The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 30, 1940, Page 3

MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 3 6 1940 er — comadl Slaughters enna by VIRGINIA HANSON = YESTERDAY: Kay blurts out | Mimi’s story to the Colonel, then, feeling thoroughly unpopular, re- turns to her old quarters. She meets the cheplain who is bring- ing a lurid book to Felicia. The orderly relates seeing Sandra in the dining-zoam one might taking vinegar from a cruet, Chapter 37 Furtive Figure A> both the orderly and the chaplain seemed disposed to linger and continue the subject, I took my overnight case and my rejected manuscript and went off down the hall to Felicia’s room. But it did strike me as odd that Sandra should have been filling her medicine bottle in the dark. And there was something else the orderly had said that rang the little bell in my mind. Something that for the moment eluded me. Felicia was in. She came to the door looking pale and weary. I told her I had decided to leave in the morning and had come back to do my packing. Was there a vacant guest room where I} could spend the night? “Yes, plenty of them. But why don’t you stay with me? I’m not looking torward io ihe night alone.” I saw then that she looked as she had the night her car was| stolen. Even her steel nerves had been shaken by this last catas- trophe. “All right,” I said. sure you want me.” “The only thing I'd like better! is a whole troup of cavalry. armed to the teeth.” | “Has the guard been withdrawn | from my room?” i “I suppose so. I haven't seen anyone around since noon.” | “Then there'll xe no objection to my getting things.” \ “I don’t know. Perhaps you'd better ask Colonel Pennant.” 't say I couldn't,” I put a period ‘to that by tak-| ing my case into the bedroom. Ij} left my het there, too. But the big} manila envelope and my pocket-! book I bore with me back to the} sitting room. | “I may as well pack that,” I said disgusted my visit at Ft ichigan.” “What is it?” | peeled a manuscript. Sent it off on Mort and back it comes | on Friday. Nice : | “Quick work; “It’s even got an air-mail stamp en it” { “Why, so it has. I didn’t no that. Ro: e is getting lavish. | Now what might that mean?” | _, “You might fnd out by opening | it,” Fe! 1 suggested dryly. | “No, wait! There was a letter. too.” I opencd my pocketbook and | took it out. “Ano‘her air-mail stamp. Curiouser ard curiouser.” ous of Felicia’s eyes | as I opened the letter and scanned it hurriedly, murmuring. Phrases aloud. s Cornish, this starts off swell but about the middle it starts to go haywire. Sounds like | ed up. I’m rushing “If you're | it for the November book. Please mor commented. thrust-/| ing the Ictter back in my bag. “She needs new specs. Well, I'm certainly not going to tackle it tonight. I've a notion to send it back without changing a line. She wouldn't know the difference— they're a diz: editors.” _ “Sounds like it.” said Felic indifferently. “Speaking of di: reminds me the chaplain wants some more towels. Wonder if the laundry can bleach out that black stuff he puts on his rash? And when I collected the linen from | Jeff's room this morning there was a towel that Jonked as if he} had been polishing brass with it Honestl - peonle show less con- iy Animal At Bay HE had started out, paused at the door. “T'll be back in a minute. Need th your packing?” I just brought a ase. [ can pack it in a half-hour. I may as well do it now and get to but she! _I followed her out into the cor- ridor, where we separated. Sub- consciously, while I hesitated at the door of my rooms, I heard the sound of her tapping heels diminish and cease as she round- ed a corner. Then I mustered courage to turn the knob. The door was not locked. I opened it slowly, fearfully, half expecting to feel it impeded by the prone form whieh had been there in the morning. But it swung in easily enough and, my hand on the light switch, I pre- pared to follow it. Then I saw. that there was al- teady a light in the room: A dim. } furtive light, over by my work- | table. Someone was bending over the table, focusing a fash- | light on something that lay ier Someone who had not heard me at the door, or