The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 12, 1940, Page 2

The a. “AGE TWO An JOE leashes ADV i} y West Citizen | TIZEN PUBL ISHING CO. INC. i Daily Except Sunday TMAN, President and Pal ALLEN, Business Maneger yt + of the Associated Preas s exclusively. entitled to use x& dispatebes credited to e in this paper and algo } ERTISING RATES nks, resolutions of be charged for at ches from whieh ts a line. nvites discus- al or géneral communi- ROVEMENTS TOR KEY WE‘T Ww ADVOCATED BY TH e men ill x t for judicio I CITIZEN ty and City Gov- p their word because ases from which umulated memory u forget Ver- > what is happening. lems of life will never be boys and girls who are out | ard rave about it. | they always have, that we remain neutral— in favor of all interests who show proof of ! ix million dollars will be spent on, it generally yn of this vast sum Key » depends upon how much advertising. ay be smart without > Citizen, but he isn’t Vest Citizen. In fact, ve e time his com- nen correct their own. The latest propaganda by the Admin- tion for is t losers in the late wi and that ii we to ngs and the ngs that app o have us believe that Eng- defeat and that we her with the sinews of and plenty of it and like the last time. ; he being made slaughter. is ional debt must on or enslave- pur- s to bankruvtey and des- est Citizen.—_Korshame !. You talist—Sarford Herald. one. and being one ~are- two ; one has to have capital ia ti | | leader toda CONFUSING THE ISSUE It is not the policy of The Citizen to rant-and rave. By and large, the editorial policy has been one of conservatively com: menting on the day’s news, with - emphasis ructive thoughts. Nor is it contemplated that de- pariure fiom that policy will govern this or on cons any any other article in this column, Jt appears necessary, however, to strongly’ object to editorial comment in the mortiing Miami newspaper yesterday, concerning the aque- duct line. If there’s any one project—and of major importance to Key West, too—that has been muddied up by interventionists of one sort and another, it’s our aqueduct line. Citizen: nere have become so exasperated e delays, entailing rumors of t is ac- nd that action, with nu appreciable progress made the while, that the subject has become almost taboo in most circles. - To add to the general condition, high- ly-colored editorials, such as the one ap- peariag yesterday, with rank favoritism shown to one element of the issue, do not elp the cause. Misinformation, dished up apparently, in an attempt to sway public erved no good purpose, even as all contribute to muddy the opinion, such articles waters. Our policy on the subject of fresh for Key West has been—“we want nd we don’t care who or by what a is brought to the city”. We stick to that thought, tenaciously. Interference by newspapers, the editors of which re- -e information second-hand, with wrong information, acts as a detriment on the roject, as all can see. Therefor, in the interests of obtaining this much-needed service, The Citizen ob- jects to that article It’s a dangerous line to follow, antagonizing those who will help the project along. But, as we say above—we won't rant Our readers prefer, as ater, iion it wanting to help Key West. A BISHOP’S STORY Illustrating how the treatment strangers in a foreign land may influence theiz lives, Bishop Bartlett of the Episcopal | church tells of two young Chinese students who came to America, and what happened to them. One, a Chinese girl who had been con- verted to Christianity in her native land, came to the United States to continue her studies. Unfortunately, she entered a school in which preudice was shown be- cause of her race. She renounced Chris- tianity and returned to China. The other, a Chinese boy, was be- friended by an American family in Charles- ton, became a Christian, returned to China and married a Christian Chinese girl. Four of their children were educated in the United States, and their family became one of the most influential in China. Oné daughter mz*ried Cun founder/of the Chinese Republic; another married Chiang Kai Shek, China’s chief a third married Kun, Hsiang H ,.recent!y finance minister »>f China; whife a son, Soong Ts Vung, was also finance iinister 2nd represented China in several | international conferences. leasantness “superior per- ’ if they take says Dr. W. Philosophy and t the University ided a long walk Many pated the an antidote took a walk” to be te. | Rome often complained in that thousands go t i fight while » to hear a scientific we are as a whole sentiment, the