The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 15, 1940, Page 3

MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1940 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN PAGE THREE by Frances Shelley Wees if ine : : Would Condemn Gregorian Chapter 48 The Shining Knife an came beck through doorway and went back tle stove. : s bathed in cold. icy Her heart was ld hear it distinctly. nead and stared at her. Could »oked up at the ceiling. He e over to her swiftly and ed down at her. “Was he at home when you left?” he demand- ed in a desperate whisper. Sbe would not answer. She could not answer, for the moment he had spoken he put his hand ti y over her mouth. and then picked up a long roll of bandage and gagged her. Suddenly the man smiled to himself again. He went noiseless- ly to the cabinet and took a little bottle from it, with a thick pad of cloth. He went to the end of the room she couldn’t see, and she heard nothing; but a wave of fresh sweet night air poured over Then it was gone, and the heavy air of the room settled around her again. The gag hurt badly and it was so dry. Her mouth was so d She twisted her head and chewed. at the gag. but it would not budze. She pulled at her wrists unti] the bonds cut into them. but she could not move. That would be Michael, alone up there. Alone, come to find her. She couldn’t warn him. Michacl. The light went out. The world was black again. forgotten. The sweet night air revived her. He had left the door open. this time when he came in. and aj | breeze swept gently over her . The water in the pan bubbled and sang. She turned her head. There was a sort of wide bench against the wall on her left-hand side, opposite the big cabinet. On the bench Michael was half sit- ting, propped against the wall. By the time Michael opened his eyes his feet were tied together and his hands were bound firmly be- back; but worse than 4 wrists were tied to a ring in the wall. Michael had seen Tuck lying there on the table. He had stared at her with terrified eye: the warm blood flo: n her veins again and she ve. Her brain worked again man spoke. “You were . ” Michael said, “Do you think I'm cra. . “Indeed? You lie well, Forres- nd you? What am I to call ? Murchison?” hatever you like. t htest differe! played into my h e said exultingly. It won't L ds to- indeed. I had thought of | ing of this sort, but I hadn’t dreamed J should be able to man- age it. Once or twice I was almost afraid of you, Forrester. Afraid you would discover the truth, . and so end my work. It . If the uld but realize it, it is a ng I am endeavoring to e the pleasure cf watch- | her eyes. Ther voice was terrib! Yi he said fo, you are wrong. Forrester. this must be done. For years | have been on the verge of this discov: ery. Again and again I have been thwarted by the stupidity of au- thorities, by the hide-bound bi terness of associates. I must do I must do it, do you understand? His voice dropped almost to a whisper as he stood there by the kettle. his hand reaching out to- ward his instruments. Life “PORBESTER. do you know what I am searching for? Life! Do you understand that? Life! The Vital Force. The thing that preachers call the Soul. Soul!” He was breathing heavily. He moved aside and pulled up to the stove a small wheeled table, glass-cov- ered. On it he laid a sterile, white cloth: then he took from the water that tray of shining, keen-bladed knives. “I know where to find it, For- rester. I know exactly where, in the brain, it lies. Do you know why they have never discovered it? Because, when they look for it in dead bodies, it is gone. Be- when they look for it in etized bodies, it is dissi- pated. It cannot be captured. It is too small, too weak. But I know the way.” Tuck’s heart was in her eyes, staring at Michael. Michael was straining at his bonds, twisting. turning, his face the color o paper. His eyes were blazing. Thé man at the table took a test-tube from a rack and laid it carefully beside the shining array before him. He was working very Sit | very carefully. “I have been handicapped,” he went on. “I tried to work with animals beeause of the absurd prejudice against the risking of human life. How foolish. that is. There are literally millions of lives thet would be better sacri- ficed to science. If they had given me only a dozen subjects to work on, I should have been successful | strona: He long ago. Do you. know what it would mean? It would mean that SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN—20c WEEKLY. | we could create perfect beings in the laboratory. Perfect—a of gods. The operation, of course, is very Very painful, in- A can understand that it must be.” “You. w chae] said. Mi- sat quiet. tié must have found.out that it was useless. “I doubt it. You see, after to- night, I shall do nothing more. This is the final test. Once before f thought I could say that, but unfortunately,. my subject strug- gied rather violently before 1! could induce him to come here, and I was forced to give him a severe blow: He has been very ill ever since—rather, he is quiet now. but in no physical condition as yet, to stand the operation. I have had to k him drugged in order to ke im from escaping or making a noise, and his nerves. are not in a good state at all. Still, 1 expected to use him eventually. But I shall not have to now. If the operation fails on your wife, and anything unforeseen happens, there will still be yourself.” He made a little: courtly bow. “Two such young and healthy speci mens, both mentally and phy. cally, are all that any seientist could desire. If the experiment fails twice tonight, I shail merely set fire to this basement