The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 29, 1940, Page 3

FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1940 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN IROOSEVELT APPROVES |2using proiect program is that! | F H.A. HOUSING | PLAN} 'Key West eliminates at least 220| |sub-standard dwellii A num- (Continued from ah One) BOXERS ALL ST ic. SSD CALAN CONES EME OT FOR SCHEDULED (uA coLOMN fier in exieae ax nis Sessa THANEEORA TON unit will have from four to eight | has been razed in recent years, ROUNDS 7 TONIGHT LADY DRIVING TO NOR- MATHEWS’ QUINTET VICTOR "09M5, the rents to range from;While the local authority be- FOLK, VA. Can take two pas- 88 or $9 to about $12 or $14 a_lieves the removal of families to sengers. L ing April ard. IN PRELIMINARY JUNIOR month, according to the original the new units will result in a Apply 1014 Grinnell se LEAGUE CONTEST. ‘estimates. When - finally com-| further elimination of old and seer pleted the rental rates may be | d¢lapidated houses. jhigher or lower than indicated. | News that the President had One of the provisions of aa pags the loan contract for the project reached The Citizen, | the Chamber of Commerce and the Key West housing authority. | Among those sending wires an- |nouncing this event were U. S. | Senators Claude Pepper and C. S. Andrews and Congressman A. |Pat Cannon who were in Wash- [ington when President Roose- velt made his decision. YESTERDAY: The discovery fs made that the street door of the apartment house was open all night. Anyone could have come in. Tim Lathrop starts to explain how his wife drove into the river. sae looked very attractive to- | hose two. Mary Ann’s red up no farther than oulder, but the last Aas. se I had of them as they ted down the stairway was of irck’s blonde head on a level vith the green hat as he bent over to talk to her. I sat down: quite suddenly on | trunk just inside of the door- “Toby,” I said, “I haven’t be giving you the credit you deserve. And now you're proba- inning around tha girl in tek sweater and a doeskin BOXING SHOW POSTPONED FROM WEDNESDAY WILL BE STAGED TONIGHT AT STRAND ARENA Chapter 23 LOST Lathrop’s Story‘ IM LATHROP shook his head. No, Richard wasn’t in his apartment, but the door wasn’t a ked, so I went in to wait for By BERKY Basketball Sports Writer { Ina very close and exciting! jy Woodson game last, night, the High School Hewitt Conchs edged out the Coast Guard | quintet by a score of 37 to 35.) i The game started with the cme by: TOAST: 15 27 37) Guardsmen taking the lead, and | pandora 2 13 25 35! it wasn’t until eight minutes of | pia play had passed that Roberts tied | JUNIOR LEAGUE GAMES the score. The quarter ended{ In a preliminary contest, with no other scoring. |Mathews “All Stars”, after play*} In the second period, bothjing fifteen minutes overtime, | REWARD AND N ASKED for containing YO QUESTIONS black pocketbook Maryland Driver's Lic Auto License “No. 104-147. Also, a pen, pencil, checkbook of Key West Bank, and other valuables. Apply Houston, 1400 Alberta Avenue, or Phone 807. — thur-fri-sat—tf 3 0 2 1 a Totals— 71 6 By OSCAR L. MILIAN Buddy £peidel, U. S. Navy, and Mario Perez, local flash, are all set for their predicted bitter! battle to be fought at the Strand Arena ionight. The pair will ‘headline the weekly fight show, staged under the auspices of the ‘local National Guard unit. Devoting the past two days to 0 5 35 “Was the street door locked?” “I don’t know. You see, 1 had a key, so I used it, but the door might have been unlocked. I real- d to conjure up a picture lf as Mrs. Toby Maugham, kk kept popping in the | ly couldn’t tell you.” back door of my mind. It was no use. That man Dirck had some- peel thing that left “Well, I smoked a couple of cig- | /UP8 tat tet me as defenseless | arettes and looked over a maga- zine or two and then left.” F ‘oR SALE d slowly, and it was SIGNS—‘“For Rent”, “Rooms For then I no PAGE THREE CRC GROUP MEETS Members of full Com- munity Recreation Committee will assemble at Chamber of Commerce headquarters this aft- ernoon at 4:30 o'clock to hear reports of the executive commit- tee bearing on progress made in providing recreational facilities for the city since the formation of the group early in January. A complete report of the Colo- nial Park center, giving data on expense to build the various im- provements now hand, to- gether with a report on returns given to the committee from the Catholic Church Benefit Frolic last night, will be handed in, it was stated. All members of the originat group are requested to be in at- the on jtendance at this mecting. “Were you in the car long be- fore your wife drove you away | j from here?” “About five minutes, That ride was a nig went on in a low voic beside herself, and there was a heavy storm last! night. Driving was difficult and dangerous. I begged her to be ¢areful, but that only made her and ail of the time she was I _ guess you know} He broke off