The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 4, 1938, Page 4

Fern Chapter No. 21, Order Eastern Star, held their annual installation of officers at Scottish Rite Hall, last week. The Hall was decorated for the occasion with varities of flowers. The entire ceremony was lovely and impressive and conducted with dignity and beauty. As Mrs, Isabelle R. Knapp, the new Worthy Matron, was escorted to the East and presented with a gorgeous boquet of chrysanthem- ° ss see , In a musical program, Miss Vir-| io meena tae ee gie Key sang “In My Garden of ies”, the first section dealing with |Roses”, accompanied by Miss Mar-| South Florida, and two sections of jory Frow. Gerald Saundess eo ag a with oe a . sto} is J. jennings, ie well- “sent —- —— ton trasaegl (SA riovelist“‘and’ adventure melodies on their violins, accom-| write r | panied on the piano by Miss De-| The Kegs, thé Virgin’ Islands, | Barritt. : and Porto Ricélate as richly trop- Dr. J. C. Gekeler gave an ad- hay ae interesting pee dd betray Pronounced the bene-|;_; ly oa eks to, Mr. Jennings : said. In the book, Mr. Jennings TO BE ENTITLED ‘AMERICAN. TR ums by her husband, Frederic W.| The installation ceremony was Knapp, Mrs. J. C. Gekeler impres- | opened to the public and attended sively sang “My Task”, accom-|-by a large and appreciative audi- panied on the piano ‘by Miss Alce | ence. 3 Curry. | The following officers were in- expects to touch Mexico and Palm | Beach, take a verbal trip through the Everglades, and come down the Keys. In the Key West sec- tion a detailed reproduction of Mrs. Annie Sharpley acted as Installing Officer and Mrs. Lucy Goshorn, Installing Marshall; for the occasion. The officers were lovely in their white evening gowns and were presented with corsages by Retir- ing Worthy Matron, Mrs. Lorena Saunders, who in turn was pre-| sented with boquets of rock roses by her little granddaughter, Patsy. Little Miss Zela Marie Camus presented Mrs. Knapp with roses. As the officers were escorted to their stations by .Mrs. Goshorn, Mrs. Lena Bervaldiand Miss Vir- gie Key softly sang,:“Hail to Our Beautiful Star”. stalled: the historical, sporting and resort THE KEY WEST CITIZEN JENNINGS WORKING ON TRAVEL BOOK PERSONAL MENTION’ PTITTTTTii tit Two Sections Will Deal With Verdant Order Of Eastern Star Installs New Officers ? will be published by Thomas Y. Crowell Publishing House. Mr. Jennings was in Key West ‘the entire winter last year, hav- ing rented Colonel Taylor’s resi- dence in Martello Towers. It was here that he wrote the historical novel, “Next to Valor”, which will be issued in book form sometime this year. It is historical in line with the recent trend toward his- torical fiction. It is the story of the French and Indian life of the New England States. The well- known novel, “Northwest ° Pass- age”, Kenneth Roberts, deals with Roger’s Rangers from the time they marched on the old town of St. Francis to the end of their ca- see ? Greenwood, S. | ee eesee Earl Harrison, of > |C., who was @ vacation | lin Key West with friends, left this ing for Conch Key, employed by the C. ¥. ae YAWL AGROUND son contractors for a project) ***eeeeeeoooree : ig ag Renae oly | Tacking against the east wind | | going west through the Northwest Stuart Walker, who is an em-| channel Friday, the 26 foot auxil- |ploye of the C. ¥. Thomason Co.,| iary yawl “Auk” Captain, David lon the bridge~ projects, left this O’Meara;*fell over too far and morning for Matecumbe, after q| fan agroundvon a bank. The wind 3 | Weel, end, $p enable Captain O’- | f Wai ta | meara to, Sail WACO aR Eo passen- Coast Guard Patrol Boat 185, ger_on the bus for” Miami this August Bradley, officer in charge, morning for a short stay, accom- at 10 o'clock Sunday morning panied by.Miss, Rosalie Wells, and | did the trick. Yesterday morning SOSSOOOSSSSS DOCSSSSSSSHSSSOSSSSSSSSSSSOOSHSSSSESESSSSESESESES PHILOSOPHICAL CAPTAIN RUNS HIS Is Taking Bird And Animal Photos On | was notStrong enough over the/ photos. it off, and the|y, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1938. CLASSIFIED COLUMN N'WEST CHANNEL ca 5 3 number of years ago he decided to build a boat and take a trip to Payment for classified adver- tisements is Invartabily m@ sdvance, expect to return Thursday eve-| the “Auk” berthed in the Yacht ning. Steve Whalton left this Mrs. i morning for Miami, accompanied The “Auk” was underwater to the decking, but Mr. O'Meara kept the water from rising high- by her daughter Miss Mary C.'er by pumping he said. While |i Worthy Matron, Mrs. Isabelle Knapp. Worthy Patron, Camus. Associate Matron, Ruby Hy- man. Associate Patron, Carl O. Soule. Secretary, Mrs. Irene Adams. Treasurer, Mrs. Birdie Higgs. Conductress, Mrs. Amelia Ca- mus. Associate Conductress, Mrs. Isa- Ethel Watkins. a ot eee ; is Myrtle Huston. a evga’ fary Lowe. ° Reet Mrs. Knapp presented the Sta: ~ Points with flowers appropriate Robinson sang, “God of Mercy, God of Light”. ‘Warder, Mrs. Florence Mesa. Sentinel, Mrs: Naida Soule. Fernando E.