The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 14, 1939, Page 1

cs Associated Press Day Wit Service For 59 Years Devoted to ‘he Best Interests of Key west — > THE VOLUME LX. No. 244, KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1939 NA > Tolls On Overseas Highway Hit Record low hn * (Hy Associated Prens) | WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Pro- posal for a two ocean navy has Business on the Overseas bridges decreased during month of September, according to the monthly report issued to- day from the auditor's office of the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge A total of 4319 cars traveled both directions through the toll | gates during the month, the high | day’s business being recorded at | 452 cars on September 3, the Sunday of Labor Day holiday | period. Southbound cars: totalled 2404, northbound 1915. The total compares with 6098 autos re- corded during the month of August. Passengers in cars and_ buses for September totaled 10550, a/ daily average of 351.7, which a conoRAT total of 14,406. . | Comparing the totals for Sep-| tember with those of the same month last year, a decrease of 1388 cars for this- year is noted, with corresponding ned pas- sengers and collections. Revenue this September amounted to $8,- 748.25, a daily average of $291.61. No release of weekend busi- ness for the first and second ex- eursion periods of this month have been made: Total traffic “for September 30, the first day “of special excursion rates entail- ing a saving of $1.00 per car and driver on the round trip, was 953, slightly higher than the daily average during tfiat month. NOT CERTAIN THAT R.E. CRUMMER WILL BE HERE SUNDAY Attorney J. Lancelot Lester, representing the R. E. Crummer interests in Monroe county, said this morning that no positive an- swer had been received from Mr. Crummer in Chicago as_ to whether he will be able to come to Key West tomorrow or not, Mr. Lester said this morning that he w awaiting telegtaphic advices from Mr. Crummer today as to the possibility of his com- ing to Key W OF DISTURBANCE Advisory from the Key. West Weather Bureau today located a tropical disturbance of moderate intensity about 1,000 miles due east of Key West and proceeding in a northwesterly direction. The disturbance is attended by! a wide area of squally weather and moderately strong winds. Caution is advised smaller ves- sels, Centered about three hundred and fifty miles north northwest of Puerto Rico, the disturbance is well out at sea beyond the Ba- hama Islands and Abaco Bank group. This advisory reports the position of the storm at 7 o'clock this morning. Vessels proceeding toward the Bahamas will find. squalls and rainy weather with brezees fresh- ening at times in strong gusts. Barometer at Key West today was 29.87. This is a good read- ing and has not yet begun to drop. { ~eaust neifNscrn—to Septem STO DS SD been considered ty the Navy De-' , partment for some time and is |now in active consideration. The Maritime Commission has been .interested in the matter. | The two ocean navy would de- {fend both the Atlantic and Paci- jfic shores of the United States. Stephen Early, secretary to President Roosevelt, today re- : iterated that the President has ireceived no peace proposal from Germany. He was answering a New York newspaper article! ‘which declared that the White House was staying “aloof” from peace pleas. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, scientist and noted flier, last |night appealed for a moderate embargo in a “radio address. ‘Those, close ‘fo “the” Administra- | tion, however, reiterated that the | proposal for a revised neutrality ‘act still has a clear cut majority of members in the House. and Senate. ‘TWISTER HITS CITY; DAMAGE | SAID SLIGHT large tree not f old naval i there is a little gr; is a stone marker some small palf nearby. larine Hos- ek ago was tending to Several the doctor Later they seen at the spot the little gra Passing by notic at his occupati returned and w to the grave but Niles, Key West tive of Trumbo Inc., warned them Mr. Niles then Gholsen what wi grave. physician told hi death of his and sen’s beloved pet Hl tle One", i | stricken over the déath they decided to give it decent burial and later refurned to fix up the place. “According to all jreports I was being held guilty of mur- | der or at least complicity in | a plot to cover up the death of an illegitimate child", Dr. Gholsen said. | } } |TORNADO CUT ACROSS WESTERN SECTION OF Is-| LAND AT LATE HOUR LAST | NIGHT | | id haat hahah A small-sized tornado struck i | few moments. | At the Naval Station one of the | port, carried quite a distance, and MEMBERS WILL BE ‘dropped into the water. A sea- GUESTS ithe western section of the is- JAYCEES SET 10 land at 11:30 o'clock