through the intel- separated into groups, Since all of us are 0 some extent and not ntellectual interests to a and even this small number , we have the explana- interests of the multitude in ity in num- al to the intellect her through are Ses. sectior “The Christian influences which have gone out from their family,” says Bishop Bartlett, “are incalculable, and go back to friendliness shown toward one Chinese boy in America. AXIS ATTACK UPON ENGLAND The first evidence we have seen in a long time to icate that there may be an attempted invasion of Great Britain came over the air the other day when an official radio announced that “the Axis powers have abandoned their plans for the j defeat of Great Britain through actual in- vasion.”” : For many weeks, after the fall of France, there was much talk abeut invad- ing Great Britain and even Hitler advised | the British to be patient, because he was coming. The talk, as might be expected, was not backed up by an invasion and some commentators in this country pointed out that if the Axis powers were planning an invasion they would not say so. Now, we have a definite Axis declara- tion that no invasion is contemplated. Thus, it appears, the thought is in the minds of the Axis powers and the aerial announcement is designed to mislead the { opposition. of | Yat Sen, | less THE KEY WEST.CITIZEN Killed, Aunt Maggi P| By MEDORA FIELD YESTERDAY: Although Aunt Maggie was murdered -he night before, and someone has been at work on the puzzle all night, no- body has the leust idea who killed rer. But the guests at Sally’s houseparty ate all rising, * and Sally herself 1s starting for - the third floor to look among Aunt Mcggie’s papers jor some- thing that might explain it ail. She privately thinks the secret Toom supposed to be somewhere in the old house has something to do with it all. Chapter 18 Gloomy Search if ADMIT that by then I was be- ginning to feel rather appre- hensive about the law, for the conversation between Bob and Kirk had given me an idea of what we were in for. It seemed to me. that my only hope lay in finding what Bob called a motive. Once we had a motive, maybe, we could find a clue. So 1 went back to the third floor again, this time to look through the papers Aunt Maggie had left in the study. I felt rea- sonably certain she had not co! sidered the secret room of inter- est except as a family curicsity. This being the case, she probably would not have hidden the clue If the directions it gave were com- plicated, she might have had the paper with her when she went downstairs. But if the directions were easy to understand, she; had Probably left the clue among the other papers or had stuck it some- where in her room. But there were no papers in her bureau or desk drawers and noth- ing of interest in her purse. The collection of papers in the study was formidable. An old family Bible, several volumes of family records, half a dozen packets of letters and a number of loose pa- pers and Aunt Maggie’s brief case which inclosed her usual working materials. I sat down in the chair she had occupied and got busy. A lot of reading of old-fashioned, spidery writing was necessary, for I had no idea what the clue she had spoken of might be like. It was slow work and I had begun to feel pretty hopeless when I heard a step outside. “Here I am, Bill,” 1 ed. But nobody answered ana no- body appeared. I waited a minute, for I knew that I had heard some- one, then got up and looked out in the hall. But I saw no one. Ordi- narily if I had thought I heard a footstep outside a room and found myself mistaken I would have dismissed the matter with- out further thought. But too much had happened lately for me to maintain any such casual attitude now. | looked first in Aunt Maggie’s room, then in all the other rooms on the floor. As usual, I saw no one at all. But in Aunt Maggie’s room it seemed to me that the books and other things on the desk had been moved about. I felt sure of it, for the blotter was askew and surely’ I would have straightened it auto- ay when I looked in ear- er. __ 1 went back to the study, feel- ing a little too remote from the rest of the household for absolute comfort, yet anxious to go on with my search. I would make Bi!] hel; if he ever got through with his road mending. I worked on and on and to my ears, tuned now to hear the slight- est sound, it seemed that the house was very still. I knew that it was only because one whole floor sepa- rated me from everyone else; but I found myself listening for noises and, when I finally heard footsteps again, I