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te, aye Associated Press Day Wire yd Key West, Florida, has the Service J r ) PS T T at most equable climate in the For 69 Years Devoted to the country; with an . average Best Interests of Key West > ° : range of only 14° Fahrenheit. THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. PRICE FIVE CENTS VOLUME LXI. No. 91. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1940 $$$ x a 3 l ; ee ~Tyete .|ITALY MAY SOON ‘WHITE WAY DRIVE CIRCUIT COURT. i (MANS DTIC OFT HARD | ste tes0m ooo sae rsunsmanc "NAVAL DISPEISAly | GERMANY IN WAR Peter's Makes Last Report TERM TODAY Bt ROME NEWSPAPER sanece ANDS FOR SEASON GOMEZ AND COURT) Z Add fion Work Is CITED CAUSES THAT a ne al seer PERSONNEL PRESENT: NO THEY COME TO PASS final report on the White Way| GROUP MET BRITIS| IM TRANS. | ee sed wnociated Press | Pee hee womens -| A . } VAL SHIPS HAVE BEEN | SPEAKS AT UNION responsibility for financing op-'ing in the county courthouse } * bi * { | | si main editorial stating that “the eration of the lights on Duval) . TURNS |PRESENT RATE OF CON- SUNK TO DATE GOLDEN JUBILEE 7° Arrive Here Next Week | tiene is not tar off when Ialy will |/Stfeet during the tourist season. | With Judge Arthur Gomez pre- CAR OVER i ano’s newspaper today carried a | H 5 ; The lights were turned on De- siding, and Assistant State At- STRUCTION WILL SEE — | jenter the war on the side of Ger-!cember 23 and were lighted each '‘torney J. Lancelot fester, Clerk | ON BOULEV ARD: BUILDING COMPLETED (By Associated Press) | many” and proceeded to place night from that date until March . > oe j i '31. Lack of funds prevented con- Rae) OC easewen andes Sues IN MAY LONDON, Apr. 15.—Driving ANNIVERSARY RECALLS ‘SO! « secccccccccccccccccese (the blame for that eventuality at Guana ce the project beyond Deputy Bernard Waite, and aj MEN ARRESTED ; north from Oslo, Nazi troops in) YEARS OF PAN-AMERICAN} A dommunication received by the doorstep of Turkey should |ine latter date. ti to indicat ‘group of the Monroe County Bar | ae 4 ; that country continue to indicate | “ . = | Associati E Menwer today: wes seportied:to|:. WAYS OP -SRNOE naDiae.) he Ginna le BATHING, OO cy of tho Alli: coue-hy alluded Gastoliewiigy | ae ee i ane planer eee ia) oe i ; mam: é 5 meritt, : A A | aie “| B 4 is- have reached the Swedish boun-| DUSTRY’ | eonvaenees is lowing British ships to proceed| ! County of Monroe, City of Key on the addition to the naval dis which is being built in ; ss . ‘Y court was opened and adjourned ; ; ! i ; who is an officer in the Coast into Balkan territory via the|West, Joe Pearlman's, Inc., Louis ©" a its ae a NOON YESTERDAY; dd | {Guard and was recently trans-) a. notes |Rollock, Isadore Appelfouth, ae erik term was! 2 aupep 1c Wai NK: present, at least, of the Nor-| (Ny Annoctated Prem) | ferred from Key West to Jack- | Despite the fact that Mussolini |MOrTis Holtsberg, J. R, Stowers Opened. There being no cases) epee Sat |the Naval Station by the South- . i i * - os pe Pt ote 'Co., Key West Gas Company, on the docket the court was re-} : 1 % | WASHINGTON, April 15.—jsonville headquarters, gives 2 RS not to see Balkan state|Palace Theatre, San Carlos j eastern Construction Co., and on i dary, smashing hopes, for the’ wegians to encircle the Germans ae 3 ae, se . u cessed to await the ca f the! i |President Roosevelt was the | information that he has been or- lterritory turned into “another|Book Store, Fred Marvil's Ca- — the call o: | giickcee aces adeuisnie sleet and force them into a concen-imain speaker at the Golden’ dered \retired, with the rank Of Norway”, there is every indica-|bana, Chas, Aronovitz, Broadway | a meet faethe oScacs | Two residents of the city are} Sealighdesiins Jubilee session of the Pan-Ameri- | captain. |tion that his hand will be forced | Market, Visitor to Key West Ro-|,, > Meeting of the bar associa- i, the city jail today as a result Ployed. |can Union, which met in the Hall] The retirement order is effec-' should increase