The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 27, 1939, Page 1

Azsociated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West U VOLUME LX. No. 281. Kry eat Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. 58. A. German Mines Claim 340 Lives; 42 Ships; King Orders Embargo LISH MINE WORK TO-/LLOYD GEORGE SPRINGS TAL 2,000; GERMANY JOKE ON CHAMBERLAIN, LOSES SHIPS (By Associated Press) LONDON, Nov. 27,— Lloyd George cracked a joke today but for an English- man it was not so bad. Asked whether he thought Chamberlain was involved in the Hitler Munich bombing, he replied it “looked like Chamberlain's work as the bomb exploded 15 minutes late”. | j | | (By Ansociated Press) LONDON, Nov. 27. — Unre-; stricted warfare of Germany in Placing floating magnetic mines in English waters claimed . 340 lives over the weekend. Highest loss of when the Dutch liner, dam”, steamer, sunk. lives came| “Spaan- | A Polish went down. “Pilsudski” : was also i CRIMINAL COURT. . CONVENED TODAY; ONE CASE FRANKLIN WORKHEISER IS SENTENCED ON TWO AS- SAULT AND _ BATTERY COUNTS; COURT RECESSED Criminal Court convened at 9:30 o’clock this morning with Judge Wm. V. Albury presiding, | County Solicitor Allan B. Cleare, Jr., Clerk C. Sam B. Curry, Chief | Deputy Bernard Waite, and other officers present. Venire of jurors summoned Saturday was present, the roll was called, the venire accepted for service, and the judge called the first case which, in fact, con-| sisted of two cases and both against the same man Franklin Workheiser, on charges of as- sault and battery, to both of which he, through his attorney, entered a plea of guilty. Judge Albury passed sentence as follows: On the first charge | the sentence was $35 and costs; and on the second charge the prisoner was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and costs. The costs, however, were remitted if the fines were paid. The judge then ordered a re- cess until tomorrow morning at 9:30 o’clock. HOTEL GROUP MEETS TUESDAY i | sover ‘Finns, Russia is experiencing the | iA GOOD SPANIS RussiaReadyTo. :: Invade Finland; Claim Killing FINNS DENY KILLING FOUR RUSSIAN SOLDIERS AND WOUNDING NINE; EUROPE WATCHES DEVELOPMENTS CLOSELY TODAY (By Associated Prena) LONDON, Nov. 27.—With the /jdiers and claim that.if any Rus- ,Russian army near the Finnish | Sian. lives were lost they were . \lost through’ their own gunfire. meena England watched the’ Moscow levelopments closely today. Fin- land is,so situated that she .can same sort of action which char- | expect little support from. Eng: frontiers and mass Russia denouncing the | 4, yacterized the period’ before she/land... Poland found she could invaded Poland. {not get help because she: was sit- : The average Russian huddled uated beyond the German fron- around his radio and awaited his | tier and away — from: ‘ England. newspaper to get latest news of }Great Britain would have to developments aleng the Finnish cross Norway and Sweden to frontier. It was bitter cold in| give aid to-Finland and both are Moscow today. neutral countries. England could Finns protest that their sol- not go through the German and diers did not fire on Russian sol- | Russian controlled Baltic sea. | DIN It Was Old Story; Learned To Love Island City see nd os Sars shee sac 6 hapa eee Seesvecces ER BROUGHT tee eee Jaycees { Plans have been completed for } compete in the contest for the ‘ title of “Queen of the Orange | mines | Bowl”. Key West Junior Cham- off its ber of Commerce will announce | |the winner next Saturday eve- | |ning at a dance to be given at| DUTCH LINE CONSIDERS | earbo cia: OPERATION HERE Club Cayo Hueso on Trumbo Is. | land. ! According to a recent rumor, Winner will be selected by, the Dutch company whose liner | five judges, all non-residents of | “Spaandam” was sunk today,} | was considering operation of a;ee S| line between Key West and Ha- SAILOR HANSEN vana. A foreign line must put Blackjack Subdued Him: A London bookmaker to- day expressed British cheer- fulness. He gave 3 to 1 odds that the war would not last longer than eight months and accepted any reasonable bet on the point. : "PILI LSI LISI DS SI Ss Heaviest kss over the week- | end was felt by Britain. There ALARM SYSTEM were 42 which nave gone down | i since “unrestricted sea warfare” | began