The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 30, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Nazi Troops Close In 0 Dombas Area R. CENTER; TWO SUBS REINSTATEMENT OF FORD MEN MISSING LONDON, Apr. 30.—A critical LABORERS SUSPENDED 1937 ORDERED BACK ON PAYROLLS; IN situation for the Allies was de-. veloping in Norway today with | the report of advancing Nazi) GAINING RIGHTS troops on Dombas, the important (Ry Associated Press) é WASHINGTON, April 30.— dalsnes, Storen and Trondheim, The National Labor Relations |Board today handed down a de- cision which calls on the Ford British war officials admitted |Motor Company to reinstate 96 that Allied detachments had!men who were dismissed from been pushed back south of;the St. Louis plant of that com- Storen and that the Nazis were;pany in the autumn of 1937. approaching Dombas. German Back pay for the period of dis- lines were thinly held, however,|missal was ordered paid all the it was pointed out, and arrival of | men. Allied reserves would allow; The Board also ordered that counter thrusts of sufficient the plant grant -exclusive bar- forée to change the tide of bat-|gaining privileges to the United railroad center which serves An- as well as Oslo. GRANT BAR-| tle. “Other “battle “fron remained about the since yesterday. British disp*”hes stated that further attacks. are being made on the far-north city of Narvik. Germans aver, how- ever, that they still hold that cit . wo British submarines are unreported today, leading to fears that they have beén sun’ by German air raiders. If so, this would raise the total sub- marine casualties to seven, it was admitted here. BRITISH PROTEST U. S. SHIPMENTS LONDON, Apr. 30.—British officials today sent official pro- tests to the United States State Department calling attention to the large shipping business now. centering around Vladivostok, Russia. The Britons state that much material is shipped via that route for reshipment to the Ger- mans Stronger enforcement of em- bargo regulations at that port was indicated in the joint pro- test and warning. VALDES GETS — REPAIR PERMIT Permit has been issued from the office of Building Inspector Harry M. Baker, which is for ex- tensive repairs at Duval and! United stree! The property is owned by J. R. Valdes and the cost of the op- eration has been fixed at $2,000. SIDI SSS SS 8 CERTAINLY MERITS CONSIDERATION (By Associated Press) LOUISVILLE, Ky. Apr. 30. — Harry J. Thornton. editor of the Board of Trade Journal, is accustomed to receiving unusual letters, but he wasn't quite prepared for this one from -a Montana schoolboy: “Would you please send me information on your country? We are making booklets on states and I chose yours. I ‘like Ken- tucky more than Montana because of it’s horses and agarculture resorces and another thing I like is it's beautiful senery. Yours truly. : “P. S. My spelling may not be very good because I have broke my arm and the pain is triffic.” TIL DIS SaaS Auto Workérs union, a subsidiary n Norway Wt“the CIO. The plant employes 840 men. Circulation of a pamphlet in 1937 by company officials, called “Viewpoint of Labor”, was call- ed a violation of the law by the Board. SERVICES TODAY FOR FRANK CRUZ Frank Cruz, 50, died last night at 7:45 in the residence 716 Olivia street. Funeral services will be held at 5 o’clock today from the chapel of the Lopez Funeral Home, Rev. G. W. Hutchinson of the First Methodist Church officiating. Pallbearers will be: Moreno, Sr., Amando Jr., Eugene Londres, Amando Moreno, Eugene Pierce, Alberto Villar and Fran- | cisto Alea. Mr. Cruz is survived by the widow Mrs. Rowena Cruz, four daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Murphy, Miss Otillie Cruz and Miss Julia Cruz, and Mrs. Isabel Thompson, of Miami; two sons, Rex and Carl Cruz, and a stepson, Fred Armory. Two brothers, Harry G. and Joseph Cruz, two sisters, Mrs. F. G. Mrs. George Loessner, City, also survive. 38 MORE CAST ABSENTEE VOTES Absentee balloting in the of- fice of County Judge Raymond R» Lord shows an increase of 38 votes over yesterday at 2:30 o'clock when the vote was 153. Today at the same hour the vote showed a total of 191, as follows: Precinct 1, 25; Precinct 2, 8; Precinct 3, 4) Precinct 4, 7; Precinct 5, 32; Precinct 6, 34 Precinct 7, 7; Precinct 8, 27; Pre- cinct 10, 1; Precinct 11, 5. There of Lake have been no ballots cast in the} box for Precinct 9. SWISS HACK AWAY AT JUNGLE OF LAWS «Ry Associated Press) FRIBOURG, Switzerland, April 30.