The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 11, 1940, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1940 By MEDORA FIELD YESTERDAY: All the guests | sie, here’s a scrap of cloth J found at Bill and Sally's houseparty have .assed a bad night, shut m by storm and horrified by the mysterious murder of Aunt Mag- gie Now Andrew, t! 2 butler, has Started .0 walk to town for nelp, all the cars having been made useless during the night. Sally ws convinced that the crime had something to do with the secret room supposed to be in the house, and further, that .he mur- derer 4s not far away. on the stairs. Have you any idea | where it would have come from?” “How come they any trash sn them stairs?” Bessie demanded. | instantly on; the defensive. “An- drew say he clean ’em up good.” “But look at this,” i said. “And these funny little feathery wisps wiped her hends. on a nen towel and took the scrap veen her fingers judiciously. s Safty, don’t you know what | this is?” Chapter 17 | Bafflirg Clue ! “THEN she didn’t know? Didj you ever help her to look for it, Thomas?” It seemed hopeless, but I kept trying. Thomas looked really embar- “ rassed this time and stuttered and finally came out with, “Well, No’; that is, n “What do you mean, not exact- - ip Sally, ma’am they’s been some carpenters and folks like that around. them wh sort of gi *Course ‘m mer Mr. 1 ed to fix that bad place in the road been here, but th on Saturday. And t been gone a we “But have else, Thomes? Any look 28 thougt not exactly. 1 seen a , but he went off ckon. I : bout it, ‘cause done say you all was out and bringin’ pa “What time was thi “I disremember iy. Sally, but it was after I eat my dinner. I come to teil Andrew Lindy gone bui I look around end don’t see no cars and I reckon Andrew gone to the store.” “You didn't see anybody around here later in the afternoon or eve- ning, Thomas?” But if 1 had hoped to trip Thomas, | failed miserably. looked at me_ with frown. “But, Miss S: was here la: ndrew?” “All right, ing up, “the reaso! you this is because something dreadful has happened, and we have ail got to work together to— to get to the bottom of it. Miss Maggie was killed last night.” { Bessie, who had kept in the| background with utmost difficul-| iy. now came forward to supply the gruesome details ard I left them together in the kitchen. As I passed through the butler’s »an- try to the dining room, the buzzer sounded and I saw that the call | had come from Alice’s room. This brought my mind back to the scrap of silk on the stairway. | “T'll take Miss Alice's coffee,” 1 told Bessie. | But here again my sleuthing was to meet with no success, fos} the first thing I saw on entering} Alice’s room was her quilted robe thrown over the foot of the bed and, even without comparing them, I knew that my sample was of a much deeper shade. Like Bill, Alice looked rater the worse for wear. More that, she had a sort of hu look in her eyes, as though < nervous from her experience of the night befege. Her hanes shcok so that she spille@ snore of the coffee than she draBk, and I de- cided it was not just the timé to tell her that Bill had had a run-in with her ghost. Red Comforter Sous of splashing in the bathroom indicated that Claire was up and about, and I remem- bered that she had spent the tat- ter portion of the night in the room with Alicé “Sorry I just brought coffee for one,” I called. “Till ring for more a right away.” “Never mind,” she called back. the lilt in her ‘voice agreeab!e a always, “Tll dress and go dow: In a few moments more, rosy and fragrant from the bath. Claire herself appeared, traiiing her jade-green negligee. Now her concern was all for Alice and re. “Srace up, old dear,” she toli Alice. “We'll be taking you home in a little while now.” And, “Sal- ly, it is all so dreadful fox you, I know. I almost feel as though I were responsible. The party was my idea, you know.” j While I knew Bill would agree | with this wholeheartedly, I said! she ‘wasn't to feel that way for aj moment. “Are you sure you don’t ‘sant to rest a while and have your oreakfast sent up?” I asked. | ‘Oh, no, I'm comi down. Really, I think it would much | better for Alice if she would get| up too.” | I left them to settle that ques- | ion between them and when I) yras back in the kitchen I dug the| hit of sik from aay