The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 16, 1940, Page 3

TUESDAY, APRIE 16, 1940 napter une ‘Look Before You Leap’ OMI TOLAND would always remember that afternoon as a period of calm before the storm. True, there was a storm out- side, but that was a mere gale which howled in from Lake Mich- \ga to dash sleet against the windows “and pile snow on the ledges. Within the offices of Mid-West- ern Fruits, Incorporated, there hovered a portentous calm. Radia- tors sizzled contentedly; from the outer office came the lethargic thythm of a dozen typewriters, and even Johnny, coming in from e street with the Market Edi- tion, failed to slam the door. Tomi glanced at the clock. The hands hovered encouragingly near hour of five. She looked over oulder. Her employer, A. J. s, was comfortably slumped ind his newspaper. Yow, if he’ll just stay that “ thought Tomi, “Ill reach home on time for a change.” Stealthily she brought from her desk a mirror ‘o be braced in the typewriter carriage; a powder- puff to be rubbed over the smooth planes of her cheeks, and a lipstick. The lipstick was poised, ready to add further defiance to a mutinous mouth, when A. J. barked, “Tomi!” Tomi jumped and the lipstick missed its mark. “Yes, A. J,” she answered, re- | signedly, reaching for a paper handkerchief and wondering why he always waited until five min- utes of five to hold a conference with her. “Tom., ever hear of a fellow} named Timothy Toland?” Tomi’s mirror revealed startled black eyes and a distinctly crim- son nose. “Yes,” she admitted. “I had a great-uncle by that name. He died a month ago.” epee anything?” pursued| Tomi smiled. “According to the family, he wasn’t worth powder to blow him up. He was the black ram of the Tolands. Aside from your private secretary, Mr. Mor- tis, he was the only member of an old and honorable clan to grow gray hairs on the pates of his elders.” “Must have been a nice fellow,” chuckled Morris. “Did you ever meet him?” Tomi, her nose again becom- ingly sheathed in powder instead of lipstick, turned around. “Rath- er,” she confessed. “He spent a few weeks with us about a year ago. We both ran true to form We fought from the moment we met until we parted. It was lots of fun. But why this catechism?” Morris rustled the newspaper. “Little piece in here about him. Seems his will’s about to be of- fered for probate. A fellow by the name of Bartell, an attorney, is here from California to settle the estate, He’s the administrator.” Tomi read the article Morris passed to her! It carried an Ala- meda, California, dateline and stated that Bartell was flying to Chicago to confer with the heirs. “That can’t be my Uncle Tim- othy,” she disparaged. “The poor old honey didn’t have anything to will anyone. Why, ” she stopped short. Morris grinned at her. “Come on, ‘fess up, how much did you loan him?” “Not a cent,” replied Tomi firm- ly. She hurried to her locker, a slim figure in parrot-green wool, black hair severely cut, straight black brows like menacing guards to alert black eyes. She hadn’t loaned Uncle Tim- othy anything, she defended. But he had looked so seedy and pale that last evening, she'd decided she didn't need a spring coat and had slipped fifty dollars: into his hand and made him promise he would take a berth instead of a chair car and eat nourishing meals. Morris was watching for her when she reappeared, a small green hat riding triumphantly on je the glossy black hair, a fur coat pulled high about a determined SOFTBALL TEAMS TO NAME PLAYERS CONTRACTS TO BE PRESENT- ED FRIDAY: GAMES START SOON At a meeting of the Key West Diamondball League, held at the City Hall last night, managers of teams were given until Friday night, to submit their players’ contracts. Final approval of players will be made and teams not registering on Friday will not be included in the league, it was Mecided. However, a Sociat League will be discussed in or- der to include visiting or other teams formed in the future, as exhibition games will add to the interest of the games. Officers of the league are: J M. Varela, president; Joe Cleare, treasurer, and Eva