The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 2, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 69 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S.A. VOLUME LXI. No. 106. Aligs Abandon South Norway Campaign; Look ‘To Southeast Europe CHAMBERLAIN REPORTS TO PARLIAMENT; DE- BATE ON NORWAY UP NEXT TUESDAY (By Associated Press) LONDON. May 2.—Prime Min- ister Chamberlain advised par- | liament today that the Allies, in joint conference, had decided to abandon their expeditionary ef- fort to oust the Nazis from south Norway “for the time being”, and that from now on, main concern would be centered on Southeast Europe where, he stated, recent developments made it appear that Hitler's next “blitzkrieg” would come, Many ships of the English fleet, together with a number of French vessels, have been or- dered to the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea, according to advice eased here this morn- ing, which, as interpreted by naval observers, is meant to head, off Hitler's supposed next move and also to serve as a warning to Mussolini. Italian determination, as an- nounced yesterday, to ban all British shipping in the Mediter- ranean, was much discussed in navy circles here, and stringent moves are planned to stop any such Italian venture. In stating that Allied Forces had been ordered from the An- dalsnes, Dombas areas in Nor- way, Chamberlain apparently felt that he would be subject to vigorous accusations, as he pre- faced the important statements today with the plea that com- ments be withheld until next Tuesday, at which time a_ full debate on British policy in Nor- way was to be held by parlia- ment. Chamberlain stated that, to all appearances, the British had lost their objective in the Norwegian campaign, however, he said that the Nazis, too, had not gained their point. Losses, Chamber- lain said, were overwhelmingly on the German side. In a recapitulation of (Continued on Page Four) the ABSENTEE VOTING ENDS TOMORROW TOTAL AT 2:30 O'CLOCK TO- DAY, 253; TEN PRECINCTS REPRESENTED Tomorrow, May 3, will be the last day on which absentee bal- lots may be cast, said Judge Ray- mond R. Lord, when the count was ‘announced at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. The judge said that it is his in- tention to cease operations in his office at 5 o'clock, but that in a case of necessity he would go to his office after that time to receive the votes, if any are of- fered, up to midnight. The count as given this after- noon was 253, divided as follows: Precinct 1, 35; Precinct 2, 9; Pre- cinct 3, 58; Precinct 4, 7; Precinct 5, 44; Precinet 6, 47; Precinct 7, 9; Precinct 8, 33; Precinct 10, 3; Precinct 11, 8. UNITED STATES C. OF C. CITES FISCAL POLICY CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE INCREASED DE- FENSES AND REVISION OF LABOR, SECURITY ACTS -| | (By Annoctated Press) : WASHINGTON, May 2.—The |United States Chamber of Com- imerce released its fiscal-year | program for economic welfare_of the United States today, which lcontained 26 points. | Headlining the points covered, jall of which were directed at *\the Federal government, were the following: To provide additional funds for SWEDISH VSS . ‘Now In Key West Harbor DODGED BLOCKADE vee Officially isn’t much ;known about the 15,000-ton| {Swedish freighter “Saturnas” | strengthening of U. S. defenses. which is anchored in the harbor} To consider immediate re- at present off Fort Taylor, except | Vision of labor and security legis- that she hails from Goteborg, her | ("41 the financial strue- ‘captain is M. Berg and her des ture of the federal government. tination is unknown. It is said} To develop the economic, cul- that she will await orders from |tural and spiritual welfare of the her home-port before proceeding | nation’s people, with accent on elsewhere. Medeiros Unofficially, however, there's | a “wow” of a story, and it has toj do with “bombs bursting in air” | and everything that goes with! war events, including the more | (uy aasecmiedeceaa) modern, since that phrase was |. —«—«—». ‘composed, mine fields. | CHICAGO, May 2—An ex- Charles Johnson, owner of jtreme shortage of milk for homes Silver Palms Hotel, is responsi-!in this city was threatened as the ble for the unofficial story, dis-| strike of AFofL milkwagon driv- covered following the original jers extended into its third day. report of the ship’s arrival in The Citizen Monday. Being a native of