The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 15, 1941, Page 6

PAGE SIX SOCIETY :-: Convent Of Mary Immaculate Alumnae Banquet Held Monday The Convent Alumnae Associa- pecially greeted and welcomed} reunion back to the fold by Mrs. Bayly. tion held its 32d annual at their Alma Mater on Easter RE ae a Monday. The address of welcome es WEN toe gathering buzzed was delivered by Mrs. Gloriana with happy reunions of M. Bayly. mates and teachers and reminis- The election of officers was cence of school days. \aftenia)short business meet-'_ Among those _ present ing and the following were re- Mesdames Lopez Johnson, Glori- elegted fo another year: Mrs, ana M. Bayly, Stephen Lowe, Gloriana M. Bayly, President, Paul E. Newhouse, Frank Hart, Miss Emma Curry, Vice-Presi- C. B. Harvey, Joe Sawyer, Eugene dent, Mrs, Stephen Lowe, Treas- Martinez, Aquilino Lopez, Jr., urer, Mrs. Paul E,. Newhouse, Frank Fernandez, Evelio Cabot, £ecretary, and Miss Margarita M. D. Green, Emil Sweeting, Lacedonia, Reporter. Harry H. Baker, Alton Roberts, A guessing game was held and Thomas S. Caro, Rodman Bethel, prizes were won by Miss Elissa Howard Wilson, Francis L. John- Moreno, first prize, Mrs. F. L. son, Wm. M. Arnold, Homer Her- Johnson, 2nd prize, and Mrs. Hec- rick, Manuel C. Perez, Hector tor Barroso, consolation. Barroso, Waldo Johnson, Joseph ‘The graduating class presented L. Plummer, Miriam Thompson, a ludicrous skit entitled “New Martha C. Brennan, Louis Rob- Cook” which was enjoyed by all. erts, O. J. Sheppard, Reynold The banquet was held in St. Thompson, O. H. Aguero, Leon Teresa’s hall which was most at- McFarland, Rex Biaza, Vincent tractively decorated in the McDermott, Thomas Reyes, Ralph alumnae colors, blue and gold, Milner, Gilmore Parks, J. V. and the flowers which carried this Woodson, John Rivas, Roy ~ Rob- color scheme. The gathering was . Harold Cruz, Joaquin Godi- especially honored by the pres- net. i ence of Mother Provincial Su-| Misses Emma Curry, Marie Has- perior Mary Eleanor from Al- kins, Alice Park, Beulah Brantley, bany, who was presented with a: Beatrice Moreno, Solito Cobo, souvenir gift of Key West. She Ramona Lopez, Ada_ Rodriguez, dddtésséd the members and Macie Gaiti, Dorothy Albury, praised those present for their | Edith | Moffatt, Annie Crusoe, loyalty. This virtue was par-| Hilda Castillo. Flora Barroso, ticularly exemplified by the pres- | Anna.L. Castillo, Martha Ramos, ence of Mts. Lopez Johnson,|Flia | Blanco, Doris Lounders, honorary president, who was, Janice Lounders, Vilna Alfonso, greeted with the song “Happy | Eloina Gato, Dora Medina, Mary Birthday to You” in honor of her |C. Whalton, Yvonne Pinder, Mary 80th birthday, which occurs this T. VanGrieken, Frances FE weék, and Miss Emma Curry,! worth, Ruth Rose who celebrates her 81st birthday | garita Lacedonia. in June. Their love and devotion; And the graduating clas: to Alma Mater warms the heart Misses Alicia McCoy, Dorothy of all alumnae each year. \Park, Eli Moreno, Sylvia A most cordial welcome was ex- Trujillo, Jessi Jane tended to all by former teachers, |Fidelia Vargas, Anabel Moffat, and classmates and the class of Oneida Ramos, Pauline Camero, ‘41 and those present for the first Mary Nympthia Gato, Dulce Cas time in many years were es- tillo. class- { | Miss Blenus Weds iE. J. Bayly | Rroonale?y E, J. Bayly, ope | Marine railway, was married in a Mr. and Mrs. Uric Sterling left ‘quiet Miami ceremony Saturday this morning over the highway to Miss Adelaide Blenus of Key for DeLand, Fla., where they will | West. attend the marriage of their son,, The pair returned here to await Clayton Sterling, to Miss Fannie | completion of an apartment they Mae Johnson tonight. They were | will occupy in about a month. accompanied on the trip by Mr. | Stetling's brother, Dumont, Mrs, Wilbur Johnson. | Mervin Sterlihg was igcluded | in the recent arrivals in Key West | from Tavernier for several days’ | visit here. | | WASHINGTON, April 15.