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

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 69 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key st Citizen Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOLUME LXI. No. 96. Troops Now Fighting With Norway Forces MOVE TO INCREASE EX- PEDITIONARY UNITS; BIG BATTLE NOW FORMING (By Associated Press) LONDON, Apr. 20.—Declaring that they have over 50,000 men in Norway at present, French and British officials answered the German reports issued yesterday concerning the Nazi totals now engaged in conquering efforts, by adding that increased trans- portation of more Allied troops will be carried out in the near future. Military experts now figure that the crucial test in Norway will come about the middle of next week, at which time Nor- wegians, aided by Allied ex PLANNING GROUP PROTESTS LEASES OF HIGHWAY LAND URGE INTERNAL IMPROVE- MENT BOARD TO PROTECT OVERSEAS ROAD FROM UN- SIGHTLY SHACKS Monroe held At a meeting of the ‘County Planning Council lo. Galey, Secretary Mrs. Flor- Jence M. Spottswood: and Mem- bers Carl Bervaldi and Clifford |Hicks present, the leasing of jland on the Keys by the Internal Improvement Board was _ pro- tested and it was decided to ad- ‘dress a letter to the board as | follows: | “The Monroe County Planning !Council wishes to protest the Che Allies Claim 50,000 \this week, with Chairman Dr. H. | LIMITED. WRECK. . NORE KAY DIE ‘NEW YORK CENTRAL'S “LAKE SHORE LIMITED” CRASHED EARLY LAST NIGHT: RUN- NING OVER SPEED LIMIT (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, April 20.—Feder- gating the wreck of the ‘New York Centrat Railroad’s crack Lake Shore Limited last evening at Little Falls, N. Y. Reports in- dicated that the company would be. censured for failing to ob- serve LC.C. rules. Speedometer registration on the engine, which blew up when near Little Falls, recorded the fact that the: Limited was ex- ‘ceeding the speed limit by 14 miles per hour. It registered 59 jm.p.h., which is contrary to the |LC.C. regulations calling for 45 |m.p.h. on curves. | Train officials stated, at a pre- liminary hearing this morning at Utica,.that the Limited was} (behind time and that the engi- ineer was engaged in trying to ‘make it up when the derailment | occurred.. | Latest check lists twenty-two killed in the accident, and over peditionary forces, will have cON-|jeasing and deeding by your a hundred passengers severely solidated their battle lines in the | board of ary of the submerged injured. It is feared that at least Trondheim-Narvik sector for big push against the Nazis there. The German high-command announced today that their army heads in Norway are moving rapidly to reinforce troops near Trondheim by plane transporting of men from the Oslo area. It is known, however, that .the Ger- mans desire to get complete con- trol of Oslo before they send any material assistance to the west} servers on the eastcoast,. had not} . coast, and this, according to: ob- “Takes * been accomplished. Norwegian defenders, | much better acquainted with the ter- rain, are ‘proving particularly bothersome to Nazi designs to push into the county surround-! ing Oslo. Wholesale blowing up of bridges and railroads by the Norwegians is reported, which further hampers Nazi troop move- ments. GERMAN BOMBERS SINK TWO SHIPS BERLIN, Apr. 20.—As a stim-| ulant for the German citizens at home who were engaged in cele- brating the 5lst anniversary of Hitler's birthday today, the Ger- man high-command announced nationwide that they had the Norwegian invasion well in hand. Particularly pleasing to the Germans was the news that Ger- ma’ bombers ‘had succeeded in sinking two Briti: transport ships near the English coast, which were apparently on their way to Norway today. REGISTRATION ENDS TONIGHT SUPERVISOR ANNOUNCES DEADLINE FOR PRIMARIES AND ELECTION. TODAY John England, supervisor of registration for the county, said this morning that it was his in- tention to close the office for reg- | istrations at 5 o’clock this eve- ning, or as soon thereafter as the crowd of registrants had left. There have been more - than 6000 registrants’ names placed on! the books, said Mr. England. {the Overseas State Highway jfrom the beginning of Monroe ;County at the mainland to “Key West: excluding all encroach- ments, commercial or otherwise, upon these beautiful vistas of (Continued on Page Two) | COOCCCOR OC CCCOSOOCOROCNS HANNAU ENTHUSED a