The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 23, 1939, Page 6

OLD HOME WEEK MURDER by Phoebe Atwood Taylor The Characters Asey Mayo, Cape Cod sleuth. Eloise, daughter of the mur- dered woman. Yesterday: Slade confesses to Asey that Jane and he are ashamed of themselves, and are going to turn over a new leaf. Chapter 40 Pushed 'T WAS mid-afternoon before Asey remembered that he had failed to ask Jane and Eloise about the path Kay had found. Turning in his last judge’s slip, he drove up to Hell Hollow. The fine drizzle had not cur- tailed the tourists’ enthusiasm. The Randalls’ house and barn were surrounded by customers. “I wish,” Lane said, “all the his- torical spots weren’t on this road. They see those figures, and stop, and—there. There goes one drove, and another. That helps. Jane? She’s up to her ears. Eloise just went indoors, into the house. At least I think she did. There’s Jane now—yell and ask her.” Asey called to her. “Eloise?” Jane said. “She went for heavy cord and boxes to pack some stuff in before some man gets back from viewing the wishing well. In the house cellar, she is. I’ve got to dash—tell her to hurry, will you?” . Asey went into the house and walked out to the kitchen. The cel- lar steps, steep and protected only by a swinging railing, were in the corner, , “Eloise!” he bent over the rail yaar “Miss Randall! I won- ier At his hand was the electric light switch. He flicked it on and peered down into the tiny circular cellar. Eloise lay in a heap at the foot of the steps. As Asey mounied the stairs a} few minutes later, Lane hurried| into the kitchen. ft “Say, Asey.” he began, “Jane} wants you to tell Eloise she must| k baad that man is back— “You go tell Jane,” Ascy said, “to carry on without Eloise. Say I'm busy with her. Then you lock the doors an’ come back here.” “What's the matter “Look down there.” Lane stared down at the figure in the cellar. “Is she badly hurt? Fell, did er” “She's dead,” Ascy said. “Fell, or was pushed. Probably the last, if‘you want the bitter truth.” ‘Why Not Suicide?’ “T'LL go clear these people out,” Lane said, starting for the door. ‘You'll do nothin’ of the kind,” Asey told him. “Look, this business can’t be made public any more | than the other. You can't send’em off—you're the gardener. You can’t say. who you are without givin’ everything away. Go find .Jane, like I said, an’ tel) her I'm busy with — no, change it. Say that Eloise has had a sick spell, an’ we've called the doc, but not to come in an’ excite her. Just to car- ry on with the customers. Now. hurry. Before she comes in.” He managed, by a miracle, to} get Cummings at his office phone. “Hollow,” he said briefly. “Cel- lar stairs this trip. No, not Jane. Look, can you get someone to help Jane—your wifc? Good. Tell her all you have to. I want her.” An hour later, Cummings, Asey, Lane and Hamilton sat in the kitchen. The shades were drawn. On the table were Cummings’ open bags, and Lane’s camera, and a suitcase with more of his para- ernalia. ‘All right,” Cummings said, “we've hashed enough. Now. Asey. why not suicide?” "She fell backwards an’ landed on her back. You say her head hit the cement floor, an’ she died in a Second.” “True, but couldn't she trip up the stairs as well as down’em? en I first got my bifocals. I tripped upstairs for a week.” tne went downstairs,” Asey said, “for heavy cord an’ boxes. Neither’s been touched. Therefore she never got downstairs to get what she was after. Never had a chance to.” “Wait,” Lane said. “There was — pair of shears on the floor. juppose she got halfway down, re- membered she'd left the shears, oe started back, and then shi e shears,” Asey pointed out, “was way over by the stove. She come in the dinin’ room door. If she'd detoured way around to the stove an’ aarapped em there, she certainly would have r’called the fact before she got halfway down the steps. B’sides, what’d she de- tour for? She was after somethin’. an’ she was on her way to it. Why cross over to the stove?” Lane pounded on the table with his fist. “Then why, will you tell us, are the scissors there? She had them in her hand when she entered the house. I saw them. Now, you ex- lain why they were on the floor es the stove!” “She threw them at someone.” Asey knew perfectly well what Lane's reactions would be, and he was not disappointed. “Threw them at—” Lane began scornfully. “Asey, you—” @eeccccoe:veeceve Today’s Horoscop eecccecececcs Today bestows prominence and reputation. native should rise to places