The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 20, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 69 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 44. West Flank Of Mannerheim Lin Reported Falling * i STRONGHOLD IS SUR-| °° ROUNDED BY soviet (QFFICIALS LIN TROOPS; KEY POINT! IN SOUTHERN sector T rip. To Miami Fraittal, «sy accmca ren TOP YACHT ENTRIES STOCKHOLM, Feb. » —| 50 ya Danish newspaper reports arriv- | The 1940 Havana-Key West E UP ing in this city today stated that despite Finnish claims to the |Yacht Race is shaping up into a major event in ocean racing. The | race committee of the Key West | Yacht Club, Albert Peirce and contrary, the Russian drives| Horace Connable, announce that Che Key West Citizen | *THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. FOUR SUBMARINES IN«DISTRICT NOW FOR PATROL DUTY SPEARFISH AND SCULPIN AT KEY WEST STATION: OFFI- CIALS SILENT ON TESTS NOW BEING CONDUCTED of the the Four new submarines United States navy are ‘in area covered by the Key West neutrality patrol, it was indicated at the naval station today. Tied up alongside the naval tanker Salinas, which has been held overtime at the main naval station pier, are the submarines Spearfield and Sculpin, now un- dergoing diving and other tests under the expert guidance of naval engineers. When the Spearfish and Scul- pin complete these tests in the warm waters around Key West, they will continue their trial runs under escort of the destroyer Schenck. Escort of the subma- rines is regarded as a precau- tionary operation to protect them KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 194: 0 C. Of C. Prepares. Draft Of KW. Progress Drive, ™ LUNCHEON HELD THIS NOON AT LA CONCHA; E. A. RAMSEY TO COMBINE ALL IDEAS INTO PROGRAM | i j { Impetus was given the move-'leaders point out. Cooperation iment to “Put Key West Ahead” |so that this may be an even today when leaders met at thej greater Army, Navy, Coast Guard La Concha Hotel to plan the es-|center, is to be stressed. sential projects which must be; Importance of shipping is included in the future expansion |another point to be emphasized. program if the city is to be ad- ; The intracoastal waterway, South vanced. {American trade, service to Ha-! No decisions are being made,vana, etc, are all important. | jas to the program until all who; Tourist-resort activities, have | are interested have been given foremost place, for they include} an opportunity to voice their views, so that the suggestions and ideas of all may be included in the final community-building program. To Ernest Ramsey has been assigned the task of chair-/ |amusement and entertainment as projects to encourage living and housing facilities. as well as} a part of this angle of community building. “That Key West can be effec- maning the committee which will ; tively put ahead is the convic- draft the final program. |tion of the leaders,” Mr. Ramsey | Tentatively the suggestions: stated today as he summarized) submitted include a five point some of the above suggestions. program. Civic improvements, | “The formation of a city-building water, completion of the Over-; program will require the ideas ELEVEN NAVAL SHIPS IN LOCAL HARBOR TODAY INDS HELD UP DE- PARTURE OF U.S.S. SALIN- AS: U.S.S. TWIGGS LEAVES FOR MIAMI TOMORROW Eleven naval ships were tied up today at the naval station or anchored in the harbor. The naval tanker Salinas had | been scheduled to sail Monday for a Texas port to pick up an- other cargo of deisel oil and gaso- line for navy use around the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean. ANNUAL — FASHION \Casa Marina To Be Scene| PROJECT APPROVED Key West, Florida, has the miost equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Trumbo- Air Base Construction 10 Stat March Ist ie WASHINGTON AWARDS CONTRACT TO JACK- SONVILLE CO.; WPA Strong winds held the 400-foot jit hoped to get away late today.:, vessel against the main pier, but Tied up at piers in the subma- | rine base were the destroyers! Lea, flagship of the 32nd squad-! jTon; the Bancroft and Wickes. Anchored offshore were the Mc- ;Cook, Rodgers, Evans, Philip and Twiggs. The Twiggs will leave \for Miami tonight. Lashed to the Salinas and hid-! SHOW TOMORRO W) Scores of Key West laborers °° | will soon be employed on the Annual Fashion..Show will be} given