| features will be made. The book will be illustrated, and in this connection Mr. Jen- nings has taken very excellent pictures of different sections of |the island. Among them are photos of the shoreline, an out- jline setting with a palm tree, a cabana and the white, wavy sand of Rest Beach; the bridges, and | the coconut tree and grass effect of the upper Keys. With.the two first chapters of | his book and the photographs; Mr. Jennings will leave sometime \mext week for New York to sub- {mit them. Later he will go. to reer. “Next to Valor” takes up/Whalton, who is returning to re- the beginning of their career to sume her duties in charge of the the march on the town. This was supply department of St. Francis done quite unintentionally, Mr.|hospital at Miami Beach. Jennings pointed out, and is quite a coincidence. | Mrs. Raymond Maloney, who Later he intends to write a se-' was in the city over the holidays Ties of short stories on the same with relatives, left on the bus this period with the same characters.| morning for her home at Taver- Mr. Jennings was a salesmaninier. Mr. Maloney, deputy sher-} and a seaman for the first part of|iff at that Key, left on the bus his life and had been a graduate|yesterday afternoon. of a School of Mines and Mining| a Engineering. Then the depression! Miss Nelle Mixson, “who” was came. He submitted copy he had | visiting since last Friday with her been fooling with, and was suc-| brother, George Mixson,’ auditor cessful in selling it, he said. His|for the PWA on the bridge pro- first manuscripts sold in 1934. Iects left this morning for a visit In his writing, there is some-| with another brother in Miami times a “start off period, in/and will afterward return to her which he rips the paper out of the home in Rochelle, Ga. typewriter carriage and tears it up, his hair. with it also at times.) iyi.5 Bebe Spence, who was vis- salt water wet everything in his boat, nothing has been materially damaged, he added. . The purpose of his trip is to) collect bird and animal pictures, Mr. O'Meara stated. At the Mar- quesas, he secured excellent photos of jaegers, scarlet ibis, nesting ospreys, Florida herons, | snowy herons, American Egrets, Caspian tern, common tern, peli- jean, sandpiper, yellow leg, san- | derlings, but found no animals at all on the Keys which he could} photograph. { The captain is a rather heavy | set fellow with a long beard. Since he was the proverbially/ knee high to a grasshopper, he | the city has been greatly interested in the | The w ways of birds and animals, and | ish then.” The | after two years at the University |of. his statement of Indiana in which, among oth- | Citizen reporter, will probably be to Paname geand it?” The C:ti- CORNER LOT, 50x00 fest. Com y Apply Box D, The Citizen. |the feature spots of the island, but once the flow starts, “it goes iting her parents over the holiday | er things, he continued his study | forcibly as eveee 900000008 and pelt him with coconut shells. right along,” Mr. Jennings said. 5 : 99 |He smilingly chuckles as he re- Last year Mario Sanchez of ighway for Mie te to Or-| to need The Scenes In American Business” members what an enticing target city helped him to type the 370,- highway for Miami enroute to Or- to earn his living, and took up By ORTON B. MOTTER jhe must be. 000 word novel. eee SE rg Sag oo sry Art| Seecccccceccoocecccocsesocccsscosocesesesoocsooes | | The work will be on the mar-| Mr. Jennings is here with his'c 49) NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—BUSI-;are fifty years old or more! The| ececee oe ;_ Season, left this morning over the’ of wild life, he found it necessary ket about the first of May, and little son, Jack. R. C. Roberts, keeper at Ameri- e eeceeccese | 1 Shoals lighthouse, arrived in| WASHINGTON NOTES PU Dafteraren eet od glee SoooSOCODECoSSSSSESSODESODO DOES EEOSESOSESECESESES | hic Vacation with his family. | Felix Hopkins, colored, was WAR REFERENDUM Brandeis’s dissenting opinion. thir- | — |given a hearing yesterday be-} The Ludlow Joint Resolution to teen years ago. The idea is that} Dr. George L. Engel, who was fore Justice Franklin Arenberg, | propose a constitutional amend- to limit the power of Con- to declare war was signed the actual money put into a plant, ‘visiting with his daughter, Miss less any items found, after ap-|Ida Engel, a teacher in the Key propiate check-up