The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 13, 1939, Page 3

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, Atter A Man's Heart YESTERDAY: Buff suggests Shat George offer to buy back the land at the price Iris paid. If Iris accepts, she’s on the level, but if she refuses, she probably hag an- other buyer. ' Chapter 25 The Drama BUFF hated her task. Her open, forthright navure rebelled against what amounted to spyin; upon Iris. But Tim, she remilnde herself again and again, had to be saved from this second and far more dangerous plot. “And after I’ve yanked him out of her clutches, he can sink or swim, lose his way or keep to the straight and narrow path,” said Miss Carroll with a fine scram- bling metaphor. “He'll hate me even more than he does now if he knows I’ve snatched him from the burning. Well, that’s all right too. Just so I spring the trap before it closes on him, it doesn’t matter about me.” She rather spoiled the beautifully altruistic sentiment she was trying to express by a sigh that seemed to rise from her small custom-made brogues. She had known Iris from the first to be almost pitiably lacking in brains, entirely lacking in sub- tlety. She was like a movie extra who went through her small part with conscientious accuracy, For two days she was very much the engaged girl, staying close 'to the hotel save when she apeared radi- ant and shyly happy in Tim’s car. Buff kept doggedly behind them, feeling herself to be a cross be- tween an international spy‘and a jealous schoolgirl. But the third morning brought important results. Tim’s car was parked near the hotel when Buff arrived. Evidently he had left it, there for Iris to use. About ten she came out, wearing the new tur. coat which had made its appear- ance in the last few days, and headed for Denver. Buff trailed her excitedly. Iris drove in character, the peer girl thought: putting on ittle spurts of speed exactly at the wrong time, slowing down in the midst of busy traffic, making uae of hand signals which would have puzzled the most expert motorist: but eventually she drew up in front of a small hotel in the city, miraculously finding a parking place. Buff was not so fortunate. By the time she had disposed of her car and entered the lobby, Iris was nowhere to be seen. There was nothing for it but to wait for her. Buff selected an inconspicuous spot behind a clump of dusty palms and kept one eye on her watch, the other on the elevator. She suspected her quarry was in a parlor on the mezzanine: but felt it was too dangerous a business to follow her It was nearly half-past one be- fore Iris came down. There were two men with her, one unmistak- ably Latshaw. Buff silently blessed George Weekes for his clever sketches. There were the pouches beneath the eyes—eyes coldly gray now—the little jut to the big nose, the thin lips. He kept close to Iris, not a word nor gesture of hers lost on him. The other man was bluff and genial. Only the expression of his face betrayed him to the watching girl. There was sly triumph in it, the look of having put something over on a woman: a silly and un- suspecting woman, at that. Buff’s feminism almost rose in revolt at what she read in his eyes, his full- lipped mouth. For a moment even Tim's safety hung in the balance. Then Iris turned her head with a coquettish smile, and Buff har- Gened her heart. The Curtain Rises ‘HE was uncertain of what to do. 1939 around until you see Iris and Lat- shaw. and another man come out. Then——' “Latshaw?” _Geo: howled. “Ho-ly smoke! Buff, youre ‘Will you listen?” she demanded coldly. “You all but shattered my | eardrum then. Watch till you see them come out, then follow them. They'll head for Nesbit’s office. If by chance yowlose *em—TI mean if it gets to be about three o'clock, you go on to Nesbit’s anyway. Iris has jost started out for what she called a celebration luncheon at the Shirley-Savoy. From there the three will go to call on Nesbit. Need I be more‘: 2ecific?” “You needn’t,” was the solemn assurance. “The game is in the bag; or would be,” he added on a sudden une: note, “if I knew how certain T am to get Tim to Denver. He'll certainly balk at spyjng on Iris.” - “Get him here by telling him she’s in trouble and going to need him,” said the graceless