The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 27, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 69 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1940 Che Key West Citizrir THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. | ‘VON RIBBENTROP _ REPORT SCORED; FACTS IGNORED Allies Hold Positions In “=== Mid-Norway GAN BY NAZIS {made good on his announcement | released yesterday that an im- —_— * — — NAZIS PUSHED BACK AT. R A N ROROS AND DOVRE; G DH SAYS |portant statement would be NEED MORE EXPEDI-| ITALY INTENDS jmade, when he called in mem- TIONARY TROOPS - (By Associated Press) LONDON, April 27.—Foreign ibers of all press agencies in Ber- {ject of reasons for the Norwegian |anvasion. ;Allies in the first instance and | nad allowed British troops to land before in (My Associated Presny LONDON, Apr. 27.—Late dis- WILL JOIN AXIS PARTNER patches today indicated that the | SOME TIME THIS SUMMER; ; within its borders days ithe Nazis decided to move 'protection of their rights, i Continuing, the foreign minis- {Minister Von Ribbentrop today | ilin to address them on the sub-; | rr | Von Ribbentrop stated that; | 10 ENTER WAR | norway had connived with the| | | pannel Doughtry Reads Opinion Of Aqueduct Commission -—‘Attoey Validating Act |CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEETING YESTERDAY ATTENDED BY CITY AND COUNTY GROUPS; | DECIDE TO AWAIT RFC DECISION An official opinion holding council, the county commission, that Florida Keys Aqueduct Com- Mayor Willard M. Albury and ‘mission has legal authority to is-' other officials, was the adoption 'sue negotiable revenue securities of a resolution requesting jsupporting a loan of $1,000,000 Robineau to go as quickly as pos- ‘has been sent the Reconstruction Sible to Washington to contact attorneys for the RFC to answer ' , i any further questions they may jton by S. P. Robineay, Miami, raise regarding the legal rights of counsel for the commission. the aqueduct commission. In making this announcement _ It was indicated that the aque- yesterday at a meeting of public duct commission might _ later and civic officials called together initiate a test case before the ‘Finance Corporation at Washing- Allied expeditionary forces were | WEST FRONT ACTION IN- state supreme court to determine |ter of the Nazi regime stated that | {no German ships sailed for Nor- jway until April 8th and not until | jthen did the Germans prepare! (ity Associated Press) their expeditionary forces. | PARIS, Aprii 27.—Advices re-! British statesmen commented in that many sectors of mid-Nor- ‘ceived here from Rome indicated |on the “face-saving” report as an further proof that Italy was!“original interpretation of world | |maneuvering to enter the war /history”, and proceeded to point | At Roros, in the Glomma river in the not-too-distant future. !out several discrepancies in the; cual e Former amba jor to Eng-/statemerits made by Von Ribben- | weden, 5 i land, Grandhi, now serving on trop. | the fighting has been intense for Mussolini’s cabinet, w: eported| In the first place, officials stat- | the past two days, it was re-;|to have stated this morning that;ed that the British Destroyer ported. Nazi victories yesterday | “Italy cannot and will not stay ;Glow eee repo sighting aj} “ stich Out of the war this summer’.jlarge German naval transport ee countered bye we eaten Further comments by the Italian |force on the evening of April 9th today with claims for combined Grricial had to do with the cer-‘off Narvik, approximately 1,000! victories of their forces in col- tainty that Italy will join up| miles from any German port. To} laboration with Norwegian with her Rome-Berlin axis| arrive at that point on that day, troops. partner in an effort to “end Brit-|the ships would have had to sail Nazis were also reported to be ish imperialism”. { n Germany many days before in flight at Dovre, thirty-five papRo. ACTION pyle, Gets: valet <A miles from Dompas, with British INCREASES ON FRONT EW expeditionaries pushing slowly PARIS, Apr. 27.