The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 23, 1940, Page 3

TUESDAY, APRH 23, 1940 (LEAP YESTERDAY: Allen and Tomt fly to California. Tomi insists on going immediately to the farm that night. Although she insists she won't be afraid, she becomes terrified after Allen leaves, Chapter Seven Morning poe sank deep into the divan, pillows huddled about her, and began her vigil of terror. Each tiny sound took on a danger of major proportions. Once she dozed and when she awakened, she found the fire was dying. the oil in the lamp growing low. She couldn’t —she wouldn't—remain in the dark. Bartell had said there was wood off the kitchen. She grasped the lamp and started down the hall. The kitchen was at the end, a gloomy place with dark walls and woodwork, a gigantic stove look- ing like a prehistoric monster. Two doors opened off this room. Tomi opened one and closed it quickly, bracing a chair against it. The stairway had led down. Opening the second door, she caught the strong odor of salt wa- ter and, listening, heard the soft Jap of waves not far away. A veranda lay outside and wood was stacked there. Bracing an armload with her chin, Tomi stumbled back to the living room just as the lamp fic. ered out. She built up the fire crouched on the hearth. Slowly the | wood caught, then with a sudden | burst of flame, threw the big room into full, rosy light. Tomi looked \to up and her hand came to throat to crush back a man was looking down her| scream. A| ather. | She jumped to her feet and] qeq backed away. then stiffened with anger. Off came her hat and her topcoat and she stalked forward | to stand, hands on hips, chin out, | her gaze focu painting of the late Timothy To- | land, which laughed down right | into her face. “You're responsible for this,” flared Tomi, her voice sounding hollow in the empty room, “but | I'm the one who's going to laugh | last. This is another trick of that | trained legal seal of yours, build- ing a fire here so you'd give me a start that would send me high-tail- | Y ing it down the road. Well, you're | both wrong. I’m staying. And right | ed on a life-sized oil | g BEFORE YOU LOOK By Peggy O’More recognize a skillet by finding one and placing it over the fire. She also found a knife and carefully brought it down through the bacon and her left forefinger and spoke, long and earnestly, to both knife | and bacon. “Reckon you’re Tommy,” ob- | served a voice from the door. Tomi wheeled. An old man with | a walrus mustache stood there. “And why do you reckon I'm | Tommy?” she snapped. “Timothy said as how you and | the devil was on speakin’ terms.” “Uncle Timothy,” retorted Tomi, | acidly, “seemed to know a lot about me.” “Sure did,’ affirmed the old man, and eased into the kitchen, “He said as how you'd be wearin’ pants. Said you’d come along out | here because you were too cussed not to. Allen—he said you wouldn’t. Reckon he’s right disap- pointed.” Tomi stiffened. So Bartell had | been sure of winning the place. The old man rescued the smok- ing pan from the stove. “Bacon,” he remarked laconically, “takes a | cold skillet.” He provided the cold skillet and stripped it with the bacon Tomi had cut. Tomi swallowed her indigna- . tion. This was unquestionably Ola | Abe. He was in dire need of repair | from teeth to trousers. Then Tomi | saw the troubled looked in his pale ‘arid blue eyes. “Reckon to keep, me on?” he queried, wistfplly. Tomi thought quickly. To whom would he be loyal—to Bartell or : “What are your qualifications?” she : “Quali—” he began, then nod- “Oh, them—well, the frogs like me. Frogs is awful fussy.” Tomi stifled her amusement. “It in’t do to disappoint the she observed. “But how yourself? Do you like it here?” ‘No Place To Go’ A GNARLED hand engulfed the 2 walrus mustache. “Well, now, fact is, I ain’t got no place else to | go. I got to thinkin’ maybe you didn’t know nothin’ about ranacul- ture and you wouldn’t mind givin’ me bed and board for teachin’ you.” The hard little lump, which had crystallized in Tomi’s heart the now I'm going to sleep, With you | Previous night waoen Bartell left, up there no one but a Toland | would dare come into this room.” | Tomi felt better after that. She ven welcomed a breeze whic rang up, bringing strange inous creaks to the old hou arm of a nearby chair, Tomi car- | ried it to the divar ment, iliness and f ep of physical of the man who 1! igh the window as daw white-faced