The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 18, 1939, Page 3

MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1939 e Cree nq Man | by Frances Shelley Wees YESTERDAY: McBain sug- gests that the love letters in the box may be code, says that Miss Lissey is bitter because Devoe didn’t marry her, and denies see- ing the gray felt hat. Mrs. Mc- Bain saw the hat, looks for it, but can’t find it. Chapter 25 Dark Of The Moon T= dark figure broke away 4 from the hedge, slowly, cau- tiously, and crept on all fours for the trees, With a bound, Michael reached it and threw himself upon it, hardly knowing what he ex- poctea to find beneath his hands as ie peered down in the darkness, “Yer chokin’ me,” he heard, and gasped in surprise, “Higgins!” “It’s me,” the little man said sul- lenly, clambering to his feet as Mi- chael released him, “What the devil were you doing, sneaking around in the dark?” wasn’t doin’ nothink.” “Oh, you weren’t? Well, it’s a damn poor place to do it in. What are you up to?” “T'm not up to nothink.” Higgins was truculent. Michael was suddenly angry. He reached out, took Higgins’ collar strike on something. Higgins heard it too, and drew in his breath on somenliig that sounded very'like a so) Michael lifted out a trowel of | earth carefully. Higgins made a convulsive movement, and Michael grasped him by tue shoulder and ‘orced him down. “I:haven’t got it yet, said ee TS But the ext thrust struck it — something firm and hard, and Mi- chael put his‘hand down ihto the hole, not, however, without-a-mo- ment of dread; and encountered there a smooth flat surface. With a few more strokes of the trowel he laid it bare, seized it, and drew forth a little square box. “Now, isn’t this lucky,” he said to Higgins. “We'll just 6 up on the porch into the light, and open it. Do you know what's in it?” Higgins was shaking? “I don't know nothink about it,” he ‘said over and over. “I don’t know nothink about it. I* wasn’t me.” Michael led*him tip into the sun porch and snapped on the light. eyes were wide and full of fear. Michael lifted the lid of the box, Inside, lay a man’s gold watch, the long chain coiled round it. He turned it over and on the baa were engraven the initials and shook him as if he had been the| ©G rabbit Bunny had called him. “You tell me what you were doing sneaking around my yard in the middle of the night, or I'll shake the eytahte out of you,” he said wrathfully. But Higgins, mentally at least, was firm, “I said I wasn’t doin’ nothink and I wasn’t.” Michael dragged him over to the pace beside the hedge from which ie had crawled. Still holding Hig- gins’ collar he bent over and ran his hand over the ground. There | was nothing. Hissins held one arm slightly behind himself. Michael noticed it, grabbed it, and took a, trowel from resisting fingers, “For the love of Pete,” he said in exasperation. “A trowel! What are you doing, transplanting in the dark of the moon?” Higgins maintained a suller si- lence. Michael thought carefully. He looked over the hedge. Just there, on the other side, was one of the so- called rockeries, placed there yes- terday by this same Higgins. Rock- eries? Piles of stones, rather. Now. what... “So,” he said, regaining his com- mand of the situation. “So you} have reasons, my friend, for your actions? Strange. Very strange. To look at you, one wouldn't think so, Trowel, indeed. The dark of the moon. A pile of stones. derneath it, Higgins’ othink,” he said explosively, “No? Now, mustn’t tell naughty fibs, I'll have to wash your mouth out. I'll tell you what we'll do— since you're so anxious to dig, we'll go inside, where it’s easier, and dig properly.” “I don't want to dig.” Watch And Chain “Hats just too bad. I’m so sorry, because I’m afraid you've got to. And before you start, you may sing a little song like a mipeeneale, or a weasel, or is it an- other owl? Just to set your friend's mind at rest. He’s far, far away by now, of course, but he must be worrying.” Higgins writhed. j Michael did not press the sub- ject. “Stones first,” Michael decided. “Tl help you, just to cheer you along. We'll take this one, and then this one .. . now don’t shirk.” “T’m not going to stand for this,” Higgins growled. “Of course not. You couldn't reach the stones if you did. You'll bend over nicely and pick them up one by one. Ready?” Higgins was not ready. Michael straightened up and spoke softly. “You get to work and move those rocks, you little fool, or I'll smash vou flat,” he said con- vincingly. Higgins got to work. In a few minutes they had moved the rocks aside, and the har- dened earth beneath lay bare. “Have you