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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-19
CHAPTER VIII

Jim Mallory eyed the visitors with unconcealed bad humor. He won- dered if this was the fellow who had been with Eric Forbes Sunday night He wasn't sure.
 The man wore a white tropical suit that was well tailored. He had brown curly hair, blue eyes sun-browned skin. He was about thirty He could, Jim thought pass for 8 gentleman but there was an intangible hint of tough ness about him.
 Jim said, Keep your money, mister. And get of my ship"
 Mallory, I have five thousand dollars on me. I can raise twenty thousand more. It's yours if you say the word" That was a jolt. Jim fetlt men, tally rocked under its impact That much money was 8 lot of money. It was so much money it couldn't be honest money. 1 Mister, just keep talking. May Fbe I'll listen, if you talk enough.' Money talks better than I do, Mallory," said the man in his careful way He brought out a wallet, showed Jim its contents of hundred-dollar bills. "Will you listen to that?" And all I have to do for Twenty-Five thousand" Jim said, lis to tell you the sonora's loca- Gion?"
 '"That, and break your contract with Jeffery Hammond. Your ship is ready to sail. You might take Q trip to South America" ~Does this money come from Eric Forbes?"
 Docs 1t matter where 1t comes Sronq"
 That's not answering my ques- tion."
 Forbes" said the careful voice, snever saw this money"
 Which, Jim reflected, could be . lie. Aloud he said, "And if don't take you up, mister?"
 The man shrugged. T told you once that you'd deal with me or have trouble. I'm a patient man, Mallory, but this is my last offer"
 His voice was low, as careful as ever, but Jim had no illusions about him. If this man promised trouble, there'd be trouble.
 T gave Hammond my word, mister, and I never break my word"
 "I was afraid of that"
 And any trouble you've got HI handle"
 The man shrugged again, closed his wallet and returned 1t to his pocket. A faint smile curled his
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. SERIAL STORY

YESTERDAY; Jim prepares to leave tO salvage the Sonora. Jef- fiery Hammond comes on board his boat, the Aurora, and tells Jim tO radio him when the prelimi- nary work Is completed. Also, he advises Jim that Lois and he may take . cruise in the Hammond yacht to watch operations. Then Mary Larsen comes aboard. She tells Jim he was right - Eric Forbes is taking her to New York. Jim gathers Mary in his arms, kisses her and tells her he loves her. Enough to tell me about the SOn0ra?" she asks. Jim, in rage, orders her off the boat, feel ing she was simply pumping for information. As Jim goes up on deck, a tall, lean man of the care- full vOice-the man who has been trying to bribe him walks up the gangplank. He tells Jim he wants just few words he's will ing to pay for.
 MYSTERIOUS SPELLING
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lips, and above the smile his eyes turned chill and dangerous. well, I'll be seeing you, Mallory baby" And he went ashore.
 Curly Bates came on deck from the engine room. Jim said, "See where that fellow goes, Curly. Find out what you can about him."
 "Is 1t the guy with the money2"
 '"The guy with lot of money" Jim said. And Curly started. down the gangplank, his eyes on the man in white.
 Curly got back to the Aurora shortly after 6. He shook his head glumly. "He walked down Col lins avenue long way" he said. "Then back again. He went into bar. I waited a while, then went in. He must have gone out another door. He must have known I was following him."
 Jim nodded 'Yes, he's smart. And tough. He's going to make trouble for us, Curly. The sooner we sail the better"
 
 The Caribbean was crystal blue under the blazing tropic sun. The sea was calm, and everything peace full, when the Aurora dropped an anchor from above the Sonora's resting place. It was hard to im- agine that anything could happen there. It was illogical to think that any other boat could find the posi- tion. The Sonora lay miles from where its crew had said she went down.
 Jim got into a rubber suit and went down that first afternoon, not to work but to look over the job. The depth was great for rubber suit. When he felt the ships deck under the leaden shoes he worried a little about the pres sure. It was dark down there, an eerie greenish darkness, and the ship was merely a vague black bulk. He talked over the tele- phone; asking for more pressure and for an underwater lamp. When the lamp came down on a line he mover along the deck
 Movement was difficult, for the deck slanted sharply to starboard, and the current was strong. Jim had landed on the foredeck and, after examining the foreward hold matches, he directed his light on the bridge What he saw told him why the Sonora's captain and first officer had been lost. The bridge was wrecked, quite thoroughly wrecked, and the twisted remains were charred and blistered as if by fire. Or an explosion.
 Curly's voice came floating down. Better not stay down too long, Spike"
 "All right. Haul me up. But take it slow. don't want to get the bends"
 He was hauled up slowly, SO his body could become accustomed to the change in pressure and re- lease teh increased amount of notrogen in his blood. A slow accent was required in a rubber suit to offset the dread ailment of pressure workers, the bends.
 Once on deck, he got out of the helmet and suit, then went to his cabin to stretch out on the bunk. He had the usual headache.
 Blacksheep came in with a cup of black coffee. He said, Plenty deep down there, eh, Spike suh?"
 Plenty deep"
 You be careful, boss I seen a shark hoverin' about already, an a sharks 8 bad omen."
 Jim laughed and drank the coffee. Curly came in, sat down and lighted his pipe. What do
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-19
. STORIES
 IN STAMPS
Synthetics Hit ChiIe's .i-orqe Nitrote Trade

