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i Se oe *% O®LIGHT YOUNGS wey bee through the way-! ") 68 Peet's heart (for Pvt. John B. King, son of Mr. and: JOHN B. KING IS GIVEN PROMOTION (Special to The Citizen) SAVANNAH, Ga., July 23.— “refine of the poet in Mrs. B. A. King, Lecanto, Florida, “=the Tree of fhowers thers that the simply | w!_gfeen arms out-| Miami, Florida, on July 1, 1940. swn-drenched: Prior to entering the service hi #imost hurting has been promoted to the rank of { Key West's tro-| Private First Class, it was an- every size, nounced today by Colonel Ber- ‘et purpose. Trees nard T. Castor, Commanding Of- nuts and \ifeer, Hunter Field, Georgia. Pfc. King entered the service at THE KEY WES CITIZEN _ PRAYER FOR A BOY OVER THERE PHILLIES DOWN | By DELIGHT YOUNGS For someone dear who's fighting Over There. Oh Father, guide and guard him. Let him feel The comfort of Thy presence. Let him kneel Beneath the stars that shine on foreign earth And thank Thee for the day that gave him birth ! That out there far from trumpeting applause He may fight in Thy name for freedom’s cause. years of domesticity and concert | three in te cit: whe struck the country Mme. Mero- Irion helped found the Musicians’ the oe Dear God, upon my lips there breathes a prayer NEW YORK July 23.—The} eat "Cc Philadelphia Phillies handed the| PHONOGR'APH RECORDS. All Chicago at Boston ‘Pittsburgh Pirates a double de-| popular, Hiillbi ly and Race rec- apa {teat yesterday, winning the oven-, ords. We shif » anywhere C.O.D. POSITION OF :er behind Schoolboy Rowe, 3 to 0,!_ Record sli,2s FREE on request. ‘and then blasting out six runs in| C. &. L. .4n .wsemest Machins| BALTIMORE The Reet Cue jsecond game, 9-6. The Phils made’ :28 hits in the two games, Coaker! depression | Emergency Fund to aid stranded) musicians. Eventually she became whine comfort of }attended Crysta é * School, Crystal Mie ahd Have mercy, Lord, when peace at last is won . wne of size and|Was on duty with the Ci And send him home again — my boy, my son. wie. the huge Conservation Corps, Key West. I pray, oh God, I pray, "tis not Thy will nenareh of all! Fla. Bc: That he be left there with the cold and still mg above the His wife, Mrs. Virginia E. King Yet if it is Thy plen this be his fate, otis eee nai elie eee Gardens. God wash him clean of fear and doubt and hate. @reet, it is a veritable ‘3 = Let me recal! Thy son at Calvary « { spreading claw-! And Lord, my God. I shall not question Thee. ¢ ond twine above eee oe i on oe ET ae a . atic old fingers’ | * the flowing gray | Pat Time. The tree's” | ssa tno ! TO BROADWAY sbeut six feet, Highest last 24 hours 92) meus trunk and are Lamert last night at, f an ordinary Mean 86 y leaves of this | Normal : 6 84/ By ADELAIDE KERR out the size of Precipitation H AP Features Writer work. When h remind one,| Rainfall 24 hours ending | Look into New York’s Majestic burly village}, 8:30 a. m., inches ___ 0.00; Theater any day and you will; the high falseto Total rainfall since July 1, }see a woman whose job and grow so small|_ inches 141jambition are matched by noj nest-build- the bird, en- high specially lack i branc its vel- hading «ted to palest { vellow-gold, not singly but Each upright, sturdy ard as * special arrange- each cluster of «med by a bor- te leaves. The d heady There . yasmine the Flors De 4 jasmine, Sweet jasmine. songe blossoms the Mexican bela of love maaquets orvet. proudly ambling news- West's thrilling ® ater instance y bearing and “a tree n gerden varicty” ning the beauty one ticed ered Tree In Under the im India, © mediated perfecting his w knew ise to the bite nd sh * weeks le 1 tive Deficiency since July inches Total rainfall since Jan. 1, Deficiency since January 1, ‘inches ' Relative Hurndity 67% Tomorrow’s Almanac Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Moon, last quarter Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) High Tide Low Tide | 4:14 am. 10:49 a.m. 4:14 p.m. 10:22 p.m. FORECAST : Key West and Vicinity: | Continued warm this afternoon; and tonight with scattered! 