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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-10-17
Today In History

1683-Historic so-called Don
gan's Charter Of Liberties and
Privileges, giving a represen-
tative assembly, adopted in New
York-soon disallowed.
I777 = Burgoyne's surrender,
Saratoga. N. Y, giving new hope
to America.
184l-Q0O years ago. Brig.
Gen. Hugh Mcleod of the Re
public of Texas. captured with
l.ls men by Mexicans.
1a43-The Bnai Birth, Jewish
fraternal order. founded in New
Y DIX.
1863-President Lincoln calls
for 100000 more men.
1901-Booker T. Washington.
Negro educator, dimes with Pres
ident Theodore Roosevelt at White
House-resulting in much talk.
1sl6-(25 years ago. President
Wilson announces failure of eff
forts to induce European Powers
to agree upon terms of relief for
Poland.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-10-17

Prof. Knowles A. Ryersan ct
the University of Call2nEHsz
College Of Agriculture. noted haF-
, ticulturist, born in Seattle, e.
years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-10-17

Key West Boy Scouts of
Troop No. 5 VIII suspend their
scouting activities until after
Christmas, butswilI retain their
utilization with the national or
ganization, Scoutuaster J. A.
BOza announced today
The boys agreed 10 suspend
activities at q meeting last night
at the barracks, explaining that
too MANY other things are IN line
for them through the Christmas
holidays
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-10-17
Today's Birthdays

DR. James S. Aa11EamerS
Methodist clergyman chaZlzw al
the Us. House. Washngton ho-
IN Mt Carmel Ind. = years aa1
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-10-17

The Citizen, in editorial para
graphs, said: 1T has been sug-
gested that with times as hard
as they are, someone may be
found who viii arrange with a
friend to be caught destroying
Identification plants. the two
splitting that $50 reward. II
anybody should try this, how
ever, he certainly viii live TO re-
gret it. With the temper of the
community what it IS In this mat
ter. no public official would dare
do less than give such an often
der the absolute limit Of the
law. And that's deal more
than $50 worth
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-10-17

PERSONALS = Charles Fors-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-10-17

Mr.. ard Mrs Gilbert McKillip
were winners Of prizes for men
ard women at a eootie party las
night at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs s W Newlan. North Beach
The party was sponsored by the
Young Adult Bible Class OF the
Fleming Street Methodist church
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-10-17

Book committee OF the public
library has announced the pur-
chase Of some Of the latest fie-
ton works Included among the
books are Sowing Glory, by P.
c Wren; The Captive Of the
Sahara. BY Z n HUH; The
Last Days Of September Pa
mela Wynne: Red Pepper Re
turns, Grace S. Richmond. and
The Ten Commandments, by
Warwick Deeping
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-10-17

Prot Edwin Borchar1. nc1
Yale law teacher. born m New
York, 81 years aE0-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-10-17

James r Garfield of Cleve-
land, lawyer, onetIme seIelzzE
Of the interior. q Presidents snr
born in Hiram. Ohio. rs years
ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-10-17

l777 = Burgoyne's surrender,
Saratoga, N. Y, giving new hope
to America.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
zyMADE UP TO KILL

