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

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 49. Finland Admits Koivisto Fortress Lost To Soviets MANNERHEIM ACTION Ms MLL MS SSS 5 NOW SHIFTS TO EAST|NAZIS EXPERIENCE FLANK; VIBORG WITH- DOCTOR SHORTAGE STANDS ATTACK (By Associated Press) BERLIN, Feb, 26—Ger- many has drafted. approxi- mately one-third of its doc- tors for military service. This has put.a heavy load on physicians still practicing at home. To relieve them, retired doctors and women doctors who have left the pro- fession after marrying are being called back to duty. Authorities have equipped a number of auxiliary hospit- als since the beginning of the war to take care of the civil population should other hos- Pitals be unable to handle all (By Associated Press) | LONDON, Feb. 26. — Word, reached here today that the| Koivisto fortress on the west flank of the first Mannerheim Line had fallen to the Reds, and that major action had now shift- ed to east flank which were bearing the brunt of \ terrific attacks. | strongholds Bombarding and attacks| the patients. This step was ; a ry Neepe taken because many regular against Viborg (Viipuri) beyond | focpetialail arid leans (arias Koivisto, had slackened con-|} were put at the disposal of siderably today, mostly because | the army. heavy snow falls had occurred. FIFA PPLAL SD Reports came through that the | Soviets had unleashed strong parachute troop action behind the Finn lines, but the Finns} claimed that they had wiped out all of these patrols before any! serious damage was done. That the plight of Finland be-| comes more=serious each day, is {> evidenced in the stronger appeals MANY ROTARIANS TO HEAD THIS WAY P. & ©. MAY RUN SHUFFLE SERVICE TO HAVANA | CONVENTION made for aid to neutral and) Allied nations. Finland’s foreign | minister today spoke in bitter, Reports reaching officers of terms of the inability of the|the Key West Rotary club are to United States to produce | the effect that more than half of devia aldateth that th eg. | the 8,000 reservations so far re- eriat aid-—stating that the ques’ | ceived by the national traffic tion had “apparently become all; committee for the Rotary Inter- tangled up in domestic politics”.| national convention in Havana It was reported, however, that|in June indicate a preference to large purchases of arms had been | 8° by boat or plane from Miami $ . or Key West. made in the United States by| According to the reports, the Finland. idea of changing the scene of the | 1940 convention from Rio Janiero to Havana has caught the fancy of Rotarians the country over. |The result is that the national |committee arranging the affair | are figuring on reservations for BERLIN, Feb. 26—The Nazi| 10,000. : war department today announced! How many will go to Havana that a total of 496 Allied and/ by way of Key West has not neutral ships had been sunk to been revealed.’ It is believed the date in sea Warfare, by U-Boats "umber is so great that it cannot and mines. This figure is over|be handled “by the P. & O. a hundred more than British of-|Steamship ¢ompany under its ficial figures accounted for in re- Teéular schedule, so that it is re- cent dispatches. ported a shuffleship may be em- ma- LATE NEWS BULLETINS (By Associated Press) Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. HOTEL MEMBERS WILL. TALK OVER MEET TOMORROW AT 1:30 P.M.: MISS SHARPLEY PUTS ORGANIZATION MEMBERS ON PROGRESS GROUP Consideration of a proposal to join the municipai advertising campaign to be sponsored by Key West Chamber of Commerce will be one of the matters coming be- fore the members of the Key West Hotel and Tourist Homes Association at a meeting to be held at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at! Coral Hotel and Apartments, 312 Simonton street. For some time the hotel asso- ciation has been supporting a publicity bureau which, despite handicaps due to a_ shortage of, personnel, has been publicizing) the city in the far reaches of the United States and Canada. Late- ly, too, the hotel group voted to jpay for erection and maintenance of two billboards, one along Fed- ami and the other along Tamiami Trail where the road to Key West branches off toward Home- stead. Since the adoption of that pro- posal, the Chamber of Commerce has become engaged in a “Put Key West Ahead” campaign, and has announced one of its princi- pal objectives to be “Town Ad- vertising”. It is proposed by the Chamber to “tell the nation about 'Key West” by literature, radio, newspapers, billboards and other media. In the opinion of President R. A. Lehmann of the hotel