The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 27, 1941, Page 3

THE; KEY WEST CITIZEN : . 3s FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1941 See en oe PAGE THREE ru ‘YANKEES CLAIMED! SOFTBALL canis SPOTLIGHT OF BIG N “|Fans Pick Softball Stare ‘kis mivteD KIND BILL TONIGHT °"Tic “or ‘wht _ Tonight For July Fourtl | (By Ansociated Press) = «BLUEFIELD, W: Va., June 27. YESTERDAY: Mrs. Maroury and a party of friends have flown to an island off the North Caro- lina coast to look at an old and handsome hotise she may want to buy. But the plane that was to have taken them away has not re- turned, there is a storm brewing, and everyone is nervous. There is also a tangle of personal interests —Eve and Neil and Brett make a triangle, and Gina, Brett and Ham make/a'#econd and inter- locking one. And finally, there is a sinister, as. yet unexplained air about the house and its two care- takers, the Jacksons, Chapter Nine Masquerade Y¥ FOUR o'clock Julie had ‘” taken to peering out of the library. window and _ giving weather reports at ten-minute intervals. “The storm is getting worse,” she announced with’ an air of resignation, “You're exaggerating,” said Jim Droissard, “It couldn’t be worse.” The plane had not returned, Yes, the pilot had been told to call for them about one o'clock, Ham repeated ‘over and over, but of course he was delayed by the storm. No one seemed particu- larly alarmed; even Bret. Rod- man accepted his fate with calm. Only ‘Mrs, Jackson watched them suspiciously, as if she had sus- Pected that this might happen all along. “Is this a hurricane region?” asked Mrs. Marbury, looking up anxiously from a collection of old prints somebody had found ina drawer below the book- shelves. “Hurricanes get around,” said Tulle ail. “They turn up in the oddest places.” “Nonsense!” Mr, Howe took off his eyeglasses, nervously poutee them, and set them ack on the bridge of his nose. “This is nothing but a rain- storm.” “I wish Gina would come back in the house—and Eve, of course,” Mrs. Marbury added, remember- ing her duties as a hostess. She tried to worry about her guests as well as her niece. “They're coming now,” said Julie. “That’s Lordy Mac scooting along under the bushes, I think, The animal is so wet it might be anything.” ‘They don’t have anything . on this id,” Robert we pighed, “except ghosts, and I aven’t heard anything about ani- mal ghosts.” He was playing soli- taire and did not look up.as he spoke. The noisy arrival of the two irls and three young men, who fa gone out exploring some time fore, made everyone ‘in ‘the ta turn toward the doorway. ina and Eve came in first and the three men brought up the at “Dia you have a nice swim?” inquired Mr. Howe with heavy sarcasm. “They're probably all headed for pneumonia right now,” Julie jaimed sharply. 4 1 oe Rew aoe was no ey go! out,” the lawyer retorted, Shutflin the cards again, “There's mo use banging your head against the inevitable. That's one of the facts of life that our friends here apo as well face.” feil said good-naturedly, “Any- ‘way, we got a chance to stretch our jegs a bit. I don’t see how you @an hang around the house all day—this house esperially. It gives me the jitters!” “That's just because it needs a a cleaning,” said Mrs. Mar- ury. “It’s really a lovely old house, I’m going to buy it.” “You said that before,” ob- served Mr. Howe. “If you want doesn't,” said Hamilton ‘Milliard. “If she wants this moth- eaten old wreck of a piece she is entitted to it” ‘Listen—” Gina teetered back and forth on her heels. “Don't I meh ce squishiest sound?” ‘inat Your throat!” wailed Mrs.‘Marbury. She turned be- tones feet wet!” *Risherd better not get it here,” red Julie with decision. answei “Both of you girls go upstairs and el e everything,” a ee giggled Eve. “What will we change to be an overnight outing. Don't you remember, Julie dear? We can hardly dress for dinner.” “Well, go take those things off anyway,” retorted Julie. row our wet things outside the door. "ll send Mrs. Jackson up for them, She can dry them in the kitchen.” “Does that f° for the boys, too?” put in Ne plaintively. “Or doesn’t anybody care what hap- pens to us? We're ready to be wrung out this minute!” Julie, having had her executive instincts aroused, met this