a light, Higgins?” Mi- chae) demanded. “No, I 'aven’t.” “So you know exactly where to | dig, do you? Well, dig then.” | I don’t know what yer talkin’ about.” “Do you want to be smashed flat?” Michael asked sweetly. Higgins was trembling. “Dig!” The man bent over and scratched feebly at the earth. Michael bent beside him and watched Obvious- me they were getting nowhere. Mi- chael snatched the trowe) from Higgins’ hand and moved over di- rectly in front of the little break in the hedge that he could feel with his hand. He thrust the trowel deep into the earth just there. and scraped the soil away. He realized that the man beside him was hold- ing his breath, and that he 1aust be on the right track. In a few seconds, when the trow- el had reached a spot perhaps six ‘I Never Done It’ FiGGINs put his hands over his face, and moaned. “I’ll ‘an; now, I'll ’ang,” he said to himself. “You certainly will,” said Mi- chael cheerfully. “As high as Ha- man—unless you listen to me.” “I never done it, s'welp me. 1 never done it. I don’t know nothink’ about it.” “No? Well, just come into the study, and tell me all about it, Hig- ins.” Half dazed the man followed him in; and watched him as-he locked the door. “Sit down,” Michael commanded briefly. Higgins sat gingerly on the edge of a chair, “I never done it,” he said again, “You didn’t do what?” Higgins stared at him. “I never killed him. I don’t know nothink about it.” “Tf you say that again,” Michael said evenly, “I shall choke you be sitting there like a damned aspen leaf if you didn't. Now. where did you get this watch?” “T found it.” “Where?” “On the path.” “What path?” “The path through the wooa. That’s right. It’s the truth I'm tell- in’ you.” “I believe you. You didn’t hap- pen to find a diamond necklace lying right close beside it, did you?” The shot struck home. Higgins went white again. “No sir,” he whee “When did you find it?” “One mornin’.” “Indeed? Which morning?” “The mornin’ after he... he was supposed to have went away.” “Who?” Higgins was sient. ‘Who?” “You know. ilurchison.” “How did it come to be lying on the path?” “TI don’t Know. I’ve no idea.” “You found a gold watch lyin; on the path — with initials — an you didn’t attempt to return it to the owner? Why didn’t you?” “T did! I come ere, knowin’ as it was Mr. Murchison’s watch, and he went away.” “Why didn’t you give it to his wife?” “Tt wasn’t ’is wife as I talked to.” “Who was it?” Higgins would not answer. “Well, who was it?” “Mr. Duncan Murchison.” “What did he say?” “’E didn’t say nothink. "E just said no, ’is brother wasn’t ‘ome, what did 1 want. And 1 said nothink, I didn’t want nothink, and I went away. S’welp me. I just went away.” “With the watch? Why didn’t you give itto him?” | “2 Gglan't want to.” “Weil, that’s a.good'reason. Then what?” “Nothink.” Michael gritted his teeth: “Look here, Higgins. Stop sayiig that! Tell me straight. Why didnt you give the watch to Duncan Murchi- son right there?” “| didn't want to.” Michdel glared. Higgins shuffled. “: wasn't going to take no charices,” he mut- tered. “It might ‘ave beén him. They was fightin” one day before. T'eard ‘em.” “Who was?” “The two Mr. Murchisons.” “And you thought it might have been Duncan who had murdered his brother? That's what you thought, eh?” “Yes.” - “So you knew that the Professor was dead? How?” inches below the surface, he felt it TRANSPORTATION S.S. Cuba Arrives Steamship Cuba arrived from Tampa this morning with two first cabin passengers for Key West and 46 first cabin passen- gers and six second cabin pas- sengers for Havana. Arriving at Key West were: Raul Garcia from Tampa and J. Thompson, from St. Petersburg. Shown on the manifést of the Cuba were the following items For Key West, 18 tons of freight, | one automobile and two sacks of! TRUE, WHEN YOU Teacher—TO6 what circum- stance was Columbus indebted for his fame? Smart Boy—To the circum- |stance that America had not yet | been discovered. mail; for Havana, two automo- biles and 459 sacks of mail. The vessel sailed for Havana at 10:30 o'clock this morning with 52 first cabin passengers and 15 second cabin, nine auto- mobiles and nine sacks of mail. The little man. was as white as a | ghost under his sallow tan. His | with my bare hands. You do know | something about it. You wouldn't | wasn’t to ’ome. That's right. So I | THINK OF IT! | i i | WRECKING MASTER PETER: | SON and the boys from the| Warbler are still cussin’ over re-| cent developments. It seems the | Warbler went to Tampa last} ‘week for a single day of bottom} repair. As soon as they had left! news came in that a large! freighter had gone aground off THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | —— American interests.and may blast | the entire scheme. | YOU'VE HEARD little of the| inside dévelopments of the Pan-! American Company, so let’s tell | you more. B. Gili, who is organ-! izing the cornpany, is operating on an Havana expense account.) His reputation has been made in| rubber tire sales im.South Amer- /turnament continues tonight ati, | THE ISLAND-ciry 0 BASKETBALL — KRMY-SEAFOOD GRILL PLAY AND LIONS IN SECOND Island’ City Basketball League |Fowey Rocks near Miami. Then }ica and in foreign export promo- | the High: Schodlgyinnasium with while they lay peacefully in. the! | drydock news came in of SEVEN calls of distress, all jobs which! they could have attended to. The | tion. out... Gili has lined tip’ Cuban govetnmental emphasis behind the new line. He _has.lined up o'clock, the Army” atid High tariffs cyt all that/two ganies scheduled. In the operiér, starting at 7:39 Seafood. |Miami wrecked vessel employed | important concessionaries for the | Grill teams meet. Following. this fifty hands -alone daily to help} boat. He has lined up‘a freight | Same, the Lions arid Coast: Guard | unload the cargo. |the Warbler had lain in | West and everything was serene. | | They go into drydock, remain a} |few days longer than they had} expected and ships commenced! |to develop trouble. | GARDNER'S DRUGSTORE and | \storefront is being repainted and | | gotten in readiness for the sea-! son. The value of bright shining} paint is in the news at present! ger bus and train travels heads | are with him. He has secured} two ferry boats which ply tween the Golden Gate in San Francisco. Both are around 300} feet long and Lloyds of London are willing to give insurance on} their making’ very safe trips be-| tween Key West and Havana.! The ferries will be streamlined | modernistically. Each takes about | All summer | transportation system via L. & L.| fives fight for fitst place in league Key | and Qvergeas truckline. Passen-/ standings. Coast Guard team is ahead’ by half a game following j contests played last week. HASKINS RECEIVES Henry B. Haskins, assistant |with everyone pointing toward | 1,200 passengers. The plan is to | superintendent of lighthouses, a good tourist .season. | STRONG REACTION came} |from the news, announced Satur- | |day to intimates, that the S. S. Cuba will run only once a week }to Havana from Key West port. |The Cuba will leave for Havana |every Monday, make 4 round | trip to Miami and then ‘return to |Key West to make the: ‘Tampa \trip. Thus the west coast of} |Florida and Key West will get a; Havana sailing only once a week. | This will strike the four tour| | meas in Key West very hard. | There are some rumors that there may be a closeup of at least one and perhaps two. Surprising is the reaction among the general |public in Key West. Long dis- |satisfied with the company’s} \treatment of Key West many) langry protests burst from Key! | West lips. WHAT GRIPES the Key West-| ler is that Key West is left with! only one sailing a week when it; was just building itself up as |one of the big jumping off points | |for Cuba along with Miami. Its! new Overseas Highway was be-| jing touted as an extra attraction |to “Go to Cuba via the Keys”.} |Many think that the P. & O. should at least have furnished; some sort of better service, even; with a smaller boat, between this; city aria) Havana.’ ‘‘ 3 | P. & 0, ANNOUNCEMENT! brings up into the limelight the; Pan-American Link Transporta- | | tion Company’s plans. This} jcolumn can tell you, however, |that there will be no rapid de-; |velopments in this matter until after the Cuban psesidential elec- tion. Because backers want poli- |tical backing from Cuba before | they will enter their investment. Colonel Batista is one of two | candidates running for the office lof president. The opposing can- |didate is not so friendly toward | OBSERVATIONS FROM THE BLEACHERS By 0. L. MILIAN | 1939's MOST |VALUABLE PLAYER— | This column would ‘suggest a meeting of all local, sports writ- ers in order to select the most valuable player in the Monroe |County Baseball League for the |1939 season. Individual records keeper and among those who can be invited to meet are: Bill Lee of the Daily News, Poly Artman of The Citizen, Earl Adams of the | Herald, Allan Armstrong of The Citizen, Pedro Aguilar of The | Citizen and the writer as official |scorer of the league. How "bout it, scriblers? | TAMPA BRINGS |A STRONG NINE— Here is what Key West base- jball teams will buck up against jwhen they meet the Tampa All- Stars Christmas week: Bernardo Fernandez, 1b, .341. Willie