The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 30, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 69 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an av2rage range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER £M THE U. $8. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1940 =a ongress For Strong. Navy Bombing Raid owns camer Efren a (OO ONS VA os cs me | | Un Chases Cold Wave “sss. .r°smcrn Over Engl Away From Key West oon VOLUME LXI. No. 26. PRICE FIVE CENTS ;They are Mr. and Mrs. Steward, of Teaneck, N. J., wh District Committee of Boy ea fe aula visit to thel The 1940 Havana-Key West Scouts assembled last night in But that isn’t the big story! | Yacht Race is on! ‘ j Chamber of Commerce headquar-! Mrs. Steward is recalled as the, The Key West Yacht Club has ters, attended by a good propor-' young lady who suffered the loss received word from the St. Hono ener 4 ae. of both legs in a subway accident | Petersburg Yacht Club that they, | eran Mi. -serareEeow le: WAS, back in 1937... That=im the story, | have already sent out literature | in the chair. { * ‘ 8 4 coupled with the intense interest P | In the future, the affairs of the che takes in all sports, musie and | ##nouncing the event—to follow | (district will be checked and aided \jiterature despite the loss of her the annual St. Petersburg-Ha- RETARY OF GROUP: SCOUT Residents of Key West were’ CISION* MADE EARLIER: WEEK FUNCTIONS TO BE imicrested to hear of two recent) Boars To LEAVE HAVANA retary of the Navy Edison today ATTACKED; GERMANY CELEBRATES 7TH YEAR arrivals in this city—visitors who; ANNOUNCED LATER jare staying at La Concha a FOR KEY WEST MARCH 15 | james | OF HITLER’S REGIME , by a secretary, as action brought! lower limbs. , Vana race in March—to every TAKE OFFENSIVE ; election of Owen Curry, a former scout, to act in that capacity. A! need for scout headquarters inj; d. hi tated. it! od the district was stressed, it also we, svondestal torese the avimeeil This information has caused OFFICIAL TEMPERATURE TSS ISIS SSI SS. While h , the Ste ‘ds i ii i j “ if r spending abe or Rect ae eon pia yacht owner in the United | 65 THIS NOON; FUR: RECORD TEMPERATURE | navi elecSinuecl ithe cseeauien |FROZE-CROPS ON KEYS | which he requested that Con- | THER RISES EXPECTED outlined a definite Program for AGAINST REDS being decided that more frequent i106 of life manifested in every-|the Key West Yacht Club to re- | TODAY {$ress pass in present session. (By Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 30.—German bombing raids | east coast cities of England to- | day as several encounters counter-attacking Royal Force squadrons were reported. Apparently in celebration of the rise of the Nazi party to pow- er in Germany, flight after flight of bombers appeared almost simultaneously over cities of England and Scotland. Concentration on shipping was noted and several vessels, either in port or nearing port, were repurted to be in dis- tress or sunk from the airplane attacks. R.A.F. reported that at least one of the raiders had been down- coastwise ed and many of the flights brok- | en up. CASUALTY LIST TO BE REPORTED (Ry Awetiated- Press) LONDON, Jan. 30—The War Ministry reported today that it would publish the first casualty list from the West Front here to- morrow. Advance notice w: o the ef fect that forty names would ap- pear on the list of dead and wounded along the Maginot Line Weather conditions in France cleared somewhat today, it was announced here, and _ increased military action was noted. Heavy artillery fire was heard in several sectors and patrol action on both sides had increased. FRENCH LAUGH AT Crack Jokes About Nazis THIS WORLD WAR eoccccececee inted Press) . 30.