tastic, but yet the simplest, the
most prosaic of my entire career. -
Look, I don't blame you for
riding high, but a girl can stand
only so much in one day"
Forgive me. I'm so silly when
I'm sober" He finished his drink
with a complete lack Of respect
for the fine old brandy. He ordered
another. Last night with your own
eyes you saw how I figured out
that Carols life was never at
tempted
"Yes."
Bowers arranged for that shot
to be fired through the window to
keep me and Peterson on the wrong
track. He hired gunman -. :"
Hired a gunman!" interrupted.
How does one go about hiring a
gunman?"
There are ways and ways. You
can advertise in the newspaper. Or
you can happen to know an ex-
bootlegger who has a brother who
is out of work because of Mr.. Dewey.
You can get gangster to knock off
friend for a grand. That's union
rates. You can get a Gauguin
knocked off a wall for chicken feed,
especially when your employe is a
great lover of Van Gogh."
But, JEFF, that bullet might've
hit one of us! Or Bowers himself!"
sGCIIra ~ ,,aicrlot DIT
ers wasn't feeling sentimental about
us or himself. And then, remember
it was after dark. your room was
brightly lighted and from the Esqua-
dor you could see into it quite
clearly. The shot was fired when
there was no one within range OF
that window. Bowers took care of
that himself, If you remember. He
called Carol away from it by pro-
posing another drink"
And did you know last night that
all this was Bowers work? That
he was the murderer"
Sure The minute realized thai
Eve was the victim and not Carol
l knew who the murderer was
There had been so many strange
undercurrents in Bowers relation
ship with her UndercurrentS that
I felt even while looking for Carols
murderer"
For instance?"
Remember when We were uI
in Bowers apartment and saw al
those beautifully bound copies Of
the plays he had produced before
he started starring Eve?"
They were practically all clas-
sizes, or were after he did them"
yeah, and all of q sudden he
Evening star., 1941-09-04

starts producing drivel for Eve. He
made money before, and he lost
money with her. And he is gen.
orally conceded to be, even by
Parker, one of the shrewdest busi-
nessmen on Broadway. Parker also
gave him credit for being a great
judge of talent, yet he kept doing
plays for Eve when every one knew
that she was through, washed up,
passe. Why would he do that, let
her drag him down from being one
of the most artistically and finan-
cially successful shoWmen in New
York to just notch above taste
less shoestringer like Vincent Par
ker? Why, Haila?"
Because he loved her?"
amelia convinced me that there
were no men in Ewes life, no men
at all, let alone Bowers. No, he
didn't love her. And she didn't
love him.
1.-The answer is that he produced
plays for her because she made him
do it. That much was obvious. But
how did she make him? That's
what I didn't know last night. The
only thing. 1t took me the rest of
the night to work up even a the
Evening star., 1941-09-04
by Kelley Roos.

and above an uproar of voices
heard Jeff's, tense and biting, some
where not far away.
Rude Awakening.
My head had almost stopped hurt
ing, two ryes had helped consider
ably to numb the pain. but I still
had the feeling of waking, cold and
clarnmy, from some horrible night
mare, and knowing it was a night
mare and still not being able to
throw off the dread and shock of it
I pressed my forehead against the
cold plate glass that fronted the
little Forty-fourth street bar where
jeff had taken me and told me to
wait for him. I dimly remember
seeing Clint Bowers surrounded by a
group of men. one of whom was
Peterson, and then jeff led me away.
And I vividly remembered having
been cracked across the back of my
neck. I had accepted the fact that
Bowers had poisoned and murdered,
but I wasn't able yet to believe
that he had chased me all over a
dark theater and then hit me across
the back of my neck. He was too
much a gentleman.
Gentlemen may murder ladies,
but they never strike one, that is,
without killing her. And in my
somewhat befuddled mind, Clint
Bowers was still a gentleman.
But the time jeff arrived I had
filled the hollow place in the pit of
my stomach with good rye, my
headache was gone. and I was
thirSting for knowledge. l cut him
short when he started being So
licitous. I feel fine, better than
l have for q week"
DO you want another highball?"
mo, 1 want 10 hear about it.
Where . :. where is he
Where they always put producers
who murder their leading ladies.
Clint Eve!" l shook my
head. Why. jeff Why and how
and where and When?'
I'm too tired to talk, Haila."
"Oh, you are, are you?"
jeff Finally Explains.
yeah, I've just finished doing
mastery piece of deduction and
detection that would have COM
pletely exhausted the brain of an
Einstein. And, consequently, my
brain is a bit tired.
jeff, tell me. Why did Clint
kill Eve?"
He didn't like her"
jeff" / pleaded.
when I took on this case, little
did I realize that it would be one
of the most difficult. the most fan
Evening star., 1941-09-04

ory and all morning to do enough
research to substantiate It,"
"Research?"
jeff grinned. Sure, I'm scientific.
Well, I knew there was blackmail
going on in these parts, but black
mail for what? I looked for a clue
in Bowers life and couldn't find
one. Then I looked in Ewes. Those
burns of hers gave me an inkling.
Nobody, apparently. knew about
them but Bowers. And Amelia, of
course. That was something. It
proved to be the right something
In 1917 newspaper I found the
answer.
That was the year of the theater
fire in which Eve was burned. She
was the company's leading lady, and
the stage manager was a young man
named Clinton Bowers. Well, Bow
ers just told Peterson a very grue-
some little story about that fire
(To be continued)
Evening star., 1941-09-04
Chapter SO.

