The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 21, 1947, Page 3

' _y @ays in Havana, Cuba. ae | z E % ¥ : Ey Fe e rs ne Es a°2 BPR Pe 4 F : E i et us have _ After a whole night of watching it is fair to build ourselves up a little.” ' This pro meeting with no contr hel prepared ‘the repast in a few minutes. But they ate for eating’s sake, they drank . without toasts, without hurrahs. The bold travelers being borne away: into gloomy space; without their accustomed cortég the of rays, felt a vague uneasiness a nace args The “strange” shadow ‘so ar. to Victor o’s pen bound them on all sides. But they talked over thé interminable night of three hundred and fifty-four hours — a-half, nearly fifteen days, which the law of ‘physics has imposed on the inhabitants of spite of the many reasons for | economizing, Barbicane, after . having begged light:from the was ps Br obliged to beg for a The. projectile’s low temperature ants would have been frozen to death. ee We may, perhaps, be astonished - to find bicane and his com- ponsene so little ied with the — future reserved for them in their metal prison which was bearing them through the infinity of space. Instead of asking where they were * going. they passed their time making experiments, as if they had been ‘quietly installed in their own study. * We might answer that men so - strong-minded were above such “ anxieties —that they did not - trouble themselves about such — trifles — and that they had some- thing else to do than to’ occupy their minds with the future. The truth was that they were not masters of their projectile; ' they could neither check its course, ° nor alter its direction. (Te be centinued) . tion of the solar rays no more ONE inexplicable fact preoccu- ‘ ‘XY? pied Barbicane. Why, having passed within such a short dis- tance of the moon—about twenty- five miles only—why the projec- tile had not fallen? If its spee been enormous, he could have understood that the fall would not have taken place; but, with a relatively moderate speed, that resistance to the moon’s attrac- tion could net be explained. Was the projectile under some forei influence? Did some kind of b retain it in the ether? It was quite evident that it could never reach any point of the moon. Whither was it going? Was it going farther which was small, he was obliged to ask from it a fictitious light, an expensive . brilliancy which the .sun._ then ref : - “Devil take the radiant orb!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “which forces us to expend gas, instead of giving us his rays gratuitously.” . “Do not let us accuse the sun, ‘aaid Nicholl, “it is not his fault, “ —- - Personals Alpisar Visits Havana Raul Alpizar left‘over Aerovias Q yesterday for ‘a visit of several _...M.. Carmona and son left for "Havana yesterday where they will spend a_ vacation visiting; relatives and frignds. : Mike Rodriguez, general mana- ger of Aerovias Q in Mavanii,; ar- rived yesterday and will remain until the, last passenger of, the Ghatenct ‘and ail Tours’ has left for Cuba, ‘TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS (Know America) Robert.. Montgomery, «screen: . Star, wartime Navy lieutenant- commander, born in Beacon, -N. “°% < 2d } tr. ; > 4 A! aide ~ Glas acca fa. 8 and You Will Get GUARANTEED Refrigeration Service Y., 43 years. ago. . Rt. Rev. John Chanler White, ; retired Springfield, ‘Il, P. E. . : iz en Seaeiny bishop, born in Laurens Co., S. Healthy and Sef | Senate Armed Services Commit- tee, born in Yankton, S. D., 51 years ago. —_——_——————_——_—— Subscribe to Tne Citizen—2% weekly. Se aan RD, CVVUVVVVVese CVO VVVVwe STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE TRIUMPH COFFEE MILL _. at All Grocers be et he bb be) Thompson Enterprises, Ine, U. S. Senator Chan Gurney of South Dakota, chairman of the (ICE DIVISION) PHONE NO. 8 : KEY WEST. FLA. ~ Overseas Transportation Company, Ine. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service Between ORLANDO ~ CARABALLO ‘2800 HARRIS AVENUE @ Plumbing @ Contracting @ Repairs For Efficient and Courteous Service —Call 77-W— MIAMI and KEY WEST Also Serving ALL POINTS on Floride Keys Between Miami! and Key West Express Schedule: - (No Stops En Route) LEAVES MIAMI DAILY ‘(EXCEPT , SUNDAYS) -at 12:00 ec’clock Mid- en and arrives at Key West st 6:00 o'clock A. M. cee At All Intermediate Points) ft MAP atehaern caval H a M. and arrives at Miami af 4:00 e’- HEAT RASH? - QuicooL ‘Don’t suller the nagpi ~ paren ieching Glock P.M. MENNEN LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 9:00 o'clock A.M. and arrives at Key West at 5:00 o'clock P.M. Sprinkle _cooli GUICOOL dee 0 our skin. Count to . Seven—and vemile. with’ relief Q ve pianta uu: pv Thang ni Teena on working for and hours. s i irati fast. Special It deies up cng Re aoe y prickles. £ Beal the ced FREE PICK-UP and DELIVERY SERVICE calles Ss ". FULL CARGO INSURANCE. oe Office: $13 Caroline Street WAREHOUSE: Corner Eaton and Francis Streets‘ LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EX: , CEPT SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P. M. Ar ; vives ot Diam pt 13:00 o'clock Mid- was no longer endurable. Its ten- . : *