The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 6, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Intciests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the © country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Thr Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1939 Submarine Sighted 8) German Army Crew Of Local Boat | said VOLUME LX. No. 211. British Turn Back First Air Raid On London Last Night Nears Warsaw As Poland =essss-=— ights Desperately i | 9 could be seen, but later the aq nok noticed the sub until the ‘SHIPS BOOKINGS BACKGROUND OF THE WAR Digest Of War News From All Fronts |PROPAGANDA EVERYWHERE 4 Propaganda continued. French| “According jrtadio announcers spoke in Ger- | rf i ;man to the German peoples tell- oe a submarine was sighted the Navy Depariment had kaka Vi R ’ ling them. to lay down their arms, | before daybreak this morning by |: ,and German announcers spoke in ;Mo action in the matter. H eta | er en EE bomb London, but British planes | one French to the French people. Ths) |Yesterday English planes flew! sub was seen at the Sea Buoy, | quickly took to ihe air and drove i them off. The British reported wetteoe eR ie (oe FICE OF COUNTY jover the Ruhr coal, iron mine! 2. and heavy industry district and |seven miles out of Key West. that their line of defense had not | trated, been penetra SUDGE |dropped thousands of pamphlets | telling Germany the war was} Two British ships were brought | down by the German planes.! to authoritative ;could not be secured. He (By Associated Press) LONDON, Sept. 6—Twenty German bombers were sighted ever Chatham and Port London| | ;members of a local boat. | The crew of the Norwegian | jtanker “Raila”, about seven miles (By Assoctated Press) WARSAW, Sept. 6.—German forces are today within ‘31 miles of Warsaw, position verified by Polish and Ger- : 1 i Its nationality could not be against their Nazi leaders not only them. The German government | es issued a White Book blaming the | Submersibie could be seen plain- Pilot of one of the ships jumped | out cf his smashed plane and im- | mediately took to the air in an- British for the war claiming that j jy, ciber. One German bomber broke away from ‘the rest and is believed to ke down. ! LOOKED LIKE RAZOR BLADES When the German ships appear- ed im the sky eye witnesses re- port that the ihin fuselages made them appear as razor blades. Anti- aircraft batteries immediately weni info action and puffs of smoke burst alongside them. A two-hour air raid alarm was sounded in London but many Londers emerged early from their shelters believing that it was just another false alarm. Many of the citizens thus got a glimpse of the invading planes. AUSTRALIANS TO FIGHT German citizens were seized in Paris today and placed in con- centration camos where the Olympic games were held. England also announced that Australian troops were ready to fight and that butter. eggs and dried fruit supplies were being prepared for shipment to Eng- land. BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR FISH MARKET PLANS FOR SURPLUS COM- MODITIES CORPORATION ALMOST COMPLETE i | “If the plans of the Surplus Commodities Corporation go through—and it looks ag though there were no doubt but that will—the market for Key West fish will soon pick up and emain steady”, said Singleton of the Chamber Commerce this morning as to The from Oscar Johnson, secretary to Senator Claude Pepper. | The letter states: “The ved by the Surplus Commodities rporation and its administration ill require no additional per- mnel beyond what is already set up for program which is the pur- chase of surplus farm commodi- ties to which the item of fish has been added”. The Chamber of Commerce has received, through the courtesy of the Florida State Chamber of Comm » an extremely valuable volume of Municipal Corporations in Florida”, which, among other matters, gives the dates of all acts of incorporations for towns and the dates of amendments thereto. he howed te c “ ;they sabotaged Mussolini’s peace ' Driver's licenses for auto- Proposals and that they had no mobiles went on sale, officially, |brief for Germany’s viewpoint in Yeserday morning in the office of the Danzig and Corridor crisis. County Judge Raymond R. Lord, !gyps iw CARIBBEAN ° and by this morning 11 o’clock ; Submarines have been reported there had been upwards of 150 ;off Porto Rico and also off the sold. East Coast of Florida, the latter ec Tacrcnmee se SWAMPED; MANY sceea-' HUNDREDS WAIT | determined. Lieut.