—Allied more than holding their own in| CREASES Norway, with two forces reported to be engaged with Nazi troops wegian country. valley, within earshot of by the Chamber of Commerce, the authority of the commission Chairman William: T. Doughtry, under the act creating it, if the Jr., of the water board, read excerpts from Robineau’s opinion quoting state supreme court de- cisions and Florida laws in sup- port of his contentions, Upshot of the meeting, at- tended by members of the city FOUR DESTROYERS DUE HERE TODA COMING FROM OVERHAUL DUTY AT NEW YORK CITY PORT ot nited States destroyers, which are attached to the neu- trality patrol assigned at Key Further, the British officials ; e ; re-|noted the German foreign min- into the mountainous country at that point. ports today stated that much in- | ister made no mention of the com- creased patrol activity had oc-|plete invasion of Denmark nor At Storen, on the road from Trondheim to Oslo and _ points west in Sweden, fighting was re- ported to be severe as the Ger- man troops attempted to block the road against advancing Nor- wegian and British troops. The British war headquarters here admitted today that not much progress could be made in Norway against the Germans un- | til more expeditionary forces | were landed, and stated that COMMISSIONERS ANNOUNCE! losses were likely to occur until lines of supplies were estab- lished. Swedish sources today that Nazi transporting were increasing. Observers Stockholm reported seeing four cured on the West Front today, did he explain the reasons why j concentrated mostly in the sector | that move was made. The Allies | bounded by the Vosges and Mo- could not have planned invasion selle rivers. jof that country, British officials | OIL ARRIVES eran | FOR BOULEVARD 9 BE MAY 30TH THAT ASPHALT WORK PRESENT PLANS CALL ron WILL GO FORWARD BANQUET AND GRAND stated BALL efforts at pea | ess ' Arriving on the SS large transport ships, escorted by yesterday morning from Jac Key West High School's an- West, are expected to return to- day from New York to which port they had gone three weeks. ago for overhaul and repairs at the navy yard. The vess are the Destroyers Aaron’ Ward, Crowninshield, Buchanan and Hale, They are four of the vessels belonging to the 13 which comprise the patrol working out of this port, com- manded by Captain A, S. Carpen- der of the Destroyer Lea. Three of the vess which be- long to the patrol have not as yet come to this port but are at San Diego, Calif. COL. M’MULLEN RFC attorneys still question the board’s right to issue negotiable bonds securing a loan of $1,000,- : 000. When the meeting was called by Chamber of Commerce offi- cials it had been planned to take builuing be\condemned but that cemetery. some action supporting the pro- posal of Congressman Pat Can- non to have the navy department finance and construct a water supply system to Key West from the mainland. Several of the public and civic officials feared that if Congress- fman Cannon’s proposal was not supported now it would be too late, later if the RFC, as reported jin some dispatches, proposed to ‘turn down the apprication of the aqueduct commission for a loan. After Chairman Doughtry read Robineau‘s opinion contending the commission had a right to is- sue the required bonds, the gathering decided to await fur- > ther action by RFC. It was felt by some present that any other action by the public and civic of- ficials here at this time might jeopardize the aqueduct commis- sion’s application before the RFC. RITES TOMORROW _ FOR C. KNOWLES: ‘DIED YESTERDAY AT HOS- f PITAL; 68 YEARS OLD nine German destroyers, near ville was a shipment of 10,016 | nual Alumni reunion and ban- Swedish shores, apparently en &llons ef liauid asphalt for the|quet in honor of the 1940 grad- waate to.Oalo: work which is being carried onj{uates will be held this year on by workmen on the tf vard.|Thursday, May 30, it was decid- It is expected now that the work |ed at a meeting of the associa- will be continued at once. tion held Thursday evening in This asphalt was ordered at a|Stone Church Annex on Eaton ABSENTEE VOTES special meeting of county | street. missioners held on the morning If present plans of April 18, through the Porter |cut, the banquet will be held at Dock Company, whic ent in|an early hour at a local restau- Absentee balloting in the of-|this area for the T co Com-jrant followed by a grand ball at fice of Judge Raymond R. Lord pany. The price was $1,230. Raul’s Club at 10 p. m. is showing increased activity and; It was said by the members of} Another meeting of the associa- a count of the votes at 2:30 o'clock the commissioners that the as-/|tion will be held next Wednes- this afternoon gave a total of 109, phalt was badly needed for the |day evening at the Annex. divided as follows: work, and request for prompt —— CURRY’S SON Precinct 1, 12; Precinct 2, 3;!delivery accompanied the