The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 24, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 279. Jaycees. To Sponsor Beauty. Contest For WINNING KEY WEST) GIRL TO RECEIVE FREE! TRIPS; PLANS WILL BE! RECEIVED LATER Bob Saunders, chairman of the | | f | Orange Bowl Festival committee | of Key West Junior Chamber of! Commerce, is making plans to) have the local organization ae ticipate in the" selection of a! Florida girl as “Queen of the Orange Bowl,” | This will be strictly a beauty | contest and is open to all Key} West girls. Girl selected by the; local group as Key West’s pret- | tiest girl will be given a trip to} Miami where she will enter the! contest against girls from all! parts of the state. Winner will Ga aiwvT IIa aa Lions Liked Citizen Editorial—Want More | Mayor, the City Health Officer Réyibiest Lions: edopiad’ a | guests ‘of the Rotary Club at| resolution last night at their regular supper - meeting which highly complimented The Key West Citizen for the excellent editorial appearing in its issue of Tuesday, No- vember 21, entitled, “Enforce Traffic Laws”. The editorial was read to Lions assembled at the meet- ing—and expressions heard on all sides ran to the effect that it would be a fine thing to have more and more of similar-topic articles in the paper. “Our city would come back much faster under leadership of forceful editorials of that nature” is the way one Lion put it. The resolution was intro- n MAYOR, FIVE COUNCILMEN, Orange Bowl Quee {club in any constructive measures j undertaken by the new city ad- ; Che Key West yd Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit tz=P11 THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1939 CITY OFFICIALS ROTARY SESSION ATTORNEY AND HEALTH OFFICER SPOKE; COOPERA- TION RESOLUTION PASSED Five City Councilmen, ; the and City Attorney were honored luncheon yesterday, and all were featured in a program under Ro- tarian William T. Doughtry, Jr., ex-councilman and defeated can- didate for mayor. “ Cooperation of the Rotary ministration and council for the rehabilitation of the city was promised in a resolution adopted at the meeting. Mayor Albury’s talk made ref- erence to the Key West Declara- tion. The mayor expressed him- self as opposed to rackets and racketeers and pledged himself to keep them out of Key West, though he said that he would not be opposed to ary race track since racing is legal in this state. Councilmen Speak- Survivors Relate Of Dutch Steamer Sinking By Nazis OCCURED WEEK AGO IN MID-ATLANTIC; SMALL! BOAT MAKES SHORE, OTHER NOT HEARD i FROM; BRITISH DESTROYER DAMAGED LONDON, Nov. 24. — Dutch; drifted merely waiting for the} freighter Sleibriecht was sunk in}end. High seas and bitter cold} the mid-Atlantic a week ago, |left them in an exhausted state. five survivors who landed on the | They sailed part of, the way into | English coast in a small lifeboat,|land by using their overcoats as: revealed today. It is not known sails and were picked up by a what has become of the other 26 | British trawler. who were also put off in life-| Nazi admiralty announced to- boats. \day that the British destroyer! Survivors said that the German / Belfast was badly damaged by al U-Boat captain came aboard, ex-|torpedé in the Firth of Forth amined the ships papers and in- ;when a German submarine at- sisted on sinking the ship, which |tacked her. Btitish Admiralty | is neutral, and which the crew | would give out no informafion declared carried no contraband jon the matter. If-the report is cargo. The crew had protested true it is the second sinking in violently but the German com- | the fortified Firth of Forth. myander gave them a half hour to | Twenty-four neutral ships have leave the ship. Survivors in two|now been sent to the. bottom b: 1 | “rightful place in the sun” as aj j natural sequence to awakened | ‘Action Will _ JeopardizeBalkanBloc; ieee Neutrals Are Alarmed . CITY COUNCIL FILL LL LBs KING CAROL APPOINTS | { Key West Lions listened to MILD NORTHER WILL | PRO-ALLY PRIME MIN- sound arguments as to why Key | END BY TOMORROW | ISTER; DUTCH PRO- West would come back to herj{ —— | TEST SINKING “Mild norther" is the way Meteorologist G. S. Kennedy of the Weather Bureau characterized the slight flur- ty of weather which came up last night. “Our bright Key West sun will soon send temperatures soaring”, Mr. Kennedy said, “probably by tomorrow”. A slight high pressure area over the southeastern states was reported today but is not of much intensity. It is this area which is causing Present cool winds in Key West. LIONS APPLAUDED |f : CARLETON’S IDEAS Rumanian AT SUPPER MEET SPEAKER PREDICTED sie (By Associnted Press) s ROME, Nov. 24.