—Ger- man government financial op- City Councilman John Car-' crations since 1933 go a long way bonell, who had been spending a to explain why the Nazis have By MORGAN M. BEATTY, short visit in Miami, returned to the most efficient military ma-! Key West at the week-end. \chine in the world. | Between the time Hitler came Theodore Albury, city elec-|to power in 1933 and the end of trician, after a short visit in Mi-|the fiscal year on March 30, 1941, ami, returned to Key West the the German government admits latter part of last week. it will have spent almost $78,- cianemanaiian 000,000,000. Friends of Jack Miller will be! This does not include the happy to learn that he returned Much discussed secret _expen- home last evening from Miami @itures for armaments and the ‘after undergoing a successful Secret national debt incurred. for Gperation in that city. He is now those armaments. on the Yoad to recovery. Officially, however, of the 78 billions spent, about . $62,- a 000,000,000, or nearly 80 percent of thestotal, has gone to .rearm {the nation in nine years. These estimates are Dr, J.B. Parramore, who ha been attending the State Tuber- culosis meeting in Jacksonville, and who also visited the schools on the Florida keys while away on the trip, has returned to Key |S8thered by the United Wisk is was py (Department of Commerce Mis. Parramore “ |mark is valued at 40 cents. U.S. Spent Only 14 Billions In contrast, the United States government during the same pe- riod has spent about $72,000,- 000,000. Of some 14 billions, or less than 18 percent, went for based on States The accompanied Vitte-Dunme yer Naptials Mrs, Harry R. McDonald an nounces the recent marriage her daughter, Linton J Elwood H. Dunmever G. Dunmeyer, of Sr sylvania The Dunmeyers home to their Forbes str years, the Ger- as devoted at all the money its treasury to re- while we have been than one-fifth the purpose. fact th: merset armament are now friends at Pittsbureh, Pa at devoting of 2020 our 1 same C hristening oe ke Ceremony 1 were:} Galey, Mar- Gibson, | . |holding out, tor of Bayly’s } “" NAZIS’ MILITARY MACHINE COST SIXTY-TWO BILLIONS OF DO official German financial figures! SCHOOL LUNCH | PROGRAM WILL BE EXPANDED MONROE COUNTY WILL SHARE IN VARIOUS COM- MODITIES TO BE SUPPLIED | BY ADMINISTRATION by Western Newspaper Union.) | Points to the Northwest Sun Valley is the only resort I ever visited that really looks like j you expected it would. It’s a movie j Set in real life, from the spacious, | expensive Lodge, to the quaint Ty- (Special to The €itinen) |eolese village with its wide-eaved JACKSONVILLE, “April 15.— | roots and its statues of sculptured |A summer ‘feeding program’ force. The surrounding mountains, ‘children, in effect. an’ expansion caked in'frundreds of feet of snow, m % 7 ; , resemble the Alps. ‘and continuation during vacation | eter hovers around 10 degrees above months of the School Lunch Pro- | by day, drops 20 degrees at night; gram, will be available for Monroe ‘County, it was announced here} jtoday by the State Welfare Board. Surplus commodities in ample amount and of considerable variety will be supplied by the Surplus Marketing Administra- tion and distributed by the Sur- plus Commodity Division of the “including young Studebaker—in State Welfare Board. | wheel-chairs being pushed about by | Surpluses will be obtained by a ete Sig Thee UN SANS ore procedure similar to that nov | down! One of the importations from used in the School Lunch Pro- | Europe pioneered in Sun Valley is gram, except that the, cooperation’) the chair type of ski-lift. It is known of local agencies, which will act | as. the Chairway to the Stars, and ‘as sponsors, will be required.| {sa dittle: over two miles long. It Certification of need will be made | agcends a. vertical height of 3,200 | by the local district welfare board | feet, on 2,200-foot Baldy. mountain. staff. : _,. | Tals, Dift (160 chairs) cost a quarter In the main the children to, be | ™iiien dollars: to build, served will be the same as those | **:8»- LG who now receive a luncheon daily | ’Off‘at noon for Twin'Falls, Idaho. at school but little. brothers and en route at a Japanése lunch |Sisters not yet of school age will! counter in Shoshone, 33 miles south. \also be eligible. “ "| The waitress was a dainty little Jap, | not quite five feet tall, called Susie (GERMANS PLUNGE | Sogats, _ Suz So’ been bora 2 sum THROUGH GREEKS | and had lived all this time in and | around Shoshone, a town of not over | 1,500 inhabitants. Susie had never | {Continued from Page One) | been to Sun Valley, or Twin Falls; | a communique today said German soldiers have pushed 125 miles in- | to Egypt and are driving forward! once to Salt Lake City! cee ‘ against little or no resistance. [ eran nant cere a _ | The communique admitted | and Fork club there. Was followed British troops in Tobruk still are! by Maj. George Fielding Eliot. Aft- but the German | erwards on to Publisher J. F. Mc- | forces have swept around the city | Dermott’s delightfully comfortable | and moved far beyond . it into |house, and his charming guests. | Egypt. teed .