The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 21, 1940, Page 3

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 1, 1940 Casual Slau ters ———By VIRGINIA HANSON == YESTERDAY: Sandra arrives at the Pennant’s party elaborate- ly costumed and with a black eye. Everyone is shocked and gives Jef the cold shoulder, Kay explains to Julia that Sandra has beer. sharing her room. Chapter 30 The Next Victim Ase flushed to the edge of her -bleached hair and turned herself at the mirror. But | even under the layer of powder| she was applying her cheeks were and her hands = to shape her n a st “I don’t pretend to know 's behind it, but you needn’t she says. She’s “s not afraid "t got sense aks she’s too} | | thing. She h ugh to be—sh paused, smoothing her lips was odd | that she should think that of San- | dra, too. It agreed h a vague/ feeling I had formed. “And I don’t believe he’d eve lay a hand on her, no matte: t she did to him.” Julia went on| valiantly. “She used to get into] the most terrible rages at him ye Wi Is. I've seen her s and scratch and claw and bite. I used to think she was trying to get him to hit her 50 she could tell and see him pun- ished. But he'd j Id his face with his arms, chance he'd grab her w hold her until begi and say he ¥ hi she was always a d We went back that, and Gerald and I rallied| around Jeff. I don’t know that I was entirely convinecd of his in- nocence by Julia’s eloquence, but I was willing to reserve judg- ment. And I particularly hate to! see anyone bi at a party. ie was smoldering with impo- tent, miserable anger. Even Ger-! lev when he got a| 5 ! Js party after| through on my way to the corri- or. I almost fell over her. She lying on her face, nearly, in front of the corridor déor, as if she had pitched through’ it. and “someone had close “it ‘behind’ her. Sétheone © haté‘feft her lying there in er blood-soaked white robe, the handle of a butcher knife vertical between her shoulder blades. A horrible sound tore from my throat. I had to step over her to g2t to the door, to open it and totter out into the hall. Gerald was coming, running toward me on quick, light feet, his face white, his eyes hard. I managed to wait until he got to me, then I fainted abjectly in his arms. Under Arrest was put under arrest that ng. Mimi had called me that I spend the rest it under their roof, and when Julia came for me at eleven o'clock, she was white and wild eyed with news. “Dad’s orders,” she said tragi- cally as I got into the car. “And Kay, he really thinks Jeff did it!” “Does that mean he’s been ‘urned over to the civil authori- ties, or put in the guardhouse, Cexwliat?® EFF ther one. They don’t put of- ficers in the guardhouse, as a rule, and the civil authorities can’t come on a post and arrest a mem- ber of the garrison. Dan could have put Jeff in arrest in quar- ters, which would simply have meant he was on his honor not to leave his roems, but for some rea- s he’s put him in the prison rd of the hospital, with a guard r him——” He doesn’t think Jeff is in- I asked startled. “I don’t think so——” “On what charge was he arrest- edin “Murder, I suppose—or maybe he hasn’t been charged yet; I j wouldn’t know about the red tape. But, Kay, he didn’t do it! I know he didn’t. I tell you, I know Jeff. He’s not cruel and mean; he’s kind. He’s got a conscience—too much conscience, I used to tell ald could not draw v R him. He takes everything terribly to heart. He couldn’t murder any- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN PEPPERS SO BALL WON FOURTH AND Sports Calendar And Statistics — DECIDING CONTEST | LAST NIGHT, 18-3 MAJOR, LEAGUES | AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland at Detroit. Chicago at St. Louis. Boston at New York. Phil: Iphia - Washington, scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis at Chicago. New York at Boston. Philadelphia at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, games. view Park, 18-3, over the Key Four Conchs Players Re- | fused To Participate In: Game; Rally In First Settled Issue not Pepper's Plumbers are softball champions of Key West! Their victory last night at Bay- two West Conchs gave them three BASEBALL GAMES (Navy Field, 1:30 p.m.) TOMORROW First Game—C.G.C. Pandora Key West Juniors. Second Game—Trojans vs. Pi-; rates. SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 29 First Game—U.S. Marines vs. Blue Sox. ‘triumphs and the series. Peppers would have won the game. anyway. as four members of the Conchs refused to play ARMY VS. PEPPERS MONDAY EVENING U.S. Army ten, which con- templates entering the next softball league, will play an Second Game—Ke y exhibition game with the ,Conchs vs. Pandora. Pepper’s Plumbers Monday |! Sos LEAGUE MEETINGS night at Bayview Park. H The geme will begin at | 8:00 o'clock. BASEBALL - SOFTBALL Combination meeting Tuesday shortly before game-time, neces-' of next week. New league plans sitating the using of players not! for softballers and financial mat- on the roster. It is understood the jters for baseballers. 8:00 P.M.; quartet—Cardova, Roberts, Arn- | City Hall. West STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE (Major League Baseball) Club— Ww. He. Detroit 86 61 Cleveland - 85 62 New York 80 64 Chicago foe 79 68 Boston 7 69 St. Louis 64 383 Washington 60 84 Philadelphia 53 90 NATIONAL LEAGUE (Major League Baseball) Club— W. L. Pet Cincinnati 94 47 .667 Brooklyn _. 83 61 .576 St. Louis _ 77 65 542 Pittsburgh 73 70 510 Chicago 71 73 493 New York 66 76 465 Boston 61 82 .427 Philadelphia 46 97 .322 Pet. 585 578 356 537 435 A417 371 apa ISLAND CITY LEAGUE (Key West Baseball) Club— Key West Conchs Blue Sox Trojans Pirates - = Key West Juniors U.S. Marines C.G.C. Pandora ——— KEY WEST SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP (Final Standings) 1,000 -000 -000 -000 000 C TIGERS GAIN LEAGUE LE 521) MPS D ‘* Five Runs In Eighth Gave Bengals First Of Thrée - Game Crucial Series {Special to The Citizen) | NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—Outhit {9-15 and trailing 1-4 going into the eighth inning. the Detroit Ti- gers blasted two pitchers out of |the box in that frame. scored five Tuns and ‘annexed the first of a three-game crucial sefies from the Cleveland Indians. Thus the ‘Bengals are now leading the ‘game margin. Final score of the contest was 6-5. | Detroit's cause {less for seven innings as Mel !Harder bore down, holding the Tigers to three hits and a single run. Then, in that fatal eighth, the fans, along with the Bengals, looked hope- Club— W. L. Pet. went wild with joy. Play was other hand, en- success. Under- bride with a black eye. Pe the black eye did not co to her popularity i brought her attention. Sh: is spectacle of that Pair almost tleared , the better to observe. d frem the big living room to the safer obscurity of the hall or library, there to let laughter. is a strange, hysterical par- ty, and Mimi gave the impression of mentally mopping her brow as y farewell of her well after midnight. | _. “The poor ch she said char- | itably of Sandra. “If she had told | t have postponed the hough I think that e been bad, too, don’t you? After the hurried-up wed- ding and all. Perhaps she did the| only thing she could. Certainly she carried it off very well. I'm| afraid J pset— | e no one thought | —that is. of course it must have| been,an accident. Sandra said so her Colone! ously silent. No Sound To Tell I REJECTED Gerald's half-heart- j ed offers of further amusement | and undressed and fell into bed} as soon as I reached my rooms. I} was exhausted and must have. sone right’ ty , for I did nat hear Sahdr&: come ‘in; did ndt know, when something woke me & couple of hours later, whether she had come to bed at all. T lay still in the cryptic darkness, Pennant jhave reas body, even if they deserved it. He just couldn’t!” She was almost crying. “But Julia, your father must —and think how lucky Je: “Lucky _ “Yes, lucky. Suppose he was be- ing bullied by a lot of hard-boiled policemen and a district attorney who were