The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 7, 1943, Page 4

PAGE FOUR 0000000000 000000 0000S CCSSOOHOOOOSOOSOSOLOOOSEOSOS SOCIETY :-: eeeeee ‘SOLD SENDER’ IDOL OF JITTERBUGS| By RAY PEACOCK THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Noble, where he sat alongside RED CROSS WORKERS ARE BADLY NEEDED The local Red Cross Chapter an- | | ROTARIANS TO LT. HUBAY REPORTS NAME DIRECT‘ viet AT NAVY BASE HERE The Key West Rotary Club,} Lieut. Bela H. Hubay, E-V(s), HAD TIDAL WAVE BAL port < udal wave Miller in the brass section. Then he turned to free lancing! | in radio. He was on ten to twelve jcommercial programs a week. Some paid $100 and more. Multi- ply it out yourself, Junior. But ; Charlie was unhappy. } “I had to play a certain style, AP Features Writer NEW YORK, April 7.—Three years ago round-faced Charlie Spivak gambled a sure thing; his $1,000-a-week job against the un- certain future of a dance-orches- tra leader. And he won. Today, Charlie, who plays what nounces that workers are badly needed for making surgical dress- ings-at the Post Office building. The office is open from 9 to 6 o'clock each day, and anyone in- terested are requested to join the workers engaged in these ac- tivities. which eletied officers a week,| USNR, Sa aaa will nominate and name direc Ors; = :at the Juncheon to be held tomor-} Industrial Department of the Na j row. val Station here, according to the Nominations will be made by} Weekly report of arrivals and de- trial ballots, and then ballots will! P@rtures as announced by the be cast in the election. {Personnel Office. Lieutenant Hu- LIEUT. AND MRS. LESLIE T. HART, NEWLYWEDS, RETURN TO KEY WEST Lieut. (jg) Leslie T. Hart and; Mrs. George M. Taylor, sister Mrs. Hart have returned to Key/of the bride was matron of hon- West after their marriage J. F. SIKES LICENSED PLUMBER | bay came from the Naval Training Saturday in Miami and a brief honeymoon in that section. The: or at the marriage at the Gesu| is modestly billed as “the sweet- Rectory and Lieut. John F. Hunt,| est trumpet in the world,” is caus-| not the way I wanted to. I didn’t want to get old on the job. So I j} went to,, Bab,.Crosby—for $85 a COUNTY ee ' School at Bronx, N. ¥ Three officers have tached. They are: VISITING KEY WEST Benjamin G. S. Lowe, son of Mr. are residing at 128 Ann ‘Str¢et,|'USNR,. former treasurer of The, ing rare shake-up-of-the !Big Tenn: the nddafied. sp week. After Crosby it was Tom- } Apartment No. 1. 2" || Nashville” Banner,now statiofied, Mrs. Hart is the former Hie ‘@t ‘Tampa, Fla., was the groom’s| Mary Gladys Knies of Nashy ‘est Han. The ‘ceremony was’ Tenn., where Lieutenant Hart,|\pérforried “by ‘the Rev. P.’ P. before his enlistment into | "Sullivan: f 3 Navy last Spring, was affiliated|’Lieutenant Hart’has been sta- with The Nashville Banner as/tionéi’in'the “Navy Yard here] chief political writer. for the past’ eight’’ months as A daughter of Mrs. John Knies| Zone Public Relations Officer of Winchester, Tenn., Mrs. Hart}for the Seventh Naval District is a native of that city and is a| with the additional duty as Pub- graduate of Central High School/lic Relations Officer for the Na- and the Winchester Academy.|val Operating Base here. She has been a resident of| The ceremony was attended Nashville for the past two years} by Lieut-Comdr. W. M. Pepper, where she was affiliated with|Jr., and Mrs Pepper, Ensign and the Farm Security Administra-|Mrs. Brad Ansley and Lieuten- tion. ant Langley Hawthorn. OUR NATURAL LAWS By K. N. DAHLE SELECT CAST FOR “VINEGAR TREE” At the regular Monday meeting of the Key West Players Guild the cast for the presentation of the “Vinegar Tree” was Roca ee Those familiar wi aul = oS [oak i borns’ comedy will realize that it psarear aii to. Keep, within was no easy task to find iharacsans! pan have; taken; agcumy suitable to portray the roles in-|theme the interesting «» Biblical cluded. story of Abrahati/ In writing ‘about ‘our’ Natural Laws I realize : its tremendg The type of individuals includ- ed range from a middle aged lady (optional), who considers herself well within the limits of youth and who emits a dimming passion for a lover of her early life (way back when), to an old fossil who is continually at war with the gen- eration that has been forced