The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 13, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 69 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 38. House Passes: Largest Naval Bill In History * Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che Key West Citizen | THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1940 INCLUDES TWO SUPER ODD DIDS OOM. DREADNAUGHTS AND MISS ELLEN CAUGHT FORTIFICATIONS FOR ISLAND OF GUAM (Ry Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The | House of Representatives today! approved a gigantic Naval Ap-| Propration Bill on the advice of Admiral Starck that “a World conflagration threatens”. | Amount of the bill, which now! goes to the Senate for approval, | was $966,773,000, less than the} original figure stated in Presi- dent Roosevelt's budget mes- sage, yet considerably higher | than at first thought possible of approval when House conferees | went to work on it. i The bill calls for immediate | construction of war- | ships of varied sizes, two to be! of the super-dreadnaught class to match two alreadv under con- struction. House acceded to Naval department’s wish to pro- vide ships the most powerful inj the world, and the four dread- naughts now; to be constructed | will fall in that classification. Fortifications for the island of Guam were also included in the bill in opposition to. those who} thought last year that the ven- ture Would» prove - insulting to; Japan. REV. BARRON TO PREACH TONIGHT Pastor-Evangelist Rev. Z. E. Barron, of Atlanta, Ga., arrived in Key West today and will preach at the First Baptist church at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Rev. Mr. Barron will continue the meeting for some days, which was begun Thursday night of last week by Dr. B. J. W. Graham of Atlanta. The public is most cordially invited to attend these services, and thus avail themselves of the privilege of hearing one of the most distinguished pastors and evangelists in Georgia, our neigh- boring state. A Junior Choir ganized and will training under the Mr. Barvon. Subject for nineteen will be have direction tonight's Of A True Revival” ture from Psalms 85:6. TEMPERATURES Lowest last Highest last 24 hours 64 47 44 37 29 night 43 30 19 27 12 20 33 64 50 27 66 52 68 1 40 50 41 54. 41 Stations Atlanta Boston Buffalo Chicago Denver Detroit El Paso Havana Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Los Angeles Miami Mpls.-St. Paul New York San Francisco Seattle Tampa Washington 66 78 69 36 7 69 72 24 54 49 7 64 TWO FISH ON ONE LINE Mrs. Paul Tobin, son Wil- liam, daughter Ellen, and Jerry Navarro, were out fishing with Captain Lopez yesterday afternoon and Miss Ellen was treated to fishing surprise of her life when she“drew in her line and found that cf the three hooks, two of them contained fine groupers. Although they caught many other fish, including kingfish, mackerel and bar- racuda, and had a delightful time, it is safe to say that the most pleased member of the party was Miss Ellen, whose thougts of the two groupers at one time, were sufficient for the time, Mrs. Tobin is a lover of Key West, has seen every- thing of interest to be seen, some of them more than once, and says that she is de- lighted with her visit and is sure to come again for a stay in the Island City. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Car- son, Pontiac, Mich., and Mr. and Mrs, I. D. Sill, and Mas- ter James Sill, of Oshkosh, Wisc., fishing aboard Cap- tain Teddy Lowe’s cruiser “William Post”, caught nine mackerel yesterday and large kingfish, a crevalle jack, two bonita and all clatihed'"io” “be “accessories after the fact” to a six foot eight inch sailfish landed by Mr. Carson in a twenty-five minute fight. CLD LDL SS SS IS FIRE LADDIES RALLY TONIGHT RECEPTION TO BE HELD AT, FIRE HOUSE NO. 1; ARCHER | WILL BE HONORED Preparations are going ahea and will be completed by to- night for the grand rally and re- ception to be held at Fire Station | government, is back in Key West , West’s future is as a touris No. 1, by the members of the again for a vacation stay of a sort. Key West Fire Department. ‘OVER $5,000 | PAID TO AGED IN DECEMBER | STATE WELFARE BOARD PRO- BENEFICIARIES DURING MONTH; BLIND AIDED (Special tv The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, ila., Feb. 13.