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PAGE FOUR Casual Slaughters meme By VIRGINIA HANSON YESTERDAY: Wher the Col- onel questions her, Kay keeps silent about seeing Sandra in Ivan's arms, as Julia wished. The Colonel stops the investiga- tion when he learns that Jef Gnd Sandra have run off. hearted days through which I had moved with Charlie beside me. And to know now that near me, crossing my path again and again, part of that glittering pageant, had moved Julia, with Jeff by her side; to know that I had walked past the —— + fold brick quarters that faced up Chapter 20 Lunch Date “jst a minute sir,” said Adam. “It’s possible there’s another explanation for this thing.” Colonel Pennant. stopped, scowled. “What do you mean, an- other explanation?” “The murder investigation,” Adam reminded him gently. The colonel was shocked out of his anger. “I don’t know what you mean,” he protested. But he did. An ex- ession of uneasiness crept over is face. He started to go wn, glanced uncertainly from Julia +o me and said, “That’s all for you girls for the present.” They were deliberately silent until we had left the room. “That’s done it,” said Julia, as soon as the door of her room had closed behind us, and burst into tears. I let her cry, her sobs muffled ic the pillow, until she had exhausted herself. Then, closing the door ay behind me, I tiptoed down the hall to the bathroom. I was coming back with a wet washcloth and a towel for Julia when one of the d6ors along the corridor opened and Mimi, freshly dressed for the day, came out. is “Oh, hello, Kay,” she said. “I didn’t know you were here. I’ve slept outrageously late this morn- ing, but we were up until all hours last night. What’s going on?” “Colonel Pennant and Adam have been questioning us,” I said, hoping she would let it go at that. I did not want to tell about Sandra again—I wanted to get back to Julia. Colonel Pennant’s voice at the foot of the stairs provided a wel- come distraction. “Is that you, Mimi? Will you come down here, please?” “Right away,” she called back. “You'll stay and have dinner with us, won’t you, Kay? It’s dinner on Sundays, you know. And I'm afraid it’s quite soon. Cora has the afternoon off.” I thought of Julia’s tear-swoilen face and of the uncomfortable curiosity of families. I made up tay mind quickly. “I've asked Julia to have dinner with me somewhere—we thought we'd like to go to Fieldstone [an if I can borrow a car.” “Take mine,” she said, as I had hoped she would. Fieldstone Inn is an ultrarespectable roadhouse on the Chicago road. I thought she looked surprised, but not sus- picious. “Where is Julia?” “In her room. Thanks for the car you're sure you won’t be want- ing it this afternoon?” “No. Stay as long as you like. Only be back before dark. These roads around here are not safe.” a good bit of oriing after dark herself, but of course I did not say so. I watched her start downstairs and thought that, for all her care- ful grooming, she looked her age or a little more this morning. Which might be merely the result of lost sleep. Julia was sitting on the side of the bed staring at the floor when I came in. I gave her the damp cloth and, while she scrubbed her face, told her about our lunch date. Nostalgia “QWELL,” she said huskily. “Now I won’t have to keep to my room and answer dumb questions. I wouldn’t want them to know about this: they’re so thick—why Mimi has promoted this marriage as if her life depended on it. Not,” she added with instinctive fair- ness, “that she could have brought it off without their cooperation. T'm not fool enough to blame her.” While she made herself present- able, and while we drove the ten miles to Fieldstone Inn I encour- ed her to talk about them— about Jeff and Sandra, and abcu: Mimi. I learned much that had been vague in my mind before— perhaps more than Julia knew she was telling me. More, certainly, than I had sense enough to recog- nize until later, when I began put- ting the pieces together. ere was only one thing she omitted, and I don’t know yet whether she Sone didn’t think of it, or whether she kept silent from asense of loyalty to her father and Mimi. For it was not until a long time later that I learned about Mimi — where Colonel Pennant met her and how he came to matry her. And that piece of informa- tion was to make clear much that puzzled me. She talked now wistfully, with Mostalgia, of the years just con- cluded at West Point. Colonel Pen- nant on duty at the post, Jeff a cadet, Mimi a bride; Julia at home week ends and vacations from boarding school. Thad been there one never-to- | be-forgotten June Week the year Charlie graduated; but 1 had not known Julia then. It was a strange feeling to remember that week— the hops, the parades, the haseball] games, the horse shows. High- IT PAYS TO FEED YOUR HOGS WELL (By Axsociated Press) COLUMBIA, Mo., Sept. 10.