DOWN TUESDAY Germany, too, lost heavily | | over the weekend. She lost two} ' ships which struck mines, three! Electrician Theodore Albury, ! were captured by English war-| who is overhauling and making | ships and one was lost in a/repairs to the lines of the city storm. |fire alarm system, asks sthat in England announced that she) the event of there being the ne had discovered the secret of the|cessity of sending in an alarm to-| : floating mines Germany is loos-| morrow, the telephone should be Meeting of the Key West Hotel ing on her. She claims that the, used. and Tourist Homes Association mines are exploded by magnetic; Work will be carried on be-! force. To combat the menace Eng-,and 4 o’clock in the afternoon. land is using trawlers with|Between those hours prompt re- wooden hulls which work side by sponse will be gained by phoning side with iron chains strung out! 368 at Station Number 1. ! between them. The iron. chains} attract the mines and “ explode} them. | Two thousand British seamen} responded to the English call for | volunteers in mine exploding! work King George officially ordered the blockade against German ex- | ports in spite of Japan’s threat of economic reprisals. Another | i i: feature aiding the English in|ee selection of a local girl their mine work is that French planes will help locate the by scouring the sea coasts. in the ship between the two ports as the Maritime Commis- sion of the United States would | not permit two American ships BW operate over the route be- tausé 6f the competition. NEW ITEM LISTED IN ‘IMPROVEMENTS? FOR MODERN HOS- PITAL HERE Fred Karl Hansen, sailor from a destroyer berthed in this port, | who was tapped with a black-/ jack by a sailor patrolman Sat-} urday night, is reported to be do-! ing very well and ready for dis-; | charge in a few days. { | Hansen was quite “lit-up” Sat-/} |urday night and officer Laurie} ' Roberts of Key West police force | informed him that he was arrest- | ed and started to lug him off to! “Improvements For Key West| jail. At first, Hansen went| Advocated By The Citizen” has|along peacefully, then decided | been a regular feature on the | that force was his piece de resist- editorial page in The Citizen over|ance so he began to lay on the) a long period of years—listing| ground in protest. Officer Rob | tween 8 o’oclock in the morning | afternoon at La Concha Hotel, to 0 Pic Queen At Dance Dec. 2 ;down on the proposed reciprocity has been called for tomorrow assemble at 2:30 o’clock. © Important subjects will be dis- cussed, including progress of the new municipal beach project. ‘k Bowl Seesevcer (From Alabama Journal and Times, Montgomery, Alabama) Key West, that two by four lit-/ selves succumbing fast to the old tle island where every breeze| world charm of this tiny island is a sea breeze and Spanish is| city. A full moon, as round and the language heard on the streets | yellow as a tropic moon can be, ¢laimed the hearts of your Mont-} lighted the brilliant. flowers of gomety traveligrs as the most;the bougainvillaea, the “hibisetis fascinating spot in 2,300 miles of! and the poinciana growing riot- wandering around among the su-|ously over the weathered old perlatives of Florida. They ar-' houses, And-in its bright glow rived ]gst Monday afternoon still'stood <out date and coconut starry-eyed from the beauties of| palms bent by the wind, bread- the overseas highway and found fruit, tamarind, sapodilla and ma- \ the Island City, and will be pick- i to'ed from girls in attendance at ‘nying—they were let down. this affair. Most beautiful girl‘ in the opinion of the judges will be named to represent Key West. “Miss Key West” will be given | an all expense trip to Miami to compete with girls from prac- f tically every city in Florida for the much coveted title. “Queen * of the Orange Bowl” will be given a trip to Havana and a. screen test by a Hollywood Mo- tion Picture studio, | Only girls who are in attend- | lance at the Jaycee dance will be Spanish way that would make an remnants of the old Key eligible. [Bob Saunders is chair-| RECIPROCITY FOR . CHILE 1S UNFAIR SENATOR JOHNSON SAYS) AMERICAN INDUSTRIES AFFECTED (By Associated Press) i LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27.