Paz, c, .382. Chelo Castillo, 2b, .333. Frank Fernandez, ss, 327. Raymond Rodriguez, 3b, Sani Scionti, Jf, .297. Angelo’ Scionti, cf, .291. Joe Schiro, rf, .317. | Sam Pizzolato,’ utility, .340. | Babe Morgado, utility, .357. Evelio Martinez, p. Robert Jerez, p. Gasper Capitano, p. Frank Salemi, p. Virgilio Fabian, manager. bg | | | OPINION OF FANS | WILL BE APPRECIATED— A large number of fans are of ithe opinion that William “Bitch” |Cates, Trojans’ big second base- iman, should’ be named the most | valuable player for the 1939 sea- |son. The writer would be glad jthe line. 1 ' 250,000 passengers make the Mi-/| which befell Mr. Haskins. He can be submitted by the score-+ make one trip each way passengers $8 round freight $3 a ton. each | was in receipt Saturday evening \day. The price is amazing for|of his commission as Lieutenant trip. For! in the Coast Guard, to date from December 1, and will at once pre- sree pare to get the uniforms which NOW AS TO the feasibility of | fit his rank. Did you know that That was not all the luck ami-Havana and Key West-Ha- also received a check for $294, vana trips each year. Freight | which is the last payment on his tmsportation is also high. Gili|shares in the Monroe Investment says it ; travel he and the company will be more than satisfied. senger and fre’ get more than his share. ONE OTHER QUESTION has | been raised. Are freight rates| cheaper via boat and truckline | than by boat direct to seaports? The answer is that many inland points must be serviced. Gili’s; if he. gets but 20% of this|Co., which has been dissolved. Mr. Haskins has been 37 years Un-|in the lighthouse service, going} 1 ith the lower pas-|in as a junior clerk and rose to} segs ight rates he will the rank of assistant lighthouse inspector and gineer. lighthouse en- o MR. BUSH EXPLAINS | Peeeccccccccooccosooooce | | notified and required Ray Bush, manager of the Pi- plan is to load those big truck |rates’ baseball club, answers | in! trailers you'see in the middle-|this message the rumors going | west on mo Key West ends the boats and country. ¢ low prices will mean. There are | seatrains New York now bringing bananas and other fruit from Cuba but| the boats must be unloaded, car- goes transferred to truck and} freight cars, all of which is ex- | tremely ‘expensive both from handling costs and ruining of part of the cargo. As well as speed of delivery. Another item | to be considered is handling of | private cats to Cuba. | throughout COMPANY GILI is organizing | is a $2,000,000 one. He is limit- |ing the stockholders to a few. | Although he could start a smaller} |company almost immediately he} iis waiting patiently for the bet- ter proposition to materialize and | the gteater profits. Ahead lies lan election and then fast contact work. ito hear from those baseball fol- lowers whose opinions vary. Submit your selection to Box 1384. eon LOWDOWN— | First baseman Fernandez, ac- | cording to the Tribune of Tampa, pet ga to the Cincinnati training |camp next spring for a_ tryout. | Catcher Paz won the batting | championship in the city league at Tampa and is a young and coming backstop—the most prom- ising on the west coast. Castillo | is a loeal boy who got his first | baseball start as a member of the | Pirates 10 years ago. The Scionti |brothers—well, we all know |those fielding panthers who won ja good many friends in this city last July. Babe Morgado is the bushy-haired pitcher who shut- out the Conchs on the Tampans’ jlast visit here. Gasper Capitano, just a might taller than Lucilo Gonzalez, with the throwing arm of a Lefty Covington, struck out ‘11 Conch batters during his visit in Key West last summer. This ;means, baseball friends, that we ‘are going to see some mighty tight playing and close scoring. TROJANS TO GET FIRST THST— «<=» > Earl Adams’ Trojans will get the first cracki.at the .Tampans, |Saturday, December.,23,.,and as} ‘far as hitting and fielding are | |concerned, our second-half league | |champions are not so far behind jthe invaders. As for the Conchs, | they are well prepared, not to say {anything about Marvin Griffin’s | All-Stars, who have Robert Beth- | jel, the.only local pitcher who/ has shown any stuff against the Tampa boys, and Publio Car- bonell and Idilio Salinero, a pair fof aces from the Pirates who have never pitched agairist visiting. team. Blue Sox weak—or are they—for they wit use playets from other clubs. the | are the ferry boats, -have|atound’.town that he al is | tor hitchups at the Cuban and players would not participate in to bring them to|the benefit games played yester- the |day for Jose Gonzalez and Jackie | CL ee rLLgLeZLLZLLLteLegZZeLtrzi~z~eg regi cgizcgidbibi¢dda 7 eS. and his} Think what the new |Carbonell. For the record, Mr. Bush states | to New Orleans and|that neither he nor any member} of his team were asked to play in-the benefits. determine, too just why the invi-| AS Administrator of the Estate of | tation was nor forthcoming. He is unable to 5 eral ahh hahhhandhnh hdd, joyable! GENERAL PIRATES COVE (The Hotel Gazette) Gedtge H. Bliss, who, for the | past seven years, his been man- erties at’ Lake Sunapee, N. H., has leased’ Pirates Cove Lodge ‘and Cottagés, lodated on Sugar f Key, Florida. The property consists of 125 acrés, on which re located a spacious lodge and | twerity moderfi cottages. The | “property hag its own water, ¢lec- tric light’ and sewerage system, post offive, 200 feet of dock space, | three ocean-going fishing cruis- lers, and a fleet of small boats |for inside’ fishing. | Bliss ‘has arranged with own- |ers off the property to inaugurate la real estate development for |the erection of privately-owned | | winter cottages. j Pirated/Cove is 160 miles south jof Miami and twenty miles north of Key West. The post office ad- idress is Pirates Cove, Florida. During previous winter sea- |sons, Bliss has been associated j with the Seaview Golf Club, Ab- | (secon, N. J., the Boca Raton Club, Boca Raton, Fla., The Inn at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., and the Claridge Hotel, at Atlantic City. Bliss Has again been appointed managetof the Granliden Hotel, Lake Stifiapee, N. H., for the summer ‘season of 1946. LEGALS ‘ THE COUNTY JUDGE’s COURT IN. AND FOR MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA. IN PROBATE. In re: Estate of ELIZA ESTELLE ROBERTS, | Deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS To all creditors and all persons having claims or demands against said Estate: You, and each of you, are hereby | to present any claims and demands which you, or either of you, may_ have Roberts, deceased, late of Monroe County, Florida, to the Hon. Ray- mond R. Lord, County Judge of Monroe County, at his office in the | County Courthouse in Monroe| County, Florida, within eight calen- dar months from the date of the! \first publication hereof. All claims | and demands not presented within the time and in the manner _pre- | scribed herein shall be barred as provided by law. Dated December 16th, A, D. 1939. | THEODORE E. J. ROBERTS, Eliza Estelle Roberts, Deceased. | | @ec18-25,1939; jan1-8,1940 | |Sunrise Sunset | Moonrise jSea level __ against the estate of Eliza Estelle /Stone Crab Dinners PHONE NO NAME | Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Craig, Owners | Observatior taken at 7:30 a, m. 75th Mer. Time ‘Températures Highest last 24 hours | Lowest last night = Mean _. aging the Gratiliden Motel prop-|!Normal _ ipiti Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches —. Total rainfall since Dec. 1, inches | Deficiency since December 1, inches | Total rainfall since January 1, inches _ .. 38.61 Excess since Jan. 1, inches 1.13 Tomorrow's Almanac Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM, Barometer at Wind Direction and Velocity N—6 miles per hour Relative Humidity 90% N. B.—Comfortable humidity jshould be a few points below mean temperature FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; not much change gentle to moderate east to south- east winds. in temperature; N.B.—Forecast indicates winds between 8-18 miles per hour Florida: Partly cloudy tonight land Tuesday; slightly warmer on northeast coast tonight. . G. S. KENNEDY, Official In Charge. NO NAME LODGE Directly on Beach Famous Bahia Honda Fishing Reef — Tarpon — Permit Fishii corrages, $2.50 AND uP For Fitty Years a NAMEI- in Coffee in Key West STRONG AR BRAND COFFEE THAT'S A REPUTATION: 0.85 | 30.07 | KEY NO. || PAGE THREE Stork Visits Smarts Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Smart, of 501 Whitehead street, announce the arrival of a boy Saturday weighing eight and a half pounds. He will be given the name Sam- fuel W. T. Smart. Mother and son are reported as doing nicely. AND NOT FOR DAYLIGHT SAVING Jackie (to departing aunt)— |'There’s no hurry, auntie; daddy j has put the clock a whole hour The Citizen Bldg. PHONE 51 Beautiful! » porcelain interior. | sabiaee ide ~ Thrifty! Famous G-E sealed-in- steel oe ea ‘mech- anism for long life. A Bargain! Never before could = you so much in .2 G-E for so little. A ~ O00 wa SOOIIOOTUITTOOI ST, Lyive ELECTRICAL GIFTS Everything. in sparkling electrical appliances that every modern home should have! 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