upon him. Among others there is a hand- some lady of 35 who has good features without morals, and a charming young man with queer ideas concerning pre-marital love. All in all one should see that these alone should provide inter- . esting.situations that go to make a good evening’s entertainment. The cast and the characters they portray are as follows: Max (man about time)—Jacl Wilson. Augustus (the malcontent)— George Mills White. Winifred (running a close sec- ond to Peggy Hopkins Joyce)— Olive Giambatista. Louis (the indignant butler) — Ensign W. H. Huff. Laura (the Billie Burke type)— Janice White. Leona (the pretty. that is in every show)—Mrs .William Huff. Geoffry (Lothario III)—Ensign H. F. Hayes, The play is under the direction of Mrs, Gertrude Ricketts. Among others that are actively assigned: Scenery, Mrs. Jeane Taylor; stage manager, Paul Smith; publicity committee, Ensign Wm. Dowling, Mrs, Helen Swain and Robert Garrett. The date for presentation will} be announced next week in The Citizen, DAY NURSERY COMMITTEE TO MEET FRIDAY Gerald Saunders, chairman of the Child Care Committee of the Monroe County Defense Council has issued 4 call for a meeting of that group for Friday evening at 8:00 P. M. at City Hall. The purpose of the meeting is to-plan and discuss Ways and means for the continuance of the Day Nursery program now being carried on by W. P. A. when that organization folds up on April 30. At the pfesent time there are between thirty and forty children of pre-school age whose mothers are employed on defense projects being taken care of by the nurs- ery on Petronia street. Recently there have been sev- eral representatives of the State Welfare Board and of the State Board of Education visit in the city in the interest of providing Lanam funds which have been set up by the Federal Government to take care of such projects as tak- ing care of children of working mothers. Should the committee be suc- cessful in obtaining sufficient funds it is tentatively planned to’ er pastures. 8, The Bible records that Abra- ham was a keeper of flocks— cattle, sheep, goats and the beasts of burden. How God called him from Ur of the Chal- dees (the delta region of the Euphrates river) and would lead him to a land flowing with “milk and honey”. A land of natural resources, unexploited as yet, by greedy commercial man. Why? It is reasonable suspect that feed was getting scarce for his flocks and Abraham and his household were becoming dis- couraged. Also from the spirit- ual side it is very likely that idolatry was pressing him hard. To a livestock operator, as was Abraham, a land flowing with “milk and honey” would be a land with an abundance of natural grasses for his cattle and sufficient natural watering plac- es. We know that such a land was Palestine ‘when Abraham reached it. Soon his household and Lot’s began to quarrel over the grass—a condition that has continued to this’ day and still good, old Abraham proposes to Lot that they dissolve partner- ship. Lot is given first choice and takes the lush river bottoms where life for him and his herds would be easy. Abraham takes his herds and moves back into the hills. Lot's easy life all but destroy- ed him but Abraham goes on to found a posterity, for numbers, like the sands of the sea, etc., etc., goes the story. Look at Palestine today—that land of “milk and honey”. Cat- tle have long since disappeared for want of pasture. Why? Overgrazing. And today Pal- estine is a desert land affording pasture for little more than the jack-ass and goat. Had a tree been planted when one was re- moved, allowed some of the grass to reseed itself and ‘replenish’ ths soil with decaying: vegetation supplying the necessary «humus ‘fertilizer) , and protection , f the ‘hot sun, Palestine Id, still be a land of “milk aria 5 He Palestine’ is “mérely" our” ‘first recorded record of the abuse of the soil. Many lands, including our Own, are paying for this same abuse. We must bear in mind that this earth (soil) is a living thing from whence came all life—even man. Kill out all vegetation, still the soil, given proper atmospheric conditions— heat, moisture, etc., will give us. for want of plant seed to replen- ish its kind, a delicious edible mushroom, probably the manna that fed the Hebrew people dur- ing