last night, terrified residents and left in a | RECEIVE CHARTER | small ganways, which cross from jone pier to the other, had been MIAMI AND CORAL GABLES ripped from the points of sup- (grape tree, which was standing jnearby, was uprooted and an- sat jother was damaged. One of the Plans are complete for the en- tertainment of visiting Junior Chamber of Commerce. members from’Coral Gables anad Miami,, upside down. Meteorologist G. S. Kennedy said that the “twister” cloud’ | Shoals, ie ALL DESTROY Recent Sub Activities May Presage Special Instructions AWAITING : What is the story behind alltwas being refueled. The ships this we’ve been reading about) Were Italian vessels. Italy would submarines, Key Westers have not be violating the neutrality beedteaking act if its ships were refueling the poe submarines since a submarine of Well, here it is! ;@. warring nation may enter Early in the morning on Sep- }American ports for refueling. tember 3, England declared war}However, the stay may be only against Germany. On September ;for a 24-hour period. 6, members of the Pilot Boat} Italian ships have been getting Three reported a submarine off:oil from Mexico and have larg the main ship channel bouy. Cap-j¢ontracts out. They have also eee eae eee tain and crew of the Department;been securing a high-grade of Naval District Headquarters, Key of Interior boat reported: sighting qéuel. oil- from:-Housten, ‘Fexas. a craft resembling a submarine: The German submarine fleet is the same, day, Strange move-' reported to consist of 70 vessels ments of lights in Stream was later reported by as- | 1,000 tons, and capable of long- sistant keeper at American range cruising. Representative {Snyder told Congress yesterday September 15 two destroyers that there were six known in ,arrived in Key West to be. based Caribbean waters. ‘here irived here the following week. indefinitely. Another ar-| This morning the three de- jstroyers, Reuben James, Claxton Tuesday night of this. week ;and Babbitt, are still in port, re- three Navy planes arrived for an fueled and with a heavy load of indefinite basing at Key West: provisions. They have been in Naval Station. Last Saturday night it was re-' when one of the destroyers made ported that two tankers were re- its last daily trip out to the Reef fueling a submarine off Miami.|and the Reuben James came in! Later reports revealed that the| before its patrol limit was sched- two tankers were screening the|uled. At present they are still submarine in between it while it awaiting orders. Col. MacMullen Asks For Information About Towers Lieutenant Colonel J.D. Mac- tion available and who desire to Mullen, U.S.A., informs The Citi. ,do so, communicate with him or zen that the Martello Towers and with Major Webster F. Putnam, Fort Taylor are points of interest Jr at Key West Barracks. Docu- to tourists and that many ques- ments, old clippings, photo- tions are being asked of his of- graphs, or drawings will be care- | an old Marine Railway which! fice, regarding the old brick fully safeguarded and -will be re- swered from information avail- mation is compiled from them. It able in the army files. jis requested that any other in- The colonel says “undoubtedly ; formation be in writing, with the ERS REMAIN IN PORT FURTHER PATROL ORDERS, the Gulf, with most of them small, around | {port since late Thursday | night: which forms into the shape of a! funnel had come down to earth at the edge of the island where the West who have a great deal of data on these fortifications, in| Max Lord were the form of old clippings, photo- who will arrive this evening to! attend the National Charter Pre-} height os sentation Banquet for the local | S°7BWay 2a0 Deen Swept away. Mr. and Mrs. chamber at La Concha Hotel to- home when sud-j asleep in their graphs or drawings of informa- morrow at 12:30 o'clock. jdenly they were awakened by a!” This information was given by | terrific shaking of the house. ‘One| “ion handed down by word of the local Jaycee secretary, Steve | dor pis sae: held pee i a Bice sclisvte iniceseicel Singleton, Ill, who stated also | © air, was real ening 0 fa se e are particularly interest |that local members should make | MS. Lord, fearing it was some in material bearing on the de- ss |strange sort of storm, awakened ‘tails of construction, arrangements to reserve plates at; Mr. Lord, and looking outside! names of persons holding im- the banquet beforehand. jthey saw: a terrible disturbance portant positions in connection International Jaycee director, | kicking up in the. street. ‘with the work, types of guns and Tom Smith of Miami, will make|, Next, door a large aanawease carriages mounted in the old : f trame fell out in the street, torn fortifieations, and _ interesting the charter presentation, local licose