unexpectedl¢ and d his face in his han pang Sergeant, smoking a thoughtful expre didn’t prod him to go on. After a moment and almost in- audibly he continued. “It seemed | as thougi: Louise ‘had been stor- ing up hatred and resentment for years and Joan her outlet. She was completely irrational: there was nothing I could get out of her except that she’d been to see Joan and they had dis; violently.” He pulled hi short. saw Joan,” he said hastily. “It might not have been last night. | “She threatened to kill herself and me, too, but I paid little at- tention to that. She has cried wolf so often. Cros: ty-second Street the car skidded once or twice. I tried to take the wheel from her, but she fought me off. When we got to First Avenue I expected her to turn left, because her apartment is uptown on the corner of First, but before I could stop her she stepped on the gas and we shot off the pier int e | ver. It was horri ble,” he c ng sudde he walked to ane and stood with his b to us, his shoulders shakir seemed terribly shaken. “And your wife was outside inj som the car wa time you w R rd MacDonald’s apart- ment?” ite Sergeant said softly. Tim Lathrop turned around, his | - gray eyes again on the Sergeant. | © “I don't know,” he said in a muf- fled voice. “I guess so. She must have seen me come in here or she} wouldn't have been waiting.” The same thought was in every- | . ng for you all of the} come upst c Kent's apartment. had plenty of time to do that. The Sergeant cleared his throat I expected him to bombard Tim Lathrop with his doubts and]! questions. Instead, he him politely for the informatio and when he spoke again it w to Dirck. “By the way, Kolff, the autopsy d nothing -.. new dering the Sergeant’s usu- less way of blund ngs this statement irable restraint. A Kiss “WELL. I've got to be said, limping tov S door. “In case any of you fol are nervous I've got a man sta tioned in the shop tonight.” “That's fine.” Dirck looked up at him quickly and nodded. Tim Lathrop left with the geant, and after the door behind them Mary Ann uncurl herself from the chair, showin nice length of good-looking 1 “T've got to be going,” she sai in a desolate little voice as she stood up. Then Dirck invited us down to the Knife and Fork for a bun and she wed ad: coffee. But it was half past twelxe| s and I was too tired. “I'm too old to gad around at | night,” I said. But Mary Ann fluttered de- lightedly and ran to her apart- ment for her coat +nd hat. Dirck came over to me. “For | \ heaven's sake, Chris, be careful,” | he said. “I'll sleep in the shop to- night with the Sergeant's dick, so Tl be around, but stay in your} room. Don’t go wandering around.” “Charlie Whitefield is rather attractive,” I said so that he} wouldn't see how uneasy I felt. He bent over and, much to my amazement, kissed me soundly on the mouth. Then quite suddenly he moved away and I heard Mary Ann’s high heels patter down the hall. Direk, with a backward glance at me, walked to the doorway to mi sq el jacket and a small green hat¥back on her forehead like a haley It made her look very young and wide-eyed. ROTARIANS HELD ENJOYABLE FETE (Continued from Page One) Mect gain” and “Good Ladie: We Night Dancing in the patio followed ¢] the regular program. Another appreciated part of the program hanc tom of the sheet, in the shop and in| : ap thanked | my Baie quickly. Ric her. She was wearing her | st iced my drawing board. the table where Id laid per of questions was fast to it. But it 1 different. I picked it up He Wi an co then I saw what was wrong. Below the questions, at the bot- something was inted in straggling letters: P OUT OF THIS, OR SOMETHING HAPPEN TO YOU. nte d to scream at the top y rt ngs of the room, to erything con- gloomy old } ne house. * dropped the board on as though it were hot, tocd there too distracted to the y apartment again. srhaps one of the peo- ng in the house, had print- warning. Frantically I to think who had been in |the house while I had_been out, | but that w: | tk “T don't know when she |‘ no help. For during time everyone had been here e time or another. I hadn’t at the questions again after showing them to Dirck. Breathless And Shaken ICHARD MacDONALD had been in the house. As far as w the only time he left was ie go to the corner for papers. ; | For doubt all, a moment I had a wavering put Joan’s brother. After no one knew whether he had hed Williamston before mid- ight last night. 