associa- tion, that program dovetails with the program being initiated by by the group he represents. . In- formed that Miss Elizabeth Sharpley, a member of the hotel association, had been selected to head the hotel division in the Chamber of Commerce campaign Lehmann believed it would be a good idea to bring the Chamber campaign before his association for discussion. Consequently, through Miss Sharpley, Larry Vaughn, director jof the “Put Key West Ahead” campaign, has been invited to appear before the hotel associa- tion tomorrow afternoon. The hotel group was asked to meet at 1:30 p. m. instead of the usual |2:30 p. m. in order that Director Vaughn may keep another ap- pointment later in the afternoon. Miss Sharpley has announced |that she selected Mr. Lehmann, }L. A. Gruber and Charles John- |son, officers of the hotel associa- ‘tion, as her principal aides in con- {ducting her division’s share of the “Put Key West Ahead” drive. Other members of the association will be asked to participate, prob- ably at tomorow’s meeting. “Every member of. the hotel jassociation should attend tomor- row’s meeting”, President Leh- jmann urged. “We believe it will {be important to indicate our de- sire to participate in this drive to | eral Highway No. 1 above Mi-} a KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1940 MRS. MOFFETT FINDS REASON WHY Society Editor Of Chicago Tribune To Write Article CITY'S ATTRACTIONS ESCAPE MANY t OCOSSSSoeeeceserseDeneeSeSeeoereenecessces ° Two persons well known in }unique among the unusual cities the literary, journalistic and |of the poe: : s . the buns ie oO! iouses, the architec- radio world sadiides noe pete \ture, the old frame buildings are dreds of tourists in ey est | tun of character and color. The over the weekend. ‘flowers that I see growing every- standing writer and commenta-jners are the most wonderful I’ve tor for the Columbia Broadcast-|seen anywhere in Florida where ing system, and India Moffet,| I’ve been coming for years with- society editor of the Chicago Tri-|out previously, to my great re- bune, “The World’s Greatest/gret, having visited Key West”. Newspaper”, who is doing a! Upshot of Mrs. Moffett’s en- ida subjects for her paper. jPeneil and paper with which she Mrs. Moffett and her son,; began taking notes for a special John, came to Key West yester-|Key West article to day and contacted Bill Lee, local shortly in the Chicago Tribune. publicity man, on recommenda-| While Mrs. Moffett was break- tion of Joe Copps, publicity im- | fasting at La Concha hotel this ;presario at Miami Beach as per- | morning she received a call from sonal representative of Steve,Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Davis, who Hannagan, nationally known are registered at Casa Marina, publicity expert. j with their daughter, Ann. The Guided by Bill Lee, Mrs. Mof-| result was a decision for Mrs. fett and her son took in the | Moffett and her son to join the usual attrattions of the city'Davises in a further tour without enthusiastic comment /the city. until they began touring the by-} “I know where to look now for ways and lanes of the city. the beauties and ‘atmosphere of “Now I love Key West!” ex-|Key West”, was Mrs. Moffett’s claimed Mrs. Moffett. “What I) remark as she started on the have seen convinces me that the| trip. “Those friends of mine who average tourist doesn’t really|found nothing here didn’t look see Key West. I was told by|in the right places. They went some of my northern friends that/away without actually seeing there wasn’t anything worth-}Key West. You can depend on it while or interesting here. They|Tll be back here again and are badly mistaken. This city is| again.” Permanent Progress Plan Advanced AEC. OFC. Mest There are 12 members of the board jof directors, four of whom are officers, such as the presi- dent, two vice presidents and treasurer. These four together Plane-for the effectual accont- plishment of the program to “Put Key West Ahead” made by the Board of Directors were of the Chamber of Commerce, in a special session today at noon, vise the five divisions above named afford definite respon- sibilities to nine members of the held to install a pernianent sys- tem for carrying forward each of- the activities now being formulated. “We must build on a_ per- manent basis”, declared Everett Russell, president. “It is our plan to install an organization method which will so fix the re- sponsibility for accomplishment ,be assigned to have charge of definite activities. One will have the responsibility of membership maintenance for the organiza- tion, planning members’ meet- ings and keeping interest in the affairs of the chamber. Another will be in charge of retail af- that continuation of the work ,. 