The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 8, 1941, Page 2

‘ t PAGE TWO L. P, ARTMAN, Pe Jon A |» Business Manager he Citizen Building nd Ann Streéts uper in Key West and nd ‘lass matter Associated Press lusively: entitled to use and also dited in this paper SUBSCRIPTION RATES a eee $10.00 *% Months Teree Months Month eekly resolutions of e charged for at s a line for entertainment by churches from which is to be derived are 5 cents a li und in © Citizen is an epen forum issues and subjects ef 1c WHI not publish f public t bat it onymo: IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN | { Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation »f County and City Gov- | crnments. A Modern City Hospital. Our own idea is that this is a good time | net to have our ewn idea. Manufacturers of reducing compounds have long been living on the fat of the land. When we listen to some radio pro- grams, we are thankful that there is such a | thing as | This is the season when one checks up | to see whether he broke eyen in his dealings with Santa Claus, It’s about this time of year that some | of us start writing it 1941.—Sanford Herald. | So you flunked a couple, too. Advertise, Mr. Merchant, and watch | your business grow in accordance with its ; been | THE STUBBORN GREEKS Since the unprovoked invasion of Greece by Italy, the Greeks have put up a stubborn resistance comparable with that of the heroic Finns in their struggle with Russia’s hordes a few months ago. But, like the Finns, they could not be expected to hold out long against overwhelming num- bers without outside aid. In the first two weeks of fighting, the Italians made little headway, and at some points were driven back into Albania whence their invasion was launched. The Greeks have claimed the capture of many prisoners and the infliction of severe casual- | ties on the Italians, while suffering com- paratively small losses themselves. Reports from Italian sources have de- | nied most of the Greek claims, but it seems certain that the poor showing made by the Italians has been very disappointing to both Mussolini and Hitler. Considerable aid is being given the Greeks by British airplanes and warships, and bombing raids have been made on Naples and _ other Italian bases. In the end Greece may share the fate of | other nations which have been invaded by Germany and Italy, but they are making a ' rallant fight in the face of overwhelming odds. The army is small and most of it is | poorly equipped, being especially deficient in airplanes and in modern tanks and artil- lery. The navy is also relatively weak. The country has been the victim of | war, like the rest of Europe, during much | of its history, but its people are both brave | and stubborn, and resistance to Italy has remarkable under the circum- stances. NOAH AND THE FLOOD Many of the important personages of history have been shorn of much of their supposed greatness by modern historians and near-historians. It was inevitable that old Father Noah should get his debunking in due time, and so it has happened. Dr. C. Leonard Woolley, eologist, is the debunker. He declares that excavations along the Euphrates show that the Flood of Noah’s time, mentioned in the Bible, was only a local condition, and that many of the inhabitants of the region es- caped to safety in the hills. The presence of Noah at the scene is doubted by Dr, Woolley, who places the date of the flood at about 4,000 B. C., while the Jews first came to Mesopotamia some | 2,000 years later. The archeologist be- lieves that the Jews heard the legend of Noah, the ark and the dove from the Assy- merits, which is all that you should expect. | Only five persons were lynched in the | United States during 1940, one white man | and the other four Negroes. All were mur- | dered in the South—two in Georgia, two in Alabama and one in Tennessee. This is a | big improveraent over 1892 when 231 per- sons were killd by mobs, 69 of the victims | being white men. Some day, let us hope, | this stain on American civilization, wilk be | erased entirely, ‘ | Well, we see by the news that high | * German officials now declare that the Eng- | lish channel will protect the British only so | ez as Der Fuehrer permits it. In other! the Germans pretend that the nar- row channel is worth no more to the British | than the Maginot line was to France. The lessons that have been taught