The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 11, 1940, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Casual Nae eee By VIRGINIA HANSON = YESTERDAY: To spare heart- broken Julia her family’s curi- osity, Kay takes her to Field- stone Inn for lunch. On the way, Julia says that she knows Sandra will make Jeff unhappy. Chapter 21 Room For The Night ‘ELL me about it,” I said. “About Sandra’s visit during first-class summer, and about how Jeff acted when she first came, and how long it was be- fore you noticed anything.” “It was a long time.” She pushed her untouched dessert away and lit a cigarette. “At first he seemed to regard her as a duty, and not a very pleasant one. He brought men around to drag her, of course, until she got ac- uainted, which was pretty soon. he was smooth—she could have had several men. But she kept changing, and sticking to Jeff and me, making it a foursome. I didn’t mind—Jeff and I weren’t hinting any corners. I thought it would be dumb to start that when we had ancther year to wait, and I thought he felt the same way about it, though we hadn’t discussed it. And it never entered my mind to be jealous when she'd go up to him and kiss him good night—after all, they ‘were raised together like brother and sister. I guess I'm the world’s prize fool.” “Then what happened?” “Sandra went to New York ani got a one-room apartment and started studying dramatic art. I went back to boarding school— my last year, and I had to work pretty hard—I’m not very bright, as you may have noticed.” I grinned, but she went on} without pause. “I didn’t get home as often, and when I did I hardly saw Jeff. First classmen have week end priv- ileges, and his always seemed to coincide with my week ends at home. He was always going to New York. To see a show, or the sights. He said he needed a change} of scene. And he hardly ever came to see the family while I ‘was away—Dad commented on it, and wondered if Jeff was sowing a few oats. “Sandra asked me to stay with her the week end of the Notre gh ters Sandra laughed. “I think Td, let Jeff be the judge of that if I were you.” She put a confident hand on his arm. “Was ‘ing you a dirty trick, Jeff?” He ‘did not seem to see thi CAPITOL By ALBERT G. ROBERTS Washington, D. C. “OUR UNITED EFFORT” Barely five years ago on Sep-, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN “NOTES FROM THE FLORIDA BOY GAINS NEW YORK FINALS IN NATIONAL hand, nor hear the bantering tember 1, a great tropical storm! question. “What do you mean, Julia?” he asked, his eyes on her, intent and wate! | No one but me seemed aware of the bright inquiring eyes of the landlady. { “Isn’t there somewhere we can talk that isn’t so public?” I put in hurriedly, and she led us to the parlor. Then a car drove up and she excused herself, reluctantly, I thought. Perhaps I should have gone tao, but it didn’t occur to me at the time. I closed the door and stood against it watching and listening, remembering all that Julia had just told me, and trying to make up my mind about Jeff. He turned to face Julia, stand- ing closer to her nox- and looking at her as if there were only the two of them in the room. “What do you mean, Julia?” he repeated gravely. “I mean that Ivan was mur- dered last night,” she said fierce- ly. If it was news to them they did not betray the fact. “And they’re already saying there must be some reason for your rushing off and getting married in such a hurry. That—that maybe Sandr: did it to protect you!” Jeff looked as if he stitl did not understand until Sandra broke into cool, deliberate speech. “And what if I did? Wasn’t that better than being forced to tell about the time you knocked Ivan down in my apartment? And about your seeing us together on the barge last night? Oh, it was very noble of Julia to pretend she had caught us in a compromising | Position and was covering it up— especially when she knew you'd already seen what there was to see.” “And what was that?” asked Jeff tonelessly. “Just Ivan trying to persuade me to run away with him, and tdking it rather badly when I re- devastated the northern part of! our county, and wrought the: greatest property damage and life toll in the history of our state. Soon after winds subsided I went to that area and witnessed the almost unbelievable _ loss. | The railroad was completely de- stroyed, and the highway severed in many places. Key West had begun to suffer in 1932 when, in the name of economy, the government closed the Navy Yard. The storm was the second effort to annihilate our community. The next major blow was the destruction of one of four long wooden spans. At the moment when our fu- ture was most perilous, a great ray of hope was given. The Pres-! ident signed a bill allocating several millions of dollars for re- habilitating the destroyed spans and the creation of new ones. No other people in the State of Florida have a greater determina- tion to remove