jumped from my chair an rushed to the door breath- iy. New Helper { aes looking very forthright and _ dependable, was coming down the hall. “Bessie said you ; were up here,” he explained. “1 came to ask if I could be of any/ assistance.” “I was just going through Aunt ee ey Papers to see if they would throw any light on the sit- | uation.” “Not a bad idea,” he agreed. “May I help? And by the way. Sally. I've been thinking this over, and while there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason for it, there’s got to be one somewhere. You remember Aunt Maggie told us about finding a clue to the se- cret room? Do you suppose there could be—any connection?” I felt my face flush. Here was Kirk suggesting the very thing I had been trying to keep quiet about. I must confess that for a moment I wondered if it were not just the thing the murderer him- self might do. But, after all, may- be it was a more obvious conclu- sion than I had thought. “T had wondered it it my- 2H hidden in there, do you? Did you ever hear of a relative who was not quite right?” “Bill asked the same question this morning,” I answered. never heard anything to me. think so, but it seems it any- thing is possible.” . “IT wondered about it when Alice claimed to have seen a ghost,” Kirk said. “Of course, we all thought Alice was just imagin- ing things because of over- wrought nerves. But Bill ran into somebody in the hall—” I looked at him guilelessly, but in my heart there was still 4 ques- tion. Could collided it have been Kirk who stairs are nearest the dining-room door and Kirk had come back into the library from the dining room. But he met my glance squarely and it was I who turned away. “Alice couldn’t describe her ghost,” I recalled. “She said it was just a shape.” I shuddered at the thought that perhaps Alice might have been right. That there was some monster concealed in the house awaiting an opportunity to pounce "en innocent victims. ‘Why had Bill used the words go- Trilla or hairy ape? Had there been something in that brief.contact in the hall which had caused him to do so unconsciously? “It’s too aw- ful,” I said to Kirk. “I shouldn't have frightened you with such ideas,” he said contrite- ly. “If Alice-saw anything, it was not a ghost, but something hu- man. By the way.” he went on, “was there anyone who might not want you to have this house? Any jealous relative who an have wanted it himself or herself? Anyone who might possibly feel that it was left to vou—unfairly, and who would try to scare away? Has anyone offered to buy it from you?” “But why? What would that have to do with it?” “Haven’t you heard of cases where people tried to scare off the owners by making things dis- agreeable for them? Maybe so they could:buy the property at a reduced price?” “But that’s too fantastic,” I said. “Judge and Mrs. Warren, who live at Roswell, did ask if I would be interested in selling the place. They seemed to approve my deci- sion to keep it and said they had only thought I might be selling it to—Yankees or somebody dis- agreeable.” “Yankees?” Kirk grinned. “It’s absurd, of course. But the Warrens are very old fashioned. | And these old houses are rather lin demand in Georgia because | Sherman left so few of them. |. “So you don’t think the judge jis a likely candidate to be putting jon a campaign to terrorize the present owners?” -“I certainly don’t. And as to relatives, the only one I can think of who might have envied me the house would have been Aunt Mag- gie. and she, of course, was free to come and go as she liked. As things have turned out, I don’t see how it could be Aunt Maggie.” “Well, that’s that,” said Kirk, and we both worked silently for some time. Then Kirk picked uy Aunt Maggie's brief case, which had already gone through, and started scanning the papers it held. The Map ELLO, what's this?” he asked suddenly, a note cf excite- ment in his voice. “Looks like some sort cf diagram.” d it was a diagram, with a line begining at the top left-hand corner and meandering downward toward the right. Here and there along the line were names and at certain points there were large black dots. I could stot help smiling when L.saw it and Kirk’s eager expres- sion. “That,” I told him. “is one of Aunt Maggie’s genealogical maps of Georgia. That hiacke aap is Sherman’s march throu gb Georgia to the sea. The black 4 ! indicate towns he burned, or at least towns in which he burned the courthouses. Aunt Maggie marked them betause it means that all records prior to 1864 have been destroyed in those towns and it was therefore useless