BETWEEN 1880 and 1910, Chile
 derived an annual income of $l0,000,000 gold from a $10.60 (per ton) export tax on nitrate.
 In 1913, the country supplied 90 per cent of the total nitrogenous fertilizers in the world. Today, with synthetic processes of manu- facture in Europe and the United States, that trade has fallen to 8 per cent.
 Although the nitrate industry has slumped, the mining industry as whole is still important. The government recognized its mines alphabetically in 1886 with the stamp above.
 Over a million metric tons of iron ore are shipped for export annually. About two million tons of soft coal are mined. Silver mining has dwindled, but cur rency devaluation has given gold production an impetus.
 Manganese, molybdenun, sul- phur and common salt are other minerals which are found in Chile.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-19
CRANIUM CRACKERS
FAMOUS TEAMS

FAMOUS TEAMS Two heads are often better than one, as proved by the many teams that have made good in various forms of enterprise. Can you name the second partner in the teams list ed here, and tell how each gained fame7
 l. Laurel and -; Abbott and 3. Mason and -; Lewis and
 -.
 A. Burns and =; Fibber Mo- Gee and -.
 {. Gilbert and -: Post and
 -.
 5. Amos and -: Gene and
 Answers on Back Page
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-17
LOCAL WORKERS
ORGANIZE UNION
MEN WILL RETURN TO WORK
MONDAY AT OLD RATE
OF PAY FOR PRESENT

Local laborers on two Paul II.
Smith Construction company
housing projects yesterday set up
an A. F. of L. union to bargain
for a wage increase of 62h
cents an hour, but agreed to re-
turn to work Monday at their
old rate of DO cents.
The laborers, who walked off
the job Thursday. agreed to con-
tinue working while their union
status is being approved at
A. F. of L. headquarters in
Washington. Since the Smith
contract is based on wage figures
set up by the department of la
Dor, the union will attempt TO
get approval for the higher wage
through the Washington office.
Members of the group met yes
teFday afternoon at county
courthouse with John Burke.
union organizer from Miami.
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LESS COST TO
COLLECT TAXES

TAMPA, Fla, May lit
costs less than &c to collect tax
es through the office of Florida S
efficient go-getting State Comp
troller, according to one of a Sc
ries of educational advertise
ments on state government car
ried in the local papers by the
First National Bank of Tampa
While other state agencies spend
from 4% to 30 collecting taxes
and it costs between Sc and
1917 to collect county taxes, the
actual cost of collecting $30,000,-
900 of state taxes through the
comptroller's office is 1890.
The banks ad also noted that
under Jim Lees able supervision
there has not been a dollar of de-
positors' money lost by bank fail
ures since the moratorium in
1888 and in its message points
out further that this is a record
"unequalled" in the Southeastern
states.
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LODGE MEMBERS
COMING TO CITY
PoCARONTAS AND RED MEN
REPRESENTATIVES TO
HOLD CONVENTION

Celebrating the twentieth an
niversary of Minoca Council of
Pocahontas and the seventeenth
of the Great Council, Key West
Red Men and their auxiliary Mon
day will welcome fellow lodge
members at the first session of
their three-day state convention.
Great Council officers will be
presented at a meeting at the Red
Mems hall Monday night at
O'Clock, after which the anniver-
sary celebration will begin.
Lodge members Tuesday will
launch their Great Council SEES
sions at 1870 o'clock, with a ban
quet at La Concha hotel begin
ming at 8 o'clock that evening.
The Pocahontas Council mem
bers will attend breakfast Tues
day at Ocean View restaurant,
with public exercises and council
sessions during the day at Red
Mems hall.
Wednesday, the final day of the
convention, members of the
lodges will be entertained at a
luncheon and memorial services
and installations will be held later
in the day at Red Mems hall.
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OPPOSES TAX ON
SPONGE FISHING
EARL RUSSELL GOES TO TAI
LAHASSEE IN INTEREST
OF INDUSTRY