3 : x fairs, working with the mer- may be expected. Five major planks will com- activities. And the other will be in charge of devoting similar at- tention: to industrial interests. Each of the directors will be required to make regular re- ports on the efforts being made by their several sub-committees. This, it is pointed out by Presi- Pose the new program. They in- clude: civic improvements, such as water supply, completion of |the Overseas Highway, better jhospitalization and much else; town advertising by use of pam- They were Elmer Davis, out- | where, in yards, lanes and cor-! series of special articles on Flor-|thusiasm wes the production of | appear } of | with the five required to super- | board. The other three will also} K. W. YACHT CLUB IN FIRST. SUNDAY MORN BREAKFAST HAD “GREAT MEAL AND FINE CONVERSATION” AT CLUB QUARTERS YESTERDAY MORNING } First of a series of Sunday ;morning breakfasts was observed | l yesterday at Key West Yacht |Club quarters overlooking Garri- ison Bight, designated as the tu-| iture haven for yachts and boats. At tables set up on the porch | of the clubhouse above the wa- |ter’s edge, Commodore Melvin E.! i Russell and ‘Directors Everett | Russell, Charles Taylor, H. Pi Connable, Albert E. Peirce, Jr.,} jand S. C, Singieton enjoyed what! they called “a great meal and; some fine conversation”. | During the course of the get-; together it was reported that} ‘Councilman L. C. Brinton, Dr.! William R. Warren, city health | jofficer, Artist Cyril Marshall, |James M. Hibbert, Ray F. Kauf-} {man and Philip Emerson had \lately become members of the lyacht club. They are to be wel-/ jcomed at another meeting to be held soon. | “We plan to make the Sunday morning breakfasts a regular, habit”, was the comment of Com- modore Russell. “We had a good | time. All members of the club! are invited to come out and en-} joy the fine food put out by {Steward Jack Russell, the sun- shine and the view on the club- house porch”, FLORIDA NOVEL | _ READY TO FILM CALE AT POPULAR STATE RESORT H | ' SILVER SPRINGS, Feb. 26° (FNS).—Marjorie Kinnan Rawl. ings’ best selling Florida Cracker jnovel, “The Yearling”, in all probability will be filmed in this area, according to “Shorty” Da- | vidson, proprietor of Silver | { Springs, who states that Jay Mer- | |chant, locations manager for M-G-M, and Victor Fleming, di-, rector of “Gone With the Wind”, ! have been looking over the sec-! |tion and have taken over 500 still | ‘pictures of locations that they | { ‘chants in furthering commercial | feel are suitable for the filming conference with Premier Musso- of the forthcoming feature. “The Yearling” will be a fea- ture film and is expected to be jone of the outstanding pictures of the year. M-G-M officials ex-| :pressed great enthusiasm over the ; ;dramatie qualities of the story | jand will spare neither paing ae ‘WELLES LEAVES —— $$ | Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Majority Of Parcels. Bid In BY Owners At Tax Sale Today SLL LMS ISM 'SPIRITED BIDDING OC- PROMINENT OPTICAL | CURRED ON ABOUT 30 MEN VISITING CITY| PIECES; 250 ATTENDED zi . z SALE Two prominent figures in | the nation’s optical manufac- | ~ turing business were visitors | peared here over the weekend—and | Romeiitt porns ee - still another came to spend the day today. Ray Fahrnam, vice-presi- dent of the Panoptik Bifocal Division of Bausch and Lomb Optical Company, and Dean Cummings, head of the in- strument division of the same company, both of New York City, were guests of Dr. J. A. Valdes, local optician, over Saturday and Sunday. Dr. E. S. Hirsch, of Miami, accompanied Messrs Fahrnam and Cummings on the trip. Today, Dr. G. L. Mander- ville, scientist-inventor of the Binoculator Muscle Machine, of Ft. Pierce, Fla., called on Dr. Valdes and was shown the sights of the city. pies RTS county courthouse at 11 a. m. to- jday when 170 pieces of Monroe |county property, which reverted jt the Florida Internal Improve- ment Board for non-payment of texes under the Murphy act. \were put on sale. At times there was spirited bidding of the various parcels as | they were announced by County |Clerk Ross C. Sawyer, but the | majority of the properties went to the original owners at their base bids, roughly one-quarter of 1932 taxes. Base bids amounted TITIES TSS SES to about $8,642 for all the parcels. ain | ADEEOIMAiSly: 30 ‘nletes:-of property appealed so strongly to ‘some of the bidders that they of \fered prices above the base bids. |Final determination as to the fu- |ture ownership of the properties “_ iput on sale rests with the state FLYING TRIP FOLLOWS CON- improvement board and the out- FERENCE WITH ITALIAN come may not be known for FOREIGN MINISTER scene ane In anticipation of a throng of | bidders, Clerk Sawyer has ar- (hy Associated Prean) | ranged benches outside the ROME, Feb. 26.