overwhelming ob- stacles, than the people of Key West. Several years ago they cheerfully gave over a million hours of free labor to assist in enhancing the beauty and sani- tary conditions of the city. Today our community has been revived. We have countless im- provements; and one of the out- standing is the water and sewer- age. The mains have been laid, | all that remains is to convince Washington that even in the light | of national defense this money must be made available. No other paper possesses a more public-spirited citizen than fused. But you would believe the |the editor of The Key West Citi- worst—just as you did the time zen, L. P. Artman. For years he you knocked him down. maintained the highest principles z $ GOOD DRIVERS CONTEST WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11 CARL RICHARDSON LSet Cari M. Richard representative for Biscuit Com; hotel last M 3130 o'clock +E. [The body was shipped “Robert, I am backing you to bring home top honors from New York,” said C. R. Beacham, Jacksonville manager, Ford Motor Company, right, as he congratulated Robert Ernest Hayes, 17, Fort Pierce, for ha won first ranking for Florida in the Ford Good Drivers League contest, and the right to represent Flo! in the national contest at New York this week. Young Hayes will be making his first trip te New York. His mother, Mrs. R. L. Hayes, also will be a guest of The Ford Motor Company at the national contest. Robert won over other boys of high school age from all over the state. Division P.-T. A. Met Yesterday The regular meeting of the Division Street School P.-T. A. was held yesterday with Mrs. Eugene Roberts, president, in the chair. The meeting opened by the singing of “America”, fol- lowed by the Lord’s Prayer. The group decided to work with the Harris School P.-T. A. to put on programs for the benefit of the lunch rooms. A count of parents present ;Showed that Miss Frances Coch- ran’s class had the highest per- centage in the primary section, and Mrs. Ralph Boyden’s, the next greatest. In the _ inter- mediate section, honors went to Miss Gladys Pinder for highest CLASSIFIED COLUMN Advertisements under this head | will be inserrea in Yhe Citizen at the rate of one-cent (Ic) a word |for each insertiou, but the mini- mum for the first insertion in every imstance is twenty-five | ‘cents (25). i Advertisers snould give’ their jStreet address as well as their |telephone number if they desire | results. Payment tor classified adver-, tisements is Invariably in ad- ‘vance, but regular advertisers |with ledger accounts may have ‘their advertisements charged. ! __ THE LOWDOWN |FROM HICKORY GROVE Sean: ea CoE RR I guess everybody—easy going or not—has something or other that will rile them up. With me, it is E cars—E for exempt. Brother, they make me boil. And I am agitated right now, | because I just saw another one of them—a shiny 1940 baby. There were 3 women in the front seat and 2 mén and 1 woman in the back seat. There was a name on the door, so I sauntered over, at the serv- ice station, and the name was San Luis Obispo County, State of California. And it also had a number—48. But where I saw | the car was not in San Luis Obis- + jpo County. But what it was PICTURE FRAMING, Diplomas;|doing where I saw it, is some- antique frames refinished. Sign ,thing, I guess, for the folks in PICTURE FRAMING Dame game, and I did. I don’t really know whether Jeff took} her or me to the game. It was all very mixed up and Jeff wasn’t) like himself at all. Christmas| week he went to New York and! stayed with a classmate. He sent) me a gold cigarette case with his! elass crest on it. I had just be-j| fun to smoke. He sent Mimi o: just like it. They were expensiv and lovely, but I cried. I ha thought it might be a miniature.’ She snubbed out her cigarette, looked again at her ringless hands and put them out of sight in her lap. “Sandra wrote to me in April that they were engaged. And that | was that.” “How did your family take i “How would I know? I pretend-} ed to be very busy and stayed at school as much as I dared. Mimi's letters sounded delighted — Dad never writes anything but ‘Dear Julia: Enclosed find check.’ They'd asked her up for an oc- casional week end during the winter; and from then on through the most ghastly June Week I} ever spent, she prertically lived} at West Point.” | “Why weren’t they married in| the chapel?” “I never quite «new, but Ij think it was Jeff. He can’t be| rushed. Though it may be that] Sandra wanted another year in New York. She wouldn't need to be afraid of losing him—when; Jeff once giv2s his word he| doesn’t break it. As he hasn't. . . And then Dad had to move heaven and earth to get Jeff in| his regiment, which has made it} jolly all around.” She pushed back her chair and} rose. I followed her out to the little entrance hall where a pretty, buxom woman had greet- ed us when we came in. She was still there, but now she was talk- ing