-Com. Callahan went to the Raila, which is in the cate ce southeasterly. jharbor, and examined the ship's | jpapers. Neutrality provisions of |! i ‘the United States government is boat could plainly see that the: } wi Sarasa das age jlights were on a submarine, i j {submarine was last seen proceed. | iv. When day broke and the local i | MORE SHIPS TO TAKE STRANDED TOURIST S. EMBASSY WIRES FOR! Regular chauffeurs are sold|"ePorts from charter boatmen the cards for $1 and drivers of | cars are charged 50 cents. For a‘ private car which is driven by more than one there must be a! separate license for each opera- tor. Therefore if a car is driven at one time by a husband,} another time by his wife and} again by his son or daughter, | who claim that was slowly proceeding on the surface but upon sighting the charter boat made off swiftly. On the German steamship, “Colum- bus” which made a landing this week in Cuba, it is quite certain that the commander of the vessel received orders presumably in a box sent over the side from the the submarine | Lieut.-Commander Fort H. Cal-| | Naval Station, told The Citizen! that the matter was reported to, him, but that definite evidence’ lahan, in charge of the Key West} proceeded toward it, but the sub | moved away at a speed too great to be overtaken. HOME (By Aasociated Press) LONDON, Sept. 6.—Ambassa- dor Joseph P. Kennedy's office of the American embassy was be- sieged by 5,000 Americans asking that they be transported back to i each driver must have a license. ideck of a subniacine which Jat ‘Much Interest Shown America. man sources, with German troops closing in on the capital ‘of Poland from four directions. i From the north cf Warsaw come reports of jetrengest advance with German High Command stating | that it now controls the disputed corridor, which pre- the ‘ cipitated the present major European conflict. | Germans claim to have captured one major Polish | igs with three other Polish cities reported to be in flames. Tens of thousands of prisoners have been captured, Ger- mans say. Poland admitted the proximity of the German troops to Warsaw, but claims alzo to have loosed one bombing Secretary | of! Citizen a letter! fish bill will be adminis- | { data entitled “A Lisi | The person to whom the card is issued is very accurately de- scribed as to color of eyes, sex, | color of hair, height and weight, all of which data is displayed on} ithe card and the descriptions, must fit the driver at the time, the inspection is made. Hence it will be readily seen that there are some family cars which are driven at various} times by members of a family |which will require four or more jeards ir drivers licenses. t~“Phere*haveé been issued by tax collector Frank H. Ladd approxi-| {mately 1850 licenses in Key | West, but if the law is carried {out and the driver of a car must| conform to the description in the (card at the time the investigation is made, it can readily be seen that the number of drivers licenses issued in this county will be far in excess of the num- ber of automobile tags issued. ‘SCOUT TROOP ENJOYS STAY i KEY WEST GROUP ENTER- TAINED BY MIAMI UNIT DURING TRIP i At an early hour this morning ; Chas. Taylor, scout committee- | man, received a telegram Frank Alvarez, scoutmaster of; Troop 52 now in camp at Snapper ! | Creel, advising that the troop had been entertained by Troop {49 Miami scouts and the boys j were “having a fine time.” The; ‘telegram concludes with the brief and encouraging statement, “All! Well.” i Later in the day The Citizen, |was visited by Assistant Scout- master Milton Sawyer, who re- | turned last night from the camp at Snapper Creek where he had been visiting for three days, and said that the boys are having a, first followed the ship for some ‘a year ago that “Hitler is livin, idangerously. Let him take care. : = jMany say he has a-,dream. that clipping folders, art magazines ;MAY BE LONG WAR time and then pulled along- side. KAISER LISTENS The Ex-Kaiser now in Doorn, | Holland watches the World War! with great interest. Always rest- less in his refuge, he now listens; to radio bulletins and has little colored pins denoting the prog- ress of the armies