man in led suit, who sneezed into a handkerchief and limped down the steps, swearing softly. Sunshine wa_ streaming through | the windows when Tomi awak- ened. For a moment she lay justing her mind to the c her physical outlook. She gl. up found Gr lavehing down at her. ‘Good morning.” she said pert- fay [compliment you on your hoice of furniture and | a his suddenly melted. No place else to go. The phrase touched her sym- d, board and wages,” vowed d turned to the old man, n depending upon you. I dn’t get along without you. You will stay, won't you?” Abe's Adam’s-apple worked con- vulsively. He blinked several times d. worn with | 29d turned to the stove. “Reckon that there bacon needs turnin’, un- less you like it burnt.” Breakfast prepared, Abe took : 1p and plate and started for the r. “E like company at the table,” Tomi remarked to the retreating | back. a Abe turned, vast cavern ap- pearing beneath the mustache. “Well, now—” he flopped into a “reckon me and you will se a go of this farm, pardner.” Tomi flushed with pleasure. rer! She had an ally. From on it was Tomi and Old Abe gainst Bartell and Uncle Timo- 's ghost. And that reminded her te in wallpaper? But| Sie must check to see if Bartell | d to the windows to| ured by foliage, then turned to the " ” she breathed in rapt won- der Directly below lay the blue wa- ters of San Francisco Bay s. Across the broad ex Panse tiers of mountai uating shades of blue purple hunched their shoulders against | the pale azure of the morning To the right lay had deliberately tried to discour- age her the previous night. artell said he wired you that was arriving last night,” she ob- served. “Did he?” Abe fumbled in a.pocket and rought out a crumpled telegraia. Te sure did, but I couldn’t make | d or tail of it. 1 took it over to Alameda to see if ‘anybody else could, and like to lost myself for good in the fog. He says here: ‘Ar- in grad-|Tive Thursday night stop Stock groceries stop build fires.’ I didn’t know what to do ‘ceptin’ nothin’.” Tomi choked on her coffee. Bar- an Francisco, | tell’s effort to simplify the tele- the white towers of its many hills | Sam for Abe had had a contrary zold in the sunlight Old Abe ‘OMI hurried to another win- dow. Here a long arm of bay curved inland, dividing her islan from another which seemed tufted with trees, its shores lined with white houses topped by scarlet | roofs. She looked down at the imme- | diate foreground and her brow furrowed. herited dozens of tennis courts. Tomi opened the window and|in leaned out. Those couldn’t be ten- nis courts; they weren’t paved, and each enclosure held oblong pools thick with flat-leaved water plants. “Frog “Tl bet that’s what they are.” Tomi went fiying downstairs for her bags and came flying back up to change into blue twill slacks, white turtle-neck sweater and white leather sneakers.' Then, aware of gnawing hunger, she made for the kitchen. Someone had been there. A/ cheery fire burned in the big range and on the table lay a battered hat filled with cage. Tomi, who had cooked only’un- der the supervision of Molly, knew but a few of the rudiments. Coffee was made with a tablespoon for each cup and one for the pot; Milly always forgot the extra one. Tomi felt confident she could use four cups this morning and made it ac- cordingly, Bacon went with eggs. She dis- covered a thick slab of bacon in the cooler, then proved she could Today’s Horoscope general quality is that of a generous nature. There may be great acquisitiveness, but he seemed to have in- } effect. They started on a tour of the \ farm. Tomi trotting in Abe’s sham- bling wake, feeling a new joy of life running through her veins to dj Stimulate the beat of her heart. She liked this place. “Abe,” she ventured, “what is ranaculture?” surname, only, like the Chinese, it comes first. You got rana-sylvatica back East where the fool frogs live in trees; and rana-aesopus down Florida, and rana- aurora around here.” He pointed to some wooden sheds and pronounced them the hatcheries. Then, as they ap- | proached the first pens, he-turned ponds,” she said aloud. to her with startled seriousness. “When is your birthday?” he de- manded. “A- April,” But why?” Abe heaved a sigh of relief. “Frogs don’t take to folks who get stammered Tomi. | themselves born in fall and win- | te er” Tomi swallowed a laugh and managed, “How can they tell?” “Don’t know,” admitted Abe. “But they sure can. Take