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

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 69 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key Wiest Citizen Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. VOLUME LXI. No, 101. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1940 PRICE FIVE CENTS British Counter Attacks Against Nazis Suecessful BRITISH PLANES RESUME!NAZIS GIVE OUT ATTACKS ON _ NAZI; COMDR. COMBS LEFT TIPS IPLALA ROTES POINT TO HAVANA CONVENTION LARGE DELEGATION SCHED- ULED TO REPRESENT LO- CAL CLUB: DR. PARRA- MORE GIVES TALK | i | | | { | | j ! | | Urging the members to, make ‘their reservation Tor the trip to ‘JAY } | Call On Governor Cone ‘PENSACOLA, FLA. (Special to The Citizen? PENSACOLA, April 26.—Key West Jaycees, headed by Presi- dent Isadore L. Weintraub, ar- rived here today to attend the |Chamber of Commerce jtion to’ last over this weekend. CEES ARRIVE AT first session of the State Junior | conven- } NYA REPORT ON YOUTHS VICTOR LOWE, LOCAL SU- PERVISOR. ADDRESSED SES- SION LAST NIGHT: ZONE MEETING REPORT GIVEN Action Taken At SL Pete Today: | | j | i i | | | } | The problem of youth and idle} ;hours is being very practically ; {Havana in June, President Wil-| While enroute, members of the Solved by the National Youth | |liam V. Little of the Key West! Key. West Chamber called at the | Administration, according to: AFTER INSPECTION Commander L. M. Combs, assistant chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, U.S.N.. who had been in Key West making inspection of the ac- livities at Trumbo Island and in the naval station, left on the 7 o'clock bus this morn- ing for Washington, with Mrs. Combs. On Wednesday, Command- er Combs went on a plane of Squadron VP53 for an in- spection of activities at Guan- tanamo, Cuba, where he found everything, as it is in Key West, in excellent condi- tion, according to a_ state- ment made before leaving this morning. — OF NEW MOVE! ' FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS IM- | (By Associated Press) LONDON, Apr. 26.—Advices yesterday gave credit to Gerf-| PORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT WILL BE MADE TOMOR- ROW: BELIEVED POLITICAL many for the first trick in man. | euvers to gain possession of Nor- way. (By Associated Press) BERLIN, Apr. 26—An_ im- ‘portant announcement is ex- pected to come from high German leaders tomorrow, according to a news dispatch issued by the of- ficial German news agency, DNB, today. Foreign Minister Von Ribben- Advices today, however, credit the Allics with some good points as counter-attacks were made to take away considerable of the advantage gained by the Nazis. And so it goes. Norway pro- vides the battlefield with accom- panying losses in the form of, terrain marred, buildings Ge | cop let it be known today that stroyed, railroads blown-up, 4.6 German nation would make | "MOQ a PS bridges demolished—while the an important announcement to- morrow via radio to the German ; eles oe by press release to! ci1cAGO—When he fell off a mvgrwegians also are supplying “Advance information on the bench, Joseph Callahan of ‘this ‘ ~ ra j tatement” and men to fight alongside of the; SUPPHSe 4 Allied Srpetitienary’ forces|meager. It was understood, how- 'eye by his own false teeth. ever, that the announcement, —and signs point to near-future ; ati 3 ;...|concerned a political move rather concentrations of these otherwise ihanionaimiltry peace-loving Scandinavians in ie areas that, aided by sufficient Allied help, bodes no good for SEE A cninG conquesting Nazis. i Rig aS British planes today swooped BERLIN, April 26.—Efforts to down on several cities in south | 8et reaction of Adolf Hitler on Norway in a continuation of their; | (Continued on. Page Three) drive to. keep the Nazis from es- | er ge ee tablishing airbases. Sensing that GOV F P CONE the short span of ocean between | . . ry Norway and north Scotland, | where are situated many naval ANNOUNCES FOR SENATE POS |floor and demonstrated that he peas \is a master of satire. ; His audience was too small.