The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 4, 1940, Page 3

THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1940 YESTERDAY: At seven o'clock Dirck awakens Christine. He has discovered Richard’s body lying on the snowy ground and blames himself for letting it hap- pen, Chapter 28 An Accounting Tus had to be faced again; the } suspense, the questioning, all | had to be gone through again. Td slipped into a red wool dress and was just tying my ghillies| when the Sergeant called me from | the hall. I opened the door and when he saw me he snarled, “Well, I might have known you'd be in the thick of things. Haven't you even been to bed?” “T’'ve been up assisting the mur- derer.” That was an awful thing to say | and I could have bitten off my tongue after it came out, but the Sergeant paid no attention. He limped down the hall, then pound- | ed vigorously on the door to the girls’ apartment. As he started} up the stairway Adrianne Wells| opened the door. | “My goodness, it’s the Sergeant | again,” she cried. “What's the matter now?” | “Get into your clothes,” he said, | looking dazzled by her purple silk Pajamas. | Her black eyes flashed. “Why?” “I want to talk to you.” He walked up a few steps. “And Miss | Rogers, too, right away.” | He shouted up the stairway for | Mrs. Evans and Charles White- | field. And in a moment Mrs. Evans j came down from the attic and} peered over the banister, looking a little funnier than ever in a { crossed the room, Ishi pulled the hassock over by the door to squat on. And Whitefield, arriving late and looking more nondescript than ever in a dun-colored bath- robe, took the large chair by the window. The Sergeant, sitting close to the desk, cleared his throat and, after an impressive pause, started to speak. “Richard MacDonald is dead.” Heads jerked up and eyes flew to the Sergeant, but the room was quiet except for Mary Ann’s quick gasp. Strangely enough, Charles Whitefield, who up to this time had said nothing and acknowl- edged no one’s presence, cried: “Good heavens, Sergeant! How? Right here in the house? When did it happen?” The Sergeant motioned him to be quiet and the man sank back in the chair, moistening his lips nervously. “No—no—I don’t believe it— not Richard.” It was Mary Ann’s high pitched voice. Crouched in the wing chair she looked up at the Sergeant. There were tears streaming down her face. “Why, Miss Rogers,” the Ser- geant said. “Not Richard,” she repeated wildly. “It couldn’t be. Why, last night—” She stopped short. “What about last night?” The Sergeant’s voice was soft, but it didn’t veil the significance of his words. “I just talked with him last night,” she said sullenly. “Oh!” The Sergeant’s eyes were leveled on her. “Sc you talked with him last night. I'm glad to hear that. Now perhaps you'll tell me how long you talked with him the night before, the night his sis- ter was murdered. You were sup- posed to be at your aunt’s and he By OScaAR tle warrior of this city, punched | out a 15 round judges’ decision over Alex Cupiano, 132-pound | Puerto Rican, at the Strand) Arena last night. in a sheulder- to-shoulder battle that had . the! fans on tbe tips of..their toes, all} through the fight. i The hard-fighting boxers whammed at each other, without | pity or mercy. They boxed,, punch for punch, and the scrap | was pretty close at the end of the fifteenth stanza when two judges, Joe Metzger, former Navy boxer, and Mr. Pepper, a fight | fan, awarded the decision to! Gonzalez. Metzger voted eight rounds for Felix and six for Cu- piano with one even. Pepper’s jslip of paper read: “Gonzalez! won”. Although the fans called for a draw before the decision | was rendered, it was clear that Felix had the edge over his op- ponent with his solid left-hand sledge hammer blows. Fans! wanted a sympathetic decision , for Cupiano, who, at times, | bounced cff the ropes, after be-! ing nailed by Felix, to go after} his man. Most clean and telling blows} were landed by Felix, who was set at all times—ready to. ex-» plede that dynamite left on the side of the Puerto Rican’s face. Although Gonzalez was peppered Felix Gonzalez, 133, clever lit-;ed the Puerto Rican game-cock THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Gonzalez Outpoints Cupiane | To Win 15-Round Main Go L. MILIAN with a stiff right-hand