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

PAGE FOUR -: SOCIETY --: Frederick Saunders Celebrates Birthday Frederick E. Saunders, son of | Mr. and Mrs. Jack Saunders, cele- brated his first birthday with a party given at his parents’ resi- dence. Those attending were: Wayne Williams, Joan Crusoe, Lauriette Russell, Gail Sweeting, | Roger Sweeting, Jennie Russell, ! Terry Doughtry, Bertha Perez, Frances Saunders, Myrna Saun-; ders, Jackie Doughtry. Ann Doughtry, Shirley Nelson, Doris Roberts, Eugene Roberts, Richey Roberts, Betty Russell, Patsy Hampton, Edyth Hampton, Jo| Ft. Myers Lady Addresses Social “Highlights of the Triennial” ‘was the topic of a very interesting tetkygiven sby,, Mrs.. Thomas G. ice of Ft, Myers at the Woman's = Rdvent ~ séeia night. Mrs. Price, who is president of the Woman’s Auxiliary of the diocese of South Florida, said in her talk that the four outstanding words facing the church today were “Power”, “Responsibility,” “Courage” and “Hope”. A lovely pageant, “The Life of INVENTORS (Continued from Page One) who are willing to contribute their bit to giving the United States a iittle hypo in the nation- al defense sweepstakes. All Are Secret At present all ideas are secret jand will remain’ so ‘until the jcouncil, working with its Army and Navy advisor’, ‘has waded through them and tossed them hside as useless or approved them and thrown them into the great defense. hopper. Some of-them are as wild as flying submarines. Some exam- ples: Steel rams to be mounted on the schnozzles of whales train- ed to search out enemy subma- irines; sub-carriers—huge mother ships that carry a school of little jing up their huge reserves andj Ann Knowles, Christine Cates, | the Church”, was presented by|guppy submarines in under-wa- Sandra White, Armanda Gutier- |the young people of the parish, rez, Jr., Jack Carbonell, Jr.,Grace!under the direction of Mrs.| Perez, Laudelina Perez and Eola|Gloriana M. Bayly, educational ter stalls; cement sprays which, spread from planes, would turn the enemy into statues; and giant THE KEY WEST CITIZEN GUN FODDER SIDELIGHTS (Continued from Page One) | By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen beating them into war machines. ! “But,” says Dr. Leith,” there is! A slight misunderstanding gave a limit to substitution, at least, a'Mrs. John Acker of Newark an limit for efficient substitution.|awful shock. Tried with her The trouble it, it’s hard to dis-;husband for passing bad checks, cover where that limit is for the| the judge sentenced John to jail Germans, or how high their |for a year, and..turning to the stockpiles were when the war, Wife he saidy “IM give you a started. And’Idon’t propose to like sentenee#* Mrs. Acker hazard’a quick guess.” pene Benen ae But Dr. Leith tells you that aj — war machine can’t keep going; An odd story of animal fright without antimony, and Germany comes_ from; Nebraska, where has no constant supply of anti- owners of a silver fox farm are mony. A war machine must have said to have sued an air transport industrial diamonds for drills and company for $40,000. The claim cutting tools. Great Britain has is made that low-flying airplanes bottled up 95 per cent of the!have scared 56 of the plaintiffs’ world’s industrial diamonds in foxes to death. South Africa. And there’s not enough copper in all Europe to, Qld documents discovered in | GIFT FOR THE HOM (Associated A device that generates its own electricity as you squeeze the grip. Its simple design won it a place in the annual exhibit of useful objects at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Priced at about $5 in stores over the country. DOUBLE TROUBLE ‘Hy Assectated Press) TOPEKA, Kas—Wet weather tip from a bank: Watch your currency when it's raining. Fre- quently, says the institution, new bills stick tightly together when they are damp and two may be handed out in place of one. There are ten colleges in the United States bearing the name Johnson. | Mrs. Glenwood Sweeting, Mrs. | Wm. Knowles, Mrs. Jack Car-! bonell, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Saun- } ders, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saun-| ders, Mrs. Wilson White, Mrs. | William Cates, Mrs. Wm. E. Nel- son, Mrs. Faye Russell and Mrs. } Eugene Roberts. i Refreshments were served and | an enjoyable time was had by’ all. | Dr. Parramore Talks On Health To P.