The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 2, 1941, Page 2

PAGE TWO “The Key est Citizen Citizen | "RHE CPMZEN PUBLISHING CO., INZ. ved Dally Except Sunday By MAN, President and Publisher N, Business Manager From ‘The Citizen Bunding Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Ww r of the Auodiated Prem t, Florida, as second class matter { WHERE’S THE MONEY GOING? A proposal of Florida’s county judges to increase the cost of automobile drivers’ | licenses from 50 cents to $1 has brought | editorial comment from many of the state’s | newspapers. | The proposal was made at a conven- tion of county judges last month in Tampa, | but has not won a great deal of support | from anyone outside the circle of magis- | trates. Monroe county Judge Lord, in- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ALONG CAME CINDERELLA a 7 Cs By VIVIEN GREY Leena YESTERDAY: Lovety Daye came from the tenement district, it was true. But her startling beauty and her complete honesty ‘mate her fit into the luxurious background Roger Cosgrave had given her when he married her. Roger loves her, but he cannot help wishing that she was less friendly with his dog handler, “Win Ramsey, and more friendly with-gentie-Dmily Perry, the girl with a sense of having been ob- | sare. ie looked pny “Lovely!” he spoke sharpl He waited, but no answer came and his heart tightened again. He knew in that moment how tense ' he had been with fear for her. “I could have sworn she was here,” he said to Emily. “I know. I thought i felt her too. She’s like that.” Roger went to his room but not WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21941 DAYS GONE | aspen On This Date Ten| Years Ago As Taken From Files Of The Citizen | a “uum nounce the birth of a nine-pound | Norberg Thompson last night; | boy on April 1 at the home, 708; ‘resigned as chairman of the coun-!Baker’s Lane. The new arrival | ‘ys commission’s road patrol, ex-|has been given the name of An-| (pressing ‘his unwillinghess to con- (aR jetome, _ dimue putting his “o.k.” on bills | mez, ‘befor SON BORN YESTERDAY | Mr. and Mrs. A, A, Gomez an- |FOR QUICK SALE—Lots 5 and 6, square 6, tra:t 21, each 50x100. North: side Flagler (County Road) “Avenue, between 5th and 6th Streats. Price $600. Aer Box 16, ake: Citizen. janett 40d, I'rens te igelywentitied ‘to. use Ue a ee to sleep, He had a vague aware. /ift sxPenditures about which he wan Orquidia Rerez 0 republication of # hews-dispatches credited to etherwise credited’in this paper and also cal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES me Year six Mdnths ‘Three Months = Qne Month «Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, ete. vil be charged for at the rate o! 10 cents a line, Notices for entertainment by churches from which | revenue is to be derivédd are & cents a line. he Citizen 1s an open forum and inyites discus- “sion of public issues and subjects of local or general “words. ~ ful married Jife: «They Interest but it will not publish anonymous communt- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City ‘Gov- ernments, A Modern City Hospital. Put your valuables in 1 hock, for it is | said that “in hoe signo vinces.” Eskimes are said to have no cuss Neither ‘do they play golf. A husband’s prescription for a peace- “We both let each other have her way. other book in history, Eurcpe, it seems, has a few nations | ‘that still believe what Herr Hitler won't be nations long. says. The writer was fooled only a couple of times on April 1, a considerable improve- ~ ment over previous years. Getting smarter. A’ communication to the ‘Christian Science Monitor, a favorite newspaper of | “sthis writer, concludes with “What an in- “spiration to get The Christian Science Moni- “tor each day!’ This statement js followed “by *“Phis newspaper is not responsible for “statements or opinions in letters from “readers.” Every month in the year there is a =wheat harvest in some part of 'the world. In Australia and Argentina in January; in t India in February; in Peru and South .Africa in November; and in Burma in De- cember. Nature has so arranged it that we “need never starve, and while man does not ~him i live-by- bread alone, the essential to sustain never wanting, “United Stutes Ambassador John'G. Winant “have the signed and naval bases in the West Indies and New- —scontuse yc *.eundland. Don't let that word “giving” u, England gives nothing, but “she charges us $12,000 an acre for the sites =on which the bases will be erected by the United States and according to «not of Uncle § vr And that's the plans Sam but of Johnathan Bull. no bull, The St. Lawrence Waterway and wer Project, a pet project of President “Roosevelt, is now before Congress in the an agreement between the United and Canada, is certain to arouse pro- bitter discussion. A former proposal in the form of a treaty, was previously rejected by the Senate. In the orm now proposed it is like sneaking it in by the back door. Seach a procedure is not ely to increase confidence in the Ad- istration which at this particular time is sperately needed. If boondogling is to become a phase of government, it asily seen that advocates of the Florida trar's-state canal will feel encouraged to re- new their efforts for that project on which more than $5,000,000 have been ditched. > orn State 1 of d debate and its | cidentally, did not attend the conference and has neither backed nor opposed the | proposed increase. Figures produced by the judges’ study of | the subject, however, are interesting. The present 50 cent fee, which pro- state about $350,000 a year. It is collected | in addition to the state gas tax of 7 cents ja gallon and the automobile tag about $10. For their $350,000 a year, drivers of the state are getting the services »f 40-odd road patrolmen, whose coverage of 67 counties obviously is sketchy. 28 states operate road patrols on less than $500,000 a year, and many of them on less than Florida now is spending, observers have wondered what the patrol plans to do with the $709;000,or more it would.get from the increéaSe in drivers’ Tieense fees. Its perfectly obvidus ‘that the state road patrol is undermanned, but it is not as obvious how the state gets so few patrolmen | for so much money. Monroe county, for instance, has one | | patrolman to cover about 130 miles of highway 24 hours a day. The county sells licenses to about 3,000 drivers a year for average, however, runs to about $5,000 per year, per county since many of the 37 larger counties in the state also are getting only some of the smaller counties are getting no patrolmen for whatever money ences | put in. “Mein Kampf” has the unique dis- | , -tinetion of filling more graves than any | APRIL, GUR MONTH OF WAR It is now April, our nation’s month of war! to fight. shot at years of United States has begun twelfth is the anniversary of the Fort Sumter that began four bloody strife. sixth is the anniversary of our entry into the World War. Once more, in 1941, the United States As Spring comes to the nation, to give touch of sadness. There is some comfort in the thought that the people of the United States have reaffirmed their stand for the freedom of men, regardless of the danger that the course entails, The world, be it pee. fed, was meant torbe the mauso @f human hope, agreement giving the | SUnited States 99-year leases on air thé yrave of human faith and the cemetery of human personality..., t;simply is not or- daired: Those whe seek to: \plunge hu- manity effort of Winter to obliterate the rebirth of nature, that comes with Spring and warms the heart of man. “PERSECUTING” BUSINESS Here’s a new something, or other, connection with lawsuits. A Pittsburgh lawyer recently forty-one electrical contractors, firms and a trade association to recover losses on Federal public works projects. He in sued twelve accused the defendants of defrauding the / government through collusive bidding. The jury awarded him $203,101.01 as | damages and $112,000 in penalties. The award must be split ‘with the government because the plaintiff sued under a law of 1863 