Warner, sec- retary. Roy Hamlin, who was THE KEY WEST CITIZEN - LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK By Peggy O’More | 4 eee POH COCC ECS O SCEPC CLCEVTEVESLOCEE BY AGUILAR COOOE SOA OSESS EO HOEK CHEE SESES CETOENSSO HOSE EOOES: TODAY, the one and only started between players and that Paul Wanet will be 37 years old |spelled the end of softball. Last nati enonnge ge Meee iene ,Mr. Boza and Mrs. Warner vatting “ tat :. of playing under the big tent. ides ewe Le sagas ee Johnny Mize has an average of |SPitit was gone. Now meas \is tipe, and. we will see some |.346 in three years and Medwic! A has a .338 average in eight years, | 200d games played by the VP53, tion but ¢: yto. pretty soon, I will then fell the ‘fans what they Paul, but Waner leads in. total |have to’ offer as Sigh ogagreinion ‘runs, doubles, triples and_total/9ther clubs. a sty dd \bases and sacrifice hits. Ott is |Parks, Blue Sox an ey ga pete but 32 years of age. jentered hearageiser by aries satiate jwriter, who will tell the fans LOCAL SPORT: Diamondball | what each and every club will do will start again in Bayview Park lor at least what he expects them at night and it sure will be wel-|to do. We sincerely hope this comed by the fans. They well |time the venture proves a huge remember when it first started in | success. Key West with such competition | as shown by The Citizen, Del} AS TO THE BASEBALL Monte, Parkers or Never Sleeps |PLAYERS who are going up the and the Electric Company tens. |East Coast for a tryout, we ex- We sure hope the league will be |pect them all to stick, for each number of years as Waner. and {has a better home run mark than as to create real interest. Fans ling can do; Joe House (‘nuf sed); remember the Lopez Funeral|Albury; C. Griffin (old but still Home ten with Adams’ picked|as good as anything in South teams and the Pirates and other | Florida); Villareal (has the mak- Mel Ott has played the same |Whom I hawecnever. seen. in PPat as evenly matched as possible so jand every fan knows what Ster- | PAGE THREE [fielder bunter and utility play-|ton, Detroit, Cleveland, Wash- \er); Navarro; Wickers and the ington, Chicago, Philadelphia and jrest. \Browns in that order: | caine VICENTE | SPORT SHORTS: The fans known to. the loeal players, will \keep falling in lime and naw Curi| pilot the Ft. Meade club in the |Garcia, shortstop of the Pirates, |Orange Belt League for the third jpredicts that in the National year. He won the pennant two League, the Pirates will win the straight years and will have play- pennant and that in the Ameri- 'or< well-known to the local boys, can League; the Cleveland In- j, Beasley, N. Schito, F. Brown, jdians will surprise the fans, ané y Minor, R. Durranee, H. Beas- (furthermore, that the Red Sox. jey, H. Bartlett, Warren, Monin, will be second and the Yanks 'Menddez and MeGouchin. All of will come in third, with Detroit | these played against Key West jin fourth place in the junior eir- |jact year. leuit, and that in the senior loop | aaah ithe St. Louis Cards will be sec-| BOXING: The rotund bar- ond and Cincinnati third, with |keeper, Tony Galento, will meet Cubs in fourth place, Brooklyn |Max Baer in Jersey City, May |fifth, Boston-sixth and the Phil-|28. Both claim they will be Hies in the cellar. In the Ameri-jready after the fight for Joe jean League, Washington will be | Louis and more easy money. — \fifth, Chicago sixth, Philadelphia} LAST SUNDAY. the Social seventh and the Browns in the |League started in Tampa and in |cellar. |the first game the Italian Club | Arturo Baeza, the 100% Yan- beat the Centro Asturia7o nine, i kee fan, is still for the Yanks and|6 to 2. Saleme was the pitcher \he claims they will win their! who won and Morgado lost. A. fifth straight flag and that noth-!Seionte, Pulido and Ipolite were jing can stop the McCarthy boys. |the leading hitters for the win- In the National League, he picks |ners and Fidalgo for the, losers. the Giants for he thinks Terry, Hubbell and Melton will come ithrough this vear, with the Cards lin the second slot, Reds, Cubs, Boston and In the nightcap the Circulo_ Cu- banos and the