their 40 years wanderings. Wherever we see rich soil we find a happy, prosperous and healthy farming community. Rob the soil, continue ‘to take from wel 'séé' just the ‘opposite. Can enlarge the present program and) several other projects in sujtablé, locations in the cit: lished. Anyone interested in the (Pro. gram in question is invited ‘to bé in attendance on Friday morning to offer suggestions and assist in arriving at a proper conclusion. SMITHS HAVE SON Announcement has been made of the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd A. Smith at a local hospital. Mrs. Smith was, before mar- riage, Miss Gladys Roberts, y will be estab: |e yoitimagine anything that ake fertilizer (any kind) hing’! td° waste” in Europe China?’ f : : | So: ikewise in Key’ West.’ plant: and hope for’ results; but Just as with Palestine our soil will return us little, then less, unless we pay back to it some- thing for which we take. The more we give the more we re- ceive. We have, I hope, that choice—natural fertilizer. Just as our natural laws apply to the soil and its production, so likewise do they apply to us as a product of the soil. Abuse jour bodies and we have a bill daughter of Mrs, Ethel Roberts of Southard Street, to pay, physically, mentally ‘and i Morally. her ‘and’ give nothing back and} > (Bhe-q wellwstablishteMartin | Block.{Make Believe Bakivoom,” | semivannual populagity poll; ranks him sixth. He rated ninth in Bill- board’s highly indicative 1942 voll of . college :“students. Downbeat! styled him~vas the band which| made the most progress in 1942. The real payoff will come in Bill-j board’s. 1943 collegiate poll, soon to get under way. } Spivak frankly caters to the youngsters. Jitterbugs—right now | a lot of them are wearing service uniforms—turn up wherever he appears. Keeps Quality The band has a personnel of 22 —eight brass, including Charlie; five saxes, four rhythm, and five vocalists. Since last summer Char- lie has had “to make a dozen changes because of the draft, but he kept up his quality by taking over Glen Miller’s entire trom- bone section when Miller went in- to-the service: His vocalists in- clude the Stardusters, one of whom ispretty June Hutton, sister of “Whilé'Charlie has accomplished @il this‘in''three years, becoming an orchestra leader was just a pro- cess of evolution. The broad-shouldered leader has blue eyes and brown hair, was born 30-odd years ago in New Haven, Conn. His parents were; Russian, his father a grocer. Char-| lie began playing a trumpet in € ify » as my Dorsey. Then the leader bug} , (Continued from Page One) ;; got me. ‘All the boys I had played with were leading bands of their own. So I would try it.” His ciump to success curiously has been associated with the Ho- tel Pennsylvania, in New York. The first time his band played | there, three years ago, he relieved} Miller’s band for an hour at al time. The second time, only last} the future to give away any of the taxpayers’ money until an investi- gation had been made to learn whether or not it was a worthy case. No investigations were made so far as was brought out at the meeting, in all the cases in ques- voted for all these, measures, “as- sured The Citizen, two weeks or so ago, that he would not vote in! | spring, he filled in for four weeks until Jimmy Dorsey could move in. The third time was over last | Thanksgiving and Christmas, a | full-fledged eight-week booking,} j during which the Pennsylvania's} dining room set attendance rec- | ords. | “Solid Sender” In between the first and second dates he ran into hard times. His} original band broke up at Cincin- nati for lack of bookings, and when he did get a date. at the Glen Island Casino, in. New Rochelle, N. Y., he had to hire a new band. | But the Casino was lucky for him, as it has been .for many other name bands, and it was in 1941 that he bagan getting under way. Today this solid sender has more oportunities than he can handle. tion. A county official, who is as careful of the taxpayers’ money as he is of his own, said this morn- ing, in the presence of a commis- sioner: “The County Commissioners had better be careful how they hand out the people’s money. Taxes are not as likely to be as good next year as they were this, and they may be still worse by 1945 and for several subsequent years. The commissioners should look out for the county’s future in the sarfie way as a thrifty man looks dut for his future.” — WEATHER REPORT Lieut. dames T, Connolf and Benjamin Lowe,< 109} D-v(s) — who been Southard street, who is now Sta-! 