The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 28, 1939, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Bowens Lett | For Miami | Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bowen, who| have been spending Christmas| weekend with Mr. Bowen's broth- | er and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. E. “Duke” Bowen, left in their new car yesterday morning for their home in Miami. Miss Betty Bowen and Miss| Pauline Camero traveled with the | Bowens, Miss Bowen to from Miami for a local dealer, left on the morning bus on the return to Miami. M. J. Willis, who had been spending the Christmas holidays foend with his son-in-law and daughter, = Hi |Mr, and Mrs. Anthony Yates and 2 while with her aunt and uncle, | children, left on the morning bus and Miss Camero to spend part for hi i = ‘or his home in New Orl é of her stay with her sister, Mrs, | ea one Ulysses Parodi and part with i Fred yh eer pele and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. | ease one ch iat illiam H. Prime. Mr. Prime is|and is home for the holidays superintendent of construction of|and has been spending part the Southern Bell Telephone and |the time with his father, James Telegraph Company in Miami. | Johnson who is in business in Both Betty and Pauline looked | Key West, left on the morning forward to a full week of enter- |bus for his home in Miami tainment and both expected to! Beach. ’ attend the Orange Bowl football | game next Monday. They will! return early next week. who "is University, Miss Rose Walton and niece |Miss Ruth Walton, left on the 7 |o’clock bus this morning for a P erez-Cervantes |visit with relatives in San An- Naptials Tuesday haeeee | Mrs. William Cassidy and little In a quiet home wedding Miss|daughter left over the highway Rosa Perez became the bride of | today, en route to Miami, for a Octavio Cervantes last Tuesday /|visit with her mother-in-law, afternoon. |Mrs. Susan Cassidy. The ceremony was performed | ae at the home of Mr. and Mrs.| Mr. and.Mrs. Walter Dalinger Ralph Placencia on Catherine|and family of Eaton, Ohio, are street. Armando Perez acted as | visiting in the city, séeing the best man and Mrs. Armando points of interest. # Perez as bride’s maid. Witnesses! _—_— to the ceremony were Ralph Pla-| Mr, and Mrs, Helmuth Gutman cencia and Bienvenido Perez. .\;|and son John, were arrivals in Notary Public Pedro Aguilar | the city yesterday and are at the performed the ceremony. The}home of Mr. and Mrs. Lionel newlyweds will be at home to| Plummer, where they intend their many friends at Pagejstaying until April. John ex- Apartments. pects to leave in .about two weeks to return to school. | aaewes William Lord and family who 80 hotel will celebrate New Year’s| tomorrow for Tampa where he is ing to the strains of Jimmy Loss’ ing. | 75th Mer. Time disappointments occurred in con-|yyYean __. at the Rainbow and dancing | 7:30 a. m., inches 0.00 PERSONAL MENTION Robert Nilon, who arrived in the city last night driving a car 4 wider distribution. America needs | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | TOO LATE TO | CLASSIFY By RUSSELL KAY Searching for a subject for this |victims of the ravages.of war— week’s column, I found the fol- | Americans are thinking of | the lowing editorial in the current |pappiness they may bring into issue of the Tampa Evening News | fi ‘ lGhich tp mny sundaauosthy lat jthe lives of their loved ones. “Shopping in America is a to stop at this season’ and give |problem for the ordinary citizen a serious thought to her count-|because he has so many things less blessings. jfrom which to pick the gift “he The following editorial invites feels his loved ones will most ap- such consideration and I am hap-|preciate. But in most foreign py to present it here: jlands government rationing and “Governor Fred P. Cone, re- |government restrictions limit his the jchoice to an absolute zero—and e i ‘plying to an invitation of | Iowa Department of the Ameri- jhe can’t buy that because hi can Legion for a message for the /hasn’t the money. season, said: ‘Any American who; “Yes, America is free! Free to doesn’t welcome 1940 with a love, free to achieve, and free Happy New Year is afflicted wit! chronic indigestion — a disease | should thank his God that this ‘which is practically unknown in|is so. And he should join with the ‘Land of the Suwannee Riv- jesvenor Cone in the firm re- er’—for America is free from jsolve that he will do his utmost fear, from hatreds, and from ‘the ;to keep America so that not only horror of war. We should re-|this