The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 11, 1940, Page 4

PAGE FOUR SOCIETY :-: Shirley Faye Russell To Be Married __ -In Miami Church Next Tuesday Night Many relatives and friends of Shirley Faye Russell, native-born Key Wester, now living in Mi- ami, will travel to the Magic City next Tuesday-to attend the wed- ding of Shirley Faye Russell. Miss Russell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rispah M. Russell, will be married on that day to George Cravero, Jr., of Philadelphia, in a marriage ceremony at Gesu Catholic Church. The Russells moved to Miami about five years ago. Miss Shirley has returned to Key West many times to visit relatives and friends,, as have her parents. She was a member of the Nellie Louise Russell-Allen E. Curry wedding party at that marriage two years ago. Clinic Card Party Tomorrow Members of the Advisory Board announced today that the second in a series of benefit Card Parties will be held in the Rain- bow Room at La Concha Hotel tomorrow night, starting at 9:00; o'clock. ! Door’ prizes and _ individual | | Wesley- Archers Leave __NOTES OF TODAY | Mr. and Mrs. Wesley P. Archer} and daughter, Nell Rose, left Tuesday over the highway for vis- its with relatives and friends in St. Petersburg and Tampa and other cities on the west coast of the state. Economic THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | |C. IRVING WRIGHT Highlights |" “svt rrorsecs (Continued from Page One) THAT AFFECT THE DINNER PAILS, DIVIDEND through the battle lines of the AND TAX BILLS OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL; jenemy in armored trucks, or |dropped from planes by para- }chute behind enemy lines; that The nomination of pia. Willkie as the Republican presi-| dential al sen- |the next war would be fought the Allies, but is pledged against | with tanks and planes, that vic- declaring war. He is especially tory would come to the mechan-' strong in defense of civil liber- ties for minorities no less than majorities, and has pointed out tically strong-in an age that was The years have proved the cor- heading fast toward Technoeracy. | !the convention, some of the lead- s ithat if we are to assure the per- And, on top of that, it was a po-'petuation of freedom, we must litical miracle. always protect the liberty of Mr. Willkie nas never heid Pub- | those pehoes ees we abhor no 5 és a iess an jose whose views we pie ty ones or seven years 480 -ndorse. He detests fascism, and he was virtually unknown, save 2) that it stands for. in a limited industrial circle. Up} The nomination of Senator Mc- to a year or so ago the public at /Nary of Oregon for second place} large knew little or nothing 'on the ticket was what the sport- | about him. A few months before) ing fraternity call a natural. No |senator has so strong a following jin the West, and in the all-im- ‘portant agricultural states. He jis perhaps the ablest parliamen- tarian in Congress, and is uni- 'versalty popular. His record as }minority leader during the GOP’s leanest days has been excellent. He is a definite asset to the tick- et. ing columnists began writing about him, observing that he would make a model candidate but that, unfortunately, his com- plete lack of influential political backing made his nomination virtually impossible. Major news- papers editorially expressed sim- ular views. Mr. Willkié was, table prizes will be again fea-| in other words, the darkest of Many experts are saying that rectness of Mr. Wright's views, and today Great Britain cowers in fear of a devastating battle that will be carried to its shores and to its very doors by seven years of German Technocracy— backed to the limit with man- power. Overseas Highway 'ricane of Labor Day, 1935, leaf raking and sand moving had been discouraged in this coun- i try, and county and Federal tax- |Payers’ money turned into the construction of the Overseas Highway between Homestead and Key West without thought of a percentage of the levy being made by the County of Monroe; jor into the construction of east and west and north and south ex- If after the frightful Keys hur-! tured at this affair. Reservations |Malcolm Archer Returns | may be made by phoning either; Malcolm Kelcey Archer, who} 570-J or 834. A good crowd