honor and attain a measure of wealth. Conserve the energies, however, a» this nature wears it- self.out and there are indications eloquence, The of “Now, just ¢ momen Cummings interrupted. “I wonder if — yes, Asey’s right. I know Eloise. Suppose, as she starts down the stairs, she hears someone. Turns around, sees someone. Someone menacing. She _ recog- nizes the fact that she is in danger, and hurls at the person her only weapon, the shears she has in her hand.” Lane ridiculed the doctor’s story. _“If she had scissors, and recog- nized someone as a menace, why didn’t she wait and use them to stab with? That’s the logical thing for anyone to do,” he said. “Why. throwing the scissors at someone would be like -throwing a loaded gun instead of shooting it!” ‘A Futile Woman’ D® CUMMINGS sighed. “Of = course, Lane, of course! That's just my point! That’s what a logi- eal person would do. I agree. So does Asey. But you fail to take into consideration the fact that Eloise is not logical. Never in this world would it have occurred to her to hold her ground and stab her as- sailant. Never. It’s a_ perfectly characteristic gesture for her to hurl the shears futilely—de mor- tuis and all that sort of thing, and of course the woman had many good points, but she was none the less a futile woman.” “All right, all right,” Lane said. “Be psychological, if you want to, but it’s the practical things that in- terest me. Why, if someone pushed her, is the swinging railing intact? She had either to be pushed through it, or if she was on the top step, on her way down, she’d have been clinging to it—and her grip on it would save her, or the railing would be down there with her. One thing or the other.” _ “Lane,” Cummings said plain- tively, “you just simply do not un- derstand the type of woman in- volved. You claim she pestered you—can’t you tell, couldn’t you 1, that she was a futile individ- an’t you tell from what you that she never knew which way to turn a key to unlock a door? She couldn't tune a radio to save her life. She couldn’t unscrew a dead eleciric light bulb and put in a new one. Did you ever see her try to drive that beach wagon? Man, she was a menace to public safety when she drove that vehi- ele! Your trouble, Lane, is that you're practical. Eloise is not prac- tical. You'd grab the railing. Eloise would not grab the railing. Put Eloise in a shipwreck. Throw a life preserver to her. Would she put it on? No, She’d try to sit on it. Lane, can’t you grasp this?” “The woman tripped and fell,” Lane said doggedly. “That’s that.” “The woman,” Asey said, “was pushed an’ thrown. Lane,” walk over tothe head of the steps. That’s it. Now, what do you do first, start- ing down, before you touch the rail, even?” “Put on the light, of course,” Lane said impatiently. _ “That's what I'd do, too. But the light was off. You can say she started down, turned to put it on, an’ fell. But that’s the one way she couldn't have fallen, because she’d have to be leanin’ more over the rail. She couldn’t help but save herself if she started to fall then.” “Whyn’t you tell me about the lights?” Lane demanded. “You never gave me any chance, I think she started down, was reachin’ to put on the lights from the top step, an’ heard someone. Turned around, there on the top step. Someone comes toward her, from over there by the stove, an’ |she throws the shears. He rushes over, takes her by the shoulders, an’ hurls her down.” “There were the marks of your rubber soles going down and com- ing up,” Lane said. “No marks for her, but then she came across the wooden walk and wasn’t in the damp grass. But if someone threw her down, wouldn’t you think they’d have gone down to make sure she was dead? And if they came from outdoors, why can’t we find some marks? Any marks, here r— “Give the feller credit for stock- in’ feet,” Asey said. “B’sides, after hurlin’ her straight onto a con- crete floor nine feet b’low, he could be, reasonably sure he'd achieved his purpose. He could have made sure by snappin’ on the light an’ lookin’ down. Let’s go down there again for one more look.” The four of them went gingerly down the almost perpendicular steps. “Why are so many cellars on the Cape circular, like this?” Hamil- ton wanted to know. “In the old days, bricks was searce an’ expensive,” Asey said. “A circular cellar took fewer bricks than a square one. Most are semi-circular, Mine at home is.” “But this is new. Those concrete blocks aren't any old time thing.” “Prob'ly laid’em against the old brick,” Asey