The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 29, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West THE SOUTHERNMOST NE The Key West Citizen | WSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1939 German Torpedo | Damages British No. 1 Battleship REMODELLED = STRUC-| "#9 OI IIMS MID TURE PREVENTED HER'NEW AIR CRUISERS | SINKING; ANOTHER | FOR BRITONS-NAZIS TRAWLER HITS MINE ~ | (By Associated Press) LONDON, Dec. 29.—Brit- ish officials announced today | that the Royal Air Force weuld receive delivery in the near future of a new type of airplanes which have been termed “aerial battle cruisers”. Coincident with this an- nouncement came news that | Germany, too, was expecting | delivery of similar-type from a Nazi submarine. | planes. (By Associated Press) LONDON, Dec. 29.—Germany | struck another blow at Britain | the today in the war on seas | | when the British admiralty ad- | miited that a No. 1 battleship | had been struck by torpedo fired The new ships will be cap- able of faster and wider range travel carrying heavier capacity loads of bombs and | crew. No information as to just what ship was struck was given out. However, it was understood to | be one of the Queen Elizabeth type ships of 30,000 tons classifi- cation. a was first admit- ted to be severe. Later the re port was modified and it was SFP ge SII SSIS 5 pointed out that the battleship ster 1940 CONVENTION This is the seventeenth the British navy to be either damaged or sunk by Nazi U Boats. i EXPECT LARGE DELEGATION | TO EMBARK HERE TO AT-! TEND ANNUAL CONVEN- TION IN-HAVANA or Another British vessel was sunk today—a small trawler in a collision with a mine. Location of the torpedoing of the British battleship given as somewhere off the coast of} Scotland. he admiralty reports ed that the ship was able to pro- | ceed along with others on secret | manuevers. NAVY DISPENSARY IN TOP CONDITION REPAIRS mo STRUCTURE AL. |P¢ction with those events. | | Of prime importance was the MOST COMPLETE; COMDR. | discussion led by president Lion| BLACKWELL IN CHARGE (7 £. Day concerning the Inter-| national Convention Havana next July. The multifarious duties | attendant upon the successful| promotion of that event in regard | Coming events cast their |shadow on members of the Key West Lions Club last evening in regular weekly supper meeting at Stone Church Annex, andj | preparations were made to suc- | cessfully dispose of duties in con- in Reconditioning and the naval station dispensary and making the necessary repairs to the structure, which was started about two weeks ago, has gone stea sad, until today it is in t class condition, and re- quires but little more work be- fore it will be completely finished The dispensary is in charge of Commander R. B. Blackwell, who and expected to return next w During his absence the dispensary is ad- ministered by Lieutenant D. Say- ers, from the squadron of de- stroyers which is assigned to this port. Also assigned to the dispen- Chief Pharmacist Mate ule, and Edward Graham, who been called back into the service, and First Class Pharmacists Mate Walker L. Arnold. enlarging to the Island City brings it into| first ranking importance as club project and it was so clared for the second-half of the} Lions fiscal calendar. It is expected that from one to | two thousand Lions and members | of their families will embark at Key West next July for the con- vention. Problems of transpor- tation and proper entertainment of visiting delegates will entail much hard work by the commit- | tees soon to be appointed. i Lion Jack Delaney reported at length on the successful Christ- mas Tree project of the club. He was accorded a vote of thanks by the club for his masterful |directorship of the affair and all jother agencies helping the club | were mentioned. ! Next Friday evening at 7:00 o'clock, the Lions will hold a joint meeting with all Boy Scout LUNDERVILLES 10 NEW MEXICO POS troops of the city at — bem Earl A. Lunderville, of the bor-|the clean-up drive. Awards to der patrol of the customs service, | all troops will be presented and | has received orders transferring !a prize given to the troop that | him from Key West to the sta-| performed in best style. tion at Columbus, New Mexico. | A committee of Lions and Mr. Lunderville and family | Scouts will meet early next week have made many friends during |to work out a joint Scout-Lions their stay here—all hate to