The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 30, 1940, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE ROAD 10 SAANT CON) YESTERDAY: Lovely Lynn Britton has been, to all reason- able purposes, sold in marriage to @ Mongol prince she never has aeen. Now that Temu and Sher- @ock, who are taking her to her distasteful meeting with the Prince, have explained his ro- mantic origin as the orphaned aon of white missionaries, she cannot down her curiosity, though she is still determined to escape. Chapter 17 Dream Travel 4 next day the trek across the stony desert of bitter wa- ter began, to continue day after day in forced marches ever bear- ing west by south. The caravan started at dawn, plodded steadily through icy mists or rains or bit- ing winds, with occasional days of spring mildness. Sometimes the camels grazed the sparse desert growth; at other times not a reed nor a thorn could be found, and the animals ate a double ration of dried peas and barley, while the horses drank limited amounts of water carried in goat skins. Nothing of moment happened. There was no brush with brigands or unusual struggle against the elements. Lynn lived like a per- son in a dream, finding an odd, passive pleasure in following the ever-receding horizon and in talking to Temu and Sherdock and Gersing during the morning and evening meals. She knew they would eventually pass into the mountain country where the loang-ho steamboats owned by white men plied the waters. Leaving the bleakest part of the rt, they entered a rolling country of better grass where sheep replaced goats in the nomad jocks. They camped one night at} a pleasant -spot called Watch Tower Wells, at the edge of a wide plain ‘where spring had| touched the sod, bringing out the grass and flowers. The next morning after break- fast the four travelers sat a while in the dining tent. Temu had in- terviewed a local nomad chief- tain, as well as Chin Pak and Bula and the head camel-puller. Little Bamboo brought in the kitten which jumped from its} basket and came forward mewing for attention like a child that has been left alone for a while. It arehed its neck, half rising to meet Lynn’s caressing hand. “How it has grown,” she re- marked, lifting it to her lap as Temu watched her. “That we see beings such as| that kitten with our limited| vision, is always evidence to me that there are other beings we do not see,” he said. Sherdock put away his long- stemmed pipe. “Some people,” he declared, “do not even see the spirits of the earth.” “I don’t,” said Lynn. “I'm not even convinced there are such Sou will be some day. Let Temu take you into the moun- tains back of Delun.” Her eyes twinkling, she turned to the younger man. “Will you take me if I should happen to go to Delun some day of my own tree will?” “What's this.” he bantered. “Are you still believing that you escape?” uuck won’t be with you al- ways.” “Oh, I don’t know. You will love the mountains back of Delun. I am told there are gnomes and pixies in every glen.” “You are told? Haven't you seen them?” “I lack the magic that opens| @ man’s eyes,” he answered gravely. “They tell me that if I would see the fairies, I must walk hand in hand with an incar- nate goddess.” He might be mocking her, but the words and timbre of his voice stirred her pulses. He reached over and gave the kitten a stroke sr two and then desisted. “Its bones are too frail for me. t prefer a husky pet, something my hands won’t crush.” He picked up one of Lynn’s firm, white hands. “Something like this— strong and splendid.” He tipped her chin with a gentle, nudging fist and spoke to the Duchess. _ “Gersing, see this Tara chin with a threat of a dimple in it” Lynn thought it was an odd mood for him, for ordinarily, he was rather careful not to touch her, He jumped to his feet im- patiently. “Will we ever reach the end of this journey!” He strode out of the tent, the three of them fol- lowing him with their eyes. Lynn turned in time to see Sherdock smiling to himself. “W: have done well,” he said. “Never before has a caravan of this size @rossed the desert with such ” wrong frame of mind. I don’t want to be bothered with having to follow and bring hes Walk about the camp if you