said, “when they made the house over.” To the right of the steps was an electric pump and a water tank, and near them an electric meter. Behind the steps was a neat pile of corrugated paper boxes and an- other pile of folded sheets of brown paper, all obviously sal- vaged. Apparently Mary Randal] was a thrifty soul. Continued tomorrow. (Copyright, 1939) | KILLS PELICANS NELSON, Neb. — Lightning struck a flock of pelicans flying across the Emil Scleif farm northwest of here, killing 33. The largest had a wing spread of seven feet. that the life may be finished just assucces s is attained. Lane,” | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Garden Club To | Hear Robert Gill Robert D. chemist, Gill arrive agricultural in Key West tomorrow, and ting of the Garden Club and Tree G i to be held tomorrow evening, bed 8 at the Puk 5 He will take up the subject o plant life o'clock, f in beautification of a leiter received by Mr. and iliace Bryant Kirke from Hector Supply Company in Miami it states that “ Gill will eid, in formulating a program for aeaut the hom He will answer que w samplh ard water for recommendatio: and irrigat- ing homes and estates. We want you to feel that we are inicrested in your ¢ ; and plans and; that you may feel free to call on for any assistanes able to render the stions, € soil and mig fertilizing spraying us at any time that be in our line”. It is requested that a small box soil from home ught to ting torr ht, and » to Miami to what is of the we may of be the mx they will be be anslyzed in a which will determine lacking in the substance soil. Ever to aitend th yor interested is invited meeting onc Danian Club To Meet Thursday Miss the Junic nounced Woman's social meeting of rnoor 3 ck in the e of the Key West Woman's Club on Division street. As is the games will tainment during the afternoon an refreshment coursc regular custom card furnish the ¢nter- deli- 1 be who will by > of the affair ar Delaney and Miss F in ch Miss Louisa Ellswc All CLD Mé veesomeosn2000 FOUNT, wildglelight water leaps ir bearaed foun uffle merrim placid ¢ nt ¢ Once more he s stroll In ra) DUS; ile spy rendezy > more his wise old smile s her laugh, “I, do! —PHILIP 0. This poet member of Creat Poc Group of Key West Hizh School, sponsored by Hildegard Ott Rucsell PEDALS 1.178 MILES LOS ANGELES — Burnett, 23, who came here to enter college, covered the 1,178 miles from his Tacoma home by bicycle. The trip took 13 days, and Burnett says he spent only 35 cents en route. OUR FELLOW DRIVERS fulton M. , law office of Evans, 5. sengers on the ' Mrs. Navarro's or those in attendance * SO CTAL seeccenccenccaaceutosses PERSONAL MENTION. Poeeccceteccaesenszooscr | Ulyssus Edward Parodi of the Mershon & Sawyer, First National Bank Bldg., Miami, Fla., accompanied by his mother, Anne, and Miss} Rosemary Prime of Coral Gables, | came to the city Friday to at-! tend the graduation exercises of Miss Billie Camero and were the house guests of Miss Camero at her home, 211 Whitehead street, over the week end. ; i Mrs. J. M. Navarro and grand-' son Buddy Williams, were pas- early bus this morning going for a visit with son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Schrader, at their home in St. Augustine. Mrs. Julius Lax, Jr.,,left this morning for her home in Miami after spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Crusoe, and was present at the graduation of her sister, Miss. Annie Crusoe. Melvin E. Herndon, of Detroit, Michigan, who was visiting in Key West for a few days, de- clares it is the most int sting place he has ever visited, and is enjoying himself visiting the many places of inter Temperatures” i nennee SCOUT TROO HOLDS SESSION PLAN FOUR-DAY ENCAMP- MENT IN NEAR FUTURE Boy Scouts of Troop 51° held their regular troop meeting last night in the Wesley Hall. Senior Pairol Leader Russell Hyman opened the session with the Scout | ;Oath and Law, followed by the! Lord’s Prayer. A report was made on Green Bar meeting and also a dis- | cussion was held on. p for a! boxing match to be staged in the near future. A report of the troop’s treasurer was made and the boys were well pleased with! the figures given. | Scouts of the troop were enthused over the mention trip over the water, which be taken during the early of June, with expectations four-day encampment. The meeting was called with the Scoutmaster’s Benediction, very} of a may } part! of a iafter which a few boxing match- s were held. Frank Papy won a decision over Gilbert Hall in tne