The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 22, 1940, Page 3

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN When Two Unasked Guests Come To Sally's Party, Murder Steals In Behind Them Jat all, except for the fact that I; stuek in the mud. The idea of a | had been so acutely aware of the | country house party in mid-win- Chapter one The Rain Threatens HE quiet was a little disconcerting as I drove around to the} garage back of Wis-| teria Hall. Of course, | its secluded atmosphere and} its inaccessibility are among} the chief charms of the old} place, but I had expected some signs of activity. Where was| everybody? Where, indeed, was} the station wagon in which the two servants and Aunt Maggie | had driven out yesterday to open} | the house for week-end guests? I had sounded the horn just as} I made the turn in the long drive- here one gets that fis glimpse of big white column: through the trees. Now I pressed down on it again, longer and w cemed almost s d the pe h fashion. ful But The hite bulk of Wis- teria Hall stood calm and inscru- table in the December sunshine moth ‘h ten months before, when I first came into po: of the place. No grinning black face ap- peared at kitchen window or door. No sign of Andrew, making a great show of bustling down the steps and calling back to his fat | wife Law, x here’s Miss iy 5 let's help her get her things in t! house. A little impatient at of ponse, for surely mu. e about, I decided t surrounding silence. Thinking that perhaps it was Aunt Maggie, I turned and walked over to where I could see beyond the boxwood hedge and into the front drive- way. Beyond the house and hurrying as fast as he could go toward the gate was a man, Although he was now nearly the length of a city block away, I was almost certain that he was Kirk Pierce, who was to be one of our guests that eve- ning. “Kirk!” I called. “Yoo-hoo-oo! Did I imagine it, or did h really hesitate for a moment be ‘ore breaking into a run? Dropping my box, I also began to run; but he had disappeared around the turn and was out of the gate before I had covered half the distance. When I myself reached the turn, I heard the sound of a motor starting up. This was even more strange. I h z no car outside the in, though one might easily have been concealed behind the shrub- bery. Car Tracks Y THE time I reached the gate, there was no car anywhere in sight, but on the fresh country air there was the unmistakable odor of gasoline. And on the fresh red earth, where a section of our pri- vate road being worked over, there v ere tracks showing that a car had turned in from the side. This private road extends be- yond our gate for nearly a mile before it runs into an unpaved country road leading to the con- crete highway which is still a mile or so distant. It seemed un- likely that the intruder had made a mistake as to destination, be- my bags and packages in . cause our private roadway is to be brought in later. Per plainly marked _as such and also Bessie and Andrew had gone ov by the name, Wisteria Hall, on to Rosw for additional i the mailbox. whick : have ens ove Our property covers more than looked they brought out | five hundred acres and the near: supplies day before. That| est farmhouse is three miles dis- would account for the absence of the station wagon. Aunt Maggie was probably dozing in the li- brary or taking a nap in her room. I glanced at my wrist watch. It was ten minutes after three. I decided I would take the flowers into the house with me, as there would just be time to arrange them, check over the bedrooms and dress before my husband and our guests began to arrive. tant. With away and Atlanta only twenty, within easy driving distance of my husband’s office, Wisteria Hall had seemed ideal when we de- cided to make certain improve- ments with the idea of using it as a summer home. But now as the silence once more enshrouded my city soul there seemed some- thing sinister about the place. Retracing my steps down the long driveway, I noticed that even As I reached for the large flor- | the sun was hidden by clouds and ist’s box, I heard a sound near the | that there was a hint of rain in side of the house, as though some- | the air. Rain would be bad with one had stumbled on the gravel | that piece of road under construc- Roswell five miles | ;. | Put his name at the