The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 6, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 69 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Kry THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER LXI. No. 57. IN THE. a KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1940 umania And Reds To Sign SURPRISE AGREEMENT | ISIS SS SSS SS ANNOUNCED BY RUS- GIVENS WILL SPEAK IN SIA; BRITISH STILL: PATY BEHALF TONIGHT ENFORCE BLOCKADE ! eee i Robert H. Givens, Jr., for- | mer resident of Key West, | will speak over radio station | WQAM tonight at 7:45 o'clock in behalf of B. F. Paty, can- didate for Democratic nom- inatior for governor. | Friends of Mr. Givens, as which point towards continued well as all others, are invit- | ed to tune in on the pro- unsettled conditions for some time! gram. (By Associated Press) LONDON, Mar. 6.—Two de-; velopments in the affairs of Eu-| rope were headlined here today, to come. First, and of outstanding sur- prising nature, is the report| WELLES SPEEDS reaching here from Moscow that the Soviets are about to sign a trade pact with Rumania. Rus- UP EUROPEAN sian Premier Molotoff stated| i that the pact would stop all! IN UIRY TOUR rumors about Russian designs on | Bessarabia, and that it would; rae bring peaceful relations between ; the two countries. | SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE IN U. Second of importance is the " continued strained relations be-| 5: MARCH 26: TO HOLD tween Italy and England over! FRENCH CONFERENCES TO- the matter of Nazi coal being; transported to the former coun-| MORROW try. A total of nine ships carry- | —— ing such cargoes have been} (By Associated Press) seized by the blockade fleet, and! PARIS, Mar, 6.—Announce- demonstrations in Italy against Ment was mfade here today at} the move continue at increased | the Embassy office, that Under- tempo. Secretary Sumner Welles’ trip to It was learned on good au-/ foreign capitals of Europe, would thority that the British would|be speeded up from this point transmit a firm rejection of; forward, and that, in all likeli- protest to Rome today. | hood,*he woutebe back in Wash- tatement will say that the ington by March 26. : Allies sincerely believe they are _ Conferences with French offi- within their rights to push the /|Cials are scheduled for tomorrow blockade in the manner they are|@nd Premier Daladier has an- now doing. j nounced that open dates would As a consequence of the sur-|be kept for Welles’ convenience prising news from Russia con-|0n Friday. : cerning the new alliance move| Interviewed by Swiss news-} with Rumania, British officials, men yesterday, Welles smilingly | warded off any reference con- cerning the effect of his trip on |President Roosevelt's third term aspirations. pee SESes It appeared, from comments made by Welles, that he enter- {tained “no present hopes for STATION PROJECT said taco enone BROOKLYN, N. Y.—A_ heavy PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED wooden wedge which fell from the top of an elevated structure, WORK CALLS FOR NEW jstruck William Winslick, 45- AIRBASE PAVING |year-old iron worker, on the jhead and killed him instantly. | As announced previously in The SPSS SSS SSS Citizen on February 20, the proj- | ect to improve the driveways and 'MRS. MORAN STILL runways, installing paving where announced today that they would not publish the British-Russian negotiations of last summer and fall. needed, at the new Naval Air PICKS KEY WEST Station on Trumbo Island _ will eS now go forward in that President And still another person Roosevelt has approved the ap-| reports that “Key West is the propriation. | favorite of all places visited”. The project calls for a WPA! — §o spoke Mrs. G. Moran, of labor appropriation of $10,300 and | Chicago, yesterday, in a con- matching Navy Department funds! vyersation with The Citizen. for an $8,003 total. In describ- Mrs. Moran is visiting here img the project formerly, it was| for her third year, staying at stated that all that was needed) the Coral Apartment Hotel. was the President's approval.