need exercise.” Lynn lashed out in a sudden flare of anger. “Bandit! Stealer of -| women! You'll pay for this!” ‘He usually laughed at her Tages. This time they were both on me = he answered kind. “F'm paying now if you only knew. I don't like this any better than you.do.” He turned again to Bula. eee went straight up the hill back of the camp. It was the foot of a series of ridges that rose eventually to a divide and then sloped down to the Great Wall and the Yellow River. “If only I could fly!” she cried aloud. She felt almost angry and desperate enough to flap her arms and try should she find a suitable cliff from which to take off. “Why,” she asked herself, “why should fledging birds have powers that I do not? She went along the crest of the hill for a distance always keeping in sight of the camp. She neither wanted Temu Darin following her nor thinking her so stupid as to try to escape on foot. Fi ly, she stood still to view a distant snow- capped mountain that rising mists revealed beyond the western plain. It reminded her of her own oe eg at rere ae ae she noticed, with a feeling of longing and. homesickness. eh at life seemed the dream now and this the reality. Her hand caressed the charm box at her throat. Surely, something bigger than any of the visible powers around her was leading her—but where? Presently on her ears fell a sound that she took at first for the beat of drums. Then it changed to a slightly dissonant roar that soon became more regular. “A motor!” she cried. “An au- tomobile!” An instant later she spied the car in the canyon yond the ridge on which she stood. She turned and looked back at the camp. The sound, she suspected, would not be heard from there. If only she could in- tercept the car as it toiled up the trackless gorge! She began to run, waving her beret. The driver apparently saw her for he stopped the motor. She fairly coasted down a sandy slip to meet him. He had stepped out of the car, a tall man in khaki and a Stetson hat—a white man. “T'm an American. Are you?” she demanded breathlessly. He stared at her for a moment in unbelieving silence. “An Amer- ican! And what on earth are you doing here?” His accent answered her question; he, too, was Amer- ican. “I was carried off by a band of natives,’ she explained. “They let me take a walk alone this morning and I saw you. Take me away quickly. Their camp is in the plain beyond this hill. “Just a minute. I don’t want to get in trouble with the local tent- dwellers. I must work this region all summer. What——” “My captors aren’t local peo- ple,” she interrupted. “They're a caravan of heavily armed men from across the desert. If you would save me, we must go at once, They are ruthless; they will stop at nothing.” He turned decisively and opened the car door. “Jump in.” It was an ancient touring car with camp equipment in the ton- neau. The engine started reluc- tantly. The driver backed to a spot where he could turn around and follow the road he had come. Lynn’s last glimpse of the place from which she had first seen her rescuer revealed the fact that she had not yet been followed. She settled down in her seat. “This is miraculous,” she said. “Tve thought of all kinds of schemes for escaping. And, here without any scheming at all, you come along and rescue me.” Her companion gave her a quick, . sidelo: glance. “I am Frederick Wallace, a plant hunt- er, Ihave headquarters and’ a wife in Lanfou on the Yellow River, where we will arrive some time before dark—if we don't break an axle,” he stammered, as they bounded over an outcrop of rock in a narrow curve of the draw that soon widened eventu- ally to the top of the divide. His eyes, she noticed, had that look of innocence seen in the eyes of little babies or scholarly men. Such a characteristic seemed hardly compatible with his ad- venturous occupation. “Now tell me your story,” he said. Her story! “I hardly know how to begin,” Lynn faltered. She found in her- self a strange loyalty and a strong reluctance to say anythi that mone mare — and Temu arin, as they were her people as they claimed to be. Too, the facts were so incredi- “I've got to get away from them!” Lynn thought, in a sud- den state of panic. “They're weav- a