year but succeeding , years solve to keep it so that the hap-|will present the same picture of piness of the new year may con- |a nation which knows his course, ‘tinue all year’. jis secure in its faith, and de- “And every American will join |termined in its resolve to keep with the governor in this state-|itself free from the: hatreds and ment. While untold millions of |agony which is engulfing the‘ na- ‘peoples in foreign lands are jtions less fortunate. shuddering in fear, wondering; “GOD' ' BLESS | AMERICA, what tomorrow may bring, while! LAND OF THE FREE; AND frequent air raid alarms send GOD KEEP AMERICA TRUE TO them scurrying to shelters haunt- |ITS IDEALS OF FREEDOM AND ed by the fear that their wives' LIBERTY WITH JUSTICE FOR and their children may become | ALL!” KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just-Five. Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen FIVE YEARS AGO Grooms of the Chamber of Com- Mrs. Jack Hastings Roberts has | merce and Edward L. Strunk of jreceived a telegram announcing |the Exchange Club, have ampli- ‘the death of her sister, Mrs. Lor- fied arrangements for advertis- lraine Wyckoff, in her home at|ing Key West during the winter [New York. Mrs. Wyckoff will|@Mong tourists and visitors in be remembered by a host of Florida. |friends as Miss Lorraine Whit- marsh, daughter of the late John | | Whitmarsh, and Mrs. Whitmarsh of this city. The sponging trip which ended yesterday “was the most sucdess- ful in several years. The crew of one of the vessels shared $142 Tans | meeting endorsed Whitehair. Joint installation of the three | Masonic Lodges in Key West was j held last night in the rooms of; New Year’: Dance At Rainbow Room are in the city visiting with Mr. —- |Lord’s father, Jack Lord, and Rainbow Room of La Concha/others of the family, will leave Eve on Saturday night this year,|a member of the customs forces. holding to their policy of no dances on Sunday night. Danc- and his fine orchestra, will get} THE WEATHER under way at 10 p. m. and con- tinue far into the early morn-|Qpservation taken at 7:30 a. m., Reservations should be phoned Temperatures in to number 160. The manage- | Highest last 24 hours ment stresses this in that several! Lowest last night nection with the Christmas Normal _._. sae dance. Daily cocktail hour danc- | Precipitation ing beween 5 and 7 p. m. is held | Rainfall, 24 hours ending every weekday night begins at | Tota} rainfall since Dec. a 9:30 o'clock. inches 2 21018 Deficiency since December each, while the $100 mark was | exceeded by many. Many of the) smaller boats, it is said, exceeded | the usual mark and some went} CAPITAL NEWS -+-As I See It.... | By M. M. SMATHERS Sbecccccecoocccese e Mark January 14, 1940, down in |your hat as a date not to forget. For on that date, unless all signs \fail, the Florida State Federation jof Labor will tear a page from the record of successful political | (history and begin ‘playing a! |strategic game of politics. On} | that date, subject to the call from | | President Charles Silvia, organiz- | ed labor will assemble in Jack- | sonville for the purpose of dis- lcussing the advisability of en- dorsing state, senatorial, and con- lgressional candidates. In the |past this has not been the case |and there have been those who |have expresed belief that labor lis always divided against itself and has been used as a political | teresting fight and many a man Rose, let it be said that she will create interest in any campaign. It is more than a rumor that Mrs. Nell Cowan Bostwick of Jackson- ville will within the next few days throw her bonnet into the fray. Mrs. Bostwick, a familiar figure at every . session of the legislature, has friends in all sec- tions of Florida, many of whom remember personal acts of con- sideration she has done for them in the haste of legislative days. Pressure is also being brought to bear on Mrs. J. D. Alderman of Cocoa, chairman of the Florida Milk Board, to get her into the fight. She will carry the col of the state administration and perhaps the support of the senior senator. It is going to be an in- will be dragged into it. CLASSIFiED COLUMN football. The movement to get! behind various candidates early | h from hate. And every American |in the game has been growing | PASSENGER WANTED by party for some time, as the action tak- | jen at a meeting in Orlando Te- | jcently disclosed. At that time| Francis Whitehair, DeLand can- | |didate for governor, received the | endorsement. There was a size- | able group at the meeting which represented the minority