and the bomb- ings of towns. Before the an- nexation. of Austria, _ intimates pli? ; fot say, the Kaiser was a great ad- | thusiastic gathering of visitors mirer of Hitler and believed his|who commented highly uon the; regime to be better than pre-' pleasing color scheme and upon, ceeding regimes, but he declared ithe artistic library table, which! that! The Key West Community Art! Center held an “Open House”; last night from 8 to 10. After a} \two-week’s renovation program, | jthe Art Center displayed its newly | decorated galleries to an en- vhas been added in order the Hohenzollerns ‘will return jto/ and books, ete. power and his favorite grandson, more available. Prince Louis ran, will | come into power: Thei Kaiser had j also followed’ the Spanish Civil War and Japanese War. | may be made i ij The atmosphere of the “Open} House” was one of gaiety and | sociability, enhanced by the music of four violins and refresh- | A ing limeade. Major Powers now battling ind athe idle eessed theis inc} Europe are supplied with foid, Ne ee aaa anor | iron, oil and other materials of! terest in the two opening exhibi- | modern conflict enough to last/tions: the Currier and Ivesj them through a long war. Most{Prints, circuited by the Federal! nations had begun to store them; Art -Project, WPA, in the large up long ago and there are eco-|gallery, and the pictures painted nomic restrictions in effect injhere in Key West by members of those. countries at present. Great the Key West Society of Artists, Britain has food enough in all its |now hanging in the small gallery. districts to last three months These exhibitions will remain when it believes it can break any hanging until September 24th. ! blockade. Sixty per cent,of its: The Gallery will be open tem-' it believes that its gold reserve ‘to 4 and on Saturday from 10 to; of more than one billion dollars 42 until further notice. i will keep its credit up. Germany| The some sixty or so visitors! has all the economit wealth of who attended the “Open House” | former ‘Austria . Hungary and at the Art Center were informed Czechoslovakia in her war ma- of the important news contained chine. Germany has huge stores in a telegram just received from of materials both of natural pro- the State Office in Jacksonville. ducts and especially of synthetic It read: Inform sponsors tonight materials, such as gasoline made that plans are gradually shaping from coal. Crops were harvested for extraordinarily strong project though with difficulty. Germany for coming year. The Key West has a poor gold reserve of $29,-,Community Art Center feels cer- 000,000. France depends on Eng- tain that with the interest and land’s fleet to keep bringing its support of its members it will be supplies from colonial markets. able to take the highest advantage In Art Center Exhibits SaaS aS Sa. THE MYSTERY OF THE LOST COLONY (iy Ansociated Preasy PORT ALBERNI,.B. C., Sept. 6.—Scientists hope that Prospeciors pressing toward the remote Wass lake area on Vancouver island may solve the mystery of a Chinese colony established at Nootka 150 years ago. Settled by the British, the Chinese were reportedly seized by Spaniards and put to work digging gold. Later they fled, taking some native women with them. Reports have reached civi- lization occasionally of a strange tribe in the interior of the island, which may be the mixed race. TG IIIS SES SS NEW FLAG FOR SCOUT TROOP 51 from | food must come from outside but 'porarily on Wednesday from 10 LETTERS OF THANKS SENT TO THOSE WHO HELPED MAKE CAMP SUCCESS Boy Sccuts of Troop 51 were very much surprised when on Monday night at the first meet- | ing since the return from camp | they were presented with a new troop flag by the American Le- gion. : Meeting was opened with the scout oath, followed by the flag salute. Junior Assistant Scout- All ships available now have raid on Berlin. Germany, however, claims that not once jtheir bookings complete until 5 \mntd:Octeter and. there. Sap have Poles reached German territory. jother ships available to transport While the advises fairly authoritatively state that se ciey Paneth to ee ee Germany is getting the upper hand in Poland, on the Kennedy has applied to Wash.