the Italians vy British sea-power in the Mediterranean seem to be ignored in Berlin. Animportant step in hemisphere de- fense ard a better understanding between the sister republics to the south of us and the United States is reported from Ecuador where the Ministry of Defense has decreed naval and In the s that members of both military nust learn English eration the personnel of the Am s should study Spanish, ict 1 consider forees cg rican Ww the a compli akes f r social relations, time better feel- the! organized vice, by the scum ¢ ches and service clul and teachers; fathers and 4 mu » folded 1 the Fifth Column finds lopment, spr ples vaded by , hands a ads like a flood ¢ our Must e for a clean up cam- .—Sanford Herald, be t gether—‘“you'll never nent while + , the time. rians and adoptd it as their own. In sup- port of this view he pointed to Assyrian tab- lets which portray the story. Anyway, 6,000 years is‘a long time back, and while most archeologists agree that the popular idea of the flood is great- ly exaggerated, it is doubtful that we shall ever know just what happened around the Euphrates valley in that distant day. WHAT HER LIPS TELL If a man wants to know what kind of a wife a girl will make he need only to study her lips, according to Lillian Rosine, an ex- pert in making up the faces of moyie stars at a major Hollywood studio. She describes various types and their significance, but doesn’t give the poor male much comfort in doing so. Anyway, this is her analysi straight lips pressed close to- win an argument Thin from her.” The rosebud mouth, praised by poets— you'll never have your own way. She will pout until you give in.” Full, rounded lips—‘“lovely, but don’t forget that other men think so, too. If you are the jealous type, avoid this girl.” Lips that curve down at the corner— “she can’t take a joke. Move your things info the dog house. You'll be there most of nese, said Miss Rosine, are infallible signels. “But girls are clever. They dis- euise the shape of the mouth so nicely with touch of makeup that men are at a They take them, literally, It’s a sad thing.” antage. ace value. In Key West and other points in Flor- “turtleburgers” are as popular as “ham- ers” are with the most of us. As their plies, turtleburgers are made from teak of turtles, ground and seasoned Tourists from the north are urtleburgers despite the fact 5 cents each.—The Path- > im ion ro fort t they cost finder, noted arch- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN YESTERDAY: The. 21d house near Atlanta in which Sally and Bill were giving a week end party to celebrate the engage- ment of Bob and Claire, two of | their friends, has been upended by two murders, Sally’s Aunt Maggie was the first victim, and Eve Benedict, who had hinted she knew somet about Aunt Maggie's death, is the second. Chapter 40 Alice Escapes ] LOOKED at Andrew question- ' ingly, but his eyes were po- litely noncommital. “If you will excuse me,” I shouted to Mrs. Warren, “some trouble in the kitchen.” “She’s gone, Miss Sally,” An- drew burst forth in a sibilant whisper the moment we were outside the door. “Who's gone?” “Miss Alice. I see her slip out the back door with her coat and hat on. I think she just gone for a walk. But it ain’t safe with all what’s goin’ on, so I keep my eye out and I see her run over to Mr. Bob's car and get in and start it up. Next thing I know, she off like_a shot out a gun.” “Oh, dear,” I said, staring at . Andrew. stupidly.- Harassed by ; Mrs. Warren, I had not~even ane ae ; » “Ifyou, tell them polices, the: ‘sha’ will bring ‘her back,” he ood mifidéd me. Right or wrong, An- v drew could not find it in his heart to take sides with the police. “Andrew,” I asked, “do you know anything about this second “murder? Miss Alice... .” “No’m, Miss Sally. I ain’t had no time to be upstairs since | lunch. 