The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 12, 1939, Page 1

Azsociated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 294. Che Kry Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. bs KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TU Douglas. Fairbanks, Sr, Digs In Hollywood Home Folowing Heart. Attack FIP POPPI AA A RED CARNATION WAS 55 YEARS OLD; ROMANCE AND MAR- RIAGE WITH MARY ELKS’ PREXY INFORMS ON: SCHOLARSHIP NATIONAL FOUNDATION PRIZES OPEN TO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; ELIGIBILITY POINTS GIVEN Chelsea S. Senerchia, presi- sociation, has sent the foliowing letter to B. P. O. Elks, 551, of | ‘Offers Novel Occupation ; fe LOOM: ON DISPLAY | PCCCOCCCCCCCCCCoCCOLCLC® The Chamber of Commerce thas a product from the -hand- loom of. Mr. and Mrs, Sycks on exhibition at present, which may |well be the beginning of a new, jand brighter era in many homes ‘in Key West. The Sycks are re- |dent of the Florida Elks As-'cent additions to the population Sell of Monroe County has been} fof our city. PRODUCT OF HAND _——. ESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1939 STATE REFORM | She AND KNOWLES, RE- CENTLY SENTENCED, TO BE PLACED ON PROBATION UNTIL ROOM IS AVAILABLE | | Juvenile Judge Juliette Rus- | notified by the superintendent C Unless one has seen the magic ‘of Florida Industrial School for | PICKFORD RECALLED TO WEAR EACH DAY that can be wrought on a simple AP Feature Service SACRAMENTO, Calif.. Dec. 12.—Joe Kisber's mem- ery of his world war perils is always fresh. It blooms daily in the form of a red carnation. In 1917 Kisber was in France with George McCar- ty. McCarty worked for a Sacramento florist and hoped to live to get back to his job. “If we get out alive, Joe”, he told his buddy, “I'll give you a flower for your but- tonhole every day, as long as we live”. “All right, make it a red carnation”, Kisber laughed. (By. Axnociated Press) HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 12. Dougles Fairbanks, great movie actor of the silent screen days, died here at 1 o'clock this morn-| ing at the age of 55, following a heart attack suffered yesterday. Death came peacefully with no member of his family being cog- nizant of his condition. Fairbanks had appeared in his usual haunts yesterday and Key West, explaining the elig- ibility of those who may par- ticipate in the Elks National Foundation Scholarship Prizes. That this matter may be made hand-loom set up in a sunny liv- | ing room in a Key West home, jit is difficult to visualize the pos- 50 Overcrowded that it will not} |sibilities that can be wrought by ‘nimble fingers and flying shut- clear to every Lodge in the state, jiles, creating a “Product of Key Mr: Senerchia writes “I am tak- ing this opportunity to advise you, and through you, your com- munity; to the effect that Flor- ida is eligible to participate”. The following are the salient features for public information. The prizes are: First prize, $600. second prize, $400; $300, and the $200. Any student of the senior or graduating class of a high or fourth prize is West” that rivals and equals the famed prcduct of the hill coun- try. : Buch goods produced in Key | West would in all probability ‘find a steady demand and it is ;hoped that the example set by :Mrs. Sycks will become a Key |West home occupation with third prize,|many of our people and that ‘a, ,Key West bedspread, luncheon iset or table cloth will be num-) bered: among the growing num- ber of Key West atractions for! Boys at Marianna, Florida, that ithe conditions at the school: are be possible to admit two boys recently sentenced to four year’s at the scool. | The boys are Edward Larsen ‘and Cecil Knowles, both con- yvicted of entering Cabrera ;Wholesale Grocery Company and “stealing merchandise and cash.. In view of the overcrowded ;condition at the school, it has jbeen deemed necessary to re- jlease the boys from the county jail here in custody of their /parents on probation, te report ;to the probation officer each | week until such a time as there is room for them at the reform | PRICE FIVE CENTS Of Nations “PROVE SUPERIOR CONDUCT SUCCESSFUL FLIGHTS AGAINST GERMAN U-BOATS; POLES JOIN (By Associated Prens) | LONDON, Dec. 12.