1, 12.67 m. . m.} erect chnaz Zuewup ‘ul showers and thunderstorms. i Ope: Florida Little change in tem-} tonight} with | perature this afternoon, and Saturday forenoon, scattered showers and thunder- showers. Hatteras, N. C. to Apalachi-! cola, Fla: No small craft or! storm warnings have been is} sued. Hl TEMPERATURES ‘COTTON ACREAGE SHOWS DECREASE ORLANDO, July 23. (FNS)— Florida's cotton acreage decreas ed 20 percent in 1943 from the previous year, it was announced this week by W. F. Callandar of the Bureau of Agricultural Eco- nomics pa Island cotton acreage creased 59 percent with a total of only 47,000 acres planted, Cal said landar FOUR-FIFTHS WATER W YORK. — The earth's st fac totals 196,940,000 niles, almost four-fifths |ered with water. ASL # tempting and nourishing food The fruit starts its growth from nat at first glance looks like banana but what,. upon closer spection, resembles a husk of ¢ This husk is shed after a few -aving a large curled leaf and it is at the stem end of this leaf that the tiny mgllon-shaped bread fruit grows. The fruit itself t cov- mm dark green veins which form a pattern of irregular checks. The center of each check flecked with a minute splash of red. The tree begins bearing when years old and was origin. ly o Asia in the South Pacific Looking at this beautiful < sitive tree, I think I f thing of what Joyce Kilm have felt when he wrote in f mous poem “Trees” were made for fools Me me mily God can make a tree 0.85} 3.35| America. j linda.” jsuccess that {run and moved to another the- later to continue its regular reper- Its season ended last De-}| de-} is of pale green interwoven with :~ -ily damaged by -ihad to jother in the country. She is Madame Yolanda Mero- jIrion, general manager of the |New Opera Company, and the jonly woman opera producer in A woman, who looks ilike Schumann-Heink, loves op- ;era like Wagner, and works like; a coal miner. A woman who has . m./the nerve to try to make Broad- . M.;way pay for grand ope | She has already made a ra. good start in that direction. Last No lits second season with the company let it toire. cember, but “Rosalinda” is still The piece proved such a} She and Mrs. Lytle Hull the fund’s executive director and! that job led to her present one. (the former Mrs. Vincent Astor) be- came convinced that a young Amefican talent was go-, Philadelphia ing to waste and New Opera in young talented artists an oppor- 1941 founded loi of, the “to give tunity to perform in highly ar (tistic surroundings.” j | %We have many excellent Mero-Irion told me as she turned from plans for the | company’s third season. “Once America had to import all its | ivember the New Opera opened: “Rosa-! rolling up receipts which will be! a big help in financing the New s third season per the vacation crowd) with Lehar’s “Merry Widow”. The the original version but the music been revamped. “You rected 1906, That begins August 4 (to catch! conductor} best talent and teachers. But since the last war talent has been sifting in in greater num bers and remaining. Great ter this war it will be America who exports the artists.” As general manager of the New is the same Robert Stolz who di-! Opera, Mme. Mero-Irion selects in the opera, cast, costumes, scen- and book!ery, stage and music director: ifor every production. can't do something |that man-sized job with a wom- She runs which was a success 35 years | sn’s passion for detail. Passes on ago and expect it to give as much pleasure now as it then.” , houses, marshalling yards, rail ' road yards and freight cars were |struck by the explosives and set | afire. The British Eighth Army is closing in slowly on Catania, and it is believed the garrison there lis on the point of surrendering. Today nounced that the British Eighth it was officially an- Army captured an Italian admiral during its drive that resulted in the surrender of Augusta. NEW FOOD PRODUCTS | TO HELP SHORTAGES: CLEWISTON, July 2 FNS Production of de i lemon- grass pulp and feed to bolster cu ortages is under w ! Officia Sugar Corpora week that the sugar is on re work Lemongrass last February s be suspe time, again wu according to W. Moran n Flor every did ‘Hears every singer's voice. Goes says Mme. Mero-Irion. ‘over every part of the score. At- wor shimmering costume, Temperature data for the 24! “You must keep up with the tends every rehearsal hours ending. 