not in |favor of such a move. The move- | ment was.not directed in any- way against Whitehair, but rep-| resented a school of thought that considered it too early to make | pledges, at least until all persons | intending to run had announced. It was gratitude on the part of | organized labor to three or more ‘holdover senators, who had fought |their battles on the floor of the | jsenate, that members of the It} is also rumored that both or-| |ganized labor and the Townsend | | followers are in a receptive mood | to work out a plan wherein they | will’ try to concentrate on candi- |dates acceptable to both. i | ‘William V.. Knott, state treas- \urer about to retire, let it be jknown this week that he has |completed the installation/within | the sacred walls of the state| |treasury, a controlled accounting | \system that is just as near per- \fect as it is humanly possible |to get, and that the system is be- ing copied by large financial in- |stitutions over the country. At| |the head of this huge undertak- jing by the commissioner,, to, cen- tralize and consolidate approxi- mately $68,000,000 yearly in re- ceipts and an annual issuance of 800,000 warrants, in addition to |OPENING FOR THE SEASON, Hagheses To Vacation In Birmingham Lawrence Hughes, who is con- | nected with the Birmingham (Ala.) News and who was visit- ing with the family at the home of his son, Clyde Hughes of the U. S. Weather Bureau, left on the | morning for | 7 o'clock bus this Birmingham. Other members of the family are remaining with Clyde and Mrs. Hughes, who will leave next Thursday over the highway for Birmingham, where Mr. and Mrs. Hughes will spend his vacation. Newlyweds Left _ For Coral Gables Mr. and Mrs. Bert Harris, who were married by Judge Raymond Lord on Christmas morning, ‘left Monday evening for their new home in Coral Gables. While in Key West, the newly-weds were guests of Mr. Harris’ sister, Mrs. Walter Johnson, and family, at 1128 Margaret street. Mrs. Harris was before marriage Miss Thelma Jean Mc- Vicar of Brooklyn, N. Y. Fern Chapter Holds Pablic Installation Fern Chapter No. 21, Order of Eastern Stars, will hold public installation of officers tomorrow evening, Friday, at Scottish Rites Hall, the program to start at 8:00 o'clock. The public has been extended a cordial invitation to attend the ceremony. ijpinobes: 2 Total rainfall since January 1, inches —___ 38.78 Excess since Jan. 1, inches 0.83 Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise T:ll a. |Sunset -. 5:47 p. | Moonrise 9: Moonset : Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) A.M. Low —— —~ 5:49 High _. 12:14 Barometer at 7:30 a. m., today jsea level . 30.06 Wind Direction and Velocity NNE—10 miles per hour Relative Humidity 75% | N. B.—Comfortable humidity jshould be a few points below mean temperature | FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Friday) Key West and Vicinity: Mostly jcloudy tonight and Friday; not jmuch change in temperature; {moderate northeast ‘and north winds. Florida: Mostly cloudy tonight light rain in north and central |portions; not much change in | temperature. CONDITIONS A strong high pressure area of considerable area with the ‘crest over the northern Rockies | covers the country west of the Mississippi River. The disturbance reported yes- jterday over Kentucky and Vir- |ginia continued to move rapidly northeastward attended by heavy snows over the Atlantic seaboard and thence westward to the Mis- . Grand Master . presiding. “for the FERA is at the Marine Dr. Felix Varela Lodge 64 on Elizabeth street. In the presence of a large number of members the solemn ceremony was per- formed with District Deputy Hollon Bervaldi las high as $110. The delay in repairing the |Curry Aquarium has been due to ithe fact that the glass has not been received in time for ‘the lwork to be done. The glass, |which was ordered more than a month ago, is twice as thick as jthat now in use, and will be placed as soon as it arrives. Donald Corley, head architect hospital with a couple of broken ribs and other injuries as a re- sult of a run-in between a taxi | cab in which he was riding and | Among the recent transfers of a truck at the corner of Reynolds |!and on Key Largo is one, lot and South streets. The vehicles |ffom ocean to bay surrounding i ithe ove Creek side on ie ,met in front of the Rock House. | south end of the Key; which. was Arrangements have been com- !S0ld for Walton, Fryer and Lane, pleted for the series of tennis | local syndicate, to E. H. Dutch- matches to be played on_ the |€ The price paid for the land courts of the Hotel Casa Marina. |S said to be $152,500. It has been arranged that visi-| tors and local players will com- | ANSWERS TO TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ pete in the matches, and the first | Below are the Answers to Today's \game will be between Albert | 'Kraftson and Ignacio Carbonell. | | Daily Quiz printed on Page 2 TEN YEARS AGO The formal opening of the Casa Marina hotel last night found a large number of out-of-town | Amy! acetate. her |and Friday, possibly scattered |Suests present and many of the | 2. Japan. 