see | meeting procedure, bringing in them leave. It is expected they |highlights of Lionism and scout- will motor over the highway De- | ing. cember Their household| Reports heard at the meeting furnishings are being shipped by included that by Lion Gerald Clyde-Mallory Lines. Saunders on the opening of the} is now on lez {had |LATE NEWS BULLETINS {a 59 to 3 approved committee re- D. W. BELL GETS UNDER-SECRETARY OF TREASURY POST! PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AN- NOUNCED APPOINTMENT TODAY: SUCCEEDS JOHN WESLEY HANES |HEAVY RAINS BD cng 29-—| LAST NIGHT President Roosevelt appointed Daniel W. Bell to succeed John| PRECIPITATION WELCOMED Wesley Hanes as under-secretary BY RESIDENTS; EXCESS of the Treasury. i FOR YEAR SHOWN Hanes, who retired recently to| aot enter private practice, was a vet-; Heavy rainfall occurring in eran of governmental affairs, hav-|Key West last evening was ing been connected with the Se-| warmly welcomed by many a curity Exchange Commission be-| householder in that cisterns had fore accepting the Treasury post. ; been reported dry since four or. Asserting that U, S, taxpayers | five weeks ago. could no longer stand the tax| Official Weather Bureau re- burden increase indicated, Hanes | ports showed that a total of 2.37 becomes another on the list of | inches of rain fell. At the head New Deal Treasury alumni. He 'of the island, however, it appears. departs from the New Deal, it is! that even more rain fell. The C, ‘stated, on better terms than most A. A. station there telegraphed | lof his predecessors. |the report that goes to all news | agencies in the country that President Roosevelt also an- jnounced today that members. of | total of 4.67 inches fell in Key} head of the firm which has the any other religious sect in country were invited to partici-! pate in the discussions this | West. Key West will end the year aiming with an excess of rainfall over at world peace. Previously he average totalling about three invited only Protestants, inches according to bureau re. Catholics and Jews into confer- ports published elsewhere in ence. | this issue. Judge Heard Five Cases In Criminal Court Session Special session of Criminal Court was held this morning 10 o'clock in the county court house, with Judge William V. Albury presiding and Prosecuting Attor- ney Allan B. Cleare. and Chief costs, but would remit the costs Deputy Bérnard Waite present. “| if the fine was paid. The first case called was that! Joe Smith was called to the of Jose Pons, who was charged bar and the charges read that with setting up and operating a'he was charged with aggravated game of chance. Upon reading ‘assault, having cut with a pen- the charges the prisoner prompt-! knife a fellow fisherman by the ly entered a plea of guilty, and name of Percy Helverson. He was sentenced to pay a fine of pleaded guilty to the charge and $25 and costs, or spend 60 days' explained that the two had been: in the county jail. ifighting and he “had been Luis Caraballo was called to badly beaten, that he took out was drinking at the time and did not know what he was doing. He said that he was the father of four children, and the judge then passed sentence of $25 and }answer to a charge of trespass the penknife to defend himself. with intent to commit malicious; The judge took the matter un- mischief. He entered a plea of der consideration for a few guilty, and the judged asked moments, and then said that the him how he could be mixed-up sentence was that Smith pay a in such a scrape. !fine of $100, or spend 60 days in The prisoner replied that he the county jail. | Chester Harris was arrested ‘on a previous charge on which he had been given a_ suspended sentence. The judge reviewed ithe case, calling attention to the ®{sentence which had been _pro- NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Mem-| nounced about one year ago, and bers of the American Student|sentenced the prisoner to five Union today prepared to present! days in jail. The last case was 0 tf ob James V. Knolan, who sai whe was port to a full meeting of the as- sociation in the near future; rec-|from New York, had been here | ~ jommending that the union go on!dbout one week and was 17 record as condoning the Russian’ years old. Judge Albury said he invagi of Finland. Attacked had learned the young man had was‘British Imperialism and that fallen into bad company, and he nation’s effort to turn