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SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 Casual Slaughters NO. B ee een AGvertisemems: uneer im esc FOR FELLER; REDS DEFEATED ======== for eech insertion, pet the mini- ome BY VIRGINIA HANSON = ecece eene YESTERDAY: Sandra brings a “But how can you know it isn’t hed: A ; 6 : every ian i s cae Pompous man named Ivan to a | the right money? It was all b i £ j Ns bed . : 7 : coi amemne | es eens baseball Ewin ee actor but hints mysteriously hi . 2 - - EisoocaGentisietesoreciat oo: | easter apace ee His Team To Seventh. Inning, Terr rosa in whist would ever see it. “And { T ‘ f yr: 2 Ti street address as well’ ay Suir ma immerman_was. the kid- i morr WwW , —_ee Chapter 13 nape? even ‘f he aia Took Sie a Vietory. S es oO ” oO 2 sa Oo | 5 To4 results. The Barge bantam cock!” ” a ‘ _ aiver- AAsvet his hands under my _arms and, lifting me quite easily—I am always surprised at the strength in Adam’s slender body—slung me over ‘his shoul- der like a-sack of meal. . I stopped struggling when he began to catwalk along the nar- Tow rim of the barge for, invert- ed as I was, I could see too clear- ly. the: thirty-foot drop on either side. “Don’t let go,” I: prayed, with what breath was left in my dia- phragm. “There’s unpleasant dark water in the hold of the ship.” | “Rain water,” he responded| practically. “Probably. mosqui- toes down there. Must send out! some kerosene before the next) beach pea He eased me to my} feet. “I could carry you down the} ladder,” he boasted, might not like it.” | “I don’t like it anyway,” I con- fessed. “But I prefer to do it my- self.” Adam says that his ninety-ninth } great-grandmother grew disgust- ed with the aquatic life one day when her old man rose.to the bait/ for the last time. So, having a ‘pio- neering spirit, she marshaled: her: children and flopped ashore to try | life on dry land. But he. thinks it} was a mistake. Once a fish, al- ways a fish, he says, and darts around in the water in a most improbable fashion, usually: with his head and shoulders above the} surface and his arms and legs all| over the place. Once when he} swam up behind me and, wrap-| ping them around me, bore me} Gown, I thought an octopus hadj me. “but you! I can swim, but I have yet to} learn to breathe under water. He towed me to shore, finally, half} drowned, and made me race him down the beach, almost, but not} quite, letting-me win. As I may} have said, Adam is a man of prin- | ciple. | Somewhat spent, I found a big! Piece of driftwood and sat upon | it. He stood for a moment looking down at me, an odd little grin on| his: face. | “You're all right,” he said -and/ I thought he meart it for ap-! Proval. He sat down beside me then! and began patiently to scoop and} the dry, reluctant sand into! ills and valleys. | “It’s too dry—it.won’t stay,” I} told him after I had watched him idly for a féw minutes. “I know. You can’t shape it.| It’s like this business of Immer-| man.” | “Have you learned anything} new?” “Not a thing. He went back to barracks after you saw him at the} Post Exchange, put on civilian} clothes and d he was going to walk to the village. But. no-one} admits having seen him _ theré.} We've asked at bars, pool halls,! all the soldier hangouts. He had a girl who works at the local din- er, but she says she hasn’t seen} him for two or three weeks. And} she says he never gave her an in-} signia or anything else. I saw her) myself, and I believe her.” | -“Fehicia says the man jumped} on her running board at the last red light in the village.” | “I know. I asked-her if it could! have been Immerman. She says she never thought of it at the! time, but admits she might not} have recognized him with a mask} on. She estimates the time at ten o'clock or later. It’s not quite four’ miles to the village. He could have walked it in an hour, if he-didn’t Pick up a ride. An hour and a half | | | O'Connor and m Adam said, “You're not writing this, you. knew. You'll have to Bive the facts a chance,” “T’m trying’to,” I assured him. “If you'll only stop being so dis- gustingly:important and mysteri- ous and:let out a few.” He-laughed, in a satisfied way, and put out a hand toward me in an unfinished gesture that