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EVENTS MEETINGS RIVIERA TIME TABLE

Organizations are invited to list scheduled activities in the daily Riviera Time Table. Listings for this calendar of activities must reach the Riviera-Times editorial offices by 3 p.m. the day preceding publication. This Evening MUNICIPAL COURT — convenes at Police station, 5 p.m. ELKS MINSTREL — first rehearsal, Elks Lodge, 8 p.m. GABLES THEATRE — "It Happened in Brooklyn", Frank Sinatra, Jimmie Durante. CORAL THEATRE — "The Unfaithful", Ann Sheridan, Zachary Scott. GROVE THEATRE — "Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap", Abbott and Costello. PARKWAY THEATRE — "Foxes of Harrow", Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara. Tomorrow KIWANIS CLUB — meets at Country Club of Coral Gables, 12:15 p.m. OPTIMIST CLUB — meets at Country of Coral Gables, 7:30 p.m. CITY COMMISSION — meets at city hall, 8 p.m. PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA — concert at Country Club of Coral Gables, 8:15 p.m. GABLES THEATRE — "Undercover Maisie", Ann Southern, Berry Nelson. CORAL THEATRE — "Boom Town", Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr. GROVE THEATRE — "Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap", Abbott and Costello. PARKWAY THEATRE — "Lured", Lucille Ball, George Sanders.

Making a musical name for themselves in Coral Gables are these members of the Elementary School Band, which is now supplying music for school assemblies and other events. The students are trained under the direction of Miss Betty Carr, and are ready to take their place in high school bands upon completion of the elementary and junior high training — Riviera-Times photo by Binner.

NIPA PALM PROVIDES FOOD AS WELL AS POTENT DRINK

A specimen Nipa palm was planted in the Bailey Palm Glade of the Fairchild Tropical Garden this week. The specimen is a gift of Colonel Robert H. Montgomery, director of the Garden and was raised on Colonel Montgomery's estate located one mile south of the Fairchild Tropical Garden which is situated in Coral Gables directly south of Matheson Hammock Park on Old Cutler Road. This twelve-year-old specimen clump type trunkless palm represents a palm species which is unique in so far as it thrives only in brackish swamps. Grows in Swamps The Nipa Palm covers thousands of acres of tidal swamplands in the Philippine and Malay Archipelagos. In some cases extensive mangrove swamps have been cleared and planted to Nipa palms for the economic value of the palm. In the Philippines Nipa palm leaves are the principal thatching material for housing. The leaves are also used in making baskets, mats, bags, raincoats and sun-hats. Used for Food The immature seeds are used for food being quite similar in taste to the meat of immature coconuts. The Nipa yields a sap (tuba) which is obtained by cutting the fruit stalk. Distillation of this fermented tuba yields proof alcohol. The fermented tuba is a favorite drink in the Philippines. Those who are familiar with the Nipa Palm in its native habitat look forward to the day when this plant immigrant will be bracing our tidal swamp mangrove areas in South Florida.

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Negro Cleric Dons Turban, Enjoys Southern Hospitality

By DAVID C. WHITNEY UP Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov. 17. (UP)—A negro clergyman said today a turban he rented from a costume house permitted him to cross the color line and eat in "white" restaurants in Mobile, Ala. The Rev. Jesse W. Routte, 39, of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, of Jamaica, N.Y., said he spent a week in the south wearing a turban and speaking with a "slight Swedish accent." "I felt like a paratrooper behind enemy lines," he said. "I learned that in some parts of the south they judge a man by the kind of hat he wears." 'Pushed Around' Routte, son of a former Yale professor, contrasted his recent trip with one he made in 1943 wearing his clerical collar but no turban. "Then I was insulted and pushed around by southern whites," he said. "This time I thought I'd try an experiment. I wore a turban and waited to see what would happen. It worked like magic. "Nobody ever asked me if I was a negro and I never told them I wasn't. If I were discovered, I most certainly would have been arrested . . . I thank God for bringing me through safely." Routte said he called on civic, social and political leaders in Mobile. "They always treated me with the utmost courtesy and consideration," he said, "because I was wearing a turban." At a leading Mobile restaurant, he said, he called the headwaiter and asked what would happen if a negro came in and asked to be served. "He doesn't eat," the headwaiter allegedly answered. "No negro would dare to come in here to eat. We would put him out." Routte is the son of the late Dr. William G. Routte, former professor of economics at Yale University. He speaks six languages and is a concert singer and pianist. He began his adventure in Washington, he said, when he boarded a white passenger car of a "Jim Crow" train. Wearing the turban, he said no one asked him any questions. "I rode in railroad cars for whites," he said, "I ate in train diners with whites. Everywhere I got the best in food and comfort." He asked a Mobile police captain, "How do you handle the negro problem down here?" "We don't have any problem," the police captain allegedly said. "If we have any trouble with a nigger, we just knock him down."

