The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 20, 1940, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Finnish Relief Ball Tomorrow To Feature Gigantic Floor Show THE KEY WES “God Bless America” will be the theme of the Finnish Relief dividual contributions now being received. NATURE NOTES By J. C. GALLOWAY Ball to be held tomorrow night, Wednesday, at the Habana- Madrid Club. The Ball will mark Key West’s answer to Finland’s call for aid. It is being sponsored by the local committee, L. P. Artman, chair- man, and the total proceeds from ticket sales will be given to the fund to be forwarded to state headquarters together with in- The program will feature show acts presented by leading night club performers of the city. Dancing will begin at 10 o’clock and the floor show will start at 11 o'clock. Tickets are on sale now at the Habana-Madrid_ club. Reserva- tions may be made at The Citizen, office. All Citizens Asked To Cooperate Towards Success Of Flower Show) Fetlowing is the latest article: By Nina Leslie Calleja Reprinted From Port Allegany (Penna.) Reporter and Argus The Citizen presents herewith another in’ the series entitled, “Nature Notes”, from the pen of J. C. Galloway. | These articles appear regularly ; inthe Port Allegany: (Penna.) Reporter and Argus, and were @inpésed during” Mr. and Mrs. Galloway’s visit in the city re- cently. “One who comes to an unfa- miliar region is apt to notice first | whether there are trees; and next jthose strikingly different in ap- event of the winter social season|fore. To make this exhibit as|pearace from the kinds to which ; in Key West is the annual Flower |complete as possible, Mrs. Doug-|he is accustomed. Coming into Show sponsored by the local;lass requests the assistance of|Key West, one may observe that Garden Club. This year the | townspeople having these fruits|the houses are practically buried show will be held on March Ist,|and vegetables to get in touch/in trees and shrubbery, rich and 2nd and 3rd, at the Lighthouse | with her. \colorful. Along the streets the Building. | One of the most charming of young Pritchardia palms may be Mrs. W. J. Phelan, general | the exhibits at the show is al-| next to catch the eye, having chairman of the show, will be|ways the arrangement of flowers! been seen in no other city. These | assisted by Mesdames Norberg /in miniature containers, of which | young trees, six feet tall or less, | Thompson, J. D. MacMullen, P.|Mrs. J. J. Trevor will be : .in|are each a bundle of a half doz- D. Hollowny, J. J. Trevor, H. C.|/charge. Sought for this section|en giant palm-leaf fans, circular Probably the most outstanding fore, never seen these plants be- Galey, and Messrs. H. P. Con-!/are tiny vases, bowls and novelty nable, Guy Carleton and Charlie | containers. land plaited, three feet or so across | and naturally trimmed to saw-| to the Johnson. | Mrs. P. D. Holloway will again |teeth edge, in contrast As in previous years, the en-|be chairman of the cactus and jonger tips of other fan palms; | tire city is urged to cooperate in!succulents, and will exhibit: j @\ and silvery or yellow-green, they | the Flower Show. Those having | cactus garden. #hd eed out dition Aas all aid plants or flowers they wish to) Mrs. C. G. Hicks is in charge ey foliage. Later we hay note} sta = invited to communi } f the display of individual roses, | older specimens with 10-foot! e with the proper chairman, |and wilbawelcome any entries for |trunks, with smaller leaves, and} who will be very glad to arrange | this section of the show, roses of bearing on long stems orange for the transportation of the|atiy kind and color with an in-|heads of bloom-or fruit like specimens to be exhibited, and to} dividual vase, bowd or container. | sorghum cane, coming out from | oe greatest care is taken | It is expected that the Flower | among the crown of leaves; pen-| Show this year will be as suc-) 5 = ji \ Mrs. Stephen Douglass and |cessful as in former years. Cer- cee e parisien Meee oe Earl Johnson will be in charge of|tainly it is looked forward to A ‘ the tropical fruit and vegetabl | ith great