—Resignation jof the Rumanian cabinet = ‘day is believed by Mussolini fo | Probably imply destruction of |the Italian plans for a Balkan. | bloc. civic and government conscious- ness, at their regular meeting | held last night, expounded by! guest speaker Guy Carleton. Inj the absence of president Day, | first vice-president Gerald Saun- | ders was in the chair. “In my opinion, Key West was! approximately fifty years be-| hind the times before the recent election”, stated Mr. Carleton.| “We are now only twenty-five} years behind owing to the very | Reason for resignation of the |cabinet was that it wished to | supply Germany with more oil ~ fine list of city officials elected. jand King Carol refused to allow By the end of this next two-year | jit. New prime minister appoint- legislative session, if things go | Pa" SSE MS BSB A is Tatarescu, who is generally as I expect them, we should be | N N CE ‘considered pro-ally. caught up”. Thus was predicted | Neutral states near the war the upward trend in Key West— {zone are much alarmed over ap- i i Y |although, as the speaker brought proach of the war closer to,them. duced by Lion Gonzalo Bez- Col. Brinton, chairman of coun- boats soon lost sight of n ot be given an all-expense trip to} Havana and also be given a! screen test by a Hollywood motion picture concern. | Girls interested in the contest should immediately contact Bob Saunders at First National Bank, | Isadore Weintraub at W.P.A. of-! fice or Joe Allen at The Citizen office and register as a con- testant. Detailed plans of the Orange Bowl Festival will be released by | the Key West Junior Chamber of Commerce at a later date. Jaycee directors will hold a short meeting this evening in Chamber of Commerce quarters | in La Concha building. CAR-ROBBED OF MERCHANDISE GARDNERS LEFT CAR PARK- ED NEAR BUSY CORNER: © LOSS SAID SMALL It does not pay to leave valu- able packages in cars unless they are securely locked, and Druggist John Gardner found it out last night, as he told The Citizen this morning. He and Mrs. Gardner had re- ceived the package earlier in the evening and placed it in the’ car. Without looking at the contents, knowing what it contained, they went to the picture show. The car was standing on the street opposite the drug store and the brilliant light at the corner was so bright that they had no idea that any attempt would be made to rob the car. N When they came from the show and looked in the car they found that the -box had been stolen and the #¢ontents ‘moved and the empty contai thrown aside. Mr. Gerdner said that the con- tents were not very valuable and consisted of presents he and Mrs. Gardner had chosen to send to their child relatives. Both were worth probably not more than $10. MOLLS ARE BACK — FOR THIRD YEAR Mr. and Mrs. Moll are visitors for the third consecutive season in Key West, and Mr. Moll said,! when seen by The Citizen today, that he was now preparing to spend the next five months in Key West, where is the finest climate in the world. They have secured’ the resi- anilla. VAL ELL LS PLANES OF BOTH SIDES SHOT DOWN WINTER CONDITIONS HAVE SET IN ON WESTERN FRONT (By Associated Press) LONDON, Nov. 24.—Allies re- | port that eight German planes Have been*shot down within the past 24 hours and Germans state that three Ally planes have crashed from Nazi guns. Winter has settled in earnest on the western front. Where there was heavy mud _ before there is now ice and occasional snow. So many official English dele- gations have visited the Western front that a special guest house has been erected near the front. Army's Taking No Chances INVADER ANY TIME AP Feature Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 24— Maybe nobody’s ever going to try to invade the United States, but the army’s taking no chances. Up and down the Atlantic coast, it’s laying eggs—mines filled with! 200 pounds of TNT. Each mine field is made up of strings of 19 mines set 100 feet apart and about 30 feet under water. To American or neutral ship- ping the mines are harmless, for they won’t explode on contact. But to an enemy they would do serious damage for they can be exploded by electricity from va- rious shore points. On sighting the enemy the harbor defense crew would com- pute his exact position, using the process of triangulation, and would know exactly where he would be in a few minutes. As he passed over a given mine-spot, that “egg” would be sent off. BOG SHOOTS MAN JAMESTOWN, R._ I.