'Sides, I was feeling too | bad ’bout what them polices made | me tell—” “All right. Don’t say anything to anybody about Miss Alice un- | til I've had a moment to think.” Should I go to Bob or to the police? As I stood there, it seemed to me there was only one thing I could do. Dismissing Andrew and | walking across the hall as calmly as I could, fest eyes be watching, I paused for a moment outside the library door. Should I knock? No, that would mean going through preliminaries which would consume more time. And Alice was racing along that darkening road toward town or toward ablivion. Her driving had always been notoriously bad. She might wreck herself at any mo- ment. That big tree at the turn— _, If Alice were guilty—or even if she only knew something—and her car was wrecked by accident or design, where would the rest | of us be? | All this went Hoses my mind like lightning, .actually in the small space of time between | grasping the silver handle of the library door’ and turning it. “Excuse me,” I said, leaning against the door as I closed it be- hind me, breathless as a runner caught up in midsprint “but Alice —Miss Dunbar — has gone. I | though you would want to know.” _Lieutenant Gregory, already on his feet, went into action like a machine gun, issuing orders in all directions even before I could answer the questions he asked. “How did she get away? Go after her, Anderson. What sort of car is it, Mts. Stuart? Maroon sedan. What color is that? Brownish-red, Anderson. You wouldn't know th license number, would you, Mrs. Stuart? All right, Anderson if you don’t catch her before she reaches the highway, pick up the number when it is broadcast. Roberts, tell headquarters to get the number and have county and state troop- ers look out for the car.” “Bob, would know the number,” sugested.Bill. “Or he would have | his ownership certificate.” “Never mind,” Lieutenant Greg- ory waved him aside. “I want An- derson to be om the way before we have any relatives messing up things.” Threat F course, Bob went into a tail- spin when he heard the news. “It’s all this damned third de- gree,” he stormed. “My sister isn’t able to stand it. You’ve scared her out of her sensas and she'll prob- ably wreck the car and be killed. If anything like that happens”"— he glared at Lieutenant Gregory for a moment, then finished in a voice grown suddenly calm—“T'll kill you.” In all the excitement, I don't know when it was that I missed Mrs. Warren. She was not in the drawing room where I had left her, nor was she with the judge in the library. Thinking back again to that of- fer to buy the place and the pos- sibilities suggested by Kirk, it oc- curred to me in my upset state that her movements might bear watching. Perhaps Mrs. Warren knew about the secret room. Per- haps she was even now establish- ing contact with the person re- sponsible for al! our troubles, Looking in.one after another of the downstairs rooms, I was on the point of starting upstairs when I saw her coming down the back steps from the second jor. She looked a shade embarrassed when she first sighted me, bu’ re- gained her composure and smilingly explained, “I just wanted to see your dear grand- mother’s room. I've visited in it so often with her.” Then smoothly putting me on Today’s Horoscope pe ‘| little _ maliciously. Eve Benedict was killed just a ‘| few hours ago.” % the defensive, “But it was in a terrible state of confusion, my dear. I should think you would wish to speak to the servants.” “T should think it would be in a state of confusion,” I told her, a “That’s where “Oh, she said. “Well, I. would- n’t let the servants be getting slack. You have to keep right be- hind them, you know.” I stood there, feeling completely baffled. Of course, it was the na- tural thing for her to come to call when she heard that the grand- child of an old friend was in trouble. It was possible, I knew, that her upstairs tour could have been prompted by nothing more faa curiosity to see an old riend’s room and incidentally to pry into my housekeeping and whatever changes we Rad hap- pened to make on the second floor. But my grandmother’s room was at the front of the house and she had come down the back stairs. It was a relief to have the judge appear opportunely and say he thought they should be starting home. And it was then we dis- covered that Alice had not es- eaped.in Bob’s car; but in, the one driven by the Warrens, which was an identical model, This meant more dashing about and more telephoning to headquarters. It meant,*too, that Alice had more than a head start on her. pursuers. And dt smeant, that we had the Warrens on our hands indefinitely. Bill offered to drive them home or to have Andrew do so, but Lieutenant Gregory would not al- low it. “Looks a little funny,” he grumbled, “that key being left in the_lock.” “But people often do that in the country,” Bill reminded him. “Besides, they'll be in every- body’s hair, including your own.” “Can’t be