The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 21, 1946, Page 6

“PAGE SIX ey LL --- Constant Dame ee ~~ NINA: LESLIE CALLEJA “ PART II TT This*Charlie ‘was one of your 100°. wrong guys. Anything bad could be said about him with per- fee}, safety. First of all he was a drunk, but so were ninety-nine out of every hundred newspaper * rfien in town, so that couldn’t very = well be held against him. He was “algo a liar, a cheat, a cad, a cur, a Skunk and a polecat. Any name like that just about described Charlie, except that it seemed sort of unfair to the curs, skunks and polecats. Charlie had been mixed up for years with Cleo Kirk, another of the undesirable ilk, who matched his meanness with a few feminine improvements of her own. She had a husband, a hard-working, home-loving sap with pimples on his netk and a steadfast faith in his Wife that no amount of bald- faced evidence could shake. Half the time Cleo lived with her hus- band and the rest of the time she caroused around with Charlie. And they were a nasty pair of covotes. They crashed into Beulah’s party unheralded and uninvited. Nobody ever invited them any- where. And crashed is the right word here, because they came in with such impetus that Charlie sailed across the room, stopping only because the fireplace got in his path. He went down like a log, and the rest of us said, “Tch- teh-tch,” and went on with our “conversation, for we had had pre- vious samples of Charlie’s violent entrances, and knew you couldn’t hurt him with a poleaxe. Cleo was yelling lustily for a drink, and when she had been quelled we turned to find Hera sitting by the fireplace with Charlie’s head pillowed in her lap, the while she stroked his battered chim and cooed at him. Charlie, completely bewildered, was blink- ing up at her. Believing, no doubt, that his dts had taken a favorable turn, the customary - yelloy.snakes and navy blue monkeys having for the moment become cooing angels, his face took on a fatuous look and he Nestled down comfortably to en- joy the miracle. And that was the conmimonplace beginning of the horrible end. “The mext day Hera instituted inquiries about Charlie, and you’d think. the things she learned about him would have discour- awed her, for she collected enough to hang him. Out of all the evi- “dence there emerged one single fein his favor. Charlie was writing a book, and two or three people had read snatches of the manuscript. According to reports, it was a potential knockout. Hera set her teeth in that one fact and went to work on it. First she had to find Charlie, and that wag no joke in those days when there were 25,000 speakeasies in NewYork. But she finally ran him down and cornered him. “Why don’t you brace up and fimish your book, instead of lying around drinking?” she demanded. “Drink?” said Charlie groggily. “Good idea. Lets have a drink.” That began Act II, with fur- ther scenes depicting: (a) Charlie, still bewildered but willing to be led, submitting to the “Cure,” with Hera hovering in the background suffering with him. “The Cure” comprised an assortment of highly odorous min- eral waters, which, when taken internally, induced a state re- sembling acute seasickness, ac- companied by a complete k of desire for food, drink or anything except 4 quick, merciful parting of spirit and body. (b) Charlie creating a mild pan- ic by showing up sober at his paper the following day, writing a swell story and pyramiding everything with a “I don’t want to talk to her. Tell her anything. Tell her I’m not in,” when Cleo telephoned. (c) The staff of our paper cov- ertly and with many misgivings watching Hera go about with a “Love-has-at - last - entered - my - life” look in her eye and an un- toward absent-mindedness in her general attitude. (d) Young Ingram the living | picture of Misery. {e) Cleo chewing her nails and plotting ugly revenge, with sap husband, more than usually sappy, puttering about trying to placate her. Then suddenly things took a turn for the worse. Cleo got hold of Charlie and they went on a bender. Hera grimly went after them and tore Charlie from the siven’s grasp. Figuring there was only one place,, probably, where Cleo couldn't follow him, Hera pet Charlie into Mame Cunning- ham's bed. Mame was fit to be tied, so Hera moved him over in- to her own bed. That got to be the regular nightly schedule. Cleo, sulking around the office entrance, would nail Charlie as he came out. To- NIGHT CLUB SPECIAL FOR MIAMI - HAVANA MIAMI, Nov. 21 (FNS).—Some- thing new in international avia- tion—a night club special to transport pleasure seekers to rum and rumba spots of Havana and | back to Miami before dawn — is to be inaugurated this week by Pan American Airways. Reservations have already overflowed one big four-en- gined 55-passenger Clipper and a | second section is rapidly filling tup. The planes will leave Miami at 9:00 p. m. with evening- gowned, dinner-jacketed passen- gers, and land in Havana an hour later. GETS LICENSE JUST IN TIME MT. CARMEL, Ill.