—Switzerland’s cantons have their own laws, differing as widely as those of the American states, but if all cantons follow Fribourg’s lead things won't be that way long. The canton of Fribourg re- cently won the distinction of be- ing the first canton to adopt the new Federal Penal Code, written by Swiss legal experts and spon- sored by the Federal government to end the Swiss law tangle, Camero, Havana, and! twenty - two; BOB ALLEN ‘JOINS | RANKS OF LOCAL | REALTY OWNERS HE AND WIFE BUY LOT ON WHITEHEAD STREET NEAR CAROLINE; OTHER TRANS- FERS IN ACTIVE MARKET Robert S. (Bob) Allen, co-au- ithor of Washington Merry-Go- |Round, and his wife, have pur- chased a lot in Key West, ac- cording to information given out at the County Courthouse this morning. Long an enthusiastic booster for the Island City, having spent the last three winters here, Mr. |Allen has now become an addi- tion to the ranks of new resi- dents. The lot, situated on Whitehead {street, near the corner of Caro- line street, was purchased from {V. A. Johnson and wife, Evie K. ‘Johnson, for a reported price of $1,000. No information on build- nig plans was given out. Hl Other real estate transfers | entered at the courthouse since | yesterday include the following: | From A. M. Adams and wife, Lettie Adams, and N. Thompson and wife, Emma M. Thompson, | to Edna M: Vogstad, part of Lot | '2, Section 1, Township 66, south, | ‘Range 32, east, $10 and other, |valuable considerations. From Charles R. Filer and wife, ; Edna L. Filer, to Dr. Clyde W.| Johnson or Theo E, Johnson, lot lon Washington street, 90 feet | from the corner of Washington! and Whalton streets, for $350. | t | LATE NEWS BULLETINS (By Associated Press) | PARIS, April 30.—War {quarters here announced that | French troops nad arrived in Norway to help the British and | Norwegians stem the Nazi ad- vances towards central Norway. head- ST. PAUL, April 30.— Frank Gannett, New York State publisher, was to make a bid for presidential elec- tors in this state this coming weekend with a conference with political leaders Satur- day night and an address on Sunday. | \ oe | | SPRINGFIELD, Il, April 30. —A baby twister, or tornado, hit | jthe central part of Illinois today, jcausing estimated damage of }$150,000 in several towns in its }path. High winds were preval- ent all over the middlewest to- day. Welcome rain is falling in {several dust bow] areas. { pa { WASHINGTON, April 30. | —Early legislative action on | changes in the Wage and Hour Law was forecast here today as the House moved to take up consideration of the provisions before continuing with Relief and Farm meas- say : ' JAILED DRIVER ORDERED AWAY Joe Christian, who was arrest- ed last week by State Road Pa- trolman L. W. Brassell for driv- ing an automobile while under the influence of liquor and be- ing without the proper tag and having no driver’s license, was given a hearing before Judge Wm. V. Albury yesterday. Christian was examined by Dr. Wm. R .Warren and was _ pro- nounced as suffering from tuber- culosis and a menace to the uther inmates of the county jail. _He was ordered out of the county by the judge and depart- ied on the afternoon bus. PROPOSALS Sealed bids will be received until Friday, May 3rd, 1940, 8:00 |P. M., for furnishing the follow- ing materials, f.0.b. Key West: 100—%4” Corporation Stops, icopper, “Mueller thread”. _ 100—%4” Curb Stops, copper. } 10034” Wrought Couplings. | The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. Bidder to state date of de- livery. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. apr30-2t | { } { | heads. j Readers will recall that that day —'Navy W jMrs. Dorothy w Key West Citizern THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1940 ROVING TOURIST COLLECTS MASTHEADS eae ses see Interesting Hobby Provides Sidelights On Press OF NEWSPAPERS IN TOWNS SHE VISITS and hob-} see eae Hobbies may come, The place where Waltham bies may go, but it remains for! watches are made is represented | Siete tear 5 ae to lby the Waltham News Tribune. one a source of education and |The Salem Evening News will delight ‘to her and to those who {call to mind the olden days of she confides in. | witchcraft. The Christian Science The hobby consists of collect- | Monitor originates in Boston, the ing the mastheads (top of Page /home of the Mother Church. one) of newspapers in cities she The ‘New York Herald Tribune visits on her travels. (Bs ‘coe Last July she started out ini has a large illustration contrast- her station wagon converted into'ing modern and antiquated meth- a semi-trailer and left Tampa