lands, fills, open waters abutting 11 more will die as a result of their injuries. | Heavy snows now falling and on the roads surrounding the scene of the wreck is hampering the rescue work as crews strové all night and late this morning ito extricate other victims from the wreckage. DELEGATES BACK al officials were today investi- | the train was rounding a curve} " FROM CONVENTION Shots Of Key West ‘OVER PHOTO WORK enthusiastic believer in the slo- gan of “pictures tell |W. Hannau, who has (been in Key West since Wednesday of |this week to take shots of va- rious scenes here for a projected photographic book on all points |of ‘interest in the state. Scurrying here and there, Han- nau will have accumulated over two hundred pictures of Key West to adg to the 1800 others he will have taken of other spots in Florida, before he returns to his New York City office. Once there, the work of picking out the best photographs will com- mence, with a final 250 being selected to go into the new pub- lication. Mr. Hannau, an Austrian, has been in’ this country since the Nazis eame and took over his country in 1938. In his native jland, he did much’ to promote Austria as a tourist paradise with his representation on. . the jofficial Press corps, as photo- grapher. It is his idea that, work- jing along similar lines in this country he can build up tremend- ous interest in Florida by. the collection’ of photos he plans to jembody in his book. Last February, Hannau exhib- There is probably no more an} MASONS AND ODD FELLOWS | ATTENDED MEET ‘IN! © "| JACKSONVILLE the best | story” than ace-photographer H. At the convention of Masons/ of Florida, which was held’ this! week in Jacksonville, G. N. Gos- horn was appointed Most eee | shipful District Deputy Grand | Master of District 24.. Mr. Gos-} ;horn returned last evening with ‘other members of the local Ma- sonic bodies who had been at-! tending the convention of the Or- der in Jacksonville at the same time as the Masons. | In the group of both Orders at- | tending the convention were: Mr. Goshorn, Hollon Bervaldi; and Myrtland Cates of - Dade} Lodge 14, John Park, Everett Ri- ;vas and: James K. Brady of An-| chor Lodge 182, Vicente Molino ‘of Dr. Felix Varela Lodge 64. . | | -Represénting the Order of Odd | Fellows wére ‘Frank Weech, F: F. {Hoffman and' Charles Ketchum. -} They all reported having a very , instructive’ and delightful ‘enjoying the trip and the con- !ventions immensely. Archer Honored Mr. Hoffman informed The! Citizen this morning that George 'F. Archer, member of the local | {Odd Fellows lodge, had received appointment as District Deputy \Grand Master, District 24, lodges time, | ited a group of photographs call- {13 to 70,-at-the Jacksonville con- | ed “Metropolis” at the Galerio | vention of that order. St. Etienne, 46 W. 57th Street, in} Odd Fellows celebrate their New York -City, and the exhibit |100th anniversary at a Jackson- was opened by Mrs, Franklin |Ville convention next year, says Delano’ Roosevelt, who expressed | Mr. Hoffman, who is a past Grand herself"as being most pleased | Master of the Order. with the work on exhibit. It is| ¥ this gallery that will publish the SERIAL STORY new’ book .on Florida. « “Say - it owith pictures—good 3 pictures”, is the banner under lana the Kattegat? an ecco eecvecccecooece KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1940 e DAISY HARRIMAN? GOT “A (QUIET "JOB: @es : eee see ‘Maiame Minister’ Somewhere In Scandinavia soe ses NOW REPORTS WAR FOR THE U.S. By SIGRID ARNE, AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, April 20—, Mrs. Harriman’s appointment |“Madame Minister” Daisy Bor-|to Norway was really a sop den Harriman, minister to Nor-|thrown to the thousands of Dem- way, is rattling around some-jocratic women who worked where in Scandinavia. She’s 70,|through the °32 and °36 cam- jand trying to keep up a line of | paigns. jcommunication between , this Oslo Was A Quiet Spot jcountry and the fugitive Nor-} When her friend,-Ruth Bryan jwegian government. Owen Rohde, then our only wo: It’s the first time the United/man diplomat, resigned her post |States has been represented of- jin Denmark, Democrats cast ficially in a war zone by a wom-|around for another woman to fan. appoint. The Oslo post fell va- cant. It was a quiet, safe spot. The Scandinavians have no pre- judice*against women executives. ‘So Mrs. Harriman was appointed. ‘Would you consider the post?” pshe ‘was