Lily— Leelee she’s callin’ herself these days—she was born in September | and she can’t come near here with- | out every frog on the place hittin’ | for the bottom.” “And is Lily around here much?” queried Tomi. Abe spat at an unoffending field | daisy which had braved the weath- er. “Sure is. Hangs around Bartell | all the time.” Continued tomerrow de there is a good chance that a re- ward for service will be gained Chicago Travel| St. Louis this } in the latter part of life. is often indicated, and in it there is generally success. “Oh, rana’s the same as a frog’s | s not seem to be miserly, and | Brooklyn CONTINUE VICTORY DRIVE; WALTERS STARS t TIGERS EDGED OUT WHITE SOX: INDIANS DEFEATED BROWNS Special fo The Citizen) NEW YORK, April 23.—Cin- cinnati Reds continued their j winning ways and leadership of | the National League by tripping | up the St. Louis Cardinals yes- }terday at Crosley Field in the \National League champions’ |home-town. Score was 6 to 1. | In accomplishing the victory, | the Reds also beat the Ohio river |by completing the ball game be- fore waters backing up from | tigod stage covered enough of the |field to make play impossible. As it was, much of Crosley Field was under water, beneath |the stands, in dugouts and in a large part of first level grand- stand areas especially. Nevertheless, Bucky Walters kept pitching away, and when the dust had cleared it was found ne had allowed the Cards a meas- He was iy Utal of seven hits. never powered, giving only one \extra-base swal lo Bnus Siaugi- ter ana a singie to Don Paagett in tne nintn for the lone run cap- vurea by tne losers. ‘wo three-run splurges ac- counted tor the totat of hed runs —one in tne fiitn and tne other in the eighth. At Futtsburgh, the Chicago Cubs struck another snag in their ettort to get going, suftering ce- feat 5 to ¥. ‘Ine contest marked ;tne thrice-postponed effort to stage an opening-day game in that city. Botn teams used an extra- supply of players and six errors were committed to mar the pro- ceedings. New York-Philadelphia and Boston-Brooklyn games were postponed on acconut of cold wea- ther and rain, respectively, In the American League, the Detroit Tigers nosed out the Chi- jcago White Sox at Comiskey Park. Sox reokie, Vallie Eaves, was knocked out of the box in |the eighth inning and the Tigers went on to score two winning runs in the ninth to sew up the contest, 6 to 5. Cleveland Indians needed only \the first inning of their game with St. Louis Browns, at the latter team’s city, to win the con- test. Before a man was out in |the first, Howard Mills, Brown pitcher, gave away five runs, which accounted for the total |run-getting of the Indians for the day—final score being 5 to 2. | Trotter and Whitehead held the Tribe scoreless from then on. |Two runs for the lowly Browns |came when Harland Clift hit a home run with a man on base. | Results of the games follow: AMERICAN LEAGUE At Chicago i. ah: Detroit 6 11 | Chicago 511 | Nelson, Thomas, Gorsica, Con- }ger, Benton and Sullivan, Teb- betts; Eaves, Brown and Tresh E 2 At St. Louis | Cleveland | St. Louis Hudlin and Hemsley; Mills, Troter, Whitehead and Swift, Susce. NATIONAL LEAGUE At Cincinnati R. | St. Louis | Cincinnati Peer | | McGee, Shoun, Brecheen an Padgett; Walters and Lombardi. H. 7 9 | At Pittsburgh Chicago 6.073 | Pittsburgh 910 4 Passeau, Bonetti, Olson, Page and Todd; Bowmen, Brown, Butcher and Davis, Mueller, Ber- res. LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE Club— WwW. L. Boston | Cleveland |New York Detroit - | Philadelphia St. Louis Chicago Washington Ros. Pet 750 -150. 666 -600 -500 -400 .250 -000 NATIONAL LEAGUE Club— W.L. Pet Cincinnati 1.000 1.000 | Pittsburgh | Philadelphia 1,000 Boston ‘New York COPNE NNW be pamoooo CUBS WALLOPED BY BUCS: Moonset 1,000 erate rain -000 .000 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘URGE RE-ELECTION OF N. THOMPSON FRIENDS POINT OUT PERTIN. | ENT REASONS IN CURRENT | ADVERTISEMENT Friends of County Commis- ‘sioner Norberg Thompson {nounced today they'had formed a ‘committee to help effect his re- election and, when asked for their views in the current cam- paign, called attenfion to an ad- vertisement they have inserted in today’s issue of The Citizen. They emphasize that “Norberg Thompson has made,a success of his own business and should be re-elected that he may continue to apply sound business prin- ciples in serving the best