The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 8, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the . Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 213. Early. Fall Of Warsaw Che ry THE SOUTHERNMOST NE} SPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FR City Council 10 Raise AY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1939 BACKGROUND OF THE WAR Digest Of War News | | | Pres. Roosevelt est Citizrn PRICE FIVE CENTS Cals Prétictéd;. Troops From Fund To Make Payroll From All Fronts SAAR RICH IN COAL With the rich Saar Basin in For Increasé In Army Egan AS French woe xe Taken Up During Regu- FOR TORTUGAS’ ithe southwestern part of Ger- (iy Associated Press) LONDON.—On the fronts are lar Meeting Conducted |many surrounded by a Siegfried | 3 ‘line in front of it and another’ Last Night ‘behind, the French yesterday ; jopened heavy fire on the forti-| ifications. A little of the Saar | | ‘Approximately 30 men who are assigned to the work activi-| |ties now being. conducted under | ‘the Works Progress Administra- | ~ BULLETINS (By Associated Press) three developments today. | (1) German troops from 25, miles away are applying a huge; Lo“poN—with the Duke of pincer process on Poland's capital,| Windsor reported to be in Eng- land tcday, authoritative sources said that it was likely that he would take up active command jof the Welsh Guards, command of which he still holds. | Warsaw, with one salient coming in from the north and another; from the south. (2) After the heavy shelling | LONDON.—Londoners are very terday, France's formidable 79. | well content ‘withthe . yoke (of wartime regulations, but they tanks are reported leading an ad-|have not become accustomed to vance. the closed moving picture thea- | = (3) English planes. droppe a; Fes Thousands have milled: - jaround ihe closed amusement 3%2 million pamphlets over Ger- | places asking when they will open again, of the German Siegfried line yes- | i i =n i falling over even into Denmark.! RIO DE JANEIRO.—The Brit- - \ish Steamer Andalusia Star was contained pro: reported safe in port today after paganda stating that England was eing unreported for many days. i eee not warring against the German) HALIFAX.—The City of Flint, |bringing 200 survivors of the Athenia disaster, is expected in Germany claimed thaf the sur-' this port today. many today with many of thern| The pamphlets people but against their leader. render of Warsaw may be as close | LONDON. — British Steamer | Regent Tiger was reported sunk iby German submarines with its English soldiers continued to crew of 44 rescued. their | as a few hours away. | NEW YORK. — New York place alongside the French. Neu- | Stocks are still the highest they i have been since March 15. pour into France to take tion at Tortugas, left this morn-| City Council, at its regular |Projects in front of the German! ing on the Coast Guard vessel| ? jline of fortifications and this the | 185 in command of Captain! ™ecting last night, adopted @iFrench have taken. In the area, August Bradley. They will re- resolution in connection with ;Coal production yearly runs, sume their work on the National | around 13,500,000 tons. The area | Monument at Fort Jefferson on! borrowing $5800 from the First/is 751 suare miles with a pop- Garden Key. Naticnal Bank for the ou: re julation of 777,909 mostly evacuat- BRUNSTETTER, D.G. Also leaving as a passenger was! jed in the past few days. There! Walter K. Light, | making one month’s payroll for |are also large iron( glass works, OF FLORIDA: LIONS gunners mate; second class of the U. S. Coast | itobacco, chemical and metal Guard, who was this week trans-|*#® Sity employes. jutensil production. During the ferred to the Lighthouse branch) The matter of hiring a special | World War the French were de-| of the service nad has been as-| man to work up WPA rojects, cisively defeated by the Germans! signed as second, assistant keeper | which are to be fica: a 2s near Saarbrucken. pie tnt Spe en the city, was taken up for discus- |s7yMANE’ SUBMARINES sion, and the council decided t Guard Cutter Tallapoosa, meet again next week to take An encouraging note was noted FACULTY MEET \definite action toward employing jyesterday among more sinkings TELLS OF DISTRICT'S PLANS FOR COMING YEAR: STATE PREPARES FOR HAVANA CONVENTION And Navy LOCAL CLUB HEARS| Personnels WILL BOOST FIGHTING FORCES IN LINE WITH “PEACE TIME” REQUIREMENTS FOR DE- FENSE PURPOSES; MAY CALL SPECIAL j SESSION OF CONGRESS * i i (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—President Roosevelt, claim- ig emergency power from existing laws, today ordered lan increase of Naval and Military forces within peace time ' limitations. | The increase in Navy and Army personnel was made | the President said, in order to adequately pro- |a man for this purpose. of British reighters. The Ger-j jthe swimming pool along Roose- to escape in lifeboats. In the|Lions Club of Key West, with