asked. “Certainly”, swouldn’t?” The Norwegians—fact is, the | whole diplomatic corps in Oslo— ;were soon revolving around | Daisy, just the way Washing- |tonians have for years. She went to palace dinners; acted: as host- ess for bachel6r diplomats from | She's ‘Never Felt. Better’ She missed death at one spot \by half an hour. She fled frony roads under bombardment by, ;German planes. She got over’tha Swedish border just long enough to phone news to our minister:ih Sweden. Then she popped back into the danger zone, after as- suring Stockholm jin. her. Park Avenue voice, “Never felt better in my life”. That rings two loud bells for all the women in this country who want to hold public jobs. First, the state department never! other countries; learned the lan- has liked women in diplomatic! guage rapidly. And at 67 decided posts. Second, there is still ap-/to take up skiing. Her progress prehension among men_ politicos! was watched affectionately. over the way women will react} She made one amusing diplo- under fire. | (Continued on Page Six) © Women Rally In War To War has been declared. |reading the courageous reports The women of America are | of the American Society for the now enrolling in an army to com-|Control of Cancer, the results of bat disease, and Key West isjtheir good fight over a period of called upon to send: it’ women twenty-five years. I found in into action which may be done/them not fear and despair, but by. .joining..the- .. Wonarx's- Pi t and confidence “of “event- Army of the “American. .Sogiety | ually destroying a terrible hazard for the Control of Cancer. Local!to the health and happiness of enroliments will be accepted by every American home. Cancer the Junior Woman's Club, under | can and is being controlled. It is the direction of the club presi-'an enemy in steady retreat. The dent, Miss Susan LaKin. |\brave men and women who have It is not only in Key West that dedicated their lives to relieving women are ‘enlisting, but in the suffering caused by cancer, every community in the United'so much of it is unnecessary, States. Here is what Spencer imerit our intelligent and con- Tracy has to say of the Women’s ‘stant support. By familiarizing Army. Tracy, as you know is a' ourselves with the danger, and distinguished star of motion pic-| with prevention as our watch- tures, and has taken time off) word, we best can be prepared to from his work to say a word for|make the fight against cancer a the men and women who have winning one.” dedicated their lives to relieving} The women of Key West will the suffering from cancer. In .a | rally to the call to relieve suffer- statement made public this star|ing by enrolling in the Women’s said: |Field Army. The membership is “It is human nature to in-‘one dollar, but what that dollar stinctively turn away from that |¢an do is to relieve suffering, and which is horrible and distaste-|certainly no one wishes another ful. The very word, cancer, is|to suffer if relief can be given. repulsive. Yet like every evil, it; The Key West division of the can be conquered. only when ,Women’s Field Arn@p is directed brought out info the,open. Can-|by Mrs. M. E. Berkowitz, with cer recognizes neither casf,,nor{Miss Susan LaKin and members creed» It is hot’a problem, faced of the Junior Woman’s Club in by. a select’ few, because. it, can-|charge of: the’ membership drive. t ‘she said. “Who jnot help but affect us all; for-}Mrs. A. M. Hewett is treasurer, tunate and unfortunate alike.::/Ijand ‘Miss Marie Cappick publicity have just had the privilege .. of .direttor, ” ‘ Navy Problem: Why Didn't Germans Mine The Kattegat? By JACK STINNETT, AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, April 20.—|were headed down that foyer of When the memoirs of this war/the Baltic, the Kattegat (the jare written, our navy experts will|“cat’s throat”) the experts were|Atlanta _ scour them for an answer to the|dumbfounded. The Nazis not {question: Why, oh why, didn’tjonly had left the door wide open the Germans mine the Skaggerak/but hadn't bothered to sprinkle tacks on the floor. * When news came that ships of Looked Like A Set-Up the British navy were plowing} What on earth had the Ger- THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. (STATEYMARKET ~HEREFOR DAY ING: PRAISED NEW KEY WEST An interested visitor to Key West Thursday was William L. Wilson, director of Florida State Marketing Bureau, who said there are now 30 State Markets in Florida