The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 12, 1943, Page 4

RAGE FOUR SCENIC ARTIST |D. VILDOSTIGUI PAINTS MURALS | DIES SUDDENLY FOR ARMY UNIT rune ~amaorucrs TT TALENTS OF DAVID WYA’ ANNOUNCED LATER BEING PUT TO GOOD USE IN DECORATING RECREATION HALL Domingo Vildostigui, Jr., died suddenly yesterday after- noon. i ! 1 Mr. Vildostigui was taken sud- The talents of Private David C./denly ill while on Duval street Snap) Wyatt, one of the coun-|and was rushed to the U. S. Ma- try’s leading scenic artists for ine Hospital in an ambulance. ld fair: Pt eine pbe-|He died on arrival at the hos- wee Aca a ie . pital. The deceazsed resided at ing put to’ good use“ theSedays| 505 Louise st. for the benefit of the boys in} Funeral arrangements in charge Uncle Sam’s army. of the Pritchard Funeral Home Snap Wyatt is one of a group will be announced later. A BOAO Survivors are the wife: Clara of six recognized men in his field who design and paint canvasses Vildostigui of Quincy, Mass. D mother, Mrs. Susana Vildostigui depicting Bosco the Wonder, the Giant Woman and the Sword of Key West; father, Domingo Vildostigui, Sr., of Tampa; three Swallower that intice the “suck-|sisters, Mrs. Susana Diaz, Mrs. ers” into the “freak” shows from}Rosario Martinez and Mrs. Em: coast to coast. His more serious work has included the modeling ma Veliz of Tampa; a_ brother, Ernest Vildostigui of Tampa. of those huge papier mache, pre- historic monsters, under the fa- Mr. Vildostigui was a Civil Service Guard at tha Naval Op- mous Messmore & Damon, that have attracted thousands of eyes erating Base and a member of the at the Chicago and New York Knights of the Golden Eagle. World fairs under the title of “The World # Million Years Ago.” His, VOLUNTEERS NEEDED headquarters were the Snap AS SCOUTMASTERS BY Wyatt Studios of New York and KEY ‘WEST TROOPS Tampa, Fla. 1 At Key West Barracks, Fla., = where Wyatt has been stationed (Contributed) since he entered the Army in| Are you ‘a true hearted Amer- August, his skill was uncovered | ian man? If you are you are the by Lieutenant Truman C. Ryker, | type of person that will make a good Scoutmaster. Key West Boy Scouts are in need of volunteer Special Services Officer, and is now being put to work for the} i scoutmasters at the present time. Volunteer today and give the Army. Wyatt is producing murals! to decorate the post theater and i youth of your community the the recreation and mess _ halls. | 34, Soon the military reservation is expected to lose its drab, utilitar- ian aspect and take on an interior appearance more in conformity chance they need. Any true Amer- ican man may volunteer for this top civic position at any meeting of the Boy Scouts held Friday Paul’s Parish with civilian standards. nights at the St. Wyatt, who works alone, has| Hall on Bahama Street. _ already completed two murals,} If you could live your life over, each five by eight feet. One pic- | Would you let the same things in, tures the activities of our Air] 0 would you keep some out and, Corps and Paratroopers in com-| in their stead, plant others of bat; the other, an imaginative fairer’ bloom? piece, presents the monsters of| Today in the hearts of the boys yesterday in the form, of dino- of America, you have your chance | saurs, etc., and those of today—| to help to bring to pass a superior tanks and planes. manhood. ‘ , Wyatt-has projected a huge The millions of American boys | mural, 146 feet long and five feet | are just the same sort of fellows | deep, in a tropical landscape| that you and I were ten and theme to surround the balcony of | twenty years ago. They are open the Florida State Armory in Key| to Planting for the good or the 'French Line in New York. He is|and soldier guards ‘MAYOR TAKES UP TREVOR PLACED | BUILDING ISSUE ON DRAFT BOARD | H Benjamin D. Trevor has been | WRITES LETTER TO COMPLI-! placed on the local Selective Ser- vice Board replacing Aaron Mc- ANCE INVESTIGATOR OF [Connell, according to announce- PRODUCTION BOARD ment made today. The local unit also announces | that the organization has been x | presented with a beautiful