| She has travelled around the This, according to a wire today; world and has been in many from Congressman Pat Cannon to} noted resort centers, but she the Chamber of Commerce, has | holds a special place in her come. | heart for Key West, as wit- ness her return here each | year. While here, Mrs. Moran will spend considerable time with her friend. Mrs. Robb Roy Ricketts, with whom she * MINISTERS PAY DENVER.—Two ministers of! this city arrested for traffic vio- | lations were sentenced to- preach safe driving and pray for traffic) became acquainted in Chi- safety for two weeks. They de-| cago. clated they would pray for the} { judge, too. hd hdd dL) Monrog-SpesialfOWI'Show Thursday, 11 P.M. 25c Trade Pacts OVER 200:APPLY FOR ELECTRICITY AT KEYS MEETING ELECTRIFICATION ADMINIS- TRATION OFFICIAL SPOKE AT LENGTH ON PROJECT: EXPECT FULL QUOTA SOON! im | Electrification of Florida keys) from the upper end af Key; Largo to Stock Island appeared nearer consummation today as last night at Tavernier Theater ; | tric Co-operative Association, in- | corporated. ar It was brought out at the) meeting that 220 of the minimum: of 250 applicants for electric! service between Key Largo and Stock Island had been -obtained by the association, and that there was every indication the remaining signatures would soon {be on the dotted line. Highlight of the meeting last night was an address by Chester jthat Charles PROPHET PREDICTS To Win By 63,000. Votes VICTORY FOR CO eo (Special to The Citizen) WEST PALM BEACH, Fia., Mar; 6.—First election prediction of the year has come from Myrus, famous mind reader and fortune teller appearing at a local resort !hotel, who told a_ local audience | Francis (Socker) Coe will win the Democratic nom- ination for the United States Sen- jate by 63,000 votes. The prediction was made to |Ed Stumpf, former local newspa-| Juan, Puerto Rico, on a trip of! result of a mass meeting held | per editor, who, with his wife, | inspection of aviation units un- was attending the formance. nightly per- The procedure. was under the auspices of the board ‘for those in the audience to write | Norfolk. H of directors of Florida Keys Elec- |questions and seal them in en-|) One!of the units. commanded velopes, identified by initial. /Mrs. Stumpf was one of those!squadron 53, asking questions, which were an- swered. Myrus then asked Stumpf, COMDR. GRIFFIN ~TARRIVES TODAY FOR INSPECTION IS COMMANDER OF LOCAL PATROL SQUADRON; IN- SPECTED PLANES WITH COMDR. STORRS i Commander V. C. Griffin, Jr., U. S. N., commanding officer of ‘naval aviation patrol wing five, | |who is well known here, arrived | in Key West today from San {der his command. Commander! |Griffin’s headquarters are at ‘by Commander Griffin is patrol | { now based at |Trumbo* section. With Lieut. |€ommander* A. P. Storrs, I, } \Feader'ofsquadron 53, Com-! \“Didn’t you start to ask a ques-|mander Griffin inspected the \tion and then change your mind?” | planes pulled up on the Trumbo: {Stumpf nodded that he had. |famp, the quarters occupied by; | “That question related to a officers and men and the com-,; coming election, to an election | missary for the unit. 3 for the senate in which someone} Later he examined the’ plans ‘you know is a candidate, isn’t for the auxiliary seaplane base | ithat true?”. Stumpf again nod-|on Trumbo with Lieut. Com- Lake, field representative for the | ded that it was. | administrator of the Rural Elec-| “The election will be won by} trification Administration, who/|the candidate you have in mind, | outlined the progress of the fed- by the margin of 63,000 votes”. | eral agency since its inception a'Myrus continued, “And if you) little over five years ago. j will think of his name, I will say Lake said that the REA has | it”. constructed 600 projects in every! Stumpf thought. * section of the country and that | date is Charles Francis Co it is now serving 40,000 farms|Myrus. It was. and approximately 2,000,000 per- “The * candi- | e”, said | | mander T. J. Brady, civil en- gineer Officer at the naval sta- tion. i i { MAN BITES DOG Ae oe | WALTHAM, Mass. — Joseph | Lawler, dog trainer of this city, claims he cures vicious dogs of biting by biting them right back. sons With electricity and service, | ae