The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 6, 1940, Page 4

PAGE FOUR ELT EES et FIRE —— By Jean YESTERDAY: Mrs. Arnold, who has an exaggerated idea of her responsibility toward her thirty-year-old ward Dorothy, asks Brenda to give up seeing Saltus. Amused, Brenda refuses, but promises to keep away from Dorothy. Chapter 12 A Little Adjusting YY can’t lask Dorothy to my room?” Brenda asked Ade- laide, after Mrs. Arnold had left. Mrs. Rosttetor bridled gently. “Dorothy, my dear child, is a very stupid person; one can hard- ly call her a girl. I doubt if she reads a single book in a year. She glances at the headlines of news- papers—if they have to do with murders. Mrs. Arnold’s protec- tiveness toward her is almost a phobia. 1 think the matron who put Dorothy in her care in the first} lace was largely responsible for it. She kept impressing on the poor woman that the girl would receive her impressions from the erson with whom she made her| ome. It’s ridiculous, really—the way she spreads her skirts in front of Dorothy, Eric and Isobel make all sorts of fun of her; but Mac thinks sort of pathetic. But then Mac—” Brenda rose abruptly. et to work! And by the way, delaide, I've asked Hugh Saltus} to come here this afternoon. I hope you don’t mind?” Adelaide smiled demurely. “This is a boarding house, my _dear. Who your guests and callers are is certainly none of my busi- ness!” é So Hugh came that afternoon, his eyes wary as a wild animal’s| but his mouth sensitive and al-| most tremulously smiling. “You're sure this won't injure your social standing in The Street?” he inquired. “How absurd!” Brenda ex- claimed. “I’m proud to have the reat Mr. Saltus calling, let me| ll you! When my friends at home know—” He looked alarmed. haven't written them am? Oh, Brenda, I haven't!” “Is it a secret?” In her turn she was disturbed. “Because I’m afraid I have told one or two. I'm so proud of knowing you, you see. Hugh, why do you hide?” here are reasons.” He seemed | suddenly as vague as Adelaide herself. “Never mind, dear child. I’m flattered that you are proud. It's pretty swell—having a nice girl like you willing to know me.” The whole situation puzzled Brenda. What if his wife had gone home and had not come back? Did that affect the man himself, or his work? Probably, Brenda mused, Mrs. Saltus was a cat, and Hugh was better off without her anyway. He seemed a lonely soul, poor Hugh! “Who do you think you are?” Isobe] inquired pleasantly that evening. “Mrs. Omnipotence? For I tell you, Brenda, not even a} Burnham can.carry on with Hugh|/ cep rie doing and not get herself talked about.” “Carry on?” Brenda r in- dignantly. “I received a famous artist in the parlor of my board- inghouse—in the afternoon. If} that's carrying on, 1 wonder what they’d think of some of t that mappa. in the Villag “Ah, but they wouldn’t let them happen here, you sce! This street has been—well, pure and unde- filed in its morals since your andfather’s time lore, It’s not for a yo “I must “You where I hope you you, my sweet, to come along and| corrupt it.” “If it’s never corrupted an’ more than I shall corrupt it, it’ most fortunate. Yes, Grenadine, what is it?” “Mist’ Mac say would you come down to the parlor a minute. He'd like to speak to you private-like.” ‘Keep Out’ RENDA cocked a mocking eye at her caller, “Now thére, Iso- bel, is food for g: if you like! A young eligible craves pri- vate speech with me—and after nightfall! Hadn't you better call Miss Ormond and Mrs. Arnold and tell them about it?” In the parlor Mac said gravely: “Tve tried all evening to get a word in with you but I’ve had no luck so I sent Grenadine to ask| you to come down. I hope you) didn’t mind?” “What is it?” briefly. “I simply wanted to to keep out of the Barrow affair,” he are ramifications to it which you don’t know; which you needn't know. Will you take my word that} it's wisest to let the twins attend to their own affairs?” The icy wrath ich_ he hadj stirred in her twice before rose} she demanded warn k ain, “No,” she answered deliberate- ly, “I won't. Won’t. take your word, and won't keep out of their affair. It seems to me to need a | would be O. Randall “By whom?” “By—Ned Barrow.” “I was afraid so,” he oe “My dear girl, I wish you'd be- lieve that I really want to be a friend of yours—not an enemy. And as a friend I tell you that mixing up with Barrow and Alaine will bring down a lot of trouble on your head, I know. I've lived here several years and