monroe County Health Officer Pecccccccccccccocccccccs “Public health is purchasable!” ‘By that is meant that within |COLUMNIST NOTES (Continued from Page One) dream. “You pass smail fishing camps. Arid‘a few°trailer camps. People are fishing ‘from all the limitations of abnormal condi-| bridges. They fish’ as though tions, any community can de- they never expected to do any= termine its own death rate. We, thing again but fish. . can apply this rule to no other]. “We stopped for lunch at a fish- serious communicable disease|i& Camp where we were known. more aptly than to spyhilis, in {We sat and talked smugly, like the opinion of our own Florida| ld natives. We didn’t hurry. We State Bohrd of Health. glowed inside. There was noth- No serious disease is as pea |e ee eae make much spread as syphilis( according to . ae .,,/ sense when a fellow tries to de- Hib agreed Seo and social scribe a marvel of concrete and show that there are cach your aca in: terms of swelling of twice as many cases of spyhilis! ; ! as tuberculosis, 13 times as many | pignwn war wrested ‘the Key West as diphtheria, 28-times as many ee Va th Size as-typhoid-and-50 times as many| : hel ea § , as infantile paralysis. I don’t know how ‘many is: Fully $30,000,000 in taxes is) /#mds or, keys there-are on this spent in the United States each| 02d. A couple-of dozen, or may- year for the support, in public in- be more. Some. are so big you stitutions of those blind and’ in-|C@n’t see across them. Others are sarie ‘from syphilis, accordnig to|5° little you could throw a stone ‘the U. S. Public’ Health’ Service,| Clear around them’ if your wing About 15 percent of all blindness!#5 that good). & and 10 percent of insanity comes} “The longest “bridge is sev ‘from this ene cause. jmiles. Out in the middle,’ you | A smail proportion of this con-| are salmost out of sight of land. siderable tax money spent for’ YOU can see Havana-bourid education and disease prevention| Steamers on the horizon. And would more than pay for itselfj™any fishing boats. through money. saved in future; “You can drive down here, look years. Spend adequate “funds|2round this southernmost city in for syphilis control and we will|the United States and drive back save not only the tax bill for in-| © Miami, all in one day. Such stitutional care but also $168,000,- | !8 Progress. | 000 in wages now lost to Ameri- s 5 e jcan male wage-earners each year} “This far-away little city of because of illness caused by Key West, it seems to me, is right |syphilis and other veneral dis-/2°W going through the most in- ease. teresting transition of any city in | ‘“Public health is purchasable”, | America. Apply this to the syphilis prob- “It doesn’t know whether it is +going to become another Palm In nations, states and com-, Beach, a Coney Island, a public munities where persistent effort|Charge, or just stay the way it \have continued over sufficient | @!ways was. And worst of all, it time, with public and private | doesn’t know which of these it |funds to pay for them, a defin-/ Wants to become. : | ite decrease in syphilis has been} “Key West is almost a foreign irecorded. Money is required for|!and. It is far away from the PEACE OF ISLAND | But that’s the most} are many records, both direet and | guarantee of non-molestation and {indirect, which prove theif pres-| they were not given up. Where- | ence. x upon Porter sent a: punitive ex- Navy Enters ; agen ashore. Ege complain- | Prior to the coming of-U.'S,/¢¢ and naturally Porter was |Naval Commodore David ‘Porter | Court-martialed anid "sentenced 'to to Key Westin 1822, no pregress|SiX Months’ suspension. He re- had been made in suppressing | ined aoe onan tac Piracy in this area. When pur- i sued the buccaneers would Thug | There he was appointed consular !agent of U. S, in Turkey, where up the many channels through} sapees v ‘the Keys, ahd the larger naval jhe died me. — vessels could-not- pursue . them. | ‘ 4 — inaugurate acweplan, ar eke paapenreay ae ie sent north the big, useless ’ fd ‘frigates and supplied their places| There are some tinplates of later with eight light draught Schoon-; Pirates. On the Keys | ektiatiny se last-wer i araiccis esis This ito, ititing the ships over by ropes the fleet which was to oppose the #ttached to ‘the mosts in order dreaded “Brethren of the Coast”. | ee ee tae ce gst Finally he secured Ni : = ¢ wok itean, eat poet: name, remains to this day. There Guil”, and her usé for naval pur- , 8T Yee pile eta by poses, according ‘to historian Bani carried -aeay, sro cote Judge J. B. Browne, is the first! av instance ‘of a steam propelled ate dabei tie Breage vessel being used in the U. S.; then or eaves in Key West by navy. me aaa The small: brages were towed| Pirates