child at the other end of the line. “And heaven knows that’s going to be true as soon as Latshaw finds what is happening. If he begins to get restless about waiting for her at the hotel, ‘or Suspects something amiss, then bully him into staying. Tell him it’s your right to know what's going on; that there’s such a thing as loyalty to one’s friends and business partners as well as enough, Cee Use it!” She was oddly exhausted when she turned away from the booth. She had* had an early breakfast, the strain of her discovery was be- ginning to tell upon’ her. She longed to head her car back toward Boulder and leave the rest of the affair to Weekes, But Suff had not sacrificed her pride, given up her beloved lecture course, spied on another girl, invited.—and re- ceived! —Tim’s cold fury at her efforts on his behalf only to aban- don those efforts at the last minute. Act One “)\ JPEN,” she thought, “will never do the right thing, if it’s humanly possible to do the wrong one. George has a lot at stake, but how do I know he won't get tired waiting, or think it’s a wild idea on my part—anything. No, I’ve got to see it through. T'll have a cup of coffee and a sand- wich and then I'll skulk about the Shirley-Savoy and see what I can see. Oh, Lance—Eleanor! If you could behold your only child at this minute!” An hour and a quarter later the the’ busy crowd before of George and Tim, the former driving the shabby car they owned jointly, the latter sitting grimly y his side, neither speaking. Buff could not forbear a chuckle at the picture they made. It was evident to the most casual spectator that they had had a row; that Tim had yielded, reluctantly and angrily, to | whatever argument George had put forward: He was in the mood, Buff knew, to rush to Iris’s rescue even if'he saw her in the company of Latshaw. “But that’s only Act One in this thrilling drama ae Carroll, starring Miss [ris ‘uth and fea- turing the Unknown Buyer. Act | Two will do the business. And.” tears from her eyes, “Act Three will throw the playwright out on her ear, however successful the play has been from the box-office standpoint.” It all worked with unexpected smoothness. George was wheeling his car by the hotel entrance for the third time when the three came out: Iris with a gardenia pinried to the shoulder of her new coat, Latshaw looking like a cat about to spring on a mouse, the second man smugly smiling. Buff had a glimpse of Tim’s startled face before George sent the car past as rapidly as he could with safety. It was patent that she could not follow Iris about Denver. Yet she felt the crisis of the situation to be upon them. Unwittingly it was Iris herself—stupid Iris whe could not even obey orders without blun- dering! was Buff’s scornful thought —who gave her the help she needed. “Shall we all lunch together and then meet at Nesbit’s office? It’s late,” she went on plaintively, “and I'm starved. And"—this time her arch glance rested on Latshaw who returned it without expression—“I do think I've earned something rather special in the way of food today.” “Where?” demanded Latshaw. “Oh, the Shirley-Savoy! And the kind of luncheon that’s a real celebration.” Latshaw opened his thin lips to protest, thought better of it; and the three moved toward the revol- ving door. Buff flew toward the telephone, engin silently that George Weekes had returned from his own lunch, and that he was not out on a surveying job. To her vast relief his cheery voice answered. “Hello!” “George, this is Buff,” she began rapidly. “Will you do exactly what T ask you io do?” “Y-yes, I suppose so, But where are you?” “Denver,” she snapped. “And don’t begin asking questions. I'll do the talking. You get Tim—hand- cuff him and gag him if you have to, but get him!—and drive here as fast as you can, Park where you can watch the front entrance to the Shirley-Savoy. Or if you can’t park, get ou. and stand GIVEN UP FOR DEAD; RETURNS BROWNWOOD, Tex.