inter- ests of this city and county”. “It took keen business ability and unlimited courage to carry on extensive industrial and com- mercial activities here after the railroad ceased operations”, one of the “Re-elect Thompson Com- mittee” said today. ‘With char- acteristic energy and foresight, Commissioner Thompson estab- lished a transportation system that gave Key West and Monroe county a mainland connection. That system still serves-the coun- jty and employs a large number ,of Monroe residents. ‘When such business ability is so scarce we feel it would be a mistake to dump Commissioner Thompson into the political dis- card. Monroe county and Key West need Norberg Thompson more than Norberg Thompson needs this city and county”. an- GAMES TODAY AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia at New York— Dean vs. Hadley. Washington at Boston—Leo- nard vs. Grove or Galehouse. Detroit at Chicago—Newsom vs. Dietrich. Cleveland at St. Louis—Milnar vs. Kennedy. NATIONAL LEAGUE New York at Gumbert vs. Higbe . Boston at Brooklyn—Errickson vs. Carleton. St. Louis at Cincinnati—Cooper vs, Derringer. Chicago at Pittsburgh—French vs. MacFayden. THE WEATHER Observation taken at 7:30 a. m., 75th Mer. Time (City Office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night Mean Normal 75 65 : 76 Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches Total rainfall since April 1, inches . Deficiency since April 1, | inches 0.00 0.69 0.30 > Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches 5.59 Deficiency inches es 0.13 Wind. Direction and Velocity NE—10 miles per hour Relative Humidity 84% Barometer at 7:30 a. m. today ;Sea level, 92.98 (1015.2 millibars) i Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise Sunset Moonrise since Jan. 1, m. . m. . m. m. 9: Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. 10:58 _.. 4:25 FORECAST , (Till 7:30 p .m., Wednesday) P.M. High Low 5:41 Key West and Vicinity: Partly | cloudy tonight and Wednesday; slightly warmer tonight; mod- erate southeast and south winds. Florida: Partly cloudy, light showers in extreme north portion | late tonight or Wednesday; slightly warmer tonight; cooler in extreme north portion Wed- nesday. 1 CONDITIONS ty, Low pressure areas are cen- tered this morning-off the north Atlantic coast, and over the mid- dle. Mississippi Valley, and Pla- teau States, while a moderate high pressure area is crested over the Dakotas and extends south- ward into the southern Plains, and pressure is relatively high from the Lake region southeast- ward over the south Atlantic coast. Precipitation has continued {over the north Atlantic States, ‘and there has been light to med- | Mississippi and Missouri valleys, -333|north Pacific States, and_north- -200 ' ern Rockies. G. S. KENNEDY, i Philadelphia— + 70, in portions of the! ot es es :-: SOCIETY : Senior Class Play ‘June Mad’ Has Modern Dialogue And Plot “June Mad”, senior class play,!Harris comes home from college wae a be presented a ge too , and trouble begins for High School auditorium ‘iday night at 8:15 is a scintillating|/°™Y. Mrs. Wood, her sym- modern confedy of youth, ac-|Pathetic mother says, “Never cording to the management. The|™ind, darling. Love is like the play, first given in California a|mumps—it may be painful and year ago, is up-to-the-minute in make you look ridiculous, but it’s its dialogue and true-to-life in jrarely fatal”. its picture of youth in love—| Penny’s struggles to win love June Mad. {and her success in an unexpected Penny Wood has known Chuck way will bring tears and smiles Harris, the boy next door, all to any audience. The leading her life—fifteen long years. When ‘roles are played by outstanding ‘Mervyn, her youthful uncle, high school talent: Penny by brings home Roger van Vleck, a Sylvia Pinder, Chuck Harris by college friend and a real “killer- George Cates, Roger van Vleck diller”, Penny falls in love for by Walter Maloney and Julie the first time. But pretty Julie Harris by Magali de Leon. ‘Catholic Daughters Of Local Church 2 Celebrated 19th Anniversary Sunday The Catholic Daughters of | An interesting message was America, Court No. 634, of St.'given by Mrs. Jose Piodela, the Mary Star of the Sea Church, / first Grand Regent of the local celebrated their 19th anniversary | Court. She spoke about the ac- on Sunday, April 21. Members tivities of the Catholic Daugh- of the Court received Holy Com- ! tars during