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

PAGE FOUR _ it SOCIETY :- | PAID $24,900,000 Key West Players May NextStage INLIFEINSURANCE Broadway Comedy For Navy Relief = _THIRTIETH IN POPULATION, The Key West Players are now;Johnson and Mrs. Guy Carleton! RANKED TWENTY. pointing to their next production! Were outstanding in this group.| PEATE és which will be given for the bene-|4 Tich reservior is now at hand| SIXTH IN MONEY PAID fit of the Navy Relief Society. |0™ Which to draw for future; 14) icy soLDERS FLORIDA CITIZENS THE KEY WEST CITIZEN —— { | | PEOPLES FORUM esis || Vivien Leigh Admits Her Hardest Job In Ht “Gone With The Wind” Was Pulling A Trigger | libelous j | or umwarranted. The writers | should be fair and confine the | letters to 200 words, and write | one side of the paper only. | Sigmature of the writers must accompany the letters and will be published unless requested otherwise. i “WHERE AMERICA” | GIRL with a heart-shaped | “It was suddenly afraid the | | £1 face stood-near the head of a!gun might be loaded”, Miss/ flight of stairs, her green eyes!Leigh said afterward. “I know | wide with horror. jnow how it must feel~to be a Up. the- steps, one by one, 'killer. There was a soldier a } climbed a burly ruffain with a/ing upstairsI realizéd! \it** was pistol in his belt, his yellow Mr. Paul Hurst. But when “I Among swers “All in the world we have is seven kids. Googbye”. MONDAY, MAY 28, 1948 4 | productions. { Tomorrow night, at Favored in choice for the next production is a well-known Broadway comedy. Another prob- ability is that the Players will produce .a play written by one of their own members. The meet- ing tomorrow will be held at the Art Center and all members have been urged to attend. an im-| portant meeting, the choice of play will be discussed and re- ports will be given on the three one-act plays given last week. One of the most encouraging developments of the plays was the revelation of really good act- ing talent in the Players. Maud Minnie Deane ew Attending Convention Minnie Porter Harris, chair- man of the Americanization Com- mittee of the Florida Federation of Woman's Clubs, is in attend- ance at the General Federation of Woman's Clubs now in session at Milwaukee, Wisc., having left for that city last Thursday. Miss Harris was to have accom- panied Mrs. Thurston Roberts, of Jacksonville, state president, to the convention. Upon arrival at Jackonville, however, illness in the family prevented Mrs. Rob- erts from joining her. According to reports reaching here today, Miss Harris will read the report of Mrs. Roberts on the Florida elubs at the national convention. At the conclusion of the con- vention this weekend, Miss Har- ris will return to Key West by way of Atlanta and a few stops; in North Carolina. She will ar- rive here in approximately a month. Garden Club Holds Final Meet Tomorrow Regular monthly meeting of the Key West Garden Club and Tree Guild will be held tomor- row evening, Tuesday, in the |Editor, The Citizen: ; The German juggernaut has Every day in 1939 life insur-}smashed througn the lowland ance policy-holders and bene-jcountries; even the impregnable ficiaries in Florida were paid |Maginot Line is proving not in- $68,218, or a total of $24,-|vulnerable to the blitzkrieg. 900,000 for the year, and $14.91| American sentiment is being ifor every man, woman and child, |@Poused, and the people are de- according to a special compila-|Manding aid for the Allies. It is ition released today by the Na-/Tidiculous for a nation like ours, tional Underwriter, weekly in-| Which possesses the major part | surance newspaper. tof the gold reserve of the world, | Florida ranked 26th in life in-|to possess the small army we surance payments among all now have. Our air force is in no states and is 30th in size of popu-| Position to compete with German lation. Payments showed an ‘Superiority. increase of $200,000 over 1938, or! A few years ago we court- three-fourths percent. martialed Colonel Billy Mitchell Ordinary life insurance in because he dared forecast the \force in Florida totals $674,247,- superiority of air armaments and 1000 on 296,503 policies or $404,0ur own