situa- tion with another burst of deci- sivenesg, “Go find Mr. Jackson,” she told the three men, “He'll have some thing you can put on—over: or something. Go along now, of you. Get out—shoo!” She waved her hands determinedly at them. “You're ruining Mrs. Jack- son's floor standing there making puddles!” Dressing Up HE men laughed and with drew. Julie ran after them and med the door. “Cail Lordy Mac. ” she shouted. be wrung out, too.” Obediently, Ham whistled and) to re through the} s Lordy Mae. bolted door, almost upsetting Julie in his haste Upstairs Gina and Eve, towel- ing their hair, were making sug- SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN—2ic WEEKLY. eyes on Julle. “She gets every time she gets her “He's got to! jgestions to each other about pos- sible bp rates Gina was possessed with a desire to dress up. “You'd think, in a lovely old house like this, there’d be scads of old-fashioned dresses,” she said. “And there may be—if we look around. 1 want something really picturesque — something that will make that iceberg of a Brett Rodman 190k at me, instead of at the furniture.” The closets in both their rooms yielded nothing whatever, and, though they pulled out bureau drawers and opened chests, they still found nothing. “Look,” said Eve suddenly, “there must be an attic to this house. And there are always old clothes in attics.” “You're smart,” said Gina ad- solringly, “I would never have thought of that. I'll bet there’s an attic full of old clothes.” But it was found only after the opening of many doors, with much laughter, and more than one startled “Oh—!” when one or the other ran into a cobweb. They climbed the stairs and came out into a dim, raftered room full of the usual odds and ends that ac- cumulate in an attic. A trunk in a corner proved to contain just what they had hoped :o find: dress after dress, carefully packed away, exuding a faint fragrance of lavender when they were shaken out of their folds. “It’s just as if. we'd be- twéen the covers of af eighteenth century novel!” Eve exclaimed, “I do hope.some of them fit us.”. Gina finally chose a garnét red frock of thick rich satin, and Eve ecided on a flowered muslin. They even found little heelless slippers, with ankle ribbons, that handled them with great care, for the materials were fragile with fall apart in their hands. ike a couple of conspirators the girls, with their bundles un- ler their arms, hurried along the gallery to their rootns, “Lock your door,” said Eve in parting. “Don’t let anyone see you until the bell rings for dinner. We'll go down together, after everyone else is in the dining room. Later, when Mrs. Marbury called upstairs, “Are you all right, children?” they were almost ready. “Never better,” sang out Eve. “We're fixing a surprise.” Surprise To dinner gong sounded soon afterwards. Eve waited behind her door, listening until the sound of footsteps cutside had died away. She turned the key then and opened the door softly, just as another door creaked further toed out. Prepared as they had been for éach other’s appearance, both girls were, for a second, startled at the complete transfor- mation the beautiful old gowns made. Gina’s fair hair had dried now and was pulled up on top of her head in a top-knot and tied with a ribbon. The skirt of the heavy satin gown was very wide and full and billowed out her slim waist, emphasized by a tight plain bod- ice that left her white shoulders and arms bare. Eve had merely run a comb through her cloud of dusky hair, and it tumbled down over the shoulders of the sprigged muslin dress, with its long tight sleeves and square neckline. There were pink ribbon bows at the shoulders and at the narrow waist, and the skirt was ruffled and frilled until it stood out like a ballet dancer’s skirts. On tall Eve the hem came only to the top of the satin shoe |ribbons crossed at the ankles and tied in back, “We're too quaint,” said Gina. “Now aren't: we?” They linked arms and went down to the dining room, Side by side, they stood in the open door- way. At that moment the door at the be gered end of the room pens and Mrs, Jackson came through from the pantry, She was carrying a silver tureen, andy’ as the door swung shut behind her, she glanced up and saw the two girls. Everything seemed to happen