The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 13, 1939, Page 4

PAGE FOUR SOCIAL C WEDNESDAY— ALENDAR Harris School P.-T.A. meeting in school auditorium. 2:30 p. m. THURSDAY— Rotary Club Luncheon, 12:15 Lions Club Supper. 6:30 p. m. Band Concert. 8 p. m. Bayvit FRIDAY— “The Legend of the Snowma' School Music department. GAN eis a SATURDAY— Policemen’s Ball, sponsored by Key West Police Department. Pena’s Garden. 10;00 p. m. SUNDAY— a Annual Christmas Vesper program sponsoréd by High School Music department. High School auditorium, 5:00 p. m. Band Concert. 4 p. m. Art Center Park. BIGGEST BOY STAR ‘Known To Fans As ‘Sandy’ IN MOVIES IS GIRL Peccccccccccoccoccs For weeks David Butler, Hol- lywood director, sat at his desk agonizingly watching baby after \baby toddle, crawl or be carried p. m. St. Paul’s Parish Hall. . Stone Church Annex. iew Park. in”, operetta, presented by Harris! School auditorium, 7:30 p.° m. {and cried; mothers beamed and ‘scolded. Four hundred babies, jfour hundred mothers—the con- jfusion, in. Hollywood parlance, jwas terrific. Director Butler Choral Society To Open Season With Convent Concert Dec. 20 Key West Choral Society will hold its first concert this year} December 20 at 8:30 o'clock at! St. Cecelia’s Hall at Convent of Clever programs are being! printed for the affair with the! various choral pieces introduced | |into his office.” The babies cooeds ‘j|ago, they bought a lo | | |little home. Mary Immaculate. | by one line of verbal music from | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN VERY SHORTLY a proposi- tion will be made to the city whereby it may secure property which was not murphyized and develop those properties to the advantage of the city and its |poorer classes. A housing project |may be erected on the lands, lcosts taken out by |eventually the TO} | buildings turned dver’to the ren- tee. Tnere may be a squawk from some property owners but \the class of buildings available to poorer tenants here are of such tow calibre that the owners de- serve to lose their tenants. BY THE WAY. the Pennys who own that cute little home next to the old Yacht Basin en- '-}|trance, are definitely here to |stay., Coming here two years 1 launch and quickly erected the beautiful Lately, they thought |they might have to return up- state and take care of two nieces whose parents recently died but THE ISLAND CITY plaints of colored folk’s conduct on Duval and other streets re- cently. LIONS CLUB is around selling shares in its clubhouse with four percent interest guaranteed. The clubhouse will be a civic meet- ing place for clubs and other so- cial bodies. There may also be} dances and other social affairs |given by ‘civic clubs. Yet a num- ber of merchants turned down this proposition flatly and have made disparaging remarks about jthe proposition: Personally, we think it-is a good business in- vestment. ONE OF THE MOST pro-/| lgressive of local filling station joperators in a town which has rapidly become filling station minded is Raymond Curry. Ro- tund, cheery Raymond has a happy word for everyone and a business mind which looks al- ways to the progress and build- ing up. of his business. Latest “Key West as- a whole will spend a happy Christmas this year with new payrolls made available to its workers,” one of the members of the Society said, “and the Choral Society this year reverently dedicates its program as thanks to the Power which Iped to make this pos- i | | The program has a strong reli- gious background with the quality and beautiful, ; peaceful tones of hymns rendered by the Society with clear, full em- phasis. Christmas carols will ring out this year in the program in a section all its own. Society members are very en- thusiastic over the direction of | gram. There will be no admis-|morning milk. The se: Theodore Klebsattel who is work-|sion charge to the program De-|on to the | t ing up the harmonies in group. BRAZELL GETS — ASSIGNMENT ON STATE PATROL DUTY: ASSISTED IN COUNTY JAIL ! i | each song. There are approximately 30 members of the Society who will! participate in the program. They} will present a very pretty con- trast on the stage with formal wear designated for them. mine atatn are going on at |despaired; four hundred’ times he High School Auditorium with a Shook his head. great amount of enthusiasm ex-|' One morning, at the breakfast | “SANDY arangements have been complet-j wrinkle Raymond has installed is \ed and the Pennys are Key West-|a machine for retreading your ‘ers now. tires. Now everyone in Key ta —— West in the past has either had THERE HAS BEEN agitation | to buy a new tire or get a sec- |for some time now to license|ond-hand one. Raymond now ;Key West sightseeing guides,|steps in and grants new tire | |give them some sort