Amer- i | i Mayor Willard M. Albury has) ican flag donated by the Amer- written a letter to C. S. Ball, com-! ican Legion Post. pliance investigator of the War| It was also stated that begin- {Production Board, wiih officers in| ning -today the office of the Se- | Miami, regarding order L-41 that lective Service Board will be open {relates ‘to building and repairs | to the public from 9 a. m. to 3 |to buildings in Key West. Mayor |P- m. daily except Sunday. | Albury points out: | In case of emergency after the “About one and one-half years | Closing hour, registrants are re- jago the population of Key West |quested to communicate with the j was placed by the census at 12,-| office by telephone. 832 permanent residents. The Navy | Yard opened up with a small per- | SIX LOCAL SCOUTERS |sonnel. Then war was declared, ARE NOW IN SERVICE nd today, should actual count be In the Annual | | | made of our permanent popula-} ; tion, I feel confident it would be found we have a population of at ;deast 35,009, which figure does not include the military forces in z the Army and Navy reservations. | ‘Pics of interest to local scouting. “The Federal Government has| Six local Monroe Scouters went taken a considerable number of! into the service according to the homes from families of Key West- | @Port. The men listed were as ers and fenced the property for | follows: Council Members M. E. | federal construction. These famil-| Berkowitz, Z. D. Harrison, and lies had to take what they received |Albert E. Pierce, Jr.; Assistant |from the federal government and |Scoutmasters Ernest Avila, Ray | |try to locate and build a home in | Perez, and Frank M. Miles. nother locality” On the Council rolls today are | Mayor Albury discussed other | 2136 active scouts divided by | points pertaining to Key West, and | counties as follows: Dade, 1,640, lit is believed that there will not Broward, 416, and Monroe _ 80. |be any further strictures regard-; There are 61 white troops, 11 col- ing building or repairs in Key | "ed troops, 14 Cub packs, and 5 West. Sea Scout ships in the Council. One of the two organizer NEW SUPPLY OFFICER | awards received during the year AT LOCAL BARRACKS _ nc of the three new Cub | Packs organized during the year | went to a Monroe County Scout. 101, Was a new pack organized by the Report of the of America recently issued by headquarters, contained many Major Mario Geminiani, |Cavalier Drive, Virginia Beach, | |Va., has recently been assigned |to the Harbor Defenses of Key West as supply officer. More than ten years ago Ma-! jor Geminiani joined the New York National Guard as a private and rose through the ranks as |p, ee pas ae oe) corporal and sergeant to a second |" & em has either been lieutenancy in 1934. He was pro- | killed or captured, moted to first lieutenant in 1937} R e and was made a captain when| Rumania, the report concluded, he entered active service with| now refuses to call up any more the Coast Artillery in 1940. In August last year he was elevat- ed to major. In civilian life, Major Gemin-| ee z is iani was landing agent for the| ¥"rest” in Rumania and police have been Key West Lions Club. The total receipts for the year was $20,579.38 and the total ex- penditures $16,078.03. COSSACK CAVALRY men for the fighting in Russia, Dade County Council, Boy Scouts | su |edding that there is now “great| West. In his spare time between larg- er jobs, Wyatt turns out posters for the promotion of post theater War productions, the Red Cross and War Bond campaigns. Wyatt is a son of Mrs. Clara Wyatt, 3517 Tenth Street, Tampa, Fla. Since he has been in the Army, his wife, Mary, has been living in Key West. SERGT. ROY YOUNG MADE LIEUTENANT Master Sergeant Roy A. Young has been commissioned a__ first lieutenant in the U. S. Army and has been ordered to report to Camp Blanding, Fla., it has} been announced by the com-| manding officer of the Harbor Defenses of Key West where} Lieutenant Young has been sta-! tioned for the past six months. | Lieutenant Young, son of A.