net around me.” he went out to Temu who was talking to Bula about a-sick camel. “May I go for a horseback ride?” she asked abruptly. Dressed in pe trousers and a full-sleeved Mongol shirt of brightest blue beneath a fawn- skin vest, and with a gay, red beret on her bee she = a icture for Mongol eyes. a ea at her sharply for a moment. “Sorry. You're in the ble! Perhaps not too incredible for Asia where anything can hap- But what was to gain yy the telling? If th believed, ’it’- more tt e than anybody else. out of the responsibly ia slip: out of the* ity in some wy. She determined to say as little as she could, and that nothing she might say would later trouble jolted alonge-they. would fellow 0. 01 ey wo! low her, of course. But could camels and horses overtake a motor car? To be continued { Faculty At Banouet Last Night! Approximately seventy - five ‘persons, members of the Junior- 'Senior High School and that school’s Parent-Teacher Associa- | tion assembled at the Lions Club |Den on Seminary street last eve- {ning to enjoy an “Arroz con Pol- jlos” banquet tendered by the jassociation under direction of the | president, Mrs. M. L. Russell, and her committee. Greetings to the faculty and itheir families were extended by 'Mrs. Milton Sawyer and the re- !sponse was given by Professor Horace O’Bryant, principal of the :-: SOCIETY =--: | Highkhad PT Aad | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | The treasure hunt was won by} Mrs. Thelma Thompson, although | it appeared that athletic coach} {John Offutt had some claim to} the prize. Graciously relinquish- jing his claim, however, Mr. Of-! futt reported his list as officially | correct along with Mrs. Thomp-j{ son’s. | | An impromptu quartette, com-j{ Posed of Mrs. M. E. Berkowitz, ! Allan B. Cleare, Sr., Lion (waiter) | Jack Delaney and Allan Arm-} ‘strong rendered “God Bless DRAFT NUMBERS ARE RELEASED (Continued trom Page One) 28— 676 Howard M. Barnwell, 1023 Varela Street. 29— 112 Alberto Acevedo, 533 Catherine Street. 30— 185 Arthur L Fay, White Street. 31—1362 Charles F. Russell, 508 32—:108.Clyde J, Filer, t « Pearl Street. 33— 386 Albert R. Curry, 700 ‘Whitehead Street. 34— 109 Henry I. Kamper, 1209 Division Street. 35—1443 Howard J. Butler, 530 Grinnell Street. 36— 184 Judson L. Lennard, 1209 White Street. 706 1219 907 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1348 | | TRANSPORTATION | Sneha | Steamship Cuba of the P. & O. S.S. Company arrived from Tam- ~~ singe — desnigtin, ‘pa Monday morning at 7:20,5 im Key West this week for the {o'clock with but one first-class Purpose of closing several deals passenger for this port, and 10 08 monuments and other come- tons of freight. Passengers em-'tery work. jbarking here for Havana totalled) Recently Mr. Kull offered to 20 first and four second-class, Contribute to the-Cutan Club an ‘and four autos were taken on @ddition to the:Omonumest to ‘board for the trip across. Cuban patriots inthe form of 2 |traffic, Tampa to Havana, totalled Petrified tree... At_the present |21 first-class passengers. The ves-|time the inscription is only im jsell sailed at 10:30 o'clock. jSpanish. Mr. Kull will carve this | Returning yesterday afternoon |™arble at no charge to the club the Cuba brought 25 first-class The offer was accepted with passengers to Key West, one thanks and work will begin im- auto and four tons of freight. |™ediately. iNine passengers were booked from Havana to Tampa and freight for that movement was |KULL TO ERECT | CUBAN MONUMENT America”, following the com: fan Ge eee shown as 30 tons. Five first- LEGALS 1S CIRCErT <erert stars oF FlemIps, ELEVESTS st pene CIRCUIT. BOkESE COUNTS. = CmANCERr. JUaNsTa Mamia Pesc v= EDWARD CLaYTTos Cassert 2= school. jmunity singing opening with tha | Program featured two musical |number, then the gathering fol- numbers, a treasure hunt, some /lowed with a number of popular {community singing and other jand old-time favorites. |games, the gathering disbanding | Mrs. Wesley Archer was pro-} {at about 10:30 o'clock. gram chairman of the affair, as-| Mrs. Eva Warner, accompanied ‘sisted graciously by Mrs. J. R | by Beatrice Moreno, sang “The!Colgate, a newcomer to Key; | Violet”, by Mozart, and