12 p. m. In the Mediterranean Sea, south of the island of Cor- sica. Yes. At-takt’; not. at-tak’-ted. Moon. No. given friends. Woodrow Wilson. An instrument for measuring wind velocity. |foremost Key Westers as guests \of Manager and Mrs. Schutt. The manager explained last night that regular opening would ie New Year’s Eve as usual. | Sale of the former Woolworth | building, one of the most valu-| able pieces of Key West property. | \Was reported yesterday, a deal) consummated between T. Jenkins | 9. Curry, the owner, and Raul Gar- | 10. cia, the purchaser.- While - the | price was not given, it was said re to be high. T a. ’ Birthd. The submarine experimental | oO ay s Dl ays unit, S-4, is expected to arrive |® encccseseescesese about January 15 for the annual | should be the _ bride’s Showers by |equitable freight rates for the \the accounts of the insurance de- | partment and the board of admin- | istration, is none other than | |Harvey G. Wood, formerly of | West Palm Beach, and prominent | over the state and nationally in| |American Legion circles. It is aj \fine gesture as a parting adieu by | \Mr. Knott. In this ovation he| joes given the state a great im- provement in the machinery of | |government to be carried on down through the years, long after the veteran treasurer has | retired to the quietude of his |own fireside. | To the thousands over the tate who have been wondering | if Jerry W. Carter, railroad | commissioner, will be a candidate |for governor, it is rumored that , jif he does not make the race for | \the gubernatorial chair that it is |almost a certainty that he will ‘be in the race for the United |States Senate. As far back as 12 |years ago records show that Commissioner Carter sought more |growers and shippers of Florida. If he should run for the senate jit is an almost assured fact that jhis platform will carry a strong jplank about the reduction of jfreight rates. Commissioner Car- ter is now a member of the Southeastern Class Rate Commit- jtee, and has been since its or- | ganization one of the three mem- jbers who have been carrying on a fight for parative rates, as be- |tween official and southeastern |territories. This case if won will} wipe out the present 39 percent joecass freight rate charged |southern shippers in excess of |that paid by shippers north of the |Ohio' and Potomac rivers. It is a little early yet, but don’t | Luethis Entertain sissippi Valley. Granddaughters | Throughout this area ‘depths of — |3 to 10 inches are reported as be- Two young granddaughters of |ing on the ground this morning. Mrs. A. D. Luethi, 1119 Von Phis- |!” Temperatures have fallen some- ter street, arrived by bus yester-|what in Florida, Alabama, Geor- day for a two weeks’ visit, com-|gia and the Carolinas since yes- ing by through train from Grand |terday and have not changed ma- Rapids, Mich., to Miami. jterially elsewhere. The girls are Cornelia and) Subnormal temperatures are Harriet Herz, aged 12 and 10, re- | general throughout the country. spectively. —~ | G. S. KENNEDY, SE j Official In Charge. Cabrerae Entertain ‘home of Mr. and Mrs. Sebastian Cabrera, Jr., 811 Southard street. Horace D. Taft, retired found- | pe surprised if the women folks) period of operations. The expe-|er-headmaster of the Taft School get into the columns of the news- dition will again be under the in Connecticut, brother of the | papers pretty regularly during} command of Lieutenant Dunbar. |late President-Chief _ Justice,'the coming campaign. Here is USS. Falcon, a mine sweeper, born in Cincinnati, 78 years ago: the setup and it centers around will be the tender ship for the; Dr. Frank W. Taussig, Har-'the chair of Democratic Na-! outfit this season. vard’s professor emeritus of eco-' tional Committeewoman. Hor- _—_. lnomics, born in St. Louis, 80 tense Wells of Tampa, who has | The basketball game played |years ago. ‘held the job for several years, is| last night at the Athletic Club, Dr. Henry R. Cloud, Indian out to unseat Senator Andrews. | between the Hospital and the jhead of the Haskell Institute, Polly Rose of St. Petersburg has Marines terminated in favor of Lawrence, Kansas, born in Thurs-| already announced for the job the Marines by the score of 27 to|ton Co., Nebr. 53 years ago. _/now held by Miss Wells. To 6. This was the hospital team’s | first appearance on the basket- ball court and from their show- Thomas P. Henry, president of | the American Automobile Asso- | (ciation, Detroit, born at Brook- Many Guests Mrs. Mary Dial and daughter, Mrs. Dial is one of the vice- \presidents df the Florida Con- Miss Teen; Mrs. T. E. Kicklighter |§tess of Parents and Teachers and daughter, Miss Maxine, and Associations and is acquainted) Th, i | with a number of members in ¢ Harold Graylin are visitors in Key West and are guests at the Key West. ing last night they will be heard from later. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO jhaven, Miss., 62 years ago. Prof. Robert McElroy, famed 67 years ago. Merle Crowell of New York |City, writer, born -at Westport, Maine, 51 years ago. - _ |historiap, born at Perryville, Ky., |; |. MONROE THEATER |] Robert Young—Florence Rice | 4, and } FLYING DEUCES WANTED driving Dodge Sedan to Jack- sonville Monday morning, January 1. Apply Everett Per- pall, 1408 White street. dec28-1tx LOST | | LOST—Watch Fob with Horse’s Head at Postoffice. Reward if returned to Ray Navarro, 613 Caroline Street. REWARD FOR RETURN OF} WATCH AND CHAIN lost on South Beach, foot of Simonton street. Return to Manager, | Gibson Hotel. dec26-6t MISCELLANEOUS Key West’s loveliest Gift Shop. OLD ISLAND TRADING} POST, at the Water Front, North End of Duval street. dec13-1mo FOR RENT PRIVATE HOME FOR RENT, furnished. All modern con- veniences. 1403 Catherine St. dec2-1mo PRIVATE HOME with all modern conveniences; two bedrooms; also, hot and cold running wa- | ter. 1418 Catherine Street. dec26-1mo FURNISHED COTTAGE and two. Apartments. Hot Water. Apply 630 Elizabeth St. dec16-1mox FURNISHED APARTMENTS,}| electric refrigerators. | Valdes Bakery. sept30-3mo | FOR SALE HOUSE and TWO LOTS, nine} rooms, all modern conven- iences, beautiful lawn, double garage. All taxes paid, furn- ished, radio, piano, typewriter, ete. $4500 cash or $2500 down, balance in 1% years. Robt. J. Lewis, 1611 Von Phister street. decil-s FURNISHED OR UNFURNISH- *ED HOUSE. Six rooms, located at 508 Grinnell Street. Apply at 1008 White Street. dec28-3tx Johnson Outboard Motor; Four Life Preservers, One Fire Ex- tinguisher; Pair of Oars and Row Locks; Anchor with Rope —all for $150.00. Apply 1217 Petronia street. jun27-s THAT'S A REPUTATION NO NAME LODGE dec27-3tx | 5 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1939 BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT a od Girl Born To Bearups Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Bearup, 514 Margaret street, announce the birth early this morning of an eight-pound girl at the home. The new arrival has been named Theda Fern. Mother and daugh- ter are doing nicely. Mr. and Mr. George Fisher and children, Ruth, Mildred, Wanda and George, Jr., left over the highway this afternoon for their home in Gloucester, N. J. While here they were the houseguests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Matthews. Mr. Fisher, who is an ardent follower’ of; Isaac Walton, made several good catches while fishing last week in waters around Key West. DEATH, ANYWAY (By Associated Press} Subscribe to The Citizen—20c PARIS, Dec. 28.—Prevented by | weekly. If the FIRST bottle of Imperial Lotion fails to relieve itching agony of Rash, Tetter, Scabies, Ring- worm, ‘Toe Itch your money ‘will be returned. Simply repeat invisible Im- Lotion as needed while nature tee heal. Get a bottle today. {illness from joining his regiment at the front, Eugene Parmentelat, 37-year-old French soldier, chose suicide by hanging. } ‘ a! S. S. OZARK DUE TOMORROW Steamship Ozark of the Clyde- Mallory Lines is due to arrive in port tomorrow morning from} Jacksonville, with shipments of freight and miscellaneous items for local dealers. The vessel will discharge and proceed to New| Orleans. Backache Caused By— Yeon may be caused by iggish kidneys. If excess acid and other wastes are not: regular- ly eliminated it may lead to getting up nights, eg, scanty or frequent flow, leg or rheu- matic pains, headache or dizzi- ness. Keep kidneys active same as bowels. Get a 25¢ box of Bu- kets from any druggist. Your 25e back in 4 days if not pleased Locally at Olivieri’s Drug Store. 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