which permits a taxpayer to seek re- covery of double the losses incurred by the government as a result of fraud. This is a pretty kettle of fish in a demo- cracy, where private initiative is supposed to have its just rights. What are business men going to do to protect their interests if silly taxpayers ate to sue them for damages just because they take the government to ride through collusive bidding. After all, when business deals with governments, is collusive bidding a prerogative of trade as- sociations and their members? vides for no examination. of drivers and is | | purely a revenue catcher, produces for the | She’s so unhappy.” fee of | | “The old bent pretzel talk again!” the auto: Since | newspaper | ‘ | been drinking or he never would the state, so the $1,500 which is its share of | the read patrol melon is not too high. The | one patrolman for far more money and | they | Three times, in the same month, the | The | The twenty-fifth marks our | declaration of war against Spain and the | not? Well, I am.” | looking from one to the other. faces more than the possibility of warfare. | it | gladness, the threat of hostilities adds a | ‘see why I should begin now. seen the way they should walk. They have | not | into the darker barbarisms of | | earlier eras wage a battle as fruitless as the Prime Minister Winston Churchill and | | pis at et Chapter 27 Accident T was the next Friday night that Lovely said to Roger: “Let’s do something giddy, darling! I’m in a mood!” “Emily's coming up tonight though, Lovely. Let’s be here and do something quiet with her. “Emilv! Emily! You and your Emily.” Lightly, without rancor. “You don’t sound like the moth- er of my daughter,” jokingly. Lovely looked at him intently for a moment. “You know I could have liked Emily if things had: been differ- ent,” she said thoughtfully. “Now I think I’m beginning to hate her.” eee Emily’s a grand girl.” pgrething about Roger’s ogi meébt red Lovely. "T don’t see why she has A mourn around all the time! Good- ness, don’t we all lose our par- ents? Look when I lost mine!” “Let's. not start that again, darling.” His attitude angered her more. “You're awfully careful what’ any one says about Emily.” And though the quarrel went no further there was a vague cloud over their happiness. After Emily arrived Winthrope Ramsey came in with another “dog man” and a girl. Ramsey had have asked Roger and Lovely to go out with him and his friends. “Thanks, but I’d rather not go tonight, Ramsey,” Roger said pleasantly but with an air of dis- missal. And at the same time Lovely’s voice said: “Swell! Qh, Td love it. Let’s get going.” Ramsey looked from one to the other. “Never mind the double talk. Let’s sift some meaning out of this,” he said. “Coming?” “No, thanks, Ramsey,” Roger. “Who said that?” Lovely “Speak for yourself, from laughed. sweetie pie! A house was made:to ee of. Come on kids! My feet ite “Lovely, not’ tonight. Let’s=' Roger started to say. “You're still in that bent pret- zel_ mood, old carpet slipvers. Let’s have fun! I can think ‘of things that need doing, and places too!” “But we're—-'m not going, Lovely,” Roger said. Lovely looked at him intently for an instant. Then, “Oh, you're She ignored Emily, who stagd And Emily was tearing a cigaret to bits in her hands. “You should have gone,” she said with a disturbed note ir her voice when they were alone. “Why? I’ve ‘never gone with Ramsey on his jaunts and I don’t That’s the one thing I've never liked about him. He's a cracker- jack with dogs, but he drinks too much.” “But Lovely out with him and you here— you should be with her,” Emily said. | at’s something I can't help. I couldn’t have forced Lovely to stay here.” The older Cosgraves went out. Roger and Emily played Chinese checkers for a while, and when they tired of that they listened to the-radio. Finally they sat ta ing, i little disconnected Aréund one, Marcia and looked in on the two for a ment. Dangerous Kiss i beast ene gone to bed?” Marcia asked, for they often stayed the night “No,” Roger said and