The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 10, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 69 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 36. Tornado Wrecks Georgia City; Reported Dead TWISTER LASTED FOR? PIII SISOS ST A TWO MINUTES; EX- GIANT WHITE MARLIN PECT TO FIND aie LANDED YESTERDAY MORE DEAD Vaughan Hewey, of West Roxbury, Mass., fishing with Captain Philip Niles on the cruiser “Florida”, made his- tory for Key West fishing yesterday when, after a bat- tle of one hour and thirty minutes, a white marlin 812 feet long was landed. The feat was accomplished on a 6-oz. reel, 21-thread line. When weighed-in dry, . the fish tipped the scales at 123 pounds. The spike had been broken some time ago, being entirely healed over. According to a party who has seen over 2000 white marlin brought in in the last two years at Ocean City, Maryland, considered the world’s best fishing grounds for white marlin, the heav- iest marlin of that period was reported as searchers moved on| only 119 pounds. to wreckage in the colored sec-| Many photographs were (By Associated Press) ALBANY, . Feb. 10.—Pre- ceded by torrential rains, a dis- | | astrous tornado hif'this town this | morning causing undetermined | damage and considerable loss of! life. The twister only lasted! two-minutes, and strangely, was, mot reported to have hit any other city in the vicinity. | Initial Red Cross surveys made | revealed a total of six known dead and over three hundred in-! jured. The probabilities were! that ‘many more deaths would be | | ‘: ; | taken of the fish and while tis f the city. nor oar * Pgagh Hageendege .,._| it is not eligible for entry in The only municipal hospital in the Metropolitan Miami tour- town was crowded to overflow-! nament, it will be entered in ing with persons injured from). the Colonel Jake Ruppert falling debris, and mattresses; contests for a prize for the were being placed on floors to| ‘first second and third best accommodate others coming in fish of a number of species, hourly. Red Cross officials in pum llahens Miigeih aie a the state were hurrying rescue | squads of nurses and attendants; Mexico. to the disaster scene and na- _Capt. Niles, fishing alone, tional headquarters In Washing- _e 9 tite etn inde ton flew to the city this noon to; euvering the boat as the mar- : lin tried to take out a couple superintend rescue work. | # 3 : The tornado ripped ott all} Of miles of line and consist- power lines, leaving. the | ently leaped and sounded without water or lights. | which is another tribute to ADVISES PLACES Seesssshe"ar' good condition when boated, Che Key pat Citizen | THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. TWO NAZI SUBS SUNK'IN EFFORT! TO HIT CONVOYS DARING RAID STOPPED BY BRITISH DESTROYER; NE- VILLE CHAMBERLAIN RIDI- CULED GERMAN CLAIMS (By Associated Press) LONDON, Feb. 10—British Admiralty announced yesterday that two German U-boats were sunk by a destroyer wnile attack- ing ships in a convoy. The dar- ing raid by the submarines oc- curred within a few hours of the Nazi air attacks on shipping along England’s east coast. Germany admitted and’ Great Britain told of one Nazi bomber being downed during the attacks. The plane crashed in a suburban field near the Firth of Forth. England also claimed that two other planes were severely dam- aged. Germany claims, however, that a number of English ships were sent to the bottom. The air raiders, London reports assert, scored a direct hit on one steamer before counterattacking R.A.F. airships got into action. The steamer limped to port un- der its own power. At another section of the coast, a 100-ton ves- sel and a 34-foot fishing boat were the objects of German raid- ers. A lightship rescued the crew of the former but two are believed to have drowned in the attempt. The fishing boat reach- ed port safely. Three other ships were attacked at another point on the coast but the reports here did not state whether they were sunk. S.S. Chagces, out of Glasgow, was announced as sunk off the north- western coast of Scotland by “enemy action” and 64 members of the crew saved while two are missing. Nazi Claims Scoffed At In the House of Commons the past Thursday, Prime Minister Ne- ville Chamberlain scoffed at Ger- man claims of having sunk 354 vessels since the beginning of hos- tilities, and that many ships had been captured and taken into German ports to be turned over to prize courts. To prove that the claims were untruths, he said, the