46 Waterford. N ‘tioned. at ‘Melbourne, Fla. with! J. Vieard (sc). USN. jee cues Noval Forces, is}1o the Philadelphia spending’ vigit in’ Key West with | and Ensign. Fred Ro WSto! ate aoe ends. } Sc-Vig. USNR. whois on d Mr. Lowe was recently made) the Naval Station of Houma, third class storéroom keeper in; the Navy with which he is now] connected. CARD OF THANES ARCS ER SLRS We take this means of extend SERVICE DEFERRED | ing our heartfelt appreciatio {te the many friends who wers 4 kind to us during the death There will be no prayer service, 5° held tonight at the First Methodist | 3 : go a year mee (Stone) Church in order that the| 05 (Ve especially thank thos attendants may have an oppor-| W2° a oe = a tunity of attending the revival|©@7S ‘or the funeral, and 2 5 those for the floral offer services that are being conducted | © tributed. W: age at the Fleming Street Mehodist |CO'buted. We assure one ar iChurch, according to announce- i ee wil ment made today. r SEES See THE FAMILY TO HOLD MEETING There, will be a meeting of the Everready Star Club held tomor- row afternoon, begimping: at 3:30 o'clock, -at the :ha! of Mrs, Ster- ling, 1400 Duval‘ street. ‘ All members. of the organization WE HAVE MOVED to our new office After a current midwestern the-| atrical tour, he has a date at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago, book-} ings on the west coast, a tentative! motion picture and a prospective radio show. Charlie married a St. Paul girl Observation taken at 8:30 a. m. E.W.T. (City Office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours - Lowest last night Normal __. 75 68 75 bands as soon as he finished high| school, ‘and by 1925 was with Paul} Specht. He played for Ben Pol-| lack, the Dorsey Brothers, and Ray’ and has a son, Joel, eight this! April, who has broken into print several times as a song writer. They make their home in Engle- wood, N. J. Mean __. 72 Precipitation Rainfall 24 hours ending 8:30 a. m., inches ____ Total rainfall since Apr. 1, inches 0.00 0.10 Director, Labor Production Division, War Production Board Absenteeism in war industry is not the simple problem of the payday drunk, of the worker whose swollen wallet tempts him to take a day off and get rid of some of it. For example . . . Mary Smith was a department supervisor in an airplane fac- tory in Los Angeles. Fond of her work, eager to do her share in the war effort, she kept things | rolling gn schéduld, |." | But ‘troubles pid) up | at a lathe in ‘another factory. Her sister eye on her three youngsters, but she herself didn’t get much chance to be with them. Stores | in her neighborhood closed at | 6 p. m, She didn't get home until 7. It was pretty tough | to shop. And this week she | was bel She hadn’t had a chance to get housework done. Dirty laundry was pil- ing up. The youngest came down with a cold. She stayed home two days to catch up... John Brown worked in the shipyards .at Newport News, “batched” it in a noisy, crowd- @@ ‘rooming house. Exhausted from thec strain of a job new to! him,uhe couldn’t get enough! fest: Sif-shift. His. only ac-' qdaintwnces were nearby work-| ers/iny the/plant. His family, wife and’ two? children, were _ in| Charleston, W. Va. They couldn't find a place in Newport. j Spring came, with it home- sickness. Brown’s day off was Sunday. This particular one, he hopped a train for Charleston to spend the day with his fam- ily. Getting a real rest at home was so good that he stay- ed three days. He figured it was worth losing two days’ pay, but it cost Uncle Sam two days of needed work... Those are just two examples of the causes of one of the big- gest American war production problems todady. a problem that can be solved only one way—through community co: | operation in the “boom-towns’ iwhich: ha’ of time for needed shopping: inadequate transportation: cares of & married woman try- ing to do her job and run her home, too. The War Production Board and War Manpower Commis- sion are seeking cooperation of civic and public agencies on