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Mr. Iy!l;l 5lslS,
by George
Harmon
Coke

I'D like TO know what you
mean by diSobeying me and turn
ing detective"
But someone had to. my Lord"
"Yeah," Murdoch said, and
grinned. You're right there, and
what a break for Ward and
Della"
81 didn't want to do anything
alone, really. But at first Della
made me promise and later, when
/ asked if you'd help you said you
wouldn't and you told me I
shouldn't either and"
$50 you got your back up and
said, Nuts to this. If he won't
help I'll do it alone"
Il called you at Hestor's,"
Joyce reminded him. eff it hadn't
been for Raeburn I would have
told you when you came with
her"
Murdock's face sobered. "You
knew it was Thorndike."
Il didn't know. Not for abso-
lutely sure"
"When did you think of it?"
mot until today. At first I had
no idea who'd done it. was try
ing to help Della, and all the
trouble seemed to be about the
envelope. / think Hestor was the
one l suspected until you told
me she couldn't have done it."
Impulsively she leaned forward
and kissed him lightly on the
cheek. 81 love you," she said.
He turned to her. his glance
surprised at first and then a
tenderness melting his eyes as his
arm went about her. :.
81 love you too" he said. and
kissed her.
For long seconds she snuggled
in the circle of his arm, finding
his strength tonic that chased
away the strain and tension of the
past few days.
"Do you have to 60 to the Of
fice?"
For a little while"
eyes," she sighed, 81 suppose
you do"
II don't think I'll be long" He
smiled and kissed her lightly and
helped her out, following her to
the entrance. 1--WE should have
some sort of celebration at that,
shouldn't we? For Mrs. Murdock's
first case"
"And for Mrs. Murdock's last"
Joyce said. $50 do hurry, darling"
The End
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CAMELS JOIN JEEPS
In DESERT WARFARE
(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON. Feb. 9. -
Camels are taking their place along.
with high speed trucks ard jeeps'
in modern desert warfare. II
properly cared for, says report
to the Office of War Information,
they outlast motor vehicles by
many years, their average life be-
ing l8 years. Most British camels
come from the Punjab, India, and
are put into active service, after
special training, at the age OF SIX
years.
A camel can do the work of four
army mules, and four of the ami
mails have the pulling strength of
a truck. They are far less liable
to injury than horse, a mule or
even a motor truck, and can take
loads to a lot of places no motor
can 90.
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CONCH CAGERS
OPEN ROAD TRIP
ON WEDNESDAY,

.., The Key West High School
conehs. varsity basketball
squad. travel to q the main
land this week for games
with upstate quintets.
n The opening game of the
road trip will be STAGED TO-
morrow night when the
Conchs invade Homestead for
a crack at the Growers. The
following night. the locals
will take on the Redland
Lsuderdale Saturday night.
perform st Pompano.
The trip will end at Fort
Lauderdale Saturday NIGHT.
The Conchs are due for
another road trip the follow
ing weekend when they trav-
ell to Miami for a game with
Miami Edison High.
Coach r. e. Stone. who
heads the Conchs. halls from
South Carolina. He has done
q great job coaching the
Students the past season.
members Of The team declar-
ed Today.
! a. The Youngsters hold high
hopes of bringing home the
bacon.
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Chapter 48
Mrs. Murdock's First

INELL, I'll be damned. How do
you like this? An order for
seventy-five bucks-and listen:
Sorry about the coat. Hope you
can find another one to take its
place. Raeburn." Fenner
sighed and pocketed the papers.
I'm glad l didn't tangle with
him." he said. "If they'got a few
more guys like him down there
in Caragua those Nazis are going
to have rough going"
you're right about that-damn
himl"
Hestor spoke CURLY, but with
out bitterness. She uncrossed her
legs under the approving glance
of Fenner and stood up. She adj
justed her coat, tucked her bag
and gloves under her arm and
gave a tug at her hat.
"Well-good-bye," she said to
Della and Ward. "It's been very
interesting. you know. l wouldn't
have missed it for the world"
She looked Joyce up and down,
glanced at Murdoch and back to
Joyce. I'D hang on to him if l
were you. He's a little stuffy at
times. but he'll do"
"I'll drive you home," Fenner
said.
Hestor gave him a cool inspec-
ton but Fenner's grin was I'M
wavering and after a little more
hesitation a spark of humor
touched her eyes.
Gall right" she said.
''That is" Fenner said, eff you
don't mind stopping off for a
drink or two. We might even
have spot of lunch"
"Why not?" said Hestor.
Fenner opened the door for her,
and when he went out he winked
at Murdoch over his shoulder.
WELL" Ward Allen said when
the door had closed, "I'll say this
for her, she can take it."
"You know" Joyce said, II
think I'm beginning to like Hes
tor"
Kent Murdoch parked in front
of the apartment house and
turned off the motor.
"And now, Mrs. Murdoch, if
you don't mind -"
eyes. sir" Joyce said primly.
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One-Minute SPORTS Quiz
Answers Elsewhere On