} and airbases of Britain, is of com- | LOCAL COMMITTEE PRE-| So—although Im sure Ill turn paratively short distance for the] enemy planes, the British are} aking desperate efforts to con- SENTS CAMPAIGN PLAT-|,, missing with the broad hum- FORM; ECONOMICAL AD-|0or of Mr. Vorys’ personal ap- | pearance—I'm going to risk pass- MINISTRATION STRESSED two belligerents supply the men and arms to make all that come about. TEETH BITE HIM By JACK STINNETT, A WASHINGTON, April 26.—A jcouple of Odontoglossum Alex- andrae to Rep. John M. Vorys of ;Columbus, Ohio. | The other evening at a_ social |gathering, Mr. Vorys took the | | |: the Germans constantly at atten- tion to fight off attacks rather than engage in construction ac- tivity. | troops withstood the cel that eventuality by keeping Jing it on. maneuvers yesterday instituted Elise ” a Mr. Vorys’ “lecture” was on by Nazis in good shape, andj «py pis record you know|« = ” ag rallied today to regain much of yim % |“War and Peace”. Explaining |that he was a famous professor, Thus, the local campaign c9m-| schooled in foreign affairs, Mr. mittee for Governor. Fred P.|Vorys let it out that he “accom- Cone’s drive to become the next} panied” Under-secretary of State | Peardnen Welles on his recent mis- ; jsion abroad. He could not “di vulge” any of the great Wellesian |discoveries but with charts and | figures he had prepared from ob- |servation and research, a few enlightening conclusions on war! and peace might be drawn. | Now, There’s China— 5 Mr. Vorys staried with the slaughter in China, where there is no official war, He summed up with the startling information \(he made up the figures) that the territory lost. At Trondheim, bitter battles have started and the whole sector from that point, north to Narvik, will shortly wit- ness large scale operations. C. KNOWLES, 67, DIES SUDDENLY. Christopher Knowles, 67, who resided at 1106 Elgin street, died suddenly this morning. Franklin Arenberg, coroner ex-officio, was summoned to the scene and de- cided that there was no necessity | pay pve a oe SRigie selec |some 10,000,000 persons had been | world and pressure groups get to |considerably, it was stated by Of-! Stations— night 24 hours CURRY WOULD BE fully. _ ee sup ees = | killed. ' j work. ficer Ray Atwell, who investi-|Atlanta -—-. 47 Be | eenowiel: See ee een eee ices, which will be under the di-| see a | Perhaps Japa: ld --be \ ss | Boston _ 39 55 | similar conclaves in the city. rection of the Pritchard Funeral Shifting to Poldnd, which nev- | ae ree eee per- | gated the accident. | Buffal 33 ADMINISTRATOR But the task of entertaining Homes alls be comic tes | er was officially at war with Ger- |suaded to declare war on China| Officer Atwell told The Citizen | oh od Sg ee 52 | from 2,500 to 3,000 legionnaires . lmany, Mr. Vorys estimated that|@nd end that great slaughter.|this morning that Harper ran|Ch@ leston _. 56 61 | 3 next April—the exact date /300,000 had been killed there. | Maybe new world organizations | through a stop sign and had caus- | Chicago - 39 43 | lig announced lates—did not os- N. MARIN ? > | Then, there was the matter be- | WoUld spring up: the “Society to/ed the smasn-up. Harper was | Denver — 60° | Application has been © oleae members of the local Post. | tween Finland and Russia where (Prevent Peace” or an IOTMHD-_| arrested right after the crash and | Detroit 35 51 | Probate Judge Raymond R. Lord /Sshe mostets Of tea tine wah DIED YESTERDAY | CONE | another 250,000 spilled their life’s ;WOTW—“International Organi-| placed under bond of $25 for his |! Paso -~ 41 80 |for the appointment of Lofton! > | ~~ GOV. FRED P. CON: [blood on the field of battle—in|%ation To Make Hitler Declare appearance in Police Court this|Havana 75 84 Curry, son