The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 15, 1940, Page 3

MONDAY, JULY 15, 1940 YESTERDAY. Unknown to Jan, Johnny Benton decides that she will be his wife. Derek ac- cepts the fishing barge job al- though he declares that work isa nuisance. Chapter 10 Painting Critic EREK’S rioftiér had kept him just long endugh to extract a substantial egttigraent from Greg- ory Knowles, then shipped him back-to Eton, a boy disillusioned, embittered from seeing things he should not have seen; a sensitive iad, too introspective, turning with all the zealous starved fer- vor of his emotional nature to nnusie. At eighteen his father took him to New York to live wite his step- mother, a charming, quiet wo- man who was good to him. Trou- ole came. Loyal to his stepmother. cae violently his father’s new- found love, a sleek young actress. he stayed on with the second Mrs. Knowles until, inadvertently, he learned that she, too, was using him as a pawn. At nineteen he demanded to go abroad to study: his accusing, vio- lent dark eyes meeting his fa- ther’s. He [listened to copybook maxims, to fumbling words of at- tempted explanation and recon- ciliation, took his letter of credit and sailed alone. But he could not escape being Derek Kaiowles, heir to a huge| fortune, Tich in his own right, at twenty-one, from a legacy of his paternal grandmother. He was news. He was the son of Gregory Knowles, fimancjer, capitalist. Girls clutched at him, fawned over him, pursued him. At twenty-one he was a cynic about women. Until he met Lenore Page. “Nuts!” said Derek, sitting up on the sand. “Jan’s right. It’s a lot of fun to feel sorry for your- self.” About now, he thought, hi: father would be hearing from his lawyers that his son and only heir was well on his way to China. “Might as well be,” Derek re- flected. “T’ll never run into any-| one I know down here. I’m safe enough. Safe from Lenore and Lea and all their kind. I like it. I'm going to stay.” He chuckled to himself over the fact of Jan hunting him a job. He'd never worked for anyone in his life, except his music profes- sors; never earned a penny of his own. It would be novel, at least Certainly, today, he was in no mood to cast himself into the water. He wondered if a great deal of money would spoil Jan. His smile soured. He had no wish to find out. She tolerated him; pitied him, probably; would in all like- lihood try to manage him as she “But the s only tning { want to paint!” she ‘isted. tears edging her voice. “Fruit, flowers, trees, houses—no!” “What about people?” “I never tried. Always,” her voice mounted, “always the sea! It’s practically an obsession. I sup- pose I should hate that vast mur- derous expanse of brine because it took my father and mother from me, but I don’t.” “Then,” he advised after a si- lence, “do nothing for a time. Let your creative ground lie fallow awhile and Jet other impressions crystallize. If yi have genius. and you may h: it lying latent. undeveloped, it’s for something else perhaps. Jan! What is...” For she was weeping, the hot tears pushing through her thick lashes. Consternation filled him She was so fragiletooking, she looked like a hurt child erying out heartbreak and _ disappointment. “I—I know I’m not a—a genius.” ve tried and es 1 thought i had it—but I didn’t have it. f° | eludes me, like wind. Wanting t« jdo a thing isn’t—doing it.” |. “Don’t I know?” he asked soft |ly. “I guess we're just a couple ot | frustrated artists, Jan, and misery loves company.” He put his arm around her shoulders in a gesture of sympathy and camaraderie. Hex | hair, fragrant and clean and un | perfumed, blew against his chin Then something. call it an emo | tional spark, sprang from nowhere | to ignite both of them. Trembling she turned to face him. His