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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21
Miss Lake WedS
In April

An early April wedding is be-
ing planned by Miss Orchid Lake
and, H., Earl Duncan. Their en-
gagement was announced jan
uray twelfth by Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Lake, parents of the bride
eject.
Miss Lake is a very popular
girl of Key West and her finance
is from Kingsport, Tennessee.
At the same time Mrs. Oscar
Solano announced the engage
ment of her daughter, Elsa, to
Thomas P. Duffy of Santa Fe,
New Mexico.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21
WILLIAM HAMILTON
GETS NAVY RELEASE

William j. Hamilton, son of
Mrs. Flo Parker of 9O5 Virginia
street, has been honorably dis
charged from the United States
Navy after serving nineteen
months in the European and
Pacific Theater aboard the U.
S. S. Dixie. .1
He has been awarded the fol-
lowing ribbons: Asiatic Pacific,
with five battle stars, Philippine
Liberation, Presidential Unit CT
tation, American Theater, Euro
pean Theater, and Victory Medal.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21
WINTER VISITOR SMILES

Scores of persons have talked
to the Hotel Men of the city and
praised them for their Winter
Visitors Social last Friday
night which will be regular
weekly affair. You could watch
the faces of the visitors as they
made the rounds of other folk,
local and visitor, exchanging
names in a game contest and see
how much fun they We're, hav-
ing. More of this friendly smil-
ing between visitors and local
folk. between the Boys in Navy
Blue and local folk. Nothing is
uglier than an argument and
nothing is more. beautiful than
laughter between two people. BY
these socials hotel men hope to
have programs worked up which
win stop some of the hasty rush
ing in and out of tourists. One OF
the hardest points to get over IS
Key Vests attractions because
we are so pitifully inorganized
right now to present them. But
we are on our way, and fine
groups are organizing these pro-
grams. The clubs of the city are
the backbone of this social move
ment and ! think everyone is
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21
NC ONE CREDIT

NC ONE CREDIT
One of the biggest bangs I
get out of life is a person narrow
minded enough to claim credit
for city-wide project himself.
AS this column has stated many
times a project brought to Gull
mination is the result of the
blood, sweat and tears of many
scores of persons and the first
idea started so far back that most
of us do not remember the first
one. suggesting it. Thus the ex-
precision Hitler gave Key West
its greatest present, the Navy
Yard and the water pipe line.
Your publicity agencies be it
Saturday Evening Post, Miami
Daily News, or Key West Citi-
zen are merely your public rela-
tions groups. One of the princi-
pal persons to be praised is the
man or men who pick up the
ball and run well with it. Thus
in the Overseas Bridges for in
stance, the first man to we'll
take. up the ball and go along
with it was William R. Porter.
At first Mr.. Porter was opposed
to the bridges but when he
realized Just what it
meant he put money and work
into it by lobbying in Washing
ton. The next group to take up
the ball again and carry it were
the government groups in Key
West here for the "Rehabilita-
ton Period which boosted RFC
to make the loan. 1t is important
for publicity agencies to fully
represent all groups that thought
may jell into action.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21

A party for the faculty of the
Division street school was given
by the room mothers Friday
afternoon in the annex of the Ley
Memorial Church. o.
Mrs. Marion Curry welcomed
the faculty and to get the party
started, group singing was held.
Then four games were played
with Mrs. David Spurlock win
ming two of the prizes and Miss
Miriam Carey and Mrs. Jennie
Lee Brady winning the other
two.
A very delicious luncheon was
served Of ham, potato salad, let
tuce and tomator, coffee and pie.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21
Pet Mink Started
'' Backyard Fur Ranch
- IY(Nw

(By AssocItlted Pge.sl

BINGHAM, Me- !JanT 2l-Un-
der protest Mrs. Floyd Boying-
ton agreed eight years ago to
care for two mink which her
traper-husband brought home as
pets.
She soon became interested in
the little animals, and has turn
ed that interest into a business
that in 1945 produced 800 pelts.
Her backyard mink ranch
keeps Mrs. Boyington busy the
year round And from April,
when the kittens" are born, I'M
til late November, when the pelts
are ready for market, her hus-
band also has to be on the job
daily.
Senator Morse denounces "re-
l.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21
EUerreadv Star
Club To Meet

There will be regular bust
ness meeting of the Everready
Star Club held on Tuesday after
noon, beginning at 8 o'clock, at
the home of Mrs. Florine Mesa,
1911 Washington street.
All members of the organlza-
ton are requested to be in at
tendance.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21
Faculty Of Division Street School
HOnOred By Parent-Tea AssO.