—Officers in | the Royal Air'Force today ex-j pressed delight with recent war | maneuvers being executed by/ the heart atiack came yes- terday afternoon. Ordered to: bed by is doctor, he protested that he was perfectly well. Born in Denver, Colorado, May 23, 1883, Fairbanks attended schools of Colorado, then went] into the hardware business for a{ short while, then studied for the law. A strong pull to the stage however, brought him into that occupation early in his young manhood—and held his entire attention and devotion up to his retirement a few years ago. Fairbanks first wife was Anna} Beth Sully, who he married inj 1907. He divorced her in 1918, Then came what has been called the greatest romance of the age, his courting and marriage of Mary Pickford, which event took place in1920. Tragic divorce fol- lowed a few years ago, to. be fol- | lowed by Fairbank’s wedding to Lady Ashley. Stage appearances occupied Fairbanks from 1901 to 1916, and McCarty got back to his flower stand. Kisber was gassed and shell-shocked, spent five years in hospitals. Afterwards he found work as an elevator operator near his old friend’s stand. And now every day, including Sunday. he gets a fresh red carnation to wear in his lapel. VIII LSI LISS SS DR. PLAINFIELD SPEAKS TONIGHT DELIVERED ADDRESS LAST NIGHT AT BAPTIST -CHURCH Rev. Joseph F. Plainfield, D.D., director of Home Mission work! among the foreigners in cities of Preparatory school, or in any undergraduate class of a recog- nized college, who is a resident within the jurisdiction of the or- der, is eligible. The merit standards are char- acter, scholarship, citizenship, | exceptional courage, patriotism | c- | ‘SEVEN NAVY or service, and any notable ac- 5 tion or distinguishing accom-! ASRS Plishment are the criteria by | EXPECT NEW SQUADRON TO which the applicants’ will judged. | BE COMPLETED WITH AD- DITIONAL ARRIVALS the cultured and appreciative visitor. { SESE SRE ARS The Foundation Trustees do’ not furnish application blanks, ' nor do they insist on any special form of application of presenta- | tion. They prefer that each ap-' plicant should_.use his. own. in- i Pte hed ta + sé genuity in presenting his case. |Stfoyers “Lea, Twiggs, \ Wicks, It is suggested, however, that | Evans and Phillips, which arriv- each applicant should have pre- ed from San Diego, Calif., yester- sented in his behalf, or present, | day afternoon after a trip lasting a printed or typewritten brief or|16 days, and the Fairfax and prospectus which sets forth all | Claxton. the data with supporting ex-| It is expected that other ves- hibits, including a picture of the|Sels will arrive shortly and_pos- applicant and a letter of en-|sibly the balance of the squadron dorsement signed by the eecve. \to which the five first named ves- of the|sels belong. which are now at United States ships in the har- {bor this’ morning were the De-} school. It is expected that the boys will be released from jail by or-|. der of the juvenile judge today. legs 'AYRES LOOKS FOR GOOD 1940 FACTURING COMPANIES GIVEN AS REASON airships in making raids on Ger- man U-boats at sea and stationed home ports. j Fifty-seven flights have been! {made during the past month and! imany submarines have been ei-! ther destroyed or crippled. Par-! |ticularly encouraging to the; {British are the reports that the | English, planes and personnel ap-.| pear to be far superior to the! Germans. A flight of Polish aviators is being organized in England for! fighting in the present war. Sev- ; ieral planes have been turned over | to volunteer Poles who have en- | listed for service. . *% ‘ «ABY. inted Press)” . CLEV! , Dec. 12—Leo-i i nard’ P. Ayres, president of the LARCENY C ‘ASES jCleveland Trust Company and | ! ;noted economist, stated today inj an interview that 1940 should be a good year for business. Hej} pointed out that the airplane in- | dustry, automobile, oil, depart-| Luis Caraballo and Carlos Fer- ment stores and other businesses /rer, who were arrested night be- | show all signs of preparation for'fore last by Captain of Night | FINLAND SIGNALS TOWARDS WEST AP Feature Service The Finland invaded by Communist Russia was, at the turn of ihe century, an autonomous state within the Czarist Russian Empire. All moves made by the Finns to gain freedom