| French front the French have advanced into German terri- ington $6. send Ea but. it is!tory in several instances. The Allies claim also to have | considered tre! doubtful : ithat others ae be "ackasil oa bombed several German centers and industrial areas. ae the perilous voyage s this The blockade, which the English fleet is striving to 4 cons: | effect in the North Sea, is declared fairly complete.’ Ger- time, > America will rush two Coast ;Guard cutiers to meet the slow’ many today announced another mined area in the Baltic freighter, “City of Flint’, which | ‘is bringing back American pas- | Sea, however. |sengers, and take them off. The| Flint will make a stop in Hong, |Kong first. ‘ ATHENIA NEWS 7 | Winston’ Churchill stated defin-/ WE itely today that a submarine had {sunk the Athenia and had also! fired two shells at it after thej torpedoing. There are still 125| unaccounted for among the sur-j ; Vivors. j | Prime Minister Chamberlain; jwill address the English Parlia-| {ment tomorrow making a_ full; tement on the events of the war. ‘ SOOTITET HL: LL KEEP OURS IN THE ICE BO: (My Associated Prenx) MAYFIELD, Ky., Sept. 6. —Workmen cleaning a well at Mrs. Sarah Waller’s farm home found an earthen jar of buiter submerged in mud at the bottom of the well. Mrs. Wallr, now 92, said the jar was dropped accidentally while being hung in the well to keep the butter cool and frech—30 years ago. Yet, she said, the same but- ter, found by the workmen, apparently was in good con- | dition and had no rancid taste ! or odor. PHYSICAL ED’ FOR x HIGH SCHOOL’ GIRLS |MISS JUANITA LEWIS ADDED TO FACULTY OF LOCAL JR.-SR. INSTITUTION | With the addition to the faculty jof Miss Juanita Lewis, girl ‘stu- {dents of Key West Janior-Senior | High School will have the oppor- \tunity this year of receiving | training in physical education with special emphasis on basket- |GREEKS REFUSE TO | MAKE TRIP BACK HOME| | SEATTLE, Sept. 6—A Greek ; | vessel’s crew has refused to make | |the trip back to their home port | ‘and the vessel has been unable ‘to sail. MAKING PLANS TO ADVERTISE ISLAND CITY ‘FOUR BILLBOARDS WILL BE | INSTALLED AT POINTS | ALONG TAMIAMI TRAIL ON MAINLAND W N ‘land and was graduated Cum ! ;Physical education department, | | | | West, who had been on regular states that Miss Lewis comes to ball. | Miss Lewis received her train- | ODD DD BLDG \ing at Southern College in Lake- Laude last year. She was salu- {tatorian of her class. In addition RETURNS HOME: her duties as head of the ae sere jshe will teach mathematics in Howard Wilson, deputy collec-' the Junior High School. tor of Internal Revenue in Key; Professor Horace O’Bryant {vacation with his family at | Waynesville, North Carolina, is Key West highly recommended | back in his office in the federal bY Coach Battle, head “of the wonderful time. The troop is en- | French wheat was normal and it of the opportunities offered by master Ray Perez was in charge | building. Physical Education Department COUNTY BOARD MEETS TONIGHT Regular meeting of the Mon- roe county commissioners will be held in the office of Clerk Ross C. Sawyer in the county court house at 8 o'clock this evening. Mr. Sawyer said that unless there are some matters to be brought before the meeting 0! which he has not been informed, there will be only the regular routine business to be attended to which is customary the first meeting of every month. | *?22 SCHOOL DAYS DANCE RAINBOW ROOM at the La Concha Hotel » THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 7 tertained especially by Troop 49 has the grains of Holland and this project for an interesting of Miami and everything pos- Belgium to fall back on. It may jand successful winter program. | sible is being done to make their | stay pleasant. face a labor shortage, though. Poland has normal crops after a ELLE Lhd hd Snapper Creek is the regular $200,000,000 campaign to intensify ; Boy Scout camp of the Dade agriculture. Russia, the great HUNGRY BEFORE ;County Council and has rapidly in the year since it was started. The boys spent a period ,and iron run far behind the pace } each day in scout-craft and the | passing of tests. They have been! taken on several sightseeing trips; and visited the Pan American; | Airport, went for a swim at Ve-! netian Pools at Coral Gables, and spent the day in town Tuesday,’ ,and a skating party is planned for tonight at the Venetian Roller Skating rink, and an all day picnic at Miami Beach on Fri- day. i ' Monday evening