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~: SOCIETY is: DOCCDT TECHS HSAAOEESECOCCCOCE RODS Ff“ PEROT 00008 / Announcement ‘Benefit Dance For Of Marriage | Community Fund Announcement has been made; One of the first of the r rriage Miss 2:se money for the community Laura Adele Seager to Robert s.' fund to continue medical service 5 4 ;and direct relief for the Knight of Norfolk, Va., and for-! i pesade wate cic merly of this city. Mr, Knight is! night dance at Raul’s. the son of the late Captain and; Mrs. Eugene Knight. !the night club, was asked wheth- The marriage took place on ey he would be willing to turn Sunday, May 17, at Broad Street over one night’s door receipts, he Methodist Church, Richmond,’ stated that he would be more than | Va., with Rev. B. M. Persinger,' glad to cooperate in any manner | officiating. land that he believed Key West} An account of the wedding re- would be most unfortunate to ceived by Mrs. Eugene R, Al-. Jose the services which can be: bury, Jx., sister of the groom,! continued with a little coopera-j{ states that the bride had as her tive effort. matrons of honor her sister, Mrs. The dance is being William Marion Cooper, of Cra-'by the local citizens’ dock, and Mrs. Bryon Lockwood,! committee of which Mrs. of Norfolk. The bridegroom had’ Warren is chairman. as his best man, Bryon Lockwood.! It is hoped that a large crowd | Mr. and Mrs. Knight will make! witl gttend inasmuch as the gate; their home in Estabrook, Nor-, receipts will be turned over to! folk. tthe local community fund. ‘view Park will take place tomor-| jrow night at 7:30 o’clock. At Local Park | These entertaining events will| — |be under the direction of the The first of s of amateur; WPA Recreation Department and programs to be presented at Bay-|the American Legion. efforts to rent n of When Raul Vasquez, owner of! sponsored advisory W. Rk Amateur Program eeveccce ee Socccveccccccccsccceseeecee PERSONAL MENTION | | @oeeeoeooeece eocceoccccece eecceeccccooocee | ‘Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson companied on her return trip by} and daughter were arrivals over her granddaughter, Joyce Mul-; the highway from Tampa last berg. H night. a | Mr. and Mrs. Alton Albertus Charles Olivieri and children Al and Rose Marie, ved over thelwere arrivals over the highway highway last ni from Miamijlast night to spend a while with where Mr. Oli employed! their parents and other relatives. | with the Florida East Coast Rail-| , way. Mr, and Mrs and children nt Miss Lois Sawyer, Miss Louise Ketchum and Georze Saunders, ; Attorney Wm. H. Malone, who} who were attending the Young! was in Key West to attend the! Peoples’ Assembly of Methodist sessions of circuit court, was a‘ church at Lakeland, returned passenger on the Florida yester-jover the highway last night. day afternoon en route to his} home in Orlando, Fla. Mrs. Lovick Ley, wife of Purser a | Ley of the P. and O. S. S. Flor- C. B. Elbertson, who arrived:ida, and two children, arrived from Tampa Monday morning, | over the highway for a visit with left yesterday afternoon on the Mrs. Ley’s mother, Mrs. Amelia! Florida, accompanied by his moth-; Olivieri and other relatives. er, Mrs. C. S. Elbertson, who will) spend a while with her son, | My. and Mrs. Fred Frohock, ee: jwho were visiting with relativey Melvin Russell, superintendent’ and friends at points on the east of public instruction, left on the’ coast of Florida, returned over Florida yesterday afternoon for, the highway last night. Tampa, with his car, will drive to} Wauchula where he will join Mrs.! Attorney S. P. Robineau, who Russell and their sons Melvin, Jr., was in Key West yesterday for a and Pat, and go to Atlantic City | short business trip, returned to for the International Rotary Con-| Miami on the afternoon plane. vention. | —— i Carroll Wilson, of the Hom- Mrs. J. B. Sullivan and daugh-' Owners Loan Corporation, _ left! ters s Teresa and Let-| yesterday afternoon for Miami! tie, left yesterday afternoon on, after a business visit with V. A. the Steamship Florida for Tampa,' Johnson. local HOLC appraiser. and will go from there to their old home in Springfield, Mass.,| for the summer, | Miss Leodawn Jerguson was an} outgoing passenger on the plane jand Massachusetts j tion of Mr. Hoover in 1928, no one} [er plants. | peals upheld the PWiA’s financing! 