—Seven- teen years after leaving his wife and daughter to go to another Buff felt oddly breathless when she fot her own car from the park- ing lot and drove it toward the big building which housed Nesbit’s modest office. The delay was suffi- cient to show her the first party @oing in atthe entrati¢e. She waited until she saw Tim white and ‘plainly furious, and George. back toward Boulder. ultation than she. Her very fiésh Snxious,but stern, follow; then she circled the "block an Yiurned Tt was her hour of triumph, Ls no victor ever experiencec less éx- seemed sore and bruised, ana her heart, she decided with a gulp of | misery, was merely a Cold, achin; lump in her breast. She wante nothing but a hot batk and a bed: Webby to bring her a tray at sup- per-time perhaps, and to answer the telephone ‘afd doorbell with the information that Miss Carroll as—what? Ill? Gone to Little merica? In the hospital at Den- ver with a fractured skull and criti- cal internal injuries? Anythi anything that would keep people away She didn’t want to see George. She hated him as a fellow pouspica. tor in what she now felt to be a piece of treachery on her part. “Be- cause, look!” she adjured herself. “Why should I offend all my prin- ciples, practically starve and freeze myself, run the risk of being ar- rested for vagrancy in Denver. miss a couple of motor accidents by a half of a split hair, just to prove to € when he'll pro! ably come around and brain me when I have proved it.” .Continued tomorrow. concluded he was dead, A vic-|of them. ‘tim of amnesia, Murry was iden- ‘tified in Australia through fin- gerprints sent to Washington and jowing batters failed to come he returned to find his family. city to find a job, Phillip C. Mur-! ry, a shell-shocked war veteran, returned home. meantime. heard nothing from him and finding a grave marked Phillip C. Murry in Pueblo, Col., to = Iris. Your tongue is nimble | small person drifting to and froin | the big | hotel was rewarded by the sight | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Trojans Won Saturday--Conchs Yesterday; Triple League Tie Ear] Adams’ Trojans, with their | iron-arm pitcher, Harry “Swifty”|and Ernest Ogden’s sensational |Wickers, on the mound, socked |catch»of Villareal’s long fly bail! 12 hits off two Sox twirlers to|to deep left foul territory brought defeat Caraballo’s Blue Sox in a!the fans to their feet. Armando jregular league game at Trutmbo | Acevedo starred on the infield, Field Saturday afternoon. Con-|whilé Esmond Albury led the test was a benefit for the Key batting attack with two safe| West School Junior Patrol and/plows‘out of three tries. | |gross receipts were given to the Pirates played their second} | Organization. errorless game of the season. “Wickers, pitching his best} Box. score: |game this season, let down the * Pirates Player— |hard-hitting ‘Sox aggregation ABR | with two lone safeties. A double|Al Avevedo, 2b 3 |by Oscar Molina in the first in-|E. Gareia, cf _ 4 |ning and a sharp single off How-'M. Het’ndez, 3b 4 |ard Gates’ bat in the third stanza|A. Hernidez, 1b 3 jaceounted for Caraballo’s gang’s|M. Atevedo, c . | two Safe hits. Lopez, ss. | Neither of the two runs scored! Machin, rf |by the losing team were earned. |Ogden,. If |The tallies were recorded as a re- |Salinero, Pp jsult of two attempted double | jplays by William Cates and John j |Navarro, John erring on both | attempts. Only three of the Trojan’s six |markers were’ earned. They were |scored on pitcher Molina in the ‘seventh and eighth rounds on five consecutive hits, including a dou- | t | ecocoocc[a ecooororee OHI Hee aocooroucny Totals— Key We: Baker, 2b — Villareal, If Acevedo, ss - C. Griffin, ¢ - jAlbury, 3b Barcelo, 1b |M. Griffin, rf Offutt, cf Gates, rf |Torres, rf-cf - jCasa, p _. 0 Conchs 3 0 0 |ble by Domenech.’ No earned |runs were recorded against Diaz, | Sox’ starting pitcher. | Tony. Alonzo, Clayton Sterling, and Anthony Kelly. of the Tro- |jans fattened their batting -avér- |ages, while Joe “Dizzy”, Gere jand Gabriel. Garcia, leading Sox |hitters, were dropped ‘when they |went hitless. William Cates also jlost a few points when he poled but one safely in five tries, Box score: Trojans ecoocecoooore orocornrococe rm SCOCCONH OREN Totals— Score by innings: ‘Pirates 000 000 000— 0) |Key West Conchs 000 100 00x— 1) Run-batted-in: Albury; sacri- fice hits: Armando Acevedo, !Casa; stolen bases: M. Acevedo, | | Villareal, Barcelo, Casa; double | E| plays: M. Hernandez to Al Ace- Oi vedo to A. Hernandez, M. Her- | 3 nandez to A. Hernandez; bases on | O'balls: off Salinero 3, off Casa 3; 2 ; struck out: by Salinero 3, by Casa 09; left on bases: Pirates 8, Key O'West Conchs 5; time of game: 0|2:05; umpires: Vidal and Griffin. Uv Player— (e} |Domenech, If _ \J, Navarro, ss .. |Cates, 2b |Sterling, 1b |Rueda, c Wickers, |Alono, cf \Kelly, 3b - Papy, rf |Lopez, rf - ps STANDINGS Peewee ou conconnooconm HONNER RHEE COKMHOENNN COKnRCINOHHMOD . Pct. | 625 | 625 | 625 | 125 | Club |Key West Conchs - 6 Trojans | Pirates OA E Blue Sox Totals— xo 3 L 3 3 lye So: 3 7 w scoococorHy Player— |H. Gates, lf __.. ‘Molina, rf-p —_ |G. Garcia, 2b .. |Rodriguez, c J. Garcia, cf _. Castellanc, 1b . Av. Acevedo, 3b Arnold, ss Diaz, p vv 0 By CLUB REPORTER — NNSBRNOCAHOS Dinner Match Thursday The Great Curry Harris, presi- ldent of Key West Golf Club, has | Totals— 2 22719 5/decreed a mighty decree—in fact, | Score by innings: K {he has issued a Bull to the effect | Trojans 010 011 120— 6|that there MUST be a dinner} Blue Sox . 002. 090 900— 2;match next Thursday afternoon. | | Runs-batte Wickers 2, It seems that the Great Curry has | Alonzo, Domenech; two-base hits: | grown pallid around the gills and | Molina, Wickers, Domenech; sac- |is otherwise showing signs of} rifice hits: Rueda 2, Wickers; |distress—all due to a steady diet! stolen bases: Sterling, Rueda,|of eating at home. About every} |Kelly; double plays: Arnold to G.|so often he finds it necessary to| |Garcia to Castellano; bases on}get out where he can throw back |balls: off Wickers 2, off Diaz 0.{his head and howl, where he can! off Molina 1; struck out: by /|enjoy the feast of reason, the flow | |Wickers 5, by Diaz 0, by Molina of soul, the music, the argu-! |0; hits: off Diaz 9 in 7 innings,|ments, the — backbitings, the | \off Molina 3 in 2 innings; losing | anguished howls of the beaten) (ee Diaz; time of game: 1:57; and the joyous crowing of the! umpires: Griffin and Vidal. |victors—in other words, Curry) —— |just has to take in a golf dinner} CONCHS WIN THRILLER occasionally in order to remain{ Key West Conchs won a 1-0jin good health. Then, too, he game from the Pirates at Trumbo | enjoys the fact that a person who Field yesterday afternoon in a/attends the dinner is O.K., while regular league game to throw the 'the fellow who is absent really jcireuit in a three-way tie. ‘gets talked about. | Hooking up in as sweet a pitch- —— ers’ battle as ever witnessed in’ Possibly our worthy president any baseball game, Joe Casa, the |is merely tired of paying for his Conchs’ veteran hurler, just back own food and figures that it is from a long rest, bested his|about time that he got a free; youthful opponent, Idilio Salin-;meal. Anyway, he intimated} ‘ero, in a contest that was packed|to the tournament committee | | with thrills, arguments and ex-/that he wanted an easy match. citing spectacular plays. |He didn’t come right out and say A lucky break in the fourth|that he wanted a set-up, but his inning gave the Conchs a frunjhints were so broad that there that proved to be enough to win.|was no mistaking the fact that It went this way: Villareal drew }he was honing to eat at the ex- |a base on balls and advanced to | pense of someone else. A worthy second base on Armando Ace- |ambition, of course, but—we shall | vedo’s sacrifice bunt. Cyril Grif-|see. Naturally, the tournament | fin went out on strikes.” Villareai|committee will see that the| attempted to steal third on Grif-| president has the easiest match | fin’s third strike and was de-|possible. In compensation for | clared safe when field umpire| losing the dinner, the fuckless | Jimmie Griffin said the runner|one can listen to Curry’s ex-| was interferred with by short- | planation of each shot as the play | stopman Fidel Lopez. A long ar- | proceeds. | gument by the Bucs delayed the | ns | game fifteen minutes, but the| The Pairings for the match will ump refused to change his deci-;appear in Wednesday’s Citizen. | sion and the Conchs’ runner re- This is the initial match of the | mained at third. Esmond Albury season, so we hope that it will! sent a sharp line single to left-|be a good one. An effort is be- | ‘center and “Do-Do” crossed the ing made to interest new players, | pan with what proved to be the so that when play for the Artman | deciding run of the contest. © ‘Cup’ is resumed’ we will be