noticed the light lot, these love-pulp | F from the ® let in. If ever I got my mental signals jammed, it was at this moment. Terror is supposed to lend wings to the feet. I’'ll never know why I flipped the light switch. It might have meant curtains for me. The figure whirled like an ae mal at bay, and I saw it was Jeff. I stepped inside and closed the door after me. Then I asked him what in the so-and-so he was do- ing there and would he like a few of my deathless works with which to while away the hours of his confinement? He didn’t answer, just stood there turning first one color, then another, as if the sizeehands were trying out lights on him. waited and the silence grew un- comfortable. “Why, don’t you yell?” he burst out at last in a cracked voice. “Why don’t you do something? Go ahead—scream for help! Noti- fy Dan—call’ out the guard. You don’t seem to realize the mur- derer is at large!” There was enough bitterness in is last words to flavor a carload ° “First T’d like to know what you’ve found that’s so interest- | ing.” He brought it reluctantly from behind his back. “It doesn’t belong to you,” he said stiffly. “I don’t blame you for being sore at me for prying among your things, but this was what I was looking for, and it’s corridor which I had | the only thing I’ve bothered —” It was Sandra’s notebook. The one in which she had taken her “Where did you find it?” I asked with a little stirring of ex- citement. He looked surprised. “Right | here. It was on top of those pa- pers.” “But it wasn’t there this morn- | shorthand notes. Conceited Man ARE you sure?” “Of course I’m sure. I was j looking for it. But what or earth do you want with it?” “Suppose [ don’t tell you?” he suggested coolly. “Then I will lift my lovely voice and startle the echoes.” “And if I do?” I looked him over carefully. “T see you're not armed. “Think I’m an utter fool?” ‘Tl tell you better when I know how you come to be here. But on | the whole, yes. Any man who lets himself be blackmailed into mar- | riage—any man conceited enough | to believe three beautiful women were all in love with him——” His face turned the color of a ripe plum. He opened his mouth to speak, but nothing came out. | I took pity on him. “Mimi told me. She knew ex- actly what Sandra was doing, but she_was afraid to tell Dan about it. If you had only let her talk to you-—” “It wouldn’t have done any good.” he said dully. “Sandra | uld make you think black was | white. And she alwa had made trouble when she didn’t get her way. Even when we were kids. God knows what she wanted to marry me for. Not for love. But if it would make her leave Dan he went on desperate- | ‘as the best friend I had jin’ the world. When my. father ; got sick Dan wes—well, he was vretty fine. All the time I was a cadet he was my pattern of what an officer and a gentleman ought to_be- He paused and kicked the table “So you didn't want to take a y | chance of | mixing things up for him. I see.” I saw more than that. 4 saw a little of what Julia had been trying to tell me about Jeff s loyalty. his sensibility, his stern sense of honor. “Forget that crack about the three women,” I told him. Then added lamely, “I | hone_ ev hing is going to be jall rich To him that wa: probablv just an inane remark, but 1 meant }every word of it. I was remem- hering, with an unpleasant chilly feeling under my ribs, that mo- ment in the colonel’s librarv when T had let my red hai: get the Best of me_and had told what these two, Mimi and Jeff, had been will- ine sacrifice much to keep. With an effort I brought back mv wandering wits. A ite id. “You thought there might be something in it.” “Some lie.” he said savagely. “She told me last night that she had written down a few things she knew about people and put it in a safe place. That was after. she made the pleasant remark that it would do me no good to kill her. I was tempted to when she said that. But I didn’t.” T was still standing against the door, and I could hear Felicia j coming back down the corridor. I held my breath until I heard her turn in at her own rooms. but I was suddenly aware of | Jeffs position. “How did you get here?” I de- anaes dropping my voice to a whisper. To be continued Five Generations Living | (Ny Associated Press) | LOUISVILLE, Ky.