admiralty released the \Church-Goers Will Hear ran KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1 Interest Is Interactions. OF YACHTING RACE | ecvccccccccccoccccoceces |FULL LIST OF CITY SCOUT- That the interest in the Ha-| OFFICERS NAMED AT ELEC- vana-Key West Yacht Race is TION TODAY: TO SERVE not only national, but interna- i tional, is becoming more and| NEXT WEDNESDAY more evijent at the office of the Key West Yacht Club. | The -club’s secretary showed}, Boy Scout troops of Key West | 'The Citizen a copy of the Mon- jhold their annual City Election |treal Daily Star, under date of |this morning at the High School, \February 2, this week, in which | the officials elected to take over appears an attractive story of the|the government of the City of notable entrants in the race and |Key West next Wednesday after- relating the tremendous interest M002 between 4:00 and 5:00 being shown in the annual cos- 'o’clock as the concluding feature ; tume ball which was such a not- Of Boy Scout Week. able success last year. The ball. The following scouts |will headline next week’s social \¢lected: |calendar at the Casa Marina. neice Councilmen — Edward | The race will be a thrilling one, ayor—Eugene Sawyer, Troop according to club officials, when i" 7‘ it is considered that such grey-|S!tunk, president, Troop 52; Ar- hounds of the sea as “Stormy |thur Valladares, 50; Albert Ca- Weather” and Robert Johnson's |!€To, 50; Walter Price, 51; Archie “Good News” will challenge /Potter, 52; Buddy Navarro, 53; each other for supremacy. \Clarence Higgs, 54. FLETCHER RITES Chief—Ramon Gonzago, | | TO BE HELD HER Mrs. Mariana Fletcher, 74, who| City Treasurer—Paul died in Tampa this week, will be | bourne, 53. 2 interred in Key West, the body| City Judge—John Marzyck, 52. to arrive on the P. and O. boat} Captain of Police — Ernest jtomorrow morning. Services will! Avila, 52. be held Monday afternoon at 5; City Attorney—Lysle McCown, o'clock from the chapel of the | 51. Pritchard Funeral Home. } Sanitary Mrs. Fletcher is survived by |Singleton, 54. two daughters, Mrs. Jose San-; All troops participated in a chez of Tampa and Mrs. Jose'Field Day this afternoon at Bay- Padron of Key West; one son, view Park. Winners will be an- Charles Fletcher of Tampa. There nounced in The Citizen Monday. are also 16 grandchildren and 14;Tomorrow all scouts will attend great-grandchildren. | various churches. were | | { | ' Fire 52. | Chief of Police—Eugene Berk-, jowitz, 51. | Tax Collector-Assessor—Fred- leric Valdez, 50. | <City Clerk—John Lewis Day, i Light- | Inspector — Jimmy Plea Against Mosquito : Councilman Ralph B. Boyden, good on the Sabbath Day” Key; jchairman of the City Council! West is plagued with a visitation issued a’0f mosquitoes and the plague is i Sanitation committee, |down 50 miles west of here while. imaking an airplane trip from. i 940 tary Hull Declares « Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; range of only 14° Fahrenheit with an average PRICE FIVE CENTS els’ Trip Not Meant To Seek’ Peace Plane On Tortugas Trip Forced Down THREE KEY WESTERS ON DIDI DDSI MS SIMs BOARD; COAST GUARD RS. STRABEL’S BOOK 185 MADE RESCUE YES-' TAKEN BY PARAMOUNT TERDAY AFTERNOON | pee H The story of the Florida | Keys in the 1830's, with its thrilli: ‘ipw: i Four men, three of thom Key) nd colonizing afforss mate ._ by settlers, is liable to be one of 1941's headline moving Pictures, according to infor- mation relayed to The Citi- zen today by Henry Brewer, resident here, who tells of an item appearing in The New York Herald-Tribune early this month. The manuscript of “Reap and Wild Wind”, written by Thelma Strabel, has been | purchased before publication by Paramount, and the stu- dio announced that it plan- ned to produce the picture, which will depict life on the Keys in the early days in the same manner as “Gone With the Wind”. Claudette Colbert is heing considered as the choice for starring position in the pic- ture. Mrs, Strabel will be re- membered as the purchaser of a lot adjoining the south- ernmost home here. TS SSS SS SSD POSTPONE CUBAN Westers, were brought to port t this afternoon aboard the Coast | Guard Cutter 185 following their rescue after they had been forced Key West to Fort Jefferson yes-| terday. Rescued were Ross Fyiers, 415 United street, owner of the sea-| plane; W. D. Wood, pilot, also of 415 United street; Eugene Dob- | son, 221 Duval street, and D. Swafford of Spring City,-Tenn., a tourist. | According to the