—Speeding up Whitehead street entrance of the ,of Under-Secretary Sumner Wel- ‘courthouse for the comfort of the les’ trip to foreign capitals ~ of | citizens. Europe was announced here to- | As a Rabie tr eset sb , foliow1n; 90-minut . | yer explaine e complicated vas sce wa leone apis | workings of-the Murphy Act, out- ‘erence between Welles and Ital-!jined the steps that had to be ian Foreign Minister Count taken for a property owner to re- Ciano. | reang a As a result of the conference, |3°¢4""e fitle to his land. “Sawyer : * then answered a number of ques- and interpreted as a significant tions. q sign, Welles will make a flying | eee trip to Berlin for talks with Hit- | OVER THOUSAND ler and his foreign minister, Von! WELFARE BOARD REPORTS Ribbentrop, tomorrow. No stop) vill be made in Switzerland, con- | ON JANUARY SURPLUS COMMODITIES ‘ary to past arrangements. Secretary Welles also held a lini this morning. HILD WELFARE TO BE ee | | | | | | | | } (Special <» The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, Fila, Feb. ployed to operate between this|&Ve Key West a further boost |phlets, and other media; closer dent Russell, will assure con-|€xPense in its production. 26—The State Welfare Board |city and Cuba for the convention | period. Recently Philip Lovejoy, Rotary official carged with the task of providing transportation WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.— Secretary of State Cordell Hull today reaffirmed his de- sire that Congress pass the Trade Reciprocity program, | |along the road to prosperity. The Chamber's program looks worthy | of our support”, TEMPERATURES extending the pacts with pone making all arrangements for alone Papoiiiad, ,in the future will be made short- various foreign nations | the convention, visited Key West |—— | EE TAOS AE, Ces .__ ‘ly, Mr. Russell pointed out. 1 three years. Ad- | and made a personal survey of : Lowest last Highest last} Responsibility for furthering Eee = ministration leaders were the city’s facilities and the trans-| Stations _ night 24hours | these five projects will be placed | confident the Senate would Portation service to Cuba. Atlanta _ 25 45 in the hands of five aitterent | TWO NEW SHIPS follow the House in passing | Boston 12 43 members of the board of direc- | the measure, although it wes | AUXILI ARY H AD Buffalo 8 19 tors. Each will have full power DUE TOMORROW conceded the vote would be | Charleston 31 53 to name the several committees seer Benvticnne in the | canaee = - = junder his supervision, and hav- —_ mate, solidly against re- | FINE POPPY SALE e jing made the appointments will newal next June, virtually Detroit 12 21 be required to eae with and|EIGHT NAVY VESSELS IN admitted they would lose in | — El Paso 45 xb keep his several committees PORT TODAY: WICKES @ canvass today. | Havana - 61 78 functioning. $ | TOTAL OF $82.82 COLLECTED | Jacksonville 38 65 LEFT ON TOUR LONDON, Feb. 26.—The first BY Kansas City ~ 31 3 | eas eet ORGANIZATION KEY WEST | 58 73 6 ddd de dd Lt rived in England today follow- SOLICITORS K. W. (Airport) 58 3 THREE NEW YORKERS | There was very little naval ac- ing an uneventual passage across Siecle taiegae oo aoe |tivity in Key West harbor today. the Atlantic. Twenty per cent Lousiville ane 22 32 VISITING MRS. MACKIE | Delayed by weather and other of the outfit is French-speaking,} Mrs. Adrianna Sands, president ;Miami. — “52 * 76 —— ‘orders, the Destroyers Williams and it’ was announced most of|of Arthur Sawyer Post, American |MplsaSt. ‘Patil\j 9\ 16 Miss Helen Bailey, Mr. De- [and Bailey, due here today, are the squadron will be assigned to Legion Auxiliary, announced this |New York — 15 38 . Forest. Miss Grace Behan, |not scheduled in port until to-| French air bases for auxiliary morning that $82.82 was the total|San_Francisco,,55 = third-, second- and first-time morrow.’ They are enroute from work, |Poppy Day sale held in this city |Seattlé 41 50 visitors to Key West. respec- San Diego, where they were re- pa last Saturday. Tampa — 42 70 tively. all from New York {cently recommissioned. After ar- WASHINGTON, Feb. 26— = The auxiliary, through Mrs.|Washington —. 