Mrs. Mary Hampton was the
chairman of the refreshment
committee with Mrs. jeanette
Sawyer, Mrs. Annie Ma1oney
and Mrs. Anna Rosam serving
under her.
The annex was eolorfully dec
Grated with yellow and blue
streamers, radiating from the
ceiling and the tables gracefully
held bouquets Of blue and pink
flowers. The piano held a large
bouquet of gladioli, which were
given to Miss Francis Cochran
in honor of her birthday.
In charge of the program was
Mrs. Dorothy Edwards.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21
RACKETEER = BLING

| have checked over carefully
these reports that outside gamb-
lers may come here and of course
that these may be the type OF
racketeers such as we have in
Miami come to Key West. The
police have informed me that
they are keeping a. close eye on
this sort of situation. They state
definitely that racketeers will
be carefully watched regarding
establishing here. Folks who
were worried about this sort OF
situation developing can breathe
easier. But always keep your
eyes open. There have been some
indications lately.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21
MASTER OF CEREMONIES

One of the surprises, to me, OF
the Winter Visitor Social last
Friday was the master of cere-
monies job done by Mr. Wolkoff
of the Postoffice Inn. Possessed
of lusty, clear and quite nice
voice, Mr.. Wolkoff led the COM
munity singing. BY the way cor
respondents on the story forgot
to mention that ice cream was
donated by Gulfstream restau-
rant, l. Wiener, manager. Mr..
Wolkoff is one of the prime
moving spirits of the Hotel
Mems Association and of the
Advertise Key West Council. |
like the way he knocks off bull
shooting and gets his sleeves
rolled up for action His dangh-
ter is visiting him at present with
her two children but viii soon
leave for Chicago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21
Visit
Captain Moss

1t. June Mcdaniel and Miss
BERTHE Kelley of Jonesboro, In
diana. are visiting Capt. Hen
rietta c. Moss at her home on
Margaret Street.
The two WAC officers served
together at Fl. Oglethorpe, Hol-
landia. Orc Bay and Manila.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21
.Jdyshees. To
Meet Tonight

There will be meeting of the
Jayshees held this evening, be-
ginning at 8 o'clock, at the Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce club
house.
Mrs. Daniel Lopez and Mrs.
William Dominguez will be hos
'tesses on the occasion.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21

gtOn Correspondent of The citizen
white-wash its inquiry or to find
an easy scape-goat upon which
to put the blame. There are a
number of factors which have
contributed to the alarming
spread of an insurgent spirit
among our armed forces.
Some of them are to be found
in the military department,
others in the Congress itself
and still others, we regret to
say, in the unreasonable attitude
OF the American people toward
the rehabilitation of their arm
ed forces. 8
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21
PytHidn Sisters
To Meet Tonight

Key West Temple No. 20,
Pythian Sisters, will meet to-
night at 7:30 in the Knights OF
Pythias Hall on Fleming street.
The District Deputy Grand
Chief Miss Francis Cochran has
announced that school of in
structions will be held and all
officers and members are urged
to attend.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21

Cite Some U. S. Brutality
The appeal of the Japanese
General, Yamashita, to the Su-
preme Court of the United
States, IS an ercellent ilnstra-
ton of the length to which a
great nation will permit its
enemies to go in their claim to
justice.
Interesting indeed is the as
sertion of defense attorney,
appointed by the Army to de.
fend the Jap military leader,
that an American brigadier gen.
eral, during the Philippines in
surrection, once ordered death
for all those over ten years of
age who were able to bear arms.
The attorney also alleged that
the same general ordered the
torch put to everything that
would burn on Samar island. He
added that the officer was court
martialed and that his punish
ment was an ACCOMPLISHMENT
from President Theodore Roose-
welt.
The position of the govern
ment's attorneys was that no
enemy bell gerent, who invades
our territory, can acquire legal
rights to. recourse in our civil
courts. It appears to us that this
legal principal - is sound AMI
that itsends~sY amashsta'S, chance
for judicial interference with
the verdict of the military trib-
unal that condemned him.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21
Gloria Vanderbilt, Husband Leopold
StO,rkO,rski, Buys Persian Bells Here

blouce with a tiny red ribbon
tied around her throat. Her hair
was parted in the middle and
drawn straight back, the ends
plated in braids and drawn up
like a little girls. Around her
head she Wore a vivid red Bah
ushkSa.. aOo
The toupldRhad dinner at. Casa
Cayo Hueso before leaving for
Miami.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21
Social Calendar