Coast Guard, | the seaplane, No. NC-8443, was on the first trip of a scheduled ; regular airway service between; Key West and the Dry Tortugas | group When something went wrong with a valve on the sea- plane’s single engine. © Pilot Wood was attempting to Ke the ship in the air when tffe pistons went bad. Confront- |PRESIDENT RATHER LOOKS TO FUTURE ECONOMIC TREND OF WORLD (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Sec- | retary of State Hull stated today 'that the recent move announced iby the President to send Under- | Secretary Sumner Welles to sev- | eral European countries to study | conditions at cloxe hand. was de- |signed, not as) any gesture to | bring immediate peace to the world, but as a means to prepare ison economic changes certain to | come at the conclusion of the war. Foreign nations. chose to interpret the unpre- cedented move as a definite Ppeace-move attempt. Italy found strong reasons to rejoice at the announcement, with Pope Pius, XII, leading all complimentary commentators. England and France acknowl- edged the move with misgivings, both doubting whether any im- mediate good would come from Welles’ visit. In Paris the War | Conference now in its second day behind closed doors, interfered with full comments. : Scandinavian ngtions professed surprise that they were “not in- cluded in Welles’ _ itinerary. ;Swedish comments featured | stories of the importance of U. S. jinfluence in helping to stop the eonflagration now raging. The State Department re- leased information today that Pope Pius has sent an important “peace message” to Emperor Hiro-Hito of Japan, asking for however, angler and fish. Fish was in T0 PAY TAXES *sccrrreas |following figures: British ships cessation of hostilities in China. 2 sunk, 143; French, 14, and néu- trals, 117. This gives a total of general call to all join in the current a reproach to the people of Key jing the possibility of an ex-| ELECTIONS T0 MAY | The message was received too citizens tO Woct. jplosion or a fire, Wood set the) Mosquito} “The mosquitoes. that are /Plane down on the sea near Re- |late for consideration at a spe- ASSESSOR wnininibian AD- ‘UMSTEADS ARE VERTISES LOCATIONS IN| NEW RESIDENTS THE CITIZEN TODAY 274 or 80 below the German claim at that time. English cas- ualties were placed at 451 dead and 235 injured. The prime min- ister said that no British or French ships had been captured Eradication campaign. !damaging the welfare of every {becca Shoal light. That was at} soul are not the mosquitoes of} the keys. They are the Somes variety and they can be done The following announcement has been placed in the hands of 10:40 a. m., forty minutes after leaving Key West. | At 2:10 p. m. the Coast Guard} POLITICAL PARTIES AGREE ON DATE; CONSTITUTION ASSEMBLY MEETS cial anniversary session of the Japanese parliament. Signifi- cant announcement made at this jsession was that the war in all clergymen of the city with! jthe request that it be read at away with by simply seeing to cutter under command of Chief, it that there is nothing on our | Boatswain Mate August Bradley |China had cost the Japanese na- (Bic ansoctainhiaeceany. |tion, to date, over four billion j|ANNOUNCE INTENTION TO RESIDE IN THIS CITY remises that will hold water hove in sight. The cutter was | ending give the mother mosquito making a patrol run to Tortugas; HAVANA, Feb. 10.—The Cu- jand was unaware of the plight of |ban State Department announced church services throughout the city tomorrow: by the Nazis. dollars. Mr. Chamberlain declared that Appearing in today’s issue of The Citizen is a legal notice signed by Tax Assessor J. Otto; PERMANENTLY Kirchheiner, advising the time and places he will be on Friday, February 23, for the purpose of receiving tax returns. - until recently residents in St. The notice also advises of the John’s county, are sponsors of an time and places the assessor will r be on the following day, Satur- |Uique arnouncement, which ap- day, February 24, to receive tax | peared in yesterday's issue of The returns Citizen. The announcement de- Mr. Kirchheiner said this morn- |clared that from this time on, the ing that at the same time that he | Umsteads intend to be tegal resi- is receivng these SGe Be oe denté of Key Weak also receive applications for |" "yr, Umstead has been a gov. ernment employe, spending some ROPE LER aR |time under Admiral Endicott at WPA BANDSMEN the coaling station at Fort Jeffer- son, and was here, staying at the Sunday afternoon concert