for | ods in transportation, communi- points north. Naming the con- |cation, industrial and agricultur- veyance “Penetrator”, Miss Thom-/al development. The drawing as claims the name fits—1l. be-!was first used on April 10, 1866. cause it has penetrated, with her,|The once modern side of the into every nook and cranny on /drawing is today symbolic of the her travels to New England and ‘progress made since the days of back, and, 2. because it has been | Horace Greeley, founder of the traitor (trator) to her pennies/paper. saved up for the trip. | Many of the slogan lines But, to get back to the mast- superlative. For instance: Miss Thomas has been in} “The South’s Oldest Daily Key West for the past two weeks | Newspaper”, Charleston, S. C. and today The Citizen was priv-| “New England’s Largest Eve- ileged to see her collection for;ning Circulation”, Boston Trav- the first time. (eller. : Many are from historic places; “Second Largest 3c | in New England, such as the Lex- Circulation in America”, ington (Massachusetts) Minute |delphia Inquirer. Man, which says in its illustra-| .“The Greatest Negro Newspa- tion, “April 19th, 1775, ‘What a per in South Carolina”, Carolina glorious morning for America’.” Lighthouse. ; “America’s Greatest Family was the subject of Russell Kay’s Newspaper”, Williamsport (Pa.) “Too Late To Classify” column | Grit. ; d published in The Citizen last! “The First & Greatest Ttalian week. (Continued on Page Two) are Morning Phila- ives Here Seek To Join National Group Declaring that the cause of the 'trality patrol, and Commander A. Navy Wives Club was worthy P. Storrs, commander of Patrol and that the ladies of the Club in Squadron 53, were also present Key West had been doing good ‘at the meeting. work, Captain Walter F. Jacobs,, Captain Carpender subscribed commandant of the local Naval heartily to the establishment of a Station, concluded his short ad- Navy Wives club in Key West. dress before members of the lo- He stated that the club con- cal club. last Friday afternoon tributed very markedly to the with this statement: ‘morale of the husbands of the “Navy wives are resourceful in’ wives and that the club was per- that they are able to cope with forming a great service for the the frequent changes in home enlisted personnel in this city. life due to the nature of duty In his opinion, the endeavor to performed by their husbands. By obtain a charter from the national their work here, the wives have ‘organization merited the support traveled far to accomplish the | of all the navy wives. aims and purposes of the club.! President Anderson then led a Living conditions in Key West} full discussion of the proposal to are unique and require special ef- | organize a more complete club in forts to adjust the families to this city. She then discussed the them.” ij purposes of the Club, stressing The meeting was held in the lack of recreational facilities Aircraft Squadron’s Mess Hall in Key ‘West, stating that the and was called for the express Club, through its program, hoped purpose of planning a permanent to overcome the lack of such or- organization of Navy Wives. A,'dinary recreational facilities as charter from the national group are usually found in other cities. has been applied for, President! The program of meetings of Anderson an- the club was explained: 1. Busi- nounced. Eighteen members of ness, 2. Social, 3. Educational the present club were in attend- and 4. Welfare. ance and thirty other navy wives! The president then stated that were guests. Following the meet-' it was hoped to have a Navy Re- ing, memberships were signed to lief agency established in Key raise the total now to approxi- West. She further stated that an mately thirty-five. jagency in Key West hag offered Captain A. S. Carpender, com- to teach the members Spanish mander of the Key West neu-| (Continued On Page Four) Womens’ Club Leader Endorses Cancer Figh Declaring that cancer of the}of cases be cured if they are breast and uterus are curable injcaught in their early stages. a vast majority of cases if caugh' “One point of the program of in their early stages, Minnie L./the Army that appeals to me Moffett, M. D., President of the’ particularly is the emphasis on the National Federation of Business what it calls the B. P. Examina- and Professional Women’s Clubs, |tion, a semi-annual examination Inc., urged support for the Wo- of the breast and pelvic regions. men’s Field Army when she/In my dual capacity as physician stated a few days ago: {and President tof the National “Alertness, intelligence and! Federation of Business and Pro- courage are essential to cancer fessional Women’s Clubs, Inc. I control, and it seems to me that'urge support of the Women’s business and professional women | Field Army have these attributes to a great | program.” degree and should make a fine; While Key West women may contribution to -the efforts of never be called on to fight an women everywhere to reduce;enemy invading our country, cancer mortality. {they may be called on to fight “As a physician I know that cancer when it attacks them- cancer of the breast and of the'selves or some of their loved uterus are likely to strike women ones. They ask all to prepare in their forties and fifties, years by putting this insiduous enemy which should be most fruitful to | to route before it attacks. A dol- those who are earning a living or |lar membership in the Army will raising a family, or doing both. I do the fighting. The Junior Wo- cancer can in the vast majority /now,. HOLD MEETING TO | CONSIDER LOCAL _ HOUSING PROBLEM | ! ! DIRECTORS OF CHABMER OF | COMMERCE MEET WITH NAVY OFFICIALS TO GO! OVER POSSIBILITIES | | ) Directors of the Chamber of Commerce called a special meet- ing for this afternoon at head- quarters for the purpose of dis- cussing with navy officials here the question. of housing facilities | for navy personnel in the future. | The meeting wes called for 3) o'clock this afternoon, too late for ; reporting in this issue. President Everett Russell was to have led the discussion which | would center on future building | Possibilities in Key West to pro- vide a supply of medium-rent! apartments and homes for navy families. Captain A. S. Carpender, com- mander of the Key West neu-| trality patrol, was scheduled to appear before the group to pre- | sent the results of a canvas made | among navy families now living | here in regard to present facili- | ties. { ; It was thought, too, that the| subject of expanded navy _per- sonnel here would come up for discussion, in that reports have it that more ships are scheduled | to arrive for basing here shortly. | it was pointed out, would} |add to the problem of housing.| Some solution of that problem, | With accent, as stated, on a build- ing program, for the city, was to ibe sought. | i | Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Local Housing luthority Receives Loan Contract From USHA; To Sign Son MACFADDEN AIRS PLEDGES TONIGHT: HERE SATURDAY Were ptisursianit rtine. mamas thority was today contemplating SYESeoycyen One STA-| final steps to be taken soon to TIONS AT 9:15 TONIGHT; | jcomplete legal matters Pee oo So else | nection with the loan contract | calling for a loan of $650,000 from (Special to The Citizen) a 5 MIAMI, April 30.—Enjoying a| ie United States Housing Au |DOCUMENT DESCRIBES | TERMS OF LOAN FOR | 220 DWELLING UNIT HOUSING PROJECT in con- brief respite over the weekend thority. which after last week's strenuous 1,700- | construct two, low-rent housing mile air campaign, Bernarr Mac- 5 oa fadden will highlight the begin- | Projects in this city. ning of the final week of the} The loan-contract political race by summarizing his | arrived at local 20-plank platform tonight over ajand only determination of typ¢ statewide radio noox-up. buildings to construct to conform Speaking for 15 minutes, be-/to regulations calling for total ginning at 9:15 p.m. over CBS stations in Jacksonville, Tampa, West Palm Beach, Orlando and| Miami, the colorful flyin, publisher will point up the fol-| lowing topics: 1. Donation of his first year’s salary of $10,000 as United States Senator for the creation of aj publicity department. | to be used to form has headquarters NAME THE HOUSING PROJECTS Wallace B. Kirke, director of the Key West Housing Au- thority. today called on The Citizen to assist in determin- ing names for the two hous- nig projects to be constructed and its educational! jstate SUMMER BUSINESS oe ‘Many Inquiries Received PROSPECTS GOOD Renewal of his. pledge _ to taward $1,000 to any person send- ing him a workable old-age r lief pension plan that will better lany such plans so far advocated. | jbe able to offer Florida in boom- ing the state’s health advantages through the 18,000,000 monthly Indications are that the travel |Circulation of Macfadden Pabli- for the summer months in Key (Cations. West will be much greater than|, The senatorial candidate flew it has been in the past. This, it! to Miami from Fort Pierce early was pointed out at the Chamber |Sunday morning, completing an of