—Driving home from town, after buying } his duck hunter’s stamp at the ost office, C. M. Follis, of Keens- urg, Ill, had the experience of having a mallard duck fly right through his automobile wind- jaueld and fall dead on the front seat beside him. ————— gether. they would repair to a speakeasy and get outside some alcohol. Sonner or later Hera {would track them down, shgo off Cleo and haul Charlie home. Sometimes Charlie was a little unmanageable, and then Hera would sport miscellaneous bruis- es, scratches, weals, welts and dark spots on her neck. , One night he nearly killed Hera in one of his more recalcitrant moments, and she was hospital- ized for a week. An angry mur- mur went up among Hera’s friends. Charlie’s. life wasn’t worth a plugged nickel. In all fairness to him, or as nearly fair nyone could feel toward the dirty dog, it must be admitted that it was a blow to Charlie when he sobered' up enough to learn what had transpired. Suf- ficient of a blow, at least, to keep him sober for two solid weeks. He even offered to marry Hera, and further announced his inten- tion of bracing up, becoming a new man, getting rid of Cleo for good, and completing the book. Having made these high re- solves he took a drink to toast his reformation, another drink to: seal it, several more because he wanted them, and in two hours} was plastered to the eyeballs, Cleo, as usual, performing her duty nobly by spurring him on to even more frantic efforts to drink the country dry. It took Hera five days to steam him out this time, handicapped as she was with a broken arm and fired him. Mame Cunningham, by her own admission a reason- able woman and a telerant one, a firm believer in the live-and- let-live creed, nevertheless felt that fun was fun but. Her home} was Hera’s home, but Charlie| was barred, henceforth and for- ever. Hera smiled gently, kissed Mame and moved into an apart- ment of her own, lugging Charlie ‘and his manuscript along with | her. | “He will finish his book,” she said, “and then we'll have a lot! of money and get married and} have children and be happy.” A beautiful thought, that, for ia while it looked like it might] come to pass. Charlie, virtually a prisoner, watched over con- stantly by a devoted mistress, waxed fat and contented. Chap- ter after chapter of the much- presaged book came into being. And it was good. A publisher, having mulled excerpts, was greatly interested. About this time Hera got a break in the shape of an offer from a woman’s magazine to be one of its associate editors. “I! may as well take it,” she said,} “though it will only be for a little while. Soon Charlie will have his book finished, and he of! course will never consent to my working after we are married.” She took the post, and kept it. For four years. Charlie had about twenty-four lapses, all told, dur- ing these four years, each lapse | lasting about ‘a month. That | meant he was improving, and staying sober approximately half the time. He was in and out of} the Alcoholic Ward at Bellevue} Hospital so often he got so he went there by himseif from force } of habit. Hera refused to be dis- couraged. She paid the liquor bills he ran up, fed him and clothed him, loved him and re-! grew so slowly it was hardly worth mentioning, but Hera did, mention it at every opportunity, | iterating and reiterating the} changes that would take place |} on its completion. months’ Mediterranean cruise, figuring it would do him good. It ; did. He had a golden chance to} |sample foreign drinks, and on { evidence was Charlie’s new- found fondness for absinthe, de- mands for which he drove bar- tenders all over Manhattan fran- tic. (To Be Continued) jaw.. His paper had meanwhile | By WILBU! AP Newsfeatures ; THE KEY WEST CITIZEN [LAND UNDER WATER | IS NO JOKE IN MIAMI - R JENNINGS IAMI, Fla.—The Florida peninsula has growing pains! Where only a few months ago vacationers swam and fished, and sailboats cut pretty pictures, Miamians today are preparing to build homes. The Miami area's man-made colony of 25 islands, 22 of | them inhabited, is being enlarged with six new ones being brought up from the depths o Big hydraulic dredges suck the ¢———————-___-__—-— the Miami area, the rock is about 12 feet below the surface of the bay’s bottom upwards a day, seven days a week. It's Worth $3,500 An Acre averages. about $3,500 an acre ex- | cept where the boitom and the multi-toothed cutter: counter trouble. wr ISLANDS dredged up from Six more are being added to however, is readily forthcoming most of the time since it results in wider and deeper channels. The mammoth dredges push the combination of water and sol ids through pipes—sometimes a mile in length—at the rate of %4 