of examina- | guarantee for old tire cost. \tion which shows they are quali-| hibited. Work of ‘the Choral Society |Plate a batch of pictures. The objection is that small boys who \table, Butler found beside his/f:ed to serve the city. Principal| ISLAND. CITY POPULATION: Charter Fishing Fleet;: “CAPT. which was organized last year is|pictures were all of one child. just beginning to get the recog-| One look at them and the direc- nition it deserves. The unit was tor yipped lke a man possessed: organized for the edification of|“I've found him! I’ve got the the members but also as a means kid! Where the Sam Hill did to supply an adequate, cultural these pictures come from?” - she know nothing more about the|JAKIE KEY, who looks like aj city except that it has an Aqua-|pirate and knows all the fishing Bee and a lighthouse take the/spots from years of experience, | tourists around for a quarter or isays young fellows can’t take it | iso. Result is that the tourist saysilike old fellows. Older ones \there is nothing to see in Key/drank all night and fished all West and goes off perhaps never|day in Long Key days, JAKIE |choral presentation of music as a frightened maid mumbled ‘phase of Key West’s winter pro- had found the pictures under the |to return. There are many good |says. cember 20 with everyone vited. Dance Tonight |At Raal’s Club Key Westers and visitors alike im to deave the pictures at the are finding Raul’s Club on Roose- | doorstep.. He and Mrs. Henville |velt Boulevard the ideal place to had been reading about Uni- spend a pleasant evening, arch was|guides in Key West who have newfound | made a study of the city’s attrac- in- | star. ‘tions and their efforts should not | The pictures were of nine-|go for naught. months-old Sandra Lee Henville, —— known to the movie world today | ON THIS COLORED question as just “Sandy”. Sandy's father again since it rises up every once was a milkman who. delivered|in awhile. This column: has ever milk to Mr. Butlef’s house and {had the friendliest relations with pride, nothing else, had prompted | the colored folk of the town. Everyone who has been in this city for any length of time be- comes mellowed and there is a fine feeling between them. We locate the es- | versal’s search for a baby boy to} . CAPTAIN OLLIE RUS- |SELL devotes his time exclu-/| |sively to sport fishing. He is |convinced that catching -one big} {sport fish’ is better’n a hundred |smaller fish. ..CAPTAIN’ VERAL |ROBERTS is another oldtimer! jwith the marks‘of sun and rain jon his face. . .CAPTAIN HICK- ‘MAN, who will run a_ bottom |fishing boet, is from up the Keys. |He works his boat year round. . . {CAPTAIN BERNARD WAITE, i“big fellow”, talks a good time jand also produces a good fishing | CLASSIFIED COLUMN MISCELLANEOUS ae a ee OPENING FOR THE SEASON, Key West’s loveliest Gift Shop. @LD ISLAND TRADING POST, at the Water Front, North End of Duval street. decl3-1mo WANTED WANTED: Land near Key West suitable for a camp-site for House Trailer. Give location, size, value and description in letter. Privacy, bathing, boat~- ing and fishing desirable. Own- ers or,agents write for appoint- ment. Wilf buy or lease. ‘Land without’ building . preferred. Albert Blankenhagen, General Delivery, Key West, Fla. ' decl2-2tx ‘ FOR RENT PRIVATE HOME FOR RENT, furnished. All modern con- veniences. 1403 Catherine St. dec2-Imo FURNISHED APARTMENTS, electric refrigerators. Apply Valdes Bakery. sept30-3mo PRIVATE HOME with all modern conveniences; two bedrooms; | also, hot and cold running wa- ter. 1418 Catherine Street. nov20-1mo FOR SALE FOR SALE—Modern Gas Stove. Cheap. Apply 528 Simonton street. dec13-3tx LADY’S PLATINUM DIAMOND RING, weighing %4-karet. Ab- solutely perfect. Regular price $250, will: sacrifice for $175. POLLOCK’S, 519 Duval street. dec13-2t LADY’S [DIAMOND RING} weighing over 1%4-karets, per- fect. Regular price $500, wilt sacrifice fort $300. POLLOCK’S, 519 Duval street. dec13-2t FOR SALE—2 lots, each 509x100. Run from Washington to Von Phister street. $850. Apply rear 1217 Petronia street. aprl4-s WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1939 SINGLETON | NOW ON S.S. CUBA Steve Singleton, III, who came | to Key West as clerk in the} Chamber of Commerce and re- cently accepted a position as clerk in the office of John Cos-} tar, agent for the P. and O. SS.! Co., has been transferred to the | purser’s office on S.S. Cuba ‘anal went on the run yesterday aft- ernoon to Tampa. Alfred Armengol, purser‘ of, the ship, had been looking for some one to be added to his office force for some: time, and selected young Singleton some time ago. Yesterday he was added to the list of employes, De CARD OF THANKS Please accept our hearty thanks for the many acts of kindness and sympathy tendered