determined to get a confession. At least he’s among friends. Your father is fond of him. He'll see that Jeff gets a square deal——” She turned her Toad to give me look. “You, too!” she think he’s guilty!” “No. I don’t know what the eyi- dence is against h I_ hardly know him; all I know is what you've told me. I hope he isn’t guilty. But if he isn’t, Julia—who is?” “I don’t know,” she said slowly. “And I don’t much care as long as Jeff isn’t. I can’t help it if that shocks you. You haven’t seen, as I have, what she’s done to Jeff. Even by dying she gets him into trouble. I wonder—— No, she couldn’t have done it herself, could she? I mean, so he’d pay for it. A guess I'm thinking pretty wild.” eyes from the a reproachful accused. “You thought you said she loved h Maybe I was wrong about that. Or maybe something made her change. made her hate him in- stead. That black eye, Kay; that was malicious. She could have ! said she was ill. And to show it off like that, theatrically- ig “She could have at least dis- ised it with make-up,” I admit- ed, thinking of that for the first time. “She must have had ‘some experience making up for the stage.” “She had an elaborate make-up wondering what had disturbed | kit. I saw it when she unpacked. me, listening for Sandra's breath- | And some stuff you paint on with ing in the other bed. For a mo-|a brush, to cover blemishes. There ment I heard nothing, then I saw| was a little birthmark on her that there was a thread of dim | forehead, and when she wore her light around the door into the sit- | hair a certain way it showed. I old and Menendez—will be bar- | — red from future softball games in Key West. Hancock, three out of four;! Nelson, two out of three, and Vil-' lareal, Cates, Higgs and Barcelo, | ties each, led at bat for! A. Lastres and Stan-; ley, two out of three each, were outstanding for the Conchs. innings: RHE. Plumbers 521 023 5—18 17 5 Conchs 100 100 1— 3 8 8 Hancock and Ingraham, Cat Griffin, Arias and Rosam. BILL AT NAVY two sa the victors. 'C.G.C. PANDORA AND JUN- IORS CROSS BATS IN OPEN- ER; TROJANS AND PIRATES IN SECOND GAME Score SERIES’ LEADERS H Wm. Cates, Plumber captain and second baseman, led the hit- ting department of the softball! title series, securing nine safeties in 14 tries at bat, 642. He was ‘topped by Hancock, Pepper pitch- jer, .714, but he took only seven |trips to the plate. Villareal poled the only C.G.C. Pandora and Key West Juniors will open the dsiand City Baseball Leagues’ doubleheader at Navy Field tomorrow after- noon, beginning at 1:30 o'clock. Coast Guard nine lost its first game of the league’s schedule to Blue Sox, 8-7, last Sunday. Juniors will be playing their in- itial contest. Trojans and Pirates, rated two of the strongest teams in the cir-; cuit, will cross bats in the night- cap. Curtain-raiser must end at 4:00 o'clock and second affair will get underway fifteen minutes later. ; Practice for visiting club in the first game will terminate at 1:15 o'clock. i Leading hitters among the four | teams that have seen action fol- low: Player— J. Carbonell, KWC 3 Al. Rodriguez, BS 3 Muth, Marines Johnson, Marines L. Gonzalez, KWC E. Ogden, BS home un. Cates, Baker and Menendez led in most triples, one each. Thompson, G. Lastres, Menen- dez, M. Arias and Villareal led in two-baggers, 2 each. A. Lastres made the most put- oyts,. 25. ‘ Most < s—Arnold, 12. Baker stole the most bases, five. Most errors—Carbonell, 7. Most walks—Higgs, 6. Most times truck out—Arnold, AB R. H. Ave. | 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 667 9 Gates, Hancock and Ward won one game each; Arias, one. Early lost two games, Griffin one and Ward one. Lake Baikal in Siberia is the BASEBALL TWIN FIELD SUNDAY ting room; and presently I detect- | oe ed faint little sounds of someone | moying about in there. She was restless, I decided. and had gone in there to keep from waking me. I had left the door open when I went to bed, to en-| courage what little breeze t | was that hot night. I toyed the