head of their walk. I might not have noticed it ition, for cars would surely get By MEDORA FIELD |ter did not now seem such a grand inspiration after all. It is my husband's favorite jake that I can be talked into anything, and he once declared that I would gladly agree to attend my own hanging if it were to be held out of town. Looking back to my tele- phone conversation of the day be- fore with Claire Harper, it seemed to me that there was more than a grain of truth in his joking. I had mentioned to Claire quite | casually that the new basement fame room and other remodeling | had just been completed and that | thought it might be fun to spend |Christmas at Wisteria Hall. Claire, }not usually given to sudden en- thusiasms, had bowled me over. “Oh, that’s just perfect!” she | cried. “Listen, darling, I've been {trying for several days to get a chance to run over and tell you | the big news. But I can’t wait. ’'ve finally got Bob to agree to marry me. Yes, that’s what I said. We | | are going to be married. Sally, | | don’t wait until Christmas. Let's go out this week end. You can give us an engagement party. Just us, you know. You and Bill and Bob and I, and, of course, we'll have to have Alice, since she is Bob’s sister. And, let’s see—some- |body for Alice. What about Kirk | Pierce?” | |. Remembering how long Claire |had been after Bob, it did not | seem just the moment to say that it might all be too much trouble, what with the next day being Sat- urday. Claire has lots of money ,and charm and Bob has lots of charm but no money, so it had not been easy, I knew, although Bob |had been in love with her for | years. |. Bob had studied architecture, but had never gone very far with it and had finally stopped trying. | His friends helped him to get |other jobs, but I have often thought friends can be a handi- cap, too, when someone is as | agreeable as Bob Dunbar. Friends made it so easy for him to drop | things and go off on a hunting trip to South Georgia or to the | field trials or on a cruise or some- | where. Hostesses automatically lists for | and dani | vice cocktail parties, dinners ces. They asked his ad- about redecorating their | houses or trading in their cars or | their husbands. | " Reassured. Boe I mean is that when someone has so much charm too many things come easy to him, so that he loses the ability to put forth effort along more serious jlines. But, after all, it had not ‘been necessary, for now Bob was WOMAN'S CORNER (By The Associated Press Feature Service) THERE’S POPULAR APPEAL ; IN TODAY’S PIROUETTES By JOHN SELBY, Arts Editor ing down to earth. ago when it began llet is gett en years in America, peo- the theater to in the audience the doir on th super-elegant males, ith dead white faces e nose by a scarlet ts contains a f burghe and dents i of se have gone “e Exoresses Life n revolutian Consider c Ru GENE..WAS JUST TCC ives. But now- g’ f together three companies which will give New York ballet most of the win- ter. First Tschaikows! s “Aurora’s Wedding”, which is Russian and 1d school—also imperishable, be- ise Tschaikow the per- 1 ain the the Imperial Ballet o> was the happy hunting i of the Grand Dukes. Feeble Overa Condensed Then ‘oq. d'Or”, in which Rir <orsakoff's feeble opera idensed, the voices amputat- th of ret: > Slavic splendor d costumes e and € the fairy story of Ki 1d his court speed and humor it la on the stage. ‘Graduation Bz and n to earth, or perhaps up to better. This is a good e of the ‘slice out id, although it stops co short of social significance. ably It’s merely-@ comedy on a aan situation—boys heir gyrations wh a school prom. brought BUSY TO NOTICE THAT FIRST KISS! The big ent in every ress) s supposed to > gets her first pro- . but Gene Tierney, d newcomer, appears to be nt tial clinch she was e thought about it tely nothing”, she said. sanormal day on the “Hudson's Bay” set. The scene was a love bit between Gene and John Sutton. After her long rehearsal of Pichel would say each time, “And here John ki: There was Director Irving line. and we cut”. s you, Finally the scene was shot. Gene ended up in Sutton’s arms. ‘Cut!” said Pichel. “We'll try it again”. They tried it twice more. The scene was okayed. Gene started for her dressing room IF EYES HAVE IT, SO DO YOU By BETTY CLARKE Your eyes can keep other eyes on you if you know the art of makeup. Less makeup rather than more is likely to do the trick. And it’s not easy even to apply light makeup properly and make it emphasize your best features. You should put it on subtly enough to prevent that harsh, heavily make-up look. Even celebrities have to work to master the art of eye makeup. This is what the singer, Hilde- garde, told me about how she solved the problem: uring the course of an eve- g it is usually necessary for e to go from bright spotlights the dimmer lights of a night club or to the theater. Looked Like Surrealist “Heavily made-up eyes, coated with mascara, were fine for the bright lights. But I looked like a surrealist when they were turned off. “I had to have something sim- ple and effective. Petroleum jelly was the answer. It seemed to make the eyes look larger and brighter yet soft and appealing. “This is the way I apply it: First a light film of eye shadow to the edge of the lid, shading it toward the edge. “Then over the shadow, with the tip of your finger, put a film of the jelly, heavier at the edge when it her— Heavens!” she exclaimed. e been kissed. t T've heard so often of the first iss that I was all prepared to go through the thrill process myself. But I guess I was too busy”. And what about Sutton? “Gosh”, he said, “I thought it was swell”. suddenly dawned on }room with its twin Sheraton side- “Kirk,” I calle d, “Yoo-hoo-oo!” marrying Claire. He could devote; long drawing room, which had|can remember.) “I find out such himself to architecture without been a double parlor before we | strange things about the best peo- having to bother about the finan- | removed the partition, but this| ple. Sometimes I think they are cial returns. Claire said their wedding trip would take them around the world, in order that | Bob might study various types} of architecture before settling | down. Reclaiming my box of flowers from the ground, I went back to | my car, removed my keys and my | bag and struggled up the back| steps. I found the kitchen door| locked, but fortunately I had a| key. Once inside, everything / seemed to be in order. The place was comfortably warm, indicat- ing that Andrew had the furnace going. The electric refrigerator was functioning. Meats and vege- tables and o in place. Andrew had even been} able to find some mint at the mar- | ket. As a hostess, I began to feel slightly better. | Passing through the big dining r foodstuffs were | boards, I went on to the mello’ toned library. But Aunt Maggie} was not dozing by the fire. The fire itself had burned to ashes. Crossing the wide hall, with the lovely old Adam fanlight above | had even more deserted look. At the foot of the stairs I called out to Aunt Maggie several times. Only the empty echo of my own voice came back to me. Leaving my bag on the landing, I hurried up the stairway, wondering if in- deed Aunt Maggie had taken one of the third-story bedrooms as she had insisted and if for this reason she did not hear me. Aunt Maggie is really a dear, but I had not been too pleased when she decided to join the im- promptu house party. Hearing our plans when she dropped in to see my two-year-old daughter, Aunt Maggie had insisted that this was just the time for her to check over family records at Wisteria Hell. Although she is what some peo- ple would call rich, Aunt Maggie adds considerably to her income by working up family histories for | | ambitious ladies who wish to be- come members of the D. A. R. the U. D. C. and similar organ- izations. iS “It amuses me,” she often said, “now that I am a widow.” (S he | | more pleased to pay me for what I leave out than for what I put in Anyway, Wisteria Hall had been built around 1836 by my great- great-grandfather, and its ibrary contains many rare old documents which Aunt Maggie had itched to | get her plump hands on long be- fore my grandmother's death. But Grandmother had refused to be bothered. Each time Aunt Maggie suggested looking them over, she had put her off, saying there was nothing of any value on the place and that it was all foolishness, anyway. I could picture Aunt | Maggie in the midst of a perfect orgy since her arrival yesterday. | But where was she now? Cer- | tainly she was in none of the | six second-floor bedrooms, nor | was she in the sitting room. | Climbing the rather steep back stairs, the only ones ascending to | the