sluggishness in meeting per capita. The average-size the needs for national defense. ’ * St. Joseph’s Pupils |Entertained Mothers H | piece tas A Mother's Surprise playlet |was presented at St. Joseph’s |School last Thursday, May 16th, ‘at which parents of third and jfourth grade pupils were enter- | tained. | The program consisted of the | following: | “Mother's Surprise”, in two- jacts, ending with singing of |“Home, Sweet Home”. ; “The Quest”, poem, recited by jthree pupils. } “The Crowning Of Our Lady, the Mother of God”, followed by jsinging of “Mother of Dear Je- sus”. i | | Anna Vinduzer | Engagement Announced Mrs. Caesar Catala announces; the engagement and approaching ‘marriage of her niece, Miss Anna Pauline Vinduzer, 907 Division j street, to John R. Roberts, son {of Mrs. Joseph Roberts, 1017 An- i gela street. | The wedding will take place in jJune. | NOTES OF TODAY Key West Library at 8:00 o'clock. | Mrs. J. D. MacMullen, _ presi- dent, will preside at this, the last meeting of the current sea- son. A full attendance of mem- bers has been requested. Bingo Party Tomorrow Night Fern Chapter, No. 21, O.ES., is sponsoring a Bingo Party tomor- row evening at 8:00 o'clock at the home of Mrs. O. Soderberg, 1118 Fleming street. Admission price is stated in an advertisement elsewhere in this issue. Numerous prizes will be awarded players, it is announced. IWC Social Leave For Miami Visit Mrs. Norman Harris and two children, and sister Mrs. Charles Ogden, were passengers leaving on the early bus today for a visit |ami. policy in force is $2,274; average new. policy sold in 1939 being Our defense is no bi-partisan matter. A plan has been put teeth bared in a menacing leer. pointed my pistél at him, and The girl raised from the folds | pulled the trigger, the idea burst lof her dress a heavy old-fashion-|in my mind like a balloon—may- | ed cap-and-ball | be there was a bullet in it! | revolver. Shej “It took every ounce of will) pointed it at ;power I had to pull the trigger, | the intruder, and when the blank went off | her finger jharmlessly, my knees went so i tightened on/weak I almost sat down”. H ia 7 the trigger— | A Tough Role | } Se “And that! A few days previously, Miss} «4 was the hard-|Leigh had run between two ca- | Pid est thing I|reening gun carriages, pulled by} Ede fe ever did in my |gelloping horses. The heavy cais- | nar cag BT life ” jsons missed her by inches, and Vivien Leigh “Vivien Leigh |the work of running through speaking. She is the girl play- |deep dust, with hoopskirts im- ing Scarlett O'Hara in “Gone; peding her, greatly fatigued the With The Wind”, David O. Selz- | 103-pound star. nick’s Technicolor production! Yet she says she was more starring Clark Gable, Miss Leigh, ;exhausted from the mental strain Leslie Howard and Olivia de.of pointing her pistol at Hurst Havilland, and opening at the|jand pulling the trigger than by Monroe Theatre next’ Saturday. [running up and down the streets & . ae | * TUJUNGA. Cant. May 23 — ety lit da ! | sas jack-rabbits to run for their lives. The jack-rabbits are trained by Kibler, to act as quarry fhe National Coursing for of the $66,258,000 total savings|and three o'clock in the morni ‘of one week with relatives in Mi-| $2,225. | forth to buy the West Indies Is- , The $24,900,000 in life insur-| lands, Bermuda and the Bahamasjing of “Gone With The Wind” which Miss Leigh seemed to feel the part she was playing. 1939 was slightly under the $27,-|needed gold and to insure us ade- 771,303 in W-.P.A. payments in quate air defense units on these the state for the fiscal year; |Strategic islands. was over seven times. the $3,-| How invulnerable is the Pana 528,662 in P.W.A. grants, over!ma Canal? Yes, our own Over- six times the federal agricul-|seas Highway is spanned with, THE LOWDOWN tural adjustment program pay-|0ld wooden bridges. This artery| FROM HICKORY GROVE pallned america ments of $4,094,881 and over six|Provides food and mobile units. = times the $3,929,887 in federal|How easy would it not be to 2 we i payments to the state under the!sabotage any of the vulnerable! For quite a while we been go-| social security act, thus demor.junits. While there