— The reason a pig enjoys eating is that he likes to be happy and healthy, says J. W. Burch of the Missouri College of Agriculture. who has made a study of the eating habits cf swine. Pigs that are well fed and housed in clean surroundings usually have the vitality neces. sary to throw off disease that the Hudson, had probably read the neatly lettered sign, LT. COL. PENNANT, on the doorstep—the quarters where Mimi had come ss a bride, where Jeff had lived.every moment of his free time during his first three years at the academy, until after his first-class summer, when Sandra had come to the Pen- nant’s for a visit and Julia had lost him to her. Julia took me inside those quar- ters now, showed me a homesick, scared plebe dodging into them like a spent fox to cover; resting jawhile, not saying much, gather- | ing courage to go forth again. “TIl never forget that first Christmas,” she said. “I brought three girls home from school and we had a party every night. The plebes aren’t permitted to leave, | you know, and they try to make up |for all the fun they’ve been miss- jing. Every time we turned around we Tan into a mob of them. Those girls went to town, I’m telling you. Even Mimi had herself a time. She was twenty-eight or nine, but she didn’t look much older than the rest of us. I was fifteen, and thev let me have some slinky clothes. There was one black satin evening dress that was a skirt and a prayer that I practically wept for when I saw it and Mimi said, ‘Let her have it—there’s a moment that comes once in a lifetime.’” ‘Only Me’ ‘V JHERE was Sandra then?” “In Texas, with Jeff's mother and father. Mrs. Tack died the fo'- lowing summer, and Colonel Tack had a nervous breakdown and was nearly a year in the hospital, so Jeff had no home to go to the next Christmas, and spent his Furlo , | with three other cadets on a cattle | |boat that went to South America. {I think his father turned against him. You know how nervous breakdowns are. Jeff never spuke of it, but I know he never went home, except for his mother’s jfuneral; not even after Colonel Tack was retired and he and San- dra took an apartment in San Antonio.” “So he didn’t see her either dur- ing that time?” “Not until his first-class sum- mer. Colonel Tack never got com- pletely well—his heart gave out. Sandra stayed with him until he died, and then she did what she had always wanted to do—came to |New York to study acting. And in a_ weak moment we invited her to ! West Point.” : |_ Jeff had never had any girl but Julia. Had never, apparently jlooked at anyone else. They were \both growing up, and what had jStarted as a netural companion- ship based on childhood associa- {tion, was heading apparently to- | , ward one of those early marriages ; that often turn out so well. Julia, at least, never doubted that they his graduation day. “Why, everyone knew he was mine,” she told me, clenching her hands on the wheel and staring |desperately at the road. “There were week ends when | couldn’t get home—Mimi was set on my {finishing school — but he never even took a blind drag. He’d sperd the evening with Dad and Mimi, or maybe he'd take Mimi to the hop or the movies. He liked Mimi —thought she was cute. For a while he used to call her “Mom, just te tease her, but she didr’t take it very well, so he quit. Ycu_ might not think so, put Jeff's very sensitive to people’s feelings. He can’t bear to hurt anyone, Only— only me.” She stilled the quivering of her lips and turned the car carefully {between the stone pillars that |guard the entrance to Fieldstone Inn. | “I don’t want anything to eat, but I expect you do,” she said when she had parked. I ordered for her, nevertheless, and watched her make a small meal without, I was sure, knowing what she put in her mouth. The place was not unduly crowd- ed, and I had chosen an isolated table. I talked a bit while she ate, told her about Charlie and the girl he had fallen in love with and that it didn’t hurt any longer. I brought out all the familiar platitudes about fish in the sea and a hundred years from now. She listened and