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

Associated Press Day Wi: Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West re VOLUME LX. No. 306. Che Key West Citizen | 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. sees KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1939 President Calls Leaders To Confer On Chances For ‘Religious Peace’ DR. BUTTRICK AND RAB- BI ADLER AT WHITE HOUSE TODAY; CON- FERENCE BY OTHERS d Proms) Dec. (By Asse: WASHINGTON, 27.— President Roosevelt moved fur-| ther to institute what has been called “a religious appeal for peace” today when he called Dr.) George A. Buttrick, president of | the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America and Rabbi Cyrus Adler, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, for immediate confer- ences at the White House. Other religious leaders of the nation will be called to attend general discussion of possibility of world peace in the near future, it was announced. The Rabbinica York this morning most favorably moves made the Society of New commenting the recent the president, appointment of as Mr. Roosevelt's at Vati- has a Rabbis on by especially Myron Tayl personal entative can City. The ety membership of 300 throughout the nation. Onc of discord crept into the picture, however, today when the New York League for Separation of Church and State made protest against the peace gestures planned by religious leaders in cooperation with the president rey note NAVY PLANES IN BOMB PRACTICE TESTS STARTED TODAY TO LAST FOUR DAYS; TARGET ON COTTRELL KEY nation released today by nt Commander Fort H.! on captain of the yi al station states tha will be ‘high altitude bombing by naval planes on a target located three quarters of a mile southeast of Cottrell Key starting today and lasting through next Saturday, Decem- d t there 30. ning is given to the Super- of Lighthouses and of the U. S. Coast S. S. Pandora, and to T <ey West Citizen for information of- the general pub- lic. Exe ber intendent Sommander WARNINGS HELD ZINNIA a rnings issued yesterday by the weather bureau prevented the sailing of the Coast Guard Tender Zinnia with Super- intendent W. W. Demeritt who was to make an_ inspection of aids to navigation up the East Coast. The ship sailed at an early hour this morning, and Mr. De- meritt said the trip would be taken as far as Fowey Rocks light. HUNTERS SHOOT AT PLANES SANTA ANA, Cal.—Federal agents are looking for some duck hunters who became enraged when Army pilots, testing two military planes, flew too close to their blinds. frightening the ducks away. At least one of the hunt- ers opened fire on the planes, blowing a hole in the wing of one of the planes and inflicting superficial damage on the other. NEWSPAPER MAN IS VISITOR H. H. Hamlin, of, Clearwater, Fila former newspaperman in this state, spent yesterday vis- iting in Key West. | peecccccccccseusccecsces KEY WEST WOMEN Column By Mrs. Cosgrove ‘WILL BE FEATURED Cocccccccsecececcceseccce | “Key West Women — Their Homes and Gardens” is the title MEETING WILL ARRANGE CARE OF $0. BEACH HOTEL AND TOURIST HOMES ASSOCIATION TO DISCUSS PROJECT AT MEETING TO- MORROW AFTERNOON Further promotion of public ‘improvements appealing to the |tourist trade will be discussed at ja meeting of the Key West Hotel {and Tourist Homes association to be held at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow ‘Three MasonicLodgesHeld | Joint Installation Tonight! DADE LODGE, DR. FELIX VARELA AND ANCHOR | LODGE OFFICERS TO BE INSTALLED Dade Lodge Number 14, An-j jchor Lode Number 182 and Dr. Felix Varela Lodge Number 64, ni — % [F. and A. M, will hold a joint! Ei<i#s SW; Carl L. Sawyer, JW;}| installation’ of officers of lodges