is yet time, 198 through a session where our} strating the importance of life|work should begin to replace head men there on the windy / insurance’s contribution “to the |these wooden bridges. Is Amer-|Potomac telling us we gotta do, economic security of the state. |/ica attempting to live on its for-/ this or do that or we cannot sur-| Life insurance payments exceed-|mer glory? England relied on Vive. Machinery is ruining us,; ed the $24,658,724 federal income the mighty Lion and today she |they say—and our frontiers are/ taxes collected in Florida, were |is fighting for her very life. |gone—and we better pull | back | over two-thirds of the $36,501-| The White House is a busy|into our shell and just let the: 259 in wages paid by manufac-|Place these days. Cabinet mem- | Govt. do everythimg for us. turers in the state, over one-third |bers are sometimes called at two! We are a nation of suckers.! ing Mr. Hitler says if you tell peo-! 5. |Ple something often enough, they | | the guy! bank deposits and over one-fifth} whenever a new crises arise: = gota x of the $118,220,000 cash income|The dirty gray walls of the State Will get to believing it. from farm products. |Department reflect the pessim-| We-been acting like the i Jacksonville Leads Cities istic attitude of the diplomats , who ee Jacksonville led Florida cities who visit within its age-old cor- | for ‘hig. : ! in life insurance payments in/ridors. The myriads of support.” The gGod lady met icles the | 1939 with $1,650,000 compared to ing pillars entangle every side Store and says, T want a new hat} $2,115,000 in 1938. Jacksonville|with tentacles that seem to fore-|for,my husband. And the clerk! ranked 89th among all the cities|bode evil. says, yes mam, and he got the; in the country. Miami was sec’ Our national leaders have made | hat and wrapped it up. But the; ond in payments in Florida with {no attempt to hide their personal |!ady was non-plussed, and she; Thosé who watched the film- {of the big Atlanta set. “I was only able to-do. it be-. lance money paid to Floridians in|to provide the Allies with badly |remarked on- the intensity with | cause I fixed my eyes on the pis- \tol in his belt, and imagined him ipointing it at me”, she said. FOR MY DEAR DAD The best of fathers Has now passed on; He's on his way To the great beyond. But in his passing, He left his Soul To help and guide me Toward our goal. He loved his friends, And his family, too; As for his enemies, He forgives them too. He was a genileman In all respects. His hanesty and kindness Had ho defects. His heart was made of gold. From his ever grateful son, JEFFERSON L, BROWNE. ROANOKE, Va, May 20—A 5 young man had two city tags for the same car and wanted a re- fund on one of them. He had told his girl he didn't have money i to buy his aut The young lady, cognizant his approach- | ing birthday, bought the tag as a |present. In the meantime the jand bought one. The council voted to refund {the money—to the young lady | saint 8 if F HF veh Ff | a ' $1,580,000 in 1939 and $2,315,000 opinions. If we are going to |Return To Kentucky ‘in 1938. Miami Beach came|fight we must prepare—we now | Mr. and Mrs. Chas. M. DuFort, third with $957,000, followed by|admit we do not have the men vafter a three days’ sightseeing Tampa, $925,000; Orlando, $780,-|nor the motorized units to with- | visit in the city, left this morn-'000; St. Petersburg, $610,000; |stand mass attacks on our Atlan- ‘ing for a leisurely return to their Pensacola, $578,000; | Daytona tic seaboard. Last yera’s maneu- ‘home in Lexington, Ky. | Beach, $395,000; Quincy, $268,000; | vers revealed our first-line of de- i _—_—_— West Palm Beach, $259,000;/fense is the Appalachian high- | Visited Friends Here |Gainesville, $185,000; Winter Ha- lands. Miss Gloria Russell, who was ven, $175,000; Coral Gables,! We are pouring billions into spending some time in the city |$171,000; Lakeland, $160,000; Ft. relief and projects that will net with friends on her first visit in Lauderdale, $137,000; Tallahas-|no returns. We do refuse and many years, left on the early bus see, $116,000; Palm Beach, $115,- have done so consecutively to jthis morning for her home in | 000. make the sorely needed appro- insurance |priations to place our fleet | Jacksonville life in says, what size is the hat—you jdidn’t ask me what size I want- And the clerk says, it is a 6 and a quarter. All men, he says,-who let their wife buy his that, wear a 6 and‘one quarter. | Yours with with the down, JO SERRA. ° A girl crest, fearlessly blue ; Where the great eagle came to! i rest. | SWALLOW'S 'A girl stood on a mountain! WARREN, 0. May 20—Wm i crest. . . 