1of the testimony of Harold jand Administrator of the PWA, Looking At Washington} (Continued from Page One) ; Republican vote was 147,293,061 ,and the Democrats total, 131,333,- '542. The Republican who re-| iceived the most electoral vote, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN was Herbert Hoover, with 404 in|* 11928, and the high scorer for the} Democrats was Franklin D. Roose-| ;Velt with 472 in 1932. During this} period, Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson were distinctly minority} poor, | presidents, both having been elect-| Saturday jed as the r {Other minor sult of party divisions. y presidents, based on a count of the votes for minor; parties in the total, include} Cleveland and Wilson in 1916 for the Democrats and Garfield and Hayes for the Republicans. Referring to candidates, during the last eighty years, Ohio has been the favorite state from which the Republicans have made! their selections and New York has furnished most of the Demo- cratic choices. Seven times the! Republicans went to Ohio for their candidate. four times to Il-| linois, three to California, twice| to New York and once to Maine each. The; Democrats have taken an Empire| State candidate eight _ times! have gone to Nebraska and! New Jersey three times, twice to Pennsylvania, and once each to} Illinois, Kentucky and West Vir-| ginia. In the period covered by; the survey, only six candidates have come from west of the Mis- ppi River and until the elec- ‘ i { i from that great section of the Union had ever been chosen presi- dent. As a general rule, Democratic} conventions have had a more dif-} ficult time selecting their party nominees, largely due to the two-! thirds vote required for a nomi- nation. Republican conventions, ! on an average, have required only four ballots for a choice, while the Democrats have taken threa times as many. The all-time record was 103 ballots during the Smith-McAdoo battle in New York City in 1924. The longest “‘tie- up” in Republican conclaves oc- curred in 1880 when 36 _ballots| resulted in the choice of Garfield) as a “dark horse.’ After hearings extending for more than a month, Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat, of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, a Republican and Hoover appointee, ruled that it is constitutional for| the Federal Government, through| the PWA, to help citi build publicly owned and operated pow-|! Several months ago the Fourth Cireuit Court of Ap-| of the Buzzard’s Roost power project in South Carolina and it is expected that both cases will go ‘to the United States Supreme Court next October. Justice} Wheat, in his decision, took note L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior that there are 260 electric power projects underway throughout the ;for Miami yesterday afternoon ‘Miss Betty Olsen, student at for a visit with relatives in the the Convent of Mary Immaculate, | states. left yesterday afternoon to spend! the vacation with her mother,/ May Ferns, in Washington, | arrived Monday morning from Tampa on the Florida, left by Mrs. Leon McFarland and chil-| plane yeserday afteynon for, dren arrived in Key West last: Miami. ! evening over the highway for a} few weeks’ visit with Mrs. Me-! Edwin Trevor was a passenger; Farland’s mother, Mrs, T. A. Lum-| on the afternoon plane yesterday! ley. {going on a:business trip to Mi- ami, Mrs. J. G. Kantor, who has} heen enjoying a vacation in Hot! Walter Maloney, of the bakery, Springs, Ark., and other points. firm of Maloney and Peacock, in-the country, returned over the | left terday afternoon for a John C. Key, port steward of | the P. and O. S. S. company, who; i | {private power plants exist. ‘insists that there are 11,506,000 country as a result of government; financing and that only eighty- five of them are located where The American Labor, taking note of an estimate of unemployment, made by the New York Sun, which showed only 3.393,000 workers without jobs, Federation of! workers unable to obtain employ-| ment. The discrepancy aceord- ing to William Green, Federation president, is caused by the fact! that the newspaper did not clude all industries in its survey.) A bill has been introduced in! highway yesterday. She was ac-, business visit in Miami. SENATOR FLETCHER |" DIES IN CAPITAL; Sais | (Continued from Page One) | Bible and Shakespeare and in his-} eco, ory. ieee snp He held fellowships in several! 1703—John Wesley, English secret societies. His interests| preacher, founder of the religious were broad and varied and he ex-! communion of the “people called | ercised an immeasurable influence| Methodists,’ born. Died March on the city of his residence, Jack-| 2, 1791. 1 sonville. | His interests were broad and : varied. 