first match. Scouts enjoyed the exhibition very much. ‘There were about twenty-four members prevent. Eugene Berko- witz is the troop’s scribe. MUSIC UNIT TO MEET ON FRIDAY ) SUPERVISOR OF PROJECT Normal Mean | Rainfall" | s Precipitation cipitation es 2 tb Yesterday of the 7:09 p. m. loon r 11:06 a. m. $ Moon se Yomorrow’'s Tides A.M. a High 2:02 1:25 Low 6:59 8:29 Barometer, 7:30 a. m., today Sea leve, 29.95. P.M WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p.m., Wednesday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesda light to moderate variable winds. ANSWERS TO. DAILY QUIZ . Below are the Answers to Test Questions printed on Page 2 Peru. No. The crustacea. Georgian Bay. Dim’-e-ter; not di-me’ter. The Marquess of Lothian (Philip Henry Kerr). Lake Erie é0 Lake Ontario. Thirteen. Of the value. n Salvador. By O'Daniel Travelers Safety Service — CALLS SESSION TO BE HELD AT ART CENTER George Mills White, supervisor local unit of the Federal Muse Pioject, who is managing the symphony concert to be held here on June 8, has called a meeting for Friday night at 8 o'clock to be held at the Key West Art Center. This meeting will be devoted to organizing a local sponsoring committee. All persons interest- ed in music and, the promotion work nec to make such concerts a » are invited to, attend this meeting. The spon- sors will assist in the general pro- motion work. The first symphony concert in Key West is included in a tour of the orchestra through several cities in South Florida. The or- chestra was organized with the idea of bringing to the cities of the state the best in musi With the success of this first concert Key West may be assured of be ing included in several tow planned for the fall and winter seasons. | the =| William Penn’s Manor, Erected In 1683, May IAM PENN’s manor, Penns- bury, built by the founder of Pennsylvania more than 250 years ago, may soon be restored on its orig- inal site near Bristol, Pa. under plans of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission. The first of the buildings erected at | Pennsbury on orders of Penn, and the | one which survived longest, was his | brew-house. The : great Quaker | considered beer a beverage of moderation, and did much to en- courage its use among the colo- nists to offset in- temperance and excess in the use | of strong liquor. i To this end, he followed the lead of other American colonial leaders and, shortly after his arrival, estab- lished a brew-house, the product of which became famous for its quality. Other parts of the brew-house were used as a bakery and laundry. J. Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott reported in their “History of Philadelphia” that the last of the manor buildings—the brew-house— was still standing in 1884. They pub- lished a drawing of it at the time. Old- time drawings of the manor are in existence and architects have been UNIONISM, GAINS AND LOSSES By BERNARR MACFADDEN in Liberty Magazine Because of my frank and sym-| pathetic criticism \of labor, pub- lications devoted to union’ inte ests have declared I am an ene- my of unions. That statement is false, abso- | lutely! | But I believe in Americanism to the’ nth degree. That means, | if a worker wants to join a union| he should have that right; but if; he desires to depend on his own! efforts and docs not want to join a union, he should have that! prvilege. j Before the Wagner Act there} were less than three and a half million workers organized. This law enabled unions to more than double their membership. There are now more than eight million organized workers. But two and a half times that number—twen ty million—are still unorganized. | There are other factors besides | higher that should be con- sidered when workers are pon- dering the binding tie of union-! ism. Will it assist or hinder the organizaton in which they are employed? Whenever their con- ditions can be improved finan- cially or otherwise through unionism, they should not hesi- tate. 3ut there are many instances where the uriwise decisions of union leaders have placed their follow on the dole or on WPA jcharity jobs. Thousands, millions undoubtedly, have had to accept that fate in the innumerable | strikes during the depression. : Take the coal strkes. Oil was not used for heating until strikes made it difficult to secure coal. Lack of heat in winter becomes a tragedy in cities, and oil-burn- ing furnaces were contrived. 