The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 9, 1941, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key Weat Citizen ‘TUE CIrtL \ PUBLISHING CO., INC, Published Daily, Except Sunday By RTMAN, President and Publisher . Business Manager he Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Datly Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Agsociated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republiéation of all news dispatches it or not ctherwise credited in this paper and also al news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Months Month ekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, ! readin t by churches to be derived are 5 cents a line. open forum and invites discus- and subjects of local or general from which izen is sion of public issu interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. 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 Goy- ernments, A Modern City Hospital. Prediction: Hitler’s Nazis will attempt to “take” England in 1941. Personally, we would prefer for the go-getter type of women to go-get some- body else. Now that the United States has most of the world’s gold, our biggest bankers are worried about it. George Tobias, the Hollywood actor, has never been kissed on the screen, says a mevie columnist. What part of the anatomy is that. Just as there will always be an Eng- land, there will always be a Baker sheriff of West Palm Beach county. L. R. has just been installed. If there is a citizen of Key West who is willing to believe the word of Hitler, when it relates to the peace of other nations, we would like to have his name. Next month Key West is to be visited hy a 488-pound bride. She is Toto, the female gorilla who will be married to the great Gargantua, of the Ringling Circus, in the Spring. The groom is now in Sarasota while the bride is in Havana. a) Agitd —; With conditions faf more prosperous than in the immediate past let us hope that The Citizen will be a better paper in 1941 than it wasin 1940. That, of course, will depend upon the patronage accorded it— the community makes a newspaper, not the publisher, q Another newspaper has gone to the wall. The Dallas (Texas) Semi-Weekly Farm News, published for ninety years, has suspended publication; in other words its carthly task is finished. Suspended papers seldom resume publication; when they die they stay dead. Last week the Greek War Relief As- sociation cabled $1,000,000 to Athens for aid of the civilian and wounded pop- mn. If those warring Europeans won't quit fighting soon, the United States, the n@¥on that is always ealled upon to supply unds, will go broke. An apple a day will keep the doctor away is undoubtedly a healthful suggestion, but in Florida, we are told, two big glasses ef freshly squeezed orange and grapefruit juice a day will be equally effective. The use of citrus fruit juices as a preventive and curative treatment for influenza, now ram- pant in several parts of this country, is high- ly recommended by the United States Health Service, While there are thousands of eaves of the flu reported, luckily they are mostly ofa mildtype. Drink to your heart's content, but let it be the juice of the orange and the grapefruit. credited to” | errors before it is too late. “DOLLARS CANNOT BUY YESTERDAY” | A journalist, looking back upon the | | year which has just closed, finds an infinity | | of matters about which to write. A great war, which is in essence a titane struggle | | between two irreconcilable philosophies of life, has steadily spread. A. whole continent | } has felt the boot of a new conqueror with a | plan for world dominion as vast as that of | | Napoleon. The world’s economy has un- | | dergone violent change, and stability has | been replaced by chaos. } Here in our own country we have re- | | cently gone through the most tradition-shat- | tering election in our history. The great is- | sues of that election were three-fold. First, | | whether to elect a president for a third : ; term, Second, how to keep America at | peace, while aiding England with all steps | short of war. Third, how to best build a military and naval establishment unpre- cedented in our history. } The second and third issues are the | most vital this country faces today. They are not partisan issues. It is obvious to anyone not blinded