Coral Gables Riviera-Times

PAGE TWO RIVIERA-TIMES THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20

EVENTS | MEETINGS | RIVIERA-TIMES | 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 ELKS CLUB—Regular meeting, Elks Lodge, 7:30 p.m. GABLES THEATRE—"Welcome Stranger," Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald. CORAL THEATRE—"Jungle Flight," Robert Lowrv. PARKWAY THEATRE — "Lured," Lucille Ball, George Sanders. GROVE THEATRE—"Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap," Abbott and Costello. ROTARY CLUB—Vocational Service Committee meets at home of Herbert Voorhees, 7:30 p.m. HOMECOMING—University of Miami bonfire pep meeting and parade, University Drive at Ponce de Leon Boulevard, 7:30. RING THEATRE—University of Miami Playmakers present "The Late Christopher Bean," by Sidney Howard. Tomorrow ATHLETIC COMMISSION — Organization meeting, City Hall, 4 p.m. ARCHITECT'S BOARD—Regular session at City Hall, 4 p.m., with realtor's investigating committee, 4:30 p.m. ROTARY CLUB—Regular luncheon meeting at Country Club of Coral Gables, 12:15 p.m. FOOTBALL—University of Miami vs. University of Florida, Orange Bowl, 8:15. GABLES THEATRE—"Welcome Stranger," Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald. CORAL THEATRE—"Jungle Flight," Robert Lowry. PARKWAY THEATRE — "Lured," Lucille Ball, George Sanders. GROVE THEATRE—"Alias Mr. Twilight," Michael Duane, Trudy Marshall. RING THEATRE—University of Miami Playmakers present "The Late Christopher Bean," by Sidney Howard.

Public Hearings on Fascism Planned by House Group

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. (UP)—The house un-American activities committee, planning a nationwide investigation of fascism and will open public hearings of the entire problem in about two weeks, it was disclosed today. Rep. John McDowell, R., Pa., chairman of the subcommittee on Fascism, said that while he is not ready yet to name any names, "we are working on some pretty important people." McDowell said the committee has investigators in "the Deep South, in the far West, in Texas, Chicago, Detroit and Philadelphia." He declined to say who or what organizations they are checking on.

Stocks Irregular, Trading Light

NEW YORK, Nov. 20. (UP)—Stocks turned irregular to-day. Trading lightened. Bonds were quiet and steady. Cotton futures declined 4 to 12 points. Small net gains were made by General Motors, North American, Consolidated Edison, U. S. Rubber, Kennecott, Goodwill, V Chemical, Texas Company, United Aircraft, and Union Pacific. Fractional losses came into International Harvester, New York Central, J. I. Case, Westinghouse Electric, Bethlehem Steel, Hudson Motors, Chrysler, and Sears Roebuck.

Navy Presses Search For Fliers

KEY WEST, Fla., Nov. 20. (UP) — The Navy today continued a search for two men lost in crashes at sea Tuesday night, after recovering the body of a flier killed in one of the accidents. The missing men were listed as Lt. John F. Johnson and en-listed crewman Lewis Lucas, Jr. Both are residents of Pensacola, Fla., which was also the home of Lt. Scott I. Brear, whose body was recovered. Brear and Lucas crashed in a torpedo bomber, and Johnson was lost while searching for them in his night fighter.

Sending Grain to Europe Favored By Farmers as Self-Preservation

By GLENN MARTZ UP Staff Correspondent BISMARK, N. D. (UP)—If you ask the wheat farmer in the Red River Valley of North Dakota what he thinks about conserving grain for shipment to hungry Europeans, he'll tell you it's the only way to avert economic and social catastrophe in America's wheat belt. Farm leaders and farmers alike frankly admit they're not motivated entirely by a desire to play the part of the Good Samaritan. Firstly, they contend another disastrous world war can be averted only by supplying Europe with food until it can get into production again. Secondly, from a purely economic standpoint, they say they are convinced that the only way to prevent a catastrophic slump in farm prices is to preserve the foreign outlet for grain. With that in mind, and an all-time record $780,000,000 small grain crop already binned or mar-keted, they are prepared to fight any move which might lead to loss of foreign markets and a return to domestic price levels. Glenn J. Talbott, president of the North Dakota Farmers' Union, summed up sentiment of farm organizations, by declaring: "From a cold-blooded economic angle, we can't afford to lose our foreign markets. If that should happen, and we continue to produce as abundantly as we have during the past few years, the domestic show window of farm products will be crammed so full that prices will drop far below the cost of production."