helped.” Outraged Gentleman OR did he relent when the judge went to him and threat- ened to have him discharged. “Sorry, sir: I didn’t meant to give you the idea you yoursclf were not at liberty to go. But I do not wish anyone who was on the place at the time of either of the mur- ders to leave. I am sure your car will be returned shortly and you will then be free to go or remain as you like.” : “Tve been trying to get the judge to trade in that car,” Mrs. Warren mourned. “Now it will gipbebly, be wrecked and we will accused of manslaughter or sued or something.” Mr. Marshall inquired of Lieu- tenant Gregory if he might use the telephone long enough to tell his butler to keep the dinner warm, but that request also was denied. “Got to hold the line open,” he was told. ‘De funny, if it were not so damn serious,” Bill whispered in | my ear. _. Lieutenant Gregory drew us both aside,.“What about our little | test?” he asked me. “Were you— ler, appfoached by anyone on the | subject of our conversation with | Mrs. Benedict?” a. eae ea everybody. | Alice asked me about it while we were having tea and Claire backed her up. But, of course, women have so much curiosity. | Lnever did say definitely, though, hanks to Mr. Dodson breaking | into the conversation at the psy- | chological moment.’ “Then Miss Dunbar may have gone away with the impression that you had definite informa- tion?” “Perhaps, but her brother knew differently. At different times, both he and Kirk warned:me that | such knowledge put me-on)the spot. I told them both that I knew. nothing whatever.” ,;1+ " “I'ma litle sorry about that,” he said. “It might not have beer a bad idea to let everybody “And have something happen to Sally,” Bill cut in indignantly. { “No, thank you. I didn't care for the idea in the beginning.” Lieutenant Gregory again took | up his individual questioning in the library and I took up the white woman's burden in fhe Seaway one Aunt Maggie mur- dered. Eve murdered. Bill sus- pected. Alice off on a tangent. And |I must sit still and shout small | talk ta two elderly bores who, so | far as I knew, might be the dfa- | bolical cause of it all. | No prosecuting attorney could | have thought of more questions to | ask about the murders than Mrs. | Warren fired at me. And with | clocklike regularity her mind re- | verted to the subject of the mis- | appropriated automobile. I could only hope that she did not visual- | ize Alice as I did. At every curve | or turn of the road, rushing head- long to disaster. The car a mass of Tuins. Alice herself thrown clear, but lying still and white, her lips ever to oper again Vaguely § noted when Claire fame back ftom the library and sank limply into a chair a little Temoved from our group, Kirk left us then, and Bob moved over | to sit by Claire. If they spoke at all, it was in whispers but, any- way, they could not have talked above our own hullabaloo. Bob instantly } must have been called out event- ually, for when I glanced in that direction again I saw that it was Kirk who sat by Claire. Te be continued (Cobsright, 1939, Madore Fisid Perkersen) and poetry. The nature will be and if the full powers of the are exerted J ——---_-___--. become & bénefacte There wilt be but Today should give remerkabls will carry the work por to vie- powers of expression im music tory. ; Up ‘coordinated as it should be, our ;of life shall not perish from WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1941 —_—_—_—_—_ Today’s. Anniversaries 1735—John Carroll, first Roman Catholic bishop in country and | Baltimore's first archbishop, born \in Upper Marlboro, Md. Died | Dec. 3, 1815. CLASSIFY It is doubtful if any. year in| What the next twelve months! 1771—Elisha North, Conn histoty was moré eventful than) may hold for America and the cut physician and medical Séien- 1940. It was a year of tremendous orig no’ man can say, bue we tist, Who opened the cotintry’s import to all mankind. Millions | ; 5 should at least profit from the first eye dispensary, born at who ushered it in with faith and | ; hope in their hearts today lie|lessons of the tragic year just Goshen, Conn. Died Dec, 29, crushed under the ruthless heel |passed and determine individu- | 1843. of the oppressor. Peace loving |ally and collectively that come nations, weak, helpless ond ua what may, this nation will not be, 1786—Nicholas Biddle, — Phila- prepared, have been wiped from| —_ ont off guard or unprepared. delphia’s faffied literateur, who the map and their peoples reduc- | ee ; i ed to slavery. Death and destruc-| ‘As citizens, it is the duty of turned banker at call of his coun- tion on a scale beyond al human |each of us to stand firm behind try, true gentleman, public ser- comprehension have been visited | those we have clothed with au-/ vant, noted scholar, far ahead of upon millions. thority and intrusted with the pis age in thought, vorn in Phil- ‘A year ago America welcomed | task of meeting the trying prob- | ggelphia. Died Feb. 27, 1844. the New Year a feeling of securi- |lems of the hour. It is the duty clan aa ty as far as involvement in the lof both labor and industry to 1791—(150 years ago) Jacob Col- European and Asiatic conflicts forget their own private and sel- tamer, Vermont's notel congress- was concerned. The war still | fish interests and form a united man, postmaster-general, judge, seemed remote. Czechoslavakia, | front for the protection and wel- | senator and medical college presi- Austria and Poland were gone; fare of the nation as a whole. | gant, borri at Troy, N. Y. Died Norway, Denmark and the low| Each individual citizen should Noy 9, 1865. ‘ countries were still intact while guard as never before his actions France seemed secure behind her and his tongue and ¢oncern him- | Maginot Line and England re-/|sélf diligently: and faithfully to'Gs bank clerk, Boston, New mained mistress of the seas and the task at hand, guarding/ yore and Orange, N. J., teacher © possessed with ample resources. against misunderstading, strifé of music, composer and hymn- With startling swiftness the and intolerance. | wiite®, noted’ musical’ educator, brutal forces of dictatorship) Every American hopes for father of sons noted in the music swept on to devour the better peace but must: fully realize that! orig, born at Medficld, Mass. part of continental Europe. In‘ to insure it we must be pi Died Aug: 11, 1872. quick succession Denmark, Nor- to defend our way of life from) Bis way, Holland, Belgium and Fran-' those who would destroy it, ,.1792—Lowell Mason, Savannah, 1821—James Longstreet, sol- ‘e@ found themselves overcome.! whether from within or from diér, “the war horse of the Con- The mainland of Europe from the without. “ i Arctic Sea to the Meditetrapean | Efforts will be made to disrupt | ie ont 0 abc Ay oan fell under the domination of to-|us. by soliciting class against | tieg, born at Edgefield District talitarian powers while Britain,|class, creed against creed and\s G pied in Gainesville, Ga. her back to the wall, struggled | group ‘against group. Agitators, | Jan. 2, 1904 : 3 doggedly and alone, the last bul-;many in the employ of alien) Reker wark of liberty and freedom. |powers, will strive to drive a! 959 Fanny B. Workman, ex- America at last awakened and! wedge between the laborer and | plorer-writer, born in ‘Worcester, for the first time realized that! employer, the Jew and the Gen- | Mass. Died Téa: 22. 1925, this was no local conflict based tile, the black and thé white, the of on the disputes of boundaries | Catholic and the Protestant, me as but was in truth a death strug- we thoughtlessly permit o1 v= ° abit gle between two distinctly dif- es piety influenéed BY stich agi- | Today In History ferent ideas of life and govern-| tation we will play directly into ment. the hands of our enemies. ” 1941 sees America preparing) Let us face the new. year with | 1815—Battle of New Orleans, to meet this threat. With deter- faith and courage and recognize the last in the second war with mination and courage our Presi- the responsibility that is ours. | England, in which Gen. dent has set in motion every| Let us resolve that we shall Jackson, with an army of 6,01 force within his power to build and cannot be divided, and stand | volunteers and backwoodsmen our national defense and shoulder to shoulder, united in defeated 10,000 British. regulay while progress in this direction | plan and Purp, ys mee end that [ne a fons, aa gat 5 a s] an t ica and the erican wa’ 1. ‘ D has not been as speedy and as America oat preceding Dec. 2th, had ended war. people are beginning to aparsci: | eanth, a ee P ate the necessity for concerted) And my personal wi YOu) ie Been es action and all indications point to | is everything good for the New) 1863—Ground broken in > renewed effort the new year. | Year! jmento for