Earl Russell, son of the vet
eran sponge buyer, Milton Rus
sell, will tell a house committee
at Tallahassee next week that
Key Vests sponge industry will
shut down before it will submit
to a one percent levy on fisher
men and an equal levy on pack
ing houses.
The senior Russell, in a tele-
phone conversation with Repre-
sentative Bernie c. Papy this
week, said local sponge interests
cannot afford to pay the tax,
which was tentatively agreed to
at hearing in Tallahassee last
Wednesday.
Earl Russell left here yester-
day to make the trip to Talla-
hassee, in order to represent
local buyers in a second hear
ing. Thirty Tarpon Springs
buyers were on hand for the
meeting last week, without a
Key West man present.
With the growing fear that a
mysterious blight may again
wipe out their business, local
dealers say it would be impos-
sible to pay the tax out of their
present meager profits. One
boat last week, according to the
senior Russell, returned here
with its crew of five after six
weeks fishing, bringing a cargo
of only 80 punches.
Papy called here to learn
what the feeling OF local dealers
and spongers would be on the
measure.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-17
NEGRO BOUND OVER
ON ASSAULT COUNT

Henry Henfield, negro, was
held under 500 bond this morn
ing and turned over to criminal
court by Peace Justice Enrique
Esquinaldo. Jr., on a charge of
assault with a deadly weapon.
Henfield was charged with at
lacking Willie White, another
negro, with a knife.
Oscar Herrera. whose case was
continued in criminal court, was
bound over this morning by Es-
quinaldo under 500 bond on the
vagrsncy count. while Villa Mae
Rivera. Rose Pla and Ella Mae
Hall. all negroes, were bound
over under $50 for vagrancy. The
four were arrested last night by
Constable Bienvenido Perez.
Irwin Albury, held for driving
a car without a license, was
bound over under 500 bond,
while Arthur Fabio. charged
with taking pictures without a
license, was bound over under
$50 bond. Peggy Gaycr, charged
with vagrancy, was bound over
under $50 bond. as were Florence
Jones and Willie King, negro
women.
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MORE OPENINGS
FOR YOUNG MEN
CCC WILL BEGIN SUPPLE
MENTAL ENROLMENT
ON MAY 90

JACKSONVILLE, May II. -
Supplemental enrolment for the
Civilian Conservation Corps will
begin on May 20 and continue
throughout the month, according
to announcement today of the
State Welfare Board, selecting
agency.
1t was announced at the same
time that Monroe County now
has 10 young men enrolled in the
Corps, of whom two were selected
during the second quarterly en-
rollment of the year in April. To-
tai enrolment for the State at the
time was listed as 1914
Many enrolIees. il was stated by
Jack Horne. State Welfare Board
Director of CCC selection. will be
assigned to one of the camps To-
Gated within the State. Of which
there are now II Approximately
300 enrollees will be assigned TO
each camp.
Horne pointed out that in those
counties located directly within
or adjacent 10 military canton
ment areas. the number Of en-
rolleeS had sharply declined He
attributed this TO increased en-
ployment of Young men by ma
tional defense projects. citing as
examples Clay County. in which
Camp Blanding is located, and
Putnam County adjoining There
arc only seven now enrolled from
the two counties.
Indicating the current trend. he
stated that in Monroe County the
March enrolment was eight OF
these none were discharged. with
two enrolled during April for a
new total Of To-
Compensation for eg1rollees
continues at $50 Der month. with
subsistence. Horne said Eligi'
hIiity qualifications are the same
as in the immediate past
For the six month period. July
december 81. 1870. the cumula-
tive total Of CCC expenditure
within Florida was 81 500 900
Horne stressed. or at the rate Of
S3I6.500 per month
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Walter Pendergast Separates
Himself From Steel Ball And
Makes Another GetawayFri

