The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 26, 1939, Page 4

PAGE FOUR OLD HOME WEEK MURDER by Phoebe Atwood Taylor The Characters Asey Mayo, Cape Cod sleuth. Kay Thayer, girl reporter. Yesterday: Asey and Kay wait for the criminal to come to the Hollow. A car with blaring radio . A dummy disappears, Asey’s tires are slashed. Chapter 43 Rough Riding AS jumped in behind the wheel of Kay’s battered coupe, and grabbed at the key she stretched out to him. “Asey, he’s out of sight!” she said. “I can’t see any tail light— come to think of it, there never ‘was any tail light. Here, I'll pull the choke—” The little car bounced off as though someone had given it a swift kick from the rear. “Asey,” Kay said, “you couldn’t eatch a bicycle in this thing! It won't go over forty. The tires— don’t mind that door, it just seems open. It’s really closed. It’s sprung | copa or—Asey, can you see “Yup,” Asey said unexpectedly. “See there, way ahead by the sthool?” “How'd you know it’s the right “Headlights, no tail light, an’ the rate he’s goin’. Yessiree, that’s our man!” “Maybe he is our man, but you’d better give up any idea of catch- him, right this minute,” Kay . “You can’t!” “Give up nothin’,” Asey said. “At least we can trail him. He’s clever, Kay. Keeps his radio goin’ te mislead us—in fact, he might’s well have brought a brass band, for all I caught on. An’ slashin’ my tires—yes, this's our man. Now, hang on tight. I got to catch up enough to see which way he turns up at the forks.” He pressed his foot down on the accelerator, and Kay began to un- derstand that Asey meant exactly what he said when he told her to hang on. The little coupe was hurl- ing itself forward in a series of leaps and bounds, and it quivered tremulously, as though it were| — to death. Right,” Asey said. “So he thinks he can fool me, does he? Huh. Keep hangin’ on. We're goin’ to have fun—” The speedometer jiggled past the last figure, kept on jiggling past the zero, and arrived trium- Phantly at ten on its second trip around. Serenely and rather proudly, it stuck there. “Hey!” Kay had to howl to make herself heard above all the noises of the car, “hey—Asey! This—this thing! This car! It was six years old when I inherited it at the of- fice. Six years if a day. And the tires—” Her knees hit against the dash, and she braced herself to mect the bumps. Corn Field 'HEY were on some side road or other. To her left was the cen- ter of Billingsgate; she could see the yellow star on top of the mast at the midway, and as she watched, it blinked once and went out. $We ain't ridin’,” Asey said. “We're flyin'—whee! Look out for your head!” “Red lanterns!” she howled ac- cusingly at him. “Red lanterns! The sign said “Road Closed!” “We ain't on the ro They weren’t. They were bil- wong nonchalantly, but at a slightly slower pace, along the edge of a corn field. fter several moments the car lurched back up on the road again. A bayberry twig slatted against the windshield. “That was just a little bad strip there,” Asey said soothingly. “I knew about it. Honest, I did.” “Sure,” Kay said. “Of course. Mayo the omniscient. Asey, I hate to bring it up, it withers me, but are-you just driving for fun, or do you know where our friend is? I haven't seen the slightest trace of any car ahead.” “He ain't ahead,” Asey told her as he cut around a puddle. “He’s to one side.” “Indeed!” “Yup, he’s takin’ the high road, an’ we got the low road, but we'll get.there b’fore him—” . We'll get to heaven before him, Kay said, “if that’s what you Wonder how he missed your “Probably just had yours in mind,” ay said. “Asey, you must understand about the tires — my heavens!” ean, esiaded = a pace, end pe turned complete around twice. ? rs “Now there,” Asey said, continu- —— unabashed way, “is where thing beats even my roadster. Porter’d only of skidded half around, leavin’ us facin’ the wron, d'rection. iy. your windshiel: wiper appears to of died. Help, will you?” “How?” Kay demanded. “Want me to crawl out and sit on the hood with a hankerchief? What do you think I am, ’'d—” “Hold T'll fix it. Somehow with a sudden lurch he managed to clean enough of a space to see thro ugh. ! A few uraeadl yards on, he slowed the car down and snapped off the headlights. “Ahead,” he informed Kay, “is the main road to Boston. An’ just b’low us here to the left is the road where that feller’s got to come out. It's two miles longer than the a we come over, bein’ a work in’— “And what are you going to do with this fellow, providing he turns up? Shoot him?” “I got no d’sire to kill him, I want to find out who he is—aha— there—” road, an’ it’s kind of wind- | | Leonard Warren, Local Boy, One Of the wheel,” Asey said, “an’ | A sedan raced out of the new | road and sped past them at a ter- rific clip. “That's it,” Asey swung coupe over and followed. “License number's covered up — now, let’s see what he does, an’ where he thinks he’ll go. Ah. There—there he turns off. string along.” “Where's he headed?’’ Ka the | That’s nice. We'll | asked as they left the main road. | “Where are we headed?” Forest PT OWARD my home town,” Asey said, “an’ I'd like real well to play tag with him on some of them back roads there. I know them Toads.” “You seem to know these.” “Today, while judgin’,” Asey said, “I read through the whole blessed Old Home Week program, includin’ a map of roads, past an’ present. Looked like a close-up of a perm’nent wave, but I got a lot out of it. Fellow’s slowing down. I don't like that—” “Why not?” Kay demanded. “Catch up—find out who he is—it’s your chance to—oh, dear, there he goes again! What are you slowing down for now?” “Want to see if I can peer through this windshield an’ see— no, I guess he didn’t.” “Didn’t what?” Kay asked as Asey’s foot again went down hard on the accelerator, “I though he might have tossed a bottle or somethin’ for us to run over—the road narrows here, Kay. Hang on.” The speedometer tape jiggled again, but this time the effort was too much. It jumped wildly around and then came to rest at the figure eight, and there it stayed. “Asey,” Kay shouted in his ear, “give this up! He’s out of sight—I can’t even see a trace of his head- lights on—” “Goin’ to try one more thing,” Asey said, “an’ this time, brace yourself an’ watch that wound of yours, We’re goin’ to bounce con- siderable.” He turned the car off the tarred road, apparently into the middle of the woods. Kay thought at first that the coupe was completely out of control. “Old wagon road,” Asey ex- plained casually. “If I can get through, we got him.” Kay peered out the side win- dow and automatically ducked. But the tree didn’t break the glass, it ground hard against it, and then seratched noisily against the body as the car bounced along. She looked at Asey in amaze- ment. The branches were actually coming in the car on his side, where the window wouldn't close. Bushes and trees were scraping the coupe’s underpinning and run- ning boards. She leaned forward and found a spot on the windshield through which she miraculously could look ahead. “Road? Asey, it’s a forest! Look at that tree!’ We can’t—what— what pappenes: to it? It was right there in the middle of the road—” “We went over it. Couldn’t do this in my car,” Asey said. “Too low slung.” Twice he stopped to wipe the rain off the windshield, and once he got out to pull a fallen tree out of their way. “This,” Asey said, “used to be the main road to Boston, in the old days. The stage coaches used it. This part we're goin’ through now, it used to be a big settlement. Tav- ern an’ store an’ church an’ black- smith shop. I aes the clothes on them figures often visited around here. Maybe b’longed here—” “Asey, what about that figure? What's the idea in swiping that, if any? “Wait'll I get out of this mess,” Asey said. “I think—Kay, in about two seconds, we'll be back on the main road once more. If God's Cpe to i we'll be ahead of ae eller. An’ any S, we can’t ay jut the last forty feet of the old road turned out to be the worst Part of the entire ride. Continued tomorrow, (Comuriaht. aaas THE WEATHER Temperatures* Highest Lowest Mean — Normal Mean ake Rainfall" Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation “This record covers 24-h ending at 8 o'clock this 85 2298 80 -80 .07 Ins. -11 Ins. our p mornin, ‘Tomorrow's ‘Tides AM. |High — 256 bee 2 05 | Barometer, 7:30 a. m., today | Sea level, 30.04. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Saturday) P.M. | HAMS — Saturday and 5:24| 11:07|} Sunday. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN - | Blind Graduates Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Eakins, who went to Baltimore some time ago, where Mrs. Eakins un- | derwent an operation at the) | Johns Hopkins hospital in that! , that she from her illness. ets ; West, who had been attending a} ; meeting of agents. from other! | ST. AUGUSTINE, May 26.—Seven students will be graduated today in the 1939 | class from the Florida State School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine. Marie Dean, Lakeland; Mae Stelle,.Miami; and Myrlen Joyce Second row, left to right, Orian Osburn, Dade City; Grover Smith, | includes, left to right: | Jordan, Aucilla. The class | Tampa; Leonard Warren, Key West; and James Davis, Miami. All but Davis are from Miss Mary Morgan Contemporary American Poets | was the subject of an interesting paper on the life and poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay, famous |New England poet, prepared and read by Miss Mary Churchill | Morgan, at a meeting of the Key West chapter of the Pan Amer- ican Poetry Society Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. William H. White, 1013 South street. Miss Morgan’s prose read- ing was interspersed with poems by Miss Millay and highlighted the afternoon’s delightful pro- gram. Another equally important ; feature of the afternoon was a j chairman, Fine Arts department, lof the Key West Woman’s Club! on the scheduled appearance of the Florida Federal Symphony | Orchestra in Key West, June 8. |'The speaker pointed out that this | will be the first appearance of such an orchestra in this city. | There will be seventy or more | musicians, and the appearance in | Key West is entirely non-profit. {one assist in making this | portant event a success. Miss Marie Cappick announced |that a chapter