of the late Newton |i’ 0" tay "would have to Nick Marinoff, 46, died in the | United States Senator from Fior-/ spite of the fact that the | two ie woul oe Me nl ee \KEY WEST _ 68 33 |feinclecoetstes, tor of RIS come to the rescue and co-operate Marine hospital yesterday net Hath ii ig past countries were not “at war”. |were at . war, with. Adolf “and | VICTIM WAS WIFE tos Angeles a - re | The application was -filed’ “in ee ae ce ides SE? held trom the’ chapel of Prieh| Governor Cone's official an-| Se ee eee 82 day od “ake will shows that the xed. one member pointed out ard Funeral ‘Home at 3 o'clock |Nouncement appears in this issue'| BRADY’S POULTRY j; reo BS rai nove When Ne $0 ae Ae ea $6 55 estate is valued at $9,670. Realty |048¥- Every available room will shag { The Citizen. It will be recall- | : oe hight aitln a igeeersaime-= 4p ORR ad soty) in} De mecded. aft resiourants will be this afternoon. ist ge rnc baheg Soha and EGG MARKET Washington, Iam sure, must|a purse-snatching, Detective W.|New York —. 60 |valued at $9,100 and money in| 104 upon to render over-time Rev. Guillermo Perez, of the of al ereaee Ce ; am }be one of the most naive capitals |C! Talley of this city, discovered |Pittsburgh _. 34 55 \the bank to the amount of $570 |. extra-service during the four Latin Methodist Church, will of- Key West several weeks ago and || STEWERS, 23¢ {of the world. Its commentators, |that the victim was his wife. [San Francisco 49 67 —_| were also included in the report.|—. sve days the 1941 convention ficiate. (Continued On Page Four) ib os ‘although among the best i {Seattle ____. 55 | yi . Fa ig st inform- j, i _ will be in session. iPRESCRIPTIONS F Ree Vee: jed anywhere, are the last to sus-| STRAW VOTE sansa 61 sie 3s fe ae NOTICE! NOTICE! dg ees 19¢ ee perfidy, ; | —presents— mated that more than $100,000 : | Filled Accurately With Fresh, When the Nazis took Norway “ ? will be spent in Key West during The STRAW VOTE DANCE Pure Ingredients. ROASTERS, th __-_ 27€ } ‘the Washington observers creas- | ‘JUNE MAD’—Comedy {inc convention. In’ view of thes held at PENA’S tomorrow night DELIVERED PROMPTL BATTERY-RAISED FRYERS | \ eq their brows and couldn’t be- Saturday, 10 Till 2? oy 0 | In ACTS e n ig! Y in b al ould ph Saturday Nite, 10 o’Clock | income during a comparatively. has no connection with that given | GARDNER’S PHARMACY Dressed, Cut-up and Delivered | lieve Nazi political infiltration Pena’s Garden Of Roses RA UL *"S CLUB TONIGHT—$:15 O'CLOCK | cunerwise quiet time of year, it is © Chun ne ?paaay mae “The Rexall Store” | at no extra charge {Started so many months, even John Pritchard’s Orchestra | Music by the new Fee COOL AUDITORIUM |felt that no lack of support trom nex FMA one ine Rexall Store |] Phone 540 1214 White St. | Years ago, that the business of BIG FLOOR SHOW! PRIZES! GOULD CURRYS ORCHESTRA | General Admission 50c all sides will come wher the call Gt ennREDIEt NCR E.:, Phone Free Delivery |. aasosxoaaticisliuaicbemee tt (Continued on Page Four) No Admission or Cover Charge | No Admission or Cover Charge jis made. was vory |city was “bitten” neat the right | i Congressman Studies Wars, | Although it is too early to est ‘Rotary Club at a meeting yester- iday indicated that a large dele- jgation would represent this city tat the Rotary International con- j vention. | President Little advised the ;members to make their reserva- jtions through President-Elect |Everett Russell, who reported he jhad been informed the P. & O. |Steamship Company would schedule a sailing of the ‘SS. Cuba from Key West on June 10.