Germany .thought the best thing for the against the Soviets. The union! boy to do was to get out of the is remembered as having been’ city and stay out, and he was al- accused of definite Communistic | lowed to go. tendencies by the American; Court was then recessed by the Youth Congress last summer. | judge. Depa at fanie, ex INQUIRIES POUR IN AT C. OFC. der leadership of Attorney General Murphy, will start | Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phillips, an investigation of organized | sabotage which appears to be | cropping up in various loca- H tions in the U.S. Much time will be spent in investigations | of alleged foreign spy action in Michigan. A recent case of fire in the Revere (Mass.) \ten the Chamber of Commerce land asked that a history of the i bridges be mailed to them. They yr write they were in the city but sae Ege hy Sea Gite the office was’ closed as it was Point, work was in is holiday. ipso The secretary said cj that this is Fadl oes for U.S. Navy | only one of hundveds of similar : pease |Tequests he receives, and that he CALENDAR, Ont., Dec. 29.—|and Miss Domenech are kept busy The Dionne quintuplets came in- | answering the requests for infor- to the headlines today when it|mation on every imaginable top- was announced that the feud be- | ic. tween the father of the “quints” | and Dr. Dafoe was in process of ' settlement. The Canadian gov- !Special— Keys Elecrifigation Group Meets In Tavernier SO | of West Jefferson, Ohio, have writ- | ROTARIANS HEAR.» ABOUT ALIENS | COUNCILMAN RAMSEY GIVES INFORMATION: OLIVER RAMSEY AND DR. PARRA- MORE ALSO TALK 4 ENGINEER MAC LEAN; WILL PRESIDE; SAW.) YER TO REPORT ON) PROMOTION DRIVE | Approximately 120 Monroe | — county families will be depend- There will be a meeting this ent UP ree eee com: ee : . {munity after January 1 when evening in Tavernier at 8 o'clock lthey are to be dropped from the ‘to consider proposed electrifica- | social security benefit rolls, City 13 _., {Councilman Ernest Ramsey said Son of the Florida Keys, which |in addressing members. of the iwill be presided over by Engi-\Rotary Club at ‘their weekly | Pr if pst jluncheon yesterday at St. Paul’s |neer MacLean, of Moulirie, Ga.,| Parish Hall. i s Councilman Ramsey said that | who will ° } A explain, matters in con jof the 489 persons now carried on} nection with the plan. ithe social security rolls approxi- éj {mately 150 of them are aliens. : | Of the 150 a total of between 35 ; Matters will be touched on by | and 40. are blind and may be Mr. MacLean, but as he is the|continued as relief recipients; so that around 120 will depend en- |tirely on the county for support. The councilman urged the club ones % ito coperate with the Elks Club 2 i e Lea to all interested B assisting the aliens to qualify in the project. \for citizenship. In some cases, Attending the meeting from jhe said, it may even be necessary |Key West will be Clerk Ross C. |t bed about $3 for each \Sa er, of a . " he | Person ‘or necessary papers. en 0 peut Coutts. Al Wederal awe ia scheduled to sit | torney W. Curry Harris, who was here May 4 to consider citizen- |appointed the project's attorney ! ship applications, at the last meeting, and Ross C.| By coincidence, another mem- 'Sawyer, Jr., who was selected |ber of the Ramsey family also \to make a canvass of the Keys |addressed the Rotarians. He was |to get signatures of those who Oliver F. Ramsey, who_handles iwill use the service, ie cron lesroen service news of | The plan that is necessary is|the bureau of employment se- to have three subscribers to every | curity Re the social security board mile which is covered by the 'at Washington. The Florida state jlines, and as the coverage of the employment bureau, which is |project is approximately 100 | headed here by William V, Lit- |miles, there must be 300 sub- | tle, preapett ss se Botilen Club, \scribers. Mr. Sawyer has been |is affilia’ @ national |busy at work for the last few | board. days and it is expected that he| Mr. Ramsey said-he was here jon a holiday and said he came i because he was curious to see a icity which was making such a jfine effort to come back after ihaving Bone so far down in the economic mire. He said that what jhe had experienced here so far DISMISSED IN CRAWFISH CASE induced him to state th Peter Torano was arrested yes- West. terday by Conservation Agent! Another speaker was Dr. J. B. Benjamin Russell and was charg-:Parramore of Monroe _ county ed with having underweight health clinic who described his |crawfish in his possession. recent official visits to Orlando In the afternoon he was and Jacksonville in connection brought before Peace Justice En-jwith health promotion. He was rique Esquinaldo for preliminary enthusiastic about the work be- hearing. The evidence educed at ing done by the state tuberculosis the hearing was sufficient to |sanitorium at Orlando and told warrant the case being dismiss- how advanced cases of the dis- ed. jease had responded to treatment Tonight | } | | | | | | | | It is not. known exactly what | electrification plans lit is believed underway, that the discussion me i | will make his report tonight. | there. TENDERS | One fact he brought out was ,that in February the state, in co- NOW IN P ORT (Continued on Page Four) 1 cing ‘STOCKINGS ARE All tenders of the Coast Guard ; are today in port, the last one, | FOR SEASON |the Zinnia, coming in about 8} o'clock this morning from an in-j spection trip up the east coast,| Mr. and Mrs, John A. Stocking \which was taken by Superinten-!of Evansville, Ind., have arrived dent W. W. Demeritt. jin this city to spend their fourth The weather being calm and , consecutive winter. They plan conditions fine for the work, jto stay until the first of April. ;more was accomplished than was; Last year the Stockings built jat first intended and the tender a home at 1502 United street. Mr. was back earlier than anticipat-| Stocking is engaged in the lum- ed. |ber business in Evansville. ‘Census Takers Will Start Work In City Next Week 1 | On January 2, 1940 an army of enumerators will start calling on |all business concerns from the] must be had, as it is requiréd largest to the smallest, asking at-|law, and so, the cooperation of tention to the Census of Business ;those approached will greatly jand Industry Report required by|advance the Progress of this |an Act of Congress. campaign”. Mr. O'Bannon has | John W. O'Bannon, census|instructed the enumerators to |supervisor for eight counties in| call only’ when it is convenient \the Fourth Congressional Dis-|for the business. men. | trict, says that the coming census} The enumerator, the local cen- | will probably prove a tremend-|sus office and the Bureau of the jous help to the Federal Govern-|Census at Washington are pledg- for this report”, Mr. O'Bannon Stated. “However, this Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit White Way and need for addi- LETTE IS: New Year's Celebration |tional support; that by Lion Joe Saturday Night, 10 till ? |Allen on progress being made by the Clubhouse group and that | RAUL’S CLUB —Featuring— RAY BALDWIN and his Native Hawaiian Band with MILDRED BAZELL—Vocalist Covert Charge Ladies $1.00 Free ernment will construct a new! | by Lion John Costar in present-|home in this city which will | ing the lapel button and member- again bring the whole family ship card to new Lion C. Sam B. pack together. | Curry. Members will engage in a Mel- vin Jones Birthday Membership Contest during the month of CLOSING NOTICE This store will be closed to- ventory. S. H. KRESS & CO. \ W.'T. PRIPP, Manager. jto capture honors, | Directors of the club will meet tat Lion Ray Curry’s home Tues- day evening, January 9. |January with two teams picked, | morrow afternoon and evening |Teady for the pan. |the Growlers and Roarers, all set|}for the purpose of taking in-| 3 |ment in handling some of | FRYERS — FRYERS more pressing domestic prob- Our FRYERS are raised on sani- | lems. He hopes that curry. citi- taty wire floor and are fed com-|7@"_ Will appreciate this oppor- mercial feed only. access to help reveal the hereto- | PHONE 540—and let us deliver -"° tid hae prank msacere fone or more dressed and cut uP| bilities 6 ee i not Toes: BRADY’S (Live) exaggerated to sur-| TRY MARKET ‘ 1214 White Street PRICE FIVE CEN’ ussia Prepares | Me STS’ New Attacks On Finnish Defense TLDS SEIS SSS. |DON’T GIVE ’SKEETER A CHANCE TO BREED Mosquito Eradication au- thorities today remind resi- dents of Key West to exert all possible care in seeing that empty cans are kept free of rain water, also that puddles cf water in yards be filled. The heavy. rainfall last night might very well bring on another infestation, au- thorities state, such as was experienced last Fall follow- ing other heavy rain storms. While the danger of infes- tation is not so great, owing to cooler weather, it