idea of getting up and opening it again, letting her know that I! awake. But to do so might} Id let 1 looked at the door the rim of | light around it vanished and there | was silence. Had she gone back to Jeff, after all, or was she lying; on the studio couch, in a darkness peopled by unhappy thdtights? | There was no sound to tell nre+ no click of the door, no stirring of | to be punished. Maybe we didn't * springs under-s restless body: | Perhaps she had gone to sleep, In| the night and sifence my own eyes | closed and presently I ceased to} think. It was broad daylight when I} had the answer to my question. | I awoke late and dressed hurried- | ly to get to breakfast before the/ mess hall closed. I. noticed, be-| tween brush strokes, fhat San- dta’s bed had not been slept in, | tell_you, she did it on purpose “Julia! You don’t suppose it was make-up—I mean, that she deliberately painted on a black eye “No,” she said slowly. “That wouldn’t fool anyone on close in- pection. Especially — especially when they examined the body.” We were silent for a few minu- utes. I was thinking over what she had said about not caring who fe in her back! it it mattered vital'y to all of us ta learn who had placed it there. “But, Uulla— someb killed her, .Agd whoever it w S got like, der, very. w But — you didn’t see her. 1 wish I could for- get it. "She was young—she had a right to live. And to be stabbed in the back——” “I don’t know anyone who would do that.” Julia said. “Do y ‘That's what ‘you think. But someone we know did it. Only we don’t know that someone——” I stopped, aware that I was in- -600 -600 500 500 -500 , Boring, CGC G. Garcia, BS Joe Navarro, CGC Wm. Cates, KWC Burns, CGC LEGALS COURT, STATE OF ELEVENTH JUDI- . CIRCUIT, MONROE COUN- IN CHANG deepest in the world. Alaska has a coastline of 26,- 000 miles. LEGALS } CIRCUIT COURT OF THE E JUDICIAL CIRCUIT FLORIDA, IN AND FOR MON- IN CHANCERY. DRA KNWONNN CHE NONOH HE HNN WONNNN ww IN TH ELEY ERCUIT oO RT ROE COUNTY. No. 7-323 SD HOLDING COMPANY LORIDA, a Florida cor- Plaintiff, vs. ALBERT W. ROBERTS, tim nown as ALBERT ROBERTS, et al, fendant. ORVER_ OP, PUBLICATION It 3 i y the sworn Dill Defendants. ied in the abore-stated cause that NOTICE OF COMMISSIONERS Herman,, the defendant * » SALE. t n named, is a non-resident of * R@FVICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the State of Florida and resides at undersigned Commissioners, un- t, New ¥ork: that said de- der and by virtue of that certain over the age of twenty- order heretofore entered in the ; that there is no person P d cause by Honorable tate of Florida the service of the Judges of 2 ons in chancery upon the Eleventh ald bind said defendan' orida_in and erefore ordered that sai@ Sitting _in be and he is hereb: Monday, the 7th pear to the bill of detober, A. D., 1940, ‘be- cause on or be- 2 o'clock A.M. and 2:00 Monday th @ay of Octo- at the front door of D. 1940, otherwise the alle- s of said bill will be taken as defend: some- Ww. onroe will ‘come Pepper’s Plumbers 3 1 750 Key West Conchs ..- 1 3 250! : PONS WN MIGHT CONTEST ‘BLASTED RUN VICTORY STRING TO FORTY-ONE Ten runs behind goihg into the third inning, Typhoons, champ scrub ten, began blasting the ball all over the field to finally take the game, 30-11, from the All- Stars at Bayview Park Thursday night. A 12-run rally in the eighth in- ning left no doubt as to the out- come. Everett Sweeting held the Stars runless from the second frame on, except for a tone tal- ly in the seventh. James Kelly, of the winning ten, poled a homer with a man on base. The victory was the Typhoons’ forty-first in a row. Score by innings: R. i. E. Typhoons 004 423 0125—30 19 12 All-Stars 550 000 1 00—11 10 9 Evetett Sweeting and George Barber; Kirky Pierce and George Lowe. Today's Bitthdays A Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the President, born 86 years ago. Heriry L. Stimson of New York, secretary of war, born in New York, 73 years ago. Harold T. Webster of Stamford, Conn., cartoonist, born at Park- ersburg, W. Va., 55 years ago. Rev. Dr. Fred F. Goodsell of Boston, Congregational foreign missions official, born at Monte- video, Minn., 60 years ago. Alfred D. Stedman of Washing- ton, D. C., journalist, born at Boone, Ia., 49 yeang ago. H. G. (Herbert, George) Wells, | famed English writer, born 74 years ago. WELL, IT’S HARD ON HONEST ‘MEN, T (Ry Axnocintél Breas) | OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 21.