tomorrow night,.. Wednes- construction of the new naval auxiliary seaplane base iday, according to announcement {made this morning ~by»officials |Trumbo island section, it was in- jof the Key West Woman's Club, | dicated today after‘naval officers 'sponsors of the affair. i The show was to have been jhore received word from Wash- being mistaken for underwater |seas highway, municipal hos-|and the support of all citizensjden from shore by the tanker's\@ ve”, Ss Thursday night, butlington that the main contract against the Mannerheim Line las a result of last week’s trip to Miami a list of early entries has im-|been signed up that would do jeredit to any yacht club in the |country. The owners of the following _ |outstanding yachts have signi- west flank is reported to be in) fied their intention of competing desperate straits as the Soviets | in the Havana-Key West event: complete surrounding movements! Wakiva, 69-foot yawl; Good that have all but cut off contact |News, 65-foot yawl; Condor, 59- ie ld. Th ifoot yawl; Stormy Weather, 53- with the outside world. The re- soot yawl; Durilla, 43-foot yawl; ports state that the Finns must|Bagheera, 43-foot schooner; Java somehow hold the flank against | Head, 44-foot cutter; Gulf Stream, complete’disrupture or suffer the | 44-foot sloop. . of loss of much territory along the!, “Joseph Conrad”, famous | 90- ths 3 jfoot schooner, known as “the south Baltic seashore. ismallest full-rigged ship in the Dispatches from the north,/ world”, and formerly owned by however, state that the Reds are/Allan Villiers, author and sailor decidedly. in 3. disadvantageous| of “Grain Race” fame, ua expect- position. Still another Russian | to be with the fleet from St. have resulted in several portant changes in that front. At least one stronghold on the! regiment is reported to be en- | Petersburg to Havana and back dangered with imminent com- plete routing possible, this in ad- dition to the annihilation of the 18th divison reported yesterday. BRIDGE DISTRICT jto Key West, thereby adding iconsiderable color to the event. Manzy Mann, of Houston, Tex., owner of the “Bagheera”, which {has been: anchored in Key West most of the winter, states that he intends to make Key West his headquarters from now on. It is expected that he will fly the craft of other nations. Tonight the destroyer Twiggs is scheduled to leave Key West enroute to Miami where she will serve as escort for the submarine Searaven when it leaves for an- other port in this area for her trial runs. It was erroneously. reported in a Miami morning newspaper today that the} pital and similar projects are be-'and interests. We have many ing suggested as essentials in one phase of the program. Another has to do with advertising Key West, accontplished by newspapers, radio, bill boards of the resources such objects. Relations with governmental available for jactivities stationed here is another Schenck would escort the Sea- raven. oo When the submarine Sealion leaves New Orleans, probably late today, on her trial runs, she will be escorted by the destroyer Philip of the Key West patrol. The Philip will remain alohgside the Sealion through the Straits of Florida: and up the east coast il relieved by a ship from the iddie Atlantic patrol: Naval officers here are main- taining a tight-lipped silence re- garding the tests to which the Spearfish and Sculpin are. being subjected off Key West. They al- so refuse to state when they will leave this port or indicate their probable Cestination. burgee of the Key West Yacht }Club in the St. Petersburg-Ha- |vana-Key West races. X-RAYS GIVEN TO 325 PERSONS STATE OFFICIAL HERE UNTIL TOMORROW; TO REPORT POSITIVE CASES HAS MEET FRIDAY Commissioners of the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District were today advised that there will be a regular meeting of the commission held Friday, Feb-| ruary 23, at Marathon, to dis- cuss all matters that came up since the last meeting held early in January. The meeting will get underway | at 10:00 o'clock in the morning, ! and it was said that all members will probably be in attendance. Chairman John Slade is schedul- ed to rrive from Tallahassee at Pigeon Key Thursday afternoon. Dr, J. D, Parramore, of the |Monroe County Health Clinic, ' (Continued On Page Four) Go To Church Sunday The following article is the