Sweden, in fact he found out upon inquiry that he hailed from the same arca that the captain of the Saturnas does, Johnson de- ,;termined that he would find out }a few things about the ship. He |did just that, following a trip to the el yesterday in his own launch—and here's the unofficial story: Captain Berg thinks that his ship was the last to run the mine and German-aerial bombing ! blockade off the shores of! Norway since the outbreak ofj the Scandinavian war _ three! weeks ago. The Saturnas, he told Johnson, had harrowing | experience, dodging the mine; fields off the coast of Norway! enroute from Goteberg to a des-| tination not mentioned. Then, aj bit later, the ship was the target of bomb after bomb dropped from | Nazi bombing planes. At least two ships that were}! (Continuea on Page Four) H tiel LATE NEWS BULLETINS || ATLANTIC CITY, May 2.—A ; Methodist convention, in session here today, adopted a resolution to be transmitted to President | Roosevelt demanding that he re- {call Myron Taylor, special emis- sary to the Vatican in Rome, |The resolution stated that many | persons in the United States were not in favor of this policy. ‘EDWIN LARSON T0 SEEK POST a FORMER FEDERAL REVENUE COLLECTOR ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY; IN TOWN TO- DAY J. Edwin Larson, of Green {Cove Springs, was in Key West !today in the interests of his can- didacy for State Treasurer, sub- {ject to the May 7th primary. QU T Larson gave up the Federal ee can |post of Revenue Collector aft- QUERIED COUNTY COMMIS. /er six years of enviable serv- jice, during which the col- SIONERS AT MEETING jlections of the office increased Hrom $7,582,269 in 1933 to $51,- LAST NIGHT ‘914,700 for 1939, Rogelio Gomez addressed’ the | county commissioners: at «their meeting last night and asked} why there was to be no qualified } list of voters for the coming pri- | ae “eed maries printed, as‘ has been done ! , heretofore. Mr. Gomez made quite a lengthy address and pointed/ out that the county had been re-|{ districted and many residences had been changed by the dwel- E 3 lers in the city and this fact; : would be the cause of much con- ie aes fusion at the polls on election! = : F day, and predicted that there |B would be great congestion. i In conclusion, Mr. Gomez said !? that he thought that the voters| should be advised as to the lo-| cation of the precinct in which they were to vote, and the best | way in which this could be done! was by publication of the quali- fied list, which he was satisfied | "™ would be appreciated “by the].; voters of Key West. 2 T - Mr. Gomez ‘was' told“by Attor-|Flotida office of the Internal 4 J. EDWIN LARSON AS TREASURER | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1940 Navy Intereste In Water Line, Admiral Moreell | |REPRESENTATIVE CANNON WIRES THE CITIZEN ; TODAY CONCERNING P} Admiral Ben Moreeil, chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department. said before {the Naval Affairs Committee here today that the Navy was defin- litely interested in providing fresh lwater for Key West, stated Pat Cannon, U. S. Representative from this district, today in a spe- cial wire to The Citizen, and that naval officials at Key West were {making estimates of the cost of ‘the project and that he expects their report to come forward at tan early date. | He indicated that the project |could be done by the Navy |thzough the use of WPA or Pub- ‘lic Works funds, and that special legislation by Congress was not necessary. This would make possible the accomplishment of the project at jan earlier date. | Admiral Moreell, according to Cannon, said further that he had | | Key West turned out en ma jlast night to hear political speak- ers at a Monroe County Demo- teratic rally at Bayview Park, held chiefly by supporters of Francis P. Whitehair, candidate for gov- jernor. Six state candidates their representatives appeared the program, which was preceded by selections played by the WPA band. In order, the following Judge E. R. Lowe, of Taver- inier, speaking in behalf of Gov- ernor Cone’s candidacy for U. S. | Senator. or on State Treasurer. R. J. Boone, candidate for Cir- cuit Court Judge, Grotip 4. | W. H. Burwell, Circuit Court jcandidate, Group 1. H Mr. Whitehair and Judge Ross jtion as Circuit {Group 1. Whitehair introduced by | Russell Kay, Florida News Service ad author of the column, “Too Late To C White- {hair spoke substantially as fol- lows: “Florida must Court Judge, was of take her de- Under his administration, the |P¢mdent children out of the class! going to take care of the masses lof common beggars and do some- {thing for them in the way of j adequate assistance. ; “In West Florida a short time ago a boy of 12, bare-footed and {poorly clothed, came up to’ me {and invited me down to: his jhouse. I went. | “The home jshanty. 1 (Seven children in all were liv- was a oné-room without father or mother. parents were dead. “The oldest sister, about 16, j was the main support of the fam- Both syily. She was working in one of , Church, officiating. aj {these roadside jook joints, dance hall and eating place, to keep the pitiful little family to- Hon. Mark Wilcox will address the voters of Monroe County Whitehair Champions Cause | Of Masses At | Huge Rally J. Edwin Larson, candidate for { Williams, candidate for re-elec-} ‘SUGGEST NAMES | TO DESIGNATE THORITY CLARIFIES INFOR- MATION ON LOAN CON- TRACT TERMS Events political in Key West jhaven’t kept many residents from lgiving thought to the coming |construction of two Housing Au- {thority projects and to the sug- gestion contained in The Citizen of Tuesday that names for the projects be sent in for transmis- sion, if found suitable by the lo- cal authority, to Washington. One resident suggested two names, one for the white units, a person, and one for the colored ‘units, a location. For the 136-unit white project, this person suggests Henry M. Flagler Houses. project of 84 units, the name of {Cayo Hueso Houses was sug- ‘gested. ROSPECTS OF PROJECT jbeen advised by the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation that ap- proval could not be granted to the application of the Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission for its requested loan of $1,100,000 and that this clears-the way for action by the Navy Departinent, which action had been withheld | pending the RFC decision. | “I am not advised as to the RFC decision officially”, Cannon stated, “but prospects look bright for the Navy project in the event that the RFC has turned down the other project. “This is the first official an- - The local authority desires that eae yrgeaarires ihe: pee, ee names be turned in by Saturday Sekigel undertaken by the of this week, at which time, it Navy. fresh water will be made “2S Stated, best names along available to the general popul with additional engineering in- of the Keys and Key West. The formation on the project would cost cf the project would be D¢ Sent to the USHA in Washing- somewhere between 12 ard 24 t0r. As stated, the names are to medion dollars” be sent to The Citizen. | In discussing the project fur- ther with Wallace B_ Kirke, di- ‘rector of the Key West Housing | Authority, today, The Citizen discovered these factors in con- {nection with the loan contract now on hand, which needed ex- jplaining in the light of misin- terpretation in Tuesday's article. | Approximate cost of the units gether and to give them some-}now planned and provided for thing to eat.” ‘at a maximum is an average $3.- The DeLand candidate for {300 for the two projects, covering governor said he questioned the /complete development costs. | 16-year-old child about state as-! Of that amount, nearly $2300 Sistance. ;per unit is for actual building “Oh, yes, sir’, she told White-iconstruction costs. The balance, hair. “The social worker was!or about $1,000 per unit, will be down to see us. She had a love-jemployed for the balance of the ly car. Ghe said we were en-!development cost, such as streets, utled to relief but she was sor-' sidewalks, utilities, water supply, (ry. there just wasn’t any mone: demolition work, cost of land, And that’s how Florida's gov-)landscaping, architect, engineers ernment is taking care of its peo-' and administration fees, carrying ple while a few politicians andicharges during construction _ pe- the friends of politicians are get-|riod of about 15 months. and tnig fat_on fine salaries and big other costs. fexpense —_ accounts, Whitehair! Of worthy notice is the {said that if allowance is made for ex- He pointed out that the state’sjtra cost of additional water sup- fact lincome was $72,000,000 a year,|ply and extra cost of getting ma- an increase of $41,000,000 . over jterials to the two sites, the Key ;seven years. “And yet we West Housing projects will be the haven't done a thing for our peo-!lowest-cost of any now built on jple”. continental United States. | Whitehair said Florida had de-! This fact serves to illustrate veloped a fine statistical record the desire of the USHA to pro- gathering machine but it costs so vide a maximum number of hous- imuch there’s no money left to| ing units for a maximum number correct the things the machine ‘of people. discovers should be corrected “We're going to end the regime jof the politicians who built the !machine which is spending the |people’s money so lavishly for the few”, he declared. “We're PRESIDENT APPROVES FT. TAYLOR PROJECT of people when Whitehair getS to | Tallahassee”. i SAM FRYANTON _ SERVICES TODAY { | | | | Sam Fryanton, 78, died this ?ting there—brothers and sisters— morning in a local hospital. Fun- | eral services were held 3 o'clock jthis afternoon from the chapel of | the Pritchard Funeral Home, Rev. | O. C. Howell, of Ley Memorial, #MQIP*°DPDD Oa Ds. The deceased left no survivors in Key West. He was a native s: PREPARING FOR Norway. 1 NATURALIZATION LARGE GROUP TO APPEAR FOR PAPERS AT COURT NEXT MONDAY For the colored | Che Key West Citizen NEXT MOVE 1S UP TO MRS. K. CLOSE SOSSSSSSSSSSSESSSSSSSOS® County Commissioners heard a report from Clerk Ross C. Saw- yer last night im regard to the case of Mrs. Kenneth Close, who jis a candidate for election as Democratic delegate to the Na- tional Convention, and whose name was left off the Monroe County ballot owing to late ar- Tival of qualifying fee at Secre- tary of State Gray's office Mrs. Close, it appears. | Written the Commission jthat other counties were imsert jing her name on the ballot wit ja rubber stamp. She requested jfurther information as Monroe County proposed to & that connection. Clerk Sawyer reported that « jtelegram had been sent Mrs 1Close stating that the same pro- \cedure would be foliowed here « |she would pay for the cost of had | stamping each ballot. also furnist the stamp. Total work «c would be $15.00, i was stated | Up to last night the commis- sioners had not heard further {from Mrs. Close. There was no indicatien thet the ballots would be reprinted ‘ner that the county jany expense im sought correction. BID OLOL£s MRS. CLOSE ANSWERS BOARD'S TELEGRAM I i E Hy F F Pay Fit i baat i 1 I i I! FR I Ht ul i} ; PEE Hi ie Heat! t ee ef v ff i if ty rif $ i | i i : I CITIZENSHIP CLASS AT- TENDED MEETING LAST NIGHT; REPORTS HEARD Resolution adopted by the County commussiomer: a ite =e: ular meeting beld lect aight. ce quested permissse trom oom Srolier J. M. Lee t> tremcier SL 808 from the general imdebors mess tens ic ihe gemera teres: fume for the purpose cf main; Peyrols a coanty emgpicpee Curry Thempsuc Wane Depets ant a numer of oor Fes Newece 25 aoe 5. ee eo 7 in behalf of the candidacy of ‘Revenue Service showed the phe- FIVE SHIPS OF NAVY IN PORT Five ships of the Neutrality Patrol Squadron assigned to Key West Naval Station were in the harbor this morning, . Destroyers Lea, Williams Aaron Ward, Hale and McClanahan. All others are out on patrol or are on scheduled target prac- tice. ned W. Curry: Harris that the law, !did not require the publication of the qualified list for primary elections, and Commissioner Wil- liam Monsalvatge said that the county had no money to use in this manner. Mr. Harris did say that there would be published in The Citi- zen of Saturday a complete and understandable outline of the metes and bounds of the districts, and the exact location of the poll in each district, which he be- lieved would be understood by every voter, . nomenal record of a 700 per cent jincrease, and on numerous occa- {sions Larson was commended by | Washington officials for the rec- ord made by him. x Before he became collector of jinternal revenue, Larson was one |of the youngest legislators ever to sit in the Senate or House at | Tallahassee. The Twenty-Ninth} District, comprising Clay and Baker counties, sent him to the Senate in 1932 and before. that he jhad represented Clay county in | (Continued On Page Four) B. F. Local Candidates are invi (Paid Political Candidate For Governor FRIDAY, MAY 3, 8:00- P. M. BAYVIEW PARK | Joseph A. Cushman, United States Naturalization Examiner, seen in his office on the second floor of the Federal Building this morning, was a busy official, ex- amining prospective citizens who will appear before the judge in United States Court Monday morning. PATY ited to Speak at this Rally Advertisement) if 8 i Xe | T i i é it ie ii fit H { iri iy 8 i