8:30 a. m., July 2: change in people's tastes.” “What we want is a perma- | 1943, as reported by the U. S. Mme. Mero-Irion has lived in. nent opera company.” she said Weather Bureau: | musical circles all her life. She. as she turmed@ back to a minia- Highest Lowest | was born in Budapest and be-} ture “Merry Widow” set. “We | last 24hours last night;came a widely known concert) want to teach young singers to Atlanta 98 78 |pianist—Yolanda Mero. In 1909! act—and act well—while they Boston 82 62 she came to America, met Her-| sing. That's why we want Brownsville 94 79 {mann Irion (general manager of} Broadway productions — to Charleston 71 | Steinway & Sons) was married) make them pay for grand op- Chicago to him six weeks later and set-] era. And I think it can be Detroit 76 itled down to a pleasant twenty! done.” Galveston 90 $ ate ea Jacksonville 93 i] Kansas City 8 PALERMO ‘HECTOR D. PITA - KEY WEST 82 gl { Kew.aimponts; #1 | (Continued ow Page Ono» NOW STATIONED —" ar bg | which were bombed again last AT LOWRY FIELD Miam 2 Minneapolis 84 67 night. Sgisieg age New Orleans . 94 or ‘ ee ee een? Rees Wapke 83 66 ; Villages in the suburbs of the LOWRY FIELD, Colo. July Norfolk 93 €9 | ttalien capital were blasted by| ee D. Pita, son of Mrs Oklahoma City 103 oa si Grace Pita, 817 Whitehead street, Pensacola a) 80 |bombers that flew across the Key West, — ore the rats 59 . “ United States Army in ‘cem- ig — a8 $s | Mediterranean from their bases, 1942, at Camp Blanding, is Tampa 88 79 in North Africa. Docks, ware- "0W stationed at Lowry Field While in Key West young Pita Yard. ked as a helper in the Navy of the GONZALES’ HAVE GIRL Announcement has been made Mrs. The baby has been named Vilma Manuel Gonzale Gonzales Arge birth of a girl to Mr and s of Tampa was, before Puig o Daughter To Tynes Family Announcement has been made f of Th j the weighing 8'4 pounds R. Tynes birth of Basil tal yesterday. e new arrival a daughter to Mr. and at a local has been given the name of Vivian Alicia Mc to be Pe other int values of and baby are getting along nicely reported most meats raised to ease serious shortages meat any CARD OF THANKS take this mean many during the death of ou nn Pierce. sincere hanks to all whe way during ¢ assuring one kind deeds will alv nbered ELVIE H. PI And Fam Jul23-1t friends for and ns of thank- th illness and v loved one We apprec n » contribut pur be lv ERCE. nily |fered the loss of Johnny McCarthy, ma Boston at Prine pn Paneth Brooklyn at New York ot St. Leume - PIRATES TWICE: BOSTON BRAVES TAKE TWO’ " RENTAL LIBRAR § BOOKS. Li- tae | brary copies of fatest best seli- CAGO CUBS ers at reduced prices’. PAUL SMIFH, bookse’ Jer, corner Si- montcn and E: :ton Sts. Detroit at Co Cleveland Bt PRitate tpt {Special to The Citizen) i St t Ne York . Louis al «Vor flyl-tf 4 ninth-inning rally to take the: Co, 1510 1. W. 36th St. Mi- al cuts 60 miles northessteuee across ami, Fla. the neck of the Gores jun24tojly26-27tx| Danish peninsuis ———c—“— LEGALS soTrcr teem ‘Tree Yaun erent re Is Hee Nermig ned Triplett getting five, one a homer.) The Boston Braves won their first game of the season from the} SPECIAL—On * thousand Manila Chicago Cubs, 8 to 6, in the first} Second Sheets, $1.00. 500 game of a doubleheader, but suf-| Sheets, 60c. ‘These prices now in effect. T he Artman Press. aprl-tf their regular first baseman. Tue ew York Yankees won al pm fl 7 slugging session from the St. 6 ps ’ : - Louis Browns, 9 to 5, with clus- | BICYCLES—La dies’, Men's and ‘ ee. Girls’. Elect cic Fan, Bicycle! ’ Tires and Tubes, Electric Irons, Washirxg Machine. Skat- ing Rink, 9 ‘to 5. jly19-tf ters of five runs in the fourth and| n Charl | Keller hit his 12th homer with two nm. 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