| Reports of the club’s delegation |to the recent Rotary Internation- 'al conference at Hollywood were rendered formally by President- Elect Russell and inférmally by !Messrs. W. T. Fripp, B. Curry Moreno, Charles Taylor, Ernest |Ramsey, Melvin E. Russell andj Dr, William P. Kemp. | Acting on request of Mrs. M. E, ISSUES STATEMENT COMPLI-|drawing youths from relief fami- by Attorney W. Curry Harris re- | morning, \Berkowitz, director of the Key| West division of the Women’s |Field Army for the Control of ;Cancer, Dr. J. B. Parramore of Monroe County Clinic, gave a short talk on~ cancer and the Methods of controlling and com- batting the dread malady. Finds It’s Peace That Kills P Feature Service Writer Now, said Mr. Vorys, the scene has shifted to Norway, where Germany insists there is NO war. mate with any accuracy, it is safe to say that deaths there already have mounted into the many |t® Prepare the men, women and |€rts, city clerk, was a guest at/ Tallahassee and thousands. Even in the United States, Mr. Vorys explained,—this great na- tion which has been blessed with peace for several years now— from 90,000 to 105,000 persons die violently every year. BUT, said Mr. Vorys, the Allies and Germany are at war. On the | Western Front stalks Monstrous Cancer victims Mars, wielding his sword in Mar- tian glee. War Dead: 118 And what happens? After sev- en months, there were 118 killed, including two fellows who fell 22 stories down an clevator shaft in the Maginot line on New Year’s morning. “The conclusion”, says Mr. Vorys, pointifically, “is al- most too obvious to necessi- tate statement. It isn’t war that kills people, it's PEACE. I can hardly wait until Mr. Vorys’ great theory reaches the|other by Tony Leto, Jr. The car} four corners of the civilized governor's mansion in Tallahas-| Victor Lowe, local supervisor of | {see and interviewed Governor|that governmental agency, in a} Cone on the subject of comple-j|taik before the Lions Club last tion of the Overseas Highway | evening at the clubhouse on Sem- from Big Pine Key to Key We: _jinary street. Gerald Saunders, NAME OMISSION No commitment was given on'president, was in the chair. the subject, the delegates re Prevailing misconceptions of ‘the NYA and its work in train-j ing young men and young wom-} en to fill positions in the work- |aday world, especially in regard‘ MIX-UP AWAITS to their supplementary — status! ‘rather than one of supplanting |other workers, were treated upon COUNTY OFFICIALS RECEIVE ;by Mr. Lowe in his report of lo-! WoO ANSWER FROM SECRE- ‘eal project aims. One hundred TARY GRAY -ON BALLOT- |ported. The motorcade-caravan, pick- ling up. member-units ever since jit left Key West on Tuesday, did much to advertise the Island )City in the opinion of the Key ; West delegation. ! ‘LEGION HEAD land seventy boys and girls in; | |this area are. receiving training { PRAISES WORK at present, he said, including | REPRINTING i many at camps upstate who are | being trained along special lines. “No longer is it a matter of | No answer has been received jlies”’, Mr. Lowe pointed out. |“Rather, our aims now are to garding the matter of placing the provide training for any youth eae of Mrs. Kenneth R. Close, 'between the ages of 18 and 25,/candidate for delegate to the Much to be desired in the future | Democratic National Convention tis a Youth Centér and a Voca-lfrom the Fourth Congresésinal tional Schdol from which skilled | nistrict, on the ballot for Mon- | workers may be graduated. Key haha inks ‘West has never had that advant- | 'y- : scourge of cancer”, declared age, and we need it, badly”. | The name of the candidate was Raymond. J. Kelly, of Indianapo-| Members of the club heard re- | not received until the ballots had lis, Ind.,; National Commander of , ports fram Jack Delaney and | been printed and delivered to the MENTING CANCER CON- TROL DRIVE | ik “The American Legion yields to “no group if’ ‘American life in jurging that every care be taken to guard against the dread Vote Was Close IKEY WEST GAINED | 127 VOTES, ORLAN- DO 105 VOTES IN BIT- TER CONTEST (Special to The Citizen) | ST. PETERSBURG, Apr. |26.