a Mexi- ; West. ! jcan Folk Song. Gerald Saunders: Other games were played be- {played “The Cradle Song” in a fore the group departed for violin solo, accompanied by Allan |home, all voting the _evening’s Armstrong on the piano. levent a “huge success”. | ‘Orders; Plans Continued For Ball} Key West Players today ap-,for presentation | peared undaunted by the order | “night of fun”. | given yesterday that finds all Reservations are being made! | ships of the Key West-West Gulf in fast order and it looks now as! | Patrol at sea on sealed orders. though the Rainbow Room will They pointed out that their Hal- be filled to overflowing, officials | | lowe'en Ball, to be staged in the reported this morning. | | Rainbow Room of La Concha| Among the several features 2 | hotel tomorrow night, will be | be presented will be a Fortune | just as big an affair as originally Telling booth, presided over by a} | planned, despite the absence of prominent Reader-resident of | naval officers and wives, who H Key West. Prizes, assembled as/ had planned to attend. they have never been before, ! Plans were progressing today will be offered for costumes in/} |to furnish exquisite decorations three groupings, to be judged by for the Ball and entertainment of Mr. and Mrs. Canby Chambers} | various kinds was being lined up|and Mrs. William R. Warren. -- during the NYA Department In Hallowe’en Party The “spooks” walked for the! first time in the NYA home last Monday evening when, the second of a series of social events was held by members of the local Na- ‘tional Youth program. Encouraged by the success met at the first party given last'~“~~ month, committee-in-charge of ; Division street. the NYA unit made elaborate} Miss Solita Cobo and Mrs. plans for a seasonal Hallowe’en! Maurice Scammons will act as| celebration, the attendance at which greatly exceeded expecta- | tions. Invited guests greatly outnumbered NYA members, pro- viding, as officials pointed out, an opportunity for many such events to"be held in the future. A typical rhumba dance was | Presented by two of the NYA | Junior Women \In Another Party | President Mrs. Joseph Lopez, | Club, announced the. second of semi-monthly card parties for club members and invited guests, | to be held tomorrow _ afternoon, | | Thursday, at the clubhouse on ihostesses for this affair. It is ex-} ‘pected that a good turnout will "be on hand for the various games played. | EXILED AUTHOR WRITES FOR EATS’ of the Key West Junior Woman’s | 224 Pauline Street. Antonio Estenoz, 416 Catherine Street. 39— 131 Ernest E. Whitehead, 826 Whitehead St. | 40— 125 Charles E. Cleare, 412 Division Street. | 41— 138 Milton Falco, Sr., 805) Thomas Street. { 42— 142 Gerald Saunders, 820 North Beach. | 43— 166 Charles A. Williams, | 327 Virginia Street. | 44— 135 James R. Carey, 413 Francis Street. 38— 174 | 45— 183 Anthony: B. Jenkinson, | Trumbo Hotel. | 46— 148 Luis F. Cruz, 1030 Vir- | inia Street. | g | 47— 198 Paul T. Dessez, 512 Eaton Street. 48— 139 Ralph Estevez, 922 Di- vision Street. 49— 146 Aaron G. Boyer, 1403 Division Street. 6 Carl Laumann Sawyer, 1400 Newton Street. STRANGE FELLOW, THIS FAT DEPUTY (Continued from Page One) my home to get enough money to pay my expenses here. I had to leave my family and some other relatives I’m kinda taking care of back home. It’s been a! 50— jlittle tough. “When I got my budget all figured out, I found I just had 35 cents a day to buy meals while I was here. I didn’t mind that for myself. Shucks, I had coffee uts for breakfast, soup for lunch, and I managed to get along for supper. But Ij couldn’t: stand for those other fellows to see me eating like that and I couldn't tell ‘em where I was going for my meals. “I guess it’s what you call false pride. But that’s the way it was, anyway.. And I just figured I, | jought to tell you that I'm not! really a strange guy and if I had it to do over again, I'd do it the same way because that’s about the only way I could have got what the academy has to offer.” | ‘inning ‘Em Down (There isn’t a sorority girl in the country who doesn’t know the ceremony of “putting the pin i uled run. jdiscovered, had given Dr. Wiley | jhis brown jelly”, Ventre explains. | yards of