Loyal Knights jplayed a 6 to 6 tie game. Rod- \riguez and Pulido were the pitch- ers. J. Shire hit three out of |tens that tried hard for several |ing of a great outfielder and hit-|Dodgers, Pirates, chin, and galoshes buttoned snug- |ly about trim ankles. Living In Yesterday \“IN a hurry?” he teased. Tomi looked at him and shook her head in exasperation. “A. J., you know Great-aunt Hannah |makes the family wait for their |dinner until every member is | there and seated. This is mutton | night and I can’t eat cold mutton.” | “Ugh,” shuddered Morris. “Why do you put up with it, Tomi? It’s all right for the full-blooded To- lands to bow to the matriarch, but you're only half Toland. You had ten vears——” “Ten years as a guttersnipe?” inquired Tomi, pertly. “Only, in France, we called them gamins. It | was fun,” she murmured dreami- ly. “I was too young to know about my father’s death. He was | just another Yankee captain who | went down under a Boche bullet. I was four when Mimi died. After that life was one long stretch of freedom and trying to find bread }to soak in the gravy I'd hope to have. “Oh, well—” she straightened and began pulling on her gloves— “it taught me lots of things. How to look out for myself first, and then the other fellow. How to laugh off insults. You know. A. J., I'can laugh off anything.” “You've certainly had plenty of Practice in that family,” inter- posed Morris. “They've never given you a decent break.” “Yes, they have. They didn’t have to spend years trying to lo- late a child who was only half Toland. And, looked a: from their viewpoint, you know I’ve given them a lot of bad moments since they found me and brought me to Chicago. I’m the only member of the family save Timothy, rest his soul, who hasn’t been brought to Great-aunt Hannah’s heel. And if I don’t get away from here right now—” She fled from the laugh- ing Morris, The elevator carried her swiftly | to the street; wind and crowds buffeted her. She ran up the.stair- way to the elevated acd cfushed into the narrow aisl®z: ’ Swaying along with the other snow-damp_ passengers, she thought longingly of a downtown apartment, steam heated;/of a tiny white kitchenette where she could prepare her own food; of freedom from family conclaves; friends she could invite there, without their first having to be checked in the ultra-conservative blue book. Catapulted out on the South Side, she raced against the wind. She had completed her financial obligation to the family. Every- thing from her fare to the States to her board and early schooling, “THE WEATHE Observation taken at 7:30 a. m., 75th Mer. Time (City Office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night Mean Normal i 67 71 76 Precipitation t vice-president, resigned~in erdert to take over the managership: of a newly-formed team. }* This of fice will be. filled in the future. | Oscar Pita was elected as official scorekeeper, and the names of R. L. Thompson, Jimmie Griffin and Maximo Gonzalez were brought up for umpires. One decision made last was that Service League night teams ; will be composed. of Service men and Civilian League clubs of civilians. } Arangements for the light me- | ter installation are complete. Schedules will be made up’ Fri- day night and the league will be ready to go in action as soon as_ the park is equipped with lights.! Key West and: Vicinity: Partly j i had been repaid. Much against the wishes of the Tolands, she had taken a business course and paid for it herself. The Tolands lived in yesterday. | They had money enough to re- main there, undisturbed. The old estate before which Tomi stopped was encrusted with tenements. The Tolands closed their eyes to this encroachment; denied its existence. Tomi ad- mired this quality of self-suffi- ciency, even while she squirmed under its heavy domination. “Well,” she decided, hurryin; up the last flight of stairs, “I'l have to do one of two things, if I am ever to have any life of m: own; exasperate Aunt Hanna! enough to have her ask me to leave, or leave and tell her about it afterwards.” Judson opened the door and im- mediately Tomi knew that some- thing unusual