—A span of 77 years encompasses five gener- ations in the family of one-year- old Barbara Ann Kaelin. Her mother is 19, her grandmother 38, her great-grandmother 56, her great-great-grandmother 78. Bombs Boom Bix (By Associated Press) LONDON.—Camp chairs, rub- ber mattresses and deck chairs for air-raid. shelters are a sell-out in most London shops. One store turned down more than 300 or- ders for mattresses and beds. |Solly allowed. Skoko, | chances, CAME FROM BEHIND TO WIN IN 10TH SOLLENBERGER STRUCK OUT THIRTEEN MEN BUT DOUBLE IN EXTRA INNING PROVED HIS DOWNFALL Held to three hits by Sollen- berger of the U. S. Marines, the Blue Sox came from behind yes- terday afternoon at Navy Field to shove over a lone run in the tenth inning and annex their second straight victory, 3-2. Key West Conchs defeated Pirates, § to 4, in the nightcap of the Is- land City Baseball League doubleheader. Despite poor support by his teammates, Solly set the Blusox down without a run for seven in- nings. Meanwhile, Leathernecks recorded a tally in the second frame and another one in the sixth, giving them a lead of 2-0. Then came the eighth. Cas- tellano, first Sox up, grounded out, second to first; Burch step- ped into the batter's box and was | hit on his left side by one of Solly’s terrific tosses! Diaz struck out; Burch stole second, went to third on the catcher’s error in overthrowing to the middle sack and came home later on a wild pitch; Albio Acevedo went down swinging to end the canto. Sox knotted the count in the ninth as Jesus Garcia got on base when second baseman miscued, advanced on an error by first baseman and scored on a fielder’s choice. That sent the game into another inning and the Sox promptly went to work. Ogden singled, Castellano grounded out but Burch came through with a double that sent Ogden across the plate with the paying mark- er. Marines went down in order in their half of the tenth. J. Garcia, Ogden and Burch ac- counted for the trio of safeties Leather- neck third sacker, led his club at bat, securing three out of four. Mortor hit two safely, driving in both of the Marines’ runs. Thomp- son also collected two hits. In the field, Castellano was out- standing, accepting eighteen miscuing but once, Gabriel Garcia made four putouts and five assists without an er- ror. Sollenberger, fanned 13 batters, Diaz three times. He struck out two in the second, two in the third, three in the fourth, two in the eighth and one in each the first, sixth and seventh. Score by innings: strike out king, whiffing G. RHE Blue Sox 000 000 011 1—3 3 2 Marines _ 010 001 G00 O—2 10 6 G. Giaz and Al. Rodriguez; Sollenberger and Spakes. CONCHS WON NIGHTCAP IN NINTH ON TWO ERRORS Key West Conchs defeated the Pirates, 6 to 4, in the nightcap of the doubleheader yesterday. Coming from behind to knot the count at 4-all in the fourth, the Conchs shoved over a pair of runners in their half of the ninth to win the game. Key West took the lead in the very first inning, scoring two runs on a single by Villareal, a walk, a sacrifice and a long fly to right by Cates. : Bucs evened the score in their half of the initial frame as two men crossed home plate on two walks, an error and a double by Lopez. Reeves, who started on the mound for the Conchs, was sent to the showers, relieved by Cheta Baker, who finished the game. In the second, three singles gave the Pirates another pair of markers and the lead, but saw the score knotted in the fourth as two walks and a trio of safe blows shoved two runners across home plate. A single and two errors gave the Key Westers the deciding markers in the ninth. Bucs muffed a chance to tie or win the contest in their half of the final inning. A walk and a single put runners on base with no ovts. However, Tynes. struck out, Munroe was trapped at third and Al. Acevedo went out, second to third to end the game. Baker, three out of four, and TER. KEY WES? CITIZEN Blue Sox Downed arines On Three __ Hits; Score, 3 To SPORTS CALENDAR AND STATISTICS SOFTBALL GAMES (Bayview Park Field, 7:00 p.m.) TONIGHT 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 (Service League). Second Game—Bombers Merchants (Civilian League). FRIDAY NIGHT First Game—U.S. Army vs. 