— Senator Johnson today cracked. {miles south of Montgomery) be 'two Montgomerians. the town’a little sleepy looking, |hogany—exotic trees of an exotic a little shabby looking and not, island. The streets were throng- too prepossessing. No use de-|ed+with Cubans, - their: sonorous language. filling the air. © You're Settled in a lovely hotel room ;right, Key West had. theny in’ the the cool hreezes, (remember they | palm of ‘its hand after only one were 375 miles farther south than|evening’s acquaintance. * Cairo, Egypt and a thousand! This was.a lucky trip for these A chance gan to lift their spirits. But it|stop in a tourist must have been during dinner morning brought them ‘the .ac- that they began to fall in love,quaintance of an — altogether with Key West. What a dinner,|charming young man who spent lobster cocktail, green turtle, most of the next two days show- yellow rice with enchilados, that:ing them about his native city. crusty Cuban bread that comes in|The palm lined streets; the long loaves one breaks off, avo-' unique houses, sturdily fashion- cado salad, and a delicious desert'ed by ship’s carpenters to with- of preserved guavas and cheese— stand the gales and made some- all cooked in the inimitable’ times of solid mahogany or cedar; West old rubber heel fair eating and! which was well known to’ sea- iV iman of the Orange Bowl Com- turns good food into something to ,faring~ men when Jacksonville | R | mittee. jsend telegrams about. jwas known as Cow Ford’ and , Outside again the once Tired’ Miami was a nameless mangtove Society Editor and the once'swamp; the Turtle Crawls where Weary. Statistician found them-| (Continue@ on Page Four) Prize Baby Sailfish Is | Reported By Captain Key AWAKENING TO NEWSPAPER WRITERS: What is considered to be the smallest sailfish caught in Key West waters in recent years was landed by Jack Davison, Spalding Ill, landed the Dorna sailfish. It weighed six pounds and was four and a half feet long. The catch was made a few miles off Eastern Dry. Rocks. Daniels. said> many j irable nature for; erts attempted to raise him up meciy = oes amt ona early himself a nd continuing | the coup of kicking Roberts rig! ; sig padi apie been ala: |in the nose, figuring that was the | Beis somes that ee posed of, a new “improvement” | best spot to deposit his protest. {Was unfair o: — rers is listed. It appears as No. 7 in| Arriving hastily on the scene ,and industrialists, as it allowed the list and calls for “A Modern | sailor patrolman reached down | foreign goods, which are produc- City Hospital” in Key West. to arrest Hansen after Roberts | eq at cheap labor, to be broughi . en list | : “ - this editoriai;page feature. And|Promptly landed two boots |Competing with American prod- many have been’ the improve- sin spoeealociad gts chest | ucts. t s a result| very effectively. Now the navy} —— oa fist having’ poy listed in| doesn’t take much prompting to! PALO ALTO, Nov. 27.—For- that column. A recent case in| g0 into action, so Mr. Hansen | mer President Hoover said he point is that item calling for! Was immediately subdued with | did not even read Raymond construction of bridges to the /@ little object known to the fra-jMoley’s “The Last Seven Years’ mainland. ‘ternity as a blackjack. ‘and certainly did not criticize | Mr. Hansen was first taken) the book, which is a summary of NOTICE, CHARTER BOATMEN back ‘to his ship, but continued the Roosevelt i ——— |to perform in great style. He be- | New Dealers ‘claim that Hoover Regular meeting of Key ‘West | gan to bleed profusely. So he ' criticized the book publicly. Charter Boatmen’s Association; was hastened to .the Marine Hos- | will be held tonight. 8:00 o’clock | pital for necessary surgical atten-| NEW YORK, Nov. ®t foot of Gulf Dock. Urgent!tion and today is sitting up injthrop Aldrich is in that you be there. |bed, cheerfully hoping for the, campaign to ‘1 VERAL ROBERTS, future, and awaiting punishment} England and France in Secretary. | from his superior officers. [cent conflict with Germany. treaty which the United States is contemplating with Chile. nov27-lix ,company sales manager, in Jakie iifish D bias “1 walia File | sail were sighted, Key's “Legion” yesterday after- Demetits party's sailfish was six ; noon. feet long: |. The petite sail weighed but| Largest amberjack and _barra- five and