at |Jefferson Hotel at the time the | Armistice of the World War was signed on November 11, 1918 Art Center Park will be played tomorrow afternoon at 3, o'clock by the WPA band under the di- which date is his birthday. He left yesterday for Washing- rection of Professor Alfredo Bar- | soso. A choice selection of num-! ton, D. C., on business, but Mrs. Umstead will remain in town for bers from the works of famous} coniposers will be presented. several months residing at 411 Si- March, “Anchors Aweigh” — monton street. Zimmerman. | Overture, “American Triumph” —H. C. Miller. TEMPERATURES Lowest last Highest last Stations night 24 hours jAtlanta __ Mr. and Mrs. C. H. ea 51 64 37 29 30 42 50 87 72 75 70 a7 23 73 45 65 33 Waltz, “Enchanted Night” — King. Selection of Popular Airs. Overture, “Nabucodenosor” — Verdi. Waltz, “Vienna Life”—Strauss. March, “The Pathfinder” McD. Keller. “Star Spangled Banner”. | Boston | Buffalo | Chicago {Denver |Et Paso | Havana ~ | Jacksonville 27 21 28 26 |KEY WEST _ —Key. | Los Angeles _ Miami {Mpls.-St. Paul Dance Tonight |New orieans - eal |New York __ x 7 \Pensacola Pena’s Garden Of Roses ‘St. Louis 10 P. M. till 2 {San Francise 63 Gould Curry's Orchesira _ Seattle ee 53 COME ONE — COME ALL! [Tampa _. 63 72 — [Washington _. 35 57 the tactics Germany is now using on unarmed vessels and fishing boats, merchantmen and _light- ships were not war but murder. Vessels were being attacked and sunk, he said, without giving the crew a chance to save them- selves. The Allies, he stated, had {not destroyed a_ single neutral merchantman so far in the war. B. C. PAPY IS CIVILIAN AIDE | DEPARTMENT IN MON- | ROE COUNTY B. C. Papy, State Representa- tive for Monroe County, has again jbeen appointed as County Civilian Aide to the Secretary of War, jaccording to word received by him from Dean B, C. Riley of the University of Florida, Military Training Camp Association of the the U.S. office of Civilian Aides. This is the fifth successive year that Mr. Papy has been appointed to represent the War Department in making appointments to Fed- eral C.C.C. camps. The Univer- sity is requested by the Depart- ment to select some well-known citizen as its representative in each of the counties. Mr. Papy stated that the ap- Pointment of a local doctor to ex- amine applicants for training camps would be made later. FOR A SPECIAL TREAT Visit the chop suey house No. 4 Aronovitz Lane CHOP SUEY CHOW MEIN Open All Nite—Opal Fussell, Mgr. AGAIN REPRESENTS WAR! « = la place to lay her eggs. | If this may seem to be an-un-|" “These mosquitoes, like sin, ! jusual announcement for this day ‘are a reproach to any people.’ and place, you are asked to re-| “To the citizen who neglects to member the question asked by clear his premises of their breed-' jthe Master: ‘Is it lawful to do|ing Places may be applied the FINNSH TROOPS |saying, ‘Who so diggeth a pit for PUSH REDS BACK ‘They thrive where there are! ! iold cans, bottles, automobile | RUSSIANS LOSE MORE TANKS ‘tires, unscreened cisterns, any- AND TRUCKS IN CON- FLICT !and he who would do as he would | be done by, will surely not al- low these pests to harbor on his premises. “The mosquito interferes with! |your rest, the comfort of old peo- {ple and little children, the pros- | Perity of us all, for the mos-! dls: wivocinten Bees jquito shortens the stay of our HELSINKI, Feb. 10—Russian | visitors and keeps them from re- troops are still being thrown | Utning to Key West. You van back on the Karelian isthmus, ac- |get rid of this plague. cording to late dispatches receiv- Remove this stumbling block | {ed here from the front. \from the progress of your city.” | Tanks und supply trucks have : PROPOSALS tbeen siezed or destroyed, further | complicating the Reds’ attack} Sealed bids will be received plans. juntil Friday, February 23rd, 1940, Contrary to reports from Mos-|7:39 P. M.- for furnishing the cow that the Finns were running |following materials, f.0.b. Key out of ammunition and were | West: :forced to fight with bayonets, 1500 ft. 6” concrete or terra- thing that will hold water. joes county have been placed in the | ,different precincts of the county jby Supervisor of Registration John England, who says they are the aviators until it sighted the today that all political parties in the Gulf. |the gencral election until next In a few minutes the four men | May 18. 