second of a series appearing each day this week in support of the “Go To Church Sun- day” drive sponsored by the Stone Church Fellowship Club. | “FIRST THINGS FIRST” By GERALD SAUNDERS, President of Key West Lions Club The mere fact that the civic|Father for the fulfillment of | units of our community are| their desire. Such was the be- uniting in sponsoring loyalty to|gin=ing of the greatest nation | one of the basic institutions of |} known upon the earth today, our | our democracy is indeed a most | beloved United States of Am- encouraging sign. We often be-| erica. come engrossed in our own self-| All too often in our day, so far ish little world and pay so much} removed from the beginning of attention to the inconsequential | our great republic, so many of us secondary things of life that we! are prone to take for granted lose sight of the great primary those holy rights and privileges institutions and principles upon | for which our forefathers fought, which our civilization is founded | bled and died to attain. May I and without which our world/in passing sound a note of warn- would be filled with chaos and jing that Nese sblessodagiehte ond | uncertainty. | privileges us ‘ot In thinking of these great pri-} through any act of our own but! mary institutions, surely none} through the greatest of all sins,| stand so prominently and have | that of indifference. played so important a part inj In utter frankness and fairness building and developing our pres- | to ourselves, our country and our! ent day civilization as the Church ;God, may we pause and mediate | of the Living God. When our/}upon a few questions. How many forefathers landed upon these | of us would care to rear our chil- shores their primary aim was to|dren in an atmosphere devoid of secure the freedom of religious'all religious influence? How worship which they had been de-! many of us in times of great dis- SEAMAN RELEASED BY COURT VERDICT JURY FINDS REID NOT GUIL- TY: VAGRANT CASES HEARD Found not guilty of a charge of breaking and entering with in- tent to commit a misdeamenor, J. T. Reid, naval seaman, was dis- charged from custody of Crim- inal court by Judge William V. Albury. A jury of six men heard testi- mony at the trial in Criminal court yesterday. Reid had been accused of entering Pena’s Gar- den of Roses. Shortly after the case went to the jury, the not guilty verdict was returned. The jurors were Clayton John- son, Leonard R. Sawyer, Ora Cash, Kelcey V. E. Curry, Cleve- land Dillon and Merlin Albury. This morning three vagrancy cases were disposed of before Judge Albury. Mike Donovan pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to serve 45 days in jail from Feb. 5. A plea of guilty was also entered by John Wasacz. His sentence of 15 days was to run from Feb. 5, so that he was ordered to leave the city. Frank Buchholz, who pleaded not guilty to vagrancy, was found guilty by a jury with a recom- mendation that he be permitted to leave the city. Judge Albury told him if he could not find work:there he would. be com- pelled:to leave Key Westi BOXING-—Strand Arena Wednesday Night 8 O'Clock : important phase of the com- munity advancement program, leaflets, | and other media up to the limit, ,will give their views in shaping millions invested in property here and we must do something to safeguard these investments. This is a proposition of individual initiative and local aggressive- ness. I am convinced that Key West of 1950 is being shaped right now in this forward program, and I am hopeful that every one } it is it and support it after adopted.” Many Groups To Observe American Democracy Day Key West will join most other , notice of this meeting yesterday cities and communities of the and all other women’s units are state on Thursday of this week in urged to attend this special ob- . servance. observance cf American Demo- cracy Day as proclaimed by Gov- ernor Fred P. Cone. Representatives of the leading civic clubs met last Saturday afternoon at Lions Clubhouse and plans were made to accommodate approximately ; ninety members of these clubs at a joint meeting Thursday noon at St. Paul’s parish hall. William; V. Little, Rotary Club president, ! New Voters | Key West Junior Chamber of; ‘Commerce will have charge of what is considered to be the most important meeting of the day jwhen that group