of military man-|tary Club, Sea Food Grill, J. G tion ng pes and the judge ap-|o¢ arrest on charges of drunken | Work was started on March 11 lof Americas today in this city. tive on May 1, 1940, and the in- euvers on the part of Turkey and /Kantor, Inc., Frank Lewinsky, ae w. ea Menace Gia They are John Dunn, dinavian war front news head-' Representatives of the twenty- |formation received is to the ef- Mee Bes come about: ALE Ee nen First |= Caro as a committee to draw \Griver sae ee ere ae eas ating ete — mune oe: lined continued sea and air ac-|one nations in the union were /fect that he will leave Jackson- 'sn2t'the threats that are now be-|Naticnal Bank MP’ Gren {UP @ set of resolutions of regret ‘Patio, Frank Settle * iy. Officer |14¥ due to the nonarrival of the tion between Germany and Eng- | present to hear and applaud the ville on April 20, arriving in Key ing hurled against Turkey may (Green-Leigh), Rotary Club, Wal- je the death of Judge H. F. Ray Atwell following an accident | necessary materials, the work ‘has land. Additional sinkings of President's speech . | West on the evening of April 21, be just another “Berlin-Rome |do Valenzucla, S. H. Kress & Co., iyinson. The resolutions were about noon yesterday on Roose- both transport and navy ships! Stating that “ a threat of ag-|after 41 and a half years of serv- axis squeeze piay™, and that the Karl Thompson, Ramonin Res- \Gireait Court in the minutes Of 'velt Boulevard when Dunn drove Progressed to such an extent, that was claimed by the British ad- gression against any one of the ice with the government. ,ultimatums now being sent would |taurant, Old Island Realty Co..| x a small truck around a curve at ae as \at this ti ti f : vith al r !twenty-one nations was a wnreat rs jmerely pave the way for en-|Monroe Theatre, Frank Johnson, | {high speed near the new Nor- sad _ practically half oi mir with a total report for | y Lg Sap i trance of Hitler into the Balkans Armando Perez, Benito Perez. | THERMOMETER |berg Thompson residence and | the wbrk is done. the week announced as twenty-|to all of them”, Roosevelt called’ IRISH BLARNEY The second week of the Scan- to protect shipments of supplies. Page Soda Fountain, Key West} on over the embankment into| M. E, Bennett, who -is- in and nine navy vessels sunk. \“use force with force” in a unit-| | a e eRe Se jupon leaving the road and land- |Charge of construction work on Berlin counte the British|ed effort to keep the American! diy Seeeeluted reand i six freight and transport ships on all members of the Union to} HAS FIELD DAY; (Continuee on Page Four) | Electric Co. HIT NEW LO {the water. The car overturned i i jed right side up in the water the addition, seems to be pleased claims with a report of heavy nations at peace. ! BUTTE, Mont. Apri | ‘about thirty feet from the road. ‘: ‘: 4 f : k : ‘ .. April 15.—De- i i P i with the progress being made damages inflicted on England’s! The Golden Jubilee is symbolic : . xper | RECORD ‘ABLI After coming ashore, it was 7 fs 4 navy of “50 years of the American |fendants O'Callaghan and O’Kee- “’® ¥® ts ec ermans j ree BED eae that Settley had received #94 said this morning that the Additional British troops were; Way of peace and industry”, the! fe were charged with vagrancy. | = > | THIS TIME OF YEAR: LOW several cuts on the head. A pas-|Project is going ahead very said to have landed in Norway, | President stated, adding that all! “Guilty, yer honor”, said O’Cal- As Driven To Desperation LAST NGHT, 57 serby. notified Lopea~ Funeral nicely. - though no ‘mention-was made of pbireien a ae nes should or laghan with Dublin. accent. | ¥ ! i }Home and an ambulance was aie | When the work is completed, eee Hccaber abapes eens seats ae 2 ErOGSams a) | “I’m a bum by trade and I've | By BEATTY M. MORGAN. AP Feature Service Writer : jeer to aces tented sie Facil |which was said will be some made on the west coast, possibly! Reminding assembled delegates Tamed the world and never a' WASHINGTON, April 15.