The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 19, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 69 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Beast rth West VOLUME LXI. No. 95. Decisive hi Being Fought In Trond NAZIS ARE LANDING 2,- 000 TROOPS DAILY BY| PLANE FROM GER-| MANY (Ry Associated Press) LONDON, Apr. 18.—Observers of the war in the north are now of the opinion, according to dis- Patches accumulating here to- day, that the whole subject Nazi domination in Norway may be settled in comparatively short order pending outcome of man- envers now centering around the westcoast city of Trondheim. At that point, large forces of combined Allied troops and Nor- Wegians are reported to be form- |} ing lines for a decisive combat which will either chase the Ger- mtns from the west coast or al- low further expansion of that; nation’s holding there. Fierce battles all along the! coast, from Trondheim to Narvik, where the Germans are reported to be in desperate straights, beingsweperted hourly, and tendencies ate, that amalgama- tion of Allied forces will be at- | tempted shortly .in; the effort: to gain contro] of that zone.: The British fleet controls. the sea in the area, which fact, it is admit- ted by most experts, may prove| the deciding ‘factor. Meanwhile, however, the Ger- | man high command has reported that they have the Norwegian situation under full control andj that the German invaders are now engaged in entrenching man- euvers. Estimates of at least 60,- 000 Nazi troops now in Norway | have been made, despite Allied | reports of huge transport sink- ings. Added to that is the in- formation now released which @ndicates that a total 2,000 Ger-| mans are being landed daily in Norway by plane. PLANE REPORTED LOST IS IN CITY, DISPATCH STATED AVIATOR WAS UNREPORTED SINCE APRIL 10 Contrary to an Press dispatch sent. out from Long Branch, N. J., under date! of | are}United States, thet Associated } Gim Area 'ROTARIANS HEAR ABOUT RED, CROSS FIELD REPRESENTATIVE AD- DRESSED’ MEETING YES- TERDAY; DELEGATES AT HOLLYWOOD MEET REPORT Partial reports of the Rotary Internationai state conference at | Hollywood last weekend were rendered by returning delegates at yesterday’s lunchon-meeting jof the Key West Rotary Club. | Other events included an il- \luminating talk by Stanley | Whistler, Washington, field rep- |resentative of the American Red |Cross, and the appearance of An- 'drew Miller, formerly of Key | West, and retired traffic agent of j the P. & O, Steamship Com- | pany, who discussed briefly a re- ‘cent meeting with Paul Harris, | founder of Rothry. Whistler reported that the ' produgtion committees of the va- rious Red Cross chapters of the including Mon- county’s unit, was turning fout @ vast volume of clothing and |sewh material ‘for the civilian} populations of the conquered na- tions of Europe. | The: Red Cross’ representative \told of the difficulties the or- Banization were overcoming — in \distributing the American-made elothing and other relief items directly to the non-combatants, |so that all might share in the dis- tribution, regardless of race and creed. If the war spreads generally }through the Scandinavian coun- |tries, demands upon the Red Cross for relief goods and food- |stuffs will increase, and may re- jsult ina new call‘for funds in this country, Whistler indicated. Mr. Whistler was introduced by ;Dr. William R. Warren of the |Monroe chapter, which was laud- ed for its efforts and the success- ful outeome of an expansion pro- | gram, | Mr...Miller said that Paul, Har- ris now 82, is beginning ito show signs of his age, although . still | continuing to call upon the va- rious loeal clubs of Rotary Inter- |national, “Mr. Miller and Dr. Warren then recalled occurences ; »% (Continued on Page Six) ‘URGES FARMERS TO MINERALIZE of April 18, stating that “Coast | Guardsmen and. police between } the tip of Florida and New Jer-| sey were being asked to search for a seaplane, unreported since | April 10, when it left Key West for Red Bank, N. J.” has not left Key West. The plane, which is numbered | NC-25527, is at the old P. and O. dock at the foot of Duval street, | and is in gébd shape. “It has been hauled out on the landing space, and with it is Mr. Piest,-who has been in Key West since February } 10, taking up parties for air| sights of the city and keys and making trips ‘to Miami. When advised: of the ‘notice which announced that = hé had | been lost Mr. Fiest contacted the proper authoritiés denying the| statement and advised that he} Was still at Key West, but would probably leave for Red Bank, N. | dJ., next week. BENEFIT DANCE for Club Centro Asturiano Tonight, 9:00 Till ? Pena’s Garden Of Roses John Pritchard's Orchestra