—Reports that the Rhine overflowed its banks near the Siegfried line led French humorists to envisage the Ger- man fortifications completely in undated. A story in a newspaper read: “It has been learned that a submarine operated by the Ger- mans on the inundated Siegfried Line struck a tank while rising to the surface. The submarine was sunk”. Medal-bedecked Goering is pic- tured riding a bathing beach rub- ber swan on the water marked by signs. “Siegfried Line“. Under the caption, “New Ver- sion of an English Song” are shown two English soldiers scrub- bing their shirts by the side of a lake out of which rise tanks, guns and signs showing the location of the line. The cutlines read, “We shall wash our washing in the Siegfried Line”. SAWYER OPENS BARBER SHOP AT NAVAL STATION French humor Announcement was made this morning that Berlin Sawyer, lo- cal barber, had secured the bar- bershop concession at the Marine Barracks, and that everything was in readiness to offer service to enlisted personnel at the sta- tion. Mr. Sawyer has employed Os- car Portela, a barber of long ex- perience including a period of ten years in New York City, to man- age the station shop. increased over | with | Air *“conies"more ‘RUSSIAN TROOPS’ MORALE AT LOW EBB AS SUPPLY SYSTEMS FAIL; NEW RE- PULSES REPORTED (iby Associated Press) HELSINKI, Jan. 30.—Military observers here heard more evi- dence that the Russian attacks of ‘recent origin had “bogged down” to almost imperceptible strength. Additional reports of continued Finnish repulses of all major at- tacks are coming through, the latest of which is a complete route of Red action designed against an island stronghold held by the Finns in Lake Ladoga. night and a program will be an- ‘rett. From this point, Finnish artillery | batteries were continuing to rain considerable destruction on con- | meetings of local units would be, held. | | A communication from F. Townsend Morgan was read to; ‘the scouters, containing praise | for Boy Scouts of this city for the {work performed in connection | with the recent Planning Board , | Exhibits. | Finance Chairman E. A. Ram- ‘sey led in a discussion of budget requirements for the coming year and tentative plans were laid to secure necessary funds. | Attention of local scouters was called to the coming broadcast of | Dr. James E. West, Chief Scout! Executive, over station WQAM on February 8th, the beginning day of National Boy Scout Week. | Local plans for that week were ;gone over at the meeting last jnounced later, it was said. Co-operation with the i Scout Circus to be staged in Mi- | thing Mrs. Steward attempted. It was conceded that others with less optimistic viewpoints and who might hee met wit half the “bad luck” as Mrs. Stew: ard, would have given them. selves up to a life of despondency. Not so Mrs. Steward. She smilingly goes about enjoying herself to the fullest and exhibits real interest in her surroundings wherever she is or whatever she is doing. TRANSPARENT FISH CUREALL, Mo. — Transparent fish, from two to five inches long and without eyes, have been tak- en from the well on the Ozark farm belonging to Harrison Gar- deep and the water comes from centrations of Russian troops bor-:ami on February 8th was voted ,an underground stream, six feet dering the lake. Finland may sieze the offen- sive at any moment, this city ‘hears, as the forelorn position of Russian troops in the country be- apparent. “Tt ‘is known that the supply’ system for the Russians has completely failed and morale of troops is at extremely low ebb because of shortage of food and other sup- plies, Russian planes appeared over Viberg, important Finnish sea- port town, again today, dropping several bombs before land _bat- teries chased them away. Finns reported many planes brought down in other sectors. JAYCEES TO MEET TOMORROW NIGHT Key West Junior Chamber of Commerce will hold its regular bi monthly meeting tomorrow evening, 6:30 o’clock, in Rainbow Dining Room of La Concha Hotel. President Weintraub requests a full attendance of the member- ship at this session. TEMPERATURES jin the purchase of ten tickets. [tee i | | One serious hitch - has de- ; veloped in the project to provide recreational facilities at Colonial Park, according to the Com- {munity Recreation Committee, ‘which releases, through The Citi- zen, a plea for cooperation to all ‘carpenters of the city to help in construction work that can get under way immediately if re- sponse is forthcoming. Lumber and building material is at hand for the bandstand and shelter planned for the lot. Floyd Six, who last week volunteered DAVIES CONTINUES LOCAL FIRE PROBE LEAVES FOR MIAMI WITH CHIEF BAKER TC OBTAIN Lowest iast Highest last | 24 hours 46 40 33 27 43 28 52 26 65 65 52 32 58 51 77 29 61 19 35 56 34 55 50 30 31 67 58 53 31 Stations Apalachicola Atlanta Boston Buffalo Charleston Chicago Denver Detroit El Paso Havana Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Miami Mpls.