19 42 City, arrived here last Friday rival, the Bailey later will go to Secretary of Agriculture (Sands, asked The Citizen to thank to spend.a two-week vacation another port but the Williams Wallace today asked that (all who contributed to the sale, NOTICE ie with Mrs. Charles Mackie, | will become a part of Squadron Congress, restore $274.900.000 which, in the opinion of local] MY Se will) 527 Division street. |32. io the Agricultural approp- members, was entirely _ satisfac- er am no Mrs. M. Shar! Other ships i rt rine Nhe tak Ee cei ‘h th] se Na a beyoat pea” ot wet amount was lopped off in Those who served with Mrs.|vana Taxi Co. but have esteb-| oy. J. leave Key West next |la, Schenck, Evans, Bancroft, Mc- initial deliberations by Con- (Sands were Mrs. Mary Archer, |lished my new business known as gress. Wallace stated that the total reductions would amount to “false economy”. Mrs. Mamie Sawyer, Mrs. Ada Wharton, Mrs. Sara Spencer, Mrs. Edna Crusoe and Mrs. Kelly, ROYAL PALM TAXI CO. RALPH DuBREUIL, 629 Duval St. }governmental relations to assist in making this a larger army- stant effort in pressing the sev- eral organization projects essen- tial to “Put Key West Ahead”. Poe lS TTI IIIa a ID navy stronghold; and advance-| Announcement of the names of ment of shipping, including the various directors who will have South charge of the specific activities |Cook and Rodgers. The Wickes ileft on a duty tour. The Gan- |net, seaplane tender, was also tied up at the naval station dock. No information has been given | out as to the cast, but it is widely | ‘be given the role of Penny Bax- jter- | Permission has been granted |M-G-M to bring deer into the state for use in the film and State Game Commissioner I. N. Ken- nedy will co-operate fully with the producers, Davidson said. SHE CANS SNOW JORDON VALLEY, Ida—Be- {cause the water from her well is ie hard, Mrs. John Oliver of this city “cans” snow in the water for washing delicate fab- SOS aS ASM, \FORMER TENNESSEE OFFICIAL VISITS CITY WASHINGTON - CONFERENCE distributed surplus commodities ON TEN-YEAR PROGRAM | to 63,237 families or an estimated |rumored that Spencer Tracy will | | winter and later uses the soft | PROVED FRUITFUL | JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 26 ; NS).—Marcus C. Fagg, superin- tendent ‘of the Children’s Home ;Society of Florida, believes that jthe 10 year program adopted at \the President's White House Con- |ference on Children in a Democ- |racy last month will mean a much | better condition for every child in Florida when carried out in the ‘urban and rural areas of the | State. The conference followed eight months of study by a planning !committee and was called to de- ;Velop a program through which ithe interest of every child in j America, , Tich and poor, and of all races and beliefs, could be con- served and improved. Florida’ members of the com- mittee were Joseph F. Diver, Judge W. S. Criswell, Marcus Fagg, Miss Eunice Minton, Mrs. Malcolm McClellan, all of Jack- sonville; William Gardner and Mrs. J. Ralston Wells of Daytona pressed himself delighted | Beach; Dr. Warren Quillian, Mi- with thighs te aad’ kes ami; Miss Anne Tracy, Tallahas- party have seen here. see; Mrs. Ruth W. Adkinson, St. Accompanying the |Petersburg; Mrs. I. L. Moore, Mi- were Mrs. H. E. lami; Mrs, J. W. uae —! Walter Davey Crockett. Gainesville; Miss yi i of Big Sandy, Tenn. Jacksonville, and Miss Evelyn CLL LD DL DL #4: _. | sion. | 243,492 persons during the past |month, through its surplus com- |modities division, according to figures made public here today. In Monroe County 1,029 fami- jlies were served. It is estimated that the average family consists \of four persons. | In addition, surplus commodi- |ties are now being furnished 400 schools with an enrollment of approximately 40,000 with which to supplement free lunches fur- nished undernourished children. |All but 12 of the counties of the jstate are participating in the program and sufficient others are expected to come in this month |to complete the quota of 56,000 jchildren set for the present year. Emergency provisions for use jin the distress areas of the state where many persons were de- prived of employment by the de- struction of the early vegetable crop and damage to citrus fruits, lare still being received. Several |carloads of flour, apples, corn meal and other foodstuffs were rushed into South Florida and have already been distributed. During the month 67 cars of apples, 25 cars of wheat flour, 5 cars of corn meal, 12 cars of | graham flour, 5.cars of raisins and smaller quantities of other commodities have been received in the state, according to Charles Weller, former state WPA direc- | L. Cranford, director of the divi- tor of personnel, a lle Mee