is Pointed out that much of the good work accomplished in freeing the city of mosquitoes would be cancelled should residents be neglectful in al- lowing breeding places to stand filled with water. SIILDIIS SDs BOYS BAND SAW Other Scenes Were Viewed MOVIES OF SNO Last evening the members of the Key West Boys Band gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Mills White for their first social meeting of the season. Highlight of the evening’s en- tertainment was a.movie show with many reels shown by K. N. Dale and Franklin Archer. Mr. Dale showed several reels of snow scenes taken at the Dale’s summer camp 7,000 feet up in the mountains in Oregon State. Some pictures teken early in May show snow drifts one hundred feet high. There were also pictures of the Army and Navy Academy at San Diego, Calif.; Mt. Whitney; Mojave Desert; the chain of Mis- sions started in California hy Father Sherer, and many other beautiful color shots from places all over the country. Mr. Archer presented movies of local scenes in which several members of the band saw them- selves as movie actors for the first time. Both Mr. Dale and Mr. Archer have more pictures which they thave consented to show the boys at future gatherings. After the movies several games were play- ed and those two wizards of the art of magic, Ray Pierce and {James Singleton, entertained with many astounding and unbeliev- able tricks. If there had been a woman present they no doubt would have even tried to saw her in half. Refreshments and cold drinks were served and a grand time was had by all. The next social event for the boys will be a fish- ing and beach picnic up the Keys of Washington, D. C., U. S. Commissioner of In- ‘dian Affairs, will arrive in Key West next Sunday for an indef- inite stay. ‘ Mr. Collier will join his wife, who has been spending the past two weeks. here, residing at North Beach Inn. John Collier, nation’s population, resources and No change in-the patrols of; business activities. The reports}U. S. Navy ships was announced cannot be used for purposes of|this morning as the Destroyers taxation, regulation or investi- gation. - Frank MUTINY REPORTED IN | RANKS OF SOVIETS; | FINNS EXPECT PARA- | CHUTE DRIVE STOCKHOLM, Dec. 29.—Re- {ports here today indicated that i ; | Russia was concentrating more _ | | (iy Ansociated Press) i jand more forces in determination to swing a victory tide in her favor in the undeclared war with |Finland. | Over 100,000 crack troops have jarrived at the front and are re- |ported in readiness for a resump- tion of smashing drives against ithe so-far-intact_ Mannerheim line on the Karelian isthmus. | News stories keep coming in that Russians are experiencing {much difficulty with troopers |who appear to be dissatsified |with the war. Mutiny is said to ‘have broken out in several en- ;campments and one report. stated {that Russia had issued orders for jairplane pilots to open fire on their own countrymen in efforts |to quell disturbances. | Ski troops of Finland are re- {ported today in possession of a jsmall portion of the Murmansk. ‘Leningrad railroad which is the imainartery for. transportation! supplies toe the north Finland frontier. Finns are apprehensive lest a renewal of parachute troop ma- ineuvers be attempted by Russia in that all lakes of the country |are now frozen solid. Maneuvers would call for hundreds of planes jto fly over Finland, each drop- ping eight or nine soldiers by parachute. The assembled troops would then engage in cutting communications and general |harrassment of Finn troops from the flanks. These troops have generally been called suicide detachments in that thev are not expected to come back to Russia, either suf- fering death in engagements or jcapture by the enemy. Their work, however. if carried out as iplanned, would cause severe handicap to the Finns. Big guns of Finland have been moved up behind the Manner- heim line to offset action of the Russian “Big Berthas”. Bombing raids by Russia have~failed to date to find the gun emplace- | ments, TEMPERATURES Lowest last highest last Stations— night 24 hours Atlanta 44 Boston 32 | Buffalo 29 Charleston 47 |Chicago 29 | Denver 36 Detroit 24 |El Paso - 45 Galveston 45 | Havana 81 Jacksonville 52 Kansas City _ 26 73 69 26 74 25 35 35 51 30 57 46 65 32 |Miami —____ |Mpls.-St, Paul Nashville - New York | Pensacola |St. Louis - 'San Francisco | Seattle —— 42 | Tampa BERSS LB asePRSRESNE