Answers Elsewhere On PAGE ,
/. What is The last name of the
prize fighter who fought only last
week in New York whose first
name is FritZie?
2. Where is it rumored that Joe
Louis will fight .nexR AfgI f4
8. Who won the pitching cham
pionship in the American League
in 1888?
4. What team won the pennant
that year in the American?
5. How many times did Grove
win the pitching championship?
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HEADLINES OF A BUSY YEAR-l942

Nazi offense rolls toward Stall
! ingrad .:'. 49,
Leahy named FDR's personal
chief of staff.
August
| Six Nazi saboteurs executed, -
Japs advance on Port Moresby.
u. S. Marines land in Guadal-
canal.
Gandhi jailed for instruction
threat.
U. British force
raids Dieppe.
September
Marines raid Maxim Island.
Macarthur troops rout Japs in
Milne Bay.
Baruch rubber report urges gas
rationing.
Rommel attack, aimed at Cairo,
'repulsed.
Madagascar occupied by British
force.
October
Stalingrad defense sparks Allied
hopes.
Byrnes to direct Economic Sta
bilization.
Authorization bill passed.
18-19-year-old draft bill passed.
November
British desert offensive smashes
Rommel.
Italy bombed by heavy Allied
force.
u. 6. troops land in North At
RIGA.
Navy triumphs in Battle of
SolOmonS.
Republicans make major gains
in election.
December
Allied forces locked in battle for
TuniS.
Russians trap Nazis before
Stalingrad.
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WEATHER MATCHES NAME

SPOKANE, Wash, Feb. 9.-The
weather should have suited him
just fine, but actually it didn't. A
16-vear-old boy crashed his sled,
which he had been racing over the
click snow. into a telephone pole.
fracturing his ankle. The boys
name was - Jack Frost.
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FOLLOWING THROUGH
BY
PEDRO AGUILAR

Today we continue our review
Of baseball in Key West since the
days of the late 1905.
Our review has covered the
years up to 1889. We are now in
June of that year.
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Ruth Bryan ROhde Seeks
A Union Of All Nations
By ADELAIDE KERR
AP Features Writer

DUTH BRYAN ROIDE just plan of
IL tons build and kee-
world peace.
The daughter the reat Conmoner William Jennings Byar
has had good IDEAL of affairs first as
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. January
FDR submits $56,000.O00,00O
war budget.
Nelson made war production
boss.
"a First u. S. troops land in North
Ireland. f'
u. 6. Navy blasts Macassar
straits convoy.
February
U. S. Navy blasts Marshall. Gil
bert Islands.
Liner Normandie capsizes after
N. Y. fire.
Singapore falls; Japs drive on
Indies.
March
Java, Rangoon fall.
U-boats intensity attacks on
u. S. coasts.
Hitler promises summer vic
tory"
Gen. Macarthur ordered to
Australia.
Sugar, gas rationing ordered.
U. S. Navy raids Marcus. Wake
Islands.
April
All-India congress rejectsCrippS
offer
Bataan evacuated; Japs capture
$4,000.
Army flyers bomb Tokyo.
Rostock smashed in mass RAJ
raids. >
Burma government flees; Bur
ma doomed.
MAY
Corregidor falls.
Navy repulses Jap fleet in Coral
Sea.
WAACS authorized.
June
Raj blas's Cologne, Bremen
Essen.
JapS bomb Dutch Harbor.
Navy wins smashing victory of
Midway.
Japs occupy western Aleutians
Rommel smasheS British II
Libya.
july
Sevastopol falls.
Nazis push to 20 miles from Nile
Delta.
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But If TIE word union uere IN
effect. the agEress0r woUlC De-
driven back BY the International
police force and the government
IN power IN mat aEgressor com
try pCnallzed - saw By 1lschz-ge
and exile
Mrs Rohde has aszeEhlr5 ker
plan under the title Look Fer
ward, Warrior, because -rhene are
- cItl lars tocay--ll axe sl1lecr
20 attack.
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KINDNESS