jab and a sledge hammer left to the side | of the face. Alex went into a elinch and held on for a brief moment. They battered each other around the ring merciless- ly with neither one failing to give in. Alex began to weaken and! slowed up after the eleventh round when several sledge ham- mer swings exploded on his jaw, but he came back pretty strong in the thirteenth when he had! Felix again in trouble as a re- sult of a sizzling right- and left- hand punch that shook him off his feet. The writer’s score sheet, scor-/ ing ten points to the round,! showed 79 for the winner and 71 for the loser. In the main preliminary, Bat- | tling Geech scored a_ knockout | victory over Young Taxi in the third of a scheduled six-rounder. Geech, after riding Taxi for two’! rounds, cut loose in the third | heat and blasted the newcomer into submission. The victory gave Geech his sixth k.o. vietory in as many fights so far this | season. Chino Hernandez finally got by and put over a sleeping pro- ducer to take over Manuel Han- cock in the second round of a} four-round preliminary. Hancock was down twice before he fin-! A copy of “Florida Homes” mail the coupon. 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Please send me a& copy of PAGE THREE ARMY DAY APRIL 6 (Continued from Page One) augurating and sponsoring the annual observance of Army Day. This observance tends to ac- quaint the American people with their Army and gives them a better understanding of its com- position, its duties, and its needs.” | Harry M. Woodring, Seeretary ef War, issued the following statement this -week: “The enthusiasm and leyalty of the officers and soldiers of the Army of the United States during the past year of unusually in- tensive military activity ‘have been a source of constant inspira- |tion to me. I extend very sineere greetings to the fine per- sonnel of our military establish- ment on the occasion of the an- nual observance of Army Day.” Modern Spouse A—Do you know your wife is tellmg around that you can't jkeep her in clothes? B—That’s nothing. I bought « her a home, and I can’t keep her ~ | in that, either. Kept His Promise Bride—Men are brutes. My husband promised me a surprise if I learned to cook, so I took tes- Bag Limit “In meny states a hunting li- Instruction Welcomed Irate Parent—I'll teach you to} cense entitles you to one deer|make love to my daughter, sir. SAME BIRTH DATE sons. Friend—You did! twas the surprise? Bride—He dismissed our cook. And what DENTON, Md.—With the ar- lat times with wild punches to jally sank to the mat with a hard and no more”. Cool Youth—I wish you would, the side of the body. the Spanish left buried in his mid-section. “I see—just like a marriage li-|old boy; I don’t seem to be mak- battler returned each punch to, In the curtain-raiser, Joe Mills, | cense”. ‘ing much headway. the head. : \popular flyweight of days gone | rival of a son one minute before - midnight, March 14, Mr. and ,have the same birth Mrs: Wendell Griffin and son all 14th. long-sleeved nightdress and hair curlers, all relics of the gay Nine- ties. | Seeing the Sergeant on the} stairs she said in a loud voice, | said he was on the Long Island date—March train. You both lied.” : “No—no,” she whispered. The Last One “Another one dead, I suppose. Well, one more night in this hous will be the death of me. Police or no police, I'm moving. That man Kimball will strangle every one of us. What do you want?” “Get down here,” the Sergeant bellowcd. “And you won’t move until I say so. I want everyone to come to Miss Howarth’s room im- mediately. You, too, Whitefield.” Mr. Whitefield had come out into the hall and was hanging over the railing curiously. Mrs. Evans padded back to the third floor stairway. I wondered what she meant when she said, “Another one dead, I suppose.” Did she know about Richard’s death? Perhaps, I thought, she’s just been having another seance with her husband. Her insistence that Mr. Kimball was a murderer was nerve wracking. Was there any- thing she really knew, or was she just a queer old woman? Adrianne Wells followed the) Sergeant down the hall to my| room. She hadn’t changed from her pajamas; she’d just added a} bright yellow topcoat and a pair} of black satin mules trimmed in white maribou. The effect was | theatrical and certainly startling. | When Norton came up the stair- | way to speak to the Sergeant, his jaw dropped and he forgot what- | ever he was going to say. | “Well?” the Sergeant said. | Norton’s mouth snapped shut. “There are no footprints,” he mumbled. | “O.K. Stay outside the front door.” | | ‘What's The Matter?’ | JORTON nodded and went down the stairs with a back- ward glance at Adrianne. “Where's Miss Roge i Sergeant asked just as Mary Ann, flushed with sleep, came out in the hall. Over her pajamas she wore her blue bathrobe. She looked | very young and appealing with her drowsy brown eyes and tousled red hair. | She was startled at having been awakened so abruptly. “What’s | the matter?” she asked the Ser- geant. “Get in there.” He pointed to my apartment. Next, James trotted down the stairway, looking very alert, fol- lowed by Mrs. Evans in her red coolie coat. She hesitated in my| doorway, for some reason obvi- ously reluctant to enter. But the | dog showed no such discrimina- tion. He gave a snappish yap at| the Sergeant’s ankles as he passed him in the doorway and imme- diately made himself Somfcfatie on the couch. When Mr. Kimball and Ishi came upstairs they were followed almost immediately by Dirck,| who told Sergeant Long in a low | voice that the Medical Examiner | had arrived. And there was that | peculiar quiet in the house that | seems to follow a sudden death. | My apartment was the largest, | the Sergeant said, but it was a lit- fle difficult fo seat so many people. Mr. Kimbal] remained standing by the fireplace, one arm resting | on the mantelpiece. He looked | very tired and his face and hair | were the sam@color, a grayish| white. The efféct was startling. Dirck and I shared the couch with James who greetedwps-effusively, and nn s@f in the swing chair with Adrianpe.on one arm of it. Bowing at evervone as he WILL TEMPT FATE AGAIN BALTIMORE.—Injured in a 40-foot fall from a high wire at the Shrine circus here last No- vember, Joseph Sherlock, high- walker. who was not ex- pected to recover, is now up and walking cbout on crutches at the Mercy Hospital here. He plans to go back to his stunt—riding a biecy¢le across a high wire—as wire “RICHARD MacDONALD didn’t take the train at ten o’clock. He took a train much later.” His voice was hard. “I was at my aunt’s.” The Sergeant nodded. “Yes, you were there for dinner, but you left | about nine o’clock. The doorman saw you leave.” Mary Ann shrank back in the chair, staring at him. “I can’t—it doesn’t—” The Sergeant shrugged his shoulders aud turned away from her. And his voice was detached when he said each one of us had to give an accounting of his move during the evening and early | morning. If the Sergeant expected any startling revelations he must have been disappointed. For myself, I sat there none too easily, expecting at any moment to hear him ask Dirck where he had been. But he seemed to forget | Dirck and concentrated on the others. Everyone had stayed in their respective apartments, and Mrs. Evans, deaf as a lamp post, was the only one®who had heard any noise of a suspicious char- acter, as she put it. And that noise she had heard came from Rich- ard’s room, shortly before the Sergeant called to her. It could have been Richard, of course, but it might have been Dirck. It was Mr. Kimball who volun- teered some information. He said that he hadn’t been able to sleep, and sometime before daylight he thought he heard someone talk- ing. He felt very uneasy so he wakened the detective in the shop and got him to search the house with him, There was nothing they could find, but Richard’s light was still on, he said, so he stopped in to talk to him for a couple of min- utes. He had tried to persuade the boy to go to bed. Sergeant drew a cigar out s breast pocket. “You always seem to be the last one on the scene,” he said quietly. Mr. Kimball raised his eyes. to the Sergeant. “Yes,” he said, “ung fortunately that is true.” Biting off the end of his the Sergeant said, “I'll talk to yous later.” z It seemed strange that the Ser= | geant was so easily convince@ that * everyone was in the house an@ in’ ded all night. He seemed almost disinterested in the inquiry and paid scant attention to the per- functory replies to his questions. And when Sarah poked her head in the door, her pale eyes popping, he told her to get on with her