-St. Nashville New Orleans _ New York Oklahoma City Pensacola Pittsburgh 17 St. Louis - 12 San Francisco 53 Seattle - 42 Tampa _ 46 Washington 10 night 38 - 28 16 12 33 23 33 - 22 33 - 59 44 il 47 28 56 . 19 48 1 27 33 22 25 37 Paul DIES AT SON'S FUNERAL FORT WORTH, Texas.—Mrs. Sarah Martha Fitz-Charles col- lapsed and died of a heart attack at the funeral of her son, Geo. William Fitz-Charles, 52, who had died of a heart attack. INFORMATION The office of Sheriff K. O. ; Thompson is still conducting an; jinvestigation into the fire which | joccurred the night of January '2 destroying the home of H. O. |Pennick at the corner of Emma ‘and Southard streets. | Estimates of the loss by the | fire have ranged from $5,000 to; |} $12,000. The loss was covered by | |two insurance policies, one for! ‘$10,000 on the building and one | for $4,000 on the furniture. | Certain circumstances con- CRC Issues. Call For deep. Carpenters On Project to superintend construction, will be at the park this afternoon from 4:00 o’clock on to plan the work. All carpenters who will con- tribute one hour a day, or any time during the week, are asked to report to Mr. Six this after-! noon. Other agencies are volun- teering services and it is hoped that a ready response to the com- mittee’s plea will be forthccming so that all possible haste can be made in finishing up construc- tion. Pepper Plumbing Company an- nounced yesterday that they would furnish any plumbing help needed, gratis. The job includes some pipe construction, and this offer was welcomed by the com- mittee. NYA department is at work now on combination tables and benches for the center. ONLY TWO SHIPS IN PORT TODA U. S. Destroyers Lea and Mason and the Tender Gannet returned from a tour of duty yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock and took on fuel oil. The Lea and Gannet jsailed at 8 o'clock this morning, leaving the Mason at Pier B tak- ing on oil. The other ship in port today is the Destroyer Schenck, which is berthed at one of the finger piers and is being overhauled by mem. of the yard. ated ! verse its previous decision not to |have the race this year, and the ‘fort to put the event across. The yachts will leave St. Petersburg for Havana on Saturday, March | 9th, and will hoist sail for Key West on the following Friday, ‘March 15th. | This action of the St. Peters- burg and Key West clubs means (national recognition of Key West {as a potential yachting center. |The nation-wide publicity it will | receive is considered of great jvalue to this community, and | harmonizes with the present ef- \fort to develop Key West as a )primary tourist resort. It is a tribute to the Key West club’s {successful handling of last year’s Havana-Key West race. A com- These fish resemble catfish ' mittee headed by Albert Peirce ‘and their bones are visible in the i i Boy |sunlight. ‘The well is 100 fect /Sngrorscmenten ne |S maxing | aN ‘MARTI LODGES | "HELD ELECTIONS : |\THREE LOCAL UNITS RE- LEASE LIST OF OFFICERS FOR.NEW YEAR { | . Officials of the three Lodges 'Caballeros de Marti, Incorporat- ed, as a result of elections recent- ily held, were announced yester- day afternoon as follows: i Officials of Lodge Amor Y Fir- meza, No. 1: Luminaria, Haydee ; Martinez; Vice Luminaria, Ofelia Johnson; Patricia, Raquel San- ‘chez; Tesorera, Maria Gutsens; |Secretaria Finanza, Dulce Maria Perez; Secretaria de Actas, Do- | lores Vidal; Vice-Secretaria de Actas, Mercedes Calleja; Experta, Adelina la Fe; M. De Ceremonias, Concha Vasquez; Interior Guard, ‘Armando Aguilar; Exterior }Guard, Concha Fiallo; Porta Es- tandarte, Graciela Calleja; Pas- ada Luminaria, Josefina Vinson. Officials of Lodge. Union Saco Carrasco, No, 2: Luminar, Juan ,Cobo; Vice-Luminar, Alfredo Lu- cignani; Patriarca, Julio Perez; Tesorero, J. M. Fernandez; Sec- jretario de Finanza, Ignacio Fer- ‘nandez; Secretario de Actas, \“Pepe” Fernandez; Vice-Secre- itario de Actas, Pablo Calleja; Ex- ) perto, Ricardo Roche; M. de Cere- _monias, Jose C. Fernandez; In- terior Guard, Rafael de Amable; 'Exterior Guard, Julio Cabanas; ‘Porta Esiandarte, Carlos Calleja; | Pasado Luminar, J. Perez. | Officials of Lodge Marti, No. |3: Luminar, Pedro Oliva; Vice- |Luminar, Horacio Pons; Patriar- | ica, Juan F. Fleitas; Tesorero, Os- jcar L. Milian; Secretario de Fi- jnanza, Mario P. Rolo; Secretario de Actas, Santiago V. Rodriguez; Vice-Seeretario de Actas, court; M.