The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 21, 1940, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Casual Slaughters _:-: SOCIETY :-: =e By VIRGINIA HANSON YESTERDAY: The handsomest young man Kay has ever seen, a Gerald Beaufort, boot salesman of London, arrives on the post, Felicia Bridewell, the hostess, Colonel Pennant, the command- ing officer, Adam and Kay are still discussing the chaplain’s case at lunch. Chapter Four. Felicia’s Shopping H* WAS just leaving. Pield- stone Inn,” continued the Colonel, “where he had dinner when he saw a man walking along the road and stopped to ask him how far it was to Fort Michigan. The man said ten miles, end that he was going there him- self, so Henry told him to get in. Unfortunately he didn’t get a good look at the fellow’s face— he had on a soft hat pulled down over his eyes and he didn’t have much to say. Henry described him as a small man, short and rather slender. They had covered about nine miles when he pulled a gun and, a few minutes later, directed Henry to turn onto the dirt road back of the post.” “They ought to be able to trace the car,” Gerald said reflectively. “Oh, they’ve found that. 1 had | word just before noon—it was abandoned about twenty miles from here, between here Chicago. It had been well driven, too—you see, the car was bought new in Chicago yesterday and driven directly here, so the troop- ers knew just what the mileage reading should be, and it was almost exactly twenty miles short of. three times what it should have been, if you follow me. In other words, the car could have been driven to Chicago from here, then back to the place where it was abandoned.” Felicia looked thoughtful. “Any clues in the car?” “None. The luggage was gone —it was empty as when he bought it; and there wasn’t a fingerprint in the car, not even Henry’s. It must have been gone over carefully and wiped clean by the thief. Probably used it to ‘pull some very unsavory job in Chicago last night.” The colonel’s face darkened. “If it's one of my men I'll get him if it takes until Christmas.” Gerald leaned forward and looked at the older man in some surprise. “What makes you think it’s one of your men, sir? Surely that doesn’t follow?” “Only because this incident so closeiy resembles one that pre- ceeded it, one which we have good Teason to believe involved some- one on the post.” He went on to tell them of the affair of the taxicab, which I ha heard from Adam that morning. “The presence of that regi- mental insignia in the cab is rather good proof,” he concluded. “Pleasant thought,” observed Felicia brightly. “A gangster right on the post with us. Immer- man, that’s the second dessert you've brought Miss Cornish; and | with all deference to her taste and her figure, I can’t believe she wants two helpings of bread pud- ing.” “I wondered if I was seeing things,” I murmured as Immer- man's agitated hand removed the second dessert. But Gerald was still pursuing the subject. “And you say, sir, that the taxi driver was also—er, divested of his clothipg? What a beastly criminal! You'd think one might be left a garment or so, what? I mean to say—at least his boots. Man is so helpless in bare feet.” “Probably the idea exactly,” said Adam. “Wonder they weren't put permanently out of the way.” “That's so, too. Can’t have been very desperate, eh? Just in a‘ hurry.” Gerald Beaufort paused, @ serious gleam in the gray eyes. “L say, sir, did they get away with all the poor chaplain’s belongings uniforms and all?” “Everything. He was in civilian clothes, but he had a small trunk full of his uniforms and accouter- ments in the back of the car. Even a full outfit of the new blues—darned expensive, I can tell you. And of course-they can’t be sold for a fraction of their cost ure vandalism.” e fringed gray eyes were dreamy. ‘Too Attractive’ = ask when I can see him. 4Vi Bit of Boots, belts. Must see what I can do for him?” Mrs. Bridewell pushed back her ir. “Bit of business for me, too,” she remarked tartly, giving the Englishman a withering glance of which he seemed hepouly un- conscious. “I'm a g shopper : I do say it, and he sounds help- fess.” She rose, put down her napkin. “Boots and belts, indeed!” she said scornfully. at