was going on. All five globes in the chandelier were burning. That chandelier was the Toland social barometer. One globe meant the normal pursuance of life; two indicated that relatives or guests were under the roof; three had burned at the arch-bishop’s visit; and far back in Tomi’s memory was a vision of four globes burn- ing at May’s belated wedding. But five? Flamingo [ES butler had disappeared. Tomi contemplated going to her room. Then, hearing voices, she tiptoed to the door of the front parlor and peered in. Front and back parlors had been thrown into one room, and dressed in deepest mourning, the family sat lined about the walls like a gigantic funeral wreath. “Tomi!” Great- aunt Hannah’s heavy voice boomed out, “Here, instantly!” Reflex action, the outgrowth of habit, sent Tomi flying to obey. Down the long waxed floor of the hall she sped, to wheel at the door of the rear parlor and, as she wheeled, to look down. Be- low her, crouched, ready to spring, was Ming Toy; Ming Toy, the Pekingese, with his penchant for stockings well filled with an- kles. Tomi sprang into the air. She came down, her foot on a throw rug. The rug, traveling under her of} momentum, slid swiftly into the parlor. Arms widespread, hat over one eye, and with one foot still eleva Tomi came to a belated mee de arms of a strange man. ler mind photographed every detail of his appearance. He was tall. He had broad shoulders, He had crisp wavy hair which came to the center of his brow in a sharp peak, then, contrarily, Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches _ |Total rainfall since April 1, Deficiency since April ba hI net Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches bo Excess. sititce January inches — 0.06 Wind Direction\and Velocity E—5 miles per hour Relative Humidity 76% Barometer at 7:30 a. m. today Sea level, 30.04 (1017.3 millibars) Tomorrow's Almenac Sunrise Safe: 6:03 a. m. Sunset 50 p. m. Moonrise 219 p. m. Moonset e 2:28 a. m. Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. 1 0.11 5.46 PM. High 5:47 Lew (Till 7:30 p. m., Wedneday) Immediately Tomi decided she hated this man. Swept back on either side. Tt was light brown with a hint of gold in it. And his eyes? They were clear gray-blue with golden tints of laughter in them. Laughter? Tomi’s motto had been, “Be nonchalant; laugh first.” She hadn’t had time. She decided she hated this man. “Tomi!” came the outraged voice of Great-aunt Hannah. Tomi regained her balance with a sharp click of her heels and flipped her hat to a less ribald angle, “Yes, Aunt Hannah?” she questioned, dutifully. “Will you never learn to look before you leap?” Tomi looked at the voluminous skirts which swept-the floor around Hannah Toland’s chair, and answered sweetly, “If Ming Toy eyer learns that you don’t go around on wheels, you'll leap too.” There was one sharp, quickly controlled laugh, then deep si- lence, broken by Major John To- land’s gruff voice. “Apologize to your aunt and go to your room, Tomi. Dress in something appro- priate to this occasion and return immediately. Mr. Bartell has come from California to read us the will of our dear departed brother, Timothy.” Tomi couldn’t think of an apol- newspaper item. So Timothy had had something to bequeath? In- sutance, probably. She smiled at her great-aunt and made a grace- ful exit. ‘The exit was a signal for the conversation to continue. One re- mark reached Tomi’s ears. “Not that poor dear Uncle Tim- othy would remember Tomi in his will,” purred May Toland-Car- rington, evidently to Bartell. “He didn’t approve of her. He said he took his girls old-fashioned.” “And,” piped Harold, May’s seraphic son, “Tomi said she took peel.’ family, she thought. Why did the: always manage to make her lool the fool before strangers? occasion,” she murmurd ang her eyes began to twinkle. Uncle Timothy once remarked that her mind was as streamlined as her figure. Well, she had a establish the accuracy of Tim- othy’s observation. | Tomi squeezed herself into it, | powdered her face to a white | mask, painted her lips a defiant | scarlet, then tripped downstairs to | sit like a flamingo at