to have been|West High School, left yesterday. on a charge of entering without breaking, and entered a plea of | | Democrats, 54 Republicans ‘dishonestly or uselessly included |morning for his home on Key guilty. ship sailed at 12 o'clock for Tam-) from the Farmer-Laborite INSURANCE BONUS —A monetary reward for safe driving filiated with the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Under- writers last week decided to re- fund 15 percent of the year’s pre- miums to drivers who have no ac- cidents and whose claim records are 100 percent clear. On policies from $5,000 to $10,000 this refund will come to approximetely $10 in ‘metropolitan cities, and will be slightly over $14 for the New York area. The lowest refund of igh in 1937.' and Progressive ranks. Some two Hood elected president! score of the 48 states are repre- A two-third vote of both -Acreage submit the amendment which estimat- | must also be ratified by the legis- ed at 57,492,0000 acres, a fraction-!jatures or conventions of thirty- al decline from year ago. . . .U. S.' six states. H TO AID RAILROADS | -As a resul of* its investigation | of the financial structures of the | domestic railroads, the Senate | Committee on Interstate Com- tin gains 21,000 tons. . . -Utility expansion indicated for 1938. BOYCOTT SPREADS — The | Panay incident has had an im-| merce will recommend legislation portant effect on business here. | designed to aid the rehabilitaion The label “Made In Japan” al-/| of the rail transportation systems. overnight became much Senator Wheeler indicated that more unpopular with the Ameri-| the regulatory powers of the I. C. can public. Retailers questioned | C. will be greatly increased and last week revealed that business if this does.not work, the Gov- in men’s hosiery is at a standstill, | ernment may have to take over ‘and privately they expressed con-| the railroads. He expressed the cern over inventories of Japanese hope that this will not be neces- i Importers have sary because “few people in the should be the basis for rate mak-| ing. The President says these ex- ceptions include graft paid to al- dermen for a franchise, the*buy- ing of property at a figure above its worth, and the practice of withholding development of prop- erty while awaiting an opportuni- | ty to write up its capital figure. | ESPIONAGE Reports of Japanese spying in the Panama Canal Zone have been current in this country. for| years and there have been num-/ erous incidents along the West Largo,. | Hopkins was caught last week | | by the janitor of Douglass school, | jand at the hearing had little to/ |say except that he was guilty to | the charge. | Plan Reception |For Tonight A reception faculty of He was placed under a bond of Harris School ae aia $100 to await the next session of the Room Mothers of the Harris |‘Timinal court. As he was with- School P.-T. A. tonight at 7:30 in out funds he was committed to | the Ballroom of the Over-Sea Ho- | Jail to await trial. | tel. | | A red and white color scheme | Recognition lis planned. Light refreshments; A certain famous film star visit- | will be served. |ed the Highlands and stopped for | Several announcements of im-/ refreshments at a farmhouse. She Coast sperey confirming the | portance are expected to be made was given some milk in a little suspicion of Japanese espionage. | 2+ the affair. ‘bowl and while she was drinking! Representative J. Parnell Thomas | lie is Sostind veeO6. tenk ° recently made a trip to the Canal | e " ot Sy P delighted, | Zone, where he charges, agents ot Garden Clab Meeting PP es e explained, ee the Japanese Government are} pes = making a long-range study of the/ Is Postponed eee > he 7 Canal, photographing strategic/ Ene : pth AE Lee gc eg segs points ao iecting naval pot Meeting of the Garden Club ‘said the farm wife, “it’s the wee| military defenses. He also stated | and Tree Guild which was sched- | bowlie.” that reliable information was/|Uled for tomorrow night at the | = : CAUGHT BY SYMPATHY — Norristown, Pa—Fingerprints taken from a peroxide bottle have BICYCLES caused a widespread hunt for day, week or month J Wandell Forrest Bowers, 19-year- Stowers company. ; old former reformatory inmate. The youth, accused of killing Subscribe to The Citizen, Mrs. Wilma Carpenter, is said to ———— the ARRAS mORE ee i EXCELLENT na ~ | RESTAURANT OUTER GATE || Garage Elevator Comedy and Two Shorts Fede dhe hed de ddd dadede dadededadaded] = the com-)| r iery made by standard is.enjoyed by the work- WASTE—One person in every 260 in the United States has an} active case of tuberculosis and about one in every 1,850, died of The carefully computed cost of a : tuberculosis case to home, indus- SOIL TOO “SWEET”? — In- creasing numbers of back-yard are profiting by the strawberries. Hence the growing tendency to ‘get over on the acid side’ with sulphur. OVER FORTY? — Significant evidence that the ‘earning years’ the hard-working man are be- ing extended has been found by American Iron and Steel In- Two of every five steel @ total of 230,000 have forty. Of these, 170,000 try and community is around $4,- 000. The 500,000 cases currently active will cost the nation $2- 000,000,000. It is an unnecessary waste because tuberculosis today can be prevented. Social Calendar TUESDAY— _ Reception for Faculty and Ex- ecutive Board of the Harris’ School. P.