were crushed by the Czar’s police. When, however, the Finns erected a striking piece cf statuary on Observatory Hill, overlooking Helsinki, the po- lice thought nothing of it. Sculptured by the Finn, Rob- ert Stigell, the work was called “Shipwreck”. It de- Picted a family stranded on a raft with the father making an agonizing appeal for aid. What the Czar’s police didn’t know—according to Finns now in America—is that the statuary was Fin- land's subtle way of stating that it was in distress, and wanted to be rescued. Sig- nificantly, the statuary faced the West. gained 1917. With the huge Red army menacing that freedom, this figure still stands. HEARD TAY wewoewwses 5.5. FLORIDA following that date, he organized pad Geavred in ihistaws moving the South for the Southern Bap- picture company, appearing in tist Convention, and formerly hundreds of productions of major missionary on the Foreign Mis- ranking. sion Board in Brazil, will speak o | tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the tary or Exalted Ruler subordinate lodge in the jurisdic- tion of which the applicant is a resident. The application must be filed on or before April 1, 1940, with Chairman John F. Malloy, 15 Coco Solo in the Canal Zone. ; One of the officers attached to j the naval station said this morn- ing that there will be ships arriving at Key West at in- tervals and they will be replaced other f. CONGRESSMAN C. MAPES DIES REPRESENTED MICHIGAN DISTRICT FOR TWENTY- | FIVE YEARS | (By Associated Press) | NEW YORK, Dee. § 12.—Con-; gressman Carl E. Mapes died sud- | denly in Oklahoma City today, | aceording to advice received Baptist church. Dr. Plainfield arrived here yes- terday on the S. S. Cuba from Tampa, where he keeps _head- quarters for work amongst the Italians and Cubans. last evening at the local church to an appreciative and attentive audience. Born in Italy, Dr. Plainfield was a boyhood friend of Benito Mussolini. His brother is now Papal Nuncio in Manila, P. I. STOP LOOKING, DIOGENES! He spoke! State street, Boston, Mass. by others after a short stay. | Our Good Old Gulf Stream Helps To Hold Them Back: see ses eae ‘WILL NOT CROSS ATLANTIC OCEAN SOoRsooDerceoogecrecocvccccoscoeocoeoooee e BY PRESTON GROVER. Associated Press Feature Service Writer | WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—The}! Just so vou won't feel too safe, | in) eee expansion during the coming lyear. Criticizirg the New Deal, how- ever, Ayres stated that business ‘would dd much better if relieved of restrictive measures now im- posed by the administration. BEAR-FACED NEGLIGENCE (By Associated Press) WINCHESTER, Ky., Dec. 12.— |YOU CAN RELAX FOLKS—THOSE MINES). Patrolmen | Robert Baker and Herman Ecton , al receiver and sent out on assignment—to drive bear out of a resident’s backyard. Arriving at the scene, they found 300 pounds of black bear sur- rounding a ‘garbage can. The of- ficers stepped back for a consul- tation. A neighbor finally suggested Police Alberto Camero and Night ! Watchman Willie Gwynn, will be | given preliminary hearing _ this ; afternoon 5:30 o'clock _ before | Peace Justice Enrique Esquin- aldo, Jr. ’ The charges on which they will Steamer Florida of the Sutton Line, left port this morning for Tortugas, carrying supplies to TO TORTUGAS | (By Associated Press) Aiea experts on ocean current$'if any mines were released the bear might belong to hnother | be heard were based on an af- fidavit filed by Officer Camero, and are “Trespassing with intent to commit petit larceny”. MAKING IT HOT | (By Axsoeinted Press) FULTON, Ky., Dec. 12:—Ful- ton had a “three-alarm’y ire |when ;the back seat Of its, Bple Police car caught, fire in, front lof the town hall. a }sFiremen’ were’ sumfoned | from |the station house in the hall, but ithe fire burned stubbornly on. | As a last resort, firemen car- here, bringing to a sudden end} has active twenty-five years of | public service as a member of the | House of Representatives from} the Fifth District of Michigan. | He was a Republican. Death came to Congressman Mapes when he was engaged in| a congressional investigation of | the oil business in Oklahoma. He | was born in 1874, had three chil- dren and was elected to Sixty- third and succeeding sessions of Congress. BOY HELPER KILLED LOS ANGELES. — Playfully pointing her father’s rifle at three boys who were helping her to do her housework in order that she could play with them, Colleen Linton accidentally dis- charged the gun and the bullet struck Arthur R. Wilson, 9, kill- ing him instantly. IN NO HURRY ; CUMBERLAND, Md, — There wasn’t any haste in this marriage. | Nine months after Andrew Furn and Adelaide Furnish, of | Pittsburgh, applied for a mar- rage license, they got it. | Garden Of Roses | COCKTAIL HOUR: Daily From 5:30 to 6:30 2 Cocktails for the Price of 1 MUSIC BY GOULD CURRY HAWESVILLE, Ky., Dec. 12.