The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 2, 1942, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, DECE’.. , 1942 Chapter 13 Off For Frisco apse curtain had just the last act knocked on Cl door. Duffy, giass it. He blinked at the pic made in her long, cling ning gown and sleek a fresh camelia black hair, then salaamed with Oriental dignity. “If I hadn't on Scotch I'd think I things. You look too be be real!” Gloria laughed ani past him to survey v ment the array of silver bucket of cracke Clark's d: ng table. risen for when dressing room in hand, open crowning her Gloria} ,| try gal private drinking party or can any-| one get in “I was just fixin’ myself a little] if she’s the rude type that neglects | ‘This is the biggest thing that’s happened to us since the 4rst night we opened on Broadway!” he shouted. Gloria Cunningham! Even Clark Pasquin can’t afford to walk out on a deal like this!” : t preening herself with sed satisfaction. Anytime a sweet, simple coun- tries to elbow Gloria Cun- m out of a picture she wants to be in, she’ll have up even before her chick- she mured. the ringing Then he turned back to with a wink. “Well, this ought to cinch it!” huckled. “It was the Western nion reporting Clark’s telegram o Rita Ralston was delivered one hour and ten minutes after it was on| sent. He was sure she didn’t get Is this al it e’d have answered.” loria winked back. “And sueh a nice wire, too. Can we help it bracer,” Duffy explained. “Any-| her correspondénce?” one who's got to put up with a screwball actor and his brained schemes needs a mite of Duffy glanced at his wristwatch, hair-| then snatched up the phone again. “It's only a little over an hour liquid consolation now and then | before that midnight plane leaves Scotch or Bourbon?” “Scotch and make it long.” She smiled blandly at the perturbed| for Frisco. I better cheek with the manager and be sure Clark’s understudy makes that plane. The little Scotchman. “I take it you! company’s opening in Frisco day couldn’t dissuade Clark from join- ing the San Francisco cast.” Duffy shot a dark look in the|Clark’s changed his mind again. | fter tomorrow.” He dialed rapid- ly. “Charley, this is Stub Duffy. direction of the two packed and! Yeah, he ain’t going to Frisco. addressed wardrobe trunks. “Ij Will you see that Allen makes talked this afternoon ’til my pipes| that midnight plane? Yeah —he gave out, and all the time he went right on packing his clothes.” He sighed heavily as he shot a hiss- ing stream of seltzer water into a tall glass. Gloria took a cigarette from h¢ jeweled case and lit it. Then blo ing a thin stream of smoke into the room, she spoke slowly, a gleam of assurance in her dark, narrowed eyes. “Don’t worry, Duffy, he’s not going tonight. “What do you mean?” Duffy handed her the glass, wonder- ingly. “Well, here’s the set-up. As soon as the show is over, Clark i: ing me to the horse show—it’s al midnight affair for the benefit of| the Red Cross. Everything’s all arranged. We're to sit in the mayor's box. The governor will be in our party and a General! somebody. Not bad publicity, ch, my honest scribe?” Duffy took a joyful gulp of his drink. “Great! I’ll call Stacy of the ‘Times’ and Malcomb at the ‘Examiner.’ We'll have plenty of pictures in the morning editions!” Then suddenly his smile faded, his face relaxed again into its long- suffering hopelessness. “If he doesn’t go to Frisco tonight, it'll be the first time since I’ve known him he didn’t follow through with his plans,” he said dolefully. “When that guy decides to do something, it takes a national calamity to change his mind.” Bait for Clark ILORIA smiled, as Duffy charged across the room to mix himself another drink. “Duffy, the trouble with you is you’re always ready to quit be- fore the fun’s half started.” Duffy turned to eye her shrewd- ly. “You don’t mean you have an- other ace up your sleeve?” “Darling, I always have another ace up my sleeve!” Gloria Jaughed. “Men are so stupid. It’s a wonder they ever accomplish anything!” “What is it?” Duffy cried. “Not much really,” she shrug- ged, deprecatingly. “I just ar- ranged to have Clark on the bene- fit performance at the White House.” Duffy dropped his glass to grab Gloria’s hand and shake it vio- lently. TWO NEGROES WIN MEDALS FOR BRAVERY (Ry Associate LONDON, Dec. Ne- gro privates of the United States Army have received medals from Press) —Two the Liverpool Shipwrights Humane Society for saving a Brit- on from drowning. Those honored were Privates Clarence Miller ef McComb, Mi, and Jimmie Flemings, Chance lor, Ala While they were sightseeing in Liverpool théy saw a 52-year-old dockworker fall f a gang- plank between a dock and a moor- ed vessel. Both Miller and Flem- ings jumped in and kept the man afloat until a line was thrown to them. om The United States $240,000,000 more merchandise, including gold and silver, from the twenty Latin American Re- publics during the first six months of this year than this country sold to them, according to the Department of Commerce. Premier of Iraq, leading Arab, hails American moves in Africa. purchased | and | j )officers have been amazed by the | harrow thinks, he’d better stay here and—” Duffy stopped abruptly as he saw Clark framed in the door- wa: W It Didn’t Work HAT’S going on in here? “You're a wonder, | What are you two up to?” | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN CHIMP IOL SS ‘MILLIONS BANKED BY JAP BOAT LINE (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 2.