Tavernier after being gone for
the greater part of week.
In March, still suffering from a
sprained ankle. a memento of his
boat ride, Pendergast made fly
ing leap from work truck, and
was gone agan. but only for about
"a hours.
With the ball and chain on his
leg. Pendcrgast worked along
through the rest of March, April
and IS days of May before man
aging to break the chain and de-
part again. His sentence. which
started with IS DAYS, with the pro-
vision that he be released if he re-
ceived a letter with money from
home. had another six months
added because OF his escapes.
Earl Adams, local newspaper
correspondent, provided the only
clue TO Pendergast's whereabouts
where he told of seeing a man
fighting mosquitoes on the high
way north of here at about .
O'Clock this morning, Adams said
ne thought he recognized the man
as PendergsSt but assumed he had
been released.
Adams said he believed Pen
dergsSt was picked up IN q truck.
en- route to Miami
The escape artist, meanwhile.
still has steel ring around his
ankle. with about three feet OF
chain attached.
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County Tailor Willie Kemp to-
day was minus his star boarder
again as county sheriffs officers
began their third search for Wal
ter PendergaSt.
PendergaSt. who started his
long association with the Jail
keeper in January, when he was
sentenced to Is days on a vag-
rancy charge. walked away yes
terday afternoon, after breaking
a chain which held a 20-pound
steel ball to his right leg.
Previously, he had escaped
from work gang in February to
make what he insisted was a trip
to Cuba in a i4-foot Sailboat
Sheriff'S officers never believed
the youths story about that trip,
but he did take a boat from Res,
Beach and was picked up near
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Making Ready To Start Work - !,
On Processing Aqueduct Pipe
For Key West Water System

HOMESTEAD. May l7--Pre-
liminary work of installing ma
chinery and construction OF
houses for processing Key West
aqueduct pipe will be finished In
a week. officials Of the Standard
Asbestos Manufacturing Com
pany announced today
Fifty men already have been
employed in the preliminary OPP
erations and company officials
said the number will go 10 more
than 100 when the processing Of
l35 miles of pipe gets underway.
Pipe has been arriving in Home
stead for the past week. with
about 20 more carloads expected
to arrive within 4 few days. The
pipe is in 50-foot lengths
Workrnen on the job. at least
as per cent Of whom will be
Homestead residents will Set IS
q dav for unskiIled labor. with
machine operators ard other
xerni~skilied men drawing 81 p
per hour
Company officials have agreed
10 present LIST Of applicants 70
MAYER Tom Harris 10 order that
he may check the bora ssde Home
stead residents Previously, corn
parv officials have been unable 4.
tell aish any degree at accuracy
whether the applicants lived IT.
Homestead or acre trarSaGrtS
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SIMON CREOLE
: y DIED FRIDAY
FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE
CONDUCTED TOMORROW
MORNING

Simon Il. Creole. age 10. died
yesterday afternoon at 80
o'clock al the residence, a25
Whitehead street
Funeral services will be held
tomorrow morning Of II o'cioek
from the chapel 81 the Lopez
Funeral Home, with burial n TIE
Jewish plot in the city ceme
tely
Rsbbi l.. Lehrer wili oiiieiaie
st the burial services.
Survivors are AFa 4 Lslul
sister, Boris AcreoA. Ds9theF. ard
two nHrsws Mr. Tsssay kor@la
ard Mr4 LsSsla LtAri I
Key Nesf Ledge No lf5. X
ot RI. and KY West ledge If Gid
Feiiawn, of which the ssteeass.a
ssas i naenster. Wili attend .tise
funeral in a body
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CERTIFICATES
GIVEN STUDENTS
CLASSES PUT ON PROGRAM
AT SAN CARLOS SCHOOL
ON THURSDAY

Thursday afternoon, students
of the San Carlos Institute Span
ish Special Glass received their
certificates.
Miss Benildes Remond, con-
ductress of the adult instruction
class, presented the students
with the certificates and gave a
complete report of all activities
in connection with the class DUR
ing the school year 1940-'4l.
Miss Martha Watson gave an
interesting description in Span
ish about her trip to Cuba two
months ago.
Mrs. Madeline Wassell address
ed the school faculty, boards of
directors and representatives OF
the Cuban government.
Gloria Watson, a second grade
pupil of San Carlos School, en-
tertained the audience with re-
cital of poems in English and
Spanish.
Stephen c. Singleton, Chamber
of Commerce secretary. present
ed the certificates TO the stu
dents and congratulated them for
their excellent work. Immediate;
| yafterward. the students and
audience sang the American and
Cuban national hymns.
Those receiving certificates
were: jt
Second yeaf-Miss Martha
Robinson s.
First year IlNifs, Madeline Was
sell, Miss MafthallWassthl, Mrs.
Mayme Petrik, Miss Margaretta
Johnson. Mrs. Marjorie Stevens
Mrs. Eliztbeth Granick, Thomas
Fields and Roberto Crippa.
Present were.
Residents and Directors of San
Carlos Drs. Julio De Poo, Jose c,
Sanchez and Domingo Ubieta,
Cuban Consul Berardo Rodriguez,
Vice Consul Jose Perez. Principal
Miss Remcnd and teachers Mrs.
Josefina Esquinaldo and Miss
Elva Esquinaldo; Stephen Single
ton, Gonzalo Bezanilla, Mrs. AIDE
laida Acevedo, Mrs. Jose c. San
chez, Mrs. Aydee Martinez, Mrs.
Kenneth Shirk and others.
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British Colonial Troops
Exchange Shots With
French Units On Syrian
Border
tny Associated rressl