} W. Young, 438 Gulf Street, San Antonio, Texas, joined the, na- tional guard in 1925 and hast served continuously. He has held | all the enlisted man’s ranks. He was called to federal senyice amy November 1940, as a master serg~, eant. Before entering federal serv- ice, Lieutenant Young was in the finance department of Dis- trict No. 10 of the Works Progress Administration at San Antonio. Lieutenant Young has seen! service at Camp Blanding, Fla.,} and Camp Bowie, Texas, in addi-} tion to the Harbor Defenses of Key West, where he has been} engaged in personnel and quar-} termaster work. 1 { } Son To Rodriguez Family Born to’: Mr. and Mrs. R. E j Rodriguez, a -7%4-pound boy at 6:23 p,m. Sunday. The hew arrival has been given the name of R. E. Rodriguez, Jr. Mrs. Rodriguez was formerly Miss Celina Bethencourt. RETURN TO CITY Mrs. Ross C. Sawyer grandson, Robert Webb Sawyer, returned yesterday from Talla- hassee. They accompanied Mrs. Sawyer’s daughter, Miss Eliza- beth W. Sawyer, to Tallahassee. | where she resumed her studies at! the Florida State College for Women, after spending the and} | bad or the indifferent. There is nothing finer in all the world than a boy; a lad, clear- eyed and up-standing; sound of muscle and clean of mind; red- blooded and eager, yet gentle and square; loyal unto death, and in return asking nothing “but friend- ship and understanding and some- thing worthwhile to do. The Scout Program offers a splendid opportunity for you to bestowed upon you. In Scouting there is a part for every man to play; for you. No man is too busy to find time for Scout Work. One of the busi est men in the world, the late Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States and occupied with other big affairs found time to be Scoutmaster, Troop Com- mitteeman, Councilman, and Troop Committeeman. Surely no*man in the Monroe County District was ever busier than the Président of the United States. Presi@ent Fré\iial D. Roose- elt; Honorary Rresigent of the Boy Scéuts of ‘Amerita, recently paid tribute to Scout leadership by issuing the following state- ment: “Next to active military service itself, there is no higher opportunity for serving our coun- on in their efforts to make them selves physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight, and prepared to help their country to the full in time of peace, as well as in time of war.” kind, playing the ,game fair and! capitalize that God-given asset of | hero worship that some boy has | | the son of Mrs. A. Geminiani, 635 | |West 115th Street, New York|Gcubled recently to crush any | * City. ‘possible uprising. ecccccccoer Classified Column POCO OER AO OL LOLOL OOOEESOCOOOCOSCORBLECe FOR SALE HELP WANTED cigs SCOOTERS, cury Convertible Coupe, Trail-} ers. Skating Rink. jan5-tf| | MOTORS, jan4-tf j | FOR SALE—1940 Indian Motor-; WANTED — Fountain Counter cycle. Excellent tires. Apply L.| Girls and Waitresses. Good H. Starling, Jefferson Hotel. | salary. Southernmost City dec29-tf; Pharmacy. jan1-tf TECHNICAL BOOKS: Books on}WANTED IMMEDIATELY: Ex+ Navigation and Seamanship, | perienced Waitresses. Good pay. Diesel and Steam Engines, Air- | Apply Ocean View Restaurant, craft Design, Maintenance and} 520 United Street. Operation, Ship Repairs, Mathe- | matics, Machine Shop Tech-| WANTED — Butcher and two nique. Paul Smith, 334 Simon-}| clerks. ton St. at Eaton St. jan4-12t; cery, 726 Whitehead St. | jan12-3tx FOR SALE—Furnished and un-| furnished Bungalows. Price $3,-! WANTED 000. Post Office Box 547, Key West. jan8-6t| COAT HANGERS WANTED, $1.00 a hundred. White Star Cleaners, 701% Duval St. jan1-tf FOR SALE—Hens and Springers. | Whitehead, 1310 Johnson St. {| jan11-3tx | | try than helping youth to carry/CENTRALLY LOCATED LOT;WANTED—A chance to bid on} | 50x200, with two small pieces; adjoining; sewer, water, side-| walk, trees, high ground, resi-; dent section. Assessed at $1,009. | Can be had at a bargain. Ad- dress XYZ, Citizen. janl1-3tx your next printing order. THE ARTMAN PRESS. jly9-tt GOOD USED PIANO. Will buy or keep for absentee owner. | MOTOR CORPS WOMEN TO DRIVE AMBULANCE Horace O’Bryant, chairman of the Key West Chapter of the Red | Cross, said ‘today that the ambu. lance that the chapter has re- ceived will be driven by! two members of the Motor Corps, | which is composed of women. All the women in the torps,"Mr. O'Bryant added, have been train- automobiles. The ambulance is of standard ed and are proficient drivers of + Rev. Reinke, Ph. 743-J. jan9-. FOR RENT FOR SALE—1933 Ford Coupe. Good rubber. Cheap. Apt.! 16-H, Porter Place. Call any time after 6 p.m. jan12-3tx 12-14x FURNISHED ROOM for rent. FOR SALE—Lady’s Bicycle. 