—Investigation by federal agents has disclosed $3,500,- 000 cash and several million dollars in securities deposit- ed in San Francisco banks by Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Japanese steamship line. The assets will be seized ‘by the government. DSTI SSE S Fs FANCY INLAID TABLE FOR STATE CAPITOL TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 2 (FNS) A fancy inlaid table of native Florida woods matched in light and dark colors was substituted last week for the old mahogany table in the state cabinet confer- ence room of the Capitol. The new table was designed by ' Charles V. Imeson, construction superintendent of the State Hos- | pital, and was built in the Hospi- }tal shops. The sixteen different ‘woods employed in its building were all cut from trees on the in- stitution’s 20,000-acre tract. The woods, some light and some dark, include red gum. slash pine, yel- low pine, poplar, walnut, red oak, | cypress, dogwoud, beech, cedar, |tupelo, torreya, ash, magnolia, birch and willow. This worker is wearing the General Electric costume for women welders (Hat designed by Sally Victor) TO OUR CRITICS a terete sei mmanore SST ot th 1 The robaccos bovgte I see your lanes, with artist-eyes; Your quaint, old houses their wide, cool rooms. Southern Cross, in sapphire skies And trees that bear bouquets of fragment blooms. glowing “4 (th with Geta The deep Clark shut the door, eyeing the | two steadily. Duffy gulped, “Now look, Clark —" But Clark took the phone brusquely from him. “Charley,” he snapped. “This is | Pasquin speaking. I’m leaving for | Frisco on the midnight plane and | Allen "| until I return, He slammed the is to play the lead here lephone down and turned to face a chagrined Duffy and an amused Gloria. Gloria drawled, “Don’t you think you’re a little fast on the | draw? I came to tell you that Sydney’s arranged for you to head a benefit performance at the White House.” | Clark gave a whistle of appre- ciation. “That’s really white of him! Thank him for me, will you? Tell him I'd be delighted, but I’ve already promised to do two bene- fit shows on the West Coast.” “That ain’t the White House!” Duffy yelled tearfully, resorting once again to the bottle and seltzer water. “You and your publicity pho- bia,” Clark grinned. “You listen to me, both of you. I’m taking that midnight plane without the shadow of a doubt, and you both might as well stop all this des- perate conniving.” He looked about the room, mak- ing a last minute check. “And don’t forget to call the express company and have them pick up these trunks first thing in the morning. Did you hear?” “I. did,” answered Duffy in a muffled and very sad voice. Before the stunned but furious Gloria. could protest, he had picked up his hat, his coat and his bag, had called cheerful fare- wells, and was off down the hall. The dressing room door banked hollowly behind him. But receding in the distance was a cheerful whistle. “He doesn’t sound precisely heartbroken about the telegram business, does he?” Gloria snap- ped. “Not exactly!” To be continued TEXAS TOWN HITS SCRAP JACKPOT sociated Press) Tex., Dec. 2.—The town of Wink, Texas, has thus far collected more than 1500 pounds of scrap metal per capita, accord- to Colonel Harry C. Wisehart, ommanding officer, Pecos Army Flying School. Army air force | Not pill-homes along a tree-less | street, {A lawn one manicures . . shrubs just so— |But friendly homes, where | trees grow wild and sweet, |A cherished place Grandad built | long ago. » and {When sailing men were carpent- | ers who knew |The way to build a house where gales blow hard; ;Strong men who ate raw conch | and turtle-stew, {A man whose farming groun< was sea—not sod. 1 |A man with salty humor—and a | grin !That made him what he was, a | different soul; A raw-boned, salty Conch whose ' only sin |Was longing for i buried gold. *soGert & Myers Tosacco Co, some pirate’s| -—~-— a REAL PUNCH IN WALLET By JACK STINNETT AP Features Service Writer WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2.