is an-|had been visiting in Tampa with | ticipated, turning out to provide | relatives for one month, returned | funds for continuation of the |°ver the highway Tuesday. | County Clinic. | ES eT J aaecs To Nashville 1 - 5 | Mrs. Charles Acherson, son,: Pythian Sisters |Charles, Jr. and mother, Mrs. F.! j; Alexander, who had been visit- dark horses, in a field filled with political luminaries long in the the nomination of Mr. Willkie jmakes the renomination, by draft public eye. Apparently Mr. Will- if necessary, of President Roose- kie himself first took suggestions velt almost that he might be the candidate,!that the Democrats must now_put as flattering but rather idle con-'their best foot forward—and the versation. ‘President is that best foot by When the Willkie campaign/far. Mr. Willkie is far too strong got underway, it was run entire-!a candidate, far too good a speak- | ly by amateurs. His name wasier .to oppose with a colorless or certain. Reason is| Disband For Summer Key West Temple No. 20, Pythian Sisters, held its regular meeting on Monday night at the| Pythian Hall on Fleming street, | at which time there were a num-j ber of important matters brought up. One of the decisions made was that there would be no further meetings held until September 9. ¥t was also decided to hold a par- ty in the recreation room, first floor, at 8 o'clock tonight. | L ONE | | THEY'LL ORDER FROGS IF THEY WANT THEM | LEWISTON, Idaho—City En-} jleft yesterday for their summer ‘Takes Prisoner To Mariana ing in Key West with Mr. Acher- son’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al-j fred Acherson, on William street, home in Nashville, Tenn. Frank Velasco, county proba- > tion officer left this morning on the bus, having in his charge William Hall, colored, bicycle thief who was sentenced to four years in the reform school at Ma- riana. Lt. Haskins to Jax Lieutenant H. B. Haskins, ex- ecutive officer of the Coast} Guard Base in Key West, left on the 11 o'clock bus Tuesday for temporary duty at Jacksonville. | Visited Here Two Weeks not entered in any state pri- maries—though he did receive a routine candidate. If these fore- casts prove true, and colorful Mr. press highways (in accordance with a plan laid before the Con- gress within a year), private cap- jital would not-have been en- | gaged to the extent it is today in |such road building as that be- tween Pittsburgh and Harris- ‘burgh, Pennsylvania. To have put hundreds of thou- sands of the nation’s unemployed to work on such projects with- very large and purely voluntary write-in vote in some states. No delegate to the convention was really pledged to him. The com- parative handful of votes he re- ceived on the first ballot came from unpledged delegates, who, with the whole field to pick from, considered him the best man. |And long before that ballot was jPolled, it became evident that) j Roosevelt does run against col- |orful Mr. Willkie, it should be jone of the most dramatic cam- ;Paigns in our history. ‘CLASSIFIED COLUMN ROOMS FOR RENT out local tax burden, and despite the inroads of Technocratic in- ——— to help further the proj-j| ects, work of that universally |valuable type would have re-| |dounded to the everlasting cred-} jit of the men at the helm of gov- jernmental affairs, whereas today | vast sums of money which have {been expended on this project |and that have returned to the ex- perimenters nothing but grief. supposed Dewey and Taft strong- helds were cracking fast in favor} of Willkie. Some of the party} leaders, finding their influence, waning, organized an almost hys-} terical “stop-Willkie” movement. | jit apparently added to his sup- | NICELY port, and on the third ballot,| when Dewey lost heavily, it was} NICE SLEEPING ROOM, $4.00; Mr. Wright’ further believed per week. Apply 319 Grinnell|the Naval Station at Key West street. jly8-lwk | never should have been put on jthe inoperative list, much less ‘abandoned. See what has hap- ‘pened today. Every effort is be- FURNISHED ROOMS, ing made in the light of affairs Beautyrest Mattresses, hot and abroad to bring the armed forces cold running water. Bath and/of our nation at this tip end of FOR RENT | WELFARE BOARD | , EXTENDS MERITS ALL EMPLOYES: CONFORMS with one first cabin passenger for Key West 12 first and one WITH SECURITY ACT peat vana. , Earl Tillotson, was the JACKSONVILLE, Fia.. July 11 passenger for Key West. (FNS).