room and leave it as it is. I shall be con- vinced that mine is not the hand to.carry out the research. But we will nc* fail—tonight.” He was ready. He wheeled the little table over close to Tuck. He pulled open a drawer in the table and took out a white mask which he unrolled from its sterile wrap- pings and tied across his face. “Perhaps,” he said to Michael. “you will find this a little trying since this lady ‘is your wife. But you can scarcely fail to find it in- teresting. With this knife I shall make the first incision, a smi~ three-cornered one at the base of the brain, But first, of ‘course, J must sterilize the area.” ‘You Devil’ HE turned her head gently away from. Michael and she felt his hands at the back of her neck. He untied the gag and took it off. “It is in my way.” he said regretfully Her mouth was stiff. Then she felt the coolness of water on the back of her head, and, in a moment, the erape of a razor. heard him move. She knew sti!l trying to break loose He never could. Her own bonds cut into her wrists and ankles. The man laid down the razor. ted up the shining knife. in that instant Michael threw the severed bonds from his hands and sprang. The man gave a cry like the roar of a wild beast as he went down beneath Michael. Tuck did not see that battle on the cement floor, but as she lay bound and helpelss on the table she pictured it and agonized for Michael. The other man bigger, and very 2 ad a grip like stee’ “Michiel. Michael.” she callcd in agony The other man was bigger and very strong, but Michael was fight- ing for Tuck and for her life. He got on top at last and pounded that dark head again and again on the cement: and then he dragged him and tied him, in turn, to the ring in the wall, where he stood with frightful blazing eyes. “You devil!” Michael panted And then he turned to Tuck. As he lifted her tenderly in his arms from the table she clung to him and choked out, ael how... I can’t believe... darling! Oh, you are really—— Oh. Michae “Why. sweetheart, my fingers | were free, d’you see, and I was sort of half sitting there. . . and my jackknife was in my pants. I nearly died getting it out—and cutting those damn things—for fear he'd hear” And at that moment two things happened. The first) was the: ap- pearance of an apparition from that inner room, the figure of a tall, ghastly pale man with cadav- erous eheeks and sunken eyes. He :aupported himself against the door, said, “So you've got him at last,” and fainted. And the second was the sound of many feet rush- ing into the house above, and Bunny’s_ voice calling, “Tuck, Tuck! Michael, where are you?” Michael flung open the door and shouted, and in a moment the basement was.filled with people: strangely Duncan Murchison was there with the Commissioner, the District Attorney, a group of po- licemen, and Bunny with Aga- memnon’ in her arms. “T had to bring him,” she ex- plained, “because I thought per- haps if we couldn’t find you he could. But we saw Michael’s boat and the handkerchief tied to the tree on the path below.” Michael held Tuck in his arms still. She leaned her head against he and the room whirled round er. Duncan Murchison had _ raced across the room and dropped down on his knees beside the sick man fromthe inner room. He lifted the drooping head and held it on his arm. “My God,” he said brokenly,» and there was deep silence at the sound of his voice. “It’s my broth- er, Edgar!” The District Attorney frowned. He took his hand from Michael's shoulder. He turned and surveyed the icy rigid figure of that other, gowned in white.and tied against the wall. “Then who is that?” he cried. “That?” said Michael, and reached out to tear the operating mask from the angry face. “Oh, that is Dr. McBain.” Continued tomorrow Yerable intensity overspreads the country from the eastern Lake} President Of WCA i | | GLENN MILLER, New Dance King, now broadcasting over Coast-to- Coast C.B.S. Network, three times weekly, for Chesterfield. | FOUR TEAMS PLAY | TONIGHT AT GYM |SECOND-HALF TOURNAMENT OPENS IN ISLAND CITY BASKETBALL LEAGUE | i | | | |the navy recognize the strategic/every instance is twenty-five! jvalue of Key West in the na-|cémts (25c). | First doubleheader in the Is-| ‘land City Basketball League sec- ‘ond-half tournament will be | played tonight at the High School gymnasium, the first game get- NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—This) may be Leap Year to you but to! Blisabeth Achelis, president of the World Calendar Association, | it’s just another horrible ex-| |ample. ’ If Miss Achelis and the associa- tion had their way, the ‘ Gre- gorian Calendar, whieh has done service in most of the western world since 1751, would be boot- ed out and an international cal- endar substituted to make ail years uniform. Under her system each year would start with January 1, a Sunday; each quarter would be- gin with a month of 31 days, INSPIRES CITIZENS. (Continued from Page One) | thanks of the eommunity for the | reopening of the naval station. | “We are happy to be here”, | Admiral Allen replied. “We in! tional defense. It is a fine base| for the training of the officers | and men of the navy. The weath- | er remains constant the year| around, so that training pro- | /An extra year-end day \the second and third quarters so ‘year. Plan other months having 30 days. as an extra Sunday would end the, year. The proposed calendar would have a Leap Year, too, but the’ extra day would come between that the following January 1 would still be a Sunday. The plan has been studied by the League of Nations and 14, governments have shown willing- ness to accept it, says Miss! Achelis. An