anticipation by Oe aa or broken in P. aes display, and it is expected that! winter visiors, many of whom| ’ this exhibit will again prove of! have been very kind in their} «, more than ordinary interest to | comments regarding its yearly | Cocos Deus and toward winter visitors, many of pmions beauty and charm. ithe south shore they line the streets in bedutiful groves dominate and _ give are every- Service Wives Met Friday Service wives held another in} Tryouts for “Squaring the their series of weekly meetings ' Circle”, the first production to be Jast Friday at American Legion put on by the Key West Players, Hall, this preceding an evening of jwere held Saturday afternoon at dancing, cards and refreshments , Lions Clubhouse. for enlisted personnel, their fam- | Although tentative selections ilies and friends in the same! were made, officers of the group hall. | : Mrs. Eva Warner, recreational | stated today that the tryouts will director with the WPA, spoke at Pe continued tonight at 7:30 the afternoon meeting treating !o’clock at the Key West Art on her work and its adaption to Center, after which rehearsals the needs of enlisted men and ‘will start. |Key West Players | Continue Tryouts is an indefinable charm to their wide-sweeping fronds, curled and crested in the upper ones; and never do they reach the heart more than just after sundown, glow of the sky. Cocoanuts al- ways have their ‘throats wrapped; one scarf above another until) there are a half dozen of them, jand they are always ‘blooming and carrying young nuts like |acorns with scaly bases. Cocoa- jut bloom is like corn tassels, |light yellow in color, coming out! between the bases of the leaves; | but the young nuts are on thej jthe latter has | while this has small clusters of a that|hundred or more olives, shining | their own | gray-blue-green. character to the locality. There} }seen against the. last evening | |way up with the thin husks of “But, folks, here we are in Key West, and shade and flowering trees everywhere, and hardly a tree of any northern family ex- cept locusts, and they are all new and different. Everything else is strange and unknown, unless we have picked up a few names in South Florida. So if we are to get acquainted, we need some one who knows and loves trees and plants to go around With us and tell us what they are. Mrs. Phelan at the Botanic Garden could, but she is probably busy just now. But here is Mr. Leu- thi; we know he will enjoy. go- ing around with us, and you will} enjoy him, and all these trees are old friends of his; come on, folks. “Let us look at some more palms first. This one is the com- mercial date; with narrow stiff | gray fronds, erect and fishbone- like, and trunk braided into knots that you might step on to climb. Look at those clusters of golden dates shining in the sun against their gray spiny back- ground. They remind you of California grapes except that they are like polished gold and the clusters almost as large as banana bunches, They can be eat- en, but no one cares too much, for with the absence of desert heat and dryness they do not cure into the usual sugary sweetness. The dark spreadng ornamental dates or Phoenix palms you may have seen elsewhere in Florida; they bear smaller bunches of smaller dates, not edible, but yellow gold and showy. And here is a small fan palm like a palmetto; but big bunches of small fruits like huckleberries, It is Livistonia from China, once popular as a house plant up north, “These tall slim-stemmed fan palms with flat creased circular fronds are Thrinax or thatch palms from the Keys; so called because you can lay them close, like shingles; one is green, the other silvery beneath. Totally different is this rank green one reminding you of a_ gigantic maindenhair fern. It is a Caryota with its trunk shingled all the its leaf bases. And look! Coming out from the bare trunk a few their families in the city. In ap-j preciation of her talk and offer | to co-operate, Mrs, Warner was voted the first honorary mem- bership in the club. Four new members were an- —Mesdames J. W. Pierce, J. E. s, F. C, Reynolds and