The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 24, 1941, Page 2

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The state funds were more or less in the same shape, since the state had promised money for the proj- eect, but couldn’t do anything until it was known how much government money would be added to the pot. The present idea—refunding some more road bonds through RFC—is just a method of speeding things up. The legal and paper work had to be done anyway, so instead of waiting for the federal money to come through, the road and toll bridge commissioners will entire amount they are asking from RFG, but it does clear the situation up if there is ; Opinion that Dr. and Mrs. Willard YESTERDAY: No sooner has and about the skull , Blaze Sherwood gotten himself |Philip gisplaved on his desk. assigned as observer to the ar- While being forced to learn bridge, Mackey tried ¢ontinually groastouicsl camp of Anne Wil- ’s parents, and a very much unwanted observer, than he dis- to try to rescue some ns who are blundering into the territory of the dangerous Nagata tribe of Central Asia. pugh deeply interested in the : eer which is the object The Plane Burns TANA'S lips tightened and then she spoke. “It’s my) are to blame for everything. Had they let well enough alone, we—* “Diana!” cried Beth. Anne rose and left the table. She joined Pete and the lama sitting in front of her tent and Staring off gloomily in the direc-| tion of the Bekkan Bula peaks. | Later Larry and Beth came out and tried to cheer them up. It’ was Doddap with his keen desert eyes who first saw the re- turning plane. Everyone except Oliver was on the field when it Janded. Anne had let Beth hold| her in the crowd. “He may have news of your parents.” Sherwood remained in the piare ‘Several moments sending @ final radio message to Shani Lun and looked so forbid~ ~ding when he did scramble out hat everyone hesitated to ques- him. Anne was the first “Did you find out anythi about father and mother?” He turned and gazed at her. “Not a thing, Anne, I'm sorry. to ask her privately, “They can’t | parents’ quest, Anne -| vamp Blaze.” 4 } eannot down her liking for Blaze. “You never can tell,” she mur- Yet Blaze is supposedly working | mured in return. “ , they’re against the Willards. eaten up with curiosity.’ < “Hum!” he grinned and gave Chapter 25 her a sidelong glance. fee | mind’is cold, I know your heart is to swing the play to poker. Anne smiled secretly at the way he rolled his eyes as Beth, and later © Diana, drew Sherwood out on the ; veranda while they were dum- mies. “What's the idea?” he managed /: The next evening was much the same except for less food and more talk. Anne and Sherwood even walked across the courtyard together, politely observing the | map of the sky that had once oc- cupied such an important part in their lives. He put a guiding hand to her elbow at the tr of Larry’s tent and she hoped a sud- den trembling deep within did not betray her. Larry had wanted them to see a death mask he was reconstructing from the jumbled fragments he had found the week before. Beth and Larry would have liked to tease them a bit concern- ing their legal status but didn’t quite dare. Oliver had become more attentive to Anne. Diana had dug up new dresses the other girls didn’t dream she possessed. | In the midst of the general conversation she kept cailing to | Blaze, “Do you remember the time we-——” and he’d smile and answer in that bantering way of his that twisted Anne’s heart with jealousy. “What kind of dog jn the manger am I?” she asked herself » But she knew. He had told. her. “While your warm.” And once he had said, “If a man remains true to his objec- and I'l give you back 15 seconds Says PAUL. DOUGLAS, well-known radio announcer Somebody whistles a few bars of a catchy tune. Others pick it up. Soon the whole country’s whistling it. J¢’s @ hit. es ites 10 Somebody lights up a cigarette. Likes it. Passes the word along. Soon the whole country’s smoking it. It’s a hit. T7’S CHESTERFIELD. ‘The big thing that’s pushing Chesterfield ahead |tive, life works things out for | him. Shy-a Nago belonged to her | parents. It had belonged to them | | before she knew Blaze. This was | |not a conflict between her love | |for them and her love for him. | enough money available to pay for what- ever is not financed by the federal or state governments. Someday, that road will be there. ~ public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue, commend good done by individual or organ- +] ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and The whole trip was useless.” He began shrugging off the parachute harness talking technicalities about the ship with Mackey as he did so. Then be spoke to the group. “Come to my tent Is the approval of smokers like yourself. Chesterfields are definitely Milder, Cooler-Smoking and Better-Tasting. ee TRS Srv sore re B&Se SFG rere eee cm ae | Mr. Smith ayailed himself in speaking as opinions; print only news that will elevate and net contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 4 # earls Z i i ined thi ity of the Na 5 i i i } Water and Sewerage. ak oak sivas imported. Tile | es ee each eae G08 cee ead een Yes, fellow smokers, IT’S YOUR APPROVAL year, with the country