by false and baseless optimism that the great plans of last summer for building an im- pregnable defense at once are not being realized. It is easy to appropriate gigantic sums of money. It is easy to make blueprints | of tanks and airplanes and fighting ships. It is easy to have a great defense establish- | ment “on order.” But dollars and blue- prints do not worry potential invaders, The forces which have again brought the world | to Armageddon have respect only for pre- paredness. The weak are given no quar- ter. Moral principles, Christian teachings, are scoffed at. That is not pretty. But it is | true. | | | 1 | | | | | | | | This America we kirow cannot be sure | of existence unless it solves the problem of | how to swiftly build our defenses—and to | build them in keeping with the democratic | tradition which they are designed to pro- tect and to save. All the productiveness of this nation is needed now—of capital, of in- dustry, of government, of labor. The in-— dustrialist who seeks outrageous profits; } the official who plays politics in time of danger; the labor leader who foments un- justified strikes in vital defense industries —cannot be tolerated. We must never for- get that we can be destroyed from within no less than from without. The American people cannot accept failure from any man—whether the man kK who fails holds a great title or is a lowly | worker in a factory. There is no excuse for | failure. No nation in the world is poten- | tially so productibe as ours. None has a tithe of our riches—riches of manpower no less than riches of wealth and of natural resources. In this crisis, we shall really | learn the calibre of our people and our pub- | lic men. . i | It is said of France that, in preparing | | to resist aggression, her government, her | | industries and her workers cid “‘too little— an did it too late.” We too are doing too | little. But let us hope that we correct our When-+the head | of our Navy observed that “dollars cannot buy yesterday,” he stated a grim truth that eyery American must realize. In this great national effort there can | be no failure. The thought cannet be | tolerated that Democracy here has fallen | on such evil days that it cannot compete | with the dictators. In England we have a | magnificent example of. what free men, | fighting to retain that freedom, can accom- plish aganst heartbreaking odds, It was Winston Churchill who said on taking office that he could offer his people nothing save sacrifice and sweat and toil. | Here we must absorb an ample measure of that spirit. No one-else can make our sacri- fices for us. The responsibility for the per- petuation of our way of life falls squarely and irrevocably on the shoulders of us all. No one can avoid it. To say that we have now entered on the most critical years modern Western | civilization has ever knownyjs ta simply state We do not know how much cure | the obvious. time we will have to make_ourselves s to guarantee peace in the only way possible in this disrepted modern world, which by making ourselves so strong that no ag- gressor or possible combination of aggres- sors will dare to try our strength. We do know that time, most precious of all ele- ments, must no longer be lavishly wasted. To stay at peace—to become strong. ‘Phose are our national objectives We have the great industries—we have the men—we have almost limitless resourc To attain those vital goals demands the { and friendly cooperation of governmex labor, of industry, of agriculture, of all, We must not be tried and found wanting. | and full of prunes,” THE KEY WEST CITIZEN By MEDO! YESTERDAY: Lieutenant Gregory’s investigation into tre murders of Aunt Maggie and Eve Benedict has been inter- rupted continuously. First the Warrens arrive, and Mrs. Ware ren, who is a friend of the fami- ly, goes snooping into thinys on the second floor of Sally and Bill’s old house, the scene cf r¢ crimes. Then Alice, cne of Sal- ly’s guests, takes the judge’s car and disappears, although the po- lice have ordered everyone to stick by. Now Sally is trying to keep Mrs. Warren cccupied and out of the way. Chapter 41 Alice In Handcuffs ‘HE telephone rang, shrill in the stillness. Each of us, save Mrs. Warren, started up involun- tarily, then settled tensely to wait. “What is it” she asked, conscious of the change in atmosphere. _ But we were all too busy listen- ing to answer. Andrew and Rob- erts met outside the door, both on the way to the telephone and we heard Roberts say that he would take the call. Then he evi- | dently pulled the door of the lit- tle closet shut, for we could hear nothing. And when he came out, he strode back to the library without without a word. “Have they found her?” Mrs. Warren demanded. I looked hopefully at the judge, but obviously he had had enough of Lieutenant Gregory and said we would have to wait and see. Well, so had I had enough of Lieutenant Gregory. And why should he be concentrating so on Bill? Did he hope to break him down finally, perhaps by con- fronting him one by one with his supposed accomplices? I could not have told which was more tor- menting, Mrs. Warren's conversa- tion or my own thoughts, but the combination was rapidly becom- ing unbearable. They brought Alice back finally. | In handcuffs. “What the hell?” roared Bob. “Take those things off my sister.” “All right, all right,” Anderson | agreed calmly. “But we had to get her back some way. And we had to bring along three cars. Hers and mine and the troppers’. There wasn’t nobody to hold her and her fightin’ and scratchin’ like a wildcat.” “Ask him if our car is all right,” Mrs. Warren instructed the judge in a stage whisper. “Yes’m,” said Anderson, turn- ing politely. “He says it’s all right,” boomed the judge. “She went off the road,” Ander- son explained, “just after she reached the highway, but just down into a little gully and the mud was too slick for her to get out again.” “Td have been all right.” Ahce told him spitefully, “if you hadn't come along. These nice highway policemen were getting the car out for me. At least, I thought they were nice then.” She glared at the two inoffensive young men,} who blushed dark red under their tan, and one of them rubbed his hand across a long scratch on his cheek. In spite of her upset.state, Alice apologized prettily enough to Judge and Mrs. Warren when she found she had taken their car. Mrs. Warren prescribed milk punch and bed immediately and offered to stay and sit with her: but when Lieutenant Gregory! fixed Alice with his eagle eye and said he wanted to wind things up, she was surprisingly docile. As Judge and Mrs. Warren took a reluctant departure, Bill said, “Tll go and see if Andrew has the cars ready to travel, just in case we ever need them again.” New Idea FOLLOWED him as far as the dining room, where I told him about Warren's surreptitious visit upstairs. “It's silly.” I ac- knowledged, “but do you think they could possibly be trying to scare us into selling at a gain?” “Ask me any Tuesday, Wednes- day or Thursday and I would say that you are crazy with the heat said Biull, passing his hand wearily through his red hair, “but on this week end Iam beginning to think any- thing can happen.” “Anything can happen,” I agreed, “but you didn’t kill Aunt. Maggie and we have got to find some way to prove it.” “That reminds me,” said Bill “I'm beginning to think we got a bum steer this morning. You know that note about the silver) closet? I suppose it was Aunt Maggie’s handwriting all right. but T believe it was planted—” “Planted?” “I mean somebody thought if. we were diverted to the silver closet that we would stop looking for any other secret room. How did you happen to find the note?” “Bob found it. but that doesn’t thing. It was Kirk who table. And it was Kirk n nt Maggie's papers this mornin As we stared at each other un- fortably, Claire came in and excused himself and went on itchen. ‘Il suppose is proves Alice tid it.” she said tonelessly. “You mean, her running away?” “Well. yes. thst and things in ment. “Why do you say tha’ asked. Started Off Right an—When you married you promised to obey me! Wite—Yes, but just because I wan a row acher was there, me pre ——————_—_ ko Kkled. Aun Maggie P i RA FIELD “Well”, she went on calmly, “Aunt Maggie told me last night before mer that she and Eve had quarreled and that Eve had threatened to kill her. Then this afternoon I saw Alice coming out of Eve’s'roorm just before I went to call on Eve myself. I didn’t want to run into her, so I went back inside and waited a mo- ment.” Lieutenant Gregory had ex- pressed wonder that Eve’s visitors did not fall over each other. This obviously explained why. They had