—The State Welfare Board, ‘Shown on the ship's man |has extended its merit system Yto |WeTe the following: For Ker West = 83 tons of freight, one autem | include all employees, it was an- pie and one sack of moi nounced here this week, the ac- Havana, there were 106 sacks ition being in conformity with its! mail ,own previously established po- P ee clock |licy and in compliance with the {" Havana with t a federal Social S ity Act. loaded at this port: There were The board has set up an inde- pendent merit system committee to conduct examinations to de- termine eligibility of employees ‘not already covered by the merit system and to provide a register) of eligibles from which future vacancies will be filled. Members of the committee are George T. Shannon, Tampa, at-! torney, chairman, Dean Mary B. Merritt, of the University of Miami and Dr. James T. Jay, of | | the University of Florida. Dr. El-| 'mer D. ‘Hinckley of the University | of Florida will have charge of} the examination program. | | TRANSPORTATION een ne Ss. S. CUBA oniy MONROE THEATER Lola Lane - James Crais ZANZIBAR and THE MAGIC BULLET Matinee—Balcony 10c. Or- chestra 15-20c; Night—15-25e i ; i A SHORT CIRCUIT, MAYBE ; CHEYENNE, Wyo.—Jim Grif- fith received a letter from a} Philadelphia Democratic organi- | |zation urging him to organize a “Rally "Round Roosevelt” club. Griffith is chairman of the/ Wyoming Republican state cen- tral committee. | RIA wn Zoays 666 | ) tele LIQUID OR TABLETS PaALace Republic Presents ‘HI-YO SILVER’ | also SBatate peng Sr automotuies. anc acs Tae ive Spensh capers: cid Arriving this morning at 7:45 ciwer at Trimidad was the steamship Cube of the de Las Armes cabin passenger for Ha- «t : i it ifs? fie [ I y i | & t t i * » | | Fast, Dependask Freight and Express Service —between— MIAMI AND KEY WEST Also Serving Al! Poimts On Florida Keys and Key West Following Schsdule Effective Jume 15th: Miss Elizabeth Hicks, who had '¢lear that Willkie was to be the; showers each floor. Specialjits territory to greater fighting Con set area gineer W. P. Hughes didn’t take’ it seriously when a man’s voice | asked over the telephone: “What kind of a breakfast are you try- ing to serve us? I tried to put wa- fer in the percolator and got. a polly-wog! Then came the plaintive voice of a young woman: “I was taking a bath and felt something tickling my back. It was a polly-wog”. Hughes decided something was wrong. The polly-wogs were found in the city reservoir and it: took two days to sein them out. Sheet metal guards were placed around the reservoir to discourage any mother frogs who might want to raise their young in pure water. SHE HAD FAITH. AND GETS NEW TEETH LONGMONT, Colo. — At the age of 80 Miss Julia Mil- brandt is cutting her third set of teeth. “I need food that requires i sing and I had faith that would get another set of Hi* "she said. “Store teeth didn’t agree with me. “So L asked the Lord give me another set. took simple faith to them”. to It get HIT WITH THE WIND BOULDER. Mont—Best ex-! cuse of the current tourist sea-' son for faulty driving. say traf- fic patrolmen, came from Ohio driver. Just as he was meet- ing another car, he said, a gust of wind struck his vehicle and blew him right into the path of HE'S JUST DARING ‘EM j TO TRY IT AGAIN! : TARHEEL, N. C.—Sixty- five-year-old Horace Rober- son is not taking any more chances with his bicycle. A policeman pulled him for not having a light. Now he has 10 flashlights on his bicycle, ranging from 10 inches to three feet long. It takes 26 batteries to keep the lights on. What's more, Roberson has a siren, a bell and a horn, plus a thermometer. | PAY FOR WEDDING WITH WOODEN NICKELS RATON, N. M.—Wooden nick- els paid for a double marriage ceremony when two couples used the “tree grown coins” to pay for licenses and the fee of Judge Ray C. Haner. The wooden nickels were some that were “minted” to advertise a munici- pal celebration. WOMEN WANT TO BE COPS ~~LOS ANGELES.