devoted to providing prompt and economical contact between the,citizeft who grows the product and the citizen who consumes it. Remarkable suc- cess has attended the “work, he stated. The products handled, said Mr. Wilson, are unlimited in variety and run all the way from fresh weeks ago Mr. Wilson’s assistant, Gordon Dill, made a visit to Key West and secured a number of na- tive handicraft object to be sold jat the state handicraft market ‘at Hollywood, thereby giving a number of local people an op- jportunity of earning money (within their own homes. Among the markets’ which have been opened is one at Flor- ida City, which will greatly aid the growers of Key limes. As soon as this product can be graded and standardized, the market will prove an excellent and profitable outlet for this ex- clusive Key product. Mr. Wilson was the guest of the Chamber of Commerce at the Rotary luncheon Thursday, and stated that it had been more than two years since he had jdelighted to note the general ap+ pearance of ‘the city. He said ‘of beef to coconut fibre hats. A few; ;been in Key West and he was} ousing | Go Over PRICE FIVE CENTS - Plans To Reduce Unit ‘Costs SCHRODER ORDERS (TIME-OFF SO W.P.A. WORKERS CAN VOTE SCHEDULES TO BE REAR- RANGED TO ALLOW ALL WORKMEN TO VOTE IN MAY 7th-28th PRIMARIES (Special to The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, April 20.— Schroder today requested all dis- trict managers, district and proj- ect supervisors by general bul- ietin to immediately rearrange work schedules so as to allow all WPA workers to be off on Tuesday, May 7, and Tuesday, May 28, the dates of the first jand second primary elections in Florida. “This step is taken now”, said Schroder, “to allow those in charge of projects to have suffi- cient time to provide rearrang- ed schedules that will allow all workers to put in their full num- ber of hours as required by regu- lations”. Bulletin GB-289 covering the subject is as follows: “In order to provide the op- portunity for every worker to execute his right as an American State WPA Administrator Roy | PROCEDURE MUST BE FOLLOWED TO ‘CON- FORM TO U. S. H. A. LOAN AMOUNT A special meeting of the Key West Housing Authority “was jheld in the offices at 124 Duval street this morning. Present were R. Stanley Sweeley, project ad- visor, Russell T. Pancoast, ar- | Chitect, who were visiting the local authority for a conference. | Members of the local housing authority who attended the meeting were: Wallace B, Kirke, executive director, B. Curry Mo- ‘reno, chairman, A. Maitland Adams, vice chairman, Hugh Williams, Melvin E. Russell, and J. J. Trevor. Chairman Moreno opened the | meeting and explained the neces- ‘sity of considering and review- jing the different types of con- |struction’ and cost in order to |meet with the United States | Housing Authority’s request that the cost of construction not ex- ceed $3,350 for each white proj- ject unit and $3,250 for the color- ed projects, and stated that a leost below these figures would be desired. p } Mr. Pancoast stated that Citizen to vote in the primaricy}vaeriation of figures in the ae that the thing’ which. gave him thé Wno8t ‘satisfaction was ~ the new construction. '|6n’ Tuesday, May 7, and on Tues- da it i HILTON’ RECEIVES TRANSFER ORDERS FOUR AT LOCAL COAST GUARD HEADQUARTERS TO GO TO JACKSONVILLE A letter has been received by jLieutenant Commander Carl H. Hilton of the Coast Guard from headquarters in Jacksonville, which states that a transfer is {being contemplated, which will effect employes at the headquar- ters in Key West. The letter states that certain ;members' of the Seventh Light- house District, which has . been consolidated ' with Jacksonville, are to be affected. They. are As- sistant Lighthouse Engineer, W. J. Schoneck, 17 years; Chief Clerk Lionel .H, Plummer, 24 years; Clerk’ Vernon Albury, 21 years; William B. Demeritt, 11 years. These orders will possibly be placed in effect at an early date and the transfer will become ef- ee on or before June 30, it is Said. TEMPERATURES sary arrangefnents to schedule projects: so’ that ‘all’ project work- ers will be employed the neces- sary hours of the pay period without being required to work | on those dates, which can be set up as non-scheduled ‘work days, without interfering with the op- eration of the projects”. NEWTON CURRY DIED LAST NIGHT SERVICES TOMORROW AFT- ERNOON AT ST. PAUL'S . CHURCH Newton Curry, aged 60, died last