arr | tightened, caught her close agains: his hard chest; his @ ¥ brushec the tear-drops from her lashes then found her lips and held them in a kiss. A very tender kiss. He felt her mouth soft and quivering and unanswering. Unconscious it piqued him. Again he kiss her, ips importunate. Her arm: | went up and around his neck ani caught bys a s.déen rapturous emotion, she returned his kiss. A moment he held her, -hen let her | go, rudely, abruptly. ‘Rather Melodramatic’ | "THROUGH tears, she saw the | dark scowl on his face. “No use making us both more | miserable!” he grated. “Damn it. Jan, ['m sorry this happened. ! liked the basis we were on. I can’t give you love, romance, marriage. and you're the sort who’d expect them. I can’t give anybody any thing, least of all myself. I wist you'd forget I kissed you.” She shoved her hair back ot! her ears and managed a very small ghost of a smile. “I have 4 | Poor memory,” she said. A gust of | anger swept her. “Aren't you be. | ing rather silly, Derek? Rathe: melodramatic? 1 didn’t inquire whether your intentions were hon orable or not, you — you egotist | Don’t you think I've been kissec before?” The shrill sound of | her voice irritated her ears. “t THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ~~~ HIGH TID E ATMENCSTOP SOFTBALL GAMES TIGERS TWICE; AT PARK TONIGHT DODGERS SUM) on cs cme | Bayview Park in the National and American Softball Leagues ,of Key West will feature the Merchants vs. Key West Conchs in the opener. This will be the initial contest for the Merchants and the second for the Conchs ‘ sinee the reorganization of the Conchs held U.S.S. Lea scoreless and hitless in their first appear- ance. This will be an American League tussle. Blue Sox and Siwyer’s Barbers will tangle in the nightcap as a National League affair. Barbers will start Castro im the box and Hopkins behind the plate. M. Arias will do mound duty for the Sox and C. Rosam or G. Garcia will receive his slants. INDIANS LOST TO NATS: BO- SOX TAKE TWIN BILL; RED- LEGS BEAT PHILS TWICE: YANKS NEAR TOP, (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, July 15.—Phila-| delphia Athletics took the wind out of the Detroit Tigers yester- day with a double victory, 8-2; and 5-2, to skip up the ladder into sixth-place. Porter Vaughan, 21-year-old southpaw, won his first victory for the A’s in the opening fracas. He struck out seven Tigers to bring his total strikeouts for his three appear- ances on the mound this year to 17. Nelson Potter completed the sweep by scattering nine hits in the nightcap for his sixth win. Washington Senators climaxed a 14-hit attack off Al Smith andj; Joe Dobson by pushing over a run in the eleventh on Buddy Lewis’ foul-line single with the bases loaded to defeat Cleveland indians, 6 to 5. Nats remain in} the cellar, however. Indians’ sead over the Tigers was in- creased to a game, despite the joss. ; Boston Red Sox moved up to SOFTBALL STATISTICS In the National Softball League, Clarencg “Cigarette Willie” Gates, moundsman for Pepper’s Plumb- ers, has pitched two games and won both since play began last week. One of the victories was .over the Blue Sox and the other from Sawyer’s Barbers. j Johnny Walker has a perfect average, 1.000, in the hitting de- partment of the league, followed by E. Nelson, .667; Albio Ace- vedo, .667; G. Garcia, .500; .