engaged in the) menace to the expedition,” Anne! Scryants, accomplished nothing THAT’S PUSHING CHESTERFIELD AHEAD. Ar ee eee ee . More Hoteis and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavidion. Aarperts—Land and Sea. Consolidation sf-County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. Seppe The Japanese are now debating the ; ” re “Heavens!” gasped Anne. ing .a the words. Mackey had | 7 +, . Lago. A _ question: “To fight or hot to fight. is the enemy of defense. Fire is the waster, aa he swears the He agaras are taken ‘a ea disk to med | Today 5 Bithdays ie | baste 5 Heees N. H,, t od the implacable destroyer of time, of human | The Russians were not archaeolo-| Swe side end. A hg ote eee oe | : — =| Edwin McArthur, conductor, | In 1812 the United States fought for the freedom of the seas and it appears that in’ 1942, 150 years later, it will continue _that fight. In 1812 it was the British who interfered with our shipping on the high ! , Seas, and in 1942, or sooner, it will be the » Germans who must be taught what the . British learned in 1812. Pe acest Te ee i > wie. The war in Europe is reversing itself in some instances, Ethiopia has been returned to the Bthiopians, and Finland is regaining ‘ the.territories it lost in the war with Rus- ‘aiay. Eventually Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin, will haye to give up all areas they have conquered at great loss of life. The | wa¥'i'the aggressor becomes harder as | the day, of atonement approaches, ‘Shipments of United States currency to | Cuba reflect the continued reports of the hoarding of currency for foreigners in Ha- | vana. Of $1,548,000 shipped to foreign | countries in August $1,000,000 was ship- ped to Cuba, including many large de-| nomination bills. In July the exports of currency amounted to a total of $1,273,- 000, of which $800,000 went to our neigh- bor republic. Shipments of our currency to Cuba will show an increase in Septem- ber Gnless the prevalent thaw in the freez- | ing process solidifies. } ; } ‘ ! ~ ey! " ope ists isolated on a mountain out West, where | they ean talk each other to death, They are un-American, un-patrictic. We ought >to turn them over to Hitler or somebody else.” | Nothing could be more un-American than | _ to deny others freedom of speech, of which | 1e did. He should be told the words of Vol- e who said: “I wholely disapprove of phat you say, but will defend to the death | ur right to say it.” Freedom of speech | s both ways. FIRE PREVENTION WEEK Each year in October, Fire Prevention Week is observed by proclamation of the President of the United States. It is a call on the citizens of this country to reduce | loss of life and property by fire. greatest defense drive in all history—a | drive which means that a large part of the | human and material resources of this coun- try must be turned to the gigantic task of making us militarily impregnable—the Week is a hundred times more important still, It has been said many times, and it should be said many times again, that fire effort, of life, of resources. Fire fights against the swift production of airplanes | and cannons and battleships and tanks. Fire fights against the nation’s safety. In the past years, it has often hap- pened that fire losses have gone down dur- ing the Week and the period immediately following, only to rise sharply thereafter. | In other words, we Americans have had | short memories. The lessons learned dur- | ing the Week were quickly forgotten, and we relapsed into our old careless, thought- less habits. | That must not happen now. We must | regard every week as a fire prevention week. We must regard every day as a day in which to keep in mind the hazards that | breed fire, and the means of eliminating | them. Only if that is done, can fire, our | ever-present “foe, be beaten. The war | against fire is a war for American safety in which every one of us can play an ag- gressive part ACTIVITY EXPECTED IN AFRICA For the past ten days there have been reports of intense activity in the, Mediterra- nean where Italian ships have been making a serious effort to reinforce the Italian army | in Africa, | British submarines and airplanes have | scored in repeated attacks, hardly a day | penaeg Shoat the sinking of some Italian | ship. How many vessels managed to dodge | the British forces and reach Africa is un- known. _ | The fighting season is near at hand in | Africa and the next few weeks should wit- ness the beginning of heavy engagements. | Whether the British will take the offensive in a giant attempt to smash Italian power after I've had a shower and I'll tell you what happened.” | Anne did not go but she} learned afterwards that Philip | was present and showed friend- liness to Sherwood by asking him and Mackey to join the camp mess with the sensible statement that white men isolated in a spot like this could not afford to quar- rel, “He probably feels that having Tt was a conflict between her | principles and her emotions. | That night the airplane went | up in+flames. Worry For Blaze | {7 HOpeH Mackey had put a a secret guard at Sherwood’s tent it had never oceurred to him anyone would try to destroy the plane, It was a mass of flames when first diseovered, and a | bucket brigade