had grown familiar and puzzling to Mme—a reaching and withdrawing at almost the same instant. ., He buried the hand and brought it up slowly, carefully, watching the sand-run off in innumerable fine streams until only a few grains remained ‘ridged along the back of each long, blunt finger. “There are two good reasons why we know it was not the ran- som money, and why we know the kidnaper was not Immerman. Reasons known oyy to Corporal and Colonel Pennant, of course. I'll tell you because I know you can keep your mouth shut, and because you have helped me before.” “Thank you. Now that we’ve got that straight. PPvisé “As you may not know, the fin- gerprints of every officer and en- listed man in the combined ser- vices are recorded in Washington. That was a wartime innovation and has been in effect ever since. A federal investigator managed to get the fingerprints of the Randly kidnaper, and those prints are not on file. Therefore the kid- naper is not Immerman. “As for the money—that was a neat bit of work on Corporal O’Connor’s part. He practically built a box around those ashes before he moved them from the car. He handled them with such care, and they had been so well packed in that it was possible, back at State Police Headquarters, to determine the denominations of some of the bills and to make photographs of their charred re- mains.” Wizard “TREY. weren’t counterfeits?” “Must I remind you again,” he demanded good - naturedly, “that you are not writing this? They were not counterfeits. They were good old United States cur- rency. But in so far as it was pos- sible to determine, there were no twenties among them. There were upwards of two thousand bills; and the detective bureau, after hours of painstaking labor, were able to discover nothing but ones among them.” “Ones?” “One-dollar bills. Probably two thousand of them, all packed in a pasteboard box and burned al- most, but not quite, beyond rec- ognition.” “Why, the man must have been a miser!” He looked at me kindly. “Not a miser; a wizard. If you mean Im- merman. It would take several years to put away even a thou- sand one-dollar bills on a sol- dier’s twenty-one dollars a month. And Immerman was serving his bat four times-and poled: thrice| first enlistment.” I frowned impatiently. “He needn't have saved it out of his Pay. Maybe he inherited it, or stole it——” S “All in one-dollar bills?” a earned it in his spare time——” “Two afternoons a week for two years?” “All right—what do you think?” “I don’t think anything except that it’s fishy. And we know so little—we: don’t even know that the man in the car was Immer- man. He was too badly burned to fingerprint him, and the man who would know about his teeth, if it at the outside. So where he} was Immerman, is beyond reach between, say four-thirty and tenipfon ‘the time, being, ;J; mean the o'clock?” post dental surgeo! le has a month's leave with ission to Dollar Bills “(XETTLNG the money?” | sug-{ gested, with what I felt to bean inspiration. And-then I re- membered something. “What did} you-mean when you said Cor-j poral O'Connor might be inter- ested in that box of money?” Adam grew a deep breath and looked at me queerly for a mo- ment. “He was,” he said, and went} back to scooping sand. it’s a state secret: Oh, that’s very} good! State secret—state police. } Get it?” | “I got it.” Adam said discour-} agingly. “A very particular rea- son, as it happens. He’s looking for a little matter of fifty thou- sand dollars in twenty-dollar bills | —twenty-five hundred of them, if our arithmetic agrees with mine. | it’s no secret. You read about it in| the Chicago papers in June. Re-| member the Randly child?” visit foreign countries and is somewnere In Tanaaa on a motor | trip. We could probably get hold of him and’bring him back, but it seems a shame to do it—the evi- dence will wait; and in the mean- time -we may get a line on Im- merman. A soldier who knew him says he had been acting queerly, j as if he was scared of something. There’s always the possibility that he was in personal difficulties et did the kidnaper look ike?” “No idea. No one saw him, and he’s not a known criminal. The | fingerprints are the only clue, which seems. to. indicate that he was a lucky beginner. Or