—The | and ‘death over these coun- Weather Bureau records in |ear Spa Marine hoaitaly then | ime in the month of May, the at Trondheim, the point on the| that the old world was engaged | better town than Butte have I War Behind the War.droye Ga aes Blockade hoes iepaaes South Florida were established | taken to city prison "under |tinished strossure rehin psa coast line which is nearest the, in a terrific struggle to effect “an! seen. It’s the finest in the land ™@ny into Sorat L them, too, just as surely as it {last weekend for this time o! jcharges of drunk and disorderly ; Sik private ree — sae Swedish) borden sitttective drives eveutkecl: qnaheusdatuemecs: | : _: By War Behind the War starved the Germany of 1918, ‘year when temperatures hit new | E . |ing room and one section wi! L n i and the peopie are the finest out. OES ng that a i a Gets a conduct. -Dunn had __ previously tain. 12 beds. Th t with combined British and Nor-jnomic relationships, Roosevelt |. nieces mean the backstage moves tha’ | and is trying to starve the (lows in all cities. Ipeen itaken-t6:the dill “Gu the Soe eds. ie entire wegian troops across country| stressed the desire of the United |59¢ of as ashe ilk Honor. are slowly sapping the strength’ Germany of today. Practical- In Miami, yesterday morning, | granken aus fe front of the building on the side would cut the nation in two and States and all other members of |", : : ; of all the struggling powers in| ly, the threat of blockade ja recording-breaking low of 45|°‘Gyners of the exe’ were to| {rine the water is to be screen would act to hold the Nazis in| the Pan-American Union to “live|, .1t looks like you're trying to Europe. should be sufficient. idegrees was reported. |have appeared today to post | “M!se¢- the southern part of the coun-, in peace”. jtalle yourself into staying here The fact that Germany finds| Anyway, German invasion of| In Key West, a low record was jpond fi eh : wigihad gd try. | ee jabout 30 or 60 days”, said Judge jt necessary to invade neutral|Denmark and Norway creates a established, too—but the pending | oe ee eee ‘Claims of Germany that they | Louis Buckley, scratching his states is a symptom. It implies |diversion that can temporarily | was a more comfortable 58 de-| 22% wereamiouing to cesiubliah aie ROTES LEAVE chin. » ..,, that the German high command ‘stall the British plan. Certainly | grees. ‘BUILDING FOR bases in Norway for concentra- “No, Judge, Your Honor”, said pelieves the war of strategy is|the Allies’ hands are too full in; Previous low for Key West at; ¥¥ t tion against the British were met FOR CONFERENC O'Callahan. “I've had my fun draining the life blood of the Scandinavia to be tightening the |this period, in the whole history ‘Ralerz Are Peace Lovers with announcements that R. A. F| jand I'll be on my way. Let some- Reich faster than that of the Al-|blockade elsewhere for the time | of the local bureau was recorded | ; | forces had been successful in! ose jbody else enjoy this fine town”. ‘jies, | being. as 61 degrees. An additional | bombing at least two sites that | O'Keefe said the same senti-} [t may also mean the Germans 2.—Dwindling German ;Point was taken off the record } ~ j iikceahecoussenl might have been so intended.) THREE MEMBERS JOURNEY- a Ocallighan ana oppartunity er a new ang Food Reserves | Blsimoeting en ae bureau |TOTAL REPRESENTS og Cpnea iast a a Qne location was at a former Y okies ,dangerous blitzkrieg in ©! The German high command! led a low o! legrees. ‘eatur: Norwegian airport south of Oslo. EDICvEn GH O'Keefe went their way. \North Sea. | inenare vin wittced tie tat | ret eeemne | URES FILED ON APPLICA- | ‘Three kings in the Scandina- German forces near Narvig| WAY | See That's the sum total of pre-'tion next winter. Reliable Ger- ‘SENATOR ANDREWS | TIONS FOR PERMITS via are members of one big fam- were reported today as _ having | TEMPERATURES vailing expert opinion in Wash-|man information trickling) 2 WJ! jily. One of the countries over been driven into the hills