* |Caught a midnight day-coach for | Dive bombers, meanwhile, are | Pocatello, Chatted.en route with ‘said to have sunk several British | bfilliant J. A. Nelson, traveling ships in the harbor and the be- hat pote natn an plied jsieged city has been subjected to | : Chany a5 |a hail of bombs. pe orveet tlnpechgie tore poppin A German report admits Royal | e Rendsaes ras tetagere een} | Air Force action has been effec- Rese? Ten’ b *. gleep 76 a Puls tive against Tripoli and other | wan Of next anecioes at Pen- Italian and German bases, _ but | gieton, ‘Ore., the city“made famous predicts an end to the campaign j bythe roundups. My car met me within a few more days. ~ here and we left immediately. Three . | hours later pulled into Lewiston, for | the night. Earlier in the afternoon the ‘hotel basement had been afire. Interested in press report that Idaho | tops.U..S. in healthiest recruits at} ; afmy camps. Only 3.2 per cent of | its. draftees have been rejected! | . ‘Then on to Moscow, and the Idaho | State university. Twenty-four per; cent of the students here are wom- | en. Men study chiefly forestry. mines, law. Learned Moscow is not named for the Russian city, but is an Indian derivative, such as Bosco, Wasco, Tako, etc. | There is a ski-shop run by a Swiss | | fefugee, who works Indian patterns | into twentieth-century practicalities. Ram," which looks like a Tyrolese | drinking place. There are Austrian ski instructors, Bavarian skaters, | Prussian waiters, Czechoslovakian hangers-on! Noted several well-known persons AP Feature Service Writer {fered by the Nazis had all the! earmarks of inflationary systems | in the disguise of tax anticipa- | ‘tion warrants, ete. | The last of these plans was |dropped in November, 1939, and | the usual bank borrowings pre-| Received th i folk sumably have been used to fi-| pin PMS Ste bane, eration between The thermom- | and the air is crisp and exhilarat- i | There is a night club called “The | jtors. . jtaches. . idays has a good job. . {the senate. . {broken when the teliminate the many nance heavy war expenditures | Alpes-Maritimes, Occupied France: since. “Having been a Reuter's corre-| Control Stays Off Collapse spondent in the Sino-Japanese war | Most financial experts here es-| and a civilian observer in this war | timate that financial operations of Europe, I don’t think much of | \similar to the Germans, if carried | Wars’ or the people who conduct on here or in Great Brtain, would * ; + Fame over’here at the! have produced utter economic| Sutereak, ‘om the’ first American | collapse. They say the Germans ‘freighter to go through the British | avoided collapse because of exer- cising control over their economic system. : 2 Dr, H. Arnold Quirim of the \Bureau of Foreign ‘and Domes- tic Commerce says: “The extraordinary . . Tais- ing of combined annual borrow- ings and tax revenues from about seven billion reichsmarks, or 15 percent of the national income in 1938, to 72 billion reichsmarks, or 72 percent of the national in- come at present, was accomplish- ed by the imposition of rigid con- trols on every branch of the na- tional economy . . . production, wages, labor, prices, consump- tion, foreign exchange, all inter- national payments interest rates, savings. withdrawals, cap- ital issues, dividends, and (most important of all, perhaps), con- trol of economic and financial \ termigation.of enlisting in an Ameri- | |,¢am volunteer regiment,.. believinz | jsthat. it represented a Great Cause. | (The American regiment did not ma-| sterilize, and I was a volunteer with | an American ambulance unit. Un- questionably I saw more of the war | than many other American writers. | And I debunk war as much as you! debunked American society in yout | ‘Farewell to Fifth Avenue.’ I was brought before a summary court, martial as a German spy-suspect ir. a French village where nobody spoke English, and was saved by/ German shells falling on the root! of the peasant’s house where I was. | being tried. I was the only Ameri- can eye-witness of an actual big bat- tle between the French and the Ger- mans, as far as I can determine. I was trapped by the Germans in enother little village and was among them for six weeks. A great many humorous as well as tragic things ,eontraband control, and with the de-} re seiet Or Less POLITICAL By VERNON LAMME TALLAHASSEE, April 15.