us dur- ing our recent bereavement, the | loss of our beloved one, Charles “Nick” Pinder. To those who} gave the use of their cars, the donors of the beautiful floral of- ferings and messages of sym- pathy, we will ever be grateful. dec13-1tx THE FAMILY. LEGALS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA. IN CHANCERY. LOUIS BERENS = Plaintifé, ys. BETTY KAUFMAN BERENS, Defendant. ORDER FOR PUBLICAT! TO: BETTY KAUFMAN BERENS, Clo Central Islip Hospital, Central Islip, Long Island, New York. You are hereby required to ap- pear to the Bill of Complaint in the above styled and entitled cause on February 5th, 1940, otherwise the allegations therein will be taken as confessed. This order to be published once} a week for four consecutive weeks in The Key West Citizen, a news- paper published in Key West, Flor- a. Done and ordered this December | 4th, A. D. 1939, (SEAL) Ross C Sawyer Clerk of the Circuit Court, Monroe County, Florida. By: (Sd.) Florence E. Sawyer, Deputy Clerk. dec6-13-20-27,1939; jan3,1940 MONROE THEATER Robert Young—Ann Sothern MAISIE and IN PROPER ORDER “I want to. get a divorce from my husband”. “What are charges, madam?” “What are your’s first?” NO NAME LODGE Directly on Beach Famous Bahia Honda Fishing Reef — Tarpon — Permit Bone Fishing COTTAGES $2.50 AND UP Stone Crab Dinners a Specialty PHONE NO NAME KEY NO. 1 Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Craig, Owners Harris School Music Department presents “THE LEGEND OF THE SNOWMAN” Operetta HARRIS SCHOOL Friday, Dec. 15, 7:30 p. m. ADULTS, 1Sc CHILDREN, 10c your For Fitty Years a NAME! in Coffee in Key West STRONG ARM. BRAND COFFEE THAT'S A REPUTATION 3 Things To Remember! 1. T he letter your wife gave you to mail. pecially on Wednesday ‘nights |play an important part in East | will venture to say that there has'time. . .Another of the younger | THE MIKADO FIRE YESTERDAY L. W. Brazell, the State Highway Patrol, has reported this} week for duty and will be as-j| signed to duty from Key West} to the first toll gate. Mr. Brazell was at the court house yesterday when a fire broke out in the garage of the county jail and did valiant work in assisting in getting the flames under control. Engine No. 1 was summoned | to the scene and in a short time | control. | Prison guard Leroy Torres this morning the damage) amounted to not more than $15. PLEADS GUILTY IN LARCENY CASE Luis Caraballo and Carlos Fer- | rer were arraigned in the office | of Peace Justice Enrique Esquin- aldo, Jr., yesterday afternoon to answer at a preliminary hearing | the charges of trespassing with intent to commit petit larceny. When arraigned Caraballo en- tered a plea of guilty and was placed-under bond of $50 to an- swer at the next term of Crim- inal Court. | One of the witnesses did not appear in the case against Ferrer and he, Ferrer, was put under bond of $50 to appear and enter a plea to the charges this after- noon at 5:30 o'clock. of everything was under said A POOR MEMORY | Stillwater Professor—Give me some of that prepared monoaceti- cacidester of saylcylic acid. Druggist—Do you mean as- pirin? Professor—Yes; think of that name. I can never Return as Wage-Earners In many sanatoria, patients are being trained in some type of suit- able work so that they can re turn to their communities as wage - earners, This program of rehabilitation, made possible to some extent by Christmas Seals, is relieving communities of the Snancial responsibility of taking eare of cured tuberculosis pa- tients, in addition to giving the persons themselves @ feeling of independence, when large crowds attend the/|Side of Heaven with Bing Cros- mid-week dance which begins at by. They knew, Mr. Butler would Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches —_._.,. Total rainfall since Dec. 1, inches Nase Pi Deficiency since December Neinenes Total rainfall since January , inches Excess since » inche: Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise 7:04 a. Sunset - . 5:40 p. Moonrise": 9:49 a. Moonset 4 . 9:20 p. Tomorrow’s Tides (Naval Base) AM. 5:49 0.00 0.19 0.56 10 o'clock. be simply crazy about Sandra. and for, this affair Raul’s Ha-/crazy with fear he wouldn’t be waiian Orchestra will present ajable to track down the child. It splendid program of late dance | finally dawned on him to call the An invitation to everyone to |not cleared up until Mr. Henville attend is extended by the man-jreturned from his route and agement. There will be no ad-j|found the whole plant in an up- looking for a baby... * The next day, Mrs. Henville THE WE ‘ATHER and Sandra went to Universal to | was wearing a new hat, and her Observation taken at 7:30 a. m, |heart was: beating’ fast, 75th Mer. Time jthough Grandma had said that Highest last 24 hours ryings-on. Mr. Butler gave San- Lowest last night dra a quick once-over, smote the Mean .