3 : had been taken off by the Coast) At the same time, it was an- Guardsmen, the plane taken in;nounced that the Cuban Consti- BUILDING TOTALS ;Plane riding the gentle swells of ; the nation had agreed to pestpone | ~— SHOW INCREASE ‘another shall alsoy fall therein, tow. The cutter then proceeded tution Assembly, elected last No-|INSPECTOR’S OFFICE LISTS to Fort Jefferson where it re-; vember 15, met yesterday for the | mained for the night. Leaving first of a series of discussion on the plane there, the cutter re-|framing a new constitution for turned to port. pe Cuban government. “None of the men was in-!| oe jured and did not suffer from! Cuban Consul Berardo Rod- their experience”, Chief Bradley |riguez Valdez, at Key West, con- firmed the above news to The | Citizen today, stating that the |same information came to his GISTRATION | Washington, D. C. BOOKS ARE OPEN ye Sips IN. SUPERVISOR ENGLAND GIVES PORT TODA PLACES WHERE BOOKS MAY BE VIEWED |PILOT BOAT JEWETT NAMED | AFTER SAME NAVAL HERO Registration books for Monroe | AS DESTROYER Vessels of the U, S. Navy in the harbor this morning were the |new arrivals of yesterday, the ‘office through the embassy at $4,000 REPAIR AND NEW CONSTRUCTION Building and repair activities jin Key West as recorded in the joffice of Byilding Inspector |Harry M. Baker, since the first \of the month, are as folows: | Remodel three small houses, lone story frame, at 617 Margaret | Street. Owner, Mrs. A. B. Conant; cost, $2,000. | Addition to building at 416 |Greene street. Owner, A. Wol- kowsky; cost, $500. | Repairs to porch of one story frame building at the corner of |Division street and Windsor jLane. Owner, H. G. Harden; | cost, $500. | General repairs to frame two |story residence at 1100 Fleming jstree. Owner, H. S. Hudlow; |eost, $450. Finns claimed ample supplies of | ‘all_ kinds. i | ‘Several countries are giving aid | jto Finland in its fight for inde- | pendence but the greatest help/| of all is coming from Russia, its | enemy. Large scale Soviet losses jof tanks and guns have fallen! into the hands of the Finns, who} are deeply grateful. The com- bined aid of neutrals and of the Russian losses so far have given the Finns the upper hand in the} war on iand. It is reliably re-j| ported that if supplies earmarked | for this little Baltic country ar- rive soon, Finland will also se- cotta sewer pipe. 80 6” Ys, concrete cotta, 25 45 deg. Bends, concrete or terra-cotta. 10 6” Tees, concrete or terra- cotta. 16 Bags of cement. 80 %4” Stops, corporation, cop- per, “Mueler thread”. 25 %4” Unions, copper. 80 %” Curb Stops, copper. or terra-; when they will be opened at the county courthouse. They aré now located at the following places: District 1, Hel- ena Page, 412 Whitehead street; District 2, Marie Cappick, 415 | Olivia street; District 3, Grace ‘Kerr, 410 Simonton street; Dis- trict 4, Isabel Fleming, 523 Pe- tronia street; District 5, Elaine England, 912 Southard street; Dis- 50 %” Couplings, copper. trict 6, Hubert T. Roberts, 1403 2 “Mueler” thread taps. | Division street; District 7, Helena The right is reserved to reject Fleitas, 511 United street; Dis- any and all bids. For additional ,trict 8, Grace E. Olsen, 1709 Flag- ;t0 remain: there until March 4,| Place new roof on frame two Destroyers James E. Jewett and | story Tallin: ad”. dastodel the McCook, the Bancroft, Flag- | ship Lea and the Tender Gannet. |6 sonal at 1207 Duval W979 | It was said this morning that | G “3 erapiaiy yale cost, jabs | the Pilot Boat Jewett, which was Pichaeatonge frame t story residence at 326 William the property of the late Joshua Oat GoM Goaluarti: |B. Smith and is now kept in per-| "erg igg ™N™ GN: ; | fect condition in the harbor by 2 |his son William Smith,who like|,,2ePairs to porch of fraine two | his father, is a pilot on the Key ~ |West bar, was named after the same member of the naval serv- ice, after whom the Destroyer | Jewett was named. Members of the personnel of |the Tender Gannett were lined DANCE TONIGHT AT TEN RAUL’S CLUB | linformation, see City cure mastery in the air. Finnish |B. C. Moreno. Bidder to state officials yesterday thanked|date of delivery. France for its aid, especially in} BOARD OF PUBLIC regard to shipments of cotton. ‘feb9-2t | jler A Woodburn, Marathon; District 10, Alonzo Cothron, Islamorada; WORKS. Mares ict 11, George Albury, Tav- A. E.|upon the dock this morning in drill formation and being put through the intracacies of the manual of arms by officers of the ship. venue; District 9, Music By RAY BALDWIN COCKTAIL HOUR SUNDAY, 6 P, M. TILL ? No Admission or Cover Charge