-de Ceremonias, Enrique | bers of the crew and employes Barcelo; Interior Guerd, Feliciano |Castro; Exterior Guard, Julio Ca- inected with the fire created the! Ships on patrol this morning|banas; Porta Estandarte, Carlos \impression that it was of incen- | were the Destroyers Lea, Twiggs, ;Calleja; Pasada Luminar, Ger- diary origin, and the conflagra- | tion investigations have strength- | ened the suspicion. _The authori- ' ities have tried in vain to locate ; |Mr. Pennick. | | With the arrival of Edward S. Davies, special agent for the Ar- | {son Bureau of the National Board | jof Fire Underwriters, the inves- tigation was intensified. i | In company with Fire Chief! Harry Baker, Mr. Davies, in be- | ‘half of the sheriff, left this morn-! ing for Miami to gather some in- formation relative to the fire, | jwhich he believes was awaiting | jthe authorities there, 3; { Evans, Philip and Branch. lardo La Fe. PRESIDENTS BIRTHDAY DINNER Tomorrow Night, 8:00 O’Clock LA CONCHA HOTEL RAINBOW DINING ROOM ENTERTAINMENT DANCING Special Feature. Movies by Jecob Schreiber Each Person $2.00—Phone 160 for Reservations ‘club is now exerting: every ef- | Jose | Gonzalez; Experto, Teodoro Betan- ; Everything froze out just north of Key West during the weekend cold spell, reports from the keys state. From as near as 25 miles | north of Key West, farmers ing and reflected upon yester-/ T1240 that their entire crops day’s forecast that “slowly rising! have been burned out by the 1 ; extreme cold. temperatures” were to be ex-| Farmers on Sugarloaf and te 3 4j _ Cudjoe report that tomatoes, aces Te rate suet okra, sweet potatoes, have as cold as the low experienced esaar ye ! The announcement was made ‘in face of threatened Congres- }sional action which would re- ‘duce the Administration's |quest for naval defense by least twenty-five per cent. | “The United States navy must !be built up to a position where it jcan stand alone” declared Edi- son, “especially in view of any | possibility that may arise out of re- at all turned black. Thousands of pounds of fish have been i focal Aero sag oe xe ; the European wars”. Weather Bureau reports this | ponies sellage on at oo | Stating that a strong navy is morning, however, bore out Yes-| ime trees has turned black. | €ssential in the protection scheme terday’s predictions, with a low) wat is even more surpris- of this country, Edison pressed recording four degrees warmer; ing ig that weeds and ; | ing is wi grass for adoption of the navy program than the record 43 of Sunday.) pave also undergone the |...) ; 5 Eleven points separated the read- |which includes construction of By % killing, cold change, | ates a ings during the last twenty-four | seventy-seven fighting ships of hour period ending at 7:30 o’clock | Bie ovis on moeeret | hs zs ‘OcK and Cudjoe were as follows: | first rank over a_ three-year _ morning—low, 47 and high,| Saturday night th in ain | period, NANCE GARNER morning it was 42. Monday CALL VICE-PRESIDENT OP- night it rose to 56 and this morning it was 43. PONENT OF ORGANIZ- ED LABOR early Sunday. : At noon today, official tem- perature reading was 65, indicat- H ing a practically complete re-} covery to near-normal levels.: “Qld Sol” shone forth all morn- ing: bringing real comfort’ to alk. residerits in the city.» "°° 7 Forecast for the next period is; for partly cloudy skies tonight and Wednesday with somewhat warmer weather tonight; light to. mioderate southerly winds. { Probabie continuation of at least cool weather during the next few days is indicated in the