Admission 50c — Ladies Free The plane/ | | SOIL EXPERT P POINTS TO BENEFITS IN DAIRY AND STOCK BUSINESS CLERMONT, April 18 (FNS). } | —Dr. Charles Northen, noted soil expert, has for many years urged Florida cattlemen. and dairymen | to impove their pasture lands by | mineralizing the: soil; | A recént article in the Florida | Poultry and Stock Magaziné points. out that if pasture: 4 jare fertilized 22-pie port ati a! advocated by Dri Ni (Continued On Page. Four), BRADY’S POULTRY SPECIALS! FRESH, FLORIDA GRADE-A EGGS, 1 a — _ 28e Pe as “ BATTERY-RAISED pea We. Dress, Cut-up and Deliver at no extra charge 1214 White St, WORK IN EUROPE; | Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S.A. "KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1940 CONSTRUCTION SPEEDS UP ON NAVY AIRBASE WPA CLEARING PROJECT NEARLY COMPLETED; HAN- APRIL 25 Construction of ‘the seaplane | {base at Trumbo Island for the; Ivy H. Smith Co., of Jacksonville, is proceeding rapidly, according to officers of the Public Works) Loffice at the Naval Station, and | jthe company has __ practically! ‘caught up with the time allowed | ahd is now working’on an even basis; There were some’setbacks at the beginning of the work, it was stated, but the Smith Company has added another “dragline to the machinery ‘in use, which of the draglines is being used on excavation work, and the other is being used in driving piles and keeping up other work. The Steel Construction Com- pany of Birmingham, Ala., which was awarded the $96,200 contract for the fabrication and erection} of the steel frame of the huge | hangar, which will be 372 ee long, 250 feet wide and 50 fee high, will be started by the com- pany on April 25, said Lieutenant S. K. Wilson, U.S.N.. engineer. The WPA work of clearing the | grounds and getting the 60 acre; site in shape is rapidly going ahead and will be in readiness’ been set for its completion. The department at a cost of $18,300. The entire 60 acre plot has fence with the entrance from! Palm Avenue; ahd is guarded by, | a detail of Marines to. prevent; other than’ employées of the com- panies: from gaining entrance to} the field. NO STICKERS ON COINS HOUSTON, 'Tex.—Local mer-} chants, who Have been putting | advertising stickers on coins | warned against the practice which with money”. K. W. Lions From ichdper? to Brbfuketescl id ibequc to Saunders. 4 That was the play that sparkled to feature the Lions Club. Glub- house Dedication banquet last ; night in the edifice on Seminary street—staged as @ full-house at- tendance - of seventy Lions, | Lionesses and their guests ap- Plauded the dedication speeches. Assembled at 8:00 o'clock in the clubhouse, beautifully dec- orated for the occasion, and fol- lowing the opening ritual of America, Pledge of Allegiance, Invocation and song “Don’t You Hear Those Lions Roar”, the ‘FIRE COMPANIES | EXTINGUISH BLAZE An alarm of fire was sounded from Box 123 at the corner \of Francis and Fleming .streets at 10.o’clock last night and ap- paratus responded from Stations land 3. a Arriving at the scene ind that .a small fire was >| burning on the floor.of the old Garfunkel building at the corner; of’ Grinnell and Fleming streets. ChiefHarry Baker forced the door and the fire was ‘soon put! There was no necessity to) out. use the apparatus. DANCE Tomorrow Night. 10 Till ? RAUL’S CLUB GAR WORK TO BEGIN ON) navy, which is under way by the/| greatly facilitated the work. Onej when the time arrives which has) project is sponsored by the navy! been enclosed by a wrought iron‘ jhas been, reléased ‘here ; handed oyt as change, have been | can be prosecuted as “tampering | ee Secccccccccccosococcooos The month of April has been set aside by a special act of Con- |gress as Cancer Control Month, jand the Key West unit of the }Women’s Field Army, American Society, for the control of cancer | gets under way. {| As in the past years, Mrs. M. E. |Berkowitz has been named lead- ler of the forces in Key West, land enlistments will be accepted beginning Monday, April 22. Miss Susan La Kin, president jof the Junior Woman's Club, will j|be in charge of the drive. | It is hoped that the drive this |year will be as successful as that |of previous years, and that jeveryone will help in the cause. Attention is called to the fact that |the world today is ravaged by wars! of destruction and death, and the women of America are jresolved. to carry on'a war for health and life, a war against cancer. To women particularly, it is pointed out, cancer has seemed ja thing of horror. It is fine and encouraging then, that those |who have feared this disease most are determined to continue the i paeiaiieneeee as to control cancer, OBSERVE HITLER’S | O1ST BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS iin GERMANY i TOMORROW; ITALIAN-GER- .MAN INFLUENCE TALKED (By Associated Press) .BERLIN, April 19—The Ger-| man nation prepared today to hold“celebfations tomorrow honor of Adolf Hitler’s 51st | birthday. At the same time, information concern: ing recent Hitler-Mussolini con- \ferencés held on) the subject of | the Balkan States and spread of axis influence. | It was understood that in the future Germany would be given influence-control of Rumania and that a similar control over | Yugoslavia will be given to Italy. Dedicate Their Now Cibho eaT tS Banquet “ae, to tnjoy one good laugh after -another as Tailtwis . a Joe ea pros ceeded e day” with his j various, “nefarious? santic si | Songs, . Dybys Bai ‘President }Gerald Si ees ratte Joe} ‘Lopez, with Master of Cere- |monies, Lion Allan Armstrong at ithe piano, were many. Two im- promptu quartettes even vol- unteered to amuse the assem- blage—proof of their success not being quite clear, although the efforts were roundly applauded. The two honored guests’ were then introduced and the dedica- tion ceremony went forward. Deputy District Governor, Lion George Cooper, of Redlands, jhonored with the post ‘of intro- ducing the District Governor, | was highly amusing in perform- jing that duty. District Governor Rostoe Brunstetter. of Miami, then. gave the dedicatory re- marks, followed by the. response of Lion Gerald Saunders,: — dent of the local elub. : Lion Joe Allen; (Continued on’ ot de the SPECIALS... THIS WEEKEND SELECTED BEEF and POULTRY AT KEY WEST'S MOST SANITARY MARKET ii CONTROL MONTH Key West, Florida, has the | most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS = From Board; Hearing Is Set GO TO ST. PETERSBURG cod WEEK: WILL ATTEMPT TO BRING 1941 ‘CONVENTION HERE City Moves Recreation WILL TRY TO LEASE LA CONCHA PARK; WPA WOULD SPONSOR OP- Nine members of Arthur Saw- yer Post No. 28 and the Key ‘West auxiliary of. the American} Legion will officially represent the veterans at the 1940 state Hi Departmen SPECIAL MEETING TO BE CALLED ON MAY 9TH; THEN TO BECOME t LAW To Set Up The new Zoning Ordinance was |\ SDPO OO GLB reenies to tha City Council ON VISIT TO THEIR last night at the second meeting THREE DAUGHTERS }|*t ** month by the Board's convention at St. Petersburg next | week ana make an attempt to bring the 1941 convention here next. year. ‘This representation..was as- sured after..a .meeting» lastnight of the ..executive,,committee of ‘Arthur; Sawyer Post . when ap- propriations' for. two:i delegates and two. alternates:éremithe: post, and, payment of part of the ex-| penses of five delegates from the auxiliary, were favorably acted upon, It was decided to make just as active an effort to land next year’s couvention as would be possible with the funds available. It was decided not to ask the ho- tel and business interests of the city to contribute to the conven- tion campaign fund, so that the effort will be made entirely out of post finances. | Tentative plans for improving the post’s clubhouse at Whitehead and United streets were discuss- ed by the Legionnaires. How ex- tensive the work will be will de- pend upon receipts during the next several weeks. Some of the post members hope to repair the roof, place screens on the windows and doors and provide a powder roocmfor the women folks of the members and for members of the Service Wives association. BURIAL TODAY FOR SUICIDE Miss Christine Simmons, who died last Saturday, a suicide, will be interred this afternoon at 4 o’clock from the chapel of the Lopez Funeral Home, Rev. Thom- as M. Melrose, of St. Paul’s Epis- eopal Church, officiating. Both the funeral home and Coroner’ Franklin Arenberg have made every effort to locate the members of the deceased’s fam- ily but have met with no suc- ERATION \ Community... Recreation .Com- mittee’s report on; the’ Colonial Park Project, was: given full at- tention lastnight by: the’ City Council, and steps.were taken to gain WPA sponsorship of opera- tion for the, recreational facilities jmow available for service men and visitors to the city. Miss Essie Geiger Oliver, of the State Recreation Department, appeared before the council and |gave details of process to follow in obtaining that project. Ac- cordingly ,the city attorney and Councilman Carbonell were in- ‘structed to contact the Catholic Church, owners of La Concha Park property, and make the ef-| fort to lease the site for a city park. Abatement of taxes was to be used as a sponsorship fund which would provide WPA su- Pervision of. activities. To™ be was city control of the. project and Chamber of Commerce. co~ operation. * Two communications were pre- sented ‘to the council, one from the Key West Ministerial Alli- ance and one from the Trinity