The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 27, 1940, Page 5

SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 194 0 LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK By Peggy O’More YESTERDAY: The old car breaks down and Allen gives Tomi a lift into town. Tomé buys another car which formerly be- longed to Allen. The bank official tells Tomi she'll make @ success of the farm if she develops some markets. Chapter 11 Pierre Prudhomme Tou sipped the last of her eof- fee thoughtfully. “Abe, how many marketable frogs will we have this summer?” “Around ten thousand,” he fig- ‘ured. “Of course there may be more. They been erowdin’ up so I haven’t had time to look ‘em over since they went down last fall.” Tomi envisioned ten thousand mouths—and what mouths! They seemed to occupy the major por- tion of a frog's head—clamorin; for food. And a million additional mouths of lesser size joining in the plea. “We'll have to do something,” she said. “Abe, what shall we do? Have you any ideas to offer?” Abe tamped tobacco in an an- cient pipe. “Yep,” he answered. “If it was me doin’ it,.and I had the money, I'd hire me a man; one of them fellows who went to college down in Louisiana and knows the ins and outs of rana- culture.” .. Tomi debated this idea while @ressing for town. Bartell still had eight thousand dollars to be used for the ‘upkeep of herself and the farm. Her actual living expenses would not run more than two hundred a month, if that, and she had more than a thousand a month available, pro- rated through the six months. She could afford to pay a good salary. As soon as the protesting Abe had been delivered to Dr. Smith, Tomi hurried to the telegraph of- fice to wire a want-ad to a New Orleans paper. It was brief and concise. WANTEL — Teehnically ex- pert ranacylturist. Salary two- fifty per month. Write T. Toland, Bay Farm Island, Box 53, Ala- meda, California. She went from the te.egraph office to Allen Bartell’s office, to learn he had been called out of town unexpectedly, then returned to pick up the silent, suffering Abe. For three days Abe nursed a swollen jaw and a grouch. while Tomi hovered between sympa- thetic tears and laughter ‘Then| Saturday dawned with sunshine, instead ot fog. and with Abe ad mitting it “hadn't oeen so dad. Pom fete tater that--this-Sat- urday held too much for one per- son to assimilate. First came her winning of Abe's Little Sweet- heart. The frogs. discouraged by the fog-laden sky, had returned to. their beds, but now they were up again Mid-morning, the sun warm on the earth. the ponds teeming with quiet life Tomi slipped into the largest ven. Resolutely, she con trolled her fear ind, crouching on | the edge of the pool, crooned her | variation of Abe's song. Soon| round eyes appeared above the lily pads to watch her with an unblinking stare; then, catapult- | ing through the air. came a huge | form. It lit on a nearby log. Tom: waited motionless, her heart beating a fearful tattoo. Little Sweetheart was immense. twenty eight inches of frog Sweetheart's eyes were like jew- els, but Tomi preferred admiring them from a distance. Little Sweetheart had other ideas and. with a final spring, lit on Tomi’s knee. Bravely Tomi touched her. | The frog wasn’t clammy, her skin | ‘Was water temperature but smooth and dry. A reat, quivering sigh of re- lief went through Tomi. and the frog went through the air back to the safety of the tulles. “One fear overcome,” said Tomi proudly, and left the pen. ‘Man For The Job’ was another fear. Tomi T surveyed it; four hundred yards ofl green grass, and goodness = {knew Soman muakee eu ie must have e cut a lin pate to the house. Bravely she started out. Some- thing stirred in the grass and she stopped, then resolutely she went on until something round and soft and black, she saw in one star- tled glance—gave under her foot with a coiling motion. Tomi gave one ear-splitting scream and flew house. man stood there, someone she'd never seen before. “Snakes,” she elucidated. “Big ones — out aap laugh. He grabbed a hoe wi Abe had left cea eane against the porch, and hurrie Tomi elosed her eyes, and held her ears unti] she heard the re- turning footstey “He won’t bother you any more,” soothed the young man's ror opened her eyes. The @eeply blue eyes of the stranger held no golden glints of laughter. He was seriously sympathetic. She sighed with relie! “Who are you?” she asked. “Pierre Prudhomme,” he an- swered, “I'm the man your fa- a “Miss Tomi,” Abe's exasperated voice broke in, ere ain't a danged mite a good a bringin; that hose in. We got to get fi Water to the pools and we can’t ¢ it nowheres but from the gar- ele 10 anything about a hose?” q ned Tomi. Abe ex- juestion you 1 man, who was young, “This here fellow,” plained, “he said as how were skeered of it.” Tomi locked at Pierre