further report that prevailing winds are due for a shift to west and northwest tomorrow. It ap- pears, however, that no severe “norther” will again visit Key West in the near future. i Key West's lowest tem- perature was 43 on Sunday morning. There was no frost here and the vegetables at the W. P. A, farm tracts are all in good shape. The only frost free city in INSPECTORS LOOK OVER WARBLER J. G. Blair, U. S. inspector of hulls, and Robert J. Brown, U. S. inspector of boilers, arrived from: Tampa last evening and this morning were busily engaged _ in making the scheduled inspection of the Wrecking Tug Warbler. No announcement of the result of the inspection was obtainable this afternoon, but it is the be- lief of the officers and crew, that the inspection will result in the vessel being given a “clean, slate”. COSTS SITS ‘DISLIKED CHICAGO STORY ABOUT CITY West! } (By Associated Press) VIL DIL LI EI I | COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 30.—The {United Mine Workers in conven- ARRAIGNED ON !tion here passed two important V ‘AGR ANT CHARG | with nationai politics and the oth- ter with international policy of the nee | government. Stating that Vice-President , before Justice of the Peace En-'iute enemy of organized labor, rique Esquinaldo this morning on the United Mine Workers aimed |a charge of being a vagrant, with a resolution at him as well as nothing to do, nowhere to go and other “ultra-conservatives” in ;,.|feat ther airs in aspiring to the The young man, who admits | jomination foi presidency. being 21 years cld and claims; “Tye other resolution called on Pennsylvania as his home state, 'thesUnited States to lend finan- but upon cross examination ad=|¢T en country Pierre con- i been templated using suc! funds to arto it bebe even purchase products manufactured place tc sleep and helped the ;,, this country. owner of the home clean up the| z Yesterday afternoon he was met by Deputy Sheriff Ray El-| wood and giving very unsatis- | factory answers to the questions | PAINTS LIGHT | The | judge placed him under $25 bond a ee :to be held for trial at the next KEY WEST STRUCTURE RE- jterm of Criminal Court. } i Pat ee SESS CEIVES NEW COAT: IVY S. S. ALAM > ee HUNTS FOR BARGE the United States — Key 'resolutions today—one dealing Stephen: Kohan: was, avreigned John Nance Garner was an abso- no visible means of support. | Congress, calling on labor to de- first said he had been working ‘cial aid to Finland or to any oth- _ kitchen. | ES RENT ZINNIA CREW jasked, he was arrested. FREIGHT FOR STATION |. Steamer Alamo, of the Clyde-| 'Mallory Lines, arrived in port this morning at 2:15 o'clock with ‘light shipments of miscellaneous :freight for local merchants and ithe naval station. Among the freight for the sta- tion were special shipments of 4 'clothing’and stores, and several has been given the necessary ipieces of machinery, which were Coats of paint, and it needs but corsigned to the commandant | the finishing touches if the tower land came from the station at | is te edd to the attractiveness of Norfolk: | the structure. The entire cargo was out of! Superintendent W. W. De- the ship at 6:15 o'clock and the | Meritt said this morning that the ; Vessel continued the voyage to! Tender Ivy, which left for Port Tampa. Tampa harbor yesterday to en- |deavor to locate the barge Bel- PROPOSALS |mont which was reported sunk in the harbor, and to place a buoy to mark the scene of the sinking, had not located the | barge as yet. Other vessels in the vicinity, including an airplane from St. Petersburg, have joined the reject any and all bids. search and are carrying on an in- BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. (tensive investigation, as the Jand0-31,1940) wreck is a menace to navigation, Personnel of the Coast Guard Tender Zinnia is employed to- day painting the tower of the only light house in the country which is located within the limits of a city. All of the lighthouse structure | Sealed bids will be received ;until ‘Tuesday, February 6th, | 1940, 7:30 p. m. for one (1) to five |) second hand, 1% ton, hy- draulic dump trucks. The usual right is reserved to/ A hh hd de dk)