€. Rosam, .500; J. Carbonell, Bar-’ celo, Higgs, Baker, M. Tynes, within three and one-half games|Hopkins and D. Sterling, .333 lof the Tribe by virtue of a dou-' each. - le vi: y over St. Louis Browns, : ——_— ; 54 Soe 73. Roger Cramer's! Dewitt Roberts, who twirled a no-hit, no-run game against the USS. Lea, is the leading pitcher in the American League, although two other moundsmen have also |won a game apiece—Klink over the NavSta and Spakes, who re- lieved White, over the CCC's. McCarthy, of the 3C’s, has a e -nth-inning two-bagger drove rome Dom DiMaggio with the winning run in the opener. All players hit safely at least once for the Bosox in the nightcap, which went only seven innings because of a Sunday law. Two home runs, one each by DiMag- gio and Bobby Doerr, were re-| Perfect isting average, -, corded for the Sox in the seeond followed by E. Hamilton, 667: Arnold, .667; Delaney, Curry, game. New York Yankees, with Red Ruffing hanging up his fourth straight and eighth victory of the year, shutout the Chicago White Sox, 4-0, to cut their distance Williams, Klink, Cardova, J. Menendez, Plummons, Best and | Barrs, 500 each; Wylie and Skin- er, .400 each; Almeda, Morton, Kitchins, Skoko, Matthews, Lac- from first. place to three games.|key, Wilson and Maloney, .333 The Yanks stretched their win- |©@¢ch; Fricke, .285. ning streak to four games. Ruff-/ ss : ling performed in great style, North Dakota is the eighth state to adopt a_ constitutional amendment preventing use of victories ~ sin j automobile tax funds for non- limiting the Chisox to four safe- ties. Two hundred Do You SMOKE THE CIGARETTE T# by Grand \ Leformance PaGe THREE r SATISFIES E.cery time you light « Obesterfucid you can count on the best im smok- \ ing pleasure. The answer is that \ Chesterfield sets the pace wath every modern improvement that makes Millions buy Chesterfield. pact after pack, for all the thimgs they want in a cigarctie._Real Milduess, Better Taste and Cooler-Smoking. did Lance and her House; but he| —it was just one of those thing: had no intention of letting her| that happen sometimes. You were know who he was or how rich he} sorry for me—I was sorry for you ee | 2 he began pitching in the big {highway purposes. show 16 years ago, is the record was. He’d try to earn enough money to pay for his food and the rest of the time, well, the hot sun was pleasant. Tomorrow? It never comes. When Jan heard the trap door lifted she knew it was Derek. No one else would venture up here to disturb her solitude. She didn want him here; didn’t want him| to see the quite lovely sweep of beach and sky she had just sketched and painted with water colors. Yet she sensed his coming here was somehow inevitable. “T’'ve come to bare your soul,” he announced, striding toward her, a grin on his arrogant face | “You owe it to me after yesterday ! should have left that piano alone. I knew better, but—let me see your canvases.” Tender Kiss PECAUsE the day was really warm, she had come up here tn brief shorts and sun halter. As she kneeled down to take a half- dozen carefully-wrapped picture: from the locker she felt Derek’s eyes on her. “You have a lovely figure,” he commented casually. “Not an ounce..ef fat on you.” “It must be the Melba Toast and grapefruit diet, or maybe the rowing machine in the attic which I never use.” “After all, what is an attic with- out a rowing machine? And fam- ily skeletons.” “No skeletons,” she assured him. “At least, not Merriner skeletons. Not yet, anyhow.” “Then there's no hope for you. ‘You can’t be glamorous without a skeleton or two to rattle. Here, let me help you with those canvases.” Um ing one painting at a time, she handed it over for his an ited crit ly. She tried to aad he reaction from his expression and could not. Fear mounted in her; the certain fear that he would confirm her own opinion. “Jan,” he said, when the last = was back in its wrappings, WN. E, Ist Street at Miami, Summer Rates Single Room—Bath—$1.50 _ HOTEL LEAMINGTON —oh, Derek, for goodness’ sake | stop scowling and leave me alone!” | At the edge of the trap door he | paused to look back at her queer ly. uncertainly. Then from below | Lance called. | | When Lance