at once. With a roar, the wind burst open the double French doors op- posite the table and the candles went out as suddenly as if snuffed out by one huge extinguisher. At the same instant, the tureen in the floor, the cover rattling and jelattering across the bare floor, making a metallic accompaniment to a thin, wailing cry that rose Web above the uproar. ina and Eve stood as if petri- fied in the doorway. their figures outlined dimly by the hanging lamp in the hall benind them, The | xroup around the table were lequally motionless for the space of a heartbeat, then Brett. Rod- man's voice rang out with steady- ing clearness, “Here!” he cried. There was a click and as everyone turned to- rd the sound of his voice, they the tiny flame of his cigarette ighter flickering in his hand. Jim | Droissard sa = tg his feet and |ferced the French deors shut, while the others, fumbling for |their own lighters, heiped relight the candles. | Se Mrs. Jackson, the pan- try door swung open and the | ga ce of her husband peered e Mrs. Jockson, hand on heart. tried twice before she control her voice ——get 8 mop” she com. husband, and stooped ve the silver tureen. it you who howled tike Ham demanded He crossed the room and oicked up the }tureen lid in the corner. . Te be continued would go on their feet if they | age, and felt as though they might | around the gallery and Gina tip- | Mrs. Jackson's hands crashed to | ‘SHOW ‘YESTERDAY |RUSSO TWIRLED ONE-HIT- | |MANAGERS AND OFFICIALS! STUDYING PLANS FOR 2ND-HALF SEASON TER: DiMAGGIO. POLED AN- OTHER SAFETY.AND HEN- RICH HOMER (Speeial to The Citizen) NEW YORK, June 27.—Marius Russo, stealing the spotlight from teammate Joe DiMaggio and Bob Feller, yesterday after- noon kept the New York Yan- kees out front in the American league with his, masterful one- ;hit pitching job against the St. | For six innings, the Brownies George Mc- Louis Browns. Russo set down with nary a_ hit. ——— | DODGERS TIE REDBIRDS FOR N. L, LEADERSHIP (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, June 27.—Tak- ing advantage of the St. Louis | Cardinals’ idleness, the Brook- | lyn Dodgers lest - night shel- | lacked the Boston Braves, 11-2, to rise into a tie for National | league | leadership with the | Redbirds. Seven runs in the third in- | ning put the game on ice for | Brooklyn. The night affair was the only game in the senior cir- cuit yesterday. McQuinn’s circuit clout in the seventh, the only score tallied lby St. Louis, spoiled his bid for \a spot in the Hall of Fame. The Yankee southpaw pitched to only one more than the minimum, 28, }and only eight men hit the ball SMASHED..,ANOTHER | Pepper’s Plumbers. winners of! the 1941 first-half schedule-in three city diamondball league's | straight victories over the*Nav- | Stas and defending champions, pair off tonight against Navy in an exhibition at Bayview Park. With Army tackling the: Nav- Stas in the first. game of the doubleheader, tonight’s perform- ance will be the first of two sets of exhibitions before the second- half season of exhibitions hefore | the second-half season is begun, probably the second week of July. League officials and managers tonight will decide when they will meet to perfect plans for the sécond-half. A session last night in City Hall did not pro- duce any concrete suggestion and was ordered recessed until next week. Two more exhibitions will be played Monday night and the All-Star-Plumber tilt is sched- | uled for the Fourth of July. This |leaves only Wednesday open for | games next week and it” is\ un- j likely the bottom end of the 1941 'split-schedule will begin that night. Sawyer’s Barbers, | Albury as their manager, will re- enter the leagde when the new ) season gets underway, it was.an- }nounced last night. Albury, chairman of the city-county ree- | Teation committee, replaces Theo- dore Albury, who has retired. “STANDINGS out of the infield. The two men; he walked were retired on dou- ble plays before they reached second. McQuinn was the only Brown to get past first safely. Joe DiMaggio, who can’t stop socking that ball where the field- ers aren’t, yesterday went hit- \less until the eighth when he} |poled a two-bagger. The dou- \ble ran his hitting streak to 39 | straight games, only three games fin back of the record