The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 18, 1940, Page 4

PAGE FOUR FIRST VOTERS TO BE INDUCTED STATEWIDE CEREMONIES TO BE HELD ON AMERICAN DEMOCRACY DAY 18.—(FNS) | be ORLANDO, Jan. Florida’s “first voters” will induced into the obligations of citizenship in an impressive ceremony staged as a part of American Democracy Day cele-! bration to be held by the Florida Congress of Democracy on Wash- ington’s birthday, February 22. Details for the American Democracy Day celebration were worked out here Saturday when heads of statewide organizations met to form the State Council for the Florida Congress on Democracy. The plan adopted calls for meetings in all schools of the state in the morning, meet- | ings of all ser clubs at noon, meetings of women’s groups in the afternoon, and mass meetings at night during which all “first voters”—those who will t their first votes this year—will be in- ducted into the obligations of citizenship in an impressive cere- mony. A statewide radio hook-up has been arranged for and _ reports from various communities stating | the number of “first voters” in-! ducted will be broadcast. Florida is the first state to or- @anize a state congress on demo- cracy. Officers of the Florida congress are: Colin English, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, president; Harold Colee, of the S Chamber of Commerce, v -sident; James T. Wilson, president Florida Ed- ucation Association, secretary; treasurer; Richard xecutive vice-presi- BRIGHT FUTURE FOR TUNG OIL HUNDREDS OF INQUIRIES! SENT FLORIDA EXHIBIT ABOUT INDUSTRY JACKSONVILLE, (FNS) The hundreds of people who have written the Florida Exhibit at the New York World’s Fair asking ‘for more information on the tung oil industry in the state, is very encouraging to this infant industry. The display at the Florida ex- hibit was made by the General Tung Oil Corporation of New York and Tallahassee. No at- tempt was made to sell either land or stock, but the interest aroused by the display indicates that the tung oil industry may grow into economic importance on a par with the citrus fruit in- dustry. Tung oil is being steadily increasing amount in various arts and industries in the United States. Many millions of pounds of it are imported every year from China where it has been produced and used for thou- sands of y and itis a new and profitable industry for Flor-| ida which this state can well af- ford to encourage. Jan. 18.— used in a NEW ‘LIMITED’ BUS TO CHICAGO THIRTY-FIVE HOUR SERVICE INAUGURATED FROM TAMPA TAMPA, Jan. 18—(FNS) An additional limited bus service to and from Chicago has_ recently been put into operation by the Florida Motor Lines and its con- necting Greyhound carriers. and arrive in Chicago at 8:35 p. m. the following day. Seat reservations and pillow service are provided for passen- gers on the Chicago-Limited. An extra fare of 10 per cent of the regular fare with a maximum charge of $1.00 is made for this limited service Passengers destined for Cin- cinnati and Indianapolis are able to reserve seats on the Chicago- Limited for those points as well as to Chicago, and two seats to Atlanta are also available daily from Tampa. The south-bound schedule of the Limited leaves Chicago at 8 a. m. and arrives in Tampa at 9:05 p. m. the following day. FIP LL LL LLL romance — From |100 ALASKA TO KEY WEST. din ‘LATE A somance begun at Fair- 10 ‘CLASSIFY : ting climax in Key West Tuesday night. At that time Miss Eanu Grace Lockhart of Fairbanks 4 and Seaman Robert H, Dilder | By RUSSELL KAY of the United States Destroy- | (Florida News Service) er Lea, flagship of the de- « stroyer squadron in these wa- ters, were married |by Peace Justice Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr. The couple, attended by Seaman Vincent James Spag- nal and Harry Williams, Sr., went to Justice Esquinaldo’s home, 326 Division street, for the marriage ceremony. ‘ Mr. and Mrs. Dilder had met when the seaman was on duty in Alaska. Political pyrotechnics, in the (nature of a preview of the fun to jfollow, burst brilliantly in St. Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Brophy,' who were visiting for one week in the city and visited all points of interest, left this morning on the early bus for Miami. | democrats, old and young, assem- ‘bled for the meeting of the State | Democratic Committee. | It was a gay and festive party jand harmony prevailed despite \the storm clouds that, prior to the |meeting, led many to believe a GIDL LMG B.S tight might develop. | Throughout the day Thursday delegates and politicians from PERSONAL MENTION «~~ nook and corner of the state drifted in to take up every ‘available room at the Suwannee, Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Clifton, Mr. | headquarters hotel, and overflow and Mrs. George Opp, and Mr.;to others throughout the city. and Mrs. Ed. Payne, are visitors |Groups gathered in private rooms in the city, and are having a de-|for conference and pow-wow lightful time visiting the many (while the lobby was constantly interesting places and spent a/|filled with a milling crowd of delightful visit at the aquarium. | back-slapping, hand-shaking can- —_— ididates, delegates and observers. Mrs. Louisa Higgs, who had| Governor Fred _ entertained been visiting her son-in-law and | with feats of strength and greet- daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Harry /ed all with a bomoing voice to Gomez, for two weeks, left this/Put a Sena Hea to eee ect at 1S 's1Cal condition week on the return to her home might Lindieap ae ay Rae in Miami. |paign for a seat in the U. S. Sen- —— late. It is expected that his offi- Donald Curry, of the Thomp- cial announcement will be made son Enterprises, left on the early this week. : bus this morning for Miami onl Equally busy contacting folks business and will return this eves une thes con en eunawere ice ;Governor Doyle Carlton, ex-Gov- ning over the highway. jernor Dave Sholtz and genial Jer- -_— ry Carter, all of whom are ex- Mr. and Mrs. S. B. McKinney, | pected to toss their sombreros in- who had been visiting for several/to the senatorial. campaign to days and were guests at La make that race as difficult to fig- Concha hotel, left on the 7 o’clock ure out as is the governor’s me bus for Jacksonville. |lee at the moment. = Holding their own with the prospective contenders were Sen- ator Charles O. Andrews and Democratic Committee woman Hortense Wells, who have al- ready announced. If either of ithem were particularly alarmed Petersburg the past week-end as | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Marines Defeat Grill Five; Lions Roar Through VP53 By ULRIC GWYNN, JR.. Island City Sports Writer | At the High School Gym last!for the victors. Hildebrand and night all basketball fans were |Goodwin tied for top scoring| treated to the most interesting|honors for the Squadron five. ge games seen on a local court} Box score: | in many a moon. Lions Club U. S. Marine Corps, appearing | Player— FG: FT PF PTS; for the first time in Key West,'Knowles - 8 proved that they will give tough|Smith _ 16 jcompetition during this half by |Pinder 19 |defeating Sea Food Grillers, 33 /Ketchings |to 37. Baker Just before the game started, | Manager Jackie Carbonell of the; |Grillers stated that he and his; jteam were going to take it easy! and give the Service boys a chance to get in some good prac- tice—little expecting that their /|Goodwin cpponents were such “hot” cag- Farris ers. After investigating around |O’Conner ‘a bit it was found that E. W./Tilger -. ‘Davis, guard for the Marine: quintet had captained the Marine} Corps All-Star team for three years in San Francisco. Sgt. Da- {Lions Club 4 17 31 50) vis has had thirteen years’ bas- | VP53 11 16 21 30, ketball experience with the Ma-| Miami Champs Here Friday rine Corps from ’Frisco to Hono-; Lions Club team will engage lulu and now to Key West—the the powerful Westminster Pres- first time on the east coast. Davis byterian basketball team from expressed himself as being well|Miami tomorrow night at the pleased with the playing of his High School gymnasium follow- | team last night. jing a league game between the| Outstanding stars of the victors;Marines and Patrol Squadron | were Waysack, forward, and So-| VP53, the latter game getting lomberger, lanky center. Skoko,|under way at 7:30 o'clock. | midget guard for the Marines,} Lineup for the ‘Westminsters also did well for his team. {includes 2 battery of former High Box score: School star players in Miami. Sea Food Grill | The Magic City club is 1939 cham- Player— FG FT PF PTS!pion of the Monday Night Bas-| Domenech —* 1 