ivy associated k-rehsA
British colonial soldiers ex-
changed shots with French troops
on the Syrian border today as
London officials gravely admit
ted that full dress war between
France and Great Britain may
be in the making.
Royal Air Force planes. strik-
ing with intensified fury at
three airdromes in Syria we're
reported to have smashed Ger
man attempts at quick, surprise
thrust into Iraq. and Cairo in
formed the Turkish government
at IStanbul that the Iraq situa-
ton lis under control.
German and Italian soldiers.
driven out of Salum yesterday,
were reported in Rome and Ber-
lin communicates today to have
driven British forces back across
the Egyptian borcer. recaptur-
ing both Salum and Capuzzo.
Cairo, not mentioning the
fighting at Salum in its morn
ing communique, said the Aus
tralian garrison at Tobruk had
smashed encircling Axis be-
seigers and extended the city's
defense lines far outside their
original boundaries.
Britain's dogged pursuit OF
Italian forces III Ethiopia. too,
was reported to have neared a
final victory today, as COM
munique announced one British
force had cut across the Italian
line Of retreat, while another
force is driving the defending
dldlldflH UdNk w R1aAtRAt
Mhe9 they will be caught be-
tween two armies.
gBaghdad said Ifaqi soldiers
had launched an attack on Brit
ish troops at the important
Persian Gulf port of Basra, but
communiaue from Cairo said
Iraq already has been crippled
and will be forced 10 give in
within a short time,
German infiitration into the
country was said In Cairo 10
have been cut 10 a trickie" by
the raids on Syrian airports
Little is known of the border
clash between British and
French troops. but reports are
current that diminishing has
broken out at several POINTS,
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- ~ &; - ~ ~ IS
NEW LEGISLATIVE
MEASURES CREATED
Especial 10 The Citisenl

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, May II
New laws created by the 194l
legislature and briefed by Attor-
ney General J. Tom Watson were
announced today, as follows:
Constitution - Propose amend
ment to permit election on chang
es in constitution within 90 to
1870 days.
City Streets - Require state
road department to maintain
streets which connect through
state highways.
Conservation - Propose amend
ment to constitution placing con-
troll of game and fresh water fish
in non-political commission with
power to conserve and restock.
Dentists - Abolish unauthor-
lied dentistry, require all dentists
to be certified by state board.
Colleges - Designate Univer-
sity of Florida and Florida State
College as repositories for public
documents.
Salaries - Require salary buy
ers to charge no more than
legal interest; in effect, abolish
ing salary buying.
Property - Remove from real
estate titles the clouds of upper
formed boom-time contracts.
Holiday - Making the last
Thursday in November official
Thanksgiving in Florida.
Newspapers - Prevent price
cutting in legal advertisements.
Wild Life - Pledging all hunt
ing and fishing license funds to
conservation purposes.
Defense - Punish sabotage on
national or state defense work.
Regulate making and handling
explosives. Create state defense
council to coordinate activities.
Establish Florida Defense Force,
or home guard Repeal 1917 coun-
ty guard law. Outlaw German
bunds and communist party.
Housing - Allow city housing
authorities to build defense dwell
ling project outside city limits.
Create county housing authority
to- promote new homes for low in
come farmers. To authorize
housing projects for those en-
ployed in national defense work.
Gasoline -- Continue the sew
enth cent of gasoline tax, half to
schools. half to general revenue
fund.
Automobiles - Prohibit con-
tracts in restraint of trade in the
sale of new automobiles. Prohibit
sale of used taxi or for hire car
without it being labelled as such
Require notice of liens on auto
mobiles to be filed with state
motor vehicle commissioner. Re
quire registration of auto factory
representatives.