i Spanish gia by the darger ferryboat when in leg lr a gee = i ad ; Naval Station is now situated jonce was a beautiful, long, white beach. There pirate ships were also brought up for painting and knows. Key West doesn’t know how to take it. Neither do the tourists. It is fun to sit here. and watch it. “Those who dream of Key West becoming | another); ultra-flossy j Palm Beach have reckoned with: out the fundamental necessity for} such a development—lots of cap- ital, freely spent. . “A few score, or maybe a hun- dred, outsiders will make them- |selves sympatico. They will over-! ‘look the faults, and fall in love} with it because the Conchs are slow, the place is quiet and the: weather ideal: | “They will buy old houses, and remodel them, with private gar- dens, behind’and nice pictures) and things inside. They will fish | a little, and gather in intellectual | groups at the bars in the eve-| nings. They will rest and read} and paint and write and think. | | “I believe Key West will be-| come a combination of Santa Fe, | N. M., and Carmel, Calif. It will) | become a ‘colony’, and like all} | arty colonies, it will soon have a; majority of residents who are| ! quietiy retired on Army pensions, | | railroad stock or government ; bonds. “I don’t know why I’m} jdoing all this analyzing. It’s! |probably wrong in the. first | | place, and in the second, place I} don’t care a hoot what happens to Or AL agreed MONDAY, JANUARY 30,,1939 THE NEWS OF ALL THE WORLD We) PATHFINDER FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL PATHFINDER answers the questions you and your friends are asking with its concise, vivid portrayal of the current scene. Events of national and inter national significance are fully and impartially covered. Facts, new and old, that add clarity and meaning to the news are honestly injected. The very latest and most interesting news photographs freely illustrate the facts. More than a million readers. Subscribe now to PATHFINDER, the most widely read news magazine. Only $ 100 PATHFINDER BOTH year OVERSEAS TRANSPORTATION CO., INC. 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Individual and ~ family _ health depend upon public health at jlarge, and it has been proved that public health can be pur- chased. <. Florida’s greatest asset is the health of its citizens. body ‘of the United ‘States; it ts| Key ‘West ‘one way or the other. | closer to Havana than to Miami. Tl never be able to come here streets,, Many of the. people havé! could. : |the Latin look about them. | “For Key West has one Heav- “Somebody ‘discovered’ Key! enly thing. That is heat. And to| West. It was the last outpost of! me, that is everything. To warp solitude in America. And as al-| a bit the saying of the old negro| ways happens when a little group; Mammy: ‘When ah’m hot ‘ah finds a swell, unknown spot, they! sweats.,and when ah sweats sh’m | gradually let us&ygkels; in; on; if;| ip Heaven”. . jand then we flock in and take it) “I could put ap with a lot! away from them. {in Key West, and love. it, just | SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN—20c WEEKLY. This Is A Real Offer! To Help You Sell Your-- Real Estate SHULL, Eng—Windows of ‘fa-| “MOUNT FREEDOM, N.J8x. maeus English glass in the York-}plaining that he was sick and| Taihster of this city “have hot/tired ‘of Being ‘called “Fatty”,| gen washed for six centuries. | Robert Rowland of this, city went, i ca believe that to wash|on a water diet, excluding all| glass would destroy the mel- | food, and lost 50 of his 220 pounds fing effect, of time, in 28.days. ws Its cost! | “What will happen here nobody ‘cannot be too high. ween eco coe! \Today’s Birthdays’ evcecee President Franklin D. Roose-| |velt, born at Hyde Park, N. Y.,| |57 years ago. Walter Damrosch of New; | York, noted composer, conductor| jand musician, born in Germany, | 77 years ago. | | Dr. Joseph Jastrow of New York, eminent psychologist, born} jin Poland, 76 years ago. a Dr. Harvey J. Howard of St. Louis, noted ophthalmologist,| ‘born at Churchville, N. Y¥., 59! fyears ago. | i | “Gelett Burgess of New York, | noted illustrator and author, born/ jin Boston, 73 years ago. aviator, assistance chief of ‘the Bureau of Aeronautics, born ‘at ‘Romie, Ga., 54 years ago. | SALT LAKE CITY.—Willism for this ‘downright heat”. Houses --Lots - Business Properties Or, To Rent Rooms - Apartments - Houses - Stores This paper wants to list every piece of property in Key West and Monroe ‘offered for sale. The Citizen receives requests daily for copies of The ‘County Citizen from prospective buyers and persons wanting to rent rooms, homes amd apartments, who want to Secure same through ads in the classified column. ‘TO°PROPERTY OWNERS ONLY — GOOD FOR THREE MONTHS