The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 26, 1940, Page 1

cicneanininlaciiskensasasiigitipantnaceengealna Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Kry West Ctttzen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1940 VOLUME LXI. No. 23. PRICE FIVE CENTS Wheeler Calls On Pres. Roosevelt FOUR DEGREES FROM YES-| To Announce P lans oe COMDR. BYRNS PRECEDENT WOULD Be Key West again took top pe TELLS ROTARY | PROVE HANDICAP TO ve ors for warmest temperatures in CLUB OF CHIN | DEMOCRATS ahi tourists a spot to sun themselves the State of Florida, with a (By Associated Press) between dips in the sea. {mini i a In addition to this work. the aura oat | . PRESENTED MOVIES TAKEN| WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. — | ON RECENT TRIP TO OR- Senator Burton L. Wheeler today Finns Hear Reds | ToUnleashStrong Offensives Soom) mr = srurrowmir ar rome smeas a * eee. . Seti LE \ (Special to The Citizen) wrrwinsrainaind sea ™ LIONS CLUB SAW | AS eae individuals in the maintenance MANY NATIONS LEAVE! i H \ | During December, employment | South Beach’ ands thes Clie To assist FINLAND) COLORED MOVIES |insuance venents amounting gh omamngrape ogi : a 9 ‘vancin: e ch a IN DEFENSE | OF FLORIDA KEYS g the city UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT CHECKS LESS LAST MONTH TOTAL PAYMENTS IN DE- CEMBER, 34,296; 177 KEY ‘THERMOMETER " Association Drives: HOLDS TO LOW For Additional Members "0%" | | KEY WEST COMES BACK! i | |BELIEVES THIRD TERM Effort to enlist the support of ing donated by the Columbia | ‘additional Key West firms and’ Laundry company. It will individual checks, were paid to | ¢j i apers, /@8Sociation also has organized a| z , unemployed men and women by ani ean tiaee bee ae Axey city Publicity bureau. None of than the previous period’s low of | (By Associated Press) { LONDON, Jan, 26.—Advices;OVER 1,000 FEET DISPLAYED; received here today pointed to ne; EXCELLENT surcease for the Finns in their | MENT FOR KEY WEST; WY- ADVERTISE- | the Unemployment Compensation | Division of the Florida Industrial Commission, according to figures released by Harold C. Wall, chair- jman of the Commission. Compared with the November figures of $338,279.57 in the form : West Hotel and Tourist Homes | Association. | South Beach has_ been fa: A : | pletely renovated by the hotel | Tibuting news stories regarding | Jassociation from funds advanced {Visitors and Key West events to | by more than 30 Key West busi-|20rthern newspapers as one! Inessmen and civic-minded in-/™eans of convincing vacationists | jis being paid for his or her serv-j com- (ices. They are gathering and dis- | those identified with the bureau /48. | i Miami’s low temperature drop- jped two degrees in the same pe- | riod, resting at near freezing level of 37. In north Fiorida, re- cordings of 18 to 22 degrees were IENT; COMPARED NEW AND OLD FAR EAST i Comparison of old and ne called on President Roosevelt to |make known his plans in regard (0 running for a third term. Senator Wheeler made _ the home-land defense as word) OMING LIONS ENTERTAIN of 39,540 checks, the December jdividuals and the association is? that this is a good place to come | noted, these temperstures indi- ‘China was one of the highlights came through that Russia is pre-| paring immediate, large-scale of-| fensives, with all agencies of the Red government reported to be Swinging into the serious busi- ness of conquering their neigh- enjoyed by the Lions Club, boring couniry. On the sixth day of the recent, major offensive, the Finns were! still holding all main_ positions, and calmly awaited the coming of more attacks expected shortly. British offi stated that volunteers from England and France would shortly leave for; Finland to help defend that coun- try against the Reds. Other na-| tions hi reported numbers of volunteer units in transit to the battle fronts. On the West Front, the Allies were reported to be busily pre-| paring for major action which is expected as soon as the weather abates. Additional men and sup- plies have been moved up to the Maginot Line defenses and air scouting patrols have been sent out in increasing numbers. VOLUNTEERS CAN KEEP CITIZENSHIP MUST NOT TAKE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE, HOW- EVER als (By Associated Press) HINGTON, Jan —The Department answ ed in s today concerning United citizens who enlisted in the armies of foreign nations in regard to’danger of losing citi- zenship. There would be no