—The Old Age Assistance pay- ‘oll continues to constitute a size- ble economic factor in the va ious Florida counties, as well as | affording relief to large numbers jof the needy aged, according to! figures made public here today jfrom the state office of the State | Welfare Board, ; In Monroe County $5,841.00 was i {paid as Old Age Assistance to 488 | beneficiaries during the month of | |December, 1939, the latest offi- | |cial figures available show. i i Monroe County also benefitted | ‘through the payment of Aid to! the Blind and Aid to Dependent | Children, public assistance cate-j| gories administered by the State | Welfare Board, as well as through | |the distribution of surplus com- modities and remittances to de-| pendents by CCC enrollees, The Board administers surplus com-' modity distribution and is the en- | rolling agency for the Civilian Conservation Corps. 1 Total disbursements of the |Board now approximate $7,000,- }000 per year. Pare Lorentz Has Just eee RETURNS TO CITY FOR VACATION | SPCC CC Oneeanarescvecccccococs | Pare Lorentz, brilliant director Jof all movies produced by the jfew weeks. With Mr. Lorentz is | VIDED PAYMENTS TO 488! ithe scene from OCCUPANTS NOT |MOTHER AND SON RESTING EASILY IN HOSPITAL FOL- LOWING ACCIDENT ON BOULEVARD YESTERDAY | —— | | Inquiry at the Marine Hospital of Howard Gerpenbach and_ his |mother, Mrs. Winder Gerpen- ‘bach, who were injured in an }automobile accident on the high- way yesterday afternoon, brought ithe information that there were lapparently no internal injuries ‘received by either. | Howard received numerous fractures, none of them serious, jand is today getting along nice- ‘ly. Mrs. Gerpenbach received {contusions about the face, . but there are no other injuries and jshe is all right. | Mother and son had been visit- “ling in Key West, for the day yes- jterday, and while on the boule- ;vard, the son, who was driving. glanced at a newspaper and in ‘that instant the car swerved over to the left side of the road, mount- ed the concrete sidewalk, cut off a coconut palm and, traveling ‘about 220 feet, mounted the curb !and plunged nearly to a channel iclose by the road. Witnesses say !the car turned over in the plunge. Ambulances were dispatched to the Pritchard Funeral Home and the injured mother and son taken to the Ma- rine Hospital. ; JAYCEES MEETIN TOMORROW NIGHT Commerce will hold its first Feb ruary meeting tomorrow © éve- ning, 6:30 o'clock, in La Concha Dining Room. President Isadore Weintraub urges all members to attend this session as matters of great im- portance to the City of Key West are to come up for discussion. POCCCOS OCOD SECEDE LCOEL ODDO DELO CCVOCCESECS DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENT MOVIES eee Released ‘Fight For Life’ SERIOUSLY HURT this morning as to the condition; BOAKE CARTER SAW Wrote Of “Rejavenation OUR NUMBED FISH Boake Carter, in a Ledger Syndicated articie last week, de- scribed in vivid fashion the re- icent spectacle of thousands of | numbed fish found along the| \Florida Keys. i Especially of interest was his | ;description of how the fish re-| lcovered from their semi-frozen | state and swam away to freedom. i Following is an excerpt from! the article: | “Along the famous overseas, highway from Miami to Key! 1 joccupants busy with nets scoop-| jing up helpless, frozen fish— jfish that were of such delicacy that they would bring $2 and $3 la pound in New York’s exclusive restaurants. “And then, after two days o! warm sunshine and higher tem-| peratures there could be no more to see hundreds of these creatures jof the deep gradually thaw out, jerazy wriggle, upside down. Then! a period of listlessness. Then another wriggle, a frantic flirt of a tail, a lightning-like dart here or there—all upside down. Then as the waters warmed still more, | the fish gradually righted them-! iselves, moved away and vanished \into their natural habitats. try, I thought could have been| parked in boats all through the Florida keys, gathered for themselves never dreamed possible. “And all this strange, unbe-; lievable sight in waters of latitude anywhere from 200 in a mysterious way, His won-| ders to perform.” | PRICE FIVE CENTS Reds Determined ‘To Grush Finns Beforé February 23rd TWO NATIONS SOUNDING OUT PEACE HOPES POPE STUDIES IMPORT OF WELLES’ TRIP: WOMEN OF West, cars lined the road, their; SWEDEN SEND BROADCAST | TO ALL NATIONS (By Associated Press) VATICAN CITY, Feb. 13.