—G. W. Walket. U.S. se- cret sefvice agefit, says hot weather is hard en counter- ALL-STARS 30-11: to allow straw halted several times groundkeepers to remove |hats and debris from the field After McCosky had walked in the eighth and Gehringer had jsingled him to third, manager Os- tear Vitt conferred with Tribe |strategists for five minutes, re- ' NIGHT GAME (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK. Sept. 21.— St. Louis Browns won the | final night game of the 1940 + major leagues’ baseball sea- son. Taking on the Chicago White Sox last night on their home grounds, the Brownies edged them out, 7 to 6, on nifie Kits and despite the fact they committed three errors to one for the Chisox. St. Louis used a trio of moundsmen. oo sulting in the removal of Harder and replacement by Bob Feller, who had only a day’s rest. Green- berg singled, scoring McCosky. York singled, sending Gehringer home, and while outfielder Bell ‘fumbled the ball, Greenberg crossed the plate with the tying run. York, who had reached second, came in on Higgins’ sin- gle to right. Out went Feller and in came Dobson, third mounds- man of the inning. Fox singled, sending Higgins to third. On an attempted squeeze play, Higgins was caught between third and home. Tebbetts walked. Camp- bell, batting for pitcher New- houser, singled Fox across the plate, but Tebbetts was putout joversliding third iframe. First man up grounded out. Cleveland had taken the lead in the third with a lone run; Ti- gers knotted the count in the fourth and the Tribe went ahead again in the fifth with a two-run rally, adding another in the \sixth. Then came the deluge. \Indians threatened in the ninth but were held to a single mark- er. Four errors also aided the Ti- ‘gers’ first-of-the-series victory. Results of the games: AMERICAN LEAGUE At Detroit RHE Cleveland 515 4 {Detroit _ = 691 Harder, Feller, Dobson and Pytlak; Newesom, Smith, New- thouser, Benton and Tebbetts Night Game At St. Louis Chicago St. Louis Hallett, Grove and Tresh; New {lin, Trotter‘and Swift. to end the No other games scheduled _ ‘NATIONAL LEAGUE No games scheduled. but I had no occasion to go into the | COHerent. But Julia seemed ‘to sitting room until, dressed and | understagd me. ready for breakfast, I dashed! To be continued Le sence and industrious habits. The , ill be rath erved. Today’s Horoscope nature wi e rather reserve ————————— however, and the inner mind $el- dom exposed. Many friends ‘are Today endows with a rich, gen- indicated and ‘erous disposition, good intelli-!Good fortune is probable. a large faniily. |, e following de- ng and being in <8 it: on 12 in Town- South, Range 40 East. A. C. HORTON, HELEN R. HILSON, ALVIN A. IBA, Commissioners. H. ANDERSON, for Plaintiff, prida, septl4-21-28; oct5,1940 Key West Citize: lished in said Done and orde 1940, e weeks in The a newspaper pub- unty.and state. red this 3ist day Ross C Sawyer Clerk Circuit Court. (Sa.) Florence E. Sawyer, Deputy Clerk. LOUIS SPIGEL, Solicitor for Complain: ant. } | Sugai! Repes-14-21-28,1940 | aa aaa aay wD feiters. ‘The reasons: Thi tuper- stoves have to stand over to do They have to keep all the prevent detection, ‘Speaking of OD COFFEE try Strong Arm Coffee |Imported Cuban, Sottth America and ‘Mocha. Order some to- a ge your grocer. PII ili iii iii titi ii iii rir) lhighly imaginative and Sunday~ Horoscope Today's nature is a kindly one rae creative self-commanding will, le trol; but is liable to slacken occasion in most cases, id y into sensuousness. 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