necessary, velt Boulevard. The council ap- pointed a committee to look into . the matter. Z man subs are giving warning of; ‘ aren jA jetter was reed : from the ite intention to” sink ihe} Last night was “Dlstelot (Gov- Lions Club relative to the neces r ‘ ‘ernor’s Night” at the meeting of ‘sity of repairing the planking at|{eighter and allowing the crews /TiN0) S 1B of Earl E. Hamilton, principal of Division Street School, has called a meeting of the faculty for to- case of the Olivegrove sinking, one of four yesterday, the Ger- {Lion Roscoe Brunstetter of Miam: resent. as guest speaker, in his | tect the Panama Canal, Puerto Rico and other national de- |man sub commander even gave ;°aPacity as Governor of District | fences, morrow afternoon 2:30 o'clock in! the school auditorium— { Professor Hamilton urges all teachers to be present as prepara- tions for opening of school Mon- day will be made at that time. Harris School Prof. W. C. Duncan, principal jat Harris School, also announces that the faculty at that institu- tion is requested to meet . with: him at the school auditorium at i A telegram was read from Guy } Carleton protesting against the proposed establishment of a beer saloon at the corner of Windsor Lane and Olivia street, whic’ faces his property. The council decided to look into the matter; at once, and the Tax Collector! was instructed not to issue any | such license until instructed to do so by the mayor. Following the reading of the report of the chief of police for ] i :other subs rose to the surface and ,SPeech was the invitation, brought ; \aided in sinking of the ship, after |bY him from all clubs in the Mi-j {the crew were allowed off the crew their correct course and ;29, South. Meeting was called a checked their compass. However /0rder by. Lion: president H. -E. one British ship fired on a sub/Day with a good turnout of mem-; at two miles range. The sub won | bers.to welcome the state official. | the battle whereupon three} Headlining Lion Brunstetter’s| that full limit. In the army a peace time army personnel of 280,000 men ig allowed, but the President’s increase will not be to For the navy, the increase is also made necessary to in @mi area, to cooperate in bringing ! a . jifeboats. The American em-{&S large a percentage of Lions as| man the third of the World War destroyers which are now ‘bassy in London states that the Possible via Miami and Key West |, .. Par - English iar Wseaaed ae tact of.to the Havana International Con- | being recommissioned for patrol duty 200 miles off shore to report the presence of any craft of belligerent nations. 40 German U-Boats off Ireland; vention next July. The President announced too that he would ask Con- pleased to learn that.a local com-} tral observers pointed out thal) . | Fratice- end Englatid have cap-}~%-ONDON.—Over 6,000 men |amd women soy suspects have been arrested in London by Scot- ritory. that they are merely feel. | 100d Yard. tured no important German ter- ing cut the German line to test) BERLIN.—Nazis_ report only . | 25,000 Polish prisoners have been’ it for weak spois and if such' captured. They also have only ill i ‘120 pieces of artillery from the spot: fi t il - wots. are: found ther) WAL inune As | fckcen’ ebiekisl shall che diately begin a major offensive. Poles have destroved most of the equipnient which would fall into 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon: snes collected during the month of August, which showed that] SCHOOL’ QPENA MONDAY, $76 had been taken in during that San Carlos Institute School will period, the councilmen expressed open on Monday, September 11, themselves as not being satisfied with Miss Benildes Remond as with the small amount, and re- principal. quested the mayor to make a Mrs. Josefina Esquinaldo -will, check up on the police force’ and ; also) be one of the téachtérs, ascertain why there was not more ; while Miss Elva Esquinaldo will arrests being made for law vio-| outlays were $275,000,000,000, but all costs. considered the total could be $2,246,400,000,000 or a $1,000,000 a minute. Currency mittee had already been formed Actual World War governmental ' be the English instructor. } lations, as it appeared on the Dr. J. R. Sanchez): president of surface that if the police force! the San Carlog ‘Thstitute,' states got busy there were many ar-| that according to indications, the rests that could be made for dif- | depreciation or outright default is the method France and Eng-} land. used to. pay its debts in the equipment. $1,000,000 A MINUTE a Economists placed the World War cost at $1,000,000 a minute with everybody paying the price. and=-that-~emphasis: -was being placed on the campaign designed to bring delegates through Key est. Lion Brunstetter promised that! the Miami area clubs would be! glad to help advertise Key West | and the Overseas Highway in all} appeals sent to International members throughout ‘the nation. Advance plans for ‘the’ State ,Conyention tobe held in Holly- with their new sub detecting! The District Governor was; ress to repeal the arms embargo, “when”. Congress-svili The President’s “when” is taken to mean that Congress will be called in special ses- be called for a special session. sion shortly. With Britain's colonial South Africa declaring. war | against Germany ‘yesterday, provisions of the: Neutrality | Act will apply to that country. Although Canada’ has not German reinforcements have been rushed up all along the line of the French bombardment yes- ierday. | Much fighting is near Saar-! The the brucken in heavy woods. few pillboxes captured by French are all in thé outer de- | fenses of the Siegfried line. | DENIES STATEMENT ABOUT SUBMARINE : Captain G. Cameo Olsen, mas- ter of the Norwegian Steamship Raila, which arrived in port Wed- nesday-morning from Montreal, a The Citizen this afternoon to say that neither he nor the officers of his Canada, visitor to ROTARY CLUB SEES PICTURES OTHER ACTIVITIES AT REGU- LAR LUNCHEON ON THURSDAY | { | | ' Motion pictures of the 1939 Ro-; tary International Convention, which was held at Cleveland, Ohio, was the main bill of fare n this week’s Rotary program} at the regular luncheon-meeting ! held yesterday at Parish Hall. | The pictures were secured, through Everett W. Russell, who, | with Sebastian Cabrera, Jr., were delegates from the Key West} club. { Past-President E. A. Ramsey} inducted into membership Com- mander Carl Hilton, and Fire! last war. Currency depreciation causes the thrifty and large mid- jdle class to lose greatly in the coming school term will be a very ferent violations now apparently successful one. j being passed up. Su To Public Monday & aut, Yacht Basin, Breakwater SAFETY PATROL Drive, Ball Field Closed; | Believed Part Of Coun- try-Wide Order e iput away, and also because it | costs more to live. Outright de- . }fault amounted to $14,000,000,000 to the U. S., interest and prin- ‘cipal, in the World War. A great {deal of wealth is shot away into \the air and used to destroy wealth. | AIR RAID HUMOR There is humor in London air raids: One gentleman’s hair was jlooks like Holland tunnel, when his dentist joined the army after jyanking his teeth one day. Signs GIVEN BADGES, ere of air raids”; “Nuts to Hitler’, ;“Arf a mo’ Adolf, we are com- .ing”, on busses. One drinker told \he could get no more whiskey be- jeause of war restrictions an- nounced, “That's all right, |sacrifice for England.” Safety Patrol of St. Joseph's |School this. morning were issued | belts and badges by safety patrol : director Myrtland~ Cates. The The Yacht Basin, formerly | boys who have been selected as cid ie he WN DiAL one known oe. of the patrol are Captain lea: Y |John Costar, Jr., and Lieutenants | FOOD PRICES JUMP value of the money they have! yhalf shaved off. Another’s mouth ; read, “Please do not loiter in case } any | wood Wweré dlso’ presented to’,the jclub. This affair will be held} _early in June, 1940. H | Lion R. E. Thiel of Miami ac-; companied Lion Brunstetter on ithe trip to Key West and was _also a guest at the meeting. | Bernie C. Papy was also a club iguest. Mr. Papy spoke in favor ‘of the projected move to invite .all Lions in International Asso- ciation to “Come Through Flor- jida” on their way to Havana. ‘COUNTY BOARD jas yet declared war a neutrality proclamation has been | prepared anticipating its entry. | President Roosevelt zaid he would ask nothing else | of Congress at the special session. In line with neutrality provisions, bulletins from Rome reveal an attitude of willingness by Mussolini to negotiate for peace with Britain and France after the conquest of | Poland. | Italy believes that Poland will be conquered some \time over the weekend. Meanwhile her neutrality at MET TODAY IN | present is etill very strictly being observed. Today the oy Italian liner, “Rex” was ordered to resume her schedule SPECIAL SESSION | to the United States. Regular train service between Rome MAKES FINAL DECISION TO | and Paris was also ordered begun. PURCHASE, BONDS OF MON. | ROE COUNTY TO AMOUNT | OF $178,000 | Poland, but stated positively that she would not enter into | the war on her side. From Bucharest further neutrality provisions came when Rumania agreed to continue sending supplies to © the Submarine Base, at ‘Daniel Sawyer and Albert Parra. ae Re ace sacra | Patrolmen who have been se- jlected to act are: William Wer- jner, Charles Curry, Dario ship nor the crew, saw the sub-' Chief Harry Baker. Mr. Ramsey marine which was reported to be explained the classification sys-'the Naval Station, will be closed near his vessel and seen by mem- *€M on which the Rotary Club | jumped | Many j their al- Prices of foods have greatly due to war needs. suppliers have withdrawn j £ | Special meeting of the Board | of Couhty Commissioners wag) bers of the Raila company. ;membership is based, emphasized *© Private boats and the general the importance of constant | Sanchez, Fred Valdez, John Bush, |Price quotations entirely, hold today 11 o'clock for the} at-> In fact Captain Olsen seemed tendance. and read ideats to be very much disturbed over and aims .of Rotary. i the report that the submersible, The; past-preSident explained’ was seen by him and members of | What was expected of the new; ee Bess : ._|members, as Rotes, and stressed the personnel of the vessel, as re the motto of Rotary Internation- | the public Monday at 8 o'clock in Albert Peterson, Robert Dion, | Joseph id K th Rob- the morning. according to Navy noi, Rgunce ee ee £3 Department orders received to-' Patrol Director Cates said the Bie |Patrol had been placed in charge day by Lieut..Com. F. H. Calla- of Sister George of the Convent jof Mary Immaculate. though agreeing to supply the iwar market. rose about ten cents a bushel jlast week, flour prices went up {forty cents a barrel. Raw sugar ; went up a quarter cent a pound and prices were withdrawn later. Wheat at Chicago ; purpose of further discussing the | Bond situation and it was ulti- mately decided to purchase bonds of Monroe county to the amount of $178,000. Present at the meeting were Chairman Carl Bervaldi, Com- Key West Shoppers ported in another paper, and said |g}: “Service above self. He 2am of Key West Naval Station. ! Official installation of the Sweeping advances in grains,| missioners Braxton B. Warren.) he was very glad to notice that profits most who serves best” i} The Citizen was not responsible'” Guests present were: Wallace’ a © es report in connection with A ‘Thomas, area supervisor of the ' xis ship . AL: Captain Olsen said that tele sare a — Raila came into port for the pur-|" AN Rotarians are requested to pose of receiving orders and they be present next week. The pro- had been received this morning} gram will be on “Club Service” and he was preparing to leave! . port this afternoon, 6 o’clock, for Aruba, Netherlands, West In- dies, and will be in charge of Charles! \S. Taylor. { | Seaeeecscnseeccce | Tennessee Fryers, iB Farewell Vacation—Hello Florida Battery Raised SCHOOL DAYS DANCE stewtes te. HABANA.MADRID CLUB pene ee TONIGHT—10 P. M. Brady’s Poultry Market = Gould Curry’s beans ele Os Agta White aeotle sia! Rae TRAE AES ep LL Roles’ 31c 33e This will mean that the Yacht | patrol will take place within the lard cottonseed oil, ee ee i i xt 10 days at which time Clif-:and cocoa were seen in a apn beonkrsior eee me | ford Bi aw. manager of are American Institute of Food navy baseball field grounds will) Stn Plorida Motor Club. will Distribution said higher prices be closed to the general public,!be in Key West and officiate at| would come more quickly _ this Lieut.-Com. Callahan said. Hun- | the installation. alg ad aga Sapedien at dreds of yachts had been berth- | —————_—__-______ 50 this war on hides, tin, leather, ing at ee Sub Base at the three |before the closing of the gates. | wool goods, wood pulp, burlap, piers there’ with 38 -fert of water | CTuising of boats in the Basin |some chemicals and drugs, ferro : : will also not be allowed. manganese, molybdenum, tungs- in the Basin. The breakwater! The W.P.A. lease expired Sep-|ten and other armament ma- drive, which borders the main tember 1, and negotiations were | terials. | ship channel, was a popular spot | underway for the city to lease for tourst anglers and sightseers. | the Basin. Disagreement on the The baseball field had been used; problem of supplying fuel and by city players but at present is | foodstuffs had caused no action used only by junior and colored to be taken in the matter. The ball clubs. orders received today, however, Emphasis is placed on the fact|are believed to be part of coun- that owners of boats must take|try-wide orders for all naval sta-| phone 22211 them out before Monday morning | tions. Wm. Jenkins Curry, Sawyer and the attorney, Clerk Ross C. w. | eeedentative B. C. -Papy and Peace Justice E. R. Lowe of Tav- ernier. At the regular meeting held Wednesday night bond offerings made through the State Board of (Continued on Page Four) H. Monsalvatge and T.| Curry Harris.» Also present were | - Protest Price Raises pie. had already taken place. | In Itne with shopping centers all over the U. S., Key West add-| Then, on the other - hand, ed her voice this week to the | wholesalers locally show evi- complaints about the “higher cost|dence of having to pay more of living”. Rference is made to|money for commodities from the the 20-25% raise on several|manufacturers and distributors, |} commodities, leaders of which|so, in lieu of positive informa- \are sugar, lard and pork. tion, the general public, once |. Retailers in this city, contacted|again the apparent “goat”, is led in a general survey by The Citi-|to believe that it’s just another case of “passing the buck”. Of prime importance is the knowledge that Federal authori- ties have. taken cognizance of the situation, and following in- (Continued on Page Four)