a black- | birds’ party. Continued tomorrow ; cloudy tonight and Wednesday; slightly warmer tonight; moder- ate southeast and south winds. Florida: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; slightly warmer tonight. CONDITIONS Pressure is relatively high off the Atlantic coast, and moderate- ly high from the north Pacific jcoast eastward Into North Da- ‘kota; while a low pressure area, centered over the southern Rock- ‘ies, overspreads most other sec- tions. Light to. moderate precipita- |tion has occurred since yesterday morning from the upper Ohio Valley eastward to the Atlantic coast, in southern California, and in portions of the northern Rocky Mountain and Plateau States. Temperatures have _ fallen lsomewhat in most western dis- itricts and the Lake region, and jhave risen in the Atlantic States ‘and from the Ohio Valley south- ward over the Gulf States. x G. S. KENNEDY, Officiat in Charge. ogy, because she was recalling the ; her old-fashioneds with lemon | i Tomi’s slim ankles went up the stairs in full flight. Darn such a | “Something appropriate to the | flame-colored frock which would | years to keep them down. In-|ter); Baker (a sweet fielder and terest was so intense that fights hits in a pinch); Lucilo (a great ;Phillies in that order. In the |four and Chelo Castillo hit well |American League, he picks Bos-|for the Knights. For Governor SPESSARD L. HOLLAND For Governor | FULLER WARREN For Governor FRANCIS P. WHITEHAIR For State Comptroller J. M. LEE For Attorney General E. B. DONNELL For Circuit Judge ROSCOE BRUNSTETTER (Group 1) Ability—Experience—Judicial Temperament t For Judge Circuit Court W. H. BURWELL (Group One) | Judge of Circuit Court (Group 1) BART. A. RILEY (Paid Political Advertisement by Bart. A. Riley) For the Full Term Circuit Judge, Group 1 JUDGE ROSS WILLIAMS, Present Judge Ably carrying on the tradition of the late Judge Atkinson For Judge Circuit Court . FRANK E. BRYANT (Group 3) } “A Free and Un-Trammelled Judiciary” | For Judge of the Circuit Court GEO. E. McCASKILL (To Succeed Judge Trammell) (Group 3) | Re-nominate | JUDGE WORTH W. TRAMMELL For Circuit Judge 1 (Group 3) | Re-elect f PAUL D. BARNS as Circuit Court Judge (Group 4) For Judge of the Circuit Court } | ROBERT J. BOONE (Group 4) For Judge Circuit Court Cc. C. YOUMANS (Group 4) Active—l i For State Representative WILLARD M. ALBURY For State Representative BERNIE C. PAPY (For Re-Election) For County Judge ROGELIO GOMEZ: RAYMOND R. LORD): (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 County Tax Assessor » J. OTTO KIRCHHEINER (For Re-Election) POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Monroe County Democratic Primary, May 7, 1940 For Clerk Circuit Court ROSS C. SAWYER (For Re-Election) For Clerk of the Circuit Court ISADORE L. WEINTRAUB Better Known As “Izzy” 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 Sheriff BERLIN A. SAWYER ] | Re-Elect KARL O. THOMPSON For Sheriff For County Commissioner, First District EDUARDO C. GOMEZ “Eddie” For County Commissioner, First District WM. H. MONSALVATGE (For Re-Election) For County Commissioner, Second District J. FRANK ROBERTS For County Commissioner, Second District BRAXTON B. WARREN (For Re-Election) For County Commissioner, Fourth District WILLIAM T. DOUGHTRY, JR. For County Commissioner, Fourth District NORBERG THOMPSON Fer County Commissioner, Fifth District R. W. CRAIG Known Universally As “Poor Old Craig” of Craig. Fis. ” For County Commissioner, Fifth District MRS, ELLIE LOWE : (Formerly Ellie O'Rourke) For County Commissioner, Fifth District W. A. PARRISH For Member Board of Public Instruction; First District DONALD CORMACK For Member Board of Public Instruction, First District CLARENCE H. PIERCE (For Re-Election) For Member School Board, Third District RALPH K. JOHNSON {For Re-Election) For Justice of the Peace, First District For Justice of the Peace, First District * RAUL RILEY CARBONELL For Justice of the Peace, Second District ENRIQUE ESQUINALDO, JR. (For Re-Election) For Constable, First District For Constable, First District HARRY JOHNSON For Constable, Second District BASIL R. TYNES