MONDAY " p@1"1t lc"hIuS Tor
Key. west Players, Barn Thea
Ter. 800 pm.
Jaayshte Meeting. g pm. Jun
Tor Chamber. of Commerce
Clubhouse.
TUESDAY
Everready Star Club Meeting,
Residence of Mrs. Florine
Mesa, 1911 Washington st. 3
pm.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21

Persian camel bells and a
Persian bell anklet from the
Trading Post were the gifts
selected by Leopold and Gloria
Vanderbilt Stokowski on their
one day visit to Key West, Sat
urday.
Mrs. Stokowski was very
fetching in : shocking pink
drindel skirt, a white Mexican
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21
ETHAN RAINWATER,
IS NOW IN JAPAN

ABOARD THE USS PALA-
WAN, Jan. A21.-Ethan Rainwat-
er, fireman, first class, 827 White
street, Key West, is serving
aboard this floating repair base
at Sasebo in Kyushu, Japan.
The work includes servicing
and repairing minesweepers
which still have waters to clear
of mines, larger ships which are
landing occupation troops, and
coastal patrol craft.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21

Mrs. Husk's visit to this district
should be of great interest to
everybody. The public is cor
daily invited to hear her.
The American Mission to Lep-
ers is an international, Inter
racial and INSTRUMENTATION
society, organized to give physi-
cal and spiritual cleansing to the
millions who are the victims of
this cruel and dreaded disease.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21
HE'S MY scoREKEEpER

Mr.. Dillinger, local hotel mana
ger, who is my fayorite CORES
pondent and praises or scores me
as he thinks the column should
be praised or scored has me on
the carpet again. This time ne
thinks the concrete block fac
tory should. be allowed rather
than the marine railway at the
foot of Simonton street. Mr.. Dill
linger liked the Christmas editor
ial this column printed, disllked
again Key Vests "eyesore
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21
HUGE WORKING FORCE

BALTIMORE.-At peak force,
10000 persons work in the Pen
tagon building in Washington,
$4,000 more than work in the
IL buildings of New York'S
famous Rockefeller center.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21

Announcement has been made
of the birth of a daughter, weigh
ing six pounds, seven ounces, on
Thursday to Mr.. and Mrs. Ira
Taylor at the Municipal Hospital.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21

Japan is facing crisis period,
with the food shortage urgent.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21

going to get lot of fun out of
II
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-21

Senator Morse denounces "re-
dictionaries" in his own party.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-03-29
st. Paul NAACP
Mass Meeting
Is Changed

The time and place for. the pro-
test mass meeting against the kill
ing Of two Negroes and imprison-
ment Of l02 in the recent Column
bia, Tenn, disturbances, have been
changed to 1880 D. M, at the
Halle q. Brown Community House,
Aurora and Kent Streets, Sunday
March 81, according to Rev. Clar-
ence T. R. Nelson, president of the
st. Paul Branch for the National
Association Of Colored People.
The change Of the time and place
for the meeting, which was sched-
uled to be held at the st. James
A.M.E. church at 4 D. M, Sunday,
was made because the principal
speaker for the meeting, the Rev.
Joseph G, Moore, Of Evanston, H.,
has a preaching engagement at the
st. Marks Episcopal church in
Evanston on Sunday morning, and
will leave for st. Paul by plane at
2 p. M, Sunday, and arrive at the
Wold-C Chamberlain Field at $50
p. m.
Rev. Moore, who Is a native Of
st. Paul, visited Columbia, Tenn,
while martial law still prevailed IN
the small town. He talked with
many Of the townspeople, and viii
give a factual account Of the So
called riot. During the war, Moore
served in the chaplain's corps Of
the Army as a major and he Is
now lecturer on pastoral theology
and human relations at the Sea-
bury-Western Seminary, In Evan
ston.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-03-29
Nutiondl Leaders
Plon Action on Rights
Of Minority Vets