G#briel Gutieras, Treas; Feli- | |tonight 8 o'clock, in the Scottish ¢iano Castro, Sec'y.; Pablo Fer-! Rite hall at the corner of Eaton nandez, Marshal; Rev. Guillermo | ‘and Simonton streets. Perez, Chaplain; Rogelio Cabrera, | | Following are the officers of SD; Eloy Albury, JD; Gonzalo, jthe three lodges who will be in- Bezanillo, SS; Frank Orta, Jr, | ducted into office: |JS; Feliciano Gonzalez, Tyler. Dr. Felix Varela Lodge | Jose C. Perez, WM; J. Frank! | Crack Cossack Troops Ordered Into Action To Erase Humiliation i ‘FINNISH MORALE RE- ‘ALFRED LOWE WINS: Porte> nich as According to the Diario de to 53 si ; SOVIETS CONTINUE TO Marina of Havana, Cuba, under Saved 11,016 M.B. Labels) BE HELD BACK the date line of December 23, it | any = is proposed to put in service be- BRAND NEW BIKE tween Havana and Key West a new steamship which was es- | PRICE FIVE CENTS CUBAN PAPER _ REPORTS SHIP FOR K.W. RUN DIARIO DE LA MARINA RE- LEASES STORY CONCERN. | ING NORWEGIAN SHIP Ex. | PECTED TO ENTER SERVICE! ° | (By Associated Press) LONDON. Dec. 27.—Russia of a new column to appear|at La Concha hotel, it was an- weekly in The Citizen, written jnounced today by R. A. Lehmann, by Mrs. Philip Cosgrove, native | president. of this city, under the pen name of Myrtle Cosgrove. The column will treat Members of the association re- of the }Port that all of their guests who leading women of Key West, list- | have come here in search of sun ing their social and civic activi-}and surf bathing have found the .ties as well as their abilities to! sand at South Beach between Du- provide good homes with pleasant ‘val and Simonton streets in fine surroundings. |condition. They have enjoyed The first in the series under themselves there, and the good the above head appeared in this ;reports they are making to their {paper last week. The second |northern relatives and friends are jcolumn will be found on another |pound to react to the benefit of page of this issue. the community, the hotelmen re- EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY REPORTED SEISMOGRAPHS SHOW MAJOR | be DISTURBANCE; EARLY RE- PORTS CONFUSE PLACE or The question of appointing a learetaker of the beach for jainder of the season will be sed at tomorrow’s meeting. | the beach has to be jcleared of the seaweed and debris at is washed up on the sand. so the refuse dropped on the t be cleaned up. A required, hote] mem- ate, to protect visitors and esidents from ball players and jroaming romeos. | wwoncccccese seccsccenen SWISS NAVY, YOU (Ry Associated Pre: WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—Sie ‘mographs world-wide this morn- ing registered positive proof of a major earthquake somewhere on {| ef ‘earth, but all varied widely in! H loca-| j : An Old Saw Out-Dated estimates of approximate oe “ oe “fw at, he asuincs/ASK? LOOK HERE! Late today, |lasting, according to some | mograpn recordings, for a period | eecccceccecvesevcccccoce By CHARLES FOLTZ AP Feature Service Writer BERNE, Dec. 27.—That saw about the Swiss navy is ‘outdated. Switzerland has a navy now. The navy is no joke cither. Many boatmen on Lake {Leman, which forms part of the separated locations. tborder between Switzerland and | |France, and others on Lake Con- \stance, frontier between Switzer- jland and Germany, learned that SHEHEE FAMILY us.t'ets of four hours, was reported to be | in Turkey. | old scientists had mated the disturbance to in South America, in the Far East, in Japan and in widely somewher Previously es! be | other |San, tried to slip across the lakes night to land contraband—hu an or material—on Swiss soil. Frequently their boats and car- goes were caught in the light- ‘beams of a Swiss military patrol |boat—and that was