by the storm, which was'stories or incidents pertaining te president, Isadore Weintraub ac-!ajso felt\in the vicinity of the the same. In particular, any in-; cepting. jcity hall. Bits of slate roofing ‘formation available on East Mar-; ‘were found in several yards. jtello Tower, including _photo- | Weather Bureau reported that/ graphs or drawings on informa-;: ja strong squall was in evidence from the ramparts to the tower! jat the time. Miami reported a dates, | NOTICE, MASONS! “There will be a District Meet- | | ing of this District Saturday, | small *wister also this week. proper and of the interior gal- {leries will be most useful. October 14th, at the Scottish! | “It Gs possible that-at least a} Rite Hall, beginning at 8 o'clock. ‘i. Weamn's Cab Deeee(Qan ‘restoration of this tower} The Grand Master Ralph J. ‘i | will be undertaken; in any event ; Kishpaugh, will be-present, Pan |SPe pen bal Date ie ic benbeed to take: toe im- { be others. . : portant items of information; All Masons in the city are cor-} CLUB CAYO HUESO available to visitors by means of dially invited to attend. Re-| Benefit American Red Cross |sign boards or otherwise.” . freshments following meeting. It will be appre nee said the JOHN C. PARK, any Key Westers D.D.G.M. of the above informa: ? joct 13-2t have any if known. NOT LEFT POR No destroyer has left Pier B at Key West Naval Station since late } Thursday night. USS. Claxton made its daily trip to the Reef Thursday evening and the returned hurriedly from its Carib- bean patrol Thursday night. The Babbit has been im port. A Miami newspaper report had it that the destroyers left hur- Tiedly yesterday morning. ES VETER MORE THAN EVER PLYMOUTH invites you to Look At All Three! ee Che Kry West Citizen SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. NAVY DEPARTMENT ORDERS OPENING NOVEMBER FIRST CAPT. HARRY L. PENCE, CHIEF OF STAFF, CHARLESTON, S. C., | WILL BE IN CHARGE i (Re Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. ;—Navy ordered today re- j cpening Nov. 1 of the long- | unused naval base at Key West to aid ships engaged in neutrality coastal patrol | Of Atlantic coast and Carib- { bean. A navy spokesman said j advisable at this time in con- nection with operations we are conducting.” The Key West base h been inoperative since 1930. ; . Captain Harry L.. Pence, | nese chief of staff at Sixth t 'Charleston;’S,°C., will be in \ charge. | Before the base was closed, it was active chiefly as a port of call for survey ships and destroyers operat- ‘ing in the Caribbean. Many officials estimated $200,000 was saved anhually by keep- ‘ing the base idle. When the base was shut down, a naval communications station and’ a marine guard was main- tained but official records now list the ‘station merely as “submarine base in- | Operative.” | Lieut.-Comdr!, F. H. Callahan, jin command of Key West Naval } Station, confirmed the above dis- |patech. He is awaiting complete details. His radio advisement | was received last night. | When the Station was in com- ‘mission in World War days, there was a commandant, staff of 22 ‘officers, 65 marines, 150 civilian employes, and. an enlisted naval personnel of 100. The monthly payroll was $54,000. Removed from the Station is | was too small for present size |Station skiffs was also turned structures, which cannot be an- turned when the desired infor-|%¢Stroyers. The machine shop is ‘in good condition. Fuel tanks ‘have never been taken out as the |Station has been often used for refueling purposes. Under re- there are many citizens in Keyjsource of the information given, | habilitation is the Seaman's Bar- ‘racks and four buildings of the officers’ group. The rehabilita- tion was to accominodate a flight lof naval seaplanes, which were to jthe step was. “considered | Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Y BASE TO OPEN Two Ocean Navy Planned: No Peace Plea Germany Makes Last Mite Peace Moves As War Action Waits ‘NO INFORMATION | LONDON, Oct. 14—Rain and ON HOUSING SITES |‘ enveloped the trenches on the | western front today and there is \SWEELEY SAYS NO ONE |"° report of action as yet. | AUTHORIZED STATEMENTS | Nazis are said to be awaiting | MADE IN MIAMI PAPER | \the outcome of diplomatic nego: i _ SERS | No information has been au- aitebt | thoritatively given out on the se-, : jection of sites or appraisals in! Heinrich Himmler, head of the |connection with the $700,000'German secret police, was in housing project in planning for the | Rome today. His visits usually city, states Stanley Sweeley, ' preceed the visit of Feuhrer Adolf Florida representative of the U. Hitler, and: conjecture today is Housing Authority. | W. B. Kirke, chairman of the: ‘at Hitler-may propose that the West authority, reiterates Italians initiate peace plans. the