one-quarter pounds and! cuda brought in yesterday was a ;Was but four feet three inches ' 40-pounder by United Press jong... Small sailfish are rarely 'newspaperman Julius Frandsen caught since they are difficult to! and a 30-pound barracuda landed jhook, Jakie “thought” he saw by Robert Shields, attorney in \a sailfish jump out in the Stream;Department of Agriculture “at off Sand Key and immediately | Washington: Fishing was done put-out there. Three sails wereion the “Marlin”. It looked for jumped at the same time but jonly one landed. i i Other prize catches landed} were three big amberjack, one} boated by Dick Metz, nationally- known golfer, one by Mrs. Metz, | ii who was a former movie star, :Teef fish quota was also brought} PRP RE SE - KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1939 [FLORIDA BUILDING’ WS INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR STATE CHAMBER OF COM- MERCE COMPILES FIGURES | FROM LEADING CITIES; $13.- | 000,000 OVER LAST YEAR | JACKSONVILLE, Nov. 57.—| October building reported by 39: | Florida cities amounted to more’ than $7,000,000 to give the state’ a gtand total of approximately $57,000,000 for the first ten months of 1939, according to a’ compilation released today by’ the Florida State Chamber of Commerce. } Grand total for the first ten months is $56,993,057, a gain of $13,127,414 over the total of $43,- 865,643: recorded during the same period of last year, it was quoted ‘trom a special building’ report, prepared for the business confer- | ence and. State Chamber annual meeting in Tampa next Monday} and Tuesday. October building this year was valued ati $7,252,670, as compared with only $4,555,854 for October, 1938. This is a gain of $2,696,- | 815. i Leading cities and their Octo- ber totais were: Miami, 001; West Palm Beach, $1,209,-| 035; Miami Beach, $1,003,036; | Fort Lauderdale, $851,699; Jack. | sonville,. $613,712; Orlando, $547,-| 946; St. Petersburg, $387,954: | Hollywood, — $276,863; Tampa. | $167,012; Coral Gables, $145,400; | and Daytona Beach, $113,694. | Other city totals for last month | follow: Sarasota, $71,343; Pensa- | cola, $67,612; Lake Worth, $59, i 085; Delray Beach, $48,686; Plant City, $47,000; Lakeland, $46,411; Clearwater, $48,590; Jacksonville Beach, $36,300; Winter Haven, $30,528; Lake City, $27,500 Lake Wales, $22,350? “Panama, City. $21,280; Winter Park, “$20,250; Otalé, $18,736; Leesburg,’$11,940/ St. Augustine, $11,160; New} Smyrna, — $11,009; —_ Bradenton, | $10,858; Ft. Myers, $7,085; San-| ford, $6,710. i Dunedin, zfs Key West, $3,- | | 715; Sebring, 550; Avon Park, $3,500; Palatka; $3,050; Tarpon} Springs, $3,026; Davenport, $2,-| 500, and Apopka, $1,050. i Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Key West:Housing Project ‘Considers New Trumbo Site - & POEM, FORMER LOCATION TAK- FAMOUS SURGEON __| EN BY NAVY; NEW VISITOR IN CITY, FIGURES BEING AS- Dr, Sterling V. Mead, em- SEMBLED inent dental surgeon of Wash- ington. D. C., was a weekend visitor in Key Wi: st, the guest of Knox Julix . of **i- ami, who is erecting aung camp on Sugar Loaf -ey. Dr. Mead is wide! known as “the Dr. Mavo 0. the having text- books widely used by dent- ists throughout the gation. Another guest Julian this weekefid was Leslie L. Biffle, secrefary for the majority in Uniteg States Senate. 2 Y hercheahahuhaiadeiler NOTED BIOLOGIST TO STUDY HERE LEAVE: FAMILY HAS MOVED TO CITY | | | T. E. Price of Trumbo Prop- ; erties stated Saturday that the jxey West Housing Authority is | theis.Jow. rent, housing units on |Trumbo along Grinnell street | with the area comprising ap- ‘proximately 13 acres. j | First location for the Housing junit was set at north of the |sump now on Trumbo and bor- |dering Garrison Bight. With the |Navy Départment lease for erec- | tion of plane sub base completed last week the housing authority was forced to secure another lo- | cation. 