called, Jan went At once. without fuss. If she didn’: he fretted himself into sick fever ishness. Jan dabbed at her eyes with he: hands before she opened his door She saw at once what had prompt ed his call. The clipper ship, in the process of being varnished | had slipped from his hands to the | floor and one of the wings hac | crumpled. Lance was staring at it vhite-faced, as if it were a world | shaking calamity, but Jan knew | he wasn’t seeing the tiny ship a | all; he was living again over the | times he’d piloted great planes on test flights and bailed out more | than once when a wing gave way | She went down on her knees to pick up the tiny model plane. Mo | mentarily she forgot the scene on | the roof. As she laid the plane on | Lance’s lap she looked into his drawn face. At first he seemed not to to see her at all, then his eyes focussed and he demanded: “What happened between you and Derek, Jan? I heard him go up on the roof. You've been cry- ing. What did he say to you? Wha: did he do?” Telltale scarlet rushed up her throat and flamed in her cheeks “Nothing, Lance.” |. “Don’t lie to me, Jan! Did he | hurt you in some way? Did he” Answer me!” “He only agreed with me tha: my painting is no good,” she con | fessed wearily. “And then I wen: Pane and —and cried. That's His strange. beautiful eyes | bored into her. “That's all you in- tend to tell me, at least,” he amended. “Jan, are you falling in love with the man? Are you?” “Of course not, silly.” “You never were a good pre | varicator,” he frowned. “You don’t know who he is. Nothing about him. An honest man is not so ret- icent about himself, Jan. I won't see you hurt. Tell him to go. Tell him to leave our house. Right now. If you don't tell him, I will I mean it, Jan.” Te be continued. Biscayne Boulevard Overlesking Bayfront Park and Biscayne Bay opposite _ Union Bus Station Florida One Block from Shopping District and Amusements Until December Double Room—Bath—S2.00 hung up by Freddy Fitzsimmons |fensberger, Page and Todd. yesterday as he twirled the} Fe Brooklyn Dodgers to a 2-0 win| a) Giaieime OMe Op over the Pittsburgh Pirates in|, ’. 7 = : a « |Philadelphia 210 1 the nightcap of a twin bill. Bues | Cincinnati e774 ok ea Se PASEO Higbe and Atwood; Turner and + Truett Sewell’s five-hit per- bardi. formance. Fitzsimmons joins the | Lom! ranks of four other active hurl- ers, Lefty Grove, Red Ruffing,| 4+ cin, — Game aa Ted Lyons and Carl Hubbell, who | Phila acini. i 448 hee seen 200 oe se Care aot 7 @| Freddy’s four-hit victory yester-| ck. Smoll = pone, Seed day was his eighth win of the | sscore ‘and Hersitberger: BETTER MADE FOR BETTER SMOKING Here as seen in the new film “TOBACCOLAND, ' U.S.A.” is one of the most amazing devices in cigarette making —Chesterfield's electric de- tector. Twenty mechonical fingers examine each cigarette in a pack and if there is the slightest pack is automatically ejected. (Chesterfield ONE-AFTER-ANOTHER Thaw Saltify Coe A ee eee Piechota, Strinecevich, Coffman season against one loss. oem emus izwyers). three are newspape wit ineeedty eit: ase Ze ne LEAGUE STANDINGS FLORIDA = x = = : At St. Louis R. HE. Greatest difference is im 1 doubleheader from Philadelphia! FERRIS WHEEL ra “ F Phillies, 3-2 and 7-1. Homers by ear a attitude toward things os Lonnie Frey and Ernie Lombardi|" | AMERICAN LEAGUE By HORTENSE K. WELLS | With two exceptions, all ‘the aided the Reds in the opener.| : and Berres; Shoun, Hutchinson Whitey Moore, who went the! 5 : A jand Owen. route for the first time this year,! held the Phils to four safeties in| s i Gamée > "| the nightcap. The double win} = |was the eighth out of . 