where formerly there was no electricity available. } réea If the residents of Florida keys | support the co-operative associa- | tion, Lake indicated that REA! would finance a project for gen- | erating and distributing — elec- | tricity. Each subscriber who! puts up $5, which will be re-/ 5 i | funded in event of failure of the |the north this morning early,) proposal, must guarantee to take with wind velocity reported by $2.50 worth of electricity each |the Weather Bureau at 30 miles month for one year. imaximum, About one-third of It was stressed by Lake that A 4 rm il the average farm supplied under | 2” ae oe accom an wind. jthe REA program was getting a‘ complete electric service for all. In its wake, the gale left some damage to waterfront craft and} ordinary household purposes for an average of from $4 to $5 a docks, caused chiefly by boats Gale Piled Up. Boats; Damaged Dock A freak gale swept in from|anchors and came down on the motor vessel, Triton, owned by } Milton Curry. This. caused the’ Triton’s moorings to break loose, and both boats piled into the De-; meritt Bros’. fish dock, smashing | away about fifty feet of it, and landing it up against Bayly’s; marine ways. | Anchored on the other side of the dock was the Chantey, of MAYOR WILL FETE month. This cost does not in- |Provinceton, Mass., a 32-foot cat clude power for heavy machinery ; around a farm, except for water | pumps. | | Directors of the co-operative are sure that the remainder of the signatures for the project will soon be in hand, according to | W. Curry Harris, attorney for the group. Directers will meet about ! every two weeks to keep the project before the residents of the keys and lay plans for the REA loan. 1 It was announced that E. P. McLean, consulting engineer, has been instructed to prepare plans and estimates for the project on \the theory that the 250 subscrib- ers would soon be a fact. | i TEMPERAT' ERATURES SISSIES Siw, ae een eet last HARTS HERE FOR ations night 4 hours Atlanta" 34 33 | MONTH'S VACATION Boston 34 38 { patelietsh rt {Buffalo 27 33 j Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hart Charleston 43 60 | and daughter, Peggy, arrived Chicago 31 33 in Key West last weekend to Denver - 31 53 | stay through this month. Detroit 30 33 This is the third winter | El Paso - 45 66 that the Harts have head- | Havana 69 85 quartered in the Island City. Jacksonville . 48 66 | and they are enthusiastic Kansas City . 38 57 | boosters for the city. Mr. (KEY WEST _ 56 80 Hart is a lawyer in Philadel- Los Angeles _ 55 73 | phia. Louisville 38 | Thomas Hart, Jr., will ar- ‘Miami __ §3 81 | tive on March 16 to spend ten Mpls.-St. Paul 21 34 | days fishing with his father. New York 41 | The family is living at 701 Pensacola ~ 45 59 | South street, and is a year Pittsburgh _. 38 around subscriber to The Seattle 57 Citizen, ‘Tampa 70 3 4 C PTOI TTTI SIS Washington _. 35 —— HEAR —— Robert H. Givens, Jr. Speak In Behalf of the Candidacy of B. F. PATY FOR GOVERNOR WQAM — TONITE — 7:45 P. M. held on insecure moorings. The schooner Evangeline, an- chored in the harbor, dragged its COUNTY BOARD MEETS TONIGHT First meeting of the current month for the Board of County Commissioners will be held this evening at the courthouse, start- ing at 8:00 o’clock. No special matters were‘to be taken up at this time, Clerk Ross C. Sawyer said, although ‘there were a number of routine ‘sub- jects to be covered in the dis- cussions, he! Stated. 5 | boat, which broke loose partially, | jwith the stern rope holding. Al |motor fishing boat owned by Begley Filer broke loose, and’ was sunk near Bayly’s ways with the starboard side stove in. Also ,on the other side of the dock was | a sailing sloop owned by a grunt- fisherman, which went ashore with no damage done. Still another small sailing vessel was destroyed completely. The Evangeline ended up against Lowe’s Fish dock, with several holes in her side. Still another boat, the 250-foot | yacht, Bymar dragged anchors and bumped:against Curry’s Dock. JURY TURNS IN = ACCIDENT VERDICT TELLA DEATH CASE YESTERDAY | i t | | i j Accidental death by drowning was the verdict of a coroner's; jury before Peace