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 Hall tomorrow evening. Baseball session will convene first. 7:30 o'clock. STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE (Major League Baseball) (Final Standings) Club— Ww. Detroit 90 Cleveland 89 New York 88 Chicago 82 Boston 82 St. Louis 67 87 .435 Washington 64 90 .416 Philadelphia 54 100 .357 NATIONAL LEAGUE (Major League Baseball) (Final Standings) Club— W Cincinnati 100 Brooklyn 8 St. Louis 84 Pittsburgh 78 Chicago 75 New York 72 80 Boston 65 87 Philadelphia 50 103 aes ISLAND CITY LEAGUE (Key West Baseball) Club— W. L.. Pet Key West Conchs 2 0 1.000 Blue Sox 0 1.000 *Trojans 0 .000 *Pirates 1 .000 C.G.C. Pandora 1 .000 U.S. Marines 2 .000 *Tie game. i MILD WILL KEEPS 1929 PLAYERS’ GIFT (Ry Associated Presa) CINCINNATI, Sept. 30—The watch that Bill McKechnie wears was given to him by the players of the Rochester Red Wings in the International League in 1929, “as a token of their esteem”. Bill has been presented with several watches singe then but refuses to replace the one given him by the players. STRIKEOUT KING (By Associated Press} TUCSON, Ariz, Sept. 30.— George Burpo, Cowboy southpaw, struck out 45 men in three suc- cessive games in the Afizona- Texas League. HURLER THOMPSON TO TRAINER THOMPSON (Ry Associated Presa) CINCINNATI, Sept. 30—Gene Thompson of the Reds plans to spend the winter months training his new bird dog, a pointer. Chew Or Not To Chew (By Associated Press) REDDING, Calif.—An indigent was told the county would gladly extract his teeth free of charge but that no funds were available to buy false ones. vs. L. Pet.j 64 584 65 578 66 571 72° 532 72 «532 L. 53 65 69 76 79 Pet. 654 Villareal, two out of four, led at bat for the victors. Malgrat and M. Acevedo two out of four each, were the leaders for the Bucs. Baker struck out five Pirate batters. Score by innings: R. H. E. Conchs 200 200 002-6 9 4 Pirates 220 000 000— 4 8 6 Reeves, Baker and C. Griffin; Salinero and !. Rodriguez, M Acevedo. vs, CCC Positions: 6 twice, 9-4 and 4-1, jjust three games 1940 BASEBALL SEASON CAME TO CLOSE SUNDA INDIANS AND DODGERS WOUND UP IN SECOND PLACE: YANKEES AND CARDS IN THIRD (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—The 1940 major leagues’ baseball sea- son came to a close yesterday afternoon, ringing down the cur- tain on one of the: hottest Amer- ican League races in years. The sixteen teams wound up the schedule in the following First. Division—AL First—Detroit Tigers, one game |ahead of the Tribe. Lost a 14- inning decision to yesterday, dropping two games to one. Second — Cleveland Indians, one game ahead of the Yankees. Defeated the Bengals 3-2 in the 14-freme tussle. Winning run forced in when pitcher Hutchin- son hit Bell with bases loaded. Al Milnar, scattering 10 hits, registered his eighteenth triumph against ten deeats. Third—New York Yankees with a comfortable lead of six games. Joe DiMaggio’s single, scoring Rolfe in the tenth, de- feated Washington Senators, 4-3. It was Dutch Leonard’s eleventh defeat by a one-run margin. Di- Maggio is the unofficial batting champion of the American League, .350. Fourth—Chicago White and Boxton Red Sox, tied, .532 each. Chisox lost to St. Louis Brow: 2-1, Auker hanking up his 16th triumph of the year. Bosox downed Philadelphia Athletics to come up even with the Chisox. Second Division—AL Sixth—St. Louis Browns, three games ahead of the Nats. Seventh—Washington Senators, ten contests in front of the A’s. Eighth—Philadelphia Athletics —losing 100 games. First Division—NL First—Cincinnati_ Reds, 12 games ahead of the Dodgers. Wal- loped Pittsburgh Pirates, 11-3. Walters and Vander Meer on the mound for the champs, scattér- ing 11 hits between them. Second — Brooklyn Dodgers, four games in front of the Cards. Shutout Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0, behind Lee Grissoms’ two- hitter. Third—St. the the Indians series Louis Cardinals, six-and-a-half contests away from the Bucs. Blanked Cubs, 6-0. Brother battery of Mort and Walter Cooper