loss of citi- zenship for such volunteers, pro- viding no oaths of allegiance were pledged by those who choose to fight for any country WA State A commercial vhotographer with a host of beautiful, colored- movie shots of the Keys, and two visiting Lions from the State of Wyoming provided one of the most interesting programs ever in last evening at Stone Church Annex with Lion Presi- dent H. E. Day in the chair. Louis L. Louft, a visitor to Key West and the Keys for the past five years, an ardent photograph- er with a knack for taking just the kind of pictures that prove highly interesting to anyone, has assembled approximately 1,000 feet of colorea movies of almost every feature of life on the Keys. Many more hundreds of feet were taken by Mr. Louft, but only the best shots, all assembled in wonderful Sequence, have been put together to produce what, in the opinion of all witnesses of the pictures last night, is believ- ed to be one of the best adver- tisements of Key West and the Keys ever seen. Scenes of the highway, bridges and various shots of the Keys are shown, all depicting either the exquisite water color- ings or beautiful skies. Then a session few hundred feet are shown ofj human-angle views in Key West, including a veritable florist shop of all the highly-colored foliage found here. Of intense interest were the shots depicting the life of a sport fisherman. Mr. Louft, himself an expert angler, was hero several of these shots—pictured the; of j jdata represent a decrease of 10.4 percent in the total amount of benefits paid and 13.3 percent in ithe number of cheoks issued. The average check for a single week of unemployment — was |$8.84, the highest average for any jsingle month since benefits be- came payable, December Key West i payments for the employment office of 177 individual checks to un- employed persons formerly hold- ing jobs in covered employment. The average benefit payment for a single week of unemployment in this area was $8.63 for the ‘month, In December a total initial claims for unemployment compensation was filed in Flor- ida. Of this total 6,370 were (Continued on Page Four) COL. R. W. COLLINS HERE INSPECTING ARRIVED YESTERDAY FOR STAY OF SEVERAL DAYS Colonel Robert W. Collins, C. A. C., Commanding, Officer of the 4th Coast Artillery District, ar- rived over the highway last eve- ning for a visit of several days while making an inspection of the Harbor Defenses of Key West. Colonel Collins is station- ed at Atlanta, Ga., and has visit- d Key West on several previous occasions. while reeling in, first, a sailfish, | then all other varieties of the! huge game fish found in . these | waters. | The author stated to the club} that the pictures would, no doubt, | be responsible for creating much ! interest in Key West and the Keys in that he planned to show them to hundreds of people up} north, especially in Washington, | D. C., his home town. Desmond Phillips, of Lyman, Wyoming, and C. Walter Cald- well, of Mountain View, Wyom- Besides the Harbor Defenses of } Key West, the district command- | ed by Colonel Collins includes jthe Harbor Defenses of Pensa- cola and Charleston, as well as the Coast Artillery National uard and Reserve Corps activi- ties in the Fourth Corps Area. The main object of his inspec- tion will be to observe the spe- cial target practices to be fired by Battery “E”, 13th Coast Ar- tillery, on a 3-inch battery at' a towed seacoast target. These practices will be held today and amounted to $1,526.97 in the form | of 6,968 ; | ing the burden of (02 holiday. ecole the “beset ri yelan pe Firms and individuals are being 'shipshape for the thousands of /8iven an opportunity of hecom- {tourists using it. {ing associate members of the j Not only has the beach itself /#otel association. The member- been put in proper condition, but iship work is being handled under the grounds around it have been the direction of J. H. Lehman, cleared and made available for. S¢retary. To date the following the parking of cars. Rocks have ‘have joined the association and been cleaned out of the sand near. thus contributed to the beach the shore, a new ladder has been | Program: is : built from the pier running from'_ Key West Electric company; {the foot of Simonton street and!Key West Gas company; First it is planned to run a railing out , National Bank of Key West; the on the pier from the shore to the|Attman Press; Tift’s Grocery; jladder. | Aquilino Lopez Wholesale Liquor Within a few days the associa-;Company; Monsalvatge & Drane; tion plans to place a diving plat-!Fausto Grocery; Standard Oil form or float some distance out;¢°™pany; Sawyer Paint com- ‘from the shore.