1742—William ooper, North | In business life as a lawyer, Carolina lawyer, a signer of the; financier and promoter of exten-| declaration of Independence, born} industrial and commercial! in Boston. Died at Hillsborough, | enterprises; in social circles by} N- C., Oct. 14, 1790. ea) Today’s Anniversaries ene the Senate by Senators O’Mahoney, and La Follette to put all regular; Government employes under per-! manent Civil-Service. The meas- ure, which has Administration! backing, is not expeeted to pushed until the next session of Congress but is evidently aimed to forestall critics who charge that the Administration has wrecked! the Civil Service. Under the bill, all postmasters would be placed under Civil Service by 1938 and the President would be empower ed to take the same steps with re- gard to other agencies. Some pro- tection is offered present job} holders. A sharp distinction is made be- tween policy-forming positions and those which are purely techni- cal or ministerial. The former e ally ran second to the reason of his fine personality and unfeigned cordiality; in . polities by reason of his public spirit and devotion to the general good, as fell as his comprehensive under- standing of the questions affect- ing state and national and in those departments of ac- tivity, which lessened hard condi- tions of life by his benevolence and his liberality. The Ayrshire herd of the North Carolina agrileultural —_ experi- ment station is composed of granddaughters of Penshurst Man 0’ War welfare,} —— 1748—John Lowell, Massachu- jsetts legislator and jurist, born at | Newburyport, Mcss. Died May 6, 1802. | 1751—Joshua Humphreys, Phil- {adelphia’s noted shipbuilder, the country’s first officially appointed naval constructor, builder of America’s first war vessels, born in Delaware Co., Pa. Died Jan. 12, 1838, 1 1832—William Crokes, Eng- j would be directly under political | control but the others would be ieee eh \iish chemist and physicist, born. Died April 4, 1919. | 1853—Charles S. Francis, col- ilege single scull champion, Troy, |N. Y., newspaper editor and own- ;er, diplomat, born at Troy. Die: Dec. 1, 1911. { i ; 1 | 1860—Charles Frohman, noted iNew York City theatrical mana- = born at Sandusky, O. Lost on the Lusitania, May 7, 1915. HE 3,000,000th truck built by T at the Rouge Plant. industry in its history. built in 1917, The first encouraged on a_ career basis. Senator La Follette, one of the! authors of the pill, says that “per- ials in key positions in the Civil Service far greater ménace to the merit system than so-called political patronage” and for this reason the measure re- quires every personnel 0 to take oath not to be “guided by either personal or political fa- voritism.” is a er The adjournment plans of Con-. gress were thrown into utter con- fi m by the sudden death of Speaker Byrns. Subsequently. both houses recessed during the Republican National Convention at Cleveland and, unless contro- versial issues can be satisfactorily ironed out this week, the same process will be repeated next week when the Democrats gather at Philadelphia, The tax bill has been the sub- ject of numerous conferences in an effort to smooth over difier- ences between the Senate and the House and a determined attempt wiil be made to wind up the az- fairs of Congress this week. The bone of contention, apparently, i: the House ion which fol- lowed the dent’s recommen- dation for very high taxes on un- distributed surplus, running as high as forty two and one-half per cent. On the theory that ret tion of earnings in corpora pluses enabled some st id payment of surtaxes on incomes. The senate pro- vided only a flat seven per cent tax on all uniistribute no matter what their tained the existing princi; a corporate income tax, which was rejected by the House. SHADES OF HANGED . and r le of | PIRATES LOSE HAUNT: (By Associated Press) LONDON, June 1 ades of many old-time pirates who closed (their careers at the end of stout ivopes will feel personal losses at of London’s The Turk’s the closing of one historic _hostelries, Its back steps lapped by the Thames, the Turk’s Head for 400 years has been a hangout for sea- faring men—including pirates. It offered a convenient landing, a sudden gateway. But it was the pirates who fin- law who could claim the greatest sentimen- tal attachment to the ancient pub, Over its bar they enjoyed} their last “ean of bitter.” | En route to the gallows, the condemned sea-rovers were per-! mitted to stop for one final quart: —no more, no | It was sup-, plied by the Tuk’s Head under a contract with the government. | It brought a pleasant break in, the procession and gave the mi ereant an opportunity to tell his; cronies