— £ Pope Pius, XII, today was © in} touch with Paris and Berlin in an effort to find out just what dip- |strange and amazing sight than |!omats of France and Germany | were considering in connection with the impending visit of Un- | land return to normalcy. First a|dersecretary Sumner Welles of | the United States State Depart- ment. *f In this action it is again thought that the Holy See is pre- paring additional efforts to bring peace to Europe. Releases here state that the Vatican has been advised that If'Prime Minister Chamberlain of | only all the thousands of under- | England would. welcome the visit | nourished families in this coun-,of Welles with full confidence in his mission. they could have SWEDES CALL feasts FOR PEACE (Ry Associated Press) STOCKHOLM, Feb. 13.—Over a_ 500,000 women of Sweden enlist- toed in a fight to end the “wars; Key West Junior Chamber of }350 miles south of Cairo, Egypt. of Europe” this week as it is an- | “And yet there are people who jnounced that pleas to all nations, say there is no God who works}of the world are being sent Gut | over the signatures of that many women of this far-north counrty. National Am Members of the thorized release of the following , proclamation by Governor Fred! Jaycees Call Attention To ericanism Week local Junior coln and others, including George Chamber of Commerce today au- | Washington, who said the name ‘Americanism’ must always exalt the pride of patriotism; and “WHEREAS, the people of the 7 7 An article forwarded to The | Citizen, which appeared in | The Times-Union of Albany, | N. Y. on February 2nd, de- scribed what one family thought of when they con- sidered a southern vacation. Supreme Court Justice Francis Bergan and Mfrs, Bergan, of Albany, had al- | lotted three weeks for a trip | south. “Having read the pa- | Pers”, the Bergans stated, “and knowing ‘shat winter | had struck sharply in the | south—that snow crowned the palmettos and icicles hung on the kumquats way down as far as some point 50 miles south of Jacksonville, and realizing that overcoats are ‘de risour’ even at Palm Beach and Miami—we decid- ed on Key West as our vaca- tion spot, to get as near the equator as it is possible to get on continental United States”. That was the statement which appeared in the Al- | bany paper. And the Berg- | ams arrived last week for | their three-week vacation. | Ht Ld hake uhe huh uheadeah IVY LEAVES TO tere | |bound for REPLACE BUOYS, Tender Ivy of the Coast Guard, | sailed this morning at 6:30 o'clock IMI BW s|DATE 1S ANNIVERSARY |NEW YORKERS STUDIED REPORTS BEFORE TRIP OF FORMATION OF SOVIET ARMY; LITTLE PROGRESS MADE (By Associated Press) LONDON, Feb. 13.—Counter- attacking Finn troops were re- ‘ported to be hurling back Rus- jase drives again, as the twelfth } day of fierce fighting on the )Karelian isthmus draws to an end, accotding to dispatches re- ceived here this noon. Inereasing evidence is at hand that the Russians are determined to call for a military showdown against the Mannerheim de- fenses and are sending wave after wave of fresh troops against jthe fortifications to stash {through somehow before Feb- ruary 23rd, the anniversary of the formation of the Red Army. | Moscow claimed today that many of the Mannerheim forts had been captured in recent as- {saults. Finns don’t deny this jentoto, stating that, even if that jwere so, the Line defenses were ideep enough so that a few front jline spots could be surrendered temporarily without impairing |the whole line. | Russia is employing huge jtanks of a new design in the jeurrent drives. The “monsters” jare said to weigh 70-tons and to carry three and four-inch can- nons. NAZIS RIDICULE FAR-EAST. TROOPS BERLIN, Feb. 13.—German |mewspapers today carried stories Charlotte Harbor | of the landing of New Zealand | where the two large bell buoys and Australian troops in Egypt, are to be relieved. These buoys|in which the whole | weigh about 15 tons each and are difficult to handle, it is said. Following this Work the Ten- der will proceed to Boca Grande | Where work along the same lines is to be done. P. Cone, which calls attention to! !