fill each day. ‘walls along Emma street are un-! class and one second-class pas- sengers embarked here for Tam-| Advertisements under this head pa and the ship sailed at 4:45 o'clock. S.S. ALAMO Steamship Alamo, of the Clyde- Mallory Lines, arrived from New | York, via Miami, early this morn-| ing at 1:00 o'clock. Unloading 55) tons of freight for local firms, | the vessel sailed at 4:30 o'clock for Tampa on its regular sched- | | if g hs : { ! i UNCLE SAM FINDS NEW SUGAR BOWL (Continued trom Page Oney | study of the sugar content of va- LADYS MACK AMD WEE rious sorghum canes. | Cloth Pocketbook, containing “To get the sugar, we had to’ remove from the sorghum cane syrup the starch content that, we | i i | | i please return to 408 William Street. Reward. oct30-2ta “After much experimentation, WANTED we found the greater part of this removal could be accomplished | -ANTED—Someone dona? by the rapid rotation of the Mas 4 syrup ‘in a centrifugal”. Problems For Others Is it practical? Ventre and By- all won't go into the more com-| plex statistics of the situation. | Too much depends on the variety | of sorghum used and the condi- tions under which it is grown, problems to be investigated by other technicians. But in their own small mill, using sorghum grown in the; none-too-fertile cut-over pine | lands of east Mississippi, these | men have obtained as much as} 165 pounds of sugar from one ton of cane. TWO CONTRACTS — SIGNED BY KNOX’ (Continued from Page One) soundings for which have already SUGAR LOAF KEY Wateriront been taken. Property, 98 Acres. Apply 803 The Huffman Company dredge| Olivia street oct29 1 wk is now operating on a 24-hour basis, scooping out 10,000 cubic Retaining| Sheets, ‘Se. The Artman Press. PRESS. der construction at present to} “ é ‘ARTMENTS hold the fill that will be dumped ii youths, highlighting the program section of the party. Music was supplied through the courtesy of a local nickelodeon distributor. | Light refreshments were serv-| ed throughout the evening. The | group plans another social event in the near future.. i 'U. S. MAY BE WORLD’S _ NO. 1 MILITARY POWER (Continued from Page One) to fix them and run them in 1945, ‘instead of the Jess than 100,000 now available in both branches. | Naval manpower will jump from about 190,000 to more than 500,000 and tonnage from nearly jtwo million tons of fighting |ships, to three and a half million jtons in 1945. The program may be altered \at any time. The best observers jon Capitol Hill, for instance, su; |gest that a sudden end of hostili. \ties abroad that would also end \the threat of totalitarian powers |would send most of this expan |sion program into the legislative | wastebasket within a week ori two. i | Other experts suggest that the immediate threat of war, on the! 1 military power. i (Continued from Page One) overheard enough foutside.” It comes, generally at to make a the close of the year, most often novel Two novels. the senior year, when a girl who Better Than In Paris has been secretly wearing a fra- “Also I learned that one can ternity pin UNDER her blouse, eat adequately in New York, | puts it outside over her heart and with good, solid food, for less lets the world know she is en- than a dollar a day. If you must | gaged to so-and-so. Here’s the eat cheaply, you can live better! Washington version.) in New York than in Paris.” | A young woman government But going to the Plaza seemed’ worker we know is an ardent incongruous, until it was’, ex-| Willkie-ite. At a friend’s house plained. : | she was given a Very pretty Will- “It was so simple,” says Mau-}kie button. She’‘remembered that rois. “If I had gone to a hotel I) the Hatch act forbade her wear- could afford,.they would have | ing it during ‘working hours, so |wanted money right away. But|she pinned it under her lapel. ;I had gone many times to the|That evening, as she started to , Plaza and I knew they would not present a bill before the end of | !the month. By then I had work- | ed, and I could pay.” collar up around her throat. It ;her attention was called to the i—=#———— —_ | fact that she had been. brazening armed force will not be used to! it out for an hour with this tell- | fight, what is its value to the na-|tale headlight most prominently jon? : | displayed. j Primarily it's insurance—at a Question Of Stratesy very high premium. When the} ‘The next morning, she pinned ambassador of a foreign power!the button inside her coat and addresses our secretary of state|then forgot, throwing the gar- in 1945, he may be talking to the| ment over the back of her chair representative of the world’s No.