You may heal q heart thafiS
broken.
Often by a look or word
Voc may help q fallen fr1em6.
II your heart By love IS stirred
But keep back the word iupa-
tlent
And the angry look and fr0~n-
Cast them not CT yoEr frlenG
Lest you p1sh hinn farther Sown-
Life Is mostly Whzt yoG EAzks q
For ourselves ana others DC.
Let US III 4 with sunshine
Watching all We say and Do
SOPHIA Z NASH
Key West, Pa,
Feo. 3. 1913
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kOnly volunteers 90 to the wars for The AP
and the list is long!
A reporter with years Of sound experience at
home. good health, and the special .qualtis ihas-,
make first class newspapeman. apswheEnsy
spply for service abroad.
But he isgivsn no illusions. Il -
War repoaing is no Sunday sehdoI picnn- One
Of the foreign staff already Is missing and feared
dead. Another was los, 43 days i'm the New Guinea
jungles. Some have been taken prisoner Of war.
Others have been injured, or narrowly escaped
death-iorpedoed, machine-gunned. dive-bombed-
A war reporter may be sent anywhere on earth
In many countries the living conditions terrible.
drinking water dangerous and none Of the ordinary
comforts of life available. He must be xsecinated
Cor smallpox and innoculated Tor typhoid, yellow
fever, typhus. tetanus and cholera His family can't
join him. There are no regular hours or vacations
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-09

Q.-When you move to an apart
ment, is the owner supposed to
have you sign a contract stating
what you pay for rent and also
showing what he has previously
rented for?
A.-The owner is supposed to
show the prospective tenant his
registration statement showing
the maximum legal rent.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-09

On June "a, 1899, the Junior
Baseball Club of the American
Legion was organized. The club
was sponsored by Arthur Saw
yer Post No. %.
Angel Menendez was named
manager and William Gates the
coach. They, it was announced,
would give the club lots of prac-
tice in preparation for the then
forthcoming state tournament.
Roster of the club:
John Menendez, catcher;
Evelio Vargas and J. Blanco
ipitchers;
A. AlonZo, first base;
Arthur Thompson, SECOND base;
Ormond Cordova, third base;
Ralph Arnold, shortstop;
]. Aritas, M. Archer. H. Pita
and M. Roberts, outfielders;
A. and G. Lastres, A. Canalejo
and ]. Ogden, subs.
Other youngsters who were to
get tryouts included Hopkins, AL
fonso, M. Tynes and a few 9TH
erS.
On June Is, the Tampa ALL
Stars, it was announced, were to
play in Key West on July 4 and
5. Six of the Tampans averaged
over 300 in hitting, it was re-
vealed.
On June Is, the Junior Tigers
lost to the Busy Bees. 4. to 2.
The Bees won in the last frame
on five hits and two errors, which
gave them four runs and vic
bor9IW 3DOI&
Score: 1T, r. H. E.
Busy Bees 900 600 004-4 5
Tigers o+g OQ9r2oO O0O-2 Z 3
ii Lon1NAahd Walker; Vargas,
4HF66AerqsR 4 t5eo ,oi
J In second game that after
noon, the Key West Conchs won
ever the Blue Sox in a prelim-
mary game to contests to be
played the following Sunday
when the Sox were to meet Fort
Myers and the Cenchs play the
Tampa All-Stars.
Guiro Diaz pitched a very
good game until the eighth when
he blew sky-high. Marvin Grit
fin did a good Job on the mound
fer the victors.
Mario Pena committed his first
error of the year at first base.
julius OoDo) Villareal, rookie
CT the Conchs, hit three out OF
four Armando Acevedo and Es-
mond Albury and Philip Baker
each poled two safely.
Molina and Castellano each hit
two safely for the only safeties
garnered by the Sox.
In the field, William Gates,
Albury, Baker and Ar, Aeevedo
had 10 putoutS and nine assists
and one error. Mschia, caught
four fly-balls in the left garden
Score: r. H. E
BluesSox Ill 900 000-3 4
Ka1r Wac+ non nm Oov < O q
Diaz and Rodriguez; NJ. Grit
fin and E. Albury.
On June 26 il was announced
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On June 26 it was announced
that batting averages of players
in the local league were as fol-
lows:
Villareal, $40;
E. Albury, 500:
j. Carbonell, 500:
p Baker, .444;
c. Sterling, .436;
John Navarro, All;
Castellano, 400:
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ChUrchllIs Popularity - peak
IN Britain. Gallup p0l finds
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NcNutt calls for 65.g08 women
IN year for nurses training
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Q.-Are any government peo-
pie exempt from military service?
A-Selective Service regula-
tons place the following in Glass
1V-B, exempt from military ser
vice: the vice president of the
United States, governors of the
states and any other state official
chosen by the people, members of
Congress, legislators, judges of
courts of records, and a commits
stoned officer, warrant officer or
enlisted men in the Coast Geode-
tic Survey or the U. S. Public
Health Service.
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SPORTS QUIZ ANSWERS