work. “The rest of you may leave,” he said. “And, Miss Rogers, you stay in your room. I want to talk to you. When he and Dirck and I were alone, he sat down and puffed on his cigar with a satisfied air. “Well, it’s pretty clear now, Kolff.” he said. “Yes?” Dirck’s voice was skep- | tical “Suicide,” tersely. “Suicide,” I echoed, amazed. It hadn't occurred to me, and from the expression on Dirck’s face it was a new idea to him, too. “Then he murdered Joan?” I gasped. The Sergeant nodded. “But how .. .” My throat was ee eet ae pal “That's obvious. He jum of the window.” ~ Continued temerrow the Sergeant said The Danger Point She—I've just read that a man out in the west wife for a horse. You wouldn't exchange me for a horse, would you, dear? He—Of course not; but I'd hate te have anyone tempt me with a darned good car. soon as ne can get back in prac- tice. Cupiano’s best opportunity for a knockout came in the third ‘round when a hard left sent Gonzalez against the ropes. Alex met Felix with a hard right to! the face as he bounced to the. center of the ring and Gonzalez went down but was up without a jeount. In the fifth, Felix came out a little stronger and surpris- ——Key West — ANGLER’S PARADISE News Of Fishermen and Catches | By HECK My reference to the fineness of the tarpon fishing must have | been a:jinx as Ihave no:reports | of any boats having tried it yes-| | terday. Over at Craig Docks, | leven the boatmen are fishing, instead of taking out parties. | | They are catching small snapper, | grouper, grunts and just a lot of jsmall fry to keep them in trim. ! | One of the finest types of fish- ing is that of angling for permit and from proof furnished by scores of yachts, there are plenty | of them about 20 minutes’ run} fout in the Jack Channel. A new world’s record of 37% pounds | was set here a few weeks ago by , |Dwight Partridge of the Yacht |Virago. Yesterday, C. D. Mal-. :lory and party of New York and) ‘Greenwich, Conn., landed two. ithe largest about 20 pounds. Mr. \Mallory, of the Yacht Bonnie Dundee, comes down here each year expressly for permit and tarpon. Two of the ablest guides, Phil Sawyer and Simon Roberts, re fishing Mr. Mallory. 1 I have spoken a number of times of the possibilities of fur- |thering permit fishi ere and) jI believe a few ofthe boatmen are going to be equipped for it next. year. This type of fishing | lis done ir skiffs and when these jare acquired, together with prop- | ler light tackle, Key West is go- {ing to have a good clientele of permit fishermen. | | Yesterday ton Boynton, Hampton Falls, N H., and G. T. Wells, of Gaithers- burg, Md., caught | runner. |_F. A. Hayward, Brooklyn, N. | Y., with Capt. Jakie Key on the lcruiser “Legion”, trying for sail- |fich, yesterday reported two {hooked but both lost. They ‘brought in a muttonfish, barra- |cuda and six bonita. Cruiser “Poorfish”, with'Capt. |Austin Roberts and party of Miss jMarie Thompson, popula#4 Key West belle, and Wm. A. R. Wel- cke, of New York, reported 21 crevalle jacks, three small am- berjacks and three cobio, the largest a 3l-pounder. The party exchanged his;fished yesterday. Capt. Veral Roberts, party of D. C. O’Rielly and C. Emil Berg- lund, St. Paul, Minn., who did so nobly Tuesday on the “Lil Dot” with a eatch of four tarpon, yes- terday tried a different type of fishing and landed many barra- cuda and a mutton fish. barracuda, jhigh. pressure area crevalle jacks, grouper and ajthe nofthern Rockies and upper | by, won a four-round decision | over Kid Coshen. Mills, making a comeback, taught the Coshen | lad a boxing lesson. | Promoter John Carbonell, who | has staged the last two boxing | cards at a loss, announced last | night that he may be obliged to! give up the fight promotion due | to lack of support by fight fans. | t { | THE WEATHER Observation taken at 7:30 a. m., 75th Mer. Time (City Office) Temperaiures | Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night ean Normal 83 | 75 | 79 pee E 74| Precipitation | Rainfall, 24 hours ending | 7:30 a. m., inches 0.00 Total rainfall since April 1, | inches 2 0.00 | Deficiency since April 1, | inches Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches : Deficiency since January 1, inches _ = 0.05 | Wind Direction and Velocity SE—11 miles per hour | Relative Humidity | 78% Barometer at 7:30 a. m. today Sea level, 30.05 (1017.6 millibars) Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise 6:14 a. Sunset 6:45 p. Moonrise 4:52 a. Moonset ae 5:09 p. Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. High - 8:41 Low 2:10 2: FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Friday) | Key West and Vicinity: Partly | cloudy tonight and Friday; con-| tinued warm; gentle to moderate | southeast and south winds. Florida; Considerable cloudi- | ness ies and Friday, pos-! sibly light showers in extreme} north pOftion, slightly cooler in| extreme;north portion Friday. CONDITIONS Pressyge is moderately \ 0.22) 4.90 | m. m. m. m. PM.! 9:06 | | low on Tom Moore's|this mefming from the Lake re- | “Moccasin”, Mr. and Mrs. Dal- | gion southeastward over the mid- | dle Atlantic coast, and over| southwestern districts; while a| overspreads | Missouri Valley and extends southeastward into. the middle | Mississippi Valley, and pressure | is relatively high over Florida. | Precipitetion has occurred dur- jing the,Jast 24 hours from the Dakotas. eastward to the north and middle Atlantic coast, and in Tennessee, with heavy rain in “‘the upper Ohio Valley. There | ‘has also been light to moderate | rain in portions of the Gulf |States, Georgia, and far western , districts. Temperature changes been mostiy unimportant, lreadings continuing near abeve normal throughout country. have with or the G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. } Use A Spoon |. Visitor 4playing on hotel’s bil- lia table)—My word! You haven't Jeft me much, old boy— two balls in the rough and one} ‘on the ‘fairway! At ttn a ne Aten ttt ee POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Monroe County Democratic Primary, May 7, 1940 For Governor SPESSARD L. HOLLAND For Governor FULLER WARREN For Governor FRANCIS P. WHITEHAIR For State Comptroller J. M. LEE 0 te tt For Clerk of Criminal Court C. SAM B. CURRY (For Re-Election) For Clerk of Criminal Court HARRY DONGO For Clerk of Criminal Court LEONARD B. GRILLON “Lennie” For Attorney General E. B. DONNELL Elect T. JENKINS CURRY For Sheriff For Judge Circuit Court W. H. BURWELL (Group One) For Sheriff BERLIN A. SAWYER For the Full Term Circuit Judge, Group 1 JUDGE ROSS WILLIAMS, Present Judge Ably carrying on the tradition of the late Judge Atkinson Re-Elect KARL O. THOMPSON For Sheriff For Judge Circuit Court FRANK E. BRYANT (Group 3) “A Free and Un-Trammelled Judiciary” For County Commissioner, First District EDUARDO C. GOMEZ “Eddie” For Judge of the Circuit Court GEO. E. McCASKILL (To Succeed Judge Trammell) (Group 3) For County Commissioner, First District WM. H. MONSALVATGE (For Re-Election) Re-nominate JUDGE WORTH W. TRAMMELL For Circuit Judge (Group 3) For County Commissioner, Second District J. FRANK ROBERTS For County Commissioner, Fourth District WILLIAM T. DOUGHTRY, JR. For Judge of the Circuit Court JUDGE PAUL D. BARNS (Group 4) For Judge of ‘the Circuit Court ROBERT J. BOONE (Division D, Group 4) For State Representative WILLARD M. ALBURY For County Commissioner, Fourth District NORBERG THOMPSON For County Commissioner, Fifth District R. W. CRAIG Known Universally As “Poor Old Craig” of Craig, Fle. For County Commissioner, Fifth District MRS. ELLIE LOWE (Formerly Ellie O'Rourke) For State Representative BERNIE C. PAPY (For Re-Election) For County Commissioner, Fifth District W. A. PARRISH For County Judge ROGELIO GOMEZ For Member Board of Public Instruction, First District x DONALD CORMACK For County Judge * RAYMOND R. LORD (For Re-Election) For Member School Board, Third District RALPH K. JOHNSON (For Re-Election) For State and County Tax Collector ° FRANK H. LADD (For Re-Election) For State and County Tax Collector JOE C. MCMAHON For County Tax Assessor CLAUDE GANDOLFO For Justice of the Peace, First District FRANKLIN ARENBERG (For Re-Election) For Justice of the Peace, First District RAUL RILEY CARBONELL For County Tax Assessor J. OTTO KIRCHHEINER (For Re-Election) For Justice of the Peace, Second District ENRIQUE ESQUINALDO, JR. (For Re-Election) For Clerk Circuit Court ROSS C. SAWYER (For Re-Election) For Clerk of the Circuit Court ISADORE L. WEINTRAUB Better Known As “Izay” For Constable, First District RAY ELWOOD For Constable, First District HARRY JOHNSON For Constable, Second District BASIL R. TYNES