City Lighting For Christmas To Completed

(Continued from Page One) the Florida Power & Light Company's version of Mickey Mouse flows through the wires. Today was Lions' day but at dawn only Secretary Larry Larson and John Barclay were on hand. Also present was City Manager William T. McIlwain, a member of the Senior Chamber's Christmas Street Lighting Committee, which made arrangements for the project. The city manager had been unable to attend earlier dawn festivities because of an out-of-town trip. Dean Was There John Galbraith, director of the university's book store, and J. Ralph Mueven, dean of the south campus, both completed three mornings straight. Ben Turner, president of the Junior Chamber, made his second early rising to-day. Others who showed up for the second time were City Commissioner David Hendrick, Don Dutcher, Sam Elcock, Chick O'Donnell and Jack Gilmore. Galbraith and Muvray drew from their experience to devise a mass production system which speeded up the work immeasurably. F. J. Neff of the fire department was technical supervisor of the job.

Boy, 16, Held In Car Theft And Robbery

(Continued from Page One) taken, as one report said, and said the sum was only $12. Broke Window The gun and bullets were not found when the boy was arrested. He told Captain Reeve he had thrown the revolver in Greynolds park. Possible charges against the older boy are grand larceny, breaking and entering, auto theft and theft of firearms. The younger boy told Captain Reeve he had not left the car when the gas station was robbed, and claimed innocence of any participation in the theft. Juvenile Court Judge Walter Beckham will determine what charges will be pressed against the boys. The 16 year-old is not attending school. After interviewing the boy and the parents, Reeve termed the case "a lack of parental discipline." The boy had not been home for several days. Stole Window Entry to the filling station was gained by breaking a window, police said. After the theft of the money, the boys rode around for several hours, then picked up the young girls. The car was a 1940 Plymouth and had been in the older boy's possession since Monday, when it was stolen from in back of the Lowry Electric Company's store here. The parents were grief-stricken and bewildered in Reeve's office and they "couldn't understand it."

Test Your I. Q.

1. What baseball player holds the record for participating in the most World Series? 2. Where was our worst hurricane disaster? 3. What was the first automobile sold commercially, not just for experimental purposes? 4. When are day and night of equal length? 5. How long do bees live? ANSWERS TO I Q 1. Babe Ruth, 10. 2. Galveston, Tex., in 1900, with 6000 lives lost. 3. The Winton, made in Cleveland, O., in 1898. The actual car is now in the Smithsonian Institution. 4. At end of summer and beginning of fall—Sept. 23 this year—when the sun is directly over the equator. This is called the autumnal equinox, from the Latin phrase meaning "equal night." 5. A queen lives about five years, but workers live only three months. The queen's longevity is attributed to an infancy diet of royal jelly, which contains four vitamins prolonging insect life.

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REPORT FROM WASHINGTON | Meyers Promotes Bus Driving Poppa To $12,000 Vice-President's Job