understand the situation as can’t hope to do—not for mont anyway. Barrow, heaven be praised, has gone to California for two weeks. Will you give me your word to do nothing about him and Alaine— most especially about Alaine—until he comes back?” “My dear Mac,” affably, “your solicitude is most gratifying — most gratifying in- deed. But somehow I can’t see how my helping a pair of lovesick they’ve wound themselves up into is going to harm me in the ieast. Likewise”—she cocked a mocking eye in his direction—“flattered as I am at your effort to look after me, I’m at a loss to understand why—” “Yes, you said that before. I wonder about it myself—some- times. Let’s put it that I hate to see either fools or angels rushing in where they shouldn’t tread.” “I being—?” “Take your choice,” he said, and strolled away. “My last word is: you'll regret it deeply if you don’t keep out of that mess!” ‘Very Unjust’ BRENDA had progressed from 4} the first square to the second in her book. She was supremely ‘| dissatisfied with the result but, as she reminded herself almost tearfully, she couldn’t stay or one chapter forever. Viciously she had scratched out the word “sparkling” from the cardboard plan. It was as much as she could do to get Margareth and Brian to open their mouths to each other, much less engage in sparkling dialogue. Their stiff, formal sentences disgusted the young author beyond measure, but try as she would, nothing bet- ter came. “And this makes three days to one chapter at that!” she thought. “At this rate Pll be forever writ- ing the infernal book!” She worked doggedly all morn- ing and until nearly four in the afternoon when she decided that a brisk walk would clear her mind. It was a heavenly day with ja blue haze on the hills beyond the town. “I wish I had a car,” she thought wistfully. “I'd like to drive out there and see the river. Oh!” She bumped into a young man who came dashing up the steps just as she went down. “I beg your pardon!” His tone was distinctly sulky. “I hoy I haven’t hurt—Oh, it’s you, Miss Burnham!” “Brenda,” she corrected with a smile. “Call me Brenda, Ab!” “You recognize me then?” “Of course! You and Alaine make a rather impressive pair, you know. Did you want to see Adelaide? I'm afraid she’s out just | now.” He glowered at her. “It’s you I want to see!” “I?” She glanced again at his wrathful young face and took a sudden decision. “That's your car at the curb, isn’t it? Well, then suppose you take me for a little drive while we talk. I was just ee I could get out to those ills.” He hesitated. Plainly the idea .| of driving about a girl with whom he had come to quarrel was a | trifle disconcerting to him. “You might as well,” she as- | sured him, “All right!” He closed the door upon her, careful even in his an- noyance to see that her skirts were protected, and went around | to his own seat, “Look here, Miss | Burnham, I—” “Brenda.”* “Well, Brenda. then. But don’t think that I intend being friends with you, because I don’t! I know what you've been up to with Alaine. I know you're Rhos, her to marry Ned Barrow and want to tell you—” “Encourage her? My dear boy, wasn’t she packing to elope with him when I arrived on the scene? Didn't I talk her into postponing it, merely to give her time to make up her quarrel with you? I think,” Brenda concluded plain- tively, “you're very unjust! “A lot I care what you think,” he told her with boyish rudeness. “Tf that was all that happened, it K. But it wasn’t all. You sent Barrow off to California and got Alaine all stirred up over his going. . . . I tell you, she never took him seriously before, no mat- ter how often she threatened to marry him. But now—now! You to keep her thoughts on him, called or written.” “You understand a lot for a child of your age,” she said coldly, “Child! I'm nearly twenty-one!~ little adjusting. And I'd have you know,” she continued defiantly, a I’ve been asked to adjust | TRANSPORTATION S. S. CUBA j Steamship Cuba arrived this morning from Tampa with two first class passengers and seconds for Key West, 29 first And it doesn’t take either or. | wisdom to see through this e maneuver of yours.” Continued tomerrew the following items: For Key West, 168 tons of freight and one sack of mail. For Havana, six tons of freight, one automobile and 83 sacks of mail. The Cuba sailed at 10:30 for no Havana with 70 first cabin pas-!