order. Precinct 3, 31; Precinct 4, 5; Pre- a ae HELD FOR COURT | ADMINISTRATOR Letters of administration were enict 5, 20; Precinct 6, 18; Pre- issued yesterday from the office einct 7, 5; Precinct 8, 11; Pre- Etta McCann was arraigned in|of Probate Judge Raymond R. com- enict 11, 4. As usual, there have been none voted in Precincts 9 and 10. are carried } ' Funeral ‘services for Chris- topher “Sonny” Knowles, 68, iwho died yesterday in the Ma- rine Hospital, will be held to- ‘morrow afternoon at 4 o ‘clock First Congregational 'Church, where the body will be placed at 2 o'clock. Rev. Jim Lilly, of Fleming Street Metho- dist Church, will officiate. Pritchard’s Funeral Home will "RECEIVES ORDERS | WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO | oN. Y. NATIONAL GUARD i from the POST SEPT. 15 | Lieut. Col. J. D. MacMullen, |commandant of the Key West Army Barracks, has received of- be in charge of arrangements. ficial word of his transfer to oth-| The deceased was a member of ‘er duties, effective on September | the Knights of Pythias, the Odd {15th of this year. Fellows and the Carpenter's Col. MacMullen will take up a/Union. Pallbearers will be se- {four-year duty tour as instruc-' jected from the membership of tor of the New York National; these organizations. eens at New York City on that Survivors are the wife, Mrs. jdate, according to the communi-| Lillian Knowles; one daughter, jeation he received from Army ‘Miss Marie Knowles; one son, headquarters late yesterday, William Knowles; three brothers, Present application for a leave Robert, Albert and William jof absence may mean that Col. Knowles, and one sister, Mrs. W. jand Mrs. MacMulln will leave;R Allen of Nassau, Bahamas. Key West some time in June or DISQUALIFIED LIST APPEAR Appearing on another page of the court of Peace Justice Frank- lin Arenberg yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock, charged with grand larceny. | All the incidents in connection | Lord, appointing Lofton Curry |July before his new work starts. administrator of the estate of his father, the late Newton Curry. | ater, the Ite Newton ==” SEC. WALLACE AT will yesterday, which stated; this issue of The Citizen is the With the chrages were official Disqualified List of elec- Ut at the hearing and at. the tors, sponsored by the County Conclusion the justice ordered the Commissioners and the super-|accsed placed under bond of brought | that the estate was valued $9,- | WATCH YOUR COAT (ty Asnoctated Prenx) VIENNA, April 27.—Take good care of your clothing and soap FIRE DISCOVERED "AT DUVAL-GREENE | ~ WAS INCENDIARY | FIRE DEPARTMENT RAGS, PAPER AND MATCH- ES WERE FOUND | i Alarm of fire was sounded 2:30 o’clock this morning from Box 12 at Front and Duval _ streets, summoning the apparatus to a |fire which was burning at the corner of Duval and Greene; streets. Investigation showed that preparations had been made to start the fire. Rags and paper had been stuffed in the inter- stices of the building and there were two boxes of burned match- es found at the scene of the fire. Fortunately, the blaze was discovered before it had gained much & iway and the fire was extinguished by streams from the bogster pump on Engine No. 1.} The north side of the building partly burned. ; Chief Harry M. Baker ‘said this morning that he had recom- mended to the~council that the was no acuon had been taken up to duis ume. Pouce department today was Manning inquiries tnroughout the j¢hy in an chiort to tind those! wuo had set the fire. SPLENDID FIGH CALLS ATTENTION TO NEED OF SUPPORT IN CANCER | CONTROL DRIVE Accuiding to press releases, the work of the Womens Field Army is receiving tne’ whole- heaited support of leading fig- ures in the national scene. Tne most recent to commend the work ot the Army is Paul V. Mc- Nutt, Aaministrator of the new Federal Security Agency, whose statement follows: | “In the conquest of disease, 3; 1s being achieved with nig frequency, not only because more powerful scientific weapons are being forged but ‘because better use is being made of them. | “Notwithstanding the relent- that is being waged against cancer, another of .man- kind’s most ruthless enemies, forty thousand preventable deaths is the annual toll which men and women of the United States continue to pay because the elementary facts of preven- tion and cure of cancer have not been generally accepted and ap-| plied. Knowledge is the best! psn with which to combat} cancer, and the Women’s Field Army