H. L. Suckman. Two associate | members were announced in the persons of Misses Xenia Hoff and ; Maxine Reynolds. Twelve members were selected to be guests at the Stone Church Fellowship supper-meeting to- night, the occasion marking the , second time Service Wives have been honored guests at this club. | Floor Show At |dates for the offices are shown ? {together with points registered Raul s Tomorrow [as questionnaires came in show- ‘ing. favor for the names listed: All members and anyone desir- ing to tryout for this play are enjoined to attend tonight’s jmeeting. | e@eeeeccccccccencesceese POLITICAL PROGNOSTICATIONS | By FRANK T. TRACEY jee e The following predictions of Frank T. Tracey ‘on standings in the various political races in the state are based on questionnaires A floor show has been planned for the mid-week Dinner-Dance | eemeere Git | For Governor, 1940 | Possible Aspirants | feet from the ground are three same strands just below the tas- heavy tassels, each a foot or more sel part; and their tough stems|long and with fifty or more jare rich yellow, and their model-|knotted cords hanging straight jing at the joints would delight ajdown. Two are green and one |sculptor. When the size of large|red; the green ones are the vis- jeggplant they are ready with |tillate buds, to bear small red | milk, and it is a common sight to} berries; the red buds open into |see the green ones on the ground | tiny flowers with golden stamens. \ther notice. T CITIZEN RT... me Eerie Notes and happenings in connection with growing Art activities in Key West will be ished weekly in this column i he Citizen, sponsored by the WPA Key West Art Center. A NOTABLE EVENT in Art in Key West this week is the plac- ing of a Federal Exhibition en- titled, “Children’s Paintings’ in the Harris Intermediate School at Southard and Margaret streets for display from February 19 to March 1, inclusive. This exhibi- tion is sent from Washington by the WPA Art Program under the direction of Holger Cahill and is | being circuited through Florida by the State Exhibition Secton, Florida Art Program, WPA. Eve |Alsman Fuller is state super- visor. from the primer to the adolescent age and come from many racial backgrounds. This is a collec- tion of work produced by chil- dren in the WPA Federal Art Project classes in the settlements and orphanages of greater Man- \hattan, New York. School chil- |dren everywhere should take a special interest in these pictures as they suggest the creative pos- sibilities in the minds of children jwhen given the opportunity to /express themselves. Teachers of jall grades will find much stimu- lation from viewing this inter- jesting collection of Paintings”. County officials, school board and Parent-Teach- jers Assocations are universally linterested in this of what New York City is accom- plishing in child education. KEY WEST SOCIETY OF ARTISTS is represented at the Holly Hill State Market at |Holly Hill, Fla, the official ruary 19. Gordon E. Dill visited the Art Center last week and of- |fered to arrange for a group of paintings, etchings and crafts to bition. Art Center undertook to | sult was the forwarding of a jday last. This market, which will be devoted primarily to arts and crafts produced in Florida, is a state institution recently designed and built for the cooperative dis- tribution by sale on commission of articles made by hand in the state. The organization is direct- ed by Wm. L. Wilson, and works jthrough the State Agricultural ing to have their work: put on| sale at this market may learn all! particulars from the Art Center| director. | CREATIVE ART CLASS held | at the Art Center Friday eve- nings will be postponed until fur- The attendance does not warrant the continuation ofi |with a hole cut where the stem/You won’t see that sight often, }once was. Cocoanuts produce,|but you may see these ‘fish-tail’ | when thrifty, continuous quanti-|palms surrounded by a happy ties of nuts; sometimes they are family of young ‘suckers’.” strung like currants on_ their! - | string, but packed as closely as| Another in this series of “Na- | bananas, one stem being all a |ture Notes” will be presented in man could carry. |The Citizen in an early issue. i THE WEATHER CONDITIONS The eastern low pressure area sent out and answered. Candi- | Observation taken at 7:30 a. m., 75th Mer. Time ;MARY WARDLOW ' |street, Rev. A. B. Dimmick, of- | ficiating. |shipped to Middletown, Ohio for | (COLD tomorrow night | between the hours of 7 and 9/1. Francis P. Whitehair Points | 6855 Highest 1 Temperatures last 24 hours, o'clock. a Ray Baldwin's Native Ha. |3. waiian Orchestra has arranged |4. splendid musical program for this | 5. event. 6. GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY |. B. F. Paty Spessard Holland Fuller Warren - W. B, Fraser Rev. J. E, Barbee Hans Walker — Burton P. Schoepf |9. Fred L. Touchton : 10. J. H, Clancey — (Continued from Page One) j Possible Aspirants of the church? We use this great ‘4 institution to christen our babies! | For United States Senator. 1960 121" ainfall since Jan. 1, if such is our faith, marry our) are inches v.11 young people, prepare our chil-|*- | Defici dren to meet the temptations |* sel Bacher a awriting them out in the world a Tomorrow's Almanac and to bury our dead. Is it fair|* - 1809 Sunrise to accept all this service and give |? st | Sunset 4774 | Lowest 4613 Mean _ 3196 | Normal 3185 | HF Rainfall, 24 hours ending 1165|__ 7:30 a. m., inches —_ 266 | Total rainfall since Feb. 1 14g |_ inches = Excess since inches | 2.17) Chas. O. Andrews — Jan. | Doyle E. Carlton - Fred P. Cone -.. Mark Wilcox —__. Chas. F, (Socker) Coe Jerry Carter - < since {is central this morning on the |middle Atlantic coast; while pres- sure is high over the far North-} west and southeastward into Tex- | as. Precipitation has occurred since yesterday morning from the Plains States eastward to the +{middle and north Atlantic coast, with heavy snow or rain in por- tions of the North Atlantic States. Temperatures are somewhat below normal this morning throughout most of the southern portion of the country, and above a from the Plains States eastward. G. S. KENNEDY, Official In Charge. nothing in return? By giving 6. we do not mean merely our ma- Pete Tomasello 1705 W .D. Outman | Moonrisé ‘| Boca Chica Resort | the class, at least not until the} festivities of the season abate somewhat—allowing the class members to return to their work. | | DIES EARLY TODAY (Continued from Page One). Following the service, the body will be taken to Miami and then | burial there. Surviving Miss Wardlow, .who was 53 years old, are her mother, Mrs. Pauline Wardlow, a sister, | MONROE THEATER Penny Singleton—Arthur Lake Blondie Takes A Vacation and $1,000 A TOUCHDOWN Matinee—Balcony 10c, Or- chestra 15-20c: Night—15-25c i LIQUORS WINES Complete Line CURRO’S BAR PACKAGE STORE |Special Prices on Package Goods | For Two Weeks Duval at Petronia St. Phone 138, Special Delivery Key West, Fla.| The young artists range! C7717 LLL LLL ONE-MAN. SHOW AT ART CENTER Jack and Alice Dudley are exhibiting their works in a one-man show at the Key West Community Art Center this week. her colorful ‘and charming watercolors, and both she and Mr, Dudley work, together on prints and crafts. 3 Mr. and Mrs Dudley are Pioneers in the art world of Key West and have done much to foster the growing art colony. SITIES FSIS FS 4 KEY WEST ONE OF TWELVE KEY PORTS DIRECTORS HAVE CHARGE OF PRIVATE CRAFT MOBI- LIZATION PLANS (Special to The Citizen) WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Key West is one of 12 key ports in the tions for mobilization of private- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 19 Chk hk deuduk, COMING TO THE ANSWERS TO TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ PALACE THEATRE Below are the Answers to Today’s| Daily Quiz printed on Page 2 | TOMORROW AND THURSDAY | United States at which prepara-! |Matinee Belgium, near the village of [Evening ... Waterloo. No; the head is an idealized } model. { Four. Ninths, ¥ Twelve eaees Eight. Sweden. . Wagner Act. | 9. Not without your permis- | sion or a court order. ;10. The “five-foot shelf’ of | world classics selected by | Charles W. Eliot when President of Harvard Uni-| versity. i | | he 1 . 