} sengers booking at Key West, I}922 Eaton street. Rev. uu Howell, pastor of the Ley Me-icluded at the Lester home on! How THE NAVY GROWS poor what it meant to go hun- knew the one and identical thing | SOCIETY :-: Solomon-McHugh_ j Wedding Last Night Helen Louise Solomon, daugh-| ter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Solo- mon, became the bride of Marion | W. McHugh in a beautiful cere-/} mony last evening at 8:00 o'clock, | at the home of the bride’s parents, oO. C.} morial Methodist Church per-! |formed the ceremony. Mrs. C. F.! fptaelsaemie Jr., was matron of; Beach Party Held At Rest Beach Farewell beach party honorin; bury was given last evening on Rest Beach. } After several hours of fun on} the beach the party was con-| Division street where dancing was enjoyed. } Those attending were: Misses! jIgnatius Lester and Hilary Al. SENTIMENT CHANGING HELP FOR THE ALLIES THE GUNS ON HAND OUR AIRPLANE STRENGTH honor, and Paul Monsalvatge Ophelia Lester, Betty Rae Rus-|, The impact of events in Europe to give succor to the hard-pressed was best man. Mrs. Minnie Robinson sang “O; Truly”, while Charles Roberts} presided at the piano. bury, Mary Louise Bonniwell, Shuster. ' Frank Johnson, Orvis Kemp,' \sell, Phyllis Adams, Dorothy Al- have shattered American com- placency and awakened the peo-! she began | promise Me” and “I Love You!Anita Berkowitz, and Lorraine Ple of this country to the desper- ate need for energetic action | gi looking toward the defense of the | A A large circle of relatives and Henry Higgs, Jack Cormack, Sir- United States. the wedding. After the cere- youngsters out of a coil of trouble|friends were in attendance at'ney Aronovitz, Joe Allen, Hilary Albury, Lance Lester, Jr., Igna-| Coincident with the mony delicious refreshments of tius Lester, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Success of Hitler’s invasion, the punch and cake were served. Mr. and Mrs. McHugh will make their home on Eaton street. | St. Paul Ladies To Stage Bingo Party Ladies of St. Paul's Church | will entertain with a bingo and | card party in the Parish Hall on} Bahama street tomorrow evening | at 8 o'clock. i Refreshments will be served | and prizes awarded. A large at-! tendance is anticipated. j | NOTES OF TODAY. | Miss Shuster Visits Here ! Miss Lorraine Shuster of Mil-} ford, Conn., is spending a vaca-: tion in this city as houseguest of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Elwood on Grinnell street. Here On Business G. Gibson, gas inspector, who had been in the city on business, ' a guest at the Hotel La Concha,, left this morning for Miami Beach. On Visit To Son Mrs. Eliza Almyda was a pas-: senger on the morning bus going | to Miami for a visit with her son} Charles, and to spend a while in! the city. Leave For Miami Visit Mrs. R. J. Bethel and daughter, Thompson, and son, Garry, on the 7 o'clock bus this morning! months with their parents and Emilio Lounders. To Attend Graduation Mrs. George A. T. Roberts left on the early bus this morning to attend the graduation of her granddaughter, Miss Mary Wall- ing, at Wellesley College, Welles- ley, Pa. Mrs. Roberts plans to! remain until September. Castillos Visit Here Joe Castillo, formerly of Key} West but now making his home| in Tampa, arrived yesterday accompanied by Mrs. Castillo, and will visit several days in the city meeting old friends, and forming new ones. PENETRATOR PENS | There being various degrees of poverty, it seems to be a matter of how you take it. One north- ern tourist.said his idea of pov- erty was the woman who didn’t have time to play bridge because she had to go to a movie. But) we knew a woman irl New York, who, in spite of plenty of time to play bridge, had poverty of} understanding. We were discussing hungry people, starvation, She said she gry. One night she had an en-| gagement to have supper with her husband at a famous restau- rant at 6:00 o'clock but boeriaioe detained the husband and it was/ 9:00 o’clock before they ate. She; was so hungry her stomach ach-/ ed, so she knew what starvation | | meant. |starvation? Starvation is not be-| ing three hours late to a meal, it} is not even missing a meal or two. ; Starvation is having too little to; jeat to sustain strength, day after |you keep a secret.until some dis- | ern*South’ America,” Greenland, | day, week. after week, month strength because you eat only enough to stop the gnawing pains re your belly, hoarding a slice of bread for the next day. Starva- {tion causes you to disgorge food jas fast as you swallow it, if you're {not careful | It is starvation