Justice Frank- lin Arenberg, which concluded | yesterday in the discovery of the! dead body of Manuel Botella, 50, | quartermaster of the Lighthouse | Tender Ivy, near the ship Feb. 25. | It was learned by the jury that all efforts to find living relatives of Botella had failed. His body was buried under auspices of the U. S. coast guard over a week ago, wed | To the workers who have Let us all meet at the ;cocks, Sr. CRIMINAL COURT Chamber of Commerce VICTORY DINNER OVERSEAS today and have dinner together and learn the actual results of work weil done. EVERETT W. RUSSELL, President, | Key West Chamber of Commerce est Cittern U. S.A. e Division Over Top In Drive To Put City JALIL LAE AA VISITORS KEPT BUSY REELING IN KINGFISH And still the fishing rec- ords are turned in! Here’s the catch brought in yesterday by a party of four on the launch “Evelyn”, Cap- tain Red Williams: A total of 128 kingfish, weighing 550 pounds. Most of the kings were caught in the middle channel, at the Triangle, about three miles off Key West. In the party were Louis Atkinson, retired government engineer: John F. MacDonald and Alfred O'Leary, of the Department of Commerce at Washington, D. C., and Harry Stedlmeier, of New York City. “As you can well imagine”, they all said, “we were kept plenty busy reeling in these kingfish”. TMI IIS SS SS SERVICE OFFICERS, i | COCKTAIL PARTY TO BE GIVv-| EN AT HIS HOME SAT- URDAY ' Army, navy and marine corps officers snd their wives have | been invited by Mayor and Mrs. | Willard M, Albury to attend a cocktail party they plan giving | at their home, 1331 White street, | from 5 to 7 p. m. Saturday. A} number of public and civic of- | ficials have been invited to meet | the men of the armed defense forces and their families. The party is~in line with the | policy of city officials and civic! organizations to entertain the national defense personnel and to make their stay in Key West more interesting and enjoyable. FIRE DESTROYED SMALL GARAGES | Fire of undetermined origin | that was discovered shortly after 3 a.m. today destroyed several small garages in the rear of 1100 Division street, and an old auto- mobile owned by Clement Jay- | | The garages front on Packer street and the fire was fought from that point. No exact estimate of the dam- age had been made today, but} Fire Chief Harry Baker does not believe it will exceed $200 or $300. OPENS MONDAY an inquest at the sheriff's office} March term of Criminal Court|| SEMI-WINDUP— of Monroe County is scheduled to | open at county courthouse next} Monday, it was announced to-| day. | Judge William V. Albury plans | to draw 2 jury Saturday to sit} throughout the term. Several small cases are pend- ing and trials are expected to get underway next Tuesday. so faithfully and successfully. CHAMBER HOTEL at 6:30 P. M. Key West, Flor._a, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Workers Go Ahead REPORTS TURNED IN IN- DICATE C. OF C. MEM- BERSHIP WILL REACH AT LEAST 300 DESTROYER ‘GETS IN HEADLINES WITH FISH YARN LER SHAFT; LIEUT. TON- SETH JOSHED The movement to “Put Key | West Ahead”—sponsored by’ the |Chamber of Commerce—passed jits 250-goal before noon today land was swinging forward so jrapidly that leaders enthusiastic When a swift United States de- | 4 ’ } leclared that likely + istroyer catches a fish—why, that’s ally::d . its oda ‘news, in the opinion of Capt. Ar- jnear 300 by the time all prospects !thur S. Carpender, U.S.N., com- |manding officer of the Key West | jneutrality patrol, and the other) Determination to make the re officers of his command. (sult so outstanding that a wide- have been seen. took off two bearing caps, but | {found nothing to indicate the} {cause of the trouble. | Believing it might be a log} “You'll have to get the captain | of the Destroyer Schenck to tell | the story, but I'll vouch for the; veracity of the report because I/ |checked it”, was the comment of Capt. Carpender when asked to tell about the unusual occurence. | “Well, it was this way”, began | Lieut. T. H, Tonseth, captain of | the Schenck. “We were proceed- | ing on our course some distance off Key West at 2:45 a. m. Mon-! day when it was reported