— From the quiet seriousness of the legislators; the spirit of co-op- n the Executive and Legislative branches; the de- termination. by committee mem- be.s to work late hours; the add- ed zest evidenced in the labors of attaches, all tend to lead in one direction—to make the 1941 ses- sion the most efficient and most popular in many decades. . .this column will endeavor to bring out some of the little human in- terest angles of this great polit- ical ‘game’, . .the little © things overlooked by the great daili ...the capital is filled with visi- .the usual group of camp followers can be seen in the lob- bies. . .there are not nearly many job-seekers in evidence. . the word must have gone around that both the House and the Sen- ate were making some air-tight rules relative to the hiring of at- .but again almost every- one that really wants work these .and good secretaries are hard to find and they will be needed this year more than ever as the members ‘seemed to be prepared for some real work. . .W. C. Hodges and {Lucas Black are missed more |. than most Senators like to ad- mit—their bouyant good nature and lively spirits have smoothed out many#@n ‘angry snarl. . .and their-stories on the floor have enlivened many a tedious day’s routine. . seventeen new faces in venteen — serious new faces. . .is there another Hodges or a Black in the raaking? . .some of the Senators and Rep- resentatives are pointing out the fact that they never have ap- pointed their attaches for the full session and have used them only for one month. . nd then sent them home. . .hiring an en- tirely new group for the la 30 days. . .thereby placing twice as many names on the payroll. while this is given to in a mea: ure accourt for the large numb of attaches each year. . .still there is an ever-increasing undercur- rent toward cutting down the number of employes. . .and the opening address of President Johnny Beacham was applauded by many who had in the past rather leaned toward the hiring of-more instead of cutting the list. . .when I speak of co-opera- tion between the executive and legislative branches, I do not mean that these two all-import- ant functions of state government are ‘getting together’. . .but_ that to expedite the work of thé leg- islature, the execvtive office is making it as ea: the law-makers. . .for the very first day the opened for business all for early ‘ i instance, senat governor sent to the senate a majority of all his !appointments to be confirmed or refused at one time. this will for ‘executive’ or secret sessions interruptions | cece |which have held up the wheels of legislation so much in the past. . . allowing steadier the later and days. . more in both houses have been hard } at work since the been first day. . . there have no journments, . .they even worked on Good Friday. . .and I believe this is another record. . . While this session has more new members than usual it also is dis- tinguished by the young ones. . | Elmer Ward of Fort Myers is still the youngest. . .in point of years number of .. -but not in legislative experi- ence, . .he is followed closely by -|Senators; Le Roy Collins of Leon; Dan Kelly of ‘Nassau; and J. Frank Adams of Caiiioun. . .these young statesmen are a credit to their dis- tricts. . able and respectful of their elders . . they are not attempting to ‘run the senate’. . .and they all wear their high honor with modesty |. . take the Fort Myers solon for example. . .Senator Ward during the 1939 session helped pass more | legislation with his name attached legislation | . .more important than any single senator. . :modest was he about it was nece: in the senate journal.’. .miaybe he didn’t realize it himself. when Johnny Beacham was called to the rostrum, the opening day to take the oath of office as the new presiding officer, his hand shook as he arranged and _ re-arranged his papers on his desk and after- ward when he told his fellow senators ‘this is the happiest day of my life’ in his opening ad- dress, his throat choked and I be- jlieve that if one looked closely enough a tear or two could have been seen in his eyes. . everyone is saying ‘what a good president Johnny will make’. . .well, he has had some good men ahead of *him . and it is thought he will not only follow their excellent ex- sand so that it ample, but will, in all probability, - plow several new furrows of his the selection of Senator shairman of the Legis- penditures committee an economical session in the senate anyway. . .it is too early to give the real low- down on the next president of the -but would like to give a prediction here. . .at this time it looks like the r is between Senators R. S. Adams of Jasper. and Dillworth Clarke of Monti- but who can tell?. . surely ator, . .SI will insu senate. cello. . not