-... jair with his fist and shouted: |He’s tremendous. He’s a_ find. What a scoop”. Then Mrs. Henville spoke. For \the room. “He is a she”, she jsaid. Mr. Butler seemed strick- jen. But with magnificent forti- 38.61 | great idea was burning in his 2.42 | mind. “It’s no she”, he shot back m. | he, m.jever had. Bigger than Coogan. m. | Better than LeRoy”. \ Tonight will be no exception; Mr, Butler was crazy, all right, music. milk company; the mystery was mission or cover charge: roar. A big movie director was see Mr. Butler. Mrs. Henville ‘Temperatures no good would come of ‘such car- Normal “He’s better than his pictures. ja moment an awful silence filled tude he recovered quickly; a m. | exultantly. “From now on it’s a Thus a star was born. P.M.| 5:22 12:23! Steamship Colorado, of the m.,foday | Clyde-Mallory Lines sailed 2:30 Sea level _. ... 30.13 | yesterday afternoon for Tampa Wind Direction and Velocity _ after discharging freight at the NE—6 miles per hour |Mallory docks. The vessel ar- Relative Humidity rived at 11:25 in the morning. S. S. COLORADO SAILS 85% even | It’s the best he Hollywood | always been far better and more |“old fellows” is CAPTAIN tolerant relations between the|GOULD CURRY. GOULD as- colored person and the white in|tonished the fleet last year with this island than any place else in|wonderful catches. . .CAPTAIN the country. The foremost think- MANOLO LOPEZ is as.great a ers of the colored race say thgt|delight to his parties from his there should be segregation of|Cuban accent as from his very, the white and colored races. Only ;very large catches. » CAPTAIN | authoritative colored source|LOUIS AVALO has an American } which is against this is a na-|flag on the side of his launch. . | tionally-known colored newspa- ;|CAPTAIN EDGAR TAYLOR has | per which advocates mingling|years of commercial. fishing be- | of the colored and white races.|hind him. A sport fishing cap- As a final point: this column be-|tain is one who has commercially | lieves that it is the influence of |fished and knows how to enter-| ja recent influx of negroes from tain his party. Such a one. is other points which caused com-iEDGAR. | } PERSONAL MENTION: yop W. J. Lockwood, chief clerk of the Union Pacific R.R., who was! in the city for a vacation trip, | and had an excellent time, left | on S.S. Cuba for Tampa yester- | day. ANSWERS TO | AY’S DAILY QUIZ | Below are the Answers to Today's Daily Quiz printed on Page 2 —a—e | | | | | A destroyer. Palm Sunday. Mocking bird. Philadelphia Eagles, June was named for Juno, Goddess of Marriage. He had none. No. . He: was retired by special act of. Congress as a full General. | Heinrich Himmler. ., It is one of the Danish lands in the Baltic. Ulmont Russell was a passen- ger on the 7 o'clock bus _ this é is »| 6. morning, going for a few days’} vacation at the fishing .camp at/ | | Key Vacas. | Robert Lyons left this ‘morn- | 9. | ing on the bus for Miami, where | 10. he will visit: for several days on! business and expects to return | Sunday. | Acoma i Tom Whitmarsh, janitor at the; is- | Subscribe to The Citizen. a , CHRISTMAS CARDS for every member of the family, all; prices. Beautiful sentiments. SAN CARLOS BOOK STORE, 518 Duval street. dec9-tf HOUSE ahd TWO LOTS, nine rooms, all modern conven- iences, beautiful lawn, double garage. All taxes paid, furn- ished, radio,‘ piano, typewriter, etc. $4500 cash or $2500 down, balance in 1% ‘years.. Robt. J. Lewis, 1611 Von Phister street. decl1-s FOURTEEN-FT. V-BOTTOM CYPRESS BOAT; Fouy’ Horse Johnson Outboard Mofor; Four Life Preservers, One/ Fire Ex- tinguisher; Pair of Oars and Row Locks; Anchor with Rope —all for $150.00. 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CONDITIONS The western high pressure area has moved southeastward, being crested this morning over the southern Plains States, and over- | spreads most sections from the Missisippi Valley westward, and Pressure is also moderately high rover the Florida peninsula; while a moderate low pressure area covers northeastern districts. Light to moderate precipitation has occurred since yesterday morning from the Lake region southward to the middle Gulf i Partly cloudy; some-_ for Jacksonville, and will spend; |WEEK'S WORST BRITISH PUN | ci,ictmas with relatives. A man who had just returned | . P from -Paris. was -relating.a. thrill-| Miss Helen Geiger and A. L. r . |Geiger, were visitors in the city ing experiance at # club. | this morning, and had a_ very ‘Yes",. he: said, 7"an Apache | peasant time visiting the points | sprang at me in one of the streets lof interest. of Paris, snatched my pocket- is jcase of notes, and bolted! 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