12 tain | eee Paes jbills the Reds have played so|oy joni \far this season and their fifth in)” Jovery and Masi the last sixth doubleheaders. ! New York Giants and Chicago | Cubs divided a double-barrel af- fair, Bruins taking the opener 6-5 when Bill Nicholson homered in| \the thirteenth inning against Owen. AMERICAN LEAGUE First Game At Philadelphia Detroit s ‘women have been active The political spotlight, variable Democratic orgenization work— as the forces that direct it, moves committee, Young Demo- from Philadelphia to Chicago, Ts etc. Among the men, = from Republicans to Democrats. |*f @5 our knowledge goes The convention will adopt a ome has been active m such ce ‘more forthright platform than pacity, that sturdy Democrat the one finally concocted at Phil- | Fred Cone. adelphia. it will advocate Pre-| Of the fourteen votes, twelve paredness, peace, continuance of and one-half are pledged to New Deal policies. __.. |Reosevelt. The one full vote has It will hand the nomination come out for Hull. the half vote to Roosevelt on a gold (mot sil-') 2 “Jit” so far as we know New You = Boston x S& Loewe LEGALS Tae CEE, CO8ET oe eee Paul Dean, and the Giants aN- | Philadelphia $13: 30'% i: ver) platter. This has beem 80. yyoct of the ai = behind | —_— ‘inna’ 676 - * delegates and FLSTENTS JS ESL CEE pear reat aay nd Rowe, Seats, McKain and Teb- peace = "944 Jong expected, however, it will temates are agreed on one thing ~~ ist Bill Lohrman’s seven-hit PeF-|netts; Vaughan and Hayes. {New York 30 583 Jack the element of surprise, 28d ‘Cisude Pepper for vice-president | Ts omancmme Bees : | — Chicead 40 506:F-D-R. just loves surprises, S0\atter Willkie and MacFadden com So tae | St Louis Cardinals yesterday | Setcult: Gime | pitti 41 431 Dthing he does will surprise us|... wouldn't be so brash as * . recorded their second straight) + philadelphia R HE ise Louis 41 431! ne say it can't happen, but i is uz-|__ = —— twin-bill victory as they defeated | netroit - ¢ 29 fae re 386 In Florida, attention is cen- likely. One reason being a, ou —~ Boston Bees 8-7 and 3-1. |Philadelphia _ 5 10 0 Philadelphia "95 48 342 tered on the alternates to the o.- nomination of McNary, bie ee Results of the games follow: |” Gorsica, Benton and Sullivan: | pl “& convention and the delegates for ‘an tor from the Far Ay -y NATIONAL LEAGUE Policnond dane Sexe ere saris they | wall speak. ™ ph gece raceme exe § a = First Game group wi all “broke lection of from that ~——+_-~—~ At Pittsburgh R.HE| First Game (Key West Softball) with governors; past, present Gf section, for there's votes in them —— = Brooklyn 2 5 2! At Boston R-H.E aoe sina * ry Ap he recovers sufficiently) and thar states ———a Pittsburgh ___ Mipes Le aes 410 0 Pi cans Babe cage 1 1 500 eee, SY nothing of severnl! ‘No one has less need for S A ——— Hamlin, Kimball, Tamulis and|Boston 5 11 9 Sawyers *S —— 4 1 ‘gop Whe hope, some day, to be thus than a vice-preidential candidate at Phelps; Sewell and Davis. | Kennedy and Swift; Grove, sais gate ai me catalogued. jbut he must have vote appeal jon — = = ——— |Dickman and Desautels, Peacoek. = ; : 3 and McNary has it. nn ae H eee LEAGUE Highlights and sidelights on w FDR takes the nomination, —— a At Pittsburgh (Key West Softball) :the delegates: best guess is Justice Douglas, of ——— Brooklyn L. Pet. Of the eight elected. at large. arizona If the choice for second o—a Pittsburgh eet © 1.000 the vote was: four women, 367,- place comes to es Fitzsimmons and Mancuso; © 1000 459; four men, 281,568; a differ- "1 likely hit — —_ -_ |Heintzelman, Lanning and Loper{ = goed pews 85,891 i 3 os ie = First Game 1 .000 highest vote recei —— ae At Chicago 1 .000 an was 98,803; —- New York — 575. The hi pe = Chicago by 2 amt was — << Schumacher, P. Deaa, LE | Of the nine = and Danning; Lee, Root, Passeau/Rosar. only three have .& —--4 and Hartnett, Todd. their alternates. — = ow