night 7:15 o'clock at his residence, 811 Division _ street. Funeral services will be held to- morrow afternoon. at 2:30 o'clock from St. Paul’s Episcopal church, Rev. Arthur B. Dimmick will of- ficiate. Arrangements for the services and funeral are with the Lopez Funeral Home. Pallbearers who will serve are Charles L. Roberts, Norberg Thompson, B. C. Moreno, Harry D. Warren, A. Maitland Adams, and Joseph C. McMahon. B. P. O. Elks will attend the funeral in a body. Mr. Curry is survived by the widow, Mrs. Lurlene Curry, one daughter, Mrs. Jane Thompson, of Bogoto, British Columbia, one son, Lofton Curry, of Memphis, Tenn., and a sister, Mrs. Corinne Fogarty of Daytona Beach, 5 Lowest last Highest last Stations— night 24 hours iT 67 | Boston 63 gentile Charleston Chicago 50 70 El Paso Havana ..2:73 Jacksonville _ 56 Anbse ent types of construction between pitched and. flat roof, and masonry and frame buildings, was considerable, and ested | that all this be consid dn: making up the final figures: } It was decided that, the Ex-| ecutive Director sho 4 Prepare, |a resume of the ‘tion at hand |and present them tothe Housing Shortly after the» was over Mr. Sweeley, Mr. Pancoast and Mr. Stowhowsky left for Miami. Mr. Sweeley: explained that he would possibly return the first part of next week to further go into the matter again with the Key West Authority. LOWE RETURNS FROM NYA MEET EXPANSION PLANS cea | ED AT TAMPA conrERic ENCE Victor Lowe, NYA Area Su- pervisor, returned over the high- way yesterday from Tampa, where he had been in attendance at a conference with Dr. Mary — Hayes, national director: of em- }ployment for the National Youth Administration, and Dave Wil- liams __,assistant | from Washington, Youngblood, state administrator. Among other state and district” officials present at the confer- ence were W. Ellis Jones, State Director of Finance; Mrs. Clara M. Estes, State Supervisor of Girls Projects; B. Howard Brown, District Supervisor of Miami. At this conference ithrough the) gray mists of the;mans been up to? jThey must 1S REPRINTED jsisceers. navy men here gog-|have known for weeks, maybe : jgled.. When NO word came that) months, that they were going to|Kansas City — 38 a single British boat. had. been try for the Scandinayian coup.;KEY WEST — 71.»'>< blasted to the bottom by 4.mine,}With Denmark as a springboard, |L0s. Angeles. S401 ~*~ the navy boys couldn’t belieye|they could have poured troops/Louisville __ 37: awe Those who may want to regis-| which Hannau ‘proceeds ‘with his ter at a later hotir may come to |interesting work. He called» af}. . his home at’'912"Southard street. The Citizen office ard eft a few |’ The complete riumber of regis-|samples of ‘his work. Most im- “Due to ang imperfect: press run’ “jyésterday, the current install- trations willbe’ - announced the} pressive were these photos, €m. ment of the, serial story, “Leap|their-ears and eyes. 4 across that narrow el- ‘Miami early part of riext week. NOTICE DELINQUENT TAXPAYERS Tuesday, May 7, 1940 is the! deadline for filing applications with the City Tax Collector-As- sessor of your intentioris of avail- ing yourselves of the benefits of settling taxes on the 30% cash basis. SAMUEL B. PINDER, Tax Collector-Assessor. apr20,1940-1t 1936 and prior years) |bodying qualities that) showed {rare insight nito the author’s un- \derstanding of and love of the |country that has become his new | home. K. W. High School Senior —presents— ‘JUNE MAD’—Comedy j IN THREE ACTS | Friday, April 26th, 8:15 p. m. | HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM | Admission _ — Seats Before unreadable. For the convenience of readers of The Citizen, installments No. |Skaggerak the “sleeve”) but had|mines through which the Brit-|San Francisco 50 4 and 5 appear in this issue. - $8¢ 50c Secretary-| Club for Benefit of Negro Home (Swer there but there is an inter-| JOHN (ENS: ‘You Look”, was ‘rendered j i endlessly With the report that the Brit-}bow into Norway , and Sweden. ish not only had crossed the It’s hardly more than a ferry boat threshold (Scandinavians .calljride, and between ribbons of Swung around The Skaw and|ish navy could not cut, it would have been as safe a ride as from New York's Battery to Bedloe Island. . PALACE THEATER Sponsored by Key West Lions 'to the Mpls.-St. Paul 47 - New York .. 40 St. Louis... 40 Seattle __. 47 ‘Washington —. 46 gresassqdacsse 9:30 O'Clock Till ? . PRITCHARD’S Pecccccesccusescccoccoes