third floor, I still received no | answer to my call. But papers | and books scattered about in the wie showed that she had been there. To be continued the front door, I glanced into the! had been a widow ever since I} (Copyright, 1939, Medora Field Perkersom) DRESS UP YOUR TURKEY IN iTS SAVORY BEST By MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE The turkey is the kingpin of a Thanksgiving dinner. But don’t forget that he needs some colorful relishes, jams and jellies to make him shine in all his glory. Trot out your old-fashioned china and glass dishes and fill them with appropriate spreads. They will give the homey feel- ing needed for this family fes- tival. Here are some sugges- tions CRANBERRY MOLDS, spiced and raisin filled, introduce an old favorite in a new guise. They make sprightly garnishes when CORN STUFFING 14 cup chopped bacon 1-3 cup chopped onions 2 tablespoons minced parsley 2-3 cup.diced celery 8 cups evumbled bread 2 cups canned corn (drained) 2 teaspoon salt 44 teaspoon paprika 1-3 teaspoon black pepper 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning (op- tional) 3-4 cup butter, melted Heat the bacon in a frying pan. add the onions, parsley and celery and simmer 5 minutes. Pour over the rest of the ingredients and mix. Recipe sufficient for a 12- pound bird. een ee nen nner nt placed atop glazed pear halves or browned apple slices and used to frame the turkey on its platter. and gradually lighter up to the brow. Apply Lightly “Brush the mascara on the es very lightly, never stick- ing the lashes together. “If mascara hurts your eyes. the jelly can be brushed on the tips of the lashes for almost the same effect”. And for evening when she’s singing for society, Hildegarde has another makeup trick. It’s putting a wee touch of the jelly on the lips. That gives them a soft but not quite moist look and keeps their outline and brightness showing even in dim light. Boli i0 minutes in covered pan, 4 cups berries. 8 whole cloves, 1 tablespoon broken bark cinnamon and Press through a sieve and add 2 cups granulated sugar: Boil 4 minutes. Add 1 teaspoon grated orange rind and ‘2 cup chopped and pour into individual Chill. a 4 teaspoon salt. raisins molds. 8 Another cranberry version of- fers a piquant RELISH SALAD. adaptable to open the festive meal or to serve along with Mr. Gobbler himself. Dissolve a pack- age of orange flavored gelatin in l'2 cups unsweetened pineapple juice. Add 3 tablespoons lemon juice, 44 teaspoon salt. Cool, then mix in 2 cups chopped berries, 1 cup granulated sugar, % cup dic- ed celery and 1-3 cup broken nuts. Pour into a ring mold. Chill and unmold on cress or let- tuce. Center with salad dressing or mayonnaise. PURITAN RELISH puts a new slant on a traditional old pic@le. Soak 2 tablespoons granulated gelatin 5 minutes in % cup cold water. Dissolve in 2 cups boiling, seasoned, tomato juice. Cool and add 1 tablespoon granulated su- gar, % cup chopped sweet -pic- kles, % cup chili sauce, 2 table- spoons prepared horseradish and 34 teaspoon salt. Pour into a shallow mold. Chill until firm. Cut into cubes and pile on a plat- ter with a garnish. ae Grandmother considered HOT SLAW perfect for turkey serving. It’s a safe bet that your family will like it made like this: Beat 3 egg yolks, add 2 tablespoons flour, 1 teaspoon salt, % teaspoon dry mustard, % teaspoon each of pa- prika and celery seed and 1-3 cup granulated sugar. Pour in 1-3 cup, vinegar and a cup of water. Cook slowly and stir constantly until the dressing thickens. Pour in % cup cream, 4 cups shredded cab- bage, 1 cup shaved er grated ap- ple and % cup chopped green peppers. Reheat and pile up in an cld-fashioned glass bowl. This relish combines two tempt- HATS ARE WHAT THEY ARE If Lilly Dache didn’t say, “This is a hat”, you wouldn’t always be sure. In the hand, some of the confections from her new resort collection look like bouquets in search of a vase, the fringe from an old-fashioned lamp shade, the prism from a chandelier. Madame Dache can make anything into a hat, and does. Here are descriptions of some of the hats certain to influence what you'll wear next spring: THE “HALFWAY” HAT, de- riving from Hawaii. It is held on with a bicycle clip. This and other flowery halfwayers are supposed to cure hatlessness. WESKIT AND HAT SET—sen- sation at the Dache show. It's made