— Come time to pay it, tue new fed- eral tax bill is going to knock the noggin off so many people that ithat old word “complacency” will be lost to the language. This country is as m hodge-podge economically | keographically so nobody to be able to set up any tables and _,|Say: “Here, brother, is just what it! you are up against.” There however, one little ‘oup here in Washington that is a pretty fair example of | what jsome of us are going to be up : . jagainst. That's the $1,440-a-year, In time be thrown against each| or. minimum government | jealous face. jclerks. Many of t are girls. | A - Not many months ago. the De- ‘We have a wealth of pirate’s partment of Labor went into the | gold to share, |Blue skies and trees and blooms and clean, fresh air. | BARBARA GREENE. No Bowery gent—or buck-a-roo— | Or football fiend who yells until he’s hoarse, | one who walked a deck the long night thru }Or pulled in nets with salt-stung and coarse. drug-store | But hands And, so he lived—a_ rare and { different soul, ;Uncritical of mainland, strange ways, challenging brass or gold, But welcoming the comes and stays. men’s Not if theirs be} s it is is going one who We have his blood—and { speaks to us, “Be cool before your critics; | them waste Their energy in speaking words that must so let es or tandard” for government girls tty thoroughly. If the Depart- jment of Labor statisticians had jany ax to grind, try and find it.! | es _ They weren't after getting wages (Editor's Note: Barbara Greene) up or ‘down. They were only jpen name for Mrs. Henry Pin-' trying to set up a minimum bud- jder of Love's Lane, added the pot by which government girls, at |following footnote to her poem:| starting salaries could exist. The |“This is my poetic. snewel to total, according to this estimate, janyone who is suffering with a was $1,313.08. brain, that is only small/ To itemize it there would take \response shown by the citizens|enough to behold the worse side! more space than I have, but just 1 of this tiny, west-Texas town, population 2000. Since the beginning of the year, | Wink has shipped at least 3,355,- | 000 pounds of scrap material, in- | eluding 310,000 pounds of rubber! to various smelters, etc. SCHOOL KIDS HIT. _ SCRAP JACKPOT (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Two public school children in St. Louis unearthed a long-unused slot machine in a neighbor’s at- tic and persuaded him to donate it to the scrap drive. When the machine was depos- ited in the school scrap pile it yielded a jackpot of $5.80, ac- jof any town and is blind to the|to give you an idea of how un- |beauty that is around us.”) generous the DL was being with | |its estimates, it allowed only $13 YIELD INCREASES for “miscellaneous” and only $29 | 8 Sameer {for the year for savings: NEW YORK.—A century ago) Since then, times have changed { Ameriean sheep yielded an aver-| considerably. There’s that 5 per age of only two pounds of fleece;}cent for the federal retirement now the average is eight pounds. | fund, $72 a year, on which~ Miss | |G. Girl will realize when she ar- DROPPED 30 PER CENT rives at the ripe age of 60. Then there’s 10 per cent! for | .@HICAGO — During the first) War Savings bonds. This isn't! birth rate in Eu-|CO™pulsory, of course, but the pressure can be pretty . terrific per : when every one around you is do- ing his or her es that direction. j : ae ,_| That means $144 fnor: _SEC estimates hoarding by in-| Now comes the tax—the spank- dividuals is at 16 billion rate. jing new federal tax. That willbe in the neighborhood of $170 Add it up. The G-Girl who used | World War the , rope dropped almost thirty | cent. Sixteen big ships are being “minimum costs of a decent living | ecked by OUF quetions are re = the Chester. ie AS ‘AND, U- S- ing of cigarettes) nds have olready done ww York, N: ¥ A CIGARETTE Couwrs Mosr WHAT CIGARETTE GIVES SMOKERS WHAT THEY WANT heyre On the Job. with a Milder Better Taste More and more smokers every day feel that way about Chesterfield. They find that in this MILDER, BETTER-TASTING cigarette they are getting just what they want in a smoke. Its right combination of the world’s best cigarette tobaccos gives Chesterfield all the pleasant smok- ing qualities you like best. You Can’ Buy 4 Berrer Cigarette hesterfield SSSISDISS. |LAST LAUGH’S ON LORD HAW-HAW (By Associated Press) NEW YORK. Dec. 2.