able | Jge Casa, although limiting the to stagg a real tournament. } | Pirates to three " well-scattered | j hits, found himself in several hot | * { ‘spots ‘but managed to creep ot Today Ss Horoscope. eecccecccenoeoese fame and fortune are fav- ored by today’s degree and med is good assurance of success. The |through. Salinero pitched a |native’s disposition is restless and |great game and. either mounds-|he will frobably travel or change | | ee Ed ccooocooorem BN coaRooCUNFS | In the fourth and sixth innings | °°* ¢ the Bucs put’a man on third with! Both ‘no outs but each time the fol- A 72 year-old man applied to a;man could haVe won the con-jhis vocation often, The character | His wife, in the|St. Louis judge for a marriage test. the name of the bride-to-be, replied, shoe-string catch of Curi Gar-|day may produce a great + ‘license, and when asked !*I don’t know, I just met her”. lis well balanced, the affections Villareal, who made a running. strong, and the mind active. To- 'cia’s short hit to left with Ogden plorer, ‘i ‘fresh at times; | with GOLFING NEWS Key Fia, Nov. 131008, Observation taken at 7:30 a, m. 75th Mer. Time ~~ ‘Temperatures | Highest last 24 hours |Lowest last night - Mean __. Normal _ Rainfall, 24 hours” ending 7:30 a. m., inches - inches as Total rainfall since Nov. 1, Deficiency since Noyem- ber 1, inches ___ Total rainfall since January 1 ,inches __. = Excess since Jan, 1, inches Tomorrow's Almanac Barometer at 7: Sea level _ Wind Directi: [elocit NE—12 miles per hour Relative Humidity N. B.—Comfortable humidity. should be a few points below mean temperature : FORECAST ~ (Till 7:30 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Mostly | cloudy tonight and Tuesday; not much change in moderate northeast and east | winds, probably fresh at times. N.B.—Forecast indicates winds between 13-24 miles per hour Jacksonviile to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate north- | east and east winds partly weather tonight and light scattered probably showers. over south and central portions. | POLITICAL CITY ELECTION, NOV. 14, 1938 For Mayor WM. T. DOUGHTRY, JR. For Tax Assessor-Collector | SAM B. PINDER For Police Justice WESLEY P. ARCHER. For Chief of Police IVAN ELWOOD (For Re-Election). For Chief of Police C. (Floney) PELLICIER For Captain Night Police ALBERTO CAMER (For Re-Election) i For Captain Night Police MYRTLAND CATES For Captain Night Police ROBERT J. LEWIS (Better known as Bobby). For City Councilman RALPH B. BOYDEN For City Councilman COL. L. C. BRINTON For City Councilman JOHN CARBONELL, JR. For City Councilman GUY CARLETON. For City Councilman OSWALDO CARRERO For City Councilman JONATHAN CATES. For City Councilman WILLIAM A. LEONARD 5. GRILLON ‘as “Lenuiie”) ERNEST A. For City Councilman JIM ROBERTS” For City Councilman For City JOHN GLENW Fg City Councilman temperature; | overcast | Tuesday | i ahout Cigarette ‘Tidiienna ‘THERE ARE FOUR TYPES of tobaccos found in the more popular cigarettes, namely... Bright, Maryland, Burley and Turkish. ALL THESE TOBACCOS except Turkish (which is bought direct from the planters in Turkey and-Greece) and Maryland (which is bought through sealed bids under government supervision) are bought at public. auction, just like any other auction where you might have bought in a table or a chair. AT THE AUCTION SALE the tobacco is piled in baskets weighing from about 100 to 500. pounds and each purchaser buys all of his tobaccos by competitive bidding for’ the particular piles he wants. ‘THE CHESTERFIELD, BUYERS, buy the best of these mild ripe tobaccos for the Chesterfield blend. it is Chesterfield’s Combination. . .the right amounts of Burley and Bright . . . just enough Maryland... and just enough Turkish—that makes the big difference between Chesterfield and other cigarettes. Ir IS BECAUSE of this combination that Chesterfields are COOLER, have a BETTER TASTE and are DEFINITELY MILDER. They are made of the world’s best cigarette tobaccos. You can’t buy @ better cigarette. MAKE YOUR NEXT PACK CHESTERFIELD «. Sap 99, ager Moms Tonscn Co. “p-u-t-t to place a thing where ys | ; “putt” means a vain to do the same, A large attendance was pres- oe GRAMMAR OF THE LINES Friend—Is it spelled “p-u-t” or Golfer—“P-u-t-t”, “Put’ means wert npt