Commerce, is partly due to, air tour of the state that took the war in Europe and because of jhim 1,700 miles in four days with the fact that the publicity given | total of 12 speeches before aud- the city in the past will prove of! iences estimated to have totalled vast, value in the present sum-|more than 25,000. mer. | Plans for a major speech in Already the intention of people ;Key West were changed this from, all parts of the country of morning to Saturday, May 4th. visiting here is evidenced by the Today and Wednesday the pub- flood of letters received by the ‘lisher will speak before various Chamber and by travel bureaus | Miami civic clubs, with a stirring which have remained open at ajblast at foreign “isms” planned later period than ever before. \for a Miami Beach rally. in Fla- Letters have been received re-|mingo Park Wednesday night. cently from Texas, California, Mr. Macfadden will arrive Oklahoma, Arizona, Mississippi, Saturday afternoon and will be Pennsylvania and New York, all entertained with a banquet at the asking questions concerning the La Concha in his honor at 6:45 weather; accommodations, amuse- o’clock to which citizens of Key ments .and other information West are invited. At 8:00 o'clock about the Island City. Chamber he will speak in La Concha park. officials are kept quite busy Sep ae with this correspondence, it was U § ENGINEERS [See : stated. Cabin Crusier Biscayne, of the !U. S. Engineer Corps at Miami Beach, Captain John Borden, with & force of surveyors on board, arrived in the city this morning and today is making a survey of the harbor. There was no _ information available as to the reason for the survey. Like other activities of the government, the engineers are on the quiet. Only the name of one member of the surveying party was available, besides the captain, and that was Allen Winston Brown, son of Colonel George Brown, of the U_ S. En- gineers at Miami Beach. Seattle 61 Washington «| |MEET TOMORROW | FOR ALUMNI GROUP TEMPERATURES Lowest last Highest last } |. Stations. night 24 hours ‘Atlanta _.... 67 {Boston — 62 |Buffalo _ 78 |Charleston 77 Chicago 66 Denver 61 vb} 7 80 74 7 78 74 68 72 60 63 79 Detroit jEl Paso - | Havana Jacksonville} - Kansas City KEY WEST _ Los Angeles - Louisville Miami ‘> 'Mpls.-St. Paul (New York St. Louis _. Another meeting of Key West High School Alumni Association “Everything In Photography” |) will be held tomorrow evening in ing AGFA EASTMAN Cameras Films Supplies 24 HOUR SERVICE * $18 Fleming St. ' also know that these types of man’s ge aap. sp commana | 3. The publicity value he will! | im this city. : Accordingly, readers of this paper are invited to sug- gest names for each of the units. The name of a per- son may be used or that of a locality. The only condition governing is that no person | now living can be wu asa name. Housing officials dré’ de- | sirous that the proj i$ be | mamed by the end a ins | week, so that the, choice | may be sent along with final papers to Washington. | They ask, therefore, that suggestions be turned in to The Citizen by Saturday of this week. cost of $4,000 per famiiy dwell- ing unit, or $1,000 per’ room in both projects, needs to be made before the final gesture is made. jconsisting of signing the form and forwarding to Washington. The contract, as perused by The Citizen today, calls for the original 220 dwelling units. Ti the local authority states, wif be divided into: 136 white“units and 84 colored units. Sites for both | Projects have been selected—the white units on Trumbo Island, jadjacent to the aribase on the Grinnell street side, and the color- jed units at the end of Thomas street, adjacent to Fort Taylor. | Total amount, as outlined in |the contract,’calls for a principal |loan amount of $650,000 “but not to exceed, in any event, ninety |percent of the actual develop- j|ment cost of the project”. This | qualifying clause allows for |fluctuation. in actuai construc- tion costs, up to ten percent, it was stated. The figure is controlled by the total construction cost of the 220 units, which has been set at $724,000. _ Ninety percent of this amount is $650,000, the amount jof the loan. Balance of 10 per- |cent is supplied by the USHA in |the form of annual contribution bonds which are payable at the rate.of 3% percent annually on the total construction cost of the project. Leaway for local building con- _ ditions and other emergencies may lift the total construction cost to $796,000, it was stated, but, in no case, would the total Project be more than that fig-