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There are employers who give | workers every consideration—pay | S jthem wages as high as they can Be Restored Soon assigned the duty of preparing plans of all the old buildings. All that remains now is the brew-house foun- dation and the excavation for its cellar. William Penn encouraged brewing in Pennsylvania from the time of his arrival in 1682. He built his brewery in the next year and brewed not only tn for his own household, but also for | Strict commercial use. Evidently he regard- | fairly wit! ed himself an | why able brewer, for | . a historian wrote | be compellec of him: “He was | working a great lover of | WORE beer and accus- | are said to be tomed to praise his own brew- ing.” One of his acts, in his capacity as Proprietary of Pennsylvania, was to fix a price for beer at retail, and to prescribe its inclusion in all tavern meals, as set forth in Section 37 of his “Great Law”: “To prevent exaction in public houses, strong beer and ale of barley malt shall be sold for not above two pennies per Winchester quart, mo- lasses beer one penny ... all ordi- naries must be licensed by the Gor ernor, and, to insure reasonable ac- commodations, travelers must not be charged more than sixpence per head for each meal, including meats and small beer.” —— {and still conduct a stable busi- But the squeeze employ » are others who to limit, and = grasping. } For employers of this type unions | ness. the |who are greedy fare absolutely es should foreed to | wage. But why hamper and re- ployers who are dealing their worker: n0uld = For iployes ? Their and cond) wages better than those of any unionized organization. {Ford was the employer who cr ing five ary wage ated a sensation by pi j dollars a day tor ore labor when the was one doliar and a half to two dol- prevaiung sympa- gent and really the interests of the certainly commend- nd of unionism has raised the unionism jobs of at and in waich the nployed, that leadership the future ne is a foul of unionism. with which tw struggle in and in which the the goat in a unions unionism tor workers, 1 able. That increased v Jliving stan {that ru t wrechs | worker s and But the I ar is that {controlled b; | cares | stability of the | Socccccveccccorccocccs out nothing slot upon t And the business recent ye empioyer is fight betwee has mac mell hi made ber of miners may have to look for other jobs. I called attention previously to a personal experience unionism in our own organization caused five hundred employes to lose their jobs. They had been employed by us for seven years. A wage reduc- tion would have kept their jobs, and even with such a reduction they would have been paid three times what they would have re- ceived on the dole or for WPA work, Looking back to the beginning of the depression, the Macfadden Publications officials were com pelled to make one 10-percent wage reduction and __ shortly thereafter a 25-percent reduction. If our offices had been national- ly unionized we would not have~ been able to make this reduction and our business would have be come bankrupt. All our employe vould have looked for other jobs. The main fault with som¢ union leaders is their failure to differentiate between employe at kind of heaver in which MONROE THEATER ! Ann Shirley Grey : GIRL’S SCHOOL 1 and . WHILE NEW YORK SLEEPS Balcony 10c, Or- Night—15-25¢ Matinee chestra 15 20c; money, time, \ INSURE Protection, fom With ) Contracting & Engineering Company White and Eliza Sts. Phone 598 “YOUR HOME IS WORTHY OF THE BEST” Frankie Darro —also— BOYS’ REFORMATORY COMEDY and SHORTS PRIZE NITE — TONIGHT FIFISTOL LAAT. AUTOMOBILE HOR Are mostly a bad habit. Their careless use is a menace to the health and peace of Key West. It is illegal to blow a horn “noisely or in a disturb- | \ oe) 'SPII Ia III ISIE IIIIIIISIISIIIIIII ISS IDE ing manner” or “after midnight and before 5 a. m.” In Rome, Italy no horns are permitted and the accident rate has been greatly reduced. Every Time You blow your horn it is heard not only by the man in front of you but by hundreds—hundreds who do net need any signal from you and to whom your noize is a breach of the peace. No Good Driver Uses the horn except in an emergency. Try driv- ing one day without using the horn at all—use your brakes and your brains—you will be sur- prised how easily it is and you will be doing your city of Key West a lot of good. Don’t Blow Horns Citizens Traffic Committee of the Chamber of Commerce Published by The Key West Citizen in the Interest of Public Service CLA hh de hd ded dededade bLA tL