of multicolored ribbon, in- tended for wear with a plain black street dress. , THE HATPIN is the most ex- citing. It’s topped with a butter- fly of Chantilly lace, and it may be removed from the hat and worn on the lapel, or as part of an evening headdress. The hat itself, like many others in the collection, was inspired by Soyth American styles. It's of black felt. ing Thanksgiving accessories. Scoop out spiced apples or crab- apples and stuff with cranberry jelly. Chill. Serve on a shallow tray. Or put several on the tur- key platter to dress it up. PICKLED PEACHES in gelatin are grand. They give just the tang needed for a bountiful meal. Soak 2 tablespoons of granulated gela- tin in % cup cold water. Dissolve in a cup of boiling water. Add % cup orange juice, 2 tablespoons} spiced peach juice and % cup lemon juice. Pour to the thick- ness of 2 inches in a Ww pan. Chill until partly firm and then arrange spiced peach halves, hol- low sides down. Surroynd with a cup of seeded grapes mixed with 2-3 cup diced celery. Chill until firm. Cut into squares and serve on lettuce. No dressing needed. LEGALS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT oF THE ELEVEYSH JUBICIAL OF THE STATE oF i IN AND FOR MONROE CoUSTr. HANCERY. Y A. RISONET. Cumplainan: De vs LEANORA ALMA BI ORDER OF FU = liwoneta Alms Gctendant theres __ resident «of the and her place paricularts knew Mississipp! Street, gan California: that a= t there “ Ploreda. defendant be and she 4 appear to YMONI RA IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE ELEVENTH JUDICIAL ’ CIRCUIT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA. IN AND FOR MON- * ROE COUNTY. & CHAE- CERY. ARTHUR F. BRODERSON, Compiaizant. vs. FRIEDA BRODERSON, It appearing by the sworn bill of complaint filed im the above Stated cause, that Frieda Broder- son, the defendant there named is a non-resident of the t Florida, and her residence as is Particularly known is 1312 South Negley Avenue, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania; thet seid de fendant is over the age of twenty- one years and that there Person im the State of the service of a sum chancery upon whom said defendant. It is hereby Ordered that ssid defendant, Frieda Broderson. be and she is hereby required to ap- pear to the bill of complaint filed in said cause on or before Mon- day, December 2nd. A D. 1940 otherwise the allegations of said bill will be taken as confessed by said defendant and said cause be proceeded with ex parte Done and Ordered this day of October, A. D. 1940 (Seal) Ross C Sawyer Clerk of the Circuit Court RAYMOND R. LORD, Solicitor for Compleinant. oct25; nov1-8-15-22.1960 Fiorada. mons mad 2th IN THE CIRCUIT COURT oF THE ELEVENTH JUDIC; cEcurT OF THE STATE OF FLORSD: IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTS. IN CHANCERY. RAYMOND ER. LORD, as Re- ceiver of the Tropical Building and Investment Company, @ Florida Corporation, vs. Dividends From GEO. E. BALCOM, if alive and if dead, his unknown heirs, ée- visees, legatees, grantees or other claimants, et a! Defendants ORDER OF PUBLICATION It_appearing by the sworn Bi of Complaint filed by the © plainant in the cause that the does not know and Leen able to ascertain whether the defendants, Geo. E. Balcum, Everett E. Balcom, W. G. Atkinson, Geo. & Simmons, are dead or alive, if éead. their heirs, devisees, legatecs, gran tees or ether claimants are known, if alive, their place of = has Curry and the Fund are unknown said defendants are over the age of twenty-one years and t Effie HEédingten That all of the no person in t the service c cery upon whom would bind defendants. It is ordered that said écfendants and all unknown persons, pertner- ships, estates, trusts or corpera- tiens having any right, Uitle and i= terest, share or claim or licm upon the dividends Gue the forcgving ée- fendants be and they a required to appear te herein on or before December, A. D. 1946 allegations im @aid bill will be taken as confessed by said defendants and said cause be proceeded with €x parte Done asd Ordered at Monroe County, Florida day of October, A ise (SEAL, C Sawyer cut Court nan meld Key this Wes Ro: Clerk of the WILLIAM H MALON Seliciter for Receiver. novi- e TRY Fr TODAY— The Favorite in Key West STAR + BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT All GROCERS [AIP ID 7222 J