establish- ed by George Sisler. Coasting behind the pitching of Russo, the Yanks bumped the |Brownies, 4-1. Tom Henrich smashed a homer in the sixth to bring the total of consecutive }games in which the Yankees have hit round-trippers to 21. In all, 35 circuit clouts have been collected in the record-breaking |home run streak. Bob Feller mounted the hill for the Cleveland Indians yester- ,day but the Boston Red Sox treated him as any ordinary ‘hurler. Banging his offerings for eight runs going into the eighth, the Red Sox had the sat-| isfaction of seeing the fireballer sent to the showers, although they lost’ the game, 11-8. Feller; left with the count of 10-8 in his favor. Philadelphia Phillies, sparked by Bob Johnson who knocked in six runs, walloped the Detroit | Tigers, 8 to 4. In the first inning, Johnson smashed a hom- ter with two on and did the same thing in the sixth. Washington Senators and Chi- cago White Sox hooked up in ‘another long overtime affair but} i this time the Nats won, 3-2. A {single by Jimmy Bloodworth in the sixteenth inning after two were down scored Buddy Lewis | with the “paying” marker. Edgar Smith twirled the full game for | Chicago but Ken Chase, who last- ed 12 rounds for the Nationals, was replaced by Alex Carrasquel Results: AMERICAN LEAGUE At New York R. H. E. St. Louis eae Oe New York 460 Auker and Ferrell; Russo and Dickey. At Washington Chicago Washington 312 Smith and Turner; Chase, Ca- rasquel and Evans. E 2 1 At Philadelphia Detroit " 4930 Philadelphia 816 6 Bridges, Giebel, Rowe and Teb- betts; Marchildon and Haves. REE At Boston Cleveland Boston $12 0 Feller, Brown and Hemsley; Harris, Ryba, Dickman and Pyt- lak RHE nue o NATIONAL LEAGUE Night Game At Brooklyn Boston Brooklyn Only ga scheduled A shiny nose is considered ‘beautiful by Eskimo women. MAJOR BASEBALL LEAGUES American Club— New York Cleveland Boston Chicago Detroit Eee: Philadelphia Washington St. Louis Club— St. Louis .... Brooklyn - New York Cincinnati Chicago . Pittsburgh Boston Philadelphia 21 21 29 31 35 32 37374 18 46 .281 oem SPORTS CALENDAR one seaclaamgnsaperinste So AON Soe eMREARERET RR BASEBALL (MAJOR LEAGUES) TODAY “ American New York at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Detroit. Chicago at Cleveland, sight game. Boston at Washington. National Pittsburgh at Chicago. Philadelphia ‘at night game. Cincinnati at St. Louis, game. Boston-Brooklyn, ed. 682 night not schelul- SOFTBALL (Bayview Park, 7:30 p.m.) “TONIGHT First Game—U.S. Army vs. NavStas. Second Game—Pepper’s Plumb4 ers vs. U.S. Navy. MONDAY NIGHT with Paul | thor, born in Tuscumbia, Ala., 61 . DOES THE TRICK) (By Associated Press) LINCOLN, Neb., June 27.— Did you know a_ baseball pitcher and a javelin throw- er have a lot in common? Here's what Herb Grote, University of Nebraska jun- jor and Big Six javelin champion, has to say about it: v Both need a good warmup before going into action and both depend a lot on wrist motion. Grote takes a real long ‘warmup, a couple of hours if he can work it in, then: “Wrist action, that’s what ‘counts. The proper flick and snap of the wrist at the tight time — that’s what makes a good curve ball. I try to get that same whip of the wrist in my throws with the javelin. When I fire the spear, I am not throwing for any ob- ject I have placed at a dist- ance I think I should reach. Instead, I hang up an imag- inary object somewhere in the sky and aim for it”. SAA LA ALLA | ener 2 aN Today’s Birthdays | Helen A. Keller of Westport, Conn., the famed, afflicted au- years ago. Juan T. Trippe, president of New Pan American Airways, » York, born in Seabright, N. J., 42 years ago. William T. Grant of Wilming- ton, Del., noted chain store mer- chant, born in Stevensville, Pa., | * |65 years ago. 09 ¥ ig Dr. Rufus B. von Kleinsmid, president of the University of Chicago, noted zoologist, born in Toronto, 71 years ago. John Golden of New York, | playwright-producer, born there, 'New York, 65 years ago. New York, First Game—U.S. Navy vs. Pep- | per’s Plumbers. Second Game—NavStas U.S. Army. PAIR OF ACES (My Associated Press) MARION, O., June 27.