“National Americanism Week”.: great and glorious State of Flor- |The week, which ends on Wash- ;ida feel so close in line of herit- . A ‘age of true Americanism, and are imapenePeienday, » Rebruary: 28) (aastrcak ats custeriagiibe <apirit |has been promoted by the nation-| and extendirig it to the uttermost Kay |2t Jaycee organization. ‘corners of a worried and wartorn t | The resolution is as follows: world; “WHEREAS, The United States|_ “NOW, THEREFORE, I, Fred BERLIN SAWYER ANNOUNCES FOR SHERIFF'S POST see be a great tourist Lorentz is convinced attraction. that “fanciful |move” to guard Suez and sur- rounding territory from aggression | was ridiculed. | The releases stated that the | Far-east was a good place to land the colonial troops as “they don’t know what modern warfare is all |about, anyway”, and would be |unfit for service on western \fronts. The Germans laughed at {the idea that they had any idea jof moving against Egypt or any other Far-east territory. j RING FOUND IN HOT DOG RICHMOND, Va.—A_ wedding ring, found in an imported frank- Told of Key West's travel prob- or- special of revival meeting will be “The Essentials with scrip- BOXING-—Strand Arena Wednesday, February 14 Main Bout— MARIO PEREZ, Key West vs. JIMMY MADDOX, Okla- homa Indian Semi-Windup— BUDDY SPEIDEL, U. S. N. vs. “RED” ROBERTS, Miami —Three Preliminaries— Sponsored By National Guard i front of the boy. The shotgun All members of the Volunteer | Sally Lorentz, his wife. Fire Department, members of) Just completed is . the. “Fight /service to Cuba from this “jump- city council and the county com- | For* Life”, a very powerful mo- ing off” place of America, Mr. missioners and others have been | vie, which is designed to reduce Lorentz said the very same prob- extended invitations by Chief!the high mortality birth rate in‘lem faced Puerto Rico, which is Harry M. Baker, and it is ex- |the country. Lorentz is having a'a wonderful vacation spot owned pected that a large crowd, as very much deserved vacation aft-;by America but which has not usual, will be in attendance. \er working for months to make as yet' adequate boat service. Re- W. T. Archer, for 52 years a/the picture the powerful story cently a movie of the Virgin Is- member of the department, and |it is. 'ands, which is adjacent to Puerto first treasurer, will be presented| The picture is an adaptation Rico, was made by the govern- a token of esteem by Chief Baker |from a book written by Dr. Paui ment staff and released to Uni- at the reception, De Kruif of the Chicago Matern- versal newsreel and recently cir- ity Center. Most salient point in 'cuited throughout the country. ‘NEW SANITATION |the book, which has also been! Mr. and Mrs. Lorentz are plan- |well emphasized in the picture ‘ning to build a home in Key |is the “island of safety”. Major- AT COUNTY JAIL of deaths in birth has been | | West and are looking over the \city this year with this aim in caused by very bad slum condi-'mind. On their first visit here |tions throughout the country. ‘last year they were immediately Prisoners in the county jail are|The picture carries a graphic taken up with Key West. This pleased with the new sanitary ar-|™essage of preserving the island ‘year they are here with a car and rangements which have been in-|0f safety around the pregnant are even more surprised at the stalled in the yard of the jail,|mother that there be no infec- extent of the charm of the Island under the direction of Commis-|tion from germs which breed in .City. sioner Braxton B. Warren, chair- | untidy conditions. ; Another big aim for the Lo- man of the building committee. | The “Fight for Life” has been rentzs is to catch one of the real In the jail yard has been con-|shown tc — medical authorities giant fish of these waters, and structed a concrete building of;throughout the country and all they will try their luck at sail small. but ample, dimensions, | are high in their praise of it.'fish this week. The Lorentzs divided into two parts, one for|Bookings are underway at pres- are staying at Mrs. Hugh Taylor’s |colored and one for whites. ent for it tobe released ‘to ‘the residence in Martello Towers. | Each of the compartments con-/chain theatres in the country. pe tar ae ab ala “tains all sanitary arrangements; Shortly there will be advance , DIVORCE PAPERS FILED including a shower bath. The publicity appearing in McCall's, } ’ —- contract was awarded at a meet- | “Look” magazine and some of the | Papers were filed in the office ing during the month of January |larger newspapers of the coun-jof Clerk Ross C. Sawyer of Cir- to John Sawyer. |try. Then will come press crit-|cuit Court yesterday afternoon, in jical Teviews. |the divorce suit of Fidel Lopez AIMS AT RABBIT: Mr. Lorentz was very happy to |against Margarita La Fe Lopez. KILLS HUNTER |read of Ned Bruce’s idea to make | Key West a writer’s and artist’s | DETROIT.