your n possible for j ‘executive sions’ 3 FRANKIE DARRO in UP IN THE AIR also COMEDY AND SERIAL Prize Night Tonight seeocesesseoeeses ae BEAUTY COLONY | Southard Street PO SALI LL LAL LLL Next to Bus Station Machineless Permanent Waves by Experts RAIN WATER USED EXCLUSIVELY Featuring MISS TERRICE This Week BRADY of CARA NOME, Expert Cosmetician Consultations, Analysis and Facials Completely Free Phone 177 or 206 MARY HANLE for Appointments YY. Proprietor GOING with Corneli member PLACES us Vanderbilt Jr. *” Yornelias Vanderbilt Jr., is of a family which has played an important part in the de- velopment of our nation. His col umn, GOING PLACES, which is | | | | | Well, here we are , other couple of years. work during | important | smany of the committees | early ad-j -but Senator David ; -they are conscientious, ; ‘y to look up the data) data”. Just contrast, American national incéme for 1941 will range around '$80,000.000,000. If at for - we were spending 72 percent of | wet our income: fer ermaments, would put out about $57.000,000,- 000 for national defense this year. the As matters stand, we'll hardly be grandparent B. Pinde and Mr. and M aunts Mrs J R Margaret Pince baby able to spend 13 billions We n't producing armaments fast ugh to put cut anywhere near @ amount the German govern- ment is spending for them. happened. I was in the exodus from Paris, which I still think was the silliest and most inexcusable fight in all history. ee SEEING THINGS: In Walla Wal- Ta, Wash. passed a “Pantorium™ which presses, cleans, sponges pants. In Pueblo, Colo, saw a “Locketeria” which specialized in fitting keys to odd types of locks. In Mount Vernon, Wash, saw a Nor- wegian farmer with a 1918 Model T drawing a plow across a field. Upon Questioning found be came from Narvik in the ‘nineties—Puget Sound ¢limate more comparable to it than any other he knew. Imagine current Europeaa history-in-the-making has running currently in this newspaper, discusses people, cities, towns, resorts and the countryside as he sees them in his travels about the nation... without polities or propaganda, Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. is widely known as a magazine writer, lee: turer, world traveler and interna- tional observer. You will find his column, GOING PLACES, highly informative and entertaining. READ IT NOW— IN THIS NEWSPAPER + Subscribe to The. Citizen. TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1941] M \ | ‘Sitting In With The Lawmakers’ [ess Z __ By GILBERT LEACH closer. But don’t lose hea There’s always a laugh or twa every week somewhere in the seri And, if you note as we go along, jous business and we'll be watchin! we're here to UNDO some of the {for it. Don’t go away. We'll b things previous legislatures have |back in a flash with a flash. § already done. It’s always that long for now. Tart 6. “rule to thar ow LEGION UNITSTO that's MEET ON SUNDA’ making but that’ have in a Democracy /andthat’sY (Continued from Page One) ~ word “ the kind we want Tight on. ‘ We got a couple of dandy head? of Flori af again, all | gathered to make laws for an- | men this session. That mian derneath, then the Beacham, president of the Sehate, * West’ Department is one of the solid citizens, if you 1941", beneath that. get what we mean. You can’t The convention corporat run that chap off the rostrum by paid some bills last night. It showing him a bevy of beauties in announced that the corporat on the lobby. He’s strictly business. does not;owe one cent, that And over in the house, We have bills have been paid as propmill another serious minded chap. Dan as presented. McCarty is a young sprout but he “This is a record for a conv ‘knows what makes the wheels go ‘tion of this size”, Mills said. ™ ‘round and when you talk to him expect to wind up with a about legislation vou want to'profit—if everyone ‘who is do know what vou're talking about. for a contribution comes througl He already knows. ; A committee of solicitors of So we're gettine settled down ,thur Sawyer Post No. 28 of to business. Maybe this column |American Legion, which went if can’t be as frivolous 7s it was two the keys on Sunday, reported ane years ago. Maybe "ll have to were complimented on their attend to our In'ttin’ a little work. Se se if you do not... el ~Tieetive Your Copy of TAPAS. The CITIZEN By 6 P. M. PHONE—WESTERN UNION Between 6 and 7 P. M. and a Western Union Messenger Boy will deliver your copy of The Citizen. LOLI TI OSIII IAB | MIS ST PPLE ELLE | &- ws SM 48, ) PDD DS. 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