sur- Teens, ington, even though the experts/through to American govern- | | —_—_ which one oa pa si Coa rounding the city as forces of up-| legate: a pete ——_——|can’t. agree among themselves ment indicates the prospects are COMING TOMORROW re ee _ |has come under rerman rule, wards of 15,000 Norwegians re-|oc\ceates from the Rotary | Lowest last Highest last ‘just how much more of a beating ; ane cries | Applications for. building per-| another has been invaded and Club of Key West to the confer- | o 8 ss jdark. Germany is now suffering | mits were issued from the office ; captured the city and started in ic e ions— igh! 24 hours |the Germans are taking than the} se 32 and Se” “yes the third is fearful of the same vi Stations. night |from a shortage of meats and! of Building Inspector Hat M. ear Samnping wipe ackelt ence of the 167th District of Ro-| a Hanta 52 70 Allies. |fats, the stuff war energy is|TO SPEAK AT LA CONCHA)? Build ed he ‘a Ley * | fate. ; Sea action over’ weekend in-/ tary International, which is be- | Boe But the experts discover five ; { er during the (week ending/ A resume of the lives of the | Boston 30 42 Pp d erts: |made of. PARK, 7:30 ight, th i cluded various encounters in the|ing held at Hollywood, Fla.,/ Buffalo 28 35 burrs under Hitler’s saddle. | That doesn’t mean the ie Cinema "testing ‘Yellen ig | three kings follows: Fi Skagerrak between German and | apri] 14, 15 and 16, left yester- | Charleston 54 67 1.—The New Blockade jpeople are starving in the sense | O'CLOCK cafugiiding and repairs: hacthie’city: | GUSTAV V, King of owelas British ships. Admiralty — Te-| day over the highway. |Chicago 47 55 The experts have suspected for |that their stomachs are empty. | F rane 16 | The Swedish king start is ported the lay f additional |24Y over ighway. : i ame ‘rame two-story house at 616} (Continued on Page Three) seer eal at - i: Moen | In the group were ‘Everet x weeks that .the British planned | But it does mean, that the eet ‘Francis street by William ee na mines designed to further ham-| El Pas 81 to tighten their economic block-|are giving age Ge | Senator Charles O. Andrews | per movement of German trans-| Russell, president-elect; William | . ya lama ng huiet eines greta MET phir sade 25 ndrews |Knowles to cost $1,000. Havana 72 ade against the Reich, even to/g . ess fa : er-!will arrive Key West t s < | port and freight ships sending,T. Fripp, sccretary-elect, and | < ot percent’: lees’ fat and: $2" per | will _arive, iniitey: Wesy tomor- resis) tworstors: «Noises. ON6) | Jacksonville 70 the point of throwing interna- | ce s 2 2 in |row afternoon to deliver a spee: x cia supplies and men to Norway. Chas. Taylor, who was appointed | Kansas City 87 | “ . jeent less meat than he got in /row afternoon to deliver a speech jfamily, at 312 William street, 5 tional law to the winds. |1916. It means the German meat !in the interests of his candidacy | owned Iph Breuil, t Reports from Stockholm today | alternate, and Mrs. Taylor. KEY WEST 68 The first step was the mining |and fat rations are not sufficient |for re-election. reac sigs 8 aaa ot MAKING CITY CALLS s a i wore i A cor sf . ee a \Los Angeles 78 of Norway’s neutral waters—a|to produce peak energy. Workers| Announcement is made by reese ae be =bailk “at. 1106 Gemnattr and that all hes 3 of Forgotten Great Man Louisville > 58 Inecessity if ore shipments from jean not perform at wartime ;local managers of his campaign | windsor Lane, owned by William ” the ————- jain . aD |Narvik to Germany were to be /speed. jthat Senator Andrews will meet | Burchell, to cost $1,000. Representatives of the Florida ; Bs prmectesea evens) janis St Eau! ge sae The Danish invasion means | Repairs and painting the two- | Industrial Commission were pres« GALVESTON, Tex., Apr. 15.