is making a splendid fight in putting the disease to rout”, Everyone in Key West is now , being given an opportunity to help in the fight against this | less warfar scourge which annually takes its have the world’s only “ocean-| enormous toll of life in the ariums” where many species of | United States. Join the local di- vision of the Field Army and do your bit to help the cause. Not’ one of us can/say when or where this dreaded enemy to health will ; strike. The membership is only \one dollar, and more than half of ithe dollar is retained in Florida |to assist in the warfare against jcancer in our state. SCOUT AWARDING TO SCENE LAST NIGHT;| Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Key West Approves Legion Convention; Ready To Cooperate MEMORIAL DAY ~ TRIBUTES PAID BY UDC GROUP | Public and civic officials and bstcaastpapaler desae ces sca ET the commercial interests of Key BARE PRD Tee | Wat today expressed general ORATED WITH FLOWERS YESTERDAY MULTITUDE OF PROB- LEMS FACE LOCAL POST; MEET NEXT WEEK TO LAY PLANS | approval of the successful effort | ‘of Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28 to bring the 1941 convention of the In observance of Confederate’ Memorial Day, members of the |F!0fida Department _ Stephen R. Mallory Chapter,' American Legion to Key West. United Daughters of the Con federacy, led delegation of} Key West citizens yesterday in, forthcoming if and when That their co-operation will be it is decorating graves of Confederate veterans of ‘the Civil War. Floral wreaths and sprays ;sought by the Legionnaires seem- jed a certainty, for the majority : \of those contacted by members were laid on several graves. In-/ sani Poubl bale cluded in the memorial gesture |0f Arthur Sawyer Pos! leve were those to veterans of the that successful handling of the Maine disaster with decorations |Legion convention will mean the laid on the graves surrounding | selection of the city by other or- the Maine memorial in the local! ganizations for their gatherings. Wreathes were also! . e yveek th bers placed on the Cuban monument! are bien mes SOU E in the cemetery and at the foot |°f Arthur Sawyer Post are sched- of the Veterans’ monument in|uled to meet to hear reports of Bayview Park. the delegates to the 1940 conven- Members of the chapter who tion at St. Petersburg, which Participated in the Memorial concluded yesterday, and to lay Day tribute were: | see . Mesdames Stephen W. Doug: preliminary plans for the John W. Hattrick, Charles ,T@ngements here for the Roberts, Emil Sweeting, Rutledge | convention. Curry, W. E. Huston and Ross| A multitude of problems con- C. Sawyer. front the Legionnaires, so that |many of the former servicemen j believe it will be necessary ior them to call upon the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary, Lions, ar- 1941 13th Annual Observance ‘KNOW FLORIDA’ By FLORIDA STATE Service, Cuban and otner clubs, as and Spanish War Veteratis, well as unattacned world war veterans, to help handle the gathering of the 2000 4o 3000 per- sons annually attending’ the Le- jgion’s state convention. |” Officers of; the Legfin . post |pointed put that “4 copyetion hall must be procuréds e tis |for the musical organizations to \drill and play must be’ provided; -lthe streets and me¢ting halls |must be decorated, prizes must be obtained for drill units and |marching organizations, lodgings |must be provided, food must be jon hand, and so on. | “It is a big job”, was the com- Four national forests are Jo-| ment of Commander-Elect Har- old Russell, who will be install- _ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDITOR'S NOTE: Today's is the last in a series of ‘‘Know Florida’’ facts brought you in observance of the 13th annual y “Know Florida Week”, April 21-27. 1940, sponsored by the Flor- ida State Chamber of Com- merce and officially pro- claimed by Gov. Fred P. Cone. But don't stop your efforts just because the “Week” is ended — let's “KNOW FLORIDA” all the year! cated in Florida. They are Ocala, Osceola, Choctawhatchee and Apalachicola. The Bok Singing Tower at Lake Wales is one of Florida’s greatest tourist attractions. Caril- lon recitals are given from mid- December to mid-April every to have summer recitals for benefit of the increasing number of summer visitors to the state. The State Flower of Florida is the orange blossom. “Pole-Vaulting Fish” are one of the unique features of Wakulla ; Springs in the northwestern por- | tion of Florida. Marine