314{" Reasonable. William Street. janl2-3tx PRACTICALLY TURE. Overstuffed davenport and chair. chest of drawers, “table lamps, six-way floor lamp. Cost $123.50. Reason- able, offer accepted. 12-1 Poin- ciana Place. janl2-3tx 1127 Pearl St. LOST |LOST — Yesterday, between sunrise and ‘sunset, Met-|WAITRESSES AWNTED. Side-| walk Cafe, Duval and Fleming. j jan11-t£ | Apply Padron Gro 626 Grinnell St. | jani2-3tx} NEW FURNI-'FoR RENT — Furnished Foont| janie-Six} { make, and cost $1,350. Of that sum, | the Woman’s Christian Temper- ance Union advanced $1,300 and the additional $50 was provided by the local chapter. The chapter also provided the stretchers and other equipment. Four stretcher patients can be accommodated in the ambulance and twice that number of sitting patients. PROFESSIONAL | LOUIS A. HARRIS i Attorney-at-Law | | 217 Duval St. Phone 252; dec20-tf “REAL ESTATE Business or Residential Lots all! parts of the Island; Terms | J. OTTO .KIRCHHEINER | Realtor ] Christmas and New Year's holi- days at home. ipatents go to industry free, | Government lets enemy-owned Phones 124 and 736-R 505 Duval i jan8-tf two golden hours, each set} with sixty diamond minutes.! No reward is offered for they are gone forever. — Horace} Mann. dec29-tf LOST ON DUVAL STREET, be- tween Olivia and Fleming Sts.,| a Lady’s medium - size red Pocketbook, containing money, : Lady’s Wrist Watch and other valuable things. If found, re-‘ turn to Gearline Jaycocks, 1277 Margaret St. Reward. j ae Ba? janl2-3tx FORUM i ne » VIEWS GAMBLING Editor, The Citizen: Cam gambling, particularly bo- lita and the operation of slot ma- chines be stopped in Key West? Hay¢ the operators of these two most. vicious types of gambling so Wéll entrenched themselves here’that they cannot be dis- 1 by the law-enforcement officers? If anyone had the ter- mity- ‘to say “that the gambling element here had any of our hon- orabié and intelligent city or county officers in their clutches to an extent that such officers dare_not enforce the laws against gafiibling,” what would happen to such ‘an infernal, malicious and degtaded liar? I shudder even to think of it! However, according to an edi- torial. published in the Key West last October, one of our very best City-Councilmen had given an in- terviéw about the “bolita situa- tion ih Key West,” and Mr. Edi- tor,athis man is a good citizen, and he has nerve, and he gave his namie, and is credited with having played here was only a racket and that he was going to expose that rackét and that he himself would stop the bolita here. I believe that he was also credited with saying that he would stop all gambling in Kéy West. I trust that he has the power to do so. If some of our | good -gitizens of Key West could | conugiiee of undercover men to Key West; the results might be surpris- ing. I chines that are now or were in operation here did not vend any gum. ‘but did vend free plays. Who believes that the sucker who play- ed these devices was playing thém for gum or free plays and does not everybody know that when Citizen maybe some time during: said “that a certain kind of bolita} only get our governor to send al is said that the slot ma-; COUNCIL DISCUSSES (Continued from Page One) | Money paid out as would be giv- en a private contractor or any other individual. Mr. Grillon amplified his state- ment by declaring that the city’s dollar “looks just as good to workmen as any other persons’s dollar”. He stated that he could not see any reason whatever why (the city could not operate the service, providing that 4he/Goun- cil, mayor and others ‘in atthor- ity looked upon the city!zbusi- ness in the same light as