-T. A. H At the regular meeting of the} Division Street School P.-T. A.,| yesterday, Dr. James Parramore ; gave a talk on the “Relationship of Health in the Home and School.” | secretary. At the conclusion of the pro- gram, the Woman’s Auxiliary cake was cut, and Mrs. Milton Sawyer received the ring. This ring has belonged to the auxiliary for a long time, and each year is brought back by the one who wore it the previous year, and baked in the cake or the Advent Social. Staten Islanders Visit Soderbergs Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson of Staten Island, N. Y., are vis- iting with Mr. Johnson's brother- in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Soderberg on Fleming Street. a4 ‘The Rhythm Band of the pri- 'P. O. Of A. Meets mary department gave two num-! bers—“Pizzicato” Delibes and! “Minuet in G”. Mrs. James Higgs and Mrs. Juanita Roberts gave an account {members will Tomorrow Evening Patriotic Order of America assemble at the of the State P.-T. A. convention '},ome of Mrs. J. R. Adams tomor- held in Miami in November. Honors for attendance went to the classes of Mesdames Ruth O'Bryant, Amelia Cabot, Anna Roberts and Miss Gladys Pinder. U. S. WEATHER | row evening at 7:30 o'clock. This will be the annual Christ- {mas meeting of the organization, it was announced, and an appro- priate pr@gram has been planned. Members have been urged to bring a gift to the meeting. BUREAU REPORT Janiors Plan For Observation taken at 7:30 a. m, 75th Mer. Time (city office) Temperatures ‘Christmas Dance Members of the Junior Wo- man’s Club met at the clubhouse Highest last 24 hours 79 | yesterday. afternoon at 5:00 o'clock Lowest last night -70; and outlined complete plans for Mean 74: the Christmas Day Tea Dance, Normal 7 Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches 0.00 Total rainfall since Dec. 1, inches 0.11 Deficiency since Dec. 1, inches - 047 Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches 35.36 Deficiency since Jan. 1, inches 1.70 Wind Direction and Velocity NE—5 miles per hour Relative Humidity 95% Barometer at 7:30 a. m., today Sea level, 30.12 (1020.0 millibars) Tomorrow’s Almanac Sunrise 7:03 a. m.| Sunset 5:39 p. m.| Moonrise 4:21 p.m Moonset 4:57 a. m. 0% }\°Pomorrow’s Tides | (Naval. Base) . 1 ‘ AM. P.M. | High 8:53 8:12 | Low 2:18 1:39 | FORECAST t (Till 7:30 p. m., Thursday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly | cloudy with mild temperature tonight and Thursday; moderate | tast and southeast winds. { Florida: Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday, possibly a few light showers near east-central and southeast coast; slightly ! warmer in extreme north portion tonight. yy CONDITIONS Pressure is low this morning from the Rio Grande Valley west- ward over California; while high pressure areas, crested over the Lake region and far northwest, + overspread most of the remainder of the country. Somewhat warm- | er weather prevails throughout most of the Atlantic and Gulf} Coast districts with readings gen- | erally above normal; while tem- peratures have fallen in the southern Lake region and Ohio Valley, but are still sedsonable, and over western districts chang- es have been unimportant. Pre- When In Need Of A TAXI-— Call 9125 Everready Taxi Co. 24 Hour Service a “TSIGANE” Gypsy Gift Shop GIFTS FROM EVERYWHERE Jefferson Hotel Bldg. Quaint West End Duval Street i VIRGINIA PATERSON honoring vacationing college and university students here at that time. The Stork Club wil be the scene of the dance, to start at 5:00 o'clock, with an appropriate pro- gram and refreshments to be an- nounced later. Members of the club were re- quested to bring a can of fruit or vegetables to the next social meeting, Thursday December 19, in lieu of admission charge. Either that, or a_ twenty-five cent contribution—both to be used to augment the senior Wo- man’s Club drive to furnish a number of