to a tall man and a girl who had just arrived. “Td like to talk to the proprie- tor,” the man was saying. “My husband is away for a few days,” said the buxom woman. “Is there anything I can do?” The hall was dimly lighted. I might not have recognized them} if Julia had not stopped and stif- fened. Jeff and Sandra. Their backs were toward us. aid Jeff. “My wife and I} would iike a room for the night.” ‘Let Me Be The First’ dj ‘HE proprietor’s wife said, “Just | ‘Never Mind’ of public-spirited co-operation “you may recall that I thought jand accepted every challenge to he was annoying you. And it may interest you to know that I did not see you last night on the barge.” “Oh, what’s the use of talking about it? I did what I thought was best. And I don’t really see what business it is of Julia’s when we choose to get married.” He continued to look at her for a minute, with no expression whatever in his eyes, while Julia turned and walked proudly to- {ward the door. But before she had quite reached it he spoke her name, and she stopped and wait- | | ed. He came over to her then and, putting a hand en each shoulder, turned her around until she looked up and met his eyes. “Do you think I killed Ivan?” he demanded. “I know you didn’t,” she an- swered quietly. “Thanks.” In the instant’s dause before he dropped his hands from her shoulders something very much like grief showed in his eyes. The landlady met us at door. “Now about the room——” she began brightly. But Sandra’s voice behind us cut her short. “Never mind about the room. I've changed my mind. We won't be needing it after all.” Julia was quiet on the drive back to the post, but not with the heavy quiet of despair. For almost the first time since I had known her there was a iight in her eyes. I asked to be dropped at the club, She must have sensed my unspoken question about what she planned to do, for she said, “It's all right now, I can go home. There are announcements to send out and letter to write—Mimi and I will put a good face on this if it can be put. Kay, what is she trying to do to him? But it’s all right. You saw him look at me. | She can’t hurt him. It’s all right.” I wasn’t sure what she meant, | but I was glad something had | comforted her. I watched her | drive away. Then I went to my rooms and slept. A light, almost timid rapping at my door woke me. I had been dreaming that I was trapped in a burning car. The fire was all out- side, kept away from me by the glass windows which I dared not open, and I was getting hotter and hotter. Suddenly Gerald was beating at a window, trying to break it in, and I was crying to him to stop, that he would only the i step into the parlor,” and as} make things worse. | they turned they saw us. Sandra was composed; but Jeff's color faded as if the light in the room had turned green. He took a} “-- toward Julia. he was not looking at him. “Let me be the first to congratu- late you, Sandra,” she said in a brittle voice. I suppose it was as near to an insult as she could manage on short notice. “Thank you,” said Sandra, her eyes suddenly hard. “I knew you'd be glad to have the ordeal over with.” “Is that why you I woke trembling, to find that | the sun had dipped to the level of the western window and was doing its best to make hay of me. The gapping, , ceniinned. T swung my feet to the floor an “Come in.” ia Adam entered, looking ine tod sure of his welcome: “Tm sorry I woke you up,” he said. “I came to apologize for my behavior last night.” He was carrying a manila fold- | er, manuscript size. He laid it on {my table but he did not take his eyes from my face. I t played such a dirty trick on Jeff?” BUSMAN’S HOLIDAY Press) 4Y, Mo—W. T. Giles and F. M. Rouch, railroad ma- chinists, built a streamlined train To be continued IGNORANCE WAS BLISS (By Associated Press) LAMAR, Colo.—Ray Williams of Lamar had a broken leg for three days before he knew it. model, working a year in their Getting out of his car to inspect Spare time It’s motor-powered a tire, he tripped and hurt his and capable of carrying 24 pas- leg. Three days later the leg be- sengers in three cars They said gan to ache. An x-ray showed the job was fun. ithe bone was fractured. present both sides with imparti- ality. In former artciles, I have re- ferred to our Naval Base and Fort Taylor. My predictions have come true—the yard is re-open- ed and a seaplane base is being built. Key West is one of the most important vital links of de- fense of the western hemisphere. No one can dispute our accessabil- ity to the Panama Canal and the harassing of hostile forces at- tempting to enter the Gulf of Mexico. England’s mighty battle fleet is mute evidence of the new weapons of war. Key West is within easy plane range of South America; our de-j| fined naval area places us as al legal area for aerial bombard-! ment. We hope the present Ad- ministration or any other will not leave us unprepared and unde- fended without