5 | The new location gives water- |front view and the Authority is jconsidering the move fortunate although it means that there must be considerable re-estimates and jfigures supplied the United | States Housing Authority. Dr. L. R. Blinks, Ph. D., of Le- PATROL UNITS - Under the direction of Myrt- |land Cates, the Safety Patrols of |city schools met last Saturday afternoon in Legion headquarters ‘and proceeded to elect officers, jas follows: | President, Billy Ladd; vice- |president, Daniel Sawyer; secre |tary, Jack Costar; assistant-sec- land Stanford University, Mrs. | Blinks, their son John, and Mrs. | ORGANIZE CLUB arrived in the city and are now occupying the home of General | MET SATURDAY AND ELECT- “Dr. Blinks is the head of the! “SAFETY TOPICS Biological department of the | search work during his Sabba- | tical year. tablished’ a bureau of fisheries at Pensacola and Dr. Blinks was of- of the laboratory, but preferred coming to Key West to pursue Hoff, mother of Mrs. Blinks, have Andrews for the season. |. ED OFFICERS; TO STUDY university, and is pursuing re- The Bureau of Fisheries has es- fered &h office there and the use his studies. Yacht Clubhouse C bureau © next | Saturday marked a new step forward for:Key West and the crowning of! the efforts of Com-' modore James D. MacMullen of the Yacht Club and the crew that under his driving force has held to its course ‘in the face of all the impossibilities and probabilities that it has necessary to overcome. : The first teal and tangible hope for the securing of 2 home to which resident and visiting yachtsmen might come in Key West appeared on the horizon’ when Attorney T. E. Price and! Sam Anderson informed the club that.the drawbridge ten- der’s house at the opening into Garrison Bight was theirs for the asking. The hotse had been pretty well “salyaged” by the descend- ants of the “Brethren of the Coast” who used to attend to that sort of thing in a big way in Key West’s early days, and over im- | been i | $1,000 has been spent on it in its rehabilitation. ! More To Be Done t Considerable yet remains to be! done, porches to be screened and! other minor matters, but the! Club feels that it now has one + 4 jof the most beautifully located clubhouses in the country and what. it lacks in elegance, it At Ceremonies Held Saturday . oo | retary, Joe Thompson, Jr. .‘s Fy The following committee chair. Ommissioned {men were appointed: Athletic, |Donald Pearlman; Boxing, Ken- neth Kerr; Refreshment, Forest | Arthur. | About thirty members of. ‘the Patrols were present. The club will meet each Saturday after {noon at 2 o'clock at Legion head- like -a quarters. Safety lessons will be featured and means to raite funds for the trip to Waashington |next June will be discussed. makes up in homely comfort and hospitality. With the sun sinking huge glowing ball over the city that lay across the bight, and a glorious full moon rising over the Gulf ‘of Mexico, the colors were | hauled down as two buglers sent the notes of “Colors” and Com- modoré MacMullen declared the Key West Club House commis- sioned. in the presence of nearly one hundred men and women prominent in the social and busi ness life of Key West, and a nearly complete representation of members of the club. History Read The commodore read a_ brief story of the club and its growth to the group, and then attention . «| at City Halt. fireplace, where. Private ‘Ciemge| The mecting is called for the H. Nodine demonstrated the /©SP¢cial purpose of presentation Army’s competence to keep the of the- budget, complled-hy the ‘ Finance and Budget committee oo nen comang headed by Councilman L. C. ‘Steward Jack R 1, who for | Brinton, aided by, Councilmen COUNCIL TO MEET BUDGET WILL BE PRESENTED TONIGHT; MEETING STARTS AT 7:20 Special meeting of the City Council. will convene tonight at |7:30 o'clock in council chambers months has been getting the house ready for this occasion, was as proud of the success as any member of the club. Officers Elected Pritchard’s orchestral ‘music 8:30 o’clock the club adj to meet at the Chamber of Com-| merce office for the annual busi- ness meeting, at which the fol- a worthy Ramsey and Sweeting. Many changes in city adminis: tration will come up for discus sion at the meeting, including | various economies in several de- | partments. enlivened the evening and. at'six PATIENTS NOW AT journed: | MERCEDES HOSPITAL | »Mercedes Hospital reports the following patients being treated jat the present: Whites—Charlie Culmer, 59; -|Michael Culmer, 69; Jose Cha- leon, 84; Lawrence Atwill, 74. |Colored—Henry Din, 69; Guil- lermo Bolon, 55. ee ge CARs Place your Thanksgiving order Delivered Free. BRADY'S pag 4 naa wae Be