The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 8, 1947, Page 6

RS eae SS. ee ae eee “s+ + The Halls of Montesuma . . .. . . . . « The Shores of Tripoli; AP Newsfeatures. 'HE MARINE CORPS’ hymn is M. £ *. 100 years old and an invitation has been extended to members of the entertainment field and all others who wish to participate in ceremonies for the centennial of the song which® will be held during the week of Dec. 7-13. | Mystery shrouds the back- ground of this official marching scng of the Leathernecks. “From the Halls of Monte- | zuma to the Shore of Tri- ; sn : | Even the tune’s origin remains | doubtful. It is betieved to have! been adopted fron} an old Span- TMI MEMMNN | ScCording to Attorney General ‘ish folk tun although — the | ‘melody also occurg in the French ' opera, “Genevieve de Brabant” *by Jacques Offenbach. : “,.. We fight our country's battles in the air; on land, and "ysea. . 6” . i +; Many verses have come and Bone in the passing of the years. As each new battle or landing or ‘deed requested of the Marines was accomplished, a new verse “was written, ' “ ... First to fight for right and freedom. .. .” The Marin Hymn was-of- ! ficially &dopted in its, present three-ver form by Maj. Gen. dJobn A. Lejeune, commandant, in 1929. On November 21, 1942, fhe commandant approved a change in the words of the first serve: “In the air, of land, and sea. | Popularly played for many yeurs nationally-known or- ghestras and over ¢ountless radio ns, the Marines’ Hymn with lift and life. ! i + «+ @nd keep our honor ficlean, ., .” The Centennial observance coincides with the nation-wide drive to build the Citizen Ma-i Yine Corps—The , Leathernecks | Reserve force—to ;full strength. | High point of the recruiting ; drive is planned for January. | "... We are proud to claim | the title of United States Ma- rine,” } (Marine Eby t Marin WILL YOU SMILE? “May He? “You remember when you! .gured my rheumatism, doctor, a | couple of years ago and told me | *Yo avoid moisture?” ' e» Doctor: “Yes, tHat’s right.” Well, I've returned to ask you if I may take a bath?” | i cil Sie EES ODAW’S CANNEVERSARIES | “(Know America) i 1765—-Eli ‘Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, which has exerted ‘a great influence ‘on American shistory, born at Westboro, Mz Died in New Haven, Conn., Jan.| 8, 1825 1797--(150 years ago) Edmund Ravenol, noted South Carolina} physician, professor, planter, pio-} ‘neer American naturalist, born in Charleston. Died July 27, 1871. 1828—-Henry Timrod, poet lau- ‘reate of the Confederacy, a shy,| gentle soul, born in Charleston $8. C. Died in Columbia, S. C. Oct. 6, 1867. 1859-—-William -Henry O’Con- nell, famed Boston Roman Cath-! olic Cardinal, bora in Lowell, | (Mass. Died April,22, 1944.7 * 1861—William Cy Dugfnt, pio- q "| neer auto maker, founder ‘of General Motors, speculator, born sin Boston. Died March 18, 1947. *. Tuberculosis s, the seventh ‘cause of death among the pop- | ddlation as a whole, the fourth @ause of death among Negroes. PIMPLES : isappear Fast Blackheads too. No waiting | ie is. true, there ‘meiicated Nantd ‘caiet | hat di nn heads had disappeat chusiastically” praise Wlewewx and ioday, cures Septral Pharmacy, 923. Whi snid-Drag: Stores (UUEEUANEUEOnUtdeotepttoganspaseonncaneagnonaenaaeanuaays Key West In Days Gone By AS TAKEN FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN OF DEC. 6, 1937 Seventeen planes that are par- ticipating in the Miami-Havana aireraft race, landed on Pan American airfield here today. | Ke¥ West Hospitality Band gave a concert at the field. Federal Savings and Loan Bank Association elected the} following officers at a meeting Saturday night: President, Hugh Williams; vice president, F r e a J. Dion; secretary, Ernest A. Ramsey. Overseas Bridge Commission held a meeting last night and decided to open the “Overseas Highway on December 15, with the exception of the water gap | between No Name Key and Hog Key. . A A meeting will be held in the Chamber of Commerce's of- fices tomorrow night to organize a yacht club in Key West. Mr. and’ Mrs;: Eckwood' Solo- mon today announced the birth of a daughter yesterday after- noon. i City Council, at a meeting last night, pass¢d a resolution per. mitting the Key West Fire De- } partment to bring a carnival to this city some time during Jan- uary. son’s opening ball at ina will be held on New Year’s Eve, Manager Peter B.S. Schutt announced today. Mrs. Reynold Thompson and } son, Gary, who had been visit. ing relatives in Key West, re- turned to Miami yesterday. Today The Citizen says in an editorial paragraph: “If you kids love your teach- see to it that dad buys his utomobile tag ‘at once, or the | teachers will not have a merry | Christmas.” ’ DEC. 1937 Only. 31 poll ‘taxes ‘have been }paid for the special election to be held in Monroe county on De- cember 30, Tax Collector Frank H. Ladd s tion to be voted on is, whether jor not the county shall give the city from $30,000 to $50,000 an- nually out of the money the county receives from gasoline taxes. n Members of the recreatibn committee of the local Rotary DEALERS id today. The ques-; ARINE CORPS HYMN IS CHANTED FOR 100 YEARS reomalieey One Ballot Box | InEach Precinet; (Speelal te The Citizen) Tallahassee, Dec. 8.—The legis- jlature did not intend to author- ; jize more than one ballot box or more than one polling place } in a precinct, except where one | {ballot box might not be large jenough to hold all the bullots, | - Tom Watson. | His opinion was given in re- 'ply to a question by the DeSoto !county attorney whether the jcommissioners could establish “a j polling place for voting by ne- | gro electors and a polling place for voting by all other electors.” The legislature intended, un- der normal circumstances, that there should be only one ballot box, one polling place and oné \set of officigls to a precinct, At- torney General Watson added. | ! i Tuberculosis has caused the death of 4,500,000 pers sinec 1904, the year the National Tu berculosis Association was or- j jganized, but 4,000,000 ~— more would have died if TB had con- jtinued to -kill at the 1904 rate. Read the Classified Ads in The Citizen, Club will meet tonight in the Chamber of Comme office for the purpose of organizing a yacht club in Key West. Charles Garing received a tele- gram this morning “from J a¢k Frost of the Miami Daily News, informing Garing that a Mr i North was on his way to Key West. The Gitizen wondered, | shortly before noon, if Frost and | North had anything to do with ‘the Temperature in Key West ;smith walked in with the weath- ler report, showing that the mer: cury had dropped to 48, the cold- for this date in Key West; since 1934, C. N. Recio, commodity super- visor in Key West of the St Welfare Board community di- | vision, reported today that, dur- ing Novemb he distributed to certified relief clients in Key West 30,000 pounds of apples, | 2,027 pounds of dry skimmed milk and 3,144 pounds of prunes. Joseph Cates was the chief (speaker at a meeting Monday night of Key West’ Boy Scouts. 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