The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 7, 1952, Page 11

AN’ 1D LIKE 7] 0 GIT ALONG WIF YOU, 100, MOTHER ALLTHIS MONEY WE'RE ALONE y= IN THE HOUSE ? 43 core seas EEO FEATCER: SVAPICATE te. SORLD SEER SUERTE, WONOUN WHY TH" RIGHT FIELOUH OMNT Trav T* MA BUBBUH a MOE. Chapter 33 HANDS in his pockets, a ques- tioning frown in his eyes, Johnny sirolled toward the low building. He walked around it slowly, carefully observing the windows. He saw that the board window coverings could be swung open—but only from the imside.| On the porch were’ wide double doors. He tried the Knob of one, found it securely locked. At the far end of the yeranda was an- other smaller door. Woodwork of the building was badly in need of paint, and had decayed in spots. Examining the trim around the smaller door at the far end of the Perch, he found that a strip adjoining the door lateh was loose.. There was a Yale-type lock. Johnny took the. penknife oo a alge ang ane = er ade, mana; to. wor. it behind the parteti: rotted strip. Finally the blade grated against, the bolt part of the lock that held the door fast in. the, frame. By careful manipulation Johnny at last managed to, slip the snap bolt back a quarter of an inch, It was sufficient. The door opened. He pinched out the cigarette, flipped the butt away and stepped inside the building, The place did not have the musty smell of a house that has aes closed for an indefinite time. yes narrowing, Jo! y stepped back and pei a or behind him. He saw that there were two large rooms, connected by an archway. Light came through from windows in the’ doubf® doors Monday, April 7, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page * BY WILLIAN @. BOGART The place was furnished with electricity. He saw a double electric plate, an electric per- edlator, On a shelf just above ere was some canned goods, Re- joving one of the cans he glanced j at a complicated-looking number | stamped into the tin, Then he re- | moved several more of the cans and looked at them. He saw a small earton containing individual packets of orange pekoe tea. There was a card table that had |} been left set up near one of the double doors. If the door: was open you'd get a nice breeze from | the water and also be able to see ie Pua across the distant uff, _ The portable typewriter—still jin its carrying case—was sitting atop the card table. Unlareleg: it, Johnny raised the cover ani wiped his finger across the metal of the machine. Only a little dust showed on his finger. He closed the cover and looked around the room. HiS eyes searched swift! yet missed nothing, He went back into the adjoining room, Along one wall he had noted a built-in bookease. He had to move a heavy leather-cavered divan a foot or so in order to reach the shelves. He saw di velumes on. fishi yach' hunting—but not a thing that re- sembled an unfinished manu- script, . Johnny. remembered how he, when he had been writing stories for the fiction magazines—and especially when the yarg was a jong one—used to file the in the cover of a cardboard type: writer paper box. He thought per- haps if he could locate somethi Similar... | By Roy Gotto pl vor ig shone him the interior, a side wall he saw i lay, -enclosed gun were ipproge 5 sles rifles an Shei, Wer He caught e Peal ar below of ease hold- by was a smaller g FAS, paused. turning his. head, e listening. | Quick eaiaiee the: ‘hoed raws . It was aon! - } grater cnt ca He: wits ne awn lection and probably worth plenty money, ‘ in the narrow spage between and hs ‘The second room was similar to| heavy leather couch the first but contai at one) wall. end, a small portable bar and tiny kitchenette, = "© a! Someone entered the i lroom.-The door did fy ied seemed te think it was odd for T saw no one else walking. The k | people drove by in their cars and NOTES: By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (®—Oskar Wer- ner; the * sensational” young. Aus- trian actor, has arrived in. Holly- wood with some refreshing views of these United States. Werner, the sensifive Soldier gf “Decision Before Dawn,”’.has been in this ‘country fdr about two weeks. After flying the. Atlantic, he spent three days in New York and then eame to .Héllywood, where he will make “The Man Who Fooled Hitler.” He is still awe-struck by our republic, “To anygne who Was ‘heen brought up ih Europe,” regngrked the blond, baby-faeed “actor, here, my dreams have not been shattered. here was the wonderful feeling of freedom ard equality. You don’t realize what freedom is when you jlive without it, as we Austpiang did under Hitler. You were never jable to confide in anyone ‘unless |you were positive the presen was | } safe. Any person could go up to} : hi lice and ey f lig. By Jose Salinas-and Rod Reed tenis to the forcisn beoadcaste ; The punishment was exeeution. | “Even in Europe today, we do | not have the equality thet you have eihere. In Europe, a secretary is {considered on a lower level, but | here she is the equal of anyone.” | Werner was a trifle disappointed when he arrived from Europe. On | {the drive from the ithought the New Yor j were no bigger than those fn lrope. But after he settle Manhattan hotel, he took a walk— |“‘And the buildings kept getting | jtaller and taller.” | “f walked for hod lated, “because I th jthe way to see this tl was amazed that people nized me and stopped to t me. You can't rea | derful thing it is | to come to a st be greeted like a Werner took like any tox ed, they showed me all the outdoor sets at the studjo—streets af New York, London, Paris and so forth. Then I wen a walk in Beverly Hills. | | The homes there seemed leas real | than the movie sets. There is every kind of are’ t tab STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE Triumph Coffee Mill aft | ALL GROCERS “America is a fairy tales about | life in America. Now that I amj “The first thing that struck me | ‘someone to be walking!” ‘Werner, looks. amazingly young for his 29 years. In New York, he was. even viewed askance by a waitress who almost. refused to seli him. a drink, believing he was | under-age. He bag “a wife and 8 | year-old daughier, who live in Switzerland. Aside from his. acting assign- ment, the actor's trip te Hollywood is a significant one, It marks his first meeting with his wife’s fa- | ther, Egon Witrofsky. The latter ,is a Jew who fled Austria in 1938 | | amd came to this country to be- | jcome a Hollywood lawyer. Werner | i said he-didn't go so far as to ask | him for his daughter's hand when | they met here, } Werner has appeared’in more ; than 45 plays and seven films in| Germany, France, England and TEVER YOUR NEEDS IN THE LINE OF Children’s TOYS tag COME TO THE TROPICAL TRADER 718 Duval St, Phone 1001 a> newsfearvea there was no sound. He wondered’ if his presence had been detected. There was one way to find out. He raised his head slowly, Aguring on the shadows in this part the room acting as a cover. He saw the girl standing there, _ iat dae aie in her trim, straight figure. She was meteniee the Porky on Salty bluff. As though reassured that she had not been observed or followed, she closed the door. The girl was Kay. Jo! watched her next ac- tions with interest. She stepped to the card table, removed the portable | Pererier from its case and pulled a chair up to the table. Sitting down, her movements pur. posefi and quick, she removed a folk bed of paper from the feast of white linen sports jacket. She unfolded the paper and put it into the Slowly, one wily, Ree at a time, Schnay ‘wathaed “When ‘she Wo: ished a line, she shifted the car- ri slowly started ther. ‘Gvereame with Ei ny Saxon out the div moved up a shoes made less. ne and. read the eran words just typed on the paper: You IRENE DON’T: Cad) REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE. OTHERWISE MIGHT BE ANOTHER He waited as the last word was wae t out. It was “A-C- -D-E-N-T.” C-1. regen ; Ration. t was room. 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