that. Switzerland mobilized just be- jfore war began and sent its lerack little army of 500,000 men to man the frontiers facing all jthree of its big neighbors— France, Germany and Italy. About 40 miles of the frontier with France runs through the middle of Lake Leman near Ge- neva. About 90 miles of the Ger- man frontier runs through Lake Constance with the “dirigible city” of Friedrichshafen just across the lake on the German EIGHTEEN ATTENDED DIN-| NER AT RUSSELL HOME SUNDAY EVENING Members of the Shehee family and descendants of, Braxton She- hee and Romalda Shehee held a family reunion Sunday at the home of Mr. and: Mrs: Mervin L. Russell on Margaret ot, with 18 present, and enjoyed a delight- ful dinner which had been pre- pared for the occasion by Mrs. Russell. Seated at the table were Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Kemp of Miami; Miss Jennie Shehee of Miami; 'side. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Allshouse,| The only solution for an army daughter, Betty, and son, Clar-jordered to man such frontiers ence, Jr., from Charleston, S. C. to create a navy—and the Mr. and Mrs. Hilburn Collins, military command did just daughter, Miss Alice Marie, and jt son, Bobbie, Mr. and Mrs. J. B.| Fast police launches and Allen and son, Joe, Mr. and Mrs, |fastest private launches of the Arthur Sheppard, Jr. and Mrs. jlake now fly the Swiss colors Mervin Russell and daughter, and cruise through Swiss waters Lorraine, of Key West. day and night. The Kemp family were the| The job of this little lake navy guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Al-|is to prevent violations of Swiss len, the Allshouse and the Col-|neutrality, whether it be in the jlins families were the guests of |form of a petty smuggler ferry- ithe Russells during their stay in |ing arms and oth - military con- the city. ;traband across the lake, or of a SAEED Bela | would-be spy “fishing” # little the the | Myrtland Cates, McConnell; SW; P. L. Cosgrove, |JW; Geo. N. Goshorn, Treas.; F. O. Weech, Sec’y.; Chas. E. Smith, Marshal; D. R. Trevor, Chaplain; Clarence Thompson, SD; Frank- lyn Carey, JD; Frank L. Curry, '$s; Chas. M.. Curry, JS; George | Schrieber, . Tyler. WM; Aaron Dade Lodge Anchor Lodge Everett R. Rivas, WM; Jas. K. Brady, SW; Robt. F. Slingluff, JW; Fred W. Knapp, Treas.; John C. Park, Sec’y.; Jas. P. McDer-i Mott, SD; Fernando E. Camus, | JD; Chas. M. Morenus, SS; E. E. Williams, JS; Frank C. Brown, Chaplain; Wm. Vassie, Marshal; ; Wm. A. Cooper, Tyler. | The Annual Christmas Party of Troop No. 52 Boy Scouts was held last night in the Scout Hall. At 7:30 the boys arrived and after the customary opening |Christmas carols were sung by jthe group. Father Dimmick and {Tom Ramsey told the boys | stories. Scoutmaster Milton Sawyer presented star badges to Ernest Perez and Calvin Cates; also second class badges to Archie Potter and Henry Gomez. The \following boys were awarded merit _ badges: Jack Sawyer, safety; Edward Strunk, stamp collecting and handicraft; Donald Pinder, swimming and carpentry; |Rayford Roberts, carpentry; Odes McKillip, carpentry and handi- jeraft; Bert Cates, pathfinding; Ernest Perez; pathfinding and |carpentry; Calvin Cates, wood- |work and carpentry. A_ five ‘years service star was awarded to Joe Campo. A beautifully decorated Christ- GORDA Il LEFT FOR HAVANA i'DR. MELLON AND PARTY | SAILED THIS MORN- ING | Dr. Matthew Mellon, owner land captain of the auxiliary }Yacht Gerda II, and Dr. Richard | Armour and Mrs. Armour, arriv- ed over the highway last night ‘from »Palm Beach -and sailed jshortly ‘after 10 o'clock this ‘morning for Havana. |, While sitting in_the office of |the Porter Dock Company, Mr. Mellon said that when he was there last week he intended to jmake the trip to Havana had been left here. Another member of the Mellon party is Mrs. Mellon, who does jnot enjoy rough weather, and ;Mr. Mellon advised that she take ‘a plane from Miami. She will jJoin the party in the Cuban jcapital, tomorrow. | TEMPERATURES j | Lowest last highest last Stations—- night 24 hours Atlanta 39 44 Boston 6 23 !Buffalo 10 28 {Charleston _.. 