3 Wisnieski, 20 months old, found |Her dreamy eyes turned to the| golden west it The doctor didnt le her voice rose clear and) P —_- ‘Below are the Answers to Today's), stood on a mountain} gls wf And scanned the | ANSWERS TO TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ wri have in- rue. irl stood on a mountain e a tack and promptly swaliowed THATS A SEPUTaAT=oS | Miami. Tharsday | ae Saas | To Miami On Business Junior Woman’s Club con-| Paul DiNegro was a passenger tinues its series of semi-monthly | leaving on the 7 o’clock bus this socials with the first under di-;morning for a business visit in nection: of mew: officers” to be | Miamis)He willixeturn-tomesrow, held this week, Thursday, at 5:00 | @fternoon. o'clock at the clubhouse on Di- es ot Harry Gwynn Here ~ vision street. .. + Mrs. Joseph Lopez, president,! _ Harry Gwynn arrived in the announces the following hostess- city this a: from Miami es for the affair: Mrs. Lawrence 204 is attending to business at the county court house, and Guiterrez and Miss Virginia : . . Perez. Members are invited to meeting his host of friends. He bring gu to this social. Novel On Key West Pablished In New York Word. comes to The Citizen of a novel about Key | Plummers Here From Miami jarrivals over the highway yester- day for a visit with their families and their many friends. | Plans to remain until tomorrow. | payments averaged $51 per fam-} ily and equal 28 percent of the wages paid by manufacturers, operating in the city. Miami life insurance payments averaged $51 per family and! equal 51 percent of the wages! paid by manufacturers operating | in the city. Tampa life insurance payments! averaged $37 per family. They |represent 12 percent of the wages paid by manufacturers operating lin the city. Substantial life insurance pay- iments were made states, Georgia having $32,600,000 ; 500,000 led by Birmingham with | $3,135,000. | jour while than the first-line of defense, Army was smaller Holland's. Can we blame Congress? Who else can we blame? They are the men we elect to protect our rights. The millions for the CCC could turn this organization into an army unit. Let your Congressmen know you are interested in national defense. Let us prepare to fight but only to protect American soil and to insure our civil lib- erties. Weed out the Commun- in nearby |ist and Nazi Fifth Columns in} America. Do we have Commun- Aaa and Mrs. Joe Plummer and| with Atlanta as its leading city | ists in Civil Service? jtheir son, J. L. Plummer, were with $11,480,000; Alabama’s life| Where America? You are the * insurance payments totaled $24,- one to answer that question. The Oh, I'm glad I don’t remember, coming months—the trend of events—will all prepare the de- Dally Quis printed on Page 2 | Yes. Spare him. Third. Williamsburg. Oliver Wendell Jr. Yes. Kon-sum’-it, adjective; kon’- su-mate, verb. President James Monroe. No. 5 Very near the center. crest, And fearlessly scanned the blue. SHIRLEY ALMYDA. H (12B) Member of The Creative Poetry Group of Key West High School, sponsored by Hildegard Ott Russell. Holmes, a9 FPP AUTO HANGS FROM BRIDGE , ISLAND HEIGHTS, N. J.