Questions Elsewhere On Page
/. Zivic
.. In London next June.
3. Robert Grove.
4. The Yankees.
5. Five times.
Hoover says labor shortage on
the farms must be remedied.
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Q.-Can a shirt mill that I work
ed for keep me from getting job
in a defense factory in another
city?
A.-Only if the shirt mill is en-
gagged in war work er;is operating
in district in which stabiliza-
ton agreement has been put into
force. s ~
OIL have two sons serving with
the armed forces in the United
States. Am allowed to mail each
one of them a country ham?
A.-There is no regulation
against it, but the boys in service
get enough meat.
Q.-Does a cripple who receives
disability from an insurance COM
pany have to file an income tax
return?
A.-Not if this is his only in
come.
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Answers to
YOUR WAR
QUESTIONS
Send Home-Front Queries 70
Regional oEM information Office
In Care of This Paper

Q.-My son is plotting a flying
fortress in England. Can l send
him candy or cookies?
A-Under the new regulations
nothing can be sent to boys in the
army without request approved
by commanding officer. This has
to be rpesented at the post office
at the time of mailing.
Q.-Can l give some of my cof-
fee to a relative without violat-
ing the law?
A.-No. You are not supposed
to.
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Q.-Do bombers carry mech
anicS on raids?
Army Headquarters does
not give out this information.
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Q.-Is the government buying
human blonde hair for bomb
sights?
A.-Not that we know of.
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Davila, 400:
,Wickers, 400;
NV. Gates, 400;
Alonzo, 1888;
P. Carbonell. 1888;
eDomenech, 1888;
Leo Gonzalez, 1888;
A. Acevedo, 1888;
C. Griffin, 300;
F. Carbonell, 800.
TO BE CONTINUED
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On June Is, the Tampa ALL
Stars, it was announced, were to
play in Key West on July 4 and
S. Six of the Tampans averaged
over 300 in hitting, it was re-
Vealed.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-12
MANUFACTURERS WANT
CREDIT

Advances in chemistry are Du-
Points hobby. They will include
new plastics, new paints, new fl
bers, new fertilizers, new metal al
lows, and other materials in vast
quantity.
Wood that won't burn, glass
that won't break, window screens
that contain no wire and machine
bearings that contain no metal are
a few of the things in the offing,"
he said.
Better and yet cheaper homes,
finer and less costly automobiles,
radios and refrigerators, more
nourishing food, superior medicines
"a greater abundance of almost
everything that adds to the COM
forts and satisfaction of living
all of these will be awaiting the
homecoming soldier when the war
is won"
Dupont and other members of
the NAM want the boys overseas
to feel that everything is being
done for them here at home and
that the manufacturers deserve
the credit.
Commerce Dept figures tell the
same story of increased productiv-
ity. The gross value of U. S. man.
ufacturing was $57 billion in 1889;
S121 billion in 1912 and an esti-
mated S245 billion in 1943.
The 1943 figure is based on the
known increase of plant capacity
and a $50 allowance for rising
prices. Between 1941 and 1912
there was a 1000 increase in whole
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-12