will have charge of special induction serv- ices at a place and time to be yet 'announced for new voters of the! city. All young men and women who | is chairman of this event whith | Will vote for the first time in the | Will headline a prominent speak- |CO"#D8 Primaries in ok eo four { er to be announced later. {Will be. guests at this meeting. A Schools of the city will hold Prominent civic leader will programs this week at special | SP°* chapel assemblies, in that schools | are closed on Thursday in ob- MARY WARDLOW servance of Washington’s Birth- | day. | 4 At the High School, the Seniors | DIES EARLY TODAY held their chapel this morning | and the Junior school will hold; eee te its observance program tomor-'sERVICES TO BE HELD ON! row morning. | ‘eteadk De Chivers | THURSDAY: BURIAL TO American Legion Auxiliary to-| BE IN OHIO day issued an invitation to all women’s organizations of the city | to attend a Washington’s Birth- ' : * day Party and special program to) Services for Miss Mary so be held at Legion headquarters Wardlow, who died early this! at 4:00 o'clock Thursday after- morning, will be heid Thursday; noon. morning at 11:00 o'clock at Lopez Members of the Senior and|Funeral chapel on Bahama Junior Women’s clubs were given | (Continued On Page Four) “‘HELP FINLAND’’ Plan Now To Attend The FINNISH RELIEF BALL and FLOOR SHOW ——at. Habana-Madrid Club TOMORROW NIGHT — 10:00 O’CLOCK “FINLAND'S CREDIT IS GOOD” Of all the nations of the world that were in- OL dd Lenten i Main Bout— MARIO PEREZ, Key West vs. JIMMY MADDOX, Okla- homa. Semi-Windap— Kid Tarzan, Key West. vs. Buddy O’Connor, Miami. —Four Preliminaries— nied in the fatherland and their|tress and sorrow would want it first act upon arrival was to ex-|be Without the comforting power} press gratitude to the Heavenly (Continued on Page Four) Reserved Seats on Sale All Day Wednesday debted to the United States in the last world war—Finland is the only nation to pay her debt in full. She played fair with us—let’s stand by her in her financial need today! GIANT FLOOR SHOW STARTS AT 11:00 P. M. TICKETS, 75c LADIES FREE All Proceeds To The Monroe County Committee FMA A hh hehe de hadadkadad, ling service in organizing and fos- ;and members wish Washington huge bulk are the submarines Spearfish and Sculpin. When the Salinas leaves the pier the two| ; Was postponed due to cool wea- ‘ther. | In accordance with previous | had been awarded. It was also announced that the subs will be tied up in that space. announcement, the models, most- | Works Progress Administration Pocketed in a slip near the Salin- as was the seaplane tender Gan- net. Several hundreds of the sailors ; aboard the ships in port are busy making minor repairs and ad- justments, or painting and main- taining their vessels. Except for brief periods ashore the majority of the seamen are kept busy from morning until night, with always a watch crew aboard every ship. COL. HMULLEN RECEIVES HONOR YACHT CLUB TENDERS HON- ORARY COMMODORESHIP FOR LIFE AT BALL Lt. Col. J. D. MacMullen, the} first commodore of the Key West Yacht Club, Saturday night was/ presented with the highest honor | within the power of the local club. At an impressive cere- mony during the costume ball at} the La Concha, the colonel was} accorded the title of “Honorary! Commodore for Life”. The following testimonial, scribed on parchment and richly | illuminated by Cyril Marshall, talented local artist, was present- ed to Commodore MacMullen: “In recognition of his outstand- 1 tering the growth of the Key West Yacht Club, the directors to express their everlasting appreciation by electing their first commodore; Donald. MacMullen, Honorary, Commodore for Life. Inscribed this 17th day of February, in the year nineteen-hundred and for- ty. Signed, Melvin E. Russell, Commodore; Horace P. Connable, Vice-Commodore; Albert E. Peirce, Jr., Rear Commodore”. TEMPERATURES Lowest last Highest last night 24 hours 36 45 32 36 31 34 59 34 31 36 56 17 57 ‘33 » ogge °78 apes. Pa 31 39 60 52 | \ | | | | Stations Atlauta Boston Buffalo __ Charleston Chicago Denver ‘Detroit El Paso Havana ate Jacksonville . 45 Kansas City - 29 KEY WEST _ 65 'K. W. (Airport) 64 Los Angeles — 51 Miami —__ 58 Mpls.-St. Paul 26 New York __. 