Studios at Marineland fish all live in one huge con- tainer even as they do -in the | open sea. The first air conditioning in the world was done by Dr. John (Continued on Page Four) TEMPERATURES Lowest last Highest last jed within a few days. “It is a |big job for larger posts in larger jeities. It is a bigger job for a |small post in a small city; so the | people of the city will have to co- loperate to the hilt. We have |promised the Florida department jyear. Plans are also being made |one of the most enjoyable con- ventions it ever held”, Returning delegates said that one of the factors that led to Key West’s victorious fight for the |1941 convention was the success- |ful staging here last July of the \fifth district Legion conference. |More than 200 Legionnaires from ail sections of the state came jhere at that time, liked the city, praised the conference arrange- ments and fell into line back of Arthur Sawyer Post at St. Pe- | tersburg. | At request of the Key West jdelegates, the Chamber of Com- |merce and Mayor Willard M. Al- bury sent official invitations to the St. Petersburg convention to bring the 1941 gathering here. Typical of the telegrams was this jsent by the Chamber of Com- | merce: | “The Key West Chamber of our Stations— night | 24hours |Commerce, speaking for 670, realty holdings of $9,100 and! |eash in the bank off $570. FARMERS’ MEET (My Assoctated Press) .tationing cards as otherwise you (will have to get» along without | ‘them, says a new order issued | ‘by the authorities of Vienna. i} visor of registration of the coun- $1,000 to await trial at the next ST. PAUL, April 27.—Secre-! Ever increasing reports from! COURT POSTPONED |term of Criminal Court. She is charged with the theft of $410 from Marvin Griffin. Coincidence, All Right (Ry Anenrintea Preast ROANOKE, Va., April 27.— Raymond A, Rapp’s initials read WILLIAMSON, W. Va—For- the same way—R.A.R.—either tune tellers in this city read Mrs. | backward or forward. So did his Aderba Mickel’s palm and pro- telephone number, 2-5952, and ty, John England. The list represents those for- mer residents of Monroe County, who, for various reasons, have been removed from* the official voting list of the county. PROPHESIES COME TRUE SE ‘Dance Tonight: LA CONGA to the greatest band that ever yed in Key West— tary of Agriculture Henry Wal- lace, a presidential _ possibility | for nomination at Democratic convention, spoke! western farmers here today. Over 6,000 farmers from _ this} to hear the secretary speak on; pla’ |TWELVE BLACK KINGS \ OF RHYTHM governmental topics of the day.! Hear Them and Be Convinced! | Representatives of the Farmers’ Meet the Gang at Grange and Farmers Co-Opera-! lost in- citizens claiming to have their rationing cards have the coming ‘duced authorities to issue strict Scout orders, effective ported lost. | Wilbur Mochrke, chairman of} Monroe County Council Boy Awarding Court an- , immediately, nounced today that the court ' Havana ‘ before a huge assembly of mid-' that no substitute cards be grant-/originally scheduled to be held KEY WEST _ 71 ‘ed fer clothing or soap cards re- next Friday, May 3rd, had been Los Angeles _ 48 |postponed to the following Fri-; ' and surrounding states gathered | Whereas food rationing. cards 'day, May 10th. Beale are always issued for four. weeks, | All scouts who are to receive | Mpls.-St. Paul clothing and soap cards are valid awards, their parents and friends, New York for a whole year. The loss of ‘have been invited to attend the Pensacola Atlanta 54 ea f Louisville ‘Miami 66 38 community and all the Legion- naires therein, extend to your organization the heartiest of welcomes to Key West as a most desirable place in which to hold your 1941 convention. Not only will you enjoy our leisurely hos- pitality but the journey across the Overseas Highway wlil be a rev- elation of beauty”. —— STRAW VOTE ——— DANCE TONIGHT—10 TILL ? these, therefore, is a severe blow | exercises which will be held at Pittsburgh phesied that she would lose some his automobile license, 88-288, as neither textiles nor soap can|the High School auditorium San Francisco a tive Union from western and: LA CONGA mid-western states were present for annual conferences, money. After leaving them, $219 | both of which were given to him was missing from her pure. without pre-arrangement. be bought in Germany without ‘them. ; starting at 7:30 o’clock on the evening of May 10th. i Seattle ____ Washington SSSRASSSSSRSsusysaysy