all been too cautious. “You told them this, in the li- brary?” “Oh, no,” not.” The door from the library opened and Mr. Marshall came in, looking embarrassed and, it | seemed to me, hungry. At any rate, his eyes strayed wistfully toward the covered silver dishes of cold food on the sideboards. Then he took out his handker- cuet wiped his forehead and sald: “Miss Dunbar has confessed.” The Seance ‘HERE were fifteen of us gath- ered there in the library fol- lowing the rather sketchy and perfunctorily eaten supper which Mr. Marshall had insisted upon “for the sake of our health.” Now, as we grouped ourselves said Clare. “Of course I low \ facetiousness as .“the sés/ ahee,” someone asked -Mr. Dod- son if he wished us to sit so that we might clasp hands in a circle. But he said, quite impersonally, that this was not necessary. The four servants were ranged in a dark row near the book-lined wall next to the dining room. Lindy, although presumably ab- sent at the time of the first mur- der, was there with Thomas and Andrew and Bessie. Andrew had raised his eyebrows disapproving- ly when I suggested that straight chairs be brought in for them from the dining room, but I said, a little impatiently, “Of course, you'll have to sit. This may go on for quite a while.” “For years and years,” said Bob, | with a ghost of his old lightness, “We'll all probably grow long beards while we sit. I hope you casionally fresh northeast and Rochelle, n ‘east winds, and partly overcast leader, born at Ripon, brought your razor, Andrew-’ And from Andrew’s sheepish grin | it was all too obvious that he had. | Rather strategically, it seemed | to me, Anderson sat near the din- ing-room door and Roberts near the hall door, which is exactly opposite the fireplace. The sofa, on which I sat with Mr. Marshall on one side and Bill on the other, | had been placed so that the group really did form something of a | square circle, with the servants in the background. Alice was in a chair on Bill’s other side and next to her was Bob, then Claire and then Kirk nearest to Lieutenant Gregory. In this way. Kirk and Bob and also Al and Claire, of course, sat | vith their backs to the hall door. | On Lieutenant Gregory's other | side sat Mr. Dodson in the wing | chair next to the, fireplace. | Andrew, had placed a tray, | bearing a silver pitcher of water ; and goblets, on the library table, where, the, light from one of the reading lamps shone on them and | brought out an additional gleam. |The yellow roses, nodding in |their crystal bowl near by, were |the only reminder that we had expected to pass a quite different week end. An almost abnormal quietude hung over the room as we waited’ | for Mr. Dodson to begin his ques- tioning. Shifting himself in the | deep-cushiohed chair and turn- jing his head as though to take an jinclusive view of the group, he said, “I shonld like to ask every- one to stay’ put while we are con- ducting this little investigation. I don't mean that you must sit like statues, but I don't want any- body moving from his or her chair or about the room, In other. words, I don't want any unneces- sary sounds or movements to dis- tract my attention or to interfere with my hearing. If you will shut your eyes for a moment, I think you will come nearer having some conception of how important sounds become when sight is ab- sent.” Involuntarily we all closed our eyes, and I think we must all have held our breath too, in a concerted effort to remain per- fectly quiet, for in another mo- ment you could quite plainly hear the sound of full-time breathing resumed. “Good,” approved Mr. Dodson. “I think we are all now what the spiritualists would call en rap- port.” looked Bob Claire shivered and around the room and both and Kirk put out a hand to re- assure her. “First.” said Mr. Dobson, “I want to say that we will not go into unnecesary detail. You are not under oath, as this is not an official inquest. Of course, if any- one should wish to give a signed confession, this can be sworn to, jas already has been done. in. the jease of Miss Dunbar. It is my hope and I may say tha’ is my | belief that this session will make jan official inquest unnecessary. “Roberts holds the signed con~ fession of Miss Dunbar. but let jus disregard that document ag ithough it did not exist We have We have a con- committed the first