cubic feet a second until the fill- s some five feet above ed land sea level, the requisite height for a man-made island. Where the islands are of pumped-up rock, building begins immediately. Sand, however, must be allowed to settle. S of the ‘original Miami lands stood for 11 building was permitted on them. years before Miami Beach proper is the larg- est island in the area, 99 percent of it having been filled in from 1912 to 1914. But disregarding Miami Beach, the richest of the other islands is exclusive La Gorce ven though only about half of it is built up at present its 1946 real evaluation set at $1,92 ie The highest assessed is Di Lido, TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS (Know America) Wilson W. Wyatt, administra- tor of the National Housing Agen- ey. ex-mayor of Louisville, in Louisville, 41 years ago. Capt. Edward Ellsburg salvage expert, inventor, and lecture ven, Conn., 55 yea’ Dr. Stuart A. Ric reau of the Budget s sociologist, born at Minn., 57 years ago Abram Garfield of Cleveland, born sub author ago. noted Bu- atistician Wadena, tained her faith in him. The book | area te son of a President, born! Russian,,born im {in We shington, D. C., 74 year ago. Eleanor T. Pow dancer-ac- tress, born Springfield, Mass., 34 years ago Harpo (Arthur) Marx, come- She even took Charlie on a two | @an, born in New York City, 53} years ago. LUCKY FIND SHAWANEE, Okla While their return the only change in! flying at 400 feet in rough air! near Pauls Valley, Okla., McKerracher, who patrols an oi Pipeline from ti air, lost his false teeth. On the next day he drove to the area and found his teeth, undamaged. | through ; 20-inch pipes working 24 hours REAL ESTATE is pumped up at 24 cubic feet per second by these big dredges at Miaipi. In a few years—mansions. born in New Ha-| Lyle! f Biscayne Bay. bay bottom. This land, unseen, the sea sell for $3,500 an acre. Miami's 25 in Biscayne Bay. $2,117,690, which is more developed. Why It's Famous ! The assessed valuation of prop- erty on 23 of the islands totals $31,235,610 for 1946 — a figure which makes it y to see why the waterfront area came to be known as the “gold coast” Many of the island mansions with luxurious yd anchored j at their front doors were built in the lush 1920's and since have changed hands, but to ogle-eyed tourists the sightseeing guide points out the home former homes along “millionaires’ ~,of such pe as Harvey Firestone, Major Albert Warner, Moe L. Annenberg, John Jacob Astor, II, Warren G. Wright, Gar Wood, Fred Snite, Jr., R. J Reynolds, Jr. Harry Richman. was pur- The cost of the land presently ,chased at, approximately $1,000) an acre from the State of Florida is rock; and then permission had to be ob- en- | tained from the War Department Fortunately, in! for the dredging. The permit, | {berts’ which they take on the | Line. Secretary of State Cor. ee j dell Hull resigns and is succeeded | x y x {by Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. | ta _ 1945—-All German “war crim- | y ‘ ° inals” plead not guilty at Nuren- { burg. | row"! s.| Damon Runyon, Ambassador Wil-! liam D. Pawley, Max Fleischer and others. The tourists, however, get aj bigger kick in gazing on the home! of Al Capone, who now his Palm Island year ‘round. lives residence the Today’s Anniversaries (Know America) i { | | atl 1785—William Beaumont, army jsurgeon, St. Louis physician, | ; Whose researche to the diges ‘tive tem mark an epoch in medical history, born at Lebanon. | {Conn. Died April 25, 1853 1834—Henrietta H. R. Green} | (Hetty Green), eccentric, fabu- | | lously wealthy woman financier H of her generation, born in New Bedford, Mass. Died July 3, 1916 \ 1850— 1 alis Died June 26, 1928 | 1860—Tom Horn, Government {scout in the Apache war, ck ; detective. born in Scotland Coun- | ty, Mo. Hanged at Cheyenne, for + murder, Nov 1903. 1887— L. Tinker, ma | Jor-gene: va air head | born in K. i at battle | of Midway | pit om | Shirt Sleeve Rebellion CUCUTA, Colombia.—(AP)- | Local movie theaters h closed down by public request ; & protest against the mayo: |cree which forbids si jattending in shirt s Isabel F. Hapgood, journ- } author, translator from the | Philadelphia. } » been} f the funeral bili of the nk» eye cpl al ‘Thome an HIS “RESURRECTION” “DECATUR, Hl — A fri: telephoned Miss Maxine Goveia{ that her black ; br di been’ killed* by a car friend had taken care of TODAY IN HISTORY (Know America) 1620—The Pilgrim Fathers sign historic Mayflower Compact be- fore landing at Plymouth, by| which they agree to be governed } by such rules .. . made by com- }~ mon consent for the good of all. 1789—North Carolina ratifies | the new Constitution—12th State. 1859—Opening of Grand Trunk } Railroad to Port Huron, Mich. 1893—U.S. Supreme Court rules Great Lakes to be high seas. 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