—A_hun- “dred women here believe been spendin, i — i en ie obvious question is, What } summer rates, day or week. | strength than ever before in his- j | | swececcccesecccness- cece | eee ; weeks visiting her sister, Mrs. ! Th Thelma Smith, left on the 7 o'clock bus this morning, return- ing to her home in Tampa. i ' Returned To Ft. Myers Mrs. Pearl Hibbell, who had tae eee ag| oe Fleming street. _jly11-1mo dramatically licked the GOP|FURNISHED APARTMENT, one bosses to a standstill? And the! block from beach. Apply Val- obvious answer is that he is a! des Bakery. jly9-tt very remarkable man indeed. No?’ ——-_______ one doubts his intellectual capa-;| UNFURNISHED HOUSE, six been visiting her brother-in-law bility for the number one U. S. and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin'job. A Jeffersonian in political | E. Russell, left on the 7 o'clock Philosophy (he first voted Re- bus this morning for her home in| Publican in 1936, when he be- Ft. Myers. came convinced the New Deal ' - jhad abandoned Democratic prin- Visitors From Palm Beach jones and was moving toward Mrs. Madeline Van Munster, 'collectivism) he has done a mag- daughter, Miss Gloria Van Mun- ;nificent job of publicizing the is- ster and Miss Caroline La Place,'sue of the individual versus the who came in yesterday afternoon state—he is implacably opposed for a sightseeing trip, left on the .to government going morning bus for their home in ness competition with its citi- into . busi-| rooms and bath. Apply rear 729 United street. jly8-lwk | ‘APARTMENT, 1104 DIVISION) STREET. Hot water, modern! conveniences. Opposite Tift’s! Grocery. Apply within. jun3-tt DOWNSTAIRS APARTMENT, 2 bedrooms, furnished or. unfurn- | ished. 1415 United street. Box H, The Citizen. jly3-tt tory. Wr. Wright’s judgement was correct in this case as it was when he exclaimed to me, with a |sweep of his hand, “put the tax |money into a highway straight | across the country, cutting down | mountains, filling valleys, build- ing a super road from the At- lantic to the Pacific”. The approach. toward comple- tien of the great engineering feat West from. Pittsburgh _ through and across. the Alleghenies, and the rehabilitation of the Key West Naval Station are two links in Mr. Wright’s suggestions, in his analysis of conditions and his offer of a remedy for the nation- al ill of man’s idleness. 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SAYS MISSOURI FARMER KINGSTON. Mo—Joe Allen wonders if he has a couple hogs that can read. They strayed from the Allen farm and Allen placed a newspaper advertise- ment seeking their return. Im- mediately after the ad was pub- lished. the hogs came marching home—all alone. SOMETHING HERE WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. —Dr. Paul Johnson had to “rub his eyes when he went out to look at his new rose bush. A white and a pink Tose were growing from the same stem. { zens, and to dietatorial govern- ment domination of the social and economic life of the nation. | But in these days, intellectual capacity is not enough—other talents are needed, and Mr. Will- kie has them too. As William | cialist, will be at the Gilbert-Jef-| Allen White has written, he is ex- | tremely photogenic—he is a big man, jovial in manner, with a shaggy, leonine head. He is quick as they come on his mental feet, and has a highly developed sense of humor. As a speaker and ra- dio platform personality, he is sense of drama, and a great ap-| | titude for the telling phrase. In| BRING YOUR VISITING friends brief, seasoned political observers aspirant with the physical as well as mental at- tributes needed to battle the! strongest Democratic candidate on even terms. The Republican platform says little and means less. That is not important—Mr. Willkie will make the platform himself, and no one in these days pays much atten- tion to the political planks. While he believes in private enterprise. has taken eight years for some- FURNISHED APARTMENT, 604 Duval Street. jun28-tt | Tue- { Paul R. Schick, landscape —_______| painter of Palm Beach, has an WANTED TO BUY—Smal! exhibition of charming and color- House for cash. Box MC, The ful Florida landscapes at the Citizen. jlyll-4t | Florida Pavilion at the World’s |Fair. ‘Native scenes in all parts TRANSPORTATION tof Florida are represented in the CAR TO SEATTLE = joil’ canvases. 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