sale prices and an 1870 gain in
the physical volume of production.
WHO WAS RIGHT?
All this is a heartening picture.
Years ago the Technocrats and Ger
tain conservative economists had a
wordy battle on the possibilities OF
greater production. The Techno-
Gratis maintained that the produc-
tive capacity of modern industrial
society could be vastly increased.
Brookings Institute economists
were willing to allow for grudg-
ing 1870. u. S. industry registered
more than 1870 in the one year of
1941-42.
How will the boys over there
and the boys over here feel about
all this? After the war they will
want to settle down and raise
families. Vice President Henry A.
Wallace, in his Wilson Day memo
rial speech, said that after the
war demobilized soldiers and NUM-
tions workers alone would give the
country Is million unemployed.
Will the boys be satisfied to sit
idle, sell apples and stand in bread
lines? Or will they make organized
and insistent demands that this in
creased productive capacity be
turned into the necessities and de-
cencies of life and distributed
among those who are ready and
willing to give a full days labor
power in exchange for a full value
of days product?
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By Federated Press

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6-Ad-
miral William F. Halsey, Jr., com
mander of the South Pacific area
and the South Pacific force, who so
completely spiked a recent Hitler
helping smear against National
Maritime Union members, also
gave official praise to another
group in the South Pacific recently.
He expressed his appreciation to
a Construction Battalion crew OF 70
for their services in repairing an
aircraft carrier. Returning to a
South Pacific port after a battle,
the carrier put in for repairs. The
Construction Battalion crew, or
Seabees, was put to work as ade-
quate regular repair forces were
lacking.
While the work was under way,
the carrier received orders to put
back to sea Immediately and en-
gage the enemy. 1t did, with the
Seabees still on her, and working.
They kept it up in the worst of the
battle.
The Seabees are largely members
of the construction trades unions.
The unions themselves were re-
sponsible for most of their recruit
ment, as is the case in the long
shore navy and army battalions,
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HoIsey Proised Organized Seomen.
Thanks Seobees For Staying On JOB

first suggested by the International
Longshoremen's and Warehouse
mems Union (CIO).
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Scott Nearing
Says
DUPONT PREDICTS
BETTER WORLD

Lammot DUPONT recently made
shortwave radio speech to the
members of the American fighting
forces. DUPONT is chairman OF the
board of directors of the Dupont
enterprises. His sponsor was the
Natl. Assn. of Manufacturers. Du-
Points subject was the changes that
the war effort is making in the
U. S. economic setup.
Postwar America will have 40,
so, 100 times" what it had before
the war, Dupont said. These in
creases will be chiefly in new ma
terials." There will be "seven times
more aluminium than in 1889, and
100 times more magnesium, which
weighs less than aluminium. We
will be making almost as much
rubber by chemical process as was
grown in all the world before the
war"
Aviation will dominate the
American scene. America will pro-
duce, in a single year, twice as
many planes as it made in its en-
tire history up to 1910. Some of
these planes will be four times the
size of the largest prewar plane.
"The nation" Dupont said, "will
be dotted with huge airfields, tens
of thousands of young men will
have learned to fly"
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Seomen Worked
IL Hours A Doy
At GuuduIconul
BY Federated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. s.
Into the office of the Labor Her
aid walked three marine stewards,
living refutation of the charge
that Natl. Maritime Union (CIO)
members had refused to unload
cargo. They and 81 others worked
IL hours a day, from 6 a. m. to
s p. M, Sundays included, and
would have worked at night If
Guadalcanal had not been blacked
out.
Got along fine with Marines
Contrary to reports that NMU
men had called the marine "suck-
ers for working for $50 month, !"
these three men-Harry Joseph,
Jimmy Johnson and Hyman Chew,
all former longshoremen - said
they got along fine with the ma
rines, who worked like hell" with
them.
Their ship was the first mer-
chant vessel at Guadalcanal, all
previous ones having been trans
ports.
The men were here on six days
leave before sailing again for the
hellhole where "all you can see is
Jungle and smoke-but you know
the Japanese are only a couple OF
hundred yards away"