the past 19 years sip tpal in'a body at the 7 o'cloclt! ang congratulated the various lass and their festivities closed membi thei fl with a tea given in St. Theresa’s pean Aueiry Nnbring.. ef . forts in behalf of common wel- Hall at 5 p.:m. for members and! are. their guests. Mrs. A. M. Hewitt i 5 was chairman in charge of the | bapa ees Re Dement tea assisted by Mrs. Jane Smith Prcsent Grand Regent, gave an nis Mind) Peat miiine. ‘Cha Jain | 20dress in regard to the present ‘ : pain! aims of the local Court and en- salle Es eS oa ad couraged its members to continue Court, purple, gold and white writin, Higby acdiaworts: poet were carried out in the decora-;Wested the members to increase dene ;membership. during the next few © months so that the local’ Court jcould become one of the out- |Standing sodalities in the church. CLASSIFIED COLUMN: Miss Fortuna Lopez spoke in | behalf of the junior members of ithe Catholic Daughters. She Advertisements under this head | stressed the importance of young- | will be inserted in The Citizen at|er persons the rate of one-cent (Ic) a word for each insertion, but the mini- {mum for the first insertion in! ization. every instance is twenty-five | Miss Annabelle Moffatt offered cents. (25c). ,a piano solo, “Hungarian Rhap- Advertisers snould give their |sody No. 2” by Liszt. street address as well as their; Those present were: telephone number if they desire! Rev. P. J. Kelleher. S. J., Mes- results. \dames Fred Dion, J. G. Piodela, | becoming members and gave a short address on the benefit derived from the organ- Payment for classified adver-| Jack Gaiti, Herman R. Demeritt,.| eEEEE tisements is invariably in ad-| vance, but regular advertisers with ledger accounts may have | | their advertisements charged. { TRANSPORTATION |DRIVING MIAMI Wednesday. Take two. 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WORRIED SPEEDSTER SANTA CLARA, Cal.—“I'm sorry, judge. I was so worried | about the low price of crabs that I just forgot how fast I was go- ing’, explained Nicholas Damato ‘when arrested for speeding in this. city. Latest statistics show the aver- age length of life in Japan is 44 for males and 46 for females. Richard Sawyer, Margaret Doran, ‘Mae ‘Taylor, Charles Mackey, William De- meritt, Pearl Brinas, W. E. Lowe, Warren Sawyer, M. J. Bruce, Pauline Pinder, Mamie DeBarcee, |Annie Wells, A M. Hewitt, Lois Busto, W. M. Ellsworth, James |Sullivan, Mamie Moss, Frank Del | Villar, L. Gruber, Jack Baker, C. Rodney Gwynn, Vincent McDer- mott, Jane Smith; Misses Frances Ellsworth, Fortuna Lopez, Mar- garet Lacedonia, Anna Corcoran, Dora Medina, Louise Hawkes, ‘Vilna Alfonso, Isabel- Kelly, Mary Agnes Kelly, Annabelle Moffatt, Eloina Gato, Sylvia Gwynn, Marjorie Gwynn. MONROE THEATER Claire Trevor—John ‘Wayne ALLEGHENY UPRISING and CLOUDS OVER EUROPE Matinee—Balcony 10c, Or- chestra 15-20c; Night—15-25c¢ ARUNDEL HOTEL CHARLES ST AT MIROYAL AVENUE RATES FROM ‘15° UP doors, Sealed two divorce : Harry Warren, | PAGE THREE LICENSE ISSUED Marriage license was issued yesterday afternoon from the of- ‘fice of County Judge Raymond R. Lord, authorizing the marri- age of Earle Saunders Johnson and Mary Louise Spottswood Williams. DISMISSED THE CASE DENVER. — Charged with ‘speeding, Mrs. Thelma Nelson of this city told the judge she was hurrying home with her crying baby. The judge dismissed the . case, saying, “I have a son about the same age” The total number of passengers carried on the subways in Tokyo in 1939 was 41,297,000. . - - PALACE | Jack Holt OUTSIDE THE 3-MILE LIMIT Also—Selected Shorts PRIZE NITE — TONIGHT eanwceonse ‘TRY IT TODAY— | The Favorite in Key West STAR 2+ BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS | | Coral Hotel Apartments RATES: $60.00 Per Month —DOUBLE— Including: (1) Gas; (2) Lights: (3) Garage: (4) Refrigeration: (5) Maid Service Daily. For Fifty Years A NAME! In Coffee In Key West STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE THAT'S A REPUTATION | Lopez Funeral Service Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers 24-Hour Ambulance Service Phone 135 Night 696 touches” like the safety-latches on rear Beam Headlights out of the way of bumps, Two-Way Direction Signals with automatic cut-off. It called this year’s style turn a year ago. It set current performance standards engine. It still Coil springs all around may come. 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