international confer- | ence might have discussed it this But along came the war. | ...and I’m happy to present the combination of the Andrews Sisters and my band for your pleasure every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.” +». GLENN MILLER It’s a great tie-up ... America’s No. 1 Cigarette for more smoking pleasure «+-America’s No. 1 Band for dancing, Chesterfield is the one cigarette with CLASSIFIED COLUMN Advertisements under this head will be inserted in The Citizen at, the rate of one-cent (1c) a word for each insertion, but the mini-| mum for the first insertion in! Advertisers should give their | street address as. well as their! telephone number if they desire | results. Payment for classified adver- tisements is invariably in ad-| |ting under way promptly at 7:30 grams go forward without undue | vance. but regular advertisers | o'clock | Army five opens against the Navy Plane Squadron VP53 in the first game. In the nightcap, the Key West Lions Club five, | |winner of the first-half tourna- ment, is matched against the High School Varsity. | | Four other teams are entered in the tournament, Sea Food Grill, U.S.S. Philip, Marines and ‘DeMolays. | Complete schedule will be an-}| ‘nounced in ‘The Citizen tomor- row. Games will be played three nights weekly—Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Observation taken at 7:30 a. m | 75th Mer. Time | Temperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night Mean Normal et) 69 69 Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches Total rainfail since : inches Deficiency | inches xe Total rainfall since January inches | Deficiency inches Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise 7:14 a. m. Sunset 6:00 p. m. Moonrise 11:24 a, m. Moonset . Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) A.M. 7:51 Jan. 1, eee since Jan. 1, 0.83 0.10 1, | 0.83 since Jan. P.M. Low 8:49 High 2:17 | Bérometer at 7.30 a. m., today \Sea level, @ 30.00 Wind Direction and Velocity W—4 miles per hour Calm 95% H N.B.—Comfortable humidity | hould be a few points below! inean temperature FORECAST (Till 7:30 p.m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly | ‘cloudy and colder tonight; Tues- jday fair and continued cool; moderate northerly winds, prob- jably fresh at times. | Florida: Partly cloudy in south ‘and fair in north portion tonight, considerably colder over south portion; Tuesday fair and con- tinued rather cold; light frost ‘over north and central portions and heavy over extreme north- west portion tonight. : CONDITIONS , | A low presstire area of consid- ; | iregion southeaStward to the At-_ jlantic coast; while strong high |pressure areas cover most other {sections this morning. ! | . Precipitation has occurred , \throughout .much of the eastern portion of the country during. the last 24 hours, and in the Lake region and upper Ohio Valley, with heavy rain in North Caro- lina and: cn portions of the north {Atlantic coast; while fair wea- ither, with temperatures below normal, prevails throughout most) _ other sections. interruption. | “If we did not have a good} navy, this country would be in a bad fix; so Key West's facili-! ties are needed in the national) defense scheme.” | Praises Other Cities | Admiral Allen spoke of the! progressiveness of Jacksonville! in meeting the naval require-| ments for land and other things; in the development of the new! southeastern naval seaplane base. ! He also spoke of the west coast’s | appreciation of the naval pro- gram. Admiral Allen implied| that Key West should cooperate ; with the navy in every possible ; way. | Other participants in the gen-} eral conversation were W. W.| Demeritt, superintendent of the; lighthouse service in the Coast Guard organization; Charles Tay- lor, chairman of the civic com- mittee cooperating with naval of- ficers in the recreational pro- gram, and Carl Bervaldi, chair- man of Monroe county commis- sion. Others attending were Com- mander G. B. Hoey, officer in charge of the naval _ station, Lieut. Commander Fort Calla-! han, district communications of- ficer; Lieut. Commander S. H. Clark, aide to Admiral Allen; Councilmen L. C. Brinton, Er- nest Ramsey, Ralph Boyden and J. Glenwood Sweeting. Commissioner . William Mon- salvatge of the county commis- sion; Aquilino Lopez, Jr., city attorney; William V. Little, presi- dent of the Rotary club; Everett Russell, president of the Cham- ber of Commerce; Melvin E. Russell, superintendent of schools and William J. Lee, Key West news service bureau. Soeeccccccerseveegeesces Today’s Birthdays | eo eo! Judge Kimbrough Stone of the 8th U. S. 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Martin, Moses: Pennsylvania, Arthur H. May- (and Wisconsin, Julius P. Heil. | | | | | CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST as at close of business Dec. 30, 1939 Comptroller's Call RESOURCES $ 297,007.66 51.13 Loans and Discounts verdrafts Banking House, and Fixtures Other Real Estate Stock of the Federal serve Bank Other Assets United States Government Obligations, direct andjor , fully guaranteed $278,882.16 State, Municipal and other bor Furniture i 27,340.56 47,027.10 Re- 4,650.00 1,375.11 165,865.34 548,823.89 993,571.39 $1,371,022.95 mds Cash and due from Banks LIABILITIES $ 100,000.00 87,103.16 00 3,000. 1,180,919.79 $1,371,022.95 Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporatior Member of the Federal Reserve Serving Key West and Monroe County since 1891 Capital __ “ Surplus, Undivided Profits and Reserves Dividend Declared and Unpaid Deposits as G. S. KENNEDY, Official In Charge. (Signed), H. 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