- This float is be-'Pany; Adams Dairy company; |Trevor-Morris company; Long’s | ~ | Furniture store; Cormack Book ACTIVITY IN ~ (Store; Key West Drug company; € ‘the Texas company; | Novelty works; Building and repair activities }€?s;_ Thompson Enterprises, Inc.; for the past week, according to Paul's. Tire shop; J. R. Stowers; the summary in the office of Page's soda shop; Pepper Plumb- Building Inspector Harry M.'ing company; Maloney’s Bakery; Baker, have been — extremely South Florida Construction com- light. The record from January | P@PY;, = Conga — pee bare 19 to the 26th shows two permits Bee Bakery and pone iscied: ; Cream parlor. : : One was for construction of a! Each new associate member aH corrugated iron garage at the even & certificate indicating his home of Captain Thomas. James Tab ccaki oc rina MAL DETIENEE . Rian ceccue 8 eel ia Names. of other associate The other was issued for an{Members will appear in these addition to the two story busi- epee SEE Sage See ness building at the corner of} Margaret and Southard streets at | a cost of $500. John Wells is the, owner, | Oriental TEMPERATURES Lowest iast Highest last night 24 hours 4 21 28 Stations Atlanta - | Boston 7 Key West! Drug | jcompany; Delmonico’s restaurant; | |Einhorn’s Grocery; Pierce Broth- | |taliatory measures be instituted. ‘CITY DIRECTORY jeating no near ena to the “orth- !of a travelogue moving picture ler” now experienced here. Un-'show presented yesterday before \less shifting of winds occur, the|members of the Key West Ro- jtemperatures in northern locali- tary Club by Lieut. Comdr. Ray! ties must abate before relief can |Byrns, supply, disbursement and |be expected here. jaccounting officer at Key West Weather bureau reports sub- |Naval Station. jstantiated the latter statement. | ‘casted. There may be a possible ‘lion and again last year. On the let-up tomorrow. {last trip he made moving pictures —_—_ of the places he visited and the things he saw. These he pre- JAPS PROTEST |sented to the club with vivid de- ‘scriptions and pertinent com- TREATY ENDIN tment. He compared the old and ‘new Chinas, stressing the changes ar ese ah |that had come as a result of the ! jundeclared war by Japan. |TOKIO NEWSPAPERS CALL | Another interesting phase of IT “UNFRIENDLY ACT” ;the talk was Commander Byrns’ idiscussion of the traditions, the AGAINST COUNTRY jart, culture and characteristics of |China, old and new. | Visiting Rotarians from all (By Associated Press) sections of the. United States in WASHINGTON, Jan. 26+-Gov-| troduced themselves when invit: ernment _ officials» heard \ today jed ‘by President Williem=¥,..bit- that the Japanese, were “cooking tle. The club received an jup” protests against the cancella- acknowledgement ._ from W. L. jtion of the American-Japanese (Bill) Bates, veteran member, trade treaty, which ended yester- !who has been ill, for a bouquet day morning. jsent him by the club. Newspapers in Tokio, it was | stated, were terming the action jan “unfriendly act” against jJapan. Some advocated that re- MRS. MARY BAZO Washington officials, however, stated that, in all liklihood, noth- ing would be done to cnginees ! new treaty arrangements until it; PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SUB- was definitley shown United! scRIpTIONS MADE POSSI- Statés interests in the far-East would be respected. BLE TRIP FOR OPERATION Relatives were advised yester- day of the death in Cleveland, }O., at the Clinic, of Mrs. Mary Bazo. She died Commander Byrns had been to} 'with continued cool weather fore-|China during the Boxer rebel-| Buffalo 12 20 HAS 2ND EDITION =: Edition Number Two of “Key Detroit : West Life’—the picture news-/|El Paso _.... paper introduced two weeks ago Havana 7" as “Key West Camera”—appear- | Jacksonville ed on the stregts of Key WestKansas City this morning for sale and distri ‘KEY WEST bution to regular subscribers. jLos Angeles | The paper was enlarged this Miami |week to eight pages and contains |Mpls.-St, Paul ja column of comments about the’ New York city written by the editor and! Pénsacola eee _---3 10 25 61 24 -10 . 52 ~ 56 . 37 0 14 - 18 10 6 20 38 64 ay 7 | 59 ey 55 | 5! 