Central Pacific 4 ___. | Way. PENETRATOR PENS siistciscs Iteats Indian chief Crazy Horse in ‘hard-fought battle in Montana. THE PAY-OFF gone the husband had the serv-|and two legislatures meet in “You wouidn’t mind mailing a ices re-installéd and also installed | Louisiana. few things for me, would you?ig mistress to use them. The Wife) * 1904. — Congress appropriates 1877—Two governors sworn in tthe As long as you are going right to the post office—I can see you have some letters yourself”. The obvious answer was given, “No, of course not”, So with others he joined the line at the post office during the Christmas rush. It was hard to he patient in lire because his pa- tience had already bene burned to a crisp while he had been hunting for a perking space near post office, He had been around and afound the block waiting, watéhing, hunting for a parking space. His was a calculating mind. Be- fore he réalized it, he had counted the times around the block—nine times at one-fourth mile a time was two and one-fourth miles, at six cents a mile, which he figured it cost to run his car, made 13c not counting in his time. He finally went to a parking lot at 10c an hour. So far, 23¢ to get near the post office. He hadn't figured on standing in line for over an hour. When he got back to the parking lot the charge was 20c. So his expenses jumped to 33e. His own letters already had stamps on them, he could have dropped them into the nearest mail box. His neighbor's had no amps and there was one box at had to be sent parcel post. neighbor had given him the money for the postage. There was 26c in change, due the neigh bor. Faithfully he took the 26¢ back neighbor. “Oh, keep the change, buy yourself some cig- aretteés or something, for your bie”, All his life he had been ing the obvious answers. This “No trouble at all”, but for once, he said. and pockete? the The neighbor now wears @ permanent look of surprise. ae ae A bushand who believed in the sentiments of the old song, “My | Wife’: Gone to the Countty,’ ne wife went away for a vigit. | closing up the hayse, having the came home unexpectedly, where- upon husband and mistress both left, without time to about the utilities. The wife got Reno-vated. In settling debts she found that the electric service had been re- installed in her name and the ex- husband had never paid the last bill, This nad to come out of the deposit the wife had put up years before, so that in the end she had to pay for the electricity her hus- ;band and his mistress had used. cms During a recent cold spell ih Tampa, Pénétrator made a deal with a wood-yard to take orders and deliver firewood, with her trailer. She loaded up the trail- er and started out. She made several calls and got one large ordet and two small ones. The small ones were delivéred on the spot. The néxt house she approached an elderly woman answered her knock at the door. “I'm takitig orders for wood, delivered to your door”. The Woman looked past Pene- trator to the trailer load of wood, and looked searchingly at Penny “What part of the north are you from? Pefiny went in, spent an hour, during which she was served @ nice hot breakfast and madé a new friend. And sold another load of wood. . . oworks. A young insufance saving lived as pert of their ad-/ vertising campaigns. A friend's) great-aunt was injered in an ac- cident and that night the young insurafice emp! went t the! hospital and his blood tested, in case a blood thansfusion might be necessary 1 save the olf arrange | Come in”, she said. } | $250,000 to fight the cotton boll weevil. | 1918—President Wilson's ._his- ‘torie Fourteen Points of address before Congress. Chi for the purpose of strengthening ‘the morale of the Allies and seiz- ed upon later by Germans as ba- isis of negotiating peace. | 1920—Great steel strike declar- \ed off. } } 1921—American Red Cross ap- \propriates five million dollars for \sick children of Europe. ei pit 6f his stomech was quivering and he felt pretty shaky all over. | At the end of the week when he received his pay, the money ‘for the time he was away from ‘his desk had been deducted. | During the next week the eld- ‘erly woman, despite the blood transfusion, died. We wonder if the same life insurance company held her policy? ‘How To Relieve Bronchitis trouble = si Ra Beautiful Cocktail Lounge G NIGHTLY clectricity shut off, the telephote! — service cut, ete. While she was’