Chapter 80.
He must hear my breath, ]
thought, even though I held it, the
loud roaring motor of my heart
If 7 lifted my head the fraction of
an inch his outstretched fingers
would be in my hair.
Oh, God, if l could only screaml
II the muscles in my throat weren't
frozen. if my tongue weren't glued
to the roof of my mouth! And
what If I did scream? What if my
voice reached Alice wherever she
was or passer-by in the alley
outside? Bowers would get to me
first. Why didn't the light come on?
Where was Nick? Or jeff? Oh,
God, where was JEFF?
And then I heard a rustic. 1t
was faint and quite far, some place
on the other side of the theater.
raised my head and my eyes fought
the darkness for the fire door closest
to me. I saw it there, only about
six rows down. BY crawling on
my hands and knees, breathlessly,
soundlessly, I could make it.
squirmed down the side aisle,
my hands scraping over the floor
and feeling my way for me. 1 was
even with the door when I first
heard the noise 1t came from the
front of the house, somewhere near
the stage. I backed into the row of
seats and stopped and waited. 1t
didn't come again. How could he
be so quiet? How could he move
about and not even dent that terri
flying silence?
The fire door was in front OF me,
outlined by a thread of light. Only
the length of one short aisle to go.
Only a few feet. I could worm my
way across the floor I could throw
myself against the door and be out
in the alley with the daylight all
around me and people passing in
the street.
Crouching under the end seat, I
stretched out my hand. 1t brushed
against something soft 1t was the
cloth of his trouser leg that 7 felt.
7 saw his eyes. phosphorescent in the
darkness, and they were wide and
glazed.
A sharp singing blow lashed the
back Of my neck and for a mo-
ment there was nothing. Then
lights seemed to flash past my
numbed brain. These. I thought
duly, are the comets and shooting
stars that you read about. But they
weren't.
Bright, prosaic flashlights cut the
darkness, piercing the great cavern,
Evening star., 1941-09-04

Frey Cristobal de Quinones, a
member of the Onate colonizing ex-
pedition, which founded San Ga
briel in 1898, was the first music
teacher in New Mexico.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
FUR-TRIMMED COATS

Don't deoy another nanute-seect your coot now!
indulge your love for precious furssiYer Fox Blended
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Fox dyed Blue, mounted famous 0oaa wool fobrlcs
Every important new style 80
months to pay; dozen payment, carrying charge
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-19

friends here as Mrs Edna Lingo,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. L. r. Lin
go of Long Neck.
Mrs. Cynthia Thoroughbred and
daughter, Miss Olive, have moved
to their new home in Millsboro.
Mr.. and Mrs Ira Rust of Booth
wyn, were recent guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Hudson for few
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur C. Wilson of
Long Neck were Georgetown visit
ors on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Short have
moved from Millsboro to their new
home recently completed near the
Indian River.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony Higgins
and little son Tony were recent
weekend guests of Mrs. Henry r.
Higgins, at house party at Reho-
both.
Mrs. j. d. Warrington and son
Calvin were recent Sunday guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Warrington
near Hollyville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Parker and
son of Lewes Beach, were Sunday
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles M.
Downs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Lynch of Mil
ford were recent guests Of Mrsh W.
T. McGGee.
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-19
Serve Chicken Camille
read hon, easy!
A real energy dish

Tasty dishes, like Chicken Camille,
made with pure all-vegetable short
ening have a comfortable Staying"
quality-give you quick energy-and
lasting energy, too.
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-19
FARM DEFENSE PROGRAM
PLANS SHOW INCREASES