—|New York _* son The next logical step would be |Germany will have plenty of | story residence at 713 and 715 ent in the city today, coming By An oil painting of a man of dis- | Pittsburgh 40 jto move in on Sweden and either fats for a while, since Denmark's | : |Bahama street, owned bv the here from Tallahassee for the S 2 tinguished appearance has hung |St. Louis 78 persuade or force the Swedes: to | pig population is about the same | ‘S a | Benj Lopez Estate, to cost $1,-| purpose of seeing to it that the Who Should Get Wings? in.the Galveston courthouse for }San Francisco 60 |stop sending the same ore toljas her people—some 4,000,000.| f 4 000. f laws governing werkmen’s com- Science Wants To Know *° Yeats but nobody seems to Seattle 59 _|Germany through the Baltic. —_| But Danish feed must be shipped | Repairs to roof of residence at |pensation are put into effect here know who he was. The portrait Tampa 68 Some persons suspect Germany |jn, and the British won't let | 615 Elizabeth street, owned by |and enforced. - BASS SERRE orn now rests in the office of Charles | Washington 45 felt impelled to nip the British | any more through, now that Ger- ‘Mrs. M. L. Illingworth, to’ cost DENVER, Apr. 15—Medical Dibrell, district judge, who has |plan in the bud, or else submit many has taken over. { eT GES EB rem ( Pigs can’t ' " $100. SIO LB OLED 2s sciehiée: aii ecks «ar. ankwer:tc Been ting for CS 10 | III IL Ie is strangulation without a strug-|live without food, either. Repairs to roof of residence at ‘THE CITIZEN READ the asti f “w makes a Jan the identity of the man. gle. | Thus it would appesr that the * 4 623 Grinnell street, owned by N. | ne question © ea ‘TOURIST PRAISES good airplane pilot tick?” Obviously. the Swedish Germans must take drastic steps i * H. Tedder, to cost $100. 1 WAY UP IN MAINE the Northwestern University 3 i gium, Switzerland and Italy. German Alliance : , . ARTS ‘APRIL 2 ST 4 i “Is one type of man _ better ie . has little reserve food for her} swers will be obtained through SPEAK AT i on Hand at All Times; and) \serves. And besides, Russian col- Absentee balloting will simplify the problem of the Army TOMORROW NIGHT BEST DEAL “Is a tall, husky man a better! | KEY. WEST FISHING)| **P wouldn't be the last |to crack the Allied blockade now Medical School at a Denver medi- j c Theoretically the British | From two Americans who : i H ; Russian economics and _ agricul- 3500 feet then po ger has CHAS. 0. ANDREWS | i SUEDE, re, tearm that Russia's last penne LORD NAMES HOURS | the trial and error method.” eve Renee: the. Binnie. wae PERIOD \. communication between Scandinavian countries had been stopped pilot than a short, slender man?” Sariridge in the Allies’ belt. |—-before the food crisis comes. |. V : | VOTING asked Dr. Michael L. Mason of | Hear. . ! i re gre fiolland and Bel. | 3—The Disappointing Russo- | \ cal meeting. SENATOR » if gu’ navy holds the power of life | spend all their. time studying! Fro 5 | two crops were poor, and she now I suppose some of the an- m 25 to 40 Good Cars) OF BALLOTING AND YOU CAN GET THE Peskin up most of her oil re- He said the answers would LA CONCHA PARK i nt ‘e begin 3 _ |lective farms depend on gasoline- in the office of Judge Raymond ae Sep which mies ap- Tassding Apt lbh ON PEDIGREED | motored tractors. This means the |R. Lord on the morning of Mon- plicants for army flying jobs. esday. " U SE D C A R § | Russians can supply the Germans CHARLES 0. ANDREWS day, April 22, and will con- Occasionally, a man will pass —at— ‘only with manganese—the mate- | —_—____________________ tinue until May 3, it was an-} the most rigid physical examina- | 2 Z i —at— |rial that toughens steel—unless|with friends at La Concha Hotel | nounced today. tion, do brilliant work in the, 7330 O’CLOCK NAVARRO, Inc. |they ate to starve their own peo-|between the hours of 5:00 and| Judge Lord said this morning bs 0 ithout o i t it run. senator wi in wi cy a air simply because he can’t stand wi & Dissatisfied Customer | ech: ~ | y out of Concha Park starting at 7:30|and 12 and 1 o'clock until in the meee flying. SE 9700000 0 7: sivas on Page Four) [sci nee S 1% |b. during the pitod mentioned. | ngrgrarsgra, OOM ff

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