—Key West won the |honor of entertaining the | 1941 Florida State American |Legion convention on the floor of the present conven- jtion being held here this following elec- | tioneering amidst a bitter | cone hee Mest a? \for either Jackgonville or | Orlando. North-ztate posts did all Possible to keep the 1941 convention for their section, | but, at the outset it appear- ‘ed that commitments made jat the 1939 convention at . Lauderdale st , the H | |the American Legion, in a state-|John Costar, who represented! county commissioners, and this) Key West delegations gpod |ment praising the Women’s Field |the local club at the Zone 2. exglimitol ie candidate | Stead. Just before, thé fmal Army. Mr. Kelly’s statement meeting held at Coral Gablés) 0a p a G, ‘ ‘The | Vote, was taken, Jack | follows: |Country Club last Sunday morn-|"¢ S.A. Gray, secrelary. O°! sonville contingent ig its | “Every care should be taken jto guard against the scourge of cancer. Early in our war ex- perience we learned that med- ical and surgical skill are neces- sary to prepare men to fight—to ie—in war. How much more | vital it is that we use these skills jchildren of our nation to live—to jenjoy—the blessings that are available to us. We consider the |Women’s Field Army of the | American Society for the Control jof Cancer to be performing an jadmirable task. Their ance against the suffering the must undergo. | Therefore, we are heartily in favor of lending them every en- | couragement”. ‘AUTOS COLLIDE: HARPER BLAMED | An automobile accident oc- jeurred yesterday afternoon at |the corner of Catherine and Wat- {son streets. -One car was driven {by William H. Harper and the driven by Leto was damaged efforts | provide another form of insur-: jing. Chief topic up for discus-|incidents connected with the| Votes to Orlando, ‘but the ‘sion was that of entertainment , omission of the name on the bal-| total was not sufficient ta jto be tendered to delegates to|lot was explained in a telegram| beat the 127 lined up for Key \the International Convention in|to the secretary of state, which|West—the opposition re- Havana next July as they came | was sent by Mr. Harris this week. | cording 105 votes. into the Zone area for embarka-| 4 telegram was received by] Delegates who conducted Mr. Harris yesterday advising | the successful fight for Key j tion. Besides Mr. Lowe, Archie Rob- that Secretary Gray was out of | West Se Sasha Muscall the matter ood would have to be held in abey-;commander-elect; Al a ance until he returned. se jthe meeting. TWO LIGHT BUOYS REPORTED LOST | vice-commander-elect | Mr. Harris said that he would|John Pinder, finance lhave to- wait for an answer to | ficer. 2 his telegram but that he was| The convention heard sure that the ballots would not|National Commander Ray- |be printed except on an official, mond J. Kelly, of Indian- | order. |apolis, Ind., today call on Guard headquarters this ingen | Congress for the strongest ing that advices had been re- ISSUE WARRANT jnavy in the world, stressing ceived to the effect that. two| | the importance of adequate It was learned at the Coast ilighted whistling buoys have j defenses for the Panama ibroken away from their moor- CHARGING THEFT Canal. Sessions will be held | ings. this afternoon and this eve- |, Lieutenant H; B. Haskins said | |Ming, and closing events will , that one of the buoys had been| A warrant was served yester- lcome tomorrow. Delegates at Cape Romano Shoals and the|day afternoon by Deputy Sheriff] are expected to leave for jother had been at New Ground|Ray Elwood on Etta McCann, | their homes in various parts ;Rocks. There has been no word |charging her with grand larceny | o¢ the state late tomorrow or treceived at headquarters as to the |in the the: i Key West rejoiced today as she witnessed fulfillment of long ft of $410 from Marvin A ifinding of the aids. | Griffin. [enday meenne i |Justice Franklin Arenberg at 5 | | The case will be heard this! TEMPERATURES | oe. | jafternoon in the court of Peace | Lowest last Highest last |