that drives you out into the street to pick up a ——— day after day you lose | | cabin passengers and nine second six automobiles and nine sacks | tomato to eat that has fallen from cabin for Havana. Passengers for Key West were Mrs. H. Warner and Jerry War-| ner. ' Manifest of the ship showed’ of mail, which were loaded here. More than a third of China’s|things around you getting dirty said: ' opulation is unable to read or Jand broken because you cannot is an accident, _ “buy soap and even if you did youimitted poverty”. write, si 4 some vegetable wagon. It is |starvation when you see the | pear ans eee Mary J. McMahon _view of poverty. Elwood and Mr. and Mrs. J. L.| Granger. Ignatius and Hilary will leave! ville. \ To Be Married Marriage license was issued confidence of Americans general- startling | ly in the success of the Allied na- | si tions deteriorated. For the first the world conditions which will result in the events of a German riumph. Along with this reali- |zation came a complete under-| |standing of the reliance hereto- | fore placed upon the navies of Great Britain and France in re- |this weekend to attend summer |time in many years, the people able to guarantee the accuracy of ischool at U. of Florida, Gaines- | °f this country began to visualize ‘the figures, we give below some |” ‘idea of the existing strength of jthe United States in respect to |the armed forces of the nation. | Anti-aircraft guns, 164 on ‘hand; 900 ordered. Anti-tank guns, 300-400 on from the office of County Judge |S@rd to protecting the Atlantic |hand; 1,000 ondered. Raymond R. Lord authorizing the wedding of Woodrow E. Wilson, | of Bismark, North Dakota, and West. an. The President’s fireside chat to 'Miss Mary J. McMahon, of K the nation, calling attention to aa eB api: “7 | the seriohs state of world affairs | Scout cars, 500 on hand; ‘un- {known number ordered. | 15-MM Howitzers, a handful on hand and 300-400 ordered. Field Artillery, 5,000 war-time It was stated that the wedding |@nd urging an immense appro- '75’s, about 1,000 modernized and ceremony would be performed by Rev. J. P.~ Lilly,. of Fleming Street Methodist church. COUNTY BOARD TO PURCHASE BONDS. (Continued from Page One) the Chamber would be so ad- vised. Communication from Carl D. Brorein, president of the Florida Fair and Gasparilla Association, concerning the idea of a Cen- tennial Exposition in 1945. The board expressed their hearty approval of the idea, and Attorney Harris was requested expressing approval. National Bank of $46.75, was priation for increastd national defense, was met by an almost unanimous assent everywhere. In fact, the general comment was not as large as expected, but the probability is that additional re- quests, to be made to Congress, will largely increase the expen- diture for national defense in the coming fiscal year. By. non-partisan votes, the Sen- ate and the House rushed legisla- \asked the county commissioners tion designed to put into effect 'for an expression of their views immediately the bulk of the President’s recommendations. The state of the public mind can be accurately seen when one ob- serves that the Senate twice vot- ed enormous appropriation bills | This rate will be increased to} ‘to formulate a resolution to be |for defense without a single dis-|400 daily soon. ;forwarded to President Brorein,| senting vote and the House, 7 {measures affecting the expansion |ships of 1,256,760 tons on hand Patsy, and sister, Mrs. Reynold; Report of Sheriff K. O. Thomp- of the Navy recorded only one and 76 ships, 488,600 tons, on or-|- left :son, showing deposits in the First | dissenter. in ‘1,200 to be modernized. i Field Artillery (heavy), a few ‘experimental guns with an un- known but small quantity order- \that the amount requested was/|ed. Army aircraft, 2,422 on hand, with 3,128 ordered. This includes 853 combat, several hundred) modern, 656 training, 903 miscel- laneous, such as cargo and photo- | graphic planes. National Guard airplanes, 262 and 100 planes on hand for the organized reserves. Navy airplanes, 1,765 on hand, and 1,127 ordered. ~ The Army has about 17,000 |Guerrand semi-automatic rifles on hand and they are being de- Hlivered at the rate of 200 daily. \ The Navy has a total of 369 der. | Battleships, 15 (three over-age) Report of Clerk C. Sam B. there has developed a keen in- struction. activities of the court for the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Curry of Criminal Court covering | terest in the possible presence of : “Fifth Columnist.” Not only has Aircraft carriers, five on hand and one under construction. months of April and May was the Federal Government devoted Cruisers, 35 (two over-age) on placed on file. Clerk Sawyer reported tax cer- tificates redeemed or purchased | during the month of May, cash and 6&4 cents in bonds. attention to the activities of spies and saboteurs, but state and municipal governments have taken action designed to prevent hand and eight being built. and 40 under construction. |amounted to $446.03; $445.19 in alien residents from interferring under construction. |with the defense of the United / Report of Tax Collector Frank States. Almost overnight senti-} The above figures are taken H. Ladd showed deposits of $4,- ment in the country has shifted from a special tabulation publish- 144.09 in the First National Bank |away from a policy of isolation|ed in The New York Times and allocated to the different funds as follows: and, while it is too early to say |do not include orders to be placed j |that the majority of our people | under new appropriation bills de-| General Revenue Fund, $639.21; are insisting upon prompt assist-|signed to augment the armament | Fine $238.30; Outstanding Indebted- ness Fund, $953.18; Special Ad- vertising Fund, $238.30; Road Fund, $476.59; General School Fund, $819.31; Special School Dis- trict No. 1, $779.20. First National Bank was, on motion, designated as the de-| positary for funds of the county. | All of the bills were read by | the clerk and on motion were to; be paid. when funds were avail-| able. j BROADWAY MARKET REMAINS CLOSED | Announcement is made today |money for ships and planes andj Market, |tanks and soldiers. No matter! that the Broadway Angela and Duval streets, would | weekend. Rivero brothers, proprietors, have been called to Miami where | their mother is seriously ill, it; was announced. wouldn’t have the strength to use it. Starvation drives you out | of doors to lie flat on the ground} the flesh from Your bones, aj pound a month until you are skeletonized. ‘ Starvation is something that) (military establishment and Forfeiture Fund, ance to the Allies, “short of war,” |of the United States. AND TAX BILLS OF _Economic Highlights | HAPPENINGS THAT AFFECT THE DINNER PAILS. DIVIDEND INDIVIDUAL; CHECKS EVERY NaTIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS INSEPARABLE FROM LOCAL WELFARE j The nation is embarking on a! possess a two-ocean navy. Outs, | out, there is more to national de- fense than simply appropriating how great a nation’s resources, ‘remain closed, probably over this|an adequate defense structure! cannot be created overnight. And when a nation has long been ac- customed to the ways of peace, | it isan extremely difficult thing jto adapt it to the ways of war. The defense program involves many questions, some as yet un- answered. First and by far the | défense program * unprecedented say the experts, is good \in its peace-time history. But, as/ ‘the commentators are pointing! to protect us in either the Pa- cific or the Atlantic, but not in ‘both. And it would take many | years to build a ifleet. That explains the wide- spread hope that if the Allies Hose, the British fleet will be ei- ther scuttled or, better yet, sent to Canada, where it could work in co-operation with ours. Another question ‘involves the role of labor in national defense. | The columnists have been almost unanimous in saying that labor most important question is sim-! How could you make a woman jin the dirt, seeking strength from | ply this: What are we going to ment sufficient to guard our ter- ritorial borders is one thing—a adequate to guard the Philippines, north- make her wonder why he hasn’t | with that viewpoint- understand;mother earth. Starvaton takes|defend? A military establish-| number jer far-flung places, is obviously |! thing, the knowledge of that) another: That question cannot be fully answered until it be- great loving-kindness in the oth-| comes completely clear who is. er fellow’s heart, once he knows going to be the winner in the; your plight. * . Will Lewis says: “Poverty is: inconvenient as hell, but it’s no; . ‘re 7. 2+ Our grandmother had j A hole in f stocking did not phaze her. ; “A hole in your but that our whole a darn is ad-/ di | European war. If the Allies win,/ | we will have little to fear. If Ger-| and OF CHICAGO Matinee—Balcony 10c. 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