that | there was something wrong with | the port engine. “Although we were clocking! only about 10 knots an hour, I discovered there was a clatter in; the port engine. It sounded se- fidus so “the “port engine was stopped. We examined the bear- ing and the reduction gears. We + jammed in the propeller, I di-; rected we proceed on. our patrol | with just the starboard engine. | At daylight we investigated. We/ discovered a huge fish caught be-! {tween the strut and the propel- spread record can be achieved and that the world may know Key West has taken initiative in a definite forward movement is being expressed by leaders. Attention of the workers is focused on the large report board erected at the Chamber of Com- merce on which is being posted the names of those who are sup- porting the movement. The names are being posted on the er VICTORY DINNER TONIGHT The workers who have sac- tificed time from their own businesses the last two days in order to make the movement a success eretcéming to a jubi- . lee celebration or “Victory Dinner” tonight at 6:30 o'clock at the Overseas Hotel. The meeting will afford op- portunity for them to check up on lines of business which have not yet been posted as supporting the movement, and will be a chance for considera- tion of ways of completing the canvass. er board by business classifications, |monster, based on observation, ; ing his story, know it sounds |list will also be publicized in the fps of “fishy”. paper. All are seeking to have ler shaft. It was immediately identified as a jewfish. “Estimates of the weight of the | and after each name is listed thé number of chamber memberships each takes. The board, likewise, shows the cash collected. At‘ a glance a worker can see whether all businesses or enterprises in a line of trade are supporting the plan, and plans can be made to call on those who have not yet been included. A.membership roster for the Chamber of Commerce emphasiz- ing that those listed are banded together in a movement to “Put Key West Ahead” is being pub- lished as soon as the present membership-building effort has been completed. It will be list- ed by classified businesses so that vary-from 400 to 700 pounds. I’m inclined to think it weighed about 400. We didn’t have a chance; to weigh it because the grapple; we used on the fish slipped as it} was pulled loose from the shaft”. | Examination of the shaft, pro- peller and machinery revealed that no Gamage had been done, by the accidental capture of the! jewfish. Whether the monster | was pulled against the shaft by | suction or whether it was hooked ! by the shaft ‘strut when the de- stroyer passéd over it was not! determined. | visitors ard local people supplied Lieut. Tonseth has been the | with this directory may quickly butt of some good-natured josh- | locate the lines in which they are ing from his squadron mates. |interested. Before its publication “How much does the jewfish | it will be submitted for correction weigh now?” is the almost in- to present members so that they variable greeting of the lieuten- }may have their names classified ant’s friends, who, while believ- |to suit their own wishes, and the |their names shown on the first Hist issued. A workers’ report sheet shown on this page gives the prospective |businesses yet available. Addi- | tions are being made to it rapid- ly. Each division leader at noon today voiced that he would be jable to get the additional num- ‘ber necessary to meet his quota 'so that the number would be boosted 46 more than the 252 now signed. . “We are delighted with the re-- (Continued on Page Two) “PUT KEY WEST AHEAD” REPORT SHEET ADDITIONS QUOTA TOTAL NEEDED BOXING-—Strand Arena TONIGHT—8:30 O'CLOCK | MAIN BOUT— JIMMY GONZALEZ vs. BUDDY SPIEDEL. FRANKIE GREEN vs. KID GARCIA Battle Royal RESERVED SEATS On Sale All Day Today Industry, PRascom Grooms - 60 46 4 | Retail, Wm. Fripp —_ 55 48 7 | Foods, Bernie Papy ~ 25 21 4 | Professional, Fred Dion 20 20 | Automotive, Arthur Mulberg _. 15 8 7 | Hotels, Miss Sharpley —___. 22 8 Public Officials, Wm. Demeritt _. 35 58 Amusements, John Carbonell ___. 20 15 5 Enterprises, Allan Armstrong ___ 15 14 1 Totals— 275 252 46