46 62 'Chicago 29 but | \found it would be necessary to! first go to Palm Beach and re-! , turning pick. up the vessel which | Troop 52 Boy Scouts Held Christmas Party mas tree was laden with gifts for all. There was much fun and laughter as each scout came to the front of the room, was pre- sented with a gift and was made| to open it. The scoutmaster pre- sented each patrol with a scout axe and sheath and a_ cooking grill to the officers of the troop. Next the boys and pair of slippers, and a lovely house coat to scout mother Reba Sawyer. Delicious refreshments were served. Those present were: Scout- aster and Mrs. Sawyer, Father . B. Dirrmick, Eugene Sawyer, Joseph del Campo, John Mar- zyck, Jr., Edward Strunk III; Jack Sawyer, Rayford Roberts, Arthur Valladares, Forest Ar- thur, Ward Herrick, Byron Cooke, Oscar Avila, Robert Mc- Clintock, William Soldano, Earl Adams, Jr., Garland Cates, Philip Strunk, Ernest Perez, Jr., Donald Pinder, Henry Soldano, Henry Gomez, Billy Ladd, Dick Norfet, + Calvin Cates, Allen Perez, J. B. Archie Ramon Sawyer, Ernest Avila, Potter, Floyd Russell, Gonzago, Jr. Out of town visitors at the ‘party were Jimmy Moore of Troop No. 11, Vallejo, California; Billy and Bobby Lambaches, twins, from Troop No. 52, of Evansville, Indiana; R. T. Delk, Frank Warner and Dave Wil- liams, senior scout of Troop No. 400, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Tom Ramsey. INSTITUTE HELD ELECTION MEET \DR. JULIO DE POO SELECTED | | PRESIDENT OF SAN CARLOS GROUP jof directors held its annual elec- | ‘tion of officers yesterday-and the following votes were recorded: President, Dr. Julio De Poo; Vice-President, Emilio Romero; Secretary, Dr. Jose C. Sanchez; ;Corresponding Secretary, Faus- jtino Rendueles; treasurer, ‘ Do- mingo Ubieta. | Directors serving with the of- ficers for 1940 will be: | Ricardo Roche, Armando Gar- cia, Abelardo Castro, Enrique Es- iquinaldo, Sr., Alberto Martinez, {Manuel Acevedo, Pedro Aguilar, Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr. Flor- fencio Acevedo, Teodoro Betan- jcourt, Benito Molina, Ramon | Valdes; Juan ‘Calleja and Enrique presented the; seoutmaster with a smoking stand | San Carlos Institute board of ' pecially built for the Norway- | ; England tourist trade, the service a begin about January 15. {tender in the contest announced ;, The ship is described, accord-' by Montag Brothers, of Atlanta, | ing to information received at'Ga. for saving covers and bands the Chamber of Commerce, as 'of their products. jbeing fully air-conditioned and | The company puts out all kinds | jcapable of carrying 60 automo- ‘of tablets, composition books and | biles. No data is available as to ‘other material for use in schools, | Alfred Lowe, son of Mrs. Virgil | Lowe, was the fortunate con- |TUG PEACOCK ON way TO! SCENE; WARBLER STILL AT SPANISH KEY the price of transportation or the each package wrapped in a band frequency of the trips. jor cover, and it was for saving that the coming of the war and Monsalvatge and Drane was au-! ithe unsettled condition extant in'thorized by the company to give | {lutely necessary to bring the ship most, a fine and modernly to this country. As far as under- |equipped bicycle. way as yet. was made Alfred set out to save | ara ses SE ena Blue Horse covers and bands, and | to the Monsalvatge and Drane