un- lucky, if- you: count the prints. No old. hand. would have left them—oh, oh! You're: contami- nating me with your low puns.” “Not bad for a beginner,” I told | him generously. “I won't charge CONCHS ADDED HALF-GAME TO MARGIN: OVER MER.) CHANTS BY DOWNING MA- RINES IN AFTERPIECE Pepper's Plumbers decided Sawyer’s Barbers were close enough and last night in the nightcap of a softball doublehead- er at Bayview Park defeated their eternal enemies, 8 to 7. It was a hard-earned victory that increased their lead to two games. It took two rallies that netted seven runs to do it. Hair- Cutters threw a scare in the final inning but they were held to one run and defeat. Previously this week, Barbers had won two games from the LABOR DAY GAMES Pepper's. Plumbers and Sawyer‘’s Barbers will’ en- gage in the opening game of a softball twin bill Monday (Labor: Day) night. U.S: Nevy. will cross bats with Key. West Conchs in afterpiece. The games will be played at Bayview Park as usual. Pipe-Fitters and pulled up within one game of the National League leaders. Clarence Gates not only went the route for the victors but pol- ted two safeties to aid his own cause. Barcelo and Nelson also secured two hits apiece for the Plumbers. Barbers’ heavy batters were Russell and Navarro, two safe blows each. J. Roberts, pinch- hitting in the seventh, cracked the ball into safe territory. Score by innings: RHE Plumbers 104 030 0—8 9 5 Barbers 020 103 1— 7 9 3 C. Gates and |Griffin, Castro and Hopkins. CONCHS HIT HEAVY IN| FIRST CONTEST. Key West Conchs increased their lead to one-and-a-half games over the idle Merchants by walloping the U.S: Marines, 9 to 4, in the opener last night. Conchs amassed 14 safeties off the pitching. of Spakes. Every member of the victors hit safely at least onee. Arnold went to in safe spots. E. Vargas hit two for two. Connor was the outstanding batter for the Marines, two out of three. Simmons blasted a safety in his only try. Score by innings: RHE Conchs 420 300 0— 9 14 2 Marines 000 3100-4 6 7 M. Arias and Arnold; Spakes and Yelochan. U.S. WEATHER: BUREAU REPORT 'Observationytaken. at 7:30 a: m.. 75th Mer. Time (city office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night Mean _ 2 = 83 Normal = Sees Precipitation Rainfall, 24: hours- ending 7:38 a. m., inches 0.08 inches 5.98 jand has simply gone over the ‘s‘al rainfall since Aug: 1, “Any particular reason? ‘Unless | hill.” Excess since Aug. 1, inches 1.47 |Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches Seana Ss — 20.75 Deficiency since January 1, RE SE 0.84 Wind- Direction and Velocity: NNE—6 miles per hour Relative Humidity. 83% Barometer: at. 7:30-3. m: today to! Ingraham; A. Face Sollenberger ... CONCHS AND MARINES IN OPENER AT: NAVY FIELD; PIRATES AND TROJANS IN’ SECOND The veteran Joe (House) Casa! is tentatively scheduled to face the youthful, sparkling Sollen- berger on the mound tomorrow afternoon when the Key. West Conchs. “home” team, taekle the U.S: Marines, “visiting” club, in the opener of a baseball twin ‘bill -at Navy Field. Casa, who has defeated some of the best teams in the state during his hey-day, possesses what fans like to call “the dafk one”. This special pitch: has imystified very crafty batters and has. pulled him out of many. MAJOR’ LEAGUE GAMES. TODA AMERICAN LEAGUE Weshington at New York. Boston at Philadelphia. Cleveland at Chicago. Detroit at St. Louis. NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago at Cincinnati. St. Louis at Pittsburgh. Philadelphia at Boston. New York at Brooklyn. | ESR ESP A SOFTBALL. SCHEDULE (Bayview Park Field) MONDAY: NIGHT: First’ Game—Pepper's al League). Second Game—U. S. Navy Key West Conchs (American League). : WEDNESDAY NIGHT First Game—CCC vs. U. S>.Ma- Times (American League). Second Game—Sawyer’s Bar- bers vs. Pepper’s Plumbers (Na- tional League). FRIDAY NIGHT First Game—Sawyer’s Barbers vs. Pepper’s Plumbers (National League). Second Game—Merchants+ovs. CCC (American League). 