-T. A. Room Moth- ers. Junior-Senior P.-T. A. meeting. 7:30 P. M. Harris School Aud- itorium. Regular meeting of Woman's Club. Public Library. 4 P. M. Meeting to plan Jackson Day Celebration. County Court House. 8:00 P. M ian THURSDAY— First of Winter Concert Series. Key West Hospitality Band. Secretary Hull, in a letter to | Senator Smathers, who favors withdrawal of ships and nationals from the Far East, says that the | presentsdoes not seem an oppoer~ tune moment although such .e@ withdrawal was near at hand a few months ago. The secretary | of State points out that American | forces in China have had no ag- gressive purpose and are kept there only to assist in protecting the lives, property and legitimate activities of American nationals. FEAR The President recently told a press conference that a large per- centage of the press and a small minority of business men are in- culcating a psychology of fear which has had much to do with the prevailing economic condi- tions in this country. He empha- sized the belief that the business recession waS not a result of fear of what the Government might do. “PRUDENT INVESTMENT” Utility “xecutites continue to visit the ‘White House to confer with the President and most of them, so fam agree ‘with Mr. Roosevelt in his advocacy of the “prudent investment” principles of valuation as the basis of rates. This was set forth by Justice ISLAND INN —TOURIST— HOTEL that Jovanese fishing boats, op-| Library has been postponed un- erating in the Pacific off. the | til date to be anndunéed later. coast of Panama, were manned} The meeting was‘ for the pur- by Japanese Naval reserve offi-| P°S¢ of electing officers. for the abe coming year. PRAISES PLANES ° | WATCHES SANTA: KILLED The Army’s military planes; ac-|/ Dearborn, Mich—While he cording to Major-General Oscar Pressed his nose against ‘@ store Westover, Chief of the Army Air | Window, watching a tdy’Santa Corps, are equal to those any-|Claus, David Mayott, who would where and some types “are ‘sup-/have been eight on Christmas erior to those available anywhere | Day was crushed to death by a else in the world.” | brick coping which fell upon him |from the roof of the building. SKIT CONDEMNED — Following a radio skit, “Adam! TWO-HEADED BABY and Eve,” put on the air Decem-| Moscow—A two-headed baby ber 12th, with a cast including |€itl, also described as twins with Mae West, the Federal Communi- |@ singie body, has been under ob- cations received numerous com- S€rvation at the all-union institute plaints, variously characterizing of experimental medicine since its the skit as “profane, obscene, in- birth several weeks ago. The two decent, vulgar, filthy, sexy.” heads and four arms of the baby Frank R. McNinch, chairman of @T¢ attached to a single torso with the Commission, immediately Only two legs. called for full information and his} ‘ - About $250,000,000 in gold has action was followed by prompt eB. S in } fi apologies from the sponsor of the ‘i program, the advertising company weeks, buf; the, full ono which prepared it, and the broad- casting company which put it on the ait. While the Commission has no power of censorship, it. could act against obscene, indec- ent or profane language. Ms. of Kipling’s “Recessional” presented to British Museum through Earl Baldwin. MONROE THEATER Lew Ayres-Dorothy Lamour in —also— THE ROAD BACK Balcony. 10c: Orches- tra. 1$-20c: Night. 15-25< SHOOTS AT CAN: | KILLS RABBIT Morris, UL—After elaborate) Preparations, Policeman Harry; Jones went rabbit hunting. - Trudging up hill and down hill, ; he saw nary a rabbit. Finally, de- ciding he must shoot at some- thing, he aimed at a rusty gallon rabbit, ‘killed with his one Partly furnished two-story house and lot at 1307 Whitehead street. In exclusive overlooking Coral Park. PRICE: $2,000 CASH—Balance Easy Terms L. P. ARTMAN, The Citizen Office or Residence, 1309 Whitehead St. COC OOE ESSE EEE EESEE SESE SESE OOOO LE EL OLE DODEODEO OOD ITIILDILDILOLILPL LOL IL LDS. * CUBAN COFFEE ls Deliciously Fresh! —TRY IT TODAY— On Sale At All Grocers