kept Bruins under control. Dizzy Dean knocked out of box in fifth. Fourth — Pittsburgh Pirates, in front of Cubs. Debs Garms, of the Bucs, won league hitting honors, .355. Second Division—NL Fifth—Chicago Cubs, tilts away from the Giants. Sixth—New. York Giants, seven games ahead of Bees. Lambasted Bees yesterday, 14-0. Bill Lohr- man’s three-hitter and attack of 15 safeties against pair of op- three posing moundsmen featured one- sided victory. Seventh—Boston Bees, fifteen- and-a-half games in front of Phils. Eighth—Philadelphia Phillies— losing 103 contests. Results of the games: AMERICAN LEAGUE At Cleveland Detroit Cleveland (14 Innings) Trout, Newhouser, Hutchinson and Tebbetts, Sullivan; Milnar and Pytlak. At Washington New York Washington Bonham. and Dickey, Leonard and Ferrell. First Game At Boston Philadelphia Boston 2S Vaughan, McCrabb and Hayes. Fleming and Desautels. Second Game At Boston Philadelphia RHE 4 2 3 0 Rosar: EB RB. 1*s i ‘and Pipe-Fitters are FIRST GAMES OF AT PARK TONIGHT ARMY AND MARINES IN OPENER: BARBERS, PLUMB- ERS IN NIGHTCAP: INITIAL TILT AT 7:00 O'CLOCK At 7:00 o’clack tonight on Bay view Park field, the new softball season will get under way with a bang. Nine teams, divided two leagues, are ready to perform for the public and for the honor of being named champion ten of Key West. S. Army and U.S. Marines, with the Soldier club team, will start the “ball rolling” when they cross bats in the first game. These clubs are in the Service circuit. Time-limit for the contest is 8:15 o'clock. Promptly at 8:30 o'clock or 20 minutes after the first game if the time-limit has not been reach- ed, Sawyer’s Barbers and Pep- per’s Plumbers will take the field to stage the opening fracas of the Civilian League. Hair-Cutters rated the two strongest teams of the city and will give the fans an excel- lent display of this sport. The game, regardless of score, will end at 9:45 o'clock. For the first time in Key West’s sports history, clubs will be play- ing under the auspices of an Amateur Association. Strict rules and regulations were adopted at the organization meeting last week, thus eliminating unneces- sary argument on the ball field All grievances must pe presented to a commossion, whose decision will be final. Fans and players are looking forward to the most successful season ever experienced in soft- ball play in Key West. into as home 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 Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches Total rainfall since Sept. 1, inches Excess since Sept. 1, Total rainfall since Jan. inches Excess inches 4.24 Wind Direction and Velocity NE—11 miles per hour Relative Humidity 83% Barometer at 7:30 a. m. today. Sea level, 29.92 (1013.2 millibars) Tomorrow’s Almanac Sunrise 6:19 a. Sunset 6:14 p. Moonrise 6:20 a. Moonset 6:30 p. New moon. Oct. Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. 9:32 2:56 FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Tuesday) Key, West and Vicinity: Gen- erally fair tonight and Tuesday; not much change in temperature; moderate to occasionally fresh northerly winds. Florida: Generally fair tonight and Tuesday; not much change in temperature. 11.88 inches 5.18 1, 32.63 since January 1. m. m m 1st P.M. 9:34 3:18 High Low Boston (Called, eighth, darkne: Marchildon and Wagner; and Peacock. At Chicago St. Louis Chicago Auker Tresh. Rich 1 and Swift; Rigney NATIONAL LEAGUE At Cincinnati RHE Pittsburgh 3H 5 Cincinnati 1113 1 Rambert, Heintzelman Fernandes, Schultz; Thompson, Vander Baker, West, Wilson. Walters. Meer and At Philadelphia Brooklyn Philadelphia Grissom and Franks; Podagjny and Warren, Atwood. R. 5 0 At St. Louis Chicago St. Louis J. Dean, Olsen and M. Cooper and. W. Cooper. R 0 6 fe At New York Boston S 033 New York 415 0 Piechota, Strincevich and Bros- kie; Lohrman and O'Dea. RHE and + CLASSIFIED COLUMN PICTURE FRAMING PICTURE FRAMING, Diplomas. antique frames refinished. Sign painting. Paul DiNegro, 6 Francis street. septS-Imc FOR SALE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE— Chesterfield Parlor Set. Rugs Beds, Gas Stove. Etc. Reason- able. 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