pocket. “Bes- Something about Bessie’s tone warned me that I was not going to like knowing what it w. “What is it?” I asked reluctantly. “It's a piece tore out of that new comforte- we brought out for M Maggie’s room. How come body. tearing u» Miss Mag- gie’s comforter?” How come. indeed? And yet, of course, an eider- down puff might have a piece torn out and the explanation stili be simple and logical “And took it up to Miss 1 s room still. wrapped up | e it on her bed.” Be re- I remembered seeing it there, n the foot of the big four-poster, en we made our search of the e after Aunt Maggie’s death. Y p to the third floor to Tr look. But the down t there now. Ner coulgl I find it any of the other rooms t fioor. I could not find it e. No Alibis N THE v Maggie's the second ns occupied by e Dcth open I and see if by chance one of them might for additional quite a start at piece of green wrapping paper © paper no torn edges and from the ases I gathered that it was still original size required for ping whatever it had in- c No great amount of detecting was required to decide that it nad been dropped there by Bob, for room was in more or less of a state, while Kirk’s reflected the military neatness he hed learned in boarding school. In the downstairs hall again I could hear Bob and Kirk talking n dining room. As I came 2 door, Kirk -aid, “I am is much more serious of us has admitted.” kly stopped to listen, for I knew tha: 1-y entrance would put an end to the conversation and I was curious to know their actual views. “Why do you say that?” Bob inquired. “Well, for one thing,” Kirk con- tinued, “there were no witnesses to the murder. And for another, not one of us has an alibi. Murder is bad enough in any case, but think what a mare's nest this is going to be when the police start trying to prove cach one of =s guilty. That is no doubt the tine they wiil take.” “I don't see why they should assume any cf us guilty,” argued Bob. “The thing that seems most likely to. me is that—that it was done by somebody on the outside. Maybe somebody who broke in for the purpose of holding up the place. Aunt Maggie threatened to scream and he choked her to death. Then, overcome with the fact that he has committed inur- der, he gives up any thought of robbery and makes his escape, first ing to it that there is no t of pursuit.” t seems logical enough,” Kirk mitted. “But the police are going to want to hang it onto somebody. And after all, you'll have to-admit your theory is a le fa¥-fetched. Almost nobody we were to be here, and nif anybody had. what would a noiaup yiela, except pernaps some family silver that has been unmolested for a hundred years or so? Of course, the girls have some jewelry, but I ill don’t be- lieve it would have inspired a planned holdup.” Aunt Maggie's pearls are rather . but to save my life I could not remember whether she had worn them at dinner or not. Cer- tainly there nad been no trace of them when we found her in the Passage, and I had not thought to raise the question. “It seems to me,” Bob was say- ing, “that one of the first require- ments in proving guilt is to estab- lish a motive. I still can’t see what motive could be ascribed to any one of us. Love and money are supposed to be two favorite motives in such cases. Can you make either of them fit?” Going on to the kitchen through the breakfast room, which incidentally we were not | using for preakfast, I asked Bes- sie if she knew where Bul hal disappeared, te) °“He out with homas,” she “told me, “helping him lay planks on the road, so the cars can come through.” “Well, tell him I'm in the study on the third floor when he comes in, please.” : Te be continued (Copyright, 1939, Madore Field Perkerson) “ §CORING ACE HITS TOP DESPITE ILLNESS (By Associated Press) PADUCAH, Ky., Dec. l1— Jesse Tunstill, fleet Paducah Tilghman high school quarter- beck whose 198 points puts him with the nation’s high point foot- ball scoring leaders, had to emerge from a five-day sojourn in bed with a throat ailment to at- tain top ranking. Tunstill played only eight min- utes of the windup contest of the nine-game season against May- field high but in that time scored 20 points in his team’s 32-0 vic- tory. A senior and captain of the team, Tunstill scered 405 points lin his high school playing career. , THE KEY WEST CITIZEN wks Kilea Aunt Maggie: P Magic That Won Stanford Bow! Bid May Even Be More Potent In ’41 Real Threat For indians SOLDIERS MEET DODGERS REDS 9 Next Year Appears To Be Tough Santa Clara Eleven By SAM JACKSON AP Feature Service Writer PALO ALTO, Calif., Dee. 11— The Pacific Coast football teams which were mopped up by the amazing Stanford Indians this season may expect more and worse of the same in 1941. Stanford’s immediate concern is its Rose Bowl game with Ne- braska on January 1, but as Coach Clark Shaughnessy and his men look beyond this event to next autumn’s schedule the prospect must be much rosier than anything they'll see in Pasa- dena In nine successive games the Indians have proved themselves the best on the coast. Next year they'll be virtwally the same team. No other coast conference club, with the possible exception of Oregon loses fewer regulars by graduation. Three Regulars Go To be explicit, first stringers who will graduate are Norman Standlee, the great fullback; Hugh Gallarneau at right half, and Stan Graff, an end. When in- jeries cut Standlee out, sopho- more Milton Vucinich was a cap- able substitute and in the cru- cial game with Washington the team hardly missed Standlee. Four good ends want Graff's job leaving only right half really vacant. Shaughnessy’s juggling this year would indicate that the plugging of a single weak spot is hardly a problem. The real 1941 threat to Stanford appears at this writing to be lit- tle Santa Clara. Until Shaughnessy lifted the; Indians from last place in 1939 to the coast championship in 1940, Santa Clara’s Buck Shaw was the wonder man of western football. i This season Stanford managed to beat Santa Clara 7 to 6, but Shaw’s boys went undefeated for the rest of their schedule. Like Shaughnessy. Shaw's 1940 team will go over into the new season almost intact. Next sea- son’s Santa Clara club is expected to be one of the nation’s really great teams. Meanwhile the resurgence of Stanford has set off a volume of football discussion such as this region has not known in many a day. Most of it is along Horatio Alger lines with Clark Shaugh- nessy as the hero. Shaughnessy, once known as a good coach in New Orleans, spent seven lean years at the University of Chicago where football was de-emphasized. Then Chicago dis- continued intercollegiate football altogether. ¢ Shaughnessy, still on the facul- ty at $9,000 a vear, was invited to coach intramural six-man foot- ball teams. Finally Got Job Bitter and discouraged, he tried for the vacant berth at UCLA, failed, and then set out to sell himself to Stanford. His chances hung by 2 thread at times, and he finally was chosen over opposi- tion of some alumni who wanted Buck Shaw, Jock Sutherland or Dud DeGroot. “He had two strikes on him when he started”, commented one man on the inside of delibera- tions. The way he overcame the situation probably can be de- scribed under five heads: j 1—His team got an extraordi- narily thorough grounding in football fundamentals. 2—He radically reshuffled posi- tions. 3—He picked the ancient T for- mation as best adapted to his ma- terial and worked it into a baf- fling offense. ‘ 4—He instituted a kindly but firm discipline in a squad that. was suspected ef having run pretty wild. : 5—His own will to win was in- tense and he managed to instill the same spirit into his men. LEAGUE STANDINGS ISLAND CITY BASKETBALL LEAGUE Club— Lions Club - é High School sles Fe U.S. Army - VP53 * d Pepper’s Plumbers 000 US. Marines =: 000, AIRMEN TONIGHT. TRADE PLAYERS ‘LOSERS OF OPENING GAMES PEP YOUNG TO CINCINNA | BATTLE IN AFTER- H PIECE Second doubleheader of the Is- land City Basketball League first- half schedule will be played to- night in the High School Gym- nasium. U.S. Army and VP53 will be making their initial appearance of the season in the curtain-rais- er, beginning at 7:00 o'clock. Nat- ural enemies on the diamondball field, the Soldiers and Airmen are expected to use their biggest “boom booms” in a drive to gain victory in the first battle of the campagin. Losing fives of the league open- ing games Monday night will tangle in the afterpiece, 8:00 o'clock. U.S. Marines, who, lost to the Lions Club by three-points, will meet Pepper's Plumbers, who were edged by the High School team, 40-46. The vanquished five in the nightcap will be relegated to the cellar of the league. MARIO