0 9 | ketball League and at present is| J. Carbonell 13 |two full games ahead. Players Woodson 6. coming here will be: Forwards, Wickers 3 | Light, K. Boring; Center, Ingalls; Lewin 2 |Guards, Wrenn, Bidlingmaier; | | — Subs, Bradford, J. Boring and} Totals— 12 9 33 Gray. i Marine Corps | An interesting and hard-fought | Player— FG FT PF PTS game tomorrow night is antici- Waysack 15 |pated. The invaders will arrive | Thompson 4 ‘late in the afternoon. | Solomberger | Management has announced | Skoko |that there will be no pass priv-| Davis ‘ileges extended for the games to- | Matheney |morrow night. H Grastley | Conchs On Road Trip | Biffle Key West Conchs, basketball | |team of the local High School, ‘began its first road trip today. The club left this morning for Miami to engage the Ponce De ‘Leon High School in a inter-city ' | 0 7 | 50 | Totals— PTS Te Player— Webb .. Hildebrand Crem we dg? S| wooam couounm el rornwo 8 5 2) 0 Totals— 12 6 10 Score by quarters: 30 | 5 3 14 1 0) 2 1 0 4 uf loocomocana al ooororoa sl Sloonnnnon a Totals— Seore by quarters: Sea Food Girll 5 15 24 33 Marine Ccrps 14 25 35 37 San Carlos P.-T. A. lover the vision of such formid- {able competition they failed to | show it. ! Sara | In the gubernatorial “receiv- San Carlos P.- T. A. will hold |ing line” were West Palm Beach’s its regular monthly meeting to-/B. F. Paty, Deland’s Francis Meets Tomorrow morrow evening, Friday, at the!Whitehair, Panama City’s Clan- school. cey, St. Augustine’s Fraser, Several important matters will;Ocala’s Hans Walker, Bartow’s be discussed, led by Miss Benildes|Spessard Holland, Avon Park’s Remond, president, who requests;Fred Touchton, Jacksonville’s that a full attendance be on Fuller Warren, as well as a num- hand. |ber of others spoken of as prob- or ‘able entrees who have not yet ADMIRAL ALLEN jworked themselves into that \feverish mental condition that LEAVES TODAY ‘causes its victim to break out id with an “announcement”. (Continued from Page One) | Newspapermen and_ photo- when he said, “Key West is com-|graphers were amazingly popu- ing into her own again”. lar, and the efforts of the polit- Tuesday, he was the guest of! ical hopefuls to angle: themselves Mayor Willard M. Albury, and) within camera range was amus- members of the city council, at a!ing. Henry Wreen of the Asso- luncheon at the Hotel La Concha |ciated Press, Paul Davis of the which was attended by the of- St. Petersburg Independent, ficers of the ships in the harbor, | Stanmore Cawthon of the St. Pe- officers connected with the navy |tersburg Times, and other scribes and attached to the naval station. assigned to cover the meeting, On Monday night the officers of found themselves the center of the station and the ships and |attraction in, any group. Even seaplanes, were hosts to the ad-|your humble columnist was show- jmirel, Mrs. Allen and daughter, ered with attentions from those at a dinner at the Casa Marina. SENATOR HODGES office-seekers eager for even the 'merest mention. SHRD shrdl shrdlu uu uu uu uu DIED YESTERDAY Coat-tail pulling developed in- {to a regular indoor sport as can- Sears 'didates caught this or that un- (Continued trom Page One) {suspecting victim to drag him or children, the old aged and the her into a corner and pour “the blind. old, old story” in what they hope “Remove from those merchants | will be an attentive ear. selling the state and who pay! Campaign cards bearing the fa- state taxes unfair competition of | miliar “Union Label” were every- outside concerns who pay no such! where in evidence—candidates taxes and thus underbid them. passed them to each other as well “See to it that any tax paying as to waitresses, bellhops and moratorium hereafter declared be elevator boys. declared in favor of those who ‘The meeting was pronounced have been paying their taxes for one of the best ever held with years—not dodging them. between four and five hundred “See to it that salaries for in-|in attendance. An impressive spectors and visitors do not eat | Memorial Service, in tribute to, up moneys that should go to de-'those Democratic leaders who pendent children, the aged and pave passed on, was held Thurs- the blind. ‘\day.evening. _ At the Friday session, the plan to pledge delegates’ was voted ANSWERS TO. TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ Below are the Answers to Today's down and it was. .decided that ‘Florida democrats would elect uninstructed representatives to the National Convention, who Daily Quiz printed on Page 2 will not be bound by any unit idly for any candidate. A unit ‘rule resolution was vote ddown {72 to 37. The “Sunshine City” _|bang-up job in arranging and Emi! | conducting the meeting and much |eredit is due to Chairman T. T. Paraguay. , {Turnbull and Paul Stansbury for Def’-la-grate; not de-flag’- jtheir work to make the event the ree success that it was. Union Jack. | Alkalies. Gamma. Africa. General Meade. About 15 years. Howard Jones. Baron Carl Mannerheim. Gustav Subscribe to The ' weekly. rule requiring them to vote sol-| did aj Citizen—20e | In the nightcap, mighty Lions Club defeated Air Squadren | | VP53 by the wide margin of 50-} |30. Uncle Sam’s Sailors failed to! |show their superiority last night. Chas. Smith and Joe Pinder, Lion forwards, were high scorers | JUNIORS THROW | SCARE INTO SOX TAKE EARLY LEAD BUT SUC- | CUMB TO LATE SOX | | RALLIES At Bayview Park yesterday | afternoon, Caraballo’s Blue Sox met the Rosam Park Juniors, | boy’s diamondball team, in what/| proved to be a hard-fought game} jof softball. Sox thought they had the con-| test “in the bag”, but after the first few innings found out dif-| ferently. From then on they had to settle down and really fight. | At the end of the eighth frame, | the Juniors had four runs and the Sox none. However, in the| jninth inning an error by a Junior |played started a Sox rally, which | resulted in four runs—a tie score. Tenth inning witnessed no scoring by either team, but in} the eleventh frame the Sox sent three men home and the Juniors put across two, giving the game to the Sox, 7 to 6. \ Score by innings: R. H. E./ \Sox C00 000 004 03— 7 4. 8) Juniors 011 000 020 02—6 8 5) Today’s diamondball game will | feature Navy Patrol Squadron | VP53 and Kemp’s Stars. WPA! {recreation department will assist | jin the game. | FINAL DECREE ISSUED | Final decree of the divorce; case of Leslie Emil Tift and Can-| dido Carrasco Tift, was filed yes- | | terday in the office of Clerk Ross | C. Sawyer, of Circuit Court. Roy Rogers | SAGA OF DEATH VALLEY | also | SELECTED SHORTS { soswceesne | TRY IT TODAY— The Favorite in Key West STAR 2 BRAND. | CUBAN COFFEE | ON SALE‘AT ALL GROCERS basketball game tonight. Follow- | ing this contest, the locals will stay over for another league CLASSIFIED COLUMN FOR RENT UNFURNISHED FIVE - ROOM APARTMENT, first floor. 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Whitehair Jester, school superintendent. of Deland will fight it out in the Le oe first grade upward, : pupils will be taught safety on ee ene ae May: f0F | the streets as well as in the ;overnor 0} lorida—if a special} nome, race, run at the local dog track as a feature of the! State Demo- cratic Executive a Committee HARD COME, EASY co meeting is any in ication. (By Associated Press) Seven of the eight dogs, en-| BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 17 tered in the “Governor's Cup”|Poor old Sarmiento Thompson, event, were labeled with the all his life a plunger, still doesn’t names of candidates in the, know what it feels like to have gubernatorial campaign. Paty! 1,510 pesos (380 dollars) to spend. was represented by Tongass, a'He won that sum in the races at lean fawn colored animal that Palmero Racetrack here and five won first place in a’ photo finish | minutes later someone stole his over Boston Laddie, carrying the Whitehair colors. Paty, in- cidentally, rewarded, his backers, including his presg agent, by paying the tidy sum of $25.60 to win,. $9.40 to place $4.40 to show. The photograph of ‘the finish, showed*Tongass winning by the}, proverbial. whisker. over _ the’ Whiteliair entry with the Fuller Waffen dog in third place by less thap a The finishing, or- der of! est of the field was: “dark horse”, fourth; Spessard | L. Holland, fifth; Walter Fraser, sixth; J. H. Clancy, seventh, and Burton Schoepf, eighth. Dogs and the candidates for whom they ran were drawn from a hat by the Pinellas County Democratic committee, Does Your Nose Clog, - Spoil Sleep, MIGHTY GOOD NEWS Prosthing alficule, pata few drops of 5 flew Vicks Va-tro-nol cles nostril. 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