then after a slight pause: “She's out. With friends.” The last reluc- tantly. At Sal f past one Eraily said, Pd better go up now “Please don’t,” Roger begged Wait up with me if you can. T— have such a strange pre- | monition.” Emily shivered, though the house was warm and there was still a blaze on the hearth. “That's just it. So have 1,” she said quietly. It was exactly two when they | finally said goodnight. “We might as well turn in.” Roger said “No use keeping ta| up ey, longer.” Ghost seemed to walk in the “words. Emily knew he would not sleep and that | nelget Rais ic) 86 gorry!” Her | voice was dy. He todk ter hand and hela -it against his cheek. “Don’t be. It’s could help.” “That's just it. Perhaps I could. Te I just knew what to do. Some- where we've blondered.” The wave of his loneliness swept him toward Emily. His arms were around her =a she} was cli eg ro crying in those liti en bits so typical of her. He kissed her. Roger released Emily suddenly nothing you ness of Lovely, as if she, were near, yet he was sure she had not | come in. . It was about half past two | when the telephone rang. “There’s been sn accident,” a voice said over the wire. “Mrs. Roger Cosgrave—” the voice seemed to fade. “What is it? What are you say- ing?” Roger demanded excitedly. | This, he knew suddenly, was |. the thing he had always feared. | Lovely, his beautiful ee inan accident. “Where is it? Where? Roger kept kept demanding. The other voice was speaking | again: “At the junction of Highway Nine ‘and Furnace Dock Road,” the voice said. “They’re there now. If’ you hurry—” Roger waited to hear no more. He pulled trousers on over his pa~ jamas and snatched up an over- coat as he ran. Sight snow was falling as he backed his car, out of the garage. The road was slip- | pery and the night had turned | bitterly cold. He drove as fast as he dared, | So near, he kept thinking. They were so near, Probably bringing | Lovely home. He knew in that moment all she meant to him. Dread Scene A’ the corner of the Albany Post Road his lights picked out the little group ahead. Roger stopped, jumped out of his car and joined the others standing in the queer, strained silence. He could see how the station wagon, probably in an attempt to stop for traffic in the Post Road, had | swung around and rolled over. The light wood body was crushed to kindling. “Where is she?” Roger’s words | were ragged with strain. A man stepped back. Roger saw it then. A figure stretched motion- less on the pavement. So strange- ly motionless: A man handed him something. “Her purse. Your wife’s,” he said in a subdued voice. Tt was Lovely’s frivolous little purse. The scent she used still clung to it. Roger stared at it. Lovely’s silly little purse there in his hand. And Lovely gone. Lost to him forever. But there was something queer about it. He couldn’t make »| himself believe that still thi there in the road was Lovely. staried slightly, and knew what he had missed. There was no sleam_ from her beautiful golden hair. Roger bent over, the mo- tionless figure. The little group | stared in fascination. Roger straightened finally and spoke: “This isn’t my wife,” he said in a voice that was haunted. An officer looked at him pity- ingly.. He thought—the man’s cracked and no wonder, finding his wife like this “It isn’t my wife!” Roger sisted. Only then he ‘ame aware of the other figure beside the woman’s, and as motionless, It came to him then. He remem- bered, They were the couple with Ramsey when Lovely started out with them. He recognized the wo- man’s funny little high crowned. narrow’brimmed hat that she had | worn on the front of her head down over her eyes. It lay there beside her in the slush and stared at it fascinated. “Whereis she?” he demanded suddenly, recovering slightly from the shock. “Where is Cosgrave?” “Was there another woman?” some one asked. “I only saw a man taken to the ;_ | hospital," another volunteered. “Where is she?” Roger demand- ed distractedly. They started looking around. An officer started flashing a light back and