—While hunting rabbits, Carl Webster set his shotgun down while he dence of William Watkins at 711/ called his dog which had run on South street during their’stay and ahead. The dog came running will keep in touch with important} back, brushed the gun, hitting events of the times by subscrib- the trigger and Webster was shot ing to The Citizen while they are} in the foot. here. mepatiinse tated DESPERATE DANCE | NEW YORK—When he learn- ed that his brother and sister-in- —— NIGHT law were planning to move in to i live with him, Thomas J. Hene- RAINBOW ROOM OF LA CONCHA HOTEL Rainbow desperate and blew up the house, Quartet —NO COVER CHARGE— which belonged to his father. He has been charged with arson. { i } { | talk given by City Clerk Archie cil’s finance committee, said that | he had been surprised at the spirit of cooperation which pre- vailed among the. councilmen, | city officials and the general pub- lic. He invited Rotarians andi all other citizens to’ express their views on vital miatters pending before city council and promised to give heed to all sound sugges- tions. Each of the other councilmen present promised their assistance in helping the city out of its fi nancial and operating difficulties } and agreed that politics should be displaced by constructive action in behalf of “worthwhile things” benefitting the entire ¢ommun ity. “I will’ do all. in my power to advance the weifare and safety of our citizens”, Councilman Car- bonell promised, “I will listen to the advice and suggestions of Rotarians and oth- ers before taking any action”, Councilman Grillon said. “I will stand for &nceasing ef- fort for the progress of Key West”, Councilman Sweeting asserted. “I will undertake to under- stand the other fellow’s view- point and act without personai animosity”, Councilman Ramsey declared. “We need constructive critic ism”, City Attorney Lopez stated. Roberts Lauded | Dr. Warren lauded the short | Roberts at Monday night’s organ- ization of city council. In that talk Roberts emphasized the im- portance of moral and spiritual factors in conduct of municipal affairs. “Don’t expect the impossible from your city officials”, Dr. Warren advised. At the conclusion of the talks, President William V. Little con- gratulated the city, councilmen and officials and suggested a resolution, subsequently introduc- ed by the Rev. John Gekeler, as. suring the municipal officials of the club’s support and coopera tion. President Little announced. the board of directors of Rotary club will hold a_ dinner-meeting atj 7:30 p. m. Thursday at Hotel Laj Concha, and advised the directors | to bring their own money to) pay for their food. WPA CONCERT | | | Yacht Club and their guests will | the Clubhouse, around the new frounded by jwhere before was heard only the) GAME TOMORROW: TO TAL- each |the mines released by Germa: other in the heavy seas. ‘airplanes in British waters. The At times the five gave up hope; news of airplane dropped mines of ever seeing land again andj caused a great stir in London. Yacht Enthusiasts Primed For Open House Event Tomorrow Members of the Key West: of the housewarming outside of meet tomorrow afternoon at their | Clubhouse at the Garrison Bight to inspect the Clubhouse building 2 and facilities, and enjoy the; After the meeting, the mem- - hich has been | C!S OMY, will meet at the Cham- | house warming which has been {ber of Commerce .at 8:30 o'clock planned by the members. jand the annual meeting will be Space in the building is limit-!held and many matters of inter- ed and following the inspection jest to the club will be discussed, members and guests will . as- | including the Garrison Bight im- | semble, the directors have de-| provement project and the In- cided, to hold the principal events |land Waterway extension. | ‘The report of the nominating | {committee which is composed of ITS OLD SELF /\d, ¥. Porter, Jr, B. D. Trevor ONCE MORE ana Dr. Amado Cobo, will feature Deedee Gta | this. slate: (ity Asnociated Press) | Commodore, Melvin E. Russell; PARIS, Nov. 24—The giant; Vice Commodore Horace P. Con- stadium of Colombes, on the out-|nable; Rear’ Commodore, Albert skirts of Paris, which served