Re needs is shirts and shorts, and I'm the one to see that he gets them with what money he has left.” Five minutes later, having of- ficiated with her charming smile } at Colonel Pennant’s leave-tak- | ing, she turned her back on the} rest of us who had dropped lazily DIVORCE ACTION | Final decree in the divorce suit | of Nancy Jane Friedman against her husband, Max D. Friedman, | was filed in the circuit court, | Judge Worth Trammell, today,| according to records on file in: the clerk’s office. e ‘her bare arms and the spring of and | 1 was out of cigarettes. I do my son and. daughter-in-law of d | another thing business, what? | | Ps . | 3 ; into easy chairs on the veranda | Gala Function Will and, her spike heels tap-tapping | across the polished floor of the | lounge, made for the guest wing. was not a woman, but ! her slenderness and the slim per- fection of her navy-blue slacks and shirt made her appear so. | Her hair, which she wore always in sculptured ringlets, was uni- tformly gray; but looking at her now, at the taut smoot of Rehearsals are now going for- ward for the Junior Woman's Club-DeMolay’s, jointly spon- ‘sored dance to be given next Saturday night in the Rainbow Room at La Concha hotel, start- ing at 9:30 o'clock. Opening the show will be Mrs. Eva Warner who will present Irving Berlin’s hit “God Bless America”. This number will in- clude a military tap by Key West’s youngest tap dancer, Maynard Daniels. Gerald Pinder, teamed with Miss Carolyn Cherry, will dance “Begin the Beguin”, a swing tap her step, I doubted if she was forty. To my considerable annoyance, Gerald Beaufort sprang to his feet and pursued her, after only the most perfunctory excuse. “Too bad,” said Adam, eyeing me sympathetically. “Losing the old grip.” “You mind your own business.” “Very pretty. Girlish flush.” “And don’t be a fool. But I say | again what I've said before, that Felicia Bridewell is altogether ___—_— too attractive a woman to be hostess for a crowd of bachelors. paetgt Maa Mrs. Sands “Go on, say it,” urged Adam, ‘eturns | grinning. “Ive heard you on he R Home | subject-——” | And together we chanted—— “It’s downright unfair!” Adam had gone back to duty, }and I had retired to my rooms with every intention of doing }some work when I discovered that Mrs. Eva Sands, who had been visiting here with her mother, Mrs. Ella Bierna, returned to her home in Tampa Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Russell -Sands, Mrs. | heaviest smoking when I am at | Sands, were in Key West Friday passable Feguderrs et a enroute to Havafia, Cuba, where | to postpone the final, evil moment Shey. serill enone 58D Sae RCE of facing a blank sheet of paper. tion. Insignias ALMOST collided with Felicia Bridewell in the corridor. She | Was dressed re eae and car- tying a suit box, lor a mo- ment I thought she was annoyed Mrs. J. Roland Baker and to see me. But the annoyance daughter, Lelanette, arrived on Proved to be for her errand. 1 the late bus Monday night from “eee sent me the wrees | Inverness, Fla. | girdle. ey were having a bi: visiti i estat thems yesteniog 2 Mat The Bakers had been visiting shall Field’s, and I'm afraid the kind I want will be sold out, so I have to go back.” “I should go into Chicago and collect some unfinished manu- scripts,” I said, pursuing another excuse for idleness. “I didn’t ex- t to have time to work when ' Arrive From Inverness Visit In three days we made several {Til iet you know when I go ‘iPS back and forth between again,” she promised. “I've rot Tampa and St Petersburg, some to call up a friend tonight, and | times using Gandy Bridge, some- I ny be a eed the | times the Davis Causeway, ac- Post Exchange, wills oar ss cording to the section of the cit- She gave me the box to hold | ies we wanted to reach. We had while she unlocked her cell of the been paying 35c on the Gandy long garage behind the club and Bridge and 25¢ on the Davis — out aes at coupe. Causeway, for our station wagon. ost een eet keeping that On our last trip to St. Pete we ” etched Meng caeee es 251 | chose the Gandy Bridge, but this gage compartment sticks—that’s | time the attendant said, “50c” Lhave to see about “For what?” we asked. “You're today. I don’t know why I