that of any other firm or corporation. After a lengthy discussion; the council decided to leave the mat- ter stand as it is, with the ex- ception of operating a few trucks to help out in the meantime. Mayor Willard M. Albury was ,instructed to communicate with {the proper authorities in an en- jdeavor to have the city given priority in purchasing the neces- sary trucks and equipment for ‘the operation of the servece. Councilman Gerald Saunders joffered the suggestion that any- !one who may be _ interested in eperating the service be given { \proposal at another special ses- sion of the council to be held on Friday night prior to the regu- lar meeting Tuesday night. At {the regular session bids for trucks will be opened and acted upon? In theevent the city does take over the service, a manager will be needed, and anyone interested {should attend the meeting to be held Friday night. The special jsession has been called for the {purpose of formulating plans for jfuture operation of the scaven- ger service. MUCH LUMBER NEEDED PHILADELPHIA.—It has been estimated that nine billion board feet of lumber will be used in 1943 for boxing and crating war ma- | terials. s jthe sucker hits the jack pot or any other play, he was payed off in cash? It is said that these ma- chines are now outlawed by our State Supreme Court. Will they continue to run in Key West? CITIZEN. Key West, Fla. Jan. 12, 1943. an opportunity to make such aj TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1943 CAPTAIN EDWARD TEMPLE ASSIGNED TO DUTY HERE Captain Edward J. Temple, son of Frank E. Temple, 909 Hope st., Providence, R. L, has recent- ly been assigned to the Harbor Defenses of Key West as a regi- mental dental surgeon. ' . Before entering active duty with the Army in 1940, Captain! le was an interne at Rhode | ‘lata Hodpital. ‘He ‘is a graduate “Providence College of Provi-/ dence’an@--Georgetown Univer-! sity-iof Washington, D. C., and* is a member of “the Natiorial! Honorary Dental Society. | j } WEATHER REPORT Observation taken at 8:30 a. m.| EW.T. (City Office) ‘Temperatures Highest last 24 hours |Lowest last night mae | | Precipitation Rainfall 24 hours ending 8:30 a. m.,‘inches _” Deficigac ae Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches Deficiency ~ Relative {Sunrise ;Sunset _ Moonrise Moonset THE ARES QUESTIONS ON PAGE TWO 1. Germany's strong points— garrisons expected to hold out indefinitely even if cut off by the Red Army? 2. Henri Honore Giraud, High Commissioner in North Africa. 3. Not long; average consump- tion, 1941, about 100 cans; fifty years ago, about one can. 4. Napoleon. 3. No; No. 1 will still be used for coffee @nd sugar rations. 6 A self-propelled 105-mm gun, mede'in the U.S. and used against Gen. Rommel] in Africa. 7. Forty Gays and fo: nights. 8. Yes. 9. Between the ga rivers in Russia Red Army say: 10. In 1944 on however, em ed to withhold per cent on all payments of more than $12 a week or $624 a year. Don Vol- where the rapped” incomes: requir- yurce, five FRANKIE DARRO in “The Gangs All Here” Key West and Vicinity: tinued, cool tonight. Florida: Continued cool to- night. Hatteras, N. C., to Apalachi- cola, Fla. No small craft or storm warnings have been is-) sued. See Pau SmitH 334 Simonton §T. | | fiying colors. thousands of The front 0 Vt ur M N Just before Christmas, Florida Motor Lines asked you to “Give your Holiday trips to men in the service” —and you who have learned to depend for your travel responded! As a result of your Florida Motor Lines men and women in uniform’ “were able to go home by bus to: spend precious hours with loved ones. While helping members of the armed forces, you also made travel smoother and more con- venient for war workers and others whose trips could not wait. It’s cooperation like travel. RIDA MOTOR|INES Caselli en in Uniform ey ub st And Many Thanks from FLORIDA MOTOR LINES! With Your Co-operation Florida Motor Lines Got ’Em Home for The Holidays! Thanks to you, a most critical period in war- time bus transportation has been passed with this that makes it possible for Florida Motor 4 8 | i | I : rere EE