The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 27, 1941, Page 4

PAGE FOUR CONGRESSMEN, SHUNNING PUBLICITY, Whisky Gag Worked Duccentdlly Until Solons Got es, jand daughter, Ottilie, will leave | . eee PUT AN END 10 LATEST CON GAME By JACK STINNETT, AP the conymen, it’s. always. open; season on. congressmen. The ‘jobs: ‘of senators and members of the House (and for | Feature Service Writer litical “ down-and-outers. | enough,..a,scheme somewhat sim- ilar ‘to the ‘Whisky | | | Will Leave Sunday | For Vacation Mrs. Roscoe Delores Roberts |Sunday morning by bus for an indefinite vacation, traveling yerough a number of Florida cit- ies. Following the Florida trip, they |ders, returned to Key West -last WASHINGTON,,June 27,—For| who represent themselves ag p0-| will go’ an 2 Arlington, Va., for |night. Rev. Riviere had been in at- Oddly’ a short Visit with Mrs. Roberts’ Sister, Mase Blpor Erickson. trick ““was'} that matter, any other persons worked some years ago with ‘ine! Announcement who hold their posts by popular | election) are no more secure than | their reputations. involved in a shady transaction or to be caught playing the goat for some wolf with a slick con-| fidence game is almost political death. | The con-men know this. The/ congressmen know it.~ It makes | the congressman wary and a| hard nut to crack. It makes the | smart con-men willing only to| try their slickest tricks around | Washington. The risk is great, | but once they have gotten inside and over the first hurdle, they |Singers are worried about the sup- ; feel pretty safe—for no politician | English tweeds. A congressman’s life is not an | doesn’t let him down. SOUTHERN MAMMIES CASH IN ON THEIR REJUVENATED FAME} (By Rapuaiates Press) NEW ORLEANS, June 27.—No- | body's heard lately from Old Black Joe, but if the mammy} ply of southern mammies running | To become | easy one,even ‘if the electorate | | | oF Engagement Announcement has been made | | of the engagement of Miss Thelma | Levy, 1518 Elm street, | Colorado, Denver, witz of Whitehead street. Marriage will take place in the ‘near future. Ba | Maria Farto Weds |W. P. Bowden Winiford P. Bowden, 21-year- old coast guard radioman, and to Jerome Berkowitz, ' son of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Berko- Rev. A. C. Riviere, who has been appointed to serve the First Me-| | thodist Church as pastor for an-| jother year, accompanied by Mrs. Riviere, and Mrs. Gerald Saun-| tendance at the Methodist Church | conference held in Daytona Beach. | | Harold Baker, employed at Tor-| | tugas with the government forces, | was an arrival in Key West last} night for a visit with his family. Charles H. Ketchum, who had | been attending the Methodist | hurch conference in Daytona} Beach, has returned to the city. Sebastian Cabrera, delegate to! the Denver convention of Rotary | International, returned to his home here yesterday. | j | or i | Joe Guerro, who is employed at | Tortugas with the government | forces, arrived in the city last can/afford to raise any hue and | out, they can forget about it. The Maria M. Farto, 25, Key West, | ery/over the fact that he has played dumb. | "Tt isn’t often that congress~ mefi will even whisper off-the- | recdrd when they have been} bilked by some sharper—but by | whispering at least among them- selves, they have just broken up | streets of New Orleans are posi-! tively cluttered with. them—in bright bandanas and ginghams, with neat white aprons. last - night were Peace Justice Enrique Esquin- j aldo, Jr. For years no northern. novel, ! play or movie has been complete ' without the heroine’s “mammy,” preferably stout and fussy, with asmooth bit of chicanery that |@ heart of gold beneath an ebony threatened to| place. for a few days ead all over the i you the story. | Worked Several Times | E The game was worked several | ‘imes—just how many not even | Ness. embers of Congress themselves | know—but just let someone try it today and he will find himself fattling the bars for exercise. A bright well-dressed young | man put in his appearance at the congressman’s office. He from the congressman’s He was a personal friend (or his | father was) of some of the con-; gressman’s most .powerful polit- | ical allies. | He chatted about them amiably and intimately. He brought the latest bits of gossip and news about them and their families, | The conversation ran on and to personal things. The young man, it seems, was in Washington and in Baltimore and Philadelphia on business. He had inherited quite a fortune.) He had just invested it in a large; importing business. In a boat| which was docked at Baltimore the young man had acquired a! large quantity of Scotch whisky. “I'm not in the whisky busi- ness”, he explained, “and because Tam now on the go all the time, | T have no use for it myself. Be-| Cause so-and-so back home thinks 80 much of you and because I} think so much of him, Id like/ to give you half a dozen cases”. | Appreciated It Now even if the congressman | weren't a drinking man, how could he refuse a thing like that | —a gift from a friend of aj friend and with absolutely no axe to grind. He appreciated it ery much. “All righ’ said the young) Gran, “that’s settled then, I'll ve it sent down to you”. = ted to leave, then said: “Oh, most forgot. You don’t inal ying the duty, do you? It's} $5.50 a case?” "No, the congressman didn’t | find. He would write a check. He did. And except for the can- celled check, which had been} cashed within the hour, that was | the last seen or heard of the bright young man. If you think | $33 is a paltry sum for so much} trouble, remember that it could | be worked many times in a day, and many times that in a week} or so. | This is just the latest gag that on have thought up to ss poor congressmen. There ve been others down through the years, ranging from black mail to petty touches from men TRY IT TODAY— The Favorite in Key West STAR % BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS “Key West's Outstanding” LA CONCHA HOTEL Beautiful—Air-Conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING Strictly Fireproof Garage OPEN THE YEAR AROUND "ENRICHED BREAD Aunt Molly’s Bread, Cuban Bread and Rolls | Peter skin. Shop owners in New Or- Yl] leans’ old French Quarter, capi- |talizing more and more on shoals | of tourists, now are making Ne-| gro mammies part of their busi-} A shop selling pralines, the de- | licious, confection of brown sug-' rr and pecans, began it. Mammies | in checked ginghams, wearing the ; traditional bandana headband, | |made the pralines while visitors was | watched. Adummy mammy of | state, |cotton was placed outside the} door. Then a praline shop across St. | better. It installed a real, live Street went its rival one | {mammy, smoking a corncob pipe. | The idea caught on, and now there \are mammies, of stuffed cotton penis imitaions, all up and down Quarter. Robert Livingston Oklahoma Renegades Also—COMEDY and SERIAL Reeoeoosevccosecooes “MONROE THEATRE | CESAR ROMERO in RIDE ON VAQUERO and FEDERAL FUGITIVES STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE, TRIUMPH COFFEE MILLS AT ALL GROCERS Sia aS ES SS. wa AGREED ROTES AND LIONS ARRANGE PROGRAM (Continued from Page One) the meeting Rotarians and Lions | joined in singing favorite songs of | both clubs. Program section featured sev-| eral old Irish melodies sung by Edward Doherty, | Pastor E. S. Doherty of the First Congregational Church, who has just returned from college. Poem of the Lions’ aluminum | drive, composed by Lion Frank Schneider, was read by the author. | hie Bag aia hai LINCOLN 44°18 45" STS. CANT, OUR CHOICEST ROOMS From: 1400 ROOMS each with Both, Rodio. 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