PEREZ DONS SOLDIER UNIFORM Mario Perez, well-known to local fistic fans, has joined the United States Army and is now stationed at Fort Benning, Ga One of the best lightweights’ produced here in recent years, Perez has met opponents in rings throughout the state and has es- tablished a creditable record for himself. He made three appearances in the squared circle at the Strand Arena in Key West the early part of this year, winning two of the fights and losing one. SPORTS CALENDAR BASKETBALL (High School Gym, 7:00 p. m.) TONIGHT First Game—Army vs. VP53. Second Game—Plumbers vs. Marines. FRIDAY NIGHT First Game—Army vs. High School. Seeond Game—Lions vs. VP53. MONDAY NIGHT First Game — Plumbers vs. Army. Second Game—Lions vs. High School. ARTIST OR COACH? (By Associated Press) BATON ROUGE, La. Dec. 11. —Mbolding a statue or painting a picture are tougher werk for Adrian Dodson, Louisiana State halfback, than toting a football. Or so he says. “But I like it all and I want to be either an artist or a football coach after finishing school”, says the fast-stepping sophomore. He is 21 and comes from Columbus, Miss. As a kid Dodson liked to@raw and decided to make something of it. Lately, while speeding nearly 500 yards this fall to be- come L.S.U. leading ground-gain- er, he picked up sculpture. Dodson studies curves as hard as his football signals. His art teachers say he has real ability. And ports critics claim that with experience he may become a touchdown title contender. GORSICA INTERESTED IN PAINT, NOT PLANES (Ry Ansoctated Press) BECKLEY, W. Va.. Dec. 11— John Gorsica, Detroit rookie base- ball pitcher, wants it-known that he is not an airplane pilot and that he is not plamning to enlist with the Polish< foreign legion aiding in the defense of the Brit- ish Isles. “I have no idea how the story got started”, said Gorsica. “AN T’ve been doing since the World Series ended is to put a coat of paint around my place here”. WHIZZER NO. 2? (My Assoriatea Press) BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 11—Leo Stasica, All-Big Seven halfback from Rockford, IT, was the first Colorado University gridder to win a conference scoring title since Whizzer White topped all competiters in 1937. Stasiea -scor- ed 60 points compared with White's 122. LEW RIGGS TO BROOK- LYN (Special to The Citizen) CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—Seeking infield reserve after trading shortstop Billy Myers to the Chicago Cubs last week, Cincin- nati Reds consummated a straight player deal with the Brooklyn Dodgers early this week. Infielder Pep Young, who bat- ted .250 last year in 54 games and was considerea the leading sec- ond baseman in the National League in 193%, went to the Reds and the Dodgers got infielder Lew Riggs. Cincinnati had used Riggs at third base off and on the past six years. DUROCHER MAY BE DRAFTED IN ARMY (Special te The Citisen) CHICAGO, Dec. 11—Lippy Leo Durecher, Brooklyn manager, may be drafted into the Army next year. He holds No. 500 and, although married, his wife nulli- fies that exemption through her employment as buyer for a St. Louis store. CLASSIFIED COLUMN Advertisers should give their street address as well as their telephone number if they desire results. Payment for classified adver- tisements is invariably in ad- vance, but regular advertisers with ledger accounts may have their advertisements charged. 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In his column yesterday Clay informed Herald r “the Service and Civilian leagues at Key W forced to disband because nancial difficulties f five games between pick would undoubtedly draw a crowd”. Either Everett has just d ered those misplaced “notes someone has furnished him long- delayed information. The leagues were disbanded November 1! almost a month ago, and three the leading teams have sch a round-robin since the tournament was slated to der way last night but unf difficulties delay the ope til tomorrow night. Please copy, Mr. Clay Belligerent Belloise (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Steve Belloise, who had middieweig champion Ken Overlin down ir their last fight but + - cision, will be out for a clear-cut title victory when the two m: December 13 in New York. NO WOLVES? (By Associated Press) BUTTE, Mont. 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