of the Pan Amer- ican Poetry Society will be or- |ganized in Havana, Cuba, by ; Mrs. Louisa Hernandez Vidal, a | prominent writer of the Island | Republic whose recent volumn of verse, “Arpegios” is receiving fa- | |vorable comment in the Cuban| press. | F. Townsend Morgan director lof. the Key West Art Institute | spoke on art and asked the peo- | ple of Key West to look upon the ! Art Center as theirs and for their jcultural meeting. He stressed the importance of a large mem- bership in order to maintain thet Art Center up to the highest standards. rt | As Memorial Day occurs in} | National Poetry Week, it was} considered fitting that poems on the war dead be read or recited, and Mrs. M. E. Berkowitz read | an original composition, “Sol- dier Boy.” Mrs. Stocking read “Roses Will Bliom Again,” and | Mrs. Halladay recited “One Day At A Time.” Miss Cappick read | two short poems by Elizabeth j H The Most Sanitary | | MARKET | s2ses000 e222 7990. Treat Your |; In Key West Offers | FIRST-GRADE MEATS |) WESTERN BRANDS ONLY /!/ | Special! . {lon HAMS and PICNIC Tennessee | 34 Grown HENS - Ib. 26¢ |} Battery Raised FRYERS - Ib. 35¢ the department for the blind, while he is from the department for the deaf. al | Beads Paper At Poetry Society’s Meeting Alamni Banquet Ann Gardner, one was and I.” Mrs. Bertie Higgs read! an original poem, “Push Lord, | Don‘t Knock,” by Miss Mollie Parker. Mr. Morgan, on request read “Meditation By the Sea.”! in France Views of cemeteries where American soldiers are buried were shown. during the afternoon. An outline on ‘National Poetry Week, and a sketch of Miss Anita | National} Browne, founder of Poetry Week were given by Miss Cappick. At the close of the program Mrs. White invited the group in- talk by Mrs. Haydn Illingworth, | to the dining room where a re-| freshment. course was _ served. Floral decorations were crimson royal pojnciana blossoms. Celebrate Wedding Anniversary At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Russell at 1509 Duncan } | Mrs, Illingworth asked that every | st. Wednesday night, surprise par- | im-/ty was given for Mr. and Mrs. Mil-} {ton Russell in honor of their fortieth wedding: anniversary. There was a large cake placed in the center'of the table along with other refreshments which were greatly enjoyed by those at- tending. A very. enjoyable eve- ning was spent, and all present wished the honorees many happy returns of the day. Those present were: Mrs. Samuel Russell, Mrs. Nick Osterhoudt, Mrs. Gilbert McKillip, Mrs. R. Rodriguez, Mr. Belmont Carey, Miss Margaret Dexter, Chester Knowles, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald: Baker,,Mr. and ‘Mrs. J. M. Russell, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ryssell. Mr. Mr. and Mr. and Dr. and and Mrs. and || Change Plans Of Announcement made_ today titled, , of a change in plans for the Key | at which her daughter Miss Rose “Cherries” and. the other “You! West High School Alumni Ban- | Appel, is a member of the grad- quet and Dance to be given! Thursday, June Ist. | Arrangements have been made to hold the affair at the La Concha Hotel in the Rainbow Dining Room and_ Cocktail Lounge. , A full program of good food,: dancing and entertainment is being worked up for the af- fair at which graduates of 1939 will be especially invited guests. Members of the association are ; reminded to send in dues on or | before Tuesday, May 30th, in or- der that proper .reservations can | | be made. I VISITS CITY { = | Mrs. Marguerite L. Bailey, area supervisor for district four and five, sewing room projects, WPA, jis a visitor in the city today dis- lcussing matters in connection with the sewing room with local | officials of the organization. Val ue | $450 up i : OR TWO : PERSONS i i} i The Prize Of All Who | Travel Wise The ARUNDEL! | Baltimore. i ‘ HOTEL Maryland | i HOTEL LE N. E. Ist Street at Overlooking Bayfront AMINGTON Biscayne Boulevard Park and Biscayne Bay Opposite Union Bus Station MIAMI, FLORIDA One Block from Shopping Districts and Amusements SUMMER RATES UNTIL DECEMBER Single Room with Bath—$1.50; Double Room with Bath—$2.00 ALFRED SIMONS .... Manager ) : \ Famil ARCHER’ to the best in Foods! quickly to appreciate the difference. IT COSTS NO MORE to enjoy first- quality groceries as sold at They'll learn GROCERY and MARKET city, returned to Key West yes-; terday. Mrs. Eakins’ many! friends. will be pleased to learn; is rapidly recovering; Mrs. Stephen M. Whalton, who} was spending a month in Miami| with her son S. F. Whalton and his family, returned over the highway on Wednesday after- noon. Captain E. W. Etheridge of the Communication Department of the United States Coast Guard Service, left yesterday morning over the highway en route to} Manteo, N. C., to spend a month’s visit with Mrs. Etheridge and family. H. M. Britt, auditor for the du- Pont Interests, arrived in Key} West yesterday for the purpose; of checking the accounts of the La Concha Hotel. Agent W. M. Arnold, Florida Motor Lines of the; in Key! points in the state at Jackson- ville, returned on the late bus. last night. vig | Mrs. M. E. 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