Return of Congress Makes Work of Reporter Easy

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN UP Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. (UP)— The frost was keen, as a breeze through the pine trees, is nothing to be alarmed about; it's me exhaling a sigh of relief. My troubles are over. Congress is back. No longer need I turn over rocks looking for pieces for the paper, nor prowl through the Patent Office seeking newly invented boons for humanity. The soup's on, bean flavor, at Capitol Hill. All I have to do now is sit on a stool (which could be a little wider) in the press gallery, while the law-givers make news under my eyes on all subjects, including the sorry state of mink coats on the hoof. Makes this reporter's heaven especially paradisiacal (I found that one in the dictionary) is the fact that this time the boys are primed for battle on almost anything you can mention this side of the stratosphere. For instance: Who's to blame for the 95-cent beefsteak? The Republicans, or the Democrats? Should the District of Columbia commissioners be allowed to use shotguns on Pennsylvania Avenue in their historic fight against the annual starling scourge? Should the OPA be revived? With red tokens for meat? And what about the price of lunch in the Senatorial Cafeteria? How much money should we spend for the hungry Chinese? When will the whisky distilleries be reopened? What's happened to all the nails for house building? What are we going to do about the King of Saudi Arabia who owns a billion barrels of oil and has the gimmes? Do the members of the House get comfortable chairs next year, or don't they? How much wheat do we ship to Europe? Should we try to educate the British into developing a taste for peanut butter? Will a cut in income taxes be a blessing, or a scourge? How much longer should the government support the price of turkeys? Shall a dozen movie actors, writers and directors be held in contempt of Congress? And what, if anything, are we to do about Communism? Should we ration bath tubs? Skip Howard Hughes and his giant flying boat? Abolish the dollar-down - dollar - when - you - catch - me sales of motor cars, gold-plated watches, and automatic washing machines? What about Indians? Are we treating 'em right? Do government clerks get too many holidays? How's the new labor law working out? What kind of gent is Sen. Theodore G. (The Man) Bilbo's successor? When will we stop shipping coal, literally, to Newcastle? Has the administration any right to seek wartime censorship in peacetime? Has the international static been strained from the voice of America? What about singing commercials on our own radio? Do the members of the house get their private subway car, like the senators'? Should we try to buck the international cocoa bean combine? What are we going to do about Alaska's decrpit railway? Does the air force need a new police department to keep an eye on the stock market dealings of its officers? Is the 40-hour week too long to labor? Or not long enough? Boy! These are just some of the questions, the answering of which will make my work easy from now on.

Rites Conducted For L. W. Davis

Funeral services were held at 2 p. m. today at the Philbrick Funeral home for L. W. Davis who died Friday at the home of his sister and brother-in-law, Captain and Mrs. E. B. Wharton, 533 Avenue Majorca. Burial will take place in Graceland Memorial Cemetery. Davis had been a resident of Coral Gables for the past five years, coming here from Ft. Worth, Texas. He is survived by one son, Lester R. Davis, of Ft. Worth, who arrived to attend the last rites for his father. In addition to his sister, Mrs. Wharton, he also leaves another sister, Mrs. W. V. Davis of Marietta, Ga., formerly of Coral Gables.

Aline Brown Wins Literary Honors

Miss Aline Brown, sophomore at Vanderbilt University, has been named to Chi Delta Phi, national honorary literary fraternity for women. Chi Delta Phi works with Calumet, men's literary honorary, to publish Gadfly, Vanderbilt magazine. Miss Brown, daughter of the Speed Browns, 1216 Almeria Ave., is majoring in Spanish and French at the University and is a member of Gamma Phi Beta.

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Elks Minstrel Set for Dec. 10

The date for the first annual Coral Gables Elks Minstrel has been set for Wednesday, Dec. 10, it was announced today by Dr. Sidney G. Casell, general chairman. The show will be presented in the lodge home, Avenue Giralda. First rehearsals will get under way this evening at 8 p. m. under the direction of Miss Sylvia Furlong. Miss Furlong has been connected with the Dade County School system for the past 18 years as a dramatic and speech instructor. During the war she was affiliated with the United Service Organization. In addition she has aided the University of Miami in directing and acting with the University Players and has been in charge of production for the Country Club Players. Music for the production will be under the direction of J. Francis Hickey, lodge organist.

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