'Today’s Horeseope Today gives an eager intel- lect, with a shrewd insight into affairs. The nature will be some- what reserved. and bashful; by no means unsociable, but a trifle awkward. The affections will be sincere, the mind pure and_ the disposition generous; one to be depended upon. Sunday’~ Horoscope’ Today indicates a person of” The following warrantee deeds free, generous spirit, with a lik- {ing for nature and a-contempla- tive disposition. There isa cau- 83 tious and practical turn of mind, with decided financial abilities, whieh should ensure comfort in the later life. Today's Birthdays Frederic _Marech. sereen star; born at Racine, Wis. 43 years ago. Dr. George Sarton of: Harvard; historian. of science, born in Bel- gium, 56 years ago. Dr. Edward L. Thorndike of ~ grat and: Salinero will share the 4 mask’ and chest protector: “Bub- for the four chibs- that will enter | | Pepper’s. Plumbers. TERDAY tough spots. He hasn’t pitched! (Special to The Citizen) ball since the Monroe County! NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Brook- League disbanded early this year, lyn Dodgers’ two home runs in but, is expected to “do his share” | the sixth inning and their. ability the greater part of the contest.'to put together safeties when There is nothing.much to be said | they: were needed: most were the aban Baas = that he’s deciding: faetors in the defeat of oa wi i ", i i ice Geass it _ the league-leeding Cincinnati Manager’ Roy Hamlin will have!Reds yesterday. Heavy hitting Robert Bethel in reserve. Belisiby Camilli, two singles and a Griffin will backstop: for the:homer, and three great catehes Conchs: and Spakes will be on § es the receiving end ‘for the Leather- | °Y Medwick- also helped:in down necks. ing the Redlegs. 2 Pirates will be “first up” in the! Cineinnati, usually playing er- afterpiece with the Trojans. Mal-‘rorless bali, committed three NIGHT GAME (Special to The Citizen) NEW: YORK; Aug: 31.— Bob Féller-hung up” his 23rd win of the 194@‘baseball sea- wher he defeated the White Sex, 4-to 2. for the Cleveland pitehing duties: for the Bues, with M: Acevedo donning the ber” Wickers, speedballer: is scheduled to toe the slab for the! Trojans: “Skippy” Rueda will) be his battery mate. The games are practice affairs the newly-formed league. Seuthard street’ gate to the field will open at 1:00 o’élock and the first contest will get un- der way at: 2:00 c’clock: 3 STANDINGS miscues. Garnering 10 safeties, ! including a four-bagger and six See Goubles, the Reds couldn't seore more than twice. while the Dodg- ers tallied six times: Cincy’s ciiunivr. League Baseball) | |lead dropped to seven-and-a-half eland games. Tetoit = a No other contests were played N York 54 fe in the National League. 2 Chie 59 516 In the American circuit, be- Basie : $3 500; Sides the night affair at Chicago Washington 70° 426:0Mly the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis 75 495, Philadelphia Athletics perform- Philadelphia 72 399 ©4107 the field. Red Sox won the bail game in the seventh inning: At that june- ture the score was deadlocked t. (at +4 Doc Cramer reached sec- —O NATIONAL LEAGUE (Major League Baseball) ae = i = ond base on a clean two-bagger. Brooklyn _ 68 52 Then Ted Williams stepped into St. Louis 63. 56 529 the batter's box and: caught hold New York —_ ~ 62 57 152] Off one of Heusser’s slants, send- Pittsburgh 62. 58 517 mg it sailing far into the outfield Chicago _____ 62° 63 496, !0F @ triple; scoring-Cramer with Boston 49 72 the deeiding marker. ee Philadelphia 39° 78 Athletics shoved over their runs in the fourth Until then. LEA QOestermueller: had: held them to petites sig a lone hit but they got: to him cane — W. L. Pct, in that frame for four tallies. _He 10 2 retired in favor of Joe Heving, ” : “gg7 i who set the A’s down with two Sawyers: Barbers —- 8 4 667: hits in the five-and-a-half in- = AMERICAN LEAG nings he worked on the mound = Results of the games: (Key West- Softball) LEAGUE Club— WL Pct “ “ Key West: Conchs _ 6 1 .857 _, At Cincinnati — z Merchants : 62 150) eee apmuee “~ <2 NavSta 4 4 560|_HemticentPiate; 26 250 Beggs an? Lombardi. 