tried to take some comfort from it. But when I finished she silenced me com- pletely. “You can lose a hand,” she said uietly, spreading her ringiess ingers and looking at them as if she had never seen them before. | |“And after a while the stump j will quit hurting, I suppose. But you can never find another hand {that will take the vlace of that hand or be just as good. And be- |sides, there’s Jeff to think about. | She'll make him unhappy. I know ;she will She's suck a devil.” It was said so dispassionately that my flesh crawled. But in my | jheart I agreed with her. After all she had told me, my instinct ered . |foul piay. But how, and by whom. |I could only surmise. To be continued Lionel Cobo Left For School Lionel Cobo, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Ignacio Cobo, of Duval street, left for Gainesville, Fla., on the 5:00 o'clock bus yes- day afternoon to start his hman year at the University Florida. might be contracted by animals 2 a “maintenance diet” only, seys Burch. BISHOP MOORE TO SPEAK HERE WILL CONDUCT UNION SERV- | ICE AT STONE CHURCH WEDNESDAY Bishop Arthur Moore, newiy-| appointed bishop of the north end south Georgia and Florida conference, will preach at a mass meeting of members and friends of the Key West Methodist: churches tomorrow evening, 8:00 e’clock, at Stone Church. | Bishop Moore is known throughout the South as an evan- gelist, having received his ap- pointment to this conference at the jurisdictional conference in Asheville, N. C., last May. He served previously as bishop of the Pacific coast and Oklahoma con- ference for 10 years. ART, LIKE MAHOMET, GOES TO MOUNTAIN (By Associated Press) BIG STONE GAP, Va., Sept. 10.—An art center here in the heart of the Appalachian moun- ! tains is bringing art to people who had been 300 miles from the | nearest gallery. The art project, placed by the WPA to study its effect in a com- munity where no painting had existed, drew an attendance of 12,745 in 1936, when it opened, increased to 30,818 in 1939. Average* daily attendance in elasses is 100, and at exhibitions, 30. Children and adults par- ticipate in all activities. “ The oldest student is 62, and the youngest five. One “grad- ~ uate” of the project is studying art in college, with the support of the community. Exhibits include works of out- standing contemporary artists and local classes. Twenty portraits of judges and court clerks have been painted for courthouses of the area. Weaving, handicrafts, woodworking and modeling are taught as well as painting. PHONOGRAPH RECORDS SHAPED INTO VASES GETTING A BIG PLAY PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 10.— Those old killer-diller phono- It was in my mind that she did | would be married in the chapel on Staph records are ending up in strange places and strange shapes in Portland. The music they carried was sel- dom hot enough to melt them down. That's where Violet and Gwendolyn Hooker, two negro girls, come in. The girls—“just say we're of iegal age”’—found themselves without jobs two years ago after a wholesale florist shop closed. Then came the big idea. They would open a flower shop of their own. Specializing in cactus, the Flower Mecca soon bloomed, but pots for desert plants are ex- pensive and they had little money. Phonograph records and Vio- let's school-day art talents came to the rescue. They haunt second-hand shops for old rec- ords, dip them into boiling water. and mold them into odd shapes. Three coats of paint and a dec- crative motif leave the ex-blues platters with a porcelain effect. Fish, tree, fruit and geometric | designs are the most popular. ~ ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN TUESDAY. SEPTEMEEZ 10. 1968 EL PASO BISHOP GIVES U.S. ITS “CHRIST OF THE ANDES” In this garden or porch meal is one appetizing hot dish—a Casserole of New Potatoes and 66F you're good children, we'll have supper in the garden”, mother used to promise us young- sters. And at that lovely prospect a Positively angelic goodness descend- ed on us like an aura. In our family, a meal outdoors is still much gayer and more fes- tive than any summer meal indoors could be. Food seems to taste better Spirits bubble. And all the heat of the day is forgotten in the cocl and fragrant quiet of the garden. In serving a meal on porch or in the garden, place as much of the meal as possible on the table at the start. That saves running back and forth into the house. For instance, supper might be something