forth over the ground nearpy. “You say that isn’t Mrs. Cos- grave?” the officer asked. “Are you sure?” “Tt isn’t. I’m sure. I'd know my own wife!” Roger said. “But that is her purse?” “Yes, she was with them. She started the evening with them.” “But she’s not here now. And | she wasn't taken to a hospital. Maybe she left them and went with someone else.” Someone went to turned over, battered There was no further trace of the glamorous, beautiful Lovely. Rog- er stared into the darkness. Her golden hair would glow from it if she were anywhere about. If |she’s been thrown free, and lay | unconscious anywhere. That feeling he’d had of her presence at the Had that meant anything? He shivered as if a deathly hand had been laid jon his heart. spirit, de- |parted from a Body—but wae | Gering be turaed from thought “You'd better go home,” the of- ficer said, patting Roger on the shoulder. “She’s not here, but someone else may have ra her up. We'll make » search and Teport to you later.” Roger drove home slowly, and when he entered his room he knew Lovely was in no bv There was a note in her flamboyant scrawl ‘To be continued i has not been consulted. Two PIANOS iff fine condition. ‘Thompson particularly ‘criticiz- | eee aaa Have:"never: had. ,woodworms. tre. | search the | wreek. | led the keeping in commission ‘of | ‘the ‘county's yacht Mayflower, ‘Which has been in use most of the time since the first lyear. | “I don’t know what she is sup- | |posea to be ‘dding”, ‘he said, “but I do know that it is costing about ‘$400 a month to keep this boat in commission and I am satisfied the cost is not justified”. Gidge Gandy of St. Petersburg | today sailed his yacht Cynosure ! into Key West .as the search for | ,htree missing vessels in the St. \Petersburg-Havana race came to jan end. Two other missing ves- sels were reported safe, one in |Fort Myers and the other having | completed the voyage to Ha- vana. was the ‘wet nd ‘coldest. in ? fest ae tthe’ same “pn. | | nviable record. ** i The Citizen, in an editorial, | said: “With the legislature about to convene, it is distinctly encour- aging to have Attorney William V. ‘Albury, representative in that -body, say that he considers veduction in expense of — state | government the most important matter ‘which will come before | that body. “With this view, Mr. Albury \undoubtedly will find that a vast majtrity of the thinking folk of the state ‘concur. Never before in history have taxes been so high; | seldom, if ever. -has the people been less able to pay. “If then, Mr. Alburv and others \Tike ‘him do not take ‘the bull by | the horns, ‘there is no remedy in \sight; tax burdens will grow |heavier each year and the de- | velopment of ‘the state will be correspondingly retarded”. “‘Phé’ Misses Rosalie” ania’ ‘Gthe-, vieve Lounders were hostesses ‘last night to friends at a bridge party at ‘their 1221 Newton street horne. Present were Mrs. A. L, Simp- son, winner of the prize for high score, Mr. Simpson, Mr. and Mrs. |E. J. Russell, Miss Jennie Loun- ders and Reynold Thompson. Today’s Birthdays pe ee hl | U.S. Senator D. Worth Clark of | {daho, born in Idaho mats Ida., 39 years ago. | ication Preston Delano, the Depart- ment of the Treasury’s comptrol- {ler of the currency, born in Phoe- T |nix, Mich. 55 years ago. | Albert G. Black, governor ol ae Mrs. |the Farm Credit Administration, . | born in’ Peoria, Til, 45-years ‘ago. Dr: \entinent -ptediddnt ‘of “Columbia | University, borat Elizabeth, N. | bis 79 years ag. ees Clifford K. Berryman of Wash-! ington, D, C., cartoonist, origina-| |tor of the “Teddy Bear”, born in | Versailles, Ky. 72 years ago. Hulbert Footner of Lusby, Md., detective stery writer, born in | Hamilton, Canada, 62 years ago ' a i Rev. Dr. Charles W. Kerr of ‘Tulsa, Okla., jelergyman, ‘born = in Rock, Pa., 66 yeats ago. | A ALN | ’ ‘Today’s Horoscope | mal Today gives a domestic nature, | sociable, and one who feels proud lof his position in the: household. ‘Tt carries with it mdth @ which aids: tn-social.and life. There is of success