1--WE are well supplied with food
and fiber"
So says Secretary Of Agriculture
Claude r. Wickard as he points
out the dependence of this nation
upon agriculture.
America depends on agricul-
ture," continues Secretary Wick
ard, ito continue production OF
needed quantities of food when
they are needed. In the face of
numerous difficulties, 6,500,000
farm families will have to do this
job"
According to C. E. Ocheltree,
chairman of the Delaware-U. s.
Department of Agriculture Defense
Board a final summary of the Farm
Defense Program plans which were
secured on every farm in Delaware
during November was completed
and sent to Secretary Wickard in
December. This summary shows
that in spite of many probable diff
culties, Delaware farmers are plan
ming to increase the production Of
every food product called for ex-
cept those crops which are already
abundant enough to supply the
country's needs.
Should a resurvey of the national
food production goals indicate any
required changes, the DeIaware-U.
S. Department of Agriculture De-
Tense Boards will be notified
SO that farmers may re-
consider their production inten
tions. Every agricultural agency in
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-19
HOUSTON

The Houston New Century Clut
met on Tuesday night, December
is, and que to the absence of the
president and first vice president
Mrs Donald Clark, the second vice
president, presided, and after the
usual business routine, the meet
ing was turned over to Miss Mary
Kielbasa and her co-chairman, Mrs.
Lynch, and they had Book Review
and after selection by the Sapp
Sisters on the guitar and banjo,
Mrs. Bowers. assistant librarian of
the Milford Library, was the guest
speaker, and after naming some OF
the newest books, she gave a re-
view of Margaret G. Banning's lat
est book on South America,
which was very interesting and in
structive. At the end of her re-
view, Albino Keilbasa gave a med
ley of sea songs on the piano. Dur
ing the social hour the hostesses
served delicious refreshments and
the meeting adjourned till Friday
night, when the members will en-
tertain their husbands with
Christmas party.
Mr.. and Mrs. John d. Kennedy Of
317 East 22nd street, Wilmington,
are receiving congratulations upon
the birth of twin girls in the Will
mington Memorial Hospital, on
Thursday morning, December IL.
Elaine was born at 1880 a. M, and
weighed 6 pounds and 81 ounces,
and Kathleen was born at 7:56 a.
M, and weighed pounds and IA
ounces. Mother and babies are do
ing fine. Mrs. Kennedy was the
former Miss Gladys Pauline This
tlewood, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Merrill w. Thistlewood Of this
town.
Mrs. Ernest w. Simpson spent
several days of the past week with
her daughter, Mrs. w. Charles Par
adee and family in Dover.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Clarke and
daughter left on Thursday morning
on a months vacation. They will
visit her people in Blue Island, Ill,
and his people in Boone, Iowa.
Floyd williams also left on We'd
nesday to join his wife who has
been visiting her parents in Dem
yer, Colo, for the past month. They
expect to be home by the first of
the year. Us
Mr.. and Mrs Stephen Shockley OF
Dover and Mrs. Pearl Messick call
ed on Mrs. Cora Satterfield on Sun
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emory Webb and
Mrs. Merrill Thistlewood went to
Wilmington on Wednesday on a
shopping trip, also to see the Ken
nedy twins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Sharp, Jr.,
and daughter Janice, were the din
ner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Sharp. Sr., on Tuesday.
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-19
SHALL WE 60 TO cOLLEGEl

In our grandfather's time, it wal
a quite unusual thing for a boy Oh
/ girl to attend a college or univer'
sity. Such a course was considered
unnecessary by most young wo-
men, and not many men attempted
it unless they aimed for some pro
fessional occupation.
Recent statistics shCw over l.
$50, 900 students taking regular col
lege and university courses, while
about 100000 take summer. courses
and nearly 100000 more take ex-
tension work. SO we have an enor-
nous army of youths digging into
hundreds of different cultural and
practical subjects.
Millions of youngsters want such
an education, but don't see how
they can get it. Many OF them think
it would be paying proposition in
| dollars and cents to get these priz-
ed diplomas, even though they have
no great taste for study.
Many college teachers say that
too many young people are trying
that kind of study. II they are taxi
ing a course of general culture
just as a means Of making more
money, they often seem to be
barking up the wrong tree" as the
old timers used to say of the dog
that was mistaken in tracking the
coon. 1t has ordinarily taken four
years to complete college course,
and if some students would put
those four years into the effort to
learn some job thoroughly. they
would have quite start over the
college graduate.
If a youth loves study, a col
lege education gives him certain
advantage. It puts him at his ease
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-19
WARWICK