on this order: Chicken-Celery Salad Rolls Casserole of New Potatoes and Green Peas in Mushroom Sauce ‘ossed Garden Salad with Chopped Herbs, Tomato French Dressing. Fresh Fruit Pie or Assorted Cheese with Crackers Green Peas in Mushroom Sauce. ; This is a simple meal to prepare jand the casserole of potatoes and | peas provides that one hot dish | which every summer meal should have. It is made this way: Casserole of New Potatoes and Green Peas in Mushroom Sauce 12-14 small new potatoes 1 cup green peas, cooked l can condensed cream of mush- room soup 6 tablespoons milk Cook the new potatoes in boiling salt water, then peel and put them |into a casserole. Mix the milk into the cream of mushroom soup. Heat and add the cooked peas. Pour the green peas and sauce over the po- tatoes in the casserole dish and put into a moderate (350°) oven for 15-20 minutes. Serves 6. The salad is one of my favorites: Tossed Green Salad with Chopped Herbs Put the garden greens for salad in a large wooden bowl. This may | include tender garden lettuce, fresh young dandelion shoots, thin slices of radishes, and then sprinkle over the salad— chopped parsley, chop- ped fresh tarragon, chopped fresh chervil, chopped green onion tops or chopped chives. Just before setting the salad on the table mix through it this dressing: Tomato-French Dressing 1 tablespoon éry mustard 1 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons sugar \ teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon grated onion 1 cup oil (olive or salad) 44 cup vinegar % can condensed tomato soup Combine the dry ingredients and mix in the grated onion. Blend ia the oil and let stand for 10-15 minutes. Add vinegar and tomato soup. Beat well until the dressing mixture is thick and well blended. Makes approximately 2% cups of dressing. This is a non-separating French dressing. Visited At Castro Home Mrs. Alice Kemp Torres, who had spent a pleasant visit here with her sister, Louise Castro and family, left yeterday over the highway, accompanied by Peter Castro, enroute to Jacksonvilie and New York. STAY-AT-HOME FOR 79 YEARS. (My Asnoetated Press) SANTA BARBARA, Calif, Sept. 10.—Delphina de la Guerra, a living link with the romantic days of Spanish rule in California, has lived all her 79 years in the . same adobe house and sleeps in C.OFC. DIRECTORS TO BE NOMINATED (Continued from Page One) the terms of only half the group end each year. “It will be the duty of the com- mittee to name two nominees for each district or to renominate the two encumbents. Names of those nominated will be submit- ted the membership of the State Chamber thirty days in advance of the annual meeting, to be held in Jacksonville December 2-3, i940. Members at that time will vote on those nominated,” Mr. Brorein said Elected directors whose terms expire this year include: L. C.{ Parks, Pensacola; Stanley’ Sheip, Apalachicola; H. P. Adair and T. G. Buckner, Jacksonville; Walter; Hays, Orlando; Dr. Eugene Peek, | Ocala; WAY OUT WEST (By Associated Press) TOPEKA, Kas., Sept. 10.—An elderly, kindly appearing couple returned to the theater seats they just had vacated and began searching. A youth tapped the man, and Pointed. There on the floor, in the aisle, was a pistol. The old fellow pocketed it and hurried out. SEAMEN FOUND GUILTY TODAY (Continued from Page One) sessed, plus two-thirds of his future earnings for the ‘support of his children, or confinement at _'Raiford, Williams’ sentence was deferred. Lefteris Cantonius was found guilty of possession of under- sized sponges in court yesterday afternoon. Sentence in the case was deferred until later this week. } The following jury brought in} the verdict — Earl Saunders, Harry Dongo, Harry H. Johnson, Alvin T. Sawyer, John F. Black- well, Jr., and George W. Albury. State witnesses in the case were Bennie Russell, State conserva- jon officer, and constable Ray Elwood. Spessard Holland. Bartow; Ed Beckett, Tarpon Springs; J. J. Parrish, Titusville, and Stanley Peeler, West Palm Beach. NAZIS AND BRITISH BOMB CAPITALS (Continued from Page One) landings highly dangerous to at- tempt. Major defense industrial areas have been, for the most part, far removed from the London area, the British pointed out today, in answering the Nazi statements concerning destruction of fac- - tories and the like. Dispatches from Berlin were to, the effect that “the British have» For Clerk of the €riminal Court | uti forfeited every right to complain |. and whine