33 San Francisco 51 Seattle - 32 Tampa 52 36 DINNER DANCE and FLOOR SHOW Tomorrow Evening, 7 till 9 RAUL’S CLUB ‘Y BALDWIN'S Native Hawaiian Orchestra No Admission or Cover Charge - 63 45 ly members of the Junior Wom- | an’s Club, will begin their pa-j| ‘rade of latest fashions as sup- plied by local stores promptly at} 00 o'clock from the side lounge} at Casa Marina Hotel, down the | jwalk before spectators seated | and standing alongside. | Music will be played by the} Casa Marina orchestra under di- | rection of Dave Garson. An-| nouncements of each model will 'be made through the public ad-j| dress system. CHAMBERLAIN CALLS ATTENTION TO INDIF- | SCORES NORWAY at Washington had approved a $10,000 WPA project for clearing and leveling that portion of the 60-acre site not affected by the contract just awarded for the hangar and buildings. According to a communication received this morning by Liuet. Comdr. T. J. Brady, C. E., U. S. N., public works officer at Key West naval station, the bureau of yards and docks has awarded the seaplane base contract to the Ivy H. Smith Company, Jackson- ville, at its low bid of $283,684. The bids were opened here | Week ago. | After receiving .this official |notice, Commander Brady im- |mediately got in touch with the {Smith organization, at Jackson- ville. Naval officets and. com- |pany officials indicated later that a ‘I vessels sent to the bottom. Thir- FERENCE ABOUT NAVAL OPERATIONS ON COAST the work would be in full swing jaround Mafch 1. | It will take several days for the materials and excavating ‘equipment to arrive on thé site. . | First job will be construction of Lo Fep: 20.—Prime the footings and foundations for Minister Chamberlain _ today | the huge hangar, for the barracks spoke to Parliament on the S.S.|and for the bachelor quarters for (By Associated Press) |Altmark case and intimated that | aviation officers’ and other-small Norway had “displayed marked |Jobs covered by the contract. indifference to the use Nazi navy| Immediate need, it was- re- boats were making of its terri-|P0Tted, would be for laborers to torial waters”. |handle the foundation and con- Chamberlain praised the deed |¢rete work. Later all kinds of of the British navy that released oy eepipaaere ved t — nearly 300 captured English sea-|Ployed. It is plann: bold d men imprisoned on’ the Altriark. forward the electrical, pumping He stated that the admiralty was 2nd other. constructon as quick- considering strong action’ aimed Ww nrg Aer, wed a Ae aded at checking the Allied blockade | West laborers will be ne operations off the coast of Nor- we h . Kegs we hay i di way to see how effective, it was! ,, Anchor bolts iv — béingeheld. ;. j the footings and foundations by From Oslo came information |e Smith company have already that the government was consid- | Pen couveree eats * beeen ering a revision of their laws! nfm — which would probihit any bellig- | Prd for the hangar, ~ which erent vessels from passing into | win be 373 feet long, ‘240 fect ee vee Norway, it wide and 55 feet high, is at pres- raat ai so the Lesage of Na. |€2 being fabricated by the Steel tions assembly at a later date. | Csr actee Comme ter |mingham, Ala. Délivery of the pes jhuge steel beams and _ girders eae will begin between April 1 and (By Associated Press) April 15, and will arrive-in the LONDON, Feb. 20.—British ad-|°Td¢r Of construction require- mitted today that the past week ments. The same company will had been one of the most costly have charge of erection of the from loss of ships since the out- |steel, which will require another {group of skilled workers’ break of the war. i A total of five British ships! Regarding the WPA ground- were sunk and ‘fifteen neutral clearing project, it was reported jit would go forward as soon as teen of the latter, it was said, | ie peniect-ts Aime ack * wwellertecbietned wittiout warn! g | dent Roosevelt. It is regarded apes pening | as ti th i i by Nazi U:boats. as likely the President may sign the approving order during the present fishing and vacation trip. AEE, | Te WPA project will include Complete line of new and used |gtubbing and clearing the site. National Cash Registers te jee will be on display at LA CONCHA HOTEL Tues. Feb. 20 to Fri. Feb. 23 You are invited to see these registers without obligation on your part. Our national authorized service-| man will also be available. - THE li National Cash Register Co. SALES SERVICE SUPPLIES