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred c. Wilson of
Sylacango, Ala, wish their many
friends in lower Delaware Merry
Christmas. Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson are
former residents of Delaware and
made their home in Seaford where
Mr., Wilson was employed by the
dupont Company and was trans
ferred to Alabama this year. Mrs.
Wilson will be remembered by her
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-19

BUSINESS MADE tremendous
jump ahead when the idea became
common of telling the public with
printers ink what people had to
sell, and what these things cost.
This change gave enterprising
concerns a chance to work off
large stocks, and do business at
low prices.
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-19

when he meets educated people,
SO that he passes for a person of
wide information, which is help.
II he .ean get high marks in his
studies, employers are likely to be
attracted by his record, and to con-
clude that a youth who did so well
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-19

in his studies would do well in
their offices and shops. Young
people who go to college can use
the learning they get to good adj
vantage. and those who don't go
can become intelligent by use of
means open to everybody.
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-19

Delaware will continue to coordi-
nate its services to farm families of
the state and to administer its work
in such a way as to make defense
absolutely effective on the farm
front.
To meet the task facing Delaware
farmers, Chairman Ocheltree an
nounces that the state and county
u. S. Department of Agriculture
Defense Boards will redouble their
efforts ON the farm machinery-re-
pair campaign so that Delaware
farmers may do everything in their
power to produce food and to meet
shortages of labor and equipment.
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-19

While we are on the subject Of
dancing, don't forget that the Fire
men are still holding their weekly
barn dances in Milford Community
Smyrna times., 1941-07-10
SteeI Mile

A new continuous strip mill in Chi
cago can turn out strip of steel a
mile long and a yard wide in 2h
minutes.
Smyrna times., 1941-07-10
Prison Schools Growing
Steadily Throughout u. S.

NEW YORK.-Education and vo-
cational training to rehabilitate in
mates of American prisons has
swept through the country in the last
year, Transforming many into virtual
schools, according to a report of
the American Prison association.
Out of 1876 national and state prison
institutions, the survey said, 1913 uti-
lize educational training as an in
tegral part of their systems today.
Three-quarters of them give expert
vocational training to inmates as
well.
Forty-four state prisons, with
combined population of86, 367, report
ed 1892 inmates attending part-time
schools, and 6,769 attending full time.
Seventeen state reformatories with
1884 inmates had 4,728 in part
time and 3,427 in full time school,
the survey showed. Nearly half the
inmates were using their idle time
to train for gainful employment when
they are free.
Smyrna times., 1941-07-10
Classify 100000
For Defense Jobs
One in Fire Sholun Trained
in Some Skill.

WASHINGTON.-A report on how
Americas man power is being mo-
bilized for defense production, just
made public by Sidney Hillman, as
sociate director general Of the Of
fee of Production Management. COW
ers the activities of the national de-
fense advisory commissions labor
division under the title Labor
Speeds Defense" The division was
established last June.
In seeking to tap the nations hui
man resources for defense the divi-
sion arranged for the United States
employment service through its
1,500 employment offices to classify
more than 100000 unemployed
men and women according to trades
and skills. 1t was found that there
were about 1,000,0 900 workers who, on
the basis Of their work histories,
were suited for skilled jobs.
Employers have been using the
lists furnished from the study to fill
their personnel needs and to drain
off the unemployed in their locali-
ties.
In cooperation with the program
1t was said that the civil service
commission tapped the reservoir"
of older skilled workers by raising
the maximum age limits from As to
81 years in army arsenals and navy
shipyards.
Under the auspices Of the civil
service commission more than $780,
900 civilian workers had been placed