—Just as Frank Bo-/ mecca, possibly with assistance of { kotski, 16 pulled the trigger of|the government. Mr. Lorentz} D his gun to shoot a rabbit, Herman |added the further suggestion that | Fisher, 64, of Romulus, Mich., his|some of the waterfront property | jment and is not greatly used | {lem with very inadequate boat —VALENTINE DAY— INNER DANCE Tomorrow Evening, 7 till 9 RAUL’S CLUB Music by RAY BALDWIN’S hunting companion stepped in| which is owned by. the govern- charge struck Fisher in the back. He died instantly. |could be turned over to the Na-| jtional Park Service and would Netive Hawaiian Orchestra ey Junior Chamber of Commerce is |sponsoring a National American- {ism Week, which the President of the United States has endorsed, jand is also sponsoring Citizen-' |ship Day to be designated as Sun- | jday during said Week; and “WHEREAS, we are proud of the true rugged Americanism of |Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lin- PLANES COMMENCE BOMBING PRACTICE TARGET SITUATED IN GULF FIVE MILES NORTH ' OF CITY | Communication from the office | of Lieut. Comdr. Fort H. Calla- han at the Naval Station states that Squadron VP53, under com. mand of Lieut. Comdr. A. P. torrs, will hold bombing prac-| ice, starting today for an in- definite period. - The aerial bombing practice will be conducted daily_on_a tar- get located in the Gulf of Mexico, | the communication ~ states, ap- proximately five miles north of Key West in latitude 24 degrees | 39 minutes and longitude 81 de- grees 48 minutes west. Craft in this vicinity are ad. vised to proceed with caution. FASHION SHOW Sponsored By Key West - Senior and Junior Woman's Clubs! Casa Marina Grounds | Thursday, Feb. 15, 9:00 P. M. | All are cordially invited to this} Grand, Annual Affair... Silver | Offering At Door | | 1 INSERTS FIRST POLITICAL |furter, is back in the possession one oavecne or toe State ct of its former owner. Miss Eliza- |Florida, believing the aim of the iJunior Chamber of Commerce to be most worthwhile, do hereby proclaim February 12th to the 22nd, 1940, as ‘National Ameri- canism Week’ and the day of |Sunday, February 18, 1940, as ‘Citizenship Day’ and urge that every citizen, young and old, give due consideration to his duty and jagain renew his pledge of alle- giance to the State of Florida andthe United States of Amer- ica. “IN WITNESS WHEREOF, 1 have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Florida to be affixed at Tallahassee, the Capitol, this 15th day of January, A.D, 1940. (Signed) “FRED P. CONE, “Governor”. VOL LL dL ‘TRY THIS ON YOUR OMELETTE PLEASE (By Associated Presny OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 13. lotti. SDL ILL LL: ANNOUNCEMENT FOR CAN-| DIDATE IN COMING DEMO.) CRATIC PRIMARY | ;packer who lost the {beth Leaf, bank employe, found the ring, ascertained the brand of the hot dog, traced it through a |New York importer to a Danish ring two years before. Berlin A. Sawyer today an-) nounces his candidacy for the |Democratic nomination for the} office of sheriff in the coming May primary. Sawyer, the well-known barber, in making his announce- | |ment, said that he realized the| responsibility and trust that the/ office to which he aspires cay: | ‘ries. “I am qualified in every | respect to fill the office”, he said. “If the good people of Monroe | county see fit to elect me to the | office I will be sheriff of the county ‘in fact’, and not only in name”, continued Mr. Sawyer. | “I will not delegate the duties of | my office to any subordinate. I! | will devote all of my time to the} ‘office and assure the voters of! |one thing and that is I will be the | jsheriff of the county if elected. | | Dictates and whims of others will | ‘not influence me in carrying ‘out | \the duties of my office”. ; Reports that any political prom-{ |ises had been made by him were |denied by Sawyer. “I am enter- jing the race as a ‘lone candidate’ ind not the candidate of any) faction or clique”, he said. “The gcod peoplé of Monroe county, among whom I have liv- ed, know that I am qualified to fill the position to which I as- pire”, Sawyer said in conclusion. |\“The position belongs to no one | individual. The desires of the voters of this county dictates as |to whom they want to serve them ‘as sheriff and I si hope jand believe that I will be their i¢election”. BDI AODs: QUERIES ANENT BRIDGE local FROM K. W. TO HAVANA ie ety Fi i ik Serre Hill Hye ih : F "BLIP OLILL# i