— Lord Haw-Hew. Nazi propa- gandist who broadcast in English on short wave from Berlin. has won another re- cruit—for the United Nations. William Austin, a_ British subject, heerd Haw-Haw broadcast that England was short of manpower. So he went to the British Volunteer Movement in New York and signed to go back to the old country—to help ease the Manpower shortage. VI LIS FIL SSF SS Aw. G’wan! She—Strange that the ocean should leave a litter on the beach. He—Why strange? She—Because the ocean is nat- urally tidy. Willkie says Montgomery made our African invasion possible Meat ‘to be rationed by Point system used in Britain. the the nose and come out with $100 or so to the good for a trip home or some other luxury, now is go- ing to come out $100 to $250 minus, depending on how triotic she is in buying those war bonds. All this is. of course, hypo- thetical, even in Washington. How can you set down any minimum figure for decent rentals in a city where it is discovered that 133 soldiers (studying radio engineer- ing) are paying $20 a month apiece for cot space in a converted ware- house? On the other hand, some com- passionate landlords and _ladie: are providing very decent rooms at less than that. Some G-Girls, according to bureau counselors, earn minimum wages and send money home every month, but just how they manage it is a mystery to the counselors. Perhaps some of the story is told in the rapidly rising curve of personal loans to govern- | ment employes in the lower cording to salvage drive officials. | built for Great Lakes ore trade.\to hit that minimum budget on| brackets. pa-| ' | _ MOST EVERYONE | WANTED NOW | H By JOHN GROVER | AP Features Service Writer | WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2. There’s an amusing story abo the Army finally getting around to rescinding the rule—75 years late—requiring a recruit to have strong, opposed incisor teeth. | A check of the Army’s musty records disclosed that the rule did have some meaning once. ’way back when the infantrymen were equipped with muzzle load- ing rifles and paper powder cartridges. They needed their snappers then to bite off the tops of the paper cartridges for quick reloading, and loss of the teeth was ample reason for re- jection of the rookie. However, all actual need for cartridge-biting incisors passed when the breech-loading rifle adopted, but the regulation re- mained on the books until this year, when it was decided that a rookie didn’t need any teeth, provided he had synthetic chop- pers able to masticate his chow properly. What makes the cartridge-bit- ing tooth rule’s long retention even more incredible is the fact that an official Army publication in 1875 pointed out that “ad- vances in military science,” such jas the -breech-loader, permitted {service of recruits barred before jthat time, and specifically pris ;tioned the outmoded need for | cartridge-gnawing. | | Rookie Needn’t Be Adonis | Incidentally, the Army hasj found that a,rookie needn't be| | Adonis to make a fine soldier. In! the past they've insisted on near/ perfection in wind and limb, and/ there was huffing and puffing among the old diehards when the | physical rules were relaxed for experimental training of under | par rookies. The experiment succeeded. They found that one-eyed men, men with fingers missing and other minor defects- made cracking } food soldiers. Oddly, it was) |found the physically handicapped | {had higher intelligence ratings | i BELGIUM NOW ENDS EXTRATERRITORIALITY «By than their physically sound bud dies. So, this acceptances have been wholesale who presages of men would thought physicals unequal to military service tw years ago. When they get around to drafting married mer and men with children, it’s pr able that the slightly spavined middle-aged crocks will go right in the ranks. Defects Won't Keep You Out Here's a partial list of defect: that won't keep you Army uniform any more: One blind eye, if the other can be corrected to 20-40 vision wit! glasses; Deafness in one ear, other's hearing is 10-20; No teeth, if no disease of Present and dentures per food mastication; Less than three curvature; Missing great toe, toes or webbed toes; Moderate deformities of the upper extremities, lower extrem ities, clavicle, ribs or scapula Provided the individual followed a useful vocation in civil life Goiter, hernia, nutritional fects or any other condition re- Pairable by simple surgery treatment. Just a reasonably complete sortment of arms and legs in fair working order is all the Army asks now. Aw out of if Beware Coughs from common coids That On Creomulsion relieves promptly be- cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phiegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in- flamed bronchial mucous mem- branes. Tell your druggist to sell you @ bottle of Creomulsion with the un- derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are CGREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis inches spina hamme as- YOUR NEWSBOY - . . buys his copies of The Citizen at whole- sale, sells them at retail. + + + pays cash for his papers. - - - loses if a customer fails to pay. + - « is embarrassed if a customer is slow pay. + + + goes the limit for his trade, is on the job rain or shine, serves his customers well. - - - asks customers to cooperate by paying him promptly and regularly. THE CITIZEN Circulation Department