where he’d be seeing} them. No Itch Too Deep j For This Liquid | Imperial Lotion contains six itch killing medicines that go down into skin folds to reach and kill the cause of eczema, rash, tetter, ring- | worm and common itch. Pleasant | to use. Two sizes, 35¢ and $1.00. H MONKOE THEATER Jackie Cooper-Joseph Calleja in TOUGH GUY Walter Connoly-Mary Taylor ainsi SOAK THE RICH Matinee: Balcony, 10c; Orches- tra 15-20c; Night 15-25c i i} | | i i Company is shown with Henry Ford and Edsel Ford, just after it was taken off the assembly line This V-8 112-ton panel truck marked the manufacture by Ford of more than one- third of all the trucks turned out by the automobile Some idea of the position Ford has surpluses, the Ford Motor Ford truck was PEOPLE'S FORUM ' sonal favoritism exercised by of-| @eeeeeeee GOLDEN REJOICES OVER BRIDGE NEWS Editor, The Citizen, Key West, Florida. Just my luck after three years of wishing, hoping, battling and striving in every way to procure the bridges, and it happened while I was gone. Howeve happened is all I in, just so it interested I miss my guess if Key West doesn’t take on the strides of great city. What we want to do in Key West is avoid a boom. You would be surprised how familiar the people here in Colum- bus are with our Key troubles. The Columbus ‘carried a half page cut s the railroad, and how the bridges will become an automobile high-, way. I see The Citizen, as usual, is putting up a fight against fraud- ulent voting. Great Gods!— honest voting is bad enough. Don’t give up the fight. The vote on the governor sure- ly was a great surprise to me. I never heard of Petteway, and scarcely of Mr, Cone. However, I believe the people of Florida are getting tired of politicians and are now seeking the man. That is a good sign. The Republican Convention in session in Cleveland, and I had hoped to spend a d or two there. The newspapers and radio these days are so efficient, one does not need a personal attend- ; ance. | Well, half of my vacation is ‘over, and it may be that I will turn my face Key Westward! pretty soon. ! You know, there ; traction about Key West. feel like you are tired of it and want to get away for a and it is not very long before y are anxious to get back. There allure in “them thar islands.” I hope they speed up the build-; ing of those bridges and I sup- pose by the time we get back,! ic will be open on the fer- ries. | Let’s avoid inflation in Key West, and those seeking a home! a is funny at-! You; Mi CaS earn ET THOMASINE M. MILLER —BEAUTICIAN— Latest Air Cooled Method Permanents: $2.50 to $10.00 Hair Dyeing a Specialty 407 South St. Phone 574-. TO OUR “TERY soon cach of our friends will be receiving an invitation toour Wedding, and | treated fa’ attained in the commercial vehicle field since chen is gained from the registrations of all comm@cial vehicles in service in the United States. On Janigry 1, 1936, 40.3 per cent of these were of Ford make,g pro | portion more than one-half larger than that 5f any other manufactiirer. placed in the Ford Exposition building at the Texas Centennial Exposition in Dallas, going there by road. | The 3,000,000th truck & to be By LE MAPs ° | of | * seoeeeeec The character and talents those bo.n between May 20 to June 18 are fearless ang kind; magnan:mous when not jrritated. and prone to .oad themssjyes with burdens and sorrows of others.| Money has no special Valye in their minds except for the good it! wil do. They have great power! of concentration, orize with the greatest ea | easily angered, and once excited | are utterly unmanageable. Shoujd| be let a.one when in this state, S.lence and pati.nce should be exercised daily by Gemini people, for the “greatest of conquests is; the conquest of self.” Shouja tuain the mind to think pyre things, particularly of the ofpo- site s-x. Wi.l be extremely’ hap- py if united to a person born in (Capricorn) December 21 to Jan- uary 20, or (Libra) Septemtber 23 to October 23. Should wear an EMERALD or Moss Agate. and can mem FIND RAKE IN TREE STEELTON, Pa.—A_ garden rake was found imbedded in the| center of a tree cut down in this! city. The population of the Kentuc- ky state prison is 1,110, about; double the number its buildings| were constructed to house. or investment, I hope will be ly. To show you the interest General Manager told me b I left Miami that he would be in- terested in buying some good cor- ners in Key West. I hope everybody will enjoy some good luck from our future, bright hopes. 1 JACKSON Columbus Ohio, June 11, 1936, 1 S. GOLDEN. 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