— When Mrs. Rebecca Richey died, her furniture and other belong ings were sold by her nephew, Jack Goering, to Lester Boling, a farmer. Boling accepted a sewing machine in the lot, then sold it to Otto Neuton, a neigh- bor. Neuton examined the machine and found $910 in five and ten dollar bills in one of the draw- ers, He turned the money over to the administrator of Mrs. Richey’s estate. He, Goering and Boling all were given rewards. “THE LORD” PROVIDES PERRY, N. Y¥.—Wrecking his automobile recently, Rev. Law- rence Seeley, Methodist planned to replace the automo- bile in the Spring. It won’t be necessary now, though, for a stranger handed him a paper the other day—it was a bill of sale for a new car which stood| at the! curb. When questioned as to who it was who had made the gift, the stranger said he was instructed to say only that the car was a “gift from the Lord”. WILL ARRIVE AT MARZYCK COMPANY | Thursday Morning, Dec. 14 Genuine Phone 246—1501 Von Phister St. Guif Stream itself prevents mines | pastor, | say there isn’t a dog’s chance of |front of Canadian ports, such as ‘a floating mine sneaking across| Halifax, the Labrador current oe aus into panko shipping | might bring them down along our janes. jut a mine loosed in ie 3 North Sea is likely to churn into pase Atlantic Coast. Moreover, almost any place in that sea. they would remain active for a We don’t suffer from “mineo-|longer time, because _barnacles phobia” but it occurred to us!don’t grow fast in those ghilly that if a mine slithered past our | waters. neutral patrol and nestled against; The navy has maps of every a Hoboken ferry boat in New Ocean current between the poles. York harbor in rush hours it|For complex currents the tangle would create a serious diplomatic of little arrows that describe! incident. ‘ those in the North Sea can’t all In times past this country has be put on one map. It takes 12/ been angered at the ocean man- |Separate maps, one for each hour } agement because it permitted the | between high tides. Gulf Stream to keep England! One floating mine loosed along } warm instead of breathing its |the British North Sea coast might | tropic breath along our bleak ;foam up and down from one end New England coast. But the ocean | Of the island to the other. Occa- experts say there is a measure of | Siohallyit ‘might get into a little safety in having the current flow |SWirling current for a ride out ithat way. The’ inventor of ‘the |into the North Sea and back be- |Gulf Stream must have'had figat-|fore #esiming its up and down ling mines in ‘mind at‘ the timé:|cruis#°‘#t'is a very discouraging The stream helps to ‘keep Eu: {Prosi fora ship to have mines Tope’s wars to herself. jambling about that way. Two Years To Cross | Danger To U. S. Ships It is true that if some of the| whether floating: mince or tones floating mines got out through netic mines are giving her so the English Channel they might | (Continued on Page Four) find their way across, following; the southern route by way of the | Azores but it takes a bottle with) SPECIAL! SPECIAL! a letter in it about two years to, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday make the: journey. By that time DUTCH TORT and 33¢ a mine would be so encrusted CHERRY LAYER CAKES with barnacles and other free-rid- | Q, ae, CAKE now ing sea objects that it probably Loser i, couldn’t explode anyway. The Maloney Brothers 812 Fleming St.