—For several minutes the automobile | of Bert Haberstick, 42, hung by \its rear wheels to torn-up bridge "TIS BETTER TO FORGET planking with its éront submerg- jed in bay waters after it had lerashed through the guard rail jon the state highway bridge across Barnegat Bay. Haberstick |and a companion, William Moran, | were dragged from the car by a Pee By PENETRATOR As I gaze upon the calming sea. |All the sailor boys who told me enjoying. It is “Island Flower” by Vivien Grey, and published in New York. The book portrays _present- day life in the Island City, and Mrs. Plummer and son will re-! |main for two weeks while Mr. ;Plummer returned to Miami yes-} terday afternoon. | jmands of the American people. They'd come rushing back to me! group of men who heard the All gems except diamonds are | Let us remain calm until we see composed of aluminum or silica,|a threat to the United States or or a combination of these in va-|North and South Americas. rious proportions, with or without| Europe and its inferno of hell |noise of the crash and rushed to Most of all a western jackie, ithe scene. Who claimed at every pier, I was the only one he'd ever! loved— A check of representative | other molecules. The diamond is is beautifully w: is beautifully written. one of crystalli aie Vivien Grey will bered as the blonde wife of Ben | MARRIAGE LICENSES be remem-} se ee jand war, its political machina- |tions is seeking to drive us into ithe war. Propaganda on the air, |But when he left, I shed no tear. | As the sparkling waves_ride high |mewspapers made by the Uni |versity of Toledo showed that 22 ;percent of the daily stories dealt ;with crime, 5.3 percent with for- D'Agostino, both of whom spent | Marriage license was | issued ~ in the press and the Church is} THE CYCLE y GH.T. or PENETRATOR a winter in the city two years this morning from the office of ago. |Judge Raymond R. Lord, author- aie ee ee izing the wedding of Felipe R.'_3 Convent All-Day Rendon, native of Luzon, Philip- — pine Islands, attached to the U. BEFORE WAR Picnic Wednesday Faculty of the Convent of! S. S. Hale, and Mercedes Rivera We, men, are brothers, of Key West. | And in eternal-love we stand, Peace Justice Enrique Es-| Shoulder to shoulder with all the Mary Immaculate - announced quinaldo, Jr., will perform: the | _“~° 7 4 their annual all-day May Day °¢femony. Sats fn; the boliges sof Fis jhand; Picnic to be given on the ia, vent grounds next Wednesday ! All students, including those) Real Estate Transfers graduated, and their parents and} friends of the Convent have been | Recorded in the county court serena ribieg aie bars sen a. house today is the sale a part held rr 1300 och vet of Lot 4 Square 15 on New street end petween 12.90 oclock noon iby I. N. Meltzer and wife Mar- and 2:09 p. m. garet Curtis Meltzer to Arthur J. eae Mulberg for the sum of $300. John Robinson = ane es 5 lost lian theaters are own- Was Organist ed by organizations such as Fasc- _— «ist and religious groups. A reporting error occurred in the article describing the when the organist’s name was Knowles-Salis wedding, which | given as John Roberts. It should was held last Friday evening,'have been John Robinson. The Prince of Peace. Hl DURING WAR | “I will not eat from an enemy, The stalwart patroit cries. “I swear by the light of yon full moon, We'll fight till the last man dies; We will not cease”. AFTER WAR | Comrades all, the black or white, | This blood-drenched field, their | Testing place, { ‘To them we raise this eternal light, In loving remembrance of their grace; {They brought us Peace. | talready at work crystalizing public opinion. |. We must not capitulate from jneutrality. American boys and! | American blood will be prepar- | jed to die on our soil to defend} it, but are those boys going to! 'die on European _ battlefields? |No, not if wé mind our own busi- ness and look to our own de- fenses. Let's prove Americans have good common sense. ALBERT G. ROBERTS. Washington, D. C., May 15, 1940. Alaska’s wettest spot is Little Port Wales, with 255.23 inches recorded in 1939. BINGO PARTY Sponsored By Fern Chapter, No. 21, 0. E. S. TUESDAY. MAY 21 — 8 P. M. At Soderberg’s Residence 1118 Fleming Street _. 25e PER CARD And cover up the sand, So I cover all my loves— And laugh -behind my hand. I Used to-sit and listen To their tales, both long and wide, But they seemed to grow monot jeign news, 5.3 percent with so- |ciety and 8.5 with sports. Coral Hotel Apartments $60.00 Per Month | i i ' So my heart is filled with pity |For those who've learned not yet! (3) | To go their way in absence bold, ! 2 | aied-al “"Tis better to fi ” (5) Maid Service Daily. | ; es ——$ $$ { } } i i Including: (1) Ges: (2) Lights: ) Garage; (4) Refrigeration: S