as a'E. Peirce; Associate Director, concentration camp for some 2,-|Charles S. Taylor; Junior Direc- 000 Germans caught in France at | tor, S. C. Singleton, III; Secre- the outbreak of the war, , has/tary, S. C, Singleton; Treasurer, | been returned to less grim pur- | Ross C. Sawyer, Jr. suits. The French government an- nounced that the stadium, which tconsists of a huge bowl sur- subsidiary sports ‘fields, is now “demolished.” Once more the thud of leather- | shod toes on footballs and the shouts. of eager athletes resound | outdoor fireplace, while Pritch- ard’s Orchestra is neard in selec- tions. SAWYER AND PAPY ON WAY TO GAME WILL SEE GATOR’S FOOTBALL | tramp of armed guards outside} the gates and the subdued con- | versation of the prisoners abuts in. ' { Where the Germans were tak-| Representative B. C. Papy and! en remains a secret. When ask- Clerk Ross C. Sawyer of Circuit ed about it one French official Court left over the highway at! merely shrugged, smiled and! noon today en route to Gaines- said, “The Provinces,” which ville where tomorrow they will| might mean anywhere in France witness the football game be-! outside of Paris. tween Georgia Tech and the Uni-} versity of Florida. They will afterward proceed to —_—_—— | Tallahassee where Mr. Sawyer} NEW YORK.—The habit of} will present to the Internal Im- Mrs. Sylvia Zahn, 20-year-old’ provement Board a nimber of bride of eight months, of taking ‘certificates representing 17,000 a daily artificial sun bath while | parcels of land which were not LAHASSEE ON MONDAY DIES IN TUB duction of a resolution to coop- ; ver on world public opinion, but out, plenty of cooperation was | |needed. “It would be a fine thing | if residents would drop in at} council meetings ever so often”, | he suggested. “Let them know ; what you want—keep them on j their toes”, was another high- | light statement. Explaining in full his “pet! | Project” of reducing noise in this city, especially auto-horn blow- | jing, Mr. Carleton predicted an/ ‘exceedingly bright future if ai “pee “drastic new war meas- {ideas in ‘that connection were carried out. ” i Pe Business at the session treated | ro, ta abet rap “5 en sab inte on further cooperation in the |*?0W® whether this a ae Christmes Benefit project, intro-| attack from the sea or air. England simultaneously an. erate with the county clinic in|nouneed that it has secured ‘procuring. additional «personnel, | “means. to. combat” » the “rmenace and» pushing of the Duval Street| of magnetic mines dropped by White: Way project. |German planes in British waters. BRITISH BLOCKADE WITH DRASTIC ACTION (By Associated Press) LONDON, Nov. 24——Germany has declared that it will soon INACTION “ON THE WEST German Command Split Into Moderates And Extremists eee eee MAY REFLECT NAZI CONTROVERSY + LPCCOOO SOO aaOs HOSES DESO ESE OES ELAS By MORGAN M. BEATTY, AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—The blunder in 1914 was to put the story persists in responsible inter- British empire in a position to national circles that the German oppose the Reich. “That”, said high command has definitely Goering, “can’t happen again”. split into moderate and extremist But the Nazis apparently were wings, with the moderates on top convinced that the British would —up to now. not fight in 1939. So, the story The moderates are supposed to goes, they blithely promised” the be holding out to the bitter end moderate army chieftains that against invasion of neutral Bel- they wouldn’t have to fight on gium or Holland. They not only the Western Front. And on that fear the impact of such a maneu: basis, Germany invaded Poland. Hitler Keeps Promise also they ‘ate wondering if Rus-' Now the Nazis seem to be on sia might not change friends in the spot. They apparently have the ‘midilé of the mejee—and agreed not to fight on the west- hem the'"fatherland about with wall. And Herr Hitler, apparent- the strongest military trap ever ly, is keeping his faith with the cevised by man. -moderates—so far. Flank Movement Out i That leaves the old-line mili- These moderates are also ad- tary caste on top of the heap, de- vising Hitler he can’t expect to spite the mysterious death in Po- flank the Maginot Line in 1939 land of their former commander- or 1940 any more than the Ger- in-chief, Colonel General Werner man army could-flank the Allies von Fritsch. The general had in 1914. been demoted to retirement only They're telling him the