Prud- homme and her eyes were warm with appreciation. Such under standing. Allen would have brought the hose into the house to make her feel a fool. “Do what you want with it, Abe,” she advised and turned to Prudhome. “You must be mis- taken, I have no father, For whom are you looking?” Prudhomme brought out a news- paper clipping—“this T. Toland who advertised for a ranacult I flew out from Louisiana because I believe I am the man for the job.” Tomi studied the man anew. | Sleek dark hair, a small black mustache, intensely blue eyes and a look of trim efficiency. He was certainly the antithesis of Old Abe, in everything from years to wearing apparel. But, after Abe had specified a college man, He obviously wasn’t in any finans | cial difficulties or he wouldn't have flown West. That indica’ success in his peesnn. And she admired his plan of appearing in person. There was something di- rect and businesslike in that. “I am T. Toland,” she told him, “Won't you come in? We'll talk things over.” Tomi waited to call Abe, for he must pass on the man’s ability, Then the three of ‘them went into conference. Abe approved of the man. The way the old fellow chuckled when a pleasing answer was given to his questions made this apparent. When the two men went down to look over the farm, Tomi went up to her room to loak at herself in the mirror, then hearing the horns of approaching ears, hur- tied to the window. Three carloads of young people in sports olothes and laden with hampers of food were old ae at Bartell’s cottage. Tomi picke Bartell’s long, active figure from the crowd. So Allen was home, How long had he been home? And why hadn't he let her kno: Ah, there was Lily, looking like a stick of peppermint candy in a pink and white striped sailor suit, Willing And Unwilling 'WIFTLY Tomi changed to sheer white linen, knotted a scarlet Ss polka-dotted kerchief about her | throat, and buckled a slim red belt in place. She picked up a broad red linen hat, knocked a fleck of dust from white slippers and started downstairs. Bartell stood in the open front door. “Oh, there you are,” he greeted, “all ready for the party. T brought the gang over to meet you.” Tomi had to smile at aim. He | did look especially fine in white slacks and shirt, a friendly smile on his lips. And then she Trémerm- bered. This Pierre Prudhomme hadn't waited to write. Suppose Allen should decide she didn't need him, how could she explain to Prudhomme? “So nice of you to let me know,” she murmured and con- tinued her descent. “How could [?” he countered. “1 only got in town this morning and you have no telephone.” “And it didn’t oceur to you that 1 might have a previous engage- ment?” “You know you haven't. You don’t know a single soul within two thousand tniles of here.” At that moment Pierre Prud+ homme appeared behind Allen the open door. “May | present Mr. Prud- homme, from New Orleans, My attorney, Mr. Bartell.” The introduction slipped glibly from ‘1omi’s lips. Allen wheeled te confront Pierre. Tomi thought | it must be the dusky hall which made it appear the two men were cing rather than shaking Then Allen turned to Tomi, a peculiar expression on his face, “Why don’t you both join us?” he asked, and told the guest about the party. Tomi wondered if Old Abe had told the gentleman from Louisi- ana what part Allen played in her business life. for he became suddenly affable. “If Miss Toland is willing?” Tomi was both willing and un- willing. She wanted to belong to a group that looked as gay as Al- len’s, but she wasn't sure that she wanted to introduce Mr. Prud- homme into that group before she had settled her business with him Unable to refuse without an un- graciousness neither man de served, she consented. At first Tomi thought Allen’s guests were legion, then she dis- covered that this was due to their ability to be in more than one place at a time. Those she met hovering over the barbecue pit were suddenly in the house. Those in the house were on the deck by the time she reached there. The house, of which Allen was proud, was really a one-room apartment. Bunks were built inte the walls. A compact’ kitchen ap- peared by merely opening two doors, A push-button released tar ble and chairs, There was a huge fireplace for driftwood and, grouped around it were a divan and deep, mannish- looking chairs. Tomi had never seen so many windows. Two opened onto the deck where glass windbreaks gave them view to the bay and: the long line of the| coast range. _ Tomi found herself enthroned in es sate pees in that swirl of la atteri ple. For a fitte while ne waa content to sit there, warmed by the sun, her eyes lazily scanning nin at blue wates, : rudhomme _ ha lisappeared. Tomi was reminded of nt when she saw an air transport lev: off from Mill’s Field on the sout shore and gradually growing larger as it neared the island. Continued Menday 2 |vesterday at YANKEES BOW TO BOSOX, 8-1; DODGERS WIN } i WORLD'S CHAMPIONS AND | RED SOX MEET IN FIRST GAME OF SERIES: BROOK- LYN STILL UNDEFEATED | | i i | (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, April 27.