The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 18, 1953, Page 4

Pege4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, December 18, 1953) nee ee nSnnnn The Key West Citizen Kite, trom Tae Chines Bulag, Corser ot Grecoe snd Ann 8 Only Deity Newspaper in Key West and Menree County tL. P. ARTMAN NORMAN D. ARTMAM Entered at West, ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION ‘The Citizen is forum and invites discussion of public issues IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN NEW POSTAL INCREASES __ Because package mail has been handled at substan- tial losses in recent years, the recent Democratic admin- istration proposed higher parcel post rates. That admin- istration also proposed general increases for many types of mail, and the Republican administration supported the Program. : As a result, general increases in parcel post rates went into effect October 1st and new parcel-post rates on cata-| logues, other printed advertising matter and other publica-| tions, will take effect soon. Chapter 21 | es THE doorway, Cloud said, “Well.” The advances in rates for this latest group of pub-| Martin straightened self - con- lications are the latest rate hikes to be announced, and | S¢iously. “Well,” he echoed. “Did amount to a seventeen per cent increase. Among other things, they will mean that a mail order house, which is-| sues a catalogue, will have to spend many thousands of dollars more in mailing out such catalogues to large num- bers of customers. Such increases, in time, will be reflected in prices of goods in the mail-order house catologues, although since the postal services have been losing millions of dollars in recent years, no one can claim that the new revenue is not needed. it is estimated that general rate increases, already in effect, will add about $153,000,000 a year to parcel post charges. The additional rate hikes will give the govern- ment another $3,500,000. Signing notes is a painful process, and sometimes a costly one. The pretty young things will look even prettier on color television, We are inclined to think the community has too many organizers. There are any number of people who will be glad to borrow ten dollars from you, When you come right down to it, few of your friends will meet you half way on the entertainment expenses, Fortune tellers wouldn’t make a living if a lot of people didn’t think they could actually read the future. The Eisenhower administration will win or lose the next election on the state of the nation, not the state of the nation during the Truman administration, —_— IS|AICIOMS SIPIA) Crossword Puzzle Moma mag LIE IVIEIRIAIG EREM ACROSS (ULE RRE WE REMIOIR AIL] (OIE |RIM/A|L IME IN] LAO MM |OlT Ml OINTE| AICIEIRMEMIAIB MM AlVIEIR) Gee BOM Mit MIA|PRBHIOTAIRSIC) BIT |PIEIO MRA! tT MRAITTA) AICI TIDE AINICIHIOIRIETT MIAINIE Be | INIKEBAICIRIE! AICIEISMERIEISHE TIHIEIN) Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie 8 Segment of acircle 9, Masses of fish eggs 10, Article 11, Expand 12 o> soa eps tally 17. Philippine mn Chdwee Adel dd HRGEe Jee made of ale @. Member of an Israelite tribe 41. Tools for | you make any headway?” | “Not as much as you, apparent- ly. We think she was slugged and | put in the oven before eleven.” i eee was about eleven when I “I know.” | Martin blinked. For an instant he regarded Cloud incredulously, then a tired, fretful sort of anger seeped through his veins. “Here we go again. When at a | loss for a suspect, pick the handi- est person.” “And the likeliest.” |, “Ever since Searle died Ive | been getting a runaround from you and, to a lesser extent, from Miss Ennis. I've tried to be pa- tient, but you've thought I was dumb, Well, that first murder has brought forth another, and for all T know a little frankness and ‘co- operation at the-start might have prevented it.” Berbara learned forward ear- nestly. She said, “Pll do anything T can to help you, Lieutenant.” “That's fine. And you, King?” He was sry like a casti- ted schoolboy. In his present tame of mind defiance was the ae ‘ible reaction, bs call your bluff,” he said, rising. “Take me in and charge me with this murder and the oth- er, .co. Now that you've exhaust- ed your eloquence calling names ing accusations, lct’s see you try to make them stick. I’ll do my talking in front of an audi- ence that has the authority to set- tle the argument for good.” “You'll have your chance, de- nd on it,” Cloud assured him. ‘A jury ought to enjoy your ex- Planation of why you lied about By DON CAMERON being at your apartmen. the night Searle was killed. Maybe they'll agree with your theory that Clarabelle Messmer saw someone leaving your place, and decide she saw you—and you weren't alone.” i A blow from a fist could not have shocked Martin more, “What are you talking about?” “About footprints in a rug,” Cloud replied. “The ones I'm thinking of now were in the car- pet in your apartment, a worn carpet with fibres that have lost their spring. Besides the marks of your shoes we saw, when we came to view the body, those of a lady’s shoes, size seven, double-A width if I remember right—” “GEVEN A,” Barbara said. “Just one A.” Martin groaned, “Don’t fall into his trap, Barbara. Use your brains.” “You could use some of her brains to good advantage,” Cloud remarked acidly. “You may as well know, King, we’ve revised the timetable you gave me of your movements that night. The bar- tender at Rossetti’s says you and Miss Ennis came in at twelve- forty-five; he was watching the clock because he'd expected his girl at half-past twelve and she was late.” We left Martin’s apartment at half-past twelve,” Barbara said. “We had found Searle dead and were afraid it would look bad for us if it were known we’d been there.” Cloud said, “You have no idea how refreshing it is to hear a simple, honest statement, Miss Ennis. Did you and King reach the apartment together?” “Yes,” Martin said quickly. “Almost,” Barbara corrected, “I was a minute or two ahead of him and went in when I found Lig Another