about Nazi air raids ie; their ‘unwarranted attacks’ + unmilitary zones of Berlin and’ other German cities.” GREEKS HAD SECRET WEAPON (Continued from Page One) ing the hose of a water engine te the “breech” of the siphon, a wooden tube cased with bronze. It was the mainstay of an em- ‘pire thought corrupt and deca- ent, which by means of this “se- eret weapon” endured for cen- turies. S t a room adjoining that in which she was born. Senorita de la Guerra herself was. never a Spanish subject but her father was one of the most prominent of Spain’s California officials. Her home is now in the heart of the business district. LEGALS Monroe County, fate of Florida own, That I, R. A. GRAY, ‘Secretary of State of the State of Florida, do hereby give notice that a GENERAL ELECTION Will be held in Monroe County. State of Florida, on Tuesday next succeeding - the first “Monday” in November, A. D, 1940, the safd Tues- day being the wth FIFTH DAY OF NOVEMBER For United States Senator from the State of Florida, for a term of, six years from Jan. 3, 1941. For Sevem (7) Presidential Elec- tors ‘or one Representative of the -Fourth €ongressional District of e State of Florida, in the Seventy Seventh Congress of the United ‘States. For Governor of Florida, For Seeretary of State State of Florida For Attorney General of the State of Florida. For Comptroller of the Florida. For Treasurer of the Florida. For Superintendent of Public In- struction of the State of Florida. For Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Florida. For Two Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of Florida. For One Railroad Commissioner of the State of Florida. For One Member of the House of Representatives of the State of Florida. For County Judge. For Judge Juvenile Court. For Sheriff. For Clerk of the Circuit Court. the State of of the State of State of of * For Prosecutin, Court. - For County Assessor of Taxes. For Tax Céllector. For County Superintendent of ie Instruction. © Five County Commissioners. For Members. of the County Board of Public Instruction. For of the Peace in and for the foHowing Justice Districts, viz: Nos. One, Two and Three. For Constable in and for the fol- lowing Justice Districts, viz: Nos. = Attorney, County . One, Two and Three. In Testimony Wihereof. I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of Florida, at Tallahassee. the Capital, this the 15th day of August, A. D. 1940. aS.) R.A. GRAY, Secretary of State. To Hon. Karl O. Thompson, Sheriff Monroe County. Sept3-10-17634; octl-8-15-22-29,1940 AMBITIOUS TOWN PLANS WORLD FAR (Ry Associated Press) ILWACO, Wash., Sept. 10.— This town of 900 insists there is going to be a world’s fair in 1942, regardless of wars, and that it’s going to be right here. Acknowledging that Tlwaco cannot rival the New York or San Francisco expositions in size, Mayor Norman A. Howerton nevertheless asserts that the reg- ular pattern of world’s fairs will be followed. Help from both Congress and the state legislature is sought. LEGALS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR MON- ROE COUNTY, FLORIDA. IN CHANCERY. Minnie Pearlman Eckelman, Plaintiff, vs. Sam Eckelman, Defendant. ORDER FOR PUBLICATION To: Sam Eekelman, Residence—unknown. You are hereby required to ap- pear to the Bill of Complaint in the above styled and entitled cause on October 7th. 1940, other- wise the allegations therein will be taken as confessed. | This order to be published once ja week for four consecutive ; weeks in The Key West Citizen, ‘a newspaper published in Key West, Florida. Done and ordered this August 26, 1940. (SEAL) Ross C Sawyer Clerk of the Circuit Court, Mon- roe County, Florida. By (Sd.) Florence E. Sawyer, Deputy Clerk. aug27; sept3-10-17-24,1940 NOTICE Notice is hereby given that I, 1 S.. Williams, a , State of ic lintend fo apply on the 26th day of September, 1940, or’ as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, to the Honorable Arthur Gomez, a Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida, for a license to manage, take charge of and control my Property and business and to be- come a free dealer in every re- Dated this 27th day of August, A. D. 1940. JULIA S, WILLIAMS. JOHN G. SAWYER, Attorney for Petitioner. aug27; sept3-10-17-24,1940! EL PASO, Tex huge statue on a Paso will be dedic as a symbol The Most Rev Catholic bishop diocese, and erection as an to of “To Christians, DUE WEST. S. 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