don’t trucking”, says he. “I'm not we denied, “those just move into Chica: - s* mute out there.” ‘She Sestisead ——_- “There’s that poor soul of a things in the back are my own chaplain, too, without any clothes. _ personal effects”. “Back up”, he Suppose I ought to offer to get ordered. We backed up and he him some panties, at least. Won- looked inside. “You're trucking” | der what size he wears.” She stopped in front of the Post peerless receipt from the Exchange and I got out. : 5 j. “I believe I'll stop by the hos- trip the day before, and silently | pital,” she said. There was a held that up for him to see the | wicked i pean = her Se8 Bee 35c on it. He shook his head. | be worth it just to see his face. uyoy ry, ” Ri Perfectly strange female popping ‘You pars got = — — in and demanding to know what then we saw red for that was a | size shorts he wears.” sore spot indeed. When we | With little persuasion I would bought the station wagon in Bos- ae Se — she car, at ton it was a passenger car and jshe wav er am im casual s i farewell, said, “I'll tell you about |"2d Passenger car plates on it. | it,7 -and the little car shot away ‘But the State of Florida says it's | from the curb. a truck—to the tune of $25 for a _ There was only one clerk in tag. The Gandy man probably es ie _ the oe ee wondered why we got mad, un- | Was waiting on a soldier. I drifta s i over that way. There was a tray —_ Sr asp a = sa full of- assorted metal -insignias ©¥°S of other station wagon on the counter between them. In OWners who resent being called his hand the soldier held a little truck drivers: | pin formed in-the shape of sabers However, he said, “Tll let you | ¢rossed below the number of the through this time for 35”. “No, 0 thanks”, we said, “there are other ing. “f gave a ae pales en. ways of getting there”. And we You know what suckers women backed out of the runway, turned | are for this stuff.” around and drove miles to the | ow a phone papas quarter Davis Causeway where we_went poy pepe trator — through without question for 25c. tutned, reached a practiced hand 5 @ Passenger car. jto the shelf, and sudderlly the _ Florida might take a tip from jaatel a oho eer ae New York State. which has a all over the floor. e soldier |special tag, just for station wag- pa pee Pabgctnr pee ons, priced between a passenger | fumbling fingers; but it was not (c2% and a truck. In all likelihood until I was nearly home that I |Florida’s vehicle laws were writ- realized why that had seemed a ten before station wagons were = — Paes put on the market, but Florida vas mmerm: i i gente a nena an, is so far behind the times that she | was still on my mind = paar hasn’t changed her laws to fit |my hair up on top of my head | the present times, or station wag- and put on a_long-ski or- (ons. i — — must have Some times we can’t help won- |had not stopped in for s'tigaretie | cTing why Florida tries to, get and a chat as he someti ae a and then when they do, rubs it || I_went into the lounge early, | hoping for a word with him alone, into them hard, like a penalty | but he and Gerald Beaufort were for staying here. We put up with the bar, w .it because of the climate but we | ne in t vaxing |friendly over cocktails. I declined ‘.2, imagine others might say, “T’ain’t wuth it”. | their invitation to join them and settied myself on the veranda with a magazine, hoping Adam would join me tly.. For Some reason which.I could not explain, I was reluctant to tell of at incident at the Post Ex- change in front of Gerald. Te be continued 2 Does anybody know what be- came of a place described to us as, “a little hole-in-the-wall place on south Duval Street, where one man at a tiny counter served the best enchiladas and tortillas I ever ate”? We ran into a former Key West visitor who was great- ly disappointed on his last trip ‘when he was unable’to find the place. He wants to know if it went out of business or was en- larged so much that he didn't recognize it. : Mary Thompson On Vacation Miss Mary Thompson left last week for North Carolina for a vacation of two weeks in that state. Miss Thompson was accom- Panied by Mr. and Mrs. Bob Rol- lins and Miss Elizabeth Swain of Miami. s+ After listening to other folks’ complaints about things costing more in Key West, like the lady Highlight WEDNESDAY, AUGUST | Not Billét-Proof But Tough Enough ‘To Resist Shotgun Fire at 15 Yards Joint Dance Saturday At Rainbow, :number routined for a marble! ' dance floor. ! Miss Elizabeth Gartenmeyer, | talented singer, will be heard in! vocal selections. Other-Highlights ‘of ~ the ~ pro- ‘gtamt |itichide: Solo tap, “Honeysuckle Rose”, } by “Sister” Maloney, considered | tops in rhythm tap in this city, | and Quartette, by Joe Lopez, Paul Esquinaldo, Paul Mesa and Harry Knight. Proceeds from this dance will be turned over to the charity funds of the sponsoring organiza- tions. ‘Visitors Return To Jacksonville Mrs. W. modern __ selection, | H. Smith and her! three children, Klip, Aulen and} Myrna Hart, who had been en-! joying a month’s visit with Mrs, | Smith’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al-/ lan Knowles of Southard street, | and a sister,-Mrs. Emerson. Arch- er, departed yesterday for their home in Jacksonville. They were accompanied on their return trip by Mrs: Smith’s niece, Mary Archer, who will spend a two weeks’ visit with her relatives and friends in that city. in that city with Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Koller and baby daughter, j Karla Rae. PENETRATOR PENS even buy a picture postcard for a penny in Key West, it was a great relief to us, if not to our pocketbook, to discover that Cu- ban sandwiches in Tampa cost 15c. We have a little scuttlebutt, as the Navy calls an unauthenticat- ed story, so as we cannot pass it along as news, we can say this story has all the earmarks of a movie scenario, In the midst of the storm on the Gulf recently, word was received that a German} agent was attempting to get into the U.S.A. from Havana, cover of the storm. The Coast Guard, the Air Patrol, the-F_ BI and others gave chase. They pick-, ed up a schooner and three small fishing smacks and arrests were made. It was admitted under questioning that the considera- tion for bringing the German, as reported to us, was $200. We just referred to a “storm on the Gulf’. We wonder what bright lad in the weather bureau thought up the phrase, “tropical disturbance”, for hurricane. Please, mister weather man, don’t get technical with us and try to explain that a hurricane isn't a hurricane until the wind rages at 80 miles an hour or better. We remember a few “tropical dis- turbances” and during one of them our ceiling fell. And in- spired us to verse, no less. TROPICAL DISTURBANCE I thought my doom, Had entered the room, It was three o'clock morning; I awoke with a start, And swallowed my heart, As I heard the crack of dawn- in the ing; I thought it was hell, As the ceiling fell, In the storm, without any warning; Tm really not kidding, Tll take plasterer’s bidding, For a job I can pay, without pawning. ee ee We haven't heard anything this year about the saw-grass in the Everglades blooming, sup- posedly a sure sign of approach- ing hurricanes, but. we have our suspicions. DOOMED BRIDGE GETS A REPRIEVE | (Ry Awsocinted Prewey under | | "TESTS to show the strength of the new laminated high test safety plate glass developed for automobile use are recorded by Prof. Harold E. Edgerton, of Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology. inventor of the ultra-high speed photographie technique that makes j exposures as short as 1/1,000,000th of a second. (1) | Standing but 15 yards away, Dick Shaughnessy, 17-year-old cham- | pion skeet shooter, takes aim with ' a 12 gauge automatic shotgun at a pane of the new laminated high test safety plate glass mounted in the windshield of a Buick Special sedan. His shells are loaded with 1% ounces of No. 6 chilled shot, and contain 3% drams of smoke- less powder, the heaviest duck load obtainable. (2) Triggered by the sound of the shot striking the windshield, Professor Edgerton’s stroboscopic light illuminates the scene with a flash lasting 1/1,000,- 000th of a second and having a peak intensity that would exceed 50,000 one-hundred watt lamps if they could be concentrated in.a small area. Note that the camera has caught some of the shot, trav- eling 100 feet per second faster than the report of the gun, in mid air. (3) Professor