Graie She went on to give a full ac- count of rete call to her at the Gold Mine Club, her Hal Boyle NEW YORK Ww — As qur life:f grows more crowded, we lose, one p by one, some of the things that jgive it deepest meaning. The price of lack of space in New York City is the tragedy of ithe one-room apartment. It affords |a cage-like existence for thousands of couples who cook, live, eat, sleep, entertain, fight—and some times die—in a single room. | But even many of the larger luxury apartments in Manhattan now include no separate dining room. You eat in the living room or, perhaps, in something called a dining alcove. This is a land- jlord’s term for a leftover grea so | small that even he doesn't have the courage to call it a room — or the sense to wall it up and make it a closet. A dining alcove here in the para- ‘dise of the modern cliff dweller is usually described by the rental agents as “cozy Well, Tom Thumb and his wife might find it cozy. But all a person of average jsize gets from a dining alcove is ja haunting sense of claustrophobia and jail cramp. How can you ever have a real home without a dining room? After nearly 17 years in this concrete jungle, where your success is largely measured by the number of bathrooms you can afford, the thing I miss most is a plain, old- fashioned dining room. Some of the pleasantest memo- ries of my life go back to the dining room in the big old frame house of my youth in Kansas City, a house so durable it finally even were out the mortage on it. The dining room was more than} \just a place to eat. It was a won- trip to meet nim to talk with |derful place to play on rainy days.) Says ly courtroom d justice as we his five t do y t that child ay?” Mama would ask. Dad would reply s where Dad dis as boiling Neil, Edward, Dolores. said Mama. She always e a roll call of the c ren vexed, but everybody knew that the last one she named was the one she meant, And no matter what my crime was, I could look around the le and see an ip terested expression in the faces of Dad my sister and brothers tha ; well, let's see if Harold can talk his way out of this one,” Usually the punishment was no more than a stern rebuke, forgot- ten by the time the boiling beef was gone. We all knew Dad didn’t like to spank a child on a full stomach. Dad knew it, too. As the children grew older and exercised more voice in family affairs, supper became as noisy as meal time at the 200, Every- body tried to talk at ore, and the price of being hegfd was that somebody got more of the boiled beef. How I wish I could go back to that dining room now with a magic recording machine able to pick up the vanished echoes that bounced off its walls through so many years —the shouted accusations, the in- dign«nt denials, the bragging, the occasional weeping, the praise— all the stormy history in sound of a happy family around a dining table. . People need room to laugh in. Maybe it is possible to have as much fun eating in an alcove as in the spacious dining rooms, that else Martin about the letters, and what/|It was the family forum, where |brightened the old homes and now came after. Cloud did not inter- the door open.” rupt once. “Do you want to add, subtract or change anything, King?” Cloud asked when she had finished. Martin said no, Barbara had covered it thoroughly. Strangely, how that the truth was out he felt not only relief, but an agree- able sense of justification; for in her straightforward te! » what they had done sounded neither as foolish nor as reprehensible as he had feared. “Did you change anything in the place?” “I only took a piece of paper from one of his hands,” Martin said. “It was a note he’d made of my address. I put it in my pocket and later threw it away.” “Are you sure it was in Searle’s handwriting?” i “I took it for granted.” “Probably thig wasn’t impor- tant; but if it was written by someone other than Searle, it could mean he was sent to your apartment by the writer, who had a particular reason for wanting Searle found dead there.” “Well, it's gone.” Martin went through his coat pockets to make sure, it. I suppose, Miss Ennis, you realize that your being alone in King’s place so near the time of the murder suggests certain un- pleasant conclusions?” ‘ “I do realize it, Lieutenant. That's why I tried to keep it from | becoming known.” Martin said, “She'd been there | only about a minute. What's to | | USED CARS keep you from concluding that was there earlier, killed Searle, went out and came back again?” “T'm not overlooking you.” (To be continued) i Here’ aA fo VERSEAS RADIO Elijah Sands, Prop. AND APPLIANCE CO. 617 DUVAL STREET Phone 2-3251 “We won't lose any sleep over | jwe talked out our problems around|are going out of fashion, But some- |the table at dinner, known in those|/how I doubt it. Nothing is aded, |days as supper. It was also the/and something is missing. j | Bold “Employe” Back To Get Warm | ‘ DETROIT WW—Michael (Mike) Ba ptlard Ragas emir Oeiec Colonski, 63, is back in a warm, tak the w gathers ae ~ ar snug place where he already has leorduroy skirt. And police of two|SPent 30 of 1953's 365 days. It pe rs - is the Detroit House of Correction, jcities are looking for her. olay why: . Recorder's Judge 0. Z. Ide She walked into two Kalamazoo| greeted Mike’s appearance yester- stores and one in Grand Rapids, day with: “What can I do for She boldly posed as a new employe the dean of drunks today? among many hired for the Christ-; ‘It’s real cold out, judge,’ Mike | mas rush. Then she tapped the| replied. “I’m hungry. It’s Christ- | cash till and departed. So far she’s|mas, you know.” y at least $152 ahead. | ‘Sure, Mike, -how’s 90 days?” In Grand Rapids she walked up| the judge asked’ as he scanned a |to a cash register, opened it and/record showing 145 arrests for | |took $87, explaining to a trusting|/drunkenness or vagrancy over| |temporar¥ employe: “The boss Mike’s last 30 years, Mike smiled sent me to get the money,” [as he was led away. 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