net re- a few months earlier because he sult would be to achieve nothing failed to keep step with the fue- more than submarine and air hrer. ERN FRONT lying in the bathtub is thought covered by the Murphy Act, and responsible for her death, pro-'Mr. Papy will attend a caucus duced by electrical shock and | of members of the House of Rep- { IS POSTPONED There was no concert by the WPA band at Bayview Park last night for the reason that the mu-j{ sicians found it impossible toj keep the music on: the racks, be-! cause of the wind. ‘ It was stated this morning that the selected program, which ‘had | been arranged by Professor Al- fredo Barroso for last night, will be played at the Art Center on Sunday afternoon: hen, 26, a house painter, became} Raul’s Hawaiian Big Floor Show 16 P06 ae? ADMISSION: subsequent: drowning in the tub. | resentatives, | S. A. COHEN... REPRESENTING The..Maxwell Company ' Wholesale Furniture And Furnishings WILL BE IN KEY WEST AT SOUTHERN CROSS HOTEL Mi Day Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 24-25 For Interviews Or Contacts With Anyone Interested COUPLE | bases closer to the British Isles, ' at the expense of many thousands’ yj i i ‘terial of lives. Meanwhile, the German’ seams Hey ee with, bat facts army's fighting front would be about the Western Front. It ex- doubled in length to nearly 400 plains why the Germans have miles, from the Swiss border to moved 31 divisions—a complete Ostend, Belgium, and half of it army—ihto position on the Bel- ‘gian and Dutch borders. And it would be unfortifiéd. But what's more interesting is also explains, in part, why these , troops have not yet gone into the reason given for the mod- erates’ strong position in Nazi in-' action. It explains why the Ger- her cireles: Here’s the way the mans have not yet used the full | force of their tremendous air arm! | NEW MEASURES TO RETALIATE AGAINST |Holland will soon lodge protest {for its rights especially in Ger- jmany’s sinking of its ships. Scandinavia has issued a state- |ment that the “Guilt is sharplyy jwith Gegmany in recent sea atrocities.” They re-emphasized | their neutral position. | General Balbao and _ other |Italian staff which has been sta- tioned in Africa visited Rome ‘and Mussolini today for a_ re- \hearsal of Italy’s war strength. | Germany revealed that it has captured Richard Stevens as one ‘of those who instigated the ‘Munich bombing. Stevens was jon his way from. Holland to negotiate with German leaders. He was seized at the border. Stevens. was also active in the. |Spanish Civil War: ’*> “ark | STATE. RESTS IN FRITZ KUEN TRIAL | STRIKERS CLASH AT CHRYS- | LER PLANT; NEGOTIA- TIONS DEADLOCKED | NEW YORK, Nov 24.—Sensa- ‘tional witness in the Fritz Kuhn grand larceny trial is his “lady friend”, Mrs. Florence Camp, who was called by the defense today jafter the prosecution rested its case. | tra Bee | DETROIT, Nov. 24.—Clash be- | tween police and strikers at the | Chrysler plant climaxed a 50 day long strike. Two hundred Jabor- ers tried to force picket lines at | the plant. Negotiations are again in deadlock stage. RITES TOMORROW ~ FOR JOHN CURRY John Henry Curry, 89, died this morning at 6:30 o'clock in the residence at 908 Eaton street. Funeral services will be held to- morrow afternoon from the chapel of the Lopez Funeral Home, 4:30 o’clock. Rev. William Halladay will officiate. Pallbearers, who have been selected to serve, are: Chester Thompson, Robert Saunders, Le land Sawyer, A. H. Montecino, Charles Mathews and Blake Rob- erts. The deceased is survvied by two daughters, Mrs, Antonio Gan- dalfo and Mrs, Myrtle Demeritt; two brothers, Hezekiah Curry and Norman Curry. There are also six grandchildren and three great grandchildren. MILLIONS FOR BABIES against it. They said it would | spring. draw the British into war. They reminded the fuehrer that even his No. 2 man—Hermann Goer- ia not want to fight the} CHICAGO.—“I wish you'd hur- itish. moves: would mean that war would be} ROME.—During the first eight jon in earnest. And the moder-|™onths of 1939, the Italian gov- “| ates don’t want war to get-going. ;€™mment paid out $3,600,000 as “| According to the grapevine, hae rod to parents of large fa | still h way can be found ' But the moderates. advised to call the whole thing off by! i me one | DANCE mi af - jy, thi ge have 5 told a fa-! in Louis”, commented Incidentally, Goering a Py that the German in traffic court here. 4 we important