The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 24, 1940, Page 3

C7 ae ——=By VIRGINIA HANSON = YESTERDAY: Gerald ques- tions Kay minutely about San- dra’s murder. asking if anything in the room has been touched. She thinks not. She moves over to the Pennants and goes with Julia to see Jef. Chapter 32 The Whole Truth 35 man on guard closed the door and stayed outside the} f barred room. He may have been listening. but I don’t think Julia thought of that. or would have} ca if she had. She went straight to Jeff and put both her hands in his. “We'll get you out of this.” she; said in the voice you would use} to a frightened child. “It isn’t that Dan thinks you did it: he te has to take some action. It’s the second murder and they haven't ee anywhere with the worse than that,” Mimi must have been lying | down, for the living room and li- | brary were untenanted. So pres- | ently. feeling myself an unwel- | come guest, I went up to my room }and put my things back in my overnight bag. 1 went down as soon as I heard the colonel come in, and faced | him with inner quaking across his | big desk in the library. “Colone} Pennant, I have a con- nm to make.” I began. | hope you don’t mean that | literally,” he said with a nice smile. The smile put me a little more at my ease. After all, I had | danced with this man and laughed jat his jokes and warmed to his | good-natured flattery. He looked ja little tired t afternoon, and | his eyes were sad. but he was not formidable. He placed a chair for me, found i, S pplied me with a ne Then he went back to his d the desk and looked he said! through stiff lips. “They found a} blood-stained towel in my ‘aun-} mper. Dan asked me to ex- it, but how could I? I d aoe how it got there.” Julia’s eyes blazed. “Someone's g to frame you. Any idea “Don’t. you suppose I'd tell if I 2” he asked wearily. “Who hat black eye? I didn’t. She drew a deep breath, and face warmed almost ed cause it w defenseless eyes learned something. It was the fi time I had seen Jeff with the bar- riers down y stayed down only an Suddenly he freed an d backed stant. away. barbed - think it was or di a; it was "hoe f forgetfuines Julia be- to a} t going to because Julia and I don’t | see alike about it, and it’s sort of like telling tales out, of school to come to you “You mean Ji ing out impas “Yes, bi ves. Please don’t let me get her uble. I'm fond of Julia es straight I Tet think But see. at me across Blacker For Jeff ee f we sat down and) sj e could to talk over it you've come to pump glanced ed e 1 his own shadow. “You've probably heard.” went on. with a cold leok at me. “that my wife was afraid to oc cupy a room with me You can be lieve that or not. just as you please. ence to me. I married her. 1 don know who killed her. I don't kno’ who killed Ivan And you ed pump until you're black in the! face and still go back and tell Dan that’s all you found out.” Julia stamped her foot. “I did not come here to find or ut | things for Dan.” she stormed. re to help you, but I don’t why I bothered. I've al- self blind, and so} ed, appalled at what she had said “Then you'd better tell the truth from now on.” he said icily. | en I need lies told for me rn} let_you know.” He went to the door and cone it, held it until we had passed through. Head high, Julia marched down the corridor and out of the hospi- tal, but as soon as we were in the} car she gave way to a storm of! tears. I he wheel and drove aimlessly for a while, waiting for her to get control of herself. Cold Fury “TF ONLY Adam were here.” I said finally, out of the depths of my thougats. “Julia, he was Tight. Jeff was right. We'd better ell your father the truth.” “Oh, no. Kay, you don’t mean that—not with Dan already think- ing ee killed h the only way we can do thing to help Jeff if he isn’t the murderer is to find out who is And how can we expect to ar- rive at th our_knowledge?” “But don't you see—all we've withheld is just what will make it look blacker for Jeff. know he didn't do it!” “Oh no, that isn’t all. How about Mimi—you said it was her car that night at the barge. We way of it. I feli g. until we re at the colonel’s quar- en. before I got out | my considered decision ‘I'm sorry, Julia. If Adam were it. Since it will have i be your She looked stunned. as if ner id had deserted her. and ‘0 steel myself against sym- 1 said firmly. “It’s Sandra’s death— way she was killed —— no use talking. Julia. around here isn’t hu- every lie we tell is in "s service. ['m_ not} ke the responsibilty.”} “T see, said. Her tears were dry, and there was cold fury in her voice. She got out of the car and walked, without a backward glance, into ne house and up the stairs te her! room. I had to see the colonel at four. I followed her into the house. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE weecececccececscescosese se he | der It's a matter of indiffer- | e truth until we all pool | And I} an. ja thinks all I have hand But these Civilian au- alled in about Ivan’s mur- an. So was Sandra, though in one sense she under my jurisdiction. But nurder is different. It's a mili- jtary crime. but 1 also a civil ere tried by still be nd I doubt jit f could successfully oppose the arrest for murder of any of my | personnel. Except by the one step iI have taken.” “You mean—by arresting Jeft | yourself? Oh; but why didn’t you j explain all that to Julia? ". would ake her feel so much better. She hinks you're convinced of Jeff's (gles saw his face then, and my | words trailed off. Jeff has been like a son to me,” he said slowly, after a little | pause “Don't you think I'd rather believe him innocent? But what am I to think? First Ivan, now |Sandra. There’s only one com- mon factor, and it’s Jeff. Then there’s that blood - stained towel “But don’t you think that w | too stupid to be true?” “Murderers aren't all as clever e ones in books. aid “And he had manhandled Sandra—— “He told us he didn’t give San dra that black eye.” “Would you expect him to ad mit it? T the chaplain—he has rooms next to theirs at the club —told me reluctantly this ing that he heard them q ing for about an hour, after they got home from the reception. He said he couldn't hear any words but they both sounded angry And Jeff didn’t deny it. He just fused to say what the quarrel about.” “It may have been merely be cause she had appeared in public | jooking: like that. But the fact that they quarreled doesn’t necessarily mean that he killed her, does it?” Colonel Pennant looked deeply joules. T don’t want to think the boy if ; as bv uly drew up} ni Ibe she's right old - fashioned belief that when you get together all the pieces of e truth it are available you'll if Jeff really did kill Julia might better find it out as possible Because | think 's in love with her. too.” He looked at me helplessly it isn’t polite to tell a lady e’s demented.” he said with a quirk of his mouth that didn’! quite make a smile. “Well. never ind. I'm accustomed to female intuitions and admit to my sor. row that they're often sound. Sup- Pose you tell me what you know.” {| So told him of our seeing San- jdra and Ivan embracing on the | barge. of Jeff coming up the lad- der and Julia sending him oft down the beach alone. And how Sandra had come down presently — left Ivan up there. and that | as far as we knew he had not left | the barge alive. i Teo be continued CITIZEN—20c WEEKLY. weecccecccsccsscscosecoes CINCINNATI RED FANS ARE GRATEFUL - GIANTS, CLINCH AND STATISTICS er: Authorities Give Credit = To Wilson, Cincy Coach-Catcher By JOHN FRYE AP Feature Service Writer CINCINNATI. Sept. 24.—As time goes on and the tall, like- able guy named William Bucky Walters continues winning ball games for the Cincinnati Reds, more and more people claim to be the first to discover that as a two-bit third baseman he was one le of a pitcher. Most authorities point to Jim- my Wilsov, Red catcher-coach who was Bucky's manager on the straggling Phillies in those days, but every day some one pops up with, “I seen ’m fir: Be that as it may, ‘and maybe Bucky couldn’t say for sure him- self, the half million he: of the founders of Lo: iville on the ks of the e willing to be grateful to an Losanti- heave that for more than two 1 looks good. there just above the ducks its head as the bat i an- infield it go knees, to the Teaches His Son is a family man whose z it teaching his with a Bucky full gave the 27 He first he major to Series by losing push winning only 12, onsible for 52—or more lf—of the R decisions. going has been tougher this season. He didn’t turn in his 20th victory until mid-Septem- ber. He had nine defeats up to that time. Well. the experts said last fall t Bucky and Paul wouldn't re- their brother act and they didn’t. Paul still trying for No. 20 in mid-September. had lost an even dozen up then. The pea But Consider This— But there are some factors to be considered. In the first place. the Reds of 1940 are the second “hitless wonde They've been batting around .260 and have never had more than two regu- lars checking in above .300 at any one time. Last vear, either Bucky or Paul could on occasion allow four or five runs and still win. This year they've had to keep the opposi- tion to a minimum of one or two runs and manv a time a shutout has been the only salvation. Another point: the Reds’ pitch- ing strength is invested in more men. Last vear Bucky and Paul were the wheel horses. Gene Thompson w good but a rookie. Johnn Vander Meer was a bust. Whitey Moore was yes and no and Lee Grissom was Lee Gris- som_ Today Thompson takes his reg- ular turn, Jim Turner is depend- able. Moore is beginning to de- clare dividends, and Vandy, the double-no-hit hero of 1938, may be some help. Comes Through Then. of course, there’s Joe Beggs. the farm-hand who was just surplus gold to the New York Yankees. Let anybody show the faintest symptom of needing help in comes Fireman Joe. with hook. ladder. the dousingest fire- hose vou ever saw. If this sounds like palaver to cover up the fact that Bucky and win 52 games again vear. look at the standings learn for yourself that the Reds of 1940 are about a week ahead of their 1939 winning edule. Two pitchers don't have to win 25 games if there's enough other talent around. ARMY WILL NOT PLAY BASEBALL U. S. Army will not enter a team in the Island City Baseball League. at least not in the near future. This information was given a league committee last night jeutenant R. L. Pirkle, of the He disclosed that at a company meeting. it was voted to play softball exclusively. New suits and equipment have been purchased for the Soldier ten and will be in readiness when sched- uled play begins next week. At a meeting of the local base- ball circuit last week, a motion was made and duly passed to in- and ,Lang, gardener. by i SE EEY WEST CITIZEN NO MATTER WHO FOUND WALTERS, DODGERS WHIP — SPORTS CALENDAR CRAFT'S N) FIELDING Werber Ontstanding- Also MAKES HIM HERO By JOHN FRYE AP Feature Service Writer CINCINNATI. Sept. 24- perfectly serious Cincinnati Red fans say that Harry Craft’s work in centerfield is the equal of that of the old “Grey Eagle”—Tris Speaker of the 192) world cham- pion Clevelan and one of the greats o! little harder a big chunk of the that gets a batter a hit WERBER’S ‘MEAN’ AFIELD OR AT BAT Verber, one of s to the gra 7 the 1 to come Ifh his sharp eye walk. he’s an hunting msurance dog fan- BALL LEAGUES MEET TONIGHT REORGANIZATION OF SOFT- BALL CIRCUITS TO BE CONSIDERED utive and Island City Baseball League officials and managers will gather tonight at City Hall, 8:00 o'clock, in regular meeting. Fur- ther discussion of financial status and other important matters are scheduled for the session. President Roy Hamlin urges all managers, interested players and fans to be present. Immediately after the hard ball meeting, National and Am- erican Softball Leagues will get together to map out plans for re- organization of the circuits. New schedules wil be drawn up and rosters of teams will be ap- proved Incident that occurred at the final game of the softball cham- pionship series last week will be thrashed out at the session to- night. SESE IS FB LL PEPPERS, NAVSTA TOMORROW NIGHT Pepper's Plumbers will cross bats with the Naval Station ten iomorrow night at Bayview Park. beginning at 8:00 o'clock. Phillip Baker, former star third sacker of the Peppers, will appear in the NavSta lineup. Last night the Peppers downed the U. S. Army ten. 12-2. Clarence Gates held the Soldiers in check while his teammates pounded the ball all over the field. Friday night at the Park field, Sawyer's Barbers and NavSta will engage in an exhibition softball contest. TFSI SSIS IS GETS FATHER'S KIT PETERSBURG, Ind. — When mustered Va.. after returning from France following the World War, Lane turned in his mess kit on which he had etched his name and a skull and cross- A few days ago, Lang ed a letter fgom his son. . Jr. now a member of a at Phoenix. A) say- ad been issued the same vite the Arm the league. It is understood that ithe Air Squadron will join the loop and allow” play on Trumbo field, where activities were in full swing last year before the gov- ernment leased the property to my to enter a club in establish an air base. out at Newport News. . SECOND PLACE CHAMPION REDS BOW TO PI- RATES: CUBS WALLOP RED- BIRDS: BEES AND PHILLIES SPLIT (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, Sept. 24—Brook- lyn Dodgers have practically clinched second place in the Na- tional League. Their victory over their eternal rivals, New York Giants, yesterday, while the St_ Louis Cardinals were being shutout by the Chicago Cubs, just about settled the issue. Redbirds have eight more con- tests to play and Dodgers six. As the Cards are in the rear of the Flatbush nine by a_ half-dozen games, they will have to win all of their remaining contests and Brooklyn lose their six games to break even. Dolph Camilli’s ninth-inning home run into centerfield stands paved the way for the Dodgers’ victory over the Giants, 3-2. New Yorkers threatened in their half of the final frame, loading the Tex Carleton, who pitch- ed to only two batters, executed an unassisted double play to save the game for the Rhinelanders. Claude Passeau registered his fourth shutout of the season as he blanked the Cardinals, 10-0. For five innings he held the Red- birds hitless and not a _ player reached third base throughout the contest. Pittsburgh Pirates’ last home stand of the 1940 season came to an end yesterday. As if in cele- bration, the Bucs walloped the champion Cincinnati Reds, 12-9, despite the fact the Reds pound- ed out 17 safeties_ Aided by two home runs off the bat of catcher Warren, rookie Podgajny pitched the Philadel- phia Phillies to a 6-2 triumph over the Boston Bees in the open- ing fracas of a doubleheader. An- other rookie moundsman, Tom Earley. evened the score by blanking the Phils, 8-0, in the nightcap. Results of the games: NATIONAL LEAGUE At Pittsburgh R. HE Cincinnati 917 3 Pittsburgh : 12 14 1 Beggs, Hutchings, Riddle, Der- ringer and Wilson, West; Bow- man, Rambert, Heintzelman, Brown and Schultz, Davis. At Chicago St. Louis Chicago Shoun, Kimball Passeau and McCullough. At Brooklyn R. HE. New York 2e Brooklyn 311 Schumacher, Lynn and O'Dea, Grissom, Casey, Tamulis. Carle-| ton and Franks, Mancuso. First Game At Boston Philadelphia Boston Podgajny and Warren; Salvo, Sullivan and Berres, Broskie. LE 2 2 Second Game At Boston Philadelphia Boston 3} Muleahy and Warren: and Berres. AMERICAN LEAGUE Open date. R. HE 033 811 0 Earley U. S. WEATHER BUREAU REPORT Observation taken at 7:30 a.m, 75th Mer. Time (city office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night Mean Normal 86 77 82 Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches Total rainfall since Sept. 1, inches 11.35 Excess since Sept. 1, inches 5.84 Total rainfall since Jan. Ei inches Barometer at 7:30 a. m. today Sea level, 29.95 (1014.2 millibars) Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise Sunset 6:17 a. 6:21 p. Moonrise 12:16 a. Moonset 1:45 p. Tomerrow’s Tides (Naval Base) AM. High aoe 2:53 Low —— FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m_, Wednesday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly m. m. m. m. PM. 5:18 9:50 ! Brooklyn ren; | Philadeto ia MAJOR LEAGUES’ GAMES TODAY AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington at New York_ Boston at Philadelphia St. Louis at Cleveland. Chicago at Detroit. NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati at St. Louis. Pittsburgh at Chicago. Philadelphia at Boston. New York at Brooklyn. BASEBALL GAMES (Navy Field, 1:30 p.m.) SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 23 First Game—U.S. Marines vs Blue Sox. Second Game—Key Conchs vs. Pandora. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 6 First Game—Trojans Juniers. Second Game—Pirates vs. West SAL vs. Blue EXHIBITION SOFTBALL GAMES (Bayview Park Field, 8:00 p.m.) TOMORROW NIGHT Pepper's Plumbers vs_ NavSta FRIDAY NIGHT Sawyer’s Barbers vs. NavSta LEAGUE MEETINGS BASEBALL - SOFTBALL Combination meeting this evening. New league plans for softballers and financial mat- ters for baseballers. 8:00 o'clock. City Hall. STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE (Major League — Club— = L Detroit 62 Clevelana 63 New York 64 Chicago 69 Boston 71 St. Louis 84 Washington 62 84 Philadelphia 59 92 NATIONAL LEAGUE (Major League Baseball) Club— Ww i. he Cincinnati 96 50 658 86 62 581 79 67 541 76 72 514 73 75 «493 68 466 63 426 48 100 .324 Pet. 584 562 537 514 436 425 391 = 86 82 80 7 65 St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago New York Boston : JIM WILSON PLUGS ‘Retired’ Catcher — Helps GAPS FOR REDS By JOHN FRYE AP Feature Service Writer CINCINNATI, Sept. 24—Some years ago Jimmy Wilson was one of the best catchers in the Nation- al League. Then, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, he taught a third baseman named Bucky Walters how to pitch. He came to the Cincinnati Reds as a coach in 1939. Pushing 40, the figured his playing days were hover. But the death of second- string catcher Willard Hersh- berger left a hole to fill and Jim- my filled it. When Ernie Lombardi went out with an injured finger for a few days in early September, Jimmy caught with the old-time zip | tossed hopeful base stealers out ‘with ease, and contributed some useful hits on the offenive side. Jimmy’s son is a bull-pen catch- er for the Reds and is expected _.82\to take up where his dad leaves ‘off—if he ever does. Ival Goodman’s been in a bat- ting slump most of this year but \the Goodman section of the Cin- cinnati right field bleachers is stiil all for Ival Every time he trots out there his public stands up and _ yells. He used to hit a lot of homers to that spet in the bleachers and everybody expects him to start again. Ival is an Oklahoman, with a bit of Indian blood in him. . Cloudy tonight and Wednesday: moderate southeasterly winds. Florida: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; showers in ex- treme northwest portion nesday; slightly warmer in treme north portion tonight. ADVISORY: The tropical dis- turbance moved inland during early morning west of Morgan City, Louisiana. Wed- ex- we EGALS the Sheriff ef Monroe Coumty, the State of Flortda. Known, That 1. R A GRAY. retary of State of the State of Florida, do hereby give netice Wilt State of Florida, om Tuesday next succeeding the first Men = November, A. D. 1940, the sid being the FIFTH DAY OF NOVENEER For United States Senater frem the State of Florida, for a term ef six years from Jam. 3, 1941 For Seven (7) Presidential Biee- For ot Fourth the State « Seventh € ‘States ‘or Governer of ida. w Secretary of Florida r Attorney General of the State Representative of the neressional District of Flori@a, in the Seventy the United the State of of State Ure State For Treasurer of the State tendent of Public In- of the Rupreme Fieniéa Commimmoner nty Judge ireuit Court Criminal Court wsecuting Atternes, Oounts Assessor of Taxes Collector ¥ Superintendent To Hon. Karl 0 Thompson, Sherif® nt Minnie Pearlman Eckelman Plamtift. vs. Sam Eckelman, Defendant ORDER FOR PUBLICATION To: Sam Eckelman. Resrdence—unknown You are hereby required to ap- pear to the Bill of Complaint im |the above styled and entitled cause on Octeber 7th 1940, other- wise the allegations therein will be taken as confessed. This order to be published ence a week for four consecutive weeks in The Key West Citizen, a@ newspaper published im Key West, Florida Done and ordered this August 26, 1940. (SEAL) Ross C Sewyer 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 L Julia S. Williams, a married woman, of the City of Key West. Monroe County, State of Florida. intend to apply on the 28th day of September, 1940, or @s soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, to the Honorable Arthur Gomez, a Judge of the Bleventh Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida, for a license to mamage. take charge of and control my property and business and to be- come a free dealer in every re- spect. Dated this 27th day of August, A. D. 1940. JULIA S. WILLIAMS. PAGE THREE CLASSIFIED COLUMN PICTURE FRAMING PICTURE FRAMING ' pr Box