3ut it shes absurd to suspect . Kimball had been Adrianne Wells e time, and Whitefield sen in and out of the house. I had to see Dirck, to tell him he was right when he thought t be interested in y questions. I slipped into my He must still be at the Knife and Fork with Mary Ann. ne mig I pushed the board out of sight under my bed, snatched my coat id hat and rushed out of the rtment. The house was quiet and dimly ighted. I let myself out of the front door as quietly as I could and ran down the street. The cold my face and I was and shaking when I 2 corner and saw Dirck Ann through the win- brightly lighted res- nped to his feet when come in. “Chris, what when I gasped out my he threw some money on ter, took Mary Ann by he looked more an- n sympathetic — threw m around my shoulder e of us hurried out door and down George ned us to be quiet as o the house and up my apartment. rept up single file we otsteps on the third d and I drew in it ww t of the stairs. as working Id myself, but it strange that Richard \ happen to be 1, and it was one oned him to come s. “Well,” I thought, “if he | Joan Kent’s brother, my must have a very film- hooked rug on the crack, and to me I drew the d from under the stood there silently me. aper had disappeared! ed edges showed that it been torn away from the lt “my “knees get weak and | hands y. The board fingers and hit floor with a crash. Ann gasped, and when I at her her eyes were looking at the |three ‘of us as though we’d sud- denly anything about the questions? Of course he was coming down from gone mad. Did he know the third floor when we came up- irs, but perhaps he’d been in room and was going back to his own, heard us come in, and turned back, ved—as- st c ee chowder; rade sal- nd nifmerous side dishes, and nuts member of the illness or Ss was on uests included Col. call for the po- |_ evening someone | d who met us at | For Rent”, No Tres- THE ART- nov25-tf Rent”, “Atpartment “Private Prop passing”, 15c each MAN PRESS. relaxation, the principals nounce themselves to be in the best of condition. Both are confident of victory. ithe kid that goes around Duv: | street telling the fans what he is :going to do and how it’s going to |be done, will enter the ring a favorite to win the decision on FOR SALE ha jwr tag “Tl wager any amount TWELVE BASE HOHNER PI-| ANO AC ‘CORDI N, excellent condition sh. 1118 Fle mar29-3t> an- . K. PUMP, mounted on 40-gal. tank; 1%4-h.p. motor, $18. Apply t 912 James stre mar29-6tx | points. jet money that I will be the win- the end of the tenth jround”, said Young Perez when | linteryiewed in regards to the fight, “and furthermore, here is { '$50 to back up my statement”, Speidel, who defeated Al Beau- hold, St. Louis battler, in his first start as a preliminary boy and | knocked out Jimmy Gonzalez, of |Tampa, in his main bout appear- ance, is not talking nor making any predictions as to the out- |come of the bout, but is sure he will be in there shooting gloves at the end of the tenth round. Buddy, a slugger and a hard- {hitter, will be up against a fast imoving and clever boxer but the sailor-battler fails to worry about s. He has one thing in mind nd that is to keep boring in juntil he nails his opponent a cou- ple of times with that TNT right jhand punch. Jack Hare, middleweight Navy jner at ng street, FOURTEEN-FT. V-BOTTOM CYPRESS BOAT; Four Horsg Johnson Outboard Motor; Four Life Preservers, One Fire Ex- tinguisher; Pair of Oars and Row Locks; Anchor with Rope all for $150.00.'' Apply 1217 Petronia street. jun27-s on Washington 5 1115 Fleming marl-s LOT, 56'6”x93'6” street. Apply street. HOUSE AND LOT, $1,800. Down | payment as low a: $300, low monthly payments with 6’ in- st. Seven-room house. Ap- Jams street. mar29-6tx TYPEWRITING PAPER — 500 Sheets, 75c. The Artman Press. may19-tf game. teams began rough, and by the game it seemed as if both teams | 37. were playing a hard | to play a little |came through and edged out the! end of the!Menendez “Dark Horses”, 39 to} The game stayed close all) way and both teams put up; game of|the touch football instead of basket-|a hard fight. pall. This fact that the Coast Guard will | le not be able to play a three-game |Conchs” Apply series, The contest was close all the |“Scorpions” way and cnly in the seconds of play did Mathews! sink the basket that McMahon were high men for the victors, while Stevens and Woodson ran! High School Gym, the Island City | high for the losers. Conchs (37) Player— McMahon Mathews Schoneck Roberts Nelson Soldano Totals— game makes the High School Varsity the ,team in Key West, due Pandora (35) Player— | Stevens pesos E. Woodson ... Butler | In three other Junior eel games played yesterday, the re-| secon? best'cults are as follows: Nelson’s | to the |“Sharks” whipped Smith’s “Bul- | 28 to 23; McMahon’s “Baby {| beat the Schoneck quin- | itet, 29 to 24; uxdefeated Soldano downed _ Roberts’ last few “Black Beetles”, 34 to 26. H won the LIONS PLAY HOMESTEAD and Roberts ; AT GYMNASIUM TONIGHT | At 8:00 o’clock tonight in the ‘League champions, Lions Club ‘eagers, battle Rusty’s Service, FG FT PF PTS (Station quintet from Homestead. | 14 Both teams played in the Mi- | a jami Golden Ball Tournament, | 3 {but both were eliminated before | 10 |the semi-finals. A good, fast con- | 6 ‘test will probably be the outcome | 0 ‘tonight. | ! In a 7:00 o’clock opening game} two Junior League teams will) |take the floor. The contest will! 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