Edgerton, stand- ing beside his photographic appa- ratus, views the result of the test. The shot has cracked the glass, but REPAIR THE STREETS! | Since The Citizen's edi- torial concerning the bad con- this office has been swamped eon particularly bad spots. These will be passed on io the authorities for action from my ay “It seems to me that there are a number of reasons why the city ‘should repair the streets of Key West”, said a reader of The Citi- ‘zen yesterday. “The first and foremost rea- son, as I look at it”, the reader continued, “is the fact that the city is laid wide open for lawsuits should any of our residents or visitors wind up in a hospital or on a mortician’s slab as a direct result of the ruts, holes or ditches in our thoroughfares. And the city is in no position to pay out large or small sums for dam- ages and the like thus incurred. This may be a pessimistic way of looking at the situation, but who can deny that such is not the case? + * | “Other reasons can be} | up bri The apps other winter season; the. creasing number of cars city; the matter of civic-pride in our home town; the wear and ) tear on vehicles; the hazards pre- sented pedestrians who are near- blind or near-sighted. “The latest addition to the in- creasing practically ‘unnavigable’ thorotghfares is Eaton street. j 7 entire length on the west |Side is unfit for vehicular use. It would be a good idea to make | Eaton -a one-way street until it is putin a better condition. It | would be well also to have only! one-way traffic on portions or all of other roads. ; “Tf.1 recall rightly, the city council. raised the fee for city auto tags from $2.50 to $3.00 for PP Projects. ng this ad-' ditional a1 that the a ‘ ful *who complained that she couldn't 'fic. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. Aug. | for the benef 21.—The fortunes of war have for the privilege of operating isaved the “Gold Mine Bridge”. their automobiles or trucks over The old double-decker across/ the streets of our city. the Susquehanna to Perryville, “Let's have a planned program Md.. had been doomed to de-/of repairs until the time when a molition when a new $4,500,000 WPA project for the improve- ‘span was opened just upstream. | Ment of the thoroughfares can be Instead it’s to be saved for its secured with the help of the ad- national defense value. ‘ditional fee charged _Yehicular But townspeople who fought to operators in Key West”. keep the old span have won only 3 half their battle. The double-, Bride-to-be—What do you use decker was a free bridge, and the to clean the carpets? H new one charges toll. And the Hostess—I have tried lots of old bridge will be closed to traf- ones but I find my husband) Visiting Here With Thompsons ‘Mrs. Annie Proper. of St. Pe- the rest of the (By Anmecinted Prem: FINDLAY, O., Aug 2 towr tersburg, is visiting in this city jin 99-degree heat, B ser spent two and 2 half ;with her sister and brother-in- ilaw, Mr. Thompson. and Mrs. Arriving last Friday, Chester ‘thawing out frozen pipes Something went she plans to stay for two weeks. |the freezing unit This is Mrs. Proper’s first visit fountain. to Key West and she expressed herself as much pleased with the+ city and her experiences. BRITISH CONFIDENT BEFORE BLITZKRIEG (Continued from Page One) While admitting that their forces had suffered further defeat in Somaliland, the British stated that the Italians were being de- moralized in Ethiopia from the effects of concentrated R. A. F. attacks on several sectors. Tension between Greece and Italy grew apace this morning. It was reported that the Greeks had seen visible evidence of what nation sunk.the cruiser Helle last week... 2 ot t. was t tall up all armed eh gency, and announcements were made that Greece would take every step to protect its in- dependence: THUMBS ARE DOWN ON BEETLE HITCH HIKERS (By Associated Press) NEW- YORK, Aug. 21_—Japan- ese beetles, which can fly only five miles, have been hitching Tides on airplanes. To forestall them, the U. S. De- partment of Agriculture has post- ed inspectors at La Guardia air- Port to see that none of the pests come into New York on passen- gers’ clothing or baggage. 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