NEW YORK - Leaders in vet
Grams and civic affairs from
throughout the nation will convene
in New York City on Friday, April
5, to develop a cooperative plan Of
action aimed at improving all as
poets of services to Negro, Japa-
nese American and other minority
veterans under the CT Bill
The conference, to be held at
Willkie Memorial Building, 20 W.
10th St, is to review findings of
discrimination and inadequate facil-
tiles for the servicing of minority
veterans of World War II.
Principal speakers on the pro-
gram will he Charles H. Houston,
vice president Of the American
Council on Race Relations, who will
act as chairman; Bill Mauldin,
former cartOonist Of "Yank" maya
zine; Vincent Malveaux, ex-combat
infantryman, whose nationwide
survey of community Veterans
Centers is serving as the basis of
the meeting; Jesse o. DedmOn, Jr.,
Veterans Affairs Secretary, Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment Of Colored People; Julian A.
Thomas, director of the Department
Of Industrial Relations, National
Urban League, and George s. Nit
chell. Veterans Affairs Secretary,
Southern Regional Council.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-03-29
Calvin L. Muson
Longtime Resident
SuccuHnbs Suddenly

Calvin L. Mason, 1929 Columbus
Ave, died Friday, March %, at the
Minneapolis General hospital after
a short illness.
Mr.. Mason, a long time resident
Of Minneapolis, was born Nov. Is,
1881, in Smyrna, Tenn. He had
worked on the Chicago Northwest
ern Railroad for forty-two years
and was the father of six children.
He was a member of St. Peter
AME church, Eastern Star, Masonic
Lodge Palestine No. 7.
Surviving him are his wife,
Grace, and six children. Claude
Mason, Richard Mann, Jewell Alex
ander. Pearl Schofield, Laura Oliver
and Helen Galloway.
Funeral services we're held Mon
day, March %. at 200 p. m. al
st. Peter AME church with the
Rev. H. C. Boyd officiating. Burial
was in Crystal Lake. Woodland
Funeral Service had charge.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-03-29

verbally, but denying it in actual.
ity to fellow citizens.
We're going to have trouble
until we make up our minds" Nc.
Williams predicted. 1--WE cant
eliminate prejudice, but we car
eliminate discrimination, and we
can start right in the District OF
Columbian
He said America was now liv.
ing in a twilight world" and that
riots would inevitably come if the
half-and-half stage wasn't elimi.
mated.
Preceding McWilliams' talk, the
Twin Cities Symphonic chorus
sponsored by Federal Cartridge
Corporation, under the direction
of Clarence H. Russell, sang sew.
eral numbers.
Scrolls Presented For Service
Mrs. Macbeth Hurd Page and
Rabbi Albert Minda were presented
scrolls in honor of their 20 years
of faithful service to the Mime
apOlis Urban League. The scrolls
were presented by Cecil f. New.
man, vice president Of the League
on behalf Of the organizations in
terracial committee. Rabbi Minda
made a short membership appeal
to the audience.
Eennum Presided
Thomas Vennum, president OF
the board of directors of the Urban
League, was master Of ceremonies
at the dinner preceding the Nc
Williams talk, and also introduced
the speaker.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-03-29
Mil City NAACP
Moss Meeting
Pluns Under W0Y

The executive committee Of the
Minneapolis NAACP met Monday,
March 26, ut Phyllis WheRtley
house to plan n mass meeting re-
garding the recent Columbia, Tenn,
incident. Members Of several or
CARNATIONS were present including;
the Interracial Veterans Organiza-
ton, the American Youth for De-
mocracy and the Communist Party.
A steering committee was set up
composed Of Robert Kelly, Wendell
G. Jones, Cornelius Smith, Irving
Blumberg, William Seabron. Irving
Gladstein, Samuel Schiener and
Alec Jones. The steering commit
tee planned TO contact various or
carnations TO secure their coopera-
ton in making final plans for the
mass meeting to be held April IL.
The Committee will meet again at
Phyllis Wheatley on Friday, March
20, at 8 p. m.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-03-29