adequate anti-' aircraft and aerial defenses. Our stored munitions, and our} naval oil reserves would soon, if bombed, not only devastate the armed areas, but the entire com- munity. Your nation’s capitol is feverish , with activity of national defense. The new War Department is be- ing pushed, and another story isj| being added to the condemned munitions building. Today I listened to the address! of the President of the American Federation of Labor, William Green. On Labor Day he pledged labor to national defense but he condemned the Wadsworth con-! scription bill. He stated if we could prove voluntary enlist- ment had failed he would support this measure. I think many mil- lions of Americans join with him. | Sen. Wheeler stated we were creating a military machine which may in itself destroy its benefactor. I stand opposed to conscription because it is not the American Way. I firmly believe that patriotic young America would rally to the defense of the nation if they were given som definition of the peril which con: fronts our government. We stand behind the National Defense program, and we pray that, like England, we will not have to sacrifice our Democratic institutions. Once we have sur- rendered the liberties for which we fought, we gan no longer hope to regain them. This nation engaged in a great Civil War, because the people of one section believed their liber- ties were endangered by govern- mental policies that were un- American. That scar has nev entirely healed, as is sometimes evidenced by partisan demon- strations in Congress. Let us look to Almighty God for guidance to be given to guide our leaders, but while we have our eyes turned to God, keep your ears tuned to the trend of affairs, and protect the liberties which we enjoy only so long as we remain rational and our na- tion permits the nations of Eu- i Pope to fight their own hatreds by percentage, and the next highest to Mrs. Ruth O’Bryant. The meeting closed with the singing of “God Bless America.” Hoft-Smith Naptials Friday Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hoff, of this city, announce the engage- ment and coming marriage of their daughter, Xenia, to Charles Earl Smith, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Smith. The wedding ceremony will be held at Stone Church next Friday evening at 6:30 o'clock with only members of both families present. Rev. A. C. Riviere will officiate. Young Mr. Smith is employed at the local naval station in the supply and accounting office. CDA’: To Hold Bingo Party Tonight A large crowd is expected to attend the Bingo Party to be given tonight, 8:00 o'clock, at La Concha Park under auspices of Catholic Daughters of America. This is one of a series of par- ties given by this organization and all previous ones have been highly successful. A large array of useful prizes © has been assembled to be award- | ed for each game and _there will be door prizes. It has been announced that in case of inclement weather the party will be postponed until Monday night, same time and place. “Political Quiz Answers (Questions on Page Two) 1. Sen. Hiram W. Johnson won a triple victory in the Cali- fornia primary, being nominated m the Republican, Democratic nd Progressive tickets. 2. Walker has been a and theater operator. 3> John L. Lewis. 4. Sen. Bronson Cutting of New Mexico was killed in a Mis- souri crash May 6, 1935. *: 5. Wrong. Secretary Wal made the statement, referring” Mr. Roosevelt, in Wallace's speettt accepting the Democratic vice- |presidential nomination. Strange Island Studied (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11— Scientific secrets of tiny Anacapa jisland, off the coast of California, jare being sought by an expedi- jtion of the Los Angeles county }museum. The island was made a nation- al monument in 1938 because of jits unusual plant life. sacrificing their people and econ-; lomy. “ak lawyer | i and animal painting. 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If we keep going another 4 or 8 years, and everybody gets to working for the Govt. or the State, and gets an E car, I reck- on I will maybe get one too, and will stop writing about ‘°em—and being agitated. I hope I get a nice shiny one, like the one from San Luis Obis- po County. Oh! Boy! Yours with the low down, JO SERRA. Alabama, Arkansas and Geor- gia are the chief domestic sources of aluminum. lumbia, Ga. yesterday by the Lopez Funeral services in city. Surviving Mr. Richardsc his Mrs. Willie 3 Richardson and two daughte BUCKINGHAM PALACE HIT ee (Continued from Page One off and release their bombs heights under 1,000 feet. Bri are experiencing increasing ficulty with these night finding that those defenses Prove capable in the dayt fail, to a large extent. at Dispatches from Berlin night told of a ~ being, layed by the Br: ; now. *& a small card. ab |two ‘in@hes square, treated, w chemicdis. 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