—The Champion New York Yankees and their American League run- ners-up last year, the Boston Red | Sox, met for the first time this }season, at Fenwick Park in |Boston. The result was—Bos- | |ton 8 and New York 1. Emerson | Diekman allowed the champs |only seven hits, the while his !teammates collected 11 off the |hurling of three Yank pitchers. | At Cleveland, the Chicago | White Sox slugged themselves }out of a slump and wen their | second game of the season, 11 to |1. Johnny Allen was knocked jout of the box, his opponent, 'Thornton. Lee, being in top }form, giving up but four safe-! ties. | Wildness displayed by four |Philadelphia Athtetic pitchers jacounted for most of the Wash- ington Senators’ runs , yesterday }on the latter’s field. Washing- jten got eight runs on only six hits, winning the game, 8 to 6. ; St. Louis Brown-Detroit Tiger |contest was postponed because of | rain. Brooklyn Dodgers kept up! \their straight-victory pace by taking the sixth game in a row Philadelphia, de- feating the Phillies, 6 to 0.. Fred Fitzsimmons went the route for the victors, allowing only seven safe blows. Billy Nicholson paced his Chi- cago Cub teammates with a first- inning home run against the Cin- cinnati Reds, which cleared the bases, and then went on to add a double and a single to help the Bruins defeat the Redlegs yes- terday, at Chicago, 6 to 2. Pittsburgh Pirates oyerwhelm- ed the St. Louis Cardinals yes- terday with an_ eighth-inning rally engineered chiefly by Pitcher Joe Bowman, who ap- peared in the role of a pinch- ‘hitter, delivering a home run ac- counting for three of the seven markers coming in in that. in- ning, Score of the game was | 10 to 4. Trailing three runs to one in the sixth inning, the New York Giants knocked out five hits for four seores in their contest with the Boston Bees. Final score was 5 to 3. Carl Hubbell was re- lieved in the sixth. Results of the games follow: AMERICAN LEAGUE At Boston R.H.E. New York - ee So, ae | Boston - . ee ee | Pearson, Chandler, Grissom and Dickey, Rosar; Dickman and | Peacock. | At Cleveland | Chicago BO Fae | {Cleveland —_...... ok Re Lee and Tresh; Allen, Dobson, | Zuber and Hemsley, Helf. R. H. E. | At Washington RHE Philadelphia -610 2 Washington —._- we 82 |* Potter, Besse, McCrabb, Beck- {man and Hayes; Hayworth, Hud- | {sen and Early, Ferrell. ————— | NATIONAL LEAGUE | At Philadelphia R. H. E. Brooklyn tee ANE Philadelphia 0.74 Fitzsimmons and Mancuso;; Smoll, Bruner, Hoerst and War- jren, Millies. Pe es i, | At New York R. H. E.} | Bostoh ; 39 2 {New York _ peace 1S Be Strinevich, Errickson and Lo- nez; Hubbell, Melton, Brown! and Danning. At Chicago Cincinnati Chicago Reese Thompson, Beggs, ond Lombardi; Passeau and Tod At Pittsburgh St. Louis — | Pittsburgh _ C. Dayis, R. Bo’ ‘Vanier and Padgett, {Brown and V. Davis, Perres. Owen; Schultz, i SMOKING STATISTICS AUSTIN, Tex.—According to | Student Opinion Surveys of Am- erica, a non-profit collegiate or- ‘ganization which samples student opinion throughout the nation, \one-fifth of all girl students and jone-third of all men students smoke regularly. An additional [28 per cent of the girls said they |smoked oceasionally. while fifty had cent of them said they never smoke. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE Club— Ww. lL. Cleveland Boston _ Detroit _ New York - Washington _ Philadelphia St. Louis Chicago . Pet. 14 por ww ween NATIONAL LEA Club— WwW. Brooklyn Pittsburgh New York Cincinnati Chicago - St. Louis Philadelphia Boston - U <2 oroaawrnwoh i moe waeoto te! COM pawhaen fon ee te GAMES TODAY AMERICAN LEAGUE ~ St, Louis at Chicago—White- head (0-0) vs. Eaves (0-0). Cleveland at Detroit—Hudlin (1-0) vs. Newhauser (0-0). New York at Washington— Breuer (0-0) vs. Leonard (0-2). Boston at Philadelphia—Gale- house (0-0) vs. Basich (1-0). NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago at St. Louis—French (1-1) vs. Warneke (0-0). Philadelphia at Boston—Higbe (1-1) vs. Posedel (0-1). Brooklyn at New York—Ham- lin (0-0) ys. Schumacher (0-1). Pittsburgh at Cincinnati—- Butcher (0-1) or Lanning (0-0), vs. Walters (1-0), | 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! every instance is twenty-five cents (25c). Advertisers snould give their street address as well as thei telephone number if they desire results. ' Payment for classified adver- tisements is invariably in ad-/ vance, but regular advertisers | with ledger accounts may have, their advertisements charged. FOR RENT ‘outstanding during SOFTBALLLEAGUE ca NEWS | By AGUILAR ! Next Monday night at Bayview Park, 7:30 o'clock, the