which is hard to ex- |plain other than to attribute it to hard lack. TMi fortune does not entirely quench the spirit, even under temporary embarrassment. i SUBSCRIBE 7OR THE CITIZEN—2éc WEEKLY. of the! The winter which just closed i ead Nicholas" ‘Murray Butler | 'U. S. WEATHER | BUREAU REPORT Observation taken at 7:30 a. m ‘75th Mer. Time (city office) Temperatures ‘Highest last 24 hours . iLowest last night Mean __ |Normal - Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches Total rainfall since April 7 inches Excess inches _._ Total_rainfall. since Jan; 1 inches \Excess since inches reg } "ieee Be ‘ Te aie Barometer at 7:30 a. m., today (fae el; 29.91.(4012.9 millibars) | ‘omorow's Almanac | ‘Sunrise |! 6:16 a, m. Sunset 6:44 p. m. | siesta 10:58 a, m,! nset | ‘Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. . 2:14 _. 7:00 FORECAST | (Till 7:30 p. m., Thursday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly | cloudy tonight and Thursday; | slightly warmer tonight; gentle to moderate variable winds, be- coming moderate to fresh south: | east and south Thursday. Florida: Partly cloudy tonight | and, Thursday; slightly warmer. ‘tonight in west and ‘south por-| tions. i Jacksonville to Florida Straits: | Moderate ‘variable winds, ‘becom. jing fresh south and southeast in| Florida Straits Thursday; partly cloudy weather tonight and_ | Thursday. East Gulf: Moderate variable winds, becoming fresh south and southeast over south portion partly cloudy to cloudy weather | tonight and ‘Thursday, showers | | Thursday. ‘CONDITIONS Weak ‘high pressure covers the | (country this morning from ‘the | Lake region southward over, ‘Florida with ‘temperatures some- | what ‘below ‘normal over ‘much | ‘of this area; while elsewhere | -weadings are generally near or) above the seasonal average. | A low pressure system over- spreads most western districts, | with its principal center, of con- — intensity, over western Precipitation ‘has oceurred since | «morning throughout | ithe ‘Pacific and., Plateau States, and eastward over ‘portions of | the Roeky Mountain region and _ bopper tea with heavy rain i’ extreme siorthern California, ‘There ‘bas also:been rain from — North Carolina northward into) ‘New York State, and northwest- |ward into Chic, in connection | |with low pressure centered this morning eff the middle Atlantic | coast. “14! 0.01 0.46 since ‘Apel e 10.99; bs PM. 1;13 8:50 G. S. KENNEDY, ‘Official in charge jar scheduled evening services in. moved forward thirty minttes. Evening worship and prayer services Will be at 8:00 o'clock in the future. Young people's soeic- | ties and the like will begin at. 00 celndk unlem otherwite an- Yard: “hounced by the indiwitaslthurch of April each year meet the convenience of the people. Wonderful, bargains... Haydn Tilingworth, 615 Elizabeth St. mar21-tf |APRIL SALE «ON GIFTS, Lingerie, Silver and Jewelry. Unusual opportunities at a low cost. OLD ISLAND TRADING POST, ‘89 Duval street. apr2-lwk FOURTEEN FT. SAILBOAT. Fully, equipped. $100, James H. Pinder. 1217 Petronia Street. GAS RANGE. 220 Simonton street, upstairs. Jange lot, many Supe fruit trees, Also, party boat “Jewel”. Apply 808 Eaton Street. jan6-s oe SALE or Exch Cruiser, 28-ft., 6-ft, ‘pempns 40 hp. Gray Marine Engine. W: ‘exchange for \ot, ‘full or BEST BEER, WINE and L' STAND in Key West. business reason for selling. Phone 9169. mari2-tf ‘CORNER LOT IN. GOOD dential Section and two from City Park. Apply Eatoh Street. |FIVE-ROOM FURNISHED Eee TAGE on waterfront. On Big Pine Key. Price, ae: or wal ‘8, Ramrod Key, be “moria-ts “HAVE TWO TRUCKS for sale Rest. Blocks 523 |BRING YOUR ViaIING And, try THE F COFFEE SHOP, it’s economical and ‘has “that” tasty food and atmosphere. 917 Fleming street. apri-tf Lost REWARD for the safe return platinum | FURNISHED APARTMENT, Ne churches of Key West will be FORNISHED COTTAGE —~ No pets. Apply 803 Oiivia street. mardiaf EFICIENCY AP: , mod- ern conveniences. Near Navy 409 Eaton street. Kantor’s. ig ‘sometimes a lack ‘This change is made the first ~~