1 6 143° philadelphia at Pittsburgh, postponed. rain. REALTY TRANSFER New York-St. Louis and Bos- ——s wees ton-Chicago, not scheduled. See | whee SE From First National Bank to Boston i 3 Gabriel Gutierrez, 89 by 50 foot {Philadelphia — lot on Fletcher's Alley, near! Olivia street, $500. | Foxx, Peacock; Beckman, Heus- From Frankie B. Emerson: to|Se?, Babich and Hayes. Harry’ L. Harris, lots 25 and 26,} —_—_— Sec. 34; township 62 south,’ range | _ Night Game: Se | 38.east, on Key. Largo, $200. | _At Chicago R eo From Sarah Jannett Pinder, |Cleveland - rae ~ widow of Chas. C. Pinder, to|Chicago — : 2% 2 Jchn H. Gwinn, two 40-foot lots|_ Feller and Hemsley; Lee and on-Georgia street, near Olivia Tresh. ivision streets, $100. — 2 eae from the *Toonseal Cays. Washington at New York, Corp. to the Orange State Oi Postponed, rain. fc station erected | Lean ie ay pre Mateeumbe a also! S*. Louis-Detreit, ret sched+ | JORS NOT SCHEDULED OR | GAMES RAINED OUT YES. LOST — Yesterday somewhere PAIR OF RIMLESS EYEGLAS- LOST OR STOLEN—Silver and’ KEY WEST FLORIST, 417 Du- between sunrise an@ sunset two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No re- ES in Black Case. Reward if re- turned to 724 Eaton street or Phone 655-J. aug31-1tx* Blue Western Flyer Bicycle, No. C-92580. No questions ask- ed if returned to Carl Ford 1106 Olivia St. aug3i-Itx FLOWERS val street, opposite La Concha Hotel. Phone 528. Flowers for all occasions. augl6-lmo FURNISHED APARTMENT. —_—_—_—_—_—_——_——————— =2modern conveniences. Apply APARTMENT, Monthly rental was uled. FOR RENT Electric Box, Innerspring Mat- tress, all Modern Conveniences Archie Thompson, 1001 Eaton street. Phone 879-J. White and Newton Sts. Al aug26-tf 1104 DIVISION Hot water, modern i Tits 1010. Varels jlymet 1324 Newton street. STREET. conveniences. Ss fi 2 — = —_— ms fe oe 917 Fleming St. apse che > FOR SALE om SEVENTEEN-FOOT, 4-C¥YCLIN- © 12 DER MOTOR BOAT. Good swans condition, $115.00. Will demon- strate. Apply 535 Fleming St “ewe me aug29-stx ee & SIGNS—“For Rent”, “Rooms For a msl Rent”, “Apartment For Rent”, a —_ “Private Property, No Tres- Sea passing”. THE ARTMAD aan - PRESS. nov25-t! renee PERSONAL CARDS, $125 per out, ate 100. THE ARTMAN PRESS. ae vanS-t =i a a eS ——ir 1935 INTERNATIONAL PANEL pee TRUCK, $150 cash Phone 238-3. aug20-lwk SATURDAY SPECIALS tee Chevrolet Truck $30 full price Tees 38 Ford, 4-Door 7 $40 down Chrysler, "35 4-Door _ $50 down Many Other Special Prices and Values For This Saturday Only a $5¢ Down—$i Per Wont® Os en eo nepany. recorded. D Sea level, 30.07 (1018.3 millibars) listed at $100. “You mean—the little girl who| You anything for the first lesson.” was kidnaped for a week and| “What will you charge not to 16 FORECAST the morning. The little lad tip- (Till 7:30 p. m:, Sunday) \eisco, noted playwright-author, ped the scales to six-and-a-half Key West and Vicinity: Gen- nds. erally fair tonight and Sunday: ago- = light to moderate:variable winds,' John C. Martin of Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Cormack have‘), easterly. publisher, born at Hagerstown. ;}- chosen'the name: Donald» James: Florida: Fair to. partly: cloudy ' Md; 58 years ago: oot for their son. aS tonight and. Sunday. * i Rébert G. Caldwell of the | 2 con August 8, 6:30 o'clock in Lor 3:15 ago. BIRTH .ANNOUNCEMENT |e stan a ARS Stork: Brings Son-To Cormacks. Mr; and: Mrs. Donald Cormack. belatedly announce the birth of; ivi Tomorrow's Almanse famed retired ‘psychologist,: born ; aT We Roast, Blend. and.Grind- brought back unharmed? Yes, I/iv¢ me any more?” j Mass. Inst. of Technology, dean) We DELIVERED : eueaiiac: ‘Ane the fifty thousand| : “That.comes iy 10), Sunrise at Williamsburg, Mass... 66 years of humanities, onetime diplomat, | ARM : is ransom money? Oh, Adam, do} ), A. 4aint halloo ow the firec Sunset = ago. ra 2™"horn at Colombia (of American i DAILY ou mean that the man in the; tion of’ the ‘was ded Moonrise Charlotte H. Brown; noted» ily sedts) “38 years ago. : bupning car was ace CS Aaa Sete red He aaeet lustrator, born: in Newark, N. J!" @ycen Wilhelmina of Holland BRAND COFFEE EVERYWHERE : Tm m eat , COf- i nice to know the world was ridj fee, coffee, without any cream on eo ei ages = oa (a refugee in England), born’60 tt Please Your. Palate : - ; of him, Dut unfortunately itwasn’t} 4 tin pan. (Naval Basey mn McKinlay of Chicago. years ago, the right money.” To be continued : AM PM board chairman, National Tea : = = Sr eee ee ee pee 2 51 9:33.Cd., born in Scotland, 66 “years :

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