|in the department cafeteria at lunch time. The button stood out like a lantern on a starless night. Co - workers snickered. | Junior executives scowled. Fi- LETTER TO A LOVED ONE on government property stretch- ing from that street to the water- front. Completion of the project is expected in a month, it was stat- ed. RED CROSS JUNIORS ARE NOW A\ (Continued from Page One) 11:30 a. m. at the Parish Hall on Bahama street. Two other classes will be held FURNISHED APARTMENT. all modern conveniences. $20.00 month. 1014 Grinnell street octi¢-tf TWO UNFURNISHED APART- MENTS, recently remodeled and painted; three rooms with baths. Apply 1108 White street em conveniences. leave the building, she pulled her: | wasn’t until she got home that) on Mondays, at: The High School, from 3:30 to 5:00 p. m, with Miss Mary Thomson in charge and at: The Harris school, from 7:30 to 8:30 o'clock, with Dr. A. Sholtz, of the C.C.C. camp, in charge. Another class for Wednesdays, to be held at the Parish Hall, | from 3:00 to 4:00 p. m., has been jorganized with Mrs. Wm. T. | Fripp in charge. Other classes in First Aid will |be organized and residents inter- ested in this work may take their pick of class or classes to attend, Olivia s pe i FURNISHED HOUSE. modern conveniences. Division street Apply 803 Olivia street ] ' BRING YOU! IT's NO USE | guilty of aiding and abetting be- jcause the officer allowed the de- jother hand, would find the pro- In memory of Joseph C. Single- | ‘gram stepped up in. speed and ton who passed away one year} |scope. For instance, it would be ago today: _ jfeasible to plan for a first line Dear Joe—it’s. been but just a jArmy of 4,000,000 men within! little while. .. } two years, if the nation decided ' Since God, said “come”, and took ‘to go to war with a definite ene- | you by the hand | imy at a certain time. ;And led you oh—so far away} The cost of this mighty instru-; from us | ment of war to the taxpayer wilt Into the beauty of a blessed land. | be astronomical. No competent And though each day seems like | bookkeepers have dared yet to. a year to us { reckon it. All you can do is|Wiho miss you so—with every| gauge fragmentary costs. It is aching breath |possible to say, for instance, that Your memory will be sacred in, Congress has authorized defense! our hearts, 1 funds of. about $17,000,000,000. '“T just i nally her best friend told her. { The young lady hasn’t given, \up. She now wears the button pinned under. ber dress (the old} college custom), “But,” she says, | going to. forget and wear a pee! * aboo shiftwaist and then I WILL | be out of a job.” -— Decayed leaves help keep mois- ture in the ground artd hence are! extremly valuable in preventing \dry-weather injury to gardens. Mrs. Berkowitz announced. ! | Lor Hugh Herbert — Peggy Moran ING ee Johnny Downs in If the FIRST bottle of Lotion IGHTLY TEMPTED Sioa of boing Palate tapi | Also, Comedy and Serial money = ewe eeoeeesreereeeeseceee Simply repeat ed while nature That may keep parts of the plan | Though separated by the hand of Death. SIGNS—‘For Rent”, “Rooms For ° th Po eeak moving for about two years. The God grant, we meet again beyond | cost of the drafted Army. alone. this earth, } will range close to a billion dol- Where sorrow is no more—and) fendant to drive his car to head- quarters after ascertaining his condition. The argument was of Wayne Morris—R. Lane in BURLINGTON, N. C.—A Bur- GOLDEN GLOVES lington attorney argued that if his client was guilty of driving no avail, however. The first gypsies are popularly ‘lars a year. On that basis the to- souls know birth. tal cost might range around $40,- 000,006,000 in five years. j while drunk a policeman was,believed to have been Egyptians.| Assuming that this mighty ‘oct30-ltx Matinee—Balcony 10c, Or- chestra 15-20c; Night—15-25¢