jger 11,016 of the bands and cov- jers, which was the greatest num- cycle as a reward for his patient | work, Steamship Margaret Lykes, of FOR KIDNAPERS Company, was reported to the pete fo ae Porter Dock Company ‘as_ being | j Bahama ‘channel and in need of | RD ANNIVERSARY It is said in the newspaper these bands and covers that! European waters made it abso-!to the boy or girl who saved the | | stood, the vessel has not left Nor- | As soon as the announcement jwhen the time came for counting DIAMOND POINT sor to place before the mana- Bie ber. He was presented the bi-! 1 STIL | jthe Lykes Brothers Steamship ; aground at Diamond Point in Old CHARLES MADSEN CASE UN- | As the Wrecking Tug Warbler : i left last Thursday to go to the! {assistance of the Steamship San‘ |Anselmo, which was ashore near |Spanish Key, Bahama Islands, | TACOMA, Dec. 27. Men 1 a Pe . . . tpae Goes pee rua |will not give up in their search with the Wrecking Tug Peacock | fF the kidnapers and slayers of which was in the vicinity of | 10-year-old Charles Madsen, who |Cape Hatteras, and the Peacock ‘disappeared from his home in ‘has gone to the scene cf the ‘this city three years ago. Lebaagypuciavary Ae 5, Of 169 kidnaping cases report- ihathewee gto oA oe pints jed since enactment of the Fed- |Bros. Co., is 324 feet in length, /¢ral Lindbergh Kidnaping Law, ‘with a gross tonnage of 3,537 and |167 have been solved by the {net tonnage of 2,200. IPBL personnel. The Madsen { | Over a period of the three | tyears’ interim since the kidnap- { SEE Er eae Two moving picture films ot BULGARIA SENDS general public interest will be {Immaculate tomorrow evening at | 7:30 o'clock. | lonation of Pope Pius, XII”. The | public is invited to view these MENTS: U. S. AMBASSA- DORS CONFER IN PARIS (By Associated Press) { ARE WS. SPUR EES tease is one of the two unsolved. ‘CONVENT FEATURES TWO MOVIE FILMS |ing case, over 20,000 suspects jhave been questioned by G-Men. shown at the Convent of Mary | ENVOYS T0 RUSSIA The films are entitled, “The! ——. Eucharistic Congress” and “Cor- ito DISCUSS TRADE AGREE- films. DIVORCE DECREE FILED Final decree in the divorce suit | (By Associated Press) of Ruby Fabal Cervantes vs. Oc-| LONDON, Dec. 27.—Two dip- eid Corvanye ba Sues in the jomatie events described as of joffice o! er! loss C. Sawyer, | a, * |of Circuit Court, yesterday after- poe Hp n nee, today: were fe ; Ported here. noon. A delegation of Bulgarian offi- 1A SLMS GM MG; \cials appeared in Moscow late ‘KING COTTON Oe, : (oo wu co bean cena UNDERGROUND NOW Reception of the Bulgarians was) described as mutually pleasing to | (By Associated Press) | HOUSTON, Tex., Dec. 27. i | both countries. The other event concerned the arrival of U.S, ambassador to [Italy, William Phillips, at Paris ‘for a conference with the ambas- | \sador to France, William C. Bul-| litt. was reported moving up strong reinforcements today on all fronts of the Finn-Soviet line in effort to. avenge the humiliating de- feats suffered recently. The troops are reported to be crack Cossacks especially trained as a part of Stalin’s bodyguard and home troops. The Finns, meanwhile, more than holding their own in the war. During the past twenty- four hours, heavy casualties have been inflicted on the Russians. In the Arctic circle region, the Russians are said to be retreat- ing, falling back, according to a dispatch from Norway, for a dis- tance of fifty-three miles, suffer- ing casualties that were estimat- ed to be near the 5,000 mark, those inflicted by a Finnish army admitted to be outnumber- ed by a ratio of 15 to 1. Finnish morale runs exceeding- ly high in the war at present and England hears repeatedly of new surprise moves being plan ned against Russia, both of dip- lomatice and military nature. Russian bombers again appear- ed over Helsinki_and other south Finland cities and dropped bombs together with thousands of pro- are | paganda pamphlets. HELP 70 FINLAND AIDS MATERIALLY SWEDISH UNITS ADEPT IN FINNISH TACTICS; WAR MATERIALS ARRIVE (By Associated Pres PARIS, Dec. 27.