32 34 i Tuesday, Jan. 30th, at Fort Tay- | Publisher, L, P. Artman, Jr. An- Pittsburgh 5 11 NOW COMPLETED CONTAINS ALPHABETICAL LISTINGS AND APVERTISE- MENTS IN SMART COVER Announcement is made today by publisher H. Earl Humbert that the new City Directory is now ready for distribution to subscribers. shortly before :midnight Wednesday. Mrs. Bazo was 35 years old and jthe residence in Key West is in the rear of 808 Margaret street. Several weeks ago Miguel | Bazo, the husbana, appeared be- jfore the county commissioners land appealed for help in secur- jing funds to take his wife to the Clinic to undergo a dangerous ‘operation. The board gave the ‘customary $100 and the balance ‘of the money for the trip and op- ,eration was secured from friends. i ing, both members of the Lyman Lions Club, were the guests who contributed to the well-rounded- in Europe, the department said. me time, it was learn- t the’ State department had issued instructions to all U. S. citizens now residing in Sweden to make preparations to embark for home. While no prediction of im minent danger was made, the fu- ture was thought to be uncer- tain enough to issue the warn GOT IN WRONG LINE Minneapolis, Minn.—Seeing line formed and concluding that it led to breakfast, William Wel- hans, 43, was more than as- tonished when he discovered that the “line” wasn’t a bread- line but a line-up of vagrants. He landed in jail, charged with vagrancy. POULTRY SPECIALS STEWERS ............. 1b. 23c FRESH EGGS .... doz. 32c (Florida, Grade A Eggs) delivered with poultry at es - doz, 27¢ Limit 2 dozen per customer FRYERS ROASTERS Dressed, Ready For Pot! ——FREE DELIVERY—— Brady’s Poultry Market Phone 540 1214 White St. ‘ARE NOW IN PORT out program. Lion Phillips, with | his wife, and Lion Caldwell ar. H rived on the S.S. Cuba from Ha- } vana yesterday. Both brought! greetings from their far-off state ! to the “Southernmost Lions Club | in the U. S.” Lion Caldwell delighted local Lions with a highly amusing dis- course on, first, his travels to meet Lion and Lioness Phillips ; in Jacksonville, made especially ; a problem owing to cancelled air- line schedules in the west and central states recently, and sec- | (Continued on Page Four) THREE DESTROYERS Vessels of the United States Navy which have been assigned to the neutrality patrol out of} Key West and are now in the harbor are the Destroyers Lea! and Branch at their berths at/ Pier B, and the Destroyer Schenck eat the finger pier. Other ships of the neutrality squadron assigned to Key West are the Destroyers Twiggs, Ma- ‘son, Evans, Wickes and Philip, and the Tender Gannet. They tare out on patrol at present. lor. Pay 4 ELECTRIFICATION MEETING TONIGHT | LOCAL MEMBERS OF GROUP LEAVE FOR MARA- THON Attorney W. Curry Harris, Ross C. Sawyer, Jr. and Alton Park are leaving this afternoon for Marathon to attend an organiza-} tion meeting of the dwellers on the Florida Keys .in connection with the plans for electrification project. E. P. McLean, engineer of the project, is expected to be present and the following incorporators will attend: Alton Park, W. A. Parrish, A. E. Woodburn, John A. Russell, Samuel R. Lund, Mrs. Ellie Lowe, C. P; MePherson, Ed- ward R. Laringer and T. Jenkins Curry. DANCE Tomorrow Night, 10 till ? RAUL’S CLUB Ray Baldwin and His Native Hawaiian Orchestra No Admission or Cover Charge hor 53 . 38 30 11 nouncement is made that “Key, West Life” will increase further | in size in proportion to advertis- ing and subscription patronage afforded. é St. Louis San Francisco Seattle Tampa . ‘Washingten 5 61 47 50 25 ‘Outstanding Women Write For | National Paralysis Foundation The Citizen presents herewith the fourth of a series of six articles on infantile paralysis written by outstand- ing women. By FANNIE HURST, Famous American Author and Writer NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—During|fight against disease, poverty, the abnormal.stress of war pe- ae must sie yap ‘ riods, .buman. values, become dis- | t is unthinkable; for examp fe, | torted.'' One‘of*the many horrors that ‘the onslaught, egeinst< the scourge of Infantile sis be of such periods is that hates are| slowed down because of the bar- created and released. People barism of a raging war. become vengeful and preoccu- | The battle against Infantile pied. \Paralysis is a constructive one, The normal concerns of man- \fought in the name of child and kind must not, however, be sac-|adult victims. Tificed for these abnormal ones.! I find myself frequently con- War is abnormal. fused with the type of mind A going concern of a universe,/which condemns a dog-lover on where humanitarianism, love and/the grounds that there are needy quality -of-mercy predominate, |children. As if both children and {must be the norm, or man could|dogs are not entitled to a maxi- inot find the courage to carry on.