Presbyterian Church \(colored), which complained against issu- lance of a beer and wine license to Abelardo Lopez at his place of business on Simonton street, Main theme of both complaints treated on the promise of “what protection do the churches of the city have” if laws governing li- censing beer and wine license sales are not enforced. Subject was turned over to the Taxation and Records committee, and it was understood the matter would come up later for discussion. Officer Ray Atwell was ac- corded permanent police officer rating, although. salary was to be (Continued on Page Four) | RITISH TOOK ANOTHER CHANCE! eee «That's The Way nN EFFORT 10 eee Tt Has © Always Been| RULE THE SEAS AP Feature Service Britain’s sea war with Germany is right in line with England’s thousand-year-old policy for con- quest and defense. Since the ninth century, Brit- ain has fought dozens of import- ant sea battles, but none more }Drake “singed the King of Spain’s beard” by a daring raid on Ca- diz. The following year, the great Spanish Armada set out to crush |Bngland. A smaller English fleet ‘met it,in the Channel and cut it to pieces. That was the beginning of the end for Spain as a power, “Middle Class” Navy The next great period of Brit- ish sea glory came when the further considered in the matter). Leaving ‘hiss oo morning on Fe had dork ead ded U.S. OFFICIALS STUDY FAR-EAST TURN OF EVENTS | DISCUSS ADVISABILITY OF IMPOSING EMBARGO ON JAPAN IN| EAST INDIES INCIDENT < _ (By Aam elated Press) .WASHINGTON, Apr. lere was increasing evidence’ there today that the U:,S: State Department was paying: more and more attention to. the far+ east situation, especially in re- gard to the threat now prevalent that Japan is considering seizure of the Dutch East Indies. The U. S. Senate considered means today to bring an end to increase of Japan militaristic tendencies by imposing complete termination of all trade relation with the Japanese nation, affect- ling virtual embargo against that nation. Opposition to that procedure may come, however, from isola- tionists in Congress. As an ex- ample, Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York asked today, “Has the Monroe Doctrine been extended to Asia?”. Other Rep- resentatives have expressed simi- lar dislike for any pressure to be applied against Japan. TEMPERATURES Lowest last Highest last Stations— highs 24 hours Atlanta 73 Boston 46 Buffalo _ 64 Chicago 45 Detroit 48 El Paso - 72 Havana 89 Jacksonville 81 Kansas City - 56 KEY WEST _ 82 Los Angeles 17 Miami - 79 Mpls.-St. Paul 64 New York - 54 St. Louis __ 49 San Francisco 53 68 Seattle . 45 64 Washington _ 72 CANDIDATES PLACE yaa NOW Sample Balos ONLY A LIMITED NUMBER TO BE PRINTED The Artinan Press The Citizen Building rs President, John Allan Long, and Vice-President E. P. Winter. Fol- «}lowing expressions of thanks ten- dered by the councilmen assem- bled, the council proceeded to lay plans for early.passage of the measure which will bring build- Procedure to follow. according to City Attorney Aquilino Lopez, Jr., is to advertise for a hearing to be held on the measure before the council. This will be done in The Citizen at an early date, and the council set May 9th as a spe- ‘cial meeting during which resi- jdents may appear to register complaints or comments. The measure may be passed that eve- ining, it was brought out—or at the regular meeting immediately following, on May 16. Safety Patrol campaign to send a delegation of boys to the Washington convention on May 10th met with support by the council when the: sum of $95.09, pledged to help pyri ag penses* ‘This action followed jfecommendation by the Fase Committee, however, that the plea be denied. Funlis for this donation will come from the Con- tingent Fund. Suggestioti to as- sess councilmen part, of their salaries as a contribution’ to the fund was voted dow sits A communication. ion, ini from Miss Callahan, of) WPA Professional “ Miami, with reference ‘to the city’s ability to supply sponsor- ship funds for a project which would index the city’s minutes. Following a complete survey of the situation, the council.» voted to resubmit the original sponsor- ship gesture of $200. This, it was reported, had been turned down on the first submission. The plan sought in the Callahan communi- cation called for a sponantablis fund of $2,800. Following his direction in ex- tinguishing a blaze in the ‘struc- ture at Fleming. and Grinnell streets last evéning, Fire Chief (Continned « on Page Three) STEPHEN BERGDAL., OF BOCA CHICA CAMP. FORMS UNIT IN NEW JERSEY Advice reached The Citizen to- day that the first Norwegian Re- lief Committee in the” country has been formed at Lake Tele- mark, N. J., a Norwegian gettle- ment approximately 21 (miles