—Phone 818 from taking the northern route, | {local man, a medicine salesmen. |ried the cushion into the fire sta- The latter was summoned and | tion and turned a hose on it. he led the bear away. |. That did the trick. Today’s News Flashes _ As Released By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Jo- seph E, Davies, United States ambassador to Belgium, home on furlough and for discussion of European events with President Roosevelt; stated today- that the President should be compelled to lisher in this city, today issued the statement that he “was com- ! ;Pelled to abide by decisions of |the National Labor Relations, ‘Board even against best interests of his paper”. This, he stated, was to avoid embarrassment for | Atlanta . ‘Charleston Chicago - Denver . Bakery; run for a third term. His plat- form should. be “He will keep} |America out of war”, according ito Davies. the New Deal. BERLIN. Dec. | government officials j; that the prize German - Bremen had arrived today in home port after a dash from the Russian port of Mur- mansk,. The trip, in some respects, duplicated that of i the U. S. City of Flint. British ee assertions that an English | LONDON, Dec. 12—Five Brit-| submarine could have tor- jish ships in the South Atlantic| pedoed the Bremen if it jhave been unreported for the} hadnt been for international {past week, leading to the sus- regulations to give warning ‘picion that German pocket bat-| first, were scoffed at by the |tleship raiders are again busy. German officials. British navy has been unsuccess- —— ful in maneuvers to trap the two SEATTLE, Dee. .12—John/or three high-speed raiders Boettiger, son-in-law of President |known to be loose on the Roosevelt, and. newspaper pub- |seas. | high | i ! t the Houseboat Nirvana which is to be used by the Sutton Com- pany when passengers are carried to Fort Jefferson for an over night stay. The Nirvana was taken to the anchorage last week by the Florida, and the vessel carried on this trip utensils and equipment to place the vessel in perfect con- dition to take care of the passen- gers who will begin to make the trips when the Florida is placed in commission after the inspgc- tion which is expected Thurs- day. TEMPERATURES Lowest last highest last Stations— night 24 hours 38 60 18 ee - 41 36 32 Detroit 28 El Paso - Galveston |Mpls.-St. Paul Nashville _ (New York (Pensacola - |Pittsburgh St. Louis - [Salt Lake City 21 ‘San Francisco 49 'Seattle ‘Tampa Waits For Answer To Red Ultimatum ‘BRITISH AIRMEN "S@eeeeews.\exrccteo to NAME RUSSIA AGGRESSOR IF ANSWER DOESN’T COME TODAY (By Associated Press) GENEVA, Dec. 12.—League of | Nations waited today for an an- ;Swer to its ultimatum sent yes- ,terday to Moscow, insisting that the Russians cease their invasion lot Finland. If no answer comes this afternoon—the League is Scheduled to call for convocation ‘of members in attendance at the ‘session to draw up resolutions , accusing Russia of aggression. | Unofficial advice from Mos- cow, however, states that Russia will withdraw from the League before expulsion would come, that is, unless something like a satisfactory answer comes of the ultimatum issued, in which event both eventualities would’ be Ned: pa ade = Meanwhile, the war in Finland goes on furiously, as Russia sends attack after attack against the brave Finns. Fighting is es- !pecially heavy in the Lake Ladoga vicinity and advices state , that the Soviets are the heaviest | losers in casualties. Soviet planes are busy, and warning has been sent all for- eigners in Helsinki that as soon as the skies clear, Red bombers ‘will again appear over the capi- tal city. Cloudy weather for the past nine days has given Hel- sinki a respite from air raids. Swedish and Finnish navy ships were busy today looking for reported evidence of Russian mine-laying activities, but, as stated, no mines have been found. One Swedish ship was sunk by a mine yesterday, how- ever, and the Scandinavian coun- tries are on the alert for ex- planations as to why mines are found in the Baltic Sea. MACKIES’ GUESTS ~ LEAVE FOR HOME | Following a week’s visit in |Key West, staying at the home jof Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mackie, |these guests have returned to their respective homes in New | York: { Mr. and Mrs. Harry Goldberg lof Long Island, and daughter, Dianne, and Mrs. Carl Stier of {Ellis Island, N. Y., have left. Another guest, Mrs. Mamie Moss, will depart this weekend. patients receiving it at the present time. are five white persons: