The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 1, 1940, Page 1

- A 3 age Associated Press Day Wire x Key West. Florida, bes the Service J Mom equate cimsce m che For 69 Years Devoted to the coumty; wih a= sverge Best Interests of Key West d range of only 14° Fabrenbet THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1940 TO PROTECT | -- -- | OFFICER SPEAKS NEUTRAL U.S. ‘<0: Metnesdey, Mev $' HERE TONIGHT ° eo - bane ‘SELECTED FOR TRIP: eet PROVINCIAL AMERICAN CON-)| , ee WILL CONGRATULATE LOCAL | SULATE TO BE ESTABLISH-! As announced today by Charles) POST AND POINT OUT SOME ED IN GREENLAND; con. |Taylor, chairman of the Rotary CONVENTION PROBLEMS TO SIDI UNDER i Club Patrol Boy committee, the aa jfollowing patrol members at the; three Key West schools having VOLUME LXI. No. 105. British May Withdr From South Norway Department Fails TO Justify New Bridge - For Tampa, Facts Show to make the tip 10 Wasuugtun Some of the problems con- FUNDS APPLIED UNNECESSARILY to maren m the nauona: pasraue fronting Arthur Sawyer Post No. DEPRIVE OVERSEAS HICES mext week: 28 in arranging the 1941 conven- Jonn Costar, Daniel Sawyer, tion of the Florida department of EXTENSION PROJECT aps | 1 ALLIED CONFERENCES SIP IIIOL 4 TO DECIDE rurore CHAMBER ASSURES NOW ALPS ARE action; nazis con-\NAYY SUPPORT IN MILITARY SECRET WASHINGTON, May 1.—The 1U. S. Senate today moved on two fronts to provide protection for this country against possible re- action from the Scandinavian war. ¥ opert Dion, Vario pancnez, oO: the A rican Legion here dt. Josepu's Scnool; —_ rinuearracks HOUSING PROBLEM. xsara xu | ‘ | _ ST. GALLEN, Switzerland, (By Associated Press) Faas ED ; May 1—The Swiss mili- LONDON, May 1.—The British CAPTAIN CARPENDER SEEK-| ‘#*¥ authorities are so care- { | ful to snap up ING FACTS CONCERNING| anything nation “cleared decks” today for which might be of military jSenate approved bill which gives President Power to freeze certain Danish Robert Cruz, Myrdand Cates, Herman Cerezo. Cnaries baker, of vivision Street Senooi; Kennetn Kerr, buy First, the House passed the Roosevelt additional Shaw. April will be discussed tonight at a special meeting of the post. The meeting will be called at 8 o'clock at the Whitehead street Factors obviously harmful te the ples G2 iegeeee Overseass highway, imcludimg remews! of tee wuode= and Norwegian credits now on John Monsaiva.ge, Josepn Alon- clyb. bridges, that are imvolved m the propose! of the Stee some e - j ” | imterest that even picture ldeposit in New York and else- of Harris Scnool. ae . FS t f, ALLEGED RENT PROFI-: Pa . posit in New York and else- ‘50, Y ecipaageeeteration <0 a postcards containing views of | where. In addition to the twelve se- aes ites “the meeting, VIC° Road Department to SPEne eewera miluoes of see -emc their expeditionary-war in Nor- TEERING” the Alps have to be censored. Secondly, the Senate moved to lected, Frank Rom and Galey Commander William Reardon an- | All detailed Swiss road- ; ™aps have long since van- ished from stationary shops. The latter move was made in jaccordance with Roosevelt's ex- TS DED D OA ESD | pressed desire since the out- ——————— > — | break of war in Scandinavia; tp consider Greenland as a part of North America, therefore coming under provisions of the Monroe Doctrine. to build a third, and apperestiy qeeeeceers. beidipe across Tampa Bay were presemted todey © Tie Coos: At present there are two bradges across Temes Sey serving the St. Petersburg and Clearwater arces fram “be city of Tampa. One is the Gandy beadige which wes got “mc swe 2 SS et Se oe establish a provincial consulate in Greenland. Sweeting will also go with tne nounced that every civic and delegation, their parents having public official in the city was in- paid their expenses. vited to attend, for one of the A total of $354.48 is on hand speakers would be J. K. Wil- at this time to cover expenses for liams, Miami, judge advocate of the trip, not quite sufficient, it the Florida department of the was stated. Balance will be ob- Legion. tained, however, Mr. Taylor as- _ “Advocate Williams wires that sured The Citizen. In this con- he wants to congratulate the jnection, it is worthy of note to/ Post on its good work in bring- jState that Fred Dion, postmaster, iM& the convention to Key West jeontributed funds sufficient to 2M4 to outline to the Legion- |send one boy to the parade. naires and our public and civic Leaving with the boys next Officials some of the problems Wednesday morning, May 8th, at that will have to be met and 11:00 o'clock, will be a member S°lved in handling the arrange- way. as reports continued to ——_ American Captain A. S. Carpender, U.S.N., commander of the Key West neu-; come in telling of additional losses suffered by the Allied troops. SPEAK TONIGHT ! “ : trality patrol, appeared before a! hand—in fact, some neutral ob- present pertinent facts in con-| servers avered that the Nazis nection with housing facilities for woos = TK however, AREER hen king : ed: e local situation here, seekin, HAVE DICTATOR TRIED will be gone over thoroughly _'©-\ facts concerning alleged “rent morrow, it was stated in Prime FOR WORLD TREASON special meeting of Chamber of Commerce directors and others ’ ? weren't making such headway as enlisted personnel in the city. poste B was at first believed earlier this, Captain Carpender stated that Minister Chamberlain’s office, and, according to some opinions, Complete: reports: wete “not at (ee esiad yesterday afternoon to! eae ake Scitaaimn he had authorized an analysis of 'PENNSYLVANIANS WANT TO withdrawal of Aiiied troops from South Norway may follow the conferences to be held. Meanwhile, Nazi progress to- wards control of the Trondheim, Storen, Dompbas railroad appear- ed to be nearing consummation. English troops north of Trond- heim, near Steinkjer, fared bet- ter, with definite defeat reported of at least two, large German patrol _m But the tral section, forming th Andalsnes, Dombas and Storen, was becoming increasingly a -of a “Trayeler’s Aid” triangle, city was to Be sought profiteering”. It appeared that. in comparison with other cities where naval forces are located, the local situation holds nothing to be considered alarming. Future co-operation of the Chamber was promised Captain Carpender and the consensus of the meeting was that much could be accomplished towards better- ing the housing situation by that | co-operation. As an aid to- wards the future, information on the operation and maintenance for this Present at the meeting, besides Captain Carpender, re Lieut. (By Asseciaced Press) WASHINGTON, May ler’s head—if he alive to an unannounced destina- tion in this country—and the }that if there were any persons in Monroe county who had not been} enumerated by price is $1,000,000. Samuel Hardin Church, presi- dent of Carnegie Institute, rep- resenting a group of 50 promin- ent Pennsylvanians, made this Yhame those persons. Delivery of the German feu- hrer would be immediately fol- problem, with heavy bombing Leeds, Everett Russell, Miss Ileen! lowed by a trial in which Hitler attacks by Nazi raiders the main factor in difficult defense at- tempts. POSTAL RECEIPTS UP FOR MONTH GAIN WAS $595.87 OVER APRIL 1939: MORE SAVINGS ON DEPOSIT Report of postal receipts at the Key West Postoffice show an ap- preciable incre: for the month of Aprikthis year over the same period last -year. This year postal receipts were $4,122.43 and for the same period in 1939 they were $3,526.58, mak- ing a gain of $595.87. Postal savings for the month of April this ar were $348,877 which represented a gain of $35,- 561 over the same month in the year 1939 which showed $313,316. There was an increase in de- posits over withdrawals during the pericd. TUG WARBLER ~ SAILED TODAY Salvage Master C. N. Peterson, of the Wrecking Tug Warbler, received a call early this morn- ing for the tug to go to the assist- ance of a’ship said to be an Eng- lish steamer, which was in need of aid off Turks Island in the West Indies. Preparations were at made, a force of 12 extra salvage men engaged and the vessel sail- ed from her berth at the Porter Dock Company at 7 o'clock. Williams, James Johnson, Ernest Ramsey, Melvin Russell, W. T. |Fripp, Charles Taylor, Fred Dion, Bascom Grooms and A. E. Peirce. COUNTY BOARD MEETS TONIGHT Regular meeting of tne County {Commissioners will be held to- night 8 o’clock in the office of Clerk Ross C. Sawyer county courthouse. Seen this morning, Mr. Sawyer said there were no matters of out- standing importance to be brought before the meeting, that it would be a regular routine one. RECORD COLD _ DURING APRIL According to the records at the United States Weathér there were two dz in the month jof April which were colder than any other days on the same date during any month of April | The records show that on April {14 the thermometer fell to 58 de- grees and on the 15th it fell to 57 degrees. The coldest ever on these dates in April was 61 de- grees, ROBERTS RETIRES Announcement was made to- day at the Fire Department head- quarters that Will P. .Roberts, 1020 Olivia street, from the service following eleven once | years and four months with the; ' department. Mr, Roberts retires under pro- visions of the ten-year pension plan of the city. Hear— JUDGE ROSS WILLIAMS Candidate for Circuit Judge (Group 1) SPEAK TONIGHT Immediately After Francis P.. Whitehair BAYVIEW PARK (Paid Political Advertisement) | PROPOSALS Sealed bids will be received until Friday, May 3rd, 1940, 8:00 P. M., for furnishing the follow- ing materials, f.o.b. Key West: 100—%4” Corporation Stops, copper, “Mueller thread”. 100—%4” Curb Stops, copper. 100%” Wrought Couplings. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. Bidder to state date of de- livery. ‘ in the} Bureau | had retired | BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. | apr30-2t would be charged with world treason. White House officials today re- fused to comment on the unusual reward offer, choosing, as one put it, to consider the matter as strictly personal between those who reportedly had put up the million dollars. ‘MORE MARRIAGES THAN DIVORCES ‘COURT HOUSE RECORDS FOR APRIL REVERSE TWO PRE- VIOUS MONTHS | Contrary to the opinions of many readers of The Citizen |}who read daily the ‘reports of marriages and divorces, accord- ing to records at the county court house which give the marriage | and divorce records, the mar- riages for the month of April ex- ceeded the number of divorces. The record of April, however, | reversed that of February and | March. | Records in the office of Clerk | Ross C. Sawyer of Circuit Court, | show that there were 17 divorces | granted during the month and in the office of County Judge Ray- mond R. Lord, the records show that there were 20 marriages. {ROBERT J. BOONE Candidate For CIRCUIT JUDGE (Group 4) i | After Francis P. Whitehair ee ES: BAYVIEW PARK (Paid Politiedl Advertisement) announcement today,. oo <r visor of the 1.—A ‘headquarters : = price has been put on Adolf Hit- |Beach, was a visitor in Key West ‘@nsportation entirely. The Key <, is delivered | today. i VISITS IN CITY SS jof the Rotary Club and a police John O'Bannon, district super-/@¢Partment escort. The delega- 1940 with | #on will arrive in Washington at census, oe i Palm (2:00 a. m. on May 10th, using bus West West members will stay at the Mr. O'Bannon told The Citizen |Plsckstone Hotel while in Wash- ington. The parade will be held on aturday, May llth, and it has census-takers, they should contact Mrs, Beulah | Deen assured that the Key West Demeritt at her home, 525 Flem- jdelegation will lead the parade, | ing street. |directly in back of the United !States.Marine Corps Band. The : Dr. Wm. R. Warren has donat- led the banner to be carried by ‘the Key West patrol boys, on 'which will be inscribed the of- ficial slogan of the delegation. This, and one other slogan, will be submitted in the prize contest to be held in connection with the parade. Dr. Warren also under- wrote the $100 which the County Commissioners donated towards ‘the trip in that no funds could be given from county funds un- | til next winter. WHITEHAIR Desiiicai ail TONIGHT AT 8 O'CLOCK | ments”, Reardon said. “We hope that our civic and public leaders will consider this an invitation to attend.” Delegates to the convention at . Petersburg, Commander-Elect Harold Russell, Vice Commander- |Elect Al Mills, Finance Officer- Elect John Pinder and Adjutant- Elect Reardon, will submit re- ports of their activities and in- dicate some of the facts regard- ing convention arrangements they picked up. of the dirst steps that wilh en by the post will be to > <—-— Stoet = charge of the arrangements and make all contracts and other agreements. Monroe County Democratic committee has granted permis- sion for Judge Advocate Wil- liams to speak for ten minutes at the political rally in Bayview Park tonight at 8:00 o'clock. Legion officials wanted this time, it was stated, in order that a m&ximum number of residents of the city could hear about plans for the convention next year, and ‘what it will mean to the city. Hear Him.... and you'll Know Why | vast numbers of voters!) from Pensacola to Key West and the Atlantic j: to the Gulf are enthus- |} there is a parallel’ between iastically proclaiming 1\ crime and cancer—both are cur- Him as able in their early stages, ac- cording to a statement made by The Man iJohn Edgar Hoover, Director of for Governor the Federal Bureau of Investiga- |tion of the United States Depart- ment of Jusice. According to this well known | government official, crime is a Ran | lecherous growth upon our social A Traveling eg, organization, and might well be . ..]j comparable to cancer. Mr. Hoo- who has’ covered Flor i ver pointed out that there is in ida for 23 years and has! America today a criminal army is iti consisting of over 4,750,000 kid- kept his political ear to Satre we eathecs, orierecs, the ground during ma- jor elections. was in Key West Monday and rapists and thieves, who are declared WHITE- ravishing the nation much in the same fashion as the cancerous HAIR’S plurality will range from elements of the body attack the 100,000 To healthy tissues. If permitted to 125,000 continue undetected and uncon- 5 5 R r-} * “In order to effectively battle these two enemies America must J. Edgar Hoover Compares | Cancer And Crime Control that will follow delay in dealing with these conditions would be also of benefit if possessed by all of our citizens.” The Key West division of the Women’s Field Army for the Park will be Robert control of eancer will help in the who wi educational campaign outlined by his candidacy for the American Society for the to the post of Control of Cancer, by spreading arcui 3 the word that in early stages cancer is curable, and by assist- ing in research work that will lead in various ways to the com- plete eradication of the disease in time, if this be anyway pos- sible. Under the direction of Miss Susan LaKin the Junior Woman's Club is now conducting a mem- bership drive. All are asked to contact any member of the rally Junior Woman's Club to be en- listed. One dollar is the mem- bership fee.