—John- ny Rife, one of Marion county's leading golfers, has fired his sec- ond ace. Both came on the 164-yard No. 2 hole on the Mar-O-De! course here. Rife scored the first hole- in-one three years ago. Only two other golfers have shot aces on the course ‘in 10 years. vs. Today's Horoscope Today gives a loving and trust- ful nature, which may not gain much knowledge of humen weak- | R. nesses, and is very liable to be It is a ferninine nature, | 2 though capable of considerable | deceived. power. The affections are too warm and the passions too stormy for such «un incautious lisposition, unless carefully con- | trotied. L. Peti| 87"years ago. Dr. Heber D. Curtis, astronomer, in Muskegon, Mich., Percy S. Straus, president of Macy’s, New York City, born in ROLLER SKATE Southard Street Keep Your Weight In Shape | and Your Shape In Weight SESSIONS: 2:30 to 4:30 P. M. 8:00 to 10:30 P. M. SHOE SKATES FOR SALE If You Can Walk You Can Skate We Teach You How To Skate BASEBALL RETURNS Hot Off the Wire! Service Inning By Inning, First Time in Key West HORSESHOE CAFE 602 Duval Street Schultz & Riggs Returns Direct From the Ball Park director | ‘549 |0f the University of Michigan's | '593 | Observatory, noted .462 | born "429 | years ago. 69 | | Battle With City Champ: Key West diamondball fans tonight at Bayview Park, and over) gings at the weekend, will have their chance to name an All-Star team for keep”. | the Fourth of July tilt with the City Champion Pepper’s Plumbers. | - * Newtown H. Clayton prefers ‘a ;| defense job to a gold mine. | He came here to work in a ' powder plant, observing his dig- Mason, Ariz, “will Players from every league team, with the exception of the! | at the champions on the night of the Fourth. Fans may name their choices on the ballot printed here in The! | Citizen, or ballots will be distributed tonight at Bayview Park. All) | Plumbers, wilt be eligible for a post on the star squad and a chance | ballots must b® returned by Monday night to League President. | Manuel Varela, or to Paul Albury, chairman of the city-county rec- | reation committee, who will be in attendance at games tonight and | “Kiki” Hopkins, Barbers; Clarence Allshouse, NavSta; Hunning and | Monday. Eligible players follow: | PITCHERS—Lino Castro, NavSta; Neno Castro, DeWitt Roberts | | and Howard Burke, Barbers; Simmons, Wood, Almeda and Early, | | Army; Gonzalez and Cohill, Navy. jl CATCHERS—Eddie Nelson, George Nodine and Kizziah, Army;| ; Phil, Navy. FIRST BASEMEN—Julio Barcelo, NavSta; Kermit Kerr, Bar-| | bers; Saunders, Army; Wollet, Navy. IPIPAALLL 2A TSI SDaAAaaa, DON’T MISS P. A.R, La Revista Mensual en Espanol Ingles. Mailed at Havana Mont) ly on the 13th. Ten Cents Sla Year. Six Years $5. Sample FREE. | FIPAZLACLLLALLZLLLLLLLLELELLLLLLL 2 SECOND BASEMEN—Soldario, NavSta; “Pete” White and A. | Walker, Army; Ralph Arnold, Barbers; Salis, Navy. ‘ Barbers; Poret, Navy; Walker, Army; Anthony Kelly and Manolo Acevedo, NavSta. ‘ THIRD BASEMEN—Esmond Albury, Barbers; Guy . Johnson, Navy; Phillip Baker, NavSta; Assaf, Army. 1 LEFTFIELDERS—Rhoden and Duggar, Army; Francis Delaney, NavSta; Kiems, Navy; Arthur Thompson, Barbers. CENTERFIELDERS—Charles Wells, NavSta; Simms and Me- Ardle, Army; Melvin Tynes, Barbers; Prather, Navy. \ RIGHTFIELDERS—Charlie Sands ang Armando Gutierrez, NavSta; Ormond Cordova, Barbers; Wylie, Army; Phil, Navy. SHORTFIELDERS—Coleman and Boswell, Army; Lee, Navy}! Joe Russell, Barbers; Gabriel Garcia and C. Albury. NavSta. MANAGERS—Paul Albury, Barbers; Bob Reid, NavSta; Lieut, | Russell Pirkle, Army; Guy Johnson, Navy. SHORTSTOPS—Juanie . Navarro, If you are unable to attend tonight’s game or fail to get a blot, clip this one from The Citizen and return to , Jeague official Monday night SOFTBALL FANS’ All-Star Team Ballot ALL-STARS meet City Champion Plumbers in Fourth of July night exhibition at Bayview Park Players from NavStas, Army, Navy ahd, for- mer Barbers are eligible for selection on the All- Star ten against the Champion Pumbers. Make your choice of one player for each po- sition on the All-Star team, except for pitcher, Four spaces are given for your pitching choices. Players receiving the greatest number of votes will compose the All-Star team and those ceiving the second greatest-number of votes each berth will be in reserve. re- for Fill in name of your choice for each position SECOND BASE -_. 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