for her to try to trace family trees through deeds and marriage licenses and other papers which are usually on Tecord.” _Kirk iy replaced the | j7Aaid I thought I had | re di something,” he | this geneaTOQy stuft Could we find | is we ry Cs there, do you id unt Maggie never kept an: out of the D, A. R. or from t i Fie that 'ty proving Oe toes re proving co ,had a few rotten limbs, di er pong ae ae why I am looking through these papers. “Ah, 1 see. Well, let me help Joould ‘be looking fort T mean, 5 or? I mean, did you,gather from Aunt i any suggestion as to what sort clue she had found?” There was nothing for it but to accept this offer, so I said, “No. No idea at all. Suppose you check through these. I may have missed something.” We worked qui fora then Kirk asked, “You—you don’ suppose there’s some crazy person Today’s Horoscope The pursuits of today’s native will be ornamental and esthetic, jand will result in financial suc- hall and a moment later Claire and Alice and Bob crowded in t's: gaing on?” they wanted to know. (Cotwright, 1939, Medora Field Perkerzen) ‘one, and to a considerable degree fortunate, surrounded with con- cord. The disposition will prob- “bly be genial, kindly and soci- able. We wefe playing the old game of “if I had $3000” especially if this country should go to war. One party would put it all into government _ bonds. Another would buy a small place in the country, but this was voted down ifig bombed. Another | would di- versify it; $1,000 in postal sav- ings, $1,000 in a small house, $1,- 000 in small diamonds valued ap- proximately at $50 apiece. This last suggestion intrigued us, why small diamonds? The an- swer was, “Supposing you were in Key West and the military au- thorities gave you 24 hours no- tice to evacuate and you had no money and no gasoline in your car? But you knew a man who had a car and gasoline. If you handed him a diamond worth $50 to take you to Miami in his car, what do you think he would do?” The only objection we could see to that idea is, where would one carry $1,000 worth of small diamonds so that they would be immediately available in case of emergency? . Self-Portrait Of Eve I am as old as Timie-yes, mother of the world and-all her children. Icry when Iam happy andI laugh when I am sad. I talk when I should hush and I speak not when I should answer. I love with ail my heart and hate with the same heart. I eat to get fat and exercise to get thin. I am a slave to clothes and master of. I am Woman. A friend of ours is having his troubles trying to prove that he is American born. And keeping his job depends upon his ability to prove it. He was born in New York, of foreign extraction, with a mid- wife in attendance at his birth. Evidently the midwife failed to register his birth as he had been unable to obtain a birth certifi- cate. His mother, father and the midwife are all dead. According to New York State Law, where he was born, he can have a guardian appointed by the court, who will then report his birth as ‘delayed registration’. But according to the Floride State Law, where he is now a resident, a guardian can only be appoint- ed “for a minor or a feeble- minded person”. His last and only hope is the Census Bureau, and they have been swamped with similar re- quests for birth statistics. ee Vitel statistics are usually con- sidered to be the records of births, marriages and deaths. (Hatch-em, match-em and dis- patch-em.) Automobile license tag numbers are fast becoming nearly as vital. Fortunately for me, a neigh- bor has a penchant for noting tag members, especially from the i aman came to my house he later gave to me. I i [iris else, they found, the wav out in the couptry, trailer had been I was taken wild rite out there by Police. We were met Police load of County “ATHLETE’S FOOT” TO ; i 2 7 ree ELS f 3 Soution from any druggist. Your 30c back next morning if not THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12 1520 PENETRATOR PENS masse, descended on the piace. There was nobody there, but the trailer was. My description given to them previously, plus my identification of the trailer cimch- ed the matter. They told me to take it away. That wes easier said than Gone I had no car with me, no hitch om ™y cer, there was mo tag a= they wanted me to take i away en. note , Mornings opeh our eyes, our first conse: thought is, “What next? While I was in the Auto Theft Bureau, which also takes charge of licensing city cab drivers. very attractive young woman © ‘leather jacket and pants strode in. 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