of Turki laborers, Piggsered. | “Blaze accepted,” Beth went | on, “and is adding his supplies | and cook to ours. You should have | heard his story. He found the| Nagara village to which the Rus- | sians had penetrated. There had) been fighting and a massacre but | natives shot at Blaze. He got away though there are several | bullet holes in his wings.” gists—merely a crew of adventur- ers the Emir’s agents had picked up and interested in the propo- sition. Their government repudi- ates them, though Blaze woyld| have liked to turn them back and save their lives, He thinks they have no chance either to get out alive or to find the treasure city.” “Did he get a view of Shy-a Nago?” 5 “I guess so. He doesn’t seem | to want to talk about it. Pete) procieves. he’d die for that and) laze answered if he did it was worth it. He wouldn't say any more, but you should have seen his eyes as he remembered. Then “Does he really believe the lagaras will try to—to kill “We couldn’t get him to say. He'd only joke about it. But what do you care?” Beth chuckled mis- chievously. “He's not your hus- band, you're only married to him, if you know what I mean” e colored in spite of her- again. Fire pee that night was a rather hilarious affair, Blaze having contributed sharks’ fins, mush- rooms, fruit and Turkestan wine from the supplies the governor had heaped upon him. Ewen Anne's frost melted a trifle. Blaze was playing a bold| game. Perhaps she could match | him at it. At least she and her| arents were still in good stand- | ing with the Nagaras from what the priest had said the other muh, Later she stood at his side while they all essayed a little close harmony over Mackey’s mouth organ. He managed to get ina al question under cov- er of the general noise. is your tent?” She turned away. hardly able to believe her ears at first or suppress the in_her. Later, having a.chance to be near her as she changed a phono- graph needle he tried again. “If you'd like to have a talk, Anne—” “There have already been too many words,” she answered, quoting from his letter, and let her eyes brush across his imper- sonaliy. He regarded her intently in Africa, or wait for some Italian move is | unreported. It is well known that the British forees | in Afriea have been receiving huge sup- | plies of material from the United States. | The final disposition of the stuff, however, | is uncertain. It may be in Egypt, or in Iran, for all we can tell and consequently it is next to impossible to guess where the big battle will be. for a moment and then made no further attempt to speak to her intimately, though they played bridge as partners and against each other, talked about the ‘Today’s Horoscope Today gives 8 forceful mental- ity aggressive, perhaps quarrel- | jas doleful as if the world had | mo sign of the white men. The! ,. | could, Martaine with sharp words, | he began joking about somethin; oe J 8 | sca: self. Beth saw it and giggled |): |Teally try to kill rage that welled up|»! except to dip the spring pool dry. Later as they all stood staring | at the dying blaze Mackey looked come to an end, Sherwood con- | cealed his emotions better. “You're next,” Pete predicted. Tm not so inflammable,” Sher- a retorted with a faint smile, ‘Oh, I don't know—if the right kind of oil's poured over you.” Anne surmissed a double mean- the other while she hinted that all their misfortunes were the. fault of the Willards. The men | hushed her up a8 quickly as they | Sherwood with bartering ones. | “Undoubtedly the work of Na- | garas,” declared Oliver. “We see | their fires in the hills every night though they never come down to camp and make themselves known to us.” | “Maybe they’ve taken ven- | geance on the plane and will leave Blaze alone now,” suggested | Beth hopefully. _ Mackey knew better. “They’ve just burned the plane so he can’t “There's the truck, if he wishes to leave,” Anne reminded him, Sherwood turned and gazed’ ‘at her with those strong, fearléss, eyes of his. “I do not want:(to een Then bs mg Ww) group... “I regret. ; be the, tadio more than, anything “We've a radio we were ‘hot‘al- lowed to set up,” Larry reminded - um. “Tl see what I do. with it tomorrow.” They “ail talked 9 while longer and finally straggled back to their beds. Doddap was already seated in front of her tent chanting a prayer in his soft, birdlike voice when Anne re- turned, She stood listening until he came to the end. “What are you praying about now?” she asked, dropping into a canvas chair. ; “I pray for Sherwood. Why does he not sleep in our tent?” She gave him a flashing glance and closed her lips firmly. He went on. “If Sherwood lived in our tent Nagaras would not kill him.” ‘ “Kill him!” Her hand went to her throat. ee. would they im.” “I see a knife thrown at him. Always, T see a knife thrown at | itn After a moment's hesitation she | walked across the corner of the | courtyard to Sherwood’s tent. A 7 Chinese soldier stood atthe door, . She could hear Sherwood. and Mackey talking inside. The guard opened the flap and thing in his native, ve | for a moment in the brilliant light of the ine lan- tern. Both men had been bending over a map in the middle of the table. They looked up in surprise. 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