baskets for needy fami- lies at Christmas-time. The Chinese language, with its variations, is spoken by more than 488,000,000 people. Gibraltar. has an area of only two square miles, Its population is 17,000. cipitation has occurred during the last 24 hours from western Texas bear traps, whose jaws would snap up enemy tanks. The list is endless but in spite of all the goofy ideas, there are plenty which are practical, sug- gestions or hints that can be turned to use. Probably never in the history of this nation was there such a marshalling of ideas and inventions as that under the Present program of this new brain trust. U.S. Has Been Leader According to Dr. Kettering, what it takes to outstrip any |aggressor nation in inventiveness and speed of production, this country has. | He points out that it was in the U.S. that the airplane, the light | internal combustion engines and the high-test gasoline that runs them, the tank, the submarine, |the machine gun and the automo- bile—to name only a few of the engines of war—were invented. 'The U.S. also is birthplace and home of mass production. The ag- gressor nations have appropriat- ed all these to use in modern bat- tles, says the doctor. But with a springboard start like that, he feels, we will always be ahead of |the hounds of war. (Continued trom Page One) captured yesterday, with enemy troops falling back toward Sidi Barrani on the seacoast. British strategy, it appeared, was to push the Italins close to the seacoast, where naval units were waiting to pound concentra- tions with long range guns. ! Main offensive in this battle is being conducted on a _ triangle pattern, with three British forces pushing the Italians in from the southwest and southeast, with Sidi Barrani fighting to come forming the point of ‘the triangle. Italian supply lines here were said to be in danger of being cut- off entirely. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our hearty thanks to our friends and neigh- bors for the many acts of kind- ness shown us during our recent bereavement, the loss of our be-j loved one, Miss America Leon. We deeply appreciate the use of the cars and the beautiful floral tributes and messages ef sym- pathy. decl1-1t THE FAMILY. There’s more than northeastward to the lower Mis- | souri Valley, on the east central Florida coast, and in portions of the Rocky Mountain States and New England. G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. CARD OF THANKS Our sincere thanks is hereby extended to our friends for the many kind acts tendered us dur- ing our recent sorrow, the loss of our beloved one, Gladstone Knowles. We are very grateful to those who gave the use of the cars and the donors of the lovely floral tributes. MRS. WILHEMINA KNOWLES AND FAMILY. decl1-1t HAVE YOU HEARD!!! BETTY RAYMOND’S 50 Cent DINNER IS ‘The Talk Of The Town’ Food We Are Proud To Serve HOURS: 8 A. M. to 10 P., M. 512 Caroline Street one way to |] REST YOUR EYES ] Sleep is restful to eyes. But, in most cases, hardly enough to compensate for the countless shocks of pres- ent day life. 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The meena. do remember that headlines like |pay of a sailor was about two those in the papers in recent! dollars a month. made by Rev. C. C. Grimes, a weeks appeared in _ World War as | Tennessee minister, who says he days just about the time Germany | An Atlanta newspaper was re- ‘is the only Methodist preacher | began to run low on strategic ma- | cently asked this question by an|who is not fond of chicken. He) terials. So they're asking them-' anxious subscriber: “Is it un-|said from the pulpit: “I don't) Sinclair Lewis, | or Henry L.} One claim to distinction is has any inside information when The editor gave the eynical reply,| potato — salad he publicly voices doubts of an “ot if you keep on postponing | Mencken.” Axis victory. it.” | —— | What will be the effect of a, pean | Uncle Sam isn't so prompt in | complete stoppage of cotton sup-' Nominations are closed, accord-| paying war debts himself ac-| plies in Italy, as predicted by the ' ing to G. C. 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