intormation a Pee Turkey. pact is ex “A Miami newspaper had 7 naalan: th itte ‘deri pected ready for announcement e committee was considering yi. ; ili the Trumbo Island. site for the | Tis 18 not @ can ies dr white project and a Thomas street ,'5 ™erely a mutual non-aggres- site for the colored project. sion plans ——-— | Finland today declared that no MAYOR WILLARD M. talliance with Soviet Russia would @ be tolerated by its government ALBURY CANDIDATE 3 negotiations, which are un- |derway at present betaéen .Fin- ‘ Hand afd Hussia in Moseéw, are FOR RE-ELECTION | under ‘strict secrecy With only 2 ne is now! 4 ro PLEDGE AND ANNOUNCE: (cedings, Russia’ secks spn MENT TO KEY WEST PRE- sort of cooperative pact with Fin- SENTED HEREWITH; RE-| land. VIEWS ADMINISTRATION | | itiations before starting the actual | few high”. Finnish governmenta! ‘ NAZI SUB SINKS BRITISH WARSHIY | In this issue of ‘The Citizen jappears the announcement of j Mayor Willard M. Albury for re- ; election to the ‘office he now/| holds. In a conversation with | The Citizen the mayor made the |, > ' {following statements: | aerate OAK’, TORPOEDED | “I take great pleasure in an-| VESSEL, BUILT DURING nouncihg my candidacy for re-| election as mayor of our beloved FIRST WORLD WAR city in the coming election No-j ,vember 14th. As your mayor| ; during this administration I have} (By Assuciated Prewey | tried to be consistent in the per-' LONDON, Oct. 14—Bfitish ‘formance of my duties; making | warship “Royal Oak” was sunk every effort to promote new jtoday by a German submarine business for the development of | with 370 saved and the remainde: our city. I have worked with all |of the crew of 800 still missing departments, including the Fed-| Berlin radio reports boasted of eral Government, trying to es-|sinking one of England’s modern tablish new projects that would | warships, but the Admiralty an- be constructive and create em-| nounced that the Royal Oak was {ployment for the needy and those efforts have been rewarded. I have been unbiased in the af- fairs of our government, working hand-in-hand with the masses 25 years old, having been buil during the World War days. Sh carried a modern torpedo “bulg: which is an extra 18-inch band of steel supposed to stop damage ‘ | hasé here: iiitiia Barine Rail: regardless of color or creed. |by torpedoes. It was also equip- last | Reuben James; way is to be rebuilt under new jorders it must be a great deal }larger. Orders had called for an jincrease of Civil Service person- nel to 50 during the winter. W.P.A. project to rehabilitate the Marine Barracks will get un- iderway Monday. (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Oct. 14—Lat- ,est check on the record-breaking |enroliment of this fall shows |students of Florida State College “When taking my oath of office ' ped with special devices to de- I pledged to the people to be/|tect the presence of submarines. | that 886 out of the total of 1,964! jtheir servant and have tried to! live up to my promises. I have had the honor of receiving many celebrities, including our Presi- Gent, and believe their visits are jthe cause of many happenings of today. Progress of Key West means better business for me and every business house and it is! only natural that aside from my | love for this, my home city, that | | have endeavored to obtain for |Key West all that’ was possible. | “‘Rome was not built in a day’. We must consider that Key West has and is still | } followed — the largest English The torpedoing sinking of the | freighter yesterday and a French vessel also. The airship carrier “Courageous” was sunk recently with a loss of 578 lives. The Ber- lin radio continues to assert that the British aircraft carrier “Ark Royal” has also been sunk, and thus far there has been po con- tradiction from London. Nazis believe that the _ effec- tiveness of the English blockade has been impaired by the recent sinkings. Germany has been | are freshmen constituting the larg- Passing | pinched through England’s stop- est freshman class in history. ping of entrance of all products. | Students by class divisions are as follows: Graduate students, 31; Seniors, 257; Juniors, 311; Sopho- mores, 446; Freshmen, 886; Spe- jcial students, 33, |, | Florida State College ranked ‘as third largest state woman's college at the time of the last who|NAVARRO, Ene -jerve mede on american ool through a distressing financial Period. “If re-elected I promise to con- tinue working as in the. past for |the best interest of our city and if you, Mr. and Mrs. Voter, see fit to re-elect some one élse I will still continue to give my time and bog lies ipr apres Key we to see”, fest city we would all like | EELELET BOIS, COA RGSS Dance Tonight Pena’s Garden Of ie Roses No Senn Chazge—No Cover er oe