|mum of human mercy! It is fair War or no war, there is con-|to assume that there is sufficient structive, idealistic work identi-|human mercy to go around. fied with normal times that.can-; The same psychology is often not be applied to the exigencies of war. | War or no war, the legitimate! (Continued-on Page Three) The directory advertisements} On Friday, December 8, Mr. and cover were printed. at The \and Mrs. Bazo left Key West for Artman Press, where the work Cleveland to have the operation was finished yesterday. Assem- |P¢rformed. When it was finish- city residences, and street number order, was ‘bling and binding work is near- 4, another was found necessary, ' j : ‘ing completion, Tabulation of |but Mrs. Bazo died before the % : in alphabetical |Se¢ond operation was performed. |the position was abolished upon | Relatives informed The Citi- statement on the eve of an .ad- dress to be delivered before a convention of CIO members in Columbus, Ohio. It is this or- ganization, headed by John. L. Lewis, that has indicated a de- sire to place support behind the senator as their candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. While stating that he would support President Roosevelt, even if he chose to run for a_ third term, Senator Wheeler stated that he thought the precedent- breaking would work an extreme hardship on the parties’ candi- date. Recognizing the statements made by CIO leaders that he be drafted as their candidate, the senator stated that he would be “happy to have the endorsement of Mr. Lewis or any other body interested in a candidate that would ayow protection of Amer- }ican democracy”. Mr. Lewis had | demonstrated. 4many~ times, Sen- ‘ator Wheeler stated, that he was jin sympathy with similar views. | Senator Vandenberg would re- |ceive the Republican nomination, in Wheeler's belief. He did not prophecy which party would win, |satisfying himself mostly with statements concerning the clari- \fying of the situation that now \exists in the Democratic party. CAPT. KING VSS HERE INSPECTOR IN THIS DISTRICT Captain H. D. King, commis- sioner of lighthouses, retired, ar- {rived in the city yesterday after- |noon, accompanied by Mrs. King. |They are to remain until Sunday | when they will take a trip on the ) Steamship Cuba to Havana. Captain King was the first civilian lighthouse inspector it this district and held that posi- |tion at both Charleston, S. C., and |Baltimore, Md. He was -then !made deputy commissioner ~ and at retirement, George R. Putnam, the first commissioner, was ap pointed as commissioner. His retirement from the posi- tion of commissioner came when \the act of President Roosevelt handled by Mr. Humbert’s corps |2" today that the body is ex-j|consolidating the lighthouse de- of assistants and appears mimeographed form in the book. !™MOrrow and will be accompanied | Surplus books, following filling of all orders, will be on sale at The Artman Press, according to Mr. Humbert. TWIN SLEDDERS, 7, KILLED Scranton, Pa.— Thomas Matthew _Petrilak, twin brothers,. were instantly killed when the sled on which they were coasting collided with an automobile. A third hoy on the sled was seriously hurt. Fred Marvil’s ABANA ANNOUNCES GYPSY VILMA Famous Fortune Teller and Morroco Club and _Inter- national Casino in New York. AT THE COCKTAIL HOUR TODAY and each day from now on! and ; ‘17-year-old ; jby Mr. Bazo. | Mrs. Bazo is survived by her husband; four sons, Delio, Mi- guel, Jr., Milton and Kenneth; !parents, Mr. and Mrs. John F. ;Thompson; five brothers, Com- modore Henry Thompson of Mi- n- | jthe Congregational Church Sun- day afternoon at 4 o'clock. Rev. Pritchard’s Funeral Home will TO THE PUBLIC La Concha Rainbow in |Pected to arrive in Key West to- partment with the Coast Guard. Upon returning from their trip {to Cuba, Mr. and Mrs. King will take a leisurely drive in the car ‘to New Orleans. . EARLY TODAY » :Fire was discovered in a pile lof trash near the establishment jof D. Aronovitz about 1 o'clock this morning and a call over the telephone was sent to Fire Sta- tion Number 1. The apparatus responded -|promptly and with the booster |pump of the engine the fire was | was extinguished. EAE SE BS GARDNER’S PHARMACY Hot Water Bottles Electric Heating Pads egies 534 Duval St. Phone 177