15c, 25¢ l TRY IT TODAY— The Favorite in Key West STAR BRAND | CUBAN COFFEE | ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS | i | NO NAME LODGE)! ly owned ships and aircraft will | take place in case of emergency THURS. Directly on Beach ”Childen’s | demonstration | \opening taking place Monday, Feb- | be included in the opening exhi- | make the arrangements with the} artists of the society and the re-| | group of Key West work on Fri-} Marketing Board. Anyone desir- | of any kind. Other ports are Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk, Charléston, New Orleans, ‘Chi- |cago, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Honolulu. Most of |them were established after Presi- dent Roosevelt proclaimed a state jof limited national emergency on September 8. Each city has a port director, who will be in charge of the mobilization of private ships. Port director in Key West is Commander G. B. Hoey, U.S.N., who relinquished command of |the local Naval Station yesterday |to Capt. Walter F. Jacobs, U.S.N., \chief of staff and aide of the sev- ‘enth naval district. Comdr. Hoey had been acting commandant of the station since its reopening November 1, X-RAYS GIVEN TO | MANY APPLICANTS pris | (Continued frora Page One) told The Citizen late today that a total of 325 local residents had availed themselves of the oppor- tunity to obtain free X-ray ex- aminations as given by Technician J. Morehouse of the state tuber- culoss institute. Examinations will continue at the local clinic tomorrow and all who found it impossble to be ex- amined yesterday and today are jadvised to report then. Dr. Parramore stated that be- cause of the large number of ex- aminations only those X-rays that show up positive, that is, that show evidence of tuberculosis, will be followed up with notifi cations sent to those examined. Otherwise, no reports will be sent. Mrs. Pauline Tuell, and a broth- er, Charles H. Wardlow, of Mi ami. Miss Wardlow, until recently, was librarian at the Key West Library. . CAUGIT ....... relief from throat, chest, back with clinic-tested VICKS VAPORUB The RENDEZVOUS 410 Fleming Street | o—o—o WHERE GOOD FOOD MAY BE OBTAINED o—o—o Cocktail Lounge For Fifty Years A NAME! In Coffee In Key West | STRONG ARM | BRAND COFFEE THAT'S A REPUTATION Famous Bahia H oda Fishing terial gifts, for as has been 8. spoken many years ago, “the gift 1% without the giver is bare”, but} consecrate our time and ‘our talents to see to it that this great- Hortense K. Wells Possible Aspirants For State Comptroller, 1940 666 | Moonset 545 Points | Low J. M. Lee 2188 [High est of all our institutions not pass! 1. from us. 2. The average person upon be-/|3. ing asked to do some trivial serv- | ice for the church immediately proceeds to narrate a long list of} duties preventing him from com-j|1. J. Ed Larson sees plying. Yet if one is a careful|2. William Wainwright, Jr. 1! observant, he will see that this 3. H. E. Moore —___-_ same person finds ample time to} Possible Aspirants | } do the things he really wants to! For Congress District 2, 1940 | | do. With the rest of the world Points| (Till 7:30 p. m., Wednesday) | reeling under the weight of op- 866 Key West and Vicinity: Gen- pression and greed, isn’t it high 774 erally fair tonight and Wednes | time for us to turn our best at- 738 day; slightly cooler tonight; mod- | tention to our basic primary in- jerate to fresh west and north-' stitutions such as the Church of; For Congress District 3, 1940 (west winds. j the Living God and resolve in|/1 Pierce Wood — . 1300| Florida: Generally fair tonight | our hearts that come what may,'2. Parkhill Mayes 703 and Wednesday; slightly cooler in| we shall put First Things First?'3. Robert Sikes 315 | south and east portions tonight. 714| Barometer at 7: 702 Sealével, 29.93 (1013.5 millibars) | “Wind Direction and Velocity IJINW—18 miles per hour Relative. Humidity — 1945} 80% 910; N.B—Comforvable humidity 385 should be a few points below | mean temperature FORECAST Edwin G. Fraser . Frank W. 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