health, housing, transportation and recreation problems in the community and are solving “in- plant” problems through more \ to keep an | ABSENTEEISM than 2,000 plant ment committees. Efforts are made to approach| each problem in a positive way. One firm put German marks in the pay envelopes of absentees with the’ explanation that this was “Hitler’s payment for the day you took off”. That method flopped because there was no way of telling whether a death or serious illness might not have been responsible for the ab- sence. If such were the case, it only made the worker angry. Another firm achieved con- siderable success in halting udinéo absence. by hold- . prizés going to the they were on the Deficiency pril 1, inches _. Sees Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches Sane Deficiency since January 1, inches - eae cri Relative Humidity 11% Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise Tl Sunset - Moonrise Moonset 0.26 | 3.98 1a labor-manage- | Key West and Vicinity: Little change in temperature tonight. Florida: .No decided: change in temperature tonight, but witn slight rising tendency; — possibly a few light showers near. ex- treme southeast coast. Hatteras, N. C.,. to Apalachi- cola, Fla: No small craft or storm warnings have been is- sued, Many firms have cut absen- teeism by having soldiers and sailors back from combat du- ty address workers’ meetings to tell the importance of their Products in the field of bat- tle, In a number of plants, labor- management committees have arranged, for example, to have stores open nights for women workers or to have workers’ pay checks cashed at the plant. On. the community - level, strong area committees are in a position to do an effective job by.. devoting their efforts to tackling such problems as easing housing shortages, providing recreation facilities for, workers and smoothing transportation bottlenecks. | | | Very Considerate “How did you get that black eye?” “I was protecting a little boy.” “That’s noble; who was he?” “Me.” : ~ Don't Delay T SAVE. too Suerwin-Wituiams SEMI-LUSTRE Obliging A Los Angeles patrolman had brought in a Negro woman some- what the worse for wear and the desk sergeant, with his very best scowl, roared: “Liza, you've been brought in for intoxication!” “Dat’s fine!” beamed Liza. “Boy, you can start right now!” the home. ‘Amazingly: wath 25 *1E S-W FLOO) ENAMEL DR. AARON H. SHIFRIN General Practice OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE, SURGERY and X-RAY Mi lovely colors. A Double Feature Program “Henry Aldrich, Editor” and “World At War” Coming “Tarzan Triumphs” MONROE THEATER ROBERT PAIGE in “Almost Married” and “The Affairs of Martha” Coming: “The Boogie Man Will Get You" South Florida Cont. and Eng. Co. 1201 White St. Phone 598 are requested to be in attendance. DIG BOY FROM PIPE } —— 1 SALISBURY, N. C.—While sit-j ' ing onthe edge of an 18-inch ter-; } racotta pipe leading from the | GARDNER’S PHARMACY | | school grounds to the street below, | Phone 177 Free Delivery. Howard (Buddy) Evans, 8, second-|,.,..eeseassessseeeenne * grade pupil, fell into the pipe and ; aD became wedged fast. Firemen and | school workers had to dig out two 4-foot sections of the pipe before they could extricate Buddy. He} was only bruised and scared. SELFISH—BEATEN KANSAS CITY.—When Harold G. Crowe refused to surrender his last cigarette to two men who demanded it, the men gave him a brutal beating, telling him his at- -| titude was selfish. Crowe enjoyed -|his last cigarette en route to a . | hospital in an ambulance. i Tat Glia omelling 4 .»» You can spot it every time HE Civil Air Patrol has recruited more than a third of the nation’s 100,000 civilian pilots to fly for national defense. Coming from every walk of life, they are putting forth an extra something to do their trained part. To them and to you, in its own way, ice-cold Coca-Cola offers some- thing extra, too. More than just quenching thirst it brings refreshment ... refreshment that goes into energy. Made with a finished art and, with a taste all its own, Coca-Cola has quality aunty part. Here is, original, |Coca-Cola off “the \digerence on Wartime limits the supply of Coca-Cola. Those times when you cannot get it, remember: Coke, being first choice, sells out first. Ask for it each time.