By FREDRICK C. OTHMAN UP Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. (UP) When R. A. Curnutt wore his pressed uniform he was about as fine a looking bus driver as there was on the run out of Muskogee, Okla. Had a pretty daughter, too, name of Ila Rae. She grew into beautiful blonde womanhood and in the natural course of events headed for Hollywood, where she hired a press agent. He called her the glamorous Oukie, but somehow Ila Rae didn't click in pictures. She landed a couple of small roles, but she was about to return to Muskogee when she met a celebrated agent for actors. She married him. They were married when Ila Rae soon found herself in Cafe Society in New York. Her father still was driving his bus. Ila Rae's marriage fizzled. She divorced her agent; soon she was married again to Col. Bennett E. Meyers, who was a handsome gent in a bald-headed sort of way. That was in 1942. The Colonel brought his blue-eyed bride to wartime Washington and established her in perhaps the fanciest apartment in the Shoreham Hotel 2400. It should have been fancy. It cost the tax-payers—by way of war contract the colonel steered to his own electric company—$10,000 to furnish. Soon Solved Problem The problem now was how to help out bus driver Curnutt. The colonel, who soon was promoted to Brigadier General, solved that one. He made his father-in-law vice-president in charge of production at his Aviation Electric Corp at Vandalia, O. "Gen. Meyers told me that Mr. Curnutt held an important position with a railroad and would be of great help to me in running the plant," testified Bleriot Lamarre, the figure-head president of the firm. "I didn't know he was the General's father-in-law." "Yes," interrupted Sen. Homer Ferguson, chairman of the war investigating subcommittee, "But I thought he was a bus driver." He was, Lamarre said, but the bus company was owned by a railroad. Anyhow the new vice-president went to Vandalia at $12,000 a year. Everything was fine, except that the gentleman from Muskogee couldn't find anything to do, except walk around the factory. "Just walk?" asked Sen. Ferguson. "Yes, and he was very unhappy," Lamarre continued. "I tried him as a bookkeeper, but he couldn't do the work. Then I put him in charge of the supply room. The Oklahoma chauffeur-turn-ed-tycoon took his $12,000 a year until 1945, when he quit the company after making a complicated deal to continue collecting his salary until 1948. Scribbled Furiously While this evidence and more was going onto the record, Curnutt sat in the rear, expressionless, in civilian clothes. So was Ila Rae, smart-looking in a long black skirt with white lace around it. So, too, was the General, scribbling notes furiously and puffing an outsized cigar. It turned out, according to the testimony, that all the officials of Meyers' electric company—which manufactured fuse boxes for fighting planes—were dummies, whose principal job was to collect large salaries and hand over most of same to Meyers. The Senate's record showed that he collected from $50-a-week president Lamarre and from a $25-week vice-president fresh from college, to collect a total during the war years of $118,408.23. Every cent of this was government money spent for war planes. What happens next in the strange case of the General who grew rich out of the war I do not know, but I think it's going to be interesting. We may even hear the story of the Oklahoma bus driver, who sired a beautiful daughter with no idea at the time of what heights that event would lead him.

Electric Meters Installed In Frog Hollow Homes

By MARY HICKEY Riviera-Times Correspondent Some supposedly very wise person once remarked "all good things must come to an end." We aren't exactly certain whether the lack of electric meters in Frog Hollow has been good or bad—but we do know that it has come to an end! The Florida Power and Light Company is diligently at work in this area and a number of our neighbors are already in possession of a shiny new meter that relentlessly tallies up those times when you go to bed and forget to turn off the porch light! And here we were planning to have the Christmas tree lights burning all night! Down On The Row We feel pretty certain that it isn't the lack of a meter, but the absence of the electricity itself that bothers the folks over on 60th Place. Driving home the other evening, we noticed that another family had joined the Penney's over on "Gaslight Row" so we stopped by to say "Howdy and welcome!" The newcomers are Virginia and John Hendricks of 3710 S. W. 60th Place and ironically enough, Mr. Hendricks is an electrician! He is presently associated with the Myers Electric Company in the Gables. The Hendricks were so anxious to move into their new home that they couldn't wait for the delivery of their stove, but we understand John has been turning out some really delicious meals with the aid of a charcoal burner in the back yard. While they are newcomers to Frog Hollow, both Virginia and Johnnie have lived in this area for a number of years. Johnnie is one of those rare people, a native Floridian, but Virginia came here about 12 years ago to visit friends and liked it so well that she decided to stay here instead of returning to her native Boston. For a number of years she was employed as Chief Night Operator for the Southern Bell Telephone Company, but when the war ended she resigned her position. Virginia's mother, Mrs. Kathryn Crossen, of Boston, is presently visiting with her daughter and son-in-law—and we were pleased when she stated that she thoroughly enjoyed reading our column and that she thought Frog Hollow one of the nicest and most neighborly communities she had ever encountered! When they're not working, the Hendricks are pretty busy getting settled, but they still find time to indulge in their favorite pastime of fishing and frogging from their own boat "The Bluefish." Virginia is as much of an enthusiast as her husband, and her spirits were not even dampened when she was unexpectedly pulled overboard one day by an exceptionally large fish on the end of her line! It has been our experience that various fads and novelties have a way of cropping up every so often and from what we have heard lately, that old familiar, the chain letter, has once again come into its own! We have seen or received all kinds of them, but Dr. George Schmitt was on the receiving end of one that was so unique that we asked for permission to publish it—we thought perhaps some of our readers might want to join the chain!—so here it is: "This chain letter started in Reno in the hope of bringing relief and happiness to tired businessmen. Unlike most chain letters, this does not cost any money. Simply send a copy to five equally tired male friends, then bundle up your wife and send her to the fellow at the top of the list. When your name comes to the top of the list you will receive 16,713 women. HAVE FAITH, DO NOT BREAK THIS CHAIN. ONE MAN BROKE IT AND GOT HIS OWN WIFE BACK!"

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