a troop of girl scouts with Troop 49 of Miami, went to the camp and enter-; tained the Key West troop with grown ‘question mark, has everything; - but rubber. Fresh finds of coal of exploitation. She has set aside grain in the prospect of war. PRIZES AT SEA Many prizes are plying the high seas today. The Queen Mary j is safely in New York harbor having arrived Monday. It had $44,550,000 boxes of gold aboard. Postmaster General Farley and Norma Shearer are in midocean on the crowded Manhattan. The German Bremen is still at sea with French and English on the lookout for her. French $60,000,- 000 Normandie is berthed in- York. Ger- iy Associated , COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 6. off the Ohio peni- tidy grapevine comes this account of a man’s man. A newly-appointed guard with an ex-army step deliver- ed this ultimatum to a con- vict company in the prison yard: 1 ‘was hungry before I got job. If it’s marching the “y this boss wants, I'm not going to of the meeting, due to the fact; Scoutmaster Al. Peirce is out of | : \the city. ; Plans to install four billboards The troop flag was something | advertising Key West at points on !that had been needed by the troop ; the Tamiami Trail and East Coast land was presented by Post Com-! were announced at a meeting at ‘mander W. J. Schoneck of the , Island Inn Hotel last night of the HE OBTAINED JOB American ‘cgion vy "which the! Key West Hotel and. Toutist| Homes Association. troop is sponsored. L..S. Gruber, manager of the | Chairman J. J. Trevor, of the ;troop committee, a |flag in behalf of the ‘scouts, who:the billboard committee, also gave three cheers for“+the post Stated that the membership of jand Commander Schoneek. ~*{the Association could support a | Now the troop has‘a'fine Amer- 'general advertising program for ‘ican flag and one for the organi- | Key ‘West stressing the hotel and ‘zation. lother features of the city. Action | Letters of thanks are to be jon this question will be held up sent to the board of County Com-/until a meeting on Sept. 19 at |missioners of Monroe, Orlando |2:30 p. m. at La Concha Hotel. Council and to Raymond Curry! The Association is planning to {for their help in making beng | Summer encampment a_ success. | The meeting was brought to a | close with the Great Scoutmas- the beginning of the tourist sea- son to the point where it will be able to provide the public beach accepted the | Overseas Hotel and chairman of; increase its membership be‘ore | Mr. Wilson said that he had been called back from his period ; of vacation before his time hadj «+ dents enrolling in Key West expired, and Mrs. Wilson and! daughter Audrey Jean, will re- Junior-Senior High School for the turn about September 15. , first time are urged to call at the ‘office and sign up this week. STEAMER OZARK | Students who have made up work DUE ON AY take make-up test before Friday, FRID. {Professor O’Bryant told The Citi- Sano izen today. . | Senior High School students | Mallory Lines, is due to arrive in|at 9 o'clock Monday morning. 'port Friday morning from Jack-|Junior High Scholo pupils will sonville, en route to New Or-jmeet in th auditorium at 9:30° leans. The ship will leave reg- o'clock. this port and will continue to) SLIGHT MISTAKES DEP’T In the evening of the same day} PUEBLO, Colo—Ralph Barr, another vessel of the lines is due|14, was srtuck by an automo- ‘during the summer months must Steamship Ozark of the Clyde-'are to report in the auditorium ular consignments of freight at} at this port. This is the Alamo'bile while riding his bicycle of Southern College. | Dancing From 10 P. M. To ? a supper and party. There were!definitely at New | ter’s Benediction. facilities proposed at the foot of |which left here yesterday morn-|downtown. He told the driver { GOULD CURRY’S ORCHESTRA |about 75 persons in attendance./many sent 5,408 Allied and Visitors at the meeting were | Duval street, publish a Key West No Admission or Cover Charge | | LAAN ES The boys plan to leave for home Saturday. | neutral vessels to the bottom (Continued on Page Four) in | TI IDIIILI SD Legion Comrades Delgado and |Hotel Directory and begin a gen- Reardon. eral advertising program. ing with shipments for Tampajhe wasn’t hurt. When he got and is due to return Septem-|home he discovered a bike spoke ber 8. . had penetrated his upper arm,