—Newspapers in this city today commented at length on the French govern ment’s release of news on, help to Finland. War materials have at last reached the fighting Finns, ac- cording to the papers, and the first detachments of foreign vol unteers are on their way to the front lines, having landed at a Baltic seaport. _Two Swedish units, former, members of the army of that country but now re- leaced from duty, are included in the volunteer list. French dispatches describe these Swedish units as peculiarly able to inflict severe damage to Russians. Uniforms of all-white are worn, making the soldiers practically invisible. Skating on Lake Ladoga, or skiing down from the hills, the troopers car- ry light machine guns and con- stantly snipe at Russian troops drawn up in encampments. NOW ON MARKET OVER 350,000 TONS ON SALE FOLLOWING TARIFF REDUCTION (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Over IN MIAMI STORE H *There is, of course, no admiral Mrs. May Tuttle of Simonton street, who'is visiting her daugh- ter, Mrs. Orion Lounders in Mi- ami, recently had the misfortune to slip and fall in Sears and Roe-| Mr. and Mrs. Crosby, of Tam-/Mpls.St. Paul buck’s store, dislocating and frac-|pa, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Holt, 'New York . _ ;of Fort Lauderdale, arrived re-|Oklahoma City turing her arm, After being in the Victoria Hospital for several days, she is now recuperating at the home of ‘her daughter at 835 Northwest 64th Street. [in the navy, for its ships are un- jder the command of army com- lmanders of the Lake Leman and {Lake Constance zones.- The num- ber of lake boats ‘in service is an army secret. CHRISTMAS VISITORS { } 1 cently in the city to spend: the holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lowe. They had a delightful time and left yester- day on the return. 34 “19 47 51 84 70 31 76 66 76 27 36 31 62 H 34 55 44 40 jDenver - see | \El Paso 30 ;Galveston 36 |Havana ae Jacksonville _ 55 Kansas City — 23 basi WEST _ 71 ‘Les Angeles _ 49 {Miami __ | Aguilar. FOUR U.S. SHIPS IN PORT TODAY | Ships in the harbor early this |morning were the Destroyers Lea and Philip and the Twiggs. The Philip is at Pier B and the others are berthed at the finger piers. Destroyer Schenck, which had been on a patrol tour, returned to a berth at Pier B later this morn- ing. | | | ‘Pensacola St. Louis San Francisco 49 Seattle ____ 30 Washington | 350,000 tons of Cuban sugar were lreleased today for sale on pub- |MYSTERIOUS DISEASE FATAL Jic market following President ——_ | Roosevelt's move to reduce the INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Awak- tariff duty on that commodity ening at a Boy Scout Camp on sixty cents per hundred pounds. August 4 with a splitting head-| The sugar had been kept in ache, James Lee Frye, 13, was storehouses in this city awaiting taken to his home. A few days consummation of tariff action. later he was taken to a hospital | ELE EPS: FROM TAVERNIER in a_ semi-conscious condition, | the victim of a disease which was | — never fully diagnosed. He died| Charles L. Sweeting is an ar- 105 days later, although every-jrival in the city today visiting |:ning Possible was done to save relatives and friends, and attend- his life. He never regained full ing to tax matters at the court consciousness from the time he house. He will return to Taver- was stricken. jnier this afternoon, a PSIIOIIIL#: