The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 28, 1940, Page 3

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 1940 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Casual Sha wghters Yor k’s Homer Off Feller o=———=By VIRGINIA HANSON, YESTERDAY: Mimi tells Kay how Sandra held over her head an innocent incident which San- dra could distort and make the upright Colonel believe. Sandra may have used similar tactics to force Jef to marry her. Chapter 36 7 No Question Of Staying Las Colonel episiped to me w pt that he had c that Jeff would inherit by San-| dra’s death. “But surely you don’t think oa t t of Jefi— wy, you said he he were act ey my son it could make no difference under these circumstances. Any man/ who wo kill a lovely young girl—a girl he had been fortunate enough to win as his bride——” I remembered that he would hear nothing against Sandra. Yet he was ready to believe this of Jeff! The little flame of resent- ment that Mimi’s story had kin- died in my mind, fed by my own sense of angry guilt, flared out in reckless speech. “Lovely young sirl!” I said hot- ly. “What do you know about her? If you weren't so sure of yourself, this thing would never have happened. It’s your fault, all of it! Marry a Jovely young girl yourself and! treat her as if she were a house- keeper! Pat yourself on the back | because you rescued her from} starvation — and then starve her for a little love and urderstand- ing! Did you ever stop and look at your wife and see how unhap- py she is? Have you ever asked her what was the matter, encour- aged her to talk to you? Or have you snubbed her every time she |, gave way to a human emotion un- til she’s afraid to tell you when she’s in troubie—afraid to tell you that Sandra was ruining your daughter’s life with a vicious lie| she had trumped up about her,/} Mimi! Afraid you wouldn’t be- lieve your own wife, that you'd sit in judgment on her as you’ve just done on Jeff——” It’s a pity I didn’t burst into tears sooner, before I had said all there was to say. He seemed in- capable of doing anything to stop me. His face was the color of the | overworked tomato; his eyes looked like green marbles about to roll down his cheeks. His whole attitude suggested that of a man trapped with a raging tiger. Tran out of the room before he | could recover his senses and took j refuge in my room. From behind | my closed deor I heard him, pres- ently, tramp heavily up the stiés and knock at his wife’s door. It was a warm‘night, but I was| having a chill. With buckling knees I stumbled about the room, found my hat and my pocketbook, picked up the overnight case and, closing my door behind me so that they would not miss me, tot- tered as quietly as I could down the stairs. There was no question now of my staying under that roof. As I opened the front door I thought once, vaguely, of Fringy. I had gone to the library with| that one additional bit of infor- mation and I had not told it. But| I would not have gone back now| if I had known that Fringy him- self, grown dark and dreadful and menacing. was lying in wait in the shrubbery to make me a third | victim. I could not go back. I had thrown the gauntlet in God's face, and hell would be a better place for me. A Lifetime S THE distance between me and Golonel Pennant wid- ened I scopes shivering and my ; step grew firmer. But I knew I had done for myself forever as far as Fort Michigan was con- cerned. I would pack tonight, and the first train in the morning would take me back to Chicago. I only hoped my rashness would not get Adam into trouble. It was dusky, about the hour at which tht carriage had arrived last night. Was it only last night? I seemed to have lived a lifetime during those twenty-four hours. I shivered again and glanced over my shoulder. The post was very quiet. Lights burned behind drawn shades along the row, but there drifted out no sound of light voices, no laughter. In unison these people were paying their respects to the dead as last night they had paid them to the living. There were lights in the chapel, too. Thursday night. Did they have prayer meeting on an army post? But as I approached, the lights suddenly went eut and I heard the opening and closing. of the heavy oak door. A little hurrying figure came down the walk to- ward me. “Good evenii ing,” intoned a fa- miliar voice. “Oh, is it you, Miss Kay? I'm afraid my eyes are not yet accustomed .to the dim light.” “Good evening, Chaplain Hen- ty. Have you been conducting | services?” “No, no. Merely attending to my own devotions.” He sighed heavily and, relieving me of the | light case, fell’ AES Step beside me. “This lair has pee! me on ly, as of course it has everyone on the post——” blind, so | all} | “But you had known her a long | time, hadn’t you?” I felt a surge jof sympathy. Sandra had been | his only friend on the post—the = one who hadn't laughed at him. “Since she was a mere child. It was my unhappy duty to con- duct the service for her father jand mother. A very sad affair. The lovely wife died of pneu- monia; the husband, inconsolable, | committed suicide. And now it | falls to my lot to read the ser- ice over their only child.” “Where will the body be sent?” | “To San Antonio, where her own father and mother as well as her foster father and mother | lie buried. What a succession of | tragedies in those two families!” We went up the broad front steps of the club, and he fumbled the screen door open. The light from _ the lounge streamed out, and I saw that he was carrying a book in his white-gloved hand. He followed me in, set down my dressing case and slipped the book face down on a table, but not before I had seen the lurid jacket and the fitle, Come Back, My Heart. “Mrs. Bridewell asked me to get her something,” he said apolo- getically. “Have you patronized our small lending library in the basement of the church?” “I didn’t even know there was one——” . His face, I noticed, was not quite so repulsive looking. If he could manage not to get another | attack he might look almost hu- man in another week. | The club orderly, passing jthrough from the bar to the | kitchen regions, stopped when he | saw_us. |. “There’s some mail for you,” Miss Cornish. I was fixing to | bring it around to the colonel’s quarters as soon as I go off duty. But since you're here I'll get it ‘for you.” He vanished. “Wi ould you like me to put the suitcase in your room?” the chap- lain asked while we waited. “Or |— perhaps you're not staying there?” | “No. Just leave it here, thank you,” I'said evasively. “I'll speak to Mts. Bridewell——” Rejected Manuscript | THE orderly reappeared with the mail. I took it from him and muttered something uncom- plimentary as I saw that there | was nothing from Adam. | “Not bad news, I trust?” the chaplain asked anxiously. | “No, just not good. A rejected | manuscript and a letter from the same people. They were in an ; unpleasant hurry about it, I must | say. | He tut-tutted a couple of times while I thrust the letter, unread, into my purse. Then he came out | with some bright remark about if |at first you don’t succeed, or | words to that effect. The orderly, lingering, said, | “Too bad about that young lady.” jand added fervently, “I'm glad I | don’t sleep here!” | “I understand the, ah, weapon was taken from the kitchens ' here?” the chaplain asked with | what I could not help considering | ghoulish interest. “IT guess it was. The cook said | her best butcher knife was miss- ing, and she hasn’t got it back yet She was pretty sore when she tried to cut the ham this | morning——” 2 | I bit back a hysterical impulse }to tell him he should speak to the colonel—tell him the cook | needed her butcher knife. I felt | that I would want a vegetarian breakfast. “Anyway, I'm glad I wasn’t around when that fellow come for the knife,” the orderly dilated | with gruesome relish. “I got one scare a couple of nights ago that will last me awhile. I was ready to go back to barracks, and there wasn’t a soul around. It was a week night, and I guess everybody was in bed for a change. I went back to the kitchen to change my white coat for my uniform blouse that I always leave hanging out there, and I came back through the dining room. The lights were on out here, see, and the dinin; room wasn’t exactly dark, so didn’t turn on no lights. I was almost to the hall when I seen this sort of floating white figure by the buffet. Not that it was ac- tually floating, or even moving when I first saw it. It was stand- ing real still, like it hoped I wouldn’t just notice it at all. Wel, for two shakes I would have just cut and run. But I was right by the door, and I figured I could get out quick if I had to, so I reached over and turned on the light.” He paused, enjoying our atten- tion and creating suspense. Then he chuckled a little and went on. “Well, sir, it was Mrs. Tack— the bride, you know. She had on a kind of white bathrobe, and she had a medicine bottle in one hand and a vinegar cruet in the other, and she was pouring vine- gar into the bottle. I reckon I thought she was daffy or some- thing. I just stood ‘there and |stared until she gave a little | Taugh and asked me if didn’t | know vinegar was good for a ne aac emed she had one id was to rub vinegar on her head. f told her it was a new one on me, but she just smiled and said, ‘Don’t tell anyone I swiped it.’ So I didn’t. But I guess el was just joking, don’t you?” To be continued How About shies Rules For ‘London Bridge?’ (My Axnoetated Press) BERLIN, Sept. 26.—It isn’t cricket to use English words in German tennis. has called on players to “elimin- ate the last English word”. Lob should be mischtes Doppel”. A tennis journal Kauskas_ and Evans; “hochball”, smash should be “schmetterball” mixed doubles should be “ge- Clinched American Loop Flag For Detroit Tigers BOB’S 3-HITTER FAILED TO STOP ‘HOT’ B BENGALS ROOKIE HURLER SHUTOUT INDIANS, 2-0: YANKEES’ CHANCE LOST AS A'S DE- FEATED THEM, 6-2 (Speczal to The Citizen) NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—Rudy York’s home run in the fourth inning with Gehringer on base the “paying” blow that clinched the American League was pennant for the Detroit Tigers yesterday afternoon on the Tribe's home field. The victory, coupled with the Philadelphia Athletics’ triumph the New- York Yankees, eat an chance ofeither Iclev eland ct New York. Indians are now three games in the rear of the Bengals with only two more to play. York’s two-run four-base clout was a “heartbreaker” for Feller. He held the Tigers to two hits and no runs otherwise. How- ever, double plays pulled him out of several tough spots. He struck out four but gave seven batters free tickets to first, the cause of many anxious moments before his teammates came through with the double killings. In a surprise move, manager Del Baker sent rookie Floyd Gie- bell to the mound. The job of holding the Redskins in this vital geme was a burdensome one, but Giebell came through with flying colors. With men on bases, he was invincible, scattering the six hits he allowed and fanning six men, including Chapman three times. The last meeting of the season between the Athletics and Yan- kees was a disastrous one for the New Yorkers. When it was all over. the world’s champions’ four- year dominance over the Ameri- can League was ended and an eight-game winning streak was snapped. Johnny Babich, who had defeated the Yanks on four other occasions this year, limited the Gotham nine to five hits. He held them scoreless until the ninth inning. Connie Mack pre- dicted the downfall of the Yanks and his team handed them the clincher yesterday. Washington Senators absorbed the worst beating handed any team of the now closing 1940 baseball season. Blasting out 22 safe hits in the biggest slugfest of the year. Boston Red Sox romped home tq a 24-4 triumph over the Nats. Centerfielder Di- Maggio had a perfect day at bat, five for five. Even pitcher Os- termueller batted 1,000, four for four. Only one member of the Sox failed to hit safely, shortstop Carey. over Chicago White Sox edged out! the St. Louis Browns in the tenth inning of their contest, 4-3. trich and Harris staged a pitch- ers’ duel. National League results: adelphia Phillies blanked the New York Giants. 6-0, as Klein and Warren homered off King Carl Hubbell. . St. Louis Cardinals walloped the Chicago Cubs, 11-1! Pittsburgh Pirates eked out a vietory over the Reds. 4-3, in 10 innings. Results of the games: AMERICAN LEAGUE At Cleveland . E. Detroit 2 ‘Cleveland 1 Giebell and Sullivan; and Hemsley. Feller At Philada)phia E New York Philadelphia Russo, Murphy, Sundra Dickey; Babich and Hayes. R. H. 25 6 9 2 1 and At Boston Washington Boston Monteagudo, R. H. E. eit 3 24 22 3 Thuman, Kra- Ostermuel- ler and Desautels. At Chicago . H. E. St. Louis = 81 Chicago me 12 2 (10 Innings) . Harris and Swift, Susce; Die- ;Hall Tuesday Detroit 90 62 ,Chicago 5 Phil- | Cincinnati! SPORTS CALENDAR AND STATISTICS. - MAJOR LEAGUES’ GAMES TODAY AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia at Boston, games. New York at Washington, games. Detroit at Cleveland. St. Louis at Chicago. NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago at St. Louis. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati. Brooklyn at Philadelphia. Boston at New York. BASEBALL GAMES (Navy Field, 1:30 p.m.) TOMORROW First Game—U.S. Marines Blue Sox. Second Game — Key Conchs vs. C.G.C. Pandora. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6 First Game—Trojans Second Game—Pirates vs. Blue Sox. SOFTBALL GAMES vs. West ‘(Bayview Park Field, 7:00 p.m.) MONDAY NIGHT First Game—U.S. Army vs. U.S. MarineS (Service League). Second Game—Sawyer’s Bar- bers vs. Pepper’s Plumbers. (Civil- ian League). WEDNESDAY NIGHT First Game—VP53 vs. (Service League). Second Game—Bombers Merchants (Civilian League). FRIDAY NIGHT First Game—U.S. Army VP53 (Service League). \ Second Game—Sawyer’s Bar- bers vs. Bombers (Civilian League). LEAGUE MEETINGS BASEBALL - SOFTBALL Officials, managers and players of both sports will meet in City evening of next week. Baseball session will con vene first. 7:30 o'clock. STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE (Major League Baseball) Club— WwW. LL. Pet 592 572 -570 533 520 434 A417 360 ccc vs. vs. Cleveland ~ 87 65 New York 86 65 Chicago 81 71 Boston 78 72 St. Louis 68 86 Washington 63 68 Philadelphia 54 96 NATIONAL LEAGUE (Major League Baseball) Club— w. i. Cincinnati $8 52 Brooklyn 87 64 St. Louis 82 67 Pittsburgh 7 «74 Pet -653 576 -550 510 493 New York 71 79 473 Boston 65 85 Philadelphia 49 102 .325 are ISLAND CITY LEAGUE (Key West Baseball) Club— We, Pct Key West Conchs Die-|Blue Sox *Trojans *Pirates Key West Juniors U.S. Marines iC.G.C. Pandora *Tie game. The Star Spangled Banner first was printed in the National Intelligencer, Washington, D. C.. Sept. 27, 1814. trich and’ Tresh. NATIONAL LEAGUE At St. Louis RHE Chicago es = St. Louis 1115 0 Raffensberger, Page and Mc- Cullough; Warneke and W. Codp- er. At Cincinnati . E. Pittsburgh 2 Cincinnati 0 (10 Innings) Swigart, Sewell and Davis; Der- ringer, Beggs, Moore and West. At New York Philadelphia 6:32 1 New York 042 Mulcahy and Warren; Hubbell, Lynn and Danning. RHE Boston-Brooklyn, sot sehedul- 433 + BARBERS WON NIGHT CONTEST DEFEATED NAVSTA AT BAY- VIEW FIELD, 12-5; LEAGUE PLAY BEGINS MONDAY Sawyer’s Barbers defeated NavSta at Bayview Park last right in the final exhibition soft- ball game before league play be- s Monday. Score of the con- test was 12 to 5. The hitting of Clayton Sterling, first baseman and captain of the Hair-Cutters, featured the game. In five times at bat, he poled two triples, a double and a single and walked once. Joe Russell and Tynes also cracked three- baggers for the victors. Monk Kerr, Barber outfielder, blasted a double in his collection of safe- ties. Outstanding blow of the night for the NavSta was Cheta Baker’s triple that brought in two of his club’s runs. Monday night, U.S. Army and U.S. Marines jn the opener, Saw- yer’s Barbers and Pepper's Plumbers in the nightcap, will play their respective league’s first game of a schedule that will run until and including games on the night of December 6. Two championship series will follow, winding up play for the year on the night of December 30. BASEBALL TWIN BILL TOMORROW MARINES, BLUE SOX IN CUR- RAIN-RAISER: PANDORA, CONCHS IN SECOND U.S. Marines and Blue Sox are slated to play the opening game of an Islana City Baseball League doubleheader tomorrow afternoon at Navy Field. Sox will be trying for their second con- secutive victory and _ Leather- necks will battle to even their won and lost column. Key West Conchs will cross bats with C.G.C. Pandora in the nightcap. Conchs won their first league game from the Marines and the Coast Guarders dropped their initial fracas to the Blue Sox. Gate to the field will be thrown open half-hour before the 1:30 o'clock game-time of the initial fracas. U. S. WEATHER BUREAU REPORT Observation taken at 7:30 a. m, 75th Mer. Time (city office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours 89 Lowest las tnight 74 Mean 82 Normal 81 Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches Total rainfall since Sept. 1, inches = Excess since Sept. 1, inches Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches s Excess since "January 1, inches _. a= 458 Wind Direction and “Velocity NE—14 miles per hour Relative Humidity 90% i Barometer at 7:30 a. m. today Sea level, 29.89 (1012.2 millibars) Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise - 6:18 a. Sunset 6:17 p. Moonrise 4:10 a. Moonset 4:56 p. Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. 7:46 1:13 FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Sunday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy with scattered showers tonight and Sunday; gentle to moderate variable winds. Florida: Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday, scattered showers over extreme south portion. 0.38 11.87 5.52 32.62 PM. 8:18 2:01 High Low The Tajin pyramid in the state of Vercruz, Mexico, is built in Strictly seven sections and is divided into 364 niches. 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