in the Victory Aquatennial parade
in July.
Contributing before last weeks
deadline were: Ames Lodge LOG Of
Minneapolis, $1,000; Mr.. and Mrs
Bertram Slaughter, Mr.. and Mrs
Dorsey Willis, and the Beauticians
club, all $500; Mr.. and Mrs. Clar-
ance Smith, $500; Contributing
$500 donations were: DR.. and
Mrs. f. s. Weber. Mr.. and Mrs,
Theodore Jones, Mr.. and Mrs. U.
L. Clark, Lucille MCGEE. Reedy
Martin, and Mr.. and Mrs. H. Combs.
Cecilia Patterson contributed Sl.5O
to the fund.
Contributing 800 were: Mar
guarite Pauley, Ellen Leon, Lois
Larson. James Lasslev, Avis Las
sley, Rita Breedlove, ShirNi Mayes,
Fred Chadwick, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
T. Wardlaw, James A. Robinson,
Cleo Grigsby, Julius J. Walker,
Mrs. Howard Brown, Mr.. and Mrs.
Raymond Wallace, Lula Rogers,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Howard, Mrs,
Rose Galloway, Mr.. and Mrs. d,
W. Willis, Mrs. Blanche Turner,
Mr.. and Mrs. Nose Young, Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Williams, Mr.. and
Mrs. David Bank, Mrs. Leila
Thomas, C. J. Crowder, John Max
well, Jr., Ernest Swenson, Myrtle
Banks, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Jack
son, Lee Turpin, Mrs. Isobel
Briggs, Alvia Mckinney, Mable
Harris, Zephyr Turner, Mr., and
Mrs. r. Bantam, Emma Truman
Mrs. Auzie Dial, Mrs, Nora Craw-
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-03-29
Martin FavOrs Application
Of Rnnnrtpr Louis Lautier

WASHINGTON. D. C. (NNPA)
-Rpnresertative joseph W. Mar
tin. Jr.. If Massachusetts, Renubli
can. leader. has recommended ia
vorable action on the application Of
Louis Lautiar. chief of the Negro
Newspaper Publishers Association
news service. for admission to the
Congressional press galleries.
The question was BROUGHT to Mr..
Martins attention by Perry W.
Howard. Republican national com
mittneman for Mississippi. Mr..
Martin told Mr.. Howard he thought
Mr.. Lautier met the requirements
for admission to the House Press
Gallery. and as he looked over his
application he did not see how it
could be rejected.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-03-29

the supervision Of Alfred Collier
special consultant Of the u. s
Bureau of Labor Statistics Of
Washington, d. C. Collier has beer
borrowed by Governor Thye's inter.
racial commission to make the sur.
vey here.
Pamphlet to Follow
Over thirty per cent Of the
housing units in the Twin Cities
will be subjected to comprehensive
study, and a scheme has been set
up to provide basis for fair COM
parison. The material gathered
during the survey will constitute
one section Of a report, ''The Ne
gro and His Home in Minnesota"
to be published later under the
sponsorship Of the inter-raeial COM
mission. The report will be a COM
panion pamphlet to "The Negro
Worker in Minnesota" published in
March, 1945, by the commission.
Father Francis Gilligan, rector
Of st. Paul Seminary, and chair
man Of the commission, said Tues
day: Before any recommendation
is made on housing, Il is necessary
to have the facts, and the commits
sion is determined to get the facts, ["
Cooperation Asked
Father Gilligan asked that all
homemakers whose homes are
visited, cooperate with the survey
takers in every way possible. in
order that q clear picture can be
obtained.
Five workers are being used to
make the survey in the Cities.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-03-29
Bill O'Shields
With Red Cross
In West Pacific

William O'Shields, COS Rondo
Ave, is adviser to director Of opera
tons at Western Pacific theatre
headquarters Of the American Red
Cross, in Manila, it was announced
this week.
O'Shields is the ranking figure
for Negro personnel work and has
AZ Red Cross workers with him.
Born in Rochester, Mimi, he has
degrees from University of Min
nesOta and New York University.
A veteran Red Cross worker from
1913 in Australia and New Guinea,
when Negro engineers and port
workers dropped their tools and
helped forestall invasion of Aus
tralia, O'Shields spent 10 years
teaching and coaching sports prior
to his present job.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-03-29
Composite Combat Team
NAV Enter Army Parade

WASHINGTON, D. c. (NNPA)
The War Department is consider
ing bringing from Fort Benning,
Ga, to Washington for the Army
Day parade, April 8, the composite
combat team, which reputedly was
established as a step toward i'm
plementing the program recon-
mended by the Gillem board for
effective utilization of Negro per-
sonnet in the postwar Army, it was
learned last Saturday.
The composite unit at Fort Ben
ming is composed of infantry, artil-
lery, signal corps and engineer
troops. The enlisted personnel are
all Negro. The commissioned per
sonnet are both white and Negro.