one. vet I lieve thet there is a connection between the two.” Te be continecd (Cotpright, 1919, Medere Fists Porkersen) Some Time Ago Whon, we were you were on » the dishes” married wipe while the “I know, but that was when [| we only had two dishes”, for what.he referred to with hol- ~Low. S. WEATHER | BUREAU REPORT Observation taken at 7:30 a. m 75th Mer. Time (city office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours — Lowest last night Mean @_____ Normak, 68 | 472) icip' jon Rainfall, 24<hou' ending’ 7:30 a. m., inches & Total ranifall since Jan. inches Excess inches inches) Total rainfall since Jan. inches Excess inches _. as Wind Direction and Velocity | N—13 miles per hour | Relative Humidity 90% Barometer at 7:30 a. m., today | Sea level, 30.17 (1021.7 millibars) Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Monoset Tomorrow’s Tides (Naval Base) AM. 0.04 fi { 0.19 0.23 since January since January 1, i . m. . mM. . ™M. | P.M, | 8:31 7:46 | 1:52 1:10} FORECAST | (Till 7:30 p. m, Friday) | Key West and Vicinity: Con-| siderable cloudiness with { High light | showers or drizzle tonight and Friday; not much change in tem-| perature; moderate to occasional-{ ly fresh northeast and east winds. | Florida: Considerable cloudi- ness tonight and Friday, light) showers or drizzle in extreme south portion tonight, and over} south and central portions Fri- day; not much change in tem- perature. i Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate to oc-! weather tonight and Friday with showers over south portion. | CONDITIONS | Pressure is abnormally high this morning throughout most. sections of the country, with a) strong high pressure area crested over the upper Mississippi and) Missouri valleys, Light to mod-| | erate precipitation has occurred during the last 24 hours in the! Lake region, Ohio Valley, Florida | peninsula, and on the Texas coast; | while over western districts gen-| erally fair weather has prevailed. | Temperatures have fallen in the upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys, with readings below Sao this morning in North Dakota and Minnesota, and have risen in the eastern Lake region and Ohio Valley; while elsewhere changes have been unimportant. | G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. ST A OS Today In History | 1788—Connecticut is the fifth | State to ratify the new Constitu- tion. 1 1793—First balloon ascension in America, at Philadelphia, by Jean | P. Blanchard, veteran French bal- loonist, in the presence of Wash- ington and other notables. 1854—The Astor Library, New York City, opens. 1861—Steamer “Star of the] West” fired on by Confaderntes | in Charleston Hafbor—called the first shot of the Civil War. 1866—Fisk University, Nash- ville, Tenn., founded (75 years} oans 1912—American troos ordered from Manila to China to guard railways there. 1917—At the request of Presi- dent Wilson, Allies state specific peace terms: reparation, restitu- tion, and adequate security for the future. ' 1938—A book of President Roosevelt's speeches banned by customs at Germany's border. i Today’s Horoscope Today gives self-reliance which, with the originality of thought, which accompanies will enable the native to stand against all opposition. In many cases there is an undercurrent of an artistic, sensuous temperament that will improve the mind. Satisfactory Beach , me anima] measured 13 f 4 Oe ye inches, from sword tip to tail Tear & ‘had-a weight of 440 po r 1803—Christopher G. Menmin-\newspapers reported. Ij feet 3 THU | Today’s Anniversaries | RSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1941 13-FOOT SWORDFISH HOOKED OFF OSLO (By Associated Press) OSLO, Jan. 9.—A rare specimen 1805—Charles E. A. Gayarre,!of swordfish, regarded as the Louisiana’s noted historian and | her foremost citizen in his day, ' born in New..Qrleans, Died Feb. , 11, 1895. z a _ ger, South Carolina lawyer, Con-; federate secretary of the treas-| ury, gifted financier, born in Ger- | many. Died March 7, 1888. | 1828—Alexander K. McClure, | Pennsylvania jeurnalist, newspa- | per founder, author, political fig- | ure, born in Perry Co., Pa. Died} June 6, 1909. | 1836—Calvin W. Mateer, Pres- | byterian missionary in China| more than 40 years, Chinese text | book writer-translator, born in Cumberland Co. Pa. Died in! * China, Sept. 28, 1908, 1839—John Knowles Paine, | Harvard's famed teacher of mu- sic, composer, organist, among _ the country’s gréatest teachers of | music, born at Portland, Me. Died April 25, 1906. | 1870—Joseph B. ‘Strauss, build- | er of some of the world’s great: est bridges, born’ in Cincinnati. | Died in Los Angeles, May 16, | 1938. 1900 — Richard Halliburton, | travel book author and adven-| Lost at sea and adjudged dead, | Aug., 1939. } Today’s Birthdays | | Carrie Chapman Catt of New| N. Y., famed woman's | Wis., 82) years ago, | Rear Admirai Emory S. Lang, | chairman of the Maritime Com- | mission, born in Connecticut, 62 | years ago. U.S. Senator John A. Danaher | of Connecticut, born at Meriden, Conn., 42 years ago. | | Dwight H. Green, new gover-| nor of Illinois, born at Ligonier, | |Ind., 44 years ago. | Emily N. Blair, writer-lecturer, | born at Joplin, Mo., 64 years ago. | eros | Dr. John B. Watson of New! York, noted psychologist-author, | born at Greenville, S. C., 63 years | ago. j Lieutenant General John L. De| Witt, U.S.A., born at Ft. Sidney, | Nebr., 61 years ago. | Dr. Ivan Lee Holt of Dallas, | Tex., noted M.E. clergyman, born at DeWitt, Ark, 55 years ago. — — | Gracie Ficlds, English actress, | born 43 years ago. | INADEQUACY OF STA ROADS“ AROWGHT; OUT (Continued from Page One) | selected 1,767.6 mites of Florida's | ways, and to bring them up | the standards desired by the War | Department will require more than 68 million dollars, The State Road Department es- timates that more than 115 mil-| ‘yon dollars will be required to. place the State Road System in| adequate condition to take care of normal traffic needs, Added to this is another seven million | dollars for roads giving adequate ingress and egress to military bases in Florida. The present seven cents gaso- line tax brings about 28 million dollars annual revenue. i The resolution also states that! ist state and all the people of our state derive untold financial benefit from the millions of tour- ists who visit our state every year, and the i wacy of our State roads unquestionably dis- ing to the state or remaining in the state and spending their! “The department believes it un- fair to the great mass of our citi- zens of small means to have the this degree, gasoline Fair Tourist (in new bathing i costume}—f these wetera? Seuthern Boatman—There ate. Miss Fair Tourist—How nice! have an excuse for not gome there sharks in in, largest ever caught in Norwegian waters, was captured in the Oslo- fjord near here recently. alone had a length of 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 ch: Advertisements under this head will be inserted in The Citizen at the rate of one-cent (1c) a word for each insertion, but the mini- mum for the first insertion in every instance is twenty-five cents (25c), PICTURE FRAMING PICTURE FRAMING, Diplomas; antique frames refinished. Sign painting. Paul DiNegro, 614 Francis street. novl8-tf HOTELS ‘turer, born at Brownsville, Tenn.| BRING YOUR VISITING friends in need of a good night’s rest to THE OVERSEAS HOTEL. Clean rooms, enjoy the homey atmosphere. Satisfactory rates. 917 Fleming St. nov1T-tt HELP WANTED ‘accent ire edeapecaamlaabin WANTED—Boy to work at Serv- ige Station, See Lor Smith, Du- val and Division s«reets. jan4-tt FOR SALE FOR SALE--New Servel Elec- trolux DeLuxe Combination Apartment Refrigerator and Stove. Call 739 or 417 United Street, jan?-3t ee SIGNS—‘For Rent”, “Rooms For i “Apartment For Rent”, “Private Property, No Tres- peeing: THE ARTMAN nov25-tf FOR QUICK SALE—Lots 5 and 6, square 6, tract 21, each 50x100. North side Flagler (County Road) Avenue, between Sth and 6th Streets. Price $600. Apply Box LG, The Citizen. jan4-tf aeieneeeeseeeseto emma LOT FOR SALE—Spanish type house, large lot, many tropical fruit trees. Also, party boat “Jewel”. Apply 808 Eaton Street. jan6-s OLD P, FOR SALE— Three pon for 5c. The Citi- zen Office. nov2s-tf HOUSE AND CABIN on_ lot 50x125, located, on Big Pine from Ocean ! ‘ Station, ‘roads as strategic military high-| streets. SECOND LOT on 50x100. Lot 12, Square 4, Tract 20. Price $300. Apply James H. Pinder, 1217 Petronia Street. jan3-s ——— FOURTEEN FT. SAILBOAT. Fully equipped. $100. James H. Pinder. 1217 Petronia Street. fend-s —_— PERSONAL CARDS, $1.25 per 100. THE ARTMAN PRESS. tor, 4 hp. Pinder, 1217 Petronia Street. jan3-s