Softball League has scheduled a double- header. Sawyers’ ten will cross bats with the Coca-Cola team in the curtain-raiser. Fans will see some real action in this contest, ‘for the boys have been practicing hard and-are in the pink of con- dition. Some of the Sawyer players are Kermit Kerr, better known as “Monk” of the great “Never Sleep” days and later of the Lopez Funeral Home days; Sterling, the long-distance hitter of the Cubs and Lopez clubs; Hop- kins, Neno Castro, Walker, Arias and several other stars. On the Coca-Cola “So Refreshing” club, we have Ingraham, star of the Lopez days; Douglas McCarthy, better known as “Mack”, also the Lopez Funeral Home championship pe- riod; Bill Cates, nuff sed; Car- bonell, Cheta Baker, ‘“Two-By-' Saat aur” Higgs, “Cigarette Willie”|SATT HELPS » “De-De” Villareal and: ‘ other leading baseball and dia-| ROAD SEASON a mondball players. mn ki F > raeiceieis WENATCHEE, "Wash. April In the segond game Manda: .—Something like salt shakers night. VYPS53’s will meet the helped keep mountain highways CCC's. This fracas promises to oper near here this winter - be a hot one. CCC's lost their in-| A device which mixed 40 itial game by the narrow margin pounds of salt with each cubic of one fun and they are anxious foot of sand was built and attach- | to get on the right side of the ed to motor truck push plows. ledger in their second appear- The state highway department anee. They have players of the'used 18 of the machines. The type of Hamilton, who put up ajsalt helped prevent the stiff fight Thursday night and hit from “icing up”. well; King; Hanson, a great pitch- | ooo er whose error lost his game, and|- Aden was the first addition to Berges, who walked three times the British Empire in the reign in as many trips to the plate dur-'of Queen Victoria. ing the opening night game, | HHH. proving he is a good “waiter";/ars. Smith and Shultz, Harris and Williams. The Avia- fielders. tors won their initial contes Thursday night and naturally; Recreation want to stay on top of the stand-'WPA, Ray Hamlin, Joe Cleare, ings. Bond, a good pitcher, wha Oliver Kemp, Manuel Varela and is leading the hitters, will be on | the clubs of the league are at- the field far the Aviators, with tempting to give the public some O’Conner, Webb, Jerdon and'goad, whalesome sport. Come, Thompson, all good hitters; By-‘aut and help them do so. 4 good rd \ Department of the) roads | PAGE FIVE Soy irene WHERE VACA — PRESENT NO PROBLEM (ny Ansagieted Presét VIENNA, April 27.—Coeds of Vienna university and the tech- nical schools know exactly what they will do dyring various vaca- tion periods. The government has told them, They will work in factories. -- Feminine medical students and philologists are exeepted. The state has other spare time tasks for them. The Vatican Library was be- gun by Pope Nicholas V about 1450. The population of China in the year 1381 was about 60,000.000. STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE THAT'S A REPUTATION POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS County Demoeratic Primary, May 7, 1940 Monroe For United St FRED P. | ne nett tt tt ates Senator | CONE For Governor SPESSARD L. HOLLAND For County Tax Assessor J. OTTO KiRCHHEINER (For Re-Election) \ For Governor FULLER WARREN | For Clerk Circyit Court ROSS C. SAWYER (For Re-Election) For Governor FRANCIS P. 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E, McCASKILL (To Succeed odes Trammell) (Grou| p 3) Re-nominate JUDGE WORTH For Circuit Judge (Group 3) PAUL D. BARNS as Circuit Court Judge (Group 4) W. TRAMMELL For Judge of th ROBERT J. BOONE (Group 4) je Circuit Court 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 For County Commissioner, Fifth District R. W, CRAIG Known Universally As “Poor Old Craig” uf Craig, Fla. For County Commissioner, Fifth District MRS. ELLIE LOWE (Formerly Ellie O'Rourke) For Judge Circuit Court © Cc. C. YOUMANS (Group 4) Experienced Active—] For Railroad Commissioner W..B. (Babe) (For Re-Election) Fer State Re resentative WILLARD M. ALBUR’ | For State Ret BERNIE C. PAPY (For Re-Election) For County Judge ROGELIO For County Judge RA¥MOND ‘For Re-Election) For State and County K H. FRAN CLARENCE | DOUGLASS GOMEZ R. LORD (Por Re-Election) For State nent, Tas, Collector JOE C. For County Tax Assessor For County Commissioner, Fifth District W. A. PARRISH | For Member Board of Public Instruction, First Distrie: y DONALD CORMACK pei atc enadneen neath: Ai A rial tac ee eT For Member Board of Public Instruction, First District H. — E ; (For Re-Election) For Member School Board, Third District RALPH K. JOHNSON (For Re-Election) For Justice of the Peace, First District FRANKLIN ARENBERG (For Re-Election) For Justice of the Peace, First District RAUL RILEY CARBONELL For Justice of the Peace, ENRIQUE ESQUINALDO, JR. (7